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 VOL16 NO.37 Editorial Notes & Comment Hon. Judson W. Lyons, Register of the United States Treasury in an address on Emancipation day Celebration at Hartington, W. Va. Among others good things he said of the race and to the race which he so gloriously represents were as follows: "It is related of Alexander the Great, that on a certain occasion, hearing of the fame and wisdom of Diogenes, the shoe-cobber, he called at his shop which was simply a big old barrel. The great captain, anxious to do something for the old philosopher said: 'Diogenes, what can I do for you?' Instantly and with out hesitation came the reply from the old philosopher, as he looked up from his awl and hammer, 'Get the out of my sunshine.' The colored man has been asking the world to get out of his sunshine all the forty years of his freedom. The prayer of his petition has not always been granted indeed it has been and is too often refused'But, he has made and repaired shoes although overshadowed by the august presence of the world conquering Alexander. They commenced at the beginning with nothing not even the 'six feet of earth' which makes us all equal, for they did not own a cemetary or a lot in which they might be buried, should they die. The great prejudice to combat every day in the year, with the almost impossible difficulty of belonging to another race, with no training in economy, with no experience in business, and so absolutely without a home as to resemble the Son of Man, in that He 'had no place where to lay his head—yet the race presents the following record for the first generation of citizenship and unparalleled nowhere in the history of the world: "Literacy reduced to 42 per cent., students in the schools 2,000,000; Students in the higher institution of learning, 40,000; teachers, 30,000; students learning trades, 30,000; students persuading classical courses, 1,500; those taking scientific courses, 1,200; those taking business courses 1,000; graduates 17,000; 400,000 volumes in libraries owned by colored people; 200 institutions for higher education of the colored youth; 1,000 physicians; 1,800 books and pamphlets written by colored autors, 800 lawyers; 10 banks, 6 magazines and 500 newspapers; libraries worth $300,000; school property valued at $12,000,000; Church property worth $40,000,000; 20000 farms $200,000,000; homes valued at $305,000; and personal property worth $165,000,000 making a grand total of over $1,000,000,000 or 100 dollar pea capita for every man, woman and child in America In addition to this the colored people have raised for educational purposes, as has been proven by a noted student of sociology 105,000,000 dollars since 1876, in other words; these people have contributed not only the 100,000,000 dollars which have been applied to their education but they have raised 5,000,000 dollars bes de which has been applied to other educational purposes. It may be pertinent to ask right here those gentlemen who are constantly croaking about the fact that the colored people are a burden to tax payers, the following query: "Since when has it been tbat the education of the colored people has proven to be a burden to the South, which they themselves have not met." "And when was it discovered that the man who mills the farm, rents the house or digs the coal, does not in that way pay the taxes? If that is not so then all recognized writers on political economy are at fault. Mr. Chas, Steward, general newspaper correspondent and a man who continually travels, thus having an excellent opportunity to see and make comparison of Negroes in various sections of the country. Writing to the Afro-American Leader of Baltimore, Md., under non depluge of J. O. Midnight has the following to say regarding. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. Today all over this county our boys and girls are getting in school and are doing good work. They are going to school in order to make useful women and men. They are getting ready to take their places among the representative men and women of the age. They are going to tie with the white beys and girls in manhood and womanhood. You may say all you want but these black boys and girls are going to be heard from. The boys today will be voters tomorrow, and put it down that out of this number there will be others to go to Congress, some to represent their people in these Southern Legislatures, as well, as some to go to jail to prevent the white man from having a monopoly on that place of confinement, and they will keep company with him in hell. When Greek Meets Greek. In the District Court of this city the past week there was tried a murder case wherein one Negro had killed another in one of the few hell holes of our city, there was nothing out of the ordinary in this case, except the fact that the criminal was defended by a Negro lawyer, Judge I. F. Bradley and prosecuted by a Negro lawyer Hon. B. S. Smith deputy county attorney. These two men have rightly been reckoned among the brightest legal talent in the two cities consequently much interest was manifested and many a listening ear was unturned to catch every word on the day of the "pleading." The efforts of these two legal rights for and against were worthy of much commendation. The matchless eloquence, the force and true earnestness will long be remembered by the many who filled the court room. The arguments told the caliber of the men and while the preponderance of evidence was in favor of conviction, yet Mr. Smith left no stone unturned that conviction would not be forth coming, Judge Bradley likewise labored that his client would be acquitted, he lost, but honor to his noble defense. Reproducing a remark of one who had listened to them—We too, say they are there with the goods. Unite! Unite! Unite! On every passing breeze that blows comes these words with increased volumes, unite,—unite, Oh! that we could impress upon our people the power of getting together. In all the increased favorable condition, behind all there is something we know not what that speak in tones of thunder "get together". From Miississippi comes the news that a Negro is given ten years in the penitentiary for marrying a white woman. From Arkansas comes the tidings of a lynching, from Maryland comes the news that the issue between the two great political parties. Is the Negro must be eliminated from politics, from Kansas, the old state made sacred by the blood of black and whites alike—comes the news that the races must be separated in the schools, in various other sections of the country—Negroes are being driven out, even in the church of God the race lines are being drawn closer in factories and various marts of industry the Negro is barred from earning a livelihood. What does it all mean? Who can read the writing on the wall? Is it not time to unite ourselves. This is not written by an alarmist—but by an observant of the times. THEY SAY Who is King of the slums? Certainly we were at the last picnic of the Season. Yes on South Main. Boys it up to you. And the lid was on tight. Who missed their "kool kettles." Who is the most popular of the boys in blue? They came all the way from Missouri to find the lid on in Kansas. What's the latest? Wednesday is his day off. He ain't holding anything. Tis the last rose of summer sure. Summer days will soon be gone. That marriage is a sure go, Ha! Ha! That quartette even plays when they sing. Have you seen (Barber) B. well he is the real thing. Good Mr.Johnson is still making a hit on his route. The letter she looked or never came. The High School, Jim Crow arrangements are still unsettled and the colored citizens are uniting to push the matter to the highest courts in the land—Toleration of the present arrangements of the Negroes is unbearable and they have a big kick. If seperation is wanted—why not equal facilities. LOCALLY. Rev. I. N. Chandler left this week for Memphis; Tenr., where he will devote some time in the evangelist work. Rev. Chandler is doing a great work. Mrs. Clara Holmes of 230 W. 10th St. who has been quite ill for two weeks is now able to be out again among her many friends and associates. Mrs. Sidney Taylor of Louisville, 6 y., will arrive in the city this week on an extended visit with her daughter Mrs. Lulu Johnson of State ave. A. S. Reed, brotherinlaw to Dr. I. H. Anthony left Thursday for Richmond, Mo. Va. where he expect to take senior college year in Virginia Union Univer sity. Mr. and Mrs. L. Sayers of Hill City, Kas., is expected in the city next week the guest of their brother Mr. Oliver Bates of 1515 N. 5th St. Mrs. Nannie Wilson of Hillsdale, Kass, spent several days in the city the guest