The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE VOL 16 NO 48 NOTE LETS. It was said of a distinguished statesman of the North that when he favored any proposition in Congress it was a representative from the South to vote against the measure. We do not endorse this as a principle of right but whenever Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi expresses an opinion or sentiment on the race question we find ourselves unconsciously unwilling to endorse either for knowing his intense hatred for the race we always fear being committed to an injurious policy. There are several different race journals more bitter toward a laramian than this paper has ever been and still they endorse his policy of reducing southern representation as a justification for disfranchising the Negroes in the South. In a recent public address in Jackson, Miss, was a statement to the effect that he would be perfectly willing to give up five of the eight congressmen from Mississippi in exchange for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment, and he declared that if he ever occupied a position in which he had a voice in such matter he would make that, proposition in good faith. He would rather have the amendment repealed than to have sixteen congressmen and four senators from the state of Mississippi. This of course is not the same line of argument as followed by our race journals but since it in the end brings the same result it would make no difference by woich process it was reached. It makes considerable difference in a fellow feeling feeling when he voluntarily surrenders that which belongs to him than when it is taken from him when by main force and he is unable to prevent it. In the first case he has no right to complain and no redress, but in the latter case he can make a courageous effort to r cover what he has lost and in this he will have the sanction of his own conscience and the protection of the law. LOCALLY. Nice furnished rooms at 1512 N. 3rd st. at reasonable rates, Mrs. J. Bolden, proprietress. The Christmas wedding bells are ringing many two hearts will be made one so to speak Mrs. R. Wilson of 1612 N. 8th st. has removed to 519 Neb. av. to her many friends. Mr. Joshua Mathews of the Soldiers Home who spent a few day in the city visiting his daughter Mrs. Sylvia Commador of 431 Oakland ave. Rev. P. R. Suttles will leave Saturday for Springhill, Ks. where he will preach at the church Sunday. There will be a musical entertainment at Mt. Pleasant Baptist church Dec. 23, this entertainment promises to a grand affair A New Restaurant just opened at 1010 N. 3rd St. where you can be served to good meals cooked to your taste at the low figure of 15 cts. a meat. Give them a call. Mrs. M. L. Gray and baby of Omaha, Neb., is in the city and will spend the winter with her mother Mrs. M. J. Murphy of 3.5 Oakland ave. Mr. J. W. Jones of 1507 N. 4th street one of our leading business men and a popular undertaker is quite ill this week it is hoped by his many friends that he will soon regain his health and be able to be at his place of business again. Mr. Jacob Scott was very much surprised last night Dee. 12 in honor of his 38th birthday given by his sister Mrs. Cynthia Scott-Bell. Those that were present are: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jami son, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Estelle, Mr. W. H. Estelle, Mr. William Kidd, Mr. Chas. Fouche, Mrs. Joe Williams, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Mollie Williams & daughter, Mrs. Divers, mr. Chas. Scott, and Miss Stella Edwards of Kansas City, Mo. A. J. Sheridan Plumbing Shop at 440 Minnesota ave. and office at 530 same. has become noted throughout the city for his good work, promptly done and his low prices, having done his office an excellent job in piping, fitting up stoves and lights, we can highly recommend him both as a first class mechanic as well as an honorable man in all his dealings and business: Rev. R. H. Young, pastor of Wesley Chapel at Carthage, Mo., is in the city looking after his property, he also made our office a pleasant visit and paid a cash subscription for this paper. Rev. Young was formerly a resident of this city and when he returned on a visit he has the good pleasure of meeting with a large number of his old friends and acquaintances who are always anxious to see him. We make many visits but recieve none in return. She was at the show—who with. We haven't seen the dressmaker anywhere this week. She will leave presently. He seems to be settling. The barber threatened our lives. Who heard the musician when they were in Leavenworth. Everything was on the splits all last week—will this week change things. Great things happen Christmas. We give no presents unless we recieve an invitation, he said. We seen her spring from the "blind tiger" the other night. She should kiss us all good-bye. Indeed she certainly looks good—but him, Oh! my. Its better to have loved and lost, than to never have lost. The King of the Slums is certainly a good fellow and has many friends. Miss Ella King who is a stenographer and is one of the leading ladies of our city, has accepted a position in Judge I. F. Bradley's office. She should be encouraged by the good people by giving her such work to do that is in the line of her profession. A LIVING OR A LIFE The Difference Between Making and Just Being. There's a mighty big difference between making a living and making a life. Almost anyone can make a living. Not every one can make a life. In making a living one may or may not have to work hard. In making a life—building character—one must do the hardest kind of work. Some men have their living made for them. But their lives cannot be made for them. He whose living is made for him by another usually makes a poor business at making a life. He is not used to working at any thing. The canotest must paddle hard going up stream. He ain drift down stream. So it is easy to drift along making a living and failing to make a life. It is easy to lie and to deceive. It is easy to go with the current. It is easy to give way to temptation. It takes moral fibre to tell the truth and to turn down temptation. Take lying for instance. A man can make himself believe that a lie can be told with good intentions, that there is such a thing as a "lie of necessity." Once a man admits that to himself he is subtly, poisonously deceived. The belief gets into practice. And the practice is a boomerang. It reacts on the man's life. It weaken his character. Somebody has said that even God cannot afford to lie in order that good may come. And what God Almighty cannot do a man had better not try. A man deserves no credit for making a living. He deserves great credit for making a life. The only thing on earth any man has a right to be proud of is his character. It represents something. It stands for striving, deprivation, clenched teeth, will power—the labor of Hercules.—Mil waukee Journal. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County kansas. Peter Seaman, Plainolff. vs. Anna Seaman, Defendant. The above named defendant will hereby take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above hamed court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 1st day of February, 1906 the petition filed against her will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing him from her the said defendant, and for cost of this action. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Piff Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. As is usual with the Colored show—the Smart Set playing in Ka. 111 City, Mo., this week was well attended by the colored people. Thanksgiving dinners were served at all the churches. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, Musical and LITERARY ENTERTAINMENT SATURDAY DEC. 23, 1905. AT THE MOUN7 PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH, Cor. 3rd and Freeman Ave. PROGRAMME Invocation..... Instrumental Solo..... Desdemona Vocal Selection..... Paper..... Instrumental Selection..... Vocal Quartette..... Reading..... Instrumental Duett....M. A. Paper..... Instrumental Selections..... “ “ “ “ ...M Trio..... PATTERSON & GAYDEN -Dealers In- Hard and Soft Coal, Wood. Cesspool Cleaning Cisterns Filled Tel. 215 West. 527 STATE AVE. Collector C. W. Anderson, of New York, is shooting symptoms of developing into national leadership. He is a "hustler," and knows how to take care of his friends, as well as to look after the welfare of the government that trusts to his judgement for recommendations. 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 ot 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. PUBLICATION NOTCIE. In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. To the above named defendant: you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer on or before the 25th day of November A. D. 1905, the petition will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered theron, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and divorcing plaintiff and awarding to her, her maiden name, Sarah Everett, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Plaintiff. Attest; Wm. Needles. Clerk. First Pub. Oct. 13. M. A. Richardson and West. Miss Nellie Richardson. Mr. E. A. Mobiley. Miss Lela Howard. Precilla Terrell Richardson and Lela Howard. Mrs. L. Terrell Miss Jessie Ewing. Miss Desdemona West. s. L. Cunningham Summers. Mrs. L. C. Summers. Miss Jessie Ewing. Miss M. A. Richardson. 