The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country HONESTY, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMY SHOULD BE OUR TRINITY FOR THE FUTURE, OUR RACE, THEIR ENTERPRISES! GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOLLOWING CLOSELY. ON THE SKIRMISH LINE. A GLOOMY FUTURE FOR THE NEGRO - MUCH TRUTH - COLORADO STATESMAN. VOL 14, NO.23 Opinion is crystallizing in the United States up on all matters affecting future relations between the races, black and white, and the consensus there amounts to unmistakable evidence that a great race conflict is going to be fought upon American soil during the early years of the Twentieth century. If this startling statement could be brought out clearly and impressively before the understanding of the Negro, perhaps he would better realize the necessity and wisdom of the immediate preparation for deadly conflict. His failure to understand, and the failure of this leaders to instruct and impress him with a realization of the material anger besetting him, are sad to contemplate. After deciding that a struggle is imminent, the first thing that a good general does is to plan and map out a line of battle, a movement or set of movements calculated to disconcert and overthrow the enemy, and to bring victory to the troops executing his well planned maneuvers. The forces having no such direction or leadership are almost sure to meet with disaster and defeat, and to go down in demoralization as ruin before the well directed assault of the superior enemy. The conflict and struggle between the white and blacks of this country whose coming is so confidently predicted probably will be a peaceful warefare rather than a material strife, for national morals are so constructed and the American people are so committed to pertained principles of liberty, that the dominant people will never offend the world's guage of humanity by attempting either to reexlave the latter and troubles Negro or to esternum him with the cannon and the sword. But this so-called peaceful conflict will be none the less deadly, its load of morsy and suffering will be, none the lighter, and its victims none the less nummets. This war is to be waged between the black and white American. The skirks rises which precede a great battle have been going on for a number of years, and are to be recognized in all the restraint and proscription which have been steadily and systematically raised against the Negro. The laws of distranchisement; the jim crow car laws without provision recognizing the right of classes; the unjust and discouraging decisions of the Supreme Court of the IN THE SUNNY SOUTH. REV. J. R. SMITH AT NASHVILLE TENN-SOME GOOD ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. A large crowd of young men assembled after church at the Gay-street Christian Church to listen to the address by Rev. J. R. Smith. He said in part: "I am glad that the Y. M. C. A. of America has thrown around the young age to the mandle of charity and bids him take part in this organization, which will influence their lives for good and save them from sin and vice. "The association is destined to make men better by constraining them to be better-minded; to cultivate sober thoughtfulness, practical wisdom, self-restraint and self-government in which all the faculties and appetites and passions are under the control of a sound judgment, an enlightened conscience." It influences a young man's life and makes him better by teaching him morals, ethics, cleanliness, physical culture, economy and last but not least, it points him to Jesus, his Savior, who takes away the mis of the world. The Apoptosis Peter gives us a good lesson in Corr, 16th chapter and 13th verse. He was a man of varied experiences and no man was more capable of giving advice to young men than he. He hear him as he says: "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith; quit ye like men, be strong." As young men you are commanded to watch, keep your eyes open, keep out of places of vice, infamy and crime. You don't use your eyes, many of you, till it is too late. The fascinations of life allure you on in the pits of an before you realize your position. In view of the possibilities of our nature of the perils that environ humanity, of the awful, remorseless mastery of evil habit, our attitude ought to b- one of constant watchfulness. "We live in an infested world, exposed to contagion, as a soldier in a beleged fortress, as a traveler in thickets where are murderers and will beast. Nothing is so essential to happiness hereafter as self-restraint here. Every man is either a master or servant of himself. "The ease by which habit may be overcome ought to make you so minded men. Not only dose Paul say watch, but he says stand fast in the faith. THE KA d Best Weekly ENTRY AND ECONOMY SHOULD KIRMISH LINE. RE FOR THE NEGRO - MUCH LORADO STATESMAN. United States which give one class of citizens the rights to legislate away the common liberties of another class of citizens, tax laws whose application depends upon the color of the taxpayer the ban of labor union and of merchant and ind aria justi ion; discriminations in the rental and sale of houses and lands, the closing of many avenues of labor and trade once open to the Negro; the steady growth of proscription and prejudice and the plainly increased determination of white men to steadily crowd the Negro entirely out if touch with all those conditions which have any important bearing upon the industrial, political, commercial, social or religious welfare of all the people, all these are the desultory but carefully planned movements by which planned movements by which our outposts are being steadily driven in. Now sociologists are taking up the race question openly and the sentiments of humanitarians are being boldly assailed by the prejudices of the masses. Occasionally, under a pretended flag of truce, our leaders are being called in to read soft worded essays on dreams and fancies of angelic relations, while the outer entrichments are being drawn closer about us. We have seen these grave indications growing up among us. They mean nothing the inevitable fact that a war to the death is being brought on by the white American against the black American. They are the aggressors, the besiegers while throughout the nation, we are on the defensive. There is no avoiding the fray. Appeals or prayers to no power can avert the struggle that is being forced upon the American Negro. Will he do putting to meet it? Will he make himself no better off than he is now? He must entrench himself somewhere to be saved. His race loyalty is like a read; his wealth is a myth. There should be some inherent force upon which he might depend; some caution to warn him of the folly of indifference and neglect. If nothing else can be done, let us begin to tell the Negro to "take to the woods." In them he may find the fortress-up which his security depends. ONE thing we should all learn is to acomodate ourselves to circumstances in early life, then we shall believe that this world is made for us There is no .disguising the fact that race prejudices is on the increase in this country. Standing fast is much more than res- solving to do better and joining some association or church, for these are the share bargainings. Standing fast in the faith is the abandonment of unbelief and the positive exercise of self-mastery, a quiet and generous fellowship and a communion with God as a daily feature of life. It looks for something yet to come as complete satisfaction like a wife waiting for her husband's return or a child anxious for its parents. The eye is turned away from self and a tempting world and fixed upon eternity. The process of self toward God is the development of faith that marks the power of an endless life AT PHILADELPHIA Annual Meeting National Afro-American Press Association. The twenty-second annual meeting of the National Afro-American Press Association will be held in Bethel A. M. E. Church, Philadelphia, Pa., Tuesday, August 6th, 1901. The meeting will be on the ground where the first Afro-American church in America was erected, and where the bones of the great founder now rest in a tomb but recently made for him. All editors or publishers of bona fide newspapers and periodicals published in the interest of the Afro-American race are entitled to membership in the Association. Each publication has but one vote. The time selected for the meeting is just one day prior to the meeting of the National Afro-American Council, so that it will be present at the Press Association- A special rate of a fare and a third on the certificate plan has been granted on all railroads to persons attending the National Afro-American Council, and editors may take advantage of that and attend both meetings. It is hoped that the session will be largely attended. Cyrus Field Adams, President. Geo. L. Knox, Vice President. Wm. H. Steward, Treasurer- A. L. Manley, Secretary- T. Thos. Fortune, Chm. Ex Com. The Sixth Annual Western Press Association holds forth this year at Colorado Springs August 5. 6 and 7th --- AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26. 1901. COLORED PEOPLE WILL HAVE THEATRE Ready to Back the Project With $20,000 Tired of Being Denied Admission to White Theatres A theatre for colored people exclusively, at which only colored talent will appear, is likely to be opened in Chicago soon. Negotiations for the lease of a theatre building are under way, and a colored stock company is proposed to furnish the attractions for the house. Several in financial colored men are beating the scheme, and one of them stands ready to invest $20,000 in the effort to make it a success. Full announcement of the plans may be expected in a few days if the negotiations now being carried on do not miscarry. It has long been a source of much exasperation to the leaders of colored society in Chicago that they could not secure box or orchestra seats in any of the theaters, no matter how much they were willing to pay or how soon they got in line before the box office window. When they requested any but a balcony ticket it always developed that the show was doing a rushing business, even if was losing money in reality, and the colored patron would be forced to take a balcony ticket or none at all. This has led to the plan of having a colored theatre in Chicago controlled by colored people and catering only to colored patronage. Havin's Theatre, later the Adelphil, will probably be the colored theatre of Chicago. Negotiation for its lease have been instituted by the promoters of the scheme, as it is the only available theatre near the colored quarter, it will doubtless be secured. The theatre building is owned by the Mutual Life Insurance Co., and has been vacant two years, so little trouble is expected in getting a lease under favorable conditions. Dr. George C. Hall, who has an office on State street near Harmon court, is the principal basker of the plan. Hesays it is ready to spend 20,000 to make it a success, back of Dr. Hall stands. Carris, a white loan broker, of No. 492 State state. It was Mr. Carris who began the negotiation for the theatre building recently. He said that the terms had not been fixed but that he expected to get the lease on the building in a few days. The news that a colored theatre will soon be in operation was generally circulated along the "levee," and produced great joy among the many vaudeville artists and actors who frequent the "levee" resorts. Colored talent of late has not found the business what it used to be, and they see in the plan a revival of the good times old. The best known of the colored talent has been consulted and the word passed around that a colored stock company of colored actors will be formed. Saint Suttle, well known as a cakewalk artist, has been consulted by the promoters too the advisibility of forming a color company, and he is a much sought man accordingly. "Billy" Caldwell, of the vaudeville team of Caldwell and Henry is also in the confidence of the promoters and is the envoy of the colored professor. REAL ESTATE YOUR CHANCE FOR A HOME ON EASY PAYMENTS. "Home" what to tender recollections linger around that word—what a train of deep buried memories "Home Sweet Home" There is really no argument to advance why everybody should own a home and more especially the Negro. Here is a bargain among bargains. No. 1108 Everett avenue 4 room cottage, good cistern, lot 25x150 for $375 00 $100 00 down and $10.00 per month with 6 per cent interest. Nos. 1225, 1327 Barnett avenue' Four room cottages newly painted, beautiful shade trees. Lots 25x125. Sells for $750, 00, $75 00 down $10, 00 per month, 6 per cent interest. Nos. 2802, 2904, 2906, 3508 Hallock St. Four room cottages These beautiful little cottages are suitable for small families, are one block from the West Side elec- tric line and all have cisterns attached with lots 2x150, they can be bought for $75.00 each $100,00 down, balance$10 00 per month at 6 per cent, interest. The above are only a few samples, of W. S. Harris, the only Negro Real Estate Dealer in the city, office 206 Porus mouth building Tel. Wes 38. Give him a call. A NEGRO SAVES A MILLIONAIRE E. Burgess Warren of Philadelphia was Caught in a Capsized Yacht. Lake George, N. Y., July 20.