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 Thy the American Government may not permanently endure, Editorial Chips. The truth and nothing but Commencement. Throughout the country this and the coming week will witness the display of oratory and elocutionary training of Race Notes. Kansas City, Mo., Big to do establishments have been getting a few thousand MINISTER TO MODERN VANITY. What the America City would like to see. Why we believe this government may be permanent, is this: 1st, She is so suited with all manner of people, and the great commercial head have their ass of “resort” in their native lands. The government is slow to protect most loyal citizens, her sable sons so have never blown out the lights and abbed the chief magistrate of the land. She seems to be inimical to every one, not white, to, of course, have that military spirit—so when the climaxes America may turn, breathing her breath, and, in faint, but audible, say: “Et tu Brute.” —Forum of sight, Ill. City Locals. If you have visitors from out of city, illness or death in your family, call us, its news 1958West. Mrs. Jennie Scatte of the South Side attended the last day at the Stowe Cool Friday and made our office a assistant call and subscribed for the [space call again we are always pleased to see such callers. Mrs.J.Hightower of Hot Springs,Ark. on the Mrs. guest of Wiley Iav of 2916 N. Tremont. Mrs.H.R. Stine the popular tonsorial so has been absent from our but has turned and is now looking up a location. When located he will ask the passage of old patrons as well as new ones this paper for future announce. lev. Drake who is now exhibiting one the most interesting moving pictures in use, will be at Mt. Zion Baptist ch, May 21st. 8th St. Baptist Church. Pastor Jackson preached an excellent mon on the "Harvest and Laborers," we enjoyed it much indeed. Sunday S. is good. The teachers are doing much praise the school up in many respects. The Young People's club has purchased the new song books and is singing for devices. The Home and Foreign Mission circle doing a little better. Sister B.C.Scott is somewhat more hopeful than she is while back. The Sister Sewing circle is still on the list. This auxiliary under the management of sister L. E. Fitzhugh has done great work. It has paid many bills for church in the last 18 months and $40 to the pastor. The Lord bless good people. when expense $4064.15 the church has by $87.1 to raise and the work up to this point will be paid. Pastor Jackson dong what he can to make the work speed. He will take a vacation when the same is paid. He has a brother in Roseville, Ark., and three in Ft.Smith these he will visit on. He will preach in Roseville June Sheriff's Sale. court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte wy, Kansas. Mary Bradley, Plaintiff, vs. Otis Divers and Ada Divers, Defendants. Under and by virtue of an order of sale used by the clerk of the court of Common law in and for Wyandotte County, Kansas, a certain cause in said court, numbered 12 wherein the parties above named, were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to the undersigned sheriff of said county acted. I will offer for sale at public auction, and will to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the front door of the court house in the city of kansas City, in said county, on Mon- day the 25th day of May A. D. 1006, at 10 o'c. a.m. of said day, the following described real property, situate in the county of wyandotte and state of Kansas towit- The undisclosed. and portion, more or less, in and to the following lands and tenements, which said land be held by the said defendants, along with the heirs at law of Robert Divers, as tenants common, meaning hereby, all the right title and interest that came to the defendant Otis Divers, as the heir at law of Robert Divers, and Eilen Divers, deceased, in and to the following described real estate towit:--The south one half (1-2) of the North west (1-4) quarter of the South west quarters [1-4] of section twenty (20) of township eleven (11) of range twenty-four (24) in Wyandotte county Kansas. SAMUEL MC CONNELL. Sheriff of Wyandotte county, Kansas. lst. pub. Apr. 27. Don't fail to give the old reliable Employment Office a call in search of work Ella Stovall, agt. Both phones 263 Editoral Chips. The truth and nothing but the truth. No race can rise above the level of its women" is a true saying and certainly needs application to our race—we may kick and snort but we cannot get away from facts. When the Negro women, though poor, stand upon her virtue and womanhood—meets with a slur and resentment the money advances for the purchase of virtue made by white men and black ones as well, then and not till then can we hope for a better and brighter future and a race of women worthy to be classed as leaders entitled to a golden crowd. The married school teacher. Our article of last week in reference to married women in our public schools caused no little comment and we might ask is it any wonder? Should the poor old toiling mothers and fathers sit by and see this wrong perpetrated upon them without a murmur or an effort being put forth that it may be checked. If there are no competent young girls of a proper age, nor of good moral standing to fill these places. Let us wake up and know the reason why—whose to blame? what's wrong? Have we not competent teachers in the public schools where the foundation is laid and a part of the structure built. How about the High School? Graduates are turned out every year almost three girls to one boy. Is there a bug under the chip-Help us to turn