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. BEWARE THE EASY SHELTER. Refuge There an Important Step To- ward Old Age. The Wit of Woman. Women are the inheritors of the old- est, most universal human wisdom. The sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Allie Blakely formerly of this city. but now of Los Angeles Cal. The re- mans will doubtless body rest with this. Size of Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was not such a great city as some have supposed, ac- cording to H. W. H. C. Publication Notice. In the District Court The kansas City Ka- Soap Company 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 silks 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 no 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 happened. 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 moriterity they gained and abandoned poker entirely. For many years now there has not been enough poker in the capital to hang a story on. Earthly Glory Hobson had glory — He isn't living now; There's wonder in his story — He's living now; Oscar mounted pretty high; Charlemagne was proud and great; States of England, my, O, my! He was French king, too; There was French King Louis, too; Two had nothing much to do Here be gay the seasons through — They're not living now! There is much regretting of men who live to-day; They want to be getting, the men who live to-day; They look across the past and mourn, The bend to labor and are sad; They want that they might have been born. Things such as some ancients had; but better it seems to me, that having interest is great; And being dust, it is to be Up and round to-day. E. K. Eiser, in Chicago Record-Herald Food for Japanese Soldiers 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 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. 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 day', 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 forget his annoyance in his astonishment. A Sickly Joke Hereafter the preachers of Atchison will be required to diagram their jobs and give plans and specifications for their long range figures of spéech, 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 go hell. The Wit of Woman. Women are the inheritors of the oldest, most universal human wisdom. They have more sense than men, for the simple reason that a man has to be a specialist, and a specialist has to be a fanatic. The normal man all over the world is a hunter or a fisher or a banker or a man of letters or some silly thing. If so, he has to be a wise hunter or a wise banker. But nobody-with the smallest knowledge of professional life would ever expect him to be a wise man. But his wife has to be a wise woman. She has to have an eye on everything.-G. K. Chesterton in the London Daily News. Indian Remedy for Coughs A decoction of cherry bark and spruce bark, boiled and strained, is an old Indian remedy for coughs, which has been largely sold under various names for years by venders of patent medicines. The white trapper nowadays dissolves spruce gum in alcohol, adds a certain proportion of the spirits to the bark mixture and sweetens the whole with maple sugar. Perhaps the most experienced chemist could not prepare a better cough syrup than this makes. Shylock's Prized Turquoise We all remember reading of poor Shylock's despair and indignation upon learning that his turquise ring had been exchanged by the gay young Jessica for a chattering monkey, when he tells us: "It was my turquise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor; I would not have given it for a wilderness, of monkeys." Which passage shows the antiquity of the turquise as a love-pledge. Sleeper's Real Offense An eccentric minister caused some surprise one Sunday by declaring that he did not in the least object to people sleeping while he was preaching. A few minutes later he and his hearers were disturbed by the loud snoring of a man just below the pulpit. "Give him a tap on the head," said the minister. This was done, ineffectually, "Give him another," came the order again. Still the man slumbered. But at length by dint of much tapping and shaking, he was recalled into abashed consciousness. "You are making a wretched noise," roared the minister, leaning over the pulpit edge. "I don't mind your sleeping, but you are preventing other people from sleeping!" Selects Wife's Toilets It is a common thing in Paris for a man to accompany his wife to the dressmaker's. The young wife who has known no gayer attire than the coming-out gown of the jesire fille needs careful advice as to her toilets, and her husband, if he be a certain type of man of the world, knows how to give it. Japanese Swords Best. The sword makers of Toledo and Damascus have been reputed to be the world's most famous artisans in this industry, but in Japan the swordsmiths turn out weapons whose blades are fully as green and as hard and composed of metal of as fine quality as those of the old swordsmiths. Superstitious Criminals. All criminals are great believers in dreams. Some time ago, at Manchester, a daring thief awaiting trial told a warder he had dreamed that he had seen a rainbow. From this he deduced that he would be acquitted at his trial. To everyone's surprise he was. Hunting in Japan. The Japanese, always keen sportsmen, used to take most of their game with goshawks and sparrow hawks. The only dogs they used were spaniels, which flushed the game. But now they are taking to dogs, and many good animals are being imported from England. Liquefies Illuminating Gas. A German chemist named Blau has succeeded in liquefying illuminating gas. In that form it gives a good light, which is useful in country houses, railway trains, etc. It costs more than ordinary coal gas, but less than electric light. Rich English Counties. Lancashire, England, is the next richest county to London. It is rated at £24,000,000, against London's £43,500,000. Largest Deposits of Nickel The largest deposits of nickel are on the island of New Caledonia, a French possession in the South Pacific. Women Carry Mails Many of the rural letter carriers in the Tyrol are women. The sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Allie Blakely formerly of this city, but now of Los-Angeles Cal. The remains will doubtless be brought to this city for buiral. Mrs. King of Sherman ave, who died last week was buried to day from the C. M. E. Church, Mrs. King is the mother of Mrs. H. Williams, The remains were to be shiped to Mississippi owing to yellow fever it was abanded. Among our Pedagogues We notice Prof. J. J. Lewis is the only one who as Principal has signed a contract. Prof. Lewis is one of those commedable meu who makes an effort in teaching the young how to shoot, He is our best public school teacher. Mr. I. B. Blackburn the foreman of the Sewer department crewis demonstrating that he is the real thing wherever found Mr. Blackburn is one of the tried true Negro citizens of our community. So long as one man owns the jobs other men must be his slaves Since 1850 crimes in the United States has increased 600 per cent and insanity 700 per cent The funeral services of Wheeler of 333 Minnesota ave, where held from King Solomon Baptist church Rev. H. H. Gordon afficiating Mr. wheeler has been ill foi some months. Good board nice clean rooms at Mrs. Thompson 1107 North 5th street, only one and a half block to either of the three Car lines in this city, prices reasonable. Larks Grove at the end of Quindaro Boulevard is now under the control of some of our leading citizens and is open every Saturday and Sunday; there is no better place in the two Kansas cities for those who desires to spend a few hours of enjoyment than at this beautiful Grove. Leaves have their time to fall and flowers to wither from the North Winds breath, but Death O.' Death has all seasons for thine own. In the midst of life we are in death and in moments when least expected like a hunger tiger leaps upon its prey without a moments warning. Mrs. Hannah Jones of macon City, Mo. who had reached the ripe old age of 64 in the explosion of a lamp was burned to death at the above named city For 40 years she had lived in this quiet little Burge, thus becoming a familiar figure and the esteemed friend of many. The sad taking off of of this beloved lady was the cause of much sorrow among the many who knew her lost to loose her. For a quarter of century she has been a consistent and active member of the First Baptist Church there where she never tired in laboring for a better cause. She was also a member of the S. M. T's under whose auspices the funeral was held. Mr. B. S. Jorge, a patrolman is a son of the deceased. Mrs. Ben, Tilery and Mrs. Wm Patrick were Daughters all of whom have our deepest sympathy in the sad realization of the loss of a mother. Her remains was interred at Jacksonville Mo. where the rustling leaves and the song of birds will disturb not her sleep. Our sympathy goes out to the bereaved husband and little grand children. We commend them all to Him who doeth all things well. 