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 Men as Actresses Japan boasts of several brilliant actors, but, strangely enough, she affords no encouragement to actresses. Women's parts are played by men, and played excellently well, too. Japanese boys who are destined for a stage career are brought up entirely by members of the feminine sex. By the time that they are midway in their teens they have acquired all the usual female characteristics. Sultan's Titles. The sultan of Turkey has seventy-one titles and on the parchment containing them are the words "as many more as may be desired can be added to this number." Among the titles are "Abul Hamid, the Eternally Victorious," "the Eternally Smiling," "the Eternally Invincible," "Distributor of Crowns to the Heroes Seated on the Thrones" and "Shadow of God on Earth." Longevity in Europe Of all European countries France is the most favorable to longevity; of every 1,000 persons forty-four reach the age of seventy. In Norway the number is forty, in Sweden thirty three, Italy thirty-one, Switzerland thirty, England twenty-seven, Germany twenty-six, Spain twenty-four, Austria twenty-three, Hungary eighteen. Can't Interfere. "Your daughter plays a great deal of classical music in a rather original way," remarked the man with gold glasses. "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, regrettfully. "She bought the piano and the music out of her own spending money, and I suppose she feels that she has a right to do what the pleases with them." Deer Swifter Than Electric Car. A deer was found on the car track at Sturbridge the other day which when startled ran swiftly along the tails ahead of the car. The motorman opened the controller to the last notch, but the animal led the car for a full quarter of a mile and then leaped lightly over the fence and disappeared. Value of Moderate Eating Value of Moderate Eating. No matter what kind of food is taken, the quantity should be small. The human body can live and thrive and work on a surprisingly small quantity of nourishment. Great moderation in eating is, therefore, one of the keys that unlock the doors on long living. Greatest Misfortune of Life. Mayors appear to have had their troubles two centuries ago. At bielefeld, Germany, there is a tombstone with this inscription: "Here lies Johannes Burggreve, who considered his election as burgomaster of this city the greatest misfortune of his life." The Day's Length. By a simple rule, the length of the day and night, any time of the year, may be ascertained by doubling the time of the sun's rising, which will give the length of the night; and double the time of setting will give the length of the day. Cold Baths vs. Drunkenness Cold baths vs. Drunkenness. In the course of a discussion at the sanitary congress Mr. Weaver declared that it was almost impossible for anyone taking a cold bath every morning to become an habitual drunkard—London Telegraph. Hunt Treasure at Mont Pelee. Treasure hunting has become the principal occupation of the islanders of Martinique. They dig day and night among the ruins caused by the eruptions of Mont Pelee for gold and other valuables. No Dutiful Wife Will Do It. Once when a man loses all love for his wife is when he holds a straight flush against four aces in a little poker game and she has the four aces.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Radium Kills Mice Before the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emanations from radium died in six hours. Thunder Kills Oysters. Oysters are such nervous creatures that a sudden shock, such as a loud thunder-clap, will kill many hundreds of them. Not So Likely to Happen. If our hearts expanded as readily and as easily as our heads swell, the world would be the gainer. Earthly Glory Southern He isn't living now; There's wonder in his story— He isn't living now; Caesar mounted pretty high. Charles maiden was proud and great; Charles of England is O my! He moved at a rapid rate! There was French King Louis, too, Who had nothing much to do Save be gay the seasons through— They're not living now! There is much regretting By men who live to-day; They want more than they're getting, The men live to-day. They look across the past and mourn, They bend to labor and are sad; They wish that they might have been To things such as some ancients had; But better far, it seems to me. Than having immortality And being dust, it is to be Food for Japanese Soldiers Rice and dried fish are the uniform food of the Japanese army in campaigning times. The rice is first boiled until it is thick and glutinous. Next it is placed on a china slab, rolled out and cut into squares. The squares are then placed in the sun to dry. They become as hard as a ship's biscuit, and are ready to be stored. A certain number of squares are allowed to each soldier a day. All he has to do is to break up a square in boiling water and add his dried fish. In a few minutes he has before him a thick soup, which to him is very good. If he cannot procure boiling water he eats his rice square as a biscuit. Holman Hunt's First Portrait One day when Holman Hunt, in his office boy days, was alone in the office, a gentleman called and asked for the principal on business. On the principal's return poor Hunt could not remember the caller's name, but he said: "I can't remember the gentleman's name, sir, but this is what he was like." And he promptly drew a picture of the visitor which was so striking a likeness that the principal forgot his annoyance in his astonishment. A. Sickly Joke Hereafter the preachers of Atchison will be required to diagram their jokes and give plans and specifications for their long range figures of speech, says the Kansas City Journal. One of them said of a woman recently that "she ought to go to hell." It raised a terrible commotion in the church. Then the preacher explained. He said his idea was that if such a good woman went to hell there would be no hell. Refuge There an Important Step Toward Old Age. Years are but a fool's measure for youth, which is divine; they bring caution more often than wisdom, and a certain belief in the unreality of joy. A man is quickly disillusioned, which commonly means that he has set up his own idea of what things should be by the side of what things are, and sulks forever at the result. He then commits the folly of becoming old, and prefers existence to life. He clambers into one or other of the many shelters that line the way, curls up within and smiles pityingly at the young of all ages pressing on to some end, no matter what, alive to the beauty of the sky and the clouds and the birds and the trees, alive even to the beauty to be seen in one another, breathing deeply of the air of strength, living and loving and beloved, until at last they are made one with nature. But the heart, like the liver, grows torpid without exercise; a gradual decay comes to the man in the shelter, a decay from which he is released, much against his will, by death. There are too many shelters—Hugh de Selin-court. LITTLE POKER AT WASHINGTON. Stories of Big Games Must Be Taken With Allowances. It was formerly quite the thing to tell stories about big poker games among the members of Congress. Much was said about the "Senatorial game," "millionaires' game" and the "Congressional game," and always we heard about great bunches of money changing hands, bluffs as high as the banks of the Mississippi, and all sorts of stories. Frequently the senator, representative, diplomat or rich man was named and the winnings or losses told with as much gusto as if they had really hapened. There were some pleasant poker games in days gone by, and occasionally some wonderful plays, but one night, with a few interesting incidents, furnished material for a month of stories. Some of those who figured in the poker stories became annoyed at the notoriety they gained and abandoned poker entirely. For many years now there has not been enough poker in the capital to hang a story on. Mrs. Wheeler of 333 Minnesota avenue sustained some servere brushes Wednes day of this week by the breaking of a railing upon a back porch at her home she being thrown violently to the ground Mr. Auther Anderson our tragedian is looking after a siok brother in Chicago. The commencement week exercises of Western University at Quindaro were responsible for a goed many visitors the past week. Mr. James Hubbard, of State avenue who has been with his uncle 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 527 Oakland ave. will spend Sunday in Leavenworth Kansas visiting their cousin Miss Georgia Taylor, Miss Barbra Gray of 342 Minnesota avenue who has been ill for several days her many friends will be pleased to learn that she is improving, Mrs. Fannie Miller of St. Louis Mo. is in the city the guest of Mrs. Anna Billips of 435 Oakladd avenue. Mhe Eureka Restaurant at 342 Minn. avenue, is the place where you will find every thing neat and clean, and kept in up to date style, where you can be served to good meals. Mrs. E. Brown the proprietor always keeps in her service the best of cooks, no better place for good meals can be found in either of the two cities. 