The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in this Section LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE YOUNG MEN SHOULD BE MORE THAN DANDIES Commendable Richmond, Va., Heeded by Mrs. Maggie L Walker, who is president of St. Luke's Bauk, a flourishing institution of Richmond' twenty-two colored women today secured a charter from the Corporation Commission and will at once open a big store to be known as St. Luke's Emporium. The authorized capital of the company is 25,000, but it is the purpose to largely increase it if the venture proves successful. The shares are 10 each, and all of them are being purchased by colored people While one or two men are on the board of directors, and a man, Mr. Joseph N Myers, is vice president the whole This country seems willing today to continue its policy of admitting the Afro American youth into the various schools, but not into the fictories, commercial offices and draughting rooms. This feature of the problem is very discouraging to those of our young men who are looking upward and onward. Never theless, it behoves us to do the very best we can to qualify ourselves for travel on this road routes of life. Remember that men are made better in a reading room than a saloon or dancing room' The young Afro American must prove to America that it is a mistake to odean a man because he be black. We WHAT IS DOING ABOUT TOWN The recital given by the Jubilee Singers at the A.M.E. Church, was quite a success. Mrs. Price spent a short while with her daughter Mrs. McCallop of Marshal Kans. The Church of the Ascension have special baptismal services Sunday. Mr. Ambrose Dudley of 1506. N.'th. St is seriously ill. The Rev. Dick. Bowen, pastor of the First Christian Church, at the corner of 8'th and Everette Ave. will preach Sunday April 16 on "True Manhoo". As he never announces his subject ahead, this is looked forward to with much interest. The Choir of the church is still preparing their Easter programme. Mr. Robert Carter is very ill at his home on New Jersey Ave. Prof. S. G. Watkins grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity of Kansas was in the city today. Mrs. Lena Mason will preach Sunday at 3 o'clock, at the M.A.&O. Hall. The services: will be held for the St. James M. E. Church. Rev. Lena Mason preached Monday and Tuesday evening for Rev. Hayes. Mrs. Ethel Stafford — Preieu was in the city the past week enroute for her home at Jefferson Barracks. Mrs. Palmer of 1045 Freeman Ave. is quite ill. A series of meetings will be carried on at the A.M.E.Church cor. 8'th & Neb. Ave. conducted by Mrs Lena Mason. Two concerts will be given Monday and Tuesday night at the St. John's A.M.E. Church. Rev.Vaughn Pastor. Rev. E. F. Henderson, well known business man of our city for a number of years left this week for Los Angeles Cal. to engage in ministerial work. Mr. and Mrs. Matt Wilson of 1977 worth are in the city repairing some of their houses. Hou Jas. H. Guy, the well known attor ney of opkea, was in the city a shor while this week. Mr. G. F. Gantt of 443 Okland Ave is indisposed this week. Mrs. Belle Chrisman of 1419 N. 5'th St. who has been ill is improving. J. W. W. Gordon formerly a well known caterer in this city and an ex-deputy street commissioner, who has been conducting a business in Canada passed through cur city this week en-route for Los Angeles Cal. to resida permanently. He was accompanied by Mrs. Gordon. Mr. H. W. North of K. C. M. o. n. our office a pleasant call this week. He is looking around with the view of pur-chasing property in this city. We welcome him among us. He is a business Women. business is practically in the hands of him, and all of them Rlch-mond. The head of the business, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, has been a leading figure in the business world here for some time. Under the guidance, St. Luke's bank as a flourishinga d the colored are trained to save their money and deposit it regularly. The women connected with the new store are the wives and daughters of leading colored residents, many of whom own property and have comfortable bank accounts. must continue to get knowledge, not only of basks but industrial and commercial affair of men and above all, of self. Success is no won by the mere acquirement of good clothes good manners and a social reputation. W should enter upon our work wan eve for it Keep the body and mind in the best condition, be legal and patricotic, be fair in dealing with yourself and others, be generous in thought and help the man who is underneath I believe that when the Americae people are convinced that the Afro-American wan to help America they then will help the A American.... WM. H. MAXWELL in NEW YORK AGE. Mrs. J. G. King of Galena Kans. is spending some time in the city with her sisters Mrs. Tolsome and Mrs. Belle Chrisman of 1419 N. 5'th. St. The Ladies of the millinery class have shown some excellent work in remodeling and triming hats. Invitation cards out for a Whist party at Mrs. M. E. Brown of 342 Minesota avenue.. Thursday April 27th a good time is anticipated George Hayes of 936 Oakland Ave. died last Thursday of typhoid fever. Mrs. Mattie Martin of 333 Minnesota ave. and Mrs. Martin of 313 Minn. ave. will spend Sunday in Topeka Kansas. Prof, C. W. Rogers of Newport Ark. is in the city and will lecture at Mount Pleasant Baptist church, Sunday night and at King Solomon Baptist Church Thursday night. A new and very entertaining as well as instructive lecture is given. Resolutions the ripplings of the willow brooks the chirpings of the canary; the cooings of the whippoor-will; the budding of the sweet fragrant roses; the putting forth of the blossoms of the sweet magnolia; the peeping out of the beautiful illy; the basic principle of all this grand display of creation being occasioned by the light and heat emitted from old King Sol sebsibly and affectually remind us that there is a Supreme being. The Maker of the Heaven and the earth the grand Keeper of the precious souls of men, and He who it is that will administer justice to all mankind irrespective of person or station in life At this hour we are made the gentle reminders that there is a true and living God; the God who careth for the widow and the orphan and cheerfully giveth succor unto the needy, especially those who approach Him. And whereas it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from our midst our beloved brother, sir knight and co worke] Robert Floyd. Be it resolved' That in the departure of this young man just in the prime of his youth, who in more than one way proved himself a faithful and an emul-ative brother and sirknight of Washington Temple No.25 Knights of Tabor and that a golden family te has been irre- parably broken, leaving behind a loving mother, sister, two brothers and a number of friends. Be it resolved, That we bow in humble submission to the Divine will in removing him in the spring time of life. Be it further resolved, That we extend to the bereaved famill our deepest sympathy. Be it further resolved, That a copy of the resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Washington Temple No.25 K of T, and a copy be sent the press and also to the bereaved family. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, THE THE THE Rev. Andrew Jones Rev. Andrew Jones, the colored prophet is in town and will preach at the metropolitan Church cor. 9'th and Washington Ave. on Wednesday eve. April 19th. Rev. Jones is quite noted from the fact that he can foretell great calamities. He is a familiar figure in the east and has been given wide scope by the most reliable newspapers. He has predicted quite a few things. EDITORS LEISURE MOMENTS A dentist is a man who pulls people's teeth. A lawyer is one who pulls their legs. Some doctors take life easy wh e other take what they can get. Abont two-thirds of a doctors bill is fo his trouble in guessing at your compa-nt. Speculation may sound more refined than gambling but a fellow loses just as much. Life is made up, not of great sacrifi ces or duty, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. It is to be hoped that the mistakes or errors of Mayor Rose, in his effort to do that which he deems best, under existing circumstances, will be made from the head and not the heart. Expectations will soon become realizations in some old kind of a way, regarding the distribution of pie. Many that would be, will not, and would not will be. The advancement of a Negro from the ranks of a patrolmen to a desk sergeant recently in Chicago bespeaks much for Chief O'Neal what would happen if Kansas City Kansas had that nerve poor old bleeding Kansas- The effort of Mrs. Maggie L. Walker the colored lady bank president of Richmond Virginia to do something for the race is to be highly commended by the whole race. It is to be fondly hoped that her department store will be a successful and profitable investment if the two Kansas Cities could produce a few Maggie Walkers what a blessing it would be. If as many Negro women here, interested themselves in commerical affairs It was he who predicted the Johnstown flood, the Baltimore fire, the ST. Louis cyclone, the flood in Kansas City Kans. and the death of President McKinley. He predicted in this paper the Spanish American war and other succeeding wass. He predicts a calamity for this section and warns the nugodly. He will remain several days in our city and will visit the different churches. cret societies and other affair More sus stantial and benefitting results would be obtained. Houses of prostitution would be tenantless and the "fast wo men" would be relegated out of decen society. 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. 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. Husband of Little Importance. 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," asked Willie, as he sat in the grand stand with his father, "do they call it football when they play with their heads, papa?" 