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 THE THE ARMENIANS AT OUR OWN DOOR During the slavery days a charming woman of the South presented a subscription list to John Randolph, of Roanoke. This list was in behalf of the armenian sufferers. John Randolph last mounted his horse when this Southern woman asked for his contribution. He glanced at the paper and returning to her, swept his arm in gesture over the negro slave children in the vicinity, and as he rode away, shouted to her, "Median, the Armenians are at your own door." Today the churches of the country are appealing for funds for foreign missions, and at the same time the American people are confronted with a race problem in the consideration of which the people are required to realize that they have neglected their duty to the church at their own doors. Has not the time arrived when the American people, who are constantly soliciting for funds for the Chinese and the beaches of other lands, should for the sake of their own country remind these missionaries that the Armenians are our own door? The negroes comprise a part of our population. Their coming here was not voluntary on their part. They were brought here in chins by our forefathers and although they are capable of much that is good we have neglected our city in many respects toward them. The Armenians are at your own door. And if education will transform the heathen Chinese into a devout worker at the foot of the cross, that education will transform the negro from a猿about into a good and useful citizen, and until the American people have done their part in carrying out this transformation, they are not justified in holding the negro solely to blame for his shortcomings. In the consideration of this great problem we are apt to deplete ourselves with the notion that the negro is responsible for all the faults which we find in him. It is not pleasant to remit ourselves that as a whole people we have never seriously, intelligently and honestly undertaken to solve this race problem and to raise the negro to the point where God intended every human being should Jand Our churches have squandered millions of dollars in foreign missions for the purpose of educating the heathen Chinese and other creatures who assume the right to worship a god of stone, or the priviage of worshiping no god at all. But how much money has ever been spent by the churches of America in an effort to educate the negro children, in an effort to lift them to a higher plane and prepare them for good and useful citizenship? There is no city in the United States where money could not be spent to the advantage of religion and to the benefit of the country in general if spent in the education of the negro children. The republican party has long boasted of its friendship for the negro and yet when it has had post offices to give to the black man it has appointed him to a postoffice in the south among the people who, because of their education and their prejudices, could not tamely subdue of having a black man in official position. The republican party has never undertaken to remove the northern prejudice in this respect. It has never dared to appoint a negro to a postoffice in the north. In truth and in fact the friendship of the republican party to the negro has been confined largely to that party's platforms. Our men of learning have boasted for years that the solution of this race problem depended upon the education of the negro and yet we have done practically nothing toward educating the negro. DAUGHTER A LESSON. LONDON, Aug.19 — The Afro.Ameri can delegates to International Ecumenical Council which is to meet in Wesley's chapel in City road, London, next month are already arriving. Their advent is causing unexpected difficulty at one of big hotels in the West end where a large number of Americans are staying. The latter amazed by announcement that some 200 colored men were coming formally protested to the proprietor assuring him that such a thing would not be permitted in the United States, and demanding that the colored people be accommodated in a separate part of the hotel. The proprietor declined to interface, with the result that some of the Americans are already arranging to leave. To a representative of the Association Press he said to-night: I could not think of offering an in-suit to such men as Bishop 'Derrick, of New York; Bishop Tanner, of Philadelphia; Bishop Gaines, of Atlanta, and Bishop Arnett. I told the Americans that when the Indian princes were here no one objected to meeting them, and I do not propose to make any distinction at the expense of Afriques. The American people have a large share in the responsibility of this situation. The faults and weaknesses of the negro are in part to be laid at the white man's door. Very properly we condemn unsparingly the incination of some negroes to defile white women, but very few of us stop to think that we have a very large share in the blame for this very sin. With the very foundation of this government we reared an institution which, some of us said, was "divin" and we called it slavery. We instilled into the negro the disposition and the passion of the beast of the field. We trained him as we would any other breeding stock on our plantations. We made of him a being whose duty it was to assist in the multiplication and repreinishment of our stock of negroes. Is it strange, then that some of the descendants of that man must contend with an overruling passion? Is it strange that some of the descendants of that man have the instincts and the desires of the beast? Are we not, with respect to this sin, paying the penalty for the sins of our forsafathers, who raised so a race of men and women whose sole duty it was to sweat and to labor in order that other men might eat the bread they produced? The situa ion is indeed an unhappy one for the negro. The prospects for him is gloumy. Capable of much that is good, of much that would benefit humanity. Capable of a devotion to those he loves that cannot be excelled by his white brother, his lot has been casc among the men of another race who have used him largely as a political toteball and who have not discharged their duty to him according to the rule of man's duty to man. It may be that the time will come when the men and women of America will solve this problem in a way that wil at least not be disadvantageous to the black man. It cannot, with reason be said that once this race predjudice gets in full headway the black man will never recover his old time position. The campaign in Maryland, because of the platform adopted by the Maryland democrats, wilt in all probability result in a democracy victory, and with that victory will come new and greater strength to the campaign in favor of "a white man government." Perhaps this is an American course. Perhaps this is an American course. But we do not believe it. We cannot in truth and justice, hold the negro to account for his weak nesses and his faults to the extent that we so him back in the pathway of progress. until we have washed our hands, until we have discharged our duty in every respect toward him, until we have fully measuredup to the response bility placed upon us by our forefathers when the negro was brought to this country in chains. The best possible effort toward a solution of this grave problem would be, organized effort to educate the negro children. One-balf of the zeal which our church people throw into the movements for the education and Cristianization of the heathen of foreign lands would bring the negroes of this land to a better realization of the privileges of American citizenship. One thing at least in the presence of this grave problem we may do. We may organize a determined, persistent, intelligent, vigorous protest against these constant appeals for contributions to foreign missions at the very moment when we are confronted by the solemn fact. "The Armenian are at your own doors."—Omaha Wor KEEP YOUR CHILDREN BUSY Keep your children busy if you would have them happy. When the occupation is some daily labor which has been wisely allotted, see that it is accomplished as well as it is possible for the child to accomplish it under existing circumstances. But whether it be in work or play, let him understand that no matter how well he may done to-day—and do not be chany of your praise—he has within himself that which will make it possible for him to do still better to morrow. This treatment, instead of discouraging, says Woman's Home Companion, will encourage, by inciting the child toward ever better work, and will early impatient that spirit of divine discontent which allows of no absolute satisfaction in that which has been accomplished until the achievement reaches perfection. This is the discentent which Emerson preaches and which is holy if doubt is not allowed to creep in to mar the aspiration. OPPORTUNITY There is a saying that life is only what the individual sees fit to make it. Many person hasten to contradict this statement, and say that they are unable to make their lot as desirable as they might wish, because of the many odds against them. The greater portion of the negro race AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1901. is willing to contend that they are not able to make things as comfortable in many instances as they would like, owing to the prescription and prejudice relations existing between the two races in this country. I have always had ideas of my own on this particular question, and while I am of the opinion that every negro that wishes can make his life desirable. I know that there are thousands whose lives are not what they had hoped for in earlier days. We are confronted with question thus: 'Why this disappointment?' It is plain enough when we adjust ourselves to a careful consideration of the matter. There are many negroes who have the ability to make their way in any of the pursuits of life, but there are very few that are willing to adjust themselves to their surrounding conditions and throw themselves into those avenues in which they would most likely be successful. It is upon the question that arises here, that many base their argument, that they are unable to make their lot in the world a desirability. They claim that in many instances they are crowded out of positions by white men that should go to the negro. As regards this matter this is conceded to be a free country, and if the white man is not indisposed to give the negro the most lucrative positions at his own business. Here we are able to make some important deductions. The making the best of oppor unities is much in evidence. The negro population of the country is undoubtedly increasing yearly, and the time for making positions for our own people has become necessary, for the negro cannot afford to be so shifless as to look to the white man for the positions that he is making for his sons and daughters. Therefore the negro should not be too rabid in his arraignment of the white man because he does not get more recognition in certain lines of employment. DENNIS S. THOMPSON. OUR FUIIURE LIFE—AN EXTRACT. What pursuits and pleasures will occupy our attention in the next life? This is a question which not only excites our curiosity, but seriously demands an answer. Since every day brings us near r to the great mystery of death, we naturally require concerning the conditions on which we shall enter after we leave the valley of shadows and emerge into a world which only the faintest hints have been vouchsafed. We are not, however, left entirely in the dark on this subject. This little we know leads to many a reasonable surmise, for since there is a certain fixed consistency in the realm of spirit as well as of ma ter, it is safe to build a future out of the capacities and longiags of human nature. The scientific imagination predicts with considerable assurance the kind of physical life which exists on the planets of our system, and its sta eements are received with undubtaking confidence. In like manner the student of the soul may venture without much hesitation to declare that a given environment must result from our passage into the immortal life. It would be folly to insist on details, but general principles may surely be depended upon. The fact that the drudgery of our earthly career will be dispensed with and the