The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country VOL. 15. NO.. 14 Oldest and The Good People of I ECHO FROM THE SUN SHINERS. One of our subscribers on the route of the recent "Sunshine scatters" a party white business men who left this city a couple a weeks ago to promote a friendly feeling between the business men up through Kansas and themselves recently written to us asking for information. He said that in the manmoth aggregation of business men—he saw but one Negro—He wanted to know that if it was a fact that Kansas City, Kans, the great metropolis of the west could only show up one Negro business man. For the information of our patron and many more who doubtless wondered at the sight we would say that the "Sunshine scatters" were a strictly white organization headed by the mercantile commercial club of this city. The Negro noticed in the procession, in one sense of the word represented a business man and in another he did not. In plain he was a boot black in our city (and we have quite a number) what capacity he filled on the trip of the sun shiners we are unable to say: we would further say that we can boast of a few Negro business men for the information of those who might believe as our Kansas patron we list the following who are not show but up-to-date ard as well fitted with but few exceptions with any. Four grocery stores, One Soap factory One Feed store, Two coal companies. One drug store one undertaking Sunday Forum. Below we give the many readers of the American Citizen the names of the officers and committees of the Forum:—Vice Presidents; Prof. J. R. Harrison, Messrs. Joseph Davis, E. F. Henderson, Prof. A. J. Neeley and Rov. D. B. Jackson; secretary, Mr. H. C. White Religious committee; Rev. J. H. Bell, J. R. Richarson, J. D. Smith, Messrs J. H. Walker and J. J. Peebles, Educational committee Prof. J. J. Lewis, J. Bass, D.G. Watson, G. Wood and J. M. Hgsmith Race committee; Rev W. L. Grant, Dr. S. H. Thompson Messrs B. S. Smith, T. Davis Jr., I B. Blackburn, D. W. White H. Fulcham, E. D. Jones and C. Patterson; Moral committee; Messrs M. R. Smith, H. G. Dwiggins, J. H. Moorehead, H. L. Mobly, John W. Wilson, and Albert Johnston. Young Mens' committee; Messrs Phil. K. Brown, Charley Jennings, B. M. Wilson, Emil Turner, Lloyd Hall, James Richardson, Albert Lewis and E.B. Groves. Business Committee; Messrs J. A Wilson, I. F. Bradley J. F. Reddy, S. A. Rutherford, Fred K. Donglass, W.S. Harris and H.P Ewing, Prof. W G Wood is chairman of the executive committee, which is composed all the chairmen of the various committees. The Forum meets the second and fourth Sundays at the Metropolitan Church. --- Donglass Hospital Notes Douglass Hospital Notes. The Ladies Missionary Society of Zion Baptist church of Denver, Colo. sent a box of Linens and towels which was very much needed and appreciated. May some of the K. C. K. Missionary societies do likewise-Shame on our home societies to neglect such a worthy institution. Would some society donate us a Sewing Machine. Mrs. R. E.Bullett and scholars of this city donated us $3. Sets, many thanks to them. Would another missionary society or club donate a bolt of muslin? Mrs Luci Aston Woods-Matron. TOPEKA Rev. J. J. Clark of charleston S. C., lectured at the congregational church last Friday eve. to a large and appreciative audience. Rev. Ford of Denver Colo, was a welcome visitor at the Industrial School last week. The Bacew au cale Sermon of Topeva Industrial Institute was rendered by Rev. Heim of the Shiloh Baptist church Sunday at 3 p.m. after which Governor Stanley delivered an address to the students. The four who graduated from the school wer Miss Katie Link. MGeo. F Ousley. Miss Eliza Crutcher, and Jennie Buchanan. Miss Minta leek on her return from Springfield Mo. spent a few day with Miss Pearl Menuel. The Kassas City Embalmina and Casket Company one of the st strongest of Ne gro organizations held a Stockholders meeting on last Thursday night and e lected the following Board of Directors Wm. Gamble, President, H. P. Ewin, Manager and Secretary. J. W, Jones, Treasurer. Frank Wilson, M. Phillips, Fred Gieed, I. F. Bradley J G Groves, C Laughter 3 Nice Furnished rooms to let an 2 nice fresh cows with calves for Sa'e heap at 409 Armstrong ave. Mr. E.F, Henderson THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. They Say T. B. still acts a leech. We are up to the big show Wonder whats F. H's pop. Its a legend of Sleepy Hollow. Its Prot. from the popular block. Do you ever see N. S and L. G? Quen Bess in it—well I guess yes. And he may have seen better days. Let all of us be lawyers or professional liars. It always information you are looking for. Dr. H. has no horse but he gets there O. K. We are requested to not say anything about Miss—of Sea Foam bock. Somebody still guesses whats up—well you have another guess coming. After all some people don't know everything. Absence has failed to make her heart grow fonder. Now it would just tickle you to death to hear him sing "Papa a boby boy." Its up to us to know who holds best hand in the Sea Foam block. Washington avenue holds charms that are dear to him—Ha! Ha!. M. B can always bet on the Ace or the deude. Who do you say—why the ladies on Armstrong ave. J. H. use to visit the North side of Nebraska, now its the South side. At last the days of the Sweet girl graduate and the blushing boy have arrived. There will be a wedding or two before School days come again. It has long since ceased to be the lawyer and the School mam for the two nears now beat as one. A mighty effort will be made this season to get a certain bachelor off hands No!—you don't know who tis. There was a warm time on North 5th St. Monday And Deputy Sheriff Fred Gleed was on hand. Fales of Two Cities. Miss. Jessie M. Skinner of 1048 Washington ave. has removed to 445 Oakland ave. Miss.Dollie Wilkerson in company with Miss Lizzie Turner of Jefferson City, Mo are in city, Mo are in the city and will likely make this city their future home Miss Wilkerson has worked at the cases in this office for some time and was fast lea Ling the trad as as a printer. Mrs. Ida Lewis of, Jefferson city died in St. Louis Sat. May 19 and the remains were shipped hme for interment Sunday may 20 she leaves a husband,mother, two sisters a brother and a host of friends were left to mourn her lost. She was loved and highly respected by all who knew her. We thank the friends for their kindness doing our bereavement C. W. Curtiss of 1246 West Lake Chicago, Ill.-Emma Thrower 481 Whiting Cripple Creek Col. and Mattie Good of 1108 N. 6st. K.C. Ks Mrs Judah Johnson died at the Douglass Hospital May 18, her funeral was attended by the Pearly Gate of Kanss, Temple a Wednesday at the M & O.Hall The A. C. L. Grocery Company of 435 Minn ave., are making special prices in good groceries. Call and see them. Its your advantage. All diseases start in the bowels keep them open or you will be sick, cascarets ct like nature Keep liver and bowels activewithout a sickening gripping feeling. six million people take and recommend cascarets. Try a 10c. box. All druggists. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Mary Smith, Plaintiff To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer, on or before the 1st day of July 1902 the petition will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost of suit. I. F. Bradley, Attorney Mary Smith. Attorney U. S. Sartin has been officially announced as the next post Master o Kansas City, Kans. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING, CRADDOCK STILL DOING RIGHTS. Mayor W. H. Craddock the people's choice for mayor of the metropolis city of the west Kansas City, Kansas closed his first year in that office in a blaze of glory. His record for the one year now past has demonstrated to the people of this our thrifty little city, that a man can stand flat footed on a platform "To do right" and do it. Talk is cheap but figures don't lie. In the management of the Municipal affairs, he has clearly shown that the confidence imposed in him by the people was not displaced when they so gallantly stood by him, in the memorable campaign of 1901. One has but to look up the facts, that stand for themselves, to learn that Mayor Craddock is all we have purported him to be. The wise selection of eminently qualified men to head his departments speaks volumes in his favor. Stripped of all party lines and prejudices those Citizen who are up with the times and who thoroughly look into affairs of municipal government must take their hats off to the "First Mayor" of Kansas City. We join the Caravan with lifted hats and God speed him on. Trusting that he will ever continue to hold aloft the banner. To do right at any cost. Our Police Judge. In the aggregation of good men that stand out in bold relief as upright, straight forward and popular in the esteem of ever fault finding public, Judge Thomas B. Bowling, the honorable judge of the Police Court in Kans. City, Kans, stands pre eminently, as it were a hero in the strife. He is known by all classes, he is respected because he deserves it, he is loved because he tries at all times to do the very best toward all humanity, whether it be the ebony hued brother or the proudest and purest representative of Angro-Sax on blood. In all the years long gone by, that we have known Judge Bowling that he ever has been the same, conceitious in all he does guided by the Golden Rule anchored by sincerity and honesty, his journey through life has been one of much activity. He is firm in his convictions, uncompromising in his position and honest in his decisions. As Judge of the Police court many trying, perplexing and conglomerated cases in his daily consideration. He takes hold of them all with remarkable fortitude and while a sympathetic heart beats a firm clear and excellent brain decides. His career as Judge grows in Brilliance as the days go by. ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE. State of Kansas, } ss. County of Wyandotte, } In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of James H. Martin deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of James H. Martin late of said County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 15th day of April, 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are herby 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. HENRY P. EWING. Administrator of the Estate of James H. Martin, deceased. In witness whereof the, undersigned Probate judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 15 day of April, A. D. 1902. WANTED Women as cook, and Laundress a1'. Mrs. A. W Solomon Employment agt. Office 115 E. 5th St. Leadville Colorado ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself as Candidate, for Representative of the Tenth District, First, Second and Third Wards of Kansas City, Kas.,—Subject to the Republican Primary. CHARLES. S. WITWER I hereby announce my self as candidate for Clerk of the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas.—Subject to the Republican primaries. William Needles. I hereby announce myself as a Candidate for the office of Coroner of Wyandotte County Subject to the decision of the Republican Primaries. S. C. SHINREY. I hereby announce myself as a Candidate for relection to Second term to the office of Sheriff of Wyandotte County Subject to the decision of the Republican Primaries. HARRY A. MENDENHALL Come Together The Maine Dead Remembered. Secretary Long recently received by express from Calcago a box containing a beautiful wreath of red roses and lilies of the valley, on which was placed a small card, with the following unsigned message: "Kindly take this to the Arlington cemetery and place it on the mound of the Maine dead." Secretary Long directed that the flowers be turned over to the quartermaster's department of the army, so that the wishes of the unknown donor might be compiled with. Becoming Americanized. a western girl who attended a reception given by the wife of Minister Wu at the Chinese legation in Washington, writes to a friend saying: "The house is very much like an American home and the Was are becoming more like us every year. Formerly the minister received and his wife was poked back in a corner. Now she receives and he wanders about looking lonesome, allee same like Melican man when his wife gives a party." Shah Collects Cats The Shah of Persia has many hobbies, among these being the collecting of cats of all countries. He has, perhaps, the most magnificent assortment in the world, and when he travels the cats always accompany him. They have special attendants, who are paid large salaries for looking after them. To neglect one of the Shah's cats is practically the same as committing suicide. Heard Her Lover Dia A cheerful telephone story is reported from Vienna. A young woman of Magyar-Czernya in Hungary was called upon the long-distance telephone by her sweetheart in the town of Taba. He said: "Would you like to hear how I shoot myself?" Then she heard the sound of a shot. It was found afterward that the man had really killed himself. House Built of Buttons. A house built of buttons is the latest thing in architecture, and a certain French musical celebrity is building it. The walls, the ceilings, the doors, exterior and the interior are all ornamented with buttons of every description. Every country has been ransacked and some very curious specimens are reported to have been brought to light. Bible for the Coronation. The king has already ordered the coronation Bible from the British and Foreign Bible Society, to be used in Westminster Abbey in June. It will be a large quarto volume, bound in red morocco, with gold clasps and stamped with the royal arms. It will become the property of the bishop who administers the oaths. London's Catholic Cathedral The Roman Catholic cathedral in London, now in course of erection, is 360 feet long and 156 feet wide. Apart from the site, it has already co $750.000. The material used is red brick, with Portland stone courses, and its Oriental decorative features, it is said, suggest a mosque rather than a cathedral. Small Navy of Uruguay. Three gunboats of twelve-knot speed constitute the invincible navy of Uruguay, a force which would have a hard time with the mobilized fleet of Siam, which has two 800-ton corvettes, six gunboats, a 2,500-ton deck-protected cruiser armed with fourteen guns, and a 650-ton cruiser. 400,000 Jews in Africa. A writer in the Jewish World gives the total number of Jews in Africa at 400,000, of whom 20,000 have located in South Africa, where, says the writer, the most solid and tangible results have been attained by Jewish pioneers in all branches of development. Ex-Soldiers for Clerks Ex-soldiers will in future be employed as clerks in all departments of the British war office. Preference will be given to such as possess first-class certificates of education, or have been invalided from active service by wounds or sickness. Steady Vote of Nevada The vote of Nevada fluctuates very little. In 1892 it was 10,878; in 1894, 10,508; in 1896, 10,305; in 1898, 10,011; and in 1900, 10,196. No other state in the Union has such a record of an undeviating vote as has Nevada. Lucky to Be in jail The believers in the thirteen idiocy are now citing cases of the man with thirteen wives who was sent to jail the other day, as if a man with thirteen wives were not in good luck to get safely inside a jail. Convicts Ask Clemency The white convicts employed on the breakwater at Capetown are sending a loyal address to King Edward, praying his clemency on the occasion of the approaching coronation. Paper Mills in America. There are now more than 1,100 pulp and paper mills in the United States. They use about 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber a year. The sawmills consume twenty times as much. Sit Down on Republican Organized Gangism With the object of encouraging agriculture in the Soudan the British government has tentatively begun to purchase the crops raised by the fellahs. 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 Soudanese battalions, but even so soon as this there is a considerable improvement in the condition of affairs in the Soudan. A correspondent of the London Palace Mall Gazette vouchers for this incident: A young woman with a fretful baby in a full omnibus (aloud): "Poor little nipper, I suppose I shall end by 'aving to take 'im to the 'orspital.'" (Raising the child's veil and looking around for sympathy.) "Don't get no rest. 'E is sufferin' so with smallpox." Woman Sells Her Teeth. A Chandler (O. T.) paper says that a Kansas City woman visiting in Chandler noticed the fine teeth possessed by one of the local belles. She offered the belle $100 for two of the teeth, besides all her expenses in coming to Kansas City to have them extracted, and it is understood that the offer was accepted. Fuel 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 napthalene. 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 engender 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 Cles, in Tient, at present used as a barracks, contains some very fine frescoes and wall paintings made when the Cardinal von Cles occupied: the palace as bishop of the see. They date from 1530 to 1553. Three famous Italian artists were summoned to Cles to beautify the castle—Dosso Dosso, from Ferrara; Romanino, from Brescia, and Figolino, from Vicenza. Much of Dossi's work is visible, but part has been unfortunately whitewashed over. These works are now to be rescued as far as possible from destruction. squand and ugly. Is that the reason wny Boston people like to visit the metropolis? Asphalt Pavements. About twenty-five years ago government engineers decided to pave Pennsylvania avenue in Washington with asphalt. 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'E is sufferin' so with smallpox." Woman Sells Her Teeth. A Chandler (O. T.) paper says that a Kansas City woman visiting in Chandler noticed the fine teeth possessed by one of the local belles. She offered the belle $100 for two of the teeth, besides all her expenses in coming to Kansas City to have them extracted, and it is understood that the offer was accepted. Toys for Poor Children The prefect of the Seine distributed 25,000 francs ($5,000) in the arrondissements of Paris to buy toys for poor children on Jan. 1. The sum was bequested to M. Vincent, a friend of Victor Hugo, who made an annual distribution after the poet's death and continued the benefaction in his will. Origin of "Arabian Nights." Professor Seybold of Stuttgart has discovered in the Tuebingen university library an Arabian manuscript 500 years old, which is probably the original of "The Arabian Nights." He has also found manuscripts describing the whole religious system of the Druses. Boers Still in the Field. 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The Archon war, stretched over well-nigh thirty years, is having a period of recrudescence that will sadly try Dutch resources. The Jambi war has also kept the Hollanders busy, Strange to say, in both districts the Dutch troops are doing what the Dutch condemn in South Africa—burning farms. They are even destroying whole villages. Henrik Ibsen's Early Life Henrik lisen fifty years ago was serving behind the counter of a country drug store. The dispensing of medicines, however, did not suit tastes of the celebrated Norwegian, and during his apprenticeship he was hard at work reading for the profession of a doctor. In order to eke out a very small salary he took to writing, with what result the whole world knows. Fortunate Child. In the town of Manzanares, in Spain, the birth of the first year of this century was curiously honored by the municipality. Having recognized the claims of the expiring year by paying the funeral expenses of the last inhabitant of the town to die in it, the local authority undertook to bear the cost of the education of the first child born in the new year. Lakes in Arid Australia Subterranean lakes have recently been discovered in the Euclia district, Australia. They lie about thirty feet below the surface and contain an abundance of water. This discovery is of the greatest practical importance to this especially arid district. It is of scientific value also, as it affords an explanation of the disappearance of certain rivers. Robbery by Wholesale A remarkable robbery has been committed at Bird's Island, near Toulon. There was on the island a bed containing 100,000 two-year-old oysters. They were safe at a recent date, but on the proprietor visiting the place again seven days later the whole stock had been cleared without any clue to the robbers being discoverable. Flying Not a New Idea Flying is not a twentieth century idea. As far back as 1273 Friar Bacon predicted that flying would "shortly" become a general practice and Bishop Wilkins in 1652 said: "It will yet be as usual to hear a man call for his wings when he is going on a journey as it is now to hear him call for his boots." Honor for Italian Literary Man. Prof. Rodolfo Lanciana has just received the greatest prize a literary man can hope for in Italy. The Academia Reale della Science of Turin has awarded him the triennial prize of 12,000 Ire, called the Premio Bresso, from the name of its founder, for his recent scientific work. Home of the Cholera. The marshy ground of the Ganges delta, with its vast masses o. vegetation, decaying under a tropical sun, is the native home of the cholera. In that pestilential region the cholera and plague are found every year and all the year round. Swedes in United States. The total emigration of Swedes to America during the last fifty years has exceeded 850,000, while about 150,000 Swedes have gone to other countries. Of the emigrants to the United States only 5 per cent have returned to their native country. Four Meals a Day. Washington hotels are said to be the only ones in the country that serve four regular meals every twenty-four hours—breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper—the latter being served in some cases as late as midnight. Spillran's Final Crop John L. Sullivan he will q't the stage and engage in farming. he should prove as successful in raising crops as he has been in raising hellaballoo he may in time become a hayseed aristocrat. Famous Frances Ruined: In the work of restoring the Ara Coeli church at Rome, the famous mural frescoes of Pinturicchio have been completely ruined, several large nails having been driven into them. Picture of Commuter. Commutation tickets between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., according to a late order of the railway company, must have photographs of the holders affixed. Ugly Father Knickerbocker. Boston is at last getting even. President Ellot says New York in American Citizen Publishing and Printing Co. VERY WEEK AT 417 MINESOTA AVE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Telephone "375 Blue" W. C. Martin Editor Terms Of Subscription. Weekly one year.....$1.00 Entered at the post office at Kansas City Kansas as second class matter. Read The Citizen. Artificial Clay in Germany. Artificial clay, according to German papers, is receiving increased attention abroad. The ceramic novelty, which is used for the manufacture of artificial stone, tiles, gutters, etc., is composed of sand, chalk, cement, liquid glue and petroleum. The substances are mixed in certain quantities and a claylike mass results, which can be formed at pleasure and acquires an excellent degree of hardness by being subjected to heat. Has Siberian Mammoth. Russian savants are looking forward with interest to the return to St. Petersburg of Prof. Herz, with a great Siberian mammoth. He is bringing the skeleton and part of the skin and flesh, including most of the interior organs, and about a hundredweight of food found in the stomach of the monster. The parts kept weigh over a ton and much of the flesh was given to dogs. Farmer O'Neal's Hard-Wood Teeth. Farmer Poley O'Neal is using a set of false teeth he made himself out of a piece of seasoned apple tree root with no other tool than his pocket knife. The teeth are of perfect shape and regularity, and the plate, which is of the same piece of wood, fits his mouth as well as if fashioned by a plaster impression. He can crack corn with these teeth—Chicago Inter Ocean. Curlons London Advertisement Curious London Advertisement. The following curious advertisement recently appeared in a London paper: "Gentleman wants board-residence. Real good home, in small family. No other boarders. Being over-stout, therefore subject to many annoying remarks, advertiser prefers very stout people's company. No others need write. References exchanged. Address," etc. Long's Poor Penmanship When Secretary of the Navy Long entered the department of which he was the head, he was obliged to have John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, stamped on the corner of all his stationery. Otherwise, it is said by those familiar with his handwriting, his correspondents could not have read the name signed to his letters. German Teachers Poorly Paid. Germany is undoubtedly the best-educated nation of Europe, yet its teachers in many parts of