The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in this Section LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE NOTE LETS. LOCALLY. A Somewhat Sudden Mrs. Stella Travis of this city is our PUBLICATION NOTICE Publication Notice After a good deal of study and work we have at last figured out how so many country editors get rick. Here is the secret of suecass. A child is born in the neighborhood, the attending physicians gets 10 dollars; the editor gives the loud hung youngster and the "happy parents" a send off and gets 0 dollars. It is christened; the ministers gets 10 dollars and the editor gets 00 dollars. It grows up and marries; the editor publishes another long-winded, flowery articles and tells a dozen lies about the "beautiful and accomplished bride" the minister gets 10 dollars and the editor gets 000 dollars. In the course of time it dies, and the doctor gets from 25 to 100 dollars and the minister gets another 15 dollars the undertaker gets from 50 to 100 dollars, the editors publishes a notice of death and an obituary two column long, lodge and society resolutions, a lot of poetry and a free card of thanks, and gets 0.000. No wonder so many country editors get rich!-Ex. Who will be our next Judge of the Probate court, Judge Freeman has made a good one. There is a great many wondering if he will be a candidate for the nomination and re-election. HIS IDEA OF A GENTLEMAN. Cardinal Newman's Estimate Is Well Worthy the Attention of All. Worthy the Attention of All. Cardinal Newman's definition of a gentleman has probably never been surpassed. Here it is: "It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant and moreful toward the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation and never weirisome. "He makes light of favors while he does them and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by mere retort; he has no care for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalties or sharp sayings for arguments or insinulates evil which he dare not say out." HOW TO OPEN A BOOK. Right and Wrong Way in This as There is in Everything. Many people, when they first come into possession of a new book, are apt to spoil the back by not knowing how to open the book properly. Here are a few hints as to the best way of opening a volume. It should be held with its back on a table, the front board cover should be let down, the leaves being held in one hand. Next, the other board cover should be let down. Following this operation, a few leaves should be opened at the back, then a few at the front, and soon, alternately opening back and front, gently pressing open the sections till the center of the volume is reached. The best results will be obtained if this is done two or three times. If the book is violently or carelessly opened in any one place, the back will very likely be broken.—Pearson's Weekly. The Song of the Plains. No harp have I for the singing, nor fingers fashioned for skill. Nor will shall words express it, the song in my heart. A saga, swept from the distant horizon beyond the hill. Singing of life and endurance, and biding me bear my part. For this is song, as I sing it, the song I love the best. The steal of the furrow, the grind of the gleaming steel, An anthem sung to the noonday, a chant to the open West. Echolon deep in my spirit to gladden and help and heal. And this is Life, as I read it, and in life it forms. To breathe the wind on the ranges, the scent of the upturned sod, To stare, and strive, and be thankful, to watch the shine and storm, Penciling over the prairies, the destiny planned by God. And no reward do I ask for, save only to work and wait. To praise the God of my fathers, to labor beneath his sky. To dwale in his greatness, to strike and to follow straight. Silent, and strong and contented—the limitless plains and I. H. H. Bashford in the Spectator. Mouse Made Nest of Currency. John Shanley of Milford, Conn., put $$ bill in a pocket of one of his coats, to find that some small mouse had a nest in the pocket and had chewed up $5 of his hard-earned money to make a nice soft bed for itself. LOCALLY. Nice furnished rooms at 1512 N. 3rd st. at reasonable rates, Mrs. J. Bolden, proprietress. 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 meal. Give them a call. Mr. Charles Scott of 329 Okland ave. is seending the Hollidsys with relatives and friends in Arcadie, Oklahoma. 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. If you want a whole lots of the best quality of goods for the least quantity of money go to A. L. Sumerwell's store at 440 Minnesota ave. Miss Dora Wayatte, of 610 Walker ave. will leave Saturday for Burlington, Ks, where she will spend the holiday with her many friends. Don't fail to attend the Musicale concert at Mt. Pleasant Baptist church tomorrow night, you will enjoy a grand treat. Xmas trees will be at the various churches Monday night, many will be made happy over the presents they will receive from their many friends. There seems to be no doubt in the minds of some of our best and most influential politicians in this city that the Hon. Henry McGrew will carry a solid delegation from this county to the congressional conventional. Mr. T. T. Miller who has been indisposed this week is improving. Mr. Ambrose Dudley of 1504 N. 8 St., who has been confined to his room and bed for two years is improving slowly. Mrs. R. Jones of 313 Oakland ave., will leave Saturday for Stockton, Kans., where she will spend the holidays with her motherinlaw Mrs. Henry Jones. Mr. D. F. Booker of the Agricultural school of Manhattan was home to spend the holidays with Capt. and Mrs. T. S. Booker. Mrs. W. H. Watson of 1114 Washington ave. has gone to her scenes of early womanhood, New Orleans on an extended visit. The Rose Hill Baptist church has so struggled for three years under the leadership of Rev. D. B. Jackson until it has built one of the finest rock base-basements in the state, white or black. This church had its opening on Dec. 10, at the Cor. 8th and Oakland ave. The work was done leaving a very small material debt to be paid after the church had been gone into and organized. This church is now 8th St. Baptist Church, for some rest the pastor and wife leaves for Marion, Ark. to visit his father and friends; then to Memphis, Teenn., and other points in Arkansas. The Eighth St. Baptist church had a contest for prizes a gold watch and silk umbrella, contestants—Sisters Lucy Saunders had $8.50. L. A. McMillan $10 E. J. Cotton $16.15, Mamie King, $28.00 and Emma Howard, $33.10; and prizes were given accordingly. The Trustees took in $154.41, netted $114.27. Chas. Slaughter, chairman trustee board. he rock work alone cast $1640.05. Rev. S. A. Norris will fill the pulpit while Rev. Jackson is absent. 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. Cookery for Danes. A course of cooking lessons for men only has been begun in Copenhagen under the auspices of an influential committee. First Use of Bayonet. The bayonet was first used by the French in 1671. It was first made in Bayonne, France, and was considered a very deadly weapon. The British army quickly copied it, and other nations promptly followed suit. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING. A Somewhat Sudden Death. The death of ex-patrolman Benjamin Foster on Friday Dec. 21st, at the Douglass Hospital was quite a shock to the community as well as the little home circle. Mr. Foster was an excellent specimen of that well developed physical manhood, enjoyed a splendid reputation, generously liked by all. He was industrious, economical and steady and exceptionally temperate in his habit. He was a patrolman several years in our city and served early in the present administration, his reputation was that of a good and honored officer. As a citizen he ranked among the most industrious and had by dint of industry accumulated sufficient to own several good holdings and real estate. As his prospects seemed the brightest to enjoy the fruits of years of toil, self denial and frugality death claimed him and Friday he yielding to the inevitable leaving to journeying on a little farther the road a wife, a sons and daughter. Funeral services will be held Sunday from Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, under the auspices of the G. U. O. OF F. our deepest sympathy is extended to bereaved. ALIVING OR A LIFE. The Difference Between Making and Just Being. There's is 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 canoeist must paddle hard going up stream. He aan 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 him self 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, Plainoiff. 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 answer 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. L F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Pflf Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Sleeper's Real Offense. An eccentric minister caused some surprise one Sunday by declaring that he did not in the least object to people sleeping while he was preaching. A few minutes later he and his hearers were disturbed by the loud snoring of a man just below the pulpit. "Give him a tap on the head," said the minister. This was done, ineffectually. "Give him another," came the order again. Still the man slumbered. But at length by dint of much tapping and shaking, he was recalled into abashed consciousness. "You are making a wretched noise," roared the minister, leaning over the pulpit edge. "I don't mind your sleeping, but you are preventing other people from sleeping!" Mrs. Stella Travis of this city is our authorized agent and general solicitor, any courteousness 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. NOTICE. 