The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper evoted to the Race in this section of the Country will yet force Time TALES OF TWO CITIES HAVE YOU? Say Neighbor did you ever stop to think just a tew moments, woll if you have, has it ever crossed your mind what your child on (if you have any ) are going to do in life. Don't you realize that you stand in your own light when you refuse to patronize a Negro enterprise of any kind. You may be riding a high headed horse just now but don't forget you may be riding an old plug before you die and your children walking. Use Common sense and think a few things over to yourself-see if conscience (if you have any) will not tell you to trade with your race. Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Washington of 416 Rowland ave. are both quite sick. Mr. C. Monhalland of 220 Locust st. has removed to 1310 Groves st. Mrs. A. Brown of 406 Freeman ave. is quite ill this week. Mrs. Hally Trav克斯 of Sedalia Mo. who has spent two weeks in this city the guest of Mrs. Gochch of 576 Troost and has returned home. Quarterly meeting Sunday at the C.M. E. church 4 h & Oakland ave. Mrs. Jennie Clemons of 208 Troop is spending some time with her son John in the I T. George Madison of 13 & Armstrong st was very badly cut with knife in hands of one Willie Ford. Rev. Biake of Olathe Kansas is assisting Rev. W. L. Grant in his rev, val services. Mrs. Augustus Brown ac companied with Miss Miss Ruth Griffin made our office a pleasant call this week. Mrs. Anna Sykes of 606 State left this week for Turner Kansas where she will spend a few days on business. Mrs. James Carter of Boonville Mo who has been very sick for three weeks in this city, at the residence of Mrs Anna Sykes of State ave. is improving. Dr G.E. Horsey and family have removed from 634 Everett, to 1317 N. Stuh F. Fine doctor's office is still at the same old place 500 Minn. ave. up stairs The funeral of Mr John Emanuel Randallis of 406 Freeman ave, who accidently fell into a sealing tub at Caduhay Pacing Cos., plant last week was ben from Mont Pleasant Baptist Church as Tuesday afternoon Rev.J. R. Richardson officited and delivered a very touching sermon. The Kansas City, Embalming Co. handled the remains in a manner that looked much comment of praise. Jesse Childs a 13 year old colord boy was so badly mangled by a Missouri Pacific freight train yesterday at Guinotte and Lydia ave., in Kansas City, Mo that he died at the city hospital. We are very, proud to note that Mr. Samuel Wyathe of this city, who has been sick in the Mo., Pacific Hospital for about a month is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs.Wm. Lucas gave a dinner party in honor of Mr. Gus Hall of Black Patti Troubadours and Earnest Hogan the famous Rag—time King. Among the others present were: Mr. Savington and wife, Mrs. Denstan, Mr. Sam Jones Mrs. Brown and Miss Rosetta Holvay. Carls and music was the features of the afternoon. The dinner was elaborate. Mr. Editor allow me to say that March is very calm to day but it was not last Saturday the lst. It came in like a lion and may go our like a lamb. In the midst of the stormy weather, sister Susie Radford led a host of the members of the Rosseau Baptist church to their well beloved pastor, Rev D. B. Jackson and stormed him and his wife Mrs. D. B. Jackson with many good things to eat, that made them think if they were a sleepy they could be aroused by such kind members of the church. Refreshment of ice cream was prepared for the occasion. It made the pastor and wife smile as sister Etna Fitzugh called the roll of donors. Some of them heard of what was done on Sat. eve, and they responded afterwards. The elder says God bless the good people. Aceaven CANDY CARMANIOS NEW WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP gentle stamped C C C. Never sold in bulk Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." All diseases start in the bowels keep them open or you will be sick, cascarets act like nature Keep liver and bowels active without a sickening gripping feeling. six million people take and recommend cascarets. Try a 10c. box. All druggiate THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. Pitchfork Tillman At San Juan Hill. Notwithstanding all that has been done to hide the fact that the colored troops saved the day at San Juan Hill, it has at last cropped out that had they not exhibited the valor they did Mr. Roosevelt might not be president of these United States to-day. Time and again it has been stated that the statement, and the facts may not have come to light for sometime had it not been made possible by the President's action in the Schley case. They following taken from the editorial columns of the Baltimore Ameican substantiates what has always been claimed by the colored people, but as strenuously denied by the whires it s; "Theodore Roosevelt reached his present exalted position because of his performance at the battle at San Juan Hill. There he led his forces as Schley led on the 3rd of July. He was ever in the forefront, as was Schley. He was the senior officers present at the storming of the blockhouses, as was Schley the senior in the destruction of Cervera's fleet. He and his force was about to be annihilated when the colored regulars came to his relief and saved the day, as Schley and the Brooklyn were about to be annihilated when the Oregon burst through the smoke and turnd tables. Upon this performance Theodore Roosevelt was hailed as a hero, elected governor of New York, then vice-president, thence to step into the White House. The paralleled between the cases of Roosevelt decides that Schley's affair was "a captains' fight." Will he stand by that dictum? Will he admit that he has himself usurped glory that belongs to others? Will he expose himself as a masquerade der in false colors? Will he, in short be consistent and correct history by so lemmily declaring that the storming of San Juan Hill was "privates" fight." Only by doing so can be justify his decision against Schley's commandership at Santiago." AMEN! AMEN!! amen!!! Speaking of the prize fight had in Louisville last Saturday night the Chicago Tribune says: Bob Armstrong, the colored heavyweight, who, with Tom Sharkey, trained Sullivan, was not permitted to second Dave, ns Mayor Grainger will not allow a colored man to second a white fighter a white man to go behind colored fighter. Nuraj will permit a contest between white and colored pugilists. Now, if the mayor of that city of first-class white gentlemen will go one step further and put his official foot down on the practice of the best white men of the city insulting and debaucheng Negro women in spite of his natural prejudice some people will believe he is sincere in his efforts to keep the races separate. -- Conservator KEEP THE BOYS AT WORK Put your boy to work if he is not in school. If there is nothing else for him to do, put him to white washing the back fence. Keep the lawn, and even cut the winter supply of wood. Anything is better for him than leafing about town at the head end of a cigarette stump, learning all evil and contracting all the vices that the devil keeps afloat to catch idlers. No honest labor will hurt your boys, but the evil habits he may contract on the street may kill his soul and poison his moral nature so as to make him a detriment to the community in, which he lives and bow down his grayhaired parents with sorrow. If the father and mother of to-day would learn the importance of training their sons to be industrious and keep them off the streets, the coming generation would be inestimably better off.—Ex. NEWS THAT MIGHT IN TEREST YOU. Parson Davies, the well known promoter of pujilistic events and formerly manager of the late Peter Jackson is now in New Orleans organizing a select company to compose a magnificent production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to be produced in England. It is said he is preparing some levee colored individuals real in every sense of the word to go. There are Four full fledged Negro Grocery stores in this city—do you trade with any of them? A two-bodied baby, with one head and two faces, was born at Omaha, Neb. Jan. 18. One face is in the natural position, the other at the back of the head. The bodies are join together from the neck to the hips. The child died in a few hours. The body will be exhibited. It is the only case of the kind on record. Mr. William Faulconer, of Danville,Ky. owns a remarkable rooster, a most unusual freak of nature. He is of the game stock variety, and has four well-developed wings and with his double capacity of locomotion can sail the air like a Mauser bullet. Mr. Falconer is thinking of sending his chicken to some Eastern freak museum, where it is believed fighter will command a fancy price. Mrs Albert Yeager, of Philadelyhie, is the mother of a baby which was born with four full grown teeth. The child is perfectly formed. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING, A Prominent Race Man Honored anff Highly Respected. In all communities throughout this broad domain there lives, breathes and mingles in the active pursuits of life, a class of citizens, who are making an indelible impression, for the betterment of humanity endowing by setting worthy examples, to constrain others of a wayward disposition to lift up their heads, and push onward and upward to a higher plain of usefulness and a broader, grander and more loyal citizenship. It gives us unbounded pleasure to speak of that class of earnest workers, on whom the entire community and country at large, look for that stamina and manhood that makes and puts "America" in the forefront "the grandest in all the land." When by unstinted industry, PETER H. BURGESS Mr. John W. Wilson, Depuiy Street Commissioner KANSAS CITY KANSAS. indomitable courage, will and push, one mortal rises to a higher eminence then another, no praises should be reserved in telling to the world his history. We have known the personage, about whom we write to day, since our childhood. We have never yet found him to be anything less than a quiet, steady going, upright citizen. One who has ever been ready to lend his excellent qualities and intelligence towards bettering the race and community in which he lives. Could we chronicle the life story of thousands of such esteemed colored citizens, we could truthfully join in the grand chorus that Ethiopia is indeed stretching forth her hands? We now take pleasure in telling our readers that the "cut" presented in this issue is a true likeness of our esteemed fellow citizen Mr. John Wilson. Mr. Wilson was ushered upon lifes stage of action in that familiar locality of staid old Missouri, known as Clay County near Liberty, Sept. 1859. In 1863, with his mother, brother and sister he came to Kansas City, Kansas then known as Wyandotte. In this city and the little village or Quindaro, except on a few occasions his boyhood days were spent and the dawning of man hoc VOTE FOR HIM. Among the men, we in common with the entire second ward desire you to remember on election day, Tuesday April 1st. Is George Gruble Jr. the present efficient and popular councilman from the 2nd ward, and candidate for re-election. He is a young man reared from a boy in our community has established a business that does as much if not more to advertise our thriving little city then anything else in the business line. He has acquitted the duties of his office the past two years now drawing to a close, with entire satisfaction. No one can truthfully say that he has not endeavored in every instance to stand up for his ward and the very best interest of our city. A vote for him is a vote in the right direction. Never in the history of the 2nd ward have the Negroes been given the representation and consideration justly due them, as they have since that famous team of nome boys "Gruble & McFadden" represented in the council chamber the old 2nd ward. RACE REFLECTIONS. St. John A. M. E. Church. Nashville, Tennessee, worth $25,000, with a debt of $7,000 hanging over it, was sold was last week at auction. It was the oldest congregation of African Methodists in that city and the faithful members stood around and wept as it went from their grasp. There are about six or seven heavy debt churches in the A.M. E Zion Church which we hope can be cleared of debt and saved. Let the ministers of Zion be wise and not for a big name build and buy churches whose debts will be difficult to pay - Star of Zion. Register at once. forever came. In 1869 he entered the employ of the K. P. Railroad, later the Union Pacific, here for twenty years he labored incessantly endeavoring at each successive step to better his condition. In the district schools of this city the foundation of an education was laid which was built upon by observation and contact with the realities of life, as they were met in a hustle for existence. In '83 he united in marriage to Miss Marie Jackson, a prominent young lady in the social circles at that time in our city. From this union there is now a little family of two girls and one boy, all giving promise of arriving at maturity cultured refined and intelligent bings. MF. Wilson enjoyed the estimation of the public to that extent, that he was appointed deputy street commissioner of Kansas City, Kas. by Mayor Robert L. Marshman, a position which he still holds under the regime of that excellent gentleman W. H. Craddock, the undisputed champion of the peoples rights. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Order of Twelve one of the most noted and strongest and most reliable Negro secret fraternities in the country. He become a member of Morning Star Temple No. 2 Kansas City Mo. Twenty three years ago He is now a member and C. T. of Washington Temple No. 25 in this city. He is also International D. G. M. having been commissioned by the late Father Moses Dickson founder of the Order. He too is chairman of the Grand Board of Judges of the Kansas—Nebraska Jurisdiction and is held in high esteem by all. He is prominently identified with several race enterprises and is president of the Mission church Literary society, one of the leading Literary organizations in the city. He possesses a beautiful home and other real estate and is a thorough race man generously respected and is always loyal to his race and their best interests. His record as as official in this city stands in bold relief and one to be eminently proud. Mrs. Lillie Moore one of our beautiful young ladies who recently went Denver to live says in a letter to her mother that Kansas City ain't 1-2-3. Negro Business League. The National Negro Business League will meet this year at Richmond, Va., in August, and it is of the utmost importance that there should be a very large representation present, larger than the Boston or Chicago representation. How is this to be secured? Our business men and woman all long the line should begin to organize now in their several localities, and not wait until a short time before the August meeting. The local organizations should be perfected and maintained all the year; they should be rallying points of our business men and women, centers of inspiration and hope, around which the best thought and effect of the race can find expression. The hope of the race is along lines of business and industrial development. We think that this is now very generally admitted, and that he serves the race best who does most to stimulate its activities along those lines. Mr. Booker T. Washington, the president of the league, enjoys the confidence and respect of the best people in the country, and the league is fortunate in having such a man as its president. Let our men and women all over the country, where there is no business or ganization, begin now to o.ganize, and let the August meeting of the league at Richmond be all that could be desired as an expression of the business influences of the race in the country.—N. Y. Age. Let your light shine in your home and don't be afraid that it will shine too bright. Don't be turning it down a hamburger as on people do the gas. REMEMBER GRUPEY and Sit down HERE AND THERE. Principal Booker T. Washington, by special invitation, dined recently in New York with Mr. John D. Rockefeller and his son, Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for the purpose of talking over the needs of education in the South. There has been formed at the University of Michigan Colored Students' club," a fraternal society which is to have a clubhouse with sleeping rooms for members and a library that will be at the disposal of all the colored students in the university. The Detroit Free Press says that the Negroes were forced to this action because of the discrimination against them that they have encountered at Ann Arbor. Many hotels and boarding houses were shut against them. Two philanthropic men of Detroit are assisting the enterprise, and it is believed that it will be of much help to colored students, particularly on their first arrival at Ann Arbor. Roscoe Connelling Bruce also looms up as a Phil Beta Kappal student. The Cyclist of London says: "Another. Major' Taylor has been discovered in the person of Brahim, an Algerian, who possessed a very fine turn of speed. Despite his many good offers to race on Sunday he absolutely refuses all. He, too, is a man of color." They Say. Black Patti went up in "G" Now really has storm blown over. There is another wedding in the air. Can you blame me for loving that man. Where was Moses when the light went out. When the harvest days are over Bertie oar. Just because she made those apple pies. She was from the Sea Foam block and she attended the Matinee. There are a couple of prominent married men learning the lullaby. The Mail man on 8th St., will certainl-17 not want for Medical attention for he has a Doctor for a Neighbor on each side of him. Since' he has been sick she seems oneside and so sad—poor girl. We are coming Father Abraham strong. No matter how exemplary one may live or how satisfactory his own life may be to himself, there will be some one according to another process of reasoning who will be able to find defects in such a life and suggest methods by which it may be improved. South Omaha. On last Saturday eve, Mrs. Fannie Washington gave a beautiful Reception in honor of her mother Mrs. Elizzie beth Robinson of Kansas City, Kansas the parler was tastefully decorated in green an pink corsets. The evening was spent in Music an conversations an addresses by Rev. Cannon, Mr. Wilson Lewis as Joseph Maryberry, as their said to Mrs Robinson in they remarks. HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHTENS ALL Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. HARTONA makes the hair grow long, straight, beautiful, soft, and glossy. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, Itching, Eczema, and all Scalp Diseases. Prevents Falling Out of the Hair and Premature Baldness. HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHTENS THE KINKIEST HAIR. Guaranteed harmless. Sent anywhere on receipt of price—25c, and 50c. per box. HARTONA FACE BLEACH will gradually turn the skin of a black or dark person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person almost white. 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Mrand Mrs Julia Howard entertain at Sunday morning brakfast in honor of Mrs Robinson of K. C. K. an Alvin & Eda Robinson of Parksville Mo. The table being beautiful decorated in pink carvats, those Present Mrs Robinson Alvin, Eda Mr. Mrs. Washington. Mrs, Dora Miller of Kan. City, Kans. is expected in the city soon to open up a Art Club for the benefit of the Ladies here who are anxious to have her come. The Ladies All will meet at Mrs, Fannus Washington next Thursday. Wind was so brisk in the vicinity of Liberal one day recently that workmen on the Rock Island extension complained that they couldn't hit the spikes with their sledgehammers. A crying baby interrupted one of the speakers at the alumni banquet in Lawrence. The speaker passed and their added: "I will suspend my remarks while the class of 1916 gives it all." Workmen repairing the roof of the court house at Cimarron found a bushes of cartridges concealed in the garret. They had been hidden there by sharp-shooters during the county seat war in Gray county fifteen years ago. James Jenkins of Grand township advertises in the Pratt County Union that he will pay twenty-five cents each for all bull snakes three feet or over in length. He domestics them and they keep the premises free from rats and mice. Thirty-one railway conductors have made reports to the state labor commissioner of work and pay for the year. An average run of 3.353 miles per month was made. Their average annual income was $1,071 and their expenses $778. No drafted Kansas soldier ever served in the army of his country. February 15, 1865, a draft actually commenced in Kansas and was continued until March 16, when a peremptory order came from Washington to suspend the draft and release the men who had been conscripted. This order came in response to official protests from Kansas in which the fact was set forth that the state had furnished more troops in proportion to her population than any other state in the Union. Under all the calls from 1810 to 1865 the Kansas quota was 12,832. The actual number of volunteers furnished was 21,806, or 8,875 in excess of her just proportion. On the theory that the Kaw river is navigable it is under the supervision of the federal government and the state ash warden has no jurisdiction along its banks. It is, therefore, permissible to catch any kind of fish in any way at any time—if you can. At the twenty-fourth commencement of the University of Canaas degrees were granted to 15. The graduates from the Sch. numbered 113. in a TRADE-MARA. AFTER QUEUE MARTONA TRADE-MARK. BENJAMINA MARTONA MARCH 7. 1902 mysterious way. LORD KELVIN AS DAMOCLES The Great Scotch Scientist's Absolute Faith in Figures Lord Kelvin, so his friends say, used to make of himself a sort of Damocles, but it was a cannon ball instead of a sharp sword which was suspended over his head. Few living scientists have as high a reputation as Lord Kelvin, and few have to their credit more useful inventions or valuable discoveries. Though now in his seventy-eighth year the old professor, who for more than half a century occupied the chair of natural philosophy at Glasgow university, still maintains his reputation for being one of the most energetic men in Scotland. Those who know him are fond of telling of the boyish eagerness and almost incredible energy with which he attacks his work. When lecturing he used to become so absorbed and wrapped up in the experiments he was conducting that he scarcely waited for the results. Disdainting the services of an assistant, he scurried about his lecture room like a youth of 16. Indeed the students liked to say that they never saw him cross his laboratory except at a run. The ruling passion of Lord Kelvin, who is a member of half the learned societies of Europe, and who has been decorated by the emperor of Germany, the president of France and the king of Belgium, is his absolute faith in figures, and it is this ruling passion which led to his experiment as a Damocles. When he has once solved a problem in mathematics he is willing to stake upon its correctness not only his reputation, but, if necessary, his life. Taking an immensely heavy cannon ball, he calculated with the utmost accuracy the size of the smallest wire which would bear the weight of the load of iron. He then procured a length of wire just the requisite strength, and, to prove the truth of his figuring, had the cannon ball suspended over his lecturing platform at the very spot where it would be most likely to strike and crush him should the wire give way, and it remained there for weeks.—London Mail. MORGAN'S ONE "INTERVIEW." The Story of It, as Told by the Multi- millionaire Himself. The interviewer disturbs J. Pierpont Morgan. He makes his boast that he never has been interviewed, and declares that in the last seven years but one interviewer ever has been able to approach him. The story of this one exception he yesterday told to Bishop Potter and Doane. On a recent trip to Europe a representative of the London Times would not take no for his answer. "Tell the Times man my time is worth £10 a minute," at last said Morgan. "The Times man says he'll take two minutes at that," came back the reply. "He handed me £20," said Mr. Morgan, "talked just two minutes by both our watches, did all the talking himself, and rose to go on the instant. 'Why do you want to see me?' I asked in curiosity. 