The American Citizen
Friday, June 30, 1905
Topeka, Kansas
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THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
The Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in this Section
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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 sexual 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 "Abdul Hamid, the Eternally Victerious," "the Eternally Smiling," "the Eternally Invincible," "Distributor of Crowns to the Heroes Seated on the Thrones" and "Shadow of God or Earth."
Longevity in Europe
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 eight-
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, regretfully. "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 started ran swiftly along the ties 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.
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 modulation in eating is, therefore, one of the keys that unlock the doors of 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 selection 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
In the course of a discussion at the
sanitary congress Mr. Weaver de-
laired that it was almost impossible
for anyone taking a cold bath every
morning to become an habitual drunk-
ard—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
dash against four aces in a little pok-
er game and she has the four aces.—
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Radium Kills Mice.
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 as easily as our heads swell, the world wo'r be the rainer.
Earthly Glory
Solomon had glory—
He was king now;
There's wonder in his story—
He isn't living now;
Caesar mounted pretty high,
Charlemagne was proud and great;
Queens of England, my, O, my;
He was treasured and treasured;
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;
They look a cross the road, a corn,
They bend to labor and are sad;
They wish that they might have been
born;
To these such as some ancients had;
But better far, it seems to me.
Than having immortality
And being dust, it is to be
Up and 'round to-day.
—S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
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 Portra
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.
BEWARE THE EASY SHELTER.
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.
Every body is preparing for the picnic at Larks Grove on the 4th.
Prof G.W.Wood recently of the school of White Church Kans.will teach sten.ography and typewriting at 806 East 10th st.K.C.Mo.
Mr. Taylor Pace of 1504 N. 3rd. street has removed to 1715 front street.
The National Business League meets in New York City August 16th,17th, and 18th; 1905.
Mr. Magnus L. Robinson is writing the Nobility of the Mystic Shrine and is one of the oldest quil drives in the country.
D. E. R. Carter, of Atlantic Ga. celeb rated his 23rd. anniversary as pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church
The Kansas City Embalming and Casket Kit. can now be placed among the eading undertakers establishment in that City. Mr. Jno. W. Jones its able manager, has so conducted the business in such a manner that the good people are beginning to realize that it is their duty to patronize their soon institution.
The Negros of Richmond havefour banking houses with good securities, and five strong weekdays as well other business enterprises, Let the good work continue.
Parents cannot expect to make useful citizens out of their sons and purchase women out of their daughters if they allow them to run the streets all day and until late at night it is the giving of so much latitude to our young that has brought so many to ruin—Richmond Reformer.
Mr. J. W. Cromwell is the brilliant editor of the Record. Washington. D. C. and vice-president of the Bethel Literary. We can expect only useful suggestions and valuable thoughts, that will increase the race upward and onward to higher civilization and progress from such a able writer. Long live the Record
The many friend of Mr. B. Foster will be pleased to learn that he is able to be out after a few days illness.
Mrs. Lula Johnson left last week for Peoria Ill. on an extended trip. Rumor unconfirmed has it that she will become Mrs?
Mrs. Mary Alexander of State Ave. has been somewhat indesposed the past week.
Mr. Mrs. Hubbard of State Ave. are spending some time in the country of Sebalia Mo.
Mr. Fred Jennings fell from the scaffole about a week ago where he was building a flue between 9th.&10th. on Freeman Ave. and broke his right leg Mr. Jennin is the father of our respected citizen F. J. Jennings Mr. Jennings now resides with his son at 34 Franklin Ave. and is getting along as well as can be exbeted.
Mr. Taylor Pace of 1504 N. 3rd. st. now resides at 1715 Front St.
See Chas. E. Hines for Wells Borded Cisterns or Vaults dug apply 341 Freeman Ave.
1 He all ye nations of the Earth,
This royal prize obtain.
If you would have immortal life,
You must be born again.
2 No matter what your station be,
This blessed truth remains.
If you would heavens bliss obtain.
You must be born again.
3 Your power may surround the errth
And all its contents gain.
If you would live as Jesus lives,
You must be born again.
4 No duplicate condition stands
To follow in its train.
The one condition Christ demands,
You must be born again.
Publication Notice
In The District Court of Wyandotte, kansas
Charlie Rochester, Plaintiff.
VS.
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. Roche-
ster, mast, on or before the 31st day of July,
1905, 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 plain-
tiff the custody of their only child.
Charlie Rochester.
By Green and Henderson attorneys
for plaintiff.
1st pub. June 15th
But He Has to Wait.
Nothing would please the small boy more than the privilege of assuming the role of father to the man occasionally.
The 4th of July celebration predicts to be a grand affair, The Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, are using every effort to entertain several thousand citizens at Larks 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 scrupulous 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 personalities 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 mind in the 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 the best.
The steady tramp in the furrow, the sound of the unturned steel.
An anthem sung to the noonday, a chant of the open West.
Echoning 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 print the wind on the ranges, the scent of the unturned steel.
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 print the wind 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 humbless plains and I.
—H. Bashford in the Spectator.
Size of Ancient Babylon.
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."
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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 Defendant, 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
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
WYANDOTTE COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS,
annie Johnson.
Plaintiff.
VS.
ewls J. Johnson.
Defendant.
