The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country HONESTY, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY SHOULD BE OUR TRINITY FOR THE FUTURE, OUR RACF, THEIR ENTERPRISES GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING CLOSELY TALES OF TWO CITIES. THE UNDER DOG. Can't help simpythizin' with Feller who is down; Ruther jis giv' him a hand, 'N to kicker frown. Allus help th' under dog, Cuz he's lost th' bone; Help him cuz he'll fight th' hull Snappin' pack alone. Hain't hard fert th' feller who Sets on top th' bone; Jest' look contented an' Wear a happy smile. Feller who can fight like sin When he's lost all heart; Is the feller who deserves Havin' one more start. Allus help th' man that's down, Al erlong life's jog. You'd be wantin' help ef you Wuz tn' under dog. Newton Newkirk Rev. D. W. Oakes, of Canton, Mo., a well known and popular Methodist Gospel man, is assisting Rev G. A. Griffith in a series of nightly gospel meetings at the St. James. Miss Minnie Wright, of 1704 Guinot avenue, died last Friday evening. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p. m., last Sabbath from the A. M. E. Zion church. corner Guinotte and Highland avenue. She was the daughter of Rev. P. H. Wright, and was seventeen years old—just in the prime of maidenhood death claims her and we are forced to submit to the divine decree. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved. A nice furnished room for rent at 1310 Baltimore avenue. Mrs. J. A. Massy, of 1529 Main street, who has been quite ill for sometime, is slowly improving. Col. Hoagland, the 'famous and celebrated man known as the newsbys friend, lectured on our thoroughfares several evenings this week. Mrs H. B. Cunningham, of this city, who has been sojourning in Los Vegas, New Mexico, in search of health, for sometime, returned home this week much improved in God's greatest blessing. She was accompanied back by her beloved husband, who spent the latter days of the stay with her. Miss Jessie New also accompanied them back. Mrs. Cunningham desires, through us, to extend her thanks to the many friends who made it so pleasant and agreeable during her sojourn. Also to those who so kindly remembered her by gifts. Miss Cora Bennett and Willa Smith, of the Topeka Pl indealer, paid our office a call this week. We are highly pleased with these young ladies and proud that the Plaindealer have secured their services. Our editor being somewhat timid and our Business Manager being absent we were unable to make their stay as delightful as we might have under other conditions, at any rate we extend to them a hearty invitation to call again. HE SLEEPS Mr. Wallace Arthur, the well known old soldier citizen who died last week at the Soldier's Home at Ft. Leavenworth, was buried last Sabbath afternoon from the st. James A. M. E. Church, Rev. G. A. Griffith officiating on the part of the church, Sir Edward Mencer in behalf of the St. John Lodge of Masons. Rev. Griffith took for his text the 11th. Chapter of John, 23rd, and 23rd. verse. He dwelt upon the christian character of the diseased, his faithfulness, and closed with an earnest exhortation to the unbelievers to come into the ark of safety. Mr. Arthur was an old soldier, having seen service from 1863 all' 65. was a member of the A. M. E. church in his city for forty years, and had been married for thirty years. He lived his three score years and ten plus two, making him 72 years old. He leaves three childrens, a wife and a host of friends. No more in the years to come will we hear the voice of (The Tiger), a familiar figure on our thoroughfares, is gone, beneath the budding branches of the many oaks and elms at beautiful "Woodlawn" He is sleeping the last sleep undisturbed by the tumult of our busy world. Rev. Wm. P. Richards pastor of the Hancock street Christian church of Louisville Ky., is in the City assisting Rev. J. D. Smith of the 9th street Christian church in a series of Gospel meetings each night this week. Mrs. Sophia Crawford of 344 Walker died Thursday night after an illness covering several weeks. Funeral was held Sunday interment at Marshall Mo. under the auspices of the Ladies Court. Miss Eiza Liman, of Topeka, Kas., was in the city this week on a short trip. Lawyer A. M. Thomas, of Topeka, was in the city for a short stay the first of the week. Mr. Wm. Estell, of Water street, is rejoicing over the arrival of twins at his home. The engagement t of Miss Ella and Mr. Wm Robinson, of Kansas City, Mo., has been announced. THE Rev. I. Toliver, D. D., Wa-hington, D. C., began a series of meetings at the First Baptist church last Thursday. Dr. Toliver is one of the most original preachers in America. Humorous, witty and picturesquely eloquent he holds his audience spellbound. It seems well high impossible for unbelievers to resist his appeals. It is said 30,000 persons have accepted faith in Christ through his preachir. Those who attend the services utilize a life time opportunity, for it is seldom one has an opportunity the Moody in ebony. Mrs. G. M. Parker, of St. Louis, Mo., sister of Mrs. T. P. Johnson, of Tauro m Avenue, will visit her in the near future. The Dyson House at 440 Minneapolis avenue, has changed hands, the entire concern having been bought by Mrs Mollie MacIntosh, of Leavenworth, who will refurbish and remodel and regenerate in every particular. Everything will be first class and for the money the best meal in the city will be served. Everybody invited to call and be convinced. Quarterly meeting was held last Sabbath at Argentine by Presiding Elder J. W. Braxton. A grand and glorious time was had. Many were out. R. Rev. Bishop Shaffer was also in attendance. Mesra James Sanders and Marion Cotten, of the Western University, Quindaro, were erstwhile callers this week. We were pleased to meet these bright young men and extend a hearty invitation to come again. Geo. H. Miller, the 4th. Ward Councilman of this city, has made application to the Governor for the position of one of the three, composing the Board of Managers of the Hutchinson Reformatory. Artist O. J. Brooks returned this week from a sojourn in old Missouri, during which time he paid a visit to "Home and Mother" at St. Louis. Rev. E A. Wilson, pastor of the M. B. church, returned this week from St. Louis, where he met the St. Louis Fair Committee in the interest of negro exhibits. Mrs. C. H. James and little son Georgic of the Sea Foam block left to-day for au-ultimized stay in Colorado. Mr. — Cooper and Mrs. L. Everett were solemnized Tuesday by Rev. G. A. Grifffat at A. M. E. church. The bride was attired in steel colored cashmere with roses and caramels, while the groom wore the conventional black. Little Edna Berry, flower girl, with Mr. Abner Robinson as best man. The church was very tasty decorated and quite an assembly were present. An elaborate reception was tendered the pleasing couple at their home on Ferry street, by their friends. Mr. Thomas Branch and daughter Mabel, of Denver, Col., are in the city en route home from the conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church at Battle Creek, Mich. They will be in the city till next week. Mr C. Patterson and family have received a number of fine presents from their soldier son, Robert E., now in Manila. Among the most highly ap preciated was a box of Manila cigars. "Pat" enjoys a good smoke. READY FOR BUSINESS The Colored Orphans' Home is now the real thing. A building has been secured and is now nearly neryhed, at 1058 Oakland avenue, Mrs. Susie Smith is Matron, Mrs. G. J. Browne, President, and Mrs M. Y. Matthews, Secretary. On Tuesday of this week the formal opening was made and many donations and contributions were received. The Doughlass School pupils and teachers, under Principal J. J. Lewis, are entitled to the highest praise for the part they so creditably played in the opening. At a no distant date we will give much information through these columns about this worthy institution Contributions and a visit should be the first thing considered by every negro. A GREAT BARGAIN. The furniture and fixings of three rooming houses, one with six rooms and one with 7 rooms and another, with three rooms. All in first class condi- tion, for sae complete, furniture and all. Will sell separate or together. The buildings can be secured at reas- onable rentage. A chance of a cliff time. Further information call at this office. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. The Mosby Co-Operative Grocery, Feed and Coal Co., will open their establishment at 847 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kas., April 24th., 1901, with an assortment of fancy goods. We invite the public to come and examine our assorted line of goods and meats, and soothe the patronage of all. GEO, T. MOSBY, Mgr. WANTED.—Trustworthy men and women to travel and advertise for an old established house of solid financial standing. Salary $780 a year and expense, all payable in cash. No canvassing required. Give references and enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. Address Manager, 355 Caxton Building, Chicago. AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1901. OUR CAPITAL CITY RESUME POLITICS AND OTHER NEWS. Interesting and Other Very Newsy Bits Gathered by our Correspondents at Topeka, Kansas. The advent of spring and the weather in comparison has brought about a resume of business, such as the Capital City has not seen in years the Commercial Club is booming things and the tradesman and the artisan alike are busy. The building of large and substantial business houses and residences are well under way and it is more apparent as time progresses that Topeka is a good town in which to live, and in this great scene of activity the colored population are taking a part. There has for some time back, and at this time, been a steady desire among them to acquire homes of their own, and also to take a more active part along business lines. For this we believe that Topeka will compare favorably with any city of its size in the west and north. POLITICAL. The County Central Committee met on last Saturday and decided to hold the County Primaries on June 1st., and if the Biennial election laws prove to be constitutional, the ticket nominated will stand until next fall, and if the law is unconstitutional, which is the general opinion, all is well. As a result of the action of the County Central Committee, the woods are full of candidates for the positions of Sheriff, County Clerk, Register of Deeds, Surveyor and County Commissioner, and as they only have about six weeks to look to their fences, they will have all they can do to complete their canvass. We only have one candidate giving color to the situation in the person of Col. Jeltz, who has formally announce- Jackson's Famous Military Band has reorganized under the same name but is now controlled by a board of directors who will no doubt put the same in a self sustaining condition and from the personnel of the men whom they have selec ed, we believe that the former prestige of this high class musical organization will be increased. The directors are President, J. H. Grey, Secretary, G. W. Smith; Geo. W. Jackson. John M. Wright, Fred Stonestreet, H. B. Taylor and Henry De Shattio. The legal battle for the possession of the Mayoralty of this city is ended and all is over except the decision by Judge Hazen, which is expected the latter part of this week or the first of next, in the meantime the Mayor defacto is restrained from making any appointments, and neither the Hughes or Parkertes can line up at the pie counter. But, the boys all say it will be good when they do get it. The reports in the daily papers as to the quality of the new lands which are scheduled for homestead entry in August has put a dampening effect upon some of the boomers which were going to that section to homestead. THE NEGRO IN VARIOUS AVOCATIONS. His Progress, His Education and His Aggressiveness is Unquestionably a Phenomi- NEGRO PROGRESS. He is a fair hand at many kinds of work, of which there is an abundance in the South. About iron furnaces he is an ideal hand in the South, with the exception of his carelessness about observing the rule requiring punctuality, but that is not a very serious drawback. A 'sub' is readily found to fill a temporary vacancy in a party of iron pilers, casting house men, or stock house men. The negro is the chief laborer also in iron mines. He is a fair coal miner when well managed. As a quarryman he is very efficient. In the cotton fields he is superior to the white man—in fact in the section lying 50 miles North of the Gulf littorei, the negro raises all of the cotton crop, sweet potatoes, and is essentially the only farm worker, and this is pretty well the same in the cane fields of Louisiana and the cotton fields of the Mississippi delta. As a meehanid the Negro has greatly improved in late years, but he still lacks the sense of nicety required for the best cabinet and other fine woodwork, and the same holds true in iron work of the most refined grades. Some specimen of negro mechanical manipulation were shown at the Columbian fair of 1893, and at the Atlanta fair of 1895, which compared to advantage with the average of mechanical products of the same class turned out by white men. We think it is only a question of time when the negro will develop mechanical skill to the higher order. Whether he will, in any estimable time, as a race, overcome his indifference to the obligation of punctuality and good faith, we leave to others for decision. Although many Negroes are now faithful, it is by no means as general a trait among them as their employers might wish. There has been unquestionable progress. No less than 140,000 homes are held free of debt by Southern Negroes. These have been estimated at an aggregate value of $140,000,000. The holdings of personality by the race are probably worth more than the reality. Illiteracy has decreased among them nearly 50 per cent. in twenty years. On the whole the Negro of the South progresses.