The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country BONESTY. INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY SHOULD BE OUR TRINITY FOR THE FUTURE, OUR RACF, THEIR ENTERPRISES! GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING CLOSELY. OUR BOYS. The colored people, who are rearing boys, who are to be the future men of the race and who are to be responsible for the future condition of the race, have precious if it the seems to tow with shapiness, their course in life, and if they are really responsible for their actions, which to say least, is deplorable, then the Lord only knows what we re will land. So few colored boys seem to be employed in the trades or business pursuits, which will be of inestable value to them when they become men. It seems the hardest possible matter to get the average colored boy to stick to anything of importance. They either become too important to run things before they understand clearly enough the work in hand to enable them to understand even the rudiments of the business. They don't seem to know, that it is necessary for them to work themselves up, before they want the wages of an experienced hand at the business, and they try as a general thing to do just as little for the pay they receive as possible. Of course we can'rlssems, if they are in these traits from their fathers, but we can't certainly see any good in it for the pay the race. A concientious, industrious, pains-taking boy or man is always in demand. He can never be idle or out of employment, but the shiftless, worthless donor, fellow is a professional loser and dead heat and nobody wants his services or to have him about. Our boy shall learn the old adage, that "What ever is worth doing is worth doing, and if they will bear this in they will certainly make useful men a blessing to any community as an honor to the race. TALES OF TWO CITIES. The Kansas City, Kansas Embalm and Casket Co., will bury your dead. The Uwin City Business Meus Association are making extensive preparation to a grand picnic and excursion soon. Ret. O.B. Barnes of Nevada Mo., of the southwestern Baptist Association was in the city the past week in company with hour old friend Rev. G. Mc Neal paid out insurance a call. Ms. Fannie Gorman of Minn. Ave., who has been visiting in Jefferson City the week will return home next week. Ms. Mary J. Collins of 1933 Everett St. who is now ninety one years of age is quite ill. Mrs. M. Barnett of Quindiah Kansas departed this life last Monday at the ripe age of 78, she leaves a husband, daughter and three sons and a host of friends to mourn their loss. Mrs. Sarah Black of Fort Scott Kans went the 4th in this city the guest of her daughter Mrs. Delia Black of 814 Walker Ave. Miss Pearl and Forestine Wright of Baldwin Kans, were the guest of Miss Annie Booker of Barnett Ave., the past week. Mr. E B Graves of Walker Ave., spent the 4th in Emporia Kans, attending the Christian Association which convened there. Miss Mary Graves who has been quite ill for some time is improving. Miss Iella Graves, Laura Harlan and Mattine Lawrence are having a most delightful time in breezy Colorado, Leadville. Dr G.E. Horsey of 440 Minn. Ave. has removed to No 500 Minn. Ave. (upwards) where he will welcome all old patrons and new ones likewise. The Dearor since his shingle was put to the breeze in our city has met with quite invincible success. He was recently made the Medical examinee, of the U., F and S.M.U.'s in this city. Fourth of July was a 'warm m-m-m' in the Twin Cities but was well enveloped by thousands, notwithstanding that the thermometer stood for awhile at 108.3 A picnic and grand celebration, music and patriotism was the order at Chelsea Park under the auspices of the 'Old Bids' (white) Club, Mayor Craudick, Majot Warner, Cubbinson and others held the boards. At Korsr Park the A.M. E. First and Metropolitan Baptist churches gave a Union picnic which was well attended. King Solomon Baptist celebrated with and the fashion barbecue, and they ate the faded calf. Madame Martha, the Famous singer, and a select company of vocalist and noted musical celebrities will appear at the Fifth St., Opera House Friday eve, July 12th, for the benefit of Douglas Hospital. It is said to be an ex-acception treat and should not be missed. Ties last 20 cents. Mrs Alice Baily of 411 Nebraska avenue who has been quite ill for several days is now out again with her many friends and associates. d Best Weekly TRY AND ECONOMY SHOULD ISN'T IT STRANGE? It is a strange thing, yet true, to know that some colored people of families, snurk at and refuse to patronize one of their own race in professional or business line and at the same time they have children, boys and girls, going to school to make professional business men and women out of them, and they look forward with thoughts of joy, when their boy or their girl shall have finished school and settled down, to receive the patronage of their race. What would be their surprise to find that the race scorn their boy or girl as they attempt to scorn the Negro professional and business men of today. They would look with eyes of wonder and hearts said to see this; yet this will be and is the result of their own teaching. Be sure that you are right and then go ahead. Are such people right? Are they not biting off their nose to spite their face? But possibly they do not expect their boy or girl to look to the race for support. If perchance they should have such ideas, we beg to disabuse their minds of this error. Negro professional and business men must first be lifted by their own people before they can have the very least hope of even expecting aid from others. Then what is to become of your boy or your girl when he or she shall have entered the business world? We pause for rep. The above two articles were clipped from the Daily Recorder and searchlight respectively and should be closely read. May you dear reader not be guilty Second honors were carried off by the Metropolitan Church choir; but where were the missing chis its last Monday evening? It was said that Allen Clay choir were more than two weens in advance of all other choirs in the rehearsal for the contest, yet the brave Metropolitan feared not and did her duty well. Much credit is due Mr. George B Williams as choir ser and trainer, was a right. The special orchestra for the Metropolitan Baptist choir was as follow: Miss C. Davis, pianist, Mr J.J. Alford, violinist, Dr. A.K. Lawrence, christophilus and Mr S. Grandy, cornetist: A very delightful Lawn party was given by Mrs. Mary Jennings a d Misi Ophelia Miller in honor of their guest Mrs. Walter N. Miller of Wichita Kans. at the residence of Mrs. Jennings 1147 Arastong Guising contest and general conversations was the enjoyment of the evening, after which refreshments was served, the guest were Mrs Low More Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller Mrs Lotta Williams Mrs. Elia Jackson Mrs Thomas Walden Mrs R.A. Lee of Calm and Mrs. J.C. Cooper Mrs Jane Dudley Mrs. Alex Langford Mrs. F. Jackson Mrs E. Shambree Mrs J.F. Homes Miss Lea Graham of Kansas City, Mo., Miss Louvena Jackson Miss Jessie Walden Miss Stella Graham of Kansas City Mo., Mr. James P. Mayasid M. John Butler Mr George Jennings. KEEP THIS IN MIND. The AMERICAN CITIZEN takes the stand that one good turn deserves another. When we we tail to receive the journalistic courtesies extended to others, we refuse to do any puffing unless its a "cash" transaction. Bear this in mind, for we are not in business for our health. Only money talks. We take pleasure in calling your attention to an entirely new Negro enterprise in this city, that opens up for business on July 1st. It is the Kansas City Kansas Embalming and Casket Co - owned and controlled by full fleeg d Negroes. Sallors Scarce in Maine. A scarcity of sailors more general than ever before in the history of Maine shipping prevails at the present time, and the wages of seamen have risen to an unusual point. Our Quote the Smallest: In time of war France puts 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the field; Germany, 210; Russia, 210. Vegetarian Shoes. Vegetarians who are so strict that they do not care to wear an article of clothing into which any animal properties are introduced are catered for in the boot line by a London boot maker, who is the inventor of a vegetarian shoe. For some years he has been experimenting and as a result he has produced a boot in the construction of which there is absolutely no paper or leather of any description. Not only this, but, according to his assertion, these wear-one fourth longer than leather shoes and the upper material is always soft and never cracks. AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1901. WHAT IS COMING: The Nations Afr-American Council will hold is Fourth annual session Pai adelphia, Pa., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday August 7, 8 and 9th. The Industrial Union of America, West Indies and Canada will hold a convention at Concord N. C., July 4th to 7th. The Afro-America National Business League meets in Chicago, Ill., in Aug., The Sixth Annual Western Press Association holds forth this year at Colorado Springs August 5, 6 and 7th. The Grand Session of the International Order of Twelve of the Kansas Nebraska jurisdiction will convene at Leaenwort Kans. on July 9, 10, 11 and 12th. The Kansas City, Kansas Embalming company a Negro undertaking est. bushment July 1st. Camden Ark., July 1, —Circuit Judge C W. Smith today overruled the application for a new trial in the case of Will Bussey, colored, under sentence to hang for criminal assault. Governor Davis recently granted a reprieve of thirty days in order to allow judicial action following the confession of Mrs. Tom Witson, tae prosecuting witness, that she testified falsely against Bussey at the behest of her husband. Watson and his wife left Camden after the confession Judge Stuart stated today that the wi nesses were so utterly unreliable that their evidence was not worthy of belief and he did not know what infi-ence had been brought to bear on the state's witses to cause her to charge her testimony. The court then set August 13 for the execution. An appoi-nt will be taken. THE GATE OF LOVE Every child walks into existence through the golden gale of love, electric would seem wonderful that the helpless thing should be born. Yet children are not playthings, as we too often seem to think they are—mere gifts of God to fill up the hours with cheer. They were surely meant to be a joy to us, but that is not the final end. Nor were they meant to be care and burd as alone. To speak of them as if they were cares and shackles upon our freedom, always in the way, children, children everywhere, is shame and a sin. They to be regarded as part of our education. Me cannot be developed perfectly who have not been compelled to bring children up to manhood. You might as well say that a tree is a perfect tree without leaf or bloom so that to say that a man is a man who has gone through life without experiencing the influences that come from bending down and giving one's self up to those who are helpless and little. Children make men better citizens. When your own child comes in from the street, and has learned to swear from the boys congregated there, it is a very diff rent thing to you from what it was when you heard the profanity of those boys as you passed them. Now it makes you feel that you are a stockholder in the public morality. Of what use would an engine be to a ship if it were lying loose in a hull? It must be fastened to it with boots and screws before it can propel the vessel. Now, a childless man is like a loose engine. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement, and there are no such screws and bolts as children—HENRY WARD BECHER TO SEE DE CO;TON GROWIN TO SEE DE COUNT GROWIN' Auntie Sy via Reed, 90 years old, an ex slave, has been save from going to the town poorhoe e, and has been seated by friends back to Dixie, as she wished to spend the remainder of her life where she lived as a child. The letter she wrote to Miss Emily Stuart Weed the poetess, tells of her joy or getting back to Waynehore Va. She wrote 'I got home at lass an foun, doe ole house, but mos' al de ole gon' I wants to see de cotton a-growin inbef', I go, den I shall be ready to jine all dem dat, sleeping in de ole ber rying grown under de hil'. Miss Wee. aided by James G. Wilson, one of the selecten of the town, sent 'Auntie. R-e-t to her old home. To Whom it May Concern. This is to certify that Rev. G. McNeal of this city will appear before the Governor of the State of Kansas, on the 15th day of August 1901, to ask the pardon of one Robert Manuel now serving a ten year sentence in the State penitentiary, having been sentenced from the District court of Wyandotte County October term 1898, charged with Assault and attempt to kill. Down in South Carolina recently a lynching party, after swinging a colored man up to a tree limb, discovered that they had the wrong man. They hastily cut him down, and as a balm for his wound, they made up a purse and gave him a mule and several acres of cotton land. TOPEKA NOTES. The Art club of the sit Picene at Garfield Park Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Frances Marshall and Mr. Fate Farrow were united in the hay bonds of wedlock Wednesday the Rey. A: T. Ward diplating. Miss Lizzie Spaulding is on the sick list this week The Deer Creek club fished at Teecumse on the 4th of July. Mrs. Julia cot entertained the ladies sewing circle Wedn-sday afternoon. J. Marion Campbell of the World Bible House Philadelphia has been doing business in the city this week. Miss Julia Barber is quite ill at the residence of Mrs. Wades of Lowman Hill Mr and Mrs Wesley Brown of Tulsa Ill. have returned to the city to reside. Prof. W. T. Vernon spent afew days in city this week. Miss Davis of Wamego Kans, is the guest of Mrs. Helen Rausom. The Golden god club met Friday P M with Miss Nora Williams a delightful luncheon was served We have always entertained the highest regard for Prof. W.T. Vernon President and general hustler of the Western University at Quindaro Kans, we still have that regard for him. We might be mistaken, but the step taken by him this week regarding the mixing of the regents of the University in our judgment is not a wise one. It unmistakably publishes to the world that the Negro has not enough executive ability to control his own affairs and that they have not advanced sufficiently to be trusted alone. We know not Prof. Vernins motives nor would it be wise to criticize him too severely until he explains him self, so we withhold our peace for the present. At any rate he is receiving much condemnation from among his own people who may or may not be manly enough to speak to him in person ascertaining his reasons. I up to you Prof. It is well now while the sun shines on both sides of the street to make hay Winter is coming and the chances are, it will be just as cold as it is now hot. Much of the suffering in winter among Negroes could be avoided if they would make the proper preparation, instead of having what is known on the street as a "rattling good time" all Summer Lay by something, for old trmp is coming and its a hard time some of ye will have The future of the colored race is in the upbuilding as to business, morals, education and most of all in their economy Save your pennile, your dimes, and you will have your dollars, then you can be come a independent citizen, with money with education your independence grow in you, pride is established, which bring good behavior, for it is issue to follow. Then your department becomes better in the public estimation, and respect follow For an instance, take the fellow, who has increased his fortunes, who has built up a business, who can live on his own merits, who has ple t at home, and a goodly income, so soon will he begin to see how perfect his behavior will be, so soon will he commence courting the good wishes of every pas-er-by; so soon will he leave the evil company of his by gone days and commence developing a lofty ambition; this is true with every man—true with every white man—true with every white man, true with every black man, true with all humanity on God's green earth.—Hepub ane Guide. TO SWEETEN THE BREATH Unless a disordered stomach is the cause of a tainted breath, the following formula used as a wash will prove of festive: Salo, 3 gram; alcohol, 159 gram; essence of anise. ½ gram; essence of geralam, ½ gram; essence of mint, 1 gram. Pour a few drops in half a grass of warm water and rinse the mouth well. No man is rich enough to afford the luxury of a bad temper. Before that 200-story New York building is finished we may hear something drop. Rudolph Spreckles is to be tried for algh treason in Slawall, which his once owned. Banker Kopperl of Chicago begar business without a cent—just where his depositors end. It was definitely settled by the prize- right that Fitzsimmons was the greater brute. That was all. It is evident that the only way to stop a political "machine," once it is well will be to break. Women as a rule are ready to shut up when money gets ready to talk. CITIZEN C'ILLES SURRENDERS. Turned Over 650 Men and 500 Rifles to the Americans General Cailies has surrendered at Santa Cruz, Province of Laguna, Luzon island, with 650 men and 500 rifles. Oaths of allegiance to the United States were administered to the former insurgents. Colonel Caballes, who fled to the mountains with a portion of his command, has likewise surrendered. Cailies did not sufficiently control the populace to bring in all the insurgents in his district. The proceedings of surrender were orderly. Colonel Caballes, who, with 120 of General Caillés' command, flee to the mountains in fear of being hauged by the Americans, has been overtaken by messengers from Caillés, conveying the general's orders to surrender. When Caillés' messengers caught up with and explained the situation to the fleeing colonel, the latter apologized to his general and returned to Pagsangan with still another 120 men whom he persuaded to come in and surrender. Caballes brings at least 500 rifles from the outlying posts beyond Pagsangan. It is reported that a large number of Caillés' followers have approached him with the proposition that he issue a strongly worded proclamation declaring all Filipino insurgents who refuse to surrender immediately to be considered as bandits, and that this proclamation be published by the insurgent presidente of every town in Laguna province. TRAGEDY NEAR PARSONS, KAN W. H. Tramberger is Killed and His Son shot by W. M. Reed. W. M. Reed, about 23 years of age, son of D. M. Reed, a prominent farmor living northeast of Parsons, Kan. shot and killed W. A. Tramberger, a neighbor, and severely wounded his son Frank. Reed and his father were driving home from Parsons when they met Tramberger and his son as they were emerging from a cornfield, where they had been cutting corn. The Reeds claim that they were about to attack them with the corn knives which they had been using when young Reed shot and killed the elder Tramberger and seriously wounded his son, with a Winchester rifle which they had in the wagon. Trouble had been brewing between the Reeds and the Trambergers for several years. Reed had Tramberger arrested for assault and battery, from which charge he was acquitted. Reed came to Parsons at a late hour last night and surrendered. He was held without bail until his preliminary hearing. BANDIT IS IDENTIFIED. Texas Officers Have the Murderous Mexi- jean Beyond Doubt. Sheriffs Avant of Atascosa county, Kinsel of Trio and Deputy Sheriff Chote of Karnes county, Texas with several members of their various posses, have arrived at Laredo, Texas, to identify the man captured by Captain Rogers and J. P. Marriam about forty miles above Laredo. Among the men who arrived were two who knew the prisoner. One of them, William Loueary, of Bastrop county, has known Cortez since 1892, and Deputy Sheriff Chote of Karnes county has known him for several years. They both positively identified the prisoner, and said there is absolutely no doubt that he is the man whom they have known all these years as Gregorio Cortez, and who killed Sheriff Morris of Kansas county and Sheriff Glover of Gonzales county. The identification is complete and the alleged murderer will be surrendered to the officers from the interior. WOMAN LEAPS INTO LAKE. Suicide of Excursion Boat Passenger Near Milwaukee. According to a story told by Richard Silver, a passenger on the Goodrich line steamer Virginia, a woman, supposed to be Mrs. Rosa Richter of Chicago, committed suicide by jumping overboard from the Virginia when the steamer was about a mile from Milwaukee. Wis. It is said Mrs. Richter became violent shortly after the steamer left Chicago and attempted to end her life by leaping overboard, but was prevented. After the first attempt it is said she was placed in one of the state rooms and a guard placed over her. On the steamer nearing Milwaukee the guard ceased vigilance, with the result that the woman is reported to have carried out her threat. The woman is reported to have had considerable money in her possession. The life-saving crew are searching for the body. Was Determined to Die. Lafayette Miller, an old settler and prosperous farmer near Clay Center, Kan., committed suicide at his home by shooting himself. He placed a revolver to his nostrils and fired. He had the gun still in his hand when found. Coroner Stewart and Sherif Need were at once sent for, but an inquest was unnecessary. He had acted strangely for the last three weeks. He had over $300 on his person when found. An Issane Chinman With an Ax. A Chinese, who is regarded as issane, broke into a cabin occupied by Kansas News Notes. ```markdown ``` Clarion is talking about a new $20,000 hotel. The new Catholic church at Orient has been dedicated. Rural free delivery will be established at West Point the first of July. insisted at West Point the first of July. A heel飞 alighted on the tire of D. W. Blaine's automobile in Pratt and punctured it. Of the 106 teachers attending the institute in Neosho county, twenty-seven have red hair. Wooldbury county has contracted with tax ferrets to investigate its delinquent taxes. The Chanute band found that it had sufficient surplus breath to blow itself for new uniforms. New machinery is being installed in the canning factory at Waverly and the plant is being enlarged. Convicts in the penitentiary appear to have concluded to let the warden and his deputy run the place. A man in Coolidge advertises that he has fitted up an ice cream parlor in one corner of his blacksmith shop. An Atchison committee is trying to arrange for the presence of the duke of Cornwall at the next corn carnival. Because he purchased a ready made coat instead of having a tailor make it, a Dubuque policeman was arrested. Things have been at fever heat in Lawrence ever since the University of Kansas conferred those 182 degrees. There are 13,772 Congregationalists in Kansas, and yet New England wonders where all the Yankees have gone. A little boy in Herrington who couldn't wait until July 4, killed his sister a few days ago with a toy pistol. Two horses recently sold by Cyrus Leland were shipped to New York and then sent to Denmark for the royal stables Blue Rapids has a woman who makes $3 per day as a paper hanger. She can hang twelve double rolls, with border, in eight hours. A modest man in Troy claims to have been around the globe eight times, speaks thirty-two languages and knows the Koran by heart. A Kansas man offers to exchange a mule for a wife, which causes an exchange to remark that some men never know when they are well off... Ex-Mayor S. F. Neeley of Leavenworth has given the contract for the eregion of his new $55,000 hotel to a-Mayor C. A. Fellows of Topeka. A McPherson man is suing his wife, a dressmaker, for divorce, which shows, among other things, that seamstresses are not always what they seem. The State Agricultural college has issued a booklet devoted to "pruns domestica." Probably it explains how to tell them from the wild or razorback prunes. Mrs. R. A. Baker of Concordia had two husbands and three sons killed in the civil war. Her first husband was killed early in the war and her second served toward the close. Farmer Hales of Jackson county gave a rat killing bee at which 300 rodents and fifteen gallons of ice cream were disposed of. Evidently the guests found it appetizing work. Dogs are not taxable under the Topeka ordinance until they are six weeks old, and the number of large, shaggy, overgrown pups in town is the marvel of the dog catcher. Wind was so brisk in the vicinity of Liberal one day recently that workmen on the Rock Island extension complained that they