The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country MRS. ROOSEVELT AS THE FIRST LADY IN THE LAND MAY NOT NOW NEED THE NEGRO AS SERVANTS, WONDER IF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL NEED 'EM IN 1904 THE TALES OF TWO CITIES THOSE WEDDING BELLS. DID MERRILY RING. A SOCIETY EVENT. THOMAS HAGANS. to the evening of September 19th, the our little home of Mrs. Pricilia Thomas, Nebraska avenue in the Popular block was the scene of a brilliant', in fact dazzling affair. The occasion being the Marriage of an "only daughter" Miss Desiraila B to Mr. John Hagans of Calica Colored society was out in full bloom. At 8 o'clock the strains of entrancing music greeted the era and a hushed still resisted as the happy couple were entered in. Rev. W L Grant in his usual stamina manner performed the ceremonies and as the last bid upon notes on the piano rose and fell upon the fragrant atmosphere, within and escaped without upon the evening breezes, pronounced them and wife. Shower of congratulations followed. Miss I J Generals presided as occasion: The bride wore a beautiful bridal gown of stain striped mousehaine trimmed with very narrow ruching of liberty ribbon, taffette lining had a shirred skirt with flare flounce. A veil of fils on covered the back of the gown it cascet hilt upon the coffin with roses she carried a beautiful bouquet of bride roses. The groom wore a suit of conventional attire. The bride is quite well known and was a social favorite, intelligent and accustomed, she is a lady to have been one of the best and most fashionable hair dressers in the West, having spent eight year, in this profession with remarkable success. She comes from one of the oldest and best known families in the city, Mrs. Pricilia Thomas the mother is a widow and possesses considerable valuable real estate. The brothers, Mr Geo P. a husband young man, Jno. J. is shipping clients for the firm of Savey and Firsheim Merchandise Brokers and Mr. Price C a business man and well known politician of Teppea, the latter two are married but exceptional bright families. Among the useful, ornamental and other gifts received were: Begroom to bride a diamond ring and a piano, bride to groom a diamond stick a mother of bride, feather boi pli—lurs, curtains, brassal carpet, and fancy comforts, brother of the bride, George. P Thomas 86 pieces of embroidered silk linen, 2 sofa pillows, sewing basket and money. Mr. J. J. Thomas brother of bride, a rocking chair, Mrs. J. J. Thomas, a pilot set. Little Lee Ella Thomas niece of the bride, a blown vase. Mrs. P. C. Tnoas Beatrice, Evaline, Macco, Thersdady powels & baskerchiefs, Mr. P. C. Thomas of Topeka some money. Mr. & Mrs. C. U. An-denison pair of towels & half dozen napkins. Mr. T. B. Waters and Mrs. W. E. Schapipl, silver pie shovel, Mr. & Mrs. W. N. Wicklund, of St. Joseph Mo., a silver bread tray, Mr. and Mrs.J. W. Hawkins of K. C. Mo., silver butter and sugar spoon. Mr. and Mrs. Williams, cut glass tray and cream pitcher. Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Blackburn, linen table cloth. Miss I. G. Generals and Mrs I. G. Oliver, ordz fruit knives. Miss E. Washington, pair of hand painted vases. Mr and Mrs. Owen Howell, of Spokane Washing half dozen hand painted Japanese plates. Mr and Mrs. Frank Jennings a half dozen wine glasses, bouquet holder, cresser scarf, candle stick holder and puff box. Mr and Mrs. J. C. C. Jillus of K. C. Mo. picture Pharoahs horses. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jennings, half doz. punch glasses. Mr. and Mrs. Warner and fami half doz. ice cream dishes. Mrs. C. T. Porter pair of towels. Mrs. N. B. Browns, K. C. Mo., hand painted catal-set. Miss Lydia Walker, K. C. M. pair of towels. Miss Phyllis Tucker, K. C. Mo., Large lenk silk embroidered cedar pice. Mr. and Mrs. B. Frances K WANTED A First Class Negro Printer, at this office, splendid opportunity for a Good Man. No beer mugs or whiskey soaks or novices wanted but a Printer in all the name implies. If you think beyond a doubt you can fill the bill let the Editor of this paper hear from you at once. Cards are out announcing the coming at a glance of Miss, Willa W Brown of Junction city Kans, to Mr Hrace G Duggins of this city on Wednesday Oct 9th Murray at Junction City Reception at Mrs. Hattie Miller 818 Free mans are, on the same evening of Ceremonies. Call up Blue 375 when you have any news PublicationNotice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. William McKane, Plaintiff. vs. Addie McKane, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are here-by notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the Berg G McNeal. Rev. W. L. Grant. Rev William have returned from Cincinnati Ohio from the National baptist conveniom. Rev. McNeal made a flying trip from Cincinnati over to Louisville Ky. Mrs. Mattie Anderson of 411 Neb. ave. It last Tuesday for Crawford' Neb. Where she will spend some time with relative and her many old friends of that' Pinee. Brain culture without heart culture will interfere with the beauty of a woo- kman's face, but where heart culture eeps pace with brain culture it will enhance it. Best Weekly THE FIRST LADY IN THE TWO CITIES. DING BELLS. ERILY RING. Y EVENT. HAGANS. C. Mo., a hand made centerpiece Mrs. Josephine Megley, cut glass celery stand. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Miller, Indian stool Mr. and Mrs. Fair, Chiaggo; chienille curtains and cels. Mrs. J. Jackson, K. C. Mo, china tray. Miss Mary Torree, K. C. Mo, pair of towels Mr. and Mrs. Squire Lee, linen centerpiece. Mr. and Mrs G. W. Shields of Argentine Kns. a sofa pillow cover. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Glass, eat glass. Mrs. Julia Saunderson and mother a bed spread, Miss. Rosetta Scott, half a doz cream dishes. Mrs. Martha Hale cake stand. Mr. C. Paterain a whistle broom. Mrs. C. Chinn and daughter Sarah a eat glass salt and pe per boxes W. C. Wells a fruit dish. Mr. and Mrs. O'Neal of N. Y. a Japanese choco late tea-pot. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miller a half dozen china plates. Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Sheril a pair of hemsied pillow cases. Mrs. Kittie Calwell one soup dish Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wakes linen table cloth. Mrs. J. W. Rutherford eat glass fruit dish. Dr. Mo. Cleary and Miss. R. P. Tyler of K. C. Mo. Ebony, handle curling irons, button-hook and shoe horn. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Waters of K. C. Mo. eat glass berry bowl. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vaughn a half dozen carved glasses Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Roberts a half a dozen plates cups, and saucers. Mrs. Laura Guerrn bread plate Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Allen and son a handsome parlor lamp. Mr. William Burs, 88 pieces of sterling silver, two sots of knives and forks, two of spoons sugar spoon, and bauer knife. miss' Julia Anderson a silver colt meat fork. Miss. and Mrs. Smith half a dozen chocolate cups and saucers Mr. Mrs. W. M. Ford a pair of impor ed linen towels. Miss Sopnia Johnson K. C. Mo, a linen table oioth. Mrs. Susan Gamble and son Samuel a large smyra Rug. Mrs Perencia Williams, pickle dishes Rev and Mrs Annie Edward, Mr and Mrs Williams handsome cut glass cheese dish .Mrs Laura Wheeler and daughter Pearl of K.C Mo. sheetsMr and Mr. James Farmer two linen dolles Mrs Mary Queeny a handsome marshbread Miss Ela May Lewis and Miss Dollie Lewis, bair towels Mr and Mrs Jessie Williams pair of towels Mrs Harriet Crouch and tilly, suets. Mrs Tresey Gerren and daughter Maggie, towels and glass tumblers. Mr and Mrs B.S. Smth Miss Lizzie and Mary Porter silver fruit basket. Cherks at the jewish store a cut tea set sugar diar, cream mug spoon holder, butter r dish. Mr and Mrs T.P. Shelton and family - Mrs Mrs U.F Scaife a half dozen cups and saucers silver wafter silver mounted brush and crumb pan Jewelry box and towels. Mr William Patrick, Miss Dollie Griffin box of brides handcrafter valencia lace. Little Minnie B Spencer hand painted candle sticks. Mr and Mrs J Peplues. Mr Mrs C.C Treat silver berry spoon gold bowl, Mrs w. E Sehappli silver pipe spoon Mrs Roberts pie plates Mrs Cushman cut glass berry bowl Mrs Lee Ella Jackson, Ky powderbox candle stick Mr James Young of K'C Mo莎 pillow. Mrs Manley of k.C Mo feather pillows. Mr Clark Miles berry bowl. Several weeks will be spent at the Pan American in Buffalo and other eastern points after which the couple will be at home Chicago Ill. We extend our congratulations praying the blessings of an allwise Providence. his office, splendid opportunity for: they soaks or novices wanted but a you think beyond a doubt you can fill ear from you at once. PublicationNotice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. William McKane. Plaintiff. Addie McKane, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are here-by notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above named court, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the second day of November A. D. 1901, the petition filed against you will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from said defendant, and for cost of this suit. Our Sanctum is being overhauled painters and paper hangers have taken the entire place, so we are "just a few" this week. I. F. Bradley Atty. for Plaintiff AMERICAN TO THE KNIGHTS AND DAUGHTERS TABOR KANSAS - NEBRASKA JURISDICTION. The first quarter ending Sept. 30, 1911, after the close of the grand session at Leavenworth, the next thing was the visiting of the grand session for Missouri and was greeted by the C. G. P. and members and was made to feel at home with them. Sir Joe. E. Herriford C. G. M. : Dt. Kittie B. Look wood. C. G. P. are the kind of presidents to make it pleasant for visitors. I visited Father Dickson I. C. G. M. and he made my visit very pleasant and gave me that Fatherly advice that I so much needed on the 12th of Aug. I visited Lenapah Ind. Terr. spoke and celebrated with Charity Tab. 24 and Bright Star Tab. 27, and the celebration was one long to be remembered in that part of the country both Tenabernacles turned out to gether in full dress regalia to the grove where the day was peacefully spent in merry—making and at night a concert was given by members of Lone Star Teen t 22 it was a pleasant treat to all present, I left the City Lenapah I. T. for Coffey—village stopped over night with Sir, Allen Garries C. G. O. and family who open their doors and make our stay quite pleasant. On the morning of Aug. 19, left for Guthrie Ok. arrived in Guthrie at night was met at the station by a number of Knights and was taken to the home of Sir G. W. Burton I. D. G. M. here I met Rev. S. Murdoch I. C. G. M. and our old friend and prince Sir S. A. Jordon. I. V. G. M. and C. G. M. for Arkansas and Jurisdiction which was a pleasant meeting Father Dicis I. M. C. G. assisted by the I. V. G. M. and I. C. G. O. organized a district grand Temple and Tenabernacle for Oakland Indiana. Terr. Jurisdiction with Sir H. W. Conrad D. G. M. all members were encouraged at starting Taborian house keeping for themselves we wish them success in the great work for the order and race Ouong day was a great treat to all present and to see 2 pages with a Goat just a head of the D.G.M. and D.G.P. attracted the attention to the parade, we arrived at the park where the I.C.G. O. spoke at length on the origin of the order and it's benefit in the community where the order is organized and followed by the I.V.G.M. and I.C.G.M in their usual way, on the night of the 24th Father Dickson, lectured at Coffeyville Kans. on the five leading orders among the race which was listened to with attention by all present. The order in Kans.-Neb. Jurisdiction is sailing in a peaceful Taborian sea and is steadily growing I am pleased to tell the members and friends that the work of the race is being cared for by the better class of our people in just proportion as you care for your sister members, just so our order will grow in the heart of the better people of the race. I have signed the order for three endowments claims to be paid to the legal heirs of our deceased members and paid to the amount of $165.00. We have reorganized Marr E Dickson, tent 3, Lincoln Neb. set to work by Dr Laura Johnson D.G.P. July 31st Lone e Star Tent No 23 Lone Indh Trainee by Dr Lydia Garner D.G.P. Chartered Aug. 15th 1901. Wichita Tab-ernacles 34, warranted Sep. 14 at Wichita Kans. organized by Lizzie Milton D.G.P., while other numbers have grown slowly. The best of all is there is peace, the rank and file of the order and judging from the reports that have come to this office shows the temples and tabernacles are keeping their endowments paid the first of each month that will enable the C.G.T. to pay the same as promised by us. I visited the tabernacle at Leavenworth and found that peace is the Ruler yet there is a chance for improvement also in Kansas City Kansas all are trying to make their numbers as sure as by complying with obligation we hope to have the minutes in the hands of our members with in the next thirty days. Send your report to the C.G.M. the first of each quarter as they are much needed. INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF TWELVE 777 388 St Louis, Mo, September 21, 1901 The Rev. C. N. Moore was commiss ioned to organize Temples, Tabernacles Palatiums and Tents in Oklahoma and Indian Territories. He being a minister of the Gospel, we bollit him to be honest, and being a Knight of Tabor he was obligated to deal fair and square with all people. He was trusted to attend to the Order's business in the Territories. The said Rev. C. N. Moore is a dishonest man and has violated his obligation as a Knight of Tabor. He has defrauded the people in the name of the Order in the following places: In Ardmore he formed clubs for Temple and Tabernacle, got their money and skipped out without giving them charters. At Carbon he organized a Temple, Tabernacle and Tent, collected about seventy dollars ($70) and never paid for their charters and supplies. At Wilburton he organised a Temple and Tabernacle collected over sixty dollars (60) and failed to pay for their Charter and supplies. It is very evident that the Rev. C. N. Moore is a dead b cat and under the cloak of a minister of the gospel he takes every opportunity by fraud to swindle people out of their mon he must trust him in one more TAKE NOTICE. The commission of Rev. Sir C. N. Moore is hereby declared dead, void and without force from this date onward Sir. C. N. Moore hereby notified that the he is suspended from the right's Privileges and protection of the Iner-national Order of twelve of Knights and Daughter of Tabor. Knights and Daughters of Taber are hereby warned not to converse with said C. N. Moore en any matter of the Order's doings or business. To confirm this edict witness my hand and official seal this the 21st day of September, A. D. 1901, A. O. T. 30. TOPEKA NOTES Mrs. N. Chiles returned Tuesday from a weeks visit at Athelson Blind Boys and Miss Marie Wingo entertained a large and appreciative audience Tuesday eve at St. John's A.M. E. Church. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Mc Knight are the happy parents of a bouncing boy who arrived Sunday. Mr. Fred Roundtree is indisposed this week un able to perform his duties at Monroe School. Mrs. Thuman has spent the past week in the city in the interest of the W. C. T. U. Miss. Cora Wathall left for her home Friday after spending six pleasant weeks the guest of Miss. Garrade Solomon. Mr. Loyd Wright left Tuesday for Chicago. Miss. Emma Nash of Leavenworth returned home Sunday after two weeks visiting with the Misses Philip. Mr. Simmons Jordan left Sunday 9. A. M. for Denver Colo. to attend the Mountain festivities. The Golden Rod Club celebrated the 2nd, anniversary Friday Sept. 17 at the Residence of Mr. Mrs. Anderson Jordon Guest of Hoover Misses Lizzie Patterson of LOsAngles Car., Emma Nash of Leavenworth, Mrs. Cora Wathall of Hiawatha. A NEGRO BANK Philadelphia, Sept. 21. - The First Colored Bank North, the only financial institution for colored persons in the North, opened its doors in this city this week. It was incorporated July 18, 1901 by the First Northern Colored Cooperative Banking Association. The bank's authorized capital is $60,000, in shares of $2 each. More than $20,000 of the stock has been subscribed. The new institution will be operated on the cooperative plan, under the auspices of the United A11 and Beneficial League of America, one of the most powerful insurance organizations for colored persons in the country. The League will make the bank its repository. The bank building is remodeled from a residence. The ground floor is handsomely furnished and will be used exclusively for the business of the bank. On the plate glass windows this motto On the plate glass windows this motto is inscribed: "Ours is best, because it's ours." OURS NOST, because it's ours. The second floor will be occupied by League. The bank directors will meet in rooms in the third story on the first day of business. More than thirty depositors were enrolled The receipts amounted to $796,21 A reception given by the president. John Clinton, Jr., to celebrate the opening, brought many expressions of good will and encouragement from fans and businessmen of the city. About 500 guests were present Aunt Salie Ann Williams of No 31 Framont ave., Kansas City, Mo. i winning quite a reputation in her remarkable cures of the sick. She is 80 years old and the mother of 28 children and is as active as though she was forty. the following testimonial speak for it self To whom it may concern My little boy Johnny was a year and year and a hair old and could not walk it seemed like his legs were weak and he could not stand on them but just as soon as Aunty william commenced doctoring him his legs began get stronger and in three weeks time after he began doctoring he could walk as good as any body He is just two years old now and the brightest little boy that ever was he can run around every place and say nearly every thing yours. Calmness and repose are much more effective and infinitely more worthy of the creature that God has made. No one can be beautiful without a cul-tured soul and high and noble thoughts All study that leads to an appreciation of the higher arts, must add to a person beauty. Observation teaches that ideas differ just as much along these lines as they do in art and music. BARBERS WHO MAKE MONEY. Those Who Serve Patrons at Their Homes Get Large Tires The itinerant barber of today who corresponds to the early idea of this personage by going in their homes and not awaiting them in his own or his employer's shop, is by no means a figure of the past in New York, but proppers here still, says the New York Sun. These barbers are working who have acquired a following of their own and find customers enough who want to be shaved at home to insure them a living. They are able with a limited number to get along, as the expense involved is not great. There is, for instance, no rent, and this makes it possible for a barber to succeed with a more limited number of patrons than might otherwise be thought necessary. The number of these men has greatly increased during the past years and they represent the barbers who are fearful of undertaking the responsibility of their own shops and are yet desirous of being more independent than the ordinary employee. The most successful of these barbers are usually more desirably placed than their employers. They have no responsibility and earn a regular income as well as being treated with consideration by their bosses, who are always anxious to keep such men. The itinerant barber who serve their clients at their own homes are able to do this at only a slight advance on the usual amount. Sent out from the shops they receive four times as much as would be asked in them. THE CELL OF NOTABLES Occupied by Earl Russell, Stead and Edmund H. Yates. In connection with the cell of Hallway jail where Earl Russell served his sentence for bigamy it is said that it was formerly occupied by the English journalist, W. T. Stead, and the novelist, Edmund H. Yates. The affairs in which they were engaged, although they caused a tremendous sensation at the time, are now almost forgotten. Stead, it may be remembered, was largely in the eye of this country about six years ago as the author of a book, "If Christ Should Come to Chicago," that was regarded as so blasphemous the big news companies refused to handle it. In 1884 Stead created a remarkable commotion by alleging that English society was permitted by the most horrible immorality. A body of gentlemen, composed of some of the most eminent in the kingdom, sifted his charges and the result was that new laws were proposed and passed regulating the subject matter of his allegations. In proving them, however, Stead was guilty of a technical violation of the law, and for this he had to undergo prison detention for three months. The offense for which Yates was imprisoned took place in 1874 and consisted of an alleged libel in his newspaper, the World, on the耳龙 of Lonsdale. While not the writer of the article himself he refused to divulge the name of its author and so subjected himself to penalty. A Wonderful Chinese Temple A Wonderful Chinese Temple. A temple to reach which any one has to climb up 6,000 stone steps, is to be found in China, on the top of the holy mountain, Tai-schan, which is about 6,000 feet above Tainganfu, and the distance somewhat over sixteen miles. About a mile north of the city walls is a gate leading to an avenue several miles in length, lined with temples, convents, holy shrines, and thousands of beggars. The real ascent begins at a stone portal at which, according to its inscription, the great Confucius himself halted and turned back 2,600 years ago, not having had the strength to climb the 6,000 stone steps leading to the top. These Tai-schan stairs are by far the highest in the world, for, taking the number of steps in one story of an ordinary dwelling to be twenty, the number of Tai-schan steps equals 300 stories. After climbing the 6,000 steps the visitor passes through the Gate of Heaven and stands on the large plateau at the summit, which is covered with numerous temples and stone monuments. British Cabinet Wages The annual "wages bill" of the British cabinet is no light sum—at present it nearly reaches £100,000; or, to be exact, it amounts to £93,550. Of the cabinet as at present constituted the best paid is the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, who receives £20,000 a year; the lord chancellor comes next with £10,000, and the lord lord chancellor's salary is £8,000. Seven ministers—respectively stationed at the foreign, colonial, war, India, treasury and home offices, and the chancellor of the exchequer—are paid £5,000 each, which is the standard salary for a secretary of state; while the first lord of the admiralty has £4,500. The remaining eight members of the cabinet are each given £2,000 per annum. The offices of the Irish chief secretary and of postmaster-general are respectively rated at £4,425 and £2,500. Wiles of a Poacher. 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, leached 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. CITIZEN How Petroleum Is Refined. The refining of petroleum is a process of distillation, in which it is separated into several marketable products. There are two methods of distillation, known technically as "in vacuo" and "cracking." In the first the petroleum is distilled in a partial vacuum, and in the second, with superheated steam. This process receives its name from the cracking sound of the steam as it enters the undistilled petroleum. Ideal City Will Not Be Noisy. Ideal City Will Not Be Noisy. It is safe to conclude, says the New York Tribune, that the ideal city of the future will be less noisy than the average city of to-day. Street cries of ear-splitting shrillness and all sorts of tumultuous sounds will be moderated by the next generation, if the present municipal rulers do little or nothing to abate a grievous nausea. New Yorkers are the most patient people ever known. But some day they may break bounds. Thoroughly British: Hicks—"Did you ever see anyone so uncompromisibly English as Perkins?" Wicks—"No, and I never saw anyone with any pretension to style make such a ridiculous breach of good form as he did yesterday. He appeared in full dress at 2 o'clock in the afternoon." Hicks—"That's all right from his standpoint. It was after 6, London time, you know."—Catholic Standard and Times. A Monument for Napoleon. Ex-Mayor Walbridge, of St. Louis, spoke on Missouri day at the Buffalo exposition July 2. He gave special attention to the coming celebration in St. Louis of the Louisiana purchase and announced the intention to raise a monument of Missouri granite to Napoleon, who ceded the territory to the United States.—Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. Salt aa a Medicine. Salt is considered one of the most useful medicines. Rheumatic people find great benefit in a glass of cold salt water taken regularly before breakfast. Falling hair is often arrested and a new growth insured by the daily application of strong salt and water, with considerable amount of friction, either with the finger tips or hair brush. Belts and Their Buckles. The greater number of belts are shaped, and white calf and patent leather are among the best. The harness buckle is the buckle for these belts. Occasionally there is a buckle that is covered. Some of the belts have buckles on either side of the front and open at one of them. Suede and velvet belts are studded with metal. Become Your Own Master. "There is no fun in working for others when you are able to set up in business on your own account," said Andrew Carnegie in a recent interview. "Always try to become your own master; that is my advice to every young man starting in life. Don't remain a servant all your days if you can help it." Eig Lemonade Dissolve one cup of sugar in one pint of water, add the juice of four lemons. Beat the yolks of four eggs until light colored and creamy, and then the whites until stiff. Mix them tooough, add the lemon water and one pint of fine chipped ice. Add more sugar if needed. Above Suspicion. On being informed that a member of his race had been sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery, Brother Dickey exclaimed: "Dat's what comes er ds yer edication. Thank de good Land I never could read or write, en what's mo', I never will!"—Atlanta Constitution. Indian Girl to Be Lawyer Wah-ta-wass, the full-blood Indian girl who is preparing to enter Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., is at present employed as a typewriter and stenographer in the office of a Boston lawyer and does her studying for her examinations at night. Diameter of the Earth Although the diameter of the earth has been roughly known for many years, it has only lately been accurately ascertained, after thirty years' labor and a cost of $500,000. It is 7,926 miles at the equator and 7,899 from pole to pole. A Flant 390 Feet High. The largest plant in the world is probably the giant sea weed, called by scientists nereocystis. This plant often grows to a height of 300 feet. It grows around the South Sea Islands, where the natives use it for rope. Women as Lapidaries. Women in the Philippines, at least in the island of Luzon, are showing wonderful .kil as lapidaries and gem-setters. Their taste and workmanship are far in advance of the powers of men. Sea Depths Are Cold. Atmospheric shards say that even at the equator the average temperature of the sea at the depth of a mile is but 4 degrees above freezing point. Integrity Baffles Duplicity. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another. LIGHTNING'S ODD CAPERS, Unworthy Lover Killed on Grave of True Hearted Girl. The romantic have found food for contemplation in deaths by sudden strokes of lightning, in which they have conceived that a higher power visited upon the heads of sinful mortals a just punishment for offenses for which the human code had no penalty provided. One of these was where a few years ago a young girl descended from the Indian race, educated at Carlisle, and of refined tastes and lovely disposition fell in love with a young missionary who had gone to her tribe's residence to preach the gospel. The beautiful girl was a member of his congregation and he showed that he reciprocated her love, but it was developed that he considered the trace of Indian blood in her veins a bar to their marriage. The girl killed herself and a few nights afterward there came a severe thunder-storm, at the cessation of which the young minister was missing. Later his dead body was found on the grave of the girl, where he had been struck down by a bolt of lightning. The collectors of the curious stories of the freaks of lightning have preserved the account of the case where what appeared to be a ball of fire was observed rolling along the ground and finally into a shed where several pigs were penned. With comparatively slow and deliberate movements the ball traversed the inclosed rails, skirted the sides of the pen, and was pursuing its so far harmless way along the floor when an overcurious pig concluded to investigate it more closely by rubbing his snout against it. At the touch of the pig's snout the shed on that side flew into small bits and the porcine student of electricity and his half-dozen brothers and sisters were instantly killed. CHANGING A ROSE'S COLOR. Chemist's Scientific Knowledge Brings Climax to His Love Affairs. CHUKK to HI LOVE KAH. It was a lover who lately discovered this trick. When he was not with his lady love he was studying chemistry and experimenting, and one day recently he found an easy method of changing the natural color of flowers. He was in the habit of presenting his sweetheart with bouquets of beautiful roses which grew in his garden, and a few hours after he made the discovery he took her half a dozen of the choicest white roses and told her that she could learn through them whether he was really in love with her or not. "If you and I are destined for each other," he said, "these white roses will become crimson within five or six hours from now. Gradually but surely they will change color, and you regard the change not only as indication that the flowers are delighted to be worn by you, but also as an infallible sign that happiness is assured to us in the future." Sure enough before the eyes of the wondering maiden the roses changed color and were crimson at sunset that evening. Marvelous indeed the change seemed to her, for how could she know that the roses were originally red and that her lover had simply bleached them white by holding them for some time over a pan filled with smoking sulphur before he handed them to her? At Monte Carlo. The principality of Monaco is surrounded on all sides by the French Department of Alps Maritimes, except to the south, where it borders on the sea. Its total area is eight square miles and its present ruler is Prince Albert of Monaco, who succeeded his father in 1899. It is picturesquely situated, and many visitors are attracted by the mildness of its climate and its beauties as a health resort, but the main attraction to the great majority of its visitors is the legalized gambling at the Casino of Monte Carlo. The Casino Company, out of the profits of the gambling has practically to bear the cost of spiritual and temporal government for the Principality, and, in addition $250,000 annually to the Prince for the concession. Last year the company paid $45,000 for grants to bishop, clergy, convents and educational institutions, and $30,000 in gifts to charity. They also paid $100,000 for army, police, law courts and expenses of government. Armore 1. Automobiles. The progress of military automobility in Germany is indicated by the fact that the minister of war has later ordered a series of machines which will carry two small Maxim guns, protected by nickel-steel plates. He has also ordered a series of automobile breaks which will be provided with tables. These breaks will be used by the general staff and the officers may thus consult their maps or papers en route, spreading them upon the tables, a series of light vehicles, or voitruettes, is also to be constructed, to be used on the firing grounds for ascertaining the results of the cannon shot. In Austria-Hungary, the minister of war is having a series of automobiles constructed. Busy Little Women. Even the highest class of Japanese women have their household duties to perform, and, no matter how rich the family, Japanese girls are brought up to be able to sew, cook, and attend to their homes. The higher class women never go to market. The market comes to them—that is, the dealers call and offer wares for sale at their customers' doors. Nearly all Japanese women make their own clothes; at all events, even the very richest embroider their garments themselves. They are very economical little dress-makers, and do much planning, cutting, and basting and making over. MERICAN CITIZEN PUBLISHING AND PRINTING CO. Every Week at 417 Minnesota Ave. KANSAS CITY KANSAS Telephone "375 blue" Entered at the postoffice at Kansas City as, as second class matter. Publication Notice. In The Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas: Abner Robinson and Amanda Hines Plaintiffs. ys. Paulina Moorehead and Jane Moore. Defendants. No. 4893 To Jane Moore, You are hereby notified that the Plaintiff above named has brought suit and filed his petition against you, together with other 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: First—A judgment making partition of the following described real estate to wit: Lots Twenty-six [26] Twenty-seven en [27] Twenty-sight [28] and Twenty-nine en (29) in block One hundred and twenty nine (69) in the former city of Wyat dote, now a part of Kansas City in Wyatdote 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 5 Consistent Population 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, Elmira, 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. Nothing Personal Recounts 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. 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." The Famous "Passion Play." Already arrangements are being made by the tourist agents to conduct parties to Obermerganan 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. Emperor William and His Sister The Queen and he Empress Frederick have succeeded in bringing about a full reconcilation between the Emperor William and his sister the Duchess of Sparta, who spent a few days at Potsdam with the Emperor and Empress before she left Germany the other day on her return to Greece. The Duchess of Sparta was formerly the Emperor's favorite sister; but her sudden and unexpected "conversion" to the Greek church "infinitely exaperated his majesty and he has since been on the coldest terms. No Use for It. Uncle Zebulon, from one of the back townships, was on a visit to his nephew in the big city, and the two had gone to a restaurant for dinner. They had given their order and were waiting for it to be filled, when the younger man, who had been glancing at a paper that lay on the table, said: "By the way, uncle, did you ever have cerebro-spinal meningitis?" "No," replied Uncle Zebulon, after a few moments' meenta struggle with the question, "and I don't want any. I'd ruther have fried liver and bacon any day." Duty on a Mouse Uncle Sam is a stern stickler for form, and the amount of red tape employed in the custom house is really remarkable. It was demonstrated the other day that not even a tiny mouse can creep into our domains from foreign shores without paying duty, says the Philadelphia Record. A gentleman returning from Europe brought with him a pet white mouse, of which he had grown very fond. His "mouselets" was assessed at 20 per cent, which so enraged its owner that he vigorously protested. The case was appealed, and the board of classification of the board of general appraisers, after mature deliberation in solemn conclave, handed down a decision in which the protest was overruled. OUR GREAT OFFER To the Colored People of the World. LUSTORONE THE GREATEST OF ALL HAIR TONICS. STRAIGHTENS KINKY, NAPPY, CURLY HAIR. You can straighten your hair in your own home. No one besides yourself need ever know how your hair became straight. Our Regular $5.00 Complete Treatment for $1.00 JACKSON LUSTORONE No. 1. - To be used at bed-time every night. Straightens Knotty, Nappy, Lay, Curly Hair. It acts quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten the hair. It is not recommended to not have to wait weeks for the results. Lustorone is recognized as the only True Hair Straightener. No hot irons are used. Lustorone straightens without any outside assistance. LUSTORONE No. 2. - Must be used in connection with Lustorone No. 1. It is used with the forms of Scalp Diseases, such as Dandruff, Titch, Itch, Eczema, & Causes the hair to fall out. It is used with the hair to follow out, and causes the hair to grow on the bald head. Restores Grey Hair to its Natural Color. LUSTORONE FACE BLEACH. - Whitens the darkest skin, making it several shades lighter. Will bring the skin to any desired shade of color. Cures all Facial Blemishes, Pimples, Black Heads, &, also cuts all Skin Diseases and removes Small Fox Pits. LUSTORONE SCALP SOAP. - Is absolutely proper. It should be used with Lustorone No. 1. It also cuts the hair from falling out. The regular price for the treatment is $5.00. OUR GREAT OFFER! Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with $1.00 and we will send you all of the goods as named above, in plain wrapper, so no one can know contents. This offer made to introduce Honest Goods. We can send to any place in the world. Full Directions with every treatment. D. W. White, H. P. Ewing J. G. Greves, W. M. Gamble, Frank Wilson S. A. Rutherford, I. F. Bradley, C. W. Comager W. M. Grigsby. AUDITORS. 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 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 or 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 him, and when you have all the boxes in my muskets to Hoboken.' A Hard Bet to Win. 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. THARE 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—one box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded. If you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va PATRONIZE The Wyandotte Drug Store 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 UNDERTAKERS FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota Factory Corr st St. KANSAS CITY. 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. 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 Cor st St. and Riverview Ave. Telephone 28 KANSAS CITY. KANSAS. 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 latest and best Shoemaker's machine and guarantee the best and the cheapest work in the quickest time. Give him a trial and see for you self. CANCER Home Treatment that curces Cancers and Tumors. Used with perfect safety; harmless, soothing, non-irritating. We prefer to have patients come to the Sanitarium for a speedy delivery. We our Spartium need not pay Lestao, 21 1rs. to our Spartium need not pay mil curved. Write to day-for 35 page book. It contains much valuable information and hundreds of testimonials from patients we have cured or cancer. Best free. Consultation by mail or in person, free. Address. DR. E. O. SMITH, 55, WHITABURH, A. B. R. McCLEARY, MANAGER. Rooms 6 to 11, N. E. Cor. 10th & Main Sts. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. "We Bury The Dead." PATRONAG 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 butter and is much less expensive. UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUTE WORLD'S PICTORIAL LINE SHORTFST LINE CRUSS THE CONTINUED The Union Pacific 'The Original Overland Route' always was, and is to-day, the shortest and best Line to the west. Two spiked fast trains leave Kansas City daily over this old established line. No charge of cars between Kansas City and Denver, Ogden or San Francisco. All trains solidly restubbed and tully equipped with latest improved Recycling sleeping cars. Meals served in Pullman Palace dining cars on the restaurant plan at prices most reasonable. All cars lighted with the celebrated Pintchie Lift. Only line running two trains without charge from KarssasCity to Denver. Low excursion rates on sale to Colorado-Utah Idaho. Oregon. Washington and California. Don't complete your arangements 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. HARTONA FACE WASH. HARTONA NO-SMELL Manufacturer of and, Wholesale dealer in ARTAKERS * SUPPLIES CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT ALL FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AVE. Looms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W Fectory Cor st St. and Riverview Ave. CITY. WE LET YOUR PATROLL ES, MARTIN& DEALERS IN- and Staple Groc SEED AND SALT MEAT Cigars. All kinds of Country Produce in part of the city. and Oakland Ave, Kansas FEED AND SALT MEATS, Home Treatment that cures Cancers and Tumors. Used with perfect safety, safety, soothing, non-irrita- tion. 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. WE R PATRONAGE. ARTIN&CO. ERS IN— ple Groceries SALT MEATS, and Country Produce in season. Goods Kansas City, Kas Secure Tickets VIA TBE..... Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry AND YOU GET..... Sleepers: & Ghair Cars ...TO... CH1CAGO and all intermediate points The shortest quickest and bes tine to Chilocothe, Otumwa, Cedar Rapids, Eubnque, and La Crosse and Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport: ....Passenger Station at... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable City Ficket Office, 915 Main street, Ridge Building. A. B. ERIL GFS Gorl'. Southvote Agent F. J. LERCHPassenger Agent. Office 915Main St.. Kansas Cit Wonder why some people kick so ..HARTONA.. preparations Preparations for the Hair! atchless and Positively ening all Kinky, Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn. Makes the hair grow on balm, out of the hair, itching, and all life and lustre, and the hair staying the hair down with grease. Children's hair just the same as we have placed it on sale in 25c. and the Hartona remedies. Remember otherwise. All our remedies are 1892 and 1900. We refer you, and to the editor of this paper. City and town in the United States on living, with easy and please hundred genuine testimonials in your high? FACE WASH on five or six shades lighter, and we use all use of the face wash. One be blackheads, freckles, and all blen. Full directions with each bottle of the United States on receipt. Thousands of delighted parrots are not perfectly satisfied and deli no matter if you are employed on NO-SMELLY; cures sore and aching feet, cures agreable odors caused by pers. Address all orders to NANA REMEDY CO., 909 E. NAND OFFER. Three large boxes of Hartona Smell. Goods will be sent securely. Money can be sent by p. E. Main St., A. C. L. C. — IS HEADO THE CHEAP The Best Goods, the Quick and the pr GET THE COAL, WOOD, FEED, Wholesale and Retail. Office 43 Yard and Storage 917 and 919 EAGLE Gem Dr MINNESOTA DRUGS, MEDIC Fine Toilet Soaps, Brush PERFUMERY AND FAN M ERRIAM, EL Fire Insurance WYANDOTT Northeast Corner Fifth KANSAS CITY, DR. HENN 101 & 103 West 9th St., Kansas The Old Reliable Doctor, Old A Regular Graduate in Med Practice.—22 Y Authorized by the state to Cures guaranteed or money mea- no mercury or nightmares by patients at a distance treated by free from gaze or breakage. Charges low. Over 9000 Consultation free and con- 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. 152 West. Yard and Storage 917 and 919 North 3rd. St. DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. M ERRIAM, ELLIS & BENTON Northeast Corner Fifth and Minnesota Ave., KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Sexual Debility, the results of folly and excesses—causing leaks of blood or with urine, pimples and biotches on the skin or with urine, pimples and biotches on the skin, confused idea of the head, pains in back, confused idea of the head, baskfulness, aversion to society, loss of sexual ability, good food, etc., cured for sleep. I can stop night walk, sexual power, nerve and brain power, sexual power, nerve and brain power, weak parts and make you fit for marriage. Syphilis, that terrible disease, in all cases, requires for life. Blood Poisoning, Skin Diseases, Swelling, Sores, Connorrhoea and Glebsis, which cause a positive碰碰 or money refunded. Stricture, radically cured without treatment. New and Infallible Home Treatment. New The Citizen Better keep you PILES N All diseases of the rectum treated on a post patient is cured. Send for free 104 page book; testimonial letters, valuable to anyone afflicted. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MIN The Citizen is in the Push. Better keep your Eyes open. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. All diseases of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no money accepted until patient is cured. Send for free 104 page book; a treaties on rectal diseases, and hundreds of testimonial letters, valuable to anyone affected. Also our 454 page book for money, both sent free. Address, Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 10th & Oak Sts., Kansas City, Mo. THE GRANDEST OF ALL arations for the The Original and Only Hartona. s and Positively Unequaled for g all Kinky, Knotty, Stub Harsh, Curly Hair. ties the hair grow on bald and thin places. R ease the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hai stretche, and the hair stays and grows naturally down with grease. Hartona is positively hair just the same as adults. To meet the need it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our ana remedies. Remember, we handle no fake All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and 1900. We refer you, as to our response, the editor of this paper. DOWN in the United States. Write to us to do with easy and pleasant work, and no risk to ine testimonials in your own State of peo E. WASH. ex shades lighter, and will turn the skin of the face wash. One bottles does the work. freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. Y tions with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per box of delighted parrons send us testimon metly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona if you are employed or not, and we will sho -SMELL. store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. odors caused by perspiration of the feet, and orders to EDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond OFFER. large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straw foods will be sent securely sealed from observa Money can be sent by post-office money order Main St., Richmond A. C. L. COAL —IS HEADQUARTERS FOR— E CHEAPEST PRICE Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest, and the promptest deliveries. GET THEIR PRICES ON WOOD, FEED, FLOUR, AND P STONE, and Retail. Office 435, Minnesota Ave. T and Storage 917 and 919 No th 3rd. St. E F. HENDERSO EAGERS m Drug St MINNESOTA AVENUE DEALER IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMIC oilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, E NUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ART RRIAM, ELLIS & BEN Insurance, Real E WYANDOTTE BUILDING, theast Corner Fifth and Minnesota CITY, R. HENDERSO 3 West 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. (909 and Reliable Doctor, Oldest in Age and Longest Regular Graduate in Medicine. Over 27 Years Practice.--22 Years in Kansas City. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Cure guaranteed or money of formula. All medicines furri- no mercury or injurious medicines used. No detention fren- tents at a distance treated by mail and express Medicines free from gaze or breakage. No medicines sen. D. O. Change low. Over 6000 cases cued. State you— Consultation free and confidential, personality or bait. The Best Goods, the Quickest Sales, the Smallest Profits and the promptest deliveries. Authorized by the state to treat Chronic, Nervous and Special Disorders. Cures guaranteed or money refunded. All medicines furnished ready for use. no mercury or injurious medicines used. No detention from business. Fax only. Mail by mail and express. Medicines sent every week free from gaze or breakage. Only by arrangement. Charges low. Over 00,000 cases cured. State you. save for term. Consultation free and confidential, personally or by letter. Citizen is in the or keep your Eyes open LES NO MORE TILL CUR of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no money . Send for free 104 page book; a treaties on rectal diseases, ers valuable to anyone afflicted. Also our 48 page book for Drs. THORNTON & MINOR, 10th & Oak Sts., Kana Saint Thomas for the Hair 1 Only Hartona. Unequaled for Straight Knotty, Stubborn, and thin places. Restores GRAYS scalp diseases. Hartona does not and grows naturally beautiful and Hartona is positively harmless—one adults. To meet the popular and 50c. sizes, in our special round. er, we handle no fake goods, and your trade-marked, registered and you, as to our responsibility, to the es. Write to us to-day, no matter work, and no risk of losing your own State of people who have SH. will turn the skin of a mulatto per bite does the work. wishes of the skin. You can regu of price, 50c. per bottle; securely as send us testimonials every year, written with the Hartona remedies not, we will show you how to LL. cafed limbs, etc. ciration of the feet, arm-pits, etc. Main St., Richmond, Va. Hair-Grower and Straightener, two by sealed from observation. post-office money order, or enclosed Richmond, Va. COAL CO. QUARTERS FOR— PEST PRICE Best Sales, the Smallest Profits amptest deliveries. OUR PRICES ON FLOUR, AND BUILDING STONE, Minnesota Ave. Tel. 152 West to 3rd St. E F. HENDERSON Manager BUG STORE AVENUE ALER IN CHEMICALS, Ches, Combs, Etc. TOILET ARTICLES. BILIS & BENTON e, Real Estate BUILDING, North and Minnesota Ave., KANSAS ANDERSON. Kansas City, Mo. (Opposite New York Life Bldg. in Age and Longest Located, Cincinnati, Over 27 Years Special in Kansas City. Great Chronic, Nervous and Special Disorders. All medicines furnished ready for use. No decoupon from business. Personal and express. Medicines sent to medicines sen. O, only by agreement. State you save and send for terminal care. State you take. pain and no exposure. No occlusives cuttled bougies or sounds. No detention from bowels. No exposure to water. Guaranteed or money refunded. Send stent pack, which fully explains this in the Vars. scotum—casinging the vein. Do not debilitity, weakness, pain, tremor, etc., permanently cure without pain. Hydrocele—drop-y of the scrotum. Phimosis—see book—cured in days without pain. Book for both ocular diseases, the effect of ocular care, in plain shampoo for six cents in stamps. Free Museum of Anatomy for men Thousands of curiosities A sermon without words OFFICE HOURS: 8 a.m. to 8 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 Sts., Kansas City, Mo. Good for Bad Teeth Not Bad for Good Teeth Sandont . . . 25c Sandont Tooth Powder 25c Large Liquid and Powder 75c 25c. HALL & RUCKEL. New York. Right of Eminent Domain. A railroad company is held in Kansas & T. Coal railway vs. Northwest C. & M. Co. (Mo), 51 L. R. A. 936; to have the right of eminent domain, through its road is short and built clearly for the transportation of the coal of a coal company which is composed of substantially the same persons that are in the railroad company. Chicago News. Her Pleasure Book. One happy suggestion has been made by a member of the "Don't-Worry" band. She suggests keeping what she calls a "Pleasure Book." She courageously maintains that even in the most overburdened and sorrowful life it is possible to find in each day at least one incident or one circumstance that ought to be a source of passing pleasure, if not of something worth calling happiness. Newspapers in the United States. There are in the United States 2,158 daily newspapers, 49 tri-weekly, 472 semi-weekly, 14,827 weekly, 2 tri-monthly, 60 bi-weekly, 275 semi-monthly, 2,791 monthly, 2 semi-quarterly, 68 bi-monthly, 175 quarterly; total 29,879 newspapers and periodicals. The total number in British territories, including Newfoundland and in Cuba, is 65, making a grand total of 21,844 A. Necessary Citizen. "It seems to me that you take a great deal of impertinence from that hartender." "Well," answered Bronco Bob. "he's kind of got us where we can't kick. You see, he is not only hartender, but he runs the only un-tender shop in town, and we've simply got to put up with him."—Washington Star. A FEARLESS PHYSICIAN Benton, Hill, Sept. 30th.—Much comment has been caused by the action of Dr. R. H. Dunaway, a physician here, who for over a year past has been recommended Dodd's Kidney Pills to those of his patients who suffered from Rheumatism, Bright's Disease, Diabetes or other Kidney Troubles. Dr. Dunaway also published an open letter last May stating positively that he himself had been cured of Diabetes by Dodd's Kidney Pills, and that, after he had concluded he was going to die. He is a well man today and says he feels his duty to do as he has done and is doing because Dodd's Kidney Pills saved his life. The Turning of the Worm. "I never saw anyone who behaved so silly in public as Mr. Gusher," remarked Mrs. Henpeck. "He always calls his wife 'dear.' 'It is ridiculous.' "it is so," replied Henpeck, with unwanted temerity; "how can a man call his wife 'dear' in view of the fact that it is cheap."—"Philadelphia, Press" Freight Cars for duty Law and order are preserved in Chappagan, N. Y., by one constable, who has been in the habit of nailing up prisoners in freight cars over night. So many of these cars have been trampled off before morning that the constable has demanded a town prison, and has been granted $50 for a "lock-up of iron and wood." A Scotchman's Idea of Peace After this fashion does a Scotch farmer rebuke his sons for a recent faint: "Ye have been fechin't again, ye blakes, thundered their father. 'Mind ye, if this happens again I will break every bone in your bodies. I will have you know that I am a man of peace?" -S. R. Crockett in New Lippincott. Anthony Wayne's Old Home. Governor Anthony Wayne's old home, four miles from Valley Forge, Pa. is in excellent preservation, though it was built by his grandfather, Capt. Anthony Wayne, in 1724. The present owner is Capt. William Wayne, representing the eighth generation of the family in the dwelling. Magnet That Attracts Gold that Attracts Gold. M. E. Macretez of San Juan, San Benito County, he has invented a method of making a magnet which will attract gold and silver. The magnet is a common steel chiseled down to a point. To this gold and silver shavings adhere tenaciously. His method is kept secret. Responsible Care of Children The family where the parents, through idleness or indifference, or self-indulgence, or vice, neglect to protect, to educate, or to train the children committed to their care, and the children, following such examples prove unful and undutiful, is wrecked as to its present happiness and future welfare.—Pennsylvania Grit. Aluminum Tubes for Torpedoes. Torpedo tubes made of aluminium instead of steel have been placed on board of two destroyers at Portsmouth. The use of these tubes at present is experimental, but so considerable is the saving in weight—an important matter in connection with light craft like destroyers—that, if successful, aluminium tubes will be generally used in place of steel tubes. One way to have a housewarming is to put in lots of coal. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 30th—Informational been received regarding the wonderful positive powers of the Garfield Headquarters anywhere are using them and writing the matri- ture of the good results obtained. In these days it is hard for a man to get to the front without backing. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Truth is stranger than fiction because it is so much more rare. TALMAGE'S SERMON THE CHARM OF EXALTED RELIGION THE SUBJECT. From Job XXVIII—"The Crystal Cannot Equal It"—Preparation for Eternal Treasures Should Begin Early in the Material World—Open the Door to Christ. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.] Washington, Oct. 6.—The charm of an exalted religion is by Dr. Talmage in this discourse illustrated and commented; text, Job xxviii, 17, "The crystal cannot equal it." Many of the precious stones of the Bible have come to prompt recognition. But for the present I take up the less valuable crystal. Job, in my text, compares saving wisdom with a specimen of topaz. An infidel chemist or mineralogist would pronounce the latter worth more than the former, but Job makes an intelligent comparison, looks at religion and then looks at the crystal and pronounces the former as of far superior value to the latter, exclaiming, in the words of my text, "The crystal cannot equal it." Now, it is not a part of my sermonic design to depreciate the crystal, whether it be found in Cornish mine or Harz mountain or Mammoth cave or tinkling among the pendants of the chandeliers of a palace. The crystal is the star of the mountain; it is the queen of the cave; it is the eardrop of the hills; it finds its heaven in the diamond. Among all the pages of natural history there is no page more interesting to me than the page crystallographic. But I want to show you that Job was right when, taking religion in one hand and the crystal in the others, he declared that the former is of far more value and beauty than the latter, recommending it to all people and to all the ages, declaring "The crystal cannot equal it." God's Immutable Laws. In the first place, I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city. There are six styles of crystallization and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God's geometry reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is a rectangle, or it is a rhomboid, or in some way it has a mathematical figure. Now, religion beats that in the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than material accuracy. God's attributes are exact, God's laws exact, God's decrees exact, God's management of the world exact. Never counting wrong, though he counts the grass blades and the stars and the sands and the cycles. His providences never dealing with us perpendicularly when those provinces ought to be oblique, nor later when they ought to be vertical. Everything in our life arranged without any possibility of mistake. Each life a six-headed prism. Born at the right time; dying at the right time. There are no "happen so's" in our theology. If I thought this was a slipshod universe, I would be in despair. God is not an anarchist. Law, order, symmetry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect circle. The edge of God's robe of government never frays out. There are no loose screws in the world's machinery. It did not just happen that Napoleon was attacked with indigestion at Borodino so that he became incompetent for the day. It did not just happen that John Thomas, the missionary, on a heathen