The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in this Section VOL 16 NO.52 The Oldes LIBERAL COM NEGROES RULE. This Town in Eastern Maryland. RUN BANKS AND STORES. Progressive and Prosperous. Thre is not a colored 'resident within the corporate limits of Sharpstown, Md., but about one half mile from town and extending two miles into the district and out to the Delaware line on the southeast is the district of 300 population and sixty qualified elored voters, says the Baltimore American. They are industrious and economical in their living, and 90 per cent of them own their own homes unincumbered. They are cleanly in appearance, and have homes and furnishings that are neat and comfortable. In matters of business and their home life they are progressive and strive to advance themselves. They conduct their own stores, having three in their community, and do a large business which extends among the near by whites. They do their banking business in this town, have their own paper discounted, indoors by their own people, and maintain their integrity as good citizens. They cultivate their own land, with their own teams and in this particular especially are progressive and set good examples in modern husbandry. They avail themselves of church and school privileges, and when their appropriation for school purposes are exhausted from the school fund of the county they continue their school with their own funds. In point of industry, morals and commercial advancement they are equal, if not ahead, of the best of their race in the State. Jim Crow Cars. Tennessee is to have a Jim Crow' street car law, which applies to all the citizens of that State Under the caption of "get ready to walk," The Clarion of Nashville advises those of the race who are able to buy buggies and others to trim their corn, darn their socks, solid shoes and walk." Good advice, as is also the advice to those who must ride to be orderly on the cars. Potter Kansas News. P. and H. Dickey are having 150 cord of wood cut this winter. H. C. Buchanon is moving to his new home farm at Effingham Kansas. E. L. Bell has just finished his new house. The Negroes of Potter Kansas are very progressive, there are only 8 families own 1400 hundred acres of land worth from forty to eighty dollsrs per acre. C. H. Ferguson has returned from K. C. Kansas to his farm and will cultivat 50 acres of corn and sew a large quantity of oats and other farm product. Wheat is looking fine in this locality. Charles Ingram has recovered from a long illness. The revival in this locality has closed with six converts. Money for Negro Schools. The legislature of Oklahoma made an appropriation of $20,000 to the Negro Agricultural school at Langston the past week. The Kansas legislature brought up the rear with on appropriation of $15,000 to the Western University at Quindual Kans. Jim Crow Church. New York, March 1—By a vote of 3 to 19 the Brooklyn presbytery has gone on record in favor of allowing the organization of the separate presbyteries for Negroes within the bounds of the presbytery established for white people. Rev. W. A. Alexander the pastor of the only Negro church in the presbytery opposed the plan vigorously declaring it unscriptural in Americans, contray to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and averse to the progressive sentiment of other demonstrations. If I might breathe your beauty into song, The singing stars would tarry into flight To hearken, dreaming that death's an- dient wrong. Enthrased on earth so long. Was scattered by the everlasting light, And earth new winged with singing and with flame. As when exultant she from out of chaos came. Society Women To Live To elevate the Negroes of South side levee, Mrs Celia Parker Wooley, a society woman of Chicago, will leave her home to live among them. Mrs Wooley is a noted club woman. She is also president of the Frederick Douglass Center, an organization of philanthropic persons in Chicago formed to uplift the colored race. A suitable location for a home is being sought. 'I don't see why any one should think it unusual that I have decided to live where my heart is,' said Mrs Wooley. Nevertheless, the information has sent a thrill of surprise to the members of the Chicago Woman's Club—for tuis earnest woman was once the pastor of a large church in the fashionable North Side and others in charitable and phil anthropic organization. LOCALS Mr. D. W. White left this week for Washington city and a trip through Virginia. Mrs. Annie Hubbord of State avenn left to-day for Nevada Mo. Mr. O. B. Johnson our popular letter carrier has been indisposed this week. Mr. T. S. Booker, of Everet ave. wh⁰ has been ill. has resumed work in the Pullman service. Deputy County Attorney B. S. Smith is in attendance at the inauguration of president Roosevelt Washington D. C. A new number of the S. M. T's was organized at the M, and O. hall this week to be known as the Sylvia Robinson Temple. Mrs Susie Sneed of K. C. Mo. spent one day this week on this side of the Kaw' the guest of her sister Mrs Carrie Tinnell of 1415 N. 4th Street. We are pleased to learn that Mrs S. H Estell of 119 Lafayette avenue who had a very serious attack of rheumatism is improving. Mrs D. Shannon of 1424 N. 4th street left this week for Weston Mo. where she will spend several days with her relatives and friends. The Sorosis Club meets next week at the residence of Mrs 1da Easlys 414 Oakland avenue. Mrs Carrie Tinnell of 1415 north 4th street is now able to be out again after an illness of several days. Miss Bettie Houston of Neb. ave., who has been ill some weeks is still only silently improved. Mrs. Emma Dorbson age 49, of 638 Minnesota avenue died this week at Douglass Hospital, funeral Sunday at Pleasant Green Baptist church. Those who are looking for nice rooms and good board or room with out board will to well to call at No 1413 N. 5th street, room from $3 to 3'50 per week. J. C. Dickens Proprietor. We Solicit Your Job Work Such A Cards Letterheads Billheads Counterbills Invitations Ladies Calling Cards Statements all kind of Bills, we will please you in both price and work. Coming Events. The Famous Alabama Babes Minstrel will make their First appearance of the season Monday night March 6th. at 17 17 W. 9th St. New features have been added, new songs, and specialities ex tremely pleasing. Admission 15 and 25 ceuts. The Palestine Gaurds will drill and the Massive Four quartette of Kansas City Mo., will sing at the M' and O. hall on the 14th, for the benefit of the Rosehill Baptist church it promises to be a great affair and a rare treat to all Admissioh 10, 15 and 25 ceuts We are harnessing for the political races and will make a run to wiu beginning next week. PATTERSON & GAYDEN -Dealers Inc- Hard and Soft Coal, Wood. Vault & Cesspool Cleaning. Gisterns Filled Tel. 215 West. 527 STATE AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, Hard Hits. If one half of the interest was manifested in establishing some thing among ourselves that our High School graduates could find employment, as is being spent over the separation from the white better and more glorious results could be obtained. Some Negro professional men are too stuck up" to treat people in the common walk of life decet. Too often the race who look for a Negro paper to defend their cause would not give a five cent piece towards its support. It doesn't do would be aspirants for Leadership to forget the acknowledged leaders of the race "they've got theirs. If Kansas City, Kansas Negroes do not join their forces together lay personal feelings aside and petty jealousies they will have something more than the Jim Crow High School to face. "In Darkest Russia." The many friends of Miss Ollie (Burgoyne) Martin, in this city, will be pleased to learn that she is well, and is now filling an engagement in St. Petersburgh Russia. There is much excite ment and a very troubled state of affairs n that city, she writes. Miss Martin is closing a four year tour before the fooights in the Orient. One of Life's Tragedies. When a bachelor sees a widow he shakes his head knowingly. When a widow sees a bachelor she shakes her head knowingly. Watching them is a spinster, who also shakes her head knowingly. Feminine Solace Sorrow finds a fertile field in femininity. Strange, too, are the remedies sought. Many women, overtaken by calamity and grief, find a deep solace in having their photographs taken. Among some of the ancient Mexican tribes the husband left his people and dwelt with his wife's family, where he seems to have been considered of minor importance. Homes In Various Countries Italy and Spain have fewer houses in proportion to their population than any other country in the world. The Argentine republic and Uruguay have the most. Log Cabin Philosophy. Spite of all de bright sunshine in dis worl', some mens' will go roun' huntin' fer happiness wid a candle.