THE STATE OF KANSAS TO
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 22nd, day of June 1905, or the petition will be taken as true and judgment will be rendered accordingly against you, and judging 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.
Wm. Needles Clerk of the said Court of Wyandotte Connity Kansas. per D. C. McCambs Deputy,
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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 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 wonderml feats.
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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 tessamentary have been granted
to the undesigned 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.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION.
In the District Court of Wyandotte county
State of Kansas.
Mary Atkinson. Plaintiff.
vs.
J. B. Atkinson, Defendant.
The State of Kansas to J. B. Atkinson,
Greeting:
You are hereby notified that the plaintiff
in the above entitled cause did on the 22nd
day of September, 1904. file her petition in
a certain action against you in the District
Court in Wyandotte County State of Kansas
asking for an absolute divorce on the
grounds of abandonment and desertion, and
unless youdumur, answer or otherwise ob-
ject 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
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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, dated 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 said 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
County of Wyaodotte Court in and for
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 egular term of the Prabate Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of 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 Sledge Decaeased
In Witness Whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the Courty of Wyton dottle, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Probate Court this 20th Day of January A. D. 1905
Winfield Freeman
Probate Judge
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.
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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.
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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 waruing of being a unit in behalf of our own salvation. It takes something beside wind to publish the most weakly of weeklies. If every Afro-American family would pledge themselves to stand by an organ buplished in their behalf. just one year, the results would be unbelieved we ask the colored brother to wake up look 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 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
n the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified,
that at the next regular term of the Probate
Court, 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
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
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Reaching the community 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 magnate, 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 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 mo-
lasses 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'll stop,
You'll observe that the good to the bottom may run,
But the foam always lingers on top.
I would not discourage your zeal, my dear lad;
It is best to keep working alway,
But 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 summit, in truth.
And this brief little anthem will stop,
tr you have agreed with the thing that
I preach.
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, table y 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 Dakoty. Ay pay man da money. He gif me deed. Ay gif heem mortgage. Ay tak land. By en by he get land, he get deed, he haf da money. Dees time Ay want no deed; Ay want mortgage. Ay pay da money; you 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 quiet of the trees,
Is broken sweet, in yonder glen,
By "day, day day," of checkades
And keen, song of winter wren.
Of glowing days some magic word
Is werbled when the grossebs唱歌;
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;
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Mrs W. F. Williams.
The Indian rhinoceros is nearly extinct. There are two specimens in the London zoological gardens and two on the European continent. Very few are left in a wild state in India and Assam, and unless special measures be taken for their preservation they will soon disappear.
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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 custom with regard to turtles, which they consider as very good joss. Almost any day one can see these creatures, some of them of huge size, being carried on board the river steamers, not to be taken to Canton for culinary purposes, but to be dumped into the sea and restored to liberty and freedom. Good luck is thought to follow.—Hong Kong Press.
Good to Lick Baby With Later On.
I saw lately a dainty and original gift for a young mother. It was called "a measuring stick for baby," made of white wood thirty-six inches long, and marked off into inches as accurately as a tape measure. Forgetmenots were patd 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 generation of vapor is increased, so are chances of the poisonous principle being carried into the mouth diminished.
Early Japanese University
It will surprise most readers to learn from a recent Japanese writer that there was a university in Japan in the eighth century, with schools of ethics, mathematics and history, and that text books were employed dealing with such specialties as the 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 'The Waiting for Thee.'"—New York
Consider Dreams Revelations
Among the people of the east dream is considered to be a direct revelation from God, and there are in the Orient, even to-day, soothsayers, or fortune tellers, who interpret dreams, just as the soothsayers did in bible times, and from dreams tell the future of the dreamer.
Cancer Victims Well to Do
Cancer Victims Well to Do.
Statistics show that cancer is more common among those who are accustomed to the refinements of life than among the very poor, and to care for such patients the doctors say that good surroundings are a necessity.
Snakes in India.
About 400,000 snakes are killed every year in British India. The fees paid as rewards annually for the destruction of beasts of prey and venomous snakes by the government of India amount to about $125,000.
German Colony in Palestine.
Thirty-four years ago a German colony settled at Haifa, Palestine. To day all of the ninety families in it are prosperous. They raise grapes and make wine free from alcohol which is sold to the natives.
Irish Ledger in Court
A ledger kept in the Irish language was produced at the Roscommon Abbies, in Ireland, and the witness had to go on the bench to translate the terms for the judge.
Gravity.
An observing schoolboy wrote this short essay: "Gravity was discovered by Izaak Walton. It is chiefly noticeable when the apples are falling from the trees."
Novices Leave Convent.
Novices Leave Convent.
Stealing the front door key from the pocket of the mother superior, three young novices escaped from the convent of Santa Clara in Lisbon and disappeared.
Dogs May Ride in Berlin.
Dogs are allowed to enter tramway cars in Berlin, but must be held in their master's laps and paid for as if they were human passengers.
Credit Is a Necessity.
As trade now stands, there is not enough gold out of the earth, if it were all coined, to transact the business of a day.
Nationalities Among Russians.
The Russian population represents 110 nationalities, the three great stock being Finns, 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.
