The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country et The Passing Generation of Negroes Teach the Coming Generation Good Citizenship and the Value of a Dollar then the olving of the Race Problem will be Assured. As They Are Looked Upon By The Elimination Of White People On This City. An important distinction which should be kept in mind in the treatment of a fairly important question is that exist between the negro and the "nigger". The application of the word "nigger" to the black man, without qualification, is termed justice. It is not always associated with the intention of harm and dismeals, but it is a habit whose cessation would certainly add dignity to those who only practice it. good to his family and shows muchalty and devotion to those whom he be called upon to serve. He fills a of useful place in the community. are certain relations in which he plays a degree of fidelity which white men would yield. It has a respect for appearance and takes in looking and behaving well. He sessed of a sense of comfort which It would be difficult to find more deprater centralized in one personality than implied in it term "mean nigger." Itifies idleness, brutality, drunkenness, a complete disregard for all the deities of society and a tendency to vice vagrancy which is a perpetual desire to public order. The "mean nigger" subrogates on the street corners and besmatters the sidewalks with tobacco jice. He indulges in loud profanity and obscene language. He make himself faithful nuisance in the street seats by stealing seats which he ought to give to women. He infests low and disreputable cars, where he fit himself for the depration which he commits. He is usually given to beating women and is inviabable a thief and a robber. He is a dangerous and offensive person and a great curse to the community. The new hero on the other hand is a good healer. He request the laws and is gladly manable to rightful authority. He is as anchal an America as can be found in length and breath of the land. He is Tales of Two Cities Goto H. P. Stines Shaving parlor 349 inn ave. for First class work. The Metropolitan Street Railway Fran- seis has been granted by the present democratic council and Mayor. It serves a period of twenty years. It is right and received our endorsement with many other fair minded citi- nes. M. C. D. Dau of 381 Freeman ave., improving after a few d ys illness. Remember our Job department when you have Bills, tickets, letter heads and activities. At the annual meeting of the members of the M. A. O. association last Friday right the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: R. C. Clark, president; Wm. Gamble, treasurer; H. G. Dwiggins, financial and general secretary; W. A. Butler, manager; R. Berry, assistant secretary. Directors: S. Lee, H. F. Johns. n, Ed Smith, Gao, A. Dudley, R. Saunders. Mr. James Ingram of Kansas City, Ks., and Miss Lillie Coleman of Roseville, Ks., recently from Kansas City, Ks., was married Thursday Dec. 18, at the home of the bride. Rev. D. B. Jackson pastor of the Rosehill Baptist church was called upon to unite them in holy matrimony. Rev. Jackson believing in punctuality so much that he was there on a very short notice, waiting for the grooms arrival. After the ceremony the table of refreshments was served in abundance, to the many friends there. Among the guest from Kansas City, Ks., were Mrs. Sibbie Anderson, Miss Birdie Anderson, Mr. Edgar Anderson, recently from St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Laura Garnton and Mr. Lee. Mr. a Mrs. Ingram will reside at 727 Walker ave. Mr. F. L. Martin and S. G. Toole, of Lawrence, Kas, made our office a pleasant call this week. P. C. Thomas, National Secy. of the Knights a Ladies of Protection visited our office a City. The work of securing members for this worthy Society will begin at once, every Person interested in the advancement should become members of this Society, being organized under the laws of Kansas. Mr. H. G. Porter of 566 Troost ave. is a dealer in coal and is one of those through going race men who deserves the patronage of the public. He is a man of much business tact and highly respected. Such man are solving the race problem. Mr. Wills Smith of Taylorville, Ill. is in the City the guest of his brother Deputy County attorney B. S. Smith. Mr. Smith is a very prooperative farmer quite well fitted with a considerable of this worldis good. Miss R. Thompson of 745 Neb. Ave. is making quit a hit with her shoe string novelies shopping nbg bags and so forth, giver her a call. "You have to hurry if you want to see George" is a slang phrase but it can be aptly applied to the new street ear rules as it has been given out that you hurry in getting on and off—you may wait for the next car. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. good to his family and shows much royalty and devotion to those whom he may be called upon to serve. He fills a variety of useful place in the community. There are certain relations in which he displays a degree of fidelity which few white men would yield. It has a proper respect for appearance and takes pride in looking and behaving well. He is possessed of a sense of comfort which renders him a good home maker and a good family man. But the negro is responsible to a regrettable degree for the "nigger". There is too much of a disposition among decent black men to shield the bad representatives of their race. The public officers continually complain of this tendancy, and they testify that it increases the difficulty of enforcing the law. This feeling of sympathy is probably a natural heritage of the days when the negroes were generally persecuted and oppressed but there is no necessity for it now. The negro in Kansas City and everywhere else owes it to himself to cast out the vagabonds and criminals of his own color who bring reproach upon him, and who keep alive the prejudice against the race. The adoption of this policy would do more than avowing else in the world to improve the condition and to advance the fortunes of the Afro-American, who are factors to be reckoned with in all questions pertaining to the destinies of the Nation. HOPE. When we have Fred Douglas as a statesman, Johnston as a historian, W. E. B. Dubois as a sociologist, Booker T. Washington, as an educator, Dr. Dr. Williams as a physician, Dunbar as a poet, Henry Tanner as an artist and Coleridge Tanner as a musical composer, it is folly for us to sit down hopelessly brooding over the difficulties that surround us. Let us arise in our might and overcome the difficulties and prove ourselves men as others have done-Ex. Is the exact condition we find many and we might say the majorin of the young Negroes of to day with the golden opportunities to become master of their awful condition they are to be found by thousand drifting uncondenely with the tide. It may be said that there are a good many old Negroes too, that are drifting—They hauwn't anything. Don't want anything and don't want to see any body else to have anythings. The highest aspiration of many negroes who have seen younger days is to have some kind of a tumble down shack, called home, and a little "gurb" It is no wonder white people say so "Negroes are the happiest people on earth" We must quit dwifting and interest ourseuels in the affairs of the world or fall by the wayside, in the struggle of life- JONES & MARTIN: Among hustling negro enterprises desirving of a consideration from the public, is the successful grocery establishment of Jones and Martin, cor. 41 and Oakland ave. When we take into consideration the innumerable odastate negroes who engage in business must surmount if they win certainly when one can singled out as a success -commendation should be uninterested. Perseverance economy and that hustling determination to succeed has counted much in bringing the firm of Jones & Martin to the front. J. W. Jones the Senior member of the firm is a well known gentleman prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity and a wide awake, up and doing citizen. Martin the Junior member is a young man highly esteemed and possesses much business tact and ability. We quote a few of their prices on goods below and trust our readers to a very large extent will fuo it to their advantage to give them their patronage. Three Pkg. Atlas Oats ..... 20ots Montuck Coffee per lbs ..... 20. Good Navy Beans 7 lbs ..... 25. Sir Loin Stake per lbs ..... 12½. Chuck Stake per lbs ..... 7½. Dried Peaches per lbs ..... 8. Appricots per lbs ..... 10. Best Flour Star Brand per cwt. ..... $25 24 pound of Best Granulated sugar on order of $30 for $1.00 ON THE TRACKS The following it is said are on the mayoralty track waiting for the sound of the gong. Nat Barnes, Tom Glibert, Orrin W. Shepard—all carry Republican colors. a belief in witchcraft still prevails in parts of Lancashire, also in the inate of Man, and still more strongly in the Hebrides. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING. Happiness. What a grand human emotion is Happiness After all, what is there to equal it? After all what is there of property or possession to match it? What human crime is greater than that which turns pure innocent joy into bitter sorrow? What human benefaction is greater than that which turns sorrow and bitter suffering into joy and happiness? I look into the big brown eyes of my trustful, loyal dog. I see there a deep, serene contentment, a shining joy. Instantly the clouds of care roll away and I find, for a few fleeting moments, my very life suffused with a halo of happiness. I speak to him in tones of tenderness that rises unbidden in a heart full of kindly emotion. Why? I know not. a lone in Kansas City and a dying, a short time before the end the door told him to make disposition of his property, which was considerable, as he had not long to live. He said "No one on earth cares for me. I care nothing for anyone." Next morning he was found dead in his room. A few days prior to this he told a man this simple story: He owned a ranch out West. By his cabin there ran a noisy mountain stream; small, sweet, pure, in eternal motion. It broke into a tiny cascade near his cabin and sang its sweet song day and night. He said it worried him to think it had nothing in this wilderness to sing its song to, so he found some beautiful white stones, broke them up and put them at the foot of the little carcade so that this mountains stream would have something to sing to through all the centuries. He said when he had done that he felt happy and he thought the singing stream sang a happier song. Poor outcast! This tender story of his touch into poetical tenderness at least one soul that honors the big poetic heart of him who died without sympathizing friends to smooth his cheerless way to the Great Beyone. Ah! This stenious life! How much of cruel needs pain does it cappenders, and all to what purpose? Simply to be measured high and mighty by the man himself ply to stand in imposing grandeur for a fleescing moment in the public gaze, then to be snuffed out as the butterfly about the candle—and then what? Every moment of joy, every hour of pure happiness is a gain which no power under the blue heavens or among men can rob its possession. Every moment of pain, every hour of sorrow is just so much lost life. No power in this universe can give back these moments, obliterate their sufferings and fill their places with happiness. Then, as we go through if we in our various pathways of stern duty, may we not become a generous gift to humanity if we strive in all the places our presence may be called to scatter the sunshine of pure happiness? No more auspicious time comes in the cycles of the rolling years in which to scatter sunshine and the joy than in this generation of Christmas gift-giving. The above article was taken from a page ad vertistern of Jones Dry Goods Co., published in the Kansas City Star, Dec. 7, 1902. This article we are told cost $25.00 for space occupied. This is said to be the only store in this country that uses its expensive advertising