couldn't hit the spikes with their sledge hammers. A crying baby interrupted one of the speakers at the alumni banquet in Lawrence. The speaker paused and then added: "I will suspend my remarks while the class of 1916 gives its yell." Workmen repairing the roof of the court house at Cimarron found a bushel of cartridges concealed in the garrow. They had been hidden there by sharpshooters during the county seat war in Gray county fifteen years ago. James Jenkins of Grant township advertisises in the Pratt County Union that he will pay twenty-five cents each for all bull snakes three feet or over in length. He domesticates them and they keep the premises free from rats and mice. Thirty-one railway conductors have made reports to the state labor commissioner of work and pay for the year. An average run of 3,353 miles per month was made. Their average annual income was $1,071 and their expenses $778. No drafted Kansas soldier ever served in the army of his country. February 15, 1865, a draft actually commenced in Kansas and was continued until March 16, when a peremptory order came from Washington to suspend the draft and release the men who had bagen conscripted. This order came in response to official protests from Kansas in which the fact was set forth that the state had furnished more troops in proportion to her population than any other state in the Union. Under all the calls from 561 to 1865 the Kansas quota was 12,832. The actual number of volunteers furnished was 21,806, or 8,875 in excess of her just proportion. On the theory that the Kaw river is navigable it is under the supervision of the federal government and the state fish warden has no jurisdiction along its banks. It is, therefore, permissible to catch any kind of fish in any way at any time—if you can. At the twenty-ninth commencement of the University of Kansas degrees were granted to 167. The graduates from the School of Arts numbered 113. `HELP FOR KANSAS. New York Council Discusses Sending 5,000 Unemployed Men. Alderman Gorman, of New York city, wants to send at least 5,000 of the unemployed men and women of New York city to the fields of Kansas and other Western states to help harvest the crops. This matter was discussed seriously by the board of aldermen. It was decided to hold conferences with the officials of the department of charities to see if the plan could not be carried out at once. Alderman Gorman's resolution, which was adopted, recites the dispatches from Kansas and other Western states telling of an extraordinary demand for labor; that there are thousands of unemployed in New York who would gladly work if they could get to the places where the demand exists, and instructs the council charities committee to confer with the department of charities to ascertain how many are needed in the West and report ways and means. Suitable legislation is promised, so that the scheme may be successfully carried out. BARBER WORM IN KANSAS It Shaves Beards off Hard Wheat to the Joy of Harvesters. A very peculiar worm has made its appearance in the wheat field of Mattis Olson, a farmer living near Assaria, Kan. Mr. Olson has on exhibition at the Farmers' National bank there two samples of his wheat from the same field and raised from the same seed. One sample, which he took from a corner of the field, was filled hard and ripe and had the beards intact. The other sample is still green. The peculiar feature of the green wheat is that the beards have been neatly cut off by a worm. This is the case with the greater part of his field, the ripe grain constituting only a small portion of his acreage. One of the drawbacks to hard wheat is the beard, which is more or less a nuisance to harvesters and threshers, but this worm has almost entirely shaved the beards from this field of wheat without any damage to the grain. Kansas farmers would do well to raise these worms. THROUGH A TRESTLE. Wabash Train Wrecked Near Peru, Ind.—Fifteen Said to be killed. Westbound passenger train No. 3, on the Wabash railroad ran into a washout at Cass, fifteen miles west of Peru, Ind., wrecking the engine and five cars. It is reported fifteen persons were killed. The train is due at Peru at 10:55, but was one hour late. The train was running at high speed to make up lost time and when near Cass, a switch five miles east of Logansport, plunged through a trestle that had been swept away by a washout. The engine was totally demolished and the three passenger coaches and two baggage cars were derailed and overturned. Every surgeon in Peru was summoned and the relief party left for the scene. Details are meager, but it is rumored Engineer Butler and Freeman Adams and at least a dozen passengers were killed and many more injured. WARRANT FOR A POSTMASTER Dodson Farmer Had Trouble in Getting His Mail, He Alleges. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Ulysses Flancy, postmaster at Dodson, Mo., on a charge of felonious assault upon David N. Hyre, a farmer living one and one-half miles north of the station". Hyre says that he went into Flancy's store and called for his mail, but Flancy paid no attention to him. When Hyre asked a second time for the mail, he says Flancy told him to get out. "I am after the United States mail, and will stay till it get it," he replied. He says that Flancy came at him with a knife and then with a revolver. Hyre started to defend himself with a pop bottle, when the postmaster's wife came in and stopped the trouble. Hyre went out without the mail, but his wife, who was waiting outside, went in and got it. FIRE AT NEBRASKA PRISON Second Attempt is Made to Destroy the Penitentiary. The remaining wing of the Nebraska penitentiary buildings, one of which was burned last March, narrowly escaped destruction the other day from a fire started maliciously. Governor Savage and Warden Davis say, by convicts employed in the broom factory. Prompt discovery allowed the flames to be quenched in their incapacity, and the damage is nominal. An investigation in the broom building showed that a candle had been lighted and so placed that, after burning itself about half, it would communicate itself to a mass of broom corn. The nozzle of the hose had been plugged, but the pressure was so stong that the water removed the obstruction and the fire was quenched. Evelyn R. Baldwin in London Evelyn B. Baldwin and four members of the Baldwin-Zeigler Polar expedition have arrived in London. The expedition will leave Franz Josef Land about July 12 on its voyage North. The three vessels of the expedition, the America, the Belgica and the Fritjof, will rendezvous there before that date. William Zeigler, the financial backer of the expedition, has gone to the Com- American Citizaa coe AMERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave, KANSAS CITY KANSAS ee ee W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. ————— TERS OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year.......0.0+--- $1 50 ‘Sntered at che postutfice at Kansas City ‘Kaas , 8 secoad class matter, avery ¥ilday evening, New Tor @oses thousands of its residents, wh (go to other cities in the state and to Boston and Philadelphia. These peo ple are cllsens of Albany, Udon, Sra Enno, Rochester, Batao, Eira, Bing hhamton and the travelers to Boston ‘and Philadelphia have their homes in ‘these cities. All of these men do bus'- dent in New York city. They retars to Now vork trom thelr homes on Su ay st, arriving Monday morning. find fron that time until Friday even fne they are going after the almighty Goar-Paltimore News, Peer ee ‘When Lady Blessington sent D'Orsay_ to complain of some delay on the part of her publishers, Otley & Saunders he used very high language. A dig- sified man in a high, white neckcloth, who vas listening to him, sald: “Count DOrsiy, I would sooner tose Lady Blecsington’s patronage than submit to such personal abuse." “There was nothing personal,” said the count; “if you are Otley, then damn Saunders; it you are Saunders, then damn Otley.” Ancient Manateript Helriooms, John Beutler of Wapakoneta, Ohio, has manuscripts and books that have ‘been handed down from father to son ince the ninth and sixteenth centuries. ‘He has original manuscripts of the code of Justinian the Great, emperor ‘of Rome, written in the lutter part of the fifth century, He also has original ‘manuscripts of the annals of C. Corne- ‘Mus Tacitus, the Roman historian, writ. ten in Greck, about the middle of ths ainth century. The Famous “Passion Play.” Already arrangements are being made by the tourist agents to conduct parties to Oberammergau this year, the famous “Passion Play” having been fixed to commence on April 24. It wii Jast.as usual, till the end of September. Since 1633, with only slight remodeling this mystery or miracle performance has been performed by village peasants in the Bavarian highlands every tex haa Old-Time Surgery. A grim souvenir of an old-time war was on view in a cutler's window in the east end of London recently. It is ‘an ebony-handled saw, which, accord- {ng to the inscription on a brass plate attached to the instrument, was nsed ‘by a surgeon of the Britich army to arapntatethe limbs of wounded soldiers ‘at Blenheim, Malplaquet and Ramail- Mes. a e ‘Very few people, pechaps, are aware of the fact that in the counties of oles, Douglas and Moultrie, in Tli- nois, three-fourths of all the broom corn used in the world is produced. The amount used in the whole world 4s 35,000 tons, of which 27,000 tons “are grown In these counties. ‘Toe Good « Target. Titherto the regiments of the High- tend Brigade which have worn the kilt save presented an admirable mark for bullets by reason of the dark tartan of which the national costume {s made. ‘Orders have been now issued that all Highland corps are in future to wear ‘a khatki apron in front. ‘Odatties tn New Yorke Namen If you keep your eyes open whifle Fiding around the streets of New York on the surface cars you can see many ‘odd combinations of the names of bust- ress men and their trades, some of ‘Which are here given: Ashman, hotel; Burns, coal; Best, groceries; Burnham. al estate; Cook, fish and oysters; Yoffin, beer and liquors; Coffey, teas ind sugar; Forrester, real estate; food, rubbers, boots; Gutter, pawn- broker; Goodrich, carriages; rier doctor; Katz, butcher; Love, chemistS MeClean, shirts, ete; Noyes, lawyer; Proudman, diamonds; Pitcher, milk; Rich, perfumery; Silk, dress. goods; Swindel, teas and spices; Sickman fish and clams; Wood, building mate rials.—New ‘York Herald. Speed of Ocean Liners Im an article in Cassler’s Magazine en steam speeds at sea, Mr. Oldham says twenty-five years ago the Atlantic had never been crossed by a screw steamer at a greater rate than fifteen ‘mips an hour, that of the fastest liner, Scotia, Today steamers have reached ‘the speed of twenty-five miles an hour, and, although the power required to propel a steamer varies with the cube ‘of the speed, yet, before a third of ths next century expires, another increase ‘of at least 50 per cent in ocean speed may be safely predicted. The con- struction of a steamer of 65,000 tops will probably not trouble the cop- structors of the future nearly as much ‘as did the building ofthe Great East- ‘ern those of the past. Resear Peanut Butter, According to a ‘prominent dealer peanut butter 1s rapidly becoming an {important commercial product. It is made by grinding peanuts very fine ‘and reducing the mass to a paste, from which a large part jof the oil Is re- moved. A little salt is then added. Many physicians recognize the nutri- tious value of this-butter. It has all ‘the wholesome gitdiities of nuts with. ‘aut being so iniligestible. Peanut but- ter is excellent tor the poor, too, for tt contains quite as much nourishment as ordinary but er and is much Jess expensive. — ot BSSSNS._ SSSVSESS TS VSSSVSVSIVSMWSISTSVSSSISES SSCSSSSS: KANSAS CITY a EMBALMING & | om «(CASKET | arate, | COMPANY} We eee atee vieetien retreat eA ontiFoR a} | De Whew eten) BUSINESS Hi }| W. M.Gatuble, Frank Wilson) { | LF, Brdley UW: Camager WeBury The Dead,” ; [PER Sie | SBME! Telephone f ) ord office 1014 N. 5th Streety [Rrank Wilson, Miss E. V. Jove KANSAS CITY, K’ANS. f & TG Suge TO THE COLORED PECPLE OF THE WORLD: PO REE ee a Be not deceived by loud advertisements that promise much and accomplish little. Do not send your money away until you know what you are going to get for it. 