soul will be free to follow its unhampered inclination in itself a prophecy of what will happen. In this under world physical necessities press upon us like a heavy burden, while the spirit of man very rarely has full scope. The body is always in evidence, but the soul is in the shadowed back ground. Manual work in order to maintain existence, daily struggle to supply our material wants in the tragic element of this lower life. We have neither time nor ability to provide food for the soul because so much time and energy are required to provide food for the body. Millions of men are hardly conscious of their immortality, because from the cradle to the grave they spend their best selves in keeping a roof over their heads and earning bread for their children. The years pass and when the end comes the spiritual nature is still undeveloped. This is one of the puzzles which confound us when we try to understand the providence of God. But with death we leave this burden at the church gate. No more anxiety about the body! It has done its work and is reverently laid aside. When clothed with a spiritual body physical drudgery ceases and the pure soul comes to the forefront. We may declare, therefore, that the next life will furnish us with intellectual opportunities which heretofore have been denied. Mind and heart, aspiration and affection, only the noble man, but the real man, will be free and the watchword of immortality will be growth. The radiance of infinite wisdom and love will beckon us toward the ideal, the universe will be our schoolroom and God himself our teacher. We shall begin then with a condition which is now almost inconceivable, but which will be unalterably blessed. Under such influences there must needs be an awakening of dormant powers, and the dimmed and buried souls of earth will have an eternity in which to become arch-angels.—Ex. EDITORIAL PICKINGS LIFE seems one continual round of trouble to some people, and a state of freeness never comes until death closes thir eyes in sleep. THE SIN OF A BLACK FACE THE SIN OF A BLACK FACE. The recent hanging, shooting, driving negroes from their homes and burning their houses at Pierce City, Mo., and the burning of a negro at Nelson's Ranch, Texas, are matters of serious moment to every colored man in the nation. If mobs in their fury are allowed to kill and otherwise punish the innocent as well as the guilty, then no man who has a black face is safe in any community where these offenses occur. As much, however, as we deplore and denounce lynching, vet as a race we must wake up to the fact that the man who commits rape shocks the moral sense of the community where it occurs, and nothing but death in some form will satisfy public sentiment. In all communities where rapes are committed it would be well for our people to hold indignation meetings and denounce the rapist first and then denounce the lyncher in terms equally as severe. This will serve to let the world know that our people are not in sympathy with any brute, black or white, who will attempt to invade the sanctity of the home to destroy the chastity of the fireside, thus corrupting the womanhood of our land and subverting the very foundations of our social and civil fabric. We hope our people will take these suggestions for what they are worth and act upon them in line to meld a public sentiment in favor of them.selves along the lines of decency and good government. We join issue with the Topeka Plaindealer in assuring the public and Western Negro Press Association that if life lasts we will make the meeting of the Association in Topeka in 1902, one memorable. Let all the negro papers in the state make one united effort and start in time that no hitch may occur LETS HAVE HOPE. There never was a heart pregnant with pain but what some other heart had sympathy for it. So'tis with us as a race. In our struggle for our rights—yea our life—in our distress and suffering—in our efforts "to wait till the clouds roll by" we have the sympathy and the active aid of many big hearted, broad-minded men and women who have given freely of their time and means to assist us in our efforts to rise above lowly surroundings to a highly enlightened and progressive state. A poet, probably poor in pocket, has given his share to us in rhyme, which must perforce, appeal to us and cause us to hold out a while longer since succor will surely come. "Though fearful storms have swept in wrath About thy toilsome rugged path And thou hast oft times been cast down, And sore dismayed by fortune frown Faint not, but bravely bear thy part Oh fellow man! One more take heart." —Daily Recorder We want it definitely understood that this paper proposes to stand up at all times for the negro when he is in the right. We are also the friend and defender of every legitimate race enterprise. In our advice those who have been with us during our fourteen years existene can bear witness that we have never advised our readers wrongfully. We are always ready to sing the praises of those white men who are conscientious in what they do for the negro, thus placing themselves in a position to be truthfully called—a negro's friend. TIDBITS. A man's best friend are his teu fingers. Society says one thing and nature says another. Any kind of an honest job is better than no job at all. Take a dollar a day for your work if you can get no more. Have a reserve fund that will come out when you need it. The honest man who dies poor is riche, if he only holds his own. Only those who make clean money and do clean things win success. A good day's work at what you can best do is the hard pan to which all must come. A good farmer is better than a poor doctor, and a good horseshoe is better than a poor bishop. TIDBITS. Sleep eight hours out of the 24. eat three meals a day, and walk on the sunny side of the way. We were indeed sorry that owing to circumstances over which we had no control prevented our attending the National Negro Business Mens Association meet in Chicago this week. However we were represented any how by our distinguished townsmen Judge Bradley and Jeweler Wilson. AND THIS OUR UNCLE SAM Looking at the negro question from several points of view, it will certainly be termed as something remarkable when some of the different phases adjust themselves in a way that we can call it solved. One thing that touches every negro's heart to a depths that nothing else does. Is the treatment of the negro soldiers who is there? whose heart does not go out to the black boys who have proved in all hours of darkness a friend indeed to Uucle Sam. Yet they are treated in peace almost with the utmost contempt. "A colored soldier a veteran of the three wars who rose from the ranks of private to that of a captain because of valor at San Juan Hill, remarked after returning from the War Department. A colored soldier has little to expect from that building. White commissioned officers are not asked to go back and re-enlist as privates, especially when they wear honor medals for bravery. THE GOVERNOR'S RACES. THE GOVERNOR'S RACES. The air seems somewhat heavy ladened and distant thunder is to be heard—what meaneth all this? Simply Wyandotte county is getting her horses in trim for the Governor's handicap races. It is a little too eaily for our "Bookmaker" (who is a pretty good judge of enurable horse flesh) to give ont any pointers. When the races start, we will be on the ground with all kind of odds. For we believe we can pick the winner. GIVE US THE SAME RIGHTS. Some one said in our presence that the Negro ought to accept disfranchisement as after that he would ever be at ease and enjoy the blessings of liberty without molestation. We are not guaran tased that and if we wore, we'd be afraid that our good disfranchisers would break faith with us, and having us so low, would even reduce us lower in the scale of citizenship—if, indeed, they didn't rob us of everything worth living for; Oh no brother! We cannot trust you— "The truth itself is not believed. From one who often has deceived." Let us live as men free and equal. Let us enjoy the same liberty. Let us have the same privileges, communities, responsibilities. Let us share alike in joy and sorrow, prosperity and adversity and you will have fulfilled a condition which God has imposed on all man kind.—Ex OLD MEN AND YOUNG GIRLS. THE negro parents who have daughters to raise and rear into womanhood undoubtedly have a world of trouble to conten. with in this day and age. We stand appalled at the unprincipled manhood of a class of old men, who instead of seeking their equals in the accomplishment of their filth des gus. Lay snakes to entrap the young and virtuous of our race, then expect the race to rear decent and ripeable women. There are many old men in this city who seem to have a mania for young girls, and instead of being afather to them, guiding them as best they can in the paths of rectitude and decency, they stoop below the dignity of men—yes even lower then brutes and with glittering promises make prostitutes and subjects for the many houses of ill fame of girls who might with the proper care be made bright stars in the firmament of the races' great women. There is a class of young men who much of this brutishness can be attributed but the old men are far in the majority. If men are fired with such filthy impulses that they cannot restrain themselves, let them seek their equals to appease their brute passion. This is rather plain talk and we hope it will strike to the very quick, those hardened old eprobates who make young girls their prey. CITIZEN TALES OF TWO CITIES GOOD CHEER. Haye you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. 'Twas not given for you alone— Pass it on. Let it travel down the years Till in Heaven the deed appears. Pass it on. —Ladies: Home Journal. Miss Bertha Owens of 919 Euclide ave nue, and Mrs. Jackson, made our office a pleasant call this week. Mrs. L. Gibson, of 703 Wyandotte st., is in Jefferson City, Mo., this week at tending the grand session of the S. M.T.s. Mrs. Cordelia Miller of Poplar Bluff Mo. gave the American Citizen a short call. Mrs. Albert Williams of Oaklahoma city is in the city the guest of Mrs. U. F Scales of 842 Jersey Ave. Mrs. R. Saunders of 727 Freeman Ave. is quite ill this week. Mrs. W. M. Wilson of Cresco Iowa is spending some time in the city with her mother Mrs. N. Whitfield of 716 Jersey Ave. Mrs F. D. Gleed is visiting her parents at Fulton Mo. Word was received from Miss Marie L. Johnson daughter of Mr, and Mrs O. B. Johnson that she was enjoying the cooling breezes of the Rockies very high. Mrs. I. F. Bradley is spending a very pleasant trip in Owensboro, Ky. The Cozy new brick home f Mr & Mrs Fred Trent on Greely Ave Edgerton place is nearing completion. When completed this will be one of the nicest cottage homes in our city. Mr. Clarence Steward and Miss Lulu Green were married the past week. A Roosevelt club was organized at the office of R. C. Martin, in Kansas City, Mo., last Monday evening. The band concert at Huron Park last Saturday was another one of those rare treats that was very acceptable. The First Baptist church of Leavenworth, Kas., held its 43rd, anniversary last Sunday. Rev. Vanile preached an excellent sermon at 11 c'clock a.m., a paper by Miss Rocky Moore, and at 7.30 p.m., a sermon by Rev. D. B. Jackson, of Kansas City, Kas. Collections for the day $20 25. This church is the oldest colored church in the State of Kansas. Rev. J. King, the pastor, is greatly encouraged The lawn social given by the teacher and pupils of Class No. 6 of the Metropolitan Sunday School. last Saturday night, was a grand success. Many attended both young and old. A short program was rendered which consisted of an instrumental solo by Miss Nettue Penix, a paper by Miss King, a vocal solo by Miss Ida Scott, and the most interesting feature of the programme was an address to the young people by Mr. D, Overs. Miss Lulu Andersen has returned from a visit among friends and relatives at Wellington, Mo. Mrs. Edna Ford, Mrs. Susie Lane and Mr. James Gueren were visiting in the Popular Block this week. A very agreeable surprise party was tendered Miss Ella Neal last Monday evening at the home of her mother, Mrs. L. Johnson, of North 3rd. street. oy a number of her young friends in token of their high esteem. Miss Neal returned to her