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. Among those who have passed into Size of Ancient People Publication Notice 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 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 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. Earthly Glory Solomon had glory— He isn't living now; There's wonder in his story— He isn't living now; Caesar isn't pretended high. Charlemagne was proud and great; Chieses of England, my, O, my! He moved. There was French King Louis, too. Who had nothing much to do Save be say the seasons through— They're not living now! There is much regretting To men who live to-day; They want they're getting, The men who live to-day; They look across the past and mourn, The bend to labor and are sad; They wish that they might have been born To things 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 Food for Japanese Soldiers. Rice and dried fish are the uniform food of the Japanese army in campaigning times. The rice is first boiled until it is thick and glutinous. Next it is placed on a china slab, rolled out and cut into squares. The squares are then placed in the sun to dry. They become as hard as a ship's biscuit, and are ready to be stored. A certain number of squares are allowed to each soldier a day. All he has to do is to break up a square in boiling water and add his dried fish. In a few minutes he has before him a thick soup, which to him is very good. If he cannot procure boiling water he eats his rice square as a biscuit. Holman Hunt's First Portrait 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. 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 Jesie 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 sports men, 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 liquefy 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. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING. Among those who have passed into the realms of an other world with sadness and a keen sense of loss, We mention the name of Mr. U. F. Scales, one of this City's foremost and highly respected Citizens, who died after an illness of some considerable lenght. Friday August 25th at his home on New Jersey ave. Mr. Scales by unflagging industry, upright manhood and determined energy, reached arather comfortable position in the community as a possessor of a good portion of this worlds goods. Active in all the affairs of life, foremost in all that tended to up lift, Friday morning he finished that which was alotted him to do in 39 years and bade this world of turmoil and strife a long farewell. Trus. Death indeed loves a shining mark and delights in plucking from the garden of the world, the most promising plant. Mr. Scales has rescheduled the inevitable end whither our footsteps are surely wending be they swift or be they slow. As it is appointed but once for man to die, it is consoling to know or believe, that if we live in accordance with the principles of Christianity as laid down by Him who dooth all things well, we will meet again in a city of celestial joy. As a citizen he was interested in all public affairs, as a member of the Rose Hill Baptist Church he endeavored to do his christian duty. As a member of No. 5 Fire laddies he was faithful to trust. As a race man he was thorough. As a member of various secret fraternities he was ever active. As a victim of numerous afflictions he was patient unto the end. May he rest in peace and recieve that reward that is promised to the faithful, is the united prayes of a host of friends and fellow companions. The funeral services which where held from the First Bnptist Church on Sunday August 27th was one among the largest attended services ever held in the city, Rev. D. B. Jackson Pastor of Rose Hill Baptist of which the deceased was a member officiated assisted by the able divines from the various Churches The Operative Lodge of the G. U. O. of O. F. of which he was a member had the remains B. J. Washington and Manuel Jackson officiated in behalf of the lodge. He leaves a Widow and a number of other relative. Nora Brookins of Nexsey Kansas is spending some time in the city, and made our office a pleasant call. Mrs. R. Wilson of 1612 N 8th street will spend next Sunday at Independence Mo. visiting her many old friends and acquaintances. White W. H. Watson, G. H. Brown, J. J. Peeples, Lillie Smith, Oliver, May Brown, G. W. Hubbard, J. Stowall, Mrs Fannie Murray, Mr. Corvine Patterson. Mrs. Mary Alexander our esteemed old friend has been very seriously ill on State avenue. Revival services are in progress at the King Solomon Baptist Church. Indications point to an early Autumn closely followed by grim old Winter. How is your coal bin, Have you patched up your house, better pnt in the window light. Mrs. L. Colier of 1609 N second street returnne this from a pleasant stay in Topeka. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY KANSAS. TheState of Kansas. To Flore Knight. Greeting; You are hereby notified that you have been sued by Ransom Knight in the above entitle court wherein you are the defendant for a divorce on the grounds of abandonment, and unless you answer on or before the Ethd day of September, the petition will be taken as ture and judgement will be rendered as prayed for. The plaintiff is seeking an absolute divorce, for ever desolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between the plaintiff and defendant and forcost. Ransom Knight. by Chas. W. Frye atty. First Published Aug. 11 1905 Publication Notice In The District Court of Wyandotte, kansas Charlie Rochester, Plaintiff. VS. Louise H. H. Rochester, Defendant. Louise H. 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 1st day of Juy- 105, 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 calld. Charlie Rochester. By Green and Henderson attorneys for plainl. [et pub June 15th] 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." TIE COULT OF COMMON PLEAS, OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY KANSAS. Henry Jrckson assignee Plaintiff, of D. W, White No. 6880 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 $0.00, with interest thereon at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from the 28th day of December, 1905; said amount being for five promissory Notes, 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 Plain attest; J. L. Baggs Clerk. first pub. July 7th 1905. In The Disriet Court of Wyandotte Kansas Katie Glmore Plaintiff. To the above named defendant. You will hereby take notice that you have been sued in the above named court. by the above named defendant, and unless you appear and answer the bettilon fight against you on or before the 30th day of September 1905, the some will be taken as true, and a Judgment rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divoreing her from said defendant, and awarding to her her maiden name, Katie Fulcher, and for cost of suit Katie Gilmore plaintiff. I. F. Bradley atty. attest Wm. Needjes clerk. First Pub. Aug. 18th 1905. 