The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. dest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the County of the greatest young Negroes of to-day. In all ages of the world there has been a certain amount of civilization and culture display among all races of people. Each succeeding generation plays its part upon the great stage of action, in literature, in science, in art and in industrial pursuits, and they leave behind their acts and deeds of valor and romance, to be told and perpetuated by the who follow them. they are right. The childs autiful realm, full of ideas, faith in all things. The best impressions are made then a become pessimistic by life. Nothing can be more b a well trained mind-one trai the medium of books they who believes in the good rather than the evil, and w The history of a nation is its acts and things during its existence. We only know what has been done in the past by the record that have been kept. Those who survive the past, hand down to their posterity in words, in deeds, in actions—their history. We must profit by the successes and failures of those who lived in the past. It is indeed important that our children know the true history of all ages past—the doings and dealings of all nations of long ago; and as the young mind is a susceptible one one ready to grasp and perhaps idealize some character some action found in daily study, in the reading, in the history studied in their school work, is it not then very important that only literature that contains we would be proud to have ones and daughters emulate, be placed in their hands; that only the history of those nations whose foundations is Christianity, whose pass word is love and charity and good will to all men, whose existence has been measured by helping the oppressed, by setting right the wrong, be placed in to their hands? Who would hesitate to place into the hands of his son or daughter the history of how our grand old country came to the rescue of wretched and oppressed Cata, and freed her from the tyrant Plains, more bitter more galling than death? Of how she fed her starving thousands and made them men 'among men? Can we not in our imagination see our little ones after reading this being inspired with love of right, and justice from its pages stretching their little hands to some less fortunate? There is no way of estimating the val value of good books. They leave their traces upon mankind as the might ocean leaves its imprint upon the great rock of the shore. Show a man whose life is one of success, of good will to ward his fellow man, and I will show you one, who, as a child, moulded his life from the authors he studied. Children should be taught how to use good books. Many people merely look at a book and pass it by while others peruse and study it carefully. The contents of a good book should be digested and assimilated as ones food is digested and assimilated. A good book should be read 2 or 3 times. Emerson says, that a book that is worth reading once, is worth reading twice or a half a dozen times. Teach a child how to use a good book, just as you would teach it how to eat or talk properly. The reason the minds of many of our children is so weak as that they are not taught to think, consider and reflect over the things they have read. We must be taught to make that we get out of books our own. fresh literature should not be given to children to read, but instead, good books, containing selections from the best authors, something to inspire them to lead them so higher things. For childrearing recreations, I would advise "Black Beauty," "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea," "Arabians Knights," "Uche Tom's Cabin" and many others. Such books as these inspire as well as amuse and awaken the best thoughts and reflections in the child. As a race, we have no literature of which we are proud. We are just beginning to produce posts, historians and novelists—I see in the dawn of the coming ages coming from the Negro children of to day, authors, historians and novelists—the Shakespearees. It behoves us then as teachers, praachers and instructors to lead our children along lines that tend to develop intellectually, morally and physically. Nothing is more pleasing, more entertaining and more helpful than a well stored mind. We cannot estimate the value, the good such a person is to this fellowman. But it requires years of careful teaching, of good training, and of good reading. Such training. thing must commence in childhood. The hours lost then can never be regained in later life. True, a lack of proper training in childhood may be bridged over in after life, by perhaps a shorter course; but one is never so rough, so well grounded in those things that make him so useful as a man. The Catholic church is so imbued with the importance of child training, that they say, "Give the church the child until he is nine years old and he can never afterwards be changed in his religious views," and I do not. they are right. The childs mind is a beautiful realm, full of ideas, of fancies, of faith in all things. The best permanent impressions are made then one has not become pessimistic by wrong views of life. Nothing can be more beautiful than a well trained mind-one trained through the medium of books they have read, who believes in the good of mankind rather than the evil, and who is continually searching for something truer, nobler and better. Too much importance cannot be placed upon the value of good literature for children. I wish I could place it in the hands of every child in this beautiful, broad land of ours, especially in the hand of the Negro child, the life of those who have lived for their fellow man; for, "Greater love hath no man than this; that he lay dewn his life for his friend." I wish I could train the child's mind through the medium of its literature, to cling to right and might as the tender vines cling to the mighty oak. We ask, how best results can be secured. It should be the duty of every teacher of every parent to lay out a course of reading for the child, something, amusing, interesting and instructive. Children love poetry. They love the rhyme of thought and they soon learn to commit the most difficult selections. The deeds of the brave are none the less brave because they be in rhyme. If the child fancies that method of representation of thought, let him learn life's lesson in that way. Children should not only be taught to read good books, but should be taught to think and speak properly. They soon grow up and enter society and they should know something of society and etiquette; and what it requires to be above all, a citizen. They should be taught to speak grammatically and be dignified in their conversations and actions. A good book of expressions is J. H. Bechols "Slip Speech" and Mrs. Sherwood's "Manners and Social Usages," and Agnes Hall's Encyclopedia of Etiquette. These books should be studied just as the multiplication table is studied over and over again. The best book The Book that instruct the child of His Maker and his God, to whom he must look for aid, strength aid and salvation, is the Bible. The Book of Books! If properly scrutinized it will be found to contain every thing that makes man better and to lead hind to a higher plane of life where he can be numbered with the angels above. "There is a book, who runs may read, That Heavenly truth impart And all the lore its scholars need, Pure lives and loving hearts, The gifts of God, above, below, Within us and around, Are pages in that Book to show. How God Himse f is found." John R. Smith. NOTICE Low rates to Birmingham via Wabash & L.N.R. R. Route Monday September 15 1902. at 9:20 p.m. a free reclining chair car will be run from Kansas City to Birmingham Ala.for 18 or more Pesons who desire to attend the National Baptist Convention Sept. 17-22nd. This trip is via St. Louis "The World Fair city" via Nashville where the publishing house is located. A stop over will be allowed in Nashville to visit the Publishing house and be entertained by a special com.of said house. For accommodations and sight seeing this is the best route and the lowest fare will be made. Sleeping car tickets can be purchased at a reasonable rate from Kansas City or St. Louis to Birmingham. Remember; Board and Lodging during your stay in Birmingham is free. Send name in time in order that your home may be selected. For further information 101 Jersey ave. Kansas City, Kas. L. S. McClellan, W. P. Agt 9th & Delaware. Kansas City, Mo. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING, TOPEKA Mrs. J. M. Rivers entertained at her residence Monday eve. complimentary to Miss Ollie Henderson of Leavenworth Misses Jacobs and Mrs. Evens of Richmond Mo. a very pleasant eve was at different parlor games. Mrs. Laura Anderson of Leavenworth is the guest of Mrs. N. Chiles this week. Miss Lizzie Spaulding entertained the Golden Rod club Friday at 4 p.m. Miss Price of Ft. Smith Ark. has been the guest of Miss Luvenia Brown for the past week. Misses Fannie Lain and L. Moore of Carthage Mo. are the guest of Mrs. Ramsey of Lowman Hill. Mrs. H. H. DeShaltes entertained at 4 o'clock luncheon Monday afternoon complimentary to Miss Jacobs & Evens. The 19th annual session of the North Western Missionary Baptist Association is being held at the B. Street Baptist church this week. Mr. Geo. Smith died Sat. afternoon at Christ Hospital and was buried Sunday by the Knights Temple of Masonary E. Lett of Atchison and H. H. Jones of Emporia attended the funeral of Mr. Smith. A crowd of young people went three one half miles in the country Thursday eve. to Mr. & Mrs. R. H. Turner, on a Hay Ride. Tales of Two Cities N. W. B. Associatoin convenes in Topka this week many messenger are expected to attend . Rev.D,B Jackson preach the Annual sermon for the Sunday School Convention Tuesbay 11 a.m. H.P. Drake of Fairdale Kansas a highter reflected Citizen and one of the leading farmers of this Contry made our office a present call this week. Mrs. Nannie Smith of Perry, Ok. is here soliciting funds for the purpose of building a Orphans home in her city, The delegates who will leave Sunday night to attend the Grand Session of the U B F's at Charleston Mo. which will be in session there next week are: R. A. Motten, C. H. Blanton, John Hayworth, John Gotely, Mrs Ida B Saarber, Sarah Jackson, Annie E Brown, Mrs. John Gotely, Mrs Thayer, Mrs. Laura Cliff Sunday Aug 24, 19)2 at Metropolitan Baptist Church. Dr.W.H. Simes, Muskogee Ind Ter will p cash mornings & Ecasing On Monday eve Aug 25 Dr.W.H Sims will lecture from the subject A race of Cowards and why ;Door free to all day eve Aug 18, Mrs M, A Will wi lecture on her trip Atlan FOR SALE No 921 Walker 3 rooms Nice 25 ft lot. Rice $650 Cistern & shed. No 923 Walker ave 3 rooms 25 ft Lot Cistern & shed Price $650 No 214 Troup ave Large 6 rooms house good lot South front Cistern & Barn. Price $900 No 1108 Oakland ave 3 room Good South front lot 7 lots & 3 cow's house Gistern & shed Price $1.100. Two acres of land adjoining 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 faintest and ocated establishment of its kind at 706 E 12 St. for sale arties desrig a bar sing wl 1 w. o see the propriet Our bookmaker in his forecast last week regarding what the convention would do named the right man in the right place except in the representative fight where county attorney E. A. Enright won out over Jim Getty. We can usually pick the winners. Our bookmaker is busy making up a winning slate in the fall races. He has the ticket partly made up and says he will give us a list of winners in a few weeks. Owing to lack of help and in eneperience of that we do have we have beeu materially crippled in putting our a paper that is the Editors delight. BARGAIN! BARGAIN!! Now is a chance for those who want a Bargain in lots we have on hand a few lots that can babought 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. Hot weather is on just keep going. When you want cesspool work done you can always find Patterson and Gayden at the old stand. 