The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country First Plank in the New Gospel for Afro-Americans. Some System anu Regularity in Our Home Life and Home Training Must be Maintained—A Good Bank Account Something Not to be Despised—Rev. Mr. "We must learn that the first plank in the new gospel for the negro is good homes. We must have better" homes and better home surroundings if we would be a better people. There is not in civilization an agency for good that surpasses the pure and virtuous home. We must get above the one-room cabin in the city. We must keep our homes clean, beautify them, adorn them, decorate them, make them attractive, adorn the outside as well as the inside. Everything of beauty tends to the elevation of men. Every little morning glory whose purple bosom is thrilling with the anorous kisses of the sun tends to put a blossom in your heart. The home is the index of civilization, and there is nothing which speaks so loudly of the character and condition of a people as the blossom of homes they live in." The home is the index of civilization" says Mr. Floyd, and there never was a zealer truth. Enter the home where there is a refined, educated mother and a father of like qualities, and you can readily tell without asking that intelligenz rules. The arrangement of the furniture the little library over against the wall the flowers in the garden and all the arrangements from the kitchen to the parlor bespeak the fact that culture and refinement has permeated the home. But the home of the ignorant, and the shiftiness, and the idle is not so. The yard is half regulated, the kitchen, dining room and parlor are all one and the same, the house is not properly ventilated and the whole place presents the appearance of a woful lack of cleailliness. We called attention to this in our last issue, and now the Rev. Mr. Floyd strengthens our position. On the money blank Mr. Floyd says. The negro must be taught that there is nothing incompatible between religion and a good bank account: God has no special contempt for riches. Diva went to bell not because he was rich, but because he was bad. Lazarus went to heaven not because he was poor, but because he was good Money, wisely used in a great blessing. Money improperly used is a great curse. As a rule wealth is the result of industry, economy, attention to business—and as a rule, poverty is the result of idleness, extravagance, inattention to business. It has been the sad misfortune of colored people that they have caught at the shadows and missed the substance of things. And what makes colored people poor is not so much the fact that they do not make much money as the fact that they do not use wisely and save up carefully the money that they make. Colored people eat too much and sleep too much, and wear clothes way beyond their means. They spend too much on funerals and marriages and baptisms, exorcisms, piercing, wine suppers, card parties, buggy wives and the like, far too much of the hard-earned money of our poor and deluded people. It is time somebody was telling the truth about these things and I have decided to do it myself. We will never be able to command respect in this country until we are financially independent. As long as we are dependent on the white man for our shoes, hats, coats, pants, food, and a job—the white man will always be our boss and we can help it. The men who own the railroads, street cars, hotels banks, news papers and the like are going to control them, and they are going to to them, to suit themselves, and we might well understand it now as later." Charleston Messenger. SHOT HIM BEFORE BURNING. Alabama Mob Varies the Usual Formula in Handling a Negro Acused of Assault. Troy, Aka, Sept. 3.—Bill Fourney, alia Bill Hilliard, a negro, charged with assaulting Miss Wilson at Chestnut Grove, was shot and his body burned by a mob near the scene of his crime today. Miss Wilson, who is 16 or 17 years of age, and the 12-year-old daughter of Dr. Carroll, were on their way to school at Chestnut Grove, just across the in Coffee county, when they were overtaken by the negro. He seized Miss Wilson and the little girl ran on As she did so, the negro filmed his pistol at her, but missed her. The little gi rl raised the alarm, and soon a posse was in pursuit of the negro. When they reached the scene of the crime they found Miss Wilson unconscious and terribly bruised in the face and about the head. The little possse tracked the negro to his home, where he was found fu bed. The little girl identified him, and he was then taken out and shot and body burned. Miss Wilson is in a precarious condition. Tao shariff with three deputies left to-night for the scene of the crime. TALES OF TWO CITIES. THE nd Best Week GRO LIFT HIS HAT TO THE .ON pel for TALES OF T HEADS UP Don't kick and whine. Just get in line With the fellows who've grit and pluck, Don't frown and sewl, Look zlum and growl, Stop prating about ill luck. Lift up your head. Dont seem balf dead And joys will come apace. The Public schools open September 10th. Get all your children ready and start them in the beginning—keep them there till the close in 1903. Preparations are in progress for the annual Emancipation celebration on the 22nd. Dr. G, E. Horsey and wife are located at 334 Everett avenue. The small pox has made its appearance for the season. Better clean up and keep your weather eye open. It is said it loves dirt and filth. There will be held the second anniversary of the installation of Rev. W. L. Grant as pastor of the First Baptist church, on next Sunday. A very elaborate programme has been arranged and a great time is anticipated. Rev. Grant will presch at 11 o'clock. The doctors of the two Kansas Cities believe in living up with the times. You ought to see their vehicles. Miss Maggie Robinson and mother of 1406 Woodland avenue, returned home last Friday from an extensive visit to friends and relatives in Fayette, Glasgow, Moblyar and other surrounding towns. They report a very pleasant time. Mr. Emmet Holloway and Miss Ella Hasbrook were united in the holy bonds of matrimony Wednesday, Sept. 4th, at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. C. Ralley, 813 Charlotte street, Rev. Bacote officiated. They will be at home to friends after the 9th. inst. at $23 E 10th, street. Miss Georgia Freeman, one of our school marmas has been taking photography and typewriting in the law office of Mr. L. W. Johnson, this summer, and does very creditable work. Miss. Freeman is a young lady of much push and energy and usually makes a success of everything that she undertakes. Mrs. C. L. Smith and daughter of 24 Wood street, and neice, Miss Carrie Buckner, of Hannibal. Mo., made our office a pleasant call this week. Mr. John Hagans of Chicago is in the city the guest of Mrs. Pricilla Thomas and family of the Popular block. She is all smiles and there is a hidden mystery. The reception tendered Rev. Bacote of the 2nd Baptist church Kansas City Mo.on last Thursday was quite an enjoyable affair. Miss D.B. Thomas of the Popular block spent Sunday in West Port Mo., the guest of Meames Yates and Harris. Mrs. A. H. Henderson of Wichita Kans. is the guest of Mrs. F. G. Nuby of 1721 Harrison. F. Miller of Paola Kans. is visiting in the city. Mrs. J. C. Branch who has been taking in the sights of cool Colorado, returned home this week. The Virginia Kitchen at 1009 St Louis Ave. is one of the most reliable every day all around places that a hungry soul can get a good square meal cooked in a way that makes one real relish eating at this establishment we recommend it to the consideration of the public. Rev. J. W. Gordon, our popular young divine, returned this week from Mound City, Kansas, where he filled the pupil of the 2nd Baptist church in that city. Phil Mitchell, a driver of C. Fulton, a cooper at 1521 Locust street, was probably fatally injured this week in a collision between a runaway team and a steam engine. His left arm has been amputated, his skull is fractured and he now hovers between life and death at the City Hospital. He lived at 503 Lydia avenue, is 35 years old and has a wife and three children. Master Virgil Spencer of the Popular block is quite ill. Mrs. M. Collins of the Popular block has returned from a pleasant trip on the circuit of her husband who is a presiding elder. in they we they and ter- out the segro to in bed. and he body occarious free des- of the KANSAS CITY, KNW., Aug., 30. Notice to our friends that assisted us during the sickness of our child and after death of our dear child, we wish to return them thanks for their kindness and also wish to say for the colored Undertaker that we highly approve of your service. We don't think anybody could have treated us better in your business. Every colored man or woman who need an undertaker should remember the col- ored undertaker. MRS. B. KIRKPATRICK. AMERICAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, SE When its summer some of us are simple enough to imagine it will stay summer always. If we would but con. consider that no matter how much pleasure we may now have there will yet come a time when sorrow and sadness will creep in, we would endeavor in many instances to change the mode of our living and live so that we shall be in a position to adapt ourselves to all of the changes o' life.—Daily Recorder. Joseph Nichols of 111 Layfett Ave. is quite ill. The Home Restaurant of 209 E. Nineteenth street, is another one of those real homelike institutions where meals are served in the highest palatable style, where cleanliness is made a speciality and everything is conducted on first class basis. We have no hesitation in earnestly recommending this establishment to the public. Mrs. Parham, the proprietress, is a cultured lady of a high order, with a keen perception of business and truly merits the patronage of the public. The Reunion of the 23rd Kansas, last Sabbath and Monday, at Kerr's Park, was a grand success and the boys lived the scenes of former soldier days for two days at least. Mr. Thom s Booker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Booker, of Tauromie avenue, died Thursday morning at their home of consumption, after a lingering illness of months. He was a member of King Solomon Order of U. B. F's. Funeral will be held Sunday from A. M. E. church. Mrs Annie Alexander, of St. Louis, Mo., who has been spending the past two months in this city the guest of Mrs. J. W. King, of 916 Walker, and Mrs. C. Canady, of 325 Minnesota avenue, has returned home. She was tendered a very agreeable reception Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Canady. One of the swouest affairs in Christian circles was the Reception tendered Rev and Mrs. W. L. Grant on last Monday eve., at the First Baptist Church, by the members. It was well attended and superbly conducted Rev Grant was the recipient of a horse and buggy. The acceptance of the same by Rev. Grant, was in language only uttered by a Grant, the peerless western orator. THE DOCTOR'S NEW HORSE Dr. S. H. Thompson, the well known and popular medicine man, besides being an up-to-date physician, is a lover of horse flesh. His latest acquisition in the animal line is a long, lean and lanky looking individual—known as 'Jack Frost.' a regular 'git up and get sort of an animal, said to be an old Kentucky thoroughbred, fresh from the blue grass regions, and by the way he looks it.' Jack Frost is now being gotten into form by being fed three heavy meals a day and once between times. Every evening at sunset the Doctor takes him out for a spin. On every occasion the Doctor returns wreathed in 'smiles'—with 'tell ye, boys, he's hot a suff.' Great are the expectations of "Jack Frost." Negotiations are on foot for a race between him and the erack horses of the colored medieval fraternity in Missouri. The Doctor says he will put him against the field. Efforts are being put forth to bring off this race on Emancipation celebration day. If not successful the Doctor will be prepaided upon to give an exhibition mile dash against time. Dr. G. E. Horsey says he has no horse but gets there just the same. He being a little premature has already wagered a bet with Tom Booker, Captain of No. 5 Fire Station, that 'Jack Frost' can beat anything in the horse line in the two cities. Corvine Patterson, who sedum takes any stock in such affairs, had a big dis enision last evening about this same horse, with Judge L. F. Bradley, who, in his usual way, said he was from Missouri and the Doctor would have to show him. Fred. Douglass said he was a new married man and was enjoying now his honeymoon, but he would but the price of a bed room suit and produce it when Prof. W. G. Wood got married, that this horse could beat anything that ever looked like a horse. 