The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in this Section OL17 NO 4 The Oldest IBERAL COM ro-American News. For the Perusal of Busy People. It's up to every Negro. The most sacred thing a Negro has is ballot. We sincerely hope that each every Negro in Wyandotte county in the whole state will stand up like a and resent the wrongs heaped upon em. The ballot box is all that left n. Dot point or kno he ep. A New Organization. The Young Mens Christian Union is now chartered organization of young men in our city. It is the first after we have known to be taken out young Negroes in this state for such amenable efforts as is set forth." To anize, Elevate, Broaden the Insect and Diffuse Charity." The following young men are the officers: Pres. Napper, Secy. E. A. Mobily and m. L. Davis Treas. There is a membership of about 25. They intend to set a home where the "young man is a laudable aim in life can find hours of recreation and intellectual pro- tection them God's speed, for some is needed to be done in order touce something else beside-"Dudes, kings and boozers. Enough Said. little nonsense now and then is apa- tized by the most of men. A woman will compliment her best als taste in the selection of a bonnet dying one just as different as possible somone was the first man to discover it doesn't always do to tell the truth woman, but he wasn't the last one. I'm woman's right that some women instantly clamoring for; it's all the photographers are the only persons take women at their face value. One girls wash their hair very regu- lately overlook their necks and ears every woman likes to be just a few as younger than the other women age. It is easy enough to look pleasant he life flows along as a song, but the an worth while is the one who can when she takes, her husband along n't always safe for a girl to assume she is going to have plenty of money and after marrying just because her eliberal with it while he is courier. after Nicholas Longworth will be as Alice Roosevelt's husband. mary J. Allen is the Man. an. Henry J. Allen, the excellent man who aspires to be congressman from 2nd district will open his cam in Wyandotte county next week. Disting about a more fit and capable as well as eminently deserving did not be found. We trust that the men in the various counties will and mannually for Allen. He is an strong worker exceptional qualifica and will make a congressman all as well as the 2nd district be proud. Publication Notice. District Court of Wyandotte County George Waller, Plaintiff. vs. Matthew Waller, Defendant, where above named defendant, you are not notified that you have been sued in above named court, by the above named suit and that unless you appear and on or on the 300th day of April, the petition will be taken as true and a argument rendered, the nature of which less decree dissolving the bond of mat- ter existing between plaintiff and defen- dant and divorcing plaintiff and defendant for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for Pliff. win. Needles, Clerk. March 2. rent- To desirable parties(gen- man perferred) well furnished rooms one of the best families in the city,ln- ge at this office. Mrs S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave.,is pristress of one of the most desirable up to date Rooming house in the charges always reasonable. After Furnished Rooms for rent with and without, will be at home to ends on Thursday, 423 Oakland ave. Annie Williams. Rose, 528 Neb. ave., has a few furnished roms to rent. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, MINISTER TO MODERN VANITY. The Looking-glass, and How It Looks to Men and Women. It is not always for the mere gratification of personal vanity that we should attentively study our mirrors, says the London Chronicle. Socrates advised all young people to look often in their looking-glass to ascertain if they were good-looking—that if they were so they might strive to make their mental attainments correspond, and if they were not, then they might endeavor by the superior accomplishments of their minds to make up for their personal shortcomings. This is excellent advice for vanity possessed moderns, but it is improbable that the high mental attitude of Socrates is appreciated by them. How the elaborate toilets of to-day could be accomplished without the aid of the mirror it is impossible to imagine. It is popularly supposed that the mirror is the woman's pet possession, but man is by no means averse to contemplating his many charms as reflected therein. A woman frankly confesses her interest in the alluring combination of glass and quicksilver, but the man, while voicing his scorn, proves his superior vanity by his concealed and secretive study of it. He jeers at his wife's cheval glass, but was anything more entirely provocative of human vanity ever invented than the many-sided shaving glass? Slowest Train in the World Georges Irade, writing in the French Journal Les Sports, claims that after a long and conscientious search he has run to earth the slowest ordinary passenger train in the world. This record-holder is chronicled on page 773 of the Guide Chaix and performs in Spain, a country in which twelve miles an hour is by no means an uncommon rate of speed on the railway between Soto de Rey and Clano Santa Ana. This line is thirteen and three-quarters miles long and it has one station en route, viz., Sama, which is twelve miles from Soto de Rey and one and three-quarters miles from Clano Santa Ana. Leaving the last named place at 6:25 a. m., the train reaches Sama at 6:55 and Soto de Rey at 8:20. Thus the average rate of speed of the train is under seven miles an hour, while from Clano Santa Ana to Sama the speed is only three and three-quarters miles a hour.—Railway Age. What's the Use? We observe our friend seated in a gloomy corner, chewing an unlighted cigar and mumbling to himself. We ask him if the world is going wrong with him. "It is," he growls. "Say, do you remember last week I said I was going to lick that editor for printing that stuff about me?" "Yes." "I had a right to whip him, because what he printed was not true." "So you said at the time. Did you thrash him?" "I did. I went to his office and eternally lammed him." "Well, you ought to be satisfied. You have avenged yourself." "I have? This week his paper comes out with a long story about how he whipped me, made me acknowledge the other story was true, made me apologize, and then chased me until I hid under a box car in the railway yards." I remember wen the house That I dwell in, way down south. I am thinking of it now that I'm alone. It was in youth's happy time That the sweetest joys were mine, And I believe can forget that dear old home. Women Workers in Japan. I have encountered another novelty in Japan—tea and toast in my room at 5 p. m. and dinner at 7:30 o'clock. The chambermaids at the hotel are all men. I haven't seen a woman about the place. The women are probably out gathering rice and wading in mud up to their knees. The women are not only ornamental here; they are useful as well. American women who visit Japan are apt to attract so little attention that they will feel insulted. Our American notion that a woman is an angel is unknown here.—Atchison Globe. The legs of the birds should be washed whenever they do not appear smooth. It may be some parasite is attacking them. Scotchmen Gather Annually in St. Paul's Churchyard, London "The sad old churchyard of St. Paul's in London is quiet and deserted save for one night in the year," said an Englishman. "That night is New Year's eve. Then all the Scotch in London fill the place. "Since Dr. Johnson's time the Scotch residents of London have seen the New Year in together in St. Paul's churchyard. They begin to assemble at 9 o'clock and soon the yard is filled with Tam O'Shanters, plaids, bare knees and bagpipes. "Scotch whisky is drunk freely as a safeguard against the cold, moist air. There are a lot of 'Heechs' and 'Hoot mons' to be heard. The bagpipes squeal and squeak till you think yourself in the pork department of a slaughter house. "Then suddenly everything is hushed. The Scotch clasp hands in a great circle. The twelve strokes of midnight boom out solemnly. "They die upon the air and in a tremendous chorus the Scotch sing 'Auld Lang Syne.' They sing it with feeling. Tears fill their eyes as they think of home. "Then the medicinal whisky passes about once more, there is a highland dance or two, hearty good nights and soon enough the churchyard is empty and silent again." Lemnos "Sealed Earth." Lemnos, the latest island of the Aegian upon which the international squadron has descended, will no doubt offer a warm welcome to the invaders, for it is to her shores that the Sultan sends his political enemies—in order that they may be cured of their distemper. There was a time, indeed, when the island enjoyed a high reputation for the cure of many distempers other than political. The Lemnian earth, or "sealed earth," was famous during the Middle Ages as a panacea for snake-bite, plague, and dysentery. But the earth had no virtue unless collected on Aug. 6, with due religious ceremonial, and from a particular spot near the ruins of Hepaestia. Of recent days, however, all the virtue has vanished from the "sealed earth," and only the most ancient of the Grecian matrons are foolish enough to load their barrows with the despised medicine. The natives—25,000 of them are Greeks and 5,000 Turks—have discovered that corn, wine, and tobacco are now in greater request, and they may be depended upon to meet the demands of the British marine.—London Chronicle. His "Precious Stone" Was Glass. "When we reached Ceylon," said a man who had gone around the world on a $600 tourist ticket, "I thought that we had struck at last a primitive and outlandish place, unsullied by a civilization's hands. "Strange outrigger boats filled the blue water and men dressed like women in bright silks with long, plaited hair and soft voices offered us strange fruits, flowers and carvings in ivory and dragonwood. "I bought for a rupee an uncut ruby that the vendor had first asked eighty rupees for. Ceylon is the land of jewels. They get there superb emeralds, rubies, amethysts and pearls. It seemed to me that I had gotten a bargain. "But the American consul said with a gruf, harsh laugh when I showed him my ruby; "A piece of colored glass. Germany ships here tons of this glass every winter, made up to resemble the precious stones that Ceylon yields. These glass stones sell readily to tourists. The poor fools think they are buying gems swiped by the miners from the mines." The Wanderer. No home is mine in the North or South. Roofless! No where to rest! No house to shut out the careless winds; I am tossed on the billow's crest. No name have I in the world; No place in the halls of fame. No friend to encourage a hauling step. None either to praise or to blame. Calmly climbing the steep ascent of the Valley of Age. Awefied! The lesson is hard and long. Yet it covers a single page. Why do I learn each line? Why not? Pass over the dark grits of Aye! Aye! There's a voice that whispers of life Beyond the struggles, and tears, and tomb. "You are safe and warm and watched with care." Compliments from above. Mousa Made Nest of Currency. John Shanley of Milford, Conn., put a $5 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. The Negro and Farming. Many brilliant, learned and sensible articles have been written by the Negro press and friends of the Negro race concerning the Negro and the farm. Many speeches have dwelt on this phase of the American Negro—and still there is as much necessity of a continuation of such articles and speeches as ever before. It is becoming every day more evident that sooner or later the Negro must leave the city if not of his own accord then of force of necessity. The casual observer of the colored man in American cities today cannot help but see the utter impracticability of the Negro ever becoming a wielding factor in city life—the many drawbacks and besetments incident to the life of a colored man in the city, and the many hindrances to his success makes it more evident that at no distant date the colored man must turn away from the city if he lives. Labor-saving devices, social condition and increased race prejudice in the city toward the colored man are pointing plainly to the fact that if the colored man is to remain a formidable factor in America he must find his station behind the plow—as the tiller of the soil. The increasing death-rate of the colored man who lives in the city and the increase of disease among them, show most conclusively that city life is not the life for the masses of the colored race. It is then with proper alarm that the Negro presses all over the country views the tendency of the race to give up the farm for city life, and it is meate that the same press should use every means within their command to turn the minds of their people back to the price-less gem—the farm. No race of people can ever hope to be a power among men when,as a race,they are consumers to a greater extent than they are producers. The Negro must not shun the farm,but rather the city. The close,compact conditions prevailing in a city are not conducive to the best physical make up of the black race, and the result is that he is easily an heir to disease and soon a victim of death. Let the Negro wend his way back to the form,where Nature and Nature's God has so amply prepared a healthful habitation for him.