543 Minn. ave. In the district court of Wyandotte County Kansas. To the above named defendant, that you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above msmdd plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 2nd day of September 1902, the petition files said case will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered ageinst you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from you, the said defendant, and for costs of said suit. Charge Medicine is just what it i-recomended to be. it will take charge and ericate the human system and purify the blood the sick and affected only need to try it in order to be convivence: NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. STATE OF KANSAS STATE OF KANSAS, COUNTY OF WYANDOTTE. } ss In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the estate of } Caroline Peavy Deceased. } Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of Probate Court in and for said Court to be begun and held at the Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and state aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month, October A. D. 1902, I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. W. B. Raymond Executor, Joseph Peavy. 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 Wyandotte 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 costody of the minor children and such other relief so in equity and good conscience the nature of the plaintiff claim demand. Duted July 11 1902. Joseph C. Keller Plaintiff. Chas. W. Frey Atty. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Eli Porter, Plaintiff. vs. Pearly Porter, Defendant. 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 31st 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 defendant; and for costs of this suit. Eli Porter, Plaintiff by, I. F. Bradley, his attorney. WANTED. Woman as cook, and Laundress add Mrs A. W Solomon Employment agt. Office 115 E. 5th St. Leadville Colorad All diseases start in the bowels keep them open or you will be sick cascarets et like nature Keep liver and bowels activewithout a sickening gripping feeling. six million people take and recommend cascarets. Try a 10c. box. All druggists. Read the Citizen each week SPARKS From the Anvil of the Republican Convention. Old timers say it was a love feast. Big and little Gnat was there. B. S. was in darkness. Sam McGonigt officiated rather lively. Jno. McFadden the next county attorney had a reserved seat in the rear and occasionly smiled. Judge Bowling lookec mildly on. Ex-city assessor Harry Dar lington wore glasses. Al Baker the boss policy man was a busy soul. The slate was not insured against breaking. Eugene Robinson was up from Armourdale. They Say He was a delegate When the storm came. She says you heard me. Did you find my picture. How about the Popular block. It so funny about some people. What about the Rareback shop. She certain think he is a geese. The Rareback shop was close d Tue. Some wise people inagise they know it all. It's a cold doing Summer when he gets left. Lower Minn ave is so popular t knows out everything else. There is always some thing doing in the Sea foam block. How would you like to be tea ice man Booze says its alright. what peculiar methods some folks adopt in getting even Its so hard for new simple people to learn that oil is not gold that glitters. Its certainly amusing to see what sardens some women thinks men are and some men think women are. Wake up you have slep to long having served in this life for 340 year and leaning that there was a Promise land Sambo set out to reach this place ben jug over taking later on by one mister Brown going the same Direction good evenn. Uncle Sam where are you going up to behan said Uncle Sam well said Brown I am going that way we will be gather alright boss thus the folling conversession took place well Uncle Sum. Do you understand the rules of the City No sash said Sam well the rules is this said Brown. we cannot enter are we expected is that so! Boss well I will tell you how we can do said Brown gust before we get up to the gait you get Doren on you alfowes and I will get on your back and thus booth came Enter and when we get there the dore keeper will haunt us allright Boss haven reached the gate Brown called hato who comes ther saik the watchman a friend said Brown are you morented on dis mounced said the watchman mounted said Brown get down and hitch your horse and come in saib the watch man with thi in Struction Mr Brown obeyed hitching Sam on the outside walked in heaven and the watchman shut the gait thus the Negro Republican have ben rode up to office for thirty six years until his black is nearly broke he is Bownd to leave his good white Republans friends and Soak rest and as the eye is opened to these facts you can clip after the Negro wrier. If you want to be in the push Vote for Mc Faden for he is head in the rase for county attorney. 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. Primaries for Delegates to the County Convention to morrow at the Auditorium resulted in a general slate breaking and many who would could not and many who could! would not what the result will be remains to be seen when the three hundred or more delegates assemble whatever is done it will not heal up the sour spots that are gaping. The black-brother had an innisy in the 2nd and 3rd word, whatis up a good many of theirs sleeve time will tell. Let t the Lord The Frettful Baby in an Omnibus. A correspondent of the London Pall Mall Gazette vouchers for this incident: A young woman with a frettful baby in a full omnibus (aloud): "Poor little slipper, 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 sufferer' in 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 belies. She offered the belie $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 bequeathed 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. Col. Sir Vincent Sheffield, who has returned from South Africa, said in a speech at Eaton, England, Feb. 8, that when he left from eighty to ninety Boer commandos of about 200 men such were still in the field, or in all 16,000 to 18,000 men. The business of the council of government of Malta is no transacted by the vice president and six official members, the thirteen elected representatives having withdrawn as a protest against a legal illegal taxes. Good Hater. This phrase was first used by Dr. Johnson, who said of Bathurst, a physician: "He was a man to my very heart's content. He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig; he was a very good hater." Cure for Blackwater Fever. Hitherto blackwater fever, the terrible scurge of central Africa, has been with out remedy, but one has been discovered in a native decoction made from the roots of the cassia tree. Turin Uses. Oil Lamps. Owing to a strike of gas workers at Turin the principal streets of the town are now illuminated by oil lamps. The supply of gas to private houses has been gummed. Perfume for Lemon Wings Greek and Roman wines were perfumed, generally by steeping the leaves of roses or violets in the liquor until it had acquired the odor of the flowers. "Wha' is the chief food of the people of India?" asked a teacher in a London school the other day. "Famine" promptly answered a little girl, who had apparently been reading the eapers. HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHTENS ALL Kinky, Knotty, Stubbors, Harsh, Curly Hair. HARTONA makes the hair and glossy. Cures Dandruff, Hair Scalp Diseases. Prevents Failure Baldness. HARTONA POPKINIEST HAIR. Guaranteed receipt of price—25c. and 60c. per HARTONA RACE BLEACH, black or dark person, five or six skin of a mulatto person all BLEACH removes Wrinkles, Dark heads, and all Blemishes of the harmless. Sent to any address per bottle. 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Money can be sent in Stamps or by Post-Office Money Order, or enclosed in Registered Letter or by Express. AGENTS WANTED In Every Town and City. Liberal Salary Paid. AFTER USING MARTONA Toys for Poor Children. Higher Taxes in Malta Good Hater Turin Uses Oil Lamps. BEFORE USING HARTONA TRADE-MARK. AFTER USING MARTONA AUGUST 15 1X2 Byeducation LORD KELVIN AS DAMOOLER The Great Scotch Scientist Absolute Faith in Figures. Lord Kelvin, so his friends say, used to make of himself a sort of Damocles, but it was a cannon ball instead of a sharp sword which was suspended over his head. Few living scientists have as high a reputation as Lord Kelvin, and few have to their credit more useful inventions or valuable discoveries. Though now in his seventy-eighth year the old professor, who for more than half a century occupied the chair of natural philosophy at Glasgow university, still maintains his reputation for being one of the most energetic men in Scotland. Those who know him are fond of telling of the boyish eagerness and almost incredible energy with which he attacks his work. When lecturing he used to become so absorbed and wrapped up in the experiments he was conducting that he could scarcely wait for the results. Disdainting the services of an assistant, he scurried about his lecture room like a youth of 16. Indeed the students liked to say that they never saw him cross his laboratory except at a run. The ruling passion of Lord Kelvin, who is a member of half the learned societies of Europe, and who has been decorated by the emperor of Germany, the president of France and the king of Belgium, is his absolute faith in figures, and it is this ruling passion which led to his experiment as a Damocles. When he has once solved a problem in mathematics he is willing to stake upon its correctness not only his reputation, but, if necessary, his life. Taking an immensely heavy cannon ball, he calculated with the utmost accuracy the size of the smallest wire which would bear the weight of the load of iron. He then procured a length of wire of just the requisite strength, and, to prove the truth of his figuring, had the cannon ball suspended over his lecturing platform at the very spot where it would be most likely to strike and crush him should the wire give way, and it remained there for weeks.—London Mall. MORGAN'S ONE "INTERVIEW." The Story of It is as Told by the Multi- millionaire Himself. The interviewer disturbs J. Pierpoint Morgan. He makes his boast that he never has been interviewed, and declares that in the last seven years but one interviewer ever has been able to approach him. The story of this one exception he yesterday told to Bishop Potter and Doane. On a recent trip to Europe a representative of the London Times would not take no for his answer. "Tell the Times man my time is worth £10 a minute," at last said Morgan. "The Times man says he'll take two minutes at that," came back the reply. "He handed me £20," said Mr. Morgan, "taked just two minutes by both our watches, did all the talking himself, and rose to go on the instant. 'Why do you want to see me?' I asked in curiosity. 'Oh, I wagered £100 that I would interview you personally, that's all,' was his reply. I congratulated him on his enterprise and dismissed him within the third minute of his call." "Did you keep his £20?" dryly asked Bishop Potter, as Mr. Morgan did. "Yes, and I haven't earned money in a long time that gave me the satisfaction that £20 did."