'Jack frost' is the talk of the town in colored circles. He's a wonderful host. THEY SAY. The Medicine man is Mr. Seldom se en on the Avenue. She sang to him "I don't care if you nebber comes back," kase you don't handle nuff money for me. He says that honey moon is just delightful. EDITORIAL PICKINGS We shall weigh all men with political aspirations on the scales of public worth, adding or taking away in proportion to what they have done and are doing for the negro. The negro who would exercise the fullest privileges of an American citizen must be intelligent enough to get out of the old rut, do away with many old confirmed ideas, look at things from many a different point of view. YOUTHFUL folly is the hearthstone of knowledge. In after life man looks back upon the open book of mistakes and errors, and finds that he has not time to remedy all, but profits by pass experience. The desti nes of men are in accordance with their efforts. What strenuous ones ought the young negro of to-day put forth, that before the end of time he might shine with a surpassing lustre the young galaxy of noble men that have left, and are leaving an indelible impression upon the pages of the world's history. Our color or previous condition nc present surroundings should deter us from endearing to rise to the very highest pinnacle of fame. The color of the skin will some day be a past consideration. and every man shall stand forth in the fulness of his manhood, reckoned by intelligence, morality and wealth. That the Negro mu st have his share of it is in evidence everyday by the trend of the times. The Negro with intelligence and wealth and of a high moral standing is seldom if ever the victim of mobs. WHAT's in a negro being a soldier? THERE is absolutely nothing at present for a negro to hope for in facing bullets in defense of Uncle Sam. There is a line—that Mr. Negro can get to—and when once there—he reads the sign—"Thus far and ne farther." If we are good enough to die in his defense we ought to be allowed to advance like all other soldiers in the line of promotion. "Over thirty-five thousand Negree soldiers have given up their lives in defence of the United States government." All these and what have they gained in return? Look at this ponder over it and then ask yourselves who freed you. There is one class of white men in the world that delight in telling the negro they freed him. Use common sense and deliberately tell a white man that tells you this he lies. Therefore as a race you owe nobody anything—govern yourselves then accordingly in the future. Ir is about time Wyandotte county was coming to the front. Every little two by four county in the state can furnish Governors, Congressmen and Senators, while Wyandotte county, the greatest county in the State, hardly gets an apo pointive position in the State let alone a State officer. It is about time the citizens were asserting their rights and getting to the front. There is nothing in being tail enders. We have material enough to furnish all the State officers from Governor down. We are not hoggish though. What we want the next whack is a Governor and a congressman. Let the people set aside bosses and pamped up leaders, whose wranglings have cheated us out of our rights as citizens of one of the greatest states in the union and bring out men that from their record we know will labor in behalf of the common people. Strict party lines must be, and after consideration if we are to gain the proper recognition, one united effort around men who will best represent our interests, will ultimately bring success, party lines being thrown to the dogs and the interest of Wyandotte county and the whole people being paramount. Dietators, bosses and scheming political leaders are responsible for our meager showing in the past. Let the future be different. CITIZEN SEPTEMBER 6, 1901. The Savannah News makes the startling announcement that the Negroes are slowly driving towards barbarianism. If the acquisition of property, the building of school houses and the efforts the Negro is making to better his condition educationally, morally and financially is the road that leads to barbarianism, then we confess that we are going at a rapid gait. Some years back it was a popular fad with the India ns to burn white men at the stake. Historians say that was the acts of savages. Now wouldn't it be ridiculous to say that the white people of Georgia are becoming savages because some white men in certain sections of that State have burned Negroes to death? "DON'T READ NEGRO PAPERS." In conversation with an advertiser for few days ago, he remarked that in the course of conversation with a number of colored men who came into his place to do business, he asked them: "You have read my advertisement in The Afro-American Ledger, have you not?" and the reply was No. I never read negro papers, there is nothing worth reading in them. The gentleman in question thought this a strange reply, and so stated to them. In return he gave them some admirable advice as to why they should read their own papers. He told them he found something interesting in them, and thought the contents of colored newspapers should be more interesting to them than to him. We, unfortunately, have just such a class of negroes in our midst that think there is nothing good enough for them that comes from the hands of a negro. And nine times out of ten it is this very class of negroes that are always complaining that the negro is doing nothing. We are candid to admit that there are few, if any negro papers that measure up to the standard of the commonest white newspaper, and if they depend on this class of negroes they never will. Time and again we have sought white advertisers only to be told that their adver isements in white newspapers bring far better returns, as far as colored people are concerned, than colored newspapers bring, for they say that the colored people do not read colored newspapers. And unfortunately this is too true. It is time that the negro was getting rid of his prejudices against the negro newspaper and turned in to giving it his hearty support We have no objection to the reading of white newspapers, on the contrary we advocate it, but every negro should take at least one negro paper and read it. There is something in negro paper to read and much valuable information can at all times be gleaned therefrom. Not only this but it opens ways and means for the employment of negro boys and girls at something else besides hewing of wood and drawing of water for white people. Both of these are honorable occupations but there are other occupations more honorably and more lucrative, and with better opportunities for advancement in life. Read the papers published by colored men and you will be wiser and happier: for the knowledge obtained therefrom. To know how to wring victory from defeat and make stepping stones of our stumbling-blocks, is the secret of success. The negro is what he is in spite of the treatment he receives, and if he was treated as other citizens are treated, he would be much better every way. You press the apple to get the cider, squeeze the orange to get the juice and boil the beef to get soup, but you don't have to oppress the Negro in order to get him to exhibit his many q utilities. —The Conservator. THE BEST BELIGION The intent of religion is to help mankind to the attainment of a peaceful and righteous life. It is, indeed, to glorify God, but by the elevation of human life. It is intensely practical. Whenever it becomes merely speculative, dogmatic or ceremonial it is perverted from its highest meaning, and fals of its best results. The energy of true religion is directed towards present needs and opportunities. It is personal and immediate. It is not simply believing something that is past, and hoping for something in the future but it is also doing something now. The best religion is that which makes the best men and women.—Rov. Abrahams conall. Chicago Afro-Americans pay taxes on three million dollars worth of property. They say—Some people think we are geese but we reckon we ain't if we do cackle. Watch for the announcement of the great race of Dr. Thompson's Kentucky thoroughbred. TOPEKA NOTES Prof. and Mrs W. T. Vernon spent Sunday in the city. Misses Nettie James, Nellie Ellis and Rena Smith left this week for Emporia to attend the Normal. Mrs. Lizzie Cooper Brown entertained the Golden Rod Club at two course lunoeon Friday eve. The sewing circle met with Mrs A. M Ward Wednesday eve. Miss Trussie Smothers of Lawrence spent Thursday in the city the guest of Miss Mary Jordan. Mrs. Mary Smith has accepted matron ship at the Industrial Institute. SOUTH OMAHA. Rev. P. D. Davis has been confined to his room for more than a week. He is getting very much improved and his many friends wish him a speedy recovery. Mrs. Thornton, of North Omaha, entertain at dinner Saturday evening Dose Shaffer and children, Rev. J. R. Ransom, Pre. Elder, Mrs. Adams and Mr. and Mrs. Milton. Miss Alice Diggs has returned to our city the guest of Mrs. Sarah Gray. The Farewell reception will be given in honor of Rev. P. D. Davis. Pastor of Allen Chapel, who deserves much credit for his great work he has done in the last three years. The reception will be given at Allen Chapel Sept. 19th. The committee are Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Milton, Miss Gibson. Mrs. Ford, Mrs Shafferoth, Mrs. V. Washington, Mrs Howard and Mrs. Wilson. The annual Conference will be held in Atabison, Kas., Sept. 23rd. to 29th. Mrs. Milton wishes to state to her mother, Mrs. Holliway, who her little girl is visiting, that she was very lonely. She says look out. mamma is coming and get her little baby girl. Hal isn't she wearied though. Mrs. Fannie Washington is expecting to visit her mother and friends seen. Mr. James Bingham was given the job as policeman in Wesley Robinson's place. Mr. Bingham is a colored citizen of South Omaha. Rv. D. Washington was entertained at dinner Wednesday, by Rev. P. D. Davis. Don't monid your life after another's pattern. An act that is mean or vulgar is not changed by the mere accident of birth. Don't rail to render tribute to Caesar, but be not deaf to the creditors of lesser note. Don't mistake flattery for admiration. Men whose regard is valuable never offer gentle women such brassy tribute. Don't underrate beauty; neither over rate it. It is as a magnet at first, but has small power to hold, unless it is brainy, beauty. Don't be a prude. Modesty in women is the unmatcheable jewel—but pradery is to modesty as red glass to a ruby. Don't pose. A woman who poses is dreaded by sinere men and shunned by all women. Be natural, but cultivate nature to its highest altitude. Don't confuse truth with candor. Truth is a mirror but candor is a microscope through which all blemishes are manifolded. Don't be ashamed to stand for good principles though your hearers laugh or sneer—it you live up to your erreeds you will be respected. Don't be narrow. Women of the best impulses lose many opportunities to do noble work through ultra-narrow views of things and persons. Don't refrain from praise where ma it deserves it. No one is the worse for encouragement, and many talented beings have and unknown, asking it.—Pennsylvania Record. WAI ONE WOMAN THINKS. When a man manifests in love with a girl, he always wonders why more women were not made in just that same pattern. Imagination is the faculty that enables us to believe that the things we want and can't have we are a great deal better off without. Mon admire women because they are women, and anything that makes them less womanly makes them less charming. HUJ&RAH! FO.4 NO. 5. One of the prattiest runs in the language of dreams, as well as a record breaker, in the history of No. 5 Fire station, was made last Wednesday afternoon to the home of Dr. Morrison on 12th and Garfield ave. Our chief did not fail to compliment the boys. The work of Cap Thomas Booker and his men deserves the highest commendation. They are putting forth all the energy possible to make their company one of the fluster. The pride of every major citizen's heart should be the efficiency of its brave black fire ladder. Kater p. boys—your praises will be valued. TRUE REFORMERS The Colored American says: The Grand United Order of True Reformers is making a record for self in the financial world that suit issues anything yet attempted by the race. The management of the Bank in Richmond, as well as the several branch stores in the different cities, is well nigh perfect. Everyone of these has proven a success, and the business done is increasing at a rap-id rate. There are now nearly seventeen hundred fountains and within the last twelve months seventeen thousand new members have been added to the brotherhood. What a record! All the departments are in good shape and even with the large army of clerks employed at the headquarters. They are unable to keep up with the rapid growth of the business. The True Reformers have won and are winning a great victory. JEWELS MEMORY CROWN Better a little chiding than a great deal of heart break.—Shakespeare. He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.—Cotton. The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.—Lavater. Reserve is the truest expression of respect toward those who are its objects.—De Quinoy. He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in its performance.—Rousseau. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we may fall.—Goldsmith. There is no future pang can deal that justice on the self-condemned he deals on his own soul.—Byron. Pride defeats its own end by bringing the man who seeks esteem and rever ence into contempt.—Bolingbroke. There never was a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gaye.—H. W. Beecher. Human nature is so constituted that all see, and judge better, in the affairs of other men than in their own.—Terence. Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those which are real.