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. 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 Splite 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. 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 Deendant, and unless you answer on or before the first day of July 1903. 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 NOTCJE IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY, STATE OF KANSAS, annie Johnson. Plaintiff. VS. ewis J. Johnson. Defendant. THE STATE OF KANSAS TO LEWIS J. JOHNSON GREETING.: 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, 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 Cisterns Filled Tel. 215 West. 527 STATE AVE. Largest Building in the World. The Crystal palace accommodates more people than any other building in the world. It will hold 100,000. Trades in London According to the late returns, there are 1,756 distinct trades being carried on in London and its suburbs. Berlin Land Values Double. The ground value of the city of Berlin is said to be worth twice what it was in 1887. Woman Mountain Climber By far the most expert woman 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 wonder-ful feats. The kansas City Knu sa Soap Company. is the name of a new Stock Company with a 2.000 capital stock recently organized and will soon be doing business at 1510 North 4th street it give promise of a successful venture Wm. Arnold general manager. Rev. M. Phillips ast manager Mr. Wm. Overton a well known business man Treasure Mr. Isaac Parker President. Mr. J. W. Gillispie Secretary. Shares are $10 each, already 115 shares have been sold and indication are that the Capital Stock will soon be subscribed. Better get in on the ground floor of a good thing. Let your money help make you more money. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF ; KANSAS. } SS WYANDOTTE COUNTY. } IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY In the matter of the Estate of Mary L. Gordon Deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters tenantiam 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 Count 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. No. 18207. 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 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 you must 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 judge- ment 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 STATE OF KANSAS IN JHE PROBAT COURT IN AND SEFORSAID COUNTY n the matter of the Estate of Jane Redd Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the Last Will and Testament of Jane Redd, late of said County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the county and State aforesaid, date the 6th day of February A. D. 1905. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such Estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. I F. BRADLEY executor of the Last Will and Testament of Jane Redd Deceased. Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas In the Probate Court in and for County of Wyndotte said County. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEEPY PRESIDENT OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEDGE DECEASED Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that at the next estate, the term of the Prabatee Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyoming, and State aforesaid on the first. Monday in the month of March A. D. 1905. I shall apply, said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. Peter young Administrator of Clara Williams Sledge Deceased Williams-Sedge Decased. In Witness Whereof, 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 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. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. ILBISHILL 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 ix Months,.....65 cents Three Months,.....40. c ne Month,.....15. c Advertiseing 25 cts. Per Inch First Insertion A Standing Display 'Add' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. Entered as second class matter December first, 1904 at the Post office at Kansas City, Kansas under the Act of congress of March rd. 1879." Grewsome Collection. A French professor is the owner of a collection of 920 human heads, representing every known race of people. Scarlet for Bachelor Maids. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery of the coachman are all scarlet. Cost of London's Paupers. Every year $4,000,000 is spent on the food and clothing of indoor paupers in London. Here is the Place. J T. ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINNESOTA AVENUE. Call and see H.S. Sykes and and A. Gooden manufactor of Pop corn in ball and brick at 316 Oakland ave A Word To You. The lack of proper appreciation of the efforts of Negro newspapers make in an uphill business to maintain the standard of excellence desired by those in the business. Just why the race is so utterly slack, in giving to their own the proper patronage is one of the unsolved mysteries. Each day and week bring to us the warring of being a unit in behalf of our own salvation. It takes something beside wind to publish the most weakly of weeklies. If every Afro-American family would pledge themselves to stand by an organ builished in their behalf, just one year, the results would be unbelieved we ask the colorad 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 subscripting getting your neighbors to do the same and watch the good results. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas County of Wyoming In the Probate Court in and forsale County. In the Matter of the Estate of John R.Smith Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court for the sale of County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City. County of Wyndow and State aforesaid, on the first Monday in month of February, A. D. 1905. I will apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of sale estate. JAMES D. SMITH. Administrator of the Estate John R. Smith, Decased. In Witness Whereof, the undesigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyan-dotte.