The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the Country 14. NO. 42. Can We Afford It. Things we Ought not to do. SOME REAL SENSIBLE TALK EVERY NEGRO SHOULD TAKE IT HOME AND PROFIT. --- Ekton, Md., Nov. 11, 1901. "It mea- really seen that my thoughts ex- presses I are all about the Negro. I can may say that such is the case because I am determined to give my life to the virtual and temporal salvation of the Negro." Seguire. Such has been his my air for the last seven years and by the grace of God it shall use my brain, my strength, my tongue and my pen to the resorption of the sons of Ham to the first nature of Adam. At this sitting I write to ask my people "Can we Afford It?" 1. Can the Negro afford to pattern, in all cases, after the Caucasian? 2. Can he afford to over-look or deny the fact that he is a peculiar people? 3. Can he longer afford to fold his arms and rock himself to sleep on the ground that our people are as good as any other people? In this day of originality, in this day of adaptation, in this day when only Excelsor wins the prize, I am compelled to say to the above questions No! No! a hundred times No!! We cannot afford to pattern after the Caucasian in any of his bad practices nor in many of his good on s Among his bad practices, are drunkness, thievishness, immorality, vicariousness, extravagance, etc. I refer to those practices because those Negro saloors of 1619, the first of their race to darken American space, found every one of them here waiting their arrival, and being safely kept in the Caucasian life so-called civilization, and they have continued there until this day. As a human being the heathen Negro soon began to feel safe in doing whatever he saw his more enlightened brother do and he too has come to the present date practicing the same evils as the Canaanian, so much, until he is termed sane "most ignorant, idle, immoral and criminal man of the civilized world. So this at present I only have to say that the Canaanian has lead the Negro to the Devil and now he with the Devil points at him the finger of scorn. Again I ask can the Negro afford it? To swell the drinking number, to give his money, physical and mental strength, character, soul and then his life, simply to have become a corner prop, an object of scorn. Can he afford to swell the number in mob-violence and other crimes as he is beginning to do? Can he afford to enlarge the immoral world as he does? There are some of the Negro leader who console themselves by emphatically denying that these practices are by the Negro's any more than any other people. They also rebuke any of their race whom they find demanding a special reformation on the part of the Negro. To all such men and Negro leaders, I must say that the Negro, like other races succumbs to environments to a great extent. And it must go as an actual fact that the Negrogress environments are in most cases, worse than that of the Caucasian. It is thus clear in order to elevate the Negro as a race to the desired plain, greater efforts must be put forth by his brother in white. He must drink less whiskey, be less immoral, and more law-abiding than the Caucasian. In fact the only salvation for the Negro is in the grand old motto, "Though all other men be wrong, yet by the grace of God I'll be right." On the other hand there are many things that the Caucasians do which the Negro can not afford to do E. g. It is good to keep up with the new styles of dress, of association, and of life in general as do our white friends. Yes, it is good to have paid servants in order to keep one's own hands clean, as do our friends in white. It is good to build large and costly home dwellings and churches and put on them all the latest fancy work, as do our leading brothers. In the light of the fact they have dollars, thousands and millions of them, where the Negro has not cents, hundreds and thousands of them on an actual comparison; can he afford to do as his brother in white does. Notwithstanding the fact that I know that many will differ from me on this point, yet I declare the attempts of the Negro to equal the Caucasian in the said points is wholly inconsistent. And as such attempts stand in the way of better ones they are real hindernances to the progress of the race. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. I let me say to all concerned, there is no disgrace attached to honest consistency and adaptation. I mean to say that every man and woman without exception should dress respectable and even fine." Yet I positively believe that no man or woman should, from even a Christian stand point practically throw away anything he or she has that will render all essenti- l service, in order to purchase at almost any sacrifice something like his more favored brother has. Style is good but in all such cases it becomes an element that hinders even the cause of Christ. Thousands of our men and women give five cents to the church and five dollars to the style in order to keep pace with their more favored friends who are able to give $500 to style and even $100 to the church O, for consistency. a jewel of great price and much needed. As in the question of dress, so in the question of Negro homes and churches. Let them be respectable and even fine. Yes, they can be made good enough for presidents, kings and queens to enter and ascribe all honor and praise to the occupants, within the bounds of the Negro purse and assistance. There are many Negroes homes and churches today which have cost almost double the necessary cost discouragements, and at last returned to his more favored brother, and all because of the great determination to keep pace with the more favored one. Can we afford it? The foregoing are some of the causes why the Negro is more of a consumer than a producer. Many of our young men and women are leaving the school rooms today with their diplomas and are compelled to hang them on the wall in their bedrooms and go back to the kitchen. washstub house servant or general body servant, largely because of the above mentioned practices of his people. It goes without question that if less inconsistent and unadapted work was done along the lines of dress, home and church by the Negro, that he would be able to better meet the demands of his people by establishing shops, factories and other business institution in which he could give suitable employment to his qualified sons and daughters. In short, before the Negre attempts to equal the Caucasian in the consumption of material he ought to come som where close to him in the producing of material. The Negro has money enough at his disposal today to have his own plantations, factories, saw mills, lumber yards, brick yards, etc. It only needs proper discourse. I do not over look the great and good work of the Negro by writting this ars ticle, 1, like other men, praise his good works. But yet, I am fully persuaded that the Negro has now reached the time like that, when the m other says her baby stand lonely; so the Negros more faired brother, is saying to him today, in very rude expressions. Stand alone! The Negro unlike the mothers baby, if he fails to stand alone he goes down to the ground and is trodden to death by the feet of his oppressor. Therefore what the Negro needs today is not praise alone for the distance which he has already come on being largely helped by his stronger brother: but he needs his weak places strengthened and that he must have no matter what the cost or sacrifice or else he soon will reach his destiny. The tendency of the Negro to pattern after hi stronger brother as referred to above is indeed a weakness, which he cannot afford and which must be substituted by strength. This is why I write to ask my people'Can We Afford It? In conclusion the Negro must adopt his practices to the peculiarities which condition his rise. He must measure himself by no other people. He, according to the large proportion of Hamatic blood which flows through his views is less able to pattern directly after another people than any other race It is to be noted that Ham was pure different from either of his other brothers. He younger, but most enthrusiastic. He was less favored, but most brave and courageous. He was last of the three sons, but first to establish himself and take the lead in civilization. He made his way to the front, and that with out a leader, without a mass other than the God of the universe. But he like his brother Shem, who followed him became disobleent to his God and fell. But having pered ted long and loud, he is pered by his God to rise again and stand upon a common plan with his elder brother Jepheth. The one needful now is strength Strength !! "Not by might nor dy power by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts." JOSEPH GYWYN, in Republican, Guide THE HOLINESS OF COMMON THINGS. Lynn Abhott. The best things are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, Dear girls, are you improving all the opportunities that are yours in the lines of self-improvement that you may acquire the accomplishments that all your life long will enrich your own life and those around you as well? Do you know that while you are yet girls, far from the greater cares and responsibilities of life, is the time that most probably will be your best time to give to ensuring these accomplishments? As the daughter of the home, you may have much to do to help mother, but if you are industrious you may do much to help mother and then have time left which you will be perfectly free to call your own. Do you love music or drawing, or sewing, or study? Improve every moment that is yours—for this. If you succeed in getting a good start it will be so much easier for you to find time to continue it when you have your own little home, than it would be did you not have it under way. When you have your own home, you will be the exception if then you find time and opportunity to give to self culture, free from any neglect of duties. Many are the young mothers longing for the time for self culture, for her own recreation and to better fit her to make both herself and her home brighter and more attractive to her children, who yet cannot see the way clear of nearer duties that would have to be left undone. Then she realizes how free are the young girls to give their time to these delightfully up lifting accomplishments—if they were but determined and industrious, improving all the spare moments and turning everything that comes to them to their good. The ever busy mother cannot ignore the thousand daily duties that demand the greater part of her time, and go back to girlhoods freedom. Perhaps she would not if she could. Yet were she a girl again, as you are today, how joyously and how eagerly would she improve every precious moment. You can profit by her experience—if you only will Try it—you will never regret it. The funeral of the little one year old daughter, of Mr. and Mrs Chas. Lewa- was wasd Thursday afternoon from their home on N. 3rd St. HOW THE CURFEW STARTED. Origin of the Custom Said to Be Lost v. obfuscix. The origin of the curfew is lost in obscurity. The word is, of course, derived from the French, "couvre feu," or "cover fire." Rev George S. Tayr writes in denial of the theory associated with William the Conqueror, and says that the old story at one time universally accepted was that William the Conqueror, fearful of plots among his newly vanquished subjects, invented and forced the curfew as a check to such schemes, and it has come in consequence to be often quoted as a badge of servitude and an emblem of tyranny. It is quite evident, however, that the great Norman was not the originator of the idea; and although he was probably the first to make it a general law in England, it is more likely to have been a useful precaution against fire than an attempted prevention of rebellion. The evidence that a curfew bell was rung at Oxford in the days of King Alfred, nearly two hundred years before the Norman invasion. The history of that city states that "the custom of ringing the bell at Carfax every night at eight o'clock was by order of King Alfred, who ordained that all the inhabitants of Oxford should at the ringing of the bell cover up their fires and go to bed, which custom is observed to this day." The enforcement of the curfew was no hardship. At a time when practically no one but the clergy could read and write, when the