Wichita Searchlight

The Wichita Searchlight. SUCCESSOR TO PITTSBURG PLAINDEALER. The big Arkansas river is rapidly rising again. Sam Williams and family left for Colorado Springs Wednesday. Rev. R. J. Johnston of Great Bend is visiting in the city this week. Mrs. Sid Hickerson left Monday for Topeka to take in the sights of the street fair. Fish Phelps has accepted a position as porter at the Innes & Morsman dry goods store. Rev. Reuben Johnston preached for the Friendship Baptist church Friday evening. Mrs. C. L. Burns was called to Labonon. Ky., to the bedside of her grandmother. Mrs. Emma Evans, who has been visiting her father at Camidon, Mo., returned home Wednesday. Rev. J. H. Van Lue has put down a fine cement sidewalk in front of his place on North Water St. Mrs. Ida Frazier who has been visiting her parents in McPherson, Kan., returned home Thursday. Capt. S. W. Jones is making quite an improvement on his residence at the corner of Central and Water St. Henry Sledge, better known as "Blue" bell boy of the Hotel Carey, has been on the sick list this week. Henry Wilkins has resigned his situation here to accept a better one in Chicago. He left Tuesday evening. The K. of P. annual turnout was quite a success. This society is composed of the best young men of the city. The A. M. E. church will give a big rally Sunday. You are cordially invited to be present and help Rev. Terrill in his great effort. Poor Sam Anderson and Geo. White were two sick kittens Sunday. They could not procure their liberty from their employers to turn out with the boys. Rev. Tom Napper of Kansas City, Kan., arrived from Springfield, Mo., Saturday and preached two good sermons for Rev. Frazier's congregation sunday. No doubt but every one will be glad to learn that Fred Andrews who was so dastardly shot down by a drunken fend is able to be up and around on the streets again. Miss Gertrude Johnston accompanied Rev. Reuben Johnston to Great Bend. They left this morning on the Santa Fe. She expects to spend a few weeks in the district of the prairie dogs. We have received letters from Demon and Stringer lodges K. of P. of Kansas City. Kas., stating that the boys had quite a demonstration last Sunday. Hurrah for the boys in F. C. & B. The wedding bells are expected to ring on or about June sixth. One of our Carey boys will be the contracting party. He is a K. of P. His bethrothed is among the society girls. Can you guess who she is? The first moonlight social of the season will be given on the lawn of Mrs. J. E. Lewis, 122 N. Emporia, Saturday evening, June 9th. Come and have a good time. Refreshments of the season will be served. Rev. Reuben J. Johnston, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Great Bend. was at the New Hope Baptist church Sunday and took, quite an interesting part in the Sunday school, again Bro. Johnston. Pride of the West division No. — U. R. K. of P.H. holds a regular meeting Tuesday night. The boys are making extensive preparations to go to Kansas City in July. They mean to win the prize in drilling. Their officers are: Let us learn to patronize our own color. Pete Coleman has opened a first-class lunch counter at the corner of Douglas and Santa Fe Ave., where you can get good, square, first-class meals at 15e. Patronize him. Rev. Tom Napper again preached to a large audience at the New Hope Baptist church Wednesday evening. His listeners were indeed gratified and a donation of $4.00 was given him. He left Thursday morning for Arkansas City. Rev. W. T. Franklin, of Arkansas, representative of the National Baptist Publishing society, preached for Rev. Terrill of the A. M. E. church Sunday evening. Monday evening he lectured for Rev. M. L. Copeland of the Second Baptist church; thence to Hutchinson on his return he expects to visit the New Hope church. RESTAURANT. Meals 15c at all hours. Week board $2.50. PETE COLEMAN, Prop. F02 E- Douglas. Annual Sermon Toas Lodge No. 10, K of P. The annual sermon of Toas lodge No. 10, Knights of Pythias last Sunday proved to be a grand and gorgeous event. The early morning rain made the streets clean and there was no dust. The Knights met at their hall on North Main street at 2:30 prompt and at 3 they marched to the A. M. E. church on North Water street. Arriving at the church they found it beautifully arranged, and all in waiting. Music was furnished by the most excellent church choir, who sang some very appropriate selections. The annual sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Terrill, pastor of the A. M. E. church. Dr. Terrill took his text from Prov. XXII, 18, later part. "There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." His sermon was the climax of masterly scholarship, silvery eloquence, and shewed profused study and preparation of this distinguished divine in the matter of his discourse. Both the initiated and unitiated agreed that in historical review, eloquence, scholarship and grace of delivery the distinguished Dr. won fame. Dr. Terrill was assisted in the services by Dr. H. F. Frazier, pastor New Hope Baptist church, Dr. R. J. Johnston, pastor 2nd Baptist, Great Bend, Ks., Dr. Franklin Clark, Nashville, Tenn., and the splendid choir of the church. The parade was under the supervision of P. C. Fred Martin as marshall of the day and Thomas Anderson, master at arms. Marshall Martin proved his ability to handle parades, and received many compliments. But when the girls saw graceful Tom Anderson, their hearts almost melted within them, and "comps" upon top of "comps" were the proud lot of that splendid Knight. Those in the parade were Knights: John E. Lewis, G. C. Kansas. Whit Phelps, C. C. Bert Fisher, V. C. Bert Glover, K. of R. and S., Franklin Floyd, prelate, M. of F., S. W. Fleming, M. of E., W. M., John Bride, I., G., Alfred Henderson, O. G. Past Chancecellors, Geo. Daniels, Lee Anderson. Abe Alexander, Phillip Hyde, Fish Phelps, W. N. Miller, Past D. D. G. C. Kansas City, Mo.; Monroe Woods, Pete Coleman. Will Ware, of Oklahoma. Chas. Staten, Henry Underwood, Geo. Stevenson. Chas. Rawles, Frank Garret, James Johnston, John Dodson, Sam Abernathy, Hopkins Abernathy, Joseph Phillips, Thomas Anderson, Fred Martin, Thos. Jackson, of Oklahoma, Ed. Latham, of Ohio. The empress dowager of China, who is a woman of remarkable energy, desires the presence at Peking of the famous Chinese statesman and reformer, Wang. She offers a reward of $40,000 to any one who will deliver him, dead or alive, into her hands. The offer is large enough to constitute Mr. Wang what the insurance companies call an "extra hazardous risk." The offering of rewards for the heads of offending subjects is not a common practice among sovereigns nowadays. When Representative Gibson of Tennessee was speaking in congress one day recently, it was observed that a member sitting in a neighboring chair was fast asleep. This occurrence was not unusual, but for a man who speaks as loud as Mr. Gibson to have a sleeping neighbor seemed to his political opponents a good joke. So one of them interrupted Mr. Gibson to report that somebody near him was sleeping and to suggest that he should speak a little louder. Mr.Gibson, who is a member of the pension committee, promptly retorted, as he turned toward his sleeping colleague, "If he cannot hear me he ought to have a pension for deafness." Mr. J. M. Bacon, the Englishman who, with his daughter, made a lofty balloon ascent to observe the meteor shower last November, tells some interesting things about the sounds that reached their cars. At the height of 5,000 feet the ringing of horses feet on a hard road could be heard. At 4,000 feet the splashing sound made by ducks in a pond was audible. The barking of dogs and the crowing of cocks could be heard at 7,000 or 8,000 feet. These sounds penetrated through a white floor of cloud which hid the earth from sight. In the perfect silence of the air around the balloon they were startled by what seemed stealthy footsteps close at hand. Investigation showed that this sound was caused by the stretching of the ropes and the yielding of the silk as the balloon continued to expand. The use of "khaki" uniforms is like the act of the savage who greases his body and smears it with sand and earth, so that it takes the hue of the ground on which he lies, and is therefore not easily visible. That, in turn, is a mere development of the gift of color granted by nature to many beasts, birds and insects, by which they are enabled to harmonize themselves with their surroundings, either for protection or for ambush. WICHITA, KANSAS, JUNE 2, 1900. TALMAGE'S SERMON. REWARDS OF ENDEAVOR SUN- DAY'S SUBJECT. From the Following Text—"1 Have Finished the Work Which Thou Gavest Me to Do"—John XVII, 4—The Fruits of Well Won Victory. [Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.] There is a profound satisfaction in the completion of anything we have undertaken. We lift the capstone with exultation, while, on the other hand, there is nothing more disappointing than after having toiled in a certain direction to find that our time is wasted and our investment profitless. Christ came to throw up a highway on which the whole world might, if it chose, mount into heaven. He did it. The foul mouthed crew who attempted to tread on him could not extinguish the sublime satisfaction which he expressed when he said, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." Alexander the Great was wounded, and the doctors could not medicate his wounds, and he seemed to be dying, and in his dream the sick man saw a plant with a peculiar flower, and he dreamed that that plant was put upon his wound and that immediately it was cured. And Alexander, waking from his dream, told this to the physician, and the physician wandered out until he found just the kind of plant which the sick man had described, brought it to him, and the wound was healed. Well, the human race had been hurt with the ghastliest of all wounds—that of sin. It was the business of Christ to bring a balm for that wound—the balm of divine restoration. In carrying this business to a successful issue the difficulties were stupendous. The Spiritual Upbuilding. In many of our plans we have our friends to help us; some to draw a sketch of the plan, others to help us in the execution. But Christ fought every inch of his way against bitter hostility and amid circumstances all calculated to depress and defeat. In his father's shop no more intercourse was necessary than is ordinarily necessary in bargaining with men that have work to do; yet Christ, with hands hard from use of tools of trade, was called forth to become a public speaker, to preach in the face of mobs, while some wept and some shook their fists