native home, Iouisville, Ky., Tues day evening. Prof. and Mrs. W. T. Vernon will be home to their many friends at the Western University at Quindaro, after Sept 1st. The smiling countenance of Miss Bette Houston, of the Sea Foam block, after a severe illness, is again to be seen on our thoroughfares. Mrs. G. E. Horsey, wife of Dr. G. E. Horsey, is expected to arrive in the city this morning from Nashville, Tenn. Call up Telephone 375 Blue, and we will catch your news. Miss Ros. Harold, of Leavenworth, is among the proming young ladies taking a course training in Douglass Hospital school for nurses. Msra. Battie Lucas of Seventh and Ann ave. is on the sick list this week. HURTAH FOR PROF. Rev. W. T. Vernon, President of the Western University at Quindaro, Kas, and well known as the Kansas silver tongor orator, and Miss Emily J. Embry, of Philadelphia, Pa., were married at Leavenworth, Kas., last Sunday. Miss Embry is the daughter of the late Bishop J. C. Embry of the A. M. E. church. We extend the glad hand to the Prof. and wish the intelligent couple long years of usefulness and happiness. --- A TRIP TO THE TERRITORY. INTEREST ORDER OF 12. We left Kansas City Union Station on the morning of August 11, over the M. K. & T. railroad, for the city of Lenapah, I. T. The weather was cloudy in the morning but the trafn started on time and we began sight seeing. The tain seemed to have livened all nature and the industrious farmers are plowing for fall wheat. We arrived at Parsons at 3 p. m., and was met by Sir Isaac Clairy, C. M., of Moses Dickson No. 12. We were pleased to meet him and hear that the order is doing nicely and the sick much improved. We left Parsons at 4 p. m. for Coffeyville, arrived at half past five—here we found the Temple, led by Sir Willis Yocum, Tabernacle with Dt. Lydia Garner, C. P., and the tent with Dt Lizzie Yocum, Q. M. All are doing good work for the betterment of our people and their powers are being felt for good. We stopped with our old friend, Sir Allan Garner, C. G. O., who made our stay quite pleasant in his home and the city. Mr. Williams and Rone both have nice grocery stores and are doing a cash business. I left here for Lenapah, I. T., in company with Sir Allan Garner, C. G. O., and was met by the Dr. of the Tabernacle. We then went to Mr. Wm. Bufflagton's farm, there we had breakfast in the pleasant home style. We returned to Beck s Hall where we met the members of Bright Star Tabernacle No 27, of Lenapah, I. T., and Charity Rose Tabernacle No. 24, of Coffeville, and the tents were in full regalia. They led by the blue rubbon band, mared to Gaskens' grove, where the day was spent in celebrating of the 29th anniversary of the Order of 12. of Knights and Daughters of Tabor of the International of Twelve. At the hour appointed the Master of Coremany, Mr. Wm. Buffington in a neat little speech, stated the object of the gathering and introduced Rev. Jos. Smith, of Coffeville, Kas, who made an earnest prayer, as is his usual way, and then introduced Sir Frank Wilson, C. G. M., of Kansas-Nebraska jurisdiction, who spoke at length of the orders rapid growth, its benefits, its power in uniting our people together, its influence in places where the Order is established, and of its numerical strength which was greeted with applause. The next speaker was Mr. Grant Rose, who spoke on the progress of the race in the Indian Territory, which was highly applauded. The last speaker was Sir Allen Garner, C. G. O., who spoke of the progress of the race in the last thirty-six years. His speech was received with smiles and applause. The welcome address delivered by Dt. Amanda E. Vann, of Tent 22, and the response by Maid Eva Biand, of Tent 24, were just fine and met the approval of all present. At 5 o'clock, p. m., the Order marched to the hall where we were entertained with a concert and the refreshments of the season, and all did partake freely and a general good time was had by all present. The C. G. M. was in the parade in full regalia which was highly pleasing o all Knights and Daughters. Come again, C. G. M., we are all pleased to have you with us at any time. To Dt. Rosa Buffaling, C. P., of the Bright Star Tabernacle No. 27, Lenapah, I. T., and Dt. Lydia Garner, C. P., of Charity Rose Tabernacle No. 24, Coffeyville, Kas, much is due to their earnest efforts that made the affair a success. Long may they live to help the race and the Order of Twelve. Faithfully. THE U. B. F's, IN CONVENTION. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 20.—The thirty-ninth annual session of the United Brothers of Friendship and the sister of the Mysterious Ten, two state secret societies for colored people, convened here to-day in the senate chamber at the capital. The meeting was called to order by Willis Brent, of Columbia, Ill., and Kate Moore, of Columbia, Mo. The session will continue several days. Only organization matters were considered to-day. About 200 colored delegates from all parts of Missouri are in attendance on the session. Mr. Jas. Miller, relative of Mrs. Houston in the Sea Foam block died this morning. Furneral possibly Saturday or Sun day. Miss Lulu Johnson, of North Third street, received to-day a telegram from her mother in Louisville, Ky., who has been ill for several weeks, to the effect that she was very low. Mrs. Johnson will probably leave this week. THE FOOD VALUE OF VEGETABLE What the Body Gains From the Onion and the Modest Dandelion from what to eat. Tomatoes rouse torpid liver'and do the work, ordinarily, of a Doctor's prescription. Lettuce has a soothing, quitening effect upon the nerves, and and is ay insomnia remed y MERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS Telephone "375 blue" W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Weekly one year..... $1 50 intered at the postoffice, at Kansas City ane, as second class matter. Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas in and for Wyandotte County Kansas. Robert M. Thomson, Plainiff, S. M. Thomson C S. A. Thomson D. fendan N The State of Kansas; To S. M. Thomson and Sarah Thomson, Greeting; Sarah Thomson, Greeting: You will take notice that on July 2nd, 1901, Plaintiff filled his petition in the above named Court and unless you answer demur or otherwise object on or before September 30, 1901, the allegations of s id petition will be taken as confessed to be true and Judgement rendered requiring that you convey to Plaintiff the following described Real Estate in Wyandotte County Kansas to wit; Commencing at a point 75 feet, north of the N. W. of Corner of lot 40 in the Hom Building Company's Addition to Argentine theme North 50 ft., thence East to the front of Lot A., thence in a South Eastern direction along the line of lot A, to a point opposite the starting point of aence West to beginning, and unless you convey said Land the decree of said Court to stand for the convenance of said Property to be said Plaintiff. L W. Johnson. Plaintiff's Attorney. Attest. C. W. Litefield. Clerk. B E. L. Krupp. Density In the Disrict Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Elisabeth Bowers, Henderson Williams and Maud Williams, by her next friend, Plaintiffs. vs. Maria Williams Jackson and Peter Jackson, Ananda Williams-Lee and Sandy Lee, Adine Williams, Elias Williams and Franklin Williams, To Elias Williams, you are here, you notified that you have been sued in the above named Court by the above named plantiffs, and unless you appear and answer the petition filed in said case, on or before the Twenty-first (21) day of September, 1901, the said petition will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered there-on, the nature of which will be a judgment, making partition of the following described real estate to wit: *Lois Forty-two* (42) and Forty-three (43) i. block Twenty-seven (27) in the former city of Wyndotte, now a part of Kansas City, in Wyndotte County Kaussa, also. Lot Forty eight (48) in block Forty-eight, (48) in the former city of Wyndotte, now a part of Kansas City in Wyndotte county Kansas, according to the prayer in the petition filed herein, and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley. Attorney for the Plaintiffs (Aug. 9th.) In The Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas: Abner Robinson and Amanda Hines Plaintiffs. js. Paulina Moorehead and Jane Moore. Defendants. No, 4893 To Jane Moore, You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff above named has brought suit and filed its petition against you, together with other D. defendants in the above-ntl Court, and that you most answer the petition aforesaid filed againt you on or before the Twenty-first day of Septem ber 1901, or said petition will be taken as true, and judgment accordingly rendered against you as follows: First: A judgment making partition of the following described real estate to wit; Lots Twenty-six [26] Twenty-seven [27] Twent, eight [28], and Twenty nine [29] in block One hundred and Sixty nine [09] in the former city of Wynn dote, now a part of Kansas City in Wyandotte county Kansas, as prayed for in the petition, filed in the above entitled case, and for costs of suit. I F Bradley. Attorney for Plantiffs Watercress, which is now at it best, is a "good, all-round" braces up for the systm. Spinach has medical properties and qualities equal to the most indigo all blue pills ever made. Parsmips, it is now contended by scientists, possess, almost the same virtues that are claimed for sarsapilla. Beets are fattening, even a moderately learned man will explain, be cause of the sugar they contain. Ordinary Lima deans, someone has said, are good to allay thirst, but the same can be said, with equal ruth of a pitcher of water. Asparagus is efficacious in kidney ailments to an extent that is not yet perhaps throughely appreciated. Cucumbers, aside from sunbeam emitting prodeties known to reaber of facetious paragraphs, contain a acid that is helpful in cases of dys pepsia. from the School of Engineering, 13; from the School of Law, 9; from the School of Pharmacy, 20; from the School of Fine Arts, 7; from the School of Medicine. MARY HARRIS LUSTORONE No. 1. To be used at bed-time every night. Straightens Knotty, Napkin, Curl Heraly. It acts quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten the hair. Lustorone is not recommended to not have to wait weeks for the results. Lustorone is recognized as the only True Hair Straightener. No hot irons are used. Lustorone straightens without any outside assistance. LUSTORONE No. 2. Must be used in connection with Lustorone No. 1. It is used with Lustorone. It is used with Lustorone, and, in case of chafing, Eczema, & Causes the hair to grow long, silky and beautiful. Stops the hair from out, and causes the hair to grow on the baldest head. Restores Grey Hair to its Natural Color. LUSTORONE FACE BLEACH. Whitens the darkest skin, making it several shades lighter. Will bring the skin to any desired shade of color. Cures all Facial Blemishes, Pimples, Black Heads, &, also cuts all Skin Diseases and removes Small Fox Pits. LUSTORONE SCALP SOAP. Is absolutely proper. It should be used with Lustorone. It also cuts the hair from falling out. The regular price for the treatment is $5.00. OUR GREAT OFFER! Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with $1.00 and we will send you all of the goods as named above, in plain paper, so no one can know contents. This offer made to introduce Honest Goods. We can send to any place in the world. Full Directions with every treatment; D W. White. Pres. H. P. Ewing, J Sec'y, Mn'gr. J G. Groves, Vice Pres. W. M. Gamble, Treas. DIRECTORS. D' W. White, H. P. Ewing J. G. Groves, W. M. Gamble, Frank Wilson S. A. Rutherford, I. F. Bradley, C. W. Comager W. M. Grigsby. AUDITORS. S. A. Rutherford, Frank Wilson, Miss E. V. Jones. TOPEKA NOTES. Miss Nannie Martin, of Fort Scott, Kansas, is in the city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. R. Wilkerson, of 1510, North 8th, street. She will doubtless remain through the fall and winter to attend our High School. Mrs. A. M. Ward entertained a few friends Tuesday evening at a pink tea in honor of Miss Penelope Rucker, of Atchison, and Miss Sadie Wilson, of Chicago. The Ladies Sewing Circle met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Wm. Porter, on Loranor Hill. Miss Pearl McNeil entertained the Golden Rod Club Friday from 6 to 8 P.M. An elaborate luncheon was served. Miss F. E Buckner entertained a number of friends Saturday evening in honor of the Misses Taylor Alexander and Rucker. The evening was very pleasantly spent with music and game. Policeman C. Simpson is quite ill at his home on Laue s.reet. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conglan, of St. Paul, Minn., has been visiting friends in the city this week. Mr. R. Hightower and Mrs. L. Tavlor were united in marriage Wednesday evening at 8:80 p. m. Rev. Helm officiating Misses Taylors of St. Louis Mo. was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Vernella Saturday and Sunday. Misses Alexander of St. Louis Mayme Dilland of Lawrence Kans. spent a few day last week in the city guest of Mrs. F. E.Buckner. Miss Estella Martin of Sedalla Mo. who has been visiting her aunt Mrs. Johnson on Van Buren st. will return home Monday. Celery is an acknowledged nerve tonic, and is more and more used in medical prescriptions. Onions are also a tonic for the nerves, but people will be forever prejudiced because of their odor. Dandelions purify the blood and generally are declared to tone up the system. Potatoes should be eschewed by those who "have a horror of getting fat, as that is one penalty of eating them. "We Bury The Dead." PATRONAGE { SOLICITED,} Telephone office 1014 N. 5th Street KANSAS CITY, KANS. WE ALL MUST SUFFER. Up to date thirty colored families have been driven out of Pterre City, Mo. Two have been lynched and the likelihood of other suspects being burned. We have no serious conde nation for severe punishment being meted out to rapists when they are positively known to be guilty. It is one of the most damnable outrages in modern civilization that all negroes must suffer for the beastly doings of one member. The majority of white people seem to think that every negro is his brother's keeper. UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE. SHORTFST LINE CROSS THE [CONTINEN] The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two splendid fast trains leave Kansas City daily over this old established line. No change of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved Reclining Chair Cars free and Pullman Palace sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintch Light. Only line running two trains without charge from Kansas City to Denver Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho, Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your ars game nts for a trip west until you have had all about special inducements attractions offered by the Union Pa For full if formation in regard to rates time, et. c. call on cradr J.B. FRAWLEY. ,Union Pacic 100 0 TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S.PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRATHAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? HARTONA FACE WASH. Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. HARTONA NO-SMELL. HARTONA NO-SMELL. Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. PATRONIZE The Wyandotte DrugStore And the best of everything in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription carefully compounded. Prices always the LOWEST at our store. Open day and right. Ring night bell. Phone W. 171. Medicines Deliverie W. B. RAYMOND Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SUPP FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT AN AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Undertaking Krooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Corst St. and Riverview Ave. ARTAKERS * SUPPLIES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL TIMES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Victoria Corst St. and Riverview Ave. CITY. WE LET YOUR PATROLLES, MARTIN& DEALERS IN and Staple Grocery SEED AND SALT MEAT Cigars. All kinds of Country Produce in part of the city. and Oakland Ave., Kansas UNDERTAKERS * SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER Undertaking Kooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. W SOLICIT YOUR JONES, MA —DEAL Fancy and Sta FEED AND Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds o delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave. FEED AND SALT MEATS. Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of Country Produce in season. Goods delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave. Kansas City, Kas Lewis Blandchard Lewis Blandchard No. 6, Sta e Lire, K. C. K Does all kinds of Boot and Shoe work. He does first class hand work, and also has one of the very latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantee the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time. Give him a trial and see for you self. CANCER Home Treatment that curbs Cancers and Tumors. Used with perfect safety; harmless, soothing, non-irritating. We offer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a speedy cure. Cases that require antil cure. Write to day for our 26 page book. It contains much valuable information and hundreds of testimonials from patients we have treated or cancer. Sell free. Consultation by mail or in person, free. Address. DR. E. O. SMITH'S MANYARIUM, N. E. MCCLEARY, Mankato, Rooms 6 to 11, N. E. Cor. 10th & Main Sts., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. --- KANSAS CITY TRACE MUSE SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ENCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS. WE R PATRONAGE, ARTIN&CO. 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Kansas Cit Wonder why some people kick so called, but held. ..HARTONA.. reparations Preparations for the Hair! tchless and Positively ening all Kinky, Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Makes the hair grow on baldness out of the hair, itching, and all life and lustre, and the hair stays, holding the hair down with grease. Children's hair just the same as adults have placed it on sale in 25c. and the Hartona remedies. Remember otherwise. All our remedies are the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, and to the editor of this paper, to city and town in the United States and living, with easy and pleasant, hundred genuine testimials in your high? FACE WASH in five or six shades lighter, and with usual use of the face wash. One both blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes. Full directions with each bottle of the United States on receipt of the sale. Thousands of delighted patrones are not perfectly satisfied and delight no matter if you are employed or not. NO-SMELLY; cures sore and aching feet, cheeks, disagreeable odors caused by perspiration. Address all orders to INA REMEDY CO., 909 E. MAIN ST. AND OFFER. In three large boxes of Hartona Hair Smell. Goods will be sent securely, plainly. Money can be sent by post. A. C. L. C. — IS HEADQUARTER OF THE CHEAPEST The Best Goods, the Quickest and the most. GEF THE COAL, WOOD, FEED, WHOLESALE and Retail. Office 4333 Yard and Storage 917 and 919 N. EAGLE Gem Dru THE CHEAPEST PRICES COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BUILDIN STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 435, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN M E RRIAM, EL Fire Insurance WYANDOTT Northeast Corner Fifth KANSAS CITY, DR. 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Over 60,000 case Consultation free and confide Seminal Weakness and Sexual Debility, the results folly and excesses-causing losses by beams or with urine, pimples and blotches on the head, pains in back, confused ideas and the face, bashfulness, aversion to society, loss of power, loss of manhood, etc., cured for life, loss of sexual function, lost sexual power, nerve and brain power large and strengthen weak parts and make you fit for marriage. Symptics, its forms and stages, cured for Syphilis, its terrible disease, in all Syphilis, its forms and stages, cured for Syphilis, its terrible disease, in all Ulcers, Swelling, Disease and Gleit, and all forms of Private Disease, positively cured or money refunded. Structure without the use of instruments. A New and Infallible House Treatment. No The Citizen is Better keep you PILES All diseases of the restum treated on a post patient is cured. Send for free of page book: testimonial letters. valuable to anyone surrender-free. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MIN The Citizen is in the Push Better keep your Eyes open. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. All diseases of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no money accepted until patient is cured. Send for free 104 page book: a treaties on rectal disease, and hundred testimonial letters, valuable manuscripts affected. Also our 48 page book for women, both free. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MINOR 10th & Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. THE CRANDEST OF ALL arations for the The Original and Only Hartona. and Positively Unequaled for g all Kinky, Knotty, Stub Harsh, Curly Hair. the hair grow on bald and thin places. R e hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. H astre, and the hair stays and grows naturally down with grease. Hartona is positively hair just the same as adults. To meet the need it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our ana remedies. Remember, we handle no fake all our remedies are trade-marked, register and 1900. We refer you, as to our respon e the editor of this paper. own in the United States. Write to us to with easy and pleasant work, and no risk ine testimonials in your own State of per E. WASH. ex shades lighter, and will turn the skin of the face wash. One bottle does the work. freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. options with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per be ands of delighted patrons send us testimoni gently satisfied and delighted with the Hart. If you are employed or not, and we will sh - SMELL. store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. odors caused by perspiration of the feet, all orders to EDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmo OFFER. uge boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and St oods will be sent securely sealed from obsess Money can be sent by post-office money ord Main St., Richmo A. C. L. COAL —IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— E CHEAPEST P the Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND L STONE, and Retail. Office 435, Minnesota Ave. and Storage 917 and 919 No:th 3rd. St. E F. HENDERS EAGERS m Drug St The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. MINNESOTA AVENUE D SALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMIC Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, L FUMERY AND FANCY TOILET AR RRIAM, ELLIS & BEN Insurance, Real Life WYANDOTTE BUILDING, East Corner Fifth and Minnes CITY. R. HENDERSO 93 West 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. (9) Old Reliable Doctor. Oldest in Age and Longer Regular Graduate in Medicine. Over 27 Years Practice.--22 Years in Kansas City. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Cancer guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines burn no mercury or injurious medicine used. New created patients at a distance treated by mail and express. Medicines free from gaze or breakage. No medicines on O. D. Charges low. Over 400,000 cases cured. State you, no Consultation free and confidential. Northeast Corner Fifth and Minnesota Ave. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Special Disorders. Cures guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines furnished are required—no mercury or injurious medicines used. No detention from business, visits at a distance treated by mail and express. Medicines sent over fax, e-mail or phone. No medicines sent "O. D., on request." Charges low. Over $6000. Send for letter. Consultation free and confidential, personally or by letter. Citizen is in the er keep your Eyes op LES NO MO TILL CUR of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no mo d. Send for free 104 page book; a treaties on rectal disease letters, valuable to anyone afflicted. Also cur 48 page book for Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 10th & Oak Sts., Kars for the Hair Only Hartona. Unequaled for Straigh Knotty, Stubborn, and thin places. Restores GRASS, scalp diseases. Hartona does not need and grows naturally beautiful and hardy. Hartona is positively harmed—or results. To meet the popular and 50c. sizes, in our special rounds, we handle no fake goods, and you we mark-demarked, registered and copied, as to our responsibility, to the work, and no risk of losing your own State of people who have SH. and turn the skin of a mulatto petele does the work. Shapes of the skin. You can regu of price, 50c. per bottle; securely send us testimonials every year, stated with the Hartona remedie not, and we will show you how to L.L. fed limbs, etc.oration of the feet, arm-pits, et Main St., Richmond, Va. Hair-Grower and Straightener, two sealed from observation. Post-office money order, or enclosure Richmond, Va. GOAL CO. ARTERS FOR— BEST PRICE Best Sales, the Smallest Profits, quickest deliveries. AIR PRICES ON FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West 3rd St. E F. HENDERSON Mansger ERS ug Stor NES, CHEMICALS. ches, Combs, Etc. NY TOILET ARTICLES. LIS & BENTON e, Real Estate E BUILDING, th and Minnesota Ave., KANSAS DERSON. Kansas City, Mo. (Oppos to New est in Age and Longest Located, cine, Over 27 Years Special ers in Kansas City. Great Chronic, Nervous and Special Disc- sured. All medicines turn out beautifully used. No duration for treatment. Personal and express Medicines sent everywhere to medicines en O.D., only to be agreed cured. State you, en en and send for turn pain and no exposure. No canies cut bougies or sounds. No detention from her. Thousands cured. A permanent good guaranteed or money refunded. Send stamp for book, which fully explains this disease. Varicocle==scrotum-causing- vous debility, weakness of the sexual system, etc., permanently cured without pain. Hydrocele==dry-of the scrotum, cured without pain. Phimosis==see book-cured in a new days without pain. Book for both sexes, 96 pages, 27 pleures true to life. with full scretion of above diseases, the effect and cure, sent sealed in plain wrapper for six Free Museum OF Anatomy for men Thousands of curatives A sermon without words is in the Push. or Eyes open... NO MONEY TILL CURED. Active Guarantee, and no money accepted until treaties on recital diseases, and business of Also our 48 page book for women, both sex R, 10th & Oak Sts., Kansas City, Mo. Cart Carry Carcels Trolley Car Carry Parcel Ten trolley cars for carrying parcels are now run by the Metropolitan company over the streets of New York. The trolley express service is expected to revolutionize parcel collection and delivery in the city. The Chinese Encyclopedia The University Library of Berlin possesses a complete set of the Chinese encyclopedia "Hao-1-I-Yu," of which even the Chinese Imperial library has only a few volumes. A. Mouse Cake. A chocolate cake covered with white ice is sure to be hailed with appreciation by the youngsters at a child's party. A layer cake with chocolate icing should be used. The mice are made of marshmallows, pinched into shape and finished with white';icing for tails and chocolate dots for eyes. A. Kansas Philosopher. A true philosopher has been discovered among the gang of harvesters in Rice county. One man returning to camp at night full of beer threw a brawl of water over a tired sleeper. "You're a fool," the sleeper said, and let it go at -- Topeka (Kan.) Capital. Wakasha Hears Good News Wabasha, Minn., August 19th:—George Huber of this town suffered from Kidney Trouble and Back-Ache. He was very bad. Dodd's Kidney Pills, a new remedy, has cured him completely. He is now quite well and able to work. He says Dodd's Kidney Pills are worth their weight in gold. News comes to hand almost every day of wonderful cures by Dodd's Kidney Pills, which, although but recently introduced in this country, has already made many warm friends by its splendid results in the most serious cases of Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, Rheumatism, and Back-Ache. A wise man avoids extremes—especially those of wasps and hornets. Appearances are often deceitful. Many a bad egg has a good shell. 16 to 10 or a Chance of Ratio 10 to 18 of a Change of Place To purchasers of starch. Heretofore they have been paying 10 cents for 12 ounces of even much inferior goods to that turned out in Nebraska and known as Defiance starch. Now, however, the up-to-date housewife who has an eye to money saving, insists that her grocer shall give her Defiance. It costs less and goes farther than any other starch made. At your grocer's Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha, Neb. Piaros canable girls to show their fingering and finger rings at the same time. 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Parties having money to invest in a manufacturing business that will pay them 15 per cent or better in annual dividends, for full particulars address, A. J. BURNS, 933 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Some merchants need larger quarters, while others need more quarters. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Borrowed trouble bankrupts a man paying the interest. Lame back makes a young man feel old. Wizard Oil makes an old man feel young. See your druggist. It's a cold day when the firt has no use for a fan. Place a croc is the best medicine we ever used for an inflictions of the throat and lungs.-W.M. C. ENSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1000. The wearer knows where the shoe pinches. $300 DOUGLAS W. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE. The reputation of W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes for style, comfort and wear has excelled all other makes sold at these prices. This excellent reputation has been won by merit alone. W. L. 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Pictorial Humor A CASE OF TOUGH LUCK The Hunter—De feller dat lent me dis gun sa I guess she does all right, 'cause dere wuz five b A CASE OF TOUGH LUCK. The Hunter—De feller dart lent me dis gun said she'd shoot an 'hard. I guess she does all right, 'cause dere wiz five holds in de flock I just shot at. AT THE ZOO. AT THE ZOO. CA. DAVID. The Lion—What's the matter with the zebra? The Lion—What's the matter with the zebra? The Wildcat—He's sore because someone said he looked like a convict. "Does the kissing bug make people blush?" he demanded—Chicago Post. Short—"Don't let! If you could oblige "I shou me inconvenience me with a light—ft— you, sir, but— IT DID. NO TROUBLE TO GET A LIGHT. ```markdown ``` ON THE STREET. "Now, if I had a million dollars," began the Wall street ghost, "you know I'd——" "Come down out of the clouds," snarled an unwilling listener to the air-castle builder. "What would you do if you had a quarter?" "Go and get a drink." "Here's the cash, then; drop romance and realy truity."—New York Times. THOUGHTLESS WOMAN Mr. Krusy—Well, it's too late now. Why didn't you come to my office when you were down town to-day and tell me all this? Mrs. Krusy—Why, I didn't think to stop at your office. Mr. Krusy—That's just like you. If you'd only stop to think occasionally perhaps you would have thought to stop—Philadelphia Times. "Our lecturer," said the advance agent to the theatrical manager, "is an able, conservative thinker of the day, and the subject upon which he talks is a new one in the world of letters." "Good; I'll take him. What's his subject?" "In the Field with the Boer Army." A few minutes later there was a call for the ambulance, and, as they gathered up the remains of the advance agent, the managed sighed.—Denver Times. A TOUCHING APPEAL "Hey, you feller, get off n this train!" shouted the angry conductor at the hoboes. "Wy, certainly, boss—but, say, did you ever live in a boardin' house?" "Yes, an, what of it?" "Nothin', ceptin' you might please pass the beets."—Denver Times. WATER AT A DISCOUNT. "It is not beautiful to see the moon shine across the water?" inquired the romantic young woman. "Well, miss," answered Col. Stillwell, "moonshine is very acceptable in an emergency. But I don't know as I especially care about the water."—Washington Star. AGAINST VINISECTION Mr. Woodwed: "Your papa is such a joker." Miss Willin: "Why?" Mr. Woodwed: "Because, when I asked for your hand he refused me, saying he didn't want any mutilated members in his family." -Boston Post. Grogan I - made up my mind I wouldn't stand it any longer, so I just put my foot down. Timility (glancing at Grogan's No. 11) -And that, of course, covered the ground?—Boston Transcript. DEAD SILENCE. "No, ma'am" was the reply; "not even a message stating that the fire is out!"-Atlanta Constitution. WORLD WITHOUT END AH MEN. Little Dorothy—Mamma, why do they sing in church "World without men ah me"? A CRUE OF SELF CONFUSION NO TROUBLE TO GET A LIGHT. HIS FORMULA "Do you think the three R's are all a man needs in dis life?" asked Plodding Pete. "What's de three R's?" asked Meandering Mike. "Why, readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmic." "No; dey don't count. What a man wants to look out for is de three B's—bed, board, an' booze."—Washington Star. "Why can a man never starve in the great desert?" "Because he can eat the sand which is there." "But what brought the sandwiches there?" "Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred." NO TROUBLE TO GET A LIGHT. "I should esteem "A favor. - it— MUST HAVE ONE. "Papa!" Papa keeps on reading. "Papa!" Papa looks up. "Well, Tommy, what is it? I thought when I brought that new hobby horse home for you it would keep you quiet for awhile." "My hobby horse hasn't got one of the anamnets." -Pittsburgh Commercial AN APPRECIATIVE PATRON. "Did you annoy my predecessor on the bench as much as you have annoyed me?" inquired the judge of the frequent offender. "No, judge," said the tough one. "I always thought so much of you that just as soon as I heard you was elected. I made up my mind to give you all my legal business—and I've done it." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. HARD LINES. Drummer—"It is pretty hard to get a drink in this town, isn't it?" Landlord (Kansas hote)—"You bet! Why, you can't even work the snake bite racket any more unless you carry the snake to the drug store and let him bite you in the presence of a committee!"—Puck. Miss Keys—"Are you fond of music?" Mr. Chump—"Very. Won't you play something?" (And there she had been banging all sorts of classical selections out of the piano for the last half hour.) T END AH MEN. they sing in church "World without men CARELESS MAN. "Bjingle is about the most careless fellow I have ever known." "What's he done now?" "Why, he passed the butcher's down the street whistling, 'O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?' and a sausage jumped from the hook and followed him home." "Was careless, wasn't it?" "Yes, but that's not the worst of it Half an hour later he was arrested on a warrant charging him with kidnapping the sausage."-Denver Times. THE KISSING BUG. "What was that?" asked the old gentleman, suddenly appearing in the doorway. "I-I guess it was a kissing bug," she answered hesitatingly, while the young man tried his best to look at ease. The old gentleman looked at them both sharply. "Does the kissing bug make people blush?" he demanded.—Chicago Post. LF CONVICTION. this reference. um, an' Oi do write a poor hand, mum! SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT. Tom—"Have a smoke, old man?" Jack—"Thanks. Don't help if I do." Tom—"You'll find that is something like a cigar." Jack (after a few puffs)—"By George, there is a slight resemblance. What is it?" "Where's your master?" inquired the wife of the rich city contractor. "Busy in the library," was the butler's reply. "Then go wake him up. Somebody wants to see him." "How do you like her father?" "Don't like him at all. He turned out a rascal." (But he forgot to specify he was the rascal he turned out.) "Thanks. "Good day!" INANIMATE THINGS "I suppose," said the wire to the electric button, "that you felt highly nonored by the attention the president'pald you?" "Yes," replied the button, "I was much touched by it."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. SEASHORE ENGAGEMENTS Belle—Is Mr. Softleigh your fifth? Nell—Seventh; what's your score? Belle—Five rings and eight engage ments—Ohio State Journal. The Danger Signal If you are driving across a railroad track and hear the screech of an approaching engine, you don't stop to see whether a train is coming. You get off the track. 