The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE VOL 16 NO 43 Special from the Washington News Syndicate. Mr. John C. Dancy, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, and Judson W. Lyons, Register of the Teasurer, returned Wednesday evening from Maryland, where they have been making campaign speeches. When Mr. Dancy was asked his opinion of the organization which has recently been perfected, having for its object the distribution of federal patronage among colored men of the North to the exclusion of his brother in the South, who, they claim, have better store been receiving the lion's share of government positions when there seemed to have been no political justification for the same, Mr. Dancy said: "I have heretofore refrained from the discussion of this organization or the purpose for which it was brought into being I do not regard it as a worthy one." Do you not believe, Mr. Dancy, that some representative colored man from the South should say something in defense of the gentlemen from that section who are now and have been holding important and lucrative positions under the government? "No," and his hand which was raised came down emphatically upon his desk, the colored office holders from the South need no defense. Their good record and the good service they have rendered the people and the government stand for themselves and I do not feel that I or any other Southern man need say one word in the defense of the excellent service of these gentlemen. "As to the charge that this organization is making that the colored men of the South represent no voting population and therefore should not receive federal recognition in the matter of office holding, it might be said that the appointments of the colored men to federal positions by those who have the appointing power has not been largely upon the ground of sectional or political or political representation. The colored men are usually appointed upon their efficiency and capability and as a recognition of the colored voters in general, irrespective of the section from which he may receive the appointment. "I see, also, that it is claimed that this administration is favoring the idea that more federal offices should, go the colored men in the North. I am not prepared to say, but have some doubts as to whether this claim is well founded. If recent appointments among colored men are looked at carefully, I do not believe that it could be found that the administration has any such tendency. Sampling it all up, I do not believe that any organization, whethe among Northern or Southern colored men, having for itself the self control of patronage for their section, is not in accord with what I believe would be to their best in leerst." The Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post of last week contains an excellent and masterly article written by Charles Bashnell Hart, professor of History in Harvard college, in answer to the slanderous and cowardly attacks which have been made upon the colored people by "Rey." Thomas Dixon, Jr., in his characteristic writings concerning cur people. The article is rich with lonic, pregnant wisdom, and eloquent in expression. It deals largely with the inconsti-ties of the Southern white man and his attitude upon the so-called race question. The colored people of the country are unconscious in their thanks to Mr. Hart for the interest he has manifested in this way. Negro Advancement. The picked men and women of our race 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 breadwinners. Whereas practically the whole race 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-fifths 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 55,257 railroad employees, 23,266 sawmill workers, 21,113 carpenters, 14,368 masons and 21,037 ironworkers. No less than 21,037 Negroes are teaching the youths on their race, as are 15,568 clergy men. In view of these figures, it is evidence that the Negro business man is here to stay. THEY SAY Wonder where he apends his nights. Have you seen the photo of the bride and groom. The other wedding will soon be a real thing. Wonder why it tis. What funny fools love makes of some people. Now really have you not heard the latest. Wonder who was it that married in Rosedale. Did you know the dentist is still out of town. I had a delightful time during my recent trip to "Shy." Maybe you think we didn't have a time too—who?—I will not say—Is he from No. 5. Of course you know the latest styles hats to order in the Sea Foam block. Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown what you going to do when the rent comes round—move. Hurrah for Maryland. Whether the prayers of Ethiopia's children availed anything or not the Poe amendment difranchising the Negroes in Maryland was defeated by 20,000 majority in last Tuesdays election. What a glorious thing, we join with our brethren of Maryland and else where in singing Praises to God from whom all blessings flow. The abuse heaped upon the Negroes in the campaign pending the fall on Tuesday would evoked bloodshed and made anarchists out of a less humbler race. It is certainly shameful to even conceive with what contempt. The most loyal citizens of this country are spurned with, surely at sometime and somewhere in the great struggle of life on mere existence the Negro will be accorded justice and the rights of true American citizenship. Chicago's Blue Book. Chicago has a "Colored People's Blue Bood,' issued recently. In 140 pages is told the story of what the Negro race has accomplished for itself in Chicago. D. A Bethea, who coiled the book is a student at the Jenner Medical College. Negroes in the city have six political clubs—all of them Republican-14 social clubs and 16 women's clubs, all apparently in a flourishing condition. Seven newspapers are listed. A classified business directory of the city is added to the book as an appendix. In it appears the name of 1 architect, 8 artists and cartoonists, 39 clergymen, 9 dentists, 48 attorneys, 38 physicians and 95 public officers. Even the advertising in the book is restricted to colored people. Financial scheme of great Magnitude. T. Thomas Fortune Originates Plan For Concentration of Energies. Louisville, Ky.--The most gigantic financial scheme ever undertaken by colored people is the organization of a trust company with a half a million dollars capital. The idea originated with T. Thomas Fortune, editor of the New York Age. A preliminary meeting will be held here Nov. 2. Most of the work has been by correspondence, but so enthusiastic have been the response that Mr. Fortune feels confident of the success of the plan. The concern will be known as The Afro-American Trust Company and will have its headquarters here. Eight Afro-American banks operating in Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky, have already promised support. It is the purpose to transact a general banding business and perform the functi ons of a trust company. The following representative Afro-Americans have agreed to act as incorporators: Charles Banks, Mound Bayou, Miss., J. C. Napier, Nashville; Fred C. Moore, attorney, New York; Fred A. Chew, attorney, Troy; Wm. A. Stewart, Louisville; W. T. Andrews, Sumter, S. C., and Robt. H. Terrill, Washington. That Jim Crow Case. That Jim Crow High School question now before the Supreme Court of Kans. still hangs fire. The board of Education of Kansas City, Kansas through its attorneys have asked for time. Behind this there is shielded much. The Negroes are still stirred up and their interest will be kept at the same pitch. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, LOCALLY. Mrs. Helen Smith of 111 Paralell, who has been away on a five weeks visit to the Indian Territory has returned home. Little Bethel Miller daugh er of Mrs. and Mr. Frank Miller of 348 Jamet St., who has been seriously ill for sometime is much improved. Miss Lula Calaway of 201 Franklin who has been on a visit to relatives and friends in Weston, Mo. has returned. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Thomas of 2627 N. 6th St., are the happy parents of a 12 pound boy, whom they give the name of Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Brown of 106 Spittiog, are the happy parents of a fine 10 pound boy whom they named Vernon Grant. Mother and child are doing well. The Alpha Art Club meets at Mrs. O. B. Johnson, Friday Nov. 17. Mrs. Anna M. Bell of 2019 Water St., who has been seriously ill is on the road to recovery. Mrs. Mary Taylor of 422 Freeman ave. is indisposed this week. Mrs. A. Graham of 413 Oakland ave., spent last midday in K. C. the guest of Mrs. P. walker, 2019 Prospect ave. Rev. A. Dosier, pastor of 1st Baptist at South Park, is doing great work for the cause of Christ and he kindly ask all other churches and well wishers of God to aid him in raising money to repair his church. The smiling countenances of Mrs. Rebscae Saunders who has been ill for sometime is again to be seen. Mr. H. T Day a well known citizen of this community who has been absent in Northwest Canada during the Summer and spring has returned home for the winter. Mr. Day is a cattleman and has spent many years upon the most noted ranches of the country and luckily has clunched some of this worlds good. He is the possessor of a cozy little home in this city and an estimable wite. Mrs. Stella Travis of this city is our authorized agent and general solicitor, any courteousies shown her will be greatly appreciated by us. Mrs. Travis is a reliable and trustworthy lady and is making strenuous efforts to increase the circulation of our paper. Those who cannot find it consistent to subscribe even for one month will oblige her and us by at least treating her with respect when she calls on her mission. A great deal has been said about locality, about the best field of youthful enterprise. Dr. Depew tainks that a young man has the best chance in a young community, while Russell Sage attaches little importance to environment, and thinks that if a young man is in a big place he had better stay there. The secret of success lies in turning the circumstances that surround you to the best account. Once you learn how to do this, including the elf discipline which it brings about inevitably, you have learned the important lesson; and this lesson perhaps is learned best where opportunities are fewest. In any place a young man can exert his individuality and his most vigorous exertion for his own interests, and as long as he respects the rights of others he will be advancing faster than he knows. The best evidence that a person can have of his ability to do well elsewhere is to succeed where he is. The story is told of J. P. Michigan that he needed a man for an important post. After considering all available employees he chose a certain young man and so notified the head of the department in which the young man then was "But Mr. Blank cannot be spared" so the head of the department. That's exactly why I want him," said Mr. Morgan. "Opportunities come to all," says Henry Clews in this same connection, "and come frequently." Lives of poor men all remind us, Working men 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 have become so prevalent that the local offices of the leading insurance companies have abandoned cycle insurance. HOME VISITORS' EXCURSION TO POINTS IN 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 L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Passenger Agent, H. C. SHIFLDS, Traveling Passenger Agent. 903 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo., NOTELETS. According to the figures of the Enumeration Bureau of the state of New York there was a population of 4,014,304 in New York city, June 1st 1905 "A Negro Pharaoh" is the title of a most interesting article by Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner in the A. M. E. Review, for the current quarter. It will repay very careful reading. The balance of the contents are equally as agreeable reading. The editorial are as crisp as a buckwheat cake on a frosty morning and will beginle a very pleasant hour. $1 00 per year, H. T. Kealing, publisher, 631 Pine St. Pailandia, Pa. 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, Nass., 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. Williamson, Manager 1512 North 5th Street. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte county State of Kansas. William Regan, Defendant. William Regan. Denied. The State of Kansas, to greeting to William Regan, you will take notice that on the 24th day of April, 1905 that the said above named plaintiff filed her petition in the District Court of the above named state and county for divorce setting forth two causes of action against you. Cause of action No. 1 - Charging you with extreme cruelty. And in cause of Action No. 2. Charging you with gross neglect of duty. Unless you answer demur or otherwise object on or before the 23rd day of dec. 1905. And upon further proof the plaintiff will be granted proof as prayed for in her petition. L. W. JOHNSON Atty. for Plaintiff Attest by Clerk of District Court, on 6 day of Oct. 1905. Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D. C. McCombs, Deputy. 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 enter, at 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 pastorship 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. Mrs. King, of Denny Colo., are in the city; the guest of her brother Rev. Wm. Jackson, 1610 N. 4. Mr. Will Summers of Peoria, Ill., is in the city the guest of Mrs. Lulu Johnson of State ave. Runners are affloat that a knot will probably be tied. The Douglass Sons and Daughters set up a new number last Sunday at Tabernacle bist church. EXECUTORS NOTICE STATE OF, KANSAAS. WYANDOTTE COUNTY, IN THE PROBATE COURT OF SAID COUNTY In the matter of the Estate of Mary L. Gordon Deceased. Notice is hereby given to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon late of said county, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid. Dated the 21 day of March 1905. Now all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. CORVINE PATTerson Executor of the last will and testament of Mary L. Gordon deceased. Dated March 21 1905 First Published 24 1905 PUBLICATION NOTICE In The Disrict Court of Wyandotte Kansas Katie Gilmore Plaintiff. VS. NO 19025. Jackson Gilmore Defeedant. To the above named defendant. You will hereby take notice that you have been sued in the above named court. by the above named plaintiff. and unless you appear and answer the petition filed against you on or before the 30th day of September 1905. the-some will be taken as true, and a Judgment rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree, desolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing her from said defendant, and awarding to her maiden name, Katie Fulcher, and for cost of suit Katie Gilmore plaintiff. I. F. Bradley atty. attest Wm. Needes clerk. First Pub Aug. 18th 1905. NOTICE. State of Kansas. County of Wyandotte In the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. Lawrence Jones, Plaintiff. vs. Elsie Jones, Defendant. The State of Kansas greeting to the above named defendant, you will take notice that on the 16th day of October, 1905. Said Plaintiff above named has filed his petition in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. A petition against you asking for a divorce, setting forth 2 causes of Action No. L. 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, 1905. Wm. Needles Clerk of the said Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. per D. C. McCambs Deputy. First Publication, Oct. 20th, 1905. PUBLICATION NOTCIE In the District Court of Wyandotte county Vancouver. above named defendant: you are attified that you have been sued in famed court, by the above plain- till, 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 judgment 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. Wm. Needles, Clerk. First Pub. Oct. 13. NOV. 10, 1.05. this Section CALL HERE Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. 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. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for Plaintiff. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. May Williams, Plaintiff, vs. Elis Williams, Defend int. 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 ans- wers, on or before the 2nd day of Dec. 1905 the petition filed against him will be taken as true and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be addecree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing her from him the said defendant, and for cost of this notice. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pllr. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. First Pub. Oct. 20. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandott County Kansas. Ranson Knight Plaintiff. vs. Elure Knight, Defendant. The State of Kansas. To Elure Knight. Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by Ranson Knight in the above entitle court wherein you are the defendant for a divorce on the grounds of abandonment and unless you answer on or before the 13th day of September, the petition will be taken as true and judgement rendered as prayed for. The plaintiff is seeking an absolute divorce, for ever desolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between the plaintiff and defendant and for cost. Ranson Knight. By Chas. W. Frye. Atty. First Pub. Aug. 11. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District of Wyandotte County, Mary Darkis. Plaintiff. VS. William Darkis Defendant The State of Kansas, to William Darkt Greeting, you are hereby notified that you have been sued on the grounds of gross neglect of duty, extreme cruelty, and adultery, in the above entitle cause in the above man- ed Court, Wherein Mary Darkis is Plaintiff, and William darkis is Defendant, and unless you answer on or before the first day of July 1905. Plaintiff petition will be taken as true Judgement will be rendered against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking an abso- late 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 6973. T. Dale 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 etition 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 58 in Wyndote city, or per record p at thereof such other relief as set out in Plaintiff's petition and for cost herein expedded. Allen Walker. By Chas W. Frye, Atty for Plaintiff. SKAL. Att st: J. L. Beggs, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. First Pub. Sept. 8th, 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. PUB ISHED 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 1x Months,.....65 cents Three Months,:.....40. c One Month,.....15. c Advertiseing 25 cts. Per Inch First Insertion A Standing Display 'Add' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. Entered as second class matter December first, 1904 at the Post office at Kansas City, Kansas under the Act of congress of March rd. 1879.". Selects Wife's Toilets. It is a common thing in Paris for a man to accompany his wife to the dressmaker's. The young wife who has known no gayer attire than the coming out gown of the jesire file needs careful advice as to her toilets, and her husband, if he be a certain type of man of the world, knows how to give it. Japanese Swords Best The sword makers of Toledo and Damascus have been reputed to be the world's most famous artisans in this industry, but in Japan the swordsmiths turn out weapons whose blades are fully as green and as hard and composed of metal of as fine quality as those of the old swordsmiths. Superstitious Criminals All criminals are great believers in dreams. Some time ago, at Manchester, a daring thief awaiting trial told a warden he had dreamed that he had seen a rainbow. From this he deduced that he would be acquitted at his trial. To everyone's surprise no was. Hunting in Japan. The Japanese, always keen sportsmen, used to take most of their game with goshawks and sparrow hawks. The only dogs they used were spaniels, which flushed the game. But now they are taking to dogs, and many good animals are being imported from England. Liquefies Illuminating Gas A German chemist named Blau has succeeded in liquefying illuminating gg. In that form it gives a good light, which is useful in country houses, valley trains, etc. It costs more than ordinary coal gas, but less than electric light. BEWARE THE EASY SHELTER. Refuge There an Important Step Toward Old Age. Years are but a fool's measure for youth, which is divine; they bring caution more often than wisdom, and a certain belief in the unreality of joy. A man is quickly disillusioned, which commonly means that he has set up his own idea of what things should be by the side of what things are, and sulks forever at the result. He then commits the folly of becoming old, and prefers existence to life. He clambers into one or other of the many shelters that line the way, curls up within and smiles pityingly at the young of all ages pressing on to some end, no matter what, alive to the beauty of the sky and the clouds and the birds and the trees, alive even to the beauty to be seen in one another, breathing deeply of the air of strength, living and loving and beloved, until at last they are made one with nature. But the heart, like the liver, grows torpid without exercise; a gradual decay comes to the man in the shelter, a decay from which he is released, much against his will, by death. There are too many shelters—Hugh de Selin-court LITTLE POKER AT WASHINGTON. Stories of Big Games Must Be Taken With Allowances It was formerly quite the thing to tell stories about big poker games among the members of Congress. Much was said about the "Senatorial game," "millionaires' game" and the "Congressional game," and always we heard about great bunches of money changing hands, bluffs as high as the banks of the Mississippi, and all sorts of stories. Frequently the senator, representative, diplomat or rich man was named and the winnings or losses told with as much gusto as if they had really hapened. There were some pleasant poker games in days gone by, and occasionally some wonderful plays, but one night, with a few interesting incidents, furnished material for a month of stories. Some of those who figured in the poker stories became annoyed at the notoriety they gained and abandoned poker entirely. For many years now there has not been enough poker in the capital to hang a story on. TRUTH PROVED BY EXAMFLE. forekeeper Certainly Lacked the Gift of Energy. William C. Greene, the copper magistrate, was talking to a young man about success. "The secret of success is enterprise energy," said Col. Greene. "To be lazy to stick always in the same old rut 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 forekeeper I used to buy my supplies on 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 round to study him. He was valuable as a horrible example. "There,' they would say to the youngsters, 'take warning by Manners. He is a failure. He has no enterprise. Don't grow up like him. He resembles a tortoise, doesn't he?" "Poor Manners in his sluggishness did resemble a tortoise a good deal. I sent a boy in to him one day with a back mule to get five gallons of moasses. 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 popee and stretched out his arms in a fast 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 moasses in this here town but me?’” PLEASURE OF EASTERN WOMEN. Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Toilet. An eastern lady of high degree spends an amount of time over her toilet that would quite astonish the most fashionable society lady. First she has her hair dressed by her maid, who, after anointing the long, silky black locks with a little oil, made from aloe wood or cocoanut, arranges it simply in a long, smooth plait, low on the nape of the neck, and decorated either with gold or jewelled ornaments. Next the bath is prepared as hot as it can be borne, and in this the lady may stay as long as two or three hours. Soaps are not used, but, instead, there are multifarious unguents, secret preparations of the bathing women, which render the skin soft as velvet and delicately perfumed. Oftentimes the face is washed over with milk, into which has been squeezed lemon juice. The hair of the oriental woman is usually beautifully long, soft and glossy, and the way they arrange it is invariably becoming to their soft type of beauty. Perfumes are much ingulged in. These are introduced in the bath and permeate the garments, but are rarely used on a handkerchief. The Foam on the Top. Because you're on top of the wave. For here, a thought that might serve also. To the gold of the credit you crave: The gold 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 always. 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 say 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 youth. But look on the world as you go. See the moon, we place at the sum- mum in truth. Then gaze on the mortals below. And I give you my word I will have noth- ing. And this brief little anthem will stop, if you do not agree with the thing that I preach. That the foam may be found on the top. -A. J. Waterhouse in Sunset Magazine. A Polite Discharge. James Rankin Young, the new superintendent of the Dead Letter office admires politeness. "It is possible," he said recently, "to be polite always. It is possible to be polite even when discharging a drunken coachman. I know that this is so for I have seen the thing done. "A friend of mine found himself obliged last week to get rid of his coachman for drunkenness. He summoned the man into his presence, and discharged him with this polite speech: "I fear, Montgomery, that we must part. It has been impossible for me to avoid noticing that several times during the past month you have been—er—sober. Now, I don't believe that any man can attend properly to drinking if he has driving to do, and, therefore, at the month's end you will be free to devote yourself exclusively to your chosen occupation." All Christians. In his article in the Woman's Home Companion, describing the International Sunday School Convention in Jerusalem, Doctor Devins relates the following significant incident: "An unexpected favor was received from the officers of the Russian church on the Mount of Olives. A meeting had been planned to be held near the place of the Ascension. A the leader of the meeting, the writer went to see if it could be held under the trees near the church. "Why not?" was the reply, accompanied by a smile on the saintly face of the speaker. Why not? Do we not worship the same Christ?" WIT IS NOT APPRECIATED. Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keeping up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but he has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or sentimental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his interruptions. He has a high pitched, penetrating voice, and the town police, who have been on the verge of ejecting him a dozen times, say that he was a Glasgow cab driver who retired with a competence and now takes this wi to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melodrama was being presented. The heroine of the play, pursued by the villain, had taken refuge in the house of her lover, who, as the hero of the play, was of course, at variance with his sweetheart's parents. The exigencies of the plot required that the irate father, sword in hand and at the head of his faithful retainers, should track the girl to the gates of the hero's treacherous and disgraceful elopement, enter the room where the scared heroine had been secreted under the table. "Wretch!" cried the furious father, "your life shall answer for this. I demand my child. Where is she." Then, shrill and startling in the expectant silence, from the gallery came the answer: "Unner the ta'le, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stick'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 Dalotas 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 Dakota. Ay pay man da money. He gif me deed. Ay gif heem mortgage. Ay tak land. By en by he get land, he get deed, he haf da money. Dees time Ay want no deed; Ay want mortgage. Ay pay da money; you gif me mortgage!"—The Sunday Magazine. Getting Posted. "I would like to ask you a question if you don't mind," said the old man in the street car to the man on his right. "Go ahead, sir." "I should like to know the meaning of the term 'History repeats itself.' I come across it most every day. How does history repeat itself? "That's easily answered," said the other. "For instance, if you should ask me what I thought of the weather I should tell you to go and be hanged to you. If we should meet a month, hence and you asked me the same question over again my reply would be the same." "I think I see—I think I do," mused the old man, as he leaned back and crossed his feet. "Yes, I guess I understand, and I want to tell you that you are a durned mean jackass of a man and that history is going to repeat itself every blamed time I run across you for the next ten years to come."—Chicago News. A Gentle Thrust. James Jeffrey Roche, the new Consul to Genoa, was talking about a magazine editor. "This man," he said, "rejected some of the best of my early verse. He rejected some of the best verse of my friends. Why he is an editor I can't imagine. He certainly has no critical sense. "I indicated this to him one day. He had announced to me that he was going to get married. He had praised the lady of his choice ardently, declaring her to be a poem. "‘A poem’? said I. “‘A poem’, he repeated. “And still you do not reject her? (exclaimed.) Winter. 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Students Crowd Its Reading Room and Investigate Various Subjects. In the reading room of the British museum the desks are crowded with students all day long, and in addition to the books of reference some 20,000 in number, which fill the open shelves of the room, from 3,000 to 4,000 volumes are given out every day. Theology in a wide sense, including the Bible, biblical literature, church history and works on the religious rites and ceremonies of all races and creeds, is easily at the head of the list, with about 300 volumes. Topography comes next, with about twenty fewer, and of these books on London amount to a quarter, books on English topography to another quarter, the other half being for the rest of the world. History and biography come next. English history being mostly in demand, and books on France and the French province second. Essays, criticisms and miscellaneous literature take the fourth place and are followed by fiction—not less than five years old—moral philosophy, poetry and the fine arts, the drama, law and philology, political economy and so on down to politics, mathematics and chemistry, which have about forty volumes apiece, and lastly works on naval and military subjects, which seldom have more than three or four volumes each. It is a curious list and throws a useful light on the sort of studies taken up by the readers in the museum—London Globe. Progress in Steam Turbines 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 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 shetered, marked door. Amid her quiet kine of yesterday. And all the marvel of her beauty's rose Has vanished quite away. Far 'neath an alien sky his body lies That was so filled with blood of youthful pride. In realms invisible of Love's delight. And that their souls, earth free, cuss Beneath the moon to night. -Joseph 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 pompously. "There must have been some other reason. I was way up in the gallery and it went over my head, even us there." TRULY IDEAL WIFE HER HUSBAND'S BEST HELPER Farmer Health Is the Great Source of All Women Should Seek It. One of the most noted, successful and best men of this century, in a recent article, has said, "Whatever I am and whatever success I have attained in the world I owe all to my wife. From day I first knew her she has been in inspiration, and the greatest help- er of my life." Mrs Bessie Ainsley To be such a successful wife, to re- tain the love and admiration of her husband, to inspire him to make the meet of himself, should be a woman's most important study. 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Out of 100,000 representative prescriptions, dispensed in drug stores in all parts of the United States, it was found that 70 per cent contained opium or some one of its preparations. "Proprietary medicines are almost invariably accompanied by the most detailed and specific directions for use, while the direction's accompanying physicians' prescriptions are generally very brief and sometimes illegible. It is also true that but a moderate proportion of proprietary medicines contain any poison or narcotic, and, when they do, it is generally in such small quantities or so protected by accompanying antidotes, as to carry with it no danger whatever." Honor Not Universal "Chinamen are, as a rule, very honorable in business matters, but it must not be taken for granted that integrity is universal with them," said Mr. H. M. Lakin, of Shanghai, at the Shoreham. "I have lived in the Orient for many years, and have had extensive dealings with all sorts of Eastern people. There is a saying that a Chinaman's word is his bond, and this is very true from the fact that it is a rare thing for them to make any other than a verbal contract. So it happens that what a Celestial tells you he will do will be performed in a great majority of cases. The fact remains, however, that you've got to pick your man in China just the same as in any other country. Ah Sin has his counterparts in his native land, and every European over there can tell you of his experiences with tricky Chinamen. "I do not believe that a Chinman is any more honest than his fellowman of other nationalities, as is shown by the vast amount of grafting which permeates the social and political life of the empire. The individual Chinese business man is straight in his dealings largely because it is a matter of necessity."—Washington Post. USE THE FAMOUS USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 3-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. 