The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in thisSection LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE ORRIBLE BURNING AND LYNCHING The Usual Victims. City Locals. Mr. H. B. Warrick and Miss Mable Wheeler of K. C. Mo. were the guest of Miss Mattie Scott of 1907 No. 8th St. Easter will be generally observed with appropriate exercises at all the churches Grand rally at the A. M. F. church Sunday. $5,000 BEHIND. Must raise this amount on Sunday or suffer MINISTER TO MODERN VANITY. The Looking-glass, and How It Looks What the America City would like to see. The whole world has heard of the das- dely lynching and burning at Spring- field, Mo. The infuriated whites of that arm having been wrought up to a high path in defense of a white woman who is claimed was assaulted by two Negroes, want to the jail in that town de- ferentially taken out the two Negroes no were charged with the same, but no were reliably said to be innocent they were taken to the public square and named to the Goddess of Liberty Statue not and burned. This being done, the agree mob returned to the county jail and dragged out another Negro who was argued with murder, he suffered the me fate—"The law" did nothing to event and not a single shot was fired. The simple fact that they were Negroes suffered for the mob. carefully before the ashes of the buried stim had cooled—another Negro was at by a young white man and killed course in self defense. An effort is being made to raise $1000 to make a "great hero" a present for killing a roold in the way Negro. What is to done, we say absolutely nothing in send—the best Negro citizens st suffer with the bad and for the Word on Politics. The political pot is beginning to boil great shape the people of this city are only interested in who shall fill the appointed term of Ex-Mayor Rose, shall be E. E. Venard or W. W. Rose, as Venard is now in the chair and there seems to be no doubt in the minds of the people that Venard will continue to edit. We believe that if Mr. Vernard selected of which there is no doubt, the will do his duty as he sees it, he honest and broad gaged in his views, this ability is without question. Mr. Venard believes that right is right and as the nerve and backbone to act accordingly. They Say. Call up 1958 West—with your news not right we will fix it. If you have visitors from out of city, kness or death in your family, call us. its news 1958 West. Don't fail to give the old reliable Employment Office a call in search of work. a Ella Stovall, apt. Both phones 263. Publication Notice: the court of Common Pleas of Wyan- ne County, Kansas. Rary Bradley, Plaintiff, vs. Ola Divers, and Ida Divers, Defendant. To the above named defendants you are notly notified that you have been sued in above named court, by the above named staff, and that unless you appear and serve on or before the 20th day of January D. 1966, the petition filed against you will be as true and a judgement rendered you the nature of which will be a serve foreclosing a certain mortgage, given the defendant Otis Divers, on the follow- ing described real property to-wit: The with one half, of the North-west quarter of the south-west quarter of section twenty of worship eleven, of range twenty four, in Jandrede County, Kansas and excluding each of you from all interest in said sand and the sale of said land in insurance of said judgement and for costs of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Plf. listen: J. L. Beggs, Clerk. Administrator's Notice Kansas County of Washoe, (ss the Probate court in and for said County, the matter of the Estate of Mary Hai- ney Decased. office is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the unrestricted on the Estate of Maria Hayden named of said County, deceased, by the Honorate the Probate Court of the County and have aforesaid, dated the 11th day of April A. D. 1966. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the unrestricted for all waance with one year from the date of said letters or they may be pre-graded from any benefit of such estate, and that such claims be not exhibited within three years after date of said letters, they shall be for ever barred. JESSE STANFORD, Administrator. of the Estate of Maria Hayden deceased. Kansas City, Kansas, April 11, 1906. witness whereof, the undersigned Probate Judge in and for the County of (NAL) Wyandotte. State of Kansas have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court on the 11th day of April, A. D. 1966. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. 1st Pub. Apr. 20 City Locals. Mr. H. B. Warrick and Miss Mable Wheeler of K. C. Mo. were the guest of Miss Mattie Scott of 1207 N. 8th, Sunday. Mrs. Georgia Whaley also visited her friends Sunday. Rev. Christian of K. C. Mo will assist Rev. L. W. McCormick in his revival services this week at his church, near corner Water and Stewart. Mr. M. P. Pruette, of 2029 Water St., who was very seriously hurt last Friday by the Santa Fe cars near the Frisco yards is improving slowly. Mr. and Mrs. Charty Henderson, 2044 Water street are all smiles, its a bouncing baby boy. Mrs. D. M. West of 1718 Euclid ave. were on this side of the Kaw soliciting for the Christian church, 21 & Summit. Mrs. M. J. Murphy of 315 Oakland ave. who has been sick for two months is now able to be out again among her many friends. Miss Jessie Jackson af 414 Walker av. will spent next Sunday in Kansas City, among her many friends. Miss Willie Roberson of Yates, Mo., is in city the visiting her sister Mrs. Grant Kirby of 930 Oakland ave. Mrs. Martha Peeples on Walker ave., near 11th died last Wednesday at the age of 118 years, she was a member of M. E. church from which the funeral service were held last Thursday. Rev. L E. Hayes, officiated. For nice furnished room with or without board call on Mrs. Ida Easley 1107 N. 6th St. Rev. R. L. Thomas of Baltimore, Md. will conduct the services at the Burns M. E. church, cor. 19th and Woodland. Mrs. Diggs of Birmingham, Ala., foster mother of Mrs. Katie Minor of Neb. ave, arrived this week for a stay in our city. Rev. Richardson of Mt. Pleasant bapist church contemplates a sermon Sunday morning on the Springfield horror. The Y. M. C. U. will give a musical and literary entertainment at M. and O. hall, April 26—an excellent programme is promised. The funeral services of Mrs Mamie Gaddie who after a long illness died early in the week, was held Wednesday afternoon from the King Solomon Baptist church under the auspices of the Pearly Gates Kansas Temple S. M. T's. Rev. Gordon and Paulater officiated. Mrs. Gaddie resided at 41u Oakland and was the wife of Robert Gaddie. Mr. M. P. Patterson of 1512 N. 8rd St. recived word Thursday eve., that his mother in Warrenburgh Mo., was not expected to live only a short while, she was 105 years of age. He left immediately for her bedside. On Monday evening April 16, Electa Chaper, No. 2, gave Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Day who leave for North West Canada in a short time, a most delightful surprise at the residence of Mr. R.C.Clark, where Mr. and Mrs. Day are visiting. Refreshments of the season were served and every one enjoyed the evening very much. Mr. and Mrs. Day wishes to extend their sincere thanks to the Chapter for their most kind consideration's. Mrs. J. J. Lewis left this evening for Oklahoma to attend the bedside of her very sick sister. Mrs. S. McDonald'd of 120 S. 8th St. is indisposed this week. Mr. Walter McDonald a law student of the University at Lawrence, Kas.will spend next Sunday at home with his parents Mr. and Mrs. S. McDonald of 120 south 8th St. Everybody should Register at once as Friday next is your last chance. Don't mise your vote. IN KANSAS CITY, MO Mrs. Billie Brooks of Atchison, Kas. is in the city the guests of Mrs. C. C. Evans of 944 Bell St. On the fourth Sunday in May there will be a grand rally at the Christian church on 21st and Summitts sts. every body is invited to come. Mrs. Jas. Clayter of Lucas, Kas. is in the city stopping with her daughter Mrs. L. Evans of 944 Bell st. Mrs. C. C. Evans, Miss Hattie Miller and Mr. W. Clayer spent last Sunday in Dalton, Mo. visiting Mrs. Mary Brooks. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, Easter will be generally observed with appropriate exercises at all the churches Grand rally at the A. M. F. church Sunday. Booker T. Washington, the renowned will lecture at Convention hall on May 4th, benefit Douglas hospital. At. 8th St. Baptist Church. We had a glorious meeting last Sunday at 11 a. m., the pastor Rev. Jackson preached an able sermon, subject: 'Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?' A large audience was there to enjoy the sermon. After the sermon and financial business, Rev. Geo. Clark who is now in ill health made a few remarks and the people gave him $5.00. The Sunday school assembled and rendered a foreign mission program and raised fifteen dollars for the foreign mission work. In the afternoon pastor Rev. Jackson preached a baptismal sermon in the presence of many hundred persons, after that they that had gladly recieved the word were baptized, twenty-six were emerged. At evening service the pastor preached a sermon on the "Adoption of the converts into the family of Almighty God." These were fellowshiped into the church and then the Lord's Supper were observed. In the church and auxiliary raised fifty two dollars and thirty nine cents. Another convert united for baptism. On next Sunday we have more to baptize. The Kindergarten school is in session at 911 Washington avenue, Sister Julia Plummer is desirions to have all persons to send their children betwee three years and seven years that they may recieve physical and mental training. Our sick members are on the mond again. Rev. Jackson is holding services for St. Paul baptist church of K.C. Mo. So True. The home most endeared to the heart of husband and wife is that which has been built up bit by bit. A little now and a little later on, wherein each piece of furniture represents many loving acts of self denial and person sacrifices, and around which lingers the memory of the scheming and plotting the getting of it, gave rise to, and of the pleasure when it was got. Ask the happy aged couple to whom prosperity has been the growth of years, says Woman's Life. They will tell you the happiest time in their live were the first few years of married life, when, with mutual love and self-denying patience they build up their little home and watched prosperity gathering round them.—Exchange. Save Your Money. Too many of our people lack the prudence necessary to a wise use of money. Thousands of them do not what they ought to refrain from buying. Thousands are made poor by the habit of spending money on every foolish they see that pleases their fancy. They waste much money on finery and clothes; they waste it on sweet meats and nick-nacks, they spend somewhere and somehow every cent of their income, and seem to think they are oppressed because they cannot have more money to waste on spendthrift habits. Many people who can not afford it buy too costly food and raiment. Many rent too fine houses. This lack of prudence, this reckless extravagance is bringing untold sorrow upon our people each year. Poor people should be persuaded to live within their income and to save a little margin for the rainy days. Fine clothes and costly furniture afford little relief when they are all purchased and the installment man is required to move to the house in order to collect the bill. Especially should the young Negro be taught to live within the limits of their wages. The man in business can ill afford to make debts although necessity compels him at times to do so; the man who is not in business can not afford to go in debt. Fine ribbons and clothes are not a necessity, they are a luxury and most any man can find a better use for his money. Industry, frugality and economy are winning cards; let the extravagant portion of our people right about face and employ these redeeming qualities.—Ex. Mouse 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. $5,000 BEHIND. Must raise this amount on Sunday or suffer embarrassment. March and April have been two very busy months with us. The preparation for the annual Foreign Mission Rally to be observed by all the Sunday Schools and churches in sympathy with the work of the National Baptist Convention, and the arduous task of raising money enough to get two missionaries off to Africa and one to South America, necessitated not only extra help but every moment of the time of the Corresponding Secretary either of the field or at the office. It is difficult to prophesy as to the outcome of the rally on Sunday, April 15th. We have tried to reach every Sunday School Superintendent and every pastor an friend of missions in this country, in Africa and the West Indies. Letters, soliciting envelopes and the Herald with its supplement have all gone forth with a prayer that they will not return unto us void. We have done our duty and now we must depend upon the Sunday Schools and churches that certainly have the money to give if they will and upon Almighty God in whose name we labor. This is the final word to the Superintendents and churches. Unless we realize at least $5,000 from this rally the Board will find itself handicapped and embarrassed in meeting its expenses and in paying off the missionaries. When our workers in Africa complain our friends at home are disposed to feel that the Board is not discharging its duty but it takes money to pay missionaries in Africa as surely as it takes money to pay pastors in the United States. We do the best we can with what we receive. There has not been a time when we have failed to lay the case before the churches and Sunday Schools. Now we have asked for the paltry sum of $5,000 and we say to you truthful unless this amount is forthcoming the Board will not be able to mee its obligations, the missionaries will continue to complain and some of our uncharitable churches at home that have not been giving a penny will wonder why its Board would let the missionaries suffer. Pastors, Superintendents, teachers, children we rest the case with you and beg you in God's name to make the sacrifice of your lives to enable the Board to relieve itself of its indebtedness to the missionaries on the field. --- The boy who saves. The boy who saves his money becomes the banker, the merchant. the professional man," says Harry Woods. "The boy who never saves a cent makes the man who 'earns his bread by the sweat of his brow,' who never own a home or enjoys the luxuries of life." Colored Bakery. Houston, Texas, has a colored bakery that is doing a good business. Miss Bessie Moody of 240 Franklin ave is indispeped this week. Mrs. Wilson Thatcher of 2021 Water st., who was somewhat seriously hurt by being thrown from a street electric car some weeks ago is now slowly improving. Old-Time Controversies. Old-time controversies were often vigorous in language. In a controversy with Milton concerning the divine right of kings Salmasius called his opponent a puny piece of a man, a homunculus, a dwarf not having a human figure, a bloodless being, a creature of skin and bones, a contemptible pedagogue fit only to flog boys, a rhinoceros, a hangdog looking fellow. 'The great English poet not only answered in kind, but entered into an extensive correspondence with people in Holland to obtain petty gossip and scandalous anecdotes concerning his opponent. Costlier than Champagne. Although champagne is called the "wealthy water," there are few hotels in the country where one can pay more than $4 a quart for it, while, on the other hand, there are hundreds of places where Burgundy is sold as high as $35 a quart. At one hotel the menu advertises a special brand of this fine wine for $25 a bottle. There are any number of Rhine wines which cost above $8, and there is a big demand for them. Champagne does not improve with age as the other wines do and this probably accounts for the difference. 