island, waiting for an outfit and orders for another missionary tour, received that outfit and those ordeals in a box that floated ashore, while the ship and the crew that carried the box were never heard of. I believe in a particular providence. I believe God's geometry may be seen in all our life more beautifully than in crystallography. Job was right. "The crystal cannot equal it." More Transparent Than Crystal. Again I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in t ansparency. We know not when or by whom glass was first discovered. Beads of it have been found in the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of it are brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum. There were female adornments made out of it 3,000 years ago—those adornments found now attached to the mummies of Egypt. A great many commentators believe that my text means glass. What would we do w.without the crystal? The crystal in the window to keep out the storm and let in the day; the crystal over the watch, defending its deicate machinery yet allowing us to see the hour; the crystal of the telescope, by which the astronomer brings distant worlds near he can inspect them. Oh the triumphs of the crystals in the celebrated windows of Rouen and Salisbury! But there is nothing so transparent in crystal as in our holy religion. It is a transparent religion. You put it to your eye and you see man—his sin, his soul, his destiny. You look at God and you see something of the grandeur of his character. It is a transparent religion Infidels tell us it is opaque. Do you know why they tell us it is opaque? It is because they are blind. "The natural man receiveth not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned." There is no trouble with the crystal. The trouble is with the eyes which try to look through it. We pray for vision. Lord, that our eyes might be opened! When the eye salve cures our blindness, then we find that religion is transparent. Preparation for Eternal Treasures. The providence that was dark before becomes pellucid. Now you find God is not trying to put you down. Now you understand why you lost that child and why you lost your property. It was to prepare you for eternal treasures. And why sickness came, it being the precursor of immortal juvenescence. And now you understand why they lied about you and tried to drive you hither and thither. It was to put you in the glorious company of such a man as Ignatius, who, when he went out to be destroyed by the lions, said, "I am the wheat, and the teeth of the wild beasts must first grind me before I can become pure bread for Jesus Christ's" Or the company of such men as "that ancient Christian martyr" who, when standing in the midst of the amphitheater waiting for the lions to come out of their cave and destroy him and the people in the galleries jeering and shouting, "The lions!" replied, "Let them come on!" and then, stooping down toward the cave, where the wild bats were roaring to get out, again cried, "Let them come on!" Ah, yes, it is persecution to put you in glorious company, and while there are many things you will have to postpone to the future world for explanation I tell you that it is the whole tendency of your religion to unravel and explain and interpret and illuminated and irradiate. Job was right. It is a gorious trasparency. "The crystal cannot equal it." Harmony and Symmetry. Harmony and Symmetry. Beautiful in its symmetry. When it presents God's character, it does not present him as having love like a great protuberance on one side of his nature, but makes that love in harmony with his justice—a love that will accept all those who come to him, and a justice that will by no means clear the guilty. Beautiful religion in the sentiment it implants! Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles! Beautiful religion in the fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone and empadirise an immortal spirit. Soilomans says it is a lily. Paul says it is a crown. The Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed by the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged cedar. Christ says it is a bridgroom come to fetch home a bride. While Job in the text takes up a whole vase of precious stones—the topaz and the sapphire and the chrysopras—he holds out of this beautiful vase just one crystal and holds it up until it gleams in the warm light of the eastern sky, and he exclaims, "The crystal cannot equal it." Oh, it is not a stale religion; it is not a stupid religion; it is not a toothless hag, as some seem to have represented it; it is not a Meg Merrilies with shriveled-arm come to scare the world; it is the fairest daughter of God, heiress of all his wealth; her cheek the morning sky, her voice the music of the south wind, her step the dance of the sea. Come and woo her. The Spirit and the Bride say come, and whosoever will, let him come. Do you agree with Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it is a crown? Then let this hour be your coronation. Do you agree with the Apocalypse and say it is a springing fountain? Then come and slake the thirst of your soul. Do you believe with Ezekiel and say it is a folleged cedar? Then come under its shadow. Do you believe with Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride? Then strike hands with your Lord and King while I pronounce you everlastingly one. Or if you think with Job that it is a jewel, then put it on your hand like a ring, on your neck like a bead, on your forehead like a star, while looking into the mirror of God's word you acknowledge, "The crystal cannot equal it." Superior to Crystal. Again, religion is superior to the crystal in its transformations. The diamond is only a crystallization. Carbonate of lime rises it till it becomes calcite or aragonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and octahedrons. Those crystals which adorn our persons and our homes and our museums have only been resurrected from forms that were far from lustrous. Scientists for ages have been examining these wonderful transformations. But I tell you in the gospel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful transformation. Over souls by reason of sin black as coal and hard as iron God, by his comforting grace, stoops and says, "They shall be mine in the day when I make up my jewels." "What!" say you. "Will God wear jewelry?" If he wanted it, he could make the stars of the heaven his belt and have the evening cloud for the sandals of his feet, but he does not want that adornment. He will not have that jewelry. When God wants jewelry, he comes down and digs it out of the depths and darkness of sin. These souls are all crystallizations of mercy. He puts them on, and he wears them in the presence of the whole universe. He wears them on the hand that was nailed, over the heart that was pierced, on the temples that were stung. "They shall be mine," saith the Lord, "in the day when I make up my jewels." Wonderful transformation! Where sin abounded grace shall much more abound. The carbon becomes the solitaire. "The crystal cannot equal it." Now, I have no liking for those people who are always enlarging in Christian meetings about their early dissipation. Do not go into the particulars, my brothers. Simply say you were sick, but make no display of your ulcers. The chief stock in trade of some ministers and Christian workers seem to be their early crimes and dissipations. The number of pockets you picked and the number of chickens you stole make very poor prayer meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it discourages other Christian people who never got drunk or stole anything. But it is pleasant to know that those who were farthest down have been brought highest up. Out of infernal serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of darkness into light. From coal to the solitaire. "The crystal cannot equal it." Power of the Gospel. But, my friends, the chief transforming power of the gospel will not be seen in this world, and not until heaven breaks upon the soul. When that light falls upon the soul, then you will see the crystals. What a magnificent setting for these jewels of eternity! I sometimes hear people representing heaven in a way that is far from attractive to me. It seems almost a vulgar heaven as they represent it, with great blotches of color and bands of music making a deafening racket. John represents heaven as exquisitely beautiful. Three crystals! In one place he says, "He light was like a precious stone, clear as crystal." In another place he says, "I saw a pure river from under the throne, clear as crystal." In another place he says, "Before the throne there was a sea of glass clear as crystal." Three crystals! John says crystal atmosphere. That means health. Balm of the eternal June. What weather after the world's east wind! No rack of stormclouds. One breath of that air will cure the worst tubercle. Crystal light on all the leaves, crystal light shimmering on the topaz of the temples. Crystal light tossing in the plumes of the equestrians of heaven on white horses. But "the crystal cannot equal it." John says crystal river. That means joy. Deep and ever rolling. Not one drop of the Potomac or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil it. No one tear of human sorrow to imbitter it. Crystal, the rain out of which it was made, Crystal, the bed over which it shall roll and ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface. But "the crystal cannot equal it." John says crystal sea. That means multitudinous, vast. Vast in rapture. Rapture vast as the sea, deep as the sea, strong as the sea, ever changing as the sea. Billows of light. Billows of beauty, blue with skies that were never clouded and green with depths that were never fathomed. Arctics and Antarctics and Mediterranean and Atlantics and Pacifics in crystalline magnificence. Three crystals! Crystal light falling on a crystal river. Crystal river rolling into a crystal sea. But "the crystal cannot equal it." Open the Door to Christ. "Oh," says some one, "it is just the doctrine I want. God is to do everything, and I am to do nothing." My brother, it is not the doctrine you want. The coal makes no resistance. It hears the resurrection voice in the mountain and it comes to crystallization; but your heart resists. The trouble with you, my brother, is the coal wants to stay coal. I do not ask you to throw open the door and let Christ in. I only ask that you stop bolting it and barring it. My friends, we will have to get rid of our sins. I will have to get rid of my sins, and you will have to get rid of your sins. What will we do with our sins among the three crystals? The crystal atmosphere would display our pollution. The crystal river would be befouled with our touch. Transformation must take place now or no transformation at all. Give sin full chance in your heart and the transformation will be downward instead of upward. Instead of crystal it will be a cinder. ROUSSEAU WAS MODEST. He Refused to Expose an Impostor Posing in His Shoes. Jean Jacques Rousseau was not troubled greatly by conscientious scruples, yet he possessed the rare virtue of a broad, human sympathy in an eminent degree. Perhaps it was the consciousness of his own weaknesses that made him so sympathetic toward others. An anecdote is related of him which places this virtue of his in a strong light. On one occasion he had composed an opera, which was performed before the king, Louis XV., and met with the royal approval. The king sent for him and if he had put in an appearance he would probably have obtained a pension. He was, however, of a reiring disposition and could not bring himself to face the court. To his friends he gave as a reason his republican opinions, but his real reason was his shyness. Accordingly he fled from the court and sought the privacy of a public inn. While he was there a man came in, who began telling the company that he was the celebrated Rousseau, and proceeded to give an account of his opera, which, he said, had been performed before the king with great success. Most men in Rousseau's position would have felt nothing but contempt for the impostor, but this extraordinary man felt only pity and shame. "I trembled and blushed so," he tells us in his "Confessions," for fear the man should be found out, that it might have been thought that I was the impostor." He was afraid that somebody might come in who knew him and expose the pretender. At last he could bear it no longer and slipped out unobserved. Very few people would treat an impostor like that.—Detroit Free Press. WOMEN FORSAKE KITCHEN Latest Fad of Feminine Emancipation Women in France The latest fad of the feminine emancipation women in France is that the fair sex should no longer supervise what goes on in the household kitchen. This campaign against home cookers is led by Mme. Schmal, who contends that cookery should in the present age of progress, be the work of specialists. Trained cooks, it is proposed, outside the domestic circle, might prepare the various meals, and women, thus relieved of their duties as mistress of the house, would have more leisure to devote to higher pursuits. Washing—such is the argument—is rarely done at home in France, nor mending, nor dressmaking. Why should not the kitchen be suppressed, and with it the daily drudgery of marketing or preparing meals? Mme. Seamal appears to believe that matters would be excellently arranged by the foundation of culinary waiters, to which families would subserbe so much per month, and in return be provided with their daily food. The ambition of home life in France, particularly in Paris, we are all well aware, differs essentially from the notions on the subject in England. It may be doubted, however, the average Frenchwoman of the period would be happier were she relieved of one of the most important of her domestic functions.—Daily Messenger. What Secretary Root Said. "Senator, you seem to forget that war itself is a hard, a dreadful thing; yet our old men clamor for it and our young men rush into it as if it were a holiday amusement. The executive does not declare war. Whn our wise men and popular leaders in the Congress of the United States plunge us into it, do they pause to think of the aged mothers and their tears and their breaking hearts?"