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 It Needs Much. To be the Metropolis City of Kansas and the Great West. A CRYING NEED. To a person about town it is apparent that nothing needful in the two Kansas cities is a Rescue Home among Negroes for the wawward girls and women who are winding their way on down to the lowest regions of the bottomless pit, be aware when they would turn from a com-mered life of shame, no hand is out patched to save them and they are It is about time that the citizens of this city are awaken to the grand pos-sibilities of a greater city. The civic pride of our city seems dead and they are content on running in the same old rut. In efforts to make this a greater Kansas City, color and politics should cut no figure, but one united band of citizens laboring toward one end, that of making this city the best place on earth to live. In a progressive city like the above it is certainly a disgrace to a population one near 80,000 people that a big chicken coop, with so many pigeon holes for a City Hall is ours. To find all the city officials in this city one needs a map to properly locate them, because the chicken coop cannot house the official chickens. Second and Third class cities have a more commodious and decent looking building for a city hall than we the proud boasters of a First Class City. It would have b en a great deal more commendable on the part of the citizens who have civic pride to vote bonds for a new city hall than a 'Jim Crow High School.' it is disgusting and shameful to know that the little pigeon hole used for the Mayors office is not one half as respectable looking as the poorest lawyer's in this city. When we boast of pride and progressiveness, a look at our City Hall, put us in the plight of a peacock, being dressed in gay attire, looks at his feet and tucks his head in shame. The City Treasurer's office graced by a womanis not much larger then 2x4, and is built in a gang way. The furniture in the City Engineers office looks like relics from the recent flood. All this and even more in the boasted Metropolis city of the great West. If the major portion of the citizens had, or took time to inspect our City Hall, we believe they would all irrespective of party, creed or anything else, join in one great chorus for a New City Hall. The present city hall would not meet the demands of a village, Kansas City, Kans., is no longer in swaddling clothes its a full grown individual. Mrs. Nannie Ewing of Leavenworth pent Sunday in the City. Mr. H. P. Ewing formerly a potato king of the Kaw Vally lately manager of the K. C. Embalming and Casket Co. now a prosperus business man of Muskogee Indian Territory, is in the city among friends. Mrs. Emma Fields of Lafayette ave. is still very seriously ill. Mr. Geo. Bradford will leave for Los-Angeles Cal. about June 1st. Mr. J. J. Thomas has been appointe financial secretary and collector for the Knights and ladies of Protection. Insurance Society for Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. James Rutherford and family leave are long for NiCodemus to reside permanently. The International Order of Twelve Hall at 11th and Washington avenue is being rapidly pushed towards compleon. Mrs Joseph Wilson of State ave. and little family left the past week to enjoy the breezes of a country home in Missouri she will doubtless remain all summer The funeral of William Triggs of 3025 Sherman avenue. who died last Tues da was held Thursday morning. he leans a wife and large circle of friends to mon mn their lost. The funeral of Mr. B. Mason. the old soldier, citizen and member of the Washington temple 25 of the Internationa Order of Twelve. who died at Douglass Hospital the past week, will be held Sunday from the First Baptist Church Interment at Oak Grove. Largest Building in the World. The Crystal palace accommodates more people than any other building in the world. It will hold 100,000. 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. A CRYING NEED. To a person about town it is apparent that something needful in the two Kansas cities is a Rescue Home among Negroes on the wayward girls and women who are winding their way on down to the worst regions of the bottomless pit, be aware when they would turn from a com-murred life of shame, no hand is out patched to save them and they are injured and scorned by all, dragged into courts, sent to workhouses, to the jails and committees. The victims of the unlicensed passion attitudes in men's clothing and scorns of their own sex. Hundred of girls to wear on the downward road at a gal- ling speed who could be checked and surely make ultimately decent and repatible citizens. Few people are will- ing to help a woman when she is down, it always ready to show them farther on the hill, the effort of a fallen woo- rse to rise is in the most cases pitiful women with all their sympathetic positions, with all their love and ten- ness, if they are on the top wave of imperity are among the first and most critics of a poor unfortunate sis- sor who has fallen by the wayside with the tower to rise with no help. Very few people will open their homes as fallen woman who is struggling to doorm. It is therefore urgently necessary that a Rescue Home should be built, where unfortunate girls and wounded could find res., protection, care and mindness, this would go a long ways to reformation of fallen women. A case of an unfortunate colored girl was stood as a fit subject for such a home was before Police Judge, Simms recently. She was arrested by a colored officer and defended by a colored attorney. She was charged with street walk and a cocaine fiend, she was truly a pitied for inquiries made by us caught out the fact that she at one time was a good girl, but the cruelties at home presided over by a stepfather is responsible for her start downward. debt to judge imms for discharging to make a new start. Who of our women our christian workers will put the ball to rolling in a worthy WHY NOT? The ordinance raising the salaries of police officers in this city should be used. Firemen and Policemen ought to be the best paid people in any municipality. Their lives are in jeopardy at times. Their lot may be looked up as happy ones, on the face, but it is from happy under the surface. Will rules block this ordinance, we await A CITY HOSPITAL Charity begins at home and if we can see straight it remains there. Notwithstanding that there are three charitable institutions in this city known and established as hospitals. A poor unfortunate without a dollar nor any means of putting hold on some stands in poor grade in charitable inclined hospitals in this city. A great big city like ours interested in all that tends to make a city life place to live, ought beyond all reasonable doubts have a City Hospital for the benefit of charity in reality. WE ARE WITH HIM. We heartily endorse Mayor Rose in his effort to better the water service to the extent of municipal ownership. We care with him in his stand for the most liberal terms toward the city, in the meaning of franchises. It should not be a matter of party lines when the peoples interest are at stake. Too long has political squabbling stood in the way of progressiveness in this city and the mingling out of all that is commendable as a public official who has good inten- WHAT IS DOING AMONG US. Mrs. Pauline Clay of Minneapolis Miss. is the guest of Mrs. Lulu Johnson of State avenue. The new K. of T. Hall will be open to the public on June 16th 1905. Anniversary services will be held at the first Baptist, Sunday. Needed Very Badly. Trades in London. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, 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 warder 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 the 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. 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. 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 wort', 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. Automatic Compass. M. Helt, 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. Bank Run by Negroes All the officers and stockholders of a bank in the Creek nation are negroes. English Paupers Costly. England's expenditure on paupers is rising at the rate of $1,400,000 a year. 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. GOOD INDEX TO CHARACTER. Habits and Idiosyncracies Betrayed In the Laugh. Anthropologists say that the ability to laugh comes to the child as it grows older. The first smile is observed when the child is about forty to sixty days old, but it does not begin to laugh until some time after that. Children and women laugh more than men, not because the cares of life lie less heavily upon them, but because the the former are more excitable, and because the moderating power of the cerebral hemispheres is less in them than among men generally. Profound study makes men serious, and so foolish people are sometimes noted for laughing immoderately. Yet laughter is not so much an index to intelligence as it is to the condition of health. Healthy, vigorous people are proverbially of good-humored joyous, laughing natures, while the "sallow, gloomy-eyed dyspeptic" is a description scientifically accurate. The envious, wicked and malevolent rarely laugh, because, phrenologists say, they are impregnated with bile, and are, therefore, morose. The haughty, the vain and the awkward also laugh very little, for fear of losing their dignity. The Spanish people, proverbially grave, are a good example. People who have lines extending downward from the angle at the mouth toward the chin well marked rarely laugh, and, moreover, show a tendency to pennsiveness in youth and melancholy in after life. People who have lines raying outward from the eyes are, on the contrary, people who laugh a good deal, especially when the upper lip is framed by two deep furrows running down in the mouth. OLD LADY WAS PRACTICAL. A very practical old lady from the country was visiting her daughter in the city not long ago, and her young granddaughter was taking her through one of the big department stores on a little shopping tour. "Now," said the old lady to the salesman, "show me some dishes; I want to buy a set." Up in the china department the clerks had shown a number of dainty, pretty designs, which the old lady had admired, but still seemed to be looking for something else. "This pale green and gold tinted one is pretty, grandma," suggested the young girl, "why not get it?" "Well, you see," answered the practical grandmother, "your Aunt Jinnie is a-goin' to be married in the fall, and I thought I would get her a good serviceable present while I was up here. A black and white flowered set of china is what I want, if I could find it. Black and white is such serviceable colors, you know, dear; it don't show dirt."—Linnieott's. The Porch. When father built the veranda, He kicked about the expense, But ma, she said: "Don't mind it. Ed-- Don't think of dollars and cents." That autumn Clara was married, It made pa glad as could be, And ma would smile Most all the while, "I'm proud of that porch," said she. Last summer both Belle and Amy Would race for the porch at night, And all the rest Of us thought best To stay indoors, out of sight. But Belle ran faster than Amy— She got her man in July; And I'll commend That porch to send A bachelor's oath sky high. Last Sunday Amy informed us That she and told Jimmy "yes." And we united, Pa, ma, and me, Can get on that porch. I guess. —Cleveland Leader. Image Wigs Fashionable. Many of the fashions inaugurated by sovereigns have had most unromantic origins. Thus, when Louis IX. of France developed a bald cranium his queen promptly provided him with a wig, saying, "Our bald kings have never been lucky, and it ill befits a sovereign that he should not be better provided with flowing locks than a mendicant at the gates of Notre Dame." And forthwith every subject throughout France, whether he required it or not, donned a similar wig in loyal emulation of his king. Rich English Counties. Lancashire, England, is the next richest county to London. It is rated at £24,000,000, against London's £43,500,000. Largest Deposits of Nickel. The largest deposits of nickel are on the island of New Caledonia, a French possession in the South Pacific. Women Carry Mails. Women Larry Malfa. Many women carry carriers in the Tyrol are women. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Mary Darkis. Plaintiff. VS. William Darkis Defendant. Notice The State of Kansas, to William Darkis Greeting, you are hereby notified that you have been sued on the grounds of gross neglect of duty, extreme cruelty; and adultery in the above entitle cause in the above named Court, Wherein Mary Darkis is Plaintiff, and William darkis is Deliendant, and unless you answer on or before the first day of July 1905. Plaintiff petition will be taken as true Judgment will be rendered against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking an absolute divorce, custody of two minor children and a reasonable attorney fee. for cost, and for other relief such as the nature of Plaintiff case demands. Mary Darkis. Chas. w. Frye, attorney First Published April 28th 1905. PUBLICATION NOTCIE WYANDOTTE COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS, Fannie Johnson. Lewis J. Johnson LEWIS J. JOHNSON GREETING: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas by the above named Plaintiff. Fannie Johnson, whose petition is now on file in the office, and that you must as such defendant, answer the petition filed by the plaintiff on or before Thursday 2nd, day of June 1905, or the petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered accordingly against you, and adjudging you to pay the cost, of said suit and this suit is for the further purpose of devesting the title to certain house and lots owned by you in the town of Quildar Wyandotte County Kansas and investing the title in the plaintiff as alimony and dissolving the bonds of matrimony now subsisting between the plaintiff and defendant and such other and further, elf as the honorable court may adjudge in the; premises, as may appear just and equitable in behalf of the plaintiff. Payne and Wassom, her attorneys. First Publication May 12th. 1905. Attest. Wm. Needles Clerk of the said Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. per D. C. McCambs Deputy. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen. The commencement week exercises of Westen University at Quincard were responsible for a good [many visitors the past week. Mr. James Hubbard, of State avenue who has been with his niece Mr. Geo. W. Hubbard and Wife since baby hood left this week for the Sunny South and the cotton blossoms of Mississippi to visit relative and old friends. Miss Jessie[Mae E. Taylor and Miss Josephine [McQuire of 827 Oakland ave. will spend Sunday in Leavenworth Kansas visiting their cousin Miss Georgia Taylor, Mrs. Wheeler of 333 Minnesota avenue sustained some severe bruses Wednesday of this week by the breaking of a railing upon a [back porch at her home, she being thrown violently to the ground Mr. Author Anderson our tragedian is looking after a slok brother in Chica. go. Woman Mountain Climber. By far the most expert woman mountaineer in the world is Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman. In the Himalayas she has climbed to an altitude of 22,568 feet. On the same occasion her husband broke the world's record for men by 311 feet, by climbing 23,194 feet up a mountain 24,479 feet high. Mrs. Workman is of medium height, and there is nothing in her appearance to suggest the strength she has displayed in some of her wonderful feats. The kansas City Kansas Soap Company. is the name of a new Stock Company with a 2.000 capital stock recently organized and will soon be doing business at 1510 North 4th street it give promise of a successful venture Wm. Arnold general manager. Rev. M. Phillips ast manager Mr. Wm. Overton a well known business man Treasure Mr. Isaac Parker President. Mr. J. W. Gillispie Secretary. Shares are $10 each, already 115 shares have been sold and indication are that the Capital Stock will soon be subscribed. Better get in on the ground floor of a good thing. Let your money help make you more money. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF $ KANSAS. . . SS 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 testamentary 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. CORVINE 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. 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. 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 youdemand, 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, for Plaintiff. Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D. C. McCombs, Deputy. EXECUTOR'S 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 sald Estate, are hereby notified that they must pr sent the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of sald Letters, or they may be precluded from any befit of such Estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of sald Letters, they shall be forever barred. I. F. BRADLEY executor of the Last Will and Testament of Jane Redd Deceased. First published Feb. 11th 1905. Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas } In the Probate Court in and for County of Wyandotte said County. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEDGE DECEASED Creditors and all other persons, interested in the aforesidr estate, are hereby notified that at the next regular team of the Prabate Court in and for Add County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court 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 Dicee Decased. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned. Probate Judge in and for the Court of Wyon dotte. 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 Japanese Farming The ingenuity of the farming in Japan may be inferred from the fact that the 45,000,000 inhabitants live almost entirely on the productions of a cultivated area about one-third the size of Illinois. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. FUBISHI WEEKLY at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. Martin Editor, Geo. A. Dudley, Publisher and Business Manager. Terms OF SubscriptioninAdvance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months,.....65 cents Three Months,.....40. c ne Month,.....15. c Advertiseing 25 cts. Per Inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Add' for 3 Months or longer 15c 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. 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. Here is the Place. J. T. ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINNESOTA AVENUE. Call and see H.S. Sykes and and A. Gooden manufacturer of Pop corn in ball and brick at 316 Oakland ave A Word To You. 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 builped in their behalf, just one year, the results would be unbelieved we ask the colored brother to wake up 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 subscribing getting your neighbors to do the same and watch the good results. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kensas County of Wyandott 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 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 sale estate. JAMES D. SMITH. Administrator of the Estate John R. Smith, Deceased. In Witness Whereof, the undesigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte.State of Kansas,have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 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.. Reaching the cemetery one of the committee halted and said: "Sir, I wish to direct your attention to that grave. The man who lies buried there had to be provided with the largest coffin ever made in this city." The honored guest thanked his host not so much for the information as for relieving the strain—Pittsburg Dispatch. TRUTH PROVED BY EXAMPLE. Storekeeper Certainly Lacked the Gift of Energy. William C. Greene, the copper magistrate, 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 bit 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 hid 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 mlasses 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, into 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 The Foam on the Top. Don't snuggle conceit to your bosom, my Because you're on top of the wave, For here is a thought that might serve as alloy To the gold of the credit you crave: The basket is not always at surface, my son, 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 son had, 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, maybe your classifies wrong Some part of the great earth 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 look on the world as you go. See the truth, you place at the summit, in truth, Then gaze on the mortals below, And I give you my word I'll have nothing to teach. And this brief little 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. Waterhouse 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?" WIT IS NOT APPRECIATED. Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors. A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keeping up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but he has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or sentimental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his interruptions. He has a high pitched, penetrating 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 a competence and now takes this way to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melodrama 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 play, was of course, at variance with his sweetheart's parents. The exigencies 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 disgraceful elopement, 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 demand my child. Where is she." Then, shrill and startling in the expectant 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 merriment in a moment, but it was the "angry father" himself, who ruined the situation, for he burst into immoderate laughter and the curtain fell in the middle of the act, to rise again upon an audience that could not repress 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 a 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 eventually found what he wanted. When the time came to make out the necessary papers, the agent asked the Swede what method he preferred to adopt in making payments. "Ay pay all. Ay haf da money," replied 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 Dakota. 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 gif me mortgage!"—The Sunday Magazine. Getting Posted. "I would like to ask you a question if you don't mind," said the old man in the street car to the man on his right. "Go ahead, sir." "I should like to know the meaning of the term 'History repeats itself.' I 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 to you. If we should meet a month 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 repeat itself every blamed time I run across you for the next ten years to come."—Chicago News. A Gentle Thrust. James Jeffrey Roche, the new Consul to Genoa, was talking about a magazine editor. "This man," he said, "rejected some of the best of my early verse. He rejected some of the best verse of my friends. Why he is an editor I can't imagine. He certainly has no critical 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, declaring her to be a poem. "‘A poem?’ said I. “‘A poem,’ he repeated. “‘And still you do not reject her?’ (exclaimed." Winter 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 gulet of the trees, Is broken sweet, in yonder glen, By "day, day day," of chickadees And keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word Is werbled when the grosbeaks sing; And in the moaning pines is heard The whisper of returning spring. This is the birthday of the year, Now far off summer's battles start; And lo; the very cold grows dear. 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The Best Equiped White Enameled Ambulance For Sick and wounded Notice. Nice Furrished ROOMS AND BOARD AT A t$3.25 per week At the Corner of second and Deleware streets in Armourdale Kansas. And in a good location convenint to street car service. You will get best of treatment. MRS. E, L, SMITH PROPRIETRESS. KANSAS CITY SOAP CO. Are Manufactors of the Best Grades of Toilet & Washing Soaps. A Home Institution. 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 $ \pi $ 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. Money to Loan on Watches. Diamonds Jewelry. CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING Of Value Watches and Jewelry Sold on Payments AT CASH PRICES. Unclaim Pledges For Sale Cheap. FINE WATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRING. Union Loan Office. 427 Minnesota ave. kansas' city. kans. YOUROPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY. Ladies suits, dressing sacques, aprons and in fact anything in the Dressmaking line MADE TO ORDER and sold on weekly and m few prices: Belt dresses $1 50cts and up. Call and see Mrs W. F. in weekly and monthly payments. Belt dresses $1.00 and up; dressing up. Call and see me. Mrs 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. The Indian rhinoceros is nearly extinct. There are two specimens in the London zoological gardens and 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. Telephone Home W. 32 Raymond DIRECTOR. Best of Service, Fine Carri- All Hours. Good White Enameled Rock and wounded Hages Reasonable Call At Kansas City, Kansas. Notice. Furished BOARD AT per week and Deleware streets in a good location convenin- will get best of treatment. TH PROPRIETRESS, CITY SOAP CO. 4th St. First Grades of Toilet & Wash Home Institution. UR PATRONAGE the Snowflake and Union will of their merits. URRANT 3rd St. and will serve you from 5,3 is cooked to taste, 5 CENTS, is one of the best cooks in th e her a call. J. E. COTIN, PROPRIETOR. to Loan Diamonds Jewelry. EVERYTHING Value 000000000 Jewelry Sold on Payments PRICES. For Sale Cheap. JEWELRY REPAIRING. Loan Office. e. kansas city. kans. ORTUNITY monthly payments. Here is a 00 and up; dressing sacques me. Williams, Kansas City, Kansas. MME. L, F. JOHNSON, Shampooing, Manicuring, Massage and Scalp Treatment. Tel.733-W. A SPECIALT. 