the country are very poorly paid. Recently several men teachers in Frankfurt applied for situations as policemen, owing to their remuneration being smaller than that of the average police officer. Glacier Will Deluge the Earth Leon Lewis, of Winsted, Conn., author of "Telluria" and a writer of some considerable repute on scientific subjects, says a glacier at the South Pole three thousand miles in diameter and correspondingly thick, will some day break and melt, deluging the earth, beginning with South Africa. The Thirty-two Caliber Revolver. The revolver with which President McKinley was shot was a 32-caliber, and since that time dealers have not noticed an increase in the number of calls for weapons of that caliber, and, it is said, of the particular made use by the assassin. Relle of the Revolution. John M. Buttrick, who recently died in Lowell, Mass., was a great grandson of Major John Buttrick, who began the fight at Concord bridge, and the gun which fired the first shot in the revolution is still preserved in the family. John Wesley's Birthday. The trustees of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., the oldest Methodist college in the country, have given their official sanction to a bicentennial celebration of the birth of John Wesley, to be held in June, 1903. State Examination of Doctors But eight states do not now require examination by a state board of those who wish to practice medicine. They are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Tennessee. Extent of Detroit River. The Detroit river is the outlet of the greatest bodies of fresh water in the world, aggregating 82,000 square miles of lake surface, which, in turn, drain 125,000 square miles of land. Empress and Her Tent. The tent in which the Dowager Empress of China travels is made of yellow silk, copiously embroidered in silver and gold with great dragons and blazing suns. The Sane Idea. The preponderance of public opinion is manifestly against the theory of a Detroit physician that everybody will be crazy within the next three centuries. BIGYCLES BELOW COST 5000 high grade guaranteed 1902 MODELS, the overstock of one of the best known of the country, secured by us at one-half cost. Four Models.....1900 and 1901 Models High $7 to $11 Catalogues with large photographic engravings and full detailed specifications sent free to any address. We SHIP ON APPROVAL to anyone in U.S. or Canada without a cent in advance and allow 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL. You take absolutely no risk in ordering from us, as you do not need to pay a cent if the bicycle does not suit you. 500 SECOND HAND WHEELS taken in trade by our Chicago retailiors, $3 to $8 standard makes, many good as new..... Tires, equipment, sundries, sporting goods of all kinds, a special price in our big free sunny catalog, as well as information. Write for it. RIDER AGENTS WANTED in each town to ride 1902 model bicycle. In your garments, $10 to $20 we would have a wheel to ride for yourself. WE WANT a reliable person in each town to distribute catalogues for us in exchange for a bicycle. Write today for free catalogue and our special offer J.L. MEAD CYCLE CO., Chicago; IN. Beauties of Warwick Castle. Warwick castle is held by many to be the most beautiful seat in England. The large baronial hall is a magnificent room. It is decorated with the most perfect specimens of armor, furnished in a luxurious manner, and masses of flowers and large palms abound on every side. of 308 S Sth St., left for Topka this week to at end the sick bed-side of relatives. Baptizing at King Soliemons Baptist Church Sunday. HERE YOU ARE The best place in town to have your boots and shoes repaired. 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 ones 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. To Isaac Hatton, Jr. You are hereby notified that the will of Isaac Hatton Sr. has been filled in the Probate Court of Wyandotte County Kansas, for the purpose of probating the same, and that the hearing on the same will be had on the 6th day of May 1902, at 9 o'clock a.m. you will take due notice thereof and govern yourself accordingly and be present to represent and protect any interest you may claim under the said will. Respt. Yours Iretta Hatton Baker. A Hard Net to Win In 1893 three Irishmen agreed to undertake a journey around the earth on foot for a jackpot of $150,000. Each one of the party deposited one-third of this sum in the Bank of Dublin, and it was agreed that whoever survived the trip and returned should receive the whole amount. In case all died Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. On Dec. 24, 1895, they started east across Europe and Asia Minor to Egypt, where they took passage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the journey, and the severity of this trip resulted in the death of two of the travelers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, completed the voyage and won the money. —New York Press. Tauris arm on metal Gold, silver, steel, aluminium and lead, when immersed in tauric acid, a new chemical discovery, becomes asitable and ductile as putty. Tons of Gold in Use. The amount of gold coin in actual circulation in the world is estimated to be about $65 tons. CANDY CATHARTIC THEY WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP 10c 25c 50c ALL Drugs! Genuine stamped C C C C. Never sold in bulk Reward of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." State of Kansas, . . . ss. Wyandotte County. . . In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurge, deceased, Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurge 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. Soldiers' Appetites Good. It does not appear that the transference of the American soldier to a tropical climate has injured his appetite. He eats no less than he did at home, he needs as hearty a diet, and he is teaching the Filipino to eat more. Gen. Weston says of the latter: "He is learning to eat and is doing first rate and he has improved physically. We have the assurance from the doctors over there that by our feeding they have less disease and are heartier men." MRS. F. BUSH'S RESTAURT and short order house. No. 347 Minn. Ave. Menlo all hours, cooked to suit the tastes all. Cleanliness made speciality. Regular Meals 1 cents. Don't forget number Chicago & Alton, R. R. The best and most popular line from Kansas City to Chicago and St. Louis is the Chicago and Alton Ry. "The Only Way" Elegant up to date equipment fast time, etc., etc. SAVE DIAMOND C SOAP WRAPPERS FOR Premiums THERE IS A TRIPLE ECONOMY IN USING DIAMOND "C" SOAP . THE ECONOMY OF BETTER SOAP FOR YOUR MONEY. THE ECONOMY OF LESS WORK, AND THE ECONOMY OF SECURING SOMETHING OF USE AND VALUE FOR YOUR WRAP-PERS . . . Complete catalogue showing over 300 premiums that may be secured by saving the wrappers, furnished free up on request. Send your name on a postal card, and we will mail you the catalogue. Address: PREMIUM DEPT., THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY, SOUTH OMAHA, NEB. Diamond "£" Soap for sale by all Grocers. Sheriff Sale State of Kansas, Court of Common Pleas, County of Wyandotte, Alice L. Hopkins' as executrix of the estate of Theodore A. Hopkins, deceased, Plaintiff vs. F. L. Martin, F. D. Martin Catherine B. Martin, Edith J. Martin, Edgar C. Ellis, Trustee J. E. Williams and W. R. Cromwell Produce Commission Company, Defendants. UNDER and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in said Court, number d 4957 wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendants, and to me, the undersigned, Sheriff of said County directed, I will offer for sale, at public auction, and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, at the front door of the Court House in the City of Kansas City, in said County, on MONDAY THE 12TH DAY OF MAY, A. D. 1902. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, the following described Real Estate situation in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, to-wit: Lot number eight (8), in Block one hundred and thirty-two (132), in Wyandotte according to the recorded plat thereof, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas. H. A. MENDENHALL, Sheriff of Wyandotte County, Kansas. [March 11] MONEY To PATENT Good Ideas may be secured by our aid. Address, THE PATENT RECORD, Baltimore, Md. DRUGS, MEDICINE, CHEMIALS, & Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES. The Citizen is in the Push. Better keep your Eyes open. WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE. JONES, MARTIN&CO. DEALERS IN Fancy and Staple Groceries FEED AND CALT MEAT. Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of country Produce in season. Goods delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave., Kansas City, ARE YOU DEAF? ANY HEAD NOISES? ALL CASES OF DEAFNESS OR HARD HEARING ARE NOW CURABLE by our new invention. Only those born deaf are incurable. HEAD NOISES CEASE IMMEDIATELY. F. A. WERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, SAYS: Gentlemen—Being entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, I will now give you a full history of my case, to be used at your discretion. For five years ago my right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting worse, until I lost my hearing. I underwent a treatment for catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a number of physicians, among others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city, who told me that the head noises would then cease, but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. I then saw your advertisement accidentally in a New York paper, and ordered your treatment. After I had used it only a few days according to your directions, the noises ceased, and to-day, after five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely restored. I thank you heartily and beg to remain. F. A. WERMAN, 759 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Our treatment does not interfere with your usual occupation. Examination and YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME at a nominal advice free. INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC 596 LA SALLE AVE. CHICAGO ILL. The Wyandotte Drug Store FOR THE PUREST DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. And the best of every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. Prescriptions carefully compounded. 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Write to us and we will send you a book of testimonials of more than one hundred people in your own State who have used and are using Hartona Remedies. SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. Send us One Dollar and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of HARTONA HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER, two large bottles of HARTONA FACE BLEACH, and one large box of HARTONA MO-SMELL, which removes all disagreeable odors caused by Perspiration of the Feet, Arm-Pits, &c. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express office address very plainly. Money can be sent in Stamps or by Post-Office Money Order, or enclosed in Registered Letter or by Express. BEFORE USING HARTONA HARTON and glossy. Scalp Disease Baldure KINKIEST B receipt of pr HARTON black or dark skin of a BLEACH re heads, and harmless. S per bottle. 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Broadway int does not interfere with your usual YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME NAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AVE., CHI PATRONZE Vyandotte Drug 1512 North Fifth Street, PUREST DRUGS AND CH every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Papers added. Prices always the LOWEST at our sto night bell. Phone W. 171. Medicin . RAYMO Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in RTAKERS SUPPLY S CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES AT A FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone W factory Co: 6 st St. and Reynolds Ave. Kansas City Kansas HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHTENS —ALL— Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. NA makes the hair grow long, straight, beautiful. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, Itching, Eczema. Presents Falling Out of the Hair and Dandruff. HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHT HAIR. Guaranteed harmless. Sent any price—25c. and 50c. per box. NA FACE BLEACH will gradually turn the dark person five or six shades lighter, and will mulatto person almost white. HARTON moves Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples. Freckles all Blemishes of the Skin. Guaranteed is sent to any address on receipt of price—25c. Remedies are absolutely guaranteed, and you remediated if you cannot perfectly satisfied. Will send you from a book of ten诫典 of old people in your own State who have used NA Remedies. CAL GRAND OFFER. Send us One Dollars mention this package, you three large boxes of HARTONA HAIR LIGHTENER, two large bottles of HARTON and one large box of HARTONA NO-SMEL disagreeable odors caused by Perspiration of hair. Be sent securely sealed from observation and post-office and express office address ver. be sent in Stamps or by Post-Office Money. Registered Letter or by Express. All orders to- HARTONA REMEDY CO. 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. AGENTS WANTED in Every Town and City. Liberal Salary Paid. ANY HEAD NOISES? HEARING, BE unconducable. IMATELY. YS: Md. March 30, 1908. I will now give you aitting worse, until I lost success, consult a num- city, who told me that it the head notice world and ordered your treat- the noises ceased, and restored. I thank you way, Baltimore, Md. moral occupation. enta nominal cost. CHICAGO-ILL. Store CHEMICALS, paper. Prescriptions store. Open day times. Delivered. OND, in PLIES STALL HOURS AND WOUNDED West 32. Telephone 28 as TRADE-MARK. AFTER USING HARTONA beautiful, soft, zemal, and a Prema- HTENTS THE anywhere on the skin of a will turn the NONA FACE beckles, Black- ed absolutely 25c. and 50c. and your money written. Write to of more than used and are a Dollar and a paper and GIR GROWER NONA FACE IELL, which of the Feet, Write every plainly. they Order, or TRADE-MARK OUR GREAT OFFER Our Regular $5.00 Complete Treatment for $1.00 Lustorone is put up in 2 forms, both must be used to secure positive results. LUSTORONE No. 1.—To be used at bed-time every night. Straightens Knotty, Nappy, Kinky, Curly Hair. It acts quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten the hair. It is recommended to wear to wait weeks for the results. Lustorone is recognized as the only True Hair Straightener. No hot irons are used. Lustorone straightens without any outside assistance. LUSTORONE No. 2.—Must be used in connection with Lustorone No. 1. It is used with Lustorone No. 1. Causes Eczema, &c. Causes the hair to grow long, silky and beautiful. Stops the hair from falling out, and causes the hair to grow on the baldhead. Restores Grey Hair to its Natural Color. LUSTORONE FACE BLEACH.—Whitens the darkest skin, making it several shades lighter. Will bring the skin to any desired shade of Cures. Cures all Facial blemishes, Pimples, Black Heads, &c., also cures all Skin Diseases and removes Small Pox Pits. LUSTORONE SCALP SOAP.—Absolutely pure. It should be used with Lustorone No. 1. It also cures the hair from falling out. The regular price for the treatment is $5.00. OUR GREAT OFFER! Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with $1.00 and we will send you all of the goods as named above, in plain wrapper, so no one can know contents. This offer made to introduce Honest Goods. We can send to any place in the world. Full Directions with every treatment. DOMINION MANUFACTURING CO., Stamps accepted. 2220 E. Marshall St. RICHMOND, Va. Send Your Sons And Daughters To Western University, A great school for on youth; now a part of our State's in forests. Negroes should here train their children for the Work of life and its duties. Theological Department to prepare for the ministry, desiring to fulfill the demands in our pulpits today Normal Department PreParing for the work of teaching in the public schools and giving a higher training to those desiring the same. Preparatory Department Fitting students for the Normal department and giving an opportunity for education those deprived of such in childhood. For Fprnishing an opportunity for Proficiency, in that Finest of the arts-music. 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 of competition and labor unions and stern demands nothing will so aid the Negro as to prepare his child to 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. The faculty is composed of graduates from Lincoln, Wilberforce, Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best schools of the country maintained, by our people. Following is the faculty, Rev William Tecuschern Vernon, B. S. D., A. M., Press, Lecturer in Philosophy and Logic, Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing and Carpentry; John Charles Wood, instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson Garrett of Wilberforce, instructor in business course and stenography; James T. Edwards of Hampton, teacher of tailoring; E. J. Vernon, B. S., of Wilberforce professor methematics; A. F. Moore of Fiske, professor of language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher of dressmaking; Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, piano music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of science. In addition, lecturers of various topics have been secured. OPPORTUNITIES constantly labor for the betterment of the young people under their care and gladly lend helping hand to the same. No student is made to feel the sting of poverty, but merit abo tells. The most deserving are given credit for the same. Expenses—Board per month, $5.50; tuition per month $1; room rent per month. $1; incidental fee on en trance. $1. encouraged here; students are advised to bring strong substantial clothing, but expensively it is not needed by one struggling for an education. School opened Sept. 9, 1999. All arrangements for entrance can be made by writing Press, W. T. Vernon, Quindale, Kessler, will send one of the latest complete catalogues given full information regarding the Quindaro, Kansas, A great school terests, Negroes should here train their child DEPART Theological Department to p- demands in our pulpits today Normal Department PreParing and giving a higher training to those desiring Preparatory Fitting students for the Normal department those deprived of such in cildhood. MUSICAL I For Furnishing an opportunity for of fine art STATE INDUSTRY It is the intention of this department to work of life in the industrial world. We are labor unions and stern demands nothing will compete with any in the world of skilled labo- the future of his children or the future of his Courses. — Architectural or Mechanica- 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 Tecun- in Philosophy and Logic. Charles S. Bowman and Carpentry; John Charles course and st force, instructor in business course and st teacher of tailoring; E. J. Vernon. B. S., of Moore of Fiske, professor of language and life Lrs. Lulu Cunningham, piano music; Mrs. L. lecturers of various topics have been secured OPPORTION The constantly labor for the betterment of the yo- helping hand to the same. No student is ma- tells. The most deserving are given credit for Expenses—Board per month, $1. It is not necessary th encouraged here; students are advised to bring a coat is not needed by one struggling for an arrangements for entrance can be made by w will send one of the latest complete catalogue Write at once for information or catalogue to William Oom 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's that she demanded." "Sleeping coats from England," said Mr. Kruger, with misgiven. "Then take them off," responded Tante, "and come to bed in your velldshoen (shoes)." Can it be Mr. Kruger's habit to go to bed in his boots? Armored Glass 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 the Chemnitz 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. New York's Street Railways The mileage of street railways in New York city has increased from 132 in 1864 to 1,142 miles in 1901. The total of passengers in the former year was only 50,830,173, against the enormous total of 1,124,432,600 for last year. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. No woman feels that she has truly lived unless she has experienced the joys of a broken heart. 2nd HAND ENGINES and ELEVATORS. ALL KINGS OF MACHINERY. Write RAFNER ELEVATOR WORKS. Kansas City, Mo. BEST MILLS Lowest Prices. Warner Brothers Information. CURRIE WIND- MILL CO., Topeka, Kansas. MANAGER WANTED—Large County— "Game O' Skill" nickel slot machine for drinks and cigarettes; strictly browni, takes place of their own. Must be a licensed dealer want. Rented or sold on easy payments. Sales at JACKSON DESK CO., Cincinnati, Ohio to set our trees in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, New Jersey, Georgia, Alabama, liberal terms and weekly payments. Write us at once. F. H. STANNARD & CO., Ottawa, Kansas. OCKHOLDERS AND OTHERS MAIL QUOTES & DEFINING IN IMPORTANT NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDER THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL OIL FIRM HAS DECLARED A 2 PER CENT MONTHLY DUE June Oil, payable to all Stockholders of Record of THE FREE OIL CERTIFICATE WITH EACH 100 cad and security against any positive loss; entitled of stock bears a net of amount of Measurement Oil. 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LEMOINE, Sec. 307 to 309 Levi Building, - GA Remit by Draf, Express Money Order, Post Office N Sleep Skin-Tortured IMPORTANT NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS AND OTHERS THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL OIL & REFINING CO. HAS DECLARED A 2 PER CENT MONTHLY DIVIDEND, to commence June 11th, payable to all stockholders of record of June 1st. THE FREE PAYMENTS are payable to the Share of Stock, as certain accounts against any possible issue can entitle the Share of Stock, as certain accounts against any possible issue can entitle the Share of Stock. parties wherein individually or collectively, to purchase $000.00 worth of the stock in the company, including the money is deposited in your local bank. The Stock, however, not to be paid, or money turned over until after your representative makes a trip to the Beamont Parks and our assertions are proven true. GUSHER NO. 2 WILL BE STARTED AT ONCE on Acre 2, Block 88, Spindletop Heights. THESE TWO OFFERS WILL REMAIN OPEN will the allotment offered for public subscription has been sold. In order to get the first dividend You Must Be A Stockholder Before June 1st. This proposition appeals most to the very conservative people, on account of its fairness and business policy. It is a chance to make money that you cannot afford to let pass. Respecting all of you, Write for it, or for stock and further particulars to THE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL OIL & REFINING CO. 307 to 309 Levi Building, - GALVESTON, TEXAS E. Express Money Order, - Post Money Order Order or by Wire. Sleep for Skin-Tortured Babies CONCITER SOAP MEDICINAAL 100g. Cuticu Cuticura SOAP And gentle anointings with CUTICURA, purest of emollients and greatest of skin cures, followed in severe cases by mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT PILLS. 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ALL UP TO DATE HOUSEKEEPER! use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Husbands for convenience would be perfect if there were no other women to tell. MISS BONNIE DELANO MISS BONNIE DELANO A Chicago Society Lady, in a Letter to Mrs. Pinkham says: "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Of all the grateful daughters to whom you have given health and life, none are more glad than I. "My home and my life was happy MISS BONNIE DELANG. until illness came upon me three years ago. I first noticed it by being irregular and, having very painful and scanty menstruation; gradually my general health failed; I could not enjoy my meals; I became languid and with gripping pains frequently in the groias. "I advised with our family physician who prescribed without any improvement. One day he said.—Try Lydia Pinkham's Remedies. I did, thank God; the next month I was better, and it gradually built me up until in four months I was cured. This was a gift from God, and I had a pain or ache since."—BONNIE DELANO, 3248 Indiana Ave. Chicago, Ill.