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American sadd!es and harness don't suit the Boers, the former being too high-priced and the latter too fine for the rough overland work of trek- king. In the canned meat line, Aus- tralia so far undersells Chicago that our packers are in despair. Qur maul afacturers sold over 7,000 tons of barbed wire in 1897 to the Transvaal, but, strange to say, the fence posts ame from Germany and England. Four iceplants were furnished for the Kimberley mines by Chicago, having ‘en aggregate capacity of twenty tons a day, besides 100,000 cubic feet of cold /storage.—New York Press. Trarined Sugar. ‘Take the quantity of fine white loat sugar you inten? tu clarify, add to it of very clean warm water, half a pint for ‘every pound; when dissolved add to it the white of one or two eggs, as the quantity may require, well whipped; put it on the fire, and when it comes to 8 boli pour into it an ordinary teacup- ful of cold water; on its rising again to # bo!l remove it and let it settle for twenty minutes; skim the scum from the top, pour off the syrup into a clean vessel with sufficient quickness ‘to leave all the sediment at the bottom and such steadiness as to prevent any of the latter rising and mixing with it Asked what she regards as the great est obstacle to an artist's success, Mme. 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Bach one of the party deposited one-third of this sum in the Bank of Dublin, and it was agreed that whoever survived the trip and returned should receive the whole amount. In case all died a Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. On Dec. 24, 1895, they started east across Europe and Asia Minor to Egypt, where they took pas- sage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the jour- ney, and the severity of this trip re- sulted in the death of two of the trav- elers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, com- pleted the voyage and won the thoney. —New York, Press, seg a wf JSS \ q \ Sh ye 18 Us *© eicror™ SHORTFST LINE CRUSS ** COPTINENT ‘The Union Pacitic “Phe Original Over- land Koute’ always was, and is to-day, the shortest und best Line to the west, ‘Two splendic fust trains leave Kamas City duily over th:s old established line No change of cars hetween Kansas City and Denver, Ogcen or San Francisco. 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PILES TILL CURED. fa tent sa ectom ried on & Fontve Garant, and no money ac! id aa et ane ac cease awe ta GOD KNOWETH BEST. The world is as we find it, Whether for good or ill. The path is oft-times stony, Leads oft-times up the hill; But when we reach the summit, And find there peace and rest, We, then, forget the journey And feel God knoweth best. The world is as we make it; We reap both good and ill; The seed we sow in passing. Up-springs from wood and hill; Before we reach the summit, The flowers may be but weeds, Unless we tread with gladness. God's path—He knows our needs. How Love Came. BY CHARLES W. LAMB. Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) When Jimmy Marshall went back to the regiment after long leave, it was with a heavy heart and a sad spirit that caused him to look with a glad care to the war cloud hanging over Cuba. Jimmy had come in from the regimental station to spend the first long since he had laid aside the academic gray with the mother and the old friends he had scarcely seen since his boyhood. For seven years he had worked hard and faithfully in the historic old regiment he had elected to and now with his first lieutenant's her on his shoulder, had come some again. There it was that he had acquired acquaintances of the old days and made new ones and it was one of these new ones that was sending him back to his regiment, sad and weary and welcoming war. She who was the cause of it all, was a newcomer to the old town, petite blue-eyed and auburn-haired, and Jimmy had surrendered, hilt to front, before he essayed to draw saber. He was her knight from the start and the eneasted mother was neglected on the short campaign that ended in his rout, for when he came to the final question, it was laughingly, heartlessly, but, oh, so emphatic, no. No hope, no future, no present, no just only a winter of regret. So scarcely two months later he was blooming the hot sun, the fever, the thirst, the hunger, the bullets of Cuba and receiving honorable mention and recommendations for bravery in the war at El Caney and for faithfulness in his care of the fever stricken men. When it was the old post again, renting, recruiting, whipping in the new peeking and away across the forward ocean, and within the half of his home leaving he was with the old company in the field against the little brown Tagsal of Luiz; still with disappointment rankling in his heart and driving him into the eximent of the war with a fevered energy. Jimmy had gone through his four years of cadetship without a single love affair and as a consequence had own and still wore the class sobriquet of the "Bachelor." His seven years of army life had not produced any better results to the credit of the anti-marital god who is believed to be especially fatal to martial heroes, and while there had been many charming women many had pretty girls in whose society he found much to please him, he had, until that fatal long leave, found some to take his serious thought. So now he marched through the jungles and cane brakes of the far off Philippines with but one thought in his mind, and that a painful thought he was trying to drown in hard, active service, service that had already brought him recommendations like A The Kindly Old Captain. those spread upon the records of El Cayey. There came a day when the old company went wading over the rice paddies and through the jungles, one of those murky, wet days of the rainy season, just such a day as had seen the Filipino bullet strike brave, bighearted Lawton. The company has rounded out from the abandoned, rain snaked nip huts in which had slept the night, when the first light of the short tropical dawn announced day and forward over the mud filled road, water covered rice paddies and dripping jungles, the rain running... the battered, gray slouch hats and soaking through the equally battered blue shirts and the mud squashing into and out of the shoes as it dragged along, only the disciplined formation and the business looking Krags distinguishing them from a mob of country tramps and marking them for an army. Slowly the wet, tropical day wore on. Noon, mid-afternoon passed and then, as the tired men saw that the short twilight was coming down upon them, they saw one of the scouts running back. There was signalling back and forth. The captain's hand went up in the well known signal to halt. The foremost men stopped in their tracks. THE MARRIAGE OF THE MARRIED WOMAN the rear crowding up upon them, and all began to fondle the Krags and to wipe the wet from the locks with their shirt sleeves. Then came a short, sharp command from the captain, a veteran of civil and Indian wars, and the haddled, bedraggled mass turned itself into a well ordered column of fours. Another order and the column was deployed into fighting line, a long thin line of enthusiastic skirmishers ready and eager for the fight. Wet, mud, discomfort were forgotten. It was a fight. Over the fields, here in foot deep water, here in almost as much mud went the company, gray-haired old Captain Lyon directing the movements and Jimmy Marshall encouraging and cautioning the men who needed only cautioning. Then suddenly from the line of earth works barely discernable five hundred yards ahead through the rain, there came volleyon volley turning into a steady roar, a fire that would have been withering had marksmen held the guns. Four hundred and fifty yards, four hundred, three hundred and corporal, three hundred, then the water with a sound save the splash of the water he fell into. Then at the word from his chief, Jimmy lead off to the left with a dozen men and struck through the cane brake to out flank the wounds. And now the Krags were sang a merry song. Around to the left, the enemy's right flank went Jimmy, and with a yell broke cover and swept into the open end of the works sending their bullets crashing enfilading into the little brown fellows. In a moment all was confusion. Then there was a rush and the trenches were empty. And then looking back over the field, Jimmy saw what he had taken to be a number of wounded Tagals rise from the slight trench in which they lay and pour shot after shot into the body of a wounded soldier and that of his bunkle who was dressing his wound. Then he saw the captain dash to the rescue and calling to his men he ran forward to the scene and routed the outfit. And as he looked about him when it was over, at his feet he saw the body of the kindly old captain who had been father and brother as well as captain to him since he first had cast his lot with the old regiment. Four days afterward Jimmy, with a few of the men of the company, was back in Manila with what was left of the old captain they had all loved so well and it fell to Jimmy's lot to tell of that captain's last moments and tragic death to his wife and daughter. And at last Jimmy had ceased to think of that long leave at home. All through the preparations for the Cuban campaign he had thought only of the bitterness of his woe; all through the days and nights of sun and rain and battle and fever; all through the hurry and rush to the new, distant front; all through the seemingly endless chase through the brakes and paddles of Luzon after the elusive little brown men, that had been before him, and his comrades, remembering his "Elizabeth!" former cheeriness, had commented: "What a change field work makes in Jimmy." But now with his devoted captain lying in in his soldier's grave, with his captain's wife and daughter left to his care, the old trouble faded out and he thought only of the friend that he lost and the charge that was his, for the captain had placed his affairs in Marshall's hands in the event of his meeting a soldier's fate, as Marshall had placed his in the captain's. And so it came that after the soldiers and the family had paid their last tribute to the dead, the last volley had been fired over the grave, taps had floated out upon the warm still air and died away that the evening had closed down upon the quaint old city, Jimmy sat in the flag draped little parlor of the Lyon's quarters, listening to the patter and grip of the everlasting rain. The dim lamps cast an uncertain light over the room, the air was still and heavy and his thoughts were sad, but as he looked into the sad, tired face of the young girl sitting there so near to him and saw the luster of the dark hair, the fairness of the sweet young face and the sadness yet the brightness in the large dark eyes, he felt all the past go from him and his strong manly love go out to her, whom he had watched grow from the short frocked school girl to the comely young woman; felt it was he her loved from the first. After drawing his chair over to hers he took her hand in both of his and in the silence of the little room, in the silence of his love, looeen into her eyes, eyes in which the joy of womanly love burned through the sadness of filial grief, and the one word "Elizabeth" told his old sweet tale. DRILL WITH THE BAYONET. Russian soldiers Perfecting Themselves in Use of This Weapon In use of this weapon. The ear's arm devotes much of its time to drill ing. Nicholas evidently sees danger ahead and in the absence of a big war is making veterans of his soldiers. For what with the Chinese situation and the hillelist agitation the prospects for peace are not flattering to the ruler of the Russians. At nearly every military post in the empire troops may be daily seen in active drill. About the drill flead are set up a let of gibbet frames on rough-like bases. From the top cross-beams are swung dummies of canvas and sawdust and sand upon these the soldiers charge. They are required to stab and club the defenseless dummies with all the vigor they can bring to bear, and it is conceded that the practical training in the use of the army rifle and its stabbing attachment at close quarters is much superior to that which is secured in sham battles, where actual attacks with the bayonet are barred. The French army has a system of drill which is on the same plan as that in use by the Russians. But the Frenchmen drill