The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country W. H. CRADDOCK FOR MAYOR MEANS LOWER TAXES AND A GREATER KANSAS CITY AND A BREATHING CHANCE TO THE POOR TAX-BURDENED CITIZENS. Then See if You Can Vote for the Gang Candidate for Mayor, B. L. Short, Against the Choice of the People, W. H. Craddock. The election, being only a few days off, great interest is being manifested and W. H Craddock, the choice of the people for Mayor, is gaining rapidly. The people have listened to screeching, warblings of Republican candidates for Mayor, year in and year out, they have heard all kinds of promises made about equal taxation, and the people's rights—only to elect them and be compelled to dance to the same old music. As all things must have an end, the honest people, the interested in the city's welfare people, have resolved that a change must be brought about. W. H. Craddock stands in the eyes of the man with the individuality and upright manhood to bring about this change. Political gangsters and corporation bosses, hungry pie hunters and secret elubs and ballot box stuffing, rings and eliques have so distorted the grand old party that all true and loyal citizens who have affiliated in years gone by with the Republican party, this year can be found behind the people's choice, W. H. Craddock. Because too they have become disgusted with gang rule and corporation dictation and as burdened tax payers 'and respectable citizens they rightly change. We have never said one word during our whole career of 14 years as a public organ, against corporations, but we have watched with the eye of an eagle their maneuvers and now in the defense of suffering humanity, in defense of human rights and justice we speak, for it is a fact not to be denied, that the corporations are fast crowding the people to the wall, will any voter who has kept abreast of the times deny the truthfulness of this? Are we to submit forever to these things? Are we to lie supinely upon our backs bugging the delusive phantom of hope until these monsters have bound us hand and foot. Now, fellow citizens, is the time to strike. We appeal to the reason and sound judgment of every voter within the corporate limits of our city, not as campaign, curbstone politicians with the usual campaign thunder, but as citizens thoroughly interested in good government and a greater Kansas City. We believe in corporations, but we do not believe in allowing them to manipulate the affairs of our city government to their own advantage, against the sacred rights of the people. Corporations are good things to have, but they must be taught the lesson of live and let live, and that their poor toil serving servants have some rights they must respect. It is being talked with a semblance of the truth that the attorneys for the corporations having interests in this city have fixed things with the B. L. Short gang—hence they are supporting him. It is therefore plain to the people that if their rights are to be respected their support must be with W. H. Craddock, who stands upon the platform "to do right" and mute out justice to all alike, thus grandly representing the people, the whole people, irrespective of color, nationality or party affiliations. To our race we would say: In the best interest of the negro we have always labored, and to-day we feel that we would honestly be doing an injustice to the people and our race were we to sit down and swallow the municipal candidate placed upon the Republican ticket for Mayor by an organized, discriminating gang called Republicans. The time has arrived when we must speak and do so in the plainest terms. Looking back over the past, by which we are to judge the future, it is as plain as daylight, the negro has not been treated half-way right and its time, and high time, we were kicking, and kicking good and stout. What is the condition of the negro to-day in Wyandotte county with all our faithfulness to the Republican party—we cannot elect a VOL 14, NO.5 THE Bid Best W FOR MAYOR ME ONEST F Vote for the Gai Short, Against the ole, W. H. Craddo KAN Best Weekly R MAYOR MEANS LOWER BEST FACTS. e for the Gang Candidate t, Against the Choice W. H. Craddock. negro to any position? We bring out our best material, succeed in nominating, but get it where the chicken got the ax—on election day, and the Republicans do it. Are we to stand this forever? The cry of Reform has gone up, by the eternal powers, the negro shall and will be heard. We are but sounding the keynote of what will yet be felt all over the State. We once had a negro Street Commission in this city—who took it away from us? Was it a Democrat Mayor? NO. Was it a Republican? YES! Who? Why—Nat Barnes, the backer of the present candidate for Mayor, B L. Short. Who defeated Squire Lee and James Edmond, the men who have been hoodwinned into supporting the above nominee. Were not they the regular elected nominees of the Republican party? Who has defeated every negro that has run for office in this city? Will the negro go blindly against these facts? We appeal to your common sense, to your manhood, and to your intelligence. Will we ever be a race? When we sit down and swallow anything simply because somebody says it's republican—God forbid, that the proud sons of Ethiopia are so reduced in manhood to stoop so low in the scale of civilization as to be termed cowards. If we are to be anything, if our rights, as citizens, as tax payers and men and women are not recognized—we must fight, and fight till the glorious object is achieved. This is the 20th century and we might as well start right now, and right here, in Kansas City. Kas., to we men and women with all the rights under the blue canopy of heaven any other race has. Too long have we helped weak hearted, weak kneeed and office seeking Republicans into fat offices and the best the negro gets from many of them, afterwards, is a swift kick and organizations like the Lilly Whitens to even keep us from getting a few measly Deputyships. We ask all of our people to not be narrow, but read all we have said and think over it carefully and see if we are not right. We don't believe there is a sane negro voter, man or woman in Kansas City, Kas, that will stand up for such treatment. They who would be free must first strike the blow, we cannot worse our condition so let us rally to the support of W H. Craddock and see what a change will do. "That you can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people sometimes but you can't fool all of the people all the time" It has been said that the Negro owes the Republican party for their freedom and all that it has done for them since. Granting that this be true. Does it owe the M. R. T. party in Wyandotte County for discrimination? Is the party that has for its nominee B. L. Short, the Republican party, adhering to the principles of the party that give us freedom, a blind man need not be told. We are American Citizens now, and subject to the same conditions, (if we are tax payers) other citizens are. It is as much to us as it is to anybody else, to help make a Greater Kansas City. The waving of the bloody shirt use to be the caper but it don't go now. The Negro is sufficiently educated ed here to take a white man's view of local polities. For when a man is not suitable to their best interest—they throw party lines to the dog. Let us as a race step to the front and exercise our rights of franahise to suit ourselves. Don't let us be a tool and lacky dog for anybody. We have received many warm congratulations for our stand in behalf of the people's right, good government, lower taxes and a greater Kansas City. To-night is your last chance to Register. --- --- AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1901. POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS. We can stand for the Republican ticket, but the Head won't do. The best every Republican nominee can do, is to attend strictly to his own fight and let other candidates fight their own battles. Somebody is going to feel this. All eyes are centered on I. B. Black burn the Republican Nominee for Councilman in the Third Ward. His defeat means one of greatest cattling among the Republican dry cattling that the Negro has ever kicked up in this City. THE white man who faces a negro audience and endeavors to make them believe that the Republican party that has B. L. Short for its nominee with that organized secret gang behind him, as the party of Abe Lincoln should be hissed off the rostrum with the utmost contempt. The candidacy of B.L. Short the gang so called Republican party nominee for Mayor is not meeting with the popular that some of his scheming managers had hoped for. In fact the voters are not "next" to the curves of the gang and corporation bosses and they have declined to be fooled by the promises being made by the manipulators. The M.R.T. gang that caused Mr. Short to enter the mayoralty—are down in the mouth they are beginning to see the hard writing on the wall. They have discovered that W. H. Craddock is the people's candidate and that it is the people who elect office us and not Secret, gangs of hungry office seekers. The election of Mr. Craddock as Mayor of the city will be the beginning of the end of corporation control in local Municipal government. He is for an honest assessment of taxes, believing that this is the only method by which this city can be placed on a self-supporting basis, and lessen the burden of taxation that the small property owner has been compelled to bear during years past. The conditions of Kansas City Kas., to-day, are that it is cheaper to rent than to own a home. A MAN who going through the recent primary election witnessing all the rot, trickery and dishonesty practiced by the secret gang of Rule or Ruin men who captured the Republican party and thrust upon the people B, L. Short, has splendid reasons for becoming disgusted. W. H. CRADDOCK is the heaviest tax payer in this city that has ever ran for the office of Mayor on any ticket. In condemning the Recent Republican Primaries called in Mid winter by a scheming gang known as the M. R. T's as a disgrace to common decency and American manhood the New Boon says: "Many of the most notorious and dishonorable ballot box stuffers and ballot fixers and ballot stealers in the city were appointed as judges and alers. In the thirteenth precinct of the Sixth ward, where John Davidson and John T. Sims were two of the judges all of the ballot cast, 328, were taken from the box after the voting had stopped and replaced by others marked for Short and other M. R. T. candidates. At other voting places judges repeatedly marked the ballots of colored who asked the assistance in voting, for Short in disregard of their request to mark the same for Bemarkt or Hughes. In other prescents clerks road ballots marked for Hughes and Bemarks as voted for Short. In fact all the trials and frauds conceivable were bodily reported to prevent the possibility of either Hughes' or Bemarkt's nomination. The effort was successful. Bemarkt and Hubges were counted out. They were not suppressed. They had hoped for fair treatment before they saw the list of judges and clerks, but did not expect it when they saw the names of the 'honest and honorable men' selected by Mr. Short as judges and clerks. WE ARE RISING. Craddock stock is rising and alp over the city the people are coming to their senses. Big meetings are being held nightly and never in the history of Kansas City, Kans., were the people so thoroughly awakened to their true condition. Every tax payer realizes that it is now a life and death struggle and that with B. L. Short and Nat Barnes mayor the peoples best interest will be set down on. The loud and senseless talk of man is but an imitation of a denkay's braying. The worm that is trodden upon believes that one good turn deserves another- OUR CAPITAL CITY RESUME POLITICS AND OTHER NEWS. Interesting g and Other Very Newsy Bits Gathered by our Correspondents at Topeka, Kansas. Reports have it that the colored people over the state are organizing under the heads of Afro-American Councils as recommended by the recent convention of colored delegates in this city, we believe that notwithstanding the knockers that the time has arrived that the Negro is about to do something beside resolute. If your correspondent misre-sented anyone at the