—Chantanooga Times. EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO. EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO. The Tuskegee, Ala., Industrial Institute, established for the benefit of the colored race, started in 1881, with one teacher and thirty students, in a rent- POLITICAL. The County Central Committee met on last Saturday and decided to hold the County Primaries on June lst., and if the Biennial election laws prove to be constitutional, the ticket nominated will stand until next fall, and if the law is unconstitutional, which is the general opinion, all is well. As a result of the action of the County Central Committee, the woods are full of candidates for the positions of Sheriff, County Clerk, Register of Deeds, Surveyor and County Commissioner, and as they only have about six weeks to look to their fences, they will have all they can do to complete their canvas. We only have one candidate giving color to the situation in the person of Col. Jeltz, who has formally announced himself, and says that he is in the race for County Clerk to a finish, and as he is a hustler in getting around, he will cover all the territory. Fred Roundtree, of whom it has been understood for two years, would be a candidate, has probably slept upon his time in his hesitancy to announce himself, and the rank and file of his support are fast alliaging themselves with the other candidates. LOCALLY Mrs. Alice Jackson entertained the Helping Hand Club Friday afternoon, at a very elaborate luncheon. The Oak Leaf Club met with Mrs. M. Drane, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. M. E. Langston spent Friday in Atchison in the interest of the Eastern Star Lodge The Capital Whist Club entertains at 118 E 18th. street Saturday evening. The Golden Rod Club will hold a business meeting Friday evening at the residence of Miss Lena Thompson. ed building. The average attendance now is 1,050 students, representing 27 States. Africa, Cuba, Porto Rico and Jamaica, and 86 officers and teachers are employed. Its graduates and undergraduates number 3,000. These are doing good work all through the South as industrial leaders and teachers. Much emphasis has been placed from the start at Tuskegee upon intelligent, industrial education combined with academic, moral and religious training. Twenty-eight industries are now conduited in connection with the literary and religious training given in the institution. The latter now owes property worth $500,000. This includes 2257 acres of land and 42 buildings, which have been built wholly by student labor. Its current expenses at present aggregate $80,000 a year. For the current year it has $20,000 practically assured from stated sources, but the remainder must be raised by the personal efforts of the principal. Grover Cleveland, Seth Low, William E.Dodge D. C. Gilman, and other influential persons who have taken an interest in the institute are endeavoring now to raise an endowment fund of at least $500,000 for it. Of the sum $189,000 has been secured. Contributions are being received by W. H. Baldwin, Jr., President of the Long Island Railroad and J. C. Phelps Stokes, both of New York, who constitute the committee on investment of the endowment fund, and by the principal of the institute, Booker T. Washington, and its treasurer, Warren Logan.—San Francisco Chronicle. LET US BE AGGRESSIVE. One of the greatest weapons our opponents use in fighting us is that the Negro is not aggressive and is content to sit and quietly acquiesce to all laws that oppress and humiliate us. It is true that this is the case in many ins ances, but it is not so because there is any lack of aggressive, outspoken men among the race here, but we have in our minds a very large class of Negroes who are ever ready to condemn any movement having for its object the protection of our interest. These people think and argue that there is a conservative white ephant which can better look out for Negro's interest than can the Negro himself, and so discourage any aggressive effort put forward. We have never thought so, and so stand always ready to champion any worthy movement put forward. We have never thought so, and so stand always ready to champion any worthy movement put forward by our people. The recent utterances of a presumably conservative white cutie who aspires to be one of Richmond's representatives in the constitutional convention should be sufficient to cure our people of the idea of CITIZEN. conservative white friends looking out for our interest. Some of these very gentlemen have accepted large fees from cooled men to defend their claims to office to which they had elected and say that they had were oppressed 'o Negro suffrage into to, and please themselves upon record as sa ying that "the attempt to educate the Negro has been a amenable failure." It is this class of our conservative white friends who are anti-Negro whenever that means their rallying cry for votes for office in whom the less aggressive element think we should have abiding faith, and expect to guard our interests Until this spirit of "do-no-nothing" is done away with Virginians cannot expect to have any consideration shown them in the making of laws that hamilton and degrade them.—Reformer, Richmond, Va. RACE NOTES Miss Willa A. Coran of Leavenworth, Kansas, is winning a wide reputation as a fine soprano vocalist. Attorney G W. Jones, of Hill City, Kansas, has the largest practice of any lawyer in that part of the state. He often is called away on important cases. Negroes with bank accounts, or an equivalent, always make respected citizens in any community. It is the good influence of a class of citizens that is needed to counteract mob spirit. It is said that in the Delta section of Mississippi, where the negro population out numbers the white more than in any other section of the South, the charge of outraging women has never been brought against the race. A prominent Hebrew merchant in Washington, D. C., recently gave $3,000 to assist the Tenth St Baptist church of that city in paying for their property. The Ministers' Union tended him a vote of thanks for his generous gift. Mrs. Minnie Nelson (colored) was recently awarded damages to the amount of one hundred dollars in a circuit court at Chicago. In a suit against the lees of the Alhambra Theater, it was alleged that Mrs. Nelson was deprived of certain privileges in the theater on account of her color. The position of Time-Keeper for the Government Printing office having become vacant, and, there being many applicants, a competitive examination was ordered. One negro and eight white men entered the examination. Mr. Wallace Christian, the negro, of Richmond, Va., a printer in the Government Printing Office, carried off the prize. The prize is $4,00 per day HURRAH FOR ST. LOUIS. There are about 100 business establishments among the colored people in St. Louis, among which are eight well doing groceries, two excellent drug stores, three extensive dealers in merchandise, besides a goodly number of paying and mechanical businesses, conducted in the most creditable manner. One corporation with a capital stock of $50,000. We have 16 dentists and physicians who have a flourishing practice and who are rapidly acquiring a competency. The negro doctors are learned and skilled, so recognized by both races, among which their practice extends. In the legal profession twelve lawyers find a lucrative field for their talents. One is a prosecuting attorney for the city, and others have represented celebrated cases before the state and federal Supreme courts. There are 37 carriers and clerks in the federal departments, many of whom by long service and study have acquired an efficiency which none excel. In the various branches of the city government are thirteen colored clerks and deputies, whose salaries range from $75.00 to $150.00 per month. Besides, there is a goodly number of colored men who hold positions to which comfortable salaries are attached. -St. Louis Plaindealer. WOULD NOT EDUCATE THE NEGRO Governor Chandler of Georgia Says the Black Man Should Stick to Agriculture Savannah, Ga.. April 25 - Governor Allen D, Candler, commenting on the coterie of philanthropists head by Robert C Ogden that recently made an "educational tour" through the South, says: "I don't think much of this tour. The negro colleges of the south don't need the aid of these Northern people very much. We can attend to the education of the negro in the South wi hout the aid of Northerners, and give them he education they most need, too. I don't believe in the higher education of the negro. He should be taught the trades, but when he is taught the fine arts he gets educated out of his ease and is unhappy. "I am opposed to putting negroes in in factories and offices. When you do that you will cause dissatisfaction between the two races, and such things might lead to a race war. The field of agriculture is the proper place for the n gro." Read this paper all over each week and if you don't find a dollars worth of news in fifty two issues we will refund your money. Don't condemn Negro paper until you give it a air trial. EDITORIAL PICKINGS HONESTY, while being the best policy, has its reward, but seldom a bank account. TIME never made a man who could keep pace with it, but one who wastes none will accomplish much. The letter that I looked for came at last, says a man that has recently received a slice of pie from the chief cook. Oh! how patiently he watched and longed for the letter that never eame. PEOPLE do much gabbling that goes for nothing, whilst the olam never opens his shell unless he is benefitted. MAYOR ELECT CRADDOCK continues to grow in favor and give promise of being one of the most exalted types of manhood and city heads that ever graced the Mayoralty chair in Kansas City, Kas. --- We are more than gratified to know that harmony prevails among the men the people have entrusted their affairs—the Mayor and Council. WHATVER can be said of the Negroes at the mouth of Kaw. It can be told that they are rising a few more years of the push and progressive-ness evinced by them, as now, will call the attention of the Negroes to the Kaws mouth from all over the world. --- LONG has it been said that it is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The determined effort to eliminate the negro from politics on educational qualifications in many states, will result in less than ten years in more good to the negro than anything else that has lazily been gone into with such a determination. "We must educate," has long since been an established fact. If not voluntarily, why compulsory. In order that we may hold our standing as American citizens and enjoy the rights and privileges, they as such enjoy. GIVE US A COMMISSIONER. While the days are going by and time is hanging heavily on the hands of many, we would remark by the way, that there are five Commissioners to be appointed from Kansas to the St. Louis Exposition, or the celebration of the Famous Louisiana Purchase. Now would it be asking too much of our Governor to request that we, as a race, be allowed one of those Commissioners. The Negro in our great State has made wonderful strides of progress and form a large part of the staid and true citizens of our commonwealth. In all fairness and justice to them, one out of five Commissioners we think is but asking little, and we believe when considered in the light of a true Kansasan and American citizen unhampered by the thoughts of color or previous conditions, the same will be accorded us. In the grand array of bright negro lights of our State we do not think we are narrow whea we say, that Judge I. F. Bradley, of Wyandotte county, would fit the bill. He is a man that commands and demands respect everywhere and any where—he is one of the highest types of manhood and one in whom not only the race takes pleasure in, but the whole state as well. Eminently fitted to hold his own at all times and a man whose every heart pulsation is in the best interest of his race that they may be brought to a higher plane of intelligent citizenship. Let us all be united on this matter for too many candidates means defeat. While the Exposition does not take place till 1903, it is well to be on the ground and start in time that we may be heard. GOVERNOR ALLEN D. CHANDLER, of Georgia, in his recent remarks simply shows to the world that he is one of those old slave day moss back rebels who can scarcely yet realize that a negro is human, a citizen and a man. When he says "I can't believe in the higher educa. tion of the negro," he speaks for a major portion of the dyed-in-the-wool-rebels in most of the Southern States. Thank God it is not left to the likes of a Georgia Governor whether we will all be farmers or meet upon the common highway equal competitors in higher callings of life which is our privilege in the land of the free and the home of the brave. What man has been so wonderfully endowed as to know that all negroes are born for farmers and that on the farm is the proper place for them. We admit that the farm is a good place for many ne groes, but