The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. 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 Prof. J. A. Downing will give a real Concert and Drama at 1st B thursday, May 11 When you visit a very sick friend; what you must not do: Don't go to the sick from unannounced, don't rock, don't wear rustling silks or squeaking shoes, don't stay more than fifteen minutes, don't 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 insist on knowing whether they have been read. Sometimes a person is too ill to read everything. Don't gloomy books full of harrowing incidents. Don't take the bed or hit it in anyway. Don't be so optimistic that you are sympathetic. For instance dont congratulate a suffer 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 be excitable, or show any intense emotion. Don't say, "What, still in bed, and you look so well." Moreover, don't be sure your friend is not able to see [you] still. What you ought to do:— Do bring one beautiful flower if you can. Do wear your prettiest clothes, Do talk about things your friend will enjoy thinking about afterwards, Do ask one or two interesting questions about the progress of the patient's health, Do, move all, be natural, gentle, and quite need. 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 all to remember that the very fact you have 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 what you are doing, or how the children live grown, is sure to bring pleasure. I once saw much a set that was sent every week from Italy, showing the few weeks old baby in her bath in her basket, with the Italian nurse, with the grandmother, etc. An attractive magazine, one large tape fruit, a little willow with a linen over, a silver spoon, some ice cream in tapeboard box, and always and ever flowers, are among the gifts that cannot fail to carry a message of comfort and bring more brightness than you will perhaps realize. With Increasing Interest." The Jim Crow High school is still the paramount issue among the Negroes of Kansas City, Kansas, and at every call pocket books are being opened with real good grace from the humble washer woman to the highest leader and professional men among the race—That an earnest effort is on, can be told in every Negro household. Little children are even contributing their pennies in the just establishment of the race's constitutional rights. LET SOMETHING G_OD BE SAID. When over the fair frame of friends or be 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 low but love by lifts his head; Even the cheek of shame with tears is yet If something good be said. No generously heart may vainly turn inside. In ways of sympathy; no soul so dead But may awaken strong and glorified If something good be said. And so I change ye, by the thorny town And by the cross on which the Savior lived And by your own souls hope of far known Let something good be said. 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. Rochester, must, on or before the first day of July, answer the petition filed by the plain in the above—entitled action in said court or the matter and things set forth and petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing the plaintiff from the defendant, and awarding the plain- f the custody of their only calld. Charlie Rochester. By Green and Hénécé attorney fo plains. THEY SAY Those dreamy eyes haunt me still. It the same 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 recompendations. 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 NOTCJE 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. Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas In the Probate Court in and for County of Wyandotte 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 interested that at the next regular term of the Probate 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 Deceded. Boy deceased. In Witness Whereof, the undersigned. Pro bate Judge in and for the court of Wyon dottie. State of Kansas, have Puerto set my hand. and affixed the seal of the Probate Court this 20th Day of January A. D. 1903 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 feral 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 sewing circle of the first baptist church last Thursday evening. Mrs. A. Graham of Oakland ave. who has been 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 av. has returned home from Leavenworth, where she spent a week with her father Mr. S. Miller. Mrs. A. L. Spriggs of Washington av. after an extended illness, died Thursday of this week at her home. Funeral arrangements have been made for Sunday at the First 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 garret 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 yearns for that plar 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 down 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 fell 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 killin affair was enac City pawnshop 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, setting 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. First Publication Oct. 20th. 1905 NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF KANSAS. WYANDOTTE COUNTY, IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY In the matter of the Estate of Mary L. Gordon Deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters tessamentary have been granted to the 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. 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 youdemur, answer or otherwise object on or before the 30th day of January 1905, the allegations therein will be taken as true and upon further proof thereof judgement will be rendered as prayed for in said petition. JOHNSON and TOOLE. Attys. for Plaintiff. Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D. C. McCombs, Deputy. 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 above 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 rendered against you as follows; First—A personal judgement against you quieting your title to and in lot 48 in block 56 in Wyandotte city, or per record plat 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. Beggs, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. First Pub. Sept. 8th. 1905. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In The Disret 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 beeu 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 somewill 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 suit Katie Gilmore plaintiff. I. F. Bradley atty. attest Wm. Needles clerk. First Pub. Aug. 18th 1905. PUBLICATION NOTICE: THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY KANASS. Henry Jckson assignee Plaintiff. 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 after date thereof with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent per annum from date until paid. Said Notes was sold, transferred and indented to this plaintiff, for a valuable consideration. And unless you answer as aforesaid, 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. 27, 1905. this Section CALL HERE Prof. J. A. Downing will give a Musical Concert and Drama at 1st Baptist church, Monday night go and hear him, only ten cents at the door. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Vaughn, entertained a few friends at 3 o'clock lunch- on Sunday afternoon. Quite an enjoy- able time was had. Mr. and Mrs. Gatewood have been very sick at home for the past two weeks. But are now convalescing. Mr. D. F. Jones of 1710 Water st. left for Richmond, Mo. Sunday where he will spend a week hunting. Mrs. James Edmonds, of 433 Freeman entertained the ladies sewing circle last Wednesday. Rev. J. C. Cheeks, who is traveling, preaching from his great Bible Scenery is stopping at the home of Rev. J. L. Gordon, of 328 S. 8th St. Rev. Robert Mitchell, Eev. E. A. Wilson, Rev. Geo. McNeal, Mrs. Anna Scruggs are in Chicago to attend the National Baptist convention. Mrs. S. F. Malone, of Topeka was call to the bedside of her daughter Mrs. Leroy Chramshaw who was quite ill, Mrs. Malone returned home last Sunday taking her daughter with her. 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—dissolving the 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. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for Plaintiff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. First Pub. Oct. 20. 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. 