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 How to enter into the sick room. THEY SAY LOCALLY. THE BIG NEGRO. The big Negro isn't worth in real value EXECUTORS NOTICE OUR MAYOR. It seems rather tough that for When you visit a very sick friend; what you must not do. Don't go to the sick man unannounced, don't rock, don't wear rustling silks or squeaking shoes, not stay more than fifteen minutes, not say "I have something that will particularly interest you, So and So is very ill, or has just had a terrible operation," described in detail, or "I once had a dreadful illness," described at length. Don't send books and then inquire knowing whether they have been read. Sometimes a person is too ill to read everything. Don't send gloomy books full of horrowing incidents. Don't take the bed or hit it in anyway. Don't so optimistic that you are sympathetic. For instance dont congratulate a offer too much on an approaching operation, even if relics is expected. People often do this and it is kinder to do the congratulations afterwards. Dont exertable, or show any intense emotion. Dont say, "What, still in bed, and you look so well." Moreover, don't be sure your friend is not able to see [you] well. What you ought to do:— Do bring one beautiful flower if you wear. Do wear your prettiest clothes, Do do about things your friend will enjoy thinking about afterwards, Do ask one two interesting questions about the progress of the patient's health, Do more all, be natural, gentle, and quite used. After all it is better to make a mistake than to seem to try too hard to do the right thing. It is a comfort in it and to remember that the very fact you are called at all gives evidence of your thought and kindness. If your friend is too sick to see you send something. A package of kodak pictures, showing that you are doing, or how the children are grown, is sure to bring pleasure. I saw much a set that was sent every week from Italy, showing the few weeks baby in her bath in her basket, with the Italian nurse, with the grandmother, etc. in attractive magazine, one large apple fruit, a little willow with a linen over, a silver spoon, some ice cream in glassboard box, and always and ever arers, are among the gifts that cannot to carry a message of comfort and more brightness than you will stays realize. With Increasing Interest. The Jim Crow High school is still the graumont issue among the Negroes of Kansas City, Kansas, and at every call books are being opened with real grace from the humble washer woman to the highest leader and professional men among the race—That an interest effort is on, can be told in every Negro household. Little children are often contributing their pennies in the establishment of the race's constitutional rights. LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID. When over the fair frame of friends or others the shadow of grace shall fall instead of words of blame of proof thus and so let something good be said. Forget not that no fellow being yet may fall so lew but love by lifts his beast. Even the cheek of shame with tears is not. if something good be said. No generously heart may vainly turn in ways of sympathy; no soul so dead but may awaken streng and glorified if something good be said. And so I change ye, by the thorny yawn And by the cross on which the Savior belief And by your own souls hope of far known Let something good be said. Publication Notice The District Court of Wyandotte, kansas Charlie Rochester, Plaintiff. VS. Louise H. Rochester, Defendant. Case H. Rochester, the above-named defendant, will take notice that she has been used by the plaintiff. Charlie Rochester and that the Defendant. Louis A. Rochert must answer on or before the 21st day of July, and answer the petition filed by the plaintiff if the above-entitled action in said petition will be taken as true and present rendered divorcing the plaintiff the defendant, and awarding the plaintiff the custody of their only child. ! by Green and HenC^f^ attorneys Charlie Rochester. THEY SAY Those dreamy eyes haunt me still. It the ssme old story oft told. Its certainly going to be a dry town— Good for Missouri. Now the dressmaker on lower Minn. is all smiles. It was one lonesome day to him he had rather been at No. 5. We are going to "Shy" It is certainly the whole truth. Brass button and blue clothes count for something. The New Medicine Man. Dr. Lyman A. Paey a graduate of the renowned Meharry Medical School of Nashville, Tenn., and a quiet unassumed intellectual gentleman was among our most pleasant visitors this week. He has located in Argentine, Kansas. He comes to join the able medical staff in our community with the very highest of recoendations. In passing the rigid state examination for admittance to practice, out of a class of thirty applicants, before the Kansas State Board of Medical examiners his percent was 100 which means perfect. Whatever else can be chronicled of Kansas City, Kansas, and her immediate vicinity, it can be truthfully said that she has the highest class of "medicine men", in the state if not in the West. We long since quit labelling our physicians as "Negroes or Colored," but as men, competent and prepared to meet all comers in their profession. Giving due respects to other medical school and graduates from elsewhere—we announce that a physician arriving in this community stamped "Meharry" he is alright—Success to our brilliant young physician. The Whole Truth. The question of joints or saloons in Kansas City, Kans. is one of paramount issue just now and Kansas City, Mo., papers seem very much exercised over the enforcement of the law in Kansas. Laws are alright and it is the duty of every citizen to respect the law and obey the same. Lawmakers do not always know it all and oftimes they make laws that work much discord and injury to the public whom some of them make a poor attempt in trying to peneft. It is not worth while for Kansas City, Mo., papers in an effort to mould public sentiment by saying the majority of the citizens want the "joints closed" in this city. We say that the major portion of the citizens do not want the joints and saloons closed. No one will countenance the present wobbling way they are run, but few want them closed. Kansas City Mo., has good reasons to want them all closed because it means money for all lines of business that ought to stay on this side of the line. PUBLICATION NOTCIE In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Sarah Hall. Plaintiff. vs. Henry Hall. Defendant. To the above named defendant: you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer on or before the 25th day of November A. D. 1905, the petition will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered theron, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and divorcing plaintiff and awarding to her, her maiden name, Sarah Everett, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Plaintiff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Fresh Birch, Oct. 19 Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas } In the Probate Court in and for (University of Kansas) County of Wyandotte Court in and for said County. IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA WILLIAMS SLEDGE DECEASED Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that at the next egalian team of the Prabate Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid on the first Monday in the month of March A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. Peter young Administrator of Clara Williams Sledge Deceased. In Witness 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 KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, LOCALLY. Mrs. V. French of 12th and Barnett, who has been very ill is improving. Mrs. Grace Douglass of 1235 Armstrong ave. died last Monday fueral was held Thursday at King Soiomon Baptist church, Rev. H. H. Gordon, officiated. Mrs. Minnie Arnold of 347 Freeman ave. attended the street fair last week in Butler, Mo. Mrs. Ida Wright of 144 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, Ill., passed through the city from attending the Street fair in Butler, Mo. last week. Mrs. Gertrude Howard of 347 Freman will leave at 9:30 Saturday night for a three weeks visit in Chicago. Miss Lizzie