The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country HALL WE HAVE A JIM CROW HIGH SCHOOL IS THE QUESTION AMONG THE NEGROES TO-DAY OL. 15. NO. 50. Oldest and SHALL WE HA THE NEGROES A MUCH AFRO—AMERICA DENT RO A Resolution Adopted By THE mittee Urging The Dr. Crum to UCH AFRO—AMERICAN PRAISE FOR PRESI— DENT ROOSEVELT. Charleston, S. C. The executive committee of the Nation after-American council adopted a reservation to day urging confirmation by senate of the nomination of Dr. W. Crum, a Negro, to be collector of accounts at Charleston, S. C., and adopter to the country on the new question in general. The address is used by Alexander Walters, chairman of the executive committee; Cyrus Field Adams, secretary, and Wm. A. Pledger, acting president National Afro-American council. The address in part is as serving. zens by the heartilyly of Virginia other states through the pledge to support. Now so put We can to a condition in a number sembling system and the romance. It is evident to the thoughtful among what we are passing through one of the most critical periods of our existence in this country. Questions that im- minitely concern the liberty and well- of one eight of the population of United States, and scarcely to less upre the whole population of the coun- try, are pressing for treatment as never before. A systematic effort has been inaugurated on the part of the South, which has made object the withdrawal of the fran from the Afro-Americans of that nation and their reduction to a position subservient in all the relations of life. It has been openly declared crime of the leaders of the South that was the intention of the farmers of the Or constitutions to disfranchise as many Afro-Americans as possible and are every Caucasian in full possession after suffrage. The effect has been that totally has the Afro-American been enfranchised, but also that a very large number of Caucasians who, previous to adoption of these constitutions participated in elections, have ceased to reside and vote. content for our constitutional rights on the grounds that the rights of suff cause been conferred upon its citi IGNORANCE IN THE PULPIT. Among the first people met in a community are the ministers of the gospel as are usually classed as the race leaders. The intelligence of the community used upon meeting the pastors of the different churches in the community. The important minister in nearly all cases is an ignorant audience or an ignorant membership in his church. Intelligent people know there is nothing to be learned from ignorant ministers so an intelligent church body will not tolerate an ignorant minister and only a ministers congregation can be led by the intellect of the minister. A good minister who walks a christian man who lives beyond reproach and intelligent is a blessing to any community they wield an influence for good immeasurable, but an ignorant false pretendance the clitting minister who uses his religious clock to hide his filth and dirt does more harm to a community than unabling houses. A minister who stoops to new things makes the worldly people into a false conception of true religion. Fortunate and unfortunately for Kansas City, Kansas, it can boast of some from each class. In proportion as the negro minister become intellectual beings, in the same proportion will the rise. No same person can believe that God ever called an ignorant man to touch the gospel. TOPEKA Mr. Albert Bass has been very low for the past week. Special Christian Endeavor services will be held at St. John A. M. E. ohrch tuesday eve. Mrs. Fannie Steans is very ill at Christine Hospital. Wm. Hall left Sunday for St. Joseph Mr. Mr. Peter Vincent died at 9 o'clock Monday morning at the residence of Mr. Lawrence on East 1st street. Mr. Lave Henderson of Lawreace was stown last week. Mr. Elvina Brown is on the sick list this week. Prof. W. T. Vernon was in town on business this week. Winter Musical & Literary Recruit. For the benefit of Industrial Institute under the Auspices of Institute Custet company Friday eve Jan. 30, at the Industrial school zens by the Federal government. We heartily commend the Afro-Americans of Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana and other states who are seeking redres through the courts of the land, and we pledge them our moral and financial support. We denounce the mob murders now so prevalent in this country. We call the attention of the country to a condition of service on many farms in a number of the Southern states resembling very much the old peonage system and ask for legislation looking to the remedying of the evil. We submit our protest against the unfair practices in the transportation of passengers in Southern states, discriminating unjustly against Afto-Americans, requiring of them the highest rates of travel and providing in return the poorest accommodation in carriage, and we invoke the exercise of the powers of the interstate commerce commission, by the tribunal, to prevent discriminations in rates and accommodations against interstate passengers. We appeal to Congress for favorable action upon one of the several measures now pending therein for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the condition of Afro-Americans of the country. We heartily indorse the deliverance of President Roosevelt with reference to the fitness for appointment to office and the attitude of the federal government toward all of its citizens, regarded of race or color. He has imparted new life and vigor to the time honored principles and traditions of human rights and has given hope and inspiration to a people struggling heroically beneath the burden of hate and persecution. We commend Theodore Roosevelt to the affection and confidence of our people regardless of party affiliation. Ex In the District county of Wyandotte county Kansas, Tony Hill, Plaintiff. vs. Amanda Hill. Defendant. To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above namok court by the above named plaintiff and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 1st day of Feb. 1962 the petition fights against you will taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and for cost of this suit. Benjamin Lafferty. defendant. Benjamin kartery, defendant. To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you may be sued in the case against you by above named plaintiff, and than unless you appear and answer on or before the 21st day of Feb. 1903, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgment 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 her, her maiden name Ida Patterson, and for cost of this suit In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County Kansas. T. T. Crittenden, Jr. Defendants, The State of Kansas to the above named defendant, Greeting: You and each of you will take notice that the above named plaintiff has filed in the above named court against you and each of you, said petition being filed on the 19th day of January 1963 and that you must answer said petition on or before the 7th day, of January 1963. You must be taken as true and judgment will be rendered accordingly in said action against you and each of you quieting the title of the plaintiff to 7 in block 54 in Wyandotte City, now a part of the consolidated city of Kansas City Wyandotte County Kansas, and excluding you and each of you from any interest or estate in or claim to or lien upon said premises or any part thereof, and forever barring and enjoying you and each of you from ever asserting any claim to, estate in, or lien upon said premises adverse to she plaintiff. C. W. R. TRICEET, Attorney for Plaintiff, Attest: James L. Beggs, Clerk, Publication Notice. I.F. Bradley, atty for Plaintiff, 26 Publication Notice Ida Lafferty, plaintiff. Publication Notice KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING. Tales of Two Cities Look out for the "Daily Citizen." We are sorry to note that Mr. E. F. Henderson of 411 Armstrong is quite ill. Maude Tillery has accepted position as organist of Rose hill Baptist church 9th, and Jersey. Mrs. L. Hopson of Denver, Colorado formerly Miss Walker is in the city the guest of Mrs. D. W. White of 420 Minnesota ave. Mr. S. A. Rutherford propoeitor of the People's Coal & Groceries Co. is on the road too recovery. We hope to see him at his place of business soon. Dr. Greggs completed his series of meeting at the Metropolitan Church Monday night Jan. 26th. with a very practical and able race lecture. It was largely attended by all. Dr. Jno. R. Smith of Nashville Tennessee formerly a teacher in our public school and a rather prominent orator is quite ill in Nashville and will doubtless return to this city where his parents Rev. J. D. Smith in hope of recuperation. Mrs. Minnie Peoples, Mrs. Nora Trent and cousin Miss Maude Thomas were called to Lawrence last week to attend the funeral of their uncle Mr. Drake. While there Mrs. Trent became ill and was unable to return for a few day, though glad to say she is now at home and becoming convalescent again. Attend the production of the Senators Daughter at Portsmouth Auditorium Tuesday night & each succeeding night till Sat. with a matinee. Popular prices. H. R. Stines up-to-date barber. The St. James M. E., church of 929 Freeman ave. is holding revival services and extend a cordial invitation to every body. The funeral service of Miss Daisy Arthur who died last week will be held Monday afternoon from the First Baptist Church. Mr. W. H. Edinborn of the Sea Foam block who has been quite ill has resumed his work. THE SIXTH The sixth anniversary of the King Solomon Baptist Church will be held Sunday Feb. 1st. 1903 An excellent programme will be rendered. All churches and pastors are invited. A grand concert will be given on Sat. eve Jan. 31. Admission 5 and 10 Rev. E. P. Green is pastor of the progressive little church. The Orris-Ober Stock Co., will produce the four act drama "The Senator's Daughter," at the Portsmouth Theatre Commencing Tuesday Eve., Feb. 3, and continuing four nights at popular prices This is but an initial drama and if the amusement loving people of Kans City, Kans, appreciate by attending—other plays will be put on and an opportunity will be given all to see a first class show at home. For the Street car fare you pay going to Missouri you can see and enjoy the same at home. Don't fail to go and see this production. The Associated Charities have engaged Rev. Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kansas to give his entertaining and very instructive lecture "How to make this world a better place to live in," Dr. Sheldon lectures Monday eve. Feb. 2, in the Portsmouth Auditorium. Dr. Sheldon is known to every one as a preacher lecturer, author and philanthropist. He has not been so busy with his writing and speaking but that he could see it to that the invalids on the poor farm have rocked chairs, books and pictures or that the colored children of the poorest district of his town have a chance to get a good industrial education. Dr. Shelton has made a part of this world a better place to live in. Let all come and get practical suggestions from a practical man for improving our own locality. The Model Steam Laundry has arranged to give Kansas City Kans., patrons the best service and prompt delivery. This is a laundry which is operated entirely by Negroes. Its work is strictly guaranteed. Courtesy, accuracy and satisfaction,' is our motto. Call 'phone 253 West, and our wagon will call for and deliver your laundry any place in the city. Leave parcels at our Kansas City, Kas., Office No. 1014 N. 5th St. Laundry received Monday or Tuesday will be delivered Thursday. Laundry received on or before Friday will be delivered Saturday. Yours For Negro Industry. A. E. Robinson, Prop. The Enterprise Grocery Co. 435 Minn ave. is the best place in town to get groceries and county produce. Give them a call and be convinced. 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. There is but little interest taken by the people in any other office but the Mayor. It may be possible that the unexpected will happen. It can always be told when an election is nearing by the congregation at 6th and Minnesota ave., now known by the significant name of "wool exchange." POLITICS AND POLITICIAN As the time draws near the contending forces of the two Republican mayoralty generals are commendably situated to fight a battle, royal indeed organizations have been perfected on both sides and it is an instance of artillery pitted against artillery with some experienced commanders trusted lieutenants and some brave men—them not to reason why—theirs but to do and die the colored troops not with standing the rumor of a black ticket are in the thickest of the fray and even now you can hear the orders to dress up been passed down the line. The proposed fire and police commission board schudled to be presented by Wyandotte County before the legislature now in session is hanging in the balance pending the results of the presuring on the 10th. It is said that if certain candidate wins it will not be pushed and if a certain candidates do not win it will be pushed for all its worth. It is clearly evident that with a a fire and police invane—with a well mixed council there will be some fun that is not on programme. ANNOUNCEMENTS. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Councilman of the third ward subject to the Republican primaries Feb. the 10th 1903. E, E VENARD. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for councilman of the second ward subject to the Republican primaries Feb. the 10th 1903. FRANCIS HOUSE. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for city clerk subject to Republican primaries Feb. 10th 1903. U. V. WIDENER. VENUS AND APOLLO WERE NFGROES. What does a toe amount to? Not much, perhaps, autatomically speaking; but it may signify a lot as a "human document," giving testimony of the race from which a person is decended. It is the overlength of the second toe in practically every antique Greek statue that has helped rtoently to work out a very curious problem, the solution of which is the discovery that the ancient Hellenic sculptors customarily used Negras slaves as models, and that the original of the famous Apollo Belvedere was almost unobliquely a Negro. Ye god! A Negro Apollo Belveder! What a dismal surprise! But, while this seems melancholy enough, it is yet more painful to lean that the Venus of Milo was very likely a Negro. Mongo ago the fact was noticed that the arms of the old Greek statues, both male and female, were overlong. The reason why was a puzzle until an eminent scholar, learned in classical literature, colled attention to the recorded fact that Negro slaves were employed as modeldsy Phidias, Praxiteles and other celebrated sculptors of their time. Thit shed a sudden light upon the subject, and immediately it was realized that the so-called "Hamitic" blacks of northern Africa are rongm the most beautifully formed people in the world. It was not necessary, obviously to reproduce their faces in the statues; the features were made as Greek as possible. These Hamitio Negroes have over long arme—so far as that goes, an apelike gait—and their second toes are longer than their big toes It is not a characteristic of the modern Greek art any more than of the American or British podal type to today, and should be regarded rather as an undesirable physical feature than as one to be admired. Physiologists nowadays, in fact are disposed to regarrir it as a reversion to the make up of a monkey—an arangement useful for climbing trees and purpose. Henry Loomis Nelson, who ever he may be, in a lengthy and interesting letter to the Boston Herald vf January 23rd. argues that President Roosevelt's appointment of Negroes to Federal offices either North or South only intensifies race prejudice and retards the Negro's progress. He admits that many Negroes are fully qualified to fill such positions and that race prejudice is unreasonable and unchristian, but he believes that Negroes ought not to be thrust into position of trust and honor until the entire Negro race shall have reached the standard of these exceptional individuals. Mr. Nelson evidently overlooks the fact that the white race has not been lifted to the plane of its few exceptionally gifted individuals and to have waited for this would have been to clog the wheels of racial progress. The same is true of the Negro.-Ex. EDITORIAL The rent proposition is becoming a serious proposition for the colored man to solve. The only way to solve it is to get a home of your own. Teach your boys to be polite at all times, in all places; for remember that a polite Negro boy is of more worth to the community than a 100 white toughs So far the colored Republicans of this state, 10,000 in number, have but very little recognition from the Legislature and none from the governor and state officer. Color-Line in Post Office. Hereafter the government is expected to provide something besides black ink for the canceling of standing in Southern postoffice. Black ink is a gross insult to the entire South. Rev. Earnest Lyons, a scholar and a Christian gentleman of Baltimore, has been appointed minister to Liberia to succeed Dr. J. A. Crossland. Pt. President Roosevelt is the most popular man with the 10,000,000 Negroes of this country since the days of Abraham Lincoln. At Paris, Texas. recently, a white man was on trial for murdering a Negro. When the evidence was all in and there was no reason or excuse shown for the crime, the lawyer representing the shootist simply said: "Gentleman of the jury, the time has not yet come in Tex., when a white man should under any circumstances be convicted of killing a Negro" The verdict was "Not guilty." The colored man shouldn't want anything except a fair and equal chance along with other men. If given this, and no progress is made by him, he has no one to blame but himself, and deserves no sympathy whatever. Some ask favoritism for him, but we are not among that number. Preference is not what he want but a man's chance. Some Negroes are learned enough to fill any kind of a position any body else can, and when their prowess in any distinct line is shown, they should have what ever rating their proficiency merits. It is not partiality that many of us want, but fairness, and God speed the day when we are to be so dealt with. -Pioneer Press. To much stress cannot be put upon Negro parents to educate. The glaring needs of education are in evidence every day and not many more years will pass over ore ignorance and foggyism shall be relegated to the rear. Intelligence are long will be the lever by which the world will be controlled. There is absolutely no excuse for ignorance at this period of our existence. It should be a crime punishable by the severest penalty of law—both to parents who will not educate their offsprings and to those big men and little women who will not go to school or some other place wherein or whereat they can secure an education. There is to much laxity among Negroes regarding an education and on this very point hinges much of the future of the Negro. Let us educate, come what will or may. How little do*some people realize that the spirit of their lives will reach out to help and uplift humanity for all time! Little do they dream that, like the exquisite perfume distilled from dead rose leaves, the fragrance of their unselfish deeds will sweeten and beautify the world long after they have pessed away. On a higher plane they will realize that what they deplored as failure was, in truth, the noblest success. It is one of the saddest commentaries on our national ethics, reflects Success, that those who have tried with all their might to live up to the best they know are looked upon as failures if they have not accumulated money, written a noble book, achieved distinction in science, art, music or some other field, or done some high, heroic deed that attracts of world attention. "For the first time in the history of Northwestern University a colored man has been chosen as one of the five man to contest for the privilege of representing Northwestern in the final of the Northeastern Oraporical League. He is J. P. Faulkner, a sophomore. His oration deals with the slave and colored race problems." —Chicago Record Herald. Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of the late President Wm. McKinley. In honor of people wore carnations on the lapel of their coats. This was the favorite flower of the lamented President and worn in compliance with the request of the McKinley Carnation League of Cincinnati, Ohio. Negroes Will Protest. To Hold Anti-Jim Crow Mass Meeting in St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., A call has been issued for a mass meeting of colored citizens to be held in this city on February 1, to protest against the passage by the legislature of a bill to require the use of "Jim Crow" cars on Missouri railroads. In addition to this, prominen colored men from all over the state are requested to assemble at Jefferson City Tuesday, February 3, and appear before the house committee having the bill in charge. 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. It is usually understood that most of the legislation enacted against the Negro in the south is due to a sentiment akin to a community of interest rather than to special reasons peculiar in the locality where the measures are passed. This is rather due to the common sentiment that whatever legislation is thought to be necessary in one southern state there is a disposition to adopt the same measure in all the southern states and in this way one state follows the other in adopting this character of legislation. For this reason it seems a little strange that the legislature of Georgia has several times refused by an overwhelming majority to adopt any of the laws to diffranchise the Negro of that state or state them to a vote of the people. If may be that they feel perfectly secure under the present system and that the Negro himself is, perfectly content not to exercise the suffrage and the same end is finally reached without legislation. It is such a common thing for such legislation to be enacted that we rather look for it instead of seeing it defeated.—American Baptist. There is an awful lack of manners among the young Negroes of to day and a serious consideration of the same forces us to bow our heads in sorrow. The manner of many Negroes in public places, on cars, on the highways, in churches and in all places Negroes are met is indeed a conduct that would make the humblest old father or mother shame. The use of profanity, loud and boisterous talking, the utter disregard for themselves, any body else makes a very elementable condition of affairs. Parents above everything else, teachers likewise should teach the young Negro manners with his education. It would not be none amiss for a large number of old Negroes to conduct themselves with due politeness and manners. THEY SAY It is always bobbling up—that every dog has his day. Ignorance in the pulpit should not be tolerated. Its politics politics everywhere upstairs down-stairs and all around. Soon the big and little push will be a thing of the past. Good bye with fond recollections to time that have been to be no more. Me oh my the attraction we find in Armourdale. He often smiles as he thinks of her and wonders to himself. How long ere he beholds her face again. My poor heart is sad with its dreaming. Eave droppers seldom hear any good of themselves unintentional fare just the same. Ignorance in the pulpit ought to be thr last place it should be tolerated. *Coal is a Royal entertainer* B. M. is an honorary member at No. 5. What is the matter with Francis House for councilman of the 2nd ward. He is at the Rareback shop. The London Speaker says that it is a matter of history that the natives in South Africa fought on the British side in the war against the Boers. It backs up this statement by quoting Mr. Chamberlain's action in declaring that the Kaffir chiefs shall receive medals for their bravery. It calls the British Government to account for previously denying that any natives had fought on the British side and says that the conferring of the medals marks the end of a long hypocrisy. It is but natural to suppose that the natives would espouse the British side of the struggle and political expediency would account for the British Government's disavowal of that fact England has long appreciated the value of black men in its wars and profited accordingly. a belief in witchcraft still prevails in parts of Lancashire, also in the isle of Man, and still more strongly in the Hebrides. JANUARY 30 1908 the Country ROES TO-DAY 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 setting, Carpets, Stoves, oil-cloth are. not anything in his line, quitting the business. First come, First served. SOTA AVE opportunity for good bargains will be sold at cost & less. A meeting was held at this office by a number of colored citizens relative to the seperate or Jim Crow High school, another meeting will be held in the 3rd ward next week. Everybody who are interested in the future of our boys and girls should attend that their views may be obtained on the Jim Crow High School. Mr. Francis House the well known citizen and highly respected gentleman is a candidate for the Republican nomination for councilman of the 2nd ward. He is the right man to vote for and a man qualified in every particular to fill the posititn with credit to his constituents. E. E. Venard Candidate for Councilmtn of the third ward is a sure winner Mr. Venard has lived in the city for a number of years and greatly interested in the growth and prosperity of the city. No better man can be found in this to fill the office of councilman than he. You will make no misstake in voting for Venard. REWARD IN MURDEK CASE. RARTYTOWN. Jan. 26.