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. If I might breathe your beauty into song, The singing stars would tarry into flight To hearken, dreaming that death's ancient wrong, Enthroned on earth so song. Was scattered by the everlasting light, And earth new winged with singing and with flame. As when exultant she from out of chaos came. Feminine Solace. Why. Indeed? Automatic Compass. M. Hait, a French inventor, has recently patented a compass which automatically registers minute by minute. The compass card is fixed on a steel pivot, which rests on a fixed agate, instead of having at its center an agate resting on a fixed steel point. The fixed agate is immersed in a drop of mercury, which serves as a conductor for the electric current that causes the movements of registering. Selects Wife's Toilets. It is a common thing in Paris for a man to accompany his wife to the dressmaker's. The young wife who has known no gayer attire than the coming-out gown of the jesire file needs careful advice as to her toilets, and her husband, if he be a certain type of man of the world, knows how to give it. Japanese Swords Best. The sword makers of Toledo and Damascus have been reputed to be the world's most famous artisans in this industry, but in Japan the swordsmiths turn out weapons whose blades are fully as green and as hard and composed of metal of as fine quality as those of the old swordsmiths. Superstitious Criminals All criminals are great believers in dreams. Some time ago, at Manchester, a daring thief awaiting trial told a warden he had dreamed that he had seen a rainbow. From this he deduced that he would be acquitted at his trial. To everyone's surprise he was. Hunting in Japan. The Japanese, always keen sportsmen, used to take most of their game with goshawks and sparrow hawks. The only dogs they used were spaniels, which flushed the game. But now they are taking to dogs, and many good animals are being imported from England. Liquefies Illuminating Gas. A German chemist named Blau has succeeded in liquefying illuminating gas. In that form it gives a good light, which is useful in country houses, railway trains, etc. It costs more than ordinary coal gas, but less than electric light. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen. Desiring nice comfortable rooms in a nice locality canfind them neatly furnished at 750 Neb. ave. K. C. K. 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. KENNES City, Ka PATTERSON & GAYDEN Dealers In- Hard and Soft Coal, Wood. Vault & Cesspool Cleaning. Gisterns Filled Tel. 215 West. 527 STATE AVE. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF ; KANSAS. WYANDOTTE COUNTY, IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY. In the matter of the Estate of Mary L. Gordon Deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters tessamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid Dated the 21 day of March 1905. Now all persons having claims against 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 three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. CORVIN PATTerson Executor of the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon deceased. Dated March 21 1905. First Published 24 1905 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In the District Court of Wyandotte county State of Kansas. Mary Atkinson. Plaintiff. vs. J.B. Atkinson. Defendant. No. 18297 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 Kaua'i asking for an absolute divorce on the grounds of abandonment and desertion, and unless youudemur, 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 Pianman Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D. C. MeCombs, Dentry. 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 three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. L. P. BRADLEY: executor of the Last Will and Testament of Jane Redd Deceased. First published Feb. 11th 1905 Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas County of Wyandotte In the Probate Court in and for said County. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEDEG DECEASED Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesidr 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 the month of March A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate, Peter young Administrator of Clara Williams Siege Deceased. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned, Pro- bate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte. 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 The World's Wanderers in world's wanderers. Tell me, who wanderest wings of light Speed thee in the thief flight. In what cavern of the night Will thy pilions close now? Tell me, moon, thou pale and gray Pligrim 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, Hunts the street nest On the tree or billow? -Percy Byshe Shella. The Glories of a Throne. It has been shown that out of a list of 2,550 sovereigns 300 have 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. The bayonet was first used by the French in 1671. It was first made in Bayonne, France, and was considered a very deadly weapon. The British army quickly copied it, and other nations promptly followed suit. ia tists) aaa ee American Citizen The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. pee eee ee nee FUBIIS HED WerEKLY at 1510 Norh 3rd Street KANSAS crry - - KANSAS W C. Martin Editor, Geo. A. Dudley, Publisher & Business Manager. pee Terms OF SubscriptioninAdvance. One Yoar,......cceee cee cee 8100 Bix Months,................ 65 conta ‘Threo Months,*....................40.€ pee Advertiseing 25 ots. Per Inch First _ Insertion. | A Standing Display ‘Add’ for 3 Months or longer I5e per inch, each insertion. Rotered as second olass matter December first, 1904 at th Post office at Kansas City, Kansas under the Act of congress of March a me” Grewsome Collection. A French professor is the owner of & collection of 920 human heads, rep- Fesenting every known race of people. 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 pau- pers in London. Largest Building in the World. ‘The Crystal palace accommodates more people than any other building fm the world. it will hold 100,000, tail Ninh eisai According to the late returns, there ‘are 1,756 distinct trades being carried ea in London and its suburbs. Berlin Land Values Double. ‘The ground value of the city of Ber Yin fs said to be worth twice what it was in 1887. ‘The Indian rhinoceros is nearly ex- tinct. There are two specimens in the London zoological gardens and two on the European continent. Very fow aro left in a wild state in India and Assam, and unless special meas- ures be taken for thelr preservation they will soon disappear. ———— Call and see H.S. Sykes and and A. Gooden mauufactor of Pop corn in ball aud brick at 316 Oakland ave A Word To ‘The lack of proper appreciation of the efforts of Negro newspaners make in an ‘uphill business to maintain the standard of excellence desired by those in the bus- iness. Just why the race is so utterly slack. in giving to their own the proper patronage is one of the unsolved myster- ies. Each day and week bring to us the waruing of being a unit in behalf of our own salvation. It takes something besi- de wind to publish the most weakly of weeklies. If every [Afro-American fami- ¥ would pledge themselves to stand by an organ buplished in their behalf. just one year,the results would be unbeliev- ed we ask thecolorad brother towake up ook around and observe,see if you can not 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 subscrip ng getting your neighbors to do the ‘same end watch the good results, Notice of Final Settlement. One of Kans as. te County of Wyandott { In the Probate Court in and forsald County. In the Matter of the fstateof John R. Smith Do censed. Creditors and all other persons interested n the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for sald County. to be begun and held at the Probate Court room. tn Kansas City. County of Wyandotte and State ‘foresald, on the first Monday in month of February, A. D, 1005, I shall apply. to sald Courtforafull and final settlement ot said estate, James D, Surrn, Administator of the Estate John R. Smith. Deceased. In Witness Wnereof, the undesigned Pro- ‘Date Judge in and for the County of Wyan. dotte,State of Kansus.have hereto set my hand, and affixed ‘the seal ! of the sald Probate Court this 4th ay of December, A. D, 1904, Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. ‘Res #2 Nebraskaave. | — Tel.383 White. SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE i ‘Office Houro: From 10 a. M., till 4 p. m. and from6 till 9 P. «., C.H C. JORDAN- M.M.M.D.. TRUTH PROVED BY EXAMPLE, of Energy. William C. Greene, the copper mag- tate, was talking to a young man about success, “The secret of success is enterprise, sergy,” said Col. Greene. “To be lazy, © stick always in the same old rut, ‘hat is how to make a wretched fail- are of your life. “I went West when I was 17, and after a spell of contracting and pros- oecting about Prescott, I farmed a bit n the San Pedro Valley. There was a storekeeper I used to buy my supplies from at that time who was a failure of he first water. This man’s lack of en- terprise was so great that people used to bring their children from miles around to study him. He was valu- able 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 3 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 mo- lasses. The boy told me afterward that when he entered the store Man- aers 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. Man- ners,’ the boy spoke up, sharp and quick, ““Wab-h-h-h,’ yawned Manners again. Then as he took up the jug he grum- bled: “‘Ain’t there nobody what sells mo- lasses in this here town but me?” PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diver- sions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toliet 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 decorat- ed either with gold or jewelled orna- ments. 