1905 the petition filed against him will be taken as true and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be addecree 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 Pill Attest: Wm. Needles. Clerk. Attest: Wm. Needles. Clerk. Publication Notice In the District Court of Yyandotte 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 answer on or before the 3rd 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. Ranson 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. Frey. attorney First Published April 28th 1905. American Citizen 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 Toilets. It is a common thing in Paris for a man to accompany his wife to the dressmaker's. The young wife who has known no gayer attire than the coming-out gown of the jesire 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 liquefying 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 GHELTER. 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 magate, was talking to a young man about success. "The secret of success is enterprise, energy," said Col. Greene. "To be lazy, to stick always in the same old rut, that is how to make a wretched failure of your life. "I went West when I was 17, and after a spell of contracting and prospecting about Prescott, I farmed a bit in the San Pedro Valley. There was a storekeeper I used to buy my supplies from at that time who was a failure of the first water. This man's lack of enterprise was so great that people used to bring their children from miles around to study him. He was valuable as a horrible example. "There,' they would say to the youngsters,' take warning by Manners. He is a failure. He has no enterprise. Don't grow up like him. He resembles a tortoise, doesn't he? "Poor Manners in his sluggishness did resemble a tortoise a good deal. I sent a boy in to him one day with a pack mule to get five gallons of molasses. The boy told me afterward that when he entered the store Manners was dozing. The boy coughed and the man awoke and got up. He opened his mouth wide, and stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arms in a vast yawn. Then he said to the boy: "Wotcha want?" "Five gallons of molasses, Mr. Manners,' the boy spoke up, sharp and quick. "Wah-h-h-h,' yawned Manners again. Then as he took up the jug he grumbled: "Ain't there nobody what sells mo- lasses in this here town but me?" PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toilet that would quite astonish the most fashionable society lady. First she has her hair dressed by her maid, who, after anointing the long, silky black locks with a little oil, made from aloe wood or cocoanut, arranges it simply in a long, smooth plait, low on the nape of the neck, and decorated either with gold or jewelled ornaments. Next the bath is prepared as hot as it can be borne, and in this the lady may stay as long as two or three hours. Soaps are not used, but, instead, there are multifarious unguents, secret preparations of the bathing women, which render the skin soft as velvet and delicately perfumed. Oftentimes the face is washed over with milk, into which has been squeezed lemon juice. The hair of the oriental woman is usually beautifully long, soft and glossy, and the way they arrange it is invariably becoming to their soft type of beauty. Perfumes are much indulged in. These are introduced in the bath and permeate the garments, but are rarely used on a handkerchief. The Foam on the Top: Don't snuggle conceit to your bosom, my boy. Boy. Because you're on top of the wave. For here a thought that might serve to the gold of the credit you crave: The ocean is not always at surface, my son. And I think, if to notice you'll stop, You'll see the good to the bottom may run. But the foam always lingers on top. I would not discourage your zeal, my dear lad; It has been too much work. It is best to keep working alway. But this funny old world often labels as bad. The thing that is good in its day. In fact, I may say that it classifies wrong some part of the great earthly crop. And I may you will note as you jour- ney along. That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear wife, But look on the world as you go. A Polite Discharge James Rankin Young, the new superintendent of the Dead Letter office admires politeness. "It is possible," he said recently, "to be polite always. It is possible to be polite even when discharging a drunken coachman. I know that this is so, for I have seen the thing done. "A friend of mine found himself obliged last week to get rid of his coachman for drunkenness. He summoned the man into his presence, and discharged him with this polite speech: "I fear. Montgomery, that we must part. It has been impossible for me to avoid noticing that several times during the past month you have been—er—sober. Now, I don't believe that any man can attend properly to drinking if he has driving to do, and, therefore, at the month's end you will be free to devote yourself exclusively to your chosen occupation." All Christians. In his article in the Woman's Home Companion, describing the International Sunday School Convention in Jerusalem, Doctor Devins relates the following significant incident: "An unexpected favor was received from the officers of the Russian church on the Mount of Olives. A meeting had been planned to be held near the place of the Ascension. As the leader of the meeting, the writer went to see if it could be held under the trees near the church. "Why not?" was the reply, accompanied by a smile on the saintly face of the speaker. 'Why not?' Do we not worship the same Christ?" WIT IS NOT APPRECIATED. Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors. A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keeping up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but he has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or sentimental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his interruptions. He has a high pitched, penetrating voice, and the town police, who have been on the verge of ejecting him a dozen times, say that he was a Glasgow cab driver who retired with a competence and now takes this way to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melodrama was being presented. The heroine of the play, pursued by the villain, had taken refuge in the house of her lover, who, as the hero of the play, was of course, at variance with his sweetheart's parents. The exigencies of the plot required that the irate father, sword in hand and at the head of his faithful retainers, should track the girl to the gates of the hero's treacherous and disgraceful elopement, enter the room where the scared heroine had been secreted under the table. "Wretch!" cried the furious father, "your life shall answer for this. I demand my child. Where is she." Then, shrill and startling in the expectant silence, from the gallery came the answer: "Unner the taile, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stickin' oot?" The house was in a tumult of merriment in a moment, but it was the "angry father" himself, who ruined the situation, for he burst into immoderate laughter and the curtain fell in the middle of the act, to rise again upon an audience that could not repress its risibles for the rest of the evening. HE WANTED A MORTGAGE Swede's Experience With a Deed Had Taught Him Caution. Halvor Steenerson, Congressman from Minnesota, tells a story of a Swede who went to that state from one of the Dakotas for the purpose of buying a farm. A land agent acted as guide and informant to the Swede, who eventually found what he wanted. When the time came to make out the necessary papers, the agent asked the Swede what method he preferred to adopt in making payments. "Ay pay all. Ay haf da money," replied the Swede. "Very well, then. I'll make out the deed," said the agent. "No!" suddenly exclaimed the Swede. "Ay no want deed!" 'Why, yes, you do!' rejoined the agent, astonished. "You pay the money and you take a deed for the farm." "No, no!" earnestly asseverated the Swede. "Ay no want deed! Ay had deed oop in Dakoty. Ay pay man da money. He gif me deed. Ay gif heem mortgage. Ay tak land. By en by he get land, he get deed, he haf da money. Dees time Ay want no deed; Ay want mortgage. Ay pay da money; you gif me mortgage!"