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When a railroad has laid its rails of heaviest steel on a roadbed of solid, dustless rock, built its bridges of strongest steel and firmest masonary; reduced grades and eliminated curves to the minimum; protected its line with a perfect block signal system; provided every efficient safety appliance in couplers and brakes; furnished cars that have all the strength that the best material and finest workmanship will afford; secured engines so powerful that they will pull their loads with ease and speed; manned its trains with employees who have passed a rigid medical examination as to their physical and mental abilities, and when every resource of science, skill and experience has been employed in track and equipment, that railroad has fulfilled its entire duty to the public which it serves. But when, in addition to these requirements of safety and comfort, one railroad leads the rest in providing luxuries that enhance the pleasure of travel; furnishing new ideas in restful chair cars without extra cost; service and meals in dining cars that are only equaled in the highest class hotels and restaurants; smoking apartments in which you long to linger, libraries filled with the news of the hour and readable literature; writing desks and stationery at one's elbow; cars brilliantly illuminated with electricity—cooled in summer with electric fans and warmed in winter with steam heat; the latest conceptions in sleeping cars and parlor cars; cars handsomely decorated with original and exclusive designs and even carrying rich and distinctive colors on the outside that instantly distinguishe them from other trains, then that railroad does more than its simple duty and establishes a claim for patronage to which the traveling public is quick to respond. These are some of the reasons why the Chicago and Alton railway is known as "The Only Way," and explains why it carries such a large share of the travel between St. Louis and Chicago and between St. Louis and Kansas City. And when that road is so fortunately located as to give it a short line, the tendency to use it on the part of all the people who know is almost irresistible—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. GRATIFYING PRAISE. Letter from Marcus Mayer, the Great Patron of Music and Drama. Marcus R. Mayer, who brought to America Mine. Pattl, Duse, Salvinl, Coquelin and other famous singers and actors, writes: [Name] Gentlemen: I wish as many suffering men and women as I can reach to know the excellence of Doan's Kidney Pills. I was greatly benefited by this remedy and know it cured several who had kidney trouble so badly they were agonized with pain in the back, head and loins, rheumatic attacks and urinary disorders. I am glad to recommend such a deserving remedy. (Signed) MARCUS R. MAYER. 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Then she looked up with a wink that I interpreted meant Haste. Saying: "If that's true, I think that We have little time to waist." "Clever girl," I murmured, "this is Happiness! Do you agree?" "Yes, she answered, "and a kiss is Cupid's proper repartee." That's the way of love's beginning—Smooth and simple as a song: Felix Carmen, in N. Y. Sun. CONSTIPATION AND STOMACH TROUBLE CAN BE CURED J. S. Janssen, President of the Milwaukee Retail Druggists' Association, Talks on the Dangers of Constipation and Stomach Trouble. WRITE FOR THIS FREE BOTTLE TO-DAY Good for alling children and nursing mothers 132 FREE BOTTLE COUPON. 11115 Send this coupon with your name and address and your druggist's name, for a bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic, for Stomach and Bowels to MULL'S GRAPE TONIC Co., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. Gee Full Address and Write Plainly. The $1.00 bottle contains nearly three times the 500 size. At drug stores. The genuine has a date and number stampo on the label—take no other from your druggis SHORT KANSAS ITEMS The Chanute Daily Blade has been sold to the Chanute Tribune, leaving two daily papers in the town. Revolution has set in down around Emporia, and king corn has been detroned in favor of king wheat. The new Cudahy pipe line from the Kansas oil fields to St. Louis will be laid along the Frisco right of way. In a drunken quarrel at New Cambria recently O. W. Armagast shot and seriously wounded Charles Scott. A parastice known as the palisade worm is causing considerable loss to horse owners in various parts of the state. The Santa Fe pasenger department employees at Topeka have presented Jerry Black with a handsome gold watch and chain. An Olathe enthusiast declares football is a sure cure for hay fever, but his friends seem to prefer to keep their hay fever. The body of Robert Burtch, a smelterman, was found in a creek near Iola Wednesday and it is believed that he was murdered. The sale of the Chanute Blade to the Tribune company this week reduces the number of daily papers in Chanute to two—when is enough. Three women of Rochester, N. Y., who invested in a refinery at Niotaze, have asked for a receiver for the plant, alleging mismanagement. Seventeen jointists of Caney and Coffeville has been sentenced to jail and in addition will have to pay a fine from $100 to $300 apice. Senator Long will visit Leavenworth November 17 and 18 to see how much the various government institutions need in way of appropriations. Cottonwood Falls' new electric light plant was started Saturday night. Nearly every business house and residence in town is lighted by it. The state has brought suit against the Pullman company to oust it from doing business in the state for refusing to pay the charter fell of $14,000. "One thing is sure," observed Thomas W. Morgan of Ottawa on the day after Halloween. "The candle melted the frost on ue pumpkin last night." An old boy in Abilene deplores the passing of the old fashioned Holloween when the youngesters carried the neighbor's buggy on top of the opera house. Ellsworth Hacker, the convict from Pratt county, who was attacked and slashed by Frank Kenney and Dominico Castague, two insane convicts, is dead. Charles Brenner, a veteran at the Leavenworth Soldiers' home, was found dead near the home with a ragged hole in his head. It is believed he was murdered. Judge Fannellly wished a Merry Christmas to thirteen of the liquor sellers whom he sentenced in Independence this week. Their terms will expire December 24. The railroad board has decided in the dispute 1 Kansas City, Kan., between the Leavenworth electric line and the Orient road that it has no jurisdiction over trolley lines. Dr. Fred Hall of Cuba, who was sent to jail for getting too gay with the prohibitory law, has asked Governor Hoch to pardon him, promising to be good hereafter. Mrs. Mark Withers of Topeka, who lost $280 a few days ago, received the money in an envelope through the mails. She thinks somebody's conscience troubled him. Leavenworth can have natural gas in two weeks if it wants it. but the council refuses to grant a franchise allow.ng the company to charge more than 25 cents per thousand. The Manhattan Nationalist this week passes to the control of the Kimball brothers. They have been publishing the Courtland Register, but were formerly of Manhattan. The attention of the bug sharps at the state university has been called to a worm which is working in the growing wheat in Rush county and doing considerable damage. E. J. Jewett is authority for the statement that Governor Hoch favors a resubmission of the prohibition question believing that such a course would strengthen the prohibitory law. The new state truancy law is said to have done wonders in increasing the school attendance in the state, and the officers in various counties report that there are very few children out of school. It is said that the reported death of Chief Washunra of the Kaw tribe is a mistake. Miss Dolly Curtis, sister of Congressman Curtis, has heared form the old chief since his death was reported. In Russel county nobody answers to the name of John Smith, and it is said that there is no other county in the state with such a report. Even a murderer sometimes does the decent thing. Lum L. Raley, pleaded guilty in Erie this week to murder in the first degree rather than put the county to the trouble and expense of a trial. The Caldwell, Tex., News takes it much to heart because Governor Hoch refused to honor a requisition for a negro who was wanted there and now proposes that Texas dump all of its "worthless niggers" in Kansas for revenge. The hunting season in Kansas is now open and the state game warden, Bell Travis, has ordered the deputy wardsens to enforce it to the letter. The trial of arissa Shaw, charged with cruelty towards the Riggins children at Fort Scott has ended, and the case has been taken under advisement. A most remarkable serious of wireless telegraph experiments is being conducted by the signal corps at Fort Leavenworth, and recently a message was caug... from a vessel off the coast of Porta Rico, belived to have been received over the longest distance such a message has ever bee transmitted. Election Returns That Interest All Parties. Mention Pillsbury's Vitos to your grocer and see if he don't recommend it to you as the most substantial Breakfast Food. Economical. Satisfactory. Pillsbury Quality Excels. Price 15 cents per Package If for any reason he fails to supply you send us his name and we will mail you a Free Sample Package Pillsbury Dept. P. Minneapolis, Minn. 