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 c 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. Persons desiring to secure suggestive program for William Lloyd Garrison Centennial Exercises, Dec. 10, 1905, can secure same without charge, except for postage, by addressing Mr. Hugh M Browne, Cheney, Pa. This program has been prepared by Hon. Archibald H. Grimko, of Boston, with the help and co-operation of Mr. Garrison's sons, Messrs. William Lloyd, Jr. and Francis J. Garrison. The Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia has been placed under the civil service regulations. All applicants must stand an examination and be certified through the Civil Service Commission. Size of Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was not such a great city as some have supposed, according to H. Valentine Geere, the archaeologist. He says: "The idea of Babylon's vastness and magnificence, to which we have become accustomed, has been practically exploded. Dr. Kodewey told me that the site of the city was larger than that of any other ancient city; but even so, the idea that it could be compared with London and its suburbs, which has been very generally held, is entirely erroneous. In point of fact, it appears that its walls were not more than eight miles in circumference. Moreover, the great palaces are shown to have been poor affairs after all, with wretchedly cramped apartments, and next to no pretensions to architectural style; and the temples were exceedingly crude buildings." But He Has to Walt Nothing would please the small boy more than the privilege of assuming the role of father to the man occasionally. NOTICE In the District Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Albert Whiteside, Plaintiff. vs. No. 19285. Lizzie Whiteside, Defendant. To Lizzie Whiteside, Defendant: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff above named in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for divorce, and that you are required to answer the petition of the plaintiff, filed in the office of the clerk of the District Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas, on or before the 22nd day of January 1963, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment will be taken for the plaintiff, granting him an absolute decree of divorce from you, and for such other relief as the nature of said case may require. DRSSEY GREEN. Atty.for Plaintiff. Attest: Wm. Needles. Clerk. The saddest are these you're now a has been. Respectfully dedicated to the boys who were caught under the ax so vigorously wielded by Mayor Rose. Out of bunch of forty-one slaughtered chickens up to date, six black spanish roosters have been hit. Publication Notice. In the court of Common Pleas af Wyandotte County, Kansas. More info To the above named defendants you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 20th day of January A. D. 1960, the petition fled against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree foreclosing a certain mortgage, given by the defendant Otis Divers, on the following described real property to-wit: The south one half, of the North-west quarter of the South-west quarter of section twenty of township eleven, of range twenty four, in Wyandotte County, Kansas and excluding you and each of you from all interest in said land, and ordering the sale of said land in persuance of said judgement and for costs of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for Pliff. Attest: J. L. Beggs, Clerk PUBLICATION NOTICE. In The Disriet Court of Wyandotte Kansas Katie Gilmore Plaintiff. vs. NO 19025. Jackson Gilmore Defeedant. To the above named defendant. You will hereby take notice that you have been sued in the above named court. by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer the petition filed against you on or before the 30th day of September 1905, the some will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree, desolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing her from said defendant, and awarding to her her maiden name, Katie Fulcher, and for cost of suit Katie Gilmore plaintiff. I. F. Bradley atty. attest Wm. Needles clerk. First Pub Aug. 18th 1905 Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte county State of Kansas. State of Kansas William Regan, Defendant. 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 cases 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. Uueless you answer demand 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. Attest by Clerk of District Court, on 6 day of Oct. 1905. Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D. C. MeCombs, Deputy. 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 Knass 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, seeing forth 2 causes of action No.1. Gross neglect of duty and extreme crucify. 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 pet tion. 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. DEC. 15, 1.05. this Section CALL HERE Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. nine, may, 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. J. F. Bradley, Atty, for Plaintiff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. 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 true and 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 forost of her I. F. Bradley. Atty. for Pflf. 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 def fendant 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 ren- dered 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. The State of Kansas, to William Darki Greeting, you are hereby notified that you have been sued on the grounds of gross neg- lect of duty, extreme cruelty, and adultery, in the above entitlement in the above named Court, Wherein Mary Darki is Plaintiff and William darkis is Defendant, and unless you answer on or before the first dq of July 1905. Plaintiff petition will be taken as true Judgement will be rendered against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking an absol- olute 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 Darki. Chas. W. Frye. attorney 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 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 56 in Wyndgate 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. SEAL. Atts: 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 ix Months,.....65 cents Three Months,.....40. c One Month,.....15.0 Advertiseising 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 Marel rd. 1879." Selects Wife's Tolleta. 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 awakened 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 sports men, used to take most of their game with goshawks and sparrow hawks. The only dogs they used were spaniels, which flushed the game. But now they are taking to dogs, and many good animals are being imported from England. Liquefies Illuminating Gas. A German chemist named Blau has succeeded in liquefying illuminating gg. In that form it gives a good light, which is useful in country houses, railway trains, etc. It costs more than ordinary coal gas, but less than electric light. BEWARE THE EASY SHELTER. Refuge There an Important Step Toward Old Age. Years are but a fool's measure for youth, which is divine; they bring caution more often than wisdom, and a certain belief in the unreality of joy. A man is quickly disillusioned, which commonly means that he has set up his own idea of what things should be by the side of what things are, and sulks forever at the result. He then commits the folly of becoming old, and prefers existence to life. He clambers into one or other of the many shelters that line the way, curls up within and smiles pityingly at the young of all ages pressing on to some end, no matter what, alive to the beauty of the sky and the clouds and the birds and the trees, alive even to the beauty to be seen in one another, breathing deeply of the air of strength, living and loving and beloved, until at last they are made one with nature. But the heart, like the liver, grows torpid without exercise; a gradual decay comes to the man in the shelter, a decay from which he is released, much against his will, by death. There are too many shelters—Hugh de Selin-court. LITTLE POKER AT WASHINGTON. Stories of Big Games Must Be Taken With Allowances It was formerly quite the thing to tell stories about big poker games among the members of Congress. Much was said about the "Senatorial game," "millionaires' game" and the "Congressional game," and always we heard about great bunches of money changing hands, bluffs as high as the banks of the Mississippi, and all sorts of stories. Frequently the senator, representative, diplomat or rich man was named and the winnings or losses told with as much gusto as if they had really hapened. There were some pleasant poker games in days gone by, and occasionally some wonderful plays, but one night, with a few interesting incidents, furnished material for a month of stories. Some of those who figured in the poker stories became annoyed at the notoriety they gained and abandoned poker entirely. For many years now there has not been enough poker in the capital to hang a story on. TRUTH PROVED BY EXAMPLE. storekeeper Certainly Lacked the Go of Energy. William C. Greene, the copper man, was talking to a young man about success. "The secret of success is enterprise energy," said Col. Greene. "To be lazy, stick always in the same old run 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 projecting about Prescott, I farmed a blen in the San Pedro Valley. There was a storekeeper I used to buy my supplies from at that time who was a failure of the first water. This man's lack of enterprise was so great that people used to bring their children from miles around to study him. He was valuable as a horrible example. "There," they would say to the youngsters, 'take warning by Manners. He is a failure.' He has no enterprise. Don't grow up like him. He resembles a tortoise, doesn't he?" "Poor Manners in his sluggishness lid resemble a tortoise a good deal. I sent a boy in to him one day with a pack-mule to get five gallons of molasses. The boy told me afterward that when he entered the store Manners was dozing. The boy coughed and the man awoke and got up. He opened his mouth wide, and stood on tiptoe and stretched out his arms in a vast yawn. Then he said to the boy: "Wotcha want?" "Five gallons of molasses, Mr. Manners," the boy spoke up, sharp and quick. "Wah-h-h-h," 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 Their Main Occupation the Diversions of the Tollet. 