that should not deter them from going as high in the intellectual world of beings as anybody else. The Leavenworth people are making strenuous efforts to have President McKinley visit their God for seven City. It is to be hoped that they will succeed in having him spend a half day there. Among the places of interests they could show him would be the spot where they burned young Alexander. We suspect that some of the important dogs that assisted in burning Fred Alexander at Leavenworth would have "Cheek" enough to offer the Presidential party souvenirs of the burning. We are not a bit selfish but we would most respectfully ask all our readers to patronize the merchant们 who respect a negro Jou nal with their advertisement. Of course we know there is a good many Negroes, who want your patronage, yet they don't consider Negro papers of enough importance to to advertise in them. When you see these kind of negroes you can always bet that tacy don't care a snap about the race only for what they can get from it. Another thing when you see a negro propped up as a big gun and a Leader. Keep your eyes on him and see what he does of material benefit to the race. See if he takes a negro paper—see if he patronizes Negro institutions when he can. See if he ever lends a helping hand to a worthy young negro when he needs it. See if he practices what he preaches if he does all these things and more, pro-claim him a Leader, stand by him, honor and respect him. --- If we must have a situation for our boy or girl when ne leaves school, we must create a situation of our own. If you owned a large or small establishment, would you employ white clerks if colored ones were available? Certainly not. Now, don't get nettled because white merchants don't employ colored ones. They are human and love their blue-eyed Saxon brother even better than we love each other—and 'is natural for them to pursue the course they do. You, under similar circumstances would do the same. Now, the sequel to all of this seemingly unnecessary harangue is, build up enterprises of your own in order that the necessity for begging the white man for joes which naturally belong to white folks—may be dispensed with. If we would be any higher in the business and fiancial and industrial world, it must be through our own efa forts. We cannot hope to rise until we realize this fact—Daily Recorder. Time will vindicate everyone who is honest. There is no sense in trying to reason with a mob. Just saw wood when the crowd jumps you. Be kind to those in trouble. Do your best. Save more than you spend and earn all you can. That is what the average man has to do when the storm comes up. Ware has the right ideas: "Face the breeze but close your jaw." That is excellent advice Also it is good food for the man who invies and hates and suspects his fellows Quit trying to "down" men. Lend a hand, not a hammer. It pays to be kind; it is money in your pocket to be delightfully to respect the victims of others God never put all the right in one pate; nor all the wrong in another. We are all made of the same red mud. We are all some good and some bad. And the fellows who devote their time to finding the evil in others, just naturally have to neglect the evil in themselves. Every man has all he can do to prune his own trees: The case of several should be a lesson to this community. Don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best. Far out on the great Arizona desert is a cowboy's grave The cowboy was a brave fellow, something of a scraper, as honest as the times would permit, generous with his friends, forgiving with his enemies; he did some good things and re-gretted other things that he did. Over, his grave is a chunk of red sandstone On this stone other cowboys have whittled in rude letters an epiphil in uncouth words which is really the sum o human wisdom, "He done his damnedest angels could do no more."—William Allen White. AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. MARTIN. EDITOR. Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans, as second class matter. SALT AND PEPPER WILL KEEP YOU WELL. From the New York Sun. Salt and pepper, as generally considered, are of value in bringing out the flavor of the food to which they are added. That they have any value from a health standpoint is not so generally recognized. You may know that a lump of salt is good for a horse and net stop to consider how important salt is for your own well being. In Eastern countries the sediments, such as pepper are used in profusion in all food. Gastric troubles common enough in other countries are conspicuous absent and and the free use of pepper has much to with that fact. Salt and pepper work against fermentation. When the stomach is out of order or upset, then there is a state of fermentation. A certain very wise physician, who has advanced to the point where drugs seem the unimportant thing and common sense the important thing in making the well is advocating the use of pepper and salt even in a glass of milk. It improves the flavor to a remarkable degree, a fact you can prove to your own satis-faction by having two glasses of milk, one in its original simplicity, the other changed by the addition of a pinch of salt and a dash of pepper, and sipping a little of each. The chances are that you will prefer the seasoned milk. Berides improving the flavor and overcoming the tendency toward fermentation, the pepper will practically disable an microbes that may be floating in the fluid, so that the gastric juices may perform their perfect work of changing microbes to food. "Instead of advising young men to go west and young women to invade the field of business in search of riches. I feel like saying to them. Go into vaudeville," said an eastern manager recently, "when I look over my contracts and observe the amounts to be paid in salaries alone." "I'll give you a few of the figures for the 'headliners', as we call the more eminent artists. The 'Pageant of All Nations', which I will play here, calls for $1,400 a week. Jessie Bartlett Davis gets $1,000, Ezra Kendall commands $600, Rose Coghlan is worth $600 to any theater, and gets it, Della Fox goes higher and pockets $700 for a few hours labor a week. The Girl With the Auburn Hair sills ill earns $500, Job Hillard and his company exact $600, and earn it. J. E. Dodson is another bargain at $500. Marcales 'Tableaux Vivants can be seen by any manager ror less than $900, Fanny Rose, in 'Nell Gwynne, draws $600. The Strakesch Opera Co. in vaudeville, calls for $40, Mme. Adelaide Herrmann finds $900 no illusion, Joseph Hart and Carrie De Mar obtain $500. Banda Rossa $2,000, and so on. There are a hundred other acts that employ from one to four actors and are paid from $200 to $450. A legion of vaudevillians obtain from $100 to $200, and unheard-of thousands from $100 down to $20 for six days' labor. The Marion Record knocks on the custom of displaying black at funerals as the emblem of mourning. 'What is there about black,' the Record asks, 'that is appropriate to these occasions?' Black suggests nothing sweet, or tender, or beautiful. It is not an emblem of purity or hope. It is a symbol of night, and night in Scripture, and in all literature, is a symbol of danger and despair. Night is a time when doors are bolted and windows fastened and when the sighing of the wind and the rushing of the leaves nettle the nerves. One of the leaves nettle the nerves. One of the best things said about heaven is that 'there is no night there.' Then why wear the emblem of night in memory of friends? If the world must have a symbol of sorrow let it be white. White is the emblem of purity. White is the symbol of peace. White is the garb in which angels are supposed to be robed. White is the color of the great Throne around which we like to think our loved ones gathered. White is typical of the eternal day which it gives us joy to believe has dawned upon them. IN FAVOR OF NEGRO SERVANTS The Union League Club, New York Refused to Supplant Them by White Men New York. April 25.—Five hundred of the 1,300 members belonging to the Union League club met last night to take action on the question whether white servants would be employed to take the place of negroes, who have been engaged since the formation of the organization. Some time ago the house committee had the question be fore it, and in a report which it made to the meeting last night recommended that the negro servants be discharged. When the matte came up for discussion, ex-Congressman John S. Wise of fered a resolution to retain the negro. There were speeches by both facios but finally Mr. Wise's resolution was, aopted by a vote of nearly 3 to 1. The matter has caused much commot or late, because of the previous biotic position of the Union League club as a participant in the struggles to free the negroes from slavery had as the champion of the black race in sub e-queen years. JAMAICAN NEGROES- PROVERBS From the London News. "Cockroaches, when they give a party, never invite chickens." Again, "Don't call the siligator 'Big mouth' until you have get across the river." Then, too, "One thief doesn't like to see another thief with a long bag." These are sayings of the witty negroes of Jamaica, as Mr. T. H. Wardleworth informed a large, delighted audience at the imperial institute. HITS NEGROES ONLY. Alabama Democrats Pledged to See That No White Man Will Be Disfranchised Birmingham, Ala., April 22.—With stump speeches in nearly every county in the state, the campaign for a constitutional convention closed to night. A general election was held 28rd., and indications point to an overwhelming victory for the advocates of the new constitution. The principal change and practically the only change to be made in the constitution, is the elimination of the negro vote by educational qualification. On this point the political contest has been fought and though there is organized opposition to the new constitution in some of the counties, the Democrats, who are behind the movement for the radical change in suffrage laws, feel confident of success. The Democratic party has pledged itself to see that no white man will be disfranchised under the constitution which they hope to have adopted. KILLED A HORSE WITH HIS FIST From a From the Philadelphia Record. Atlantic City, N. J.—Ellis Franklin, a young man who weig's but 120 pounds and is of ordinary stature, is the wonder of the village of Folsom, this county, where he resides. Yesterday he entered his stable and was kicked on the wrist by a horse. The kick broke the wrist, and Franklin, in a rage, [struck the animal a terrific blow upon the head with his other hand. The horse fell and died from the blow within a few minutes. In Lirtonville, Vt., S. C. Morrison, a prosperus farmer, decided to move, with his family to Tacoma. Wash. The disposal of a Scotch collie dog, a family pet to many years, had been the subject of much discussion. It was finally divided to leave the animal behind. The household effects were sold, and the family took their departure. The dog left in the care of friends, appeared injected, and, in the afternoon, evidently decided that life held nothing more for him. At the whistle of an approaching train he left the house. He was seen to go toward the railroad crossing. A call from the new master was unheeded. Deliably strech ching himsef across the rail, the dog allowed the train to pass over him. The act was clearly remediated, from the fact that he had been trained from a puppy to keep away from the railroads. NEGRO WOULD BE STATE AUDIOR. Topeka, Kan., April 24.—John M. Wright, county clerk of Shawes county, is a candidate for the republican nomination for stat auditor next year Wright is a negro. The republican once elected a negro to the office for auditor McCabe, now living at Gushrie. "MAJOR" TAYLOR BEATS THE FOREIGNERS. New York, April 23.—According to a private dispatch from Roubaiz, France, Major Taylor, the American short distance cycle champion, scored a signal victory over a big field of European cracks. In an international open kilometer race (about 1,93 yards.) held at Roubaix yesterday, the colored wonder finished first. There were thirty competitors in the events, including Grogna, the Belgian champion, who finished second. A rider named Dangla was third. The significance of the victory lies in the fact that Grogna has twice was the Grand Prix of Roubaix, in 1899 defeating Tommaselli, he Italian champion, and last year Jacquelin, the French champion, and greatest of all European riders Nashville, Teen., April 23 —Tonight at 9 o'clock a mob of 100 men forcibly outreed the court house at Springfield. Teen. took Wyatt Mallory, a negro from the officers garding him and hanged him from the court house veranda. LAST WORDS OF NOTED MEN. I still live. —Daniel Webster. Don't give up the ship —Captain Lawrence. Thomas Jefferson still survives John Adams. I die hard, but I am not afraid to go George Washington. Intro! my hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit-Christopher Columbus. Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. Stonewall Jackson. Let me in my old American uniform in which I fought my battles. God forgive me for having put on any other Bendict Arnold. TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S. PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? Hartona Face Wash will 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. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to: PATRONIZE The Wyandotte Drug Store, And the best of every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription carefully compounded. Prices always the LOWEST at our store. Open day and night, Ring night bell. Phone W. 171. Medicines Delivered W. B. RAYMOND W. B. RAYMOND UNDERTAKERS FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYA Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota Factory Corst St., KANSAS CITY W SOLICIT YOUR JONES, MA —DEAL Fancy and Sta FEED AND UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLEIS Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th and Oakland Ave. Lewis Blandchard 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. Sonnet. 'When in disgrace with Fortune.'—Shakespeare. Bannockburn, Burns. The Tiger, Blake. Pibroch of Donald Dhu, Scott. Bugle Song, Tennvson. Sonnet on his Blindness, Milton. Hohenluden, Campbell. Bahma, Emersm. At the Church Gate, Thockeray. Gunga Din, Kipling Give L.E. self. TRADE MARK Estab. 21 Pro. CANCER Home Treatment that curves Cancers and Tumors. Used with perfect safety hailing, soothing, non-irritating. We prefer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a We prefer to have patients come to our sanitarium for a speedy examination. We provide Est. 21 irs. to our Sanitarium need not put unill curtized. Write to dayfor our 38 page book. It covers all of the tests and hundreds of testimonials from patients we have cured of cancer. Sent free. Consultation by mail in person, free. Address. DR. E. O. SMITH'S SANITARIUM, 1000 N. E. Cor. 10th St., Rooms 6 to 11, N. E. Cor. 10th & Alain St., KANSAS, CITY, MISSOURI. --- ```markdown ``` $100 GIVEN AWAY. Separate New Century Seeds and use he letters to form as many words as you an, using the letters backwards or forwards. Write them in a new word more times than it augures in 'New Century Seeds'. It is said thirty small English words can be spelled correctly fr in these three letters. For example, went, ten, sew, 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 word making and can form thirty words, write your name and address plainly on your list and incluse the same with fifteen two coat stamps for ten packets of Beautiful Flower Seeds of ten popular and different varieties. Our object in giving this One Hundred Dollars is to attract attention to and introduce our seeds in the U.S. This offer will be caretiful and conscientiously carried out and it should not be classed with catch-penny affairs. $ we will spend a large amount of money to order you and 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 divided pro-rata. Many extra special prizes of value will be awarded to persons sending twenty words or more who will assist in introducing our seeds and specialties. Satisfaction is absolutely guaranteed. Send your list as early as possible. Address New CENTURY MAIL ORDER Co. 225 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of Charly Jones Hughes. Decreased. 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 room in Kansas City, County of Wyandott, and state of aforesaid, on the fir- monday 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 Fox, Defendant. No. 15107. The State of Kansas to Anna Fox, Greeting. You will take notice that you have been sued by plaintiff, A. W. Fox, for a divorce in the above named cour, and that plaintiff's petition was filed 年 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, an or before the 17th day of trial, A. W. 1901, the allegation of said petition will be taken as confessed to be true and judgment render d against you graning said divorce as prayed for. L. W. JOHNSON, Plaintiff's Attorney, Attest. A. GUNNING. Clerk. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. John Greer Plaintiff, Jane Greer, Defendant The above named Defendant, Jane Greer, will take notice that she has been sued by the above named Plaintiff, John Greer, in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kas, where his petition is now on file, praying for a decree of divorce from you, the said Defendant, and that unless you answer said petition before the 6th day of April 1901, said petition will be taken as true and judgement thereon rendered against you, fully and oompletely divoring you from said plaintiff. B. S. 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Don't complete your arrays for a trip west until you have earned all about special inducements and attractions offered by the Union Pacific. For full information in regard to J.B. FKAWLEY, Gen. Agt. Union Pacific 1000 Main treet. Kansas City, Mo. BEST TEN SHORT POEMS. The following list compiled by news- paper from the replies of its readers is perhaps as correct as any such list can be: Davenant Calamity is a perfect glass, where in we truly see and know our selves. For all the news read the Citizen, he best knowr, paper in the West. HARTONA FACE, WASH. HARTONA NO-SMELL. Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in RTAKERS * SUPPLIES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Looms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W. Factory Corst St., and Riverview Ave. WE T YOUR PATROLLES, MARTIN & —DEALERS IN— and Staple Groc SEED AND SALT MEAT FEED AND SALT MEATS, Home Treatment that cures Cancers and Tumors. 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A Husband Escaped the Pangs of Catarrh of the Lungs. Most Cases of Incipient Consumption Are Catarrh. why Peruna has become so justly famous in the cure of catarrh diseases. It cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures remain. Peruna does not publicize it. Mrs. Frederick Williams, President of the South Side Ladies' Aid Society of Chicago, Ill., writes the following words of praise. Most Cases of Incipient Consumption Are Catarrh. 1800 M. "My home is never with you Peruna, for I have found dur ing the past six years that there is no remedy that will alleviate sickness. intimate sunday- fare. Mrs. Fred Williams- ne, as Peruna does. Four bottles completely cured me of catarrh of the head of several years' standing, and if my husband feels badly, or either of us catch cold, we at once take Peruna, and in a day or two it has thrown the sickness out of the system."—Mrs. Frederick Williams. Mrs. W. A. Allison, of 759 Sheffield academy, Chicago, Ill., is the Assistant Matron of People's Hospital. She has the following to say about Peruna: "I have had frequent opportuni- ties to observe the wonderful effects of Peruna espe- cially in peruana suffering with a "I have had frequent opportunities to observe the wonderful curative effects of Peruna espe- sion suffering with conepted condi- Mrs. Edward Stevens of Carthage, N.Y., writes as follows: "I now take pleasure in notifying you that my husband has entirely recovered from catarrh. He is a well man today, thanks to you and Peruna. He took six bottles of your medicine as directed, and sent me a bottle of thing him. His appetite is good every thing he eats seems to agree with him. His cough has left him and he is gaining in flesh, and seems to be well every way. I hope others will try your medicine and the benefits that we have."—Mrs. Edward Stevens. tion of the head, lungs, and stomach, generally called catarrh. It alleviates pain and soreness, increases the appetite and so tones up the entire system that the patient quickly regains strength and health."—Mrs. W. A. Allison. 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. When the catarrh reaches the throat it is called tonsillitis, or laryngitis. Catarrh of the bronchial tubes is called bronchitis; caterpillaritis is an internal remedy that will cure catarrh in one location will cure it in any other location. This is Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. O. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 & $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. M. B. The real worth of my $1,000 and $3,000 shoes compared to the $1,000 and $3,000 shoes compared to be equated at any price. Behind in the world for men, Goodwill Wet (Hand-Sewed Process), than any other manufacturer in the world. I will pay $1,000 to any one who can afford it. *Signed* Nina L. Douglass Take no substitute! Instructs: L. Douglass with name and price stamped on bottom. Your dealer should keep them; I give one dealer exclusive sale in each town. If he does not keep them and will not get them for you, order direct from factory, enclosing price and 2c. extra for carriages. If you want two or three warriors, order Fierce Fur and three Brockton, Mass. Fierce Fur and three Brockton, Mass. World's Fair Forestry Exhibitions. The forestry department of the St Louis fair intends to have an exhibition that will be an object lesson to all who see it of the practical side of wood working in all its phases and branches. It will show the woods of the country and the uses to which they are adapted; it will endeavor to show where they grow, at what price the standing timber can be bought, the size of the tract, accessibility and everything that a prospective purchaser would want to know. Flows Sixty Miles Distant Capt. Auguste Vautier of the Swist army has invented a remarkable camera, by means of which views at a distance of sixty to eighty miles can be taken. It is with this machine that the Alps en masse will be photographed, and it is confidently expected that views hitherto unobtainable will now be brought within the photographer's reach. Recently a splendid photograph was taken of the Santíf from Mauborget, a feat never before accomplished. First Actor—"You look sad. Didn't you have a full house last night?" Second Actor—"Yes; that's the trouble. Some other fellow had four aces." From any photo or tin-type, we can make fine the photographs, any size. Original returned prints are also available. WESTER PRINT HOUSE 1431 33 Walnut St. KANSAS CITY, MO. Take Garfield Tea for constipation; it has this to recommend it; it is made from health-giving herbs and it surely cures. SOZODONT for the TEETH 25c The finished performance of an actor is often a great relief to the audience Loakers Not White. There is plenty of work in Texas for men who want work. Therefore there is no room for the loaster, white or black. The man who will not work must live, just as the man who will work must live. If he does not labor he must get his bread in some way that is not fair or honest. It is a public question, and as such the state should deal with it. Crime is committed by the idle. The roads need working. Galveston News. Red Cross Ball Blue is better than bottle or box blue and also much cheaper. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents Sudden and Severe attacks of Neuralgia come to many of us, but however bad the case St. Jacobs Oil penetrates promptly and deeply, soothes and strengthens the nerves and brings a sure cure. TRADE MARK Great Engineering Problem. The plan of the Central Pacific railroad to cut off 107 miles by crossing Great Salt lake involves a great engineering problem. The lake has to be crossed at a point where it is thirty-two miles wide, trestle-work being necessitated for the whole of the distance, excepting two miles across the rocky Promontory point. The view afforded passengers over the new route will be novel and picturesque. Bliss Leaves Yale Big Sum Yale University will receive $60,000 through a benefit in the will of the late George T. Bliss which was filed for probate in New York a few days ago. The balance of the estate is left to the widow and daughter. PISOSOCCE FOR CURSES WHEN ALL ARE FALLS Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION SHOT POLICE ONE OFFICER KILLED AND ANOTHER DYING. THE WORK OF A ROBBER BANI Six Suspects Found in a Box Car with Burglar Outfit—Fight on Way to Station, Five Make Their Escape After a Fullside of Shots are Exchanged, in Which the Officers are Mortally Injured. Officers James Sweeney, Bert Brannon and Charles McLaughlin, while making the rounds of the Kansas City Southern railroad yards, at Joplin, Mo., discovered six men in a box car and arrested them and started with them to police headquarters. When at the corner of Second and Main streets, in the heart of the business section of the city, and within sight of the station, the prisoners turned on the officers and commenced shooting. Officers Sweeney and Brannon were fatally wounded and Sweeney died a few hours later. Officer Laughlin escaped and ran to the station for assistance and five of the prisoners disappeared in the darkness. The sixth man proved to be a Missouri Pacific switchman named James Roby, who has worked in the Comppton avenue yards in St. Louis for the last two years. He was beating his way to Fort Smith, where he had a job promised, and gave himself up as a witness. He was able to furnish only a meager description of the assassins, and there is little hope that they will be captured. Developments since the murder indicate that the six men were no ordinary tramps, but an organized band of robbers and burglars. A search of the car in which the men were found revealed the fact that they had left in the car a large number of skeleton keys, a flask of fine black powder, a bottle of nitro-glycerine and a sack containing fifty pounds or more of dynamite. Bands of armed men are scouring the country and it is hoped that the men may be captured. W. A. M. Martin, who was near the spot where the shooting occurred and saw the officers pass with the men, was able to give a fairly good description of those who did the shooting. A meeting for the formation of a vigilance committee was called at the court house by some of the most prominent citizens of the city and if the men are captured a lynching will surely follow. Officer Bert Brannon