amusements of all classes were chiefly indoor sports, and when every one began the labors of the day almost at sunrise, there was little, if any, tyranny in the compulsory cessation of work at eight, while in the nature of the case all recreation ceased at dark. Youth's Companion. SCARING A DEBTOR. The Persuasive Power Which Lay in a Lawyer's Business Card. A good story is told of the way a Newark lawyer was tricked by a clever client the other day. The barrister was sitting in his office when Mrs. B, a friend, entered, and proceeded to tell him of the difficulty a Mr. C. was in through a loan he had made to Mr. D. Mr. C. was in great need of the money, but Mr. D. refused to return the sum, which was quite a large one. "I think," said Mrs. B. to the lawyer, "that if you should take hold of the case you could collect the money." "All right," said the barrister, thinking of the neat little fee that would be his after he had succeeded in inducing Mr. D. to part with the sum claimed by Mr. C. "I'll give you one of my cards to hand to Mr. C. If he will step in and see me I'll handle the case for him." Shortly afterward the lawyer left the city for a few days' outing in the country. On his return he inquired of Mrs. B. what had become of Mr. C. and his claim against Mr. D. "Oh, that's all settled," replied the woman. "Mr. C. said he just went to Mr. D. showed him your card, and said he had retained you in the case. Mr. D. paid the money at once." Now the lawyer is wondering where his prospective fee is coming in. He believes he has a good case against Mr. C. for about 10 per cent of the amount of Mr. C.'s loan, but has not decided whether to press the case or not—Newark News. Correct Answer Astonished Teacher. The teacher of an intermediate grade in the third ward school was "showing off" her pupils before a number of visitors. The spelling class was on the floor, and one small, red-headed boy was given the word "introduction." He paused, twisted his lips, stared, and then in a faltering way spelled it correctly, and seemed rather surprised that he had done it. "Do you know what the word means?" asked the teacher. "No'm." "What, you don't know what introduction means?" "No'm." "Well, now, I'll explain it to you. Does your mother ever have callers?" "Yes'm." "Well, now, suppose that two ladies came to call on your mother. Your mother knows one of the ladies but doesn't know the other. She has never seen the lady and doesn't even her name. Now, how would she become acquainted with this lady and find out her name?" "She'd send me out for a can of beer." As that was the correct answer the teacher had nothing further to say.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Was Never in Jail. When Mark Twain was in London he frequently dined at a popular literary club, where it was the custom for each member to introduce his guests formally, and in set phrase, to the company. This unusual custom appealed to Twain, and when it came to his turn to return thanks he referred to it ecologically. "I like it," he drew, "for it reminds me of a time I lectured in a little town in the Rockies. My chairman was a well-to-do 'cow-puncher,' who found the situation evidently irksome. 'I'm told I must introduce this ver man t'ye boys,' he said, "but I can only see two things in his favor. One is that he's never been in jail and the other is that I don't know why', and then he sat down," as Mark Twain did. VALUE OF GOOD READING Reading is wisdom's widest open gate. Let us read the greatest books read and think and grow, so numbering our days as to apply our hearts to wisdom. —Rev. David Utter, Unit ur an Denuer, Call (275 blue) when you have any news. Miss Belle Cleveland of 228 W. 10th St. who has been at New Liberty Mexico visiting friend has returned home. Rev. D. S Sawyer of Chillicothe Mo. is in the city, the guest of Rev. W. L. Grant. Rev. G. W. Dudley of Texakana Tex. has begun revival services at the First Baptist Church. Philadelphia has 62,000 colored inhabitants, the largest Negro population of any Northern city. Mrs. Rosa Robinson and daughter Maggie L. have moved from 1406 Woodland to 1431 Michigan. Jno. Matthews formally of No. 5 fire company is enjoying the Colorado scenes being now in Pueblo. Remember that Santa Claus and a big Christmas tree at Fifth St Opera House Christmas eve. See 'Out On The World, Christmas eve, at Fifth St Opera House better and greater than ever. H. R. Stines the well known tonsorial artist is now with the Geo. Nichols shop at 6th and State. Mr. Geo. Harris the Texas champion cake—walker is in the city visiting his sister Mrs. Dovie Black of 103 Greely ave. Go to 483 Minn. ave for new and see and hand furniture, where you can find the largest and best assortment of furniture in the city Wm Newton the prop. is one of the oldest furnitures deslers in the city, and is prepared to sell the goods and at the lowest prices, go and examine his goods for yourself and be convinced. Prof. J. A. Jackson formally a resident and teacher in our public schools later President of Lincoln Institution of Jefferson Mo. is now a resident of Colorado Springs proprietor and editor of the Western Enterprise Prof. Jno. C. Wood of Qaindaro—Instructor in the printing department of the Western Industrial School paid our office a call this week and gave us a word of encouragement. The Prof. is alright. Our lath string is always on the outstile to him. Mr. M. McQuity the celebrated Bartiote double basso, known to all in the west is with Geyer and West challenged minstrel band. His reputation as a musician is well known. The entire cast "olds the board all next week at the Wir-wam on 8 St. Kansas City, Mo. HE IS ALRIGHT In the November issue of the little magazine "what we are doing published by the Colored Peoples Charity Association of Kansas City Mo. under the capitation of Echoes from the National Business League which convened in Chicago last August. It says of our distinguished townman" Judge I. F. Bradley the following: I. F. Bradley of Kansas City, Kans. "lawyer by profession—business man incidently, worked his way up from the plow on a farm in Kansas to the justice-ship in the largest city of Kansas and has a good financial standing. In addition we might say Mr. Bradley is no longer justice of the peace, but he stands today one of the most loyal and around race men who practice all and more than he prepares, that the west affords At the Fifth St., Opera Geyer and West's Minstrel company gave a performance at the above Opera House Thursday night. It was a creditable show and had some old favorites in burnt cork, among the artists. It was first class in every particular and deserved a packed house. The songs and jokes many being fresh and sparkling met the universal applause. The entire company was all they purported to be. The famous challenge band was a feature that evoked much comment. Letter Carriers Elects At a meeting of the Letter Carriers Association, of Kansas City, Kans these officers were elested L. A. Lilly, pres- deet. G. A. Hoarseman vice pres. M. Quinn recounted seet. J. C. Cox finan- dial sect. F R Crowley, treasure. Phil- lip Debus master at arms. E. D. Fitz- gibbon, Renv Kesar and B. G. Men- ninger, trustees. B. O. Johnson was chosen national delegate. L A. Lilly, E. D. Fitzgibbon, E. M. Jenning, F. R Crowley and J. C. Cox, delegates to the state convention at Pittsburg, Kans- Read the Citizen and keep posted. AGAIN THEY COME. "OUT ON THE WORLD." By the urgent requests of many will be reproduced Christmas Eve, Dec. 24 at the Fifth St Opera House und r the auspices of the re-organized "Olympia Club" new faces and new features, a collection of latest songs and a stronger cast in every particular. A big Christmas tree will be provided for all who have presents, Santa Claus will make a call about 10 O'Clock P. M. Part of the Brain That Keeps Names. An Austrian savant has declared that the human brain contains a "name center." He says that it is the office of this cell to retain names. A striking case which would seem to confirm this theory recently occurred at Cleveland. A brakeman was shot by a conductor, and the former could not remember the names of persons and things, although he could perfectly well describe the functions of all articles exhibited to him. A surgeon probed for the bullet and found it in the exact spot necessary to affect the remembrance of names, according to the Austrian's theory. When the pressure of the brain had been relieved the patient remembered names as well as he had done before his injury, and told the name of his assailant.—Scientific American. Highest Clock in the World. The clock on the Philadelphia city hall is the highest in the world. It has the largest dials. If the dials were out of the way and tracks were laid, two trains could pass each other running through the holes. The glass in the four faces is fastened there by a ton of cement. The glass, if laid on the ground, would make a walk a square long and ten feet wide. The minute hand will finish its year's journey by completing a 110-mile trip on New Year's day. It is expected that this minute hand will travel 110 miles annually for many years to come. The clock is strong, and the minute hand is phospher bronze, and weighs 250 pounds. ```markdown ``` THE ORPHANS HOME. The Thanksgiving Ball, under the suspices of the Othella Club at the M. & O. Hall for the benefit of the Orphas Home netted above expenses for the home $14 40 cents many thanks are due the members the public and the committee, Mrs W. H. Edinbore and late done. Had Seen It Before. Dr. C. W. Crawford, manager of the Grand Opera House at Spencer, Iowa, vouches for this: At a recent performance at this theater an over-dressed woman, after rustling ostentationally into her seat, finally composed herself and looked at her programme. Opening it at the second page of the bill, she saw in prominent letters, "Synopsis," she mispronounced in an audible tone, "Pshaw!" she remarked turning to her companion, "we've seen this here play before; let's go home." But after a whispe ed objection on the part of her friend, who probably explained her mistake to her, she settled back in her seat apparently somewhat discomfited.—New York Clipper. TIME KILLING IN SOOIETY. Typical Modern House Party on a Scot- tish Estate. I am sure our house party must be a success. The royalty, it is true, is an obscure scion of a German family, and his name looks more imposing in print than the owner does at breakfast. However, that is a detail. The fact remains that we are a typical modern house party, sumptuously lodged and fed by a typical modern millionaire. Everything in the house is luxurious. The morning tea is served up on priceless Sevarg; we awake to the strains of the baggies; the breakfast table is laden with every delicacy; at lunch, when we join the shooters, a hot meal appears miraculously on the heather; the finest grouse moor, the best deer forest, and a magnificent salmon river all appear to be at hand. Carlton has brought down seven stags to his own rife in four days, and landed, according to the gillie's account, the biggest fish of the century, and I am the proudest of wives. In the evening, between tea and dinner, our host touches a bell and an organist appears, who plays in the twilight on the beautiful organ in the hall; and after dinner a violinist (also kept on the premises) makes the most divine music in the drawing room. For our host is a patron of the arts, and to what more delightful use can money be put than that of encouraging talent and being able to gratify one's taste for it in one's own house? The Grand Duke enores throughout the performance; the cabinet minister keeps time with his foot, and at the close of the "Kreutzer Sonata" asks for Scottish alrs. The celebrated beauties make heroic onslaughts on the eligible partis, who show distinct signs of following the Grand Duke's example. Mr. Veynor announces that the music is "too clear," and the generality of its escape upstairs to each other's sitting-room for a final game of bridge. Such is life—London Outlook. The Famous Sextette will give a grand ball 55 Hains Hall on the night of Dec, the 11th. Admission 50 Cts. per couple. DECEMBER 6. 1901 the Country ation of the Negro. They Say. And he is always ready to "But in" It was real Uncle Sam's silver bullion $1,00 but it didn't go.