**gaint** the sapphire arch of night
**watched** on flashy ruby, green and gold
**waxes** in the skies.
**among** their points of glittering flame
A single
**dim** recording spaces gleamed,
**on contrast faint and far.**
Flicker Brown's FOURTH
BY SENWELL FORD
Copyright, 1888, by The Short Story Publishing
Co. All rights reserved.
To say Victoria Siding, one of the minor marks of punctuation on the long line of the Canadian Pacific road, was a lonely place would be to woofully understate the exceptional advantages it offered to hermits in search of a congenial place of residence.
into such an environment Fate, with its customary-strong sense of humor, had pitchforked Flicker Brown, a native of New England, with an ample inheritance of all the characteristics of his birthplace, including an intense patriotism and an unquenchable loquacity.
"Now, what in tillieludium do you purpose is in that box?"
The subject of his inquiry was a long, rectangular, shallow box of new quarter-inch pine. It might have held the blades, or clothes pins, or pressed corned beef in cans. Certainly there was nothing strikingly mysterious about it. It was an ordinary, commonplace, every-day sort of a box, yet for Flicker it had a certain mysterious fascination which easily prevailed over the not particularly distracting cares of his office.
He carried the box into the station where he could look at it while getting breakfast, leaving the task of rolling in the heavy barrel until later.
"Now what do you suppose is in that box?"
Once at the business he quite forgot his scruples. Up came one corner, then the other. Next he pried up the sides and carefully ranked out the wire nails. Under the cover was a layer of excelsior,—a momentary but irritating delay. Lifting this, he paused and gave utterance to a long whistle. "Wh-e-ew! Flags, by ginger! The good old Stars and Stripes, too. Great switches! It seems like years since I've seen one. 'Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that made us free!'" and the impetuous Flicker, waving one in each hand, marched about the room. They were cheap, printed flags, about ten and a half by fifteen inches in size, but there were three bundles of them, a dozen in a bunch, and each flag mounted on a five-foot stick. In a moment he was excitedly pawing out more excelsior.
"Jumpin' beeswax! Fireworks, or I'm a Plute! Rockets, pinwheels, Roman candles, cannon crackers, punk, and the whole outfit.
"No sire-ree. No Canucker'll ever set these off on no Queen's birthday, not if I can help it," declared Flicker indignantly. And he continued, "Will Victoria Siding celebrate to-night? Well, I guess."
Then on his kindled enthusiasm came a dampening thought. What satisfaction would there be in having a display of fireworks and no one there to see it but himself? Never before had the human barrenness of British Columbia made itself felt so strongly.
In his glance there was sadness—or as near sadness as the patriotic and conversational Flicker ever got—as he looked at, his preparations
THE TRAINMAN
new what do you suppose is in that box?
There would be no spectators at Victoria Siding's Fourth of July celebration.
"Won't, eh? By Christopher, we'll see about that!"
It was then that Flicker had his inspiration.
When darkness began to shut in around the lonely little station, when the great spruce forest seemed to advance until it hemmed him in closer than ever, he stood in the doorway and whistled "Yankee Doodle," beating out a bass accompaniment on the floor panels with his heels.
Far off in the blackness where the darkening sky met the dark woods in an irregular line began to glow a single bright eye. As it grew in size the low rumble took on a heavier volume:
then the eye became a great blazing headlight and the rumble swelled to the crashing thunder of flying wheels heavy laden. The Dominion Limited was coming west.
There came two frightened snorts from the engine whistle, a series of screeches as the brake shoes bit the steel, and a confused whirring that told of reversed drivers and an open sand-box. Then the long train, with a bumping of draw-heads, came to a stop at Victoria Siding.
Every one aboard seemed to be interested in this sudden change from the noisy, swinging rush coastwards to the calm, dense stillness of this desolate spot. Late diners left their coffee, tired travelers pushed back their berth curtains, and the men in the smoking compartment dropped cards and stories.
They saw Flicker Brown calmly swinging a red lantern. The brass-buttoned conductor saw him, too, and lost no time in seeking him out.
"What in thunder do you mean by stopping the Limited at this forsaken hole, and that with us twenty minutes behind schedule?" he demanded, red of face and puffing from his dash up the track.
"Orders," replied Flicker with unusual brevity, and handed out a message damp from the copy press.
The conductor grabbed the sheet and held it close to his nickeled lantern.
"‘Hold Victoria Siding until 8:32,’" he read. "Now what idiot sends me such an order as this? Why? there's
Z. M.
"Who said they did?"
no train due either way for four hours."
"Them's the orders," said Flicker. "Mebbe it's a special."
While something like three hundred passengers were simultaneously investigating this delay, Flicker got some matches and created a diversion. Touching off a red light at either end of the platform, he revealed the novel spectacle of a Canadian Pacific railroad station decked out in American colors. He was sending up his second rocket when the conductor rushed back.
"You—you impudent scoundrel! What do you mean by—by that?" and, words failing, he waved his hand toward the station.
"Me?" said Flicker. "Oh, I don't mean nothing by that; I'm just havin' a little celebration."
"Celebration! For what?"
"Why, for the Fourth of July. I always do."
"You do, do you? Well, young man, you're cheeky. Stop it at once! Why. I've got Lord Windover-Breers and two Privy Councillors aboard. They'll be red hot. Stop it, I say."