space to educate people in higher moral thinking and nobler living. THE ARMOUR PLANT One of the great West's gigantic establishments is to be seen in the Armour Packing Company of Kansas City, U.S. A., when we can conceive a floor space covering 90 acres then a fair conception of the mammoth production of such a wonderful establishment can be obtained when it is known that over 5,000 men boys and women find employment beneath its roof, it is then that the real good, such mammoth institutions do. It is remarkable how everything is brought to perfection these 5,000 human beings are managed like a big family-skilled labor is used in all departments. The products of the Armour Packing Co. are sold around the world. The marvelous rapidity with which cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry are converted into food, is a wonder to all who visit this establishment. It is one of the sights to be seen in a visit to the west. Among the honored old veterans of the Civil war holding office at the hands of the public none are more highly esteemed than Judge M. H. Donoho, who is now filling out his second term as Judge of the North Side City Court. His action in every particular have been in keeping with the painstaking and exacting gentleman that he is. There hinges much on the decision of a judge. He must therefore be a cool, steady and decided man. Judge Donoho is this and more. He has won the highest respect from the public and has eminently won it, by his every action. There should be a certain amount of consideration given public officials who endeavor to, and do their whole duty toward their constituents. Judge Donoho has saved the county much needless expense, and satisfaction has been heard from all sources. IN GERMANY Miss Ollie (Burgoyne) Martin, formerly of this city and last seen in this city with Williams & Walker company in 1899, sends best regards from Berlin, Germany to her many friends. Mrs. Alice Houston of the Sea Foam block contemplates a trip to St. Louis soon. Mrs. Jno. Bibb of 626 Cherry St. does first class work in Hair swiches, Wigs and etc. Hair dressing a speciality. give her a call. A HUSBANDS WORKS The husband as he works he may not spend an hour or a half a day writing a letter to tell you that you are everything but from work he occasionally looks up and smiles and think of you that in fact is his chief inspiration he wonders what you are doing, he is proud of you though being rescuiced he never notices your new dress, he does not say much when he comes into the house, nor when he goes out but you actually say more to him than in the old days. If he had lost in those days why he would probably have recovered although declaring he should die. While now if you were taken away it would be a death wound although he might never utter a cry if the years sobers his affection they also deepens it. Does the summer or autumn find fault because it is not the spring, no never. Do not talk to other women about your husband unless it be to praise him and don't over do this, for over praise is sometimes an evidence of ditsatisfaction the kind of stockings he wears or his favorite dishes or his unwise treatment of the children related in the ears of a neighbor, borders on the gossip that edifice, nor the truth itself is not believed from one who often have deceived. FIRST ANNUAL PARTY The Twentieth Century Social Club gave their first annual party Tuesday eve. Dec. 30. at M. & O. Hall, it was attended by the following guest: Messrs: D. Jackson, H. White, Dennis, G. Brown, J. Mackace, W. McManaway, R. Gaskin, E. Lee, Mack, Johns, H. Holloston, A. Hinton, Shaw, J. Taylor, Wilson, J. Macey, O. Graves G. H. McPike, Smith, B. P. Jones, J. Cole, Martin, Allen, J. Harrison, E. Robinson, H. Green, E. Henderson, G. Graves, G. Minor, Weaves, Holdman, Smith, Wartin, B. J. Jennings, R Gaskin, L. Brown, Porter, Escards, J. Gerian J. Harrison, and W. Garrian. Misses: R. Harrison, M. Cole, Harris, L. Lewis, H. Packer, H. Brown, Lewis M. Gaskin, Hunter, of Omaha, S. Harris, Wilson, L. Suel, C. Miller, Henderson, L. Davis, L. Graves, A. Jennings, A. Taylor, K. Atkins, L. McFee, T. Jennings, F. Jennings, M. Gerrian, E. Washington, I. Scott, V. Gerrian, A. Scott, L. Gerrian, E. Miller, S. Miller, E. T. Tribute and M. Barnes. Mrs. Mary Tribute Allen of Omaha. Mrs. Ella Tribute Stams of Omaha. Mrs. Poenix, Mrs. Randolph, M. Minor Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown, Mr. & Mrs J. B. Lewis. The hall was decorated with natural colors and Prof. Roiston furnished music for the eye. A short programme was rendered. Inst. Solo..... Prof. H. Roiston Vocal Solo..... Mr. Martin. Paper..... Miss M. Gerrian. Inst. Solo..... Miss M. B. Tillery. Reading..... Miss E. F. Tribute Vocal Solo..... Miss I. Scott. The remaining hours of the eve were spirit in music and games. Miss Susie Thompson and Mr. Chas. Carney were united in marriage on Xmas eve at noon. Rev. B. C, Duke officiating, only a few friends of the family were present, they will make their home in Denver Colo. after the holidays. Mr. Sylvester M. Bank was the guest of Mr and Mrs. A. Jordan and family. Mr. Jeff Kinn, Mr Cain and Mr Edgar Williamson of Springfield Mo. were among the many visitors in our city during the holidays. Miss Lela Dillion of Sedelia Mo. was the guest of Miss Lula Harris this week. Miss Mayme Dillard of Lawrence is visiting Mr and Mrs J. H. Guy this week. Dr and Mrs. Snelson will celebrate their 12th anniversary Jan. 8th 1903. Mrs Dora Etherdy entertained at Dinner Sunday in honor of Mrs. Ewing of Kansas City. Several clubs of ladies will receive New Years day. The Knight Tempar will give a Grand Drill at Metropolitan Hall Jan. 1st. Mr. Abe Rutherford of State avenue is slowly improving. Tilford Davis, Jr., one of our letter carriers is ill at the home of his father-in-law, Mr. Wm. Price 706 Oakland. Mrs. Lula Johnson of N. 3rd. St., is quite ill. Mr. Burgers Jackson, of 6th St., who has been quite ill for several weeks is im proving. Theodore Quentin, a member of the Philadelphia reserve police, lately wrote to President Roosevelt asking why he gave his youngest son the unusual name of Quentin. The president answered that "the name Quentin is with us an old family name, coming from a French Hugenot refugee who same to this country over two centuries ago." The Bowdin College water turtle is lead, after four years' imprisonment, luring which time he ate nothing. This is vouchered for by Professor Lee, who had charge of the turtle. QUEER MARRIAGE PROPOSALS. Men Declare their Love Under Strange and Strenuous Conditions. The most unique proposal on record is probably that of a young Englishman to a girl somewhat above him on the same scale. Last summer the two accidentally came together at the same seaside boarding-house. They had previously met as friends, but the young fellow had never presumed upon a closer acquaintanceship. One day, while at the boarding-house, she asked him to join a party who were going for a day's yachting excursion, and he, of course, readily consented. while the merriment was at its height the accidently fell into the sea. Immediately perceiving what had happened, her admirer sprang overboard and was successful in reaching her and keeping her afloat. He was an indifferent swimmer, however, and as the night was very dark, both were in danger of drowning before the yacht's boat could reach them. This was evidently what the young fellow feared, and being apparently determined that the girl should, in any case, his affection for her, he, in spite of the strangeness of their position, quickly declared his passion. The girl, however, was exhausted and frightened, made no reply, much to the disappointment of the young fellow, who concluded that she was unconscious. Ultimately the two were picked up by the boat and brought safely on board the yacht again, and the party reached home without any further mishap. Next day the girl took the first opportunity of thanking the young fellow in private for saving her life, and judge of his great surprise when she slyly remarked that his proposal at sea was somewhat mal apropos. Needless to say the young fellow took fresh food from him and did no hesitate to propose to the orthodox manner, this time receiving a favorable reply. Not so happy an ending is attached to the story of a proposal made under somewhat similar conditions to the above by a young German, who was a passenger on the ill-fated Elbe, wrecked off Lowestoft in 1895. While on board he conceived a great affection for a certain young lady, but hesitated to take the chance the crash came he succeeded in getting a life-buoy for the girl, and by its aid managed to keep her afloat after the ship had foundered. Although it was an extraordinary place and time for him to declare his affection, the young fellow, doubtless with his mind on future possibilities, proposed while both were struggling in the sea, and to his great delight learned that his love was returned. But he was not shortly afterward the rough sea separated them, and although he himself was picked up by a boat, he never saw his sweetheart again. It would require more than an average amount of nerve and coolness on the part of any man to propose to a girl when both were in danger of being burnt to death. A particular feature, however, regarding a fireman's wedded life, was that he proposed a short time ago, was the fact that he proposed to his bride while trying to rescue her from a burning house. The fire occurred during the night at a country residence at which the young lady was employed as housemaid. At the commencement of the confaguration no one noticed that she was missing. But when the house was well ablaze the girl suddenly appeared at one of the top windows, having been aroused from her sleep by the smoke. The loot lightning illuminated, providing a firebase, her death seemed almost certain. But her fireman lover quickly darted into the house and at great risk managed to reach her room. But as he did so the stairs behind him collapsed and cut off their only apparent means of escape. Doubtless it was the hopelessness of their position and the fear that his love would never be known which led the fireman to propose there and then, an thus surrounded by flames and smoke, the two plighted with Fortunately been found at some neighboring works, and after moments of great excitement the two were rescued just in the nick of time. The rarity of prison proposals makes the following instance of Cupid's strange doing particularly interesting. A short time ago a clever and notorious French swindler named Gorland was sentenced in Paris to a long term of imprisonment. While his trial was still proceeding Borand applied for permission to marry his friend and accomplice, Berthe Daguneau, if she would accept him for a husband. The magistrate thereupon sent for the young woman and her grandfather's proposal before her. She then confessed that she loved him, and that it would be the happiest day in her life if Grandmother would marry her. The result of this unique proposal was that the two were married at the local mayor's office with four policemen as witnesses. A French aeronaut some time ago brought himself into unenviable prominence by taking a girl up in a balloon in order to propose marriage to her. She had often expressed a wish to make a balloon ascent, and accordingly he had little difficulty in persuading her to make a trip with him. Taking advantage of the opportunity thus afforded him, the aeronaut, after reaching a certain height, declared his affection in passionate terms, adding that her refusal to his suit would cause him to commit suicide by throwing himself out of the balloon car. Greatly terrified, the girl accepted his proposal—New York World. Benjamin Kidd, the economist, who has just made a tour of the new British South Africa, says he believes the country to be richer than the United States west of the Mississippi and believes that its future is assured. President Díaz of Mexico, known as the "grand old man" of that country, will retire from office in 2015 and be succeeded by Jose Limantour, now foreign minister of Mexico. YOUR OPPORTUNITY. "There is a tide in the affairs of men taen at the flood that leads on to fortune." Wm. Newton the old reliable New and Second Hand dealer is selling out at COST. Bargains you never heard of before are being offered on the best line of goods in the city, Beds, Matting, Carpets, Stoves, oil-cloth and all inds of Good Furniture. It is up to you, If you want anything in his line, Goods must be sold. He is quitting the business. Just follow the crowd. First come, First served. 