The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country TALES OF TWO CITIES. VOL 14. NO. 9 Oldest and HONESTY, INDUSTRY TALES OF T RULE THAT WORKS BOTH WAYS Come on, let's burn the Negro boy. That did the deed of shame— Too simple hanging's good enough. When white men do the same. But what the Negro girl in school Has earned her just reward, The pain attending years of long and hard. Well say to her, "My youthful friend, You've earned the honor fair— But its not just the ting you see, That you should honors wear. "Your mind may be the proper hue, But then your skin is not— Tis really troublesome that you Such soaring honors got. "Old glory waves above our Home, It's red and white and blue, Proclaiming justice, equal rights— That don't belong to you." Come on, let's hang the Negro boy— he's earned the bitter rue— But when the Negro girl has won Her laurels fair and true, We'll say, "An honor fairly earned Is not for such as you." MINNIE J. KEYNOLDS. Mr. Wyatt Bryant, on the levee at the foot of Nebraska avenue, jumped from a moving freight train the past week and sustained a broken limb. He is now at Angelus Hospital. Homer Weeden, colorcd, of 8th, and Jersey avenue, in an attempt to 'clean up things around home, and who, while resisting arrest, was shot by officer Hedrick. The details of the affairs we have failed to get. The Kansas City, Kansas, Embalming and Funeral Society, is the name of the new negro organization that will shortly make its bow to the public in this city. Mrs. Sarah Hawkins, of Minnesota avenue, accompanied by her little son, Osie, left Tuesday evening for an all Summer stay in Glenwood Springs, Colo. Mrs C. H. James, of the Sea Foam Block, and little son George leaves for a Summer vacation in Denver, Colo., shortly. Miss Bettie Houston of the Sea Foam block, will leave soon for the sunny South. The funeral services of Mr. John Brown, the well known and popular young man who died the latter part of last week, were held Monday afternoon from the First Baptist church under the auspices of Widow Son Lodge of Masons. The funeral was preached by the Rev. W. L. Grant, whose touching words and sound logic were worthy of much consideration, taking for his text the 23rd. Psalm 1st. Verse—chosen by the deceased as his favorite. The choir rendered many of the old familiar strains of pathetic music that "were likewise his selection. Revs E. A. Wilson, Frank Wilson, Jackson and Henderson, were present and took part. Mr. Brown was 81 years of age and was known in the two Kansas Cities and ranked as one of the most highly respected. He professed a hope in the Great Ruler just prior to his death and left a glorious estimony. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family and many friends. THE MASKED CARNIVAL The Masked Carnival for the benefit of the Queen Esther Royal House No. 11, of the U. B. F. and S. M. T., given Thursday evening at M & O. Hall, was a complete success. Mr. John Turner received prize of a pearl handle pocket knife as being the most ragged, Miss Ellis Neal received the pocket book as the nearest white M. W. M. Geo. Thun-as received the "doll" for selling the largest number of tickets, Dr. G. E Horsey, the new medical man, ran him a close second. Mr. James Hawkins, of 1407 Vine street, is indisposed this week. Miss Josie Webb, of Camden, Mo., is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Zullu Smith, of 633 Charlotte street. Mrs. Laura Finney, of Denver, Col., is spending some time in the city the guest of her sister, Mrs. Mary Spaiding, of 1407 Vine street. Mrs. M. L. Clark, of Washington, D.C., is in the city and will spend several months here with her daughter Mrs. T. C. Unthank, of 1213 Highland avenue. Mrs. C. Chrisman, of 520 Wyandotte street, will leave to-morrow for Memphis, Tenn., where she will spend some time with her old friends. Mr. Robert Owens, of 919 Euclide avenue, who has been quite ill for three months, is now improving slowly. The Alpha art club will be entered by Mrs. J. L. Dyson of Washington ave. this afternoon. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mr. Henry Mobilye and Miss Dovie Burdette in May. Col Jeltz of the State Ledger Topeka was in the city the past week and visited a large number of old friends and favorite places. He is a candidate for clerk of the District court in Topeka and says he will be elected by 800 majority. Send us your subscription only one dollar for one year. THE d Best W TRY AND ECONO F TWO CITI KAT Best Weekly Y AND ECONOMY SHOUL TWO CITIES. The Afro-American Business Association, a joint stock company, will open a grocery establishment on Minnesota avenue, No. 347, between 3rd and 4th, en or about April 35th. The Rev. G. T. Mosby. President of the concern, announces that bids will be made for the patronage of every race loving man, woman and child in the Twin Cities. Other announcements later. ANSWERED AT ROLL CALL. Wallace Arthur, one of the best known colored citizens of Kansas City, Kas., and one among its oldest inhabitants, died Thursday morning at 1 a.m., at the Soldiers Home, at Fort Leavenworth. At one time in the political arena of Wyandotte County he stood among the big 'uns, and for the activity he showed was dubbed "The Tiger." In all the long years that have come and gone few elections of any importance were held in this county without "The Tiger" taking active cart. In late years the infirmities which many old soldiers of the great civil war suffer, made such a teiling effect upon him that the activity and former vigor grew less and less. Thursay morning amid com ades of stormy days, clothed in the blue, beneath the folds of that grand old emblem which he had followed to many a victory, as the echo of the bugle—"All is well"—died away, Wallace Arthur surrendered, to re-enlist with the "boys" in another world, under a Commander that knows no defeat. One by one the ranks of the battle scarred heroes of '61 are thinning out, soon there will be none left to tell the story around the camp fires and by the heartbathes. In memory may they ever live, in death may they rest in peace. Mr. Arthur was also an old mascine, and among the old pioneers in the A. M. E. church. He leaves a wife, several children, now young men, and a host of friends. Funeral arrangements as we go to press are not yet made. WOULDN'T IT JAR YOU? For all negro business men to say every negro teacher patronizes them. To hear of just ten all around race men like Judge I. F. Bradley in Wyandotte county. To find out what negroes did support W. H. Craddock for Mayor, since he has been elected. To see a full fledged, up-to-date all around Negro joint stock grocery establishment with Negro clerks and bookkeeper in this city. To see every Negro business man patronize every other negro business man. To see this office do such rushing business that a half a dozen young people could find employment at a good salary. To hear that Negro mini sters had all agreed to stay out of politics. To learn that the negroes had all agreed to have no excursions and big piences this season. They Say. There are a great many things that are funny. The barber on Minnesota avenue is no longer guessing nor keeping any one else guessing, but he is the real thing. Some people turn up their noses when there is no occasion. The last laugh is always best and that certainly hits 'you-' While down East she cultivated a taste for candy. It doesn't take well with some people what we say, but we always have a say coming. After all there is a good many 'ups and downs' in this old world—and by the way, we have ours. One of the weddings happen soon. Other to follow. SIDE-LIGHT5 ON LIFE Innocence is like an umbrella: when once it is lost it is useless to advertise for it. Beauty is only skin deep, but it answers the purpose just as if it were deeper. When a man changes his mind the other fellow is apt to get the worst of the bargain. An ounce of might is often more powerful than a pound of right. Love, lightning, seldom strikes twice in the same place. Widows usua.ly marry for money the time. WANTED.—Trustworthy men and women to travel and advertise for an old established house of solid financial standing. Salary $780 a year and expenses, all payable in cash. No canvassing required. Give references and enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. Address Manager, 355 Caxton Bldg, Chicago. --- AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1901. OUR CAPITAL CITY RESUME. OUR CAPITAL CITY RESUME. POLITICS AND OTHER NEWS. Interesting and Other Very Newsy Bits Gathered by our Correspondents at Topeka, Kansas. Topeka is still stirred up over the uncertainty of who will ultimately be the Mayor, as a result of the recent municipal election. The question as to who is entitled to the certificate on the face of the returns is now on hearing in the District Court, and it seems as though Parker, the Democratic and Citizen candidate, had the best of the situation, and it seems almost certain from the preliminary decision of the court, that the court will compel the canvassing board to reconvene and issue the certificate to Parker, who was elected by 11 majority on the face of the returns as certified to by the judges and clerks of the election. The sooner that this vexed question is settled the better for the city, it seems as though that everything is practically at a stand tilt and all on account of who is elected Mayor. The 23rd. Kansas Band, under the leadership of the popular leader, Prof. Geo W. Jackson, is about to reorganize and placing the same upon a firm foundation financially. This organization is to the colored people of Topeka what Marshall's Band is to the white people, and should and will have the hearty support of our people to sustain the same. The County Central Committee of this county will meet Saturday and decide upon a date for the County Primaries. There is much doubt the constitutionality of the bill passed by the last Legislature, doing away with anyual elections, and to be on the safe side the committee have decided to call the primaries. Dispatches in the daily papers have it that the colored people are organized in Leavenworth, headed by W. B. Townsend. This we believe to be an error, but the colored people of the State of Kansas and many other of her sister States, are not asleep and insist that justice shall be done even in old sleepy Leavenworth. Eastern negro journals seem to think that outside of their bailiwick, learned and brainy negroes are scarce, but even here in Kansas that ideas get a solar plexus. We have members of the profession, orators, ministers, musicians and agriculturists, the peer of any on earth. So it is well when casting about for available timber to fill some exalted position to occasionally cast their eyes westward. If there is any desire for us to be more definite and certain in our allegation we will file an amended answer, give names, etc G. J. Dinwiddie, one of our progressive and wide awake young colored men who has an interest in one of our stunach business concerns of this city, and who has been to California for the past year for his health, has returned to our city, looking the picture of health. A host of friends extend him a hearty greeting. NEGROES AT CLERICAL WORK Service in New York Office. 