-W. N. M, in Wichi ta Searchlight. Thoughts to Remember. Patience is not paralysis. Works are the best words. Piety is more than phrases. Preaching down never lifts up. Knowing is only tribetary to living. Prejudice puts the heart in prison. Self-sacrifice is but wise investment. Saints are more than sapless sinners. Heroic hearts come from hard places. Faith is turning the face toward God. He who makes friends makes fortune. The best biographies are those on two The best biographies are ihose on two feet. Little courtesies are the wayside flowers of life. There's more religion in a whistle than in a whine. Virtue becomes a vice as soon as you are vain of it. Education is more than a preparation for life;it is a life. The torch of truth warns him when the wirds of opposition die. One man's salvation can never depend on another man's shibboleth. - Remember Him. Among the deserving men who will come before the county convention asking the suffrage of the Republican party voters on the 28th will be Dr. W. F. Waite for County Coroner. Dr. Waite is an old resident here, and one of the old wheel horses who has helped the cause along for years. He is an old soldier and we must deserving in the highest sense. He is now seeking his first office at the hands of the people. Let us all help him he has helped others. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Charles W. Jones, Plaintiff. vs. Sofronia 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 March 1906, the petition filed in said case, will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a dccree. dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing plain tiff from defendant, and for cost of this action. Charles W. Jones, by. Announcements I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Register of Deeds subject to the Republican county convention. LEW CHAPMAN. I hereby announce myself a candidate publican convention March 28th. M. H. DONOHO. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of clerk of the district court, subject to the decision of the Re publican primaries. W. J. WRIGHT, JR. Winfield Freeman, is a candidate for probate judge subject to the nomination of the County Republican Convention. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Superintendent subject of the Republican County Convention to be held March 28th, 1906. I hereby announce myself a candidate for probate judge of Wyandotte county subject to the Republican Convention, March. 28th. HENRY MEAD. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Sheriff of Wyandotte county subject to the decision of the Republican county primaries, Mar. 28th. ALEX GUNNING. Present and Future Sheriff. Mr. Alex Gunning the excellent young man who has so ably filled the office of Sheriff in Wyandotte county is again before the people of this community for re-election. He is exceptionally popular has made a good officer and has a clean record. He will recieve the vote of the people irrespective of party. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Kansas Sheriff's Sale. County of Wyandotte. Lizzie Scales, Plaintiff, vs. Dellah Lewis, Defendant Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale Issued by the Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for the said County of Wyandotte, in a certain cause in said Court, numbered 6722 wherein the parties above named were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me the undersigned, Sheffield of said County directed. I will offer for sale, at public auction, and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, at the front door of the Court House in the City of Kansas City, in said County, on Monday the 12th day of March A. D. 1005, at 10 o'clock a.m. of said day, the following described Real Estate situate in the County of Wyandotte and State of Kansas to-wit -Lot thirty four (34) in block fifty three. (53) in the former city of Wyandotte, now a part of Kansas City in Wyandotte County Kansas. A. GUNNING, Sheriff of Wyandotte County Kansas PATTERSON & GAYDEN -Dealers In- Hard and Soft Coal, Wood. Cesspool Cleaning Cisterns Filled Tel. 215 West. 527 STATE AVE. MARCH 23, 19 this Section CALL HERE LOCALLY. Call up 1958 West—with your news if not right we will fix it. If you have visitors from out of city, sickness or death in your family, call us up, its news 1958 West. Mrs. T. S. Booker and Elenora Gurne left Thursday for Topeka Kansas to attend the bedside of a very father Mr. Benjamin Vance, formerly of this city but now one of the most prosperous farmers in the state he owns one of the best farms in Shawnee county and is well and favorably known. We hope for him a speedy recovery. Mr. Granville Morgan of No. 5. Fire crew who has been quite sick is now abl to be out. Mr. Wm. Summers of Paoria Ill, will arrive in the city next week, possibly to remain the permanent guest of his wif Mrs. Lula Sunmers 312 State ave. Rev. L. Thomas of Pine Bluff Ark., iu attendance at the Methodist conference in Ardmore I. T., en route to Valley Falkansas stopped in this city a short while the guest of his son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Tom McChellan of 1512 N. 3rd. St., Tom Thomas will have pastorage charge at Iola and Galena. Mr. David J. Jackson of Spokane Wash., and the Richard and Pringles Minstel company is the expected guest of Mrs. Gertude Howaad of Freeman ave., next week. Mrs. Millie Curtis of Jersey ave., who has been ill is now able to be up. The friends of Miss Lizzie Mills in this city will be pleased to learn that she has greatly improved in health since leaving our city,, she is now at Butler Mo., Mr. W. W. Martin left Tuesday for Nashville, Tenn. on a business trip, expecting to be absent about 2 weeks Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. L. E. Hayes, Plaintiff, us. Linus S. Wolcott. Frank E. Wolcott, Elizabeth Bachman and her husband J. P. Chapman, Evelyn Collar. F. T. Collar. John Miller W. T. Little and Company and S. F. Scott, et al, Defendants. John Miller, W. T. Little and company and S. F. Scott, non-resident defendants. To you and each of you: You are hereb notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the entitled action, in the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County Kansas, and that unless you answer the petition filed herein on or before Monday April 23rd, 1906, said petition will be taken as true, and a judgment will be rendered in said cause against you and each of you of the following nature to-wit: A judgment in favor of said plaintiff, quieting his title to the following described real estate, situated in Wyandotte City, now a part of Kansas, City Kansas, and more particularly described as lot 15 and 16 in Block 64 in Wyandotte City, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas, and restraining and enjoining you and each of you from claiming or attempting to claim any interest in or to, or title to said property or any part thereof, and a further judgment against you and each of you for the costs of said action. L. E. HAYES, Plaintiff. Mar. 9. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County kansas. Frank Benton, Plaintiff. vs. Jane Benton, 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 30th day of April, 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 suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty, for Pflf Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. March 2. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weeky 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. Grangemouth is the name of a Moscow editor. Evidently a farmer on the side. Waldorf Astor has become so thoroughly anglicized that he is going to marry an American girl. A clergyman says that bridge whistle leads to mental decline. Why doesn't he try poker for a change? Senator Pettus is declared to be a poor man and fond of poker. The last explains the first, possibly. Perhaps boys should be thankful for whippings, as somebody declares, but they seldom are before they are 45. Sweet Spring is now approaching, and Summer with the rose, so poetry's encroaching upon the field of prose. King Edward was "warmly received" in Paris, but not in the same way as when he used to be prince of Wales. The czar will reserve the right to wield the big stick over the Douma. according to the latest advices from St. Petersburg. We learn from the New York Mall that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and pie. It was not long ago that all the "success" magazines were pointing to the Pittsburgh millionaires as examples to the youth of the land. With 10,000 doctors in convention in Boston next summer, the rest of the country ought to have a good opportunity to get well.