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, in- stead, 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, into which has been squeezed lemon juice. The hair of the oriental woman is usually beautifully long, soft and glos. sy, and the way they arrange it is in- variably becoming to their soft type of beauty. Perfumes are much in dulged in. These are introduced in the bath and permeate the garments, ‘but are rarely used on a handker- ‘chief. ‘The Foam on the Top. Don't snuggle concelt to your bosom, my 8 Becauss you're on top of the wave, For here ia thought that ‘might serve ‘a5 alloy ‘To the gold of the credit you crave: The best “is not ‘always at surface: my son, And I think, if to notice you'll stor You'll observe’ that the good Vo. the Bote tom may ‘Tun, But the foam always lingers on top. I would not discourage your zeal, my ‘dear lad; It fg best to keep working alway, But this funny old world often Tabels as ‘The thing that is good in its day. Infact, I may say that it classifies wrong Scme part of the reat earthly” crop, And think you will note ‘as sou iedr- ney. alone ‘That ‘the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear youth, But look on the World as you go. See the men whom we place ‘at the sum- mit, in truth, hen aze onthe mortals below, And'Y efve youl my word Tl have noth- ing to” teach, And this brief little anthem will stop, It’you do not agree with the thing Tost T preach, ‘That the foam may be found on the on —A. J” Rwaterhouse in Sunset Magazine. Mgt iain James Rankin Young, the new sv- perintendent 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 drunk- en coachman. I know that this is 80, 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 sum- moned 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 drink- ing if he has driving to do, and, there- fore, at the month's end you will be free to devote yourself exclusively to - chosen occupation.’ : All Ghetetiane. In his article in the Woman's Home Companion, describing the Inter- aational 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 ‘een planned to be held gear 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, accom- panied by a smile on the saintly face at the speaker. ‘Why not? Do we not worship the same Christ?" WIT IS NOT APPRECIATED. Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors. A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented ana amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keep- ing up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but se has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or senti- wental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his inter- ruptions. He has a high pitched, pene- trating voice, and the town police, who have been on the verge of ejecting him a dozen times, say that he was a Glasgow cab driver who retired with & competence and now takes this wy to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melo- drama was being presented. The heroine of the play, pursued by the villain, had taken refuge in the house of her lover, who, as the hero of the olay, was of course, at variance with uis sweetheart’s parents. The exigen- cies of the plot required that the irate father, sword in hand and at the head of his faithful retainers, should track the girl to the gates of the hero's treacherous and disgracefu\ elope- ment, enter the room where the Scared heroine had been secreted under the table. “Wretch!” cried the furious father, “your life shall answer for this. I de- mand my child, Where is she.” Then, shrill and startling in the ex- pectant silence, from the gallery came the answer: “Unner the table, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stickin’ oot?” The house was in a tumult of mer- riment in a moment, but it was the “angry father” himself, who ruined the situation, for he burst into immod- erate laughter and the curtain fell in the middle of the act, to rise again upon an audience that could not re press its risibles for the rest of the evening. HE WANTED A MORTGAGE. ‘Swede’s Experience With a Deed Had Taught Him Caution. Halvor Steenerson, Congressman from Minnesota, tells a story of ¢ Swede who went to that state from one of the Dakotas for the purpose of buying a farm. A land agent acted as guide and informant to the Swede, who eventu- ally found what he wanted. When the tim> came to make out the neces- sary papers, the agent asked the Swede what method he preferred to adopt in making payments. “Ay pay all, Ay haf da money,” re plied the Swede. “Very well, then. I'll make out the deed,” said the agent. “No!” suddenly exclaimed the Swede. “Ay no want deed!” “Why, yes, you do!” rejoined the agent, ‘astonished. “You pay the money and you take a deed for the farm.” “No, no!” earnestly asseverated the Swede. “Ay no want deed! Ay had deed oop in Dakoty. Ay pay man da money. He gif me deed. Ay gif heem mortgage. Ay tak land. By en by he get land, he get deed, he haf da money. Dees time Ay want no deed; Ay want mortgage. Ay pay da money; you git me mortgage!”—The Sunday Magazine. Getting Posted. “I would like to ask you a question it you don’t mind,” said the old mar in the street car to the man on hi: right. “Go ahead, sir.” “I should like to know the meaning of the term ‘History repeats itself.’ 1 come across it most every day. How does history repeat itself?” “That's easily answered,” said the other. “For instance, if you should ask me what I thought of the weather I should 'tell you to go and be hanged te you. If we should meet a montt hence and you asked me the same question over again my reply would ‘be the same.” “I think I see—I think I do,” mused the old man, as he leaned back and crossed his feet. “Yes, I guess I ‘understand, and I want to tell you that you are a durned mean jackass of a man and that history is going to re Peat itself every blamed time I run across you for the next ten years to come."—Chicago News. ‘A Caution Times. James Jeffrey Roche, the new Con sul to Genoa, was talking about 2 magazine editor. “This man,” he said, “rejected some of the best of my early verse. He re jected some of the best verse of ms friends. Why he is an editor I can't imagine. He certainly has no critica sense. “I indicated this to him one day He had announced to me that he was going to get married. He had praised the lady of his choice ardently, de claring her to be a poem. “"A poem?’ said I. “‘A poem," he repeated. “‘And still you do not reject her? { exclaimed.” | ae Soft as the plumes of sleep drifts down ‘The pure white silence of the snow ‘The bells make merry in the town, ‘Where happy faces come and go. The brooding quiet of the trees, 1s, broken “aweet,, in. yonder gien, By “‘day, day day.” of chekadees ‘And Keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word Si warbied when the grosbenks sing; And in the moaning pines 1s heard The whisper of returning spring. This ts tue birthday of the year, Aden, 4 om summer's battles ‘tart; ‘The ‘wildest storm “wind ‘warms the heart. ae _—R, Brumbaugh, in Field aod Stream. I'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!reason~ able of prices. TMIANY HOLIDAY, GOOD};THINGS ASPECIALTY. Call{and%be convinced. LookJoverjourvassort- | ment of clean,sfresh goods. | H. Krueger, , 100 North 3rd St. : KANSAS CiTY, KAS W. BRAY MOND oD | Manafacturer of and Wholesale dealer in UNDERTAKER “SUPPLIES FIRST-OLASS® CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSE AT ALL HOURS AMBULANCE FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THESICK AND WOUNDKEG Undertaking Ruoms, 431 Minnesota ave. —‘Leleppone West 82. Factory Lo 6 St. and Reynolds Ave. Kansas City Kansas KANSAS CITY SOAP CO. 1510 N, 4th St, Are Manufactors of the Best Grades of Toilet « Wash | ing Soaps. A Home Institution. GIVE THEM YOUR PATRONAGE One trial of their brand the Snowflake and Union will convince you of their merits. RESTAURANT, ae 1012 N 8rd St. 1s the best place in tne city and will serve you from 5,30 a,m, to 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, givether a call. er -—Money to Loan —~ 00 Watches. Diamonds Jewelry, CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING crcrceres ()f Value verre Watches and -lewelry Sold on Payments AT CASH PRICES. Unclaim Pledges For Sale Cheap. FINE ea CHEe AND JEWELRY parently Union Loan Office, 427 Minnesota ave. kansas'erty. kans._ TO SAVE MONEY, Ladies suits, dressing’sacques, aprons and in fact anything in the Dressmaking line MADE TO ORDER. and sold‘on weekly and monthly payments. Here ig a few prices: Belt dresses $1.00 and up; dressing sacques 5Octs and up. Call and see me. . 1 Mrs W. F. Williams, 1510 North Third St. : Kansas City, Kansas ie cae ps te cee Me Nah eet Here is the Place, J.T. ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean | Shave strictly Up-to-Date, 438 Minnesota AvENuE: ee eee ee A. Tl. HARPER, New and Second Hand Fur- niture, Carpets, Stoves, ete. 425 Minnesota Ave, KANSAS CITY - __KANs., uum MME. L, F, JOHNSON, Shampooing, Manicuring, Massage 7 abt Soulp Trees Tel 733-W. 4 SPEctarry Duplex Telegraphy In Europe, The telegraph line trom Vienna tp Gzernowitz is the longest line in By rope which uses the duplex system being 630 miles long. ‘The systen was adopted a few months ago, as i was found necessary to increase the eapacity of the line, which takes aj the matter for Roumania, southeasterg Russia and a part of Bulgaria. Th, system works well at present, a) though the line is constructed of ‘iron ‘wire instead of copper. Good Luck for Turtles at Least, ‘The Chinese have a peculiar custom with regard to turtles, which they con. sider as very good joss. Almost any day one can see these creatures, som of them of huge size, being carrieg on board the river steamers, not to be taken to Canton for culinary puposes, but to be dumped into the sea ang restored to liberty and freedom. Goo luck is thought to follow.