'A lawyer who advertised the other day for a stenographer and typewriter,' say the New York Evening Post, 'was much surprised to receive applications in one day from four young colored men who were sandwiched in among the thirty-three other applicants, twenty of them young women—who overran his anti-room, into his private office, and kept him for just six hours from doing a stroke of business. The colored men who applied, he said, were clean looking mulattoes of most prepossessing appearance, and in a manner far more respectful than the white ones. As to their qualifications in the matter of speed and accuracy of work, he saw little difference between white and colored—but he engaged a white man, he added, because he thought it was the most natural and easy thing to do. "The incident led a reporter to find out whether there were many negroes engaged in this city in clerical positions, such as type writers, stenographers and private secretaries. The first office visited was that of a transcontinental railway company in Broad street. All three elevator men in the building were negroes, so was the man who stood guard over the executive offices of the company, and saved them from countless interruptions during the day. So was the stenographer and clerk to the general purchasing agent. The last of these was about twenty-four years old, very light in color and of very pleasing address "How did you get the place?" he was asked. 'Hard work and sticking at it,' he said. 'I started in as an errand boy, became an office boy, and then worked nights in a school which taught typewriting and short hand. Then when I became proficient I bodily asked for a place and got it. I have been here ever since, and the gentleman who have business with this office treat me just as if I were white—perhaps they are a little more considerate than they would be to many white men I have seen behind typewriters. Know many other young colored men in office? Yes, a great many, probably fifty within a very few blocks, if you count stenographers, clerks and office boys.' It used to be said that no one could ever see the late Collis P. Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific Company, unless Mr. Huntington's colored private secretary so willed it, and this modest man had often to deny his master to some very important men, but always so politely that no offence was conveyed. Since Mr. Huntington's death, his secretary has continued in the employ of the company, but lately he has taken up his working headquarters The 23rd. Kansas Band, under the leadership of the popular leader, Prof. Geo W. Jackson, is about to reorganize and placing the same upon a firm foundation financially. This organization is to the colored people of Topeka what Marshall's Band is to the white people, and should and will have the hearty support of our people to sustain the same. The County Central Committee of this county will meet Saturday and decide upon a date for the County Primaries. There is much doubt the constitutionality of the bill passed by the last Legislature, doing away with annual elections, and to be on the safe side the committee have decided to call the primaries. LOCALLY P. T. Moore, of Emperis, spent a few days in the city this week on business. Attorney G. W. Jones, of Hill City, was in the city this week. Mistress Maymie Stewart and Lena Jordan and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright, breakfasted with Mr. and Mrs. Simmon Jordon Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright entertained friends Saturday evening, complimentary to the above named ladies. Irev. A. M. Ward was called to Lawrence Thursday to preach the funeral of Mr. Andrew Gray. Mrs. Georgia Ware entertained the Oak Leaf Club Wednesday afternoon. Miss Gertrude Solomon left Sunday morning for a three week's visit to Hi a watha, Kas. Missella Johnson is quite all at her residence on Buchanan street. Mrs. J. A. Taylor entertained the Christian Circle Wednesday evening. A delightful luncheon was served. A salad is a good deal like a woman there is more than you think in the dressing. in the Huntington residence. He acts as confidential secretary to Archer M. Huntington, the adopted son of the late millionaire. "Is Mr. Gould in?" was asked the other day at the office of George Gould in the Western Union building. The answer came be was, but that his private secretary would have to be seen before access could be gained to Mr. Gould. When the secretary appeared he proved to be a young mulatto, becoming modest, and yet determined that no one should see Mr. Gould unless his business was of importance and Mr. Gould apparently lets him be the judge of that. It was said he had three times raised the young man's salary for his faithful work as secretary and "general protector from cranks." The cases cited above are somewhat exceptional, but there has been in the last few years a most marked increase in the number of colored men admitted to the schools teaching typewriting, book-keeping and shorthand, and consequently in those employed in clerical positio s in business houses all over the city. -Student FLAXSEED TEA FOR RHEUMATISM From the New York Press From the New York Press Rheumatism is caused by some disturbance of the victim's interior economy. The organs of digestion and alimentation have ceased to properly perform their functions. There is a condition of general unhealth, which may be due to reckless dietetics. If a man pursues an unwise regimen for a number of years he is bound to suffer. Nature has endowed birds and beasts with an instinct that guides them unerringly in the selection of food, but poor man with all his vast superiority really does not know what is good and what is bad for him. In the correction of evils we should at all times bear in mind that the cause must be approached, for when that is removed the effects will disappear. A perfectly healthy man cannot have rheumatism. Therefore, original healthy condition. Go back a century to the panaceas of our forefeatheis. Drink flaxseed tea. As an alternative and restorive it remains without an equal in materia medica. A pound of seed costs five cents. Put a tablespoonful in a quart of water and let it simmer until of the consistency of paste. Remove from the fire, mix with a quart of fresh water and strain into a bottle. When cold it should be slightly gelatinous. Drink a wine glassful of this whenever you want a drink of. Try it for two or three weeks, and don't drink too much liquor. You will be a new man. Hope. Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, much faint of sense beneath is rarely found1. CITIZEN THE FIRST START. INVESTIGATIONS IN THE LEAVENWORTH BURNING. The Father of the Burned Boy to the Front. Leavenworth, Kas., April 18 —Alfred Alexander, father of Frederick Alexander, the negro who was burned at the stake for the alleged assault and murder of Miss Carrie Forbes and for the assault on Miss Roth, has filed information with the County Attorney against a number of those participating in the burning, and asks for a warrant for their arrest upon the charge of murder. Before issuing the warrant the County Attorney decided to examine witnesses, under the law passed by the last state legislature. This examination is a star chamber affair, and already ten or a dozen witnesses have been examined. Some twenty more witnesses are to be examined before the County Attorney decides whether he shall issue the warrant or not. Both the County Attorney and Alexander refuse to give the names of the witnesses or the nature of the testimony, or to indicate the result of the investigation, which is to be continued on Monday. The news of the investigation and the prospective issuing of a warrant is causing great excitement in the city, especially among those who were clamorous for the punishment of Alexander. It was learned to-night that Alexander will ask for warrants for Wm. Forbes, whom he accuses of setting fire to his son. One of the city officials and a policeman, whom he charges, assisted in pulling the fuel around the stake and aiding in the burning. FOUR BABIES AT A TIME. A Tennessee Woman Glives Birth to a Quartette of Four-Pounders. Lewisburg, Tenn., April 16.—Mrs. John isley, near Spring Place, has given birth to four babies, each weighing four pounds. They are all living and doing well. Mr. Isley, the father, is himself a twin brother. RACE PROBLEM IN CUBA Negroes Said to Be Organizing and Whites Fear They Will Elect Many Mayors. Havana, April 16.—Rumors are prevalent that the negroes intend to take an active part in politics and that an organization is being perfected under the leadership of Juan Gualberto Gomez. It is reported from the Eastern Provinces that negroes are aspiring to political office, and will seek the same at the coming municipal elections. Politicians here fear that this movement will result in the election of several negroes as mayors, as the whites are divided by party lines, whereas the negroes are always united. RACE NOTES A Fraternal Magazine, will be pub lished at 4081 Cedar street, for the benefit of secret and benevolent orga- nizations. Prof G. T. Abrams, is prime mover and has been elected Business Manager, Dr. s. Singleton. Editor—Nashville Clarion. Ex Senator Chandler of New- Hampshire advises colored people to organize committees to investigate and make public the facts connected with all lynchings brought to their at- tention, believing that the publication of an authentic record would do much to cause a cessation of the practice. Fredrick L. McGhee, of St. Paul, Minn., is one of the brightest legal lights of the race. He has as wide a practice as any lawyer in the State of Minnesota, and has several cases in various other states as well as in Canada. His officers are like a bee-hive with stenographers and clerks. Mr. Shepherd of the Shepherd Photo Co., of St. Paul, Minn., is the leading photographer of that city. He has to his credit, several gold medals and diplomas which was awarded him on different occasions. As an artist, Mr. Shepherd has a wide reputation among his own race as well as that of the Caucasian. Isabella Horton, a colored girl of sixteen years, is taking Brooklyn, N. N. by storm through her evangelistic work. Miss Morton is a mulatto with one of those sweet convicting faces that is akin to religion itself—a glorified sadness, angelic serenity—a face that maps its own route willy milly. She wears a clerical robe over which hangs two large braids, above she wears a small black cap. She is fervid in her exhortations. It is said that 2,000 sinners have fallen before her eloquence. And all the sack-loths have been put away for another year and the ashe strewn in the back ya d. At a restaurant, when you see a man to get the last drop, tip his soup plate 10 to 1 that he does's tip the waiter. EDITORIAL PICKINGS. MANY think aright, but few execute their plans when matured. SUCCESSFUL issues are only had through prompt actions. It is seldom that a man makes a success waiting for something to turn up. It has long since been an established fact—one who ensures others hoping to cover up his own evils, directs suspicion against himself. There is nothing in telling your friends how much you know. The majority of men will do this, and by listening you will often obtain cheap and valuable information. MAYOR CRADDOCK has now been introduced to the fellows that know just who elected him. AFTER all the Mayor of Kansas City, Kas., still wears a smile and the most impudent office seeker receives the glad to meet you hand. To-morrow there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth for many who would, will not, and many could, cannot. THERE has been a good many fellows on the anxious seat praying as only a fellow can pray—when he sees—pie in sight. To-night Mayor Craddock will undoubtedly speak peace to their souls. GOD HASTEN THE DAY When the Negro race, as a whole, begin to accumulate wealth, acquire knowledge and possesses virtue and character, then will the seemingly impregnable barriers fall away, caste distinction will disappear, and the brotherhood of man will be an actual reality, because the Negro will merit the kindly consideration of those who now seem to despise him.