—Boston Globe. It is a pity that the great romanceers of the sea did not live in a generation which affords such thrilling material as the log of the dry dock Dewey. A Minnesota man says he has discovered the cause of the aurora borealis. But what bearing will this have on the price of coal this year? Much to the surprise of everybody, some of the phenomenal ball players added to the leading nines as marvelous discoveries will probably make good. Cheer up, mister! The president of the Dressmakers' National Protective Association says that women's dress will be less expensive this year than ever before. The Japanese, says one of their statesmen, should adopt chairs and develop their legs. Well, short legs did not prevent them from "getting there" in the late war. Portia, as quoted by the editor of a kind of society paper, is made to say: "How far that little scandal tarrows his beams! So shines a bad deed in this haughty world." News comes from the east that the seventeen-year locusts will devastate the land this year. How many times in the course of a decade do the seventeen-year locusts come, anyhow? As the last suffragist was detatched from the doorknob and put into the police wagon, the premier of the great British Empire crawled out from under his bed and sighed a sigh of relief An actor has become a soldier in order to escape the adulation of matinee girls. We know several actors who should be driven from the stage with a club instead of soft glances. GREAT SINGER IS UNGRATEFUL. Mme. Patti Criticises America, Which Made Her Wealthy. Confirmation of the report that Mme. Adelina Patti has made her final tour in the United States is found in her recent criticisms of the American people. This lady, who once lived down on Grand street West, but now dwells in a castle in Wales, largely owing to the generosity of the citizens of this city, has lately discovered that we haven't any appreciation of art, cookery, music or good manners. This is an ill return for all the complimentary words we have uttered about her, not to mention the dollars we have paid to hear her voice. Although she was born in Madrid in February, 1843, she came here with her parents as a child and grew up among the people of New York. Her brother, Carol, used to lead the orchestra at the Grand Opera House, during the Jim Fisk era of French opera-bouffe. Mme. Patti's last tour of this country was not financially successful—a circumstance that may account for her change of heart. The lady, however, insisted upon receiving her contract money to the last dollar. The im presario was almost ruined, although the fault was the diva's own. She couldn't sing! Her voice had lost its fine quality. She wasn't a "diva" any longer. The American people found this out and refused to assist in maintaining Craig y Nos castle—Brooklyn Eagle. Jefferson said he thought he was one of the first men to black his face after the appearance and success of "Jim Crow" (T. D.) Rice. "I suppose," said Mrs. Drew, "there are very few men in this company who have not at one time or another been associated with minstrel performances." "I played Brudder Jones," said Mr. Jefferson. "Everybody knows I was in the minstrel business," Goodwin exclaimed. "Yes," I remarked, "because we were there together. "Well," joined in Crane, "I was on the tambourine end with Campbell's minstrels." I remember telling this at Lawrence Barrett's house at Cohasset, where the rest of the party consisted of Edwin Booth and Stuart Robson. Booth then told how he and J. S. Clarke were minstrels in their younger days, and he followed this up by declaring that he used to "pick a little on the banjo." I laughed, and Booth inquired the reason, and I added, "Oh, nothing much, only Booth and the banjo seemed such an odd combination."—Francis Wilson in Scribner's Magazine. O Thou Compassionate. How deeply comforting the tender phrase, Thy greater attribute seem merged in through all life's long and dark and weary maze, Thou art Compassionate. To God of Justice and of Power we turn When wrong or devastating blow cuts deep; And we've daily struggle needs must yearn For one Compassionate. In limits of our souls we live, alone, And e'en our nearest may not understand. But all "the household jar within" is known To thee, Compassionate. Thou know'st the many sorrows of the day, Long longing, narrow opportunity— We bring life's broken toys, as children may, To_one Compassionate. We may have blundered grievously and long, Darkened Thy world we might have made so bright. Still Thou should heal the heartache and the wrong O Thou Compassionate! —May Ethellyn Bourne, in Overland Memoir. Of No Importance. Two men were standing together on an East River ferryboat when one pointed out a third man with the remark: "I can't recall his name at this moment, but he writes for a number of the magazines." His friend looked at the stranger with much interest. "Oh, one of our frenzied finance captains, is he?" he asked. "No, he—" "Writes up trusts and things, then?" "Oh, then he's a prizefighter or an actor—he is rather husky looking." "No, no! He's just a plain author—writes stories." "Oh!" the friend exclaimed, the look of interest suddenly dying out of his face—New York Journal. True to His Promise. The other boy had called Tommy a liar, a 'fightin' liar, and told him he dassen't take it up. Tommy's fists were clinched and his eyes were blazing, but he stood there rapidly repeating something to himself, in accordance with a long standing promise he had made to his mother. "If you just jist wait till I've finished sayin' it," he said, "I'll knock the tar out o' you, Dick Bunker, you ple faced slob! 'But children, you should never let your angry passions—'" The other boy, however, disappeared around the corner-while Tommy's lips were still moving. Flying Wedge. "Great Scott!" exclaimed the drummer who had put up in the old farm house over night. "What was that noise down below? Football rush?" "Worse than that, stranger," chuckled the old farmer, as he snuffed out the candle. "You see, I have eight darters ah' each one of them has a beau who calls on Thursday nights. Wall, the first couple that gets the parlor can have it. That's why they are running." LACE SCARF AS EAR TRUMPET Elderly Lady Has Discovered It Acts as Sounding Board. With advancing years a dear old lady has found that her hearing has become somewhat affected. She has not found it necessary to use an ear trumpet as yet, but it is difficult at times to catch all that friends say. Anything said in an undertone is completely lost to her—that is, it was until she hit upon a novel idea. While visiting a friend recently the hostess had pitched her voice almost to the straining point and her vocal organs were getting tired, when "Aunt Sis," as she is affectionately termed, interrupted her by saying: "Please, dearie, hand me my lace head scarf." "Do you feel a draught?" anxiously inquired the hostess, handing over the mantilla. "Not the slightest," said "Aunt Sis" as she adjusted the head covering. "Then why do you wear it? It will make your head tender." "Oh, I think not. You see, the scarf acts as a sort of sounding board. It keeps out all other sounds except those of the human voice. When I wear this I can hear even a whisper. I can't explain why it is, but it is so, nevertheless. I have had lots of fug over it, too. My boys have been taking advantage of my infirmity to whisper to each other. I didn't hear them before I began to wear this scarf, but now I know lots of their secrets and they don't know it. It's a good joke on them." Fish Know Colors. "Fish know colors," said a keeper at the New York Aquarium the other day. "They can distinguish between red and blue, or white and green, as well as you and I. Wait and I'll prove it." He led the way to a tank in which were some red and some yellow and some green fish, and in it were artificial grottoes painted respectively red and yellow and green. The keeper rolled the water with his hand, and the fish fled, the red ones to the red grotto, the yellow ones to the yellow grotto, and the green ones to the green grotto. "They know which color shields them from observation best," said he. "Now I'll change the grottoes, so as to prove my statement a second time." He moved the grottoes to different places in the tanks and again roiled the water. The same thing followed as before. Each fish darted like a shot to the grotto of its own color, where it knew it would be best concealed. To the Beloved To the Beloved. Everything that I made I used to bring you. Was it a song, why, then 'twas a song to sing to you. Was it a story, to you I was telling my story. Ah, my dear, could you hear 'mid the bliss and the glory? Did any one praise me, to you I said it all or not? My laughter for you: how we laughed in the days past recover? My tears and my troubles were yours; did any one grieve me. I carried it straight to the love that was sure to relieve me. O my dear, when aught happens, to you I am turning. Forgetting how far you have traveled the day from my beginning. There is nobody now to tell things to; your house is so lonely. And still I'm forgetting and bringing my tale to you only. The old days are over; how pleasant they were, the fine weather. When youth and my darling and I were home and together! And still you're alone, that no longer you're near me. And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me. —Pall Mall Gazette. Fate of the Old Presidents. In the autumn of 1901 Mrs. W. of Roxbury spent a few weeks with her daughter in Nova Scotia, returning home shortly before President McKinley was shot, bringing her niece, Bessie F., aged 6 years, home with her. Of course the child heard a good deal of talk in the house about the shooting of the president. One day Bessie said to her aunt: "Aunt Minnie, who is king of the United States?" Her aunt replied: "We have no kings in the United States like you do in your British country. We have presidents. We have an election every four years and elect a new one." "Oh, yes," the child replied; "and then they shoot the old ones, don't they?"—Boston Herald. New City for Egypt Suakin, on the Red sea, has proved an unsatisfactory port and is to be superseded by a brand-new rival which has been built up out of coral work and desert sand by the Egyptian authorities. The rival is Port Sudan, the latest addition to the cities of the British empire, and an enthusiast says that it is destined to be a place of magnitude and importance in the days when cotton shall have made it the New Orleans of the east. The place has hitherto been called Mersa Sheikh Barud. It is about 680 miles south of Suez and is capable of holding a dozen vessels of moderate size. The entrance is 600 feet across, and the land around is six feet above sea level. Posers for Scholars. Twenty words submitted to a spelling bee in Springfield, Mass., in 1846 were given to the high school class at East Liverpool by Supt. Rayman, and it is reported not one in the class correctly spelled every word. Only ten had averages of over 90 per cent. The average of the 124 pupils was $73\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. The words submitted were accidental, accessible, baptism, chirography, characteristic, deceitful, descendant, eccentric evanescent, fiercen$^{3,4}$, feigned, ghastliness, gnawed, heiless, hysterics, imbecility, inconceivable, inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. Pittsburgh Dispatch. SHIELDS FOR TROOPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Military Writer. A writer in the Militar-Wochenblatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Broad Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese spade work in the offensive, the more so because he mentions incidentally, as a matter regarding which there can be no dispute, that the German authorities have long since advocated the use of artificial cover in the attack, and points out that when the ground was frozen or rocky, and the spade could make no impression upon it, the attacking Japanese infantry not infrequently went forward, carrying with them filled sandbags weighing as much as forty pounds. He remarks that if the undoubtedly brave Japanese soldier found it necessary to load himself with so bulky and burdensome a protection when advancing in the open against an intrenched enemy it would seem far better to equip the infantry with a light handy shield Furnished with a handle by which to carry it, a loophole to fire through and some arrangement to prevent its falling down, the infantryman would then find himself, like his gunner comrade, protected by a bullet-proof shield. The writer in the Wochenblatt suggests that on the march the shield should be carried on the back, when going into action on the chest, and when advancing to the attack in the left hand, so as to be at once available for use when lying down to fire, both as head cover and rifle rest. YOUR HAIR SHOULD BE DRAB: That is the Fashionable Color, So an Authority Says. "Deep auburn and the drab shades are the fashionable colors in hair this season," said the woman who makes hair coloring a speciality, as placidly as though she were commenting on the state of the weather or the advance style in dress goods. "One of my customers has to my knowledge worn five different colors or shades on her wavy tresses. Having been blessed with medium brown hair by nature she became a ravishing blonde when the fashion for bleaching first came in. "Next she took to titian red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. Then she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. "The last is by far the most popular of all for the reason that is most difficult to obtain, and then it is pretty generally becoming, and it happens that women who are born with this particular color of hair are almost always clever. "How is it done? Well, in case of a woman whose hair is dark a bleach must first be used before the dye is applied. With women whose hair has turned gray it is a still simpler problem. The color lasts a year, while the head can be washed and even salt water bathing does not affect it."