—De Moy. CORRELATION Every Friday evening New York loses thousands of its residents, who go to other cities in the state and to Boston and Philadelphia. These people are citizens of Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Elimma, Binghamton and the travelers to Boston and Philadelphia have their homes in these cities. All of these men do business in New York city. They return to New York from their homes on Sunday, arriving Monday morning, and from that time until Friday evening they are going after the almighty dollar—Baltimore News. Nothing Personal Intended. When Lady Blessington sent D'Orsay to complain of some delay on the part of her publishers, Otley & Saunders, he used very high language. A dignified man in a high, white neckcloth, who was listening to him, said: "Count D'Orsay, I would sooner lose Lady Blessington's patronage than submit to such personal abuse." "There was nothing personal," said the count; "if you are Otley, then damn Saunders; if you are Saunders, then damn Otley." Ancient Manuscript Heirlooms Ancestor Manuscript Herreroe John Beutler of Wapakoneta, Ohio, has manuscripts and books that have been handed down from father to son since the ninth and sixteenth centuries. He has original manuscripts of the code of Justinian the Great, emperor of Rome, written in the latter part of the fifth century. He also has original manuscripts of the annals of C. Corneius Tacitus, the Roman historian, written in Greek, about the middle of the ninth century. The Famous "Passion Play." Already arrangements are being made by the tourist agents to conduct parties to Obermargerau this year, the famous "Passion Play" having been fixed to commence on April 24. It will last as usual, till the end of September. Since 1633, with only slight remodeling, this mystery or miracle performance has been performed by village peasants in the Bavarian highlands every ten years. Transvaal Minerals. The Transvaal is the richest country in the world so far as minerals are concerned. In 1877 England annexed the Transvaal, but evacuated it in 1881. In 1848 England conquered and annexed the Orange Free State, but evacuated it six years later. Boar Horses Well Trained The Boer horses are remarkably well-trained animals, and when the Transvaalers desire to form an ambush or firing line, their horses are taught to remain stationary as soon as they feel the reins dropped over their necks. MERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS Telephone "375 blue" W. C. MARTIN, EDITOR. Entered at the postoffice, at Kansas City ans, as second class matter. Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas in and for Wyandotte County Kansas. Robert M. Thomson, Plainiff, vs S M Thomson S. A. Thomson D. fendan. a. The State of Kansas: To S. M. Thomson and South Thomson Greatest. tion that on July 2nd. 1901, Plainfield filed is petition in the above named Courth and unless you answer demur or otherwise object on or before be- ber 80, 1901, the allegations s id p petition will be taken as offence to be true and Judgement rendered requiring that you covey to Plainfield the follow- ing described Real Estate in Wyandotte County Kansas so wit; Commencing at a point of 75 feet, north of the N. W. Corner of lot 40 in the Hom Building Company's Addition to Argentine theme North 50 ft., thence East to the front line of Lot A., thence in a South Eas- terly direction along the line of lot A, to a pint opposite the starting point thence West to beginning, and unless you convey said Land the decree of sad Court to stand for the conveyance of said Property from you to said Plain tiff. L W. Johnson. Plainfield's Attorney. Attest. C. W. Litchfield- Clerk. By F. L. Kenny Deputy (First published Aug. 9th.) Publication Notice. In the District: Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Elisabeth Owens, Henderson Williams and Maud Williams, by her next friend, Plaintiffs. vs. Maria Williams Jackson and Peter Jackson, Ananda Williams-Lee and Sandy Lee, Addine Williams, Elias Williams and Frankila Williams. To Elias Williams, you are here you notified that you have been sued in the above named Court by the above named plaintiffs, 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: -Lots 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 Kansas, 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 her enn, and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley. Attorney for the Plaintiff (Aug. 9t1.) In The Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas: Aber Robinson and Amanda Hines Plaintiffs. ys. Paulina Moorehead and Jane Moore. Defendants. No. 4893 Fo 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 entitled Court, and that you most answer the petition aforesaid filed against you on or before the Twenty-first day of September 1901, or said petition will be taken as true, and judgment accordingly rendered against you as follows: against the following described real estate to wit: Lots Twenty-six [26] Twenty-seven [27] Twenty-sight [38] and Twenty nine [39] in block One hundred and Sixty nine [60] in the former city of Wynon dottie, 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 Plaintiffs Oddities in New York Names If you keep your eyes open while riding around the streets of New York on the surface cars you can see many odd combinations of the names of busses men and their trades, some of which are here given: Ashman, hotel; Burns, coal; Best, groceries; Burnham, real estate; Cook, fish and oysters; Hoffin, beer and liquors; Coffey, teas and sugar; Forrester, real estate; flood, rubbers, boots; Gutter, pawnbroker; Goodrich, carriages; Herd doctor; Katz, butcher; Love, chemist; McClean, shirts, etc.; Noyes, lawyer; Proudman, diamonds; Pitcher, milk; Rich, perfumery; Silk, dress goods; Swindel, teas and spices; Sickman, fish and clams; Wood, building materials.—New York Herald. Speed of Ocean Linera In an article in Cassier's Magazine steam speeds at sea, Mr. Oldham says twenty-five years ago the Atlantic had never been crossed by a screw steamer at a greater rate than fifteen miles an hour, that of the fastest liner, Scotia. 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LUSTORONE No. 2. - Must be used in connection with Lustorone No. 1. It is used every morning. Cures all forms of Scalp Diseases, such as Dandruff, Titch, Itch, Eczema, and Psoriasis. It also helps to hide hair loss 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 Hands, &c., also cuts all Skin Diseases and redm removes Small Fox Pits. LUSTORONE SCALP SOAP. - Is absolutely pure. It should be used with Lustorone Hair Treatment to the hair from falling out. The regular price for the treatment is $5.00. OUR GREAT OFFER! D W White, Pres. H. P. Ewing, J See'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. Putherforn, I. F. Bradley, C. W. Comager S. A. Ruberford, Frank Wilson, Miss E. V. Jones It is asserted by the defenders of "trusts" that in almost every instance the formation of a trust has been followed by a decrease in the price of the product. This is true; but in most instances trusts have been formed to check the downward tendency of prices by interfering with the operation of the law of supply and demand. Probably there is no conspicuous instance of lower prices following the organization of a trust, in which the prices to the consumer would not have fallen still lower if the trust had not been formed. The greatest objection to trusts is that they are wrong in principle, in that they interfere with a fundamental law of trade. Only persons under thirty years of age were ready to accept promptly Harvey's great discovery of the circulation of the blood; and just as youth is most apt to respond to the touch of genius so men o rare abilities seldom fall of the spirit of perpetual youth. Keeping young is simply keeping abreast with the times we are in. At the recent anniversary in New York City of the founding of Stevens Institute, ex-Mayor Hewitt related this incident: "When I was a student at Columbia, base ball was our only game, and not such a detiment to a college as it is to-day. We lost most of our balls by knocking them over into a yard of a house in Barclay street. One day when we were short and could not get any base balls, I was appointed a committee of one to visit the house and ask for some. A gentleman appeared in answer to my question, and producing a basket containing twenty-five thirty balls, asked if they were ours. I said that I supposed they were. 'Every one of them has broken a window in my house,' he rejoined. 'You may take them, and when you have all the doors in my music room to Hoboken.' In 1893 three Irishmen agreed to undertake a journey around the earth on foot for a jackpot of $150,000. Each one of the party deposited one-third of this sum in the Bank of Dublin, and it was agreed that whover survived the trip and returned should receive the whole amount. In case all died a Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. On Dec. 24, 1895, they started east across Europe and Asia Minor to Egypt, where they took passage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the journey, and the severity of this trip resulted in the death of two of the travelers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, completed the voyage and won the money — New York Press. "We Bury The Dead." PATRONAGE { SOLICITED, { Telephone office 1014 N. 5th Street KANSAS CITY, KANS. Peanut Butter. According to a prominent dealer, peanut butter is rapidly becoming an important commercial product. It is made by grinding peanuts very fine and reducing the mass to a paste, from which a large part of the oil is removed. A little salt is then added. Many physicians recognize the nutritious value of this butter. It has all the wholesome qualities of nuts without being so indigestible. Peanut butter is excellent for the poor, too, for it contains quite as much nourishment as ordinary but er and is much less expensive. UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE. SHORTFST LINE CROSS THE CONTINUE 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 trans solidly vestibulated and fully equipped with latest improved Recycling 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 Pintsch Lig. Only line running two trusses 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 rangelences for a trip west until you have learned all about special inducements and attractions offered by the Union Pacific. For full information in regard to low rates, time, etc., call or address Gen. Agent Union Pacific, 1,000 Main street, Kansas City, Mo TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S.PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—no 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 'burn 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 will remove all smel's 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 every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription carefully compounded. Prices always the LOWEST at our store. Open day and light. Ring night bell. Phone W. 171. Medicines Delivere W. B. RAYMOND. Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKERS * SURF FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT AN AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Factory Cor st St. and Riverview Ave. MARTAKERS * SUPPLIES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL TIMES FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. WOODS, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone Warehouse Corst St. and Riverview Ave. CITY. WE INIT YOUR PATROLLES, MARTIN& DEALERS IN- and Staple Grocery FEED AND SALT MEAT Cigars. All kinds of Country Produce in any 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 Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Loc. St. & Riverview Ave. Telephone 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. SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE JONES, MARTIN&CO. DEALERS IN Fancy and Staple Groceries 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 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 best and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantee the best and the heapest work in the quickest time. Give him a trial and see for you self. CANCER Home Treatment that cures Cancers and Tumors. Used with perfect safety; harmless, soothing, non-irritating. We prefer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a speedy cure. Cases need to be sent to our Sanitarium for a til cure. Write to-day for our 36 page book. contains much valuable information and adds of testimonials from patients we have used o cancer. Selt free. Consultation by mail or in person, free. Address. DR. E. O. EMILY, A. B. MCCLEARY, MANAGER, Rooms 6 to 11 N. E. Cor. 10th & Main Sts., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. KANSAS CITY. THREE MUSES SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSES AT ALL HOURS ANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDER ave. Telephone West 32. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS. E R PATRONAGE. ARTIN&CO. ERS IN— ple Groceries SALT MEATS. Country Produce in season. Goods Kansas City, Kas Secure Tickets VIA TBE.... Chicago, Milwaukaa & St. Paul Ry.... AND YOU GET.... Sleepers: & Ghair Cars.... TO.... CH1CAGO and all intermedate points The shortest quickest and bessine to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Bubnque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: ....Passenger Station at... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable City Ticket Office, 915 Main street, Ridge Building. A. B. ERIL GFS Genl. Scullwote Agent F. J. LERCHPassenger Agent. Office 915Main St., Kansas Cit Wonder why some people kick so coolly the truth told. ..HARTONA. Patchless and Positively evening all Kinky, Harsh, Cut fabul. Makes the hair grow on balay out of the hair, itching, and all life and lustre, and the hair stays the hair down with grease. He children's hair just the same as a we 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. City and town in the United States living, with easy and pleasant dried genuine testimonials in you high? FACE, WASH five or six shades lighter, and w use of the face wash. One bole blackheads, freckles, and all blem Full directions with each bottle of the United States on receipt e. Thousands of delighted patro not perfectly satisfied and deli no matter if you are employed or NO-SMEL ly; cures sore and aching feet, ch agreeable odors caused by persp Address all orders to NA REMEDY CO., 909 E. M AND OFFER. three large boxes of Hartona E Smell. Goods be sent securel plainly. Money can be sent by po E. Main St., I A. C. L. C IS HEADQU THE CHEAP The Best Goods, the Quickest and the pro GET THE COAL, WOOD, FEED, Wholesale and Retail. Office 435 Yard and Storage 917 and 919 N EAGLE Gem Dru MINNESOTA D $ DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brus PERFUMERY AND FAN 1 RRIAM, EL Fire Insurance WYANDOTT Northeast Corner Fifth KANSAS CITY. DR. HEN 101 & 103 West 9th St., Kansas The Old Reliable Doctor, Older A Regular Graduate in Medi Practice.