—Frank Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. Why. Indeed? "Why." asked Willie, as he sat in the grand stand with his father, "do they call it football when they play with their heads, papa?" Otherwise, the "Big Head." The first time a man is nominated for a back township office he thinks it is up to him to save the country from ruin. But He Has to Wait Nothing would please the small boy more than the privilege of assuming the role of father to the man occasionally. Ruse of Courtship: A wise girl always pretends to be a little more daffy than the young man she is planning to face the parson with. Cure as Bad as Disease Onions are recommended as a cure for indigestion, but as yet there has been no cure discovered for onions Hot-air Fan. An electric fan that heats the air current that it delivers has been devised by M. de Mare, a Belgian electrician. The apparatus consists of an electric motor and a rotating fan, the blades of which are of mica. Upon these mica blades are fastened resistance coils, which are heated by the passage through them of a current of electricity. Qualities of Radium The fact that radium exerts a very peculiar influence upon light-emitting bodies has given rise to the hope that it may eventually play an important role in the industry of light. A minute quantity of radium is sufficient to produce a strong light from a layer of zinc pyrites, and this light produces no heat, so that loss of energy is avoided. WEAR GLASSES DURING SLEEP. Habit, It Is Claimed, Will Cure Cases of Insomnia. The idea of wearing a pair of spectacles during sleep is one of the strangest of the many strange ideas that have come to our notice, says London Answers. The head of a large firm, who often traveled from one end of the country to the other, preferred to do so at night, so that he could sleep. Although his sight was perfect, his last act before getting into his berth was to put on a pair of spectacles, which were secured to the bridge of his nose by a good spring, and with this adorment he fell asleep. Those who adopt this peculiar aid to drowsiness appear to sleep without twisting and turning, as some people do; they instinctively acquire a knack of turning only so far as is safe, and they awake unharmed in the morning, with the glasses just as nicely adjusted as when they went to bed. The commencement of the habit is mostly traceable to a difficulty in wooing slumber and to an aversion to trying such dangerous remedies as morphine. Spectacles, when the eyes are not accustomed to them, have a somnolent effect, and the device afterward becomes a habit. CARE OF PLANTS IN WINTER Air and Sunshine Chief Requisites for Window Ornaments. Give plants all the fresh air you can. Open doors and windows at some distance from them on pleasant days and give them a chance to breathe in pure oxygen in liberal quantity. Give all the sunshine you can. And aim to keep the temperature of the room between 70 degrees by day and 55 at night. It will probably exceed these figures in both directions, but try to regulate it in such a way as to avoid the extremes of intense heat and dangerous cold. Use water liberally on the foliage of your plants. By washing off the dust it keeps open the pores of the leaves through which they breathe and it tempers the hot dry atmosphere usually prevailing in the living room. The only way to modify this condition is to keep water constantly evaporating on the stove or register and make frequent use of the sprayer. Planting Fruit Trees When eating a good pear or apple save the seeds and plant them either in a flower pot, where they will germinate before long, or else directly in the garden, when they will come up next spring. To prevent their loss the place must be covered as a mark. It takes a number of years before they bear fruit, but to see the progress of growth from year to year is always interesting. People often think it is not worth while for them to plant trees; they will not live to have fruit of them, and so neglect it entirely. But some one will enjoy the harvest. It is just the individual egoism which affects all classes of society in many ways—Hartford Times. In New York's Tough Districts In New York's Tough Districts. The experiences of the Bellevue hospital ambulance surgeons in the unlighted districts skirting East river, New York, where it is not safe even for policemen to venture sometimes, have led the hospital authorities to equip the instrument bags carried by the surgeons with a tubular electric dark lantern, sixteen inches long and two inches thick, weighing about two pounds. It serves equally well as a lantern and a night stick. According to the stories of the surgeons, when they have returned from calls to particularly dangerous districts, the defensive end of the contrivance has often proved more useful than the electric ends. To Kill or Cure the Dog? To Kill or Cure the Dog? A Mr. Gray of George's Corner took his dog out recently, says the Marine Sportsman, to chase foxes. It was a hopeful dog, filled with the enthusiasm of youth. Somehow the hound got switched off from the fox's track and went after a lively loupcervier, and when Mr. Gray came along to shoot a fox, he found a very sad and dilapidated dog sitting under a tree, with the wild cat overhead among the limbs contemplating a fresh assault. Mr. Gray shot the loupcervier and took the pelt home for the purpose of patching up the places where the skin was missing from his dog. He says another wild cat is needed to complete the job. If I might sing for you as waters sing in gushing melodies, or as the birds Whose rapture soars on free, unfettered waves If from my life might spring One song untrammeled of the net of Then might I praise you as my heart would praise; Nor can my song should leave me dumb through after days. Never be ashamed to work even if you have to work the other fellow. Never talk to much. A stiff lower jaw is as useful as a stiff upper. Colored brethren canst thou forget. The bird on a womans hat can't sing—but it makes her husband whistle when he gets the bill. Love is a sweet dream that matrimony turns into a horrible nightmare. A woman does not deplore the death of her first husband after she marries again, but the second husband often does. Occasionally a young man can be persuaded out of the notion of marrying a young woman, but an old man—Never. Men who preach by the yard practice by the inch, Fools rush in where angels wouldnt care to be caught by the,police. Kissing a fashionable young lady on the cheek is one way to remove paint. When a man disputes with a fool, the fool is doing the same thing. When a lot of womeu get tagether the main object of conversation is whether some other woman knows how her husband is acting. Man proposes, woman imposes and the divorce court exposes. If one half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives it isn't tha fuuli of the Art clubs and Sewing circles If you give a bald-headed man a fair show, he will always be well up in front -- apologies to our Manager. Man is made of dust, along comes the watering cart of Fate, and his name is Mud. The man who attends strictly to his wn business has steady job. You can always get a truthful answer if you ask a woman her age and she tells you none of your business. Writing for a newspaper is something like trying to preach a sermon, its mighty easy until you try it. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen. If President Rooseit was in town he would surely buy this Jewelery from us. The finest line of God and Silverware in the city. Watenes, Diamonds, Opera Glasses and Every thing kept in an Up-to-date Jewelry Store. O L I D A Y G O O D S A S P E C I L T Call and See Me. C. I, LEE 34 MINN. AVE. Kansas City, Kas Gentlemen Desiring nice comfortable rooms in a nice locality canf ind them neatly furnished at 750 Neb. ave. K. C. K. The Latest Ideas. IN GOLD AND SILVER JEWELRY. Cut Glass and Trinklets. We call your attention to our excellent line of HOLIDAY GOODS. BARGAIN HUNTERS MECCA. If you are thinking of making an Xmas present in the Jewelry Line. See us and you will profit. ED. J. DUNNING, 549 MINN. AVE. Kansas City, Kas MARCH 3, 1905. is Section CALL HERE The World's Wanderers. Tell me, thou star, whose wings of light Speed thee in thy fiery flight. In what cavern of the night Will thy pinions close now? Tell me, moon, thou pale and gray Pilgrim of heaven's homeless way. In what depth of night or day Seekest thou repose now? Weary wind, who wanderest Like the world's rejected guest. Hast thou still some secret nest On the tree or billow? —Percy Bysshe Shelley The Glories of a Throne It has been shown that out of a list of 2,550 sovereigns 300 have been overthrown, 134 assassinated, 123 taken prisoners of war, 108 executed, 100 slain in battle, sixty-four forced to abdicate, twenty-eight died by their own hands, twenty-five were tortured to death, while twenty-three became mad or imbecile. This gives a total of 905 whose reigns have ended miserably. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In the District Court of Wyandotte county State of Kansas. Mary Atkinson. Plaintiff. vs. J. B. Atkinson, Defendant. The State of Kansas to J. B. Atkinson. Greeting: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff in the above entitled cause did on the 22nd day of September, 1904. file her petition in a certain action against you in the District Court in Wyandotte County State of Kansas asking for an absolute divorce on the grounds of abandonment and desertion, and unless you demur, answer or otherwise object on or before the 30th day of January 1905, the allegations therein will be taken as true and upon further proof thereof judgement will be rendered as prayed for in said petition. JOHNSON and TOOLE. Attys, forPlaintiff. Wm. Needles. Clerk. By D. C. MeCombs, Deputy. STATE OF KANSAS IN THE PROBATE Court IN AND SS FORSAID COUNTY. n the matter of the Estate of Jane Redd Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the Last Will and Testament of Jane Redd, late of said County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the county and State aforesaid, date the 6th day of February A. D. 1905. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such Estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within nine years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. L.F. BRADLEY executor of the Last Will and Testament of Jane Redd Deceased. First puolished Feb. 11th 1905. Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas In the Probate County of Wrandotte Court in and for said County COUNTY of Wyandotte) said County. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEDGE DECEASED Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesid rent estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Prabate Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyndotte and State aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month of March A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. William S. Diceman, administrator, William S. Diceman, Director or Chase williams, who proof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyon dottle. State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Probate Court this 20th Day of January A. D. 1905 Winfield Freeman Old-Time Controversies Old-time controversies were often vigorous in language. In a controversy with Milton concerning the divine right of kings Salmasius called his opponent a puny piece of a man, a homunculus, a dwarf not having a human figure, a bloodless being, a creature of skin and bones, a contemptible pedagogue fit only to flog boys, a rhinoceros, a hangdog looking fellow. The great English poet not only answered in kind, but entered into an extensive correspondence with people in Holland to obtain petty gossip and scandalous anecdotes concerning his opponent. Costlier than Champagne. Although champagne is called the "wealthy water," there are few hotels in the country where one can pay more than $4 a quart for it, while, on the other hand, there are hundreds of places where Burgundy is sold as high as $35 a quart. At one hotel the menu advertises a special brand of this fine wine for $25 a bottle. There are any number of Rhine wines which cost above $8, and there is a big demand for them. Champagne does not improve with age as the other wines do and this probably accounts for the difference. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. PUBLISHED WEEKLY at 1510 Norh 3rd Street KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. Martin Editor, Geo. A. Dudley, Publisher & Business Manager. Terms OF SubscriptioninAdvance. One Year,.....$1.00 Six Months,.....65 cents Three Months,.....40.c ne Month,.....15.c Advertising 25 cts. Per Inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Add' for 3 Months or longer 150 per inch, each insertion. Entered as second class matter December first, 1904 at the Post office at Kansas City, Kansas under the Act of congress of March rd. 1879." Grewsome Collection A French professor is the owner of a collection of 920 human heads, representing every known race of people. Scarlet for Bachelor Maids Scarlet for Bachelor Maids. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery of the coachman are all scarlet. Cost of London's Paupers. Every year $4,000,000 is spent on the food and clothing of indoor paupers in London. Largest Building in the World. The Crystal palace accommodates more people than any other building in the world. It will hold 100,000. Trades in London. According to the late returns, there are 1,756 distinct trades being carried on in London and its suburbs. Berlin Land Values Double. The ground value of the city of Berlin is said to be worth twice what it was in 1887. The Indian rhinoceros is nearly extinct. There are two specimens in the London zoological gardens and two on the European continent. Very few are left in a wild state in India and Assam, and unless special measures be taken for their preservation they will soon disappear. Call and see H.S. Sykes and and' A. Gooden maufactor of Pop corn in ball and brick at 316 Oakland ave A Word To The lack of proper appreciation of the efforts of Negro newspapers make in an uphill business to maintain the standard of excellence desired by those in the business. Just why the race is so utterly slack, in giving to their own the proper patronage is one of the unsolved mysteries. Each day and week bring to us the warring of being a unit in behalf of our own salvation. It takes something beside wind to publish the most weakly of weeklies. If every Afro-American family would pledge themselves to stand by an organ buplished in their behalf, just one year, the results would be unbelievable we ask the colored brother to wake up ook around and observe, see if you cannot discern that the signs of the times don't speak in thundering tones for a the public advocates of our interests han, why wait do your part by subscripting getting your neighbors to do the same und watch the good results. Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas. County of Wyandottie In the Probate Court in and forsaid County. In the Matter of the Estate of John R.Smith Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid, on the first Monday in month of February, A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. In Witness Whereof, the undesigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyan-dotte.State of Kansas,have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 24th day of December, A. D. 1904. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. Res.420 Nebraska ave. | Tel.383 White. SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Houro: From 10 A. M., till 4 p. m. and from 6 till 9 P. M., C.H.C. JORDAN·M.M.M.D., sota Ave. Kansas City, K --- TRUTH PROVED BY EXAMFLE. Storekeeper Certainly Lacked the Gift of Energy. William C. Greene, the copper magate, was talking to a young man about success. "The secret of success is enterprise, energy," said Col. Greene. "To be lazy, to stick always in the same old rut, that is how to make a wretched failure of your life. "I went West when I was 17, and after a spell of contracting and prospecting about Prescott, I farmed a bif in the San Pedro Valley. There was a storekeeper I used to buy my supplies from at that time who was a failure of the first water. This man's lack of enterprise was so great that people used to bring their children from miles around to study him. He was valuable as a horrible example. "There,' they would say to the youngsters, 'take warning by Manners. He is a failure. He has no enterprise. Don't grow up like him. He resembles a tortoise, doesn't he?" "Poor Manners in his sluggishness did resemble a tortoise a good deal. I sent a boy in to him one day with a pack mule to get five gallons of molasses. The boy told me afterward that when he entered the store Manners was dozing. The boy coughed and the man awoke and got up. He opened his mouth wide, and stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arms in a vast yawn. Then he said to the boy: "Wotcha want?" "Five gallons of molasses, Mr. Manners,' the boy spoke up, sharp and quick." "Wah-h-h-h,' yawned Manners again. Then as he took up the jug he grumbled: "Ain't there nobody what sells mollasses in this here town but me?" PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toilet that would quite astonish the most fashionable society lady. First she has her hair dressed by her maid, who, after anointing the long, silky black locks with a little oil, made from aloe wood or cocoanut, arranges it simply in a long, smooth plait, low on the nape of the neck, and decorated either with gold or jewelled ornaments. Next the bath is prepared as hot as it can be borne, and in this the lady may stay as long as two or three hours. Soaps are not used, but, instead, there are multifarious unguents, secret preparations of the bathing women, which render the skin soft as velvet and delicately perfumed. Oftentimes the face is washed over with milk, in which has been squeezed lemon juice. The hair of the oriental woman is usually beautifully long, soft and glossy, and the way they arrange it is invariably becoming to their soft type of beauty. Perfumes are much indulged in. These are introduced in the bath and permeate the garments, but are rarely used on a handkerchief. The Foam on the Top Don't snuggle conceit to your bosom, my boy. Because you're on top of the wave, For here I thought that might serve also. To the gold of the credit you crave: The best is not always at surface, my And I think, if to notice you'll stop, You'll observe that the good to the bottom may run. But the foam always lingers on top. I would not discourage your zeal, my dear lad; It is best to keep working alway. But this funny old world often labels as bad The thing that is good in its day. In fact, I may say that it classifies wrong Some say the great earthly crop. And I think you will note as you journey along That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear youth. But here the world as you go. See the men who we place at the summit, in truth. Then gaze on the mortals below. And I give you my word I'll have nothings. And this brief anthem will stop, If you do not agree with the thing that I preach. That the foam may be found on the top. A. J. WATER in Sunset Magazine. A Polite Discharge James Rankin Young, the new superintendent of the Dead Letter office admires politeness. "It is possible," he said recently, "to be polite always. It is possible to be polite even when discharging a drunken coachman. I know that this is so, for I have seen the thing done. "A friend of mine found himself obliged last week to get rid of his coachman for drunkenness. He summoned the man into his presence, and discharged him with this polite speech: "I fear, Montgomery, that we must part. It has been impossible for me to avoid noticing that several times during the past month you have been—er—sober. Now, I don't believe that any man can attend properly to drinking if he has driving to do, and, therefore, at the month's end you will be free to devote yourself exclusively to your chosen occupation." All Christians In his article in the Woman's Home Companion, describing the International Sunday School Convention in Jerusalem, Doctor Devins relates the following significant incident: "An unexpected favor was received from the officers of the Russian church on the Mount of Olives. A meeting had been planned to be held near the place of the Ascension. As the leader of the meeting, the writer went to see if it could be held under the trees near the church. "Why not?" was the reply, accompanied by a smile on the saintly face of the speaker. "Why not? Do we not worship the same Christ?" Process of Digestion The French physiologist Fere has made experiments which show that the process of digestion diminishes the capacity for muscular work fully one-half. As regards the effects of stimulants like tobacco and alcohol, he has found that while they diminish fatigue, the effect never lasts more than ten minutes, and is followed by a greater degree of fatigue than would have existed if they had not been indulged in. Coldest Country of All. Siberia has the greatest known cold in the world. At Yakutsk the average for three winter months is 40 degrees below zero, while individual drops to 75 and 76 degrees below are not unknown. But at Verjohansk the average for January, 1885, was 69.9 degrees below zero, and the mercury at one time dropped to 90.4 degrees below, the lowest on record anywhere in the world. Big Seeds and Flowers. The largest seeds in the world are those of the mora tree, which grows on the Isthmus of Panama. They are six inches long, five inches broad and four inches thick. The biggest lily in the world is found in the region of the Himalayan mountains. It has a stalk 13 feet high and $11\frac{1}{2}$ inches in circumference. The flowers are as big as goblets, white and very beautiful. Condemns Linen Handkerchiefs. Prof. Calmette, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, is making wcr on linen handkerchiefs, which he considers a great source of infection. He suggests the use of specially constructed wallets for Japanese paper handkerchiefs, with separate divisions for the new and used ones. The latter are to be burned. Must See to His Own Safety At several points on the Great Eastern railway in England the line crosses rivers by means of swing bridges. The bridge-keeper is compelled to ride across on the engine, so that if he has not locked the bridge securely, and any accident should follow, he will pay the penalty for his own negligence. Watch Children's Eyes. Children in schools should be carefully watched in order to guard against trouble with the eyes, as shortsightedness is becoming yearly a more common defect. They should not be allowed to hold the books nearer the eyes than fourteen inches, and must not stoop over their work. Scientific Twaddle. "All this talk about high tide and low tide," said Mrs. Partington's married daughter, "is the merest guff. Why, I've been down the bay at all hours of the day and night, and the water always comes the same distance up the side of the boat."