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 getting hold on some stands in poor grace in charitable incolled hospitals in this city. A great big city like ours interested in all that tends to make a city a fit place to live, ought beyond all reasonable doubts have a City Hospital for the benefit of charity in reality. Publication Notice In The District Court of Wyandotte, kansas Charlie Rochester, Plaintiff. Louise H. Rochester. Defendant. Louise H. Rochester, the above—named Defendant, will take notice that she has been sued by the plaintiff, Charlie Rochester, and that the Defendant, Louis A. Rochester, must, on or before the last day of July, 1903, answer the petition filed by the plaintiff in the above—entitled action in said Court or the matter and things set forth in said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing the plaintiff from the defendant, and awarding the plaintiff the custody of their only child. Charlie Rochester. By Green and Henderson attorneys for plaintiff. 1st pub. June 16th 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 worl', some mens will go roun' huntin' fer happiness wid a candle.—Frank Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. Why. Indeed? "Why," asked Willie, as he sat in the grand stand with his father, "do they call it football when they play with their heads, papa?" Otherwise, the "Big Head." The first time a man is nominated for a back township office he thinks it is up to him to save the country from ruin. The 4th of July celebration predicts to be a grand afair, The Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, are using every effort to entertain several thousand citizens at Larkes Groves, just at the end of Quindaro Car Line, Several 'distinguished gentlemen will speak on that day Each gentleman selected is fully prepared to entertain the people, It has been my pleasure to listen to Prof. Rodgers, at different times since he has been in the city, and I must say I consider him one of the most eloquent speakers every visited our city, and you who will fail to hear him on the 4th will certainly miss a treat. He certainly knows how to handle his subjects and holds his audience, as with magnet. We trust every body will visit the grove and enjoy the glorious old fourth, our national holiday HIS IDEA OF A GENTLEMAN. Cardinal Newman's Estimate Is Well Worthy the Attention of All Cardinal Newman's definition of a gentleman has probably never been surpassed. Here it is: "It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant and merciful toward the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation and never wearisome. "He makes light of favors while he does them and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort; he has no care for slander or gossip, is scruppulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalties or sharp sayings for arguments or insinulates evil which he dare not say out." HOW TO OPEN A BOOK. Right and Wrong Way in This as There is in Everything. Many people, when they first come into possession of a new book, are apt to spoil the back by not knowing how to open the book properly. Here are a few hints as to the best way of opening a volume. It should be held with its back on a table, the front board cover should be let down, the leaves being held in one hand. Next, the other board cover should be let down. Following this operation, a few leaves should be opened at the back, then a few at the front, and soon, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till the center of the volume is reached. The best results will be obtained if this is done two or three times. If the book is violently or carelessly opened in any one place, the back will very likely be broken.—Pearson's Weekly. The Song of the Plains. No harp have I for the singing, nor fingers fashioned for skill. Nor ever shall words express it, the laughter in my heart. A saga, swept from the distant horizon beyond the hill. Singing of life and endurance, and bidding me bear my part. For this is song, as I sing it, the song that I love best. The steely trumpet in the furrow, the sound of the gleaming steel. An anthem sung to the noonday, a chant of the open West. Echoing deep in my spirit to gladden and help and heal. And this is Life, as I read it, and life in its fairest form. To breathe the wind on the ranges, the land of the prairies. To stride, and strive, and be thankful, to weather the shine and storm. Penciling, over the prairies, the destiny planned by God. And no reward do I ask for, save only to work and wait. To praise the do of my fathers, to labor beneath his sky. To dwell alone in his greatness, to strike and to follow straight. Silent, and strong, and contented—the limitless plains and I. —H. H. Bashford in the Spectator. Size of Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was not such a great city as some have supposed, according to H. Valentine Geere, the archaeologist. He says: "The idea of Babylon's vastness and magnificence, to which we have become accustomed, has been practically exploded. Dr. Kodewey told me that the site of the city was larger than that of any other ancient city; but even so, the idea that it could be compared with London and its suburbs, which has been very generally held, is entirely erroneous. In point of fact, it appears that its walls were not more than eight miles in circumference. Moreover, the great palaces are shown to have been poor affairs after all, with wretchedly cramped apartments, and next to no pretensions to architectural style; and the temples were exceedingly crude buildings." 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 ne- glect 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 Defendant, and unless you answer on or before the first day of July 1905. Plaintiff petition will be taken as true Judgement will be rendered against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking an absol- ute 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 NOTCJE IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS, annie Johnson. Plaintiff. VS. ewis J. Johnson. Defendant. THE STATE OF KANSAS TO LEWIS J. JOHNSON, GREETING DUSSON 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 22nd, 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 Quidardo 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 relief as the honorable court may adjudge in the premises, as may appear just and equitable in behalf of the plaintiff. Fannie Johnson. 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. PATTERSON & GAYDEN -Dealers In- Hard and Soft Coal, Wood. Vault & Cesspool Cleaning Cisterns Filled Tel. 215 West. 527 STATE AVE. Largest Building in the World. The Crystal palace accommodates more people than any other building in the world. It will hold 100,000. Trades in London. According to the late returns, there are 1,756 distinct trades being carried on in London and its suburbs. Berlin Land Values Double. The ground value of the city of Berlin is said to be worth twice what it was in 1887. Woman Mountain Climber. By far the most expert woman mountainaineer 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. 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 tenantary 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 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. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION. In the District Court of Wyandotte county State of Kansas. 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 Kansa asking for an absolute divorce on the grounds of abandonment and desertion, and unless youdemur, answer or otherwise objection 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. MeCombs, Deputy. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE STATE OF KANSAS IN THE PROBAT COURT IN AND SS FOR SAID COUNTY n the matter of the Estate of Jane Redd Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the Last Will and Testament of Jane Redd, late of said County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the county and State aforesaid, date the 6th day of February A. D. 1906. 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 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 MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEDGE DECEASED Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that at the next regular term of the Prabate Court in and for the county, to be begun and held at the Probate Court in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and Staten 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 Sledge Decased. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyton dote. State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Probate Court this 20th Day of January A. D. 1906 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. FUBIISHED WEEKLY at 1510 Norh 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 Advertising 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." 