—The authorsjis have awakened to the fact that the colo- rized people of this place must be recog- ized. They have in consequence offer- ed $100 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the mur- der or murderers of Samuel Wisner. This action is due to Rev. C. W. R. Dandall's stirring appeal. The unnecessary clubbing cf Vr. Hill by Offices Palmer about a week ago has agitated the colo- citizens of both villages to such a pitch that they have secured council for Mr. Hill and are determined to qave his case vindicated. Our rights come high, but but we must have them. Unhard says of the post "His life gave the lie to his heart." In this terse sentence "Fra Elbertus" has expressed an opinion concerning one person which has been entertained by nearly every one, of many. Perhaps your thought was never before crystalized into words like these, but you have had the thought, just the same. For instance, you have heard the blustering bully boasting of his bravery, and then when the test of his courage came, you have seen him cringe in cowardly fear. "His life gave the lie to his logic." Again, you have heard the solemn prayer, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," fall from the lips of one in whose breast you knew ranked bitterest hatred. "His life gave the lie to his logic." Or, you have heard the skeptic ridicule prayer, and then you have heard him call lustily upon the Lord in an hour of sudden calamity. "His life gave the lie to his logic." A father gives wise counsel to his boy and then in the presence of that boy practices the very things he counsels against. "His life gives the lie to his logic." And so might be multiplied illustrations of this Roycroft truth. -Marion Record. Tauric Acid on Metals Gold, silver, steel, aluminium and gold, when immersed in tauric acid, a new chemical discovery, becomes applicable and ductile as putty. Tons of Gold in Use. The amount of gold coin in actual circulation in the world is estimated to be about 285 tons. KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS. There are 675 carriers employed in delivering mail over Kansas free rural routes, and their salaries are over $33,000 a month. An old man in Mankato threw his pipe away New Year's day. "I've smoked going on fifty year," he said, "and I'm afraid if I keep it up much longer I git in the habit." Judge A. W. Dennison, late Populist member of the appellate court, has sold all of his belongings in Butler county and purchased a farm in Pennsylvania, where he will make his home. The following officials of the state board of agriculture were elected at the thirty-second annual meeting: J. H. Churchill, Dodge City, president; J. W. Robinson, Eldorado, vice president; Edwin Snyder, Oskaloosa, treasurer. Chester I. Long has been unanimously nominated by the Kansas Public legislative caucus for United States senator. Senator Cubbison introduced a bill authorizing Wyandotte county to build a new $300,000 courthouse in Kansas City, Kas. Bills have been introduced in both branches of the Kansas legislature to increase the state superintendent of instruction's salary from $2,000 to $2,500. Miss Helen Gould, of New York has notified the committee that she would attend the international Railroad Y. M. C. A conference in Topeka April 28, to May 2. President Roosevelt has also been invited. The city council of Louisburg has granted a franchise to a company to Charles Janes, keeper of a Cherokee joint, shot and killed Allan Williamson last week. The shooting took place in the rear of Janes' place. Janes fled after the shooting and up to this time no trace has been found of him. The Toronto bank, of Wilson county, a private bank owned by W. P. Dickerson, is closed. It had $5,000 capital, $3,000 surplus, and $31,000 in deposits. Dickerson has sustained some heavy losses recently in speculation. The thirteenth biennial report of the state board of agriculture is being distributed this week. Like all of F. D. Coburn's reports, it is of great value to all who have an interest in the farm. It is a volume of 1,125 pages, as useful as it is bulky. The Abilene public library secured through the efforts of the women's clubs, has been opened. The women have raised about $1,200 in two years and have fitted up handsome rooms. The balance of the Corn carnival fund, $208, has been given them The M., K. & T. depot at Strawn, was entered by robbers last week. They blew up the safe with dynamite and escaped with $200 which was in the safe. Most of the people were awakened by the report and the robbers were seen riding away in a buggy. In a letter to a friend in Winfield the wife of Congressman Jackson says her husband is able to be out of that New York hospital and that within a week he will be in his seat at Washington. At the hospital they twisted the broken leg of the congressman into place, using the Lorenz method The meanest man in Kansas has been found at Wellington. He hired a negro boy to carry a ton of coal upstairs, paying him only 15 cents for the job. Then he got some dice and played craps with the boy until he had won the 15 cents back. The boy testified to this fact in a case in court. The council has completed arrangements with an Oil company to furnish Arkansas City with a gas well. The city will not pay for the well until after it is delivered, and then will only pay according to the amount of gas it will produce. The necessary leases go with the well, and the first hole will be drilled inside the city limits. Miss Berenice Russell, a young school teacher of Larned, has just received notice from the Department of the Interior of her appointment to the position of teacher in the Indian schools at White Rock, Utah Miss Russell will take up her new work about February 1. The trip to this school requires a stage journey of about 125 miles. Maartin Addison, a paymaster in the United States navy, is visiting his parents in Salina. Addison has the distinction of being the only paymaster in the navy who has ever succeeded in saving money on board his vessel when it went down. He was on the Yosemite when it sank at Guam, and saved the strongbox of the paymaster, which contained $80,000. Addison has been complimented by the government for his pluck. A resolution calling for a constitutional convention has been introduced in the house by Wagener, of Atchison. It provides for summitting to the people at the general election of 1904 the question as to whether a convention shall be called. This is an indirect way of securing resubmission. All resubmissionists realize that no straight resubmission resolution can be pushed through this session, but they hope to get at the same result by way of the constitutional convention resolution. Della Gurestra Reggio Salvatore the "italian count" who is making a journey around the world without means on a wager of $20,000, is passing through Texas. He is on his way to San Francisco, where he is to take a boat for South America. The man carries the best of recommendations from Elk lodges and public officials of many of the leading cities of the United States, where he has visited. He must complete his journey by February, 1904. Salvatore left Palermo, Italy, two years ago. Mrs. Mary J. Collins, who died at her home in Miami county a week ago, had recollections of the civil war of a most vivid kind. At the age of 21, in 1863 she was married to Captain John C. Collins at Ironton, O., and the wedding trip of the couple was directly to Kentucky, where her husband's regiment was seeing service. Within a few days her husband was called into battle. She followed, remaining close to the battle line, until the Union forces pressed the rebels back into Georgia. In 1865 Captain and Mrs. Collins came to Kansas and resided on a farm. J. N. Noble, a prisoner in the guard house at Fort Leavenworth, escaped in a mysterious manner and no trace of him has been found. It is believed that Noble's sister, who is said to live in Kansas City, alided him to escape. Noble filed his shackles and crawled through a transom to the roof of the guard house. To reach the ground he had to jump fifteen feet. Four sentries were on guard and it is regarded as a mystery how Noble succeeded in passing them. Noble was arrested in Kansas City about three months ago and sentenced to six months in the guardhouse. 一 --- --- 1 --- 一 Chester I. Long has been unanimously nominated by the Kansas Republican legislative caucus for United States senator. Senator Cubbison introduced a bill authorizing Wyandotte county to build a new $300,000 courthouse in Kansas City, Kas. Bills have been introduced in both branches of the Kansas legislature to increase the state superintendent of instruction's salary from $2,000 to $2,500. Miss Helen Gould, of New York has notified the committee that she would attend the international Railroad Y. M. C. A conference in Topeka April 28, to May 2. President Roosevelt has also been invited. The city council of Louisburg has granted a franchise to a company to put in a telephone exchange. The company will wire the farm houses the surrounding country and connect them with the Paola and Osawatomie exchanges. William Polhamus, a farmer living southeast of Paola, met with an accident that is likely to prove fatal. Ten days ago he had the end of his thumb crushed in a corn sheller, and since has been taken with lockjaw. There is little hope for his recovery. The house by resolution has requested that the Kansas delegation in congress support a measure to build a battle ship to be named "Kansas." Since most of the Kansas congressmen were in Topeka a wag suggested that the resolution be sent over to the hotel. The engine of a Union Pacific passenger train on the Lincoln branch ran into a herd of cattle on the track near Morland recently and killed twenty-three and crippled eleven. The train was going at about thirty miles an hour. The engineer stated that when the engine struck the bunch he thought he had run into a snow drift. An obscured sky prevented the engineer from seeing the animals lying on the track. Superintendent H. B. Pearis, of the Haskel Indian Institute, has returned from Washington, D. C., where he has been in the interests of the local Indian school. He succeeded in having a bill for giving Haskel a total appropriation of $156,250, favorably received by the committee. The amount is apportioned as follows: For the support and transportation of 750 pupils, $130,250; for superintendent's salary, $2,250; for repair and improvements, $8,000; for sewers, $1,600; for improvements on farm, $5,000; for fire escapes $1,500; for barns, live stock and implements. $5,000. The constructing quartermaster at Fort Riley has received orders from Washington to prepare plans for the remodeling of the old post mess hall, which will be converted into a post exchange and a gymnasium for the enlisted men. An appropriation of $25,000 was made for this work several weeks ago. The mess hall was the largest in the United States. The mess hall experiment proved a failure in the army, and since the plan was abandoned the old hall at Fort Riley has been used for many purposes. Lately it has been used as a post theater. The following are the maximum charges allowed in the stock yards bill introduced in the Kansas legislature by Caldwell of Barbour: driving, yarding, watering and weighing of cattle, fifteen cents a head; calves, eight cents; hogs, six cents; sheep, four cents. It is provided that a ton of hay shall have 2,000 pounds; that seventy pounds of ear corn or fifty-six pounds of shelled corn shall be a bushel. Feed shall not be sold at the rate than 100 per cent above market price. Dead stock may be removed by owners. A penalty of $100 for the first violation of the act, $200 for the second and $500 and six months imprisonment for the third is provided for. Paul Torrington, who was very well known among the younger crowd in Topeka up to about five years ago, was in Kansas City last week. He now registers from Tomsk, Siberia, and is on his way to Topeka, where he will visit his parents for a month if he is not recalled. Mr. Torrington was the eminent of the Siberian Gold Dredge Company, which is getting rich deposits of gold out of the bed of Tomsk river. He had been in charge of their work there for five years, and is very enthusiastic about the possibilities which have been revealed in Siberia, especially for expert mining engineers. With the close of his present term in the state senate, Louis P. King will have served twenty years continuously as a member of the Kansas legislature. This is the longest any man has ever served continuously as a member of the Kansas legislature. William Buchan of Kansas City, Kas., is believed to have served longer, but it was not a continuous service. The record made by Captain John Seaton in 1850, two years in the house, was the longest any man had ever served continuously in that body. Senator King is only 54 years old and came to Kansas when he was less than 5 years old. Dr. Charles H. Shouters has filed in the probate court in Washington D. C. a petition asking that a collector be appointed to take charge of the estate of the late Charles L. Pullman, formerly of Kansas, Mr. Pullman, who was a brother of the late George M. Pullman, the palace car magnate, died two months ago. Three wills have been produced and it is now said a fourth has been found. Dr. Shouters states that the Pullman estate is indebted to him in the sum of about $1,200 for professional services. He affirms that the estate will aggregate more than $100,000. Captain Elli Snyder died on his 88th birthday at the family home in Osawatonie. Captain Snyder was one of the pilots of Kansas. He went to Lincoln county in 1857 and settled near what was then known as Trading Post. It was on his farm that a band of border ruffians committed the murders which have passed into history as the Marals des Cygnes massacre, Captain Snyder had a blacksmith shop near Trading Post, and when the ruffians came to take him he put up a fight which left him twice wounded but drove them away. When the civil war broke out he raised a company. 