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 RACE, THEIR ENTERPRISES GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING CLOSELY 4 THEY HAVE ABANQUET MEN OF THE NORTH, EAST AND WEST COMBINE FOR SOCIAL PROTECTION. A Veteran Race Defender Their Guest of Honor—Many Toast Responses in Which the Steadfastness of Special Correspondence to the CITIZEN WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27. Outbursts of oratory, glowing with fire of national patriotism, neither nihilistic nor socialistic, but supported by a supreme degree of coolness, was the principal characteristic of the speakers, who made ever famous the dinner tended Hon, John P. Green, of Ohio, Super- intendent of the U. S. Stamp Division at Gray's Dining Hall. M street, between 16th and 17th, streets, northwest, S saturday evening last. That it was the most important social function ever witness at the National Capital, goes without saving. The affair was non-political, having for its future object a better recognition of the voters, north, east and west. Although southern prestige is absolutely ignored, no prejudice is attached to said elimination. A few minutes after 9 o'clock the Club, limited at present to sixty, retired to the collation room, where enticing vials were sacrificed almost beyond discretion. The following Menu was served: Tomato Soup, Soft Shell Grabs, Soring Chicken, New Potato with Parsley Sauce, Lettuce with Tomato Salad, Roman Punch After this Dr. Hamilton Smith, Toast Master, arose and announced the first speaker, Major Chas. H. Douglass responded, and selected as his subject "The Negro as a Soldier." He briefly outlined what the Negro soldier had accomplished and admonished every young man to seek the army as a protectorate against the other avenues where discrimination seemed so prevalent. The next toast, "The Negro as a Citizen," fell to the lot of Mr. W. L. Board, the polished young orator from Ohio. The admirable manner in which the speaker treated his theme caused prolonged applause from all sides. Professor Eugene M. Gregory, with his masterly effort, "The Negro as an Educator," soon convinced his hearers that the situation was entirely different from which Governor Chandier, of Georgia, had pictured it a few weeks ago. Dr. Smith, introducing the next gentleman, said the speaker scarcely needed any introduction. It was so. "The Negro in the Navy," by Mr. John Paynter, solicited the most marked attention Mr. Robt. Pelham, Jr., responded to the toast, "The Material Prosperity of the Negro North." Mr. Pelham was quite joky through the course of his delivery and broke the monotony that was with snookeless rapidity fastening itself upon the talons of the occasion. "The Negro in Literature," by Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, was omitted, the speaker being absent. There was universal applause, however, when the toast master mentioned the name, Dr George H Richardson. He occupied the seat near the honored potentate and was the escort of the evening. Mr. Richardson's scholarly attainments well fitted him for his assignment, 'Our Guest.' He concluded with an excellent tribute to the life and character of the distinguished statesman and referred to numerous instances where his foot tracks were worthy of retracal. Then came the honored guest, whose duty it was to defend "Our President." A death like silence pervades the room, only when disturbed by applause for some brilliant climax reached. Mr. Green dwelt mainly upon the regime of President McKinley's administration, and averred that the negero had no stauncher friend anywhere. Of course Mr. Green felt deeply the honor of the moment, and lost no time in returning thanks, claiming his inability to give a giftful appreciation. A permanent organization was then perfected, officers elected, committees appointed in order that the Club might get on a working basis as soon as possible. H. E. W. A TOWN FOR NEGROES ONLY. From the New York Times. From the New York Evening Post Chattanooga, Tenn.—Joseph P. Long, A. M. Helmes, colored, and others have closed a deal by which they secure control of 200 or more acres of land eight miles from Atlanta, Ga., on which they propose to build a negro settlement. The property will be divided into lots and streets and the lots will be sold to negroes. It is the intention of the promoters to have the town governed by negroes, and in time to have cotton factories and other manufactories and schools and churches established. It is considered a great step in the advancement of the negro, as it will teach him how to better appreciate law and government and will show to the white people that he is capable of governing himself. THE Tales of Two Cities. School pionic to-morrow at Budd's Park on Northeast electric line. "The Little Tycoon"opera by Colored Artist at the Fifth St.. Opera House Tuesday night for the benefit of the Orphan's Home was a success in every particular. Rev J R. Richardson formerly pastor of the 1st baptist church in this city but now of Lexington Mo., holds a big baptismal jubilee in that city next Sunday. Miss Hallie Porter, of Paris, who has been visiting in this city as the guest of Miss Emma Minor, for the past two months, will return home next week. She expresses herself as highly pleased with the hospitality of the people at the mouth of the Kaw. Mrs. Sybil Donald, of the Sea Foam Block, left this week to join her husband in the Little City. THE ORATORICAL CONTEST. Among the best oratorical exercises we have ever witnessed in this city were held at the First Baptist church on last Monday evening under the auspices of the Burlington Club. We were highly pleased with the extraordinary showing of our High School pupils and graduates. The oratorical effort on their part was of the highest commendable order, while we are resolved in future to not mention affairs of any nature that fail to extend to us the courtesy due, as a reliable journal, in justice to Mr. Phillip Brown, a coming young man, and our highly esteemed young ladies, Miss Cordie Roberts, Miss Mattie Davis and Miss Lydie Lockridge, we speak, for their orations were deep, logical and well chosen and if entirely original were master pieces, surpassing many older and well seasoned minds. Quite a large crowd were in attendance and all seemed to relish the rich literary feast. Mr. Phillip Brown was awarded first prize and Miss Mattie Davis, second. The Annual Thanksgiving Sermon of the U.B. F's. and S. M. T's., of Kansas City, Kas., will be preached Sunday afternoon at the A. M. E. church, 7th, and Ann streets. The members of the U.B. F's. will assemble at their lodge room, 5th, Street Opera House, at one o'clock, and a parade will there be formed. All Brothers of the Order and Sisters too, of Missouri and suburbs are respectfully invited to join in. Rev. J. R. Smith, formerly of this city, but new of Nashville, Tenn., is in the city, looking after some business affairs. Rev. J. R. Smith has made his mark while in the south. He is also a student in Meharry Medical College and has charge of a large church there. He is a brave defender of his race and on several occasions made speeches in their defence. TO WHOM IT IS MAY CONCERN Rev. G. McNeal will go before Gov. Stanley to ask the pardon of Robbert Manuel, who was sentenced for ten years in the penitentiary for assault and tempt to kill in 1898. They Say. The scene brought tears to my eyes. Guess we thought of the times when we were on the same road or worse. Vengeance belongs to God. I will repay. He invariably does, Rub up sister. It's surprising what varmlints clothes cover. And down the line goes the milk can in the Sea Foam block. Buttermilk is certainly hold a sway. He didn't leave the church directly with her, but when last seen they were promenading in Sea Foam block. He is one of the most excited men in town and all because it happens next week. Poor boy. There is a likelihood of a good many weddings soon, because somebody must get even. It's a fact. We did kill it, not long since, at the cream parlor in the Sea Foam block. Somebody has lied—wonder who it's up to now? It's so much better to be what you are, and not a news packing, filthy mouth, false pretending, name on the church book Christian. We saw you, and that's sufficient—no apologies are due. Yes we are going on the School picnick and we are going to take a basket just for the push. If you ain't in the push well you needn't come around. A down east editor has drawn up some new game laws which he wants adopted. The following is a summary: Book agent may be killed from September 1st, to October 1st; spring posts from March 1st, to June 1st; scandal mongers from April 1st to February 1st, umbrella borrowers from August 1st to November 1st, and February 1st. to May 1st; while every man who accepts a newspaper two years, and upon being presented with a bil say 'I never ordered it,' may be killed on the spot hou't reserve or relief." AMERICAN THEODORE DRURY OPERA COMPANY, NEW YORK. THE MUSICAL THEATRE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK As Pery--The Indian Chief, in "Il Guarany," Night of May 6th.--New York. We have the pleasure of presenting to our readers this week a cut of The Negro Drury, of New York City, the Negro who is forging toward the top along the unusual lines, being the most tireless worker and leading character in the efforts to bring the Negro to a higher realm in the world of music, that of opera. Mr. Drury came prominently into notice through the press all over the country when he endeavored and did produce "Carmen" with a select company of colored artists for the first time in the world by negro artists, last season in New York City. Columns in the stands and white dailies all over the country were given to the discussion of the same. The phenomenal success in the production of it made it possible for another, and the night of May 6th, the culmination of long months of tedious and thorough training brought the public to see the Negro in another opera entitled "Il Guaranto," which was dedicated to His Majesty Dom Pedro II., Emperor of Brazil, and was first produced in La Scala Milan, in 1870, with great success. The story dealt with the war between the Portuguese and Indians, and the scene was lard in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. It was imported from Europe by Mr. Drury, especially for his company. How well the company acquitted themselves and it was received in a city null of competent critics, we clip the following from the Musical Courier, the r-cognized leading white journal devoted to music, in New York. THEODORE DRUARY OPERA COM PANY IN "IL GUARANY." "Standing Room Only," was the legend facing many who tried to hear the performance of this opera at Carnegie Lyceum last week. After the elat attending the production of "Carnen" last year, this is no wonder, for Drarry then gave a good performance, and