-San Francisco Examiner. TRADE-MARA. AFTER USING HARTONA TRADE-MARK. BEFORE USING Sayings Culled from the Lecture of Rev. Sam Jones. I would like a liberal gambler a great deal more than I do a stingy Methodist. You can reform a gambler and make a first rate man of him, but the stingy Methodist is bound to go to hell sure. The trouble with us is we put too much in the belly; if we don't quit putting so much in the belly and put more in the head we'll be idiots. The men are all after the dollar and letting the children go to hell. I'd rather have a Billy goat than such people. The way to preach to these men is to find what hole they're in and fire into that hole. They'll holler when they are hit. The child is the embryo citizen, he'll grow to be what he is trained to be. I often wonder when I see a picture of the mother of George Washington danding her child on her knee if she knew that she held the greatest man of the world in her arms. She taught him right. The country never needed great men as she was now. Texas named Sam Huston, South Carolina calhoun, Kentucky needs Henry Clay, Illinois needs Stephen A. Doughlas and Abraham Lincoln. The nation is short on men. If I had a hundred of you fellows to make one man of I'd be mighty economical with my dirt. I'd rather have a horse thief for a neighbor than a saloonkeeper. If the horse htft stole my best horse I could buy another for $12, but if the saloonkeeper boy I could not replace him. You won't be voting for saloons must feel like dogs and don't you feel natural? I am a prohibitionist and if you fellows had any backbone you'd be, too. If you "brethren" would swap sparerib for backbone and if the preachers would swap jawbone for backbone you might be worth something. But you hain't got any backbone. If you put the Democratic party and the Republican party under the most powerful microscope you could not tell the difference. They are high-cook-ololons and humming. "I want to please you. How you think I've took? Everybody follows the head. Get the head right and you're all right." Bob Taylor was on a train. Bob's tender hearted. He saw a woman on the train crying as though her heart would break. He asked her what was the matter. She said "I've-Ive-Ive I've burried four husbands and now I am taking the fifth one to New York to be cremated." Pretty soon he was about to be cremated. He asked her what she was crying about. She said, "I've-Ive-Ive I've been a-huntin' an for man nigh onto 40 years an 'never got a'one; an-'an-'an' that woman has husbands to burn-boo hoo." You men talk about the principles of the old Democratic party, and the grand old Republican party. You couldn't find them with a microscope. I tell you I'm goin' to vote to honor my wife, protect my mother, to send my children home sober. I'm goin' to vote for Laura and the children. I see you old Democrats and Republicans don't applaud that. No niggers driver in the house who wiped a dinky like the Republican and Democratic parles whip their voters. I'm a concentrated, consolidated, consummated stand-up-and-knock-down prohibitionist. I don't believe in aristocracy. I don't believe in an intellectual aristocracy. I don't believe in a moneyed aristocracy. Revenge in Kind. A story was told at a recent dinner of a New York literary club which goes back to the time when a certain famous man was governor of Massachusetts. The tale sounds like a revival of a newspaper yarn contemporaneous with its hero. At any rate, it is worth retelling. A country road in the north of Maine plodded a French-Canadian with a trained bear, making his way to a county fair. At a crossroad he met a long-whiskered Yankee driving a mule. They nodded to each other and were continuing on their ways, when suddenly the Frenchman pricked up his ears. Long there, Napoleon!" the farmer drawn to his mule. The Frenchman stopped short and listened again. "Git up, Napoleon!" called the Yankee. "I say, ma frien!" called the Canadian, bringing his bear to a halt, "what for you call ze chackass Napoleon?" "That's his name," replied the farmer, indifferently. "Well, he is no name for a zhackass. Napoleon was a great general." "So's my mule," replied the other, good-naturedly. "Geddap, Napoleon." The Frenchman lost patience. "Look 'ere, ma frien'," he said, "you call zat zhackass Napoleon wance more time, I tell you w'at I do. You see zat black bare? Wall, I poke his one eye out an ca'll him Ban Butler."—Youth's Companion. The Austro-Hungarian government has paid the widow of Captain von Thoman, the commander of the Austrian force who was killed at Pekin, 200,000 crowns, adding an annuity of 1,200 crowns for the education of his daughters until they attain their majority. Dr. von Rosthorn, counsellor of the Austro-Hungarian government, has received 1,000 crowns on account of the loss of his property, and the government has also paid compensation to the sailors and to the relatives of those who were killed. Much satisfaction, says a Reuter's telegram from Vienna, is expressed at this prompt action, as Austro-Hungary, like other nations, only receives the Chinese indemnity in $3 annual installments. S. Teakle Wallis, the eminent lawyer, literateir and ardent Southerner, of Baltimore, who died several years ago, left a collection of paintings to St. Mary's seminary, a leading Roman Catholic institution in that city. H. Weldenbach, a Canadian artist, who has been retouching some of the paintings, declares after close examination of old paintings of St. Peter and St. Paul that they are the work of Rubens, and that the paintings must be the ones which disappeared in 1840. Scientific mammas are feeding their daughters on phosphorus, because it is a good thing for making matches. To the long list of strange deaths must be added that of James W. Carroll, a merchant of Lambertville, N. J. Mr. Carroll's death was caused by a rooster. He was taking two hens from the chicken yard when a rooster flew at him and trust one of his spurs into Mr. Carroll's hands. The wound became very painful but was not regarded as serious. A few hours later he dropped dead. It is supposed that the rooster's spur pierced an artery, causing a blood cot, which went to the brain. A piece of cloth and a dirty man are similar in the respect that they both shrink from washing. I believe in common sense. Common sense is the most uncommon kind of sense. The aristocracy with character that can't be bought, that can't be sold. "The beauty of woman is her purity." "I'd rather be like the homely little brown bear than the butterfly." It's a beautiful character, girls that consider Girls, your mothers. You bear that dring and smoke and break your mothers' hearts, you need killin', that's what you need. I'm disgusted with the man who swells up and says, "my wife's the best woman on earth, but I don't make no profession myself." My wife has a right to go wherever I go. If I go to a saloon she's got a right to. I should not expect more of her than I'm willing to do. My daughter has as much right in a mother as we might. Those who are the brothers-in-law to the church are the sons of the devil. Now you can go home and howl. Hit a dog and he'll howl. I feel sorry for the preacher. You pack him in an icebox and expect him to sweat. You fetch him up to your church carryall, then all jump In and expect him to pull you through to the New Jerusalem. Rev. Sam P. Jones expressed himself quite forcibly as to the combines of names and the effect on children. He said: "You get out of a child just the ideas you put into his mind. "We put gold above God. We put chattles above character. We put mammon above manhood. We have inverted God's order of things. Whatever a nation has made its idol it has at last gone out and fallen down under its idol and died. Greece focalized her life and central role being in their literature that she has supported her toes and died under a book. Rome focalized her life in her military power and died at last pierced through with a sword. So America has focalized her life and centralized her whole being around the dollar not the coin. The dollar could not form a combine and raise enough money to buy one drop of water. "This country will never succeed in the best sense until we put God above gold, manhood above money and teach our children that not cash is the only thing striking for There is nothing in money or property to bring peace or happiness. God has adjusted matters so that there is not much difference between being rich and being poor. It's all in how we feel and how we think about it. I'd rather be a pauner and feel like a prince than be a prince and feel like a pauper. The philosopher is ye to be born who can tell which the king is and have nothing to eat or to have one colie from eating too much. Who can tell which is the best estate, to be a millionaire and roll all night upon his downy bed and can't sleep a wink, or to be an old tramp on the roadside with his head on a log snoring so you can hear him a hundred rods? The tramp has the drop on him for the time being, anyway. Speaking of men who have piled up millions at the expense of their employees and the jobs and then opted on conscience by endowing universities or building libraries, he continued: "They must do something to get the respect of others and they employ different methods. NEW CYCLONE STORIES What the Wind Recently Accomplished in Michigan. Hudson (Mich.) Post. A Wheatland farmer says that upon entering his pig pen, immediately after the passage of the cyclone last Wednesday, he was surprised to find what he at first supposed was a new species of swine. His porkers had been driven so full of splitters as to be scarcely recognizable. A man sitting in a back window of his residence, just out of the path of the twister, saw his cows, which were grazing in a neighboring field, go sailing skyward. They landed on an adjoining farm and began grazing again. He has not yet recovered from his astonishment. "Do you know the reason they couldn't find that piano?" asked a man in the barber shop. "I was standing in front of the hotel at Manitou Beach, when I heard something that sounded like music directly overhead. I looked up and saw a plano going northward over the lake at an elevation of about 200 feet. The wind was agitating the plano and distinguish the strains of 'Ain't It a Shimmer?' I have told a lot of people about this, but they don't seem to believe it." The foregoing stories were gathered from reliable sources. The Live Lay Figure Lay figures upon which to display clothing in shop windows have been in modern times erroneously improved; so that the good ones are now far from presenting that woodiness of appearance that was once commonly characteristic of them. But occasionally some clothing merchant, going in for realism, puts in his window, as a display figure, upon which to display suits of clothes, a living man; and it is easy to see how soon a figure will fix attentions to the same man in the same clothes, soon among other men, in the street or elsewhere, familiar surroundings, might attract no special attention whatever. But in the unfamiliar surroundings of a show window he attracts the eyes of many. Seeking a Buried Treasure The schooner Hermann has sailed for the South seas, ostensibly on a pleasure trip, but in reality, it is said, in search of buried treasures amounting to $70,000,00, reported to have been hidden on an island by the mutinous crew of a Japanese ship, Captain James Brown, is retired mariner of the Atlantic coast is in command of the Hermann, and is accompanied by four or five Eastern friends. The lit's schooner was fitted out at an expense of $18,000. It is better to fall in line than in the mud. Though the Japanese folded fan is a common object in this country, little is known of its manufacture. One of the largest factories is at Kyoto, where an average of 3,000,000 fans yearly are turned out. Spain is the principal customer for the Kyoto fans, Italy coming next in importance, and then America and Mexico. The fans are not at all easy to manufacture. As many as eight different workmen are required to make a single frame, while before the fan is finished it has to pass through the hands of no fewer than ten people. ARE MAGNETIC CANNON. Astonishing Possibilities of Warfare in the Future. Harper's Weekly: If the machine will throw dynamite, it need not throw so much. Half, ton of dynamite, equally distributed over New York, would unobtainably provide ample space for rebuilding. The cables describe this pleasing new invention as an electromagnetic affair. It uses no powder or other explosive in throwing the shell. No details of the invention are given, but it is easy to see how a series of electromagnets, set at convenient spaces along the length of a barrel, might do the trick. The ball would be drawn forward by a powerful magnet, and just as the latter reached the moment of maximum intensity in the magnetic field, it could be made to strike some little mechanism which would break the electric circuit of the magnet to be dead and the momentum of the shell would carry it into the field of the next magnet of the series along the tube. Powerful electro-magnets are made nowadays capable of lifting a ton or so and half a dozen of them would give a tremendous velocity to a heavy ball. As there would be no concussion in the discharge of the gun, it would carry the highest and most deadly explosive known. It would be cheap, too, both to build and operate for practically it would never wear out, while the big guns of today have an average life of but 100 shots. It would be no more accurate than a bullet at high speed is invisible for the most part, a battery could operate without in the least disclosing its whereabouts. And armies