--22 Yea Authorized by the state to Cures guaranteed or many re no mercury or injurious med tents at a distance treated by free from graze or breakage. Charges low. Over 80,000 cases Consultation free and confid Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. THE CHEAPEST PRICES GET THEIR PRICES ON COAL, WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND BUILDIN STONE, Wholesale and Retail. Office 435, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 159 West Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. 1 RRIAM, ELLIS &BENTON Northeast Corner Fifth and Minnesota Ave., KANSAS CITY. KANSAS Seminal Weakness and Sexual Debility, the results folly and excesses—causing losses by dreams or with urine, pimples and blotches on the skin, or with blood, beads, pains in back, confused ideas and headaches, basilthusness, aversion to society, loss of sex life, can stop anambulism etc., cured for life. I can stop anambulism etc., cured for sex power, nerve and brain power, enlarged and strengthen weak parts and make Syphilis, that terrible disease, in all forms and stages cured for life. Blood Poisoning, Ucers, Swellings, Sores, Gonorrhoea and Gleit, and all forms of Private Diseases, Stricture, radically cured without the use of instruments. A New and fatalible Home Treatment. No The Citizen i Better keep you PILES All diseases of the rectum treated on a post patient is cured. Send for free 104 page book: estimonial letters, valuable to anyone afflicted 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 10k page book, in treaties on rectal disease, and handwritten testimonial letters, valuable to any afflicted. Also our 40 page book, women, both sexes, tree. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 10th & Oak Sis., Kansas City, Mo. The Original and Only Hartona. and Positively Unequaled for Bug all Kinky, Knotty, Stubb Harsh, Curly Hair. Does the hair grow on bald and thin places. R Re the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hair streat, 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 nea remedies. Remember, we handle no fake. All our remedies are trade-marked, register and 1900. We refer you, as to our response own in the United States. Write to us to with easy and pleasant work, and no risk ine testimonials in your own State of pe E. WASH. Shades lighter, and will turn the skin of the face wash. One bottles do the work. Freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. United States with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per box of delighted patrons send us testimonials satisfied and delighted with the Hartona if you are employed or not, and will she -SMELL. Store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Odors caused by perspiration of the feet, and orders to EDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmo OFFER. Large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straw goods will be securely sealed from seal. Money can be sent by post-office money order Main St., Richmo C. C. L. COAL —IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— E CHEAPEST PRICE The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND E STONE, and Retail. Office 435, Minnesota Ave. T and Storage 917 and 919 North 8rd. St. E F. HENDERSON EAGERS m Drug St MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMIC Dillet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, B BUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ART ERRIAM, ELLIS & BEN Insurance, Real H WYANDOTTE BUILDING, Theast Corner Fifth and Minnesot ITY, R. HENDERSON 3 West 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. (90 And 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 Cases guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines furn- —no mercury or benzine medicines used. Not deficient for tents at a distance treated by mail and express. Medicines free from gaze or breakage. No medicines sen. D. O. C. Charge love. Over 6000 cases treated. State your cause and Consultation. The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. EAGERS 101 & 103 West 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. (Opposite New York Life Blog) The Old Reliable Doctor, Oldest in Age and Longest Located, A Regular Graduate in Medicine, Over 27 Years Special Practice--22 Years in Kansas City. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Special Disc- cure. Cures headaches, back pain, sciatica, and more. —no mercury or injurious medicines used. No detention from business. Patients at a distance treated by mail and express Medicines sent every week from zip codes. No medicines sent. $9, D, only by安排 Charge. Statewide. Over 60,000 patients. Send for consulta- tion free and confidential, personally or by letter. Citizen is in the or keep your Eyes op LES NO MORE TILL CUR of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no more. 1. Send for free 104 page book; a treaties on rectal diseases ters, valuable to anyone affected. Also our 48 page book for Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 10th & Oak Sts., Kane Unequaled for Straight Knotty, Stubborn, Early Hair. and thin places. Restores GRAY scalp diseases. Hartona does not harm and grows naturally beautiful and adults. To meet the popular demand, 50c. sizes, in our special round, we handle no fake goods, and you work with a marked, registered, registered, as to our responsibility, to the us. Write to us to-day, no matter the work, and no risk of losing your own State of people who have SH. I will burn the skin of a mulatto per child does the work. Shoes of the skin. You can regu of price, 50c. per bottle: securely send us testimonials every year, dated with the Hartona remedies, not, and we will show you how to L. fed limbs, etc. rotation of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Bain St., Richmond, Va. Hair-Grower and Straightener, two sealed from observation. Post-office money order, or enclosed Richmond, Va. SOAL CO. ARTERS FOR— BEST PRICE At Sales, the Smallest Profits mostest deliveries. AIR PRICES ON FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West 3rd St. E. F. HENDERSON Manager. ERS Drug Store AVENUE ALER IN LINES, CHEMICALS. ches, Combs, Etc. KEY TOILET ARTICLES. LIS & BENTON e, Real Estate BUILDING, and Minnesota Ave., KANSAS ADDERSON. Kansas City, Mo. (Opposite New York Life Bldg. in Age and Longest Located,chine, sent 27 Years Special in Kansas City. Centric Chronic, Nervous and Special Disorders. All medicines furnished ready for use. No detention from business. Medicines sent. O.D. only by arrangement. State your own medical services. pain and no exposure. No cautions cuttle paint. No exposure. No detention from thousands. Thousands cured. No guaranteed or money refunded. Sensitive for book, which fully expires. Sensitive for **coccole** serum in the vials in the vous dabbleble serum-cause tet, etc., permanently cured without pain. **Hydrocele** = drop of blood. **Phimosis** = book cured in age. **Book** = days without pain. **Book** for both above diseases, the older scription of above diseases, the older scription of above diseases, the older scription of above diseases, the older Free Museum of Anatomy for men Thousands of curiosities A sermon without words. OFFICE HOURS: 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Sundays, 10 to 12 is in the Push. or Eyes open. NO MONEY TILL CURED. Active Guarantee, and no money accepted until treaties on rectal diseases, and hundreds of Also our 48 page book for women both sent R, 10th & Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. Vehicles Impede Armes. Armies are adding so many curious vehicles to their impediments that it is a grave question in some quarters whether their mobility will not be seriously impeded in future wars. There are the movable forge, the movable armorium, the hospital, the ice machine, and now comes the traveling disinfecting apparatus. The latter is a wagon so fitted that it can readily move from camp to camp to disinfect the clothing of the soldiers. The City of Cebu. The city of Cebu has something like $200,000 inhabitants, but this population is largely made up of people who are huddled together in native huts. They live year in and year out on rice and corn. There is no hunting, but thousands of small fish, less than six inches long, are caught and dried for local consumption. He Collects Antique Statuary. Stanford White is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammar park, New York, a veritable museum of Greek and Roman art, but the lawn is now filled to overflowing with other examples. A Happy Boy Odienburg, III., Sept. 2d:—The doctors all tallied in the case of little thirteen-year-old Willie Kell, who suffered with acute Rheumatism. For over three months the poor little fellow suffered excruciating torture. His father, who had done everything he would think of, saw a new Rheumatism merely advertised — Dodd's Kidney Pills. He bought some, and soon his little son showed signs of improvement. Three boxes cured him completely, and he has not a symptom of Rheumatism left. This miraculous cure of a case which had been given up by the physicians has electrified Madison County, and Dodd's Kidney Pills are a much talked of medicine. There seems to be a growing impression that Aguinaldo is a gold brick. The Home Laundry. There is no reason why the clothes cleaned at home cannot be ironed up to the same standard of excellence that comes from sending them to the laundry. All that is necessary to attain the desired object is the purchase of a package of Defiance starch at any grocery. Use it once and you will understand why clothes ironed at the laundries have that mild, glossy appearance. All first-class laundries use Defiance starch. If there is no grocery in your neighborhood that keeps it will send you on it for request. Made by the Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha, Neb. You are lucky if you can pick two good cantaloupes in succession. FITS Personally cared. We all our concerns after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restoration for pain relief. We are proud to be R. E. K. KINE, Lau, 61 Arth St., Philadelphia, Pa. A woman's mission on earth is to convince some man that he ought to get married. Do not believe Piso's Pice for Consumption in equal for痹 and coughs.—JOHN F BOTHER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900 How we will enjoy the blizzards next winter! YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them with Red Cross Ball Blue all grocers sell large 2.0 pack, 5 cents PAINT IN THE FALL You want your paint to last, and to protect your property. If you use Devoe ready paint, you'll have both. Lasts longer than lead and oil; costs less. Devoe is a safe name in paint things. Ask your dealer for Devoe; don't be satisfied with less. Send for our pamphlet about paint and painting; free; things you ought to know. GOOD-PAINT DEVOE CHICAGO $3.00 WEDOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 W. L. Douglas sells more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers. W. L. Douglas $4.00 Old Eagle line should be equalled at any price. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes are made of the same high grade footwear and 68 shoes and are just as good. bought by the best shoe dealers everywhere. I wish upon having W. L. Douglas shoes within order to Order by Mali—If W. L. Douglas have sold in town, please send price of shoes and any where necessary of price and 25c. additional for carriage. My custom departmental fashion will be 65 and 6c. from made shoes and 6c. from made shoes and measurements. food as shown on model; state usually worn; plain on cap worn; usually worn on mint or light shoes. A fit guaranteed. Try a pair. Art Color Eyelashes used. Catalog free. W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. WAS SAMPSON WARNED? Gen. Shafter, who commanded the Fifth Army Corps, which captured Santiago in the summer of '88, was once an enthusiastic admirer of Admiral Schley, and probably is now. If he can recall all that happened just Santiago in the summer of '88, was once an enthusiastic admirer of Admiral Schley, and probably is now. If he can recall all that happened just Gen. Shafter, before and after Cervera's fleet dashed out of Sanitago bay to its destruction he would be well equipped to play the part of a star witness in the coming Sampon-Schley investigation. He did not seem to regard Sampon as a great fighter in those days. We who were with the doughy Shafter have very lively recollections of the general's bringing his huge fist down upon the quivering camp table to emphasize the string of characteristic strong words he used to express his opinion of Admiral Sampon. "Why doesn't he force his way into the bay?" said the general. "Is he afraid of scraping some of the paint from the bottom of his ships?" This was after the Spanish fleet had been destroyed. There were no warships flying the Spanish flag in the bay, but it was said then that the channel was mined and that if any hostile craft attempted to force an entrance it would be blown over the mountains. Gen. Shafter was a rank skeptic about the mines. The Cubans had told him, and their report was partially corroborated by some refugees, that any mine or torpedo which had been laid in the channel had been there so long that it would not explode. They said the only danger to an American ship was in the shore batteries. Lieut. John Miley, who was Shafter's executive officer, but who has since died in the Philippines with the rank of leutenant- colonel, told me that Shafter often declared that a steam launch or a torpedo boat with only a one-pounder rapid-fire gun on deck could force an immediate sur- rank of lieutenant-colonel, told