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 bossom, my boy, Because you're on top of the wave. For here, I thought that might serve also. To the gold of the credit you crave: The best is not always at surface, my son, And 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 away. But this funny old world often labels as the thing that is good in its day. In fact, I may say that it classifies wrong Some part of the great earthly crop. And I think you will note as you journey along That the foam often gets to the top. We will not mention names if you please, my dear youth. But the foam always But look on the world as you go. See the men whom we place at the sum- mary in the middle. Then gaze on the mortals below, And I give you my word I'll have noth- ing to do. 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 toe. —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 not worship the same Christ?'" WIT 18 NOT APPRECIATED. Glasgow, Scotland, Character Has Fun With Actors. A provincial theater in the east of Scotland is being tormented and amused at intervals by a wit among the gallery gods who insists on keeping up a running commentary on the play. He has enlivened many a dull piece by his droll interpolations, but he has also come pretty near ruining many an intensely dramatic or sentimental situation by the sudden and always apropos qualities of his interruptions. He has a high pitched, penetrating voice, and the town police, who have been on the verge of ejecting him a dozen times, say that he was a Glasgow cab driver who retired with a competence and now takes this way to give play to a wit that was once famous in the great city. On one occasion a dreary melodrama was being presented. The heroine of the play, pursued by the villain, had taken refuge in the house of his lover, who, as the hero of the play, was of course, at variance with his sweetheart's parents. The exigencies of the plot required that the irate father, sword in hand and at the head of his faithful retainers, should track the girl to the gates of the hero's treacherous and disgraceful elopement, enter the room where the scared heroine had been secreted under the table. "Wretch!" cried the furious father, "your life shall answer for this. I demand my child. Where is she." Then, shrill and startling in the expectant silence, from the gallery came the answer: "Unner the taile, ye dinged lout! Dinna ye see her slipper stickin' oot!" The house was in a tumult of merriment in a moment, but it was the "angry father" himself, who ruined the situation, for he burst into immoderate laughter and the curtain fell in the middle of the act, to rise again upon an audience that could not repress its risibles for the rest of the evening. HE WANTED A MORTGAGE. Swede's Experience With a Deed Had Taught Him Caution. Halvor Steenerson, Congressman from Minnesota, tells a story of a Swede who went to that state from one of the Dakotas for the purpose of buying a farm. A land agent acted as guide and informant to the Swede, who eventually found what he wanted. When the time came to make out the necessary papers, the agent asked the Swede what method he preferred to adopt in making payments. "Ay pay all. Ay haf da money," replied the Swede. "Very well, then. I'll make out the deed," said the agent. "No!" suddenly exclaimed the Swede. "Ay no want deed!" 'Why, yes, you do!" rejoined the agent, astonished. "You pay the money and you take a deed for the farm." "No, no!" earnestly asseverated the Swede. "Ay no want deed! Ay had deed oop in Dakoty. Ay pay man da money. He gif me deed. Ay gif heem mortgage. Ay tak land. By en by he get land, he get deed, he haf da money. Dees time Ay want no deed; Ay want mortgage. Ay pay da money; you gif me mortgage!"—The Sunday Magazine. Getting Posted. "I would like to ask you a question If you don't mind," said the old man in the street car to the man on his right. "Go ahead, sir." "I should like to know the meaning of the term 'History repeats itself.' I come across it most every day. How does history repeat itself?" "That's easily answered," said the other. "For instance, if you should ask me what I thought of the weather I should tell you to go and be hanged to you. If we should meet a month hence and you asked me the same question over again my reply would be the same." "I think I see—I think I do," mused the old man, as he leaned back and crossed his feet. "Yes, I guess I understand, and I want to tell you that you are a durned mean jackass of a man and that history is going to repeat itself every blamed time I run across you for the next ten years to come."—Chicago News. A Gentle Thrust. James Jeffrey Roche, the new Consul to Genoa, was talking about a magazine editor. "This man," he said, "rejected some of the best of my early verse. He rejected some of the best verse of my friends. Why he is an editor I can't imagine. He certainly has no critical sense. "I indicated this to him one day. He had announced to me that he was going to get married. He had praised the lady of his choice ardently, declaring her to be a poem. 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. Bv "day, day day," of chickadees And keen, sweet song of winter wren. Of glowing days some magic word Is wretched when the grosbeaks sing; And in the moaning pines is heard The whisper of returning spring This is the birthday of the year, Now far off summer's battles start; And lo, the very cold grows dear. The wildest storm wind warms the above. Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B. I. FUNERAL And Embalmer The Very Best ages For All Purpose. At All The Best Equipe Ambulance For Sick On Short Notice. Charge 431 Minnesota. Ave. WESTERN U. The Great Educat for Kansas and the DEPARTMENTS:—Theological, Co State Industrial. COURSES:—Classical, College, Pre Musical (Instrumental and Voc harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts a ing and Book-Binding, Business writing, Tailoring, Dressmaking Laundering, Farming and Gard ADVANTAGES:—Splend Location ences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION:—For terms, pric write to WILLIAM 7. 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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 Self Cleaner Water that makes the water clear as a Crystal For 50 to 75 cents. Cleaner Water B takes the water clear as a Crystal and I For 50 to 75 cents. that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents. A J SHERIDAN ROOM 8 ota Ave. Kanaas Ci T FORGET, THAT Houstons Grocery 530 Minnesota Ave. Kanaa DONT FORGET, TH J.E. Houstons Grocer 1701 N. 8th St. You can find all the common Grocery Store. Country prod prices and courteous treatm e GIVE HIM YOUR "In the shade of the Old dar song—Why not| you be popular store. L. J. 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Scarlet for Bachelor Maids. When an unmarried woman dies in Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery of the coachman are all scarlet. Cost of London's Paupers. Every year $4,000,000 is spent on the food and clothing of indoor paupers in London. --- Telephone Home W.32 Raymond DIRECTOR. Best of Service, Fine Carri-All Hours. Red White Enameled and wounded ages Reasonable Call At Kansas City, Kansas. UNIVERSITY National Institution the West..... College, Normal, Sub-Normal and preparatory, 'Normal, Sut-Normal, (cal), including piano, organ and and Mechanical), Carpentry, Print-ness Course, Stenography and Type-ing and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Ordining. on, Healthful Climate, Good Influ-ices and all inducements offered, NON, A. M. D. D. DENT. well as uncolored people set in poor light and drink muddy of disease germs. Burner Light cents. and a Water Filter. or as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. ET, THAT AT Grocery Store odities kept in a first-class reduce 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. JT BERTS TONSORIAL PARLOR, All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date. 438 MINESOTA AVENUE. Woman Mountain Climber Woman Mountain Climber. By far the most expert woman mountaineer in the world is Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman. In the Himalayas she has climbed to an altitude of 22,568 feet. On the same occasion her husband broke the world's record for men by 311 feet, by climbing 28,194 feet up a mountain 24,479 feet high. Mrs. Workman is of medium height, and there is nothing in her appearance to suggest the strength she has displayed in some of her wonder- ROOM 8 KANSAS. BOOKS IN BRITISH MUSEUM Students Crowd Its Reading Room and Investigate Various Subjects. In the reading room of the British museum the desks are crowded with students all day long, and in addition to the books of reference some 20,000 in number, which fill the open shelves of the room, from 3,000 to 4,000 volumes are given out every day. Theology in a 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 setfied that we are to run him for the Legislature next fall." Value of Study of Greek President Hadley of Yale has lately declared that the old school college and university instructors who set great store upon Greek as a means of mental discipline and development were half right and half wrong. They were right, he says, in holding that hard work and precision of thought were more important by far than immediate utility or the student's natural interest in the subject studied. But they were wrong, President Hadley maintains, in supposing that Greek was necessarily more effective than other subjects of study can be made. Amid her quiet kit of yesterday, Hasid's mouth is **858** Has vanished quite away. Beneath the moon to night —Jessie Storrs Ferris, in Everybody Magazine. Sorrow Of It. "More trouble," sighed McNutty, putting on his coat. "If it ain't one thing it's another." "Not another lockout, I hope," said the partner of his sorrows. 