The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE Now that the battle is over and the political smoke is clearing away with E. W. Hoch in the governortorial chair for to years and the next thing, is where oh where is Aunt Aggie's children and what will they get for their valuable services and loyalty to the grand old party. There is no doubt but what the sons of ham played the saving point in securing the democratic county ticket last Tuesday. Oh will there be any left on the political pie counter for them to eat and enable them to rejoice over their earnest efforts in behalf of that party. 17 NO 33 The Oldest LIBERAL COM Let Peace and Prosper And to the Victor Now that the battle is o is clearing away with E. W. chair for to years and the ne s Aunt Aggie's children and valuable services and loyal There is no doubt but w the saving point in securing at last Tuesday. Oh will t ical pie counter for them to joice over their earnest effo It was said above that the dogma of the infallibility of work has done much harm. What have been some of its injurious effects? First, it has prevented many men and women from attaining to their highest possible economic efficiency and made them wretched for the rest of their lives by causing them to enter businesses and professions for which they were unfitted. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte Covnty, Mississ. Birdie Smith, Plaintiff Peter Smith, Desendant. Pearson Smith, descendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you 'appear and answer on or before the 14th day of September, 1606, the petition filed against you 'will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and restoring plaintiff to her maiden name, Birdie Renick and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atta. for Pflff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Publication Notice. In the District Court of the 29th Judicia district of Kansas. John W. Robinson, vs Lillie Robinson. To the above named defendant, 'you are bereally 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 21st day Oct. 1900, the petition filed in said cause will be taken as true and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plain- and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost as this action. John W. Robinson, Piff. Attest: By I, F. Bradley. Atty. Wm. Needles. Clerk. Sept. 7. State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte }ss In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Peter Bruns ceased. 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 Kans- as City, County of Wyandotte and State said, 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 TUYL. Executrix of Peter Bruns, deceased In witness whereof, the undersigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and allied the seal of the Probate Court this 10th day of September A. D. 1906. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge Sept. 14. Administrator's Notice State of Kansas County of Wyandotte, {ss In the Probate court in and for said County, In the matter of the Estate of Maria Hayden, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the Estate of Maria Hayden late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and state stores, dated the 11th day of April A.D. 1900. Now, all persons have claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance with one year from the date of said letters or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate, and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after date of said letters, they shall be for ever barreed. JESSE STANFORD, Administrator. Of the Estate of Maria Hayden deceased State of Maria Hayden deceased. Kansas City, Kansas, April 11, 1906. In writing: Kansas City, Kansas, April 11, 1906. In witness whereof, the undersigned Probate Judge in and for the County of (SEAL) Wyandotte. State of Kansas have heretofore set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 11th day of April, A. D. 1906. Winfield Freeman. Probate Judge. 1st Pub. Apr. 20. The Negro The Negro speaking mose concisely is not an Afro-American, but take him as whole as he is classified, he is really every thing else but an Afro American, for almalgamation of every nation, has reduced or raised him to the common stock of the human family which I denominate Afro-Saxon, including all races. And the church of which the Negroes are identified with in this country is a gateways to all of his suppression in this country an hence, before another song is raised, before another prayer is offered, and before another sermon is preached by the Negroes in fustering its claims. It should be brought to a citricle task of investigation, so as to sylmalize its future ends to the glory of God and to the credit of the Negro Problem, is the ultimate lesting of races, of human beings. And the bases of human destiny emulate from the source religious morals. And the Negroes had better resort some separate basis of religion in the future. Union Assembly The Union Assembly of the Church of the Living God, convened in Kansas City, Mo. on the 26-29, 1906. They had a good gathering from all part of the union. Among then was Apestie J. W. Baker from Boise City, Idaho, Who said many good things that would benefits the race, if they could see it that way. He says that there is muck land in the north-west that they could settle on and become men. The time will come when they will wish they had accepted of the opportunity that now presents itself to them. I believe according to the Bible that if the Negro would accept the word of God which would bring them together upon one common understanding they would be a people and until then, the time will soon come when there will be something take place in this country that will cause the Negro to think as never before, so look out for it. The assembly was held at the church's place of worship on Grove St., between 18th and 19th sts. Apostle C. W. Harris of St. Louis was selected the presiding officer and Apostle E. Johnson was elected general secretary, and Apostle G. J. Jones of St. Louis, Mo. treasurer. The sectarian preacher everywhere are ageist the doctrine taught by the minister of the church of God and it is the only thing on the market for salvation. The preachers of this country ought to get together and decide on the best thing for our people for their condition is a sameful one in this country. This country will learn a lesson before it very long that he will never forget. Largest Building in the World. The Crystal palace accommodates more people than any other building in the world. It will hold 100,000. Trades in London According to the late returns, there are 1,756 distinct trades being carried on in London and its suburbs. Berlin Land Values Double. The ground value of the city of Berlin is said to be worth twice what it was in 1887. Growth of National Capitol. When the extension planned for the nation's capitol at Washington has been made, the edifice, including the works of art which it contains, will have cost nearly $20,000,000. In 1709 the first building lot on which the capitol stands cost $500. The cornerstone was laid Sept. 8, 1793, with a speech by President Washington, a military procession and a barbecue. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING. To the Afflicted To those who are suffering with Chronic diseases and especially such as other Doctors have given up. Call on Doctor Benjamin Bonner of Quindaro Kansas, he is o devine healer, and says he will cure you of the following diseases, if you are suffering with Parlyses he will cure you of that particular disease or no charges for his service, I can oloe oure Bed Fever. Palpitation of the heart. Indigesting. Side Pleurisy. call on me at Quindaro Kansas. City Locals. Rev. G. W. Harts Pastor of B. street Baptist Churon of Topeka Kansas, was in the city, this week the guest of Rev. E. Arlington Wilson. Miss Bisle Moody is on the sick list at 424 Freeman avenue. $ \textcircled{a} $ Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. John Callahan, Plaintiff. vs. Thomas H. Lynch, Ollie E. Lynch, T.H. Lynch Mercantile Company, a corporation, and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Snyder, deceased. Defendants NO. 19882. The State of Kansas to the above named defendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Snyder, deceased. Greeting: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 25th day of October, 1905, the plaintiff above named, John Callahan, filed his petition in the District Court of Wyandotte County. Kansas and commenced suit against you, and in said petition said plaintiff alleges in substance as follows: That he is now and has been the owner in free simple and in the actual possession of the following described real estate, lying and situate in Wyandotte County, Kansas, to-wit: All of lots thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35), in block sixty one (61) in Armourdale, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas, according to the recorded plat thereof. That the defendant above named and the unknown heirs of S. A. Snyder, deceased, respectively, set up, assert and claim certain estates, titles, rights or interests in and to said real estate adverse to the plaintiff, there by creating a cloud upon the plaintiff's said title and rendering the same unmarried table. That said claim of said above named defendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of S. A. Snyder, deceased, are wholly unfounded and without any right whatever and said defendants have not, nor have either of them, any estate, right, title or interest whatever in or to said real estate or any part thereof. And praying in substance that the plaintiff's title to said real estate be adjudged good and valid and that the claims estates, rights, titles or interests of the defendants and unknown heirs and devisees of S. A. Snyder, deceased, in, to or upon said real estate be adjudged invalid, and that they and each of them be forever barred from asserting any claim whatever in or to said real estate or any part thereof. And you are further notified that unless you answer the petition of said plaintiff on or before the 24th day of December, 1906, the allegations thereof will be taken as true and a judgement and decree will be reedered by said Court against you in favor of the said plaintiff quieting his title to said property against you and forever barring you or any person or persons claiming by or through you from asserting any claims of estate, right.title or interest in or to said real estate and giving plaintiff other relief as prayed for in said petition. John Callahan by E. L. Fisher his atty. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk of the District Court. Nov. 9. A BARGAIN. For Sale—A No. one upright piano at the most reasonable figures. This is an exceptionable chance to secure one of the best "make" and highclass instrument of today. Call and examine and get terms. No. 411 Neb. ave. K. C. K. Bethell A. M. E. Bhurch cor. of steward streets, will run a ten days Gospel meeting meeting Friday night Sept. 7th Rev. Pesry and Hawkins and others will assist Rev. L. W. McComick in these services, every are cordall invited Nice Furnished Rooms for rent with board or without, will be at home to friends on Thursday, 423 Oakland ave Mrs. Annie Williams. 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 hated 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 degree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and ditorizing him from her said defendant, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Pifl Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. A Grand Judy Charged Every time I stand my little 2-year-old boy on my knees and look into his innocent face and smiling brown eyes and remember that he must run the gauntlet of the despoilers snares and temptations, I feel like renewing my official pledge to use all of my official power and authority to drive the devil out of the land. If I could gather together all the blind tigers, gambling hells and dens of infamy and shame that are preying upon the bodies and souls of the boys and young manhood of this city and county, I would tumble them all into the face of the devil in hell, where they belong. Any parent who relents in his efforts to destroy these agencies of the devil is not only a traitor to God and his country, but he is a traitor to his offspring as well.—Judge Cochran at Memphis. Hydrophobia From Scratch It is an erroneous notion that hydrophobia appears only in consequence of biting, or more rarely in consequence of licking surface wounds. There is also a third and easy mode of contamination—by scratching. Dr. Remlinger, of the institute of bacteriology, of Constantinople, has just published several observations that establish the existence of such an origin of the hydrophobic infection. This origin is easily explained. A certain number of animals (the dog and the cat in particular) have, in the normal state, the habit of licking the paws. It has been proved that the saliva of rabid animals is virulent several days before the appearance of the first symptoms of hydrophobia. When the disease is declared, a new factor intervenes. The rabid animal scatters on the ground saliva that, especially if it be chained up or confined in a close place, soils its paws and its claws. On the other hand, the scratch lays bare numerous nervous fibres upon which the poison is very easily sown. Every person scratched by an animal rabid or suspected of being so should be inoculated by the Pasteur method with as little delay as possible. Quits Society for Stage. Social pleasures have lost their charms for Helen Mercella Dickinson a popular Kenwood, Illinois, girl, who will begin to prepare for a stage coerer. Two seasons have "tired" Miss Dickinson of teas, receptions and parties, she says, and now she will devote herself to "work" and stage uplift. Miss Dickinson condemns society life as a bore, superficial and uninter esting, in which the only goal is to be the leader in entertaining. She be fieves every young woman should have some occupation and for herself she declares she no longer is willing to play the part of a do-nothing. Two opportunities for immediate prominence on the stage are open to Miss Dickinson, but she will consult with Charles Dillingham, an Eastern theatrical promoter, before making a choice. She will start to New York to meet Mr. Dillingham, who is partly responsible for her decision to take up a stage career. Miss Dickinson is the daughter of W. P. Dickinson, a Chicago business man who protests strongly against the step which his daughter is about to take. She was educated at Sacred Heart academy, New York, and St. Xavier academy Chicago. Owing to the termination of off, a great many names of dignitaries in Russia have, in the present reign of dynamite, an ominous significance, a General Popoff, Count Filkusoff etc. A change of name to General Bomporo Count Nebatouchme, etc., would probably be apt to inspire more confidence in their bearers.—New Orleans Times Democrat. A certain railroad has erected a laundry plant and will hereafter do its own washing, having doubtless be come wearied of seeing it done by others, legislators and the like, in the public eye.—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Five Central American states are said to have planned a joint revolution for November 1. The incredible part of the story is that the five have agreed.