"Guess not, old man; this is my private blow-out, and she's goin' through, lords or no lords. You can tell His Royal Thingumbobobness that for me. Look out, I'm going to touch off another!" and as Flicker applied the slow-match there was a swish and a roar as the rocket raced up into the sky to burst into balls of red, white and blue.
The conductor retreated into the station, and the little knot of passengers which had surrounded them was quickly augmented by enthusiastic recruits from the train, who practically testified to their appreciation of the humor of the situation by hilariously assisting Flicker in the task of setting off his fireworks. They were deep in the fun when the angry conductor burst forth from the station and rushed toward the victim of misplaced patroltism.
"Hi, you agent! What d'ye mean? Headquarters say they didn't send out any such order."
"Who said they did?" and Flicker touched the burning punk to the fuse of a big Roman candle. "Them's my orders. Yes, my orders; that's what I said. Hey, keep off there, you beef-eating Britsher, or I'll plug you full of hot balls."
"I'll have you discharged to-morrow," roared the irate official, displaying a physical discretion in the face of Flicker's awkward weapon that ludicrously contrasted with his fire-eating mood.
"You can't," said Flicker, as he triumphantly blazed away. "I'm going to resign to-night."
And as the train ignominiously retreated from an unmistakable American victory, a ringing cheer went up from a knot of Yankee passengers on its rear platform, in commemoration of the first and last Fourth of July celebration at Victoria Siding.
Flicker's resignation was wired that evening to the superintendent in the following laconic terms:—
"I'm through here and gone West. Send on another man."
All of which came duly to pass. The new man, it is needless to say, is a lonely but loyal Briton.
ADDS TO SPLENDOR
MEN OF BUSINESS RECOGNIZE ADVANTAGES OF ACETYLENE.
Famous Summer Hotel, the Grand Union of Saratoga, Has Installed This Best of All Artificial Lights—Means Increased Comfort and Health.
Saratoga, June 27.—The very name, "Saratoga," brings to every mind health-giving springs, unsurpassed hotels and beautiful drives. It has been for many years the Mecca for all who admire nature, enjoy good living, and are searching for health, or are simply taking a vacation.
The Grand Union, the largest summer hotel in the United States, set among green trees with its long wings enclosing a court with fountains and flowers, grass and trees, music and light, is throughout the season thronged with guests. With the progressive spirit always shown by its management, the Grand Union has again added to its attractiveness by introducing acetylene gas to make still more brilliant the evening hours. The genial proprietors believe in furnishing their guests with the best of everything, and now, after investigating and finding that Artificial Sunlight can be had, they have installed a complete acetylene gas plant to produce it, and have connected upwards of six thousand acetylene burners in and about the house and grounds to this little gas plant.
Like many discoveries of recent years, which are coming into popular favor, acetylene, one of the most recent, is very simply produced. It is adapted for use wherever artificial light is needed and the necessary apparatus can be understood and operated by anyone. The generator in which Acetylene is produced by the automatic contact of carbide and water might be termed a gas plant, as it performs all of the functions of a city gas plant. The acetylene generator can be purchased for a few dollars and in any size, from one adapted to furnish acetylene to ten or a dozen burners for a cottage, up to the large but still simple machine such as is now furnishing Acetylene for six thousand burners in the Grand Union.
Outside of large cities the use of Acetylene is quite common. The owner of the country home now demands running water, gas and other conveniences which a few years ago were considered as luxuries, and acetylene gas has met his requirements, and gives him a better and cheaper light than is ordinarily furnished in cities. It is well known that rooms lighted with Acetylene are more comfortable, because cooler, and more healthful because the air is not vitiated.
Lots of people think they are leading the simple when they are leading the simpleton life.
Baking Economy.
By the use of a perfect baking powder the housewife can derive as much economy as from any other article used in baking and cooking. In selecting a baking powder, therefore, care should be exercised to purchase one that retains its original strength and always remains the same, thus making the food sweet and wholesome and producing sufficient leavening gas to make the baking light.
Very little of this leavening gas is produced by the cheap baking powders, making it necessary to use double the quantity ordinarily required to secure results.
Manufacturers of cream of tartar powders ask about twice as much for their goods as that paid for any other baking powder, and food prepared from these cream of tartar powders contains large quantities of Rochelle Salts. Ask your physician what the results would be from the constant dosing of Rochelle Salts.
A baking powder that is recommended by leading physicians and chemists, and which is both perfect in quality and moderate in price, is therefore suggested—one that has been found to be "best by test"—"Calumet." From the standpoints of purity, wholesomeness and economy, there is nothing to excel it. Food prepared with Calumet is absolutely free from Rochelle Salts, Alum, Lime, Ammonia, or any injurious substance.
A woman can't loose but one thing at cards with good grace, and that is her temper.
Here Is Relief for Women:
Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, discovered a pleasant herb remedy for women'sills, called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF. Cures female weaknesses. Backache, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary troubles. At all Druggists or by mail 50c. Sample mailed FREE. Address, The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y.
All the world loves a lover because it likes to see someone more foolish than itself.
Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand.
Apologizing—a very desperate habit—one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his short-comings is from his apology.
Mother Eve had several advantages. One was that no newspaper paragraphs made fun of the way she sharpened a lead pencil.