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 Greeman, Probate Judge. Res.420 Nebraska ave. Tel.383 White. SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Houro: From 10 A. M., till 4 p. m. and from 6 till 9 P. M. C.H.C. JORDAN M.M.M.D.. Reaching the 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 magistrate, was talking to a young man about success. "The secret of success is enterprise, energy," said Col. Greene. "To be lazy, to stick always in the same old rut, that is how to make a wretched failure of your life. "I went West when I was 17, and after a spell of contracting and prospecting about Prescott, I farmed a bit in the San Pedro Valley. There was a storekeeper I used to buy my supplies from at that time who was a failure of the first water. This man's lack of enterprise was so great that people used to bring their children from miles around to study him. He was valuable as a horrible example. "There,' they would say to the youngsters, 'take warning by Manners. He is a failure. He has no enterprise. Don't grow up like him. He resembles a tortoise, doesn't he?' "Poor Manners in his sluggishness lid 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 maasses in this here town but me?" PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toilet that would quite astonish the most fashionable society lady. First she has her hair dressed by her maid, who, after anointing the long, silky black locks with a little oil, made from aloe wood or cocoanut, arranges it simply in a long, smooth plait, low on the nape of the neck, and decorated either with gold or jewelled ornaments. Next the bath is prepared as hot as it can be borne, and in this the lady may stay as long as two or three hours. Soaps are not used, but, instead, there are multifarious unguents, secret preparations of the bathing women, which render the skin soft as velvet and delicately perfumed. Oftentimes the face is washed over with milk, into which has been squeezed lemon juice. The hair of the oriental woman is usually beautifully long, soft and glossy, and the way they arrange it is invariably becoming to their soft type of beauty. Perfumes are much indulged in. These are introduced in the bath and permeate the garments, but are rarely used on a handkerchief. The Foam on the Top. The Foam on the Top. Don't snuggle conceit to your bosom, my 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 day. 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 away. 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 earthy crop. And I may you will note as you journey along. That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my older you, but look on the world as you go. See the men whom we place at the summit, in truth. The gaze on the mortals below. And I love you, word I'll have nothing to teach. And this brief little anthem will stop, If you do not agree with the thing that I preach. That the foam may be found on the top. -A J. Waterhouse in Sunset Magazine. A Polite Discharge James Rankin Young, the new superintendent of the Dead Letter office admires politeness. "It is possible," he said recently, "to be polite always. It is possible to be polite even when discharging a drunken coachman. I know that this is so, for I have seen the thing done. "A friend of mine found himself obliged last week to get rid of his coachman for drunkenness. He summoned the man into his presence, and discharged him with this polite speech: "I fear, Montgomery, that we must part. It has been impossible for me to avoid noticing that several times during the past month you have been—er—sober. Now, I don't believe that any man can attend properly to drinking if he has driving to do, and, therefore, at the month's end you will be free to devote yourself exclusively to your chosen occupation." All Christians. In his article in the Woman's Home Companion, describing the International Sunday School Convention in Jerusalem, Doctor Devins relates the following significant incident: "An unexpected favor was received from the officers of the Russian church on the Mount of Olives. A meeting had been planned to be held near the place of the Ascension. As the leader of the meeting, the writer went to see if it could be held under the trees near the church. 'Why not?' was the reply, accompanied by a smile on the saintly face of the speaker. 'Why not?' Do we not worship the same Christ?" WIT IS NOT APPRECIATED. Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors. A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keeping up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but he has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or sentimental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his interruptions. He has a high pitched, penetrating voice, and the town police, who have been on the verge of ejecting him a dozen times, say that he was a Glasgow cab driver who retired with a competence and now takes this wi. 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 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. Telephone Bell W. 32. B, Ray RAL DIREC The Very Best of Serv- pose. At All Hours. Eq uipad Whit For Sick and w Notice. Charges Reason ota. Ave. Kansas C Notice the Furris M AND BOA $3.25 per w er of second and Del kansas. And in a good le ce. You will get best o L, SMITH PROPRI S CITY S 510 N, 4th S of the Best Grades of aps. A Home Insti MYOUR PA or brand the Snowflake since you of their me STAURA 2012 N 3rd S on the city and will ser every thing is cooked to EALS 15 CENTS or the prop, is one of the se you, give, her a call CONDITIONAL. J. E. CO money to Lo es. Diamonds ING AND EVERY Of Value and Jewelry Sold on CASH PRICES. Pledges For Sal HES AND JEWELRY REP on Loan Of sota ave. kansas OPPORT W. B, FUNERAL And, Embalmer The Very N ages For All Purpose. At A The Best Eq uipa Ambulance For Sick On Short Notice. Chan 431 Minnesota. Ave. Nice Fur ROOM AN At$3.25 e Corner of seco Arm ourdale Kansas. And o street car service. You w MRS. E, L, SMIT KANSAS CIT 1510 N Are Manufactors of the Bey ing Soaps. A GIVE THEM YOU One trial of their brand th convince you RESTA 1012 N 1s the best place in the city a.m, to 11 p. m, every thing i MEALS 1 Mrs. Thatcher the prop city and will please you, gi Money on Watches. Di CLOTHING AN Of W Watches and Jewel AT CASH Unclaim Pledges FINE WATCHES AND JE Union Lo 427 Minnesota av YOUR OPP W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR. And, Embalmer The Very Best of Service, Fine Carriages For All Purpose. At All Hours. The Best Equipad White Enameled Ambulance For Sick and wounded 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 Arm ourdale Kansas. And in a good location convenin o street car service. You will get best of treatment. MRS. E, L, SMITH PROPRIETRESS, KANSAS CITY SOAP CO. Are Manufactors of the Best Grades of Toilet & Washing Soaps. A Home Institution. One trial of their brand the Snowflake and Union will convince you of their merits. RESTAURANT 1s the best place in the city and will serve you from 5,30 a.m, to 11 p.m, everything is cooked to taste, Mrs. Thatcher the prop, is one of the best cooks in the city and will please you, give her a call. Money to Loan on Watches. Diamonds Jewelry. CLOTHING AND EVERYTHING Unclaim Pledges For Sale Cheap. FINE WATCHES AND JEWELRY REPAIRING. Union Loan Office. 