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Overpraised. There is no other platitude which is so much overworked as the false assertion that men of achievements owe their success mainly—or, as many of the platitudinizers will have it, almost solely—to hard, incessant labor. The Greek and Latin nations, which never have worshippers of work, have harbored no illusions on this subject. The ancient Greeks and Romans and the modern French and Italians have recognized the fact that for the attainment of eminence in the higher lines of endeavor at least some modicum of genius is essential. In Germany and England, on the other hand, in whose ungenerous clime man always has had to work hard to exist at all, it is regarded as a truism that laborious effort is the chief perquisite to the realization of every nation. Bet nowhere has the god of work been so highly exalted as in America. Invite a dozen Americans of prominence in letters, industry, politics, and the professions to a symposium on success, and they will respond in chorus that it depends principally on working strenuously more than union hours. The statement that hard work is the only or chief thing necessary for success is false. Because it is false it has been productive of widespread harm, and ought to be refuted as often as it appears. It is not meant to imply that hard work is not necessary. A man has got to be a genius, indeed, to rise to the top of the ladder without much exertion. But that mere exertion is not the prime essential everybody can find evidence by looking about him. Everybody knows of men who have striven with all their might to get ahead, but who have been passed by business or professional rivals who didn't struggle half so hard. Hard work is a large factor in success, but there are two other factors which are of no less importance, and in many cases are of more. They are pluck and natural ability. the lawyer or physician with a big practice, the rich business man, egoistically credits his success entirely to his energy and genius when mere luck may have played a large or the largest part in it. A few chance triumphs, a few chance defeats at the beginning have spelled for many a professional career the difference between success and failure. And how many big fortunes there are in the United States which are due chiefly to a mere lucky investment in real estate or mines! The Astor, the Mackay, the Stanford, the Fair, the Hearst fortunes are the products of luck. We don't give luck the credit it deserves. To inherit wealth is luck. How much of the careers of Gladstone, of Darwin, of the great law reformer Bentham was owing to the fact that wealth accumulated by their ancestors spared them the necessity of earning their livings and enabled them to devote their time to their life work? After all, the great essential to all the higher kinds of achievement is not luck, nor is it hard work—it is natural ability. Darwin was the greatest genius of the nineteenth century. He had, as already remarked, the luck to inherit wealth, and he labored untiringly. Uniting in his career all the factors that have been mentioned as contributing to success, he was perhaps better qualified than any other man to speak upon this subject. He said: "Genius has been declared by a great authority to be patience, and patience, in this sense, means unfinching, undaunted perseverance. But this view of genius is deficient, for without the higher powers of the imagination and reason no eminent success can be gained in many lines." Natural ability is the brain and hand, energy their tool, opportunity the material which they fashion. A good brain and hand may do much with poor tools and inferior materials. The best tools and materials are of little value in a feeble hand, and are worthless when manipulated by imbecility. Rose said he represented you and supposed he knew what he was talking about." One enthusiastic supporter of the Democratic ticket in the front row of seats arose and called for three Administrator's Notice. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. In the Probate court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Narclass Watilla, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of Administration with will annexed have been granted to the undersigned ad. on the Estate of Narcissus Wastilla 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 procluded 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 Narcissus Wastilla, deceased. In witches whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the county of (SEAL) Wyandotte. State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 13th day October, A. D. 1906. 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 of said estate Eliza 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 set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 12th day of October A.D.1905. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. Executors Notice State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte 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 sald 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 sald estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for the allowance within one year from the date of sald 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 sald letters, they shall be forever barred. JAMES DOWNS Executor of the last will and testament of Anna Williams, deceased. NOTE LETS For Rent-To desirable parties(gen teman pleaed)well furnished rooms in one of 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 Easy at 1107 N. 6th st,conveni- ently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line, Prices reason able. Mrs. Reed, 528 Nb. ave., has a few nicely furnished roms 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 1906, or as soon thereafter as can be conviently 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. CLARENCE STEWART. NOW IS the time to: Subscribe For the Weeky American Citizen. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. 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. A Standing Display 'Ad' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each 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 encroaching 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 Mall 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 pie 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. Portla, 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 Wealthy. 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. Mime. 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 impressario 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 Lawrens Barrett's house at Cohasset where the rest of the party consisted of Edwin Booth and Stuart Roison 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 Scrithner's Magazine How deeply comforting the tender phrase Thy greater attribute seem merged to this— Through all life's long and dark and weary maze. Thou art Compassionate. To God of Justice and of Power we the When wrong or devastating blow out deep; And yet in daily struggle needs mus yearn For one Compassionate. In limits of our souls we live, alone, And e'en our nearest may not under stand, But all the household jar within" is known To thee, Compassionate. Thou know'st the many sorrows of the day; When loving proper respect We may have blundered grievously at long, Darkened Thy world we might have made so bright. Still Thou dost heal the heartache at the wrong Comfortment. Compassionate: —May Ethelion Bourne, In Overland Monthly. 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. "Oh, one of our frenzied finance captains, is he?" he asked. "No, he—" "Writes up trusts and things then?" "Oh, then he's a prizefighter or 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 on 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 on the candle. "You see, I have eight darters on 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, dearie, hand me my lace head scarf." "Do you feel a draught?" anxiously inquired the hostess, handing over the mantilla. "Not the slightest," said "Aunt Sit" as she adjusted the head covering. "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 fun 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 to 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 recover? My tears and my trembles were your did one greet 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 And still I'm forgetting and bringing in tale to you only. The old days are over! how pleasant in were, the fine weather. When youth and my darling and I were at home and together! And still I'm not alone, that no longer you're near 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 1801 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. Sukain, 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. Pcssrs 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, glastiness, gnawed, helness, mysteries, imbecility, inconceivable inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. -Pittsburg Dispatch. SHIELDS FOR TROCPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Military 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 Bread Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese spade 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 DRA2. 