The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE MOUND BAYOU, Miss.,—is the only twin of its kind in the United States. Its wholly a Negro town and the sight of a white person within its confines is almost as rare as a "white black bird." The town and community was founded in 1888 by a black man Isaac T. Montgomery, Mr. Montgomery was the last colored man to occupy a seat in the state legislature. He was one of the young men held as a slave on the extensive plantation of Jeff Davis. He is one of the remarkable colored men of the South and almost the sole survivor of the men who once held political sway in the former slave states. While other colored men went down into obscurity after the wrathful, social and political meaekal that brought again into power white supremacy". Montgomery turned from politics to the constructive work of establishing the social and industrial life of the Mississippi Negro. The present site of Mound Bayou was covered with dense trees and cane break it is situated about 20 miles from the Mississippi river and about mid-way between Memphis and Vicksburg. It is right in the heart of what is known as the Yezoo delta." TOWN GOVERNED BY NEGROES. The town of Mound Bayou was incorporated about five years ago and had about 500 inhabitants, but in the community of Mound Bayou there are about 1500 persons. The town is situated on both sides of the railroad. The colored people own about 43 square miles, including about 30,000 acres of land, which represents as good a land as there are in the South. The chief pursuit of the people is agriculture. The latest improved farming implements, laboring saving machines and road building machinery are used. The sizes of the farms ranges from 40 to 100 acres. Nearly one one owns a farm or is buying one on time. It is an extremely rare thing for anyone to fail to pay for the land contracted for. The crop code of course is cotton. About 400 bales were raised in Mound Bayou county in 1903 and 3,500 in 1905. The one room log cabins have gradually disappeared, and in their places with cabins of three or four rooms or finely appointed modern frame houses have been built. All the town officials are Negroes, Mr. Montgomery was the first mayor and is all the moving spirit in the community and his brother, W. T. Montgomery is guestmaster. The railway station agent digraph operator, baggage and express are all Negroes. Sixteen stores and shops do business in the town, and several others are in the adjacent territory. The picked men and women of our area are steadily forging ahead. The Negro does really work, despite the large number of loafers, visible in Northern and Southern cities. The census has proved that over five per cent of the ten millions of colored people are bread win- ers. Whereas practically the whole area was employed in industrial or house hold labor in 1865, there are today two- thirds engaged in agricultural pursuits. There are working 746,717 farms, of which we own fully 300,000. Since Negro farmers produce annually nearly two- thirds of all the cotton raised in the United States, it is but natural that they should like to do business with men of their own race. Coincident with the rise of the Negro farmer, there have appeared 55,237 railroad employees, 23,266 saw- wall workers, 21,113 carpenters, 14,368 masons and 12,326 iron workers. No less 21,017 Negroes are teaching the months of their race, as are 15,568 clergy men. In view of these figures, it is evi- dence that the Negro business man is here to stay. THE SIMPLE LIFE. To be kind. To be able to bear our trials bravely. To decide without prejudice. To rise above suspicion. To look for the beautiful and the good in precious common things above us. To let the sense of inward trust and peace rise to our lips and permeate our lives. This is the simple life.—Ruth Sterry, in New York Observer. It is estimated that American insects set up $700,000,000 worth of property annually. Ten churches and six schools have been built at the cost of $20000. Two schools are private. The school term is eight months. The aggregate business done in the stores and shops during 1903 an 1904 amounted to more than $150,000. The volume of business for the present year is much larger as is shown by the statements of the local bank. BANK IS A FACTOR. One of the most recent accession to the business facilities was the establishment of the Mound Bayou Bank about one year ago, all officers are Negroes. Charley Banks, the cashier, was a moving spirit in establishing the bank. Mr. Banks is a fine looking black man with keen business instincts and capabilities. He has been for years one of the most prosperous colored business men of the State. He is president of the local Negro Business League of Mississippi. The Mound Bayou Bank began business on March 8th, 1904, with an authorized capital of $10.000. It paid 10 per cent dividend last December and passed 7 per cent to the surplus fund all in less than nine monhs after it began business. During the cotton season the clearings of the bank through correspondents and other banks aggregated more than $195.00 in one month. There is about 200 depositors. It maintains regular correspondants in N. Y., New Orleans and Memphis, suing exchange upon these points payable anywhere in the United States par. The bank owns it own building, at a recent meeting of the directors it was decided to erect a new two-story building with all modern appliances and equipment, including burglar proof, twin lock safe. The promoters of the bank have also organized what is known as The Mound Bayou Loan and Investment Co., with an authorized capital stock of $30,000. It is expected that these financial conveniences will stimulate even to a greater degree the buying of homes an farms and the establishment of new lines of business. The town has four gin plants two saw mills and one corn mill. In the year 1904-5 the gin mill turned out 3,500 bales of cotton, worth about $136,000 an 1500 tons of cotton seed, worth $25,000. ALL PEACEABLE PEOPLE. The Mound Bayou community has the reputation of being the most moral place in the State. The town has no saloons, and during the five years of its existence there has not been five persons convicted and sent to the County Farm or Penitentiary. In fact, the criminal business has been so full that no necessity has risen to build a jail. There is not a lewd or disorderly house in the town. PRAY FOR THEM. The prayers of every Negro in the land should go up for their brethren in their struggle in Maryland on Tuesday for their rights as 'Free American Citizens' The issue in the state campaign which closes with an election on next Tuesday has been—Shall the Negro be disfranchised in the state—We believe that God in his infinate wisdom will rise up in his might and crown the strugglegers of poor Ethiopias children with success. We firmly believe as Patrick Henry the Colonial Patrol—"There is a just God who will raise up friends and fight our battles for us." In the meanwhile every Negro must help himself. The learned Negroes of Maryland should lose no time in the instructions to the ignorant that they may vote right. The successful elimination of the Negro in politics in Maryland means the efforts on the part of other states to do the same. All honors to the Negro Journals of Maryland that are restraining every nerve in behalf of simple justice. Lives of poor men all remind us, Workingmen don't stand a chance, But departing leave behind us, Bigger patches in our pants. So let us all be up and doing, Cast your vote for Capital's fall, Or when prosperity returneth, We shall have no pants at all. In Birmingham, Eng., the stealing of bicycles has become so prevalent that the local offices of the leading insurance companies have abandoned cycle insurance. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, *LOCALLY. Miss Carrie Cross an able teacher of Kansas City, Mo., was on this side visiting the Douglass Hospital and while in the city she chanced to meet one of her old associates, Ha! Ha! Mrs. and Mrs. Kellog Latimore of 100 Troupe ave, have a bouncing baby boy. Mother and child are doing nicely. Mrs. Delia Coleman of 105 Stewart ave is seriously ill. Mrs. Bessie Gurm of 2024 Water St., who has been seriously indisposed is convalescent. Misses Mamie and Nellie Richardson, will soon leave for Wichita, Weir City, Cherryville, Cherokee and other points in Southern Kansas where they will render some very interesting musical ree tals. Mr. Sandy Jordan of 933 Everett who has been seriously ill is now convalescent. Mr. Joe Jackson of N.2nd St. who has been very ill is now convalescent. Mr. C. C. Smith of 16 Franklin ave., who has been seriously ill is improving. Mr. C. C. Smith of 10 Franklin ave., who has been seriously ill is improving. Miss Lulu Calaway of 201 Franklin ave. will leave Monday for Weston, Mo. where she will visit her grandmother Mrs. Bolden. Little Charlie Monroe son of Ned Monroe of 215 Garfield who has been very ill is convalescent. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ford is doing well. Mrs. Julia Robinson of 943 Everett av who has been quite ill is improving. Evangellist A. Fleming will go to Iola, Kans, next Sunday and hold services in that city during the day. The Douglass Sons and Daughters set up a new number last Sunday at the Tabernacle baptist church. James Steward of 813 Euclid, spent a few days in Lawrence this week. Mr. R. Hynes and Mr. J. E. Washington of Leavenworth, two of the leading and most influential business men of that city, spent Sunday in this city the guest of L. J. Maddux. Mr. Geo. Hilton of 1415 N. 5th Street who has been quite ill for two weeks is able to be out again. Rev. H. H. Gordon of King Solomon church is assisting Rev. Geo. Mosby at LeeSummit in his revival services. Mrs. Fannie Merrett of 338 Minn. av. who has been sick for two months is now able to be out again. Little Parris Jones, Stella May and Harris Raymond of 310 Oakland avenue who have had a severe attack of hooping cough are doing nicely. Rev. Edw. R. Vaughan, who so ably pastored the St. John A. M. E. church for two years, the members and friends of that church entertains the highest respect for him. He is a refined and a polished Christian gentleman and as a scholar and educator his equals are few he has by urgent request of the faculty of Quindaro University accepted the position of teacher at that institute, and has also been assigned to the pastorial-ship of the Quindaro Chapel. The people of Quindaro having secured such an able man as Rev. Vaughan have a just cause to feel proud of their victory. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. King, of Denver, Colo., are in the city, the guest of her brother Rev. Wm. Jackson, 1610 N. 4th. Mr. Will Summers of Peoria, Ill., is in the city the guest of Mrs Lula Johnson of State ave. Rumors are affloat that a knot will probably be tied. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Eva Wiggins and Mr. Theodore Kuykendall, Tuesday eve. Nov. 7th at 1510 N. 3rd St. Mrs. Sidney Taylor mother of Mrs. L. Johnson, who has been her guest for the past month returned home last Sabbath to Louisville, Ky. Mr. Ed Lawrie of Oakland ave. a well known citizen died the past week, funeral was held yesterday. A bill has been passed by the Belgian parliament ordering seats to be placed at the disposal of shop girls when they are disengaged during business hours. There is produced in the United States 319,000,000 metric tons of coal a year worth at mines 485 thousand dollars, and costing consumers nearly a billion dollars. The oldest cotton producing country in the world is Asia. HOME VISITORS' EXCURSION Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, West Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. WABASH, Tickets on Sale ONE DAY ONLY— Monday November 27th 1905. Good for Twenty-one (21) Days. Spend Thanksgiving Day with the Old Folks at Home. All Agents sell tickets VIA the WABASH. Ask your Agents for TICKETS VIA the WABASH. The WABASH is the most direct route and makes the best time to all points, For further information write That Haunted Feeling That Prevades us all. By Edward Carpenter. The outer life of society today is animated first and foremost by Fear. From the wretched wage-slave, who rises before the break of day, hurries through squall streets to the dismal sound of the "hummer", engages for 9, 10 or 12 hours, and for a pittance wage, in monotonous work which affords him no interest, no pleasure; who returns home to find his children gone to bed, has his supper, and worn out and weary, soon retires himself, only to rise again in the morning and peruse the same deadly round, and who leads a life thus monotonous, inhuman and devoid of all dignity and reality, simply because he is hounded to it by the dread of starvation to the big commercial man, who, knowing that his wealth has come to him through spebulation and the turns and twists of the market, fears that it may at any moment take to itself wings by the same means; who feels that the more wealth he has, the more way there are in which he may lose it, the more cares and anxieties belonging to it; and who to continually make his position secure is, or thinks himself, forced to stoop to all sorts of mean and dirty tricks: over the great mass of people the same demon spreads its dusty wings. NOTELETS The first glass tumbler used in England was made for Abbott Benedict in A. D. 600. A manuscript of the Bible made in the ninth century, and the oldest one in existence, is being exhibited at the British Museum. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on Thursday the 2nd day of Nov. 1905, my application was filed in the office of the Probate Judge of Wyandotte County, Kas., for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors of 1512 N. 5th St., in the Third word of Kansas City, Kansas, and said application is set for hearing on Monday the 4 day of Dec. 1905, at 10 o'clock, a.m., when and where all person may attend if they see proper. The Wyandotte Drug Co. By E. A. Williamsod, Manager. 1512 North 5th Street. THEY SAY Have you seen the blind tiger? The wedding is almost assured. How about a dry town, He goes to Missouri and gets his. It was 1 a.m. and he never showed up. Have you seen the King of the slums. Come down boys and have something on me. The dressmaker on Lower Minn. is at home in any profesh. Wonder whats the matter with the mail—it never was late before. She delights in telling 'em,—"I am married." Of course he is from No. 5, Don't say I told you his wife is out of town. He is anxious to make a "fuss" over somebody. Yes he was over towu last week—on South Main—No! No! Ha! Hal. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF . KANSAS. } SS WYANDOTTE COUNTY. IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY In the matter of the Estate of Mary L. Gordon Deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and state aforesaid Dated the 21 day of March 1905. Now all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. CORVINE PATTERSON Executor of the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon deceased. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In The Disriet Court of Wyandotte Kansas Katie Glmore Plaintiff. To the above named defendant. You will hereby take notice that you have been sued in the above named court. by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer the petition filed against you on or before the 30th day of September 1905, the some will be taken as true, and a Judgment rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree, desolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing her from said defendant, and awarding to her her maiden name, Katie Fulcher, and for cost of suit Katie Gilmore plaintiff. I. F. Bradley atty. attest Wm. Needles clerk. First Pub Aug. 18th 1905. 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. 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 demur 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, 1906. Wm. Needles Clerk of the said Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. per D. C. McCannus Deputy, First Publication Oct. 20th, 1905. PUBLICATION NOTCIE In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Sarah Hall. Plaintiff. vs. Henry Hall. Defendant. To the above named defendant: you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer on or before the 25th day of November A. D. 1905, the petition will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered theron, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and divorcing plaintiff and awarding to her, her maiden name, Sarah Everett, and for cost of this suit. 1. F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Plaintiff. Attest: W. Clerk. NOV. 3, 1905. this Section CALL HERE 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 a judgement rendered—the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost of this action. LE Dudley Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. May Williams, Plaintiff. vs. Ellis Williams, Defendant. 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 testimony a judgment rendered the nature of which will be addeere 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. E. Bradley. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandott. County Kansas. The State of Kansas. To Elure Knight. Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by Ransom Knight in the above entitle court wherein you are the defendant for a divorce on the grounds of abandonment and unless you answer on or before the 13th day of September, the petition will be taken as true and judgement rendered as prayed for. The plaintiff is seeking an absolute divorce, for ever desolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between the plaintiff and defendant and for cost. Ransom Knight. By Chas. W. Frye. Atty. First Pub. Aug. 11. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Wyandotte County. William Darkis Defendant The State of Kansas, to William Darkis Greeting, you are hereby notified that you have been sued on the grounds of gross nec- glect of duty, extreme cruelty; and adulth, in the above entitle cause in the above named Court. Wherein Mary Darkis is Plaintiff, and William darkis is Defendant, and unless you answer or plead before the first day of July 1905. Plaintiff petition will be taken as true Judgement will be presented against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking an absolue divorce, custody of two minor children and a reasonable attorney fee, for cost, and for other relief such as the nature of Plaintiff case demands. Mary Darkis. Chas. w. Frye, attorney First Published April 28th 1905. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION 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 46 in block 56 in Wyandotte city, or per record pat theother such other relief as set in Plaintiff's petition and for cost heren expended. Allen Walker. By Chas W. Frye, Atty. for Plaintiff. SKAL. Attest: J. L. Beggs, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. First Pub. Sept. 9th. 1905. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen. --- 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,.....15.0 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 Decembe 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 gv. In that form it gives a good light, which is useful in country houses, railway trains, etc. It costs more than ordinary coal gas, but less than electric light. BEWARE THE EASY SHELTER. Refuge There an Important Step Toward Old Age. Years are but a fool's measure for youth, which is divine; they bring caution more often than wisdom, and a certain belief in the unreality of joy. A man is quickly disillusioned, which commonly means that he has set up his own idea of what things should be by the side of what things are, and sulks forever at the result. He then commits the folly of becoming old, and prefers existence to life. He clambers into one or other of the many shelters that line the way, curls up within and smiles pityingly at the young of all ages pressing on to some end, no matter what, alive to the beauty of the sky and the clouds and the birds and the trees, alive even to the beauty to be seen in one another, breathing deeply of the air of strength, living and loving and beloved, until at last they are made one with nature. But the heart, like the liver, grows torpid without exercise; a gradual decay comes to the man in the shelter, a decay from which he is released, much against his will, by death. There are too many shelters—Hugh de Selin-court. LITTLE POKER AT WASHINGTON. Storles 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 eight, 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 mag-ate, 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 valu-able 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 mlasses in this here town but me?" PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN Thelr 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 is a thought that might serve as alloy. To the gold of the credit you crave: The best is not always at surface, my son. And I think, if to notice you'll stop, You'll observe that the good to the bottom may run, But the foam always lingers on top. I would not discourage your zeal, my dear lad; It 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 journey along That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear you. But look on the world as you go. See the men whom we place at the summit, in truth. The men whom we must believe. Then gaze on the mortals below, And I give you my word I'll have noth- ing to teach. And this brief little anthem will stop, if you can agree with the thing that I preach. That the foam may be found on the top. -A. J. Waterhouse in Sunset Magazine A Polite Discharge James Rankin Young, the new superintendent of the Dead Letter office admires politeness. "It is possible," he said recently, "to be polite always. It is possible to be polite even when discharging a drunken coachman. I know that this is so, for I have seen the thing done. "A friend of mine found himself obliged last week to get rid of his coachman for drunkenness. He summoned the man into his presence, and discharged him with this polite speech: "I fear, Montgomery, that we must part. It has been impossible for me to avoid noticing that several times during the past month you have been—er—sober. Now, I don't believe that any man can attend properly to drinking if he has driving to do, and, therefore, at the month's end you will be free to devote yourself exclusively to your chosen occupation." All Christians. In his article in the Woman's Home Companion, describing the International Sunday School Convention in Jerusalem, Doctor Devins relates the following significant incident: "An unexpected favor was received from the officers of the Russian church on the Mount of Olives. A meeting had been planned to be held near the place of the Ascension. As the leader of the meeting, the writer went to see if it could be held under the trees near the church. 'Why not?' was the reply, accompanied by a smile on the saintly face of the speaker. 'Why not?' Do we not worship the same Christ?' WIT IS NOT APPRECIATED. Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keeping up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but he has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or sentimental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his interruptions. He has a high pitched, penetrating voice, and the town police, who have been on the verge of ejecting him a dozen times, say that he was a Glasgow cab driver who retired with a competence and now takes this wail to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melodrama was being presented. The heroine of the play, pursued by the villain, had taken refuge in the house of her lover, who, as the hero of the play, was of course, at variance with his sweetheart's parents. The exigencies of the plot required that the irate father, sword in hand and at the head of his faithful retainers, should track the girl to the gates of the hero's treacherous and disgraceful elopement, enter the room where the scared heroine had been secreted under the table. "Wretch!" cried the furious father, "your life shall answer for this. I demand my child. Where is she." Then, shrill and startling in the expectant silence, from the gallery came the answer: "Unner the ta'le, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stickin' out" 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 L. "'A poem,' he repeated. "'And still you do not reject her?' [ exclaimed." Winter. Soft as the plumes of sleep drifts down The pure white silence of the snow The bells make merry in the town, Where happy faces come and go. The brooding quiet of the trees, Is broken sweet, in yonder glen, By "day, day day," of checkades And keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word Is warbled when the grosbeaks sing; And in the meaning pines is heard The whisper of returning spring. This is the birthday of the year, Now far off summer's battles start; And lo; the very cold grows dear, The greatest storm wind warms the heart. Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B., I FUNERAL D And Embalmer The Very Best ages For All Purpose. At All The Best Equiped Ambulance For Sick and On Short Notice. Charge 431 Minnesota. Ave. I WESTERN U The Great Education for Kansas and the DEPARTMENTS:—Theological, Co- State Industrial. 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INFORMATION:—For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to WILLIAM 7. VERNON, A.M.D. D. PRESIDENT 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 For 35 to 75 cents. and a Se f 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 H 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 C 1701 N. You can find all the common Grocery Store. Country prod prices and courteous treatmen GIVE HIM YOUR "In the shade of the Old lar song—Why [not you be popular store. L. J. MA Staple and Fam IT FORGET, THAT Houstons Grocery 1701 N, 8th St. find all the commodities kept in a ore. 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 ore. L. J. MADDUX e and Fancy Groc DONT FORGET, THAT AT J.E. Houstons Grocery Store 1701 N. 8th St 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. Home Phone 784 West. 852 Freeman Ave. Res.420 Nebraska ave. Tel.383 White. SOUTH AMERICAN 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. 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. --- QUINDARO. 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, local, including piano, organ and and Mechanical), Carpentry, Print- ess Course, Stenograpny and Type- ing and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Gardening. On, Healthful Climate, Good Influ- ences and all inducements offered, RNON, 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. Kanaas City, Kansas. ET, THAT AT Grocery Store 8th St. modities kept in a first-class produce in season. Reasonable ent. R PATRONAGE d Apple tree" is a very popu- e 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 mountainneer in the world is Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman. In the Himalayas she has climbed to an altitude of 22,568 feet. On the same occasion her husband broke the world's record for men by 311 feet, by climbing 23,194 feet up a mountain 24,479 feet high. Mrs. Workman is of medium height, and there is nothing in her appearance to suggest the strength she has displayed in some of her wonder- ROOM 8 KANSAS Students Crowd Its Reading Room and Investigate Various Subjects. Various Subjects. In the reading room of the British museum the desks are crowded with students all day long, and in addition to the books of reference some 20,000 in number, which fill the open shelves of the room, from 3,000 to 4,000 volumes are given out every day. Theology in a wide sense, including the Bible, biblical literature, church history and works on the religious rites and ceremonies of all races and creeds, is easily at the head of the list, with about 300 volumes. Topography comes next, with about twenty fewer, and of these books on London amount to a quarter, books on English topography, to another quarter, the other half being for the rest of the world. History and biography come next. English history being mostly in demand, and books on France and the French province second. Essays, criticisms and miscellaneous literature take the fourth place and are followed by fiction—not less than five years old—moral philosophy, poetry and the fine arts, the drama, law and philology, political economy and so on down to politics, mathematics and chemistry, which have about forty volumes apiece, and lastly works on naval and military subjects, which seldom have more than three or four volumes each. It is a curious list and throws a useful light on the sort of studies taken up by the readers in the museum—London Globe. Progress in Steam Turbines 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 her quiet kin of yesterday, Amanda's cousin, Curtis's rose Has vanished quite away. Beneath the moon to night—Jessie Storrs Ferris, in Everybody's Magazine. Sorrow Of It. "More trouble," sighed McNutty, putting on his coat. "If it ain't one thing it's another." "What's the matter now?" queried his good wife. "More labor troubles," answered McNutty. "Not another lockout, I hope," said the partner of his sorrows. "No, it's worse than that," answered the alleged head of the house. "The boss has yielded and I've got to go to work again."—Chicago News. The Egotistical Lecturer. "Your address upon beauties of the Shinto religion did not seem to interest the audience," remarked one of the committee to the lecturer. "Yes, I was talking way above their heads," he said nonpoisonly. "There must have been some other reason. I was way up in the gallery and it went over my head, even up there." The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Flatcher. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE OENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. ANTI-GRIPINE Tape of Old Dr. SAUQUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Ack. Senaa - Ladubla Sela - Anise Seed - Papermint - Bitterbane Sela - Worm Seed - Orange Sugar Watergreen Flavor Fae Simile Signature of Charles H. Fletcher NEW YORK. A 16 months old 15 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. PRICE, 25 Cts. ANTIGRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACED AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't Guarantee It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Diemer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED SEND FOR FREE LINES, TREATISE OR SPECTACLE DRS. THORNTON & MINOR-1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRAND OFFICE AT 25 LOUGHTON) W. Douglas $3.50 shoes have by their exertion style, easy fitting, and superior wearing quality the largest sale of any $3.50 shoes in the world are just as good as those that cost you $5.00 and that difference is the price. If I could take you into my factory at Brockton, Mass., the largest in world under one roof making men's fine shoes, I would care with which every pair of Douglas I wear, you would realize why W. Douglas $3.50 shoes are the best shoes produced in the world. The Government of Canada BACRES IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Gives absolutely FREE to every settler one hundred and sixty acres of land in Western Canada. and land this year has been produced upwards of twenty five bushels of wheat to the acre. MEN WHO MAKE MONEY on fruit spray with "THE HARDIE SPRAY PUMP" Agents wanted everywhere. A postal will bring our proposition. THE HOOK-HARDIE CO.. Bex 19 Hudson, Mich. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAULT. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugrists. CONSUMPTION --- --- Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion.Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS of SLEEP. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANT-GRIPINE THIS MUST BE EQUAL FOR WEARABLE W.L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W.L. Douglas $4.00 Cilt Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOEMAKER SOLE AGENT'S FOR W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1878. W.L. DOUGLAS MAKES AND SELLS HER MEN'S $8.50 SHOES THAT ANY OTHER MEN'S URDER. $10,000 REWARD to advise a can discover this statement. should show you the difference between the shoes in my factory and those of other makers, you can understand why Douglas $1.50 shoes cost more and shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoes on the day-to-day. W. L. Douglas Shoes Made Shoes for $2.50, $2.00, *Boy's School* & *Dress Shoes*, $2.50, $2.1, $1.75, $1.50 CAUTION: -Insist upon having W. L. Douglas without his name, and price stamped on bottom. WANTED. -Insist on every town where W. L. Douglas Shoes are not sent free for inspection upon request. For other Eulets used; they will not wear brass. they will not wear brazier. Write for illustrated eyes. Write for masks. W.L.DOGLAS, JR. alimining this can be purchased from $ to $10 per acre and land companies at from $ to $10 per acre. in is also the best of grazing land and for mixed farming it has no superior on the outest. Splendid climate, low taxes, railways convenient, schools and churches close at hand. Write for "Twentieth Century Canada" and low railway rates to Superintendent of immigration, Ottawa, Canada; or to authorized Canadian Government Agent— I. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. For Infants and Children. The Genuine TOWER'S POMMEL SLICKER HAS BEEN ADVERTISED AND SOLD FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY LIKE ALL TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF CLOTHING. It is made of the best materials, in black or yellow, fully guaranteed, and sold by reliable dealers everywhere. STICK TO THE SIGN OF THE FISH. TOWER CANADIAN CO. Limited. TOWER CO. TORONTO, CAN. BOSTON PASS, USA. We refuse to be alarmed at this talk about the danger of a return of the crinoline. Bad as it was, there was something good in it. You Have No Right to Suffer From Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Troubles. Q. What is the beginning of sickness? A. Constipation. Q. What is Constipation? A. Failure of the bowels to carry off the waste matter which lies in the alimentary canal. Eventually it causes and poisons the entire system. Eventually the result are death, undead taxa of some other disease. Note the deaths from typhoid fever and appendicitis, stomach and bowel trouble at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation? A. Neglect to respond to the call of nature prompted of exercise. Excessive brain work. Mental education and improper diet. Q. What are the results of neglected Constipation? A. Constipation causes more suffering than any other disease. It causes rheumatism, colds, fevers, stomach, bowel, kidney, lung and heart problems. It causes and poisons all others. Indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea of sleep and strength are its symptoms—piles, appendicitis and fistula, are caused by Constipation, a consequence of illness. In coll. physicians, but few sufferers realize their condition until it is too late. Women become confirmed invalids as a result of Constipation. A. Yes. The first question your doctor asks you is "are you constipated?" That is the secret. Q. Can it be cured? A. Yes, with proper treatment. The common remedy is vinegar, which will calm mineral water, castor oil, injections, etc., every one of which is injurious. They weaken and impair mobility. You know this by your own experience. Q. What then should be done to cure it? A. What vessel should be done to cure it? A. Get a bottle of Mull' Grape Tonic at once. B. Paint the Constipation and Stomach Trouble in the shortest space of time. No other remedy has been before known to cure Constipation positively and permanently. A. What is Mull' Grape Tonic? A. It is Compound with 40 per cent of the juice of Mull' Grape. It is strengthening, healing influence upon the intestines, so that they can do their work unadvised. The process is gradual but sure. It is not a juice. It is Compound with Constipation, Stomach and Bowel Trouble. Having a rich grape flavor, it is pleasant to take. As a tonic it is unequalled, insuring the system against disease. It strengthens and builds up who tissue. A. Where can Mull' Grape Tonic be had? A. Your drugist sells it. The dollar bottle contains nearly three times the 50-cent size. Good for Ailing Children and Nurturing Mothers. A free bottle to all who have never used it because we know it will cure you. Send this coupon with your name and address and your drugstress's name, for a free boutique Mull's Grape Tonic for Stomach and Bowels, to MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., 148 Third Avenue, Rock Island, illinois Give Full Address and Write Plainly. The $1.00 bottle contains nearly three times the 50c size. At drug stores. The genuine has a date and number stamped on the label—take no other from your drugstress. A Korean agent has been inspecting the sugar field of Hawaii and will probably bring over thousands of Korean coolies to work on the plantations. The candidates of both parties for city offices at Bloomfield, Ind., have signed an agreement to spend no money and give no liquor to influence voters. Elliot Fitch Shepard of New York has been sentenced to three months in jail by a French court for running down and killing a peasant girl with his automobile. The evacuation of Manchuria by the Japanese i sbeing actively carried on and troops are arriving daily at various ports. The Russian cruiser Bogatyr arrived at Nagasaki. This is the first Russian warship to visit Japan since peace was declared. Bishop Hamilton declared at the College of Methodist Bishops in Washington that present high immigration and consequent intermarriage will tend to produce the typical American. In the Chicago Street railroad company franchise cases the Supreme court of the United States granted leave to the city of Chicago to file such records as it may desire. J. M. Daniel and Mrs. Nancy Sexton, aged 75 and 73, respectively, well-known pioneer settlers, were publicly married at Ashland, Ill. Four generations of both families were present. Twenty taxpayers of Paris, Ill., have brought suit in the federal court to annual a lease of city property to United States Marshal Hitch, alleging the officer obtained possession through frauds. Edward J. Cranno, a well-known attorney of St. Paul, has been appointed division counsel of the Northern Pacific road, with headquarters at Spokane, Wash. He will receive $7,500 per annum. The Milwaukee postoffice fight is to go to the President, Congressman Stafford announcing that he would not support Otjen's candidate, Wade H. Richardson, but would present a name for the place himself. W. F. Boughtan, a banker of New York, who was at Hamilton, Ohio, installing a new savings system in the Miami Valley National bank, eloped with Miss Elsie Brown, head waitress in a restaurant. Acting Public Printer Risketts has made several more suggestions for the saving of money to the government in its public printing. He thought wages in some departments were 20 per cent higher than in commercial offices. Ten minutes after her bill of complaint was filed Mrs. Lillian May Robinson was granted a decree of divorce from William H. Robinson of Chicago. It is said Mr. Robinson gave his wife $25,000 in lieu of almony. There will be a stiff advance in the prices for coal at the mines in a few days at Terre Hau*e, Ind. The demand is sufficient to keep the mines busy for six days, but a shortage of cars will cut operations to two days. The Chicago newspapers are