mostly on horseback, or, rather, on "dummy" horseback. It is a sort of "merry-go-round" arrangement, with the real soldiers on dummy horses going in one direction and dummy soldiers on dummy horseback going in the opposite direction. The real soldiers cut and slash away at the dummy soldiers with all their strength and skill—and, incidentally, they yell with all their lungs and try to imagine themselves in real battle—Chicago Chronicle. Women to Start a Paper. London is to have a newspaper modeled on La Fronde, the French daily, which evolved entirely from feminine minds. So dissatisfied are the women who belong to the 35 sx club clubs in Great Britain and Ireland with the meager reports they get in one hockey, weekly paper at present in existence that they have resolved on starting a hockey paper of their own, written and edited by women, for women, and devoted to their interests alone. It is pointed out by the ladies at the head of the movement that the men, who have only 80 clubs among them, get almost all the space at present in the paper, and only a miserable half-page is given to women. The new paper will start next October with the new season. Miss Thompson, an ardent, skilled hockey player, will be t'e editress. Walter and His Tips. Samuel H. Golden, a Monongahela (Pittsburg, Pa.) waiter, who recently went to Philadelphia, where he was married for the fourth time, has returned to Pittsburg with his bride. With her and over $100,000, which he earned as tips, he has settled down to a life of ease. He is $11 years old. Golden has been a waiter and porter at the Monongahela for a century. "I waited on Abraham Lincoln, Gen. U. S. Grant, the present King Edward VII, then the prince of Wales," said he today. "Edwin M. Stanton I nursed when his leg was broken on an Ohio river steamboat. I have received tips ranging from 10 cents to $50. I put the money away, where it *never shrinks—in a savings bank—and now I'm enjoying it." Monument to a Plg. No stranger monument ever existed than that which was erected at the Hotel de Ville by the inhabitants of Luneburg, in Hanover, in honor of a pig. This, which took the form of a kind of mausoleum, contained a large glass ease in which was hermetically inclosed a fine ham cut from the animal, whose memory was to be handed down to posterity. Above was a handsome slab of black marble, on which, engraved in letters of gold, was the following inscription in Latin: "Passers-by contemplate here the mortal remains of the pig which required for itself imperishable glory by the discovery of the salt springs of Luneburg. Dean of Chaplain's Corps, U. S. N. By the retirement of Chaplain Wesley O. Holway, U. S. N., Chaplain David Howard Tribou, now stationed on the receiving ship Vermont in the New York navy yard, becomes the dean of the chaplains' corps in the navy. He entered the service from Maine on Feb. 5, 1872. There's nothing more heroic than the ability to say no to yourself occasionally. GREATNEEDOFSTUDY IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND RECIPIICITY QUESTION. Shall We Increase Prosperity by Diminishing the Employment of Domestic Labor Through Larger Purchases of Foreign Made Good.? According to a recent interview in the Boston Transcript Senator Culom of Illinois is among the fresh devotees of the policy of tinkering the tariff schedules by means of %, external trade treaties. He is quoted as being firmly convinced that our foreign markets are threatened and that the e is danger of an alliance of European countries to resist the inroads of American trade through the imposition of retaliatory duties upon American exports. Thus we see one more thick soul frightened into fits by the bugbear which certain interests are so industriously exploiting for the purpose of extending their own export trade at the expense of anybody and everybody except themselves. Senator Culom easily drops into free trade dialect when he says: "If we build a wall around our markets the Europeans say we can hardly complain if they follow our example. And that is the situation. It is a simple business proposition that as business men, or as a business nation, we should be on the alert. In danger of losing our markets, we must see what can be done." Frequent mention of that 'Chinese wall' by the enemies of protection has made it a very familiar figure of speech. It has also become a very absurd figure of speech in view of the fact that we are sending out more exports than any other nation on earth, and are taking in of competitive imports all that we ought to take, and more, too. It is your zealous new convert who can be relied upon to swallow a doctrine without a qualm. The old stagers don't have so much to say about the "Chinese wall" as they used to. So far as the senior senator from Illinois has gone in his study of the problem of increasing domestic prosperity by decreasing the employment of domestic labor he is of the opinion that: "Probably much of the difficulty can be met by reciprocity. It is a case of give and take. We get lower dues on certain of our goods going to other countries, and they are permitted, in return, to send certain goods here without paying such a high tariff. While this has been our avowed policy, we have not lived up to it consistently. Our State Department h is negotiated a number of treaties providing for reciprocal reductions, and then the senate has proceeded to ignore them. To foreign nations ths looks like bad faith. In my opinion it behooves the Senate to take up these treaties and give them serious consideration. They should be viewed and voted upon from the standpoint of the whole country's welfare, and no: slyly from supposed local self-interest. I have been giving the subject some special study this spring and will do my part to press it on the attention of Congress next winter." Senator Cullom should persevere in his special study of the subject. Special study is precisely what is nee'ed. Close application for the next six months may enable him to arrive at a sound conclusion regarding the very important question. What industries shall we sacrifice through diminish'd protection in order that some of the Illinois senator's influential constituents may increase their exports of machinery and agricultural impments? This question will have to be answered when the reciprocity treaties come up again next winter, and Senator Cullom will need all the special study he can spare to the subject if he shall be prepared with a wise and an intelligent solution. FOREIGN CHAMPAGNES. Americans Buy Them to the Extent of About $15,000,000 a Year. About $15,000,000 a year. Statistics of the Treasury Department show that in the twelve months ending April 1, 1901, 3,873,420 bottles of champagne were imported into this country. At an average of $3.50 per bottle this would mean an expenditure of $13,606,970 for imported sparkling wines. Allowing for the lower price of wines bought by the case, the total would still be considerably in excess of $10,000,000. Out of the 29,608,251 bottles of champagne exported from France in the past twelve months, at least 3,000,000 bottles came to this country. It thus appears that close upon three-fourths of our imported champanges come from France and that about one-sixth of the entire French product of champagne finds a market in the United States. Add to this our consumption of French still wines, brandies, liqueurs, etc., and it will be seen that Americans are users of French beverages of the value of fully $12,000,000 a year. This is a large sum of money to pay for foreign drink products that for the most part are of no better quality than those made in this country. The standard brands of American champagne, for example, are made after the French formula and process, and are in every respect equal to the French champagne, though selling for only about half the price. It is probable that not one per cent of American champagne drinkers have ever given a fair trial to the really fine champagnes of the leading American producers. Therefore it may be said that ignorance as well as prejudice is at the bottom of this folly of spending ten or fifteen million dollars a year for foreign wines that are no better than, often not as good as, the wines of American production. If Americans were better informed as to the real quality and merit of their domestic wines they would drink more of them and less of the imported wines. Keeping at home the $10,000-000 or more spent every year for French champagnes would be of vast benefit to the growers of grapes and the laborers in vineyards and wine cellars. Allike as a gastronomic and an economic proposition there is much force in the plea for a larger consumption of domestic wines. For the first few months after the election of President McKinley in 1896 on the protection and prosperity platform we heard frequent inquiries on the part of the enemy as to why prosperity was lagging so long behind its advance agent. Facetious suggestions were made in respect to the advisability of inserting in the newspapers a "lost, strayed or stolen" notice for General Prosperity. Those scintillating free-trade witticisms no longer shine forth to dazzle a long suffering public. It has been many a day since any free-trader cared to assert that prosperity had not come in with protection. Now, instead of making facetious inquiries as to the whereabouts of General Prosperity, the free-traders devote themselves to claiming that the formerly much praised General Prosperity is an unattractive gentleman of protruding stomach, who appeals to men's appetites instead of to their hearts and brains. The great majority of the people of the country, however, have found him to be a very pleasing guest and are more than willing to entertain him for an indefinite period. Four years more are already arranged for, and at the end of that time the invitation will, without doubt, be renewed. THE MAN WHO WORKS. OVERTIME DOUBLE PAY HIGH WAGES Free-Trade and Lost Trade. President Robertson, of the British Chamber of Commerce, said, in a recent speech, that the reason for the decline which had come in British trade with the United States, France and Germany was to be found in the protective policy which was in force in each of those three countries; and he prophesied that the time would surely come when Great Britain would be obliged to follow the example set by the countries referred to and enact a protective tariff law. British freetrade sentiment is evidently accompanying British trade in its decline. No nation is willing to play a losing game forever, and Cobdenism has been a losing game for Great Britain for many a day. That it was not a losing game from the beginning was due solely to the fact that Great Britain had, under her former policy of protection, made herself greatly superior in industrial resources to all other countries. That, in spite of the great industrial advantage which England possessed when she adopted Cobden's economic theories, she has so soon fallen behind in the race for commerce is one of the most serious indictments against the policy of free-trade which could possibly be made. Thoroughly Discredited The tariff duties per capita last year amounted to but $3.01. Even if the tariff tax were a tax on the consumer, which it has been conclusive y povel not to be, in the vast majority of cases, this would be a small amount to pay for the inestimable benefits, for the unparalleled prosperity which the people of this country have enjoyed under the Dingley law. We have a surplus instead of a deficit, and that, too, in time of war. American factories have been crowded with ords, labor has been everywhere employed at high wages, and the supply of men at work has fallen short of the demand for workmen. An immense balance of trade has been rolled up in our favor, the United States has been changed from a debtor nation into a creditor nation, and New York has been made the financial center of the world. The old-time and well-known free t'arey about the "burden" which a protective tariff lays upon the people of this country has never been more thoroughly discredited than it is today. Always a Demagogne. The Commoner, Bryan's paper, must be very common, when it resorts to the stale -tick of picking up one or even several industries and from the fact that they are suffering from a temporary depression attempt to prove that the country generally is not prosperous. But Windy Wilkie will always be a demagogue whether he is engaged in running for office or publishing a newspaper. In all of the reasons given for the depression in the textile trade not one of them has any bearing on the industrial or financial policy of the `government. If Mr. Bryan was hunting for evidence of prosperity he could have found it a great deal nearer home.