of Bell Hyde of 440 Freeman ave. Rev. P. Suttles of 434 Freeman ave., will leave next week for Newton, Kansas to attend the C. M. E. Conference. Mrs. Bell Chrisman of 1219 N. 5th St. who has spent several months in Phillipsburg, Kans., has returned home. The members of the [A. M. E. Church rejoice at the return of Rev. A.M. Ward for another conference year by the conference that closed Monday of this week. Mr. F. Powell and Miss Nancy Powler were quietly married on the evening of the 28th at the home of the brides parents 930 Walker ave. Rev. J. R. Richardson performed the ceremonies. The young couple have the congratulations of many friends for a long journey together. The largest loaf of bread that was ever made was an exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair, which weighed 300 pounds; it was 14 feet long and 22 feet wide. The Reason He Has Money Mr. E. W. Taylor of Kankakee, Ill. was the receiver of a cigar as a reward for returning 67,000 dollars lost by Mr. Franklin P. Koontz, a wealthy colored man of Birmingham, Ala. Taylor was returning from the South on an Illinois Central train and found on the floor of the car the wallet containing 67,000 dollars. The bank book inside the wallet showed that Koontz had on deposit in Birmingham 196,000 dollars. Taylor went through the train and found the owner, who carefully counted the money examined the other contents of the wallet and then, Taylor says he handed the firend a cigar. A Dark Day in Police Court We have continually urged the Negro to keep out of police court but it seems to no avail. They are desirous of keeping up with the white man along all lines, but today he surpassed them and from the amount of Negroes in Police Court today one could not but call it a dark day. Many of the cases were calculated to bring the blush of shame and a deep feeling of regret that such inchestate human mortals could be classed as members of our race; verily, verily we say unto you keep out of the clutchss of the law, justice is not always on your side. PUBLICATION NOTICE. THE COURT 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 named 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 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 $00.00, 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 offer date thereof with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent per annum from date unet paid. Said Notes was sold, transferred and indorsed to this plaintiff, for a valuable consideration. And unless you answer as aforesaid, judgment will be rendered for said amount, and Dorsey Green atty. for Plaintiff attest; J. L. Baggs Clerk. first pub. July 7th 1905. NOTELETS HON. H. C. SMITH, NOMINATED Cleveland, Ohio,—Hon. H. C. Smith, who has served three terms in the State Legislature, has just been nominated for the fourth term by a decisive majority. He is the only colored man in the North who has served so often in a State Legislature. There were 23 candidates for seven places and Mr. Smith received the third highest vote. In Mr. Smith's dis district there is a population of 60,000 and of this number number only 3,500 are Afro Americans. A nomination is equivalent to election. DON'T MAKE NO DIFFERENCE. One smile makes a flirtation. One flirtation makes two acquainted. Two acquainted makes one kisa. One kiss makes several more. Several kisses make an engagement. One engagement makes two fools. Two fools makes one marriage. One marriage makes two mothers-in-law. Two mothers-in-laws make a red hot time. HOW IS THIS FOR LUCK. The wife of a New York policeman walked into the station and handed him a letter wherein it was stated that his uncle, James Edgar of Oak'land, Cal., had recently died and left him the bulk of his fortune, valued at $200,000. He was still trying to realize his good fortune when his wife returned in a cab, bearing a cablegram summoning him to Ramsgate (England) to claim the sum of $100,000, which another uncle had bequeuthed him. He says he will probably remain on the police force after getting the money. NEGRO GIANT DEAD. Nashville, Tenn.,—Bud Rogan, Tennessee's Negro giant is dead at his home in Gellatin. Rogan was 8 feet 9 inches tall. His hands were 12 inches in length and feet 16 1-2 inches. He was drawn around by two goats, his legs being too slender to support his gigantic body and enormous feet. Rogan was about 36 years old. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Allen Walker, Plaintiff. vs Robert McCrie c. D. Shrader, Defendants Number 6073. 10. Robert McCrie and C. D. Shrader. You are hereby notified that the plaintiff aove named has brought suit and filed his petition against you, in the above entitled court, and that you must answer the petition aforesaid filed against you, on or before the 28 day of October 1905, or said petition will be taken as true and judgement accordingly rende red against you as follows: First- A personal judgement against you quiring your title to and in lot 48 in block 50 in Wyandotte city, or per record put thereof such other relief as set out in Plaintiff's petition and for cost herein expended. Allen Walker. By Chas W. Frye, Atty. for Plaintiff. SEAL. Attest: J. L. Blegs, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. First Pub. Sept. 8th, 1905. PUBLICATION NOTICE In The Disriet Court of Wyandotte Kansas Katie Gilmore Plaintiff. vs. NO 19025. Jackson Gilmore Defeedant. To the above named defendant. You will hereby take notice that you have been sued in the above named court. by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer the petition filed 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, desolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing her from said defendant, and awarding to her maiden name. Katie Fulcher, and for cost of suit Katie Gilmore plaintiff. I. F. Bradley atty. attest Wm. Needles clerk. First Pub. Aug. 18th 1905. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEDGE DECEASED Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that at the next regular term of the Prabatee Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Prabatee Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid on the first Monday in the month of March A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. Peter young Administrator of Clara Williams Sledge Decaeased. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned, Pro- bate Judge in and for the County of Wynon 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 Why does colored people as well as uncolored people set in the dark or by a smoky poor light and drink muddy bad water full of disease germs. 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 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. As You Go Along. Be helpful, be sociable, be unseifish, be generous, be a good listener, never wry or whine, study the art of pleasing, be frank, open and truthful, always be ready to lend a hand, be kind and polite to eve ybody be self-confident, but not consented, never monopolize the conversation, take a genuine interest in other people, always look on the bright side of things, take pains to remember the names and faces, never criticise or say unkind things of others, look for the good in others, not for their faults, cultivate health and thua radiate strength and courage, forget and forgive injuries, but never forget benofis rejoice as genuinely in another success as in your own, always be considerate of the rights and feelings of others, have a good time, but never let fun degenerate invy license, learn to control yourself under the most trying circumstances, have a kind word and a cheer encouraging smile for everyone, be respeful to women and chivarous in your attitude toward them, meet trouble like a man and cheerfully endure what you can't cure, believe in the brotherhood of man and recognize no class distinctions. 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. Why does colored people as well the dark or by a smoky pool bad water full of When they can get a first-class Bright Gas B For 35 to 75 c Self Cleaner that makes the water clear For 50 to 7 A. J. SHI 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 first day of July, answer the petition filed by the plaintiff in the above—entitled action in said Court or the matter and things set forth in said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing the plaintiff from the defendant, and awarding the plain- tiff the custody of their only calld. Charlie Rochester. By Green and Henderson attorneys for plainn. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF 7 KANSAS. { SS WYANDOTTE COUNTY. { IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY In the matter of the Estate of Mary L. Gordon Deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid Dated the 21 day of March 1905. Now all persons having alims 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. 18297. 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 less youdum ur. answer or otherwise objection 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 THE 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 of the Honorable, the Probate Court of the county and State aforesaid, date the 6th day of February A. D. 1905. Now, all persons have long claims against the said Estate, are hereby notified that they must prest the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from any beefit 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. First published Feb. 11th 1905. Cookery for Danes. A course of cooking lessons for men only has been begun in Copenhagen under the auspices of an influential committee. well as uncolored people set in poor light and drink muddy of disease germs. Burser Light cents. and a Water Filter, r as a Cristle and Healthy. 75 cents. IERIDAN, OM 8 Kanaas City, Kansas. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. FLEISHID 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 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. 1879." Grewsome Collection A French professor is the owner of a collection of 920 human heads, representing every known race of people. Scarlet for Bachelor Maids. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery of the coachman are all scarlet. Cost of London's Paupers Every year $4,000,000 is spent on the food and clothing of indoor paupers in London. Here is the Place. J T ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINNESOTA AVENUE. Call and see H.S. Sykes and and A. Gooden manufacturer of Pop corn in ball and brick at 316 Oakland ave A Word To You. The lack of proper appreciation of the efforts of Negro newspapers make in an uphill business to maintain the standard of excellence desired by those in the business. Just why the race is so utterly slack, in giving to their own the proper patronage is one of the unsolved mysteries. Each day and week bring to us the warning of being a unit in behalf of our own salvation. It takes something beside wind to publish the most weakly of weeklies. If every Afro-American family would pledge themselves to stand by an organ builped in their behalf, just one year, the results would be unbelieved we ask the colored brother to wake up 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 subscript ag getting your neighbors to do the same und watch the good results. Notice of Final Settlement. In the Probate Court in and forsaid County, In the Matter of the Estate of John R.Smith Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and forsaid County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid, on the first Monday in month of February, A. D 1906. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. JAMES D. SMITH. Administrator of the Estate John R. Smith: Deceased. In Witness Whereof, the undesigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte,State of Kansas,have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 24th day of December, A. D. 1904. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. Res.420 Nebraska ave. Tel.383 White. SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office 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 one of the committee halts: "Sir, I wish to grant 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 magiate, 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,' yawncd Manners again. Then as I took up the jug he grumbled: "Ain't there nobody what sells molasses in this here town but me?" PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toilet that would quite astonish the most fashionable society lady. First she has her hair dressed by her maid, who, after anointing the long, silky black locks with a little oil, made from aloe wood or cocoanut, arranges it simply in a long, smooth plait, low on the nape of the neck, and decorated either with gold or jewelled ornaments. Next the bath is prepared as hot as it can be borne, and in this the lady may stay as long as two or three hours. Soaps are not used, but, instead, there are multifarious unguents, secret preparations of the bathing women, which render the skin soft as velvet and delicately perfumed. Oftentimes the face is washed over with milk, into which has been squeezed lemon juice. The hair of the oriental woman is usually beautifully long, soft and glossy, and the way they arrange it is invariably becoming to their soft type of beauty. Perfumes are much indulged in. These are introduced in the bath and permeate the garments, but are rarely used on a handkerchief. The Foam on the Top The foam on the top. Don't smuggle conceit to your bosom, my boy. Because you're on top of the wave. For here is a thought that might serve as an aid. To hold of the credit you crave: The best is not always at surface, my son. And I think. If to notice you 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 this funny old world often labels as The thing that is good in its day. In fact, I may say that it classifies wrong Some part of the great earthly crop. And I think you will note as you journey forth. That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear youth. But look on the world as you go. See the men whom we place at the summit, in truth. The gaze on the mortals below. And I give you my word I'll have nothing to teach. And this brief little anthem will stop, if you agree with the thing that I preach. That the foam may be found on the top. —A. J. Waterhouse in Sunset Magazine. A Polite Discharge. James Rankin Young, the new superintendent of the Dead Letter office admires politeness. "It is possible," he said recently, "to be polite always. It is possible to be polite even when discharging a drunken coachman. I know that this is so, for I have seen the thing done. "A friend of mine found himself obliged last week to get rid of his coachman for drunkenness. He summoned the man into his presence, and discharged him with this polite speech: "I fear, Montgomery, that we must part. It has been impossible for me to avoid noticing that several times during the past month you have been—er—sober. Now, I don't believe that any man can attend properly to drinking if he has driving to do, and, therefore, at the month's end you will be free to devote yourself exclusively to your chosen occupation." All Christians. In his article in the Woman's Home Companion, describing the International Sunday School Convention in Jerusalem, Doctor Devins relates the following significant incident: "An unexpected favor was received from the officers of the Russian church on the Mount of Olives. A meeting had been planned to be held near the place of the Ascension. As the leader of the meeting, the writer went to see if it could be held under the trees near the church. "Why not?" was the reply, accompanied by a smile on the saintly face of the speaker. 'Why not? Do we not worship the same Christ?' Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors. A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keeping up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but he has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or sentimental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his interruptions. He has a high pitched, penetrating voice, and the town police, who have been on the verge of ejecting him a dozen times, say that he was a Glasgow cab driver who retired with a competence and now takes this way to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melodrama was being presented. The heroine of the play, pursued by the villain, had taken refuge in the house of her lover, who, as the hero of the play, was of course, at variance with his sweetheart's parents. The exigencies of the plot required that the irate father, sword in hand and at the head of his faithful retainers, should track the girl to the gates of the hero's treacherous and disgraceful elopement, enter the room where the scared heroine had been secreted under the table. "Wretch!" cried the furious father, "your life shall answer for this. I demand my child. Where is she." Then, shrill and startling in the expectant silence, from the gallery came the answer: "Unner the table, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stickin' oot?" The house was in a tumult of merriment in a moment, but it was the "angry father" himself, who ruined the situation, for he burst into immoderate laughter and the curtain fell in the middle of the act, to rise again upon an audience that could not repress its risibles for the rest of the evening. HE WANTED A MORTGAGE Swede's Experience With a Deed Had Taught Him Caution. Halvor Steenerson, Congressman from Minnesota, tells a story of a Swede who went to that state from one of the Dakotas for the purpose of buying a farm. A land agent acted as guide and informant to the Swede, who eventually found what he wanted. When the time came to make out the necessary papers, the agent asked the Swede what method he preferred to adopt in making payments. "Ay pay all. Ay haf da money," replied the Swede. "Very well, then. I'll make out the deed," said the agent. "No!" suddenly exclaimed the Swede. "Ay no want deed!" "Why, yes, you do!" rejoined the agent, astonished. "You pay the money and you take a deed for the farm." "No, no!" earnestly asseverated the Swede. "Ay no want deed! Ay had deed oop in 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 mortal hence and you asked me the same question over again my reply would be the same." "I think I see—I think I do," mused the old man, as he leaned back and crossed his feet. "Yes, I guess I understand, and I want to tell you that you are a durned mean jackass of a man and that history is going to repeat itself every blamed time I run across you for the next ten years to come."