The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country Mayor W. H. Craddock has started on his campaign, which we believe from all reports received ultimately means victory glorious victory. We have no hesitancy in telling the good people throughout the State irrespective of party, color or creed—that when you meet "Our Mayor" you will have met a man eminently fitted to not only fill the executive chair of our State, but the United States. A man who stands squarely, fairly and honestly before the people "To do Right" The confines of party are too narrow for him, but he stands out in bold relief a man of the people, for the people and will be elected the next Governor of Kansas by the people. While he comes from Wyandotte county he is broad enough to deal right by the smallest county in the state with as much justice as with the largest. Then three cheers for Craddock and God speed him on a mission that is but a stepping stone to a higher plane. From indications Mayor Craddock will be elected governor of our State by 25.000 majority. We would say to the citizens of Kansas City, Kansas and Wyandotte county that the opportunity is ripe to elect a governor. Let us lay party lines aside by uniting in one band determined to stand up for Wyandotte county and the great state of Kansas. VOL. 15. NO.. 21 Oldest and Co-operation. Combin Mayor W. H. Craddock has which we believe from all repo victory glorious victory. We the good people throughout the color or creed—that when you have met a man eminently fifty chair of our State, but the Un squarely, fairly and honest Right" The confines of party stands out in bold relief a man and will be elected the next G people. While he comes from W enough to deal right by the sn as much justice as with the law Then three cheers for Cradd mission that is but a stepping From indications Mayor Cra of our State by 25,000 majority of Kansas City, Kansas a opportunity is ripe to elect a g Let us lay party lines aside mined to stand up for Wyando of Kansas. A NEEDLE THAT IS A NEEDLE. Wm. Needles the deputy in the office of the clerk of the District Court is seeking the nomination and election to the head of this office. It is generally conceded that he will prove an exceptionally sharp pointed needle in any opponents side, our acquaintance with him has been our basis in the conclusion drawn, he is a man of much vim, energy and good commonsense and well versed in the duties of the office for which 'he aspires. Tales of Two Cities Mr. J. J. Brown of 340 Sanford ave. an old residence of this city died after a sudden illness of four days June 17 1902, he was born in Osage county Mo. in 1844 he served in the late war of the rebellion. He was married to Miss Rachel Washington in 1869 to them were born eight children five of which survive him Namely, Johnie, George Lena, Irwin and Lewis. He moved to Kansas City, in 1881 he was industrious and highly respected by all who knew him. The A. C. L. Grocery Company of 435 Minn ave., are making special prices in good groceries. Call and see them. Its your advantage. Don't forget that Henry Stine the bar at 349 Minn avenue is the Laboring men, Musicians and Expressmen head-attenders also the place for a good shave One of the best torsional parlor in the two Kansas Cities where noting but first the class is done is at 500 Grand avenue O'Bannon and Mitchell proprietors. They are reliable in every sense of the wood and if you want the best of work give them a call. B. and W.C. boys certianly enjoy get their week off G. C, didn't get off till last Saturday but recalled three days in that one G. F.S. never says much but he thinks a great deal. B.G. is the last one off duty in the week but My' My' I don't say nothing H. C. isn't like he use to be No. No. No I don't go to Armourdale You needn't say anything about me being down on lower Minnesota ave wet wont. Has everybody been satisfied? Women as Lapidarles. Women in the Bible in the Philippines, at least in the island of Luzon, are showing wonderful skill as lapidaries and gem- metters. Their taste and workmanship are far in advance of the powers of GAR THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. A PIONEER CITIZEN. Hon. D. E. Cornell one of the few old timers who has stood in the forefront of all that has tended toward making Kansas City, Kansas a city of some note who as a pioneer citizen is known far & wide, is seeking the republican nomination and election as County Tresure. His wide acquaintaner, his gentle—manly make up, his manhood and integrity makes him a rather hard opponent to go against. He has an establishrecord and once turned a loose on the track. He will make a smoth get-a-way, and if he does not come under the wire in the lead he will be a very close second. WHAT THE NEGRO HAS DONE. The Negro has made wonderful progress in thirty-seven years. After he was emancipated it was said that he would sink into oblivion or would come to naught. But is it true? no, for no race on this side of God's green earth has made such rapid strides after having been robbed out of freedom for two hundred and forty five years, a homeless race, no place to go. To-day the Negro stands the equa of any other race from all stand points, save financial. This age needs practical men and women. It has been said by a writer that the ignorant and unlearned pervert any thing teaching damnable doctrine, which is destructive to the souls of men. Without education it is impossible for Negro teachers to achieve tangible results, because education expands and elevates the mind for unless the brain is cultured, it is impossible for him to see his heed. It as a fact that if the Negro was educated in the dark days of slavery, today, he would have been a powerful and most influential factor in the world. The destiny of the race is in its own hand. The Negro must bear to suffer persecution; he must toil and be patient: he must crave his own future, yet, he is not discouraged, but is toiling upward and onward, trying to reach the goal by his individual efforts. The Negro, however, must learn that the elevation of his race depends almost wholly upon the elevation of his women. He must remember that women are the flowers of the land and must be treated so, instead of being abused and thrown around like broken articles. The time has come when the Negro must stop condemning education, for without educait is impossible to guide the ship of state.-F. J. Hntts in Charleston Messenger. 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. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING. WHAT GIRLS SHOULD KNOW. Poor girls, if they had to know every thing magazine writers and theorists declare they must in order to properly fill the sphere of woman, their much learning would drive them mad. The trouble, says the Rome Tribune, is every writer speaks from his own point of view which rarely coincides with anybody else. A sensible girl will just do the best she can to make herself innately nice, agreeable and efficient in whatever art and industries that her talent indicates and then if she does not succeed in winning some man's love she will have that within herself which makes happiness. Here are some things that a writer advises girls to learn, and they are upon the whole very wise sayings. A girl should learn: To sew. To cook. To mend. To be gentle. To value time. To dress neatly. To keep a secret. To be self-reliant. To avoid idleness. To respct old age. To darn stockings. To make good bread. To keep a house tidy. To make a home happy. To be above gossiping. To control her temper. To take care of the sick. To take care of the baby. To humor a cross old man. To read the very best of books. To take plenty of active exercise To wear shoes that will not cramp the eet. To be a womanly woman under al, circumstances — news-Enterprise. 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. 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. WHINERY. 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. I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Attorney of Wyandotte County subject to the republican primaries. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Register of Deeds of Wyandotte County subject to republican primaries. A. C. (BERT) COOKE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Tresurer of Wyandotte County subject to the republican primaries. D. E. CORNELL Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Eli Porter, Plaintiff. Pearly Porter, Defendant. Fanny Forrest. Declendant. To the above named defendant, you are here-by notified that, you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the first day of July, the petition filed against you, will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered thereon, the nature of which will be decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and and defendant and forever divorcing plaintiff from said dedefendant; and for costs of this suit. Hot weather is on just keep going. When you want water. When you want Coal. When you want cesspool work done you can always find Patterson and Gayden at the old stand. 