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If could show you the difference between the shoes made in my factory and those of other manufacturers, you would realize how much $3.50 shoes cost more to make, why the shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoes on the market to-day. Strong Mala Shoes for Men, $2.50 Dress Shoes, $2.50, $2.51, $2.51, $7.50 CAUTION. — Insist upon having W. L. Douglas shoes. Take no substitute. None genuine and price stamped on bottom. WANTS W. L. Douglas Shoes are not sold. Full line of samples sent free for inspection upon request. Fast Color Sequels used; they will not wear brassy. **Write for Illustrated Catalog of Fall Stages** W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, MA 100 And save 40 per cent on cost and fuel. Thousands in use, Guan- anted. Send for free cate- sured. Manufactured and sold by Roes Roes Ginder & Furnace E kK Creamy Mint Tablets, heliotrope tints, and another of dark These are not diffeult to make—| er brown, mixed wih chenille, is re and as celicious as any bought for lieved with bold twists of banana yel: sixty cents a pound. One pound of low panne and brown speckled quills pulverized or confectioners’ sugar,| Emerald green is too becoming tc three tablespoonfuls of water, and | be lightly laid aside, and a charming five drops of oil of peppermint. Es- | toque of black is wreathed with twists sence of peppermint will not do. Mix | of green velvet on a raised bandeay, half the sugar with the water in a/and there are green wings tilting porcelain lined saucepan, put on the backward, and apparently holding a fire and stir until it bolis up. Take sweeping green paradise osprey. The at once from the fire, and stir into it | upturned black brim takes off the the rest of the sugar and the pepper- | really smart and stylish, mint. When thoroughly mixed return —— to the fire and let it boil up once White Theater Waist. again. Remove from the fire and| Blouse of white silk, shirred at the pour into little tin patty pans or drop | top to a yoke of lace or guipure, form: on greased paper in wafers the size ing large scallops and ornamented with of a silver dollar. The pans should knots of ribbon. Below the blouse {s not be greased. If the candy is allow- | arranged in blox plaits, under whict ed to more than just boil it will show passes a drapery of white mousselinc elear and be quite spoiled. When _ de soie, encircling it and forming large Iroperly made it is a creamy white | knots between the plaits. confection, and is very wholesome. | The elbow sleeves are made and Os te a Some of the most stunning turbans show for their only trimming breasts and velvet ribbon. This season brings us the most perfect range of colors of all sorts, and the breasts are equal- Jy attractive in red, lavender, pale Blue, pink, all sorts of delicate greens, peacock, and many grades of red and the all-white breast. ‘It is said that the great favor which was shown to the white wing last season has been responsible for the confidence placed in ‘breasts for this season. ‘The white-winged hat was so un- usually becoming that manufacturers are banking on a similar demand this fall. One of the most attractive new effects in wings is made up of the owl feathers. Two large, soft wings spring from a well-tufted owl head, and give the effect of a breast more than.of the wing. Ppa eee ey rary - An exceptionally fine English recipe for baked ham is this: Soak the ham, and after wiping it dry cover it entire- ly with a thick paste made of flour and water. Wrap in greased paper, tying it in several places to prevent it from slipping. Put the ham in a baking tin and cook in a well-heated oven, bast- ing it frequently over the paper with warm dripping. If the paper should get at all burned place another thick sheet over it. When the ham is done Temove the paper and paste, strip off the rind, and as soon as the ham is sufficiently cool brush it with several coats of glaze, which is granulated sugar, boiling water and white of egg, and put it away te get thoroughly cold A fairly small ham should be selected for cooking in the oven, and one weizh- ing five pounds four hours should be allowed. ee ee White all-over embroidery is an fn- expensive and pretty choice for a lit- tle jacket to be worn with everything, and in these days of lingerie trim: mings is as adaptable to winter ma- terials as to summer. One of the prettiest little empire rigs had a jack- et of simple white embroidery edged with an embroidery flounce put on full, and the kind that washes well, It was worn over a full but absolutely plain empire dress and the sash, which was tied high under the arms, with, bow in the back, was of Dresden ribbon with broad black satin edge. Girl's Apron. One of the prettiest little models we have shown for a long time is the boxplaited mode having the straps over the shoulder. While it is very plain, yet it has a style to it not found in the everyday aprons. ‘The front has three box plaits and the back only two. The use of the belt is optional, as the garment is fitted by underarm seams is is quite pretty without the belt. The apron fits the figure close- Jy, and with the exception of the yoke completely covers the dross. ‘This will make a charming little apron for ae SSA AIT, school wear, and then, too, it isn’t like every other girl's. Cross-barred mus- Jin, lawn, gingham, dimity, percale or calico are excellent apron materials. Winter Millinery. Winter millinery consists principally of contrasting tints, and the darker felts have touches of very light or bright coloring. A shaded brown foque has brown quills and a huge slaster of dahlia biossoms in vivid hetotrope tints, and another of dark- er brown, mixed with chenille, is re- leved with bold twists of banana yel- low panne and brown speckled quills. Emerald green is too becoming to be lightly laid aside, and a charming toque of black is wreathed with twists of green velvet on a raised bandeau, and there are green wings tilting backward, and apparently holding a sweeping green paradise osprey. The upturned black brim takes off the really smart and stylish, White Theater Waist. Blouse of white silk, shirred at the top to a yoke of lace or guipure, form- ing large scallops and ornamented with knots of ribbon. Below the blouse is arranged in blox plaits, under which passes a drapery of white mousseline de soie, encircling it and forming large knots between the plaits. The elbow sleeves are made and CO» . Neg Stas LEV Pe, aa 9 l a Bs NG WEF eh Reg A RA IE Genwaras aN ir Ss ay AWRY fy) NN trimmed to correspond, and finished with ruffles of the silk headed by éra peries of the mousseline de soie. : Ever Popular Tan. ‘Tan and ecru have held the very center of the stage so long that one hesitates to see them driven out and the news that tan is the fashionable Paris cclor is welcomed by many. The French are so fond of the biscuit and the yellow shades. They like the burnt bread tones and the shade of tan which they call mode color. They admire all the brownish, soft castor shades and they like nothing better than the cafeaulait tones which are fashionable in Paris and will always be. The French love all the coifee tints. They find them adaptable and becoming and they find that they combine well with other colors, which is always a very great point in dress, Tt makes it just so much the more economical. Get something that will combine well, so any student of dress economy will tell you. And what goes better with everythin; than tan? ie blinace Geis aa: Young women employed in type- writing have invented a novel and most convenient form of ribbon box. Tho reels on which the typewriting ribbons are wound, when empty, are used in the same way for dress rib- bons, a purpose to which they are equally adapted. A dozen or more of these reels fit snugly into a bureau box, and each is dedicated to a certain width and color of ribbon. The reels can be painted white, pale blue or pink, to match the lining of the case, and thus rendered pretty as well as useful. A ribbon wound carefully on a reel gives twice the wear of the cne that is thrown carelessly into the bureau drawer when removed from hair or collar. Trailina Sleeves. To make one of the trailing sleeves select a bishop sleeve pattern of the largest variety, and one which allows for lengthwise tucks. Run the tucks down within a few incnes or the bot: tom Sew the seam down to a little above the elbow and then cut away about two inches of the material the rest of the way down on each side of the seam. An inch wide beading 1s put around to finish the sleeve where it is cut off, and ribbon is run through this which ties around the arm and draws the long hanging part up into a full angler, which hangs at the back of the arm. If the sleeve is cut to allow it cross-wise tucks may also be run across the bottom edge, New Cont Grismaniatlon. 