would have no warning of its presence until the rain of hail which it could produce down upon them. No wonder artillery experts in Europe are said to be excited. The invention is described as the work of Prof. Bikeland, "a Norwegian physicist." If this be the distinguished professor of physics at Christiana, it may be set down that the invention is not a cable yarn. At any rate, we hope it will be used. We hope it miles might inconveniently reach the people who make war—congressmen and kins and such—and expose them to danger. The moment this result is attained, it may be safely prophesied that war will have come to an end. ALCOHOL'S VICTIMS Author Who Was a Drunkard and Did Not Realize His Condition. Not long ago M. Henry Fouquier, writing for Le Matin of the peculiarities of the French character, says of the use of alcohol: "In certain alcoholic, at least, there is one alcoholic for every ten of the population, whether they be conscious of it or not. The devoted men who have made themselves the apostles of the crusade against alcohol, which I deem necessary for their movements of our times, give in their pamphlets and their lectures, which cannot be too great in number, the eloquent picture of the ravages that alcohol produces, in whatever manner it is introduced, into our economy. Only they do not insist enough, perhaps, on disguised alcoholism—that is, alcoholic poisoning in subjects that possess all appearances of temperate and who are really not drunkards. Hereditary or acquired, alcoholic. The race that the evil of alcoholism can cause its have in men who do not suspect it. "I knew a literary man who was not only full of talent and a gallant man, but moreover of a most scupulous correctness of life. He would have died of shame to be a drunkard, yet he was one in his time. Experiencing nervous troubles, menacing symptoms of paralysis, he went, without revealing his identity, to the doctor, after a rapid examination, said, rather brusquely: "You are losing your time coming to see me. You know very well that if you want to be cured you have only to stop getting drunk." "Only those who know my friend can imagine the indignant stupefaction caused by the words of the doctor." "I? I a drunkard! I was never in-toxicated once in my life. I never enter a cafe, I dine with my family." "I was drunk! My friend drank one bottle of wine a day and one finger of chartreuse after his coffee. For him that was alcoholism. "We must understand it. Alcoholic poisoning exists outside even of habitual intoxication. The enemy of human reason can insinuate itself without warning. If you drink one may say, and yet may take possession of the place all the same." Root's Advice to the Farmer. New York Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer: There is a good story being told regarding Secretary of War Root. The secretary was on his way to Southampton recently when a farmer edged into the seat and began telling the cabinet member how to run the government. When the citizen's supply of criticisms began to run low, Mr. Root asked: "What is your occupation?" What is your occupation? "Poultry farmer." was the reply "Do you know how many eggs each of your hens lay?" "Why, no." confessed the man. "Well, the man who looks after my chickens knows how much each hen does. If he didn't I'd discharge him for not knowing his business. If a hen doesn't produce 15 eggs a month it's a loss to keep it. Now, my friend, doesn't it strike you that after you have learned your own business so well that I can't give you points on it, then would be the proper time for you to come and teach me how the government ought to be run?" Rail Road Reform If the railroads keep on in the reform work other reformers can go out of business, for the railroads have no difficulty in enforcing their laws. They ordered their employees to quit drinking, they shut out cigarette fiends and cigar smokers, and now they quietly order the public to quit kissing on their premises. Next they will decree that women must travel in short skirts, and it will be done. The railroad is a business enterprise and they consult only the business side of the equation. The reel business of life is taught by the dancing master. His Sheepish Actions Baltimore American: "Again," complains the devoted wife, "I am told that you have been flirting with that odious Miss Mashem on the plaza." "Bah!" retorts the gay husband, thinking to ridicule the suspicions of his wife. "Bah!" he recents. "It isn't so bad," asserts the wife, "for a man to be guilty, but what I detest is when he acts so sheepish about it." A broad river does not always cut a deep channel. A CHICAGO SVENGALA WAS HALF BLIND THROUGH FAILING SIGHT. in His Optical Trade. Chicago letter: How much is Swengalism practiced for the purpose of accomplishing crimes of a more or less diabolical character? This is a point which no bureau of criminal investigation in the world can answer, even with the assistance of the faculty of the Charcot institute. Hypothetically in its history, the possessors of this uncanny power often discover the fact that they are hypnotists, by accident, and then carefully conceal the fact from others for the consummation of their own ends. It has also become a common thing nowadays for persons who are accused of offenses to attribute their guilty acts to entrainment by stronger minds. Of course nine-tenths of such accusations are pure inventions and fictitious excuses. They have no ground in even a decent suspicion, but are invented "out of whole cloth," as the saying goes. In this city, however, in which a man is accused of being a Swengal in which the accusation bears upon it the carmarks of probability. The case involves the mysterious disappearance of a society woman of culture and refinement, whose husband holds a fine professional position in Chicago, with an old, illiterate, half-blind, poor and unattractive man. The friends of the young couple are dumbfounded over the occurrence and ability of this man, many rational excuse for the old infatuation, declare that the abductor is a Swengall, Oddly enough his sardonic features embody the same peculiar facial characteristics as did those of the original of Trilhy's Nemesis and the circumstances leading up to the elopement somewhat resemble those which formed the basis of Du Maurier's romance. Even the name by which the Chicago Swengall was known appears in doubt. He was a German, about 55 years of age and had been an eye specialist, according to his own statement, until his death, which led to his downfall in a profession of which he was almost a master. He became acquainted with the Law-sons, by which name the young couple were known, early this year in some informal manner. The husband recognizing him as a man who knew something of optics and not having the remotest idea of becoming jealous of him left him in the society of his young and beautiful wife without one of the contact. By a resemblance coincidence Mrs. Lawson had a pair of particularly bright and strong eyes—eyes which to an eye specialist would be a fortune in themselves. It is supposed that by the use of Mrs. Lawson's eyes the German Swengali was enabled to see clearly with his own half-blind eyes when he had her under the effect of hypnotism. In fact the excuse made by this intruder in the Lawson home was a request that Mrs. Lawson would aid him by looking through the optical work that he was trying to struggle with in spite of his visual defect. Toby tried to identify the organ of a voice, was made to sing magnificently by aid of Swengali's knowledge of technique under the influence of his hypnotic power. Unfortunately the comparison ceases there, for Trilby was not a young woman of unblemished reputation but a young person who had never been particular in her morals. Mrs. Lawson, on the contrary, comes from a group of the best families in the middle West and has borne an unblemished reputation. Her marriage to her husband, which occurred shortly after her graduation, was a purely love affair and her married life has been an exemplary one hitherto. Her mother and the other members of her family are the most astounded people in the world over the occurrence, that has so blighted the young woman's life. She is a doctor of nurses in the idea that her abductor really possesses the nefarious power attributed to him. Her husband strangely enough, refuses to accept the excuse and wants to blot her out of his life forever, so deeply is he enraged at her inexplicable conduct. From what can be gleaned it looks and is the eloping couple had gone to Germany when Svengall No. 2 alleged he had an interest in a large optical goods factory. The opinion of the police is that the man has merely separated the young woman from her husband because he wanted her for himself and that no other explanation is necessary than that given for other sloppy beats. Be that as it may, the disappearance of the couple is one of the biggest sensations of the week. JOHN ARMITAGE A Habitable Church Tower A Biobased Church Tower. The famous Broadway Luncheon church, located beneath the corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, is building a new tabernacle on another site, which will have at least one peculiar feature, a tower some 50 feet square, with a highly decorated palatial part, that it is to be used for church offices, which may be reached by elevators. The church, although wealthy, could not, afford to have the parish house built on the church building proper. Therefore, the parish house is located in the upper stories of the tower, the lower stories being devoted to Sunday school rooms and halls for various purposes. Above the Sunday school rooms is the ladies' boor, above that the men's floor, above that the administration floor, with the ladies' floors, above that the sexton's apartments, and there is still room above for other uses as needed. This tower is a "sky-scraper," rising far above surrounding buildings and affording a fine prospect. When some one remarked to the pastor, Dr. Jefferson, that the sexton's quarters were very desirable, he said: "Well, I think our sexton ought to pay about $4,000 a year for his administration, and can be found in neighboring apartment houses"—Boston Herald. Schoolboy Repartee. St. Louis Post Dispatch: Prof. H. W. Prentiss, principal of the Hodgden school, tells a joke on himself with much enjoyment. One day during an examination, when he was visiting the various rooms, he stopped to ask a very bright boy a sum in algebra, and, although the problem was comparatively easy, he could not answer it. Prof. Prentiss remarked, and with some show of severity: "My boy, you ought to be able to do that. At your age George Washington was a surveyor." The boy looked him straight in the eye and answered: "Yes, sir, and at your age he was president of the United States." The conversation dropped at that point. A SWEET FROCK FOR SWEET SIXTEEN. A SWEET FRUCK FOR SWEET SIXTEEN. 1. Pretty frock of lavender fig batiste, and bands of lace. The slew wrist, where it is gathered into a row, with wide flounce, headed by the hat is of white straw, with wreath at back. 2. Pretty useful autumn model of bands of white taffeta. The skirt is back, in line with the waist. The w harmonizing with the skirt. Hat of bow of soft black ribbon. pretty frock of lavender figured lawn, with yoke and bands of lace. The sleeve is narrow at top, where it is gathered into a white tucked band. The wide flounce, headed by tucked batiste and two of white straw, with wreath of roses, and bow of white taffeta. The skirt is cut with flare and bane with the waist. The waist is in blouse forming with the skirt. Hat of white summer felt, it black ribbon. Fashion Notes From L 1. Pretty frock of lavender figured lawn, with yoke of tucked white batiste, and bands of lace. The sleeve is narrow at top, widening to the wrist, where it is gathered into a white tucked band. The skirt is narrow, with wide flounce, headed by tucked batiste and two bands of lace. The hat is of white straw, with wreath of roses, and bow of white ribbon at back. 2. Pretty useful autumn model of black volle trimmed with graduated bands of white taffeta. The skirt is cut with flare and buttons down in back, in line with the waist. The waist is in blouse form, the trimming harmonizing with the skirt. Hat of white summer felt, with Alsatian bow of soft black ribbon. Fashion Notes From Paris. Paris letter: Abominable weather once more marked the crowning social event of the month, the "Kermesse," held at the Paris Polo, where most of the beauty and fashion gathered, principally perhaps to display the latest and most lovely toiletts, some of which I took the opportunity of sketching. Among the notables present I observed Queen Natalie of Serbia, looking very much like a princess in dress, Duchesse de Morny, in gray and blue striped serge, Contesse Boni de Castellane, in a Louis Seize costume of drab cloth, and the Marquise de Mun in a charming linen face-encrusted dress. Linen and lace still hold their own, and linens are being made up with taffeta. Linen, lawn and cambric.