among the chief local forces making for the realization of Christ's ideals in Chicago, according to the Rev. A. Arnold Ross in his sermon on "Christ in Chicago" at the Ryder Memorial chapel. Mme. du Gast, the well-known automobile racer, and two journalists who accompanied her in an automobile race at Toledo, Spain, were severely injured by the overturning of the car owing to an effort to avoid killing a child who was crossing the course. Mrs. Nancy Ward, an inmate of the eastern Indian hospital for the insane at Richmond, escaped and her mangled body has been found on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks five miles west Richmond. She was the wife of Dr. James Ward of Geneva, Ind. As the result of the Dougherty scandal the Ministerial association of Peoria, Ill., is making plans for a monster revival to be held in the coliseum and in all the churches of that city. Dr. Torrey of Chicago and Dr. Chapm:n and other famous men will help reform the city. Miss Eva Booth is reported to be suffering from fatigue, and was compelled to cancel her engagement to deliver the address at the Salvation Army meeting in Baltimore. The report that she has been stricken with appendicitis is denied at the Salvation Army headquarters in New York, where it is said that all she needs is complete rest. John D. Rockefeller sent the following telegram to 1,000 newsboys gathered in the financier's home church at Cleveland, Ohio, at the first series of Sunday newboys' meetings. "Sorry I can't be with you. My greetings to all. Love to every boy." The newsboys replied as follows: "Same here. Sorry you were not present. See that you get here next time." Swimming has been placed on the list of required work at Cornell university at Ithaca, N. Y., and hereafter no student will be credited with a passing mark for the spring term who is unable to handle himself in the water. It appears certain that the Norway government's proposal to the storthing that it be endowed with full power to negotiate with Prince Charles of Denmark for his acceptance of the crown of Norway will, be adopted by the Storthing by a large majority and that in the event of a referendum is probably will be held Nov. 12. THE COMFORTER A congested vein pressing on a nerve accounts for the swelling, throbbing ache of Neuralgia St. Jacobs Oil frees the circulation, allays the pressure and soothes away the pain. Price, 25c. and 50c. MICHIGAN BUGGY CO., Manufacturer No. 100 Office Bldg. KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN Coney Island Souvenir Post Cards. Six beautiful colored scenes for 25c. Coney Island Postal Card Co., Coney Island, N. Y. MADE FROM YOUR Old Carpets Guaranteed to wear 10 years. Price list free Kansas City Rug Co., Kansas City, Mt. W. N. U. KANSAS CITY, NO. 44, 1905. If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. LAW URGED BY SELF-SEEKERS. Real Animus of Movement Against Remedies Deservedly Popular. An adroit but plausible scheme by which it is hoped to prejudice the sale of proprietary medicines is the proposition to prohibit the sale of any remedy which "contains poison" unless each package or bottle is expressly labeled "Poison." Such bills are also well designed to impose upon men who have no familiarity with the subject matter. The pretense of protecting the public health put forth in support of such bills is generally the merest subterfuge; and whenever you hear a demand for a law of this kind it originates with those who have a direct pecuniary interest to serve by destroying the sale of proprietary remedies. Some of the best and most widely used remedies in the world contain some one ingredient which, if taken in sufficient quantities, might be polsonous, and yet the preparation as a whole is not polsonous at all. Opium, for instance, is used in small quantities in many of the best cures for coughs, colic, diarrhea, etc., in toothache drops and in almost all liniments. To require such medicines to be falsely labeled "poison" would be merely a cunning device to alarm the public and thus bring about the destruction of the sale of those remedies, and indirectly to compel people to procure the medicine they want by the more expensive method of consulting a physician and getting his prescription. In other words, it is an effort to prevent them from getting cheaply the remedies which they and their fathers before them have used for many years.—Medical exchange. VIRTUE'S PRIZE. What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. —Pope's "Essay on Man." Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Faith is what you think you believe because you want to believe it. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. To the sea-shell's spiral round 'Tis your heart that brings the sound; The soft sea-murmurs that you hear Within, are captured from your ear. You do poets and their song A grievous wrong, If your own soul does not bring To their high imagining As much beauty as they sing. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich. ECZEMA FOR TWO YEARS. Little Girl's Awful Suffering With Terri ribble Skin Humor—Sleepless Nights for Mother—Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "My little girl had been suffering for two years from eczema, and during that time I could not get a night's sleep, as her allment was very severe. I had tried so many remedies, deriving no benefit, I had given up all hope. But as a last resort I was persuaded to try Cuticura, and one box of the Ointment and two bottles of the Resolvent, together with the Soap, effected a permanent cure."Mrs. I. B. Jones, Addington, Ind. T." Here is Relief for Women Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, discovered a pleasant herb remedy for women'sills, called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF. It is the only certain monthly regulator. Cures female weaknesses. Backache, Kidney and Urinary troubles. At all Dysurgists or by mail 60 cts. Sample mailed FREE. Address. The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y. People who live in Whineyville seldom see the sun. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. It's a safe bet that those who practice best are not a howling success when it comes to preaching. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. This is the season when the rocking chair on the veranda resigns in favor of the parlor sofa. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. Knowledge was never intended to be the servant of vanity—and it isn't. OPERATIONS AVOIDED Two Grateful Letters from Women Who Avoided Serious Operations.—Many Women Suffering from Like Conditions Will Be Interested. Margrite Ryan Margret Merkley Send postal for "Book of Presents" Do you know the secret of the Wave Circle? Wonderful! Don't delay another day! Send for K.C. right a- way. It's purer and more efficient than any Bak- ing Powder that costs three times as much. 25 oz. for 25c. All grocers Jaques Mfg. Co. Chicago When a physician tells a woman, suffering from ovarian or womb trouble, that an operation is necessary it, of course, frightens her. The very thought of the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. As one woman expressed it, when told by her physician that she must undergo an operation, she felt that her death knell had sounded. Our hospitals are full of women who are there for ovarian or womb operations! It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an operation is the only resource, but such cases are much rarer than is generally supposed, because a great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after the doctors had said an operation must be performed. In fact, up to the point where the knife must be used to secure instant relief, this medicine is certain to help. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who, by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, have escaped serious operations. Margrite Ryan, Treasurer of St. Andrew's Society, Hotel English, Indianapolis, Ind., writes of her cure as follows: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: I cannot find words to express my thanks for the help I gave to E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound did me. The doctor said I could not get well unless I had an operation for ovarian and female troubles. I knew I could not stand the strain of an operation and made up my mind I would be an invalid for life. Send postal for "Book of Presents" Send for KC right a- way. It's purer and more efficient than any Bak- ing Powder that costs three times as much. 25 oz. for 25c. All grocers IMPORTANT FACTS FOR COW OWNERS The mechanical Cream Separator has become a vital feature of every home dairy just as of every butter factory. Its use means much more and much better cream and butter, as well as saving of water, ice, time and room. The difference in results is not small but big. Few cows now pay without a separator, dairying is the most profitable kind of Dairying with one $98\%$ of the creamy butter of the world is now made with De Laval machines, and there are over 500,000 farm users besides. Send for catalogue and name of nearest local agent. SCALES FOR FARMERS. Buy the cheapest and best. Send for prices. Chicago Scale Co., Chicago, Ill. DEFIANCE STARCH easiest to work with and starches clothes nicest. MFORTER counts for the swelling, throbbing ache of ralgia obs Oil pressure and soothes away the pain. Hearing how Lydia E. Finkham's vegetable Compound had saved other women from serious operations I decided to try it, and it, in turn, saved other women from serious operations and words fails to express my thankfulness." Miss Margret Merkley of 275 3d Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham— "Loss of strength, extreme nervousness, severe scolding pains through the pelvic organs, cramps, bearing down pain, extreme irritation compelled me to seek medical advice. The doctor, after making an examination, said that I had ovarian trouble and ulceration, and advised an operation as my only hope. To this I strongly objected—and I decided as a last resort to try Lydia E. "To my surprise, vegetable Compound. To my surprise, he救aled, all the bad symptoms disappeared, and I am once more strong, vigorous and well; and I cannot express my thanks for what it has done for me." Ovarian and womb troubles are steadily on the increase among women—and before submitting to an operation every woman should try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and write Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. for advice. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been curing the worst forms of female complaints, all ovarian troubles, inflammation, ulceration, falling and displacement of the womb, lacorrhoea, irregularities, indigestion and nervous prostration. Any woman who could read the many grate-ul letters on file in Mrs. Pinkham's office would be convinced of the efficiency of her advice and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. an Best Understands a Woman's Ills. Do you know the secret of the Wave Circle? Wonderful! Don't delay another day! Jaques Mfg. Co. Chicago PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC FOR WOMEN troubled with illips peculiar to their sex, used as a douche is marvelously successful, thoroughly cleanses, kills disease germs, discharges, heals inflammation and local soreness. Paxine is in powder form to be dissolved in pure water, and is far more cleaning, healing, germicidal and economical than liquid antiseptics for all skin types. TOILET AND WOMEN'S SPECIAL USES For sale at druggists, 60 cents a box. Trial Box and Book of Instructions Free. THE R. PAXTON COMPANY BOSTON, MASS. Make your Buggy a Sleigh for $8.00 Freight Prepaid Quick Shipments As we ship it Ready for use Write for GIRCULAR describing the simple, but reliable, inexpensive invention in the Catalog (30 styles) The Tony Pony Line Catalog of Ponies and Pony Rigs for boys girls (We buy, sell and raise Shetland Ponies.) Our new, large, illuminated vehicle, which catalog, showing 150 Modern Styles, Popular Price, High Grade Vehicles, now ready. All Free. MICHIGAN BUGGY CO., Manufacturers No. 100 Office Bldg. KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN Coney Island Souvenir Post Cards. Six beautiful colored scenes for 25c. Coney Island Postal Card Co., Coney Island, N. Y. MADE FROM YOUR Old Carpets Guaranteed to wear 10 years. Kansas City Rug Co., Kansas City, Mo. W. N. U. KANSAS CITY, NO. 44, 1905. If afflicted with { sore eyes, use } Thompson's Eye Water SS DYES In cold water better than any other dye. You can dye OE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri. The News of Kansas PRISION TWINE PLANT STARTS. A Shutdown for Four Months at Lansing, Kas. LEAVENWORTH, KAS.—The binding twine plant of the Kansas penitentiary was started in operation Tuesday after having been shut down about four months. The plant closed the last of June and an attempt was made to resume operations the first week in September, when the main driving engine broke down. The engine had to be taken apart and repairs made in Erie, Pa., and all has been placed in running order. There is a good supply of sisal on hand, which was purchased in May at a bargain. There is a stock of manufactured twine on hand now of nearly 900,000 pounds, and if the plant is kept in steadily operation 3 million pounds can be stored for sale next summer. COL. T. J. JACKSON RUN OVER BY CARS COL. T. J. JACKSON RUN OVER BY CARS KANSAJ CITY, KAN.—In attempting to board an outgoing Santa Fe train at the Union Depot Tuesday Colonel Thomas J. Jackson of Newton, Kas., the chief of staff of the Kansas G. A. R., was thrown under the wheels and both legs and his right arm were cut off. It is probable that on one on the train saw the accident, as it did not stop. Col. Jackson had been spending the day with his son, and prepared to go to his home in Newton. Learning that the Califirnia limited on the Santa Fe was to be run in two sections, he decided to take the second section, thinking the first would be crowded. At the last moment, as the first section was pulling out, he changed his mind and made a grab for the handrail at the forward end of the last coach. He mised his alm and fell forward on his face. His right arm fell across the track and the forward wheels of the car passed over it, severing it above the elbow. In some manner the unfortunate man's clothing became entagled in the car trucks and he was drawn under the car so that the rear wheels cut off both legs below the knee. The arm was severed near the shoulder. Dr. C. A. Dansker, manager of the hospital, placed Colonel Jackson under the influence of anaesthetic Colonels age, 65 years was against him and he died Wednesday afternoon Colonel Jackson was known to practically every member of the G. A. R. in Kansas. He has filled almost every position in the state department and was chief of staff. Several years ago he served a term in the state legislature and since that time has held many clerical positions in the legislature bodies of the state. He practiced law and had an office in Newton. TOPEKA.—A. C. Stich of Independence, has been given a charter for the Pittsburg, Independence Oklahoma railway to be built between Independence and Ponca City, Ok., a distance of about 200 miles. When this road is built Pittsburg and Independence will have an outlet for their manufactured products to the East over the St. Louis & San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Kansas City Southern. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific already have an entrance there. No Room For Insane Women TOPEKA, KAN.—Sherman Elliott, member of the board of control, has completed a tour of the three insane asylums. He says the women's departments are all filled, and that the counties will have to care for their own insane women after this until more room is provided. This means more than two years at least. Marching to Fort Leavenworth Marching to Fort Leavenworth. JUNCTION CITY.-The Twenty-ninth battery of field artillery which has been in camp at Fort Riley for the last three months as a part of the First provisional regiment of field artillery, left here on a march to Fort Leavenworth, where it is regularly stationed. The other five batteries have left the camp and gone into their barracks at Fort Riley. Electric Lights in Cottonwood Falls. COTTONWOOD FALLS.-The electric light plant has been started at this place. The main streets are equipped with arc light and the side streets with incandescent globes. Nearly every business house and a majority of the residences are lighted. Normal to Confer Degrees EMPORIA, KAN.—A committee composed of three members of the faculty and two members of the board of regents of the state normal school is working to establish a course that will enable it to confer a degree equal to that of any of the colleges or universities of the state. Weir City Public Utilities Sold. WEIR CITY, KAS.—The property of the Weir City Light and Water Company in Weir City transferred to the Central Coal and Coke Company. The property transferred includes the water and light plant and most of the other real estated owned by the company in the city. Enforcing Kansas Game Law. TOPE. A.—D. W. Travis, state fish and game warden, has begun an active campaign against violators of the fish and game laws. Where Kansas Keeps Money. State Depositories as Shown by Treasury Examiners. TOPEKA.—The treasury examiners made an examination of the state treasury and found the accounts correct. This is the first time that the new state depositories have shown up in the examination. The report shows state money in them as follows: Altoona State bank, $4,687.63; Citizens National bank, Anhony, $14,176.36; First National bank, Burlingame, $6,040.95; First National bank, Clifton, $24.53; Citizens National bank, Emporia, $18,298.69; First State bank, Tribune, $3,541.88; First National bank, Fort Scott, $8,957.31; First National bank, Hutchinson, $15,000; Citizens National bank, Independence, $25,348.80; Commercial National bank, Kansas City, Kass, $24,610.93; Wyandotte State Bank, Kansas City, Kass, $8,811.42; Lawrence National Bank, Lawrence, $7,346.81; First State Bank, Leoti, $3,448.48; Midland National Bank, Newton, $10,230.45; First National Bank, Osawatomie, $9,929.37; Miami County National Bank, Paola, $16,191.85; People's National Bank, Paola, $10,721.83; Citizens' State Bank, Sabetha, $9,694.31; Bank of Topeka, $54,987.77; Fourth National Bank, Wichita, $48,637.31; First National Bank, Winfield, $27,634.07; Abilene National Bank, Abiline, $13,168.66; First National Bank, Topeka, $547,379.16; Fiscal Agency, New York, $23,580.90; uncancelled warrants, $66,377.47; cash, $4,643.02. Total, $1,004,580.04. Getting Homer Started TOPEKA.—Governor Hoch has gone to Marion to get "Our Son Homer" started off right in the editorial chair of the Record. Homer Hoch recently resigned his job in Washington and will devote his time to the Marion Record. While the governor hasn't given it out, it is generally understood that Homer will be the permanent editor of the Record, while the governor will take to the lecture platform after he steps out of office. Manhattan Republican Sold MANHATTAN, KAS. — The Manhattan Republic, a daily and weekly newspaper here, which has been run by M. S. Ames & Sons, E. M. and William Ames, for the past three years has been sold to C. A. Kimball, editor of the Courtland Register, and Ned W. Kihball, editor of the Scandia Journal. The Amos management will continue a few weeks until C. A. Kimball disposes of his Courtland paper 1 Would Oust the Pullmans. TOPEKA. — Because the Pullman Car Company, an Illinois corporation, with a capital stock of $74,000,000, has not paid to the treasurer of the state of Kansas a charter fee of $14,800 for the permanent school fund. Attorney General Coleman has brought quo warranto proceedings against the company, asking it by what authority it does business in the state. Will Follow Frisco Tracks. INDEPENDENCE, KAN.