Mills of 312 Jersey avenue is seriously ill this week. Mr. Harry Travis of 636 Kimball who has been indisposed for two weeks is convalescent. Mrs. Mamie Miller of State, between 10th and 11th sts. went to Camberlain, Ark.. last week, where she will spend the with her mother. Mrs. Leroy Cranshaw of 1916 N. 6th St. is very ill. Mrs. Geo. Hilton of 1417 N. 5th street is indisposed this week. Mrs. Mary Flomia on South Mill St., entertained the swing circle of the first baptist church last Thursday evening. Mrs. A. Graham of Oakland ave. who was quite for 2 weeks is improving. Mr. J. Hope of 18th and Belview and Mr. Terrell of K. C. spent a short while on this side of the Kaw last week the guest of Mrs. A. Graham of 413 Oaklan. Mrs. S. B. Washington of 401 Cleveland ave, is spending a few days in Gillum, Mo., and she will be accompanied by her mother en her return home. Mrs. Alice Bailey of 411 Nebraska ava has returned home from Leavenworth, where she spent a week with her father Mr. S Miller. Mrs. A. L. Spriggs of Washington ava, after an extended illness, died Thursday of this week at her home. Funeral arrangements have been made for Sunday at the Firs' Baptist Church under the auspices of the Rebecca tabernacle. Among those who will attend the Baptist Convention are Mesdames, Annie Hubbard, Alice Booker, Revs. Wilson, Richardson, Mitchell and McNeal meeting will be held in Chicago beginning the 25th. Mrs. Busch of 3rd and Minnesota ave. who anticipated an operation at St.Mar garet hospital has returned home unable to submit to the ordeal. Master Jas. L. Washington age 17, has been preaching since 5 years old, at that age of 4 yrs. 1 mo. he picked up a book, entitled; "Life of Christ" and began to read distinctly. Prof. Joseph A. Downing of New York city who travels with him and who also is very young, is one of the worlds renown soloists, and has surpassed any one of his age in mastering the piano, the only boy living that can sing all the voices connected in a quartette. NOTELETS. THE RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING. Lincoln said of slavery that a black woman might not in some ways be his equal, but that in the right to eat the food her own hands had earned she was the equal of himself, of Judge Douglass, or of any other man. That was a trumis undeed. Who shall deny to a black woman the right to earn an honest living, whether it may be in domestic service or in the shop or office; her money is honest money. Touching of this subject an American author has aptly said: "Wealth takes into itself the qualities by which it is acquired, gathered by fraud, or gathered in haste, it falls into ruin by its own corruption, but acquired by honest toil, manly frugality, patient endurance and waiting, it is full of good and holds togeteor by a force within itself." KINDNESS WINS. The people who win their way into the inermost recesses of other hearts are not usually the most brilliant and gifted, but those who have sympathy, patience, and that indefinable faculty of eliciting the better nature of others. We have many friends, who are more beautiful and gifted, but there is not one of them whose companionship we enjoy better, than that of the pin faced woman or man, who never makes a witty or profound remark, but whose simple quality of human goodness make up for every other deficiently. THE BIG NEGRO. The big Negro isn't worth in real value twenty cents to his race. He doesn't patronize race institution, or contribute to the elevation of his people, though he secures his living by virtue of the fact that he is a Negro. He is ever and eternally trying to get away from his race, holding himself aloof from the very persons who promote his existence. He is forever indulging in dreams of class and aristocracy, and his heart years for that plarge above the common herd. Wealth the fame alone are the real germs of class and aristocracy. Wealth which grows while the owners sleeps, and fame which stretches over land and sea. Every city in the United States is infested with this class of mushrooms, who do nothing for the race, but are continually singing their own praises, and think more of themselves than other people think of them—Palladium. We must add to the above remarks with a loud Amen we have the big Negro here as well as the would be big Negro—Many of them would go a mile out of their way before they would patronize a Negro enterprise, others never can see nothing good in a Negro no way—many would rather die before hiring a Negro doctor and etc., all town the line while we have many of that good for nothing but self big Negroes, we thank God we have some who are men first, last and always for their race. FREQUENTLY HAPPENS. A Negro was killed in Kansas City, Mo., last week by the accidental discharge of a revolver in the hands of a pawnbroker in whose store the unfortunate Negro had gone to pawn the gun, "Din't know it was loaded." In testing the qualities of the weapon the pawnbroker snapped the trigger and the Negro fall dead. It seems that it would be a very easy matter for people to know definitely when a gun is loaded and in examining else the same point it from everybody as well as themselves. Carelessness or laziness in the extreme alone is responsible for this death. About 13 months ago a similar killing affair was enacted in Kansas City pawnbshop a Negro was killed at that time. It is about time to realize that a gun is no play thing and true to the teachings of our boyhood days a gun is dangerous without stock or barrel. THE GALL OF THIS Houston, Texas, Oct. 7.—A petition from a number of citizens, headed by GKnight, of San Marcos, has been presented to Governor Lanham asking that the State permit mob punishment of Negroes who attack women. The Governor replied that it is impossible for him to contenance the policy in view of his oath of office. NOTICE. State of Kansas. County of Wyandotte ss In the District Court of Wyandotte County State of Kansas. Lawrence Jones, Plaintiff. vs. Elsie Jones, Defendant The State of Kansas greeting to the above named defendant, you will take notice that on the 16th day of October, 1905. Said Plaintiff above named has filed his petition in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. A petition against you asking for a divorce, seteing forth 2 causes of action No.1.. Gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. And unless you answer denur or otherwise object on 3rd day of December 1905 the allegations in said petition will be taken as true and upon further proof the Plaintiff will be granted the divorce as prayed for in said petition. L. W. JOHNSON. Atty. for Plaintiff. Attested by Clerk of District Court. on 16th day of October, 1905. Wm. Needles Clerk of the said Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. per D. U. McCambs Deputy. First Publication Oct. 20th, 1905. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF KANSAS. SS WYANDOT COUNTY. IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY. In the matter of the Estate of Mary L. Gordon Deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid. Dated the 21 day of March 1905. Now all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. CORVINE PATTerson Executor of the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon deceased. Dated March 21 1905. First Published 24 1905 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In the District Court of Wyandotte county State of Kansas. Mary Atkinson. Plaintiff. 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 youdurnur, answer or otherwise object on or before the 30th day of January 1905, the allegations therein will be taken as true and upon further proof thereof 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. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Allen Walker, Plaintiff, vs Robert McCrie c. D. Shrader, Defendants Number 6073. To 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 flied against you, on or before the 28 day of October 1905, or said petition will be taken as true and judgement accordingly rendered against you as follows; First—A personal judgement against you quoting your title to and in lot 46 in block 56 in Wyndotte city, or per record plat theor 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. Beggs, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. First Pub. Sept. 8th. 1905. PUBLICATION NOTICE In The Disriet Court of Wyndotte Kansas Katie Gibouce, Print匠. 