绒线 and amplified with lace, were conspicuous sartorial features of the kermesse. A new autumn model gown, illustrated, is of black volleo, trimmed with graduated bands of white taffeta, edged with fine black silk. The skirt is cut to fit the hips, but flares considerably below the knees and is made to button down the back. The waist fits smoothly above the bust, but is gathered into the waistband. The sleeves are neatly, being slightly full at the bands, where they are gathered into a white silk band. The waist buttons at back. The color is of white taffeta folds, with TWO CHARM TWO CHARMING HATS. TWO CHARMING HATS. 1. This pretty simple hat is of white straw and silk braid, trimmed with a scarf of white Louisine silk tucked and hemmed with black. It is drawn through four cut steel buckles, and tied in a wide bow with long ends at the back. 2. This becoming hat is of double yellow straw braid, bent to become the youthful face and loosely arranged hair. It is fully trimmed with shaded pink roses and foliage, a big cluster on the front and more under the turned down brim. ured lawn, with yoke of tucked white ve is narrow at top, widening to the white tucked band. The skirt is narcked batiste and two bands of lace. h of roses, and bow of white ribbon of black voile trimmed with graduated cut with flare and buttons down in aist is in blouse form, the trimming white summer felt, with Alsatian s From Paris. bars of the braid. The hat is of white felt, with under facing of black lace and Alsaian bow of wide soft black ribbon. As will be seen from my illustrations, our children's frocks are made only to the knees, and with very long waists. The little miss holding her doll is in a frock of white batiste, two very full flouces, with tucked hems, forming the short skirt. The long waist is fulled on to an insertion of raised valencenelles, with a wide band of the same down the front. The short cape sleevees are banded with the same. The yoke and full undersleeve are of piece lace to match. There are deep cuffs to the sleeves. The white lace socks reach to the calves only. I illustrate a charmingly simple young girl's frock. The material is lavender lawn, figured with white, with a thin lace underneath. The shirt is made clinging at the top, with the favorite circular flounce. A wide band of white batiste, with diagonal tucks, is set between the upper part of skirt and the flounce, having a band of white lace insertion on either side. The yoke and upper part of the sleeves are of white tucked batiste with insertion to match the skirt. The waist is made in simple blouse style, slightly fulled where it joins the yoke. It buttons at the back. The sleeves MING HATS. are tight at the top, gradually widening to the waist, where they are gathered to a batiste cuff. The stock is also tucked batiste. The little maid holding her dolly hind her, has a charming frock of pink French lawn, with deep rose color in raised dots. The skirt is very full, and has two rows or white lace insertion let in. The full blouse waist has two rows of insertion let in around it above. The yoke is of white tucked lawn, finished in front with narrow lace, and a beading through which the drawn narrow black welt ribbon. The berta raffia, as also the choice on the sleeves, are of pink lawn, embroidered with white. The sash is black. Black ery silk. White lace cuffs, and pink kid shoes are worn with the Another charming model shown is a sage green pongee and illustrates the popularity of this silk, a new departure which promises to remain in flavor. This frock is designed for a young girl, but the idea is also seen in old dresses. The tucks are laid from the waist down, very deep, and stitched down at the edges, thence the skin flares out very full. The hem is deeply turned up, and interlined, so that the many rows of stitching will show up well. The skirt is unlined. Above the hem are two blas stitched bands of the silk, and between them a hinge of a narrow ribbon velvet in a much darker SMART LARLEY AUTOMN COAT Dressy little coat of black cloth, with collar bands and straps of white cloth, dotted with red. The sleeves are cut with a double bell; the coat being cut in an upward curve at the back to match. The coat is lined with white silk with red dots. The hat is of white silk folds with black wings, and red velvet bow. shade of green. The blouse is also tucked, the round sailor collar and full sleeves being of the silk plain, but having bands and velvet lacing to match the skirt, as also the girdle. A loosely knotted scarf of green and white silk is tied under the collar. The chic sailor hat is of white stiff straw with bad and bow of green satin ribbon. The silk stockings match the frock and are embroidered with white. The embroidery is illustrated in natural ponge, embroidered with red, and having three stitched bands of red taffeta on the skirt, and one wide band on the square collar. The white and red sailor hat is trimmed with white and red taffeta ribbon. I illustrate a handsome waist of taffeta, embroidered in open rings all over worn over a white chiffon blouse, with bands of black ribbon velvet down the front. The taffeta has revers of black velvet with deep stock of the same. The pretty little coat is pictured made of fine light weight enamel with bands of white purple collar of white cloth, a fitted border of the same around the edge of the coat and double sleeves, also straps of the white on the coat and sleeves below the collar. All the white is hand dotted with red silk. The sleeve is rather short, with a double bell effect, curving upward at the back of the arm. The back of the coat curves upward in the middle in the same way. The coat is lined with white satin and red dots. The coat is of folds of white silk with fine red straw between a pair of large black wings running forward, finished at the back with a bow of red ribbon velvet. The becoming picture hat illustrates is a deep yellow straw, sewn on both sides of a frame, the deep front filled with with pink roses in various shades, and plenty of foliage, trails running round the hat, and falling over the turned down brim at the back. A few flowers are massed under the brim at the back falling on the loose curls. This is a charming style both for chapstick and coiffure, the lines being bent in the hat to suit the face of the weaver. Keep Vice in Hiding Hol Keep vices in hiding House The always difficult problem of restraining gambling houses of restitution is to some extent simulated when it is to be understood and understood stand for public decency and the enforcement of law. It is still a problem, however, from which it is impossible to eliminate the controlling factors—the gambling instinct and debased human passions. Shifty, perilous, clamorous, these vices will most likely live in the dark if they forbid them themselves in the light and force them under cover is about the best of municipal affairs can hope to do. But this is manifestly a great gain, since in this enforced retirement these vices attract only those who seek their haunts, and cause to offend public decency or cruit the ranks of their attentions through the agency of "surveillance," that subtle force the power which is but dimly comprehended, but against which wise people scribbled so seriously that the ignorant one expects to eradicate vice from a city, but it is not unreasonable to believe that it can be placed under restraint—Portland Oregonian. Practical measures are now in press with a view to exploiting the various coal fields existing in Egypt in elsewhere on the direct Eastern route. The Egyptian government has granted the Nicholas an Englishman. DISO'S CURE FOR GUNS WHERE ALL CASE FAILS. Best Cough Brace. Taken Good. Use in Cough Brace. Sold by drugrists. CONSUMPTION A peculiar but very serious difficulty in the operation of telegraph lines in the Argentine Republic is described by electricity, as follows: "The small under, of the variety that spins a long cable and floats on it in the air, is plentiful there that the floating wires settle on the wires in enormous quantities. As soon as dew"alis or a power of rain comes up, every microphone becomes wet and establishes a minute leak. The effect of thousands and millions of such leaks practically to stop the operation of the lines, and the government telegraph department, especially in Buenos Aires, has been put to vast inconvenience by the cobwebs. A number of experiments have been tried but to no avail. On the important line between the sender Arres and Rosario the effect of the sender webs is to cut down the speed of working from 300 or 400 to 30 messages an hour. The government is just determined, as a last resort, to connect the two points by an underground cable about one hundred and ten miles long." Dr. Taft, of Kansas City, Mo., dates his success in the dental profession to the course he pursuer. Finding that dental practitioners, as a rule, make his fee ex皂恁昂, really charging more for reputation, social position or connection with dental societies for skill in workmanship, or so financially low that it fails to cover the cost of material and time, Dr. Taft concluded that there must necessarily be a field for the man who would adopt the best of service and leaving a fair profit. This he resolved to do, and as a result his success has gone beyond his hopes. His practice has grown to such extent that he can afford a specialist for each branch of the work, something never attempted in the city be- he may wrongfully be classed with the cheap dentists, because he advertises, but as a matter of fact, his methods prices and advertisements, put in a class by himself. Do not merely on his statement. Do at his local rooms, *s* East. Eleventh street, contain for yourself the merits of work. Who Shaved Him. When a famous archaeologist came to the club one afternoon his erudite presence was ornamented at several points with sticking-uplaster, and there was a general inquiry among his peers as to what was the matter. "Bair," said the professor briefly. "Good gracious! Where did you get hared?" asked one of the younger numbers sympathetically. "It's a strange thing," said the man of learning. "I was shaved this morning by a man who really is, I suppose, little above the ordinary barber. I know of my own knowledge that he took a double First Class at Oxford; but he studied in Heidelberg afterwards, and spent several years in other foreign educational centers. I know, so of my own knowledge, that he has mounted scientific articles to our museum, and has numbered in his intimate friends men of the highest social and scientific standing in Europe and America. And yet," soilloomed the savant, "he can't shave a decently." "By Jowel!" exclaimed the young members in astonishment. "What is she a barber for with all those accommodations?" "Oh, he isn't a barber!" said the cool worm, yawning. "You see, I shaved myself this morning!" Gayman—I wanted to thank you for the handsome beer mug you sent on my birthday. Mrs. Goodart—Of course; you'll understand I meant it to be used only as an ornament. Gayman—Oh, my wife keeps it full for me all the time. Mrs. Goodart—She doesn't really? Gayman—Yes; full of temperance traits—Philadelphia Press. RICH STRIKE IN THE WICHTA MOUNTAIN COUNTRY KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug. 12. The Con- lobal Mineral Company of this city have received advices from their auvavors, giving results at a depth of 8 feet on the Nellie mine of $14.80 in and 14K ounces of silver per ton. The vein in this mine has widened from 22 inches at the grass roots where it was first discovered to 8 feet at the bottom of the shaft, representing one of the largest bodies of pay over covered in any district. They have also received from Prof. J. R. Moechel, the eminent chemist of Kansas City, an analysis of the ore in the Gold and Copper Mine, giving a result at a depth of 16 feet, of $35 per ton in gold. This company is composed of about seventy of the best business men, and they are to be congratulated upon their good fortune. Nan-What is she worrying about? Fan-Because she can't think of anything to worry about.