The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. OL16 NO 48 EGROES WILL HAVE TO GO. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL REPLACE NEGRO OFFICE HOLDERS WITH WHITE MEN. to more federal jobs in the South for colored men. All of the prominent Neo- leaders will have to walk the plank, president will apply the two term yard walk to McKinley Appointees, will yield the sentiment of the South and ap- point white men to federal positions. Washington, D. C.,—There are to be more appointments of Negroes to federal office in the Southern States. Every Negro officeholder in that section is to placed by a whit man. The only Negro publicans who have a chance for appointment to office under the Roose-stat administration are those who live in the Northern States, where the Negro's vote cuts a figure in elections. This policy was made clear today when resident Roosevett told Judson Lyons sat, Register of the Treasury that he is not to be reappointed to the position he was held for two terms. Mr. Lyons is a member of the Republican National committee from Georgia, and is recognized as a leader of his race. His place to be given to one of the several candidate from Republican States, all Negroes. By applying a two term yard stick to the Negro office holders throughout the south the administation expects to rid itself of all those who were put into high office by President McKinley through influence of Senator Hanna. In addition to Lyons, those who are go at the end of their present term are Robert Smalls, Collector of Port at comfort, S. C., Henry Rucker, Colleen of Internal Revenue for the Distriet Georgia; John H. Deveaux, Collector the Port at Savannah, Ga.; Joseph W. Lee, Collector of Internal Revenue for Florida; J. E. Bush, Reciever of Publicneys at New Orleans, La.; and James Lewis, Surveyor General for Louisiana under the department of the Interior. All of these men were active lieutenants of Mr. Hanna in his campaign of which resulted in the nomination of Mr. McKinley at St. Louis in 1896. Chief among the influence which have brought about this new policy on the out of President Roosevelt is the better understanding of the South and sts people which the President himself acquired using his recent Southern trips. He said that Dr. Booker T. Washon advised our President McKinley must such appointments in 1897, but vice had no influence against the influence of Senator Hanna. He is, however, much closer to President Roosevelt than he ever was to his predecessor office. Apparently for the sole purpose of working at these McKinley-Hanna Negro officeholders, it was announced some time ago that unless excellent reasons would be shown, no federal office holder would be given a third term. This rule has not been applied to any of the white office holders, but it is to be rigidly enforced against the Negroes. Publication Notice. the District Court of Wyandotte County cassus. Peter Seaman, Plainloiff. 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, 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 Puff Instest. Wm. Needles, Clerk. PUBLICATION NOTCIE In the District Court of W ndotte county Kansas. Sarah Hall. Plaintiff. vs. Henry Hall. Defendant. Toothpaste. 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 judgment rendered therow, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of martinium existing between plaintiff and divorcing plaintiff and awarding to her, her mother name, Sarah Everett, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty. for Plaintiff. Artest: Wm. Needles, Seeks. LOCALLY. Mrs. M. J. Jones of 310 Oakland ave. is indispcsed this week. Rev. W. H. Bowen one among the ablest minister in this city has returned from Kentucky where he spent several weeks with his family. The Negro Business men of this city have a special invitation to be present at 8th st. baptist church on Feb. 1st. The many friends are pleased to know Mrs. Mary Alexander who has been so seriously ill is able so soon to be up. Mr. Joe Brooks formerly of this city but now of Higginsville is in the city. Rev. J. R. Richardson is improving slowly from his recent illness. The dedication of the New Trades building at Western University was quite an elaborate affair the exercises and addresses were befitting in the high est sense. Mrs. Briggs Webb one of the oldest citizens in our community who had temporarily lost her reason some weeks ago died the past week and was bursied from the First Baptist church under the auspices of Rebecca Tabernacle International Order of Twelve. Mrs. Minnie Arnold with daughter Gertrude left last Friday for Butler, Mo. where she will attend the funeral of her father Mr. Craig Mills who died Jan. 14 he was 77 years old and a 33 degree mason. He was buried from the A. M. E. church of that city. THEY SAY The Art club reception is going to be the sweltest thing that happened. Are you going to help name the chick en at 8th street baptist church the night of the lst. Give her a call. When need the service of a Notary public and typewriter Miss Mary E.King Room 216 Portsmouth Building is at your service. Residence 1119 Freeman Phones: Bell 1246 W. and Home 111 W. She is deserving of your patronage We await an answer. Will some one inform us—How many Negro teachers in this city, are interested in thing that tends to uplift the race? How many are interested in the race, beyond the salaries they draw for teaching your children. Positions made possible by you Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County kansas, Charles W. Jones, Plaintiff. vs. Sotropla Jones, Defendant. Sorbroia Jones, 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 3rd day of February 100, the petition filed in said case, will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree, dissolve the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plain tiff from defendant, and for cost of tails action. Charles W. Jenes, by I. F. BRADLEY, his Atty. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. First Pub. Jan. 19 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!" Rich English Counties. Lancashire, England, is the next richest county to London. It is rated at £24,000,000, against London's £43,500,000. Largest Deposits of Nickel The largest deposits of nickel are on the island of New Caledonia, a French possession in the South Pacific. Women Carry Mails. Many of the ruraletter carriers in the Tyrol are women. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, A New Chicken Hatched. WHAT SHALL BE ITS NAME? Every Negro Business Man of Kansas City Kansas is Expected to be Present to Help Name This Chicken. THURSDAY FEB. 1, 1906. AT 8th ST. BAPTIST CHURCH. PROGRAMME. 1. Orchestration...... 2. Invocation, ..... (a) M 3. Opening Address..... Of the Hygge 4. Remarks,..... Dougl 5. Violin Solo,...... 6. “The Ministers are in p growth of our Race Ent Of St. James M (MUSIC) 7. “Wha can the Ministers ..... Rev. Ward, Dr. M the A. M. E.; 8th St. ian Churches, Respe 8. “The Duty of Business ...... 9. “Introduction of Business of Kansas City, K 10. Music! ADMISSION REFRESHMENTS 1. Orchestration.....Nightengale Orchestra. 2. Invocation, .....Rev. Spencer. (a) Music. 3. Opening Address.....A. Overton. Of the Hygenic Mfg. Co. 4. Remarks,.....Prof. J. J. Lewis. Douglass School. 5. Violin Solo,.....Mr. Walter Burdette. 7. "Wha can the Ministers do to help Race Enterprises' ..... Rev. Ward, Dr. Bowen and Rev. Harris,..From the A. M. E.; 8th St. Christian; and 9th St. Christian Churches, Respectfully. 8. 'The Duty of Business Men to each other,'..... W. S. Harris, and others. 9. "Introduction of Business and Professional Men of Kansas City, Kansas,..... Rev. E. A. Wilson. 10. Music! Music! Music!! REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas Robert McRear, 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 that unless you appear and answer on or before the 3rd day of March 1906, the petition will be taken as true and a judgement rendered, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff and defendant, and for cost of this suit. 1. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. NOTE LETS. Nice furnished rooms at 1512 N. 3rd st. at reasonable rates, Mrs. J. Bolden, proprietress. 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. FOR SALE—A bargain in a No. 1, Upright piano $250 when new, mandolin attachment, call at this office and inves tigate the bargain. FOR RENT—To desirable parties (gentleman preferred) well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city, inquire at this office. 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. FOR RENT—Nice Furnished Rooms at 423 Oakland avenue, Mrs. Annie Williams. Mrs. S. T. Mitchell of 340 Ninn. ave. is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to-date Rooming house in the city—charges always reasonable— Reaching one of the committee ba "Sir, I wish to direct your attention to that grave. The man who lies buried there had to be provided with the largest coffin ever made in this city." The honored guest thanked his host not so much for the information as for relieving the strain.—Pittsburg Dispatch Melvina McTear, Plaintiff. vs. Robert McTear, Defendant. Nightengale Orchestra. Rev. Spencer. Music. A. Overton. Music Mfg. Co. Prof. J. J. Lewis. Mass School. Mr. Walter Burdette. Art responsible for the slow perprises," Rev. L. E. Hayes M. E. Church. C.) Us do to help Race Enterprises' Bowen and Rev. Harris,..From Christian; and 9th St. Christ- fully. Men to each other," ..... W. S. Harris, and others. Mass and Professional Men Tasas,.... Rev. E. A. Wilson. Music!! Music!! 