70 the above named defendant. You will hereby take notice that you have been sued in the above named court. $ ^{8} $ 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 her maiden name, Katie Fulcher, and for cost of sult Katie Gilmera plaintiff. I. F. Bradley atty. attest Wm. Needles clerk. First Pub. Aug. 18th 1905. PUBLICATION NOTICE. THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY KANSAS. Henry Jrckson assignee Plaintiff. Fenny Sickson assigns Franen, 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 $50,00, 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 until paid. Said Notes was sold, transferred and indented t. this plaintiff, for a valuable consideration. And unless you answer as aforesaid, judgment will be rendered for said amount, and for costs. Dorsey Green atty. for Plaintiff attest; J. L. Baggs Clerk. first pub. July 7th, 1905 OCT. 20, 1905. this Section CALL HERE OUR MAYOR It seems rather tough that a few sore headed citizens can find it to their riking to embarass the present mayor in his earnest efforts to give every man a "square deal." He has endeavored to do his whole duty, beneficial to the entire community, keeping close to and in the path of common sense, uprightness and true manhood. Politics and party differences should for the sake of common decency and public good, be obliterated at some time and some where. The overwhelming majority with which the Hon. Mayor W. W. Rose was elected, spoke thundering tones that the people irrespective of color or party wanted a change in the rottenness with which the preceding administration wreaked with Now that we have a change lets give him a chance and we believe Mayor W. W. Rose will yet crown himself with glory and the highest commends from an exacting public. The position of our mayor was taken in regards to the joints during his campaign, it was stated on every occasion. He has lived up to it—why should he be called to fight ousting proceedings, for doing that which all citizens, save a few, believe is to the very best interest of the city. Gov. Hoch's Dab. That Governor Hoch certainly gives this city a hard one in his address at Cherryvale on the 14th. It is time for every citizen to have something to say in refutation of any such statements, Kansas City Kans., citizens irrespective of color have always had the highest regards for the women in or out of the community. When Gov. Hoch says that this town is so debased that decent women cannot walk on the streets or ride in the cars in Sunday, he is laboring under delusions of somekind and its the duty of the citizen to find out the kind. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Geo. A. Dudley, Plaintiff. VS. Myrtle Dudley, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer on or before the first day of December, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and n judgement rendered - the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost of this action. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. May Williams, Plaintiff. vs. Elis Williams, Department. The above named defendant will hereby take notice that he has been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above named court, and that unless you appear and answers, on or before the 2nd day of Dec. 1966 the petition filed against him will be taken as true and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be addecre dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing her from him the said defendant, and for cost of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Piff, Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. First Pub. Oct. 20. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Ywandotte County Kansas. Ranson Knight Plaintiff. vs. Elure Knight, Defendant. The State of Kansas. To Elure Knight. Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by Ranson 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 13th day of September, the petition will be taken as true and judgement 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 for cost. Rassom Knight! By Chas. W. Frye. Atty. First Pub. Aug. 11. In the District Court of Wyandotte County. 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 Judgment will be rendered against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking an absolute divorce, custody of two minor children and a reasonable attorney fee, for cost, and for other relief such as the nature of Plaintiff case demands. Mary Darkis. Chas. w. Frye. attorney First Published April 28th 1905. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. PUBLISHED WEEKLY at 1510 Norh 3rd Street KANSAS CITY KANSAS W. C. Martin Editor, Geo. A. Dudley, Publisher and Business Manager. Terms OF Subscription in Advance. One Year,.....$1.00 ix Months,.....65 cents Three Months,:.....40. c One 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." Selects Wife's Toileta. It is a common thing in Paris for a man to accompany his wife to the dressmaker's. The young wife who has known no gayer attire than the coming-out gown of the jesire file 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 warden he had dreamed that he had seen a rainbow. From this he deduced that he would be acquitted at his trial. To everyone's surprise he was. Hunting in Japan. The Japanese, always keen sportsmen, used to take most of their game with goshawks and sparrow hawks. The only dogs they used were spaniels, which flushed the game. But now they are taking to dogs, and many good animals are being imported from England. Liquefies Illuminating Gas. A German chemist named Blau has succeeded in liqueuing illuminating gg. 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. BEWARE THE EASY SHELTER. Refuge There an Important Step Toward Old Age. Years are but a fool's measure for youth, which is divine; they bring caution more often than wisdom, and a certain belief in the unreality of joy. A man is quickly disillusioned, which commonly means that he has set up his own idea of what things should be by the side of what things are, and sulks forever at the result. He then commits the folly of becoming old, and prefers existence to life. He clambers into one or other of the many shelters that line the way, curls up within and smiles pityingly at the young of all ages pressing on to some end, no matter what, alive to the beauty of the sky and the clouds and the birds and the trees, alive even to the beauty to be seen in one another, breathing deeply of the air of strength, living and loving and beloved, until at last they are made one with nature. But the heart, like the liver, grows torpid without exercise; a gradual decay comes to the man in the shelter, a decay from which he is released, much against his will, by death. There are too many shelters—Hugh de Selin-court. LITTLE POKER AT WASHINGTON. Stories of Big Games Must Be Taken With Allowances It was formerly quite the thing to tell stories about big poker games among the members of Congress. Much was said about the "Senatorial game," "millionaires' game" and the "Congressional game," and always we heard about great bunches of money changing hands, bluffs as high as the banks of the Mississippi, and all sorts of stories. Frequently the senator, representative, diplomat or rich man was named and the winnings or losses told with as much gusto as if they had really hapened. There were some pleasant poker games in days gone by, and occasionally some wonderful plays, but one night, with a few interesting incidents, furnished material for a month of stories. Some of those who figured in the poker stories became annoyed at the notoriety they gained and abandoned poker entirely. For many years now there has not been enough poker in the capital to hang a story on. TRUTH PROVED BY EXAMPLE. 