433 MINNESOTA AVE Remember this is your opportunity for good bargains everything in the store will be sold at cost & less. SLAVERY IN A CAPSULE The selling of Negroes in Kentucky when found guilty of vagrancy is a practice susceptible to many abuses and lacking in a single element of good policy. It offers to an unscrupulous constabulary a vast field for the wreaking of private vengeance against individuals who may have offended them. We cannot tell how far the thing may go. If the Negro Fisher Milton can be sold in Shelbyville, Ky., at public auction for the period of twelve months, hundreds can be subjected to the same treatment upon the filmiest of evidence in outlying communities where the arm of the law is weak. It is a queer anomaly that his services should be purchased by a colored man. Mr. Murphy may get his $20.00 worth of work out of Fisher, but at the close neither will be better men for the relation thus sustained. The thing savors too strongly of the villainous convict lease system that is a steach in the nostrils of all Georgia to be palatable so near the Ohio river. The law should be abolished at once. It is slavery in a capsule.—Ex. The Frotful Baby in an Omaibus A correspondent of the London Pall M I Gazette vouchers for this incidents. A young woman with a fretful baby in a full omnibus (aloud). "Poor little aloor. I suppose I shall end by 'aving to take 'im to the 'oepal." (Raising the child's veil and looking around for sympathy.) "Don't get no rest. 'E is sufferer' in with smallpox." Woman Sells Her Teeth. A Chandler (O. T.) paper says that a Kansas City woman visiting in Chandler noticed the fine teeth possessed by one of the local belles. She offered the belle $100 for two of the teeth, besides all her expenses in coming to Kansas City to have them extracted, and it is understood that the offer was accepted. Teva for Poor Children The prefect of the Seine distributed 25,000 francs (85,000) 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 commandes of about 200 men such were still in the field, or in all 16,000 to 18,000 men. Ullegal Taxes in Malta The business of the council of government of Malta is not transacted by the vice president and six official members, the thirteen elected representatives having withdrawn as a protest against a legalized taxes. Good Hater This phrase was "just 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 Hithe-to blackwater fever, the terrible scourge of central Africa, has been without 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 suspended. Perfume for Roman Wine 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. JANUARY 2 1:0 the Country Problem will be Assured. ORTUNITY. Fairs of men taen at the flood in Newton the old reliable New ling out at COST. Bargains being offered on the best line titting, Carpets, Stoves, oil-cloth are. Not anything in his line, quitting the business. First come, First served. SOTA AVE opportunity for good bargains I be sold at cost & less. HARD PLACE It seems from various press reports that Dr. Crossland of St. Joe, Mo. our newly appointed Minister to Liberia, is involved in much trouble. The words of Hon. C. H. J. Taylor, formerly editor of this paper and ex-minister to Liberia are again brought to mind. He claimed that Liberia was the last place on the globe—we rather believe that Dr. Crossland will hink like wise ere long. Publication Notice In the District county of Wyandotte county Kansas. Lucy Hill. Plantifit. vs. Amanda Hill. Defendant. To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the manok court by the above named plantifit and that unless you appear and answer or on billed the 21st day of Feb. 1902, the petition billed you will taken as true and a judgement reduced the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plantifit and defendant and for cost of this suit. I.F. Bradley, atty for Plaintiff. Publication Notice Ida Lafferty. plaintiff. Johann Lartery. defendant. To the plaintiff named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named case, the above named plaintiff, and than unless you swer on or before the 21st day of Feb. 1983, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from said defendant and warding to be, her maiden name Ida Patterson, and for cost of this suit Miss Lucy Whitniiag of Denver Colo. is visitor at her mothers home in the Sea Foam block. Mr. Edward Davis of 727 Freeman ave, has gone to Pueblo Colo. It has been reported that the dead body of Letter Kennedy well known in this city has been found at Seattle Wash. where he misteriously disappeared supposedly having been fouled delt with Kennedy was a Pullman Car porter. Mr. Burgess Jackson of N. 6th St. is very seriously ill with pneumina. Mr. A. R. Rutherford of State ave- is seriously ill. Mrs. Nancy Adams Brown of Chicago is expected the City to-morrow. The entertainment of the A. M. E. Church Xmas evening at the M. and O. Hall was a success in every particular. Mr. Edward Morris, colored, of Chicago, has been elected to the Illinois Legislature a majority of 15,000. HAVE ANIMALS REASON? Experiments with a Poodle—He Was Taught to Read. "Have animals reason?" was one of the questions raised by Lord Averbury in an interesting address given recently at the London institution, and certainly it seems hard to deny the intelligent poole, Dan, with whom Lord Averbury experimented, some glimmerings of the faculty which is said to separate men from brutes. Dan was able after a time to distinguish between the number of cards inscribed with such suggestive words as "Food," "Tea," "Water" and when he required anything to bring the right card. Lord Averybury thought it was hardly possible to study closely communities of ants without allowing that they are possessed of reasoning powers in some degree and even of moral feeling. On the other hand, says the London Chronicle, the processional caterpillar appears to be an insect of a very low order of intelligence. Processional caterpillars when out for an expedition weave a thread, by means of which they find their way back, and a small party was lured by an ingenious scientist up a flowerpot and round the top. He then cleared away the ascending thread and for eight days did those caterpillars walk round and round the top of the flowerpot, following the circular thread which remained, until they dropped off from fatigue and exhaustion. ```markdown ``` HOUSE HIGH IN A TREE. Quite the oldest-house in California during the summer and some all the is in Mill Valley, Marin county. It is year round. An hour's ride by train and ferryboot brings them to their built around the trunk of a tree in a business in the city. grove of redwoods. MII Valley is dis- tant from San Francisco, about 20 miles of George Washington Park, the property of the Fraser family, and the residence in the Dauga- n PARROTS THAT EAT SHEEP THE NEW YORK METRO TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION New Zealand has a ferocious kind of parrot that attacks sheep and kills them. It has done so much damage to the sheep-raising industry that councils have beer put upon its head, and consequently the bird is becoming scarce. The bird is only about the size of an ordinary South American parrot. Like all other parrots, it was originally a bird of the jungle, but now it is singing a very cold winter, when no other A Owing to a fight between the Burlington and Northwestern railroad systems for the tremendous freight business of the great Homestake Mines, Lead, S. D., has a tier of railroads the title of which cannot be seen anywhere else in the world. Standing on the surface track is a train on the Burlington line, while immediately above is an Einhörn line train. Across the甜甜的 trail all looms the lofty treble of the Homestake Mining company, connecting its old and new shafts, millis and crushers His Own Parliamentarian The legal voters of the neighborhood were holding a meeting in the school house at Jubilee Corners, and the discussion upon a certain resolution had lasted an hour or more to the great weakness of the school teacher, who had taken no part in the "Mr. Chairman," he said, "with a view to putting an end to what appears to be a useless waste of time in arguing this matter, I move the previous question. Old Squire Peters, who was acting as presiding officer, brought his fist fruit was obtainable, some of the birds found that carcasses of sheep, suspended outside of houses, were good to eat, and that in this way they acquired the ability to be correct or not, it is certain that they pretenz nowadays to anything else. Usually several of them attack a shrew in conceal. With their powerful beaks they are a way at the animal, clinging, meanwhile, to its RAIROADS IN THREE TIERS NORTHWEST across the gulch. A train of ore cars, pulled by a small steam locomotive, is in view, and beyond it one of the compressed air engines which the Home-stake uses can be seen. The Elkhorn, a part of the great Northwestern system, entered Lead over the tracks of the Fort Pierre and a road, a little narrow-gauge line, which connected with the Elkhorn main line at Buffalo Gap while the Burlington came in over its own tracks. The latter road one day stole a march on its competitor and bought the Fort Pierre road, shutting the Elkhorn out of the city. down, in lieu of a gravel, on the desk before him. "The chair decides," he said, "that there aren't no previous question. Talk all you want to, gentlemen."—Chicago Triune. The Chith Times relates an extraordinary case of Chinese "justice." A Mr. Jen was betrothed last year to Miss Han, and paid his money to the woman's parents. A month ago he called on the parents to have the contract fulfilled, and was told that the promised one was the bride of another. Having paid his money, he considered he was entitled to the girl, and went to her lake, having lived for several years in Japan. In Mill Valley are found groves of the Sequoia sempervirens, or redwood, which grows only in California. The second growth, the giants of primeval time having been cut down for timber, THE FIGHTING FIGHTING FIGHTING wool, until they have pecked a hole through which they can devour the kidneys, of which they are particularly fond. Then they fly away, sorged, and the poor beast, of course, soon dies. The rare shell in existence is one called the "Cone of the Holy Mary." There is a specimen in the British Museum which a few years ago was valued at $5,000. THE STREET CITY OF NEW YORK It was eight impossible to build another line into Lead, since the only two gulches through which a train could pass were owned by the Burlington. But a corps of Northwestern surveyors were put to work, and the result of their labors was that the Elkhorn constructed a line from Deadwood, which swaps around in majestic curves and easy grids until it is right on top of the mountain and passes through a cut, the sides of which are worth hundreds of dollars per carload; in fact, passes right through part of the great Homestate mine. husband's house to carry her off, but she was not at home. He then laid his case before the magistrate. The girl was arrested, and sentenced to be "kua-ed," the magistrate arguing, "If you are so wicked at 20 years of age at the age of 80 you will be a menace to the Celestial empire." The process of kung-ing is very similar to the ling-chih, or slicing to death punishment. Very Likely "Do you believe that egotism and genius go together?" "Not always. There would be a lot more genius if they did."