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 Least. The Chinese have a peculiar customer 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 pai ted 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 the portance to public health, since the combustion of tobacco contains a large proportion of moisture is the peded, while as the g eration of vapor is increased, so ar chances of the poisonous principi being carried into the mouth diminished. Early Japanese University Early Japanese University. It will surprise most readers learn from a recent Japanese write that there was a university in Japan in the eighth century, with school's ethics, mathematics and history, and that text books were employed dealing with such specialties as the diseases of women, veterinary surgery and materia medica. Casting a Gloom "Yes, for local talent, it was a first rate entertainment," said the suburban an resident, "and we made seven hundred dollars for the hospital fund but there was one little hitch. The town undertaker was down for a team solo, and he insisted on singing The Waiting for Thee.'"—New York Sun Consider Dreams Revelations Among the people of the east a dream is considered to be a dream revelation from God, and there is in the Orient, even to-day, soothsayers, or fortune tellers, who interpret dreams, just as the soothsayers do in bible times, and from dreams the future of the dreamer. Cancer Victims Well to Do Statistics show that cancer is most common among those who are accustomed to the refinements of life that among the very poor, and to care for such patients the doctors say the good surroundings are a necessity. Snakes in India. About 400,000 snakes are killed every year in British India. The paid as rewards annually for the destruction of beasts of prey and venomous snakes by the government in India amount to about $125,000. German Colony in Palestine. Thirty-four years ago a German colony settled at Haifa, Palestine. The day all of the ninety families in it are prosperous. They raise grape 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 size, in Ireland, and the witness has to go on the bench to translate the terms for the judge. Gravity. An observing schoolboy wrote the short essay: "Gravity was discovered by Izaak Walton. It is chief noticeable when the apples are falling from the trees." 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 the appeared. Dogs May Ride in Berlin. Dogs are allowed to enter tramway cars in Berlin, but must be held by their master's laps and paid for as they were human passengers. Credit Is a Necessity As trade now stands, there is enough gold out of the earth. If were all coined, to transact the business of a day. Nationalities Among Russians The Russian population represents 110 nationalities, the three great states being Finna, Tartans and Slava. Aluminum for Sharpening Cutlery. Aluminum is superior to any other for sharpening cutlery. Denmark's Honey Exports. Denmark exports 2,500,000 pounds of honey a year. The Surest Symptom When Belinda, fairest maid, Strolled with her the woodland glade. With a lover's fondest art, Plead I for her hand and heart. With a look both sweet and shy Blushingly she made reply, Said, as ever maiden saith, She should love me "until death." "But if, sometime," I began. "You should see some cleverer man—" With her laugh the shy look fled; "Are there other men?" she said. —Beatrice Hanscom in Harper's Bazaar. THE ABDICATION OF THE PRINCE BY EDGAR WHITE "He bowed his head and bent his knee Upon the monarch's silken stool; His pleading voice arose: 'O, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!'" Behind the painted mask none cared to look, the jester himself least of all. With it on he dared to approach the princess. Unmasked and dressed as humankind, he consorted only with the serfs of the show. That is why he liked the mask best. Yaco—companion of mock lords and dukes—was better than Barney Fairleigh, derelict on the tide of life. She smiled at Yaco, but looked not toward Barney. It made all the difference in the world. Of course the play demanded the smiles, but nevertheless they came quite natural, and increased her beauty. She saw he was curtain fell. "Then——" He advanced to ter dark eyes tells pose. Before he entered, unprompted to his side, and to bend his head for looked squarely in of the prince who his mistress. "The fool!" sneezed "Ay! And yet your knees, my lady's pardon!" There was not lines he recited n delivered with str At one place he bowed so low before her that she placed a tiny foot upon his impossible hair, and this is the nearest he ever came to touching her. The thrill of that contact made him her slave. While he played the foottool, the jester's eyes modestly sought the floor. His dismissal came when the princess said: "Yaco, away! Here comes his highness!" The heir apparent, all gold and velvet, was tall and black-eyed and young. Yaco hated him with right good will. The princess loved him—in the play. In reality, she did not know. The prince loved her in the play and imagined he did in reality. Before the footlights he had a rival, whom the audience saw was unworthy of her. In natural life the coast was clear. On the stage the prince made love furiously. Off of it he bled his time. Just before the prince fell on the last act the fool sang a quaint love song over the happy ending of the romance between the prince and the princess. Then he slouched over to a saloon and took the taste of the song from his mouth. He mistrusted the prince off the stage, but was his loyal servant while on it. To an outsider the situation would have seemed complex. To the fool it was crystal clear. The lady could not love him; she ought not love the prince; the prince did not know how to love her. All these between the dropping of the last curtain on one night and its ascent the next night. "Stand back, thou fool!" the gallant prince said when he sought to kiss the lady's hand. And the fool stood back. But that was in the play, and as the boireine smiled indulgently he did not mind. When the court of tinsel and painted castles had moved far to the westward there came a dreary day. The people who were expected to pay the customs that the throne might stand became sadly remiss in their obligations, and mercenary landlords and shopkeepers, unawed by royalty, clamored for their shekels. The prince A Advanced toward her. went to the lady's room and proposed that they should flee ere morning dawned. "But our friends; how will they get back home?" she asked. "Walking's good; let em foot it." The lady recoiled. "And you, who brought them away out here, would desert them?" He laughed after the style of the villain, which he was—off the stage. "Why, my dear," he said, "the show's busted, and it's every man for him. To save you from discom- fort. I thought I'd take you with me." "I'll not go a step!" she said, promptly and decryed. And the fool stood back. She saw he wasn't a hero after the curtain fell. "Then——" He advanced toward her, his sinister dark eyes telling of a darker