The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country Tales of Two Cities Mon. Eve March 16, at 8 o'clock. Rev. V. H. Swartz, pastor, of First Dyke Church, Wamego Kansas, will actur the Metropolitan Church. Sabi. Hope for the American Negro. Cr. Swartz is a fearless Champion of the Negro Race. His able article in K. Journal Feb. 23, against the "Jim Crow Carr bill, proves him to be a breed, true and tried to the Negro. The following program will be reordured. 1. Opening Hymn-My Country tis of Dove. 2. Invoitation-Rev. M. Collins-D. D. 3. Vocal Solo-Mr. F. K. Douglass. 4. Select Scripture Reading-Rev. A. Ward. D. D. 5. Vocal Solo-Mrs. H. Luas. 6. Selection of Dunbar-Master B. S. Gail. Resitation-Miss Annette Scott. 7. Singing-“All hail the Power of the Navy. 8. Address Dr. W. H Swarro. Offe- sion. 9. Singing-“John Brown's Soul is Christian. 10. Building-Rev. D. B. Jackson B. D. Committees. Rev. E. F. Henderson. J. B. Jackson. E. Arlington Wilson. Teaching people of the Booker T. Washington Lyceum will give a grand essay and Dramatic Entertainment at 1:40 Hall Thursday eve. March 5th, with promises to be a first class affair. Deoting will be very clever and the young people expect to acquit them by. The Diana Fruits of the Booker T. Washington is a very entertaining and lively person in its production and social lesson is taught. The program in the right place, and educators office, will keep the Audience an up-roaring laughter. --- Miss Luthel Sharp, of Leavenworth the guest of Mrs Gayden of the Sea from block the past week. Get a clean shave and a fashionable shave at the Rareback shop. The Enterprise Grocery Co. 435 Minn. is the best place in town to get gro- ries and county produce. Give them a and be convinced. Here is the Place. J.T. ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, in the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINNESOTA AVENUE. in the District court of Wyandotte county Ba Lafferty, plaintiff. Benjamin Lafferty, defendant. an. In the above named defendant ant. you are notified that you have been indicted in the above named court by the above named ant. and then unless you appear and an- or before the 21st day of Feb. 1994, partitioned against you will be taken and a judgment rendered the nature will be a decree dissolving the bond continuing existing between plaintiff and defendant, or procuring plaintiff from said defendant and waiting to be heard under the Patterson, and for cost of this LF, Bradley, atity, for Plaintiff. Publication Notice District county of Wyandotto county Borough Town Bldg. Wkid 447 Toy Hill. Plautiff. vs. Ananda Hill. Defendant. John, Defendant. To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in a name named above the above named and that unless you have been sued before the first day of Feb. 1946 against you will take as true the judgement rendered the nature of a decree dissolving the bonds of any existing between plaintiff and defendant and for cost of this suit. From it may concern this is to notify that I the undersigned will on the 7th March, 1903 at Topka Kause apply W. J. Haley Governor of the state of Arizona for a pardon for the offense of assembled such circumstances, that if armed, it had been Man Slaught- er Fourth degree. Jno. Bibb of 626 Cherry does first class work in hair swiches, Wigs and etc. Hair dressing a speciality. her a call. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. Douglass School. Douglass School located at 27 and West Prospect Plroe was first opened in 1886. R. W. Foster took charge of this school in Sept. 1887. At that time the school was in one room house, known as the Saunders house school, 14 pupils enrolled. The present location was purchased and a fair room house was erected in 1880. The school grew so rapid that in 1890 it became necessary to purchase more ground end an acidition of 4 four class rooms and a carpenter shop was built. The enrollment has reached about 400. Corp of teachers; Miss J. Matlock, Miss Gertude L. Myers, Prof. J. M. Day, Misses, Ida C. Washington, Louie Caines, Lulu M. Jones, R. U. Desoache, Mr. Bernard Nesbitt. Prof. R. W. Foster the principal is one of those intellectual gentlemen who taken up his chosen profession with a vim and a determination that makes certain and sure success. He is wide awake to the best interest of the race. He endeavours to make as near as possible the education obtained in Douglass School' eminently practical. What would be the glorious futures of the race if the qualities Prof. Foster possess were in evidence in all the teachers of the race. --- The pupils of Mr. R. G. Jackson gave their first Recital Friday eve. at the home of Mrs B. S. Smith. Each pupil readened his piece with credit. Then after listening to the sweet strains of music for more than an hour, Mr. Jackread a paper which greatly interested his pupils. Too much can not be said of Mr. Jackson in a musical instruction, we wish him success and that some day soon he will be first in the splendid assemblage of musical instructors. The programme was as following. 1. Blake—"Wave of Ocean" Piano Duett Miss Elizabeth Porter. Mr. Jackson. 2. Blake—"Angel's Greeting." Piano Solo Miss Robinson. 3. Valmere—"Dervish Vigil" Vocal Solo Miss Morris. 4. Kroegman—"Valetta" Piano Solo Miss Grace Williams. 5. "Life's Dream" Western University Quartett. 6. Hoist—"Sleigh Race" Piano Trio Miss Stafford, Turner and Mr. Jackson. 7. Brown—"Pixies Sliding Down Hill" Piano Solo Elinor Braxton. 8. Hastings—"My Sweetheart's Coming Home" Vocal Solo Miss Cordella Seymour. 9. Jackson—"Alice" Piano Solo Miss Lulu Cumming. 10. Piano Duet. Miss Corneal, and Mr. Jackson. 11. Blake—"Beautiful Summer Eve," Piano Solo Miss Sara Chinn. 12. Rosecell—"Jessamy Town," Vocal Solo Mr. Greely. 13. Kinder—"Educator Valse" Piano Solo Miss Elixabeth Porter. 14. Bischoff—"Bobolink" Piano Solo Miss Ethel Fitchus. 15. Meudleson-(a) Duett Chaminade-(b) Flipper Mr. Jackson. 16. Shaksapeare-Sohumann, "Who is Silvia?" Western University Quartett. The department of sociology of the University of Chicago has bought a collection of 50,000 insects. This great number of "bugs" was collected from all parts of the world by the late John K. Hurst, an entomologist of Brooklyn, N. Y. The collection is valuable because of its completeness and represents careful work exceeding ever Expressed. says of the poet His life gave the lie to his in this terse resistance "The El- borous" has expressed an opinion concerning one person which has been entertained by nearly every one, of many. Perhaps your thought was never be- fore crystallized into words like these but you have had the thought, just the name. 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 courage again. "His life gave the lie to his logic." Again, you have heard the solemn prayer, "Forgive me our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Fall from the lips of one in whose breast you know rankled bitterest hatred. "His life gave the lie to his logic." Or, you have heard the graphic ridicule prayer, and then you have heard him call hastily you the Lord in an hour of sudden calamity. "His life gave the lie to his logic." A father gives the counsel to his boy and then in the presence that boy praises the way courage against. "His life gave lie to his logic." And so might be multiplied illustrations of this Roy croft's truth—Marshall Record. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING. STAND UP FOR THE FLAG. (Tune America.) It must not trail. Let every soul that be. Stand up for the land of the free; For the home of liberty; For the home we love. Let Monroe Doctrine stand, If it calls for every man To protect the flag. Let the President sound the call, North, South, East, West and all; Let Dewey and Schley not fall. The law must stand. Let not encroachment be, Upon this blood-bought soil. Thanki God we can. Send Sohley across the bay. Tell Dewey down there he stay, --- The bicycle has demonstrated its ability in still another direction. A Washingtonville woman along the Hudson met a thief coming out of her house, but not suspecting his character allowed him to go. Finding, however that she had been rubbed, she followed him on her wheel and soon succeeded in overtaking him. She recovered property enough to pay for the bicycle. The Frostful Baby in an Omnibus. A correspondent of the London Pall Mall Gazette vouchers for this incident: A young woman with a fretful baby in a full omnibus (aloud): "Poor little alpper, I suppose I shall end by 'aving to take 'im so the 'orself.' (Raising the child's veil and looking around for sympathy.) "Don't get no rest. 'E is sufferer' so with smallpox. Woman Sells Her Teath A Chandler (O. T.) paper says that a Kansas City woman visiting in Chandler noticed the fine teeth possessed by one of the local belles. She offered the belle $100 for two of the teeth, beside all her expenses in coming to Kansas City to have them extracted, and it is understood that the offer was accepted. Tora, Jor Foor Children The prefect of the Seine distributed 55,000 francs (45,000) in the arrondissements of Paris to buy toys for poor children on Jan. 1. The sum was bequested to M. Vincent, a friend of Victor Hugo, who made an annual distribution after the poet's death and continued the benefaction in his will. Origin of "Arabian Nights" Professor Seybold of Stuttgart has discovered in the Tuebingen university library an Arabian manuscript 500 years old, which is probably the original of "The Arabian Nights." He has also found manuscripts describing the whole religious system of the Druses. Boers still in the Field. Col. Sir Vincent Sheffield, who has returned from South Africa, said in a speech at Eaton, England, Feb. 8, that when he left from eighty to ninety Boer commandes of about 200 men such were still in the field, or in all 16,000 to 18,000 men. Illegal Taxes in Malta The business of the council of government of Malta is now transacted by the vice president and six official members, the thirteen elected representatives having withdrawn as a protest against alleged illegal taxes. Good Hates This phrase was first used by Dr. Johnson, who said of Bathurst, a physician: "He was a man to my very heart's content. He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig; he was a very good haier." Care for Blackwater Town Hitherto blackwater fever, the terrible scourge of central Africa, has been without remedy, but one has been discovered in a native decoction made from the roots of the cassia tree. Tyrln Usas Oil Jann Owing to a strike of gas workers at Turin the principal streets of the town are now illuminated by oil lamps. The supply of gas to private houses has been suspended. Perfume for Women Greek and Roman wines were perfumed, generally by staining the leaves of roses or violets in the Liquor until it had acquired the odor of the flowers. One hundred years ago it was conceived a wonderful achievement for a teen man to manufacture 45,000 wines in a day. Now three men can make it 20,000 in the same time. Ken Ridn't Me Fasting twelve mince pies between Christmas day and Twelfth day is said to insure the eater twelve lucky or happy months during the following year. This is a Colored EYES TESTED Solid Gold and Gold Filled Eye and Specticals. For Sale on EASY PAY Solid Gold and Gold Filled Eye Glasses and Specticals. For Sale on EASY PAYMENTS. Theodore Quentin, a member of the Philadelphia reserve police, lately wrote to President Roosevelt asking why he gave his youngest son the unusual name of Quentin. The president answered that "the name Quentin is with an uncle family name, coming from French Hugoot refugee wid same to this country over two centuries ago." The Bowdolin College water turtle is lead, after four years' imprisonment during which time he is nothing this is vouchered for by Professor Hahn who had charges of the torture. THE HAPPY DAYS OF AGE. Old Idea of Keith's Carelessness Has No Foundation. Youth takes itself with the same seriousness which belongs to age in a time of less knowledge; and one of the greatest proofs of a more complete manly by the world of the art of living is the wish and ability to be careless, say Sorberlin. The one who is learning to dance counts the step, and that is what age has ceased to do; while Armored Globe A recent German invention is armored glass, or glass cast with wire gauzes incised in their substance, so as to increase the resistance to pressure, shock, and the effects of heat. Tests of the new material have been made at the Chemnitzer technological museum which show that the armored glass is much stronger, and where the ordinary glass broke under sudden applications of pressure the glass shattered material only cracked, and the cracks caused by changes of temperature did allow either dams or dams to pass. Do Task 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." Mr. Le Gallenne writes of Nature as a lover, but his poetic fancy does not dissipate from us that he was bred in cities. In his chapter on what Nature brings to beautify the graves of the little dead, he writes : "The wrenn will sometimes bring her rhyme-blue eggs for a gift. . . ." Perhaps a wren may be permitted to do this sort of thing in a "tragic fairy tale": in every-day life she would have to purchase them from a commercially minded hedge-sparrow, for her own eggs are a pearly white, with reddish brown spots. In any memorial concerning Mr. Dick it is impossible to keep out some menace: Mr. Richard Le Gauene's hair, Mr. Wilbur's, and certainly sneaking of the discomponduate 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 booming." Brant's Autobiography Sir Walter Bosant's autobiography was announced for publication in February, and excited more widespread interest than any recent volume of the cost. Sir Walter was not a man of great genius, but he had hosts of admiring readers, and he knew everybody. However, his personality was of an exceptionally amiable and agreeable sort. Altogether his life should be excellent reading. Relatives Meet for First Time. Archibald Bard Darragh is a congress man from Michigan and Thomas Robert Bard is a senator from California. They never met until they were introduced to each other recently in Washington. Yet the two men had the same great grandfather, Richard Bard, whose experience during the French and English war of 1756-1760 was as thrilling as any romance. Shocking Tragedy in France. A sensational crime has just been discovered at 51, Etienne, France. A