-Somerville journal. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's washing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. "This country," said the owner of the Blue Stroak, "is getting simply unlucky for a gentleman to live in. I ran an old little girl yesterday, and when I wanted to pay her father a reasonable amount the brute got a club and would have insulted me if it hadn't been for the police. "The unreasonableness of the lower classes," replied the owner of the Yellow Demon, "almost passes comprehension."—Chicago Record-Herald. It is said that 2,000,000 inhabitants of the Philippines acknowledge Arabic as their sacred language. Consultor Law—I see you got a disagreement of the jury. Consultor Case—Oh, yes; it was easy. do you manage it?" "Why. I got two fellows on the jury, own an automobile and the other was a horse. I knew those two would agree."—Yonkers Statesman. "Why did she marry the widower?" "Just to show that she could." "And why didn't she marry the young man?" "Just to show that she wouldn't"— Chicago Post. Rupture COUNTRY PUBLISHERS CO., KANSAS CITY, VOL. 3. NO. 10 I present to the readers of this paper a few testimonial letters and names of former patients whom I have cured of rupture, believing that the afflicted would rather correspond with some one who has been cured than read what I might say about myself. You can more fully investigate and convince yourself as to the merits of my treatment. You might doubt any statements I might make, but you cannot help but believe the statements of those I have cured. I will ask you to write to any or all of them. If you are satisfied with what they say about my reliability and methods of treatment, write to me or call and see me. Remember that in all cases I guarantee a cure and that do not accept one cent of money until you are well. Consultation by mail or in person is entirely free. I will be pleased to correspond with you rega-ding your DR. ERNEST HENDERSON McPherson, Kana, June 18, 1890. I had a very great agent. I went to Dr. Henderson suffered great agony. I went to Dr. Henderson and waked in three weeks. I cannot say too well. I just woke up just what he says he can do. The Doctor does not ask one agent of pay until the patient is well. This is the best guarantee he can possibly give to any person who wants to see him. Anyone who wishes to know more about my case. Very truly yours, _____ A. R. OLSON. Write For My Treaties on the Care of Rupture Sent Free. Another Bad Case Permanently Cured in a short Time-Grateful for Same. My Dear Doctor: I desire to add my testimonial to those you have cured of rupture. My case was a bad one and I you made a permanent cure in a short time, without pain, and I never had any complications. I will cure for your cure, and would not be back in the condition I was for a thousand dollars. I thank you and would recommend your rupture cure to any one. Use this if you wish. I am truly thankful for your care. Suffered for Years—Pronounced Incura ble by other Doctors, Dear Doctor:—I wish to state that I can most easily recommend you your rupture treatment. Since you are young, I have not had any serious injury, yet you have with a right scrape rupture that was pronounced by a dangerous surgical procedure, except by a dangerous surgical procedure, I determined to try the same and again glide you on your treatment for your injury and now see your treatment is all that you claim for it. Yours respectfully. Kae SPALDING'S given in Hookk 20 rooms, 16 Te English Branches at low rates. 20 rooms, 16 Te 64-page Illustrated Catalogue and Journal sent f COUNTRY PUBLISHERS CO., The "Weber Janic," On all complete, ready to sub- Pumper Canals for other power perg A Young Man Without Money Will find special facilities for SELF SUPPORT while educating himself at the Kansas City University Many students here get employment yielding from three to ten dollars per week for two hours labor per day. 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Mrs. Graball—Our cook is going to get married. What'll we give her for a wedding present? Graball—I think a nice recommendation, suitably framed, would be as pleasing to her husband as anything I know.—Brooklyn Life. Lutheran Minister Tells of His Cure After Suffering Six Years. I suffered for six years with a very bad rupture and during all of the time I wore different kinds of trusses day and ni. bt, with the hope of effecting a cure, but tue all failed - they only beled the Upon the advice of R. F. Pfaffer, of Sedalia, Missouri, I was asked to be a specialist, 103 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City Mio, who car d in a few weeks without sub. support. I was given the opportunity to care. The cure was complete and since then I have dispensed with my trusses with inconvenience. I have been able to apply to me, personally or by letter. I am. My Dear Doc: I suffered for over five years — many times the rupture was so bad. I could scarcely retain it with the aid of a truss. Constantly grew worse and the pain so great I could stand it no longer. I was much discouraged. After reading your advertisement I concluded to try your treatment: To my surprise you cured me in less than four weeks. I am glad to say after such a long time of suffering I am absolutely sound and well. I paid your fee with pleasure, and still feel that I owe you a debt of gratitude which I hope to pay by inducing others to go to you for treatment. I will gladly write to anyone about my case. I considered your offer of receiving no pay until a cure was effected as the best guarantee you could give. It gave me confidence in your treatment. The Following Have Been Cured of Rupture and are Selected at Random from Many I Have Cured. In Writing them Please Enclose a Stamp for Answer. Mike Gaynor, 20 Ewing St. Kansas City, Mo. K. Olson, McChenney, Kans. Olson, M. Meredith, Aikh. Olson J. Brock, county attorney, Mashattan Kans. N. M. Kent, 401 Orchard St. Chicago, Ill. Oscar Dillon, 901 Campbell St. Kansas City, Kan. H. M. McDonald, Dennison, Kan. B. F. Boddin, 1930 N. 17th. Kansas City, Kana. A. Young, 2148 Winder Ave., Kansas City, Mo. A. Jamnick, plumbing Kansas City, Mo. Thomas, plumbing Kansas City, Mo. W. C. Peak, grocer 21 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kan. Hermann Sagull, Kansas City, Mo. William Weltman, 410 Landis Court, Kansas City, Mo. Kev. F. Teifler, Sedalia, Mo. Kev. Champion, Armour Station, Kansas City, Kans. J. T. Wood, merchant, Greenwood, Mo. Chas. T. tummer, 42d Edmond St., St. Joe, Mo. Will B. (cater) 11 N. Spring Ave., St. Louis, Mo. E. R. Demorest, Kansas City, Mo. B. R. Griffin, Temple Bldg; Kansas City, Mo. Thos. McMahon, 704 N. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo. E. W. Dewen, restaurant keeper, 196 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. child 13 months old. G. F. Shaw, assistant county surveyor, Independence, Mo. Washington Baker, Hall's Summit, Kans. ADDRESS DR. ERNEST HENDERSON, 103 West Ninth St. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. 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An Eastern newspaper complains that the toilet room for women in Pullman cars is only big enough for one person at a time, whereas the men are given ample space for several to dress at once. Does this unsophisticated Eastern editor fancy that, if the women's compartment were big enough to accommodate ten the first arrival would not lock the door and let the others wait their turn?—Kansas City Star. "Well, Donovan, here's a toast to you Boston railroad men: May every single hair on your heads be so many tailow candles light to your souls to glory." "And here's one for you New Yorkers, Haskins: Here's to Fortune. May you in all your travels never meet her daughter, Miss Fortune." "I never heard of any bottle of wine being broken over the bow of the ark," remarked the observer of events and things, "and yet it was considered a pretty good sort of craft, I believe."—Yonkers Statesman. NAVAL MANEUVERS. Important Tests in Minnie Warfare Planned in New York Waters. New York letter: The maneuvers to be held next month at this port are to be on an unprecedented scale and intended to demonstrate whether or not the ships of the United States navy, which can be present, will be able to successfully attack the forts and capture New York. Everything in the way of strategy is to be tried and the possibilities of a hostile fleet ever capturing the capital in the new world is to be thoroughly demonstrated. Even the newspapers are to be represented and New York scribes will have a chance to smell powder and learn the etiquette of war correspondence. The plan at present is to have the North Atlantic squadron, which will assemble for the occasion, separated into navies. One of these will represent the enemy's fleet, the other being detailed to guard the coast and co-operate with the land forces. At least 1,400 of the naval militta are expected to take part in these naval maneuvers and will in this way obtain practical knowledge of their actual duties which must prove of great advantage to them. The contingents will be drawn from the New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts regiments. These men will be divided up among the various ships and will be given every opportunity to distinguish themselves aboard. They will also be attached to sailor battalions sent ashore with field guns. These landings will take place on the Connecticut and Maine coasts. The maneuvers will commence by an attempt on the part of the invading squadron to elude the defensive squadron at some point between New Bedford on the north and New York on the east and to make a landing on the coast. The defending squadron will be busy in the meantime, sending out scouts to locate the invading squadron and to keep posted the ships held in reserve in order to preclude a sea engagement and prevent the landing of any hostile troops. Among the ships which will take part in the maneuvers will be the Kearsage, Alabama, Massachusetts, the cruiser Olympia, the Montgomery, Scorpion, Marblehead and a number of the crack ships of the navy. The conflict will be decided by naval experts acting as umpires who will decide mainly upon the strategic advantages gained by either side and upon the possibilities that would have ensured had they pursued the advantages obtained in a genuine fight. Should the defending fleet surprise the attacking fleet and precipitate a contract the vessel will be no longer any which vessel will be declared out of action, but the umpire will settle each point upon its merits. As the ships approach each other and near to firing distance there will be first a discharge of the big guns, followed as they close in on one another by the discharge of rapid fire artillery. The umpires on each ship will decide which shots would have told most had they been in actual warfare and will thus each beat the advantage. From the maneuvers for place from which the shots would be fired will depend the points gained by either ships. When one side considers that it has beaten the other it will fly a signal reading: "Propose reference to umpires." If agreeable to the other side action will cease, but it the enemy remains obdurate the sham battle will keep up until the senior officer decides it is proper to stop. Torpedo boats will figure extensively of the crafts gets sufficiently near to a battleship to fire its torpedoes the ship will be declared "out of action." There will be a certain limit fixed beyond which the ships must not go out to sea and on each ship will be a fort referee or umpire to decide whether fort or ship wins. If a ship succeeds in getting by all the outside forts and reaches Forts Schuyler and Slocum there will be a certain line defined which will establish the effective firing line from the fort. When the ship gets