Calico drives its name from Calicut, a city of India, whence it first came.
WHY THEY ARE HAPPY
TWO NOTABLE RECOVERIES FROM EXTREME DEBILITY.
Husband's Strength Had Been Waning for Three Years, Wife a Sufferer from Female Weakness.
"My strength had dwindled so that I couldn't apply myself to my business with any snap but was tired and listless all the time," said Mr. Goldstein.
"I went to bed completely used up by my day's work, and when I got up in the morning I didn't feel rested a bit. I had awful headaches too, and my kidneys got out of order and caused me to have severe pains in the back. At one time I became so feeble that I could not stir from bed for three weeks."
Mr. Goldstein is a young man and had then but recently established a home of his own. His anxieties were increased by the fact that his wife was far from being robust. Mrs. Goldstein says:
"For two years I had been ill most of the time. Sometimes I was confined to bed for weeks in succession under a physician's care. I had headaches, kidney trouble, pain about the heart and many more uncomfortable symptoms connected with that weakness to which my sex is peculiarly subject."
Trouble had invaded this household and settled in it in just the years that ought to be the very happiest. Physicians could not tell them how to get rid of it.
"I was utterly discouraged," said Mr. Goldstein. "Then the urgency of some friends led me to try a blood and nerve remedy which was said to be wonderfully successful. Within a month there were unmistakable signs of improvement in my condition, and within a year I was completely well. Through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I have now as good health as Lever had in my life."
Mrs. Goldstein adds: "The wonderful effect that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had in the case of my husband led me to try them and they helped me even more quickly than they did him. One box made me decidedly better and a few months' treatment cured me."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the best tonic and regulator, they make pure, rich blood and when there is general weakness and disorder that is what the system needs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Goldstein live at 38 Gove street, East Boston, Mass. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by druggists everywhere.
If a gown becomes a woman she becomes anxious to show off in it.
Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled.
Men have been arrested for merely taking things as they come.
Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch.
Sudden acquisition of wealth transforms family jars in jardiniers.
If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity.
A man isn't very poor who can't support more than one dog.
Storekeepers. Hotel-men
and all householders will be interested in Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co. announcement in this paper.
Once in a while you see a self-made man, but, lawsee, look at the women.
I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mas. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900.
Delirium tremens is but another name for a tight fit.
DON'T FORGET
DON'T FORGET
A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only
5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind.
A hole in the garden hose is usually
quickly darned.
Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks.
"Write to S. G. Warner, G. P. and T. A., Kansas City Southern Ry., Kansas City, Mo., for information concerning Free Government Homesteads, New Colony Locations, Improved farms, Mineral lands, Rice lands, and Timber lands and for copy of "Current Events" Business Opportunities, Rice book, K. C. S. Fruit Book. Cheap round trip homeseekers tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of each month. The short line to the "Land of Fulfillment." "I see, Josiah, that somebody has found out that college life decreases the desire of girls to marry." "I'll bet the trouble is, Nancy, that it decreases the desire of the young fellows to marry 'em.'"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Philadelphia Press: Sububs—I nearly broke my back shoveling the snow off my place.
Sometimes a woman wishes she were a man so that she could break the hearts of other women.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY
A Real Danger.
f have been in various nations, bent on
my bravery, has never been denied,
my bravery, has never been denied,
My bravery has never been denied.
I have sailed the raging waters, taken
up the fierceful slaughters.
And in battles never thought to run
and hide;
I've pursued the royal tiger at the sources of the Niger.
Roger.
I've tracked the tails of him in his lair.
I have twisted tails of leopards for annoying Hindu shepherds.
And have been with Roosevelt after grizzly bear.
I have slapped a Texas ranger in the back at danger at dawn.
I've called an Irishman an P. A.
I have gone upon an errand straight across the public square, and never found though 'twas the middle of the day!
From these statements you will gather that my reputation's rather Well established for courageousness and brawn,
BUT
I turn and flee in terror when I pass a dooryard where a
Young woman is out sprinkling of the lawn!
His Calendar for Year.
The correspondent of the Aroostook Republican at South Caribou, Me., offers the following concerning the excitement of summer months in that section: Well, we presume the summer months will pass with about the usual variety of attractions and tribulations. May will pass with bargain sales and house-cleaning eruptions; June will be devoted to now and then a wedding; July to campmeetings, excursions and Sunday fishings, of which there is a variety of kinds; September, cattle shows, fairs and horse trots, baseball, boo hoo and what not; October—that makes me tired; 50 cents for potatoes; the rest of the year will be spent in getting wood and trying to keep a roaring fire.
Divorce Statistics
Consul Goding reports that in certain periods of time selected for investigation the number of divorces to every 10,000 marriages in New Zealand was 116.6, in South Australia 29, in Queenstown 30, in West Australia and Tasmania 41, in Victoria 124.4 and in New South Wales 273.3. Canada has 4 divorces to every 10,000 marriages, the United Kingdom 11, Norway 16, Austria 43, Greece 50, Belgium 81, Sweden 87, Cape Colony 98, the Netherlands 103, Germany 165, France 180, Roumania 204, Switzerland 432 and the United States 612.
Eggs Were Well Preserved.