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, must, on or before the 31st day of July, 1905, answer the petition filed by the plain- tiff 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 16th First Use of Bayonet The bayonet was first used by the French in 1671. It was first made in Bayonne, France, and was considered a very deadly weapon. The British army quickly copied it, and other nations promptly followed suit. All the officers and stockholders of a bank in the Creek nation are negroes. English Paupers Costly. England's expenditure on paupers is rising at the rate of $1,400,000 a year. 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." THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY KANSAS. Henry Jrockson assignee Plaintiff, of D. W. White No. 6890 PUBLICATION NOTICE. Mary King, defendant, you will take notice that the said Henry Jackson, the plaintiff above name did, on the first day of July 1905, file his petition in the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County and State above named, against Mary King, the defendant above named, and that the said Mary King must answer said petition filed herein as aforesaid, on or before the 17th day of August, 1905, or said petition will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered in said action against you, the said Mary King, for the sum of $50.00, with interest thereon at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from the 28th day of December, 1905; said amount being 'five promissory Nots. made, executed and delivered to one D. W. White, for ten dollars each, payable in one. Two. Three. Four. and Five months respectively after date thereof with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent per annum from date until paid. Said Notes was sold, transferred and indented to this plaintiff, for a valuable consideration And unless you answer as aforesaid, judgement will be rendered for said amount, and for costs. Dorsey Green atty. for Plaintiff. attest; J. L. Baggs Clerk. first pub. July 7th 1905. Sugar a Universal Need. "Sugar has modified the history of Europe and of the world in more ways than one," says a writer. "Used four centuries ago, almost exclusively in the preparation of medicines, and long afterward an article of luxury only accessible to the rich, it has by enlarged production and cheapened manufacture been brought within the reach of all. The universal use of this practically pure carbohydrate, which is not only a freely burning fuel and proteid sparer, but a muscle food, increasing the power of doing work and lessening fatigue, must have had widespread and beneficial effects on the general health. Especially in the case of children, whose greed of sugar is the expression of a physiological want, has that food been valuable in conducting to growth, contentment and well-being." 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 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 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曼曼 Court, Wherein Mary Darkis is Plaintiff, and William darkis is Deiendant, 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 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. ewis 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 defend, 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 n the town of Quidaro 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 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 Cis steirs 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 mountainneer 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 23,394 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 Kansa Soap Company. is the name of a new Stock Company with a 2,000 capitul stock recentley 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 kno wn 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 testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid. Dated the 21 day of March 1905. Now all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. CORVINE PATTerson Executor of the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon deceased. Dated March 21 1905. First Published 24 1905. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In the District Court of Wyandotte county State of Kansas. 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 youdem ur, answer or otherwise object on or before the 30th day of January 1905, the allegations therein will be taken as true and upon further proof thereof judgement will be rendered as prayed for in said petition. JOHNSON and TOOLE. Attys. for Plaintiff. Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D. C. McCombs, Deputy. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE STATE OF KANSAS IN THE PROBAT COURT IN AND SEFORSAID COUNTY in 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, the 6th day of February A. D. 1905. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from any befit of such Estate; and that if such claims are 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 unpublished Feb. 14, 1905. Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas In the Probate County of Wyandotte 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 Deceased. In Witness Whercof, the undersigned, Pro bate Judge in and for the county of Wyon dotte. State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Probate Court this 20th day of January A. D. 1905 Winfield Freeman Japanese Farming The ingenuity of the farming in Japan may be inferred from the fact that the 45,000,000 inhabitants live almost entirely on the productions of a cultivated area about one-third the size of Illinois. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. FUBISHED 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 lx Months,.....65 cents Three Months,.....40.0 ne Month.....15.0 Advertiseing 25 cts. Per Inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Add' for 3 Months or longer 150 per inch, each insertion. Entered as second class matter December first, 1904 at the Post office at Kansas City, Kansas under the Act of congress of March rd. 1679. A French professor is the owner of a collection of 920 human heads, representing every known race of people. Scarlet for Bachelor Maids. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery of the coachman are all scarlet. Cost of London's Paupers. Every year $4,000,000 is spent on the food and clothing of indoor paupers in London. Here is the Place. J T. ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINNESOTA AVENUE. Call and see H.S. Sykes and and A. Gooden manufacturer of Pop corn in ball and brick at 316 Oakland ave A Word To You. The lack of proper appreciation of the efforts of Negro newspapers make in an uphill business to maintain the standard of excellence desired by those in the business. Just why the race is so utterly slack, in giving to their own the proper patronage is one of the unsolved mysteries. Each day and week bring to us the 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 builished in their behalf, just one year, the results would be unbelieved we ask the colorad brother to wake upook 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 Kennesaw County of Wyndcott 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 the next regular term of the Probate Court for aforesaid County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyndcott 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. 