purpose. Before he grasped her the fool entered, unprompted. The lady sprang to his side, and this time he did not bend his head for her tiny foot, but looked squarely into the bitter eyes of the prince who sought to destroy his mistress. "The fool!" sneered the prince. "Ay! And yet a man. Now, on your knees, my lord, and beg this lady's pardon!" There was nothing like it in the lines he recited nightly and yet 'twas delivered with strange dramatic now. A "Yaco, thou art the real prince," er. As the princess looked at the fool, who was a man, and at the courtier, who was not, her color came and went and the fine blue eyes glowed with something akin to pride. "Get out of here!" roared the nobleman. The fool had meekly obeyed far less lusty tones, and it seemed odd this menace did not move him now. You will not kneel? Then see—— Down to this hour the prince could not give you a veracious account of how it all happened, but he recalls that when his eyes opened he was lying in the corner of the room and that there seemed to be funny little specks dancing mockingly in front of him. He did not want to die in the presence of the lady, so he told her he was truly repentant that business troubles had so engrossed him for the instant he had failed to realize he was of high degree, and had acted the knave; with her kind permission he would now withdraw and worry her no further. That was the abdication of the prince. When he was gone Yaco told the princess that out of his savings he had paid the bills of the retinue of the footlight kingdom and had furnished them tickets for their homeward journey. Would she deign to suffer a like consideration at his plebian hand? "Yaco," said the princess, as she walked toward him and gave him a grateful little hand, "thou art the real prince." "I would 'twere so, lady,'" said the jester, "for then I might dare to tell the a long-cherished secret of mine." She ran to her trunk and took out a gilt paper crown, which she placed upon his head. "Now tell it, your highness." The dancing blue eyes invited disclosures. "Why—why—in truth I've heard them say it oft enough, but just now my dull head falls to serve me, and I cannot rightly choose my words—but—but—" She looked up into the honest face and understood. "I know," she said, simply, "and I love you too, Yaco, my king." Making Use of an Heirloom. A certain young woman in town is the proud possessor of a stunning old-fashioned brass-tail studded chest. It is an heirloom, having been handed down from New England relatives. It is the joy of her life. She really didn't know quite how much she did think of it until a friend of an exceedingly practical turn of mind wondered why she didn't make a cretonne silver and valance for it. "It would make such a nice seat!" remarked tae friend—New York Sun Perhaps Roosevelt comes from the mountains and canyons, from the haunts of bears, wolves, and bobcats, to the habitation of his kind, with views unchanged as to pre-eminent and imminent public questions.—Sleveland Leader. Definition—A "picture hat" is one so exquisitely and mysteriously fashioned that the only means of describing it is by taking a picture of it. Its value can never be expressed with less than two figures. All railroad men qualified to speak on the subject in a responsible way are likely to agree with President Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway when he says: "There is no division of opinion as to the desirability of stopping all secret or unjustly discriminatory devices and practises of whatsoever character." Mr. Spencer, in speaking of "unjustly discriminatory" rates and devices, makes a distinction which is at once apparent to common sense. There may be discrimination in freight rates which is just, reasonable and imperatively required by the complex commercial and geographical conditions with which expert rate makers have to deal. To abolish such open and honest discrimination might paralyze the industries of cities, states and whole sections of our national territory. This distinction between just and unjust discrimination is clearly recognized in the conclusions of the International Railway Congress, published yesterday: "Tariffs should be based on commercial principles, taking into account the conditions which bear upon the commercial value of the goods ordered. With the reservation that rates shall be charged without arbitrary discrimination to all shippers alike under the conditions of the tariffs should as far as possible have all the elasticity necessary to permit the development of the traffic and to produce the public and to the railroads themselves." The present proposal is, as Mr. Walker D. Hines of Louisville showed in his remarkable testimony the other day before the Senate Committee at Washington, to crystallize flexible and justly discriminatory rates into fixed government rates which cannot be changed except by the intervention of some government tribunal, and by this very process to increase "the temptation to depart from the published rate and the lawful rate in order to meet some overpowering and urgent commercial condition." - New York Sun. W. K. Vanderbilt was "autoing" up a Long Island road recently. Ahead of him walked a man and a dog. The dog was nosing around among the bushes and fence posts. Suddenly, as Mr. Vanderbilt's auto passed the man, the dog started across the road. The auto hit him amidships. A few spasmodic kicks and he gave up the ghost. Mr. Vanderbilt immediately stopped his machine and getting out approached the man with his wallet in his hand, saying: "I'm awfully sorry, my man. Will $50 fix it right?" "Oh, yes, $50 will do." Then, as Mr. Vanderbilt was disappearing in a cloud of dust up the road, the man turned, and looking at the dog said: "I wonder whose beast it was." War in the far east has resulted in a great boon in prices for hides at western markets. Word comes from California of a shipment of 1,000,000 sides of leather to Japan, presumably for the purpose of war. Shoes, harness and accouterments for men and horses representing a total value of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 are required. The increasing use of leather, despite the many limitations that are now in use, bids fair to expand sufficiently that the value of the hides of animals will hardly fail to reach a level relative with the advanced cost of meats due to greater consumption. A man often swears without meaning it, and a woman means it without swearing. A smile is appropriate for both summer and winter wear. FEED YOU MONEY. Feed Your Brain, and it Will Feed You Money and Fame. "Ever since boyhood I have been especially fond of meats, and I am convinced I ate too rapidly, and