—Hong Kong Press. Good to Lick Baby With Late- 7. I saw lately a dainty and origina sift for a young mother. It was calle “a measuring stick for baby,” made o white wood thirty-six inches long, ant marked off into inches as accuratel ‘as a tape measure. Forgetmenots werg pai: ted down the side, and at one ent w.. a hole in which was a ribbon boy and loop by which to suspend it~ Good Housekeeping. Moisture in Tobacco. The presence of moisture in tobaceo is, the Lancet believes, of some in. portance to public health, since the combustion of tobacco containing 4 large proportion of moisture is in. peded, while as the g eration of vapor is increased, so ar 1e chances of the poisonous princip.e being car. ried into the mouth diminished. Early Japanese University. Tt 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 deat ing with such specialties as the dis eases of women, veterinary surgery, and materia medica. Castina a Gloom. “Yes, for local talent, it was a first rate entertainment,” said the suburb an 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 ‘I'n Waiting for Thee.'"—New York Sun Consider Dreams Revelations. Among the people of the east 1 dream is considered to be a dire revelation from God, and there ary in the Orient, even to-day, soothsay ers, or fortune tellers, who interpret dreams, just as the soothsayers dit fa bible times, and from dreams tell the future of the dreamer. Cancer Victims Well to Do. Statistics show that cancer is mow common among those who are accit tomed to the refinements of life than among the very poor, and to care for uch patients the doctors say that food surroundings are a necessity, Snakes in India. About 400,000 snakes are killed every year in British India, The fees paid as rewerds annually for the de struction of beasts of prey and ver omous snakes by the government ot India amount to about $125,000. German Colony in Palestine. Thirty-four years ago a German cot ony settled at Haifa, Palestine. To day all of the ninety families in # &re prosperous. They raise graye and make wine free from alcohol which is sold to the natives. Irish Ledger in Court. A ledger kept in the Irish languast was produced at the Roscommon AF sizes, in Ireland, and the witness hel to go on the bench to translate tht terms for the judge. | Patten: An observing schoolboy wrote thif short essay: “Gravity was discot ered by Izaak Walton. It is chief Roticeable when the apples are fu ing from the trees.” Novices Leave Convent. Stealing the front door key from th Pocket of the mother superior, thre young novices escaped from the cot ‘vent of Santa Clara in Lisbon and dt appeared. Dogs May Ride in Berlin. ‘Dogs are allowed to enter tramwal ears in Berlin, but must be held # their master’s laps and paid for os 4 they were human passengers aN A tase i As trade now stands, there is * enough gold out of the earth, it # ‘Were all coined, to transact the butt mess of a day. -Natlonalities Among Russians. ‘The Rusgian population represea 120 nationaiities, the three great sto being Finns, Tartans and Slavs Aluminum for Sharpening Cutlery: Aluminum is superior to any sti fer sharpening cutlery. Denmark's Honey Exports Denmark exports 2,500,000 poull @f honey a year. When you goes a-huntin’ trouble ‘fake’ yor banjo on yon iene, An’ perhaps you'll find dat trouble fs S-sleepin’ quletly; When you goes a-husitin’ trouble Learn to sing @ little song. An’ you'll fin’ Ge trouble marchin* Purty peaceable along. When you goes achuntti trouble ohain ole giting mad. ‘case It gwinter grow! ay’ seratch you Ina way dat’s mighty bad. ‘You mus" keep Yon Wits about you | While ‘you exéreise yon ‘will, t ‘oun early aware tame it i But it’s mighty hahd to kill —Washington Star. : BR” FIQVOV 227 (Copyright, 1905, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) Nobody knew so well the inscrut- thle mainsprings that set in order the temty, the wit, the sprightliness, the topes and achievements of the fair nembers of Gold Handle Street—no- toiy knew these things so well as Whitington Whitington, and knowing yell the capabilities of this select sjtere of the social world, he enjoyed js environments and assumed control {its destinies, preserved in his task tyan intimate knowledge of its many satrimonial pitfalls. To be young and to be fair, in the jatechism of Gold Handle Street, was fo be in love with Whitington Whit- fagton. To be in love with Whiting- oa Whitington was generally known to be, with Whitington Whitington’s oma consent, curable; it was an event ainst which there seemed no desire to become immune. Like a spell of tie measles it was serious enough while it lasted; It was considered in- evltsble, and finally mended only when ended. Whitington Whitington was believed never to fall in love in return. To faye fallen in love would have put him beyond the leadership of Gold Handle Street society, and beyond the gentle remembrance of many and many a Gold Handle Street graduate ‘whose romantic reminiscence he con- tinued to be long after they had passed to wider stages of action. At last, however, be it known, un- certain fate decreed that Whitington Whitington should labor in the shadow of impending matrimony, for he was at last profoundly loved by a maiden that knew not to palter, indeed her age was ten years'or more beyond the class of callow maidens to whom Whitington Whitington had so long nade love professionally. It was the fecond attack, for in fact Rosina Crosby had fallen under the custom- ‘ay charm of Whitington Whitington te years before, and he had counted tut the incident, in the usual diplo- tic sequence, was closed, indeed tehad always been led to believe that Raina herself treated it as a closed ‘cident, and was only, alas, uude- ved in thesripening stages of his ‘sociation. within the confines of Gold Handle Street, with the newest {its opening buds, Annette Van Tank, ‘The unprecedented vigor with which Rina Crosby, now no longer young, fi for that reason the more danger- © pressed her rejuvenated claims Ns comething never heard of before & Gold Handle Street society, and TS the more perplexing to Whiting- tm: Whitington as her's was a display © eties wholly out of line with his {iti experience. Love had perished A every other instance with Whit- ‘fasion Whitington simply by the Satie of limitations, it just run along tit tt was outlawed, indeed he con- jited that Rosina Crosby had fol- Gannett Im the footsteps of all hig, Handle Street, and that between nore nt her there existed nothing of otesible than a pleasing aroma f other days. In fact Whitington , | ft wy A si: am : u Suppose oc, Mad been further ted to sess that Rosina haa not only: for- Ee ber carly flame, but that she bed foung “ternal solace in the mani- S ralantties of Professor Van Tank, Whose Wife had died young and left tet Sire thelr’ onty daughter, the Wy beautiful, Annette fad ‘Tank. Whitington Whitington could not, BPE, tornst hie value as a matri- fal catch, ang trembled for his Hi 2 the hands of Rosina Crosby. fithing ike it had ever happened be- Rosina took charg. emanate him; she wined him; she monopolized his precious time and absorbed en: tirely his valuable attention. Something must be cone or he was lost! Thoughts of Annette—of love for Annette, that flew through his mind, merely served to aggravate his distraction. Could he save himself? for Annette? Could he save himself at all? Could he. If he could at all it should be for Annette. It was worth while to be saved for Annette; for himself it would not be worth the su- preme effort. In the case of resolu- tions as admirable as Whitington ‘Whitington’s it is a pity that anything should ever prevent their consumma. M/S Y ~ oa y 4 4 f ee hi ie a 4 / ee | Hon, but when we take into considera- tion that these resolutions were made in the absence of Rosina we can see how easily they might, as of course they did, “go awry and lose the name of action.” Would Whitington boat. So would Rosina! Would Whitington drive? So would Rosina! Would Whitington rest? So would Rosina! And so on to the end of the chapter. Finally would Whitington Whitington please Rosina enough to become her guest at supper with Professor Van Tank and his daughter, Annette? Behold, here was @ green spot! Yes, he would dine, gladly, under these. conditions. Whitington Whitington on the day he dined found the conditions as stipu- lated, but with an unmistakable air of marriageable thing about. Was Rosina about to execute some unexpected masterstroke? Was innuendo to be used? Was he, Whitington Whiting. ton, willy-nilly, to be announced? Was Annette thereafter to count him among the lost? Alas for his tongue that clave to the roof of his mouth! In the midst of these perturbations Pro- fessor Van Tank arose from the table and asked permission to make known @ condition of affairs the most delicate and happy that could fall to the hu- man lot. In the private gathering around him he wished to call on all to drink to the happiness of two peo- ple who had consulted the calendar of love, and found the stars propitl- ous; he wished to call on those pres- ent to drink to the happy event, known to all present but one (whereupon Whitington Whitington looked de- spairingly at Annette); “known,” the speaker continued, “to Rosina, Annette and—and—and to myself, of course, and now announced first and specially to our dear friend, Whitington Whit- ington. I refer to the early prospects of marriage between—(a long pause, amounting to suspense)—Rosina Cros. by, whose guests we are, and—(an- other long pause, still more excruciat- ing)—and the speaker, your servant, Alcibiades Van Tank!” “Our health!” Whitington Whitington, passing from death to life, arose with Annette, and with the most intense look of gratification possible to the human countenance, exclaimed exuberantly, as he lifted his cup: “Delightful! Delightful! Professor, your health! Your health!” Rosina arose and looked the sphinx on all except on Professor Van Tank; to Professor Alcibiades Van Tank he Was sweetness itself. Whitington Whitington at onec turned an awkward eye on Annette, who was never lovelier; his spirite could not be subdued, and he promptly made an important resolution with ref: erence to any further delay; he then resumed his seat, Ee, Annette. ‘THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE. Mrs. S. W. Marine of Colorado Springs Began to Fear the Worst—Doan’s Kidney Pills Saved Her. Mrs, Sarah Marine, of 428 St. Urain street, Colorado Springs, Colo., Presi dent of the Glen Eyrie Club, writes: “L suffered for a three years with f \. severe back- sm, \\ ache. The doc- Be, \\ tors told me my j 7 b. \\ kidneys were af- 3 ’\ fected and pre- Bo S\\Fcines for me, but “(ee GOaMeeN\\||( found that it Chea yi FA iii vs: only & waste May) of time and Depa) money to take a Y them, and began to tear that I ee — would never get wall. A: tele —— three years with gp \ severe back. = \ ache. The doc- Be, \\ tors told me my i . \ kidneys were af- \\Wh tected and pre- kK ge E\crivea medi B, \SON\\Fcinee for me, but és; Bu \ Ft found that it RLS arr ayy of time and Deimeia) money to take a j them, and began to tear that I ” would never get 3 well. A friend advised me to try Doan’s Icidney Pills, Within a week after I began using them I was so much better that I de- cided to keep up the treatment, and when I had used a little over two boxes I was entirely well. I have now enjoyed the best of health for more than four months, and words can but Poorly express my gratitude.