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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. OPEDELLE COLLEGE, Hopedele, O: $669.10 a plan to earn it; H. k. R fare; see catalog. FARMERS! Do You Irrigated lands never fall to produce Sure Crops. Big Crops. Vainable Crops every year. Good home market. We will show you free of charge. COLORADO COLONY CO., 1230 Seventeenth Street, Denver, Colorado IN DEATH TRAP ANOTHER WATER WORKS DISASTER IN CLEVELAND. FIVE WORKMEN ARE DROWNED Explosion Wrecked a Crib, Letting Flood o Water In—Crib is Two Miles Farther Out Than the One Where Nearly a Dozen Lives Were Lost a Week Ago—Mayer Johnson is Wroth. As the result of another explosion of gas in the new water works tunnel under Lake Erie, at Cleveland, Ohio, five more lives were added to the already long list of casualties recorded since work first began on the great artificial waterway. The dead: Ray Treadshaw. John Bert. Crib No. 3, five miles from shore and two miles beyond crib No. 2, where nearly a dozen lives were lost a week ago, was the scene of the latest accident. The work of sinking the big in-take shaft at this point was just completed, and five workmen were engaged in digging a tunnel in the direction of No. 2 crib, when the fatal explosion occurred. The heavy casting of a shaft was shattered by the terrific force of the explosion and an immense volume of water from the lake rushed in on the fortunate workmen at the bottom. Two men at work on staging at the top of the shaft were blown high into the air, but alighted on the crib, and beyond being stunned, were not seriously injured. The accident occurred early in the evening, but nothing was known of it on shore until morning. For some unexplainable reason, no boats are kept at the cribs. Thirty men who were on the crib when the explosion took place spent the night vainly signaling for assistance. It was long after daylight before a tug reached them. It is supposed that the men digging struck a vein of gas which was ignited by a spark made by a workman's pick. Heavy iron grinders and machinery weighing more than a hundred tons were forced"out of the shaft by the explosion. The crib wag wrecked. Death must have been instantaneous to the workmen in the tunnel, for their comrades above heard no outcry. So great was the destruction wrought by the explosion that it will probably be weeks before the damage can be repaired and the bodies of the unfortunate workmen recovered. James Williams, who lost his life in this accident, was one of the men who so heroically entered the tunnel after the accident of last week at crib N. 2, in search of victims of that disaster. Plumber Jones, who at that time descended into the shaft with Williams was overcome with gas and died in the tunnel. Mayor Johnson visited the scene of the accident, and immediately upon his return ordered all construction work on the tunnel stopped until every safeguard be provided for the protection of the men. The mayor said that, in his opinion, the city was now justified in taking the work out of the hands of the contractors, and that, if possible, this would be done. TEXAS MOB BURNS A NEGRO, Hanged Him to a Tree and Then Built a Fire Beneath Him. A dispatch from Whitesboro, Texas, says the negro, Alf Wilder, charged with the murder of Mrs. Caldwell, the wife of a Grayson county farmer, was captured by a mob and burned at Nelson's ranch, two and one-half miles east of Red Ranch. The negro was taken to a tree and swung up in the air. Wood and fodder were piled beneath his body and a hot fire made. Then it was suggested that the man ought not to die too quickly, and he was let down to the ground, while a party went to Dexter, about two miles distant, to procure coal oil. This was thrown on the flames and the work completed. Wilder was captured near Dexter. He had been seen the day before by a negro who knew him and who informed the citizens of the fact. A posse was at once organized and the work of beating the Red river bottoms began. It is said that it was the intention of the mob to take Wilder back to the scene of his crime and there lynch him, but messages by telegraph and telephone gave warning that the authorities were hastily repairing to the scene with a considerable force and the work of execution was expedited. At Whitesboro a great crowd had gathered in anticipation of a chance to participate in the lynching, and when it was learned that the work had been done great disappointment was expressed. Mrs. Caldwell was a bride of but six months. Dockery Offers a Reward. Governor Dockery has issued a reward of $300 tor the arrest and delivery of the party who murdered Miss Gazella Wild at Pierce City last Sunday. The reward holds good for one year. Throbbing Hand Loses an Arm. John Worden, a thrasher, had his arm caught in the gearing of a thrashing machine near Doles Park, Kan. and the member was so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. Died on His Wedding Day John W. Fox of Woodbine, Kan. grand watchman of the State Occidental Mutual Benefit lodge, died of typhoid fever at Ablene. He was to have been married on the day of his death to Miss Flora T. Rager, of White City. He was sinking, but while she hurried for a license and the minister waited, he expired. The war in South Africa appears to be as hard to wind up as an old Waterbury watch. A FRANCO-TURKISH BREAK. All Diplomatic Relations Between the Two Countries Severed. The French ambassador to Turkey, M. Constans, has notified the sultan's first secretary that all diplomatic relations between France and Turkey are broken off and that the ambassador has informed his government to this effect. The ambassador justifies his action upon the ground that the sultan broke his direct personal promise, given to M. Constans at an audience in the Yildiz palace regarding the purchase of the quays and the settlement of the disputed French claims. The foreign minister also gave formal assurances that the agreement would be carried out. In view of this double breach of faith, M. Constans holds that it is impossible for France to continue diplomatic relations with Turkey. A week ago Constans recommended to his home government that he be recalled, and that Unir Bey, Turkish minister to Paris, be given his passports. An official note in the Temps, at Paris, on the difficulty with Turkey, says: "The claims of our compatriots which have caused the intervention of the French government are three in number. Two concern sums due in reimbursement of money advanced for the construction of railways. One alone of these credits amounts, with unpaid interest, to nearly $9,000,000. The third claim is made by the company of the Constantinople quays and docks, of which both the personnel and the capital are French. This company, after having constructed important public works, finds itself so treated at present that it is unable to begin, the operations for the purpose of which it was created. The Ottoman government has manifested the intention of redeeming the concession, but no understanding has been arrived at as to the conditions of the purchase. Without entering into detail it is enough to say that the company can neither carry on its work nor be redeemed, and that it is important, therefore, to put an end to this state of things, which has lasted now for three years. Such are the grounds for the attitude of the French government." 5 DEATHS IN AN ALTON WRECK The Chicago "Hummer" Collided With a Freight Train. The Chicago and Alton "Hummer," leaving Chicago bound for Kansas City and St. Louis at 6:30 p. m., was wrecked in a head-end collision with a way freight in the railroad yards at Prentice, twelve miles north of Jacksonville, Ill., killing five persons and injuring six others. The dead are: Con Sheehan, engineer of the passenger train. John Adams, fireman of the passenger train. Three unknown men who were on the tender. Injured: Robert Kiley, Jacksonville, leg broken, injured internally; W. Howatt, Bloomington, fireman of freight, ribs crushed; Charles Marshall, St. Louis, arm broken, scalp wound; Charles Simms, Longdale, ill, section hand, badly cut about head and chest; William Macon, Stuttgart, Ark., ribs broken; A. L. Wood, engineer of freight, slightly injured. All of the passengers escaped severe injury. A few were slightly bruised. When the collision occurred all the lights went out. The two engines were wrecked, as were also their tenders and the smoker and one freight car. The tender of the passenger train telescoped the smoker, which rolled over on its side. Just how the accident occurred may never be known. One theory is that the freight train, which was resting on the siding for the passenger train to pass, gradually slipped down onto the main track without the crew boeing aware of it. Engineer Sheehan was found dead in the cab with his hand upon the throttle. His legs were caught in the machinery in such a way that, to save the body from a fire that at one time threatened to burn the wreck, they had to be roughly amputated. CHURCH DEBT PAID IN WHEAT. The Pastor Rented a Field and the Congregation Cut the Grain. The Evangelical church at Industry, Kan., has just paid off its church debt with a crop of wheat. Last autumn the pastor, the Rev. M. Bruner, together with a number of the leading members, rented forty acres of ground near the church. The work of seeding and the seed grain were contributed. At harvest this year it was found advisable to hire the cutting done, but the threshing was contributed. The yield was 950 bushels, of which one third was paid for rent and the remainder has just been sold for enough to pay off the $350 mortgage on the church. The congregation is planning to sow another field this year to raise funds for improvements and church expenses. Her Experience in Chicago. Mrs. Grace Kohn, who claims to hall from Kansas City, was drugged and robbed of $1,500 worth of diamonds in the "Bank" saloon, 2128 State street, Chicago. Champ Lane, proprietor of the saloon, has been arrested and held by the police. Most of the diamonds have been recovered, but the woman is out several hundred dollars, which the saloonkeeper says she spent for wine. The man who lives on top of a mountain shouldn't object to climate. Trampled to Death by Cows. Mrs. Casper Strohmeyer, an elderly woman who lives near Tipton, Kan., was killed in a shocking manner. She was milking a cow in the cattle yard when a troop of loose colts came up and caused a rush among the cows. Mrs. Strohmeyer was pushed down and trampled upon, receiving injuries from which she died in a few minutes. Sillecus—A poor workman always blames his tools. Cynicus—So does a politician. BANK NOTES OF DEFUNCT BANK ARE CIRCULATED. Secret service officers have arrested in San Francisco three men accused of passing bank notes purporting to be issued by the State bank of New Brunswick, N. J., an institution long defunct. The plates have never been destroyed and in the hands of some criminal have furnished over 1,000,000 notes in denominations from $1 to $20, which have been distributed all over the United States. On information furnished by Frank J. Perry, who was captured a week ago, the officers have just taken into custody William Hogan and E. W. Smith. The letter, according to Perry, is the leader of the gang, and has been for eight years chief clerk of the federal life saving service in San Francisco. He has been released on bail, but the other two men are in jail. Government secret service officers visited New Brunswick, N. J., and obtained possession of the plates and nearly $200,000 (face value) of the notes of the old State bank of New Brunswick. The notes were not reprinted from the old plates, but were genuinely printed thirty years or more ago by the bank itself, but were never signed by the President and cashier. Lax methods in winding up the affairs of the bank twenty-eight years ago seem to have been responsible for the alleged big swindle in other states with the bank notes as a basis. The bank went into liquidation some years ago. Colonel John A. Newell was at that time appointed receiver and wound up the affairs of the institution. He has since died. In the course of his operations he sold the old note plates to Adam Ludwig, a