and som gnashed upon him with their teeth and many wanted him out of the way. To address orderly and respectful assemblages is not so easy as it may seem, but it requires more energy and more force and more concentration to address an exasperated mob. The villagers of Nazareth heard the pounding of his hammer, but all the wide reaches of eternity were to hear the stroke of his spiritual upbuilding. So also the habits of dress and diet were against him. The mighty men of Christ's time did not appear in apparel without trinkets and adornments. None of the Caesars would have appeared in citizen's apparel. Yet here was a man, here was a professed king, who always wore the same coat. Indeed, it was far from shabby, for after he had worn it a long while the gamblers thought it worth raffling about, but still it was far from being an imperial robe. It was a coat that any ordinary man might have worn on an ordinary occasion. Neither was there any pretension in his diet. No cupbearer with golden chalice brought him wine to drink On the seashore he ate fish, first having broiled it himself. No one fetched him water to drink; but, bending over the well in Samaria, he begged a drink. He sat at only one banquet, and that not at all sumptuous, for to relieve the awkwardness of the host one of the guests had to prepare wine for the company. Man Without a Diploma. Man Without a Diploma. All this was against Christ. So the fact that he was not regularly graduated was against him. If a man came with the diplomas of colleges and schools and theological seminaries, and he has been through foreign travel, the world is disposed to listen. But here was a man who had graduated at no college, had not in any academy by ordinary means learned the alphabet of the language he spoke, and yet he proposed to talk, to instruct in subjects which had confounded the mightiest intellects. John says: "The Jews marveled, saying. How hath this man letters, having never learned?" We, in our day, have found out that a man without a diploma may know as much as a man with one and that a college can not transform a slug-guard into a philosopher or a theological seminary teach a fool to preach. An empty head after the laying on of hands of the presbytery is empty still. But it shocked all existing prejudices in those olden times for a man with no scholastic pretensions and no graduation from a learned institution to set himself up for a teacher. It was against him. So also the brevity of his life was against him. He had not come to what we call mid-life. But very few men do anything before 33 years of age, and yet that was the point at which Christ's life terminated. The first 15 years you take in nursery and school. Then it will take you six years to get into your occupation or profession. That will bring you to 21 years. Then it will take you ten years at least to get established in your life work, correcting the mistakes you have made. If any man at 33 years of age gets fully established in his life work he is the exception. Yet that is the point at which Christ's life terminated. "Blessed Are the Poor." "Blessed Are the Poor." Popular opinion declared in those days, "Blessed is the merchant who has a castle down on the banks of Lake Tiberias." This young man said, "Blessed is the poor." Popular opinion said in those days, "Blessed are those who live amid statuary and fountains and gardens and congratulations and all kinds of festivity." This young man responded, "Blessed are they that mourn." Public opinion in those days said, "Blessed is the Roman eagle, the flap of whose wing startles nations and the plunge of whose iron beak inflicts cruelty upon its enemies." This young man responded, "Blessed are the merciful." Popular opinion said, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." In other words, if a man knocks your eye out knock his out. If a man breaks your tooth break his. Retort for retort, sarcasm for sarcasm, irony for irony, persecution for persecution, wound for wound. Christ said, "Pray for them that despitefully use you." They looked at his eye. It was like any other man's eye, except perhaps more speaking. They felt his hand, made of bone and muscle and nerves and flesh, just like any other hand. Yet what bold treatment of subjects, what supernatural demands, what strange doctrine! They felt the solid earth under them, and yet Christ said, "I bear up the pillars of this world." They looked at the moon. He said, "I will turn it into blood." They looked at the sea. He said, "I will hush it." They looked at the stars. He said, "I will shake them down like untimely figs." Did ever one so young say things so bold? It was all against him. After the battle of Antietam, when a general rode along the lines, although the soldiers were lying down exhausted, they rose with great enthusiasm and hauzaed. As Napoleon returned from his captivity his first step on the wharf shook all the king-doms, and 250,000 men flocked to his standard. It took 3,000 troops to watch him in his exile. So there have been men of wonderful magnetism of person. But hear me while I tell you of a poor young man who came up from Nazareth to produce a thrill which has never been excited by any other. Napoleon had around him the memories of Marengo and Austerlitz and Jena, but here was a man who had fought no battles, who wore no epaulets, who brandished no sword. He had probably never seen a prince or shaken hands with a nobleman. The only extraordinary person we know of as being in his company was his own mother, and she was so poor that in the most delicate and solemn hour that comes to a woman's soul she was obliged to lie down among drivers grooming the beasts of burden. The Question of Lineage. I imagine Christ one day standing in the streets of Jerusalem. A man descended from high lineage is standing beside him, and says: "My father was a merchant prince. He had a castle on the beach in Galilee. Who was your father?" Christ answers, "Joseph, the carpenter." A man from Athens is standing there unrolling his parchment of graduation and says to Christ, "Where did you go to school?" Christ answers, "I never graduated." Aha, the idea of such an unheralded young man attempting to command the attention of the world! As well some little fishing village on Long Island shore attempt to arraign New York. Yet no sooner does he set foot in the towns or cities of Judaea than everything is in conmotion. The people go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for a day, yet are so fascinated with Christ that at the risk of starving they follow him out into the wilderness. A nobleman falls down flat before him and says, "My daughter is dead." A beggar tries to rub the dimness from his eyes and says, "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." "A poor, sick, panting woman presses through the crowd and says, "I must touch the hem of his garment." Children who love their mother better than any one else struggle to get into his arms, and to kiss his cheek, and to run their fingers through his hair, and for all time putting Jesus so in love with the little ones that there is hardly a nursery in Christendom from which he does not take one, saying, "I must have them. I will fill heaven with these, for every cedar that I plant in heaven I will have 50 white illies. In the hour when I was a poor man in Judaea they were not ashamed of me, and now that I have come to a throne I do not despise them. Hold it not back, O weeping mother! Lay it on my warm heart. Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Victory Over Nature. See him victorious over the forces of nature. The sea is a crystal sepulch尔. It swallowed the Central American, the President and the Spanish armada as easily as any fly that ever floated on it. The inland lakes are fully as terrible in their wrath. Some of us who have sailed on it know that Lake Galliee, when aroused in a storm, is overwhelming, and yet that sea crouched in his presence, and licked his feet. He knew all the waves and the wind. When he beckoned they came. When he frowned, they feed. The heel of his foot made no indentation on the solidified water. Medical science has wrought great changes in rheumatic limbs and diseased blood, but when the muscles are entirely withered no human power can restore them, and when a limb is once dead it is dead. But here is a paralytic—his hand lifeless. Christ says to him, "Stretch forth thy hand," and he stretches it forth. In the eye infirmary how many diseases of that delicate organ have been cured? But Jesus says to one blind, "Be open!" and the light of heaven rushes through gates that have never before been opened. The frost or an ax may kill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry may do many wonderful things, but what chemist at a wedding when the wine gave out could change a pail of water into acask of wine? What human voice could command a school of fish? Yet here is a voice that marshals the scaly tribes, until in a place where they had let down the net and pulled it up with no fish in it they let it down again, and the disciples lay hold and began to pull, when by reason of the multitude of fish the net broke. Nature is his servant. The flowers—he twisted them into his sermons; the winds—they were his hullaby when he slept in the boat; the rain—it hung glitteringly on the thick foliage of the parables; the star of Bethlehem—it sang a Christmas carol over his birth; the rocks—they beat a dirge at his death. Behold his victory over the grave! The hinges of the family vault become very rusty because they are never opened except to take another in. There is a knob on the outside of the door of the sepulcher, but none on the inside. Here comes the conqueror of death. He enters that realm and says, "Daughter of Jairus, sit up!" and she sits up. To Lazarus, "Come forth!" and he came forth. To the widow's son he said, "Get up from that bier!" and he goes home with his mother. Then Jesus snatched up the keys of death and hung them to his girdle and cried until all the graveyards of the earth heard him, "O Death, I will be thy plague! O Grave, I will be thy destruction!" The Supernatural Nature. No man could go through all the obstacles I have described, you say, without having a nature supernatural. In that arm, amid its muscles and nerves and bones, were intertwisted the energies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the emphasis of the eternal God. That foot that walked the deck of the ship in Gennesias shall stamp kingdoms of darkness into demolition. This poverty struck Christ owned Augustus, owned the sandhedrin, owned Tiberias, owned all the castles on its beach and all the skies that looked