past this zone and in on the forts without encountering a search boat having a gun in front of the forts and succeeds in firing two or three shots at short range the fort will be considered taken. When the ship is held up by a search-light before it reaches the zone and the fort fires its gun before it can retreat the vessel will have lost and the army won. Of course these are only bare outlines of the maneuvers. GEORGE MORRIS MOVE UP IN MONTGOMERY. How the Race Question is Settled on Alabama Street Cars. Moline (Ala). Register: "If you wish to see how the separate car business works take a ride on the cars in Montgomery," was the suggestion of a former Mobilian to a Mobilian. "Good or bad?" was the question. "It works all right." "Are the blacks satisfied?" "Yes; the line was boycotted by them at first, but they soon learned that it was a god thing for them, as it defined their rights on the cars and lessened their rights on the cars. There are no separate car or compartment of a car set aside or any artificial division line in a car. The system of Montgomery may be called the move-up system. The whites sit in the forward part of a car, beginning at the front, and the blacks in the back part, beginning at the back, and so long as there is room in the car each race must move up or crowd to itself to make place for the other. This is how it worked: three Mobilians in the last two rear seats with other men enjoying a smoke, when a colored woman stopped the car. The white men in the last seat were told to move up. They moved up one seat forward. Presently the last seat was full of colored passengers and four others stopped the car. Move up again! and the white passengers had to go forward and find room with the class. In the same way the blacks are required to compact themselves around a room is made for whites. When the doors end the matter, and it may be full of whites or full of blacks—the rule works the same way for both races. The conductors are clothed with police authority. They appear to have no trouble enforcing the rules. The most interesting of the new departures made at the English war office is the appointment of a lady on the staff. This is the first time a lady has had a local habitation in the building. The lady in question served at the front as a nurse, and, having recently returned, has been appointed to a position at the war office. She has a private office, and she has private apartment of her own. She is to have charge within the war office of the affairs of the army nursing department Launching The Thomas W. Lawson; Gigantic Seven Masted Schooner. The Thomas W. Lawson Under Full Sail. From a Sketch Made From Her Sail Plan. Boston letter: When the gigantic seven-masted steel schooler, Thomas W. Lawson—the first seven-masted vessel anywhere, and the largest sailing ship ever launched in this country—slid off the ways at the Fore River yard at Quincy Point last week with a perfection of graceful motion that caused old Boston sea captains to declare that it was the neatest bit of work of its kind that they had ever seen, it seemed too little significant to more than one spectator that the loudest note in the din of jubilation should have happened to be the big vessel's own steam whistle. Not because it made so much noise—though it made a great deal—but because it pitted the new idea of the sailing vessel in other words, bringing steam to conquer steam. The popular opinion for a generation has been that the steamer is slowly but surely making the sailor obsolete; but now comes the modern sailing vessel and with the help of steam bids fair to enter into a competition with her rival with certain definite advantages in the way of economy and money-making that are not at all to be despised. There will only be 16 men required for the Lawson's crew, counting cook and cabin boy and captain, sailors and engineers. A steam freight carrier of equal size would require 75 or 100; and men are expensive and steam is cheap. The Lawson has five engines on her deck, or having the anchors, or not having the anchors, or not doing dore work in ports, for pumping in and out the water that will serve as ballast in her double bottom, and for supplying the primary power for the electric plant that will give her light and telephone service from stem to stern. Allogetter the Lawson is about the most modern proposition, bar none, that has ever slipped into the Seven Seas. Nominally she is not so big as the great five-masted ship Preussen, which was launched a month or so ago The Thomas W. Lawson at Geestemuende, Germany, for a Hamburg firm; but apparently she is capable of carrying more coal, for instance—and coal is what she is meant to carry, and carrying capacity is more important than length of beam or depth of hold. Her net register tonnage—to give a guess before she is registered—should be rising 5600 tons, as against the next largest schooner afloat, the six-masted wooden Percy, with 3400. Steam and steel have made her possible, as steam and steel may one day make another schooner possible which will be almost if not quite as big as all but the biggest ocean liners, the difficulty of increasing the capacity of the schooner prior to her as in the fact parents on this coast are built with a very definite idea of making their profit from the coastwise trade, and must be governed as to their dimensions by the depth of water in the more profitable ports. The man who is mainly responsible for the Lawson is Captain John G. Crowley, who has done more toward making the schooner a big modern institution than any other one man. His experience covers the schooner from the first stage of her construction to the last, although he is still in the prime of life—not over 45. He was born at historic Plymouth, and has lived on the Massachusetts South Shore—where the Fore River yard is located—ever since, although his business office is in Boston. When he was only 11 he went as FEMALE PROGRESS IN IRELAND Advancement in Suffrage and Good Work Done. Baltimore American: In 1888 the women of Ireland obtained every form for poor law guardians, a responsible for suffrage, and were made eligible for the county and borough councils and office. The first year 87 women were elected guardians and a number to the councils, several being made chairmen. They have voted in large numbers, and the testimony they gave in local politics is unimpeachable. The Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government association has just held a meeting in the Mansion House, at Dublin, to consider action at the approaching election. They were welcomed by the lord mayor, who spoke of the great improvement which had taken place in the management of the charitable institutions in the short time since women had had a voice in it. He expressed the belief that their presence in parliament might be desirable, and thought the body with which he was connected—the corporation—might be not a little improved in a similar manner, and he hoped that a larger number of women than ever before would be elected to the local boards. A great many prominent women were present, and it was resolved not to rest until women had been placed on every board that dealt with women and children, and women inspectors put into such institution. They resolved also to work without ceasing for the parliamentary franchise. About 100,000 women are qualified to vote under the present law. The Daily Independent and Nation, a leading paper, gave hearty commendation of the action of the meeting, and said: "No person who feels the least interest in the working of the local government act can have failed to perceive that since the administration of the right of women to fill representative positions a great improvement has been effected in nearly every branch of administration. This statement is true." cook on a two-masted schooner belonging to his father, Captain Thomas Crowley, who followed the sea until he was 60 years old. When he was 21 Captain Crowley was master of the three-masted schooner Florence Dean. Then he built a three-master of his own, the Helen S. Caldwell, which was the first of ten schooners, ending for the moment with the Lawson, which he has had a main share in putting into the sea, in 1889 he built in Maine the three-masted schooner that time the largest of her class afloat, the John B. Prescott. A year later he was responsible for the first six-master, the George W. Wells—and now for the biggest schooner ever dreamed of, the first seven-master, the Lawson. But Captain John Crowley is not the only one of his family. The "Crowley Boys," as they are known along the South Shore, are three. The second brother is Captain Arthur L. Crowley, who has been in command of the Wells and is soon to take out the Lawson on Ohio, Philadelphia, and Newport News. The third brother is Captain Elmer, who pretty soon will take out still another Crowley schoner—this time of wood—which is now building on the Maine coast. It is a remarkable family, and when there is another Prince Henry luncheon to successful Americans of accomplishment it is not at all unlikely that they head of it will find himself in a job as a man has done more for the American merchant marine, so far as sailing ships are concerned, than he. The launching of the Lawson meant a god deal sentimentally, too. Massachusetts used to be the typical ship-building state in the Union. But for a generation the industry has practically died out, although there is hardly a boy in the old shipping towns along the shores of Massachusetts Bay who hasn't built a ship. You can build a boat. Yacht building, lingering in Boston harbor, was until a year or so ago about all that was left. So that is what largely interested almost every- Under Full Sail. From a Sketch Mac body at the Lawson's launching—the revival on this coast of shipbuilding on the largest scale. Under the huge shiphouse that towered beside the big hull of the schooner were the frames of the first-class battleships New Jersey and Rhode Island; the officers from the Charleston navy yard watched the launching from the deck of the Mines, and compiled the names of Mines, and Forre River itself lay the torpedo boat destroyers Lawrence and Macdonough, ready for their trial trips. For a first launching at a Massachusetts yard only two years old nothing could have been more appropriate than this great schooner. The first schooner in the world was built not many miles away, the Gloucester, almost 200 years ago; and the Gloucester fishing schooners are today the most distinctive portion of the Massachusetts sailing fleet, if one accepts the wailing whaling industry. Next Bedford, every two-master was named. As she sld into the water, a bystander called out: "There she schooners!" and the owner, wondering what to call her, answered, "A schooner let her be." There was a little craft in Boston harbor a couple of months ago which practically was the same in build and size, in all likelihood, as that first Gloucester experiment. She was the Polly, the most historic American merchant boat afloat in the North Atlantic. The Polly was launched at Amesbury, on the Merriam river in this state—especially with regard to the administration of the poor laws, for which women have a natural aptitude, and in which the sphere of congenial work is very large. We do not exaggerate when we say that the duties of poor law guardians have never, as a whole, been more efficiently discharged than they have during the recent years—a state of things due entirely to the fact that a conscientious part of the guardians are ladies, who are animated by a desire at once to assume the hard lot of the poor, and to perform a meritorious public service. "Every board in the country should have its quota of women guardians, whose business it would be in an especial manner. We have been writing every personess of their own sex and of the children, who in the past have been so badly neglected." The Reminiscent Sinner With every indication of nervousness Satan continued turning on the heat in furnace No. 2,867 until he had the blast running to its full limit. From the inside came the muffled tones of the victim: "Yes, this is kind of warm, but you'd ought to have been with me at New Orleans one day last July. Why they fried eggs on the sidewalk and before the barkeeper could get the cracked ice into your jacket, was