recent State Convention it was unintentional and we will be glad to correct any error. S. Jones formerly adjutant of the 23d Kansas was in the city on last Saturday his version of the happenings in and a round Leavenworth during time of recent trouble than and since was vastly different from what had been reported from others who have brought reports to the Capital City. There has been great maneuvering in local politics among the colored continent the past week and innuendo's be tween factions has been the order of the day. There is a faction which claim that the school teachers of this city are trying to dominate everything political and other wise they say that they have vowen gravence against them and shall see to it that they shall be chopped down from now on, as fast as the attempt to rise. The teachers claim not guilty to the charge and deprecate the idea which has been grafted in the mind of many but say that they will not mind being run over but they do not purpose to stand torture thereafter. W. G. Williams the young colored man who has been nominated for the We were the recipient of the newest calendar of the year this week from Prof Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute it is a neat calendar of the usual size with Prof. Washington's picture adorning the right hand corner, above the date lines is the picture of the Tuskegee buildings and grounds at the top of the sheets which carry the dates in a marg there of are sentences for each week in the year which are striking' and interesting bringing to mind the foremost thoughts and ideas as advocated by B-T. Washington on the whole it is a calendar which is useful as well as ornamental' and which every race man would be proud to have. CITY IN GENERAL.. The democrats have nominated as their candidate for mayor A. Parker who is o of Topkas most respected citizens also one of her largest property owners And he has eaten the spirit of the campaign and will no doubt from now on make it a very interesting campaign between the two parties. The populist and free silverists have adopted a platform making the waterworks question their paramount issue and indorsing Parker and amodality of the democratic ticket The Citizens have als) held a meeting and nominate A. Parker and this is the aggregation which Col. Hughes has to meet on April 2nd. What will the harvest be. Race Notes. In a chemical laboratory near Boston, Mass., where various kin ds of extracts, such as lemon juice, Jamaica jinger, vanilla, fine soaps and other cosmetics are manufactured for the trade, the heat a chemist is a Negro, so to is the chief designer and pattern maker in a leading factory in Monroe county, New York, which makes a specialty of manufacturing tools and agricultural implements. A co-operative store conducted by colored people opened at Elizabethtown Pa. March 2. The time is fast coming when the Negro who preaches that there is nothing to encourage our boys and girls to educate because no avenues for them are open, must be relegated and recorded as a back number. If every town in the country where there is a sufficient number of colored people would do like Elizabethtown the Negro problem would be solved. While so much is being said in reference to the Negro's failure as a machine operator, the following comes as a more encouraging view of the situation: The abandonment of the Vesta Cotton Mills, operated by Negro labor in South Carolina has been followed by a very interesting report upon a silk factory in Fayetteville. It is owned by one of the Pater son silk companies and is run by Negro labor wholly, wi h Rev. T. W. Thurston as manager. It has proved a signal success "GUIDE NOTES" Money, land, education, these will take you through life. Colored men you want to save your money, and buy land, and get yourself a comfortable home. WHAT CRADDOCK SAYS: It is right that corporate interest deriving existence from franchise granted by the people, and which franchise forms their most valuable asset, should divide a portion of profits arising thereform. With the people who made it possible to get the profit. It is right that each individual and company of individuals enjoying the protection of law should be taxed to support the law. The tax should be assessed without malice and each contribute in proportion to his or their wealth. It is right that in administering the affairs of the City, its officers should be absolutely impartial. That contracts for public works or supplies should be given to the lowest responsible bidder, and care should be taken that the work to be done is a necessity. CITIZEN. There has been great maneuvering in local politics among the colored continent the past week and innuendo's between factions has been the order of the day. There is a faction which claim that the school teachers of this city are trying to dominate everything political and other wise they say that they have sworn vengeance against them and shall see to it that they shall be chopped down from now on, as fast as the attempt to rise. The teachers claim not guilty to the charge and depreciate the idea which has been grafted in the mind of many but say that they will not mind being run over but they do not purpose to stand torture thereafter. W, G. Williams the young colored man who has been nominated for the school from this city is a bright honest industrious young man who should have the support of every colored man in the city and all fair minded white men and women for this place, as it has been many years since the colored people have had representation on our school board it is now about time it should be granted Topeka also has a bond issue to vote on at the regular election on an issue of voting $70,000 to have an addition of the SantaFe Shops built here. The business and money interests of the city are taking an active part in favor of the bonds and it is generally conceded they will carry. LOCALLY Miss Mary B. Jordon visited Miss Woodruff. in Lawrence, Saturday and Sunday. The Executive Committee of the Ar Federation, will meet in Topeka, March 27th.. at Mr. and Mrs. Chiles, 116 E 7th. street. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Smith are the proud parents of a son. The Oak Leaf Club met with Mrs Dora Wear, at her home on Lone street. The Golden Rod Club met with Misses Eva and Lillian Philips, Friday last. Mr. Anderson Chiles is sick at his home on Washington street. For all the News Read the Citizen Its columns are open to all our residents. STATE'S ADVICE TO NEGROS Oklahoma a Supreme Judge Says He Will Not Punish Them for Protecting Themselves. El Reno, O. T., March 16. - Two years ago a mob of white men attacked a lot of negroes who were innocently enjoying a meal. One negro were arrested. On trial all the white men were discharged and Federal Judge John L. McAfee, who is also a territorial judge, discharged the negro on his own motion. He indignantly addressed the jury to-day, saying: "I say to the colored men, defend your race. If the laws are insufficient, the job of nature has placed in your nears the conscious right to protect yourself, and while I sit on the bench, if white juries cannot reach white offenders, black men shall not be punished by me if they defend themselves." Judge McAfee sternly faced the jury as he uttered his words. They Say. Isn't it awful? Isn't She crazy? The Grass Widow and the single man are cutting a wide swath in the Sea Foam block. The Sea Foam block after all is alright. What's is the matter with Short, Craddeek has him up a tree. Why haven't the Negroes a right to vote for Craddock. Is it the Republicans that defeat every negro for an elective office? Let the honest people elect a Mayor for once in Kansas City Kans. If everybody was half as good as they would have people believe, it would be mighty smooth sailing in this old world. What's the matter with the new Lodge? It's a hammer. We are accosted by some on the streets for the stand we have taken in defense of the people. We would announce now that we are as good Republicans as any Wyandotte county affords or any other place. But we are not the kind of Republicans to be bossed and trampled on by an organized gang of secret and prejudiced white men calling themselves the Republican party, sworn to discrimination and against all the best interests of the negro. We have been a most faithful ally, both true and tried, to the Republican party in Wyandotte county. Like all the rest of the negroes, we have in many instances been treated with contempt. Forbearance has coaxed to be a virtue and the light will be turned on the Republican camp that the negro might see the dark spots. --- No Matter Where you Go YOU CANNOT Duplicate These Prices. LADIES' SHOES, good quality, per pair, 98c Old Ladies' Wide Toe leather lined Shoes, $1.25 Men's Heavy Top Sole Shoes, per pair. 98c Men's Solid Leather Shoes, wide or narrow $1.25 Men's Velvet or Leather Slippers. 48c Child's Button Shoes, size 11, only at. 50c Cotton Bale Soap, 5 cent cakes, at two for. 5c Child's Mittens, eut Saturday to. 3c Fanov Stone Set Braid Pins, 25c, kind. 10c Ladies' Hose, good ones, per pair. 5c Fine grade Perfume, per bottle. 10c Vasoline, good quality, per bottle. 5c TALES OF TWO CITIES In picking the jewels from the great assortment of political trinkets remember that Geo. Miller the Republican nominee for the council in the Fourth ward is old gold and worthy of your choice and selection as Alderman. He is a respectable gentleman with immense popularity and will acquit the duties of councillman in a manner satisfactory to the public and his ward in particular, stand-by him. HE IS IN IT TOO I-B: Blackburn the honorable and rightly respectable coed gentleman of the Third ward deserves to be remembered on April the 2nd for councilman from that ward, as the Republican uneminee. He is elegantly fitted for the duties and thromely acquainted with the needs and condition of our city. Whatever your choice for mayor stand true to him. ME TOO LORD? Last but by no means least comes Husling Al Baker the Republican nominee for councilman in the Second ward. He wins the race to win and is making a home stretch run. He will if reelected stand up for the right, his ward first the city next thus representing the whole people. REMEMBER THIS YOUNG MAN. REMEMBER THIS YOUNG MAN. Marvin J. Reiz is the name of that popular young lawyer who will be elected next month as the City Attorney of Kansas City, Kas. Mr. Reiz is the Republican nominee and is a young man who is forging to the front by his own unflagging industry. That he is earnestly deserving the support of the people goes without saying. That he is eminently qualified to fill the position with credit to himself and the public is an exemplified truth. we have always been ready and willing to stand up for our young men, and whatever can be said of the AMERICAN CITIZEN, it must be placed to our credit of holding up the hands of our young men. We ask all the voters in the city to stand up for Mr. Reiz. Let not your party affiliations stand in the way of pushing forward this estimable young attorney, of whom much is to be expected in the future. THE PROPER THING. Whatever the negro citizens may hold against the North Side City Court, Judge Donoho—it is indeed gratifying to them all that Mr. Tom Tucker, a negro citizen, who was recently picked up by detectives and charged as the robber and murderer of one A. J. Hovey, a white groceryman of Edgerton Place, in February, was released. There was nothing but the flimiest of circumstantial evidence, and had Mr. Tucker been bound over to a higher court, that in itself would have possibly sent him to a long term of years in the State pen for public sentiment was so strong that he would have been convicted. It would have been a disgrace and a most damnable outrage upon an innocent man who every body familiar with the case believe innocent. We in common with every law abiding citizen and every negro who glories in the upholding of law and order. Lift our hats to Judge Donoho for acting the part of a Judge, and not a biased, prejudiced white man. We shall at all times carefully watch the dealing out of justice to the negro by Kansas City, Kansas Judges and in due season herald it to the world. Mrs. Sadie Mitchell of 712 Oakland ave have has spent two weeks in Atchison with her parents returned home