—Lewiston (Mont.) Argus. A1 Undertow Effect The waves of prosperity have not only washed away all the arguments of Bryanism, but they have caught a whole lot of former rabid Bryanites in the undertow and carried them back to their Republican affiliations.—Minneapolis Tribune. Solidly Based. If general business conditions had been rotten or unsound the recent Wall street panic would have spread everywhere and convulsed the country. The fact that it did not shows that McKinley prosperity is very solidly based.-Indianapolis Journal. Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. 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The most atrocious dual murder and suicide in the history of Gentry county, Mo., occurred four miles from Albany the other day. A young farmer of the name of W. E. McConkey murdered Louis Briant and his son, Paul Briant, with a piece of a rail and then killed himself. All the parties concerned were of excellent standing as citizens and worth considerable property. On account of the total absence of a motive it is generally assumed that the murderer was demented. In the early morning McConkey arose from his bed, and when his wife asked him where he was going, he told her he heard something bothering the chickens. He had on only a nightshirt and did not stop to put on anything more. This was the last seen of him until he appeared at the home of Louis Briant, a half mile distant. He knocked at the door and when it was opened by the elder Briant, McConkey said that he wanted Paul, the son, to go with him to kill a poecat under a culvert a short distance from the house. The old man remarked that Paul had been out celebrated the Fourth and had gone to bed late, and he had better not call him, offering to go with McConkey himself. McConkey said that he preferred Paul, because he could see better than his father. Mr. Briant then called his son and they both went with McConkey to the culvert. What took place there only the two murdered men and the suicide could tell. Paul Briant appeared to have his arms in the culvert when struck with a heavy stick, probably a piece of an oak rail, across the back of the head. His father was found at the other end of the culvert in about the same position and with a similar wound. Soon after her husband left the house Mrs. McConkey heard a pistol shot. The men failing to return within a reasonable time she had a sister to go and investigate the cause of his long absence. She found the two murdered men in the position described, and about one hundred feet away in the barn yard she saw the stark form of W. E. McConkey sitting in a buggy. On the seat beside him was a revolver with five loads and some cartridges arranged in a row. He had shot himself in the mouth, the ball coming out at the top of his head and going through the buggy top. Coroner L. H. Peery held an inquest and the verdict returned was that the murdered men had met death at the hands of the suicide, W. E. McConkey. The two families were the best of friends and the motive for the crime is unknown. FIRE IN MISSOURI TOWN. Business Portion of Polo Completely Wiped Out. The business part of Polo, Mo., was almost completely wiped out by fire the Fourth. About fourteen business houses and a few residences were burned. The loss aggregates about $50,000. Principal losses are McNeil and Ostorider, dry goods, $2,200; C. B. Reed, drugs, $4,800; W. M. Hunt, drugs, $1,200; Farmers' bank, $2,000; M. P. Prior, furniture, $2,000. Only a few buildings were insured. The local telephone system was also damaged considerably. The fire originated in a dental office, but the cause is unknown. AMERICAN FLAG TORN DOWN. Objected to Seeing it Flying in Honor of the Fourth. Victoria, B. C., had a little flag incident the 4th. George Jeeves, a contractor and a leading spirit in all patriotic demonstrations, took exception to the display of an American flag at the store of a merchant during a band concert and to tore it down. Jeews had asked the merchant to remove the flag, and being told that anybody who removed it would get "licked" to the flag down. That ended the incident. Iowa Town Burned. A report has reached here that the town of Dallas Center, Iowa, twenty-five miles west of Des Moines, has been destroyed by fire. All communication with Dallas Center has been cut off and there are no details. Later information from the Dallas Center fire is that eight business houses with their contents were destroyed, with an estimated loss of $30,000. The names of the losers are as yet not known. Scraked His Skull With His Flat. Cracked His Skull With His Fist. In an altercation at Eureka Springs, Ark., Fred Christie fractured the skull of William Morgan, former hardware merchant, with a blow of his fist. Christie first knocked Morgan against a saloon bar and a second blow from above fractured the outer shell of the cranium. Church Burned by Lightning The Superior Street Bartist church at Cleveland, Ohio, a $20,000 structure, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Fattest Baby in Missouri. The fattest baby in Missouri is Carl Hatcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hatcher, of Rich Hill, Mo. On June 2, when he was eleven months old, he weighed forty-four pounds. He was gaining at the rate of from three to five pounds per month, and on July 2, when he was a year old, he tipped the beam at almost fifty pounds. William Sullivan was killed and three others were rendered unconscious by lightning at ois Blanc island, Mich. FREE TRADE SOON. Bars Between Porto Rico and U. S. to be Let Down. In a joint session lasting three hours, the Porto Rican assembly unanimously passed the free tade resolution. The assembly hall was crowded with people and cheers greeted the announcement that Governor Allen had signed the resolution. The free trade resolution begins with a preamble in which reference is made to section 3 o the Foraker law. The resolution then continues: "The Porto Rican assembly, in extra session and acting pursuant to the instructions of Congress, does hereby notify the President of the United States that, by virtue of the Hollander act and other acts, it has enacted and put into operation, a system of local taxation to meet the necessity of insular government, and it hereby directs that a copy of this joint resolution be presented to the President of the United States, and it requests that Governor Allen deliver the resolution in question to President McKinley, to the end that the proclamation may be made by him, and, if it shall seem wise and paper to the President of the United States, the assembly requests that his proclamation be issued July 25, as that day is being established a legal Porto Rican holiday to commemorate the coming of the American flag." The action of the assembly is considered to be the most important taken by it since the inauguration of Governor Allen. SIX BAGS OF GOLD GONE. Someone Has Stolen $30,000 From the United States Mint Six bags of gold, each containing $5,000 in $20 gold pieces, have disappeared from the San Francisco mint as though spirited away by magic. No trace of the thief has been discovered, though Superintendent Leach and his face, assisted by Director of the Mint Roberts and his staff of experts have been at work on the mystery since Saturday noon, June 29, when the shortage was discovered. At first it was supposed that there was an error in the books or in counting the bags, but it was soon found that the money had been stolen. The annual count of the coin had been begun. The mint officials, to assist in the work and anxious to have everything correct, went over the money and accounts just ahead of the examiners and during the lunchtime hour discovered that six bags were missing from the $25,000,000 in gold in the cashier's vault. Superintendent Leach was at once informed and he notified Director Roberts of the shortage. The books were gone over at once in the expectation of finding an error, but it was found that the cashier's books balanced wth those of the other departments and called for the $30,000 that was missing. The officials were then forced to the conclusion that somebody acquainted with the inside affairs of the mint had taken the money. USED THEIR STILETTOS Three Italians Kill Two of a Family Party and Wounded Three Philip Eidenaur, his wife and their baby visited Mr. Eidenaur's parents near Stubenville, Ohio, and when they left for home the elder Eidenaur and his family accompanied them part of the way. Three Italians, members of a railroad gang, encountered the party and some remarks were made which angered them. The three Italians pulled out stiletto and killed the father and William Eidenaur almost instantly; cut Philip frightfully, and after stabbing Mrs. Philp Eidenaur and Robert, fled. The dead: Jacob Eidenaur, aged 80, stabbed in the heart: William Eidenaur, son, left jugular vein cut and stabbed in the heart. The injured: Robert Eidenaur, a son, cut on both arms; Philp Eidenaur, a son, stabbed over the eyes, in the right breast and on the leg, may die; Mrs. Jacob Eidenaur, aged 80, stabbed in the left side, may die. FOUGHT AFTER FATAL WOUND. Brothers-in-Law Engage in a Terrible Fight. After D. R. Proudfoot had been fatally shot near Checotah, t. by J. J. Stell, his brother-in-law. Proudfoot; almost clubbed Stell to death with the latter's gun. In a previous altercation Proudfoot shot Stell in the arm with a small tag rife. Later friends made a truce between them, but afterwards, it is claimed. Stell waylaid Proudfoot in a cornfield and shot him through the body with a Winchester. After Proudfoot was shot he took the Winchester away from Stell; and struck him over the head several blows, fracturing his skull. He then walked a quarter of a mile to his nome and dropped dead just as he entered the door. Deputy Marshall Frank Jones arrested Stell and lodged him in jail at Muskogee. He is in a critical condition. Stell's family is prominent in Northern Texas. Both Proudfoot and Stell were prominent farmers. Michigan Aeronaut Killed. Frank Tazelow, an aeronaut from Grand Rapids, was killed at Muskegon, Mich., while making a cannon parachute drop. When the balloon had reached a height of 1,000 feet, the ropes holding the cannon broke and the big gun containing Tazelow dropped into Muskegon lake. Tazelow's body was found in a terribly mangled condition. Tazelow was an assistant of Professor Misell, and this was his second ascension. The accident was witnessed by thousands of people. May Last Another Year A London dispatch announces that the peace negotiations have failed, and it revives keen interest in the oer war. Dispatches from the front say the Boers still have 13,000 men in the field and declare that, unless the war can be finished during the next two months, the prospect is that it will continue for another year. The papers again urge the government to make vigorous efforts and to make no further attempts at negotiation. BY LIGHTNING PLAYED HAVOC AMONG A FISHING PARTY. THREE KILLED AND THREE INJURED Party Sought Refuge Under a Big Sycamore Tree — Lightning Entered Their Bodies at the Waist Line and Emerged Through the Soles of Their Feet— Other News. A bolt of lightning instantly killed three men, fatally injured a boy and seriously injured a man and a boy, members of a St. Louis, Mo., fishing party, who had sought refuge from a fierce storm beneath the shelter of a massive sycamore tree on the bank of Dead Creek, at Cahokia, Ill. Dead: William Inghauser, 32 years old. John L. DeGraff, 18. The fishing party had had excellent luck and big strings of fish were hurriedly tied to saplings on the bank of the creek while the fishermen sought refuge from the storm. The point at which the men were fishing is some distance from the village of Cahokla, and instead of seeking a farm house, the men and boys gathered around a small sycamore tree a hundred feet from where they had been fishing. Suddenly the tree was wrapped with a brilliant phosphor light. The reverberation which followed was heard for miles. When the citizens of Cahokla discovered