一 一 TRACEY WAS A FAMILIAR TYPE; SAM BASS AND "BILLY THE KID." Seattle letter: One of the most conspicuous cases of atavism of the present day is that terror of the western country known as Harry Tracy. Men of the Tracy type have been considered as practically extinct during recent years and writers of piquant narrative have been deploring the disappearance of this picturesque element from our frontier states. The gentleman who write stories which lead ambitious Eastern boys to dream of becoming Yosemite Bills and Deadwood Dicks have been languishing of late and the dime novel business has been at a standstill. Impetus enough to play a literary product to guarantee it another ten years of life and the writers of the historical and the rural novels must look to their lamrels. Instead of resurrecting a lot of innocuous historical celebrities or elaborating the idiosyncracies of some shallow rustic whose monotonous life is nothing more heroic than that of the cows or goats they tend to weil now among the mountains of Iowa of Winchester who can hold sheerfis's posses and baying bloodbounds at bay with the same ease that a D'Artigan could dispose of a dozen troublesome swordmen with one or two masterful strokes. Some two or three years ago Captain Mossman was commissioned to form a corps of rangers and hunt the bad men out of the mountains and other hiding places. Doubtless he has not neglected his opportunity, it being an occupation for which he and his troop of ex-sherfis felt peculiarly fitted. Captain Warbe who was sherfist Fort Worth, Texas, in the latter part of the seventies died the other day and his death recalls the killing of Sam Bass on a road that Rock when $25,000 was offered for the capture of the noted outlaw then the terror of the Western states. Bass, like Tracy, was little more than a boy when he reached the end of his rope, being only twenty-seven when Captain Ware's fatal aim ended his dizzy career. Bass was, for a time, the terror of the Western express companies and railway managers. His methods were of about the same standard of daring as those of Tracy and he was finally captured owing to the wound from Captain Ware's gun, which compelled him to take refuge in the woods where he was found and captured, but mortality was high. Bass was the hero of many big hold-ups, perhaps the greatest of which was the great robbery of the Union Pacific overland mail train at Big Springs, Nebraska, in September 1877, when $69,000 was captured by the robbers. This money was all in twenty dollar, California mint, gold pieces and the principal trouble the robbers had was to get away with such a load. Ware was one of the nerviest officers of the law Texas ever saw. When he heard that Bass was in Round Rock planning some new devilry he rode into the town and seeing Bass in the street opened fire on him. Ware was in the room and seeing Bass drop on him and lodging a charge in his abdomen. Bass desired to be known as the gentleman robber and while dying of the wound inflicted by Ware claimed that although he had been mixed up in hundreds of shooting affairs he had never killed a man. He intimated that his death had been caused. Were the result of his policy not to kill. Bass claimed that his going wrong was due to his love of sport and gambling on the "ponies." He refused to make any confession regarding his accomplices. Present recrudescence of desperadism and its history is revived by the story told recently by Sheriff Patrick J. Garrett of New Mexico, recounting the shooting of "Billy the Kid." Twenty years ago "Billy's" name was as much of a terror as is Tracy's today. There have been dozens of stories written of the way in which he finally met his end, but Sheriff Garrett, says that the true story is only now told. "I had, on occasions sat opposite Bill GREAT WHIRLWIND OF WATER Interesting Facts Regarding a Famous Waterspout. St. Nicholas for August: These local whirlwinds, of great energy, are usually formed within thunderstorms. You know or have read of the funnel-shaped cloud that passes along at the rate of say 20 to 40 miles an hour with deafening, roaring noise. This gigantic upward whirlwind takes up trees by their roots, tears houses to pieces, and scatters the fragments for miles. Children, and even grown-up people are taken up into the clouds, where distressed failure at last so violently as to cause instant death, or at least very serious injuries. In such land of tornadoes the destruction is so terrible that it makes what is known as a "path" of devastation. People within this path can, of course, know but little of the appearance of the cloud overhead or of the appearance between cloud and earth, but there are many descriptive accounts of such phenomena that have been a safe distance. Such observations tell funnel-shaped cloud and the whirling, twisting, writhing spout of the "funnel," that reaches down to the ground, sweeping or taking up nearly everything, forming the path as it passes along. A tornado at sea is called a waterspout, and then it indeed is a funnel, for it is one tubular column of water and vapor, that is drawn in from the surrounding atmosphere or from the sea. It is generally admitted that in at least the outer part of the spout the water and vapor are going upward in the hole and one observation has led scientists to believe that there is in the center of water and vapor the spout moving downward. There are also differences of opinion as to whether the water on the outside is wholly fresh from the falling rain and surrounding vapor or at least partly salt from the water of the sea. Monopoly Cornering a Continent. Given a limited coal area and given the necessities of 76,000,000 of people, and these cannot remain forever at the mercies of six railroads which control the situation. There is present a condition which may call for more than ordinary measures or law. A continent cannot forever he "cornered" in this case, but it may be that modern conditions and necessities may create new demands. It may be necessary to interfere positively with what we look on now as "liberty" in some particular. We may have to forbid peremptorily any one from monopolizing a product limited as an anthracite coal coal, no matter whose "rights," as we now regard them, we shall have to reconsider.-Indianapolis News. Clara Barton, head of the Red Cross society, has been invited by President Diaz, of Mexico, to come to the City of Mexico and there organize a branch of the city for the republic. WHEN BLAST OF WAR BLOWS In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, The initiate the action of the tiger; Stiffen his sinews, summon up the blood; Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'er- whelm it As carefully the doth a gallled rock O'erhang and jutty his compounded base. Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide. Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. . Shakespeare A Low-County Fued ATTON had come from a state farther north. He had been in the low-country for years; but these had not served to entirely eradicate the traditions and the inborn teachings of his home state. Wild uneducated, untitored, he was a savage still. He had a brother. Younger, less wild, and weaker, this brother appealed strangely to his love and to his protection. When Tatton came to the low-country his brother had remained behind. For months he did not hear from him. A magnificent speech word from a friend. For the moment he was stunned and could not understand the reality. Tom, so the friend wrote, had become involved in a quarrel with a man in the section—one with whom Tatton was well acquainted—and in the course of the personal encounter that ensued he was shot and killed. After much labor Tatton had managed to read the letter. It was slow work, for he could not read so well as in the old days when he had casually attended the little school out by the branch. Distrusting his own knowledge, he took the letter with him to the school. He was persuaded a friend's storkeeper to read it for him. It was indeed as he had read for himself. Tom was dead. Tatton dumbly thanked the man, took the sheet of paper, and silently left the place. Out into the woods he made his way, towards the Old Fort swamp. Once there, he seated himself on a log, one that had served the purpose before, and bit by bit went over the information he had received. It was wooelfly brief and insufficient in its details. Tom had become involved in a quarrel with one Ben Jenkins over a hog. One word led to another, each pulled his gun, and in the fusillade that followed he struck the wall with a punch. Jenkins gave himself up to the authorities, was tried and acquitted. He had killed Tom in self-defense. That was all there was to it. Tatton went over the meager details time and again, until they were indelibly engraved on his mind and heart. That morning, just prior to receiving the letter, another blow had been administered to the man. The woman who kept the house where he took his meals was a Mrs. Hawkins. Long had Tatton observed her, for she was good to look at. There was a grace in her demeanor, but which she admired, but which he admired. Her face was pretty, and he felt 'that he could look at it forever and not grow tired. He did not know what love was; but he would lie out beyond the fence, in a clump of low pine saplings, and watch her for hours as she passed and fro in the pursuance of her duties. Sometimes there was a child with her, and Tatton admitted to himself that she would like into his conception of an angel. During these months that he had been in the low-country his shrewdness and industry had not gone unrewarded. He had saved some money. One day, some weeks before, the thought had come to his mind to ask Mrs. Hawkins to marry him. Night after night he lay Shepless, thinking it over, and weighted himself. Finally he decided to put it to the test. He called on Mrs. Hawkins and made known his desire in his blunt, straightforward way. No less blunt and straightforward was her answer. She was married, her husband was still alive, and in fact she expected him home that very evening. He had been away for a long time, but today he would return. Tatton saw the look of her eyes, her eyes, the ripple of gladness in her voice. He turned from her and left the house. As he walked defectedly to the front gate, the little girl ran after him, shyly slipped her hand into his, and told him not to look so that her papa was coming home that night. Tatton stopped abruptly, took her in his arms, and held her close for a moment. Gently placing her on her shoulder, she walked through woods, while the little girl returned and told her mother what the man had done. When he came to the village the letter, notifying him of Tom's death, was given him. Out by the Old Fort swamp he brooded over it all. He wondered in a mechanical way how much it would cost to reach Kentucky. Once there, he would shoot Jenkins. Tom would rest easier in his grave if he knew of it. Late that evening he came to the Hawkins house. He came late purposefully, that he might miss seeing Mrs. Hawkins, that he approached Halsey to look as if she saplings, to see if the road were clear. A glance convinced him that it was not. Coming towards him, along the path, were a man and woman; before them, in childish glee ran a little girl. He knew the three at a glance. As they came nearer something about the man seemed familiar. Tatton watched him closely. The man raised his face to look at the full moon in the east. There was no mistaking him—it was Ben Jenkins. Tatton's first emotion was one of ferocious pleasure. His blood surged within him, and then ran cold. Already was his enemy within his reach. He paused not to think but to whisper what he meant, but bulling on his pistol was prepared to bloody work. One second he hesitated and then it was too late. So softly he replaced the pistol, and so softly slipped from the sapling thicket deeper into the woods. "it mott scare Mis' Hawkins an the leetle gal! he muttered; 'I'll come back tonight an' git him w'en they ain't so closet to him." True to his word, two hours later he returned with his rifle. Long he paused in the thicket, but he could see no one about the house. Finally he slipped up close to the front door and lay in hiding. From within came the sound of voices. Soon Jenkins appeared on the small front porch, and with him came the little girl. She climbed into his lap as he sat on the step and called him "papa." Up to this time Tatum could not conceive of Jenkins' relation to Mrs. Hawkins and his came to him. With a sudden shock came to him. He remembered having heard that Hawkins was Mrs. Jenkins' maiden name. For some person she had adopted it when her husband went to Kentucky. Tatton had just raised his Winchester when the words of the little girl came ly at the poker table," said Mr. Garrett, "and therefore I knew him well. He had half a dozen characters, very much after his own stamp, with whom he associated. No crime was too desperate for them to commit. There was no conmunction on their part of taking a life or a dozen lives, for the matter of fact, if it became necessary. "We had been after the gang pretty hot and had got them. Billy had murdered a man on the Indian reservation while they were stealing horses. He was to be hanged May 28, 1881. He escaped from the Lincoln county jail just before the date set, taking the lives of a United States marshal and a deputy sheriff in order to accomplish his feat. "The rumor reached me that Billy was at Peter Maxwell's ranch and on July 12 I went there leaving two of my men outside. I was _well acquainted with Maxwell, who was lying on a bed in the corner when I entered. I stod my Winchester against the wall and sitting down on the bed commenced chatting with him. I soon went to the matter I had in hand and said I understood that Billy had been heard of around this vicinity. Maxwell answered nonchalantly to the effect that he had not seen him, but his words did not convey the conviction that he was spotted at the truth. "We had not been chatting more than fifteen or twenty minutes before Billy emerged from the woods across the road and entered the house with a rush. "He had been across the street to order a Mexican there to take a coffee for him and had seen my mom whom he had accosted. They had not answered him, a fact which had aroused his suspicions. He had darted into the house, and came upstairs in his stocking feet. My face was in the shadow when he entered. He rushed over at me with a knife in one hand a gun in the other. His gun almost touched me when he laid his hand on my thigh and shouted "Who are you?" "He drew back and fired as if he knew well enough who I was, as undoubtedly he did, but my bullet was the quickest and "Billy the Kid" rolled over. "Billy the Kid" was from New York state and was but twenty-two when he allowed Sheriff Garrett to get the drop on him, with fatal results. Like most of his class Billy had many friends and was regarded by a few as the best kind of a good fellow. "A man with nerve behind a gun is worth twenty-five who are after him," added Sheriff Garrett