down into its water, owned all the earth and all the heavens. To him of the plain coat belonged the robes of celestial royalty. He who walked the road to Emmaus the lightnings were the fire shod steeds of his chariot. Yet there are those who look on and see Christ turn water into wine, and they say, "It was sleight of hand!" And they see Christ raise the dead to life, and they say, "Easily explained; not really dead; playing dead." And they see Christ giving sight to the blind man, and they say, "Clairvoyant doctor." Oh what shall they do on the day when Christ rises up in judgment and the hills shall rock and the trumpets shall call, peal cn peal? Christ a Sympathizer. My subject also reassures us of the fact that in all our struggles we have a sympathizer. You cannot tell Christ anything new about hardship. I do not think that wide ages of eternity will take the scars from his punctured side and his lacerated temples and his sore hands. You will never have a burden weighing so many pounds as that burden Christ carried up the bloody hill. You will never have any suffering worse than he endured, when with tongue hot and cracked and inflamed and swollen, he moaned, "I thirst." You will never be surrounded by worse hostility than that which stood around Christ's feet, foaming, reviling, livid with rage, howling down his prayers, and snuffing up the smell of blood. O ye faint hearted, O ye troubled, O ye persecuted one, here is a heart that can sympathize with you! VOL.11. NO.1 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON X, JUNE 3—MATTHEW 9: 35 TO 10: 8. Golden Text—"It Is Not Ye That Speak but the Spirit of Your Father Which Speaketh in You"—Matt, 10: 20— Twelve Sent Forth. 35. "Jesus went about all the cities and villages." This was his third evangelizing tour. He did not remain in one place till all were converted and made perfect, having gathered the harvest that was ripened and the debts to ripen further while he gathered the harvest that was already ripe in other places. (1) "Teaching in their synagogues," where he could best reach the people on the Sabbah. He taught divina Obedience. He added the Scriptures to them with new words. Teaching, religious education, is one essential element in the progress of the kingdom both as to numbers and quality. (2) "Preaching the gospel of the kingdom." Heralding, proclaiming far and wide the good news of the kingdom, that it was at the end of the kingdom would do for all who came into it. (3) "Healing every sickness," positive disease, severe, dangerous, even violent. The Greek word, nosos, is akin to the Latin noso, to hurt. "Every disease," the Greek word, noskness, debility; from makos, soft, weak; hence it refers rather to chronic cases. 35. "When he say the multitudes," Many more than any one person could reach or help. "He was moved with compassion." Thus the Father "so loved the world." Infinite love and compassion is the keynote of the gospel, the move for missionary work and a deeds of heftiness that they dulce R. V., "were distressed." The word originally meant flayed, rent, mangled, applied to sheep fleeced and torn by wild beasts. So these people were mangled by disease and by sin as by wild beasts. "Were scattered abroad." Not dispersed, but scattered in the heat of the war by weariness, by sin, by hunger of soul, as soldiers are prostrated on the ground by their enemies. "As sheep having no shepherd." Those who should have been their shepherds, who professed to be such, were not true shepherds, but hirrelings, who ate the sheep they should feed. 37. "Then saith he unto his disciples." To all who accepted him as well as to those who invested truly as innocent." Not me? "They will certainly be saved, but men in general, who, unless gathered and saved, will perish like wheat that is not reaped." -Broadus. The fields were "white already to harvest" (John 4: 35). Never was this so far. It is of the world to-day. But the labors of the world. The world and were qualified to gather in this harvest. "Are few," compared with the greatness of the work. 33. "Pray ye therefore." You who are in training for the work, you who are to be laborers in the harvest, and realize the greatness of the need and the difficulty of the work. It is instructive to tell the laborers that those who ought to be laborers, were the ones instructed to pray for more laborers. "That he will send forth." "The word is stronger: thrust out, force them out, as from urgent necessity."—Vincent. "Laborers into his harvest." Note. God gathers his harvest by human instrumentality, 1. "Called unto him his twelve disciples." Whom he had chosen some time before the previous to the Sermon on the Mount. He called to the twelve tribes of Israel. In V. 2 they are called "the twelve apostles." Apostle means "one sent forth" on a mission, "a messenger." "Our word missionary, derived from the Latin, like a messenger." The twelve disciples are learners, scholars, those who go to school, as here to Christ, those who teach. It was needful that these twelve should be both apostles and disciples. 4. "Simon the Cananite" means not of "Ocanan," nor "of Cana," but "the Zealot," "a party of fanatic nationalists among the Jews," and "the nationalists against the foreign king," "Judas Jascalot," 1. e. man of Kerliot, a town of Judah. Hence he was the only one of the disciples who was not a Galilean. He did not into the way of the Gentiles. "Do not take any road that leads to the surrounding nations, as for instance the cities of Tyre and Sidon. "City of the Samaritans." Though nearer than the Gentiles. The time had not come for more distant work, but it would come late. 6. "Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." These belonged to the flock of God, but had wandered far away and were lost. They were best acquainted with these people. Our own town and the base of operations. Begin at home and then reach out into "the wide, wide world." 7. They were to "pread, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand." The gospel Jesus himself preached in the beginning. The King had come. He brought pardon and peace and salvation to the kingdom. He organized the kingdom. Everything good was waiting for them at their very doors. "Heal the sick." (See on Lesson IX, First Quarter.) Only by visible help for the body that costs us something is it possible to prove that our efforts for the demon possession were fruits of sin, object lessons of sin. Jesus came to undo the work of the devil. By healing sick bodies through his disciples, he proved his power and willingness to heal sick souls, cleanse deprived hearts, raise the dead in sin, best out all the devils of the world. Free the sick. Jesus had charged nothing for what he had done. He came from heaven freely, he gave his life freely, he brought salvation to the disciples freely. "Freely give," of that which cost you nothing. Be like your Master, filled with his spirit and wisdom. He gave kind deeds was a free gift; therefore they were to give freely, to take nothing for their work. WICHITA, KANSAS. W. N. MILLER, Eaitor. JOUN E. LEWIS, Manager. MILLER & LEWIS, Publisners. 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Let us not be behind thon towns: It would be fine if the K. of I's. could arrange to run an excursion to Kansas City in July during the Grand Ledge. We believe it can be done. ‘The K. of P. boys made a fine show- ing Sunday. That's right, boys! Stay in the ring and wave the banner of Pothtontan. Decoration day was observed by all classess of citizens in a most appro- priate manner. All the business houses were closed; and in the after- noon a most imposing parade took place headed by Prof. Sanford’s band, We surely felt proud to see the colored men in the ranks of the G. A. R. Our heart is always filled with joy to see this day fittingly and appropriately observed. Too much honor can never be given the heroes, both black and white, who by their blood, suffering and privation, made it possible for this grand Union to stand. Three cheers for the braves in blue!! ‘The native muste of aboriginal tripes is regarded as of great importance in anthropology, and the recent British (Cambridge) expedition to the Torres straits and New Guinea carried along phonographs to record the songs of the savages. Some of the songs thus recorded on Murray island are already obsolete, and will, it is believed, die out with the old men of the tribes. “In savage life,” says one of the mem- bers of the expedition, “the songs of ‘a tribe are its chief heritage.” It looks as if Kruger and Roberts intended to stand off for a few weeks ‘and issue proclamations at each other. Civil government has been estab- lished in the towns of Luzon, but the uncivil natives still hold the rural dis- tricts. ‘The Irish members of parliament want it distinctly understood that ‘their brethren in South Africa are not ‘the only ones who can fight. ‘The leader of the reunited Irish par- ty in the house of commons stands for the principle that home rule cannot be worked out through political alliances with English parties. This was Mr. Parnell’s policy. Mr. Redmond, his most faithful follower, has clung te- aciously to it and has forced bis @rish associates to adopt it. . ARMY RAISED 1N ST. LOUIS, Sheriff to Call Out 1,000 Men and 1,000 More if Needed, LOCAL AGENCIES FIRST USED, St. Louis, June 1.—Public interest in the strike veered to the special meet- ing of the police board, called for the purpose of devising heroic measures to bring order out of the strained condi- tion of affairs. The board at once de- cided to call upon Sheriff Pohlmann to ‘summon a posse of commitatus to as- sist in quelling the disturbances incident to the street car strike, he having failed in his efforts to secure 200 more policemen to preserve law and order. Sheriff Poblmann was present and held a conference with the com- missioners. He stated that he had an- ticipated such a call and had prepared alist of 600 names, including many of the leading. citizens of St. Lonis, on whom he will call to serve as deputies. After the meeting President Hawes, of the board, said the dignity of the city and law both required that all local agencies for the preservation of Jaw and order should be invoked before a demand was made upon the state to assist in preserving peace and quiet. ‘The commissioners had, he said, asking the sheriff to summon a posse of 1,000 men for this purpose and the sheriff had promised to secure them by morning, serving processes upon the Destcitizens. {fthisfirsteall for 1,000 men did not prove effective in the next few days, the commissioners would, Mr. Hawes further stated, summon another 1,000 and put down disorder in the city from whatever source it might come, if it took ten times the number of men asked for in the first ahah ‘Kruger Prepared For Flight. London, May 30.