—Baltimore American. Ancient Ann. A man who can't understand a woman's love of bargains will feel awfully proud when he allows a book agent to sell him one year's subscription to a magazine, with the works of a standard poet thrown in, for $4.79, marked down from $5.-Baltimore American. Not Meant to Be Humorous. A few years ago a well-known bishop married his second wife, and, returning home after his honeymoon, announced a series of sermons, the title of the series being "The Denlent's Return." This was obviously unintentional. Clannishness of Rooks. Rocks always inter-marry among themselves. If a rook brings a bride from a strange rookery, he is driven out of the community, and forced to start a place of his own at a distance. Church Gaining in England. The church is slowly gaining in England. Ten years ago the communicants numbered only one in eighteen of the population; now the proportion is one in fifteen. Labor Saved by Electricity. The twenty-two-ton bell at the Sacre Coeur church in Paris is toled by electricity. A single choir-boy can thus do the work which formerly took five men. What Is the Answer? Maybe love is blind, as the old saw says, but it has been generally observed that the pretty girl, as a rule, is the one that gets married first. Barbers Cannot Talk. A European hairdresser, appreciating the extent of the evil of talkative barbers, advertises that all his assistants are deaf and dumb. Gum Made of Cassava Starch. Cassava starch, more popularly known as tapioca, is the chief element of the gum on the back of all postage stamps. Man Cheaper Than Horse. In the farming districts of Russia it costs 40 cents to hire a horse for one day and 35 cents to hire a man. Loss of British Seamen. Of 10,000 British seamen, sixty-six are lost at sea every year. Hibernating Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes hibernate like bears duri- the winter. --- It's up to YOU To trade with the largest and best Grocery store and meat market on North 3rd St. Where you can get the best of everything usually kept in a first class grocery also Fresh an Salt meats and country produces. The most reasonable of prices. MANY HOLIDAY GOOD THINGS ASPECIALTY. Call and be convinced. Look over our assortment of clean, fresh goods. H. Krueger. B.R.RAY MORE Manufacturer of and Wholesale dealer in ERTAKER SUPP CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSE AT A E FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK A Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone V Factory Co. 6 St. and Reynolds Ave. Kansas City Kansas KASAS CITY SOAP 1510 N. 4th St. factors of the Best Grades of Toil- ing Soaps. A Home Institution THEM YOUR PATRON of their brand the Snowflake and convince you of their merits. RESTAURANT 1012 N 3rd St. place in the city and will serve you o. m., every thing is cooked to taste MEALS 15 CENTS, Thatcher the prop, is one of the best will please you, give her a call. MONEY to Loan Watches. Diamonds Je CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING Of Value Watches and Jewelry Sold on Paym AT CASH PRICES. Claim Pledges For Sale C WATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRING Union Loan Office Minnesota ave. kansas city UR OPPORTUN TO SAVE MONEY. suits, dressing sacques, aprons a in the Dressmaking line 1100 North 3rd St. W. B.R. A Manufacturer of a UNDERTAKER FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEY. Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota Factory Co. 6 St. Kansas City KANSAS CITY 1510 N. Are Manufactors of the Best ing Soaps. A GIVE THEM YOU One trial of their brand th convince you RESTA 1012 N. 1s the best place in the city a,m, to ii p. m., every thing MEALS 1 Mrs. Thatcher the prop city and will please you, g SINESS STRIC TLY CONFIDENTIAL. Money on Watches. Di CLOTHING AN 0000000000 Watches and Jewel AT CASH Unclaim Pledges FINE WATCHES AND JE Union Lo 427 Minnesota ave YOUR OPP TO SAVE Ladies suits, dressing anything in the Dressmaking W. B.R A Y M O N D UNDERTAKER SUPPLIES FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSE AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED Undertaking Rooms, 431 Minnesota ave. Telephone West 32. Factory Col 6 St. and Reynolds Ave. Kansas City Kansas KANSAS CITY SOAP CO. KANSAS CITY SOAP CO. Are Manufactors of the Best Grades of Toilet & Washing Soaps. A Home Institution. GIVE THEM YOUR PATRONAGE One trial of their brand the Snowflake and Union will convince you of their merits. RESTAURANT 1s the best place in the city and will serve you from 5,30 a,m, to ii p. m, every thing is cooked to taste, MEALS 15 CENTS, Mrs. Thatcher the prop, is one of the best cooks in the city and will please you, give her a call. CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING Watches and Jewelry Sold on Payments AT CASH PRICES. Unclaim Pledges For Sale Cheap. FINE WATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRING. 427 Minnesota ave. kansas city.kans. YOUR OPPORTUNITY Ladies suits, dressing sacques, aprons and in fact anything in the Dressmaking line MADE TO ORDER and sold on weekly and me few prices: Belt dresses $1. 50cts and up. Call and see Mrs W. F. n weekly and monthly payments. Belt dresses $1.00 and up; dress up. Call and see me. s W. F. Williams Third St. Kansas C and sold on weekly and monthly payments. Here is a few prices: Belt dresses $1.00 and up; dressing sacques 50cts and up. Call and see me. Mrs W. F. Williams. 1510 North Third St Here is the Place J. T. ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clear Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINNESOTA AVENUE. --- KANSAS CITY, KANSAS and Wholesale dealer in SUPPLIES ALL PURPOSE AT ALL HOURS ANCE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED ave. Telephone West 32. and Reynolds Ave. City Kansas CITY SOAP CO. 4th St. First Grades of Toilet & Wash. Home Institution. OUR PATRONAGE The Snowflake and Union will of their merits. URANT 3rd St. and will serve you from 5,300 is cooked to taste, 55 CENTS, is one of the best cooks in the he her a call. J. H. COHEN, PROPRIETOR. to Loan Diamonds Jewelry. TO EVERYTHING Value 000000000 Jewelry Sold on Payments PRICES. For Sale Cheap. JEWELRY REPAIRING. Loan Office. e. kansas city. kans. ORTUNITY MONEY. acques, aprons and in fact line monthly payments. Here is a 00 and up; dressing sacques me. Williams, Kansas City, Kansas A. M. HARPER, New and Second Hand Furniture, Carpets, Stoves, etc. 425 Minnesota Ave, KANSAS CITY KANS. MME. L, F. JOHNSON, Shampooing, Manicuring, Massage and Scalp Treatment. Tel.733 W. A SPECIALTY Duplex Telegraphy In Europe. The telegraph line from Vienna to Czernowitz is the longest line in Europe which uses the duplex system, being 630 miles long. The system was adopted a few months ago, as it was found necessary to increase the capacity of the line, which takes all the matter for Roumania, southeastern Russia and a part of Bulgaria. The system works well at present, although the line is constructed of iron wire instead of copper. Good Luck for Turtles at J Good Luck for Turtles at Least. The Chinese have a peculiar custom with regard to turtles, which they consider as very good joss. Almost any day one can see these creatures, some of them of huge size, being carried on board the river steamers, not to be taken to Canton for culinary purposes, but to be dumped into the sea and restored to liberty and freedom. Good luck is thought to follow.—Hong Kong Press. Good to Lick Baby With Later On. I saw lately a dainty and original gift for a young mother. It was called "a measuring stick for baby," made of white wood thirty-six inches long, and marked off into inches as accurately as a tape measure. Forgetmenots were pained down the side, and at one end w... a hole in which was a ribbon bow and loop by which to suspend it.—Good Housekeeping. Moisture in Tobacco The presence of moisture in tobacco is, the Lancet believes, of some importance to public health, since the combustion of tobacco containing a large proportion of moisture is impeded, while as the g eration of vapor is increased, so are ie chances of the polsonous principle being carried into the mouth diminished. Early Japanese University. It will surprise most readers to learn from a recent Japanese writer that there was a university in Japan in the eighth century, with schools of ethics, mathematics and history, and that text books were employed dealing with such specialties as the discases of women, veterinary surgery and materia medica. Casting a Gloom. "Yes, for local talent, it was a first rate entertainment," said the suburban resident, "and we made several hundred dollars for the hospital fund, but there was one little hitch. The town undertaker was down for a tenor solo, and he insisted on singing 'Tum Waiting for Thee.'"