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 manufactor of Pop corn in ball aud 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 ook around and observe, see if you cannot discern that the signs of the times don't speak in thundering tones for a the public advocates of our interests han, why wait do your part by subscripting getting your neighbors to do the same und watch the good results. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas. County of 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 forsaid County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid, on the first Monday in month of February, A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. 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 Hour: 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 cremery 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 magate, was talking to a young man about success. "The secret of success is enterprise, energy," said Col. Greene. "To be lazy, to stick always in the same old rat, 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 did resemble a tortoise a good deal. I sent a boy in to him one day with a pack mule to get five gallons of molasses. The boy told me afterward that when he entered the store Manners was dozing. The boy coughed and the man awoke and got up. He opened his mouth wide, and stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arms in a vast yawn. Then he said to the boy: "Wotcha want?" "Five gallons of molasses, Mr. Manners,' the boy spoke up, sharp and quick. "Wah-h-h-h,' yawned Manners again. Then as he' took up the jug he grumbled: "Ain't there nobody what sells molasses 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. Don't snuggle conceit to your bosom, my boy, 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 best is not always at surface, my son. And I think, if to notice you will stop, You'll observe that the good to the bottom may run. But the foam always lingers on top. I would not discourage your zeal, my dear lad; It is best to keep working alway. But the funny old world often labels as bad The thing that is good in its day. In fact, I may say that it classifies wrong Some part of the great earthly crop. And I think you will note as you journey along That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear youth. But look on the world as you go. See the men whom we place at the sum of 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 can 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?' Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors. A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a witt 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 witt 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 2 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. "Ya 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?' I exclaimed." Winter Soft as the plumes of sleep drifts down The pure white silence of the snow The bells make merry in the town, Wheres happy faces come and go. The brooding quiet of the trees, Is broken sweet, in yonder glen, By "day, day day," of checkades And keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word is warbled when the grosbeaks sing; And in the moaning pines is heard The whisper of returning spring Telephone Bell W: 32. W. B, FUNERAL And, Embalmer The Very ages For All Purpose. At The Best Equipment Ambulance For Sick On Short Notice. Char 431 Minnesota. Ave No Nice F ROOMS AN At $3.25 At the Corner of seco Armourdale Kansas. And to street car service. You w MRS. E, L, SMIT KANSAS CIT 1510 N Are Manufactors of the Be ing Soaps. A GIVE THEM YOU One trial of their brand th convince you RESTA 1012 N Is the best place in the city a.m, to ii p. m, every thing MEALS 1 Mrs. Thatcher the prop city and will please you, gr Money on Watches. D CLOTHING AN Of Watches and Jewel AT CASH Unclaim Pledges FINE WATCHES AND J Union Le 427 Minnesota av YOUR OPP A. B. Raym GENERAL DIRECTOR Halmer The Very Best of Service, for All Purpose. At All Hours. Best Equipped White Entrance For Sick and Worst Notice. Charges Reasonable Minnesota. Ave. Kansas City, H Notice. Nice Furris ROOMS AND BOARD At $3.25 per week The Corner of second and Deleware sale Kansas. And in a good location ear service. You will get best of tree S. E, L, SMITH PROPRIETRY KESAS CITY SOAP 1510 N, 4th St. factors of the Best Grades of Toileting Soaps. A Home Institution THEMYOUR PATRO of their brand the Snowflake and convince you of their merits. RESTAURANT 1012 N 3rd St. place in the city and will serve you. m, everything is cooked to taste MEALS 15 CENTS, Thatcher the prop, is one of the best will please you, give her a call. TRICILY CONFIDENTIAL. J. H. COEIN, PRO Money to Loan Watches. Diamonds Jewelry CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING Of Value Watches and Jewelry Sold on Paym AT CASH PRICES. Claim Pledges For Sale C WATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRING Union Loan Office Minnesota ave. kansas' city EUROPPORTUN W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR. And, Embalmer The Very Best of Service, Fine Carriages For All Purpose. At All Hours. The Best Equiped White Enameled Ambulance For Sick and wounded On Short Notice. Charges Reasonable Call At 431 Minnesota. Ave. Kansas City, Kansas. Notice. Nice Furished ROOMS AND BOARD AT At $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. RESTAURANT 1s the best place in the city and will serve you from 5,30 a.m, to ii p. m, everything 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. Of Value 0000000000 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; dressi up. Call and see me. rs 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 two on the European continent. 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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 importance to public health, since the combustion of tobacco containing a large proportion of moisture is impeded, while as the g eration of vapor is increased, so ar e chances of the poisonous principi being carried into the mouth diminished. Early Japanese University. It will surprise most readers to learn from a recent Japanese writer that there was a university in Japan in the eighth century, with schools of ethics, mathematics and history, and that text books were employed dealing with such specialties as the diseases of women, veterinary surgery, and materia medica. Casting a Gloom. "Yes, for local talent, it was a first-rate entertainment," said the suburban resident, "and we made several hundred dollars for the hospital fund, but there was one little hitch. The town undertaker was down for a tenor solo, and he insisted on singing 'I'm Waiting for Thee.'"—New York Sun. Consider Dreams Revelations Consider Dreams Revelations. Among the people of the east a dream is considered to be a direct revelation from God, and there are in the Orient, even to-day, soothsayers, or fortune tellers, who interpreted dreams, just as the soothsayers did in bible times, and from dreams tell the future of the dreamer. Cancer Victims Well to Do Statistics show that cancer is more common among those who are accustomed to the refinements of life than among the very poor, and to care for such patients the doctors say that good surroundings are a necessity. Snakes in India. About 400,000 snakes are killed every year in British India. The fees paid as rewards annually for the destruction of beasts of prey and venomous snakes by the government of India amount to about $125,000. German Colony in Palestine German country in Palestine. Thirty-four years ago a German colony settled at Haifa, Palestine. To day all of the ninety families in are prosperous. They raise grapes and make wine free from alcohol, which is sold to the natives. Irish Ledger in Court A ledger kept in the Irish language was produced at the Roscoman Assizes, in Ireland, and the witness had to go on the bench to translate the terms for the judge. Gravity. An observing schoolboy wrote this short essay: "Gravity was discovered by Izaak Walton. It is chiefly noticeable when the apples are falling from the trees." Novices Leave Convent Notices Leave Convent. Stealing the front door key from the pocket of the mother superior, three young novices escaped from the convent of Santa Clara in Lisbon and disappeared. Dogs May Ride in Berlin. Dogs are allowed to enter tramway-cars in Berlin, but must be held in their master's laps and paid for as if they were passengers. Credit Is a Necessity. As trade now stands, there is enough gold out of the earth, if it were all coined, to transact the business of a day. Nationalities Among Russians. The Russian population represents 110 nationalities, the three great stock being Finn, Tartans and Slavs. Aluminum for Sharpening Cutlery. Aluminum is superior to any stone for sharpening cutlery. Denmark's Honey Exports. Denmark exports 2,500,000 pounds of honey a year. Lilby's Soups Let Libby Serve Your Soup Tomato, jalene, Congomme, Chicken, Mulligatawney, or Oxtail will please the most handsious. They are quickly prepared—delicious to eat—always satisfactory. Libby's (Natural Flavor) Corned Beef Hash Ox Tongues Boneless Chicken Soups Vienna Sausage Ham Loaf Your Grocer has them Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago Peduty Girl Suffered From Norvousness and Pelio Catarrch -Found Quick Relief in a Few Days. 1910 NERVOUSNESS AND WEAKNESS CURED BY PE-RU-NA. Miss Sadie Robinson, 4 Rand street, Malden, Mass., writes: "Perma was recommended to me about a year ago as an excellent remedy for the troubles peculiar to our sex, and I found that all that was said of this medicine was true, I am pleased to endorse it. 