—Lord Roberts when 18 miles from Johannesburg sent this: “We pressed them so hard that they had only just time to get their five guns into train and to leave as soon as some of the Westralian infan- try dashed into it. The farmers near our line of advance are surrendering with their arms and horses. HH. J. Whigham has just returned to Lour- enzo Marques from Pretoria, where he went disguised. He wires that Kru- ger has ail the arrangements made for flight, presumably to Holjand, A Special train, provisioned, is always ready with steam up. The train waits some distance from Pretoria.” Glee Wodeted inthe Sean, Washington, May 30.—After an ex- citing contest lasting many months the advocates of the Grout bill, placing an almost prohibitive tax on oleomarga- rine and like imitation butters, sueceed- edin haying that measure favorably reported from the house committee on agriculture. ‘The vote was 10 to 7 in favor of the bill. The opposition to the measure had taken form in a sub- stitute, providing additional safeguards against the fraudulent sale of oleomar- garine, but not going to the extent of the Gront bill. Lord Sallsbury Emphatte, London, May 31,—Lord Salisbury said in adiuner speech: “The ‘stop the war’ party have used my name in support of their ideas, by stating that I promised there should be no annexation of territory or annexation of gold fields, I never gave a pledge. Inever meant to give a plodgs. “I state a simple historical fact. “To say that beeause we repudiated the greed of territory we therefore bound ourselves never to annex any territory is a most ridiculous miscon- struetion.” Sadik Watch: Rgcinet: Mears Voisin; Washington, May 31.—By a majority of nearly 20,000 the people of Virginia decided to have a revision of their eon- stitution for the purpose of depriving the colored population of the right of suffrage so far as can be done without conflicting with the constitution of the United States; and it is a curious fact that the counties in which the colored population predominates gave the largest majorities in favor of constitu- tion revision and the white counties gave the largest najorities against it. Yankee Gristmllls In Turkey. Constantinople, May 31.—After a de- lay of a month, Lloyd C. Griscom, United States charge d'affaires, has obtained permission for the important tion consignment of flour milling ma- ‘chinery ordered in the United States ‘by a merchant of Ismidt. It is proba- ‘ble the difficulty was due to the action of the native millers, who are fearful of the competition of a mill equipped on American principles, Spices nati eee ae Manila, March 30.—The city is crowd- ed with refugees wi 9 came to escape outrages from the insurgents. ‘The in- vestigation of the charge against Gen- eral Funston of having summarily executed two natives in the province of Zambales, has resulted in a discon- tinuance of the proceedings. It de- veloped the fact that General Funston caught the natives in the act of mur- dering bound Maccabebe scouts, his action in view of the circumstances being regarded as justifiable. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS, What is Being Done in The Fifty-Sixth General Assembly. MAY TWENTY-FIVE. ‘The senate Indian committee reported favor- ably on the bill providing for the registration ee ee otherwise regulating Indian marriages. ‘Mr. Maginnis’ certificate of appointment as senator from Montana was presented. A reso- Jution was offered referring the credentials of oth Clark and. Maginnis to the elections com- iter, whieh will be called up Beat Wedes- ay. ‘The Indian commitice reported the Creek and Cherokee ‘treatiew os anvended, ‘with one Rew amendment providing for a court at Eu- ‘aula. ‘The committee on rules introduced a rule for the ‘early consideration of the two anti-trust measures. June | was fixed for the vote on the fntl-trust constitutional amendment, and June on the anti-trust bill. ‘The committee on the Louisiana purchase exposition, in St. Louls in 100s, reported the ‘exposition'bill back’ to the house without any recommendation, for oF against. MAY TWENTY-SIX. A.bili has teen introduced in the senate to Prgeides way to, punish ‘crimes against tne hited States not committed within a state. ‘The bill Is to unlock tho diMeulty, the kovern: ment is now in as to extradition of an offender from the United States to Cuba. “it was Fe: ferred to the judiciary committee. ‘The senate military affairs commlstee con- ‘eluded the military academy bill. Underit the Appointmenc of cadets by the president is in- creased from thirty to tty. A special favorable report was made to the house on the bill to allow the prairio band. of Fottawatomies in Kansas to purchase lands in ‘The commerce committee has reported favor- ably the Dix providing for reporis.of accidents ‘on ‘roads engaged in interstate trafic of all ‘Accidents to passengers or employes, with full Darticulars of eauses and circumstances, The house tn committee of the whole acted favorably upon 190 private pension bills but could. not pass them beeause of the lack of a quorum, MAY TWENTY-EIGHT, Conference reports and appropriation bills ave and will have right of way. asit is thought the senate will try to meet the house resolution toudjourn “June & ‘there will be ereat prea Sure to crowd in otlier measures and some Will ikeiy succeed, All’ parts of the postal appropriation are ‘agreed’ upon in conference exept the paeuc thatic tube service {tem ‘The resolution providing for an fnvestiration of Cuban affatrs was passed. It aushorizes the committee to visit Cuba if necessary. ‘The bill to Issue patent to the and occupfed by the Sacred fieart mission in Oklaboma thas Feached the houve calendar, with a chance t odie througt if an opening oceurs. {The military cominlttee ives up the Dill to Increase tho eficiency of the army until next MAY TWENTY-NINE, The senate received trom the presitent the appointment of B. it. Stackeable, collector of ustoms for the alstrct of Hawall ‘The senate passed the. bill authorizing the sale of Choctaw orphans’ lands Im Missiseippl. ies eevee ease aae formation as to the leasing of grazing Tand Oidahoma, erase ee Senator Teller’s Boer resolution was referred to where it will be buried, by a vote of 40 (0 36. ‘The senate voted to continue the life of the Sndusteial commission tiil October 31, 100i, The committee on the St Louls exposition reported a substitute bill framed ike the gen= feral features of the bill for the Chicago Col imblan, with some changes. "The commission Is put ai members Instead of 114, asat Chica fo. The matter of awanls and of kaly-comnis- Sioners Is tert largely to the local. management. ule Seminole treaty was passed und seat to ine president. Mr, Bailey (is. introduced a bill placing 10 | percent aaiitional duty upon ait imports from Germany. while the German law levine pro- hibitory duties on American meat. products is, In force. The house tinished and passed the ‘Alaskan code bill, Stay tary, ‘There was no session of the cenate, ‘The house Indian comm tiee reported favor- ably the senate bill Inreation to the indebted= est of the Osage Indians to thelr traders and providing for a settlement, after amending it so AS to reduce the installment payfrom W to50 per Gent of the money payable te the Indians. ‘There was a caucus of the democratic men bers held to decide thelr course on the anti trust ineastires, Tt was decided to vote for the Anti-trust bill but to oppose the proposed antic trust constitutional amendment, to give the inter-state commerce commission powers. in this matter. ‘The senate disagreed to amendment of the Fort Hail bill, attaching tho provision for opening the Kiowa and Comanche lands, and & conference was aske for. ‘The senate eonimittes to investigate Cuban affairs will pot visit Cuba until after thes have Bathered such information from War and Poste Sftiee departments as they are asking for. Senator Wolcott (Col.) declared in the senate that Work of the geological ‘survey, for which $59) 000 has been expended, was not worth that any cents: but the senate Inereased the ap- Dropriation to #250.000. “The senate elections committee reported ad- yersely on the House joint resolution providing for the lection of United. States senators by Amendment, which would permit élections of Senators, by a plurality vote in state legisla- tures. ‘This isto prevent such dead locks 0s have occurred in Pennsylvania and Montana, ‘The house passed the 1% private pension ville that werd awaiting action ne Pe ‘The Chinese commission has got back on the house calendar. “The Sundry Civil appropriation bill was taken up and the river and harbor items perfected; the amount for work on the Missouri river Was left out. ‘The house refused to accept, the senate amendments to the naval bill relating to armor plate. replacing it with a new scheme. which Provides, coniitionally, for the ereation of & Eovernment plant for making armor plate. Pretoria is Occupied. Pretoria, June 1.—Pretoria has been ocenpied by the British without resis- tance. President Kruger has gone to Watawealinuen wehiah ta 4a ntten oant Pretoria, June 1.—Pretoria has been ocenpied by the British without resis tance. President Kruger has gone to Watervalboven, which is 130 miles east of Pretoria, on the Delagoa Bay rail- way. The seat of the Boer government will probably be Lydenburg, north of Pretoria, among the hills. London, June 1.—There is a rumor in Berlin that Johannesburg is blown up but nothing has been received here to confirm it. Lourenzo Marques.—Commandant Kraus has surrendered Johannesburg to Lord Roberts, Surveying the Boundary Line Seattle, Wash., June 1.—The Ameri- can members of the international com- mmission appointed to survey and mark out the Alaskan boundary line at Lynn Canal, under the modus vivendi, has arrived in Seattle from Washing- ton city, and will, ina few days, pro- ceed to Victoria. where they will meet the two British members of the com- mission. ‘They are gathering statistics and informal convention here concern- ing the matter they have in hand. ‘dics Eeeine Makes ee ae Topeka, May 31.—The lumber deal- ers of Kansas and Oklahoma have employed Attorney General Godard to assist ex-Chief Justice David Martin in the prosecution of eases against the various railroads for overcharges on freight for hauling lumber. All lum- ber dealers of Kansas and Oklahoma have been paying the present rates under protest. Whenever a dealer would receive a car of lumber he would offer the agent of the road a ‘check amounting to 23 cents per 100. ROBERT'S: RAPID. ADVANGE. Practically Master Of Johannes- burg Morning 30th, s ‘ORANGE STATE ANNEXED, London, May 31.