'Ob, I wagered £100 that I would interview you personally, that's all,' was his reply. I congratulated him on his enterprise and dismissed him within the third minute of his call." "Did you keep his £20?" dryly asked Bishop Potter, as Mr. Morgan did. "Yes, and I haven't earned money in a long time that gave me the satisfaction that £20 did."—San Francisco Examiner. A Slight Mistake. The prospect of a dinner will generally keep a hungry man awake. But the victim of absent-mindedness seems at times unable to distinguish between what to eat and what to leave. This was the case with the man who went into a London restaurant, called for a newspaper, and, only when roused from his reading by a waiter ordered coffee and a ham sandwich. The waiter executed the order and deposited with the homely fare a large pasteboard check. The absent-minded one went on reading his paper. Some quarter of an hour after the waiter returned. "Anything more, sir?" he said. "Yes," snapped the man, "get me a fresh sandwich; the one you brought me was as dry as a bone." The waiter looked down and gasped. "Lor!" he exclaimed, "here's the sandwich I brought! You've eaten the check!" French Giants Materialize Every now and then another giant keeps turning up at Rouen, anxious to convince the executors of the Comte de Pierrecourt that he is the biggest man in France, and therefore entitled to a half-partion of the count's £4,000 legacy. The Pierrecourt hears have already begun suit to have the "giant couple" clause in the count's will set aside, averring that the testator was not of sound mind when he stipulated that method of improving the breed of Frenchmen. In the meantime the documents in the case are filed at the mayor's office and are accumulating amazingly. They comprise written applications enough to create the impression that there are not more than a handful of citizens in the whole country less than seven feet high. Rulps on Mesa Verda. The Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association is endeavoring to preserve the ruins which lie on the Mesa Verda, in the southwestern corner of Colorado. Here are more than three hundred cliff dwellings, including the noted "Cliff Palace." All of them are in the Ute Indian reservation and a 'ten years' lease has been made with the Indians, since neither the general government nor that of the state can control in- American Citizen Publishing and Printing Co. VERY WEEK AT 411 MINNESOTA AVE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Telephone "375 Blue" Terms of Subscription. Week y in year ..... $1.00 Entered at the pos. office in Kansas City Kansas as second class matter. Read The Citizen. There are so private schools on the islands, the twenty buildings on the 300 acres of the Malawi Training institution, which is twenty miles from Apia, were all erected by the students under the direction of their teachers. Fifty acres of the property has been cultivated, and 900 cocoanut and 1,200 bread-fruit trees have been set out. The food supply for the institution is obtained from the neighboring waters, which abound in fish. Each student cultivates a garden and raises sugar cane, yams, bananas and taro. The Acoustic Telescope The British war office, it is reported is making arrangements for carrying on a series of elaborate experiments with an apparatus invented by General Gillette, of the itil in army, called the acoustic telemote, the object of which is the location of the direction from which hot filling proceeds and the determination of its distance. The Italian government, it is stated, has a member of the instruments for experimental use in the approaching military maneuvers. With the object of encouraging agriculture in the Soudan the British government has tentatively begun to purchase the crops raised by the tellahs. Special commissions have been appointed for the regulation and establishment of titles to real property in town and country. These commissions settle the questions at issue on the spot. The continuous possession of a piece of ground for five years is regarded as sufficient evidence of title. The prohibition to grow tobacco has been withdrawn. An experiment in colonization has been carried out in the districts along the Blue and White Niles with two disbanded Soudene battalions, but even so soon as this there is a considerable improvement in the condition of affairs in the Soudan. Enel Out of Waste. One problem which municipal authorities of all countries have been seeking to solve is how to best dispose of the city's garbage. A process has been discovered in France, by which garbage is converted into briquettes. It consists of mincing the refuse, straw, paper and the like and adding tar and naphthalene. The whole mass is then mixed in a kneading apparatus and dried, and pressed into briquettes. The director of the Paris municipal laboratory says that these briquettes have a slight odor of gas, burn brightly, and envelop heat slowly. With a more highly perfected method of manufacture they will engender less ash, and the heat-producing qualities will be about the same as those of common coal. Restoring Frescoes. The castle of Clis, in Trient, at present used as a barns, contains some very fine frescoes and wall paintings made when the Cardinal von Cles occupied the palace is bishop of the se. They die from 1530 to 1553. Three famous Italian artists were summoned to Cles to beautify the castle—Dassio Dus, from Farnara; Romanino from Brescia, and Figolino, from Viena. A much of Dossi's work is visible but part has been unfortunately white washed over. Ths works are now to be rescued as far as possible from destination. TIME KILLING IN $OOIETY. Typical Modern House Party on a Scottish Estate. I am sure our house party must be a success. The royalty, it is true, and his name looks more imposing in print than the owner does at breakfast. However, that is a detail. The fact remains that we are a typical modern house party, sumptuously lodged and fed by a typical modern millionaire. Everything in the house is luxurious. The morning tea is served up on priceless Sevres; we awake to the strains of the hagpipes; the breakfast table is laden with every delicacy; at lunch, when we join the shooters, a hot meal appears miraculously on the heather; the finest grouse moor, the best deer forest, and a magnificent salmon river all appear to be at hand. Carlton has brought down seven stags to his own rife in four days, and landed, according to the gillie's account, the biggest fish of the century, and I am the proudest of wives. In the evening, between tea and dinner, our host touches a bell and an organ appears, who plays in the twilight on the beautiful organ in the hall; and after dinner a violinist (also kept on the premises) makes the most divine music in the drawing room. For our host is a patron of the arts, and to what more delightful use can money be put than that of encouraging talent and being able to gratify one's taste for it in one's own house? The Grand Duke shores throughout the performance; the cabinet minister keeps time with his foot, and at the close of the "Kreutzer Sonata" asks for Scottish airs. The celebrated beauties make heroic onslaughts on the eligible parties, who show distinct signs of following the Grand Duke's example. Mr. Veynor announces that the music is "too clear," and the generality of us escape upstairs to each other's sitting-room for a final game of bridge. Such is life—London Outlook. HERE YOU ARE The best place in town to Mr. D. A. Wynne the old reliable boot and shoe maker, has re-opened at 1110 N. 5th St. where he invites all his old customers and new once as well. His reputation is so well established that he needs no elaborate introduction. When wanting anything done in his line don't fail to give him a call. Publication Notice In the District Court sitting within and for the County of Wyandotte and the State of Kansas. Callie H. Johnson, Plaintiff. vs. Henry Johnson, Defendant. The State of Kansas, To Henry Johnson, you will hereby take notice that you have been sued by the above named plain tiff in the entitled court, and that the said plaintiff has filed her petition in the above named court, and for the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas against you on the 10th day of December, 1901 and unless you answer on or before the 19th, day of February 1902, said petition will be taken as true and judgement will be rendered against you. The nature of the relief that the plain tiff seeks is an absolute divorce forever dis solving the bonds of matrimony now existing between you and the plaintiff. and such other relief as in the premises the nature of the plaintiffs prayer may be entitled to. Dated and first published the 81st, day of January 1009. Callie H. Johnson, Plaintiff, By Chas. W. Frye, Attorney. Publication Notice In the Justice Court, before J. M. Mason Township in Wyandotte County Kansas. Martha Waller, Plaintiff, To Annius Woods, you are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above entitled Court, and that said plaintiff has filed her petition in the Justice Court in and for Quindaro Town- ship in Wyandotte County Kansas, against you on the 25th day of January 1902 and unless you answer on or before the 19th day of February 1902, said petition will be taken as true and judgement will be rendered against you, in the f $2.75, with costs of action, under the provisional remedy of attachment and garnishment, under the laws of the State Dated and first published Jan. 31st. Date and first published Jan. 31st. 1902. her Martha X Waller. mark Plaintiff; By Chas. W. Frye, Attorney ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte } ss. In the Probate Court in and for said county In the matter of the estate of Pleasant Matthews deceased Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of Pleasant J. Mathews, late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 3rd, day of February, 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the under signed for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. MARAGET J. MATHEWS. Administratrix of the Estate of Pleasant J. Mathews, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have here to set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate [ SEAL ] Court this 3, day of February, 1902. K. P. SNYDER, Probate Judge. (First published February, 7, 1902.) State of Kansas, \textit{ss.} Wyandotte County. \textit{} In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurdge, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurdge late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 8th day of February A. D. 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such Estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. PETER YOUNG. Administrator of the Estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurge. Deceased. GO TO MRS. F. BUSH'S RESTAURANT And short order house. No. 347 Minn., Ave. Meals Iveda all hours, cooked to suit the tastes o all. Cleanliness made speciality. Regular Meals! 3015 Don't forget number FREE IF YOU ASK FOR IT, DIAMOND "C" FRANK PARK SOAP PREMIUM LIST. DIAMOND "C" SOAP IS AN HONEST SOAP AND WILL DO HONEST WORK. IT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. Complete catalogue showing over 300 premiums that may be secured by saving the wrappers, furnished free up- on request. 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Gounod's opera "Faust" was nearly lost to the world by the religious scruples of the great composer. About the time he wrote it he determined henceforth only to write sacred music, but, happily for posterity, he thought better of his resolution. Bare Old Bible Found. A wonderful old Bible has just been discovered. in Venice, the fortunate finder being Leo S. Olschki, a well-known antiquarian of Florence. It is in five large volumes, and was printed in Rome in the printing house of Don Pietro Massimo in 1471 and 1472. Soon after it came from the press it was purchased by a patrician family of Venice, and it was in the archives of this family that Olschki discovered it A Czar's Novel Visiting Card A CAR WORKING CARD From the Ladies' Home Journal: The Russians tell a story of the late Czar Alexander III. that upon the rare occasions when it was incumbent upon him to pay a call he would take a gold coin bearing his "image and superscription" and twisting it between thumb and finger leave it in lieu of card—the only man in Russia who had strength for the feat. American Bottles the Best. American bottles are preferred to all others for the export trade, and especially in warm climates where American and English goods come into close competition. American glass is said to stand tropical climates better than the English, the reason being that it is better annealed. Transvaal Minerals. The Transvaal is the richest country in the world so far as minerals are concerned. 