—Boston Evening Transcript. A Hustler. Madge—Why did she insist on going to South Dakota to spend the honeymoon? Marjorie—So that in case they failed to agree the month could be counted in with the time necessary to secure a residence when she sued for a divorce. Bright's Disease Can not be cured when the disease has reached the last stages, when the kidneys are decayed. The best time to treat this treacherous disease is in its early stages, when the first symptoms appear. Is your skin yellow and parchment-like? Is there a peculiar puffiness under the eyes? Have you a drawn and haggard appearance? Have you an impending sense of illness? These are all symptoms of Bright's Disease. McLEAN'S LIVER AND KIDNEY BALM will cure Bright's Disease in all its early stages, and restore the affected parts to a healthy, normal condition. At all druggists, $1.00 per bottle. Made by The DR. J. McLEAN MEDICINE CO., St. Louis, Mo. MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY OF EXPERIENCE AND OUR GUARANTEE ARE BACK OF EVERY WATERPROOF OILED SLICKER OR COAT BEARING THIS TRADE MARK TOWER'S FISH BRAND A.J.TOWER CO.BOSTON.MASS.41 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. W. N. U. Kansas City No. 40, 1901 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Bypr. Tastes Good. Use in time. Hold or dragsites. HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE STARCH 16 OZ. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG. CO. OMAHA, NEB. Defiance Starch is easy to use—needs no cooking—simply mix it with cold water. It is the cheapest. A 16 ounce package for 10 cents—that is one-third more than you can get of any other starch. If your grocer does not keep it send us his name and we will send you one trial package free. WISCONSIN FARM LANDS The best of farm lands can be obtained now in Marblette County, Wisconsin, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway at a low price and on very favorable terms. Wisconsin is noted for its fine crops, excellent and beautiful climate. Why rent a farm when you can buy one much cheaper than you can rent and in a few years it will be your own property. For particulars address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago. Give a bike and he immediately begins to look around for his hat. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's F. J. CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo, O. The undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney Cheney, who has perfectly honorable in all business transactions immancally able to carry out any obligations. West & Truax, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, O. Cheney & Marvin, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the patient. Price per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The English language is largely used of its and buts. Woman Rarely Fall To take advantage of a cheap article of household value. But wise women want to know if the low-priced article has merits. Defiance starch costs far less than any other starch and gives far better satisfaction in the laundry. Makes linen look like new. Order at your grocers. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha, Neb. Gaz Jet Intended to Be Blown Out Gas Jet Intended to Be Blown Out. A gentleman connected with the Binghamton (N. Y.) state hospital for the insane, has invented a gas burner so arranged that the gas may be blown out without any serious results following. Why experiment with untidied remedies for pain? Use Wizard Oil at once and be happy. Your druggist has it. The secret of ignorance is not to know your lack of wisdom. FITS Permanently Curved. doits or nervousness after best day's use of It. Wizard's Great Nerve Restore. FREE $100.00. FREE $100.00. Dr. B. H. KIKE, LNQ, 921 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Ready made advice very seldom fits. lake or ranch. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces fumigation, all pain cures wind colic. Ecoca bottle. The favorite hymn in the Episcopal church is "O Promise Me." Sweat or fruit acids will not discolor goods dye with PUTNAM FADLESS DYES. Sold by druggists, 10c. package. As long as boys and peaches are raised they will get together. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure. J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave., N. Minnesota, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Some women are not so red as they paint themselves. $10 WEEKLY copying letters at home; enclose two stamps with application. Women's Western Employment Bureau, Box 33, Quincy, Illinois. The prodigal son had to come to himself before he came to his father. Take Nature's remedy, Garfield Teal! Inexpensive and effective; 15 pints or 30 cups. It is untreated mineral HERBS, not mineral poisons; it cures constipation and sick headache, kidney and liver diseases. Good for all. Brevity may be either the soul of wit or the poverty thereof. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. It's a short lane that has no lovers in it after it turns into the shadows. The Red Spot on Jupiter. Professor Brendichin expresses the opinion that the red spot noticeable on Jupiter is a solid mass sliding over the liquid surface of the planet. He thinks it very improbable that the spot is a sea of glowing lava, but that it is most likely a semi-solid crust of some kind. This red spot appears to have a period of rotation that is subject to a regular change. While the rotation of the planet is a constant quantity, that of the spot seems to be growing longer. Since 1891, like a huge floating island, it has traversed in the neighborhood of three-fourths of the circumference of the planet in a retrograde movement.—Philadelphia Times. Safety in Homeliness One of the conscripts appearing recently before the Nimes (Belgium) board of military examiners was disqualified on account of his extraordinary ugliness, which one of the officers held would make his comrades laugh and thus be subversive of discipline. His ugliness exonerates him from three years' service with the flag. Aerial Navigation. Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame thinks that M. Santos-Dumont has demonstrated the possibility of aerial navigation, but holds that the balloon part is not essential. "The Brazilian," says Mr. Bell, "has shown that aerial navigation is chiefly a question of mechanics and of power in the motor." Little Houses on Sky-Scrapers On the roofs of some of the high buildings in New York little houses are erected in which dwell those connected with the care-taking of the structures. Families are reared there and all the business of life goes on as unconcerned as with those who dwell at a lower level. Profited by Gregor's Advisor In 1869 Governor Orman, of Colorado, then a poor boy, took Horace Greeley's advice and went west to grow up with the country, getting work as a railroad laborer. He rose in the business and has been connected with it for thirty years. Dodging Poor Wine in London. The London Lancet declares that "the prices asked for wine at big hotels are so monstrously high and the wine offered is so often bad that this fact alone accounts for an increasing demand for whisky as a dinner beverage." Every spinster you meet is willing to admit that she is single from choice. WISE PAINTING Not much wise painting done; poor paint, mostly; too cheap. Nobody wants it poor; everybody wants it cheap. Devoe ready paint is cheap because it isn't poor; it's unlike any other; because we guarantee results instead of materials. Wise painting is—Paint in the fall and use Devoe. Ask your dealer; he'll get it for you. Book on painting free if you mention this paper. GOOD-PAINT DEVOE, CHICAGO. LIFE OF WM. M'KINLEY with memorial价 men. Large, fully illustrated. Extra terms. Freight paid. Credit given. Big pay for quick work. Send 10 cents for package to ZEIGLER CO., 324 Dearborn St., Chicago. THE PARK The Fact That St.Jacobs Oil Has cured thousands of cases of Rheumatism, Coat, Lumbago, Neuraigla, Sciatica, Sprains, Epilepsy and other ailments, and pains is a guarantee that it will cure other cases. It is safe, sure and never failing. Acts like magic. Conquers Pain Price, 25c and 50c. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE. $3.00 W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE. I For More Than a Quarter of a Century I have been a member of $3.50 shoes for style, comfort and wear has excelled all other makes sold at the store. I have been a winner and has been won by merit alone. W. L. Douglas shoes have to give better satisfaction than the other brands. The reputation for the best $3.00 and $3.50 shoes must be maintained. The standard weiner receives more value for his money in the W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 W. L. Douglas sells more $3.00 and $3.50 W. L. Douglas sells more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers. W. L. Douglas $4.00 6in Ease Else cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $2.50 sale made on grade leathers used in $5 and $8 shoes and are just as good. Sold by the best shop dealers everywhere, with name and price stamped on bottom. How to Order by Mail. If W. I. Douglas factory offers, show and where on receipt of price and name of customer. Show and where on receipt of price and name of customer. Custom department will make you a pair that will equal $5 and $6 condition wear. Take measurements of feet and style desired. size and width unally worn; plain or um or light sofa. A fluffy rug. Try a pair. Fast Color Eyelids used. Catalog free. W. L. Douglas, Heckon, Mass. Nature's Priceless Remedy DR. O. PHELPS BROWN'S PRECIOUS HERBAL OINTMENT I Cures Auras. Dr. O. P. Brown. @8 New York, New York. AGENTS WANTED LIFE OF MARKET by Burst尔勒, his long friend. Phenomenal seller, hundred per cent of CEO. CRAM. 21 quincy St. Chicago. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures work cases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS treatment FRES: Dr. H. H. GREEN'S 80%, Box K, Atlanta, Ga. SMOOTH MAN PLAYS DAVID OVERMYER FOR A SUCKER. GETS NEARLY $900 OUT OF IT Hires Overmyer as Attorney in Fictitious Case—Other Party to the Case Finally Sends $000 Draft to Settle It, and Overmyer Identifies His Client to Enable Him to Cash the Draft. David Overmyer, the well known Kansas statesman and lawyer, was the victim of a smooth confidence game, a few days ago. A young man walked into his office and told him he was having trouble in Atchison over the settlement of an estate and that the brother was trying to beat him out of his portion. "My brother has hired an Atchison lawyer to look after his interests, and I want you to look after mine," said the stranger. Finally the "brother" in Atchison had his lawyer send a proposition to compromise; along with the proposition came a $000 draft and a note for $1,000. The stranger happened into Overmyer's office when the letter arrived. Overmyer didn't want to compromise. He wanted to bring the "brother" to time for the whole amount right then. "You are entitled to all of it or none," said he to his client. The client agreed with him but said that he hated to push his brother to the wal, and that they had better accept the compromise. Overmyer finally yielded. "I still want to keep you as my attorney," said the client, "and I will leave the note in your possession for collection when it comes due. In the meantime, I want to pay you your fee." The amount, which was not large, was agreed upon. The client said nee'd have that much cash, but if Overmyer would identify him at the bank, so that he could get his draft cashed, he would pay him. Overmeyer took him to a bank, for which he is attorney, and identified the client. The bank paid the draft. Overmeyer got his fee and the client took the rest. The draft turned out to be bogus and the client disappeared. It was then discovered that the client and the "brother" were the same man. Overmeyer is still holding the $1,000 note for collection and is also morally bound to the bank for the amount of the draft. STATE MAY BUY THE ISLAND. Kansas Figures on the Purchase of Stalger's Island in the Missouri River. An effort is being made by some Leavenworth, Kan., parties to sell Stalger's island, in the Missouri river, to the state for use by the prison board. Captain Hamilton of the attorney general's office went over there from Topeka to investigate the title. "The state had better go slow about buying islands in the Missouri river," said a state official. "One month the island is there and the next it is gone. It may reappear again in a year or so on the Kansas side and, again, it may appear on the Missouri side. If the prison officials want more land to farm, they had better buy some that is sure not to be washed away; if they want more room to mine coal, why not mine under the Missouri river, which is government property, and run the risk of having to pay a royalty later on." Patrick Demands Immediate Trial. Attorneys for Albert T. Patrick, who is under indictment for the murder of William March Rice, the aged millionaire, is New York City about a year ago, has moved in the court of general sessions for an immediate trial of the case. The district attorney opposed the motion, stating that the evidence was so voluminous that the assistants in charge of the case would not be able to go to trial until December. The court took the papers and withheld decision. "Chums." For the week beginning October 13, the Orphidium, Kansas City's only fashionable vaudeville theater, will present a bil of unusual excellence. George W. Leslie and his company will give the New York Herald's $1,000 prize play "Chums." J. Aldrich Libey, with Trayer and Gilbert, will present their musical novelty "The Debutante." Others on the bill will be Powell, the great magician; Bryan and Nadine in grotesque comedy acrobatics; the Standard quartette in harmonious selections; and Angie Norton in songs and sayings. The popular kindrone will show an entirely new set of moving pictures, among them one of the funeral procession in Washington as President McKinley's body was being taken to its last resting place. Love Letters His Only Identification. Edwin Sharp, a driver on one of Ringling Bros.' animal cages, was thrown from his seat at Perry, Okla., and instantly killed. The only clue to his friends is a series of unsigned love letters headed 1737 Grand avenue, Kansas City, Mo. THE MARKETS. LIVE STOCK Kansas City—Cattle—Choice export and dressed beef steers, $5.75@6.25; fair to good, $4.60@6.00; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.50; Western fed steers, $4.50@5.20; Western range steers, $3.25@4.55; Texas and Indians, $2.50@3.60; Texas cows, $2.10@3.10; native cows, $2.60@4.00; heifers, $5.05; canners, $1.35@5.00; bulls, $2.50@3.75; calves, $5.25. Hogs—Top, $6.82%; heavy, $7.50@6.21%; mixed packers, $5.60@5.75; light, $6.62@6.21; pigs, $6@. Sheep—Western lambs, $3.50@4.25; Western wethers, $3.15; ewes, $2.50@3; feeders, $2.50@3.25; stock sheep, $1.50@2.75. Chicago—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $6.10@6.40; poor to medium, $3.75@5.90; stockers and feeders, $2.25@4; cows and heifers, $1.25@4.75; canners, $1.25@2.25; buits, $1.75@4.55; calves, $2.50@5.00; Texas steers, $3@3.90; Western steers, $3.75@5.25. Hogs—Mixed and btchers, $6.35@6.50; good to choice heavy, $5.50@6.85; rough heavy, $6.25@6.45; light, $6.45@6.50; bulk of sales, $6.40@6.65. Sheep—good to choice wethers, $3.30@3.75; fair to choice mixed, $3B.3.30; Western sheep, $2.50@3.30; native lambs, $2.50@4.65; Western lambs, $3.40@4.40. St. Louis — Cattle—Native steers, $#4@6.20; stockers and feeders, $2.30@3.75; cows and heifers, $#4.65; Texas and Indian steers, $3@4.05; cows and heifers, $2.10@3.30. Hogs—pigs and lights, $6.35@6.60; packers, $6.35@6.60; butchers, $6.65@6.50. Sheep—native sheep, $3@2.40; lambs, $4@4.50. St. Joseph.