junk dealer of New Brunswick. The sale was as old metal. The junk dealer also bought the waste paper and all the junk out of the bank. In the waste paper he found about a half million dollars worth of notes. These were in the original sheets and uncut and unsigned. These notes he gave or sold to Jacob Weigel, who is a collector of coins and old notes, and who has a very large collection, one of the most extensive in the country. He kept them some years and then began to dispose of them to coin dealers. He sold many of them to reputable dealers in all parts of the country. He received nominal sums for his sales. Among others he sold some to Greenberg & Smith of San Francisco. This firm, Mr. Weigel says, afterwards sent him large orders for the notes, and in all purchased some $175,000 worth, counting their face value. The plates remained in the possession of the junk dealer. Secret service agents saw Mr. Weigel and were satisfied with his explanation, and he gave them what he had remaining of the notes except those he kept for his collection. He was not arrested. Ludwig, the junk man, turned over the plates. They were still in the package in which they were wrapped after last being used. The seals were unbroken. They bore the seal of the bank and also that of the receiver, and there could be no question that they had never been used since the bank ran off a lot of the bills. MISSOURI LYNCHING. Strong Up by Mob for Assaulting and Murdering a Young Woman. Will Godley, a negro, was lynched by a mob composed of 1,000 armed citizens at Pierce City, Mo., for the murder of Miss Caselle Wild, whose dead body was found in the woods near there. The mob went to the jail and battered down the doors and threw ropes around the necks of Godley and Jean Carter, another suspect. Godley was hanged in front of the Lawrence hotel, and his body riddled with bullets. Carter's guilt was not clearly established and he was taken back to jail. Later Carter was taken from the jail and shot to pieces. The people are determined to drive all the negroes out of the town and surrounding country, and a regular race war is on. Officers have wired to Monett, Aurora and other towns for assistance. Lights have been shot out of the depot and other places and the people who are not taking part in the lynchings are terrorized. Miss Wild, who was an estimably young lady of Pierce City, was as saunted while going home from Sunday school, by a negro who, after ravishing her, cut her throat from ear to ear. Soldier. Shot HIs Friend. Charles Gragerson, a recently discharged soldier of the Thirty-third volunteers, accidentally shot his traveling companion, Alva Doop, while they were at Abilene, Kan. Doop received a revolver ball in the back, but the injury was not dangerous and no arrest was made. Section Hand Killed Joe Noblitt, a section hand, was killed near Malvern, Kan., while riding a railroad velocipede to fug a train. He was thrown from a high trestle. Forest Fires in Oregon. A great forest fire is raging on North Pine and Fish creeks, in Oregon, and destruction of a vast amount of timber is threatened. The weather is so dry and warm in the mountains that it will be almost impossible to stop the fire. The fire is likely to prove destructive to much ranch property. One family has already been compelled to move out to save themselves from burning. A light diet is the best board of health BENZINE EXPLODES Three Philadelphia Firemen Killed and Twenty Injured While a large force of firemen were endeavoring to check the fire in a nest of burning oil tanks at the Atlantic Oil Refining Company's plant at Point Breeze in the southwestern section of Philadelphia, an immense tank of benzine suddenly exploded. Many firemen were in close proximity to the tank and fell victims to the blazing oil and flying pieces of iron. Three or four were killed and many were badly burned before they could be rescued by their more fortunate companions. A general call was telegraphed for ambulances and patrol wagons and the injured were hurried to the hospitals in the lower end of the city. At this writing the names of the dead firemen cannot be learned. They were horribly burned and their bodies so badly mutilated that they were hardly recognizable when brought to the morgue. Some of the injured will die. Ten or twelve tanks of benzine and petroleum have already been destroyed and the fire is not yet checked. The loss will probably reach $500,000. KANSAS SCHOOL FUND. Amounts to $7,400,000—Yields 80 Cents to Each Borrower of School Acd. East Person of School Age. The semi-annual interest on the Kansas state school fund, amounting to $203,564.40 is ready for distribution among the county treasurers to be apportioned by them among the school districts of the counties. Each school district will receive 40 cents for each person in the district between the ages of 5 and 21 years. The amount of the interest is smaller than it was a year ago. The school fund amounts to $7,400,000 and the competition of the Eastern bond brokers makes it difficult for the State fund commissioners to keep the money invested in first class Kansas bonds. A great deal of the fund is lying idle in the state treasury awaiting an opportunity for investment. This competition has reduced the per capita four cents during the past year. FIRE IN CIGAR FACTORY J. Wright Company, of Richmond, Va. Suffers Loss of $115,090. Fire destroyed what is locally known as the J. Wright Company plant of the American Cigar Company, at the corner of Twenty-third and Carey streets, Richmond, Va. There were about 400,000 pounds of leaf tobacco in the building, owned by the American Cigar Company, and this with the machinery, it is estimated, was worth $115,000. The building, an immense five story structure, covering 19,200 square feet, was owned by the Continental Tobacco Company. A conservative estimate of its value at the time of the fire is $60,000. It was completely destroyed. The total loss is placed at about $200,-000; insurance, $112,000. There were some 350 persons employed in the burned building, most of whom were negro workmen, but it is believed all escaped without injury. GROOM, 71; BRIDE, 17. Aged Farmer of Benton County, Mc. Married to a Girl Widow. S. H. Goodwin, aged 71 years, of Hastain, Benton county, Mo., and Mrs. Maude E. Mayfield, aged 17, of Higginsville, Mo., have just been married by Probate Judge Gibson in Warrensburg. The couple were accompanied by George E. Mayfield, father of the bride, who gave his consent to the marriage. The couple left immediately after the ceremony in a carriage for their home at Hastain, a distance of fifty miles. The groom is a widower and a farmer. The bride is a widow, having first married at the age of 15. She is a large woman of smooth features and looks much older than the age given. The father of the bride returned to his home in Higginsville. DYNAMITE EXPLODES. Six Men Who Were Fighting Fire in a Round House Killed. The Mohawk and Malone roundhouse, at Herkimer, N. Y., was discovered to be on fire and Watchem Gilbert, and an engine tender named John Deck, assisted by residents of the vicinity and members of the bridge building gang, attempted to extinguish the flames. While they were battling with the fire a large quantity of dynamite stored in the building exploded with terrific force, killing Gilbert and Deck and four others. The bodies of the last four mentioned are unrecognizable. The roundhouse was wrecked and burned. It is feared there are other bodies in the ruins. The roundhouse is owned by the New York Central & Hudson river railroad. Nothing pleases a woman so much as to see cobwebs in her neighbor's parlor. She Shot a Masher. Miss Olga Neff, 18 years old, daughter of the proprietor of the Rural Retreat hotel, at Richmond, Va., shot J. W. Waxelbaum, a Macon, Ga., produce buyer, in the breast with a 22-caliber rifle ball because, as she alleges, he accosted her on the street. She went home, procured the rifle, returned and shot the man without a word. The wound is not dangerous. Miss Neff was held to the grand jury. The woman who hesitates at an auction saves money. Fatally Shot By Footpads. Charles Berg was shot and fatally wounded by footpads near Tacoma, Wash. He was on his way home, and when near the reservation was held up by two men, who commanded him to throw up his hands. Berg was so badly frightened that he started to run, when the highwaymen fired, the ball passing through the lower part of the body. Nell—"Why do you call him 'the thud'?" Belle—"He is so dull and slickening." A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN SIEGE GUN PRACTICE. Six Others Were More or Less Seriously Hurt—Shell Exploded as it was Being Placed in the Gun, Blowing Gun ner Watson's Head Compe- pletely Off—Several Lost Their Eyes. While the Sixteenth battery, under command of Captain G. W. Van Duesen, was at target practice on the target range at Fort Riley, Kan., a 7-inch shell exploded as it was being inserted in a big gun, causing the im- mediate death of one gunner, the serious injury of three others, one of whom has since died, and another of whom is dying, and injuring five others slightly. The dead: Henry C. Watson, private, enlisted at Savannah, Ga., has a father in Texas, and a brother and sister in South Carolina. John J. King, private, New Jersey; both arms torn off and both eyes blinded. The injured: Murray Sikes, private; portion of skull torn off and right eye blinded; will die. Charles Duncan, Wichita, Kan., badly bruised and burned about head and both eyes blinded; may die. Henry Logsdon, private, London, Ky., body badly bruised and eyes possibly blinded. Dennis Mahoney, sergeant, Boston; several teeth knocked out and mouth badly cut. — Loyd, Jackson, Tenn.; recruit; left forearm blown off and right eye badly burned. Ross Huck, corporal; burned about face and neck. James Brady, private, burned about face and neck. The big seize battery of four guns has been on the target range for some days. The usual practice was in progress. The 107-pound shell had been put into the third section gun and Private Watson was in the act of closing the breech when there was a terrific explosion. The headless body of Watson was seen standing perfectly erect for almost fifteen seconds, when it moved as if to step, and then fell, striking on his back with shoulders toward the gun. The wounded men were taken at once to the post hospital. All who were close to the gun were more or less burned by powder. Private King died from his injuries. Sykes is expected to die at any moment. Hospital Steward Nichols says that unless unexpected complications set in, the remainder of the men will recover, but that it would be necessary to remove the right eye of Sergeant Dennis Mahoney. It is the first accident of the kind in the history of the post and the entire community mourn with the battery. No cause has yet been assigned, but it is presumed the shell was defective. At almost the same hour Captain Gray, in command of D troop, Fourteenth cavalry, lost his mount and came near drowning while rescuing a private of his troop while exercising their horses in the Kansas river. MAY PROVE TO BE MURDER Resident of Wichita at Point of Death as Result of an Assault T. F. Hart, 68 years old, an old time resident of Wichita, Kan., was assaulted by W. C. Hershberger, and is now at the point of death. The doctors say that Hart cannot live. Hershberger, his assailant, is now in the city jail, charged with intent to kill. The quarrel started over a charge of insanity preferred against another neighbor by Hershberger. Hart admitted that the man in question was insane, but claimed that he was not dangerous, and intimated that Hershberger had an end in view by preferring the charge. There is likely to be a sensation in the case, since Hershberger claims that his assault could not result in death, and asserts that the old man has been poisoned by relatives, who have taken advantage of the occasion to end the old man's days. Hart some time ago married a woman who is much younger than himself. Big Pottery Burred The Dresden pottery, valued at $100, 000, the third largest in East Liverpool, O., caught fire and is almost a total loss. There was almost a panic among the 200 employees, but all got out safely. Fell Asleep on the Track. J. C. McColm, a Union Pacific brake man, sent