in reply to some questions about Harry Tracy. Bret Hartre never limed a character of the desperado type more interesting than this same Tracy. For several years now the stories of his thrilling adventures with sheriff's posses, bloodhounda and the ordinary paraphernalia of the law have made reading matter of a character that would move the facelid corpules in even a fossil's anatomy and however great his crimes may be this desperate, unouth outlaw has in a brief space of time spring into the position of a national hero. He shoots of his jall chum, Merrill, in the back in a lonely spot in the forest shows how absolutely selfish and heartless the Seattle terror is at heart. The spilling of blood has not dawned and never will dawn Tracy for a minute, any life that he thought stood between him and safety be ruthlessly sacrificed without a second thought. Tracy is supposed to bear the banner record of all bad men, either past or present. The authorities of at least half a dozen states want him for such crimes as horse-stealing, robbery and murder. As a jail breaker he also takes system in vogue for confining prisoners that he is not able to laugh at, experiment with and break through. In the course of his recent experiences Harry Tracy has had hundreds of men and hounds following him at a time and it almost seems as if he had sometimes utilized a hypnotic spell instead of accomplishing such miracles as he has done by ordinary means. BEN STILLWOOD. The Self-Sustaining Prodigal. They had waited a long time for the return of the prodigal. At last he came. After appropriate greetings his father said, rather sadly for so glad an occasion: "My son, I'm very sorry, but we have no fainted calt to mark your return. Neither can I afford to buy one, having of late fallen upon evil days." "I feared as much," replied the son, "so I stopped at the drover's on my way up and ordered the best fatted calf he had. There it comes now," and on looking out they beheld two strong butcher men struggling in with the largest and fattest calf they had ever seen. This fable, simple though it may be, shows how even a prodigal may succeed by the strict application of modern business methods—Lippincott. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is not a treaty closed. Deafness is mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and then it is quietly closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten have been inflicted by the mucous but an infirm condition of the mucous services. We will give One Hundred Dollar for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) Caturr Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Drudeists, 750 Mosquitoes Eat One Another Mosquitoes Eat One Another. It is is satisfactory to find that mosquitoes eat one another. This fact is brought out by a correspondent in the British newspaper *Journal*. Barnett writes from India, and says that he has observed that the larvae of the culex hatch out in such great numbers that the question is raised: What do they live upon? He quotes Mr. Christy, who says that he has on several occasions watched the older and stronger ones devour the younger and weaker. Mr. Barnett says that these stronger ones devour the younger and larger devour the younger and smaller ones until none but the bigger ones remain, and he regards this as an example of the Darwinian law of the survival of the strongest. It would be interesting to turn these cannibalistic propensities of the mosquito to our benefit. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Spotting Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period. Mrs. Leland Stanford has been sued by Sculptor Rupert Schmid for over $19,000, money alleged to be due for extra work on the sculpture of the frieze of the Stanford memorial arch at Palo Alto. -Shakespeare. BY C. AUGUST MITTELL. right, 1901, by Authors Syndicate). ATTON had come from a state farther north. He had been in the low-country for years; but these had not served to entirely eradicate the traditions and the inborn teachings of his home state. Wild, he situated, untored, he a savage sigh. to his ears. At this moment, from within doors, came the sound of Mrs. Jenkin's voice in song. Sweetly the words thrubbed in his ears. It was the old song, dear to every loyal heart of the old state, "She was bred in old Kentucky." Tatton thought the gates of paradise had opened, and the this word floated on the night air and died away. He dropped the muzzle of his gun, arose to his feet, softly slipped out to the pine thicket, and thence along the path to the Old Fort swamp. Kings Not Crowned King Christian of Denmark, father of Queen Alexandria, has ruled almost 40 years—since 1863—and has yet to be crowned. He was proclaimed king from the palace of Christianborg. The new king of Italy has not been crowned, and if Victor Emmanuel follows the example of his father, Humbert I, he never will be. This is the more strange as the crown of Italy—the Iron Crown of Lombardy—is the most ancient and historic crown in the world. The iron part of it, which is hidden almost completely in gold and jewels, is said to have been made of nails from the cross on which the Savior was crucified, and the gold was worn on the cross. It is also made of ironic metals. In its present shape the crown dates from 395. It was one of the most valued possessions of the Emperor Constantine. It crowned the Lombard kings. The last two occasions on which it was used for coronation purposes was in 1805, when Napoleon, who had carried it off to Paris, was crowned the Cathedral of Notre Dame in 1838 when Ferdinand I of Austria was crowned with it at Milan. Its last public appearance was on the bier of the assassinated Humbert, two years ago. It is said that threats of force had to be made to the priests who have to charge the Iron Crown before they would allow it to be placed on the coffin. It was enough, the Sultan of Turkey, to confess the sword instead of a crown upon his accession—St. Louis Republic. MEN AND WOMEN. Harlan Cleveland has been selected dean of the law department of the University of Cincinnati. Frank Weston, husband of Effle Ellisler, the actress, has "made a strike" in gold ore in the Needleton district, about half way between Durango and Silverton, Col. The Springfield Republican says that every recommendation made by Gov W. Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, in his three annual messages has been enacted into law by the successive legislatures. 一 Rev, James H. Halpin, of St. Francis de sales' church, Herkimer, N. Y., is president of the board of trade of thaud town. He is a keen business man and has just celebrated his 20th anniversary in the priest hood. 一 Mrs. Urquardt Lee, of Chicago, has the distinction of being the only woman in the country teaching parliamentary law. She is the new appointee to the chair of parliamentary law in the University of California. Joseph Devlin, M. P., the Nationalist leader, now in London, says that during his recent tour of this country with William Redmond they started 188 branches of the United Irish league and collected $25,000. Miss de Mattos, who was recently married to Mr. Dalton in England, is the daughter of R. L. Stevenson's cousin, to whom "R. L. S." dedicated his "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and addressed some of the loveliest of his lines. Verestchagin, the Russian painter of battle scenes, has gone to Cuba to study the foliage on San Juan Hill. President Roosevelt having criticised his picture of the Battle of San Juan on the ground that he had made the trees and plants too dull. Prince Henry of Prussia, whose march through the United States in such quick time will be remembered, has appeared as a composer. A march by the composer, the Parade March of the Marine Divisions", has just been published in Lelgiz. 一 One of the largest tobacco growers in Kentucky, Edward D. Jones, of Christian county, was left stranded after the rebellion, returning therefrom utterly wrecked in finance and spirit. He now owns 1,000 acres and is rich. His mother was a sister of the great Confederate leader, Gen. John H. Morgan. Augustus Howard Murphy, the oldest of the New York and Sante Hook pilots, celebrated his golden wedding recently at his home in Brooklyn. Mr. Murphy began his piloting in 1849 and retired in 1897, after 48 years of active service, the record, it is said, for the port of New York. He married Miss Henrietta Powell, July 1, 1852. Christopher Forbes, for who many years until 1896 hoisted the flag at the town on Excation day, is dead in New York. He, the sineal descendant of Van Ardslea, the sineal pulled down the British flag when the English left the city in the Revolution. Since 1896 the Society of the War of 1812 has performed the flag-raising ceremony. Let Your Face Rest Critics say that the modern English woman's smile is fast becoming a meaningless thing from over indiscriminate use, says the London Graphic. There is some truth in the statement, for, when one comes to think of it, almost any remark one makes to the merest acquaintance, even on a first encounter is met by a smile. There is no mirth in the merest one a muscular movement, made, semimartial, to show polite interest. It reminds one of the Japanese woman, who must always smile, even in the deepest sorrow or distress of mind, and who must never on any account snow a depressed countenance in public, or even in the family circle, she should be addressed by a colleague who she owes respect. The effort to imitate the vivacity of our American sisters is simply be at the root of the continual smile be seen on the countenances of modern women, but a smile alone will never make a countenance pleasing, unless it expresses some lively interest or feeling. Too many sweets clog the appetite, and always in evidence become valueless in meaning. Repose is needed nowadays in nearly every direction, and nowhere more than on the face of women—New Orleans Times-Democrat. --- "Pa, what does this pa- mean by saying it was a fruitless search? Pa- It probably applies, my son, to the quest of some man who was looking for pineapples on a pine tree in strawberries in the strawstack—Froë A pew fivefoot vein of the heat has been reported from Howe. Tams Bixby, acting chairman of Dawes commission, thinks it will require two years to silt the Cherokee lands Statistics show that the Kansas penitentiary is boarding 274 Oklahoma prisoners, and that the territory is arrears to the amount of $ 6000 The entire Southwest Oklahoma is gone oil mad. The recent development in the oil belt at Granite has stimulated prospecting for oil in Brown, which adjoins Greenville to the east, and about two and one miles from Granite, which was recently opened to settlement Representative F. P. Bradwood Beaver was one of the first selectors in Cimarron territory, the provincial government established. Beaver county in the sels. He has commission, which shows that he was elected from the First district in Cimarron territory: Benton, the highest Perkins and Sunset Great Interest Great interest is maintained in the convention to be held in Southwestern Oklahoma to arrange for irrigation that entire section. By a request of congress all the money from the sale of public lands in certain western states and territories is to be used in irrigation Oklahoma iscluded in this region. About $1,000,000 is already lying in Washington where he is used for Oklahoma. When this land is proved on there will be $4,000,000 for this purpose for the territory. An example of clean grit was the case of Mrs. Amy Robert, of Iverson who jumped from her wagon Gate one day recumbent and sustained fracture of the leg. She was alone and her horses ran away, but she crawled after them three quarters of a mile, caught them and drove seven miles to the house of a friend. A doctor was handy and she had sustained surgery herself, she reduced the fracture, bandaged the injured limb, and the next day drove alone to her thirty-five miles away. Representative Brownlow, of Tuxedo nese, has introduced a bill directing the secretary of the interior to cover by patent in fee simple section 15, ward of Indian meridian, to the board leasing school lands in the territory and the board is authorized to direct to sell and convey in fee the several lots, blocks parcels of land, second less than thereof at the praised value, less thereof at the proceeds of such sales to the cover the school fund of its territory. The town are now occupied by the town on Mountain View, with a population of 1,500. INDIAN TERRITORY A deputy sheriff near Ardmore recently arrested a perambulating mill in the person of a man who cared a jug of booze in a gunny shirt thrown over his shoulder and dispensed it from a small glass product from a vest pocket. It was an Indian down in the Seminole country who, when sympathizing with because he had traded two ponies with a white man for one sheep, grunted: "Injun satisfied," pressed for the whi of his self-gratulation, he replied: "White man buy sheep—injun steal ponies." Ponca, Otoe and Missouri Indians are realizing that their marriage customers are not in line with white men usage and many of them, who have been living as man and wife, have seen cursed licenses from probate judges in Noble county and been married. In each instance the bride was older than the groom, a usage which seems to obtain in these tribes. Jacob Jackson, a Chocota leader says the Chocota and Chickasaw are trying to make a treat with the Dawes commission for the sale of tribal coal lands, so they can arrange for an exodus to Mexico. The aidment to begin at Atola next month is expected to further their scheme. The fullbloods say they want a warer climate and have found a land in Mexico exactly suited to them. The oil well in Sapulpa, after ruining undisturbed for several months, again brought into prominence by stream of oil flowing from a month. The new development was first noticed last week. A resident some boys gathered about the well and going over found that the well will be remembered that the expert who "shot" the well claimed that it would make a forty-barrel a day well and indications are that he did not over-estimate it. The first settlement made at Rush Springs was made as early as 1870. Two small parties of Caddo Indians who cultivated small patches of ground within the confines of the present town of Rush Springs. This section, when compared with other localities of the Five Civilized tribes is of recent date. There are a number of citizens still living in the town and surrounding country, well remember when the entire tance from Pauls Valley to Fort St. was uninhabited by any living Indian except blanket Indians, wild animals and cattle. Following an Investigation by the chiefs of the Kiowa, Comanche, Caddis and Wichita affiliated tribes of the dians whose reservation in Oklahoma was recently opened to settlement agents of immense land grants in Oklahoma Mexico are now with them, to clear if possible, a deal by which the dians take 1,780,000 acres of land and joining the Rio Grande river, in the states of Chihuahua and Abuña. The chiefs have reported favorably on the land to their tribes. It is claimed that 1,000,000 acres will cost $50 cents each and the remainder $1 per acre. The Widow—I want a man to do odd jobs about the house, run on rands, one that never answers back and is always ready to do my bidding. Applicant—You're looking for a band, ma'am.