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. 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 of 1512 N. 5th St., in the Third word of Kansas City, Kansas, and said application is set for hearing on Monday the 4 day of Dec. 1905, at 10 o'clock. a.m., when and where all person may attend if they see proper. The Wyandotte Drug Co. By E. A. Williamsod, Manager. 1512 North 5th Street PUBLICATION' NOTCIE. In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Sarah Hall. Plaintiff. vs. Henry Hall. Defendant. To the above named defendant: you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the abovenamed 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. Size of Ancient Babylon. 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. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas. Albert Whiteside, Plaintiff. vs. No. 19286. Lizzie Whiteside, Defeudant. 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 1905, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgement 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. Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are those no one ever agree. The sadest 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. Mary Bradley, Plaintiff, vs. Otis Divers, and Ida Divers, Defendant. 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. 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a Judgment 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 offering 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 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. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte The State of Kansas, to greeting to William Regan, you will take notice that on the 4th day of April, 1905, that the sold above named plaintiff filed her petition in the District Court of the above named state and county for divorce setting forth two causes of action against you. Cause of action. No. 1.-Charging you with extreme crazity. And in cause of Action No. 2. Charging you with gross neglect of duty. Unless you answer demur or otherwise object on or before the 23rd day of dec. 1905. And upon further proof the plaintiff will be granted proof as prayed for in her petition. L. W. JOHNSON Atty.for Plaintiff. Attest by Clerk of District Court, on 6 day of Oct. 1905. Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D. C. McCombs, Deputy. NOTICE. State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte In the District NOTICE in the District Court of Wyandotte County , State of Kansas. Lawrence Jones, Plaintiff. vs. Elsie Jones, Defendant. The State of Kansas greeting to the above named defendant, you will take notice that on the 16th day of October, 1905. Said Plaintiff above named has filed his petition in the District Court of Wyandotte County, State of Kansas. A petition against you asking for a divorce, setting forth 2 causes of Action no.1. Gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. And unless you answer denur or otherwise object on 3rd day of December 1905 the allegations in said petition will be taken as true and upon further proof the Plaintiff will be granted the divorce as prayed in said petition. L. W. JOHNSON. Atty, for Plaintiff. Attested by Clerk of District Court. on 16th day of October, 1905. Wm. Needles Clerk of the said Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. per D. C. McCambs Deputy. First Publication Oct. 20th, 1905 1930. DEC. 22, 1905. this Section CALL HERE Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Geo. A. Dudley. Plaintiff. VS. Myrtle Dudley. Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer on or before the first day of December, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered - the nature of which will be a decree, dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for Plaintiff, Attest; Wm. Needles, Clerk, Attest. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. May Williams, Plaintiff. vs. Ells 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 addecree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing her from him the said defendant, and for cost of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty for Fliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Publication Notice. 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 Ransom Knight in the above entitle court wherein you are the defendant for a divorce on the grounds of abandonment and unless you answer on or before the 13th day of September, the petition will be taken as true and judgement rendered as prayed for. The plaintiff is seeking an absolute divorce, for ever desolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between the plaintiff and defendant and for cost. Ransom Knight. By Chas. W. Frye. Atty. First Pub. Aug. 11. PUBLICATION NOTICE: DARKIS Defendant The State of Kansas, to William Darki Greeting, you are hereby notified that you have been sued on the grounds of gross neglect of the duty, extreme cruelty; and adultery, in the above entitle cause in the above named Court, Wherein Mary Darkis is Plaintiff and William darkis is Defendant, and unless you answer on or before the first day of July 1905. Plaintiff petition will be taken as true Judgment will be rendered against you as prayed for. The plaintiff is asking an absolute divorce, custody of two minor children and a reasonable attorney fee, for cost, and for other relief such as the nature of Plaintiff case demands. Mary Darkis. Chas. w. Frey, attorney First Published April 28th 1905. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Allen Walker, Plaintiff, vs Robert McCrie c. D. Shrader, Defendants Number 6073. To Robert McCrie, To Robert McCrie and C.D. Shrader. You are hereby notified that the plaintiff aove named has brought suit and filed his petition against you, in the above entitled court, and that you must answer the petition aforesaid filed against you, on or before the 28 day of October 1905, or said petition will be taken as true and judgement accordingly rendered against you as follows; First- A personal judgement against you quieting your title to and in lot 46 in block 50 in Wyndotte city, or per record p at thereof such other relief as set out in Plaintiff's petition and for cost herein expended. Allen Walker. By Chas W. Frye, Atty, for Plaintiff. SEAL. Attest: J. L. Beggs, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. First Pub. Sept. 8th, 1905. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY - - - - KANSAS. W. C. Dudley, Editor, Geo. A. Dudley, Publisher and Business Manager. Terms of Subscription in Advance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....65c Three Months.....40c One Month.....15c Advertising 25 cents per inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Ad' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. STAIRCASE A HIGH ONE. By 20,000 Steps Cut in the Rock, Mt. Omi Is Climbed. For the ascent of Mt. Omi, on the borderland between western China and the Tibetan plateau, there is an artificial staircase consisting of 20,000 steps, cut in slippery limestone. Who made these steps is largely a matter of surmise, but they were probably formed by religious enthusiasts, to provide a means of access from the hot plains, out of which the mountain mass rises abruptly to the heights, 5,000 to 11,000 feet above, amongst which the Buddhist abbey of Omi embodies some of the holiest traditions of the religion professed by its inmates. Anyhow, the staircase is there, and by it many pilgrims attain the shrine. —Stray Stories. The king's cup has filled the cup of the New York yacht club full of joy to overflowing. The Northwest Passage has been found, but it doesn't appear to be good for much, after all. The tallest shaft in the cemetery won't prevent a man from being forgotten after he is dead. Death is a mistake, according to a young female lecturer in New York. So many of us make it, too. Notwithstanding Mark Twain's venerable appearance, the heart of him seems to be as young as ever. That alleged comet which the papers announced, has gone. It was only a little celestial fuzz, anyway. It isn't really hard to quit smoking; the only difficulty is to avoid changing one's mind, and taking it up again. About all there is left for Lord Rosebery is to sit on the fence and throw stones at both parties as they go by. The Rochester Globe prints this scare headline: "Robbed in a hotel." Such an obvious statement to put in a head! Mark Twain says he doesn't believe in exercise. Evidently he has never had to frame an excuse for belonging to a golf club. Mme. Calve says Milwaukee is "a bum town." We are sorry that Milwaukee's opinion of Calve's voice is unfit to print. "Give your stomach a vacation," says an advertisement. Lord, don't we wish we could! When our stomach goes, we go. The height of the atmosphere is 109 miles, but there is so little