543 Minn. ave. Mrs Mollie Bodes and Mr Ernes: Berry were the guet of Mrs I. J. Bradley this week. Miss J. Alexander Mrs R, White Mrs Fishback and Mrs L. Trode of Lawrence and Mrs Smith of Topeka were in the city this week visitors, Mrs I. F. Bradley of 400 Haskell ave. WANTED Women as cook, and Laundress add Mrs A. W Solomon Employment agt Office 115 E. 5th St. Leafley. Coloral In the matter of the Estate of Sam Jordan, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the under signed, on the Estate of Sam Jordan late of Jackson County Missouri deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid dated the 6th day of June 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersignor allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they 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. I. F. BRADLEY, Administrator of the Estate of Sam Jordan, deceased. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have here to set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 6th day of June A. D. 1902. K. P. Snyder Probate Judge PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. L. J. Johnson, Plaintiff. vs. N. N. McFarson, Annie D. McFarson, T. P. Vaughn, Nannie A. Dail, Defendants. The above named defendants will take notice that they have been sued by the above named plaintiff whose petition against them has been filed in the above entitled court; and that they are required to answer the same on or before the 29th day of July 1902, or judgement will be rendered accordingly of the following nature to-wit: A personal judgement against said defendants, N. N. McFarson, and Annie D. McFarson for the sum of Seventy-five Dollars ($75.00) and the interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent per annum from the first day of June, 1896, and all of the taxes paid by plaintiff on said real estate since the execution and delivery of the said mortgage deed, actording to the term of a note for the amount executed June first, 1896 by said defendants; also for the foreclosure of a mortgage to secure the sum given by the said makers of said note on lot number r thirteen (13) in blo four (4) in Cobb Heights according to the recorded platinum now on file in the office of the Register of Deeds of the county of Wyadcoat, Kansas. Said Cobb Heights now being a part of Kansas City, Kansas, and an order for the sale of said premises, without appraisement, free and clear of all claims of the defendants and an appropriation of the proceeds to the payment of said personal judgement. WHAT A BARREL OF WHISKEY CONTAINS A barrel of headache, of heartsch of woes. A barrel of curses a barrel of blows A barrel of sorrow from a loving weary wife. A barrel of care a barrel of striff A barrel of all unavailing regret A barrel of cares, a barrel of debt A barrel of hungry, of poison of pain A barrel of hope all blastec and in vain A barrel of poverty, rain in the bigb' A barrel of tears that runs in the n ght A barrel of crime a barrel of groans' A barrel of orphans, most pitiful moans: barrels of serpents that hiss as they pass. That glow from the liquor sn the head of the glass a barrel of falsehoods, a barrel of cries That fall from the maniac's lp as he dies! FOR SALE Two Acres of land adjourning the city can be purchased at a price that will surprise you. Call at this offices for further information. The Chicago Cafe one of the finest and ocated establishment of its kind at 706 E12 S. for sale Parties desirig a baring will do well to see the proprietor Mr H. Coupton at the a bove address. BARGAIN! BARGAIN!! Now is a chance for those who want a Bargain in lots we have on hand a few lots that can be bought now at a bargain Any one who wishes to provide himself with a home now is the time to buy. Call at this office and get location and price. Bear Horses Well Trained The Boer horses are remarkably well-trained animals, and when the Transvalers desire to form an ambush or firing line, their horses are taught to remain stationary as soon as they feel the reins dropped over their necks. SO TRUE It is peculiar how smooth some papers are the writers for instance try to be. They will praise a Negro apparently on surface, but it is often you can read between the lines and discover the hidden dogger. DON'T IT HURT When you jab a white man in the side with the truth. How it hurts and how he squirms. All Negroes want is for you to tote fair. A SUGGESTION We would suggest that the Federation of womens clubs take a session in each month from now until next June and by that time there will be some rather bright Parliamentarian among them. Let Kansas City, Kansas lead out. ITS CERTAINLY TICKLING. Iis real amusing to see many office seekers going down the line with the colored brother To see that important air that the ebony hued brother assumes—when he knows a white man has surely got to come by him. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Joseph C Keller Plaintiff. vs. Annie Keller. Defendant. The State of Kansas to Annie Keller you will hereby take notice. That you have been sued in the District court of Wyndotte county Kansas wherein Joseph C. Keller is Plaintiff and Annie Keller is Defendant and unless you answer on or before the 3rd day of August 1902, the petition will be taken as true and Judgement will be rendered against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking absolute divorce forever desolving the bonds of matrimony costly of the minor children and such other relief so in equity and good conseince the nature of the plaintiff claim demand. Duted July 11 1902. Joseph C. Keller Plaintiff. Chas. W. Frye Attyr. NOTICE Spend your pleasure evenings down at the Douglass Hospital where you can find all the Ice Creams, Soda Pops and other Refreshments for sale. AN ACTIVE CANDIDATE Mr. James L. Smalley is one among the brilliant young attorneys who is making a vigorous campaign for the republican nomination for county attorney His friends are active and losing no opportunity to advance his cause. In the grand finale it is said by those who generally know, when they speak that he will be, the "chosen one" Our acquaintance with him warrants us in believing that he will make a base hit. Mr. Smalley is a home production having been borne and reared in Wyandotte county. WHAT IT WILL DOUBT LESS BE. The Republican County Central committee meet Saturday afternoon. The book maker in our office in sizing up the affair of the Republicans says that the committee will doubtless decide on an old time convention for about the first week in August our prediction seldom fail, Just watch them. Eastern and Western Hemispheres Grand Lodge of K. P. and Grand court of calantha led by two bands of music proceeded to the Douglas Hospital and after rendering several soft melodious airs for the benefit of the sick The Grand Council, Rev. calhum took up a collection which amounted to $5.00 The save was greatly appreciated owing its being the first sermon. poils. Brought Happiness to the Dyne Margaret Bottom, in "Heart to Heart Talks" in the Ladies' Home Journal, relates this pathetic incident of her ministrations to the sick: "Just before I left for Europe last summer, a great box came to me filled with dolls, all dressed, and the request came with it that I should have them sent to a children's hospital. There is a hospital in New York for consumptive children, as well as for older people with the same disease, and I gave the dolls to a physician who is connected with that hospital. He said afterward he wished I could have seen the children trooping toward him, each carrying a doll. But the most touching thing to me was what the nurse told the doctor, that after every child was furnished with a doll there were a number left, and the poor women dying with consumption asked if each might have a doll. They all wanted them, and to each the dolls were given, and the nurse said she could not have dreamed of their seeing a comfort to those poor sick women. There were just enough dolls for each to have one. Ah on of the Co Backed By Educat THE SEVENTEENTH ANNVE ND GRAND RALLY OF THE ILL BAPTIST C R 9TH ON NEW JERSEY AVE KANSAS CITY LY 27 19 Evenings Will Be Spent In Literary Thursday and Friday July 24 and 25 at programme has been prepared Every body is invited to come out ce, Well Backed By Education Two Evenings Will Be Spent In Literary Work. Thursday and Friday July 24 and 25th. An excellent programme has been prepared. Every body is invited to come out. Asphalt Pavements. About twenty-five years ago government engineers decided to pave Pennsylvania avenue in Washington with asphalt. That was the beginning of the general use of the scientific mystery for street pavements. To-day over 234,000,000 square feet of street pavements in the United States and Canada are covered with asphalt. This asphalt pavement would make a boulevard twenty-six feet wide over 1,750 miles long and would reach from New York to New Orleans, and then have several miles for side streets. "Chair-House" Lodging Known as "the chair house," a New York institution's title is derived from the fact that human beings so poor they can not buy a lodging at the cheapest Bowery resorts up up five cents for a chance to occupy a chair for the night. By 11 o'clock the night's contingent is fast asleep in the chairs, the usual number being twenty-five or thirty men, of all kinds and degrees of decrepit poverty. Tauric acid on Metals Gold, silver, steel, aluminium and coal, when immersed in tauric acid, a new chemical discovery, becomes as pliable 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 865 tons. 