—The Sunday Magazine. Getting Posted. "I would like to ask you a question if you don't mind," said the old man in the street car to the man on his right. "Go ahead, sir." "I should like to know the meaning of the term 'History repeats itself.' I come across it most every day. How does history repeat itself? "That's easily answered," said the other. "For instance, if you should ask me what I thought of the weather I should tell you to go and be hanged to you. If we should meet a month hence and you asked me the same question over again my reply would be the same." "I think I see—I think I do," mused the old man, as he leaned back and crossed his feet. "Yes, I guess I understand, and I want to tell you that you are a durned mean jackass of a man and that history is going to repeat itself every blamed time I run across you for the next ten years to come."—Chicago News. A. Gentle Thrust. James Jeffrey Roche, the new Consul to Genoa, was talking about a magazine editor. "This man," he said, "rejected some of the best of my early verse. He rejected some of the best verse of my friends. Why he is an editor I can't imagine. He certainly has no critical sense. "I indicated this to him one day. He had announced to me that he was going to get married. He had praised the lady of his choice ardently, declaring her to be a poem. "‘A poem?’ said I. “‘A poem,’ he repeated. “‘And still you do not reject her?’ (exclaimed." Soft as the plumes of sleep drifts down The pure white silence of the snow The bells make merry in the town, Where happy faces come and go. The brooding quiet of the trees, Is broken sweet, in yonder glen. By "day, day day," of chickadees And keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word Is werbled when the grosbeaks sing; And in the moaning pines is heard The whisper of returning spring Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B., I FUNERAL D And Embalmer The Very Best ages For All Purpose. 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COURSES:—Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sut-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenograpy and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES:—Splend Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION:—For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to WILLIAM 7. VERNON. A.M.D. D. Phones {Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West" 15. Why does colored people as well as uncolored the dark or by a smoky poor light and bad water full of disease gen colored people as well as uncolored peck or by a smoky poor light and drink bad water full of disease germs. 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. When they can get a first-class Bright Gas Burner Light Self Cleaner Water that makes the water clear as a Crystal For 50 to 75 cents. Cleaner Water B takes the water clear as a Crystal and I For 50 to 75 cents. that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN. 530 Minnesota Ave. DONT FORGET J.E. Houstons T FORGET, THAT Houstons Grocery DONT FORGET, THAT AT J.E. Houstons Grocery Store 1701 N, 8th St You can find all the commodities kept in Grocery Store. Country produce in seaso prices and courteous treatment. || GIVE HIM YOUR PATR “In the shade of the Old Apple tree” lar song—Why not you be popular by popular store. L. J. MADDU Staple and Fancy Gr find all the commodities kept in a store. Country produce in season. I courteous treatment. HIM YOUR PATRON the shade of the Old Apple tree" is a Why not you be popular by tra re. L. J. MADDUX 梨 and Fancy Groc You can find all the commodities kept in a first-class Grocery Store. Country produce in season. Reasonable prices and courteous treatment. || GIVE HIM YOUR PATRONAGE "In the shade of the Old Apple tree" is a very popular song—Why not you be popular by trading at a popular store. L. J. MADDUX, Staple and Fancy Groceries, Meat and all kinds of Produce. 852 Freeman Ave. 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.. 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. Telephone Home W.32 Raymond DIRECTOR. Best of Service, Fine Carri- All Hours. Red White Enameled and wounded ages Reasonable Call At Kansas City, Kansas. UNIVERSITY National Institution the West..... College, Normal, Sub-Normal and Preparatory, Normal, Sut-Normal, Special, including piano, organ and and Mechanical), Carpentry, Print- tress Course, Stenography and Type- ing and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Dredening. In, Healthful Climate, Good Influ- ences and all inducements offered, NON, A.M.D, D. DENT. well as uncolored people set in poor light and drink muddy of disease germs. Burner Light cents. and a Water Filter, or as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. ET, THAT AT Grocery Store odities kept in a first-class produce in season. Reasonable event. R PATRONAGE Apple tree" is a very popular by trading at a ADDUX, ncy Groceries, Kansas City, Kansas. Here is the Place. J T ROBERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINNESOTA AVENUE. Woman Mountain Climber By far the most expert woman mountaineer in the world is Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman. In the Himalayas she has climbed to an altitude of 22,568 feet. On the same occasion her husband broke the world's record for men by 311 feet, by climbing 23,194 feet up a mountain 24,479 feet high. Mrs. Workman is of medium height, and there is nothing in her appearance to suggest the strength she has displayed in some of her wonder ROOM 8 KANSAS BOOKS IN BRITISH MUSEUM. 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 while 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 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 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. Spirit Bridal. She sleeps within a sheltered, marbled close, Amid the quiet kin of yesterday, And all the murvel of her beauty's rose Has vanished quite away. "More trouble," sighed McNulty, 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 letter to 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." THIS AD IS WORTH 6 cents =a Tine eee ae ae rs Rost convenient fone ap \ LGA 3 Sy = WASH BLUE eee" hae cca Vist tee, breaky (ST WEG ee om aan ie ot de (Rh eee Hee Orce used always used. ws “sem tAUNDRY BLUE COs, CHICAGO, ILL. , is round, never fat. The blue is Sgle-$tick inside, never ontaide. Beware of imitations. a Beautify Your ' | Walls and Ceilings? Qabastin | JN eam? in white ‘A Rock Cement t%, site ats. Does not rub or scale. 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A perfect pun makes good sense doth ways; the edges meet with a click lke the blades of a sharp Lair of shears. Sometimes the very thoughts fit tigat together in antagonistic iden- tity, as when the man said of the tem- Perance exhorter that he would be & Good fellow it he Would only let rink alone; or when Disraeli (if it was he, wrote to the youth who had sent him a first novel: “I thank you Very much. I shall lose no time in reading it,” or, as when a man seeing @ poor piece of carpentry, said: “That chicken coop looks as if some «an had made it himself.” Exquistte per- verse literalness of thought! And the Same absolute punning, the very self: destruction of a proposition, was the old death-thrust at a poor poet by the friend who said: “His poetry will be read when Shakespeare and Homer are forgotten.” It was a fine double. edged blade of specch until some crade fellow, Heine, I think, sharpened it to a wire edge by adding, “and not till then,” a banality that dulled its per- fection forever—J. A. Macy, in the Oc- tober Atlantic, __ It’s impossible for a man to see the Point of a joke and feel it simultan- eously. Pare aR Bradford, Tenn., Oct. 23d.—(Spe- cial.) —Scientific research shows Kid- ney Trouble to be the father of so many diseases that news of a discov- ery of a sure cure for it cannot fail to be welcomed all over the country. And according to Mr. J. A. Davis of this place just such a cure is found in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr» Davis says: “Dodd's Kidney Pills are all that is claimed for them. They have done me more good than anything I have ever taken. 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RAILROADS IN AIR MANAGERS FACE A SERIOUS TIME IN CAR SHORTAGE. HEAVY CROPS THE TROUBLE Wheat Crop Not Yet Moved and Fully 250,000 Cars Required to Transport the Corn to Come. ', KANSAS CITY, MO.