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The lands then taken up under the laws of the prosperous farms and ranches. There is need of land for the country. In the Southwest, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, are vast areas of unimproved land not yet producing the crops of all the habitable lands of the towns. Few lines of business are adequately represented. There are openings of all man to wade awake men. Are you one? interested, tell us what you want, knew you have to invest, and we will gladly finish the information. Write for a copy of "Country," it free. Address: MKT GEORGE MORTON, G. P. & T. A. BOX 911, ST. LOUIS, MO. DAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC FOR WOMEN TOILET WOMEN For use, to as a douche is marvelously successful. Thoroughly cleanse, kill disease germs, manage discharges, beals inflammation and local 통증, cure leucorrhoea and nasal catarrh. 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Storks have no voice. The only noise they make is "klapping" (snapping their great red mandibles rapidly and loudly). A native of Uganda becomes a society leader by buying an American photograph and setting it up in his hut. Little Willie—"I say, pa, what is an empty title?" Pa—"An empty title, my son, is your mother's way of referring to me as the head of the house when there are visitors present."—Glasgow Evening Times. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch. it will keep them white—15 oz. for 10 cents. Lives of great men often remain us that we should not get mixed up in the same kind of scandals. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. One nice thing about funerals is that the corpse can stand all the fuss that's made over him. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. 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"Yes" Churches School Houses and Homes ought to be decorated and made beautiful and healthful by using Alabastine THE SANITARY WALL COATING A Rock Cement in white and bea- not rub or scale. Destroy tinted tints. Does not vernish. No washing of walls after once ap- plied. Any one can brush it on-mix with and water. Plain tinting and whitening, and dry water. Plain tinting and whitening, and dry water. Frescoing may be done with it. Other finishes (bearing fanciful names and mixed with hot water) do not have the cementing property of plaster, or other glue or other animal matter, which rots, feeding disease germs, rubbing, scaling apolling wool, clothing, etc. Such finishes are not suitable for artists' services filly work. Buy Alabastine only in five-pound packages, properly labeled. The cardboard box and ceiling design, "Hunt's Decorating and Artists' services in making color plans, free. ALABASTINE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich., or 105 Water St., N. Y. LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 15 CIGAR ANNUAL 7,000,000 Your jobber, or direct from factory, Peoria, IL THE HUMOUR of the OY In Training. "My boy Ezra is home from college for a week. He's a great athlete, you know." "So I've heard." "Yes. Well, I thought I'd test him a little an' I didn't know no better way than to set him to sawin 'wood." "Well, I thought go. I proposed it to Ezry an' he said, 'All right, dad, I'll saw th' wood, but I want a glass of old ale, a mutton chop an' alcohol rubdown every thirty minutes.'" "Well, well. An' what happened?" "He didn't saw the wood." Encouraging the Timid Sultor. Freddie—Do you think your father will consent to my marrying your sister? Lulu—Sure, and I think he will even give tradin' stamps if you'll hurry up about it. He's got seven more besides me. Valuable Surgical Instrument. Old Baggles (taking a suspicious-looking bottle from his son's valise)—I thought that there was nothing but surgical instruments in this bag? 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And while we was riding across.Germany we kept a lookout for some of them German peasants, but I never seen such a scarcity of fowl no place." All He Had. "I suppose your husband gave you all he had to give." 100 Snaggs (bailing)—Why don't you help relieve the boat? Jaggs—I am. I've lowered the jug three inches. Starved. Hicks—"I saw your wife at the opera last night. She certainly did look charming. By the way, old man, you're rather thin, aren't you?" Marryat—"I guess I am. You see we went to housekeeping recently and I arranged with my wife to give her a certain amount each week to provide for the table and buy clothes for her self." Catholie Standard But It Is Not. "All a woman asks is to be loved," says a gushing poet. They all this stuff about her wanting bonnets and jewelry must be a vile slander. In a Kansas City "penny entertainment parlor" is a phonograph that renders the prelude from Wagner's "Parsifal." Although the people who enjoy Wagnerian music are not, as a rule, the ones that visit "penny entertainment parlors," the "Parsifal" phonograph is the best money maker in the place. "We have people around that phonograph almost all the time," said one of the managers of the parlor recently. "Most of them, I think, hear the selection simply through curiosity. They want to see what this much talked of 'Parsifal' is like. "Gracious! my dear," said the first society belle spitefully, "I do hope you're not ill. You look so much older tonight." "I'm quite well, thank you, dear," replied the other. "And you—how wonderfully improved you are. You look positively young." — Philadelphia Press. The mere fact that there is a tunnel by which one can travel through the Alps is not going to reduce the mortality among the idiots who think they must climb the peaks.—Denver Republican. AGONY OF SORE HANDS. Cracked and Peeled—Water and Heat Caused Intense Pain—Could Do No Housework—Grateful to Cuticura. "My hands cracked and peeled, and were so sore it was impossible for me to do my housework. If I put them in water I was in agony for hours; and if I tried to cook, the heat caused intense pain. I consulted two doctors, but their prescriptions were utterly useless. And now after using one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment my hands are entirely well, and I am very grateful. (Signed) Mrs. Minnie Drew, 18 Dana St., Roxbury, Mass." "There is a school in Chicago," said he, "where they teach boys to swim without any water. All the motions necessary for swimming are taught scientifically and correctly. I asked one of the graduates what he did when he got into water. He replied laconical, 'Sunk.'" In Persia when a man is executed for murder, he is hung by the feet and a weight is attached to his head. In this position he is forced to remain until death ends his misery. The British Museum contains over 1,750,000 books, not counting parts of works that are accumulating. The shelving of the library exceeds sixty-nine miles in length. The highest waterfall in the world is Chockol Cascade, at Yosemite, Cal., which is 2,654 feet high, or six feet short of a half a mile. Brussels has a school for grave-diggers. All candidates for the post of sexton to be eligible must have graduated at this school. Galvanized iron is merely dipped into molten zinc. The coating is not electrically applied, as the word galvanized seems to imply. Stockings first came into use in the eleventh century. Before that time it was customary to swathe the feet with bandages. FOOD IN SERMONS. Feed the Dominie Right and the Sermons are Brilliant. A conscientious, hard-working and eminently successful clergyman writes: "I am glad to bear testimony to the pleasure and increased measure of efficiency and health that have come to me from adopting Grape-Nuts food as one of my articles of diet. "For several years I was much distressed during the early part of each day by indigestion. My breakfast, usually consisting of oatmeal, milk and eggs, seemed to turn sour and failed to digest. After dinner the headache and other symptoms following the breakfast would wear away, only to return, however, next morning. "Having heard of Grape-Nuts food, I finally concluded to give it a fair trial. I quit the use of oatmeal and eggs, and made my breakfasts of Grape-Nuts, cream, toast and Postum. The result was surprising in improved health and total absence of the distress that had, for so long a time, followed the morning meal. My digestion became once more satisfactory, the headaches ceased, and the old feeling of energy returned. Since that time, four years ago, I have always had Grape-Nuts food on my breakfast table. "I was delighted to find also, that whereas before I began to use Grape-Nuts food I was quite nervous and became easily weared in the work of preparing sermons and in study, a marked improvement in this respect resulted from the change in my diet. I am convinced that Grape-Nuts food produced this result and helped me to a sturdy condition of mental and physical strength. "I have known of several persons who were formerly troubled as I was, and who have been helped as I have been, by the use of Grape-Nuts food, on my recommendation, among whom may be mentioned the Rev. — now a missionary to China." Name given by Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Welville," in each pkg. CASTORIA AVegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of The Kind Y Always Bears the Promotes Digestion.Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Optim. Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. 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First mix it with the add white of an egg (if egg is to be used). 1st. WITH BOILING WATER THREE MINUTES, ONLY ADD minutes to settle. Serve pro-3d. WITH COLD WATER bring it to a boil. Then set minutes it ready to serve. 3 {Don't boll it too long. Don't let it stand. DON'TS {Don't water it too long. TWO WAY 1st. With Eggs. Use part of the COFFEE before boiling. 2d. With Cold Water instead of aside for eight or ten minutes, then se Insist on getting a prepared it according to LION COFFEE in future. (Lion-L) (Save these Lion-SOLD BY GR ROBERTS, JOHNSON Foll WABASH EX $26.50 NIAGARA FALL On sale June 16-17-9 $10.00 MILWAUKEE A On sale June 16-17-9 $26.90 TORONTO, ON On sale June 18-19-2 $16.00 INDIANAPOLIS On sale June 19-20-2 $32.40 ASBURY PARK On sale June 28-29-3 $29.75 BALTIMORE A On sale July 1-2-3. $26.50 BUFFALO and On sale July 7-8-9. $23.90 PITTSBURG A On sale August 17-18 $30.50 PHILADELPHIA On sale September 1 WABASH saves a day from Kansas City. The Secret of Good COFFEE The best housekeepers cannot make a glove out good material. Dirty, adulterated coffee such as unscrupulous dealers shove it don't do. But take the pure, clean, natural COFFEE, the leader of all packages that for over a quarter of a century has in millions of homes—and you will make in this way: HOW TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE COFFEE, because to get best results you must use the best LION COFFEE rather fine. Use a tablespoonful to eat. First make with a little cold water, enough to make a egg (if egg is to be used as a settler), then follow one of the WITH BOILING WATER. Add boiling water, and SMITH WATER. Add a little cold water and seltzer. Serve promptly. Serve promptly. Serve promptly. Then set aside, add a little cold water, ready to serve. Don't boll it too long. Don't let it stand more than ten minutes before you don't use water that has been boiled before TWO WAYS TO SETTLE COFFEE. Eggs. Use part of the white of an egg, mixing it with Cold Water instead of eggs. After boiling add a dash of cocoa or ten minutes, then serve through a strainer. On getting a package of genuine Lion it according to this recipe and you will FEED in future. (Sold only in 1 lb. seals (Lion-head on every package.)) (Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. OLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., "STAR BRAND SHOES ARE" "OUR FAMILY SHOES" In your family, and the price will please you as well. The wear: have your own to show, not handle it write to us direct and we will see that you S. JOHNSON & RAND SHOES The Secret of Good Coffee The Secret of Good Coffee Even the best housekeepers cannot make a good cup of coffee without good material. Dirty, adulterated and queerly blended coffee such as unscrupulous dealers shovel over their counters won't do. But take the pure, clean, natural flavored LION COFFEE, the leader of all package coffees the coffee that for over a quarter of a century has been daily welcomed in millions of homes—and you will make a drink fit for a king in this way: HOW TO MAKE GOOD COFFEE. Grind your LION COFFEE rather fine. Use a *tablepoonful* to each cup, and one extra for the pot. First mix it with a little cold water, enough to make a thick paste, and add white of an egg (if egg is to be used as a settler), then follow one of the following rules: 1. **With BOILING WATER.** Add boiling water, and let it boil THREE TIMES until the cold water and set aside five minutes to settle. Serve promptly. 2. **With COLD WATER.** Add your cold water to the paste and bring it to a boil. Then set aside, add a little cold water, and in five minutes to boil it. 3. **Don't boll it too long.** Don't let it stand more than ten minutes before serving. DON'T use water that has been boiled before. **TWO WAYS TO SETTLE COFFEE.** 1. With Eggs. Use part of the white of an egg, mixing it with the ground LION COFFEE. 2. With Cold Water instead of eggs. After boiling add a dash of cold water, and set aside for eight or ten minutes, then serve through a strainer. **Insist on getting a package of genuine LION COFFEE, prepare it according to this recipe and you will only use LION COFFEE in future.** (Sold only in 1 lb, sealed packages.) "STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER" "OUR FAMILY" SHOES "OUR FAMILY" SHOES Will fit every foot in your family, and the price will please you as well. They are made of best leather for long wear; have style and snap. Ask your dealer to show you the "Family" line. If he does not handle it write to us direct and we will see that you are supplied. ROBERTS, JOHNSON & RAND SHOE CO. ST. LOUIS WABASH BASH EXCURSIONS EX NIAGARA FALLS and return, sale June 16-17-18-19. MILWAUKEE and return, sale June 16-17-18-19. TORONTO, ONTARIO and return, sale June 18-19-20-21-22. INDIANAPOLIS and return. sale June 19-20-21-22. ASBURY PARK, N. J., and return via No. sale June 28-29-30 and July 1st. BALTIMORE and return. sale July 1-2-3. BUFFALO and return. sale July 7-8-9. PITTSBURG and return. sale August 17-18. PHILADELPHIA and return. sale September 14-15-16. BASH saves a day to the East. Th s City. WABASH EXCURSIONS EAST $26.50 NIAGARA FALLS and return, On sale June 16-17-18-19. $10.00 MILWAUKEE and return, On sale June 16-17-18-19. $26.90 TORONTO, ONTARIO and return, On sale June 18-19-20-21-22. $16.00 INDIANAPOLIS and return. On sale June 19-20-21-22. $32.40 ASBURY PARK, N. J., and return via New York. On sale June 28-29-30 and July 1st. $29.75 BALTIMORE and return. On sale July 1-2-3. $26.50 BUFFALO and return. On sale July 7-8-9. $23.90 PITTSBURG and return. On sale August 17-18. $30.50 PHILADELPHIA and return. On sale September 14-15-16. WABASH saves a day to the East. Through trains from Kansas City. FURTHER PARTICULARS, TICKETS AND BERTHS, WABASH OFFICE, 903 MAIN STREET. 2000-2004 For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Flitchen For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Good Coffee It cannot make a good cup of Dirty, adulterated and queerlyulous dealers shovel over their pure, clean, natural flavored leader of all package coffees—letter of a century has been daily—and you will make a drink fit GOOD COFFEE. Results you must use the best coffee. Use "a tablespoonful to each cup, and one cold water, enough to make a thick paste, and better, then follow one of the following rules: add boiling water, and let it boil the cold water and set aside five if your cold water to the paste and add a little cold water, and in five minutes before serving. has been boiled before. SETTLE COFFEE. of an egg, mixing it with the ground LION after boiling add a dash of cold water, and set high a strainer. age of genuine LION COFFEE, recipe and you will only use (Sold only in 1 lb, sealed packages.) every package.) for valuable premiums. ERS EVERYWHERE OOLSON SPIE CO., Toledo, Ohio. SHOES ARE BETTER FOR FAMILY'S HOES "LY" SHOES— will please you as well. They are made of Ask your dealer to show you the "Family" set and we will see that you are supplied. RAND SHOE CO. ST. LOUIS Flag. CURSIONS EAST and return, return, O and return, 2. return. J., and return via New York. July 1st. return. urn. return. 3. the East. Through trains A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. Follow the Flag. WHY EYESIGHT FAILS INFERIOR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT FREQUENTLY THE CAUSE. Illuminants of the Past, One and All, Have Serious Defects—Acetylene Gas, with Its Clear, Unwavering, Yet Soft Flame Cannot Hurt the Eyes. Chicago, June 20.