failed to masticate my food properly. "The result was that I found myself, a few years ago, afflicted with ailments of the stomach and kidneys, which interfered seriously with my business. "At last I took the advice of friends and began to eat Grape-Nuts instead of the heavy meats, etc., that had constituted my former diet. "I found that I was at once benefited by the change, that I was soon relieved from the heart-burn and the indigestion that used to follow my meals, that the pains in my back from my kidney affection had ceased, showing that those organs had been healed, and that my nerves, which used to be unsteady, and my brain, which was slow and lethargic from a heavy diet of meats and greasy foods, had, not in a moment, but gradually, and none the less surely, been restored to normal efficiency. Now every nerve is steady and my brain and thinking faculties are quicker and more acute than for years past. "After my old style breakfasts I used to suffer during the forenoon from a feeling of weakness which hindered me seriously in my work, but since I have begun to use Grape-Nuts food I can work till dinner time with all ease and comfort." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Welville," in each pkg. COMPLETELY RESTORED. Mrs. P. Brunzel, wife of P. Brunzel, stock dealer, residence 3111 Grand Ave., Everett, Wash., says: "For fifteen years I suffered with terrible pain in my back. I did not know what it was to enjoy a night's rest and arose in the morning feeling tired and unrefreshed. My suffering sometimes was simply indescribable. When I finished the first box of Doan's Kidney Pills I felt like a different woman. I continued until I had taken five boxes teen years I suffered with terrible pain in my back. I did not know what it was to enjoy a night's rest and arose in the morning feeling tired and unrefreshed. My suffering sometimes was simply indescribable. When I finished the first box of Doan's Kidney Pills I felt like a different woman. I continued until I had taken five boxes. Doan's Kidney Pills act very effectively, very promptly, relieve the aching pains and all other annoying difficulties." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. New anecdotes are coming to light daily about the "Rough Riders" who descended on Washington for the inauguration. One of the cowboys while in the rooms of a Washington comrade, who had grown proper since the "Rough Rider" days fell to looking at his host's evening things, which were spread out, and he espied an opera hat compressed into itself, and picking it up began to regard it curiously from different angles. While poking it the hat sprung open. Young Arizona regarded his handiwork with amazement and delight. "A hat!" he commented admirably, "a self-cocking hat! Now, don't that bet hell!" MILK CRUST ON BABY. Lost All His Hair—Scratched Till Blood Ran—Grateful Mother Tells of His Cure by Cuticura for 75c. "When our baby boy was three months old he had the milk crust very badly on his head, so that all the hair came out, and it itched so bad he would scratch until the blood ran. I got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. I applied the Cuticura and put a thin cap on his head, and before I had used half of the box it was entirely cured, his hair commenced to grow out nicely again, and he has had no return of the trouble. (Signed) Mrs. H. P. Holmes, Ashland, Or." Thomas Dinox, Jr., the author of "The Clansman," has had a great many queer, as well as interesting letters since his last book was brought out. Just now he is telling his friends about a postal card that he has just received from a man in Ontario, Va. "Dear Mr. Dixon: I saw a picture of your home, Elmington Manor, in the paper. Please let me know if you take boarders in summer, and what your prices are per month and week." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney of Hall's Catarrh Cure, and are可靠 in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALKER Drugs. Wholesale Drugs, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the surfaces of the system. Testimonies sent free. Price to come per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pliss for constipation. A scientist claims to have discovered liquid sunshine, but this discovery is hardly likely to be hailed with joyous acclaim by the Kentuckian who has long been familiar with liquid moonshine. The official sighed, observed that he had known it all along, and Miss Potter was admitted in spite of her few years. DON'T FORGET A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Thirty thousand women are employed by the government of England, of whom five thousand are postmistresses. 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. The Emperor of Japan is always attended by physicians, despite the fact that he is in excellent health. Four eminent medical gentlemen are attached to the imperial household and one is within call at all hours of the day and night. The pulse and temperature of his majesty are taken four times each day and the results are carefully recorded. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Failure is the stepping stone on which we climb To other efforts—higher all the time. Defeat is but the ground—rock, lowly laid. On which the edifice, success, is made. F. S. C. It was entirely proper that the latest "bull" added to the House of Commons collection should be contributed by the member from Donegal. He announced his intention, while cross-questioning the attorney general for Ireland of putting "another question which distinctly arises, Mr. Speaker, out of the answer which the right honorable gentleman has not given." The house roared. It's odd that it takes a dollar's worth of drink to drown a dime's worth of trouble. KNOW NOTHING OF SYMPATHY That Feeling Beyond Lower Animals Says John Burrough. An Iowa correspondent asks me to give him my opinion as to whether or not any of the dumb animals have sympathy, says John Burrough in Outing, and added that a minister at a funeral in their town had said that no animal except man was capable of sympathy. I agree with the minister. Sympathy, I think, is beyond the lower animals. When we sympathize with a person we put ourselves in his or her place; we feel sorry for him; we pity him; we would gladly alleviate his suffering—all of which implies more or less imagination and disinterested regard. Susceptibility to the sufferings of others is one of many higher attributes. When sympathy was born the race lifted above the purely animal plane. The next step is taking the sufferings of others upon yourself, which is the highest form of altruism. Pure selfishness rules the lower animals, and necessarily so. Sympathy is