of it, five or six miles up, as to take one's breath and freeze one's ears. The Chinese have a game called "chefa," which is said to be very much like policy, even to the detail that the Chinese printers play it. A Chicago woman refused to pay for a new coat because she said it made her look like a camel. Chicago women like to hump themselves. Owing to a sudden attack of influenza, Mr. Tellum Whott has been forced to defer writing his article on "How to Avoid Catching Cold." It must not be forgotten that Mme. Bernhardt presents a more conspicuous mark for egg throwers now than she did in her younger and leaner days. A young woman in New York has coily owned to being 2,000 years old. This is a whole lot safer than mentioning a limit that looks suspicious on the face of it. The Emperor of China is talking of going abroad. Perhaps the dowager empress has been looking in his hand and informing him that he is going on a long journey. The Chicago typewriter girl was has just inherited a fortune of a million dollars will continue to work as a stenographer, but hereafter she won't take much "sass" from the boss. Mark Twain's moderation in making it his practice never to smoke more than one cigar at a time will be commended by everybody, with the possible exception of the tobacco trust. SWEDEN CULTURE BOTHINI RUSSIA BALIC SEA FINLAND SIBERIA MASSACHUSETTS JEWS RIOTS MUTINY AGRARIAN DISTURBANCES WARSAW LUCIE BRAZOV POLAND AUSTRIA- HUNGARY ELIZABETHGRAD JOHNSTEW MICOLAIEFF MERCERSON RUSTUFF WERATERMINAM Men on Strike Orderly and Law Abiding, but Determined Percival Gibbon writes from St. Petersburg of conditions which prevailed in that city about the middle of November: "The police are still at their work in the streets, the brisk traffic is undiminished, the handsome shops are still open. Such business as can be carried on by the shop folk and so on continues, but along the wharves the snow lies untarnished on the merchandise, and the derricks are idle on the ships. There is no electric light and no gas, the trains have ceased to run; we are without mails or the means of sending letters. Here and there around the town troops are in waiting, but not in evidence, for the fact is that these strikers of the new sort give no occasion for the use of violence. They are orderly, lawabiding and quite inaccessible to reason. They have their orders not to work, and they make it abundantly plain that they will obey these orders and no others, and, moreover, their attitude will make it difficult for the usual hooligans, who are at home in a riot, to complicate matters. "For instance, I saw a little row this morning in that quarter which is called Goose island, a place of wharves and shipping on the east fringe of the city. The cold was mordant, with a tooth like acid, and the thin snow was trodden to slush in the roads. There was no work going on, but workmen, muffled to the ears and high-booted, were everywhere in groups, busy in talk. Their idleness and the plenty of them at all corners made one feel wary; they were big, limber fellows, with so obvious a capacity for the use of force, and their rude clothing, with some tag of bright color at the belt or scarf, gave them so barbarous a touch in the long streets that their peacefulness was almost incongruous. "Of a sudden, at a point where a number of wagons complicated the narrow entry to a yard, came shouts, the high voice of a man in fury and the pay of quick feet on the snow. Seven or eight men issued in a convulsive group, struggling noisily about an unkept and vociferous figure in the middle, a man of pale face and a shrill, tremulous red mouth. The thing acted itself in a breathless moment. The man in the middle torc loose and drove forward at one of the others; something gleamed, brief as a spark in the wan sun, and a man cast up one arm, crumpled at the knees and fell among the feet of his fellows—knifed in the heart. "There was a staring second of quiet, an instant of horror and realization, and then from round about the workmen closed in and pat hands on the murderer. There was no rush, no frenzy; they came gravely, eyeing him with an enmity that was half wonder, with the manner of responsible men; they twisted the knife from his hand and his hands behind his back, and held him in a silence like the isolation of the scaffold, while others went to bring the police. "It may be, of course, that in some stage of this war of the classes, the policy of their leaders may discover a purpose for disorder. The men may yet be unleashed, they may be slipped at any quarry. But at this moment, whatever may come afterward, the Professional Musicians Revolt. Leading professional musicians of Philadelphia have joined in a movement to correct an abuse known as "society graft." For years persons of high social standing have been obtaining the services of talented artists at musicales, without pay by leading musicians to believe that future profitable engagements would result from such appearances. Little or no such benefit has been derived, so now the musicians have decided to turn down all requests of the kind indicated strikers are carrying themselves with a decorum, a care for appearances, which are positively sublime. They even take off their hats to the flag that flies over the winter palace. They can afford to."—Chicago News. DECAY OF BRITISH HOME LIFE. Bishop of Liverpool Sounds Warning to the Nation. The bishop of Liverpool, interviewed upon the decay of home life, recently said: "There are not wanting signs threatening a break up of the old style of British home, and with it of that home influence which has helped to make this country what it is. "In the upper classes nurses and governesses are taking the place of the mother, and school masters and college tutors are expected to fill the place of the father. "So great are the claims of business and politics supposed to be that fathers and mothers declare that they have no time to look after their children. "What is the remedy?" asks the bishop. "It lies in the revival of true home life. Marriage must be treated with the utmost honor and reverence, and we must uphold the pure reverent love of one man for one woman. The claims of society must never be allowed to compete with the claims of home life." The bishop of Manchester in a similar interview declared that he viewed with amazement the large palaces which were springing up on all sides for the amusement of the people. "Clergymen," he added, "who can not find people at their homes must follow them to places where they collect, and seek to make a first impression on them either in their places of amusement or near them, following them home afterward to complete the work. "Evangelists as well as pastors are required if the church of England is to continue to do its duty by the nation."—Washington Star. FINE INSTRUMENTS OF SCIENCE. Enable Accurate Measurement to Eight Millionth of Inch. The eight millionth part of an inch is what the physicists are measuring. The twenty-five thousandth part of an inch may be taken as the limit of measurement of mechanical measures of general application. But we possess a physical means of measurement 300 times more refined than this and free from difficulties. This is one which enables us to determine variations in length, thickness, or position with absolute accuracy to the eight millionth of an inch or one three hundred thousandth of a millimeter. The foundation of this wonderful scale is the wave length of light—a quantity which is now known with great accuracy for the most important lines of the spectrum. Moreover, the method is rendered esthetically beautiful by the fact that an actual visible scale can be produced, composed of black interference bands on a brilliant background of pure monochromatic light. Further, the interval between any two bands can be subdivided into 100 parts by employing a micrometer eyepiece on the observing telescope. Poor Boy Has Done Well. John B. Tracy, recently elected mayor of Taunton, Mass., is one of fifteen children born to a poor man in the neighboring town of Milford. Twenty years ago, when a small boy, he went to Taunton and began life as a bootblack. Later he managed shoe shine stands in other towns and accumulated a little money. Buoyed up by his pluck, he studied law, borrowing money to pay for his tuition, was admitted to the bar and when elected mayor had a practice worth $12,000 a year. GREAT FRENCH SOLDIER DEAD Gen. Saussier's Long Services to His Country Ended. Gen. Felix Gustave Saussier, former commander-in-chief of the French army, died Dec. 20. He was one of the best known and bravest officers in France. In the battle around Metz a quarter of a century ago he distinguished himself most signally. The famous infantry charge at St. Privat which practically barred the progress of the Germans on that side, was led by him. Saussier was one of the officers who signed the protest against the surrender of Metz. Gen. Saussier [Picture of a man with a bald head and a mustache, wearing a dark shirt and a white collar. The background is black and white. The man's face is centered in the frame.] also served in Italy, Mexico and the Crimea. He was a deputy for some time and in 1873 distinguished himself in the discussions on the reorganization of the army. FLEE