—Lord Roberts was practically master of Johannesburg yesterday, his cavalry is on beyond that place. This news was received with great enthusiasm in London. It seems possible that his army will reach Pretoria by Friday. Advices from Pretoria states: ‘The Transvaal government has opened, or is about to open, peace negotiations. It has cabled a final inquiry to its agents abroad, asking whether any hope exists of aid. Without doubt the presence of Lord Roberts with 40,000 men at Johannesburg will hasten the ‘Transvaal’s decision. Dispatches from Lourenzo Marques described President Kruger as wavering but demanding a guarantee that he shall not be exiled to St. Helena.” Lord Roberts announced to his ‘troops the annexation of the Free ‘State, which hereafter will be called ‘the Orange River State. ‘There is anxiety pending the actual occupation of Johannesburg, as there are rumors that the town has been mined with the intention of blowing up Lord Roberts and his staff on their entry into that place. Lord Roberts’ last dispatch says: “The enemy did not expect us, and had not, therefore, carried off all their rolling stock. We haye possession of the junction connecting Johannesburg with Natal, Pretoria and Kloksdorp by railroad. Johannesburg is reported quiet and no mines, I understand, have ee injured. I shall summon the ‘commandant in the morning, and if, asI expeet, there is no opposition, I Propose to enter the town with all the Sisiona at wens ‘Kansas Assessment Figures. ‘Topeka, June 1.—The total railroad, telegraph and telephone assessment for Kansas by the state board of as- sessors has been completed showing an increase of about $19,000 over last year. ‘The valuation is divided as follows: Railroads.....0.s+-e.0++0++.857)878,294 Pullmans....-..cce0es00es 815,160 ‘Telegraph and telephone .., 1,124,097 Total. ......e00seeeee++++889,817,560 Auditor Cole and his office force got their assessed valuation by counties out earlier than ever before. Monumeut at Antietam. Hagerstown, Md., Jene 1.—The scene on Antietam battlefield as the monu- ment of the blue and gray was formal- ly handed over by the representative of the people of Maryland to the rep- resentative of the entire people of the United States was one which should and will become historie, It marked an epoch in the life of the American republic. ‘This monument commem- orates not merely the valor and sacri- fice of the men who fell at Antietam, but it commemorates the relaying of the foundations of the republic. Sass coe eke ae ee Chicago, June 1.—Confederate veter- ans held a service at their monument in the Confederate plot at Oakwoods, They first marched through the G. A. plot and as they passed through the lines of federal veterans laid their tributes of peace on the graves of their former enemies. ‘The fraternal call was repaid later by Dewey Post, G. A. R., the members of which strewed flowers on the lawn under which are buried the Confederates who died while prisoners at Camp Douglas during the war, General Otis Quarratined. San Francisco, June 1.—The trans- port Meade, with Major General E. 8, Otis, arrived, twenty-five days from Manila, ‘The Meade had three cases of smallpox aboard. She was placed in quarantine. General Otis stated to the quarantine officials that he was in excellent health and wished to land to take a train for the east as soon as possible. The presence of smallpox on the vessel makes the time of General Otis’ landing very indefinite. ‘a wens aia aii Kansas City, May 30.—The secretary ot war has authorized the establishing of a purchasing agency in Kansas City. This means that hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of army supplies will be bought here annually, and that Kansas City will be the dis- tributing point for a great part of the Western territory. An earnest effort, now crowned by success, has been made to reinstate the purchasing agency, which was removed from this city when the Spanish war broke out. ‘Wheat Conditions. Chicago, May 31.—In Illinois, Indi- ana, Ohio and Michigan, the crop has suffered from Hessian fly and lack of moisture. In many counties less than one-fourth of acrop is promised, and many fields have been plowed and sowed to corn. An average crop is promised in Ohio, In Missouri wheat is heading in good shape. Drouth prevails in all parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. ‘The prospects in Kansas and Iowa are flattering especially in the former state. COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS, ‘Kansas City. garmrcomnmiten, 38 ots QP TGC 28 8ts WHEAT—No. 2red...0.0000..... O%@ Besser Be Seen co Bet Baa wg sagen OR 48 Chica MEET NG tienen © Qe ome wo gnc Bh, inh Lie Siow BeBscvesyee: 28 3 ie SURAT 17 2 38 se rnit Gaia wen ton Sy 98 grim Com Mh ton ey MOY wn... G53) 6h COMO. 8% Bayne ane 3 BY 0% a a re OaTs— me Hoe 2 ay ou Pa THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF, *Dout $5,000 is paid out each week by Paola hog buyers. All grades of refined sugar have been advanced another 10 points. Li Hung Chang has been confirmed in the vieeroyaity in Canton. President Kruger has issued a proc- lamation that he will defend Jobannes- burg. The white population of Alaska was 4,000 in 1890 and is now estimated to Ve 120,000, ‘The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian church, convened in Chi- cago May 24. Grand Chief Arthur, of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, has again been re-elected. A The old Globe paper mill at Middle- town, Ohio. is destroyed by fire, with a loss of $100,000. ‘The president has appointed B. R. Stackeable collecter of customs for the district of Hawaii, 2The great paper mill and warehouse at Parke Falls, Wisconsin, is destroyed by fire, at a loss of $200,000, The Presbyterian general assembly voted to appoint a committee on re- vision of the articles of faith, H. J. Wallu, of Jefferson City. has the contract for building the Mo. Pac. depot in Wichita to cost $15,000, Samuel A, Elliott of Cambridge, Mass., has been elected president of the American Unitarian association. General Storekeeper Murray bas been taking an inventory of the prop- erty of the entire M. K. & T. system. John P, Foust jr., an Iolalawyer, died of nervous prostration caused by worry over a bite from a mad dog some months ago. Conrad Blair died on the farm in Miami county, last week, which he took asa claim 43 years ago, and has lived on ever since. There is a scheme among the veter- ans to have congress provide for the return of rebel flags to the living rep- resentatives of the rebel army, ‘The shipments of oranges and lemons from California by the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe so far this season have amounted to 14,000 cars, as against 5,000 cars in 1898-1899 and 11,600 ears the preceding year. Census enumerators are armed with police powers to enforce answers to the questions they are bound to ask by "federal statute. ‘The Texas anti-trust law squelched Loving’s cattle monopoly scheme. The $400,000,000 he needed to carry out hi: plans is held by men unwiiling to buck Texas, Fighting Jeffries’ father is a preach er. It is fortunate for all organize churches that this preacher belongs t noone of them. Te publicly uphold the “profession” of his son. All the potters and 500 more mei quit work at Akzon, Ohio, and th potteries are shut down. Nearly one hundred delegates at tended the annual grand lodge meetin, of the Kansas Foresters of America at Leavenworth. ‘Trainmen, at the risk of their lives coupled burning cars laden with mer chandise, indluding a large quantit of dynamite and powder, and tool them to a water tank, in Oakland Cali., and put out the fire before a1 explosion occurred. ‘The State department at Washingtor has sent out another warning agains swindlers who ask fees to bring abou division of estates in England. Th department says there are no larg unclaimed estates nor any large de posits in the Bank of England await ing claimants. The Western Federation of Miners in session in Denver, in resolution demand the enforcement of the Chines } exclusion act and its extension to in ) clude all Mongolian and Malaya “Bansas’ Fiftieth Anniversary, Kansas is to have an exposition {n 1904, in celebration of the 60th anni- vVersary of its organization as a ter. titory. The initiatory steps have al- ready been taken. The Topeka Com. mercial Club has presented the matter to the executive council of the State, and the latter will issue a cal! for the organization of a committee to pro. mote the enterprise. The commities will be composed of one member from eacn county in the state. The plan is to hold the exposition in Topeka, noiet ee Oreces Isaac Gordon, the notorious money. lender, who had, probably, mors alfases than any man in Eveltad, ace in Birmingham recently. His "31 name was Benjamin Edwards, uo i345 figured prominently in connection with numerous actions both in the si. perior courts of England and j; the high courts of Scotland and Ireland. It is stated that he cannot have lett less than a million of money, G. on, who was only 35 years of age, Wasa Russian Jew, and came to England. friendless, and almost Penniless, sey. enteen years ago. Reena: s.. Admiral Sir Henry Keppet is a won- erful old man of the a. Oa ine verge of ninety-two, ine has left his comfortable chambers in tho Albany and undertaken a long voyaze to lirite ish North Borneo. The Britich Nort Borneo Herald, deseribing i's arriyt at Labuan, calls him “a miracle of iy. man vitality.” He sno stranger t that remote corner of the empire Fifty years ago he was chasing pirates in Bornean waters and storming their strongholds. He has ever since r- tained an active interest in the Britis Possessions of the far east, and has d:- Yoted a good deal of time to his duties as a director of the British North Yor- neo company. His “Expedition to ior neo, with Rajah Brooke's Journal,” was published in 1847. Snir ee AWaas eiben, ‘The regular army has never been 25 large as it 1g at present, yet it has bocn commanded by a lieutenant general siz times during its history. In makiug the argument that nations having ar- mies make the commanding officer ons grade higher than that of the highest Officer below him in service, Germany 4s pointed out with sixty-three field marshals general—a rank unknown here—while of officers of that rank England has seventy-one; Russia, 109; Italy, five; Denmark, one; Japan, four} Sweden, one, and Brazil, four, the grade being equal to that of general in the army of the United States. Of Ueutenant generals every European nation with an army has a plentifal supply. Spain has fifteen, and sie has also 218 major generals. ‘The uso of Spain as an {illustration 1s not urged with point, for a supply of major gen- erals does not appear to have helpod her much in war.