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 Office Houro: From 10 A. M., till 4 p. m. and from 6 till 9 P. M., C.H.C. JORDAN M.M.M.D. Reaching the 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 EXAMFLE. Storekeeper Certainly Lacked the Gift of Energy. William C. Greene, the copper magate, was talking to a young man about success. "The secret of success is enterprise, energy," said Col. Greene. "To be lazy, to stick always in the same old rut, that is how to make a wretched failure of your life. "I went West when I was 17, and after a spell of contracting and prospecting about Prescott, I farmed a 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 armpund to study him. He was valuable as a horrible example. "There,' they would say to the youngsters, 'take warning by Manners. He is a failure. He has no enterprise. Don't grow up like him. He resembles a tortoise, doesn't he?' "Poor Manners in his sluggishness did resemble a tortoise a good deal. I sent a boy in to him one day with a pack mule to get five gallons of molasses. The boy told me afterward that when he entered the store Manners was dozing. The boy coughed and the man awoke and got up. He opened his mouth wide, and stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arms in a vast yawn. Then he said to the boy: "Wotcha want?' "Five gallons of molasses, Mr. Manners,' the boy spoke up, sharp and quick." "Wah-h-h-h,' yawned Manners again. Then as he took up the jug he grumbled: "Ain't there nobody what sells mollasses in this here town but me?" PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toilet that would quite astonish the most fashionable society lady. First she has her hair dressed by her maid, who, after anointing the long, silky black locks with a little oil, made from aloe wood or cocoanut, arranges it simply in a long, smooth plait, low on the nape of the neck, and decorated either with gold or jewelled ornaments. Next the bath is prepared as hot as it can be borne, and in this the lady may stay as long as two or three hours. Soaps are not used, but, instead, there are multifarious unguents, secret preparations of the bathing women, which render the skin soft as velvet and delicately perfumed. Oftentimes the face is washed over with milk, 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 use on a handkerchief. The Foam on the Top 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 will think you will note as you jour- ney long That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear youth, But it is not. But look on the world as you go. See the men whom we place at the sum- mary in it. Then gaze on the mortals below, And I give you my word I'll have noth- ing 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?" 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 wail; to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melodrama was being presented. The heroine of the play, pursued by the villain, had taken refuge in the house of her lover, who, as the hero of the play, was of course, at variance with his sweetheart's parents. The exigencies of the plot required that the irate father, sword in hand and at the head of his faithful retainers, should track the girl to the gates of the hero's treacherous and disgraceful elopement, enter the room where the scared heroine had been secreted under the table. "Wretch!" cried the furious father, "your life shall answer for this. I demand my child. Where is she." Then, shrill and startling in the expectant silence, from the gallery came the answer: "Unner the table, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stickin' oot" The house was in a tumult of merriment in a moment, but it was the "angry father" himself, who ruined the situation, for he burst into immoderate laughter and the curtain fell in the middle of the act, to rise again upon an audience that could not repress its risibles for the rest of the evening. HE WANTED A MORTGAGE. Swede's Experience With a Deed Had Taught Him Caution. Halvor Steenerson, Congressman from Minnesota, tells a story of a Swede who went to that state from one of the Dakotas for the purpose of buying a farm. A land agent acted as guide and informant to the Swede, who eventually found what he wanted. When the time came to make out the necessary papers, the agent asked the Swede what method he preferred to adopt in making payments. "Ay pay all. Ay haf da money," replied the Swede. "Very well, then. I'll make out the deed," said the agent. "No!" suddenly exclaimed the Swede. "Ay no want deed!" 'Why, yes, you do!" rejoined the agent, astonished. "You pay the money and you take a deed for the farm." "No, no!" earnestly asseverated the Swede. "Ay no want deed! Ay had deed oop in 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 underst. nd, 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 chickades And keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word Is werbled when the grobeskens 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 Equipa Ambulance For Sick On Short Notice. Cha 431 Minnesota. 'Ave No Nice F ROOM AN At$3.25 e Corner of sece 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 GIVETHEMYOU One trial of their brand th convince you RESTA T. B, Raym GENERAL DIRECTOR Palmer The Very Best of Service, for All Purpose. At All Hours. Best Equiped White E ance For Sick and wou short Notice. Charges Reasonable Minnesota, 'Ave. | Kansas City,' Notice. Notice Furrish BOOM AND BOARD At$3.25 per week the Corner of second and Delaware ale Kansas. And in a good loca ear service. You will get best of tre S. E, L, SMITH PROPRIETRE KASAS CITY SOAP 1510 N, 4th St. factors of the Best Grades of Toile ing Soaps. A Home Institution THEMYOUR PATRO of their brand the Snowflake and convince you of their merits. RESTAURANT W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR. And, Embalmer The Very Best of Service, Fine Carriages For All Purpose. At All Hours. On Short Notice. Charges Reasonable Call At 431 Minnesota. Ave. Kansas City, Kansas. Notice. Nice Furrished ROOM AND BOARD AT At$3.25 per week e Corner of second and]Deleware streets in Armourdale Kansas. And in a good location]2017in to street car service. You will get best of treatment. MRS. E, L, SMITH PROPRIETRESS, KANSAS CITY SOAP CO. Are Manufactors of the Best Grades of Toilet & Washing Soaps. A Home Institution. One trial of their brand the Snowflake and Union will convince you of their merits. RESTAURANT 1012 N 3rd St. Is the best place in the city a.m. to 11 p.m. every thing MEALS 1 Mrs. Thatcher the property and will please you, give NESS STRICTLY CONFILTIAL. Money on Watches. CLOTHING AND Of Watches and Jewelry AT CASH Unclaim Pledges FINE WATCHES AND J Union Lo 427 Minnesota av YOUR OPP place in the city and will serve you o. m, every thing is cooked to taste MEALS 15 CENTS, Thatcher the prop, is one of the best will please you, give her a call. STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. J. H. COPEN, PRO Money to Loan Watches. Diamonds Je CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING Of Value Watches and Jewelry Sold on Paym AT CASH PRICES. Claim Pledges For Sale C WE WATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRING Union Loan Office Minnesota ave. kansas city EUROPPORTUN 1s the best place in the city and will serve you from 5,30 a.m, to 11 p.m, every thing is cooked to taste, MEALS 15 CENTS, Mrs. Thatcher the prop, is one of the best cooks in the city and will please you, give her a call. NESS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. J. H. CEFN, PROPRIETOR. Money to Loan on Watches. Diamonds Jewelry. CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING Of Value 0000000000 Watches and Jewelry Sold on Payments AT CASH PRICES. 427 Minnesota ave. kansas city. kans. YOUROPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY. Ladies suits, dressing sacques, aprons and in fact anything in the Dressmaking line. MADE TO ORDER and sold on weekly and m few prices: Belt dresses $1. 50cts and up. Call and see Mrs W. F. in weekly and monthly payments. Belt dresses $1.00 and up; dressing up. Call and see me. 