FROM HOUSE GALLERIES House Quickly Empties When Certain Members "Orate." tam Members 'Orate. Congressman John Wesley Gaines of Tennessee and Robert Adams, Jr. of Pennsylvania somehow or other have acquired reputation as being very poor speakers. When either begins speaking the galleries become empty about as rapidly as though the house were on fire. Mr. Adams be gan a speech the other day and there was such a rush outward that the man whose duty it is to lower the flag at adjournment started to per form that task. A member of the house who had not been in listening to the speeches came to the same conclusion as he pushed into a crowded elevator. "When did the house adjourn to?" he asked the elevator conductor. "It hasn't adjourned," said he. "Mr. Adams of Pennsylvania is speaking," he added, whereupon the member guessed he would go home anyhow. PRISON FOR LEADING LAWYER Abraham Hummel, New York Lega Light. Convicted of Conspiracy Light, Convicted or Conspiracy. Abraham H. Hummel of the law firm of Howe & Hummel, one of the biggest in New York, was last week convicted of conspiracy, sentenced immediately to one year in the penitentiary and a fine of $500, and taken from the courtroom across the bridge of sighs to the Tombs prison. The charge upon which Hummel was convicted was that of conniving with the aid of the perjured testimony of Charles F. Dodge, to break Adderley Humphrey up the marriage of Charles W. Morsel, ice man and banker, to the divorced wife of Dodge. There are still two indictments for subornation for per jury pending against Hummel. A veteran bookseller, basing his conclusions upon a wide experience of many years, finds among other tendencies of the day a marked increase in the intellectual life of America. Not only have business and professional men come to be reckoned in great numbers among buyers of good literature but a large clientele of women readers prefer a well-written story of only moderate interest to a badly written romance of absorbing theme. He also finds a growing appreciation of really good poetry, a tendency to pay more attention to book reviews in periodicals of acknowledged standing and a demand for books of serious import to be "read in" instead of "read through." What He Was. "Once I knew a man," said the interesting conversationalist, "who was born in mid ocean. His father was an Englishman and his mother was of French-German parentage, but was a native of Greece. So what do you suppose that man is?" The listeners thought steadily for some moments, but at last announced that they could not guess. "He is a dry goods merchant," explained the interesting conversationalist. Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. 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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 Gas Burner Light Bright Gas Burner Light For 35 to 75 cents. And a Self Clean that makes the water clean For 50 t A. J. SH ROOM Self Cleaner Water makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN ROOM 8, TA AVE. KANSAS CITY shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular by trading at a popular store? J. J. MADDUX Table and Fancy Grocery Meats and all Kinds of Produce that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN "In the shade of the Old App not you be popular by trading at a p L. J. M Staple and Fa Meats and all "In the shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular song—Why not you be popular by trading at a popular store? L. J. MADDUX, Staple and Fancy Groceries Meats and all Kinds of Produce. HOME PHONE 784 WEST. THE ACCENT IN JULY. Change From Proper Pronunciation Comparatively Recent. How we came to pronounce July as we do now with the accent on the second syllable is one of the unsolved mysteries of speech. Named, of course, after Julius Caesar, it should really be pronounced to rhyme with "duly," and so our forefathers actually did pronounce it. Spenser, for instance, has the line, "Then came hot July boyling like fire," and even so late as Johnson's time the accent was still on the "Ju." It is one of those many words which would startle those ancestors of ours spoken as we speak them now. "Balcony," for example, used to rhyme with "pony," as it ought to do, in accordance with the Italian origin; and, although Swift once threw the accent on the "bal," it was not regularly done until about eighty years ago. The change to the modern pronunciation made Samuel Rogers "sick," he declared.—London Chronicle. Might Have Had Serious Results. Before now bad writing has been the occasion of whimsical mistakes—awkward ones, too, at times, as was nearly the case a short while back, when, on Mr. Justice Grantham discharging a soldier who had been on trial for manslaughter, he remarked that his difficulty in arriving at this decision had only been removed by a careful re-reading of the depositions, when he had discovered that the prisoner, instead of being a man of bad character, was in reality of good record, the word "good" having been so atrociously written as to look like "bad."—London Telegraph. QUINDARO. 530 MINNESOTA AVE 852 FREEMAN AVE. Telephone Home W.32 Raymond DIRECTOR st of Service, Fine Carriages es, at all Hours. Enameled Amdulance for wounded reasonable. Call at 431 Minne- as City, Kansay. 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A man who is fond of working out statistics and astronomical calculations, figures that the cotton factories of Lancashire, England, at present spin about 155,000,000 miles of thread a day, so that in six seconds they make enough to go around the earth. In one month they spin enough to reach from here to the moon. The product of eighteen days would reach from the sun to Neptune. Counting 310 working days in the year, it would take them, at this rate, 500 years to spin enough thread to reach the nearest star. ROOM 8. KANSAS. ANTI-GRIPPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't Guarant- It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. E. W. Diemer, M.D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. Disease a Crime ? Not very long ago, a popular magazine published an editorial article in which the writer asserted, in substance, that all disease should be treated with certain drugs that much of the sickness and miserning of mankind is due to the condition of certain Nature's laws. But to say that all sickness should be guarded as criminal, must appeal to every reasonable individual as radically wrong. It could be harsh, unsympathetic, yet criminal, to condemn the poor, cook over-worked housewife who sinks under the heavy load of household cares and burdens, and suffers from weaknesses, various displacements of pelvic grans and other derangements peculiar Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 21 one-cent stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound. If sick consult the Doctor, free of charge by letter. All such communications are laid sarcety confidential. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorate and regulate stomach, liver and bowels. TWENTY-FIVE BUSNELS OF WHEAT TO THE AGRE Means a productive capacity in dollars of over $16 per acre. $16 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Means a productive capacity in dollars of over $16 per acre. This on land which has cost the farmer nothing but the price of tilling it, tells its own story. The Canadian Government gives absolutely free to every settler 100 acres of such land. Already 175,000 farmers from the United States have made their homes in Canada. For pamphlet "Twentieth Century Canada" and all information apply to Supt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to following authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) Fishing in Winter is but one of the many attractions of the Gulf Coast of Texas. Corpus Christi and Oyster Bays are the natural home of the Tarpon, and this, the gamen of fish, is practically undisturbed in these waters. Tarpon fishing is the faster sport than Tarpon fishing but it would be difficult to convince any one who has indulged in the sport to the contrary. For Health and Recreation Corpus Christi, Aransas Harbor and Rockport and the surrounding sections are unique. Tempered by the gulf breezes, the extremes of heat and cold are unknown. Winter here is but a name—the clear bright sunshine days, and the alluring out-of-door pleasures are in such marked contrast to the chilly north. Now the bays and inland lakes are fairly alive with wild geese, redheads, mallards and other feathered game, making it a veritable paradise for the hunter. MKTI Plan your winter outing now. The exceptionally low rates during the Fall and Winter month—the excel- Plan your winter outing now. The exceptionally low rates during the Winter months—the excelence via the M., K. & T. R., make it a journey of but small cost and a treasome length. I want you to tour the Orleans. Are you sure you'll be more than half capable visit the Gulf Coast of Texas W. S. ST. GEORGE General Passenger and Ticket Agent Box 911a ST. LOUIS, MO. SPRAYING Pays Big Write us to-day and find out how you can make big money by repre- sening us in your own neighborhood. HOOK-HARDIE CO. Box 19 Hudson, Mich. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes Oleats Pooch Examiner U. S. Pension Bureau Ages in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since. Rugs MADE FROM YOUR Old Carpets Gauranteed to wear 10 years. Kansas City Rug Co., Kansas City, Ms. KIDDER'S PASTILLES SLOWELL & CO., Mrrs. DEFIANCE STARCH for starching fineest linens. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 51, 1905 DEFIANCE STARCH never sticks to the iron. PRICE, TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTIGRIPINE HAS NO EQUAL FOR HEALTH Equally Unstable. "The stage is a great elevator," declared the literary enthusiast. 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Many smokers prefer them to 10c cigars. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. A well-balanced man does not find it necessary to part his hair in the middle to hold himself steady. Mrs. Winsion's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wrist collar. 20c a bottle. Love may be blind, but the average mother-in-law is an eye-opener. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Some women try to attract attention by trying to look miserable. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. THOS. ROBBINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. You may have observed that easy-going men seldom get very far. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SUFFER From Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Trouble. Q. What is the beginning of sickness? A. Constipation. Q. What is Constipation? A. Failure of the bowels to carry off the waste matter which lies in the alimentary canal where it decays and poisons the eni- re system. Eventually the results are death under the name of some other disease. Note the deaths from typhoid fever and appendicitis, stomach and bowel trouble at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation? A. Neglect to respond to the call of nature promptly. Lack of exercise. Excessive brain work. Mental emotion and impa- riment. Q. What are the results of neglected Constipation? A. Constipation causes more suffering than any other disease. It causes rheumatism, colds, fevers, stomach, bowel, kidney, lung and heart troubles, etc. It is the one disease that starts all others. Indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, loss of sleep and strength are its symptoms - piles. Constipation, its fistula, are caused by Constipation. Its symptoms are known to all physicians, but few sufferers their condition until it is too late. Women become confirmed invalids as a result of Constipation. Q. Do physicians recognize this? A. Yes. The first question your doctor asks you is "are you constipated?" That is the secret. Q. Can it be cured? A. Yes, with proper treatment. The common error is to resort to physics, such as pills, salts, mineral water, castor oil, medicine, even one of which is injurious. They needen and increase the malady. You know this by your own experience. Q. What then should be done to cure it? A. Get a bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic at once. Mull's Grape Tonic will positively cure Constipation and Stomach Trouble in the shortest space of time. No other remedy has before been known to cure Constipation positively and permanently. Q. What is Mull's Grape Tonic? A. It is a Compound with 40 per cent of the juice of Concord Grapes. It exerts a peculiar strengthening, healing influence upon the intestines, so that they can do their work unaided. The process is gradual, but sure. It is not a physic, but it cures Constipation, Dysentery, Stomach and Sore Throat. Having a rich, fruity flavor, it is also the tonic it is unequalled, insuring the system against disease. It strengthens and builds up waste tissue. Q. Where can Mull's Grape Tonic be had? A. Your druggist sells it. The dollar bottle contains nearly three times the 50-count size. Good for alling children and nursing mothers. A free bottle to all who have never used it because we know it will cure you. 138 FREE BOTTLE 1223-5 FREE. Send this coupon with your name and address, your druggist's name and 10c. to pay postage and we will supply you a sample free. if you have never used it, buy Grape Tonic, and will also send you a certificate good for e.400 toward the purchase of more Tonic from your druggist. MULL'S GRAPE TONIC Co., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. Give Full Address and Write Plainly. 55 cent, 50 cent and $1.00 bottles at all druggists. The $1.00 bottle contains about six times as much as the $35 cent bottle and about three times as much as the $50 cent bottle. There is a great saving in buying the $1.00 size. The genuine has a date and number stamped on the label—take no other from your druggist. When a man can't sleep because he ate lobster salad for supper, he thinks it is a great idea whirling in his brain. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Vice President Fairbanks entertained James Whitcomb Riley and the members of the Gridiron Club recently. James Mackey, United States marshal for Kansas, is in Washington on business with the Department of Justice. A man found murdered near Kansas City, Mo., has proved to be Martin C. Brodright, who disappeared from Richland Center, Wis., twenty years ago. John H. Gearn of Oregon, who has been appointed to the United States senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Mitchell, is in Washington. The State of Mexico bank will double its present capital of $1,000,000. The new issue will be sold at a premium of $15 per $100 share, the bank being very prosperous. Former United States Senator Bard was seriously injured in a runaway accident near Oxnear, Cal. He was thrown from his buggy into a ditch, sustaining a dislocation and a fracture of his left hip. The American line steamer New York, from Southampton, and the Cunard line steamer Caronia, from Liverpool, to New York, were delayed on the passage by stormy weather December 19 and 20. The New York was under reduced speed for eight hours. After three days of strenuous sightseeing in Los Angeles and vicinity, the thirty-five Eastern newspaper men who were brought from Chicago on the first "Los Angeles Limited" as guests of the Union Pacific and Salt Lake railroads, departed for their homes on the new limited over the Salt Lake route. Representative Brownlow, of Tennessee, holds the record so far for introducing bills at the present session of congress. In thirteen days he introduced 374 bills. The total number of bills introduced in the house in the thirteen days was 10,061, as against a total of 19,209 for all sessions in the last congress. One hundred and fifty straight shingle and combination mills at Seattle have voted to perpetuate the shingle mills bureau organized to inaugurate the sixty-day close-down of shingle mills in Washington. The combination mills agree to curtail the shingle output to the extent of 240,000,000 shingles up to Feb. 1. Sir J. Henniker-Heaton, member of the British parliament for Canterbury and famed because of his work for universal penny postage, has arrived in Victoria, B. C., en route to England. He has received announcement that Egypt has entered the league. The political-social conditions in Australia, he reports, are not good. 'C. H. Berryman of Lexington, Ky., manager of J. B. Haggins' Elmendorf stud, is out with a severe attack on the American Breeders' Protective association, declaring in a long statement that the system of the association is absolutely wrong and of great detriment to the breeding interests of the country. He makes serious charges against the agent of the association. A reorganization of the traffic department of the Atlantic coast line with Horace M. Emerson at its head was announced from headquarters in Wilmington, N. C. At a meeting of the directors, the office of traffic manager was 'abolished and the office of general traffic manager created, Mr. Emerson being elected to the position. It has developed at Indianapolis, Ind., that Daniel W. Storms, secretary of state, and now serving his second term, was compelled to put his property in the hands of a trustee in order to meet an indebtedness of $77,000 to the state. This action was taken after a meeting of his bondsmen. Mr. Storms admitted that he had used the funds in his hands in investments and that he had resorted to the trusteeship to straighten out his affairs. GENERAL. The first of the year will see a number of changes in the executive department of the Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis railroad, more especially in the passenger department. William C. Lindsey, who has been general agent of the road at St. Louis for ten years or more, has sent in his resignation to take effect January 1. F. G. Cunningham, who has been traveling passenger agent of the road in St. Louis for the last five years, has been promoted to the position of general agent in that city. George H. Baker of Louisville will succeed F. G. Cunningham as traveling passenger agent of the road in St. Louis. The navy department has decided upon February 12 as the day for the graduation of the class of 1906 at the naval academy. The reason for the graduation of the cadets in advance has been the pressing need of officers. Robert W. Ruthford and M. C. Murray from Philadelphia were killed by highwaymen on a ranch at Diaz, a small settlement in Chihuahua, Mexico. A man named Finstad of Los Angeles and another known as "Shorty" were wounded. The robbers escaped. A Rochester Chemist Found a Singularly Effective Medicine. William A. Franklin, of the Franklin & Palmer Chemical Co., Rochester, N. Y., writes: "Seven years ago I was suffering very much through the failure of the kidneys to eliminate the uric acid from my system. My back was very lame and ached if I "Seven years ago I was suffering very much through the failure of the kidneys to eliminate the uric acid from my system. My back was very lame and ached if I overexerted myself in the least degree. At times I was weighed down with a feeling of languor and depression and suffered continually from annoying irregularities of the kidney secretions. I procured a box of Doan's Kidney Pills and began using them. I found prompt relief from the aching and lamenes in my back, and by the time I had taken three boxes I was cured of all irregularities." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Ever up-to-the-minute baby wears bawl gowns from the start. Cracked and Peeled—Water and Heat Caused Intense Pain—Could Do No Housework—Grateful to Cuticura. 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Soil will press heaches 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. B. improves the digestion, cures dyspepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just the medicine for old people, as it gives Balm Balm (B. B. B.) Duggins. $1 per large bottle, with directions, 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. B. is especially advised for chronic, deep-seated cases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures after all else falls. A lookin-glass-smell shows a woman as she would like to see herself. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in $ \frac{3}{4} $ 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. Only a rich girl can successfully pose as a spinster from choice. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured WITH LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constrictive discharge. 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Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Only the compositor begins "setting 'em up" as soon as he gets a job. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. PISO'S CURE FOR CHURBS WHERE ALL ELSE TAILS Best Wear. Best Use. Use in time. Sold by drugrpt. CONSUMPTION SHORT KANSAS ITEMS The open season for senators seems to be on in Kansas. Work has begun on the Katy's new $1,000,000 shops at Parsons. A fire at Altamont burned the Rust elevator with a loss of $10,000. The railroad board is in session to draw up formal orders for recent decisions. Eighteen counts for selling liquor have been lodged against De Belle, of Altoona. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Wallis, of Winfield, celebrated their golden wedding recently. A. Newman, county clerk of Shawnee county, wants to be state auditor. He's a Republican. G. C. Morrison, a 'Frisco engineer who was injured in a collision at Olathe, is dead. A. Newman, county clerk of Shawnee county, wants to be state auditor. He's a Republican. Charles Prueesch is dead at Healy from scalds received when a traction engine was wrecked. An unknown man was killed in the Katy yards at Parsons by being crushed between two cars. Governor Hoch spoke at the meeting of the New England society in St. Louis this week. Co-operative packing plants are being talked up as a means of combating the beef trust. An unknown man was killed in the Katy yards at Parsons by being crushed between two cars. A whisky drummer at Macksville was beset by a band of women who threw three dozen eggs at him. Harry Woods and "Andy" Richards, editors, are among the numerous candidates for mayor in Wellington. Charles Kelcher has been found guilty of murder in the second degree at Hill City for killing Charles Wethel Charles Kelcher has been found guilty of murder in the second degree at Hill City for killing Charles Wethel. The Indiana Portland Cement company, which proposes to build a plant at Neodesha, was incorporated for $1,500,000. W. J. Thomas, a Butler county farmer, raised 485 bushels of kafir corn on seven acres and got $21 an acre for the crop. The state board of health has tumbled to the fact that much of the manufactured food consumed in Kansas is adulterated. John W. Kirby has been appointed a carrier for Rural Route 5, at Baldwin, and Francis L. Beard has been named for substitute. Governor Van Zant of Minnesota and J. L. Bristow have accepted invitations to speak before the Kansas shippers at Wichita January 10. Private Green, who killed Corporal Whitaker with a brick at Fort Leavenworth, has been sentenced to three years in the military prison. The Rev. Father Hayden of Topeka, who has just returned from a trip to Ireland, brought with him a real Irish potato which weighs three pounds. The state officials are sending a tracer after Mr. Morris, the expert accountant whose report on the various state departments has been long overdue. The bodies of the 167 victims of the cholera at Fort Hayes in 1865 have been received at Fort Leavenworth and buried in the national cemetery there. The county clerks in session at Wichita think they ought to have 25 cents on each hunting license issued and will bring a test case in the supreme court. A deal was completed at Parsons merging all of the independent lines in that county and in Pittsburgh system into the Citizens' Home Telephone company. Congressman Curtis will be home to attend the first district Republican committee meeting December 27, which, incidentally, will fix it up for Curtis' renomination. The Prairie Oil and Gas company has brought in a 700-barrel well in the Caney field, which is about four miles southeast of town. This makes the third good strike. Frank Fowler, a negro, has been arrested at Leavenworth on the suspicion that he knows something of the murder of William Price of Centerville, Iowa, who died suddenly at his home. Kansas colleagues of Victor Murdock in Congress accuse him of having aspirations for the United States Senate, but he emphatically denied it when the direct question was put to him recently. It is very likely that proceedings will be started to test the validity of the school land act of 1889, which reduced the price of school land from $3 to $1.25 an acre. Nearly 500,000 acres* of land have been sold to speculators at the reduced price. The biennial report of the state labor commissioner goes hand in hand with Secretary Coburn's latest effusion. According to the labor commissioner all the Kansas workers are employed at good wages and those who don't work are kept busy carting their money to the banks. John McElvaire and John Hopper, shotfiers, were killed in the Sheridan mine at Pittsburgh, Kan., by an explosion of gas. The mine was badly wrecked. The dead men were brothers-in-law and leave large families. Natural gas was turned into the mains of the Leavenworth Light and Heating company on Tuesday to supply Leavenworth consumers. The old mains were tested with a light pressure at first, which was gradually increased. Natural gas will be supplied to private houses for the present at thirty cents a thousand, while a cheaper rate will be made to large consumers to heat stores and big buildings. Chinese Ruler. The Empress Dowager of China was sold into slavery at the age of eleven, to save her family from starvation. Afterwards, she was presented ed to the late Emperor, and, upon his wife's death, became Empress. Her feet were never bound, and she was taught to read after persistent pleading. The sterling qualities of this wonderful woman, like those of Pillsbury's Vitos, have overcome every obstacle. And she holds herself at the head of China, as does Vitos at the head of breakfast foods. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Drugful treatment money. It fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. Glittering generalities are the imitation gems of speech. Lewis'Single Binder straight 50 cigar made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Not All from the Country The announcement that a company is about to be organized in New York for the purpose of building flying machines prompts the suspicion that the people who buy gold bricks do not all come from the country. come from the country.—Pittsburg Gazette Expensive. Anyway. "I suppose," said the bachelor, "it's mighty expensive to have your child sick in bed so long." "Yes," replied Phamliman, "but then if he were well and hearty he'd be wearing out clothes."—Philadelphia Press. Explained. Plumber's Son: A St. Louis doctor says the children, of the rich suffer from a defect called lordosis. Coal Man's Son: Now, I understand for the first time what's the matter with Brother Willie. STILL HOPE Don't worry if they take brutality From football; for—oh, glad reality!