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 specialty, 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 tittian red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. Then she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. "The lest 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. They say that money can not buy These things for me, ask. But I— I will know. What bought my private life just wealth What bought my life just wealth What bought the most delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— What buys her aazes in? And if her heart beats just for me, And I am not idolated, 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 title I'll give before I die Will slip me through the needle's eye, Or-I don't know! For happiness? Well, money bought the chair. It bought this chair, which I lol! It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not harpiness. 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. "O well." answered the butcher, "perhaps your honor likes to eat animal like that, but my customer's don't. I don't kill lions and unicorns—I only kill fat pigs!" Verdict for defendant.—New York World. Building Up to Requirements A Kansas City man purchased a city lot with the restriction that he should not build a house on it to cost less than $2,500. After having paid for the lot he decided to build a $1,500 setting. Before he had completed it the real estate man from whom he had bought the lot threatened to sue him for breach of contract. "This little shack you are building," said the real estate man, "hacks a whole lot of beating a $2,500 house such as you agreed to build." "Don't form too hasty judgment," replied the owner. "True, it hasn't cost that much yet, but I intend to put a solid, solid brick in the chimney." -Kansas City Times Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. The very best for all Purpose The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges R sota Ave., Kansas Western B. Raymon GENERAL DIRECTOR er. The very best of Service, Fine for alll Purposes, at all Hours. Equipped White Enameled Ambu sick and wounded tice. Charges Reasonable. Call at sota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. tern Univer and Embalmer. The very best of Service, Fine Carriage for alll Purposes, at all Hours. The Best Equipped White Enameled Ambulance to sick and wounded on Short Notice. Charges Reasonable. Call at 431 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. 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His record includes three shipwrecks, the hand of Navarino, in which he won motion in orders, the blockade of Algeria one capture by brigands, followed himself and his companions seizing the Spanish ship which captured the sailor which had captured them. All serving many years before the man he became a master and small ship owner on his own account. His man is Pierre Lourat. He was born in November, 1805, and at 12 he went ROOM 8. KANS I believe if you should come to me Should clasp my hand so tenderly, After you did long ago, Before my hair was fecked with snow I believe if you should stray To one dear spot at close of day, Where we in an effulgent tide Experienced love's that magnificent kiss, While in birds songs in the trees, And but envied every breeze That lightly stirred your gold-brown hair, That fell in tangled beauty there; I believe if just once more I saw you smile now as of yore. And look into my longing eyes And read of love that never dies. If arms around each other twined, I suddenly choose to find, If lips in ecstasy. We kissed each other passionately, If trembling you should say to me, I know I only love but thee, Always forever and a day Till this frail frame is turned to clay. To know such love as that had birth, It would be heaven here on earth. CURRENT ITEMS. Gale and sea swept the coast of Noav Scotia, Cape Breton, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, wrecked vessels, destroyed the telegraph service, and caused great damage to property of all kinds. A formal charge of heresy has been lodged against the Rev. George Clark Cox, rector of the Protestant Episcopal church in Clifton, Ohio, because he disavowed belief in part of the creed in a letter and in a sermon. As the result of a scarcity of platinum the price of false teeth is mounting at an alarming rate. Within the last thirty days the increase has amounted to over $1 per set, and the end is not in sight. Should the crop of platinum fail entirely, it is asserted that false teeth will become as scarce as proverbial hen's teeth. Harriman's reason for securing control of the Illinois. Central is to get a connection between Chicago and the Orient through the Panama Canal. Such an outlet, it is thought, is necessary for the preservation of the Harriman system during the period of bitter competition that will follow the completion of the canal. John A. Penton, president of the Penton Publishing company of Cleveland bought a supply of revolvers and gave them to his employees, with instructions to use them if they were molested by the pickets stationed about his establishment. Penton declares his non-union employees have been repeatedly insulted and assaulted by the pickets. The Standard Oil company has bought forty-two heirs in the Caddo City oil field, twenty miles north of Shreveport, La., and will begin operations at once in the development of the property. It is the intention of the Standard Oil company to ship the oil to its refinery at Beaumont until the field is fully developed, when a refinery will be erected at Shreveport. The report of a remarkable feature in the present condition of minor disorder which prevails more or less throughout the island of Cuba comes from Santi Spirius in Santa Clara province. In the vicinity of this town there is encamped an armed band of ninety men, under' the command of Correolis Sanchez and Jiminez. This band is displaying the stars and scribes. The leaders declare they not only have no intention of opposing Americans in any way, but it is their desire to lead a movement in support of annexation to the United States. The criminal court of Cook county, Ill., has sentenced Cashier Hering, of the wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State bank to an indeterminate term in the penitentiary which may be from 1 to 10 years. Stensland had been taken from the penitentiary at Joliet to give evidence against Herting, who, it was understood, would make a fight for his freedom, but Hering changed his mind, and decided to throw himself upon the mercy of the court. Stensland, however, took the stand and told how the bank was wrecked. While several squads of the Twenty-ninth regiment of infantry were exercising in a field at Treves, Rhenish Prussia, undergoing instructions in how to use their rifles on the firing line, a sergeant of one squad fell dead with four bullets through his breast. It developed that he had himself loaded the rifles of the squad with ball cartridges and directed the recruits to alm at his breast and pull the triggers. As they fired he exclaimed, "His Majesty, hurrah." The cause of the sergeant's suicide was not uncertained. Montana has 22,419 miles of public road, 65 miles of which is improved with gravel. By comparing the total road mileage with the area of the state, it appears that there was 0.15 of a mile of public road per square mile of area. A comparison of mileage with population shows that there was 1 mile of road for every 10 inhabitants, but only 1 mile of improved road to every 3,743 inhabitants. The expenses of Wm. R. Hearst in his campaign for Governor of New York are itemized by the telegraph at $616,000, all paid out of personal funds. This is the first time New York ever had a personally conducted and personally paid for campaign for Governor. Usually the expenses are covered by contributions to the campaign fund. The ordinary campaign for the election of governor costs one of the big parties from $100,000 to $400,000. The lower figure is "cut rate" and can only be had when one side is so absolutely sure of winning there is merely a pretense contest. The election expense account which Mr. Hearst must file with the secretary of state will be