the party they found three of them dead, and had much difficulty in resuscitating the others. None of the bodies was badly marked, the lightning showing its effect principally in the feet of each member of the party. The bolt was of the proverbial freakish sort. The point of contact was at the waist line of each individual, traversing the limbs in each instance and escaping into the earth. Missouri Reciep's for June Secretary of State Sam B. Cook reports having received and paid into the Missouri state treasury taxes and fees for June, 1901, as follows: Notarial commissions, $540; domestic corporation tax, $22,160; foreign corporation tax, $565; miscellaneous fees, $497.50; land department fees, $28.25; recording railroad contracts, $39; bank inspector fees, $1.180; total, $35,009.75. A Deposit of Pearls Near an Iowa Town. A pearl that was found near Lansing, Iowa, the other day, sold for $1,800. It was found on the clam bed which produced the "Queen Mary" pearl a month ago, although it weighs less—sixty-six grains—it is a much finer gem. No less than twelve pearls were found there in one day last week. Empress Dowager Sees a Plot A dispatch from Shanghai, Cina, says: "Marquis Tseng has received a message from Sian Fu to the effect that the empress dowager refuses to return to Pekin because she fears a trap to capture her. She has notified the grando council that the future capital will be Kai Feng Fu, in the province of Ho Nan. Hlawatha Man is Parole Agent The appointment of J. W. Liebengood, of Hiawata, as parole agent of the Kansas Industrial reformatory has been made public by the board of managers. The office of parole agent is a new one and the duties of the office will be to keep track of the paroled men. The salary is $1,000 a year. Four Babies at a Birth Mrs. W. H. Burnett, of Dunlay, Tex. recently gave birth to four children, all of whom are doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have had ten children born to them in the five years of their married life, including the four mentioned, a set of triplets and a set of twins. Tried to End His Life R. R. Lewis, an employee of the Emery-Blind-Theray Dry Goods Co., at Kansas City, went to the Morgan house in that place, engaged a room and in twenty minutes shot himself. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where physicians operated on him. His father lives in Topeka, Kan. Seven Men Drowned the tug Fern of Algonac. Mich. founded off Eagle River with a crew of five men, all of whom are lost. Two were Frank Johnson, of Eagle River, and Will Anderson, of Eagle Harbor, and the others are unknown. The wreck of the yacht Marguerite, of Hancock, has also been discovered. Two men are supposed to have been lost on her. Camerle's Gift to Petrol George W. Radford, member of the Detroit, Mich., public library board, has received a letter from Andrew Carnegie stating that Mr. Carnegie will contribute $750,000 toward the erection of a new public library building in Detroit. Wichita Elevator Burned The Rock Island grain elevator at Topeka, Kan., caught fire and was entirely consumed. It is a total loss. The elevator was in the railroad yards district. Whirlwind in a Tonga Park A whirlwind tore down the stage of Crawford's summer theater at Topeka, Kan., and caused the lights to go out. A panic followed, 500 people making a dash to get out of the tent. A score of women were injured, but none seriously. Found Dead in My Cell James Manning, who was arrested a few days ago at El Reno, Oka., and was placed in jail, was found dead in his cell. No cause is assigned for his TORNADO STRIKES SING SING. Windows Blown in, Roof Torn off and Convicts Frightened. A tornado struck the shores of the Hudson river near Ossining, N. Y., cutting a path two miles or more long and several hundred feet wide. All along its course trees were uprooted, buildings unroofed and windows blown in. No houses were blown down as far as reported, neither were there any fatalities as far as can be learned. The tornado embraced practically the whole village, and the Sing Sing prison was in the very center of the storm's path. There was great excitement and considerable damage. Almost every window on the water side of the prison was blown in, and the rain and yellow mud scooped by the wind was driven through the prison in every direction. The prisoners had just been locked in their cells for the night, when the blast hit the place. They set up an awful howling and screaming. Their terror was intensified when, a moment after, the windows were blown in. there was a ripping and roaring sound by the wind tearing off the roof of the administration building. The roof of a shop was also torn away. Through the village, trees were torn up by the roots. Some of these were large and some of these were hurled into houses, crushing in the sides and carrying away porches and eaves. Fireman Badly. Scalded. Dan Moler, fireman of the south bound local, met with a serious accident six miles south of Guthrie, Okla. The arch pipe of the locomotive burst and the escaping steam and boiling water scalded him in a serious manner. When the pipe burst the engine was running the limit of speed. Moler was shoveling in coal at the time and the force of the explosion blew him thirty feet out of the cab. He escaped with no broken bones, but was severely bruised and scalded. He was taken to Guthrie and received medical aid and sent to the hospital at Topeka, Kan. Cargo of Klondike Gold. The steamship Victoria has arrived at Seattle, Wash., from Skaguaay with seventy-five Dawsonites and between $800,000 and $1,000,000 in gold, part of the spring cleanup in the Klondike district. The Victorian left Skaguaay on June 27. Of the gold $510,000 was consigned to the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and $20,000 direct to the United States assay office. The remainder was divided among the passengers. H. L. Miller, the well known cattleman of Seattle, is reported to have brought $100,000. Here Couldn't Wait to be He Willie Jones, an 8-year-old orphan boy of Topeka, Kan., shot himself through the left hand with a Fourth of July revolver, producing a bad wound. Adam Noble, a 12-year-old boy, also of Topeka, was shot in the leg by a playmate while they were testing their Fourth of July pistols. The pistol was loaded with a chunk of lead. The wound is a serious one although the leg will not have to be amputated. Small Tornado at Mexico, Mo A small-sized tornado came down near Mexico, Mo., and swept trees and fences in its path. The cloud was very small and the damage was very slight. Large trees were blown down and across the wagon roads, making it necessary to call the county road commissioners to clear the roads. The heat and drought continue, the thermometer going to 104. Notice to Missouri Banks. Notice is being sent by Secretary of State Sam B. Cook to every bank in Missouri, requiring them to comply with the law by making a report to the state bank examiner whenever called upon by that official. The notice will reach sixty-three national and 641 state banks. After every bank has reported the matter will be prepared in tabular form for publication. Killed by a Vicious Horse. Andrew Ingemanson, a Swedish farmer living near Marquette, Kan., was killed by a vicious horse. He went into the pasture to catch the animal and became entangled in the rope by which it had been tied and was dragged to death. When found he was dead, his neck was broken and one arm torn off. Kansas Wheat Burned Salline county, Kan, has had two prairie fires last week, caused by sparks from railroad engines. One field was five acres, and another big fire destroyed twenty-five acres of wheat for John Gephart, just east of Salina. The railroad company sent men to help extinguish the flames. Fatal Game of Train Robbery. The 5-year-old son of James Labyer, who was shot by a little playmate at Stillwater, Okla., died. The boys had a revolver and were playing train robbers and when the Labyer boy refused to hold up his hands, the other boy shot him through the head, the wound resulting fatally. Little Whirlwind Pardoned. Little Whirlwind, the life prisoner at Helena, Mont., whose case was taken up by the Indian Rights Association and his pardon urged, is a free man. The state board of pardons has indorsed the action of Governor Toole in ordering him set at liberty. Shot His Wife and Himself Rollin Hawkins, a farmer residing near Newton Falls, Ohio, shot and killed his wife and then tried to shoot himself, but was not seriously injured. The couple had quarreled. Decrease in Public Debt. The statement of the public debt just issued from Washington shows that at the close of the fiscal year, June 20, 1901, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,044,739,120, a decrease during June of $17,737,374. This decrease is accounted for in the main by an increase in the cash on hand. The only way to avoid gossip is not to have any neighbors. How mysterious two men when talking lodge business! ELEVEN KILLED VICTIMS WERE CAUGHT UNDER CHICAGO PIER. ONLY ONE OF THE CROWD.ESCAPES Day of Thunderstorms and Weather Surprises—They Were Hiding From the Storm When a Heavy Lightning Bolt Killed all of them But One. Crowded together in a little zinc-lined shanty, under a North Shore pier, at Chicago, ten boys and young men and one old man met instant death by lightning. They had left their fish lines and sought shelter from the fierce thunderstorm that deluged the north part of the city. Ten minutes later their bodies lay, with twisted and mangled limbs, "like a nest of snakes," as the man who found them said. There were twelve who sought shelter and just one escaped. Twelve-year-old Willie Anderson was uninjured, but he lay many long minutes before he could be drawn out from under the heap of dead bodies. The dead are all from the families of comparatively poor people and comprised a party of men who were fishing and seeking rest from the heat. The names of the dead are: George Brabinat, 11 years of age; Meyer Jacobs, 45 years of age; George Priebles, 12 years of age; Frank Coosey, 11 years of age; Carl Kruse, 18 years of age; Edward Bloch, 23 years of age; unknown man, supposed to be Broderick; unknown man; three unknown boys. There were thirteen men and boys on the pier at the time. They rushed for the only available shelter and crowded themselves in through the little trap door in the top of the cabin till they were packed almost to a suffocating point. Then came the thunderbolt. It was the worst of the storm. Watchers in the pumping station saw the sig-zag lightning strike the water, as they thought. They did not know of its fearful work. There was one small boy, however, who saw the bolt, and whose senses were all alert, despite his excitement. But for him the dead might have lain where they were for hours, and little Willie Anderson might have been safefounded under '3eir bodies. Percy Keane, clad in bathing trunks and clawing from the water station, thought he heard a scream as the bolt struck. Mindless of the storm he rushed across the beach. At the pier he heard a cry, "Help-Get me out." He looked into the cabin and in dismay saw the twisted bodies. Young Percy, crying, pulled at the dead men's arms and legs to get them away. He saw Willie Anderson's head and part of his body, but he could not pull him out, nor could he pull the heavy bodies on from top of him. Then young Kane telephoned to the police, who succeeded after a great deal of difficulty in reviving young An- ROBBED DYING MAN. Thief Confesses to Having Taken Money From Body of Man Hurt. Charles Roberts, a well known character about Carbondale, III., has been placed under arrest charged with robbery. The crime, which he confessed, is a most unusual one. A. T. Casher, a brakeman on the Illinois Central, was fatally injured, and as he lay dying on a stretcher in front of the doctor's office Roberts went through his pockets, securing five gold pieces. A large crowd was present but did not see the crime committed. After a sweating process by the officers, Roberts confessed. The feeling against the man is intense and the officers were warned to get him out of the city before dark, a precaution which was taken. Robbed Harvest Hands. Two lone highwaymen relieved eight harvest hands of their all at the Rock Island depot at Wichita, Kan., and made their escape, leaving no clue as to their identity. The eight men were on their way to Peck