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. Very few are left in a wild state in India and Assam, and unless special measures be taken for their preservation they will soon disappear. --- Telephone Home W.32 Raymond DIRECTOR. Best of Service, Fine Carri All Hours. Red White Enameled Risk and wounded ages Reasonable Call At Kansas City, Kansas. Notice. Uprished BOARD AT per week and Delaware streets in a good location will get best of treatment. TH PROPRIETRESS, CITY SOAP CO. , 4th St. First Grades of Toilet & Wash Home Institution. UR PATRONAGE The Snowflake and Union will of their merits. URANT and will serve you from 5,32 is cooked to taste, 55 CENTS, is one of the best cooks in the ve her a call. J. H. CLEIN, PROPRIETOR. to Loan Diamonds Jewelry. AND EVERYTHING Value 000000000 ry Sold on Payments PRICES. For Sale Cheap. JEWELRY REPAIRING. Loan Office. e. kansas city. kans. ORTUNITY monthly payments. Here is a 00 and up; dressing sacques me. Williams, Kansas City, Kansas MME: L, F. JOHNSON, Shampooing, Manicuring, Massage and Scalp Treatment. Tel.733 W. A SPECIALT Duplex Telegraphy in Europe. The telegraph line from Vienna to Ozernowitz 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 puposes, 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. Forgetmentes were pai ted down the side, and at one end 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 ars chance of the poisonous princij 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. 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 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. 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 grape and make wine free from alcohol, which is sold to the natives. Irish Ledger in Court A leger kept in the Irish language was produced at the Roscommon Assizes, in Ireland, and the witness had to go on the bench to translate the terms for the judge. Gravity. An observing schoolboy wrote this short essay: "Gravity was discovered by Izaak Walton. It is childlike noticeable when the apples are falling from the trees." Novices Leave Convent. Stealing the front door key from the pocket of the mother superior, three young novices escaped from the convent of Santa Clara in Lisbon and 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 no enough gold out of the earth, if it were all coloned, to transact the business of a day. Nationalities Among Russians. The Russian population represents 110 nationalities, the three great stock being Finns, Tartars and Slavs. Aluminum for Sharpening Cutlery. Aluminum is superior to any store for sharpening cutlery. Denmark's Honey Experts. Denmark exports 2,500,000 pounds of honey a year. Thousands of Women Success of Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Rests Upon the Fact that if Really Does Make Sick Women Well Thousands upon thousands of American women have been restored to health by Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Their letters are on file in Mrs. Pinkham's office, and prove this statement to be a fact and not a mere boast. Overshadowing indeed is the success of this great medicine, and compared with it all other medicines and treatment for women are experiments. Why has Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound accomplished its widespread results for good? Why has it lived and thrived and done its glorious work for a quarter of a century? Simply and surely because of its sterling worth. The reason no other medicine has even approached its success is plainly and positively because there is no other medicine in the world so good for women'sills. The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not because it is a stimulant—not because it is a palliative, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and constructor ever discovered to act directly upon the uterine system, positively curing disease and displacements and restoring health and vigor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country by women who have been cured, trained nurses who have witnessed cures, and physicians who have recognized the virtue in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared to be frank and open, hundreds of them would acknowledge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in severe cases of female ills, as they know by experience that it will effect a cure. Women who are troubled with painful or irregular menstruation, backache, bloating (or flatulence), leucorrhoea, falling, inflammation or ulceration of the uterus, ovarian troubles, that "bearing-down" feeling, dizziness, faintness, indigestion, nervous prostration, or the blues, should take immediate action to ward off the serious consequences and be restored to health and strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Anyway, write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for advice. It's free and always helpful. Mary who formerly smoked 10 Cigars now smoke LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5 CIGAR Your jobber or direct from Factory, Pearls, 11 COLUMBIA BUSINESS COLLEGE. Seventh year under same principal. Located near the State University. Thorough and up-to-date curriculum. In-depth study in bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Banking, Peanmunology, etc. Dormitory for young women; reasonable tuition. Our 60-page catalogue free. SED M. BEASLEY, 100 Cherry St, Columbia, Mo. Also coowner of Columbia Normal Academy located in the same city. DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U. S. B. Pension Bureau 17th in 1911 war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since. The man who achieves his ideals is to be pitied. GRATEFUL TO CUTICURA For Instant Relief and Speedy Cure of Raw and Scaly Humour, itching Day and Night—Suffered I wish you would publish this letter so that others suffering as I have may be helped. For months awful sorces covered my face and neck, scabs forming, itching terribly day and night, breaking open, and running blood and matter. I had tried many remedies, but was growing worse, when I started with Cuticura. The first application gave me instant relief, and when I had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, I was completely cured. (signed) Miss Nellie Vander Wiele, Lakeside, N. Y." Those who talk most of ancestry usually do least for posterity. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch. it will keep them white 10 oz. for 10 cents. People should at least make a bluff at believing everything they say. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. A father's example is very apt to putweigh a aonther's advice. Every person thinking of visiting the U.S. Indian reservation in eastern Utah, to be married for settlement August 28th, should have Homesteading Guide and national map. It tells everything sent postpaid for 50c. Address W. H. Emerson, 200 11th St., Denver, Colorado. We would all be reformers if results were sure on the morrow. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. Giving a little is better than wishing you could give a great deal. balance and get the best, 15 on. for 10 teams. Once used, always used. A friend in need always has a hard- back story on tap. 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. G. Fruit Book. Cheap round trip homesteekers tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of each month. The short line to the "Land of Fulfillment." HUMOUR of the DAY Resemblances. Wiggins—Speaking of facial characteristics, do you know that I was once taken for President Roosevelt? Biggins—And a man once took me for the Kaiser. Diggins—That's nothing; a few weeks ago an old school chum of mine stepped up to me on the street and remarked, "Holy Moses, is that you!" Recipe Failed "Little appropriate gifts from time to time will draw your husband nearer to you." "No, they won't. I gave my husband a box of cigars, and——" "Well?" "Well, they didn't draw, that's all." Five Dollars Missing. Teacher—How many bones. are there? Bright Boy—Five. Teacher—Where did you get that idea? Bright Boy—From my father: he said this morning that mother took five bones out of his pocket last night, and that they were all that he had. Her Insinuation: Miss Pechis—I accepted Mr. Roxley last night. Miss Chellus—Indeed? Weren't you nervous? Miss Pechis—Nervous? No, why? Miss Chellus—I should think the suspense would have been so terrible while you were waiting for his answer. Said the Right Thing. Mother—Why did you let him kiss you? Edith—Well, he was so nice about it. He asked— Mother—The idea! Haven't I told you you must learn to say "no?" Edith—That's what I did say. He asked me if I'd be very angry if he kissed me. Relatively not so Rich. First Millionaire—I'm poorer now than I was ten years ago. Second Millionaire—Nonsense! You are worth $2,000,000 now and you were only worth $1,000,000 then. "Yes. But $1,000,000 was a bigger fortune then than $2,000,000 is now." —Life. "The defeated crew's captain claims they would have beaten you if they hadn't caught so many crabs," remarked the spectator. "Hugh!!" snorted the captain of the victorious varsity eight. "I don't believe there ever was a crab slow enough for them to catch." Municipal Ownership Church—Do you believe in municipal ownership. Gotham—No; I think it just as well to leave it as it is, and let the aldermen own the city.