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PreParing and giving a higher training to those desiring Preparatory Fitting students for the Normal department, those deprived of such in childhood. MUSICAL DE For Furnishing an opportunity for of fine art STATE INDUS A great school for our youth: now a part of our State's interests. Negroes should here train their children for the Work of life and its duties. DEPARTMENTS Normal Department. Preparing for the work of teaching in the public schools and giving a higher training to those desiring the same. Fitting students for the Normal department and giving an opportunity for education to those deprived of such in childhood. MUSICAL DEPARTMENT For Furnishing an opportunity for Proficiency, that Finest of fine arts—musk Department It is the intention of this department to work of life in the industrial world. We are a labor unions and stern demands nothing without compete with any in the world of skilled labor, the future of his children or the future of his Courses.—Architectural or Mechanical newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business, plain sewing. FACILITY The faculty is composed of graduates, from Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best school following is the faculty, Rev. William, Tecumseh in Philosophy and Logic; Charles S. Bownan and Carpentry; John Charles Wood, instructor force, instructor in business course and teacher of tailoring; J. V. Emmons, B. S. of Moore of Fiske, professor of language and litter, Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, pianist; music Mrs. Lecturers of various topics have been secured. OPPORTION The constant y labor for the settlement of the young helping hand to the same! No student is made well. The most deserving are given credit for Expenses—Board per month, $1. It is not necessary the encouraged here; students are advised to bring apparel is not needed by one struggling for an arrangements for entrance can be made by will send one of the latest complete catalogue. Write at once for information or catalogue to William. this department to give our youth training in real world. We are opinioned that in this department nothing will so aid the Negro as to world of skilled labor. With such training not the future of his race. Aral or Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Printer, Keeping, Business Course and Stenography. LITY. Graduates from Lincoln, William; the best schools of the country maintain William, Tecumseh Vernon, B. S. D., A. Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in wood; instructor in printing; Joseph Nellis course and stenography; James T. B. Vernon, B. S., of Willeboro; professor of language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher of music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of have been secured. PORTUNITIES. These teachers are the element of the young people under their. No student is made to feel the sting of poverty given credit for the same. per month, $3.50; tuition per per month, $1; necessary that Extravagance are advised o bring strong substantial chic- per struggle for an education. School open can be made by writing Pres. W. T. Vernon. complete catalogues given full information on or catalogue to William T. Vernon. It is the intention of this department to give our youth training, fitting them for the work of life in the industrial world. We are opinioned that in this day or competition and labor unions and stern demands nothing will so aid the Negro as to pr compete with any in the world of skilled labor. With such training no man need fear for the future of his children or the future of his race. Courses.—Architectural or Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Printing, both job and newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business Course and Stenography, Dressmaking and plain sewing. FACILTY. The faculty is composed of graduates. from I: Lincoln, Wilberforce, Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best schools of the country maintained by our people. Following is the faculty. Rev. William Tecumsch Vernon. B. S. D. A. M. Pres. Lecturer. in Hhilbophopy and Logie· Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing and Carpentry; John Charles Wood, instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson Gate of Willeford force instructor in business's course and stenography; James T. Edwards of Hampton; James R. B. S., of Willefordor professor mathematics; A. F. Moore of Fiske, professor of the literature; S. L. Goss, teacher of dressmaking; Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, plam\music\Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of selence. In addition lecturers of various topics have been secured. helping hand to the same. No student is made to feel the sting of poverty, but merit about tells. The most deserving are given credit for the same. Expenses—Board per month. $3.50; tuition per month, $1; room rent per month, $1; incidental fee on trance, $1. It is not necessary that Extravagant habits be encouraged here; students are ady sed o bring strong substantial clothing, but expensive apparel is not needed by one struggling for an education. School opened Sept. 9, 1903. All arrangements for entrance can be made by writing Pres. W. T. Vernon, Quindardo, Kas. He will send one of the latest complete catalogues given full information regarding the same. A recent German invention is armored glass, or glass cast, with wire gauze incised in their substance, so as to increase the resistance to pressure shock, and the effects of heat. Tests of the new material have been made at the Chemnitzer technological museum which show that the armored glass is much stronger, and where the ordinary glass broke under sudden applications of pressure the strengthened material only cracked, and the cracks caused by changes of temperature did not allow either damp or flame to pass. Quindaro, Kansas. Armored Glass give our youth training, fitting them for competition and so aid the Negro as to pa er. With such training no man need fear for race. drawing Carpentry, Printing, both job and Course and Stenography Dressmaking and Lincoln, Wilberforce, of the country maintained by our people Vernon, B. S. D., A. M., Press, Lectur- Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing in printing; Joseph Nelson Garret of Wilber- graphy; James T. Edwards of Hampton Wilborloe, professor mathematics; A. lature; S. L. Gross, teacher of dressmaking H. Moore, teacher of science. In addition UNITIES se teachers and officers ing people under their care and gladly lend e to feel the sting of poverty, but merit alo- the same. th, $5.50; tuition per month, $1; room re- per month, $1; incidental fee on en- at Extravagant habits be strong substantial clothing, but expensive education. School opened Sept. 9, 1900. Matting Press, Wa. T. Vernon, Quindaro, Kas. He given full information regarding the same. T. Vernon. Gom Paul's Pajamas From the London Globe: An informing story is being told of Mr Kruger. Returning home from one of his journeys to England, he brought with him a pair of pajamas, and his appearance at night in this clothing nearly frightened the life out of the good Tante, his wife, "What that?" she demanded. "Sleeping clothes from England," said Mr. Kruger, with misgiving. "Then take them off," responded Tante, "and come to bed in your velldshoe (shoes)." Can it be Mr. Kruger's habit to go to bed in his boots? HERE DOCTORS FAIL Cure Woman's Ills, Lydia E. 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SUPREME COURT PASSES ON ILINOIS ANTI-OPTION ACT. PUTS BAN ON ALL DEALING IN FUTURES Justices Brewer and Peckham Dissented from Opinion—Law Imposes Fine of $10 to $1,000 for Buying or Selling Options to Buy or Sell Grain or Other Commodity at Future Time. WASHINGTON.—(Special.) The United States supreme court has affirmed the decree of the supreme court of the state of Illinois in the case of Alfred G. Booth vs. the state of Illinois, involving the validity of the state statute imposing a fine of from $10 to $1,000 for dealing in futures. The decision of the state court upheld the law, and this opinion sustains that decision. The opinion was handed down by Justice Fuller, and was dissented from by Justices Brewer and Peckham. The Illinois law involved is section 130 of the criminal code of the state and it provides that whoever contracts to have or give to himself or another the option to sell or buy at a future time any grain or other commodity, or forestals the market by spreading false rumors to influence the price of commodities or corners in the market shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $1,000, or confined in the county jail not exceeding one year or both. In delivering the opinion of the court Justice Harlan said that Booth had been indicted "on the charge of violating the statute so far as it related to options to buy grain or other commodities at a future time." He was found guilty and adjudged to pay a fine of $100. In the course of his opinion Justice Harlan said: "We cannot say from any facts judicially known to the court or from the evidence in this case that the prohibition of options to sell grain at a future time has in itself no possible relation to the suppression of gambling in grain contracts in respect of which the parties contemplate only a settlement on the basis of differences in the contract and market prices. Perhaps the legislature thought that dealing in options to sell or buy at a future time, although not always or necessarily gambling, may have the effect to keep out of the market, while the options last, the property which is the subject of the options and thus assist purchasers to establish for a time what are known as corners, whereby the ordinary and regular sales or exchanges of such property based upon existing prices may be interfered with and persons who have in fact no grain and do not care to handle any are enabled practically to control prices. Or the legislature may have thought that options to sell or buy at a future time were in their essence mere speculations in prices and tended to foster a spirit of gambling. In all this, the legislature may have been mistaken. If so, the mistake was not such as to justify the conclusion that the statute was a mere cover to destroy a particular kind of business not inherently harmful or immoral. It must be assumed that the legislature was of the opinion that an effectual mode to suppress gambling grain contracts was to declare illegal all options to sell or buy at a future time. The court is unable to say that the means employed were not appropriate to the end sought to be attained, and which it was competent for the state to accomplish. We can not adjudge that the legislature of Illinois transceded the limits of constitutional authority when enacting the statute in question." The opinion of the supreme court was affirmed. MET DEATH IN A BATH HOUSE Prominent Chicago Jewellery Killed in a Mysterious Manner CHICAGO.—(Special.) After spending twenty-four hours in the Great Northern bath-house J. R. Davidson, Western manager for the Philadelphia Watch and Case company, and prominent in Chicago jewelry trade circles, was found unconscious by attendants in the place. Davidson was removed to St. Luke's hospital, where he died. A post-mortem examination revealed a serious fracture of the skull. Even the frontal lobes of the brain had been affected, and it was made clear that Davidson died from the effects of a severe blow. Whether he fell on the marble floor or was struck has not yet been determined by the police, though Davidson's friends do not suspect that he was the victim of foul play. Attendants at the bath establishment assert that Davidson was in good health when he entered the place. Davidson died without making a statement. After one woman has convinced a man that she would die for him, he begins to look vaguely around to see if there are any more. A discharged office boy dreads the fire. Fatal Fall From a Ladder. JEFFERSON CITY.