pastry cook named Tantale, after a quarrel with his wife, due to jealousy, shot her dead with a revolver. He then thrust her body into the oven and lighted a large fire, afterwards mutting suicide. Only the exciled remains of the woman were found in the grass. ```markdown ``` Colored Man TED FREE. Filled Eye Glasses ecticals. SY PAYMENTS. THE HAPPY DAYS OF AGE. Old Idea of Youth's Carelessness Has No Foundation. Youth takes itself with the same senselessness which belongs to age in a time of less knowledge; and one of the greatest proofs of a more complete memory by the world of the art of living is the wish and ability to be careless, soy Bartlener's. The one who is learning to dance counts the step, and the what age has ceased to do; while youth is still whispering "one, two, three," most seductively to itself. It is asserted by the defenders of "trust" that in almost every instance the formation of a trust has been followed by a decrease in the price of this product. This is true; but in most instances trusts have been formed to attack the downward tendency of prices by interfering with the operation of the law of supply and demand. Probably there is no conspicuous instance of lower prices following the organization of a trust. In which the prices to the consumer would not have fallen still lower if the trust had not been formed. The greatest objection to trusts is that they are wrong in principle, in that they interfere with a fundamental law of trade. Only persons under thirty years of age were ready to accept prompt Harvey's great discoy ry of the circulation of the blood; and just as youth is most apt to respond to the challenge of genius so zeen rare abilities seldom fall of the spirit of perpetual youth. Keeping young is simply keeping abreast with the times we are in. At the recent an advisory in New York City of the founding of Stevens Institute, ex-Mayor Hewitt related this incident: "When I was a student at Columbia, base ball was our only game, and not such a detainment to a college as it is to-day. We lost most of our balls by knocking them over into a yard of a house in Barclay street. One day when we were short and could not any base balls, I was appointed a committee of one to visit the house and ask for some. A gentleman appeared in answer to my question, and producing a basket containing twenty-five or thirty balls, asked if they were ours. I said that I supposed they were. Every one of them has broken a window in my house," he reclaimed. "You may take them, and when you have all the lives in my music室 you are to Hoboken." A scarcity of callers 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 Ones the Smallest In time of war France puts 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the Field; Germany, 210; Russia, 810. Stones were farmed into his shapes of beasts by the anklet of Egyptians. They regarded the heath as an emblem of immortality, and hence it was the most popular of all forms of ornament. Counterfeit bettles of stone were ooled simply with dead persons, a kind was customary to engrave upon them the expression of wishes for prosper and happiness, dedicating it to God and various heroic figures. One of the latter was a beast with a human head, symbolizing conquest. Another, the vulture, meant maternity. A goose was the son of a king. "She had just refused a man worth a million." Blobbs -Do you consider & good lock 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. I tried a new breakfast food at home this morning." "What was it?" "Breadsteak." Chicago Tribune 20 QUEER MARRIAGE PROPOSAL The most unique proposal on record is probably that of a young Englishman to a girl somewhat above him on the social scale. Last summer the two accidentally came together at the game again before they had previously met as friends, but the young fellow had never presumed upon a closer acquaintance. And while at the boarding house, she asked him to join a party who were going for a day's yachting excursion, and he, of course, really consented, wollte the girl marry him. on the girl accidentally fell over the sea. Immediately perceive what she had happened, her admirer strong, boldhearted and was successful in reaching her aboot. He was an indifferent summer, however, and as the night was approaching both were in danger of drowning before the yacht's boat could reach them. This was evidently what the young fellow feared, and being apparently determined that the girl should, in any case, know of his assistance for her, he, in spite of the strengeness of their position, quickly declared his passion. However, much exhausted and frightened, reply, much to the disappointment of the young fellow, who concluded that she was unconscious. Ultimately the two were picked up by the boat and brought safely on board the yacht again, and the party reached home where any further mishap. Next day the girl took the first opportunity of thanking the young fellow in private for saving her life, and judge of his great surprise when she remarked that his proposal at sea was accomplished. Needless to say the young fool took hope from this hiatus, and did not hesitate to propose in the orthodox manor, this time receiving a favorable reply. Not so happy an ending is attached to the story of a proposal made under some what similar conditions to the above by a young German, who was a passenger on the ill-fated Elbe, wrecked board he conceived, and board he conceived a great affection for a certain young lady, but hastiled to speak to her on the matter. When the crash came he succeeded in getting a life-buy for the girl, and by its aid managed to keep her afloat after the ship had foundered. Although it was an extraordinary affection, the young fellow, doubtless with his mind on future possibilities, proposed while both were struggling in the sea, and to his great delight learned that his love was returned. But his joy was equally to grief, for shortly afterward the rough sea separated him from the himself was picked up by a boat, he never saw a heartgrain. It would require more than an average amount of nerve and coolness on the part of any man to propose to a girl who both were in danger of being burnt to death. A particular feature, how she took place in the Midlands a short time ago, was the fact that he proposed to his bride wife trying to rescue her from a burning house. The fire occurred during the night at a country residence at which the young lady was employed as housemaid. At the commencement of the conflagration no one noticed that she was mutilated, but all ablaze the girl suddenly appeared at one of the top windows, having been brought from her sleep by the smoke. The local bigade not being provided with a firerescue, her death seemed almost certain. But her fireman lover quickly darted into the house and at great risk managed to reach her room, where she collapsed and thus cut off their only apparent means of escape. Doubtless it was the hopelessness of their position and the fear that his love would never be known which led the fireman to propose there and then, an thus surrounded by flames and smoke, the two plighted their truth. Fortunately, a long ladder had in the meantime been placed on the wall, and after moments of great excitement the two were rescued just in the nick of time. The rarity of prison proposals makes the following instance of Cupid's strange doing particularly interesting. A short time ago a clever and notorious French swindler named Gorton was sentenced in Paris to a long term of imprisonment. While his trial was proceeded, the judge asked for him to marry his friend and accomplish, Berthe Daguneau, if she would accept him for a husband. The magistrate thereupon sent for the young woman and laid Gorlandr's proposal before her. She then confessed that she loved him, and that she would be the best day in her life if Gorlandr would marry her. The result of this unique proposal was that the two were married at the local mayor's office with four policemen as witnesses. A French aeronaut some time ago brought himself into unenvirable prominence by taking a girl up in a balloon in order to see the world, but often expressed a wish to make a balloon ascent, and accordingly he had little difficulty in persuading her to make a trip with him. Taking advantage of the opportunity thus afforded him, the aeronaut, after reaching a certain height, declared his affection in passionate terms, added her refusal to attend the event, caused him to commit suicide by throwing himself out of the balloon car. Greatly terrified, the girl accepted his proposal—New York World. --- Benjamin Kidd, the economist, who has just made a tour of the new British South Africa, says he believes the country to be richer than the United States west of the Mississippi and believes that its future is assured. President Diaz of Mexico, known as the "graud old man" of that country, will retire from office on January 1. He will be succeeded by Jose Bimarca, now minister of Mexico. the Country FOR TERMS TAKE DUE NOTICE. WE, The American Citizen Pub. Co., would gladly and thankfully add to our list the following exchanges and others that we never have heard of: The Advocate. Charleston, S. C. Hamitite Paladium. Charleston, S.C. Plainway. Oxford, Miss. Colored American Wash. D. C. Richmond Planet, Richmond, Va. Savannah Trillume, Savannah, Ga. Guthie Guide, Guthie, Ok. Ind. World, Indianapolis, Ind. Ft. Smith (Angroster) Ark. Publication Notice. State of Kansas. Wyandotte County. Sadie J. Jordan.....Plaintiff. vs. Sald defendants. Frank E. Burk and The Val Blatz Brewing Company will take notice that they have been said in the above named court on the fifth day of February, in an action to quiet" the title to the thirty eight (38) in Court of the City of Armourdale, a addition to the City of Kansas City, Kansas, and must answer to the petition filed herein on or before the 2nd day of March, or said petition will be taken as true, and judgment will be rendered forever barring and enjoining any adversal claim on the part of the above defendant to said premises. Sharp & Sharp. Attorney for the plaintiff. Attest: J. L. Beggs. Clerk of the court of Common Pleas. By F. L. Kenny Deputy Feb. 5. Pie the Stable Dice The pie center of the country is Brockton, Maas. It claims all kinds of records and from the figures of its industry it deserves recognition. For pie-making and pie-eating, for big pies and little pies, for thin pies and thick pies, for light pies and heavy pies, it is willing to enter the arena against any city in the Union, harring none. Three factories站 turn out $650 pies every year, but this is only a small portion of the city's pie industry. The 40,000 inhabitants consume about 8,000 pies daily, or over 1,000,000 each year. If laid in a straight line, edge her edge, they would make a pie bicycle path from Boston to Chicago. At 10 cents each, and they are worth more than that, Brockton consumes $200 worth of pie per citizen each year. The champion pie-maker of the town is a boarding house keeper, Mrs. Viola V. King, of 475 Montello street, a charter-in-law of W. L. Douglas, the millionaire shoe manufacturer. Her record last year was 4,603 pairs, or about 13 pairs a day for every day in the year. The holder of second places in the pie-making industry is another boarding house keeper, Mrs. Mergarot Caskin proprietress of the Empire house, who has 2,840 pies to her credit. The proof of the wholesomeness of pie as an article of dist is in the ing, and Mrs. Caskin points proudly of boarders that have been with her for 18 years and have never had a day sickness from indigestion.—Cunlon World. Nangkang, a large city in Kwantou province, China, is reported to be an byebre, who have been besieged the city for several days. HAVE ANIMAL8 REASON? Experiments with a Poodle—He Was Taught to Head. "Have animals reason?" was one of the questions raised by Lord Averybury in an interesting address given recently at the London institution, and certainly it seems hard to deny the intelligent poole, Dan, with whom Lord Averybury experimented, some glimmerings of the faculty which is said to separate men from brutes. Dan was able after a time to distinguish between the number of cards inscribed with such suggestive words as "Food," "Ten," "Water" and when he required them to bring in the cash. Lord Anthony the Earl was hardly possible to study the caterpillars without attention that they were possessed of reasoning powers in some degree and even of moral feeling. On the other hand, says the London Chronicle, the processional caterpillars appears to be an insect of a very low order of intelligence. Processional caterpillars when out for an expedition weave a thread, by means of which they find their way back, and a small party was lured by an ingenious scientist up a flowerpot and round the top. He then cleared away the ascending thread and for eight days did those caterpillars walk round and round the top of the flowerpot, following the circular thread which remained, until they downed off from failure and es- Gold, silver, steel, aluminium and oil, when innermised in tauric acid, a new chemical discovery, becomes as reliable and ductile as putty. Tons of Gold in Use. The amount of gold coin in actual circulation in the world is estimated in about 400 tons. THE PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE New York.