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N.Y. As soon as a man is elected to office he makes his chief buisness working for a second nomination, Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded.” 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Don’t waste your coin advertising for lost friendship or stolen umbrellas; advertise something else. INVENTION OF THE PHONOGRAPH ‘Thomas Edison Relates Facts Hereto- fore Not Told, ‘Thomas A. Edison related a fact of some historical’ interest a few days ago. When hejwas at work on his first phongraph/ many weeks were consumed in experiment. It is said that when the talking machine was first discovered it was as much a sur- prise to its inventor as to the world. ‘The wizard was working on some tele- phone receivers and was led to put a Piece of tinfoil on a cylinder. It rec- orded sound, and Edison was con- vinced that the human voice could be recorded and produced. When the time came to make an actual test Edison, with his mind on mechanical details, absentmindedly tested his contrivance with the familiar phrase, “Mary had a little lamb.” These words formed the first record taken by the machine. Crawford—Have they decided to ed- ueate their daughter for a career? Crashaw—Not yet. They're waiting to see if she can't get married.—Town Topics. A NINE YEARS’ VICTIM FINDS A REMEDY THAT OUBES. For Two Years TooWeak toWork—A Doren Doctors Had Tried to Check Disease, ‘Treatment That Succeeded. All sufferers from weakness or disor- ders of the digestive organs will read with lively interest the story of the com- plete recovery of Mrs. Netélie Darvonx from chronic dyspepsia which was thonght to be incurable. “To be ailing for nine years is not a very pleasant experience,” said Mrs. Darvons, when asked for some account of her illness. “For two years I was critically ill and could uot attend to my honsehold duties, and at one time I was 0 weak and miserable that I could not even walk, My trouble was chronic dys- pepsia. I became extremely thin and had a sallow complexion. I had no ap- petite and could not take any food with- out suffering great distress.” “Did you have a physician?” “Yes, I took medicine from a dozen different doctors, but without getting any benefit whatever.”” “How did you get on the track of a cure?” “A book about Dr. Williams'Pink Pills was thrown in our dcorway one day. My husband picked it up aud read it through carefally. He was so impressed by the statementsof those who had been cured by that remedy that he imme- diately bought three boxes of the pills and insisted on my taking them.” “Did they help you at once?” «T began to feel better the second day after [started to use the pills and by the ttme Thad taken the three boxes I was entirely well. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills can cure even when doctors fail, and they cure thoroughly, for a long time has passed since my restoration to health and I know it is complete and lasting.” ‘The surest way to make sound diges- tion is to give strength to the organs con- cerned. — Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills give new vigor to the blood. No other rem. edy yields such radical results. Mrs. Darvoux lives at No. 497 Sixtl street, Detroit, Mich. Dr Williams Pink Pills aro sold by all druggists in every part of the world. Dyspeptic: should send to the Dr. Williams Med icine Company, Schenectady. N. ¥., fo a new booklet entitled * What to Ea ‘and How to Eat.” : All That Saved Him. .. “Now,” began the moralizer, “tak the life of your neighbor, for instanc. He—" “I'd do it in a minute” interupte the demaralizer, “if the law would to erate it. He's learning to play a co net.”"—Detroit Tribune. “Are you on good terms with your guests?” asked the new arriv at the winter resort. “Very go terms,” chuckled the landlord of ti hotel; “about $10 a@ day.—Chicas OPERATION AVOIDED EXPERIENCE OF MISS MERKLEY She Was Told That an Operation Was Inevitable. How She Escaped It ‘When a physician tells a woman suf- fering with ovarian or womb trouble that an operation is necessary, the very thought of the knife and the operating table strikes terror to her heart, anc our hospitals are full of women coming for ovarian or womb operations. vp PAS: ants orem 38 BONN. kN e eo ‘ Suit i vg CS ah Mes Sy), OS Ue es Ke cen ON Pee i (ee fe eee ee S35 eS > Saas G2) | eae ASA | Mit Margret Merkley There are cases where an operation isthe only resource, but when one con- Siders the great number of cases of ovarian and womb trouble cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound after physicians have advised operations, no woman should submit to one without first trying the Vegetable ‘Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham, ‘Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is free, Miss Margret Merkley of 275 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— TT PEE convo shooting pains through jo organs, bearing’ dowa pata and crabspe cocteaied me to seek medieal advice, The Moston after making an examination, said I had ovarian trouble and ulceration and advised an opera- tion. To this te ‘objected and decided totry a E. Pinkham's eee Com- Beebed symptoms diagbeared sat" sl once more song, vigorous and Well.” Ovarian and womb troubles are stend- ily on the increase among women. If the monthly periods are very painful, or too frequent and excessive—if you have pain or swelling low down in the left le, bearing down pains, leucor- thea, don’t neglect yourself : try Lydia E. 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Best pay and tersitory, Moore,210 Odd Fellows’ Bidg. »St.Louis,Mo. if you want anything well disseminat- ed, just tell it to a woman and tell her not to tell it. ‘Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new cater loge. to-day. JENKINS’ MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY. MO. ‘Time Lost. Jinks—What were you doing in that pawnshop? Binks—Oh, just passing away my time.—Cleveland Leader. | FITS rerassta ret Gpaegecrecmmaree SPRL eee Salt added to the water in which cut flowers stand keeps them fresh. tina anne Ges omeapen na oe cone als eecae ie ete A cloth saturated in lemon juice or and bound about a cut or wound will stop bleeding. ‘You never hear any one complain about ‘Deane aay ae eee Deal eats cae ee ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save ne A hot lemonade, taken before going © bed, will cure a cold on the lungs, Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don’t keep peace aeetes ey nome, ee have a stock on hand of other brands ponies eee Sie erate ae vecause Defiance contains 16 oz. for fogs Den Se ca cate cen od for same money? Then. buy Defiance 3tarch. Requires no cooking. Jess—Did you see the ring Jack fave May? Bess—Yes, two years go.—Town Topics. “How does it feel to be fired?” they sked the ex-salesman. “I gives you mighty chilly sensation,” he said— ‘hicago Tribune. McFlub—Bilkins is an intelligent ellow. He always tries to reason with is wife. Sleeth—Tries to reason with his ‘ife! An intelligent i-low! Say, old aan, don't make me laugh; I've got an ulcerated tooth ‘e ¢ ON STRANGER’S LAP SPINSTER RODE IN CROWDED ELEVATED TRAIN. Situation Enjoyed by the Other Pas- sengers, but Decidedly Distasteful to the Principals—Fat Man Finally ‘Succumbs to Fate. ‘The elevated train was chock full when the very stout man got on at ‘Yhirty-third street. There wasn't room between platform and platform for a famine victim; but the stout man, like all stout men, didn't see how he could make any difference. He stepped upon the platform buoyantly, mashing a messenger boy flat against the door and spreading a lemon-faced little spinster all over the window like Jam or butter. At Twenty-eighth street half a dozen people got out. Instantly there was a rush for seats and standing room left ‘inside the car. But alas! when a fat man gets wedged in a doorway, who else can penetrate it? Again, like all fat men, the fat man was lucky, and, strange as it may appear, he managed to get one of the seats re- cently vacated. ‘When he had sat down the little spinster gathered herself together and found foothold in front of him, and the others, with some new passengers just taken on, crowded in after her and packed themselves like sardines. They were squeezed so tight that the spinster reached for a strap to keep from being pushed over on the fat man’s head and shoulders. But just as she made a grasp somebody else caught the only remaining strap. The bell rang sharply and the ‘train start- ed with a jerk. ‘The little spinster lost her breath and balance, toppled for a moment on her toes and then sank struggling down upon the fat man’s