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, vlz, 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 ways 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 Mamie'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 20, 1906 hisSection CALL HERE What the America Citizen would like to see. The Negroes of Kansas city, Kansas get together and be men and women no dirty, low down, contemptible under mining; lying and deceitful wretches a menace to the best interest of themselves and whole the race. NOTE LETS For Rent-To desir able 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. Røed, 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 sued by the above named plaintiff in the above harned 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 o this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty, for Pliff Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wya andotte County, Kansas. L. E. Hayes, Plaintiff, us. Linus S. Wolcott. Frank E. Wolcott, Eliza beth Chapman and her husband J. P. Chap man, 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, 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, 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 the 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 George Waller, Plaintiff. vs. Anna Waller, Defendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 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 t and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needios, Clerk. March 2. NOW IS the time to: Subscribe For the Weeky American Citizen. The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY - - - - KANSAS, W. C. Martin, Editor, Geo. A. Dudley, Publisher and Business Manager. Terms of Subscription in Advance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....65c Three Months.....40c One Month.....15c Advertising 25 cents per inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Ad' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. 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 ear 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 Pittsburg 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 detached 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. Famous Actors as Negro M Famous Actors as Negro Minstrels. 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 prtty 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 even our nearest may not under- and 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 long. Darkened Thy world we might have May Ethellyn Compassionate! in Overland Monthly Olympus 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 is 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, 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 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. "Yeou 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." They Stand Alone. 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It is as easy to be well as ill—and much more comfortable. Constipation is the cause of many forms of illness. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation. They are tiny, sugar-coated granules. One little "Pellet" is a gentle laxative. two a mild cartarthic. All dealers in medicines sell them. Warning to Elkins. Before he is through with his controversy with Governor Cummins, Senator Elkins will have reason to recall the story of the dynimite-eating frog that fell off a table and blew up the house.-Los Angeles Express. Chicago, Ill.—The Passenger Department of the Chicago & North Western Railway announces that the opening of the Wind River or Shoshone Reservation public lands in Wyoming has been postponed until August 15, 1906, by joint resolution of congress. Railroad construction to the Reservation border is being pushed rapidly, and will probably be completed within a few weeks. England's Drink Bills We have spoken of the sure and steady growth of temperance in the United States due to various factors, industrial, social, legislative and sanitary. In England figures have just been furnished which confirm the general-impression that, in the words of a London paper, "there is a gradual sliding of the nation into habits of sobriety." Dr. Dawson Burns, analyzing the official returns of the quantities of intoxicating liquors consumed in the united kingdom during 1905, concludes that there has been a decrease of nearly $25,000,000. The year under review, moreover, is not exceptional in this respect. It is, in fact, the sixth registering a consecutive decreased expenditure on alcoholic beverages. The decrease for 1904 was over $28,000,000. The total decrease in the national drink bill in the six years amounts to about $110,000,000.—Chicago Record-Herald. "Too Many Wrecks." The Railway Age, a journal devoted to the technical and commercial sides of railroading, recently published an article in which the charge is plainly made with reference to the operation of railroads, "there are too many wrecks." It would have been worthy of attention coming from a publication covering general subjects, but it is given special significance through its appearance in a periodical without the slightest taint of sensationalism; one, indeed, characterized by decided conservatism where its special field is involved—Atlanta Constitution. A WOMAN DOCTOR Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison Was Doing The Mischief. A lady tells of a bad case of coffee poisoning and tells it in a way so simple and straightforward that literary skill could not improve it. "I had neurologic headaches, for 12 years," she says, "and have suffered untold agony. When I first began to have them I weighed 140 pounds, but they brought me down to 110. I went to many doctors and they gave me only temporary relief. So I suffered on, till one day in 1904, a woman doctor told me to drink Postum Food Coffee. She said I looked like I was coffee poisoned. "So I began to drink Postum and I gained 15 pounds in the first few weeks and am still gaining, but not so fast as at first. My headache began to leave me after I had used Postum about two weeks—long enough I expect to get the coffee poison out of my system. "Now that a few months have passed since I began to use Postum Food Coffee, I can gladly say that I never know what a neuralgic headache is like any more, and it was nothing but Postum that cured me. Before I used Postum I never went out alone; I would get bewildered and would not know which way to turn. Now I go alone and my head is as clear as a bell. By brain and nerves are stronger than they have been for years." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pks. 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 durdensome 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 riffle 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 titan 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 that are, alas! But I— Well—I don't know What bought my private car? Just wealth What bought my lovely yacht. What bought my hands where health Is found in every body. What pays my specials, 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 kisses her every wish in life— The cloudy day. And if her heart 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 free; But if the Lord meant what he said Creatively, I will do. The title 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, This private car; It bought this copier, and I guess, If all this is not happiness, Well—I don't know! 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 beitg 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., 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. 