not only the high class colored people of the city, but also many well known artist THEODOR As Pery--The Indian Chief of May 6th of lighter skin flocked in large numbers to "Gnawany." Drury himself sings with good taste and skill, making much effect with his mezzo voice high A's and B's; lower down it is of a full baritone-like quality his memory is good, his acting natural, even impassioned at times. The scene with his beloved Cecilia was effective and dramatically done, and Mr. Drury certainly sets high ideals, backed by much good sense. Madame Plato's high C's, hurled at the audience at unexpected opportunities, created quite a stir. Her "Ave Maria," with chorus in Act I, was well done. Her Carmen last year undoubtedly fitted her better than the high born aristocrat pictured in the daughter of old Don Antonio, but she looked well and aided in the general success. Mr. Homer was the father. His singing and acting received much applause, while Don Alvaro, the Portuguese, made the most of his opportunities. Mr. Sheldon was Gonzales, the Spanish adventurer, and he two found numerous admirers in the audience. Curtain calls for the man who had evidently put so much time and brains in the work, Mr. Drury, were frequent, and throughout there was a degree of enthusiastic admiration for him he is evidently a popular favorite and leader of his people. Others who participated were Messrs. Navarro, Winfred, Brown and DeAney, with Rudolph Dueing, stage manager, and Conductor Maurice Arnold—who, by the way, did not seem to know the score for sure. There was besides a vociferous chorus, an excellent orchestra and effective costumes. From the Colored American, the foremost Negro Journal of to day, pub lished at Washington D. C, we clip the following. New York, N. Y.,—Prof. Theodore Drury presented the opera "Ill Guarany" last Monday night a Carnagie Lyceum to the largest audience that has ever gathered within its walls. Standing room at nine o'clock was put at three dollars. All of the boxes were filled with distinguished society people, members of the four hundred, and the gowns that some of the ladies wore were gorgeous and appeared to have been made especially for the occasion; diamonds were notice able all over the house. The man in which our people appeared and behaved was a credit to our race and shows that we are up-to-date with our follow white citizens and are still advancing at rapid speed. Some of our people came in automobiles while others came in cabs and other carriages. The performance was excellent in every respect and surpasses all other productions of Prof Drury's. Madame Plato seemed at home in her parts, and sang her way into the favor of the house; she distin- E DRURY, Jeff, in "Il Guarany," Night h,--New York. guished herself by clever acting as well as her singing. Mr. Drury also portrayed his part to perfection. The chorus of seventy voices was splendid and showed very careful training. The scenery this time was very beautiful and was handled without a hitch, rec gized Madame Flower in a box, with a large bunch of violets. The performance as awhole deserves the appreciation of every Afro-American. Mr. Drury is deserving of much praise for he has by his own ambition and determination made life just what it is to him, and his tireless efforts will some day be crowned with lasting success, even beyond his own sanguine expectations. Mrs. Lum Johnson, of this city, is a sister of Mr. Drury, of whom we speak. WANTED TO RENT. A nice front room furnished for gentlemen only. CITIZEN. THE rRINCIPAL'S Sunday Evening Talk in the Chapel, May 12, Tuskegee Institute. As the time grows nearer to the vacation days, and in view of the fact that a number of you go out at the end of this month not to return, some as graduates, and some who do not graduate, for various reasons, I deem it necessary to repeat the suggestions that have been made all through this year, and, perhaps, all through a number of years. Now, I hope in the first place, that each one of you will find something to do as soon as our vacation season begins. I have often said to you that it pays a person better to work for nothing than to be idle. I have gone still further, and have said if you are in condition to do so, it will pay you better to pay some one to let you work for them, than to be idle. I very much hope that wherever you go, you will remember that all forms of labor are honorable, whether that labor is with the hand, or with the head; whether it is in some form of mechanical or professional work, all forms of labor are honorable. If you find yourself during vacation cooking food for some one else, waiting upon some one's else table, during laundry work, helping to put up brick building, teaching school, or acting as a clerk; remember, if you do that work well, that there is no disgrace attached to it. Remember, also, that work with the hand is just as honorable as work with the head. I want to impress upon you the importance of doing well the work that falls into your hands. Try to do whatever you attempt well. We hear a great deal about people doing their duty connection with this line or that line of work. The man who starts out to do his duty nt worth gr a deal. You want to do more than your duty. You want to be sure when you go out from here that you win a reputation for not only during your duty but for doing more than your duty. Do more than you are paid for doing and if you do not, you are not worth a great deal. The same is true of a woman. You also want to do all that you are paid for, and then try ten times! Do your work so well that no one else can improve upon what you have done. Plan for it think about it. No matter what grade of service it is, try to do it better than any one else, and if you can win a reputation, no matter how simple it may seem to be at first, you will end that it will prove a stepping stone up on which you will rise to something that is more important. Try to make yourselves indispensable in the work that you are going to do in summer, so that if you should attempt to leave it, your employer would feel that he could not carry on his business with out your help. Now one other thing. I want you to learn to save your money not because money has a special saireedness within itself, but because money stand for so much. Money stands for character, for hard work, for fore thought. You know there are a lot of people going about through the world who pretend that they have money. There are some of you here who, if people should see you waking about, would think you had money in the bank and I do not believe you would have money enough to take - you to Chewah. If you wanted to go there you would have to borrow the amount it would take, or ask some one to give it to you. There are some people in the world who think it a sin to have money. For myself, I do not think that money will keep you out of Heaven. At any rate, if it would, I do not think that I see any signs of any one about here having so much that he will be kept out. Now, I wish to impress you, get all the money that you can. In the first place in order that you may learn to save your time. You must learn to save your money. You must think as of your time as of money. You must cannot for the day's work by sitting down for two hours in the morning talking about some one's else business, then for two hours in the after-noon talking about some one's else business, and have money. Those kind of people never get hold of money. No man can get hold of money by throwing away Saturday or half a Satur day. People cannot get hold of money who do not learn how to cut off expenses that they need not have. You want to learn how to deny yourselves. You want to learn how to save money. Try to save some money every week; then after you have learned to save, it learn to put it in the bank and then buy a home Have some land that you can call your own. Be sure that you spend each week less than you earn. The great difficulty is that people try to spend more than they make and yet expect to get on in the world. You cannot do it very long. You want to learn to spend less and earn Interesting and Other Very Newsy Bits Gathered by our Correspondents at Topeka, Kansas. For Shawnee county this is the week that politics is supreme, the primaries being on Saturday. The nominees to be selected are Sheriff, County Clerk, Register of Deeds, County Commissioner, Coroner, Surveyors and members of the County Central Committee it is probably the quietest and least interesting election held in years, while there is rivalry it is of the kind that is unusual in sharp political contests. This primaries have put the usual workers, grafters and etc. to rout, as the would be office holders are not turning loose the coin, it seems as though the candidates have entered a pool which cannot be broken into and are making their campaign on "Hot air." from doing so. He says that the $60.00 assessment against candidates by the Central Committee, was a hold up and prohibition against him, but notwithstanding he is a candidate and asks his friends to remember him and write his name on the ticket inasmuch as his name will not be on the official ballot. The summary of the vote will be watched for with a keen interest for a reality as to what extent the estimates will be realized. HOME FOR OLD NEGROES. Top-ka Negro Citizens Devising a Plain The changes of the present city administration will begin to be apparent on the first of the month, and the Hughes supporters at this time there is much rivalry as to who will land in the various departments. On last Saturday uight Squire Blackman, an old citizen of this place, was brutally clubbed and beaten by one of Topeka's boy policen. en he now lies critically ill from the effects of the same. The officer has been suspended and is under arrest Many parties were made up to go out picnicking on Decoration Day, some went fishing to Lake View, Tecumseh and various places, to try and spend an en joyable day. Ira Smith, the efficient and competent young printer, whose home is at Pleasanton, Kansas, is again back in the Capital City and is working on the Plaidealer force. There are many weddings booked for the city in the near future. The first of the series that of Mr. W. Robinson and Miss Ella Williams, of this city, taken place Wednesday. What there is of surplus labor, of which there is not much in and around Topeka, will go out in the harvest fields of Kansas next month. Col. Jeltze whose unique and picture que campaign for County Clerk, which has caused so much comment, is about closed. The Col. feels confident of winning or keeping some one else Now we can never get up in the world as a people, never be respected so long as black skin means that that race is poverty-striken so long as the black skin means that the man possessing it has no bank account; so long as a black skin mean that that man does not