lap. ‘The fat man gasped and the spinster gave an awful cry of consternation and veached for the floor. But there was 50 floor! Every inch of space was covered by the feet of the determined Passengers. The moment she sat down they had spread out over her space. Then she blushed. Some peo- ple looked her way and laughed, but nobody moved. She couldn't wedge her knees down from the altitude they had assumed at the first lurch. She continued to struggle and strain to reach a strap, while the fat man sat helpless with that energetic mite of femininity going through the jiu jitsu exercises on his knees. At the next station more people got on and the fight of the lone spinster became more difficult and desperate, Flesh and blood, even 300 pounds strong, could stand it no longer. Like a mountain rising and casting off the small cities on its surface, the ponder- ous one rose and pushed the sardine like passengers out of his magic circle, ‘The spinster slid off his knee like a drop of water off a duck. “Madam,” said the fat man, lifting his hat gravely, “will you do me the honor to take my seat?” “Well, it’s about time!” snapped the ruffled little spinster ungratefully— New York Prees. Their Favorite Feod. Senator Berry of Arkansas tells of @ happy old darky who came down the country road singing camp meeting hymns, when another old, woolly pated one stopped him and asked the reason for his happiness. The reply was: “T'se enj'yn’ my ‘ligion mo’ an’ mo’, Petah, We's be'n revivalin’ at ouah chu’ch all wintah.” “Any convertin’ be'n done” “Yas, Petah, souls is bein’ saved by the hund’ds. We has one gre't preachah. He tole us t'night all "bout Jonah swallerin’ de whale.” “an’ whah did dis Jonah come f'um? Ahkansaw?” “I dunno, Petah, I dunno, ‘case de preachah didn’ say. But 1 s'pechs Jonah was a Vaginny niggah.” “An’ whut makes you say Vaginny niggah.” “Well, Petah, dem big mouthed Va- ginny niggahs was h—t on fish.”— Pittsburg Dispatch. Not Far Off. Charles D. Hine, secretary of the State Board of Education of Connecti- cut, made in Hartford recently a hum- orous address on the topic of examina- tion papers, says the Cincinnati En- quirer. Mr. Hine had collected a great mass of children’s examination papers, and had culled from them a number of amusing and quaint answers. “Now, here,” said Mr. Hine, in the course of his address, “here is an answer containing a good deal of un- conscious truth—an answer that seems to me to hit the nail on the bead. “The question refers to a famous town. ‘What,’ it runs, ‘is this town noted as?’ “The answer is: ‘It 1s floted as a watering place. “What is a watering place?’ is the next question. “Answer: ‘A place where people go to drink.” Mark of the Aborigine. ‘The red man has left an indelible mark upon the land over which he formerly roamed as proprietor. Twen- ty-two of the states and two of the ter- ritories have Indian names. Most of the rivers, four of the five great lakes, over a dozen large cities and innumer- able small lakes, streams and villages are similarly yclept. The memory of the original inhabitants of the cotntry has been highly honored in this re- spect. The ancient home of almost evety tribe can be told by the name which the region now preserves— Kansas City Journal. at Hee aa set Baking Is due to its Perfect Quality and Moderate Price Used in Millions of Homes Houston Post: “Are dogs good eat- ing, papa?” “No, son, they are bad eating; don't ever twist a dogs tail when he is at dinner.” ‘Talking machines—Victor and Edi- son 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. A strong, unsweetened Jemonade ta- ken before breakfast will prevent and cure bilious attack. NO TONGUE CAN TELL How | Suffered with Itching and Bleeding Eczema Until Cured by Cuticura. “No tongue can tell how I suffered for five years with a terribly painful, {tching, and bleeding eczema, my body and face being covered with sores. Never In my life did I exper!- ence stich awful suffering, and I longed for death, which I felt was near. I had tried doctors and medi- eines without success, but my mother insisted that I try Cuticura. I felt better after the first bath with Cuti- cura Soap and one application of Cuti- cura Ointment, and was soon entirely well. (Signed) Mrs. A. Etson, Belle- ‘vue, Mich.” In order to realizee the full value of some things they should be well in- sured. Great Activity Is shown without any disagreeable after-effects, by Dr. Caldwell’s (laxa- tive) Syrup Pepsin, in going to the seat of your trouble, when you are a victim of Constipation, Billousness, Headache, Indigestion, Dizziness, etc. It gently ‘but firmly drives out’ the poisons that are causing your illness, and braces up all your internal organs to do their proper work. Try it. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. At least until grass makes a start to grow it is usually best to feed the poul- try regularly three times a day. How's Thie? sae Cuitrh MESES be ed by Has ae F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. iasereowaeineen eter Strat cote rae rar eeennene i ee = See ease Fs RF Ht nite, Sawdust on the floor of the hen house will keep the biddies’ feet warm and induce egg production, Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in %-pound pack- ages, and the price is the same, 16 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch {s free from all injurious chem- feals. If your grocer tries to sell you @ 12-02. package it is because he has & stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large let- ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand De- fiance and save much time and money’ and the annoyance of the fron stick- ing. Defiance never ctirkg, Chronic bargain hunters soon begin. to take on a shop-worn look. Puck: Finnegan—Oh, yis, Ol, cam understhand how thim astronomers can calkilate th’ distance av a shtarr, its weight, dinisty and color and all thot—but th’ thing thot gets me is, how th’ divvle do they know its name. Maw Hoptoad—Them actors is # scandalous lot, Paw Hoptoad—What's wrong now, Mirandy? Maw Hoptoad—t Jem heard that feb ler say he supported Madam Mojjesky fer nine years an’ had a wife in the eompany. tew! Will It Cure Consumption? ical Discovery will cure consumption when thoroughly seated and established. We doubt if any medicine will then cure, although hundreds have been cured by the "Discovery" after their attending physicians had pronounced their cases to be regular tubercular consumption. The fact is that the "Golden Medical Discose" were throat and bronchial affections, lingering coughs and those obstinate, wasting "down" conditions which, if neglected or improperly treated, run on and terminate in genuine consumption. We know that thousands of men and women although in the advanced stages of feebleness and emaciation—palid, wasted and broken-down with all the terrible symptoms of hacking coughs, night-sweats, hectic fever, absolute prostration, and even bleeding from the lungs—have been restored by the use of this marvelous medicine to permanent health, strength and vitality. But it must be taken in time, before the lungs have been filled with tubercular deposits, or have actually begun to break down. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dear Sir, In your pleasure to send you this testimonial so that some other poor sufferer may be saved, as I was, by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I had a cough 20 years, expectorated as a deal and was well treated. I had three meals a day but was losing flesh every day. Let me in weight from 150 pounds to 128. My flesh got soft and I had no strength. Did not say that the end was not far off if I did not get It's an insult to your intelligence to palm off upon you a substitute medicine. You know what you will meet that want. When he urges thinking of the larger profit he welfare. Avoid all such unprinciple Conviction Folly When buying loose coffee or anything to have in his bin, how do you getting? Some queer stories about could be told, if the people who have speak out. Could any amount of mere talk housekeepers to use It's an insult to your intelligence for a dealer to attempt to palm off upon you a substitute for this world-famed medicine. You know what you want. It's his business to meet that want. When he urges some substitute, he's thinking of the larger profit he'll make -- not of your welfare. Avoid all such unprincipled dealers. 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 Lion Coffee. 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? 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 WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. 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 Railroad, the Mississippi and Louisiana, within the past ten years. Cities and towns have doubled their population. Splendid business blocks have been erected. Farm lands have more than doubled in value. Hundreds of industries have been erected. The result there is an unprecedented demand for Parties with small capital, seeking an opportunity to purchase a farm home; farmers who would prefer to rent for a couple of years before purchasing; and day laborers in fields or factories. Merrry, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Dubuque, Iowa, who will promptly mail printed matter concerning the territory above described, and give specific replies to all inquiries. $50 POSITION PAY TUITION AFTER POSITION IS SECURED Kansas City, Ft. Scott, St. Louis, Ft. Smith, Muskogee or Ft. Worth, may, without giving notes, pay EVERY CENT of tuition out of salary after course is completed. If good position is not secured no pay required. MAIL COURSE FREES. If not ready to enter college now you may take seasons by mail FREE until the cost of board, etc. Daughan's P. B. C. Co. has $800,000,000 capital. seventeen bankers on Board of Directors and叉变 loggers THREEEN states to back every claim it makes. Established 16 years. Clip and send this notice to-day. HIGH GRADE TELEPHONES For long distance and ex- change service. Construction materials and supplies. FARMERS' LINES A SPECIALTY. Catalogue and Instruction Book Free. Central Telephone & Electric Co. 2135 Lucas Ave., St. Louis, U. S. A. A CLEAR, HEALTHY SKIN Sandholm's Eczema Purifies, Then Heals. Positively cures Eczema, Pimples, Eruptions, Insect Bites or scars. Absolute cure for Dandruff or Scalp disease. Drugstrikes. Drugstrikes. Drugstrikes. DRUG CO., Des Moines, Iowa. $1.00 Per Bottle. Send for FREE BOOKLETS. Ask your druggist or barist or send to SANDHOLM DRUG CO., Des Moines, Iowa. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 15. 1905 DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes C. alims. Late Principal Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau & vice in civil war. 15 adjudicating claims, city since. DR. R. V. PIERCE Buffalo N. Y.; Lion-head on every package. Especially Farm Tenants. DRAUGHON'S M. R. S. help soon. One day my wife was reading in the "Common Sense Medical Adviser" about a new drug that sounds more like common sense than any thing else that I had heard. I at once asked her to take it before I had taken half of one bottle I felt better. To take thirteen bottles and it made a new cough, I had to have had a cough since, I feel splendid and give all the credit to your medicine. GEO. A. THOMPSON, Sheldon Ave., Chatham, Ont. Canada Dear Str.- I wish to speak as to the benefit received from Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. My health long run-down last week was a good one which he lungs and throat. I had a very bad cough, also raised a great deal. Doctored for awhile with our country physician and he said this was the best treatment I could go into consumption. I could see no benefit from his treatment, so I purchased a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and I may cough. I am sure the "Golden Medical Discovery" is one of the best cough remedies in existence and I also know that Dr. Pierce's cough description is very good for the troubles for which it is recommended, for I have taken it. Hoping that others may be benefited as I have been, I remain. Yours with respect, Mrs. M. BLAZIER, Morgan, Occonto Co., Wis. Dr. Pierce's Good temper is a matter of good health, and good health is largely a matter of healthy activity of the bowels. Dr. Pierce's pleasure is the same. They are safe, sure and speedy, and one taken do not have to be taken always. One little "Pellet" is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. They never Pellets LION LION MACH ROUND COFFEE WOLLSON SPICE CO. EXCURSIONS TO THE Free Grant Lands OF FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada. During the months of March and April, there will be excursions on the various lines of railway to the Canadian West. Hundreds of thousands of acres of the best Wheat and Grazing Lands on the Continent free to the settler. Adjoining lands may be purchased from railway and land companies at reasonable prices. For information as to route, cost of transportation etc., apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to authorized Canada Government, Kansas City, No. 26 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. Many who formerly smoked 10" Cigars now smoke LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5" CIGAR Your jobber or direct from Factory, Peoria, IA. OF GANS $20 to $40 Highest grade Estey Mansion & Holliday Club, Clark, Kimball, Chicago Cottage, slightly used guaranteed like new; special descriptions and prices for the asking. Write to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. When writing mention this paper. Alabastine Your Walls Just ask the doctor if there isn't danger of disease in your walls. Don't take our word for it—ask him. Make him tell you. There is only one perfectly sanitary and hygienic wall covering. That is Alabastine—made from Alabaster rock—then colored with mineral colorings. ALABASTINE is cleanly, because it is made from pure rock—Alabaster rock and pure water. It is not stuck on with sour paste nor smelly glue. When your walls need covering, you don't need to wash ALABASTINE off. Just add another coat, for ALABASTINE is antiseptic as well as beautiful. The most beautiful decorations are possible with Alabastine. You could do it yourself, but can put it on. You could do it yourself, but can put it on. Alabastine being delivered in the original package is a good guard against substitution or worries omines. Write for beautiful ink card and free suggestions. If you want to send you, send as kit name and you will be that you have Alabastine ALABASTINE COMPANY. Grant Ave., grand Rapids, Mich. PISO'S CURE FOR CHURER WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best of the Best Use in time, sold by drugran. CONSUMPTION OUT OF THE ORDINARY Flickle Fortune. When fortune you would try to win. That flick and that that fair and nickle goddess Adobe and the other spines in Almost as maud as Maud S. When far behind you try to follow. Her mocking laugh is cold and hollow. Where is there such exciting sport, O go so swift and thrilling. O go so slow and thrilling. Sometimes you see the fickle maid And fancy she is flirting. But when you follow, I'm afraid, Your extra strength execls, you'll find when from the foot-race cool- ing. That she, alas, was only fooling. Some lucky ones, it almost seems. Though lobsters, cannot shake her, She seldom average fellow schemes. He seldom can For when at last his chance seems mel Latest Sea Serpent. Capt D. W. Corning of the British bark Howard D. Troop, just in from Kobe, Japan, reported the following sea serpent story: "We were on a bowling line a few degrees below the equator. Two of the hands were sunning their shins on the end of the bowsprit and two were aloft conning the horizon. The weather was perfect. "Suddenly there came a hail from abaft the gallery on the port side. One of the men on the sprit was awakened so suddenly that he almost tumbled overboard. "When a half dozen of us reached the side of the man who had made the hail he pointed to a spot in the sea about a cable's length off the weather bow. We saw a long black object writhing and shining in the sunlight. "It was at least sixty feet over 'all, and on its back was perched a big white sea gull, apparently enjoying the excitement of the situation. We 'shooed' the sea gull, but it wouldn't shoo. "The serpent was black with a rough coating. We didn't notice that the sea gull was trying to peck the snake, but as we drew ahead before the stiff breeze the bird was still on its back as the two of them were lost in the direction of the west coast of Africa." The captain said they didn't lower sail and attempt to capture the serpent because of the necessity of making as quick a voyage as possible. Corning is a member in good standing of the Sailors' Belay All Grog As association. One Way to Stop Autos Motorists have many enemies, says an English paper. Pedestrians, farmers, cabmen, policemen are among the number, but knowing how ineffectual their efforts must be to put a stop to the mania for driving at excessive speed, an ex-soldier has offered to champion their cause. The Warwickshire chamber of agriculture dismissed the matter recently, and have since received the following letter from an ex-army sergeant: "As I doubt the power of the average farm laborer to distinguish between the innocent and guilty, I offer my services. I hold a discharge as a sergeant from the army, and am a trained shot. "At least fifty motors pass my house every day. With an ordinary magazine rifle I could get about thirty daily and I offer my trained services to the chamber at a charge of twelve cents per head. I should like to hear to whom to forward the heads. I could use explosive or poisoned bullets if so desired." Have Fun With New Arrival. In the "back blocks" of Australia, new arrivals are considered the legitimate butts of every joke that can be played on them. Recently a coach driver, backed up by his passengers, induced a young man, newly arrived from England, to believe that kangaroos were now used in that district as letter carriers. "They meet the coach," he said, "and I give them their masters' letters, which they put in their pouches and carry home." The "new chum" was incredulous, but just then a great kangaroo hopped on to the roadway right in front of them, and stood for a moment looking at the advancing coach. "Nothing for you to-day," shouted the driver, and the animal, turning, disappeared in the scrub from which it had come. The young Englishman is full of wonder at the strides made in so young a nation as Australia. Two Real Curios. Martin French of West Dover, Me, has a pair of Castile shears, 200 years old. They weigh one pound, are 11 inches in length and are as keen of edge as any later day make. The same rivet that was originally put in, still holds them together. He also has a copy of the last issue of a paper printed in Vicksburg before its surrender in 1865. It was printed on the back of ordinary wall paper and was brought home by Mr. French as a curiosity forty years ago. Old Military Order Among some papers in the possession of Alice V. Langdon of New Haven, Vermont, was found a warrant from Elias Post, captain, to Moses Stowe, corporal, commanding him to warn all officers and soldiers belonging to that company to appear in the east parish of Rutland, complete in arms in order for exercise. It was dated Rutland, April 26, 1792, at 8 o'clock in A Land of Mystery. The Great American Desert once so called, the wild solitudes of the Western mountain ranges, and the snow wastes of the Yukon, have yielded up their inmost secrets; out the Everglades, in the southern most interior of our southern most state, are today almost as little known of white men as when the early navigators first chartered the contour of the Cape of the End of April.