—Well. It's a fact, there are some real speedy firesmans at No. 5. If any one will call their hand we will whistle. What a night. Oh what a night. What a night. On what a night. She was really drunk is it true? Shame Darkness truly hides a multitude of sins—great scott is it true that our eyes are open. She is false, but he still believes her true—poor boy. Ocessionly he thinks he is all of it. She ain't like she use to was—Ha Ha. The Dutch Recruit is being recruited from seasoned soldiers. Oh! he won't forget me xmas. He was from the popular block and it disgusted him. The railroad sport still lives and he moves at a pretty good gait. A COOD MAN A good man is not a man who occupies a cushioned seat in some fine cathedral, who offers long prayers or clauses to old thoughts and old paths or subscribes to a church periodical or who takes his seat upon some dead limb of the pass and weeps over the sunrise of a brighter and better day, but a good man is be who deals in the goods of his Maker and makes himself and society better on account of the quality as well as the quantity of his goods.—Rev. Dr. H. C Myers Broadway Temple, Denver. Help Push a Good Thing. We ask all to read this paper closely and if you think after reading it that it is alright and you can spare a dollar, subscribe for a year. We have a young man editor, two young men compositors and one young lady. We are endeavoring to do our park, will you help us. MOSES DICKSON. His funeral in St. Louis Saturday, Founder of the order of Twelve. The funeral of Rev. Moses Dickson, the veteran colored minister, editor and author, who died Thursday evening at his home, 2651 Pine street, will take place next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The obsequies, which will take place at St. Paul's A. M. E. church, Leffingwell and Lawton avenues, will be the most elaborate ever witnessed by the colored people of this city. The ceremonies will be under the auspices of the International Order of Twelve. Knights and Daughters of Tabor of which order Fr. Dickson was the founder and official head. The details of the ceremonies will be determined upon today by S. A. Jordon, of Little Rock. Ark. vice grand mentor of the order, who succeeds Fr. Dickson as international chief grand mentor. He is expected to arrive here this mourning to take charge of the remains. The body will lie in state for several days at the residence of the deceased, and the inverment will take place in St. Peters seminary. Fr. Diekson was one of the oldest and most distinguished members of the Masonic order, and Grand Master A.R. Chinn, of Glasgow, Mo., is here for the purpose of deciding upon what part that order will take in the curial ceremonies. Twenty grand officers of the international grand temple of the Knights of Tabor have telegraphed their intention to attend the funeral and act as a guard of honor to the remains of their chief mentor. Most of them are expected to arrive within the next two or three days. Those who have signified their intention to be present are: S. A. Jordon, international vice grand mentor, and Henrietta E. Carolina, international grand high priestess, of Little Rock, Ark.; A. K. Chinn, international chief grand scribe, Glasgow, M.; Lydia S Gales, vice grand prestee, Boston, Mass.; Anna M. Bowman, Louisville, Ky.; Joe E. Herriford Chillicothe, Mo.; A.Q Greene, Mayfield Ky.; Emma Gaines, Topeka, Kans.; Frank Wilson, Kansan City, Kans.-Luey C. Jefferson, Vicksburg, Miss.; George W. Johnson, Boston, Mass.; R.D. Smith Shelby, Miss.; N. B. Jones, Cali-ggence, Ill.; Benjamin F. Ferrell, Indianapolis, Ind. G. E. Newstell, Montgomery, Ala.; J. G. Hayes, Mexico, Mc.; D.W. Jackson Newport News, Va.; S. B. Smith, Monroe, La.; and L. F. Payne, of St. Louis, Mo. Rev. Frank Wilson C. G. M. of the Kansas—Nebraska jurisdiction and wire. Emma Gaines C. G. P. left for St. Louis, Mo. Wednesday night to attend funeral of Rev. Moses Diekson I. C G. M. of the order of Twelve. American Citizen Publishing and Printing Co. EVERY WEEK AT 417 MINNESOTA AVE. KANSA8 CITY, KANSA8. Telephone "705 Blue" it is certainly up to the Negroes to stand firm together. Observation of watchmen on the tower says we are on the toboggan slide going down at a rapid gait. Let us wake up. it is now in order to oust Mr. Negro from the dining cars of the various railway systems. There are certainly breakers ah ad for us this is really no pipe dream. One of the peculiar characteristics of the race is this continued habit of preaching one thing and practicing another. To attend various literaries, and gatherings of Negroes and hear them shoot off about Race enterprises and race patronage and what the race ought to do, would make the uninitiated believe that the Negro was the greatest race on earth. In the real activity of commercial life and in the general routine of every day life few silver tongue orators or the general mass of Negroes for that matter, practice what they preach. We are really amused as well as disgusted at some Negroes. If these great orators who tell us these good things the race ought to do, would do a little of the self same, it would be the means of inducing many others to follow suit. There are enough little excuses that keep Negroes from patronizing one another that would make a dog laugh. If its a Negro grocery man, he doesn't give goo' weight or his goods are inferio. If a Negro Lawver, Doctor or other business establishments its first one thing and then another. If the Negroes one and all would, for just six months lay aside all little petty excuses and lend every effort toward patronizing and helping in every way possible Negro enterprises in their community, the return would be so great that leve they would continue their patronage unsolicited. We must come to it, the signs of the times point in a direction that sounds the death knell to the future salvation of the Negro. Not a race journal in the country will dispute this, nor will the race leaders deny this fact. What thea are we waiting for, till the white man kicks us out and absolutely refuses to take our money, thus compelling us to trade among ourselves. If there is a fault with the Negro and his goods, tell him about it and continue your patronage. Let's wake up colored brethren and sisters. Quite sad but a lesson- L. C. Williams, editor and proprietor of the Kansas City Mo. Observer, met his death last week in a more or less senseless quarrel with one Frank Jones in the above named city. Having been stabbed in the head with a pair of shears. It is to be regretted that he who has preached. "How to live that death may find you [prepared." Comes down to die, and money must be begged by a poor and dear old mother that the pottersfield may not claim the remains of her son. How sad, to think that a man blessed with health and the accomplishments to sit himself in life, to not need the financial assistance of any one at death, throws away such opportunities and death finds him penniless and a corpse on the world with scarcely a friend, to lend his aid that mother earth can properly claim its own. True to the last "mother, the last and trust friend, that stands when all have fled, has made a noble effort this week to decently buy her her Son Sad as this affair is, it but leaves a lesson we hope will be well learned by the mass of our people. In time of peace prepare for war. In health think of sickness and death. Hundreds of Negroes to-day are living a race horse life spending as they go, neither is a secret fraternity, insured or any money for a rainy day, when just a little torethought would cause them to prepare in such a way, that the public would not have to contribute to bury you decent, when suddenly summoned. Mr. William labored at times in a very commendable way to establish a reliable race paper. He had his faults, and we all have them. He had some noble qualities we must admit, that he has finished his course we all must agree whatever his faults and his short comings now that he is dead let him rest in peace. Speak not of his faults, only as to remind the living. Remember only his good qualities, at the grave all should cease for its recorded never speak ill of the dead. Roosevelt and his Message. The annual message of President Roosevelt is now the subject for unlimited discussion, that his message is comprehensive and clear cut the dullest scholar in the land must admit, that its author is a self willed forcible character beams out in every line. However great and grand it might be considered by the masses of Americans, it is supporting to the Negroes when looked at from a standpoint of color. We must necessarily view the message from three points and do a certain amount of guessing to arrive at a conclusion. To begin with, Roosevelt is somewhat of a conundrum whether he considered that no special mention was needed by the Negroes. Since they are American Citizens and amendable to the same laws as the whitest Anglo Saxon and equal in the eyes of the world. Or whether he considered the Negro as unimportant or whether he intentionally passed them by in order to make hinges be come smoother in the Sunny South for a second term are questions that must be considered before a full conclusion can be reached. Looking at it in the light of recent events, when he dined with Boozer T. Washington at the celebrated dinner, we conclude that he considers the Negro an American Citizen not only in name but in every sense of the word. Looking at it from the point of view as Col. Roosevelt in his disparaging remarks in Scribners Magazine about our black and brave soldier boys. We have considerable hesitating in making a favorable reply. If we are to be lieve that he made the remarks about Negroes as follows, attributed to him by the press: 'God knows that their lot is of the saddest. They keenly feel the ban put upon them. Their lives are lonely and full of suffering,' and I should bow my head in shams if I thought that I could do anything to add to their burden, or that I could neglect to do anything to lighten it, then we must naturally take a new view., Harsh eroticism must be reserved for the future, thus allowing time for him to prove by actions that he honestly consid ers the Negro a true American Citizen, worthy of the consideration awarded all other american citizens. in short he is to prove that he is really color blind. Booker T, Washington in an address to students at Tuskegee Institute says some very wholesome things among other things he says. I want you to find yourself growing more polite and gentlemanly, and if you are not doing this, you are growing backward, you are growing in the wrong direction. I want to find you each day more thoughtful of others, and less selfish. I want you to be more conscientious in your thoughts, more conscientious in your work and as regard your duty towards others, when you go out and get employment—no matter in what direction it may be—we want to see you grow better is that employment, we want to see you advance in ability, commanding always a larger salary, advancing in value to those who employ you. We want to see you grow in reputation for being an honest, conscientious, intelligent hard-working individual, no matter in what capacity you are employed in life. Some of you are going out to establish homes and settle down in home life, and we want to see you grow in that direction. Nothing is so disheartening there is nothing so discouraging, than to see a man settle down in a home and not to see it grow more beautiful inside and out side, than to see it grow dingy each year, everything receiving less and less care. Don't be discouraged in any attempt to perform a good duty, muster up courage and conviction to push onwards and upwards to the highest peak of progressive friends with all races. Praise the bridge over which you cross safely, be it white or black; and when the enemy of hatred, prejudice and envy hounds you, run and work both night and day faster and harder. We are swiftly to talk and slow to do, being so full of ignorance, prejudice and envy. We are blind to our own progress; so much so that only a few value the dollar, a home and its surroundings and that qualifinat on which makes us law abiding citizens. Let us not look at the lilies that many of us claim the white man does to our race but have them in peace and harmony and pull for the shore.—Bx. 