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 inter- est the audiences," remarked one of the committee to the lecturer. the committee to the task, "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 there." Judge of Old Dr. SANUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Milk Seed - Rockwell Salve - Ames Seed - Harpening - Dr. Carbonate Salve - Warty Seed - Carpel Seed - Waterproof Phosphor Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Plattier. NEW YORK. 48 months old 35 Doses - 35 CINIS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Glipte to a dealer who won't Guarantee It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Diener, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. PILES NO MONEY TILL DRS. THORNTON & MINOR PILES - NO MONEY TILL CURED - SEND FOR FREE ISSUES. TREATISE ON BESTAL PUSSLE, WITH NAMES OF PRODUCTS MEN CURED DRS. THORNTON & MINOR - 1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRANCH OF FICE AT ST. LOUIS) come to Texas! Get away from the cold, damp, wintery weather here and find health and pleasure in the Winter Play-grounds of Texas. The rest, the perfect sunshine winter weather and the exhilarating air will benefit you. Tourist tickets are now on sale daily to the following points: Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, Beaumont, Galveston, San Antonio, Rockport, Corpus Christi, Brownsville and El Paso, Texas, with a final limit of June 1st, 1906. Ask your nearest railroad agent for rates. Rugs MADE FROM YOUR Old Carpets Guaranteed to wear 10 years. Kansas City Rug Co., Kansas City, Mo. Afflicted with wore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water W.N.U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 50, 1905 DEFIANCE Cold Water Starch More Converts Every Year Every day in every year that comes, more housewives are giving up their exhorbitant priced Baking Powders and turning to K C, the honest and reliable, which has stood so well the test of years. They are finding out that K C BAKING POWDER costs one-third the price of powder anywhere near K C quality, and makes better, purer, more healthful baking. 25 ounces for 25c. Send postal for "Book of Presents." JAQUES MFG. CO. Chicago, IL. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion. Cheerful and Rest. Contains neither Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation. Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS of SLEEP. PRICE. 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTIGRIPINE THIS NO EQUAL FOR HEATING For Health and Recreation Come to Texas! The exceptionally low rates, the excellent train service and the ity, ity, make it a journey of but small cost and not of direness length. We're a helpful little pamphlet, "Winter Trips," which I know will aid you in planning a trip. I'll gladly send it on request. Address W. S. ST. GEORGE General Passenger and Ticket Agent Box 911a ST. LOUIS, MO CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hitchens. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA A man who advertises his automobile for sale may be broke, or he may merely have arrived at a same desire not to be. 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 ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. The pessimist is an excuse for a man who is disappointed if things don't go wrong and who worries most at the noise people make when they shout for joy. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, curse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all Druggists. 25c. Sample FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. It is approaching the season when the wise restaurant patron allows the scrambled egg to pass by on the other side. Lewis' Single Binder straight 56 cigar is good quality all the time. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. And between an unloaded gun and a blind and crippled mule take chances with the latter. 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. Few men have to work much over time to be able to make fools of them sedves. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Eddie Kline, 9 years old, was ground to death by a Big Four train at Shelbyville, Ind. Henry Hoomes, formerly musical instructor of Queen Alexandra of England is dead. He was 60 years of age. Bert Stewart, a farmer, and a young woman cousin were drowned while skating on Bishop's lake at Brington, Mich. The Chicago fund for relief of the Jews in Russia was swelled to $108,000. It is expected that the subscription list will reach the $110,000 mark. In the Carroll county Circuit court at Sterling, Ill., a jury assessed John L. Bowman $139 for stealing a kiss from Mrs. Mille Rahn. She sued for $5,000. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., helped his Sunday school class sing "Everybody Works but Father" at its annual dinner at New York. Noah Waynight of Lexington, Ill. aged 49 years, was found dead in a bath tub, having been killed by fumes from a gas stove. The Rev. Father Patrick Cronin, 71 yea. 1, for many years editor of the Ca. Union and Times, was found dead in bed of heart failure. J. W. Crosher, a Baptist minister, was taken suddenly ill while holding services at New hope church, four miles southwest of Pana, Ill., and died shortly afterward. The liberal ministers composing the new cabinet received their seals of ofice and formany were installed at a meeting of the privy council in Buckingham palace in London. George Holzhammer, known through out the northwest as the "ice king," is dead in La Crosse, Wis. For hall a century he had laid out various ice routes for travel from La Crosse. The embezzlement case against L. B. Cutting of Chicago, former president of the Oto bank at Oto, Iowa was dismissed at Sioux City at the request of the prosecuting attorney. At an inquest in Oklahoma City, Ok., over the body of George Wilbers, who was shot and killed at Luther, S. A. Allen was held for further investigation, while Otis Neil and Oscar Harmon were released. At the reorganization of the Oklahoma and Irdian territory division of the Texas cotton seed crushers in Oklahoma City, Ok., George Dashner of Ardmore was elected president and F. A. Morris of Ada secretary. The decrease in the attendance at the public school of Cuba has become so great in the last three months that the department of public instruction issued a circular urging the school board to enforce obligatory attendance. Dr. Felix Alder, addressing the American Academy of Political and Social Science at Philadelphia, declared that the "real menace of child labor comes from the moral obliquity of a greater of prosperity." The grand jury at wantona, Minn., returned an indictment against Miss Wilda Johnson for the alleged attempted poisoning of the family of J. L. Johnson. The motive is supposed to have been jealousy. Insurance policies on the life of Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting former president of the First National bank at Milwaukee, Wis., will be turned over to that institution on the payment of $59,825.79 by order of Referee Maxwell. Edward C. Ryan, who was elected as the delegate of the American Society of the Isle of Pines to petition congress to annex the Isle of Pines to the United States, has arrived in New York from Havana. Mr. Ryan said he believed 90 per cent of the island's population favored annexation. It was practically decided at a meeting in of a number of the largest wholesellers of the western news paper mills in Chicago to boost the price of that material $4 a ton. This will bring the average price of that class of paper, which is now selling at $38 a ton, up to $42. Andrew D. White, former American ambassador at Berlin, in an address at a smoker offered him by the Cornell Alumni association at Washington, advocated a national university in that city. He suggested among other things that such on institution would tend to more strongly unite north and south because of the presence there of prominent people of both sections. The schooner Florencia, while on its voyage from Bluefields, Nicaragua, to Port Limon, Costa Rica, was wrecked. Among those lost were Frederick M. H. Wood, British consul at Port Limon; two Americans, John Tibant and W. M. Rather, the latter from Texas, and three sailors. One passenger and two sailors were rescued. Mme. Calve's illness, which pre-vented her singing in Chicago, continues and her tour has been abandoned temporarily. She was unable to appear at Minneapolis, Minn., and a large audience was disappointed. The management announced the singer's next appearance probably will be in Chicago in January. Peter Nelson, a farmer from Mendota, Ill., was robbed of $52 in Chicago. Frank Phalen, 17 years old, was captured and identified by Nelson. A petition from ex-Queen Lilluokalain asking for the payment of $10,000,000 to her has presented to the senate by Vice President Rairbanks. The application of Lewis C. Burnes, James N. Burns, John A. Johnston, John D. Richardson and James H. McCord to organize the Burnes National bank of St. Joseph, Mo., with $200,000 capital, has been approved by the comprotiler of the currency. A PIGSKIN CAMEO. Upon the turf in flendish glee, As if they'd kick their toes off, They gouge, and not infrequently, An eye out or a nose off. And as they scamble, scoot or scud, All mangle, banged and battered And fly in savage cohorts, mud We from their rough and tumble whiz, While one another goring. Learn why the wayback college is More scored against than scoring. —Puck. Still Affectionate. "Your husband was very loving before you were married, was he not?" "He is yet." "Oh, indeed?" "Yes;" I caught him kissing my maid just this morning."