—No one can go into our schools or meet a group of children on the street without noticing how large a number of them wear spectacles. The proportion seems to increase yearly, and there are many more who ought to wear glasses. The experience of one teacher might be duplicated by the score. She knew Alice was inattentive and she thought she was unusually stupid. She said so to the principal and sent a note to the mother, requesting that the child be helped at home if she wished her to keep up with her class. One day after a blackboard explanation, the teacher called upon the child and found that she had not seen what had been written. She was kept after school and by dint of much sympathetic questioning Miss C. found that Alice had never been able to see what was put on the board and that her head had ached so often and so hard that she frequently failed to hear what was said. Such a condition may be caused by lack of proper food, but in our American homes it is usually due to the poor quality of the artificial light. The yellow, insufficient light of the ordinary kerosene lamp, with its smoky chimney, is about as bad for the eyes as can be imagined. The flickering light from a coal gas jet is but little better, and even the electric light, brilliant as it usually is, has an unsteadiness due to variations in power, and a glare peculiarly trying to the delicate nerves of sight. The comparatively new illuminant acetylene gas produces as nearly perfect an artificial light as has yet been found. It gives a clear white, unwavering light, very brilliant yet perfectly soft, and so nearly like the rays of the sun that even colors appear as in daylight. Fortunately, acetylene is very easily and easily produced, and the simple apparatus necessary can be purchased and installed in any home at a very moderate cost, and the acetylene can be piped to convenient points in the house where a light is needed. It is then lighted and extinguished and used exactly like common city gas. Acetylene is rapidly coming into common use in homes, churches, schools and institutions of all kinds, and it is reasonable to expect that as its use in the home increases, there will be fewer defective eyes, particularly among children. Poor eyesight and the many ills resulting therefrom will undoubtedly be much reduced by the use of this new illuminant. When a man is financially embarrassed he is apt to fell sorry that he has friends who only feel sorry for him. Occasionally a man earns a living without getting it, but more often he gets a living without earning it. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Never judge a man's worth by what a woman values him at in a breach of promise suit. DONT FORGET A large 2-ox. package, Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Comm. Store. A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 8 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. There is no patent on trouble, yet lots of men have been arrested for making it. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. Colorado Summer Service. The Santa Fe announces resumption of its luxurious "Colorado Flyer" June 4, 1905, leaving Dearborn station, Chicago, 8:40 a.m., Kansas City Union Depot 8:20 p.m., and daily thereafter for the summer season. Starts from Chicago Only one night on the road. As fine as The California Limited. Carries United States Government Fast Mail. Runs on dustless track, protected by block signals. "How would a bridge whist player go to Brooklyn?" "Give it up." "Why he'd take the train to New York and then bridge it." "I'd rather make it spades and stay in New York."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Catarrh of the Bladder and Kidney Troubles absolutely cured by Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Eumody. World famous for over 30 years. 81 a bottle. An amiable bachelor says that almost any miss is better than a mile providing she is neither too old or too young. It isn't much consolation to the homely woman to know that every mirror has a silver lining. Hundreds of tons of Egyptian rags are exported every year into the United States to supply the paper mills. Great and small have the same accidents and the same vexations and the same passions; but one is at the circumference of the wheel, and the other near the center, and thus less agitated by the same movements. It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows; not a question of what he has acquired, now how he has been trained, but of what he can do. Quit thinking that all the good chances and opportunities are gone by. OUT OF THE ORDINARY The Man Behind the Gun. We delight to listen to the dawn till set of sun. To the daring, dauntless doings Of the Man Behind the Gun! He will face the foe, and, fearless, Fight him fiercely, North and South, Seeking bubble reputation In the booming cannon's mouth. Oh, the rumbling roar of battle Is sweet music to his ears; He has little love for laughter, And he has no time for tears. But the gunner is a goner And his valor is knocked flat When he sights the killing glances Of the Girl Beneath the Hat! —New York Press. Cow Made Much Trouble At Chatham, England, a short time ago, a cow was being driven home from market by the purchaser, when it started in pursuit of a little girl named Dickinson. The girl took refuge in her house, and her mother had barely time to barricade the sitting room door with chairs and a sewing machine when the cow commenced to butt it. The animal then proceeded to stumble upstairs, and in the front bedroom wrought much havoc among the furniture and fittings. A great crowd had by this time assembled in the street. One of the spectators ran and opened wide the bedroom window, out of which the cow almost immediately put its head and forelegs. Its hoofs slipping on the zinc-covered roof of the bay window, it fell bodily into the street, to the accompaniment of a great smashing of glass. The crowd bolted in all directions, but the beast, which was practically uninjured, was secured before any further damage was done. Japs Have Information Ready. Japs Have Information Ready. Potter Sargent, of Amesbury, wrote the national bank of Tokio, Japan, asking for information on the war and was surprised to receive in reply a magazine of 140 pages on "The Russo-Japanese War." The book is printed in English on good paper and is profusely illustrated in half-tones. Aside from the printer's name which appears on the cover, there is nothing to show that it was not gotten out in a first-class American printing establishment and is clearly an imitation of our magazine. It deals with the war from a Japanese viewpoint. Population of the World So much is said and written these days concerning the dense population of certain parts of the world and the constant cry among nations for more territory, that perhaps the following may prove interesting: The population of the whole world could with ease stand upon the Isle of Wight. Roughly, the population of the world is 1,500,000,000. If each person was allowed two square feet of standing room, they would occupy about 67,000 acres. The area of the Isle of Wight is 93,341 acres. Lawsuit Hung Fire Long The owners and heirs of owners of the brig Oliver Frances have just brought suit against the government for damages sustained by the brig almost forty years ago. The Frances was run down and sunk in a thick fog on the morning of June 30, 1866, by the United States gunboat Winooski. Since that time the matter has been in process of settlement, but no agreement could be reached between the parties, and the suit was entered in the United States district court at Portland, Me. Plow Built in 1790. An old and very interesting plow has been received by Prof. Hurd for the museum of the agricultural college at Orono, Me. The plow is the gift of Leroy B. Nason of North Windham. It was built in 1790 by Abigail Varney of Windham. It is of the same style as the old Daniel Webster plow, being a heavy, clumsy affair, but entirely of wood with iron plates sheathed over the share and point. These plates are with the exception of two bolts held on by wooden pegs. Biggest Mass of Amyethyst. It is believed that the National Museum is now in possession of the largest mass of pure amethyst in the world. It is a part of a mass found in Brazil and sent to Oberstein, Bavaria, where are located the greatest gem-cutting works in the world. It came from the region of the Rio Grande do Sul, and when found was 33 feet high and weighed 35 tons. The curator of the Smithsonian Institution succeeded in obtaining a 400-pound fragment of this great gem. Twine to Bind Kansas Crons It took fifty large freight cars to convey 1,600,000 pounds of twine to be used in binding up the wheat crops of Kansas. An idea of what this vast quantity of twine means may be gathered from the following data: The twine will bind over 600,000 acres of grain, and if in one continuous length would encircle the globe at the equator six times and enough left to connect New York City with Cleveland, Ohio Angler's Good Haul A North London, Eng., angler, while fishing in the River Conley, which runs between high Barnet and St. Albans, recently thought his hook had stuck in a bank of weeds, but it turned out to be a sack. He got it ashore and opened it. To his astonishment out rolled a heap of jewelry. Altogether there were some forty gold rings and eighty watches, mostly minus the cases. ALL DONE OUT. Veteran Joshua Heller, of 706 South Walnut Street, Urbana, Ill., says: "In the fall of 1899 after taking Doan's Kidney Pills I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings of an attack. On each Kidney Pills I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings of an attack. On each and every occasion the results obtained were just as satisfactory as when the pills were first brought to my notice. I just as emphatically endorse the preparation to-day as I did over two years ago." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. "Mr. Hunter's married now," said the bride-to-be, preparing to send out her cards, "so we'll have to address his invitation to 'Mr. and Mrs. Hunter'" "Better not." her brother advised. "She's the boss, so you'd better send the invitation to 'Mrs. and Mr. Hunters.'"—Philadelphia Press. Mrs Swellington lives in a pretentious home which she can well afford to maintain in good style, but she keeps only one servant. I asked her why this was the case and she replied: "Well, help is always leaving and when you are left alone it is much easier to do the work of one servant than two." Perhaps Mohammed went to the mountain because he was tired of the seashore. Nature doesn't have much use for self made beauties as patterns. Opportunities In Cuba. Now is the time to secure land in La Gloria, the first and largest American Colony in Cuba. Easy investment in fruit raking. Large profits on small investments. Write for free. Illustrated booklet. Cuban Land & Steamship Co., S2 Broadway, X.Y. City. “What’s in that cigar you’re smoking?” inquired the drug store wag. “Tobacco?” “Did you ever see a man smoking anything except tobacco?” inquired the grumpy citizen. “Yes: I was down on the fish wharf the other day and saw a man smoking a herring.” Quit thinking of yourself to the exclusion of everything and everyone else. If you can’t get what you like, try to like what you get. MADE NEW STRENGTH QUICKER THAN DOCTOR'S TONIOS, SAYS TYPHOID PATIENT. Young Lady Left by Fever in Very Weak State Uses Dr. Williams' Pink Pills with Gratifying Results. After a fever, such as typhoid or scarlet, has run its full course there remains the recovery of strength. The tonic that will most rapidly increase the red corpuscles in the blood is the one that will most quickly restore color to the pale cheeks, strength to the weak muscles, and elasticity to the sluggish nerves. So far nothing has ever been produced superior to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for this purpose. Miss Midendorf had been ill with typhoid fever for fourteen weeks. She had a good physician who cared her safely through the critical stages. When he left, nothing remained to be done except to build up her strength, which was very feeble, and he gave her some prescriptions for that purpose. Here, however, she met with disappointment. "I took the doctor's tonics," she says, "for two months after I had recovered from the fever, but they did not do me the good I looked for. My strength came back so slowly that I scarcely seemed to be making any progress at all. Just then I read in a book thrown in our yard some striking testimonials showing what wonderful blood-builders and strength-givers Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are. I got a box of them soon after this and after I had taken only about half of them I could see a very great improvement in my condition. When I had used up two boxes, I felt that I did not need any more medicine. I have remained strong ever since." Miss E. B. Midendorf lives at No. 1501 Park street, Piquins, Ill. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the best remedy to use in all cases of weakness, from whatever cause the system may be run down. In cases of debility due to overwork they minister fresh strength and overcome nervous symptoms. They are a specific for anemia or bloodlessness. They are particularly helpful to girls on the verge of womanhood. They meet all the requirements of the period known as the change of life. They correct spring languor. They strengthen weak digestion and rouse up sluggish organs. No other tonic combines so many virtues. All druggists sell them. It is lesson after lesson with the scholar, blow after blow with the laborer, crop after crop with the farmer, picture after picture with the artist, step after step and mile after mile with the traveler, that gains what we all desire—Success. For recipes of lemon pies, custards, cookies, cakes, ices, sherbets, candies and candied peel see any good cook book. With some people the entertainment of an idea is an intellectual feast. The children in the upper berth were becoming noisy. "Go to sleep, dears," said their mother. "Don't want to, they answered. "We're playing." "What are you doing with those pillows?" "These ain't pillows, mamma. They are bean bags, only they haven't got any beans in 'em." And the noise broke out afresh. Stockholders in a fire insurance company have money to burn. RAILWAY RATE LEGISLATION. At the biennial convention of the Order of Railway Conductors recently held at Portland, Oregon, resolutions were unanimously adopted voicing their sentiments as to the effect of proposed railway rate legislation on the 1,300,000 railroad employees, whom they in part represented. These resolutions "indorse the attitude of President Roosevelt in condemning secret rebates and other illegalities, and commend the attitude of the heads of American Railways, who, with practical unanimity, have joined with the president on this question." They then respectfully point, out to Congress the "inadvisability of legislation vesting in the hands of a commission power over railway rates, now lower by far in the United States than in any other country," because such regulation would "result in litigation and confusion and inevitably tend to an enforced reduction in rates, irrespective of the question of the ability, of the railroads to stand the reduction, especially in view of the increased cost of their supplies and materials." They further protested against such power being given to the present Inter-State Commission because "the proposed legislation is not in harmony with our idea of American jurisprudence, inasmuch as it contemplates that a single body shall have the right to investigate, indict, try, condemn and then enforce its decisions at the cost of the carriers, pending appeal, which is manifestly inequitable." The conductors base their demand for only such legislation if any, as would "secure and insure justice and equity and preserve equal rights to all parties concerned," on the ground that the low cost of transportation "is the result of the efficiency of American railway management and operation which have built up the country through constant improvement and development of territory, while at the same time recognition has been given to the value of intelligence among employees in contrast to foreign methods, where high freight rates and lowest wages to employees obtain." In pressing their claim against legislation adverse to their interests, they point out the fact that "the freight rates of this country average only two per cent of the cost of articles to the consumer, thus making the freight rate so insignificant a factor in the selling price that numerous standard articles are sold at the same price in all parts of the country." Chicago Daily News:"Do you—er—ever tell fbs?" asked the lady who had advertised for a mald. "Not for myself, ma'am," answered the applicant; "only for the missus." Nervous Women Their Sufferings Are Usually Due to Uterine Disorders Perhaps Unsuspected A MEDICINE THAT CURES Can we dispute the well-known fact that American women are nervous? How often do we hear the expression, "I am so nervous, it seems as if I should fly; " or, "Don't speak to me." Little chin Can we dispute the well- known fact that American women are nervous? How often do we hear the expression, "I am so nervous, it seems as if I should fly"; or, "Don't speak to me." Little things Mrs.M.E.Shotwell me." Little things annoy you and make you irritable; you can't sleep, you are unable to quietly and calmly perform your daily tasks or care for your children. The relation of the nerves and generative organs in women is so close that nine-tenths of the nervous prostration, nervous debility, the blues, sleeplessness and nervous irritability arise from some derangement of the organism which makes her a woman. Fits of depression or restlessness and irritability. Spirits