—E. Burgess Warren of Philadelphia, millionaire and vice president of the Barber Asphalt, company, narrowly escaped drowning here by the capsize of his steam yacht Cyric. Mr. Warren was in the cabin he was unable to force his way to the deck. He had given himself up for lost when his valet, a negro, dived from the deck rail of the wrecked boat to the cabin windows and forced himself through the curtains to save his employer. TALES OF TWO CITIES EDITORIAL PICKINGS The public concert last Saturday evening in Haron park under the auspice of the 9. O. P. E. was an exceptionally rare treat and many hundred people of all classes turned out and partook of the raptroun melodies of the band It was the consensus of opinion that the concert ought to become an everySaturday night affair. Mrs. Lucy Brown an aged and well known old lady died at the home of her son Brown on Freeman Av. last Saturday night. Funeral at the First Baptist on last Tuesday Rev. Grant officiistig. Mrs Chas. Williams has returned from Ft. Scott where she spent a few days with friends her daughter Maymie will remain there for a few weeks longer. There was a mid-Summer concert and entertainment last night at the St James A. M. e. churen quite an enjoyable time was had. Harry Jackson, age 12 years was drowned in a pond at 11th and Nebraska Ave. Wednesday night. Mr. Adam Yancy of 341 Munn. Ave. who has been ill for sometime died Wednesday night He was an old soldier and member of the Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem He leaves a wife, 2 daughters. Funeral Sunday at 2 o'clock from the King Solomon Baptist church. The King Solomon, Mt. Zlon and Pleasant Green Baptist churches will give a grand barbecue and Union Picnic; at Kerr's park on Aug.5th Admission at the gate 10 cents. Send us your news let other people know what you are doing. Messrs.D F. Jones and J. M. H. Smith have returned from El Reno Ok. where they registered for a enance at the new lands. Those who are inclined to push the good work along and want to see the word of God preached in respectable and commodious buildings Have now a splendid opportunity There will be Financial Grand Rallies at the following Churches next Sabina July 28th. St James A. M. E. Church and effort will be made to raise $500.00 to pay on the bended indebtedness. Rt. Rev. Bishop C. T. Shaffer will deliver two sermons that will be Master pieces at 11:0'clock A. M. and 7:30 P. M. All the Ministers and their congregations are cordially invited as well as the public Rev.G. A. Griffith is the pastor in charge. The Willing Workers club of the Mount Pleasant office will have a rally also in which they expect to raise a handsome sum. All the Ministers and their congregations have a special invitation in connection with the public Rev. Jno. R. Richardson will The two Negroes arrested at the instigation of a white man and woman in Kansas City Mo', who were roaming around in a pasture at 11:0'clock at night and under pretense of shielding somebody and covering up somebody's dirt claimed that they were's saulted and the woman outraged, were discharged this week. On the bear testimony of these two people, two Innocent Negroes came in a hair breadth of being lynched-possibly burned. This is a case that should appeal to every law abiding Citizen throughout the country. A person who is not blinded by prejudice nor troubled with colorphobia can readily see how many hundred negroes are sent into eternity in the South land on the same kind of filmsy testimony, wherein the brutes are white. There are plenty of white men as low and brutish as the lowest of negroes-who would not hesitate to do anything-more especially when they can so easily shift it, on a negro. We have been informed of rape cases in the South where it was posed i.e. known that a white man did the same, yet the negroes were afraid to tell the truth. These very white men would often times be the leaders of a mob and the first to fasten the crime, wind around the negro such a web of circumstantial evidence, that they would often be tortured into a confession. We are never to be found advocating that all negroes are good or all white men good-yet in a country long known as the land of the free and the home of the brave." Where civilization is claimed to have reached its highest pitch-"Law and Order" should rule and every man should stand before the bar of justice presumed handle the gospel gun. This club will go farther then the rest of the organizations, for dinner will be prepared for the Mistresses and strangers who attend. Rev. Henry Chester is Master of ceremonies and Mr. Jas. W. Thatboler is president of the club. The Pleasant Green Baptist of which the Rev. Geo. McNeal is pastor, who believes in giving the devil a dose of "cyanide of Potassium, will in a Rally make the most supreme effort of their lives to raisefunds for thier Church A Rev. Mr. Holt will deliver an able sermon to the men and Rev. E. A Wilson the polished Minister of the M. b. Church will address the women- Mr Geo Gorden after absuse of years is in the city Nice furnished rooms with or without board 1500 N. 8th st. Cora Me Pherson Don't spend all you make this summer on excursions and attending camp meetings. Don't forget the Ministers Oratorical Contest at the First Baptist Mood say night by the Burlington Club Admission 10 cents Go see and hear. Call up "Blue 375" when you have anything in the news line. Old-Time Surgery. A grim souvenir of an old-time war was on view in a cutter's window in the east end of London recently. It is an ebony-handled saw, which, according to the inscription on a brass plate attached to the instrument, was used by a surgeon of the British army to amputate the limbs of wounded soldiers at Blenheim, Malplaquet and Ramallah. Banner Illinois Corn Counties Very few people, pechaps, are aware of the fact that in the counties of Coles, Douglas and Moultrie, in Illinois, three-fourths of all the broom corn used in the world is produced. The amount used in the whole world is 35,000 tons, of which 27,000 tons are grown in these counties. Too Good a Target. Hitherto the regiments of the Highland Brigade which have worn the kilt have presented an admirable mark for bullets by reason of the dark tartan of which the national costume is made. Orders have been now issued that all Highland corps are in future to wear a khaki apron in front. LADIES Expecting confinement should consult D- cheur. All female complaints, diseases piles. fistulas and all rectal diseases treated by the Mild Medicine Method. No pay if not cured. Dr Davis' Health institute, 6th and Kansas ave. Armourdale. to be innocent until truthfully preven to be otherwise. In all communities where Judge Lynch is the high King—the first message that is heralded to the country that the mob that did so and so, was mostly boys and the common class of poor whites. We take the liberty of saying that there never was a mob in any community where a negro was lynched but what there was a goodly sprinkling of the so called best white people, to urge it on. If nine tenths of the white women raped in this country would tell the truth there would be some startling disclosures made, and the negro would not be as black as he is painted. It seems that time is far off but—"truth crushed to earth will rise again." Somewhere and at sometime there will be an awakening. Tauric Acid on Metals Gold, silver, steel, aluminium and lead, when immersed in tauric acid, a new chemical discovery, becomes as pliable and ductile as putty. Tons of Gold in Use The amount of gold coin in actual circulation in the world is estimated to be about 865 tons. Krussian Photographer's Way. The Russian photographers have a strange way of punishing those who, having received their photographs, do not pay their bills. They hang the pictures of the delinquents upside down at the entrance to their studios. Bathing Saves Them. An army surgeon says that the English and American soldiers are so hardy because they, more than any other soldiers in the world, like to bathe, and keep themselves strong and hardy by tails means. CITIZEN THE NEGBO INCREASE THE SAME. A Comparison in Several States With the White Population. Washington July 20.-Further evidence that the negroes in the United States are increasing in number in about the same proportion as the whites is supplied by the official statistics of the census bureau for the state of Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Haiti, and Illinois, and the District of Columbia and the territory of Hawaii. Of these the returns from Illinois are interesting as showing the t tendency of the negroes to gr dualy work their way into Northern states. In 1890 Illinois had 57,028 inhabitants of negro descent, or 1.5 per cent of the population. In 1900 this had increased to 85,078 or 1.8 per cent of the total population in Illinois as in the other Northern states are in the cities. Chicago alone has 30,150 of the negroes of Illinois. Florida shows the largest percentage of increase in negro population of the states in the present group. In 1890 Florida had 166,180 negro or 42.5 per cent of the population. In 1900 the negro population of the state was 280,730 or 48.7 per cent of the total. In Georgia the percentage is the same as in 1890 and, though the negro population has increased from 858,815 to 1,054,948, the percentage of the total population of the state is 48.7 same as in 1890. Delaware and the District of Columbia both show slight decrease in the percentage of negro inhabitants. In 1890 Delaware had 28,386 negro inhabitants, or 16.9 percent. In 1900 the negro population had increased to 31,687, but the increase of the white population had been so much greater that the percentage of negroes to the total fall off to 16.6. District of Columbia had 75,572 negroes in 1890 or 32.8 per cent of the total population. The negro population had increased in 1900 to 85,702, but the percentage had fallen to 31.1. Idaho had 201 negroes or .24 per cent of the total population in 1890. In 1900 the negro population had increased to 293, but the percentage had fallen to .18. No comparison can be made for Hawaii, as it was not part of the United States when the census of 1890 The number of negroes in this islands in 1900 was 293. In the census figures Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian islanders and Indians are included with negroes under the heading "colord." This makes no appreciable difference in Delaware, Florida, Georgia or Illinois it, however brings the total percentage af. colored, up to 31.3 in the District of Columbia, 55.6 in a Hawaii and 4.5 in Idaho. TOPEKA NOTES. Mrs. Robert Williams of Oklahoma city is in the city visiting Mrs. A. Williams and family. Miss Sophia Andrews of Lawrence, spawn a few days in the city, last week the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jordan and family. W. F. Burkin is in the city this week on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright returned Saturday from Denver Colo. Mrs. Eiza Napier of Argentine who has been visiting her mother Mrs. Jas Phillips for the past month returned home Wednesday. Mrs. Nannie Finley of Bonville Mo. is visiting friends and relatives in the city. Prof. Wars of Oklahoma spent last week in town visiting friends. Miss Missouri Beaning entertained the Golden Rod Club Friday afternoon. The funeral of W. D. Weedall was held at the Salton Baptist church Sunday-day Rev. Helm officiating. Walter Russin one of the 23 Kans. Vol. died Monday of consumption. WHAT IS COMING. The National Afro-America Council will hold its Fourth annual session at Philadelphia, Pa., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday August 7, 8 and 9th. The Afro-America National Business League will begin, fil. in Ariz. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. In the Strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Your best friend is your money invasied in a reliable bank. Obstacles to Art Aked what she regards as the greatest obstacle to an artist's success, Mme. Suzanne Adams, the youngest of Mr. Grau's prime donate, replies, unhesitatingly, "Friends! who admire and love you and interrupt your studies, tempt you away from them and generally foll all your efforts to work conscientiously; who would not tell you of a fault lest they hurt your feelings, and never tell you of a virtue lest they stimulate your vanity." Constant musical study and care of the physical being, without coddling, are the principles Mme. Adams advocates as those likely to bring an ultimate success to the ambitious singer-"Harper's Bazar, 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 wash-out. 