—Chicago News. A Gentle Thrust. James Jeffrey Roche, the new Consul to Genoa, was talking about a magazine editor. "This man," he said, "rejected some of the best of my early verse. He rejected some of the best verse of my friends. Why he is an editor I can't imagine. He certainly has no critical sense. "I indicated this to him one day. He had announced to me that he was going to get married. He had praised the lady of his choice ardently, declaring her to be a poem. "‘A poem?' said I. "‘A poem,' he repeated. "And still you do not reject her? I exclaimed." Winter. Soft as the plumes of sleep drifts dowp The pure white silence of the snow The bells make merry in the town, Where happy faces come and go. The brooding quiet of the trees, Is broken sweet, in yonder glen. By "day, day day," of checkades And keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word Is warbled when the grosbeaks sing; And in the moaning pines is heard The whisper of returning spring This is the birthday of the year, Now far; off summer's battles start; And lo; the very cold grows dear, The widest storm wind warms the heart. Telephone Bell W. 32. Telephone Home W. 32 W. B Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR. And, Embalmer The Very Best of Service, Fine Carriages For All Purpose. At All Hours. The Best Equiped White Enameled Ambulance For Sick and wounded On Short Notice. Charges Reasonable Call At 431 Minnesota. Ave. Kansas City, Kansas. Notice. Nice Furrished ROOM AND BOARD AT At$3.25perweek Armourdale Kansas. And in a good location' convenin o street car service. 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In the reading room of the British museum the desks are crowded with students all day long, and in addition to the books of reference some 20,000 in number, which fill the open shelves of the room, from 3,000 to 4,000 volumes are given out every day. Theology in a wide sense, including the Bible, biblical literature, church history, and works on the religious rites and ceremonies of all races and creeds, is easily at the head of the list, with about 300 volumes. Topography comes next, with about twenty fewer, and of these books on London amount to a quarter, books on English topography to another quarter, the other half being for the rest of the world. History and biography come next. English history being mostly in demand, and books on France and the French province second. Essays, criticisms and miscellaneous literature take the fourth place and are followed by fiction—not less than five years old—moral philosophy, poetry and the fine arts, the drama, law and philology, political economy and so on down to politics, mathematics and chemistry, which have about forty volumes apiece, and lastly works on naval and military subjects, which dom have more than three or four volumes each. It is a curious list and throws a useful light on the sort of studies taken up by the readers in the museum.—London Globe. Progress in Steam Turbines That the actual displacement of the reciprocating steam engine by the steam turbine for many purposes is proceeding at a rapid pace in this country is indicated in the statement that a single company, manufacturing but one of the several types of steam turbines in the United States, took orders, within the last half year for turbines for generating electricity having a capacity of 82,000 kilowatts, or nearly 110,000 horse power. Three of these engines are for a Brooklyn power station and will be the largest ever constructed. It is interesting to note in this connection that wonderful as is the transformation in power mechanism, there are engineers who predict a still more radical change in the not distant future in the development of power from gas engines. This form of engine has been developed to a marked extent in Europe, especially in Germany, and American and English engineers are just beginning to awake to the possibilities in this direction. According to one authority, "we may yet see steam engines and turbines sent to the scrap heap." —Philadelphia Ledger. A Little Bit. "Any news down my way?" repeated the farmer as he stopped his team and bit a chew off his plug. "Wall, I kin give ye a leet bit, I guess. It haint earthquakes nor cyclones, but it does purty well for our place." "Well?" queried the tollgate man. "Wall, the news is that Jim Williams' wife's canary bird got out of the cage the other day, and she had to chase it more'n two hours to get it back." "That isn't much news." "Nope, I 'spouse not; but I was savin' the best for the last." "And what is it?" "Why, a tin peddler come along and bet Joe Harkins that he could outjump him, and Joe held his breath and jumped seven feet and won the bet, and it's already settled that we are to run him for the Legislature next fall." Value of Study of Greek. President Hadley of Yale has lately declared that the old school college and university instructors who set great store upon Greek as a means of mental discipline and development were half right and half wrong. They were right, he says, in holding that hard work and precision of thought were more important by far than immediate utility or the student's natural interest in the subject studied. But they were wrong, President Hadley maintains, in supposing that Greek was necessarily more effective than other subjects of study can be made. Spirit Bridal. And all the marvel of her beauty's rose Has vanished quite away. moon to night. Jessie Stors Ferris, in Everybody's Magazine. Sorrow Of It. "More trouble," sighed McNutty, putting on his coat. "If it ain't one thing it's another." "What's the matter now?" queried his good wife. "More labor troubles," answered McNutty. "Not another lockout, I hope," said the partner of his sorrows. "No, it's worse than that," answered the alleged head of the house. "The boss has yielded and I've got to go to work again."—Chicago News. The Egotistical Lecturer "The your address upon beauties of the Shinto religion did not seem to interest the audience," remarked one of the committee to the lecturer. "Yes, I was talking way above their heads," he said pompously. "There must have been some other reason. 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Model Dairy Farm Two brothers, Albert and Harry Fahnestock, have a model dairy farm at Quaker Bottom valley, in Baltimore county, and the other day they had the members of the Baltimore stock exchange out to look at it. The visitors were driven over the 650 acres in wagons drawn by teams of eight nicely matched gray Percheron horses, and they found the dairymen and the stablemen all neatly uniformed. It is also reported that they found a scene of "unusual pastoral beauty." There are hills, valleys and tumbling splashing waters on the big farm, and the keynote of the management is organization and system. The result is success. CHRONIC ERYSIPELAS Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pillo, Although Whole Body was Affected. Erysipelas or St. Anthony's fire is a most uncomfortable disease on account of the burning, the pain and the disgement; it is also a very grave disorder, attended always by the danger of involving vital organs in its spread. 