—Yonkers Statesman. What She Had "Did his wife have anything when he married her?" "Three children. You knew she was a widow, didn't you?" A Hot Touch. PRINCESS WINS!!! McJigger—That was an odd state nent you made a minute ago. Thingumbob—what was it? McJigger—Youf said you never had any trouble keeping your wife fash- onably dressed. Thingumbob—That's the truth. My trouble comes when I don't keep her fressed. Sure Sign. "What makes you think so?" asked he other. "He asked me today how much I was worth." His Little Joke. "Be careful of my wigs, please," moaned the actress, as the sheriff proceeded to cart away her personal effects. "Ye needn't worry, miss," responded that official, paraphrasing, an ancient saying, "I wouldn't harm a head of yer hair." But for the crop of fool men in the world whom other people have left with money the supply of washerwomen might grow to exceed the demand. THE PLAYWRIGHT-STAR Odette Tyler, Famous Actress, Values Doan's Kidney Pills. Miss Odette Tyler is not only one of the best known dramatic stars in America, but has written and produced a successful play of her own. Miss Tyler has written the following grateful note, expressing her appreciation of Doan's Kidney Pills: Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Odetta Tyler Gentlemen:—My experience with your valuable remedy has been equally gratifying to both myself and friends. (Signed) ODETTE TYLER. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents per box. Mr. Geering—Where is that French chauffeur that you had last summer? Mr. Sparker—He went back to Ireland. To meet a hearse is a sure sign of death. A live man never rides around in a hearse. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nerveness after first use. Send for FREE $2.90 30 bottle and treaties. Send for FREE $8.90 30 bottle and treaties. The Battle. The shifty pug Prepared to slug The rugged mug Of the other pug, But the latter dug His fist kerchug In the visage smug Of the shifty pug, Who gave a shrug And essayed to hug The other pug In an embrace snug; But the other pug With a mighty tug Proceeded to plug The shifty pug With the fighting bug Right to the rug. He gasped, "gug-gug"— They gave him a drug And proceeded to lug The conquering pug Off to the jug. Brooklyn Life: She—After six weeks of married life,Arthur, I have reached the sad certainty that you do not love me. Arthur—My dear! She—It's no use protesting; you should have married some, credulous, stupid girl. Arthur—Well, darling, I did my best. Nell—"How could she ever fall in love with a man who wears such loud clothes?" Belle—"You know they say love is blind," Nell—"But I never heard that love was deaf." If I didn't have anything else against the Japanese I would like to see them licked measure they introduced the Kimona into this country. ME TOO The "Tall Enders" That Follow Genuine Articles. It is sometimes interesting to watch the curves imitators make to get the public to buy imitations of genuine goods. Every now and then some one will think there is a splendid opening to fix up something like Postum Coffee and advertise the same way and take some of the business. An imitator is naturally ignorant of food values and how to skilfully make a cereal coffee, on scientific lines. Such men first think of preparing something that looks and tastes like the original, with no knowledge of how the grains should be treated to prepare them so that the starchy part is transformed properly and the valuable nourishing elements made digestible. Such imitations may be foisted on the public for a short time, but the people are critical and soon detect the attempt, then the imitators go out of business. Something like 400 of these little factories have been started in various parts of this country in the past 9 years, and practically all of them have gone the "long journey." Just lately a new one has come to life and evidently hopes to insert itself in public favor by copying the style of the Postm advertising in the papers. This is a free country and every man who makes an honest product and honestly labels it has reason for some recognition, but the public has the right to know the facts. Postum is the one original and genuine Cereal Coffee, made skillfully and for a definite purpose. It has stood through all the wars of the imitators, has won the approval of the Physicians and the people. People who really seek to free themselves from the coffee habit and at the same time to rebuild the soft gray matter in the nerve centers, and thus reconstruct the nervous system, broken down by coffee, can rely on Postum. There's a reason. Woman's War. McFibb~Your wife seems to be quite industrious. Sleeth~You bet your life she is. She's busy from morning until night hunting up odd jobs about the house for me to do. It makes a man feel like a criminal to think how the $2 box of candy he is taking home have bought eight rare cigars of some to the world. An old bachelor says that a fool and his money are soon wedded. NO MORE HEADACHE GENERAL WEAKNESS AND FEVER DISAPPEAR TOO. How a Woman Was Freed from Troubles That Had Made Life Wretched for Many Years. The immediate causes of headaches vary, but most of them come from poor or poisoned blood. In anemia the blood is scanty or thin; the nerves are imperfectly nourished and pain is the way in which they express their weakness. In colds the blood absorbs poison from the mucous surfaces, and the poison irritates the nerves and produces pain. In rheumatism, malaria and the grip, the poison in the blood produces like discomfort. In indigestion the gases from the impure matter kept in the system affect the blood in the same way. The ordinary headache-cures at best give only temporary relief. They deaden the pain but do not drive the poison out of the blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills on the contrary thoroughly renew the blood and the pain disappears permanently. Women in particular have found these pills an unfailing relief in headaches caused by anemia. Miss Stella Blocker recently said: "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did me a great deal of good. I had headache nearly all the time. After I had taken three boxes of these pills I became entirely well." "How long had you suffered?" she was asked. "For several years. I can't tell the exact date when my illness began for it came on by slow degrees. I had been going down hill for many years." "Did you have any other aliments?" "I was very weak and sometimes I had fever. My liver and kidneys were affected as well as my head." "How did you come to take the remedy that cured you?" "I saw in a southern newspaper a statement of some person who was cured of a like trouble by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. My physician hadn't done me any good, so I bought a box of these pills. After I had taken one box I felt so much better that I kept on until I became entirely well." Miss Blocker's home is at Leander, Louisiana. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists. Besides headache they cure neuralgia, sciatica, nervous prostration, partial paralysis and rheumatism. Gossips tongues find inspiration in listeners ears. Over one million acres of land in the Uintah Indian reservation will be thrown open for settlement August 28th. Registration begins August 1st, at Grand Junction, Colorado, continuation will August 12. From Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, the Colorado Midland is the shortest route to Grand Junction or reservation to H. Speers, G. P. Denver, for bucket, information regarding land, rates, etc. Disease causes almost as many wrinkles as fashion. 