2 some of the latest of the three piece costumes there is a new touch to the little short coats which is both Pretty and practical. Where a lin- gerle frill is introduced xround the edge of the coat it is attached to a white lawn lining which is made up Separately and tacked to the inside of the coat. The frill, which con- sists of a straight lawn ruffle only two inches wide icluding a ttle valenciennes edge, only projects slightly, and the whole thing comes ou! to be washed and ironed. Made of a fairly good quality of lawn, it does much better than silk in standing the wear and tear which is allotted the lining of even the simplest little coat. Modish White Hat. Very. pretty hats are shown in soft white felt, trimmed in folds of gold gauze and in wings of mottled white and dead-leaf brown. This color com: bination appears in one hat, whose brim turns sharply on right side. ‘The idea is French and the light neutra colorings of wings and felt make the models mors appropriate at this earl: date than the darker and warmer looking felts and velvets. LILLIAN BUYS HER OWN TICKETS How She Made a Speculator Look Mare ene: Lillian Russel] Saturday took mat ters into her own hands to solve the Problem of the ticket speculator. At 2 o'ciock she whizzed up to the front of Proctor's Twenty-third Street the ater and, as she alighted from the car, the most persistent of the speculators sidled up to her and thrusting a buneh of tickets upon her, said: “I've the last twenty good seats in the house. Give you the best two for $3. Can't get any at the box of- tice.” Miss Russell took the bunch of tickets as if to look them over and makes her selection and svalked rapid- ly toward the box office. The specu- lator, who had never had any tickets taken from him before by prospective purchasers, pressed close upon her loudly demanding a return of his tick- ets. Miss Russell stepped to the win- dow and handing the twenty tickets to the ureasurer, said: “Here are twenty 50-cent seats. This speculator tried to sell two of them to me at $1.50 apiece. Give him $10 for them,” and with a smile entered the theater and proceeded to her dressing room. ‘The speculator frothed at the mouth. He demanded his tickets back, but the treasurer, standing upon the legal rights of theatrical managers estab- lished in the courts to the effect that tickets are not transferrable and that they have the rignt to revoke the en- trance and return the money for those transferred to persons offensive to the management, refused, “I bought those tickets from you,” roared the speculator. “You certainly did not,” said the box office man. “I have never sold a ticket to you and never will. I know you too well. You have been thrown out of this lobby a dozen times with- in the last week. ‘Those tickets were bought by other people, whom you sent here. They were transferred to you by those people. There is your $10. Now get out, or I will have you thrown out.” ‘The speculator made his escape.— New York Commercial. Ask Your Neighbors, Gelatt, Pa, Nov. 6th (Special)— Mrs. H. W. Sterns, a well respected resident of Gelatt, tells in convincing words, what Dodd's Kidney Pills have done for her. 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Do you mean to insinuate that I look old enough to have a child old enough to have to pay car fare?—Cleveland Leader. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by loca! appitcations, as they cannot reach the ale tised portion ot the‘enr. Tero 1s only ste way 0 gure deafens and that aby eoosciatioua remedton Deathess is caused by an flamed condition of the mucous tiaing of the Euxachlan Tabe. When this Perfoct heartan. aud when Ie entirely closed Dest Hess isthe roma and uuless tho faanymation eas bo {aiken out and this tube restored to ica normal eundt Hon, heariog. will be destroyed forever: mine cascs out ot ton aro ‘caused by Catarrh, which 1 nottiag Bac an infamed eondition ot the mucsus surfaces. ‘We will give One Hundred Dollars tr auy care ot Byline Gatarsh Cares Send forireulary, frost ae Drnayteta a CHENEY © CO Tole, 0 ‘Take Hiatl's Famlly Pte for constipation. 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In Belgium wood for all purposes must be imported, as there are no ex- tensive forests or timber lands, ‘The world rarely thinns well of the man who does not think well of him- self “Very! He admitted to me that the plano didn’t need tuning very sad- hy.” "After might has prevailed {2 is called right >y those who were henefited thereby. IF YOU ARE A WOMAN wAViliame’ Finke Bs wil Surely “Twish I could help other women get rid of certain physical troubles as com- pletely as I have succeeded im getting rid of mine,” said Mrs. B. B. Ford, of Pushmataha, Miss., recently. “You know,” she continued, “that @ woman's health depends chiefly on the regn- larity of just one function. If she fails to keep that properly regulated sha hayno end of physical misery. I suf- fered from that one cause for two ‘wretched years, during one of which I was kept in bed all the time. 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After using them fora short while longer I bocame aud have since remained a well woman, and the reason why is sim- ply that I took Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.’ ‘These pills make uterine action reg- ularand painless, banish headaches, lan- guor, nervousness, create appetite, pro- mote digestion, put color in the com- plexion, build up strength and health, Every woman shonid send to the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Scheneo- tady, N.Y., for # valuable booklet, en- titled “Plain Talks to Women.”” Ie will be mailed free in sealed envelope to the address of any applicant. Dr. Williams? ‘ok Pile.are wold by all deasointe. UNDER THE BLUE. | The skies are low, the winds are slow, the woods are filled with autumn giory: The mists are still, on field and hill; the brooklet sings its deamy story. I careless rove through glen and grove; I dream by hill and copse and river; Or in the shade by aspen made I watch the restless shadows quiver. T lift my eyes to azure skies that shed their tinted glory o'er me; While memories sweet around me fleet, as radiant as the scene before me. For while I muse upon the hues of autumn skies in splendor given. Sweet thoughts arise of rare deep blue of heaven. Bend low, fair skies! Smile sweet, fair eyes; from radiant skies rich hues are streaming; But in the blue of pure eyes true the radiance of my life is beaming. © skies of blue! ye fade from view; faint grow the hues that o'er me quiver; But the sure light of sweet eyes bright shines on forever and forever. —Francis Fisher Browne. WHEN TO CRITICISE, When your heart is warm with love, Even for your enemies; When your words come from above, Not from where the venom is; When you see the man entire, Not alone the faults he has; Find a somewhat to admire Underneath the paltry mass— Not till then, if you are wise, Will you dare to criticise. —Amos R. Wells. FITS aerrnnrncrnt: Raetvernercumensatie $f, Send for PEER 82,00 trial bottic and treatise BiH ELAN, bed. aren Strvet, Phliadelphias ha BE OF GOOD CHEER. Ye voices, that arose After the Evening’s close, And whispered to my restless heart repose! Go, breathe it in the ear Of ail who doubt and fear, And say to them, “Be of good cheer!” —Longtellow. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re sults than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. Each Shot Costs $1,500, It is stated that the largest cannon pall ever made weighed 2,000 pounds, nd was manufactured at the Krupp works of Essen, Germany, for Russia, The gun to fire it is naturally also the largest in the world. It is at Cronstadt. Each shot fired from it costs $1,500. Quite a Wealthy Man. “De Gilt made hig fortune very sud- denly.” “You don’t say! Is he rich enough to go in the blue book?” “Blue Book! Why, he is rich enough to be investigated.”