own a home, that he lives in a rented cabin, that that individual has no credit, that he has no commercial standing. We can talk about the sin of wealth, but so long as we are without property, without the confidence of business world, so long as we throw away our money, so long as we do not learn to pat money in the bank, just so long will people fail to respect us and to have confidence in us Now, you,young women,can do just the same as the young men. You can put a little money in the bank each week. The aim of this school is to send out men and women who are economical, every one of whom will get a bank account, and later on in life who will have a home of their own and one upon which taxes will be paid People may get educated, they may have religion, they may have everything else, but in a very large degree, they are crippled, their influence is crippled, if they do not have money if they do not have land, if they do not pay taxes, if they do not have large bank accounts. Now, as you go out you must not only keep the things in mind for yourselves, but see that you teach the people with whom you come in contact to do the same thing. Every one of you can begin as you go out this vacation. You can begin the saving habit by saving when the temptation come. I am not going to spend this dime; I am going to have something; and if and if you begin in this way the time will come when you will have something, and just in proportion as you have something, so will you be liberty and time and self-improvement and moral and relegible advancement. We commend the above talk by Booker T. Washington before his pupils at Tuskegee, to the pupils all over the country as well as the race in general. We are indebted to the Students Journal for the above: KILLED WATSON IN THE CULPIT. A Shot Through a Church Window Brought Death to a Negro Preacher. Birmingham, Ala., May 27. - While preaching from his pulpit in the Harmony Street Baptist church at Avondale, last night, the Rev. J. H. McEwen a negro, was shot from a window of the church and killed. Henry Flacher, another negro, was arrested charged with being implicated in the from doing so. He says that the $60.00 assessment against candidates by the Central Committee, was a hold up and prohibition against him, but nowwithstanding he is a candidate and asks his friends to remember him and write his name on the ticket inasmuch as his name will not be on the official ballot. The summary of the vote will be watched for with a keen interest for a reality as to what extent the estimates will be realized. HOME FOR OLD NEGROES Topka Negro Citizens Devising a Plan to Caro for the Decepidid of Their Race. Topeka, Ks., May 28.—Some of the leading negro citizens of Topeka are organizing an association to build a home for aged negroes. In the exodus from Mississippi and Texas to Kansas many illiterate negroes were brought in. They could neither read nor write. They have always lived from hand to mouth. Now they are getting old and the problem now is what shall be done with them. The educated negroes of the town don't want to throw them in the poor house to be sustained at public expense so they have devised a plan to build a home on a farm near town where the old folks can spend the rest of their days. It is proposed to have enough ground so that the old people can do a little work and help to make the institution self-sustaining. The graduating class of Lincoln school will hold their exercises to-night at the High School Auditorium. The following Eighth A pupils will graduate for the High School: Irvin Arnold, Willie Brooks, John Carroll, Blanche Coleman, Charley Franklin, Elmir Harris, Myrtle Jackson, Frank Penix, Ella Robinson, Carrie Rolins, Deliah Rolins, Bertie Tribue The programme will consist of ovation, declarations, songs and choruses BUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY Bells of Pure Carpe, and Tin for Churches, Song Alerts, Farms, etc. FULLY WARRANTY FREE. VANDUZEN TUFF CHAIR MADAGASCAR'S QUEEN STARTS FOR PARIS. Algiers, May 28 — Queen Ravavolana, of Madagascar, has started for Paris. This is the first visit the French government has permitted her to make since she was exiled to Algiers in 1899. JEWELS MEMORY'S CROWN A man sometimes loose his head, but a woman seldom loose her tongue. Truth is paying investment—because its stock is never watered with tears of regret. Five convictions change soonr than one prejudice of a woman. Politeness is like an air cushion; it may have nothing very solid in it, but it eases the joils wonderfully. We value a thing according to the struggle it has cost us to secure it. The best way to save is to save in small amounts. Stop spending all you earn, if you fail to take heed to what we say your future means poverty. Put your money where it will do good, and it will bring you interest. Are you saving your money? Less pleasure and more work. My dear friend, 20 cents per day for five years in a bank will amount to $313, the interest $39 38, making the total for five years $434.68. This does not include Sunday the day of rest. Always keep the Bible, spelling book and bank book in daily use for these three will make you and your family great in time and in eternity. More business, more land, more money are essentials. When you find a colored man who is striving to acquire something tangible, have that race pride which will enable you to lend your Support.—Ind. Recorder. IT IS SAID. They are professional spitters but Judge Mc Carnish says -Don't you believe it. The Schoolmam and the Transfer mon will join hands before Autumn. It may be true that there has really been a wedding in the Popular Block and a schoolmarm too. There is likelihood of five vacancies in school next fall -eause-marriage. Have you seen the Lawyer and the Preacher? There is still a couple of Messesjen and Have you hard? American Citizen Lowe AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING 00, —— Every Week at 417° Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS eee a W. ©. MARTIN, EDITOR. a TER 1S OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year... ..... 8150 Sintered at che postofiice at Kansas City ‘Kans , as second class matter. eer TALS INMIND. Tio American Ortizen takes the stand that one good turn deserces another Where we fail to receive the journalistie courtesies extended to oukers, we refuse todo any pufs fing unless its a “cash” transaction. Bear this im mind, for we are not in business for our health. Only money talks, Goon health isas nectar for the gods, but like friendship, few ap~ preciate it until lost, Tue sneients worshipped bulls and cats with certain peculiar spots and stripes, But the civilized world to-day worship the almighty dollar, and purchase theirrelgion from the ministers as they would their vege- tab.es trom a truck wagon. —_—_—— OUIT SHOUTING AT FUNERAL. We have long, long wondered really, what kind of religion these peopl have who shout and fall over benches, smzsh people in the mouth in their religious zeal at a funeral. ‘Truly the spirit of the Lord works funny on xome people. We glory in the manhood cf a minister who has the back bone to tell these kind of easy excited Christians—no quarters allowed in the church un der his dominion.” ‘There is much old time, unnecessary display that a good many negroes have grown ac- ¢ustom to in ante bellum days, that ought to be laid aside now, 1t is not covsistent with intelligent people and is wholly unnecessvry in the embracing of the true religion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Uhrist. DON’? TAKE THINGS EASY. ‘There is no more valuable advice that an be xiven to the young man just starting in life upon the farm or else- where, than that he should. above al things, avoid taking things essy. Start out in life with the fixed purpose of moving thiugs around. Put in yous day at work, your evening to menta’ im provement, and your night at rest.— boutheru Farm Magezine. MEMORISL DaY. Was celebrated as usual in our city. A rather imposing parade con stituted the opening of the day’s proceedings It was composed of old yetrans snd new vetrans, Pelice aad Firemen with’a goodly sprinkling of school children. The day was a model one which added more to number who visited the cemeteries and with garlands of flowers rememb ered the honored dead. The Sumner Post holding eway at “Ok Greve and the Jno Brown Post at “Woot Jawa” while mavy hundred roamet fiom one cemetery to another strew: ing flowers upon the graves of rel- atives and friends. Here and there were to be seen the aged widow, the gray hatred mothor, a fair msidey and a youag mother or a venerable old min bowing reverently «ver ttl grassy mounds wetting the flower ‘as they strew them, with tears o! sorrow while the bands played it soft and mellow tones-“My coun\ry ti'e of Taee” and the little feathered songeters charmed by the wausual aelodi # joined in the chorus with aweet accord, The silent city of the dead 1s out little different from our silent cities of life for novwithstan - ding six feet of earth makes all of one size, We wind the Pot terstield,for the poor of all elasses ‘The negro division on the side of the hill, Those easy livers or white peop.e ontop of the hil-truly de- pieting their different conditions in life, even in death there is divi- sion Now how about the next world? When ever you hear a Negro kick- ang on this and that Negro paper with e thousand and one different excuses for not tating it you can noven it on the palins as a sare enough fact, at some stige of the game that newspaper did, bim favor avl he is paying them back == ‘A eclored prenober, at the funeral of a brouer who bed “fallen from evace,” ATE MT hopes de good Law will bless fe sew iniscenee eF bis family en constit- (era yur T got my doubts erbout i, {ize ibrer Thompson put off repentence feoi. twine buor, [ dupro whether Heer Thompeon ts Jost or not, but L Knows ore thing, ep dat is, if be 18 Jost T djen’t loss bim,”—Atianta Corstitu- ties. Rend BockerT. Washington's talk to, To the Colored People of the World. THE GREATEST OF ALL HAIR TONICS. _ STRAIGHTENS KINKY, NAPPY, CURLY HAIR. Gur Regular $5.00 Complete Treatment fr $1.00 Lustorone is put up in 2 forms, both must be used to secure positive resul.s. 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A suitable program is beiug arranged and a number of prom- anent military officers and organizations have expreseed their desire to partici pate m the celebrati n, Genersl F. V. Greene, of New York. aud Brigadier Genera! Hale, have responded slready, aed Col. J. J. Astor with his battery, tbe regiments of western volunteers and the |Penneylvania and Tennessee regiments are expected to join with their campaign ‘comrades, the Utah Artillery, {a mak- ing the event @ thorough success. It 18 prebsble that this military assembly will be the iargest and most interesting convention hold during the first year of the new century. It is worthy the aid and covoperation of citizens. both on pairiotic and practical grounds, and in every respect will be creditable ad beneficial to Salt Lake City. The rails ronds will run special excursions fro all leading eastern points.