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As this old and abandoned cemetery was located in the center of the town, and afforded an excellent site for an hotel, the necessary permission was obtained from the proper authorities, and in less than a year a large and handsome hotel was erected. In digging the foundation hundreds of skulls and bones were discovered, all of which were carefully collected and interred in the new cemetery. The hotel possesses a room in which service is conducted by a local preacher every Sunday. Last year the Battersea Vestry voted a sum of £400 for the purpose of erecting a refreshment klosk in the Battersea Parish Cemetery, better known as "Modern Cemetery." Russian Dinners. The etiquette of a Russian dinner is decidedly formal. When the guests are seated, the host and hostess of the feast remain standing, it being their pleasure to attend upon the company and to see that the servants do their duty. Nothing can escape their observation; the plate of no guest remains empty for a moment, nor is a wine glass ever without contents. French wines are mostly drunk at Russian dinners. Madeira is also a favorite, and a bottle of port is always served to an English guest. At her own time the hostess gives the signal, and all rise from the table. Old Hudson Bay Receipts. Among some curious records of the Hudson Bay company are receipts which read as follows. "Received per Lapwing, Jane Goody, as per invoice, in good condition." "Received per Osprey, Matilda Timbuns. Returned per Lapwing, as not being in accordance with description contained in invoice." These belong to pioneer times, white men who settled in new parts of the country were either obliged to remain bachelors, marry squaws or send for wives, trusting to the judgment of the company to select them and send them out. Not the Right Names A salesman in a thinaware establishment is responsible for the following: "A day or two ago," said he, "a lady came in the store and began to examine some fine cups and saucers. Nothing suited her. At last, however, she found some that pleased her, and, smiling innocently, said: 'Now, these are very nice, and I like the way they are made, with different names on them. If I could find some with the names I want, I would take them, but all I see read "Tom and Jerry."" Children as Toy Makers. The official report of the government inspector of factories for Coburg-Gotha gives the details as to the labor of children under 14 years engaged in their homes making buttons, toys, etc. it appears that in this district 5,455 such children employed. They work from four and one-quarter to six hours per day, and earn in button-making from 2 to 6 cents. In making dolls they earn from 3 to 18 cents, while on toy work they earn from 2 to 14 cents per day.-Baltimore American. Denied a Change of Name A Paterson, N. Y., jeweler named Rabinowitz made application to the court to have his name changed to Robinson because an insurance company refused to do business with him. The company informed him that its invariable rule was to decline to insure the property of persons whose names ended with "itz." The lower court did not think this a good reason for changing the name and the state supreme court has been appealed to. A. Versatile Cook. Cooks in Ceylon must apparently be versatile persons, judging from the appended advertisement cut from a Cingalese journal: "Wanted—A billier as Cook and Appu, or either, by a married man, who holds Excellent Testimonials in Stuffing Animals. Can Stuff Elephant's Legs. Moderate Salary expected. Please apply to Fonseka, Ragala, Walgala." Value of Cornstalks Cornstalks continue to increase in value. 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Ernest and John Stramm, two stepsons, aged 12 and 8 years, spang through another window just as Oelfeuer entered the bedroom where they were sleeping to complete his crime, a bullet followed them into the street. The tragedy occurred shortly after 5 o'clock. The streets were thronged with churchgoers, and while they hurried to the scene of the shooting, Oelfeuer with his revolver still clutched in his hand, ran to the rear of the home and opening the door started up the stairs to the garret. At the second landing the murder- TIPS ADELINA OLEFFUER was confronted by Timothy Dolan, who occupies the flat directly above the one occupied by Oelfeuer. When Dolan attempted to block the man's way he was threatened with death. Dolan stepped aside and Oelfeuer made his way to the attic, where he concealed himself behind a chimney. Meanwhile the crowd, now numbering hundreds, was battering on the doors or throwing stones at the window blinds. They would have broken 'nto the Oelfeuer flat and dragged the man out had not Dolan informed them that he had fled. The Canalpost avenue police station is only a short distance from the scene of the tragedy and when a man, hateless and excited, arrived at the station and notified the police of the crime, Policeren Nihill and Bresnahan were dispatched to the house. They arrived just as the crowd had determined to drag Oelfeuer out of the attic. When the policemen, groping their way through the attic, reached the corner where Oelfeuer was hiding he warned them not to touch him. The policemen continued to advance and the murderer, springing to his feet, pressed his revolver against Nihill's stomach, at the same time pulling the trigger. But the empty revolver morely clicked and Oelfeuer reached for a second pistol which he had in his pocket. Before he could secure it the policemen overpowered him. The crowd made no attempt at violence as Oelfeuer was led to the police station, although cries of "hang it" were heard at every step. Mrs. Oelfeuer was killed instantly. Theodore Oelfeuer. Miss Stramm, who was shot in the right shoulder, was taken to the county hospital, where it was said she would recover. Walter Oeifeuer, the 14-month-old son, was shot in the left side. The baby, too, was taken to the hospital, where it expired. Mrs. Oeifeuer sustained two wounds, either of which would have caused death, physicians say. One bullet pierced her heart and the second entered the left side of the neck. No aircreel immediately preceded The Oldest Inn in England The Oldest Inn in England. In the village of Norton St. Philip is the George Inn. It claims to be the oldest licensed village alehouse in England, the license dating from 1397. 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Not a word was uttered by Oelfeuer as he entered the room where his wife, half asleep, lay in bed with her 17-year-old daughter, Lziez, and her infant son, Walter. The child lay between the mother and daughter. To avoid awakening the sleepers Oelfeuer removed his shoes before approaching; the door to his wife's room. Opening the door he stepped to the side of the bed, placed the revolver close to his wife's breast and fired. A second shot followed immediately, this bullet striking the now dead woman in the neck. The stepdaughter had awakened with the report of the first shot, but before she could stir Oelfeuer had turned the revolver upon her. His aim was bad and the bullet struck the baby. This was not a part of Oelfeuer's purpose. Only the stepchildren were to have been his victims. As Lziez arose in bed to flee from her assailant a second shot struck her WALTER LIZZIE STRAMITI in the right shoulder. Stunned and bleeding she scrambled over the body of her mother and through an open window at the head of the bed, directly opposite the door where Oelfeuer stood. As she reached the sill she heard the revolver click again, but for some reason the cartridge did not explode. As the girl escaped Oelfeuer started for the bedroom of his two stepsons, Ernest and John. The boys had been awakened by the first shots, and guessing the truth were opening the window of their room just as Oelfeuer entered. They fled through the window and a bullet was fired between them. Ethel Oelfeuer, the 3-year-old daughter of the murderer, was asleep in the room occupied by Ernest and John Stramm. She was not harmed. Death by hanging himself with his undergarments in a cell of the Canal-port avenue police station ended the life of the murderer a few hours after the crime. His underclothing was knotted into a noose and high up on the cell door. By throwing his weight upon the improvised rope the murderer had succeeded in strangling himself without making any noise sufficient to be heard in other parts of the station. His coat, waistcoat and suspenders had been taken away from him when he was locked up because the police feared that he might make an attempt on his own life. He passed a sleepless night, but expressed no repentance for his crime. In the early hours of