—Detroit News, Phadinetion. Rejecting Edward Everett Hale, John D. Long and Samuel A. Eliot, the Unitarian delegates to the Nation. al Federation of Churches, and accept ing tainted money seems like strain- ing at a gnat and swallowing a camel. “You call my verse ‘rot,’” said the would-be contributor, “but I believe you consider my prose not so bad.” “Well, no,” replied the editor; “it isn’t so bad since it might have beep verse.”—Philadelphia Press, It ever we have to board again we are going to look for a place in a home where the housewife feels compl: mented if you eat until your collar hurts. “ All is not figure that dresses thai way. TELEGRAPHIG BRIEFS been appointed superintendent of con- struction of the Panama canal by John F. Stevens, chief engineer. An epidemic of diphtheria in Rich- ‘woods township, Illinois, caused the closing of the Loucks school. Nineteen cases are reported and nearly half of the students are sick. Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian canal commission has so far recov- ered from his recent indisposition as to be able to actively resume his duties. He is now in New York. The vislt of King Alfonso to Ber- Iin is regarded as being without poll- tical significance. He received Chan- ceilor von Buelow in audience, later holding a reception of the diplomatic corps. A resolution favoring tne admission of Chinese of the better classes to this country on the same terms as now apply to travelers from any other country was passed by the New York Chamber of Commerce, Kenyon college students will be charged with tying young Pierson to the railroad track on which he met his Geath at Mount Vernon, Ohio, by the verdict which Coroner Scarbor- ough will render this week, ‘The future king and queen of Nor. way, Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, are expected to arrive in Christiania November 25 or 26, the king taking the oath before the storth- ing immediately after his arrival. Dr. John C. Hancock of Des Moines, Towa, says ex-Speaker David Hender- son’s illness shows no particular change. He has been stightly delir- fous at times, but death is not immi- nent uness a hemorrhage deveops. Chief of Police Collins of Chicago, who has been investigating chop suey restaurants and all night ice cream saloons for several weeks, issued a general order instructing the police to enforce the law in regard to such places, As a result of his conference with Paul Morton, president of the Equita- ble Life Assurance society, President Roosevelt has decided to incorporate in his message to congress a recom- mendation for federal supervision of life insurance. Governor Folk of Missouri in a speech to Obioags at Springfield, ex- pressed in strong words his contempt for the political boss “who dictates nominations for office and controls officials for personal ends after they get into office.” A count of the blows struck in the recent fight at Colma, Calif., between Jimmy Britt and Battling Nelson was made. It was shown that in all there were 1,540 blows struck and of this number Britt landed 975, while the Dane had but 565. About fifty representatives and leading business men of Atlanta, Ga., met and decided that an Industrial exposition of the resources of the south shall be held in Atlanta in 1910. A meeting to form a permanent organ- ization is to be held within a few days. The joint chambers of the Court of Cassation at Paris will take up this month the request for revision of the court-martial which condemned. . Al- fred Dreyfus for the second time. The court can retry the case itself or send it before another military trib- unal. A report that the Allis-Chalmers company had deciled to close down its Chicago mills and shops and re- move them to West Allis, Wis,, near Milwaukee, was denied emphatically at the office of Walter Whiteside, manager of the company, in Milwau- kee, Michael Cassius McDonald, the Chicago millionaire real estate own- er, who once was a gambler, was or dered to pay $20,000 into the estate of the late Captain “Jim” Brown, who was killed in 1892 in the raid made by the police on the old Garfield park race track. Edward Corrigan, chief spirit in the American Turf association and the controlling owner in the city cluo track of New Orleans, says there will be no compromise with the Western Jockey club and that the turf war in the Crescent city will be fought to the bitter end. ‘A demurer in the suit for damages for $3,750,000, brought against Thomas W. Lawson by Louis H. Rahn for the alleged failure to keep a contract to buy mining claims in the vicinity of Urique, Mexico, was filed by Mr. Law- son in the Supreme court at Boston, Mass. The demurer denies any legal obligation on the part of Mr. Lawson. “Bob” Fitzsimmons of New York and “Jack” O’Brien of Philadelphia were matched to battle for nea. weight pugilistic honors before the. Yosemite Athletic club in San Fran- cisco on @ date to be selected between | December 20 and Decmber 31. The Calumet Baking Povrda Hoalth— Economy How the Cooiness Starteg == Reggy—I wondah what mates Mtn, Feweash s0 kind to me ceceniy, a awsks me to walk on the aveaou ent day now. i Perey—Ie's your face that docs ry deah boy. Regey—Do you weally thing Perey—No doubt about ii, 1a jon Its the fashion to be aticndoi ty, bull pup, ge Imow, and she cara afford the real article, don't sox we “Poor lad! Did you break sour iy trying to knock out o home run: “Naw! Tryin’ to knock out de eg pire?” Work. “Anyhow, you can’t deny that Hee ligus is a seltmade man. He wore his way through collese.” “He certaily did. He worked nay every student in the instivitien” Ciiieazo Tritay Every houseneeper shout toy that if they will buy Denares ‘tn Water Starch for laundry is» tot will save not only time, becom y never sticks to the ivon, bit hag each package contains 16 02-—u 44 pound—while all otlier Colo. Woe Starches are put up in % joint nan ages, and the price is tin same a cents. Then again because ieisg Starch is free from all injurious cine Ieals, If your grocer tries to sil yn & 12-02. package it is because te stock on hand which he wishes 4 dispose of before he puts in Delane He knows that Defiance Stare in printed on every package in lace ters and figures “16 ozs.” Denuni le fiance and save muck time und money and the annoyance of the iro tice ing. Defiance never sticks, WHEN Woops TURN Brown. How will it be when the roses fade Out of the garden and out of the glatet When the fresh pink bloom of tis sweetbriar wild, ‘That leans from the dell like the chek of a child, Is changed for dry lips on a thony bush? Then scarlet and carmine the grons will flush, How will it be when the avtus flowers Wither away from their Jeales bowers; When the sunflower and starflowt and goldenrod, Glimmer no more from the frost 80d, And the hillside nooks are emply al cold? ‘Then the forest tops will be gay wit gold, How will it be, when the woods tm brown, Their gold and their crimson al dropped down, And crumbled to dust? Oh, then, as # lay Our ear to earth’s lips we shall beat her say, “In the dark I am seeking new get for my grown’— We will dream of green leaves wit the woods turn brown, —Lucy Larcom OLD FASHIONED FARE Hot Biscuits, Griddle-Cakes, Pies a4 Puditings: The food that made the faties strong is sometimes unfit for the cb dren under the new conditions tit our changing civilization is conststtf bringing in. One of Mr. Bryan's 0°8* bors in the great state of Neva writes: “I was raised in the South, wm hot biscuits, griddlecakes, pies a puddings are eaten at almost eT meal, and by the time I located i Nebraska I found myself a sufet from indigestion and its attenlett ills—distress and pains aiter wes an almost constant headache, ih heavy sleepiness by day and sl“? lessness at night, loss of lest, ini ed memory, ete., etc. “I was rapidly becoming incarsth tated for business, when a rit friend suggested a change in my “#y the abandonment of heavy, rich suf and the use of Grape-Nuts foo). 1 Towed the good advice and shall # ways be thankful that I did © “Whatever may be the experiet of others, the oeueficial effects of o change were apparent in my ‘a 4 most immediately. My stoma which had rejected other food 10" long, took to Grape-Nuts most nay im a day or two my headacht ™ gone, I began to sleep healtfully ca Defore a week was out the *é showed that my lost weight ¥# * ing back. My memory was rest with the renewed vigor that | fel 0 body and mind. For three sears 2 Grape-Nuts food has kept mei Tr, condition, and 1 propose it sball 1@ rest of my days. “And by the way, my 2% 70 2 baby is as fond of Grape-Nuts ** i always insists on having it. It Hi her as healthy and hearty * Jo, make them.” Name given bs Pot, Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Tb reason. e Read the little book “Tee SH ‘Wellville” in pkgs.