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"Shortly after this, on the advice of a friend, I began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, two at a two three times a day. After the second box had been used I was surprised to notice that the inflammation was going down and that the pains which used to cause so much agony had disappeared. After using six boxes of the pills I was up around the house attending to my household duties, as well as ever." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers in medicine or may be obtained direct from the Dr. Williams Institute Co., Schenectady, N.Y. A nice thing about friends is the way you can keep them by not lending money to them. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it will stick to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Saturates are put in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. 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No file or screenwriter after a day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restor S. E. KLINE LTD. $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Gunner: No, he was on one of those nothing pooling rooms, where the break break the lams.—Chicago News. Stacee Starch is guaranteed biggest bestest or money refunded. 16 seats, 10 cents. Try it now. Don't fall to occupy one of the three seats. The smokers can walk. SAVED BY A SHARK NELS NELSON'S ENCOUNTER WITH REAL SEA SERPENT. Truthful Sailor Describes Adventure with Ocean Monster—"Eating Tobacco" Disagreed with His Snake-ship—Help Comes in Nick of Time. "You may think that this is a pretty hair-sized sea serpent, but you ought to have seen the one that got away—he was the daddy of them all," said Nels Nelson, one of the sailors in charge of the big consignment of sea specimens received at the aquarium as he slammed a writhing 5-foot spoted moray into the receiving tank in the inner court of the city's famous fisheries exhibit, says the New York World. "You know that the moray family—spotty and green—are the originals of the sea serpent you hear so much about and see so little of," said Mr Nelson as he inhaled a handful of eating tobacco. "It was three weeks ago, or maybe it was a little over—yees, I believe it was a day or so over, to be exact—we were cruising off the coast of Bermuda looking for specimens for the New York aquarium and we were being pretty well. We'd taken in a lot of butterfly fish and green parrot fish and a croaker—because of the Tammany administration—and a lot of dog fish and grunts. Funny, ain't it, we always find the grunts around the hogfish? "But to return to that sea serpent, We'd been fishing around for some time before we struck on this school of morays—sort of correspondence school, where they could learn seasperpenting in six easy lessons and then get good jobs as press agents for summer resorts. Of course, these were just little boy sea serpents and could only play the dinky circuits, but they'll grow even in the quarium. "Me and another fellow was rowing around in a small boat when I noticed the fellow who was rowing suddenly dropped his oars and his eyes bulged right out of his head. He was looking at something over my shoulder and I naturally turned my head and looked right into the face of one of these green boys that looked about five times as big as these ordinary ones, and you know they look had enough." "Of course, that was only the first glance, for on careful second consideration I wouldn't say that he was more than fifteen or eighteen feet long—maybe eighteen—and big in proportion. He was resting his face on the rudder and stern of the dinky and looking me square in the eye, his horns standing up straight and his toothlined mouth opening and shutting like a steam shovel. That was a fine thing to have suddenly flashed into your face and I naturally jumped up, dropping my plug of eating tobacco and knocking over a few lobster pots to get to the other end of the boat. "The serpent leaned himself on the stern and nibbled up that plug of chewing at one gulp, and in about less than a minute he seemed to regret having done it, for he commenced thrashing the water something fierce with his tail—and that must have been at least twenty feet away." "I thought you said it was fifteen?" said the reporter, timidly. "Well, maybe it was. Make it sixteen, anyway. But fierce!" "I made a swipe at him with the oar and hit him a glancing smear at the snoot, when—would you believe it?—he riz up out of the sea until his head towered above the water about six feet, waving back and forth—just like you see them in pictures—when of a sudden something seemed to trip him up and he slapped face down with a bang on the dinky's stern, and before we could do a thing he had been whisked off the boat into the water. A shark had bit him in two, just in time, and was toting him away to his table d'hote." American Politics in Canada There are places in western Canada where you may drive for fifty miles without meeting any one except a former American citizen says The World's Work for September. A good story is told of the new minister of the interior of Canada, Frank Oliver, a Liberal. He was stumping Alberta with Patrick Nolan, of Calgary, a Conservative. The rival orators spoke at Ponoka, where nine out of ten of the farmers are Americans. Afterward they went to the village hotel, and mingled with the farmers to overhear comments on their addresses. "Say, Bill," said a man from Missouri, "them fellers wuz right smart speakers wuzn't they?" "Right you are, Cy," answered Bill, "but somehow I can't make out what they was drivin' at. I can't fer the life of me tell whether they wuz fer Bryan or McKinley." How Willie Made Money. Little Willie Jones' mother had been in the habit of giving him spending money every day. One day mother told Willie that he was getting too old and big a boy to be spending money for candy, and if he wanted any more money he would have to earn it himself. But Willie seemed to be more prosperous day after day. One day his mother noticed a lot of children yelling and shrieking in the back yard. Upon investigation she found Willie surrounded by the admiring children and this sign upon the playhouse: "Willie Jones Will Eat '1 small green worm for 1 cent. 1 large green worm for 2 cents. 1 small fuzzy worm for 3 cents. 1 large fuzzy worm for 4 cents. 1 small green toad, 10 cents: 1 large green toad, 25 cents." A KING'S PUNCTUALITY. All men agree in the abstract that "punctuality is the soul of business," but few act up to the max'm with the strictness of the king of the Belgians, says the London Globe. Wherever cr however he may travel, whether the visit be of business, pleasure or ceremony, he is punctual, not only to the hour, but to the minute—it might also be said to the second. And yet his majesty is never seen to consult a watch. But his familiars know that his habit of passing his hand along his flowing beard is only a device for glancing at a small watch which he wears fastened to his wrist. Gave Library to Salt Lake John Q. Packard, a pioneer miner of Utah, is the door of Salt Lake City's new public library. He first gave $75,000 and subsequently increased his gift to $125,000. Taking note of Andrew Carnegie's library giving, Mr. Packard said: "I think Salt Lake is entitled to a public library, and it will not have to be under any obligations to Mr. Carnegie for it either—I'll just build one myself." The building is now ready for use, thoroughly equipped after the modern way, and the city is to supply the books. Mr. Packard now lives in California. Six Doctors Failed. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 25th (Special)—After suffering from Kidney Disease for three years; after taking treatment from six different doctors without getting relief, Mr. J. O. Laudeman of this place found not only relief but a speedy and complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Speaking of his cure Mr. Laudeman says: "Yes, I suffered from Kidney Trouble for three years and tried six doctors to no good. 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The humor was cured in a short time, my hair was restored as healthy as ever, and I can gladly say I have since been entirely free from any further annoyance. I shall always use Cuticura Soap, and I keep the Ointment on hand to use as a dressing for the hair and scalp. (Signed) Fred'k Busche, 213 East 57th St., New York City." "Why, I thought Wadleigh was a man of large means." "He used to be, but he owns six automobiles now." The Name "October." Even the younger Latin students know why October is named the eighth month; but not all of you are aware that there have been five attempts to change the name to honor Roman sovereigns. The Saxons called the month "Winterfylleth," and those hawking as its emblematic sport.—From "Books and Reading" in October St. Nicholas. A man needs only not to be a cripple or a hunchback tr; be accounted a handsome fellow by the woman. ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT V ACETYLENE GAS COFFEE MACHINE can be installed at small cost in any home, large or small, anywhere. Acetylene gas is cheaper than kerosene, brighter than electricity, safer than either. Full particulars FREE for the asking. AN ABSENT-MINDED MAN "I'm up against the banner absent minded man of my life," said George Moser, the clerk of the Coates house, says the Kansas City Times. "He went away last Tuesday, and we found, of all things in the world, that he had left his evening dresscoat and prayer book behind him. Wednesday we received a wire. 'Send left luggage my hotel,' but he didn't say where it was and he left no address when he went away. Yesterday I got an indignant letter protesting against our carlessness, but it was written on plain paper and contained no address. So the dresscoat and prayer book are still undelivered and we can't find their owner." THCUSANDS OF LIVES SAVED By "Mother's Medicine, Chest" and Patent Prescriptions. Commenting on attacks made by certain eastern publications on some of the best known and most valuable of the world's proprietary medicines, the Committee on Legislation of the Proprietary Association says: "All through the country districts, in every state of the union, you will find in the farm houses the old family remedies, sometimes called 'patent medicines,' many of which have been in use in the same household for generations. Among such people the old-fashioned proprietary medicine, always at hand with full printed instructions for use, is one of the necessities of life. "To families in the country many miles from a doctor such remedies are invaluable. 'Mother's medicine chest' has saved many a life and met many a threatening sickness at the threshold and turned it out of doors. So far from constituting self-prescription, as is often pretended, acquaintance with a 'patent medicine' often obviates the necessity of such a step; for here is a prescription already made up, the effect of which is well known. One of the greatest advantages of such medicine is that its constant formula gives it the character of a single drug, so far as uniformity of result is concerned, and the people who use it know from experience just what they can count on—which is more than can be said of many physicians' prescriptions frequently obtained at a far greater cost and trouble." Needed Them in His Business. Miss Gotrox—Nearly all my admirers think I should be able to get tips from you on the market. Gotrox—Encourage them in that belief, my dear. It won't be long before I'll be ready to unload the stock I'm carrying.—Puck. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman can be happy because she wants to and unhappy because you don't want her to. High finance is when your money goes up like a rocket and comes down in somebody else's pocket. When a man comes home and gives the excuse that he went to sleep in the car from being worn out with work and was carried out of his way, his wife will believe him when she tells it to her mother.—New York Press. Never Loses its Strength ALUME AXING POWDER WITH MADE BY THE TWENTY Calumet Baking Powder Is Most Healthful, Wholesome and Economical A three-mile race between a freight train and a yearling mule was witnessed here today, ending in a dead heat. The mule broke from its pasture just as the freight approached and, speeding along the right of way, kept side by side of the train for a distance of three miles. In the race the mule cleared three cattle guards and did not stop until it had reached the big bridge over the Muscatatuck, where it left the right of way. The freight was running not less than 30 miles an hour and the trainmen kept watch on the mule from the caboose as it made its record-breaking run. — Indianapolis May Quarrel Over Nobel Fund A Parisian journal wonders what Nobel would do were he still living. He was a Swede, but he put the assignment of the Nobel prizes in the hands of the Norwegian storling, for the express purpose of bringing "these two hostile brothers" into friendlier relations. The question arises now whither the Swedish parliament will not now disregard Nobel's directions and itself assume charge of the funds. Baroness Rosen Popular. Baroness Rosen, wife of the new Russian ambassador, is likely to become a leading factor in the social life at Washing-on, where she is already well known and much liked, her gracious and kindly hospitality when her husband was intrusted with the direction of the Muscovite legation there some twelve years ago having won her much popularity. "I need more money," said the flying-machine inventor. "But I thought the machine was finished," replied the capitalist. "It is, but I've got to hire a man to fly it. Do; you think I want to get killed?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "It was only five years ago that I started in with our firm at $5 a week," said Bragg, "and now I earn $50.00 a week without trouble." "That's so; it's easy to earn that," replied Newitt, "but how much do you get?"—Philadelphia Ledger. All Christendom fasts in Lent except the dogs and the noblemen. The Supply Comes From Food. If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can. That is only possible by use of skillfully selected food that exactly fits the requirements of the body. Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a poor fire is not a good steam producer. "From not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, I suffered grievously for a long time from stomach troubles," writes a lady from a little town in Missouri. "It seemed as if I would never be able to find out the sort of food that was best for me. Hardly anything that I could eat would stay on my stomach. Every attempt gave me heart-burn and filled my stomach with gas. I got thinner and thinner until I literally became a living skeleton and in time was compelled to keep to my bed. "A few months ago I was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such good effect from the very beginning that I have kept up its use ever since. I was surprised at the ease with which I digested it. It proved to be just what I needed. All my unpleasant symptoms, the heart-burn, the inflated feeling which gave me so much pain disappeared. My weight gradually increased from 98 to 116 lbs., my figure rounded out, my strength came back, and I am now able to do my housework and enjoy it. The Grape-Nuts food did it." Name given by Grape- nuts Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A ten days' trial will show anyone some facts about food. "There's a reason." OBLIGING CHAUFFEUR SUR PRISED CONVIVIAL PARTY. All Had a Good Time While Ride Lasted, but Driver Had Yet to Meet His Justly Incensed Better Half and Do Some Explaining. "It's a big mistake to think that all dead game sports haunt Broadway or live in New York," said the returned traveler, setting down his glass. "You are apt to find 'em in the most unexpected places, and there is no mistaking the genuine article when you do run across him, whether in the Walldorf-Astoria or at Dinkville-on-the rail road track. "All of which reminds me of a little experience I had a short time ago in the city of Syracuse, which is located on the main trail of what the natives of New York call vaguely 'up the state.' I was one of a party of four and we had been doing the town. "Coming out of the Yates house in the afternoon we spied a big automobile drawn up as the curb. The sight of it inspired us with a desire to continue the rounds on wheels. "I object,' said Mr. Tightly, one of the party, who was notoriously close in money matters. 