427 Minnesota ave. kansas city. kans. YOUROPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY. Ladies suits, dressing anything in the Dressmaking MADE TO and sold on weekly and me few prices: Belt dresses $1. 50cts and up. Call and see Mrs W. F. Adressing sacques, ap- Dressmaking line DE TO ORD ly and monthly paym dresses $1.00 and up; all and see me. W. F. Willia St. Ka Ladies suits, dressing sacques, aprons and in fact anything in the Dressmaking line 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. 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. --- 1510 North Third St. Telephone Home W. 32 Raymond DIRECTOR. Best of Service, Fine Carri-All Hours. Red White Enameled and wounded ages Reasonable Call At Kansas City, Kansas. Notice. Furished BOARD AT per week and Deleware streets in a good location conveni- ll get best of treatment. PROPRIETRESS, CITY SOAP CO. 4th St. At Grades of Toilet & Wash Home Institution. PATRONAGE Snowflake and Union will of their merits. URANT. 3rd St. and will serve you from 5,300 cooked to taste, 5 CENTS, is one of the best cooks in the her a call. J. H. COLIN, PROPRIETOR. To Loan Diamonds Jewelry. EVERYTHING Value 000000000 Jewelry Sold on Payments PRICES. For Sale Cheap. WELRY REPAIRING. Loan Office. e. kansas city. kans. ORTUNITY sacques, aprons and in fact ing line O ORDER. monthly payments. Here is a 100 and up; dressing sacques time. Williams, MME. L, F. JOHNSON, Shampooing, Manicuring, Massage and Scalp Treatment. Tel.733 W. A SPECIALT Kansas City, Kansas 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 instead of copper. Good Luck for Turtles at Lakes 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 pa'ted down the side, and at one end w a hole in which was a ribbon bow and loop by which to suspend it. Good Housekeeping. Moisture in Tobacco The presence of moisture in tobacco is, the Lancet believes, of some importance to public health, since the combustion of tobacco containing a large proportion of moisture is impeded, while as the 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. "Yee, 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 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 fee 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... 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 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 is discovered by Izaak Walton. It is chiefly 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 tramwars 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 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, Tartars 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. For Health and Economy use use Calumet Baking Powder "Best by Test" Used in Millions of Homes Foolish Men. "Isn't it strange," said the reflective citizen, "that burglarls and highwaymen will take the awful chances they do, just for a few dollars?" "It does seem odd," responded Senator Sniffkins, "when there are safe easy, remunerative propositions like politics and life insurances to go into." A. Poor Prophet. "Count Cassini says Russia will never consent to an ingorious peace." "Count Cassini?" "Count Cassini?" "Oh, yes. He's the individual who calls a transfer from Washington to Madrid a promotion." Delightful Thought. "Who's that at the door, Jane?" asked Mrs. Woodby Stilish. "A book agent, mun. Shall I order him off?" "Not until I see him. He may be selling that delightfully swell 'Fads and Fancies." Vacation. We save our coin for many a day, Collect a good-sized hoard, Then go and spend it in a way We know we can't afford We know we can't afford. Lesson for Women. Jersey Shore, Pa., Aug. 28th (Special)—"Dodd's Kidney Pills have done worlds of good for me." That what's Mrs. C. B. Earnest of this place has to say of the Great American Kidney Remedy. "I was laid up sick," Mrs. Earnest continues, "and had not been out of bed for five weeks. Then I began to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and now I am so I can work and go to town without suffering any. I would not be without Dodd's Kidney Pills. I have good reason to praise them everywhere." Women who suffer should learn a lesson from this, and that lesson is "cure the kidneys with Dodd's Kidney Pills and your suffering will cease." Woman's health depends almost entirely on her kidneys. Dodd's Kidney Pills have never yet failed to make healthy kidneys. She—Is the telephone girl's occupation a profession or a business? He—Neither; it's a calling.—Chicago Daily News. 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 Starch are put up in ¼ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 rents. 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. There are still two things that Glasgow does not do for its citizens: Pick out their neckties and their cigars. But Glasgow may have intentions. No chromosom or cheap premiums, but a better quality and a third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. You can't keep house without servants' quarters, and if you leave them at home when you travel, take a few dimes. For package Red Cross Ball Blue, only bought. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. A New York burglar tried hard to reform, but with only partial success. He is now practicing law. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. "Very! He admitted to me that the piano didn't need tuning very bad ly." SIMPLE RULES OF HEALTH Prevention of Disease, Rather Than Cure, Should Be the Aim Flies as Carriers of Disease. In an address before the California Health Association, Dr. Cobb called the attention of the medical profession to the necessity of an active crusade against the common house fly. This pestiferous insect has many chances to communicate disease from one person to another. In cholera epidemics it has been shown that flies are the means of spreading the disease by infecting the food. Hay-Making for Fun at Eighty. A press dispatch from Bridgeport Conn., gives an interesting account the oldest twins in the country, Juan and Junius Benham, who recently celebrated their eighth birthday by making on their farm in Seymour. "Hay-making is great fun," said nius, "and I feel as if I could n away hay up in the peak of the p of the barn as I used to in days a age, and made us." Whenever large bodies of men go into camp, typhoid fever is almost certain to break out, even though the water supply is carefully protected from contamination. Such outbreaks are due to fly-infection of the food supply. Scattered cases of typhoid fever in country settlements are more often the result of fly infection than of water infection. Dr. Cobb believes that tuberculosis is communicated not only through the lungs by means of contaminated dust, but that the greater source of infection