—Ex. It is to be hoped that the guilty parties to the Leavnworth burning will ultimately be brought to justice. All Negroes thron gheat the length and breadth of our country should give their sympathy and from their pockets freey, that Rev. Alfred Alexander, father of the burned boy, may be able to fully carry out his plans. Let Kansas Negroes rally to the front. If you have race pride you have an opportunity to show it. "The colored troops fought ncibly." They assisted materially in redeeming our city. Thus says the Kansas City "Sun" in speaking of the part the negro played in the recent land slide which resulted in the election for Mayor, that estimable gentleman, W. H. Craddock: WILL BE TREATED RIGHT. The editor has received a communication from the Pan American Exposition Bureau of Information, Buffalo, N. Y., to the effect that all colored citizens who visit the Exposition in that city, beginning May 1st, will receive the same treatment accorded to whites, and that ample accommodations will be provided for all and that no one need stay away fearing discrimination. Attorney A. M. Thomas, of Buffalo, will look strictly after the interests of all colored visitors. So it will be a pleasure to take in the sights of the Pan American. IT'S A FACT. It's a hard matter to tell where your child is or what it is doing when you are shut up in the house and it is in the street. Look after them—give them at least the same attention that you give your unlicensed dog. Don't raise a criminal neither a fool if you can help it—in either case it reflects on you.—Dily Kecorder A man who has the courage and intelligence to correct a mistake is more valuable as a member of the community than the one who thinks he never makes mistakes.—The Colored American. ] Hon. JULIUS G. GROVES, the Pouto King of the west, who is known far and wide, has opened a grocery store in Edwardsville, Kas. The battle ground of his struggles towards the top. Here is our Brother Groves, may you succeed in this line as splendidly as in the "pouto." Voltaire. Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for he many cares of life. TALENT GOING TO WASTE. In the two Kansas Cities it is a fact we have some as good talent in almost all lines as can be found any where in the country, yet the possessors seem to lack that conduence that he who would succeed must have brass, nerve, ambition and determination. Many seem to forget that there is room at the top if you will only hustle to get there. True, the opportunities are not so great in this part of the country for the proper development of talent, but to a certain extent opportunities must be made and then comes the ability to grasp them when presented. Lack in faith of one's self is one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of a majority of young negroes who have in them the qualities, the ability and true talent to rise and shine. Negro parents are to be blamed in many instances, for often if their offspring develops natural talent for some one thing, and who perhaps, if allowed to follow up their likings, would prove the brightest stars in the firmament of their calling—their likes are smothered instead of being encouraged, they are discouraged and in the end, instead of proving a blessing they prove a curse. If your child has natural tendencies towards song—push him to the highest notch, if he leans towards arts continue to shove him. If he leans towards the dramatic, the trades or any legitimate calling, don't discourage it, but encourage the cultivation. Who knows but what your child is endowed with qualities if nurtured and cultured will some day cause this old world of ours to stand still upon its axis. RESPECT THE HOUSE OF GOD IF NOT THE DEAD. There is a tendency among a number of young upstarts or big men and little women, to assemble on all public occasions in this city, and with their titters, whispering and vulgarity, make it so uncomfortable that people who really go out on public occasions become disgusted. We have had occasions to speak of these things more than once. We noticed recently at a funeral the unwarranted misbehavior of a lot of young misses who we know—had good, true and faithful old Christian parents that had raised them with better manners. We would like to see them in future respect the house of God, if they can't respect the dead. If they will be men and women, try and be of that makeup that will command respect whether on the highwavs or in public gatherings. Negroes are the greatest people in the world for churches and secret societies, yet they are after all more estranged from one another than any other race. Take any secret fraternity among negroes and the major portion of the members, men or women, are almost continually at dagger points with one another. Brotherly and sisterly love is unknown to them and oaths and obligations are mere terms. If the true significance of the oath taken in secret fraternities were lived up to what a wonderful organization of negroes could we boast of. But we find so often among negro lodges that feeling of jealousy, malice and hatred—a disposition to back bite and do little dirty deeds towards one another. So in the churches, and right here, we would say that if the church of god, would do their whole duty there would be no need for so many Secret lodges among Negro. Instead of "Love" being the foundation stone and a compact Christian union existing between all Christians irrespective of denominational lines we have more real out and out devils wearing the religious garb then can be realized. The pretentious and fo malities of modern civilization and the general drifting away from the true religion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ causes the true and staid old Christian of other days to ask whither are we drifting? The negro race needs money, education and moral strength. These are mighty agencies in giving an uplift to a people. They are all within our reach, it is our duty to come in possession of them.—The Virg nia Baptist. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Weekly one year..... $1 50 Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kansas, as second class matter. Dr. George H. Combs, pastor of the Sixth and Prospect Avenue Christin church Kansas City, Mo., in a recent discourse on woman says: "The ideal woman," is not to be found in philosophy; for you can't analyze a woman's nature. She is not to be found in history, for woman is one part fact and three parts fancy. Nor do I think she is to be found in fiction. The novel presents us with types. We have the sentimental, the intel actual' the athletic, the esthetic, the domestic Woman, but none realizes that our ideals. And so we must find her in real life. And here we do and be in great happiness. "And would you know my ideal of what a woman should be? Well, I would have her cultured in all ways physically, and individualistic, and not one of a common type. I would have her independent—not subject to the conventional, whether in fashion, in society, or otherwise. She should be self-supporting, also, if need be, for I believe that the whole world is woman's sphere—that it is equally her sphere to raise turnips or paint Madonnaas, provided she does well and in a womanly way, what she does." THE REAL SPRING FEELING. From the Boston Herald. The first faint whisperings of summer are here, and again there comes a longing for the enchanted isles. The window is open and the soft air stirs the curtain and a wave of longing floats up with the music. And it comes back to us that the band is playing down there by the long stretch of white sand. The slumbercress, softly stirred by "the cradle endlessly rocked," sending a little wave, with splash and sparkle, to still its jewels on a polished floor and laughingly burry back again. All the gayety and joyousness of living lingers there, and through it steals a thrill of something witching as wine just coming into being. Love steals into the heart as the spring creeps over the land, so softly and sweetly that before we are aware life has blossomed into beauty and winter is gone forever ODD FACTS ABOUT MONEY. The Lygians were the first to coin money, about 1600 B. C. Before the days of coined money the Greeks used copper nails as currency. In the fifth century before Christ, refinished copper was deemed as precious as gold. The money of the Aztecs and kindred nations, consisted of quilla filled with gold dust and ores of chocolate grains. The American cents of 1787 bore the motto 'Mind your Business'. The United States mint was established in 1792, and at once began operation. The national districts of New Guinea, female slaves and the bank of value. The notes used by the Bank of England cost one cent each. HAPPY NEGRO LABORERS. "The average Missouri colored man makes a first class laborer, and we are now using a number of them on the Washash road in Missouri," remarked one of the men in charge of track work on that road, the other day. "We have now about 200 negroes working near Alba. Most of these men live in Chariton and Randolph counties and have families there. On Saturday morning the road sends up a special car for them and 100 go down to spend Sunday with their folks, returning Sunday night. Next Saturday the other 100 go down. That is their contract—free transportation home every two weeks. They are the happiest and most contented lot of people you ever saw, and we rarely have trouble with them. They live in box cars on the side track. I never saw a community adapt themselves to circumstances more readily. They form little societies to themselves, according to the way their notions of life run. In one of the cars at night you may find a set shaking dice, playing cards or wrestling. In the next car there will be a crowd of church members singing and holding religious services. But when the morning work whistle brings 'caste lines' are thrown to the winds and saint work shoulder to shoulder shoveling ballast."—Journal. The Old Black Voodoo Doctor Will Conjure No More for the Habaneros. From the New York Press. Tata Jose will conjure no more for the巴纳基罗. Tata was a black old vow doo doctor, who lived in No. 2 Pescado street, Havana, and dispensed "prophecies, witches and spells" for a cash consideration. "If you'd have a proud foe to make tracks, If you'd melt a rich uncle in wax, all you had to do was to look in at No. 2 Pescado street. Tata Jose's real name was Jose Ravelo Sanchez, but he was known to all the nigro population of Havana as Tata Jose. Besides possessing all the accomplishments of the ordinary well equipped and up-to-date wizzard. Tata Jose professed to be able to cure diseases and gave to his patients magic draughts connected of roots and herbs gathered in the dark of the moon with mystic rites and mixed to the accompaniment of weird incantations. The other day Florentine Aguirre, a negro bricklayer, fell sick and sought the aid of the mystic Tata Jose. The wizard gave a liquid to Florentino, and made him drink it. Instead of getting well, the bricklayer grew worse and finally came to the conclusion that the old voodoo doctor had poisoned him. He reported his case to the police station, and the captain of the precinct sent a policeman to arrest Tata Jose. Florentino went along with the policeman to the wizard's den, and as the two entered the room where Tata Jose sat surrounded by all the mystic paraphernalia of his calling, the bricklayer drew a knife and plunged it into the abdomen of the worker of magic. So Tata Jose was taken to the hospital, where he died, and it was Florentine who was arrested. In the Eighth precinct police station in Havana now is a room full of strange and weird articles which were used by Tata Jose in his profession of witchcraft. BANDED TO FULE HUSBANDS From the New York Sun. Germany has of late years been the stronghold of masculinity. The German women have been held up as paragons of all domestic virtues and steadfastly opposed to new womanhood. But even in Germany the throne of man is shaking. Berlin now has an Association of Married Women for the Control of Husbands. The constitution and by-laws haven't been made public, and the meetings are private, but the name atone opens broad vistas of speculation as to the functions of the association. Presumably the women will all read papers and compare experiences, and the discussions will take on a reminiscent and anecdotal character that will make them even livelier than a Sorosis election day. Of course, American men will look pityingly at their Teutonic sisters' effort to throw off the yoke. Organized effort toward the control of husbands isn't necessary over here. As the Wonderland Red Queen would say: Oh, we passed that long a Each American woman controls her own husband an ease that leaves her time and energy for problems more vital. Still, the German women have made step in the world direction. What the feelings of the German husband are when he sees his wife setting forth to a meeting of the A. M. W. F. C. H. is beyond conjecture. THE LEMON. Few women now-a-days but know the value of lemons and the fruit is so cheap that the toilette table should not be with out this 'little yellow doctor,' as some call it. Lemon juice is whitening either for the hands, neck or face. A piece of lemon rubbed on the teeth removes discoloration, but the teeth must be brushed afterward or the acid will injure them. A piece of lemon tossed in the wash water is refreshing and likewise softens the water. BETTER THAN BALLOT Colored Educator Says Each Negro Should Have Had Forty Acres and a Mule. Washington, April 10.