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 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. However, the early boom doesn't all ways catch the nomination. "Dr. David Keenedy's Favorite Remedy gave me prompt and complete relief from dyspepsia and liver derangement." B. T. Trowbridge, Harlem K.R. N.Y. There are as many ways to win a women's heart as there are women. Do You Know That death may lurk in your walls? In the rotting paste under wall paper; in the decaying glue or other animal matter in hot water kalmines (bearing fanciful names)? Use nothing but Alabastine THE SANITARY WALLCOATING Destroys disease germs and vermin. A Rock Cement in white and delicate tints. Does not rub or scale. You can brush it on-mix with cold water. Exquisitely beautiful effects produced. Other finishes, mixed with either hot or cold water, do not have the cementing property of Alabastine. They are stack on with glue, or other animal matter which rots, feeding disease germs, rubbing, scaling, and spoiling walls, clothing, etc. Buy Alabastine only in five pound packages, properly labeled. Tint card, pretty wall and ceiling design, "Hints on Decorating" and our artists' services in making color plans, free. PISO'S CURE FOR GENERES WHERE ALL ELSE FAIL Dentals WHERE ALL ELSE FAIL Use in time, hold by drugs. CONSUMPTION PALACES OF THE SULTAN. They Bring to Stranger's Mind a Vision of Arabian Nights. In spite of the extreme lack of architectural beauty, there is a certain picturesqueness and softness in the Constantinopie street scene which forms a pleasing background to the stately palaces of the sultan, says A. Maundeville in the Era Magazine. Perhaps it is merely the contrast between the dingy wood-colored houses of the people and the pure white marble or gilded stucco of the royal buildings which bring to the stranger's mind a vision of enchanted palaces of the "Arabian Nights." The soft tints of shade, the wavering reflections in the Bosporous, the fancy that a pair of black, dreamy eyes may be looking out through the lattice windows, the charm of the mysterious, the horror of the tragedies which rumor says have been enacted within the palace walls, the curiosity to know if there is really a trap-door and just how beautiful was the Circassian slave girl who lost the favor of her imperial master and suddenly disappeared in the dark subterranean stream connecting with the Bosporous, and a thousand other fancies tend to enhance the vision. And the architect may tell you that the palaces have not the proper proportions, that the details do not harmonize with the size or form, that there are hundreds of private houses in America more magnificent, more durable, of better architectural design and with finer surroundings; but in spite of it all the palaces of the sultan have an irresistible charm which wraps the stranger in intense admiration and always remains with the old resident at the Turkish capital. FIRES THAT NEVER GO OUT. Heartths in England Have Been Kept Glowing for Centuries. There are domestic fires burning in Yorkshire, England, to-day which have never been out for hundreds of years. At the old-fashioned farmhouses in the dales of Yorkshire peat is still burned. The fuel is obtained from the moors and stacks of it are kept by the farmers in their stack garths. The country round is noted for its "griddle cakes," which are made from dough baked in quaint pans suspended over the pea fires. These fires are kept glowing from generation to generation and the son warms himself at the fire which warmed his sire and his grandsire and his grandsire's sires and which will warm his son and his son's son. There is a fire at Castleton in the Whitby district which has been burning for over 200 years. The record probably is held by a farmhouse at Osmotherly, in the same district. This fire has been burning for 500 years, and there are records to show that it has not been out during the last three centuries. Definite Directions. Where time is not money, ideas of distance are always uncertain and frequently confusing. "About how far is it to Gourdville?" asked a stranger of a North Carolinian, who sat on the veranda, holding up the front side of the house. "Two hoots and a look, reck'n," was the laconic reply. "Well, how far is that?" queried the stranger, impatiently. "Twicet as fur as yo' kin holler an' as fur as yu' kin see beyond thet." "But I'm consumptive, and can't 'holler' at all," urged the traveler. "How am I to tell anything from such a direction as that?" "Better look twicet an' not holler at all," was the answer. "Gourdville ain't wuth hollerin' about nohow."—Golden Days. Jes' Lookin' On. Seems to me, jes' lookin' on, that things is travelin' fast, 'Taking the livin' as in the good old days that's past. We used to slow up then a while, an' take a little rest. An' git a taste of things we folks accustomed to the valley where the flowers softly bloom. Where there ain't no rush an' hustle an' there's always plenty room. Seems to me, jes' lookin' on, we are carryin' too much steam; Better hug the shores a while, than get out in the stream; It's sweet by-ways than along the crowded street. Where you're jostled an' you're hustled by ever one you meet. Mebbe life' a to hustle, jes' to always race But there's better things for nothin' that can't be bought or sold; Ain't so long to be here, if you goin' to take you better give. An' sequestrate livin' on, that's the better way to live. —Tommy Hawk, in New York Press. Realist and Romanticist. A recent interviewer of Dr. Henry Van Dyke discovered among his treasures a photograph of Rudyard Kipling upon which Kipling had written this odd aphorism: "As a matter of cold fact, the man who calls himself a realist is in the nature of things a libelous and unconvincing romanticist; whereas the man who, admitting all men are liars, joyously sets out to write accordingly is the only real realist—is so because human nature is contrarious." Her Come-Back "Well, madame," shouted Mr. Jaw back, triumphantly, as he entered the house with an idea of vengeance in his brain, "your goose is cooked." "Good gracious, my dear," cried Mrs. Jawback, anxiously, "I know this weather is frightfully warm, but do you feel so bad as that? Cooked is a strong expression Shall I get you a drink of lemonade, or put some cracked ice on your head?"—Cleveland Leader CALUMET Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURY CALUMET Baking Powder NOT MADE BY THE TRUST CALUMET It should not be confused with the cheap, low grade powders on the one hand, nor the high priced trust powders on the other. Watch Your Girls' Feet. Do not cramp and ruin them by the use of ungainly, ill-fitting shoes. "HOOSIER SCHOOL SHOES" are made to fit, to look right on the feet and to feel right. It will also take your girls a long time to wear them out. They are made of heavy Kid, Box Calf or Mule Skin and the name is on every shoe. No other school shoe has ever given such satisfaction. The price is very low for the quality. Ask your dealer to show you the "Hoosier School Shoe" and be sure you get it. These shoes are also made in women's sizes. One pair will make you a customer for life. TAPPAN SHOE MFG. CO. COLDWATER, MICH. Church Worker—Would you assist us, good sir, to send a missionary to the cannibals? Mr. Gotrox—Not much—I'm a vegetarian—but I will assist you to send them some easily digested cereal! Neve—judge a patent medicine by the almanac that goes with it. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach and to his reason through his pocket. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. A bachelor doesn't consider a girl baby worth kissing until she is sweet sixteen. STRANGE, ISN'T IT? A woman sees a hat or bonnet in a milliner's window. It is in the latest style, so she determines to have that hat—or one just like it. No one wants to dissuade her—she wants that kind of a hat! No other will suit her. There she displays her will power, and probably does the same with everything she buys for herself or her family. She makes, as it were, a feminine declaration of independence," in a letter long, therefore, to find some few women who allow their grocers to choose for them in important matters like foodduffs? In spite of the fact that grocers as a rule have long ago realized the necessity of catering to their customers" than to their own desires, there are still many of them, left, who show a marked inclination to suade customers to take what they do not ask for, or desire. Take Lion Coffee, for instance, the leader of all package coffees, an established favorite for over twenty-five years in millions of homes, on account of its absolutely pure and uniform quality. Wouldn't you thing it impossible that a single grocer can still exist who would oppose such an invincible argument of merit, by trying to persuade a customer