—Chicago Record-Herald. KANSAS NEWS BRIEFs. During the year Labette county had $94 marriages and 1,000 births. Ira C. Deavor, of Robinson, has been appointed teacher at Pine Ridge Indian school, S. D. "Dick" Sanders, assistant state auditor, will go into the banking business in Arkansas City next month. The salary of the president of the United States is not sufficient to pay the premiums on the life insurance of C. J. Devil, the Kansas coal baron. His total insurance now amounts to $1,400,000. Mrs. Bloomer Quimby of Ness City died on the Santa Fe train as it was reaching the station at Humbolt. Heart disease was the cause of death. She was on her way to visit her parents during the holidays. Ex-State Treasurer Hefflebower owns a half interest in a voting machine invented by a young man at Olathe. The nineteen inmates of the poor house of Atchison county were given a banquet on Christmas at the expense of Atchison citizens. The postoffice at Terrytown, Finney county, has been moved two miles southwest of the present location with Mary H. Carey as postmistress. The merchants of Central Kansas town report a good holiday trade. Farmers have bought liberally and the inmates' inmacells than formerly. The postoffices have done the largest business in their history and much money has been sent away as gifts in $5, $10 and $20 amounts. It may be worth while to call attention to the fact that the awards for the Convention hall guessing contest show 451 Kansas winners out of the total of 1,088. And two of the three capital prizes go to Kansas-$4,500 each. Tas people of Oswego bored for oil or gas. They got neitra, but their work developed an artesian well which flows 200 barrels of sulphur water every day and they are puzzled to know what to do with it. The Grace Reformed Sunday school of Ablene has taken the honors of the nation for attendance on Rally Day. Reports to leading Sunday school papers have been made in order to win a prize. The school tops the list, having had 100 per cent of its 175 members present. Inspector shuffler, of the United States mall service, is in Abilene to look over the town with a prospect of adding a mounted carrier to the free delivery service. The present carrier force is too small to cover the city's full territory and the carrier on horseback will, if secured, serve the remote additions. The State bank of Webber was dynamited Wednesday night and robbed of $1,500 in cash. Thursday being a holiday, the bank was not divorced until late and there is no clue to the robbers. The bank has ample insurance and will lose nothing. It is a new institution, having been started a month ago. The old homestead of A. G. Barrett, at Barrett, was the scene of an extraordinary family gathering last week. About eighty-five of the relatives of the Barrett family ate turkey together. This represents only about half of the family, who now reside in Marshall county. At one time more than 300 of the family lived there, but about 150 went to swell the population of Oklahoma. Mrs. Mary McChesney, who attempted to set fire to the general merchandise store Call Gail Warren at Waldo, Rockaway county, on the night of December 10, has been found insane. The woman dressed in man's clothes and committed the act, but in running through a lot, ran into a clothesline and lost the hat she was wearing, which led to her being suspected as guilty. A Salina detective was put to work and secured evidence which proved the woman's guilt. The poor of Parsons were bountifully cared for Christmas by the Ladies' Missionary Society. Mayor Busby personally contributed fifty turkeys to the society and another generous citizen sent forty packages, each containing a chicken, a good roast of beef and a peck of potatoes. Grocers, bakers and others contributed other things so that every poor person in the city were well fed. Money, fuel and clothing was contributed in unusually generous quantities. It is stated on good authority that Grant G. Gillett, the fugitive Kansas cattle king, who has been in Mexico for more than three years, has gone to New York to perfect a mining deal. Since taking refuge in Mexico Gillett has not recrossed the border into the United States, but has turned his attention to mining. His recent rich strike near Chilliwack has made him a millionaire again and it is now said he has a New York to organize a large mining company, and that he will soon settle in full with those who honored his paper while he was a sattle king. John West of Abilene is dead at the age of 95 years. He had a most eventful life both in England, his native country, and in America. He was a member of the police force at St. James palace when the death of George IV was announced and marched in the grand procession to hear the lord mayor read the proclamation of William IV as king. He was a member of Queen Victoria's bodyguard, but came to America later. He worked on the first railroad in America, the Germantown & Philadelphia, and attended the funeral of the first man killed on an American railway, Horatio Winterbottom, of Oxford, Pa. His memory was remarkably clear until the last. He will be buried in Des Molines, Ia., his former home. "They say she is determined to marry a certain struggling young attorney." "Well, if she has made up her mind to marry him, I guess there is no further use for him to struggle." -Puck. The superintendent of Indian schools reports a marked advance in industrial training during the year. The course of study has been of great assistance in teaching agriculture as a means of support. An instance of this is found in a colony of women in Oklahoma who receive about $400 a month for their work. The mortality in the colored population of the United States is nearly double that of the white population. Native white stock has the advantage of foreign white stock at most ages above infancy. The Danish parliament's so-called "interparliamentary group" intends, through the Danish parliament, to demand that the government, or conventional with foreign powers, should impose a provision that all d'ferences of opinion shall be settled by arbitration at the court at The Haque. It is believed that the minister for foreign affairs, M Deunztter, will accept this proposition. The New Jersey state board of education reports that the cost of running the public schools of the state last year exceeded $3,000,000. 一 一 Ex-State Treasurer Hefflebower owns a half interest in a voting machine invented by a young man at Olathe. The nineteen inmates of the poorhouse of Atchison county were given a banquet on Christmas at the expense of Atchison citizens. The postoffice at Terrytown, Finney county, has been moved two miles southwest of the present location, with Mary H. Carey as postmistress. The merchant of Central Kansas towns report as good holiday trade. Farmers have bought. Liberally and less "gimracks" than formerly. The postoffices have done the largest business in their history and much money has been sent away as gifts in $5, $10 and $20 amounts. Fire recently destroyed a ten-acre apple orchard for Jacob Geiser, a farmer of Leavenworth county. He claimed the fire was caused by a spark from a Santa Fee engine. He filed suit for $1,800 damages and got judgment for $900. The Santa Fee appealed the case to the supreme court. The Kansas papers are discovering the "youngest" old soldier, but Judge O. I. Moore, of the Eighth district, has the best record yet given. He enlisted in Company M, West Virginia cavalry, on March 20, 1864, at the age of 14 years, 4 months and 10 days, and served sixteen months under Phil Sheridan. Representative Adams of Sedgwick county will stand sponsor this winter for a resolution to call a convention to frame a new constitution for the state, but there are no signs of a "boom" of the skim. The wise men argue that the police are no weaker for a new situation. They don't know what they want, and for the present the constitution can be "patched" by amendments if necessary. It has not been officially announced, but it is decided that C. W. Trickett of Wyandotte county will be a deputy in the office of Attorney General Coleman, at a salary of $1,600 a year, and John Dawson of Graham at $1,200. The remaining deputy, at a salary of $1,600, will be Close of Republic, or Wilmington Cloud. Dawson for four years has been Treasurer Grimes' bond clerk. The third annual exhibition of the Coffeyville Poultry and Pet Stock Association will be held January 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1903. The premium list is a liberal one and several hundred dollars will be paid to competitors. Already a large number of entries have been made. C. H. Rhodes, of Topolea, will act in the capacity of judge in the competitions. He will also deliver several lectures on poultry and pet stock raising. As matters now stand in the district court, the city of Arkansas City cannot collect revenue from its joints and disorderly houses. By a decision rendered by Judge Lawrence, an order has been issued outsting the city from collecting revenue from such places. Some time ago the county attorney instituted quo warranto proceedings for the purpose of finding out what right Arkansas City had to collect revenue, with the above result. The decision is a new one in Kansas and will probably bring forth much comment. According to its annual report, the board of railroad commissioners has accomplished a vast amount of work without making much noise about it. The board was created two years ago. Since then, 202 cases have been docked, aside from a large number of minor cases that were disposed of by correspondence. Of the 202 cases on the docket, 152 have been settled by trial, 13 dismissed for want of jurisdiction, 7 dismissed for want of prosecution and 20 are still pending. Of the 152 cases tried, 1106 were decided in favor of the complainants and 46 in favor of the railroads. Superintendent Haney, of the Hays City experiment station, assisted by an expert from the agricultural department at Washington, will try a new method of irrigation on the experimental farm. He will flood about 1,000 acres of the bottom land early in the spring with flood water from the stream which runs through the farm. His aim will be to soak the soil thoroughly several feet deep and depend upon this moisture, together with the irrigation of the crops, to open through. No irrigating will be done after the crops are put in. The experiment can be tried at small cost, as no ditches will have to be built. The only expense will be in the construction of a dam across the small stream. At a meeting of the Kansas commissioners to the St. Louis world's fair, the competitive plans for a Kansas building at the world's fair were opened. Eleven Kansas architects submitted plans. Not a mark was on any set of plans to show who made them. A plain envelope, with the name of the architect inside, was submitted with each set. The commissioners numbered the sets and envelopes, and then turned over all the envelopes to the governor, unopposed. When the missionaries select the prize set of images they will tell the governor what number received the award. Then he will open the envelope of that number to find out who the lucky architect is. The first prize is employment as supervising architect of the building. The death of Mr. Reed leaves only three ex-speakers of the house still living—Galusha A. Grow, who was wielding the gavel forty years ago is a member of the present house; J. Warren Keifer, who presided in 1881, and John G. Carlisle, who served from 1883 to 1889, inclusive. It is noteworthy in this connection that by reason of the retirement of Speaker Henderson and ex-Speaker Grow the next congress will be the first in many years in which no man sits who was ever speaker of the house. Swarms of plague-infected rats which infest the stone wall along the seashore at Yokohama, have been entomberal, the authorities having had every hole and crevice in the wall filled with cement and pebbles. For every finch they kill the members of a newly formed sparrow club at Warnham, Sussex, England, are