10 CENTS. WILL BE SERVED. The Preacher and churches. Rev. Root. Mitchell of the First Baptist church was visited during his ab sence from home temporarily, by robbers. He is the loser of a diamond ring, a gold necklace and revolver—no clue to the parties or party who was so mean has not as yet been obtained. Revival Services are being held at the Mount Pleasant Baptist church. Rev. Richardson is indisposed. Rev. E. P. Green formerly pastor of King Solomon Baptist church later of Pine Bluff, Ark., is back again positively to remain. Bishop Grant will preach next Sunday at the A. M. E. church, Rev.A.M.Ward pastor. The King Solomon Baptist church, Rev. H. H. Gordon, pastor will have in the near future a monster demonstration in honor of the church being out of debt. What a glorious celebration it ought to be—a colored church in Kansas City, Kansas out of debt. Rev. Cbas. Ferguson is pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist—better known as Kansas City's, little chuch around the corner. PATTERSON & GAYDEN -Dealers In- Hard and Soft Coal, Wood. Cesspool Cleaning Cisterns Filled Tel. 215 West. 527 STATE AVE. There will be a Grand Banquet at the Alexanders hall January the 19th, 1906, given by the Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem this grand and noble order will undergo considerable expense as well as using effort to make this one among the most pleasant affairs the good people of this city has witness for many years. There will be no charges at the door and suppor will also be free. All churches, societies and the pubite is cordially invited to attend. The sermon for the occasions will be preached by R. Christian assisted by Rev. E. P. Green. Mrs. Amanda Brown, M. E. Q. Wm. Stinnett, M. N. K. --- PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court, Wyandotte County, Kansas. 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 1906, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgement will be taken for the plaintiff, granting him an absolute decree or divorce from you, and for such other relief as the nature of said case may require. DURSEY GREEN, Atty for Plaintiff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. By D, C. McCombs, Denig Publication Notice. In the court of Common Pleas at Wyandotte County, Kansas. Mary Bradley, Plaintiff, vs. Ot's 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 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 Piff. Attest: J. L. Beggs, Clerk. 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 causes of action against you. Cause of action No. 1.-Charging you with extreme cruelty. And in cause of Action No. 2. Charging you with gross nec- glect of duty. Ualess you answer demur or otherwise object on or before the 23rd day of dec. 1905. And upon further proof the plaint- iff 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 ss In the District Court of Wyandotte County. State of Kansas. Lawrence Jones, Plaintiff. vs. Elsie Jones, Defendant. The State of Kkansas 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, seteing forth 2 causes of Action No.1. Gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. And unless you answer demur or otherwise object on 3rd day of December 1905. The allegations in said petition will be taken as true and upon further proof the Plaintiff will be granted the divorce as prayed for in said petition. L. W. JOHNSON, Atty. for Plaintiff. Attested by Clerk of District Court, on 16th day of October, 1905. Wm. Needles Clerk of the said Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. per D. C. McCambs Deputy. Administrator's Notice. state of Kansas. County of Wyandotte. §§ In the Probate Court in and for said county. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the under signed, on the Estate, William Bryant late of said County, deceased. by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State afore said, dated the 30th day of Dec. 1905. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. ANNA MILLER Adminitratrix of the Estate of William Bryant, deceased. In witness where of, the undersigned. Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte. State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 30th day of Dec. A. D. 1905. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. ```markdown ``` An Aged Citizen, Prosperous Farmer and a Christian Gentleman Passes Away. Mr. Allen Garner was born in Missouri in 1829, came to Wyandotte County, Ks in the spring of 1872, he devoted his attention to agriculture and horticulture, and also the farm on which he was located was almost a wilderness. It has been brought to a fine state of cultivation and yields large crops. The early education of Mr. Garner was obtained mostly at night school, he was married in 1862 to Miss Anna Patterson and to them ten children were born. Mr. Garner was a member of the Metropolitan Baptist church and an earnest supporter of principles which tend to elevate mankind, he was a staunch republican his first presidential vote being cast for the General U. S. Grant. Mr. Garner has seen the remarkable growth of Wyandotte County for altho he came thither later than a great many yet the country was comparatively unsettled and but little cultivation of the land had been done. He was the owner of sixty acres of land lying within a mile and a half of the city limits, he died Saturday morning at 4 o'clock Jan. 20th and was buried Monday the 22nd at the Quindaro cemetery, Rev. E A. Wilson preached the funeral, he was 77 years of age. The removal of this aged citizen takes from our midst an active, busy soul one who dealt in the soil and by bragility, unflagging industry reached a rather comfortable position. An independent happy and prosperous farmer. Always busy, always merry, always doing his very best—Life in this world closed quietly and peacefully. Somewhere in the great beyond out of eight of mortal eyes—a new life nas begun. Three score years ten and seven, what an eventful career? How much sorrow, happiness and intense joy was crowded into that space—yet the grave is the end. The dear bereaved wife, the faithful companion through sunshine and rain, the intelligent sons and daughters who have lightened the cares of years we extend our d-epest sympathy. Motoring as a Tonic That eccentric genius, the late Frank Buckland, the naturalist, when he felt fagged took a railway journey, and, having armed his eyes with spectacles, hung his head out of the window, and averred that the perfect aeration of the lungs which he thus obtained was the finest stimulant he had ever discovered. Motorists experience the same invigorating effects of traveling at speed through the open air. One of the most enthusiastic "chaufeurs" in England was, and has been for some time, under the treatment of Sir William Broadbent for Indigestion and nervous prostration at the time he invested in a motor car. From that day the doctor's occupation has ceased so far as this automobile is concerned, as he now enjoys the most perfect health, and he puts this down entirely to motor driving.-London Daily Mall. Agile Boer Ponies. Most of the ponies, for they are rarely more, that the Boers ride, come from the Free State and all have Basuto blood in them. The Basuto pony is to South Africa what the Welsh or Scottish pony is to Great Britain, as sure-footed over rocks as a goat, and with an ability to leap from crag to crag like a chamois. A Basuto on his pony will come at a good pace down a mountain side that an Apine climber would be careful in negotiating. Thanks to the Basuto blood in their ponies, the Boers car move in small parties over the mountainous country, raiding farms and driving off cattle over the hill path. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 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 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. What with high finance and chorus girls this is a bad year for millionaires. 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. Capt. Bernier says he would not go to the North Pole in a balloon. The Cap. has seen icebergs at close range and has an inward presentiment that they would not be desirable things to fall on. The dyspeptic who is ordered by his physician to walk five miles a day, and who recovers his health by following the advice, ought not to complain because he has to have soles put on his shoes. It is this way with the man at the races: If his pony wins he will have a pony of brandy after a good dinner, but if the horse he bets on sails in loser, then he will have a schooner with his sandwich. --- Nuisance Turned Out Largely a Matter of Ownership. Mrs. Russell Sage is one of the most active workers in the movement to abolish the docking of the tails of horses. In a discussion of this movement she said recently: "If the horses already docked were out of the way we should have no trouble in putting a stop to docking forever. But many persons, advocates of our movement in the past, no sooner buy a pair of showy carriage horses with docked tails than they desert us and go over to the enemy." She smiled sadly. "It is the old story." she said. "White owned a dog. Black, who lived next door, came to him and said: "Look here. That dog of yours howls so much at night that my wife and I are going mad for want of sleep." "Is that so?" said White. 'I hadn't noticed his howling. I think you must be mistaken.' "A week passed and Black came home one day with the objectionable dog on a string. "I have bought this cur,' he told his wife. 'I have bought it from White and I am going to chloroform it.' "Another week and White, the dog's former owner, said to Black: "You haven't chloroformed that dog yet, have you?" "Why, no not yet, 'Black answered. The fact is we have grown rather fond of the critter, he is so playful and affectionate.' "But doesn't his barking annoy you?' White asked. "No, I haven't noticed it,' said Black. “Well,’ White grumbled, ‘I can't sleep for that brute's continual yowling.’ Mrs. Sage smiled again. “In the case of ourselves it is one thing; in the case of others it is a different matter,” she said. Love for the Old Home. Mankind is nomadic, and while the sweetest poetry in the language is inspired by the old home, the monumental work in the world has been accomplished in the main by those who left the parental roof to pursue elsewhere the quest for fortune, fame and high success. Nevertheless, the love for the old home abides. The reunion of those who remain and those who have departed is an occasion that will stir the pulse of any community in which such a soulful event takes place. The pretty announcement was made by a newspaper in a little New England town which was about to celebrate its old home week that "the Jones boys have arrived and Charles will preach in the Presbyterian church on Sunday." A little wail of news like that revives old times and pays for all the preparation of "old home week."—Philladelphia Ledger. Surplusage. Owen Wister, the novelist, was criticising the work of a literary beginner. "Now, here," said Mr. Wister, slashing his blue pencil through an entire manuscript page, "here is arrant superfluity and surplusage. In what way do these 400 words help your story? "In no way. On the contrary, they hinder, they impede it. These written words are mere surplusage, as so many of our spoken words are mere surplusage. They resemble the useless questions that we ask. "A man stood before a mirror in his room, his face lathered, and an open razor in his hand. "His wife came in. She looked at him and said: "Are you shaving? "The man, a foe to surplusage, re- plied fiercely: "No; I am blacking the kitchen range. Where are you—out driving or at a matinee?" Look for Action from Senator Look for Action from Senator. According to general belief Mr. Knox of Pennsylvania does not mean to be a silent member of the United States senate at the coming session. As a rule newcomers are rather expected to keep in the background for a time, but Senator Knox is tacitly booked to take a leading part in discussion of the railroad rate measure. For many years Pennsylvania senators have almost confined themselves to committee activity. The gamers, father and son, were silent men, and so to a great extent was Mr. Quay. Mr. Penrose, too, rarely opens his lips, so the spectacle of a Pennsylvania senator active in debate will be somewhat of a novelty. The Old-Time Fireplace. The stoves on an 'the steam-heat "git" me. These wearsise wintry days! Gimme the old-time chimbly. The backsides an' the blades! I want to sit where the oak-fire gleams. An' tell old stories, an' dream old dreams! The steam-heat—it says authn' The sweeps clides dream on sight; But the flames of the open fire Sing songs of a winter night! Settin' there, where the bright light streams. I tell old stories, an' dream old dreams! Youth comes back with its roses As I dream by the fireside late. The face of the old-time sweetheart In lights at the gate! Old-times-old loves, in the firelight's gleams- The old. sweet story—the old sweet dreams! —Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. Under Arrest, but Unguarded While Gen. Brugere, commander of the French army, was under fifteen days' arrest in Paris he was not permitted to leave his quarters on any pretext except to transact official business at the war office, might not wear his sword and could receive no visitors. But in consideration of his high rank no sentry was placed over him. Willingly Pay Money for Removal of "Beauty Spots." Female scoffers who deny that men have been blessed by nature with so seductive a charm as a dimple will change their tune when they hear what the beauty doctor has to say on the subject. "Dimples are just as common among men as among women," says that apostle of the good advantage. Beard and mustache combine to hide their charm. Anyhow, men are not proud of dimples. They consider them a sign of effeminacy. Now that smooth faces are the fashion, the man with a dimple in cheek or chin is hard put to it to hide that beauty mark. In his extremity he seeks relief from me. "What can I do with these devilish dimples?" says he. "Take 'em out," I advise. "All right,' says he; go ahead." "Then I begin treatment. In the past year I have removed sets of dimples from men's faces that any woman of their acquaintance would have paid $100 for. All men with money to spend patronize the beauty doctor more shamelessly than they used to; out of all the miracles they wish performed there is none they insist upon so stoutly as the removal of dimples." IS HAPPIEST AWAY FROM POMP. Austrian Emperor Finds Rest in Society of Grandchildren Although Francis Joseph of Austria is a central figure in the most exclusive of European courts his dinners are quite informal in tone except on rare state occasions. Usually his majesty converses in the liveliest manner with his guests. In the smoking-room, to which he almost invariably accompanies the men, he joins in the general chat, laughs at the jokes and shows marked preference for the frankest replies to his questions. Since the tragic death of his son and wife the emperor leads a solitary life for a greater portion of the year. In summer, however, he makes his way to his lovely villa at Ischl, in the beautiful Calzkammergut and here is surrounded by his daughters and their children. It is then that pathetic old man is happiest, playing "grandfather" with the babies, taking walks with them and forgetting for a brief season the trials and sufferings, misfortunes and disappointments which life has brought him. Daddy's Song. Must all thy songs be mother songs, My bonny baby boy? Do poets write no other songs, That father's name employ? Why, then, I'll right the monstrous wrong: Come, boy, and hear daddy's song. But first a toss high in the air, To hear his merry shout, And then a tickle here and there, To bring the dimples out, And then a romp upon the bed, Oh, precious little touche head! Now, then. wee barefoot boy, take care! Run swiftly 'e the floor, And father' he a bruin bear, And then a grate up and say! Why, bless us, boy, what films stuff! Dad's song is rag time, sure enough. There, now of play we've had our fill, "The cuddle of I love, (How very bright his eyes are still!) "Hush, baby mine, by-low!" Come, come, you little rascal you, Dad's had enough of peek-a-boo! Hush, his boy, to sleep with thee! (I wish his mammy'd come!) Thy father' will turn into a bee His longer he must hum. Ah, well to a sledge to rest, A mother song, perchance, is best. —Boston Transcript. Blue Dogs With Pink Tails. "I will never forget my first experience in hospital work," said Chief Surgeon Millar of the Central emergency hospital. "There was a green nurse in the detention ward and we had a very violent case in there—a man in the worst stage of delirium tremens. I was awakened in the middle of the night by the head nurse, who requested me to come at once to the patient. When I got there I found him raving and very violent, with the new nurse scared out of her wits. I said: "Why did you let him go so far; I left you some medicine to give him as soon as he got delirious." "Yes, doctor,' she replied; 'but you told me to give that to him if he saw any more snakes, and this time he was seeing blue dogs with pink tails.'"—Exchange. Graded Christianity In a certain church in Greater New York the children of the rich have Bible-lore instilled into their youthful minds on the level of the church floor, while the infantile poor are taught who the fathers of Abraham were, in the basement*. "Who teaches the children upstairs?" a certain young and enthusiastic church worker, whose duties lay below, was asked. "Oh, they have rich teachers up there," was the reply, but her tone was a little wistful. "What income must a child's parents have before it can be admitted to the room upstairs?" This was not ascertained. Accepted the Authority. The late Frank F. Heard, for many years a prominent member of the Boston bar, was the author of a work on law which was much used and quoted by lawyers. He was once trying a case the opposing lawyer being Gusavus Somerby. Mr. Somerby made his argument, when Heard suddenly said: "That is wrong. What is your authority?" "F. F. Heard, page —," replied Somerby. "Oh, well," said Heard, "if Hearc says so it is so." And the case proceeded, with much amusement on the part of the spectators. Showing How Unnecessary It Is To Give the Lie Direct. Senator Foraker was contradicting a certain statement. a certain statement. "Though this is a firm contradiction," he said, "I want it to be a pleasant and polite one. It is not necessary, when men tell falsehoods, to call them liars and club them over the head. Their error can be pointed out in neater and more graceful ways. "For instance: "In a small town in Indiana a group of drummers were assembled. They sat in the reading-room of the country hotel. On the firmsy hotel paper they had finished writing to their firms with the lumpy ink and the rusted pens which the hotel management provided, and now, with newspaper reading and desultory talk, they whiled away the tedious evening. "A young drummer in a red tie took the cigarette from his mouth and said: "Well, my day's sales here reached $5,000. Not bad for a small town, eh? "An elderly drummer looked up from his newspaper and said quietly: "Not bad at all. It is wonderful what one can sometimes do in these little places. On my last trip here my commissions came to just what you say your sales did." "The young man reddened. "This isn't a lying competition,' he said gruffly. "Oh, excuse me,' said the other. 