—Cattle—Dressed beef steers, $3.15@5.90; Texas and Western, $3.00@5.70; cows and heifers, $1.35@5.10; stockers and feeders, $2.50@4.10. Hogs—Top, $6.87%; market strong. GRAIN. Kansas City. — Wheat—December, 65%c; May, 69%c; cash No. 2 hard, 64%2%c; No. 3, 64c; No. 2, red, 70c; No. 3, 68%c; receipts, 41,800 bu; shipments, 56,000 bu. Corn—December, 58%@58c; May, 59%@58c; cash, No. 2 mixed, 58%@58c; No. 2, white, 59c; receipts, 41,000 bu; shipments, 21,000 bu. Oats—No. 2 white, 38%c; receipts, 21,000 bu; shipments, 4,000 bu. Rye—No. 2, 58%c Chicago—Cash Wheat—No. 2 red, 68% @ 69%c; No. 3 red. 67% @ 68%c; No. 2 hard winter, 67% @ 68%c; No. 3 hard winter 67% @ 68c; No. 1 Northern spring, 68% @ 69%c; No. 2 Northern spring, 68% @ 69%c; No. 3 spring, 65@ 8c. Corn—No. 2, 56%c; No. 3.56@ 56%c; Oats—No. 2, 35%@ 35%c; No. 3, 35%c. St. Louis—Wheat—No. 2 red cash, elevator, 68%c; track, 70% @ 71%c; October, 68%c; December, 68%c; May, 71%c; No. 2 hard, 67%@ 68c. Corn— No. 2 cash, 56%c; track, 57%c; October, 56%c; December, 57%c; May, 59%c; Oats—No. 2 cash, 36%c; December, 36%c; May, 38%c; No. 2 white, 39%c; Rye—55%c. HAY. Prritie hay, choice, $12.00@12.50; No. 1, $11.00@12.50; No. 2, $10.00@11.50; No. 3, $6.00@8.00; No. 4, $5.00@6.00; Packing hay, $5.00@6.00; Timothy, choice, $13.50@14.50; No. 1, $12.50@13.50; No. 2, $11.00@12.00; No. 3, $9.00@11.00; Pure clover, $10.00@10.00; clover mixed, No. 1, $12.00@13.00; No. 2, $10.00@11.00; No. 3, $9.50, Alfaifa, $10.00@12.00; Straw, $5.00@5.50. Other feeding stuffs: Cotton seed meal, $25 a ton in car lots, Linseed meal, $29 a ton. HIDES AND PELTS Nos. 1, and 2, all around, 8c; branded 71½c; bulls and stags, 7c; green un- cured. 1c per pound less than curd; branded or badly grubby kips, 4c green horsehides, large, $2.75; medium $2.50; small, $1.25 per 50p, $1.00 @1.25; dry flint butcher hides, 14c dry flint faint, 13c; dry salt, 10c; dry glue, 7c; very badly grubby, green or dry hides are classed as glue stock Sheep pelts, green, 40@75c; dry flint 61½@75c per 50p. HORSES AND MULES HORSES AND MULES. Horses—Drafts, good, $65.00@100.00; drafts, 1,500 to 1,700 pounds, $115.00@150.00; chunks, good to choice, $70.00@100.00; chunks, common to fair, $40.00@160.00; drivers, good to fancy, $75.00up; Southerners, common to fair, $20.00@30.00; Southerners, good tochoice, $45.0.@65.00; plugs, $5.00@choice, $45.00@65.00; plugs, $5.00@Mules—13½@14 hands, fat andbroken, $55.00@140.00; 14@14½ hands,fat, good hair, $20.00@45.00; 14½@15hands, fat, fat, $40.00@150.00; 15@15½hands, fat, fat, $70.00@85.00; 15½@16hands, fat, $90.00@105.00; 16@16½hands, extra, $115.00@130.00; Warmules, $55.00@60.00. Ten Persons Suspected. Ten persons are under arrest at Hartville, Mo., for one murder of Tom Hall in Dent county, Mo., last week, two being women, Lucinda and Rebecca Asher. The women are out on bond. The men are John Barton, principal, Jake Barton, Milton Camden, Jacob Clems, Jr., John H. Camden, Allen Matthews and Charles Asher. They are in jail. All say they are innocent. The date of preliminary examination has not yet been set. The neighborhood is in an uproar and further trouble is expected. Because of Domestic Troubles. John Woodward, assistant superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, with headquarters at Lincoln, Neb., committed suicide in the rear of a saloon on South Tenth street. Omaha. Woodward was well known among insurance men. His accounts with the company are straight. Domestic troubles are assigned as the cause of the deed. The race may not always be to the swift, but the fast young man soon arrives at the end of his course. Are Held as Bank Robbers John Wilson and Edward Steiger were arrested at St. Louis on suspicion that they are the men who, November 28, 1900, blew open the safe and robbed the Farmers' bank at Emden, Ill. The men deny their connection with the crime, but Chief of Detectives Desmond says he has sufficient evidence to hold them. He will hold them for the Illinois authorities. If the first baby joins the scales at nine pounds it doesn't matter who the second one weighs. Roosevelt's Life at College. SKETCHES from Theodore Roosevelt's Father. Theodore Roosevelt is the youngest American citizen who has ever been called to the head of our nation. He was born in New York City, October 27, 1858, his father, after whom he was named, being a prominent merchant, a patriot, a philanthropist, and a moving spirit in the Civil War. The elder Theodore Roosevelt went to Washington after the first Battle of Bull Run, and warned President Lincoln that he must get rid of Simon Cameron as Secretary of War, with the result that Mr. Stanton, the "organizer of victory," took his place. When the war was fairly under way, it was Theodore Roosevelt who organized the allotment plan, which saved the families of eight thousand soldiers of New York State more than five million dollars of their pay; and when the war was over he protected the soldiers against the sharks that lay in wait for them, and saw to it that they got employment. Through his influence the New York newsboys' lodging-house system and many other institutions of public benefit and helpful charity were established. There were four children in the Roosevelt family, of whom Theodore was the second. There were two boys and two girls. A younger brother was killed in a railroad accident, and the hopes of the father were centered on Theodore. At the age of five or six, Theodore gave little promise of maintaining the prestige of the Roosevelt family line. The President's Early Boyhood. He was a puny, slickly, delicate boy. Some one who knew him in those days of the Civil War described him as a "weak-eyed, pig-chested boy, who was too frail to take part in the sports of lads of his age." When he arrived at the age of six, he was sent to the famous old McMullen School, where he remained for eight years. It was not, however, in New York that the boy Roosevelt spent with most profit the months to which he looks back with pleasure. The elder Roosevelt believed that children best thrive in the country. He selected a beautiful spot near the village of Oyster Bay, on the north shore of Long Island, and erected a country house which well deserves its title, "Tranquility." Here it was among the hills which border the sound and the bay, that Theodore Roosevelt and his brother and sisters spent the long summer months. At fourteen Theodore was admitted to the Cutler School, a private academy in New York conducted by Arthur H. Cutler. He here took the preparatory course for Harvard University, making rapid advancement under the careful tuition of Mr. Cutler, and graduating with honors. Becomes an Athlete. By caretial attention and plenty of gymnastium exercise and out-of-door life his frame became more sturdy and his health vastly improved. It thus happened that when young Roosevelt entered on college life at Harvard, in 1875, he suffered little by comparison with boys of his age. While he did not stand in the front rank of athletics, he was well above the average, and had no reason to be ashamed of his physical prowess. Never for a waking moment was he idle. It was either study or exercise. In addition to his regular studies and special courses he took upon himself the editorship of the college paper, and made a success of it. He was democratic in his tastes and simple in his mode of living. Theodore Roosevelt was graduated from Harvard in 1830 with high honors. In spite of severe study, his health was but little impaired, and he at once started on a foreign journey in search of instruction, pleasure and adventure. He distinguished himself as a mountain climber, ascending the Jungfrau, the Matterhorn and many other peaks, and was made a member of the Alpine Club of London. Being Study of Laws On his return to America he studied law, and in the fall of 1881 he was elected to the State Assembly from the Twenty-first District of New York, generally known as Jacob Hess's district. By re-election he continued in the body during the session of 1883 and 1884. He introduced important reform measures, and his entire legislative career was made conspicuous by the courage and zeal with which he assailed political abuses. As chairman of the Committee on Citizens he introduced the measure which took from the Board of Aldermen the power to confirm or reject the appointments of the mayor. He was chairman of the noted legislative investigating committee which bore his name. In 1884 he went to the Bad Lands in Dakota, near the "Pretty Buttes," where he built a log- More than ever, since the presidency has come to him, have all things relating to Theodore Roosevelt taken on public interest. His past record is being examined into so thoroughly that the people will know his life as thoroughly as though it were an open book. Some interest is taken in his college record. There, as elsewhere, in whatever he did he showed unusual energy, and the same aggressive earnestness which carried him so far in later life. He exhibited a maturity of character, if not of intellectual development, greater than that of most of his classmates, and was looked upon as one of the notable members of the class—as one who possessed certain qualities of leadership and of popularity which might carry him far in later life, if not counterbalanced by impulsiveness in action or obstinacy in adhering to his own ideas. He was certainly regarded as a man of good fighting qualities, of determination, pluck and --- THEODORE BUSY ROOSEVELT'S LIFE. 26th PRESIDENT of the U.S. cabin, and for several years mingled the life of a ranchman with that of a literary worker. From his front door he could shoot deer, and the mountains around him were full of big game. Amid such surroundings he wrote some of his most popular books. He became a daring horseman and a rival of the cowboys in feats of skill and strength. In 1886 Mr. Roosevelt was the Republican candidate for Mayor against Abram S. Hewitt, United Democracy, and Henry George, United Labor. Mr. Hewitt was elected by about twenty-two thousand plurality. In 1889 Roosevelt was appointed by President Harrison a member of the United States Civil Service Commission. His ability and rugged honesty in the administration of the affairs of that office greatly helped to strengthen his hold on popular regard. reddened with pleasure, for he said the best in them had come out an he expected to be attacked by "Yellow" papers. It was of this incident that a was first made by Mr. Roosevelt miled in and out of the police and he had many—to attack him. It happened that there was a halloween event met. The yellow newspaper lated the lie that he went there to pose to the show, and the rick story was repeated until actual events were known. They would not have been able to stand the kind of man they had with, had they tired. According to Halloween reports, the lie of Mulberry Street that the no Seeley dinner raid was planned by emies in the department of which the head, in the belief that they catch Mr. Roosevelt there. The Police Commissioner in New York Roosevelt continued in that office until May 1, 1895, when he resigned to accept the office of Police Commissioner from Mayor Strong. He found the administration of affairs in a moralized condition, but he soon brought order out of chaos. Says James A. Riis, who is an intimate friend of President Roosevelt: We had been trying for forty years to achieve a system of dealing decently with our homeless poor. Two score years before, the surgeons of the police department had pointed out that heralded the police stations in fostering heaps, and turning them out hungry at daybreak to beg their way from door to door, was indecent and inhuman. Since then grand juries, amies of medicing, and other ill-treatment had attacked the foul disgrace, but to no purpose. Pestilence ravaged the prison lodgings, but still they stayed. I know what that fight meant, for I was one of a committee that waged in year after year, and wounded the poor. Roosevelt came and destroyed the nuisance in a night. I remember the caricatures of tramps shivering in the cold with which the yellow newspapers pursued him. He was a man who mana'foe." And I remember being just a little uneasy lest they wound him, and perhaps make him think he had been hasty. But not he. It was only those who did not know who charged him. He was a man who threw it out quickly—yes, that is his way; but he thought it out, and having thought it out, suited action to his judgment. Of the consequences he didn't think at all. He made it happen and then went with perfect confidence the things would come out right. His Advice to Organized Labor Mr. Rils says he never saw Roosevelt to better advantage than when he once confronted the labor men at their meeting-place, Clarendon Hall: "The police were all the time having trouble with strikers and their "pickets." Roosevelt saw that it was because neither party understood fully the position of the other, and, with his usual directness, sent word to the labor organizations that he would also talk in their with them. At his request I went with him to the meeting. It developed almost immediately that the labor men had taken a wrong measure of the man. They met him as a politician and asked unless their demands were met. Mr. Roosevelt broke them off short: "Gentlemen!" he said with that snap of the jaws that always made people listen—I asked to meet you, hoping to be heard. I asked one another. Remember, please, before we go forward, that the worst injury anyone of you can do to the cause of labor is to counsel violence. It will also be worse for him if he is not distracted and disinterested he will be kept. The police will keep it. Now we can proceed." I was never so proud and pleased as when they applauded him to the echo. He tenacity. If his classmates had been asked in their senior year to pick out the one member of the class who would be best adapted for such service as that which he rendered with the Rough Riders in Cuba, almost with one voice they would have designated Roosevelt. In his studies young Roosevelt was looked upon—so one of his classmates expresses it—"as peculiarly earnest and mature in the way in which he took hold of things." Both his fellows and his teachers say he was much above the average as a student. When he entered college he had already developed the taste for hunting and for natural history; which has since led him so often and so far through fle'd and