a most interesting document, but it will not be complete. This will not be because the candidate intends to put the figures lower than they should be, but because he has the campaign and his business so involved and interwoven that it is practically impossible to say from a financial standpoint what should be charged against one account and credited to the other. In the so-called "White Mans Case," involving the right of between 2000 and 3000 husbands of Indian wives to participate in the lands and funds of the Cherokee nation the Supreme Court of the United States held against the white men. There are over 4,000,000 acres of land and the tribal funds are extensive. The Indians strenuously resisted the claim, contending that they had never by law recognized property rights on account of inter-marriage. In previously passing on the cases, the court of claims held that the tribal lands are not communal lands, but that whites who acquired citizenship by marriage prior to 1875 have equal interests with the Indians. In the case of marriages into the tribe since that time it was held that no property had been acquired except by those who had paid into the common fund the sum of $500. The court of claims also held that white husbands of Cherokee women who have abandoned their wives have forfeited all rights as Cherokee citizens, including that of participation in the proceeds of sales of Cherokee lands. The United States now holds the record of "farthest north," 87 degrees, 6 minutes. This feat was accomplished by Commander Robert E. Peary, of the United States navy. This is his fourth trip to the North. This is 175 miles from the north pole. Peary's "farthest north" heretofore was about 400 miles from the pole. This was 84 degrees, 17 minutes, north latitude. The Italian duke of Abruzzi still had the record at that time, with 86 degrees, 33 minutes north latitude. Here is the record down to Baldwin, all made in the last eighteen yeas: From the pole— Miles.. Abruzzi, 1900.....239.15 Nansen, 1895.....261 The Fram (after Nansen left and in drift of 1895).....280.55 Peary, 1902.....400 Lockwood, 1882.....456.5 Baldwin, 1902.....525 Peary failed to reach the North pole as he had hoped to do on this trip with his specially constructed vessel, the Roosevelt, but he penetrated nearer to the pole than the Duke of Abruzzi's epedition which had held the Arctic record. 86 degrees. 33 minutes. Peary is believed to be on his way home, and it is reported that President Roosevelt will recognize his services by appointing him as the head of the bureau in the navy department. The Farmers and Miners' bank of Ladd, Ill., a mining town, was held up and robbed. The assistant cashier, J. J. Hurley, was alone in the bank when two men entered and covering him with revolvers, ordered him to throw up his hands. The robbers then marched him to a back room, where they bound him, helped themselves to cash and escaped. They left $130 in gold besides a quantity of silver on the bank counter and disturbed little in the vault. The amount of their booty will be about $20 000. The robbers hired a livery rig at Peru to drive to Ladd. In about three hours they returned the rig to Liveryman Denby, who having heard of the holdup, tried to procure the assistance of citizens to surround the robbers, but the latter drew revolvers and shot at everyone who appeared near the stables. The robbers slipped from the stable and kept up a running fight for an hour, finally escaping in the direction of LaSalle after eluding the Peru police. A North Missouri editor has discovered the original Hearst man. His Christian name is William Randolph. He knew Carrots for Stock. The large, coarse varieties of carrots most used for stock feeding are not so nutritious as is the shorthorn variety, which grows most of its bulk near the surface or slightly above it. As the shorthorn carrot can grow more thickly in the row it is nearly as productive as the deeper setting varities, and it is also more easily harvested. Five or six hundred bushels of the short- "The last year has been one of the happiest in the history of our organization," declared General Ballington Booth, head of the Volunteers of America. "During the year," he continued, "we have cared for 3,935 women in our home of mercy. Volunteer officers and workers have visited and aided 27,757 families; 280,812 persons were lodged in homes for working men and women, not including those succored during strikes; 49,754 persons were fed at various institutions and the Volunteer prison league cared for 50,000 persons, 70 per cent. of whom are now living upright, law-abiding lives." It is authoritatively reported from Washington that President Roosevelt's forthcoming message to Congress will contain a number of surprises. The most important recommendations and subject the President has made and discussed in the document are the following: National regulation and supervision of corporations engaged in interstate commerce by either act of Congress or through a constitutional amendment. National taxation of inheritances. Graduated taxation of incomes. National assistance to labor through laws making eight hours a legal day for all government work save on the Panama canal. Limiting hours of labor of railroad employees. Authorizing thorough investigation of child and woman labor problems. Requiring in cases arising out of applications for writs of injunction in labor disputes that due notice be given to adverse parties before granting a writ, the hearing to be expire if the adverse party fails to appear at the time and place decreed. Explanation of the causes which compelled American intervention in Cuba and an announcement of the unselfish policy the United States will pursue with regard to the island. American citizenship of Porto Ricans. Removal of all duties save 25 per cent. of the present trade on sugar and tobacco, on Philippine products, except duties to be removed entirely in 1909. Warning to the American people to accord to the Japanese and all other foreigners the rights which belong to them by treaty, and federal control of cases involving foreigners. Increase of the navy by construction of battleships and other craft which shall make the United States strong enough to guard itself and its interests at home and abroad. Increase of the artillery corps of the army and application of the principle of selection in the promotion of officers of the army and navy. Surprises in the message, of course, are those in regard to the taxing of incomes, discussing the negro question and the different attitude the American people must assume toward foreigners resident among them, the Japanese in particular. No More Ducks Died. The author of "Sketches of Native Life." says that most European residents of India keep large poultry yards. He followed the general custom, but for some time found it very unprofitable. His first brood of ducks died one after another in a most orderly manner, one at a time, at intervals of twenty-four hours. The sweeper who took care of them assured us that he could cure them if we would give him two annas' worth of garlic, black pepper and chillies. The cure was certainly worth the money, and we gave it to him accordingly; but, alas! it was spent in vain—the ducks continued to die. We were new to the country and equally new to the raising of ducks. We had no suspicion of the cause of the excessive mortality; but at last we received a visit from a friend. We mentioned the extraordinary fatality to which our ducks were subject, and asked him if he could suggest a cure. Our innocence was greeted with a peal of laughter. "Yes," he replied, "I can. Call the sweeper and tell him that for every duck that dies from this date he will have to pay four annas." We did so; not another duck died. The truth was that the sweeper had been killing the ducks for his own use, and, relying on our ignorance, had been so audacious as to ask, in the name of medicine, for money to buy condiments for seasoning. Revolt for Mustaches. A mass meeting of valets was held the other day at Rome to protest against the unwritten law that they must not wear mustaches. Two thousand of them voted in favor of a resolution to let their mustaches grow and take the consequences. horn