—Daily Re- pauked:: se Lake Chip. The post office in Seale, and many of the post offices of the leading cities of the United States. has a most excel- lent letter stamp cancelling machine by a tirm ia New York. ‘The maebine w run by electrieity and will cancell 1,000 letters per minute, avd is being adopted by almost every post office of any siav in the United States, and ef- forts are being made to introduce it into many et the post offices into for- eign countries. ‘This cancelling mas chine was patented by Mr. J J. Bur neli, @ negro, avd a negro in every sense, for he is eval black. He bas made @ tour of inspection of tnose post offices that are using bis machine. avd is now heaged for Europe, hoping to place the cancelling machine in the post oflice of every large ci y 1m the moeia: Montgomery, Ala. May 28. Booker T. Washington, 1m bebaif ot his race, to day presented to tie constivutional ‘convention an oppral for conservative faction. ‘The address reminds the {eon vention that the negroes came here | against their wil,bat have been benefit- ed,trained and entistianizad, Tuoy did their duty ia the civil war and in the Spanish war, Toey have ceased for twenty years to ve an offensive elemeut in bounties, Leading members of race have pers sistently wiged the negro to learn to Scust the white man, Fur these men this is a orucile time ‘Tho negro pyys some direct taxes. He pays much more ine direetly through his labor. NOTICE, ‘There will be a buptsing at the Morn- ing Star Baptist church, which will take place 10 the Baw river, near the Union Pacifle bridge, the first Lord’s day in June, at 1.0 p, m, Rev. G. McNeal, Rev. B P. Greer and Rey, F, Richardson will be present. REY. J. B. ANDERSON, Pastor. JEO. JAMES, Clerk. Te was said he wouldu’t send but he did, After all he who laughs last laughs best. Wonder will the{Sea Foam block have ‘avy better milk buckets at the p.enic. Executor’s Notice. State of Kansas, Wyandotte Co, ~ ) Ta the Probate Court of said County. f In the mstter of the estate of Sophia Hamilton decensed. No iee is hereby given that let ers testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will »nd testa ment of Sophia Hamilton, late of sald County, deeeased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 16th. day of May 1901. Now all persons having claims against smd estate are hereby notified that they must present the seme to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters or ‘bey may be precluded from any benefit of sard estate, and that if such claims be not exhitited within three yeara sfter the date of said letters they shal! be forever barred J. W. JOHNSON, Executor of the last will and testes ment of Sophia Hamilion, Deceasea. Dated May 16, 190!. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. | State of Kansas, County of Wyan- dotie, #8 In the Probate Court, in and_for said Sounty, in the matter of the Bslate of Mabaiw Williams, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of Aduwin'stration have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Mabaln Williams, Inte of suid County, deceased, by tne Honorabe, the Probate Court of the County aud State aforesaid, dated the 28th, day of May, 1901. Now, all persons having claims sguinst anid estate vre hereby notified that they ‘must present the same 1o the undersign- ed for allowance within one year from the date of said letiers, or they may be precluded trom any benefit of such es tate, and that if such claims be uot ex hibited within three years sfter the die ‘of said letters they sball he forever barr: ed ELIZABET I] OWENS, Adminstratrix of the estate of Mahata Willian s, deceased. May 25ta . 1901 First published May 81, 1901 UNION Le Poe eat | PSN 2 | SN. 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She holds back something, loses her head, becomes agitated, forgets what she wants to say, and finally conceals what she ought to have told, and this completely mystifies the doctor. Is it a wonder, therefore, that the doctor fails to cure the disease? Still we cannot blame the woman, for it is very embarrassing to detail some of the symptoms of her suffering, even to her family physician. This is the reason why hundreds of thousands of women are now in correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. To her they can give every symptom, so that when she is ready to advise them she is in possession of more facts from her correspondence with the patient than the physician can possibly obtain through a personal interview. Following we publish a letter from a woman showing the result of a correspondence with Mrs. Pinkham. All such letters are considered absolutely confidential by Mrs. Pinkham, and are never published in any way or manner without the consent in writing of the patient; but hundreds of women are so grateful for the health which Mrs. Pinkham and her medicine have been able to restore to them that they not only consent to publishing their letters, but write asking that this be done in order that other women who suffer may be benefited by their experience. Mrs. Ella Rice, Chelsea, Wis., writes; "DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM: For two and inflammation of the womb. I sush pains, headache, backache and was endured drug myself across the floor. town for three months and grew w and friends wished me to write to you eines. At last I became so bad that received an answer at once advising and I did so. Before I had taken two taken five in a lot of those who no have I know that your Vegetable every woman who suffers as I Table Compound. Believe me alw health."-Miss. ELLA RICE, Chelsea, $5000 REW AM: For two years I was troubled with falling down, and was not able to do anything. What I but those who have suffered as I did. I could is the floor. I doctored with the physicians of this and grew worse instead of better. My husband write to you, but I had no faith in patent medicine bad that I concluded to ask your advice. I advised me to take your Vegetable Compound, add taken two bottles I felt better, and after I had no happier woman on earth, for I was well Vegetable Compound cured me, and I wish and suffered as I did to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-ve me always grateful for the recovery of my Chelsea, Wis. REWARD Owing to the fact that some skeptical people have from time to time questioned the genuineness of the testimonial letters written by me, we have "DARR MRS. PUNHAM:--For two years I was troubled with falling and inflammation of the womb. I suffered very much with bearing-down pains, headache, backache, and was not able to do anything. What I endured no one knows but those who have suffered as I did. I could hardly drag myself across the floor. I doctored with the physicians of this town for three months and grew worse instead of better. My husband and friends wished me to write to you, but I had no faith in patent medicines. At last I became so bad that I concluded to ask you to receive an answer at once. I was taken two bottles I felt better, and after I had taken two bottles there was no happier woman on earth, for I was well known that your Vegetable Compound cured me, and I wish and advise every woman who suffers as I did to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Believe me always grateful for the recovery of my health." -Miss.ELLA RICE, Chelsea, Wis. WE USE FAST COLOR EYELETS FACTORY, BROCKTON, MASS. W.L.DOUGLAS $3. & $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Real worth of W. L. Douglas is $4 to $4.50 $3.50 shoes is $4 to $4.50 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. It is not alone the best leather that makes a first coat. It is the business that have planned the best coat of the foot, and the construction of the shoe. It is mechanical skill and knowledge that have made W. L. Douglas shoot the best in the world for men. Your instructor, Justin H. W. Douglas, will price stamped on bottom. Your dealer should keep them, if he does not, and for catalog giving full instructions to order by mail. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. Old age commands universal respect. Even cannibals draw the line at misfortunes over 50 years of age. If a girl has two strings to her been there is danger of some other girl getting hold of one of the strings. Summer Spend yours this formia. There is a trip can again be July 6th to 13th in Tickets will be so rich the price is the same. Kansas City to San Antonio Without Change via the Santa F Through Pullman Palace Sleepers and free Reclining Chair Cars to Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Daily at 10 p. m. from Kansas City. Absolutely no change of cars. Round trip tickets on sale at greatly reduced rates. The A. T. & S. F. R'y G. W. HAGENBUSH, G. A. P. D. Kansas City, Mo. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE If you take up your business, you can be a landlord of plenty. Illustrated pamphlets, going experience, turnover information can become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of agriculture on application to the Superintendent of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to J. P. Crawford, 214 W. Ninth St., Ottawa, City, Mo. S50 REWARD will be paid for backache, nervousness, sleeplessness, weakness, loss of vitality, insomnia, disorders that can not be cured by KID-NE-ODS The great biology, liver and blood medicines 5000 drugs. Write for free on medicine. Address KID-NE-ODS. St. Louis, Mo. All kinds, anywhere. Pay no sales tell us by new massive sysuclal system. We have many new customers and property. Sent description and public pictures and large expensive贮 count of power, scale and exchange in States and Canada. Send 12 cents in bank reference. Bank references. S. R. REAL ESTATE CO., Station 6, Jackson, Mich. When answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISOS CURE FOR EQUES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best. Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION --- Summer Vacation Spend yours this Summer in California. There is no telling when the trip can again be made so cheaply, July 6th to 13th inclusive, Round-Trip Tickets will be sold to San Francisco via the Southern Pacific Company's routes at rates less than the regular one-way fare and will be good for the return until August 31st. These tickets cover first-class passage and will allow holder to stopover at various points of interest en route either going or returning, or both, and can be purchased for passage going via any of the Southern Pacific Company's three routes, Sunset, Ogden or Shasta, returning the same or either of the others. Through Pullman Palace and Pullman Tourist sleeping cars. For particulars address W. G. Neimeyer, G. W. A., S. P. Co., 238 Clark street, Chicago, Ill. South Dakota Farm Is the title of an illustrated booklet just issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, descriptive of the country between Aberdeen and the Missouri River, a section heretofore unprovided with railway facilities, but which is now reached by a new line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Everyone contemplating a change of location will be interested in the information contained in it, and a copy may be had by sending a two-cent stamp to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Ill. NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO VIA MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. The Missouri Pacific Railway is now operating double daily service from St. Louis and Kansas City to points in Colorado, Utah and the Pacific coast. Trains leave St. Louis 9:00 a. m. and 10:10 p. m., Kansas City 6:00 p. m. and 10:00 a. m., carrying through sleeping cars between St. Louis and San Francisco without change. Excursion tickets now on sale. For further information address Company's agents. H. C. TOWNSEND, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Half a loaf is better than a whole loaf*er. The best Ball Blue is Red Cross brand. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. It is a man's privilege to propose—and a woman's not to refuse. S FIVE LIVES LOST TROLLEYCARS MEET WHILE RACING FOR A SWITCH. Accident Occurs at Greenbush, N.Y.—Both Motormen are Killed—Wrecked Cars Form a Pyramid on the Point of a High Bluff—Filled With a Mass of Struggling and Shrieking Humanity. Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions at the rate of forty miles an hour. cost five lives near Albany, N. Y., by a terrific collision in which over forty prominent people were injured, some fatally and others seriously. The following is a list of casualties: Killed: Frank Smith, motorman. William Nichols, motorman. Maud Kellogg, Round Lake. Annie Rooney, Stuyvesant Falls. David Mahoney, mate on the Dean Richmond. Fatally injured: George C. Barry, Troy, hurt inter- nally. Fred J Smith, Albany, injured internally. Seriously injured; William F. Barry, Troy, cut on head. Mary Barry, Troy; leg broken. George P. Bittner, Moerville; cut and bruised. Isaac Blauvelt, Albany; leg broken. Dewitt C. Petz, Albany; painfully bruised. Howard J. Rogers, Albany; cut and bruised. Mrs. H. J. Rogers, Albany; cut and bruised. —— Rogers, Albany; leg broken. A. W. Crostsley, Albany; hurt internally. George Lane, Albany; badly cut. Fred Herzog, Albany; shoulder dislocated. The scene of the accident was a point about two miles out of Greenbush, on the line of the Albany and Hudson railway. The point where the cars met on the single track was a sharp curve, and so fast were both running, and so sudden the collision that the motorman never had time to put on the brakes before southbound car No. 22 had gone almost clear through northbound car No. 17, and hung on the edge of a high bluff, with its load of shrieking, maimed humanity. One motorman, pinned up against the smashed front of the southbound car, with both legs severed, was killed instantly, while the other one lived but a few minutes. Fully 120 men, women and children formed a struggling, shrieking pyramid, mixed with blood, detached portions of human bodies and the wreckage of the cars. Some of the more slightly injured of the men extricated themselves and began to pull people out of the rear ends of the two cars. Almost everyone was taken out in this way, and nearly all were badly injured. With both motormen killed it was hard to get at the real cause of the accident, but it is pretty well determined that it was caused by an attempt of the south bound car to reach a second switch instead of waiting for the north bound car at the first sliding. The cars weigh fifteen tons each, and are the largest electric cars built, but so frightful was the crash that both cars were torn almost to splinters. Both cars were filled with Sunday pleasure seekers returning from the new recreation grounds that the railway had just opened. JOHN B. TANNER DEAD. Former Governor of Illinois Attacked By Heart Disease. John R. Tanner, former governor of Illinois, is dead. Rheumatism of the heart attacked him and was fatal within half an hour. His end was sudden and unexpected. Outside of his family and immediate friends, nobody in Springfield knew he was ill. Physicians were called but came too late. The body of ex-Governor John R. Tanner will be interred almost best that of President Lincoln in Oak Ridge cemetery. Mrs. Tanner, his widow, purchased a large lot on the driveway from the gates of the cemetery to the National Lincoln monument, and about midway between the gates and the Lincoln monument, probably 300 feet from the latter. In this lot the body of ex-Governor Tanner will be laid to rest. The price paid was $3,000. The funeral will be the largest ever held in Springfield since Lincoln was buried. Military and civic organizations from all over the state will be present. Robert A. Ritchie, aged 22 years committed suicide at the residence of his brother-in-law, James G. Dunlap, at 713 Hardin street, St. Joseph. He took an ounce of carbolic acid. The vial containing the drug was found in his room. Shortage In Colorado Springs. Moses T. Hale, who has been for eight years t city treasurer of Colorado Springs, and Charles E. Smith, who was for four years prior to 1897 the city clerk, are under arrest on charges of embezzlement of $29,000, as principal and accessory. Three Boys are Drowned Three boys were drowned while fishing in the Kaw river under the James street bridge, in Kansas City, Kan. The boys were in a skiff twenty feet from the bank and the boat is thought to have capsized. Big Fire in Mexico. "La Union," a large soap factory at Torreon, Mexico, controlled by Messrs. Serrano and Farjas and owned by various stockholders of that place and surrounding neighborhood, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $225,000; insurance, $190,000. Bank Robbers Get $25,000. The First National bank at Mineral Point. Wis., was robbed of $25,000. The safe was blown open. There is no clue to the robbers. Piles Cured While You Sleep You are cottive, and nature is under a constant strain to relieve the condition. This causes a rush of blood to the rectum, and before long congested lumps appear, itching, painful, bleeding. Then you have piles. There are many kinds and many cures, but piles are not curable unless you assist nature in removing the cause. CASCARETS make effort easy, regulate and soften the stools, relieving the tension, and gliving nature a chance to use her healing power. Piles, hemorrhoids, fistula, and other rectal troubles yield to the treatment, and Cascaresets quickly and surely remove them forever. Don't be persuaded to experiment with anything else! GUAR. ANTEED TO CURE all bowel troubles, appendicitis, biliounces, headache, indigestion, primes after eating liver trouble, swallow complexion and dizziness. When your bowels don’t work all other diseases together. It is a starter for the chronic ailments and long years of suffering together. If you will never get well and be well all the time until you put your bowels on your guarantee to care or money refunded. Equal to That of May in Minnesota. To the Editor: -Thomas Regan and C. Collins of Eden Valley, Minnesota, went out to Western Canada last December as delegates to look over the grazing and grain lands that are being offered at such low prices and reasonable terms. This is what they say: "We arrived in Calgary about the 20th of December and although we had left winter in Minnesota and Manitoba, we were surprised to find beautiful warm weather at this point, quite equal to what we have in May in Minnesota. There was no snow nor trace of winter to be seen, and the climate was really splendid. Horses, cattle and sheep were running out, in prime condition, with plenty of feed on the prairie, and really better than that of ours stabled in the south. We are impressed with this country as one of the finest mixed farming countries we have ever seen. The immense tracts of fertile lands well sheltered and abundantly watered leave nothing to be desired. "Leaving Alberta we returned east and visited the Yorkton district in Assinibola. We drove out about ten miles at this point and were highly pleased with the splendid samples of grain we were able to see—wheat yielding 25 bushels, oats 60 bushels. Roots were also good specimens. From what we have seen, we have decided to throw in our lot with the Yorktoners—satisfied that this part of the country will furnish good opportunities for anyone anxious to make the best of a really good country." "Any agent of the Canadian government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the columns of your paper will give you full particulars of the new districts being opened out this year in Assinibola and Saskatchewan. Yours truly." Old Reader. Tring the Marriage BBD How few of those that talk of the "marriage knot" realize that the knot was ever anything more than a mere figure of speech. Among the Babylonians tying the knot was part of the marriage ceremony. There the priest took a thread of the garment of the bride and another from that of the bridegroom and tied them into a knot, which he gave to the bride, thus symbolizing the binding nature of the union between herself and her husband. Janitors Object to Lampeons Cartoonists and comic papers have so long and in so many ways lampooned jantlers that members of that ancient guild in New York city have formed a league with the purpose, among others, of removing the mistaken impression created by funny writers and artists. Malaga Granet Arg Misnamed Malaga is supposed to be the home of Malaga grapes, but in that particular it is largely a misoner. Malaga grapes used to flourish in that vicinity many years ago, but there was a blight that killed off most of the vines, and that special brand of fruit is now chiefly grown elsewhere in Spain. Verdict Meant Death Aldrich, Mo. 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Mr. Pearson, the preacher who was elected sheriff of Cumberland county (Portland), Maine, after having been nominated as a joke by the liquor men, has been a source of unending trouble to them ever since. His rigid enforcement of the prohibition law has, it is said, resulted in an offer of a large sum if he will resign or go to Europe and remain there until his term shall have expired. Wine for Farm Horses The advisability of using wine as a portion of the regular rations of farm horses is being seriously discussed in France. The experiment of feeding the animals on a mixture of bran and wine has been made on one farm, and the matter has been brought to the attention of the Herault Agricultural society. A committee representing that body will inquire into the subject. Old Love Letters as Models. An English woman has just had her maid servant arrested for stealing the love letters that she, the mistress, wrote to her husband during their engagement. 