On May 13 Mrs. A. J. Burnham and a friend went to Epping. N. H., to open the former's cottage for the summer. When they entered the front hall they found three eggs in a basket just as they had been left when the house was closed last season. There had been no fire in the house for seven months, yet the eggs were perfectly sound and tasted like the "strictly fresh" article when eaten. The reason for it all probably lies in the fact that the eggs were placed in salt for three weeks as soon as laid.
Relic of Revolutionary Hero.
Dr. G. B. Hoit, of Manchester, N. H., has a silver charm which once belonged to Matthew Thornton, one of the signers of the declaration of independence. On one side there is the emblem of the blue lodge of Masonry, while on the other is seen the symbol of the chapter. It is not recorded anywhere that Mr. Thornton ever joined the Masons, but, as there is no doubt that the charm was his, it is thought that he may have gone into the order while in the revolutionary army, as did Washington and many others.
Hotels Run by Government.
Western Australia is probably the only part of the British empire that has carried socialism to the length of building and managing state hotels. From the annual report and balance sheet recently presented to the local parliament, it appears that state drinks are 25 cents a glass. There was a loss of $4,250 on the house account, which apparently means the boarding branch of the business, but on the operations as a whole there was a profit of $2,600.
Killed Marauding Snake.
Miss Tillie E. Vose, of Boylston, is not afraid of snakes. Miss Vose raises chickens as a side business and has quite a brood. The other day when she took account of stock she found that several were missing. The next morning she saw a big black snake in the act of swallowing one of the younger chicks. She not only dispatched the reptile at once with a shovel, but measured the body, which was within a few inches of five feet long.
New England Town Wakes Up.
The rapid transit craze has struck Chelsea, Vt., and the old stage which for years has covered the sixteen miles between the town and the railroad is to give way during the summer months to an automobile. The new vehicle makes the run in less than an hour.
Remarkable Case of Thrift.
A remarkable record of thrift comes from Morrisville, Vt., where a young man has just purchased a farm from the savings of five years' labor in the tanneries. At no time did he receive over $10.65 a week and much of the time less, yet he laid by $1,200 clear beside supporting his family.
Years Unproductive of Senators. It is rather curious that there is now no senator of the United States who was admitted to his seat between March 4, 1887, and March 4, 1891;
The saddest words of tongue or pen
Are uttered after "Read and burn."
Most frequently they come from men
High up. They are, well, I'll be
dern."—Kansas City Drovers
Telegram.
Only a Brain Sell.
Cholly—There's little in my mind worth striving for in this world. Ethel—But that wouldn't fool anybody. No one would ever think of looking there.—Kansas City Drovers Telegram.
UNSIGHTLY BALD SPOT.
Caused by Sores on Neck—Merciless Itching for Two Years Made Him Wild—Another Cure by Cuticura.
"For two years my neck was covered with sores, the humor spreading to my hair, which fell out, leaving an unsightly bald spot, and the soreness, inflammation and merciless itching made me wild. Friends advised Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and after a few applications the torment subsided, to my great joy. The sores soon disappeared, and my hair grew again, as thick and healthy as ever. I shall always recommend Cuticura. (Signed) H. J. Spalding, 104 W. 104th St., New York City."
Mr.Jones: It certainly is—anybody who will stick a blind man is no good. Little Fred: Then if a foolish man meaning of "fatuous?"
Farmers' Wives
should read advertisement of Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co. in another column of this paper.
There are some places in Europe where women regularly plow instead of horses.
Yours for Health
Lydia E. Parkham
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
is a positive cure for all those painful alliments of women. It will entirely cure the worst forms of Female Complaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration. Falling and Displacements of the Womb and consequent Spinal Weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the Change of Life. Every time it will cure
Backache.
It has cured more cases of Leucorrhea than any other remedy the world has ever known. It is almost infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels Tumors from the Uterus in an early stage of development. That
Bearing-down Feeling.
Bearing-down Feeling, causing pain, weight and headache, is instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. Under all circumstances it acts in harmony with the female system. It corrects
Irregularity.
Suppressed or Painful Menstruation,
Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion,
Bloating, Flooding, Nervous Prostration,
Headache, General Debtility. Also
Dizziness. Faintness.
Dizziness, Faintness, Extreme Lassitude, "don't-care" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feeling, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, fatulency, melancholy or the "blues", and backache. These are sure indications of Female Weakness, some derangement of the Uterus. For
Kidney Complaints
You can write Mrs. Pinkham about yourself in strictest confidence.
LYDIA E. PINKHAM MED. CO., Lynn, Mass.
Drink
Peacock
5¢
IT MAKES YOU PROUD!
ALL SODA FOUNTAINS
DAXTINE
TOILET
ANTISEPTIC
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some. Clean, neat,
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jure anything
them once,
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not kept by dea-
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for 20c. Harold
Somers, 148 DeKalb
Ave., Brooklyn, N. L.
FOR WOMEN
troubled with ill peculiar to their sex, used as a douche is marvelously successful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs, stops discharges, heals inflammation and local pains. Paxine is in powder form to be dissolved in pure water, and is far more cleaning, healing, germicidal and economical than liquid antiseptics for all
TOILET AND WOMEN'S SPECIAL USES
For sale at druggists, 60 cents a box.