'I thought it was.' " Story of a Medford Warrior. Capt. James C. D. Clark of the Lawrence Light Guards of Medford, Mass., was a speaker at a recent camp fire of civil and Spanish war veterans, and related the following story: A Medford man, a quaint character of Irish birth, returned from the civil war with an undisputed record of hard and meritorious service in the army. The younger generation, hearing of his bravery, tried unsuccessfully to get his own version of his part in the bloody struggle. One day, finding himself besieged by a number of persistent questioners, the modest warrior consented to speak. "We'd get up in the mornin' at 5 o'clock," he began, "an' have breakfast. Begin fightin' at 6, knock off at 12. Begin shootin' again at 1, knock off at 6 an' ate supper, an' turn in to sleep. Every day the same old thing; that's all." A Station Without Signals There is no chance of a signalman making a mistake at Wanstrow Station—the smallest on the Great Western railway—for the simple reason that there are no signals, and, consequently, no signalman. The station is situated on the Wells branch of Somersetshire, between Witham and Cranmore, a structure consisting of a platform about 24 yards long and a small waiting room. In the waiting-room is a fire grate, and on the platform one lamp. No station master, porter, or other staff is kept at Wanstrow, the station being under the supervision of the Witham station master, who pays occasional visits to the place to see that everything is in order. In the winter a platelayer makes a fire in the waiting-room, attends to it during the day, and lights the platform lamp when necessary.—London Tit Bits. Snuffbox in Her Stocking. It was a sunny day and several passengers on the ferry boat were sitting on the outside benches. One middle-aged, quietly dressed and obviously respectable woman sat alone. Presently she reached down, pulled up her skirts and drew a small box from out of her stocking. She opened the box and took therefrom a pinch of snuff. This done, she replaced the box in her stocking and fastened her garter. The pungent odor of snuff pervaded the air, but the woman appeared unconcerned to the point of defiance. "Well!" exclaimed one man to himself or anybody who chanced to hear him. "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it."—New York Press. The Cottage Door. The starry silence falls Along my sylvan way; A spirit walks the earth We never meet by day; And listening to the voice Of year that are more My feet—O, know st thou why?— Have wandered to thy door. The quiet taper burns. And make casement bright, And soft thy shadow falls Between me and the light; I gaze on a shrine My heart would bend before; My couch had seen no rest, Had I not seen thy door! The Night, as if to breathe, Her starry curtain parts; The very air seems faint With bearer lovers' hearts; Some spirit robes the air In light that heaven wore; Or is that light thine own? And is that heaven thy door? —Charles Swain. Acknowledged Expert on Diamonds. The credit of being the greatest diamond expert in America is generally awarded to Gen. Mindil, who for ten years has had charge of the jewelroom in the appraiser's office, New York. The importer who can bamboozle Gen. Mindil as to the value of a precious stone has not yet come to the front. Worse Than an Epidemic? Worse than an Epidemic? Dr. Heber Jones, to whom the citizens of Memphis recently presented a purse of $10,000 for his care of the quarantine this year, has weathered five epidemics in the city and yet it is recorded that he was "greatly embarrassed" when the leading woman who presented the check kissed him full upon the lips. Telephone Bell W. 32 W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. 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The second slow person that morning was in a great hurry, and did not notice the innovation, but made his customary ditto marks, and the rest of the men on that page followed suit. The excuse book was abolished. Example of the Postage Stamp Example of the Postage Stamp. The late judge Andrew Wylie, of Virginia, had a happy gift of illustration. The judge cast in 1800 the only vote for Lincoln that was given in Alexandria, Va. In an address on Lincoln he once illustrated in an odd way the power of perseverance. "Lincoln persevered," he said, "and it is only those who persevere, they who concentrate their energies, who succeed. Don't give three years to journalism and then, discouraged, try the law awhile. Don't learn the grocery business and in a little while take up placer mining or plumbing. Consider, rather, the postage stamp, whose useful depends on its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Think What a Family Then! 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His name is Pierre Loirat. He was born in November, 1805, and at 12 he went to sea. ROOM 8. LOST EYESIGHT Through Coffee Drinking All Parts of the United States Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Has Effected Similar Cures. Many wonderful cures of female ills are continually coming to light which are been brought about by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and Mrs. Fannie D. Fox through the advice of Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., which is given to sick women absolutely free of charge. The present Mrs. Pinkham has for twenty-five years made a study of the life of her sex; she has consulted with and advised thousands of suffering women, who to-day owe not only their health but even life to her helpful advice. Mrs. Fannie D. Fox, of 7 Chestnut street, Bradford, Pa., writes: "earer Mrs. Pinkham "I suffered for a long time with female trouble and finally was told by my physician that I had a tumor. I did not want to permit to an operation, so wrote you for advice. I received your letter and did as you told me, and to-day I am completely my doctor. My doctor says the tumor has disappeared, and I am once more a well woman. Believe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the best medicine in the world." The testimonials which we are constantly publishing from grateful women establish beyond a doubt the power of gydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to conquer female diseases. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She asks nothing in return for her advice. It is absolutely free, and to thousands of women has proved to be more precious than gold. MIXED FARMING WHEAT RAISING RANCHING three great pursuits have again shown wonderful results on the JOBE ARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE sufficient climate—farmers plowing in their sleeves in the middle of November. All are bound to be more than pleased with final results of the past season's harvest."—tract. Aid, wood, water, hay in abundance—schools, churches, markets convenient. This is the era of $1.00 wheat. Apply for information to Superintendent of immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to authorized Indian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, n. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) C.C.C.-C.C.C.-C.C.C.-C.C.C. WANTED. If you are willing to work we can give you a chance; you will not get rich, but you can earn a fair income (man or woman). Write with references to H.S.HOWLAND, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City. reibt um Catalog al Jacobator Co., des Moine, Iowa. some people question the statements that coffee hurts the delicate nerves of the body. Personal experience with thousands proves the general statement true and physicians have records of great numbers of cases that add to the testimony. The following is from the Rockford, L. Register-Gazette: Dr. William Langhorst of Aurora has been treating one of the queerest cases of lost eyesight ever in history. The patient is O. A. Leach of Beach county, and in the last four months he has doctored with all of the specialists that the country and has at last returned home with the fact impressed in his mind that his case is incurable. A portion of the optic nerve has been ruined, rendering his sight so limited that he is unable to see anything before him, but he can see plain anything at the side of him. There CONCERNING .COMMON .SENSE. The man who knows when not to talk, possesses judgment of a high order. People everywhere are displaying good judgment by eating Pillsbury's Vitos for breakfast. It's a mighty good thing to be outside of; try it. Somebody Entitled to the Credit The testimony as to who wanted James Hazen Hyde sent as ambassador to France is confusing. It is pertinent to inquire who interfered with the program—Boston Herald. 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. Equally Delighted. Jack—I suppose there is nothing that pleases a woman more than the devoted attention of the man of her choice. Bess—Except, perhaps, the devoted attention of the man of some other girl's choice.—Philadelphia Press. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. A Small Beginning "Well, well! so they've married. He first began to be attentive to her one day when he took her skating and—" "Ah! began at the foot, eh?"—Philadelphia Press. Lewis' Single Binder cigar—richest, most satisfying smoke on the market. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Whew. Tess—He says you called him a puppy. Jess—Nonesense! I merely asked him if he was fond of dog biscuit.—Philadelphia Press. 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. 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With freedom will come more general education and a great upraise in Mexican life will result. By way of contrast Mexico and Sweden and Norway offer an interesting study. Mexico, with peonage and restricted education, has a wonderful and rich variety of natural resources. Sweden and Norway, with a cold and rather sterile country, have individual freedom, and are the only countries in the world in which every grown man can read and write. Therefore the Scandinavians have prosperity, good homes and a general and splendid civilization, while Mexico, with friendly climate and great natural resources, lags behind. But the signs of advancement are many and encouraging, and there is every reason for taking a cheerful view of the future of our sister republic.