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Senor Tavao (aided Supporters of Platt Amendment Traitors, and Convention Compelled Him to Retract—Convention to Continue. The Platt amendment has been accepted by the Cuban constitutional convention by a vote of 15 to 14. The actual vote was on accepting the majority report of the committee on relations, which embodied the amendment, with explanations of certain clauses. The Radicals made a hard fight at the last moment and Senores Portuondo, Gomez and Tamayo bitterly arraigned the Conservatives. Senor Tamayo was particularly vindictive and declared that everybody who voted for the Platt amendment was a traitor to his country. The convention compelled him to retract this statement. On several occasions personal encounters seemed imminent. Senor Gomez spoke for more than an hour and his speech undoubtedly won over Senores Castro, Robau and Mandule. He appealed to the patriotism of the delegates and rehearsed the long fight for independence, denouncing as perjurers all who favored the Platt amendment, on the ground that they had sworn to draw up a constitution for an independent republic. Several Conservatives arose and asked Senor Gomez to retract, but he absolutely refused. The following delegates voted against the majority report: Gomez, Gener, Portuondo, Lacret, Mandule, Cisneros, Ferrer, Fortun, Robau, E. Tamayo, Silva, Castro, Zayas and Aleman. Senores Rivera and Bravo were absent. The convention will continue its sessions, which will be devoted to drawing up the election law. By a decree, to be issued immediately, the term for paying mortgages will be extended four years, the debtors paying each year respectively 10, 15, 35 and 40 per cent of the principal and accrued interest. It is understood that both sides are satisfied with this arrangement. First Train Ride at 99 Years A. S. Kelley of Ripley county, Missouri, a man aged 90 years, has just taken his first ride on a train. Mr. Kelley rode from Bloomfield, Mo., to Doniphan, and it was only by constant urging that members of his family persuaded him to board the cars. The old man has lived within a few miles of a railroad for thirty years, but his prejudice and anticipation of accident prevented him from traveling by rail. Calls "Damu" Not Profane Recorder Post of Bloomfield, N. J. has rendered a decision that "damn" is not a swear word. Frank Thompson was before him charged by the Rev. Mr. Graves of the Baptist church with swearing. The word spoken was "damn." The trouble occurred because the pastor refused to allow Thompson to accompany his Sunday school on a May ride. Recorder Post discharged Thompson on the ground that to say "damn" was not swearing In Good Health, Sampson Says. Admiral Sampson states that there is no foundation for the report telegramged from Washington that he may apply for retirement on the ground of ill health. The admiral's health, he says, is no worse than at any time since the Spanish war. He does a full day's work at the navy yard and expects to continue on active duty there until the date of his retirement in next February. Helen Gould Increases Her Gift Agent Fogg, of the Missouri Pacific has just received word direct from New York that Helen Gould will give $2,200 to the $12,000 railroad Y. M. C. A. at Coffeyville, Kan., for which the contract has been let, instead of $1,000, which she originally promised. Work on the building will begin at once. Killed By Missouri Tramps. Charles McKinney, son of James McKinney, night policeman at Carrollton, Mo., was killed by tramps while assisting his father. The shooting was unprovoked, as no attempt had been made to arrest the tramps. The tramps tried to escape but were captured. Perishes in a Fire: Fire in the residence of Rev. I. T Osborn, two miles north of Hailey Idaho, resulted in the death of Mrs. Osborn and her young son. Mr. Osborn was in Shoshone conducting religious services. European Miners Declare for 8-Hour Day. The international miners' conference, now in session in London, and which is attended by many continental delegates, has passed a resolution in favor of a universal eight-hour day. By an Explosion of Coal Dust. An explosion of coal dust at the Richland mine of the Dayton Coal and Iron company, at Dayton, Penn. caused the death of twenty-one men all white, and most of them married. Nine others were badly injured. Held to be Coasting Trade The Supreme court has decided what is known as the Huus case, involving the question whether vessels plied between Porto Rico and New York were engaged in the coasting trade. The court's decision held they were ao engaged. $100,000 Fire in a North Dakota Town Twenty-two buildings burned at Kindred, N. D., at a loss of $100,000 with less than one-third insurance. Nearly all the buildings in three business blocks were burned. A NEW WHITECHAPEL MURDER The Mutilated Body of a Women in "Jack the Ringer"." District A murder and case of mutilation has occurred in a low lodging house in Dorset street, Whitechapel, London, close to the scene of the "Jack the Ripper" murders of 1888. A woman named Annie Russell, 28 years old, was found dying in a bedroom, and was removed to a hospital, where she died. Her body was mutilated. The murderer escaped and the police were not notified of the crime until the following morning. The murderer's long start and the total lack of a description of him renders his apprehension improbable. The woman died without making a statement. It is not deemed probable that she was murdered by the original "Jack the Ripper." ANARCH'TS DREW LOTS TO KILL Emperor William, the Czar, Loubet and the Queen of Italy Marked by Assassins. A youthful blacksmith of Rome, Italy, named Pietrucci, who attempted to commit suicide, has confessed that he belongs to a society of anarchists and was chosen by lot to kill the emperor of Germany. He preferred suicide to making the attempt. In his confession he also disclosed the names of comrades who had been selected to kill Queen Helena of Italy, President Loubet of France and the czar of Russia. A CHINESE FIRST IN ORATORY. The Medal at Vanderbilt University Went to Charles Yun Marshall. At Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., the medal in oratory, the highest honor in the university, was awarded Charles Yun Marshall of Sco Chow, China, amid a great demonstration. His subject was "Miracle of the Twentieth Century." Chicago Had an Indian Scare A fully armed party of Sioux Indians passed through Chicago on the way to an Eastern resort, where they are to take part in an Indian village exhibit during the summer. The advent of the visitors caused commotion at police headquarters in Chicago, since the police have been expecting an invasion of the Pottawatomies, who have threatened to seize the lake front under alleged government grants made many years ago. A wagon load of officers started out to quell a possible riot, but finding the Indians peaceable they departed. For the Murder of a Child. Herman Luetgeorth, a Norwegian butcher at San Francisco, has been arrested for the murder of 13-year-old Robert Hislop at his home. The police believe there are circumstances which tend to connect Hislop, who formerly occupied a room in the Hislop house, with the crime. He told contradictory stories of his movements. A Boer General Killed The Boer general. Schoeman, and his daughter have been killed and his wife and two others have been dangerously injured by the explosion of a shell at their home in Pretoria, S.A. General Schoeman, his family and some friends are examining a 4-7 inch shell, which they kept in the house as a curiosity, when the shell exploded. He Came to Kill the Kakor The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger reports on the authority of its Budapest correspondent that there has just been taken from the river Danube, near that city, a body heavily loaded with chains. The Hungarian police firmly believe it it be that of Romagnoli the anarchist reported to have been sent from America to murder the German emperor. A Kansas Sailor Back From Manila. Joseph Peterson, of Ablene, Kan., has returned home from Manila, where he has been in the naval service for two years. He was one of the crew of the Yorktown and later was on the Mohican. Throughout his naval career he has never received a scratch, and he has brought home his savings to invest in business. Fight in Prison Cell. Alexander Peden, a well known citizen of Pulaski. Tenn., was killed in a cell of detention at the police station in Memphis, and N. A. Gillis, of Cumby, Hopkins county, Texas, is under arrest charged with the killing Peden had been arrested for safe keeping, having imbibed too freely. Gillis was also arrested for the same cause and put in the cell with Peden. Arkansas Farmer Killed George Smith, a farmer living six miles north of Eureka Springs, Ark. accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting. While sitting on a log playing with his dog, his gun was discharged, the contents entering his leg and he bled to death before medical aid could be reached. Saved a Bridge Suicide Manuel Maruskie, of Brooklyn, N.Y., tried to commit suicide by jumping from the Brooklyn bridge. Just before a train was due to leave the Manhattan end of the bridge he jumped from the platform and ran along the ties. In leaping over an electric rail he tripped and fell. To save himself he caught with both hands the third rail from which the cars take electricity. He struggled, but could not get away. He was released by two bridge inspectors. The Cowboy Shot Them Both. In a shooting at Medicine Bow, Wyo., Richard England, a sheepman of that place, was killed and Frederick Mole dangerously wounded. Mole made accusation against a cowboy named Ambler. He secured the assistance of England and tried to drive Ambler out of town. England and Mole are said to have drawn their pistols and fired. The cowboy returned the fire. Ambler was arrested and sent to Rawlins. WITH CONGRESS MAY LEVY TARIFF DUTIES ON GOODS. THE SUPREME COURT DECIDES IT "Constitution Follows Flag" to Extent of Making Them Domestic Territory, But not to Extent of Giving Them Privileges of States and Territories. The United States Supreme court's decision in the insular cases has been announced. The court, with a dissenting opinion, holds that the constitution follows the flag. The main points in the decision, which is very voluminous, are said to be: First—The constitution follows the flag. Second—The United States can have no subject colonies. Third—Porto Rico and the Philippines are now war territory and are not yet integral parts of the republic. Fourth—They