—It has been stated here that the Cudahy Pipe Line and Refining Company has secured from the St. Louis & San Francisco railway the right-of-way along the latter's tracks for their projected oil pipe line from Chelsea, I. T., to St. Louis, and that the material for storage tanks has already been ordered. Worm Works in Growing Wheat TOPEKA.—A new pest has made its appearance in Eastern Kansas. It is a worm and works in growing wheat. A farmer in Rush county, reports that 175 acres of his fall planted wheat has been completely destroyed. He says the worm resembles the wheat weevil, which sometimes works in the grain bin or granary. Chanute Dailes Merge CHANUTE, KAN.-The Chanute Daily Tribune has bought the franchise and circulation lists of the Daily Blade. The Daily Blade was started three years ago, during the oil boom. J. B. Fligate, the proprietor, will continue the Weekly Blade at Chanute and the Weekly Journal at Cherryvale. $6,500 Verdict for Brakeman WICHITA, KAN.—After a forty-eight hour session, the jury in the Brinkmier case returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $,500. Brinkmier was a Missouri Paeific brakeman injured while making a coupling on account of a defective coupler. Chaplain Fisher's Funeral TOPEKA.—The funeral of Chaplain H. D. Fisher, the noted Kansas preacher, took place here from the First Methodist church. Several Topeka ministers delivered eulogies on the life of the dead chaplain. Shot His Friend Near Salina, Kan. SALINA, KAN.—In a drunken quarrel Mleroajmhv leynhoehd eta tairel in New Cambria, O. W. Armagast of Niles shot Charles Scott of Bennington. Scott may recover. Abilene Schools Closed ABILENE, KAS. — The schools of this city have been closed an account of a threatened epidemic of diphtheria. The county physician has issued a statement advising the parents to take every precaution and keep their children at home. Charged With Misusing Mails. ABILENE, KAS.—T. J. Wilson, a well to do citizen of this place has been arrester here on a charge of sending obscene matter through the malls. Clock Made of Slate. Perhaps the most unique timepiece in existence is owned by Humphrey O. Pritchard, a slate quarryman of Delta, Pa. The varieties he used include the Peach Bottom blue slate and the red, green and purple slate of Vermont. One hundred and sixty-four separate pieces of this material were used in the construction and are held together by twenty-three dozen small metal screws. Many of the slate sheets are as thin as paper, and scores were broken before the timepiece was finished. The clock is four feet high, two feet wide and one foot deep. It has a cathedral gong and is lighted by nine incandescent bulbs. The work, which is really artistic, was done by Pritchard during idle moments at the quarry, and eight months' time was required in its completion. LOW AIM IS CRIME. Greatly begin! Though thou have time Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime;— Not failure, but low aim is crime. A Teacher's Testimony. Hinton, Ky., Oct. 30th.—(Special.) It has long been claimed that Diabetes is incurable, but Mr. E. J. Thompson, teacher in the Hinton school, has pleasing evidence to the contrary. Mr. Thompson had Diabetes. He took Dodd's Kidney Pills and is cured. In a statement he makes regarding the cure Mr. Thompson says: "I was troubled with my kidneys for more than two years and was treated by two of the best doctors in this part of the state. They claimed I had Diabetes and there was little to be done for me. Then I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and what they did for me was wonderful. It is entirely owing to Dodd's Kidney Pills that I am now enjoying good health." Many doctors still maintain that Diabetes is incurable. But Diabetes is a kidney disease and the kidney disease that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure has yet to be discovered. Blow Too Much For Pat. While Pat Kern, a sturdy young Irishman of Philadelphia, was standing on a ladder cleaning windows a lawyer approached and called out to him that an uncle living in Ireland had dled, leaving him $100,000. Pat promptly fell from the ladder at the shock. He was not hurt, however, and soon went back to his task. "When are you going to quit work?" was asked. "When I get the money," came the retort. Mrs. Whalow's Soothing Syrup. For children to toothwash, softens the gums, helps in inflammation, allays pain, cures wounds. So boobie. After its own life working. A child- kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man, served by thee, shall make thee rich; A sick man, helped by thee, shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in $ \frac{1}{4} $ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. The man who laughs his way through the world leaves it with just as much in his possession as the man who fights his way through. DON'T FORGET A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 6 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The swing in the next yard is always a favorite. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, O. We the understudied, have known F. J. Cheney for last 15 years and have been able to oracle in business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALKER BANK, Toledo. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon blood and mucous surfaces of the systems. Testimonial sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. When a girl has curly hair it is a sign she does not think much of the beauty of girls who haven't. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N. Minnesapolis, Min. Jan. 6, 1900. Being a sinner wouldn't be such a bad job if people would let you alone at it. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 50 cigar, made of extra quality tobacco. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Wealth may be a great care, but a girl naturally expects great care when she marries. HEALTHY CHILDREN. Without good health life is not worth living. Sickly, peevish children are a source of endless trouble and anxiety to their parents, yet the children's condition is frequently due to their parents' ignorance or thoughtlessness, or both. To make children healthy and to keep them in that condition it is necessary to feed them proper food and to see that they get plenty of exercise and fresh air. Meat is very bad for children. It should be avoided and food rich in phosphates, such as Pillsbury's Vitos, should be given in its place. This food is truly the "meat of the wheat." It is made by the world's greatest millers and it is free from artificial coloring or adulteration. It is not especially a child's food. Your whole family will enjoy this common sense cereal. It makes a wholesome, substantial breakfast or an appetizing dessert and can be prepared in one hundred different ways. Every good grocer will supply you with Pillsbury's Vitos. Large package—enough to make twelve pounds of strength-building food 15c. Ask your grocer about it to-day. A man will make a perfect idiot of himself over a pretty woman—as long as she doesn't ask him for money. Omaha, Nebr., Oct. 26.—It is reported from Casper, Wyo., that sales of town lots for the new town of Sho shone, located at the edge of the Wind River Reservation on the new line of The Chicago & North-Western Railway across the state from Casper, have been unprecedented. Bidding for town lots runs high and a large number have been disposed of within a short time. Buyers evidently figure on the growth of the city here when the Indian Reservation is thrown open to settlement next June. What has become of the good woman who always took prizes for making salt risin' bread? Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease Aore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet Increasing Nails. At all Drummists and Sho showers 36 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address. Allon S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. "O. K." Comes From Choctaw. There has been much discussion as to the origin of the term "O. K." It seems that in the Choctaw language there is a word, "okeh," which means "It is correct," or "I agree to approve." It is often used alone to give assent or approval to a suggestion or proposal. "Okeh" was in common use among whites who had dealings with the Choctaws more than thirty years before the Van Buren campaign. It was a convenient expression where parties understood each other's language imperfectly and was used to mean "understand you and and approve what you say," or "I understand your statement and vouch for its correctness." BEARS ARE COMMON. "Bears are so common out in our country," said Maj. Frank Foote, of Evanston, Wyo., at the Riggs House, "that even the hunters pay but little attention to them, and they roam the mountain sides unmolested. One reason of their immunity is that the State pays no bounty on their skins, and there is no inducement to kill them. In the past year I suppose I've encountered fifty big silver tips in unrequented localities, not one of which seemed at all embarrassed by the meeting, but trotted off with dignified deliberation."—Washington Post. Queer Ceremony Residents of Valle Maggio, Lombardy, go through an odd ceremony in September every year. The region is infested with vipers. The celebrants form a procession, every man, woman and child carrying a huge figure of a snake stuffed with cotton. As they pass along they weep and lament, believing that by this explanation they make themselves proof against snake bite during the grape harvest. THE WORD HAD BREATH. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought. —Tennyson. FUNNY People Will Drink Coffee When It "Does Such Things." "I began to use Postm because the old kind of coffee had so poisoned my whole system that I was on the point of breaking 'down, and the doctor warned me that I must quit it. My chief aliment was nervousness and heart trouble. Any unexpected noise would cause me the most painful palpitation, make me faint and weak. "I had heard of Postm and began to drink it when I left off the old coffee. It began to help me just as soon as the old effects of the other kind of coffee passed away. It did not stimulate me for a while, and then leave me weak and nervous as coffee used to do. Instead of that it built up my strength and supplied a constant vigor to my system which I can always rely on. It enables me to do the biggest kind of a day's work without getting tired. All the heart trouble, etc., has passed away." "I give it freely to all my children, from the youngest to the oldest, and it keeps them all healthy and hearty." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkg. SHORT KANSAS ITEMS --- Good rains all over the state have helped the wheat crop. Industrial activity in the state has created a shortage in farm hands. The Leavenworth Laundry Co.'s plant burned with a loss of $8,000. Lincoln Center has voted for a municipal water and electric light plant. municipal water and electric light plant. Goodland is the place where highwaymen "relieve" people of their money. Leslie Patterson, who founded the town of Mineral, ended his life there recently. The hardware jobbers have won their case for a decrease of the railroad rate. Congressman Curtis declares he is strictly in line with the president's railroad policy. There was a great lineup of would-be-ple bitters at Senator Long's counter at Topeka Friday. Coffeyville is demanding a city hospital. Does Coffeyville contemplate having a foot-ball team? The Missouri Pacific is re-employing the shop men laid off recently at Fort Scott and other places. A Beloit man bought a high priced bulldog to guard his premises, and within a week some one stole it. The fencing which is included in the State Agricultural college gymnasium course is not of the barbwire variety. A Lawrence paper's idea of a man who was nothing on earth to do is one who leaves town to attend a horse show. The state has determined not to waive its preference claim to its deposit in the First National Bank of Topeka. A Smith county man 82 years old had a bullet removed last week that was planted in his back in 1864 by a "Johnny Reb." A Wichita boat that managed to navigate its way along the Arkansas river as far south as Ralston, Okla., kept a "log book." On the Munsell ranch near Skiddy is a tree thought to be the largest in Kansas. It is 125 feet high and twenty-two feet in circumference. The City Federation of Women's clubs has petitioned the board of education of Newton to abolish corporal punishment in the city schools. Frank Collom, a Burton conty convict, was overcome by a thirst at Lansing and drank wood alcohol. He will be buried in the prison cemetery. The "new law buildup" at the University of Kansas will be dedicated November 13—unless, like most new laws, it is found to be unconstitutional. An inquiry may also be started to ascertain what has become of the old fashioned man who said the Devilin estate would pay 100 cents on the dollar. The Oriental hotel at Chanute, which is quite occidental in everything but name, has been sold by D. H. Fisher to Frank Hardesty of Chanute. The Abilene Reflector expresses the hopeful belief that the Kansas suit against Colorado will be decided soon—not later than the latter part of this century. Somebody recently robbed the home of Dr. A. A. King of Junction City, taking a large number of valuable gold nugget ornaments, all valued at about $3,000. The Leavenworth police don't seem to be any different. After a supposed mad dog had been clubbed to death one of them succeeded in shooting it with his revolver. Tobias Larson, the Highland editor, explains that since he has lived in Doniphan county he has helped to build sixteen railroads—some on paper, but mostly in the air. The assistant attorney general for Wilson county, Mr. Mikesell, has piled up $3,000 in "fees" for himself as the result of liquor prosecutions at the term of court just ended in Fredonia. In Caney an ordinance has been passed providing for a jail sentence and a fine for the driver of any dray or other vehicle to deliver liquor from the depot or express office to the person to whom it is consigned. A dealer in blooded chickens sent the editor of the Washington Register one of his choicest hens and the editor remarks that when he finished eating that chicken "there was nothing left of it but the pedigree." Tuberculosis continues to carry off more Kansans than any other disease. During September there were sixty-two deaths. Typhoid fever carried off fifty-one and there were twenty-four deaths from cholera infantum. The total amount of cash held in trust for the First National bank of Topeka, September 30 was $191,942.50. Of this amount the comptroller of the currency holds $196,775.18 and the receiver, Mr. Bradley, $1,167.32. Charles Sallee of Fort Scott is the youngest game warden in the state, being only 17 years old. Sallee also is getting better results than most other wardens, having secured several convictions for violation of the game laws. Mr. Harroun, the St. Joseph plunger, must serve five years in prison while Mr. Devlin, the Topeka plunger, will go free. The reason, as the Leavenworth Times explains it, is that Devlin is Devlin, whereas Harroun is only Harroun. Edward D. Sismolik, a soldier, who killed David Pogue at Leavenworth by a blow from his first because Pogue was insulting a woman, was acquitted Atchison Globe: For twenty-eight years, when the editor of the Globe has felt in a reform mood, he has jumped the Chinese, being afraid of the bad men in his own town. We hope the Chinese have not heard about it. We hope the Chinese will not, in short, call him off to one s'ide, in about a month, and, after unrolling a copy of the Globe, point to a paragraph and say: "Muchi helley chow womumsum?" (Translation: Did you write that paragraph?) Kansas City Woman's Terrible experience with Kidney Sickness. Mrs. Mary Cogin, 20th st. and Cleveland ave., Kansas City, Mo., says: "For years I was run down, weak, lame and sore. The kidney secretions were too frequent. Then dropsy puffed up my ankles until they were a sign to behold. Doctors gave me up, but I be For years I was run down, weak, lame and sore. The kidney secretions were too frequent. Then dropsy puffed up my ankles until they were a sight to behold. Doctors gave me up, but I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and the remedy cured me so that I have been well ever since, and have had a fine baby, the first in five that was not prematurely born." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. How Balfour Gets News Although Mr. Balfour is one of the foremost men of the day, he asserts that he never reads the newspapers. Many persons have wondered not how he keeps abreast of the times, but how he seems conversant with so many little incidents apparently culled from daily columns. It appears that though Mr. Balfour doesn't read the newspapers, Miss Alice Balfour does, and some of her friends say that she is a sort of clipping bureau for her distinguished brother. Miss Balfour, who keeps house for the bachelor prime minister, is a diligent reader of news and cuts out whatever she thinks he ought to see and tells him all about it. PARALYSIS CURED PARALYSIS CURED Case Seemed Hopeless but Yielded to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Kenney has actually escaped from the paralytic's fate to which he seemed a short time ago hopelessly doomed. The surprising report has been fully verified and some important details secured in personal interview with the recent sufferer. "The doctor," said Mr. Kenney, "told me that if I wanted to live any length of time I would have to give up work altogether, and he told my friends that the paralysis which had begun would in time involve my whole body." "Just how were you afflicted at this time?" Mr. Kenney was asked. "Well, I had first hot, and then cold and clammy feelings, and at times my body felt as if needles were being stuck into it. These sensations were followed by terrible pains, and again I would have no feeling at all, but a numbness would come over me, and I would not be able to move. The most agonizing tortures came from headaches and a pain in the spine. "Night after night I could not get my natural sleep and my system was wrecked by the strain of torturing pains and the effect of the opiates I was forced to take to induce sleep. As I look back on the terrible suffering I endured during this period I often wonder how I retained my reason through it all. "But relief came quickly when I was induced to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. The very first box seemed to help me, and seven boxes made me entirely well. There can be no doubt about the thoroughness of my cure, for I have worked steadily ever since and that is nearly four years." Mr. Kenney is at present employed by the Merrimac Hat Company and resides at 101 Aubin street, Amesbury, Mass. The remedy which he used with such satisfactory results, is sold by all drugists, or direct by the Dr. William Medicine Company, Schenected, N.Y. Uncanny Package. When M. Levich, a pawnbroker of Des Moines, Ia., opened a package which was left with him last Tuesday evening he found the head of a woman. A bullet had penetrated the skull. The police began work at once to trace the man who pawned the package. They believed they had a murder mystery on their hands, but late at night a medical student claimed the skull as his property, thus solving the mystery. It is believed the skull was palmed off on the pawnbroker as a joke. Hurry & Worry attract lots of attention, but Slow & Sure do the bulk of the business.* Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh—Med- icine Sent Free. These two diseases are the result of an awful poisoned condition of the blood. 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