carrot may be grown per acre. This is a paying crop at the usual price of roots. "These church people are inconsistent." "Say on Macduff." "They believe that cleanliness should be next to godliness, yet here they are kicking because I want to build a soap factory next door." France and Germany of America Of all the republics of Latin-America, none, perhaps, are more widely known or have more frequently—one might say more persistently—startled us than have Chile and Peru. The latter, famous alike for her prehistoric civilization and for the splendors of her vice-regal court at Lima, has experienced such a succession of disastrous visitations that the impressionable historian might almost seem warranted in ascribing her misfortunes to the curse of the martyred Incas. There was the long conflict with Spain, who made her last stand upon the continent at the fortress of Callao; there was her crushing defeat at the hands of Chile, and the sacking of Lima; there was her spectacular bankruptcy and subsequent compromise with the British creditors by the surrender of her entire railway system, the most remarkable, and at that time credited with being the most unprofitable, on earth. And first, last, and always, there have been earthquakes, several of which have overwhelmed the capital and numerous inland towns, and destroyed, or inundated, the ports of Callao and Arica, and the neighboring settlements upon the coast. Chile, likewise, has had a most sensational history, beginning with the conflict between the early Spanish colonists and the indomitable Araucanians, a conflict which continued, with varing fortunes, for three centuries and a half. Here, also, were witnessed many bloody battles in the struggle with the mother country, and in 1886, as if to offset her triumph, came the second clash with Spain, and the disastrous bombardment of Valparaiso. Earthquakes, as well, have added to her misfortunes, notably the destruction of Taleahuano, the port of Concepción, in 1744, and of Concepción itself, nearly a century later; while the recent calamity, grossly exaggerated, in all probability, though it has been, will unquestionably react upon immigration and foreign investments, and thus result in an indirect loss, greater, perhaps, than the actual destruction of property and disorganization of trade. Of civil strife and political embroilments, Peru has had her full quota; and Chile, although her governments have been exceptionally stable, experienced in the fiercely contested Balmaceda Revolution of 1891 a loss, both of blood and of national prestige, entirely disproportionate to the number of combatants, or to the length of the conflict. These events, moreover, gave rise to Chile's ill-feeling toward the United States, which culminated in the famous Baltimore incident, and have prevented cordial relations between the two countries until this day. Comrades in misfortune, as they have frequently been in the past, bound by the triple tie of a common civilization, language and religion; neighbors, moreover, whose interests were reciprocal rather than competitive, and between whom nothing more serious than a friendly rivalry might have been expected, these sister republics have developed a feud unique among the nations of the New World, and comparable, in many respects, to the deep-rooted enmity between France and Germany.—American Monthly Review of Reviews. Is the Horse a Coward? Imprisimis, the horse is a coward—atture made him so—an unreasoning coward, who fears everything with which he is familiar; nothing, however horrible, to which association has accustomed him; a creature given over to sudden and uncontrollable panics, and, in their paroxysms, stopping at no injury to self or to those who cherish him. His overpowering instinct in such cases is flight; frequently, but not always, associated with a determination to clear himself from any hampering surroundings. He has no feelings of revenge, unless trained to cunning by the abuse or the mistakes of mankind, and, when these prevail, he rarely wrecks his vengeance upon any particular individual, but upon humanity in general, with no regard for age or sex. The sentiment of revenge is so usually associated with cowardice that it may almost be classed as a phase of that instinct. Cowardice manifests itself in equine connection in many ways—with one it is terror of the dark, which will make him kick his stall all night, doing himself possibly serious injury; yet in nine cases out of ten, a light left in the stable will so completely reassure him that he will not lift a foot. Another is alarmed at blowing paper, yet stands 'awning while cannon are fired in his face. 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Evidently hauling from outside the city limits, a tall old man, with a cheap satchel in his hand, entered the corridor of the building where the Real Estate Trust company's office is situated and rattled the locked doors. "The bank's closed," said a bystander. "Tell 'em to open it," impatiently remarked the countryman. "I want to draw my money." When he found he could not get the cash he seemed dazed. "Darn it," he exclaimed, almost in tears, "there goes my vacation." A stock of $400,000 worth of whisky was destroyed in a fire at Kansas City, and the crowd that saw its destruction said, "This is awful." $100 Reward $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. L. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, O. boy would let the wind out of the organ when she needed it most. So she wrote him a note, saying: "Plow, blow hard; blow all the time until I tell you to stop." She then beckoned for the boy to come to her and gave him the note. He, supposing the note was for the minister, without opening it, carried it to the pulpit and delivered it to the dominie. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. a co nce re nat eee GE SEE livery at the Denver :nint. t ‘The Santa Fe announces that it wil meke improvements ageregating $21, 000.009. Stx million will be Jc:cod to somplete improvements started las: Year. The road will bs double wracked geross Kansas. * After 2 stormy scene lostiaz several hours, te coroner's jury ct Atlsatic Sfty, HJ. agreed to place iho blame for Me Thoroughfare wrock of Sun- @xy, October 28, In wick about sixty persons were Killed, upon Danie! Stew art, the bridge tender. The jury di tereed on many points, * ‘The trouble with the Ute Indians in Wyoming is over, the agreement being hat they return to the reservation in ‘Utah and remain there, provisioned by the government, until spring, at which time the question of a new rcser- ation Js to bo taken up. ® & determined fight for a minimum wege law on the part of schoo! teach- ra fa Indiana, led by those of Han- ‘sock county, has teen inaugurated. Resolutions have been drawn up and ‘will be ‘sent to each of the county or- ganizations and strong lobby will aizo be sent to the legislature. x * Président Roosevelt, it is announce: 4, f@ highly elated ovcr the election sf « Republican congress, which he wegards as an indcr:+mont of his ad wynistration. He is pleased with the steation of Hughes for governor cf New York, but regrets that the mt forfty against Hearst is not 150,009 lustead of one-third that number. ® & mob of 500 persons attempted to Wneh Thomas Balf on his arrival at Qorimg Green, Wis, under arrest harged with an assault on Mrs. Ea: ward Frank. The prisoner was rushed f jail. The mob, nevertheless, sus. pended 2 noose from a water tower aed made ready for a lynching. It is @hergod that Balt, after assaulting Mrs. Frank, threw her over a fence. Being so badly hurt she could not ‘walk, she was compelled to crawl near- W a mile to a neighbor's house. Sho ‘Wl recover. ® Money again is pouring into the cof- fers of the University of Chicago. Gifts ‘Aggregating $1,223,062 have been re- eeived since September 1. Most of this sum,is credited to donors whose gifts have been announced previously, but veoent presents to the university amount to $58,419. John D. Rockef:1 Wer, the founder, is the largest of the seeent benefactors. He has given $20, 900 for the James Hall geologica’ col- Mection and brary. His gift of 1 1 million dollars shortly atter Dr. Har- per's death and his gift to make up the sunual