'They'll probably want about $5 an hour for that machine.' "After a conference we decided to offer $1 an hour. The driver, a big good looking chap, sat like a sphinx on the seat, a cap on his head and big goggles over his eyes. It didn't take us long to make a bargain with him." "The price suits me," he said. "Jump in and I'll take you anywhere you want to go." "We chugged around to various points of interest within the corporation limits, not neglecting the irrigation stations, when some one suggested that we take a run out to a road house. The driver knew just the place that would suit us, and he took us there. "His judgment proved to be excellent. The place was A No. 1. We liked it so well that finally we began to order wine. "Up to that time we had been content with the drink of the common people. The wine made us feel good and we asked the driver to have a drink. "Presently the quart before us was finished. The driver touched the bell. "Another bottle, please," he said to the waiter, 'and not quite so cold this time.' "Well, I'll be hanged," said Tightly, and he could get no further. "We all expostulated with the driver and told him to keep his money. "That's all right, gentleman," he replied, pulling out a roll as big around as a spare tire. I've made good money in the last week and I assure you I can afford it." "After that we made him one of the party. When we returned to the hotel Tightly approached the driver with a five-dollar bill for his fare and a one dollar bill for a tip. "That's all right," he said cordially. The ride is paid for. The fact is," he continued, with a broad grin, 'the machine is mine and I don't need the money. Here's my card. Glad you liked the ride. I'm at your service any time you happen in Syracuse." "When Tightly reported we took the card to the hotel and asked the clerk if he knew the owner. "Know him?" he replied. "Why every one in this town knows him. He is one of the richest men in Syracuse. "When we told of our experience the clerk laughed. "Just like him,' he said, 'but wait till his wife catches him. She was calling on some friends here and he was waiting to take her home when you struck him. She had to finish her journey in a cab.'"—New York Sun. Passengers Without Money in Russia. He was a Russian and wanted to go back to his native heath. So he bropped into the ticket office and emplored Passenger Agent Charlie Miles in a debate on the reasonableness of second class rates to New York. "Say, mister, please, you make it a little bit less, please, and to-morrow I come in and buy the ticket," said the subject of the Czar. "You charge too much. Sure, you can believe me when I tell you it is too much money. I can travel from St. Petersburg to Manchuria for $15." Miles explained that he had no discretion in the matter and would have to charge the established tariff rate. "Please, mister, you make it a little less," persisted the prospective passenger. "In my country we do not treat a foreigner so. You have no money; you get on a train; you say to the conductor you have no money. Then you hand him 4,639 copeels, which is $2 in your money, and he lets you ride for two days."—San Francisco Chronicle. Brock's Candidacy Not Favored Henry E. Brock, formerly clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, has at various times been a candidate for public office. Some little time ago his son, a lad of six or eight years, was meditating upon the uncertainties of kingly existence, and at last he asked his mother. "If the King of England should die, who would be king?" "The Prince of Wales," he was told. "If the Prince of Wales should die vno would be king?" he asked again. His mother turned the question off in some way, when the boy, with aleep breath, said: "Well, anyway, I hope pa won't try for it." Always the Same Mule Raced Train. Baroness Rosen Popular Taking No Risks. That's The Question. GET POWER. IN THE BEST OF HEALTH SINCE TAKING PE-RU-NA. MR S LENA SMITH Mrs. Lena Smith, N. Cherry street, cor. Line, Nashville, Tenn., writes: "I have had poor health for the past four years, pains in the back and groins, and dull, sick headache, with bearing down pains. "A friend, who was very enthusiastic about Peruna insisted that I try it. "I took it for ten days and was surprised to find that I had so little pain. "I therefore continued to use it and at the end of two months my pains had totally disappeared. "I have been in the best of health since and feel ten years younger. I am very grateful to you." Catarrh of the internal organs gradually saps away the strength, undermines the vitality and causes nervousness. Peruna is the remedy. DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS Save $10. - Per Cow EVERY YEAR OF USE Over All Gravity Setting Systems And $3. to $5. Per Cow Over All Imitating Separators. Now is the time to make this most important and profitable of dairy farm investments. Send at once for new 1905 catalogue and name of nearest agent. THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO BEST BY TEST "I have tried all kinds of waterproof clothing and have never found anything at any price to compare with your Fish Brand for protection from all kinds of weather." The name and address of the writer of this unpublished letter may be but upon application) Highest Award World's Fair, 1904. A. J. TOWER CO. Boston, U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LIMITED Toronto, Canada The Sign of the Fish TOWER'S FISH BRAND A. J. TOWER CO. Boston, U.S.A. TOWER'S TOWER CANADIAN CO. 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We also manufacture Steel Grain Blins, Wine Blend and Lawn Fence, etc. THE DENNING THREE FENCE CO., CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Sizes 400 to 1,000 btu. Cheap. 400. Can be set up manufacture Steel Grain did and Lawn Fence, etc. EDENXING WIRE & FENCE CO.,, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Compositors $19.50 - Linotype Operators $24.00 per week. Permanent positions in a number of the leading establishments of Chicago and visibility. Strike on. Call on or address SECRETARY CHICAGO TYPOTHETE 1214 Monadnock Block, Chicago When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Many who formerly smoked 10¢ Cigars now smoke LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR Your jobber or direct from Factory, Peoria, 1h HORTICULTURE Fruit Trees and Mice. Every winter in some parts of the country great losses are experienced in the orchards by the ravages of mice. It is not unusual to take up a report from a state of the United States, or province of Canada and find numerous reports of the great havoc wrought by mice. We noticed a while ago a report from the province of Ontario. Among the reports were these, which were characteristic: From Glengary: "Thousands of fruit trees have been ruined by mice." From Carleton: "Ol' fruit trees are in fine condition, but young orchards have been almost destroyed by field mice." From Parry Sound: "Mice were very destructive last winter and did a lot of damage to young fruit trees." From Dufferin: "Fruit trees were badly peeled by mice during the winter." We might repeat numerous other reports of the same general character. Reports secured from various northern states of the Union frequently have a like tenor. Losses from mice always occur on young trees, generally trees that are one or two years old. These little creatures can do a very great amount of damage because it requires but a very small damage to any one tree to kill it. The mice simply gnaw entirely around a tree at the snow line. They are after the young bark to satisfy their hunger. The space gnawed may not be more than an inch wide but it means the doom of the tree. It is no wonder then that a whole orchard is sometimes wiped out in a single year by these young rodents. They are especially dangerous where straw or corn stalks have been placed around trees, as this makes a hiding place for the mice. Corn stalks are frequently put around trees to protect them from sun-scald in winter. The trees are saved from this injury, but instead are destroyed by the mice. Where mice are troublesome, the best way is to destroy all their hiding places in the orchards and adjoining fields. In the west we have few stone walls to act as protectors of the mice, and it is easier to prevent their ravages than in the eastern states where every farm orchard is protected on some side by a stone wall. Where the hiding places cannot be destroyed, some kind of tree protector will have to be used. One of the best of these is a shield made of laths bound together by wire. This is sunk into the ground around the tree before the soil freezes hard in the fall. The wire lath shield is inexpensive, and any man can make it. The wires are simply crossed between each two laths, and the spaces between any two laths must not be large enough to permit the rodents to cut through. We would like to hear from our readers as to their methods of protecting their orchards against mice. Transpiration of Trees. The transpiration of trees is the process of the tree taking the water up by its roots, passing it up through the trunk and branches and into the leaves, and evaporating it into the atmosphere. The amount of water thus transpired by trees is very great. Even the ordinary tree thus uses several barrels of water every day. There are many problems connected with this process that are only being studied and have not been solved. One of these is the power of trees to resist drought. It would naturally be assumed that the tree that uses the least water can stand drought the best. The actual tests of the matter, however, do not carry out this theory. One Russian experimenter