forest. His rife and his hunting kit, the skins and trophies of the chase, were the most conspicuous things in his rooms. His birds he mounted himself. Live turtles and insects were always to be found in his study, and one who lived reddened with pleasure, for he saw that the best in them had come out on top, as he expected it would. Attacked by "Yellow" News- papers. It was of this incident that a handle was first made by Mr. Roosevelt's enemies in and out of the police board—and he had many—to attack him: It happened that there was a music hall in the building in which the labor men met. The yellow newspapers circulated the lie that he went there on purpose to see the show, and the ridiculous people who liaised with him liaised themselves that it was so. They would not have been able to understand the kind of man they had to do with, had they tried. Accordingly they were sent to the Muberry Street that the notorious Seeley dinner raid was planned by his enemies in the department of which he was the head, in the belief that they would have been the dinners were supposed to be his "set." some time after that, Mr. Rils was in Roosevelt's office when a police official of superior rank came in, and requested a private audience with him: They stepped aside and the policeman spoke in an understance, urging something strongly. Mr. Roosevelt listened. Suddenly a scare from something understance迷失 the other with a sharp: "No, sir! I don't fight that way." The policeman went out crestfallen. Roosevelt took two minutes to about the floor, struggling evidently with his hand as he meadowed afterward that the man had come to him with what he said was certain that his enemy could that night be killed in the town, which it was his alleged habit to visit. His proposition was to raid it then and so to get square." The policeman it made sure was showing a good chance away. But it was not easy way; he struck no blow below the belt. In the governor's chair afterward he gave the politicians whom he fought, and who were the same terms. They tried their best to prove nothing to expect from him. But they knew and owned that he fought fair. Their backs were secure. He never tried to grait an advantage. A promise given by him was always kept to the letter. Assistant Secretary of Navy. Early in 1897 he was called by President McKinley to give up his New York office to become Assistant-Secretary of the Navy. His energy and quick mastery of detail had much to do with the speedy equipment of the navy for its brilliant feats in the war with Spain. It was he who suggested Admiral Dewey for commander of the Asiatic station. Dewey was sometimes spoken of in those days as if he were a kind of fashion-plate. Roosevelt, however, had faith in him, and while walking up Connecticut avenue one day said to Mr. Rils: "Dewey is all right. He has a lion heart. He is the man for the place." No one now doubts the wisdom of his selection, and naval officers agree that the remarkable skill in marksmanship displayed by the American gunners was due to his foresight. He saw the necessity of practice, and he thought it the best kind of economy to burn up ammunition in acquiring skill. A characteristic story is told regarding Roosevelt's insistence on practice in the navy. Shortly after his appointment he asked for an appropriation of $800,000 for ammunition, powder, and shot for the navy. The appropriation was made, and a few months later he asked for another appropriation, this time of $500,000. When asked by the proper authorities what had become of the first appropriation, he replied: "Every cent of it was spent for powder and in the house with him at the time recalls well the excitement caused by a particularly large turtle, sat by a ROOSEVELT AT THE AGE OF 23. friend from the southern seas, which got out of its box one night, and start- shot, and every bit of powder and shot has been fired." When he was asked what he was going to do with the $500, 000, he replied: "Use every ounce of that, too, within the next thirty days in practice shooting." His Cuban War Record. His Cuban War Record. Soon after the outbreak of the war, however, his patriotism and love of active life led him to leave the comparative quiet of his government office for service in the field. As a lieutenant-colonel of volunteers he recruited the First Volunteer Cavalry, popularly known as the "Rough Riders." The men were gathered largely from the cowboys of the west and southwest, but also numbered many college-bred men of the east. In the beginning he was second in command, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Dr. Leonard Wood being colonel. But at the close of the war the latter was a brigadier-general and Roosevelt was colonel in command. Since no horses were transported to Cuba, this regiment, together with the rest of the cavalry, was obliged to serve on foot. The regiment distinguished itself in the Santiago campaign, and Colonel Roosevelt became famous for his bravery in leading the charge up San Juan Hill on July 1st. He was an efficient officer, and won the love and admiration of his men. His care for them was shown by the circulation of the famous roundrobin which he wrote protesting against keeping the army longer in Cuba. As Governor of New York As Governor of New York. Upon Roosevelt's return to New York there was a popular demand for his nomination for governor. Previous to the state convention he was nominated by the Citizens' Union, but he declined, replying that he was a Republican. The Democrats tried to frustrate his nomination by attempting to prove that he had lost his legal residence in that state. That plan failed and he was nominated in the convention by a vote of 753 to 218 for Governor Black. The campaign throughout the state was spirited. Roosevelt took the stump and delivered many speeches. His plurality was 18,079. As the campaign of 1900 drew near, the popular demand that Roosevelt's name should be on the National Republican ticket grew too imperative to be ignored by the leaders. The honor of the nomination for Vice-President was refused time and time again by Roosevelt, who felt that he had a great duty to perform as governor of New York state. Says Cal O'Laughlin, apropos of the Republican National Convention, which was held in Philadelphia on June 19, 20 and 21, 1900: Nomination at Philadelphia. On the evening of the first day of the convention, Roosevelt saw Platt. "My name must not be presented to the convention," he told him. Platt was mad, and mad cleanliness returned to his apartment to run into the arms of the Kansas delegation. "We do not request you to accept the nomination," said State Senator Burton; "we do not urge you to accept the nomination, but we propose to issue them." Throughout the delivery of Mr. Burton's remarks, Roosevelt stood, with shoulders square and feet at right angles, his chin occasionally shooting forward, and he seemed to argue the argument that he alone could rescue "bleeding Kansas" from demagogism and populism. But he waited patiently until the address was ended, and then appealed to the Kansans to take his words at their candidates. But his appeal was useless, for Senator Burton, grasping his hand, congratulated him "in advance upon his nomination and election," and the delegates' comments were impudent. So certain was Kansas that Roosevelt would be the choice of the convention, that it had printed a huge placard, bearing the words in large, black NORROR ROOSEVELT. And, when I the nominal was declared to have occurred, triumphantly carried it about Convention Hall. After his nomination, Roosevelt said: I held out as long as I could. I had to give in when I saw the popular sentiment of the convention. I believe it is my duty. I believe it is my duty. I appreciate fully the sentiment which accompanied my nomination. The unanimity and enthusiasm of the convention my nomination never will be forgotten by me. During the political campaign which followed, he traveled 16,100 miles, flashed through 23 states, delivered 459 speeches, containing 860,000 words, and made his appeal directly to I, 600,000 persons. President Roosevelt has been a student of political economy since boyhood. He has been an omniverous reader, and has pursued his studies with the same zeal and energy that have characterized all his acts in civil and military life—San Francisco Argonaut. ed toward the bathroom in search of water.-Utfica Globe. Ancestry of the President DISTRICTY of the Presidents. The Buffa o Commercial notes the fact that all the presidents of the United States have come from British ancestry, except two, both of whom were Dutch. Martin Van Buren was the first president of Dutch ancestry, and Roosevelt is the second. Washington, Adams, Madison, John Quinney Adams, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Filmore, Pierce, Lincoln, Johnson, Garfield, Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison were of English ancestry; Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Arthur and McKinley were Scotch-Irish; Monroe, Grant and Hayes were Scotch; Jefferson was Welsh. Tabulated, the record stands: Eng ish, 14; Scotch-Irish, 5; Scotch, 3; Dutch, 2; Welsh, 1. Higgins—What are those children running after that golfer for? Wiggins—They think he is a bagpipe player and they want to bear him play. A. Pigg is proprietor of a hotel in Topeka. The best news from Atchison is a drop in the wholesale price of potatoes. Wellington has examined its cash register and pronounces its wheat jobbilee a great success. In reporting the theft of two sets of harness a paper in Linn county adds that "Not a trace was left." Ottawa has quit prospecting for gas and will fall back on its high intellectual and moral culture. It will be a great success. It will be remembered that warriors who are plentiful in Leavenworth are never attracted to a poor town. Mr. Rinchake of Rome had his pockets picked at the Wellington fair last week. It isn't always advisable to do as the Romans do. A man tried to swindle Judge A. H. Horton of Topeka out of $1,400. What he got wouldn't pay his street car fare back to the depot. "Jim" Simpson of McPherson, who made $30,000 this month speculating in lard, was enough of a cook to know that lard causes "richness." It has been demonstrated in Kansas this year that it doesn't require moisture to make a mosquito crop. "Jake" McKnight, years ago the principal banker in Hutchinson, has been sentenced to the Kentucky penitentiary for embezzlement. It was discovered quite by accident that a society youth in Osage City carries a plug of tobacco on his watch chain in the absence of a watch. There is a Satchell creek in Butte county. It is probably so named because a person could carry all of the water in it in a rubber handling. "Farmer" A. W. Smith of McPasson will send his son to Europe to have his voice cultivated. The boy is said to have a voice that is a wonder. Thousands of acres of Kansas corn land are being planted in wheat this fall. Now is the time to place bet that next year will be a corn year in Kansas. The Ottawa woman who made offensive remarks about the assassination of President McKinley was taken in hand by the neighbor women and made to behave. A cow broke into an orchard near Manhattan a few nights ago and lifted on apples. And according to the Riley Regent the next day that cow gave two gallons of cider. J. Corbett, who was married the other day in Sumner county to his sixth wife, is not J. Corbett, the expugilist, though there seems to be something in the way of an analogy. The Topeka man who was brought up in the same town with Mine Nordica will expect, of course, to get free tickets to the show if the Maine prima donna ever sings in the Kansas capitol. The three waiting rooms in the new depot at Manhattan may take the place of the postoffice as a meeting place of kindred souls since free rural delivery has been established in that town. The great abundance of 'coons and 'possums in Kansas this year makes it apparent that if the drouth has not dried up everything to eat the state would have been overrun with these animals. The case of the Agricola woman who was bitten by a rattlesnake when she went out on her porch in her bare feet, means that women ought to wear shoes even when there are no serpents around. There is much regret in Emporia society over the loss of a citizen by removal who has married four wives in that city, and has regarded each one with more favor and affection than her predecessor. A wise girl in Garnett ties an apron around her waist whenever she sees her "steady" coming, and when she lets him in she blushes and excuses herself on the plea that she has been "helping Mamma." The Kansas legislature appropriated $5,000 last year to be spent on poison to exterminate prairie dogs. It is found that all the money has been spent, and only two prairie dogs are dead, and they were clubbed. Tom Cordry: Three hundred wheat drills have been sold in Pratt this season to farmers who are preparing evidence that Pratt can be the diamond studded buckle on the wheat belt if the farmers do their duty. Next to going over Niagara in a barrel Miss Tessie Delaney of Atchison holds the championship. She walked to the top of Pikes backward. Not only that, but she is a cripple, and uses two canes when she walks. A visiting woman, when calling on a friend, says the Leavenworth Western Life, was left a few moments with the little daughter of the hostess. She took the opportunity to clear some rather hazy points as to the family connections of her friend. As a beginner, she asked concerning the girl's malenau aunt: "Is she your aunt on your mother's or father's side, Mary?" Without the least hesitation the not replied: "Oh, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other. Depends on who's getting' the best of it." A middle aged widow of Russell wants "a husband." She specifies that "he must love me and call me honey." An Ottawa woman saw her baby fall into a well. She promptly jumped in after it, saved its life and then spanked it. A Leavenworth man, after driving 366 inches into his wall in search of a studding to drive a nail into has decided that there are none. An Atchison lawyer is authority for the statement that the fees for criminal cases have not aggregated a thousand dollars in five years in Atchison county. Wichita county advertises a schoolhouse for sale, and there would be no difficulty in finding a purchaser if it wasn't for the freight rate on schoolhouses. An item in the Parsons Sun shows how hard it is to raise triplets. A man who was born on the same day as his two sisters—who still survive him—recently died near Parsons from the effect of a fall from the upper floor of his porch. He was only 57 years old and it is believed he might have been spared had he not been one of triplets, who, for some mysterious reason, never reach a ripe old age.