>$500 forfeit if above testimonial is not gendine. Trustworthy proof is abundant that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saves thousands of young women from dangers resulting from organ; irregularity, suppression of appetite, and vomiting; womb troubles. Refuse substitutes. A man in a coat stands in front of a woman and a child, who are seated in a room with a fireplace and a window. The man is holding a book and a picture of a woman. Wall Paper is inquariety. Kalonies are tem- pory, receipt of all its contents. ALABASTINE and pure, permanent and artistic wall painting, ready for the brush by making in cold water. For sale by grant or by mail. In package and beware of worthless印章s. ALABASTINE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. SAVE MONEY Buy your goods at Wholesale Prices. Our 1,000-page catalogue will be sent upon request. Your purchase does not even pay the postage, but it is sufficient to show us that you are acting good faith. Better send it for now. You may buy trades with us—why not you also? Montgomery Ward Co. CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. Kansas Notes $ \textcircled{2} $ Mr. Crochet of Iola, a "spotter," was mobbed by jointists in Gas City last week. Crochet should stay at home hereafter and attend to his knitting. A man named Earl is running for office in Butler county, but inasmuch as it is his family name, not the first name, it is not used as an argument against him. A Great Bend young man, who is seven feet and two inches tall, joined a curcus last week. The Union aPacific had nine washouts last week between Oakley and Plainville, and the officials of the road sang merrily as they gave orders' for the necessary repairs. Sometimes it is difficult to remember whether it is cawker worms that are destroying crops around Canker City, or canker worms that are destroying the crops around Cawker City. "Three oPmona gentlemen," according to a local paper, "a blacksmith, the foreman of a livery barn and a balloonist, are making preparations to tour the United States in a special car. They will give hypnotic entertainments, spiritualistic seances and balloon ascensions and expect to carry with them a band that will play under hypnotic influences." A story is told about a negro out in Pratt who tried to open a jackpot on a bluff and a razor and was called with a pair of handcuffs. According to the New York Herald, W. M. Rice, who has represented the treasury department in London for several years, has been transferred and placed in charge of the district of Niagara Falls, N. Y., as special agent. He is a son of General Rice of Fort Scott and lived in Kansas most of his life. Chanute's graduating class, which was composed of a lot of girls and one boy, fixed up a clever class song. It was a parody to the tune of "Just One Girl," and the refrain was "Just One Boy." J. C. Harmony of Howard was put out of the business a few days ago. He fell from a stepladder and broke his right arm in two places below the elbow. A pitiful story is that sent out from Girard. It is that a feeble old man 71 years old killed himself because none of his five married daughters would give him a home. Gueda Springs, where the 600-horsepower mineral ater comes from, is to be connected by electric railway with Wichita. Toronto's new council has prohibited billiard and pool tables, bowling, merry-go-rounds, and passed an anti-profanity ordinance. A man whom the local papers describe as one of "Independence's real benefactors" died last week. He was a barber named Keeley. One night several years ago he left a lamp burning in his shop. It also burned the shop and a long row of old frame buildings which have since been rebuilt in brick. "It hadn't rained in Kansas for a long time," says an exchange. "The old settler went out and turned a blue racer's belly up to the sun. Still, it didn't rain. The old settler organized a Sunday school picnic. It was pulled off in the brightest of sunlight. The old settler then got a circus to come to town. The circus came, but it did not rain. The old settler knew he was up against it. For a year the old phaeton had looked like fury, and he resolved to make a final attempt. He proceeded to wash the old phaeton up nicely. And then it rained." A new one has made its appearance in Cowley county. Farmers complain that the "elephant bug" is damaging the corn. "If you have brass," says the editor of the Bucklin Banner, who has no use for frivolity, "go into business; if you haven't any, go into society." A man in Caldwell was diggin a cellar and by an accidental blow of the spade cut off what one paper describes modestly as the "thumb of his left foot." At the judicial convention in Salina 838 ballots were taken before a choice could be made. On the next ballot R. R. Rees of Ottawa county managed to pick the deadlock. Frank Nelson will deliver the commencement address to the Indians at Haskell institute, Lawrence. The Atchison Globe expert has reached the conclusion that a stately stride and a short skirt were never intended for the same woman. Not a Kansas woman was elected to any office by the Federation of Club Women. The Mexican Central railway has reelected A. A. Robinson of Topeka to be president of the system. The juvenile volcano which appeared in Brown county a few weeks ago is quiet and inoffensive now, but the farmers intend to take no chances. They will plug it up the moment it shows any hostile tendency. A man has started an establishment for the bottling of soda pop and ginger ail in Neodesha. Andrew L. Emerson of Salina feels like a new man since he went through the bankruptcy court this week. His assets were $83 and his liabilities $107,000. A $50,000 beach of promise suit which was expected to furnish interesting news for the reading public of Marshall county was compromised on the night before the trial in Marysville for $300. The $300 was real, not promissory. The aBrber county ranchmen who tried to run an automobile through a bunch of steers escaped with his life and ap art of the running gear. Elias Tobias, a rich man from Boston, is figuring on starting a smelter in Chanute, and if he does the town intends to set his euphonious name to music. An Atchison girl sent the following joke to Life: An Atchison boy was asked if a very old watch he carried was an heirloom, to which he replied: "No, it is a Waterbury." Life sent back the joke, with a note which said: "Dear Miss ——: You are very young but if at first you don't succeed, try again. By the time you are 30 perhaps you will have written a successful joke." Senator Depew's Change of Heart. At the dinner given at the Montauk club, Brooklyn, to celebrate the 61st birthday of Senator Depew, the senator said: "When I was 21 I thought a man of 40 very old and that he ought to retire. When I was 40 I thought a man of 60 had grown senile and worthless. When I got to be 60 I reversed my opinion and thought that 50 and 40 and 30 and 20 knew little of the pleasures of existence and the utilization of cultivated power." Ergo Women to Propose. Rev. Thomas B. Hyde of Cincinnati urges women to take into their own hands the matter of proposing matrimony, holding that many more marriages would result from such a course, "Some men," says Mr. Hyde, "are too bashful to propose and would be grateful if women would help them out. Begin immediately, ladies. Marriage is a solemn matter, but single life is much more so." Beginning and End A certain gilded youth, seriously smitten by the charm and grace of a demure-looking country damsel, ventured to remark: "How I wish you would give me that ring upon your finger. It exactly resembles my love for you—it has no end." "Excuse me, sr," replied the fair one, "I think I will keep it, for it is also emblematic of my love for you—it has no beginning." Hobo Cleanliness. They wash, the hoboes, says one of the fraternity, who talks very frankly about his friends in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for May; they bathe frequently and boil their "rags." Often one will stand stark naked in a cold wind while his clothes are boiling. The purpose of "boiling up" is not cleanliness alone, however, nor chiefly that. Censorship of Comic Papers Foreign comic papers are being subjected to a strict censorship in Germany just now. A special lookout is being kept for those published in America which contain pictures considered disrespectful to the kaiser. Held on to a Chair. Palmer, Mo. May 19th.—Mrs. Lucy Compton has for the past eight or ten years suffered a great deal of pain and sickness. She had Kidney Trouble with an awful pain in her back, which was so bad at many times that she could scarcely get about at all. "I have been down with my back for the past eight or ten years," she says, "and sometimes so bad that I could not get around only by holding on to a chair or some other object. "Dodd's Kidney Pills have given me more relief than anything I have ever used. "After I had used the first box I was almost entirely cured of this dreadful trouble. "I can truthfully recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to any woman suffering as I had suffered for so long." Mrs. Compton's cure was certainly a remarkable on. Socialists in Germany. It is expected that the socialists will carry 100 seats at the German elections, polling over 1,000,000 votes and securing the strongest position in the reichstag. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures wollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores. 25e. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Osmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. A politician, like a poor workman, always blames his tools. SENSIBLE HOUSEKEEPERS will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. The pugilist strikes an attitude when he has his picture taken. For frost-bite, chilblains, sore and lame joints, stiffness of muscles—try Hamlin's Wizard Oil. It won't disappoint you! The pen is mightier than the sword when it comes to signing checks. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c A diplomat is a man who knows how to hold his job. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J. Feb. 17, 1900. Wise is the man who knows how to make a long story short. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure 25c. When a fool gets angry he opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, pain, cure wind colic. 25c a bottle. Many men believe that honesty in moderation is the best policy. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. Laid Up for Sixteen Weeks. Send to St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore, for a free sam of Vogeler's Compound. HEADACHE, BACKACHE, DIZZINESS (PE-RU-NA CURES: PELVIC CATARRH.) "I am perfectly well," says Mrs. Martin, of Brooklyn. "Pe-ru-na cured me." Mrs. Anna Martin, 47 Hoyt street, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: "Peruna did so much for me that I feel it my duty to recommend it to others who may be similarly afflicted. About a year ago my health was com- broken down, had backache dizziness and headache, seemed dark indeed. We had used Peruna in our home as a tonic and for colds and catarrh and I decided to try it for my trouble. In less than three months I became regular, my pains had entirely disappeared, and I am now perfectly well."—Mrs. Anna Martin. Miss Marie Johnson, 11 Columbia, East, Detroit, Mich., is Worthy Vice Templar in Hope Lodge No. 6. Independent Order Templars. Miss Johnson, as so many of her peers, found in Peruna a specific for a severe case of female weakness. She writes: "I want to do what I can to let the whole world know what a grand medicine Peruna is. For eleven years I suffered with female troubles and complications arising therefrom. Doctors failed to cure me, and I despaired of being helped. Peruna cured me in three short months. I can hardly believe it myself, but it is a blessed fact. I am perfectly well now, and have not had an ache or pain for months. I want my suffering sisters to know what Peruna has done for me."