now lies between life and death with a bullet in his lungs, and is expected to die at any moment. THEIR UNCLE WAS NOT THERE. Two Tots From Kansas City at Pittsburg Kas, and No One to Meet Them. A woman put two children on a Kansas City Southern train at Kansas City, with tickets for Pittsburgh, Kan. She asked the conductor to look after them, and said they were going to visit their uncle, Al Wilson, of Pittsburg, Kan. who would meet them at the train. S. G. Warner, general passenger agent of the Kansas City Southern, has received word from the railroad agent at Pittsburg, saying that the children had arrived there, but no one had come to the station to receive them. He says no one by the name of Al Wilson can be found. The children gave their names as Ida Barnhart, three years old, and Nona Barnhart, five years old. Nona Barnhart said her mother lived at 503 East Thirteenth street, Kansas City, Mo. There is no dwelling at that number. A row of flats is in process of construction there. No one in the neighborhood knows anything of a family named Barnhart. EASTMAN ON TRIAL Harvard Professor Accused of Murdering R. H. Grogan. The trial of Charles R. Eastman on a charge of murdering his brother-in-law, Richard H. Grogan, at Cambridge, Mass., last July, has begun. The case is attracting wide attention. After a hearing several months ago Eastman was discharged, but later an indictment was found by the grand jury to which the case was taken by the district attorney. The defendant is an instructor at Harvard university. He has claimed that the shooting of Grogan was accidental but the victim with his dying breath is said to have accused Eastman of murdering him. Caught Three Indian Truants Three Indians, Francis Standingwater, James Weymeshe and John Harden, were arrested at Emporia, Kan. They ran away from Haskell institute at Lawrence four days ago and have since been tramping through the country. They were taken back to the institute. Thieves Loot General Store. The general store at Ransomville, Kan., was entered by thieves and a number of articles taken. The store is owned by J. H. Ransom, of Ottawa, Kan., and is the only one in the place. No clue has been found of the robbers. Neosho Merchant Kills Himself. David Sholliiff, member of the board of education and one of the most prominent business men of Neosho, Mo., has committed suicide. No caure for the deed is known. He left a wife and children in good circumstances. Mrs. Wiley Trotter, a young married woman of Hutchinson, Kan., cut her throat with a razor and will die. She was talking pleasantly a few minutes before attempting suicide, and it is believed that her mind had become suddenly deranged. Ten Years for Counterfeiter. Ed Hanson, the last member of the gang of counterfeiters recently captured at Spokane, Wash., was sentenced to ten years at hard labor on McNeil's island by Judge Hanford. Did you ever have that feeling of oppression, like a weight on your chest, or a load of cobblestones in your stomach, keeping you awake nights with a horrible sensation of anxiety, or tossing restlessly in terrible dreams, that make the cold perspiration break out all over you? That's insomnia, or sleeplessness, and some unfortunate suffer with it night after night, until their reason is in danger and they are on the edge of going mad. The cause of this fearful ailment is in the stomach and bowels, and a Cascaret taken at night will soon bring relief and give the sufferer sweet, refreshing sleep. Always insist on getting CASCARETS! GUARANTEED TO CURE all bowel troubles, appendicitis, biliocentes, headache, indigestion, plaques, pain after eating, liver trouble, small compaction and distress. But your health is better than your friends. It is a starter for the chronic ailments and long years of suffering together. It is a starter for the chronic ailments and long years of suffering together. It is a starter for the chronic ailments and long years of suffering together. You will never get well and be well all the time until you put your bowels on the table. ACAKETE today, an absolute guarantee to cure or money refunded. Six Families of Celtic Race. Preliminary steps have been taken in Philadelphia for the organization of an association to embrace the six different families of the Celtic race—the Irish, Scotch Highland, Welsh, Manx, Cornish and Breton. The constitution sets forth that the association is for the purpose of instituting in this city a library, museum and art gallery, all illustrative of Celtic literature and history, that is to be non-political and non-partisan. Coffee as a Barometer. A cup of hot coffee is an unfailing barometer, if you allow a lump of sugar to drop to the bottom of the cup and watch the air bubbles arise without disturbing the coffee. If the bubbles collect in the middle the weather will be fine; if they adhere to the cup, forming a ring, it will either snow or rain, and if the bubbles separate without assuming any fixed position changeable weather may be expected. —Milwaukee Wisconsin. District: in Swiss Villages The villages near Fribourg, Switzerland, are in great distress, the old industry of plaiting straw, which used to bring the inhabitants a little money, having disappeared. Other countries furnish the markets. HUSBAND AND WIFF. A Veteran of the Civil War Tells an In teresting Story. EFFINGHAM, Ill., April 22. (Special) - Uriah S. Andrick is now 67 years of age. Mr. Andrick served through the whole of the Civil War. He was wounded, three times by ball, and twice by bayonet. When he entered the service of his country in 1861, he was haile and hearty, and weighed 198 pounds. Since the close of the War however, Mr. Andrick has had very bad health. For fifteen years, he never lay down in bed for over an hour at a time. He had acute Kidney Trouble, which grew into Bright's Disease. His heart also, troubled him very much. On Oct. 18th, 1900, he was weighed, and weighed only 102 pounds, being but a shadow of his former self. He commenced using Dodd's Kidney Phils on the 26th of last December, and on Feb. 20th was again weighed, and weighed 146 pounds. He says: "I have spent hundreds of dollars and received no benefit, until on the 26th of December last, I purchased one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I am cured, and I am free from any pain. My heart's action is completely restored. I have not the slightest trace of the Bright's Disease, and I can sleep well all night. I was considered a hopeless case by everybody, but today I am a well man, thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills. "For the last sixteen years my wife has been in misery with bearing down pains, pains in the lower part of the abdomen and other serious ailments. When she saw what Dodd's Kidney Pills were doing for me she commenced to use them. She now feels like another woman, her pains have all disappeared and her general health is better than it has been for years. "She is so taken up with Dodd's Kidney Pills and what they have done for us that she has gone to Mr. Cornwall's Drug Store and bought them for some of her friends for fear that if they went themselves they might make a mistake and get something else." There is something very convincing in the honest simple story of this old veteran and his wife. Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only Remedy that ever cured Bright's Disease, Diabetes or Dropsy. They never fail. Daily Waste of Water A leak has been discovered in a New York water pipe by which a daily waste of 20,000 gallons has been going on for not less than eight years. It is said that half a dozen similar cases have come to light in recent years. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes. Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight, New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Buntons, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 525, sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. The ring of the boilermaker's hammer indicates that he is on his metal. She has been feeling out of sort encing severe headache and backache and is exceedingly nervous. Sometimes she is nearly overness, and palpitation of the heart; feeling is dreadfully wearing. Her husband says, "Now, don't be all right after you have taken the But she does not get all right day, until all at once she realizes the complaint is established. Her doctor has made a mistake. She loses faith; hope vanishes; melancholy, everlasting blues. She just what the trouble was, but prob information from the doctor, who accurately locate her particular illn Mrs. Pinkham has relieved the just this kind of trouble, and now letters in her library as proof of the rendered them. This same assist woman in the land. It Sleep? can, like a weight on your chest, or a load of co- sible sensation of anxiety, or tossing restlessly er you? That's insomnia, or sleeplessness, a reason is in danger and they are on the edge o bowels, and a Cascaret taken at night will s ays insist on getting CASCARETS! air't thim hobo-mobo troocks!—Fuck. Can't Sleep? "I have been using CASCARETS for Insomnia, with which I have been afflicted for over twenty years, and I can say that Cascares have given me more relief than any other remedy I have ever tried. I shall certainly recommend them to my friends as being all they are represented." TROSS, GILLARD, Elgin, Ill. The Coldest. caret FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. A man doesn't have to be liberal to give his daughter away when she is married. If You Have Rheumatism Send no money, but write Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis., box 145, 101533 of Dr. Shoop's Rheumatic Care, express paid. If incurred pay $50.00 if not free. Praising your rival may be good Christianity, but it's poor politics. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars toward any medicine that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Curse. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo, O. Cheney for the last 18 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, O. Cheney & Marvin, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, O. When internally acting directly upon the blood of the system, Testimonials sent free. Price 55 per bottle. Sold by all drugglens. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Every time an argument gains you a new friend it loses you two old ones. Spring Cleaning Made Easy Much of the terror of Spring Cleaning may be avoided by good management. Bettled weather should be selected for the work, and every thing necessary provided before hand. every soap will be found best for washing paints, floors and windows. It is harmless and very effective in making the house clean and fresh. ELIZA R. PARKER. Beware of the friend who advises you to go to war or get married. Are You interested in the Northwest? Are You Interested in the Northwest? Cut out this advertisement, mention paper in which it appeared, enclose with 10c in silver to address given and Home and Garden, illustrated, monthly, will be sent you free for one year, Regular price, 50c. Address Home and Garden, Newspaper Row, St. Paul, Minn. Ambition causes a fool to jump at the moon and fall in the mud. Are You Using Allen's Foot Fase? Are You Using Allen's Foot Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Sunning, Burning, Sweating Feet, Coma or Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. When a man gets angry his reason takes a short vacation. Simplicity, strength and purity combined in Garfield Tea, the herb medicine that cures constipation and liver troubles. The less you are talked about the less you are abused. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the fastest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. Any act is meritorious that is not a misfit. If everyone knew how good a remedy was Hamlin's Wizard Oil its sales would double in a day. The truth is usually that which every man should be too polite to tell. WANTED AT OVE—Traveling salesmen with or without experience $0 and expenses. For particuliers write Peerless Tobacco Wks, Bedford City, Va. Strong drink may screw up a fellow's courage entirely too tight. Throw physic to the dogs—if you don't want the dogs, but if you want good digestion chew Beemman's Pepsin Gum. You can't make light of your troubles by burning up the gas bill. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, ally pain, curve wrist cicle. Zinc a bottle. It is the ambition of every woman to live up to her photographs. I am sure Dio's Pice for Consumption saved my life three years ago. Mrs. Thros, Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. The plumber isn't the only man who is addicted to pipe dreams. 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But she does not get all right. She grows worse day by day, until all at once she realizes that a distressing female complaint is established. Her doctor has made a mistake. hope vanishes: then comes the morbid, casting blues. She should have been told table was, but probably she withheld some the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to er particular illness. has relieved thousands of women from trouble, and now retains their grateful ry as proof of the great assistance she has This same assistance awaits every sick She loses faith; hope vanishes; then comes the morbid, malancholy, everlasting blues. She should have been told just what the trouble was, but probably she withheld some information from the doctor, who, therefore, is unable to accurately locate her particular illness. Mrs. Pinkham has relieved thousands of women from just this kind of trouble, and now retains their grateful letters in her library as proof of the great assistance she has rendered them. This same assistance awaits every sick woman in the land. Mrs. Winifred Allender's Letter: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I feel it my duty to write and tell you of the benefit I have received from your woman, and I am taking Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable compound to myself and every one around me. I suffered terrible pain in my back, head, and right side, was very nervous, would cry for hours. Menses would appear sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three or four months. I was so tired and weak, could not sleep, and I was always through my heart that would almost cause me to fall. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM—I feel it my duty to write and tell you of the benefit I have received from your wonderful remedies. Before taking Lyda E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound, I was a misery to myself and every one around me. I suffered terrible pain in my back, head, and right side, was very nervous, would cry for hours. Menses would appear sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three or four months. I was so tired and could not sleep nights, sharp pains would dart through my heart, almost cause me to fail. "My mother cried, "Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I had no faith in it, but to please her I did so. The first bottle helped me so much that I continued its use. I am now well and weigh more than I ever did in my life."—MRS. WINIFRED ALLENDER. Farmington, Ill. deposited with the National City Bank, of Lyon, France, which will be paid to any person who can show that the above testimonial is not genuine, or was published before obtaining the writer's special permission. - LYDIA E. PINEBAM MEDICINE CO. If you take up your land, you can adobe the land of plenty. Illustrated pennants, banners, and farmers who have become wealthy in grow- ing. Information as to reduce 1 railway rates can be had on application to the Superintendent of Immigration to the Department of Interior (Owens Canada) or to J. S. Crawford, 214 W. Ninth St. Kansas (Ity, Mo. Special excursions to Western Canada during March and April. I CURE FITS FREE A Pull-Size 11 treatment of Dr. O. Mills Brown, M.D. Fits, Holmes and Nervous Diseases, A.Dress O. PHELPS BROWN, 98 Broadway, Newburgh, N.Y. No.17,1091 GUARANTEED TO CURE: Five years ago the first box of CA$CARETS was sold. Now it is over six million boxes a year, greater than any similar medicine in the world. This is absolute proof of great merit, and our best testimonial. We have faith, and will sell CA$CARETS absolutely guaranteed to cure or money refunded. Go buy today, two 50c boxes, give them a fair, honest trial, as per simple directions, and if you are not satisfied after using one 50c box, return the unused 50c box and the empty box to us by mail, or the druggist from whom you purchased it, and get your money back for both boxes. Take our advice no matter what all you start today. Health will quickly follow and you will bless the day you first started the use of CA$CARETS. Book free by mail. Add: STELLING REARDY CO., New York or Chicago. It is usually this way : MRS.WINIFRED ALLENDER $5000 BECAME IN FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE PLEASURE & COMFORT GO HAND IN HAND G & J Detachable Double Tube Tires are high grade and well made, with a light, durable, easy riding, and easily repaired—no tools required. When a puncture occurs just remove the outer cover, patch the damage, and away you go. The best is always the cheapest—it pays to buy G & J Tires first and avoid the necessity of a change. Catalogues for the asking. G & J TRE COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. BEN H. MORSE GOES TO PRISON FOR THREE YEARS. HE HAD JUMPED HIS BOND Convicted in Kansas City of Swindling Widows- Was Converted While at Large, and Promised the Lord he Would Give Himself up April 22 - Tried to Swindle Mrs. R P. Bland. Ben H. Morse, the man who was tried, convicted and sentenced to serve three years in the state penitentiary in 1899, from Kansas City, but who later jumped his bond while waiting for a new trial on appeal and escaped, just arrived at Jefferson City and gave himself up to the warden of the penitentiary. Warden Wooldridge immediately sent to Kansas City for the commitment papers and the prisoner will be "dressed in" at once. Morse was charged with using the mails to defraud, and was caught in an attempt to defraud Mrs. R. P. Bland, wife of "Silver Dick" Bland. His scheme was to notify widows that final payments on stock held by their deceased husbands were due and that he had sent the stock C. O. D. The victim usually paid the sums demanded in order to secure possession of the stock. Morse was tried at Kansas City on July 7, 1899, and sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary on two different counts. While waiting for a new trial in a higher federal court, he gave a straw bond for $1,000 and started for South America. On his way to that country he stopped with his wife at Matloon, Ill., and attended the Christian church of that place. While there he was converted and later joined the church at Terre Haute. Morse swore to his wife that he would give himself up just as soon as he could provide for her. He was an advertising agent and becoming successful in Illinois in business, he "promised the Lord that he would go to Jefferson City to serve his term of three years on the 22d of April." Morse, being a federal prisoner, cannot be pardoned by Governor Dockery, and will serve twenty-seven months under the three-fourths rule unless pardoned by President McKinley. ARMY OF 76,000. President and Secretary of War Decide Upon Number of Troops. It has been determined to increase the regular army to approximately 75,000 men and to leave it at that number unless conditions in the Philippines should make more troops necessary. The President and Secretary Root have reached this conclusion and the details will be worked out by the secretary and General Miles. The number of officers appointed will be as originally contemplated. The artillery corps will be increased to its full strength of 18,000 men. Some time ago it was announced that the companies of cavalry would contain sixty-five instead of eighty enlisted men, and it is expected the infantry companies also will be reduced to bring the total to the figures agreed upon. It has not yet been determined what proportion of the troops shall be stationed in the Philippines, although it is known that a large force will be needed there for some time. A Scaler's Big Catch. The steamer Iceland has reached St. John's, Newfoundland, with 20,000 seals, being the heaviest laden ship of the sealing fleet, despite her collision with an iceberg in the early days of the fishing, which injured her boys. A BIG FILIPINO SURRENDER. In Luzon 2.157 Bolumen and 115 Officers Lay Down their Arms. One hundred and fifteen officers and 2.157 bolumen have surrendered and swnn allegiance to the United States at Narvacan, province of South Ilooc. The province of South Ilooc is about 150 miles north of Manila on the western coast of Luzon. Major Noble, adjutant general of the department of the Visayas, has received the surrender of Quinten Salas and three of his officers. All of the insurgents under Salas will surrender soon. It is asserted that this will terminate the insurrection. Four More Boxers Must Die. The ministers of England, France, America, Holland, Belgium and Italy, to whom the question of punishment was assigned, have submitted a report to the diplomatic corps that they demand four more beheadings and the punishment by exile and degradation of eighty more officials. The demand was immediately sent by the diplomatic corps to the Chinese plenipotentiaries. The Wife's Sister Bill Again The House of Commons at London is debating the deceased wife's sister bill. When the bill reached its second reading stage in the House of Commons in 1891 it was carried by 201 to 115 votes. In 1896 the bill passed its third reading in the House of Lords by 142 to 104 votes, but it was afterward blocked in the House of Commons. The bill is intended to make it legal for a man to marry his dead wife's sister. Is He the Brutal Footpad? William Dudley, a negro 19 years old, is in an insure ward in the Kansas City hospital. The police believe that he is the man with a mania for assault, whose attacks upon helpless women have caused such a pronounced sense of terror throughout the city. He was caught while peeping in windows at Westport. Wigg—"Are you a Buffalo?" Wagg—"No, and you can't make a monkey of me, either." VENEZUELA AN OUTCAST. Three Powers Signify That They Will Not Respect Her Courts. Three powers have already signified to Venezuela that they will not respect the decisions of her courts and that certain decrees issued by her executive are null and void. Two other powers are about to issue the same notice to her, if they have not already issued it, and others are expected. In short, Venezuela is fast assuming the place of a pariah among nations. The notice referred to has already been issued by the United States, Spain and Germany, Great Britain and Holland are the two nations which are about to issue it. The United States has gone further than the other powers, for in the case of the asphalt dispute she has served notice on Venezuela that she reserves the right to "review" the decisions of that country's courts. The matter which has aroused these different nations to take this action is totally unrelated to the asphalt dispute, and relates to old grievances. The most striking thing about it is that there is absolutely no concert of action; there has not been even a suggestion from one power to another, and yet the five powers named are taking this course spontaneously. THE WHEAT LOUSE DANGER. From Southern Oklahoma the Pest Has Reached, Kansas. The danger to the Oklahoma wheat crop from the green louse, that has appeared in indescribable numbers, is alarming. The louse has been steadily trailing northward for about two weeks and has reached the Kansas line. In some of the large fields of Southern Kay county the louse was not observed until a few days ago. The report of the United States crop bureau at Oklahoma City shows that the louse was confined mostly to that part of Oklahoma east of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad to the Indian territory line, but it is probable that the louse has spread further west since this report was compiled. In the rich wheat district surrounding El Reno the louse has been at work for several weeks. Many fields have been practically destroyed. GREAT BRITAIN THE DEBTOR. Significant Change in Financial Relations With America Commenting upon the placing of consols in the United States, the Liverpool Post says: "It is an event of immense financial and economic significance. It shows that the balance of indebtedness is being changed. The United States is becoming Great Britain's creditor and the change of relationship will necessarily have a very direct effect on trade. It may influence the international financial position. If London's pre-eminence as the financial center of the world is lost and New York shares the position with London, the new situation will be decidedly less favorable than the old to the British financial and commercial supremacy." ROBBERS DITCHED A TRAIN. One Man Killed and Several Injured Sixteen Miles From San Antonio, Tex. The Southbound International and Great Northern passenger train was wrecked at Davenport, Texas, sixteen miles north of San Antonio, supposedly by robbers, who threw the switch. A posse with bloodhounds is scouring the country for them. The engineer, Patrick Monahan, was dangerously injured and the fireman, F. W. Hicks, was killed. They were both from San Antonio. An attorney, C. A. Goeth of San Antonio, E. D. Keyli and E. B. Stanley, railway mail clerks of San Antonio and Miss M. Moran of Killen, Texas, were bruised and cut. A NEW $45,000 HOSPITAL It Will be Built at 1815 Independence Boulevard - Work Soon to Begin. A private hospital, to cost about $45,000, to comprise sixty rooms and to be built after the most modern plans, will be in course of construction within sixty days at 1815 Independence boulevard, Kansas City, Mo. The hospital will be built on the property known as the George W. Jones homestead about 200 feet east of Woodland avenue on the south side of Independence avenue. The ground was owned by S. J. Hayde, who gave an option on it about ten days ago to Charles E. Fearons, a real estate man, who with a company of physicians will build the hospital. The ground has a frontage of eighty feet and extends back 281 feet. Requisition is Refused. Governor Barnes of Oklahoma refused to honor the requisition of Governor Stanley of Kansas for L. M. Williams, a cattleman who is wanted in Kansas on a charge of borrowing $10,000 on alleged fictitious securities, POISONED PIES SENT TO JAIL A Prisoner of Denver, Who was an Important Witness, Got Many Delicacies Chemical tests have proved that the pie, oranges, sugar and other delicacies recently sent to Joseph A. Haennelt, a prisoner in the county jail at Denver, Colo., contained enough cyanide of potassium to kill all the prisoners in the jail. Haennelt is the principal witness against J. K. Barr and Bessie Hodge, who are charged with robbing Mrs. Flora Betts of diamonds worth $7,000. A dispatch from Pekin sa.s that Li Hung Chang has been censured severely in a special edict because, after the French and Chinese had agreed upon boundaries, the Germans, who have no concern with this matter, marched west and threatened the Chinese. The edict, it is said, orders Li Hung Chang to prevent the expedition and says that if he fails the responsibility for the consequences will rest on him. A BOLD HOLD UP TRAIN BOARDED NEAR MEM PHIS AND CARS RIFLED. A RICH HAUL PROBABLY MADF Job is Quickly Executed—Train is Delayed Only Twenty Minutes by Its Experience—Bloodhounds Take the Trail and Officers The fast express train of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad, which leaves Memphis, Tenn., at 11:40 p. m., was held up by three masked bandits at Bridge Junction, Ark., immediately across the river from Memphis, about midnight Tuesday. It is not known what booty the robbers secured, but a dispatch received at police headquarters stated that the express messenger and porter of the train were injured after resisting the bandits. The Wells-Fargo express company usually makes its heaviest shipments to the West on this train. Police Sergeant Perry, of Memphis, upon receipt of the telegram, immediately posted officers along the river front with instructions to keep a sharp lookout for the bandits should they attempt to cross to the city. The train left Memphis with a heavy passenger list. The scene of the holdup is a lonely railroad crossing about four miles from the river. It is said that the negro porter was shot by one of the bandits and is in a serious condition. The engine and mail and express car were cut from the train and run to a point half a mile west of the place, where the train was stopped. The engine was then detached and run a short distance up the track, two men remaining guard over the train men. The third used dynamite on the express car and blew open the door. It is reported that everything of value in the express car was taken, and it is believed that the bandits' haul is large, as this was a heavy run. Bloodhounds from the convict camp at Hulbert, three miles from the scene, are now on the bandit's trail. SIX PEOPLE ARE HURT. Smashup on Cripple Creek Road Near Florence. A head-end collision between a passenger train and a light engine occurred on the Florence and Cripple Creek road near Russell, Colo. Six persons were injured. They are: Hugh Conway, Canon City, fireman on passenger, left foot crushed; James MacLaren, engineer on passenger, severe cut about head, neck and shoulders; Engineer Mason, cut about face; John Brown, conductor on passenger, back badly wrenched; F. W. Perry, Denver, chest crushed; F. W. Perry, Denver, newspaper man from Atlanta, Ga., nose broken and cut about head. Mexico and Austria "Make Up." Mexico and Austria "Make Up " A bill providing for the renewal of diplomatic relations with Austria has been submitted to the Mexico congress. Official courtesies have not been exchanged between Austria and Mexico since the putting to death of the Emperor Maximilian, June 19, 1867. An appropriation of $15,000 has been made for the salary of the new Mexican minister to Austria and of $4,000 for the salary of the secretary of the legation. It is understand that the minister selected is Don Jose de Teresa y Miranda, brother-in-law of President Diaz. The Thirty-Second in Port. The Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second regiments, United States volunteers, have arrived in San Francisco from the Philippines on the transport Grant. The vessel also brought Company F of the Twenty-sixth volunteer infantry, 123 sick soldiers and eighty cabin passengers. In all, there are 1,700 soldiers on board. During the voyage there were three deaths among the soldiers in the hospital. The Thirty-second regiment was recruited at Fort Leavenworth, Kas. What One Man Did for Love John H. Gorham, foreman of the Union copper mine at Milton, Cal., shot and killed George B. McCarthy, a young man of Copperopolis, and then killed himself in a giant powder explosion. Both men were attentive to the same woman, and jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the tragedy. The Heart Stitches Failed Philip Gunn, who was stabbed in the heart at St. Louis and was made the subject of an heroic operation at the city hospital, where Dr. H. L. Nietter, the superintendent, sewed up the wound in that organ, dled. Dr. Nietter took three stitches in Gunn's heart. Salt water replaced the lost blood and heart stimulants kept the man alive several days. For Rifling Malls. Willis F. Neff, for fifteen years in the employ of the government as a railway postal clerk, was arrested as he stepped from his train at Wellington, Kan., by Inspector Mckee. He is charged with riding the mails. Arkansas Votes $30,000 for St. Louis. The Arkansas house has passed the senate bill appropriating $30,000 for an Arkansas exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition of 1903 in St. Louis. South Bend Elevator Burned The Churchill-White grain elevator burned at South Bend, Ind. It was a modern elevator of 5,000 bushels capacity. About 200 carloads of grain were burned. The loss is over 100,000. Wood Leaves Hayana Governor General Wood, Mrs. Wood and General Wood's private secretary have sailed on the steamer Morro Castle, for New York. The Cuban constitutional convention's commission left by way of Tampa. VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION. For Three Days Smoke and Cinders Have poured out of the Volcano's Crater. Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of active eruption and many persons, scientists, students and curious, including American tourists are leaving Paris by every train for Naples. The first signs of disturbance were observed a week ago. For three days columns of smoke have issued from the crater and in great volume towered high above the volcano. Then came occasional rains of cinders, sometimes sprinkling the country for several miles around. Now lava is beginning to run. The fire at the crater is very intense at night, illuminating the surrounding region beautifully. Only two slight tremors of earthquake have been felt so far. WHICH NEGRO KILLED HIM One Informed on the Other, and Now both Are in Oklahoma City Police Hands. The police of Oklahoma City arrested George Oglesby, a negro, on the charge of murdering J. W. Pemberton at Weatherford recently. Oglesby came to the chief's office and said he could tell who murdered the old man. He named Lewis Woodrow, whom he said shot Pemberton, stating that Woodrow could be found at Enid at work on the new railroad. The authorities at Enid were notified and Woodrow, who is also a negro, was arrested. He claimed that Oglesby did use the killing. Oglesby was arrested and both men were taken to Weatherford. Pemberton was shot down on the street as he was returning home about 10 o'clock at night. FIRST HUSBAND RETURNS Woman Whose Husband Deserts Her is in a Peecular Position. Nineteen years ago Abner Knight, a resident of Hannibal, Mo., disappeared, leaving a wife and several children. He has just returned. The deserted woman succeeded in earning a living for herself and children until information came from California that her husband was dead. She then married Milford McElroy, a well-to-do farmer of Ralls county, and lived happily until a year ago, when McElroy died. The widow moved to Hannibal, and has been living quietly there. Her first husband has now appeared on the scene with an explanation to the effect that he had remained away so long because he had learned that she was married and he did not desire to cause her trouble. Whether this explanation will be accepted by Mrs. McElroy and a reunion result, remains to be seen. Glass Plant For Kansas J. R. Johnson, a millionaire glass manufacturer of Indiana, will soon begin the construction of a factory in one of the towns of the Kansas gas fields. It will be one of the largest in the country. It is understood that the Kansas Oil and Gas company has sufficient influence to locate it near some of its developed wells. Boys Buried Alive. While playing in a sand bank at Durant, I. T., five boys were buried by a cave-in. Four of them—James and Presley Rhodes, aged 13 and 14 years respectively; Claude Etheridge, aged 15, and John Bain, aged 13, are dead. Claude Bain, aged 15, worked his way out bare handed. The other four dug in the wrong direction. Disaster In Chicago. A high wind loosened a huge iron water tank from its fastenings on the roof of the Galbraith building, Madison and Franklin streets, Chicago, causing it to crash through the six floors to the ground, injuring five persons and resulting in a damage to the building estimated at $50,000. She Bit the Robber's Finger A burglar entered the home of George Tickner, a liveryman at Atchison, Kan., and Miss May Tickner was awakened. The man put his hand over her mouth. She got a finger in her mouth and held on until her father arrived, but the burglar escaped in the scuffle which followed. Iowa Farmer Dead. In a Quarrel. John Jessen, a farmer living eight miles from LeMars, la., was killed in a quarrel recently. Henry Steffin and William Beaver have been arrested, charged with the murder, and Peter Peterson is held as an accessory. Jessen leaves a wife and five children. Wife and Boy are Missing. Robert Ensley of Basehor, Kan., is looking for his wife, Mary Ensley, who left home a week ago, taking with her the youngest child, a boy 3 years old. Fayette Home is Burned. The large brick, residence of Lawrence Hughe at Fayetteville, Mo., was destroyed by fire. Most of the contents were saved. Three thousand five hundred dollars insurance covers the loss. Captain Ripley Net Guilt The jury in the Ripley case in Kentucky returned a verdict of not guilty. Captain Ripley was tried on the charge of complicity in the Goebel assassination. He was in command of one of the militia companies. No, that's not right. The image shows a table with two columns. The first column is labeled "Name" and the second column is labeled "Email". The table has three rows. The first row is empty, the second row contains the text "Michael Green", and the third row contains the text "michael.green@email.com". In a quarrel about some chickens and a garden, Calvin Brandley shot and fatally wounded William Worthington, at Topeka, Kan. Worthington nred at Brandy first, but missed him. Both are negroes. Army Deserters. James H. Kephart, of Ottumwa, Ia., and William McNally, of New Jersey, were arrested at Sheffield, Mo., charged with having deserted from the United States army. The men belonged to a company which is stationed at Leavenworth, Kan. Burglaries blew the door from the safe in A. H. Doane & Co.'s lumber office at Winfield, Kan., with nitroglycerine. They were frightened away by an alarm bell and did not enter the office. ALARMS CONJURED BY FREE TRADERS. No Basis in Fact or Probability for Their Predictions Regarding the Formation of a European Trade Alliance Against the United States. Those who so confidently prophesy foreign tariff combinations against the United States may be right suspected of allowing their wishes to influence their judgment. Apparently they would like to see what they expect to see. The dire possibilities of international trade war are conjured up by free-traders and former protectionists as the strongest possible argument—indeed, the only possible argument—in favor of the abandonment by the United States of the protective policy. So we are told nearly every day that European countries are conducting secret negotiations looking toward a trade combine against this country, and that our only safety in this emergency is to repeal the Dingle law and get right down to an unrestricted trade basis. First of all, there is no evidence whatsoever of the existence of a plot to form a continental tariff alliance against the United States. Still less evidence is there of the contemplation of a European alliance. If a European combine should be attempted, Great Britain would have to be left out of it, and Great Britain is very much the best customer the United States has among European countries. England must have our foodstuffs and raw materials, and she is not going to join anybody in a scheme whose object is to make these commodities cost more in the British market. Coming to the possibility of a continental combine, we find little more likelihood of it on the continent than in Great Britain. Germany has been making some experiments along the line of discrimination against American products, and her experience is instructive. Consult Diedrich writes from Bremen to our state department some pertinent facts relative to the operation of the luspection law whereby importations of American corned beef and other beef products are prohibited. Not long ago Dr. Karl Frankel, professor of hygiene in the University of Halle, declared that this law is nothing more than a cloak, faded and worn, hung over the agrarian idol. He showed that while the government had declared that the passage of the law was required in the interests of public health, "nothing suffered more from said law than did the public health of the nation. The prevailing high prices of meat necessarily lessened its consumption, while the health of the nation demanded an increase." As a matter of fact, fully one-half of Germany's population is to-day suffering hardships by reason of such tariff discrimination as Germany has thus far seen fit to impose against American foodstuffs in obedience to the demands of the German agricultural interests, and