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 did resemble a tortoise a good deal. I sent a boy in to him one day with a pack mule to get five gallons of molasses. The boy told me afterward that when he entered the store Manners was dozing. The boy coughed and the man awoke and got up. He opened his mouth wide, and stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arms in a vast yawn. Then he said to the boy: "Wotcha want?" "Five gallons of molasses, Mr. Manners," the boy spoke up, sharp and quick. "Wah-h-h-h,' yawned Manners again. Then as he took up the jug he grumbled: "Ain't there nobody what sells molasses in this here town but me?" PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toilet that would quite astonish the most fashionable society lady. First she has her hair dressed by her maid, who, after anointing the long, silky black locks with a little oil, made from aloe wood or cocoanut, arranges it simply in a long, smooth plait, low on the nape of the neck, and decorated either with gold or jewelled ornaments. Next the bath is prepared as hot as it can be borne, and in this the lady may stay as long as two or three hours. Soaps are not used, but, instead, there are multifarious unguents, secret preparations of the bathing women, which render the skin soft as velvet and delicately perfumed. Oftentimes the face is washed over with milk, into which has been squeezed lemon juice. The hair of the oriental woman is usually beautifully long, soft and glossy, and the way they arrange it is invariably becoming to their soft type of beauty. Perfumes are much indulged in. These are introduced in the bath and permeate the garments, but are rarely used on a handkerchief. The Foam on the Top. Don't snuggle conceit to your bosom, my boy. Please use on top of them. Because you're on top of the wave. For it to be thought that might serve as alloy To the gold of the credit you crave: The child is not always at surface, my son. And I think, if to notice you'll stop, You'll observe that the good to the bottom may run. But the foam always lingers on top. I would not discourage your zeal, my dear lad; It would be keen working. But this funny old world often labels as bad That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear youth. But would you say go. See the men whom we place at the summit, in truth. That is where we are going. Then gaze on the mortals below. And I give you my word I will have noth- ing. A. J. Waterhouse in Sunset Magazine The team may be found on the top. 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 wits 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. "Wretcht!" 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 ta'ta' le, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stick' 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 man 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. 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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- ROOM 8 KANSAS. Students Crowd Its Reading Room and Investigate Various Subjects. 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 seldom 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 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 $2,000 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 him give ye a leeat 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 'spose 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. Amid her quiet kin of yesterday, And all the marvel of her beauty's rose Has vanished quite away. Far 'neath an alien sky his body lies That was so filled with blood of youth ful pride. Beneath the moon to-night! —Jessie Storrs 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. "Your address upon beauties of the Shinto religion did not seem to interest the audience," remarked one of the committee to the lecturer. the committee to the lecture. "Yes, I was talking way above their heads," he said pompously. "There must have been some other reason. I was way up in the gallery and it went over my head, even up there." Prove It By the Oven Fire Put the wonderful K C Baking Powder to the test. Get a can on approval. Your money will be returned if you don't agree that all we claim is true. You'll be delighted with the delicious, wholesome things that K C BAKING POWDER will bring to life in your oven. K C Baking Powder is two-thirds cheaper and makes purer, better, more healthful food than other powders anywhere near K C Quality. 25 ounces for 25 cents. Get it to-day! JAQUES MFG. CO. Chicago Send a postal for "Book of Presenta." Business Academy for Women. The people of the duchy of Coburg intend to give the young Duke Charles Edward a wedding present of a sum of money sufficient to restore the Luther church in the old castle of Coburg in which Luther lived and preached 370 years ago. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease Apowder. It rests the feet. Cures Swelen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. At all Drugs and Snips you need Cents. Accept no substitute. Mail mailed FREE. Address, All S. Ousled, LeKoy, N. Y. Logical Deduction "So you think I play the fool more than I did six months ago, eh?" said the husband. "How do you figure it out?" "I think it must be due to the fact that the days are longer now," answered the better half of the combine. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands of starch in their package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. We have never neared of a business man going to a pool hall in search of an office boy. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Perhaps they call them "captains of finance" because some of them are so rank. DONT FORGET Almore 20oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 50cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. This would be a dreary world indeed if there were no rainbows to chase occasionally. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove. N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. It is better to be known as a good man than to be known as a good fellow. Farmers and Merchants will be interested in announcement of "Acetylene Jones" in this paper. In the race for wealth the men who are distanced often reap the greatest benefits. Analysis of Medicines Open to All. "There is no public demand and there is not the slightest public necessity for a law compelling the publication of the formula of proprietary medicines," says the Committee on Legislation of the Proprietary Association. "Every Health Commissioner and every Pure Food Commissioner in the country, as well as every private physician or chemist, if he pleases, has the right to make an analysis of any proprietary medicine and to publish the result and to tell the public what he thinks, and there is nothing in the world to prevent such action. But that is not what the legislators for such legislation want. Their object is to destroy the sale of such remedies entirely." Some churches that talk about revivals would better talk about resurrections. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. The pocketbook nerve of some men is much more sensitive than their domestic nerve. 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 Starchs are put up in ¼-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. There are still two things that Glassow does not do for its citizens: Pick out their neckties and their clara. Edward Honors Japanese. King Edward VII. has made Count Katsura, prime minister of Japan, a member of the Order of the Bath, and Baron Komura a member of the Order of St. Michial and St. George. MACHINERY. The Machine which skims the cream from milk does not lose a drop, while the old skimming process was crude and wasteful. Washing machines, which will relieve woman of the drudgery of cleaning clothes have not proved an encouraging success up to date, but when it comes to manufacturing exclusively by machinery without the touch of human hands, there is nothing more interesting than the history of Pillsbury's Vitos—the best breakfast food in the market to day. The white heart of the wheat kernel is cut out by steel rolls, conveyed to sterilizers, and then packed in two-pound, air-tight packages (this is the whole story), all by polished steel appliances, no handling, no cooking, no coloring, no adulteration, just the white heart of the wheat berry sterilized, nothing added, nothing taken away. Pillsbury's Vitos is therefore a healthful, substantial breakfast dish, actually the "Meat of the Wheat." Price 15c. A package will supply a week's breakfast for five persons. See the economy. Ask