—Miss Marie Johnson. Miss Ruth Emerson, 72 Sceymore St., Brussels, Belgium. I suffer two years with irregular painful menstruation, and Peruna cured me within six weeks. I cannot tell you how grateful I feel. Any agency which brings health and strength to the affected is always a welcome friend, and RECEIVE the REVENUE of the POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT for the year ending June 30, 1902 will be $120,000,000. Ignore if will be about $100,000,000. $15,000 GIVE IN 1000 CASH PRIZES, the correct estimates of the total United States for the year e First Prize $5,000; Second VALUABLE INFORMATION: The following figures which we obtained in Washington, D.C., giving the gross or total every year from 1897 to 1901 inclusive. The Total Revenue of the Post Office Department: 1897 WAS $82,665,462, 1898 WAS 89,012,618,118, 1899 WAS 95,021,384,118, 1900 WAS 102,354,579,118, 1901 WAS 111,631,193,118. The Total Revenue for the first half of the Total Revenue be at the end of the fiscal year. Send your estimate and 10 to the ASSOCIATION, DETROIT, MICH., and logue, and a certificate which will entitle more than one certificate, send additional to a certificate for each 10c received. PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION Don't forget when you order starch to get the best. Get DEFIANCE more "yellow" looking no more cracking or it doesn't stick to the infaction or you get your cost is 10 cents for 10 starch made. Of other but 12 ounces. Now your grocers. MANUFACI MAGNETIC STATION OMAH PILES NO MONEY We send FREE and postpaid Rectuall, also 100 page thus, by your valid method, made at DRS. THORNT WANTED FOR SPOT CASH WALNUT LUMBER and LOGS A FORT FOR A GUIDE 1,000 GIVEN AW 1000 CASH PRIZES, to those making the new direct estimates of the total Postal Revenue of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1902. RIZE $5,000; Second $2,000; Third TABLE INFORMATION: To aid in forming your estimate figures which we obtained direct from the Post Office, D.C. give the gross or total revenue of the department from 1897 to 1901 inclusive. The fractional part of a dollar is revenue for the first half of the year was $58,876,016. Be at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1902? INCREASE $82,665,462, INCREASE $89,012,618, INCREASE $95,021,384, INCREASE $102,354,579, INCREASE $111,631,193, INCREASE $9.06 PE. Revenue for the first half of the year was $58,876,016. Be at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1902? INCREASE and 12c in postage stamps to the PRESS. DETROIT, MICH. and we will send you a copy certificate which will entitle you to share in the prizes. The certificate, send additional estimates or guesses. You are to each 10c received. PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, Detroit, NOW DON'T FORGET Don't forget when you ever starch to get the stit. Get DEFIANCE. No "yellow" looking clothes, more cracking or breaking. It isn't stick to the iron. It gives sanitation or you get your money back. It is 10 cents for 16 ounces of the starch made. Of other starches you can't 12 ounces. Now don't forget. It for grocers. MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG. CO. OMAHA, NEB. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 250 Wes send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fiscal Rectum, also 100 page plus treatise on Diseases of Women. By our mild method, may paid a cent BILL FORGE - we furnish the DRS. THORNTON & MINOR, 10:30 Oak VALUABLE INFORMATION: To aid in forming your estimates, we furnish the following figures which we obtain directly from the Post Office Department at Washington, D.C. and the Post Office department for each and every year from 1897 to 1901 inclusive. The fractional part of a dollar is not considered. The Total Revenue of the Post Office Department for the year 1897 WAS $82,665,462, 1898 WAS 89,012,618, INCREASE 7.68 PER CENT 1899 WAS 95,021,384, INCREASE 6.75 PER CENT 1900 WAS 102,354,579, INCREASE 7.72 PER CENT 1901 WAS .111,631,193, INCREASE 9.06 PER CENT The Total Revenue for the first half of the year was $58,876,016. What will the Total Revenue be at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1902? Send your estimate and 12c in postage stamps to the PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, DETROIT, MICH., and we will send you a copy of our Catalogue, and a certificate which will entitle you to share in the prizes. If you wish more than one certificate, send additional estimates or guesses. You are entitled to a certificate for each 10 received. PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, Detroit, Michigan Don't forget when you order starch to get the best. Get DEFIANCE. No more "yellow" looking clothes, no more cracking or breaking. It doesn't stick to the iron. It gives satisfaction or you get your money back. The cost is 10 cents for 16 ounces of the best starch made. Of other starches you get but 12 ounces. Now don't forget. It's at your grocers. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page illus. treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands in cured patients, 100 are treated by Drs. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 100 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. C. C. MENGEL, JR. & BRO. CO., Inc. LOUISVILLE, KY. IS WHAT YOU CAN SAVE $25 ON 5 TON We make all kinds of leases. Also B.B. Pumps, and Windmills, BECKMAN BROS., DES MOINES, IOWA. PISO'S CURE FOR GURES WHERE ALL ELSE AILS. Bear Council App. Therapeutic Use. In Nure, sold by druglists. CONSUMPTION --- MRS. ANNA MARTIN. to-day the market is so filled with useless and injurious medicines that it is a pleasure to know of so reliable a remedy as you place before the public”—Miss Ruth Emerson She asked the question as to whether Peruna can be relied on to cure all such cases. During the many years in which Peruna has been put to test in all forms and stages of acute and chronic catarrh no one year has put this remedy to greater test than the past year. Peruna is the acknowledged catarrh remedy of the age. Dr. Hartman, the author of the book on the phases of catarrh peculiar to women, entitled, “Health and Beauty.” It will be sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. A FORTUNE FOR A GUESS GIVEN AWAY ES, to those making the nearest the total Postal Revenue of the year ending June 30, 1902. Second $2,000; Third $1,000 N: To aid in forming your estimates, we furnish tained direct from the Post Office Department at total revenue of the department for each and The fractional part of a dollar is not considered. Department for the year 22, INCREASE 7.68 PER CENT 4, INCREASE 6.75 PER CENT 9, INCREASE 7.72 PER CENT 3, INCREASE 9.06 PER CENT If of the year was $58.876,016. What will the real year, June 30, 1902? Postage stamps to the PRESS PUBLISHING and we will send you a copy of our Cata- titile you to share in the prizes. If you wish additional estimates or guesses, You are entitled ASSOCIATION, Detroit, Michigan W Y T RET In you get the ANCE. No making clothes, or breaking. It the iron. It gives satis- t your money back. The or 16 ounces of the best of other starches you get how don't forget. It's at FACTURED BY STARCH MFG. CO. MAHA, NEB. KEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. postpaid a 200 page treatise on Files, Fistula and Diseases of the age, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured me paid a cent BILL FORREME, we furnish their names on application. BENTON & MINOR. 10:30 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. WESTERN CANADA'S Wonderful wheat crop for 1001 now the talk of the Commercial World. By no means phenomenal. Farms in Western Canada FREE SAVE CASES WAKE UP. OWA. ATOR W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 21, 1902. AGENTS Want a man in every county in the U. S. $30.00 per month and expenses. Exp. 1902. 1906. 1986 Madison Street, CHICAGO, IL. --- INDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN FORMAL LY GIVEN TO CUBA. Governor Wood and Troops Sall Away for Home—Ceremony of Transfer Was Very Simple — Governor Wood and General Gomez Hoisted Cuban Flag—Great Festivities in Havana. WASHINGTON. — (Special.) The following dispatch has been received at the White House Tuesday night from General Wood at Havana: "To the President of the United States, Washington: "I have the honor to report to you that in compliance with instructions received I have this day at 12 o'clock sharp transferred to the president and congress of the republic of Cuba the government and control of the island, to be held and exercised by them under the provisions of the constitution of the republic of Cuba. Documents sent to me were read and Mr. Palma in accepting the responsibilities on behalf of the island expressed himself in kind and eidearning words and thanks, and thanked the republic of the United States and its officials for all that has been done for Cuba and for the fulfillment of promises made. The ceremony was most impressive and I embark on the Brooklyn with my staff for the United States. WOOD." HAVANA.—(Special) The natal day of the republic of Cuba found Havana arrayed like a queen to await the coming of her lord. She seemed reinvested for the occasion with the dignity of the prosperous days of her power and wealth. The decorations were universal. In some cases men had worked all night, by the light of torches, to complete elaborate designs. There was no aa residence, pretentious or humble that did not bear upon its quaint facade some emblems in honor of the event. The many arches erected at the entrances of piazas by political societies, fraternal clubs, residents of various civil divisions of the city and businesses organizations had an air of real grandeur. The scaffolding was covered with canvas painted in imitation of marble, and from a distance the illusion was complete. Bunting spread on venetian masts canopied the deep, narrow streets from the rays of the sun. Below these canopies the Cuban colors and palms graced the open door ways, through which plump soils could be caught of luxuriant gardens, in cool, inner courts. Many of the balconies jutting from the white walled buildings were adorned with roses. Nature seemed in harmony with the spirit of the festivities. The parks were literally aflame with tropical flowers, and the vaulted sky above might have been chiseled out of turquoise. Above every red, tiled roof rose a Cuban flag. The whole city seemed suddenly buried beneath a forest of waving banners. The ceremony itself was brief and simple. After formal greetings, General Wood read the documentary transfer prepared by the war department, pledging the new government immediately to proclaim the constitution and the Platt amendment contained in the appendix and to undertake all obligations assumed by the United States with respect to Cuba by the treaty of Paris. Senator Palma attached his signature to the document as president of the republic after an exchange of congratulations and the old veteran. General Gomez ascended to the roof of the palace. He was instantly recognized and met with a great demonstration of welcome. General Wood himself undid the dalyards from the flagstaffs and lowered the American colors. As they fluttered down, the cavalry below saluted their flag, an, like an echo of the cheers that arose, came the distant boom of one of the great guns of Cabanas fortress, across the bay. In the meantime a Cuban flag had been kept on the halyards of the palace flagstaffs, and by his own hands General Wood raised it as an act of the United States, General Gomez assisting him, and Cuba was free. Three Dead in a Fire LAUREL, Neb.—(Special.) John Jacobson, his wife and infant child were burned to death, and William Snyder, a clerk, and another of the Jacobson children, aged 6, were seriously burned in a fire in the living rooms over Jacobson's implement store early Saturday. Jacobson, his wife and boy were smothered by the smoke before help could reach them. Snyder, who lived with the family, was awakened by the flames and succeeded in rescuing the older child, but entrance to the sleeping apartments of the remainder of the family was cut off by the origin of the fire is unknown. The unknown. The financial loss is small. Plunged Through the Trestle. ARDMORE, I. T.—(Special). A construction train on the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railway plunged through a high trestle twelve miles east of Ardmore. Wednesday morning. Four men were killed and twenty-one injured, seven of the latter fatal. Among those believed to be fatally hurt is A. M. Oliphant, a prominent attorney of Tishomingo, who was riding home on the work train. The other head and injured are all members of the construction gang or train crew. All are white. Boys Meet to Talk Peace. PRETORIA. — (Special). All the Boer delegates are now assembled at Veereningen. Transvail, where every facility has been afforded them for private sessions. All the voting will be by ballot. During the deliberations at Veereningen Lord Kitchener has guaranteed immunity from attack to all commandees whose leaders are participating in the conference. It always seems more vulgar to get caught doog what you ought not to do than it is coarse to do it. TORNADO IN TEXAS Scores of People Reported Killed at Goliad. HOUSTON, TEX.—(Special). Reports received here by telegraph and telephone indicate that the northern or western portion of the town of Goliad has been swept away by a tornado and that from fifty to 100 people have been killed. The lon gistance operator at Houston was in connection at Goliad, but beyond the fact that part of the town had been blown away and that many persons had been killed and injured, no other particulars were obtained. The following is a partial list of The following is a partial list of dead: Mrs. Johnson, aged 60, Margaret Pope, aged 8, Stuart Dial. Pinkie Lott, daughter of William Lott. Mrs. Purl, two children, Maud and Alice. Two Augustine children. Mrs. Stopple and children, (except one.) Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hoard and three children. Joe Savage and child, Fairnette, Texas. Phosa Savage. Mr. Newcomb, wife and child. Bill Threadwell. Haywood Jones. Thirteen unidentified. Considerable damage has also been done at Beeville by high winds. Both towns are close to the Gulf coast and all telegraph wires by two routes are down. A telegram from Superintendent Forbes, of the New York, Texas & Mexican, to General Manager Van Vieck, in this city, says that eight blocks of business houses were blown down at Golil. Thirty negroes and twenty-seven white people were killed and seventy-five or eighty others injured. PACKERS ENJOINED Temporary Writ Asked For By The Government is Issued. CHICAGO.—(Special.) The temporary injunction asked for by the government against the members of the so-called packers' combine is now in force. It was issued Wednesday evening by Judge Peter S. Grosscup after the close arguments in the United States circuit court room. The order gives the relief prayed for in the bill filed by District Attorney Bethea on May 10. It is so wide in its scope that if the packers or their agents continue with their present alleged uniform arrangements they will be taken into court on contempt proceedings and the burden of proof will be on them to show that they have not violated the order in any particular. Little opposition was raised against the government's petition. Attorney ojhn S. Miller, who was the sole representative of the packers present, pointed out some objectionable clauses in the draft of an order presented by Mr. Bethea. These concerned the alleged agreements for credit, blacklisting and cartage. Judge Gosscup thought some of these minor clauses had been made too prominent and he himself drew a form of order that pleased both sides. At the same time the order was entered, numerous affidavits and other exhibits were filed for the government. AFTER THIRTEEN YEARS. Indiana State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Dedicated at Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS.—(Special.) Impressive ceremonies and an assemblage of more than 50,000 people made notable the dedication of the Indiana state soldiers' and sailors' monument, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1889 in the presence of Benjamin Harrison and his cabinet. The monument stands $284½ feet high, in the heart of Indiana. The total cost of the monument was $588.318.76. The shaft was designed by Bruno Schmitz, of Berlin, and is constructed of Indiana colliic limestone. The crowning feature is a bronze statue of "Victory." The shaft is decorated by army and navy astragals in bronze and by large stone groups in "Peace and War." The balcony, $228½ feet above the street level, is reached by elevator, and from it one may view the entire city of Indianapolis and miles of country surrounding. Needed Money to Marry On GUTHRIE, O. T.—(Special.) William Lillibridge has been arrested and has made a full confession regarding his burning the Santa Fe bridges over the Cimarron river at Perkins, O. T., in order that he might demand money from the company to ward off other damage to the road from him. He stated he was engaged to marry a young lady of Bartlesville, I. T., but she postponed the wedding until he had sufficient money for housekeeping purposes. He became desperate, being out of employment, and determined to hold up the railroad company for money. He made the confession at the urgent request of his aged grandmother. He is 23 years of age, and a resident of Oswego, Kas. Clear skies bring soft smiles; spring breezes walt tender fancies and mellow sunshine warms pretty lips for sweet kisses. DES MOINES.—(Special.) Following a quarrel between Louis Wade and a young woman named Thomas in a kitchen of the restaurant in which they were employed at Newton Monday night. Miss Thomas plunged a cherkaleer into the abdomen of Wade. She alleges it was accidental. Wade will die. Because It Costs More to Live. ST. PAUL.—(Special.) The state board of central has advanced the salaries of all state employees 10 per cent because of the increased cost of living. There was no demand on the part of the employees for this increase. The additional cost to the state will exceed $40,000 per annum. Love doesn't laugh at the locksmith often enough to enable him to pose as a professional humorist. No, Maude, dear; a man who wears medals is not necessarily a medler. Onslaught of Fire and Poisonous Gas Overwhelmed Martinique Louis H. Ayme, United States consul at Guadeloupe, sends the following cable to the Chicago Tribune from Fort de France, Island of Martinique. I have just returned from St. Pierre. The desolation of the ruins of the city blasted by the fire and sulphurous fumes from the angry crater of Mont Pelee can only be inadequately pictured. Not a half of the horrors to be seen there have been told. I left the island of Guadeloupe in a chartered steamer Saturday night. We approached the site of the once fair tropical city soon after 6 o'clock in the morning. The island with its lofty hills was hidden behind a leaden colored haze. Enormous quantities of the wreckage of large and small ships and houses strewed the surface of the sea. Huge trees and, too often, bodies with flocks of sea gulls soaring above and hideous sharks fighting about them, were floating here and there. From behind the GUADILOPE (INDIAN) BAY OF FRONTIER ET GORDON CARIBBEAN SPA THE SOUTHWEST IN ACTIVE ERUPTION FROM 1905 LIVES REPORTED LOST- LIVESTOCK LOST—BUSINESS BUFFERED STYINCENT KINGSTOWN CHAMBERS ET GORDON BURSA ET GORDON GUADEL-QUEPE BAYE STORM NOICES FROM PARTINIQUE VOLCANO HEAD AND DUST STORMS AND EARTHQUAKES DOMINICA BAYE STORM DUST STORMS AND EARTHQUAKES - NO LIVES LOST CARIBBEAN SEA ST PIERRE BAYE STORM 4,000 LIVES LOST - MAY 18 EQUIPMENT OF PONT PLEE ST PIERRE REINVESTED ATLANTIC OCEAN ST LUCIA BAYE STORM LOCAL VOLCANO QUEST GREAT DUST STORMS - INTENSE MEAT - NO LIVES LOST STYINCENT KINGSTOWN BAYE STORM LOCAL VOLCANO QUEST GREAT DUST STORMS - INTENSE MEAT - NO LIVES LOST BRENADE BAYE STORM DUST STORMS FROM Eruption ON ST YVINCENT BARA008 DUST STORMS FROM Eruption ON EXCESSIVE HEAT (From the New York Herald.) volcanic vell came blasts of hot wind mingled with others ice cold. At Le Precheur, five miles north of St. Pierre, men and women frantic to get away begged for a passage on the little steamer. We had room for none, but managed to pick up twenty-eight half dead men, women and children, who were so badly burned that they had to be lifted over the steamer's side. Of the twenty-eight, sixteen died on the boat before we reached Fort de France. Only three or four of the others are likely to live. The condition of these unfortunate is no worse than thousands of refugees in the hills about Le Precheur. Hundreds of them will die before relief can reach them. Thousands need medical care, food, clothing, and above all, water. affected. Not tact. Visicid ashes, or piles seen on every amid the ruin almost all the as if the unhit into the stree of the catastr to meet a sud smote them to So many piles seen that is in particular twenty-two children were mass, arms or hapless being gles of death stone the arm trudged. Most MONT GAROU, ST. VINCENT The eruption of the volcano on St. Vincent portion of the island with molten lava and inhabitants, unable to escape, are panicked. ORNAMENTS USED BY ARCHITECTS MONT GAROU, ST. VINCENT'S DEATH-DEALER. M. Mason 1900 The eruption of the volcano on St. Vincent's, which already has covered a portion of the mountain, has left hundreds, continues, and the inhabitants, unable to escape the violent strike. Lions' Heads Predominate Over Those of All Other Animals. It was the city salesman who said: "If anybody with a few hours to throw away will devote his time to the study of our big office buildings, he will find that much of the ornamental carving on pillars and cornices consists of heads. I have been spending some of my time in this interesting examination, and I have found that out of every hundred heads that decorate the fronts of our great buildings at least ninety-five are lions' heads. I have looked patiently in our zoos and menageries, but as a rule the search has been in vain. The face of the tiger ought to make an artistic trimming, and I'm sure nothing could be more striking than an elephant's head and tusks, but, strange to say, these mighty beasts have been ignominiously slighted by the architects, as have most of the other denizens of the jungle. "Now and then, to be sure, a dragon is seen perched up on the ledge of a tenth-story window and occasionally a horse or long-eared hound is pressed As the steamer felt its way down the west coast of the island we could see that the whole north end of the island was covered with a silver gray coating of ashes resembling snow. Furious blasts of fire, ashes and mud swept over the steamer, but finally St. Pierre was reached, or rather the spot where St. Pierre stood before that awful three minutes. For two miles along the water front and for a half a mile back from shore to the foothills at the base of the volcano stretched the heaps of smoking ruins. Streets were none. One could scarcely distinguish the sites of the large buildings that had been destroyed under the rain of fire, lava, mud and ashes. The still smoking volcano towered above the ash-covered hills. The ruins were burning in many places and frightful odors of burned flesh filled the air. With great difficulty a landing was NOSES FROM MARTINIQUE VOLCANO HEARD DUST STORIES AND EARTHQUAKEES MINICA DUST STORIES AND EARTHQUAKEES NO LIVES LOST GOOD LIVES LOST - MINERAL DEDUCTION OF MINI PIECE (REACH) BY PELELICENTED MARTINIQUE DUST STORIES AND EARTHQUAKEES - INTENSE MEAT - NO LIVES LOST ATLANTIC OCEAN ST. LUCIA DUST STORIES AND EARTHQUAKEES - INTENSE MEAT - NO LIVES LOST LOCAL VOLCANO QUEST GREAT DUST STORIES - INTENSE MEAT - NO LIVES LOST BARBADOS DUST STORIES AND EARTHQUAKEES ON STUDENE EXCESSIVE HEAT DUST STORIES FROM Eruption ON STUDENE affected. Not one house was left intact. Visid heaps of mud, of brighter ashes, or piles of volcanic stones were seen on every side. Here and there amid the ruins were heaps of corpse, almost all the faces were downward, as if the unhappy victims had rushed into the streets when the first shock of the catastrophe aroused them, only to meet a sudden and awful death that smote them to the earth as they ran. So many piles of corpse were to be seen that is difficult to describe any in particular detail. In one corner twenty-two bodies of men, women and children were mingled in one awful mass, arms and legs protruding as the hapless beings fell in the last struggles of death. From under one large stone the arm of a white woman protruded. Most notable was the utter CENT'S DEATH-DEALER. Incent's, which already has covered a and killed hundreds, continues, and the ic-stricken. into service, but in the great majority of cases the animal chosen for a model is the lion. Whether the prevalence of countenance is a tribute to the native majesty of the beast, or is merely an accident, I am not prepared to say, but certain it is that lions, rampant and couchant, flourish as abundantly on the walls of New York's down-town buildings as in their tropical jungles." —New York Times. Satisfied Anyhow. "Marla," said the coloré citizen, "I feels lak my time hez come at las"; I is mighty low." "Ain't you been eatin' de kunnel's watermillions?" "Oh, yes." "Well, didn't you know he done pizened de las' one er dem?" "Did he pizen um?" "He sho' did." "Dat settles me. But, Maria——" "What you want?" "I wuz all day at um, en I eat nine befo' i quit." —Atlanta Constitution. Truth is the simplest of all virtues; it requires neither study nor art. silence and the awful, overpowering stench from the thousands of dead. The fiery stream which so completely destroyed St. Pierre must have been composed of poisonous gases, which instantly suffocated every one who inhaled them, and of other gases burning furiously, for nearly all the victims had their hands covering their mouths or were in some other attitude showing that they had sought relief from suffocation. All the bodies were carbonized or roasted. Through the middle of the old Place Berlin ran a tiny stream, the