it and see. She Should Hang. A more dastardly crime than that of Mrs.Myers in the killing of her husband two years ago in Kansas City, Mo., was never chronicled in the criminal history of a country—As broad an expanse as this country affords it is not necessary that a wife should resort to such hellish deeds as did Mrs. Myers to rid herself of an undesired help mate. That the Supreme meted out a justifiable punishment when it decreed that she should hand on June 20th is agreeable without scarcely a dissenting voice—she should surely hang. It is to be hoped that the Governor Folk will close every avenue to the sympathetic spot in his heart and say let the law take its course—thy will be done. The poor old Negro We do not deny but what there are a good many 'bad Negroes' as well as bad people in other races, but the general tendency of a class of white people and some white journals to hook every dastardly deed upon a Negro, more especially when a white woman is concerned is of too common occurrence and should recieve the condemnation of all decent white people. A look at the Negro, unbiased, unprejudiced and with that feeling of a "square deal" in life, it will be readily seen that the Negro is not as black as he is painted. All in this wide world'd he wants is "equal rights", without social equality and a fair chance to make a living. In time he will command the respect and esteem of all as well as demand the same. Try. There's a victory yonder awaiting the chap Who greets with a laugh every downing mishap. Who loses the game with a glint in his eye, Who fights as he loses and dies full of try. Who tackles the ladder with vim and with bounce, And laughs when he lands at the foot with a jounce. Who tightens his belt and with never a sigh Keeps falling and falling with heart full of try. He isn't defeated who dies in the fight, If he had but lived he'd have finished all right. It was fate stilled his laugh, and endeavor put by. While his jaw was firm set and his heart full of try. And I know that up yonder whe he has cashed in The loser will head many fellows who win; For we're judged when we win to our homes in the sky Not by our success, but the strength of our try.—Houston Post. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, Commencement. Throughout the country this and the coming week will witness the display of oratory and elocutionary training of many months—the sweet girl graduate and the lad who has or is endeavoring to reach the top most round in the ladder of fame will be in evidence. Commencement day what pleasant thoughts and tender recollections of sunny days long gone by. How many of the old boys and girls have faced the stern realities of life and become conscious of the real thing in life since the days of graduation. Tonight the last graduating exercises of the Negro pupils of the Kansas City, Kansas High School will be held in the auditorium of the magnificient building of what in the future will be known as the white high school. For twenty years the graduating exercises have been held together white and black occupying the same rostum-a special act of the state legislature last winter the board of education were given permission to establish a separate high for Negroes. The building is now under construction with a view of completion by next school year. This particular legislation accelerated by the killing of a white boy, by a Negro, the one killed being a student in the High school, the other a pupil in no school-was stubbornly fought by the Negroes, but they lost, hence the separate school. The class of graduates this year class of 1906 in composed of five young ladies. The most appropriate class motto of recent years is theirs, "Climb though the road may be rocky"—what glorious inspirations are in these words for indeed the sauble sons and daughters of Ethiopia have a rocky road—Patience, perseverance and toil must ever be their lot. Amen brother twinkler The agitation of the Kansas City Star for better street car service ought to arouse the citizens of this community along the same line. If there in any community under the canopy of heaven that is suffering from the metropolitan car fever it is Kansas City Kans. a wait at any point along the line for the bob tail coaches on the West side division and the sardine condition on arrival, is suffice to give one the jim jams. The bumps and thumps recieved on the flat wheels coaches of the 6th St. line is suffice to make a sane man insane. The commercial club has failed to coax the Metropolitan to do better, the council is too busy looking on ouster proceedings and canvassing special election returns. The seats in the mayors office are too hot for one man to hold down long at the time—Now its up to the business mens commission for we need better service. Is It True. The attempt at lynching of a Negro in the quitt little surburban burg of Rosedale, Wednesday seems like a joke—but the fact that the deputy city marshal cut the rope, one end of which was fastened to a bross beam of a telegraph pole and the other to the neck of a Negro—certainly looks as if something along the line of lynching was to be done. We always thought a rather decent set of people lived in Rosedale, but we are constrained to believe that there a good many Missourians by birth and Kansan by adoption in Rosedale. In her own sweet way. In her own sweet way. Prof. W. T. Vernon, who has been in Washington the last week has returned wearing the smile of a conquering hero. Its now W. T. Vernon, Register of the United States Treasury at Washington, D. C., Among many zealous and ardent admirers in this city, Mrs. Mary Alexander of 539 State ave. decorated the exterior of her home with "Old Glory" a simple but earnest expression of her joy in his behalf. Prof. Vernon, true to the man that he is, did not fail to recognize this sincere expression of a dear old soul words were inadequate to express his gratitude for the out ward expression of one whose prayers had ever been that he would win. Push something if its only a wheelbarrow. The best way to check the marmuring of the flesh is to bridle it with the Spirit. If you want to know yourself, really, just run up against a glittering temptation. Do the thing nearest you now well, and the thing far off, which your heart craves will come seemingly of its own volatition. Race Notes. Kansas City, Mo., Big to do establishments have been getting a few thousand dollars of railroad freight rates—so the story goes "Ain't money a tempting rasant." Primitive Bapt Church. Rev. M. Phillips left to day for Fort Scott, Kansas, where he will hold services at Mt. Pleasant Primitive Baptist church in that city. Rev. Phillips, is a zealous worker in the cause of Christ and is deeply interested in the uplift and prosperity of our race, every ready to encourage any worthy enterprise among our people. While at Ft. Scott, a few days ago he secured quite a number of subscribers for this paper. Any one wishing to suscribe for the AMERICAN CITIZEN, can secure it at Miss D. Wilkersop, 1523 Oak street, Fort Scott, Kansas. They Say. Is everybody happy? A dream that never came true. When the whip-poor-will is singing Margeurite,. Besides being "crip" she is a dress maker. The tall man is seen through the windows of No. 5. Ha! Ha! She has an interest in a pawn shop we wonder what kind of a one. Wonder if they are the real partner or a side one. If the kettle could see its color it could not call the pot black. The lucky fisher men all got a bite and landed a fish. Which shall it be which shall it be? He looked at her and then at she, then deciding both shall be. He has joined the "Big to do" people Yes There's Beautiful Larks Grove the excellent picnic grounds in the picturesque little surburban city of Quindaro, Ks. will be thrown open to the public on May 30th, with exceptional attractions. A days outing in the shade of the elm and walnut trees—will indeed be relishable. The Metropolitan band will render music of the higher class for the enjoyment of all. Everybody's invited, good order will be maintained. Admission 10 cents.—Take Quindaro Boulevard carget off at end of line, walk two blocks north. Administrator's Notice State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. In the Probate court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of Maria Hayden. Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the Estate of Maria Hayden laid of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 11th day of April A.D. 1906. Now, all persons having claims against the said estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance with one year from the date of said letters or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate, and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after 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 In witness whereof, the undersigned Probate Judge in and for the County of (SEAL) Wyandotte. State of Kansas have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 11th day of April, A. D. 1906. Winfield Freeman. Probate Judge. 1st Pub. Apr. 20. Publication Notice In the court of Common Ple as af Wyandotte County, Kansas. Mary Bradley, Plaintiff, vs. Otis Divers, and Ida Divers, Defendant. To the above named defendants you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 20th day of January A. D. 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree forelosing 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. 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 Chaxi 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 walt 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 Mamile'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. MAY 25, 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, contemptable 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(gen tleman 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 roms to rent. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County y kansas. Frank Benton, Plaintiff. vs. Jane Benton, Defendant. The above named defendant will hereby take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above hamed court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 30th day of April, 1906 the petition filed against her will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing him from her the said defendant, and for cost 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, s. Us. Linus W. 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 a April 23rd, 1906, sald 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 Black 64 in Wyandotte City, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas, and restraining and enjoining you and each of you from claiming or attempting to claim any interest in or to, or title to said property or any part thereof, and a further judgment against you and each of you for the costs of said action. L. E. HAYES, Plaintiff. Mar. 9. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas George Waller, Plaintiff. ve. 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 and for cost of this suit. 1. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. March 2. NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weeky The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY . . . . . KANSAS. W. C. Martin, Editor, Geo. A. Dudley, Publisher and Business Manager. Terms of Subscription in Advance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....65c Three Months.....40c One Month.....15c Advertising 25 cents per inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Ad' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. Grangemouth is the name of a Moscow editor. Evidently a farmer on the side. Waldorf Astor has become so thoroughly anglicized that he is going to marry an American girl. A clergyman says that bridge 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 Mall that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and pie. It was not long ago that all the "success" magazines were pointing to the 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 romanceurs 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. Portla, 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 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 imPRESSario was almost ruined, although the fault was the diva's own. She couldn't sing! Her voice had lost its fine quality. She wasn't a "diva" any longer. The American people found this out and refused to assist in maintaining Craig y Nos castle.—Brooklyn Eagle. 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 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 in "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 made so bright. Still Thou dost heal the heartache and the wrong To Thou Compassionate! —May Ethelyn Bourne, in Overland Monthly. 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?" "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 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. "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." 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 per 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 roiled the water. The same thing followed as before. Each fish darted like a shot to the grotto of its own color, where it knew it would be best concealed. To the Beloved. 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 over. My laughter for you: how we laughed in the days past recover? My tears and my troubles were yours; did any one grieve me. I carried it straight to the love that was sure to relieve me. O my dear, when aught happens, to you I am turning. Forgetting how far you have traveled this day from my yearning. There is nobody to tell things to; your house is so lonely; And still I'm forgetting and bringing my tale to you only. The old days are over; how pleasant they were, the fine weather. When youth and my darling and I were at home and together! And still I'm forgetting, ochone, that no longer you me. And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me. —Pall Mall Gazette. Fate of the Old Presidents. In the autumn of 1901 Mrs. W. of Roxbury spent a few weeks with her daughter in Nova Scotia, returning home shortly before President McKinley was shot, bringing her niece, Bessie F., aged 6 years, home with her. Of course the child heard a good deal of talk in the house about the shooting of the president. One day Bessie said to her aunt: "Aunt Minnie, who is king of the United States?" Her aunt replied: "We have no kings in the United States like you do in your British country. We have presidents. We have an election every four years and elect a new one." "Oh, yes," the child replied; "and then they shoot the old ones, don't they?"—Boston Herald. New City for Egypt Suakin, on the Red sea, has proved an unsatisfactory port and is to be superseded by a brand-new rival which has been built up out of coral work and desert sand by the Egyptian authorities. The rival is Port Sudan, the latest addition to the cities of the British empire, and an enthusiast says that it is destined to be a place of magnitude and importance in the days when cotton shall have made it the New Orleans of the east. The place has hitherto been called Mersa Sheikh Barud. It is about 680 miles south of Suez and is capable of holding a dozen vessels of moderate size. The entrance is 600 feet across, and the land around is six feet above sea level. Posers for Scholars. Twenty words submitted to a spelling bee in Springfield, Mass., in 1846 were given to the high school class at East Liverpool by Supt. Rayman, and it is reported not one in the class correctly spelled every word. Only ten had averages of over 90 per cent. The average of the 124 pupils was $73\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. The words submitted were accidental, accessible, baptism, chirography, characteristic, deceitful, descendant, eccentric evanescent, fierce 39s, feigned, ghastliness, gnawed, heiress, hysterics, imbecility, inconceivable, inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. -Pittsburgh Dispatch. SHIELDS FOR TROOPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Military Writer. A writer in the Militar-Wochenblatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Broad Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese spade work in the offensive, the more so because he mentions incidentally, as a matter regarding which there can be no dispute, that the German authorities have long since advocated the use of artificial cover in the attack, and points out that when the ground was frozen or rocky, and the spade could make no impression upon it, the attacking Japanese infantry not infrequently went forward, carrying with them filled sandbags weighing as much as forty pounds. He remarks that if the undoubtedly brave Japanese soldier found it necessary to