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I had used it only a few days according to your directions, the noises five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely restored. Very truly yours. F. A. WERMAN, 730 S. Broadway, Baltimore treatment does not interfere with your usual occupancy and you CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME at aTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AVE., CHICAGO. Tobacco and Cigars. All kinds of Country Produce in season. Goods delivered to any part of the city. Corner of 4th, and Oakland Ave., Kansas City, Kas DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS. Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, Etc. PERFUMERY AND FANCY TOilet ARTICLES. ARE YOU DEAF? ANY HEAR NOISES Gentleman: — Being entirely cured of deafness, thanks to your treatment, I will now give you a full history of my case, to be used at your discretion. About five years ago my right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting worse, until I lost my right ear. I underwent a treatment for catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a number of physicians, among others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city, who told me that only an operation could help me, and even that it be lost temporarily, that the head noises would then be reduced. I was told that the ear has been entirely restored. I thank you instantly and beg to remain. F. A. WERMAN, 739 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Our treatment does not interfere with your usual occupation. Examination and YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME at a nominal advice free. INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LASALLE AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. MUSICAL CONCERT. Under the auspices of the various clubs of city, Kan., the following programme will be at the Fifth St., Opera House Friday on 64th., proceed of which will be used to enter-State Literary Association, which con-vey the latier part of Dec., and is the leading organization of Kansas City and the West. Under the auspices of the various clubs of Kansas City, Kan., the following programme will be rendered at the Fifth St., Opera House Friday evening, Dec., 64h., proceed of which will be used to entertain the Inter-State Literary Association, which convenes in this city the latier part of Dec., and is the leading literary organization of Kansas City and the West. OUR GREAT OFFER To the Colored People of the World. LUSTORONE THE GREATEST OF ALL HAIR TONICS. STRAIGHTENS KINKY, NAPPY, CURLY HAIR. You can straighten your hair in your own home. No one besides yourself need ever know how your hair became straight. Our Regular $5.00 Complete Treatment for $1.00 Lusiorone is put up in 2 forms, both must be used to secure positive results. BEFORE USING PICTURES TAKEN FROM LIFE. AFTER USING Electronic to paraphrase in Dictionary LUSTORONE No. 1.—To be used at bed-time every night. Straightens Knotty, Nappy, Kinky, Curly Hair. It acts quickly, taking only one box to thoroughly straighten hair. 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Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with $1.00 and we will send you all of the goods as named above, in plain wrapper, so no one can know contents. This offer made to introduce Honest Goods. We can send to any place in the world. Full Directions with every treatment. DOMINION MANUFACTURING CO., Stamps accepted. 2220 E. Marshall St., RICHMOND, Va. Send Your Sons And Daughters To Send Your Sons And Daughters To Western University, Quindaro, Kansas, a part of our State's interests. Negroes should here train their children for the Work of life and its duties. a part of our State' terests. Negroes should here train their children for the Work of life and its duties. DEPARTMENTS Theological Department to prepare for the ministry, desiring to fulfill demands in our pulpits today. Normal Department PreParing for the work of teaching in the public school and giving a higher training to those desiring the same. Preparatory Department Fitting students for the Normal department and giving an opportunity for educating those deprived of such in childhood. MUSICAL DEPARTMENT For Furnishing an opportunity for Proficiency, in that Fin of fine arts—music. Theological Department to prepare for the ministry, desiring to fulfill the demands in our pulpits today. Normal Department PreParing for the work of teaching in the public schools and giving a higher training to those desiring the same. For Furnishing an opportunity for Proficiency, in that Finest of fine arts—music. STATE INDUSTRIAL Department It is the intention of this department to give our youth training, fitting them for the work of life in the industrial world. We are opinioned that in this day of competition and labor unions and stern demands nothing will so aid the Negro as to prepare his child to compete with any in the world of skilled labor. With such training no man need fear for the future of his children or the future of his race. Courses. Architectural or Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Printing, both job and newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business Course and Stenography, Dressmaking and plain sewing. It is the intention of this department to give our youth training, fitting them for the work of life in the industrial world. We are opinioned that in this day of competition and labor unions and stern demands nothing will so aid the Negro as to prepare his child to compete with any in the world of skilled labor. With such training no man need fear for the future of his children or the future of his race. Courses. Architectural or Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Printing, both job and newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business Course and Stenography, Dressmaking and plain sewing. FACILTY. The faculty is composed of graduates from Lincoln, Wilberforce, Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best schools of the country maintained by our peer. Following is the faculty, Rev. William Tecumseh Vernon, B. S. D., A. M., Press, Lecture in Hilosophy and Logic, Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical draft and Carpentry; John Charles Wood, instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson Garr of Wilforce, instructor in business course and stenography; James T. Edwards of Hamp teacher of tailoring; E. J. Vernon, B. S., of Wilberforce; professor methematics; A Moore of Fiske, professor of language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher of dressmal Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, plano music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of science. In add lecturers of various topics have been secured. OPPORTUNITIES These teachers and office The faculty is composed of graduates from Lincoln, Wilberforce, in Hhillosophy and Logic.' Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing and Carpentry; John Charles Wood, instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson Garret of Wilberforce, instructor in business course and stenography; James T. Edwards of Hampton, teacher of tailoring; E. J. Vernon, B. S., of Wilberforce; professor mathematics; A. F. Moore of Flake, professor of language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher of dressmaking; Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, plano music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of science, In addition lecturers of various topics have been secured. constant y labor etterment of the young people under their care and gladly lend a helping hand to the same. No student is made to feel the sting of poverty, but merit alone tells. The most deserving are given credit for the same. Expenses—Board per month, $5.50; tuition per month, $1; room rent per month, $1; incidental fee on entrance, $1. encouraged here; students are adyed o bring strong substantial clothing, but expensive apparel is not needed by one struggling for an education. School opened Sept. 9, 1901. All arrangements for entrance can be made by writing Press. W, T. Vernon, Quindaro, Kas. He will send one of the latest complete catalogues given full information regarding the same. 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Anything that contributes to the happiness of the home is a blessing to the human race. The thoughtful housewife, who understands her responsibilities in the great problem of making the home all that the word implies is ever on the look out for that which will lighten the burdens of the household without lessening the merits of the work done. That is why nearly every well regulated household is using Defiance starch. It costs less and goes farthest. Sixteen-oz package for 9c. If your grocery hasn't got it clip this out and give it to him and ask him to send for it. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha. Neb. Give a man your skim milk and he will kick for a share of your cream. Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 2. Garfield Headfield Powders are sold here in large quantities; this shows that people realize the importance of safety and harmless. The Powders are of undoubted value in curing headaches of all kinds and in building up the nervous system. 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The man who was discovered in the hold of the Hamburg-American steamer Palatia, after having made the trip across the ocean in a box, has recovered sufficiently to be able to establish his identity positively. He said his name was Johan Beck, and that he had lived up to about a year ago in Budapest, Hungary. The doctors would not allow him to tell all his story, but enough was learned from him and other sources to show that Beck was a house painter and that he had come across the card of an uptown hotel in this city, the proprietors of which have German names. Though a stranger to them he wrote that he could get no work in Germany and was coming to America and hoped the hotel men could find him something to do. Then he fitted up a package case, paid freight charges on it and engaged a carter to take it to the Hamburg pier at a certain time. He then returned to his lodgings and boxed himself up after he had provisioned himself with a dozen cans of condensed milk, a box of prunes, three dozen cakes of chocolate, coffee in bottles and some bread. The carter called and got the box, not knowing of its living contents, and shipped it. Beck declares he was in the box until the ship reached the Hoboken pier, a period of about fifteen days. When found he was almost dead from hunger, cold and terror. He is now exceedingly weak, but the physicians hope for his recovery. Newton Bennington, a well known real estate owner and horseman, is said to have interested himself in the case and to have promised to give Beck work should he recover. WRECK IN PUGET SOUND Steamer Skagit Chief Went on Rocks in a Fog, But No One Went Drowned. SEATTLE, WASH.—(Special.) The sound steamer Skagit Chief is a total wreck on the Blakeley rocks near Pleasant Beach. She hit the rocks in a heavy fog at 9:30 p. m. Captain Call was in the pilot house and, realizing the dangerous condition of the soundings, had the vessel under slow speed. The first crash came bow on, and was followed by an immediate signal to reverse the engines. This was done, but a strong tide hurried the vessel on and hung her up helpless. Boats were lowered and the passengers were taken safely ashore. The Skagit Chief was valued at $30.-000. There is no insurance. At The Auditorium KANSAS CITY.—(Special.) At the Auditorium this week the Woodward Stock Company is presenting a dramatic version of "Carmen." Although the play has been used but little by traveling companies and stars, with the exception of Ola Nethersole, it has been a great success as a stock company attraction. The Woodward people have given evident satisfaction in their acting of the leading characters. Miss Kennard being especially fine in the title character. Next week the company will be seen in a revival of "Monte Cristo," the greatest of all romantic plays, or, at least, the most enduringly popular. It is promised that the Auditorium production of this piece will approach the spectacular. Bank Robbery In Illinois SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—(Special) The people of Williamsville were startled by a terrific explosion the other day. On investigation it was found that burglaries had entered the state bank of Williamsville and blown open the safe. They secured $4,000 in cash and several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry. The burglaries, after robbing the bank took a hand car and came to Springfield, where they abandoned the car. Shot and Killed Brother. MUSKOGBE, I. T.