—San Francisco Call. Leave a Few. "I don't believe in being a hog sportsman," said the first amateur hunter. "Nor do I," agreed the second a. h. "After a chap has bagged four or five guides he ought to be willing to call it a day's sport." What a woman doesn't like about whist is that there is no feather-stitching to it. have been but few cases of its kind before, and they have been caused by whisky or tobacco. Leach has never used either, but has been a great coffee drinker, and the specialists have decided that the case has been caused by this. Leach stated himself that for several years he had drak three cups of coffee for breakfast, two at noon and one at night. According to the records of the specialists of this country this is the first case ever caused by the use of coffee. The nerve is ruined beyond ald and his case is incurable. The fact that makes the ease a queer one is that the sight forward has been lost and the side sight has been retained. According to the doctor's statement, the young man will have to give up coffee or the rest of his sight will follow and the entire nerve be ruined. Register-Gazette. COLORADO FARM PRODUCTS. The plodding farmer may be slow, but in the end, in his race with other lines of industry that seem to hold out brighter promises, he always seems to come out as did the patient tortoise in his race with the hare. The latest illustration of this comes from Colorado, a state which only a few years ago was dazzling the world with the riches of its gold and silver mines. The annual reviews of Colorado's progress show that in 1905 the state produced the greatest amount of gold of any year in its history, a total of $29,000,000. But in the same year, the grain and potatoes, hay and other produce from Colorado farms aggregated more than $40,000,000 in value. Silver was higher in value than for several years, and the production of this metal in Colorado rose to $11,000,000, but the combined product of the orchards and sugar beet patches beat the total of silver by $1,500,000. Five million dollars' worth of lead was marketed, which is just about equal to the value of the fat lambs shipped. The whole value of the product of the metalliferous mines of the state was $43,000,000. The products of the farms aggregated more than $70,000,000. More money is being invested in agricultural projects in Colorado than in the development of mines. Reservoirs and canals originally planned for placer mining have been diverted to irrigation, and the next few years seem like to see the area of highly productive farming lands in the state more than doubled. The "man with the hoe" seems to have secured a start over the man with the hammer and drill, which the latter will never be able to overcome, unless some very remarkable new discoveries of mines are made. The Boy's Idea of It. "Say, pop, the policeman arrested a tramp for sleeping on a bench in the park." "Well, that's right, my son." "Did he have a right to arrest him without a bench warrant?"—Yonkers Statesman. 5 Tons Grass Hay Free. Everybody loves lots and lots of fodder for hogs, cows, sheep and swine. The enormous crops of our Northern Grown Pedigree Seeds on our seed farms the past year compel us to issue a special catalogue called SALZER'S BARGAIN SEED BOOK. This is brim full of bargain seeds at bar gain prices. SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAY. and receive free sufficient seed to grow 4 tons of grass on your lot or farm this summer and our great Bargain Seed Book with its wonderful surprises and great bargains in seeds at bargain prices. Remit 4c and we add a package of Cosmos, the most fashionable, serviceable beautiful annual flower. John A. Salzer Seo Co., Lock Drawer W. La Crosse, Wis. Spread of Style in Arizona. Every symptom points to a tendency to spread on style in Tombstone. Among other instances in this direction the boys bought a pair of beautiful barber pole suspenders and presented them to the amiable dispenser who shoves the amber extract of cheerfulness over the mahogany of the Parlor saloon. He promptly donned the innovation, but claimed that he felt like he had a fence rat on each shoulder. Then when they be came overburdensome he would unbutton them and permit them to dangle in front, but he finally got them down line enough to go to church in Several old-timers, conspicuously court attendants from the other end of the county, have fallen into the habit of wearing boiled shirts, and it looks as if sky-blue overalls might be discarded as a full dress costume. Getting "powerful tony" in town nowadays.—Tombstone Inspector. Ready For the Basha. El Hadji Abdullah Ali Sadik Basha of Asyssinia, now in Washington, cannot understand why, having seen the president, capitalists do not flock to him. Somebody has given the Basha a bum steer. This is his spot, not Washington. The capitalists are all here waiting for Ab, but don't know whether he wants gold bricks, green goods, craps, straight bunk or what.—New York Telegram. Let it be remembered that the eyes may be attacked in one case and the stomach in another, while in others it may be kidneys, heart, bowels or general nervous prostration. The remedy is obvious and should be adopted before too late. Quit coffee, if you show incipient disease. It is easy if one can have well-boiled Postum Food Coffee to serve for the hot morning beverage. The withdrawal of the old kind of coffee that is doing the harm and the supply of the elements in the Postum which Nature uses to rebuild the broken down nerve cells, insures a quick return to the old joy of strength and health, and it's well worth while to be able again to "do things" and feel well. There's a reason for POSTUM TELEGRAPHIC BRIEF The National Retail Grocers association in convention has elected John A. Green of Cleveland president, Solomon Westerfield of Chicago vice president. The news of the appointment of Luke E. Wright, governor general of the Philippines to be the nine American ambassador to Japan, has been received at Tokyo with general satisfaction. A Spanish aeronaut named Duro has crossed the Pyrenees in a balloon. He ascended at Pau and descended at Guadio, in Granada, covering about 5,00 miles in fourteen hours. Lindsay Cooper, an aeronaut of Clarinda, Ohio, traveling with a carnival show exhibiting at Wolfe City, Texas. fell from his baloon a distance of 2,000 feet and was killed instantly. At the meeting of the Southern Soft Yarn Spinners' association in Atlanta, Ga., a resolution was adopted asking for a discontinuance of the reports on the cotton crop by the Agricultural Department of the government. A bulletin issued by the census bureau of Washington on the amount of cotton ginned from the growth of 1905 to Jan. 16 shows the number of running bales for the United States to be 9,988,111. President and Mrs. Roosevelt issued their invitations to the wedding of Miss Roosevelt and Representative Longworth of Ohio, which is to take place at noon in Washington Feb. 17 as already announced. The senate committee on the Philippines voted to report favorably the nominations of Henry Clay Ide of Vermont to be governor general and John W. Smith of California to be vice governor of the Philippine islands. A bulletin issued by the interstate commerce commission at Washington shows that the months of July, August and September last 1,063 were killed and 16,386 injured among passengers and employees of steam railroads in the United States. Word comes from Guayavuil. Equador, that the troops at Riobamba or General Garcia, the former president fired on the peace commissioners sent Monday from Guayaquil to Quito, the capital, killing one man and wounding two. The rest proceeded to Quito. It was announced by Commissioner Warner at Washington that the pension roll at the end of December carried 993,067 names, a decrease of 504 over the preceding month. Of these 676,602 were veterans of the civil war. During the month 2,010 civil war veterans died. Former President Grover Cleveland of Princeton, N. J., when asked whether he had anything to say regarding a report that he is dissatisfied with his position as a rebate referee for the insurance companies and soon would resign the position, said: "I have only to say there is no truth in the statement." The new Japanese finance minister M. Sakatani, said in the house of representatives that he proposed to convert $80,000,000 of the war taxes into permanent imposts and to established a debt with a consolidation fund, for the service of which $55,000,000 would be devoted annually in addition to the $18,000,000 hitherto assigned for the same purpose. The Cuban senate passed a bill empowering President Palma to expend up to $25,000 for a wedding present for Miss Alice Roosevelt, which will be presented to her in the name of the Cuban people. Sig. Zayas, in introducing the measure, eulogized President Roosevelt as a great ruler, who is a great friend of Cuba. The bill was passed by acclamation. Secretary Shaw, is an address before the United States Civil Service Retirement association, expressed his belief that the lot in life of government clerks would be improved by a provision retiring them permanently from the public service at the expiration of a limited period, not to exceed six years. He tentatively announced a retirement plan along these lines, the adoption of which, he said, would counteract some of the weaknesses of the service. Papers of incorporation in New Jersey have been filed for the United Chemists company, with a capital of $10,000,000. The company's object is to establish retail drug stores in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, and it is said that it has already secured options on a number of finely located stores in those cities. Western capitalists looking for investments in the east are back of the new company. The Illinois state board of health has sent Dr. J. C. Westervelt of Shelbyville to Garrett, Douglas county, where an outbreak of scarlet fever is reported to have reached the proportions of an epidemic. Reports of inspectors of the board are to the effect that smallpox exists at Hillsboro, Montgomery county, and at Madison in Madison county. The patients at Granite City and Venice have recovered and the quarantine has been raised The house committee on appropriations in congress has decided to report favorably on a pension bill for the fiscal year 1907 appropriating $140,245,500. Notwithstanding their victories over the revolutionists and the apparent opportunity to turn their backs on the recently promulgated reforms, the Russian emperor and his advisers have taken another long step in the direction of constitutionalism by deciding to entrust the first imperial douma with a large measure of constitutent powers. REAR-ADMIRAL HICHBORN The soldier and the sailor are especially subject to catarrh. In the barracks and on the field, Peruna is found equally efficacious to overcome this physical enemy. If taken in time it will prevent colds from developing into catarrh. Even after a cold has settled in some organ of the body, Peruna can be relied upon as an efficacious remedy to promptly overcome it. Peruna will relieve catarrh, whether acute or chronic, but a few doses of it taken in the first stages of the disease will be more effective than when the disease has become established. Humorists are public benefactors. They teach the most useful and the easiest of all life's philosophies. They smooth away the rough places and hearten life with cheerful inspiration. They mellow the understanding and broaden the heart. They are negatively, at least, an aid to virtue, for vice cannot grow in an atmosphere of cheerfulness. Humor is such a powerful aid that one can understand why the all-wise Creator made it a part of the superior human equipment for the fight against evil.