dissolved into steam. And, then one day in August, I went out to San Antonio and saw a fellow's straw hat burst into flames right on his head——" Here Satan moved away, mopping his forehead and muttering: "It's no wonder he came here. But his blamed reminiscences are going to spoil the reputation of my establishment"Baltimore American. Miss Friedlander, of the United Hebrew Charities, and Miss Hitchcock, of the Nurses' Settlement, in New York, say that one of the greatest needs among philanthropic work in their own and all crowded cities is at present the establishment of diet kitchens to furnish nourishing food for the sick poor in their homes. where building buggies has replaced building schooners—about 1805, and was used as a privateer in the war of 1812. Her log during the early part of her career is still in existence, being owned in Machias, Me., and her story is good to read. For example, under command of Captain Judentuh Upton of Salem, she was captured by the British ship Phoebe of 40 guns, and her captain and crew taken to England and held as prisoners for seven months; but the Polly herself did not go to England—her British prize crew declared for the long republic and carried her triumph, and she became an American flag. Her Polly's last fight was with the merchantman, said to be heavily armed, half way between Mount Desert and the Duck Islands, off the coast of Maine. This time she was successful, and brought the merchantman into port. The Polly, with her crew of two men, is to be seen constantly in New England harbors still, from here to Castine—useful still, although she is as stubby as a ferry boat and hardly larger than the gasoline launch which hangs from the Lawson's stern davits. Though she may look battered and dingy she is still as sound as a nut. It took nearly a century and a half for the schooner to become a three-master. The first three-masted schooner was the Zachary Taylor, which was built at Philadelphia in 1849. She carried something less than one twentieth the cargo capacity of the Lawson. The second three-master was built the same year at Wilmington in Delaware. Seventeen years later a Bath shipyard turned out the first four-master—four-master, however, by accident, since the fourth mast was an afterthought when it appeared that she would be rather unwieldy with no more than three. It was as late as 1882 that the schooner rose to more than one thousand tons, registered to Elliott B. Church, 1137 tons, was built in Maine with four masts. The year 1884 saw the schooner's registered tonnage rise to 1,300 tons; 1887, to 1,600 tons; 1897, 2,000 tons; 1900. le From Her Sail Plan. 3,000 tons; and last week to 5,600. The first five-master was the Governor Ames, in 1888; the six-masted Wells, in 1890; the her rival, the Portex, was built, in 1900. These are bare statistics, but if they are any indication of the future there is no telling when the schooner will stop, except, as has been mentioned before, that her size must always be governed, if by nothing else, by the depth of the coastwise harbors which she wishes to enter. Probably the Wells and Percy are the last very large wooden schooners. The special advantages of steel are numerous. The cost is perhaps a third more over wood, but in an economy of repairs, and especially in an economy of repair, and especially in favor of steel. The big six-mastery for example, had to be braced from stem to stern by an enormous backbone or keelson of wood, which took up valuable cargo room. Even then in a stiff sea one could stand at one end of them and see them give under the strain of the wind and water. It is probable that owners like Capt. Crownley will use steel more and more here. One reason, perhaps, for their not having employed it before is that steel shipyards in New England, where they are comparatively a new institution; but in Maine and Connecticut and especially here at Fore river this difficulty has now been overcome by the establishment, on the most modern principles, of exclusively steel yards. A New Phase. Apropos of the declaration of President Jordan of Stanford university in defense of "co-educational marriages," does not co-education lead to marriage? Certainly it may, and fortunately so. No better marriages can be made than those founded on common interests and intellectual friendships. It is part of the legitimate function of higher education to prepare men as men, for men, and successful lives. It is stated that a reporter of the San Francisco Call proceeded to investigate the number of matches made at the Stanford university, and found that the young people followed the illustrious example set by their faculty. President Jordan was a Cornell student, and professor Miller first met his wife at the University of Michigan. Professors Smith and Barnes each married a Stanford university woman, and there are others. The writer in the Call enumerates about twenty-five marriages contracted between Stanford young men and women. These collegians have set up their homes in the West and East. One couple is living in Boston, and another in the Boxer siege in China. Two homes have been bereft by death; in one the wife was taken, in the other the husband. In winding up the story of these Stanford marriages we Call says: But the said stories are very, very few, and the happy ones are very, very many. Does co-education lead to marriage? "Certainly it may," replies Doctor Jordan, "and fortunately so." And, indulging from the Stanford matches Doctor Jordan is entirely right. Egyptian cotton is being introduced in Texas, and promises to revolutionize the cotton industry of the South. It is much more desirable than the cotton raised in the United States now, and is even better than the sea island cotton. The Egyptian cotton has much longer than other cottons and its seed can be removed so easily that it is not necessary to cut up the cotton in ginning it. ....BY ..... American Citizen Publishing and Printing Co. 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Indiana has usually claimed the honor of furnishing candidates for this place, but after the resignation of a man named Rogers of Shoales, the Indiana senators notified the President that they were through with it. They had constituents who were willing to take chances, but the senators were not prepared to promise that these veenures individuales would stay more than a month. Before Rogers took the place it was held for nearly a year by "Bob" Mansfield, at one time private secretary to Senator Beveridge and now consul at Valparaiso. Mansfield came back, according to Indiana descriptions, "as tibn as a toothpick and as yellow as June butter." He said he had stuck it out as long as the insurance company would let him and that he returned to save his premiums. Before Mansfield, there was an Indianian named Billheimer, described as a husky Hoosier, with a large nose and frame pickled in maleria. He was cured of diplomatic ambition in about two months, and has never asked for a place since Before Billheimer, Judge Riley of Virginia served; he remained as long as his aversion to the negroes would permit. Finally, he is said to have taken a gun and emptied a load of fine birdshot into the dusky natives who persisted in taking a daily bath in front of the American consulate which, the Judge "allowed," was an indignity to be resented by this government's representative. HE LIKES FRIED POTATOES. Grand Duke Alexis Has a Favorite Dish. So They Say. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia is very fond of fried potatoes, and during his recent visit to Paris he was wont to buy a few every day from a woman in the street and to cat them beside her stall. The woman did not know him, but as he paid her in princely fashion, she was very anxious to find out who he was. "I can tell you who he is," said a neighbor one day. "He is Grand Duke Alexis, uncle of the czar and one of the greatest men in Russia." Utterly amazed, the woman asked: "In heaven's name, how should I address him?" "Oh, call him 'Your Excellency,' or 'Your Royal Highness,' was the answer. The woman resolved to do so, and the next day, as she was sprinkling some salt over the smoking potatoes which the grand duke had bought, she said: "I can recommend them to your royal highness, for I know your excellency has never tasted better potatoes." The grand duke burst out laughing, and paid more for the potatoes than he had ever paid before, but he was annoyed at finding himself recognized and never returned to buy another potato. Girard Was Considerate. One of the sea captains in the employ of Stephen Glirard had a rural Yankee's fondness for whittling with his jackknife, and on one trip succeeded in getting away with a large part of the rail, although, feeling that he was not without the artistic sense, he really regarded the rail as greatly improved in appearance. When the vessel came to Philadelphia Glirard went aboard, made a general inspection in the captain's absence, and, as he was about to return to shore, asked one of the seamen who had been cutting the rail. The seaman told him the captain, and then, afraid his telling might have unpleasant consequences were the captain to learn of it in a roundabout way, informed that official of the interview with Glirard. The captain was in terror of a reprimand, but, hearing nothing from his employer, supposed the incident closed. As he was about weighing anchor ready to leave port, a dray loaded with shingles drove down to the wharf, and the driver hailed the vessel. "There must be some mistake! shouted the captain, "Our bill of lading doesn't mention shingles!" "This is where they belong!" sung back the driver. "Mr. Girard, himself, told me to deliver them! He said they're for the captain to whittle!" Gillette a Real Sherlock Holmes. William Gillette, whose impersonation of Sherlock Holmes has become so famous, has acquired much of the running of the character he portrays, and on being interviewed by the newspaper reporters extracts from them all they know without himself imparting any information. On his return from Europe the other day all the Boston scribes sought to learn of his future plans, but were obliged to abandon the effort. Lusorone 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 Knoty, Nappy, Kinky, Curl Hair. It acts quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten the hair by settling the hair. It does not have to wait weeks for the results. It is not 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 for hair loss. Lustorone sprays as as dandruff, Teizer, Itch, Eczema, &c. 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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 Slam, 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 idoocy are now eiting 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. Birthday of a Nation The new Australian federal government is appointing a Commonwealth Day on the lines of the American Independence Day. It is now engaged in weighing the claims of July 1, when Queen Victoria assented to the constitution; September 30, the date of the proclamation; January 1, the inauguration of the Commonwealth, and May 9, the date of the Duke of Cornwall's opening of the first federal parliament. The January date is the one most favored. Holland and Its Colonies The hold that Holland has on its Bast Indian colonies is rather precarious. 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 Thenen 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 Eucla 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 Birds' 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 Lanciaana has just received the greatest prize a literary man can hope for in Italy. 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Executer of the last will and testament of Ellen Buchanan, deceased. Dated May 16 1902. 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. 1302. 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. WANTED—AN IDEA We can think thing to eat? 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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 put 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 SAVES CLOTHES, SAVES TIME, SAVES HANDS. WRAPPERS, IS GIVEN. For 300 premiums that may be secured free upon request. Send your name to the catalogue. 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