must be governed as war territory until Congress acts. Fifth—Congress has the power to withdraw the flag and relinquish possession of them. Sixth—Congress alone can incorporate new territory into the United States. Seventh—The Paris treaty did not incorporate the new islands into the United States. Eighth—The constitution applies to all territorial possessions of the United States. Ninth—The President has no power outside of or beyond the constitution. Tenth—The President can use no "discretion" beyond the limits of the constitution. Eleventh—The tax on Porto Rican products is legal. SALARIES IN THE PHILIPPINES. The Philphilos Must pay Taxes of $1,200, 000 for Civil Service Rule. In anticipation of the establishment of civil government on July 1, the Philippine commission has just enacted a law declaring the salaries to be received by officials and employees of the central government in the islands. In round numbers the estimate is $1,200,000. Including the cost of provincial and judicial administration, the Filipino taxpayers will pay salaries amounting to several million dollars. Some of the principal items of expense will be: Philippine commission and staff, $12,620; military governor, $55,000; collector of customs in Manila, $198,650; postoffice in Manila, $67,770; collectors of customs outside of Manila, $25,000, municipal administration, $243,396; auditor, $25,480; police of Manila, $33,760; postoffice outside of Manila, $30,800; internal revenue collection, $28,106; civil service, $21,650. Provisions is made for native sub- ordinates in the list of municipal subordinates. DEED OF A LEAVENWORTH MAN Jacob Utters, a Liverman. Shot a Widow, Kegemmyre, and Tried Suicide. Mrs. Carrie Kegemmyer, of Leavenworth, Kan. widow of Joseph Kegemmyer, was shot and dangerously wounded by Jacob Utters, who afterwards shot himself in the head. Utters is the proprietor of a livery stable. The shooting was the result of jealousy. Utters and Mrs. Kegemmyer were removed to a hospital Both were in a critical condition. Mrs. Kegemmyer has been a widow about two years. The last six months Utters has been trying to marry her. She did not welcome his attentions. Priest's Sudden Death Rev. P. Maurer, pastor of the Sacred Heart church of Sanna, Kan., died suddenly in the Union Pacific depot at Wilson, Kan. He was waiting for a train to return to Salina when overcome by death. The man was very fleshy and death was probably due to his having walked several blocks to the depot. Teachers to See the Orient War department officials are considering the advisability of taking one of the large transports on the Pacific and fitting it out suitably to take 500 or 600 school teachers to Manila for duty in the Philippines. If a transport can be found available for this purpose it will be done. Kansas Lad Smothered in a Grain Hopper The 10-year-old son of Henry Lichterman, while playing in the mill at Hillsboro, Kan., fell into a grain hopper and was buried beneath several hundred bushels of wheat. He smothered to death. Admiral Sampson Max Retire It is reported in naval circles that Rear Admiral Sampson may ask for voluntary retirement on account of ill health, and that the navy department will grant his request. For Release of Mrs. Bonine A petition for a writ of habeas corpus has been filed for counsel for Mrs. Lola Bonne, who is held in Washington in connection with the killing of young Ayres, a census clerk, in the Hotel Kenmore two weeks ago. A Kansas Woman's Splices Mrs. Ella Schubert, wife of a farmer south of Atchison. an... killed herself with a shotgun. Sue had a cancer which could not be cured, so she took her own life. A Handcar Europe in Kansas The postoffice at Winchester, Kan., was entered by burglaries, the safe blown open and about $25 in stamps and small change taken. The burglaries made their escape on a Leavenworth, Kansas and Western handcar. Drowned in the Verdigris Sylvester Smith was drowned near Coffeyville, Kan., while seining in the Verdigris river. He was 27 years old and married. The body was recov OKLAHOMA LYNCHING Negro Strung up at Pond Creek for Shooting Deputy Sheriff. Bill Campbell, a negro, was lynched at Pond Creek, Okla., by a mob of 400 persons, who broke down the jail, took him to the scene of his crime and hanged him to a telegraph pole. While en route to the place of execution the negro sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and other religious hymns. The crime for which Campbell was hanged was the fatal shooting of Deputy Sheriff Fred Smith, through the head. The negro, it appears, was using abusive language to several boys when Bill Fisher, a white man, interfered. A row followed, the negro pulling two guns. Deputy Sheriff Smith tried to arrest him, when the negro took deliberate aim and shot him through the right temple. The negro then began to back away, holding the two guns on the crowd. He backed into the arms of Banker Joseph McClellan, who grabbed his arms and twisted them until the guns dropped. McClellan then dragged him to the sheriff's office, not far distant. A mob hastily formed, battered the jail down with crowbars and secured the prisoner. His last words were: "I am going home to glory." Deputy Sheriff Smith is dying. SPREADING OF THE RAILS. Two Santa Fe Trainmen and a Newton Kas., Man Badly Hurt. Spreading rails on the Santa Fe road at Bragdon, a small station eight miles north of Pueblo, Cole., caused a freight wreck which resulted in the death of Head Brakeman Edward J. Woolheater, of Pueblo, and J. W. Wethurst, of Newton, Kan. The train wrecked was regular freight No. 32, south bound, and heavily loaded. When the rails spread the train had reached what is known as the West switch, and was going at the usual speed. So soon the locomotive jumped the track the rest of the train jammed down on it, and piled nine cars in the ditch before stopping. THIRTY KANSANS TO ALASKA. Eagle City Mines Will be Worked by Men From Liberal. Thirty young men have left Liberal, Kan., for Eagle City, Alaska, where they will locate as the Eagle City Placer Mining company, with George Mulligan of Liberal as president and general manager. Mr. Mulligan returned from Klondike six months ago and now takes back this company to finish working out four mines he controls. The men have signed contracts for three years' service, but can withdraw at any time by forfeiting their interests in the company. Mrs. Lease a Bankrupt. Dispatches from New York say that Mary Ellen Lease, the lecturer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court. The liabilities are $3,247; assets, $2,293. Much of the indebtedness was incurred as indorser on damages given by her husband, C. L. Lease. All of the assets named by the petitioner consist of debts due, and are either for money loaned or for lectures delivered by Mrs. Lease. She Had Snakes for Nine Years Mrs. J. L. Williams, wife of an electric lineman who lives on North Fifth street in Atchison, Kan., drank a small snake in some well water about nine years ago and for six years she has been an invalid on that account. The other day she became very ill, so ill that it was feared she would not live. However, she rallied and vomited, throwing up the snake, which was over eighteen inches long. The Creek Treaty Signed. Chief Porter has signed the Creek treaty as passed and formal notification will be made to President McKinley, who will issue proclamation of the same soon. Deeds for town property and allotments will now follow at once. Already hundreds of persons from Kansas and Missouri are flocking to Muskogee, the head of the government, for investment. A Kansas City Girl Won a $1,000 Plano. In the contest for the piano valued at $1,000, between eight young women of the Liberty Ladies' College, at Corbin opera house, at Liberty, Mo., Miss Eva Benson, of $10 Prospect avenue, Kansas City, won the prize. Miss Elizabeth Williams, of Liberty, was given second honors. The girls played the same piece, Pondo in C major. Murdered for His Boots David Reynolds, a farmer, living two miles from Schenectadet, N. Y., has been found murdered in his barn. His head was smiffed with an ax, which was found near by. Reynolds was miserly and wealthy, and the report circulated was that he was in the habit of carrying large sums of money in his boots. When the body was found the boots were missing. $100,000 Worth of Broom Corn Burns. Broom corn, valued at $200,000, was burned in a fire that destroyed a warehouse at Eighty-first and Wallace streets, Chicago. The broom corn was owned by W. L. Rosenberg, a Chicago manufacturer. The building, which was valued at $25,000, was owned by the Cortland Wagon company, of Cortland, N. Y. The trouble with too many young men is that they try to lead a $25 existence on a $9 salary. Dr. Lugger is Dead Prof. Otto Lugger, state entomologist and botanist, of Minnesota, is dead. Dr. Lugger was a native of Germany and has been professor of zoology and entomology at the Minnesota State Agricultural school for the past fourteen years. He attained a national reputation as an authority on native animals, birds and insects. Love in a cottage is all very well as long as the flour barrel isn't empty. THE MESSAGE ```markdown ``` On Lost Mountain. BY ENFIELD JOINER. (Copyright, 1991, by Daily Story Pub. (Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Lost Mountain is the most treacherous hill in the West. I have never seen elsewhere on a single mountain-peak so many ravines, so many gulches, so many boulders of almost the same shape and size, as there are there; and besides all these, there is the great Canon of Lost Souls, six hundred feet deep, winding its sinuous way on the southern side of the mountain. As to the trail, it never knows itself where it means to go—in summer it hides under rails, grasses and tangling vines, and, in winter it disappears in the first snow, like foam in the wake of the vessel. The boys at camp—we were three—had plead with me not to go to Camden. But how could I settle down for the long months, shut away from the world and letters by the great white hills, without the one letter I had been so eagerly awaiting? I went to Camden and I waited until the letter came and the very morning on which I set out for our camp the snows, which had held off so long, were upon me. In spite of the indistinctness of the trail and the snares which Nature has set for the unwary on Lost Mountain, I don't see how it happened. The boys said that I was asleep. Heaven knows! I only know that I was dreaming of what the letter said which lay close to my heart when— Kalitan sprang back so violently that he almost threw me from the saddle and my heart stood still within me, for we were hanging on the very brink of the great Canon of Lost Souls. For one moment we looked into the dizzying whiteness, then some instinct told me to dismount. My hand was out to catch the rein, when Kalitan, mad with