—(Special.) Steve Grason shot and instantly killed his brother, Lige, at okmulgee. Both are Creek Indians. The brothers had a quarrel over the payment of a bill, when Lige attacked Steve with a stone. Steve retaliated with a revolver, shooting his brother through the heart. Killed by News of Her Mother's Death. KNOXVILLE, TENN.—(Special.) Mrs. Samuel L. Fields dropped dead at her room here a few seconds after being informed of the death of her mother, Mrs. Ezekiel Wyrick. The families lived' next door to each other. Three Years for a Pickpocket. LOS ANGELES—(Special.) John Heinrich, who pleaded guilty to the charge of picking the pockets of members of the late President McKinley's party during their visit to this city last May, has been sentenced to serve three years in San Quentin prison. Drowned While Skaking MADISON, WIS.—(Special.) Two young boys named Douglas and Mattison were drowned at Wonewoc while skating on the Wisconsin river. The bodies were recovered. Two Women Killed By a Train PRINCETON, IND.—(Special.) Mrs. John Hays and Mrs. Frank Kightly were killed by an Evansville & Terre Haute passenger train at Hazelton. They were crossing the track in a buggy where an embankment hid the approaching train from view. Big Chicago Diamond Robbery CHICAO--(Special). Almost $3,000 worth of unset diamonds and jewellery was stolen from the apartments of Mrs. Blanche N. Burlingame, while she was absent visiting friends. CHEROKEES IN DISTRESS. Fullbloods Short of Food and Clothing and Want Some of Their Money. TAHLEQUAH, I. T. — (Special). With six more days the Cochelerie legislature is for this year. The constitutional thirty days of the regular session expires next Saturday night at midnight and no extra session will be called. There is pending in the Senate a bill to distribute per capita the $250,000 of revenues in the United States subtreasury at St. Louis to the credit of the Cherokee nation. The full bloods are in great distress. They have little to eat and few clothes to wear. There was a hitch in the senate as to how a roll should be made from which to make the payment. The full bloods oppose the idea of making a pay roll from the straight cards of the Dawes commission, for the reason that they would all be compelled to enroll in order to get their money. The progressive citizens want the Dawes commission roll to be the only roll used, as thousands of names on the 1894 pay roll and on the 1896 census roll are fraudulent. It is feared that this disagreement as to the way of making a roll will defeat the per capita payment. The full bloods held a meeting and notified the Dawes commission that they would not enroll and that it was no use to make any appointments for them. A resolution passel both branches of the legislature recommending that the president of the United States grant Henry Starr, now confined in the penitentiary at Columbus, O., on a charge of bank robbery, an unconditional pardon. DOGS IN DIVORCE CASE. Dashing Mrs. Lowther, of California, Ha an Odd Case in Paris PARIS.—(Special.) A suit in court here will interest Americans. It is the case of Mrs. Lowther, a dashing well known Californian, against her divorced husband, to regain possession of nine dogs. Mrs. Lowther married in Paris eight years ago. She also secured a divorce here. It seems that she and her husband were both equally attached to their poodles, each declaring life not worth living without them. At the time of the separation the wife had the dogs, but afterward the husband organized a "successful kid napping expedition." Hence the legal proceeding. For Robbing the Mails GUTHRIE, O. T.—(Special) Elmore Pecore has been placed in the federal jail here charged with having rifled the mail between the small towns near the Indian Territory border. The officers suspected Pecore and laid a trap for him by placing a red necktie and a pair of beaded gloves in one of the mail sacks. They apprehended him later wearing these articles at a dance, where he had taken his sweetheart. Pecore is a mixed breed. Ran Into The Hudson POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.—(Special). During a snow storm here a trolly car became unmanageable and ran down a steep grade into the Hudson river. There were five passengers on the car, one of whom, B. Baruth, a commercial traveler of New York City, was drowned. Thex Quarreled Over a Woman DUOIBS, ILL.—(Special) Charles Evlisizer, the city marshal, and Henry Cameron, of Ashley, fought a pistol duel at a ball here recently. Evlisizer receiving three wounds and Cameron four. Both will probably die. The shooting was the result of a quarrel over a woman. BRIEF NEWS. Dr. William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, has accepted the offer to become director of universal educational congresses at the St. Louis world's fair. Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, has arrived in New York on the steamer Majestic from Liverpool. Another passenger on the Majestic was Jan Kubellik, the violinist. The Southern Pacific depot at Alexandria, la., filled with local and transfer freight, was destroyed by fire. A number of cars were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $70,000. The Hong Kong correspondent of the London Daily Express cables that France is pressing the Chinese authorities for the concession of the Island of Honan, opposite Canton. The Berlin Vossiche Zeitung says it learns upon reliable authority that the Crown Prince and Princess of Roumania have mutually agreed upon a divorce and that the crown prince intends to renounce his succession to the throne. At the reassembling of the Italian chamber of deputies no reference was made to the death of President McKinley because the radical and socialist members of the chamber had threatened to speak apologetically of Czolgosz and the government preferred to avoid any unpleasantness. The police department of Muncle, Ind., has started a crusade on gamblers and saloons. It is credited with being in need of the money. Purdue college, at Lafayette, Ind., received as a thanksgiving present $60,000 from Mrs. Euza Fowler, to be expended for the erection and equipment of an assembly hall. The official cavess of the votes cast at the recent Massachusetts state election discloses the fact that the Prohibitionists and the Socialist Labor party fell below the 3 per cent necessary to give legal standing as a political party in the state. Right Rev. Sidney Catlin Partridge, bishop of Kyoto, Japan, and Miss Agnes Louise Simpson, daughter of Captain John Simpson, consular representative of Denmark, were married at St. Luke's church in San Francisco. The Union block, the best business block in Yankton, S. D., was destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000. William Pierson, city marshal, slept in the building and jumped from a third story window and was fatally injured. Several people were rescued from the upper stories with ropes. To the Ladies: Don't let your grocer sell you a 12 oz. package of laundry starch for 10 cents when you can get 16 oz. of the very best starch GUARANTEED SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER BRAND OF STARCH MADE MONEY REFUNDED IF NOT SAID SECTOR. HAS NO EQUAL. DEFIANCE TRADE MARK DEFIANCE IN QUALITY & QUANTITY STARCH 16 oz. REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED BY MAGNETIC STARCH MFG Co. OMAHA, NEB. How to Polish Finishing Touches Folding Guffs Shirt Basons EXACT SIZE OF 10 CENT PACKAGE. 72 PACKAGES IN A CASE. in pushing this article, we give an absolute guarantee with every package sold, and authorize dealers to take back any starch that a customer claims to be unsatisfactory in any way. We have made arrangements to advertise it thoroughly, and you must have it. ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER. If you cannot get it from him, write us. Running the Dead: The following note was recently received by a Devils Lake (N. D.) physician in answer to a missent dun: "Dear Sur: This note was put in my box by mistake. I hant the man, hees dead, and ain't any relative of mine anyway. Howe dose your consensh let you dun the dead? Why don't you lead a better criston life and try to meet that man in heaven which is worth more than forty dollars to any doctor." Municipality Owns Utilities The municipality of Geneva manufactures its own gas, owns water works and furnishes electric light and power to the city. The electric power is obtained from the Rhone, on which river the council has established an elaborate turbine system. Water Power Is Mighty. Gigantic power power developments are projected in the Alps. There are now in the French Alps 48 factories supplied by 250,000 horse power, electrically generated. Engineers estimate that 3,000,000 horse power is now running to waste in the Alps. A Boom Town in Africa. Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of German East Africa, which seven years ago, was a village inhabited by a hundred natives, is now a town with 300 European and 21,000 native inhabitants. It has three hotels, several hundred stores, and a newspaper. A Clergyman's Discovery Fredericksburg, Ind., Dec. 2.—According to the positive declaration of Rev. E. P. Stevens of this place, that gentleman has found a remedy for all diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. For years he suffered severely with these complaints, incontinence of the urine, making life a burden to him, but he never ceased experimenting in the hope that some day he would discover a remedy. After many failures he has at last succeeded and is today perfectly cured and a well man, and explains that his recovery is due to the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. This remedy has been successfully applied to many cases of Lame Back, Rheumatism, Bright's Disease, Diabetes and other Kidney Diseases and there seems to be no case of the kind that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure. This is the only remedy that has ever cured Bright's Disease. A slide down mit seems ten times as swift and fast when you are on it as when the other fellow is. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper ues Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Few men can look pleasant while being told their faults. Thrown from His Caq and Killed. The following is a most interesting and, in one respect, pathetic tale:— Mr. J. Pope, 42 Ferrar Road, Streat; ham, England, said: "Yes, poor chap, he is gone, dead—horse bolted, thrown off his seat on his cab he was driving and killed—poor chap, and a good sort, too, mate. It was him, you see, who gave me the half-bottle of St. Jacobs Oil that made a new man of me. 'Twas like this: me and Bowman were great friends. Some gentleman had given him a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil which had done him a lot of good; he only used half the bottle, and remembering that I had been a martyr to renaissance and satica for years, that I had literally tried everything, had doctors, and all without benefit, I became discouraged, and looked upon it that there was no help for me. Well," said Pope, "You may not believe me, for it is a miracle, but before I had used the contents of the half-bottle of St. Jacobs Oil which bowman gave me, I was a well man. There it is, you see, after years of pain, after using remedies, oils, embrocations, horse liniments, and spent money on doctors without getting any better, I was completely cured in a few days. I bought another bottle, thinking the pain might come back but it did not, so I gave the bottle away to a friend who had a lame back. I can't speak too highly of this wonderful pain-killer." A blessing in disguise usually has a hard time proving its identity. STATE OF OHO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 188 Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., and that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., and that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of that cannot be cured by the use of the firm's Cars Corp. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my signature this 6th day of January, 1884. A. W. GLEASON, (SPEAK) Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken to the hospital and mucous surfaces act directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, Sold by Drugiers, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Gratitude is a good thing for any man to use in his business. INSIST ON GETTING IT. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because they have a stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know once used to add a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money. A girl likes to listen to soft nothings if they mean something. Piso's Curso is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs—W.M. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, Ind., Feb 10, 1900. The difference between men and women who lie is that the women don't mean to; the men do. ne Lace don't let your g of laundry sta ket 16 oz. of NTEED SUPERIOR TO BRAND OF STARCH MADE. IF NOT SATISFACTORY. O EQUAL. ANCE MARK QUANTITY RCH REQUIRES NO COOKING PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY OZ. RCH MFG Co. OMAHA, NEB. CENT PACKAGE. IN A CASE. to be unsatisfactory in any t have it. ORDER FROM Y How to Polish Finishing Touches Folding Cuffs Shirt Basoms MANUFACTURED BY AGNETIC STARC OMAHA, NE STARCA OMAHA, NE MAGNETIC STARCH MFG. CO. OMAHA, NEB. Sold by Druggists, Inc. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Christine Nilsson has two of her rooms in Madrid decorated in a rather novel fashion. The bedchamber is papered with leaves of music from the operas in which she has sung, and the dining room with the hotel bills she has collected in her tours through the world. Science in Keeping Apples. The Fruit Grocer states that for several years it has placed baldwin apples in cold storage when the price was $1.20 a barrel and sold them after March 15 at $3 per barrel. It recommends that apples be stored as soon as picked, for even a week's delay in the barn has been found to impair the keeping of the fruit. Hamlin's Wizard Oil Co. send song book free. Your druggist sells the oil and it stops pain. A man who would try to stab a ghost would stick to nothing. Lots of the free advice you get isn't worth half that much. CAPSICUM VASELINE A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderfully effective, and also as an external remedy for pains in the neck and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim it to be valuable to be inviolable in the household. Many people demand all of your preparations. *Price 15 cents, at all drugstores or other dealers, or at your local postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail; should be accepted by the public unless the same carrier is not required.* *17 HSE STREET, NEW YORK CITY.* *or* "renud schemes." Unqualified references, land books, and attorneys. W. Washington, D. C. *or* "Attorneys." W. Washington, D. C. WINCH CARTRIDGES IN from .22 to .50 loaded with ei- lways give entire satisfaction. modern manner, by exact mach- THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HO PILES We guarantee to cure all diseases of the well you are perfectly well. Send for our 2 FREE TO WOMEN. These books contain ru- band of every person afflicted. Address DRS. THU dies: grocer sell you arch for 10 c the very be made for price. more s the sam We guarantee to cure all diseases of the rectum, and positively don't require one cest BE 8 TO WO BE 9. We learn books from our information unit use our equipment, and should be in the same room as the other students. GO SLOW 12-oz. Laundry Sta- to sell 12 ounces for petitor offers 16 ou DEFIANCE STAR THE BEST COLD No Chromos, t starch, and one-th tained in any other Having adopt feature of starch Novel Decorations. Science in Keeping Apples WINCHESTER TRIDGES IN ALL OALIBERS .22 to .50 loaded with either Black or Smokeless Powder y give entire satisfaction. They are made and loaded in a tern manner, by exact machinery operated by skilled experts. SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD • ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM CARTRIDGES IN ALL OALIBERS from .22 to .50 loaded with either Black or Smokeless Powder always give entire satisfaction. They are made and loaded in a modern manner, by exact machinery operated by skilled experts. THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD ◆ ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM es: er sell you a 12 oz. for 10 cents when very best starch made for the same price. One-third more starch for the same money. made for the same price. One-third more starch for the same money. To the Dealers: GO SLOW—In placing orders for 12-oz. Laundry Starch. You won't be able to sell 12 ounces for 10 cents while your competitor offers 16 ounces for the same money. DEFIANCE STARCH IS THE BIGGEST—THE BEST COLD WATER STARCH MADE. No Chromos, no Premiums, but a better starch, and one-third more of it, than is contained in any other package for the price. Having adopted every idea in the manufacture of starch which modern invention GO SLOW-In placing orders for 12-oz. Laundry Starch. You won't be able to sell 12 ounces for 10 cents while your competitor offers 16 ounces for the same money. DEFIANCE STARCH IS THE BIGGEST THE BEST COLD WATER STARCH MADE. No Chromos, no Premiums, but a better starch, and one-third more of it, than is contained in any other package for the price. Having adopted every idea in the manufacture of starch which modern invention has made possible, we offer Defiance Starch, with every confidence in giving satisfaction. Consumers are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the prevalent custom of getting 5c. worth of starch and 5c. worth of some useless thing, when they want 10c. worth of starch. We give no premiums with Defiance Starch, relying on "Quality and Quantity" as the more satisfactory method of getting business. You take no chances in pushing this article, we give an absolute guarantee with every package sold, and authorize dealers to take back any starch SOZODONT 800 LBS WARM 15X25 N $8.00 For this AT YOUR STATION. Warranted Accurate Other sizes equally low. BUY OF THE MAKER Jones (He Pays the Freight). BENHAMON, N. Y. WESTERN CANADA'S FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREEZE Wonderful news for 100 now the talk of the Commercial W-11 by to means phonemic canthan and districts chewan and Al era the most wonderful grain grounding in stock raising they also hold the highest position. Thousands of Americans are annually they never did before. Move Westward with the tide and secure a farm and home in West Canada. Low rates and special privileges for farmers. Apply for rates, &c. to F. Peelery Suppliers. Apply for rates, &c. to F. Peelery Suppliers. Apply for rates, &c. to F. Canada. or to J. S. H. GREEN'S. 214 W. 214 W. Kansas City, Mo. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives cases. Book of testimonials and 10 BACKWARDS FREE. Dl. H. H. GREEN'S. HOSPITAL, Box E, Atlanta, Ga. LADIES CAN EARN $15 MONTHLY AND they do not interfere with home duties. No fraud. Part- lars for seating. F. M. Sheridan, Greenwood, W.C. partners with Thompson's Eye Water FISTULA NO MONEY TILL CURED. ```markdown ``` SOME NOTABLE METEORS. Balls of Fire Seen at Opening of Civil War Period. One of the most remarkable meteors recorded in history is known as the New Jersey meteor of November 15, 1859. At 9:30 o'clock in the morning the meteor appeared in the heavens over the southern part of New Jersey. It was so brilliant that, although the sun was unclouded and had an elevation of 20 degrees above the horizon, the flash attracted attention as far north as Albany and Boston and as far south as Fredericksburg, Va. Its path was apparently downward, and it left behind a cloud of rounded form like a puff of smoke. Soon after the flash a series of terrific explosions was heard like the discharge of a thousand cannon. These were heard throughout Delaware and the greater part of New Jersey. It was computed that the height of this meteor when first seen was sixty miles, and when it exploded its height was over twenty miles. The length of its visible path was more than forty miles. It described this path in two seconds, so that its velocity, relative to that of the earth, was twenty miles per second. The column of smoke resulting from the explosion was a thousand feet in diameter and several miles in length. On August 2, 1860, about 10 o'clock at night, a magnificent ball of fire was seen throughout the whole region from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, and from Charleston to St. Louis. It was equal in size to the full moon, and before its disappearance broke into fragments. GUIZOT AND VICTORIA Incident of the Noted Frenchman's Visit to Window Castle For the children's amusement Guzot describes incidents of his life in England, and tells them an anecdote of his first visit to Windsor castle, which he says they must not repeat lest it should bring him into trouble. One can easily imagine how the penny-aliner would have enjoyed embroidering on the following story: "On Wednesday evening at Windsor castle the queen retired at 11 o'clock. We stayed behind talking for half an hour. At midnight I set out to find my own apartment, and I lose myself in the galleries, saloons and corridors. At last I slowly open a door, taking it for mine, and I see a lady beginning to undress, attended by her maid. I shut the door as fast as I can and begin to search for my own room. It at last find some one who shows me the way. I go to bed. The next day at dinner the queen said to me, laughingly. 'Do you know that you entered my room at midnight?' 'How, ma'am, was it your majesty's door that I half opened?' 'Certainly.' And she began laughing again, and so did I. I told her of my perplexity, which she had already guessed, and I asked whether if, like St. Simon or Sully, I should ever write my memoirs, she would allow me to mention that I had opened the queen of England's castle at midnight while she was going to bed. She gave me permission and laughed heartily."—Gentleman's Magazine. A King's Walking Sticks. The King, like all royal personages, and, above all, like all European sovereigns, has a remarkable collection of walking sticks, but we may be sure, says the London Sketch, that none, however intrinsically valuable, will in future be more highly prized by him than the original gift from St George Dibbs, which is now being brought from Sidney by Lord Jersey. Sir George, a notable New South Wales statesman, occupies his leisure hours in carving and turning, and the King's new walking stick was fashioned by his own hands from a fine piece of the rare and iron-hard ringdgiid wood. The only ornamentation, save the natural grain of the wood, is a plain gold band, on which are deeply engraved the words, "The King, God bless him!" Apropos of the King's collection of walking sticks, the sovereign sets a good example in this matter as in many others; the cane usually carried by him is studiously simple and devoid of any elaborate ornamentation. Protecting Grasslands From Fire One of the methods of protecting broad grass lands from fire is to burn a swath called "fire guard" around the area to be protected. A Montana stockman suggests that this offers a good opportunity for inventors to devise a machine which, passing over the ground like a horse rake, shall burn the grass clean from a space about eight or ten feet in width. Already an apparatus of this kind has been invented, using gasoline to set the grass on fire, and a train of steel brushes to extinguish it before it has spread beyond the proper limits, but the stockman thinks that a cheaper machine can be made. "Fire guards" fifty miles or more in length are desirable. A Hard Bet to Win: In 1893 three Irishmen agreed to undertake a journey around the earth on foot for a jackpot of $150,000. Each one of the party deposited one-third of this sum in the Bank of Dublin, and it was agreed that whoever survived the trip and returned should receive the whole amount. In case all died a Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. On Dec. 24, 1895, they started east across Europe and Asia Minor to Egypt, where they took passage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the journey, and the severity of this trip resulted in the death of two of the travelers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, completed the voyage and won the money. -New York Press. nest Heads of Hair. Fair-haired people have the best heads of hair, 140,000 to 160,000 being quite an ordinary crop of hairs on the head of a fair man or woman. TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892. U.S. PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAFT HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot trous necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—no box can be used by everyone in the family. Benefits and improves children's hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and ever-increasing demand for Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, we have placed it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round, patent box. See that the word Hartona is on every box. Money positively refunded if you are not absolutely delighted with the Hartona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you are positively protected by our $100.00 guarantee to any one proving otherwise. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copyrighted at United States Patent Office at Washington, D. C., in the years 1892 and 1900. We refer you, to our responsibility, to the City Bank of Richmond, Va., Adams and Southern Express Companies, and to the editor of this paper. We want lady and gentlemen agents, white or colored, in every city and town in the United States. Write to us to-day, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make a splendid living, with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of losing your good money. Write to us and we will send you a book of over one hundred genuine testimonials in your own State of people who have used and are using Hartona remedies. Is this not fair and honest enough? HARTONA FACE WASH. Hartona Face Wash will gradually turn the skin of a black person five or six shades lighter, and will turn the skin of a mulatto person perfectly white. The skin remains soft and bright without continual use of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Hartona Face Wash will remove wrinkles, dark spots, pimples, blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. You can regulate the shade of skin on neck, face and hands to any shade you wish. Full directions with each bottle. Hartona Face Wash is perfectly harmless, and is sent to any part of the United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bottle; securely sealed from observation. It is your duty to look as beautiful as possible. Thousands of delighted patrons send us testimonials every year. Please remember that your money is positively refunded. If you are not perfectly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona remedies. We want agents in every city in the United States. Write to us, no matter if you are employed or not, and we will show you how to make money without risking any of your own money. HARTONA NO-SMELL. Hartona No-Smell will remove all smells and bad odors of the body; cures sore and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Hartona No-Smell is a God-send to all persons suffering from disagreeable odors caused by perspiration of the feet, arm-pits, etc Sent anywhere on receipt of price, 10 cents and 25 cents a package. Address all orders to Send us One Dollar, and mention this paper, and we will send you three large boxes of Hartona Hair-Grower and Straightener, two large bottles of Hartona Face Wash, and one large box of Hartona No-Smell. Goods will be sent securely sealed from observation. Write your name and post-office and express-office address very plainly. Money can be sent by post-office money order, or enclosed in a registered letter, or by express. Address all Orders to HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. LEAD ON HYPNOTISM. Will Hypnotize Man to Determine Degree of His Degrees. The use of hypnotism as a means of legal investigation has just been sanctioned by the Ghent court of appeals in regard to a case known as the "Borreman trial," which it was found impossible to elucidate by means of ordinary evidence. It appears that in the course of certain celebrations held at Alost in June, 1899, M. W. Borreman, a merchant of that town, was seriously injured, and as a result upward of twenty arrests were made, four of the defendants were fined and one condemned to two months' imprisonment, while damages were awarded to the plaintiff. An appeal was subsequently made on behalf of defendants, and a new trial has been in progress for some time past. One of the principal points put forward by M. Borreman was that as a result of the attack made upon him, he suffered from deafness. Medical examination having failed to give satisfactory evidence as to the degree of deafness from which he suffered, its cause, or the probability of curing it, three experts who had charge of the case, and among whom is a professor of Ghent university, submitted that in order to elucidate these points they should hypnotize M. Borreman. The latter having given his consent, the court has just sanctioned the carrying out of the proposal. This is the first time in Belgium that the use of hypnotism has been sanctioned for judicial purposes. The result is awaited with considerable interest. BEAUTIFUL OCEAN ANEMONES. Specks on Shells Are Beautiful Living Ocean Flowers. Along the entire Atlantic coast there lie, day after day, tide after tide, clam shells, snail shells, and stones with dirty, silimy, wart-like specks on them. Rub them, and nothing is left except a disagreeable viscid fluid. Yet all these specks are living ocean flowers, the wonderful sea anemones that vie with land flowers in beauty and with the oddest of land animals of oddity. Pick up one of these dirty shells with the warts on it and place it carefully in a pool of clear, cold sea water, where the tide can reach it to keep it pure, and you will see a marvelous thing. So slowly the motion is almost imperceptible the wart will lengthen itself out just the least bit. Then its apex Legs to swell, and finally a sharp eye can see that it is opening. Suddenly petals commence to sprout from it. You are beholding the growth of a perfect sea blossom. Bit by bit the delicate, rich-tinted petal grows. It may take five minutes, it may take an hour, according to circumstances, before the flower is open. But it is worth waiting for, even if one has to wait an entire day. These petals are of every shape and of every size and of every color. Some anemones are exactly like splendid dahlias when they are fully open. Others are of a delicate texture and tint like purple asters. Hear Rev. Geo, W. Dudley the Texas evangelist at First Baptist Church for the next two weeks. The Inter-state Literary meets in this city the last days of Dec. For a good time go to Fifth St. Opera House Christmas eye. HARTONA REMEDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond, Va. SPECIAL GRAND OFFER. A MIRACLE EXPLAINED. Why a Young Women Uttered Strange Song in Road Lyrics Sentences in Dead Languages. The vagaries of memory are some of the most interesting of those connected with the human mind and body. Why do we forget certain things and remember others? Myriads of these irregularities are as yet unaccounted for; perhaps not even the cleverest metaphysician will ever account for them. Professor James reminds us how something which we have tried in vain to recall will afterward, when we have given up the attempt, "saunter into the mind," as Emerson says, as innocently as if it had never been summoned. Again, bygone experiences will revive after years of oblivion, often as the result of some cerebral disease or accident. Such a case is the one quoted by Coleridge of a young woman in Germany who could neither read nor write, but who was said to be possessed of a devil because, in a fever, she was heard raving in Latin, Greek and in an obscure rabbinical dialect of Hebrew. Whole pages of her talk were written down, and were found to consist of sentences intelligible in themselves, but not having the slightest connection with one another. To say that she was possessed of a devil was the easiest way of accounting for the matter. At last the mystery was cleared up by a physician, who traced back the girl's history until he learned that at the age of nine she was taken to live at the house of an old pastor, a great Hebrew scholar, and that she remained there until the pastor's death. It had been for years the old man's custom to walk up and down a passage near the kitchen, and read to himself in a loud voice. His books were examined, and among them many of the passages taken down at the young woman's bedside were identified. The theory of demoniac possession was abandoned—Youth's Companion. Secure Tickets VIA THE... Chicago, Milwaukaa & St. Paul Ry AND YOU GET... Sleepers: & Ghair Cars CH1CAGO and all intermediate points. The shortest quickest and best line to Colocotche, Ot- umws, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, and La Umwe, Cedar Rapids, Rockford and Freeport. ..... Passenger Station at... 22nd St. and Grand Ave. Take Westport Cable F J LER 'HPassenger Agent. Office 915Main St.. Kansas Cit We call your special attention to the article on Firai page under the head Can We. Afferd it? See the big Christmas tree and Santa Claus at the Fifth St ..HARTONA.. Preparations for the arations for the Preparations for the Hair! The Original and Only Hartona. catchless and Positively Unequaled for ening all Kinky, Knotty, Stub and Positively Unequaled for g all Kinky, Knotty, Stub Matchless and Positively Unequaled for Straightening all Kinky, Knotty, Stubborn, Harsh, Curly Hair. Makes the hair grow on baldness out of the hair, itching, and all life and lustre, and the hair stays in the hair down with grease. Children's hair just the same as adults have placed it on sale in 25c. and in the Hartona remedies. Remember otherwise. All our remedies are tried years 1892 and 1900. We refer to us, and to the editor of this paper. City and town in the United States did living, with easy and pleasant, hundred genuine testimonials in your mouth? FACE WASH In five or six shades lighter, and with natural use of the face wash. One both blackheads, freckles, and all blemishes. Full directions with each bottle. Of the United States on receipt of the. Thousands of delighted patron are not perfectly satisfied and delight no matter if you are employed or not. NO-SMELLS Body; cures sore and aching feet, chin, disagreeable odors caused by perspiration. Address all orders to INA REMEDY CO., 909 E. MAIN ST. AND OFFER. Three large boxes of Hartona Fall Shoe. Goods will be sent securely plainly. Money can be sent by post. Fall Shoe The new fall styles are ready. We have them for all occasions. The "Waterking" Shoe for durable. Lined with oiled fabric to keep the "All America" for dress snap. The Erica Shoe. Handsome. Looks like the $5.00 kind and These and many others can Always glad to show them. Nelson S the hair grow on bald and thin places. Rake the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hair store, and the hair stays and grows naturally down with grease. Hartona is positively hair just the same as adults. To meet the need it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in ouriona remedies. Remember, we handle no fake. All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and 1900. We refer you, as to our response, the editor of this paper. Town in the United States. Write to us to contact with easy and pleasant work, and no risk of line testimonials in your own State of per E. WASH. Shades lighter, and will 'turn the skin of the face wash. One bottle does the work. Freckles, and all blemishes of the skin. Options with each bottle. United States on receipt of price, 50c. per bouls of delighted patrons send us testimonials诚ly satisfied and delighted with the Hartona if you are employed or not, and we will shi-SMELL. Store and aching feet, chafed limbs, etc. Odors caused by perspiration of the feet, all orders to EDY CO., 909 E. Main St., Richmond OFFER. Hartona Hair-Grower and Stocks will be sent securely sealed from observance. Money can be sent by post-office money order. Main St., Richmond Fall Shoes for M New fall styles are ready for inspection. Give them for all occasions. "Waterking" Shoe for rain and mud is washable with oiled fabric to keep out wet. "All America" for dressy occasions is full of America Shoe. Handsomest $2.50 shoe on like the $5.00 kind and wears like iron and many others can be had here. Is glad to show them. elson Shoe THE UMBRELLA Fall Shoes for Men The "Waterking" Shoe for rain and mud is waterproof and durable. The Erica Shoe. Handsomest $2.50 shoe on earth. Looks like the $5.00 kind and wears like iron. These and many others can be had here. Always glad to show them. Nelson Shoe Co. 608 Minnesota Avenue. A. Bad Armatation In Bloomsbury, London, was formerly a region known as the Fleid of Forty Footsteps. It was frequented by rough characters, and it is related that a struggle between two brothers took place there. The footprints of the men were indelibly impressed in the soil and no grass would ever grow there. The place was built upon at the beginning of the century. Beauties of Warwick Castle Warwick castle is held by many to be the most beautiful seat in England. The large baronial hall is a magnificent room. It is decorated with the most perfect specimens of armor, furnished in a luxurious manner, and masses of flowers and large palms abound on every side. Mr. Solomon Royster well known in the two cities died this morning. --- for the Hair! Only Hartona. Unequaled for Straight- Knotty, Stubborn, and thin places. Restores GRAFICAL scalp diseases. Hartona does not and grows naturally beautiful and Hartona is positively harmless—one results. To meet the popular and 50c. sizes, in our special round, we handle no fake goods, and you make-marked, registered and copy- as to our responsibility, to the work, and no risk of losing your own State of people who have SH. I warn the skin of a mulatto perils does the work. Shines of the skin. You can regu- of price, 50c. per bottle; securely send us testimonials every year. 