—New York Times, Sleep Changes the Verdict } A jury recently agreed upon a yer dict; sealed it and went home. After sleeping over it, they disugreed. This shows the power of sleep to strengthen the mind. Those who are troubled with insomnia or stomach disorders should try Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It puts the stomach in good condition and induces sound sleep. In the game of matrimony every man should ke the hand of a good ec vaieaes: Morning Tiredness Isa serious complaint. It’s a warning that shuld be hood. bla diferent trom an See ee Hg Vk are ai ot Peed Sol anos Wi by masies Fs ijoad cieh and gureipith tood's Ser saparilla, That is what other people do— thousands of them, Take a few bottles of this good medicine now and you will nat only get rid of that weak, languid, ex- bausted feeling, ‘but it will make you feel well all through the summer. Tired Feeling—“I had that tired feel- ng and did not have life or ambition to Recesgn az nea screed ot tel Se rats earyapariin’ gaye mse roe! React cece Gein” ‘R. Merarrr, Dowagiac, Mich. Hood’s Sarsapariila Is the Best Medicine Money Can Buy. ABSOLUTE = SECURITY, Gaster’s | Little Liver Pills. ize ecarwenaneecen oe B. H. 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Brent Good, president of the Carter Medicine Company, yesterday received a telegram from his lawyers in Chicago. Messra. Lowden, Estabrook & Davis, informing him that a final injunction, with costs, had been granted against the Chicago Label and Box Company. This company makes a specialty of manufacturing labels, boxes, etc., for druggists. The Carter Company has been following them through the courts for two years on the complaint that the label company was making simulations of the labels of Carter's Little Liver Pills. They have now obtained a final injunction with costs, and the costs are very large, as the case has been submitted to a Master in Chancery for a final accounting. The Carter Medicine Company has been the first and only one to prosecute printers or engravers who have prepared such labels and wrappers. It marks a new departure in infringement cases, and their victory is one of great importance to the whole "proprietary trade," and also of interest to retail druggists.—NEW YORK Press, MAY 2, 1900. A young lady resembles a show window when she takes great pains with her sash. Red Cross Ball Blue is the best in the world. Large 2-oz. package 5c. If you would make time fly give your note for ninety days. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 500. It's a mighty poor tramp that hasn't got a scent. If You Have Dandruff please try Coke Dandruff Cure. Money refunded if it fails. At Druggist's, $1.00. The engagement ring is the usual outgrowth of a combination. If you have a weak, nervous, debilitated wife, do not scold or become impatient with her. 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R., Denver, Colo., or any official of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. The best way to conquer anger is to give it a dose of kindness. NIESTE R AND SHOTGUN SHELLS Ver," and "Repeater" you will get the best shells that money can buy. KEEP THEM. RAIN EAST New York Limited" FOUR CENTRAL N CITIES. (11 29th, 1900.) 8:00 A. M. 7:30 A. M. 2:25 P. M. 6:00 P. M. 8:10 P. M. 9:55 P. M. 2:55 P. M. 4:50 P. M. WARREN J. LYNCH, Gen'l Pass. Agb. Ginnett. Summer schools at the universities are spreading in Germany. The pioneer is the little University of Greifswald in Pomerania, which opened summer courses for teachers and others in 1894. Last year the attendance of men and women was 450, including many foreigners. Husband. A Battle of Hearts. She was bending over a new book as he came in. She laid it down and rose to greet him. "You were so interested in your book," he said, reproachfully, "that I fear you forgot I had told you I would be here at 4." "Could I forget?" she laughed. "No; while I waited I tried to make time pass quickly with a book." He smiled as one to whom such things were due and seated himself where he could face her. She was looking her best that afternoon. She was aware of that fact, and for one who loathed affectation her pose was suspiciously like it. But he only thought how well she would carry the family name and the family diamonds. "I came this afternoon," he said, "for a special purpose. I hoped last night when I asked if I might see you alone today you would understand why I asked." His manner was quite confident, and the slight tenderness in it gave the impression that he knew all was well with him. She had her eyes fixed on the floor, so he did not see the smile she was trying to hide. He was so sure of her answer that while she felt he deserved a refusal, yet she felt a little sorry for him. He was distinctly good to look at, bright and clever as possible, irreproachable in family and position, the only child, and his mother was quite willing she should have those magnificent diamonds. She lifted her eyes to him. "I came to ask you to be my wife." He spoke impressively, and yet with the tone of one who is trying not to overwhelm another. Perhaps she was nervous, but she undoubtedly smothered a giggle. He evidently thought it a sob, for he came to her side and leaned over her chair. "I did not mean to agitate you, my darling." He was trying to take her hand. "Don't keep me in suspense longer than is necessary." "You are kind," she said, politely; "but I don't think I care about accepting your offer." He stared. "You are flippant; this is hardly a time for joking." She sprang angrily to her feet. "Joking! Joking! Because I refuse you? Did you think it so impossible that I could decline such an honor?" He flushed a dark crimson. "You gave me considerable reason to think you would not decline." "How dare you!" she cried. "Do you mean that I deliberately led you on?" "Something very like it, if you are "Something very like it, if you are in earnest. But I will not believe—" "That I am in earnest? I am very much so. I have not the slightest idea of marrying you. I never led you on. You bored me to death. Was it my fault if your conceit kept you from seeing my smothered yawns?" She had dealt him the cruelest blow—hurt his vanity. A man can stand anything better than that. He was silent a minute; then gave a harsh laugh. "And you are the woman I wanted to make my wife!" "Don't take that tone to me," she said quickly. "I am not to blame." "You knew why I was coming this evening. You might have spared me this." "He leaned on the mantel and dropped his face in his hands. She was distinctly embarrassed and ashamed, as he could see out of the corner of his eye. "You never cared for me," she said, and her voice shook a little. "You were always so busy telling me about yourself and your doings." Her indignation was getting the better of her sympathies. "You had no time to think about me. Why, you don't even know the color of my eyes. I suppose you felt it was time you married, and your mother approved of me, and so you descended to honor me with your hand, thinking I would be grateful." He was looking at her, but she refused to meet his gaze. He was so surprised that he grew pale. His voice was constrained as he answered her: "You are wrong about my not being interested in what you do or say. I have been thinking of you, and you only, since I first met you. I beg your pardon for acting like a cad. I have been spoiled all my life. My friends and relatives are largely to blame for my conduct. You did me good, for in your quiet way you let me see sometimes what a fool you thought me. I ought to have seen that I bored you. I tried to please you, and I was only making you despise me." He had never looked so manly or so handsome, and her heart warmed to him. I said he was clever, and he saw her indignation vanishing. His self-possession returned. "I love you, my little girl," he said, tenderly. "Forgive me for seeming indifferent. I never was." There was no confidence now in his tone, only entreaty. "Can I hope to win you in time if I try to be what you would have me?" Where was her anger? She tried in vain to find it. Was a pleading voice to undo all her stern determination? "Look at me, please," he begged. "Let me see those blue eyes once more before you send me away. You see you wronged me when you said I did not know their color. They always remind me of violets. Must I go without a word? Are you not going to speak to me? At least you will say good afternoon?" Nothing could have been better than his hurt tone. She rose slowly, and gave him her hand, still refusing to lift her eyes. "Good-by," she said, in a would-be firm voice. There was a twinkle in his eyes that perhaps it was just as well she missed, but he said nothing, only took her other hand and lifted both to his lips. Twice he did this; then, sighing deeply, let them go and turned to the door. As he reached the threshold he turned for a last look. She was glancing at him, and she buried her face in her hands as she cried, "Come back."—New Orleans Times-Democrat MEN'S MEANNESS Crops Out When They Occupy the Same Steamer Statroom. "There's one place above all others where a man exhibits his meanness," said the traveler, 'and that's aboard an ocean liner and toward the man who is obliged to occupy the same stateroom with him. You are mad to begin with that you have to bunk in with somebody. If he get's the lower berth he's done you a mortal injury. If he's seasick you have a contempt for him; if he is not, you are a bit envious. I've crossed the Atlantic nine times and always shared a stateroom, and I was never more than on speaking terms with my roommate. You can be all right toward everybody else aboard, but he's your enemy. The case is worse when it's a pair of old travelers, as each is posted as to his rights and privileges, and is zealous in enforcing them. When I crossed to London last year I had a Chicago man for a chum. No doubt he was an all round good fellow, but it was his sixth or seventh trip, and he'd got posted as to when and how to exhibit his meanness. I found him in the stateroom when I came aboard. We recognized each other as veterans, but a few words must be uttered for decency's sake. 'Name's Jones, says I, as I chucked away my steamer trunk. 'Name's Brown,' says he, as he hanged on his hat. We didn't speak again for four days. Then we got a heavy gale and a big sea, and as I was lying in my bunk he came in for some cigars and growled: 'Got it? 'No; he have you?' No. Hoped you had! 