is by means of the fly planting sputum on the food from its feet, wings, and excretions. This infection by files has been proved very clearly When the habits of the fly are considered, it is not unreasonable to believe that this insect is an important factor in the spread of disease. They swarm upon decaying vegetable matter, manure piles, the filth of the streets, privy vaults, and every possible source of infection. Follow them then to the street venders of fruit and candy, the bakery, butchershop and restaurant, and even to the family table, especially of the poor, and it is not difficult to understand the ease with which germs of all kinds are conveved to the food. It may be affirmed, however that in the process of cooking, the bacteria will be killed. This is granted, but it is not here that the danger lies. It is from food which is eaten raw, or which has been cooked and upon which the fly afterward alights that the greatest danger of infection occurs. The longer this food remains uneaten after this contamination, the greater the probability that a colony has grown, thereby increasing the dosage of infection. It is in the homes of the poor that the greatest danger arises. The poor nearly universally leave their tables set with cold food left from the previous meal. Upon this food flies assemble in great numbers, and from time to time the children help themselves, the remainder of the food being served at the next meal. It is therefore necessary to combine for the extermination of this pest. Housewives especially should be careful to prevent this source of dangerous infection. A Window Tent A medical journal describes a window tent devised for the open air treatment of tuberculosis. It consists of a frame to fit the lower half of the window, to which is attached inside the window an awning of water-proof duck, stretched in a quarter-circle. The bed is placed parallel with the window, so that the fivalid's head and shoulders are within the awning, entrance being made through a flap in the side of the tent. The lower edges of the duck at the head and side of the bed are long enough to tuck under the mattress, and thus air from the room is thoroughly excluded. The frame of the tent does not quite fill the lower half of the window; for the escape of warm air from the room there is left a space of three inches, which can be reduced at will. For protection from storms the roof of the tent projects slightly beyond the window, and a roller blind is placed inside the window. Do Not Wave the Handkerchief. At a meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Cincinnati, one of the speakers was welcomed with the usual Chautauquan flutter of handkerchiefs throughout the auditorium, and the compliment was accepted with proper satisfaction. Soon afterwards, says Good Housekeeping, an inconveniently practical and learned delegate created quite a sensation by declaring that this handkerchief salute was a most unhygienic performance, which was quite competent to account for the colds and coughs that it was apaprent had a wide distribution among the delegates. It was moved that the delegates, "like sensible people, keep their handkerchiefs in their pockets, where they belonged, except when in necessary use, and that the saluting be done with little silk flags provided for the purpose." The proposition met with lively opposition, and it was argued against with no little acerbity, but in the end common sense and faith in the microbe theory triumphed, and the motion was carried by a vote of one hundred and thirty-four to ninety-one. That this reform has already "taken hold" is attested by the fact that when a party of woman suffrage delegates departed for Europe they were waved away by a fluttering cloud of little flags. In commenting on this the Medical Record says, "It is a grave sanitary question whether the handkerchief does not do more harm than good, as it is ordinarily used. Most nasal catarrhs are of an infectious character, notably those of a grip origin. Worse than the nasal discharges are the expectorations that find their way into the pocket. The good women in the convention certainly deserve great credit for calling attention to the dangers of the handkerchief." Hay-Making for Fun at Eighty. A press dispatch from Bridgeport, Conn., gives an interesting account of the oldest twins in the country, Julius and Junius Benham, who recently celebrated their eighteenth birthday hay-making on their farm in Seymour. "Hay-making is great fun," said Junius, "and I feel as if I could mow away hay up in the peak of the peak of the barn as I used to in days long ago, and mowin' away hay is about the hottest work there is to be found in summer. The Benham twins are remarkable men. They are far from being invalids, though they have arrived at the age when most persons are usually feeble. Beginning life as apprentices to a mason, they worked up and later became builders and contractors. Some years ago the Benhams gave up building and settled down to the care of the real estate they had acquired in their long residence in Bridgeport. Every morning at eight c'clock the twins will be found at their office opening their mail and preparing to drive about the city to collect rents and look after their property. "We always get up early in the morning," said Junius, when spoken to about the hour of rising, "and we can't get out of the habit." The twins are in excellent health. The twins are in excellent health. "People ought to be cheerful if they want to live to be old," said Julius. "Look at brother Junius and me. No boys of the present day ever had as hard a time to get along as we did when we started, but we had what a good many boys of to-day do not have. Our mother gave to us iron constitutions, the greatest present a mother can give to her boys, and we had been taught to live according to the simple and clean rules of the country. We lived clean lives always. We never drank liquor nor used tobacco. Money spent for such things is worse than money thrown away, but many of the boys to-day seem to think they can't be men unless they drink liquor and use tobacco. Why, we would never have lived to celebrate our eighteenth birthday if it had not been that we lived right lives. You can enjoy yourself without going contrary to Nature's laws. There is plenty of harmless fun in the world, but it seems to me that people are looking for the fun nowadays that hurts rather than helps." The Starvation Cure Starvation as a means of cure is by no means a new idea. It is very old. Most good things are old, and things altogether new are seldom good. Very few original discoveries are made nowadays. Long fasting is one of the most effective means of securing thorough going constitutional reconstruction. It compels the body to feed upon itself. In