The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. the Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in this Section BERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE "WET OR DRY" Matter Ought to be Once Settled. City Locals. Call up 1618 West—with your news not right we will fix it. Enfranchisement a Blunder Tuskegee, Ala.,—The third and con- ditional GREETING TO THE NEW YEAR. Scotchmen Gather Annually in St. Paul's Churchyard, London. MINISTER TO MODERN VANITY. What the America Cit- would like to see. be continual juggling with the joints when question in this city is disgus- set alone mortifying to that class mens who stand for the upbuilding permanent establishment of a city. must be confessed, regardless of what statutes of the state contain, that bank and file of the citizens, that lose the backbone of the city, that done more than any other migra- get to make it all it is—want liquor. recent and proper restrictions on time. It is a shame that the busi- interestes must be so interrupted, time the wind blows hard. about time the people of this city making up—Kansas City, Mo., has profited by the blindness of the people. whole world regards Kansas as a aid for the production of cranks of art and another. Kansas City Kas. not seem to be peopled by a nobleitative of proud manhood, but who delight in the game of hide- seek, and political jobbery and party -The old broken down, heavy and taxpayer in the end generally the musicians, while the leaders of story set gently spread their wings to another locality, to escape theought on in their former fields of How long will the people of this children. We are not advocating the town (as it is nothing more) deliver it over to the liq uor dealers withful restrictions that the people but to do legitimate business can by the same and not build up a City, Mo., forever and ever. They Say. d they did go West. who laughs last, laughs best. we can shooters union, reorganized. a "dry town" and you know it. under how many did that T strike. here's my wandering boy tonight— cross the line. knock of a office holder in Kansas pass. is a tough one. is the use of always fretting at this we shall find. are some of the biggest story our l-s in this city that ever lived ives way out on Washington. He the blue and he comes from just es away on a visit every now and ax is up and heads are falling. on your way—that's the happy. at you see I'm lonely and dreaming you belong to the bucket brigade jug volunteers. you can just bet that Easter will me the real thing. image how much shopping some we have in Kansas City after mid- Ha! Ha! IV. Henderson Resigns. E. F. Henderson well known in city, but who has been in Los Angeles, Cal., in the ministerial work-will turn to this city. We clip the follow-from "The Eagle," a prosperous and thriving journal of the above city. Rev. E. F. Henderson, pastor of Christian church which meets at and Wall streets, has resigned his job to take effect at once. He will move to Los Angeles in a few days for his role in Kansas City. Mr. Henderson uses to our city about a year ago to health, which, during his stay, has only improved, and he has made him quite active in the way of helping promote the general interests of the city. He is a fearless and able exponent like Gospel, a deep thinker and pracer writer. While in our city he has much to help elevate, in prove and encourage the circulation of our Negro ranks of the West. He will carry with the good wishes of the public readiness of denomination. City Locals. Call up 1958 West—with your news 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. Mr. and Mrs. John Nettles of Atlanta, Ga., cousin of Mr. and Mrs. H. Nettles of 410 Freeman ave., are in the city the guest of Mrs. Sherman Scruggs of 423 Freeman ave. Mrs. Baldock of the West end is very seriously ill. Mrs. Robert Gaddie, of 410 Oakland still lingers very low. The feast in the Wilderness at the St. Peters C. M. E. church last week was a glowing success. Fire destroyed the little home of Mr. J. J. Roberson at 347 Freeman ave. Mr. Louis Albert formerly of this city but went recently to his old nome, New Orleans, died last week on his arrival. Mr. Henry Fulgham, our enterprising business man is quite seriously ill at his business establishment on Wash. ave. The 20th Century Literary Club gave their musical and literary entertainment at the St. James A. M. E church last evening was a complete success. Grand Musicale and Literary entertain ment at M. and O. hall Monday night April 9th. Admission 10 cents. Every The Maple Leaf Temple of S. M. T. promise an exceptional Literary and Musical treat on April 9th, at M. and O. hall. This temple is said to be the next largest number in the state. Mr. Ed Mitchell of the 2nd Ward will succeed Joseph Williams at No. 5, fire station and Mr. Eb Green will swing a policeman club under the present temporary municipal disruption. Mr. S. H. Randolph our enterprising railway mail clerk is at the head of a grand swell entertainment and ball to be given on the 18th at the Knight of Tabor Hall for the benefit of the Orphans home it promises to be an elaborate affair. Don't miss it if you are looking for a good time, peace and harmony will prevail. Mr. George Henry of 203 Troup ave. is expecting to spend Sunday in Leavenworth, Kas. with his old friends. The resignation of Rev. R. Mitchell, D.D. as pastor of the 1st Baptist Church will take effect May 1st, after which he will be in charge of the State St. Baptist church, Bowling Green, Ky., to which he has been recently called. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Day formerly livat 608 Northup ave. are stopping temporarily at the residence of Mr.R.C. Clark 1052 Jersey preparatory to their removal to Canada—where Mr. Day will resume his work on the cattle ranch. Mr. Day has taken up an excellent claim of 160 acres in that country and may possibly make his fature home there. He and his estimable wife anticipates leaving this city on or about the 17th. They carry with them the best wishes of all their many friends. The Pleasant Green Baptist church is having revival meeting every night we had an happy soul converted last night we hope to have all the members come out. Rev. P. Jackson of Worl City, will preach his first sermon Monday night all are invited to come and bring their sinner friends. Rev. G. McNeal pastor. Half Million Dollars A gift of $65,000 will accrue finally to Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, by the will of the late Addrey Dotger a retired merchant of this city, who died a few months ago at his home in South Orange N. J. By the terms of Mr. Dotger's will the residue of the estate after all his bequests are paid, will go to Tuskegee, upon the death of his widow. The absolute value of the estate is unknown, but apprisers filed the inventory of the personal property, proving to be worth over $994,932. Of the real estate much of it is valuable property in that city. No inventory was filed, but enough is known of the total value of the estate to make sure that Tuskegee will receive $65,000. Shut your mouth. One of the most detrimental things to the Negro is his mouth. We must learn to keep it shut sometime. The Negroes of Kansas City should talk less and do mo. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING. Enfranchisement a Blunder Tuskegee, Ala.—The third and concluding day of Tuskegee's "silent jubilee" was marked by the continued attendance of an immense throng, representing the varied types of citizenship which are interested in the Tuskegee normal Institute. The program for the two sessions day and night, including several notable addresses, concluding with that of Andrew Carnegie tonight. The morning session was marked by a spirited discussion between Pres. Cyrus Norbrup of university of Minnesota and William Lloyd Garrison. The former speaker in commenting on the work at Tuskegee expressed his interest in the education of all the people of the South. He concluded his remarks by saving: "Outside of education there can be formed no solution of the race problem, I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the more ignorant a man is, the more efficient he is a worker." He expressed the opinion that the enfranchisement of the mass of the Negro race at the close of the civil war was a colossal blunder. Sharpe issue was taken by Mr. Garrison in a dramatic ten-minute address. He contended that this way "to teach a man to vote is to put the ballot into his hand." African Prince Wins. Columbia university's highest oratorical honors went this year to a genuine full-blooded African prince, who won the annual contest today for the George William Curtis medal. Prince Pka Isaka Seme is the name of the winner, and he is a son of the line of chiefs that ruled Zuland up to the time the English gained control. He is a member of the class of 1906 in Columbia college, and is an ardent student, specializing in economics. After getting his bachelor degree from Columbia, Seme will spend three yeare at Oxford and then return to Zuland, where the position of attorney general for his people is being held open for him. The subject of his oration was "The Regeneration of Africa." To Play in Washington Will Marion Cook, the well-known Negro plavwright and composer, by special arrangements with Melvin B Raymond', will present William and Walker in their new play "Absinia" at Convention Hall, Washington. D. C., May 1st, Mr. Cook, who composed the music of "Absinia" is a Washingtonian, having studied music in Berlin, under Joachim and Dvorak. This will be Williams and Walker's only appearance in the South. Publication Notice: in the court of Common Pleas af Wyan dothe County, Kansas. Mary Bradley, Plaintiff. vs. Otis Divers, and Ida Divers, Defendant. To the above named defendants you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court. by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 30th day of January A. D. 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree forecosing a certain mortgage, given by the defendant Otis Divers, on the following described real property to-wit: -The south one half, of the North-west quarter of the South-west quarter of section twenty of township eleven, of range twenty four, in Wyandotte County, Kansas and excluding you, and each of you from all interest in said land, and ordering the sale of said land in persuance of said judgement and for costs of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pliff. Attest: J. L. Beggs, Clerk Teach your danghters. Teach her that 100 cents makes one dollar. Teach her how to wear a simple muslin dress and to wear it like a queen. Teach her how to sew on buttons, dainty stockings and mend gloves. Teach her to dress for health and comfort, as well as for appearance. Teach her to arrange the parlor and the library. Teach her to love and cultivate flowers. Teach her to have a place for everything and put everything in its place. Teach her to say no and mean it, and say yes and stick to it. Teach her to have nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men. Teach her to pay regard to the character of those she would associate with, and not how much money they have.—Detroit News. GREETING TO THE NEW YEAR. 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 'Hechs' 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 Hephaestia. 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 guru, 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 yield. These glass stones sell readily to tourists. The poor fools think they are buying gems swiped by the miners from the mines.' The Wanderer The Wanderer. No home is mine in the North or South, Rooftess! 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 all the world; No place in the halls of fame. No friend to encourage a halting step, None either to praise or to blame. Calmly climbing the steep ascent Of life, to the Valley of Age. ▲wearied! The lesson is hard and long. Yet it covers a single page. Why do I learn each line? Why not Pass over the dark words of gloom? ▲ye! There's a voice that whispers of life Beyond the struggles, and tears, and tomb. "You are safe and warm and watched with care" Comes the whisper from above; "You are shielded from the lonely winds and the sun— Sheltered in God's Great Love." —Reba Fay, in New Orleans Picayune. Mouse Made Nest of Currencv. 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. 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 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 chronicle 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 an 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." The Rhymeless Song. [On the latest popular models of near- rhymes.] I remember well the house That I dwelt 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 never can forget that dear old home. (Chorus.) It was there a little lady Promised she would be my baby. She was pretty and her name was Mary Jane. She was gay and she was merry, But I didn't call her Mary— I referred to her as Mississippi Mame. We lived down by the lake. And at evening, when 'twas late, I would take her walking in the fragrant lane. I would whisper of my love, And swear I'd never rove From my Mississippi Mame's side again! (Chorus.) —Cleveland Leader. 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.—son Globe. APRIL 6, 1906 thisSection CALL HERE What the America Citizen would like to see. The Negroes of Kansas City, Kansas, get together and be men and women not dirty, low down, contemptable under mining; lying and deceitful wretches a menace to the best interest of themselves and thole re whace. NOTE LETS For Rent-To desirable parties(gentleman perfered)well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city,inquire at this office. Mrs.S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave.,is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to-date Rooming house in the city-charges always reasonable. Nice Furnished Rooms for rent with board or without, will be at home to friends on Thursday, 423 Oakland ave Mrs.Annie Williams. Mrs. Reed, 528 Neb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rooms to rent. 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 gayer 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 Pifl Attest: Wm. Needies, Clerk. Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. L. E. Hayes, Plaintiff, us. Linus S. Wolcott. Frank E. Wolcott, Eliza beth Chapman 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 hereby 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, 1905, 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, 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. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas George Waller, Plaintiff. vs. Anna Waller, Defendant. Alma Warner, Detective. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 30th day of April, 1906, the petition will be taken as true and a judgement rendered, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff and defendant and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needies. Clerk. March 2. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weeky American Citizen. --- ```markdown ``` 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 whist 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 Mail 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 romancers 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 throws 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 g 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 this. 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 yet in 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; Wide longing, narrow opportunity—We bring life's broken toys, as children may, To one Compassionate. We may have blundered grievously and darkened Thy world we might have made so bright. Still Thou dost heal the heartache and the wrong to Thou Compassionate! —Mary Ethellyn Bourne, in Overland Month. 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 exclalmed, 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, an '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'll jist wait till I've finished sayin' it," he said, "I'll knock the tar out o' you, Dick Bunker, you pie 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 roiled 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 rolled 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 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 over; My laughter for you: how we laughed in the days past recover? My tears and my troubles were yours; and all I gave 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 this day from my yearning. There are all the 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 at home and I were at still I'm forgetting, ochone, 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 Shekilh 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, fierce $^{3,4}$ s, feignedly, ghastliness, gnawed, helerness, hysterics, imbecility, inconceivable, inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. Pittsburg 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 She can a loving wife They can sell me, 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, Which sailer has here health Is found in every spot? 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 he loves drinks 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 free 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 Requireme 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 hasn't cost 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 alll Purpos The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges R. sota Ave., Kan 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 tice. Charges Reasonable. Call at sota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. tern Univer W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR and Embalmer. The very best of Service, Fine Carriage for alll Purposes, at all Hours. The Best Equipped White Enameled Ambulance is sick and wounded on Short Notice. Charges Reasonable. Call at 431 Minnesota 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, on 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, 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. IES:—Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, and Thorough Teachers. ION:—For terms, prices and all inducement. IAM T. 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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 For 35 to 75 cents. And a Self Clean that makes the water clean For 50 to A. J. SH 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 seller by trading at a popular store? A. 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 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." "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. "That isn't a Mormon." QUINDARO. 530 MINNESOTA AVE 852 FREEMAN AVE. Telephone Home W Raymond DIRECTOR est of Service, Fine Carriage es, at all Hours. Enameled Ambulance for wounded Reasonable. Call at 431 Min as City, Kansay. 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The sailor belongs alike to the navy and to the merchant service, for he serves 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 mention in orders, the blockade of Algeria one capture by brigands, followed himself and his companions seizing the Spanish ship which captured the carair which had captured them. After serving many years before the man he became a master and small ship owner on his own account. His name is Pierre Loirat. He was born November, 1805, and at 12 he went sea. ROOM 8. Dr. Pierce is a powerful invigorating tonic, imparting health and strength in particular to the organs distinctly feminine. The usual, womanny health is so intimately related to the general health that when diseases of the delicate womanly organs are caused the whole body gains in health and strength. For weak and sickly women who are "worn-out," "run-down" or debilitated, especially for women who work in store, in office or schoolroom, who sit at the typewriter or sewing machine, or bear heavy household duties, nursing mothers. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has proven a priceless benefit because of its health-restoring powers. and stress. It is soothing and strengthening nerves, "Favorite Prescription" is unimpeded and is invaluable in allaying and suppressing nervous excitability, irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea, St. Vitus's dance, and other distressing nervous symptoms of functional and organic disease of the family organs. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and dependency. It cures obstinate cases. "Favorite Prescription" is a positive cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases of "female weakness," painful periods, irregularities, prolonged sleep of the pelvic organs, back back, bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion, inflammation Dr. Pierce's medicines are made from drummers but efficient medical roots found growing in our American forests. The Indians knew of the marvelous curative value of some of these roots and imported that knowledge to some of the friendlier whites, and gradually some of the more progressive physicians came to test and use them, and ever since they have grown in favor by reason of their superior curative virtues and their safe and harm-free drugs. Your ruggists sell the "FAVORITE PRE-ROW" and also that famous alternative blood purifier and stomach tonic, the GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY." Write to Dr Pierce about your case. He is an experienced physician and will treat your case as confidential and without charge for correspondence. Address him at the Invalida's Hotel and Surgical Institute, Bufalo, N. Y., of which he is chief consulting physician. Rank Partiality. Tobacco is a necessity and ice cream does not rules a Pittsburg justice in pass- ing on the Sunday laws. And yet the appointments of equal suffrage insist that women are adequately represented in the government.—Philadelphia North American. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c. You may use for cigars not so good. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Hope For The Indian. There is a fair prospect that the Indian will keep his place in the procession. The Carlisle school's football players have recently beaten West Point, and they have often defeated other white colleges. A basket ball team of full-blooded girls from the Fort Shaw (Montana) reservation school have, in playing the game, taken a long string of feminine scalps from the girls of white universities in the west. The educated red man is displaying a cameraderie and an adaptability to the new conditions which promise success to him in civilization's struggle. One or more of them represent their end of the coming state of Oklahoma in congress. This is right. He is to the manner born. The real F. F. A.'s are the Indians. Some of them, in the coming time, will sit in Roosevelt's chair.—C. M. Harvey in the March Atlantic. Swell (writing to his tailor, who has applied for the sixtieth time for the settlement of a long standing account): "Sir" In regard to the settlement of your bill, I beg to inform that if, you worry me about it any more, I shall place the case in the hands of my solicitor."—Tit-Bits. Many a man who thinks he is marrying an angel may find that she is equipped with a pair of asbestos tings a few months later. "COFFEE JAGS." The Doctor Named Them Correctly. Some one said "Coffee never hurts any one." Enquire of your friends and note their experiences. A Phila, woman says "During the last 2 or 3 years I became subject to what the doctor called 'coffee jags' and felt like I have heard men say they feel who have drank too much rum. It nauseated me, and I felt as though there was nothing but, coffee flowing through my veins. "Coffee agreed well enough for a coffee, but for a number of years I have known that it was doing me great harm, but, like the rum toper, I thought I could not get along without it. It made me nervous, disordered my digestion, destroyed my sleep and brought on frequent and very distressing headaches. "When I got what the doctor called a 'coffee jag' on, I would give up drinking it for a few days till my stomach regained a little strength, but I was always fretful and worried and nervous till I was able to resume the use of the drug. "About a year ago I was persuaded to try Postum, but as I got it in restaurants it was nothing but a sloppy mess, sometimes cold, and always weak, and of course I didn't like it. Finally I prepared some myself, at home, following the directions carefully, and found it delicious. I persevered in its use, quitting the old coffee entirely, and feeling better and better each day, till I found at last, to my great joy, that my ailments had all disappeared and my longing for coffee had come to an end. I have heretofore suffered intensely from utter exhaustion, besides the other ailments and troubles, but this summer, using Postum, I have felt fine." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Restaurant cooks rarely prepare Postum Coffee properly. They do not let it boll long enough. The Ohio river is still rising at Evansville, Ind., and stands 40.1 feet, which is 5.1 feet above the danger line. All the side streams are still rising. Engineers engaged in fitting out package freight steamers on the great lakes have been called off the boats by the Marine Engineers' Beneficial association at Detroit, Mich., owing to the refusal of the owners to employ three engineers instead of two on package freighters of 3,000 tons and upward. David E. Sherrick, former state auditor of Indiana, who was convicted for embezzling state funds, was received at the state prison in Michigan City last night. Sherrick chatted with friends during the streetcar ride from the depot to the prison, and there was no display of emotion on his part. Because Governor J. H. Mickey refuses to pay tuition his four children have been excluded from the Lincoln (Nebraska) public schools. He has filed a mandamus suit against the Lincoln school board to secure reinstatement of the children. All state officers likewise have refused to pay tuition. Gifts amounting to $150,000 to Adelbert college of Western Reserve university in Cleveland, made by grandchildren in San Francisco of Joseph Perkins, for many years a trustee of the college, were announced yesterday. A department of sociology will be established and a chemical laboratory built. In the District court at Vermillion, S. D., Elmer Johnson and Richard Brueschweller pleaded guilty to the charge of arson and were sentenced to five years in state's prison. The young men, who were university students, fired three old buildings here last summer and said they did it to improve the appearance of the town wagon completely destroyed the buggy and wagon factory of R. D. Scott & Co. and seven residences, occupying half a block, at Pontiac, Mich., causing a total loss of $120,000. The loss on the factory is $100,000. In addition several cars on the Grand Trunk tracks were destroyed. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. Federal rather than state characters for all corporations doing an interstate business were advocated by Judge Peter S. Grosscup of Chicago in a speech at the Economic club dinner at Boston, Mass. This, he declared, would be the only way to put a check to dishonest corporations which, under present conditions, are preying upon the public. It is stated at the White House at Washington that the President has made a reply to a telegram received from the coal operators of Chicago asking that he take steps to end the strike, and while the text will not be made public, there is authority for the statement that the President has decided not to interfere so long as conditions remain as they now are. While attempting to save his brother, who had become entangled in a broken guy wire at Janesville, Ohio, Carl Urban, aged 12 years, stepped into a $^3$ mudhole, thus completing a ground circuit that electrocuted him in the presence of hundreds of school children in front of the Grant school, Paul Urban, the younger brother, is still unconscious and probably will die. The Standard Oil Company of Illinios, with headquarters at Decatur, a corporation organized to fight the Standard Oil trust, increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $1,000,000 and it is said will within ninety days be prepared to offer competition to the trust that will mean something. Eastern capitalists are behind the concern and the sale of oil all over the country will be undertaken. While a Big Four Passenger train was held an hour at Muncie, near Urbana, Ill., a baby boy was born to Mrs. G. L. Dobyns, a young Kentucky woman who was traveling from Maysville, Ky., to join her husband at Urbana. Not a passenger grumbled at the wait and a big cheer went up from the group outside the coach when the announcement was made that "mother and child are doing well." Jiu jitsu at the United States naval academy in Annapolis, Md., has proved a dismal failure. Professor Yamashita, the expert who instructed President Roosevelt, gave the last of a series of fifty lessons to the midshipmen recently. His contract has not been renewed, and, as he has not been successful in making profitable engagements for the future, he will return to Japan. He has received $33.33 for each lesson of an hour at the academy. Worry over the coal strike, which threw him out of work, caused Samuel Gavens of Belleville, Ill., aged 22 years, a miner, to commit suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. Two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Kenoski, farmers living near Nary, Minn., died as the result of taking worm medicine which contained poison. The medicine was administered to the four children, of the family, three girls and one boy. Monday morning. All became violently ill and the remaining two may die at any time. Severe Congestion of the Kidneys Soon Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills. Richard M. Pearce, a prominent business man of 231 So. Orange St., Newark, N. J., says: "Working nights during bad weather brought on a heavy cold, aching of the limbs and pain in the back and kidneys. Severe congestion of the kidneys followed. Besides the terrific aching there were whirling headaches, and I became exceedingly weak. My doctor could not help me, and I turned to Doan's Kidney Pills, with the result that the kidney congestion disappeared and, with it, all the other symptoms. What is more, the cure has lasted for eight years." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y The late Hon. Tily Haines of Boston told this story of the first Haines, who came to America in 1670: Upon leaving England, his father, having heard of the wonderful richness of the soil in this country, charged Walter to travel before settling, until he could find "the grass tall enough to tie over the horse's back." He visited in Watertown, and, riding westerly, passed through the Sudbury marshes, where his horse sank so deep in the mud that he was enabled to tie the grass over the horse's back thus fixing the home of the Haines family in the town of Sudbury.—Exchange. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills A Reliable Remedy for the Weak, Alling and Bloodless. When the body is weak and the blood thin it is sometimes difficult to find the cause unless a wasting illness has preceded, or the sufferer happens to be a girl on the verge of womanhood. Obscure influences, something unhealthful in one's surroundings or work, may lead to a slow impoverishment of the blood and an enfeeblement of the whole body. When a serious stage has been reached there seems to be nothing that will account for it. Mr. C. E. Legg, of Tipton, W. Va., has found a successful method of treating weakness and bloodlessness. He says: "I used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for weakness caused by a lingering malarial fever that began in the spring of 1896. The worst effects of this were indigestion and a bad state of my blood. I was anemic, as the doctors say. People generally would say that I didn't have blood enough, or that I didn't have the right kind of blood; mine was too thin. My kidneys and liver were out of order. I was badly annoyed by sour rishings from my stomach. There was a good deal of pain, too, in my back and under my right shoulder blade." "How long did these troubles last?" "For over two years. For four months of that time I was under the care of a physician, but his medicine did me no good. Meanwhile I learned of the cures that had been wrought by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." 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It has a beneficial effect on the entire system. It is made of Herbs. Japan's First C. E. Society. The first Christian Endeavor Society in Japan was a society of the missionaries' children. It could meet only once a year at the annual meeting of the mission stations. Now Japan has 128 Christian Endeavor societies. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup. For children teething, writes the gums, educates inAnimation, always pain, cures. So bottle. Million Bushels of Wheat Wasted. "During 1905," writes George R. Metcalfe, M. E., in the Morch Technical World Magazine, "the railroads of the United States ordered new locomotives to the number of 6,300, together with 3,300 passenger cars and 340,000 freight cars. These last figures give a good idea of the relative importance of passenger and freight traffic to a large railroad. The rail mills started the new year with orders for 2,500,000 tons on their books. 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A Chicago business man who last year made a trip to the Philippines brought back with him a Filipino youth, whose mental alertness had made quite an impression upon him. The Oriental was installed in the Chicago man's office as a clerk, and he did very well, notwithstanding the fact that he was a trifle shaky as to his English. One day the Chicagoan handed the Filipino a bill for some goods purchased by a customer a long time previously. "As the gentleman seems to have no intention of settling this account," said the business man, "I want you to typewrite a letter to him, stating that an immediate adjustment of the indebtedness will soon be expected." In a few moments the Filipino laid before his employer the following effort: "My Dear Sir—This is to advise you that if you do not instanter send us the money you owe us, we shall be compelled to take measures that will cause you the utmost astonishment."—Harper's Weekly. MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT- no matter how bad the weather. 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Dies ts os iTS Wieans a pro« yy! zRN ductive ca ‘51 pA. pacity in dol- WEane Aa lars of over Cais $16 per acre. ‘This on land which has cost the farmer noth mg but the price of tlling {t, tells its ows ators. ‘The Canadian Government gives absolutely free to every settler 1e0 acres of such land. Lands adjoining ean be purchased at trom $ to $10 per acre from railroad and other corpo ations. Already 175,000 farmers from the United Biates have made thelr homes in Canada. For pamphlet “Twentieth Century Canada’ ‘and all information apply to Supt. of Immigra ton, Ottawa, Canada, oF to following authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No, 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, MissourL kaa we eae +— Positively cured by C. ARTERS these Little Pills. ‘They also relieve Dis- ITTLE |etcesionsndTootarty IVER [errtntitee nese Ss lore ean co ‘Tongue, Pain in the Side, ITORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable, SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE Genuine Must Br CARTERS) Facsimile Stnatre [a (Vewk toad REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. Pia te Ce lle RAMA ct Nee a et ad : For some decades past, there has ‘been, behind all the strenuous honest effort to do the best for the country’s sake, the desire to win the complete approval of the western nations, a desire which has caused detractors of Jauan to say that her humanity, her self denial, even her gallantry, all came under the head of “playing to the gallery.” The Japanese have peen on probation ever since many of the present leading men were born. The strange change in temper of American newspapers after the open- ing of the Portsmouth negotiations came as a shock to the devout beltev. ers in American friendship, a thing which all classes here hold in wise and tender regard. In other direo tions, too, the sudden cooling of kind- ness on the accession of respect has not gone unmarked. The Japanese are sensitive in such matters, and they, quite realize that in order to overcome a powerful foe and secure an illustrious alliance, they have beer obliged to risk some ancient and pleasant friendships. This expert ence of one of the penalties of great. ness has doubtless deepened the pre- vailing mood henceforth the Japan. ese will never ask what foreign na. tions think of him. He fs taking the responsibility for hts own standards ‘There is no longer any “gallery.” All that matters in future is his estimate ot himself—Mrs. Mary Crawforé Fraser in the World”s Work. Good books never made bad bova. ’ SSSI , fomes Fein = DODDS "; eg y Z KIDNEY 2 4 , loi f PILLS = STRESS oats RSS) a eee REESE yelaee Brae gee] Gis See Sa Reminiscences Bo Re Re RADE OPA RPA ARR IASOTR When 1 was six'T liked to scare : The eats upon the fence. and tear ‘A hole or two-but never mind, *rwould only bore. yous auite unkind. I was in mischief everywhere When Mabel_met me. on the stalz And asked kiss =1'pulled her hale ‘And most’ decisively. declined sd When Iwas six. . Those tomcats’ sons now fill the air With notes of hideous ‘despalt ut i sexree hea them. for 1 and That Chance with’ Mabel—now so rare When T was six “Princeton Tiger. Sa a aca UaUN SO OO COTTE a. a <agaae ceo cm (Lis Soe AOR Ni bce HONS Raat av aUE EP) SH a RA yy WHEN The LINER CAME LY FRY HEREERT OFf24 (Copyright, 1996, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) ere aren UP rough tie co jcoa-palms at the patches of clear blue sky. The whole affair came vividly before him. He must leave this place, must keep always moving. To-night there would be a liner in, and—who could tell? When the last liner had come he had decided that it was no longer safe here. He stirred nervous ly and tried to banish everything from his mind. It was impossible. At last he jumped to his feet. The idea was a nasty one. Howard dida’t relish the thought of that liner, It was too suggestive. He looked carefully about, as if he feared some- one might be lurking behind the tree- trunks. To be running from someone al- ways—that it was which pained. And then there was Adeline. Howard tried not to think of her, but it was no use. The gates of the past were closed now, yet Adeline was always in his thoughts. If he had not done it—well, he wouldn't be here, that was all. He walked quickly back to the town. In the harbor lay several “tramps.” Howard determined to secure _pas- sage on one of them. It didn’t mat- ter where he went, so long as it would take him farther and farther away. ‘The Rover was clearing that night for Janeiro, Buenos Ayres and the Horn. The captain was not averse to a bit of money on the side, so How- ard shipped as second cook, to satisty the license law. He arranged to go on board at dusk, before the liner came. Howard started toward his rooms to prepare for departure. On his way he came suddenly in view of a tourist party. There was no retreat, He was full upon them before’ he had seen. Anyway, why should he fear that anyone would know him? He quickened his pace, intending to slip swiftly past. There was a low exclamation at his side. He looked quickly up. His face whitened. It was she. The woman stood staring with frightened eyes. Howard stopped. ‘The party was a pace ahead of them now, and the woman muttered: “I shall be on the veranda of the ‘Tres Amigos to-night.” Then she hurried on, leaving the man to gaze after her in a stupor. Howard transferred his baggage to the steamer and sent word that he would be on board by nine. He could not deny himself this one last meet- ing, no matter what might be the est. It she should tell? He dis- missed the idea with a blush. * Came darkness; and the man found himself walking as in a dream toward the dazzling electric glare which was the hotel. Quietly he passed along the wide veranda. He found her in a secluded corner that overlooked the bay. He could see the lights of the Rover, and. farther out, the glimmer of the approaching liner, “How did you happen to come here —Addy?” he asked Icoking into her eyes. She was silent a moment before answering. “It doesn’t matter—just a break in health and—and a little travel to age: Yi (ae b ay he Be mend it. But you?” She paused, but before he could reply went on: “I had sworn never to speak to you again, but—it was a surprise to-day.” “Surprise? Lord, whrt a surprise! I wish I hadn't—seen you.” “You came,” she whispered, look- ing away from him. “T had to. I couldn’t keep away. I—tried.” Again there was silence. Some where, very far away, the orchestra was beginning a waltz. The elusive ‘strains floated ont to them, cn odd accompaniment to their little drama. Gut in the bay the liner was dis charging her passengers. “Why did you do it?” murmured the woman. “There was everything before _you——” “Don't,” he begged. “It has been hard enough, anyway.” “Mr. Boynton is abroad himself— after you, they say. He has an idea that he ean find you,” she told him. “Boynton!” he exclaimed, “I didn’t suppose the thousand or two meant so much to him.” “It isn’t that—it's—the way you left LZ ae 2 2 a | A Se if mM i { i od Scone wit \\\ iy oe . mene: me that—incensed him. He wanted to marry me, you know, but—oh, I couldn’t. He needed the rest, so he’s taking it—huating you. He says—but it doesn’t matter.” The man bowed his head, Neither heard a step beside them. In the shelter of the darkness another stood, quiet, erect. “Addy,” Howard said at length, very slowly. “It was all for—you. God, how foolish I was! But—but | Was so poor, you had so much—and you'd always been used to everything that was fine. Then the chance came and—ard you know the rest. It’s too awful. I'd have stayed but there was you. I didn’t think it would be dis. covered and I meant to put it back, every cent of it. When discovery came I couldn't give myself up—with you to love, Addy, so—I left.” He paused and looked out over the bay. The moon had arisen, throwing a pale glow over the waters. The Rover lay like a huge black bug, winking blood-shot eyes in the night. __ “Lord, how I loye you!” he crled, ‘suddenly, passionately, _ He held the woman close to him. “Come with me,” ne urged in his madness. | “It I could,” she whispered. “But you must go, Henry. In a year—or two—when you can replace the money, I shall be waiting.” The woman sobbed hysterically. At last she begged him to go, and How- ard walked from her. The man in the shadows started as if to follow, then retired farther into the dark- ness. Howard hurried on and passed into the night. The man stole inside the hotel. In the ‘corridor Adeline stopped short. “Why—Mr.—Boynton!” she gasped, staring at the man before her. “What has brought you here” she asked, chills playing along her back as she looked guiltily behind her. “Game—game,” he answered. “But it’s no go. I'm returning on the next steamer. Not coming back for a year —or two.” The woman did not understand—at the time as she stood in the door, watching the black hulk of a “tramp” slip silently out to the open sea, a long stream of smoke trailing -low over the waters in its wake. Saved by a Sigr:. A small boy about 12 j..:s old was caught stealing a bottle or piano var nish in the music department of department store one afternoon last week. The boy was taken into the su perinteudent’s office and questioned. “Well, you see, it was this way,’ said he. “I saw a sign on the table where a lot of these bottles of varnist were, saying. ‘Take this home an¢ try it on your piano.’ So F took on and this big fatty came along an¢ pinched me,” pointing ty tie detectiv who had caught him, The boy went free. Tee sign wai meant for the sheet uusic counter anc had evidently been misplayed.—Nev York Preas, = : The Coffee Debate. ‘TERRIBLE SCALP HUMOR. Badly Affected With Sores and Crusts —Extended Down Behind the Ears —Another Cure by Cuticura. “About ten years ago my scalp be- came badly affected with sore and itching humors, crusts, ‘ete., and ex- tended down behind the ears. My hair came out in places, also. I was great- ly troubled; understood it was ecze- ma. Tried various remedies so called, without effect. Saw your Cuticma advertisement, and got the Cuticura Remedies at once. Applied them ag to directions, etc, and after two weeks I think, of use, was clear as a whistle: I have to state also that late last fall, etober and November, 1904, | was suddenly afflicteé with a bad eruption, painful and itching pustules over the lower part of the body. I suffered dreadfully. -in two months, under the skillful t-eatment of my doctor, con- joined with Cuticura Soap and Cuti- cura Ointment, I found myself cured, H. M. F. Weiss, Rosemond, Christian Co,, IIL, Aug. 31, 1905.” A Father Who Was Not Fussy. ‘The father of a large family in Gil- verte took his fourteenth child to the church to be christened. On en tering the church, and while prepara- tions were being made, the priest asked him by what name he would Uke to call the child. The father said he had forgotten the name the family had chosen, so the priest mentioned several, which were not the right ones. At last the father agreed to call it Michael, so when the ceremony was finished and the people were leaving he turned to the priest, and said: “I don't know what my wife will say, for we have @ Michael at home, and this is a girl.” —Boston Herald. + England's Decline. England is no longer going forward, And not to go forward Is to go back- Ward. She has had her day asa world-conqueror. Her dream of em- pire fs fading. Her people are con- fronted with the problem of holding their own industrially, and, being un- able to solve it, they see their property slipping from them and poverty creep- ing upon them—St. Joseph News- Press, A Happy Couple. ‘Wife—“What a happy-looking couple those two are! I wonder haw long they've been married.” Husband—“Oh, I guess they're only engaged.” Mrs. Klubbs (severely)—I've been lying awake these three hours waiting for you to come home. a Mr. Klobbs (ruefully)—Gee! And I deen staying away thre hours, wait- tng for you to sleep—Cleveland Leader. Salesman—Don't you want to look over some of prepared babies’ food? Young Mother—But I haven"t a. prepared baby.—Life. ‘The published statements of a num- ber of coffee importers and roasters indicate a “waspy” feeling towards us for daring to say that coffee is harm- ful to a percentage of the people. A frank public discussion of the sub- fect 1s quite agreeable to us and can certainly do no harm; on the contrary when all the facts on both sides of any question are spread before the people they can thereupon decide and act in- telligently. Give the people plain facts and they ‘mill take cave of thamesives. We demand facts in this coffee dis- cussion and propose to see that the facts are brought clearly before the people. A number of coffee Importers and roasters have joined a movement to boom coffee and stop the use of Pos tum Food Coffee and in their newspa- per statements undertake to deceive by false assertions. Their first {s that coffee fs not harm- ful, ‘We assert that one in every three coffee users has some form of incipi- ———————" moment what a terrible menace to a nation of civilized people, when one kind of beverage cripples the energies and health of one-third the people who use it, We make the assertion advisedly and suggest that the reader secure his own proof by personal inquiry among coffee users, "Ask your coffee drinking friends if ‘they keep free from any sort of aches and afls. You will be startled at the ‘percentage and will very naturally ‘seek to place the cause of disorder on ‘something aside from coffee, whether ‘food, inherited tendencies or some- | thing else. Go deever in your search for facts. It your friend admits occasional neu: ralgia, rheumatism, heart weakness, stomach or bowel trouble, kidney com. plaint, weak eyes or approaching nerv. ous prostration induce him or her to make the experiment of leaving off coffee for 10 days and using Postum Food Coffee, and observe the result It will startle you and give your friend something to think of, Of course, { the person is one of the weak ones POOR BONI. tet Count Boni is sued for divorce + Recause he has acted too corce; It’s the thought of the dough He'll have to let gough That's filling his heart with remorce. —Houston Post. Eliza! If a colored girl is seen hopping across the Ohio river on cakes of ice, going south, it may be safetly inferred that her former address was Spring: field —St.. Louis Globe-Democrat. In a Pinch, Use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE, A powder. It cures painful, smart- ing, 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 Ro, ,N. ¥. Business Methods in Farming. Thousands of afrmers in the more opulent agricultural regions of the country still conduct their farms in a haphazard way, but everywhere the advantage and recessity of business spirit are being recognized. Tho west has been warned, for example, that the fertilizer problem of the east and the south will have to be met before many decades unless the soils are put under better rotations and esonomy of land is being preached. It is now gnerally accepted as a truism that the better the business man the agrt- culturist of today becomes the more profitable will be found that occupa- tion which once described by a keen, though not wholly wise farmer in the statement that “farmin ain't all keep- in’ books, by a long shot.”—Boston Globe. Women. Women are born, not made. There is only one kind of women— namely, women. Against the eternal feminine the daily male has no chance at all. Schopenhauer did not approve of women, Women did not approve of Schopenhauer, ‘The chief topics of conservation in female society are husbands and ser- vants. The distinction seems arbit- rary and doubtless is seldom drawn, Those whom the gods love (i. e., ladies of the chorus) dye young. ‘The popular idea that women have no sense of humor fs quite mistaken. They marry us—London Punch. Hard Hit. | That last decision of the supreme court is likely to make the octopusters sit up and wonder where they are at. —Rochester Herald. Their Mainstay. The men who make the magazines Would lose a lot of scads And have but half their present means ‘Were there no corset ads. | and says “I can’t quit” you will have discovered one of the slaves of the cof- fee importer. Treat such kindly, for they seem absolutely powerless to stop the gradual but sure destruction of body and health. Nature has a way of destroying a part of the people to make room for the stronger. It Is the old law of “the survival of the fittest” at work, and the victims are many. ‘We repeat the assertion that coffee does harm many people, not ail, but an army large enough to appal the in- vestigator and searcher for facts. The next prevarication of the coffee importers and roasters is their state- ment that Postum Food Coffee is made of roasted peas, beans or corn, and mixed with a low grade of coffee and that it contains no nourishment, We have previously offered to wager $100,000.00 with them that their state- ments are absolutely false. ‘They have not accepted our wager and they will not. We will gladly make a present of $25,000.00 to any roaster or importer of olg-fashioned coffee who will accept methods Is made by thousands of peo- ple each month and the coffee import- ers themselves are cordially invited. Both Postum and Grape-Nuts are abso- lutely pure and made exactly as stated. ‘The formula of Postum and the an- alysis made by one of the foremost chemists of Boston has been printed on every package for many years and is absolutely accurate. Now as to the food value of Postum. It contains the parts of the wheat ber- ry which carry the elemental salts, such as lime, iron, potash, silica, ete., ete., used by the life forces to rebuild the cellular tissue, and this {s particu- larly true of the phosphate of potash, also found in Graps-Nuts, which com- bines in the human body with albu- men and this combination, together ‘with water, rebuilds the worn-out gray matter in the delicate nerve centers all over the body and throughout the brain and solar plexus. Ordinary coffee stimulates in an un. natural way, but with many people it slowly and surely destroys and does not rebuild this gray substance s0 vitally important to the well being of every human being. ‘These are eternal facts, proven, well authenticated and known to every Properly educated physician, chemist and food expert. — Peruna ts Exempr, ‘The Internal revenue comm er hae decided that Perina » manufaetured ts exempt trom in ‘revenue license, ter The highest medical anq py, ceutical authorities in the 18 States have passed upon the py It must be highly gratitying ou many friends of Pe-ru-na and ty.) commercial world. that the py. which has carried Columiue « into all continents, again enjoy same fixed status as any other s,® nlzed medicine —Columins Disp A Measure, First Politician—Think the ratty will reverse their attitude on pas. Second Politican—You vet; py, troduced a bill compelling they. enter the city on airshtps—progy Life. " a tea aa HE cae tek Sec, . Frawx J. CHENEY makes oath that }, ‘RANK J. CHENEY makes oath that hs permcrod the te ote Cuter Pe. “foresnid, and that sald fray will pay is ONE HUNDIED DOLLAGS. Lr fe case of CaTaRRM that cannot be cured by rye 0” ‘Haui’s Caramna Cone. ae "EY the ug SES. cae Sworn to before me and anbacrina gig att ums eth day of Deveanber, SD. 1s, em A Wetessos, a Novarrrey Hai Catarrh Care ts taken totersaiy as directly on the blood and mucous surtucer ¢' system. Send for testimonials. free, " FJ. CHENEY & CO. Te, Sold by all Draggists, 7ic. v Sold yo Dra , eiptin, | Towne—My sister was telling y that old Roxley’s young widow is at a resort in Indiana recommenis for the purpose. At the end of ty or three weeks he returned in a ty py and jocular frame of mind, fory had managed to get rid of his sup flous flesh. The day after his return he was his way down town, when he stony at the butcher shop that supplied household, Dashing inside, he 4 manded that the butcher cut for ti twenty pounds of pork. ‘The butcher at once complied. 7 politician looked at the twenty poun of pork for a moment or two, then} gan to walk away without furts ado.’ “Send it to the house?” asked ti butcher, thinking that his custom had overlooked the usual instructi “Not at all, not at all!” smiling exclaimed the politician. “We ner eat pork; in fact, have no use for The fact 1s, I've fallen off twer pounds and I merely wanted to ¢ an idea of how much that look lke."—Harper’s Weekly. | He—“And shall you send the a nouncement of our engagement to th newspapers?” She—"Do you think | is necessary?” He—“Well, perhaps m You might tell it to your best gi friend as a great secret.” Old Henpecke once did take i wife A Shakespeare play to view, It nearly cost Henpecke his lite~ “The Taming of the Shrew” Please remember we never say 0 dinary coffee hurts everyone, Some people use it regularly a seem strong enough to withstand ii attacks, but there is misery and di ease in store for the man or won who persists in its use when net Protests, by heart weakness, stom? and bowel troubles, kidney ulse weak eyes or general nervous prost tion. The remedy is obvious. drug caffeine, contained in all ordisst coffee, must be discontinued absols# ly or the disease will continue in sill of any medicine and will grow wort It is easy to leave off the old-fad foned coffee by adopting Postum Fu Coffee, for in it one finds a pleasit hot breakfast or dinner beveraze ti has the deep seal brown color, chat ing to a rich golden brown when go cream is added. When boiled lox enough (15 minutes) the flavor is that of rank Rio coffee but very lil the milder, smooth and high-graé! Java, but entirely lacking the dt effect of ordinary coffee. Anyone suffering from disorders # up by coffee drinking (and there is @ extensive variety) can absolutely @ pend upon some measure of relief ¥ quitting coffee and using Postum Fad Coffee, If the disease has not become t strongly rooted, one can with good" son expect it to disappear entirely # a reasonable time after the actif cause of the trouble is removed st! the celltilar tissue has time ‘o natuth ly rebuild with the elements furnish! by Postum and good food. It's only just plain old comm sense, Now, with the exact facts before {b reader, he or she can decide the ¥i# course, looking to health and power to do things, Tf you have any doubt as to cause of any ache or ail you may bs" Temember the far-reaching telest#™ of a hurt nervous system travel fe heel to head, and it may be well wo"! your while to make the experiment leaving off coffee entirely for ten da and using Postum in its place. You will probably gather some 60% solid facts, worth more than @ 2 mine, for health can make gold % sickness lose {t. Besides there's the fun, for {t's like continuous ternal frolic to be perfectly well. ‘There's a reason for POSTUM, Postum Cereal On, Led, Battle