your grocer to-day. A VISION OF THE FUTURE. Four envoys in a navy yard With solemn care debated, And meanwhile on a distant field The warring forces waited. One word, and each opposing brave Would fall upon his brother; One word, and battle's lust for blood Would love and pity smother. The cannon boomed, the bells rang peace, And loud was the rejoicing. While gray-haired parents laughed and wept, Their happy feelings voicing. Thus precious lives, the flower of youth, Were saved a thankful nation, The Yalevard-Princerah foot ball game Bulk From the West. The bulk of the commercial honey crop comes from the West and Southwest, and this year the supply is likely to be short. From Colorado, Utah and Nevada the yield is reported to be poor to fair. California has a moderate crop, and other producing States only a fair crop. Producers are holding their stock at an advance over last year's prices, the advance amounting to about two cents per pound. COFFEE NEURALGIA Leaves When You Quit and Use Postum. A lady who unconsciously drifted into nervous prostration brought on by coffee, says: "I have been a coffee drinker all my life, and used it regularly, three times a day. "A year or two ago I became subject to nervous neuralgia, attacks of nervous headache and general nervous prostration which not only incapacitated me for doing my housework, but frequently made it necessary for me to remain in a dark room for two or three days at a time. "I employed several good doctors, one after the other, but none of them was able to give me permanent relief. "Eight months ago a friend suggested that perhaps coffee was the cause of my troubles and that I try Postum Food Coffee and give up the old kind. I am glad I took her advice, for my health has been entirely restored. I have no more neuralgia, nor have I had one solitary headache in all these eight months. No more of my days are wasted in solitary confinement in a dark room. I do all my own work with ease. The flesh that I lost during the years of my nervous prostration has come back to me during these months, and I am once more a happy, healthy woman. I enclose a list of names of friends who can vouch for the truth of the statement." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Ten days' trial leaving off coffee and using Postum is sufficient. All grocers. OLD NAMES DIE OUT CURIOUS POINTS IN DECAY OF NOBLE FAMILIES. No Descendants Left of Men Whose Deeds Adorn the Pages of English History—Nature Seems to Set Limit to Glory of One Line. The recent death of a young nobleman, who, to recall a very old phrase, had during his short life been apparently possessed of more money than wit, reminds one again, if, indeed, reminder be necessary, that many and many an ancient family has either entirely passed away or has fallen from its former high estate. The curious thing about such decadence is that the families of illustrious men are somewhat prone to deterioration, reminding one of the saying that when a human race has given birth to its bright consummate flower it seems commonly to be near its end. There is not now living a single descendant in the male line of Chaucer; Shakspeare, Spenser, Milton, Cowper, Butler, Dryden, Pope, Cowley, Goldsmith, Scott, Byron or Moore; not one of Sir Philip Sidney, or, I believe of Sir Walter Raleigh; not one of Drake, Cromwell, Hampden, Monk, Peterborough or Nelson; not one of Stafford, Ormonde, or Clarendon; not one of Addison, Swift or Johnson; not one of Bolingbroke, Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grattan, Canning, or Disraeli; not one of Bacon, Locke, Newton or Davy; not one of Hume, Gibbon or Macaulay; not one of Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds; not one of David Garrick, John Kemble or Edmund Kean. It should be remembered that many of the families of the above mentioned illustrious band simply died out; but in the case of a large number of this country's old families the decadence or disappearance can too often be laid to other causes, for it has well been said that the ruin of great families may very generally be traced to personal extravagance, gradual decay, electioneering, contests, expensive ostentation or the alienation of estates through helresses. For instance, a letter appears in the Gentleman's Magazine for December 1889, in which mention is made of the family of Conyers, famous landowners in the north country, but one of whose last representatives squandered his whole fortune in scenes of the lowest dissipation, and whose uncle and heir, Thomas Conyers, was found living in his 72d year as a pauper in the parish workhouse of Chester-le-st, whither he had come after a life "perhaps of much imprudence, certainly of much hardship, after an unsuccessful attempt in a humble business and a subsequent service of several years at sea." Again, descendants of the great Plantagenets were said in the seventeenth century to be following the trade of cobblers, while in comparatively recent times an alleged descendant of Edward III, was found in the person of a sexton at a West End church.—London Queen. Why He Could Not Spare Why He Could Not Spare Him. The late Rev. Elijah Kellogg, it is said, was once fiercely opposed during one of his pastorates by an infidel in the town, who was a leader in all opposition to religion, and took much satisfaction in discovering inconsistencies in the lives of church members, and in publishing them through the neighborhood. For some reason he decided to remove to another part of the state, Meeting the pastor one day, he said: "Well, I suppose you know I am going to leave town, and I suppose you will be glad of it." "Glad of it? Why, no," replied the doctor; "I shall be very sorry to lose you. You are so useful to me in my work here I hardly know how I can spare you." The man was much taken aback, and asked, "How is that?" "Why," rejoined the pastor, "every time a sheep gets its foot out of my fold you bark from one end of the town to the other. You are the most useful watchdog that I ever knew."—Boston Herald. The Dear Old Days Gimme back the dear old days—all the boys in line— "Boy stood on the burnin' deck," an 'Bingen on the Rhine' "Twas midnight in the hundred tent"—we spoke it high and low, While Mary trotted out to lamb "whose fleece was white as snow!" Gimme back the dear old days that Mem'ry loves to keep. With "Pilot. 'tis a fearful night—there's danger on the deep!" The old-time awkward gestures—the jejec meant a bow. We said that "Curfew should not ring," but Lord, it's ringing now! Gimme back the dear old days—the pathway through the dels. To the schoolhouse in the blossoms; the sound of far-off bells Tinklin' crost the meadows; the song of the old-time dictionary, an 'the blue-back spellin' book! Gone, like a dream forever!—A city's hid the place. Where stood the o'l log schoolhouse; an' no familiar face. Is smilin' there in welcome beneath a spoon-shaped roof. There's a bridge acrost the river; an' we've crossed, an' said "Goodby!" —Atlanta Constitution. Methods of British Fruit Growers British fruit growers are meeting foreign competition by new methods. It has been discovered that the yield of the small trees can be increased by growing in pots under glass. Irrigation on a large scale by means of wells, gas-driven pumps and an extensive distribution of hose piping is also being employed. The old round boxes which the purchaser of fruit had to return to the seller are being discarded for lighter receptacles which need not be returned. HE ATTENDS TO BUSINESS who goes straight to work to cure Hurts, Sprains, Bruises by the use of St. Jacobs Oil and saves time, money and gets out of misery quickly. Price, 25c. and 50c. HIS EDITORIAL WEAPON. An editor sweat and fumed and swore As he searched the office o'er and o'er For his trenchant weapon of steel. Some thief had entered his den that night And stole his instrument of might, And mayhap pawned it for a meal. He cried aloud in sore dismay: "A hundred plunks I'll give today To he who brings my weapon home!" And every man who heard the bribe Searched himself and kindred tribe, And dug his sleuthy Sherlock dome. They brought a hundred pens to him, And carried pencils old and grim, But none appeased his gravest fears. But by and by the office boy. With heart o'erflowed with hope and joy, Brought to light the long lost shears. —A. U. Mayfield, in Denver News. "Acetylene Jones." See his advertisement in this paper and write him to-day for free booklet. Time Would Have Allaved Suspicion Madam Gossip compelled a dear young bride of three months, at Greeley, Colo., to show her marriage certificate before the naughty old tongue would cease to wag. The wedding had been kept a secret. Had gossip kept it hands off until the honeymoon wore off the contract might have been kept a secret for years without suspicion of undue attention being paid each other—Denver News. Bequeaths Money and Anatomy. General Isaac J. Wistar, founder and patron of the Wistar institute of anatomy and biology at the University of Pennsylvania, who died, not only leaves the greater part of his estate of $2,000,000 to that institution, but also bequeaths to it his right arm and brain to aid the cause of anatomical research. Absentmindedness An absentminded aeronaut in Massachusetts discovered that he had left his moneywrench on the ground, after he had gone into the air 900 feet, and started to walk back for it, when he stepped on a cloud with a hole in it and fell so as to wrench one of his ankles.