—New York Sun. Consider Dreams Revelations Consider Dreams Revelations. Among the people of the east dream is considered to be a direct revelation from God, and there are in the Orient, even to-day, soothsayers, or fortune tellers, who interpret dreams, just as the soothsayers did in bible times, and from dreams tell the future of the dreamer. Cancer Victims Well to Do Statistics show that cancer is more common among those who are accustomed to the refinements of life than among the very poor, and to care for such patients the doctors say that good surroundings are a necessity. Snakes in India. About 400,000 snakes are killed every year in British India. The fees paid as rewards annually for the destruction of beasts of prey and venomous snakes by the government of India amount to about $125,000. German Colony in Palestine. Thirty-four years ago a German colony settled at Haifa, Palestine. To day all of the ninety families in are prosperous. They raise grapes and make wine free from alcohol, which is sold to the natives. Irish Ledger in Court. A ledger kept in the Irish language was produced at the Roscommon Assizes, in Ireland, and the witness had to go on the bench to translate the terms for the judge. Gravity. An observing schoolboy wrote this short essay: "Gravity was discovered by Izaak Walton. It is chiefly noticeable when the apples are falling from the trees." Novices Leave Convent. Novices Leave Convent. Stealing the front door key from the pocket of the mother superior, three young novices escaped from the convent of Santa Clara in Lisbon and disappeared. Dogs May Ride in Berlin. Dogs are allowed to enter tramway cars in Berlin, but must be held in their master's laps and paid for as if they were human passengers. Credit Is a Necessity. As trade now stands, there is not enough gold out of the earth, if it were all coined, to transact the business of a day. Nationalities Among Russians. The Russian population represents 110 nationalities, the three great stock being Finns, Tartars and Slavs. Aluminum for Sharpening Cutlery. Aluminum is superior to any stone for sharpening cutlery. Denmark's Honey Exports. Denmark exports 2,500,000 pounds of honey a year. THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME MR and MRS. SCHWANDT Janborn, Minn. MR and MRS. JNO O. ATKINSON. Independence, Mo. Remarkable Cures Effected Attkinson says, after five years' experience with Peruna, "I will ever continue to speak a good word for Peruna. I am still cured of catarrh."—John O. Atkinson, Independence, Mo., Box 272. Mrs. Alla Schwandt, Sanborn, Minn., writes: "I have been troubled with rheumatism and catarrh for twenty-five years. Could not sleep day or night. After having used Peruna I can sleep and nothing bothers me now. If I ever are affected with any kind of sickness, Peruna will be the medicine I shall use. My son was cured of catarrh of the larynx by Peruna."—Mrs. Alla Schwandt. When old age comes, catarrhal diseases come also. Systemic catarrh is almost universal in old people. Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus Ohio, who will be pleased to give you the benefit of his medical advice gratis Conviction Follows When buying loose coffee or anything you to have in his bin, how do you know w getting? Some queer stories about coffee th could be told, if the people who handle it (g speak out. Could any amount of mere talk have pers housekeepers to use Lion Coffee, the leader of all package coffees of a century, if they had not found it superior to Purity, Strength, Flavor and Un Follows Trial or anything your grocer happens to you know what you are ses about coffee that is sold in bulk, who handle it (grocers), cared to are talk have persuaded millions of Coffee, age coffees for over a quarter and it superior to all other brands in flavor and Uniformity? COFFEE Conviction Follows Trial When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bin, how do you know what you are getting? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out. Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity? W. L. DOUGLAS UNION MADE $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the greatest sellers in the world for their excellent style, easy fitting and superior wearing quality. You can buy them from $5.00 to $7.00. The only difference in the prices, however, is that shoes cost more to make, hold their shape better, wear longer than others. L. Douglas $5.00 shoes on the market to-day. L. Douglas guarantees that your shoes are stamping his name and price on the bottom of each shoe. L. Douglas $5.00 shoes are sold through his own retail stores in the country where you live. L. Douglas shoes are much easier to reach. BETTER THAN OTHER MAKES AT ANY PRICE. "For three years I have worn L. Douglas $3.50 shoe and found it not only comfortable but also an any shoe that I had, regardless of price." Chan L. Larelli, Artist, Inc., Capital National Bank, Indianapolis, Ind. boys wear W. L. Douglas $2.50 and $3.00 shoes because they fit better, hold their shape, and wear longer than other makes. W.LOUGELAS $4.00 SHOES CANNOT BE EQUALLED AT ANY PRICE. W. L. Douglas can be Coached. Colleen Cottle considered to be the finest patent leather maker. FASHION OLOR EYELETS WILL NOT WEAR BRASSY. W. L. Douglas has the largest shop mall order business in the world. No trouble to get. You can write to the designer, you desire more information, write for illustrated Catalogue, or Spruce. W.LOUGELAS, BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS Winter Service 1904 and 1905 6 TRAINS DAILY TO ST. LOUIS. For Omaha and Lincoln, 9 a. m. and 10:20 p. m. For Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Independence and Coffeyville 9:55 a. m. and 10:30 p. m. New "HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL," lea- arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. Through and Chair Cars to Ft. Smith, Little Rock and For Pablo, Denver and Pacific Coast Points at 10:40 For Joplin and Way Stations 2:25, 9:45 a.m. To Lexington, Sedalia and Way Stations, 5:45 a.m. Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph, 5:45, 9:00, 10: For Kiowa, Wichita and Way Stations, 12:01, noo For Local Coupon Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths a call at UNION DEPOT OR CITY TICK E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agent, Passenger Dept. JOHN J. SHINE, City Ticket Agent Telephone 740 Hickok SPECIAL," leaving at 12:01 Noon; breakfast. Through Sleepers, Diners, Little Rock and Hot Springs. East Points at 10:40 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. m. s 2:25, 9:45 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. m. Stations, 5:45 a.m. m. and 5:00 p.m. m. ph. 5:45, 9:00, 10:50 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. m. stations, 12:01, noon, and 10:30 p.m. Piping Car Berths and all information call at CITY TICKET OFFICE Passenger Dept. 901 Main St. Gent Kansas City, Mo. 740 Hiokory. NEW "HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL," leaving at 12:01 Noon; arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. Through Sleepers, Diners and Chair Cars to Ft. Smith, Little Rock and Hot Springs. For Pueblo Denver, New Mexico. By Pe-ru-na. Under date of January 10, 1897, r. Hartman received the following letter: "My wife has been a sufferer from a complication of diseases for the past twenty-five years. Her case has baffled the skill of some of the most noted physicians. One of her worst troubles was chronic constipation of several years' standing. She was also passing through that most critical period in the life of a woman—change of life. "In June, 1895, I wrote to you about her case. You advised a course of Peruna and Manalin, which we at once commenced, and have to say it completely cured her. "About the same time I wrote you about my own case of catarrh, which had been of twenty-five years' standing. At times I was almost past going. I commenced to use Peruna according to your instructions and continued its use for about a year, and it has completely cured me."—John O. Atkinson. In a letter dated January 1, 1900, Mr. This popular success of LION COFFEE can be due only to inherent merit. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and increasing popularity. If the verdict of MILLIONS OF HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince you of the merits of LION COFFEE, it costs you but a trifle to buy a package. It is the easiest way to convince yourself, and to make you a PERMANENT PURCHASER. LION COFFEE is sold only in 1 lb. sealed packages, and reaches you as pure and clean as when it left our factory. Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY LION LION FANCY ROASTED COFFEE WOOLSON SUGAR CO. WOOLSON SUGAR CO. W. L. Douglas makes and sells more Men's $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. $10,000 REWARD to any one who can disprove this statement. SHORT KANSAS ITEMS Too many people who claim to "bear the cross" says the Pratt Union are as cross as a bear. The old-fashioned journalist who insists that the snow is beautiful is at work on the Wetmore Enterprise. In the city of Argentine the Board of Education have arranged with the City Council to occupy the City Hall as a High School. The State Temperance Union, which met in Topeka last week, is entitled to be known as the Zemsky Sober of Kansas. Valley Center is being made a good place to live in by its discriminating city council, which has not met since the middle of November. According to the Washington Republican the reason girls do not talk in their sleep is that they tell all they know while they are awake. Senator Fitzpatric adds to his own renown by telegraphing to the newspapers in his district every time an anti-Standard Oil bill is passed. A Franklin county paper announces that "District Attorney Jerome K. Jerome of New York" will address the Ottawa Chautauqua next July. Two shows "An american Gentleman," and "Beware of Men," are booked for the same night in Atchison—at least Aitchison is being made to think so. Kent Robb has received 26,338 votes as the "most popular" street car conductor in Topeka. His name suggests that the company is also working in his behalf. The fact that he is mayor of the town did not prevent a man in Greenleaf whose name is withheld, being fined $1 for leaving his horse hitched out of doors all night. A. P. Shaw has bought D. E. McColloms interest in the Osage City Public Opinion, and is now the sole owner again. He has one of the best weekly papers in the state. Congressman "Phil" Campbell of the Third district awoke the other morning and found himself the most renowned member of the Kansas legislature—and also the busiest. Citizens along the Central Branch want a clause in the new railroad law requiring each line to maintain a snow plow. They are