to be fined four sparrow's heads. Five pounds has just been paid for a mahogany easy chair which formerly belonged to the mother of Jane Austen, the novelist. A Commendable Betrayal. solitary wild flower in a wilderness. Her father was a Black Hills gold seeker, and failing in that began to raise horses in the edge of the Dakota Bad Lands. When the soldiers of Fort Meade made the place compactly safe, he sent for his wife and four sons to join him. Dillie was then too young to know much of events, and when she was 16 there had been little for her to remember but horses, herders and Lieut. James. And yet she was far from being unaccomplished. She could lasso and cut horses out of the herd equal to the best of them, and she read all the instructions she thought they were two or three months old before Lieut. James could get them to her. Dillie was past 18 when the interest of Lieut. James in her plainly passed beyond furnishing a pretty girl with magazines and books. The immediate cause that brought this interest to the surface was the shock produced on Lieut. James' arrival day with a bundle of magazines and books tied to his saddle and found Dillie at the lower end of the sand-draw sating buffalo berries with How Grimes. The lieutenant was a handsome young man whose fine military bearing added greatly to his appearance, but How Grimes was a rollicking Westerner, for he was a soldier, the officers, and he was said to have a half dozen, each of them with horses enough to make him an acceptable suitor for any of the belles of the plains. Dillie began to introduce the two young men when she saw a look in the lieutenant's face that froze the words on her lips. "Must metore," he said, stiffly. "Perhaps Mr. Grimes will remember the affair—at Red Gap." "Very well," replied How Grimes with as polite and expressive a movement of the head and hand as the free and easy manners of the plainsman possessed. "Old dog Tray nearly got his death that day for being in bad company. I have always wished for a chance, lieutenant, to thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. Those horsesteels did me a sorry trick and I would like nothing better than to pay them back in their own coin. Did you find the owner of the horse they traded me?" "Yes," replied the lieutenant; "he caught up with us about an hour after you so cleverly departed and I imagine it would have gone rather hard with you if he had been able to find you." Lieutenant James turned his horse abruptly and went on to the house. When Dillie came in he was about to leave for the fort, although it would be nearly midnight before he could arrive there, and it had always been his custom to stay over night. Plainly something was very much wrong and Dillie a little nervous to row. Her mother said she must expect such displays of jealousy in men, and that the good standing of How Grimes was too well verified for her or her daughter to feel any doubts about him, besides she was not sure that it was a good thing for a girl to marry a soldier, who was liable to be shot almost any day. After that How Grimes frequently, considering that it was nearly a hundred miles to his nearest ranch, and the lieutenant came more often, although his duties at the fort were very exacting. Dillie was quite distracted, and at the end of a year when How Grimes asked her to be his wife, she was almost beside herself trying to know her own mind. Fortunately, the two young men had not met each other at her house since the first day, and neither had ever mentioned the other. How Grimes was coming on the 1st of May for his answer, and the more she thought and wept over what she should say the more fixed became the belief that she did not and could not love him enough to be his wife. Her mother had been very good for that she should let such a good chance for a husband go by. They argued that chances did not grow as thick as sand erase. But the eventful day had come and Dillie heard the rollicking laugh of How Grimes as he passed the plainsman's badnace with her father at the stable just over the hill. Somehow the laughter sounded like a menace to her happiness. She looked out of the window and saw her little pony nipping the grass in the valley toward the road, and an impulse seized her to slip out to it with saddle and bridle and thus earn a respite till after dark from meeting the lover concerning whom there had arisen in her so suddenly such an unaccountable aversion. A few minutes later she was galloping on the road from an impending disaster. Just outside of the valley containing her father's was a series of sand hills, and when she reached these, she flung herself from the horse upon the soft buffalo grass and gave herself up to thought. The sun had just disappeared behind the distant hills as she realized that she must return home and bravely face her fate with the inevitable answer against this man. Her pony came at her call and she was about to mount when the measured thump of a horse's hoofs beat upon her ears. The next moment a familiar form appeared the tail of her hill and Lieutenant James rode up to her. "What can you be doing out here at this hour?" he asked, with earnest solicitude. His tone went through her like a sword and she felt as if she would fall, but from the support of her restless little horse. "I-I can't tell you," she stammered, "not just now." He strum from his horse and came up to her side. "Whats this is a providential meeting." His more brave than he was accustomed to speak to her. "Do you remember my words when I met you that time with How Grimes?" She shuddered and answered him almost inaudibly. "I am now in possession of proof that he is the leader of the gang of horse thieves which we have been trying for a year to exterminate." He did not see how his words blanchened, but he noticed that she straightened up and her lips, as if struggling with some strong emotion. He attributed it to doubt. "You know," he continued, "that I have never mentioned his name to you, for I could not do so without casting suspicion on a man whom I as yet had no means of proving guilty. In the last few days I have learned with the help of the man he has been a frequent visitor here, and since morning I have been following his trail in this direction." Dilly was dumb. She had been unable to speak, but listened with eyes open wide in a mental maze of conflicting emotions. "I have proofs that are enough for me and he law but you may need more. If he incestent he will not resist arrest; if he is guilty, he will risk death to escape. What will be convincing to you?" 一 BY C. M. STEVANS. n. 101. by Authors Syedatee. ILLIE Liedt like a solitary wild flower in a wilderness. Her father was a Black Hills gold seeker, and failing in that began to raise horses in the edge of the Dakota Bad Lands. When he so- She inclined her head in reply. "Then there will be a fight, and one will be killed," she said, almost gasps. "There are only two wives in life to fight, and maybe a dead woman. None of my comrades lied here before morning. I take him alone. I must trust him, suddenly, say for instance that you are talking to him, you leave home on some occasion, and I should enter in place of you. I would then the drop on him, and if the man no harm will be done alone or if anything to you, when he arrives hour after this, he will be in an ahead of me on his way to Lee. Me help you mount your horse. In a moment both were in the displeased Jane, turned and sparred horse back, and tailed around the An hour later Lieutenant James up to the door, and was met by his father. "My daughter is anxious to see you in our sitting-room," he said humbly in a low tone. "I don't understand, but she seems too anxious about us to press any questions just to see you come with her. And, lorem ipsum, you come with her." The ranchman led the way into the sitting, room, which was daily littered with a small hand lamp, but riedly out, leaving the less littered some suspense as to what might happen. In a few minutes the door lead the parlor opened and Dillie, after faltering step, appeared. Leaving the door slightly ajar, she came by the tenant without speaking, but stopped as she opened the outside door. She was anxious and anxiously moment at the handsome room and dier and then pointed toward the porch door. As soon as she was gone, he the two revolvers from his cloak and, with one ready in each hand, advanced the parlor. Through the chink he open in the door he saw that the door of the room at his right was uncovered. If the man was there he hung the door back and cried: "Hands up" the man at the table. Grimes, with one spring, was in the room to the chair on which hanging his belt. Instead of shouting his man, as the Houenant was jousting in doing, he leaped after him and drew him a blow on the head that struck him unconscious upon the floor but before the desperado had caught up a volver and turned it accurately to send a bullet into his assailant shouldered. When the family rushed the door Grimes left the soldier found a very quick nurse, and a month before Grimes was taken to the penitentiary, she began his wife. Can Our Farmers Teach the German *Anything About Tilling Soil?* Now a delegation of German farmers is coming to the United States for the purpose of learning the secret of the success of the American people. Despite less these farmers will be entertained and instructed, as were the English workingmen who have just completed a tour of inspection of the principal dustrial areas of the soil. It seems improbable that the farmers of the United States will be able to teach the farmers of German anything about the tilting of the soil. The agricultural resources of the United States are truly wonderful, but nowhere in this country, perhaps, has farming been reduced to the exact science that it is in Germany. France and Switzerland have the productiveness of the soil appear to have been crowded to the limit. Statistics concerning German agriculture are not at hand, but flies showing the yield of crops in France are available. In that country there are something like 55,000,000 acres of land under cultivation. The product of that land in a single year is about 100,000 acres, an average of about $70 per acre. According to the census of 1890 there were in this country 358,000,000 acres under cultivation, and the value of the farm products that year was $2,460,000,000, or less than an acre. In France the average yield of wheat per acre is over nineteen bushels. In this country the average year is about thirteen bushels. The farmers have learned well as to make the farmers learn well as the peasants of France learned it. Of course the American farmers could teach the Germans how to use labor-saving machinery, and they could moreover, show them how farming is done on a large scale, and if, in turn, the visitors tell the American tillers of the soil how to utilize the land which now lies waste in their fields, and how to bring the production up to the limit that has been reached in European countries, there will be a fair exchange of knowledge and nobody could object to that.—Cleveland Leader. COAXED MOOSE ABOARD BOAT She Couldn't Withstand the Tempting Offer of Sugar. When the Night Hawk club of Newark, N. J., an organization of sparsers which visits Mane every spring to fish and catch fall to hunt, went into camp this fall, about three weeks ago, they crossed Moosehead lake in the steamer Louls. This craft makes a stop at Sugar Lake, one of the small islands in the lake, and when it landed on that day the Night Hawks were astonished to see a big cow moose calmly feeding up the shore of the island. The lake of Maine make it illegal to ride a cow moose, so that the only shooting which they could do was with a camera. The cow moose for some minutes the members of the Newark club thought it would be a good scheme to give the animal a sail up the lake. They circled about her and coated with tempting offers of sugar and potatoes until finally the "old woman," as one of them named her, walked down to the wharf and up the gunk plank and aboard the steamer. She was fed and appeared quite contented, even when the lines had been cast off and the loot started on its way across the big island. sear. When Kineo was reached the "woman" was first to go ashore, and after walking a short distance up the bank she turned and bowed, so the sports say, her adieu and dashed off to the woods.