--(Special.) Mr. Louis LePage, of this city, is dead at Centretown, fifteen miles west of here, as a result of a fall from a building on which he was at work. The deceased was on a ladder about fifteen feet above the ground. It tilted backward, throwing Mr. Lepage against a pile of stone, fracturing his skull. The deceased was a prominent contractor of this city and was a membe rof the city council. He was 37 years of age and leaves a wife but no children. Flendish Father Arrested. SIOUX CITY, IA.—(Special.) Lee Vanscoy, a farmer of Calhoun county, has been arrested charged with malming his 3-year-old son. Vanscoy's wife died two years ago. His boy had scarlet fever and refused to take medicine, whereupon the father, it is charged, secured a chisel and cut out almost all the teeth in the child's jaws, inflicting a deep wound in the roof of the mouth and breaking the jawbone. Vanscoy is under bonds. 42 BEET SUGAR FACTORIES. Their Product Increased 140 Per Cent in One Year—Many Factories Projected. WASHINGTON.—(Special.) C. F. Saylor, the special agent in charge of the beet sugar investigations of the department of agriculture, is in Washington making an annual report. He gave to the Associated Press the following figures regarding the industry during the past year: The total production of beet sugar in the United States in the season 1901-02 has aggregated 185,000 tons, an increase of 140 per cent from the 77,000 tons produced during the season of 1900-01. There were thirty-one factories n operation in 1900 according to the census figures, and eleven more were started in 1901. There are nine factories in course of construction for operation n 1902, as follows: Sebewaing, Carrollton, Mount Clemens and Crosswell, Mich.; Shelby, Ind.; Greely, Eaton and Fort Collins, Col., and Phoenix, Ariz., ranging in capacity of daily output from 500 tons to 1,000, the latter figure being the capacity at the Phoenix plant. Other companies have been organized with a total capitalization of $49,000,000 and would require annually a working capital in addition of $9,080,000. According to Special Agent Saylor, they would purchase from the farmer annually beets to the amount of $14,700,000, besides many other crude materials. The number and aggregate capital of these prospective plants, by states, include the following: Arizona two, $1,500,000; California five, $3,500,000; Colorado seven, $5,000, 000; Indiana one, $1,000,000; Iowa six $3,100,000; Idaho one, $500,000; Michigan twenty-eight, $14,900,000; Montana one, $500,000; North Dakota two, $1, 1,000,000; Utah three, $2,500,000; Wisconsin ten, $3,150,000; Wyoming two $500,000. TO ESCAPE A SHERIFF. Man Throws His Child From a Moving Train and Jumps After Her GREENCASTLE, 'ND. — (Special) Jacob Reynolds threw a little girl from a moving train on the Monon railroad at Linedale. He then jumped after her, escaping a Kentucky sheriff, who had been after him since October 11. The sheriff had arrested Reynolds at Valparaiso on a warrant charging him with kidnapping the little daughter of a woman who lives in Green County, Ky. The prisoner was being taken back to Kentucky and the handcuffs were removed from him to permit him to take the little girl to the other end of the car. He went to the platform jumped with the child and escaped. Fourteen hours later, at a spot fifteen miles from where Reynolds left the train, he was again arrested. Both he and the child were badly scratched by their fall from the train. Reynolds is the father of the child. He and the little one's mother separated several years ago. Senator Burton of Kansas, yesterday introduced a bill making a grant of alternate sections of the public lands in the Territory of Alaska to aid in the construction of a railroad. 5 A favorable report today has been authorized by the senate committee on commerce on the bill authorizing the president to appoint a commission to co-operate with Canada in an examination of the diversion of the boundary waters between the two countries. SEVERE BOER LOSS. General Killeener Sends News of Important British Victory. LONDON—(Special.) The following dispatch has just been received from Lord Kitchener: Harrissmith. The combined operations of the columns terminated in driving the Boers against the Harrissmith and Van Reean block house line. The rive Wile was held by the Leinster regiment and Elliot's mounted infantry from Harrissmith, while the columns formed on the Frankford and Botha's pass block house line and advanced south, holding the entire country between the Wilge and the Natal frontier. On the first night a severe attempt to break through was made at a point between Remington and Byng's columns and the New Zealander's behaved with great gallantry. The fighting was at close quarters and the Boers, as usual, drove a large herd of cattle in front of them. Manle Botha, the Boer leader, was killed, and thirty-five dead Boers were found on the ground. Over 100 horses were killed and 6,000 head of cattle were left in our hands. Other small attempts to break out were made, and in two cases succeeded. On the last day, 450 Boers with rifles and horses, were captured. All the columns have not yet reported, and the operations have been wide, but over 600 Boers have been either killed or are prisoners in our hands; also 2,000 horses, 28,000 head of cattle, 200 wagons, 60,000 sheep, 600 rifles and 50,000 rounds of ammunition. The prisoners include General DeWet's son and his secretary; Commandants Meyer and Truther and several field cornets. These satisfactory results are very appropriate on the anniversary of Majuba. Fame is often a bubble that comes from puffing. WASHINGTON. — (Special). "The probability is that Australasia will soon again head the list of the world's gold producers." says Consult General Bray, at Melbourne, Australia, in a report dated January 11, which was just made public at the state department. The official figures of the gold production of the commonwealth for 1901, submitted by the consul general, show a total of $4,333,681 ounces, as compared with 4,177,890 ounces for 1900. West Australia and New Zealand showed increasing yields, bringing the total nearly up to that of 1899. An Epidemic of Pink Frog MATTOON, LLIC.—(Special). This city is in the groves of an epidemic which, for want of a better name, the oculists have denominated "pink eye," a disease common among horses. Several weeks ago it originated in the public schools and, spread until now there are over 300 cases, including persons in every walk of life. The symptoms of the disease are the same as common sore eyes, only intensified, a peculiarity being that it is infectious. The malady is not dangerous, but is causing much annoyance. ALABASTINE Aged Historian Beliefs Edmund Idle, the oldest librarian in England, who has been connected with Messrs. Mudie's establishment for more than half a century, has retired. Mr. Idle, whose singular surname was delightfully inappropriate, joined the staff of the late Charles Mudie soon after he founded his famous library. He was also closely associated for thirty years with the religious and philanthropic work of Dr. Guinness Rogers at Clapham. A Fox in Scramble During the run of the Warwickshire hounds recently a fox, hard pressed, dashed into a back kitchen at Nalley Hall, the seat of the Marquis of Hertford, where a woman was at the time washing clothes. Seeking a place of concealment, the animal sprang upon the furnace, and then dived into the almost boiling soapspams, from which, however, he was quickly out again, and was then captured—London Telegraph. Satsu a New Fashion Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, wife of the London publisher, has made a sensation in Paris by appearing in a most novel automobile coat, made of the hide of a perfectly white colt, trimmed with sable tails and having a large collar, which can be turned up and buttoned so as to leave only her eyes and the tip of her nose exposed. Signals Under the Sea. A discovery was made in Boston harbor recently, when representatives of the Submarine Signal company found that the blows on their submarine bell, striking in the upper harbor, caused vibrations, and, furthermore, that the sound could be heard distinctly by simply placing the ear against wharf piles. Immigration Inspector in Trouble Frank Saxton, a nephew of Mrs. McKinley, has been dismissed from the position of supervising immigrant inspector at Ellis island. He and two inspectors were accused of dereliction of duty regarding the admission of immigrants who were not entitled to land. Good Season for Herrings. Last season's fishing was the best the North Sea herring fishermen have known. Twenty-eight thousand six hundred and sixty-six lasts, each of 13,200 fish, making about 375,000 herrings, were landed at Yarmouth. The average earnings of the boats were from $5,000 to $6,000 for the four months. A. Ranchman's Experience Lea, S. Dak, March 3d.—Wm. H. Neelen, a ranchmar, whose headquarters are here, says: "I have been afflicted with Kidney Trouble for several years. I had a very severe pain in the small of my back, so bad that I could scarcely sit in the saddle. "I also had a frequent desire to urinate when riding and the pain and annoyance I endured was very great. "I tried many medicines without getting any better till at last I was told to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I have used in all six boxes of this medicine and can say that they have done me more good than anything else I ever used. "I have had more relief and comfort since using Dodd's Kidney Pills than I had for years before." King Alphonsa's Coronation. King Alphonso's coronation is to be commemorated by the issue of thirteen new kinds of postage stamps, each of which is to bear the head of one of the thirteen kings of the same name who have ruled over Spain. Pneumatic Postal Tobes. Pneumatic postal tubes make slow progress in this country. In London there are eighty-one pneumatic tubes for the dispatch of postal packets, and their aggregate length is thirty-four miles. DON'T FORGET A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Will Swim Long Distance Carlisle D. Graham, who has won considerable fame as a daring and long distance swimmer, has declared that he will swim through the whirlpool rapids to Youngstown, thence to Toronto, and down Lake Ontario and through the rapids of the St. Lawrence river to Montreal, a distance of about 300 miles, in thirty days. ALL UP TO DATE HOUSEKEEPERS use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because better and a lot of it for same money. Ern of the Maccabees. The "Era of the Maccabees" began B. C. 186, when Judas Maccabees assumed the leadership of the Jews who had determined to throw off the yoke of Antiochus Epiphanes. The revolt was successful, and the Asmonean kings ruled Judea until its conquest by the Romans. The Jews styled the Maccabees era the "Era of Kings." Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Agrolite Fails in Switzerland. An acrolite fell near Chattillens, Switzerland, the other day. The stone was triangular in shape, of a dark-gray color, about eleven ounces in weight. This is only the second meteoric stone that is known to have fallen in Switzerland. THE BEST RESULTS IN STARCHING can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cocking required. Alabastine, the only durable wall coating, takes the place of scaling kalsomines, wall paper and paint for walls. It can be applied on walls. ```markdown ``` EARLIEST RUSSIAN MILLET. Will you be short of hay? If so, plant a willow. It is this prodigiously pollinated willow 5 to 8 Tons of Rieh Hay Per Acre. Price 50 lbs. $1.90; 100 lbs. $1.00. low freights. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. W When a fellow carries a picture in his watch there is usually a woman in the case. BED BUGS DOOMED Of all the worries of the house-keeper the bedbug is the worst. All will be thankful a remedy which absolutely rids a house of all bugs has been found. The bedbug is from a friend, Des Moines, Ia., is the discoverer. She will send a large sample, enough for three beds, for 150, actual cost of postage, packing, etc. Her regular size is 100. Every reader ought to send at once. "Disagreeable callers," says a society woman, "are like my sins. They always find me out." WHEN YOUR GROCER SAYS he does not have Defiance Starch, you have to keep it alive and keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packs of Defiance Starch is not only better than any other stock of the package, but contains 18 to 24 oz. packs of rells for same money as 12 oz. brands. He—"I love you from the bottom of my heart." She—"What's the matter; isn't there any room at the top?" USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Bali Blue. Large 2-oz. package 8 cents. The Russell Company, South Bend. Ind. Nell—"Will he take a hint? Belle —"Oh, yes; but he doesn't know what to do with it." I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. Tros, Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't require much practice to make a perfect fool. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are as easy to use as soap. No muss or failures. 10c per package. 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MORE FLEXIBLE AND LASTING, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. When, some men fail at everything else they try marriage. SPECULATIVE The desire to "get rich quick" leads many otherwise conservative men and women into all kinds of speculative ventures, many of which turn out disastrously. There is absolutely no speculation or risk attending the use of Dr. Caldwell's (Laxative) Syrup Pepsin, which is authorized to give satisfaction all cases of Constipation, Indigestion, Dyspepsia and kindred troubles. Ask your druggist. If he does not keep it, send his name to Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, ill, and they will send you a sample bottle free. When an artist's wife poses for him he makes her stand around. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. The only solution to the servant girl problem is not to have any. Caterch Cannot He Cured **with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease.** Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it must take place internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. The Catarrh Cure is not a quick medicine. Kaiser Press is a regular publication in this country for years, and is a regular pre-scription. It is combined with the best blood purifications, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such a blood purification in curing Catarrh ammoniacal fistulas. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Tololedo, Sold by druggists, price for Hall's Family Pills are the best. When money is tight what's the matter with the gold cure? SALZER'S LIGHTNING CABBAGE. This is the earliest cabbage in the world and a regular gold mine to the market gardener and farmer. By the way, there is lots of money to be made on earliest cabbage, beets, peas, radishes, cucumbers and the like. POMEGRANATE For 16c and this Notice the John A. Salzer Seed Co., Lafayette, WI. will send you their mannish moth catalog and 150 kinds of flower and vegetable seeds. Market gardeners catalog, 20 postage, W.N. U. It's the disagreeable things that we ought to remember to forget. Defiance Starch, 16 ounces, 10 cents. When a man gets out of politics the people begin to wonder how much he gets out. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for same money. Is there any connection between the golf walk and the club foot? Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. A clever woman always knows enough to make her husband think she knows less than he does, no matter how little it is. ABA Alabastine can be used over paint or paper; paint or paper can be used over Alabastine. Buy only in five pound packages, properly labeled: take no substitute. BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN Made Well and Strong by Pe-ru-na. ALICE SCHAFER HESTER ROXEN ROBB A Doctor's Little Daughter Cured of Grip by Pe-ru-na. Dr. R. Robbins, Physician and Surgeon of Muskegue, Indian Ter., writes: "I have been a practicing physician for a good many years and was always slow to take hold of patient medicines, but this winter my little girl and myself were taken with the grip. I was so bad I was not able to sit up. I sent for a doctor, but he did me no good. "Finally I sent and got a bottle of Peruna and commended to take it. I took two bottles and my cough was gone and my lungs loosened up and my head became clear. My little girl took the same way. "It looked as though she would die, she was so sick. I gave her medicine, but it seemed (to do her little good) so much that I was not able to give Peruna and commenced to give it her. It was only a short time until she was getting along all right, so I give your medicine, Peruna, the praise for what it did for me and my dear little daughter."—Dr. R. Robbins. HAS NO EQUAL DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 oz. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG CO OMAHA, NEB. DO YOU WORK IN THE WET? THE ORIGINAL TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING BLACK & CELLOL IS SURE PROTECTION ON SALE NOWWHERE, THE SUBSTITUTE LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL FASH MADE FOR SERVICE. CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND HATS A.J.TOWER CO.BOSTON.MASS. 47 $15 A WEEK AND EXPENSES FOR WORK WITH RIGs to introduce our Poultry Mixture, Straight salary. We mean this. Excels stamp. EUREKA MFG. CO., Dept. W, East St. Louis, IL. WE PAY $20 a Week and EXPENSES to men with rigs to introduce our Poultry Compound. Send stamp. ACME MFG. CO., East St. Louis, IL. NO FAKE SALARY agents to introduce Success Poultry Mixture. Write today. 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Before she began taking your Peruna she suffered everything in the way of cough, colds and croup, but now she has taken not quite a bottle of Peruna and is well and strong as she has ever been in her life. She did not had the croup once since she began taking Peruna, and when she MINA ESTER LONG has a little cold a few doses of Peruna fixes her out all right. We can never praise it enough."—Mrs. C. E. Long. Mrs. G. W. Heard, of Howth, Texas, writes to Dr. Hartman in regard to her baby girl, Ruth: "My little girl had some derangement of the Bowels. She was a mere skeleton and we did not think she would ever get well. After giring her less than one bottle of Peruna she was sound and well. Now she has a good appetite and is a picture of health." Mrs. Heard also writes in regard to her son, Carl: "My son's ears had been affected since he was a babe only a few months old. The last year I thought he had almost lost his hearing and had a local physician treating him for about six weeks. Finally I began giving him your remedy, a ad hoc after he had taken the bottle, was entirely cured. I cannot praise Peruna enough."—Mrs. G. W. Heard. If you do not receive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. The BEST starch is Defiance, The BIGGEST package is Defiance, Quality and quantity mean Defiance Starch, 16 ounces for 10 cents. Don't forget it—a better quality and one-third more of it. CAPSICUM VASELINE A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not misst the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, rheuragic and grotesque患处. It is proved to prove what Steer is for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household. Many people say "It is the best of all of your preparations." Price 15 cents, at all drugsets or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries the price what Steer does not genuine. CHERSEROUGH MFG. CO. 17 State Street, New York City. LADY or GENTLEMAN wanted as sole representative in their locality for our Electrified Facial Cream A Guaranteed Beautifier. Salary or commission. Full partienlars. Address: P100 NXG. Co., 24 Broadway, New York. PERFUMES DIRECT TO USER. Direct to consumer, saving you the retail profit. Highest grade French Perfumes, assorted odour-bottle, remain in your store until September. VILLEFRANCHE PERFUME CO. Western Branch, Kansas City, Me MAKE YOUR FORTUNE QUICKLY WITH Sears CAPITAL. Our new method of operating on the stock and grain market precludes all risk of capital. Dealer delay, sends for prospective stock excluding THE UNION INVESTMENT CO., Rialto Building, Chicago, Ill. Alabastine packages have full direc- tion for prospective just as dealer dealer for tint curd. "Alabastine Era" free. Alabastine Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. STEANSHIP WEASLAND IS SUNK IN THE IRIEH CHANNEL. LUCKILY ONLY TWO LIVES WERE LOST Other Saved by tarmontdes, Whe struc the Wenstand—Coltision Occurred in a Thick Fox at Midnight—Per- fect order und Discipline Pre- valled Among Passengers aad Crew of Weasiand. LIVERPOOL.—(Special.) Fifty-three of the passengers and crew of the Waesland have arrived at Liverpool on board the Harmonides. ‘They were re- ceived by the agents of the American line here and were quartered at vari- ‘ous hotels, ‘The collision occurred in a thick fog at 11:20 o'clock at night, when the Waesland was about forty miles southwest of Holyhead. ‘The Harmonides struck the Waesland amidships, and there was a terrible shock. Most of the Waesland’s pas- sengers had retired for the night. Perfect order and discipline pre- valled. The crew of the steamer rap- fdly turned out the passengers and succeeded. in assuring them that their lives were safe. The passengers were greatly influenced by the coolness of the crew and obeyed instructions will- ingly and quickly. ‘The Waesland’s boats were speedily gotten out, and in less than half an hour tho entire ship’s company had been transferred to the Harmonides. Unfortunately, two lives were lost. ‘The dead are ‘a steerage passenger named Dangerfield and a child named Elsie Emmett, the daughter of a cabin “passenger. ‘The Waesland sank in thirty-five minutes after the coilison. ‘The pas- sengers and crew lost all their belong- tugs. The vessel carried no mails. The passengers unite in the highest praise of the behavior of Captain Apfold and lis crew. It is expected that the com: pany will send the passengers by an- other vessel at once, The loss of the Waesland was due to the dense foe which enveloped the Irish channel during the entire day, seriously delaying all vesels. ‘The fox is general all over the United Kingdom and is a great bin- vance to all traffic. In London it is unusually dense and.wien the people left the theaters vehicular tramfle was found to be next to impossible. In many eases pedes. trians were obliged to proceed with the aid of link boys. ‘The Waeslaud is owned by the Tn- ternational Navigation Company. bit flies the Belgian flag, She plied regu- larly in the American line service be- tween Philadelphia and Liverpool, touching at Queenstown each way. Formerly she was Known as the Russia. She 1s a fou masted bark rigged, iron vessel of 3676 tons net. Messrs. J. and G. Thompson built her in Glasgow in 18867. She Is equipped with elec- tricity and: has triple expansion en- gines of 3,500 indicated horse power. ‘The Harmonides belongs to the Brit- tsh & South American Steam Naviga- ton Company, better known as the Houston line, which operates a ser- vice of péssenger and cargo steamers between Liverpool and the River Platte and Brazilian ports. ‘The line also operates @ service between New York and those ports, ‘The Harmon- ides is a steel screw steamer of 2,221 tons net. #he was bullt in Newcastle, England, in 1891, and was formerly tiamed the Woolloomoolo. She has seven water tight compartments andl ie of the following dimensions: Length, 360 feet; breadth, 44.4 feet, and depth, 26.2 feet. « SURPLUS FOR FEBRUARY. Government Took tu Over 82,000,000 ‘MoreThun It Spent. WASHINGTON. — (Special.) The monthly. statement of the government receipts and expenditures shows that for the month of February, 1902, the total receipts were $41,159,739, and the expenditures $39,099,290, leaving a sur- plus for the month of $2,060,499. The receipts from the several sources of revenue are given as follows: ‘Customs, $20,213,929, an increase as compared with February, 1901, of $1,500,000. Internal revenue, $18,455,790; de- crease, $3,500,000. ‘Miscellaneous, $2,940,009; decrease, $2,500,000. ‘The expenditures on account of the war department were $8,578,516; de- crease, $3,400,000. On account of navy, $5,709,079; in- crease, $1,250,000. ‘The total expenditures show an in- crease of $65,000. Five Years for Pension Fravis DENVER, COLO.