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THE HIGHER SERVICE Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whose race of politicians put together. the Great Northern, the Chicago Great Western, the Lake Shore and the Lackawanna. Most of the higher class bots' in the North and many of those in the South have also shifted from black to white waiters. - K. C. Journal. Mitchel, Ind., has a brick company, the Terrell brick Company, which is owned and run by Negrees. It recently received an order from a white firm in Iowa for 50 000 brick, to be used in building a factory. BIG IT YOU ARE Notwithstanding the wide difference between social and civil rights, yet our white fellow citizens seem not to know there is a difference between the two. Not one Negro in a hurried is hankering after social equality with the white man. And again, there is such a wide difference between white men that if the Negro was on social equality with one set he would be far, very far, from the other set, for there is no such thing as social equality between all white people. All that the Negro is asking from any and all is a fair show in the race of life and no favors, and may the best man win. -Afro-American Ledger. TRUTH AND BEAUTY Lord Shaftesbury. After a l, the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture, as true measures that of harmony and music. The devil once appeared to a young man, and, telling him that he held him in his power bade him do one of three things "to night," said the devil "you must get drunk, or murder your wife, or throw your mother in law out of the second floor front window. The young man, who was naturally of a gentle disposition, chose the first alternative. So he went out that night and got beastly drunk, came home and murdered his wife and threw his mother-in-law out of the second floor front window Moral. Of three evils never choose the least. LIVING ON FATHER-IN-LAW Wouldn't Allow His Own Case to Be a Precedent. Apropos of the recent marriage of an ensign in the navy a short time ago who did not have an overabundance of this world's goods, some of the veterans at the navy yard recall the story of Rear Admiral Kirkland, who was affectionately known in the navy as "Red Bill." A young ensign hesitantly found his way into the admiral's cabin one day, and with a great deal of circumcution and coughing finally let it be known that he loved the admiral's daughter, and would be the happiest man on earth if he had her parent's consent to marry her. "No, sir!" thundered the admiral. "No, sirree! Not now, anyhow. No pauper of an ensign is going to marry my daughter. You'd better wait until you are promoted and are able to support yourself before you think of marrying." The young officer astounded the admiral by not retiring precipitately. He even ventured the reminder that the admiral himself had married when he was but an ensign, and that his married life had been a happy one. "Red Bill" Kirkland glared at the presumptuous speaker for a moment, and then thundered: "I know I married when I was an ensign. My father-in-law supported me for several years, too, but I'll be hanged if yours will!"—New York Times. Bandages and Red Tape During the South African war Rudyard Kipling discovered, at Cape Town, a hospital without bandages, and in desperate need of them. This too, was in a city where bandages were for sale in many shops. He told an acquaintance that he was going to meet that want, and the gentleman at once offered to pay for the bandages that Mr. Kipling would buy and take to the hospital. A cart was quickly loaded, and then the author was informed that, under army rules, the hospital authorities could not receive supplies from a private individual. "Well," said he, "I will dump the packages on the pavement before the door, and then tell them to come out and clear up the litter. Perhaps they can get them into the building in that way without tearing any red tape. He drove off with the bandages, and the supplies were somehow smuggled into the hospital. Ambushed. Poor Fellow! "When does the next train that stops at Montrose leave here?" asked the resolute widow at the booking office window. "You'll have to wait five hours, ma'am." "I don't think so." "Well, perhaps you know better than I do?" "Yes, sir! And perhaps you know better than I do whether I am expecting to travel by that train myself, or whether I am inquiring for a relative that's visiting at my house! And maybe you think it's your business to stand behind there and try to instruct people about things they know as well as you do, if not better! And perhaps you'll learn some day to give people civil answers when they ask you civil questions, young man; but my opinion is you won't!" "Yes, ma'am!" gasped the booking clerk—London Answers. How It Looked to Him This is what Short Stories tells of a starch young churchman who is most careful in his observance of the feasts and fasts of the year: When the owl lunch wagons in Herald Square were still a novelty he visited New York and saw one we here first; "What have we here?" he said to his companion. "What a question from you!" was the retort. "A good churchman like you not to know a movable feast when you see it!" "Oh, I should call it a restaurant a la carte, promptly replied the "good churchman." Christian Education Christian Education is the greatest education of the world. Viz: the head, hand and heart. The heart is the city of this Christian education and government. The head and brain compose the executive power and mission, while the hands are the representatives thereof. To educate the head is to read thick, and act wisely in all matters of humanity. To educate the heart is to rid it of malice, envy, prejudice and culture in with love of friendship for all humanity, and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. To educate the hands is the education of work swift to do right and slow to do wrong. Let us read more Negro literature that is not destructive but will cause us to think and act more wisely and show to a race of people 250 years older in science and progress Christianity in the purest form. Let us surprise the white man with our intelligence and his eyes will be opened to give a worth. Negro due benevolence—Ex. Beautys Gravest Foe Bad temper and worry will trace more wrinkles in one night than hot and cold bathing, and massage complexion brushes, and creams and lootions can wash out in a year's faithful application. Physicians assert that an immense amount of nerve-force is expended in every fit of bad temper; that when one little part of the nervous system gets wrong the face first recordts. The eyes begin losing the user of youth, the muscles become flabby, the skin refuses to contract accordingly and the inevitable result is wrinkles, femininity's face foe. There is no use attempting to reason with a woman about the evil effects of ill-temper while she is in an ugly mood. She knows perfectly well that it is dad form; that it savors of the coarse and underdressed, that it is weak and belittling, and immoral, and that it hurts her cause to oce her temper. But she does not stop at just that time to think about it, and to remind her of the fact only adds fuel to the flames. But when she is cool and sneeze and at peace with all the world if you can convince her that each fit of temper adds a year to her age by weakening her mental force and by tracing crow-stracks about her eyes and tell-talk lines about her mouth and she will probably think twice before again forgetting herself. For no matter what she asserts to the contrary women prizes youth and beauty above every other gift, the gods bid in their power to b stow upon mottles—Adele E. Shaw in the "Home Companion." WHO CAN FILL THE BILL A correspondent to the Chicago Conservator in speaking of whom to marry says: To make a good wife a woman should be strong morally, mentally and physically she should love her home and not have too much business outside, such as theaters, balls or other silly amusements she should be progressive and assist her companion in all laudable undertakings she should have an acquaintance with her husband's business, and work so as to be able to suggest or assist if necessary. RACE WAR ON DINING CARS White Walters to Ask Aid of Union in Ousting Negroes. White waiters, members of unions in several of the big railroad centers of the country, are preparing to make a general light on the employment of waiters in dining cars. The plan, which has been worked on for some time, is to unionize every branch of hotel and restaurant labor and to admit宾客 to membership. Prominent members of the Hotel Men's Association are said to have promised to help in the crusade. The principal objection to negroes on the part of the whites is that the format, it is alleged, are always willing to work for lower wages. Oa many of the hastily patronized routes of the country groes, it is said, work for almost nothing relying almost entirely upon "ips" for their services. White men demand higher wages, refusing to force their remuneration from patrons. What is true of the negro in dining cars is said to be true of them in sleepers, 'but for the latter positions the whites are making no claims. In speaking of the question the general passenger agent of a rod 'which employs white waiters in its diners said: 'In the North white waiters are preferable to negroes. There are many reasons for this. In the first place patrons of our dining cars dislike impudent servants. The average negro is incident unless he is 'tipyed and tipped' liberally. "The negro will usually work for less wages than the white waiter and depend more up on charity. Under such a condition he will have his tip by train means or foul. In districts, principally in the South where the black man is understood, or rather where he understands the white man, he is the ideal servant. But up here the white man has spoiled the negro. "Since we began to employ whites in our dancers we receive f-erw complaints about the service. We pay the white man higher wages, and if a patrolla fails to tip the white waiter few insults, construed or direct, are recorded. Under the old system we received more complaints about the actions of waiters who had not been 'tipped' than from any other source. Another reason for the change is the superior cleanliness of the white man." During the past few years white have supplanted negroes in dining cars of many of the larger systems of the country. Among the lines that now employ white waiters in diners exclusively are