the morning he quieted down and was apparently trying to doze, the officers say, when he was seen alive for the last time. Expensive Seals. The great collection of seals in the British Museum will shortly receive some interesting additions. These are Sir Walter Raleigh's seals of office as governor of Virginia in 1584, warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon in 1585, and governor of Jersey in 1600, in addition to the great Elizabeth's own family seal. They will become the property of the nation under somewhat novel conditions. Before they are handed over to the trustees of the British Museum two thousand electrotypes in facsimile will be issued to a body of subscribers at a guinea a set, and every subscriber's name will be included in the list of donors. -Paill Mall Gazette Created a New Volcano. As a sequel to the recent earthquakes in Sardinia an enormous chasm has been opened in the earth, while the surface has bulged into a hill of considerable elevation, from which stones and masses of earth are projected. There are also symptoms that the interior of the hill is in an ebullent condition. Scientists incline to the belief that the phenomena observed are volcanic. Another consequence of the earthquake is that Lake Santo, near Modena, which was about 500 yards long and 100 wide, has completely disappeared. Here is a definition of fame given by ex-Speaker Reed at the Bowdoin commencement dinner: "Fame," said he, "is largely a matter of accident. Being in the right place at the right time, and doing the right thing, or, better still, making people think you are doing the right thing, is about all there is to fame." This definition gains much in effectiveness when "fame" is pronounced with the ex-speaker's well known dray. GIVES MILLIONS TO CHARITY. John M. Burke, Ninety Years Old, a Generous Philanthropist. Since the announcement of his gift of $4,000,000 as a fund for convalescents, John M. Burke has been forced to instruct his servants not to answer the door bell. Hundreds of persons have called at the unostentatious brown stone house in West Forty-seventh street, New York, all asking for assistance, and many with propositions involving from a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands, Mr. Burke continues the even row A tine of the quiet, almost eccentric life he has led since his retirement from business thirty years ago. He does not hesitate to go to the market himself, and has several times been seen on the street with a basket on his arm. Up to thirty years ago he was part of the life of bustling New York, but in the intervening years he has drawn within himself more and more until when the announcement was made of his stupendous charity few people could recall who the man was. Russell Sage and a few other ancients among the capitalists know him well, and are proud of his acquaintance, but he has few or no friends of this generation. He is just a placid old gentleman of the simplest tastes, who is neither a miser nor a spendthrift. He has no yacht, no horses or carriages, no palace by the seaside, belongs to no clubs, and has no fads. He has never married, his house being kept for him by a housekeeper who has been with him forty years. He has just passed his nineteeth birthday. GOES TO MEET HER HUSBAND. Mrs. Peary Will Journey to the Arctic to Welcome Him. Mrs. Robert Edwin Peary, wife of the arctic explorer, who will soon leave for the North to meet her husband and return with him to civilization, has accompanied the daring voyager on more than one of his expeditions. Mrs. Peary's little girl was born on one of these hazardous trips. The explorer's wife was formerly Miss Josephine C. Dietbitsch of Washington, and was married to Lieutenant Peary in 1888 while he was yet in his early fame. She has spent three years in the arctics. Peary in 1888 while he was yet in his early fame. She has spent three years in the arctics. Two Distinctions. The wealthiest clergyman in the United States was the late Dean Hoffman, whose estate is valued at $25,000,000. The wealthiest judge is Justice P. Henry Dugro of our New York Supreme court. He is variously styled P. Henry, Philip H. and Philip Henry Dugro. The value of Justice Dugro's estate is not known, but it is well up among the millions. Inheriting a large fortune from his father, he has, by shrewd real estate speculation, increased it twenty-fold. He is one of the younger generation of judges, not yet having attained his forty-seventh year, and has been on the bench ever since 1886. Bravery of a Woman. Millie Hennius, the Indian woman of Vancouver, who recently received the medal of the Royal Humane Society, was going with her husband, her three children and a woman friend, in a boat to the north arm of Burrard Inlet. The boat was overturned in a storm. The husband, weighted by a cartridge belt and heavy rubber boots, sank, and was followed by the woman. Mrs. Hennius took her four-year-old child in her teeth, and ordering each of the others to cling to her shoulders, swam, keeping the heads of all three above the icy water for an hour, until rescue came. Elk Is Being Exterminated. The bands of elk that wintered in Jackson Hole country, Wyoming, four years ago were estimated to number 60,000. They now number less than 10,000, according to the estimate of the ranchers. Public automobiles operated in Berlin run at the same tariff as the droschkies, which go by horse power — that is about 75 cents an hour. Long Sitting of Parliament The longest recorded sitting of the British house of commons was in 1881. On Monday, January 31, 1881, the house, having met at 3:45, continued sitting until Wednesday at 9:30 a continuous sitting of upward of forty-one and a half hours. The next longest sitting occurred in 1877. On Tuesday, July 31, 1877, the house, having met at 3:45, continued sitting until Wednesday afternoon at 6:15, a period of twenty-six and a half hours. Peach-Growing in Connecticut Connecticut is getting to be a great peach-growing state, according to J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury. The state this year will probably market 1,000,000 bushels, which is doing pretty well for rocky and bleaky New England. KIng Alfonso Not a Bigot By order of King Alfonso a Santiago court-martial has acquitted a young soldier who refused to kneel at mass because he was a Protestant. The sentence asked for by the prosecution was three years' penal servitude. College President Retires With this collegiate term, Dr. A. J. Battle will retire from the presidency of the Anniston, Ala., female college, concluding nearly forty-one years' experience as the head of various Southern institutions. Heat in Incandescent Lamps Incandescent electric lamps give out much more heat 'han is commonly supposed. Only six per cent of the energy of the current is turned into light the remaining 94 per cent being given off in heat. An Abundance of Doctors On the average the medical colleges turn out every year 5,000 graduates entitled to write M. D. after their names. At the present time the ratio of physicians in active practice in this country is 1 to 500. Fisheries. A comparison has been drawn in Norway as to the profit of the fisheries in the sea and in the rivers, which shows that the former are three times as remunerative as the latter. Saved the Baby. New Providence, Iowa, July 7th.—Little Helen Moon, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Moon of this place, had a narrow escape from death. Her mother noticed she seemed to be very clumsy and complained when she was rocked. Her limbs and face were bloated badly. A doctor was summoned but she got no better. He said she had Kidney Trouble in the worst form. Two other doctors were called in and they agreed that there was very little, if any, hope. She was bloated all over, her eyes being completely closed and her abdomen bloated until it was purple. They bought six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and she commenced to improve at once. She had used nine boxes before the Dropsy was all gone. The treatment was continued and now she is as well as ever. Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved the little one's life. Clerical Chess Players. "A considerable portion of chess players are clergymen," a minister said the other day. "If you doubt this consult in the newspapers and the weeklies the columns regarding the game and to chess tournaments. It will amaze you the number of Revs. and D. D.'s that you will come upon there. The seriousness of the game is what makes it so particularly attractive to ministers." He Has Lafayette's Handkerchief. Joseph Murter, who is perhaps the oldest and best-known resident of Germantown, Pa., can distinctly recall the visit of Lafayette to this country in 1824. Murter, among others, raced behind the carriage of Lafayette and he was rewarded for his enthusiasm by a handkerchief which the Frenchman dropped. He still keeps it as a priceless memento. Homeseekers' Tickets to the West. Homesekers' Tickets to the West. Homesekers can buy excursion tickets via the Great Northern Railway to points in Manitoba, Montana, Washington and the West, at about one fare for the round trip, on first and third Tuesdays of July, August, September and October. Tickets and Information from all Railway Ticket Agents, or F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul. Explosions at Home and Abroad In 1900 there was about one boiler explosion daily on the average In the United Staes and there were 788 victims of explosions during the year. In Great Britain during the same year there were only twenty-four persons killed by boiler explosions and only sixty-five wounded—eighty-nine victims. The Boundary Line A well-known judge on a Virginia circuit was recently reminded very forcibly of his approaching baldness by one of his rural acquaintances. "Judge," drawled the farmer, "it won't be so very long fo' you'll be to tie a string around yer head to tell how far up to wash yer face." The Drawer, Harper's Magazine for June. Homesekers' Excursions. Great Northern Railway sells home-seekers' tickets, St. Paul or Minneapolis, to all points West, including Montana and Washington, on the first and third Tuesdays of July, August, September and October, 1902. Rate, one fare for the round trip. Information from all ticket agents, or F. I. Whitney, G. P. & T. A., St. Paul. Confederate Veteran Dead Prof. W. H. Neare, who died a few days ago at Salisbury, N.C., was chief bandmaster in the Confederate army, and since the war has been distinguished as a composer. Woman Centenarian Dead. Mrs. Nancy Washington, who was probably the oldest woman in Boston, passed away recently at the home for aged colored women, having lived 107 years 1 month and 8 days. MEDICAL EXAMINER There are but two kinds of starch. Defiance Starch, which is the best starch made and—the rest. Other starches contain chemicals, which work harm to the clothes, rot them and cause them to break. Defiance is absolute- DEFIANCE STARCH ly pure. 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CANNOT BE EXCELLED. 1890 sales, $11,632,800 1890 sales, $2,340,000 Best imported and American leather, Hegl's Patent Calf, Enamel, Box Calf Calf, Vic Kid, Corona Calf, Nat. Kangaroo, Fast Color Eyelash Caution! The senator hawk W. L. DOUGLAS issued a stamp price stamped on bottom. Shoes by mail, 20c, extra. Illus. Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASS. WANTED FOR SPOT CASH WALNUT LUMBER and LOGS ADDRESS C. C. MENGEL, JR., & BRO. CO., Inc. LOUISVILLE, KY. MORPHEINE LIQUOR Cocaine, Chloral, Optum and To- loram Pay, when curred, suffering, in ROBINSON INSTITUTE, 218 Halo Blvd. Kansas City, Mo. INATIGHTPLACE OFFICERS SAY THEY HAVE CONV VICT TRACEY SURROUNDED. Deputies Claim to Be Close on His Heels—Fugitive Reported to Be Suffering From Wounds and From Illness Resulting From Exposure—Officers Expect to Capture Him. SEATTLE, WASH.—(Special.) Notwithstanding the general belief that Outlaw Tracey is on the verge of collapse as the result of buckshot wounds and illness resulting from exposure in the wet brush, he manages to keep hidden from the officers. This is especially disappointing to the four sheriffs now camped on his trail, as they had led him an exhausting chase up to Sunday night and hoped to push the pursuit to an actual encounter Monday. Vigilance has been redoubled and the encircling cordon about the district where it was almost certain the man was hidden was stronger than ever. The deputies scoured the neighborhood all day Sunday, but beyond reports of the convict's appearance near Enimclaw, nothing was seen of him. The officers' hopes, however, have not wavered, and the hunt is being pushed with, greater zeal than ever because of criticism by citizens who feel that the convict should have been captured long before this. The hunt is to be continued without cessation. The sheriffs are convinced that the convict is within the territory guarded by the deputies and possemen. A special to the Post-Intelligence from Enimclaw, Wash., says: After two days of inactivity, the manhunters are once again hot on the trail of Harry Tracey, the outlaw convict. At 9:30, o'clock Sunday night the bloodhounds were placed on his track and after following it for three quarters of a mile lost it in a dense swamp on the borders of the road leading from here to Buckley. The wires have been kept hot with messages to surrounding towns and it is believed that Tracey will either be killed or captured by noon Tuesday. Tracey was seen at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon one and one-half miles east of Enimclaw by Clarence Burke, a 10-year-old boy. He was sitting near the edge of a gravel pit there. The lad passed on a bicycle. Hailing the lad Tracey inquired the road to Buckley. The lad imparted the information desired and then hastening into town, imparted the news of what he had seen. The information was telephoned former sheriff Woolley, in charge of the posse at Enimclaw, by Sheriff Hartman, of Pierce county, who happened to be here, and also Deputy McKillen at Buckley. Wollery and five guards procured a team as soon as possible and came here with the bloodhounds. MAN AND WIFE CONVICTED. He Is to Hang and She Is to Go to Prison for Life HENDERSON, MINN. — (Special.) Death by hanging for one and life imprisonment for the other, is the punishment to which Frank Tank and his wife, respectively, were sentenced Saturday afternoon for the murder of John Wellner, Mrs. Tanke's first husband, who was shot and killed on his farm near Fort Peter in December, 1898. Almost two years later, Frank Tanke, who had been the hired man of the Wellners, and Wellner's wife, who had become Mrs. Tanke, were arrested for the crime. Tanke was convicted of murder in the first degree. The woman pleaded guilty and sought to free her husband by claiming that she alone was responsible for the slaying of Wellner. Held for Killing Her Husband Held for Killing Her Husband. DES MOINES, IOWA.—(Special). Mrs. Frank Lavelluer, of Newton, was Saturday morning bound over to the grand jury by Justice Alfreon on a charge of murdering her aged husband. The alleged crime occurred six months ago, the victim having been brained with an ax, his body covered with oil and burned. The defendant has been released on bail. To Prison for Treason MANILA—(Special) General Maxilon, who has been convicted of treason at Cebu, Island of Cebu, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment and to pay a fine of $2,000. General Noviso, who was jointly charged with General Maxilon, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and a similar fine Tried to Kill Herself and Baby. GUTHRIE, O. T.—(Special). It is reported from Fort Cobb Wednesday of an attempt of Mrs. George Thomas to kill herself and baby by setting fire to a pile of hay which she had saturated with coal oil. They were rescued by an older daughter just as the mother was mounting the burning pile with the baby in her arms. 4 Bride Elones Groom Waits BRIE ELOPES, GROUW WARS WHEELING, W. VA.—(Special.) At Montrose, W. Va., Sunday night, while the wedding guests and the minister were waiting, the bride, Miss Irvine Thompson eloped with W. R. Rennix, who took her to the nearest railway station and proceeded to Cumberland, where they were married. Miss Thompson was to have been married to P. H. Wilfling. The wedding party, parents and would-be groom gave chase, but when they reached the depot they found the train disappearing around the hill. Odd Cause for Suicide. GUTHRIE, OKLA.—(Special). T. H. Cox, a wealthy farmer 40 years old, committed suicide on his claim near Lone Wolf, Okla., for the reason that he made a mistake in opening a letter which was handed him from the postoffice. The idea gained control of him that he had made a grievous mistake and it so bore upon his mind that he committed suicide a note of explanation. The trouble with the man who knows it all is that he can't prove it. ILLINOIS COLLISION. Extra Engine Meets Construction Train Under Full Headway Train Under Full Headway. PEORIA, ILL.—(Special). Two killed, one fatally injured and several more or less seriously injured, is the story of a wreck on the Toledo, Peoria & Western railway Sunday afternoon. The dead: Peter icenogle, Washington, instantly killed. Taylor, El Paso, instantly killed. The injured: Ambrella Pierce, El Paso, skull fractured, is in dying condition. John Le Page, St. Louis, collarbone broken and severe scalp wound. Stewart Meyers, Louisville, Ky., bruised about back and suffering from shock. Joseph W. Morgan, Eureka, Ill., five ribs broken, collarbone fractured and bruised about neck, head and body. 3 All the injured are members of a construction crew, except Le Page and Meyers, who are traveling salesmen. An extra engine and caboose were coming toward Peoria at a slow speed, having received word to be on the lookout for the construction train, when the two met on a reverse curve, the construction train going at a high rate of speed. The engine of the construction train was imbedded in the immense mogul and all the care were wrecked, two of them being telescoped. TWO OKLAHOMA KILLINGS. Quarrel Over a Land Deal—Hired Man Cause of a Tragedy GUTHRIE, OKLA.