—Denver News. An Honest Opinion Mineral, Idaho, Oct. 16th.—(Special.)—That a sure cure has been discovered for those sciatic pains that make so many lives miserable is the firm opinion of Mr. D. S. Colson, a well-known resident of this place, and he does not hesitate to say that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. The reason Mr. Colson is so firm in his opinion is that he had those terrible pains and is cured. Speaking of the matter he says: "I am only too happy to say Dodd's Kidney Pills have done me lots of good. I had awful pains in my hip so I could hardly walk. Dodd's Kidney Pills stopped it entirely. I think they are a grand medicine." All Sciatic and Rheumatic pains are caused by Uric Acid in the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy kidneys and healthy kidneys strain all the Uric Acid out of the blood. With the cause removed there can be no Rheumatism or Sciatica. He Surrounded It. During the war a soldier who took part in a foraging expedition found a bottle of whisky, and proceeded forth-with to console himself for the hardships he had endured during the campaign. On returning to camp, he was placed in the guardhouse, and his condition reported to the captain "How did he get into that condition?" asked the captain. "He captured a bottle of whisky." How did he manage to do that?" "I am not sure, sir," said the sergeant, "but I think he surrounded it." USE THE FAMOUS Was the Punishment Merited? There are people who do not believe Anteone Woode merited the punishment imposed upon him by decree of the board of pardons, in compelling him to live under the philosophy of Elbert Hubbard two years. They say it is no wonder he wants to go back to prison or point the Salvation Army—Denver News. Acetylene Gas. All country people will be interested in reading about it in another part of this paper. Another World Investigator. Clifford W. Barnes, general secretary of the Religious Education Association, of Chicago, is to be sent abroad by the organization to investigate religions and ethical education in Europe. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 20c a bottle. Tell me what aman eats, and I will tell you what horsepower is his stomach. Tired, Nervous Mothers Make Unhappy Homes-their Condition Irritates Both Husband and Children-How Thousands of Mothers Have Been Saved From Nervous Prostration and Made Strong and Well. Mrs Chester Curry Mrs Chas E Brown Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advice—A Woman Best Understands a Woman's Ills. A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysteresis, is unfit to care for children; it ruins a child's disposition and reacts upon herself. The trouble between children and their mothers too often is due to the fact that the mother has some female weakness, and she is entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that governing children involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. The ills of women act like a firebrand upon the nerves, consequently nineteenth of the nervous prostration, nervous despondency, "the blues," sleeplessness, and nervous irritability of women arise from some derangement of the female organism. Do you experience fits of depression with restlessness, alternating with extreme irritability? Are your spirits easily affected, so that one minute you laugh, and the next minute you feel like crying? Do you feel something like a ball rinsing in your throat and threatening to choke you; all the senses perverted, morbidly sensitive to light and sound; pain in the ovaries, and especially between the shoulders; bearing down pains; nervous dyspepsia, and almost continually cross and snappy? If so, your nerves are in a shattered condition, and you are threatened with nervous prostration. Proof is monumental that nothing in the world is better for nervous prostration than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; thousands and thousands of women testify to this fact. Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advice—A Woman W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. Douglas $4.00 Clit Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD SOLE AGENTS FOR W. L. 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Mrs. Pinkham's vast experience with female troubles will help to tell you just what is best for you, and she will charge you nothing for her advice. Schwab St. Louis As a safe-guard for good workmanship and fabric, you should insist on getting the SCHWAB label, as shown above, in your next Suit or Overcoat. It's your guide and guarantee that everything is right. Write for style book — it's free. HOW A FRIENDSHIP GREW The Story Whether Hand Sapollo got a more enthusiastic welcome in homes where Sapollo was an old and tried friend, or where it was a stranger, is a question. Where women had come to rely on Sapollo for rapid, thorough cleaning in every part of the house except the laundry, they commenced without loss of time, to avail of this new prize. Grubby little hands, and stained, workworn older ones, whitened, softened, and smoothed out as if by magic, callous spots disappeared, and complexions cleared. Children ceased their strenuous objections to the scrubbing up process, because it became a Do you want a clear and healthy Skin? pleasure. It freshened up the hands after dish-washing, removing the most disagreeable feature of that necessary task. It was found to keep delicate baby skins from chafing better than calve or powder, and the crowning note in the song of delight came when an adult member of the family used it in a full bath, and realized that a Turkish Bath at a cost of one dollar was outdone by a small fraction of the little, ten-cent, velvety cake. But, strange though it may seem, there were people who had not learned to prize Sapollo. To these the advertising of Hand Sapollo came as a surprise. Sapollo, a scouring soap, THE FIRST STEP away from self-respect is lack of care in personal cleanliness; the first move in bulldog, up a proper pride in man, woman, or child is a visit to the bathtub. You can't be healthy, or pretty, or even good, unless you are clean. Use HAND SAPOLIO. It pleases everyone. adapted for the hands, the face, the general toilet? Impossible, it would be horrid. Who ever heard of such a use? Finally a bold shopper carried home a cake. Does it look like kitchen Sapollo? No one is sure, and a cake of that is bought, and comparison made. Behold a family using both the Sapollo for every conceivable purpose, and comparing notes! After easily and quickly cleansing a greasy pan with Sapollo, Jane thought the other would be grilty, and was astonished at the smooth, dalty lather. Another was certain it would harden the hands and could scarcely realize how soft and "comfy" they felt after the washing. Then began the excitement of adventure; what would the new soap NOT do? A girl tried a shampoo. Her hair, pretty, soft and silky "went up" perfectly, with none of the unmanageableness that generally exists for a full week after the usual process. A man used