—‘What the railroads will do when it comes ta | moving the immense corn crop, I am at a loss to understand,” said a lead, ing freight man connected with one of the big systems. “I know of one road that cannot begin to supply the shippers with the cars actually neces. sary to carry products to the markets at this time, and when it comes to moving the crop now being prepared for market in addition to that now awaiting transportation, I cannot im- agine how they are going to do it. “Take the state of Kansas alone. It is estimated there is 250,000,000 bushels of corn for the market in that state. Allowing 1,000 bushels of corn for eacu car, this makes a demand for 250,000 cars for that state alone. Another estimate makes 75,000,000 bushels of wheat raised in Kansas this year. This calls for 75,000 cars to handle it to the market. Probably more than one half of this crop has been started on its way, but there is still a big lot of it remaining on hand to be handled, and the corn crop com- ing. I know that one road has at least 400,000 bushels of new wheat in its elevators here awaiting shipment for Galveston alone, and out of the lot received for that point by this road they have only been able to secure fifty cars since the season opened. All Roads Are Short. “TI know of another general agent who has been after ten cars a day for the past week, and has been able to supply but two cars daily. If it is this way with the Kansas crop alone, what will it be when the Nebraska, South and North Dakotas, Oklahoma and Indian Territories begin to send itheir merchandise and grain, and are jealling for cars? “It is now a time when the general freight agent does not have to get out and hustle for business. It comes to ‘him, and in such quantities that he is unable to handle it. Before this de- mand is over, shippers will be begging for cars and there will be none to give them. The companies have ample motive power to handle. all that is offered, but the car shortage 4s something that has never been met in such magnitude as at present, and the companies are simply swamped and look on the future with fear and trembling.” NEW YORK.—Here is the correct list of New Yorkers who receive a higher salary tnan the president of the United States: Richard A, McCurdy, president Mutual Life company; Wil- Ham H. Newman, president New York Central; William B. Corey, president Steel thrust; John A. McCall, presi- dent New York Life; L. F. Loree, president Rock Island railroad; C. H. Mattheson, president Chicago Glucose company, H. 0, Havemyer, president American Sugar Refining company; Stuyvesant Fish, president Illinois Central; James Stillman, _ president City National Bank; Gage E. Tarbell, second vice president Equitable Life; Frederick H. Eaton, president Ameri- can Car and Foundry company; A. J. Cassatt, president Pennsylvania rail- road; Charles S. Mellen, president New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad; V. P. Snyder, president Bank of Commerce; E. S. Chappelle, wine agent; James J. Hill, president North- ern Securities company; Frederick D. Underwood, president Erie railroad; William H. Truesdale, president Lack- awanna railroad; Samuel Spencer, president Southern railway, and E. P. Ripley, president Santa Fe railway. THE IROQUOIS THEATER SOLD, A Transfer of thé Famous Chicago House to a New York Corporation, CHICAGO.—Formal notification of the fact that the Iroquis theater prop: erty has passed into the hands of the Metropolis Theater company, a New York cfrporation has been made by ‘filing for record the transfer of the property. A consideration of only $10 is named in the transfer. The purchasing com. pany assumes an incumbrance of $300,000. Cow Hangs A Youth, DES MOINES—aArthur Boyd, made a cow his unwilling executioner when he slipped a noose over a rafter in a barn and tied one end to the cow’s neck and the other around his own. In its struggle to escape the cow ‘dragged Boyd clear of: the floor and hanged him. Presents Are Shipped. SAN FRANC:SCO. — The articles which Miss Roosevelt alluded to as trinkets, her presents received abroad filled twenty-three cases, one of which was twelve feet long. Many cases are marked “glass, handle with care,” and none of the cases is smaller than two feet square. The goods were ship. ped in bond to Washington. Moroccan Conferees to Meet Spain. TANGIER, MOROCCO.—The sultan has accepted Algeciras, Spain, as the place for the Moroccan conference, MANY KNOW THIS—DO You? ‘The following very interesting conver- gation ‘vetween Mr. Whiter banker: and Mr. Walter Wellman, retired, two promi hent citizens of the’ town, waa recently OvgPheard se patent, neater 7 ST ever buy patent medicine.” sai Mr. White, ""Witen I fect the sieed “ol medical assistance I call oug ‘physician, T don't believe in taking @ lot of stufl that I know nothing about. I know, how= ever. that a great many do use Ik, and apparently ‘with good results. yut Tam for getting & doctor every. tithe. Your circumstanecs render this possl- ble," “replied Sir. Wellman but the tna- Jority of people must consider the ex- pense. “My cxperionee is. that some pat- ent medicines ‘frequently cure when the doctor's. skill is Gamied, “Waker for ins Stance an affiction: say ike constipation and Stomach trouble, bid you ever heat of your family physician curing @ ease like’ that? it constipated, he gives you physie; but a physic cannot cure consti= pation, and ‘he will tell_you so.” It ie a Teraporary relief and before long you need mort physic or pills, “The doctor charges yous} @very ume you call on him and You have to pay S0e or tse to have is Bresesiption sled.“ Pretty soon you have the “Pil” or ‘Phyale" habit and: sour docs tor has a steady. customer. “You ‘cannot Fead the doctor's preseriptions. You know no more about what he gives you than Hou Mo aboyh the, tiredichts of'a patent inedicine, No. reliable company ‘whi put g fet oC money into a” patent medicine Snless they co convinced that ie will do all that 1s claimed Yor it, Usually It Is tke ‘prescription ‘ot some’ specialist. who has Mevoted his ‘ite to mie study. of 8 Certain disease and has mastered tt, T mention constipation and. stomach trouble because T-suifered from that af: fiction for years, “Ii the ‘beginning. of nearly’ all disease. “Once it gets a atip on you. It is serious. stubborn and. hard to dvercome, “J never knew a case that Nas cured by an ordinary, practicing phy sician. but 1 ‘do know ofa umber. of bad’ Cases. that were permanently cured by a remedy called Mulls Grape ‘Tonic. Thave used it in my family with, satis: factory Tenults, “It cared me, and I know a Kreat many more persons it has cured, It ‘costs 50 cents for a small of $1.00 for & large hotties “I don't ‘know exactly ‘si that'fe inci. ‘Sur T'do know it cures cone Stipation and stomach trouble and that ia more than my family doctor could ‘do for me. T was first, attracted to the remedy by the company’s offer to give the first bate He free to any-one who would ‘write to them giving their druggict's name, Tam thank(ul for the benefit it has given and advise every stifferer- from constipation fo, muite 10 the Mulls Grape Tonle Co. 148 Hin Aven Beck Inland, i, giving them their druggist's address, so'that they can Srostive abate inte ae eee A LITTLE CHILD. He that fs to life beguiled By the clinging of a child Hath, I know, great store of grace, And with Love a dwelling place; For all heaven hath dreamed an. smiled In the sweet face of a child. —Frank L. Stanton. USE THE FAMOUS Gents. “The Russ Company, Souch Beudy ind AT LAST SUCCESS CAME. I knocked at the gate of my lord, Success; I stormed his threshold with eager din, I love him, the prize of my soul, no less, But he barred the gate lest I step within, And after Love took my heart to mate, And we built us a home in the wil- derness, A stranger is beating against our gate, Crying: “Let me in! It is I, Sue- cess!” Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? keep them white—16 oz, for 10 cents, A Triumph Over Obstacles. Her first venture at cooking dinner In her own home had passed success: fully, and they sat in silence at the opposite ends of the iable, wondering at the novelty of it all, and gazing at each other. “Honestly, honestly—on your word of honor—did you like it, Fred?” she asked, finally, “Never enjoyed anything so much in my hfe,” he said, and swallowed a lump. “Everything—everything—from soup to pudding?” “Every mouthful, from soup to pué: ding,” he said bravely. “Oh, I'm so relieved, then,” she said, as a huge sigh escaped her. “You see, I forgot to order the syrup. for the sauce for the pudding, and I had to have something, so I took the cough syrup, and I was so afraid you'd taste it."—Exchange. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Newspaper Enterprise. People do not appreciate the earnest endeavor of the press to furnish news quickly. Some wonderful examples have been furnished in recent years of quick publication of current events, but none can excel a recent “scoop” landed by the Freeborn (Ia.) Courier. It is self-explanatory: “We came pretty near getting Scooped on an item this week, but i it were not for the fact that we al- ways have our weather eye open, we would have been left in the cold. Just as we go to press Oscar Sanborn is having three fingers cut off by a threshing machine, A doctor has been Sent for, Details in next issue.”—Ex. ‘The Best Results in Starchina flance coetained only by using De- ance Starch, ‘besides getting “4 on more for same money—1 : more f ey—No cooking re: Lots of people take offense when there is none in sight. iso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.-Wa 0. Expsuey, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900 As a rule the “speak-easy” is an un- speakable nuisance. sae SiH RLINE Lida doh Street Puasatsee It isn’t what your grandfather was but what you are, that realiy counts. Mra, Winslow's Soothing ces cnbaren eofvcs the yea, Tiosecipepals Seren win’ Sain Bosteadt ‘When ft comes to triplets i: keeps p man busy trying to hold bis own, PRICE, -y 25 Cts. Saeefy ANTI-GRIPINE SIMONE DAY NY IS GUARANTEED TO CURE ANTHGRIPINE for, GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA, montagne BOO [pl sasaki ere wit Deine pring SCALES Se S| Earl Conny land Sonvenie Post Carte | [>= eterats amas bs ALCOHOL IN MOST MEDICINES. Indispensable Requisite In Compound- Ing of Some Prescriptions. It 1s of course true that some pro- prietary medicines contain alcohol and aearly all liquid medicines prescribed by physicians contain it. No honest man will defend the sale of intoxi- cants under the guise of medicine; but every honest’ man should protest against a system of wholesale denun- ciation born of malice, or ignorance of pharmaceutical principles, and fos- tered by selfish interests. It is as- ‘sumed that alcohol is the cause of in- ‘temperance; but there is a-great dit- ference between alcohol and whisky. if @ substitute for alcohol could be found for use in the manufacture of medicines, its discoverer would render a great service to the profession of pharmacy and the science of medi- cine, for alcohol is a very expensive Ingredient and a cheaper substitute would be gladly accepted. Unfortun- ately the word alcohol, in the minds of many people is associated exclu: sively with barrooms, drunkenness and all forms of degradation and vice. This is due to a lack of knowledze by the general public of the fact that alcohol is an indispensable requisite in drugs, tinctures and fluid extracts. All fluid extracts and tinctures on the druggists’ shelves contain from 20 to 80 per cent of alcohol; and of all liquid medicines prescribed by phy: siclans more than 15 per cent contain It in large proportions. Alcohol is required to preserve or- ganic substances from deterioration and from freezing, and it is also re quired to dissolve substances not solu- ble im water, while it contributes to their preservation when dissolved. Diluted alcohol is largely employed in fiuid extracts; and whenever a greater strength of alcohol is required as a solvent (for extracting medicinal prin- ciples) the medicine 1s of such a char- acter as to preclude a large dosage; and for this reason preparations, even it containing 50 per cent or more of alcohol, are practically less intoxicat- ing than beer. In such cases the character of the medicinal constituents is such as to absolutely forbid the taking of the medicine in any way except in very small doses and at stated intervals only. ‘To assume that any great number of proprietary med- {cines are used as beverages is the veriost absurdity.—Exchange. INTELLIGENTWOMEN PREPARE Dangers and Pain of This Critical Period Avoided by the Use of Lydia E. Pink- bam's Vegetable Compound. sao isi, peor How many wo l Hea 4] men realize that H 4 By! Vil the most critical f "7 period in a wo- ( = 6 man’s existence P isthe change of i life, and thatthe i > anxiety felt by a Bipif] women as this hs UA EREAY tine draws near O46 APC iland oO ie not without How many wo men realize that the most critical period in a wo- man’s existence is the change of life, and that the anxiety felt by women as this time draws near is not without tay If her system is in a deranged condi- tion, or she is predisposed to apoplexy or congestion of any organ, it is at this time likely to become active and, with a host of nervous irritations, make life a burden. At this time, also. cancersand tumors are more liable to begin their destrue- tive work, Such warning symptoms as a sense of suffocation, hot flashes, diz- ziness, headache, dread of impending evii, sounds in the ears, timidity, pal- pitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, variable appetite, weakness and inqui- etude are promptly heeded by intelli- gent women who are approaching the Period of life when woman's great shane may be expected. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound is the world’s greatest remedy for women at this trying period, and may be relied upon to overcomeall dis- ‘tressing symptoms and earry them ‘safely through to a healthy and happy old age. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound invigorates and strengthens the female organism, and builds up the weakened nervous system as no other medicine can. Mrs A. E.G. Hyland, of Chester- town, Md., in a letter to Mrs. Pink- ham, says: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— “T had been suffering with falling of the ryomb for years and was passing through the Ghango of fife My womb was badly swollen. ‘Thad a good of soreness, dizzy spelis, headaches, and was very nervous. I wrote you for advice and commenced treatment with Lydia EB. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- ound as you directed, and Tamm happy tosay Leena cae? ee one left me, ve fly through the change oides wel woman” For special advice regarding this im- Portant period women are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. It is free and always helpful. ‘A treatment. in homes where there Se chron, "Provents and cree Ded sth roel Geom A arti tome Slormstca, ae THE PABULUM co. poreas | = aNmas Ore Mo, ENSION 20836 .xonn5, Washington, D. © Successfully Prosecutes Giairns, Sfreinetvilwareieadjudleating cahaesecoy wes: W. N. U. KANSAS CITY NO. 43, 1905. MRS, EMMA FLEISSNER rah Suffered Over Two Years—Health Was dn a Precarious Condition--Caused By Pelvic Catarrh. iii =a Re [ee os a . oe RSE NRRC ou Se a Se) a Gq HEALTH AND STRENGTH PE-RU-NA, Mrs. Emma Fleissner, 1412 Sixth Ave., Seattle, Wash., Worthy Treasures Sons of Temperance, writes: “I suffered over two years with Ire regular and painful periods. My health was in a very precarious condition and 1 was anxious to find something to re« store my health and strength. “Iwas very glad to try Peruna and delighted to find that it was doing me good. [continued to use iss litle ver three months and found my troubles removed. “I consider it a splendid medictue and shall never be without it, taking # dose occasionally when I feel run-dowa and tired.” Our files contain thousands of teat monials which Dr. Hartman has re- ceived from grateful, happy women who have been restored to health by his remedy, Peruna. W.L. DoucLas °322%*3:°° SHOES W. L. Douglas $4.00 Gilt Edge Line cannot be equailed at any price. ease) 5 } pmices c? f 2 \\ hi’ 5 a ey 4 : | * uk: || bap ai ey: Val ae dag me || NOS eet Pe Lo ae ea 7. dl erg 5. Rh eae AB apd I eae oe GEGEN || corre 209, Sey || ireien. S MORE eT ES AND SES MORE MEN'S $3.50 SHOES Ti (ANY OTHER ‘MANUFACTURER. EVARD to anyone wh $10,000 "Sa sayersates lca ‘stylet cory ito’ cad surenortecriag ‘Guailtien, achieved the largest sale ofany $60 doe ihe word “They ar as a food te | those that cost you $5.00 to $7.00—the only Aitference te the prices It | could take you tes fny lnctory at Brockton, Manan che latvest it Exe world under'ene. vot making masts: hs shoes and show vou the care with which ever? pair of Douglas shoes Is made, you would realli siia:We Lt Baal sah cheese tho beat Shots produced la thew ett etree bs socs ucts stoes made in my factory od Shwe Gf ter fetes, you would tndezeiand ‘why. Bos ep tgocs more to mate, why thy eld thelr shape, jie better, wear looser and gre greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 Shocton the market today Wek. las SY) Made Shoes: ‘Mon, 82:50, $2.00) ‘Be so Beheal rete Shoes, $2.80, $2, 61.75, 01. insist upon naviyg W.eDonge Pe a arate Aone Titiout his name and price smaped on Menten WANTED. A shoe dealerinevery town whore Wie Douglas Giver are not aol, "FON Me oe {Sinpies sent free for inspection wn roauese Fast Color Eyelets weed; they will mo: wear brags Write for Illustrate Catalog of Tall. Slew | Wete: tor Jileatrared. Catalog of Fall Beyiq Western Life Indemnity Co, Brecher ag compte neni abons 7a, 7 Gri Corn Crib | ACARI sizes, 00 to 1,000bu. Cheap td te a and handy. Can be set up SRAEMET MGCIIME asctatvure Sct) Grate eh Bins, Wire Field sod te ‘Lawn Fence, etc. ETE) nx pessiscwinka rexceon, Gat a lm aata tov “THE HARDIE SPRAY PUMP” sacieniel aya ore THE HOOK-HARDIE Co., Box 19 a ‘Hudson, Mick, THE NEWS OF KANSAS KELLY'S BOOKS RIGHT. No Shortage, It Is Said, in Kansas Treasury. TOPEKA.