it does not seem probable that the situation will be subjected to any additional strain of the same sort. Excepting Russia, all the continental countries of Europe are more or less dependent upon the United States for their food supplies and certain raw materials; while Russia, albeit independent of us in the matter of subsistence, must either buy a considerable line of manufactured products from us, or else pay a higher price for them elsewhere. The situation and outlook as to a European trade alliance of any kind against the United States are well summed up by the Baltimore Herald, as follows; "When it comes to bullying universal tariff walls, this country might suffer a depression in trade, a slackening in industrial progress; but Europe would sustain from such a course not stagnation alone, but utter prostration. In any case, we would have an abundance of all things for the home supply. Another result would soon ensue—the underfed millions of Europe would begin to swarm to our shores in an increasing ratio, looking for relief from unbearable home conditions. If any nation can stand alone and depend entirely upon her own resources, this nation can. Most surely in the squeeze of a tariff war we should not be the first to cry quits." THERE IS BUT ONE WAY. Only by Reducing Wages Can Free Trade England Meet American Competition. The pressure of the industrial competition which Great Britain feels is indicated by the reduction of the wages of 225,000 workmen a few days ago. The average reduction was only about 50 cents a week, but to men who have been earning not more than $5 to $7 a week that is a serious item. It is, however, the British method of meeting the competition of the best paid labor in the world, whose pay is twice the figures here quoted. The question naturally arises, how can the manufacturers in the United States compete with those of Great Britain when paying double the wages? Several elements must enter into the answer. First, the Brit sh workman, having been for years the best in the world, has assumed that ander no conditions can there be a better. He has obstinately clung to methods that are worn out. He will not yield to new inventions and processes. The result is that from being the best workman a third of a century ago he is now inferior to his American and German competitor. Again, good wages, with the prospect of better things, has appealed to the ambition of the workman, consequently he is more intelligent and more energetic. Instead of resisting innovations, he uses his skill and intelligence to turn inventions and new methods to his advantage. By making the best use of new appliances the American workman can turn out enough more goods to enable the manufacturer to pay from 50 to 100 per cent more wages to skilled labor. But another powerful factor in creating this difference is the much-denounced policy of Protection. The United States is by far the best market in the world. The 75,000,000 people in the United States consume as much in value of the products as skilled labor as twice as many people elsewhere. It may be said to be the American policy, in contrastiation to the British or Free Trade policy, to reserve as far as possible, this best market in the world for the producers in the United States; so at the very outset, for all the products of skilled labor, we have a wider market than any other nation in the world. Now it sends to reason that the certainty of a market that consumes three or four times as many goods as the market of any competing nation affords enables the American manufacturer to thrive on a profit on each pound, yard, etc., much smaller than can his competitor in any other country. It is the quantity sold that makes the price. To illustrate, the shoe manufacturer who can put upon the market 100 cases a week cannot sell at so small a profit as the manufacturer who makes 1,000 cases a week. Still further the Protective Tariff has always enabled the manufacturer to pay much higher wages than are paid elsewhere in the world. The workman who earns these wages has twice as much money to spend for the products of other labor. Cut the wages paid in the United States 30 to 50 per cent, and consumption of merchandise in many lines will be reduced in like ratio. Thus in a twofold measure the much-denounced Protective policy is the cause of the high wages in the United States. Great Britain, driven into close quarters by adhering to its Free-Trade policy by competitors created by the Protective policy, has but one way of meeting the ruinous American competition, and that method is the reduction of wages, thus to some extent curtailing the capacity of labor to consume its own products.—Indianapolis Journal. WORLD A GOOD CUSTOMER AMERICAN MANUFACTURER AMERICAN MANUFACTURED PRODUCT PROTECTION Resilience vs. Protection. The mental attitude of American free-traders on the subject of tariffs and reciprocity treaties is clearly defined by the Milwaukee News. With a degree of candor more commendable than common in the discussion of this question the News says: "Protection and reciprocity will not and cannot mix. Reciprocity will be possible when our tariff laws are framed with the distinct understanding that they are intended for trading purposes and not to give to American producers a monopoly of the home market. To make reciprocity a success, the republican party must abandon protection." This is why our domestic free-trainers with one accord yearn for reciprocity. They perfectly well understand, what some protectionists seem to overlook, that if a protective tariff law can be nullified, a little at a time, by means of reciprocity treaties, it will not take long to repeal, abrogate and entirely destroy the effectiveness of that law. The kind of reciprocity that takes away from American producers the control of the home market is the kind free-traders favor. Well and truly do they maintain that to make that kind of reciprocity a success the republican party must abandon protection. Things Are Different Now. Images are different. Mr. Jerry Simpson, some time a member of congress from the state of Kansas, according to a Kansas dispatch, has just sold cattle to the amount of $7,223, and has received every cent but $200 of this amount in cash. It was Mr. Simpson who, as the Kansas City Journal recalls, stated upon the floor of congress, not so many years ago, that the men of his district were selling their honor and the women their virtue for bread. But that statement was made during the time when we were trying the experiment of a "change" from protection to freetrade. Things are different in Kansas, as in the rest of the country. Free-trade no longer paralyzes the industries of the country, and Mr. Simpson is no longer a member of congress. It was the return of economic sanity, which Kansas shared in common with the rest of the country, which retired Mr. Simpson to private life. Yet Mr. Simpson cannot consider this change of view on the part of his constituents and others as wholly unkind to him, for, while it resulted in his retirement to private life, it at the same time, as now appears, made his private life a prosperous one. And probably deep down in his heart Mr. Simpson prefers the actualities of protection prosperity even to the opportunity of making sensational speeches in congress concerning the poverty of his constituents, such as was afforded to him in freetrade days. Too Strong to Be Foolishly Too Strong to Be Foolishly Weak. "I favor repealing not a few sections of the Dingley Tariff bill, but the whole act. The United States is too strong commercially to erect a barrier against the world. For the good of its own people it should throw open its markets to the world."-Judge Harmon, Cleveland's attorney-general. We are "too strong commercially" to take down the barrier that has made us so. Why should we throw open our markets to the world and impoverish our own people? Does Judge Harmon open his house to the rabble? Does he send every client that comes to his rival attorney? The government should protect the interests of its family the same as any parent employs safeguards for his children. And the less judgment the individual has the more protection he needs. Portis would like a bank. a bank in Garden City advertises for borrowers. Oil has been discovered along Cow creek, four miles south of Lyons. Not a fine was imposed during the last year in the town of Altoona. Baldwin students complain that the street crossings are buried under mud. The Hutchinson Salt company has a capacity of 4,000 barrels of salt per day. Sterling is soon to have as fine an opera house as there is in central Kansas. Sabeth proved courageous enough to vote bonds for an electric light system. McPherson county will reclaim the swamp land in Jackson township by drainage. Fall River small boys amuse themselves by throwing stones through the church windows. Doniphan county needs a new jail. All the prisoners complain of their cramped quarters. Peaches pulled through in Barber county, but the last storm ruined the apricots and cherries. Young cockleburr plants have caused several head of Rooks county cattle to become embalmed beef. A Hamilton man will enhance the value of his property by planting thereon 5,000 catapla trees. There's but one issue in Smith county, and that's whether Smith Center shall have a high school. An unknown donor left a sack of flour at each of the Lebanon ministers' back doors the other night. The old sod school house of Pen Dennis, Lane county, will be replaced by a frame building this spring. A new fodder for cattle in Rise county is the salt plant which is very nutritious and of abundant foliage. A turkey shipped out of Winfield to Armour's weighed 45½ pounds, and was mistaken by several for an ostrich. A family moved away from Horton last week for no other reason than that it couldn't find a suitable house to live in. The new shops which the Santa Fe will build in Topeka will cost $1,000,000. The city voted $75,000 bonds to buy the necessary land. A Thomas county man turned in an account of 10 cents for bird seed as an item of expense during quarantine and the commissioners allowed it. The new preacher at Preston is unable to find a vacant house in the town and is compelled to "board around" until somebody vacates. A car load of matches in the railroad yards at Newton caught fire last week. The consignment was saved, just as the fire started—by a scratch. A Decatur county farmer had hardly turned up the first furrow of his spring plowing when he uncarted an oyster can full of ten and twenty dollar gold pieces. The 6,000 corporations doing business in Kansas will have to make annual reports to the secretary of state or suffer revocation of their charters. David L. Short, once a clerk in a Wichita shoe store, is one of the two men arrested for conspiracy in the forgery of the will of Millionaire Riese in New York. A Butler county farmer, in advertising for farm hands, guarantees $1 a day, Sundays off, feather beds, three meals a day and a lunch of custard pie and milk at bed time. The board of charities has decided to classify the state's insane patients hereafter. The curable cases will be sent to Osawatomie, the epileptics to Parsons and the incurables to Topela. A few Highland boys have a prison term staring them in the face. They have suddenly developed a propensity for stealing refreshments intended for parties. Several informal affairs have been abandoned at the last moment on this account. The Rev. Mr. Peas, a Baptist preacher of Wichita, became violently insane and after being taken to the jail he seceded a long iron bar, smashed the water pipes and flooded the entire building. He kept the sheriff and his deputies at bay, but finally yielded, half drowned, to a reporter whom he recognized. Belt socialis are popular methods in Jackson county rural district church circles for raising money. The gentleman pays ten cents per inch according to the size of his lady's waist and of course is allowed to do his own meauring. In a voting contest to determine the most beautiful woman in Eldorado Mrs. Bent Murdock leads with thirteen votes out of a total of twenty. "Uncle Jaky" Martin, who had been proprietor of the hotel at Efringham Atchison county, thirty years, died a week ago, aged 90 years. He was a pro-slavery man of the early days. When William H. Seward spoke in Atchison during the slavery agitation, abolitionists went to Martin's farm, west of Atchison, to kill him and take his stock. The raiders were routed with three wounded. A wreck occurred on the Independence branch of the Santa Fe near Hewins, Kan., about forty-five miles west of Independence. Five car loads of cattle were ditched, which were being shipped from Texas to Elgin, Kan. to pasture. Several head were killed and a number injured. Henry Hiner, a Newton man, was bitten by a spider last summer down in the territory, from the effects of which he is believed to be dying. The bite was on his right hand and in spite of the best of attention the poison has spread and now his entire right side is paralyzed. For the first time in the annals of Brown county there are no criminal cases on the docket for the coming term of the district court. There are generally from fifteen to thirty criminal cases each term. Cattlemen in Greenwood county have established a system of arbitrating their differences. Three men are chosen as an arbitration committee. They investigate the trouble and make a decision, which is final. A fuss involving $60,000 was settled at Eureka last week by an arbitration committee.