to buy loose coffee in preference to Lion Coffee? Loose coffee has no standard quality—nobody can guarantee that it is even clean. Of course, really independent and intelligent women know this, and so do up-to-date grocers, but if women were as particular about coffee as about hats, no kind of grocer could be without Lion Coffee. In the Smoker. "Cigarettes are deadly," observed the clerical looking passenger as he caught a whiff of one. "It's a pity they ain't fatal," growled the vindictive passenger as the aroma greeted his nostrils. The devil asks no salary because he likes his work so much and it is so easy. What happened to Binx--get married? No; he only died. Lilby's Natural Flavor Food Products When you are at a loss to know what to serve for luncheon, dinner or supper—when you crave something both appetizing and satisfying—try Libby's (Natural Flavor) Food Products Once tried, you will always have a supply on hand Ox Tongues Chili Con Carne Veal Loaf Brisket Beef Ham Loaf Soups Your Grocer has them Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago Housekeepers Are Glad to see their clothes snowy white and clear. Use Red Cross Ball Blue on washday and get the best results for your labor. A large 2-ounce package at all grocers for 5 cents. Remember the name and get the real thing Cuticura SOAP MAY BE USED FROM THE HOUR OF BIRTH Weigh- ing the Baby. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and chemists throughout the world endorse Cuticura Soap because of its delicate, medicinal, emollient, sanative, and antiseptic properties derived from Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, united with the purest of cleansing ingredients and most refreshing of flower odors. For preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, as well as for all the purposes of the toilet and bath, Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, the great Skin Cure, is priceless. Guaranteed absolutely pure, and may be used from the hour of birth. Two Soaps in one at one price—namely, a Medical and Toilet Soap for Soc. Foster Drug & Charm. Corp., Boston, Matiled Free, "How to Care for Baby Soap." STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER EXACT SIZE SPECIAL OFFER The name and address of your shoe dealer and 15c to cover cost of mailing, etc., will secure one of the handsome rolled gold pins illustrated above. Enameled in colors and will wear for years. These pins were secured by thousands of World's Fair visitors. ROBERTS. JOHNSON & RAND SHOE CO. ST. LOUIS MANUFACTURERS OF "STAR BRAND SHOES" DAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC FOR WOMEN troubled with fills peculiar to their sex, used as a douche is marvelously suc- cessful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs, hops discharges, heals inflammation and local oerness. 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 Wrights 60 out a box. Trial Box and Book of Instructions Free. THE PAXTON COMPANY BOSTON, MASS Litty's Food Products A. Miss Ella Off, 1127 Linden St., Indianapolis, Ind., writes: "I suffered with a run-down constitution for several months, and feared that I would have to give up my work. "On seeking the advice of a physician, he prescribed a tonic. I found, however, that it did me no good. On seeking the advice of our druggist, he asked me to try Peruna. In a few weeks I began to feel and act like a different person. My appetite increased, I did not have that worn-out feeling, and I could sleep splendidly. In a couple of months I was entirely recovered. I thank you for what your medicine has done for me."---Ella Off. Write Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, for free medical advice. All correspondence is held strictly confidential. The honeymoon wanes when the sweethearting lags. Stop Babies' Tears Ninety per cent of bables' troubles are caused by disordered stomach or bowels. They can all be quickly cured by a few doses of that great digestive medicine, Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It digests curded milk, sweetens the breath, reduces fever and relieves pain. Absolutely harmless to mother or child. Sure relief in teething. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1. Money back if it fails. Spinsters are not partial ad-ages. Try One Package. If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. Sanctity is much more than stand-offishness. The Best Results In Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. A wrinkled forehead is no sign of deep thought. DON'T FORGET A large 2-oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Old Noah may have been a little shy on the principles of high finance, but he knew enough to go in out of the rain. COLUMBIA NORMAL ACADEMY For Young Men and Women. The best school in Missouri in which to prepare for entrance to the University. Enrollment the post year 330. One of the twelve approved summer schools. One of the five named number of girls; unexcelled advantages in Muskegon. Elocution; splendid training for teachers. Find one by writing to president. GEO. H. BEASLEY, 1001 Cherry St., Columbia Mo. also owner of Columbia Business College located OUT OF THE ORDINARY Preparing his pen with the greatest of care While others were snatching a wink. A poet sat down in the gray of the dawn To fish in a bottle of ink. He thought of the sportsmen who fished there before. Immortal forever to be; He knew of the beauties which swam in his murk. And he used his tackle with also. And rigged up his tackle with glee. A silvery sonnet flashed up from the deep And vanished away from his sight. A ballad and rondeau each nibbled and went. But still he had never a bite. His rod nearly broke with a heavy blank But failure again was his fate. The size of the fellows who all got away I hesitate here to relate. The sun, marching up from the east to the west. Looked down on the angler distraught. Then sauned to its rest while the poet quilt And this is the minnow he caught. —New York Sun. Relics Found in Irish Bog. Interesting finds have been made in the Stokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland, district during the operation of turf cutting from the bogs. What is supposed to be a gold tray or salver of great antiquity and of a rare Celtic design, together with a pair of old duelling pistols, was unearthed, and not far from the spot where these articles were discovered the turf men found, some eighteen feet below the surface, a coffin containing a skeleton, to which were clinging fragments of clothing, evidently of rich material. From some mouldering military emblems found in the coffin it is surmised that the remains are those of a French officer of high rank, who must have died on the march from Killala, in the year of the French invasion. On the top of the coffin was a horse pistol. Some of the relics are to be exhibited. "Good Time" 200 Years Ago. At the beginning of the eighteenth century a number of ruffianly young men of the higher classes—called by Swift "a race of rakes that play the devil about the town every night"—known as "Mohocks," infested London sallying out drunk into the streets, carrying short clubs loaded with lead at both ends, and perpetrating shame, ful cruelties upon peaceable passersby, wantonly wounding and disfiguring the men and subjecting all alike to atrocious insults. Lecky says that matrons, inclosed in barrels, were rolled down the steep and stony Snow hill. Watchmen were unmercifully beaten, and their noses were slit. Coaches and chairs were overturned on rubbish heaps and country gentlemen visiting the theaters had to be accompanied by their armed retainers, as if in time of war. Tavern Signs Buried. Whenever an inn on the Cumberland estates of the Howards, earls of Carlisle, loses its license, the inn sign is buried. The obsequies take place at dead of night, in the presence of as many of the old customers as can be collected. As a sort of libation a bottle of spirits, generally whisky, is poured into the grave, and an appropriate burial service repeated. The temperance advocates in the crowd cheer lustily, and the droughty element become mock mourners, or jesters, as the fancy takes them. The strains of a concertina or some similar instrument usually help to enliven the proceedings. The last inn to have its sign buried was the Moor Cock, at Lanercost, whose license was taken away by the Brampton justices. A Swan in Mourning. A swan about which a curious story is told in Cumberland, England, has just returned for its summer visit to Moorhouse Farm. Originally the swan took up his abode on the lakelet in company with his mate, but their nest was robbed and the female bird died, apparently broken-hearted. The bereaved consort covered the body with leaves and seeds and departed. Every spring since he has regularly returned to the grave always alone, and, with the water hens for company, swims disconsolately about the farm throughout the summer.