me that Shafter often declared that a steam launch or a torpedo boat with only a one-pounder rapid-fire gun on deck could force an immediate surrender from Gen. Toral, who commanded the beleaguered Spanish forces, if it could take up a position opposite the city of Santiago. He urged Sampson to make the attempt, but the commander of the American fleet did not seem to see it that way. Then it was that Shafter declared that he would do it. Capt. Stewart Brice, son of the late Senator Calvin Brice, one of Shafter's military family, and Col. Creighton Webb, inspector-general of Gen. Lawton's division, and other adventurers officers came to Gen. Shafter with a scheme for the army to do what the navy seemed to be afraid of doing. They planned calling for volunteers to man an army transport, putting on the vessel a battery of field guns, and with it force an entrance to the harbor and take up a position behind one of the islands in the bay, where they would be out of the line of fire from any battery and yet be in position to rake the city. Shafter took kindly to the plan, which was kept a deep secret, but, like all secrets, the scheme leaked out and scores of officers were eager to volunteer, some of them offering to go as private. But just as the scheme was taking tangible form Gen. Toral made it known to Gen. Shafter that he was willing to "come in," and nothing more was done with the transport proposition. The day before the Spanish fleet KINDERGARTEN LEGISLATORS. Little Sketches of Odd Proceedings in Konvallion Legislature "It is curious to watch the kindergarten stage of a people just learning to use political freedom and putting into operation the machinery of legislative government," remarked Civil Service Commissioner Rodenberg to a Star reporter on his recent return from the Hawaiian islands. "The Hawaiian legislature is a very amusing body in some respects. There are native members and American members. Translators of both languages are employed, but the original remarks of members will be delivered in first one language and then the other. The native members regard their official positions with great solemnity, and their comprehension of the power of the legislature is sometimes ridiculously illustrated by the bills which they introduce. Not long ago a bill was introduced by a native member to repeal all the laws of the United States which might apply to the islands. Following this was a measure which provided that any person might become a licensed physician simply upon payment of the fee securing the license. As a travesty on these bills a young American member one day introduced a bill with all solemnity to prevent the waves from beating on a certain portion of the beach which was used for bathing. The august body sat in solemn and dignified silence while the measure was being read, and it did not occur to it that it was not a matter for its earnest consideration."—Washington Star. By J. ot. 9. 1916. "By Motor to the North Pole" may be the title of a future volume if Evelyn Baldwin, who recently started for the extreme north, is so lucky as to plant the American flag on the end of the world's axis. A motor for use on the great ice plains is a novel venture, and Mr. Baldwin has great hopes of being able to find an ice field so level and so large that he can rush over it in his motor to the pole itself. It is a daring conception, but as Mr. Baldwin said before leaving. "It's originality that wins, and if the ice is at al' practicable for motor driving I will make a dash for the north pole. At any rate the teef-teuf of a motor will be heard far inside the Arctic circle." The Bald- shade its dash out common talk around Gen. Shafer's headquarter's that the French consul in Santiago had been told by an officer of Cervera's fleet that the Span- common talk around Gen. Shafter's headquarter's that the French consul in Santiago had been told by an officer of Cervera's fleet that the Spanish admiral would Rear-Admiral W. leave the harbor at T. Sampsou, 9 o'clock the following morning. Ga that day I was told by officers that the French consul had told Maj. Noble that Cervera was getting ready to leave and would make the attempt the next morning. None of us believed that the Spanish admiral would attempt such a desperate movement. We were told that day that the news was wig-wagged—by order of Gen. Shafter—from the shore to Admiral Sampson. If this was done Admiral Sampson did not believe that Cervera would make the dash, for when the Spanish ships left the harbor, Sampson, aboard the New York, was steaming toward Siboney to hold a conference with Gen. Shafter. About 9:30 o'clock on the morning of July 3 we heard several of the navy guns roar. No one in the trenches of San Juan hill paid any particular attention to the booming, for we thought the warships had begun their daily bombardment of Morro castle and the other batterles. But the heavy cannonading grew stronger and we could hear the Span- ish batteries opening up. In a few minutes a continuous roar came over the hills; the individual booms seemed to be lost in the concert, and our men began cheering. They thought ing up. In a few minutes a continuous roar came over the hills; the individual booms seemed to be lost in the concert, and our men began cheering. They thought Lieut. Miley, the fleet was moving into the harbor. The Spaniards opened up all along the line about that time and we were somewhat busy ourselves, yet we kept ears in the direction of the bay. The heavy booming seemed to move eastward, and finally the voice of the great guns grew fainter and at last died out. Even then we did not think the Spanish fleet had gone out, and it was not until noon that word came from Gen. Ludlow, who was north of the city, where he could see the bay, that the Spanish ships apparently had gone out of the harbor, for none was to be seen. At last we received definite news of the great victory and then the men in the trenches gave voice to their enthusiasm. The next day we got the details, and it is interesting to recall the fact that no one then had a whisper against Schley. "Schley did it" "Schley was the hero." "The Brooklyn did most of the work" were the comments heard then. The army officers declare that the celebrated loop which the Brooklyn made was a great maneuvers—that Schley proved himself to be a great sea fighter. Schley's name was on every tongue. Sampson was only mentioned in words of condemnation. He was censured for taking the New York out of line when he could just as well have made the trip to Siboney on one of the mosquito fleet or in a steam launch. Stewart M. Brice. He was censured for taking the New York out of line when he could just as well have made the trip to Siboney on one of the mosquito fleet or in a steam launch. Stewart M. Brice. The army officers took particular pains to let Schley know that they gave him the credit of smashing the Spanish fleet when Sampson and Schley came ashore to call on Shafter after we had entered Santiago. The naval officers clean and trim, well fed win-Ziegler expedition will start from Tromsø as soon as Mr. Baldwin, who has left London, arrives at that port. Three vessels carrying three years' supplies will leave together. Mr. Ziegler, who financed the expedition, has supplied everything that can possibly be needed in the Arctic regions. The motor taken is a five-horse power Decauville volutrete of the style that recently ran 1,000 miles continuously, and Mr. Baldwin is more than confident that it will carry him a long way, if not all the way, to the pole. Rise of the Mustache. The custom of wearing mustaches did not prevail in France until the reign of Louis Philippe, when it became obligatory in the whole French army. In England the mustache was worn by bassars after the peace of 1815, and it was not until the close of the Crimean war that English civilians, as well as English soldiers in general, wore hair on the lip. Shortly after the mustache came into favor among gentlemen Horace Mayhew was passing through an English country town, and was immediately noted and followed by a small army of children, who pointed to his lip and called out derisively: "He's got whiskers under his snout. He's got whiskers under his snout!" For a long time the mustache was the subject of raillery, even after it was becoming common and the famous caricaturist, Leech, printed in Punch a picture of two-old-fashioned women, who, when they were spoken to by bearded railway guards, fell on their knees and cried out: "Take all we have, gentlemen, but spare our lives!" -Youths' Companion. Wiles of Scottish Poachers. The otter, used by Scottish poachers, is one of the most deadly fishing instruments known. On some waters it is far more effective than a net. It may be described as a water kite, which serves to take out over the water a line bearing fifty or more flies. The otter itself is a floating piece of board, leaded along one edge to keep it upright. The poacher walks along the side of loch or river, letting out the fly-decorated line as he goes, the otter board gradually working out toward the center. An enormous area of water is fished at one time, and numbers of fish are killed—London Telegraph. and jaunty in their fresh-laundered white suits, came into the parlor of the governor's palace in Santiago, where Shafter had his headquarters. The army officers, dirty and yellow, their thin faces showing the effects of fever and hardships and lack of food, flocked around Schley, Admiral Sampson stood almost alone at one end of the long room, but Schley was the center of an enthusiastic crowd. He was congratulated again and again. Generals, colonels, majors, captains and lieutenants pressed his hands. They threw their arms around him and told him he was a great man. Of course, every army officer paid his respects to Sampson, but most of them did it in a conventional way. There was no warmth to their greetings. It was not until we reached Montauk Point that we learned that the It was not until tauk Point that we Brooklyn's loop was held up as evidence that Schley was faint-hearted, even cowardly. But at Santiago, on San Juan hill, at Siboney and in the trenches no one had even hinted that Schley was Brooklyn's 1809 was held up as evidence that Schley was faint-hearted, even cowardly. But at Santiago, on San Juan hill, at Siloney and in the trenches no one had even hinted that Schley was a coward. The boys who had faced Spanish shells and Mauser slugs, who had fought while fever burned their blood, who knew what fighting meant, seemed to hold a contrary opinion to that entertained at Washington. They said: "Schley did it. Sampson wasn't in it. It was Schley who licked the Spanards." MALCOLM M'DOWELL. ODD CASE OF MIND CURE. Breaking of a Thermometer Cures Hawaiian of Fever A prominent Philadelphia physician, who has looked skeptically upon all the new theories of curing disease without medicine, says he has recently seen an instance of the influence of the mind over the body that has greatly surprised him. One of his patients, a woman who ten years ago was saved from a wreck at sea, has since been subject to attacks of fever regularly once a year. As there seemed to be no particular reason for these spells of illness, his usual treatment has been to send her out of town, and the change was always beneficial. This year, however, a wedding in the family prevented the trip, and the fever increased with such severity that the doctor became seriously alarmed. One day the patient's temperature was abnormally high, and the doctor, to see if the heat of the atmosphere could partially explain it, took a thermometer from the wall to note the temperature of the room. The instrument slipped through his fingers and fell to the floor, breaking the glass tube. Turning to his patient, he saw that her face was less flushed, and as he felt her pulse and watched her, the fever rapidly abated and left her quickly. The thermometer had been on the wrecked vessel, and it was always on the anniversary of the day of the wreck that the fever appeared. It was inferred that at these times the woman's nerves had responded to the terror and anxiety of that experience, and the breaking of the thermometer had shattered the nervous strain of memory kept alive by its associations—Philadelphia Record. The nourished soul makes steady nerves. During one month no less than 32½ tons of eggs were sent to England from Bulgaria. THE QUEEN'S PREACHER. How Bishop Carpenter Preached to the Scullery Maid. Of Dr. Boyd Carpenter, the bishop of Ripon, whose preaching was much admired by the late Queen Victoria, the following remark is quoted by a writer in Black and White: "I never address the queen at all," he told somebody who asked him if he felt nervous when preaching before Queen Victoria. "I know that there will be present the queen, the princes, the household and the servants down to the scullery maid, and I preach to the scullery maid." The remark is typical of the man. Dr. Carpenter has always been a royal favorite, but he is infinitely happier in the cottage than in the palace. He is not ashamed to ride in a "bus, and he has often told the story of a penny ride from Westminster to Charing Cross. When the ticket collector came around the bishop found, to his astonishment that he had not a penny in his pocket, and his wife, who was with him, was in the same unhappy state of pennilessness. Dr. Carpenter made up his mind to borrow the money when he alighted at Charing Cross, but before he reached his destination, a workingman, with a bag of tools thrown over his shoulder, turned to him as he left the "bus and said: "Don't bother about that; I've made that all right." Almost before the bishop could say "Thank you" the man with the bag was gone and Dr. Carpenter found that he had paid his fare and that of his wife to the end of the journey. Sle in Partial Frontful Corner