—Life. CANCER CURED WITH SOOTHING. BA Cancer, Tumor, Cataract. Pintal Pain. Cancer, Tumor, Fracture. Disease Illustrated Book. Sent free. B.R.YE. Cor. 9th & Kansas City, M. I present to the readers of this paper the testimonial letters and names of our patient whom I have cured of cancer, believing that the afflicted man rather correspond with some one who has been cured than read what I have about myself. You can more or less investigate and convince yourself of the merits of my treatment. You can doubt any stater letters I might send but you cannot help but believe in the merits of those I have cured, will ask you to write to any or all of them. If you are satisfied with what they say about my reliability in methods of treatment, write to me call and see me. Remember that in cases I guarantee a cure and do no one cent of money you are. Consultation by mail or in per cent entirely free. I will be pleased correspond with you regarding your DE ERNEST HENDERSON. McPherson, Kaus, June 8, 1890. He was a very old case of capture. He died in the three weeks. I cannot say too much for him. I know he do not just die, he may be in the patient is well. This is the advantage he can possibly give to any person he does more about my case. A. R. OLSON Notes for My Treaties on the Cure of Kapture Sent Free other Bad Case Permanently Cured in a short Time—Grateful for Same I do Bear Doctor—I desire to add my treatment to those you test me on and you made a permanent in a short time, without pals, and I never day from my work to be in the cone. I do not be back in the cone because I have thousand dollars. I thank you for recommending my capture to any person. FRED HARPER; 301) Indiana Ave. intended for Years—Fronounced Incarable other Doctors. Do Doctor—I wish to state that I can most likely recommend your rupture treatment. I have a patient who is a highly sensitive rupture that was pronounced serious to be impossible except possibly by a doctor. I am confident that I can determine to try the same and am still looking for after taking your treatment for rupture. Your treatment all that you claim for it. 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The children of Israel cried all night (dramatically) the children of Israel cried all night—the babylon!". At that point the doctor and his audience began the full enjoyment of the sermon. Will Exhibit Dynometer Car. Chelf Rogers, of the Department of Education, reports that one of the most interesting exhibits of the University of Illinois at the St. Louis University Fair will be a dynometer car, an invention of the mechanical department of the University. The invention measures inequalities in trunk surface. A car now used by the Illinois Central railroad is to be exhibited at the Exposition. Former President Steyn, of the also Orange Free State, lives at Georgetown, where his children go to school. Poor Man's Chance. H. A. RIEDEL & CO., Lutheran Minister Tell of His Cure After Suffering Six Years I suffered for six years with a very bad rupture and during all of the time I wore different kinds of trusses day and night, with the hope of effecting my all failed—they cuy held the rupture in place. Upon the advice of Rev. P. Feiffer, of Sedan, Md., I was appointed the chief nurse specialist, 103 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City Mo., who cared me in a few weeks without subjecting me to a dangerous and painful pain. I was impressed by the care I received with my trusses at an inconvenience. Anyone desiring more information will please apply to me, personally or by letter. I am, Reporter, John Sauer. Nov. 14, 1899 1877 Oak St. Kansas City My Dear Doctor. I—suffered for over five years—maturely. I scarcely retain it with a trust. constantly grew worse and the pain great. I could not meet with my advertisement I considered to try your treatment. To my surprise you cared me in less than four weeks. I am glad to say that I have been able to sound and well. I am your fee with pleasure and still feel that I owe you a debt of gratitude which I hope to pay by inducing others to go to work. I will gladly write to anyone about my case. I have been careful to cure我 was effected as the best guarantees 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 2015. Please Enclose a Stamp for Answer. Mike Gaynor, 20 Ewing St. Kansas City, Mo K. Olson, McBerson, Kans. Mike J. Brock, county attorney, Maubatans Kans. N. M. Kent, 401, Orchard St. Chicago, Ill. Oscar Dillon, 601, Campbell St. Kansas, City H. M. McDonald, Dennison, Kans. B. F. Dobbs, 1930, 17th St. Kansas City, Kana A. Young, 3418 Windsor Ave, Kansas City, Mo. J. S. Hamick, plumbing, Kansas City, Mo. W. C. Peak, grocer, 21 Centra. Ave Kauai City, Kauai. City, Kauaau. Maui, Mich. care Goodlander Milling Co. Ft Scott, Kauaau. Scott, Kans Farker, P. 1517 Brooklyn Ave.. Kahsaa Clio, Mo Hermann Sagell, Kansas City, Mo. Wm. Lym, Ranson, Kans. M. G. Hartrell, 719 Pelz St., St. Joseph, Mo. Fred Harper, 3011 Indiana Ave, Kansas City Mo. William Weltman, 410 Landis Court Kansas City, Mo. Rev. F. Pfeiffer, Sedalia, Mo. R. Rev. Champion, Armour Station, Kansas City Kane. J. T. Wood, merchant, Greenwood, Mo. Chas. T. Hummer, 424 Edmond St., St. Joe, Mo. Chas. Caster, 11 N. Spring Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Fred Phinney, 424 Edmond St., St. Louis, Mo. R. B. Griffith, Temple Blvd; Kansas City, Mo. Thos. McMason, 704 N. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo. R. B. Griffith, Temple Blvd; Kansas City, Mo. sidence 1021 Locals Creek, Kansas City, Mo. child 15 months old. G. F. Shaw, assistant county surveyor, ind pendence, M. O. Baker, Baker H.Smith Fun If Mississippi Flowed North. The Rhine is less than 900 miles long, and the Danube less than 2,000 The length of the longest river in India is 2,300 miles, and the longest in Asia is 3,200. 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Emery, who for the last five years has been employed in the New Orleans mint, has sailed for China, where he will assist in the introduction of modern methods of stamping coins. Mr. Emery is an expert machinist, and installed the present machinery in the new New Orleans mint. The only considerable fields of anthracite coal aside from that of Pennsylvania are those of China, which, however, are vast in comparison with Pennsylvanian's. The street car corporations of New York have determined foes to face in the latest crusade against them. The women of New York have decided to make a strenuous fight against the overcrowded car evil, and Mrs. T. St. John Gaffney, the famous society leader, is at the head of the "No-Seat No-Tare" movement. The street car corporations of New York have determined foes to face in the latest crusade against them. The women of New York have decided to make a strenuous fight against the overcrowded car evil, and Mrs. T. St. John Gaffney, the famous society leader, is at the head of the "No-Seat No-Fare" movement. NEW YORK Letter: It really seems strange to see people bundled up in furs shopping for summer gowns in the middle of January, but that is exactly what Gotham's fashionables are doing just now. Winter fashion must have not been relegated to back shades are to make room for the gorgeous array of muslins, skirts, lawns and onions that are to be worn next spring and summer. It goes without saying that these new materials are dainier and more effective than ever. Such exquisite coloration with intricate design. Words really can not describe them! ately upon the galeries of winter, on has a better opportunity of dividing the time between penetential duties and visits to the modistes. Shirtwaists are usually the garment claiming first attention. This year they promise to be more impressive and distinguish than ever. There will be a variety of fabrics and a wide latitude allowed in the matter of designs. However simple a patterns may be it will be essential to preserve the fem inline element. Masculine effects will be avoided more than ever and only those designs accepted which bespale daintiness and grace. Such exquisite fabric is flowery cretonne. This is as heavy as French plate with a generous intermingling c Many of the diaphanous fabrics are self-trimmed. That is the surface is covered with groups of fine tuckings and plattings wrought so artistically they look like wood. Now is really the time to get exclusive materials and patterns for later in the season they will be unobtainable. It is really necessary for one to make these preparations in advance, for several reasons. For one thing dressmakers are hard to secure when summer comes, besides it is the smart way to dress them soon as the weather warrants it. Then as the Lenten season follows immedi- Will come for a concert tour in America. Mme. Patti has been living chiefly Europe generally since her marriage. Patti, although nearly at the end of still to possess almost wholly the c Will come for a concert tour in America—to make just one more "farewell." Mme. Patti has been living chiefly in Sweden and on the continent of Europe generally since her marriage with Baron Cederstrom in 1899. Patti, although nearly at the end of the sixth decade of her life, is said still to possess almost wholly the charm of her wonderful voice. Will come for a concert tour in America—to make just one more "farewell." Mme. Patti has been living chiefly in Sweden and on the continent of Europe generally since her marriage with Baron Cederstrom in 1899. Patti, although nearly at the end of the sixth decade of her life, is said still to possess almost wholly the charm of her wonderful voice. When one of Chicago's two educational institutions, the University of Chicago and the Northwestern university, cannot supply news for the papers of that city sometimes the best, the least, the items come from the university, and concerns the coeds, who have not yet been "segregated," as have their sisters at the Harper institution. It seems that the young ladies who live in Willard hall, one of the dormitories, are frivolously inclined, "Fudge-parties" and similar dissipations engross their attention at the expense of their work. Recently some of the young women got together and formulated rules of conduct which bar red out all parties of this kind and cut down "calling" evenings and hours. Hitherto the inmates of the hall have been allowed to callers on two nights in the week, from 7:30 to 10. Under the new rules callers may come from 7:30 to 9. The result of these stringent rules has been a terrifier rumpus on the part of a minority of young women who are socially inclined and a strike is threatened. A day in June can't compare with the man with a full coal bin. The extraordinary success for the past two years of the Michigan University football team has given rise to some very heavy betting among the students of this institution. Thousands of dollars were pooled to wager with the students of Michigan, Minnesota and Chicago, and the daily papers gave the odds of the odds and the like. The oil has grown to such an extent that shortly after the end of the present season the faculty unanimously passed a rule by which any student who wagers on an athletic event in which a university team is a factor is subject to expulsion. The faculty acknowledges the difficulty of enforcing any such rule, but it is hoped that its The "Weber Junior" Pumper Can also use a four- power pumper 2½ H.P. Fashion Notes of Today. MME. ADELIN A PATTI EW YORK Letter: It really seems strange to see people bundled up in furs shopping for summer gowns in the middle of January, but that is exactly what Gotnam's fashion are doing just now. ately upon the galees of winter, one has a better opportunity of dividing the time between penetential duties and visits to the modistes. Shirtwists are usually the garments claiming first attention. This year they promise to be more impressive and distingue than ever. There will be a greater variety of fabrics and a wider latitude allowed in the matter of designs. However simple a patterns may be it will be essential to preserve the femininel element. Masculine effects will be more evident ever and only those designs accepted which bespeakaintness and grace. A novel shirt waist fabric is flowered cretonne. This is as heavy as French pique with a generous intermingling of linen. The flowers are diminutive and extremely soft in effect. A picturequeuse design has applied plains back and front, the plains being stitched on either edge but not down flat upon the goods. The fulness at the front hangs perfectly round instead of the long effect usually observed. Narrow pipings of plain white cretonne lend chile sauce to the cream while the high standing collar has a turn-over of the same material. A distingishing feature of the newest turn-overs is that they have all increased in depth. In place of the regulations narrow straight or scalloped rica—to make just one more "farewell." ly in Sweden and on the continent of age with Baron Cederstrom in 1899. of the sixth decade of her life, is said charm of her wonderful voice. formulated rules of conduct which barred out all parties of this kind and cut down "calling" evenings and hours. Hitherto the inmates of the hall have been allowed to receive callers on two nights in the week, from 7:30 to 10. Under the new rules callers may come only from 7:30 to 9. The result of these stringent rules has been a terrific rumpus on the part of a minority of young women who are socially inclined, and a strike is threatened. A day in June can't compare with the man with a full coal bin. existence will rouse the sentiment of the student body against the fast-growing evil. Moreover, if a student is violated击诈, it will be rigorously enforced and an example made of the violator. He Merely Made It. "My boy doesn't seem to have got along here very well," said the office boy's father. "Well, to be perfectly frank with you," replied the employer, "I must say no. 