'Ditto!' An hour before we landed I handed a paper on which was written down my own feelings concerning him. I called him a crank, a curmudgeon, a beast, a heathen, and lots of other things, and expressed the fervent hope that it might never occur that the same hotel would give us both shelter in Europe. As I handed out my paper he extended As he had written down his feelings toward me, and I pledge you my word if the two papers weren't alike to a word! I met him in Paris six weeks later on, and we rushed to greet each other like old friends, and for two weeks we walked about like two brothers, and were grieved when the parting came. That was on land, you know, and we weren't bunkmates. I'm going over again next month, but I'm making no promises of better behavior. Whether my roommate is a minister from Boston or a cattle raiser from Arizona I shall probably do all I can to make his position uncomfortable, and I am sure he will do as much for me." -Washington Post. Revival of Dante. After 600 years Dante's reputation stands unchallenged. He is a classic, and yet to him the witticism which was a prophecy of Voltaire has been absolutely falsified. "Sa reputation s'affermir toujours, parce qu'on ne lira guere." During the present century his cult has had a revival unexampled in the annals of literature. Texts and commentaries have poured from the press in bewildering volume. Every day adds to the force of Saint-Beuve's saying that "To read Dante is to want to translate him." There is much in all this that is fantastical, ridiculous, affected and wearisome, but beneath the frothy surface flows the calm and steady devotion of numberless silent worshipers. Nor is the "Diva Commedia" a book only for scholars and enthusiasts, poetical and religious. Dante was a man of the world; he had presided over the destinies of a state; he had studied profoundly the motives that influence men in their public action, and he sat in judgment like a Rhadamanthus. And thus the "Divina Commedia" is a school for statesmen and a penitentiary for politicians.—Saturday Review. Individual Fruit. "That new border is making trouble in the house." "How so?" "He brings a can of peaches to the table with him at every meal."-Indianapolis Journal. CURRENT KANSAS FACTS. BRIEF MENTION OF INTERESTING EVENTS OF THE WEEK. KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. The association of registers of deeds of Kansas met in Wichita last week. The old soldiers of Bourbon county will give a picnic at Redfield, June 7. The shipping of eggs to England from Northern Kansas has been going on for some time. The graduating class of the Topeka high school is composed of 33 young women and 17 young men. The thirteenth annual picnic of the Santa Fe shopmen of Topeka will be held on Saturday, June 16, 1600. Thirty descendants of Robert Newton Allen, of Indiana, assembled at Chanute, the guests of R. N. Allen. Dr. Swenson, of Lindsborg, has spoken at four high school commencements and has eleven more appointments. The Scottish Rite Masons of Fort Scott have purchased the Huntington hotel and will convert it into a Masonic temple. The association of Kansas sheriffs attended one of the meetings of the National conference of Charities and Correction. Wyandotte has passed Crawford county in having the largest assessment of railroad property among Kansas counties. John Kitlen, a deaf old man, was crossing the Rock Island tracks at Turon, and he and his horse were killed by a train. Congressman Dolliver of Iowa and Champ Clark of Missouri will deliver addresses to the Teachers' institute in Osage county. A son of A. Scott, near Healy, was thrown from a horse and the halter caught around his neck and he was dragged to death. An investigation shows that the work reported of the Hessian fly in McPherson county is confined to volunteer wheat fields. A boy in Chanute died from rupture caused from a boyish scuffle and two boys have had a charge of murder made against them. In one day last week the Santa Fe moved towards eastern markets, four heavy trains of fruit. There were more than 175 carloads. Dickinson, Salina and McPherson counties had heavy rains accompanied with local hail storms, last week, which did some damage. The passenger department of the Santa Fe has issued a circular in colors telling about the Chautauqua assembly at Winfield June 21-July 2. W. Q. Church, late superintendent of the Wichita street railway, has taken a place in the freight department of the Pittsburg and Gulf road. Kansas has 9,000 miles of railroad exclusive of side tracks yet there are five counties—Grant, Morton, Stanton, Stevens—that have no track. A picture attracting attention in Paris is a landscape by Alonzo St. George Huntington, a young man who was born in Leavenworth in 1868. Public schools are closed at Mankato and Memorial services declared off on account of smallpox near the town. This includes the high school commencement. John Torenango, of Frontenac, has gone to Austria to secure his portion of an estate, but he is coming right back. The graduates of Bethany college, Lindsborg, number 50 this year and it takes two weeks to hold commencement. The German singing societies of Kansas will hold their annual saengerfeet in Topeka on June 17. W. J. Healy, chief clerk of the auditor of freight receipts of the Santa Fe, succeeds Mr. Sutton as auditor. The drummers for wholesale undertaking houses say that the death rate in Kansas is very low, compared with former years. Secretary of Agriculture James H Wilson has promised to deliver an address at the Kansas Agricultural college June 14. It is said that Miss Lou Goodwin, of Marshall county, owns one of the best herds of Hereford cows in Kansas. The second main track, between Olathe and Kansas City on the Memphis road, is approaching completion. W. B. Stryker, of Wellington, is the authority for the statement that Sumner county will require 2,000 outside men in the harvest. Secretary Coburn estimates the wheat crop of Sumner at 294,000 bushels. Eugene Ware owns two lots in Fort Scott which he proposes to donate when his old home city is ready to build a library. A Smith county farmer had 1,000 bushels of last year's crop of corn on the stalks in the field, in the middle of May. J. A. Constant is appointed postmaster at Sabetha. Fire destroyed $7,000 worth of lumber at Enterprise. A store was robbed at Perry, Jefferson county, of merchandise. The Santa Fe has four telegraph operators at Wellington now. Last week the Arkansas river was higher than it has been for six years. Sedgwick county has just contracted for four new steel bridges, costing $5,500. The new bridge across the Kansas river, east of Topeka, is now open to travel. A Muscotah man got drunk and paid all his debts. He then sobered up and was sorry. Rev. J. P. Fulton and wife, of Harper, recently celebrated their golden wedding. Musical and literary programs are a regular feature of the Y. M. C. A. work in Topeka. Concordia's high school graduating class has 23 young women and five young men. One of the Spanish cannon has been placed on the lawn at the Leavenworth Soldiers' home. Hunnewell is to have a patent washing machine factory, with a capital stock of $3,000. There is living in Eureka a brother of M. Demange who was Captain Dreyfus' attorney. A Winfield real estate dealer entertained 65 excursionists from Illinois, paying all their bills. Mrs. Ella Armstrong of El Dorado has a clerkship in the surgeon general's office in Washington. Miss Flora Thomas, of Paola, was declared the winner of the prize piano at Mexico, Missouri. A subscription paper realized $110 at Summerfield, to replace a team which had been killed by lightning. The sisters of St. Joseph in Wichita will formally open a normal school, novitiate and orphanage on June 21. Christian Klumppf, aged 72, and Mrs. Minerva Brown, aged 68 years, were married the other day at Garden City. An Oksalooa minister asked his congregation for $225 for repairs on the church. The congregation put up $240 on the first round. Kansas now has ninety-two rural delivery routes for the accomodation of farmers with the promise of a large increase to the number. Two German farmers of Woodson county have just shipped 12,000 pounds of wool of this season's cutting, getting 16 to 18 cents a pound. British agents took 180 horses from the Bismark holding yards at Lawrence the other day. United States agents are there wanting 400 horses. The railroads running into Wichita report greatly increased business at that point. The wholesale houses are sending out unusually large shipments and the retail merchants are putting in heavy stocks. This year at Chapman the Memorial sermon was preached by Father Williams of the Catholic church. Twenty years ago Williams was a ragged orphan at Chapman and was known as "Bill Williams." Rest rooms for the women who go to town to trade are beginning to materialize. One such scheme came to grief at Pleasanton. Money was provided to pay rent, fix up and furnish and the paper hangers were at work when it was learned that a hop tea joint was going into a room next door. This changed the plans. A Caldwell man met death by a fall while drunk. The widow sued the city for damages on the ground that the city permitted the unlawful sale of liquor to her husband. The court decided that the city was not responsible. It is said that Trainmaster A. E. Austin, of Wellington will succeed Superintendent Nelligan, deceased. Guy Terrell, a 15-year-old boy, got caught in a mill belt in a Jewell county mill and his bones were pretty generally broken. He died in a few hours. Bills receivable and notes amounting to over $80,000 of the assets of the First National bank of Emporia, were sold at auction for $645. The real estate brought $2,036. Bids were opened at Fort Leavenworth for the construction of privates' barracks, officers' residences, officers' bachelor quarters, artillery and cavalry stables, gun shed and a new hospital. James A. McGonigle's bid for the whole seven was $277,590, and it is thought he will be awarded the contract. An increase of 20 per cent has been made to the wages of the employees of the Hutchinson salt company. The change adds several thousand dollars monthly to the pay roll. Hail broke $200 worth of glass in a Fort Scott business block. There was tornado insurance on the property, and the company which issued it was sued for the value of the broken glass. The court decided that hail could not break glass without being blown against it by the wind, and gave judgment on the policy. ATTACK ON BUCKET SHOPS They Draw $110,000,000 a Year Out of Their Patrons. WIPE OUT THEIR MARGINS. Chicago, June 1.