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 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. Western University 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. 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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 o 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 Bright Gas Burner Light For 35 to 75 cents. And a Self Cleaner Water that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Health For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN ROOM 8. Self Cleaner Water makes the water clear as a Crystal and Health For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN ROOM 8, VA AVE. KANSAS CITY shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular lar by trading at a popular store? A. J. MADDUX Table and Fancy Grocer Meats and all Kinds of Produce. that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN "In the shade of the Old Apple not you be popular by trading at a p L. J. 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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 Then! "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.32 Raymond DIRECTOR st of Service, Fine Carriages es, at all Hours. Enameled Ambulance for wounded reasonable. 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French seamen have a dozen in the person of a centenarian. The old sailor belongs alike 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 mention in orders, the blockade of Algiers, one capture by brigands, followed by himself and his companions seizing the Spanish ship which captured the consoir which had captured them. After serving many years before the maste he became a master and small ship owner on his own account. His name is Pierre Loirat. He was born in November, 1805, and at 12 he went to ROOM 8. KANSAS That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private illis to a woman—a woman whose experience with women's diseases covers a great many years. Mrs. Pinkham is the daughter-in-law of Lyda E. Pinkham, and for many years underherdirection, and since her decease, she has been advising sick women free of charge. Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions and probable examinations of even their family physician. It is unnecessary. Without money or price you can consult a woman whose knowledge from actual experience is great. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation. mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks nothing in return except your good-will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. If you are ill, don't hesitate to get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pinkham. Lynn. Mass., for special advice. When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women, you cannot well say, without trying it. "I do not believe it will help me." Whose Witness? When Rufus Choate was United States district attorney in Boston, says an exchange, three sailors were before his court for the robbery from their ship #f a bag of specie, and one of them turned state's evidence. Upon the stand this witness, to a final question by Mr. Choate as to what inducement the others held out to him to join them, with shame-faced hesitancy made substantially the following reply: "Well, sir, arter feelin' round a bit, they sees to me, sees they, 'Come on, Jack, an' fine us. It's dead easy an' it'll make us all rich; so as if we do git ketched we can hire Choate, an' he'll clear us if they find the money in our boots." One could never forget the serio comic expression on that naturally grave face, as Mr. Choate, amid suppressed laughter, in which both court and jury had to join, busied himself with the papers upon his table, and, turning to the defending consul with as much dignity as the situation permitted, said: "He's your witness." It matters but little what you think of a man provided that you do not think aloud. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE discontinued the use of our products The public may rely on our assistance of imitations. Sold only in buses. W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOEMAKER SOLE AGENTS FOR W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1876. CAPITAL $2,500,000 $10,000 disprove this statement. It could take you into my three large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you the infinite with which every pair of shoes is made, you would realize why W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes fit more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. W. L. Dawson $3.50 shoe. Mon, $2.50, $2.00, $2.50 Dress Shoes, $2.50, $2.17, $1.50 TQN, IQN.-Insist upon having W.L.Doug- las shoes. No, not substitute. None genuine without his name, not on bottom. Fast Color Eyelashes used! they will not wear bras. Write for Illustrated Catalog KANSAS STATE NEWS. shotgun Caused a Bad Fire. A two-story frame dwelling belonging to S. A. Sherman, a farmer who lives ten miles north of Eureka, was destroyed by fire, started by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. The gun, which was leaning against a wall in the kitchen, fell to the floor and was discharged directly into a jug filled with coal oil. In an instant the room was enveloped in flames. Mr. Sherman, who was working in a field some distance away, was attracted to the house by the screams of his wife and children and in a vain endeavor to save a p art of the household furniture was badly burned about the head and arms. Nothing of value was saved. The loss is estimated at $2,000. Gets 16 Cents a Day. A former Sumner county girl and her husband went to Holland about a year ago. The husband's relatives in Holland paid the couple's transportation expenses and agreed to pay their fare back to America should they decide to return. After living in Holland about three months they decided they wanted to come back home. But the relatives refused to pay their way back as agreed and the husband having no money, had to go to work. He received sixteen cents a day for labor as an experienced machinist. It costs the two people eight cents a day to live, leaving a balance of eight cents a day to save to pay for home coming expenses. $800 Is Raised for a Town Clock E. A. Colburn, who is soliciting subscriptions for a town clock to be placed in the court house tower at McPherson, reports that something over $800 has already been given. Many of the signers have promised $50 and $25 subscriptions and none less than $5. Mr. Colburn expects to raise $1,000 in large subscriptions and will then turn the work over to the city Federation of Woman's Clubs, which will complete the canvass. A Big Race Programme. A meeting of the directors of the Coffey County Agricultural Fair Association has been held and the plans made to make the fair this year the biggest and best in the history of the county. A speed programme was arranged that insures the best races ever seen here. There are to be two races in which the stakes will be $1,000 each and the total stakes and purses amount to $4,900, which is much more than usual. Raising Dogs for Bounty There is a dog scandal on at Ottawa. The city gives a bounty for dead dogs and the ears must be produced in the clerks office as evidence that the dog has been killed. The charge is made that an enterprising citizen has started a doggery out in the country and is supplying the ears to the city by wholesale. Raising common cur dogs at $1 per head is said to be profitable business. Boy Dies in School Harry Langstaff, a boy 17 years old, in the eighth grade of the Lyndon city schools, died very shortly after the noon recess, in his seat in the school room. A physician was in attendance in a few minutes after a boy was stricken, but death had taken its victim. The physician pronounced it a case of heart failure, probably induced by overtaxation during the noon recess. $16,000 for McPherson's Library. The McPherson college people have raised a $16,000 