deficit of 1-4 million dollars, with his recent gift, makes his contri. { Wations so far this year close to 2 mil: Yon coviars, ber * Indictments have peen returned by he special grand fury which convened fe Minneapolis to investigate alleged Weight rebates. In the case of the @mailroads the indictments conta‘ned MT counts. The minimum penalty for ®enviction in each case is $1,000 an: Mermaximum $2,000. None of the in <fmwrstod railroads expected that it .would be indicted. Each company f14 Gisclaimed with apparent sincerity the Possibility of any criminal act is its re Jattons with the grain companies and wening which thelr employes had giv. ‘x testimony before the jury. It is be awed that the grain companies and fedividuats connected with then hac feceived no inkling of the fact tia! Grey were being investigated by the grad: fury. No member of either @rufa company was called to th: wand, nor were avy of the railroxi men indicted who had testified befo- Me grand jury. H. B. Duncan, specia ‘gent of the Department of Justies wonducted the investigation. In th fact that the jury broke all recorcs fr fhe Minnesota district for length of ‘t g@itting and fer eare in its examinatio: @f witnesses was conveyed a s'gnifics Caruso, the Italian tenor s'sger scored a great triumph in Berlin ‘whore the people admired him so muct that he was almost mobbed in th: atreet, and the Emperor presented hin with o diamond pin. While in Ameri ea he sang four songs into « phone graph, for which he was paid $8,0000 aad has since received $4,000 in roya! ies. He is well satisfied with his to ‘mm life, After a Woman has been married a few montlis, her attitude toward her husband plainly says: “I will cook for you, and mend for you and try to de a good wife, but r will no longer worship you.” 2 ‘The Republican majority in the low- wr honse of the next congress will be $0. It is now i14. * ‘The precent Is a period 6f e=pa~sica for the Colorade & Southera, ia whieh it is changing from a loa) roid into a ine that will bid for throug trat- fic frem the (ult to the Pacific. Tie fecount ¢f the extenstons now under way forms oze of the most important fectures of the annual report for i006, At the eles? of the year, the lines in- eloted fa the system had a total mile- use of 1,093. When the extensfors are completed, trains will:be operated over a tote? mileage of about 2,250. This will be an expansion of approximately £80 miles, President Roosevelt has directed that a reprimand be administered (Willis L. Moore, chfef ef the weather pereau, for his action in the case of a printer named Cooper in his office who had been expelled from the Tpyo- traphical union for not paying his suike assessments. Mr. Moore, it is teged, urged Cooper on two occas- ens to pay his assessments, but the ‘atter refused and he was expelled from the union. Following this Coop- er was transferred to New Orleans and he asserted that this action on the pert of Mr. Moore was intended as a punishment for him for not complying with the demands of the Typographi- tal union. The matter was referred fo the civil service commissioner, which expressed the opinion that Cooper's transfer would not be for the tcod of the service, as this would give the impression that it was intended as a punishment. Cooper, accordingly wil) be reinstated in his former™pos!- tion in the weather bureau in Wash- Incton and the reprimand to Mr. Moore will, at the direction of the President, be administered by the Becretary of Agriculture. Weekly reports of conditions are gathered from all the leading grain- growing countries of Europe and Am- erica. Now we are receiving returns from the minor countries, which show that they, too, have shared with the greater ones in larger crops. For ex- ample, the North African countries of ‘Tunis and Algeria are this year likely to export 4,000,000 bushels of macar- oni wheat against nothing last year. Last year Spain was an importer of wheat, but this year will not need any foreign wheat at all, The U. 8. Consul at Moncton, New Brunswick, says that for the Igst ten years dairying indus- try In that far northern province has made big strides, and that their ont- let for the surplus is found in e West Indies, not in Great Britain. im New ‘Zealand the increased price ef wool ‘tas reached a figure unknown for many years, and dairying is making rapid progress. ‘The exports last year in- /erensed $22,000,000, of which three- fourias are sald to represent net in- come to the farmer. Changes In agri- cultural methods are equally marked. ‘The Japanese, who before the intro- duetion of western sciences, had been intensive cultivators of the soil, are now Introducing the nitrates of Chil! ond Peru for further improvement of ee On the Madeira Islands. ol systems of cane culture and sogar | manufacture are yielding to superior methods by which the loss end waste are reduced toa minimum. Through- out the tropics generally superior | methods of cultivation are taking the | place of older and more wasteful ones. | In fact, the world over, there is a note- | worthy advance in the application of selence to the findamental industry of agriculture. The surest way to tame a man ts to take his money away from him; when # man has no money, even a woman pan run over him. - ss | xians are on foot for supplying the principal towns in the central and northern portions of Oklahoma and In dian Territory with natural gas in un limited quantities within the next 12 | The United States circuit court of appesls at St. Paul, Minn., upholds the vallaity of contracts for the purchase and sale cf erin for future aclivery, as it f pr: d by the Chicago board of tra i the Merchant’s exchonge of St/Tatis. Calling Down a Bore. ‘Travelers’ tales, which often add charm to the conversation of an agree. able person, fzequently render a bore more tiresome than ever, a fact that was amusingly illustrated by an occur. rence in a Baltimore clubhouse not Tong ago, says Harper's Weekly. “There I stood, gentlemen.” the long- winded narrator, was saying, after droning on for an hour with reference to his trip to Switzerland—“there I stood, with the abyss yawning in front of me.” “Pardon me,” hastily interjected one of the unfortunate men who had been obliged to listen to the story, “but ‘was that abyss yawning before you got there?” - —— Put it All Over Him. Borely (at 11:30 p. m.)—Yes, my hait is getting quite thin, Is there any. thing you could advise me to put on it Miss Smart? Miss Smart (stifling a yawn)—You might put your hat on it—Boston ‘Transcript. Dae ae Tanchben Rethive ‘Pencika.. The Boston teachers are to be pen. sioned after a certain age with half pay. The teachers will make a small contribution from their salaries for the fund, and the balance will be made up by appropriations from the city. | London papers point with alarm to ‘the large minority vote given to Mr. Hearst, candidate for governor of New York, as evidence of the popular dis- |content over the trust question. & P. M. James, of Missouri; H. H. Glenn, of Oklahoma; J. F. Tolbert. of | Kansas, have been appointed yeterin- ee inspectors in connection with the bureau of animal industry. | / AMAN’S A MAN. A man's a man, though he may hide ‘Within a hut’ of squalor, The viel hough cos? they tried ‘one small whit the taller. Though old may buy fine silks and lage Ane vaese teith splendor You'll fy that sadness and dissrace Go wih (se legal tender Though some rich fools may wag’ thelr heads When soine poor beggar passes, and tury to. oat In alder 0 Still, alt the same, they'rs osses, God looks upon the naked heart, And when he makes men true, he stamps His trade mark on their faces. — Will D. Muse, The retirement of Sir Mortimer Du- rand, the British ambassador to the United States, will take place at the end of this year, * Republicans will have a majority of forty-fovr on joint ballot in the next Colorado legislature, which will elect a United States senator to succeed ‘Thomas M. Patterson, Democrat, « The department of justice has issued instructions to S. J. Lehman, special counsel, to begin proceedings against: the person or persons believed to be implicated in the recent embezzlement of $61,500 from the subtreasury at St. Louis, Hieutenant General Stoessel, the de- fender of