—New York Sun. What Money Will Do. They say that money can not buy The sweetest things in life Health, heaven, friends, respect, content, Or e'en a loving wife. They say that money can not buy These things for me, alas! But I— Well—I don't know! What bought my private car? Just wealth, What bought my lovely yacht. What bought things where health is Found in every body? What pays my specialist, dear Jim, To keep me in such perfect trim? Well—I don't know! What bought the most delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— The clothes she dazzles in? And if her beats not for me, And I am not adored, you see, Well—I don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Expect to get in fear. But if the Lord meant what he said Concerning charity. The tithe I'll give before I die Will slip me through the needle's eye, Or—I don't know! For happiness? Well, money bought This ninety-cent cigar; It bought this chair in which I loll, It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness. Not a Good Advertisement. A Welsh judge had before him a case in which a printer sued a pork butcher for the value of a large parcel of paper bags with the butcher's advertisement printed thereon. The printer, having no suitable illustration to embellish the work, thought he improved the occasion by putting an elaborate royal arms above the man's name and address, but ultimately the latter refused to pay. The judge, looking over a specimen, observed that for his part he thought the lion and the unicorn were much nicer than an old fat pig. "O well," answered the butcher, "perhaps your honor likes to eat animal like that, but my customer's don't. I don't kill lions and unicorns—I only kill fat pigs!" Verdict for defendant.—New York World. Building Up to Requirements A Kansas City man purchased a city lot with the restriction that he should not build a house on it to cost less than $2,500. After having paid for the lot he decided to build a $1,500 cottage. Before he had completed it the real estate man from whom he had bought the lot threatened to sue him for breach of contract. "This little shack you are building," said the real estate man, "lacks a whole lot of beating a $2,500 house such as you agreed to build." "Don't form too hasty judgment." replied the owner. "True, it doesn't post that much yet, but I intend to put a solid gold brick in the chimney." —Kansas City Times Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. The very best for all Purpos The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges R sota Ave., Kansas Western B. Raymon GENERAL DIRECTOR her. The very best of Service, Fine for all Purposes, at all Hours. Equipped White Enameled Ambul sick and wounded Notice. Charges Reasonable. Call at sota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. tern Univer W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR and Embalmer. The very best of Service, Fine Carriages for alll Purposes, at all Hours. The Best Equipped White Enameled Ambulance for sick and wounded on Short Notice. Charges Reasonable. Call at 431 Minne sota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. Western Universit THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST DEPARTMENTS:—Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Norm Industrial. COURSES:—Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Su- sical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, or mony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpe- and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES:—Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, ences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION:—For terms, prices and all inducem- write to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., PRESIDENT, QUINDARO, MENTS:—Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal. —Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, or Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpet-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Log, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking and Gardening. ES:—Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, and Thorough Teachers. ION:—For terms, prices and all inducements. IAM T. VERNON, A. M., B PRESIDENT, DEPARTMENTS:—Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES:—Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES:—Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION:—For terms, prices and all inducements offered write to Phones {Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West" 15. Why does colored people as well as uncolored people set in the dark 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 Bright Gas Burner Light For 35 to 75 cents. And a Self Clean that makes the water clean For 50 to A. J. SH ROC Self Cleaner Water makes the water clear as a Crystal and Health For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN ROOM 8, A AVE. KANSAS CITY made of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular solar by trading at a popular store? L. J. MADDUX Fruit and Fancy Grocer meats and all Kinds of Produce that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents, "In the shade of the Old Apple not you be popular by trading at a p L. J. M Staple and Fa Meats and all K "In the shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular song—What 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. In an Excuse Book. Because its employees were late a London house provided a book in which the tardy ones were to write excuses. Reasons for lateness were not much varied. At the top of the page one would write "Train delayed," or "Omnibus horse died," as the case might be, and the rest fell into the habit of making ditto marks and letting it go at that. But not long ago one man had a new excuse. He wrote with pride: "Wife had twins." 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. The late Judge Andrew Wylie, of Virginia, had a happy gift of illustration. The judge cast in 1860 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 "Well," said the first policyholder, throwing aside his paper, "there is at least one thing we can be thankful for concerning our Mutual friend, Mr. McCurdy." "What's that?" inquired the second policyholder. 530 MINNESOTA AVE. 852 FREEMAN AVE. Telephone Home W. Raymond DIRECTOR st of Service, Fine Carriage es, at all Hours. Enameled Ambulance for wounded reasonable. Call at 431 Minne as City, Kansay. University College, Normal, Sub-Normal and Sta Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Moe al), including piano, organ and bass and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing Course, Stenography and Typewriting Plain Sewing, Cooking, Launderin ion, Healthful Climate, Good Infils. prices and all inducements offered. NON, A. M., D. D. IDENT, KANSAS uncolored peoplelet set in the dark and drink muddy bad disease germs. aner Water Eilter as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. ERIDAN M 8, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Tree" is a very popular song—What popular store? ADDUX, ncy Groceries inds of Produce. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Res. 420 Nebraska ave. Tel. 383 White SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Hours: From 10 a. m., till 4 p.m. and from 6 till 9 p. m.. C. H. C. JORDAN, M. M., M. D. Here is the Place J. T. Roberts TONSORIAL PARLOR All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date 438 MINNESOTA AVE. An Old French Sailor French seamen have a dozen in the person of a centenarian. The old sailor belongs like to the navy and to the merchant service, for he served in both, and it would be difficult to say in which of the two his adventures were the most thrilling. His record includes three shipwrecks, the battle of Navarino, in which he won motion in orders, the blockade of Algiers, one capture by brigands, followed by himself and his companions seizing the Spanish ship which captured the co-sair which had captured them. After serving many years before the mask he became a master and small ship owner on his own account. His name is Pierre Lofrat. He was born in November, 1805, and at 12 he went to sea. ROOM 8. SPITALS CROWDED PORITY OF PATIENTS WOMEN Pinkham's Advice Saves Many from this Sad and Costly Experience It is a sad but certain fact that every year brings an in- crease in the numberofoper- tions performed upon women in our hospitals. Morethan three- fourths of the patients lying on those snow- Miss Luella Aderans the beds are women and girls who are awaiting or recovering from operative made necessary by neglect. Every one of these patients had any warning in that bearing down, pain at the left or right of the neck, nervous exhaustion, pain in small of the back, pelvic catarrh, flatulency, displacements or similarities. All of these symptoms indications of an unhealthy condition of the female organs, and if not the trouble may make headway all the penalty has to be paid by a serious operation, and a lifetime or usefulness at best, while in any cases the results are fatal. Isaella Adams, of Seattle, Wash. Mr. Pinkham almost two years ago I was a great sufferer from a severe female trouble, pains andaches. The doctor prescribed for me and told me that I had a tumor and must undergo an operation if I wanted to get well. But that this was my death warrant, but I am hundreds of dollars for medical help, the tumor kept growing. Fortunately I responded with an anunt in the New England and she advised me to take Lydia E. Smith's Vegetable Compound, as it was to cure tumors. I did so and immediately met to improve in health, and I was entirely satisfied, the tumor disappearing entirely, without an operation. I wish every suffering man would try this great preparation." Just as surely as Miss Adams was mad of the troubles enumerated in letter, just so surely will Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure her women who suffer from female troubles, inflammation, kidney troubles, nervous excitability or nervous prostration. Mrs. Pinkham invites all young women who are ill to write her for free price. She is daughter-in-law of Dia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five cars has been advising sick women of charge. Address, Lynn, Mass. THE REAL FACTS. w little George of brains had some in fact, a level head, and learned a lot of lessons from learned a lot of lessons from the daily news he read. he news most carefully he'd trace, Not merely o'er it skim, and thus the naughty packers' case Gave ideas to him. and so when father grabbed a club on that momentous day, er. Little George was not a dub, but knew just what to say. emmurred, "Pa, confess I can't about your cherry tree less you give your word to grant Immunity to me!" A man could make a lot of money never having any bills to