maintenance fund for their Carnegie library. Andrew Carnegie's private secretary has also written to them stating that an order for $10,000 which was promised to them for the erection of a library building is ready for them at any time they wish to draw it. Plan Grocers' Insurance Company. Three Topea grocers have notified the state insurance department that they intend organizing a mutual fire insurance company. The men are W. S. Montgomery, F. M. Newland and A. G. Whittelsey, and the name of the new company is to be the Topea Grocers' Mutual Fire Insurance company. Rather Deserter Than Vagrant. John Barnes, a deserter from Foru Leavenworth, has been arrested at Salina. Barnes left Fort Leavenworth, sold his uniform at Kansas City and started west. He was arrested among some tramps and was in danger of being run out of town when he told the officers that he was a deserter. New Lancaster Postoffice Robbed. The postoffice at New Lancaster, 14 miles southeast of Paola, has been broken into and robbed. The safe was blown open with nitro-glycerin. Besides $40 in stamps and $20 government money, $80 belonging to the Grange store, in which the office is located, was stolen. Baby Fell From Church Gallery. Baby Fell From Church Gallery. The two-year-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. B. R. White fell from the gallery to the lower floor at the Christian church at Hutchinson during the services. The little one was near a window, which reaches through the rear of the gallery from the first floor to the second, and fell through the space left which reaches in front of the window from one floor to the other. Happily the baby struck head first on a lady's arm who was sitting below and was only slightly bruised. No bones were broken. "I am, indeed," answered the young senator. "What shall I do? Recommend him earnestly to the President?" "Not on your life. Protest vigorously against him." HE ATTENDS TO who goes straight to work Hurts, Sprains, by the use of St. Jacob and saves time, money and gets out of It Acts Like Magic. Price, HE ATTENDS TO BUSINESS who goes straight to work to cure Hurts, Sprains, Bruises by the use of St. Jacobs Oil and saves time, money and gets out of misery quickly. It Acts Like Magic. Price, 25c. and 50c. For Sick Women --- A PRECARIOUS CONDITION. Many Women Suffer Daily Miseries and Don't Know the Reason. Women who are languid, suffer backache and dizzy spells, should read carefully the experience of Mrs. Laura Sullivan, Bluff and Third Sts., Marquette, Mich., who says: "I had backache and bearing-down pain, and at times my limbs would swell to twice natural size. I could hardly fully the experience or Mrs. Laura Sullivan, Bluff and Third Sts, Marquette, Mich., who says: "I had backache and bearing-down pain, and at times my limbs would swell to twice natural size. I could hardly get up or down stairs, and often could not get my shoes on. Beginning to use Doan's kidney Pills I got relief before I had used half a box, but continued taking them until cured. The bloating subsided and I was well again." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Should Never Admit It. "She's really cultured. She says she can not understand Browning at all." "But one may be cultured and yet not understand Browning." "Of course one may not understand it, but one should never admit it."—Philadelphia Ledger. Senatorial Guile. "Are you anxious to have that man appointed?" inquired the old senator. FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE A Michigan Mother Preserved to Her Family by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. 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When it was evident that he could not help me he said he did not understand my case. This was three years ago and I was very much discouraged, when my brother, who had taken Dr. Williams Pink Pills, recommended them to me. I tried them and noticed a change for the better when I was taking the second box. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cured me and I have been well ever since. I now do all my own housework, sewing and washing for seven of us." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have also cured diseases caused by impure or impoverished blood such as rheumatism, anemia and after-effects of the grip. All drugbills sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or the remedy will be mailed, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. The Poor Congressmen. 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Are now using our International Type-High Plates Sawed to LABOR-SAVING LENGTHS. Western Newspaper Union, Kansas City, Mo. three Years" rs for female trouble in vain, I was en I began to take Wine of Cardui. three bottles and now I am in good now regular. I can truly say that There is no Rooheli Satee, Alum, Lime or Ammonia in food made with Calumet Baking Powder wonderful powder of rare merit and unrivaled strength. Curious Place Names. There has recently been published a report on the place names of the United States, from which a few interesting instances are given below. Chicago is an Indian word, meaning wild onion or skunk weed; Cheesapeake is also Indian, and is variously interpreted as highly salted water, great waters or country on great river; Chautauqua is also an Indian word, and has several interpretations—as a foggy place, a bag tied in the middle (referring to the shape of the lake), a place where a child was washed away, where the fish are taken out, place of easy death or, finally, place where one was lost. Des Moines is usually supposed to refer only to the Trappist monks, and it is also connected with an Indian word meaning the road. Niagara is an Indian word, signifying across the strait, or at the neck. Shenandoah is Indian, and means the sprucy stream, or a river flowing alongside of high hills. Massachusetts means near the great hills, or the hill shaped like an arrowhead, or again, the blue hills. Mississippi means great water, or gathering in of all the waters, or an almost endless river spread out—Leslie's Weekly. SKIN ERUPTIONS 35 YEARS. Suffered Severely With Eczema All Over Body—A Thousand Thanks to Cuticura Remedies. "For over thirty-five years I was a severe sufferer from eczema. The eruption was not confined to any one place. It was all over my body, limbs, and even on my head. I am sixty years old and an old soldier, and have been examined by the Government Board over fifteen times, and they said there was no cure for me. I have taken all kinds of medicine and have spent large sums of money for doctors, without avail. A short time ago I decided to try the Cuticura Remedies, and after using two cakes of Cuticura Soap, two boxes of Cuticura Ointment, and two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, two treatments in all, I am now well and completely cured. A thousand thanks to Cuticura. I cannot speak too highly of the Cuticura Remedies. John T. Roach, Richmondale, Ross Co., Ohio, July 17, 1905." His Dress Sult. There is a young man living up on Ogden street who vows he'll never wear full dress. He is just 20 years of age and last week his father gave him a full dress suit. The young man's fraternity held a small banquet at a downtown hotel the other night and he attended dressed in his new swallow-tail. To say he was proud of that suit would be putting it mildly. His crowd held forth at a table in the corner of the dining room. Over at a table near the door was a young and very pretty girl seated with her father and mother. The youth liked the looks of the girl and found it necessary to leave the room several times to buy cigarettes. Each time he passed the girl he straightened up and showed his new dress suit off to best advantage. The fourth time he went out, however, something occured that didn't please him. He was just passing the girl when her father beckoned to him. The young man stopped. "Say," said the old gentleman, "bring me a mild domestic cigar, please." The young man bowed. He was delighted to think he had been asked by the girl's father to perform a service for him. There was a chance now that he'd meet the girl. The cigar was quickly brought. The old gentleman dropped a quarter on the table. "Keep the change," he said. The young man smiled. "No, thank you" he said. "What's the matter?" asked the girl's father. "Have you quit accepting tips?" The young man walked haughtily away. He had been taken for a waiter. From that moment his dress suit has been in extreme disfavor.