the delightful lather for shaving, and felt no need for cold cream afterwards. A plimply face was treated to a daily bath-full suds, and promptly became clear. Tartar on the teeth a nd feet that WHY TAKE DAINTY CARE of your mouth and neglect your pores, the myriad mouths of your skin? HAND SAPOLIO does not gloss them over, or chemically dissolve their health-giving oils, yet clears them thoroughly by a method of its own. had a tendency to hardening of the skin regained their natural condition, till another family had joined the chorus of friendly acclaim. And so it is everywhere, those who know the "elder brother" welcome the newcomer, for the sake of the first known, and those who meet both for the first time are plunged into a whimical Let housewife equal X plus E; Let E the sign for Sapolio be; For dirt let minus X be had; The all these wounds will add. The X and minus X drop out (As anyone can see no doubt) And leave what must the housewife please The happy symbol we call ease. worry as to which they could better spare if they had to make a choice. TRY HAND SAPOLIO. Its steady use will keep the hands of any busy woman as white, untanned and pretty as if she was under the constant care of a city manicure. It is truly "The Dainty Woman's Friend," in the suburbs or on the farm. Those ugly dark brown streaks on the neck, arising from tight-collars, and the line where the sunburn stops, can be wiped out by the velvety lather of HAND SAPOLIO. It is, indeed, "The Dainty Woman's Friend." Perserverance When Lowry Parker was a babe— A human candy stick— She soon found out the way to get A thing was just to kick. And when her little animeite Until she won the fight. And when she grew to be a girl She gave herself a strat By kicking for a chance to learn The airy dancing are. The stage lights now are shinning bright Upon the graceful elf. She does the high-falootin' steps— A whole show by herself. —A. U. Mayfield, in Denver News. No Milk in Frosted Feed. It is a positive fact that if you feed a cow a certain amount of hay and grain from the barn and let her out in the middle of the day into field where there is a lot of frozen grass, she will like it and will fill up on it just as full as she can get, but will give less milk than she would on just the same amount of feed from the barn without going out and filling up with this "old fog," as we call it. It is a positive injury to them. So I say, just as soon as your feed is killed by the frost, and it doesn't make any difference what time of the year or what season it is, you had better put your cows in the barn and keep them there and feed them from the barn. Life on the Water On all the great lakes of China are found floating islands, which are enormous rafts of bamboo, overlaid with earth, and upholding above the surface of the water pretty houses and gardens. They are, in fact, aquatic farms, bearing crops of rice and vegetables, large sails being attached to the dwelling house as well as to each corner of the island whenever it is desired to move about. After gathering a crop of grain or garden truck from the surface of the lake, the floatfarmer casts his net into the water and from their depths brings up a supply of fish for his family. Odors of the Mountains If you notice a strong spicy and "woodsy" odor about any woman these days, do not imagine that she has adopted a new perfume. It is balsam that you smell, for the lady has just returned from the Adriadracks and brought with her a balsam pillow as a souvenir of her stay in the mountains. Of course she jammed the pillow into a corner of her trunk when she packed up to come home, and equally, of course, the strong smell of balsam permeated everything. It is as much a mark of the returning vacationist as is the coat of tan.—New York Press. In Crimean Times. In Crimean times (says the "Tattler") the Highland regiments were so full of Hiberians that many stories were current exploiting the fact. One gallant Scottish colonel, it was said, resolved to take the sense of the regiment on the vital question of adopting the plaid as an essential part of the uniform. When the orderly came to report the result, the colonel was scandalized to find that only two of his men favored the suggestion, "And who are there two gallant Highlanders?" he asked. "Ooch!" replied the orderly, "sure it's Corporal O'Brien an' Private O'Callashan, sorr!" No Wonder. Gray—Terrible storm we had last evening, wasn't it? Thundered loud enough to wake the dead. Smith—So? I didn't hear it. Gray—Didn't hear it! Why, man, where were you? Smith—At home. An old school-mate of my wife that she hadn't seen for years spent the evening at our house.—Chicago News. Information Wanted "All right, mum," replied Jane. "What pawnbroker, kin I soak 'em with, mum?"—Detroit Tribune. Lord Mayor of London. Walter Vaughan Morgan, the new lord mayor of London, is a septuagenarian, a banker and a bachelor. He was educated at the Bluecoat school and is a prominent Free Mason. The application of a little kerosene oil is given as a good remedy for mosquito bites, bee stings, corn worm and tobacco worm stings. SAURIAN CAUSED AN EPIDEMIC. Queer Cause of Pollution of Water in Central American Town. in Central American Town. Here is an incident that illustrates the unexpected difficulties which enterprise has sometimes to face in certain regions of Central America. An alligator was the innocent cause of the misfortune, and it lived in a large lake, from which an important town drew its supply of water. By means of powerful steam-driven pumps the water was drawn from the lake through a strong iron pipe, which, after running some eighty or ninety yards into the lake from the shore, ended in an upward turn, a short arm bent at right angles to the pipe and rising to within a few feet of the surface. Suddenly an epidemic visited the town in question. The company's reputation being threatened, it was decided to straightway pull up the streets and expose the main pipes and conduits. The entire system was laid bare, from the outskirts of the town to the very shores of the lake, but the minutest examination failed to reveal any suspicious feature. Then, almost at their wits' end, for the epidemic was raging as badly as ever, the officials entered upon the last lap and turned their attention to the submerged portion of the conduit, and here it was they found the cause. A huge alligator had been drawn toward the mouth of the main by the very strong infux and, being unable to release itself from the suction, had remained there until it died, and thus, for goodness knows how long, all the water consumed in the town had first filtered through the decomposed carcass of the alligator. TREAT AILING DOGS AND CATS. Domestic Pets Relieved of Ills at Parisian Hospital. In the Rue Vaneau in Paris there is a hospital devoted solely to the cure of dog and cat ailments. If your dog is suffering from cataract or your beautiful Persian from a bad throat, Dr. Lepinay and his assistants will do all that is possible for the animal with the aid of modern instruments. Dr. Lepinay, who has specialized in this Curing a German Fowl with a Cold Water Packing. Curing a German Fowl with a Cold Water Packing. work, now has a complete clinical surgery. Some animals, of course, arrive at the surgery in a hopeless condition; they are therefore mercifully put out of their misery in an asphyxating machine known as the "synoctone." Any animal, however, that is at all curable is treated or operated upon with the greatest care. Cats allow themselves to be operated upon with surprising calmness, and punctures or injections of serum are now quite easily made by the operators at the surgery. The throat troubles to which cats are peculiarly liable are examined by means of the phoneudoscope; this is an apparatus fitted with a sensitive vibrating plate incased in gutta percha which magnifies the poises made by the organs of the animal's throat to the ears of the operator, the sound being transmitted through tubes of india rubber. For a long time it was found impossible to operate successfully on a dog owing to the difficulty of preventing it tearing the wound, thus causing fatal complications. These difficulties have now been overcome, the eye being protected in a sort of cork helmet which allows the animal to eat and drink, but at the same time thoroughly protects the eye. German surgeons have gone even further, and treat the ailments of blue-blooded chickens with a high degree German Fowl with a Bad Throat. of success. The bird hospital is kept well filled with patients of long pedigrees. Some Folks Call This Sport The parish magazine of Holy Trinity, Southport, contains an account of an angling contest by the Young Men's club of Scarlsbrick, in which the first honors were won with a fish scaling one and three-quarter ounces. Another competitor landed a gudgeon whose freshness was challenged, and the referee decided that it smelt too strongly of the Wigan market to be allowed to count.