—Houston Post. DEFINED. "What is a hypocrit?" you ask, And I can only say A hypocrit, my child, is one Who doesn't believe our way. SURE SIGNS. Gray mists rise at the dawning Of days that late were clear; Down comes the office awning; Yes, winter's almost here. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Delance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. Wigg—"Old Getrox he contribu- uter $11,000 to charity last year." Wagg—"Yes; $1,000 as a gift and $10, 000 to advertise it." I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind. Feb. 15, 1900. Of course, the statement "The McCurdys are out" does not mean that the family is out anything financially. —Denver Republican Ask Your Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE recently and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not be without it now."—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J. "Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Nowhere to Go "Don't you know better than to come home at this time of night?" "But, m'dear, whatsh feller t'do when saloonsh close?"—Houston Post. 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. A steam derrick is one of the features in a new realistic drama. This may be another effort to elevate the stage. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? CAUTION. There are so many burglaries Who come around and creep Into houses at night, 'tis well To look before you sleep. A GUARANTEED CURE, FOR FILES. Icching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles, Drug- gister are authorized to refund money if PAZO ONTMENT fails to cure in to 14 days. 30c. Some men refuse to work because they are afraid they may acquire the habit. CHRISTMAS 5c. in stamps for elegant, delightful, last Christmas present for sweetheart, sister, brother, father, mother. $50 in 20 days. Julia Lingley Watkins, Chicago. No, Alonzo, a bald head isn't necessarily an emblem of wisdom. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wrist colic. 20c a bottle. Poets are born because their ancestors escaped hanging. A Valuable Agent. A Valuable Agent. The glycerine employed in Dr. Pierce's medicines greatly enhances the medicinal properties which it extracts and adds to the healing power than alcohol would. It also possesses the properties of its own, being a valuable demulcent, nutritive, antiseptic and antiferment. It adds greatly to the efficacy of Black Cherrybark, Golden Seal Stone, Stone Root and other substances contained in "Golden Medical Discovery" subduing chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial, throat and lung affections, for all of which these agents are recom- standard medical authorities. In all cases, there is a wasting away of flesh, loss of muscle, weak stomach, as in the early stages of consumption, there can be no doubt that glycerine acts as a valuable nutritive and aids the Golden Seal root. Stone root, Queen's root and Black Cherrybark in promoting digestion and building up the flesh and strength, controlling the cough and burning about a healthy condition of the whisker course, it must not be expected to work miraculously, not cure consumption except in its earlier stages. It will cure very severe, obstinate, chronic coughs, bronchial and laryngeal troubles, and chronic sore throat with hoarseness. In acute coughs it is not so effective. It is in the lingering ache, those long standing, even when accompanied by bleeding from lungs, that it has performed most marvelous calls. Send for and read a little book of extracts, treating of the properties and uses of the several medicinal roots that enter into Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and learn why this medicine has such a wide range of application in the cure of diseases. It is written address to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. The Dr. R. V. contains no alcohol or harmful habit forming drug. Ingredients all printed on each bottle wrapper in plain English. Sick people, especially those suffering from diseases of long standing, are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, free. All correspondence is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound copy. LYDIA E. PINKHAM A BRIEF SKETCH OF HER LIFE How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73" Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. THE STORY READS LIKE A ROMANCE Yours for Health Dyda & Bingham This remarkable woman, whose malden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819, coming from a good old Quaker family. For many years she taught school, and during her career as a teacher she became known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, she was possessed with a wonderfully sympathetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old-fashioned days few drugs were used in medicines; people relied upon nature's remedies, roots and herbs, which are to-day recognized as more potent and efficacious in controlling diseases than any combination of drugs. Mrs. Pinkham from her youth took a deep interest in medicine, in botany—the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics, and power over disease; she believed that as nature soountfully provides food for the body so she also provides medicine for the ills and weaknesses of the body, in the roots and herbs of the field, and as a wife, mother and sympathetic friend, she often made use of her knowledge of roots and herbs in preparing medicines for her family and friends. Knowing of so much suffering among her sex, after much study and research, Mrs. Pinkham believed that the diseases of women have a common cause, and she set to work to find a common remedy—not at that time as a source of profit, but simply that she might aid the suffering. How her efforts have been rewarded the women of the world know to-day. In 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity was too much for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from this fearful depression, so when the Centennial year dawned it found their property swept away. At this point the history of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound commences: The three sons and daughter, with their mother, combined forces to restore the family fortune. They resolved to give to the world the vegetable compound that Mrs. Pinkham It is wrong for you to Bowel and Stomach Trouble natural and harmless cure— Have you noticed the large number Fever, Malarial Fever, Appendicitis, Skin Disease, Piles, Female Troubles, are the result of Constipation. There is a remedy now to be had that A full sized bottle is furnished you f. Remember we give only one bottle supply you with Mull's Grape Tonic send address of the druggist and we will mail Try all the druggists before you write you for this coupon is three times as large The following coupon will not be one piece including the Patient's coupon or Jobber's coupon, they must not be sep CUT OUT THIS COUPON, SIGN AND T 187-12165 AUTHORIZED TO GIVE YOU I hereby certify that I have never taken M free bottle, that I will not sell or give it away Bowel and Stomach Trouble as soon as Tobia It is wrong for you to suffer from Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Trouble when there is a positive, natural and harmless cure—MULL'S GRAPE TONIC. Have you noticed the large number of Typhoid Fever cases lately? Typhoid Fever, Malarial Fever, Appendicitis, Impure Blood, Pimples, Sick Headache, Skin Disease, Piles, Female Troubles, Stomach Troubles, Heart Troubles, etc., are the result of Constitution. There is a remedy now to be had that cures these troubles absolutely. A full sized bottle is furnished you free to prove it. Remember we give only one bottle to each family. If your druggist fails to supply you with Mull's Grape Tonic send us this coupon together with name and address of the druggist and we will mail you a bottle. Try all the druggists before you write us as the bottle he is authorized to give you for this coupon is three times as large as the one we are allowed to send by mail. The following coupon will not be honored unless it is cut out of the paper in one piece including the Patient's coupon, Retail Druggist a coupon and Wholesale or Jobber's coupon, they must not be separated. CUT OUT THIS COUPON, SIGN AND TAKE IT TO YOUR DRUGGIST WHO IS 187-12168 AUTHORIZED TO GIVE YOU A FREE 35c. BOTTLE FOR IT. I hereby certify that I have never taken Mull's Grape Tonic, that I will apply for only one free bottle, that I will not sell or give it away and that I will take it myself for Constipation. Bowel and Stomach Trouble as soon as I obtain it. Patient sign your name here very plainly. Write your full add NONE BUT THE RETAIL D TO THE RETAIL DRUGGIST: This address on the line below. Send this full cou remedy, and he will give you 35 cents in case which you send him. All jobbers have the 35 nearly 6 times the 35c size and 3 times the 50c NONE BUT THE RETAIL DRUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: TO THE RETAIL DRUGGIST: This coupon void unless you sign your name and address on the line below. Send this full coupon to the jobber of whom you purchased this remedy, and he will give you 35 cents in cash or trade for each coupon, properly signed, which you send him. All jobbers have the 35c, 50c and $1.00 sizes. The $1.00 bottle contains nearly 