—Major R. R. Wright, a colored man who is president of an industrial college locally near Savannah, Ga., testified before industrial commission to-day as to the condition of negroes in the South. He advocated a national aid in their education, saying he did not consider the Southern states financially able to give the necessary assistance. He also favored separate agricultural experiment stations for negroes. Major Wright said the colored man is not a burden to his white neighbor. Negroes own more than 100,000,000 acres of farm land in Georgia, and pay taxes on property valued at $140,000 As a rule, Major Wright said, the successful negroes are not the ex-slaves. In his opinion, if the government had given each colored man a mule and forty acres of land instead of conferring the ballot upon him, it would have been for the benefit of all. He thought it a mistake to take the ballot from any one at this late day, though he did not believe that the ballot had been of any especial benefit to the colored man. The requirement of an educational qualification for voting would be a stimulus to secure this qualification. Louis P. Kensey, a white man who left his $1,700 estate to Eliza beth Porter colored woman 84 years, who was for many years employed as cutter for Daniel Coombe, the tailor. The colored woman was his housekeeper for 27 years. His only relatives were sister and niece; he gave each $100. Before he died he said he intended to reward his old faithful colored servant. Burgin, Ky., Milledgeville, a small village a few miles south of here, has come to the front with a sure enough glass eater. His name is Cnaries Wooldridge, color black, age about twenty-five and he devours lamp chimneys and carpet tacks with ease and immunity. He has attracted the attention of people for miles around, and has dumfounded the physicians by his remarkable feats. ANOTHER NEGRO BOY TO THE FRONT. A special dispatch from Ann Arbor, Mich., dated April 2, says: "The Oratorical Association election to-night resulted in a walkaway for the laws. Usually the affair develops into a struggle between the young lawyers and their hereditary enemies, the "ilite," but the latter were conspicuous by their absence on this occasion Eu- TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S.PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. Hartona will make the hair HAIR to its original color. Hart have to be used all the time, as it straight after the use of Hartona box can be used by everyone in the ever-increasing demand for Hartona patent box. See that the word Money positively refunded if are positively protected by our $1 righted at United States Patent City Bank of Richmond, Va., Ada. We want lady and gentlemen if you are employed or not, and we good money. Write to us and we used and are using Hartona reme HAIR Hartona Face Wash will groom son perfectly white. The skin rea Hartona Face Wash will re- late the shade of skin on neck, fa Hartona Face Wash is perfec- sealed from observation. It is you Please remember that your w We want agents in every city make money without risking any o HAIR Hartona No-Smell will reme Hartona No-Smell is a Godd Sent anywhere on receipt of price Send us One Dollar, and me large bottles of Hartona Face Wash Write your name and post- in a registered letter, or by expres HARTONA RE RO The Wyandot Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D.C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. 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SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE JONES, MARTIN&CO. DEALERS IN Fancy and Staple Groceries, Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave. Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Line, K.C. K Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantee the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time. Give him a trial and see for you self. CANCER Home Treatment that cures Cancers and Tumors. Used with perfect safety: harmless, soothing, non-irritating. We prefer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a speedy cure. Cases that come Estab. 21 trs. to our Sanitarium need not pay the cost of the treatment. It contains much valuable information and it contains much valuable information and he hundreds of testimonials from patients we have built in our office. Please consult by cultor in person, free. Address: DR. E. O. SMITH'S SANITARIUM, A. A. MCCLEARY, MANAGER, Rooms 101 and 102, Sts., KANSAS CITY, MOSQUITI gene J. Marshall, the colored orator from Detroit, was chosen to represent Michigan in the Northern Oriental League." And yet prof. Barringer, of Virginia University, is of same opinion still. Wherever the colored boy is given has an equal chance with the white boy, as a general thing he leaves no room for his race to be ashamed of him. Meantime the newspapers, especially the Associated Press dispatches, are not making any big do about these rising Afro-American stars. But the Negro is made of good stuff and c imbs in spite of sore discouragements. God bless the young American Negro- Conservator. $160 GIVEN A WAY Separate New Century Seeds and use he letters to form as many words as you an, using the letters backwards or forwards, but don't use any letter in the same wood more times than it appears in 'New Century Seeds'. It is said thirty small English words can be spelled correctly in those fifteen letters. For example, went, ten, scw, etc. The New Century Mail Order Co., will pay one Hundred Dollars in cash to the person sending them thirty words formed as above. If you are good at wood making and can form thirty words, write your name plainly on your list and include the same with fifteen two coat stamps for ten packets of Beautiful Flower seeds of ten popular and differ-ent varieties. Our object in giving this One Hundred Doll-rs is to attract attention to and introduce our seeds in the U. E. This offer will be caretently and conscientiously carried out and it should not be classed with catch-penny affairs. It will spend a large amount of money to start our trade and want your trial order—you will receive the greatest value in seeds ever offered. If two or more persons succeed in forming thirty words the $100 will be added pro-rata. Many extra words are added, so that you will reward to persons sending twenty words or more who will assist in introducting our seeds and specialties. Satisfaction is absolutely guaranteed. Send your list as early as possible. Address New CENTURY MAIL ORDER 255 Dearbon St., Chicago, Ill. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Kansas, / ss. State of Worcester, County of Wyomingshire Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of Charley Jones Hughes, Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court, in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Court at Washington City. County of Wyandott, and state aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month of June. A. D., 1901, I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. VIRGIL JONES, Administrator of Charley Jones Hughes, Deceased. April 9th, A. D. 1901. w4w. rublication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. A. W. Fox, Plantiff. Anna Fow, Defendant. No. 15107. The State of Kansas to Anna Fox, Greeting. You will take notice that you have been sued by plaintiff, A. W. Fox, for a divorce in the above named court, and that plaintiff's petition was filed Janu- ary 7, 1901. That the grounds on which said divorce is asked is abandonment for more than one year. Now, unless you answer demurge, or otherwise object, on or before the 17th day of March, A. W. 1901, the allegation of said divorce will be taken as confess- ed to be true and judgment render, d against you gran ing said divorce as prayed for. L. W. JOHNSON, Plaintiff's Attorney, Attest, A. GUNNING. Clerk. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. John Greer Plaintiff, vs. Jane Greer, Defendant. The above named Defendaut, Jane Greer, will take notice that she has been sued by the above named Plantiff, John Greer, in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kas., where his petition is now on file, praying for a decree of force from you, the said Defendaut, and that he seek your answer said petition on or before the 18th day of April 1901, said petition will be taken as true and judgement thereon reordered against you, fully and completely dividing you from said plaintiff. B. S Smith Attorney for John Greer, Attest. A. Gunning Clerk of Dist. Court (First Published March 1.) UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE. CROSS THE CONTINENT The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kan-as City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved Recycling Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pinted Schott Light Only line running two trains without change from KansasCity to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon, Washington and California. Don't complete your ars arrangements for a trip west until you have earned all about special inducements d attractions offered by the Union Pa- BY. Gon. Agt. Union Peacific 1000 Main treet. Kansas City, Mo. BEFOREUSING HARTONA HARTONA FACE WASH. HARTONA NO-SMELL 1512 North Fifth Street, PUREST DRUGS AND CH every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Used. Prices always the LOWEST at our sto night bell. Phone W. 171. Medicin B. RAYMO Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in MARTAKERS * SURPRISES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL TIMES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Looms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W. Factory Cor st St., and Riverview Ave. CITY. WE GET YOUR PATROLLES, MARTIN & DEALERS IN and Staple Grocery SEED AND SALT MEAT FEED AND SALT MEATS, Home Treatment that cures Cancers and Tumors. Used with perfect safety, safety, soothing, non-irrita- tion. DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription the LOWEST at our store. Open day Phone W. 171. Medicines Delivered YMOND, SUPPLEIS ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ENCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS. E. R PATRONAGE. MRTIN&CO. ERS IN— Apple Groceries, SALT MEATS, Country Produce in season. Goods Ge Fine To PERF MEI Fire Nort KANSAS C DE 101 & 102 The O A R Kansas City, Kas ...VIA THE.... Chicago, Milwaukəə & St. Paul Ry ...AND YOU GET.... Sleepers: & Ghair Cars ...TO... 