not necessary for the continuance of the species, but affection for their young is. Animals certainly have a feeling of comradeship for each other, and experience something like grief at separation, yet a dog or a cat or a horse or a cow will sniff at the dead body of its dead fellow with apparent unconcern. A cry of distress among the birds will bring every bird within hearing to the spot, and cause them to be more or less agitated, but it is only because they are alarmed for their own safety; a common enemy may be about. In the herd and the flock a sick or wounded member is often fallen upon by its fellows and destroyed. If any animal ever experienced the emotion we call sympathy it is, of course, the dog. The dog has so long been the companion of man that he often shows in his nature a trace of the purely human. Asking Advice. The sheriff of Santa Cruz county, Ariz., has received the following letter from one of his constituents: "Mr. Charles Fowler—Dear Sir: I thought I would write you a few lines to ask you a few words, and I don't want to do anything until I hear from you. My stepfather is chusing (probably chasing or cussing) my mother all the time, and she don't want him around here any more and she wants him to leave but he won't go. He is just chusing her all the time and once he was going to hit her with a rock but I made him lay it down. She is washing all the time and trying to do right with him and I am going to stop this. I am asking you what I will do and be sure and tell me what if I would shut (shoot) him. I think I would be in the right because I don't care for him and if I do kill him I will show you that I was right. Well, I will close for this time. Be sure and write and tell me what to do. So good-by. Yours truly. "TOM PARKER." —Arizona Republican. Remedy for Heart Trouble. Remedy for Heart Trouble: The Optimist, organ of the "Nolens Volens" colony at Jackson, prints a cut of the prison. In the dome of the main building is shown open windows in the highest portion. The accompanying comment narrates that many years ago a prisoner attempted his liberty by means of a rope down which he was sliding when the cord parted and he fell, first to the roof of the central building, then, bounding from thence, hit the top of the cell block, where he acquired sufficient elasticity to land him on the ground. These unexpected incidents confused him and he was captured. Singularly the misfortune of his failure was not unmitigated. He had been so afflicted with heart disease as to be unable to lie down for months. The fall knocked it completely out of him and he was enabled thereafter to "sleep like a top." The Optimist cheerfully invites the palpitating public to come and try the remedy—Detroit Tribune. Ze Impossible Language. "Ah, ze Eenglish language eet ees impossible," a Frenchman said to a friend. "For example, ze Eenglish host fills up his glass, rises, holding it out to you, saying, 'Here's to you,' and ze drinks himself. I can make nozing of eet. 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RUSE WORKED WELL. RUSE WORKED WELL. BRIDE AND GROOM FOOLED FELLOW PASSENGERS. Realistic Quarrel Got Up for the Benefit of the Conductor, and Deceived Even That Experienced Official—The Secret Revealed. "I have traveled as a Pullman conductor for twenty-five years and have seen hundreds of newly married couples," said a man with a blue suit and bright buttons, as a Santa Fe train came into the Union depot the other day, but not until this trip did I ever see a bride and groom who could keep the public from knowing they were on a honeymoon trip. But this couple about which speak certainly did fool me to perfection. "A handsome young man and a blushing, beautiful girl got on my car at Chicago as we started west. I noticed that the man sat down very selfishly and immediately began reading a newspaper, as if he didn't know a winsome little woman was sitting beside him. He had a cool and haughty air about him and I rather disliked him for his lack of courtesy. Pretty soon I went around to collect tickets and asked him for them. Without taking his eyes from his paper he said, 'Mary, give the man the tickets,' and went on reading. "You know I haven't the tickets,' quickly replied the woman. 'Then you've lost them,' retorted the angry husband, 'for I gave them to you before we got on the train.' "You didn't, either,' his wife replied. "I did.' "You didn't.' "I know I did.' "And I know you didn't. Do you mean to say I tell what isn't true?" "No, but I'm sure you've lost the tickets,' replied the husband, with a look of extreme disgust in his countenance. "I saw trouble was brewing and told them I would return later to get the tickets,' continued the Pullman conductor, as he told his story to a crowd around him. "When I went back the man was reading and the woman was pouting. The tickets were in a seat across from them, and I checked them up. Not a word was spoken as I returned the tickets to the woman and left. "A fellow in the car asked me if that was a newly married couple, and I informed him it certainly wasn't, for both man and woman fussed too much for that. I offered to bet him they had been married ten years. "Well, we finally reached El Paso, Tex., where the man and woman were to get off the train. As the train slowed up the man called me to him and said: "Look here, old man, you've been rather nice to us and we want to let you into a little secret. We were married just before getting on this train. That fuss about the tickets was all arranged before we started and I bought the newspaper just to make the bluff good. Don't you think we behave well for bride and groom?"" Hannibal Hamlin's Client. Hannibal Hamlin, for many years a United States senator from Maine, and vice-president during the civil war, was wont to tell the following story on himself: An Englishman by the name of Pearson while passing along the main street in Bangor, stepped in a hole in the sidewalk, and, falling broke his leg. He brought suit against the city for $1,000, and engaged Hamlin as counsel. Hamlin won his case, but the city appealed to the supreme court. Here, also, the decision was for Hamlin's client. After settling up the the claim, Hamlin sent for his client and handed him $1. "What's this?" asked the Englishman. "That's your damages, after taking out my fee, the cost of appeal, and several other expenses," said Hamlin. The Englishman looked at the dollar, and then at Hamlin. "What's the matter with this," he said; "is it bad?" Out of Doors Just out of doors: So still! So green! With unbreathed air, illimitable, clean. With soft, sweet scent of happy grow- ing leaves. 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