last week feeling much pleased with her visit. Mr. C. M. Murphy our old and well known Express man is quite seriously ill at Douglass Hospital. Vote for W. H. Craddock The Afro-American Business Association will give a programme entertainment at the M. B. church Sabbath afternoon at 2 30. Papers, addresses, solos, duets and instrumental music will while away the hours of the afternoon. Rev. G. T. Mosby is President. This organization will open business of some kind ere long. Mrs. Mary F. Handy, wife of Bishop Jas, Handy, Baltimore, Md., we learn through an exchange, was quite seriously hurt on the 6th of March, by falling upon the steps of a pulpit, fracturing her knee, at Dayton, Fla. She is now at St. Augustine, Fla., surrounded by the best medical skill. The sympathy of her many friends in the Twin Cities. Mrs. Laura Crowder, of Armstrong avenue, who has been so seriously ill, is slowly improving, also Mrs. Austin, of Nebraska avenue. Vote for Jno. A. Adams. Miss Laura Stratter, of Clay Center Kas., who spent several months in this, city, returned home last week. She will act as agent for this paper in Clay Cent A NEW NUMBER The Jasper Lodge of U. B Fs., was organized last Saturday night in the Lodge Hall of the 5th. St. Opera House, with twenty young men. The following well known personages will be their first officers. Wiley Holvay, M. W. M., W. C. Martin, M. W. D. M.,—Reynolds, W. E., A. J. Gothard, W. T. A very agreeable reception was tendered the young lodge by the S. M. T's, and the largest gathering of U. B Fs. and S. M. T's that have assembled together for many years was in attendance. The next meeting will be held at the same place on Saturday evening when the "Royal Bumper" will be harnessed for a number of "fresh ones." KILLED BY THE CARS Eighteenth Street Car Caused the Death of Luila Venable Saturday Night. or Earl Venable Saturday Night. Lulu Venable, a 12-year-old colored girl who lived with her parents at 1801 Grove street, was struck and fatally injured by a west bound electric car at Eighteenth street and Euclid avenue about 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon. She was taken to Police headquarters in the Police ambulance and later removed to the city hospital, where she died shortly before 6 o'clock. The little girl was returning home from school. She evidently did not notice the rapidly approaching car, for she ran directly in front of it, and the motorman hardly had time to shut off the current before the girl was struck. She was thrown under the fender and the front trucks passed over both legs. The wheels passed over the right leg near the thigh, crushing it to a pulp, and the left leg was almost amputated just below the knee. When the ambulance with the mangled body arrived at police headquarters Dr. Snider saw at one that there was no chance to save her life. H gave her anesthetics to relieve her suffering. The car which struck the girl was in charge of Conductus Whitman and Mowerman Samuel McGee. American Citizen —_ AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING a™D PRINTING CO. (Shonlale eld Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS sgn eenumtieiiiieecaee ES W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. eco re n ea ee TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year.:...--.- e000 81:50 a Gntered at the postofiice at Kansas City Kans , as second class matter. The Colorado Statesmen under the head of “Wanted A Moses,” well says among other things! ‘The Negro of to- day is entirely different creature from the Hebrew of long ago, and he is liv ing in entirely different surroundings, In physical eff sts or spiritual desire, there is nothing like unity uf coneep- tion in the Negro mind. The only thing that be basin common is the knows edge that bw is persecuted. He ean- not agree upon any policy 10 remedy his conditions, and will not remedy them vy any general effort. No mapner of mun of present day intel- lect eould make the Negre ehange his present ways envogh w become ab- solately fuithfal to himself. ‘The propensity to become so is entirely foreign to hg present make up. ‘A Negro Moses, therefore, is @ physical smpossivility. ‘he much wanted Irader realy not wauted at all, and if he were to come and as sume commandiog authority over the raee, he would be crucified for his presumpsion, ‘The best men of our race, wno are sometimes hkened unto the ancient iader of tho Jews, are merely strong men who xre exerting tkomseives individually aod sensibly upon the conditions which immediae~ ly surround fuem. Should they a: temps to really lead the race, they weuld become utter failures, But just as they stick to their individual ocou~ pations, so snould everybudy else do. ‘No Moses is coming to fight our battle pray our prayers, lift eur loads or per~ form miracies for our good. We have got to fiybt and struggle individually, until the individual in the race stand, for something strong and worthy. We have not yet reached the stage where We realize that we suould care as much for our neighbors hardabips and wrong as wecare for our own, We have not yet acquired enough property and we lth ‘of our own to realize that the security of our svcial esta ¢ depends upon tho pris» ciple of mutual provection. All there thinze we mast learn, by stern and sev= ere individusl experiences, No Moses can save us from the rack that is before us, The only pillar of fire by night ard pillar of cloud by day that the Negro need 1ook for is that which scourges him instead of pointing him the way. All this means tit the Negro is. fool inb,to Waste his time looking for a Mos es, for we do not need sad are not fi for such » leader, but that in the 1atter day conditions, when men aud races ‘clash aud wis victories by virtue of ins div.dual strength and individual worth inews, every Negro must eome to learn that the saivation of bimseif and bis race depends upon bis becoming his owe Moses.” FOR THE ANNUAb CONFERENCE. Colored Methodists of Missourl and Kansas Will Meet at Topeka Maxt Week. ee ere. ‘The Af*eeath annual session of the Cen tral Missouri conference of the Methodiat Episcopm church will convene at Fort Scott, Kan , March 27, with Bishop Ed- ward G. Anderson, D- D., LL.D., of New ‘York city. ‘The Central Missourl conference em- Draces Missouri ard Kansas and numbers more thao 5,C00 members» ‘The confer ence is divided into four presiding elders distriets—namely; St Louis district, Rev C. M. Keaton, presiding elder, Sedalia district Rev. R. Davis. presiding elder: Bt, Joseph district, ttov. J. Will Jacks n presiding elder; Fopeka district, Rev, Heary tsmith, presiding elder. ‘ne conferance has eighty full mem- ers of the clergy and seventy three pro- Datiouers. The Sunday schools and Epworth Leagues ip these [districts are in some measure progressive and many of tLe young people are making marked ins provements in their work. ‘Phe St. Jam-s Methodist episcopal church Kansas City, Kans., belongs it the Topeks district. Ene pastor, Rev. W. H. Smith has been pastor for four years. During these four years » nice parsonage has beon built and paid for, ‘aod the membership has been greatly in- fereased. ‘The Rev, Mr. Smith will ask the bishop at the coming session to ap- point him to ® pastorate im Missour1, NEGROES ARE GOING NORTH. Promises of Good Jobs Attract the Black Men From Their South- ern Homes. New York, March 18—The Rev. ‘Simon P. Drew, pastor offSt. Stephen's Negro Baptist ebursh in Astorir, has jost returned frem ® tmp through the south,made in the interest of his race. “My investigations in the south,” he said lnst,"‘satisfied me that dunng the next month at least 20,000 eolored people hope to joave the south and ‘come north to secept easy positions at salaries ranging from $30 te $200 » month.” Ibis traly wonderul how fascinating ‘most things are te peoplo that are none of their business. FRIsT NEGRO SOLDIER PASSES oe a a eee a ee & Commission. ‘Twelve out on eighteen enlis'ed men have passed the necessary examinaton at Fort Leaveoworth to insure theit 4ppoiutment as segond lieutenants in the permanent establishment of the army. Amoug the fortunate ones is Sergeant Mayor sonjamin O. Davie, third squadron, ninth cavalry. Ho is the first negro soldier who has sue- ceeded in passing such an examins., tion and secured, in addition, a very Aigh standing, his percent ago being aear the 90. Sergeant Major Davis is a native of the Distriet of Columbir. Ho was educated in the schools of Wasbington, and is a graduate cf the high school of that city. His con: ext ion with the cabet battalion and @ local militia company gave bim som} idea of the duties of a soldier and he promply volunteered his servioes dni ing the Spanisa-American War. He was eommiscioned by the president as f first lieutestant of the eigeth Unive States volunteer infantay. commande ed by Colonel El Huggins. On ing muste out of service Davi cone.udeu to wcoure an appointment as an offices regular army and eolisted ia the nin cavalry for that purpose, Sergeant Major Davis is in color a dark mulatto and physically well built, He is 24 yours of age and appears to be ia ne wiso affected by the aew honors that have fallen to him, as the ability to pass the exaruination makes his ap- pointwent aimost.a eertainyy. There is now but one negro officer in the ser~ vice, Captain Charles Young. ninth cuy siry, He is on duty at Wilberforce coi- lege, Oberlin, O., 98 professor of ‘milla tary svience and tactios, It is more than probable that yonng Davts will be assigned te the regiment ia whioh Young is serving and to the same troop sit will be cougenial to buth cf then to serve in the same regimental and roop organiza'ion. Serg2ant Major Davis is the son of Louis 8 Davis of Washingtoa, who bas been a messenger inthe interior department since 1866. NEGROES, STAY IN THE SOUTH Unless You Have Money, Saya a New York Golored Preacher Sashes. New York,Marcn 18.—Rev. Simon P. Drew, pastor of Bt. Stephens’ Colored Baptist church ia Astoria, has just res turned from trip through the South, made in the interest of his race. “My investigations in the South,” he said last night. satisfied me that during te next month at least 20,000Zcolored people hope to leave the South and come North to ‘accep’ eaay positions at salaries ranging ‘from $80 to $300 a month: ‘These people dont know the conditions prevailing up here: ‘They have been misled by glit- tering advertisements, promising big 6»! aries in return for their services, bu! when they get here what will they f1d awaiting them. Why a city that is cold to the individual without money, acd f he is like those colored peop'e would be without friends us welt his would iudeed be a forlorn one. ““L must state that I am not opposed to the Southern negro coming North On the contrary, I believe it would be w good thing for him, thet js, if he hes money to care for bimself and {smily while establishing himselt here, # bat I mean by thie is that he must forget Southern customs and conditions and be thoroughly adapted to the customs and conditions of the North. While this change is taking place he must be able to aid bimself from his owa private re sources, The negro without a fai amoudt of capital has no business as fa away from his real home as the Nerth is, unless he is capable of mamtaiuing himself for at least six months of regu: lar employment. If he hus » fomily he will need even private resources to eibsinn Gated? NEGROBS FOR HAWAII Colony of 100 Left Tennessee Yesteday Under Three-Year Contract to Sagar Company. Knoxville, Tonn., March 18—A ool ony of 100 negroes left Knoxviile to- day for Hawaii under three-yesr contract to the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company. The party was raised 8. N. Maples, an intelligent ne gro, who goos with tho colonist. In raising the party, an attempt was made to got whole famitles, of the rea son that the company has had difficul sy in keeping American negroes with ont families on plaatation, The at« tempt was partially successful. WORLD'S LARGEST DIAMOND, ‘The largest diamond in the world i known as the Braganzs. It’s huge size for it weighs 1680 carats in the rouga— has caused it’s genuineness to be suspec: ted and no opportunity 4s afforded to ex perts to examine it. It issaid to be a bout the size of a gsose egg. It in th chief treasure of Portugal which values it at 900,000,000 pounds sterling. It af. fords little satisfaction to anyone as. the Btate will not allow it tobe either sol or cut. NEGRO WOMANLYNCHED ‘Tennessee Mob Shoots Herto Death, 0a suspicion That She Stole $120. Nashville, Tenn.,Maroh 16.