—(Special.) Louis ©. Withaup, a pension attorney of this city, who had been convicted in the United States District court of having forged signatures to pension checks, ‘was sentenced by Judge Hallet to serve five years at hard labor in the Leavenworth penitentiary. The case will be taken to the appeilate court on a writ of error. a ree BLACKWELL, 0. T.—(Special.) H. Burkshire was arrested here charged with assault on Alma Whitehead, aged 3 years. “Sentiment here is intense, and threats,of mob violence have been made. Burkshire is about 20 years of age, and is confined in the city jail. He may have to be taken to Newkirk or elsewhere for safe keping, as it 1s not known what is liable to transpire. Burkshire stoutly asserts his inno- cence, and tears a mob. The crime 4s alleged to have been committed on January 4. Fought It Out With Swords, BUDAPEST.—(Special.) Count Ste- fan Tisza and M, Radovsky, both mem- hers of the \house of -representatives, fought a due Iwith swords. Mr. Ra- dovsky was somewhat severely wound- ed in the arm after en unusually flerce encounter. ‘The duel was the outcome ‘of an exchange of vituperations in the diet. The combatants. refused to be reconciled after the tight. ‘True patriotism does not depend on ‘the size of one’s country. © f, EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE. Five Men Killed Near Monongahela, Pa. and Two Others Futally Injured. MONONGAHELA, PA. — (Special.) An explosion in the Catsburg mine ot the Monongahela River Consolidates Coal and Coke company resulted in the death of five men and serious in- Jury of several others, two fatally. ‘The dead: : Mine Boss Robert Howey, aged 50; married. James Howey, aged 20; son of mine boss. Isaac Eastwood, 40 years old; mar- sled. John Gilder, single. William McFarland; married. Fatally injured: James Hager, married; badly burned. James Terrent, | marrizd; badly burned. : ‘A few days before a premature ex- plosion of dynamite caused gas to ig- nite and since that time the mine has been burning. All the air channels were closed, and it was hoped that the flames could be smothered. Twenty men entered the mine to investigate and it is thought that the turning on of the air, which had been shut off by the fan. cauzed tae gas, which had accumulated, to ignite. A terrible ex- plosion folowed soon after the men en- tered. ‘A relief party, headed by Superin- tenden: Seddon and Mine Inspector Loutitt, made an effort and nearly succeeded in reaching the imperished men, but were compelled to return for air. All were oercome and are in a serious condition, ‘A second relie? party headed by John Coulter entered the mine by another way, but a second explosion occurred and they were forced to retreat. A third relief party made a futile at- tempt. A fourth attempt will be made to reach the bodies of the men who ure belleved to have perished. James Hagger was reached by one rescuing party. He was found badly burned. James Terrent wes burned by the flames that shot up all around him, but he crawled a thousand feet from his companion, Gilder, who was killed inatanily, FOURTEEN KILLED. FS Oe ear en yee ree Sagan > Telluride, Colorado. TELLURIDE, COL.—(Special.) Four- teen dead, as many more injured, and a score or more missing is the result, 50 far as known, of a series of snow- slides which cecurred in the immedi: ate vicinity of the Liberty Bell mine on Smuggler mountain, three and one- half miles north of Télluride, ‘The roads between here ani Liberty Bell are almost impassable and details of the accidents are hard to obtain, It seems that no less than four dis- tinet slides occurred, each one claim- ng two or more victims. Several bodies have been recovered, but quite ® number of the known dead are stil Dutied under the tons of snow, rocks end thhbers by which they were car- ried down. The death list of the first siide, so far as known, follows: Gus Swanson, crusher feeder. H. S. Summerland, tram brakeman. Harry Goden, waiter in boarding house. Gus Fraul, miner, J. F. Clenimer, steward. Wade Crowe, miner. R. Bishop. miner. ‘The vietims of the second slide were: HL A. Chase, ascayer. L, D. Stanley, carpenter. “Those who met death in the third slide were: Gus Von Fintel, carpenter. John R. Powell, surveyor. Paul Dalphese, miner. In the fourth slide the following were killed: George Rohwer. FOUR TRAINMEN KILLED. Southern Kallway Passenger goes Throogh a Trontle In Georgia. GRIFFIN, GA.—(Speciai.) A South- oun dpassenger train on the Colum- bus branch of tae Southern railway went through a trestle into a creek near Zetella, Ga. The killed are: A. F. Matthews, engineer, Columbus, Ga.; J. L. Hil, beggagemaster, Columbus; Leo G. Murray, mail clerk, Atlanta; Isane MeDowell, fireman, Columbus. Several passengers were injured, but ‘none fatally. “The structure had been weakened by the heavy rains and three bents of the bridge gave way. The train was run- ning cautiously at the time of the ‘aceident. The first-class coach was ‘the only car that did not go into the vaahout 1 | Rig Snow Silent Avrey OURAY. COL.—(Special.) The tare: ‘est snow slide in this region in years jeame own from the mountein sid ‘opposite the Governor mine inthe Sneffels dstrict, and filled the gulch for a thousand feet, The avalanche crossed ‘the gulch and piled twenty-five feet of -snow on the mine dump, swept away 3 large water tank and swung the new ‘volier around about ten feet. ‘The snowshed was also swept away. ‘The damage to the compavy amounts to $1,000. sl saea a aaa Peele SaRSSE MIDDLESBORO, KY. — (Special.) John Powers, a brother of ex-Secretary of State Powers, and under indictment charged with conspiracy in the asas- sination of William Goebel, has gone to Honduras, in Central’ America. Powers has been gone several months, but so closely has the secret been guarded that only just gow has it leaked out. Our closest friends are sometimes the jones we can't borrow from. Towa Store Robbed. DES MOINES.—(Special.) Burglare broke into the general store of C. E, Larson at Cambridge, blew open the safe with dynamite, rifled it and made their escape by stealing a team and driving toward Des Moines. A itt over $100 in cash was secured, with 2 quantity of stamps, checks and drafts. Being, headstrong frequently gives & man a backset. Social caste frequently turns ont tc ia at Inger mab? Chtoree: IN CONTROL OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, FORA DAY. MARTIAL LAW HAS BEEN SUGGESTED Car Men—Waganloads of Stoves Are | Piled on the Tracks, Cars re De ralled and Free Fights Be- tween Strike Sympathle- aba teenie meek NORFOLK, VA.—(Special.) A mob of 500 strike sympathizers held the streets of Norfolk on which the main line of the Norfolk Railway and Light Company's cars are run, and the police were unable to cope with it from noon until after dark, when the cars which were guarded by detachments of mill- tary and had run with difficulty all day were housed in the barns. Cars were repeatedly derailed, wa- gon-loads of stones were piled on the tracks, and free fights between the military guards and the crowd occur- ed at frequent intervals. In oue dif- ficulty, a sergeant ran a bayonet into the arm of H, H. Harmansef, a bar- ber. Mrs. Harmansef, who was stand- ing by her husband at the time, knock- ed the sergeant to the ground with doth fists and discolored the face of Lieutenant E.R. Gale, who was near her. Several soldiers were struck by missiles thrown through the windows of the cars. A number of arrests have been made, both by the police and military. A conference was held by Mayor Beaman, Police Chief Volties and Col- onel Higgins, commanding the Seven- ty-first Virginia regiment, eight com- panies of whicli are in service, relative to placing the city under martial law. ‘The police force of 100 men has been on duty for forty-eight hours and is unable to meet the emergency. It is possible that the additional companies of the regiment and a battery of artil- lery will be called for to take charge of the city. Four more infantry companies from Emporia, Suffolk, Smithfield and Franklin, making the entire Seventy- first regiment, have been ordered out. ‘The strikers cut a mile of trolley wire in the city. ‘The troops are now guarding the power plant, A detach- ment of a Newport News company under Captain Gilkerson, is on duty. At a meeting the Central Labor Union boycotted the street cars, Common Couneiiman $. H. Kelly, also a leader of the strikers, offered a resoutiion at the conneil meeting to revoke the street railway franchise for lapse of two days in running ears. ‘The resolution was referred to a spe- cial committee. Six non-union men from Knoxville were heli up. The strikers over- powered them, They bore arms and were arrested for carrying concealed weapons, TERRE HAUTE, IND.—(Special.) Eighty-five school children of Seley- ville, Ind., on the Terre tante and Brazil Interurban electric railroad gathered about the Seleyville school and marched into the rooms in a body and carried out their books, ‘They an- nounced that they were quitting school because two of the teachers ride on interurban cars on which non-union trainmen are employed. About all the children belong to families of union coal miners who are in sympathy with the Terre Haute street car strikers, Husband Prosceutes Wite. STILLWATER, 0. T. — (Special,) Michael O'Donnell and Mrs. Mollie Mack, who were arrested at Ripley last week, had their preliminary be- for the probate court here. ‘They were bound over to the grand jury on a charge of adultery, bond being fixed at $500 each. ‘The Macks lived in Kay county, 0. T., two years ago. Mr. Mack left home on a business trip and while away his wife eloped with Michael O'Donnell, taking the youngest of her taree children with her. Mr. Mack located them at Ripley two weeks ago and had them arrested. He is now living near Pawnee, At the trial Judge Clark gave Mr. Mack ens- tody of his child, and a very affecting scene ensued when the little one was removed from her mother, "TWO MURDERERS PARDONED. Gov Savage of Nebraska, Releases Men Who Were Under Life Rentences. RT ee he ST OMAHA, NEB.—(Special.) Nicholas Fox and August Kastner, both of whom were given life sentences in the penitentiary for murders committed in this county, have been pardoned by Governor Savage. Copies of the par- dons have just bee nreceived by the clerk of the district court, althongh they were issued some time ago. Fox was convicted of murdering his wife in 1892, His sentence was commuted for valuable aid in.a recent fire at the prison, Kastner was sentenced for life for killing Policeman Fiedman in thie city in 1898. Both men have been on parole for some time. ‘Twenty Sald To Be Dead. SILVERTON, COLO—(Special.) News comes from Gladstone of the death of the 18-yedr-old son of Rich- ard Tovey by a snowslide at Fishers. The Silverton & Gladstone and the Silverton & Eureka railway are block- ed by snowsildes. ‘There is an uncon: firmed rumor that a snowslide carried away all the buildings of the Sunny- side mine on Red mountain, killing twenty men. ~ Private tutors charge for giving les- sons. a a co ONAWA, IA.