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City and town in the United States did living, with easy and pleasan- dured genuine testimonials in ye ugh? FACE WASH On five or six shades lighter, and w ual use of the face wash. One bo blackheads, freckles, and all blen- Full directions with each bottle of the United States on receipt. Thousands of delighted patrons are not perfectly satisfied and deli- no matter if you are employed on NO-SMEL dly; cures sore and aching feet, cl agreeable odors caused by persi- Address all orders to INA REMEDY CO., 909 E. M. AND OFFER. On three large boxes of Hartona D. Smell. Goods will be sent secure- plainly. Money can be sent by p E. Main St., N A. C. L. C - IS HEADQU THE CHEAP The Best Goods, the Quickest and the pro GET THE COAL, WOOD, FEED, S Wholesale and Retail. Office 402 Yard and Storage 917 and 919 N EAGLE Gem Dru MINNESOTA D DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN MERRIAM, ELL Fire Insurance HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. 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Write to us to order with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of mine testimonials in your own State of peace. E. WASH. X shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a face wash. One bottle does the work. Freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. Vations with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle of delighted patrons send us testimonies诚ly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona if you are employed or not, and we will shop. -SMELL. Store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Odors caused by perspiration of the feet, all orders to EEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond OFFER. Large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straws will be sent securely sealed from observance. Money can be sent by post-office money order. Main St., Richmond E. C. L. COAL CO. —IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— E CHEAPEST PRICE Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Lots and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BY STONE, and Retail. Office 402, Minnesota Ave. Teen and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. E. F. HENDERSON EAGERS m Drug St MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICAL ilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, E UMERY AND FANCY TOILET ART RRIAM, ELLIS & BEN Insurance, Real E The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. MERRIAM, ELLIS & BENTON WYANDOTTE BUILDING, Nearest Corner Fifth and Minnesota CITY. R. HENDERSON 3 West 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. (On and Reliable Doctor, Oldest in Age and Longest Regular Graduate in Medicine. Over 27 Years Practice...22 Years in Kansas City. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Cures guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines furni- no more mercury or inorganic medicines used. No detention frentis as a direct treatment for any and every free from gaze or breakage. No medicines sen. O.D., or Change fees. Over 60,000 cured. State your own and Consultation fees. Over 60,000 cured. Personal or by bidder. DR. 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Restores GRAT- scalp diseases. Hartona does not and grows naturally beautiful and and Hartona is positively harmless—an adults. To meet the popular and and 50c. sizes, in our special rom- er, we handle no fake goods, and you made-marked, registered and copi- ou, as to our responsibility, to th- es. Write to us to-day, no matter it work, and no risk of losing you your own State of people who have SH. All turn the skin of a mulatto per- tle does the work. Shoes of the skin. You can regi- of price, 50c. per bottle; secure- us send us testimonials every year hitted with the Hartona remedie- not, and we will show you how i LL. Safed limbs, etc. Distribution of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Bain St., Richmond, Va. Hair-Grower and Straightener, two sealed from observation. Post-office money order, or enclose Richmond, Va. COAL CO., ARTERS FOR— WEST PRICE At Sales, the Smallest Profits highest deliveries. MR PRICES ON FLOUR, AND BUILDING TONE, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West 3rd St. E F. 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Thus stands the Pinkham name in New England, and all over America, and nowhere is the faith in lysia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound greater than in New England, its lydia. Merit, and merit alone, can gain this. ORGANIC INFLAMMATION. PAINFUL PERIODS. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — I was troubled very badly with inflammation of the bladder, was sick in bed I cannot help but feel that it is my duty to do something in regard to recommending your wonderful medi H. S. BALL. painful menstruation. The suffering I endured pen can not describe. I was treated by one of our most prominent physicians here for five months, and found myself getting worse instead of better. At the end of the fifth month he told me he had done all he could for me, and that I had better go to the hospital. "My sister advised me to try your Vegetable Compound, as 't cure her of faithfully, and did so, and took it faithfully, and made it trouble, and in perfect health, many thanks to your medicine. 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Babies are angels whose wings grow shorter as their legs grow longer. There are two ways of putting up an umbrella in order to soak it. Our Cotton Exports. During the first five months of the present crop year the value of cotton exports has reached $202,000,000, at an average export price of 9.7c a pound. The entire cotton exports of the years 1893, 1895 and 1896 sold for less money Japan Must Import Horses Japan has of late years greatly increased her cavalry and still more recently added nearly forty field batteries to her artillery, and as the country itself produces practically no horses suitable for this purpose the necessity for importing them is urgent. Complete Collection of Taxes. The farmers of Rock county, Missouri, seem to be prosperous. The treasurer of the town of Lima has collected every cent of the tax levy of the year and the treasurer of the town of Porter reports a delinquency amounting to only sixty-three cents. Chilean Palms for California. 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It will be called the Herald. The executive committee of the State Bankers' association has decided on May 28 and 29 as the dates for the annual meeting of the association in Lawrence. John S. Parks, who couldn't make a success of farming, sold the Beloit Call for $18,000, thus making it apparent that it is more profitable to Call than to raise. An Atchison man carried the message to Garcia; a Wichita man was the first to scale the walls of Pekin, and an Iola man captured Aguinaldo. Stand up for Kansas. A double track is being built by the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis railway from Fort Scott south to Washburn where the Joplin branch joins the main line. broad scope that it really is a law requiring the registration of the voters of all the counties of the state, and Lie attorney general decides that it must be so construed. Three new rural routes will be established out of Newton on July 1. The department has approved the report of the inspector and appointed agents for the routes. The legislature enacted a law last winter designed in its inception to compel the registration of the voters of the counties of Sumner and Montgomery, but its text gives it such Parsons is the first municipality in the state to take advantage of the law recently passed by the legislature giving counties, townships and towns the right to dispose of stock in railroad corporations. Kansas intends to keep pace with the times by bringing her state buildings up to date. The state will spend more money in improvements this year than any year since its admission into the Union. For several years the Santa Fe's daily train between Holliday and Leavenworth was drawn by engine No. 13. The engine was sent to the shops for repairs recently and its number was changed to 06. At Winfield the sheriff seized and locked up a large assortment of whisky, beer and wine bottles. A few days later he discovered that, instead of containing the strong drink, they were all filled with water. Benjamin Ferguson, living ten miles east of Dodge City, claims to be the champion trapper of Western Kansas. During the winter he has killed 300 raccoons, covets and badgers, most of which he skinned and sold. A man at Garden City City who won a $10 prize last fall for the largest watermelon, with one that weighed 110 pounds, has confided to a few of his friends that he loaded it up with a gallon or more of buckshot. A. G. Eyth of Enterprise has sold his string of creameries at Enterprise, Manchester, Solomon, Navarre, Oak Hill, Shady Brook, Woodbine and Sudyville to the Continental Creamery company. The new railroad board is threatened with a large volume of business as soon as it is in working order. It has received letters from a dozen or more points asking how to proceed to get hearings on grievances. The board has not yet adopted a method of procedure. A Chanute man, writing of his recollections of the pioneer days, recalls that away back in the '60's in a neighborhood south of Humboldt two people wanted to get married, but there were no preachers for miles around. Finally one of the camp let it be known that ten years before he had been justice up in Iowa and this being considered good, he tied the knot. A man left his umbrella in the stand at a Neodesh hotel recently with a card attached to it bearing the following inscription: "This umbrella belongs to a man who can deal a blow of 250 pounds weight. I shall be back in ten minutes." On returning to seek his property he found in its place a card that inscribed: "This card was left by a man who can run twelve miles an hour. I shall not be back." W. A. Miller and Frank Lawrence have pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking the safe and stealing from the postoffice at Altamont, Kan., on the night of April 7. They had previously been discharged on an information charging them with entering the postoffice at Seneca. A board of five physicians made a physical examination of Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of engineers, at the hospital of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and found his health to be excellent. The examination was made without any warning or time for preparation on the part of Carter or his attorneys. A mounted elk's head, reputed to be the best specimen in Kansas, adorns the entrance to the Merchants' bank at Waterville. The elk was killed by George R. Hall last fall in the White river country, 500 miles northwest of Denver. No more homeless children from other states can be brought into Kansas unless each is accompanied by a certificate of good character, backed up by a $5,000 guaranty bond. The state board of charities has laid down this rule in accordance with the provisions of the Snavely law passed at the recent session of the legislature. J. E. House of the Topeka Capital is to be the managing editor of the Atchison Daily and Weekly Champion, which is being successfully received by the owner, Ewing Herbert The daily issue promises to be a success from the start DAN GROSVENOR SAYS: "Peruna Is an Excellent Spring Catarrh Remedy--I am as Well as Ever." J. HON. DAN A. GROSVENOR, OF THE FAMOUS OHIO FAMILY. Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor. Deputy Auditor for the War Department, in a letter written from Washington, D. C., says: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from one bottle of Peruna. One week has brought wonderful changes and I am now as well as ever. Besides being one of the very best spring tonics it is an excellent catarrh remedy." Very respectfully, Dan A. Grosvenor. Hon. John Williams, County Com- Duluth, Minn., says the following in missioner, of 517 West Second street, regard to Peruna: "As a remedy for Broken Down! With Bright's Disease—Diabetes? 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A remedy that will cure catarrh of the stomach will cure the same condition of the mucous membrane anywhere. I have found it to be the remedy I have ever tried for catarrh, and believing it, why my endorsement I gladly accord it." Mrs. Elmer Fleming, orator of Reservoir Council, No. 168, Northwestern Legion of Honor, of Minneapolis, Minn., writes from 2535 Polk St. N. E. "I have been troubled all my life with catarrh in my head. I took a nap for a bout months, and now think I am permanently cured. I believe that for catarrh in all its forms, Peruna is the medi- been troubled all my life with catarrh in my head. I took Peruna for about three months, and now think I am permanently cured. I believe that for catarrh in all its forms, Peruna is the medicine of the age. It cures when all other remedies fail. I can heartily recommend Peruna as a catarrh remedy." The spring is the time to treat catarrh. Cold, wet winter weather often causes a cure of catarrh. If a course of Peruna is taken during the early spring months the cure will be prompt and permanent. There can be no failures if Peruna is taken intelligently during the favorable weather of spring. As a systemic catarrh remedy Peruna eradicates catarrh from the system wherever it may be located. It cures catarrh of the stomach or bowels with the same certainty as catarrh of the head. 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, Columbus, Q. Selling 15 Pounds Queen Baking Powder, a number of a pound or our Queen Baking Powder, we give FREE a beautiful Royal Blue Flower and Glasses to match. To the lady who sells 15 pound cups Queen Baking Powder, we give FREE a bundle of six Glasses. 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John Mack, deck hand Henry Phipps, deck hand. The injured: Richard Power, purser, probably fatally injured. James Maynard, mate, probably fatally burned. George Knowell, fireman, badly burned. Three Indians, seriously burned. The boiler exploded in midstream while the steamer was en route from New Westminster to Fort Langley, the latter being a farming settlement about twenty-five miles from Vancouver. By the force of the explosion Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. Bailey, who were returning home after a day's shopping in New Westminster, were blown into the river and drowned before aid reached them. The bodies of both women have been recovered and are comparatively free from bruises or burns, indicating that death was due to drowning. The remains of the two deck hands, Phipps and Mack, have not been found. Purser Power was badly scalded by escaping steam and Mate Maynard was also fearfully burned. They were taken to the New Westminster and are now in the city hospital but are not expected to survive. The injuries of Fireman Knowell are not so severe and he is expected to recover, as also are the Indians. The Ramona is a stern-wheel river steamer of about 300 tons. She is ten years old, but her boiler was comparatively new, having been put in last summer. On her fatal trip she had only five passengers, the two women who were drowned and the Indians who were burned. The steamer was valued at about $25,000. AMERICA RICH IN GOLD. Holdings For First Time Aggregate Over Half a Billion The summary of the United States treasury's report just issued shows that the government's aggregate gold holdings, for the first time in history, have passed the half-billion dollar mark. The exact total was $500,278,506, of which $52,078,939 was held against certificates in the hands of the outside public and $15,000,000 as a reserve against outstanding United States notes, the balance, being free assets. This is the largest amount of gold now held by any single financial institution in the world, and it is the largest ever held by any institution, with one exception, the Imperial Banks of Russia, which in February, 1895 raised its total holdings to $500,200,000 At present, however, the Russian bank holds only $371,500,000. The Bank of France now holds $472,271,000, its higher record being $472,214,000, on the 4th of this month. Most of this gold is held against outstanding notes. The Bank of England holds $169,100,000 gold, and the high record of its history was $245,500,000 in February, 1896. Present gold holdings of the Imperial Bank of Germany are $130,000,000 and its total gold and silver combined never ran above $222,500,000. The United States treasury gross gold holdings have increased $76,429,000 within the past twelve months. In this month of 1899 they barely exceeded $278,000,000, as against the $500,000,000 now held. On February 10, 1896, they reached the low level of $94,293,542. A Crazy Man at Large. John Record, for three years a patient at the state hospital for the insane at St. Joseph made his escape from the asylum by prying off the hars of the window in his cell, using nothing but his hands. He has been know to be the most powerful and the most dangerous man at the asylum ever since his entrance to the institution, and he has been carefully watched. Record murdered a neighbor of his near Wallace, three years ago, and often threatened that if he was ever free he would kill a few more. The result is a panic among his former neighbors, who have armed themselves. Building a $50,000 Target. Work on a target to cost $50,000 will begin at the Brooklyn navy yard in a day or two. The target, which is to test the relative strength of the Gathmann torpedo gun and the regular 12-inch rifle, will duplicate a section of the battleship Iowa in resisting power. It will be faced with armor plate twelve inches thick, hardened by the Krupp process. When finished it will be moved to Sandy Hook, where the trial will take place. Another Gold Rush North Another gold rush is now causing some excitement in the boundary district of British Columbia. During the last few days Rock Creek and its tributaries have attracted more placer gold hunters than can stake claims. In the early '60s the Rock Creek placer girdings yielded large returns and the revival of the mining now is the result of recent gold discoveries below the historic White's bar on this creek. CRAZY SNAKE STILL MUTTERS. Renewed Agitation Among Disaffect Creeks Belongs Warrant for His Arrest Creeks Brings Warrant for the Air Force The full-blood members of the Creek tribe of Indians are showing their dissatisfaction again. A warrant is out for the arrest of Crazy Snake. Reports of a speech made by Latah Mekko, a Creek or Snake chief, a few days ago on Little river, have just reached here. Mekko concluded his address crying: "Do not give up your birthright. No white man can take it away from you. Never sign the allotment roll, for there is no power on earth that can compel you to give up your homes to the white men or to turn your fields over to the renters, who are occupying the prairies and driving our game away and troubling the remnants of the noble descendants of those who fought on the hickory ground of old Alabama. Give up your lives but save your birthright." Twenty five full-blood chiefs gave guttater assent to the harangue of their chief, and they will not, reports say, sign the roll or file on allotment. The last ten days Chitto Harjo, or Crazy Snake, has been inciting full-bloods to oppose the work of allotment or enrollment. It is known that he has been talking this way for ten days, but it is said that he had no sooner alighted from the train at Checotah the day he was paroled than he began talking against the allotment and treaty. He has been traveling up and down Deep Fork, Wildcat and other streams in and about the full-blood district in the western part of the nation, telling the people that they did not have to give up their lands. He has stated that he was not punished at Muskogee, but turned loose and told to go and tell his people that there was no danger. Judge Thomas has issued a writ for his arrest. The warrant has been placed in the hands of deputy marshals. A FEDERAL PRISON SCARE. Oblates Summoned from Leavenworth Before the Grand Jury at Topeka. John C. Ripley, formerly chief clerk at the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, and three other officers of the institution have been summoned to Topeka to give testimony before the Federal grand jury now sitting at that place. Nothing was stated to them as to the nature of the case. It caused a stir at Fort Leavenworth. So far as known nothing is under investigation by the grand jury in connection with any crimes of prisoners and it is the general belief that matters connected with the former management of the United States penitentiary are under consideration. There was talk of grand jury investigation of prison affairs two years ago, but as nothing was heard of the matter for a long time all interest in it had died out in this neighborhood. It will be two years July 1 since the present officials took charge. New Rural Delivery Routes Rural free delivery will be established, to commence May 15, as follows: Kansas—Additional service, Frankfort, Marshall county, three carriers; length of routes, 79½ miles; area covered, 92 square miles; population served, 1,550; carriers, C. W. Bloedgart, J. D Roundtree, A. K. Thomas, Star route number 55,121 to be discontinued. Post office at La Grance and Wyoming to be supplied by rural carrier. Mail to Frankfort, Kan. Missouri—Silex, Lincoln county, one carrier, length of route, 27 miles; area covered, 42 square miles; population served, 1,030; carrier, S. L. Smiley, Star route number 45,502 to be discontinued. Postoffices at Fairview, Bairn and Mackville to be supplied by rural carrier. Mail to Silex, Mo. British Have Lost Ground. The South African blue book, containing recent dispatches from Sir Alfred Milner and other official correspondence, is just issued. Sir Alfred Milner reviews the situation thoroughly and finally says: "It is no use denying that the last half year has been one of retrogression. Seven months ago this colony was perfectly quiet, at least as far as the Orange river. The Southern half of the Orange River Colony was rapidly settling down and even a considerable portion of the Transvaal, notably the Southwestern districts, seemed to have definitely accepted British authority and to rejoice at the opportunity to return to orderly government and the pursuits of peace. To-day the scene is completely altered." A Kansas Sod House Kell In. The sod house of E. Hostuler of Graham county, Kan., fell in, killing his wife and nearly suffocating his baby. Mrs. Hostuler was preparing breakfast when the heavy roof came down. Mr. Hostuler's arm was broken. An older child escaped injury. It took the neighbors three hours to dig through and rescue the baby. Heavy rains and the natural decay of the sod caused the accident. Killed His Bride at a Ball Andres Garcia killed his young bride and then ended his own life. Garcia and Miss Anita Teresas were married in Chihuahua, Mexico, four months ago. He was manager of theockey club, the fashionable resort of Chihuahua. The bride was a niece of General Teresas, a multi-millionaire and ex-governor of