—A negro woman named Bullio Cratehfield, liv- ing near Rome, Smith county, was Murdered Inst night by a mob that visited her home about midnight. She was taken from her cabin and carried to the bridge over Round Lick oreok. She herds having been tied behind her sbe was shot through the head and her lifeless body thrown into the creek s ae sere ieee returned a verdict tbat she came to her death at the hands ‘of parties unknown, She was suspect~ ed of looting a pocketbook of $120 which bed been ios... LYNOSED AFTER A TRIL Negro in Tennessee Mobbed After the Jury Hud Disagreed as to Hie Guilt. Nasnveuie, Tewx., March 17,—At ‘Tiptonville, in Lake county, last night 9 mob hsnged Ike Fitzerald to a tree near the court house, ‘The negro was charg ed with sssault ona white girl, Miss} Mina Davenport, 19 years old, and a tri- ai by jury had just reported that they could not agree and had been diseharged. SLIGHTLY MIXED in HER TERMS: ‘She walked into the office of the Judge of Probate and asked: “Are you the Judge of reprobates?”” “Lam the Judge cf Probate was the reply. “Well, that's it, Texpect,” quoth the oid Iady> “You see, my husband died detested and left me several little rn fide] ‘aad I want to be appointed their exeeu~ tour" NEGROES BAKRED. COLORED PERSONS NT ALLOW- ED IN CALVERT CITY. ecole. cig Sieeca Sayer chy tarrencteiNel ne orale Out by the Inhabitants of the Little Kentucky Town—No Colored Ma Dare to Live There. ‘This town, in Marshall county, is one ‘of the few places in tae world that bas eFectually solved the race problem says a Calyert City, Ky., correspondent of the Denver Times. Nota negro is to be found within a radius ot a dozen miles and the negro is yet to be diseoy- ered who has any permanent desire to eme here. To threaten a negro with “alvert City is to bring before vi-ion pictures of death more horrible han by lynching, The peaceable, Jaw abiding spirit that prevails inthe little Ken~ tieky town is swiftly banished when a negro appears. If he keeps going be is uct aolested. provided he attends to is own affairs and does nothing to pro~ voke the ever alert hostility of the res idents. But he can neither taxe up his abode there nor remain there all night, and > disastrous have been all pnst aix emptsto break this uawnitten, bu, none the less stringent law, that no nygro would to-day dare 10 move into valvest City and annouros his inten- don of remaining, Tho town itself 's ‘# small place of s few hundred inbab.- saute, situated on the Illinois Central rai road, only a dozen miles from Pa duvah, the metropolis of soumwest Kentucky. ‘Tne intense hatred of the n gro dates back 20 years or more. Few profess tu know its origin and any claim tat it was bora ia the peo: ple, but sone of the older inpabitant Geciare that 1t had its iaveption years agi, When two negroes martied White women azd settled there. ‘The av r. sion of the people became $0 grea. tha oumerous attempts, resulting ia con- siderable. bivcdsued, were Wade to 6x pe: the mismated ovuples, and event- ually they Wrs driven away. This aroused tov bitterest hostility amon, the negroes. and the white people scon grew to so bate the signt of ove thu Cyery negro was ultimately run out 0 the Viei Fy. and one has never been gnowa to live in th se parts sinec. La recent years :here has Vesa n> serious ‘rouble, vut itis estimated that no less than ten or a dozen oegroes who hay settled im the ueighborau.d have bee 1 shot frum ambush or otherwise myster jously killed. 1bis reprehensible means of extermisating them, bow» ever, was always adopted as a last re- sort, aud no one was ever punished for relieving the edamunity of sheir pres- ence. Ihe eeiored people in this. part of the state gencrally are aware of this peculiar charaetoristie of Caivert City pzople, and usually avoid tna place When a train stops here they can har: ly be induced to poke a head ont of fhe window. Last summer sn exeur- sion traiu from Memphis passed Cal vertCity and abig darky of she “bully” kind got off, stalx-d down the platforn aid vondly zumounsed that he hac come to slay aud would like to gets look at some ot the oslebrated citizons of that town. He got it sooner than he anticipated, and 11 seeking safey o1 the train be left @ portion of ais wear Seer anhweiil. amit PACIFIC ayy ae “abo SHORTEST LINE CROSS “= CONTINENT ‘The Union Pacific ‘The Original Over- land 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 trams solidly vesbuled and tully ‘equipped with latest improved Reclining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars, Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant pian ‘at prices most reasonable. 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Fox, for a divorce in the above named court, and that_plalntiff's petition was filed Janu- ary 7, 1901, ‘That the grounds on which suid divoree ie asked is sbandoament for more than one year. Now. unless vou answer demure, or otherwise object, on or before the 17th. day of March, a. . 1901, the allegation of said petition will be taken as confess- ed to be true anc judgment render-d against you gran ine said divorce as prayed for. L. W. JOHNSON, Plaintiff's Attorney, Attest, A. Gunsino, Cierk. ot Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta eLine, K.C. K ‘Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker’s machine and guaranteen the best and the sheapest work ia the quickest tme Give kim a trialand see for you self. 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John ‘Greer, in the District Court of Wyan- dotte County, Kas,, where his petition is now on file, praying fora decree of divorce from you, the said Defend ant, and that unless "you answer ssid petition on or before the. 12th. day of April 1901, said petition will be taken as true “nd judgement thereon rendered against you, fully and eom- pletely divorcing you from said plain- tuff, B.S. Smith Attorney for John Greer, Attest. A. Gunning Clerk of Dist. Court (Firat Published March 1.) The Citizen is in the Push: Better keep your Eyes open., PILES Mi CURED. Rae a aia eae oei la iy | Wonder why some people kiek so hard when the truth is told. Thero is soon to be another wedd- oe. ' Nervous Prostration, A Noted Boston Woman Describes its Symptoms and Terrors.—Two Severe Cases Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. oe gg 229 | SS ie, 7 , : a. A ag ty wae | i | Ge a | ee ae “T am so nervous! no one ever suffered as i do! There isn’t a well inch in my body. I honestly believe my lungs are diseased, my chest pains me so, but I have no cough. I ‘am so weak at my stomach, and have indigestion terribly, and ‘palpitation of the heart; am losing flesh; and this headache and backache nearly kills me, and yesterday I had hysterics. “There is a weight in the lower part of my bowels, bearin, down all the time, with pains in my groins and ‘highs = can't sleep, walk, or sit, and blue —oh goodness! I am simply the most miserable of women.” This is a most vivid description of a woman suffering with nervous prostration, caused by inflammation or some other diseased condition of the womb. No woman should allow herself to reach such a perfection of misery when there is no need of it. Read about Miss Williamson’s case and how she was cured. Two Bad Cases of Nervous Prostration Cured. ie REWARD, —We havo deposited with the National City Bank of Lynn, $5000, SH eee aa eee cae ie Sey mets ree pain ote QP aS ah CRE wy GUN CATALOGUE FREE Tells all about Winchester Rifles, Shotguns, and Ammunition fend name and adress on a postal now, Don't delay If you are iatereeted. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. MOWINCHESTER AVENUE = ss NEW HAVEN, CONN, ———————— W. L. DOUGLAS ¢ > UNION = ee $3 & $3.50 SHOES susz fA ‘The real worth of W. Ee Douglas $3.00 and 83.50 [ew cy shoes compared with other makes 18 84.00 to $5.00. > + $) Gur 8,00 GIlt Edge Cine cannct be eneatie stew y pacctecmtan tre cena tecrreasen, Piket, Kisinpaertes manaimteriotie tmictsines |g Seren ree oy coco ae Booker Ae ys So NO EyoiGis ith‘eur shoes," Miiewekone Atte. °°" SUE OP ae em Danver~ ah 7 ego. = << nal 2 A eas Py i br: “bee eG @ ee Saern pa —— oH Ree Hee 2 SS sae tion Oe RA aes Bee ee 8 =D eo pea \. If you are driving across a railroad : Pe track and hear the screech of an ap- Serie ep miamc cst : BPN. seo whether a train is coming. You get off the a track. [| When you arise in the morning with aches and pains shooting S. through you from hips to shoulders; with that tired, stupid disposition and general run-down feeling, then you may be sure there is some- thing wrong with your liver or kidneys, or both. Don’t wait to make sure, It is a fair warning. cZ 2 ‘ McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm ‘Will cure It Is an unfailing remedy in all diseases affecting the liver and Rawr or urinary functions. It is the best for Diabetes, Dropsy, Galkstones, Gravel, Jaundice, Rheumatism, etc. Sold by all druggists. Made by The Dr. J. H. McLean Medicine Co., St, Louts,Me. “Dear Mrs. Pryxiam;— It was suffering such tortures from nervous prostration that life was a burden. I could not sleep at all, and was too weak to walk across the floor, My heart was affected so that often I could not lie down at all without almost suffocating. I took Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and it worked like magic. I feel that your medicine has been of in- estimable benefit to me.” Miss Apgne Witttasso"; Ae Rr eae ee Shearman oe, “i had nervous prostration terribly, caused by female weakness. I suffered every- thing; was unable to eat, sleep, or work. After a while I was induced to try Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, and I really began to improve on taking the first bottle. I continued to take the medicine, and am now better in every way, and feel like a different person. Iam simply a well woman.” ‘Mus, DELLA KeIseR, Elk TERIOR 'W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 12, 1901 eer Rls rere titte ie AL REALS Pe Benet ee =i “CONSUMPTION & r Original ideas resemble clocks wher they strike one. A Month's Test Frees Ieyoa haceaheamutiam, tte Dr Shoop, Racine whe Bons eeu batter or Siw Keowee Care praia Sedaemuney: Par eowrenel It you would mend your ways you must take a stitch in time. Beware of Olntments for Ontarch That Contain Mercury, ‘As meroury will surely destroy. the sense ot Shell ad comleiey derange the whole epstem hen entering Te thrurm the mucous surfaces Buen arlisiey should never ue asad elcope on Brsseiptions trom reputable physicians the Samane they will ac ie centold to the void Yon can possibly derive trom them. “Flats Catatos Gare, manufactured by 3: Cheney. & Co, Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and fs takes internally’ acting direeey por the blood ned mucous surfaces of ‘the ayetem. In buying Hail Gatarih Cure besureyou et he genuine tis taken internally, and made {n Toledo, Ole, by Ed: Cheney cz. Newtimontalstree’ Sold "all's Family Diuls are tne best. The pen is mightier than the sword when it comes to signing checks. What Do the children Drink Don't givo them tea or coffee, Have tried the pew food drink called GRAIN-O| felSdelfetous and nourishing, and takes the place of colfes. The more Grala-O you give Rho children tho more health you distribute trough thelr apstoms. “Grain is mado mire grains, and when properly prepa Fastes like the choice gries of coffee, but fonts about 3 as much. All grocers sell it SBoaad 25e. ‘The only exercise some fellows take is in rushing the growler. ‘There are a great many Remedies, but there is one CURE for a poor com- plexion: that is Garfield Tea which cures by purifying the Blood, thus Re- moving the Cause. Love may laugh at the locksmith, but never at the goldsmith. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, ‘Take Laxative BROMO QuiNiNe TABLETS. AN druggists refund the money If It falls to eure. EL'W, Grove's signature fs on the Dox. 230, Entertaining a hope is never a dis- interested act of hospitality. ‘Tom sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. THOS. ROBBINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. ¥., Feb. 17,1900, The professional shoplifter isn’t necessarily a strong person. FITS Permanently Cored. sot ornervoumess after fine day's re of br Ring's Great Norve Hestorer, Bena for FREE, 2.00 ‘vial Wott and treatise Dah i, Kans, Led 0 are Sty Thiledelphiay Bas He who drinks the health of every- body drinks away his own, Pain relieved, sickness prevented, by timely use of Wizard Oil. Keep it al- ways in the home, Honeyed phrases are very apt to have files on them. ‘WANTED-Men withrig toadverilpe and ntroduce Monareh Pouitey Mixture, Straight aalary” 800 echy. and expenses. Addrom wth amp, Monarch Sianufacturlug Cor Box tw. spriagheld, Niinots, A womans heart, like the man, should have but one man in it, Dyeing fs as simple as washing when you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, An invalid is a contradiction when he is an impatient patient. ‘Throw physle to the dors—it you don’t want te dogs "nutit you want good digestion chew Boeman’s Pepsi Gum. | 0 8 ‘Take away women—and men would follow. WANTED AT OWCE-rTraveling salocmen, with oF WANCah eupertenoe: by and expenses, For part Uoulurs wilve Peeriess Tobacco Wha, daied Guy.te People frequently pass remarks, yet no one ever sees them. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For hlidren teething. woftens the ams, reduces fw ‘Satanation allayspuld,curen wind cole.'Soca bute A fountain works when it plays and plays when it works. ‘The Remarkable success of Garfield Tea, the great HERB cure for constipation ‘and Sick Headache, is due to its health- ful ection on all the digestive organs. ‘The maiden’s band of hope is a hus- band. corte MhOM Fou ny Take fet Carter's and sou will get the best every Eine “inklings’ tee. Carter's Indo: Bostos, People with hot tempers may some- times give rather cool treatment. It you wish to have beautiful white clothes ask for Red Cross Ball Blue. ‘The judge has many trying experl- jensen, 3, DrBull's COUGH SYRUP iS SURE iS SURE. all CU yay pen a bee Wat: PE ily “ce eee css See ma Sissies Bete eis ea58 Sethe co és ea a Bee het metic Cre ih oat he Sh Ba vele tee Sole pected Be Rk For the Ladies. A THESMEVER s im SHOES THAT WEAR. ‘Ask Your Dealer For Them, Boseeeseresereeesesesesees 3 hansas Tews Totes, ; ee srtitnens dts Vat DOE Sho Sa “Seek, Quenemo claims to have the cham- pion whistler of Kansas. At Hope one of the “ex-joints” fs being fitted up ex a millinery store. A Decatur county man and wife show a combined weight of 700 pounds. House cleaniag is on in Emporia and only forty women have found time tc register. §. D. Whittington, who was killed by lightning near Kincaid, left $20,000 in life insurance. Under the new Kansas law, insane persous will be tried before a medical board instead of a jury. Judge David Martin never tasted liquor in his life, never smoked and never uttered a profane word. ‘The Jefferson county ran who lost his entire alfalfa crop by fire can no longer be said to be in clover. Tudge Theodosius Botkin has de- cided to quit Kansas, and will locate in Salt Lake City or Ogden, Utah, Ex-Lieutenant Governor Harvey has dccitued the Democratic nomination for judge of the Topeka city court. ‘A Cherryvale restaurant man very cutely advertises: “Since the joints have closed come to my place and get full.” ‘The mayoralty issue at Abilene is “whether chickens must be cooped up in garden time or allowed to run at large.” Cherryvale has voted $20,000 bonds to seenre the northern terminus of the Kansas, Eastern Oblahoria & Texas iallroad. Mutton chops have been the pre- valling dish at Anthony since @ flock of 3,000 sheep have gone into pasture near the town. | Miss Loutse Ogilvy, @ Topeka gil aged 18, 1s a missionary 10 Korea. A letter ‘written January 1 has just reached her folks. ‘The Rock Island will do its share to- ward beautifying Smith Center by con- verting a waste plot of ground into a handsome litle park. ©. J. Lantry, the Strong City rail- road contractor, will stock his ranch with pheasants. having purchased a dozen settings from a Labette county man. Jerry Simpson had a exttle sale at his ranch in Barber county a few days ago. ‘The bunch brought $7 223.50, and with the exception of one small uote, it was all spot cash. Gilbert Campbell, a former citizen of Eifingham, is now one of the rich men of Canon City, Col. Te is build- ing a residence which the local papers say is “colonial in style.” A bridegroom at Bartlesville the other day could have pited eight of his years into a sack asd chucked them into the creek and still have been twice the age of his 17-year-old briae. A Lawrence paper notes that “our state university, like other state in- stitutions open to all the people, is a great leveler.” Which is abundantly illustrated in that fight in the mud the other day. A printer working for the Emporia Gazette was unable to rent a house [because of his three children. He ad- vertised for a house, offer'ng to kill two of his children. “Providence,” says the Gazette, “got even with him for his levity by sending him a pair ‘of twins this morning. Moral: Don't get gay.” ‘There are no people in the world who can keep themselves quite so busy as the Kansas people. They go every- where, turn up in the most unexpected places, and Keep something “doing” all the time. Of all of which we are reminded by a letter published in the Sedan Times-Star from a former girl of that town, who is now a proof reader on a Honolulu paper, while her husband manipulates a Mergenthaler machine in the same office In a divorce sult filed in Brown county the wife alleges that her hus- band went off to dances and other par- ties and had a hilarfoue old time, while she was compelled to keap com- pany with the cat at home, ‘Miss Jessie Morrison is in jail again. Her second trial was called last week. ‘The case was continued ti!l June, and ‘she was required to give $5,000 bond. 'As her bond was not ready she was committed to jail again. Her aged father, who was her devoted friend throughout her first trial, is very sick and did not accompany ter to court. She looked worried and nervous and broke down and erled. ‘The Goetz Brewing company has sued Sheriff Campbell of Nemaha county, for $98, the alleged value of some joint fixtures which he smashed the other day. The sheriff claims to have had an order from a justice of the peace. One of the institutions of Kansas fs the farm auction sale, usually held when some farmer decidce to leave the country. Near Downs last week thees ‘were this anctionsers and 00 CONSTIPATED OLD AGE ty ile Means misery on the eve of life. Nine out yy gs Zea of ten old people are constipated because the YY). ;, SZ muscles of their intestines have become Geen) ree weak, worn out and flabby. Constipation Wy ea ee ae ze is the curse of old age, causes bile and Per RIN —_2<id poisons to remain in the blood, making BG Pe 22. 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Again there are rumors of a bound- ary fight between Wisconsin and Michigan, the former demanding what Buropean landgrabbers sometimes call a “rectification of frontier” along her northeastern border. If the badger state shall make out her claim it will affect eleven townships, including the important towns of Crystal Falls and Iron River, now in’ Michigan, Descendants of Mayflower Emigrants, Wisconsin now has a branch of the Society of Mayflower descendants, with 28 members, all but two being women. To be eligible one must be a lineal descendant of a passenger of the voyage of the Mayflower which termin- ated at Plymouth, Mass., in December, 1620, a eee ae A lecturer on agriculture predicts that fifty years from now milk will ba sold in a dried state to save the trans- portation of water, that cows will be milked by machinery and butter pro- duced without churning. The milk- maid must prepare to join the ranks of the new woman. Grecian Queen's Unique Position. ‘The queen of Greece holds a uniqne position for, on account of her great love for the sea, the late Emperor Al- exander IIT. of Russia, made her an admiral of the Russian fleet, instead of giving her the customary regiment. Her majesty is the only lady admiral in the world. Gedney Petare:. as Paeiees: A unique picnic took place on Valen- tine's day in Pasadena, Cal., where scores {f not hundreds of former Iow- ans now residents of southern Califor- nia held a jollification. Hundreds of others went there for the winter and all met on the date and at the place ‘named. women Lawyers ta Boston. ‘Women lawyers in Boston have # large and flourishing club, with a no- ble disregard of “objects” other than to come into sympathetic acquaint- ance, Once in two months the mem- bers meet and dine at a well-known hotel. The only officer of the Portia club is the business manager, who ar- ranges for the meetings. ‘The Grind of Society. ‘The longer I live the more I am sat- isfled of two things: First, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose- diamond fashion, with many facets an- swerlng to the many-planed aspects of the world about them; second'y, that society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single facet.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. Pon SP Ask your Grocer to-day to show a picks ‘of GRAIN-O, the new food drink hat takes the placa of coifee.. The children may drink it without injury as well as the ‘adult, All who try it, like it, GRATN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but itis made from pure grains, end tho most delicate stomach receives ik, without. dis trees. 3 the price of coffeo, Ibe and 25et or packuge. Sold by all grocers. ‘The dentist fils long-felt wants that aren't wanted. Red Cross Ball Blue is the best in a wena: Lasenchocs Naas ox. OF LA GRIPPE, THE after-effects of the grip are often disastrous. It is commonly known to the medical fraternity that the numerous ailments and complications which follow the grip are apt to be ore serious than the acute stage of the disease. Some people have the grip very lightly. They may be confined to the house only a day or two and yet a long train of disagreeable, disabling symptoms follow. Al sorts of tonics and stimulating remedies have been devised to meet this condition. None of them can compare in results with Peruna. Every one who has had the grip ought to take a short course of Peruna. Read what the following people have to say about it. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Patieshn. Chibi The Peruna Medicine Co..Columbus, 0.: Gontioann ot soccer} have taen Peru SS na now tor two fe gees net for tre RB ie tory auch \ & fal § relieved. I feel oh Rig that my cure Mig 3 vit ve posmee tec eee BS fico taken st tor 07... werent Ya Sf ees § take pleasure in HA ZLIB 3 Secoumending Fi Congressman Howard. to all fellow suf- ferers.”"—M. W. Howard. Congressman Howard's home ad- dress is Fort Payne, Ala, Grip Kroduces Catarrh. Henry Distin, the inventor and maker of all the band instruments for the Henry Distin Mfg. Co., at Wil- Aiamsport, Pa., writes: 144i South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 6, 1899. Dr. $. B, Hartman, Dear Sir:—“T write to inform you that I had a bad attack of la grippe last December which lasted more than three months and which left me with catarrh, when several of my friends advised me to try your wonderful medicine, Peruna. I began with a bottle the first week in March and it certainly did me a great deal of good. I was so well satisfied that I purchased another bottle and followed your directions, which you furnish with every bottle, and I am glad to say that it has cured me. I shall certainly recommend the Peruna to all my friends.” j———_ DD. ‘Wallace, a grip [charter member ot the International Bar- CAUSED [ders Union writes from 15 Western ave., NERVOUS | einmeapolis, Minn, DYSPEPSIA. | “Following a severe ettack of la grippe I CPN je eae of the International Bar- CAUSED [ders Union writes from 15 Western ave., NERVOUS | cinneapolis, Minn. DYSPEPSIA. | “Following a severe ettack of la grippe T seemed to be affected badly all over. T suffered with a severe backache, indi- gestion and numerous ills, so I could heither cat nor sleep, and I thought I would give up my work, which 1 could not afford to do. “One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it, and I procured a bottle the same day. I used it faithfully and felt a marked improvement. During the next two months I took five bot- tles, and then felt splendid. Now my head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to me.”