6 times the 35c size and 3 times the 50c size. Retail Druggist, sign your name here. Your address here. NO ONE BUT THE WHOLESALE DRUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: TO THE JOBBER: You will please accept this coupon if the same is properly signed, and give to the retailer buying the remedy from you. 35 cents in cash or trade for same. This coupon void unless you sign your firm name and address. Forward all coupons to us, and we will remit you 35 cents for each coupon properly signed by the consumer, retailer and yourself. Jobber, sign your name here. Address here. Cut out the above three coupons in one piece. Do not separate. NO ONE BUT THE WHOLESALE DRUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: TO THE JOBBER: You will please accept this coupon if the same is properly signed, and give to the retailer buying the remedies from you. 30 cents in cash or trade for same. This coupon void unless you sign your firm name and address. Forward all coupons to us, and we will remit you 30 cents for each coupon properly signed by the consumer, retailer and yourself. Jobber, sign your name here. had so often made from roots and herbs for such of her women neighbors and friends who were sick and ailing. Its success in those cases had been wonderful—its fame had spread, and calls were coaxing from miles around for this efficacious vegetable compound. They had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then came the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away free. They hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medicine, now called Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these pamphlets were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the demand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts, the family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising on a small scale, and from time the growth and success of the enterprise was assured, until to-day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words everywhere, and thousands of pounds of roots and herbs are used annually in making this great remedy for woman's ills. Although Lydia E. Pinkham passed to her reward some years ago, the perpetuation of her great work was guarded by her foresight. During her long and eventful experience she was ever methodical in her work and was careful to preserve a record of every case that came to her attention. The case of every slick woman who applied to her for advice —and there were thousands—received careful study, and the details, including symptoms, treatment and results, were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collaboration of information regarding the treatment of women's flak skin, as authenticity and accuracy, can hardly be equaled in any library in the world. Another act of foresight on the part of Lydia E. Pinkham was to see that some one of her family was trained to carry on her work, and with that end in five years before her death, had as her child assistant her daughter-in-law, the present Pinkham. Therefore, under the guidance and careful training of Lydia E. Pinkham, and a vast experience of her own, covering twenty-five years, the present Mrs. Pinkham is exceptionally well equipped to advise sick women, which she is always glad to do free of charge. The record of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made of simple herbs and roots, is a proud and peerless one. It is a record of constant conquest over the obstinate lilies of women, greater than that of any other one medicine of its kind in the world, and will ever stand as a monument to that noble woman whose name its bears. to suffer from Constipation, be when there is a positive, MULL'S GRAPE TONIC. Of Typhoid Fever cases lately? Typhoid purge Blood, Pimples, Sick Headache, Biotomach Troubles, Heart Troubles, etc., cures these troubles absolutely. to prove it. to each family. If your druggist fails to us this coupon together with name and you a bottle. us as the bottle he is authorized to give as the one we are allowed to send by mail. nored unless it is cut out of the paper in Retail Druggist's coupon and Wholesale rated. TAKE IT TO YOUR DRUGGIST WHO IS A FREE 35c. BOTTLE FOR IT. Mull's Grape Tonic, that I will apply for only one and that I will take it myself for Constipation. in it. RUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: coupon void unless you sign your name and on to the jobber of whom you purchased this or trade for each coupon, properly signed. .50c and $1.00 sizes. The $1.00 bottle contains size. BE DRUGGIST MUST SIGN THIS: not this coupon if the same is properly signed, so you, 35 cents in cash or trade for same. This and address. Forward all coupons to us, and we signed by the consumer, retailer and yourself. your name here. here. in one piece. Do not separate. Your address here. The Swell Christmas Dinner on the Yukon --- SHADOWS Lonely over the dying ember I the past recall, And remember in December April buds and August skies, As the shadows fall and rise, As the shadows rise and fall. In the winter of '93 at a brand new mining camp on the Yukon there was a select society. One dark afternoon just before Christmas, with the mercury standing below the zero mark at some 20 odd, and a bitter wind sweeping down the river, the host blew into the cozy office of the agent. "I want you to do two things for me." "All right," said the agent, with ready courtesy, "what do you lack." "In the first place," said the host, "I want you to take Christmas dinner with me." "That's easy," said the agent. "Take the whole house if you want it." "No, I don't quite want the house," said the host, "but I want that little Frenchman, your cook—what's his name?" "Louis is yours," said the agent. "And I want a whole lot of other things," said the host, with a sigh. "I'm afraid I'm up against it hard." "What's the game?" said the agent. "Well, you see, it's this way," said the host. "I've invited the governor and his son, and the general and his wife, and you and I make up the party. Further, I have asked each guest to choose some dish he would like for dinner, and, however difficult, I have agreed to provide it." "Well, I admire your nerve," said the agent, "you must imagine that San Francisco or New Orleans is just around the next bend in the river. Do you know what the word Yukon means?" "No," said the host, despondently. "It means, 'nothing to eat.'" "Before we go any further," said the host, entirely ignoring the agent's triumph, "what is yours?" "Rum omelet," said the agent, without a moment's resitation. "Hum!" mused the host, "rum, of course, but that means fresh eggs, with nothing but scrambled eggs in the town. Canned eggs won't omelet; I've tried 'em.' "Blackie's got a hen," suggested the agent, "she roosts on the foot of his bed to keep from freezing to death." "Yes, I know," said the host, "but she laid her last egg on the steamer just before it reached town. No hope at all there." "He's up against the real thing now," sang the agent with delight. "By the way, what did the others choose?" "To begin with the easiest, the governor's son wants some dish cooked in the French fashion." "Why not let Louis make a caribou saute?" suggested the agent. "Just the thing." "What next?" "The general's wife wants fresh potatoes. No evaporated or granulated spuds go." "Got any?" asked the host anxiously. "Frozen ones," said the agent. "Will they do boiled?" "No, mashed," said the agent, "whip 'em up with a little butter and canned cream and then brown 'em in the oven." "Bully," said the host, lapsing into the vernacular of the west and rubbing his hands together. "What does the governor want?" asked the agent. "Marrow on toast," said the host dubiously. "Holy smoke!" exclaimed the agent. "Not a cow brute this side of Dawson, and that is 775¼ miles up the Yukon. Better start an airship for Seattle at once. There are two horses in town, you might buy one and—hold on a minute," as the dawn of an idea appeared in his eyes, "wait till I go out and look on the roof of the cabin." He stepped out of the door and returned in a few moments looking mysteriously triumphant. "What's on the roof of your old cabin?" said the host skeptically. The agent tiptoed dramatically up to him, put his hand to his mouth and said in a loud stage whisper, "Moose shanks." "What?" said the host "Frozen moose bones full of marrow," explained the agent, beaming. "You see I have had several moose hams this fall, and as fast as the meat was cut off Louis threw them on the roof of the cabin, intending to make soup for the dogs. Now what will be the dogs' loss will be the governor's gain, for those bones are full of marrow, everyone of them." "Shake," said the host as he extended his right hand. "Now let's see," said the agent musing. "what's next? O yes, the general. Bet you the drinks I know what he wants. He wants booze." "You're not so much," said the host, laughing. "I guessed that myself. When I asked him, he put the whole proposition in as few words as possible; all he said was, 'lashin's o' champagne.'" "That means plenty, I suppose," said the agent. "Of course; got any?" "I've some extra dry, $75 a case." replied the agent in his most business-like tone. "Send up two cases." "Now," said the host briskly, "these matters being settled, how about eggs?" "There are the sulicide's eggs," murmured the agent. "What," said the host incredulously, "did that man who hanged himself with a wire from a beam in his cabin have fresh eggs?" "Why, didn't you know," said the agent with surprise, "it was brooding on 18,000 eggs that caused him to commit suicide. He thought they were all bad, you see." "But they weren't all bad, only he didn't find it out until after he was dead," protested the agent with a grin. "I was a member of the