—In a speech punctuated alternately by ringing cheers and chilling silence, Secretary of War Root, at the anniversary meeting of the Union League club, said that negro suffrage was a failure; that the growing divergence between the wealthy and the poor was finding a place in legislation, that every good citizen must set his face against the possibility of a war of classes, and thirdly, that the labor unions were setting a premium on slothfulness and stupidity. "There are great problems to-day calling for the best citizenship and the most devoted patriotism." he said: "One is the tendency, growing, I fear, to dissensions between the wealthy and the poor, under which wealth tends constantly to endeavor to control matters generally through egislation, thus stirring up a conflict and a war upon the wealthy, based upon envy and jealously. Every good citizen should make his protest and set his face against it and make it certain that in this country of ours we shall have no war of classes. "A second problem is a tendency to check individual enterprise and development. The chance that every poor boy has by his own efforts, his industry, his energy and his courage, to rise as high has a man can rise is the very foundation of our liberty. "Labor unions are increasing the prohibition against the better man making the most wages and doing the most work he is capable of, in favor of the poorer workman. This is putting a premium on sloth and stupidity. I make no war on labor organizations; I believe in them. I believe that in the struggle for life now with its growing riches the laboring man is bound to organize. I believe he is entitled to do so, and I am glad to see him organize to get his own. But let us set our faces against the tendency to say to any American boy, 'You shall not do the best you can.' "A third problem is one with which this club might be concerned. You have heard the speakers tell to-night of the organization of negro regiments by this club and of their marching down Broadway beside them. Within two years after the foundation of this club, the nation, by the thirteenth amendment, provided that slavery should not exist in this country. By the fourteenth amendment the nation recognized the black man and provided that all men born or naturalized in this country should be citizens. By the fifteenth amendment it declared that no man should be debarred from voting if he was a citizen and eligible. (These three amendments embodied "Those three amendments embodied the scheme adopted by thoughtful men PRINCESS AND GIRON PART. Lawyers Were Present, Tears Shed. Sir, Will See Her Children. Lawyers Were Present, Tears Shed, but She Will See Her Children. Geneva.-The legal advisor of the former Crown Princess of Saxony has made the following announcement: "M. Giron will leave Geneva for Brussels, where he will join his family. M. Giron has broken off all relations with the princess in order not to impede the reunion of the princess with her children." Herr Zehme, the lawyer from Dresden, arrived at Geneva and went immediately to the Hotel Suisse, where the Crown Princess of Saxony, M. Giron and Maitre Lachenal awaited him. A long interview took place, in the course of which the princess, in a torrent of tears, cried: "I must see my poor children again." Immediately after it was over Herr Zehme announced that all relations between the princess and M. Giron had been completely broken off and that M. Giron was returning to Brussels in the evening. He intends never to see the princess again. When asked who arranged this, the lawyer said that he and M. Lachenal had done so. M. Giron, he declared, was making a great sacrifice for the good of the princess. This was in reality the only possible solution, as the princess would not relinquish the liberty to see her children, which the crown prince insisted upon withholding unless she consented to separate from M. Giron. The parting between the princess and M. Giron was most touching. The princess wept and M. Giron was much affected. The princess will remain at the Hotel Suisse an indefinite time. 6.Million Dollar Deal. Los Angeles, Cal.-The Montezuna group of gold mines, in the Popoag district of Chihuahua, Mexico, has been bought by the United Mining and Exploration company of Los Angeles. The purchase price of the property is said to have been 5 million dollars, and it was stated at the company's office here that at least one-half million dollars will be expended in the development and equipment of the property. New York.—William Hooper Young, on trial for the murder of Mrs. Anna Kingston Pulitzer, has been declared sane, by a commission in lunacy, composed of three physicians appointed by Judge Herrick. The Coal Famine Is Ending Reading. Pa.—Officials of the Reading railway announce that they have the coal situation well in hand and that driver of fuel famine is over. BRITISH SOCIETY LEADER. Latest photograph of the Marchioness of Anglesey, one of the most beautiful women of the English nobility. Latest photograph of the Marchioness of Anglesey, one of the most beautiful women of the English nobility. The Marchioness is separated from her husband, who is the head of the monie House of Paget, and resides in Paris for the most part of the year. EW YORK Letter: The fashionable girl of spring will be a composite creature. She will be severe, but feminine; simple, but elegant; her gowns will reveal the most delightful color schemes, but at all times she will be humble, bearing a touch of greetness. Her individual tastes will find gown is on the shirt-waist and skirt order, but made very simply and gracefully. Accompanying such a toilette is a smart toque of greevel. Its only trimming consists of a large blue and green bird which covers the left side and droops over the back of the toque, bearing a touch of greetness in the hat and wing feathers of this shad The spring novelties which now occupy the places of honor in the shops, having relegated winter fabrics to the bargain counters, are not necessarily expensive, though there are instances in which one might run the limit of extravagance. Hair is a rich fabric which is sharply accentuated dividing line between the rich and poor has today leavelled all class lines, and some of the most beautiful materials are so cheap that they are easily within the reach of the woman with a limited dress allowance. For instance, among the smartest fabrics in which the newest shirt waist skirts are the finest cotton dresses chapurey, batiste, nulli, nulli an Nainsook Raye, which, by the way, is no more or less than a linen-finished cotton fabric with a high-sounding name. The spring shirt walt, while it sags over the belt at the front, shows a square, rather than the rounded outline of previous years. This is a French fabric that becomes very popular in America, especially with slender graceful women. The shirt waist suit which appeals principally to women whose mornings are devoted to shopping is diversified this season by a few touches of color. An especially chic design is carried out in gobelin blue foufard embroidered in the sleeves of the shirt. The waist closes with an inverted box-plait and has two narrow plats at the shoulders intermingle gracefully with the folds of the blouse effect at the end of the stitching. The sleeves are in bishop pattern and have an inverted box-plait to the elbow. A novel idea is expressed the hip-legs of the sleeve piece with the narrow front breadth of the skirt and supports three wide flouncees which are unlined, but given support by a drop skirt of gobelin blue taffeta. Still another shirt waist frock is made of putty colored pongee and has the skirt shirred around the top in a distinctive affair, being embroidered down the front with the Japanese alphabet in bright colored silks. The new color schemes are to be recommended for their daintiness and general becomingness. Grey with shades of sage green, is a favorite combination, although it is often compelled to share with burnt orange mined with white cloth and ecrut lace. Indeed there are but few combinations which do not include the lace, for, like the touch of black, it lends character to a gown when other trimming fails. Brown and white, one of the most sought schemes of winter will be a heritage of spring fashions. A very smart street gown is of brown and white mix, with plush plings of brown silk. The skirt has pliable seams, loose plaited front, with a double collar and a stole which are piped with silk. The skirt has a habit back and is ornamented with wide straps of the material piped with silk. Dark brown crocheted ornaments form an effective finish on both skirts. For something that is really smart and inexpensive nothing could be more satisfying than a gown in dark green velvet flecked with French gray. The Theodore Hallam, one of the most celebrated of legal practitioners, once defended a burglar; and the case gave him a story that he never tired of telling. The prosecuting attorney was fighting vigorously, and had the defendant's wife on the stand. "You are the wife of the prisoner?" he asked her. "Yes," she replied. "Did you know his mode of life when you married him?" "I did, sir." "Will you tell us, then," went on the prosecutor, surprised by this admission, "now you came to contract an One of the largest barber "colleges" in New York is located in Canal Street. The customers of this school of instruction present a heterogeneous picture. The aggregation is truly grotesque in appearance. Only the "way down brother" is barred from availing of this opportunity of having his face and head operated on. No fee is charged for shaving, hair cutting, singeing, dyeing or shampooing. Even beard trimming is included in this free list. The students pay for tuition, and the management claims that more thor- for uplifting those long held in slavery. Give him suffrage and citizenship and equal rights and he will rise, they thought. "I fear we are compelled to face the conclusion that the experiment has failed. The suffrage has been taken away from the black man is most of the states in which he composes the larger part of the population. The black man in the South, generally, no longer has practically the right to suffrage. "It is probably but a matter of time when the overwhelming dominant white opinion will succeed in excluding the black man from all offices in the Southern states. "So, the country has to face the failure of the plan formulated at the close of the war to elevate the black man by conferring the suffrage upon him. "We can never throw up the responsibility for these people held in slavery for so many generations. The new question, What can be done for them, now that the first plan has failed is one that challenges the best thought and the best patriotism of our country." "A curious development has been seen within the past year. President Roosevelt has appointed fewer black men than President McKinley, and there are to-day fewer black men holding office than when McKinley died. Yet loud outcries are to be heard in the South about President Roosevelt's policy of appointing black men to office in the South. Under previous Presidents, McKinley, Cleveland, Harrison and back to Hayes's time, more negroes were appointed to office and nothing was said. "A black man attended an official reception in Washington at the White house a short time ago. The black man, as official of the government, had always attended these receptions. Yet the invitation of the President to these men was the signal for an outcry of a thousand papers in the South that the whites were being insulted. that the white wives for an instant, after the Secretary of War had finished a hush fell upon the audience. Then the applause was fairly deafening. It continued for at least two minutes, swelling all the time, and finally broke out into vociferous cheers. The occasion was the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the club. Around Mr. Root on the platform in the large hall of the club sat fifteen of the thirty-two survivors of the 534 men who joined the club in 1863. Four hundred members were present when the senior vice president, William E. Dodge, in the absence from the city of the president, Cornelius N. Bliss, called the audience to order. BRYAN WILL NOT ATTEND. Refuses to Be at Harmony Banquets With Cleveland. Chicago.—William J. Bryan declares that he will refuse to attend any banquet to which Grover Cleveland is to be invited. Mr. Bryan's declaration was made through an intimate friend to the officers of the Iroquis Club, which intended to invite Bryan, Cleveland and other Democratic leaders to a banquet to be held on Jackson's birthday, March 16. It had been proposed to make this banquet the occasion for a national Democratic love feast. The banquet committee of the club had prepared a list of prominent Democrats to whom invitations to be present and deliver addresses were to be sent. The first name on the list was that of former President Grover Cleveland. The second was that of William J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan passed through the city and saw the list of speakers at the Iroquis banquet that had been published and immediately declared that he would not attend the banquet. "What need is there of inviting anyone one else to a banquet at which Grover Cleveland is to be present?" he asked, and he requested a friend to have his name stricken off the list of those who were to be invited to the Iroquils Club banquet. Among the men who are to be invited to attend the banquet are: Grover Cleveland, Horace Boise, David B. Hill, J. J. Hill, Richard Oney, William C. Whitney, Daniel Lamont, Don M. Dickinson, Henry Watterson, ex-Attorney General Harmon and Senator Bailey. Roosevelt Is Confident. Washington.—"I have quit worrying about my nomination," President Roosevelt said to a friend recently. "I consider that settled and I am quite sure that I will be the choice of the convention. "What I am worrying about now is whom the Democrats will nominate. From all I can learn and from the trend of things in general it seems to me that a man from my own state, Judge Parker, will be my opponent." Brazil Wants No Meditation Washington.—Senor Assiz Brazil, the minister from Brazilí called at the state department Saturday to talk with Secretary Hay over the threatening conditions in Acre. The secretary's efforts to prevent hostilities have not succeeded and he is restrained from tendering the good offices of the United States by an indisposition upon the part of Brazil to accept them. Fashion Notes of Today. EW YORK Letter: The fashionable girl of spring will be a composite creature. She will be severe, but feminine; simple, but elegant; her gowns will reveal the most delightful color schemes, but at all times will they be harmo- Her individual tastes will find satisfaction in her gowns and everything she wears will emphasize her orig- As to Two Evils. BARBER'S WORK GRATIS gown is on the shirt-waist and skirt order, but made very simply and gracefully. Accompanying such a toilette is a smart toque of gree velvet. Its only trimming consists of a large blue and green bird which covers the left side and droops over the back of the toque. Desiring a touch of grey in the hat a bird with wing feathers of this shade might be selected, but the blue and green is quite the most chic novelty of the day. There are a thousand ways of employing tucks on suits and bodices and each is distinctive and pretty. Royal blue zibeline is selected for a dressy street suit for spring wear. The gown is decorated with narrow corded tucks and pipings of blue satin and was designed especially for the automobile show which is attracting considerable social attention. The coat is made with a peplim and bell sleeves. It has a rolling collar and cuffs of applique with white face. The finishing touches are gained through an imposing silk cord and ornaments matching the suit in color. Beaver hats will be worn very late and becoming in apropos by the coming of spring weather will be supplanted by chiffon designs carrying out the same ideas in shape and trimming. One of the daintest confections of the season is a hat of grey beaver trimmed with grey and white pane. The front of the dress faces the front over the upturned brim on the left side, with a long grey and white plume. A novelty that promises to be more than a passing fancy is shown in the new gloves. They are made of suede and widening with something of acicular flare above the last button are cuffs of the suede embroidered in silk in raised designs. This necessitates the wearing of the sleeve waistband beneath the glove, but as the embroidered sleeve's popular shades it is an easy matter to select tints that will harmonize with the gown. Table linen has been impressed into service to produce a vagary of fashion, just as towelling was employed last season. A fetching waist is designed of heavy satin damask, with a wake back and front and a large box plait down the front, with immense pearl buttons. There is a plethora of novelties in the shops, though the majority are of the variety classed as transient. The varicolored silk buttons finished with cords and tassels will remain, because there is something of grace in the tassels as they swing to and fro with each motion of the body, and grace is an element today which all energies are concentrated. A collarette really girlish in its attractiveness is of white satin and accordion plaited chiffon from a short cape below the stole of satin. Accompanying the collarette is a hat of white chiffon, finely shirred, with a cluster of velvet roses beneath the brim and close to the hair in front. MAUDE GRIFFIN. Mayor Hayes, of Baltimore, is endeavoring to have abolished the city's exaction of a fee of 15 cents from sightseers who go to the top of the Washington monument. There is a fine view from the top. The city now receives an average of $10 weekly from the fees, which are applied to the general fund for the maintenance of parks and squares. One in 81 men employed on sailings ships was drowned last year, while of those employed on steamships the proportion was one in 343. alliance with one of his kind?" "Well," she answered, ingenuously, "I was getting on, the other girls had all been married, and I at last had no choice but between him and a lawyer who was courting me."—Philadelphia Ledger. Derbyshire, Devonshire and Westmoreland provide the finest marbles found in England. The record of timber produced from one tree was 80,000 feet from a redwood 30 feet in diameter, cut last year in California. ough artists result from practical than theoretical training. Bishop Conaty, rector of the Catholic university at Washington, according to a Rome dispatch, appears to have the best chance of appointment to the bishopric of Los Angeles, Cal. When the congregation of the propaganda meets on Jan. 19, the filling of this vacancy will come up. Experiments in the use of electricity as an anaesthetic are about to be made on human subjects by a French doctor at Nantes. THE FEELINGS OF PLANTS. They Have Electric Thrills and Sentient Impulses. Long ago Sir J. Gordon Sanderson showed that electrical manifestations were capable of being demonstrated in the case of the movements of the fly-catching plant of North Carolina known as the Dlonaea, or "Venus" fly trap." He deduced from his experiments a close unisonal relationship between the occurrence of the plant and those of muscle in animals. This observation naturally leads to ward the recognition of a common basis for the movements of animal and plant life. More recently experiments seem to indicate that such electrical responses are possibly universal through the plant world. In the case of the leaf stalk of the horse chestnut, or the root of the carrot or radish, a current was noted in the stalk from a part which had been injured to the uninjured portion. This corresponds with what is known to occur in experiments on animal tissues. When the stimulation ceased and the tissue regained its normal state "a current of rest" was only presumed to exist in the natural condition of the plant. All such experimentation bears very directly on the question of plant sensitiveness. Most of us regard the plant as a purely vegetable thing, living, but incapable of reasoning, as does the animal, to stimul which affect a nervous system. This view is founded on a misconception of life's constitution at large, that it is sensitive to the tropism, or living matter, and this matter, as regards sensitiveness at least, may be regarded as practically identical in the two great groups of living nature. Time was when the living matter of plants was regarded as being confined within cells, each of which was shut off from its neighbors. Now we know that delicate threads of living matter run through the body. How is it summed that when an impression is made on the protoplasm of one part of the plant it may be transmitted to distant parts of the organism. Some plants—sensitive in their nature—show the results of stimulation by the drooping of leaves and like actions. But even in plants which do not exhibit such obvious results of stimulation we may possess sensitiveness (accompanied by ward sign of the irritation is manifested. It is because plants have immovable tissues, so to speak, that they do not exhibit movements as a rule. Yet when a dalysopsy its petals under the influence of a cold wave on a summer's day we are surely in the region of sentient life, manifested by actions not far removed from those of the animal and human life. Wordsworth's idea that "every flower enjoys the air it breathes" may, after all, be founded upon a scientific basis.—London Chronicle. TRICK ON THE MINISTER Why His Congregation Occupied the Front Pews. One of the ministers of the city—who for obvious reasons doesn't care to have his name mentioned in the matter—tells a story of a trick that one of his chums put up on him during the early days of his ecclesiastical career. The echum was on sociable terms with the officers of the church he attended and secured the appointment of his friend as supply on one of the Sundays during the summer vacation. "Now, Jim," the chum said, after the young minister had thanked him, "there is one thing I would like to have you remember when you preach at our church. Nearly all of our people are away, but, strange to say, the majority of those that are still in town are deaf. That is why I hear the heart to supplies we have had so far. So please do use every bit of voice you have to make those people hear what you have to say." Accordingly, the minister, remembering his chum's instructions, let loose the full strength of his voice when he conducted the services of the church in question on the following Sunday, and the minister—let it be remarked here, while not of especially robust build, has been endowed by nature with vocal organs of a particularly powerful variety. The minister said in telling the story, that he noticed, with both surprise and pleasure, that the greater part of the congregation of off in the rear seats, as in most summer congregations. He didn't use all of his strength, he says, in the opening prayers, but waited for the sermon, when he went at it for all he was worth. At any sign of restlessness or unaccomplished he redoubled his efforts. When the service was over one of the officials went to the clergyman—the chum was out of town, by the way—and, after expressing his interest in the sermon, said he had been greatly surprised to find the preacher the possessor of such a powerful voice. "Your voice is so powerful," he said, a good preacher, but that your voice was extremely weak, and that it was difficult to hear you unless one sat far up toward the front. So we brought everybody as near the pulpit as possible." "But, I understand," the minister said, "that, through some mysterious dispensation of Providence, nearly all your people were deaf." Explanations followed, and it was well for the chum just then that he was supposed Sunday out of town—Baltimore Sun. Dr. Sewell, who has announced his intention of resigning the office of warden of New college, has long ago been the dean of the heads of houses at Oxford, and the last survivor of the dons of the old school. He came up from Winchester as a scholar of New college in 1827, and has ever since been a memorial to his father in coronation, residence. He was an intimate friend of Dr. Routh, the celebrated president of Magdalen college, who died in 1854, at the age of 100 years, and who had several times met Dr. Johnson during his frequent visits to Oxford. A Reuter's dispatch from Bukharek says: The council of ministers is considering the question of the Second International Petroleum congress, which it is proposed to hold here. Although the majority is favorably disposed towards the congress, it has yielded to the insistence of M. Sturdya, premier, who says he fears the holding of the congress in Bukharek may create the danger of Roumanian petroleum becoming monopolized by foreign capitalists, and may also entail large ex-penses. The total expenditure, how- L. S. Elmer, assistant chief clerk of the postoffice department, is known as an authority on the postal laws and regulations of this and other countries, presents the salient points of the postal laws in concise form. Mr. Elmer has been in the service about 20 years. The new archbishop of Bucharest will now have an income of 875,000 a year, besides fees and perquisites—which may seem large to some Western country ministers. OKLAHOMA BRIEFS. Willis Griffin, the first white child born in Guthrie and the territory after the opening of old Oklahoma in April, 1889, is dead. His parents participated in the run, secured a claim and have lived there ever since. Intense excitement prevails in Taloga and Dewey counties over the discovery of gold, copper and iron ore on the farm of R. M. Maloney, five miles northeast of Taloga. Business has been practically suspended there, so great is the excitement. Hundreds of people are flocking to the scene It is estimated that this season's cotton crop in Oklahoma will reach 175,000 bales, the greatest in the territory's history. Out of the twenty-six counties in the territory, twenty are cotton producers. Dealers state that the total acreage increases gradually each year. The ruling price during the season has been 8 cents. The cost of care and maintenance of Oklahoma's deaf and dumb and insane as well as of the territory convicts, all of which is done under contract for two years, at shown by Territorial Auditor Baxter's statement recently made public, is: Insane, $122,757; convicts, $69,894; deaf and dumb, $28,675. Oklahoma City was in danger of destruction one day last week. A blaze that started caused a loss of 1/4 million dollars. The wind was so strong that for a time it seemed as if the fire could not be checked. Calls for aid were sent to Guthrie, El Reno and Purcell. All three cities responded. Fire departments were sent by special trains. They got there in time to aid in stopping the flames. At Mangum, even the electric light plant does not run on Sunday, because the manager was notified to keep it shut down, under penalty of prosecution for violating the Sunday law. Causing the electric light plant to shut down Saturday night at 12 o'clock and remain shut down until Monday morning is rather inconvenient for the townsmen of that city and they are trying to have the law changed. Some weeks since an Oklahoma merchant ordered ten pounds of salt-peter from his jobber and received it immediately by fast freight. It was sold to farmers of the neighborhood, who used it in curing meat. Recently so many complaints came in of the aperient properties of the meat treated that the wholesaler was asked to look into the matter, and it was found that a careless packer had sent epom salts. Fifteen families passed through Shawnee the other day for South Potawatotawie county, where they will settle on lands recently purchased. Most of them were from Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas, although several were from Northern Iowa. Immigration to South Potawatotawie county is rapidly increasing and most of the incomers are prosperous and money farmers from the Northern states. In nearly every case they are inaugurating substantial improvements in the way of replacing pioneer houses with good frame houses and other improvements. INDIAN TERRITORY The Kiowa and Comanche Indians will be paid $200,000 within the next sixty days. In Judge Gill's court, in the Northern district of the Indian Territory, the trial of Earl Holt, charged with the murder of James Holland, of Westville, was concluded last week and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The trial lasted a week and was bitterly contested by both sides. Deputy marshals arrested Noah Hawkins, of Ada, a well-to-do fullblood Indian, charged with the recent murder of Stephen Huller. It is alleged that both were in love with the same Indian maiden, and that Hawkins, in order to get rid of his rival, murdered him. The Cherokee land office has been in operation at Vinita for one month, and the work of the month is as follows: Tickets of admission issued, 2,902; total number of tickets admitted during the month, 603; total number of individual allotments made during the month, 1,045; additional locating clerks have been added to the force and the allotments will be made a little faster. At this rate it is estimated it will require three or four years to allot the Cherokee nation. Following an investigation by the chiefs of the Kliowa, Comanche and Wichita affiliated tribes of Indians whose reservation in Oklahoma was recently opened to settlements, agents of immense land grants in Old Mexico, are now with them, to close, if possible, by which the Indians take 1,780,000 acres of land adjoining the Rio Grande river, in the state of Chihuahua and Ahuila. 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 at $1 per acre. Of the 12,398 German naval and military delinquents sentenced last year, forty-two were punished for duelling. CANCER CURED WITH SOOTHING, BALMY OILS. Bexner, Caterpillar, Fitch, Ulcera, Eucalyptus, Zemeran and Kansas Books for Illustrated Book. Sent free. Address: BY, DRE, BYE, Kansas City, Me PISO'S CURE FOR GUIDES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Counsel Syrup. More Good. Eas in time. But损害. By drugs. CONSUMPTION. Over 300 Bismarck Monuments. The number of Bismarck monuments of all kinds in Germany and other European countries now exceeds by one. Building a Memorial Hall. A number of citizens of Cambridge Mass., are planning to erect a $500,000 memorial hall as a meeting place for patriotic and historical organization. The idea is to make it what Famed Hall is to Boston. Incense Good Taste Insures Good Treatment. Joseph Market, a citizen of Marion Ind., aged 80, and said to be worth $100,000, married Miss May Dawdy aged 25. Market was a wilder woman has four children. He did not wish to marry a woman who wanted him care for his estate and to insure his good treatment made a contract with the young woman setting forth that she is not to get any of his estate or death, but is to receive $5,000 a year as long as she keeps him alive. Chinese Students Come Here. The two Chinese students who have been "held up" by the San Francisco immigration officials, under the interpretation of the Chinese excursion law, and who were released recently by the decision of the treasury department, were the first of the number of which the Chinese government, under an imperial decree issued last year, made provision to send to education institutions in this country. The students are sent here at the expense of the Chinese government to take postgraduate courses, and upon their return to China those successful aminations will be appointed to government positions. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars ward for any case of Catarrh cannot becurred by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo We, the undersigned, have know F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honourable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in nally acting directly upon the blossom and mucous surfaces of the system Testimonials sent free Price 75 per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. No Pension for Corns. A veteran of the Spanish war recently applied to the secretary of the interior a case which he claimed pension on account of corn that he had contracted by wearing shoes. The department, after a haustive course of reasoning, came to the conclusion corn are not a psionable disability. The decision says "Corns are inconvenient, but are dom incapacitating, and when the are the remedy is simple and with easy reach of anyone. The soldier patriotism ought not to terminal with his military service. It should prompt him to go to a chapiteau rather than to the pension bureau." An Important Discovery Granton, Okla., Feb. 9th.—After the years E. H. Gosney of Granton has last found a cure for Kidney Trouble Mr. Gosney suffered very severe with Kidney Complaint and some years ago made up his mind to find cure if one was to be had. He has tried and tried and expented with every kidney medicine could hear of. Although he was a ways disappointed he kept on till at last his perseverance was warded and he found a complete cure. He is a well man today and explains it as follows: "Everything failed to cure me as I was growing worse and worse till tried a new remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills and I had not taken many them before I knew I had at last found the right thing. I am centred cured and I cannot say too much to Dodd's Kidney Pills." A. NEW. KLONDIKE. There is a rich placer gold field in New Mexico that is known to be miles square and the gravel is 10,000 feet thick, in which there is enough gold to pay the national debt. This deposit of gravel has been formed by the action of water, eroding the tops of the many rich quartz veins in the Ortiz mountains, on which is located the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Companies, that have paid over $17,000,000 to the owners. The famous Lincoln Lucky mule also on this mountain and it has over $1,000,000 in one year to buyerls Adjoining Lincoln Lucky, on same vein is located the C. & C. Co. solidated, with a rich body on net will set from $40 to $150 per ton. In the next year this minion will be the largest producer, and most prestigious. able of any in the tank A small amount of money invested in it now will make you wealthy in short time. short time. For the next 30 days you can share fully paid and non-assessed it's being sold to equip the mine heavier machinery than that now. Don't fail to get some of the at this price. We want a few seas in different localities to sell this for the next 30 days. Cut this out and write for the next prospectus Commercial Account 104 W 9th St, Kansas City KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS. A Senate joint resolution was adopted last week authorizing the Secretary of War to supply a condemned cannon for a life size statue of General Henry Leavenworth at Leavenworth, Kas. The Bowersock bill providing for the holding of terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Kansas City, Kas, and for other purposes, has been reported favorably to the senate. That new divorce bill before the Kansas house has much to say about the respective rights of husbands and wives. But it is voiceless on the issue raised by a Horton preacher the other day when he spanked his wife with a board. One member of the legislature in one day last week asked one railroad attorney in Topeka for twenty-seven trip passes, and got them. They were for a total of 14,570 miles, and if paid for at regular rates would have amounted to $437.10. In order to get all the old Price raid claims in shape so that the state can determine what to do with them, Senator Porter introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a commissioner to investigate the claims and file a report with the legislature two years hence. Discussion on ex-Governor Stanley's "reward" has been renewed. It is proposed to make him a federal judge, which revives the old plan of dividing the state into two federal judicial districts. A federal judgeship is a life job, and the most desirable place on the political calendar. There are 138 employees about the Kansas senate. Presuming that each is paid $3 a day, each of the forty senators commands patronage to the amount of $10.35 a day. The senator himself is a $3 man. Therefore each senator is costing the state $13.35 a day. And some of them are cheap at half the price. The senate and the house differed on the question of the amount of postage necessary to send out Secretary Coburn's agricultural reports. The senate gave him $4,300 and the house cut it to $2,300. The senate refused to concur, and the house, refusing to recede, the bill was sent to a conference committee. A section hand working in Wallace county was killed by a train the other day. It was found that he had $2,056 on his person. It represented his saved earnings during sixteen years of working at the poorest paid job on a railroad. It seems to prove that a man can lay by something, no matter what his job may be. W. S. Commers, a brother of the at his place by being thrown from a as his pace by being thrown from a windmill. Commers climbed upon the windmill to oil it. A sudden gust of wind moved the wheel and brushed him off. He fell forty feet to the ground, striking on his face. He died while on the way to the hospital. The surviving members of the Tenth Kansas cavalry want their regimental flag placed with the other Kansas regimental flags in the adjutant general's office. It is now in the possession of heirs of the late Governor Harvey. Senator Stewart has had the senate adopt a resolution, authorizing the executive department to negotiate for the flag. James Uhl, who lived fifteen miles west of Leavenworth near Jarballo, hanged himself in the barn of his grandmother, Mrs. Phoebe Porter last week. Uhl was 21 years old. He has been very dispondent and seemed to be dimented. The farmers living near refused to touch the body until the coroner arrived from the city and ordered it taken down. Including Chester I. Long, Kansas has had fifteen United States senators. James H. Lane and Samuel C. Pomeroy were the first two. The successors of Lane have been Edward Ross, Robert Crozier, Alexander Caldwell, James H. Harvey, Preston B. Plumb, Bishop W. Perkins, John Martin, Lucien Baker and J. R. Burton. Pomeroy's successors have been John J. Gallis, William A. Peffer, William A. Harris and Chester I. Long. W. E. Richey, of Harveyville, one of the directors of the State Historical Society, was in the southern part of Geary county last week to investigate the prehistoric camp that was unearthened near Skiddy two weeks ago. He secured several of the articles found in the old camp that was about eight feet underground, and exposed the belief that they were at that place by members of Coronado's little army that is supposed to have made an expedition into this part of the country in 1541. Last week Sheriff Roadhouse discovered that Charles Parmenter, a no-noble character, who was to be tried in a few days for murder, was making a desperate effort to break jail. He saw two steel bars of his cell almost through, and had filled the process with soap to avoid detection. Three saws were found in Parmenter's cooks, and two more and a large driver were found in his cell. The Stoltzman, on trial for murder, gave the sheriff the information that he had placed in close contact with Parmenter who was placed in close contact. Convicts in the state penitentiary already mine coal and make binding twine, and it is proposed to make them build roads and manufacture brooms and other things. Representative Jackson, of Kansas, presented to the house the resolution recently adopted by the Kansas legislature petitioning congress to name one of the new battleships recommended by Mr. Roosevelt, the "Kansas." While Henry Weithorn, a prominent farmer living northwest of Seneca, was carrying a post behind one of his horses, the animal became frightened and kicked at the post, one end of which pierced Weithorn's side. From the effects of this he died. The Orient railroad has won a valuable recruit in Frank Grimes, who has been appointed its Kansas reprepeka. Mr. Grimes is a clever politician, and his excellent record as state treasurer during the last four years is proof that he is a good business man. Benjamin Knott, a man about 70 years old, was found dead in his room at Bird City. The coroner found that he had been murdered with some blunt instrument. He had sold his farm a few days before and had received $300 in part payment. He had $90 when found. Of all the vagaries concocted in the mind of an insane person, that of a farmer in Osborne county is the strangest. He thinks he is on a railroad train bound for heaven, and that his dog, Ring, is the conductor. He beseches his friends to get aboard before Ring pulls out and leaves them. B. P. Waggener has withdrawn his resolution to place a bust of John J. Ingalls in a niche of the rotunda of the national capitol. The ancient enemies of the late ex-senator served notice on Waggener that they were preparing to fight the measure, and rather than have a row Mr. Waggener decided not to press it. The case against Mrs. Henry Lowry at Wellington charged with complicity in the murder of her infant son, was dismissed by the county attorney. Henry Lowry, who was found guilty of administering morphine to the child is now serving a sentence of twenty-five years in the penitentiary. The child was not Lowry's. Senator Smith has introduced a bill providing for an indeterminate sentence for prisoners convicted of a felony. The bill gives the court the right to sentence prisoners to prison for an indefinite time. The present board is given authority to release when in its opinion the convict has served long enough. J. M. Blackwell, a well-to-don Lyon county farmer, was adjudged insane in the Lyon county probate court. He is 46 years old and has a wife and nine children. His insanity is due to worry over his corn crop. He has 100 acres of corn not yet gathered and threatened to kill anyone who gathered it before corn raised to 50 cents a bushel. Sometimes it is on the "side" products of the farm that Kansas farmers make the most money. Last summer Will Keller, near McLouth, in Jefferson county, planted twenty-eight acres in sorghum. From the crop he sold 3,500 gallons of syrup at 20 cents a gallon and 1,025 bushels of seed at 70 cents a bushel. The net return from both was $1,417.50. The largest cash bond ever put up in Kansas in a criminal case was filed with the district clerk of Smith county. Albert Jordan and his wife were arrested some days ago, charged with beating an adopted son to death. They were farmers. Nobody would go on their bond, which was fixed at $18,000. They put up the cold cash and were released. Jordon said he could have put up a $150,000 cash bond if it was required. Thomas Lawson, the millionaire horse breeder, has just announced the award of prizes in his contest for the best named trotting horses registered during the year 1902. E. N. Thomas, of Colony, Kas., was awarded a special prize for the name Aurelette, chestnut mare, sire Aurelian, dam Palizette. Mr. Lawson gives as his reason for the award: "Combination of Aurelian, the sire, and Palizetti, the dam, seemed very appropriate." The State Society of Labor has concluded its annual meeting. These officers were elected for the coming year: President, George Brandon, Leavenworth; vice president, J. H. Campbell, Wichita; secretary, W. L. A. Johnson, Topeka; assistant secretary, W. D. Robinson, Pittsburg. By virtue of their offices Johnson is made state labor commissioner and Robinson assistant state labor commissioner. A peculiar situation has come to light in Jewell county, where R. R. Skelks has held the offices of county commissioner and member of the council of the city of Burr Oak for the last year. The constitution provides that a county commissioner shall hold no municipal office, but this was not discovered by the residents of the county until Mr. Skelks had served a year. There is now a probability that the acts of the board of commis sioners for the last year are illegal and Representative Bevington of that county has introduced a bill in the house legalizing them. LITTLE VILLAGE OF CARPINETO; WHERE POPE LEO WAS BORN N this little village of Carpineto, Italy, Pope Leo XII. was born. There he passed his boyhood. Of this fact the people of Carpineto are constantly beating. When you enter the village the first person you encounter will tell you of its distinction. Almost half a century has passed since the holy father looked upon the village, and he will never see it again. But his thoughts are ever turned toward it. How this wonderful man, who was born when the past century was in its swaddling clothes, finds time to devote so much attention to his birthplace is beyond the comprehension of those who are familiar with the vast amount of work he performs. All of Carpineto revolves about the people of the town of him, and many of 70 tell tales which were handed down to them by their fathers and mothers. Among all the millions of people the world over who give love and reverence to the holy father none enthrone him so high in their hearts as the 700 families in Carpinope. One can learn more about the personality of the man in the place of his birth than in the Vatican, yet few persons are known to journey by rail from Rome to Montenicola, where one takes a strongly built little stage drawn by four males and guarded by two cababiners armed with rifle, sword, revolver, and stillet. The Italian government doesn't care to have a foreigner abducted by banditti if it can be avoided. The road leads straight up and around the mountains for miles, and the cooked rifles and the sharp outlook maintained by the guards would not be merely a matter of form. But for an hour or two one will not see a but or habitation, and more than likely not a human soul. Suddenly, at a turning in the road, the driver points out a great country house, which he calls the Pecel casino, and below it is "Carpineto, the birthplace of founded more than ten centuries ago by the warlike Voscel, the robber knights of the middle ages. These earliest settlers had to hew into the solid rock in order to build their houses, and at this day the total number of them is not more than 560. And a stony back lane known as the Corso to the first home of Leo XIII, called, like every nobleman's home in Italy, a palace. It looks, to American eyes, more like a fort than a stately residence. The house is two and a half stories high, with a modest balcony in front. The lower row is more than a meter high, one-half feet high and is guarded by iron gratings. It was in this house that the holy father passed his childhood. Although the Peccles were nobles they were poor, and one may see the room where the holy father's mother kept the silk worms which furnished the money for his education and that of his brother, the late cardinal, which was the foundation for their success. He was the stories about him. As a child he was a true son of the mountains, and it is said that no one in Carpinope could equal him in mountain climbing. Father Salvagni is the only surviving schoolmate of the pope in Carpinope. He is a small, thicket man, who says he is at least 90 years old, and who is still proud of his muscle, even boasting of it like a youth in the first flush of manhood. "Ser Nino Leo was the most courageous mountain climber I ever saw," said the author, and he has long been famous for our skill in mountaineering in this part of the country. And at one time he was the best shot in these mountains. So great was his skill with the riffs that he disdained to shoot a bird except on the wing. "But study ruined his marksmanship. It is a great pity. I was ashamed of him the last time he visited us, in September, 1857. With other huntsmen I had gone out on the road near Montenegro in the throng, and begged me to lend him my rifle. I handed the weapon to him. He aimed at a bird and hit a tree. It cut me to the heart. He, the best rifleman in the mountains, to miss an easy shot! He never used a gun again. I suppose he felt the disgrace too keenly. He said that 2 of that same year, never to return." In his youth the holy father was always called "Nino," and Father Salvagni so called him in speaking of their boyhood days. He walked over the grounds where he and the pope used to hunt. "Here," he said, pointing to a grotto; "there we used to lie in ambush for rabbits more than seventy-five years ago." The grotto is near the Celle Oreclec, or Hill of Ears. The name was given to it back in the middle ages, because it was on this bill that the men of Carpinope cut off the ears of prisoners from the town of Bassiano. Twenty years late those of Bassiano had their revenge, for they captured many of the villains and on this same hill not only cut off their ears, but their noses as well. In the Pecoli palace there stands in a corner of an upper room a flint lock with an excessively long barrel, while all about are the uniforms and costumes of the male Pecis, most of whom were in the service of the vatican as courtiers, councilors, jurists, prelates, or military officers, and the bishops and cardinals' robes, miters, slippers belonging to the holy father, as well as the first white cassock he wore when he became none. It was with this riffle that the future pope won his fame as a marksman, and that its possession meant much to him in those days of poverty is indicated by a letter, carefully prepared, which shows how he came by it. Freely translated, it reads: "Dear Brother Titta: My friend, Prelate, I offer to let me have his gun cheap, for 9 scudi; he paid for it. Think of some means to obtain the money for me. This is an opportunity which comes only once in a lifetime. Your loving brother. NINO." In a gathering of leading citizens who had known the pope, the youngest, who was over 70, told a story that his mother had told him. "My family used to be serfs of the Peccis," he said, "and one day my mother brought the tax, consisting of cream and cheese. Nino, as the holy father was always called, as the was seated in his own mastade, was taste of the food that he fell in his mad haste. When my mother picked him up she addressed him with a phrase much heard in Carpiocho: "Anything else wanted, brother?" "A mere brother in my own cloister!" cried Nino. "Cardinal," said my mother, ironically. "I want to be pope," cried Nino, stamping his feet." N this little village of Carpino, Italy, Pope Leo XII, was born. There he passed his boyhood. Of this fact the people of Carpino are - constantly boasting. When you enter the village the first person you encounter will its distinction. Only once was the holy father ever beaten. That was when he was 12 years old. He and his brother, who was a year older, were so much excited when their mother, the Countess Anna, was taken away and given a good view that they went forth to have a good view of the robbers. In those days the banditti were picturesque-looking creatures, wearing velvet coats and trousers, with silver buttons, red shirts, and hand headkierchiefs, and carrying many knives and pistols, and their father was rescued when he thrashed them with much vigor. To this day there is nothing the holy father loves better than to recall his youth in Carpinope. Notwithstanding the years that have passed since he was in his native village, he keeps close track of everything that goes on there, and he is always in church in Carpinope, took to Rome members of eight or nine families, that the holy father might bless them in passing. They were boys and girls just confirmed. Leo stood still before the group, and, calling up one after another, he said: "Are you not old Peppo's son or grandson? And you; are you not Sabina's daughter? And you must belong to the Nagara. He even on man, and each one, each one, recounts his traits and characteristics, and he made not a single mistake. Nothing is more eloquent of the pope's love for his native village than the vast sums he has already expended for its regeneration, and the work is still going on. The works are under the care of Monsignore Adami, whom he appointed papal protector for Carpino. The most important is the new waterworks, which will give an abundant and sorely needed supply. For the holy father was cheated when he had the first waterworks built. The supply falls during a part of the year, compelling the people to walk miles for a jug of drinking water; the new works are built on artificial hewn vessels, and a conduit hewn partly through the esculd rock, will give an ample supply for Carpino and the neighboring villages as well. The pope has already established an old people's home, which he maintains. It is a large, lofty building. The pope also built and maintains the Pecel hospital, which is under the care of the French Sisters of the Holy Sacrament. It has a hundred beds, which seem too many for a town of 700 families, but those who benefit from it take care of the sick and the poor. The pope is having built two additional common schools, an agricultural academy, and a school for artisans and tradespeople. He pays for everything, buildings, furnishing, apparatus, and teachers. More than that, he provides breakfast for the scholars, because he knows how meager is the fare they pay. The holy father has also rebuilt and refurbished the church of St. John and the basilica of St. Jacob, which had been almost entirely destroyed. He has also built a third church, called the Collegiate church, and he gave a considerable sum to the church of St. Francis, one of the most interesting places in Carmelio will be the Leo museum, which will be in the Pecel palace and where all the relics of the family and the pope will be shown. A WESTERN WOLF DRIVE. It Casts a Drag Net Over Twenty Square Miles of Territory. Everything is big out here—the men, th cranches, the aspects of the earth itself, says the Wahoo (Neb) correspondent of the Buffalo Express. Hunting is big like the rest. It has a breadth that astonishes the Eastern. And, like everything else in the West, sport out here has its practical side. Wolves and wildcats kill the cattle, and set out to hunt them as a means of retiring the rids of them. The average wolf drive takes in 20 square miles. Four captains take charge, each on one side of the big square. They set their men in motion at 9:30 o'clock in the morning, and all the hunters simultaneously begin to push in toward the center. As they go they drive along in front of them all the animals and birds in the square. The hounds were left in the center and drive the wolves to the sides, where they are shot down. Only gunshots are used in the wolf drives. The closing scene is usually a large hay field, where the game has small chance to hide or escape. The men go to the hunt in rigs and after the battle you can see the wagons roll along back home, carrying men and game. BOUDOIR IRONING SETS Outfits for Ironing Small Articles Have Place in Many Rooms. Nothing is more useful for the woman who irons her own dainty collars and ribbon and laces than an outfit in her own room all ready for the purpose. One of the little bosom boards, canton-fannel lined and covered with white muslin, is a convenient size. Then there is a little steel flat iron that, considering its size, will do a surprising amount of work and hold the heat a remarkably long time. With it comes a little iron rest. The cost of both is 18 cents. At an adjoining counter there is an asbestos holder that will insure its user against burns and blisters. bag hold, bag hold, bag hold of flowered chinz a little larger than the board. At the rounded end there should be a flap to button securely over the front and a strap by which to hang it. A couple of pockets in the front for flatron, holder, wax, and rest will complete it. The edges may be bound with braid—Chicago Inter Ocean. The kaiser's recent speeches against the Socialists have, remarks the Berlin correspondent of the London Morning Leader, not only been hung up in most of the great workshops of the country, but are being distributed in pamphlet form among the soldiers. A meeting of 1,600 metal workers, among them being from 700 to 800 employees of Kdupp's Gruson works, assembled at Magdeburg on Sunday, to protest against the action of certain masters made their men sign an address to the kaiser contrary to the dictates of their conscience. In many cases it was merely a question of signing or being dismissed at a time when it was practically impossible to obtain other employment. Some of the greatest American financiers never became members of a stock exchange. J. Pleerpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, James R. Keene and John W. Gates are concerned in vast Wall street operations, but none of them is a member of the New York exchange. Probably nobody in the country scrutinizes applicants for membership more closely than James R. Keene, who doubtless all the men mentioned would pass muster should they make the attempt. A LAND OF VOLCANOES A LAND OF VOLCANOES TRAGEDIES IN GUATEMALA FROM VOLCANIC CAUSES. Republic Has an Area of Only 50,000 Square Miles, With More Than Thirty Volcanoes. The recent volcanic disturbances in Guatemala recalls some interesting history in connection with volcanic disturbances in that republic—history which rivals the most dramatic and tragic inventions of the brain of the novelist and outrivals the conceptions of the most inventive playwright. The city in the area of republic Guatemala, with an area of but 50,000 square miles, more than 30 volcanoes, the most remarkable of which are the volcanoes of Tacana and Tajumilco in San Marcos, Zunil, Santa Tomas, Santa Clara, Santa Marla (11,374 feet high), Quazelenango (10,104 feet high), Atilan, San Pedro, Aguain (12,197 feet high), Fuego (13,487 feet high, Pacay (5,287 feet high, Acatenango, in the department of Chichenango, which covers over all the others, having an altitude of 14,072 feet. Agua (water) and Fuego (fire) are twin peaks, and it was upon the breast of these dormant monsters that the ancient capital of the republic rested. It will be remembered that the conquest of Guatemala was accomplished by the crucible adventurer, Alvarado. Leaving Guatemala on the 26 of December, 1523, with 300 infantry, 120 cavalry, four cannon, several hundred Mexican warriors and thousands of slaves to transport the baggage, he marched through the country, conquering all who opposed him, burning at the stake kings, and incinerating their towns, until, on July 25, 1524, the last foe had been subdued, and he proclaims the victory of Guatemala over Guatemala and establishes his capital at the native town of Almolonga, giving it the name of "The City of St. James, the Gentleman." After the work of the improvement of his capital city was well under way, Alvarado returned to Mexico and thence to Spain, where he was loaded with honors, was made governor adelantado and captain general of Guatemala, and took to himself a wife in the person of a man of the most influential families of Spain, and a woman as ambitious as was Alvarado himself. Upon their return to Guatemala, they found things in a prospering condition, and Alvarado set out to win new laurels in the field of conquest. In 1541, while in Mexico, he heard of the fabled "Seven Cities of Cibola," and was planning to go northward in search of them, when he met with the accident which cost him his life. When the news of his death reached the widow, she summoned the alcaldes and regidors to the palace and proclaimed herself Gobernadora. The people were made for a most spectacular ceremony, in memory of her late husband. it was one of the most auspicious. It was then that one of the volcanes awoke and made for itself the first authentic history we have of disturbances of that nature in Guatemala. It also produced a most dramatic situation during the ostentatious ceremonies of the ambitious woman governor of the province. It was the evening of Sept. 8, 1541, and the obsequies were in progress, when the air became thick and heavy, and dense clouds gathered above the city, from which came the voice of thunders and frequent and blinding flashings of lightning, and suddenly the air became shake with terrible convulsions, a shower of rocks, sand, sticks and debris rained down upon the city, and the panic-streaked populace fed to the churches and chapels, hoping there to receive protection at the hands of the God they pretended to serve. Then came the crowning disaster. The great mountain vomited forth—not fire, smoke, lava and ashes, as a well-regulated volcano is supposed to do, but an avalanche of water, which tore down the mountain side. Carving a channel of feet deep, and bearing the earth and trees and rocks before it, it would tear the city before streets, tearing down adjoices and crushing and drowning hundreds of persons. Dona Beatrice, when the first convulsions shook the city, forgot her ambitions and forsook the pomp and gorgeousness of the palace and fled to the chapel near by, where, clinging to the crucifix, she was crushed beneath the total loss of life was placed at 1,600. Not so picturesque in its details, but many times more disastrous, was the second destruction of the capital, which was removed, after the first disaster, to a point about three miles to the east streets, tearing down edifices and of the former site, at Antigua. More than 10,000 souls and a grandeur second to none of the cities of the New World, Fuego, twin to the volcano which wrecked the first capital, and which received the name of Agua because of the nature of its eruption, began to belch forth fire, and the earth shook with the violence of its retchings and a thousandfold more violently than it had at the time of the eruption of The great city crumbled beneath the tremblings of the earth like so much dust, and thousands upon thousands of her inhabitants were killed. A very small percentage of the population escaped. The dead were never counted or buried, except as they were buried beneath the debris of the ruined city; the dead were not buried, instead of their injuries or else died from thirst and hunger. The city was abandoned, never to be rebuilt, and today, 129 years afterward, the ruins lie almost unchanged, to tell the tale of the terrible catrophe. From the tower of the old cathedral may be counted the ruins of 45 churches. The general scene of desolation reminds one of the ruins of the old world. We are exhaling in words of Kipling: "I all our pomp of yesterday. I in one with Nineveh and Twelf." The demolished city was one of pomp and glory, such as only the Spanish of that day were capable of producing. Half a hundred churches, each with its convent and monastery, gorgeous palaces, the most celebrated university on this continent, the seat of the Inquisition—all went, almost in an instant. The present capital, Guatemala la Nueva, was founded shortly after this disaster, 30 miles to the eastward of the ruined one, where it has since stood unmolested till the recent disturbances.—Los Angeles Times. The kaiser has undertaken the patronage of the great international music festival to be held at Berlin shortly in conjunction with the unveiling of the Wagner monument. The German foreign office has received assurances that representative musicians of all leading countries will participate. 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The colt was fealed on a farm near Fountain Ferry Park. Its owner considered it worthless and sent it to Mr. Hackstead. At birth it only weighed about twelve pounds, although it was perfectly formed. Since that time it has grown very slowly, and for the last two months there has been almost no change in its height and weight. If it stops growing no, there is no doubt that it is the smallest horse in the world. The colt is perfectly healthy and is well formed and strong. Its dam was a mustang pony of average size and its sire was a good-sized horse. The cross should have produced a medium-sized horse. The colt is good-tempered, although very frisky. It has been taught to follow its master like a dog and is very attentive. The freak has attracted much attention since it has been on exhibition. --- Bernie's Spice of Woman's Clothing Pope's Opinion of Women's Clothes. The Pope has recently manifested a preference in regard to ladies' apparel over and above the strict regulation in regard to ladies who are received by the holy father at the Vatican. A niece of the pope was about to be married, and her distinguished relative took so great an interest in her trousseau as to stipulate that the young lady should only have white, blue or black gowns, adding that these were the three colors most becoming to young girls. "Gray and brown," remarked his holiness, "are only suitable for old women, and I do not like any other colors." Possibly the pope prescribed white because it is the symbol of purity, blue because it is the color dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and black because it is the time-honored hue of dress for outdoor wear for Spain and Italy.-Pall Mall Gazette. The Value of a Blizzard Plot One of the most notable examples of peculiar dietary customs is an American army officer of good physique, who, in several years of exacting service at an out-of-the-way Western post, subsisted entirely on "canned goods." It was his custom to open cans at haphaazard, a single can for each meal; whether the contents were fish, fowl or flesh, vegetables or fruit he ate that and nothing more, and he lives to tell the tale. But he was always active, physically and mentally, except when asleep, and he breathed fresh air twenty-four hours of every day—Saturday Evening Week. Sound's Lost Opera. Few people are aware that Gounod once, in a moment of anger, tore up the manuscript of an opera he had composed, and, though he afterwards repented of his action, he was quite unable to recall its melodies. Gounod's opera "Fauset" was nearly lost to the world by the religious scenes of the great composer. About the time he wrote it he determined henceforth only to write sacred music, but, happily for posterity, he thought better of his resolution. Ears Old Bible Found. A wonderful old Bible has just been discovered in Venice, the fortunate finder being Leo S. Olschki, a well-known antiquarian of Florence. It is here volumes, and was printed in one in the printing house of Dov Piole Massimo in 1471 and 1472. Soon after it came from the press it was purchased by a patrician family of Vonse, and it was in the archives of the family that Olschki discovered it. A Czar's Novel Visiting Card. From the Ladies' Home Journal: The Russians tell a story of the late Cas Alexander III. that upon the rare occasions when it was incumbent upon him to say a call he would take a gold coin bearing his "image and superSCRIPTION" and twisting it between thumb and finger leave it in lieu of card—the only man in Russia who had strength for the heat. American Bottles the Best American bottles are preferred to all others for the export trade, and especially in warm climates where American can and English goods come into close competition. American glass is said to stand tropical climates better than the English, the reason being that it is better annealed. Transvaal Minerals. The Transvaal is the richest country in the world so far as minerals are concerned. In 1877 England annexed the Transvaal, but evacuated it in 1881. In 1848 England conquered and annexed the Orange Free State, but evacuated it six years later. CUNES BIPLOMATIC ANSITION A Short Term in the Zanzibar Gen- erality Generally Sufficient Usserman Generally Sufficient. Undesirable consulships 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 an attractiveness, if the length of consular 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 constituent ents 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 private secretary to Senator Beveridge and now consult at Valparaiso. Mansfield came back, according to Indians descriptions, "as tinn 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 Biltheimer, described as a husky Hoosier, with a large nose and frame pickled in malaria. He was cured of diplomatic ambition in about two months, and has never asked for a place since Before Biltheimer, Judge Riley of Virginia served; he remained as long as his aversion to the negroes would permit. Finally, he is said to have taken a gun and emptied a load of fine birdshot into the dusky natives who persisted in taking a daily bath in front of the American consulate, which, the Judge "allowed," was an indignity to be resented by this government's representative. HE LIKES FRIED POTATOES. Grand Duke Alexis Has a Favorite Dish, So They Say. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia is very fond of fried potatoes, and during his recent visit to Paris he was want 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 osar 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 Excellence,' 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 recognised and never returned to buy another potate. Glard Was Considerate One of the sea captains in the employ of Stephen Garid had a rural Yankee's fondness for whittling with his jackhawk, and on one trip succeeded in getting away with a large part of the rail, although, feeling that he was not without the artistic senses, he really regarded the rail as greatly improved in appearance. When the vessel came to Philadelphia Garid went aboard, made a general inspection in the captain's absence, and, as he was about to return to share, 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 a metal of the interview with Garid. 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 skingles drove down to the wharf, and the driver hailed the vessel. "There must be some mistakes shetued 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 inscription of Sherlock Holmes has become so famous, has acquired much of the running of the character he portrays, and on being interviewed by the news reporters reported a story from them all they were without himself himself asking any information. On his return from Europe the other day all the Boston sorcerer sought to learn of his plans, but were obliged to abandon the effort. Sensitiv Payments About twenty-five years ago government ordinance decided toave Pennsylvania avenue in Washington with asphalt. That was the beginning of the general use of the scientific amenity for street pavements. To date over $600,000,000 square feet of street pavements in the United States and Canada are covered with new Tahleap asphalt pavement would make a boulevard twenty-eight feet wide, over 600 miles long and would reach from New York to New Orleans, and then have several miles for side streets. Known as "the chair house," a New York institution's title is derived from the fact that human beings so poor they can not buy a lodging at the cheapest Rowery resorts put up five cents for a chance to occupy a chair for the night. By 11 o'clock the night's contingent is fast asleep in the chair, the usual number being twenty-five or thirty men, of all kinds and deserves of decree permission. In the Court of Gommae Pleas of Wyan dotte County, Kauai. Plaintiff. Plaintiff. T. T. Crittenden, Jy. Defendants. The State of Kansas to the above named defendants. You and each of you will take notice that the above named plaintiff is duly suit in the above named court against you and each of you, said petition being filed on the 19th day of January 1983 and that you must answer said petition on or before the 6th day of January 1983 and that you will be taken as true and judgement will be rendered accordingly in said action against you and each of you quieting the title of the plaintiff to lot in Block 54 in Wyndotte County, now a part of the consolidated city of Kansas City Wyndotte County Kansas, and excluding you and each of you from any interest or obligation or any part thereof, and forever barring and enjoining you and each of you from ever asserting any claim to, exile in, or, upon said premises adverser to the plaintiff. C. W. TRIDGETT, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: James L. Bergs, Clerk. Publication Notice In the district court t of Wyandotte county Kansas To the above a need defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 23rd day of fame in 1603, the petition-filled against you will be knotted as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving between plaintiff and defendant, and for the decree dissolving 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, va. Anna Divers, To the above named defendant, that you are hereby notified that you have been sent in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the fifth day of January 1933, the petition files said case will be taken a 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. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. State of Kansas, County of Wyndotte. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of Joseph Endicott, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of Joseph Endicott, late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Prob to Court of the County and State of Forsaid, dated the 17th day of March 1903 Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance with in one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited with three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. Catherine Endicott, Administratrix of the Estate of Joseph Endicott, deceased. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyndotte, State of Kansas, have here to set up hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 17th day of March, A. D. 1603. State of Kansas. §. 6. County of Wwyatte, §. 8. In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the Probate of the Estate of Peter Lambert, Llancaster. Creditors and all other persons interested in the court and estate are hereby notified that at the next recitalation of the Probate Court in and for said county, to be heard at the court room in kansas city county of Wwyatte and state of kansas on Monday in the month, January A. 1902. We shall apply to said Court for a full settlement of said estate. Shipley Llancaster, Mary Sebohil, Amelia Guiten, Ethan Bulton. Exceptors. Excident of the Probate Court. Person for it, A.D. 1902. Dec. 12. Publication Notice. State of Kansas, County of Wynon县, In the Pike County县 and forsall County in the unitter of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, in the Town Anthonybury, in the City of New York, on behalf of the honorable the late Const. Robert C. Nunn, and State of New York, dated the afternoon of November 11, 1863, all persons having claims hereof are hereby notified to the same to the undersigned. Administrator of the Future of the City and Society deceased. November Theodore Quentin, a member of the Philadelphia county, received a police lately wrote to President Rococott, saluting the he gave his youngest son the unusual name of Quentin. The president answered that the "name Quentin it with us an old family name, coming from a French Huguenot refugee who came to this country over two centuries ago." The Bowdin College water turtle is dead, after four years' imprisonment during which time he ate nothing. This is vouched for by Professor Lee, who had sharms of the turtle. Office Hours: From 10 A.M., till 4 p. m. and from 6 till 9 P.M., C.H.C. JORDAN, M.M.M.D., 610 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, Ks. Buy Your Drugs at LAKE & CO. 6th & Minnesota Av OUR GREATEST To the Colored People LUSTOR THE GREATEST OF STRAIGHTENS KINKY, You can straighten your hair in your own hair your hair became straight. Our Regular $5.00 Compound. Lustorone is put up in 2 forms, both m BEFORE USING PICTURER FROM LINE LUSTORONE No. 1.—To be used on Nappy, Kinky, Curly Hair. It acts quickly, also hair. Lustorone is applied by official to wait weeks for the results. Lustorone is not hot irons are used. Lustorone straightens. LUSTORONE No. 2.—Must be used every morning. Cures all forms of Skin Eczema, Kc. Causes the hair to grow long and, causes the hair to grow on the baldness. LUSTORONE FACE BLEACH, shades lighter. Will bring the skin to any desired Pimples, Black Heads, &c., also cures all Skin. LUSTORONE SCALP SOAP.—Lustorone hair Tonic, as it absolutely prevents this regular price for the treatment is $5. OUR GREATEST Cut out this advertisement and mast all of the goods as named above, in plain. This offer made to introduce Honest Goods. Full Directions with every treatment. DOMINION Stamps accepted. W. B. RA Manufacturer of an UNDERTAKER FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota Factory 06 St. Kansas City R GREAT OFFER Colored People of the LUSTORONE GREATEST OF ALL HAIRS RIGHTENS KINKY, NAPPY, CURLY on your hair in your own home. No one besides you straight. R $5.00 Complete Treatment up in 2 forms, both must be used to secure p SING PIOTURES TAKEN FROM LIFE. AFTER NE No. 1.—To be used at bedtime every night. Only hair. It acts quickly, taking only one ode to the straightens by softening the hair. It acts instantly the results. Lustronone is recognized as the only Truly Lustronone straightens without any outside assist. The FACE BLEACH.—Whitens the darkest skin being the skin long desired shade of color. Cures hair to grow on the baldest head. Features Grey Hair. The SCALP SOAP.—Is absolutely pure. It chic as it absolutely prevents the hair from falling out for the treatment is $5.00. R GREAT OFFER This advertisement and mail to us with $1.00 ap- sured above, in plain wrapper, so no one can introduce Honest Goods. We can send to any with every treatment. DOMINION MANUFACTURING Repeated. 2220 E. Marshall St. RAYMO Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer ERTAKER SUPP CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK Ions, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone Story of 6 St. and Reynolds Ave. Kansas City Kany HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHTENS —ALL— Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. A makes the hair grow long, straight, b Cures Dandruff, Baldness, Itching, Ecz. Prevents Falling Out of the Hair. HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHT HAIR. Guaranteed harmless. Sent A FACE BLEACH will gradually turn person five or six shades lighter. In latitude person almost white. HAR- worms Wrinkles, Dark Spot, Pimples. Fell Blemishes of the skin. Guarantee to any address on receipt of price. Remedies are absolutely guaranteed, and rounded if you are not perfectly saill will send you a book of testimonials people in your own State who have Remedies. GRAND OFFER. Send us one three large boxes of HARTONA MA- kine, two large bottles of HAR- large box of HARTONA NO. 100 sagreable odors caused by Perspiration. It will be sent securely sealed from observa- tion and post-office and express office address e sent in Stamps or by Post-Office M registered Letter or by Express. All orders to— HARTONA REMEDY CO 909 E. Main Street, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA LUSTORONE is put up in 2 forms, both must be used to secure pores round. BEFORE USING PIOTURES TAKEN FROM LIFE. AFTER USING LUSTORONE No. 1.—To be used at bed-time every night. Straightens Knotty, Nappy, Kinky, Curly Hair. It acts quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten the hair. Lustorone straightens by softening the hair. It acts instantly. You do not have to wash wedge for the result. Lustorone I accepted at the only True Hair Straightener. No hot irons are used. Lustorone straightens without any outside assistance. LUSTORONE No. 2.—Must be used in connection with Lustorene No. 1. It is used every morning. Cures all forms of Scalp Diseases, such as Dandroff, Teiter, Tich, Eczema, &c. Causes the hair to grow long, silky and beautiful. Stops the hair from falling out, and causes the hair to grow on the baldest head. Restores Grey Hair to its Natural Color. LUSTORONE FACE BLEACH.—Whitens the darkest skin, making it several shades lighter. Will bring the skin to any desired shade of color. Cures all Facial Blemishes, Pimples, Black Heads, &c., also cures all Skin Diseases and removes Small Fox Pits. LUSTORONE SCALP SOAP.—Is absolutely pure. It should be used with Lustorene Hair Tonic, as it absolutely prevents the hair from falling out. The regular price for the treatment is $5.00. OUR GREAT OFFER! Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with $1.00 and we will send you all of the goods as named above, in plain wrapper, so no one can know contents. This offer made to introduce Honest Goods. We can send to any place in the world. Full Directions to every treatment. W.B. RAYMOND HARTONA makes the hair green and gloss. Cures Dandruff, Bacillus, Prevents Fallure tain Baldness. HARTONA POKINKIEST HAIR. Guaranteed receipt of price—25c, and 50c, per HARTONA FACE BLEACH. Black or dark person five or six sides of a mulatto person all SLEACH removes Wrinkles, Dark heads, and all Blemishes of the hailless. Sent to any address per bottle. Hartona Remedies are absolu is positively remanded if you are us, and we will send you a free one hundred people in your own Remedies. GRAND OFF will be sent to three large bxos AND BACK. Two large bxos and one large box of all disagreeable odors can be sent. Goods will be sent securely your name and post-office and en Money can be sent in Stamps or enclosed in Registered Letter or Address all orders to— HARTONA makes the hair grow long, straight, beautiful, soft, and glossy. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, Itching, Eczema, and all Dry Disease. Prevents Falling Out of the Hair and Premature Baldness. HARTONA POSITIVELY STRAIGHTENTS THE KINKIEST HAIR. Guaranteed harmless. Sent anywhere on receipt of price—25c. and 50c. per box. HARTONA FACE BLEACH will gradually turn the skin of a Black or dark person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person almost white. HARTONA FACE BLEACH removes Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Pimples, Freckles, Blackheads, and will Blemishes of the skin. Guaranteed absolutely harmless. Sent to any address on receipt of price—25c. and 50c. per bottle. Everlasting Remedies are absolutely guaranteed, and your money is positively refunded if you are not perfectly satisfied. 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Strang- ing only one box to shorthair. Likes humidity as the only True Hair about any outside assistance. connection with Lustrona Disease, the Back of and beautiful. Stops the hair and restores Grey Hair to its shade of color. Cures all Pain and beautifl. Stops the hair and restores Grey Hair to its absolutely pure. It should hair from falling out. NOT OFFEE to us with $1.00 and we can rappel, so no one can kn We can send to any place MANUFACTURING CO. E. Marshall St., RICKM WHOLESALE dealer in SUPP L PURPOSE OF THE SICK Telephone We Reynolds Ave. Kansas long, straight, beauti- less, Iching, Eczema and beautiful. Stops the hair gradually turn the lighter, white, HARTON bottles, Pimples, HARTON bottles, Guaranteed al- receipt of price-25c. y guaranteed, and you perfectly satisfied. of testimonials of state who have used R. Send us One Dome mention this pa- tition. HARTONA HAIR CO. bottles of HARTON, HARTONA NO-SMELL by Perspiration of the feed from observation. office address very Post-Office Money O express. COMEDY CO. Street, VIRGINIA. ```markdown ``` A TEMPORARY MARTONA beautiful, soft, ozzema, and all and Prema- HTENS THE anywhere on the skin of a will turn the TONA FACE beckles, Black- ed absolutely 20c. and 50c. and your money written. Write of more than used and are the Dollar and paper, and IR GROWER TONA FACE MELL, which of the Feet, station. Write very plainly. Order, or money ```markdown ``` Makes the Hair grow with Haircutting for results. ZOMODONE provotes Pellucid Hair, Harsh Hair, and Scurf. Heads, Scanty, Sitting, Splitting, and Puffing. ZOMODONE grows luxuriant, soft, fine, silky Hair. Makes the Hair grow down to and below the waist line in most every instance in which it is used. ZOMODONE is a direct Food, and softens and lengthens the Hair, so that it can be arranged in any style desired. Not a fraud or a hoax, you money, but an honest remedy, tried and true. ZOMODONE sets quickly; results are seen at once. If you want Hair down to your waist, send in your order right now—do not delay. No free samples sent; a sample is not sufficient to do good. Price, 50c., or 8 bottles (a complete treatment) for $1.00, or will send four complete treatments for $3.00. AGENTS WANTED. Everything is in favor of the Agent. LIBERAL CREDIT EXTENDED. This is an unprecedented chance to make money. Write quick for territory and particular. Address TRADE-MARK CENTRAL PARK MARTONO SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE JONES, MARTIN&CO. DEALERS'IN Fanc and Staple Groceries FEED AND CALT MEAT. Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of entry Producein season. Goods delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th and Oakland Ave., Kansas City. 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. DIAMOND "C" SOAP Makes by all Grocers. SOAP CHIPS OF DIAMOND SOAP MAKE Washing Easy PATRONIZE The Wyandotte Drug Store the host of every thing in Patents,Glass and Wall Paper. Prescription ly compounded. Prices always the LOWEST at our store. Open day right. Ring right bell. Phone W. 171. Medicines Delivered. HARTONA makes the hair grow long, straight, beautiful, soft, and glossy. Cures Dandruff, Baldness, Itching, Eczema, and all Scalp Diseases. Prevents Falling Out of the Hair and PRESURE Baldness. HARTONA BOSTHEWY BRIGHTENS THE KINKIEST HAIR. Guaranteed harmless on where on receipt of prices and the payer. HARTONA FACE BEACH will guarantee that the skin of a black or dark person will not turn the skin of a mullet person. HARTONA FACE BLEACH removes Wrinkles. HARTONA Black- heads, and all Dandruffs of the skin. Guaranteed absolutely harmless. Sent to any price on receipt of price - 250, and 600. per bottle. Hit. in positively and your money in positively and we will send you. is positively us, and we will send you free one hundred people in your own State using Martina Remedies. SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. Send us One Dollar and mention Martina Hair Group and STRAGMETEEN, two large boxes of Martina F BLEACH, and one large box of Martina NO SMELL, wh removes all disagreeable odors caused by Perspiration of the F Arm-Pits, &c. Goods will be sent securely scaled from observation. Write your name and post-office and express office address very plainly. Money can be sent in Stamps or by Post Office Money Order, or enclosed in Registered Letter or by Express. READ THE DAILY & WEEKLY CITIZEN The Only Negro Daily in the West TRADE-MAHK. CAPREUSINA HARTONA HARTON and glossy. Scalp Disease ture Baldness KINKHEST H receipt of our HARTON black or dark skin of a k BLEACH rem heads, and e harmless. S per bottle. He is positively used in one headred using Harton SPECIAL we will send AND STRAK BLEACH, and removes all dl Arm-Pits, &c Goods will money can be enclosed in R Address a APTER UBHO MARTONA TRADE-MARIE A77E JUNI 1918 FEDERAL MARIE beautiful, soft cream, and all hard Presen- tations THE where on the skin of a woman to turn the FACE states. Black- and absolutely 250 and 500, gourn money Write to the Dollar and paper, and IR GROW TONA P which of the Feet. Write very plainly, money Order, or TRADE-MARK BENEFICIENT HARTOPA