tired of waiting for the man behind the shovel. George S. Gray, trusty at the Kansas penitentiary, escaped recently. He was working at the home of Dr. Griggsby and it is reported that an ex-convicted furnished him with a suit of clothes. Downs, in Osborne county, is able to brag that it has had only two divorce cases in ten years. Nothing ever happens at Downs, as a matter of fact, except the celebration each year of its anniversary. Out in Jewell county, the Republican says, they never call a man a liar any more no matter how many rabbits he claims to have killed, or how many degrees below zero his thermometer registered. Ten warrants were issued in Olpe, Lyon county, this week for persons who had stolen old ties from the Santa Fe railroad. The company is only human and objects to having old ties ruthlessly broken up. Reports of the terrible effects of the cold and stormy weather upon live stock come from all sections of the state. Near Ashland it is said that of a herd of 2,000 head, over 200 perished from cold and hunger. The Cowley county farmer who recently dug a grave for himself and then curled up in it and died "was not," says the Clay Center Dispatch, "unlike the Kansas politicians who are on the Standard Oil side of the controversy. They are joshing a Robinson man, the Index says, who is the father of a young baby, because he attended a dinner party, recently and absentmindly folded his napkin three-corner shaped instead of the conventional way. Some Howard women took the Courant's suggestion seriously when it advised selling their votes at the spring election as a means of raising funds for the church. One woman asked: "How much do the corrupt politicians usually pay for a vote?" Just as a train was about to pull out of Hiawatha, the Democrat says, a woman shouted frantically: "Wait until I get my clothes on." Every man on the car rubbered to "have a look." It was a poor washer woman trying to get a basket of clothes on the car. Dr. J. P. Hammie, state senator from the Chase-Morris-Marion district, was permanently excused from the senate to enter a hospital in Kansas City for treatment. He is suffering from nervous trouble resulting from his hard campaign for the office of state senator. Governor Hoch signed the bill making pipelines common carriers and establishing a rate for transporting oil given distances. He signed also the bill urged by the State Federation of Labor, providing that parallel tunnels in mines shall be kept open and in use. A denial in the Eldorado Republican: The Wichita Eagle says the editor of this paper prints his own picture on the occasion of his own birthday. This is incorrect. The editor is to modest to print his own picture and during his absence from the city the boys in the office decided the picture was to handsome to lay around the office with out using and inserted it in honor of his forty-eighth birthday. According to a Humboldt paper a farmer, James Lockhart, has found that "crude oil is a shure shot cure for the booze and tobacco habbits." Farmer Jim tried the crude petroleum on the recommendation of a driller, as a demolizor for a cold. He gulped a teaspoonful three times a day for a week. The cold departed. Then, when he next sught to regale his system with a drink of liquor, the stuff was so nauseating he could not get it down, and a chew of tobacco and a cigar were equally distasteful. IOWA GROWN FIRE DRIED SEED CORN Your neighbor has found that he can grow 20 bushels more corn per acre by planting Iowa Grown Seed Corn. Why don't you do the same. Let us send you liberal samples of our best varieties, with seed catalogue free. Don't lay this paper down until you have sent for them. Make two dollars where you now make one. Address. J. B. ARMSTRONG & SONS, Seed Corn Growers, Drawer No. 21, Shenandoah, Iowa. 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As she left the concert hall she was accosted by a small but haughty man, who swung off his great soft hat with a flourish worthy of an ancient Castilian hidalgo. "Think not, gracious lady," he announced, while Madam Russell stood in very surprise, "that I have failed to see and honor your notice of unworthy me. For twenty nights your voice has charmed me. For twenty nights you have not failed to seek me with those wondrous eyes, in the topmost gallery. For twenty nights I have not slept for the thought of thee. My mother has a bakery here in Madrid. I am my mother's only son. And."—here he knelt in the street, his hand upon his heart, "—my life and fortune are at your feet." "Yet I went home," said the song-stress.—Succes Magazine Tom—"How did you recover from that fearful attack of the blues?" Joe—"Yes. Fell into a barrel of money."—Detroit Free Press. Business: "How much have you got, Billy?" "Fourpence." "I've got twopence. Let's put it together and go halves!"—Punch. 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Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis "ALL ALONE." covery do not contain opium or other harmful drugs. They are compounds of medicinal principles, scientifically extracted from indigenous roots that cure the diseases for which they are recommended. They are medicines which have enjoyed the public confidence for over a third of a century. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures women's ills when all other remedies fail. This is what Mrs. H. Harrison, a prominent woman, living at No. 112 West 2nd Street, Sioux City, Iowa, says about it: WHY GET SOAKED WHEN TOWER'S 145 TRACE FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY IN THE HARDEST STORM! CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULLY DEARED OF GARMENTS AND HATS. A. J. TOWER CO., BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LTD., TORONTO, CANADA. TWENTY BUSHELS OF WHEAT 150 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE TO THE ACRE Is the record on the Free Hom- stead Lands of Western Canada for 1904. 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I wrote to Dr. Pierce, and I will never forget his kindly advice telling me to follow his instructions faithfully. In five months my improvement was so noticeable to friends that they began to inquire about my method of treatment. I was told that the most fortunate means of cure that I had most fortunately endured, and as so many ladies applied to me for information regarding Dr. Pierce's world-famed medicines and his plans of treatment, I was told that they them the benefit of my experience, so told me the large number of positive cures effected by Dr. Pierce's remedies alone, used by my recommendation, seemed, in one year's time, to be a miracle. I couldn't have believed it had not seen the parties and known the facts." Weak women are made strong and sick women well by the use of Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is the one reliable regulator. It dries enfeebling drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures isemale weakness. 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This book is of a hundred pages, short and tells of an experience of over thirty years in newspaper, Special Declarations, and the Limbs and Joints, Ete. It tells of the only in this country devoted exclusively to the treatments they may be cured without surgical operations, plaster collection and special literature bearing on the 5104 PINE STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. Time When Russian Prophet Found an Answer. Once, in Moscow, near the Borovitchskala gate, he (Count Tolstoi) saw a persistent beggar, asking alms, who exclaimed "A littl● penny, brother, in the name of Christ!" A police officer approached; he was young, martial, and wrapped in the regulation sheepskin. At the sight of him the beggar fled, hobbling away in fright and haste. "Is it possible," said Tolstoi to himself, "that people are forbidden to ask charity, in Christ's name—in a Christian land!" "Brother," he said to the policeman, "can you read?" "Yes," said the officer, politely, for Tolstoi has a grand air. "And do you remember Christ's orders to feed the hungry?"—and he cited the words. The policeman was evidently troubled; he turned to his questioner, and asked:— "And you, sir—can you read?" "Yes, brother." "And have you read the police regulations?" "Yes, brother." "And do you remember that begging in the main streets is forbidden?" The prophet found no answer ready. —Success Magazine. The End. Bly—Does your wife ever listen to your advice? Sly—Yes, she listens—and that's all!—Detroit Free Press. Men think it's awfully funny to see a girl trying to control a three-acre cold with a three-inch handkerchief.—New Orleans Picayune. Talking. "Does the baby talk yet?" asked a friend of the family. "No," replied the baby's disgusted little brother; "the baby doesn't need to talk." "Doesn't need to talk?" "No. All the baby has to do is yell, and it gets everything there is in the house that's worth having.—Tit-Bits. "Papa will you send me to Europe to study music?" "No you can study it right here, and I'll send you to Europe to practice."—Houston Post. A HEALTHY OLD AGE OFTENTHE BESTPART OF LIFE Help for Women Passing Through Change of Life Providence has allotted us each at least seventy years in which to fulfill our mission in life, and it is generally our own fault if we die prematurely. Mrs.MaryKoehne Nervous exhaustion invites disease. This statement is the positive truth When everything becomes a burden and you cannot walk a few blocks without excessive fatigue, and you break out into perspiration easily, and your face flushes, and you grow excited and shaky at the least provocation, and you cannot bear to be crossed in anything, you are in danger; your nerves have given out; you need building up at once! To build up woman's nervous system and during the period of change of life we know of no better medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Here is an illustration. Mrs. Mary L. 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LEWIS'SINGLE STRAIGHT 5*CIGAR ANNUAL YEARLY Tour jobber, or direct from factory, Pooria, Ill. FARMS FOR Sale on crop PAMMUS J. MULHALL, Sioux City, Iowa. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE CURES Dead cough. Written Cost. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. SHORT NEWS STORIES Caught from the Wires and Condensed Philippine tariff bill is passed by the house. Compulsory flag law passed by New Mexico council. Pennsylvania society gives its second annual banquet. Federal inquiry has preceptible effect upon beef trust. Tobacco trust may be next to undergo an investigation. Missouri senate defeats Senator Clarke's mortgage-limit bill. Anti-bribery bill passes Missouri house with one vote against it. Funeral of Grand Duke Sergius undisturbed by any act of violence. Forty years' imprisonment is sentence imposed upon Major Carrington. Alleged that the Standard oil company has arranged a compromise with Texas. Walmsley game law, which had passed Missouri house, is passed by senate. Illinois Republiicans hold conference, but fail to agree on primary measure. Missouri school book bill goes to engrossment in senate after amendment is defeated. Missouri house fails to pass Dr. Tubbs' anti-tipping bill, which may be taken up again. Cabinet favors renewal of Indian Territory oil lease because of vested rights involved. J. G. Stadelman, chief of supplies at the World's Fair, files suit for divorce, alleging desertion. Standard oil offers to build refinery and give to Texas if state will operate for ten years. Senator Patterson of Colorado praises policy of President Roosevelt on railroad question. Indiana member of legislature exposes attempt made to influence vote on anti-cigarette bill. Ambassador Porter, in banquet in Paris, deplores neglect of the remains of John Paul Jones. National clearing house proposed for settlement of all damage claims against the railroads. Opposition develops in Missouri senate to Dickinson franchise bill originally drawn by Folk. Missouri and Kansas members fail to secure amendments to river and harbor bill in house. Oklahoma railroads will oppose Secretary Hitchcock's interpretation of quarantine boundary. Four hundred witnesses summoned to testify before grand jury in packers' case in Chicago. Amendment to military academy bill places Senator Hawley and General Osterhaus on retired list. New regulations governing steamboat inspections provides rigid enforcement of bukhead rule. Flirting at Indiana school may cause law to be passed prohibiting marriage of whites and Filipinos. Southern fruit growers protest against legislation that would wipe out private refrigerator car lines. Busch glass factory in St. Louis completely destroyed by fire, loss is $75,000; two firemen slightly hurt. Asphalt trouble with Venezuela may be amicably settled by special agent of President Castro, now in Washington. Missouri house, by vote of 110 to 7, passes bill to repeal present breeders' law and prohibit race track gambling. Loss to Arkansas fruit is placed at $100,000. American railway association committee completes code of rules governing train operation on three or four tracks. Representative Lyons of Kansas City opens war on Standard oil in three bills introduced in Missouri house. Degrees conferred upon President Roosevelt, Emperor William and British minister by university of Pennsylvania. St. Louis judge scores jury for returning verdict of not guilty in case of bartender charged with second-degree murder. Portuguese government presents bill to World's Fair company for liquors alleged to have been stolen from the Exposition grounds. Court holds that the consolidation of the Missouri-Edison and Union electric light and power companies of St. Louis was legal. Missouri Sons of the Revolution hold annual banquet at the Southern hotel, St. Louis, following the election of new officers. Missouri house passes maximum freight rate bill, with votes to spare. Lively "spat" in Missouri house during discussion of substitute bill for extension of damage act, which passes by vote of 127 to 1. Death of Mrs. Catherine Judith Pulliam, aged 90, at Marshall, marks passage of the only surviving Missouri daughter of the revolution. Frederick Schmidt, an aged tinner, commits suicide by hanging himself from the rafters of a St. Louis stable, where his body is found by a former employe. COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS. Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength and Health to the Sufferer, Ma- J. B. Corton, farmer and lumber ner and lumber- man, of Deppe, N. C. says: "I suffered for years with my back. It was so bad that I could not walk any distance nor even ride in easy buggy. I do not believe I could have raised tem- pounds of J. B. CORTON weight from the ground, the pain was so severe. This was my condition when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They quickly relieved me and now I am never troubled as I was. My back is strong and I can walk or ride a long distance and feel, just as strong as I did twenty-five years ago. I think so much of Doan's Kidney Pills that I have given a supply of the remedy to some of my neighbors and they have also found good results. If you can sift anything from this rambling note that will be of any service to you, or to anyone suffering from kidney trouble, you are at liberty to do so." A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. "If yoh husban' beats you, mebbe you kin hab him sent to de whippin'pos," said Mrs. Potomac Jackson. "If my husban' ever beats me," said Mrs. Tolliver Grapevine, "dey kin send him to de whippin'-pos' if dey wants to. But dey'll have to wait till he gits out'n de hospital."—Washington Star. Patient—Great Scott! Doctor, that's an awful bill for one week's treatment! Physician—My dear fellow, if you knew what an interesting case yours was, and how strongly I was tempted to let it go to a post-mortem, you wouldn't grumble at a bill three times as big as this.—Chicago Tribune. IT IS IN THE BLOOD Neither Liniments nor Ointments Will Reach Rheumatism—How Mr. Stephenson Was Cured. People with inflamed and aching joints, or painful muscles; people who shuffle about with the aid of a cane or a crutch and cry, Oh! at every slight jar, are constantly asking, "What is the best thing for rheumatism?" To attempt to cure rheumatism by external applications is a foolish waste of time. The seat of the disease is in the blood, and while the sufferer is rubbing lotions and grease on the skin the poison in the circulation is increasing. Delays in adopting a sensible treatment are dangerous because rheumatism may at any moment reach the heart and prove fatal. The only safe course for rheumatic sufferers is to get the best possible blood remedy at once. Mr. Stephenson's experience with this obstinate and distressing affliction is that of hundreds. He says: "About a year ago I was attacked by severe rheumatic pains in my left shoulder. The pains were worse in wet weather, and at these periods caused me the greatest suffering. I tried a number of treatments and ointments, but they failed to alleviate the pains." Then he realized that the cause must be deeper and the pain only a surface indication. He adds: "I had heard Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People recommended as a cure for rheumatism, and when I found that I was getting no relief from applications, I made up my mind that I would try them. Before the first box was gone I noticed that the pains were becoming less frequent, and that they were not so severe as before. After the second box had been used up I was entirely free from discomfort, and I have had no traces of rheumatism since." The change in treatment proved by almost immediate results that Mr. Thomas Stephenson, who lives at No.115 Greenwood street, Springfield, Mass., had found the true means for the purification and enrichment of his blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are without doubt the best of all blood remedies. They effect genuine and lasting cures in rheumatism. They do not merely deaden the ache, but they expel the poison from the blood. These pills are sold by all druggists. Johnny—Pa, is it wrong to steal from a trust? Johnny's pa—Don't let the question bother you any, my son. It's impossible—Cleveland Ledger. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ss. LUCAS COUTY. FRANK J. KING makes oath that he is senior business in the City of Toltec. County aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every use of CAYARAH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CAYARAH CURE. FRANK J. GRENY swoote to before me and sustained in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D., 1886. A. W. GLEASON, NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials. free. A. O. Catarrh & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 750. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. There is no longer any doubt about the fall of Port Arthur. The report is confirmed in the February magazines —Washington Post. DON'T FORGET DON'T FORGET A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 6 cents. The Russ Company, South Bond, Ind. "They say there's no chance for the rich in the next world." "That's probably the reason they're getting most everything here!" -Detroit Press, Have you had any nice, new dishes since you got that expensive cook? "Yes; ten or a dozen. She smashes just as many as the old one did.—Cleveland Leader. A family with an artistic temperament isn't really as much of an addition to the neighborhood as one owning a step ladder. How easily gossip starts! Ever think how little pleasure you get out of a "story" you start, and how much trouble you may be making others? "The men generally," said a snappy woman today, "seem to be in favor of us women living the Simple Life; because they think it would save them money." Even the father who boasts that his children are large for their age, makes them sit humped down in the seats when he is trying to pass them for under ten.—Atchison Globe. Feet Comfortable Ever Since. "suffered for years with my feet. A friend recommended ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. I used two boxes of the powder, and my feet have been entirely comfortable ever since. ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE is certainly a godsend to me. Wm. L. Swormstedt, Washington, D. C." Sold by all Druggists. 25c. The Telephone. She—Why don't they have some other telephone call besides this eternal "Hello?" He—They do, my dear; they frequently say the syllables backward.—New York Press. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. LIGHT EXERCISE. At the request of the confirmed dyspeptic the operator was taking an X-ray photograph of the seat of his trouble. "This, I suppose," remarked the sufferer, with a ghastly attempt to be fracteous, "is what might be called taking light exercise on an empty stomach."—Chicago Tribune. Talking machines—Victor and Edison are the best; cash or payments, $1 weekly. Write to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. 30,000 records in stock, Mention this paper. Refreshing His Memory. "Where did you find it?" "It's going the rounds of the papers, credited to the London Tit-bits." "Ah, yes; I remember it now," said Joe Miller. "It's one I wrote fourteen years ago." Remarking it that it was a really good one now, although he hadn't thought it was at the time, he resumed his literary labors.-Chicago Tribune. DISTINCT DEFINITION. "Paw," asked little Johnny, "what's a compromise?" "That, my son," replied the wise father, "depends on whom it's made with. For instance, if I make a compromise with a business man I go half-way. But if I make a compromise with your mother, why I—er—I go all the way."—Houston Chronicle. Inducements: Yorick Hamm—Old Gougheberry doesn't seem to have any trouble in securing actors for his new play, and yet he was never known to pay salary for more than two weeks. Hamlet Fatt—Well, there's three eating scenes in this production, and he sets the table every time with real food.—Houston Chronicle. Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews disapproves of giving Christmas dinners to the poor. If his dinners are no more satisfactory than his arguments, the poor would not thank him for them, anyway.—Washington Post. An absent-minded butcher was ashed by a young mother to weigh her baby. 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Panama canal recommendations propose expenditure of $230,500,000. Ida M. Tarbell writes second of 2 series of articles assailing Standard oil methods. A Chicago youth killed himself in a theater while an actress sang a pathetic song. Guatemala thinks Americans sent to work on concession contemplate hostile operations. Colonel Vespasian Warner to introduce reforms in pension office when he takes charge. President Winkler of Oklahoma senate urges curtailment of privi leges of lobbyists. President of Arkansas cotton growers' association urges 25 per cent reduction in acreage. Senator Morgan leads opposition to statehood in senate, and may talk the measure to death. Richard Croker, former Tammany chief, will abandon England and return to New York. Brother of Tammany leader secures contract for the Pennsylvania's New York terminal work. Thirty-one bills have been passed by the Missouri Legislature since opening of the session. Hay to ask Congress for discretionary power for President in the naming of ambassadors. Frequent orders to "clear the court" delay the Lieutenant Mohn court-martial at Jefferson barracks. Gould interests said to be seeking control of the Lehigh Valley for an Eastern tide-water outlet. Independent oil operators are forming a new company to declare war on the Standard Oil Company. Maurice Rouvier, the new Prime Minister of France, is a master of finance and a "trimmer" in politics. Attempt to assassinate President Morales of Santo Domingo falls, and five of the piotters are captured. George H. Bradford, cashier of the East St. Louis stockyards bank, dies suddenly at his home in St. Louis. Banker H. P. Hilliard returned from the South, and says that that section of the country is in fine condition. Prominent grain shipper says that rebates have been paid by the railroads in one form or another for 35 years. Under secretary to the government of India pronounces American railroad service best and cheapest in the world. Fire destroys Illinois Central terminal property, elevators, etc., at New Orleans, causing loss estimated at $5,000,000. Bill prohibiting playing of baseball on Sunday is killed in Missouri house through resourcefulness of opponents of measure. Measure to provide for actual oil and gasoline test by city and county inspectors will be introduced in Missouri senate. St. Louis physicians ridicule Professor Osler's recommendation that men over 60 years of age should be chloroformed. Amended Second street franchise bill gives Manufacturers' railway company the right to operate a ferry on the river at St. Louis. Strange love letters between Princess Victoria and lowly leather workman revealed and humble suitor is placed in asylum. House committee announces itemized allowances recommended for Missouri educational eleemosynary and penal institutions. Kansas to take fight against Standard oil into court and bar it out of state on ground that it has no authority from charter board. Small blaze in the Laclede Hotel, St. Louis, ruins a piano and a folding bed, but is extinguished before the guests become alarmed. Russian editor says the zemstvo is an important factor in Russia's development and that government fails in not co-operating with it. Grand jury may be called to investigate disappearance of turf bill. Governor Folk urges thorough inquiry by Attorney General Hadley. Tangle over Illinois primary elections bill results in plan to amend constitution, abolishing existing scheme of minority representation. An attempt was made by a woman to blind Jephtha D. Howe of St. Louis, chairman of the Republican city central committee. Acu may disfigure him for life. New Yorker who stopped over in St. Louis to try and make up with a marho has been his enemy for five years, was given a slap on his face. Missouri house offers reward for supposed thief of original Godfrey bill to repeal breeders' law, and in nine minutes passes old repeal measure which had been reported adversely. Later advices indicate that the battle at Beresneff Hill was one of the most sanguinary in the campaigns around Mukden. Lively skirmishes take place in the immediate vicinity of Mukden. A friend of the home A foe of the Trust Calumet Baking Powder Compiles with the Pure Food Lawa of all States. SOUTHERN CONDITIONS AND POSSIBILITIES. In no part of the United States has there been such wonderful Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural development as along the lines of the Illinois Central and the Yazoo & Mississippi Mississippi and Louisiana, within the last ten years. Cities and towns have doubled population. Splendid business blocks have been erected. Farm lands have more than 100 acres of industries have been established and as a result there is an unprecedented demand for. Day Laborers, Skilled Workmen, Especially Farm Tenants. Parties with small capital, seeking an opportunity to purchase a farm home; farmers who would prefer to rent for a couple of years; purchasing; and day laborers in fields where vize should address a postal card to Mr. J. Merry, Assistant General Manager. Passenger Agent in Iowa. Travel and matter concerning the territory above are serbed, and give specific repies to all inquiries. SPECIAL EXCURSIONS TO SOUTH WEST. TO PORT ARTHUR, BEAUMONT, FEX., LAKE CHARLES, GALVESTON, HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO, TEX. and all other points on the K. C. S. Ry., for tickets with 21 days limit and privilege of stopping off enroute both going and return trip. For literature describing "THE LAND OF FULFILLMENT" the coun- try along the K. C. S. Ry., or for fur- her information regarding these excus- sions write to S. G. WARNER, G. P. & T. A. K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo The progress of time brings many changes. A number of years ago when a baby came to bless the home (and the home was blessed in this way very often), there was no name ready and often the child was not named until another baby came, when a name had to be given it. In these days a baby is named months and months before it is born—Atchison Globe. Wife—It is so kind of you to put on my boots for me. Kneeling husband (tugging away)—It's a—a pleasure, my dear. Still, I'm glad you're not a centipede—Pick Me-Up. **Billion Dollar Grass.** When the John A. Salzer Seed Co. of La Crosse, Wia., introduced this remarkable grass three years ago, little did the dream it would be the most talked of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth, but this has come to pass. BILLION $ GRASS Agricultural Editors wrote about the Agr. College Professors lectured about the Agr. Institute Orators talked about it while in the farm home by the quiet side, in the corner grocery, in the village post-office, at the cremery, at the dept. in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer Billion Dollar Grass, that marvelous grass grown to 9 to 14 tons hay per acre lots of materials, is always a threat worthy of the farmer. Then comes Bromus Inermis, then which there is no better grass or better permeant hay producer on earth. Grows where ever soil is found. Then the farmer talks about Salzer's Teosite, which produces 100 stocks from one kernel of seed. It high, in 100 days, rich in nutrition and greatly eaten by cattle, hogs, cte, and great 80 tons, of green food per acre. Victor Rape, the land farmer, hogs and sheep, which can be grown to 25c a ton, and Spelt at 20c a bu., both great food for sheep, hogs and cattle, come in for their share in the discussion. and this notice to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for their big catals and many farm seed samples. [W. N. U. Dodges Stout Girls. Jack—Sh! Don't let Miss Fatz know I'm going skating. She'd be sure I want to go. Nell—Nonsense! She can't skate, she's too stout. Jack—That's just it. They're the kind that always want you to teach them—Chicago Journal. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, man in the Children's Home in New York, can Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 150 testimonials. At all Drugists, 26s. Santa FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, LeLoy, N.Y. An Indiana newspaper man has been appointed jailer by a newly elected sheriff. This is quite a fall from a high estate, but he might have done worse and become a writer of historical novels.—Washington Post. Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new catalogue to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE KANSAS CITY, MO. Mrs. Brown—Yes, they're in Eggs now, and will spend the winter on the Nile. Mrs. Malaprop—How nice! 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