back to flag a train at Solomon, Kan., fell asleep on the track and was run over and killed, being badly mangled. Bold Robbery in Grand Rapids A bold daylight robbery occurred at Grand Rapids, Mich., the other day. Frank Bennett, bookkeeper for the Grand Rapids Gas Engine and Yacht company, drew $1,000 from the bank at noon for the purpose of paying off the men. He took the money in a valise on a street car. When ready to alight from the car the valise was missing. It was found later, without its contents, in a closet of a downtown restaurant. There is no clue to the thieves. Saved From Awful Torture Juan Robeles, a Mexican boy, 16 years old, was saved from a horrible fate by a posse which went from Phoenix, Ariz. to a settlement of Yaquil Indians, where the boy was about to be put to death by torture for having killed Azula, an Indian, for beating a squaw. The boy was found unconscious from pain, with hands and feet bound with tightly drawn cords. The Indians were preparing to force Robeles to dance over beds of cactus, a mode of torture common among them. FIBCBUG ON KANSAS FARMS. Hay Stacks and Barns are This Flend's Prey. On the farm of James Mahoney, seven miles east of Parsons, Kan., seven stacks of wheat that had not been threshed were burned. The cause of the fire is unknown, but Mahoney says that in the night he was awakened by the heat from the burning stacks and the glare they made. He dressed as quickly as possible, went out, but could do nothing in the way of stopping the fires. He noticed that the horses in his barn were making a good deal of noise on account of the fright the flames gave them. Going over to the barn and quieting them, he was surprised to see a figure run out of the barn past him. No sooner had the person in the barn run out than Mahoney noticed that a small blaze had started in one corner of the barn. He went over to it and put it out, as it was nothing but hay, which had been piled up in one corner of the barn and then fired. Mr. Mahoney believes that the man who ran out of the barn was the same one who set fire to his wheat stacks, although he is not certain. It was impossible to recognize the incendiary in the dark, but Mahoney believes it was an enemy of his who, to get revenge, as the enemy said he would, set fire to the stacks of wheat and then attempted to burn the barn with all of its contents. This is the first fire of this kind in this vicinity this year, and the farmers living near Mahoney are very much worked up over the matter. TO BREAK A KANSAS WILL Benjamin Castineau, of France, Trying to Beat His Sister. An interesting will case has been filed in the district court at Concordia, Kan., and will be heard at the September term. The suit is brought by Benjamin Gastineau, of France, who seeks to break the will of his bachelor brother, Edmond Gastineau, who died in Concordia July 2, 1897, leaving an estate valued at $25,000 to his maiden twin sister, Frederiska, who made her home with him. The plaintiff charges that news of his brother's illness and death was kept from him, that when the will was made March 2, 1896, Edmond Gastineau was sick in bed and so weak bodily and mentally that he was unduly influenced to make Frederiska his heir to the exclusion of the plaintiff. William Goodreau and wife tenants on his farm, and Joseph Marcy, conspired with the sister to influence the brother in the hope that they might later wrest control of the property from the sister. He further charges his sister with fraud in stating, when the will was probated, that she was the only heir-at-law, and also raises a question of the genuineness of Edmond Gastineau's signature to the will. The property in dispute consists of 600 acres of farm land in Cloud county, some Concordia real estate and personal property to the value of about $5,000. TWELVE FARMS IN ALASKA Five of These are Less Than Three Acres Each= Only 159 Acres The census bureau has issued a report on the agricultural statistics for Alaska. It shows that Alaska's total farm wealth, June 1, 1900, was $15,685, of which $2,196 was invested in live stock, $690 in implements and machinery and $12,800 represented the value of buildings and other improvements. Buildings have been erected on nine of the twelve farms in the territory. Preparing the soil for cultivation has been the chief item of expense in opening farms, being in some instances $120 per acre. The twelve farms have a total acreage of 159 acres, and vegetables are the principal product. Five of the farms are only small market gardens of less than three acres. The total value of domestic animals and poultry was $2,196. Potatoes and turnips furnished the principal income from vegetables. Next to vegetables grass cut for hay and ensilage is the most important agricultural product. From the standpoint of income upon capital invested, poultry raising in 1899 was relatively the most profitable branch of Alaskan industry. BLAST FURNACE EXPLODES. Three Men Killed and Many Injured in Youngstown. An explosion of ten tons of molten metal in the blast furnace department at the Ohio plant of the National Steel company at Youngstown, O., resulted in the death of three workingmen and in the injury of eleven others. The dead: Richard Richards, Joseph Bugos, John Grinkshank. The injured: Steve Sthmah; Michael Yachkyo, Michael O'Brien, Andrew Kahut, Joseph Dymenko, John Steffan, Andrew Burgess, Andrew Magyar, George Jakubese, George Puvilh, George Jwanizak. Sthmah and Yachkyo are in a dying condition and at least six other of the injured are not expected to survive. The machinery which controlled the ladle containing the molten mass broke and allowed the metal to drop into a vat containing water. Hanging as a Cure for Asthma. Samuel Levy, of San Francisco, a retired capitalist, aged 75 years, sought relief from asthmatic pains by hanging himself to a bedpost. He was dead when discovered. He came to California from Cincinnati, where he had been the head of a corporation that operated a planing mill and furniture factory. Sensation in France In the course of a speech at a prize distribution in Auxonne, France, General Andre, the minister of war, made a sensation by declaring that the commanders of the various army corps had received letters from one of the pretenders designed to seduce them from duty, but the fact that the letters had been sent to him proved the army to be loyal to the republic. General Andre did not say whether the pretender in ques ion was Bourbon or Bonapartist Agricultural Products Brought into the United States Heavy last Year Mr. Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the section of foreign markets of the agricultural department, has prepared a bulletin showing the sources of the agricultural imports of the United States from the period of 1896 to 1900. It shows that the total value of agricultural produce, imported into the United States in 1900 was $120,123,288, that year being the record year of the five. The annual average was $375,369,308. Europe was decided our most important source of agricultural imports, we taking from that country in 1900 $129,000,000 worth of farm products, being the largest in recent years except 1897, when we received $152,000,000. Asia in 1900 sent us $101,000,000 in agricultural products, a rapid rise from $66,000,000 in 1896. Our farm produce imports from Oceanica also rose rapidly, being $31,000 in 1900 against $22,000,000 in 1898 while on the other hand, there was a falling off of $2,000,000 in our imports of farm products from North American countries, there being $33,000,000 in 1900 against $85,000,000 in 1898. The imports, however, in the three years preceding 1900 were larger than this. There was a large fall off in agricultural imports from South America, they being $33,000,000 in 1896 and only $4,000,000 in 1899 and $6,500,000 in 1900. Our African farm produce imports declined from $10,400,000 in 1896 to $6,700,000 in 1898 and rose again in 1900 to $10,000,000. Brazil, owing to its heavy coffee trade, holds the foremost place in the ranks of countries sending us coffee supplies, her total for 1900 being $30,287,000. Our imports from there, however, have been steadily decreasing. In 1896 they were $60,668,000. The United Kingdom ranks next to Brazil with $22,606,000 worth of farm products exports to the United States in 1900, a gain over the two immediate preceding years, but a loss of $15,000,000 as compared with 1897. In Dutch East Indies, the rank was third in 1900 with $27,500,000 in agricultural products sent to us, the five year period showing a steady gain, the figures for 1969 being only $14,598,000. Cuba in 1900 sent us $27,226,000 in farm products, the war resulting in such fluctuations in the statistics as $36,386,000 in 1896 and $13,158,000 in 1898. Germany comes next with $26,194,000 in 1900 against $22,523,000 in 1896 and $41,358,000 in her record year of 1897. Japan and China made large gains during the five years. Japan sending us in 1900 $24,767,000, against $18,382,000 in 1896 and $24,131,000 in 1900, against $18,649,000 in 1896. France sent us more in 1900 than in any one of the other years given, being $21,052,000, as compared with $17,758,000 in 1896. Hawaii likewise made a record in 1900 with $20,628,000 worth of farm produce, exported to as, against only $11,710,800 in 1896. Italy's gain was from $15,958,000 in 1896 to $20,529,000 in 1900, and Mexico's from $12,751,000 in 1896, to $20,000,000 in 1900. Other countries sent us less than $20,000,000 annually. The leading articles of farm produce imported by us in 1900 were, in the order of their importance, sugar, hides and skins, coffee, silk, vegetable fibers, woods, fruits and nuts, tobacco tea, wines, vegetable oils and cocoa, the value of each of these exceeding $5,000,000. Our chief sugar imports came from the Dutch East Indies: $24,170,000 worth, Hawaii $20,322,000, Cuba $18,244,000 and Germany $12,347,000. Following these countries at a very considerable distance were the British West Indies, British Guinea, Santa Domingo and Porto Rico, in the order named. The British East Indies surpassed themselves in 1900 in sending us hides and skins, we taking $10,031,000 from them, besides $7,253,000 from the United Kingdom, $3,280,000 from France, $4,714,000 from Germany and $4,236,000 from Argentine. Lesser amounts came from Europe and Russia, Brazil and China. Brazil was far away and our source of coffee supply sending us $25,000,000 worth. Below the $2,000,000 mark were the Dutch East Indies, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombia in the order named, Japan led in silks, Italy and France sent a little over $2,000,000 worth. Vegetable fibers come principally from Mexico, the figures being Mexico, $12,113,000 worth; Egypt, $5,157,000, and Philippines, $5,019,000. Our wool imports came chiefly from the United Kingdom, aggregating $7,688,000. British Australia, $2,988,000, and Argentine, $2,675,000. European Russia followed in the order named. Italy is our principal vendor of fruits and nuts, sending $4,540,000 worth in 1900 against $3,320,000 in 1896 from the British West Indies and in 2,000,000 from Spain. Costa Rica, Colombia and France each exceeded the $1,000,000 mark. Cuba and the Netherlands sent us practically all the tobacco received, their figures being $7,616,000 and $4,559,000 respectively. China sent us $4,873,00 worth of tea and Japan $4,372,00 worth. France, Germany and Spain furnished wines to the respective amounts of $4,845,00, $1,179,00 and $529,00 in 1900. Vegetable oils originated in 1900 in the United Kingdom to the amount of $1,299,00, France $1,235,00, Italy $1,147,00, and the British East Indies exported $1,575,00 worth of cocoa to us in 1900; Dutch Guinea $818,00 worth; Ecuador $771,00, and Brazil $707,000 and Portugal $540,000. Do you work modesty for all it is worth? In the game of matrimony it costs a good deal to call. Furred Rubber Male A mule in a pack train which was usually loaded with salt discovered that by lying down when fording a certain stream and allowing the salt to dissolve he could lighten his burden. The muistaker once loaded with sponges instead, which absorbs water when he lay down in the stream and made his burden fourfold heavier. The mule was cured of his smartness If a dressmaker promises a woman a dress on a certain day, she'd better have it ready.