—Denver Post. A Cure for "Insomny." Casey—The doctor sez what I hov is "insomny." Cassidy—Oh! sure. Oi've had that throuble mesel' an' there's only wan cure for it. Casey—What's thot? What d'ye do? Cassidy—Jisht go to sleep'an' fur- git all about it.—Philadelphia Press. World-Weary. The steel millionaire was trying to grow poor. There came a knock at the door. "Opportunity awaits without," an- nounced a servant. The steel millionaire yawned. The steel immobilizer yawled. "Tell him I'm not at home," murmured he. He—Has she been married long? She—No; she still thinks that her husband eats cloves because he likes them—San Francisco Call. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered from All parts of the World Condensed San Francisco Earthquake. The scene of desolation in San Francisco as the result of the earthquake and fire is almost beyond belief. Not a building remains in the down town district. Theaters, factories and commission houses lie smouldering on their former sites. All of the newspaper plants have been rendered useless. Gen. Funston, in a telegram to the war department said that about 200,000 people were homeless in San Francisco, and that all government buildings had been destroyed. Secretary Shaw has authorized the telegraphic transfer of $10,000,000 from the sub-treasury in New York to San Francisco. The city of Santa Rosa, Cal., is reported to be in ruins and 10,000 people there are homeless. The loss of life will probably reach into the hundreds. Heraldsburg, Geyserville. Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, recently addressed the senate on the railroad rate bill declaring his belief that the authority of the government to control transportation, both as to the character of the service and the rate is inherent as a right of sovereignty. Minneapolis, Minn., has sent a train load of flour to the earthquake sufferers. Clevedale, Hopland and Ukiah are also reported destroyed. San Francisco was recently visited by the most disastrous earthquake in the history of this country. The first shock wrecked many buildings in the business district. The wrecks immediately caught fire and burned without hindrance, the water mains having been broken by the shock. All the finest buildings of the city, including the city hall, post office and Spreckles building, have been destroyed. The loss of life will probably reach 1,500. The San Francisco earthquake destroyed every first class theater in the city. Block after block of San Francisco's banking houses are now a mass of ruins and it will be months before the valuable contents of the vaults can be reached. Immediately after the terrible disaster at San Francisco the city was placed under martial law with Gen Fred Funston in command of the troops. The people of San Francisco, homeless and hungry are facing the awful calanity which has befallen them with courage and a spirit of resigned fortitude which commands the admiration of the world. The insurance companies have already taken up the serious question of the losses at San Francisco. It is stated officially that all losses will be paid in full, whether by fire or earthquake. Trainloads of supplies and provisions are being rushed to San Francisco by all the railroads leading to the west. The Modern Woodmen of America will contribute $100,000 to aid the San Francisco sufferers. The President and cabinet recently devoted an entire session to the consideration of the California earthquake. Secretary Metcalf was sent to San Francisco to represent the government in caring for the stricken people. President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation asking that all contributions for the aid of the earthquake sufferers be sent to the officials of the Red Cross Seismographs in the imperial university at Tokio Japan, show that the San Francisco earthquake reached Japan in eleven minutes. Postmaster General Cortelyou has received notice that the San Francisco post office had resumed business in the main office. The building was badly damaged by the earthquake but was not hurt by the fire. It is estimated that the fire insurance companies of the country had $250,000,000 at risk in San Francisco. President Roosevelt has issued a second statement urging that relief for San Francisco sufferers be sent through the American Red Cross association. Miscellaneous. The jury in the case of Loupis Decker, charged with bribery in connection with the St. Louis Suburban street railway franchise deal, brought in a verdict of guilty at Springfield, Mo., and fixed his punishment at five years in the penitentiary. Forty bodies were taken from one building at San Francisco by the Red Cross service. E. J. Bliss, of Boston, touched by the infant mortality, bought all the stocks of infants' bottles, nipples, food and clothing at Los Angeles and sent them to sufferers at San Francisco. The Central National bank of Boston, which failed in 1902, has paid all the depositors their money with interest. The Grand Trunk railway recently paid into the Michigan state treasury $777,734 in back taxes. The scale committess for the Iowa miners and operators have signed the scale on the 1903 basis, ending the coal strike in that state. Tammany celebrated the 163d birthday anniversary of Thomas Jefferson with a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Plates were laid for 500 guests. Guatemala has responded to the invitation to send an officer to Fort Riley for instruction in one of our service schools by sending S. G. J. Alvez, Jr. He will report Oct. 15 for instructions in the field artillery subschool. United States Marshal Darrough of Indian territory has enlisted the aid of a band of Indians, known as the Night Hawks to hunt down the Wycliffe brothers who recently killed two marshals who attempted to arrest them. Harry H. Collins, the imperial potentate of North America, has suggested holding the imperial council Nobles of Mystic Shrine in St. Joseph, Mo., in place of Los Angeles, Cal. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco has sent telegrams to various cities asking for architects and architectural draughtsmen. Russian authors have published resolutions stating that the treatment accorded Maxim Gorky and his companion here is an insult to Russian authors and Russian womanhood. Attorney General Hadley has issued instructions to his assistant to investigate the action of Sheriff Horner during the recent lynching at Springfield, Mo., with a view to ousting him from office. A court of inquiry has been appointed to investigate the recent fatal explosion on the battleship Kearsarge. John Alexander Dowie has been granted a temporary injunction against Wilbur G. Voliva restraining the latter from in any way interfering with Dowie's return to Zion City and from doing anything to affect the title to certain property described. Samuel Most, a Kansas City turf plunger, was shot and probably fatally wounded by his wife in Memphis, Tenn., recently. The woman claims self defense. The international executive board of the United Mine Workers of America have rejected the arbitration proposal of the soft coal operators of the middle west. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, Darins Miller and Claude G. Burnham have been convicted of giving rebates in the federal court at Chicago and were fined an aggregate of $60,000. Fire recently destroyed 2,000 dwellings in Maraquina, Rizal province, Philippine islands. The town of Pasil, near Cebu, was also recently destroyed, by fire. Father Louis Martin, of the Jesuits, known as the "Black Pope" died recently in Rome of cancer of the breast Charles E. Hughes, the New York attorney well-known in connection with the recent insurance investigation, has been retained by the government to assist in the prosecution of the coal carrying railroads for violations of the interstate commerce law. All negotiations looking toward a peaceful settlement of the differences of the Dowieites at Zion City have been broken off. The proposition of Voliva for a board of control consisting of nine members was rejected by Dr. Dowie. Gov. Folk went to Springfield, Mo., to confer personally with the city and county officers in regard to the recent lynching. He is determined to bring the leaders of the mob to justice. President Roosevelt has turned down a claim of the New French Panama Canal company for $2,000,000. An earthquake shock in Michigan recently killed one man and injured four others while working a mile below the earth's surface in the Quincy mine at Calumet. Chicago attorneys declare that the recent decision of the United States supreme court will make illegal at least 500 divorce cases in that city alone and pave the way for all manner of complications over rights to property. Wide fissures were made in the streets of San Francisco by the earthquake. Street railway tracks were twisted out of shape, sewers and water pipes burst and fears are entertained that an epidemic of disease will result. Congressional. A bill has been introduced in the house by Representative Shartel, of Missouri, appropriating $24,000,000 to be expended in the next three years on good roads in the various states. In a recent special message to congress President Roosevelt declares that the trial of the Chicago packers was a miscarriage of justice, criticises Judge Humphrey's immunity decision sharply and recommends a law giving the government the right to appeal in certain cases. A recent conference of the democratic senators called to discuss the railroad rate bill resulted in considerable ill-feeling and no agreement on any phase of the question. President Roosevelt recently sent a message to congress regarding insurance legislation and transmitting the bill drafted by the convention which met in Chicago in February. Congressman Longworth, the president's son-in-law, it is said, will have a hard time to return to congress. Congress has appropriated $1,000,-000 for the benefit of the earthquake sufferers. By a vote of 172 to 27 the house natinal quarantine bill has been substituted in that body for the senate bill. It will now go to conference. Personal. Chairman Shorts of the canal commission has returned from Panama and reports affairs there in an improved condition. Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth will sail for England in June and return by way of France in August. And Salute Your Queen Ho All Ye Faithful Followers of Ananias GIVE EAR! A Young Girl said to a Cooking School Teacher in New York: "If You make One Statement as False as That, All You have said about Foods is Absolutely Unreliable." Pointed Paragrophs. Pointed paragraphs. Even a cheap skate may disfigure much good ice. The good old summertime is coming by degrees. If you would avoid the fire keep out of the frying pan. Beware of the married man who acts as if he was g_ad of it. Many a so-called smart man smarts because of his alleged smartness. He who praises men and flatters women has many fair weather friends. The trust magnate values money for the so-called men he can buy with it. Rise Liars, And Ho All Ye F A Young Girl said to a Co One Statement as F This burst of true American girl indignation was caused by the teacher saying that Grape-Nuts, the popular pre-digested food, was made of stale bread shipped in and sweetened. The teacher colored up and changed the subject. There is quite an assortment of traveling and stay-at-home members of the tribe of Ananias who tell their falsehoods for a variety of reasons. In the spring it is the custom on a catterlanch to have a "round up," and brand the cattle, so we are going to have a "round up," and brand these cattle and place them in their proper pastures. FIRST PASTURE Cooking school teachers—this includes "teachers" who have applied to us for a weekly pay if they would say "something nice" about Grape-Nuts and Postum, and when we have declined to hire them to do this they get waspy and show their true colors. This also includes "demonstrators" and "lecturers" sent out by a certain Sanitarium to sell foods made there, and these people instructed by the small-be-whiskered doctor—the head of the institution—to tell these prevarications (you can speak the stronger word if you like). This same little doctor conducts a small magazine in which there is a department of "answers to correspondents," many of the questions as well as the answers being written by the aforesaid doctor. In this column some time ago appeared the statement: "No, we cannot recommend the use of Grape-Nuts for it is nothing but bread with glucose poured over it." Right then he showed his badge as a member of the tribe of Ananias. He may have been a member for some time before, and so he has caused these "lecturers" to descend into the ways of the tribe wherever they go. When the young lady in New York put the "iron on" to this "teacher" and branded her right we sent $10.00 to the girl for her pluck and bravery. SECOND PASTURE. Editors of "Trade" papers known as grocers' papers. Remember, we don't put the brand on all, by any means. Only those that require it. These members of the tribe have demanded that we carry advertising in their papers and when we do not consider it advisable they institute a campaign of vituperation and slander, printing from time to time manufactured slurs on Postum or Grape-Nuts. When they go far enough we set our legal force at work and hare them to the judge to answer. If the pace has been hot enough to throw some of these "cattle" over on their backs, feet tied and "belowing," do you think we should be blamed? They gambol around with tails held high and jump stiff legged with a very "cocky" air while they have full range, but when the rope is thrown over them "it's different." Should we untie them because they bleat soft and low? Or should we put the iron on, so that people will know the brand? Let's keep them in this pasture, anyhow. Was the Last One. She—I suppose you would have me believe I am the first woman you ever loved? He—Not at all. I’ve loved scores of women, but you are the last one I have fallen in love with. She—Very well, then I’ll say: “Yes.” As long as I am the last one you have loved we’ll get along all right.—Boston Transcript. Nor in Breadmaking. If the new woman knows more than her mother, it is certainly not in the ple-building line.—Louisville Herald. " I Salute Y Faithful Follower Cooking School Teacher in N False as That, All You have is Absolutely Unreliable." THIRD PASTURE. Now we come to a frisky lot, the "Labor Union" editors. You know down in Texas a weed called "Loco" is sometimes eaten by a steer and produces a derangement of the brain that makes the steer "batty" or crazy. Many of these editors are "Locoed" from hate of anyone who will not instantly obey the "demands" of a labor union, and it is the universal habit of such writers to go straight into a system of personal vilification, manufacturing any sort of falsehood through which to vent their spleen. We assert that the common citizen has a right to live and breathe air without asking permission of the labor trust and this has brought down on us the hate of these editors. When they go far enough with their libels, is it harsh for us to get judgment against them and have our lawyers watch for a chance to attach money due them from others? (For they are usually irresponsible.) Keep your eye out for the "Lo-coed" editor. Now let all these choice specimens take notice: We will deposit one thousand or fifty thousand dollars to be covered by a like amount from them, or any one of them, and if there was ever one ounce of old bread or any other ingredient different than our selected wheat and barley with a little salt and yeast used in the making of Grape-Nuts, we will lose the money. Our pure food factories are open at all times to visitors, and thousands pass through each month, inspecting every department and every process. Our factories are so clean that one could, with good relish, eat a meal from the floors. The work people, both men and women, are of the highest grade in the state of Michigan, and according to the state labor reports, are the highest paid in the state for similar work. Let us tell you exactly what you will see when you inspect the manufacture of Grape-Nuts. You will find tremendous elevators containing the choicest wheat and barley possible to buy. These grains are carried through long conveyers to grinding mills, and there converted into flour. Then the machines make selection of the proper quantities of this flour in the proper proportion and these parts are blended into a general flour which passes over to the big dough mixing machines, there water, salt and a little yeast are added and the dough kneaded the proper length of time. Remember that previous to the barley having been ground it was passed through about one hundred hours of soaking in water, then placed on warm floors and slightly sprouted, developing the diastase in the barley, which changes the starch in the grain into a form of sugar. Now after we have passed it into dough and it has been kneaded long enough, it is moulded by machinery into loaves about 18 inches long and 5 or 6 inches in diameter. It is put into this shape for convenience in second cooking. These great loaves are sliced by machinery and the slices placed on wire trays, these trays, inturn, placed on great steel trucks, and rolled into the secondary ovens, each perhaps 75 or 80 feet long. There the food is subjected to a long low heat and the starch which has not been heretofore transformed is turned into a form of sugar generally known as Post Sugar. It can be seen glistening on the granules of Grape-Nuts if held toward the light, and this sugar is not poured over or put on the food as these prevailcators ignorantly assert. On the contrary the sugar exudes from the interior of each little granule during the process of manufacture, and reminds one of the little white particles of sugar that come out on the end of a hickory log after it has been sawed off and allowed to stand for a length of time. This Post Sugar is the most digestible food known for human use. It is so perfect in its adaptability that mothers with very young infants will pour a little warm milk over two or three spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, thus washing the sugar off from the granules and carrying it with There's a Reason" -Nuts and Did Not Want to Meet Him. Hardup—I'll never go to that restaurant again. The last time I was there a man got my overcoat and left his in my place. Welof—But the proprietor wasn't to blame, was he? Hardup—No, but I might meet the other man.—Tales. Dogs and Dogs Some folks are astonished because a Chicago man left $20,000 to a dog but they do not wink an eyelash when told that some young puppy has herited a fortune—New York Herald our Queen ers of Ananias GIVE EAR! New York: "If You make we said about Foods the milk to the bottom of the dish. Then this milk charged with Post Sugar is fed to the infants producing the most satisfactory results, for the baby has food that it can digest quickly and will go off to sleep well fed and contented. When baby gets two or three months old it is the custom of some mothers to allow the Grape-Nuts to soak in the milk a little longer and become musly, whereupon a little of the food can be fed in addition to the milk containing the washed off sugar. It is by no means manufactured for a baby food, but these facts are stated as an illustration of a perfectly digestible food. It furnishes the energy and strength for the great athletes. It is in common use by physicians in their own families and among their patients, and can be seen on the table of every first-class college in the land. We quote from the London Lancet analysis as follows: "The basis of nomenclature of this preparation is evidently an American pleasantry, since 'Grape-Nuts' is derived solely from cereals. The preparatory process undoubtedly converts the food constituents into a much more digestible condition than in the raw cereal. This is evident from the remarkable solubility of the preparation, no less than one-half of it being soluble in cold water. The soluble part contains chiefly dextrin and no starch. In appearance 'Grape-Nuts' resembles fried bread-crumbs. The grains are brown and crisp, with a pleasant taste not unlike slightly burnt malt. According to our analysis the following is the composition of 'Grape-Nuts': Moisture, 6.02 per cent; mineral matter, 2.01 per cent; fat, 1.60 per cent; proteins, 15.00 per cent; soluble carbohydrates, etc., 49.40 per cent; and unaltered carbohydrates (insoluble), 25.97 per cent. The features worthy of note in this analysis are the excellent proportion of proteid, mineral matters, and soluble carbohydrates per cent. The mineral matter was rich in phosphoric acid. 'Grape-Nuts' is described as a brain and nerve food, whatever that may be. Our analysis, at any rate, shows that it is a nutritive of a high order, since it contains the constituents of a complete food in very satisfactory and rich proportion and is an easily assimilable state." An analysis made by the Canadian Government some time ago shows that Grape-Nuts contains nearly ten times the digestible elements contained in ordinary cereals, and foods, and twice the amount contained in any other food analyzed. The analysis is familiar to practically every successful physician in America and London. We print this statement in order that the public may know the exact facts upon which we stake our honor and will back it with any amount of money that any person or corporation will put up. We propose to follow some of these choice specimens of the tribe of Ananias. When you hear a cooking school teacher or any other person assert that either Postum or Grape-Nuts are made of any other ingredients than those printed on the packages and as we say they are made, send us the name and address, also name of two or three witnesses, and if the evidence is clear enough to get a judgment we will right that wrong quickly. Our business has always been conducted on as high a grade of human intelligence as we are capable of, and we propose to clear the deck of these prevaricators and liars whenever and wherever they can be found. Attention is again called to the general and broad invitation to visitors to go through our works, where they will be shown the most minute process and device in order that they may understand how pure and clean and wholesome Grape-Nuts and Postum are. There is an old saying among business men that there is some chance to train a fool, but there is no room for a liar, for you never can tell where you are, and we hereby serve notice on all the members of this ancient tribe of Ananias that they may follow their calling in other lines, but when they put forth their lies about Grape-Nuts and Postum, we propose to give them an opportunity to answer to the proper authorities. The New York girl wisely said that if a person would lie about one item, it brands the whole discourse as absolutely unreliable. Keep your iron ready and brand these "mavericks" whenever you find them running loose. Postum