—New York World. Bottlesnake Oil In Pennsylvania the oil of rat snakes is preserved most carefully as a liniment especially good for sore joints and for rheumatism. In pruning the oil the dead snake is head and tail to a board and cut open. The fat is taken out and lained a cloth in the hot sun, from which the filtered oil drips into the air. From fear that the reptile man may biten himself, the clear oil is tested by dropping a portion of it into milk. If it floats in one glube it is regarded as the poison. If on the other hand, it breaks into heads and curdles the milk it is judged to be poisonous and thrown away.—New York Tribune PISSO SECURE FOR GURSE WINES ALL USE FAILS. Best treat syrup. Tartes good. Use in times. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION. William S. Devery, formerly police child of New York City, paid his taxes the other day and the amount he turn- over shows that "Big Bif" is in the millionaire class. In his twenty-three years service as an officer of the law Devery drew salary to the amount of $5,800. The Johannesburg Chamber of Mines offers prizes for practical sug- sations and means for obviating consumption, which is taught to result from the fine du- made by the drilling machines. The following awards are offered for the three best practical suggestions and devices on the subject: First prize, $1,000 and a gold medal; second prize, $300; third prize, $500. The aggregate capitalization of the industries at Pittsburg, Pa., is more than two billion five hundred million POOR MAN'S CHANCE. It is being said in many Eastern journals and not a few Western ones that the day of the poor man in mining is gone by; that no one but a big corporation can succeed in mining any more; that it takes big capital to do anything; that most of the good mining propositions are controlled by trusts or millionaires and that there is no looser owner or a man with a small money. This is all a mistake. The day of the "poor" mining was never brighter nor greater than right now. The assertion that most of the good mines are owned by trusts or millionaires is heard most often, but there is least in that of any of the pessimistic utterances. One hears of the big millionaire owners more than he does of the substantial companies go right on with little morality, paying good wages and mostly yielding dividends. 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The concern was organized under New Jersey law, but confined its efforts to the country west of the Mississippi. A permanent injunction against the trust was secured on November 10. The trust gave notice of appeal, but it has now concluded to get out of business. Prices have fallen from 550 to 75 per cent below those fixed by the trust. It contended, like all other trusts, that it had the right to make contracts covering property it owned, and that it was amenable only to the laws of the different states in which it did business. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the very best for their children during the teething period. About 180,000 pounds of American chasing is exported to China annually, and this amount might be grown on a farm of seventy-five acres. Paul Kruger in his memoirs tells the story of a secretary whom he punished for being drunk by tying him to a wagon wheel. 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All Walnut street, Kansas City, Mo Rupture You Pay When Cured: 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 stateres 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 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 regarding your case. DR. ERNEST HENDERSON A Very Bad Case of Rupture Cured in three Weeks. McPherson, Kana, June 8, 1990. I had a very bad case of rupture for years, and was sured and wured in three weeks. I cannot say too much for him. I know he can do just what he says he can do. The doctor does not ask one sent of patients to help. This is the best guarantee he can possibly give to any person afflicted as I was. I will answer anyone who wishes to know more about my case. Very truly yours, A. R. OLSON. Write For My Treaties on the Cure of Rupture Sent Free. Another Bad Case Formerly Cured in a Short Time-Gratful for Same. My Dear Doctor—I desire to add my testimonial to those you have cured of rupture. My case was a bad one time, many months. I never stay a day from my work. I cannot say too much for your cure, and would not be back in the con. I would recommend your rupture cure to anyone. I see if you wish. I am truly: thankful yours, FRED HARER, 2011 Indiana Ave. Suffered for Years—Pronounced Incurable by other Doctors. Dear Doctor: I wish to state that I can most easily rupture a treatment. Since early childhood I had been with a right scapular rupture that was pronounced with a right scapular rupture by a dangerous surgical operation. Hearing the treatment, I determined to try the same and again I glad it was, for after taking your treatment for it I was able to tell you. Your treatment is all that you claim for it. I will WM, LYNN, Ibnam, Kas. WEEDER GASOLINE ENGINES H.P.P. are easy to start and anyone can operate; use little gaso- line and are best for running grinders, shredders, cutters, threshers, etc. The "Weber Junior" Pumper, 8% H.P. for other small, seven pumping, blast peded equipment, all sizes made, fully guaranteed. Catalogue free. Weber Gas and Casoline Engine Co. Kansas City, Mo. COUNTRY PUBLISHERS CO., KANSAS CITY, VOL. 3, NO. 24. COUNTRY PUBLISHERS CO., KANSAS CITY, VOL. 3, NO. 24. DR. HENDERSON fol W. 9th St. Kansas City, Mo. The Old Reliable Doctor, Old an age longest lifespan, a A Register Graduate, a Medicine. 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He was a good specimen of the race, a rare thing nowadays—tall, straight, slender, with a classical bronze face that might grace a statue of Hlawatha. He viewed the marching thousands as they filed by, and the gaudy flags of the organizations seemed to have a particular fascination for him. Gay colors always appeal to the barbarian. At last he broke the silence: "What alf white men walk for?" he asked a bystander. "This is Labor day and they are parading." "What dat for?" and the aborigine seemed more mystified than before. "Oh, just because they have been working. Now they want to have a good time." "Are they going to work any more?" "Oh, yes; they'll go back to work toorrow." "Huh. I thought dey quit forever. I don't see what dey celebrating for. Dey fool. Indian never work, always parade. Dat best way. White man crazy." And he turned away in disgust—Duluth News-Tribune. Twenty-three thousand tables covered with heiroglyphics have been brought from Nippur, in Mesopotamia, by Professor Hilprecht. The Earl of Cassillis, the eldest son, and heir of the marquis or Aisla, and who was in this country for several months immediately prior to the outbreak of the war in South Africa, in which he served with distinction, is about to marry Stewart, daughter of Sir Mark Stewart, one of the innumerable Scotch baronets of that name. Within twenty-five years American astronomers have won as many annual medals of the Royal Astronomical Society of England as astronomers of all other countries, except England, combined. Horses, unlike ostriches, are not usually supposed to be omnivorous, but one that died suddenly near Melbourne the other day was found to have swallowed six pounds of lead, a wire nail, three pieces of steel wire, fragments of glass, small stones and a hair pin. The animal was allowed to graze around a rife butt and thus acquired a fatal taste for bullets and metallic odds and ends. A French statistician estimates the number of cows in the civilized world as 63,800,000 and the amount of butter the yield at $2,600,000 tons a year. Cured. M.H.P. ```markdown ``` Lutheran Minister Tells his H cure After Suffering Six Years. I suffered from a severe fracture and during all of the time I wore different kinds of trusses day and night, with the hope of affecting a cure, but they all failed—only the held my cap, on the advice of Rev. F. Feifler, of Scala, Mo. I consulted Dr Ernst Henderson, the ruler of the city, who cared for me in a few weeks without subjecting me to a dangerous and painful operation. The cure was complete and since then I have dispensed with my trusses without inconvenience. I have also applied to me, personally or by letter, I am. Kansas City, Mo., June 14, 2013 My Dear Doc: I was so scared—many times the rapture was so bad I could scarcely retain it with it. the pain of a tress. constantly grow worse and the pain so great. I was scared. After reselling your advertisement I concluded to try your treatment: To my surprise you cured me. I was so scared after such a long time of suffering. I am ablutely sound and well. I paid your fee with pressure, and still feel that I owe you a debt of gratitude 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 cure was effected as the best guarantee you could give. I gave me confidence in your treatment. The Following Have Been Cured of Rupture and are Selected at Random from the Class of Students Please Enclose a Stamp for Answer. Mike Gaynor, 20 W. St. Kansas City, Mo. A. K. Olson, McPherson, Kans. Robert J. Brock, county attorney, Mashattan N. M. Kent, 401 Orchard St. Chicago, Ill. Oscar Dillon, 601 Campbell St. Kansas City, Mo. H. M. McDonald, Dennison, K. B. F. Dobbey, 1903 N. 17th St. Kansas City, Kana. A. Young, 2418 Winds-or Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Plumplin, plumplin, Kansas City, Mo. Thos. Bassett, 9. Cepak, grocer, 21. Centra. Ave. Kansas City, M. S. Welch, care good Milling Co. Ft. Scott, Kans. M. S. Welch, Parker, 1817 Brooklyn Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Herman Sagall, Kansas City, Mo. M. G. Hartrell, 719 Fulks St. Joseph, Mo. Fred Harper, 2011 Indiana Ave. Kansas City, Mo. William Weltman, 401 Lands Court, Kansas City William Weitman, 410 Landis Court, Kansas City, Mo. Nev. F. Pierfeder, Sedalia, Mo. R. J. Champion, Armour Station, Kansas City, Kans. W. wood, merchant, Greenwood, Mo. Chas. T. tummer, 423 Edmond St. St. Joe, Mo. S. Louis, St. Louis, Mo. Fred Pheres, Kansas City, Mo. E. R. Demorest, Kansas City, Mo. Thos. McMachen, 104 N. 7th St. St. Louis, Mo. E. W. Dement, restaurant keeper, 109 E. 15th St. Locat in Kansas City, Mo. child 18 months old G. F. Shaw, assistant county surveyor, Inde pendence, MN. Baker Hall's Summit, Kana George J. Gould is one of numerous rich men belonging to the fire department of Lakewood, N. J. The other evening there was a fire in the home of Mrs. Robert F. Westcott and Fireman Gould failed to respond when the alarm was sounded. Because of his neglected charges were preferred against him the milestone reward that had been kept at home by a cold, but this was not accepted as sufficient excuse and he was fined $1. Hamlin's Wizard Oil will cure a larger number of painful ailments than anything which you can find. Mrs. Margaret McCoy, who was known as the "Mother of Methodism in the West," has just died at Omaha, Neb. Her mother, an earnest Methodist, was driven from France by the reign of terror in Robespierre's time. An exchange gives the following appalling facts on literary immortality: "Out of one thousand published books, six hundred never pay the cost of printing, two hundred just expenses, one hundred slightly expensive, and fewer still show a substantial gain. Of this number of books, six hundred and fifty are forgotten at the end of a year, one hundred and fifty more at the end of three years, and only fifty survive for seven years. Man has been writing books for the last three thousand years, still there are scarcely five hundred writers, and only five of these hundred