Port Arthur, is in such fl- nancial straits that he has applied to a charitable institution at St. Peters. burg for wounded soldiers for assist- ance to enable him to employ a ser- vant. The officers of the institation asked the general to produce a medi- cal certificate showing that his health required the services of a servant. Dr. Edwin E. Beeman, the chewing gum man, is dead, at Cleveland, 0. In May, this year, Dr. Beeman demanded that the United States government in- crease his pension from $8 to $12 monthly because of total incapacity for manual labor, despite the fact that he received $27,000 yearly in dividends. Not only did Dr. Beeman ask the addi- ional $4 a month, but he saw nothing whatever unique in his request. He took the position that he “needed the money.” The doctor’s address was “Century Club, Cleveland,” and his main occupation was clipping coupons and signing checks, but that, in his view, had nothing to do with the $4. Dr. Beeman received his annual $27- 000 as a result of the sale of his chew- ing gum industry to the combine, and he was of the frankly expressed opin- ion that a little more yearly cash from Washington would not be amiss. “Oh, yes,” he sald one day, “I am receiving $27,000 now from my investment ell right, and the small pension I now get is extra. Why can’t I have $27,144 as well as $27,000?” The battle for social supremacy which has caused a feud in New York between Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs. John Jacob Astor and Mrs, Fish and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, made possible the execution of the long cherished plan of E. H. Harriman to wrest control of the Ilinois Central raflroad from Stuyvesant Fish, the long time president of the corpua- tiou, and oust him from his office, partly in revenge for his part in the insurance exposure. Mrs. Fish, next to Mrs. Astor, is the recognized lead- er of society. Mrs. John Jacob Astor wishes to succeed her aged mother-in- law as supreme head of society. Mrs, Fich looks to that position herself. Therefore Mrs. Fish has doné every- thing possible to block the promotton of the young Mrs. Astor, and the lat- ter has let, pass no opportunity to re- pay her. The enmity between the women became open at the time of Prince Henry's visit to America, Mrs Fish wished to entertain the German emperor's brother, but Mrs. ,ander- itt earried off the prize. In a tactful manner Mr. Harriman inspired the suggestion to Mrs. Astor and Mrs. Vanderbilt that the opportunity was present in the election of a president of the Illinois Central railroad to strike a stunning blow at Mrs. Fish tivough her husband, and pay off soc- ial scores. It was then easy for the two wives to influence the actions of their husbands and make matters of finance subservient to those of a soctal natnre. “What is this story I hear about Miss Beayless advertising for a hus- band?” ee the first person singue lar. = “Tt is almost that,” answered the other one. “She has taken to prom- enading the street with a cook-book under her arm."—Judge. According to the “Family Dogtor,” the chances of dark wortien: obtaining ‘husbands are, to those of fair women, in the proportion of three to two. This is all right so far as the defighte bru- nettes and blondes are concerned, but how about girls with hair of old rose, ‘sunset-glory, copper-beech and the rest of the color schemes? A table of the ae on or against each tint is eagerly ‘awaited. —Tribune. uf wot re —— va _ ee: te” = Mss: es baer mee. o B Pee eee Qe, Poe Ss eee glee bakes. i) Recs RAE) Fe a neh NMG si Fe ae Lec IN eee ~ pee EN EG RY eee ee oO =o be Ie TN peas 5 yep A ae Fee NECA iy 1 pa Ee es ae oe eee ee Beg et 2S m Zo Sst ey é SLE 1g ARS WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS ON HIS WAY TO PANAMA, ‘The Mermaid—There goes the President on his way to Panama, Don velieve that he tries to run everything ? Neptune—I should say so; isn't he geing to try his best to run the F fantic into the Pacific? Se SS 3 Ap ee ee Ue Lp Le a : Aa v © EM e ; Loy pe) >». ~ ics 2 Gt. ian) ie bs ck oe), Sang A pe WY) i SiG PRE 2 ros | ec ae a From Pxemaed i ae), JA Cont Lantos (200) Fee EY yy) oe we. 7, Stee EA as J NER XS se tay) & sure ee: y ¥ yy Ms CHE LP Kw GaMNs At = Lip e < Rachel | i SN Gee Z o A ez Adc} Se Lys a SS reg | ‘The Coal ‘frust—Ah! ha! This sort of thing gives me neart {al | ‘The President,will shortly issue an order withdrawing al eg lands from homestead entry—to be held in reserve for co) 510: wa Item. 4 AEE teseteekesesetetestesesest+ + tt ‘The President has announced the ap-/iiis state in the it ee oitment of Attorney General William Ath, Fitty-sixth, and. es Moody of Massuchusette ag jus-'Congresses, It is genctsll! 3 ice of the Supreme court of the Unit-|that Mr. Moody will retit? 4 fd States, to succeed Justice Henry |Department Ot Justice the Billings Brown, who retired some time of December, ego. Mr. Moody has ‘filled the oftica| x ot Attoracy General since July 1, 1804. ‘There 4s such a demand ff Previous to that time he had served’ in the house that any man for. more than two years as Secretary known as a good husband of the Navy. He had also roneastted ithe up a few. During the fierce conflict of parties m the New York state campaign, which closed November 6, the follow- ng lines taken fron the files of eerste Paper were quoted to indi- sate that h’s publications intended to neite the assassination of President McKinley: fhe bullet that pierced Goebel’s breast cannot be found im all the West. ood reason: it is speeding here fo stretch McKinley on his bier. Major Bierce, author of the poem ‘rom which the lines are taken, ex- plains he was writing for the Hearst vapers when Governor Goebel was ‘illed. The bullet could not be found. Major Bierce was a friend of Presi- aent McKinley and, he says, he wrote the lines not for the purpose of instt- gating assassination, but in prophecy that if such crimes as that against Goebel went unpunished then the as- sassin’s bullet would strike higher up. Twenty months later the prophecy was tulfilled, and McKinley was killed. “It was then,” Major Bierce says, “the en- emies of Hearst dug up the lines, wrested them from their context and ased them to make it appear Hearst papers incited McKinley's removal.” cf By the election of J. T. Harahan as president of the Illinois Central Refl- road company te succeed Stuyvesant Fish it is believed that E. H. Harriman has at last realized the fulfillment of his plan to control a railroad line from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. In this great plan the IlinoisCentral was the one missing link in etaoietaetao the one link missing to complete a line of track from New York to San Fran- cisco and Portland, Ore., trom the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Gulf to the Pacific again. ‘The first registry transter stag cE the history of Chicago mais been opened by Postmaster Pusy ‘he Illinois Central, Northwesten Union Railway stations. Simily tions will be operated at the street, Dearborn street and Central stations. These siatios further the prompt dispatch of al istered mail matter, this belay warded direct from one line to rx without having to go through the office as heretofore, and will ‘the congested condition of local especially during the holiday * As intimated some time ago, dent Roosevelt has issued an dishonorably discharging fron service, the negro Twenty-ffth i ry, stationed at El Reno, 0k ‘The battalion contains the ma caused a disturbance in Bro Tex,, in which one citizen was and several injured. About soldiers at the most were in th turbance. The troops wer moved north. The men of the ion refused to divulge the ns their guilty companions. The dent issued an order,’ carried ott inspector General Carlington, that entire battalion would be dis dishonorably if the men ¢ii tot up the troopers who did the thos ‘The men refused and the carried out his threat. Mt velt's action is unprecedented b' history of the army of the States. As an evidence, howe his intention to be fair to tht troops, the President has acco this action by an order wil amount to the court martial of army officer of high grade, Piteher of the Twenty-sevonti ry, who is charged with hava! slurs upon the negro troops.