pay, but would be of no use to his family. Smokers appreciate the quality value of lewis' Single Binder cigar. Your dealer Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. An Orchid Romance. Orchid lovers have for many years been watching for the rediscovery of wife's lady slipper orchid. They cited it, not merely because it had an utterly lost to cultivation, but because it was the parent of many of the most beautiful hybrids we have, says The Garden Magazine for March. That Fairie's orchid has eventually been rediscovered and reintroduced is the direct result of the British government's mission to Tibet. They were rushed to the auction room, and so keen was the excitement in the orchid world that plants of two or three growths sold at prices ranging from $300 to $500. The secret of another shipment being on the areas had been well kept, but it arrived in due time and today the lady's shipper, lost for half a century, can be purchased in good specimens for $15. Already American collectors are in possession of the rarity, and it has been flowered in the collection of Mr. Brown at St. Louis. Shrewd. Duke DeBlewblud—"Sir, I would confer my titles upon your lovely daughter." Old Shrewdun—"I guess not. I don't doin' business like that no more since I bought that acre tract on the bottom o' Lake Michigan twenty years ago." Different. "What did your wife do when you failed to keep your engagement to take her to the theater?" "She was speechless with anger." "Lucky man! My wife wasn't that angry." DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES GUNES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE The public may rely on the public may rely on the public may rely on the public may rely on SHORT KANSAS ITEMS SHORT KANSAS ITEMS Salina is going to employ a city 'crester. The Caney gas well has refused to wear a hood. The late snow has saved the wheat crop in Kansas. The Ottawa herd of Elks has been increased by 46. The Salina Union has put on a brand new dress. The Socialists of Parsons have nominated a municipal ticket. All the judges in Kansas have returned their railroad passes. The Methodists have started their annual conference work at Hutchison. Thousands attended the M. E. union revival at McPherson the past few days. The "drys" won out in the Topeka and Shawnee primaries held last week. Jerry Simpson's will has been probated. It shows his estate to be worth $10,000. The Kansas Authors' club has changed its name to Kansas Authors and Booklovers. The Kickapoo Indians want to dispose of their reservation in Brown county, Kansas. The baseball squad of Kansas university has left for its annual spring trip to the South. Tyro has closed a contract for natural gas for the city at the low price of 2 cents per 1,000. The santa Fe is going to extend its line from Coffeeville southeast to Vinita, I. T., this spring. The Northeast Kansas Teachers' association will be held this year at Hiawatha April 5, 6 and 7. Ames, up in Cloud county, is said to have two open joints, and it has a population of less than 100. A road was oiled at Hutchison a few months ago as a test case. So far it has proven satisfactory. Missouri Pacific employees in the Wichita division will meet in convention in that city during May. Miss Hattie Lewis has announced herself as a candidate for county superintendent in Winfield county. Gov. Hoch will deliver an address at Highland, April 2 to aid Highland university in erecting a new building. Agricultural instructors at Farmers' institutes in Kansas say that the sheep industry in that state has been neglected. Fear is expressed that unless the Caney gas well is capped within a few days someone will write a poem about it. Kansas politicians are organizing clubs and regular meetings will be held in school districts during the campaign. The Kaw river is trying to break into the Deleware at Perry, thus rendering the two bridges at that place worthless. They must be having an early spring in Summer, county, where a merchant is advertising bargains in screen doors. Rev. John Price, Emporia, in his sermon Sunday severely censured the "Clansman," which is soon to show in that city. The "Making Iola Beautiful" fund has reached a total of $131, which the neighboring towns declare is woefully inadequate. Mrs. S. M. Holden, Montgomery county owns the oldest watch in Kansas. It has been a family treasure for more than 150 years. Newton's new city assessor is complaining that the people upon whom he calls in the fulfillment of his duty treat him "like a book agent." The Denver International Improvement Company will probably locate a large sash and door factory and a planing mill at Lawrence this summer. Senator F. Dumont Smith, who was more or less exonerated a few weeks ago, was beaten in Edwards county last week for deligate to the Republican state convention. One of the Atchison Globe's subscribers asks, "Who is this E. W. H." who is writing letters for your paper?" Another subscriber in the East wrote: "Give Mr. Hoch my regards." Down at Iola 22 young men who wish to vote in the primaries, are now only 20 years old, although they will be 21 before election. The city council has undertaken to decide their right to vote. An Osborne county man who is easily worth $60,000 is so stingy that he denies himself all of the luxuries of life. The Osborne Farmer declares he is as foolish as the calf that swam across a river to get a drink of water. Nat Howell, of Atchison, is importing ice. He has 40 cars of ice on the way to Atchison from Waterville, Minn. The ice is 20 inches thick; Waterville is in the northern part of the state; there's no ice in northern Iowa or southern Minnesota. A Wilson county jointist who was convicted of thirty-six counts of selling liquor and sentenced to three years in jail and fined $4,600, found a way of avoiding both the fine and imprisonment. He appealed to the supreme court and pending the appeal he died. A "sissy" young man in Topska whose name is Algeron was operated upon for appendicitis recently, and recovered. When Tom McNeal heard about it he exclaimed: "I can't see why the doctor didn't throw away Algeron and save the appendix." Speaking of old coins, the Concordia Blade says that W. E. Buck, of that place, has an old Spanish silver coin of the value of about our quarter that was struck in 1777 and is quite a curiosity. Mr. Buck places an added value on the coin because, as a baby he used to bite on it when cutting his teeth, a string tied to it, keeping him from swallowing it. Blue Monday. Deacon Goodsoul—"Blue Monday again! I feel as if I could hardly drag myself around to work." Deacon Highwind—"Same way with me. Every Monday I'm all up, and I don't know why. How were 'the congregations yesterday?" "Large in the morning, fair in the afternoon, and quite good in the evening. The Sunday school was well attended, too, and the Bible-class was full, while the young men's circle gained several members. I did not see you yesterday." "No; I spent the blessed day of rest addressing our six mission-schools, raising a church mortgage, and starting three new revivals." Turkey-Stuffing. City Boy—"Do you like turkey-stuffing?" Country Boy—"Naw! Nobody eats turkey-stuffing." "Guess you don't know what it is?" "Yes, I do. It's the half-a-pound o' corn that you stuff into its crop, after it's dead, to make it weigh heavier." NO REST NIGHT OR DAY. With Irritating Skin Humor—Hair Began to Fall Out—Wonderful Result from Cuticura Remedies. "About the latter part of July my whole body began to itch. I did not take much notice of it at first, but it began to get worse all the time, and then I began to get uneasy and tried all kinds of baths and other remedies that were recommended for skin humors; but I became worse all the time. My hair began to fall out and my scalp itched all the time. Especially at night, just as soon as I would get in bed and get warm, my whole body would begin to itch and my finger nails would keep it irritated, and it was not long before I could not rest night or day. A friend asked me to try the Cuticura Remedies, and I did, and the first application helped me wonderfully. For about four weeks I would take a hot bath every night and then apply the Cuticura Ointment to my whole body; and I kept getting better, and by the time I used four boxes of Cuticura I was entirely cured, and my hair stopped falling out. D. E. Blankenship, 319 N. Del. St., Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 27, 1905." Twelve Families Should be Safe. At and rate, if there is a spark of gratitude in Pat Crow's composition the families of those twelve Omaha jurymen will be safe from kidnapping —Chicago Tribune. Shake Inte Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Trial package FREE. Address A S Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Men have spent fortunes before they discovered the difference between pleasure and happiness. A magnificent steel engraving of Hagerman Pass, the most famous mountain pass in Colorado, has been issued by the Colorado Midland Railway. This engraving is 26x40 inches and suitable for framing. It will be sent to any address on receipt of 15 cents in stamps by C. H. Speers, G. P. A., Denver, Colo. One correspondent informs us that the president has grown suspicious of China. And we cannot dodge the impression that China has become a trifle suspicious of Uncle Sam.—Chicago Post. Time to cleanse the system and purify the blood. Take Garfield Tea, Nature's perfect laxative; it is the best blood purifier known. It cures sick headache, regulates the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels. Send for sample. Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Both Entitled to the Name. Customer—Have you any extract of beef? Waiter—Yes, sir. Brown or White? Customer—Brown or White? Waiter—Yes, sir. Beef tea or milk? Philadelphia Ledger. WH WOM NEE STREN WHY WOMEN NEED STRENGTH WRITE US FREELY and frankly, in strictest confidence, telling all your troubles, and stating your age. We will send you FREE ADVICE, in plain sealed envelope, and a valuable book on "Home Treatment for Women." Address: Ladies' Advisory Department, The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. G 62 Mutual. Spring. Broken Down, Like Many Another Woman, with Exhausting Kidney Troubles. Mrs. A. Taylor, of Wharton, N. J., says: "I had kidney trouble in its most painful and severe form, and the torture I went through now seems to have been almost unbearable. I had backaches, pains in the side and loins, dizzy spells and hot, feverish headaches. There were bearing-down pains, and the kidney secretions passed too burning sensation. They showed sediment. I became discouraged, weak, languid and depressed, so sick and weak that I could not keep up. As doctors did not cure me I decided to try Doan's Kidney Pills, and with such success that my troubles were all gone after using eight boxes, and my strength, ambition and general health is fine." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Had Seen Enough. A Concordia Irishman had trouble with his eyes, and consulted a doctor. The doctor told him to take his choice; that he must stop drinking or go blind. The Irishman turned the proposition over in his mind awhile, and said; "Will, I'm sivinty-two years old now. I belaive I hov seen iverything worth sein'"—Kansas City Journal. "I stopped speaking to him," she remarked, "because he paid such a poor compliment to my taste and judgement." "What did he do?" asked her friend. "He wanted me to marry him."—Tit-Bits. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children, nothing, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, alleviates pain when face is scared. Prima Donna—proudly—"If that is the Prince of Wales at the door, tell him that the queen of the operatic stage has no desire to associate with mere princes." Maid—"It is not the prince, madam; it is a soap manufacturer." A Needed Suppression. Mrs. Grumpy—"I think, if the papers were censored a little more stricter, some homes would be happier." Grumpy—"Yes, they ought to cut out a lot of this fashion stuff."—Illustrated Bits. Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh— Medicine Sent Free. Send no money—simply write and try Botanic Blood Balm at our expense. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills or destroys the poison in the blood which causes the awful aches in back and shoulder blades, shifting body injury in moving fingers, toes or legs, bending, wilted muscles and joints of rheumatism, or breath, hawking, spitting, droppings in throat, bad hearing, specks flying before the eyes, all played out feeling of catarrh. Botanic Blood Balm has cured hundreds of cases of 30 or 40 years standing after doctors, hot tings and patent medicines had all failed, and these cured patients had taken Blood Balm. It is especially advised for chronic, deep-seated cases. Impossible for any one to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheumatism or catarrh while or after taking Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and rich, thereby giving a healthy blood supply. Cures are peril, and not a patching up. Drug stores, if not with the correct Sample of Blood Balm sent free and available also special medical advice by describing your trouble and writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. The Paris of America. First Polite Chicagoa—"I was introduced to your new wife last evening, and was delighted with her." Second Polite Chicagoa—"Well, please don't begin to call for a month at least. We've only been married three weeks, and I'm not quite tired of her myself yet." PUTNAM Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any garment without ripping apart. Write for free book Y EN D GTH WE leads to much yourself. I out friends a you and all your health, recurring pa WIN OF which will prev and give you Robinson, of F from periodical Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all flippers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripening apart. Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. *MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri.* At Evry Department, The Tanooga, Tenn. G 67 Womanly Weakness leads to much more wide spread trouble than mere pain and sickness for yourself. If allowed to take hold of you, it will lead to worried and worn out friends and relatives, sickly, ill-developed children, a shorter life for you and all your family. In justice to yourself and children build up your health, drive out the weakness, which is shown by your regularly recurring pain. falling feelings, periodical distress, etc., and take WINE OF CARDUI Woman's Relief which will prevent this pain and misery, increase your vitality; regulate your irregularities, and give you strength where you most need it. "Before taking Cardui", writes Eva Robinson, of Farris, I. T., "I just weighed 96 pounds. I was weak, nervous, and suffered from periodical pain and sleeplessness. Since taking five bottles of Cardul, I have greatly improved. I feel like a new person, and weigh 109 pounds." In successful use for over half a century, as a specific remedy for female troubles, Cardul has, in that time, relieved or cured over a million women. Try it. At Every Drug Store In $1.00 Bottles torture I went through now seems to have been almost unbearable. I had backaches, pains in the side and loins, dizzy spells and hot, feverish headaches. There were bearing-down pains, and the kidney secretions passed too frequently and with a Had Seen Enough Not a Compliment. Pride of Station Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALI. PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS LITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Brewwood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. ANTI-GRIPINE IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't ball Anti-Gripins to cheer who won't Guarantee It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE F. W. Dimer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, MO. KEY TILL CURED • SEND FOR FREE ILLUS. TREATLSE OR RECTAL DISEASES. WITH NAMES OF PROMINENT NEW CURED & MINOR-1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY. MO. (BRANCH OFFICE AT ST. LOUIS. LESS DYES ers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Mispouri. Weakness PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED SEND FOR FREE LILIES, TREATIES OR RECREATION DR. THORNSTON & TIMORN-1091 OAK ST. KAISER, CALIF. MO. (212) 255-2222 Airling the Furniture. Frank R. Ellis, of the American Book Company, lived in Mount Auburn for a number of years, but last spring moved to another part of the city. The day appointed for the removal was a beautiful, sunny one, and Mr. Ellis was personally supervising the transfer of his household possessions. Before his house stood three big moving-vans, and the lawn was almost covered with furniture of various sorts, pictures, chinaware in crates, and other things. As Mr. Ellis stood directing the movers, a lady with whom he was acquainted passed, and smilingly asked: "Oh, Mr. Ellis, are you moving?" "Not at all, madam," he answered. "I am taking my furniture out for a ride." — Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Mrs. De Sweet—"I cannot understand why so many cultured men are willing to leave all the happiness of home, all the blessings of civilization, and spend a lifetime in exploration in such countries as Africa." Colonel Warmheart—gallantly—"All men, madam, are not blessed with such wives as Mr. De Sweet" When you buy WET WEATHER CLOTHING you want complete protection and long service. These and many other good points are combined in TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING You can't afford to buy any other TOWER'S FISH BRAND AJ TOWER CO. BOSTON U.S.A. TOWER CO. BOSTON U.S.A. TORONTO CALIF. SICK HEADACHE CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. SAVE HALF the price. You can't buy your new vehicle any price. Please deal on reason. Our sales team has the knowledge. 30 Days Free Trial, Two Year Guarantee We make what we sell. We're not mail over our address. We don't mail an enclosed guarantee. Direct sales, direct guarantee, a price unequalled and 30 days to make up your mind. Write for our sales team and complete selling plan. The Progressive Vehicle Mfg. Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. GOPHER TRAIN TRAIN DEATH Killa Prairie Dogs and Gopher rats all kinds. Endorsed by StateExperimentalStations 1.400 tablets prepaid for $1.25 Guarantee. 1.400 tablets. Ask drugstor or send direct. Booklet free. F. D. Chemical Co. Fort Dodge, IA LEGAL ADVICE ANY QUESTION, ANY STATE. Mail $1.00. Law Bureau, People's Institute, Chicago. Reflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water PRICE. 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE THAS NO EQUAL FOR HEADACHE Nothing knocks out and disables like Lumbago and Sciatica TRADE MARK. Known the world over as The Master Cure for Pains and Aches Price, 25c, and 50c. W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. Douglas $4.00 Clit Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOESMAKER SOLE AGENTS FOR W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1876. CAPITAL $2,500,000 W. L. DOUGLAS MAKES & SELLS MORE MEN'S $3.50 SHOEHAT ANY OTHER MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD. $10,000 REWARD to anyone who can disprove this statement. If it could take you to the factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you the infinite care with which every pair of shoes is made, you would realize why W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes fit better, wear longer, and are a better intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. W. L. Douglas Strong Made Shoes for Men, $5.50, $2.00 Boys' School & Clothes, $2.00 Girls' School & CAUTION. —Dis insist upon having W. L. Douglas shoes. Take no substitute. None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. Fast Color Eyelens used; they will not wear brass. MIXED FARMING WHEAT RAISING RANCHING three great pursuits have again shown wonderful results on the FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Magnificent climate—farmers plow in their shirt sleeves in the middle of November. "All are bound to be more than pleased with the final results of the past season's harvest."—Extract. Coal, 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 Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 12, 1906. THE DISCOVERY OF A GENIUS BY ARTHUR HAMILTON (Copyright, 1906, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) The man had genius, the woman had ized the hopelessness of his passion home He lived in a cheap boarding house and kept soul and body together by doing the work of a literary hack. Sometimes he did little desultory tasks for newspapers, but never succeeded in connecting himself with a pay roll. Once he had been given a commission to write a little skit for a vaudeville stunt, and this was his undoing—if so sorry a failure could be undone. In working it up he had found it necessary to familiarize himself with the technique of playwriting and it fascinated him. Then the stunt was a decided success and the man who wrote it not only realized more money from it than he had from any other literary effort in his life, but also saw the possibilities of dramatic expression both in an artistic and a financial sense. And so he came to be a slave of the playwright's itch. And he wrote and wrote and wrote and starved and pinched and still wrote. But his skits were not accepted and his plays were returned by the managers and their readers. He became more seedy and more gaunt and more impossible—finally he became unconsciously hopeless. But he worked on because he was the slave of Genius and was compelled to follow the law of his being. She was the child of love and hope. Her mother was the wife of Hinckley, the shoemaker around the corner, the most patient, industrious and hopeless of the relics of a bygone time before machinery had deprived good mechanics of their kingdom. Perhaps Hinckley was her father. Most people believed not. There were rumors of a gallant stranger who had sojourned for a short time in the neighborhood and looked with glowing eyes upon the shoemaker's wife. And she, who never had had her romance, had it then, so the gossips whispered. And the handsome stranger faded away into the realm of dreams and after a time a daughter was born to the shoemaker's wife. The daughter was so different from the shoemaker and his pretty wife that more than one doubt was whispered as to her paternity. But the shoemaker never doubted and she grew up as Nora Hinckley — the apple of his eye. In the very prime of her splendid beauty—a beauty enhanced and chastened by the very essence of optomism—she crossed the path of the struggling playwright. Some deep chord in her nature drew her to him as the needle to the north. She was an occasional helper for Mrs. Simpson, who kept the cheap boarding house where he lived. She entered his life as a ray of sunshine. At the lowest ebb of his fortune she brought warmth and hope and cheer. She laughed at the hopeless clouds which overhung, and she believed in him and his aspirations. Recognizing a sympathetic spirit his starved nature unfolded under the warmth of her appreciation, and he discovered to her depths and Philippe The man had genius. shoals and angles which other persons ever had seen or suspected. As she beheld these revelations a great awe and a great love entered her heart and soul. She saw his great and heroic