easily affected, so that one minute she laughs, the next minute weeps. Pain in the ovaries and between the shoulders. Loss of voice; nervous dyspepsia. A tendency to cry at the least provocation. All this points to nervous prostration. Nothing will relieve this distressing condition and prevent months of prostration and suffering so surely as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. M. E. Shotwell, of 103 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: "I cannot express the wonderful relief I have experienced by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suffered for a long time with nervous prostration, back ache, loss of appetite. I could not sleep and would walk the floor almost every night. "I had three doctors and got no better, and life was a burden. I was advised to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it has worked wonders for me. "I am a well woman, my nervousness is all gone and my friends say I look ten years younger. Will not the volumes of letters from women made strong by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound convince all women of its virtues? Surely you cannot wish to remain sick and weak and discouraged, exhausted each day, when you can be as easily cured as other women. PISO'S CURE FOR Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Buy by dragons. Old Hunter, Up to Snuff, Tells of Its Habits. "If ever you have the luck to be caught by an alligator, put a finger in each eye," says an old Australian hunter. "That will have the effect of making it open its jaws, and then you can make the most of your opportunity. There are several known instances of the escape of natives by that means. Alligators prefer their food high, so the chances are if you are caught you will be deposited on the bottom somewhere. I heard of one native escaping even then. When crossing the rivers the natives carry stout sticks, so if encountered by an alligator they can ward him off by shoving a stick down his throat. "One day a live alligator, a twelve-footer, was brought in by the natives. It was well lashed down, and then we began operations on it. We were proceeding nicely, with great satisfaction to ourselves if not to the alligator, when one of the Malays, in easing off the tail lashes, gave it too much drift. Suddenly there was a windmill display and the tip of the tail caught me on the side of the head. I did an involuntary fly and came down on the Malay, who had a sheath knife in his hand, which gave me a bad gash on the left palm. "That alligators have enormous strength I have evidence, besides my own experience. At Port Essington a buffalo was drinking in a stream when an alligator nailed it by the head and drowned it. Soon afterward a horse was caught while drinking at the same spot. If dragged the alligator about forty yards before the brute let go. Mr. Robinson anchored the body of the horse a little distance out from a cliff close to his camp. In due time he had his chance and shot a fifteen-foot alligator." Crockett and the Mules When Davy Crockett sat in the national legislature as a representative of the state of Texas he had many clashes with men of more education but less wit than himself. It is told of him that one day while standing in front of his hotel on Pennsylvania avenue, a drove of mules trotted by under the custody of an overseer from one of the stock farms in Virginia. A Congressman from Boston, who was standing near by, attracted Crockett's attention to the unusual sight, saying: "Hello there, Crockett; here's a lot of your constituents on parade. Where are they going?" The celebrated hunter looked at the animals with a quizzical glance, and then turning to the other said quietly, but with great emphasis, "They are going to Massachusetts to teach school."-Harper's Weekly. f remember the bonnet my mother work out When she Our well dressed mamma—but wasn't she stout? Te hee. I remember the slippers my mother wore out When she. As firm as the very best mothers ought To be. Had made up her mind beyond every doubt. Oh gee. I remember the slippers my mother wore out On me. —William J. Lampton, in New York Times. Northampton's Mayor Not Bald. Some time ago a boy came to Mayor Theobald Connor of Northampton, Mass., with a note. When the boy saw Mr. Connor he put the message back into his pocket, saying "It's another Mr. Connor the note is for." "Let me see the name on the envelope," said Mr. Connor, curiously. "That is my name. The note is for me." "But I was told," replied the boy, "to give it to the bald Mr. Connor. "Oh, you got turned around a little; that's all," said the mayor reaching for the note, which was addressed "Mr. Theobald Connor." But it took considerable argument to convince the boy he was the right man. As the Boy Understood It. "During the taking of a religious census of the district of Columbia the past winter a couple of young ladies who were engaged in the work stopped at my home on Capitol hill, and when the bell rang it was answered by the negro boy I brought from Tennessee with me. The ladies asked him: "Will you please tell me who lives here?" "Yessum; Mistah Johnsing,' was the answer. "Is he a Christian?" "No, ma'am. He's a congressman from Tennessee."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Praise for King Edward "King Edward the Shrewd" or "the Wise" is, according to a Paris correspondent, the title a near posterity will give to England's ruler. "Since his accession to the throne," says this journalist, "he has not made in international affairs a single mistake, which is more than can be said of his nephew and nephew-in-law of Germany and Russia." Money in Motor Omnibuses According to a statement by the chairman of the London Motor Omnibus Company, several of the new omnibuses have cleared $245 a week, while the profits from a horse omnibus avail are between $20 and $55 a week. Calumet Baking Powder Perfect in quality. Moderate in price. Wolf-hunting is profitable in Houghton county, Mich. The county has hton county, Mich. The county has raised the wolf bounty to $25, making with the State bounty, $35 for each scalp. The step was taken because farmers in the thinly settled southern portions of the county are suffering many losses of stock through the rages of wolves, which have become numerous and extremely bold. "How to successfully manage a husband" is a subject that is now appearing the Eastern press. Since a lot of elderly spinsters seem to be taking the most forward part in the discussion, we would paraphrase the time honored recipe and say, "first catch your husband." Anyway, it looks as though this subject were brought up by some husband who is anxious to find out how we are managed. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his home in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. A callico dress costs only a few cents yet there are men who are facing the langer of a bachelor tax with marvelous equanimity. SAVED CHILD'S LIFE Remarkable Cure of Dropsy by Deddy Kidney Pills. Sedgwick, Ark., June 19.—The case of W. S. Taylor's little son is looked upon by those interested in media matters as one of the most wonderful on record. In this connection his father makes the following statement: "Last September my little boy had dropsy; his feet and limbs were swollen to such an extent that he could not walk or put his shoes on. The treatment that the doctors were giving him seemed to do him no good, and two or three people said his days were short, even the doctors, two of the best in the country told me he would not get better. I stopped the medicine and at once sent for Dodie Kidney Pills. I gave him three Pills a day, one morning, noon and night for eight days; at the end of the eight day the swelling was all gone, but to give the medicine justice, I gave him eleven more pills. I used thirty Pills in all and he was entirely cure. I consider your medicine saved my child's life. When the thirty-five Pills were given him, he could run, dance and sing, whereas before he was an invalid in his mother's arms from morning until night." A man will always be able to get something for nothing as long as the supply of fish stories holds out. Trouble Increasing When your trouble with food-digestion seems to be increasing, and various pains, like stomach ache, ache, backache, backache, etc., beset you, when your bowels and liver seem continually out of order, what you need is Dr Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It is safe, pleasant and far superior to all pills or cathartic waters. Sold by all drummers at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. He who boasts that he never kisses a girl may be telling the truth, but no body envies him. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—Josef Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. A public library is a place where you find that the book you want is usually out. 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