'Ah! What was the trouble?' "He hasn't any trouble; it's the rest of us who have had that." band, there are two elongated points extending the full width of the collar and turned away at the ends to execute all sorts of fanciful effects. Another shirtwalt quite as novel as the cretonne design is an uncertain shade of green with just enough of a lace to suggest a linen book binding. This is an excellent question to smartly ornamented with, hands of wash embroidery simulating Oriental effects arranged neatly at the throat and waistbands. "There is every reason to believe that this new linen will be extremely popular for spring and summer wear. It comes also in brown, blue, red and biscuit color. It lends itself to almost any array of trimming, models ornamented with pearl buttons and appliquer of black velvet and lace being equally pretty. For warmer days there are two varieties of orgyand and one apt to select both in compromise of not being able to choose one and leave the other. One has the imprint of a lace medalled with the soft effect of lisee and clinging material; the other is crisp, fresh and "perky", substessing dimity, but infinitely finer. A fancy bodice developed in the latter has a yoke of tucked white mousseline de sole which extends only across the front and as deep as the bust line. Finishing the yoke is a band of cream, and under the insertion softened by an under layer of insertion softened. Insertion continues the outline up to and over the shoulders, though at the back it extends only along the shoulder seam. This allows an unbroken effect for the hemstitched-tucked organdy. Falling from the yoke over the opening of the bodice is a cascade of white lace, contrasting beautifully with the Russet fabric. Over the edge of the cascade falling in natural effect are bunches of grapes in heavy thread lace while the opening, though invisible, gains contract by means of white silk buttons, from which fraceful black and white silk tassels droop. The idea of softening the heavy laces upon delicate fabrics with a foundered piece of net is artistic and enhances considerably the beauty of the effect. Lace medallions and appliques will replace the lace stripes in expensive fabrics, though there are some pretty effects in the latter. The former run as high as $1.50 a yard, while the latter begin at 15 cents and range to 75. Muslins are always acceptable and those made on hand looms in the Swiss cantons make as chic frocks as one could desire trimmed in hand-painted gauzes and lilacate embroideries. The shirt-waist suit which is promised another season of fashionable favor will be executed in Scotch plaids of silk finish. Silk gingham is also pre-operative dress. Instead of the plain skirt which will an elbowate affair laid in narrow plaids and almost hugging the figure. It is no unusual to see some of those suits sitched with taffeta, but a more practical idea is the stitched of light weight chambray in solid color. The little fascinator which has been somewhat forgotten in the long reign of the "red riding hood" attached to evening wraps has come again and a guise not destined to resistless defeat. Instead of the shell stitch of the original the new fascinator is crocheted in square effect and each square is outlined with a tracery of delicate crepe ribbon. Pale pink, blue, white, acru and red are the colors most in demand and there is no other head-covering that forms so charming a setting for my lady's fair face. A boa which will be commended for its originality is composed of ostrich teeth and tailless ermine, with teeth of white lace and black chiffon. The feathers and mane remain similarly in alternate rows for almost twenty. At either end the boa is completed with a rosette of the lace and chiffon, embroidered with silver leaves and applied with immense white silk roses. A dainty trimming for any bodice is a corsage bouquet of ribbon violets or rose-buds. It requires something like 30 yards of ribbon for this concept, but as they are made gratuitously in the stores when the ribbon is purchased the bargain can hardly be considered a one-size-fits-all. Grapes and cherries are also numbered with this newest vagary of fashion. MAUDE GRIFINF. LONELIEST OF ALL COLONIES. Tristan da Cunha, Far to the South of St. Helena. One of the smallest and probably the loneliest of the fritish colonies is Tristan de Cunha, a high, rocky island twenty-one miles in circumference, which lies about 1,500 miles west of the Cape of Good Hope, and far to the south of St. Helena. The population is about seventy souls and it is the custom of the British government to send them here for her. There are months, with stores, mall, and presents from home. On this annual trip, his majesty's ship Thrush has just left Portsmouth. When Napoleon was a prisoner at St. Helena the island was garrisoned by artillerymen, and the present settlement was founded by three soldiers who remained and were afterwards joined by whalers the government was out from England. The government is socialistic, the head man or ruler being a patriarch named Peter Green. Whisky or beer drinking is unknown, and up to a few years ago tobacco was never used. The islanders live by cattle and sheep, their vegetable gardens and orchards, and barter with passing ships. The pests of the island are rats and wild cats, and the rats are birds. The cattle are the cats. In the last cargo sent out from England were three terriers and a can of rat poison. "What is a Yankee notion, pop?" "Eating ple for breakfast, my son."—Yonker's Statesman. John Hancock has been dead 100 years, but his estate has never been fully administered. Last week George C. King, a lawyer of Boston, representing that a remnant of the estate remains to be administered, asked the courts to appoint him legal representative of the family at the request of the next of kin of the patriot. Elizabeth L. H. Wood, apparently the only interested person, gives her written consent to the petition, which is to be considered by the court. M. 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Mr. Olsen, upon application, is prepared to supply reliable and improved farms regarding lands, or improved farms along the lines of the Southern Railway, on the Mobile Ohio Railroad in Virginia, North or South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Southern Illinois and Indiana. He is not a commission man but looks entirely to the interest of the purchaser of Southern farms, for the success of one man, happily located means that his friends and neighbors will personally know him and follow. He tells us that good lands provide dollars and cents, acre for acre as much as northern lands can be bought for for from $10 to $15 per acre. This includes many improvements, lands partly under cultivation, some timber, living springs of the purest freestone water. The land being suitable for general farming, as well as all kinds of fruit and truck gardening, is especially attractive to men of small means. Mr Olsen's earnestness inspires confidence in him, and will do you no harm to call upon him at the Southern Railway office Number 5, Board of Trade Building, Kansas City, or write him at 225 Dearborn street, Chicago. A NEW KLONDIKE There is a rich placer gold in New Mexico that is known to be 10 miles square; and the gravel is 10 to 100 feet thick, in which there is enough gold to pay the national debt. This deposit of gravel has been formed by the erasive action of water on the tops of the many rich quartz veins on the Ortiz mountain, on which is located the Santa Fe Gold & Copper Co.'s mines, that have paid over $17,000,000.00 to the owners. The famous Lincoln Lucky mine is also on this mountain, and it has paid over $1,000,000.00 in one year to its stockholders. Adjoining Lincoln Lucky, on the same vein, is located the C. & C. Consolidated—with a rich body of ore that will net from $40.00 to $150.00 per ton. Within the next year this mine should be the largest producer and most profitable of any in the camp. A small amount of money invested in it now, will make you wealthy in a short time. For the next 30 days you can buy some of its Treasury Stock at 5 cents per share. Then, if it is being sold to equip the mine with heavier machinery than that now in use. Don't fall to get some of the stock at this price. We want a few agents in different localities to sell this stock for the next 30 days. Cut this out and write for terms and prospectus at once to Commercial Accommodation Co., 104 West 9th Street, Kansas City, Mo. How a Woman Holds a Man's Affections. A wise and observing person stated the other day that many a wife complains that her husband does not take her out, that she only sees him at meals, or that he makes friendships in which she has no part. 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"Quite romantic," observed the old bachelor. "But many a girl's marriage can be traced to the fact that she needed dough."—Chicago Daily News. To Destroy Rabbits. An effective plan for destroying rabbits has been adopted at Merriagh Station, near Myrtleford, Australia. By means of a portable engine, and about a half mile of hose, the burrows are flooded from the river, thus getting rid of the pest, and irrigating at the same time. Bachelors and bachelor girls are twice as prone to crime as married men and women, according to statistics lately promulgated by Dr. C. R. Henderson of the University of Chicago. An Old Employe. Dr. Daniel Elmer Salmon, chief of the bureau of animal industry of the Agricultural Department, has held that office since 1884, and has been in that department of the Government since 1879. Bloodgood Cutter, the Long Island "farmer-poet," and one of the innocents who accompanied Mark Twain and his brood abroad on the ship Quaker City, has just sold his old house in which he was born in 1817 at Little Neck, L. l. A monument designed by Newton Thorp and to cost $45,000 is to be erected in San Francisco in commemoration of Dewey's victory at Manila. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bear the Signature of Charles H. Pitchin American Citizen American Citizen Publishing and Printing Co. VERY-WEEK AT 417 MINNESOTA AVE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Telephone "375 Blue" W. C. Martin Editor Terms Of Subscription. weekly one year.....$1 00 Entered at the post office at Kansas City Stones were formed into ge shapes of beetles by the arch of Egyptians. They regarded the beetle as an emblem of immortality, and hence it was the most popular of all forms of ornament. Counterfeit beetles of common stones were a amply purified with dead persons, as it was customary to engrave upon the the expression of wishes for life, report and happiness, dedicatio to the sult to God and various hierq yph. One of the latter was a hawk with a human head, symbolizing resurrection. Another, the vulture, meant maternity. A goose was the son of a king. "She had just refused a man worth a million." "Is it possible? Any rational explanation of her act?" "Oh, yes. She had just accepted an other man worth a million." Blobbs—Do you consider it good luck to pick up a pin? Slobbs—Well, I guess it's better luck to pick up one than to sit down on it—Philadelphia Record. "We tried a new breakfast food at our house this morning." "What was it?" "Beafishtalk"—Chicago Tribune DRY CREEK LOCALS. Red Mike's saloon was raided last night and ten gallon of whisky and a caddy of Willow Twist tobacco was stolen. The fact that the Three Leaf Temperance club held a late session last night may furnish Mike a clue. Bill Feverdrops was released from the city jail this morning on the promise that he would behave himself and help his wife do the washing. Bill is a rattling good fellow when he is sober, but it is hard to catch him that way. The Carrie Nation society held its second meeting in the rear of Bill Axmaker's hardware store last night. The meeting was opened with prayer and closed sine die. This final action was taken owing to the high price of hatchets in Dry Creek. Joe Smith lost a valuable dog Monday. It was thought at first that someone had given the dog poison with malicious intent, but a post-mortem examination disclosed one of Mrs. Smith's breakfast biscuits in the dog's stomach. Joe has our sympathy. The Buzzard gives divine notice right here, once for all, that no more free church notices will be published in these columns unless a ticket to the whole performance accompanies the copy. We are down on begging societies and religious lotteries anyway, and we don't propose to be a willing accomplice to the game unless there is something in it for us. Sam Lander, of Coyote Culch, was in town yesterday, the first time since he buried his mother. Sam hadn't been here two hours until he was fuller than a bath sponge and he insisted on shooting the ears off of a gentleman from Omaha. Sam was finally chased out of town by the marshal, and as we go to press some of the boys are trying to coax the man from Omaha to come out from under the meeting house. A box of dried up cake from the feasting boards of the Hodges-Blatz wedding reached this office two days after the charming Miss Blatz had thrown herself away by marrying Tom Hodges. If Tom thinks he can buy space in this paper and resistate himself in our innocent affections by sending us a box of sullings from his table, he's mistaken. He was afraid to invite us to the wedding because he knew we used to be sweet on the girl he film-flammed into marrying him. The bride has the sympathy of the entire community.