-Baltimore American. Mr. Markinbrakes (determined not to make a blunder this time)—I was delighted with the way in which the little girl recited that selection. Elderly Matron (one of the guests—You evidently are under the impression that she is one of my children. She isn't, and I thought her performance was extremely tiresome.—Chicago Tribune. The way to settle an argument is to give in. Just The Thing For Innocent Amusement Winter Evenings BLANKE'S PARLOR QUOITS Game complete 25c., or one price-mark from a package Blanke's World's Fair Line Coffees 20c., 25c., 30c., 35c., 40c., 45c. per lb. and six 2-cent stamps. Address "Game Dep't." C. F. Blanke Tea and Coffee Co., St. Louis HIGHEST AWARD TREND WORLD'S FAIRS W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 4, 1908. San Antonio this winter. Leave the chilly north behind you, and find health and pleasure under the stainless splendor of her turquoise sky. To all newcomers, San Antonio offers a thousand delightful surprises. For the sight-seer, the old Mission Churches are fill here, the Cathedral of San Fernando, and gray and ghostly in the dazzling sunlight the historic Alamo. For the invalid a perfect combination of sunny winter weather, pure, dry air, beautiful scenery and modern accommodations. The Climate's the thing in San Antonio The invigorating air, dry and warm; the altitude; the perfect natural drainage, all combine to make the temperature as nearly perfect as can be. It is possible to spend most of each day, from November to March, on the coasts and rivers, the margins of the creeks and rivers, the palm and magnolia, lose nothing of theseustorious green during the winter months. San Antonio is, of all America, the odd 盛 blending of modern utility and beauty, with the romance and heroism of the medieval. Come to San Antonio! The exce- tionally low rates during the Fall and Winter, the train service and accommodation via the M., K. & T. R.'y, make it a journey of but small cost and not o GEO. A. McNUI T. D. P. A. Care of Bloomson House. Kansas City, Mo. Admiral Hichborn Praises Pe-ru-na Admiral's Words Carry Weight. Kear-Admiral Hichborn is one of the best-known officers of our navy. His statements concerning Peruna will have much weight as they go out in the world. What he says is echoed by many other officers of high standing. What the Admiral Says. Philip Hichborn, Rear-Admiral of the U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C., writes: "After the use of Peruna for a short period, I can now cheerfully recommend your valuable remedy to any one who is in need of an invigorating tonic."—Philip Hichborn. Ministers, as a rule, live to a ripe old age, yet we are told the good die young. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarrh Curse. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honourable in a business transaction and ultimately able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAS & MARVIN, Wolfgang's Drugs & Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Curse is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hail's Family Film for constipation. When truth becomes fashionable, what will become of the gossips? Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar is good quality all the time. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, ill. Many a man would fall to arrive but for his ability to but in. Don't you know that Differences Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? A Change Desirable. There is an actor who is more remarkable than for his good looks. On a recent occasion he was appearing at a provincial theater, and the heroine, in the course of the play, had to observe: "Ah! you change countenance!" The moment she pronounced these words, a voice from the gallery cried out: "Oh for heaven's sake, don't stop him! Let him change."—Tidbits. The Proof of the Pie. Because he threw a raspberry pie against the wall, a Chicago man's wife has secured a divorce and alimony to the extent of $50,000. It was only a few days ago that a Cleveland minister declared pie to be worse than beer in its effect upon morality.—Chicago Record-Herald. THE COUPOP BELOW IS GOOD FOR $1.00 IF SENT AT ONCE. It Is Wrong for You to Neglect Your Duty to Yourself — Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Troubles Grow More Dangerous Daily. There is now a remedy called Mull's Grape Tonic that cures these troubles absolutely. A full sized bottle is furnished you free to prove it—see coupon below. Have you noticed the large number of cases of Typhoid Fever laterly? Typhoid Fever, Pimie Fever, Appendicitis, Impure Blood, Pimie Fever, Sepsis, Headache, Biliousness, Piles, Female Troubles, etc., are the result of Constipation. Don't allow it to run on without proper treatment. Mull's Grape Tonic cures Constipation, Bowel and Stomach trouble in a new way, different from any other, and it is permanent. Atokolic, opium and morphine preparations, both harmless and dangerous. They destroy the digestive organs, and literally tear the system to pieces. Mull's Grape Tonic strengthens and builds them up. It cleanses the system of impurities, incites the digestive system to natural action, and cures the disease in a short time. To prove it to you, we will give you a bottle free if you have never used it. Good for alling children and nursing mothers. A free bottle to all who have never used it because we know it will cure you. Send this coupon with your name and address and your druggist's name and 10c. to pay postage and you will supply you a sample free. if you have never used a pill grape Tonic, and will no longer use a pill grape Tonic, and will send you a certificate good for $1.00 toward the purchase of more Tonic from your druggist. MULL'S GRAPE TONIC Co., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. Giss Full Address and Write Plainly. 35 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. PISO'S CURE FOR CORES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION An Ever-Present Foe. World's Debt to Humorists. His Customary Luck. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT SIDE DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE The discontinued use of quinine package. The public may rely on infiltrations, sold only in boxed Come to San Antonio! The exceptionally low rates during the Fall season allow you to train service and accommodation via the M. K. & T. H.'s, make it a cost and not of tireless length. I will call on request. You'll be more than half cost should be the guest of San Antonio address. Tickets are on sale everywhere, via Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway There is no Rochelle Salta, Alum, Limeor Ammonia in food made with Calumet Baking Powder Perfect in quality. Moderate in price. A Hot Member. Young Jay Green—I tell ye, Lester Doolittle is a sport 'r your life! Abner Appledry—I ain't noticed it, perticklerly. Young Jay Green—Ye ain't? Why, whenever a drummer or anybody gives him a ten-cent cigar, he saves the band off it, and wears it as long as it holds together on the fl-cent cigars he buys himself—Puck. Proof Easily Obtainable A Connecticut girl lost a locket while skating and later found it in a cake of ice which the iceman had delivered at her home. If anyone doubts this story let him take his map of the United States and examine it carefully. He will find Connecticut there, all right—Kansas City Star. SORES ON HANDS Suffered for a Long Time Without Relief—Doctor Was Afraid to Touch Them—Cured by Cuticura. "For a long time I suffered with sores on the hands which were itching, painful and disagreeable. I had three doctors, and derived no benefit from any of them. One doctor said he was afraid to touch my hands, so you must know how bad they were; another said I never could be cured; and the third said the sores were caused by the dipping of my hands in water in the dye-house where I work. I saw in the papers about the wonderful cures of the Cuticura Remedies and procured some of the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. In three days after the application of the Cuticura Ointment my hands began to peel and were better. The soreness disappeared, and they are now smooth and clean, and I am still working in the dye-house. Mrs. A. E. Maurer, 2340 State St., Chicago, Ill., July 1, 1905." MY REWARD. My heart was sad, and a littel bird Flew to my window pane. It cuddled and shivered with cold and Begged for a crumb, or grain. I took from my basket a bit of bread And slipped it onto the sill, And the half-starved bird in thank- fulness Chirped and ate with a will. My heart was sad with the weight of sin, And I flew to the Savior's side. I humbly bowed and said, "O Lord, My faith in Thee abide." He bowed his head and looked into My eyes with tender love, Then fed my heart and soul with bread That came down from above. —A. U. Mayfield in Denver News. A Brute of a Husband. "No, mamma," said the fair, but lrate young matron, "I really fell that I cannot live with Augustus any longer." "What makes you say such a shocking thing?" "He is just shamefully suspicious." "Accused me of flirting with that young Lobson." "Why don't you tell him to prove it?" "I—I—well, I'm afraid that he would." "San Franciscso Call." Final Judgment If you are right your enemies will think you are wrong, and if you are wrong your friends will think you are right; but the cold, calculating world will get at the facts.