soul naked and free from the sordid limitations of his life, and she bowed down and worshiped with the devotion given only to women of her type. And under the spell of her appreciation and understanding, the shackles dropped away from him and his genius held full sway. All this involved many we 77 months and when he realized fully the great love he bore the blithesome lass, the great joy of the discovery turned at once into sharpest pain as he real- ized the hopelessness of his passion. How was he, who could scarcely keep his own body and soul together, hope to care for another and to assume the responsibilities of a family? But she never despaired. For her always was the golden day in sight when his genius would be recognized and their dreams be realized. * * * * One day the world was startled with a new and great play. It was a drama which touched all the chords of human nature and inspired laughter and tears alike. It lifted every auditor A The woman had hope. to the heights of ideality and carried him to the depths of human woe. There was no false note and all the world paused to pay tribute to the perfection of the piece. And up and down the land the critics asked, "Who is it that has done this thing?" and there was no answer. For the play was produced under a nom de plume, and the cleverest work of the newspapers failed to disclose the real identity of the author. After the play had been a success for many months and had brought a great harvest of shekels to manager and playwright, a fire occurred in a great office building wherein the manager who produced the play had his offices. A reporter hurrying to the fire was enveloped in a cloud of smoke and cinders and after catching his breath found a charred piece of paper blown across his face. Glancing at it he saw that it was a contract and upon further investigation it proved to be the veritable contract between the author of "Love's Last Surrender" and the manager who purchased it. The controversy as to the authorship of the play had been waging so fiercely that the reporter recognized instantly the value of the information he had. He went on with his fire story and on the following day sought out the man whose name was on the priceless contract the gods had sent into his hands. He found him—a thin, hollow-cheeked man with eyes in which burned a fire almost uncanny in its intensity. He was illy dressed and bore none of the marks of the successful author. "What was the inspiration of this great work?" asked the reporter. "Come with me," replied the man. Following him silently the reporter went with the man by trolley car and walk until they reached the great cemetery by the flowing river. The great author paused beside a grave surmounted by a simple shaft but heaped high with priceless roses "The inspiration lies here," said he solemnly. "The play is the very essence of the life and love and devotion of the marvelous woman who lies beneath this mound. It is the warp and woof of her heart-throbs and mine. That is why I have never let my authorship be known—I would not profane her love and mine. You, sir, have discovered the secret. You have it in your power to do this act of desecration. Do it, sir, if your conscience will allow. I cannot prevent it—but I forbid it in the name of every holy and generous instinct." He turned abruptly and went away. "Well, did you get the story?" demanded the city editor eagerly as Holmes entered the office. "No," replied Holmes soberly, tearing a piece of paper into bits and throwing the bits on the floor. "Nothing in it; false alarm." "Well, of all fools," remarked the city editor in disgust, "and you've wasted a whole afternoon. Get busy on that Hill graft case. Keep it in two columns." Holmes occasionally meets on the street a grave and solemn gentleman *** who moostey picks his way among the fostling crowd. And Holmes always lifts his hat when he meets him. And the grave and solemn gentleman always lifts his hat to Holmes. PHYSICIANS KNEW EACH OTHER "Good Thing" to Be Allowed to Remain Undisturbed. "Listeners," said H. Clay Pierce, the oil magnate, in New York, "seldom hear good of themselves. This is especially true if the listeners happen to be rich. "There was a rich old lady in St. Louis who had been ailing a long time. She liked and trusted her physician, but, becoming alarmed finally, she asked him to call in a famous specialist for consultation. "The specialist came. He charged $500. He examined the rich old lady carefully and gently. Then he went downstairs to partake with the family doctor of a sumptuous luncheon that the patient had provided. "Now the patient, a brave woman, wishing not to be deceived about her health, wishing to know the worst at all costs, induced her maid to hide in a closet in the dining room so as to overhear and report to her the physicians' discussion of her ailments. "The maid's report was that during the luncheon the specialist and the family doctor had talked of nothing but the Panama canal. Finally, draining his last glass of champagne, the specialist said as he looked at his watch: "But I must be off. My train goes in twenty minutes." "Then the family doctor said: Taken the family doctor said: "But how about the old woman upstairs? You must remember she is a good source of income to me." "In that case," said the specialist, as he slipped on his overcoat, "I won't interfere. The present treatment is an excellent protracting one." Discount for Shortage A couple evidently from an exceedingly rural district recently presented themselves at the home of a Buffalo minister and announced that they wished to be married. The would-be bride was of a homelessness to cause one less pity for the blind, but the groom seemed satisfied, and as they possessed the necessary license the minister proceeded to perform the ceremony. "How much dew that come to, parson?" the man inquired, bringing a handful of silver change from a deep trousers pocket. "Name yer regular figger that you charge the swells. I'm a-goin' th' limit, by jinks." "Oh, I have no regular charge," the minister said; "just give me what you think it is worth." The groom turned and eyed the bride in a speculative manner. "She's a good gal, ef she ain't much on looks," he said, thoughtfully, "an I'll be gosh derned if she ain't wuth a dollar an' forty-five cents!" He was about to hand over the silver, when the lady caught his arm, and deducted the five cent piece from the sum. "Wait, Si," she said. "Take back this nickel; you don't know it, but when I was a child I chopped off two toes with th' hatchet."—Harper's Weekly. The Barley. The grain stands bonny where the cliffs are sheer O late last harvest-time, when days were long. Worked men and malds by the steading; A girl placed landward in a screaming throng, To the river pastures heading. Soft was the foostep that beside me trod In the dew of morning early. For Love walked there beneath the smile of God And the high blue sky above the barley. The stalks fall mellow to the moor. The stalks fall mellow to the sweeping blade With their weeds laid shorn beside them, And eyes meet stealthily as lad and maid Glance over where the stocks divide them. But mine turn ever while I work alone Through the long day, late and early. To a low mound lying by a standing stone Where the wall shattered the barley- When the sky was grey the Kirk is By the long blue sea beyond the barley- -Violet Jacob, in the Outlook. Why He Liked Venice Marion Crawford gave recently a dinner in Rome and during the dinner the talk turned to Venice. "There is a young lady from Duluth," Mr Crawford said, "whom I meet one bright October morning in Sorrento. She told me that she was touring Italy with her father. She said her father had liked all the Italian cities, but especially he had liked Venice. "Ah, Venice, to be sure," said I. I can readily understand that your father would prefer Venice, with its gondolas and St. Mark's and Michael Angelo's— "Oh, no,' said the young lady, 'it wasn't that. But he could sit in the hotel, you know, and fish out of the window.'" Her. Perguisites. E. Z. Gross, the mayor of Harrisburg, Pa., was condemning the fees and unfair perquisites which swell unduly the salaries of many unimportant office holders. "Fees and perquisites," he said, "tend to cause unjust dealings. Even in the kitchen that is so. "A butcher told me the other day that a young woman, the cook in a prominent family hereabouts, came into his shop and said: "Gimme a fine large roast o' beef with plenty o' bones." "Plenty of bones?" said the butcher in amazement. "Yes,' answered the young woman. 'Bones is my perigrite.'" HAD HEART PAINS A Critical Case of Rheumatism Cured By Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. While Mr. W. S. Geisel, of No. 125 East Coates street, Moberly, Mo., was steadily working at his trade in a foundation at that place, he became the victim of an attack of rheumatism, and his experience is that of thousands who are compelled to work in similar surroundings. He describes his situation as follows: "I had been at work for a long time in a foundry where I was exposed to dampness. First my feet began to hurt and to swell, then my knees and my shoulder joints began to be affected in the same way. Finally I could not walk without great difficulty and suffering and had to stop work altogether. My appetite was feeble and I grew very pale and weak. I began to have pains about my heart and it fluttered a great deal. I became greatly alarmed about my condition. My mother knew about the virtues of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, as they had given her back her health when she was nearly wasting to death, and when she found that they were good for rheumatism too, she began to give them to me about a month after I was attacked. That was in the early part of March, 1903, and by June they had driven away the pains and swelling and had restored my appetite and color. Then I felt strong enough to take up a line of outdoor work and now, in October, I regard myself as entirely well and I am about to go into a foundry again at St. Louis." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills also cure other diseases springing from impure blood or disordered nerves, such as sciatica, locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis and all forms of weakness in male or female. They may be had at all druggists or directly from the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.Y. Hardly. "If Washington were alive today do you think he would be the popular idol he was in his own times?" "I don't know," answered the pessimistic citizen. "He might be a popular idol, but I hardly think he would be much in demand as a New York insurance director." Many Children are Sickly Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, Break up Cakes and Destroy Worms. Atall Drummets' 25c, Sample mailed FREE Address Allen S. Olmsted, Roy N, Y. Low Rates Bring Custom. Good Dame—"I was so glad to learn that you had at last joined the ant-swearing society. But why didn't you join before?" Young Man—"Too expensive. The fines used to be a dime for everything; but lately the rates have been reduced to six cusses for a quarer." Fast "Is this a fast color?" asked the man who wanted three pairs of socks for a quarter. "Sir," replied the saleperson blandly, "that color is so fast that, if it should start to run it would inevitably be arrested for exceeding the speed limit."—Puck. Lewis' Single Binder — the famous straight 50 cigar, always best quality. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Why He Failed "I had a scheme that promised to make me a fortune, but I had a streak of bad luck." "Tell me about it." "I invented a substitute for food and was just getting I well started when another fellow came along and brought out an imitation of my substitute and undersold me." A Weary Evening. Jinks—to old friend in theater lobby—"I notice you come out after every act. You are not drinking, I hope?" Blinks—"Oh, no; but it is rather tiresome inside. I came with my own sister this time." What You Swallow? There is a growing sentiment in this country in favor of MEDICINES or KNOWN COMPOSITION. It is but natural that you should have some interest in the composition of that which be or she is expected to swallow, whether it be food, drink or medicine. Recognizing this growing disposition on the part of the public, and satisfied that the fullest publicity can only add to the well-earned reputation of his medicines, Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., became time by the forelock" as it were, and is presented broadcast a list of all the ingredients entering into his leading medicines, the Golden Medical discovery" the popular liver antivigator, stomach tonic, blood purifier, heart regulator; also of his "Favorite Prescription" for weak, over-worked, broken-nervy, nervous and invalid women. This bold and out-spoken movement on the part of Dr. Pierce, has, by showing exactly what his well-known medicines composed of, completely disarmed all harmless weapons, have heretofore unjustly attacked them. A little pamphlet has been compiled, from the standard medical authorities of all the several schools of practice, showing the same endorsements by leading medical writers of the several ingredients which enter into Dr. Pierce's medicines. A copy of this little book is mailed free to any one dearing to learn more concerning the valuable, medicinal plants which enter into the composition of Dr. Pierce's medicines. Address: Pierce as above. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Patients are tiny, sugared anti-billious granules and invigorate Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Do not beget the "pill habit," but cure it with one or two each day for a laxative and restorative course for an active cathartic. Once tried always in copies $50,000 GIVEN AWAY, in copies The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, a book that sold to the extent of $50,000. tent of $500,000 copies a few years ago, at $1.50 per copy. We gave away $30,000 worth of booklets. This year we shall give away $30,000 worth of books you share in this benefit! If you one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only for book in paper covers, or $1 stamps in paper covers, Dr. R. V. Pierce, Bungalow, N. Cook's Illustrated Guide to Cooking TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS President W. E. Stone of Purdue university at Lafayette, Ind., has expelled seven undergraduates for hazing a student. Advices from Glion, Switzerland to which place Max Gorky went after leaving Berlin, say that he is making for America shortly. The insurrection in German Southwest Africa has cost up to date about $150,000,000 according to a report made to the reichstag. Bishop Charles Williams of Detroit Mich., has declared against abolishing saloons. He favors taking a drink when it is wanted. In St. Louis George Scheley shot and seriously wounded his wife and then committed suicide. No cause for the shooting is known. The congregation of the propaganda has decided to propose to the pope the appointment of Monsignore John B. Morris, of Nashville, Tenn., as coadjutor bishop of Little Rock, Ark. The United States army transport Thomas sailed from San Francisco for Manila. She carried many cabin passengers and a number of marines, but no regular troops. Her cargo consisted of 4,000 tons of army supplies. Emperor William has been delaying starting on his proposed Mediterranean cruise in order to see the outcome of the Algeciras conference, and it is now too late. Consequently he has entirely abandoned his planned trip to the Mediterranean. D. G. Haldeman, British manager of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, has resigned owing to differences of opinion between himself and the New York office over matters which he considered of vital importance to the British policy holders. Warrants for the arrest of Walter Scott, the Death Valley miner, and three other men were issued at San Bernardina, Cal., charging them with making an assault with intent to kill on a Dr. Johnson and his party. It is alleged that Scott is really a bandit and that his rich mine is a myth. An enormous snowslide in the Winfield and Clear creek mining district killed, it is reported, at Granite, Col., at least half a dozen men. Among the dead is Harry Wineborn, the pioneer prospector and mining man of Chaffee county. A relief party was organized there by James Ball and has gone to the scene of the disaster. The President has sent the following telegram to Dr. Louis Klopsch, edit or of the Christian Herald, New York: "Let me heartly thank you and through you the Christian Herald for the admirable work done in connection with the famine sufferers in Japan. You have now raised $130,000 and you have rendered a very real service to humanity and to the cause of international good will." In an address before the Commercial club of Boston, Mass., Lyman J. Gage discussed the subject of currency. He pointed out what he regarded as several defects in the currency system of the United States. The system was an awkward one, he said, and its damaging influence was chiefly experienced in the country districts. Mr. Gage said that the element which should control the manner of currency reform is bank credit General John M. Thayer, civil war veteran, former United States senator and governor of Nebraska, died in Lincoln Neb. He was United States senator from Nebraska from 1867 to 1871 territorial governor of Wyoming in 1875 and governor of Nebraska for four years beginning in 1887. He gained renown as an Indian fighter in the territorial days of his state and rose to the rank of brigadier general in the civil war. John D. Rockefeller, it is authoritatively announced at New York, has forwarded to the board of commissioners for foreign missions of the Congregational church a check for $45,000 completing his gift of $100,000 promised some time ago. When the gift was first announced there was a strong movement against receiving it, headed by Dev. Dr. Washington Gladden. It appears that Mr. Rockefeller had sent only $55,000 when the "tainted money" discussion was begun. The colonial legislature at St. John's N. F., has unanimously adopter a resolution favoring old age pensions the terms of the grant to be determined by a commission which it is recommended shall investigate the subject during the next twelve months preparatory to the introduction of the measure to give effect to the project. Premier Band declared it to be his belief that the adoption of the policy would not unduly strain the colony's finances. The Ohio senate, by a vote of 18 to 12, defeated the Pollock pool selling bill. The bill legalized pool selling at races throughout Ohio. The manufacture and sale of cigarettes are against the Nebraska law. Papers and tobacco may be sold, however and the rolling of cigarettes by individuals, for their own use, cannot be prevented. The decision was rendered by the State Supreme court at Lincoln, on an appeal by a young man arrested for rolling a cigarette, who took an appeal to the commonwealth's highest legal tribunal. There is no Rochelle Salts, A Lime or Ammonia in food made Calumet Baking Powder Complies with the Pure Food of all States. A Modern Romeo. Amelia—"Swear not by the m the inconstant mqon." Augustus—"Then what shall I by?" "Swear by that which you hold valuable; something which is due to you than all things else; some that you cannot live without." "Then, Amelia, I love you swear it by my salary." Important to Mothers: Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOR a safe and sure remedy for infants and chil- and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Hutchison In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Been A Tender Heart Hotel Guest—in the West—"So recently came from farther up." Hotel Guest—in the West—"So recently came from farther West. Waiter—"Yes, sah; fram far We Got disgusted wif de morals or section, sah. De Wailah's Da Union used to lunch guests wate less nor one dollah, sah, an' I could stand that. No, sah! I don't sidah a man ought to be hurt him he gives less nor fifty cents, sah! How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward to the case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo We, the undersigned, understand that for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly orable in all business transactions and unable to carry out any obligations made by his WALDING, KINNAN & MARTIN. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of system. Testimonials sent free. Price 55 cure bottle. Sold by all Druggists. A Rich Man's Sport. Mr. C. K. G. Billings, the owner of the fast horses Lou Dillon and Mr. Delmar, is as much interested in amobiles as he is in horses, and in the largest private garage in America says the March World's Work. He has 13 different cars and uses to stables for their storage, paying $3 a month rent. He has a complete workshop with lathes and other equipment for making repairs, and also electric charging plant which can about $1,000 a month to open. Every month he spends another $1 for lighting, and $225 for wages to head chauffeur. There are also the other chauffeurs who get $150 each and two washers to keep the clean, who get $50 a month apiece. He spends also every month about $400 for tires, $100 for new parts, $40 for his chauffeur's clothes and foot and large sums for gasoline and oil. It is estimated that his 13 automobiles are worth $100,000 and cost from $2,000 to $30,000 a year to keep in commission. Automobilling of course made exclusively a rich man's sport when carried on so lavishly. Our Leisure Classes "Have you any leisure class in your country?" asked the English tourist. "Well, that's according to what you call leisure," replied the citizen. "We've got a lot of people who still and do nothing but complain while the corporations they create are robbing them blind. If that what you mean, then we've got 'em." GRAND TO LIVE. And the Last Laugh Is Always the Best. "Six months ago I would have laughed at the idea that there could be anything better for a table beverage than coffee," writes an Ohio woman—"now I laugh to know there is." "Since childhood I drank coffee as freely as any other member of the family. The result was a puny, sticky girl, and as I grew into womanhood I did not gain in health, but was afflicted with heart trouble, a weak and disordered stomach, wrecked nerves and a general breaking down, till last winter, at the age of 38 I seemed to be on the verge of consumption. My friends greeted me with 'How bad you look! What a terrible color!' and this was not very comforting. "The doctors and patent medicines did me absolutely no good. I was thoroughly discouraged "Then I gave up coffee and commenced Postum Food Coffee. At first I didn't like it, but after a few trials and following the directions exactly, it was grand. It was refreshing and satisfying. In a couple of weeks I noticed a great change. I became stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was not troubled with forgetfulness as in coffee times, my power of endurance was more than doubled. The heart trouble and indigestion disappeared and my nerves became steady and strong. "I began to take an interest in things about me. Housework and home-making became a pleasure. My friends have marveled at the change and when they inquire what brought it about, I answer "Postum Food Coffee, and nothing else in the world." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkga.