The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. OL17 NO 31 MARVIN J. REITZ. J. H. Martin J. Reitz the nominee for court attorney is with the people and the people are with him, there is no doubt he is one of the ablest young attorneys in this county and he is one of the young men who are with the happyalty of knowing how to make friends to meet him is to like him, and to with the winning man is to be with HENRY MEADE Note for Henry Mead for our next state Judge, he a man whose honesty be not be question, and a man who lives in the golden principles of fair honesty dealing to all human being ardless to their condition in life. P. A. Hon. Henry Mende, the candidate for prostate judge is the man tovote for, he is the peoples choice irrespective of party. Mr. Mende is well and favorably known all over the county, we feel safe in say- ing that there is no man in this county he has the interest of the widows and mothers at heart will fail to vote for him, or he is in every way competent to per- form the duties of this important posi- tion with satisfaction to his constituents and credit to himself, he is doubtless the right man in the right place. Vote for him and make no mistake. Political Notes. Rev. L. H. Arthur will go to Fort Kansas in the interest of the Rep- ublican party, and will speak in Cher. Cause, and Crawford counties. The Republican will have a grand party and Barbercue at Bouner Springs October 24th, this will be a great day in Bouner as some of the best speakers in the State will be there and also a good many of the State, and county candi- lates. The entire Republican county ticket is right to get them all vote it straight. The individual manhood to be found in each and every gentleman whose name appears upon the Republican county ticket bespeaks in glowing term of the ticket as a whole. The winner respond all questions of a doubt the extreme efforts of the Democracy and the Kansas City, Star, tell more than we can express that to elect Harris governor of Kansas a moments time can be lost, various reports are all to the contrary to real facts. Hoe is in the lead, the grand old party is the one and the people know it therefore it is different why the Kansas City Star should make such strenuous efforts to select their man Friday—Col.Harris. We do not believe the Republican party is weak, it as strong now as ever. We are in our belief that the people are on the side of right, progress and manhood necessarily on the side of republicanism. him. The legal department of this county will be ably and carefully conducted by this brilliant young attorney. Marvin J. Reitz, vote for him. Marvin J. Reitz is the hustling young man who need no introduction for county attor ey is tried and true,a gilt edge youngster, a sure winner. E. A. ENRIGHT. Hon. E. A. Enright our next representative of the 10th district will be elected by a large majority and will be heard from in the representative chamber next winter trying to enact laws and measures in behalf on the tax prayers and citizens of this county. Peoples choice for Governor Gov. Hoch has in the last two years proved to the people beyond any question of a doubt that he has been honest faithful and true in putting forth every effort in his power for the betterment and well being of his constituents and the continued prosperity and growth of our state. People in a political way speaking say a great many good and grand things about Col. Harris saying that he is such a great and noble man. But aside from all of that, facts are facts, talk is talk, we would venture to say that should he be elected, who he will never be, that in less than 6 months after, there would be a great howl sprung up that he is not the man I thought he was. We believe that the better judgement will appeal to the voters of this state and that they will stand firm and solid for Gov. Hoch, a man whom they know to be worthy of their suffrage and influence. Our state is now in a prosperous condition we would say it is wise to let good enough alone. Who is Col. Harris, it is said that he was coronel in the rebel army during the late civil war, if that is true then he can be classed as a rebel democrat. We would ask every Negro voter in the state of Kansas to use good judgement this year and vote for Gov. Hoch we are satisfied that it will be to the best interest to ourselves and families ooth now and in the future. LOU H. CHAPMAN. Lou Chapman the candidate for Register of deeds of this county is a young man who stands high in the estimation of the leading young men of this county, in fact he is looked upon as a favorite PETER H. and has the confidence and the highest r-spect of all, and is in every way qualified to fill the position to which he aspires. that he will be elected by a large majority is conceded by all. If you desire to have a good man in the office of Register of deeds, vote for Lou Chan- KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, SAMUEL MC'CONNELL. Sam McConnell, the gentleman who will be placed on the county republican ticket on the 6th of November, the nominee of the republican party for the office of Sheriff of this county is a man who stands second to none among the leading and highest respected citizens of this community. He is firm and true in what he believes to be right, in other words he will be Sam McConnell and not the other fellow when it comes to discharging the duties of his office. Mr. McConnell can be classed among our pioneer citizens having lived in this city and county for more than a quarter of a century. During these many years in this community his record as a man is absolutely spotless and he is honored and respected by all classes and nationalities, he is J. B. H. cool and deliberate in all thing and also has the tenacity, backbone and moral courage which is so necessary in the making up of a man to fill the important position of sheriff. Every colored voter should cast their ballot for Mr Sam McConnell he is his friend he has irrad in past years many one of them under his charge as employees and there is not one of them who don't speak in the highest terms of him and we do not believe that there is a sin gle voter amang our people in this county who will fail to vote for him. W, J. Wright who is making the race for the office of clerk of the district court is thoroughly qualified for this position and there is scarcely any gentleman in this county who is more favorably and better known than he. He is a hustler, a vote getter and will be second to none as a winner. PLAIN FACTS As it is said and very truthful to, that there is a time for all things we believe this language applies very forcibly to the Negroes of this country in regard to voting the ticket straight or scratching the same, we have for seventeen long years through the columns of this paper stood for what we believe to be for the best interest of our people advocating their cause, setting before them in our judgement the proper courses in which to pursue in order that they might gain prestage and influence equal to that of any other race or nation on earth. We now say with a pure motive at heart and feeling seriously interested in the advancement and prosperity of our people. We would ask you in all candor to vote the republican ticket this fall. The signs of the times is enough *to teach Negro in this county to stand pat for the grand old republican party. Stop and think for just one moment how Negroes are treated in states where democrats are in power, how innocent colored people are murdered and shot down as though they were rabbits or wild beast in the forest, that, within itself is enough to cause every Negro voters hand to tremble when he attempts to cast a ballot for a democrat who is aspiring to an executive office as governor, senator or representative. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County kansas. Frank Benton, Plaintiff. vs. Jane Benton, Defendant. The above named defendant will hereby take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above hamed court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 30th day of April 1906 the petition filed against her will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of mastimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing him from her the said defendant, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty, for Pflf Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Too Hastv. Police Judge Jno. T. Simms has been selected by the Republican city central committee to make the race for mayor to fill out the unexpired term of resigned Mayor Rose. The special election will be held Dec. 14th. The democracy has not yet selected their man. There is much dissatisfaction in the ranks of the Republicans owing to the somewhat hasty "snap judgement" selection and a break in the republican ranks is sure. Prof. George E.Rose candidate for the office of county superintendent of public instruction is a scholar, an educator and a gentleman of the highest type. Governor E. W. Hoch. • Lieutenant Governor — William J. Fitzgerald. Secretary of State — C. E. Benton. Autor James M. Nation Attorney General — Frederick S. Jackson. Treasurer — Mark Tully. Superintendent of Schools — E. T. Fairchild. State Printer — Thomas A. MeNeol. Member of the Supreme Court — W. A. Johnson (six years). R. A. Burch (six years), Silas Porter (four years). Charles B. Graves (four years). Superintsendent of Insurance — Chas. W. Barnes. For Railroad Commissioner—Fran L Ryan. George W. Kanavl. Charles A. Ryker. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. Sheriff—Sam McConnell. Probate Judge—Henry Meade. County Attorney—Marvin J. Reitz. Clerk of the District Court—W. J. Wright, Jr. Coroner—Dr. A. W. Little. County Clerk—R. A. Kope. Superintendent of Public Instruction —George E. Rose. County Treasurer—J. W. Longfellow. Register of Deeds—Lou H. Chapman. Clerk of Court of Common Pleas— Frank L. Kenney. County Surveyor—J. H. Lasley. Public Administrator—Maurice L. Alden. Commissioner, Second District—R.L. Marshman. Representative, Ninth District—E.K. Robinett. Representative, Tenth District...E.A. Representative, Eleventh District... C. D. Dail. City Locals. Mr. J. F. Caldwell of 324 Edgerton ave. has been confined to her bed for a week with very sore throat. A fine boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mansfield. Mrs. Maggie Foster was chilled to Independence, Mo., last Sunday on account of the illness of her sister. Mr A. Overton is in Texas, in interest of the Baking Powder Co. Mrs. Ida Wilson met with a very serious accident last Sunday morning by being salled with boiling coffee. Special Call to 18,000 Baptists. Dear Brethren:— A motion prevailed at our Baptist Convention last week to call the Baptist Ministers and representative laymen to meet in the city of Topeka, on Tuesday October 30, at 10 a.m. for the purpose of discussing the political situation as it relates to our people. The meeting will be held in the Metropolitan Hall, at 413 Kansas Ave. Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, President State Baptist Convention. Rev. C. G. Fishback, Corresponding Secretary. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Peter Bruns secured. Creditors and all persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said county, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid, on the first Saturday in the month October A. D. 1906. I shall apply to the said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. SOPHIA VAN TUIL. Executrix of Peter Bruns, deceased. In writes whereof, and under signed Pro- hate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my mand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 10th day of September A. D. 1906. Windfall September A. D. 1906. R. L. MARSHMAN M. B. Hon. R. L. Marsnman for county commissioner from the ranks of that reliable class of men who has won a name and a place in the estimation of the public and will be re-elected as a surety. Don't fail to vote for Dr. A. W Little for coroner, he is a perfect gentleman and ranks among the best physicians in this county. Don't fail to vote for him. Sam McConnell for sheriff of Wyandotte county, is one of the old war horses and is a winner. Lou Chapmad for register of Deeds is a general favorite. Vote for E. A. Enright for representative. R. A. Kope the candidate for County clerk is possessed with all those sterling qualities that goes to make up a first class gentlemen. In voting for him for the office of county clerk you will be placing a man in that office who is in every way qualified to fill it to the satisfaction of all concerned. Vote for him. Frank Kenney candidate for the office of clerk of the court of common plea is a man who is especially fitted to fill the position to which he aspires his record as a man is spotless and as a clerk his equals are few, he has been deputy clerk of the common pleas, for several years and is thoroughly versed with the duties of that office. Vote for him. Preston Pocock, candidate for sheriff short term from Nov. 7th to Jan. 14, 07. is the gentleman who is worthy of your support, and in looking down your tick et for good men to vote for, don't fail to vote Preston F. Pocock. J. W. Longfellow for county treasurer it goes without saying that all men in this county there could not have been a better selection for the office of treasurer than J. W. Longfellow, for he is a perfect gentleman, honest, true and ever ready to do the right thing regardless to what the other fellow may say he is the man for county treasurer if you want to be with the winning man, vote for him. J. H. LASLEY. J. H. Lasley is one of the boys who wore blue in the easily sixties, and he is a Republican loyal and true, always found advocating the cause of the grand old party. A. B. J. H. Lasley our present and future county surveyor is one of the best known men in this community and one of the oldest citizens in the county having lived here for many years and it is safe to say that he is one of the most accurate county surveyors, that has ever held that office in this county. There is no question of a doubt but what the action of the republican county convention in nominating Mr. Lasley for county surveyor will meet the approval of the peoall over this county. OCTOBER 26. 1906 hisSection CALL HERE Administrator's Notice. State of Kansas } ss County of Wyandotte. } In the Probate court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Narcisssa Watilla, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of Administration will with annexed have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of Narcisssa Watilla late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 13th day of October, 1908. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within one year after said Letters, they shall be forever barred. Elmer J. Champe. Administrator of the Estate with will annexed of Narcisssa Watilla, deceased. In writes whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the county of (SEAL) Wyndotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand code. Kansas, date hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 12th day October, A. D. 1006. Winfield Freeman. Probate Judge. Oct. 19. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte, State aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month. November A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said court for a full and final settlement. Zliza Dudley Administratix of Anthony Dudley, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned. Probate Judge in and for the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto seb me hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 12th day of October A.D. 1909. Executors Notice State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte {ss In the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the Estate of Anna Williams, deceased Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Anna Williams, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 17 day of July, 1906. Now, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for the allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. JAMES DOWNS. Executor of the last will and testament of Anna Williams deceased. Dated Aug. 11, 1906 NOTE LETS For Rent—To desirable parties(gentleman perfered)well furnished rooms in one the best families in the city,inquire at this office. Mrs.S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave.,is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to date Rooming house in the city-charges always reasonable. For Nice Furnished Rooms call on Mrs. Iday Easily at 107 N. 6th st, conveniently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line, Prices reason able. Mrs. Raed, 528 Neb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rems to rent. Notice of Application for Parole. To whom it may concern: This is to notify all persons that I the undersigned will on the 2nd day of October 1960 or as soon thereafter as can be conveniently heard apply to the Prison Board of the State of Kansas, for a parole from the State penitentiary of the State of Kansas. Take notice and govern yourself accordingly. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weeky American Citizen. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY . . . . KANSAS. W. C. Martin, Editor, Geo. A Dudley, Publisher and Business Manager. Terms of Subscription in Advance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....65c Three Months.....40c One Month.....15c Advertising 25 cents per inch First Insertion Grangemouth is the name of a Moscow editor. Evidently a farmer on the side. Waldorf Astor has become so thoroughly anglicized that he is going to marry an American girl. A clergyman says that bridge whistle leads to mental decline. Why doesn't he try poker for a change? Senator Pettus is declared to be a poor man and fond of poker. The last explains the first, possibly. Perhaps boys should be thankful for whippings, as somebody declares, but they seldom are before they are 45. Sweet Spring is now approaching, and Summer with the rose, so poetry's encroachment upon the field of prose. King Edward was "warmly received" in Paris, but not in the same way as when he used to be prince of Wales. The czar will reserve the right to wield the big stick over the Douma, according to the latest advices from St. Petersburg. We learn from the New York Mail that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and ple. It was not long ago that all the "success" magazines were pointing to the Pittsburg millionaires as examples to the youth of the land. With 10,000 doctors in convention in Boston next summer, the rest of the country ought to have a good opportunity to get well.—Boston Globe. It is a pity that the great romancers of the sea did not live in a generation which affords such thrilling material as the log of the dry dock Dewey. A Minnesota man says he has discovered the cause of the aurora borealis. But what bearing will this have on the price of coal this year? Much to the surprise of everybody, some of the phenomenal ball players added to the leading nines as marvelous discoveries will probably make good. Cheer up, mister! The president of the Dressmakers' National Protective Association says that women's dress will be less expensive this year than ever before. The Japanese, says one of their statesmen, should adopt chairs and develop their legs. Well, short legs did not prevent them from "getting there" in the late war. Portia, as quoted by the editor of a kind of society paper, is made to say: "How far that little scandal throws his beams! So shines a bad deed in this haughty world." News comes from the east that the seventeen-year locusts will devastate the land this year. How many times in the course of a decade do the seventeen-year locusts come, anyhow? As the last suffragist was detached from the doorknob and put into the police wagon, the premier of the great British Empire crawled out from under his bed and sighed a sigh of relief. An actor has become a soldier in order to escape the adulation of matinee girls. We know several actors who should be driven from the stage with a club instead of soft glances. GREAT SINGER IS UNGRATEFUL. Mme. Patti Criticises America, Which Made Her Wealth. Confirmation of the report that Mme. Adelina Patti has made her final tour in the United States is found in her recent criticisms of the American people. This lady, who once lived down on Grand street West, but now dwells in a castle in Wales, largely owing to the generosity of the citizens of this city, has lately discovered that we haven't any appreciation of art, cookery, music or good manners. This is an ill return for all the complimentary words we have uttered about her, not to mention the dollars we have paid to hear her voice. Although she was born in Madrid in February, 1843, she came here with her parents as a child and grew up among the people of New York. Her brother, Carol, used to lead the orchestra at the Grand Opera House, during the Jim Fisk era of French opera-bouffe. Mme. Patti's last tour of this country was not financially successful—a circumstance that may account for her change of heart. The lady, however, insisted upon receiving her contract money to the last dollar. The im pressario was almost ruined, although the fault was the diva's own. She couldn't sing! Her voice had lost its fine quality. She wasn't a "diva" any longer. The American people found this out and refused to assist in maintaining Craig y Nos castle.—Brooklyn Eagle. Famous Actors as Negro Minstrels. Jefferson said he thought he was one of the first men to black his face after the appearance and success of "Jim Crow" (T. D.) Rice. "I suppose," said Mrs. Drew, "there are very few men in this company who have not at one time or another been associated with minstrel performances." "I played Brudder Jones," said Mr. Jefferson. "Everybody knows I was in the minstrel business," Goodwin exclaimed. "Yes," I remarked, "because we were there together. "Well," joined in Crane, "I was on the tambourine end with Campbell's minstrels." I remember telling this at Lawrence Barrett's house at Cohasset, where the rest of the party consisted of Edwin Booth and Stuart Robson. Booth then told how he and J. S. Clarke were minstrels in their younger days, and he followed this up by declaring that he used to "pick a little on the banjo." I laughed, and Booth inquired the reason, and I added, "Oh, nothing much, only Booth and the banjo seemed such an odd combination."—Francis Wilson in Scribner's Magazine. O Thou Compassionate. How deeply comforting the tender phrase, Thy greater attribute seem merged in this— Through all life's long and dark and weary maze, Thou art Compassionate. To God of Justice and of Power we turn When wrong or devastating blow cuts deep, And yet in daily struggle needs must yearn For one Compassionate. In limits of our souls we live, alone, And so our nearest may not understand But all "the household jar within" is known To thee, Compassionate. Thou know'st the many sorrows of the day; Wide longing, narrow opportunity—We bring life's broken toys, as children may, To one Compassionate. We may have blundered grievously and long, Darkened Thy world we might have to see so bright. Still Thou dost heal the heartache and the wrong O Thou Compassionate! —May Eleanor - Bourne, in Overland Month Of No Importance. Two men were standing together on an East River ferryboat when one pointed out a third man with the remark: "I can't recall his name at this moment, but he writes for a number of the magazines." His friend looked at the stranger with much interest. "Writes up trusts and things, then?" "Oh, then he's a prizefighter or an actor—he is rather husky looking." "No, no! He's just a plain author—writes stories." "Oh!" the friend exclaimed, the look of interest suddenly dying out of his face—New York Journal. True to His Promise. The other boy had called Tommy a liar, an 'a fightin' liar, and told him he dassen't take it up. Tommy's fists were clinched and his eyes were blazing, but he stood there rapidly repeating something to himself, in accordance with a long standing promise he had made to his mother. "If you'll jist wait till I've finished sayin' it," he said, "I'll knock the tar out o' you, Dick Bunker, you ple faced slob! 'But children, you should never let your angry passions—'" The other boy, however, disappeared around the corner while Tommy's lips were still moving. Flying Wedge. "Great Scott!" exclaimed the drummer who had put up in the old farm house over night. "What was that noise down below? Football rush?" "Worse than that, stranger," chuckled the old farmer, as he snuffed out the candle. "Yeou see, I have eight darter as' each one of them has a beau who calls on Thursday nights. Wall, the first couple that gets the parlor can have it. That's why they are running." LACE SCARF AS EAR TRUMPET. Elderly Lady Has Discovered It Acts as Sounding Board. With advancing years a dear old lady has found that her hearing has become somewhat affected. She has not found it necessary to use an ear trumpet as yet, but it is difficult at times to catch all that friends say. Anything said in an undertone is completely lost to her—that is, it was until she hit upon a novel idea. While visiting a friend recently the hostess had pitched her voice almost to the straining point and her vocal organs were getting tired, when "Aunt Sis," as she is affectionately termed, interrupted her by saying: "Please, dearle, hand me my lace head scarf." "Do you feel a draught?" anxiously inquired the hostess, handing over the mantilla. "Then why do you wear it? It will make your head tender." "Oh, I think not. You see, the scarf acts as a sort of sounding board. It keeps out all other sounds except those of the human voice. When I wear this I can hear even a whisper I can't explain why it is, but it is so nevertheless. I have had lots of fug over it, too. My boys have been taking advantage of my infirmity to whisper to each other. I didn't hear them before I began to wear this scarf, but now I know lots of their secrets and they don't know it. It's a good joke on them." Fish Know Colors. "Fish know colors," said a keeper at the New York Aquarium the other day. "They can distinguish between red and blue, or white and green, as well as you and I. Wait and I'll prove it." He led the way to a tank in which were some red and some yellow and some green fish, and in it were artificial grottoes painted respectively red and yellow and green. The keeper rolled the water with his hand, and the fish fled, the red ones to the red grotto, the yellow ones to the yellow grotto, and the green ones to the green grotto. "They know which color shields them from observation best," said he. "Now I'll change the grottoes, so as to prove my statement a second time." He moved the grottoes to different places in the tanks and again rolled the water. The same thing followed as before. Each fish darted like a shot to the grotto of its own color, where it knew it would be best concealed. To the Beloved. Everything that I made I used to bring you. Was it a song, why, then 'twas a song to sing to you. Was it a story, to you I was telling my story. Ah, my dear, could you hear 'mid the bliss and the glory? Did any one praise me, to you I said it all over: My laughter for you; how we laughed in the days past away. My tears and my troubles were yours; did any one grieve me. I carried it straight to the love that was sure to relieve me. O my dear, when aught happens, to you I am turning. Forgetting how far you have traveled this day from my yearning. There the same now to all things to; your house is so lonely; And still I'm forgetting and bringing my tale to you only. The old days are over; how pleasant they were, the fine weather. When youth and my darling and I were at home and together! And still I was forgetting, oohone, that no longer you was me. And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me. —Pall Mall Gazette. Fate of the Old Presidents. In the autumn of 1901 Mrs. W. of Roxbury spent a few weeks with her daughter in Nova Scotia, returning home shortly before President McKinley was shot, bringing her niece, Bessie F., aged 6 years, home with her. Of course the child heard a good deal of talk in the house about the shooting of the president. One day Bessie said to her aunt: "Aunt Minnie, who is king of the United States?" Her aunt replied: "We have no kings in the United States like you do in your British country. We have presidents. We have an election every four years and elect a new one." "Oh, yes," the child replied; "and then they shoot the old ones, don't they?"—Boston Herald. New City for Egypt Snakin, on the Red sea, has proved an unsatisfactory port and is to be superseded by a brand-new rival which has been built up out of coral work and desert sand by the Egyptian authorities. The rival is Port Sudan, the latest addition to the cities of the British empire, and an enthusiast says that it is destined to be a place of magnitude and importance in the days when cotton shall have made it the New Orleans of the east. The place has hitherto been called Mersa Sheikh Barud. It is about 680 miles south of Suez and is capable of holding a dozen vessels of moderate size. The entrance is 600-feet across, and the land around is six feet above sea level. Posers for Scholars. Twenty words submitted to a spelling bee in Springfield, Mass., in 1846 were given to the high school class at East Liverpool by Supt. Rayman, and it is reported not one in the class correctly spelled every word. Only ten had averages of over 90 per cent. The average of the 124 pupils was $73\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. The words submitted were accidental, accessible, baptism, chirography, characteristic, deceitful, descendant, eccentric evanescent. fierceness, feignedly, ghastliness, gnawed, helness, hysterics, imbecility, inconceivable, inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. -Pittsburgh Dispatch. SHIELDS FOR TROOPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Milli- tary. Writer. A writer in the Militar-Wochenblatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Bracad Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese rpade work in the offensive, the more so because he mentions incidentally, as a matter regarding which there can be no dispute, that the German authorities have long since advocated the use of artificial cover in the attack, and points out that when the ground was frozen or rocky, and the spade could make no impression upon it, the attacking Japanese infantry not infrequently went forward, carrying with them filled sandbags weighing as much as forty pounds. He remarks that if the undoubtedly brave Japanese soldier found it necessary to load himself with so bulky and burdensome a protection when advancing in the open against an intrenched enemy it would seem far better to equip the infantry with a light, handy shield. Furnished with a handle by which to carry it, a loophole to fire through and some arrangement to prevent its falling down, the infantryman would then find himself, like his gunner comrade, protected by a bullet-proof shield. The writer in the Wochenblatt suggests that on the march the shield should be carried on the back, when going into action on the chest, and when advancing to the attack in the left hand, so as to be at once available for use when lying down to fire, both as head cover and rifle rest. YOUR HAIR SHOULD BE DRAB. That is the Fashionable Color, So an Authority Says. "Deep auburn and the drab shades are the fashionable colors in hair this season," said the woman who makes hair coloring a speciality, as placidly as though she were commenting on the state of the weather or the advance style in dress goods. "One of my customers has to my knowledge worn five different colors or shades on her wavy tresses. Having been blessed with medium brown hair by nature she became a ravishing blonde when the fashion for bleaching first came in. "Next she took to titilan red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. Tnen she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. "The last is by far the most popular of all for the reason that is most difficult to obtain, and then it is pretty generally becoming, and it happens that women who are born with this particular color of hair are almost always clever. "How is it done? Well, in case of a woman whose hair is dark a bleach must first be used before the dye is applied. With women whose hair has turned gray it is a still simpler problem. The color lasts a year, while the head can be washed and even salt water bathing does not affect it."—New York Sun. What bought my private car? Just wealth. What bought my lovely yacht. What bought me to lands where health Is found. What bought my specialist, dear Jim. To keep me in such perfect trim? Well—I don't know! What bought the delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— The clothes she dazzles in? And if the nurse gave me, And I am not adored, you see, Well—I don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Expect to get in free; But if the Lord meant what he said Concerning charity, The tithe I give before I die Will slip me before the needle's eye, Or I—I don't know! For happiness? Well, money bought This ninety-cent car. It bought this chair in which I loll, It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness, What bought me? Not a Good Advertisement Not a Good Advertisement. A Welsh judge had before him a case in which a printer sued a pork butcher for the value of a large parcel of paper bags with the butcher's advertisement printed thereon. The printer, having no suitable illustration to embellish the work, thought he improved the occasion by putting an elaborate royal arms above the man's name and address, but ultimately the latter refused to pay. The judge, looking over a specimen, observed that for his part he thought the lion and the unicorn were much nicer than an old fat pig. 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His name is Pierre Loirat. He was born in November, 1805, and at 12 he went to ROOM 8, OF FAME OR FORTUNE CALL YOU, Please or Fortune call you, and you are urged to roam, and money in your purse, lad, and leave your heart at home. Do leave your heart at home, lad, and take what else you choose; you'll give Wealth and Wisdom to have the heart you'll lose. —Richard Kirk prehistoric boy had— HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM THE BILLION MILES NOW SPEAK MILL WORDS IN UK history to study, as does Twentleth century, Jr. J. FRIEND OF MINE GOT FOOLISH AND GOT CRUCHT, THE OTHER NIGHT. HEY SERVED HIS LEGS FOR DINNER. WITH THEY SERVED HIM RIGHT THE DAY WILL BE A GODDLEER THE RICH TRACKILL BE SLEEN. FOR EVEN HILEN A LITTLE LAND GAMBOLED ON THE GREEN. THE CAT AND I JUST WIN RACE. I MIN IT IN MY T CASES. FOR WHEN THE CAT'S AROUND, YOU KNOW THE RACE HILL PLAY- THE RACES. cut them on Monday, cut them for wife. cut them on Tuesday, cut them for wife. cut them on Wednesday, cut them for a letter. cut them on Thursday for something wife. cut them on Friday, you cut for wife. cut them on Saturday, cut for long wife. cut them on Sunday, you cut them wife. for all of that week you'll be ruled the devil. Feller—I have no doubt you enryuns, the ice magnate, but you be identified. Can't you bring in friend to— you bore people? Maybe you and without knowing it. Look your- over HOW SPEED "GOT EVEN." By William Wallace, Jr. It was Speed's first day in the Beeville public school. Beeville was a town of but a few hundred inhabitants, therefore it boasted of only one small frame schoolhouse of two rooms with one teacher for each room. Speed was in the "advanced" room, fourth-reader grade. Not only was this Speed's first day in school, but his second day in the town, for his parents had just moved there from a farm many miles away. Their object in coming to Beeville was to give their son the advantages of an education. Speed was a good, studious boy, loving his books and anxious to learn all that was to be gained at the little public school, and it was with real pride that he walked into the schoolhouse on the first Monday morning of the fall term with his hair brushed till it shone like a mirror, his face aglow from soap and water and his cheap, well-worn clothes as_tidy and neat as could be; while under his arm were his new books, carefully covered with bright print—the thoughtful work of his fond mother. As soon as the teacher looked at Speed she knew that he was no common boy, that he was a well-reared chap, with a certain refinement and grace of manner which bespoke a gentleman for a father and a lady for a mother, though indications pointed to the fact that they were not counted among the rich, or even the well-to-do. The last bell had just rung and the straggling pupils were cho sing their seats and seat mates amidst a confusion of whispers, shuffling feet and rattling slates and books. Speed, on entering the room, bowed respectfully to the teacher; then waited in the aisle till some seat should be left vacant for him. But there being more pupils than desks many or the seats held two children, and Speed was obliged to wait till the teacher should assign him to a place. At last he found himself seated beside a rough, slovenly dressed boy who looked as though his face was a stranger to water and his hair unacquainted with a comb. When Speed took his end of the seat he kindly smiled an introduction to his seat-fellow, who glared back with a defiant air, as if saying: "How dare you, a stranger, intrude yourself upon me, sir?" But Speed did not pay any attention to the rude conduct of his rough companion, but began to place his books neatly in his end of the desk. The rough boy seeing that he was to be ignored, decided to pick a fuss with Speed, and began by whispering in a loud voice during the singing: "Say, green-goose, where did you git such pretty covers for your books? They look like gurl-baby books. Gee! I'd hate to be a little Lizzie; an' that's what you are." Still Speed ignored the boy, and drowned his voice by joining in the singing. This infuriated the boy who whispered more loudly, putting his mouth close to Speed's ear and forcing his words upon him: "Say Lizzie, mamma's darlin' baby-boy, I can lick you at recess with my right hand tied. Do you hear, sissy?" Speed, not wishing to be so annoyed, turned to the boy and said: THO' IVE BEEN TOLD REAL OFTEN THAT A SOCKER'S BORN EACH MINUTE IF ANYBODY IN THE SLUM CERTAINLY AT IN IT. Mail advices from Indo-China brought another and more revolting story of the doings of King Thanh-Thai of Annam, showing that he went to the extent of cannibalism. After killing one of his wives he caused the body to be cooked and served for dinner, forcing his entourage to eat it under pain of death. Some of the king's wives were The Rising Generation. "If you don't like my looks please keep your eyes on either your books or some other point in the room. I'm not going to bother you, and I don't intend that you shall bother me. If you want to get another seat there's one down there on the arsle." "Ye-yah-yah!" said the boy, sticking his mouth out at Speed and making a wry face. "I got this seat first an' I mean ter set here in it. But you'd better look out for me. I'm the strongest kid in this town an' I kin lick you with one han'. So don't dare to give me any of your coontry-made sads, Lizzie. Do you hear?" The teacher was now beginning the examinations in order to arrange the classes, and Speed, with his seatmate, was called to the blackboard to be tried in "figures," so he made no reply to the boy's taunts. As Speed passed for the fourth grade and the rough boy failed there was cause for more venom from the boy, and as soon as they had taken their seats he held his big geography up in front of his face so that the teacher might not see him and began: Say, your pap and mam are so dirt pore that they can't squeal, ain't they? My pap says you're stuckup trash. Your mam tries to put on airs, don't she? Well, she can't come that dodge in this here town. We seen you when you moved in yesterday. Your mam, she's——" "Henry Adams!" cried the teacher, "are you whispering?" Speed's seat-mate, to whom the teacher spoke, put down his geography, looked directly into the teacher's face and said: "No'm, I'm studyin' my lessons. It's this feller here what's whisperin' all the time to me." And he jerked his head in Speed's direction as he said "this feller." Speed's face grew crimson, and, rising in the aisle, he said, addressing the teacher: "Please, teacher, I have not whispered to this boy but once, and that was before our arithmetic examination. I asked him to attend to his books and let me alone." The teacher, knowing Henry from last year's school, and having had some serious difficulty with him, knew that Speed was telling the truth. FIND A bound and burned with burning oil and subjected to other cruelty, while naked women were thrown into the cages of wild beasts, where they were devoured before the eyes of the king. Finally the French authorities stepped in and made a prisoner of Thanh-Thai, who has been adjudged insane by Dr. Dumas of the French colonial staff. "The royal guard" has been disbanded, the palace has been placed The starving Hindoo drops Upon the hot highway; And offers up a prayer That God his hunger stay. so she ordered Henry to take his books and move to a seat nearer her desk, where she might keep an eye on him. In one end of the seat to which she assigned him sat a dirty little cross-eyed urchin who was understood to be the outcast of the school. When Henry had to sit beside him a titter ran round the school which more fully roused his ire against Speed and made him vow to have revenge, or, in his own words, "to git even with that sissy." When recreation time came Speed stayed in the schoolroom and became better acquainted with the teacher, who found him a high-minded boy of manly principle. He knew if he went out to play Henry, with others like himself, would make it unpleasant for him, so he decided to remain indoors till the rougher element should have become used to his presence in the school and would let him alone at recess time. But Speed had to pay for this act at noon, when he started home for his dinner. Hardly had he reached the edge of the school grounds when Henry, accompanied by two other rough, heavy-faced and unkempt-looking boys, ran up beside him. "So you don't want to come out at recess and play with us fellers, eh?" exclaimed Henry, menacing Speed with his fists. "No, I reckon you feel too fine, you dern Lizzie," spoke up one of Henry's confederates. "Well, we're a-goin' to give you the worst lickin' you ever had in your life, my baby boy." "Say, boys," said Speed, turning round and facing the group. "I ain't a fighting boy; my mother taught me better than to be like an animal, but if you force it on me—why, I'll give as well as take. I'm willing to let you all alone if you do me the same favor. But I won't be gun over." "Oh, hear little Miss Lizzie bluff." cried one of the boys. "Say, little baby, does your mamma know you're out?" And the three roughs laughed at their own wit. "Let's try his muscle," said Henry, edging close to Speed and scowling in his face. "I'm for gittin' even with him for tellin' that about me to the teacher. I'm ready to fay him cold, I am." And he bristled up and shook his fists under Speed's nose. "All right, you fix him, Hen," said one of the other boys. "Then if he wants to scrap any more, Dan here an' me'll finish him up." THE HINDOO'S H under the protection of 150 native soldiers and the terror-stricken inmates of the palace have been rescued from further suffering. The majority of the latter were women who bore marks of revolting tortures. Some of them were terribly mutilated, their faces being slashed and tongues cut out, while others had been suspended by pinchers to increase their agonies. --- When suddenly his prayer Is answered by a man Who brings him food and drink: Please find him if you can. Speed looked out to see if any help was near, for he felt himself unequal to handle the three at once, and he knew they were dishonorable enough to all attack him at the same time, giving him no show. But to his disappointment he saw the school grounds deserted, all the children and the teacher having gone to their respective homes for dinner. And the town was cut off from the schoolhouse by a row of low, bushy trees, whose lower limbs mingled with the tall weeds and grass, thus cutting off all view of that part of the ground from the few villagers who might be walking about the streets. "Take off your coat an' git ready for me," warned Henry, jerking off his own coat as he spoke. "Till manage you without much trouble, an' give you the first blow. Here—ready!" Speed threw off his coat, and before the astonished Henry—who really thought he would take to his heels—could realize what his antagonist was about he had struck him a brow in the face and a second under the jaw that sent him sprawling on the ground, blood oozing from his nose. Upon seeing their friend down, the other boys sprang toward Speed, Dan grabbing for his throat; but they miscalculated their foe. Like a flash Speed's long, strong right arm swung out and caught Dan under the chin, throwing him across Henry, who was beginning to struggle to his feet. Then Speed grappled with the third boy, and they exchanged blows fiercely for a minute, when Speed, by sheer force, threw him to the ground and sat stride his shoulders, cuffing him right liberally in the face. "Nough—'nough!" cried the whipped fellow, the blood spurting from his nostrils, for Speed had struck harder than he had meant too the enemy's proboscis. By this time Henry and Dan had got to their feet and came to pull Speed off their friend. "Don't touch me," said Speed, looking so determined at Henry that the latter drew a step backward, "for I know when to stop. I never strike after my fellow cries 'nough. But you fellows had not so much honor, for you all meant to jump on me at once and overpower me by your number. See what you got for it?" And Speed got off the shoulders of the whipped boy and stood bravely, fearlessly up before the cowardly pair who confronted him. "Now go, or I'll give you an- FRIEND. Annam is the central division of Indo-China and is bounded on the west by Siam, Loos and Cambodia. It is washed by the South China sea. Hue is the capital. The country is under a French protectorate. It has an area of 50,000 square miles and a population of about 6 million persons. In the words of Oriental imagery, the poisonous tree of crime, though other round," he added, as the prostrate form slowly got to his feet. "Well, are we to be friends?" asked Henry, addressing Speed as he put his coat on. "Not enemies, I hope," answered Speed. "But your future contact to ward me will settle the question. Re member—never, never shall one of you call me names again, or I'll make this day's battle look worse than 30 cents. I'm off." That afternoon Speed walked up to the teacher and made a confess on telling her all about the fight. "My mother said it was a case of 'have to'," he ended up with. "Your mother was right," said the teacher. "And I glory in your pluck Speed. You are no coward." "Well, Henry said he meant to get even with me," he laughed, "and I turned the tables by getting even with him." MY TRUNK IS SMALL, THAT ILL ADMIT, BUT I HAVE A LITTLE NIECE LITTLE TRUNK IS VERY TINV- NE CALL IT A VALISE. I CANNOT SING THE OLD SONGS IT FILLS ME WITH REMEMBER IT'S NOT BECAUSE I CANNOT SING BUT I AM AHFUL HORSE A liar should not always be censured; occasionally he colors up at otherwise nondescript social gathering. Some people could find a great deal more good in the world if they wouldn't put in so much of their time hunting for the evil. Don't Snub a Boy. "Don't snub a boy because he wears shabby clothes," says the Kansas Farmer. "When Edison, the inventor, first entered Boston, he wore a pair of yellow linen breeches in the depth of winter. "Don't snub a boy because of the ignorance of his parents. Shakespeare, the world's poet, was the son of a man who was unable to write his own name. "Don't snub a boy because his home is plain and unpretending. Abraham Lincoln's early home was a log cabin. "Don't snub a boy because he chooses an humble trade. The aut' or of the "Pilgrim's Progress" was a tinker. "Don't snub a boy because of dullness in his lessons. Gogarth, the celebrated painter and engraver, was a stupid boy at his books. "Don't snub a boy because he stutters. Demosthenes, the great orator of Greece, overcame a harsh and stammering voice. "Don't snub him for any reason. Not only because he may some day outstrip you in the race of life, but because it is neither kind, nor right, nor Christian." watered by Nectar, can produce only the fruit of death. A lax and impotent enforcement of the criminal law is a crime against society. The morality of the ideal man, yet to be developed, will find expression in unselfish service for humanity. Religion is not a mere relation between the individual soul and its God—it is also a relation to his fellow-man.—Judge Cochran at Memphis. Abducting a Revolution. By T. Homer Montfort. The big steamer had dropped her anchor in the bay of T——, the captain of, and only town of any consequence in G——, one of the several insignificant republics of South America. The few passengers, mostly men, were on deck contemplating the beautiful panorama before them or lounging in steamer chairs enjoying the fresh breeze which had set in from the sea. The first mate, a wrinkled old sea dog of uncertain age, leaned over the rail gazing through a pair glasses when he were leveled at the back wall of the ship after a while he lowered the glasses, scratched his head a moment as if trying to remember something, then with a chuckle, he said, speaking to himself: "By the eternal trade winds! This is the place. They dint' no mistakin' them three mounts, and that old Spanish fort. No, sir! This is the very place where it happened." "May I ask what it was that happened here?" inquired the thin, pale man reclining in a chair near-by. The old sailor looked around, a little surprised, then giving vent to another chuckle, he said: "Why this is the place where we carried off a revolution from. Sorter abducted it, so to speak. Leaning back on the rail facing the thin man, he continued: As well as I recollect, it was in the tail end of the seventies. I was mate of the old wooden steamer, Neptune, with Adam Simmons as skipper. We had dumped a lot of machinery up the coast, and was proceeded under ballast to Rio to take on a cargo of sugar. During the night a squall ketched us which kicked the old Neptune around pretty lively, makein' it necessary to put in for repairs. An' this is the very place we put into. It was ginning dark when we let go the anchor, and we went to the night before. I eat a hite an' tumped early. Several times during the night I thought I could hear fire arms gin' off off not bein' able to sleep any more on account of the noise I got up and went on deck to see what was gin' on. I found the skipper already on deck, prancin' around an' cussin' about bein' disturbed in his slumers. "What is it?" says I, pointin' to the blazin' houses on shore. "Another one o' them damned revolutions," he snaps. "The shootin' was gettin' livelier now, an' it reminded me of a Fourth o' July celebration back in the States. "I reckon their scuppers'll be full o' blood in the mornin', I says. "I wonder if they're killin' the pore, helpless women an' children, too?" "Huh! You couldn't scare up as much blood over there tomorrow as I can squeeze out o' a turnin', says the skipper, soater disgusted say. "What goes with it?" says I. "They shorely don't drink each other's blood like the cannibals do," and I began to feel a little creepy at the idea. "Of course they don't," says the skipper, in a voice as much as to say, "You pore idit." "Of course they don't. They thinks won't spill nary drop o' gore, oneses on an m accidently sets down on his corn knife, get the wrong end o' his gun pintin' out, the I dog end o' his three good men an 'm boulder, armed with nothin' but clubs, an' chase the whole passel into the bay." "You talk like you had run into these here revolutions afore," says I. "Well, yes," says he. "I've run into several of these blistered rumpuses, an' I reckon its wellnigh impossible to sell these parts as long as I have an' keep entirely clear of em' It don't take much to start one. Once I remember, a long time ago, up in one o' them Central American republics, which was about the size o' a New England barn yard, we was taken' on a cargo of hard wood at the capital, an' one evenin' as I was clutching the hotel, smokin' an' an' talkin' to the landlord, who was an Englishman, out comes the young man had fetched from New York city, with both hands full o' them red toy balloons, like they sell at circuses. What in the thunder are you goin' to do with them things?" says I. "I'm goin' to make my fortune sellin' 'em to the natives," says he. "That's what I got aboard your old tub for up in the civilized. I've got a trunk full of 'em up in the room, an' all I've got to do is to start the craze, and then stand on the street corner, blow 'em up, hand 'em out, an' take the money. Dese mugs will bite like suckers, an' after I shoves the butter on 'em, its me back to the Bowyer, an' the wall must be gettin' busy, and he flung something back over his shoulder about an easy graft. "Down the street he went in a run, yellin' an' goin' on worse than a New York news boy with a horrible murder extra. 'Here they are!' Here they are! he yells, wavin' them balloons above his head. 'Get an air ship for a quarter.' The latest out! Get 'em while they're cheap, an' so on. A bloomin' noisy feller, that says the landlord is nearly in his chair. 'E's hapt to start trouble with the mouth, an' them bloody, bloomin' red balloons. Hit's like shakin' a red rag at a bull, says he. 'The back-stablers think hits the signal to start a revolution an' there'll be 'ell to poy.' "I looked down the street an' I could see block heads, lookin' in the gatherin' twillt like big doorknobs, protrudin' from the windows an' doors on both sides. Then they commenced dartin' in and out, an' pigtty soon the streets was swarmin with garlic-eaters armed to their teeth with corn knives, daggers, fryin' pans, an' anything else they could lay hold of. They took after the galoo with the red balloons, evidently thinking he was the new leader, howling: "Vice in Revolution! Republic Libre!" an' brandishing their weapons. The balloon peddler looked back over his shoulder to see what the noise was about, and seeing the armed mob after him became terror stricken, an' threw the balloons away, except one which was tied to his finger, he tore out in earnest, which he capitulated the square several times, when he headed toward us. I was for hunting' place of safety, but the Englishman said: "Sit tight where you are. If you sit still an' don't act like you're scared, you are all right; but if you run you're a cover." "I flopped back into my chair an' tried to look unconcerned, fully expectin' to be cut into shoe strings pretty shortly. As the center of attraction went by by a seated jack rabbit, with the balloon stiletto' straight out behind, he gives us a closely look an' sings out with his voice full o' pleadin': Veteran Correspondent. Bennett Burleigh, the veteran English war correspondent, was sentenced to death three times during our American Civil war. At Tel-eKebir he went over the trenches with the fighting line and helped even the broken English square at Tamal. At Abu Klea when General Stewart had received his death wound, two of his fellow journalists lay dead and he "For God's sake! Take them Alrabs off! They're tryin' to murder me." "After the procession had disappeared around the corner, I took a short leave of the landlord an' scooted for the ship. I went up the gangway my eye fell upon a woman, somewhat the worse for wear hangin' on the side, an' when I stepped on deck, there lay the peddler, white an' puffin." "Save me!" says he, in a weak voice. "How in the hell did you ever get here so quick?" I asks. "Swim." says he. Then he started to scratch his head an' the balloon, still tied to his finger flopped up into his face an' he squealed an' tried to get up an' run, thinkin' the mob was after him, but he was too weak, the events of the crush' used to him up pretty badly. I helped him, not gettin' up below, where he stayed, not gettin' up to come on deck 'till we was two days out to sea." "By the time the skipper had finished his story, the firn' on shore had quieted down and I went back to my bunk. The next morning a tall tan-tuned American, who bore the mark of many years in the tropics, came aboard. He said he had been operating a sugar mill; but was forced to shut down when the revolution broke out, on account of all his native laborers joining in the fracus. these here sons of apes are bigger fools than a revolution than a United States negro is about an Thomas Tynn's cabin show. I don't mind 'em enjoying themselves, but they are overdoing it, and its time to put a stop to it." he said. "Is your life in danger?" asks the skipper. "Not at all," says the resident. "They have too much respect for the American flag to ever molest me or any of my property, but they keep up such a hubbub at nights that a fellow can't sleep, and then my machinery is rusting from restoring peace and have waited patiently for a ship to come into port so I could carry it into action. It would at once be bloodless and sure." "What is your plan?" asks the skipper. "Well," replied the American, "I mean to abduct one side of the revolution—that is, the ringleaders—put 'em aboard your vessel and you can carry 'em down the coast toward Rio and put 'em ashore where they can't get back here. I will pay you well for your trouble." I will pretend the fern tortoise back at first, but the sight of the well back the American produced started him to figuring, an' he finally allowed it wouldn't be harmin' anybody much, and on the other hand it would be doin' a feller country-man a great service. So he agreed went ashore with the American, givin' me orders to accept the consignment if it came aboard durin' his absence. "Well, along about dark a boat load of them black varmints came alongside, fabberin' an' takin' on worse 'e a cage of monkeys in the Zoo. They was all deceased and fashy uniforms with gold lace all over them, but I could catch somethin' about. Presidente, 'Republica,' 'Insurreco,' 'Revolution,' an' etc. "They're just about the sort o' lookin' mess as I'm expectin', thinks I, an' I set in to decoy 'em on board. "Won't you step on deck, Gents?" says I, "where we can talk easier', but I reckon they couldn't understand me. Leastwise they didn't came, an' commenced to jabber worse 'en before. "The cook come on deck, an' bein' able to handle it. So Shack, that I was as near as he could make out, the little yellow duck, with the big black mustache was the Presidente, an' the others were his generals, an' that they were lookin' for the insurrecto chief. He had disappeared an' they thought he might have taken refuge on board our vessel. If he was on board they would be delighted to have him. They was sure we would be willin' to aid justice an' law by deliverin' the traitor, an etc. "It was all as plain as day to me now. The skipper an' that other feller had put on the Presidente an' for his crew, sendin' on the Presidente an' lookin' at the surreto chief, an' my duty was to nab onto 'em an' slap 'em below hatches for safe keepin'. "Tell 'em he's down below, alone an' unarmed, says I to the cook, 'an' if they wants him, they can go down after him." "With that they shinned on deck, and after bowin' an' scrapin' to me, thankin' me for the permission to search for a man which weren't there, they disappeared down the for'ard hatchway, which I pointed out, an' I slammed it shut after them an' fastened it." "Along in the night the skipper come on board with another bunch o' smoked meat in gaudy uniforms, all dead drunk "But 'em where they'll be safe, says he an' get under way right off, an' with that he turns in." "I figured it out that they was the remanents o' the gang I had jugged an' I poked 'em down the same hatchway. "It was easy to bag that first bunch you sent out last night." I remarked to the skipper the next mornin' as we were eatin' breakfast. "First bunch?" says he. "What do you mean?" "I mean," says I "the boatload you decoyed out to the ship about dark last night." "I don't know what you are drivin' at," says the skipper, "I never decoyed no boatload to the ship about dark last night. The only ones I had any deals' with was the bunch I fetched aboard after the American an' I had got 'em drunk. "Well, they come, anyhow," says I, "an I have 'em below, President, generals an' all." "President?" says the skipper, gettin' excited. "You don't mean to say we've carried on the Presidente, too?" "He's most certainly aboard," says I. "He an' his pals are down the forard hatch where I put them drunks you fetched on." "Great Geewhilikins!" says the skipper, dropin' his fork. "We're into it now." "How's that?" I asked. "Why! We've carried off the whole blarsted revolution—insurrectos, government an' all. That was the insurrector leader an' his staff that I brought aboard. You dumped 'em in on top o' the government an' ne tellin' what's happened by this time. "We went on deck an' listened at the hatch, but all was quiet below. "I guess they've all killed each other." himself was injured in the foot, he led the little party who erected a barrier of biscuit boxes to stem the leaden hall of the enemy. The French-Madagascar war gave him the opportunity of walking 200 miles, nearly naked, in the midst of the wild Hovas. Regrets amount to weak self pity, but a healthful remorse is a needed self flagellation. says the skipper. "We'd better open up an' investigate." "When we raised the hatch them Ja-lues come bollin' out on deck like a nest of disturbed hornets, an' when they recognized each other in the day light, they squared off slides an' commenced at each other with their corn knives. Most any pressin' in includein' myself, not feelin' any pressin' of the operation, went into the riggin'. "Pretty soon there was a general mix-up an' things was gettin' mighty warm, when the skipper, who was standin' oft sings out to man the hose, an' rings for full steam on the pumps. It didn't take long to quiet 'em down with a stiff stream o' water playin on em. Then we disarmed 'em and the skipper told 'em, with the help o' the cook, that if they started any more pumpsuses, he would finish the fire. "The bluff worked fine. (we bein' out o' sight o' land) an' they didn't fight any more; each side contentin' itself with makin' faces at the other." "I dont know what in the thunder to do with them varmints," says the skipper, one day as we were drawnn' near Rio. "We're too short on coal to go out of our course to put 'em ashore." We might tie stones to their necks an' droy 'em over the side." I says, "like they are too short." I says, "he, an besides, we need all the rocks for ballast." "So we carried 'em on to Rio. The skipper made 'em load our cargo, to pay for their passage, an' when we was loaded, he turned 'em over, except the President, who was rejected on account o' baila' a run, to a feller that was lookin' for bands to work on his plantation, for dollars a head, and I never heard of 'em a chile boat sailed with us for a long time as cabin boats, done first rise, too; but he finally quit the sea, an' the last I knew of him, he was runnin' a chile stand down on the river in New York city, which he bought with his savings." It was grown dark and the mate me the bridge to look after the sig- nal lights. CURRENT ITEMS. London society has taken to oyster cocktails in place of the ordinary hors d'oeuvre. Ex-Senator Burton is serving his jail sentence of six months at Ironton, Mo. His family, his wife and little niece, will live at Ironton during the term. His residence at Abilene, Kansas, has been closed. As the result of an investigation made by the police of Stockholm, Sweden, at the rooms of arrested anarchists, they have found a coffee pot twenty centimeters in height. The coffee pot contained eighteen carefully hidden dynamite cartridges. Court Officer Simon Chaix of New Orleans referred to a negro woman as a lady for which he was dismissed from the service by the judge. In dismissing him the court said if he continued to call the colored people as Mr., Mrs. and lady it would give them the swell head and spoil them. ☆ The New York World quotes Frederick Sulzberger as authority for the statement that a five hundred million dollar beef trust is in course of organization backed by Engl'sh capital'. Mr. Sulzberger said his company had been invited to join, but nad declined because of the anti-trust law. The end of the outdoor work season will see fully 600 miles of railroad track—about four-fifths of the total planned—elevated within the city limits of Chicago. The cost by that time will have footed up to $40,000,000, of which $6,000,000 was expended this year. There remains to be done before the work is complete less than 150 miles, which will cost $11,000,000. The five great railways having terminals in Paris, France, have announced that during the next 18 months, they will give one day off a week for all their employees. The announcement creates great surprise even in government circles, as the Minister of Public Works says the cost of Sunday rest alone for the railways is $7,500,000 per annum, even supposing the men not to be paid at all for their weekly day of rest. King Edward has written to Mrs. George Cavendish Bentinck (who was Miss Livingston of New York) permitting her daughter's wedding to John Lord to be solemnized in the chapel royal, and saying he will be present if possible. He expresses great admiration for the bride, who overcame all obstacles to the match by the sheer force of affection. The Misses Mills, Gladys Vanderbilt and Jean Reid will be among the bridesmaids. Presents have been received from Queen Alexandra, the queen of Spain and Princess Patricia of Connaught. The Duchess of Portland sent some fine embroideries, and the Duchess of Roxburghe a lovely piece of jewelry. The bridegroom's gifts of furs and jewelry are magnificent. One is a collar of brilliants of antique design and exquisite workmanship. It is announced from the City or Mexico that voluminous documents have been presented to the Mexican congress formally accusing Rafael Izabel, governor of the state of Sonora, of being responsible for the violation of territorial rights. The accusation refers to the entrance upon Mexican soil of Arizona rangers said to have been in the governor's employ at the time of the Cananea riots. In 1905 the oil fields of the United States produced 134,717,580 barrels of petroleum, as against 117,080,960 barrels in 1904, according to a report issued by the United States geoloica survey. This was greater by 17,636,620 barrels than the production in any previous year; although the value of the oil produced was $17,018,056 less than that in 1904. In 1905 there was a notable increase of development in the mid-continental oil fields, and the completion of a pipe fine from Humboldt, Kansas, to Whiting, Ind., marked an important step in the transportation of oil. Governor Magoon of Cuba visited the national asylum for the insane at Havana and discovered a deplorable state of affairs there. In the filthy and dilapidated buildings, with a capacity for 400 persons, he found 1,660 men and women. They were sleeping on broken cots, reliefs of the most American occupation. Congress made an appropriation to enlarge the asylum, but the money never was expended. The conditions are little better than under Spanish control. Governor Magoon will take steps to erect additional buildings and remedy the abuses. King Edward traveled in the Highlands in a marvelously luxurious royal train. The palace on wheels was furnished in satinwood inlaid with ivory, the smoking room being in mahogany with inlays of rosewood and satinwood. The sp'endid equipments include electric heaters, electric fans and electric cigar lighters. Each saloon has a balcony for observation purposes. The King's nandsomest saloons, however, are owned by the L. & N. W. R. Co., and are kept at Wolverton in a special shed where the temperature is always even to protect the exquisite fittings and decorations from damp or heat. Abbe Delarue, the priest of Chatenay, France, who disappeared so mysteriously, and who was thought dead by his parish, has been found and identified with Brussels. With num was Mlle Marie Fremont, a teacher in the free school of Chatenay, founded by Delarue. Neither the ex-priest, who voluntarily threw off his cassock nor the school teacher, who was about to take the vows and become a nun, take pride in their action. They both say that they feel guilty of an offense, but they say it was beyond their power to resist the impulse. They insist that they fought against their affection for each other for three years, but love conquered. The disappearance of the priest was the sensation of the summer for French newspapers. Miss Olga Nethersole, while playing at the Galey Theatre at Dublin, appeared in a novel part during her stay in the Irish capital. At a meeting in the Mansion-house, presided over by the Lord Mayor, she explained to a large audience, composed largely of women, her plan for the establishment of "The Women's International Anti-Tuberculosis League," the object of which is to combat the ravages of consumption. Women, in Miss Nethersole's opinion, should be allotted a share in the magnificent humanitarian effort to wipe the white plague off the face of the earth, and, with this end in view, she is forming the International League of Women. Towards the foundation of the league she is willing to subscribe $500 if 100 other persons will join her in giving similar subscriptions. She was able to inform her audience that Queen Alexandra had assured her of her interest in the project. 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