—Atchison Globe THE LITTLE WIDOW. A Mighty Good Sort of Neighbor to Have. "A little widow, a neighbor of mine, persuaded me to try Grape-Nuts when my stomach was so weak that it would not retain food of any other kind," writes a grateful woman, from San Bernardino Co., Cal. "I had been ill and confined to my bed with fever and nervous prostration for three long months after the birth of my second boy. We were in despair until the little widow's advice brought relief. "I liked Grape-Nuts food from the beginning, and in an incredibly short time it gave me such strength that I was able to leave my bed and enjoy my three good meals a day. In two months my weight increased from 95 to 113 pounds, my nerves had steadied down and I felt ready for anything. My neighbors were amazed to see me gain so rapidly and still more so when they heard that Grape-Nuts alone had brought the change. "My 4-year-old boy had eczema, very bad, last spring and lost his appetite entirely, which made him cross and pevish. I put him on a diet of Grape-Nuts, which he relished at once. He improved from the beginning, the eczema disappeared and now he is fat and rosy, with a delightfully soft, clear skin. The Grape-Nuts diet did it. I will willingly answer all inquiries." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Boad to Wellville," is phre I am gliding into the dark, the dark, To the sound of a dipping oar. With the silent sea behind me spread, And the silent sea before; And far on the height is the beacon light I left on the fading shore. The waters swirl below, below, As the darkness swirls above; With the soft night brushes against my hand With the bright dove dove— And near on the height is the beacon light That lights me to my love! —Alice F. Tilden in National Magazine. THE DINNER HOUR BY GRAE G. BOSTWICK (Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) "And so you write uplifting poetry Miss Howard," he asked in slightly bored tones. Jeannette froze him with a look. "No," interrupted Jeannette, hurriedly "I don't receive callers—I haven't time," she explained, rather fam ly, in answer to his surprised look. Jeannette froze him with a look. "Perhaps verse would sound better," he assented quietly with a quizzical shadow of a smile back of his pince nez. Jeannette ignored him majestically if that stunning adjective may be applied to one-hundred-and-ten pounds of youthfulness. "I must have put my foot in it—perhaps torn the delicate lace from a fragile fancy," he continued teasingly, interested by her provoked silence where the delighted conversational efforts of numerous charming maidens had failed. Jeannette flashed a sudden, sunny smile at him. He started as he looked, for the first time, full in her eyes. They were smiling eyes with sunny gleams in their warm, brown depths—not at all the eyes of a poetess as he had fancied them. "If you want to win my undying hatred, pester me with remarks about my popular verse—silly stuff!" Jeannette said savagely. "Always alliterative?" he questioned smiling. "Merely a matter of habit," she replied, flushing under his laughing look. "What shall we talk about, then?" he questioned gravely. "Yourself," she responded with readiness. He looked at her commiseratingly. "Poor thing!" he said, "she doesn't know." Jeannette helped herself to salad before she asked, wrinkling her dainty brows in curiosity, "What, for goodness' sake? You look like a triple tragedy in bronze." Then, as a suspicion took shape in her mind, she laid her fork down and faced him fearfully. "You're not—" Words failed her. He nodded solemnly. "I certainly am, to my everlasting sorrow," he replied with feeling. Jeannette sighed. "Then, we're two of a kind," she said, "and we were put together for a purpose. I'll really have to ask your name. My thoughts were wool gathering when you were—" "Rhyme-gathering, more probably," he interrupted, laughingly. "I'll confess that I've been trying in vain to find a suitable rhyme for—" "O, don't!" she exclaimed, "as if I didn't have troubles of my own. And the name?" she asked suddenly. "Wainwright—Orrin Wainwright." "Not the Wainwright?" she asked in awed tones. "The same, please your ladyship." he bowed with exaggerated deference. "And here, I've been—I've been just too impertinent for—Oh!" she stammered. He caught the amused gleam under the long eyelashes, however. "Let's form a truce and declare the subject barred," he offered. She smiled an eager assent. "Where shall I begin?" he asked, admiring her clear-cut profile with the long, slender curve of cheek and chin, the fine pallor of her skin that flushed at the slightest provocation, the quaintly-arched brows that went to a slight point, lending a look of piquancy to her small face. Her eyes, he noted, were far apart and large—tender, too, he decided, as well as humor A "And so you write uplifting poetry?" ous—rather an unusual combination in a woman's eyes. "I'm only in town for a couple of days. Where did you say you were staying?" "I didn't say," remarked Jeannette trenchantly. "May I ask where you are staying?" "You may," she tendered, a wickedly mischievous gleam brightening her glance. "Then when—" Her soft laugh stopped his words. "I'm not staying—I live here," she offered conciliatingly. "Yes, and where? I mean to call," he said quietly. "No," interrupted Jeannette, hurriedly "I don't receive callers-I haven't time," she explained, rather famely, in answer to his surprised look. His firm mouth twitched with suppressed amusement as he replied: "So be it, your ladyship." She glanced furtively at his strong face, and scolded herself for the interest it evoked. "Did you ever have an ideal?" he asked irrelevantly. Jeannette flushed for he had caught the look of admiration in her eyes. "Heaps of 'em," she responded readily. "I mean, did you ever cherish the likeness of a possibility and suddenly M. "I guess—berhaps." discover that it was a real flesh and blood creation instead of the figment of an unstable imagination? She looked at him, curiously. "No." "Then you can't understand how one would feel under such circumstances—or that one would have the desire to—" He paused and looked into her eyes with meaning. Jeannette laughed and stirred in embarrassment. "You don't mean—" she began with her customary straightforward directness, "that I am the unspeakable—" "That is precisely what I do mean," he replied, gravely. "I didn't recognize the likeness at first. It was several minutes before you unhent sufficiently to bestow your smiles." "Gracious! You alarm me!" Jeannette's flippancy had saved her from many difficult situations of which this was not the least in her eyes. "What a child you are." He smiled in amused tolerance. "How long have you entertained this—this—" "Ideal," he supplemented softly. Her eyes dropped under his warm scrutiny. "I wonder if you could recall a time as far back as—" "Mr. Wainwright!" Jeannette bristled in simulated indignation at the possible implication in his words. "It was a spring day in early May," he continued dreamily, ignoring her exclamation, "a bevy of school girls with long braids down their backs were parading the park with their chaperon, an elderly lady with a gray curl down each side of her face." "Dear old Curlie!" exclaimed Jeannette, thoughtlessly. "The hat of the fairest one of them all—a slim, childish, elf of a girl—blew down the street, and a lad of tender years gave pursuit and rescued the offensive piece of headgear. He returned it, trembling with the boldness of his daring, to the owner, who would not even lift her long lashes as she thanked him faintly. I've always had an overwhelming desire to find that young lady and see for myself what kind of eyes she possessed, that she was so unwilling to use them." "And that was you—I should never have believed it." Jeannette laughed a bit absently. She was eating her ice slowly, unappreciatively, though it was her favorite confection. "And now that I have found the eyes," he continued, a new determination in his voice, "I mean to follow them up and see what lies back of them." "You'd be disappointed," Jeannette offered faintly. "I'm willing to take my chances," he looked at her searchingly. "I mean to see you to-morrow," he declared. The hostess had given the sign. As they rose, she said, laughingly. "I suppose you two have decided to collaborate on some great work or other." Wainwright questioned Jeannette with steady eyes. "We have, we have not?" he asked. Jeannette flashed a quick look into their frank depths. Her heart throbbed a bit as she replied in a low voice, "I guess—perhaps." Emaculated by Diabetes; Tortured With Gravel and Kidney Pains. Henry Soule, cobbler, of Hammondsport, N. Y., says: "Since Doan's Kidney Pills cured me eight years ago, I've reached 70 and hop to live many years longer. But twenty years ago I had kidney trouble so bad I could not work. Backache was persistent and it was agony to lift anything. Gravel, whirling headaches, dizziness and terrible urinary disorders ran me down from 168 ago I had kidney trouble so bad I could not work. Backache was persistent and it was agony to lift anything. Gravel, whirling headaches, dizziness and terrible urinary disorders ran me down from 168 to 100 pounds. Doctors told me I had diabetes and could not live. I was wretched and hopeless when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, but they cured me eight years ago, and I've been well ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Needless Request: "I have come, sir," said the young man, as he entered the library, "to ask you to give me your daughter's hand." "Why," rejoined the surprised parent, when I came through the hall about an hour ago it was in your possession."