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 Fireman Adams and at $^{1</sup>aast 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 I 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 incipiency, 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 muzzle of the hose had been plugged, but the pressure was so strong that the water removed the obstruction and the fire was quenched. Evelyn B. 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 Fritjot, will rendezvous there before that date. William Zeigler, the marshall backer of the expedition, has gone to the Con- KANSAS CITY i EMBALMING & '- White, ; CASKET ; ‘| ci asi er | COMEANY) J. G Groves, Vice Pres, MERE | NOW OPEN FOR; f] orimnrmss BUSINESS | fv teplia ewenwy me Bea _F. Bradley, C, W. Comager 4) W. M. Grigsby. ¢ eee Telephone ’ } s, cua | Coie eo Street frank to E.V. sme KANSAS city, Tt Sea AOS ee ee Elections for governor are held in Ohio in odd years, and elections for secretary of state in even years. This year a go¥- ernor is to be eleeted. Presidential eleet- ions are held in all yeursdivisible by four. This will help you in your guess. American Citizen’ we BY, MERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year.........+---. $150 ‘Watered at the postoffice at Kansas City Kans , as second class matter. THE PRIDE OF THE WEST, CAN YOU GUESS?O Kansas City 1s again to the front with abig enterprise, an enterprise stupendou n cenecpticn #rd which is being carried «nwith’ characteristic Western enerzy nd enthusiasm. A short time ago th directors of Convention Hall, a buldin&y ‘which is justly called ,the pride of the~ West, announced that they proposed to: , raise enough money t¢eamplete the great publie structure, In order to secure a part of the money needed for this purpose it was decided to give a series of entertain ments in the ball in October. Convention Hall being a building out of the ordinary in all respeote it wad of course requisit, that the enterts inments should have som unueual festurce, and when the peopl of Kansas Cty heard that the directors of the Hall proposed to offer valuable prizes to purchasers of concert tickets they knew that it was well to be prepared for an interesting announcement. Th% first news that the directors of the Hall Lave to the puplic wes'to the effect that K.B, Armour, whogave the fine Hereford heifer, Armour Rose. to Convention hal! when the original building was in process of construction, had given another Here, ford heifer, Armour Sunflower, a8 the first orize in the guessing conte.t. Mr ‘Armour further agreed with the directors that if the person who secured Armour Sunflower did not wish to keep herb would pay $1,000-00 in eash for the animal: ‘The Metropolitan Street Railway Come, pany followed Mr. Armours lead and offer- ed to give #2,000-00 in cash, tobe divided into prizes of $1,000.00, $750.00 and $150.00 ‘The Kansas City Electric Light Company wes next in line, and its con- tribution came in the form of a donation of 81,000.00 in. cash, to be divided into ‘one prize of $500.00, one of $100.00 and a number of smaller ones. Then the merebants began, and there came ashow- er of pianos, organs, buggies, and traps, runabouts furniture, ehina, pictures and ‘a hundred other gifts of value, On each of these artictes the price for which i would be sold toa cssh customer was placed, for the directors felt that they must stand by and see that the public wat not deceived Flemish oak dining room set donated by Emery, Bird, Thayer &. ‘collection of hangsome furniture whicl was seen by the thousands of people whe attended the recent Home Products 8how in Convention Hall, and which is wortt 499.50 in gold, down to the dainty littl toilet articles for men and women’ n articles has @ value of less than $5.00 ‘The tickets for the entertainments an guessing contest had no sale when ther came a.startling announcement. ‘Thi Kansas City Oat Meal aud Cereal Co betier known as the manufacturer o ‘Atlas oats, notified the directors that ‘would give a capital prize of 85,000°00 i ash, The Atlas Oats Co. went farthe and announeed that it would preseut on concert tieket, with guessing coupon a tached, for every twentyfive coupon tak en from package of its product. ‘Tt hance of securing $9,000 ie eash for ’ cents, the price of the eoneert ticket wit guessi.;+ onattached, was too god + “obe overlockod, and quesses began | pour into Convention Hull, ‘The tot ‘cash prizes now amount to about 810,00 00, while the merchandise prizes have similar value. In order to xive everyo ebanceat the prizes the director hay decidedito let the guesses be upon t official votes of the State of Ohio att next election, which is to be held Nov. 1901, ‘The concert for which the ticke are being sold will be held a few da before the election—begining, in fact. the evehing Oct.80—and as soon as t secretary of the State of Ohio announce the official vote of the state the priz ‘will be distributed among those who ha ‘guessesd the correct, or ne.rest the co rect Yote. In cases of tie guesses t directors have several plans in view, b whichever is adopted will beentirely £1 to all parties, as it will be conducted u der the supervision, as indeed ir ever thing in connection with the contest, some of the most prominent business m of Kansas City. The concert tickets wi coupon entitling the purchaser to 0 ‘guess as to the total vote of Ohio and chance at all the big prizes, are sold 2H eents each. While itis desired th all purchasers of tickets shall attend t concerts yet that is not nécessary, as t guessing coupon are to be detached fc the, ticket and mailed to Convention Hi ‘Kansas City, Mo., as soon as possible, order that they may be properly reco ed. Those who are not present at ¢ » eoncert have the sace opportunity those who are present in the matter seouring prizes. Agencies are to be Ugblished in evary city and town in tt directors having made arraagements t offer substantial inducements to thos ‘whe get up clubs and seii tiekets. ‘Tos ‘who wish to secure their tickets dire shouid address-their mail orders to (0 vention Hall, where sll commonica foi reall received by Louis W.Shouse, 1 secretary. For the guidance ef tho ee eR a dette ~ i ee TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: —E——e 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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McNeal of this city will appear before the Gover nor 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 Siate penitentiary, having been sentenced from the District court of Wyandoite County Uctover term 1808, charged with Assault and at em ptto kill Home of Eig. a» astute statesmen Jon't seem to thik any country can oe regarded as settied until an English- man gets there and floats the HnglisD fag. i he duke of Marlborough may have an exceedingly fine ancestry but be ‘can't present bis wife witn two fath- ors-in-law, as Consuelo has done for Aim. Congressmen are now engared in mailing their constitvents copies of apeecties that were never delivered, D"t the “applause” ‘and other trimmings go with them, ‘The worst feature of the fact that Av- sistant Postmaster General Jones had te write his name 250,000 times lant yeas |e that the nome he had to write 250,004 \mes was Jones. at i a al | ‘Warwick castle is held by many to be the most beautiful seat in England, ‘The large baronial hall is a magni gent room. It is decorated with the most perfect specimens of armor, fur- nishe¢ in a luxurious manner, and masses of flowers and large palms ‘abound on every side. TPE A Hard Bet to Win, In 1893 three Irishmen agreed to um ertake a journey around the earth om foot for a jackpot of $150,000. Each 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 recetve fe whole amount. In ease all died a Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. 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STRONG STAND TAKEN BY SENATOR GALLINGER. He Opposes Tariff Tinkering of All Sorts, Whether by Direct Legislation or by Special Treaties for the Promotion of Foreign Trade. Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire, who has during his entire public career been one of the most persistent and able advocates of the tariff policy of the Republican party, was recently asked his opinion as to the present agitation for a repeal of certain tariff duties and the modification of the Dingley tariff through the ratification of the reciprocity treaties negotiated by Mr. Kasson. The senator's reply was as follows: The Democratic party in its economic blindness and political perversity is consistent in criticizing the enactment of legislation such as has been unwisely proposed by Representative Babcock of Free-Trade, and seems quite willing to repeal the experiment of industrial disaster and wretchedness that has come to pass. The law has been placed on the statute books, but how any Republican or Republican newspaper can advocate that policy is not as though the sorrow and suffering incident upon such a law could be free from the minds of our people, and that all cases would instinctively shrink from a republican government. We forgot those dark days, and even some Republicans have succumbed to the siren voice of the Republican party, and unquestionably posed to any change in the existing Tariff laws of the United States. Under the country has had four years of unrest because of a party to be a party to any proposition that looks to the repeal of modification of the Tariff law, and be a crime against humanity to follow the lead of those who are agitating for an abandonment of Protection and a return to the Constitution. The proposed treaty with the Argentine Republic reduces the duties on wool in the country as severe and disastrous, and it immediately strikes a death blow to the wool industry of this country as severe and disastrous. The wool-producing states should rise in prices, and the Argentine government gives the matter its eternal quietus. The proposed treaty with France deals a similar issue in the United States, and, so far as I can perceive, every one of the countries in the United States is criminal to American interests and ought to be rejected by the Senate. The proposal, in view of the serious discussion, that is too absurd for serious discussion. The man who claims that trusts are created under a registration has the power not given seriously by the proposition, and the legislator who believes that trusts can be created in the form of apprentices classes of goods should join a kindergarten class in economics, unless the proposed treaty is made against the industry, thus closing American workshops and bringing disaster to the meat industry. The man who sawd off the limb of the tree on which he sat got rid of the limb, but his brushes and scissors were not in the wood, long after the folly of the undertaking. The Republican party came into power because of its adherence to abandons that policy it will go out of power, and deservedly so. Just now there are evidences of timidity in the party, and that I feel confident that when the hour of trial comes the party must remain true to policy, and that Kasson reciprocity treaties and the Babcock Free-Trade proposition will alike be regarded to the tomb of forciveness and the tomb of forciveness is plain, and woe be to the man who attempts to strike down Protection in the Senator Gallinger is noted for his plain, outspoken way of stating his views. You always know just where he stands. A little more than a year ago in a public speech he said, regarding the movement to remove the duties from paper and pulp. You can not select a single industry foraughter without imperiling the whole system of Protection. If Protection is withheld from one industry it must be That warning was heeded. The bill in question was never pressed for pass- age. Today so influential a news- SENATOR GALLINGER paper as the San Francisco "Chronicle" is saying in reference to the Kasson scheme of reciprocity treaties: If the orange growers of California and the biodiversity operatives of New England and Virginia and New Mexico, it might be added, are to lose their just Protection, more cumbersome or to see that it no longer is Protected at the national level. These things are worth thinking about. They should engage the serious consideration of revisionaries and reciprocators. Reciprocity Treaties Again Reciprocity Treaties Again. It would be interesting to know the facts in the case of the alleged reciprocity treaty negotiations between the United States and Germany. We find it difficult to believe that our ambassador at Berlin is seriously encouraging the German government in this regard, at least upon his own motion. If he has kept in touch with the representatives of American thought and purpose, he must know that the so-called reciprocity treaties have been set aside by the senate. If he has carefully examined the organic law of the land he must believe that the senate and the state department cannot enact laws to create a public revenue. In a word, there seems to be absolutely nothing to warrant the faintest hope that any treaty of the kind mentioned will ever acquire the force of law, and yet if we may accept half the statements contained in our foreign press reports, Mr. White, United States envoy to Germany is gravely confabulating with the authorities at Berlin alternately exalted and depressed by developments within the empire. The language of the constitution seems to be unmistakable. It provides that laws intended to create a public revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, and while the Senate is authorized to offer amendments to such laws, the concurrence of the House is indispensable to their validity. If there be in all a hook upon which to hang tariff laws made by the state department and the senate acting in collusion and without the knowledge and consent of the House. we are too dullwitted to discern it. Nevertheless, Ambassador White is said to be solemnly pushing the reciprocity negations, and the wires are warm with messages of rapprochement and tender yieldings and all the rest of the affectionate, folderol which makes discomacy so beautiful and bright a thing.—Washington Post. AREN'T THEY DAISIES? Discussing the Babcock Plan. Discussion of Representative Babcock's idea of removing the tariff from all products of the steel trust has brought out some interesting facts about the steel trade. It has been shown that big as the trust is, it by no means contro's the steel trade in this country, there being many establishments some of them employing a large number of men, which have no connection with the trust. It seems to be generally admitted that the removal of the tariff on steel products would not injure the big trust to any marked extent, but it is claimed that it would necessitate an immediate reduction of the trust. This claim, which is being made by those who ought to know whereof they speak, is causing many who were at first inclined to favor Mr. Babcock's idea to entertain doubts of its wisdom, and if it be substantiated by unprejudiced investigation which a number of members of the House are quietly making, the bill for the repeal of the tariff on steel products will not be supported by a corporal's guard of Republicans in either branch of congress at the coming session. Desirable as many consider it to curb the power of the big trusts, the Republican majority in congress are not going to be stamped into the support of anything of the sort without carefully considering it from every point of view, and they will certainly not allow any legislation to get through that will reduce the wages of American workingmen—Crawfordsville (Ind.). Journal. Protection Gains Foreign Markets Our increase of exports during the fiscal year 1901 over the preceding year will approach $100,000,000. This, too, has been done without the sacrifice of a single American industry or the loss of a single job. Were our exports to Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands included, as formerly, $20,000,000 could be added to the above amount, which is, in itself, very satisfactory, considering the war in China, "European retaliation," etc. Protection gains more foreign markets than free trade, and preserves our grand home market as well. Farmers Getting Rich The farmers of the United States are getting wealthy. The banks are bulging with their money. Abandoned farms and farm mortgages are a thing of the past, and instead of paying from 6 to 10 per cent for money, our western farmers, after buying all the necessaries and luxuries they want, have money to lend. Impressions of Natural Leaves Impressions of Natural Leaves. Take, for instance, a twig of rose leaves, always ready at hand; lay it flat on the table with the glossy side on the wood and the rough veined part uppermost. Thick leaves have to be kept in place and perfectly smooth with pins. Now dip a small paint brush in a mixture of ivory black and olive oil, and go over each leaf with it and without pressing too much, paying special attention to the serrated edges as well as to the raised ribs, nerves, veining, and net work as the case may be. As soon as each leaf, tendril, and stalk are entirely covered with the mixture, proceed with the pressing process. For this open a large heavy book, in which insert a sheet of perfectly clean and smooth white paper, and on it spread out the wet side of the branch. Close the book and, if necessary, put over it one or two more, or some weights, as a substitute for a press. After a little while, depending on the size and kind of foliage, open the book and the foliage will be found stamped on the white sheet of paper; with pen or pencil accentuate any break or faintness in the print. In this wise are obtained excellent designs in perfect imitation of nature, to be utilized in every style of decoration and handicraft. Chinese College for London In the future if you want to learn Chinese there will be no need to travel to China to do it. A Chinese college is to be established in London; and, though the college is not yet built, some of the professors have already arrived and started work. The professors wear their ordinary oriental garments when taking classes, and many pupils have joined—army men, engineers, city clerks, and budding diplomatists. Of course, there have long been Chinese professors at Oxford and Cambridge, but this is the first venture of the kind where the teachers are all of the celestial empire. Summer Tailor Costumes The new French and English suitings for summer tail costumes are in pretty tri-color blendings. The English weaves are proof against wear and tear, and they are considered more stylish when the single material is used for the entire gown. The greatly improved weave of drap de Ladock—much like a double-faced cashmere—is a fabric that many high class tailors are using for smart gowns to wear beneath the silk carriage cloaks, summer redating, and other long enveloping wraps for traveling and for morning walks on the beach. Consumption of Tea. Consumption of Tea. The British people consume nearly six pounds of tea per head of the population, or an increase of one pound per capita in sixteen years. There is no other country which, in any way, approaches this. Holland is the only country in Europe where the consumption of tea exceeds one pound per head. In Russia and in the United States also, which are the other two large tea consumers, the consumption amounts to under one pound per head. Bishop of London's Salary. The bishop of London's salary is $50,000 a year, and the rates, taxes, insurance and maintenance of his two large residences can scarcely be less than 15 per cent on that sum, so that his income is at once reduced to $42,500. Few probably realize the expense of a bishop of London in the first year. Fees, payments for the furniture of the palace and a variety of other costs and charges leave a comparatively small margin for other expenses. Occupations of College-Bred Negroes. Professor Du Bois reports that one-half of the 1,312 college-bred negroes heard from at this year's Atlanta university conference are engaged in teaching; one-sixth are preaching and one-sixth are "professional men," or are still studying. Six per cent are merchants, artisans or farmers. Four per cent are employed by the government. Amalgamating Races During the last five years there has been a decided increase in the number of marriages in New York between white and colored people. In 1895 there were 729 such marriages, 369 negroes having married white women and 360 colored women having been married to white men. Last year there were 1,846, in which 920 negro women were married to white men and 920 negroes married white women. Sacred Buildings Spared Temples and other sacred buildings were generally spared by the Greeks and Romans in their hostile operations. At the storm and capture of Jerusalem, Titus made strenuous efforts to prevent the destruction of the temple, and the fire which consumed it was started against his orders and prevailed in spite of the efforts of both Romans and Jews to quench it. Pennies for the West One of the officials of the Philadelphia mint says: "There is always a scarcity of pennies in the West, and a superabundance of them in the East. Every little while the banks out there set a up hold and cry for pennies, but our banks here are ever glad to rid themselves of their surplusage in these coins. It is difficult to see why such a state of things should be." Johnson at Work Again Racine, Wis., July 22nd:—John Johnson of No. 924 Hamilton street, this city, is a happy man. For years he has suffered with Kidney and Urinary trouble. He was so broken down that he was forced to quit work Everything he tried failed, till a friend of his recommended a new remedy—Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Johnson used them, and the result surprised him. He is as well as ever he was, completely cured, and working away every day. His case is regarded by those who knew how very bad he was, as almost a miracle, and Dodd's Kidney Pills are a much talked of medicine. "Ten pounds of best ice, clear as crystal, for 1 cent, is what we supply to the needy families of New York city," says Commander Booth-Tucker at Salvation Army headquarters. "Our carts start out today, and as the summer progresses we shall gradually increase their number. We find that the poor people prefer to be independent and pay their cent rather than have the ice free."—New York Letter. Indian of the United States In the United States there are 263,800 Indians. Of this number 45,250 draw rations regularly, while 12,600 more are provided for at various times when unable to work or do not feel like it. In the latter class are included most of the Indians who have grown old and are deserted by their young relatives. Hannis Taylor's Boom. Three-fourths of the membership of the constitutional convention of Alabama have petitioned the board of trustees of the University of Alabama to elect Hannis Taylor its next president, "by reason of his prestige as a scholar at home and abroad, and his experience as a man of affairs." Married women are usually advocates of home rule. BORNEO THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Classics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Civil, Technical and Electrical Engineering, Archaeology. Thorough Preparatory and Commercial Courses. Ecclesiastical students at special rates. Rooms Free. Junior or Senior Year, Collegiate Courses. Rooms to Rent, moderate charges. St. Edward's Hall, for boy's under 10.1 101 Notre Dame, Indiana. Conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Chartered 1855. Thorough English and Classical education. Regular Collegiate Degrees. In Preparatory Department students carefully prepared for Collegiate course. Physical and Chemical Laboratories well equipped. Conservatory of Music and School of Art. Gymnasium under direction of graduate of Boston Normal School of gymnastics. Catalogue free. The 47th year will open Sept. 5, 1901. Address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY, St. Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, Indiana. USE MOUSE WHISKERS. Bears' Eyebrows Among New Things Used by Fishermen The business done in mouse whiskers is considerable this year, for they are used in the making of the wonderful new fly for fishermen—the "new gray gnat." And they are expensive—nearly 2 cents per whisker. Trout rise very much better at mouse whisker files than at the same "gnat" dressed in jungle-cock hackles, which look very much like them. The trade of artificial fly making is the lightest-fingered business in the world, and it is not one man or woman out of five thousand who can learn to tie flies. These tyers are remarkable for the beauty and delicacy of their hands, and only the cleverest of fingers can deal with the "niggling" work of knotting hairs that can hardly be seen. In making a fly the earth has to be ransacked for precisely the correct feathers and hairs, and one hair wrong will make all the difference. It takes an expert tyer only 30 minutes to turn out a fly, which consists of a tiny hook, with wings of Egyptian dove feather, legs of fox hair, and a body of mouse fur, wound round with a thread of yellow silk. A carelessly made fly will have neither legs nor "feelers," but the true expert adds the legs, and puts on a pair of long "feelers" of cat hair, white at the tips. All these tiny details will be exactly in their places, and so finely tied to the hook that the fly will take half a dozen strong fish and be none the worse. Bears' eyebrows, being stiff, and exactly the right shade, are used in a newly invented fly that is killing quantities of salmon this year; and these eyebrows come from the Himalayan brown bear, and cost about $1.50 per set. MUST DO THEIR WORK WELL Incompetent Dentists Lable to Damages for Their Hunting. The courts are taking cognizance of the competency or incompetence of professional men. A short time ago a New York tribunal held that a physician was liable for unskillful or negligent treatment of a patient and now the court of appeals of that state has rendered a decision holding a corporation liable for unskillful dental work. This corporation, according to the complaint, represented that it carried on the practice of dentistry in connection with its other departments. The plaintiff, a woman, having undergone treatment, sued for alleged resulient injury and received a verdict. Apparently the defence of the corporation was that the dental business was not, in fact, carried on by it, but was owned by the dentist. But the court held that the company having held itself out as carrying on a dental department and the plaintiff having been ignorant of the fact that the company was not the real owner of the dental department, the corporation was estopped from making such a denial. For, under the circumstances, the court said that the plaintiff had a right to rely not only on the presumption that the company would employ a skillful dentist as its servant, but also on the fact that if that servant, the dentist, whether skillful or not, was guilty of any malpractice, she had a responsible party to answer therefor in damages—Chicago Chronicle. The Cowboy Was Generous Millionaire McKittrick, who, as all California knows, is the king of the oil district, and is reputed to own half of southern California, was leaving his ranch to drive into town the other day, when he was accosted by one of his cowpunchers, who had been on the job about a fortnight. "Say, boss," said the cowboy, "can I draw $10?" Mr. McKittrick was about to refer the man to the foreman, but, being good-natured, he handed over the gold eagle. "Oh, I don't want the money," said the cowboy; "I want you to get me some truck in town. I want a dollar-an-a-half pair o' yaller shoes, three pairs o' two-bit socks, a sack o' Durham, some cigarette papers, a pair o' overalls, two twits o' underclothes, two Stanley shirts, the four-bit kind, an' a two-bit silk handkerchief." Charmed by the gall of his employ, the millionaire took the commission. He returned late at night loaded down like Santa Claus, sought out the cowpuncher, delivered the goods, saying: "It cost only eight-fifty. Heres the dollar and a half left over." "Oh, that's all right," said the generous cowboy, "keep the change!"—San Francisco News Letter. France and the Income Tax. The most important event recently in France from a political point of view was the finance minister's demolition of the scheme for imposing an income tax. One of the first acts of the new budget committee in the chamber was to vote a proposition that the minister should insert in his estimates for 1902 the principle of a tax on incomes, leaving the rate and method of assessment to be afterward arranged. They promised in return the suppression of two of the direct taxes—the habitation tax and that on doors and windows. The budget committee of the French senate is as much opposed to an income tax as the finance minister. With steadily increasing outgo, and a diminishing income, however, the financial problem in France is becoming serious. With his budget last year M. Calleaux made a warning address, and eloquently pleaded for economy. This year, with an increase equal to $35,000,000 he did not renew his plea—Chicago Journal. Left It to the Goose. Mrs. Ann McDonald at Pittston accused Butcher Max Connors of stealing a goose belonging to her. The latter denied the charge and said he had purchased it from a farmer. It was a question of veracity between the two and Alderman Loftus decided to let the goose make the decision. Accordingly Constable John White was told to take the bird to the vicinity of Mrs McDonald's home. If the goose recognized the place and entered the property it was her goose. As soon as released the goose turned from Mrs. McDonald's door and flew up the street in the direction of Connors' store. He got the decision—Philadelphia Ledger Be Strong Weakness won't win The battle of life is a hard one. Prepare for it. If your constitution is good, preserve it. If it is weak, build it up. If your Liver and Kidneys are sound, keep them up. You will soon them in the daily struggle. If they are weak, watch them every hour of the day. To succeed in these troublesome times, you must have a sound Liver and safe Kidneys; otherwise your blood will be poisoned and your nerves ruined. Diabetes must be unknown. Bright's Disease must be impossible. Your success would be threatened, your health shattered, so you need a safeguard against physical decay. You need good rest at night—steady, quiet nerves during the day. At the first sign of weakness, be warned. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm will bring speedy relief from pain and decay. And if you have neglected these organs most essential to your success, or if other remedies have failed, it will help you, and restart the dormant organs back to safe and sure action. It will remove, as if by magic, the dull, heavy ache in your back, that hurts you when you stand, sit, walk, or lie down. A bottle at $1.00 will make you a new, well being. Buy it of your druggist. Made by The Dr. J. H. McLean Medicine Co. St. Louis, Mo. Policeman's Christian Association Canon Hobson, the founder of the Policeman's Christian association, has arrived at New York. This association was founded eighteen years ago in a cellar in Liverpool. It had three members at the start, but today has over 100,000 throughout Great Britain and her colonies. He comes over to visit his sister in Fulton, Oswego county, New York. German Schools Abroad The German government supports 125 schools in foreign countries. There are German schools now in Constantinople, Buenos Ayres, Antwerp, Brussels, Bucharest, Pretoria and Johannesburg. In Brazil there are twenty-nine schools, in Chile twelve, in Romania twelve, and in British dominions twelve. Real Coral the Cheaper A store in New York which makes a specialty of fancy articles for woman's wear recently displayed in a window two chains of coral beads. One was of round, smoothly polished beads and bore the legend, "Imitation coral, 65 cents." The other, of ragged, uncut coral, was marked, "Real coral, 25 cents." --- Britains Degenerating Physically. According to Arnold White, an English critic, the inhabitants of the British Isles are degenerating physically. He bases his conclusions on the results of recruiting for the Boer war. In the Manchester district alone 8,000 out of 11,000 men who offered themselves for military service were certified unit to endure a soldier's life. Climbing the Jungfrau. A newly wed pair named Hardy went from England to Switzerland and as a part of their wedding tour climbed the Jungfrau. The young bride did not complete the journey, for a heavy snowstorm overtook the party, and she, accompanied by one of the guides, retraced her steps. The groom persevered until he reached the top. Shark Fishing Is Profitable In all the equatorial islands of the North and South Pacific shark-fishing is a very profitable industry to the natives, and every trading steamer and sailing vessel coming into the ports of Sydney or Auckland from the islands of the mid-Pacific brings some tons of fins, tails and skins of sharks. More Horses than People There. With a population of 4,780,000, the Argentine Republic possesses 5,081,000 horses. It is the only country in the world that has a horse for every inhabitant—Indiana Farmer. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY, Notre Dame, Indiana We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of St. Mary's Academy, which appears in another column of this paper. We do not need to expatriate upon the scholastic advantages of St. Mary's, for the catalogue of the school shows the scope of work included in its curriculum, which is of the same high standard as that of Vassar and Bryn Mawr, and is carried out faithfully in the class rooms. We simply emphasize the spirit of earnest devotion which makes every teacher of St. Mary's loyalty strive to develop each young girl attendant there into the truest, noblest, and most intelligent womanhood. Every advantage of equipment in the class rooms, laboratories and study rooms, every care in the matter of food and clothing, and exceptional excellence of climatic conditions—all these features are found at St. Mary's, in the perfection of development only to be obtained by the consecration of devoted lives to educational Christian work in a spot favored by the Lord. Pyramid at Cheops The highest pyramid is that at Cheops, 486¼ feet. It is computed that the weight of the masonry in this pyramid would exceed 6,316,000 tons. It covers thirteen acres of ground. The shirt-waist man refuses to be down. The mermaid can't kick about the weather. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. Thermometers are not so stuck up as they were. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fumigation, allays pain, curets wind colic. Eca a bottle. The deaf mute is generally handy with his talk. A JUDGE'S WIFE CURED OF PELVIC CATABRH. FRAGRANT SOZODONT New Size SOZODONT LIQUID 250 New Patent Box SOZODONT POWDER 250 Large LIQUID and POWDER 750 At the Stores or by Mail, postpaid, for the Price. A Dentist's Opinion: "As an antiseptic and hygienic mouthwash, and for the care and preservation of the teeth and gums, I cordially recommend Sozodont. I consider it the ideal dentifrice for children's use." [Name of writer upon application.] She Suffered for Years and Felt Her Case Was Hopeless—Cured by Pe-ru-na. She Suffered for Years and Felt Her Case Was Hopeless—Cured by Pe-ru-na. Mrs. Judge McAllister writes from 1217 West 33rd st., Minneapolis, Minn., as follows: "I suffered for years with a pain in the small of my back and right side. It interfered often with my domestic medicine and I never supposed that I would be able to do the medicine did not seem to help me any." "Fortunately a member of our Order advised me to try Peruna and gave it such high praise that I decided to try it. Although I started in with little faith, I felt so much better in a week that I felt encouraged." "I took it faithfully for seven weeks and am happy indeed to be able to say that I am entirely cured. Words fail to express my gratitude. Few times once more is the best thing I could wish for, and thanks to Peruna enjoy that now."—Minnie E. McAllister. The great popularity of Peruna as a catarrh remedy has tempted many people to imitate Peruna. A great many so-called catarrh remedies and catarrhal anions are to be found in many drug stores. These remedies can be procured by the druggist much cheaper than Peruna. Peruna can only sell the cheap price, and no druggist can get it a second time. Thus it is that druggists are tempted to substitute the cheap imitations of Peruna for Peruna. It is done every day without a doubt. We would therefore caution all pe- FOR the TEETH New Size SOZODONT LIQUID . New Patent Box SOZODONT POWDER Large LIQUID and POWDER . At the Stores or by Mail, postpaid, for the A Dentist's Opinion: "A mouthwash, and for the care an gums, I cordially recommend So dentifrice for children's use." [N] HALL & RUCKE HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 oz. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG Co OMAHA, NEB. The popular summer girl should be breezy. The spider has no wings, yet he often takes a fly. Sure to be arrested! Any ache or pain by Hamlin's famous Wizard Oil. Your druggist sells it. Some juries lose a lot of time in trying to find a verdict. FITS Permanently Curled. No wounds or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kine's great Nerve healer. Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kine, Ld., 921 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. One way of giving the professional beggar a chance to rise in the world is to give him a good blowing up. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 ecu. Strong ness wo The battle of life is a hard one. Prepare for it. If your constitution is good, preserve it. If it is MRS. JUDGE M.C. ALLISTER ple against accepting these substitutes. Insist upon having Peruna. There is no other internal remedy for catarrh that will take the place of Peruna. Allow no one to persuade you to the contrary. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice grade. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. AGRANT DONT and BREATH 25c Price. has an antiseptic and hygienic and preservation of the teeth and ozodont. I consider it the ideal name of writer upon application.] L, NEW YORK. One-third more starch—a better starch—that is the whole story. Defiance Starch, 16 ounces for 10 cents. Don't forget it—a better quality and one-third more of it. Plice's Cure cannot be too high spoken of as a cough cure. J. W. O'Brien, 323 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. The temperature has at last taken a tumble to itself. Nature's Priceless Remedy DR. O. PHELPS BROWN'S PRECIOUS HERBAL OINTMENT It Cures Through the Pores Address Dr. O. P. Brown, N. Y. SCALE AUCTION BIDS BY MAIL. YOUR OWN PRICE. Jones, He Pays the Freight, Blightonham, N. Y. STARK WANT MORE SALESMEN Stark Nursery, Louisiana, Missa, N. Y. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 30, 1901 g mf win weak, ound, keep STRIKERS TO BE FOUGHT WITH THEIR OWN FIRE. Companies Require All Skilled Workmen to Sign Contracts—With Loss of This Element the Amalgamated Association Will be Seriously Crippled and May Cause it to Lose a Great Battle. The National Tube Works company at McKeesport, Pa., has made an unexpected move intended to checkmate the Amalgamated association. Their skilled workmen have been asked to sign individual contracts to practically repudiate any union labor, and they have been given but a short time to think the matter over. It is understood that should they not sign the contracts they will find their positions vacant. It has transpired that the 600 welders of the mills were paid off and then taken into the office of the general superintendent, where they were presented with individual contracts to be signed for at least a year. Some demurred, while others signed the contracts. This movement, fighting fire with fire, carried consternation into the ranks of the strikers. The welders are highly skilled workmen, and without their co-operation, the big plant might be closed down. With them in line the plant will probably keep on running as though nothing had happened. It was intimated by friends of the welders that they would all sign the contract. Definite announcement that the officials of the American Sheet Steel company would start the W. Dewes Wood mill in McKeesport as a nonunion plant has reached the headquarters of the Amalgamated association. The news was received in silence. That the movement would not be permitted to be made without a decided attempt to check it, was subsequently shown by long and earnest conferences that took place during the afternoon in President Shaffer's office. As viewed by manufacturers not interested directly in the strike, the situation was summed up in this way: The strike is not affecting the United States Steel corporation as seriously as was expected by the Amalgamated association. The feeling of the leading officials of the trust is that the strike will not last long after the summer weather is past. That this is the belief is indicated by the little effort that the company is making to force their mills into operation. If the officials of the United States Steel corporation seriously believed that the strike was going to be a long one, they would undoubtedly have made some organized movement for breaking the strike before this. TWENTY BLOCKS IN ASHES Half Million Dollar Fire in Iowa—Many People are Homeless. Fire has laid waste an area of saw mill and residence property at Davenport, Iowa, equal to twenty ordinary city blocks. The flames started in some big piles of kindling wood belonging to the Rock Island fuel company on the levee. A brisk breeze carried the flames directly across the immense lumber yards of Weyerhauser & Denkmann, which were soon a seething mass of flames. The spread of the fire was so rapid that the workmen barely had time to desert the yards, some losing their coats and dinner pails. The flames pushed their way into the adjoining residence district, closely settled with middle class homes, of an average value of a few thousand dollars each, from which the occupants escaped only with their lives and the clothing on their backs. Over fifty homes were thus burned, some of them tenements, resulting in a hundred families being rendered homeless. Others deserted their homes in the threatened district. Vacant houses all over town are filled with furniture removed from the imperiled district. The fire was fought heroically by the fire departments of Davenport and Rock Island and Moline, ill, the latter cities responding promptly to an appeal for aid. Efforts to check the flames were unavailing until they spread on the north to the spacious grounds of St. Katharine's hall, a boarding school for young ladies, which was saved after the tower was burned off. Gradually the battle waged on the edges of the flaming district, and by 10 o'clock the confaguration was under control. The mill of the Weyerhauser and Denkmann company and yards were totally destroyed. Loss. $400,000. The loss on residences and other property is $300,000 more. It is believed there were no fatalities, although this is not positively known. Red Blot. In Manchurla. Red Ribbon Advices by steamer Duke of Fife, which has just arrived from the Orient, includes details of the rising in Manchuria. Refugees from the affected district are reaching Chee Foo and the Japan Mall says the whole province of Shang Kiang is in a state of insurrection, rebels pillaging, burning and killing around Moudenk. All the villages and hamlets have been burned and hundreds of the inhabitants who offered resistance have been killed. The Russian forces are entirely insufficient to maintain order in southern Manchuria. Fire at Marshall, Mo. Fire broke out in the cellar of Terrell & Degarmos' meat market, at Marshall, Mo., and the contents of the cellar and the two upper stories and a $2,000 meat freezing apparatus were destroyed. The building adjoins Hotel Ming and the contents were so combustible it was wounded the whole block would burn. The loss is about $4,000, partly insured. Harvest hands and mechanics are scarce, but girl clerks are still plentiful. DEWEY HEADS THE INQUIRY. Board Named to Try Case of Admiral Schley. The board of inquiry which is to investigate the controversial points in connection with Admiral Schley's conduct during the Spanish war will be composed of Admiral Dewey, president of the court, possibly Rear Admiral Kimberly and Andrew K. Benham. The court will meet in the navy department in Washington, September 12. Secretary Long has announced these facts. The judge advocate of the court has not yet been selected and the precept to the court, which is being prepared by Captain Lemley, judge advocate general, has not yet been completed. The scope of the inquiry will not be known until the precept and order for the convening of the court are issued. It is expected that they will be promulgated by the department at once. Secretary Long says, however, that the proceedings of the court will be open and that the widest latitude will be permitted in the matter of witnesses and that Rear Admiral Schley will be allowed to be represented by counsel. The secretary had nothing to say about the composition of the court except that he thought it spoke for itself and to express the hope that the members chosen would be satisfactory to all concerned. He pointed out that none of the officers chosen had, so far as he knew, expressed an opinion concerning what is known as the Sampson-Schley controversy, and it was therefore to be presumed that they would enter upon their work in an impartial and unprejudiced spirit. The members of the court are distinctively fighting men. Each has been connected with a celebrated event in naval annals. Of Admiral Dewey, the hero of the battle of Manila bay, it is unnecessary to speak. His record is familiar to all. His associates, Rear Admiral Kimberly and Rear Admiral Benham, are both retired officers. GAS FOUND AT MORAN. Well With Flow as Large as Some of the Ble Oues at Iola. The Moran Gas and Oil company, which has been prospecting for gas at Moran, Kan., opened up a well with a flow of gas estimated at 5,000-000 cubic feet per day with a rock pressure of 320 pounds. Moran is in Allen county and the citizens have always believed that there was gas there the same as there was in the western part of the county. Three years ago two wells were sunk and some gas found in each of theses; but not enough, however, to pay to pipe. Nothing has been done since then to develop the field until later and the success of the present effort clearly demonstrates that Moran is in the Kansas gas field. Inquiries are already coming in concerning the capacity of the well and it is fully expected that Moran will double its population within a year. A big lolligation was held which was indulged in by the people of Moran and surrounding country and the town of Bronson. The gas was turned on in some pipes and lighted. The blaze made a brilliant illumination and the roar was deafening although it was not turned on to near the capacity of the well. The Moran band and Bronson band entertained the immense crowd that was in attendance. COSTLY FIRE IN BOONVILLE. Losses in a Blaze There Recently Will Reach $60,000. Fire, causing a loss of about $40,000, broke out in the Boonville, Mo., steam laundry, in the best business block on the west side of Main street. A strong wind was blowing, which carried the flames down the block and in ten minutes after the fire was discovered the entire northeast corner of the block was ablaze. Several horses were burned to death in the stable on the corner. One hundred mules, which are to be shipped to South Africa, were led from the burning building to a place of safety. The fire was under control in two hours, Henry Winklemeyer, George Lieber and Herbert Kuehner, members of the fire department, were prostrated from the heat. Three large tanks of gasoline exploded in the building occupied by Joseph Lieber, plumber, when the fire was at its height and several barrels of oil also exploded, making the work for the firemen much harder and hotter. Sun's Rays Start a Blaze The big dry goods store of J. F. Phelan & Co., of Sioux City, Ia., was burned, supposed to have been started by the sun's rays in the front show windows. The fire started so quickly that many of the clerks had a narrow escape. Every counter loaded with combustible stuff seemed to catch fire simultaneously. The first floor was a seething mass of flames in five minutes. Several were injured by jumping from the second story windows. The loss is $30,000, partly covered by insurance. New Rural Routes in Kansas and Missouri These rural free delivery routes will be established September 2: In Kansas—At Mankato, Jewell county (additional service), with one carrier, Albert Bliss; length of route, $28½ miles; area covered, 40 square miles; population served, 575; post-office at Harrison to be discontinued. In Missouri-At Independence, Jackson county, with one carrier, J. L Miles; length of route, 26% miles; area covered, 33 square miles; population served, 500; postoffice at Raytown will be served by rural carrier, Not His. Sister's Murderer. At the opening of court Friday at Pittsfield, Mass., in the Fosburgh trial judge Stephens instructed the jury to find a verdict of not guilty. This was done, ending the trial. The jurymen did not leave their seats. The verdict was received with shouts of applause, which the court suppressed. Andrew Carnegie has presented the City of Winnipeg, Man., with $100,000 for a free public library, which has been accepted by the city council. BREAKS CABLES GREAT BROOKLRN BRIDGE IS WEAKENED. IS CAUSES A PANIC FOR AWHILE Traffic Stopped for Fear Iron Work Would Collapse—Damage will be Repaired With Little Trouble and Without Serious Blockade Between the Two Big Towns Composing Greater N. Y. It has been discovered that several of the suspension rods of the north cable of the Brooklyn bridge have broken. The damage is small, but it caused considerable of a furore for a time. Some excited person circulated a report that the bridge was in a dangerous state, and an order to suspend traffic upon the structure was issued through the office of Commissioner of Bridges Shea. Police reserves were called and presently the crowd of Brooklynites and other residents of Long Island which daily throng the Manhattan end of the bridge at 6 o'clock was thrown into much excitement. The car service was stopped altogether, as was the driving of all vehicles. Persons were, however, allowed to walk to the Brooklyn side along the promenade. The congestion on the Manhattan side was relieved by this permission, but the Brooklyn ferries carried thousands more than they usually do. When the Bridge and Brooklyn Rapid Transit company found how greatly the damage had been exaggerated their traffic was partially resumed and the bridge cars were running once more. Chief Engineer Probusco of the department of bridges said that all traffic would be resumed at once, and that the broken rods would be replaced in two or three days. The breakage, he said, was due to expansion, presumably from the heat. SCHLEY TO ACT Says He Will Call for a Naval Court of Inquiry. Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley has asked Secretary Long to appoint a court of inquiry to determine the facts in regard to his course in the Santiago campaign. While Rear Admiral Schley will not discuss his determination, or even admit that he has asked for an inquiry, since he could not do so without a breach of naval etiquette, it is nevertheless announced that the application has been made. In a small village like Great Neck, L. I., where Admiral Schley is staying with his son-in-law, R. M. S. Wortley, his presence is a matter of pride to all the townpeople, and naturally little that he does passes unnoticed. The admiral drove from Elm Point, where the Wortley cottage is situated, to the Great Neck postoffice, mailed a letter which was addressed to John D. Long, secretary of the navy, at Washington. Though the admiral would not talk of this letter, the nature of its contents was known to others in Great Neck and there is no doubt that Secretary Long, when he opens it, will find in it a request for a formal and official inquiry. When Admiral Schley was pressed to make some statement of his position he wrote the following sentences: "I really think as this matter is liable to take the form of a judicial investigation, I ought not to be subject to interview. "I think that action is preferable to words and I have decided to act. More than this, I ought not to be expected to say, but I will add, that it is a very great pity that there should be any controversy over matters where everybody did his best." FREE TRADE FOR PORTO RICO President's Proclamation Putting It Into Effect to be Issued Soon. Free trade between the United States and Porto Rico will be proclaimed soon. Attorney General Knox is preparing the proclamations which will be issued. Two proclamations will be issued, the first declaring the establishment of civil government in Porto Rico and the second the establishment of free trade between the United States and the Island. Although civil government has existed for many months in Porto Rico, Governor Allen up to the time he went to Canton, purposely withheld the formal notification of that fact from the President in order that the moneys collected under the Foraker act might not be placed at the disposal of the Porto Rican legislature, but could continue to be used for the benefit of the island under the direction of the President. The effect of an earlier notification would have been a proclamation by the President recognizing the establishment of civil government and the turning over to the insular treasury, for the use of the legislature, of all monies thereafter collected under the Foraker act. Complaint is Dismissed F. H. Dewey, late railroad auditor at Eureka Springs, Ark., who was arrested charged with using force towards a school teacher whom he was accompanying home several nights ago, was arraigned before Justice White, but was later released and permitted to take the night train for St. Louis. His intentions to leave on an earlier train had percipitated his arrest before the prosecuting attorney had completed his investigation. The attorney later decided to dismiss the complaint. Russian Demands in Turkey A dispatch from Constantinople says: Russia demands of the porte two coaling stations on the Persian gulf, and she is using the strongest pressure to induce the sultan to yield. One or more stations have been demanded in Asia Minor. Up to the present the porte has not yielded, but it is doubtful whether the Ottoman government will be able to hold out. These demands are regarded as serious by the British. MRS, M'KINLEY SUES. She Owns a Mine up in Nevada and Others Have Been Working It. Suit has been begun in the United States court at Carson, Nev., by Mrs. Ida McKinley, wife of the President, and Mrs. Mary B. Barber, against John Steele, William Hayes and others to recover possession of the Elijah mine, one of the patented claims of the Canton Mining company, on which defendants are operating, and also for $10,000 damages for ore taken out and shipped by defendants during the period of occupancy of the mine. Steele is owner of the Macon City mine, adjoining the Elijah and denies that he has extracted ore from the patented claim, all his workings being well within his own lines. When President McKinley visited the coast he had the manager of the Canton company visit him in San Francisco and report on several of the Canton company's mines, a large interest in which Mrs. McKinley inherited from her father. It was decided then to develop the mines and this suit is brought to define the limits of the Elijah mine and prevent what is regarded as appropriation of its ore. ARRESTED A POST BOX THIEF In Montana One of Prentiss Tiller's Associates Were Captured. William Miller, alias E. H. Grant, supposed to be a postoffice box robber, was arrested by Postoffice Inspector Salmon of Cincinnati and Deputy United States Marshal Michael Wall of Halena at Havre, Mont., and taken to Helena. Federal authorities believe they have broken up a gang that preyed on federal mails. Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland and every other city nearby, of equal or greater size, east and west, received visits from the gang. The first arrests were made last spring in Omaha. "Two members of the gang, Prentis Miller and E. G. Grant, were taken into custody by officers. In Chicago they escaped, but Tiller was caught in Chicago within a few days and Grant was tracked to Buffalo, where he was arrested a month later. Tiller and E. G. Grant were sentenced for five years each. TRACTION ENGINE IN RIVER Newland Went off the Ferry Boat With It, But His Life Was Saved Cornelius F. Newland, a farmer near Liberty, Mo., had an adventure on a ferry boat at Randolph Heights which nearly caused him to lose his life in the Missouri river. Newland started to cross the Missouri river with a traction engine on a ferry boat. He steered the engine on the boat, but then lost control of it. The heavy machine rolled across the deck of the boat, broke down the guard rail and plunged into the river, carrying Newland with it. Newland was drowning when Robert Held, the son of Jacob Held, the owner of the boat, jumped into the water and saved his life. The traction engine is still at the bottom of the river, but efforts will be made to raise it. Robert Held has saved four persons from drowning at the Randolph Heights ferry landing. RUSSIANS MOBBED SLOAN The American Jockey, Riding on the Moscow Trucks, Lost a Race. "Cash" Sloan, the American jockey who has been riding in Russia, had an exciting experience at the Moscow races, where he narrowly escaped death at the hands of a furious mob. Sloan had been riding with such continuous success that his mounts were always favorites. On the occasion in question he rode a horse which had no chance of winning. The unsophisticated crowd, however, backed the American's mount as usual, and when he was beaten their indignation boiled over. A raging mob of men and women savagely attacked the jockey, who was rescued with difficulty by a military contingent and a detachment of police. "Cash" Sloan is a brother of Tod Sloan. WOMAN FELL SIX STORIES The Name on the Hotel Register Was Mrs. B. J. Graff of La Crosse, Wis. A young woman supposed to be Mrs. B. J. Graff of La Crosse, Wis. fell from a window upon the sixth floor of the Morrison hotel at Chicago, and died an hour later at the county hospital. She would have been killed upon the stone sidewalk only that she struck an awning, which broke her fall. Nothing is known of the woman's identity further than the name upon the register. Twenty minutes before she fell from the window she entered the hotel and was taken to her room. It is thought that she sat upon the window sill to get the air. She lost her balance or fell asleep. Three Drowned White Wading: Three negroes, two girls and a boy aged 17, 9 and 8 years respectively were drowned in the Osage river at Osceola, Mo. They were gathering blackberries and were drowned in attempting to wade across the river. Killed the Madman. Tuesday Robert Garrett, the senior member of the lumber firm of Garrett & Son, of Leavenworth, Kan., was laid to his everlasting rest; the following day his eldest son, John R. Garrett, junior member of the firm, was shot to death in his own office by Michael Kelly, a madman. Dr. Charles McGee, who went to the assistance of Mr. Garrett, was shot in the spine by Kelly, who also shot three officers and was then killed by Detective Michael McDonald, whom he had seriously wounded in the leg. Kelly had been in an asylum. Buggy Works Burn. Fire made short work of the plant of the Kansas City, Mo., Buggy Company the other day. The cause of the fire is unknown. The loss is $80,000, fully covered by insurance. The building was formerly a car barn, owned by the Metropolitan Street Railway company, situated at Ninth and Wyoming streets, near the state line. It is a complete loss, representing $20,000, fully insured. IT MAY BETHEM REQUISITION ISSUED FOR FOUR COLORADO PEOPLE. FRANK AYERS WINS HIS POINT He Has Been Trying For Months to Induce Kansas to Act—Many Who Knew the Benders Well Have Positively Identified the Colorado Sus- A requisition has been issued from the governor's office on the governor of Colorado for the notorious Bender family. The complaint is made by Frank Ayers, a ranchman living near Fort Collins, Colo., who claims he was married to a woman who he now thinks was Kate Bender. He claims the woman gave him "knockout drops" some time last month in the hope of killing him. To avoid suspicion he was carried in an unconscious condition to a nearby railroad track and left on the rails to be killed by passing trains. He was found by friends and rescued. He suspected his wife and began working up the case against her. He found her family living near Fort Collins, and he had E. M. Dock, V. A. Moynhan and T. R. Smith, from Cherryvale, Labette county, Kan., go to Fort Collins and identify the family there as John Bender, alias Charles Reed; Kate Bender, alias Mrs. Charles Reed; John Bender, Jr., alias William Baker; Kate Bender, Jr., alias May Grant, alias May Ayres. Governor Stanley placed the requisition in the hands of E L. Barton, a deputy sheriff from Labette county, and he left at once for Colorado. The supposed Benders have been identified by several persons who knew them twenty-eight years ago in Kansas. Ayres claims that he was married to the Bender woman fourteen months prior to the attempt to poison him. SORROW COMES TO OOM PAUL. Wife of the Aged Boer President Dead at Pretoria. Mrs. Kruger, wife of former President Kruger, of the South African republic, is dead at Pretoria. She died of pneumonia, after an illness of three days. She was 67 years old. Mrs. Kruger's long separation from her husband, combined with the death of her favorite daughter, Mrs. Smith, last week, had completely broken her spirit. Mr. Eloff and many other members of the Kruger family were at her bedside when she passed away. There was a striking similarity between the wife of the head of the Boer republic in South Africa, Paul Kruger, and the wife of one of the greatest of European statesmen, the late Prince Bismarck. While the name of their husbands was in every one's mouth, both the Princess Bismarck and Mrs. Paul Kruger remained modestly in the background. And yet the influence of the Princess Bismarck over her stern, unyielding husband doubtless was considerable, and it is stated by his intimate friends that the equally unyielding president of the South African republic never failed to consult his wife on important questions of state. But aside from the value of her womanly advice, Mrs. Kruger, as a good wife, certainly contributed largely to the mental and bodily strength which her husband shows despite his years. GRAVEYARD OF MASTODONS. Twenty Miles from St. Louis Bones of Extinct Animals are Found. Members of the St. Louis World's fair committees on history and ethnology and anthropology, of which Pierre Chouteau and F. W. Lehman are respectively chairmen, with Secretary Walter B. Stevens, of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, visited an extensive deposit of mastodon remains near Kimmmsick, on the Mississippi river, twenty miles below St. Louis. The deposit is said to be the most important ever unearthed, because of the great number of almost perfectly preserved bones found. Whole heads with the upper and lower jaws and the craniums and femurs five feet in length, have been found in an excellent state of preservation. Prof. Beeler, who owns the deposits, believes he has enough bones to build up complete several skeletons of the