and intended to take a local freight to their destination. They were all asleep awaiting the departure of their train when they were rudely awakened and told to deliver. The two highwaymen emphasized their demands by pointing four ugly looking pistols at the victims. The latter gave up their all, after which the robbers thanked them and escaped. About $50 was secured. Ditched an Atlantic Express The Atlantic express upon the Pennsylvania railroad, known as train No. 21, was ditched at the east end siding, two miles east of Greensburg, Pa. Only three passengers were hurt, and their injuries were not of a serious nature. The other passengers escaped with a shaking it. It is thought that the accident was a deliberate attempt at train wrecking. The switch had been turned and the lock broken. Tortured a Rich Mans Family. Six masked men entered the summer home of Jacob L. White, just over the Pennsylvania line, near Wheeling, W. Va. They overpowered, bound and gagged the seven occupants of the house and ransacked for valuables. They secured $3,000 in money and as much again in jewelry. Mr. White and his aged wife and their daughter were tortured by having lighted matches applied to their bodies and their skin lacerated by needles. White is a millionaire oil operator. Kansas Farmer Kills Himself. August Goethals, of Belgian descent, about 40 years of age, living near Shawnee, Kan., committed suicide by shooting himself, the discharge from the shotgun tearing the top of his head off. He was arrested a few days ago for poisoning cattle belonging to R. Coenan, because the cattle were on his premises. A boy is looked down upon by other boys if he can't make a willow whistle. ABOUT $76,000,000. Fiscal Year Just Ended Shows a Heavy Surplus The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 20, shows an excess of receipts over disbursements of approximately $76,000,000. This is only about $4,000,000 below the estimate made by congress at the beginning of the last session in December, 1900, at which time the secretary estimated that the receipts from customs would be about $245,000,000. The final figures will fall short of this amount by about $6,000,000. The receipts from internal revenue sources were estimated last December at $300,-000,000, while the final figures show over $207,000,000. The receipts from miscellaneous sources were estimated at $34,600,000. These also show a considerable increase. The expenditures for the year will be $7,000,000 in excess of the estimate. During the fiscal year 1900, the surplus revenues amounted to nearly $24,000,000, while the surplus of the present year will reach $76,000,000 and possibly a still higher figure. In view of the fact that the revenue reduction bill passed at the last session of congress will go into operation at the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, treasury officials estimate that the loss from this source will be about $40,000,000. It is not expected, however, that the net reduction from this source will reach that amount, as the officials look forward to a year of even greater prosperity than the one just closing. If this expectation is realized, the officials believe that the revenues from internal sources alone will be not more than $30,000,000 below the figures of the present year. It is also confidently expected that the receipts from customs will materially increase during the coming twelve months, so that allowing the reduction made in the last revenue bill, the total receipts from all sources, may even reach or exceed those of the fiscal year of 1901. A PHILIPPINE TR:DE SHOWING Increased Imports and Exports at Manila During the Last Year A statement of the trade of the Philippine islands during the calendar year of 1900, made public by the division of insular affairs, shows a marked increase over a year ago. The value of imported merchandise, gold and silver for 1900 is set down at $27.3 million dollars. This, according to the war department's statement, was the greatest importation for any single year in the history of the archipelago. In 1899 the imports amounted $20.2% million dollars in value, thus showing an increase of nearly 36 per cent. It shows as regards the statistics of imports from the United States that they do not include a large amount of merchandise that is imported indirectly, including such staples as wheat, flour, meat products, cotton manufactures and many other articles. The imports from the United States direct for 1900 show an increase of $801,334 over those of 1899. The total value of merchandise, gold and silver exported from the Philippines during the calander year 1900 amounted to 26% million dollars, against 19 millions for 1899. The exports to the United States were nearly $3,000,000. PLENTY OF FREE LANDS. More Than 300,000 Acres Open to Homestead Entry in Kansas There are still 303,210 acres of land in the Wakeeney, Kan., land district open to homestead entry. The vacant lands in Rooks, Ellis, Trego and Ness counties are rough and not very desirable, but homeseekers will find good opportunities in the other counties. During the past year there have been 575 entries made at the Wakeeney land office, comprising 84,700 acres. The number of homeseekers coming into that district is increasing daily. The following will show the number of acres in the district still subject to homestead entry by counties: Rooks, 400; Sheridan, 40; Thomas, 200; Sherman, 7,600; Ellis, 5,160; Trego, 2,680; Gove, 34,880; Gloan, 60,560; Wallace, 70,110; Ness, 4,140; Lane, 17,120; Scott, 31,640; Wichta, 14,480; Greeley, 54,200; total 303,210. Twin Babies Killed by Train. Leo and Leonard Cook, 18-months-old twin babies, were run over by a Central Branch passenger train near the town of Woodston, in Rooke county, Kan., and both instantly killed. One of them was cut in two above the stomach and mangled in the most horrible manner. They were the children of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cook, who live on a farm near the railroad track. They crawled out to the track during their play and sat on the rails. The engineer of the approaching train was unable to see them until he was upon them. Georgia Negro Disappears. Billy Magruder, colored, who had been arrested for trying to enter a young woman's bedroom at Georgetown, Ga., was taken from jail by masked men. He has not been heard of since. Kansas Burglars Convicted John Neely, Charles Powers and James McCall were found guilty in the district court at McPherson, Kan., of grand larceny. They robbed a store in Roxbury. They will not be sentenced for several days. George Smith, who was arrested on the same charge, will not be tried until the next term of court. No, Maude, dear; it doesn't require a musical conductor to lead a rubber band. Inventof Kills Himself Irving S. Smith, 58 years of age, an inventor of a number of steam and electrical engines, committed suicide in New York city by shooting himself in the head. The Northern Pacific panic in Wall street caused a firm which was to have financed one of his inventions, an electric motor, to abandon the project, and this made him despondent. Life with a man who has no bad habits must be exceedingly monotonous. Science Improves Upon Nature The eminent French chemist, M. H. mand Gautier, has reported a discovery to the Paris Academy of science which may prove of great hygienic value, says Consult-German Guenther of Frankfort. He has found that the finely powdered volcanic stones, treated by boiling in water at a temperature of 250 to 300 degrees C, yield a liquid identical in composition with the ordinary sulphur water or mineral springs, except that it is stronger than the latter. "Papering Up!" Silly Scoot books. Silk goods should not be folded in white paper, as the chloride of silk used in bleaching the paper will pare the color of the silk. Brown or blue paper is better; yellow paper is better still. Silk intended for dress should not be kept in the hose long, as lying in folds causes it to crack or split. White satin dress should be pinned up in blue paper with coarse brown paper on the curved side, sewed together at the edges. Champagne Cap Cut two ripe nectarines into slices, also half a large orange and a lemon, taking care to remove the pips. Serve two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar over the fruit, then add a white glass of brandy and half the quantity of chartreuse. Place the jug containing the ingredients either on ice or an icebox for an hour, then add a quart of ice champagne. Remove the fruit and pour in a pint of ice selvatio or apollinaris water. Comparative Value of Life Of the metals our pig-iron is worth almost as much as all others in 1889 being given at $245,000,000. Copper comes next, with $104,000,000, and the $71,000,000 in gold is third. The market value of the silver produced in 1889 was about $3,000,000 and the lead and zinc together were worth about a much. Quicksilver aluminum, and mony, nickel and platinum are the other metals that figure in the table. Better Than "Christian Science" Jetmore, Kans., July 1st.—Mrs. Ann Jones Freeman, daughter of Mr. G. Jones of Burdett, and one of the most popular ladies in Hodgman County has been a martyr to headache for years. It has made her life a continuous misery to her. She suffered pains in the small of the back, and had every symptom of Kidney and Urinary Trouble. Today she is as well as any lady in the state. This remarkable change was due entirely to a remedy recently introduced here. It is called Dodd's Kidney Pills and many people claim it to be an ill-fairable cure for Kidney Disease Rheumatism and Heart Trouble. Mrs. Freeman heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and almost with the first dose, she grew better. In a week, her headaches and other pains had gone and she had left behind her all her illness and days of misery. A medicine that can do for any one what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for this lady, is very sure soon to be universally used, and already the demand for these pills has increased wonderfully in Pawnee and Hodge man Counties, where the particulars of Mrs. Freeman's case and its cure are known. Consumption of Coal on Steamship The Parls and New York of the American line (20 knots) burn about 300 tons of coal daily to produce 500 horse-power. The Cunarders, Le cania and Campania (22 knots) burn 475 tons to produce 30,000 horse- power. The Kaiser Wilhelm burns more than 500 tons and the Deutschland more than 560 tons daily. The coal bunker of the American line contain 2500 tons, while those of the Deutschland have a capacity of 4,800 tons. Wheat Belt Around Wichita The Kansas wheat belt centers around Wichita. Within a hundred-mile radius of the town fully 60 percent of the wheat of Kansas was raised, while in seventeen counties of southern and central Kansas 50 percent of the yield was reaped. In northern Kansas but little wheat is raised. Godmother on Whole Pine Scale Ex-Empress Eugenie of France is not only godmother to the children of an immense number of personal friends, but also to 3,384 of her husband's subjects who were born on March 16, 1855, the day that her son, the 111-faced prince imperial, first saw the light. YELLOWSTONE PARK Extended tour, leisurely itinerary with long stops in the Park. Private coaches for exclusive use on the drive Pullman sleeping and dining cars Established limit to number going Escort of the American Tourist Association, Reau Campbell, General Manager, 1423 Marquette Building, Chicago. Colorado ail Alaska tours also. Tickets include all Expenses Everywhere Train leaves Chicago via Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Tuesday, July 9, 10.00 p. m. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man know when the baby cries. Are You Using Allen's Foot Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunlons. 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. Mention a new dress, and the wearer is sure to tell you what it cost. Red Cross Ball Blue makes clothes whiter than snow. Large package 5c. We all have a habit of telling in a fierce manner what we are going to do to our enemies. SOZODONT for the TEETH 25c For the Ladies. PRIESMEYER SHOE CO. SHOES THAT WEAR. Ask Your Dealer For Them. W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 27, 1901 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Great. Use on the Bite. Good for diarrhea. CONSUMPTION ---