Sina in Pa'a. Eventual Career. A most exciting career has been that of Sir Rudolf If Slatin, better known as Slatin Rudpa. He left Vienna, his birthplace, when a lad of 17, to become a clerk in a commercial house in Caliro, and six years later came under the notice of Gordon, who appointed him governor of Darfur. In this position he became known as "The Hammer of the Arabs," owing to his many victories over the turbulent tribes, but in 1883 he had to surrender to the mahdi. Then began an imprisonment that lasted until 1895, by secret aid from the authorities at Cairo, Slatin managed to escape. The late queen had Sir Rudolf at Windsor several times to hear him relate his adventures. Dont Perspire Too freely. It means that the skin is doing more than its share in the work of eliminating the impurities from the blood, while the liver and kidneys are shirking their duties. These McLean's Liver @ Kidney Balm will cure all affections of these organs, and restore them to a health $ \gamma_{2} $ normal condition. Many Plagiarists are Women. In speaking of plagiarism a magazine editor said: "More than nineteenth of the plagiarists who try to sell me manuscripts are women. As a rule they are prompted by a desire to see their names in print as authors. When I call their attention to the fact that the articles submitted have been published before they get angry and flounce out." The Cows of Denmark There are 1,713,745 cows in Denmark, an average of 456 for every 100 acres of land under cultivation and 756 for every 1,000 inhabitants. In 1898 the butter exported amounted to 121,418,431 pounds, in 1899 to 122,412,593 pounds, and in 1900 to 124,623,362 pounds, of which 3,593,362 pounds were packed in tins. The remaining was in firkins. Submarine Telephony. A French engineer by the name of Marchie claims to have solved the problem of telephoning by submarine cables for great distances. His experiments are reported as having been very extensive and exhaustive and as having resulted recently in his being able to transmit a telephone message, with perfect distinctness, from Calais, through a cable 400 miles long. Automatic Ticket Agents a Success A report comes from Berlin that the sale of railway tickets by automatic machines was very successful last year. One hundred and ninety-two of these machines sold 30,000,000 tickets. 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Y., writes: "I have been sick with catarrh of the stomach and pelvic organs for about five years, and had many a doctor, but none could help me. Some said I would never get over it. One day when I read you almanac I saw those who had been cured by Peruna; then I thought I would try it. I did, and found relief with the first bottle I took, and after two more bottles I was as well and strong as I was before."—Mrs Christopher Fleihmann. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, give a full statement to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. FRAGRANT SOZODONT for the Teeth 25° A scientifically prepared and strictly pure liquid Dentifrice in a New Size, handy to use. Large LIQUID and POWDER. . . . 75c SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER. . . . 25c At all the Stores, or by Mail for the price. Sample of Sozodont for the pasteur, 3 cents. HALL & RUCKEL, NEW YORK SCALE AUCTION BIDS BY MAIL. YOUR OWN PRICE. Jones, He Pays the Freight, Binghamton, N. L. Throwing dice seems to constitute a rattling good time with some people. Yellow, musty looking linen can be avoided by using Defiance Starch, which whitens the goods and makes them like new. Ask for the 16 oz. package Defiance Starch. All other starches weigh 12 ounces. Don't forget it—a better quality and one-third more of it. It means that going more than the work of the impurities good, while the neys are shirk- tuties. These tities from the ney n to a health7. ouis, Mo. EDUCATIONAL. ST. MARY'S ACADEMY Notre Dame, Indiana. Conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Chartered 1855. Thorough English and Classical education. Regular Collegiate Degrees. In Preparatory Department students carefully prepared for Collegiate course. Physical and Chemical Laboratories well equipped. Conservatory of Music and School of Music under the graduate of Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Catalogue free. The 47th year will open 5. 10. 1901. Address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY, St. Mary's Academy, Notry Dame, Indiana. A CLOSE RACE CONSTITUTION BEATEN BY SEVENTEEN SECONDS. IT WAS DUE TO CLUMSY HANDLING She Sailed the Course Faster than the Columbia—Handicap at Start, However, and Time Allowance, Made Her Loser—New Defender Did Some Splendid Sailing in the Race. The Constitution sailed a capital race at Newport, R. I., against the Columbia over a course fifteen miles to windward and back in a breezes whose force averaged about eight knots, its greatest power being twelve knots near the finish line. The Columbia won by seventeen seconds, corrected, the Constitution beating her rival, boat for boat, over the course on elapsed time fifty-four seconds. This does not include the handicap of twenty-one seconds or more with which the Constitution started. Had she not been handicapped she would have won. On the windward work she gained on the Columbia thirty-two seconds, and also twenty-two seconds on the run home before the wind. In heavy pumps, when close to the finish line, her balloon jib topsail split in and caused a big tangle aloft. The Columbia was compelled to haul down her balloon at the same time, for the squall carried away the cringle at the head of the sail. But the big sail on the Constitution refused to be controlled and fluttered in segments aloft, and all hands had to do their best to muzzle it. On the other hand, Columbia hauled down her balloon jib topsail in seaman-like style, and, smartly bending on the spinnaker halyards, hoisted a reaching jib topsail in stops and, breaking it out quickly, darted across the line a winner. In taking in spinnakers about twenty minutes before the finish line was reached by the leader, Constitution's sail got tangled in the headstays and it took several minutes to get it on deck. While flapping aloft, the balloon jib topsail" had no opportunity to exert its utmost drawing power. At this time, the Columbia's ballooner was doing most effective work. To smart handling and excellent judgment Columbia's victory was due. There is no question that the old mainsail and the altered headrails of the Constitution, which she carried, had much to do with the improved showing she made. The handicap at the start seemed to be due to a lack of smartness aboard the constitution and also to the more able sea jockeying of those in charge of the Columbia. The Constitution allowed herself to be forced on the wrong side of the line, was compelled to gybe around short on her heel and then to take to the other end of the line, a deadly handicap. This and the splitting of her balloon jib tops certainly lost her the race. Had it not been for these mishaps the Constitution would have beaten the Columbia by a small margin beyond the one minute and eleven seconds' time allowance over the thirty mile course. Public Debt Statement. The monthly statement of the public debt, just issued, shows that at the close of business August 31, 1991, the debt less cash in the treasury amounted to $1,036,349,866, a decrease for the month of $5,460,597. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest bearing debt, $882,640,090. Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,393,620. Debt bearing no interest, $382,287,-411. Total, $1,366,321,121. This amount, however, does not include $780,039,689* in certificates and treasury notes outstanding which are offset by an equal amount of cash held for their redemption. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold reserve, $150,000,000. Trust fund, $780,033,689. General fund, $165,770,935. In national bank depositories, $103,-095,834. Total, $1,198,840,459, against which there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $868,869,103, leaving a cash balance on hand of $791,971,355. Utah Man Assinated Robert Graham, a well known citizen of Weber county, Utah, and a prominent official in the Mormon church, was shot and almost instantly killed while returning home from church. The affair is shrouded in mystery, there being no clue to the perpetrators of the deed. Killed By a Fly Wheel. While attempting to soap the belt which passes over the fly wheel in Perkins' elevator, at Frankfort, Kan.. Lee Patrick was struck by the fly wheel and instantly killed. He had contracted with the elevator company for a year and this was his first day at work. He was 27 years old and unmarried. Turns Murderer at Twelve Carlos McCormick, 12 years old, shot and killed Antonio Soto, a playmate, 16 years old, at Tucson, Ariz. with a 22-caller rifle. A couple in a buggy drove by and McCormick raised the rifle and said: "I will take a shot at them." Soto prevented him from carrying out his intention. McCormick, in a rage, then shot Soto. His sick mother, on hearing what her son had done, died a few hours afterward from the shock. Many a man who claims to be wedded to his art can't prove it. Three Chinese Dead in a Pell Street Fire. Three Chinese lost their lives in a found upon the fourth floor after the heart of Chinatown. One of them was killed by jumping from the third floor to the street. The other two were found upon the fourth floor ater the flames were subdued. They had been suffocated. The damage to the building, which was used as a restaurant and lodging house, was about $25,000. A busy person is very apt to think that looking handsome is a matter of having idle time. CONDITION OF THE CORN CROP Early Planted Being Cut in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. The government weather bureau's summary of crop conditions, wired from Washington, says: "Late corn continues to show improvement, although it was injured by drought and heat in portions of Kansas; has suffered further decline in Missouri and needs rain in Nebraska. In Iowa corn, is maturing rapidly, and the cutting of early planted is general in all sections of this state and Missouri and the more northerly sections, and is progressing rapidly in Kansas. "Further improvement in late corn is reported from the Ohio valley, but it has suffered injury by floods on low lands in Tennessee. Reports indicate that the bulk of the late corn will be safe from injury from frost by September 15 to 20, but that some very late fields will require until October 1 to fully mature the crop. "Spring wheat threshing continues with generally satisfactory yields, except in North Dakota, where they are light and of poor quality, the berry being shrunken and bleached. "Soil conditions are favorable for plowing and seeding, which are in progress and usually well advanced in all districts, except in Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, where the work has been retarded by drought, and in portions of Virginia, where it was interfered with by wet weather." UNHURT AFTER 80-FOOT FALL A Brooklyn Woman Lost Her Balance and Dropped into a Catskill Gorge. After a fall of eighty feet into the gorge of the Kaaterskil falls, in the Catskill mountains, Miss Carolina Schroeder was found to be unhurt save for a few bruises. The water plunges over a precipice 280 feet in height, and on one side of the gorge is a shelf rock jutting out eighty feet above the base. Miss Schroeder ventured too near the edge of the gorge, lost her balance and fell. Her body was seen to whirl downward. They saw it rest for a moment in the balsam boughs and then disappear in the midst of the dense foliage below. Three men descended on ropes and found the young woman unconscious. Physicians in attendance, however, said that while severely bruised she would suffer no serious consequences. Circulation Statement. The monthly circulation statement of the comptroller of the currency shows that at the close of business August 31, 1901, the total circulation of the national bank notes was $357, 419,155, an increase for the year of $33,114,830, and an increase for the month of $1,266,252. The circulation, based on United States bonds, $328, 406,351, an increase for the year of $37,764,994, and an increase for the month of $1,336,978. The circulation secured by lawful money amounted to $29,012,804, a decrease for the year of $4,650,164, and a decrease for the month of $100,726. The amount of United States registered bonds on deposit to secure circulating notes was $330,279,920 and to secure public deposits, $106,480,550. Alfalfa Paid for the Cost An example of the marvelous productivity of alfalfa is seen in the summer's experience of D. R. Gorden on a twenty-five acre field just south of Abilene, Kan. He offered the land for sale last spring for $40 an acre, but found no takers. In spite of the fact that the total rainfall there since June 21 has been only 2.05 inches the field has done well. He threshed one cutting and secured six bushes an acre, worth $6 a bushel. He also cut two tons of hay an acre, worth $8 a ton, the total making $52 an acre. Deducting expenses, the land netted him $45 an acre and with rain there will be another light hay crop. The Drought Worried Him. W. A. Tomlinson, a farmer who lived about six miles south of Ottawa, Kan., took his life in his barn by shooting himself in the breast with a shotgun. Tomlinson was a renter and of a quiet disposition. He has brooded much this summer over the drought and a few days ago shipped his cattle because water was scarce. He lost money on the shipment. He was found on the barn floor with the shotgun lying near. He was about 35 years old and leaves a wife and one child. He had lived in the neighborhood several years. Washing Gold in Porto Rico. At Comerio, Porto Rico, it has been ascertained that