there are not more than fifty who are known to a mass of people of ordinary intelligence in one country." Richmond, England, recently suffered severely at the hands of burglaries, who were not captured by the police. A prominent minister of the town met a policeman in the street and could not avoid an allusion to the local topic: "What a number of burglaries there are about!" he said. "Why don't you policemen arrest them?" The policeman regarded the minister, solemnly. "Sir," he replied, "there are thousands of people going to hell every day. Why don't you ministers stop them?" The water power available on the Pacific slope for producing electric energy is equivalent to the combustion of 300,00,000 tons of coal a year. Several sepulchral urns containing old coins and other relics dating from the Augustine epoch have been discovered at Aquileia, the ancient Roman town near Trieste, which was destroyed by Attila. While over 80,000 bacteria per liter were found in the air of old homes in Paris, only six were to be found in the same quantity of air of the mountain tops. After a thirty-years' courtship a couple, both over 50, have just been married at Leeds, England. Wyoming now has two women as justices of the peace. Mrs. Maggie H. Gillespie, of Lookout station, has just been elected in Albany county on the Democratic ticket and will taffe office January 1. The oldest armorer in the United States still working for the government is Benjamin Hobbs, of Springfield, Mass., having been so employed for over 50 years. Morris Sheppard, a new congressman from Texas, is 27 years old, but looks 10 years younger. The "Weber Junior" Pumper Can also be used for other purpos pumps or OKLAHOMA BRIEFS Representative Stephens, of Texas, has introduced a bill to open for settlement 505,000 acres of land in the Klowa, Comanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma. John Staples was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary by Judge Burfurd in the district court for the murder of Walter Davis in Guthrie, August 27, 1902. J A. White, editor of the Cordell Beacon, shot and dangerously wounded A. J. Johnson, a townite man, last week. The cause of the tragedy was an old quarrel, which was renewed when the men met and tried to discuss their differences. Five hundred teachers were in attendance at the sessions of the Oklahoma annual Teachers' association last week. One of the leading features was a paper on the "Oklahoma School Lands" by Prof. Elder of Norman. Governor Ferguson gave the teachers a reception. Announcement has been made by the Oklahoma live stock sanitary board that henceforth no horses will be allowed to enter the territory unless accompanied by certificates of good health, signed by known veterinarians. Recently horses have brought in fever ticks and glanders from other states, and the board was forced to adopt stringent rules. The Osage*Indians of Oklahoma, of whom there are 1,800, have to their credit the sum of $884,459 in the United States treasury, according to the annual report of the Osage agent just made public. They own 40,000 acres of land, making them, per capita, the wealthiest people on earth. Their receipts for the year from all sources amounted to $759,866. State Senator Hickman, of Perkins has returned from Washington, where he represented the interests of the cattlemen of Eastern and Southern Oklahoma, on a request of the agricultural department that the federal quarantine line be moved below all that portion of this territory. Secretary Wilson agreed to move the line as petitions were filed, a number of Oklahoma cattle inspectors appointed to guard the line well. This presents the matter forcibly before the next legislature for a liberal appropriation for inspectors. The Commercial club of Enid has accepted the proposition of R. P. Shirley of Washington, Ind., to build a shoe factory in that city. The factory will have a daily capacity of 900 pairs of shoes and will employ 225 people. It will occupy a four-story factory building 75x150 feet. Shirley operated a shoe factory in Indiana. The factory will employ 3,000 workers in corporation with $35,000 capital and is expected to be in operation within six months. The intention is to supply the trade of Oklahoma, Indian Territory and parts of Kansas and Texas. The world's fair commission at the meeting in Guthrie, after a conference with the governor and the members of the legislature, adopted plans for the Oklahoma building at the world's fair, submitted by A. J. Miller, an El Reno architect, and employed Mr. Miller as architect. The building is a handsome structure, about 60x75 feet, two stories high, has large porches and balconies. It will be constructed largely of staff, with portico columns, doors and window sills, door posts, etc., of Oklahoma granite and other building stones, with windows and doors. The building of Oklahoma marble, and will cost in the neighborhood of $18,000. INDIAN TERRITORY. Simon Bluejacket, a prominent citizen of the Cherokee nation, was run down by a "Katy" freight train at Bluejacket and killed. The mangle body was discovered and picked up by the early southbound passenger. While working on the A. V. & W. grade, twelve miles north of Sapulpa, two men were killed and one wounded by a premature explosion of dynamite. The dead are William Corry, of Nemahae, Neb, and John Flynn, of South McAlester, I. T. Mass meetings are being held in nearly every town in the Chickasaw nation to take action on the Nelson bill, providing for single statehood, with Oklahoma. Single statehood is being unanimously indorsed and many delegations will be sent to Washington in the interest of statehood. Much indignation is felt concerning Senator Quay's attack on the Indian Territory. The Ozark & Cherokee Central surveyors have reached Shawnee, O. T., with the survey of the Ozark Route and will continue westward. A line of road is being surveyed from Fayette, Ark., to Huntsville, Ark., and will be constructed at once. The small gap of steel is being closed in between Fort Gibson and Grand river, and when this is done the line will be complete into Muskogee. Attorney General Knox has given notice that he has filed in the court of claims at Washington a bill of interpleader against the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations and the Chickasaw freedman to determine the rights of 60,000 Chickasaw freedman. The court of claims is to determine whether the federal government or the Chickasaw tribe is to pay for land s allotted to freedmen. Althorpe, the smallest parish in Norway, England, has but one house and five inhabitants. Prof Segleke of the agricultural high school at Copenhagen, and promoter of the Danish modern system of farming, is dead Sarah Barnhardt's granddaughter, the 18 year-old daughter of the great actress son Maurice, will adopt the stage Mme Barnhardt is 69 years of age Somebody down in Tennessee apparently thinks that Secretary Root is a Chinaman A man in Knoxville sent him a letter the other day addressed "Hon Li Lu Root, secretary of war." 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Thus in pools where the water begins to freeze from the top the impurities are thrown to the bottom, and the ice taken from the upper part of the body of water is pure. The water that still retains the impurities is the last to freeze. Some makers of artificial ice produce it from water that is not pure, and they make a hole through the outer crust, before the liquid is completely consolidated, so as to allow the muddy portion of the fluid to run out. Of bacilli it is calculated that 90 per cent are thrown out in freezing, while nine out of every remaining ten are killed by the process, and thus rendered innocuous. Most of the remaining 1 per cent will die in twenty-four hours unless the ice be melted. Syracuse Herald. The Czar has sent a check for $5,000 to W. S. Johnson, an englishman of the Taku Tug and Lighter Company, as a mark of appreciation of the gallant services he rendered to the allies during the bombardment of the Taku forts. The British authorities have shown no recognition of Mr. Johnson's services. Mine, Cheng, a Korean woman of high cache, has arrived in California on a mission for her people. Her object is to learn American ways, having done which she will return and introduce them in her native country. William J. Bryan during the last six years has made more money than any other lecturer. He had a very amusing and profitable experience in 1897. The Chautauqua assembly of Carthage, Mo., wanted him for one lecture. He demanded $300 for his services. The Chautauqua, thinking that too much, declined, but offered him half the gate receipts. He accepted the proposition and had for his share $2,300. "To my best friend—William," is stated to have been the words on the wreath which the Kaiser placed on Herr Krupp's grave. A new and important use for refined paraffined wax seems to have been discovered by a man living near Lancaster, Ohio. 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The parting of the girders caused a report like a thunderclap. The bridge was erected in 1779, and, according to the Act of Parliament under which it was built, the sovereign has to pay toll before he can cross. In the town of Holdeshelm, in Germany, is a rosehush said to be 1,000 years old, and sprouts from its branches have realized enormous sums. Some years ago a rich Englishman offered $50,000 for the entire tree, but the sum was indigently refused. This wonderful plant clings amid thickly grown moss against the side of the famous old church of St. Michael. It is claimed that it has bloomed perennially since the days of King Alfred. On the east point of the sacred Mount Athos, on the Turkish peninsula, is the settlement of 6,000 monks, is surrounded by many monasteries, the whole forming a monastic republic in the dominions of the Sultan, to whom they are tributary. The yearly tribute they pay to Abdul Hamid is by no means a small one, but the sum is easily met by the republic, which is very rich and counts many millionaires among its members. Congressman James K. P. Hall, one of the Democrats from Pennsylvania, will not serve in the next house. The last Republican germanyer put him in a district overwhelmingly opposed to his party, so he accepted the nomination for state senator. He was elected almost without opposition and his salary as senator began December 1. Not caring to draw two salaries—and not needing either, for he is a millionaire—he will hand his resignation to Speaker Henderson. On accepting a challenge to a duel recently, a municipal councilor at Roncogno, in the Tyrol, chose cannon as the weapons, and stipulated that he and his opponent should fire at each other from two mountain tops three miles apart. Al Shissler, a gambler who killed F. W. Reul at Watertown, Wis., recently, is out on bail and goes wherever he pleases, but William Crandall, a poor actor, who chanced to witness the murder, is confined in jail as a witness, with a prospect of remaining there for several months to come. The Paris Messenger says that the report that President Loubet has accepted an invitation to visit the United States to attend the Louisiana Purchase exposition is without foundation. The only trip likely to be made by M. Loubet next year is to Algeria and Tunis. Sir Liang Chen Tang, the new Chinese minister to the United States, was once the pitcher on the Phillips Academy baseball team when it was regarded as the best organization of its kind in Massachusetts. This was twenty years ago. HORSES SUITED TO ALASKA. Fine Animals Cannot Stand Climate Like Ordinary Ones. Ed Floyd, until three years ago engineer on the Northern Pacific railroad, has returned from three years spent in Nome. Mr. Floyd engaged in business immediately on landing at a railroad station, sold out his horses and hotel for $70,000, ago to make this visit to his old home. His principal business was freighting and the operating of stages. His long experience on an Oregon horse ranch stood him in good stead, and in shipping horses to the north he has experienced the best of luck. Out of the time he worked, important times he lost but fifteen, all told. Regarding the character of horses required in the north, he said: "My experience is that it is a great mistake in taking big, fine horses. An east-of-the-mountain Oregon horse or a Canadian pony off the ranges of the northwest territory, is the animal to watch when you can get for your stock for days at a time is flour. It will kill one of those heavy horses if he does not have a good, warm stable, plenty of hay and regular care. Those half wild horses can face a storm that would freeze a Clydesdale to death, and they will eat nothing but moss. If there is nothing else for them to get. "I had an experience last winter which taught me the value of a pony used to a blizzard. We undertook to freight some winter supplies to the Kougarock, and there were four teams in the party. I had four horses from the northwest. The other teams were placed in Seattle and Tacoma. The first day out a blizzard struck us and last four days. We camped, and could not take our horses in the tent with us, and so turned them loose, to go back home as they could. My four reached home next morning. The others never got a hundred yards from our tent." — Tacoma Washington Ledger. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. 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Telephone "875 Blue" W. C. Martin $Editor eekly one year .. $1 00 Entered at the pos office at Kansas City Kansas as secur' class matter. EDITORIAL. EDITORIAL. The proposed bill for the re-establishment of the Fire and Police Board by the coming legislation has created quite a stir. It is a question of who shall be able to stand—with a good many of the boys. If Governor elect Bailey knew how much worry and tangled state of affairs in this city He would eneavor to dodge this one thing, the lot of the police men and fire men in Kansas City, Kans is all but a happy one It is sometime up and sometime down and sometime flat upon the ground. The passing of the 20 year franchise to the Metropolitan Street Railway by the city council the past week was about as satisfactory as could be obtained. It would be a matter of impossible to have satisfied everybody and especially the Republicans. It would be a grand thing if our colored churches would open stores to supply the wants of their members and to give employ nits to the young. At first glance it seems impracticable to turn religious bodies, in a measure, into money-making concerns, but this is removed when we consider the wonderful success of the financial side of the Mormon church. In each community stores could be opened and the people would be tangent to support race enterprises. There would be some fraud, some stealing, but in too majority of the cases honest dealing would characterize the management. This is an age of great combinations and the Negro must catch hold of things and make a way for himself.-Ex Practical churches and practical Christianity should certainly appeal to the negro. It must be finally left to the churches to solve the race problem as the negro is more religiously inclined than anythi g else. Why not teach the people now to live happy in this w rld? The standard by which a race is judged is its women. It is true that "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." Then the best of care and most of encouragement should be given to make the hand that rocks the cradle queenly. As a race, the black man learn to reverence, protect and better defend the hand that rocks the cradles of the race. We must learn to accord to our women that courtesy and regard to which they are entitled and which they should receive. We must so protect them that they will learn that no matter where they may see a black man they can feel that they see a protector and one that will defend them even unto death. We must not only defend, protect and respect them, but we must give other men to understand that they must do likewise. The black man who will not protect a colored woman is no part of a mas. Let us accord to our women that amount of respect to which they are entitled. We heartily endorse the editorial from the Searchlight of Wichata. We commend it to every reader of our paper. We hope they will take it to heart and keep it uppermost in their minds. If every man would do unto his neighbor as he would have his neighbor do unto him how much better and how pleasanter would this world be. If you do not want your neighbor to oppress you, do not oppress your neighbor. If you do not want your neighbor to say mean things about you, do not say mean things about your neighbor. These uts observed will mean more peace to many a troubled mind. YOU can BUY TOYS Iots of PLACES But Can You Buy THEM at These Prices The Sunflower Store Bannett and Co. 609 MINNESOTA AVE. Decorated China cups and saucers 5 s10c always our price ..... 8 10ct Ten Pins each in wood box our price on them ..... 8 Good wheel barrows red or natural color at ..... 8 2 wheel red Carts always 10 cts our price on them ..... 8 Assorted Doll Chairs we sell your choice ..... 9 Fine lot dressed Dolls worth 25 35cts, we sell them at ..... 25 Black wood Pianos with six keys our price is ..... 23 NEGROES EAT TOO MUCH. This one thing is responsible for much of the poverty in the race. It is true that the major portion of the Negroes are laborers and must of a necessity eat, to meet the requirements of such. In many cases though just half what is expended for food would satisfy and grandly appease the hungry of the race. In the performance of the same labor no other nationality eats as much as our race. Tell nine out of ten Negroes that the reason they keep poor, is they eat too much and you will receive this answer—"I am not going to stint myself thats all I get in this world is what I can eat and drink," Thus they go toiling and worrying living up year in and year out to all they make misfortune and old age overtake them and the tender mercies of the world see their finish. A new Negro makes his bow to the American people, and he is quite different from the one who was seen in 1865. He has hopes, aspirations and w shes to be considered, as he is, an essential part of the American republic. He is buying homes, running business enterprises and many other good things, much of which is done under very trying conditions. He needs to do more of this, and we believe he will. Let him not be found in any one perturber line; let him not fear or hesitate to enter any calling to which his inclination may lead. If he can't make it in one place, leave and go somewhere e'se. The world is large and the reward always comes to him who tries the hardest. Let him go to Cuba, the Philippines South America, in short, to any country where his chances are better and where people have more appreciation for honest labor. Don't be home bound, but branch out and make homes everywhere.—News Enterprise. Mothers often know their daughters are out but seldom if ever know their routes. The outhap-zard unconcerned way that a good many mothers raise up their daughters is responsible for a good many heartsaches and hours of tear shedding & worry. It would be something worthy of note if a good many mothers who take up precious time meddling with other peoples affairs, mixing up in neighborhood gossip—would associate themselves together and endeavor to solve the problem of how to raise their daughters to virtuous woman-hood. A good many parents who are helping to raise daughters should exert a fatherly affection over their neighbor-daughters instead of letting the brute passion dominate. If parents, would see to it that their children and especially of tender years were in home at a reasonable hour of nights. It would not have to be told to the public that a 12 year old Negro gir was raped by a policeman in this city at the hour of midnight. That the awful tragedy to another grill occurred in a Kansas City Rooming house. If mothers and fathers were all they ought to be, there would not be as many illegitimate offspring in this city. If mothers and fathers were all they ought 'o be, there would not be so many run- Negro homes, and a good many in this city need cleaning up of their flath and dirt. If all the Negro Ministers in this city were Grd fearing men and would teach the people merits it would have a bettering effect on the community. If a searchlight was turned on the walks of a good many christian people and their Big Lot of Nancy 35cts Childs Dishes our price is..... 25 Fine Ironing Board wash tub and board for the lot..... 10 Fine Lot Toy Furniture wood at each..... 5 Power Store and Co. ESOTA AVE. leaders it would disclose just why christianity is on the wane in its influence over the sinning populace. If a good many married men and woman ke t themselves in their places and in the bounds of decency it would tend toward bettering the race. Nine out of ever ten cases of waywardness in boys and can be traced directly to the hidden life of a mother or fa her. It is surprising to know how many Negro homes in this city have skeletus in their closets, Some Negro who reads this article will be offended—Why I—because we have told the truth and it is backed by absolute facts. Publication Notice In the district court of Wyandotte county Kansas. James N. Turner, pla n vs. Josie Turner, defendant, To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and on or before the 23rd day of January 1866, you filed against you will be taken as true and a judgment tendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and for ever divorcing plaintiff from said defendant and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for plaintiff. In the district court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Edward Divers, plaintiff, vs. Anna Divers, defendant. To the above named defendant, that you are hereby 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 15th day of January 1903, the petition files said case will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered against you a nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from you, the said defendant, and cost of cost of suit. State of Kansas, s. County of Wandotte, s. In the Probate Court in manor or said County, in the county of the Estate of Peter Lugublii, Deceased. Lugubilis deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the afterfes estate are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said county, 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, January 5. A. D. 1903. We shall apply to said Court for a full final settlement of said estate. Shilla Lugubilh, Mary Schollier, Amelia Grauten, Frances Hinton Estate of Peter Lugubilh, Deceased. December 1st, A. D. 1902. Dec.12. Notice of Final Settlement. STATE of KANSAS, WYANDOTTE COUNTY, In the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the Estate of Mabala A. Robertson, decease. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mahala A. Robertson, late of sale County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the State aforesaid, eated the 7th day of November 1002. Now, all persons having claims against 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 3 years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. WILLIAM S. PATTerson. Executor of the last will and testament of Mahala A. Robertson, deceased. State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte, ss. In the Probate Court in and for said County in the matter of the Estate of Anthony Dudley year. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate Anthony Dudley late of said County, deceased, by the Honor- able, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid the 18th day of November 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the under signed for allowance with 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 exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. ELIZA DUDLEY. Administratrix of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. 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