coroner's jury that sat on the case, and when we investigated the effects of deceased we found sixteen barrels of fresh eggs worth $2 a dozen. "Let me tell you what to do when you go to buy your eggs," continued the agent, not noticing the interruption. "Take a pocketful of money, a cold chisel and a hammer." "What's all that for?" asked the host with a show of interest. "Well, you see the eggs are in lard, like holes in a cheese, and the lard is frozen solid as a rock. The probate court has charge of the matter and they sell the eggs for $2 a dozen in the lard, purchaser's risk. You have to get 'em out yourself. If you get six whole eggs out of a dozen you are a dandy. They won't let you use a steam thawer because it would boll all the eggs. I want to tell you that the probate court of this town is strictly on to its job. "Is there anything else that you want that you don't see?" "Yes," replied the host. "I want roses. They are my choice. But in latitude 64 degrees north, and in the dead of an Arctic winter, one might as well wish for a chunk of Polaris." "I O don't know," said the agent encouragingly, "how would a dozen 'jacks' and a dozen American beauties do, with a few sprays of apple blossoms to lay o₁₄ the table?" "What's the use of trying to be funny," said the host in an injured tone. "It's not in the least becoming." The agent made no reply to this but quietly stepped into the other room and returned presently with a birchbark vase in each hand. One contained a large bunch of magnificent jacqueminots and the other an equally handsome lot of American beauties. "Well, I'll be—jiggered," said the host, catching himself just in time, "you could knock me down with a feather." "That's what they are," said the agent complacently. "Spray a little perfume on 'em and after about two of the general's 'lashin's' nobody could tell 'em," said the agent. "Where did you get them?" asked the host with interest. "O," said the agent, who was inclined to be poetical, "they fluttered down from the wings of Aurora!" "Fluttered down from the wings of geese," replied the host, who was not in the least so. "Well, they are goose feathers," admitted the agent reluctantly, "but you needn't be so disgustingly matter of fact about it. Besides I've got the apple blossoms unstairs in the store." "I must be getting home," said the host, worming himself awkwardly into his squirrel skin parkie. "Dinner at 6 o'clock sharp, and don't forget to send up all the stuff, including Louis, the marrow bones and the roses. Good night," and off he went.—Samuel Hubbard, Jr., in Sunset Magazine. Christmas Table Charades. Christmas Table Charades. These charades may be "acted" with the ordinary utensils to be found in kitchen or dining-room, using the dinner table for the stage. Put an orange seed at the left side of a chair and they will represent Sedan Chair (seed and chair). Put the charred head of a match to the left of a raisin stone and you have Coal Pit. Lay four toothpicks, an oyster, a napkin ring and several knives in a row. They will represent Four Roystering Blades (four oyster ring blades). The cayenne pepper castor alongside of a watch stands for A Hot Time. A watch and a tray stand for Watch and Wait. A bit of cheese laid on a chair seat signifies The Seat of the Mighty (mitie). Open the door and lay a china plate in the threshold. It means The Open Door for China. Hundreds of funny combinations can be made, and everybody can take a hand at presenting a problem. First English Christmas Tree The Christmas tree was first heared of in England about 1444. A tree was then set up in the middle of a pavement and decked with ivy as well as with other green leaves. From this it was finally taken into the home, decorated with candles, and eventually with anything which glistened and enhanced its brightness. Eating Up the Sheep. The most remarkable agricultural movement of our times is said to be that "the world is eating up its sheep." In Germany the flocks have decreased over 60 per cent since 1873, and this is only an extreme instance of what is going on elsewhere. The increasing price of beef is given as one reason of the eating up of the sheep, the dread of turberculosis is the other. A big, strong man may make money, but a little, quiet woman can make him hand it over. Moody's Ruse. Dwight L. Moody once called on a minsister brother in an Eastern town, desiring to spend the next day, Sunday, with him. The minister was agreeable but said that he was ashamed to ask Moody to preach "Why" asked Mr. Moody. "Well," was the reply, "our people have got into such a habit of going out before the close of the meeting that it would be an imposition on a stranger." "I will stop and preach." said Boody. When Sunday arrived Mr. Moody opened the meeting and then encouragingly said: "My hearers, I am going to speak to two sorts today, the sinners first, then the saints." After earnestly addressing the supposed sinners he said that they could now take their hats and go. But the whole congregation waited and heard him to the end. Suited for Either "My son doesn't know enough to get a job at anything." "Start him in some business then." "Which do you think would be the better, an intelligence office or a correspondence school?"—Courier Journal. Tennessee Praise Dayton, Tenn. Dec. 11th (Special) —Among many prominent residents to praise Dodd's Kidney Pills is Mr. N. R. Roberts of this place. He tells of what they have done for him, and his words will go deep into the hearts of all who are suffering in the same way. He says: "I was a martyr to Kidney Trouble, but Dodd's Kidney Pills completely cured me. I shall always keep them on hand in case there should be any return of the old trouble, but I am thankful to say they did their work so well there has not been the slightest sign of my old complaint coming back. The pain in my back used to be terrible. If I got down I had a hard job to get straight again. But my back is like a new one now and I can stoop as much as I please. I don't believe there ever was any medicine half so good as Dodd's Kidney Pills." Gibralter is Crumbling. The public is not aware that the great rock of Gibraltar is tumbling down—that its crumbling, rotting masses must be continually bound together with huge patches of masonary and cement. Yet they who sail past Gibraltar cannot fail to notice on the eastern slope of the fortress enormous silver-colored patches gleaming in the sun. These patches in some cases, thirty or forty feet or more, are the proof of Gibraltar's disintegration. Of thick, strong cement, they keep huge spurs of the cliff's side from tumbling into the blue sea. Sea captains, cruising in the Mediterranean, say that Gibraltar has been rotting and crumbling for many years, but that of late the disintegration has gone on at a faster rate than heretofore. They say that the stone forming this imposing cliff is rotten stone, and that in a little while the phrase, "the strength of Gibraltar," will be meaningless.—Chicago Chronicle. Ideal and Real. Tess—I remember May Brightley used to consider Jack Goodley ideal. Jess—O! all that's changed now. Tess—Ah! another idol shartered, eh? Jess—Not at all. They're married now and May says he's the "real thing."—Philadelphia Press. A BRAIN WORKER. Must Have the Kind of Food That Nourishes Brain. "I am a literary man whose nervous energy is a great part of my stock in trade, and ordinarily I have little patience with breakfast foods and the extravagant clafs made of them. But I cannot withhold my acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to Grape-Nuts food. "I discovered long ago that the very bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a clear head, the power of sustained, accurate thinking. I always felt heavy and sluggish in mind as well as body after eating the ordinary meal, which diverted the blood from the brau to the digestive apparatus. "I tried foods easy of digestion, but found them usually deficient in nutriment. I experimented with many breakfast foods and they, too, proved unsatisfactory, till I reached Grape-Nuts. And then the problem was solved. "Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfectly from the beginning, satisfying my hunger and supplying the nutriment that so many other prepared foods lack. "I had not been using it very long before I found that I was turning out an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has demonstrated to my entire satisfaction that Grape-Nuts food contains all the elements needed by the brain and nervous system of the hard working public writer." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellness" in pkgs AILING WOMEN. Keep the Kidneys Well and the Kidneys Will Keep You Well. Keys Will Keep You Well. Sick, suffering, languid women are learning the true cause of bad backs and how to cure them. Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck Texas, says: "Back aches hurt me so I could hardly stand Spells of dizziness and sick headaches were frequent and the action of the kidneys was frighten and how to cure them. Mrs. W. G. Davis of Groesbeck Texas, says: "Back aches hurt me so I could hardly stand. Spells of dizziness and sick headaches were frequent and the action of the kidneys was irregular. Soon after I began taking Doan's Kidney Fills I passed several gravel stones. I got well and the trouble has not returned. My back is good and strong and my general health better." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Motorist Used Trumpet. A motorist in Bavaria has had to appear before the authorities at Munch on the ground that he had used a trumpet to give warning as his approach, instead of the more usual horn, blown by rubber 'pear.' He argued that, though the law stated that a horn was necessary, it did not define how the horn was to be blown. After a long discussion he was acquitted. THE EARNING CAPACITY. happiness, and success, of a man is greatly affected by the health of the woman of his household, the wife especially. Viavl, used in the privacy of the home cures disease of woman permanently, and enables her to fill her place in church, society and the home as wife and mother. Sixty-four page book on Health, explaining fully, mailed free. Viavl Co., Century Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Late in "Coming To." "Truth crushed to the ground, will rise again," is a consoling axiom, but the general tendency has been for it to remain crushed until after a fellow has paid all the costs and is gathered to his fathers—Denver Times. AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR. Covered Head, Neck and Shoulders Suffered Agony for Twenty-five Years Until Cured by Cuticura. "For twenty-five years I suffered agony from a terrible humor, completely covering my head, neck and shoulders, discharging matter of such offensiveness to sight and smell that I became an object of dread. I consulted the most able doctors far and near, to no avail. Then I got Cuticura, and in a surprisingly short time I was completely cured. For this I thank Cuticura, and advise all those suffering from skin humors to get it and end their misery at once. S. P. Keyes, 149 Congress Street, Boston, Mass." Trouble Coming. Adam had come out of the deep slumber and noticed the absence of a rib. "Well," he soliloquized, "now I have a bone of contention. But he started resolutely for the club. Cures Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Blood Poison, Great Blood Purifier Free If your blood is impure, thin, disseased, hot or full of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and lumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood or skin disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B.) according to directions. Soon all sores heal, aches and pains stop, the blood is made pure and rich, leaving the skin free from every eruption, and giving the rich glow of perfect health to the skin. At the same time, B. B. Improves the digestion, cures dyspepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just the medicine for old people, as it gives them new, vigorous blood. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with directions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. B. B. is especially advised for chronic, deep-seated cases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures after all else falls. Quanity. Diggs—Swiggs seems to have an unlimited capacity for champagne. He can get away with any given quantity. Biggs—Any given quantity? Diggs—That's what I said, I never knew him to pay for any.—Chicago News. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 68. LUCAS COUNTY. FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is senior partner of the business in the City of Toledo, County and State Moresaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH CURE HERM. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. W. GLEASON, NATURAL NOTARY. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts as a barrier to excessive surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, for construction. Take Hall's Cure, 500 W. 12th St. Half the time when a man thinks he is having fun it is only because he is forgetting his misery. A word of cheer and sympathy spoken to those in trouble is worth far more than all the tears you may drop, and all the flowers you may spread on the casket of the dead. The dead has no appreciation of your tears or flowers. Give these to the living before it's too late.—Spalding, Neb., Sentinel. Walking is said to be an excellent exercise for those who are employed mentally. It also seems an excellent exercise for men who want to get home from the race track. SOME CHRISTMAS POEMS Too Late! *Twas Christmas Eve, and bitter cold* The snow was falling fast; The icy branches creaked and moaned And shivered in the cold. He trudged along the frozen road, A lad with yellow hair. Who bore a bundle on his back, And hummed a merry air. When last he trod those hills and dales It was a summer day; The birds were singing overhead, He was tall and gay; His dreams were all stunned isles And billows bounding free. And, heedless of his mother's tears, He left her for the sea. But after many a weary month Of hardship, toll and pain, He longed to see athwart the dusk The lights of home again— Old house, the fire In his accustomed place. And at the window, best of all, His mother's smiling face. He drew a picture as he went Of walls with holly bright. A cozy table spread for two With linen fresh and white. And while the tale of foreign lands And a cold, cold. His mother's loving, wrinkled hand Upon his curls of gold. The dizzy fakes had ceased to fall, He strained his eyes to mark The glimmer of lamp panes, But he still was dark. No joyous bark rang out to greet His footsteps as of yore— The cold white snows unbroken lay Around the silent door. He saw upon the snowy sill A wreath of immortelles. And then his orphaned cry arose Beneath the snowy sill. His mother's lonely watch was o'er, No more to weep or wait. She walked in glory with the stars— He had returned too. And she'selle's Weekly Bethlehem-Town As I was going to Bethelehem-Town. Upon the earth I cast me down At Bethelehem-Town. That whispered in his wise to me: "Oh, I shall stand on Calvary And bear what burthen saveth thee!" As up I fared to Bethelehem-Town, I met a shepherd coming down, And thus he quothe: "A wondrous sight Hath spread before mine eyes this night— A shepherd of a tree. That sung full sweetly of a tree That shall uplift on Calvary What burthen saveth you and me!" And as I gat to Bethelehem-Town, L! wise men came that bore a crown. "Is there, cried I, in Bethelehem A shepherd of a tree. Good sooth," they quothe, "and it is He That shall be lifted on the tree And freely shed on Calvary What blood redeemeth us and thee!" Unto a child in Bethelehem-Town The wise men came and brought the tree And while the infant smiling slept, Upon their knees they fell and wept; But with her babe upon her knee, And with the tree of the tree That should uplift on Calvary What burthen saveth all and me. Again I walk in Bettlehem-Town And think on Him that wears the crown I may not kiss His feet again. Nor worship him as I did den: Mk Karya outweighs the tree, And bath outoutured on Calvary What blood redeemeth you and me! A Christmas Hymn The stars were shining in Judea's sky And all the air was singing Where angels, with their censors sway ing by A golden flight were winging. And deep below the glory of the stars, In humble peace reposing. A mother sat beside the manger bars A tender babe disclosing. This little babe lay sleeping. Can I be He, the King upon His throne? This lowly stranger? And is it thus He comes into His own, Unseen in a manger? This is He for whom ye long have yearned! For Him bring dearest treasure, And is inside Him all your toll hath earned. But every jewel wrought of faith and praise. Of love and abnegation. —Louise Morgan Sill. Christmas The silent skies are full of speech For who hath ears to hear: The birds are whispering each to each The moon calls in the night And stars their sacred wisdom teach Of faith and love and fear. But once the sky the silence broke, And song o'erflowed the earth; The midnight air with glory shook, And angels mortal language spoke, When God our human nature took In Christ, the Savior's birth. And Christmas once is Christmas still, The gates through which He came, And forests wild and murmuring rill, And fruits field and brsezy hill, And that see the world nill, A vocal with His name. Shall we not listen while they sing The Christmas mom; And music hear in everything, And faithful lives in tribute bring To the great song which greets the King Who comes when Christ is born? A Song for the Season A song for the holly laugh For the Yuletide beckons now, And our harvest gagged sphere Showthy the white o' the year! Brightly the berries burn Like the embers in the urn Of the day so Yuletide lies Behind the crest of the pines. Green—a glory of green— Are the leaves of vernal sheen, Nest of their shimmer lost Under the touch of the frost. Burnished berry and leaf Spur be the eellet In the fadeless love of Him Who sitteth, in heaven, above The saints and the seraphim As the throne of Love. Center our faith and hope— We who yearn and grope, In the love they typify (Gilbert the seraglans now!), So, under the Yuletide, A song for the holly bought! —Clinton Scallard in Housekeeper. Advice from a Financier The time to borrow money is when you don't need it. If you have ten dollars in your pocket and don't need any more borrow five dollars from the first friend you meet. Then repay him the next day, and he will imagine himself under obligations to you. Then the next time you really need money it will be easy to get it from him.—Columbia Herald. Clothing does not make the man, but it distinguishes the honest citizen from the convict. A Great Monarch. Wealthier than any brother sovereign; master of legions, which number over a million; lord of more than one-sixth of the surface of the globe, with subjects of many colors and races, amounting to over one hundred and twenty million souls, the Czar of all the Russians will not be invincible until he adopts Pillsbury's Vitos as his regular breakfast diet. Fashions are naturally regulated by trade conditions. Nearly all garments are worn longer in dull times than in prosperous ones. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. The most popular cold wave with the United States is the one that does business up around Medicine Hat. 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