the rebuilding, defects may be left out, and healthy conditions may be re-established. But this result may be secured by other and generally safer means. It is not so much the withholding of food, but of certain elements of food, which secures the benefits of fasting. It is the proteids, from which the system in diseased condition manufactures the poisons, which give rise to rheumatism, billiousness, neurasthenia and gout. When proteids are withheld, the formation of poisons soon ceases of necessity, and thus the disturbed functions return to their normal state and the health is restored. By a diet of fruit this condition may be secured as readily as, perhaps more readily than, by any other means. The fruit diet is really proteid starvation, as fruits contain practically no protels. Certainly a fruit diet is far more agreeable than total abstinence from food. Fruits contain predigested food elements which do not clog the system, and which are valuable in sustaining the strength. Fasting is a good thing in certain cases; but long fasts are rarely needed, and a fruit diet is preferable in all essential particulars, except in certain cases in which fruit acids are irritating, as in gastric ulcer. The Need for Recreation. Rest restores again the energy which has ben consumed in work. So long as one is able to restore his lost energy by sleep and rest, he cannot become neurasthenic. But when a man comes to the point where he can no longer restore by rest or sleep the loss of energy which has occurred, he necessarily becomes neurasthenic, because his nerve cells remain chronically in that exhausted condition. This is the reason a vacation sometimes does so much for one, completely replenishing the exhausted store of energy and saving one from a complete breakdown. A good many men look forward for months to their annual vacation of three weeks in the summer, as their salivation. For five or six months afterward they enjoy very good health. Then their store of energy is exhausted, and the next six months are simply misery waiting for the breathing spell to come again. When the business man finds at the end of his three weeks' vacation that he has not yet recovere his natural energy, and he has to go back to his work in almost the same condition in which he left it, he has chronic neurasthenia, and is going to have a tremendous, perhaps an irreparable, breakdown, if he keeps on in that way. When a man discovers that he has reached that point he ought to stop at once. HUMOUR of the Compliment Gone Wrong. Muggins had just been introduced to a bride of six weeks at a social gathering, and after a remark about the weather, he said, gallantly. "And have I really the pleasure of meeting the beautiful Mrs. Smythe, whose praises are being sounded by everybody?" "Oh, no, Mr. Muggins," the lady replied, "the beautiful Mrs. Smythe to whom you refer is the wife of my husband's cousin." "Ah, I see," rejoined Muggins, "I thought there must be a mistake somewhere." Give Him the Right to Do It. A wealthy eastern woman has married her chauffeur. It may be supposed that she took this extreme course through a desire to save her employee from the necessity of unlawfully taking out her automobile at forbidden hours of the night and rollingick around in it with a party of gay friends until the early dawn.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cholly—Why, what are you doing with the engagement ring I gave your sister? Lillie—Oh, she lets me wear it when de other fellers is callin'. Sticking Up for Him. Toadle—"Jenkins is getting to be quite prominent in smart society." Sterling—"I don't believe it." Toadle—"Oh, but it's a fact. The society editors of all the papers say so." Sterling—"What of that? The society editors probably dislike him for some reason or other." A Compromise. "Pa," said young Roxley, "get me an automobile, will you?" "See here!" growled old Roxley "It's time you stopped asking me to buy you things. Why don't you pad die your own canoe?" "All right, pa. Never mind the auto Get me the canoe." A Proviso. "Don't you think that government ownership is a thoroughly practical proposition?" "Certainly," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "I haven't the slightest objection to the government's owning my property, provided it is willing to buy it at my price."—Washington Star. Queer Idea "He's the most eccentric autist I ever met. He's got such queer notions about his machine." "Thinks it's the very best make, I suppose." "No, he says he bought it because it was cheap." A Church Item. Hicks—Your church has a new bell hasn't it? Wicks—Well, I don't consider her a belle, and she isn't very new at that. She's the oldest and homeliest sopra no we ever had."—Philadelphia Ledger. A Blessing in Disguise. "Say, old man, I have a terrible thirst." "Pardon, me, my boy; a thirst is never terrible."—Fliegende Blatter. 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U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 35, 1908 PISO'S CURE FOR CURE HEALTH FAILURE Best Cough Bypass, Wartime Gum Use in time. Sold by drupee. CONSUMPTION Enlisted I once lived in a valley Where the flags of gain were furled, And far beyond the borders Throbbed the drum-beat of the world, Through many a mist of morning I heard the throstle call; From many a cloud of passage I saw the shadows fall. One day I climbed the mountains That round the valley ring, No more I saw my castle! Or heard the throstle ring. But in that mighty battle Where many a belt is hurled, I heard my fellows matching To the drum-beat of the world. Here in the crowded city, From dawn till close of day, Whereon each human anvil A thousand hammers play, My shoulder to my fellow— The flags of gain unfurled— I march—O heart take courage!— To the drum-beat of the world. —Hugh J. Hughes in Sunset Magazine. A YOUNG VETERAN BY BELLE NANAITS BY BELLE IANATES (Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Mayme Winslow had a decided aversion to seeing the "localities" of a strange city, and always declined emphatically to "go through" any institution by way of sight seeing. Therefore, it was with rather an ill grace that she was accompanying her father, who was bound on a tour of inspection to the Soldiers' Home, having been recently appointed on the board of trustees. The winsome young girl looked very pretty, if petulant, as she came into the office of the commandant of the Home. There were some books and papers her father wanted to examine first of all. "This will be very uninteresting for you," suggested the commandant to Mayme. "Would you not like to go through the grounds and see the gardens?" Mayme acquiesced quite readily. "I will get you an escort," he said, leaving the room. When he returned he was accompanied by a young man. "Miss Winslow let me