gold is taken out of the various streams by some of the poorer people. The natives make daily excursions to these streams and search for pebbles, which are covered with gold. At night they return to town and purchase food. None of them will show an outsider the places where these pebbles can be found. Guides employed for this purpose invariably lead the prospectors astray. When your heels drag, look out; you are tired, and need a rest. And Miners are in Demand The talk of a coal miners' strike in Southern Kansas seems to have died out entirely. The mines of the "Big Four" companies are running and the superintendents on the ground have reported to the representatives of the companies that all the men are at work. There is no shortage of men in any mine except the usual shortage which has worried the managers for weeks. There is too much to do above ground and miners are scarce. Only One Was Saved. The Belgian steamer Norammore, whose loss while bound from Batouon for Bombay was reported, founded in the Black sea during the night of August 25 in a severe storm. The solitary survivir of a crew of forty was picked up four days later in an open boat and was landed at Rizeh, east of Trebizonde. Nothing is known as to how the others met their fate. When a widower acts like a hen that is trying to steal a nest, that is a Sure Sign. A GOOD HAUL FIVE MEN HOLD UP COTTON BELT TRAIN. FOUR MILES FROM TEXARKANA. One of the Bandits was an Expert Railroad Engineer—No Attempt Made to Rob Passengers—It Is Known That Train Carried Heavy Shipment of Money—Bandits Disappear on Engine. No. 1 Cotton Belt passenger train leaving Texarkana, Ark., at 9:25 p. m., in charge of Conductor Armstrong and Engineer Hudson, was held up and robbed near Elyau, four miles south of Texarkana. The train was flagged by one of the robbers, who forced the fireman to go back and cut off the mail and baggage cars and returning, forced the engineer to give up the management of his engine. One of the robbers, who, it appears, is an expert engineer, ran the engine, mail and express cars about a mile from the point where the first stop was made and forced the express messenger to open his car. The robbers then blew open the safe with dynamite, securing, it is said, a very large amount of booty. The exact amount is withheld by the cotton belt railroad and the express people, but it was known that a very large shipment was made on this train. The robbers, after securing the loot, cut off the engine from the mail and express cars, and, forcing Engineer Henderson to get off, they took the engine, in charge of the robber engineer, and went south at full speed. At 1:30 a. m. the engine had not been found. No passengers were molested. They were, however, very badly frightened, and hid their valuables. The robbers were evidently in possession of all facts concerning this particular shipment of money, together with a schedule of the train, as their scheme was successful in every respect. A suspicious character was seen to board the head end of the train leaving Texarkana. Railroad employees seem to be confident that the robbery was committed by railroad men from the manner in which they superintended the cutting off of the cars and the handling of the engine. The spot selected for the robbery wa. well adapted for this kind of work, and it is very wild and heavily timbered. The conductor and several passengers walked back to Texarkana, a distance of four miles. The sheriff and posse have been summoned to go in pursuit of the robbers. At this hour the passenger train stands in two pieces, with the engine's whereabouts unknown. So far as known no one was injured. There were five men in the gang. They're All Americans Now. Acting Governor Cooper at Honolulu recently received a letter from John Kauhi, a native, who was district manager of Koolau, Oahu, at the time of the overthrow of the monarchy. At that time Kauhi resigned, refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the provisional government or the republic. Recently the position became vacant and he wrote to Cooper stating that he had felt compelled to resign years ago because of his Royalist sympathies, but that now that all the people in Hawaii were Americans he wanted the position again. He was appointed. Sheep and Cattle War. Sheepmen and cattle men are at war over range matters, ten miles south of Lander, Wyo, and unless citizens who have gone to the scene to settle the difficulty arrive there in time there may be bloodshed. It is said that the cattlemen have set apart a certain section and have ordered all sheepmen away. One sheepman, C. H. Souter, refused to go, and was ejected by force. He secured twenty-five herders, armed them and returned. He says he will drive his sheep through the disputed territory in spite of the cattlemen. Miles E. Gorman, a carpenter at Corning, N. Y., shot and killed his wife and afterward killed himself. Before shooting himself he fired at his mother-in-law, Mrs. A. D. Hollis. He wounded her slightly in the head, and then tried to shoot his 6-year-old girl. He missed her. Gorman swallowed a dose of laudanum to make death certain. He is said to have been crazed by jealousy at seeing his wife in company with another man. Boy Drowned in the River "Chuddy" Spalla, a 7-year-old Italian boy, who was swimming with some other boys at the foot of Holmes street, Kansas City in the Missouri river, got beyond his depth and was swept away by the current. The boy's home was at Fourth and Holmes street. His father notified the police that he would pay $10 for the recovery of the body. Suppressed a Play in Havana: Civil Governor Nunez has suppressed a French play, translated into Spanish, which had been presented at the Pavret theater, in Havana, by a Spanish company. The play is entitled "Pork Kings, or Uncle Sam." Senor Nunez describes it as "an insult to American womanhood." La Lucha, protesting against the production in the strongest terms, says: This play consists of vile and useless malevolence, which is heaped upon the entire American nation, instead of a small group." Accidently Shot Himself The body of Frank Carey, a man 32 years old, was found in a pasture half a mile from his mother's home, in Burlington, Kan. Carey was unmarried and lived with his mother, east of town. He left the house with an ax and a hatchet to repair the pasture fence. He also took a revolver with him. As Mr. Carey had no known reason for committing suicide, and the appearances indicated accident, it was no thought necessary to hold an inquest. CRUSHED UNDER A TRAIN. Two Prominent Milwaukee Women Killed at Railway Crossing. Mrs. S. S. Barney of West Bend, Wis., wife of Congressman S. S. Barney of the Fifth district, and Mrs. W. H. Ramsey, Sr., of Port Washington, Wis., wife of a former state bank comptroller, were killed by a Northwestern train near the Port Washington station, Milwaukee. The women were driving across the track when the train struck them. For over two hours the remains lay at the station at Port Arthur, no one being able to identify them. After many had viewed the remains W. H. Ramsey, jr., was asked to see if he could recognize the bodies. Mr. Ramsey picked up the covering upon the body of Mrs. Barney, but the remains were so terribly mangled that he could not make out the features. He lifted the cover from the other body and fell back trembling, with blanched face. He had looked upon the face of his mother. Congressman Barney was trying a case in Judge Dick's court at the time. He was overcome by the shock and court adjourned. IMPORTING MORE MEN. "Big Four" Coal Companies Preparing for the Strike Another large number of non-union miners from the East and South have arrived at Pittsburg, Kan., for work in the Big Four mines. The company has placed most of the men in the mines at Fleming. Stockades will be built at once to protect the threatened miners. There was no strike demonstration among the miners labor day. The companies posted notice offering the men the same wages as before, with the same conditions. Many miners indicated their willingness to accept the conditions and refused to obey the strike order. Another meeting will be held to help enthuse the working-men. TO SWIM TO NEW YORK. A Boston Man Started on the Voyage—To Land, at Nights In a cold rain-storm Peter S. McNally, champion long distance swimmer of the world, bega to swim from Boston to New York. He started from Charleston bridge at 2 o'clock, and at 6 o'clock he was at Boston Light, where he remained for the night. "I am going to reach New York within the thirty days," said McNally, ts he swam down the harbor. Every night he will land somewhere along the coast. The dory which will make the trip with him is laden with food and an oil stove. Should the swimmer show the slightest signs of fatigue he will be picked up. $600 Reward for a Murderer A proclamation was issued by the governor of Kansas offering a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of Matthew Brennan, of Garden City. During the fair at Garden City recently Brennan, who is an old bachelor farmer, displayed a big roll of bills at the race track. Some thieves evidently saw the roll. That night he was murdered at his home and his money was stolen. The commissioners of Finney county, Kan., have offered $500 reward for the capture of the murderers, and the governor has duplicated the offer. Coast Towns for 100,000 Boers The military administration at Cappa Town has determined, it is said, to deport all the Boers in the reconcentration camps, numbering upward of 100,000, to garrisoned towns on the coast, where food is more readily available. The railways, thus relieved, will probably suffice to supply food for the population of Johannesburg, which is as large as before the war, permitting the re-opening of all the mines. Tried to Lynch a St. Louis Motorman. Because Willie Kopejkte, 2 years old, was killed by an electric car in St. Louis, a riot was started at Fourteenth street and Lafayette avenue, in which an attempt was made to lynch Motorman W. B. Duff. A policeman who appeared on the scene rescued the motorman at the point of a revolver and locked him up to await the coroner's inquest. The Transit company is charged with running cars faster than the law allows. Will Try Electricity; President J. J. Hill, of the Great Northern railroad, it is said, has ordered that steam locomotives be supersed by electric motors on the Cascade division of the Great Northern. It is understood that if this change works out satisfactorily electric motors will be introduced on other divisions of the road. The Boats Blew up a Train: Lord Kitchener reports to the war office at London that nine persons were killed and seventeen others wounded in the blowing up and derailing of the train which the Boers have destroyed between Waterval and Haman's kraal. Kansas Lost Heavily According to figures tabulated by Adjutant General Fox, of the K. N. G., Kansas lost more soldiers by death in the Philippine campaign than any other state. The total deaths in the Fighting Twentieth amounted to sixty-eight. Nebraska came second with sixty-four and Dakota third with sixty-three. Kansas, Dakota and Nebraska each lost three officers. Some men persist in running for office until the undertaker overtakes them Kansas Barber Kills Himself F. M. Powell, a barber at Mayetta, Kan., died from the effects of a dose of morphine taken at the Throup hotel. He left a note behind asking his friends to see that he had more flowers on his casket than were placed on the casket of his sister, who died a few days ago. He committed suicide on account of ill health, the loss of business and the death of his sister. Vegetables never show up with splendor equal to the chromos on the seed boxes. NATIVES RULE GRADUALLY COMING INTO CONTROL IN PHILIPPINES. THREE ARE MADE COMMISSIONERS Autonomous Municipal Governments Already Formed—Provincial Governments Partly American and Partly Filipino, and now Filipinos Are to Have a Share in Supreme Government. There were appropriate ceremonies in the palace at Manila at the inauguration of Dr. Pardo de Tavra and Bento Legardo as members of the Philippine commission. Jose E. Luzariaga, the third Filipino member, was to have taken the oath of office at the same time, but was unable to do so owing to illness. Civil Governor Taft said that the ceremony does not fully complete the government the President intends forming, but sufficient has been done to show the nature of the policy to be followed. Municipal governments have been generally formed of a substantially autonomous character. Their officers are entirely natives. Their provincial governments are partly American and partly Filipino. Now, the Philippine commission is partly American and partly Filipino, it being the purpose of the President to form a government in which the native element will be able to voice the desires of the people, their local aspirations and necessities, and give the Filipinos an example of American institutions and the customs and laws prevailing in the United States. The happiness of the people will result from practical government and not from theories on the part of these gentlemen who desire to multiply the differences of the government by creating new parties to embody political theories when they might more profitably advance their country's welfare by devoting their time and talents to amending and improving the laws of the legally constituted body. There will be time enough for theories when the government is running smoothly. Dr. De Tavaer said that hardly had the people begun to appreciate the work of pacification than they were accorded the institutions of peace. The enemy of the evening before began the next morning to aid their adversaries in building roads and houses and introducing acts of peace. The day was not far distant when the Filipinos would enter a legislative body for the