remains of the River Gayave. Great trees, with roots upward and scorched by fire, were strewn in every direction. Huge blocks and still hot stones were scattered about. The completeness of the catastrophe is evident when it is stated that, so far as known at the present time, no one save a handful of survivors picked up from the wrecked vessels in the harbor by the French cruiser Suchet, escaped. Even they are unable to tell what actually happened, so crazed are they from the experiences they passed through. It is certain, however, that the disaster came suddenly. On the morning of the disaster the inhabitants of the city awoke to find heavy clouds shrouding the Mont Pelée crater. All the previous day loud detonations from the volcano had been heard, so loud that the reverberations echoed from St. Thomas on the north to Barbadoes on the south. The fearful crashing sound ceased and there began a shower of fine ashes, which fell like rain over the city. The inhabitants became alarmed, but Gov. Mountet, who arrived at St. Pierre the evening before, did everything possible to allay the panic. They partly succeeded, but scarcely had the fears of the people been allayed when there came the explosion, and in an instant St. Pierre, its people, its houses, had been blotted out of existence. After a search of three hours in the ruins I found no trace of the American consulate. Consul Thomas T. Prentis, his wife and two daughters, are undoubtedly dead. That quarter of the city is still a vast mass of blazing ruins. Nor has any trace of James Japp, the British consul, been found, Mr. Japp had a large family at St. Pierre. From everything I saw I feel confident that 30,000 is not too great an estimate of the loss of life. Every one in the city perished, and suburban towns added thousands to the number of victims. Plantations and small villages have been devastated by the ceaseless rain of ashes and fire which has poured from Mont Pelee. These survivors have taken refuge in the hills, away from the danger of the lava flow in the valleys, but still menaced by the showers of fire. They must be relieved, taken to places of safety, fed and clothed. The work must be done quickly. Hundreds and even thousands of them must perish as it is before help can reach them. The work of exploring the ruins of St. Pierre, of bringing away the refugees in the hills in the northern part of the island and of burning the bodies of the victims is progressing as rapidly as circumstances will permit. Fort de France is crowded with refugees and food is already so scarce that alarm is felt that it will be exhausted before supplies can reach here. As a result of the relief work the people who had fled to the hills behind the village of Le Precheur, nearly 4,000 in number, have been brought here. They are in a most pitiful condition. Hundreds of them are frightfully burned and in most urgent need of medical care. All the doctors and nurses in Fort de France are working night and day among the injured and they are assisted by scores of volunteer nurses, many women of the wealthiest families of Fort de France giving their services. A number of steamers, including the government vessel Rubis, started from here for St. Pierre. They carried government delegates, a number of gendarmes, a detachment of regular infantry and several priests. The vessels also carried a quantity of fire wood, petroleum and quicklime, for use in the cremation of the bodies of the victims of the terrible volcanic outbreak. Large quantities of disinfectants and stocks of clothing for the refugees were also shipped to St. Pierre. The refuges had, as a rule, assembled at Le Carbet and Case Pilote, not far from St. Pierre, and, it is reported, over a thousand of them have died since the fearful stream of lava poured down Mont Pelee. The sea for miles round was covered with the wreckage of the vessels sunk off St. Pierre at the time of the dis- Physician Says Such Cases Are by No Means Uncommon. "It is not such an uncommon thing," said a physician, "to find a person whose pulse beats can be plainly seen, and yet I suppose there are but few outside of the profession who realize the fact. In most persons the beat of the pulse cannot be perceived, but the mere fact that the beating is perceptible does not mean that the pulse is other than normal. I have come across a number of cases where the throbbing of the wrist could be plainly seen, and yet the persons rarely gave evidence of abnormality in temperature. They were rarely feverish, and in good physical condition generally. Pulses of this kind, from this view, which is based upon actual observations of cases, do not indicate anything more than an abnormal physical condition in the formation of the wrist veins. "I have met with one case which was possibly a little extraordinary, in that it was plainer and much more distinct than any I had ever seen before. It could almost be heard. The THE CABLE STEAMER "POUYER GUERTIER." OF HAVRE, WHICH BROUGHT 450 SURVIVORS TO PORTE-DE-FRANCE. HOW A VOLCANIC EXPLOSION IS CAUSED COME OF LAVA AND AShes WATER LINE AND COURSE AND PREVENTS EQUIPMENTS UNDER ORDINARY PRESSURE. WATER LINE OCEAN OCEAN STEAM FLUID OR SEM-FLUID LAVA A study of the above picture will show how a molten mass in the mountain is released, thereby released thereby, following the lowest resistance, blow off the top of the volcano. aster, and ashore only a few trees, all bent seaward by the force of the volcanic shower, were left standing. When nearing St. Pierre the Rubis met a number of tugs towing lighters filled with refugees. The heat from the smoking, lava-covered ruins at St. Pierre was suffocating and the stench from the corpse-strewn streets was awful. Only a few walls were standing. The report that the hospital clock was found intact with its hands stopped at 7:30 was confirmed, as was the statement that the offices of the cable company had entirely disappeared. On all sides were found portions of corpses, which were gathered up by the soldiers andgendarmes and burned on one of the public squares. Not a drop of water was procurable ashore. The darkness caused by the THE CABLE STEAMER "POUYER G BROUGHT 450 SURVIVORS clouds of volcanic dust shrouded the town, and continuous subterranean rumbling added to the horror of the scene. The fort and central quarter of the town were razed to the ground and were replaced by beds of hot cinders. The iron grill work gate of the government offices alone was standing. There was no trace of the streets. Huge heaps of smoking ashes were to be seen on all sides. At the landing place some burned and ruined walls indicated the spot where the custom house had formerly stood, and traces of the larger shops could be seen. In that neighborhood hundreds of corpses were found lying in all kinds of attitudes, showing that the victims met their death as it by a lightning stroke. Every vestige of clothing was burned away from the charred bodies, and in many cases the abdomen had been burst open by the intense heat. Curiously enough, the features of the dead were generally calm and reposeful, although in some cases terrible fright and agony were depicted. Grim piles of bodies were stacked everywhere, showing that death had stricken them while the crowds were vainly seeking escape from the fiery deluge. On one spot a group of nine children were found locked in each others' arms. The vaults of the Bank of Martinique, at the head of what had been the Rue de l'Hospital, were found intact. They contained 2,000,000 francs ($400, HOW A VOLCANIC E WATER LINE OCEAN FLUID OR SEMI- LAVA A study of the above picture will show interior met the water and how the steam least resistance, blew off the top of the vol 000 in specie and other securities, which were sent here for safe-keeping. which were sent here for safe-keeping. The vaults of the government treasury are now being searched in the hope that a large amount of money and other valuables deposited by the principal merchants of the city may be saved. Nearly 4,000 of the refugees from the vicinity of the village of Le Precheur, a suburban village, were rescued by the French cruise Suchet and the cable artery would rise to a point almost as large as the ball of the little finger of a child, and would change from the white of the skin to a blood purple with each beat of the pulse. I found it easy to count the pulse beats without touching the patient's wrist. I could see plainly enough to keep the record, and, in order not to err in my calculations, I tested it in several ways and found it was correct and that there was no mistake in my counting with the naked eye"—New Orleans Times-Democrat. Would Allow No Indecent Haste. Many stories are told of the conspicuous bravery of Field Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain, who died recently, full of years and honors. In the Sikh war, Chamberlain, who then held the rank of colonel, called for volunteers to assist him in blowing up a bastion. Three or four responded, and the colonel led the little party close up to the point where the mine was to be fired. As soon as the explosives were in place and the fuse lighted, the volunteers started to run, repair ship Pouyer-Quartier and brought here. As a result of his inspection, commander of the Suchet reports crevices and valleys are forming in the northern portion of island, where the land is in a perpetual change. Fortunately, part of the country was evacuated good time by the inhabitants, who to Fort de France. Lava continues to stream down mountain side, accompanied by riffle thunder and lightning. The stories of the survivors add the awful details of the parting harrowing account of the loss of British steamer Roraima. C. C. Evans of Montreal and G. Morris of New York, who are at the military hospital of Fort France, say the vessel arrived at UERTIER." OF HAVRE, WHICH TO PORTE-DE-FRANCE. eight bells was struck a frightful plosion was heard up the mountain. A cloud of fire, toppling and roaring swept with lightning speed down a mountain side and over the town a bay. The Roraima was nearly and caught fire at once. The storm Roraima had reached St. Pierre a day with ten passengers, among were Mrs, Stokes and her three chen, and Mrs, H, J. Ince. They they were watching the rain of as when, with a frightful roar and a rifle electrical discharge, a cyclone fire, mud and steam swept down in the crater over the town and sweeping all before it and destroy the fleet of vessels at anchor off shore. There the accounts of the astrope so far obtainable cease. "I never can forget the horrid, the choking whirlwind which enveloped me," said Mr. Evans. "Mr. Morris is rushed below. We are not bit burned—not so badly as most of the When the fire came we were going out posts (we are engineers) to we anchor and get out. When we up we found the ship affair at fought it forward until 3 o'clock, the Suchet came to our rescue, were then building a raft." "Ben" Benson, the carpenter of Roraima, said: "I was on deck and, when I heard an explosion the captain ordered me to up another got the windlass, but when the came I went into the forecastle got my 'duds.' When I came out EXPLOSION IS CAUSED COME OF LAVA AND ASHES WHICH ACTS AS A STOPPER AIR CURRENT'S ADDITIONAL UNDER ORDINARY PRESSURE WATER LINE OCEAN TEAM FLUID how a molten mass in the mountain generated thereby, following the line talked with Captain Muggha, H. Scott, the first officer, and others. The had been on the bridge. "The captain was horribly burned. He had inhaled flames and wanted to jump into the sea. I tried to mish him take a life preserver. The captain, who was undressed, jumped on board and hung on to a line for while. Then he disappeared." All is not lost that is in danger. in order to get out of the way of explosion, no less than to effect speedily as possible their retreat to the safety of the British lines. The had not gone a dozen yards better. Chamberlain shouted: "Come here. There's to be no indecent hate, your man. We'll walk." And walk the did, while the fuse slowly spun down to the waiting powder—London Truth. What the Parrot Saida The ancient whaling bark Kainah while cruising off the West Indies was recently struck by an infuriated pooled whale and so great was the damage done that the vessel immediately began sinking fast. The captain's wife had barely time to get into a boat when the old bark went down. The sailors declare solemnly that the favorite parrot of the captain's wife which she rescued, said plainly she was being lowered over the sails "D—d hard luck; that's what I say. A self-made man always works his maker—himself.