introduce Lleut. Loranger. He will be pleased to show you about." Mayme glanced up, expecting to see some grizzled veteran. A flush of surprise suffused her face as she beheld a tall, stalwart youth of fine command and appearance. As she walked beside him down the winding driveway leading to the gardens, she sustained her part of a light conversation, but she wondered the while what he was doing in this institution. "I supposed," she ruminated, "that all the inmates were soldiers of the civil war, too old or too incapacitated to work. I never thought of the Spanish-American war soldiers, but of course they could come, but I didn't think they were in service long enough to get disabled. I should think he would be ashamed to loaf around a Home when he is young and active. Maybe he was wounded." In pursuance of this train of thought, she said, aloud: "I suppose you were in Cuba, Lieut. Loranger?" "Yes, and later in the Philippines. I have recently come from there." "Were you wounded?" "No," he said, smiling. "I was in numerous engagements, but couldn't get hit." "Were you ill?" she persisted. "Yes, I had a fever in Manila." "That accounts for it," she thought. "I'll bet he gets a pension, too." "Do you know," she continued aloud, "I had forgotten about any of the young soldiers being here. I thought it was just a home for old men—civil war soldiers, you know." A slight flush came into his face. "There are a few of the Spanish-American war soldiers here," he said. "Of course none of us would be here from choice." Quickly Mayme's slight contempt turned to warm pity. "No, I am sure of that," she said sympathetically, and then she tactfully turned the subject. When she reached the rose garden he hade her pick any flowers she chose. "Oh, are you allowed to pick them?" she asked in surprise. "The colonel would expect me to Z. W. Sustained her part of a light conversation. pick you some, certainly," he replied, with the quick flush recurring again. "How little tact I have!" she thought. "Poor fellow, he evidently has not been here long, and I am reminding him of his restrictions just as if he were a convict." "You don't seem like the typical visitor of this institution," he observed, "that is, you don't look like the kind that wants to be 'shown around.' The river is but a short distance from "Were you wounded?" here. Would you not like to go for a row?" "Indeed, I would," she replied quickly. In the hour that followed their conversation was bright and sparkling. She found the young officer thoroughly conversant with the ways of her world. "Why, I had no idea it was so late!" he exclaimed, suddenly, as she looked at her tiny watch and named the hour. "It's the luncheon hour at the Home, or dinner, I believe they call it. We must return at once!" "Well, I feared we had lost you both!" was the colonel's laughing remark, as the lieutenant and Mayme entered. "Dinner is just about to be served." Mayme walked into the family dining room, where she saw that covers were laid for the commandant, his wife, a major connected with the institution, her father and herself. "I suppose poor Lieut. Loranger has to eat with the other inmates in the big dining room," she thought. "I think they might have asked him to A dine with us under the circumstances." As she was about to take her seat the lieutenant entered. "I have to go to the city now," he said, "but of course you will be here on my return, Miss Winslow, and I should like to take you for a drive while your father and the colonel are transacting business." Mayne accepted this invitation, and the young lieutenant departed. Immediately after dinner Mr. Winslow received a telegram which recessitated his leaving for home at once. Mayne found herself very loath to leave without again seeing Lieut. Loranger, and he was quite uppermost in her thoughts on the way home. The next day her recollections of him were still vivid enough to induce her to send him a package of new books accompanied by a little note expressing her regret at missing the ride. She received a prompt and responsive reply from him informing her that he contemplated paying a visit to Mrs. Mordaunt, who lived in Mayme's vicinity, in a few days, and he hoped to be allowed to renew their acquaintance. By chance she met Mrs. Mordaunt on the street that very afternoon, and that lady invited her to a lawn fete she was to give for the young lieutenant the following week. The night of his arrival in the city Mayme came into the library in response to his card which the maid had brought to her. "I owe you an apology," she said with a smile, as she took his out-stretched hand. "Mrs. Mordaunt tells me you are a United States army officer home on a furlough, and a brother-in-law of the commandant of the Home." "It is I who should apologize and explain. When it dawned upon me that you thought I was an inmate—a most natural inference—I was so taken by surprise I did not explain. I felt that you were secretly feeling contempt for my feigning inability to work, and then suddenly when I told you I had been ill, your manner changed so completely and you were so sympathetic that I feared a disclosure might change your demeanor again. I had an appointment at the club at the dinner hour, so I decided to ask you to drive and then undeceive you as to my status at the Home. When I returned you had gone, and I was afraid I should never see you again. Then the books came, and your very tactful, kind note which made me feel like an imposter. I was the more anxious to see again one who would be so kind to a poor, indigent soldier. as you thought me, so I accepted a long-standing invitation from Mrs. Mordaunt in order to tell you this." "Wait," she cried, her face reddening painfully, "I am the imposter! At dinner that day, after you had gone, I made a casual remark concerning you which disclosed my error and delighted your sister and the colonel, who told me all about you. They promised me not to mention the matter to you, however. I thought to heap coals of fire on your head by sending you the gift of books and so force you to 'fess up." "This makes us even!" he laughed, "and we can now renew our acquaintance on the right basis. I shall kee, your gift of charity, however." "MAMMY JANE'S" LAST DAYS. One of John C. Calhoun's Slaves Cared for by Grandsons. The future of the negro is not a problem with the old aristocrats of the south, even where the families have taken up their residences, as many of them have, in New York, says the New York Press. Two of the grandsons of John C. Calhoun live in this city. The old colored mammy who served them in their infancy is cared for by them as tenderly as if she was born of their bone. "Mammy Jane," as she is known in the family and to the immediate friends of the family, is far better cared for than if she had accepted her freedom. "Mammy Jane's" son is the coachman in the family, and his son is the butler, and the butler's son is the boy at the door, or, as he would be called in the south "Buttons." In connection with this remnant of the days of slavery the following story is related of "Mammy Jane" when she was living in "Chawstun." It was a part of her duties to attend the gate and receive the cards of callers. The bell was on the gate of the southern homes and visitors did not leave their carriages until the servant of the house waited upon them at the gate. "Mammy Jane," like all good house servants in the south, understood her business. On the occasion referred to one of the callers asked if Miss M. C. was at home. "No, mum, she ain't in to-day," said "Mammy Jane" in her best manner. "Mammy Jane" happened to know that Miss Sallie was not to be seen that day by any one except the family, and curselying very low, she replied: "No. mum. Miss Sallie am particularly out to-day, mum," and she retired in her loftiest manner. Didn't Miss the Train. Some time since two merry sons from the land of the shamrock were walking down a railroad track of one of the suburban lines, and so interested were they in an animated conversation that they didn't hear the rumble of a train that was rapidly bearing down upon them. The warning whistle came too late for one of them, and before he could sidestep he was ungently lifted to a bank some feet away. Instead of dying on the spot he sat up, rubbed his eyes a few times, and then his face broke into a broad smile. “Shure, Moike,” said the one who had nimbly jumped from the track and escaped a rude jar, “do yez think it is a joke to be kilt?” “Begorra, an’ who said it was?” returned Mike. “Thin phat aire yez grinnin’ about, yez haythen” asked Pat. "Nothin'," was the reply, "except that was her firrust tome in me lofie that I didn't miss a train."—Philadelphia Telegraph. Sheriff Herrick and Speeches The late Horatio G. Herrick of Lawrence for many years high sheriff of Essex county, always took a keen interest in the Lawrence schools, and was for a long time chairman of the school committee. Visiting the Saunders school soon after the death of Garfield, Sheriff Herrick spoke to the pupils of the life of the late distinguished statesman, and thus asked, genially: "Now, can any of you tell me what a statesman is?" A little hand went up, and a little girl replied: "A statesman is a man who makes speeches." "Hardly that," answered Mr. Herrick, who loved to tell this story. "For instance, I sometimes make speeches, and yet I am not a statesman." The little hand again went up, and the answer came, triumphantly: "I know; a statesman is a man who makes good speeches!"—Boston Herald. Kept Cutting the Dirt Off. The members of the family were camping out south of town for the day and little Georgie had been assigned the work of peeling the potatoes for dinner. After laboring for half an hour he hunted up his mother. "Mom," he said, "I gotta have some more potatoes." "Why, I gave you enough for two families like ours," she replied in surprise. "What did you do with them?" "I forgot to wash my hands," said Georgie, "an' by the time I got all the direct cut off the potatoes they was too small to eat. I threw 'em away."—Kansas City Times. The Universal Belief. 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When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women, you cannot well say, without trying it, "I do not believe it will help me." Hints for Building and Improvements Plan of Grain Barn. The above cut shows the plan of a barn, which combines capacity with cheapness. The upright supports may be either 4x6 posts, or round poles, and where large, flat stones are not available may be set in holes with concrete in the bottom and all around the posts well up and beveled at the top, so as to shed the water. The barn is 42 feet wide by any desired length, the side posts to be set 8 feet apart. On account of the double angle of the MAY DOOR JO 12 4 inch side wall effect 42 END VIEW Side View. roof purline posts are not required As there are no timbers in the center there is plenty of room for hay. Ventilating a Damn Basement C. B.—I have a barn 40x56 feet, with underground stables, which are very damp. Three feet of the wall are of concrete, with five and one-half feet of wooden work, which reaches the ceiling. How could this basement be ventilated? A good way to ventilate your stable is to place four or six inch tiles underneath your wall, in the shape of a U, having the end outside the wall high enough so that no dirt or drain age can get in. Cover it with a screen. Have the end on the inside of the wall reach a few inches above the floor. This makes a better fresh air intake pipe than a tile straight through the wall, as it creates more suction. Have these intake pipes in the feed alleys if possible in front of stock. Then put in air flues made of one-inch boards about eight inches square, or a galvanized iron pipe will do, running from the roof of the barn down the gable ends or the center perline posts through the floor of the barn to a few inches below the under side of the joist. These flues will take off the heated air and thus draw on the fresh air pipes to fill the stable with pure fresh air. You can use as many of these flues as you require. The average number for a barn 40x56, or 60 feet is four of each kind. In severe weather some of the intake pipes may be covered if the stable is too cold. Material for Cement Blocks J. R. F.—I intend to build a house of concrete blocks. How much cement will be required to be mixed with each cubic yard of sand in making the concrete? 2. If the wall has an air space in the center is it necessary to lath and plaster on the inside to prevent dampness? If sand is used in making the cement blocks, it will take two barrels of Portland cement to one cubic yard of sand. If fine gravel is used it will take one and one-quarter barrels of cement to one cubic yard of gravel and would make as good a block. A continuous air space as described is generally sufficient, but if strapped lathed and plastered it would be sure to make a thoroughly dry wall. Notching Logs for a House. Subscriber.—Give an illustration of the manner in which logs are notched in building a log house. The accompanying cut shows the manner in which logs are notched and Corner of a Log House Showing Manner in which Logs are Dovetailed. joined for building. Another method and one that has cheapness to recom mend it, is to notch the logs one into the other, but by this method the ends of the logs stick over. Determining Power of an Engine. W. B.—Please publish a rule to figure out the power of a steam or gasoline engine by the brake test. 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