islands, elected by the people. Conditions prevent the elections at present. The Filipinos consider the inauguration to be solemn and grand, because it is the first time they have been given part in the supreme government. They believe that the day is coming when the American constitution as a whole without amputations would be planted there as the flag now is. The other commissioners also took the oath of office. Admiral Remey has cabled the navy department that the Philippine commission has urgently recommended the retention of a naval officer as captain of the port of Manila, expressing a desire that Lieutenant Commander Marx shall remain in that port. The navy department has consented to the request, and Lieutenant Commander Marx, who had been ordered home, will stay at Manila. NEED YANKEE MACHINERY. An English Engine Builder, Studying Trade on This Side, Talks. James Noah Paxman, head of the firm of Davey, Paxman & Co., of Colchester, England, is in New York to investigate labor and trade conditions. His field of inspection will include the engineering, boiler making, ship building and tool making industries of the United States. His firm is the foremost one in the engine building business in the British kingdom. Mr. Paxman said: "You are ahead of us in machinery. I use lots of American tools in my shops, and I presume when I return I shall use for many more things American. I shall go to Boston for a few days, and on my return I shall spend some time in and about New York." RICH MAN A SUICIDE. R. M. Wilson, of New York City, Shoots Through His Own Breast. R. M. Wilson, formerly owner of the R. M. Wilson Bath Tub works in Rome, N. Y., was shot and almost instantly killed by a revolver in his own hand at his summer flame at Sylvan Beach. Mr. Wilson had been sitting on the porch with his wife and three children. He had been gone a few moments when Mrs. Wilson was startled by the report of the discharge of a firearm and she went into the house and there on the floor lay her husband breathing his last, with a bullet hole in his breast. Rumors of suicide are denied. It is said that Mr. Wilson told a friend recently that he carried $250,000 on his life. Coroner Hubbard is making an investigation. Two Men Murdered at a Golf Club. The bodies of David Scott and John Stevens, the one the steward and that other the head waiter of the Siwanoy Golf club, in New York, were found in a room in the attic of the club house. They had been murdered with a butcher knife. Warner Simms, a negro waiter, is held on suspicion of knowing something of the murder. Phillips' Company Incorporated The Illinois secretary of state has issued articles of incorporation to the George H. Phillips Grain Company of Chicago, with a capital stock of $500-000. The incorporators are George H. Phillips, the late "corn king," Jacob Ringer and William Willhart, all of Chicago. Marle Josephine Eastman of Philadelphia, was arraigned in the Guild hall police court, London, charged with having forged a railway certificate of the value of $100,000. WAS IIER DEATH A SUICIDE. Bortha Phillips, 18 Years Old, Killed by a Berta Phillips, an 18-year-old girl died at St. Joseph's hospital, Kansas City, from a bullet wound in the left lung. The shooting occurred in a boarding house kept by Mrs. Belle Forsyth, 1122 Cherry street. Whether she killed herself or was shot by George Bitzenberger, a molder employed at the Weber Gasoline Engine company's plant at Sheffield, is uncertain. She left a note saying she had killed herself, but Bitzenberger made a number of conflicting statements and is held pending an investigation. Bitzenberger was in the room when the girl was shot. He and the girl passed themselves as man and wife at the boarding house. Miss Lizzie Brown and A. B. Kimmell, who live at the boarding house, heard a shot in the room occupied by the supposed Mr. and Mrs. Bitzenberger. Kimmell tried the door of the room and found it locked. Meanwhile Patrolman Ben Goode arrived. The door was forced. Miss Phillips was prostrate on the floor with a bullet wound in her left lung near the shoulder. Blood was flowing freely over her clothing and the mirror and top of the dressing case was spattered with blood. Bitzenberger was bending over the woman, his hands covering the wound. BALLOON EXPLODED IN MID AIR The Aeronaut's Parachute Didn't Open in Time to Sue Him. C. Simmons, a young aeronaut of Evansville, Ind., was dangerously injured by a fall from a balloon, while making an ascension at Sterling, Ill. In the presence of 5,000 people the balloon, with car and parachute equipment attached, shot up into the air. A cheer followed the aeronaut, but ceased when with a resounding clap the big gas bag exploded. The balloon was 300 feet in the air when this happened and it began to descend rapidly. Simmons desperately endeavored to cut the parachute away from the tangle of canvas and ropes, but though he succeeded the umbrella-shaped contrivance did not have time to open and thus break the fall. Man and parachute shot down to the earth. Hundreds sickened at the sight and many women fainted as the man struck the ground. He was carried senseless to the hotel. Physicians found a fracture of the spine and other severe injuries. MAY BE ANDREE'S PARTY. Strange Story Comes From Hudson Bay Colony A dispatch from Kankakee, Ill., says that Walter W. Cobb and G. W. Shields, well known young men of Kankakee, who have just returned from a forty-five days' trip through the Hudson bay region, bring back a story told by Indians of the far north that may relate to the missing explorer Andree and one of his two companions. At Moose Factory, a Hudson bay trading post at the mouth of Moose river, the seven men stationed there reported that a party of Indians who came down from the far north last spring told of the finding of the bodies of two white men at a point about 900 miles north of Moose Factory. The story of the Indians was that the bodies were found in a broken basket, their description of which seemed to indicate a basket of a balloon, and that the bodies had been buried by Indians. SUBDUED WITH WATER. Fire Department Called out to Prevent Escape of Prisoners. A daring attempt to release thirty-three prisoners from the Madison county jail at Edwardsville, Ill., was made by John Johnston, a man under indictment for the murder last summer of James Ryburn, a citizen of Alton. But for Katharine Holz, daughter of Jailer George Holz, the delivery would have proved successful. As it was, seventeen of the thirty-three prisoners, among them five alleged murderers, managed to escape from their cells into the main corridor of the jail, and there kept the sheriff, his deputies, Turnkey Threadley and a large number of citizens at bay for three hours. The city fire department was finally called in, and, after turning on half a dozen streams of water, the prisoners cried for mercy. They were then handcuffed and returned to their cells, A SUICIDE TIED UP A RAILWAY. The Dispatcher at Rochester Could Get no Answer From Palmyra Operator. George A. Kent, the telegraph operator of the West Shore railway at Palmyra, N. Y., killed himself in the depot. For several hours the train dispatcher at Rochester called Palmyra, but he was unable to get a reply. Train orders piled up thick and fast, and half a dozen trains were held at different points along the line waiting for orders. It was not until Owen Flynn of Palmyra happened to go to the station that the blockade was relieved. Flynn found the telegraph operator stretched out on the floor, dead. He had snot himself. No cause for the act is known. Depies That She is Dead The report circulated in New York that Ada Gray, the well known actress, had died at Fordham, proves to be untrue. Miss Gray was seen, and in reply to a question regarding her health, replied: "I haven't felt better in seven months." Forgery Alleged. Rudolph H. Schaap, Jr., formerly in the cashier's office of the Kansas City Southern railway at Kansas City, Mo., has been arrested on a warrant charging him with forgery. The warrant was sworn out in Justice Pursley's court by James A. Thompson, representing a bond company. Schaap was released on a bond signed by Louis C. Boyle to await his examination September 10. It is claimed that the young man's accounts show a shortage of about $3,240, due to a series of forgeries. Manhattan is to build a new passenger depot. Watermelon parties are quite the correct thing in Newton. Iola expects to have the new street cars running by October. Marshal Law ought to keep things pretty straight in Anthony. Newton had a lynching last week, but it was a dog that was strung up. According to the last official report, the school population of Kansas is 508,916. Leavenworth girls will use their tissue paper hats for lamp shades next winter. Kansas has 7,000,000 bearing fruit trees and 5,000,000 more coming into bearing. A man went into an Iola store and asked to see "some vallies and microscopes." Kansas reports a population of 1,167,808, an increase of 23,100 over last year. The big meteor which lighted up the skies a few nights ago is said to have fallen at Ottawa. Burlington's new court house will be formally opened with a flag railing September 2. Wellington's waterworks plant gave great satisfaction last year and账收 $2,888 above all expenses. While on his way to Winfield an Atchison man had his patent leather shoes stolen from the Pullman car. One railroad running through Anthony claims that its freight business in that town amounts to $20,000 a month. Weeds are not looked down upon in dry years when grass is scarce. Mr. Porter of Council Grove married Miss Weed the other day. A Nortonville farmer has screens on the doors and windows of his barn, and an Atchison dairy woman has electric fans in her barn. Stafford county claims to have the smallest number of persons over 10 years of age who can not read or write of any county in the world. Wellington boys are right up to the New York way of entertaining. They gave an amateur circus for the benefit of their friends recently. Salina has damage suits amounting to $25,000, resulting it, is said, from bad sidewalks and people not knowing how to manage their feet. Twenty dollars was stolen from an Arkansas City conductor by a tramp who boarded a passenger train and paid his fare to a neighboring town. Good people of Galena are shocked at the wickedness of the waterworks superintendent, who stopped a nautizing party at the water supply pond. Dr. Gatling, who invented the Gatling gun, is claimed as a "formerly of Kansas" man. The TopaCe Capital says he once lived in Doriphan county. The Eldorado Republican contains a description of an ice pick which enables the operator to chip off four pieces of ice without getting three of them up his sleeve. With farmers holding their wheat, cattlemen holding their cattle and fruit growers holding their apples, Will White suggests that newspaper men hold their breath. At the time of the Quantrell raid there was a firm in Lawrence known as Eldridge & Ford. Their sign is still hanging and their store is the only one of the old buildings left. Edwin Jones of Kansas has been made foreman of the government printery in Manila. A dozen years ago Senator Plumb got him a place sticking type in Washington. Even the despised parrot is of ac. If George Klaner, who was sentenced to 1,350 days in jail and fined $7,500 for selling liquor in Topkapi, serves out his fine and imprisonment it will require 44% years to complete the term. Mrs. Nation says that the first time she met David Nation she had a premonition that he would be her husband. David is sorry now that he did not have some sort of a premonition of what was in store for him. Victor Murdock dissents from the attorney general's ruling, that where intelligence is used for estimation in a guessing contest it is not a game of chance. He asks: "How about a large ornate poker bluff with a Corinthian cornice on it?" Billie Morgan, state printer and proprietor of the Hutchinson News, is spoken of as the only man in Kansas who doesn't knock. That is about right. If Billie ever wrote a word about anybody that was censorized it was in the sand. He has prospered mightly, too. He has plenty of "stuff" and no enemies that anybody knows of. But can a man be that careful and have any fun? "Young man, keep out of politics," says a Kansas sage. "An able, dutiful and all around first class Kansas man quit a good paying business some years ago to engage in politics. He had a nice home, some property and a good income from his profession. He was for some time successful in politics, having finally been elected to Congress. To-day he is out of office, out of business, out of home and cannot buy a sack of flour on credit in the town in which he has lived for all these years." Antony boasts the champion pick-pocket. The proprietor of a billiard hall hld $40 in a pool table pocket one night, and a thief broke in and picked the table's pocket. Lyon is a good place for the jewelry business. A man there offered to trade watches worth $1.29 per dozen to farmers for their old time pieces and $2. "Whenever I am in Kansas City, remarked an Ottawa man, "and get a bit lonesome for the sight of a neighbor from the home town. I take a trip to Heims' park and am always sure to find from one to half a dozen there. Atchison, always a little different from ordinary towns, had a shower of black crickets instead of one of grass- hoppers. Kansas does have a hard time First there was a drought, and now there is a freight car famine and she can not move her great effort. Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne have quite a time sending a big back and a big forward, but thinks the other should keep the unfortunate man. should keep the unarmed White in place. In progress the policeman could be found, or bystanders settled the difficulty by turning the nose on the combatant