—The expert accountants who have been checking up the state treasury are now making up their report, and, it is said, Tom Kelley's accounts will be found all straight. An apparent shortage of $3,200 is said to exist in the accounts of Frank Grimes out of two bond deals. Grimes says he knows nothing of it but will pay it if it exists. The account, it is supposed, comes up through some mistake in the keeping of the books. KANSAS WILL NOT WAIVE ITS CLAIM TOPEKA.-The story that the state has consented to give up its claim for preference, in the settlement of the First National bank's affairs is denied at the office of the attorney general, Mr. Coleman. This puts the matter up to the bonding company by saying that the state will not fight Bradley's decision that, it is not a preferred creditor, but will look to the bonding company for settlement and let the bonding company fight out the preference claim. The receiver decided a few days ago that the state is not a preferred creditor, but in order to have the matter definitely and finally settled, he sent his decision to the comproller for final disposition. There was about 1,100 depositors in the bank and a committee from their number waited upon the governor and the attorney general and requested that the state insist that it is a preferred creditor. They say that if this point were followed the litigation in the bank's affairs would be lengthened and depositors kept from receiving a dividend several months longer than if the state permitted a common distribution. KANSAS CONVICTS BY COUNTIES Leavenworth Sent the Largest Number and Several Sent None. TOPEKO.—In the year ending June 30, 1905, the Kansas counties increased the population of the state penitentiary by 246. The largest number of convicts sent from one county was twenty-one convicts from Leavenworth. Cherokee was second with twenty. No convicts were sent from Decatur, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Finney, Grahan, Grant, Gray, Greeyle, Harper, Haskell, Hodgeman, Jackson, Johnson, Kiowa, Lane, Logan, Marion, Meade, Mitchell, Phillips, Rawlins, Riley, Rooks, Russell, Scott, Seward, Sheridan, Lerman, Stanton, Stevens, Thomas, Trego, Wabaunsee, Wallace and Wichita. The sheriffs of the state received $5,999.39 for their expenses in conveying the prisoners to the penitentiary. Kansas Wheat Leads TOPEKA.—The Union Pacific Railway company has issued a bulletin giving the crop yields by counties for the states of Kansas and Nebraska for the year 1905. The figures are compiled from estimates furnished by Union Pacific correspondents. The yields in all the important crops planted are contained in the bulletin. According to the bulletin Kansas has a good lead over her neighbor on the north in the matter of wheat produced, but Nebraska has the call in the production of corn. Will Not Weaken State's Case. TOPEKA—The state will not waive its claim to preference as a depositor of the defunct First National bank of Topeka, if the attorney general be believes that it would weaken the state's case against the bank's bondsmen. This question will be given consider- ation before a definite reply is made. The local depositors want the state to waive its right of preference, so that they can get an early dividend. A Kansan Dead in Roswell, N. M. WICHITA, KAS.—George E. Campbell, an old resident of this city, ex- superintendent of the city schools is dead at Roswell, N. M., where he went about a week ago for his health. Mr. Campbell has for the last twenty-one years been a business man and a school and church worker. A Remarkable Gas Company LAWRENCE, KAS.—The Gas company here has announced that it would furnish natural gas for Lawrence at twenty-five cents a thousand cubic feet instead of thirty cents as the city ordinance provides. The consumption of natural gas has surpassed all expectations. Raids in Allen County IOLA, KAN.—C. L. Evans, the new assistant attorney general for Allen County, has raided six joints and County Attorney Clifford also ordered the arrest of the six jointkeepers Horsethief Catchers Meet. EMPORIA.—The 24th annual meeting of the Anti-Horsethief association of Kansas met in the Wigwam here Thursday. Three hundred delegates are here and the number is expected to reach 600. Major Barth's Condition Improved. LEAVENWORTH, KAS.—Major C. H. Barth had a restful night and his condition show improvement. His friend are hopeful for his recovery unless complications from internal injuries develop. GREEN TO WORK IN KANSAS. Will See if He Can Turn Up Public Land Frauds. TOPEKA—Albert R. Green, the government inspector who turned up the land frauds in the Northwest which resulted in one United States senator and two congressman being indicted, has arrived here and will investigate public land operations in Kansas. District Attorney Dean, several months ago, indicted three men in Western Kansas for conspiring to commit fraud in order to get homestead entries. This led the government to believe that possibly there were some more such cases in Kansas and Mr. Greene has been detailed to make a through investigation NATRAL GAS INTO OTTAWA. The Kansas Town Began Burning the Product Wednesday. OTTAWA, KAS. — Ottawa began Wednesday the use of natural gas The supply was turned into the city mains from the pipes of the Kansas Natural Gas company. All the regular customers of the Municipal Gas company began the use of the new supply, and extensions are making as rapidly as possible. Ottawa gets a twenty-five cent maximum rate, and receives a bonus of $25,000 in annual payments. The gas company here acts as distributer. KANSAS WANTS CORN HUSKERS. Decatur County Alone Sends an Order for 1,000. TOPEKA.—Kansas is now looking for cornhuskers. Secretary Coburn received a call from Decatur county for 1,000 huskers. T. B. Gerow, free employment director is also getting orders for huskers from the corn belt. “There is pleanty of work for every idle man in the state,” said Gerow. “In fact, outsiders can come in and husk corn until late in the winter.” THE FRUIT TREES OF KANSAS. W. H. Barnes of State Board of Horticulture Gives Figures. TOPEKA—W, H. Barnes, secretary of the state board of horticulture, has completed an enumeration of the fruit trees of Kansas. He .as also counted the acres of forest trees. He finds that from the natural growth the state has 373,000 acres and that of the trees planted by settlers there are 180,000 acres. Mid-Continent Oil Runs. CHANUTE, KAS—The pipe line department of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company reports that the average daily runs of crude oil from the Kansas and territory fields for the first three weeks of October were 44,869 barrels and that a quarter of million barrels were put in storage, each week during that time. Sugar Creek and Neodesha re.neries and fuel oil custom took an average of 9,000 barrels a day. Boy Caught With the Horse COFFEYVILLE, KAS.—A 14-year old boy named Conn is in the city jail here, charged with stealing a horse from Bartlesville, I. T., his home. He is alleged to have taken the horse from a wagon at that place early Monday morning and was arrested while riding the animal into Colleyville. Wood Alcohol Killed Convict LEAVENWORTH, KAN. — Frank Cullom, a convict at Lansing is dead, as a result of drinking a large quantity of wood alcohol last Friday. He was 29 years of age, and was doing time for a burglary committed in Burton county. He entered the prison in 1902. Coffeyville Will Improve Streets. COFFEYVILLE—The 36 blocks of paving, which have been under way all summer, now are nearing completion. The $125,000 in paving bonds will be sold and the work completed if an injunction is not secured in the mean time. Destroyed $7,500 in Liquor. FREDONIA.