—The Chicago Board of Trade is again making an effort to wipe out of existence the 25,000 buckets of the country. It has served notice on the Western Union Telegraph Company that the board will collect its own market quotations instead of permitting the Western Union to do the sending and collecting, as at present. The Christie-Street company maintains that the Western Union Telegraph Company is a common carrier, and that, therefore, it cannot refuse its service. The 25,000 bucketshops of the United States handle immense amounts of money. It is estimated that the bucket shops of the country are under an annual expense of $75,000,000 for quotations, office help, rent and fixtures. Estimating profits at only one half the expenses—$5 a day for each bucketshop—the result is $35,000,000 a year. A total of $110,000,000 is thus lost by the patrons of bucketshops every year. Bucketshop proprietors have combined and form an element so powerful that they manipulate the quotations on the board of trade almost to suit themselves, thus making it a "sure thing." One of the oldest members of the Chicago board of trade said in regard to this matter the other day: "Experience shows that the bucket-shops are frequently prominent bidders on boards of trade, through members, who are willing to accept any class of business, and by liberal selling and buying manage to freeze out their customers. Bucketshop keepers as a rule, work together; and when it is found that customers are long or short of the market to an appreciable extent they combine their operations on the board of trade to wire out the margins of their customers. This fact of market manipulation is notorious and justifies the most radical steps to cut off the bucketshop quotations." Five Bloody Riots. St. Louis, May 31.—In a rioting sense, developments were the worst experienced since the strike on the lines of the St. Louis Transit company was inaugurated over three weeks ago. The rioting was confined to the southern section of the city, and by nightfall the police records shows that fully a dozen persons had received bullet wounds or been hurt by flying missiles. Three of those hit by bullets received what are presumably mortal wounds, and that no one was killed outright seemed miraculous, considering the great number of shots exchanged in indiscriminate fashion on the part of the employees of the company, the strike sympathizers and the strikers themselves. There were five riots at different points in which bullets flew. Woman Suffrage Turned Down. Atlanta, Ga., May 30.—The general assembly of the Presbyterian church, South, declined to give its support to woman suffrage. Stated Clerk Alexander announced that he had on his desk "a very elaborate communication asking this body to extend moral support to woman suffrage." The clerk stated that the paper was from the National Woman's Suffrage Association and was signed by Susan B. Anthony. A motion not to receive the communication prevailed. Prompt Punishment. Berlin, May 29.—Quick justice is being meted out to the street car strikers. The first batch was sentenced to terms varying from six months in jail to a few days' imprisonment, and another batch was sentenced next day. A third batch will be tried before a higher court for revolt against the state, on which hang long terms at hard labor. Judge Sluss Re-appointed. Washington, May 31.—The president has appointed as members of the court of private land claims—Joseph R. Reed of Iowa, to be chief justice; to be associate justices, Thomas C. Fuller of North Carolina; William W. Murray of Tennessee, Henry C. Sluss of Kansas, Wilbur F. Stone of Colorado. All to His Family Denver, Colo., May 31.—The will of the late Nathaniel P. Hill, former United States senator from Colorado has been filed for probate. This great estate is bequeathed to his widow and three children and is to be divided equally among them. It is believed the share of each will amount to more than $1,000,000. Serious Situation at Pekin. Washington, May 31.—Such advices as have reached here indicate that the situation in China has assumed a very critical phase and one calculated to tax the entire resources of the Chinese government. The state department has been in close communication with Mr. Conger, our minister at Pekin, and the navy department is doing its share, having sent the flagship Newark as far as the ship can reach. The operations of the "Boxers" are increasing in magnitude. WHAT THE BOER ENVOYS SAY. Guerilla Warfare Would Last Until the Last Man Fell. Boston, June 1.—Even if the whole country is taken and the leaders imprisoned, the war will cease only for a time, and it will be renewed again and again if need be until we get our liberty, was the dramatic utterance of W. A. Fischer, one of the Boer envoys, when he was shown the Associated Press bulletin. Mr. Fischer declared that at the time of their departure from Pretoria, three months ago, there were two plans of action which had been determined upon in the event of the approach of the British at Pretoria. One was to concentrate all the Boer forces inside the city and leave the rest of the country open to the British until the fall of the city; the other was to evacuate Pretoria after a slight show of resistance, to enable supplies to be collected, and then the army was to scatter into the mountains and enter upon a guerilla warfare which would last until the last man was killed. Mr. Fischer acknowledged that if President Kruger should tell the men of his army to lay down their arms and surrender in a body they would do so, but he claimed this never would be done by the president. Want Schools Their Old Way. Want Schools Their Old Way. San Juan, May 31.—The school term will close on June 26, and the long three months vacation will begin. The educational department has accomplished much during the last year, although it is still at loggerheads with some natives who do not take to the American educational system. American methods, text books in both languages, and teachers have been introduced. More than seventy American teachers are employed, mostly young normal graduates, wherein lies the trouble. The natives claim that native teachers should be employed. If that should be done the growing generation would not be learning the English language and the schools would gradually drop back into the old shiftless Spanish methods. Rallroad Plans for Oklahoma. Wichita, Kas., June 1.—It is stated on good authority that an agreement has been entered into by the Rock Island and the Santa Fe roads in regard to new construction in Oklahoma. By the terms of this agreement the Rock Island is not to build any lines east of the Galveston line of the Santa Fe, and the Santa Fe road agrees not to build west of the Texas division of the Rock Island. A great deal of the construction to be done in the Oklahoma territory will be done jointly, and the operation of the finished roads will be divided between the two companies, with a consequent division of the receipts. Many additional branches are being decided upon and the territory gives promise of soon becoming honeycombed. In addition to the branches built jointly, there are many separate extensions and branches already under construction. Washington, May 30. The division of customs and insular affairs of the war department has just given out the statement that the average annual salary per man in the United States customs service is $1,205, while the average annual salary per man in the customs in Cuba is $822, making a difference in the average annual salary in favor of the Cuban customs service of $383 per man, as compared with that service in the United States. Of the total employees in the Cuban customs service, only seven per cent are Americans. Rapid Work in the Philippines. Manila, May 31.—Within three days no less than thirteen battles have occurred at different parts in this island, with skirmishes at many points not included. Every movement of our troops reported has been victorious. Much arms and ammunition has been captured. A rebel major who surrendered at Liscum has been persuading others to follow his example. He effected the surrender of forty-six men with fifty-five rifles of Marlac and hopes to influence more of his countrymen to do the same. Teachers Going To Paris. Topeka, May 30.—The National Educational Association will hold its annual meeting at Charleston, S. C., July 7 to 13. State Superintendent Frank Nelson stated that many of the teachers of Kansas expect to visit the Paris exposition, and hence the Kansas delegation to the Charleston meeting will not be so large as it otherwise would have been. Frank R. Dyer, superintendent of the Wichita schools, is the Kansas director and manager. Ore Production Too Great. Joplin, May 31.—Mining men say ore prices have about got to where it does not pay to mine. His property there is closed down. Frank Wilcox says there is a meeting of the mine owners association called to take up the question in its entirety. Something has to be done. 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In his history of New York, one of the classics of American authorship, Diedrick Knickerbocker (Washington Irving) wrote lovingly, yet with unconscious sarcasm, of the beauties and traditions of his loved "Nieu Netherlands," the peaceful valley of the Hudson from Albany to Manhattan, the many legends with which the entire region abounds—notably that of Rip Van Winkle and his long sleep—and of the ancient names and families whose descendants are still a power in that locality. So far reaching were the effects of the "History" that in time the name "Knickerbocker" became the popular one for the patron saint of New York City, he usually being represented as a benign old German of ample girth, clutching firmly the long stemmed clay pipe which Irving immortalized and gazing over his beloved city. Recognizing the vein of sentiment in the American people long ago a train service was inaugurated to New York from St. Louis to which Father Knickerbocker lent his name and through the efforts of the line which introduced the service, the "Knickerbocker Special" has become as familiar to the average traveled American as to residents of his own City. Leaving St. Louis at noon the traveler is borne swiftly and safely to Father Knickerbocker's abode, traversing by daylight those scenes with which he was so familiar, arriving at New York the next day in time for a leisurely preparation for evening. So popular has the service proven that the Big Four has started a new train as a companion, it leaving St. Louis at 8:00 a.m., receiving all Western and Southwestern connections and arriving in New York at 2:55 the next day. 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