—(Special.) Ea Brain- erd, of this, Monona county, was mur- dered and robbed of $2,000. He was on his way to Woodbine, la, to bey a farm and had the money with him to pay for“it.. His remains were found on the Northwestern railroad right-of- way in Harrison county. Brainerd’s mother lives in Missouri Valley, Ia. ‘There is no clue at present to the mur- derer. A man can’t gain years after 30 as fast as a woman can lose them. Kansas Notes ee ee ee ae en ee nes ners fer. The clerk did not know the chick- fens’ fect were tied and asked if they would lay there. She bit her hanker- chief and tucked her head and said: “No, sir. They are roosters.” A man witb a load of superior tim. othy hay drove along the main street Jof Junction City a few days oga, and three teams ran away. Prairie dog poison is being adver- tised In the Western Kansas papers, but the préirie dog settlements show no tremendous decrease in population. It is not flattering to the Sunflower colony in Washington that Chief ‘Chemist Wiley should assume the only beets Kansas can raise are dead. There were 130 divorce eases in Crawford county in the last twelve months, Marriage vows, tti s noted, fare becoming almost as lax as grand jury oaths, An Atchison man who hasn’t been in school since 1870 admits that he still feeds a vague dread in his heart every time he hears the school -bell ring. John S, Gilmore of Fredonia, who himselt weafS a considerable number of years with exceptional grace, points to the Iola man of 81 who joined the EIks as a case of “frisky revivication.” ‘The Wamego merchant who is ad- vertising his “enlarged shoe store” does not explain the sudden growth in Wamego tect. Kansas has raised an aggregate of $8,000 for the McKinley memorial fund, Employees of Topeka’s half a dozen laundries threaten to strike unless the demands of the Manglers’ union, the Starchers’ council and the Boston Pressers’ brotherhood are met. There is a mischievous youth out in Great Bend who thinks it is the height of mirthful jest to smear cay- enne pepper on the plugs of “eating” tobacco of his acquaintances Two little girls flagged a train on the Missouri Pacifle branch between Fort Scott and Topeka, and prevented a wreck, A bride was washed out and the train was due. The Topeka Captial’s voting con- test to determine the sentiment of the people of Kansas on the Nquor ques- tion now stands 617 for prohibition and 331 for resubmision, ‘The Kindly disposed highwayman, who “relieves” people of their money is operating in Topeka. A Coffeyville woman represents, emong other allegations in her peti- tion for a divorce, that she was not le- ally married. ‘Thus is the legal prob- Jem raised, can a marriage be an- nulled which never happened? ‘A devout pastor In Kirwin was deep- ly grieved because some in the con- gregation snickered when he an- nounced the hymn, “And Still There's More to Folow.” after administering the ordinance of infant baptism upon & large class. A new graft in Northern Kansas: Men call on the afrmer and offer $5 for the privilege of hunting on his iarm, and asks for a receipt for the $5, whieh afterwards turns up atthe bank in the form of an iron-clad prom- esory for $500 Last summer Topeka hed no ice competition: this year there will be six companies in the fleld If Kavsas ever does undertake the culture of sugar beets extensively the world may look for Kansas to beet the band. Fate was simply unable to withstand the temptation when Miss Opal, a young woman in Smith county, tried to encourage a eluctant fire with kero- gene. ‘The Concordia Empire insists it fs unfair that the man who shoveled the snow from the walks, abutting his property, and the man who neglected to do so should meet on an equal foot ing. George Chonteau, mail carrier. liv- fng at 316 South | Emporia avenue, Wichita, shot his stepson, Albert Cor- ett, last week because, he said. he Giseovered that the latter had made fan assault on Choutean’s 12-year-old daughter, He shot at the young man, wounding him In the hand. Both men Were arrested and taken to the city jall, but Chonteau was tater released cwing to the serioms illness of Mrs. Chouteau. The editor of the Mankato Advo- cate says no is willing to bet his last pair of suspenders on a good corn croy this year, If there is no corn crop he expects to lose the suspenders any- how. ‘A man in Fort Scott picked up a half of a $5 bill which had been torn in two. It is surmised that somebody has been on a tear. There is a quill club among those imelined toward literure at the Uni- versity of Kansas, and a few of the Quillers are realy foxy. n Ottawa this spring the worms ar- rived on the maple trees in advance of the leaves. ‘The Dobbs-New case from Green- wood county has reached the United States Supreme cout. The Dobbs-New ease is the succesor and heir of the hhillmon case. ‘The magazine writer. who located a mountain range fifty miles south of Topeka, must have had a very exag- gerated idea of the Flint Hills. |” Captain G. 3f. Lee of Arkansas City died at his residence 709 North Ninth — a sae — VTX : A A eT a ie ee i ar na in Rom sere = = | i a = S¥XU} , Mead wf Pi! . 1 1 iat \ teats “o/ Men of Affairs “Sie. \ mo Wei} ft os Way \ \ jf one may sll the seas and visit every Tand and everywhere wittind, HY EA gL c.f ehat men of affirs, who are well informed, have nelther thé thme } SB ii \ ee ee tee aa oi \ \ medicines wliich eause excessive purgation and then leave the internal \ ie Serer organs In a constipated condition. Syrup of Figs is not built on those ec. linen Ttacte naturally, acts effectively, cleanses, sweetens and strengthens pRARA L \ the tnternat organs and leaves them In « healthy condition. eae | If in need of a laxative remedy the most excellent is Syrup of Figs, bat | WeAeA. \ when anything more than a Taxative is required the safe and sefentifie plan Vy dees fs to consult a competent physielan and not to resort to those medfeines 1 ee Ss, which elaim ta eure all manner of diseases. | Peer. oo ‘The California Fig Syrup Co. was the first to manufueture a laxative remedy | ees ad SE] wnteh would give satisfaction to all; a Mxaive whieh. physllans could 1 gees Pic] ganction and one friend recommend to another ;s0 that today Its sles probably iusbamay execed all other laxatives combined. In some places considerable quantities of Wohagen. | | stutime eathartics and modern imitations are still sold, but with the general fant: | ya Be ee ns cram oe epee (| | {nto general use with the well-informed, because it is a remedy of known value) 4 [ey of ee eee | | ed: See eo or ue ia des eclr to ceacnlons Cumann PAT Leake \ Pia eas dphain dr Seienocerine iyi eeeeemioorraret ies WC ee a fi] cn use sytem, with agreeable and refreshing aromatic Hautds, but atv to the TV. AA \ orginal method of manufacture. In order to get the genuine and.{ts beneficial ek ‘ ‘effects one should always note the full name of the Company —Californis Fig iB or |-._| Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package. eee AN A Stan YT 3 ne pate Lee 7) Ne RS Sor eg coe eegaimaes, || Ma Nc Tipe mc a NS ES a a Na Bey oe ema eT cpa 7 ss me ve ug toner ve 4 ea ret ee, oe Mae’, > sauces 2c: QO oo mares ea pee? a eee ek ; Ne kt AM gee Ng a ed fe id BAU DY OPN Caf FON eo ate EM yf A : heed Cope (Cy -elpgntl/ /R Hy eA ee] BS ERIN GAN Y.PN De rn on Cates Bey : fa Aled V1 A Be Z| mG \\ 04 FN erred ae OR AT ints at Sees a2) Ree terete te SS Ce ey eae ue I) ge NS Pee 9 URS S8S SBE Ry pe RECAP aes ere ee eee Meh oS REN SEND EY alee Mg ak gO Te - Mission Farm on Long Island, A down-town mission in New York has bought 750 acres of wooded land on Long Island, where work will be provided for homeless deserving men. After the land is cleared the men will be allowed to make gardens and raise chickens and live stock. Metele System la Russia. Russia may adopt the metric system. A decree making its use obligatory in the country Is now being cousidered by the imperial counell. ‘What Age Is the Earth? ‘This question receives an interesting answer in the latest edition of De Mor- tillet’s “Origin and Antiquity of Man.” The total number of years elapsed since, according to geological evidence, men first appeared upon the earth is Dlaced at 288,000. Of this 78,800 years belong to the preglacial epoch, 100,000 to the glacial, 44,000 to the interval be- tween the glacial epoch and the proto- historic and Neolithic, 10,000 years to the two last-named epochs, and 6,000 years to the time since the beginning of the historic period in Egypt. ‘The Kansas City Southern railway has now inaugurated for the season its new through service from Kansas City to Hot Springs via Salisaw and the StL. LM. & 8. Ry, Through Pullman sleeping cars run direct be- tween Kansas City and the great Health Resort via Little Rock. ‘This 1s the only company offering its patrons such service, and judging from the liberal patronage given last year, there is every reason to believe that this service is highly appreciated and what the public desires. For rates and other information, write 8. G, Warner, G. P. A., Kansas City Southern Railway, Kansas City, Mo. How Mosquitoes Live ‘The great majority of mosquitoes never taste either human blood or that of any animal, not having the oppor- tunity. They live upon vegetable Juices and decomposing animal and Vegetable matter, found in the locali- ties where they, are most numerous and thus perform a valuable service as na- ture’s scavengers. Potatoos from Aluska, ‘Two farmers at Dyea, Alaska, raised 25,000 bushels of potatoes this year, and will receive for them §2 a bushel. ‘The potatoes are described as large, solid, mealy and palatable, and con- tain more sugar than potatoes grown in lower latitudes. DG EPRI | The champion smoker of the British ‘army, a private in the third battalion, ‘Royal Warwickshire Regiment, had ‘from his youth up regularly consumed one and a half pounds of tobacco every | Week: ‘until his regiment was drafted ‘put to South Africa, when the curtall- ment of his supply almost broke his heart | Efective Methods. "Mark ‘Twain (ells a story of a man ‘who received telegram telling him {hat his mother-in-law had died and asking: “‘Shall we embalm, bury. or cremate her?” Twain says he wired back: “Yes; and if these fail try dis- section.” One Gaase of Drankennees. Dr. David Paulson, a Chicago nerve epecialist, declares that much drunken- ‘ness, especially in young men {s caused by highly spiced food and the use by cooks of pepper, mustard and similar felishes. ‘To this also the doctor at- tributes the cigarette habit. At the suggestion ut Alfrea atoseley of London and Lord Deay, president of Untversity College, London, a special commission will be sent from England to this country to inquire into labor matters and the relations between mas- ters and labér unions, Queer English Custom. » Since 1377 the aldermen of London have annually presented to the high officers of the state, such as lord chan- cellor, the lord chief justice, the home secretary, and the foreign secretary, as well as certain officials of the city, pleces of cloth, which, in the case of the town clerk, reaches the maximum of twelve yards. This custom of guilds and corporations clothing their. mem- bers led, it is said, to the origin of the liveries of the various companies, ALTON RESUMES FAST ST. LOUIS TRAIN SERVICE. Passengers destined to St. Louis and points east should go via the Kan- sas City gateway, thereby securing the advantage of the Chicago & Alton's fast night train, leaving Kansas City at 9p. m., arriving In St. Louis at 7:08 a.m, Chair cars free of extra charge. Compartment sleeping cars. Tho Al- ton keeps their light a’shining just ahead of the rest. Write to L. D. Cooper, Traveling Passenger Agent, Chicago & Alton Railway, Kansas City, ‘Mo.. for lowest rates. a a ee ‘The gold fields in Swedish Lapland yteld a much higher percentage of gold ‘than expected. ‘The mines are situated north of the polar circle, near the from- tier of Finland. ‘The Good Roxds Movement. The recent official report of the Ratt- road Commission of Missouri, refer- ring to Santa Fe lines in that state, contained this significant sentence: “We unreservedly rank this line as being among the best in Missourl in its physteal condition.” It 1s but fair to add that the Santa Fe line in Missourl is representative of nearly the entire 8,000 miles of that system. ‘The present administration of the Santa Fe appreciates fully that Its earning power depends largely on its physical condition, and has wrought almost a miracle in the past few years in improvement of roadway, bridges, grades, ete. Conan Doyiers Activity, Dr. Conan Doyle was born in 1859, and is a tall, heavily built man, whose open-air life is evidenced in his face, He may, perhaps, be best deseribed as typierisy British, Before devoting him- self entirely to writing Dr. Doyle had been a ship's doctor, a military doctor, a general practitioner in both town and country, and a specialist. a) yy a) ; NS ; fi ip 3 AANA 3 PENS A BOON TO } HUMANITY! ; St. Jacobs Oil > + guros the moet dimtcult cases (ea 3 et. Jeoone OM Never Falls. ) ACTS LIKE MaGiC! 3 IT CONQUERS 3 PAIN nes ee ORO Sa ) eee AT ONGE Seevingttew steers WRITE Gases saa German Army Kese:y-, ,. ‘The army reserves s: creasing In number. fo: ne thirteen days of drill 5... sloned offcers and 43.1) ring’ put in an appearance. rin oe Wales oF Tricwte Ie As ofcally tis tag waters in our westers | os! Used were utilized for cat poses, @ poptilation of © jsp could be austalned tn ti sa | Friend of the Sotcram The Rev. 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