—By order of Judge Stillwell of the district' court, Sheriff Timmons began the destruction here of 500 cases of beer, 6 barrels of whisky and 30 bottles of wine and whisky, of a total value, including six sets of fixtures, of $7,500. Another Zinc Ore Reduction GALENA.—In the Missouri-Kansas zinc ore market the smelter representatives succeeded in cutting the price $1.50 a ton making a reduction in two of weeks of $3.50. Another Kansas Oil Well PLEASANTON, KAS.—Another 6-million foot gas gusher was brought in west of this place near the one reported a few days ago on the Carbon lease. Goes to an Oregon Agency. HIAWATHA, KAS—Superintendent O. C. Edward, for several years past agent for the Kickapoo, Sac and Fox and Iowa Indians in this county, has been transferred to the Indian agency at Amilita, Ore., and has moved there with his family. A Good Rain in Clay County, Kansas. CLAY CENTER, KAS.—good rain has fallen in this section. The ground was dry and wheat was suffering badly for moisture. It is feared that it had been slightly damaged. Chinese Foresight. Representative Julius Kahn, of California, tells a grimly humorous tale, illustrative of the guile of "the heathen Chinea." One day it appears that Dennis Spencer, a prominent criminal attorney of Napa, in the State mentioned was the recipient of a call from a Chinese, who without circumlocution at once put this question: "Splose Mr. Spencer, one Chinaman kill 'nother Chinaman with hatchet. How much you chlarge make him clear?" "Oh," exclaimed the lawyer carelessly, "I'd take the case for $500." The Chinaman vanished without a word. In about a week he returned and laid the sum of $500 on Mr. Spencer's desk. "What's this for?" asked the lawyer. "You say you take case for $500," explained the Oriental. A light burst upon Mr. Spencer. Horrified he exclaimed: "You mean to tell me that since I saw you last one of your countrymen has been killed?" "Certainly," calmly answered the Chinaman. "I kill him last night."—New York Times. No Stoic. The waiter laid a bill of fare before him. "No," said Ardup, ignoring it, "I haven't fortitude enough to look through it. Bring me coffee and doughnuts."—Chicago Tribune. STRENGTHEN THE STOMACH Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Really Cure Indigestion Instead of Merely Relieving Symptoms. There are plenty of remedies by which you can relieve for the time heartburn, pain and gas on the stomach and can smother nervous sensations and induce artificial sleep. You can humor your stomach by giving it predigested food. But when you take your next meal all your trouble begins afresh. There is only one sensible thing to do. Strengthen the stomach and do away with the necessity for drugs and artificial foods. The best remedy ever found for this purpose is the one that was used by E. E. Strong, of Capleville, Shelby county, Tenn. "For years," he states, "I suffered greatly from indigestion. I tried many different remedies and some of them would relieve me for a time, but the trouble always came back. About six months ago I had an unusually severe attack, and while I tried everything I had ever heard of, I found that none of the ordinary remedies would reach the difficulty this time. "One day I read in a Memphis paper how Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured a Michigan woman, a sufferer from chronic dyspepsia of a most stubborn type. I then tried the same remedy and it proved just as successful in my case. I took only three boxes, and was cured. I have not had the slightest symptoms of indigestion since." The tonic treatment has a sound principle as its basis, and abundant success in actual use. Multitudes of cases that had defied all other remedies have been cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The pills actually make new blood and strike at the root of all diseases caused by bad blood. They contain no harmful stimulants or opiates. Every dyspeptic should read, "What to Eat and How to Eat." Write the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Scheuctady, N.Y., for a free copy. TO PASS THE TIME. All the worry you have in the world is what you carry about under your hat. No, Cordellia, it isn't necessary to act foolish in order to live the simple life. Every boy is a puzzle, and it is a wise father who can guess the answer. Although the judge frequently chares the jury, it's the litigants who pay the freight. A man must be awfully mean when he can find pleasure in depriving other people of it. There is a skeleton in every closet, but this is no excuse for a continual rattling of the bones. An engaged girl tries to convince herself that the man of her choice is perfect, but she never quite succeeds. A fuzzy taste the next morning makes a fellow feel down in the mouth. Ahe fact that age commands veneration possibly explains why there are so many old reprobates. "Now you object to my giving to the heathen! Did you ever do a deed of charity?" "I married you."—Houston Post. Some men never think of praying "deliver us not into temptation," until they have unwillingly rushed into quences. "The word graft has been incorporated into the language," says a lexicographer. And it has also been incorporated elsewhere. A hypocrite in the church is always prominent because of the contrast. The contrast being very much less outside, the hypocrite is not so noticeable "A mon niver quite knows whither uts conscience, common since, or caution that kapes 'm from yieldin' t' timentation. Maybe, uts all av thim."—Baltimore American. Yes, Alonzo, it is possible for a man to be right and be president, but— George—For a society woman, she is very high-minded. She is steadfastly opposed to everything low. Gerald—Except gowns.—The Sun. GREAT SONG WRITER Paul Dresser, the Popular Composer, Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills. Paul Dresser of New York, author of "Banks of the Wabash" and many other great song hits, writes: Gentlemen: I wish to recommend Doan's Kidney Pills, in the hope that my endorsement will be read by some of the many thousands of sufferers from kidney complaint. I was so other great song hits, writes: Gentlemen: I wish to recommend Doan's Kidney Pills, in the hope that my endorsement will be read by some of the many thousands of sufferers from kidney complaint. I was so this melody that I wretched from this malady that I could not sleep, rest nor eat, and had a weak and aching back. Doan's Kidney Pills effectually cured me, and I wish that others may know. (Signed) PAUL DRESSER. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Not On His Part. "To what do you attribute your success in life, senator?" asked the reporter. "To a fondness for luxuries," responded the prominent statesman, without a moment's hesitation. "A fondness for luxuries?" echoed the puzzled reporter. "Pardon me, senator, but I don't quite understand." DON'T FORGET A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. FALL TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS. It is fall time in the mountains, And the winds are singing low, While the verdure, green in summer, Turns to red and yellow glow. Leaves are falling from the aspen, And the pinecones tumble down; Creeping ivy, once so lusty, Now is seared and tinted brown. Faded flowers droop and wither In the shadow o fthe pine, And the columbine lies dying At the hoar frost's greedy shrine. Needle-pointed verdue flutters Nectar-painted verde hutters From the pinion to the earth There to lie until it mingles With the dust that gave it birth. Music-throated birds have vanished From the canons and the crest Where they sang through all the summer— Where they built their brooding nest. Merry laughing streams that gambol Over rocky pebbled bed Seem to join the winds in singing Farewell requiem for the dead. It is fall-time in the mountains, When the red and yellow hue Harmonize in perfect colors With the skies of azure blue. No human hand e'er painted— No picture has been found— That can touch the grand old mountains When the leaves are on the ground —A. U. Mayfield, Denver News. A Perfect Substitute. A young married woman, who was passing the summer alone on account of her husband having been summoned to Europe on a business matter, had a caller one morning, who asked if she were not lonely without her husband. "A little lonely," was the qualified answer. "But surely," said the visitor, "you miss your husband very much, now he is away?" "Oh, no," she said. "At breakfast and at dinner I just stand his newspaper up in front of his place, and half the time I forget he isn't there."