Trial Box and Book of instructions Free.
THE N. R. TOWN COMPANY
BOSTON, MASS.
W.N.U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 28 1905.
PISO'S CURE FOR
BREES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS
Bouton's Cure for Use in time, sold by druggists.
CONSUMPTION
[Picture of a man with a hat and glasses].
CATARRH OF STOMACH CURED BY PE-RU-NA.
Miss Genevive May, 1317 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind., Member Second High School Alumni Ass'n, writes:
"Peruna is the finest regulator of a disordered stomach I have ever found. It certainly deserves high praise, for it is skillfully prepared.
"I was in a terrible condition from a neglected case of catarrh of the stomach. My food had long ceased to be of any good and only distressed me after eating. I was nauseated, had heartburn and headaches, and felt run down completely. But in two weeks after I took Peruna I was a changed person. A few bottles of the medicine made a great change, and in three months my stomach was cleared of catarrh, and my entire system in a better condition." - Genevive May.
Write Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio for free medical advice. All corrections held strictly confidential.
If afflicted with
sore eyes, use
Thompson's Eye Water
Truths that
Your grocer is honest and-
you that he knows very litt
sells you. How can he know.
Truths that Strike Home
Your grocer is honest and—if he cares to do so—can tell you that he knows very little about the bulk coffee he sells you. How can he know, where it originally came from.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES
In each package of LION pound of Pure Coffee. Inst (Lion head on every package.) (Save the Lion-heads SOLD BY GROCER
In each package of LION COFFEE you get one full pound of Pure Coffee. Insist upon getting the genuine. (Lion head on every package.)
(Save the Lion-heads for valuable premiums.)
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERF
WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Follow the Flag.
WABASH
WABASH EXCURSIONS EAST
WABASH EXCEL
$26.50 NIAGARA FALLS and
On sale June 16-17-18-19.
$10.00 MILWAUKEE and r
On sale June 16-17-18-19.
$26.90 TORONTO, ONTA
On sale June 18-19-20-21.
$16.00 INDIANAPOLIS and
On sale June 19-20-21-22.
$32.40 ASBURY PARK, N
On sale June 28-29-30 and
$29.75 BALTIMORE and r
On sale July 1-2-3.
$26.50 BUFFALO and retu
On sale July 7-8-9.
$23.90 PITTSBURG and r
On sale August 17-18.
$30.50 PHILADELPHIA and
On sale September 14-15
WABASH saves a day
from Kansas City.
$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.
Where jutting rocks, like warriort
bold,
With might resist the rush
Of foamy crests of silver, old
As nature's primal brush.
I'd like to be a speckled trout
Within some crystal brook,
And every little while peep out
At angler's happy look.
Excited, as with trembling hand
He casts at me a fly
I'd like to see some angier mount
a silicky bowler, rash,
And note the rainbow in the fount
When off he slipped kersplash.
And then again a trout I'd be
A day or so, to try
To teach myself unfallingly
To catch a pesky fly.
I'd like to be a speckled trout
Where mountain creek is cool,
And be enabled once to flout
The soda cup and stool.
Of ice, sparkling foam.—Walter P. Neff in Kansas City Telegram.
Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease.
A powder. it rests the feet. Cures Swolen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Atall Drug-gists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE Address, A S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
A girl is never satisfied until she draws her beau into a knot.
$36.00 per M. Lewis' "Single Binder," straight 5c cigar, costs more than other brands, but this price gives the dealer a fair profit. He smokes a better cigar. Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
It frequently happens that the stingy man is the most liberal in his views.
Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds?
Trouble.
There's a thing you sure can bank on
Roestvensky found it true.
When you go in search of trouble,
Trouble's out in serch of you.
—Kansas City Drovers Telegram
little about the bulk coffee he know, where it originally came from, how it was blended—or with what—or when roasted? If you buy your coffee loose by the pound, how can you expect purity and uniform quality?
LION COFFEE
LION COFFEE, the LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEES, is of necessity uniform in quality, strength and flavor. For OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, LION COFFEE has been the standard coffee in millions of homes.
LION COFFEE is carefully packed at our factories, and until opened in your home, has no chance of being adulterated, or of coming in contact with dust, dirt, germs, or unclean hands.
HUMOUR of the
DAY
Not an Up-to-Date Fairy.
The beautiful lady in the twentieth century fairy tale was about to be married. Adorned with jewels almost as dazzling and costly as those worn by the bride, the good fairy appeared.
"I have come," she said, "to touch you with my magic wand, so that you will live happily ever after."
"It's awfully sweet of you," responded the bride, cordially; "but, don't you know, that wouldn't be at all fashionable now."—Modern Society.
KENTSON LAW CUPHICE
Brown—How's the easiest way to get a divorce?
Smith—Why, all you need is a good lawyer and a wife that wants one.
Monopolized the Talk.
"Are you a foreigner?" asked the lady at the door.
"I be, mum," replied the tramp.
"How long have you been in this country?"
"Oh, t'irty years, mum."
"Thirty years! And can't talk any better than you do?"
"Well, I hain't had a chance, mum. Yer see, I've had a wife nearly all the time, mum!"
Misunderstood Her
"I don't see why you don't want to hitch up with me. I've got the store an' four nice pieces o' property."