—London Daily Mail. His Wisest Course. It has been discovered that the judge has no discretion under the Vermont liquor law and that he is bound to sentence a convicted seller for a certain length of time for each offense. William Caulstone was recently convicted on twenty-five counts in Pennington county and it was figured that he was in a fair way to get a sentence of sixty-one years. When he discovered this fact, he took "leg bail" and left his bondsmen to settle with the law. Bait Took a Trip. It was a young Norway, Me., man who went to the Rangeleyes on a fishing trip, and was forehanded enough to take a large can of worms with him for bait. During the noon hour on the first day that he fished he hid the can from the other fishermen by placing it on the truck frame of a freight car standing on a nearby siding. He was somewhat suprised on his return, an hour later, to find that the car was miles away on its journey to Rumford Falls. Nice Pile to Own. A Cleveland, Ohio, statistician has figured that 10,000,000 one dollar bills laid one above the other flatwise would make a pile nine times the height of a 16-story building. Different Views of it. "What is the secret of success?" asked the magazine. "Do write," said the pen. "Be progressive," said the euchre pack. "Be exact and on time," said the clock. "Be careful not to break your word," said the typewriter. "Don't be afraid to strike when you find your match," said the lamp. "Push and pull," said the door. "Stand firm and unyielding," said the flagstaff. "Don't change with every wind that blows," said the weather-vane. "Never become dull and rusty," said the hoe. "Climb steadily up," said the hill. "Keep bright and don't mind the clouds," said the sum. "Cultivate a calm exterior, but be ready for emergencies," said the innocent flower, "even I always carry a pistil." Hereditary Spanish Law Marquis De Viana and Count Torres De Cabrera, two Spaniards of ancient lineage, are opponents in a lawsuit which was begun in 1517 and is still sub judice. The case concerns a pension, and the accumulated sum in dispute would have reached fabulous millions had not four centuries of attorneys, barristers and court officials taken considerable measures of appropriation to prevent it becoming too unwieldy to be dealt with. Voice from Arkansas. Cleveland, Ark., July 21st.—(Special) Nearly every newspaper tells of some wonderful cure of some form of Kidney Disease by the Great American Remedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills, and this part of Arkansas is not without its share of evidence that no case is too deeply rooted for Dodd's Kidney Pills to cure. Mr. A. E. Carille, well known and highly respected here, tells of his cure after nearly a quarter of a century's suffering. Mr. Carille says: "I want to let the public know what I think of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I think they are the best remedy for sick kidneys ever made. "I had Kidney Trouble for 23 years and never found anything that did me so much good as Dodd's Kidney Pills. I recommend them to all sufferers." There is no uncertain sound about Mr. Carlie's statement. He knows that Dodd's Kidney Pills rescued him from a life of suffering and he wants the public to know it. Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney ills from Backache to Bright's Disease. Economical Economy. In St. Louis there is a Yankee who settled in the Mound City after the Civil War, and has there built up a fortune of millions. The economies and conservatism by which he has accumulated his little pile have increased with his years. Acquisition has become a habit. He has one son, over whose expenditures he keeps careful watch. Recently, this offspring took an uptown car. The father, who saw him board the car, and knew his destination, judged he had spent his fare foolishly. That evening, after dinner, the elder called the younger man into the library, saying he had something to tell him. "But first," he interrupted, rising from his chair, "I will turn down the light; we can talk just as well in the dark, and it will save the gas." He then proceeded to give reasons why the expenditure of the upstown carfare was unnecessary. As he went on explaining the value of economy, out of the darkness where his son sat he heard a fumbling and shuffling. Much to his distaste, the noise continued. At length, heated to impatience, he cried, "Sam, what are you doing?" "Father," came from out the blackness, "I can hear just as well without 'em, and while we're sitting here in the dark, I'm taking off my trousers to save 'em." For the rest of that evening economies were not discussed—Success. EVER TREAT YOU SO? Coffee Acts the Jonah and Will Come Up. A clergyman who pursues his noble calling in a country parish in Iowa, tells of his coffee experience: "My wife and I used coffee regularly for breakfast, frequently for dinner and occasionally for supper—always the very best quality—package coffee never could find a place on our table. "In the spring of 1896 my wife was taken with violent vomiting which we had great difficulty in stopping. "It seemed to come from coffee drinking but we could not decide. "In the following July, however, she was attacked a second time by the vomiting. I was away from home filling an appointment, at the time, and on my return I found her very low; she had literally vomited herself almost to death, and it took some days to quiet the trouble and restore her stomach. "I had also experienced the same trouble, but not so violently, and had relieved it, each time, by a resort to medicine. "But my wife's second attack satisfied me that the use of coffee was at the bottom of our troubles, and so we stopped it forthwith and took on Postum Food Coffee. The old symptoms of disease disappeared and during the 9 years that we have been using Postum instead of coffee we have never had a recurrence of the vomiting. We never weary of Postum, to which we know we owe our good health. This is a simple statement of facts." Name given by Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book "The Road to Welville," in each pkg. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regularizing the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alk. Straws - Rocky Salts - Anise Seed - Poppy Seed - Bitter Coconut Salid- Worm Seed - Clarified Sugar - Milkgranin - Parrot A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Pitchier NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Pitchier. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. 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* tablespoonful 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: 1st, WITH BOILING WATER. Add boiling water, and let it boil THREE MINUTES ONLY. Add a little cold water and set aside five minutes to settle. Serve promptly. 2d. WITH COLD WATER. Add your cold water to the paste and bring it to a bolt. Then set aside, add a little cold water, and in five minutes it's ready to serve. 3. Don't boil it too long. Don't let it stand more than ten minutes before serving. DONTS Don't use water that has been boiled before. 2 WAYS TO SETTLE COFFEE. 1st. With Eggs. Use part of the white of an egg, mixing it with the ground LION COFFEE before boiling. 2d. 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.) USE THE BEST FAULTLESS STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS COLLARS CUFFS AND FINE LINEN At Last--Don't Miss It A CURE FOR Stomach Trouble Science declares it to be the only way THIS IS GOOD FOR A FREE BOX Send this a FREE box of Masks. Add the address and the name of a druggiat who does NOT call for a FREE box of Masks. Add Rebel Wafers to MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO. 1481 Tall Ave. Rock Island, Ill. Give full payment. Write to-day as this offer may not appear again. 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