—From "The Everglades of Florida" in the February Century. Such Dear Friends, Too. Clara—I'll tell you a secret, dear, if you'll promise never to repeat it. Maude—All right. Out with it. Clara—Fred proposed to me last night. Maude—Oh, say, doesn't he do it awkwardly, though? Senator Stone of Missouri was passing through the senate restaurant. He stopped and said to a waiter, "Is this pumpkin pie?" "Yes, sir it is," replied the waiter. "It looks like it might be sweet potato pie," said Mr. Stone. "Let me taste it." The senator was handed a fork and tasted the pie. "es, it is pumpkin pie," said Mr. Stone. "You know, I am from Missouri and have to be shown." But he didn't buy the pie—new York World. Representative Brownlow of Tennessee led Martin W. Littleton, president of the borough of rooklyn, up to the White House and presented him to President Roosevelt. "Mr. President," he said, "I want you to know the man who did more for you in the last campaign than any other on earth." "How's that?" asked the president, looking Littleton over carefully. "Why," rownlow replied, "Littleton is the person who made the nominating speech for Judge Parker at the St. Louis convention. In the Spring. Lowndes, Mo., April 10th.—Mrs. H. C. Harty of this place, says:— "For years I was in very bad health. Every spring I would get so low that I was unable to do my own work. I seemed to be worse in the spring than any other time of the year. I was very weak and miserable and had much pain in my back and head. I saw Dodd's Kidney Pills advertised last spring and began treatment of them and they have certainly done me more good than anything I have ever used. "I was all right last spring and felt better than I have for over ten years. I am fifty years of age and am stronger to-day than I have been for many years and I give Dodd's Kidney Pills credit for the wonderful improvement." The statement of Mrs. Harty is only one of a great many where Dodd's Kidney Pills have proven themselves to be the very best spring medicine. They are unsurpassed as a tonic and are the only medicine used in thousands of families. There is apt to be trouble in the family when the better half finds out how the other half lives. Washing Blankets. Have ready three tubs of moderately warm water; for the first water make a strong suds by using plenty of Ivory Soap. In this put a pair of blankets and stin with the clothes stick until clean; then rinse through the other two waters, putting a little soap in each. Wring by hand and stretch carefully on the line. ELEANOR R. PARKER. Uncle John—Can you tell me what calendars are for, Bobby? Bobby—Sure. They are to keep us from forgetting Christmas and the Fourth of July. NORTH-SOUTH-EAST-WEST YOU WILL FIND TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING EVERYWHERE. The best materials skilled workmen and satisfying experience have made TOWER'S SILKEN Coats and this famous the world over. They are made in black or yellow for all kinds of wet work and every gourmet bearing the SIGN OF THE FISH is guaranteed to give safe infection. All reliable dealers sell them. A.J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. TOWER CANADA CO. Limited, TORONTO, CAN. that has built up our reputation for good reliable footwear throughout the central states. It is called the "HOOSIER SCHOOL SHOE" and was made by us at first for children only. So popular did it become however that dealers all over insisted on our making the same shoe in women's sizes. The results have been phenomenal. We have made and sold over 3,000,000 pairs of "Hoosier School Shoes" and the demand is constantly increasing. It is made of the best material by expert workmen. It looks well, wears well and fits the foot. Ask your dealer for "Hoosier School Shoes." TAPPAN SHOE MFG. CO. COLDWATER, MICH. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach PERUNA THE GREAT TONIC ARMY NAVY SENATORS MINISTERS CONGRESSMEN, DOCTORS GOVERNORS, FARMERS HOSPITALS UNCLE SAM—"A High Standard is Required Any Catarrh Remedy That Has Been Endorsed by Many Trustworthy and Prominent People." We Have No Agents but ship anywhere for examination and approval, guaranteeing delivery. You are not nothing if not satisfied as to style, quality and price. We make 200 styles of vehicles and 65 styles of harness. No. 658. Combination Buggy with extra 65 styles stick sent and by: 1. rubber dress. Price complete $69.00. As good as sells for $30 more. FREE. Elkbert Carrage @ Harne W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the g world because of their excellent style, which is so good that they are just too fast from $2.50 to $7.00. The only most cost from $3.00 to $7.00 is the market to-day, where $1.50 shoes are the market to-day, and $1.50 shoes are the market to-day, and $1.50 shoes are sold through the bottom of each shoe. Look for it. Talk about the price of the shoes you buy and the price of the other you live, W.L. Douglas shoes is $1.50. BETTER THAN OTHER MAKES *For the last three years I have worn W.L. Douglas only as good as I have seen at the Coat Shop since I was the Coat Shop. Boys wear W.L. Douglas $2.50 and $2.00 better, hold their shape, and wear long W.L. Douglas $4.00 SHOES CANNOT BE E W.L. Douglas uses Corona Colletkin in his Coil is considered to be the finest patent FAST COLOR EYELETS WILL NO W. L. Douglas has the largest shoe mail on No trouble to get a bit by mail. $2c. extra preparer information, write for Illustrated Cat W.L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, M Our large Catalogue is No. FREE. Send it to Harness Mfg. Co. DUCLAIR 00 SHOES are the greatest sellers in style, easy fitting and are just as good as those only difference the cost more to make, hold of greater value than that we offer. We want to taking his name and price of protecting his own business through his own retailer dealers everywhere. Where no shoes are within your MAKES AT ANY PRICE. We have a large stock and found that Leather had, regardless of capital National Bank, Indiana- and $2.00 shoes because the wear longer than other man NOT BE EQUALLED AT ANY skin in his $5.50 shoes. Corona sheat patent leather produced. BREVE mail order business. OR extra prepays delivery. If you strated Catalogue of Spring TON, MASSACHUSETTS W. L. DOUGLAS UNION MADE. $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN. W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the greatest sellers in the market. They are the most expensive superior wearing qualities. They are just as good as those cost from $3.90 to $7.00. The only difference in the price, however, is the length. They are longer, and are of greater value than any shape better, wear longer, and are of greater value than any Douglas guarantees their value by stamping his name and bottom of each shoe. Look for it. Take no substitute. W. L. Douglas shoes are the principal cities, and by shoe dealers everywhere, No matter where you live, W. L. Douglas shoes are within your reach. Colt is considered to be the finest product produced. FACOLOR EYELETS WILL NOT MAKE BERRY W. L. Donglas has the largest shop mail order business in the world. No trouble to get a fit by mail. $cc. extra prepays delivery. If you desire further information, write for Illustrated Catalogue of Spring Styles. W.L.DOUCLAS, BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Also the New "HOT SPRINGS arrive in Hot Springs to Br and Chair Cars to Ft. Sm For Pueblo, Denver and Pacific C For Joplin and Way Station To Lexington, Sedalia and W Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Jo For Klowa, Wichita and Way SPRINGS SPECIAL' Gigs to Breakfast. Three Ft. Smith, Little Rock Pacific Coast Points at y Stations 2:25, 9:45 and Way Stations, 5:45 and St. Joseph, 5:45, 9:45 and Way Stations, 12:01 Also the 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 and Pacific Coast Points at 10:40 a. m. and 1:30 p. For Joplin and Way Stations 2:25, 9:45 a. m. and 7:40 p. m. To Lington Station Sidney. To Lexington, Sedalia and Way Stations, 5:45 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph, 5:45, 9:00, 10:50 a. m. and 6:00 p. For Klowa, Wichita and Way Stations, 12:01, noon, and 10:30 p. m. For Local Coupon Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information call at UNION DEPOT OR CITY TICKET OFFICE E. S. JEWET., won't Agent, Passenger Dept. 901 main St. JOHN J. SHINE, City Ticket Agent Telephone 740 Hickory $25 to California From Kansas City to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco. These are only a few of the places to which tickets may be bought this rate. Proportionate reductions from other points. You've heard of California's rich soil. Tickets on sale—daily—March 1 to May 15. Liberal stop-over privileges. No better train service than the Santa Fe's. Three trains daily. Tourist Sleepers, Free Chair Cars, Harvey Meals. Whether you go now or later, write the undersigned for descriptive literature, information about trains and rates. Ask all the questions you desire. We'll answer them. GEO. W. HAGENBUCH, General Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company 905 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. HENRY WILLIAMS NO. 999, Catopia Top Surfer. Price complete and for it. $73. W proof as seller for its store. Mfg. Co., Elkhart, Indiana. GLAS HOES FOR MEN. Great sellers in the easy fitting and super- good as those that make it the best shoes to make, hold their shoes in their wallets. W.L. Douglas gam- ine and price on the own retail stores in everywhere. No mat- ernal within your reach. ANY PRICE. $9.99 bce and found it not Winter Service 1904 and 1908 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. SPECIAL," leaving at 12:01 Noon skift. Through Sleepers, Diner h, Little Rock and Hot Springs. Fast points at 10:40 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. s 2:25, 9:45 a. m. and 7:40 p. m. Stations, 5:45 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. ph, 5:45, 9:00, 10:50 a. m. and 6:00 p. stations, 12:01, noon, and 10:30 p. m. S 4. W. L. Douglas makes and sells more Men's $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. $10,000 REMITED any one Can disprove his claim