"Yes, I know, Hiram, but I don't think it's right for a person to marry jist for property, an'——"
"Wait a minute! Property ain't all I got! What 'ud you think if I wuz to tell you I've got $600 in the bank?" —Detroit Tribune
How Humorous
They were showing us through the conservatory.
"This," said they, "is a specimen of the royal palm of India."
"Very interesting," we chortled, "and have you a specimen of the famous—"
Here we were compelled to chuckle at our own humor—
"The famous itching palm?"
Positively Insulting.
"I know the pumpkin pie was per-jectly insulting, as to the filling." said the landlady, almost crying, "but I don't think he had a right to say what he did."
"What did he say?" asked the second boarder.
"Why, he asked me if I thought the pie couldn't be improved with another coat of paint."
A
Robby—My dear bachelors, matr-
lony is the only thing—comfort, hap-
piness, companionship all in one. You
should try it.
Chorus—And how long have you
been married, Robby?
Robby—Why nearly two weeks.
All Lost.
The doctors were holding a consultation over the case.
"Then we might as well give him up," they remarked, in chorus.
Cheerful Prospect.
"Automobiles, like the sewing ma-
shine, will get cheaper right along."
"Yes; and we can have better funer-
als then."
Washday Sure to Come Do not fall to use RED CROSS BALL BLUE. Do so and you will see your clothes as pretty a white as you have never seen them before. Your grocer sells a large 2-oz. package for only 5 cents. Remember the name and get the genuine
Winter Malaria.
How is it, if malaria is only cause by mosquito bites, that people have malaria in the winter, when there are no mosquitoes? One of the answers to this frequently propounded question is given by Suzuki in the Sei-I-Kwal Medical Journal (xxiii., 1904). He states that the anopheles mosquito may hibernate during the winter, and can survive a temperature of 7 degrass C. Between January 20 and April 1 he collected 186 mosquitoes, all females. On March 8 he allowed himself to be bitten by several of them. Symptoms of malaria developed on March 24, and a microscopic examination of his blood on April 1 revealed great number of malaria parasites.
Disinfecting the Confessional
On the advice of the Mexican board of health, the government has issued an order for the daily disinfection of confessionalis in all the churches of the capital. Priests neglecting the order are subject to fine and imprisonment. According to the health board, the confessional may be an active means of spreading contagious and infectious diseases, and its purification is very important in controlling epidemics. The same disinfection order has been issued in Gaudalalajaro, and will be put into effect throughout the entire republic.
It is easier to get into public life than to stay there.
Of Wide Interest.
Breed, Wis., June 26.—Special—Chas, Y. Peterson, Justice of the Peace for Oconto Co., has delivered a judgment that is of interest to the whole United States. Put briefly, that judgment is, "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best Kidney medicine on the market to-day."
And Mr. Peterson gives his reason for this judgment. He says: "Last winter I had an aching pain in my back which troubled me very much. In the morning I could hardly straighten my back. I did not know what it was but an advertisement led me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. After taking one box I can only say they have done more for me than expected as I feel as well now as ever I did before."
Pain in the back is one of the first symptoms of Kidney disease. If not cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills it may develop into Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Rheumatism or some of the other deadly forms of Kidney Disease.
I wonder why it is that "good Christian women" always wear such stunning clothes?
USE THE FAMOUS
Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind.
A loafer is a man who loafs and has no bank account.
Church Trustees
should investigate Acetylene Gas. See
ad of Acetylene Aparatus Mfg. Co. in
this paper.
It is a mighty poor excuse for a man
that can't convince some woman that
he is the wisest and best on earth.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces
inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. Soa bottle
It is easier to start a rumor than it
is to head it off.
Mrs. J. H. Giles, Everett, Pa. Suffered
years with kidney and gravel trouble. Curled
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, Rondout, N.Y. $1.00.
When a man can support his family
it is a sign he is no genius.
900 DROPS
CASTORIA
AVegetable Preparation for Ass-
similating the Food and Regula-
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Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC.
Recipe of Old D. SANUEL PITCHER
Pumpkin Seed -
Alc. Stones -
Rockall Salts -
Amine Soil -
Applesauce -
Di Carbonate Salts -
Worm Seed -
Clarified Sugar
Milkgranular Flavor.
Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP.
Fac Simile Signature of
G. H. PITCHER
NEW YORK.
EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER.
Washday
Do not fail to use RED CROSS BA
never seen them before. Your grocer se
Make Your Own Gas
More Converts
Every Year
Every day in every year that comes, more housewives are giving up their exhorbitant priced Baking Powders and turning to KC, the honest and reliable, which has stood so well the test of years. They are finding out that
KC BAKING POWDER
costs one-third the price of powder anywhere near KC quality, and makes better, purer, more healthful baking. 25 ounces for 25c.
Send postal for "Book of Presents."
JAQUES MFG. CO.
Chicago, Ill.
"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 years, 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
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ST. LOUIS
PILES
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CASTORIA
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend.
The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years.
Any country home, store, hotel, church or building can be as brilliantly and conveniently lighted as a city house. Acetylene Gas is cheaper than kerosene, brighter than electricity, safer than either.
COFFEE MACHINE
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Automatic Generators
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157 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.