--Dry Creek Buzzard. STAGE WHISPERS. "Tsar Fortis," a new play by Count Tolstoi, will soon be staged at Nijnt Novgorod. Francis Wilson has in view a plan to revive ah his old-time successes next season and this is being discussed now by his managers. Sybil Sanderson is giving a series of concerts at Budapest, after which she will sing at the Wintergarten, Berlin, and then return to Paris. It has been settled that R. D. McLean and Oddet Tyler will be under the management of W. G. Smyth next season, and they intend to make at least two elaborate Shakespearean productions. Sadie Martinot will soon begin a starring tour in "Sapho," under Louis Nethersole's management, and supported by Olga Nethersole's company. Next season Miss Martinot will star in a new play by Clyde Fitch. James K. Hackett is going to play next season. Victor Mapex' drama, "Don Caesar's Return," which Richard Mansfield put in rehearsal last autumn, but subsequently shelved because of his revival of "King Henry V." Mrs. H. C. De Mille and Harrison sord have been at work during the winter on a new play for Richard Mansfield, founded on the life of Reubenbrandt. Last summer these authors went to Holland in order to study the history and atmosphere of their subject. HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS. Colored tissue paper is better than white for wrapping up laces and ribs to be laid away. White SOAP CHIPS OF DIAMOND C SOAP MAKE Washing Easy A Short Term in the Zanzibar Con suldiship Generally Sufficient. Undisable consultations have long given rise to humorous incidents. But Zanzibar, to which the President has appointed Mason Mitchell, a rough rider, seems to be in the lead in unattractiveness, if the length of consultar terms proves any test, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post. Indiana has usually claimed the honor of furnishing candidates for this place, but after the resignation of a man named Rogers of Shoales, the Indiana senators notified the President that they were through with it. They had constituents who were willing to take chances, but the senators were not prepared to promise that these venerous individuals would stay more than a month. Before Rogers took the place it was held for nearly a year by "Bob" Mansfield, at one time privately to Senator Beveridge and now consul at Valparaiso. Mansfield came back, according to Indians descriptions, "as thin as a toothpick and as yellow as June butter." He said he had stuck it out as long as the insurance company would let him and that he returned to save his premiums. Before Mansfield, there was an Indianian named Billheimer, described as a husky Hoosier, with a large nose and frame pickled in maleria. He was cured of diplomatic ambition in about two months, and has never asked for a place since Before Billheimer, Judge Riley of Virginia served; he remained as long as his aversion to the negroes would permit. Finally, he is said to have taken a gun and emptied a load of fine birdshot into the dusky natives who persisted in taking a daily bath in front of the American consulate which, the Judge "allowed," was an indignity to be resented by this government's representative. Grand Duke Alexis Has a Favorite Dish. So They Say. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia is a very fond of fried potatoes, and during his recent visit to Paris he was not to buy a few every day from a woman in the street, and to eat them beside her stall. The woman did not know him, but as he paid her in princely fashion, she was very anxious to find out who he was. "I can tell you who he is," said a neighbor one day. "He is Grand Duke Alexis, uncle of the czar and one of the greatest men in Russia." Utterly amazed, the woman asked: "In heaven's name, how should I address him?" "Oh, call him 'Your Excellency,' or 'Your Royal Highness,' was the answer. The woman resolved to do so, and the next day, as she was sprinkling some salt over the smoking potatoes which the grand duke had bought, she said: "I can recommend them to your royal highness, for I know your excellency has never tasted better potatoes." The grand duke burst out laughing, and paid more for the potatoes than he had ever paid before, but he was annoyed at finding himself recognized and never returned to buy another potato. One of the sea captains in the employ of Stephen Girard had a rural Yankee's fondness for whittling with his jackknife, and on one trip succeeded in getting away with a large part of the rail, although, feeling that he was not without the artistic sense, he really regarded the rail as greatly improved in appearance. When the vessel came to Philadelphia Girard went aboard, made a general inspection in the captain's absence, and, as he was about to return to shore, asked one of the seamen who had been cutting the rail. The seaman told him the captain, and then, afraid his telling might have unpleasant consequences were the captain to learn of it in a roundabout way, informed that official of the interview with Girard. The captain was in terror of a reprimand, but, hearing nothing from his employer, supposed the incident closed. As he was about weighing anchor ready to leave port, a dray loaded with shingles drove down to the wharf, and the driver hailed the vessel. 1 to aban- There is a Best in Everything. DIAMOND "C" SOAP IS THE BEST LAUNDRY SOAP. Complete catalogue showing over 300 premiums that may be secured by saving wrappers, furnished free upon request. Send your name on a postal card, and we will mail you the catalogue . . . ADDRESS: PREMIUM DEPT. THE CUDANY PAKING CO. South Omaha, Neb. HE LIKES FRIED POTATOES. Glrard Waa Considerate "There must be some mistake! shouted the captain. "Our bill of lading doesn't mention shingles!" "This is where they belong!" sung back the driver. "Mr. Girard, himself, told me to deliver them! He said they're for the captain to whittle!" Gillette a Real Sherlock Holmes. William Gillette, whose impersonation of Sherlock Holmes has become so famous, has acquired much of the running of the character he portrays, and on being interviewed by the newspaper reporters extracts from them all they know without himself imparting any information. On his return from Europe the other day all the Boston scribes sought to learn of his future plans, but were obliged to abandon the effort. He Took the Job. A characteristic story is told of Abe Gruber, the well-known New York lawyer. When he was a boy looking for something to do he saw the sign, "Boy Wanted," hanging outside a store in New York. He picked up the sign and entered the store. The proprietor met him. "What did you bring that sign in here for?" asked the storekeeper. "You won't need it any more," said Gruber, cheerfully. "I'm going to take the job." A acarity of sailors more general than ever before in the history of Maine shipping prevails at the present time, and the wages of seamen have risen to an unusual point. Our Quota the Smallest. In time of war France put 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the field; Germany, 210; Russia, 210. Publication Notice In the district court of Wyandotte county Kansas. James N. Turner, plan vs. Josie Turner, defendant. To the above aned defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the abovenamed plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 23rd day of January 1963, the position filed against you will be taken as true and a judgment rendered 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. Publication Notice In the district court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Edward Divers. plaintiff, v.a. Anna Divers. defensa. 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 1933, the petition files said case will be taken as true, and a judgment 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 defeant, and for cost of said suit. Executor's Notice, State of Kansas. { s. County of Washoula. { s. In the court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Peter Lughill, Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid 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 courtroom in Kansas City County (which is aforesaid, for said, on the first Monday in the month, January 5, A. D. 1803. We shall apply to said Court for a full final settlement of said estate. Shilla L. Lughill, Mary Scheller, Annelia Grauten, Fred. Notice of Final Settlement. STATE of KANSAS. WYANDOTTE COUNTY. In the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the Estate of Mahala A. Robertson, deceased. 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, ceded the 7th day of November 1902. 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 said letters, or they may be precluded from 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. ecutor of the last land testament of Mahala A. Robertson, reased. Publicstion Notice 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, deceased. 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 Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State Forest管理局 the fifth day of November 1902. 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Two literary friends of his were recently speaking of the disproportionate amount of adverse criticism he occasionally received. One said: "His work is often excellent; he is 'slated' because of the length of his hair. And yet that helped him at first." "Ah," said the other, "it began as a boom and ended as a boomerang." WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE JONES, MARTIN&CO. DEALERS, IN Fancy and Staple Groceries FEED AND CALT MEAT, Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of country Producein season. Good delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th. and Oakland Ave. Kansas City, ARE YOU DEAF? ANY READ NOISER BALTHORNE, Md. March 10th Gentlemen -- Being entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, I will now give you a full history of my case, to be used at your discretion. I will give you five years of right ear begin to sage, and this kept on getting worse, and my hearing is entirely. I am treated for catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a doctor, among others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city only an open appointment, and I am not permitted to treat him once, but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. I am treated for catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a doctor, among others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city only an open appointment, and I am not permitted to treat him once, but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. After I had used it only a few days according to your directions, the nose ceased to heal after five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely restored. Thank you heartily and leg to remain. F. A. WERMAN, 79e S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Our treatment does not interfere with your usual occupation. Examination and YOU CAN QUURE YOURSELF AT HOME PATRONZE The Wyandotte Drug Store d the best of every thing in Paints, Glass and Wall Paper. 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Only those born deaf are in NOISES CEASE IMMEDIATI F. A. WERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, SAYS, being entirely cured of deafness, thanks to only temporary case, to be used at your discretion. again my right car began to sage, and this kept on getting treatment for catarh, for three months, without any success, though others, the most eminent car specialist of this car, could help me, and even that only temporarily, that the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. advertisement accidentally in a New York paper, and only a few days according to your directions, this kys, my hearing in the diseased car has been entirely remain V. E. truly yours. F. A. WERMAN, 790 S. Broadway ent does not interfere with your usual YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME NORMAL AURAL CLINIC, SOUTH CALLE AVENUE. PATRONZE Wyandotte Drug LAKE & CO. WE R PATRONAGE, MARTIN&CO. ALERS, IN— Maple Groceries CALT MEAT, of entry Producein season. Go e., Kansas City, ANY NEED NOISES? 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