—London News. Vermonters Are Good Guessers Verflonters Are Good Guessers. A Vermont merchant ran a contest based on the length of time that a big candle in his window would burn it burned 98 hours 56 minutes and 46 seconds. The nearest guess was 99 hours. To make Cheap Gas-light for Country Homes Put a simple "Acetylene" Gasburner on stem. Bind the two in position with a tight-fitting of Rubber Hose. Then fill the bowl of the pipe with fine-ground cium Carbide. Next tie a rag over head of the bowl to keep in Carbide. Put a simple "Acetylene" Gasburner on its stem. Bind the two in position with a tight-fitting piece of Rubber Hose. Then fill the bowl of the pipe with fine-ground Calcium Carbide. Next tie a rag over head of the bowl to keep in the Carbide. ylene That shows how in its examination "permitting" only the picion, out of the 6 the market. Well, the boom prices possible on the Calcium Carbide, a but acts like Magic. Today, Acetylene Kerosene Light, or it is not more the nor three-fourths the A calcium Carbide into minds of "tanks" and patented, patented, and at many different certainly happened! Machines" had been so knew more about making. And right all the time, ing it into Gas were name," though it is served it at any time. It to burn Hard Coal not burning. Bieve the Owners of twelve Machines." And from them even in and dense ignorance, expectedly, now and person who "didn't It is also the WH Sunlight in health-because of this, with the easiest of all Ai It is so much life plants grow 24 hour ray of Sunlight could twice as fast as simi light of day-time, viz. That was proven months' experiment Now, I've saved portant to you that Light. It consumes only Oxygen from A as either Kerosene or That's a tremendou you—three-fourths of Because,—Oxygen And every bit of Women, Children a loss that can never A 24 Candle-Pow two-fifths of a cent That's about $5 in the year for four A Kerosene Lam a third more, viz.: Kerosene alone, or That's exclusive wicks, and the eve It seemed so simple to turn Calcium Carbide Gas-light that over 600 different kinds of "tanke" "Acetylene Machines" were invented, patented, marketed for the purpose, by about as many different people. Well, the thing to be expected certainly happen About 530 of these "Acetylene Machines" had invented and sold by people who knew more a Tinware than they did about Gas-making. The "Calcium Carbide" was all right all the but 530 of the machines for turning it into Gas all wrong all the time. So Acetylene Gas "got a bad name," though clear enough now that it never deserved it at any time. It was like selling Wood Stoves to burn Hard in, and then blaming the Coal for not burning. Lots of things happened to grieve the Owner these 530 makes of alleged "Acetylene Machines." But very few accidents occurred from them even the days of rank experiment and dense ignora among, "Generator" Makers. Of course, a gun will go off unexpectedly, now then, if the trigger be pulled by a person who "d know it was loaded." It seemed so simple to turn Calcium Carbide into Gas-light that over 600 different kinds of "tanks" and "Acetylene Machines" were invented, patented, and marketed for the purpose, by about as many different people. Well, the thing to be expected certainly happened! About 530 of these "Acetylene Machines" had been invented and sold by people who knew more about Tinware than they did about Gas-making. The "Calcium Carbide" was all right all the time, but 530 of the machines for turning it into Gas were all wrong all the time. So Acetylene Gas "got a bad name," though it is clear enough now that it never deserved it at any time. It was like selling Wood Stoves to burn Hard Coal in, and then blaming the Coal for not burning. Lots of things happened to grieve the Owners of these 530 makes of alleged "Acetylene Machines." But very few accidents occurred from them even in the days of rank experiment and dense ignorance, among, "Generator" Makers. Of course, a gun will go off unexpectedly, now and then, if the trigger be pulled by a person who "didn't know it was loaded." But, that's no fault of the Ammunition—is it? Well, finally the Insurance Companies got after these 530 odd makes of "Acetylene Machines" that wouldn't Acetylate, and the Insurance Board made an investigation of all Generators that were submitted to them. Well, finally the Insurance Companies got these 530 odd makes of "Acetylene Machines" wouldn't Acetylate, and the Insurance Board made investigation of all Generators that were submitted them. 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Send for pamphlet "20th Century Canada" and full particulars regarding rate, etc., to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to the following authorized Canadian Government Agent-J. S. Crawford Mo. 129 W. Ninth Street Kansas City, Missouri. out extra charge, which used any one of these 70 acetylene Generators it had found safe, and effective, just as it permitted houses to be piped for City Gas, or wired for Electricity, under proper conditions Now, the Insurance Companies ought to know whether or not these 70 different makes of Acetylene Generators were absolutely Safe to use. Because, they have to pay the bills, if Fire or Explosion occurs, from any one of the Acetylene Generators they authorize. And, here's a proof of their good judgment. Though there are now Two Million people using Acetylene Light in America, there have only been four Fires from it in one year, against 3865 Fires from Kerosene and Gasoline. There have also been 401 fires from Electricity, 1707 fires from City Gas, and 520 fires from Candles, besides these there have been 26 fires from the Sun's Butter - but only four fires from Acetylene. That show how buttle the Insurance Board was in its examination of the Generator, and in "permitting" only the 70 makes that were above suspicion, out of the 600 experiments that were once on the market. That shows how careful the Insurance Board was in its examination of Acetylene Generators, and in "permitting" only the 70 makes that were above suspicion, out of the 600 experiments that were once on the market. * * * * Well—the boom in Acetylene Lighting made lower prices possible on the material it is derived from, viz., Calcium Carbide, a material that looks like Granite but acts like Magic. Today, Acetylene Light is a full third cheaper than Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light, per Candle Power. It is not more than half the price of Electric Light, nor three-fourths that of City Gas. Well—the boom in Acetylene Lighting made lower prices possible on the material it is derived from, viz., Calcium Carbide, a material that looks like Granite but acts like Magic. Today, Acetylene Light is a full third cheaper than Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light, per Candle Power. It is not more than half the price of Electric Light, nor three-fourths that of City Gas. If I can't prove these statements to your full satisfaction my name is not "Acetylene Jones." But Acetylene is more than the safest and cheapest Light of the year 1905. It is also the Whiteset Light—the nearest to natural Sunlight in health-giving Blue and Violet rays, and because of this, with its freedom from flicker, it is the easiest of all Artificial Light on the Eyes. It is also the Whitest Light—the nearest to natural health in health-giving Blue and Violet rays, and because of this, with its freedom from flicker, it is the easiest of all Artificial Light on the Eyes. 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