Chihuahua, and a cousin to Enrique Creel, possibly the foremost banker in Mexico. Garcia was 23 years old and his bride 19. Jealousy was the cause. The young pair came to Juarez to visit friends and were being entertained at a ball when the tragedy occurred. Both were educated in the United States. An Ex-Congressman A. Sulchte Melvin R. Baldwin, ex-congressman from Minnesota and ex-state superintendent of Indian affairs in Minnesota under President Cleveland, shot and killed himself in his apartments in Seattle, Wash., where he has been residing during the past three years. A friend found the body some hours later. IT MAY SPREAD PROSPECTS GOOD FOR A STEEL STRIKE. IT IS SOON TO BE DECIDED Strike Is in Progress at a Trust Mill at McKeesport—If Trust Does not Yield Every Amalgamated Man in the Company's Employ Likely to Quit—No Disturbance at McKeesport. The close of the second day of the strike at the W. Dewees' wood plant of the American Sheet Steel company at McKeesport, Pa., shows a condition of affairs that forebodes a stubborn fight between the company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, involving the possible shutdown of every union plant in the country controlled by the company. The fight is being made by the Amalgamated for the recognition of unionism, and President Shaffer's announcement that all of the company's mills would be called out may receive sanction at the meeting of the advisory board, which has been called. Secretary Jarret, in charge of the labor bureau of the company, will be present at this meeting to present the company's side of the matter and use every endeavor to avert a general strike. If the statement credited to the company, that the McKeesport plant will be closed indefinitely rather than recognize the union, is adhered to, President Shaffer's attitude will demand that the entire strength of the Amalgamated Association be pitted against the sheet company as a whole. The status of the strike is that only two departments of the mill are in operation—the steel mill, or finishing department, and the hammer shop. The knobing department is working, but its workmen, to the number of 125, will join the strikers and soon will be idle. The mayor of McKeesport has taken the precaution to have the mill and town policed with a large extra force, but up to the present not the slightest disturbance has taken place. The company apparently has no intention of filling the strikers' places, and the men seem content to allow their leaders to manage their campaign and are not going near company property. MINERS TO RECEIVE AID National Union Orders Strike in Arkansas and Kansas Continued. The executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, in session at Indianapolis, Ind., has decided to continue the strike in the bituminous coal fields of Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory. The strike has been in progress for more than two years and has already cost the national organization an immense amount of money. The board has just made provision for continuing the relief fund with which over 3,000 miners and their families are now being maintained. The strike was declared because the operators refused to grant an advance of 10 per cent, but non-union men who were imported to take the strikers' places were paid the increase demanded by the organization. AN ELECTRICIAN'S ACCIDENT. John J. Valle Meets Death at Independence—The Accident Causes a Fire John J. Valle, a well known resident of Independence, met death by a fall from an electric light pole in Kansas City Tuesday. When the pole fell a copper wire attached to it became connected with the trolley wire of the Independence electric railroad and the current,OUND its way into the Presbyterian church at Pleasant and Lexington streets. The church caught fire and its interior was soon ablaze. Valle was dead when picked up. He is not believed to have been injured by an electric shock, but was killed by the fall. The damage to the church amounted to $300. SEND BEEF TO VLADISVOSTOCK A Consignment of Slxy Carloads on its Way to the Chinese Frontier WAY to the Chinese Frontier. Sixty carloads of pickled beef are now on the way to Portland, Ore., over the Northern Pacific railroad from Chicago for shipment from Portland to Vladivostock. The lots leave in three trains of twenty cars each and the first complement of twenty cars passed St. Paul April 13 and will arrive at Portland on the 19th. The second lot will probably arrive on the 20th and the third lot a day or two later. The first steamer to receive the beef is due at Portland April 23 and the other two steamers are due before the first of May. Pilot Grove Postoffice Robbins The postoffice at Pilot Grove, Mo., twelve miles south of Boonville, was robbed of $300 in stamps and money. The safe was blown open and contents taken. Since the Revival in Hiawatha. At a meeting held recently the members of the Presbyterian church at Hiawatha, Kan., decided to erect a ten thousand dollar church. Since the revival the old church has been too small to give place to all the members. Must Have a License to Drink. By a vote of 12 to 7 the Arkansas senate passed a bill making it unlawful for any person to drink any intoxicating liquors as a beverage unless he shall first have obtained a license as a dram drinker. The license is fixed at $5 a year. In the Wichita Lands Now. Sectionizing surveying corps are now at work in the Wichita reservation. Judge A. R. Museller and his allotting corps will begin work on the Washita river in the eastern part of the reservation and will probably establish camp near the home of W. G. Williams. The Kirkpatrick corps will make camp at Kiowa Spring, twelve miles north of Anadarko, and work among the Wichitas, all of whom live on Sugar creek. BAD STORIES FROM MANILA. The Commissary Frauds Spread to Officers of Long Service and Good Name. The trial of Commissary Sergeant John Metson, charged with complicity in the commissary frauds in Manila, has ended. No verdict was announced and Meston's conviction is uncertain. Captain James C. Read, formerly depot commissary at Manila has been arrested. It is alleged that entries upon the books of Evans & Co. government contractors, indicate that the commissary officers received the following sums: Major George B. Davis, upwards of $1,000; Captain James C. Read, $1,000; Captain Frank H. Lawton, $750; Mr B. L. Tremaine, Colonel Woodruff's chief clerk, $700. It also appears that Evans & Co. furnished the handsome residence of Colonel Woodruff. Harold M. Pitt, manager of Evans & Co., who is now under arrest notoriously lavish in entertaining commissary officers. Pitt's house was a rendezvous for prominent officers, where they drank champagne and played poker. Women of doubtful reputation have often been known to be there. It is alleged that Pitt was the mover in the scheme to re-establish cockpits in Manila, whereby Mrs. Lara was given the concession to open a cockpit. It is asserted that the commissary department made unauthorized purchases of champagne. Pitt sold some. In addition to what the transports brought, the commissary imported 200 gallons in February and a like amount last month. The commissary and the commissary sergeant kept private carriages and indulged in other extravagances. Of the officers mentioned, Major Davis was graduated from West Point in 1882 and joined the infantry. In 1891 he was graduated from the infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth. He was transferred to the commissary department in 1897. Captain Lawson arose from the ranks, getting his commission in 1893. He was in the Twenty-first infantry until transferred to the volunteers as a captain and commissary in 1900. Captain James C. Reed is not in the army register and is probably a volunteer officer. Colonel Woodruff was graduated from the West Point academy in 1871 and became a captain and commissary officer in 1878. He is next in rank to General Weston who commands the commissary department. ANOTHER CALORADO STORM Cattle Suffer in a 24-Hour Storm on the Prairies. Reports from Northern Colorado say that another storm has prevailed on the prairies for twenty-four hours. It began with a misty rain and developed into a blizzard. The loss of stock will be great. Cattle have become greatly weakened by exposure to the storms of the past two weeks and lack of sufficeient food. The snow is drifting badly and railroad traffic is being delayed. It is reported that the Swan Land and Cattle company, which ranges large herds of cattle in Eastern Wyoming and Western Nebraska, has lost upward of 2,500 head of cattle during the storms of the last ten days. Some of the animals were driven by the steers over the high bluffs, and others were smothered in snow drifts. "Jack" Edwards, a large owner of sheep in Wyoming and Oregon, lost 7,000 sheep near Kimball, Neb. out of a band of 14,000. The animals were on the lambing beds when the storm came up GUTHRIE POSTAL THIEVES. A Negro Who Was Robbing the Boxes See In the Act. The mystery of a series of thefts in the Guthrie, Okla., postoffice extending over a period of more than a year and a half has been explained by Edward Adams, a negro, who was caught robbing letter boxes. Adams had learned the code of several combination locks and had keys to several lock boxes and sometimes robbed boxes that the owners had failed to close. Adams would thrust his arm through an open box and rob adjacent boxes from the inside. He was caught by Benjamin Perkins, a clerk, who saw a man's hand projecting from a box. Adams is in jail. Stolen letters were found upon his person. AN ARIZONA SHERIFF DEAD. Shot From Dehid by Friends of a Man whose Life He had Taken. Sheriff Edward Beeler of Apache county, Arizona, known throughout the Southwest, was ambushed and killed in a fight about a month ago. News of the killing has just reached here. Beeler fell, mortally wounded, by a volly from behind a stone wall. At first it was believed that Beeler was the victim of "cattle rustlers," against whom he had made a long and bitter warfare, but later it developed that they were friends of a man whom Beeler had killed, who had sworn to avenge his killing. A party of officers and Beeler men is in pursuit of the a- sassins. As the result of an expert's investigation an Eastern syndicate has secured oil leases covering nearly the entire valley in which St. Jose, Searcy county, Ark., is situated. Machinery for sinking wells will be put in at once. There are a number of springs in Searcy and Newton counties where the oil has been forced up through crevices, ruining the water for drinking purposes. In one place the oil is gathered in a pool and is used by residents as a curative for sprains and rheumatism. The oil field is about fourteen miles south of Yellville. Kling Clty Gets a New Bank A new bank has been organized at King City, Mo., and will be known as the "Citizens' bank." A. G. Bonham, Jacob Levy and William Millan of King City; D. Donham and W. H. Vannatta of Empire Prairie; Joseph Cook and George S. Kemp of Douglas; Kearan McKinney and Thomas K. Rourke of Ford City and A. T. Gantz of Patonsburg are the incorporators of the institution. The capital stock will be $20,000. A. G. Bonham has been elected cashier. San Joa Growing Smaller Sir Robert Ball says that every one hundred years the sun loses five miles of its diameter. To allay anxiety, however, he mentions that the diameter of the sun is 850,000 miles, and that 40,000 years hence the diameter would still be 858,000 miles. The term is applied to Records of fish caught by guests are carefully kept in our hotels. But the religious record of those that get away would prove infinitely dearer to the soul of the truthful Izaak Walton. Florida Times-Union. Insurance Librarian's Appointment Friends of Edward Rochle Hardy, librarian of the New England Insurance Library, are congratulating him on his appointment to a responsible position in the New York Insurance Exchange. He graduated from Boston University in 1892, and since that has been prominent in the insurance world. His recent "History of Fire Insurance" proved a great success. Patents Granted to Women. Patents Granted to Women. Since the patent office was first established in 1790 only 5,757 patents have been granted to women. There are other interesting figures. There h is 415 patents issued to colored men, of whom twenty-eight were granted to one inventor and twenty-two to another. More than 80 per cent of the patents issued are to citizens of the United States. Offered University Presidency. Dr. T. W. Jordan, dean of the University of Tennessee, has been tendered the position of president of the University of Alabama. He has not yet announced whether he will accept the place. Dr. Jordan has been with the University of Tennessee since 1880. He was formerly president of Emory and Henry college, Virginia. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. The Wife and Mother-in-Law of Mr. Charles Keys. CLARISSA, Minn. April 15, (Special.)—No family in this vicinity is better known or more universally respected, than Mr. Charles Keys, the local School Teacher, and his estimable wife, and 'mother-in-law. For a long time, Mrs. Keys has been in ill health. Recently, however, she has found a cure for her ailments in Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I cannot speak too highly of Dodd's Kidney Pills, or of what they have done for me," said Mrs. Keys. "My life was miserable, my back always ached, also my head. I was troubled with Neuralgia in the head and face and suffered extreme pain, but thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills, all those aches and pains have vanished like the morning dew, and it now seems that life is worth living. I consider Dodd's Kidney Pills a God-send to suffering humanity. They may rightly be named the Elixir of Youth. "While speaking of my own case and the wonderful benefit I have received, I might also add, that my mother, who is now an old lady of 74 years and who lives with me, has been troubled more or less, with aches and pains, as is natural with one of her advanced age. When she saw what Dodd's Kidney Pills had done for me, she commenced to use them herself, and she says that they have done her more good than any other medicine she has ever tried. "This testimony is given in the hope that others who may be afflicted as we were, may see and read it, and be benefited by it." What Mrs. Keys states in her letter can be verified by reference to any of her many friends in this neighborhood. Dodd's Kidney Pills have already a wonderful reputation in Todd County. Nothing has ever cured Bright's Disease, Diabetes or Dropsy but Dodd's Kidney Pills. Complete Collection of Pictures The farmers of Rock county, Missouri, seem to be prosperous. The treasurer of the town of Lima has collected every cent of the tax levy of the year and the treasurer of the town of Porter reports a delinquency amounting to only sixty-three cents. Are You Interested in the Northwest? Home and Garden, a 16-page illustrated monthly paper, tells all about the fine climate, fertile grain and fruit lands, timber, mines, fisheries, etc., of the wonderful Northwest, the richest undeveloped portion of North America. The regular price of the paper is 50c a year. If you will cut out and return this ad, state name of paper in which it appears, and enclose 10c in silver, Home and Garden will be sent you, postage paid, for one year. Address Home and Garden, Newspaper Row, St. Paul, Minn. Nature restores a man's health and his physician pockets the fee. Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it, GRAIN-O but that seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. $ \frac{1}{4} $ the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all grocers. The most popular air with the average girl is the millionaire. Garfield Tea, the medicine that purifies the blood and cleanses the system, brings good health to all who use it. It is made from herbs. Druggists sell it. The educated pig did not acquire his knowledge in a day. Red Cross is the best Ball Blue the world knows. Large package 5c. The greatest liar is he who talks most of himself. Doctors never disagree as to the size of their bills. For the Ladies. PRIESMEYER SHOE CO. SHOES THAT WEAR. Ask Your Dealer For Them. SAMPLE FLEET FOREIGNERS TO HAVE OUR GOODS BROUGHT. A NOVEL PLAN TO BE ADOPTED Exhibits on Steamers That are to Sall Down the East Coast of South America, Up the West Coast, Across the Pacific and Home — Large Sales of American Goods Anticipated. Instead of inviting foreign purchasers of American goods to come to this country and see our wares in salesrooms or in expositions, O. P. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics, proposes that American merchants and manufacturers shall unite in carrying samples right to the doors of foreign customers in a great floating exposition. Letters Mr. Austin is receiving from business men encourage the hope that the idea will take practical shape. Mr. Austin's plan is to have men engaged in different lines unite in chartering several ships on which they will install exhibits of their wares, each exhibitor to be allotted space in proportion to the amount he subscribes. Agents will accompany the exhibits to explain them and negotiate for sales. As the lower holds of the vessels will not be suitable for exhibition purposes it is proposed that they be utilized for carrying limited stocks of goods for immediate delivery when sales are made. The fleet would sail down the east coast of South America, up the west coast, across the Pacific to the ports of China and Japan, possibly Australia, the ports of the Indian ocean and thence home by way of the Suez and the Mediterranean, taking in the principal ports of Europe and consuming about two years. This plan is being put into practice by a group of exhibitors at the Buffalo exposition who propose after that fair to put their exhibits on board a ship and make a tour of the Mexican, Central American and West Indian ports, including Bermuda. A similar plan was adopted about two years ago by some merchants of Hamburg, Germany, who sent out a floating exposition on board a single ship. The expense amounted to about $100,000, while the direct sales amounted to $5,236,000, without taking into account future sales resulting from the introduction of goods into new markets. ST. PAUL LABOR TROUBLES. Danger of a Strike Among the Building Trades. Trouble of a serious character is brewing among the building trades unions of St. Paul, and a general strike is said to be imminent. There has been a long standing difference between the painters and decorators and the masters' association, the latter demanding that their men withdraw from the Building Trades Council. The decorators resisted this demand and at a recent meeting formulated an ultimatum which will be submitted soon. They say that, if the employers accept their terms, it will be well, if not, they will strike. It is understood that there is no question of wages or hours involved. TO PROVE HIMSELE ALIVE. A Civil War Soldier Who Died, so the Army Records Declare. James Foust, an old soldier who lives at Jola, Kan., is trying to get evidence that he may prove himself alive. All during the Civil war the veteran was reported dead and buried and his name is still on the records as "dead." Although Foust was severely injured in the thick of battle, he was saved, and since, thirty-seven years, has been trying to obtain a pension. He has, however, so far been unable to disprove the official records that he is not dead. General Funston's father will endeavor to convince the government that Foust is still alive. HER JEWELS LEFT UNGUARDED An Arizona Woman Who Kept $50,000 Worth of Giving to the Needy Worth of Gems in Her Home The death at Phoenix, Ariz., of Mrs. Robin Iche reveals the fact that alone and unguarded in her house was great wealth in jewels and precious stones. The husband of the woman is in jail awaiting trial for insanity and the sheriff has taken charge of the jewelry, the estimated value of which is not less than $50,000. UNCLE HEFFLEBOWER'S LUCK. Texas Oil Lands for $100,000 by the Kan srs Ex-Treasurer Reliable information says that D. H. Heflebower of Bucyrus, Kan., extreasurer of Kansas, sold a tract of land in the Beaumont, Tex., oil district for $100,000. Two Western Union operators, who made the deal, received $5,000 each commission. Mr. Heflebower served under the Leedy administration. Arrested 100 Saloonkeepers. A hundred saloonkeepers at Minneapolis, Minn., were arraigned in the district court under grand jury indictments for operating nickel-in-the-slot machines and gambling devices. They were all released on $250 bail each and will be tried later. Senator Clarke Hurt. While attempting to alight from a street car in Kansas City, Senator Clarke was forcibly thrown to the ground, sustaining such injuries that he is now confined to his home. The attending surgeons declare there will be no permanent effect. Shot Her With a Musket. James Henry Jarvis, a farmer living several miles north of Fayetteville, Ark., shot and killed his wife. He then attempted suicide by severing a blood vessel in his arm with a razor. He is in jail and refuses to make a statement as to the killing, except that he had had trouble with his wife. He shot his wife with an old army musket. Jarvis has lived in the county six years. One cannot go into Canada now, as was formerly the case, and carry a bottle of whisky over the line into the United States. According to a decision of the customs appraiser whisky cannot be imported in less than a case quantity. Semitic department of a University. As a memorial of their recent jubilee the women of the Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco have presented the University of California with an endowment of $15,000 to establish a fellowship in the Semitic department. Prominent Milwaukee Educator. Superintendent H. O. R. Siefert of the Milwaukee public schools, who was recently re-elected to his position for another term, has been connected with the schools of that city for twenty-two years. He is now nearly 70 years of age, but he is regarded as one of the progressive teachers of the state, and keeps abreast of all educational movements. MILES OF FLOWERS Gorgeous Parade to Take Place During Confederate Reunion at Memphis in May. Memphis, April 15—Miles of rose, miles of magnolias, miles of every flower growing in the south. This is what one of the chief features, the gorgeous street Flower Parade will be, and which will transcend all like efforts ever given in the south. There will be traps, drags, landaus, stanhopes, phastons, surreys, buggies, automobiles, runabouts, tea carts, talyhos, floats, dog and pony and goat carts or wagons, and every conceivable vehicle that runs on wheels in the immense procession, and each and every one of them will be decorated, entwined, mothered with flowers, natural and imitation. The Flower Parade held in Memphis during the Dewey reception last May was a success, for it was as beautiful and attractive as eye could wish to see. But this year it will pale into insignificance, for the parade committee is determined to make the reunion spectacle simply perfect and of much larger dimensions than the affair a year ago. Letters have been received from parties in Helena and Pine Bluff, from far away Florida, distant points in Georgia and Texas, notifying the parade committee that they are making preparations to take part in the parade, and asking after details. 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