— D. L, Wallace, OFFERS FREE HOMES: feisnao jroetes noe nee faode ou ees oeecussne coer nite. ee pesigeaat,, ptosis Coes gen ae one france te dare ataniag Mogae rasteneeor peat uel abe, Cet gear Se ca ae ene Dealers, or address DICK T, MORGAN, Perry, O. T. wirnovr rae rene args at ee Diz. South Sine WASHINGTON, bets ig. & S17 1h Street, WASHINGTON. D€ Washington, April 24, 1900. The Peruna Medicine Co.,Columbus, 0. Gentle men— “About two months ago I was taken very very ill with lag 4 grippe and was Sz obliged to go to$ >A x bed. I took} A | ~.aN three bottles of $9" bee Peruna with s very beneficial J results and was él able to leave my a ed eae ew ee months ago I SEER was taken very} fipiercse® very iil with 13 Geen srippe and was} GQy obliged to go to} >A x bed. I took’ 4" o three bottles of $4 = Peruna with = very beneficial $ “Dy a Foruits and wass We gal able to leave my Pe my bed in 8 Frances At. Anderson, week, and re- ieee: gained my usual strength very sodn. T have nothing but the highest praise for Perna and recommend it to those similarly afflicted wherever I ca.”"— Frances M. Anderson. Grip Polsoned Her Blood Mrs, T. W. Collins, Treasurer of:the Independent Order of Good Templars of Everett, Wash., writes: “After having a severe attack of 1a grippe I continued in a feeble condi- tion even after the doctor called me cured. My blood seemed poisoned. “T also suffered with dyspepsia, and had either to starve or suffer from what I was eating. A neighbor who was using Peruna praised it so highly that she induced me to try it, and I soon found this was what I really needed. “1 could soon eat my regular meals with relish, my system was built up, my health’ returned, and I have re- mained in excellent strength and vigor now for over two years.’—Mrs. T. W. Collins, Miss Alice Dressler, of 1913 N. Bryant ave, Minneapolis, Minn., writes as follows con- cerning Peruna: “Last spring I suf- fered from la_grippe and was partially of 1313 N. Bryant ave., Minneapolis, Minn.,| __ ORIP writes as follows con-| LEFT HER cerning Peruna: “tast spring 1 sut-| BROKEN fered from la grippe DOWN, and. was partially) _| cured, but the bad after-effects remain- ed through the summer and somehow Taid not get as strong aa 1 was before, “in the fall I caught cold after get~ ting my feet wet and attending a lec- ture in a cold hall, and suffered a re- lapse. Catarth of the throat and head followed, and as I was in a weak con- dition physically previous to this, It took but little to break me down com- pletely. One of my college friends, who was visiting me, asked me to try Peruna and I did so and found it ail and more than I had expected. It not only cured me of the catarrh, but re- stored me to perfect health,”—Alice Dressler, IN 3 OR 4 YEARS AN INDEPENDENGE ASSURED I | usin West Eane WO Alea iS 3 Sees ra acne poe et dee waes BOTH SNARLING ENGLAND AND RUSSIA CANNOT AGREE. RUSSIA DEMANDS AN APOLOGY Also Demands that the British Troops Withdraw—The British Refuse to do Either—Count Von Walderses Arbitration Proposition is Ignored—The Quarrel of Small Moment. General Wogack has refused to accept Count von Walderses's arbitration at Tien Tsin, and demands that the British not only withdraw, but apologize for removing the Russian flag. General Barrow refuses to do either, and in so refusing he the support of the British government. British reinforcements are being sent. Count von Walderses's proposition, which General Wogack declined to entertain, was that the disputed territory be turned over to a neutral guard, the Russians and British simultaneously withdrawing, pending legal investigation of the questions involved. It is the general feeling in Tien Tsin that the trouble is not likely to reach a point where blood will be shed. Both detachments on guard have orders to do nothing aggressive unless forced to do so by the other. Except the army and camp followers the only Russians now residing at Tien Tsin are the members of the consular staff, two clerks and two Jews, who are running stores, and who left Russia in order to save their lives. These are now being offered inducements to move to the Russian concession. TOPEKA CAPITAL IS SOLD Eour Oldtime Capital Men, Are the New Owners. The deal which has been pending some weeks for the sale of the Topeka Capital has been concluded and the new owners will take charge at once. They are Arthur Capper, proprietor of the Mall and Breeze; Harold T. Chase, now and for many years associate editor of the Capital; W. B. Roby, circulation manager of the Kansas Farmer, and R. L. Thomas, bookkeeper for the Capital. All of these men are "old-timers" on the Capital, having been in its employ from five to fifteen years each. Fred O. Popenoe has been the nominal owner of the Capital for the past two years, but the deal for the purchase was made with John R. Mulvane, who has had an equity in the paper dating back to the proprietorship of J. K. Hudson. CARNEGIE LAVISH AGAIN. Philadelphia Said to Be The Rec'pient of $5,000,000 Donation. Another magnificent gift from Andrew Carnegie will be announced within a few days. It has become known that Mr. Carnegie has offered $5,000,000 to another American city, also, it is said, for the purpose of building libraries. Philadelphia, it is understood, will be the next recipient of the iron master's bounty. It is believed that Mr. Carnegie has offered to build libraries aggregating $5,000,000 in value on conditions similar to those which accompany his offer to New York. Eyes on the Morocco Incident. European diplomats in Washington are deeply interested in the action of the United States in sending the armored cruiser New York to Morocco to aid the American consul general in exacting an apology and obtaining the settlement of claims aggregating $50,000. While there will be no bombardment of any Moorish town, the presence of an American man-of-war is expected to have a salutary effect in obtaining immediate compliance with the demands of this government. The New York will remain at Masargan until Consul General Gummere returns from Marakesh and announces a satisfactory settlement. Census Frands in Maryland. Regarding irregularities in the census enumeration in Maryland Director of the Census Merriam says: "I have been simply amazed at the irregularities we have discovered. It is too late to change the figures of the tenth census, but it will be the policy of this office to punish every offender. St Mary's and St Charles counties were the districts in which the worst irregularities occurred. In one county of one of the districts 500 names were wrongfully and intentionally added by the enumerators. The added names included dead and non-residents. We will press all cases of this sort discovered anywhere, altho.gh it is too late to change the "ngures." Lakla Kas Burglars Get $5,000. Bank Commissioner Albaugh received a telegram from Cashier Brown, of the Lakin, Kan., bank, stating that the burglaries who broke into the bank got something over $5,000 in cash. The bank had burglar insurance to the amount of $2,000. The directors will either make good the loss or close the bank. No Million Dollar Salary Yet The reports that Mr. Schwab is to be the head of the Steel combine at a salary of from $800,000 to $1,000,000 has no basis in fact. Mr. Schwab will become the president if he wishes, but that will have to come about in the legal selection of officers after the combine is formed, at which time the salary question will be settled. Cloggymen in the Scramble More than 500 applications for chaplaicains in the army have been already filed with the President. The army reorganization bill provided for twenty-three additional chaplains. The pay and rank were fixed at that given a captain of infantry, together with the usual extras and allowances, of about $2,000 a year. Great Paltin Gas London It is reported in high circles that King Edward contemplates a big exhibition in London on the lines of the Parla exposition. PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR. Two Attempts Recently to Assassinate the Russian Emperor Two separate conspicuces to assassinate the czar have been discovered. The first attempt was to be made on the occasion of the jubilee ball of the naval cadet corps, which the czar had promised to attend. He was ready to start and was waiting for his carriage when Governor General Kleigels arrived at the palace and informed him that he must not go, several suspicious looking persons belonging to the revolutionary party having been arrested at the Nicolai bridge with arms and forged passports. Kleigels informed the czar that the prisoners were probably emissaries of the Central Nihilist committee at Zurich. The visit was accordingly abandoned. The second affair occurred in the middle of January, when the czar, accompanied by his mother, visited the ceramic exhibition. When entering one of the rooms the members of the committee who were escorting the imperial party suddenly noticed an unknown man hurriedly approaching the czar. As the public had been excluded and those authorized to attend had been carefully selected, the presence of the stranger excited suspicion. Several of the czar's party hastened to meet him and lead him away. Thereupon the man suspiciously thrust his hand in a pocket. He was instantly seized. When he was searched a bomb was found in his pocket. Official Reports Show the Startling Effect of the Buyer Movement. The state department has received from United States Consuls Fowler, at Chefoo, and Ragsdale, at Tien Tsin, reports intended to show the effect of the Boxer troubles in North China upon United States trade, with particular regard to what Americans lost in America through the outbreak, rather than in China. A resume of the trade returns in North China entire, comparing the quarter ended June 30 last, with that ended September 30, shows an almost complete annihilation of the American import trade, and, in Consul Fowler's language, "gives a good idea of what a mob in China can do in interfering with trade." The greatest loss was felt in cotton piece goods, and the cessation of this class of imports, says the consul, must have been most keenly felt in the Southern states. Probably no country in the world suffered as much as did the United States, for the scene of strife covered practically the entire American field of trade. THEY WANT THE EARTH. Powers Persist in Asking Most Unreasonable Indemnities of China. It is feared in Washington that the negotiations at Peking respecting indemnity may fail, owing to the greed of individual nations. Mr. Rockhill, our special commissioner, who has been in close communication by cable with the state department, has nothing but discouraging reports to make of this important branch of the negotiations. It appears that the ministers cannot agree upon any uniform basis of indemnity, some of the powers demanding enormous sums. In most cases the powers contend for the right of fixing our own indemnities. The result is that each power, in order not to be outdone, fixes the total of its claims at an enormous figure, far beyond anything known to the history of indemnity collections. Let Out Nearly 200 Girls Between 150 and 200 girls employed at making overalls in the Swofford Brothers Dry Goods company's factory, Kansas City, Mo., have been thrown out of employment. The firm decided, on account of a long standing difficulty with the girls, not to continue any longer to make overalls. The girls who worked in the overall factory will not be re-employed in any capacity by the firm. They are through with Swofford Brothers, so far as that firm is concerned, and the firm of Swofford Brothers is through with them. The girls call the firm's sudden action a lockout. J. J. Swofford says it is not a lockout for a firm to refuse to continue a business that has been not only unprofitable, but a cause of constant annoyance. For a Great Salt Plant. The Detroit Journal says: The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing company, which purchased 138 acres of river frontage land adjoining Wyandotte on the south and west in 1898 and 1899, has concluded definite arrangements in Detroit for the erection upon the property of a plant that, when finished, will represent an expenditure of $3,000,000. New York's New Tax Law. The New York assembly, by unanimous vote, passed the bill taxing trust companies 1 per cent on capital stock, surplus and undivided profits. Denver Will Have Home Rule. Governor Orman has signed the bill passed by the Colorado legislature which provides for the separation of the city of Denver from Arapahoe county and for the consolidation of the city and county governments. Coal Mines May Combine. A movement is said to be on foot among the leading coal operators of Illinois to consolidate the coal producing interests of the state into one company. Carnegie Gives Atchison $50,000. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give Atchison, Kan., $5,000 toward a public library, provided the city will approve $2,500 annually for expenses and furnish a site for the building. Atchison can do this. Wolcott for the Cabinet. It is reported that ex-Senator Wolcott of Colorado will be appointed sec retary of the interior to succeed Mr Hitchcock. PRISON STRIKE KANSAS PENITENTIARY CONVICTS MUTINY. REBELLED AGAINST THEIR FOOD Frouble Occurred in The Coal Mine and the Warden Had to Send Down an Armored Body of Men—The Convicts Were Thoroughly Cowed Down and Showed no Fight—Held 15 Guards as Hostages. The insurrection of the convict miners in the state shaft at Lansing, Kas., was brought to a close at 11:30 Tuesday night and the mutinous convicts are being placed in their cells as fast as they can be brought to the surface, after being given a cup of coffee to appease their appetites. The imprisoned guards have been released and are again above the surface. Shortly after nightfall the warden and every available officer gathered around the mouth of the mine, each man heavily armed. Hunger had begun to tell upon the convicts and they appealed to the warden. They sent him word that if he would promise not to inflict punishment for their action they would surrender and come up. To this the warden would not consent, sending down word that the surrender must be unconditional, the question of punishment to be considered later. As the night wore on the warden held a consultation with his officers and it was decided to attempt a rescue of the guards and also to overweave the convicts and force their surrender. Selecting his men the warden with seven or eight guards, heavily armed, entered the hoist and were soon speeding downward. When near the bottom of the pit a heavy fusilade was opened the shots being fired toward the top of the shaft. This took the convicts by surprise and thinking that the shots were intended for them they hastily fled, leaving the guards, who were soon joined by their comrades, after which they were sent to the top. The armed guards then started after the convicts and soon had the ringleaders under arrest, when the others gave in and surrendered. Most of the mutineers were negroes and among them some of the most desperate characters in the prison. The ringleaders were very desperate and the more timid ones were almost prostrate with fright when brought to surface, so fearful were they that they would be made to risk their lives. The trouble seems to be twofold. The men have kicked on their food and on their tasks. The task is three cars per man per day. The strikers want two only. A car is half a ton. As to the food: The men claim, it is stated, that they have been skimped especially last Sunday. Then they had pigs' feet. Warden Tomlinson says they were larger than usual, and all did not get a second foot that wanted one. This caused murmurings. HARRISON'S WILL. Practically All of Estate Goes to Widow and Children. The will of General Harrison practically leaves all of his estate to the widow and children and grandchildren. The home, $15,000 in money, and income from $125,000 goes to the widow. His watch and chain, his shotgun, and $10,000 is given to Benjamin Harrison McKee. All debts owing to him by his son Russell are remitted. Item sixteen of the will reads as follows: "If another child should be born to me of my present marriage, I give and bequeath to such child the sum of $10,000. If a boy shall be born to me, he shall bear my name, and my sword and sash shall be given to him instead of my son Russell." General Harrison last year paid taxes on $174,645 of which $82,130 was in real estate. Mr. Redmond Objects. In the British house of commons William Redmond, Irish Nationalist, gave notice that he would take an early opportunity of informing King Edward that he had no earthly right to use the title of "defender of the faith." The argument came up on Mr. Redmond's question as to whether the title would appear on the new coins, and, if so, what particular faith was meant. The chancellor of the excequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, replied that, so long as the king's titles remained unaltered, they would appear on the coins. Then Mr. Redmond protested and was called to order. Switchmen's Official Short. The grand jury at Buffalo, N. Y., has reported three indictments against John E. Tipton, secretary-treasurer of the Switchmen's Union of North America, each charging grand larceny in the second degree, in having appropriated money belonging to the union. The total shortage in his accounts is said to be $2,639. One Kiss and One Hug $1,500 At Indianapolis, Ind., the market price for a stolen kiss and an embrace was fixed at $1,500 by a jury in deciding Lillian Bonnifield's action for $2,000 damages against James C. Wheat, formerly in charge of post-office station "A." $12,020 A Year For The Ex-Queen B. B. JOHN and H. T. KE-QUEEN A. H. JOHN has the Hawaiian legislature providing for an annual pension of $1,200 for ex-Queen Liliuokalani during her lifetime. Carnegie's Fort Scott Offer Andrew Carnegie has offered $15,000 to Fort Scott, Kan., for a library on condition that $2,500 a year will be appropriated by the town for the library's maintenance. The offer will be accepted. A Corner On All The Prunes. The California Cured Fruit association has cornered the entire prune crop of the state. All prunes not in the hands of the association, some 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 pounds, have been purchased outright. A SCHOOL SYSTEM. Philippine Commission Has Provided for Establishing It. The Phillipine commission has enacted a school system for the islands. It provides for a general department of public instruction, with a central office at Manila under the direction of a general superintendent, to be appointed by the commission at a salary of $6,000 per annum. Schools are to be established in every pueblo in the archipelago, where practicable, and those already established shall be recognized where necessary. The salaries of the division superintendents and teachers and the curricula for primary, secondary and other public schools are to be established by the superintendent. He also is to exercise general supervision over the entire department. There are to be ten school divisions in the archipelago, each with a division superintendent, and there is to be a superior board of the general superintendent and four members to be appointed by the Phillipine commission, who shall consider the general subject of education in the islands and make regulations, etc. According to the terms of the act, the English language, as soon as practicable, shall be made the basis of all public instruction, and soldiers may be detailed as instructors until replaced by trained teachers. Authority is given to the general superintendent to obtain from the United States 1,000 trained teachers at salaries of not less than $75 nor more than $100 per month, the exact salary to be fixed according to the efficiency of the teacher. The act provides that no teacher or other person "shall teach or criticise the doctrines of any church, religious sect or denomination, nor shall attempt to influence the pupils for or against any church or religious sect in any public school house. To Inspect Dairy Exports Secretary Wilson will take steps shortly to carry out the portion of the agricultural appropriation act empowering the department of agriculture to inspect exports of dairy products and furnish certificates to accompany them. Rules and regulations will be framed and issued whereby first class products will be properly identified abroad. An agricultural expert will be stationed at New York for this purpose. Gives a Million Dollars Mrs. Emmons Blaine has given $1,000,000 to the University of Chicago school of education, lately organized by the affiliation of the Chicago institute and the university. This sum is given through the trustees of the Chicago institute, founded by Mrs. Blaine, and is to be used partly for purchase of ground, partly for buildings and partly for endowment. A Victim of Medical Hazers W. W. Gillespie, a student at the Milwaukee Medical college, has a fractured skull, a broken nose and a gashed face as the result of hazing by a fellow student. He is under a doctor's care and will recover, but he will be disfigured. Gillespie is a school teacher with an excellent record, and is taking a medical course in addition to his school duties. A Joplin Company Asset A dispatch from the receiver of the International Zinc company, Mr. Trimble, of Joplin, Mo., to C. H. A. Dougherty, of New York, one of the stock holders, says that it is probable that $100,000 may be realized by the sale of the Free Coinage mine, one of the mines owned by the International company. Stewart For the Hax Treaty Senator Stewart of Nevada is quoted as saying: "I regard the amendment of the Hay-Pauncefoote treaty by the United States senate as the worst political blunder of the times. In my opinion, that treaty was the greatest diplomatic achievement by this country during the present generation. The Slot Machine Bill Signed. Governor Dockery of Missouri has approved and signed house bill 121 by representative Delzell. This is the anti-slot machine law, making it a felony for anybody to operate a slot machine or have one in his possession. Texas Invites President McKinley. The house of the Texas legislature has adopted a resolution inviting President McKinley to visit Austin and address the legislature upon his Southern tour. Steel By Electricity. Consul Nelson at Bergen, Sweden, in a report to the state department, says that a successful attempt has been made to produce steel by electricity in that country. Betha Rejects The Terms. Joseph Chamberlain, the colonial secretary, has informed the house of commons that General Louis Botha has rejected the peace terms offered him. A Horse Famine. On account of a horse famine the sending of the first battalion of the Fourteenth cavalry to the Philippines may have to be deferred for two or three months. This regiment is one of the five cavalry regiments provided for in the new army bill and is in the course of organization at Fort Leavenworth. Frank Grimes Has Declined Frank Grimes has decided not to take the position of private secretary to Senator Burton, which means that he will remain treasurer of state until the end of his term. Fishing with an Axe Catching fish with an axe or hatchet is in vogue this winter on the icebound eastern branch of the Potomac in Prince George county, says a dispatch from Hyallville, Md., to the Baltimore Sun. When the ice is clear the fish, usually pike and mullets, can be seen swimming, and a heavy blow from a hammer or axe on the ice will kill the fish by concussion. Then all that is necessary to be done is to cut a hole in the ice and take out the fish. Blind Man Killis Child. A 5-year-old child was playing on the sidewalk at Locust and Hutchinson streets, Philadelphia, when a blind man came along, guiding himself with a heavy walking stick. A swing of the cane struck the child on the forehead, and he fell down a cellarway, sustaining concussion of the brain and dying in a few hours. A neighbor saw the accident, but ran to pick up the child, and when she returned the unknown blind man had passed out of sight, doubtless unaware of the tragedy in which he bore blameless part. Content to Be Wife No. 3. Miss Olive Monalesen, daughter of a European resident of Bombay, has just been married to the young rajan of Jhind, lord of a native state in India. The wedding took place according to the Sikh rites, the bride being fully aware that the groom already had at least two wives. The marriage contract provides the lady with a definite and handsome income and makes stipulations as to how many other wives the potentate may have. Emulates Mrs. Nation Mrs. Charles Rhodes of Port Huron, Mich., armed with a hammer instead of the usual hatchet, partially wrecked James Wilson's saloon in that city, She entered the place and asked for her son, who, it appears, hangs around Wilson's establishment. He was not there, but after giving the bartender a lecture the woman began her smashing. The bartender put her out but not until she had broken a glass case and ten bottles of whisky. Ardent Spirits In Kansas. The announcement that "two-thirds of the drug stores in the state (Kansas) will have to go out of business if their licenses to sell ardent spirits for "medicinal use only" are withdrawn," recalls the old story of the big cowboy who came in town to fill a prescription. Swinging a fat two-gallon demiljon on to the counter he says to the clerk, briskly, "Fill her up, baby's sick."