load himself with so bulky and burdensome a protection when advancing in the open against an intrenched enemy it would seem far better to equip the infantry with a light, handy shield. Furnished with a handle by which to carry it, a loophole to fire through and some arrangement to prevent its falling down, the infantryman would then find himself, like his gunner comrade, protected by a bullet-proof shield. The writer in the Wochenblatt suggests that on the march the shield should be carried on the back, when going into action on the chest, and when advancing to the attack in the left hand, so as to be at once available for use when lying down to fire, both as head cover and rifle rest. YOUR HAIR SHOULD BE DRAB. That is the Fashionable Color, So an Authority Says. "Deep auburn and the drab shades are the fashionable colors in hair this season," said the woman who makes hair coloring a speciality, as placidly as though she were commenting on the state of the weather or the advance style in dress goods. "One of my customers has to my knowledge worn five different colors or shades on her wavy tresses. Having been blessed with medium brown hair by nature she became a ravishing blonde when the fashion for bleaching first came in. "Next she took to titan red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. Tnen 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. One woman, a long wife. They say that money can not buy These things for me, alas! But I— Well—I don't know! What bought my private car? Just wealth What bought my lovely yacht. What calls me to lands where health Is found. What pays my special friend. What pays my special friend, 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 mother she dazzles in? And if it harms you not for me, And if 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, I will be glad. For happiness? Well, money bought this ninety-cent cigar; It bought this chair in which I loll, It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness, Not a Good Advertisement. A Welsh judge had before him a case in which a printer sued a pork butcher for the value of a large parcel of paper bags with the butcher's advertisement printed thereon. The printer, having no suitable illustration to embellish the work, thought he improved the occasion by putting an elaborate royal arms above the man's name and address, but ultimately the latter refused to pay. The judge, looking over a specimen, observed that for his part he thought the lion and the unicorn were much nicer than an old fat pig. "O well," answered the butcher, "perhaps your honor likes to eat animal like that, but my customer's don't. I don't kill lions and unicorns—I only kill fat pigs!" Verdict for defendant.—New York World. Building Up to Requirements. A Kansas City man purchased a city lot with the restriction that he should not build a house on it to cost less than $2,500. After having paid for the lot he decided to build a $1,500 cottage. Before he had completed it the real estate man from whom he had bought the lot threatened to sue him for breach of contract. "This little shack you are building," said the real estate man, "lacks a whole lot of 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." Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B. R. 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KANSAS CITY shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular regular by trading at a popular store? A. J. MADDUX Apple 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—Why not you be popular by trading at a popular store? L. J. MADDUX, Staple and Fancy Groceries Meats and all Kinds of Produce. HOME PHONE 784 WEST In an Excuse Book. Because its employees were late a London house provided a book in which the tardy ones were to write excuses. Reasons for lateness were not much varied. At the top of the page one would write "Train delayed," or "Omnibus horse died," as the case might be, and the rest fell into the habit of making ditto marks and letting it go at that. But not long ago one man had a new excuse. He wrote with pride: "Wife had twins." The second slow person that morning was in a great hurry, and did not notice the innovation, but made his customary ditto marks, and the rest of the men on that page followed suit. The excuse book was abolished. Example of the Postage Stamp The late Judge Andrew Wylie, of Virginia, had a happy gift of illustration. The judge cast in 1860 the only vote for Lincoln that was given in Alexandria, Va. In an address on Lincoln he once illustrated in an odd way the power of perseverance. "Lincoln persevered," he said, "and it is only those who persevere, they who concentrate their energies, who succeed. Don't give three years to journalism and then, discouraged, try the law awhile. Don't learn the grocery business and in a little while take up placer mining or plumbing. Consider, rather, the postage stamp, whose useful depends on its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Think What a Family 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. "That he isn't a Mormon." 530 MINNESOTA AVE. 852 FREEMAN AVE Telephone Home W.30 Raymond DIRECTOR st of Service, Fine Carriage es, at all Hours. Enameled Ambulance for wounded reasonable. Call at 431 Minne- as City, Kansay. University College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, including piano, organ and harp and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, ion, Healthful Climate, Good Influen- sices and all inducements offered. NON, A. M., D. D. DENT, KANSAS "White" 4302. Well—"West" 15. uncolored peoplelet set in the dark o and drink muddy bad disease germs. Her Light aner Water Eilter as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. ERIDAN M 8, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Tree" is a very popular song—Why popular store? ADDDUX, ncy Groceries inds of Produce. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Res. 420 Nebraska ave. Tel. 383 White SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Hours: From 10 a. m., till 4 p. m. and from 6 till 9 p. m. C. H. C. JORDAN, M. M., M. D. Here is the Place J. T. Roberts TONSORIAL PARLOR All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clean Shave strictly Up-to-Date 438 MINNESOTA AVE. An Old French Sailor. French seamen have a dozen in the person of a centenarian. The old sailor belongs 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 corsair which had captured them. After serving many years before the mast 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 sea. ROOM 8, A $75,000 automobile rolled through the $80,000 bronze gates and up the $50,000 winding avenue to the $20,000 marble steps, relates the Newark news. Descending from the machine, the billionaire paused a moment to view a smiling $500,000 landscape. Across the $90,000 lawn, a $125,000 lake lay sleeping in the shades early evening, and beyond it rose luridly $80,000 hill, whose crest, baked with forest at an expense of $0,000, glowed in the last golden years of the setting sum. The billionaire sank luxuriously a $2,000 ivory porch chair and set his feet on the roosewood railway to the $160,000 veranda. it is pleasant," he observed, "to get k to nature once in awhile. After cares and worries of the business I certainly love to run out to this little $60,000,000 country clut ours and taste a bit of simple life. is good to keep in touch with the for what is man but dust, after feeling restored, he passed in brought the $460,000 doorway to his 600 dinner. Yellow clothes are unsightly. Keep them with Red Cross Ball Blue. All sells sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Poverty is no disgrace," said Uncle nea "but dat ain't ain't a good exe for de man dat 'ud rather be dan to go to work."—Washing Star. field Tea purifies the blood, regulates digestive organs, brings good health. If men couldn't go into politics they and invect it something else just as to do.-N. Y. Press. Mrs. Mittie Huffaker. 1920 AD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE. CONFINED TO HER BED WITH DYSPEPSIA. Owe My Life to Pe-ru-na," Says Mrs. Huffaker. Mrs. Mittie Huffaker, R. R. No. 8,umbia, Tenn., writes: I was afflicted with dyspepsia for several years and at last was confined my bed, unable to sit up. We tried several different doctors without relief. I had given up all hope of any relief and was almost dead when my husband bought me a bottle of Peruna. Our first I could not notice any benzene but after taking several bottles I secured sound and well. It is to Peruna I owe my life to you. I cheerfully recommend it to all others. Revised Formula For a number of years requests are come to me from a multitude of moral friends, urging that Peruna given a slight laxative quality. I have been experimenting with a laxative addition for quite a length of time, and now feel gratified to announce to the friends of Peruna that have incorporated such a quality in the medicine which, in my opinion, are only enhance its well-known bene- cial character. "S. B. HARTMAN, M. D." If you think you have heart disease you are only one of a countless number that are deceived by indignation into believing the heart is collected. tonic-laxative, will get your stomach back into good condition, and then the chances are ten to one that you will have no more symptoms of heart disease. Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c. I am 17 and 35 years; pay $18.00 for most courses in university for advancement, must pass most of the examination, and must be a member of the United States board and write English. For full pari- cipation, visit www.ucsb.edu. POST RECRITING STATION, Door Post Office Building, Kansas City, Mo. Room 6 Corby Building, St. Joseph, Mo. THE GREATEST ERUPTION. In all the eruptions of the nineteenth and the opening of the twentieth centuries the lava of Vesuvius never flowed so far down the southern slope as it has within the past few days, says the New York Sun. We must go back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the counterparts of the present flow. In those centuries perhaps even wider streams than those of the recent eruption touched the present site of Bosco Trecase and nearly approached the sea. This town has now been destroyed. Only one narrow stream of lava reached the sea in the nineteenth century and that was at Torre del Greco, which has again been threatened, but in the two preceding centuries a number of flows on the western slope turned the edge of the Bay of Naples into steam. The lava stream has reached the town of Ottajano, near the foot of the northeastern slope of the mountain. Of course, the entire mountain was built up by lava flows, but we have no record in the past three centuries of any streams flowing in the direction of this place. The town of Bosco Reale, near the southeastern foot of the mountain, is said to be in great danger of destruction. We know that three flows reached it previous to the nineteenth century, but for considerably more than a century it has not been threatened by the lava poured out of the crater. These facts show the unusual character of the present outburst. The streams have flowed nearly to the southern foot of the mountain, and