—(Special.) Walter E. Burns, the 18-year-old son of Dr. C. E. Burns, of Mountainview, Okla., was shot and killed Monday as the result of a land contest in the new country. Burns was recently from Graham, Texas, and had located on a claim. The shooting occurred on an Indian allotment, and A. E. Shaw has surrendered to the officers for committing the murder. He killed Burns as the latter attempted to dismount from his horse. Shaw was contesting Burn's right to the homestead. Over in Woodward county, Samuel Dipert, a cattleman and farmer of prominence has given himself up to the authorities for the killing of Will Griffin, an employee of the Dipert ranch. When Dipert returned from town it is alleged that he found Griffin and Mrs. Dipert coming in from the field, where they had been driving hogs from the corn. A quarrel ensued and Dipert shot Griffin through the heart, killing him instantly. WEST POINT ACCIDENT Artillery Instructor and Three Cadets Were Badly Injured. WEST POINT, N. Y.—(Special). Captain Edwin St. J. Greb, U. S. A. instructor in artillery tactics, and three cadets were injured Sunday in an accident in an artillery drill. Captain Greble and six cadets were taking a gun along a high embankment west of Highland Falls, when the horse Captain Greble was riding became unmanageable and leaped over the embankment, drawing the gun carriage with it. The caisson fell on Captain Greble, crushing both legs and injuring him internally. Three cadets, who were riding on the caisson, were also badly injured. 21 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. Indian Territory Farmer Has Made a Record in Yield of Wheat. TULSA, I. T. (Special) T. A. Cline, near Foyal has threshed 6,124 bushels of wheat from 290 acres, an average of over twenty-one bushels per acre. It tested sixty-two pounds to the bushel. His oat crop averaged seventy bushels to the acre. These are the heaviest yields reported so far. The first mature corn in this community was exhibited at Claremore July 4, by Johnson and Fudge, who say they have 2,500 bushels. It was grown from Northern seed, planted April 12, and will do to crib August 1. He Shot a Tramp CHICAGO.—(Special.) Robert Coburn, a magistrate and wealthy farmer of Stickney, near here, was Monday found guilty of manslaughter. Coburn shot and killed Miller and wounded the latter's brother, John, last fall. The boys were tramping from Toronto, Canada. John said they were resting near their campfire when Coburn, without provocation, opened fire with a rifle. Coburn claimed they were trying to break into his stable. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The czar has confirmed the sentence of twelve years' imprisonment at hard labor passed upon Colonel Grimm, who was convicted at Warsaw, June 14, of revealing Russian military secrets to a foreign power. The United States battleship Illinois, flagship of Admiral Crowninshield, and the United States cruiser, San Francisco, sailed from Gravesend, England, Monday, for Christiana, Norway. The president has appointed Major William A. McKellip, of Maryland, United States consul at Magdeburg, Germany. Major McKellip is a prominent member of the G. A. R. and his appointment was urged by Senator McComas as well as by that organization. By order of the Russian authorities seven Lutheran clergymen of Borga, Finland, have had their stipends suspended for refusing to read in their respective churches the ukase relating to military conscription in Finland. The board of trustees of the National Educational association has re-elected Irwin Shepard, of Winona, permanent secretary for a term of four years, at a salary of $4,000 a year. Louis A. Watton, of Carthage, Mo., has been appointed an observer in connection with the weather bureau. 3 Probate Judge Dimm, of Jackson county, Kan., in his three and one-half years in office, has married 476 couples. The President's yacht, Mayflower, which has just been refitted, left the Brooklyn navy yard Monday, bound for Oyster Bay. THE MARKETS. GRAIN. Kansas City—Wheat—Cash, No. 2 hard (old) 73c; No. 2 hard (new), 72c; No. 3 hard, 68@71c; No. 4 hard, 64@69c; rejected hard, 68@67c; No. 2 red (old) 73%@74c; No. 3 red (old) 70@71%c; Corn—July, 63c; Sept, 50%@51%c; Cash, No. 2 mixed, 67%c; No. 2 white, 70c; No. 3 white, 69c; Oats—No. 2 white, 48@49c, Rye—No. 2, 55@56c. St. Louis—Wheat—No. 2 red, cash elevator, 72%c; on tarck, 73%@74c for new and 78c for old; July, 72%c; September, 71%@72c; No. 2 hard, 76%@77%c; Corn—No. 2 cash, 62%c; on track, 66c; July, 62%c; September, 53%c; Oats—No. 2 cash, 52c; on track, No. 2, 54@55c; July, 38%c; September, 29%c; No. 2 white, 54@5c; July, 38%c; September, 29%c; No. 2 white, 58%c. Chicago—Wheat, cash, No. 2 red, 78c; No. 3 red, 74@77c; No. 2 hard, 77c; No. 3 hard, 76%c; Corn—Cash, No. 2 mixed, 84@85c; Oats—Cash, No. 2 mixed, 50@51c; No. 2 white, 54c. LIVE STOCK. Kansas City — Cattle — Native steers $4.50@8.40; Texas and Indian steers. $2.15@2.55; Texas cows, $2@3.50; native cows and heifers, $1.75@6.10; stockers and feeders, $3@5.60; bulls $2@5; calves, $3.40@5.25. Hogs—Heavy, $8.05@8.10; packers' $7.90@8.10; medium, $7.80@8.10; light, $7.65@7.92½; yorkers, $7.80@7.92½; pigs $1.7527.17. Sheep—Muttons, $3.30@4.30; lambs, $4.50@6.10; range wethers, $2.25@4.40; ewes, $2.25@4.30. St. Louis—Hogs—Top, $8.25. South St. Joseph—Cattle, top, $7.60 Hogs—$8.10. Chicago—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $7.90@6.00; poor to medium, $4.50@7.60; stockers and feeders, $2.50 @5; cows, $1.40@7.50; heifers, $2.50@ 6.50; canners, $1.40@2.40; bulls, $2.50 @5.75; calves, $2.50@7.55; Texas fed steers, $4.50@6.65; Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $7.30@8.10; good to choice heavy, $7.50@8.25; rough heavy, $7.30 @7.75; light, $7.70@8.30; bulk of sales, $7.60@8. Sheep—Good to choice weters, $2.75@4; fair to choice mixed, $3.25; Western sheep, $2.50@ 3.75; live lambs, $2.50@6.50. HORSES AND MULES HORSES AND MULES. Horses—Draft, $90 to $140; draft, 1,500 to 1,700 pounds, $155 to $175; chunks, good to choice, $80 to $130; chunks, common to fair, $50 to $70; drivers, good to fancy, from $80 up; drivers, medium, $50 to $65; Southerners, good to choice, $45 to $65; plugs, $10 to $15. Mules—13½@14 hands, fat and broken, $35 to $45, 14@14½ hands, fat, good fat, $45 to $65, 14½@15 hands, fat, $65 to $85, 15@15½ hands, fat, $90 to $120, 15½@16 hands, fat, $125@140. HAY. Hay—Prairie hay, choice. $7.50@9: No. 1, $7@8; No. 2, $6@7; No. 3, $4@5.50; No. 4, $3.50@4; Timothy, choice $11.50; No. 1, $10.50@2; No. 2, $8@9.50; No. 3, $6@8; Clover, No. 1, $6.50@7; No. 2, $6.50@6; clover mixed, No. 1, $6.50@7; No. 2, $6@6.50; Alfalfa $3@9; Straw, 4. HIDES AN DPELTS Green salted hides. Nos. 1 and 2, all around. 7c; bulls and stags, 7c; green, uncured. 1c per pound and less, and part cured ½c per pound less than cured; grubby kips or glue stock. 4c; horse hides. $2.75 to $3; dry butchers' hides. 16 pounds and up. 14½c at fallen. 16 pounds and up. 12½c at under 16 pounds, 11c; dry salt, 11c; dry glue, 7c; very badly grubby, green or dry, are classed as glue stock. Sheep pelts 40@70c; dry flint. 8@9c per pound. Tallow, No. 1, 6c; No. 2, 5c. TROOPS TO PROTECT NEGROES Illinois's Governor Sends Squad of Ina fantry to Eldorado. SPRING FIELD. ILL.-(Speal.) Governor Yates Friday ordered Colonel Theodore Ewert, assistant adjutant general of Illinois, to proceed to Eldorado, Saline county, with a squad of infantry and protect the lives and property of negro residents there, who during the past month have been subjected to outrages at the hands of the white citizens. Colonel Ewert will be joined at Mount Vernon by an officer and sixteen men from Company F. Fourth infantry, and he will proceed to Eldorado. He is instructed by the governor to quell all disturbance and, if possible, to ascertain the names of the leaders of the lawless mob. 2 Governor Yates received a message from the Rev. P. A. Green, pastor of the colored M. E. church at Eldorado, stating that his house had been stoned and his life threatened. Help was asked and the governor decided to have the militia attempt to quell the outrages. Australia's Great Drought WASHINGTON—(Special). United States Consul General Bray at Melbourne has called attention of the state department to the severity of the drouth which prevails in Australia. In a report dated May 30, it is said that Australia is now suffering from the longest and most persistent drouth on record, and Mr. Bray states that its continuance will greatly curtain the purchasing power of the community, and the importation of American foods consequently will be affected. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Sarah Bernhardt definitely announced at Manchester, Eng., Wednesday that arrangements had been practically completed for Maud Adams to play Juliet to Mme. Bernhardt's Romeo during the visit of the French actress to America in 1903. At Duncan, I. T., Arthur Briscoe was killed in a duel with other parties. The fatal shot is supposed to have been fired by Ilus Wyatt, who had been knocked down by another Briscoe. In contradiction of the recent report that Russia had already evacuated Manchuria, an official dispatch just received from Kharbin, says the evacuation has not even begin. The Earl of Arundel and Surrey, only son of the Duke of Norfolk, died Wednesday at Arundel Castle, Sussex, England. He had been an idiot and a cripple since his birth, September 7, 1879. Two men were killed by a Rock Island train near Lawton, O. T. Wednesday, one of them being Thomas Daniel, *of* Lawton. --- A Nebraska man sued the Missouri Pacific railway for $20,000 damages. His lawyer called on James W. Orr, of the firm of Waggener, Horton & Orr, the company's solicitors for Kansas, and said: "I am a business man. know the Missouri Pacific is not made of money, and will make you a reasonable offer; one you can accept. I am a fair man; I will make an offer that will settle this business in ten minutes. I will take $12,000, and call it off." Whereupon Mr. Orr said: am glad to meet a fair, sensible business man. I appreciate your spirit; your liberality; your disposition to meet us on a business basis. I will be as fair as you are; I will give you $40." And the Nebraska lawyer took it. Hardware stores in Central Kansas now advertise that they carry a full line of coupon-clippers. The Central National bank, of Kansas City, Kan., and the Western National bank, of New York, have been approved as reserve agents for the Caldwell National bank, Caldwell, Kan. A Leavenworth man swallowed his false teeth while making inroads on a cherry pie. Mrs. Preston B. Plumb has given to the city of Emporia a site worth $5,000 free for the $20,000 Carnegie library. The council has accepted, but Mayor Morse threatens to veto the acceptance. Something new in the regulation of the liquor evil is being tried in Horton. Enough joints will be licensed to yield a revenue of $500 a month. Of this sum half will be turned over to the school board. The body of Private Ritchie, who jumped off a street car into the Republican river at Fort Riley, Kan., and was drowned, has been found in the Kaw at St. George. When "Dummy" Burson knocked a home run in Chanute the other day he paused at third base long enough to accept a $5 bill which was thrust at him by an enthusiastic rooter who rushed over the coaching line. Great ambitions sometimes find lodgment beneath the shabby garb of street urchins. In Wichita a negro bootblack almost succeeded in robbing the Kansas National bank of $65,000. H. N. Loomis, who has succeeded "Old Archie" Williams as the Union Pacific's solicitor for Kansas, is a comparatively young man, and almost boyish in appearance. But the patriarchs in the legal profession take off their hats to him. Leavenworth fared exceedingly well in the matter of congressional appropriations. Approximately $1,000,000 will be expended in enlarging the fort; $416,000 is appropriated for the federal penitentiary, and the Soldiers' home gets $344,000 for maintenance and $88,000 for new buildings. There is talk of moving Lane university from Lecompont to Hutchinson. Kingman people expect their new ice plant, which will soon be in course of construction, will bring about a reduction in the prices of ice cream and funerals next summer. Cherryvale horses are all enjoying a quiet little laugh. The projected automobile factory, which was calculated to put some of them "out of business" will not be built. A "bell-hop" in a Wichita hotel has been appropriately named Toad. 4 Chanute has collected over $100 in dog taxes in the last thirty days. A Hays City printer, who imbibes too freely once in a while, has been called "Parachute," because every once in a while he fails to work. Thieves broke into an Ottawa grocery store the other night and stole two chickens, a ham and a watermelon. And now a Wellington man claims he had perityphilis eighteen years ago. Will Farley, an Emporia brakeman, excited much admiration and, incidentally, earned $5 by climbing the roundhouse flagpole at Emporia on the Fourth and replacing the flag rope, which had slipped from its place. Farley was formerly in the navy. He considered the $5 "easy money." "Every out of town golf player who drops into Emporia and looks at that town's golf grounds," wrote the editor of an exchange not far from Emporia the other day, "says he never sausage links before." Then he invited the whole force out to have something for the first time in three months. Kansas farmers who planted broom corn this year will probably reap a rich harvest from it. Prices are already high and a reduced acreage and a very short visible supply will undoubtedly put them higher. A scramble for a $5 bill was one of the features of Yates Center's celebration of the Fourth. The bill was placed in one of nearly 500 empty cigar boxes, which were piled upon each. other. The finder kept the bill. A Topeka man has invented a horse tail dock and is organizing a company to exploit it. One expert comes forward with the declaration that the coal mines in Southeastern Kansas are almost exhausted. Andrew Carnegie has given to Kansas towns $285,500 for libraries, as follows: Kansas City, $75,000; Lawrence, $25,000; Leavenworth, $30,000; Newton, $10,000; Ottawa, $15,000; Salina, $15,000; Winfield, $15,000; Emporia, $50,000; Fort Scott, $50,000; Blue Rapids, $500. The Leavenworth Times prints a dispatch from Wichita, under the headline "Dumont out-Dumonted," about a man who has a scheme to cross Arkansas Valley mosquitoes with Sheltar ponies, and harness them to balloons. The comptroller of the currency has authorized the Caldwell National bank of Caldwell. Kan., to begin business with a capital of $25,000. In Dighton the marshal's orders were to arrest any person who tried to deliver a speech on the Fourth of July, inside the city limits Parisian Artistic Life Attracts American Girls The American girls who flock to Paris to study art and music, retain faithful to their respective categories even in their physiology. The art girls are always slender, nervous and anemic, while the music girls are ever plump. And, following the law that to him who hath shall more be given, the future warblers live luxuriously in inviable social prominence, while the art girls are taking rheumatism and lead poisoning, very much alone. HB IS GOING TO GIVE RECITALS IN LONDON. In draughty studios, with cold feet and home cooking. The girl who comes to Paris for the cultivation of her voice has no deal to fulfill in a grumpy Latin Quarter. Her companions are not noisy boys, long-haired, with uncut finger nails, and two-day collars charcoal-mudged, uneducated, arrogant, whose chosen salon is a dance hall, whose intimates are models for the altogether. The girl art student, even when well off financially, must absolutely have this dear artistic atmosphere, or she feels that she is not making progress. She must live in Bohemia, though not at heart herself Bohemian. 1 Artist I have seen nice girls, reared tenderly, both pout and pine because their prudent mothers, having brought them on to Paris, would not let them roll in Latin Quarter mud; they must go to the studio, receive their lessons and work their accustomed hours, then return home to the smart pension, mother and correct society; wherefore they wailed that they were only amateurs and dwellers on the threshold. The girl who comes to cultivate her voice has different temptations. Her vocation exacts that she be as dainty as her song. For this kind of girl it is, at first, a pleasure for her mother to come with her to the gay French capital and entertain, go out and profit by her daughter's gift to meet nice people. Miss Smith, "whose voice is just like Pattis, only two notes higher," Miss Brown, "who has won a silver medal at the Roody Institute for declamation," and Mr. Jones, "who is studying for the Paris Grand Opera," together with young Dinkelstein, "who is going to give piano rectals in London," and his friend Dupont, the poet, "sing with notes angelical to many a harp their own heroic deeds. I know a young New Yorker in the heyday of his youth, just come to Paris. At home he was wont to dress and live like a smart young man about town. A month after he had reached the Latin Quarter he had dirty hands, a black smudge on his nose, long hair into whose grease the dust of a great city had settled, baggy trousers of a hideous corduroy, a bright red Colin necktie and a velvet coat. He had raised an imperial and riked his mustache. spiked up the Latin Quarter influence is all "The Boleman" and, such as the force of a long tradition, these young men would not be happy at their studies were they forced to be clean and dine in dress and deportment. There is no harm in them, but they certainly are "cures." Now, it is just to these young men that our girl students, coming to the Latin Quarter, must look up; and the thing is inevitable. Such young men become painters; they have made as great a name in "art" as our girls have made in singing; whereas the art girl admits that, as yet, her fellow countrywomen have made few successes in her chosen field. One day last month I met an art girl living what she calls the true life, after long struggle with her parents. A telegram from Berlin told me: "Look up Miss A. We wear that she is ill." I took a cab to the address. The girl I