—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Black Hand in Denver A little pickaninny ran crying up Welton street yesterday, as though his little heart would break. "What is the matter?" asked a man. "My mammie spanked me," was the reply. "Ah, I see. More work of the black hand."—Denver News. THE SECRET OF YOUTH. De Soto looked for the secret of youth in a spring of gushing, lifegiving waters, which he was sure he would find in the New World. Alchemists and sages (thousands of them), have spent their lives in quest for it, but it is only found by those happy people who can digest and assimilate the right food which keeps the physical body perfect that peace and comfort are the sure results. A remarkable man of 94 says: "For many long years I suffered more or less with chronic costiveness and painful indigestion. This condition made life a great burden to me, as you may well imagine. "Two years ago I began to use Grape-Nuts as food, and am thankful that I did. It has been a blessing to me in every way. I first noticed that it had restored my digestion. This was a great gain but was nothing to compare in importance with the fact that in a short time my bowels were restored to free and normal action. "The cure seemed to be complete; for two years I have had none of the old trouble. I use the Grape-Nuts food every morning for breakfast and frequently eat nothing else. The use has made me comfortable and happy, and although I will be 94 years old next fall, I have become strong and supple again, erect in figure and can walk with anybody and enjoy it." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book. "The Road to Wellville," in every pkg. Sugar beets are so large out in Hamilton county that "excavations have started" on them. A Salina man threatens to sue for damages because a reporter accused him of leading "a sedentary life." John M. Bailey, a veteran at the Leavenworth Soldier's home, committed suicide by drowning in the lake. Carr Taylor, attorney for the railroad board, has decided that the board has jurisdiction over interurban electric lines. Work on the Salina & Tipton railroad has progressed so far that nine miles of the temporary survey have been made. The president is telling Kansas visitors that he is very much inclined to reappoint Gen. W. S. Metcalf pension agent at Topeka. "October ribs broke today under liquidation" is really a market return although it sounded like a football report to Fred Collier. Other Kansas towns should emulate Coffeyville's hustling spirit. Three miles of brick pavement have been laid there this year. Paola, which is right down where the natural gas is most abundant, voted bonds last week for a municipal electric light plant. A frugal visitor asked a landlord in Hiawatha where he could find a good $1-a-day hotel. "I never saw one," replied the landlord. Dell Valentine of Clay Center has been re-elected clerk of the supreme court by the judges of that court. The election was unanimous. W. H. Barnes, secretary of the state board of horticulture, finds there are 6,191,347 peach trees in Kansas—and some of them actually bloom. Julius P. McDinough, a convict in the federal prison at Leavenworth, has been identified as Martin McMahon, a murderer escaped from England. Chanute's fire department lost $300 on its street fair, although it was generally understood that the department was to put the money into its hose. The Lawrence World describes a rich man as one whose ancestors were disgracefully poor, and whose descendants are disgracefully wicked. An Atchison grocer, the Globe says, has found it necessary to put up this sign: "We do not sell postage stamps on credit, nor do we deliver stamps." Ed Underwood, a Manhattan gambler, was found in his rooms nearly dead from a slugging. His assailant robbed him of a large amount of cash. Col. O. E. Learnard of Lawrence is planning to write a history of Kansas. He is a Kansas pioneer and no one is more competent than he to do the work. Newton is no longer a wild, unfettered frontier town, but it is still able to switch with something like impartiality from a Presbyterian synod to a street fair. A woman has been found in Northeastern Kansas who is so frugal that she takes all the medicines she finds around the house to keep them from going to waste. Governor Hoch has granted the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway company suit to recover a large tract of land in the Indian territory under an old land grant. Sheriff Timmons at Fredonia destroyed 500 cases of beer, six barrels of whiskey, 3,000 bottles of wine and whiskey and six sets of joint fixtures valued att $7,500. Leavenworta is getting into the "murder-every day" class. After a drunken fight Walter Eggleston drunk and killed Will Behen, a city employe. Both are well known. Coffeyville has been offered a new $40,000 theatre if it will buy $5,000 worth or tickets for the opening night. But $10 a seat is considerable to ask for "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The "snappers" in the glass factories of southeast Kansas, who have been on a strike for nigher wages the last two weeks, have returned to work at the old scale of pay. A temperance congress has been called to meet in Salina November 1 and 2 under the direction of the Anti-Saloon league. Governor Hoch and governors and public men from other states will also be requested to speak. Sparksville in Cherokee county, is building a new schoolhouse, although it is stated that not one of the taxpayers has a child of school age. The school is for the children of the miners of the town, none of whom is a taxpayer. A Mound City man found a pocketbook containing $70 which he returned to the owner, who offered him thirty cents as a reward for his dishonesty. The finder told him to keep the money, as it was more than he could use. "Crappy Dan" Goodrich, a Leavenworth character, was shot and killed by Jack Johnson, a negro cavalryman, who was shoting at another negro. The negro cavalryman having been keeping things lively at Leavenworth ever since they arrived there. In Humboldt the city council reduced the salary of the superintendent of the water works from $75 to $65 a month. One of the councilmen said, when the matter was under discussion: "When I was young I was mighty dam glad to get sixty cents a day." Russell is going to have a five-story building—it is an elevator. Governor Hoch has refused to pardon Marion Asbell and Dr. J. C. Brownfield from the penitentiary. Asbell murdered his wife in Labette county in 1895. Brownfield is serving a seven-year sentence for perjury in the Jessie Morrison murder trial. L. McHutchison of Dublin, Ireland, agent of the Consolidated Oil Companies of Great Britain and Ireland, an excellent English authority, who visited in Kansas last year, predicts $2 crude oil soon. He makes the prediction in a letter to A. Monroe of Lawrence and gives his reasons. Recommended by Prominent Physicians and Chemists Calumet Baking Powder Perfect in Quality Economical in Use Moderate in Price Pillsbury's Vitos is the best and most eco- nomical breakfast food you can buy. Actually! The Meat of the Wheat. It is white its color proves its purity its maker guarantees its quality Pillsbury Two honest pounds in every package PILLSBURY WITHS WHEAT FOOD Price 15c Per Package Ask your grocer Not a Doubter. 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Beware of Ointments for Catarr that Contain Mercury. as mercury will curdle and destroy the sense of smell and completely damage the whole system when entering it through the mucous tube on top of the skin. Patients from reputable physicians, as the damage will do is ten to roid the good you can eat, are manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toioe, O., contains no narcotic and is taken internally to treat the bloom in the blood of the patient in buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you visit Touche Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonial free. Sold by Druglusts. Price, $75 per bottle. CAN NOT ESCAPE. CAN NOT ESCAPE. There's nothing in the world, I know, That can escape from love; For every depth it goes below, And every height above. It waits, as waits the sky And when they stay. —Henry David Thoreau. The Fad for Restitution, Another embezzler who escaped to Mexico years ago is sending back the money to cover his defalcations and pay all his creditors. Is it possible this thing is to become a fad?—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Love may be blind, but it usually finds a way.