— They'll put it in some other rare, Rough game, and we can view it there Words of Wisdom: Westfield, Ill., Dec. 18th (Special) — All who are suffering with Bright's Disease, should read carefully the following letter from the Rev. G. L. Good of this place. He says: — "I feel it is my duty to tell you of the wonderful benefit I have received from the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I am a Minister of the Gospel, and in my work, I am frequently exposed to all weathers. Six years ago, I was laid up sick. I doctored with a number of physicians, and finally consulted a specialist, but without success. They all told me I had Bright's Disease. I was in a bad way and almost helpless when, thank God, I heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. They saved my life. I took sixteen boxes and now I am cured. The first day I took them I felt relief. When I began I weighed only one hundred and five pounds, now I weigh one hundred and sixty-five and I am the picture of health. I recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to all my friends who have Kidney Trouble and I pray to God that other sufferers will read these words and be helped by them." Some people are so absent-minded as to forget everything except their troubles. TUMORS CONQUERED SERIOUS OPERATIONS AVOIDED Unqualified Success of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in the Case of Mrs. Fannie D. Fox. One of the greatest triumphs of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the conquering of woman's dread enemy, Tumor. The growth of a tumor is so sly that frequently its presence is not suspected until it is far advanced. Mrs. Fannie D. Fox So-called "wandering pains" may come from its early stages, or the presence of danger may be made manifest by profuse menstruation, accompanied by unusual pain, from the ovaries down the groin and thighs. If you have mysterious pains, if there are indications of inflammation or displacement, don't wait for time to confirm your fears and go through the lydia of a hospital operation; secure Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound right and begin its use. Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., will give you her advice free of all charge if you will write her about yourself. Your letter will be seen by women only. Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "I take the liberty to congratulate you on the success I have had with your wonderful medicine. Eighteen months ago my months stopped. Shortly after I felt so bad that I submitted to a thorough examination by a doctor, was told that I had a tumor on the uterus and would have to undergo an operation. "After I soon read one of your advertisements and decided to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. After trying five bottles as directed the tumor is entirely gone. I have been examined by a physician and he says I have no signs of a tumor. He has also brought my montages around once more and I am entirely well."—Famille D. Fox, 7 Chestnut Street, Erdwood, Pa. WINGS A Bright New Year Ring out, Oh bells, ring silver 'sweet o'er hill and moor and fell! In mellow echoes let your chimes their loud, and illud! Ring out, ring out, all jubilant, this joyous, glad refrain: "A bright new year, a glad new year, 'bath come to us again!" Ah, who can say how much of joy within it there may be Stored up for us, who listen now to your *Stored up for us, who listen now to your sweet melody?* *Good-bye, Old Year, tried; trusty friend, tried; trust is told* *Oh, New Year, write thine thine for us in lines of brightest gold!* *Then ring, ring on. Oh, pealing bells! there's music in the sound.* PRETTY NEW YEAR GIFTS The following easily fashioned tokens are just the things to make for New Year gifts: A whiskbroom holder (Fig. 1)—Cut two round pieces of stiff pasteboard 6½ inches in diameter and cover each with gold-brown denim. Baste the edges down neatly, laying the extra fulness in small plaits. Make two circles of the denim four inches in diameter, turn under the edges and hem one on each inner or plaited side of the holder to cover the centers of the circles. Lay a hand of Persian trimming across one of the circles and fasten it firmly at the ends with a few stitches. Sew some thin gold braid into some simple design, for each side of the denim left uncovered by the Persian trimming, as shown in the illustration. Place the disks together and overseam four inches on each side. The open space at the top should be twice as large as at the bottom, otherwise the broom will fall through. Then sew a loop on the back of your holder to hang it up by and put in a neat whiskbroom that will fit the place provided for it comfortably, and the holder is finished. A novel work box (Fig. 2)—The best material is old kid or suede gloves. This surface, while it will take embroidery or receive paint, is quite soft and pretty enough in itself to be left perfectly plain. Cut for the bottom of the box a piece of pasteboard four inches A B FIG.2 square, then a similar square of white cotton wadding. Lay one-half of the wadding on each side of the pasteboard, with the woolly part inside. For the four sides of the box you would better first have a paper pattern and then follow it in pasteboard. Trace with a pencil on stiff paper an oval five inches in diameter and $5\frac{1}{2}$ from top to bottom. Fold one end across at a point where it will measure exactly four inches from side to side. Cut off the folded end; pin the pattern on your pasteboard, and cut out four pieces ankle for the box sides which will result in the outlined flat surface laid down in Fig. 2A. Arrange the wadding on each of these sides as you did in the square. Cover the bottom with silk of some pale shade, either plain or brocaded, with showy figures. Now place each section on the wrong side of the glove and trace the outline in pencil. Cut out, baste in position and overseam the raw kid edges to the silk lining. Conceal on the side pieces by sewing FIG.3 fine silk cord the shade of the glove around the oval, but leave the lower end without cord. Fit each side carefully to the square bottom and overseam. Make two full pockets of soft silk the shade of the lining (See Fig. 2A). Sew these on the side section of the lining before basting it over. The top of the pocket should reach as shown in the illustration, and about seven inches of inch-wide ribbon is attached by a few stitches to the same point. On the other side sections stitch the ribbon so that needlebook, thimble, etc., will each have its place, and leave ends long enough to tie. Then FIG sweet tilkes cloak twillth-492 areas on sed -P-354 turn up the four sides and tie, with the finished result shown in Fig. 2B Butter plate doily (Fig. 3)—This is of fine linen, embroidered with buttercups and stems. The stems are embroidered in Kensington stitch, but so simple that no one with the slightest knowledge of embroidery need fear to try her hand at it. A great many designs are available in any dry goods store. Trace a circle on the selected material, cut out the circle, and then trace a smaller circle two or three inches within the cut out circle. Cut toward the center in slashes, stopping at the inner circle. Slash the edge of the cloth all the way around, making each slash an eighth of an inch apart, which will give your fringe. Book mark set (Fig. 4)—Get a half yard each of several harmonious colored ribbons. These are stitched together in the middle, which leaves half a dozen or more ribbons nine inches long, two for each color. Fasten them together when sewed with several twists of gold thread or cord neatly under the ribbons. Then make a small fuffy tassel for the ends of each ribbon, shape the ends into a point and sew the tassel to the point. If it is a favorite book you are going to present, copy out the first lines of the favored passages, with their page numbers. Then prepare to letter them on the ribbons in gold. Ordinary bronze powder is the medium, but do not mix it with the varnish usually sold with it, as that would spread upon the silk and spoil it. Use ordinary mucilage or gum arabic dissolved in water. Letter the quotations neatly upon the ribbon with a camel's hair brush, which can be purchased for a trifling sum in any art material store. The surest result is obtained by first tracing the lettering faintly with a pencil on the silk before applying the paint. NEW YEAR IN ANCIENT EGYPT. Joyousness Was When the River Nile Overflowed. In all ages and all lands much importance has attached to New Year's day. In Egypt the new year fell between the 17th and 20th of June and was called the "night of the drop." The sacred Nile was thought to flow down from heaven, and at its lowest ebb—about the middle of June—a tear from Isis fell into the stream and caused it to rise. Consequently, at this season the priests and people kept a sleepless vigil at the river's shore, watching for the miraculous rise which should bring such riches to the whole land. When the "night of the drop" came the priests cleared the altars of old ashes and lighted the sacred fires for the new year. Every one of the faithful carried a coal from the altar to light the fire at his own hearth, and from end to end the land was ablaze with light. The people put off their old garments and arrayed themselves in white, anointing their heads with sacred oil, crowning themselves with flowers and bearing palms in their hands, while chants and songs and feasting and processions filled the homes. THE FIRST STEPS. DANGER 1900 We shall hear a good deal about New Year's wishes during the next few days. Don't stop with wishing. Determine to make it a happy year for those about you, a year of progress and advancement for yourself. All the wishing in the world will not brighten one face nor lighten one heart. You cannot conquer temptation by wishing, nor do your day's work on nothing more substantial than desire. Wish all the good wishes of the season, and put a purpose back of every one. 