found that while a maple tree was transpiring 289 pounds of water, an ash tree, from the same surface, transpired 399 pounds, 110 pounds more than the other. This was approximately 30 per cent. It is known, however, that ash trees stand drought far better than maples. Groves of ash trees and maple trees that came under the observation of this Russian experimenter were subjected to very severe drought conditions in the fall of 1902 and the spring of 1903. Nearly all of the maples died, while the ash trees continued their existence and developed normally during the summer and fall of 1903. This is of great importance to people living in the semiarid districts. For some reason the trees using the greater amount of water are able to get that water from greater depths in the soil, and are able to hold up the cellular structure of the leaf with a less amount of water than others—James Gordon, Anderson Co., Kas. Brooder Houses. A person should hesitate for a considerable time before going into the construction of a brooder house. It is very easy to sink several hundred dollars in such an enterprise, and the interest on such a sum is a matter that will weigh heavily as the years go by, if the money is borrowed. In the neighborhood of Chicago there are several small poultry farms where from $700 to $1,000 has been put into brooder houses. In some cases the people have tried one year to do something with broilers and have given it up. If a big brooder house is built, the owner must keep on using it year after year till he finds out how to make a profit out of it. A little brooder house is hard to arrange for, as it has to be heated by steam, and the smaller it is the more expensive is the heating per cubic foot of space. LIGHTING LORE LIGHTING LORE ACETYLENE EXCELS AS AN ILLU- MINANT. Gas for Lighting Formerly Confined to Cities and Large Towns, now in General Use in the Country. The satisfactory lighting of suburban and country homes requires that the means used shall be convenient, safe, economical and furnish a brilliant, penetrating, effulgent light. Everybody admits that these are not the characteristics of the candle or kerosene lamp, which, formerly, were the only feasible means of producing light for domestic use in the rural districts. For generations there was a crying need, a yearning for something better, which was not satisfied. A few years ago deliverance came in the shape of the chemical compound, Calcium Carbide, from which, by the simple application of water, the gas Acetylene is derived. Acetylene meets all the requirements fully and admirably and is being generally used. Common lime and carbon in the form of coke or coal are the raw materials which, fused in an intensely heated furnace, make Calcium Carbide, and there is no difficulty in obtaining it in any part of the country. The machine into which the Calcium Carbide is fed and from which the Acetylene is distributed through the building to be lighted, is but little larger than a thirty-gallon milk can, and of the same general form. It is easily and cheaply installed, either in the cellar or in an out-building. The light from burning Acetylene is exquisite, and lighting experts agree that it surpasses all other known illuminants. It does not taint the air nor strain the eyes and is not objectionable in any respect. Every up-to-date rural residence should be equipped with Acetylene light. A Durbar Outfit Cheap. Lord Curzon has a lot of royal trappings on his hands, suitable for street fairs or harvest festivals, which he will be glad to dispose of to the highest bidder—St. Louis Globe-Democrat Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Plattner. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought The Secret of His Cavings. Mr. Edison says he does not associate with men whose lives are devoted to getting money. That’s probably why Mr. Edison has been able to save something—Augusta Herald. Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure—J. W. O’BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 6, 1900. Not Alike Willie: Your sister Mame and Mr. Sopht are pretty thick, ain't they? Susie: Gracious! No. of course Mame's thick enough, but Mr. Sopht is jest awfumy thin.—Philadelphia Press. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package $ cents. 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Write for books concerning Lockesburg and Loring Colonies and "Current Events" Magazine to, F. E. ROESLER, G. P. & T. A. K. C. S. Ry. Kansas City Mo. Poverty is not a sin, but is is the cause of many. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 18 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. Ignorance is supposed to be bliss, but it isn't even a good counterfeit. Bicycles and Priests. Dr. Adcl. Fritzen, bishop of Strasburg, has again issued an edict forbid bicycles. He is sharply criticised therefor by the newspapers, when call attention to the fact that bicycling ceased long ago to be a mere secular sport and that priests often find the wheel most useful, especially those who have to visit members of their congregation in remote country places. There never was a man who did not occasionally manufacture a groan to excite the sympathy of his friends. VENTILATION FOR THE STABLE. What Is Known as the King System Is Most Effective. The accompanying cuts illustrate what is known as the King system of ventilation which is embittenly suitable for stables. Fig. 1 shows how the system operates. The air is drawn from the near flow, thereby taking the colder air. The air can be changed four or five times as if the outlets were near the ceiling and yet not reduce the temperature more. There should be openings B B near the ceiling also, but they are to be used only in summer to reduce the temperature The openings at A and B should be so managed that the amount of opening can be regularly regulated. The flues are between the walls of the barn. The air enters at A, passes up, as shown by the arrows, and out through the cupalo. In some of the barns the lateral flues follow the roof of the barn, which is a more convent Fig. 1. ent arrangement, considering the use of the upper part of the barn, but it has been found that the draft is not as sure as when the lateral flues meet low down, C, giving considerable distance to the outlet D. Fig. 2 shows the principle of the intake. It is a cross-section of the wall of the barn, showing the inner and outer boarding—the space between into this flue is from the outside A near the ground. The air passes up the flue and into the barn near the ceiling at B. Notice that there is no opening in the outside wall opposite B. The opening A must be near the ground. The opening at B should be so arranged that the amount, of incoming air can be regulated. The opening at A should be so arranged as to let the rain out. The fresh air entering at B should flow across the ceiling and gradually fall more or less along the center o the barn, where cows are headed pass on across the lower part of the barn and up the out-take flues. I the air entering at B falls immediately to the floor it is an indication that it is coming in too fast. There should be an intake every fifteen or twenty feet along the side o Fig. 2. the barn and the area of the out-tak flues should about balance the intake does sound about balance the intake Out-take flues made of two layers o boards with paper between are more satisfactory than those of galvanized iron, because they do not condense the moisture of the stable air unless it is extremely cold. Sources of Wood Pulps The Virginia pine, commonly known as scrub pine, is no longer regarded as worthless except for cordwood. Within the last four years the manufacturer of wood pulp have tried the wood with success and several mills, in Pennsylvania especially, are using it in considerable quantities for this purpose One Pennsylvania mill consumes in this way 20,000 cords a year. The scrub pine, whose range is chiefly in Tennessee, North Carolina Kentucky, Maryland and Virginia, is found in large quantities on old fields in the last two states in particular where it has reproduced itself, unheeded, since the civil war. It has recently been found in commercial quantities also in central Pennsylvania Since it is a tree which thrives or even the poorest soil and reproduces itself with great ease, its entrance into commercial importance will offer a very interesting problem in forest management and one which promises quite unexpected results. The forest service is engaged upon a study of the scrub pine, which will seek to develop the possibilities of the tree from a commercial standpoint. 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