—chicago News. Eternal Feminine 'The girl question is as serious to the average woman as it was to her husband in his younger days.'-Topeka State Journal.' PAIN IN THE JOINTS PAIN IN THE JOINTS Rheumatic Tortures Cease When Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Make New Blood. The first sign of rheumatism is frequently a pain and swelling in one of the joints. If not combated in the blood, which is the seat of the disease, the poison spreads, affecting other joints and tissues. Sometimes rheumatism attacks the heart and is quickly fatal. The one remedy that has cured rheumatism so that it stays cured is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These pills expel the poison from the blood and restore the system, so that the poisonous matter is passed off as nature intended. Mrs. I. T. Pitcher, of No. 130 Monmouth street, Newark, N. J., suffered for about three years from rheumatism before she found this cure. She says: "It began with a queer feeling in my fingers. In a little time it seemed as though the finger joints had lumps on them and I could not get my gloves on. "Then it grew worse and spread to my knees. I could not stand-up and I could not sleep nights. My suffering was more than I can describe. I took a great deal of medicine, but nothing even gave me relief until I tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "I read an account of a cure in a case that was exactly like mine and my husband got me some of the pills. I took them for three weeks before I really felt better but they finally cured me." Mr. Pitcher, who is a veteran and a member of E. D. Morgan Post, No. 307 of New York, substantiates his wife's statement and says that she now walks without difficulty, whereas a year ago he was compelled to push her about in a wheeled chair. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pitcher are enthusiastic in their praise of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. For further information, address the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.Y. What's in a Name? A gentleman of Virginia tells of a negro living near Richmond, who for years had been familiarly known to him as "Tim." It became necessary at one time in a lawsuit to know the full name of the darky. The not unnatural supposition that "Tim" stood for "Timothy" met with a flat denial. "No, sah!" exclaimed the negro, "mah name ain't Timothy. It's "What-timorous-souls-we-poor-mortals-be Jackson. Dey jest calls me 'Tim' fo' sh't." Nearly every woman would like her husband to be a poet were it not for the fact that she would then be a poet's wife. 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 ¼-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. It's awful hard to get used to doing the good things your wife tells your children you are always doing. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Preserving the urine gists are authorized to refund money if PAO OINTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. $60. What is the use of giving up one seat in a street when there are sure to be half a dozen women standing? 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alk Sinea Basilite Lutea Anise Seed Peppermint Di Carbonate Salts Witch Hazel Clarified Sugar Wintergreen Parrot A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Hitchter NEW YORK. At 16 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Hitchter Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE OENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK. PRICE, 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE HAS NO EQUAL FOR HEADACHE ANTI-GRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD GOLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA I won't sell Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't guarantee it. Call for your MONEY BACK. IT DOES NOT CURE F. W. Diemer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, MO. PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR 1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. ST. JACOBS OIL PRICE, 25c. AND 50c. Cures Cancer, Blood Poison and Scrofula. If you have blood poison producing eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen glands, bumps and rising, burning, itching skin, copper-colored spots or rash on the skin, mucous patches in mouth or throat, falling hair, bone pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh, tattoo Potamic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). takes the blood of the wood; soon all sores, eruptions he has,ings subside, aches and palus stop and a perfect cure is made of the worst cases of Blood Polson. For cancers, tumors, swellings, eating sores, ugly ulcers, persistent pimples of all kinds, take B. B. B. It destroys the cancer poison in the blood, heals cancer of all kinds, cures the worst humors or suppurating swellings. Thousands cured by B. B. B. after all else fails. B. B. B. composed of pure botanic ingredients. Improves the digestion, makes the blood pure and rich, stops the pain itching and all sharp, shooting pains. Thoracic tested for thirty years. Druggists, 11 per bottle, complete directions for home cure. Seems to and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. Gained a Pound a Day After taking on flesh for the last two months at the rate of a pound daily, Abraham Bouny, of Gldden, died here of fatty degeneration of the heart. Bouny was twenty-five years of age, and weighed at the time of his death 583 pounds. It was necessary to have a special coffin made for him. It was taken to the cemetery in a dray.—Ashland (Wis.) Dispatch. Unless a man is married he is pretty sure to make a girl think he is proposing if he asks her what church she goes to. 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. Uncomplaining "Doctor, don't you think that raw oysters are healthy?" "Yes, I never knew one to complain." —Baltimore Jewish Comment. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. Out of the Mouth of Babes. "Say, Pop, suppose we built a lock canal?" "Well?" "Who'd keep the key?" "Oh, some ring or other."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. 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. Stillness is called sentiment by those who are in love. The teacher was giving the boy lesson in patriotism, and was sping of the flag: "Have any of you boys been a camp?" she asked. "I have, ma'am," replied a boy looking boy. "Perhaps, then, you can tell class what it is that goes down sunset?" "Yes, ma'am." What Causes Cures "Has Bixton much faith in homo pathy?" "I should say so. Last sums when he had an attack of hay-feet he married a grass-widow."—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The Great Man's Inheritance. An infinitude of tenderness is chief gift and inheritance of all grem—John Ruskin. NO MAN IS STRONGER THAN HIS STOMACH. Let the greatest athlete have dyspepsia and his muscles would soon fail. Cal cal strength is derived from food. Man has insufficient food he loses strength. If he has no food he dies. Food is verted into nutrition through the stomach and bowels. It depends on the strength of the stomach to what eaten food eaten is digested and assimilated. People can die of starvation who has the stomach and its associate organs of digestion and nutrition do not form their diet. Thus the stomach is really the vital organ of the body. If the stomach is weak the body will be weak also, because it upon the stomach the body relies on strength. And as the body, considered a whole, is made up of its several organs and organs, so the weakness of the body as a consequence of "weak" stomach will be distributed among the organs which compose the body. If the body is weak because it is ill-nourished that physical weakness will be found in the organs—heart, liver, kidneys, etc. The liver will torpid and inactive giving rise to biliosus, loss of appetite weak nerves, feeble or irregular action, heart, palpitation, dizziness, headache backache and kindred disturbances and weaknesses. Mr. Louis Pare, of Quebec, writes: "the years after my health began to fall, my hair grew dizzy, eyes pained me, and my stoma was sore all the time, while everything else seemed to them to be heavy like leather on my stomach. I was damned to it was sympathetic trouble due to it and prescribed for me, and although I had their powders regularly yet I felt no better. I advised me to try Dr. Pierce's Gold Medicine and stop taking the doctor's medicine. She brought me to the bottles we soon found that I began to keep up the treatment. I took on flesh, stomach became normal, the digestive organ worked perfectly and I soon began to lose weight to person. I can never cease to be grateful for my person. I can never cease to be grateful for my medicine has done for me and I certainly give it a high Don't be wheeled by a penny-grabable dealer into taking inferior substitutes. Dr. Pierce's medicines, recommended be just as good. To the shop of your own body in sickness and health—send for the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, book of 1008 pages. Send 21 one-stamps for paper-covered, or 31 stamps for cloth-bound copy. Address Dr. R. Pierce, 633 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. [afflicted with sore eyes, use] Thompson's Eye Wet