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. "In the second place, I want you to help me out with the dinner." "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 hesitation. "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. "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.fill 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? "Tye some extra dry, $75 a case." replied the agent in his most brains-like tone. "Send up two cases." "Now," said the host briskl-, "these matters being settled, how about eggs?" "There are the suicide'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 boil 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 upstairs 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. 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 (mitite). Open the door and lay 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 heard 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 use it was finally taken into the home, decorated with candles, and eventually with anything which glistened and enhanced its brightness. Fashion Wash Dresses for Winter. Wash dresses for house wear are one of the innovations this fall, and they will be worn all winter. Gradually women have been working up to it by discarding flannel waists for cotton waists, and now the cotton, linen or gingham skirt has followed. Women say there are three common sense reason why the winter wash dresses should be popular. In the first place, they can be kept cleaner. Even if a house is heated by steam or hot water there is always a great deal of dust circulating in the heated rooms, and this soon means a soiled gown. If a woollen gown is worn the dust and dirt keeps on grinding in until the dress becomes almost gritty, for it cannot be cleansed save at the clearer's, and this is expensive. But the wash dress can be put into the tub every week, to be made fresh, crisp and attractive. In the second place, when a woman has been accustomed all spring and summer to lightweight clothing she finds the heavier winter apparel a decided drag on her. So she impatiently pulls off the heavy woollen gown and slips into a comfortable linen or gingham one. For a third reason, she says that hygiene teaches that light clothing for house wear and heavier clothing for street wear means better health. Of course, there is also the excellent reason of economy, for five wash dresses may be purchased where only one woollen gown is possible, and then a woman may use in winter the gingham dresses of the past summer, which will be a little out of the fashion the following summer, but are all tight for house wear. Afternoon Gown in Violet Violet is truly having its inning this season, and gowns for all occasions employing materials of all sorts in this popular color are shown in great quantities. It is apparently favored for afternoon gowns and a recently noticed model is a charming suggestion. The skirt fits snugly over the hips, and while it does not train, is longer than the regulation walking skirt. Three deep tucks serve as foot trimming. The bodice, blushing prettily over a high girdle of velvet a shade darker than the material, opens in front over a chemistette of white silk mull and duchess lace. On either side, extending from shoulder to bust line, is a full piece of velvet ending in a bow of same. Violet pearl buttons trim the front of blouse and finish elbow sleeves, which have a narrow ruche of lace at bottom. Black Velvet Visiting Gown. A handsome visiting gown of black velvet trimmed with Valenciennes lace has the waist in bolero effect and opens over an undervest made of frills of lace. A deep-pointed girdle finished with lace in the front is really a continuation of the vest. The edges of the bolero are outlined with frills of lace and fancy buttons. The undersleeves are of lace and wide frills of lace finish the full cape-like sleeves of velvet. The skirt has a deep flounce that is considerably wider at the back than at the front. Frock for a Little Girl Child's dress of gray cashmere. Both the plaited skirt and blouse are trimmed with bands of red, white and blue scotch plaid taffeta, bordered with bands of the cashmere. The little yoke is also of the plaid similarly bordered. The full sleeves, cut with epaulets, and plaited just at the top, are finished with deep cuffs, trimmed with A girl in a dress of the 19th century. the silk and cloth bands. The cravat is of red velvet, the belt of red leather. Greens for the Nursery Children are fond of vegetables, and salads are as necessary as they are for adults, but they must be of a delicate nature. Celery dressed with oil and a few drops of lemon juice is nice, providing the celery is young, white, tender and chopped fine. If lettuce is used it should be tender young pieces from the center of the head, cut just at serving time into fine shrews, dressed with oil and a few drops of lemon juice. Mayonnaise dressing should never be used Carefully cooked spinach, chopped fine, may be served also with a French dressing. Endive should be cut into thin strips and dressed. New Taffeta Waist Frock for young girl from 12 to 16 years old. It can be made of light wool, foulard, batiste or soft linen. The skirt is plaited or gathered at the top and finished at the bottom with a deep flounce set on with a little heading, above which is a wide puff of the material, forming little flrills at the edges. The blouse is ornamented in front with knots of velvet or ribbon and finished around the top with a puff, similar to that on the skirt. The cheekette, of batiste or linen, shirred and puffed and trimmed with lace in 1 tion. The sleeves form large puffs to the elbows. The girdle is of silk or ribbon. Wash Dresses for Morning Wear. One clear-headed woman who has had to put her hand to the wheel in these days of doubtful domestic service wears wash dresses the year around for early morning. These are the two-piece style, a short, well-cut skirt and a snug shirt waist, with color stitched fast and belt of like material also fastened to back of skirt. With an eye to color she forbids the nurses' ginghams and the dark red and indigo blue, white spotted or striped penangs, but keeps her eyes wide open for pretty pales in which gay colors and artistic designs appear. With one of these on, the cloudiest day looks bright in that family. Needle Work on Aprons Needlework as applied to approns has brought linen to the front as a favorite material. One of the prettier styles is cut oval shaped, is finished with buttonhole work, and has three squares of drawnwork near the bottom, between which run up the stems of two orange trees, with spreading branches and fruit worked in white cotton. Another in working size is of beautiful smooth linen with deep hemp on the bottom and narrow hemstitched border at the sides, perfectly plain in make and finish, but with a design worked in white embroidery across the bottom which would do credit to a table center piece. In White Crepe de Chine A shirt-waist of white crepe de chine has a fitted lining and closes in the back. Clusters of tucks at the shoulder of the front and back give fullness for the blouse, which is held in place at the waist line by a crush girdle of the same material. The front and back give ample fullness for the blouse, which is held in place at the waist line by a crush girdle of the same material. The front is cut in V shape to reveal a chemisette of lace edging and mousseline and is outlined by a shaped tab crossing in surplice effect at the center-front. The sleeve in elbow length. French Flannel Wranners French Flannel Wrappers. Every soft, lightweight material under the sun is impressed into service for princess robes; the most satisfactory, from a practical point of view, being French flannel, not too light in color for service, nor so dark as to be prosalaic. The French flannel, chosen for one particularly pretty wrapper, had a ground of soft blue—a deeper and less strong in tone than the usual turquoise blue. On it were scattered tiny garlands of wee bright roses in all the cheery, beautiful rose pinks. The ground was so well covered with them that, at a little distance, the general effect was of a rich Persian design. Delicious Nut Cracks. Taffy, fudge and caramels are all good. Nut cracks are not so common. Mix one-half cup lard, one-half cup brown sugar, one-half cup sour milk, one cupful Porto Rico molasses, one teaspoonful ginger, one level teaspoonful soda dissolved in cold milk, and enough flour to keep the dough from adhering to the board. Tear off pieces the size of a hickory nut; roll into balls; set on greased pans and bake. While hot put two to together, roll in maple icing and then in pennsylvania nut meats. Heed With Taste. Used With Tassels Fine real laces and braids—the tow chon braid, the princess braid, the duchesse braid—are used without the lace as trimming for evening gowns, but they must be very skillfully applied.