knew to be a sister to another, married to a prominent American; both would have fortunes from their family. I was, therefore, scandalized if not surprised to find this HE HAD A VELVET COAT AND AN IMPERIAL. DIPON IN THE PORT. well-to-do young creature installed with another like herself in an unsanitary court, up dirty stairs, in a barn-like studio. They had two hammocks and two folding beds, two tables, two wash-stands, a cookstove, some chairs and a green-painted bench from a public square. The sick girl was proud of this latter; it had been stolen years ago from its place in the municipal scheme of things by an American student since famous as a great portrait painter. Pictorial posters lit the walls with color. Half a dozen casels stood about, with pictures finished and unfinished. At one side of the stu dio a great divan, covered with rich stuff, was littered with innumerable pillows, very pretty; it made the one spot of beauty in the habitation. In a corner stood a suit or armor. On a table stood a dish of pared patoes. The sick girl was eating gruel. She coughed cruelly. "You must at least get a big screen," I said, "and a doctor." "I would rather have two screens," she answered. "I saw two precious ones in an antiquity shop around the corner. The dealer said they were true Louis XV, and wanted so much for them that I gave them up; we poor art students must content ourselves with bare necessities." Here was a girl who, living up to an ideal, had caught what might have been pneumonia posing half-nude for three other girls, each taking turn about, to avoid the profesional model. Yet one, to my knowledge, is or will be rich, while both the others have comfortable allowances. They live up to an ideal. They dress poorly and eccentricly. They do some of their own cooking; while for other meals they patronize a students' restaurant, where young Frenchmen smirk and wink behind their backs. They live unhygenically; and the curious thing is that, priestesses of beauty, their present life does not have beauty in it. One of these girls, only two short years ago, was leading naturally and happily a life of smart self-indulgence with her widowed mother. They had three rooms in the best pension of the Iena Quarter. The girl took healthy pleasure ```markdown ``` HER COMPANIONS SHE CAUGHT PNEUMONIA WHILE POSING FOR THE OTHER GIRLS. dressmakers, jewelers and hairdressers. She took other girls to tea and was a judge of bon-bons. One day at a picture show, it seems, she overheard two young men of fashion sneering at the life led by one of their acquaintances, become an art student. What she heard struck a strange spark of scornful opposition in her. Despising vehemently the fops who so lightly criticized their betters, the girl fell to meditating on her own life, which was idle. Her first good work was to go to a well-known painter with her moth AS FRESH AND DAINTY AS HER SONG. er, and sit for her portrait. And sitting thus, long afternoons, the studio poison entered into her. As for the portrait, she despised it at the same time she admired it. "There is the portrait of an idle girl!" she said. Her fresh and pretty costumes came to be evil things. She went in for drawing lessons and showed talent. Within six months she was drawing in a real academy and coming home to mother and the pension in time for dinner. Within six months more she had won a great battle against family opposition and installed herself and a girl friend from the academy in the barn studio where I found her coughing. She had made the great renunciation. She had given herself up to art with a big A. Appetite for Ice Cream One company in New York, the largest and most important in the country, sells something like 100,000 quarts of ice cream a day. Its capital stock is only $40,000, and all of its officers and directors are millionaires. Eighteen or twenty other companies do a large business, besides which there are numberless confectionary shops which make their own and dish it out in a small way over the counter. Possibly the daily consumption in Greater New York is 200,000 quarts, and the average price is 30 cents to the consumer. This makes our ice cream cost us $60,000 a day, or nearly $22,000 a year—New York Press. PERIL IN THE HOS SOME OF THE ANTICS OF THIS FOE OF THE HUMAN RACE. Warning to All Men to Seek Safety When a Woman Goeth Forth to Sprinkle the Lawn—Some Things That Pass Understanding. Consider now the lawn hose, for reareth its head abroad in the land. It roameth about, seeking whatsoever it may soak; And none may escape. Behold, the lawn hose consisteth in a long round hole, Composed of air; And the same, it is surrounded by rubber. And at one end thereof is a place whereby great volumes of water may enter. And at the other end thereof is a place where a woman fair to see and hard to dodge may hold unto the hose. Yea, verily; when she tucketh her garments about her feet and putteth her sunbonnet upon her head that she may sprinkle the lawn. Then it is time for all them that are roundabout to flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam. Or to he unto the house and seek shelter; For she that handleth the lawn hosh bath the uncertainty of the collapse and the wide swath of the cloudburst. Peradventure, she endeavoreth to sprinkle the daffodils and the chiephant's ears and the lilac bushes. While some man with innocence trust in humanity abiding in his heart, walketh down the sidewalk. And even as he raises his hat that he may speak gallantly unto her, he hold she twisteth the nozzle. And the water striketh him with a speed of fifty miles an hour. And knocketh his hat over against the other side of the street. And seepeth into his bosom. And squizzelt adown his shirt. And rompeth under his collar. And taketh the fifty-cent cent from out his trousers, making them to hang upon him even as the fretful clingeth unto the back wall. O, why doth not woman, lovely woman, learn that if she will sprite the flowers she should first point the nozelle toward them that go by the yard? But what availeth it to ask her why? Now, furthermore, there may be many other things about the law hose that pass understanding. It lurkens in the path at night. So that when man cometh hose from lodge, or from posting up the books, he trippeth over it. And falleth upon the grass. Whereupon the lawn hose writeth about him and clutcheth him feat fully. So that he calleth aloud for help. It sticketh its nozzle against his neck, and gurgleth and moaneth. And he yelleth that the sea serpent is upon him. And prayeth for succor. Yet again, when it is day, the man selzeth upon the lawn hose and sayeth that he will show the folks how to sprinkle. And he standeth astride it and turneth on the pressure. Now for a moment or more it works eth with all trustiness. But on a sudden it bursteth apart between his feet, and the nozzle flies off. And the man erieth for a life preserver, and seeketh to swim assume. And he doth not become dry for a week. Surely the lawn hose is past understanding. And none may find it out. For it squirthte allike upon the just and the unjust, and cannot distin- guish between a man and a hollyhock bush. Is it not so, even as it is printed here upon this paper? Yea, yea, and yet again yea—lost Wink in Baltimore American. Not "Pairsonal." Complaint had been made at an Aberdeenshire village kirk of the discomfort caused by dripping umbrellas in and outside the pews. To remedy the nuisance a member of the congregation presented the kirk with a large umbrella stand, which was fixed up in the lobby of the building. After reading out the notices on a certain Sunday, one of the elders remarked: "Yell 'nae doot hae seen the spice did umbrella stand that Mr. Gillespie has presented the kirk. No, umbrellas are umbrellas and human nature is human nature, see yell we think it wrang o' me if I ask those who sit near the pulpit, and canna leave the kirk so soon as the others, tae bring their oldest umbrellas and w'lout bein' personalal, I may say that we should all feel a heap cauler of Rab Tamson would take a siting a wee bit farther frae the door—Stray Stories. Electoral Votes of the States According to the apportionment set of 1900 the electoral votes of the states are as follows: Alabama, 11; Arkansas, 9; California, 10; Colorado, 5; Connecticut, 7; Delaware, 3; Florida, 5; Georgia, 12; Idaho, 3; Illinois, 27; Indiana, 15; Iowa, 13; Kansas, 10; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 8; Maine, 6; Maryland, 8; Massachusetts, 16; Michigan, 14; Minnesota, 11; Mississippi, 10; Missouri, 18; Montana, 3; Nebraska, 8; Nevada, 1 New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, 19; New York, 39; North Carolina, 12; North Dakota, 4; Ohio, 23; Oregon, 6; Pennsylvania, 34; Rhode Island, 4; South Carolina, 5; South Dakota, 4; Tennessee, 12; Fevas, 18; Uta, 9; Vermont, 4; Virginia, 12; Washington, 5; West Virginia, 7; Wisconsin, 13; and Wyoming, 3. Total, 176. A pretty girl with soft eyes can teach a man anything in the world but common sense. Don't indulge in improving conversation—unless you need it. The loss of money has often meant the finding of map book.