terror, began to rear. Suddenly in a frantic backward plunge, he slipped and— I shudder to think of it. The thought of even a horse—a horse of the camp for whom one cares nothing, going down into that abyss, is sickening; and, the Indians say that the bottom of the canon is strewn with the bones of men who have perished so and that the manifold-toned winds which sweep through the canon are the death-cries of the lost. I shivered with dread as I stood there and realized that I was lost on the mountain, without horse, food or drink and night coming on. But my heart grew lighter as I saw, some three hundred yards away in the blurred landscape, the great rock called the "Giant's Foot-stool," the huge boulder, which by some strange caprice of Nature, has been left for ages to hang over the wall of the canon. It appears to be almost cubical in shape but wind and rain and frost have been at work there and on the side next to the canon have hollowed out a small semi-circular cavern, extending to the very heart of the boulder. The upper part of the rock has defied this undermining process He slipped and — which has been going on at its base, and a great ledge hangs above the little cavern, as if it would protect the space which it once held. So insidious has been the work of wind and rain and frost, that on one side there is no entrance to the cavern, but on the other a small round hole has been worn in the rock shell about three feet above the ground, so that a man may easily climb through. On one side was the awful canon, everywhere else save where the round peep-hole looked out on the sloping mountain-side, was the unyielding, solid rock, but I climbed into the nest-like cavern and laid myself down with an at-home kind of feeling. I did not mean to fall asleep, but I was worn with my seven hours' struggle in the storm and before I knew it, I was drifting into dreams. The wind came from the beast, the exposure from the canon side from the south, the exposure from the large peep-hole was from the west, therefore I was well protected. My berth was more than ten feet wide and sloped inward, away from the canon, so that there was comparatively little danger of rolling off in the night, I slept as soundly in that queer rock bunk as I had ever slept in all my life before. When at last I woke it was morning and the world had changed and I had changed with it. All the universe was made of snow—my head was heavy with snow, my limbs, my clothes, the I took aim carefully. rocks on which I lay, were all changed to snow—there was nothing left but whiteness and stillness and coldness—snow! snow! snow! My soul came back to me with a throb of terror, for I suddenly realized that the peep-hole, my egress into the world, was filled up by this maddening snow. My first feeling was one of perplexity—on that side of the rock last night there had been but twelve inches of snow; now there must be over six feet of it. On the northeast sides of the rock the wind had banked up great drifts but here—it was preopersonal! Six feet in one night in so sheltered a place! Like a flash it came to me that the wind had changed in the night—it had swept around from northeast to northwest, sending vagrant flakes to cover my in stone bed and shutting my little door with an immense drift. My next feeling came quickly—depair! I had no pick, no shovel, only half-frozen hands. I took my pistol and fired but the ball made not the slightest impression on the round, white target—it was merely lost in its soft depths. I emptied my pockets in a kind of sensuzee hope that I might find something there which might help me—a matchsafe with four matches, three cigars, some quinine capsules and, most useless and exasperating of all, I thought—a number of small sticks of dynamite. Dynamite! Why, I held in my hand the power to blow the great rock into atoms and I was caged by a snow-drift! I sat down to smoke and to think, I thought of the boys in camp, with books, food and fuel all ready for winter; I thought of my claim some three miles below and wondered who would work it; I thought of the woman I loved and of how the sun shone brightly on her in my old Kentucky home. The day passed and night came again. The storm had ceased, the wind had lulled. I slept hoping that I would not wake to the horrors of another day, I dreamed such a dream as might have come to me in my bunk at camp—of blasting rocks in the mine with the powder in my pocket. Morning dawned and a dazzling sun with it. A fierce determination to live came to me—to get back to camp, to work again at that rich iode of silver. Certainly it was in obedience to the laws of association that my dream of last night came back to me and with it, a thought which made my weak heart throb. If people blew away rocks with dynamite, why not blow away snow? The risk of it would be great—but— With poor stiff hands I dug into the blockade and finally by dint of pressing and moulding, I made an excavation of about an arm's length, tunnel-shaped and with an arched roof. I folded my handkerchief and placed one stick of dynamite on it, so that the fuse might not touch the snow. I or-med my match-box to find — I clutched my hands in misery at hinding myself so balked—not a woman was there! I poor fool, had waded them on cigars yesterday! Then I clided, in my desolation, to do one of two things. I could risk death from the explosion without a tremor, but felt that I could not die that slow death of starvation—it must be either a leap into the canon or a ball through my brain. But again something put a sartser thought into my head. Why not my mine with a pistol shot; certainly a shell tearing into the magazine of a vessel had such an effect as I desired. For the sweetness of living, for the woman I loved, for all of work and achievement that might lie before me I steadied myself and took alm carefully at the long gray stick. Heavens! the shock of it! I fell prone on the rock, my head wounded by a fragment of stone, but when I looked up, there where the white snow had been, was the blessed blue shining through my peep-hole. Some five hours later I fell on the threshold of our rough house at the foot of the mountain. How good the food was! How warm the fire! How soft the bed! Lost Mountain is now, and always will be, my happy hunting ground, but though I've spent many night of the years on its bosom, I have never had the desire to sleep again in that queen stone bunk on the edge of the canon. RESULTS OF SHOOTING WELL Fully 200 Feet of Pipe Crashes Thro Derrick's Top. A remarkable accident coursed during the "shooting" of an oil well miles west of this city, on the nigger farm, says a Findlay, O. correspondent of the Cleveland Paint Dealer. A 200-quart shot of nitroperine had been put into the well and Contractor Craig himself dropped the "go-devil." The effects of the shot were most startling. The column of oil as usual mounted to the top of the derrick and several score of feet in the air. But there was a long black line that extended still farther into the ether and continued to project after the flow of oil had subsided. It was what is known as the casing of the well, several hundred feet of iron pipe about five inches in diameter that sunk into the well, while being drilled to keep out the surface fluids. Full 200 feet of the pipe had been shot into the air, crashing through the top of the derrick. As the men surge forward around the well the section of pipe began to break off and the crashing down on the derrick, smashing oak timbers and falling into the crowd. All fed for their lives. Either or ten sections broke off and then other unexpected event happened, the balance of the pipe slid back into the well. The men are at present at work trying to fish the pipe out of the well as the flow is partly obstructed. The derrick is a total wreck. Oner Showers in Scotland Queen Showers in Scotland. In an interesting article in a Scottish contemporary on the recent showers blood rain in Southern Europe the writer recalls that about the year 1818 several dark showers fell in Scotland—at Carluke, and in the parish Aberdeenshire. The minister of the latter place published an annual account of these showers. The blackness of the rain, he said, was not much observed while it was falling, though some persons did not notice when their attention was accidental called to it. The most marked elder was upon clothes lying upon bleaching greens. Some lively scenes follow between mistress and servant. Sometimes the head of the house was called in to administer a severe rebuke to the maid who had allowed the kitchens chimney to take fire, and had had the assurance to deny it, in the face of such conclusive evidence. Gradually the kitchen chimney theory was given up when it was found that the supposed soot covered several parishes. The first half of the last century pears to have enjoyed many natural rains. During that period there were no less than four herds showers recorded in Scotland alone. The first of these was in the neighborhood of Edinburgh in 1817, when many thousands of fashes fell. Others followed in the counties of Kinross, Ross and Argyll. Had Spent the $1,002 A New York lawyer, speaking of the recent death of William M. Evartts tell how, in order to insure success, was thought best to secure the services of the distinguished lawyer as an associate counsel. On securing the consent of Mr. Evarts, the question of the retainer was mentioned. "On," said Mr. Evarts, "I guess $1,000 will suffice," and the amount was paid once the suit was settled satisfactorily in a short time, and the lawyer called Mr. Evarts to make the final payment for the latter's services in the case "How much do we owe you?" was asked. "Call it $,000," he responded without a moment's hesitation. This caused a mild protest. "You know Mr. Evarts, that you've had $1,000." "Yes," he said, with a dry smile, "I've spent that." The $,000 was paid. Our Oldest City. Arizona now claims the oldest settlement in the United States and is telling St. Augustine and Santa Pita that they are at least a half of a century behind her little town of Tucson, the county seat of Pima county, where there are about 6,000 inhabitants on the identical spot settled by Spanish in the middle of the sixteenth century. This claim is based on recently discovered documents in the old mission of San Xavier, dated 1552, which tell of a settlement being authorized by the church, and other parchments which place the founding of Tucson in 1555—San Francisco Post. Castellane Would Absorb the Surprise A partnership between Mr. Carage and Count Boni de Castellane would enable the former to die much power and to anticipate the date a few years. St. Louis, Globe-Democrat. White Objects Are Seeen For A white object can be seen at a distance of 17,250 times its own diameter in strong sunlight—that is to say, white disc a foot across can be seen 17,250 feet away.