mastodon. It was the purpose of Secretary Stevens and Chairmen Lehman and Chouteau to ascertain if a suitable exhibit of these remains could be made at the World's fair. Recently Dr. Lucas and several other scientists of the Smithsonian institution visited the deposit, which is imbedded among fragments of limestone, and in a much composed of vegetable matter on which the animals are supposed to have fed. Dr. Lucas and his conferes believe that the vicinity of Kimmswick, the edge of the famous "Ozark Uplift," was the favorite feeding grounds of the extinct animals, which lived and died thereabouts in large numbers. CHRISTIANS GO UNARMED Missionaries in China Travel Under Promise of Protection. The party of British missionaries who accompanied Major Periera to Tai-Yuen-Fu, in Shansi, to investigate the condition of the mission property and of the native Christians traveled unarmed, says a dispatch from Peking, relying upon a promise of protection, which was faithfully fulfilled. Everywhere they were well received. They were surprised and indignant to find still holding office Sheo Yaug Hsien, the magistrate who during the massacre sent several British missionaries to Tai-Yuen-Fu, where they were murdered. His name was on the blacklist to be sentenced by imperial decree to perpetual exile. Sir Ernest Satow (British minister to Peking) is remonstrating and has shown an intention to take action to enforce the immediate fulfillment of the sentence. Men are naturally quarrelsome when they have a cold in the head and they frequently come to blows. FOR MEN WHO DRAW BLANKS. The Cream of the Kiowa-Comanche Lands will be for Rent. The thousands of homeseekers who will be disappointed in not drawing a lucky number calling for 160 acres of land in the new country can console themselves with the fact that as good, and, in many instances, better lands will be open to them subject to rental conditions. In every township subject to homestead entry are four sections of land reserved for the use and benefit of the public schools, colleges and public buildings of Oklahoma. Altogether there are about 136 townships, or 2,176 farms of 160 acres each belonging to Oklahoma. Again, the territory of Oklahoma secured about 116,000 acres in indemnity lands, taken as Indian allotments, equivalent to 725 farms of 160 acres. Oklahoma, accordingly, will have not less than 2,900 farms for rent. To these farms can be added 3,800 Indian allotments of 160 acres, embracing the cream of the soil, nearly all of them lying in the valleys of the streams, and which can be leased. The total number of farms for rent or lease will be 6,700. The school lands can be leased for a period of three years, the lessee having the privilege of releasing upon the expiration of his first lease. Should he not desire to renew his lease he will receive payment from the next lessee for all his improvements, such as wells, orchards, houses, etc., at a fair price to be fixed by a board of appraisers. The lands are controlled by a school land commissioner, James J. Houston, whose office is at Guthrie, and to whom applications must be made for leases. The school lands in the new country have not been appraised, but the work of appraisement will begin in a short time. The lease rentals have never been exorbitant. Indian allotments can be leased for a period of three years. The lessee is required to make certain improvements, such as digging a well, building a house, barn, fences, etc., and at the expiration of his lease all these improvements become the property of the Indian owner of the allotment. The lessee, however, may succeed in renewing his lease, but if he fails he loses his improvements. In Cheyenne and Arapahoe counties rental of an Indian allotment of 160 acres has been from $25 to $50 a year for the first three years, after which all cultivated land has been leased at about $1 an acre and the unbroken land for leases in the new country must be made to Major Randlett, United States Indian agent at Anadarko, Okla. A number of Western Oklahoma counties will take part of the overflow from the new country. In the counties of Green, Roger Mills, Washita and Custer are lands still subject to free homestead entry, and as good as many of the homesteads that will be settled upon in the new country. J. A. Powers, of Mangun, Greer county, every bit as good as the average homesteads in Kiowa county, and there are many farms in profitable cultivation that can be purchased from $5 to $10 an acre. Greer county has always raised good crops. We will raise a fair crop this year, even though no rain should fall. The cotton is fine, and thousands upon thousands of tons of hay are harvesting." FIND BURIED CITY. Evidences of a Prehistoric Race in Navajo Reservation. A prehistoric city of immense proportions is said to have just been unearthed on the Navajo Indian reservation, between Durango, Col., and Farmington, N. M., the particulars of the find having been reported to the land department of the Santa Fe system in Los Angeles. A mercantile company which has been exploring the territory in question for some time a short time ago found a palace of prehistoric age, containing about 1,000 separate apartments, some of them in an excellent state of preservation. Another stone castle contained 100 separate apartments. In some of the rooms inspected were found the finest of woods and other relics of a valuable character, specimens of which have been gathered and sent to the Smithsonian institution in Washington. The find is said to be exceptionally valuable from a scientific and ethnological standpoint, and is believed to antedate the time of the Aztec occupation of the country ages ago. KANSAS POPULATION. Census Figures, 768,716 Males and 701,719 Females—52,003 Negroes. The census bureau has made public its figures giving the population by sex, nativity, and color of the third group of states, including Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Indian Territory, the result being as follows: Kansas—Males, 768,716; females, 701,719; native, 1,341,316; foreign, 126,686; white, 1,416,319; colored, 54,176, including 52,003 negroes, 29 Chinese, four Japanese and 2,130 Indians. Indian Territory—Males, 208,552; females, 183,108; native, 387,202; white, 302,680; colored, 89,380. Of those classified as colored, 36,853 are negroes, 27 Chinese, 1,107 Indians taxed, and 51,397 Indians not taxed. Indiana—Males, 1,285,404; females, 1,231,058; native, 2,743,414; foreign, 142,121; white, 2,458,532; colored, 57,960. Of the colored, 207 Chinese, five Japanese, 243 Indians and the remainder negroes. Iowa—Males, 1,156,349; females, 1,075,054; native, 1,325,923; foreign, 305,920; white, 2,218,667; colored, 13-186, including 12,693 negroes, 104 Chinese, 7 Japanese and 382 Indians. Neck Broken by Elevator August Fuhrer, aged 27 years, was struck by an elevator and instantly killed at Nelson, Morris & Co.'s Packing plant in South St. Joseph. He was on the third floor and evidently had leaned over and was looking down the shaft when the freight elevator descending struck the back of his head, crushing the skull and breaking his neck. He fell back on the floor and in a few minutes was dead. Kansas is All Right. Governor Stanley has issued the following interview on the subject of Kansas crops and the general condition of the state: The present drought through out the West has been very injurious and the Kansas has worked a practical destruction of the corn. There are certain portions of the state where the corn crop is in fair condition and with seasonable rains Kansas must produce 50,000,000 bushels, but latter part of July and the month of August is always the trying period for the corn and very little hope may be entertained for this crop. It may as well be considered a substantial failure. "But with the corn crop which eliminated Kansas is in better shape this year than in many past years, and while the comparison affords no particular cause for encouragement, it affords no ground for discouragement. "The value of our wheat this year will be equal to or greater than that of last year, which in round numbers was $42,000,000. Our live stock products will be at least $0,000,000, alfalfa and other forage crops $5,000,000, hay and grasses $2,000,000. This makes a total of $109,000,000 for farm products, not counting corn, oats, potatoes, fruit and many other things of which considerable quantities will be produced. "The farm products of Kansas, consisting of wheat, corn, potatoes, forage crops and live stock products, for the last ten years aggregate more than $1,460,000,000. "During this period we had three short years, the value of the product for 1893 being $122,000,000; 1894, $113,000,000; 1896, $116,000,000, so that the entire farm products this year will practically equal the entire farm products of the best of the three years above mentioned. The bank' deposits of these three years were approximately as follows: 1893, $55,000,000; 1894, $55,000,000; 1896, $50,000,000. The bank deposits of Kansas at this time aggregate about $70,000,000. The farm products will be more than $109,000,000, and these will therefore exceed the sum of the farm products and the bank deposits for the best of the three small years since 1891. "Taking our farm products alone for twenty years and dividing them into periods of five years each, commencing with 1882 and ending with the present year, we have for the first period a farm production of $675,000,000, for the second, $696,000,000, for the third $646,000,000 and for the five year period ending with the present year, $750,000,000. "In 1896, the last short year we had in Kansas, our indebtedness was very large and the amount of money going out of the state to pay interest was enormous. Since that time public and private indebtedness has been largely reduced, and this is bearing a much lower rate of interest than ever. Thousands of farmers who were in debt at that time are now out of debt with deposits in the bank, and we owe many million dollars less in Kansas, than we did in 1896. "It is too evident for discussion that the present drouth in the West will work serious injury and that it will lead to much discouragement, but so far as Kansas is concerned it will not be altogether without good results. Had there been a large yield of corn, with good pasturage, following our immense wheat harvest, immigration would have again turned toward the state and attempted to open up Western Kansas to general agriculture. Already the steps of the immigrant were turning in that direction, and with a bountiful corn crop following the unequaled wheat crop in the state, it is safe to say that the western third of the state would have more than doubled in population in a short time. The results would have been disastrous. That experiment has been tried in Kansas twice; both times it has proven a failure and will prove a failure as often as tried. "Western Kansas is peculiarly a stock country and well adapted for the grazing of large herds and the raising of forage plants to carry them safely through the winter season. The present dry weather and practical failure of the corn crop will prevent a repetition of the unwise experiment that has twice proved a failure and thus prevent the recurrence of the hardships that have twice followed the attempt to open up Western Kansas to general farming. "The year 1901 will mark the close of a five year period the most successful that Kansas has ever enjoyed. With 75,000,000 bushels of the best wheat that was ever raised in her granaries, with $70,000,000 deposited in h-r banks, with 40,000,000 bushels of old corn on hand, with larger herds than ever in her pastures and forage plants necessary to carry them through the coming winter, with a people less elated by success and less discouraged by adversity than ever before, Kansas is all right." Big Tips Demoralize Walters There is one form of wealth which is distinctly reprehensible, the kind that distributes big tips along the summer routes of travel. It is done for display. The man who has made a strike wants to show off and his way of doing it is with five-dollar gold pieces, or munificence of that common sort. The extravagance simply demoralizes waiters. It is no good to the hotels or restaurants, and it makes everybody else who has not five-dollar gratuities to distribute less comfortable—Philadelphia Times. Swift Flight of Pigrons For seven years a unique pigeonpost has been in operation between Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island and Los Angeles, in California, a distance of about 50 miles. Over 20 miles of this distance is across the Pacific ocean. In the ordinary course five hours are required between the two towns, but the pigeons often cover the distance in less than an hour. Private messages, business orders, etc., are forwarded at prices varying from 50 to 75 cents per message.