—Evening Wisconsin. "Billy" Sunday's Good Living. When "Billy" Sunday was a member of the Chicago baseball team years ago he drew a good salary as a first-rate all-around player. Since leaving the diamond field and taking up work as an evangelist, Mr. Sunday has also been earning a good living. A few winters ago he closed a successful revival at Alton, Iowa, receiving from the business men of the place a purse of $800 for three weeks' work. Got Stock of Apples Free. A fruit dealer in Paris advertised his willingness to give a prize of five francs for the biggest apple sent to him. In a fortnight he had received enough big apples to stock his store for a season, an², like an honest man, he awarded five francs for the biggest one. The others didn't cost him a son, and the free advertising brought to him a rush of business. MADAME BAVEAS TESTIFIES. A Distinguished Lady After Travelling for Six Years in Search of Health, at Last Finds It in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Hot Springs, Ark., March 18.—(Special.)—This popular resort numbers among its patrons many of the world's most distinguished men and women, but none more so than Madam Isabelle Ellen Baveas, Life Governor of the Free Masons Grand Lodge of England. Madam Baveas, like most of the other visitors, came here in search of health. She was not disappointed, but her cure was not found in the virtue of the baths, but in a few boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, a remedy which she found on sale here, and which is being used and with wonderful success by a number of the visitors to Hot Springs. She says: "I traveled almost constantly for the past six years in the interests of my Society, and my health gradually became broken down, through the change of food, water, climate, etc. The doctors told me I had diabetes and advised me to go to the Springs, as they could do nothing for me. While there my attention was called to Dodd's Kidney Pills by a fellow sufferer, who had been greatly benefited by using them. "I profited by her experience and bought a box, and then another, and so on until I had used seven boxes. It is with gratitude that I state that they cured me completely, and I am now able to take up the duties of life once more. I am very thankful for what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for me, and as a grateful woman shall never hesitate to recommend them to anyone suffering with Diabetes." The very satisfactory experience of this distinguished woman should be an encouragement to all similar sufferers. Dodd's Kidney Pills are 50c. a box, six boxes for $2.50. Buy them from your local druggist if you can. If he cannot supply you, send to the Dodd's Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sellivan's Opinion of Gilbert Sir Arthur Sullivan regarded Gilbert as the cleverest librettist of whom he had any knowledge, yet Gilbert had scant acquaintance with music. He once said that he knew only two tunes. One was "God Save the Queen" and the other wasn't. A New English Word Queen Victoria's undertakers, the firm of Banting, have contributed a word to the English language. A former head of the house was the author of the pamphlet on reducing superfluous flesh, which gave the terms "banting" and "to bant." An Unknown Gaseous Substance. An unknown gaseous substance. Near Rio Grande City, Texas, an immense deposit of an unknown gaseous substance has been discovered. Pieces of it ignite quickly and give out a strong flame, which lasts for a remarkably long period. It is said by scientists that the substance is either an unknown mineral or ordinary clay highly charged with natural gas. In either case the value of the deposit as fuel is immense, as it covers many thousands of acres and is of immense depth. A. Perplexing Problem. Two railroad men on a section of the Atchison & Topeka railroad are in a state of aggravated perplexity. They compose the entire force employed on that section. A printed rule requires that when a broken rail is discovered, one section must run in one direction, and another in an opposite direction, to intercept approaching trains. Now they wonder how the broken rail can be mended while the entire force is scooting off to flag trains. European Shawl in Thibet. In Central Asia wooster shawls of European manufacture find a ready sale. The trade in merino shawls in Thibet bids fair to develop into a profitable business. The shawls come from France and Germany, and, being very cheap, are readily sold. They even seem to be supplanting the better, but much dearer, "pashminas," or cashmere shawls. How to Make Ice Water in a shallow pan, in a sheltered place, will freeze even when the thermometer is above the freezing point. This is due to the rapid loss of heat of the earth after nightfall. In some hot countries ice is obtained in commercial quantities by setting shallow earthenware pans of water on the ground protected from the wind. Eccentric Bachelor's Vast Fortune Thirty years ago George Johnston, the "Laird of the Fife Isle Estate," near Dundee, made a vow that from that hour no human being should look upon his face. He religiously kept the strange vow. The servant who cooked his food placed it outside of his door, using a bell, and passed out of sight. Johnston has just died, leaving an estate worth £5,000,000. He was a bachelor, and a nephew is his heir. The Beaumont-Port Arthur Oil Strike Experts claim that the wonderful discovery of oil between Beaumont and Port Arthur, Tex., has produced the greatest oil gusher ever known in the world. The flow from the well is estimated between twenty and twenty-five thousand barrels per day. This great strike is at once a benefit not only to the territory in the vicinity of the town, but to the entire state of Texas and the South. It is a well known fact that coal is a very scarce commodity in Texas and it is already predicted that oil will soon be used by the railroads as a result of this great discovery. Hundreds of people are flocking to the new oil district, which is located on the Kansas City Southern Railway, seeking homes and investments. It adds one more attraction to the Kansas City area, which this railway is already noted. The Kansas City Southern Railway operates solid through trains, with free chair cars and sleepers from Kansas City to the Beaumont-Port Arthur oil district, leaving Kansas City daily. Arriving at Beaumont 8:42 p.m. daily. Arriving Port Arthur 9:30 p.m. SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR Keep Out the Wet Sawyer's Slickers Sawyer's "Excelsior Brand" Suits and Slickers are the best waterproof gar- ment suitable for the best ma- tories and warranted waterproof. Made to the highest quality and quality. Look for the trade mark. If your dealer does not have them, tries for catalogue. By M. A. K. K. at 10 W. Mire, East Cambridge, Mass. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Grant Good See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION Price 25 Cents GENUINE MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. Purify Vegetable. CURE SICK HEADACHE. THE GENUINE TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK TANE NO SUBSTITUTES CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND MATS A J TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. Through Pullman Palace Sleepers and free Reclining Chair Cars to Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Daily at 10 p. m. from Kansas City. Absolutely no change of cars. Round trip tickets on sale at greatly reduced rates. The A. T. & S. F. R'y G. W. HAGENBUSH, G. A. P. D. Kansas City, Mo. The Great Natural Fertility of the Soil in Manitoba, Assinibola, Saskatchewan and Alberta. What Has Been Done by Premier Greenway, Himself a Leading Farmer. Hon. Thomas Greenway, Premier of the Province of Manitoba, one of the foremost farmers of Western Canada, writes an excellent article to the press, from which the following extracts are made: The writer came to Mauitoba from Ontario in the autumn of 1878, and has ever since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. From the day, nearly twenty-two years ago, when he selected his homestead, he has had unbounded faith in the country as a place where farming can be successfully carried on, if pursued upon proper lines. There is a large number in this province who should rather be called "wheat-growers" than farmers. On account of the facilities, natural advantages, and therefore cheapness with which wheat can be grown, no doubt many have done exceedingly well by raising wheat only; still, it is far from ideal farming. Not only will such a course, if persisted in, have the effect of causing the land to run out, as has been the experience of those who pursued the same plan in the wheat-producing prairie States to the south of us, but it is far from being the most profitable course to adopt. This fact is already being demonstrated in Manitoba. Let the farms in this Western country be managed upon the lines which were successful in the Eastern Provinces, and much more can be done here in a given time than was ever done in the East. The probabilities of failure are practically nil. Upon the farm there should be found horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry, according to the ability of the farmer, with respect to his means and the extent of his holding. The wanton waste which has hitherto been practiced by many farmers, that of burning vast quantities of excellent fodder after threshing is done, should cease; it should all be used upon the farm and converted into the old, sensible kind of fertilizer manure, and afterwards be returned to the soil, so that what has been taken from it by the crop may be restored. Although admitting that the great natural fertility of the soil in Manitoba and the success that has attended the growing of wheat after wheat for years upon the same land have a tendency to make such a course as the one mentioned tempting yet, if continued, wheat grown upon the same land year after year is undoubtedly a mistake. The writer knows of no country that offers advantages so great to the agriculturalist as does Manitoba. The various branches of farming can be carried on successfully, as twenty-two years of practical operations and observations of what others are doing have proven. To those desiring to make new homes for themselves, the low price of some of the best lands in the world (although rapidly advancing in price this year) offers still great opportunities. To all such the invitation is cordially given to "Come and see." There need be no poor people here. There is land for all who choose to come, land upon which happy homes can be established, and from which ample resources can be gathered against old age. All that a man needs to achieve competence in this domain is common sense and industry. With these qualifications he is bound to succeed. For information regarding free homestead lands, apply to any agent of the government whose advertisement appears elsewhere in these columns. Electric Road Carriage. On the canal between Brussels and Charleroi small electric road carriages have taken the place of horses in towing barges and the speed has been increased from one and one-fourth miles an hour to seven miles. 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