this has not occurred before for many generations. One stream has poured down the northeastern side, and we have no record of any earlier invasion of this slope. Most of the present lava flow has descended the south and southeast slopes and the ends of the streams were at least three miles from the ruins of Pompeii, but it was not a lava flow, but overwhelming showers of volcanic ash. In the greatest eruptions of Vesuvius, however, the quantities of lava poured out have been small as compared with the flows from some other volcanoes. They may seem very large, for the estimated quantity of lava poured over the crater rim in some of these outbursts has been about 600,000,000 cubic feet, which is equivalent to a square mile covered 22 feet deep; but this is almost insignificant when compared with the lava that streamed from Skaptar Jokull, Iceland, in 1783, whose volume has been computed to be about 21 cubic miles, equal to that of the entire quantity of water that the Nile carries to the Mediterranean in a year. WORK FOR ARMY OFFICERS College Where They Learn to Construct Suspension Bridges and Trenches. Persons who think officers of the regular army have nothing to do but sit around their cabs attired in their nattiest uniforms enjoying life would doubtless be surprised to see them minus blouses and starched collars swinging axes, hewing timber for trestle bridges, digging sod for fascine reverments and making palisades in time of peace. There are three colleges at Fort Leavenworth for the instruction of army officers in the art of war—the infantry and cavalry school, the signal school and the staff college. All are under the supervision of Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, aided by a body of officers, designated as a personal staff. One interesting feature of the college course is the engineering department, where the student officers have to do real work and have no enlisted men to aid them in any manner. In this they are called upon to construct, lying, kneeling and standing trenches, palisades, fascine and gabions, reverments or sandbags and loopholes of sod on parapet, wire entanglements, bridges with framed trestles on land and water, trestle bridges of round timbers, bridges of canvas pontoons, barrel and log rafts, double lock spar bridges with trestle approaches, bridges with wooden pontoons and with pile trestles and a flying bridge. The suspension bridge is 100 feet long, between two supporting towers. Two of the bridges, with reserve equipage wooden pontoons, are each of 12 bays and 240 feet long. Each bridge is tested by driving a loaded army wagon across it. The flying bridge, to carry troops across streams too wide to be bridged, was constructed on the Missouri river. It is made by sinking a large stone, to which a cable is attached. Pontoons, either two or three, or long rafts are attached to the cable, and the current is made to force the raft across the stream by means of a rudder placed at a certain angle. The officers are taken to different parts of the big reservation, and in charge of their instructors build trenches and bridges, the majority of which are left standing. They have been viewed by high army officers and pronounced perfect in every detail. Unexplored Island. Hainan island, off the coast of China, is one of the few unexplored parts of the earth left. A correspondent of the South China Post says that there is no doubt that Hainan is rich and that it would repay development. At the present moment there are two foreign expeditions in the interior exploring the country. HE WENT ON CRUTCHES HE WENT ON CRUTCHES All Medicines Failed Until Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cured His Rheumatism. "Some years ago." says Mr. W. H. Clark, a printer, living at 612 Buchanan street, Topeka, Kans., "I had a bad attack of rheumatism and could not seem to get over it. All sorts of medicines failed to do me any good and my trouble kept getting worse. My feet were so swollen that I could not wear shoes and I had to go on crutches. The pain was terrible. "One day I was setting the type of an article for the paper telling what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had done for a man afflicted as I was and I was so impressed with it that I determined to give the medicine a trial. For a year my rheumatism had been growing worse, but after taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I began to improve. The pain and swelling all disappeared and I can truthfully say that I haven't felt better in the past twenty years than I do right now. I could name, off hand, a half-dozen people who have used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at my suggestion and who have received good results from them." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are guaranteed to be safe and harmless to the most delicate constitution. They contain no morphine, opiate, narcotic, nor anything to cause a drug habit. They do not act on the bowels but they actually make new blood and strengthen the nerves. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure rheumatism because they make rich, red blood and no man or woman can have healthy blood and rheumatism at the same time. They have also cured many cases of anemia, neuralgia, sciatica, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia and other diseases that have not yielded to ordinary treatment. All druggists sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Scheuctady, N. Y. CLOTHES AND CONDUCT. Addison could not write his best unless he was well dressed. Every man and every woman feels the influence of clothes and appearance upon conduct. Indeed, in a millennium of free clothes of the latest fashion we shall all be archangels. You have heard of the lonely man in the Australian bush who always put on evening dress for dinner, so that he might remember he was a gentleman. Put a naughty girl into her best Sunday clothes, and she will behave quite nicely. Put a blackguard into khaki and he will be a hero. Put an omnibus conductor into uniform and he will live up to his clothes. LIMB RAW AS PIECE OF BEEF. Suffered for Three Years with Itching Humor—Cruiser Newark U. S. N. Man Cured by Cuticura. "I suffered with humor for about three years off and on. I finally saw a doctor and he gave me remedies that did me no good, so I tried Cuticura when my limb below the knee to the ankle was as raw as a piece of beef. All I used was the Cuticura Soap and the Ointment. I bathed with Cuticura Soap every day, and used about six or seven boxes of Cuticura Ointment. I was thoroughly cured of the humor in three weeks, and haven't been affected with it since. I use no other Soap than Cuticura now. H. J. Myers, U. S. N., U. S. S. Newark, New York, July 8, 1905." So Homelike. Some one said to Brother Williams: "They have a balloon fad now, and you can go up and cool off in the clouds." "Yes, suh," he replied. "En dar's so much thunder en lightnin' up dar, I reckon lots er 'um will feel lak' dey wuz right at home—specially de married folks!"—Atlanta Constitution. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the disceased portion of the ear. There is only one way to deafness, a constitutional remedies. The ear is caused by an inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or it becomes is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases have been reported of this but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness caused by cataract that can be cured by Halia Cataract. F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Tills for constipation. At the Dinner Party. Mrs. Henpeck (to herself)—Look at my husband, over there, disgusting us with his frightful manners! If I had that book on table etiquette here now I'd throw it in his face!—Family Journal. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it The sun that shines in the face rises in the heart. An M. 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District Attorney Jerome, of New York, who is at present in the limelight, pleads guilty to three weaknesses—candy eating, cooking strange dishes, and making furniture. Chaplain Rev. Francis Doherty, of the Seneveteenth United States infantry, stationed at Fort McPherson, edits a little paper called "The Haverack," which is widely among soldiers, and is frequently copied. George Griffith, the English globe trotter, who has seven times encircled the earth, says he means to travel no more, but will build a home on the isle of Man and settle down to novel-writing as a neighbor of Hall Caine. Thomas Lewis, the son of an African king who is studying medicine at the Syracuse university, has devised characters to express the language of his tribe. He proposes to translate the Bible and to introduce the Christian religion among the natives. His home is in Liberia, and upon the completion of his course he expects to become a medical missionary to his people. J. P. Webster holds the unique distinction of being the only mayor Waucoma, Ia., has ever had, though the place has been incorporated 23 years. He was selected as the first mayor in 1883, and has continued to serve ever since. He has just been elected for two years more, which will make his record as mayor a quarter of a century. He is 82 years old, and the oldest mayor in the state. He is hale and hearty. "White Disease" in Africa Sir Harry Johnston, the famous explorer, once escaped from a very tight corner in Africa by a queer stratagem. A score or two of murderous natives had surrounded his tent, into which, before rushing it, they sent an envoy. The envoy was told the small-pox was in camp, and a wretched Albino was sent out as the awful example. In five minutes the scared tribesmen had vanished. As Sir Harry well knew, they feared the "white disease" more than all the inventions of Maxim. 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The sirdar, Sir Reginald Wingate, is an excellent linguist, speaking, besides several European languages, Arabic and Hindustani. His hobby is the collection of dervish weapons. Lord Leconfield, who has just celebrated his thirty-fourth birthday, is a nephew of Lord Rosebery. He served with distinction in the Boer war, owns about 100,000 acres of land, and has a rent roll of $450,000 yearly. Sir Edward Clarke, the brilliant member of parliament who is making his presence felt by denouncing the idea of a tax on meat or corn, started as a jeweler's assistant in his father's store. Now his income as a lawyer is $150,000 a year and he is one of the few men who have refused a judgeship. Sir John Fisher has been promoted to the rank of admiral of the English fleet. He practically created the present British navy, and has impregnated it with the scientific spirit, and it is due to him that the naval officers of to-day must, in addition to being seamen, be gunners, soldiers, engineers and men of science. He Wasn't Certain At Fortress Monroe, Va., one day about a year ago, a man, accompanied by two ladies, approached a soldier who, with a gun on his shoulder, was pacing to and far near the entrance. The warrior's appearance indicated that he was new to the service. "Can you tell us," asked one of the visitors, addressing the recruit, "where Jeff Davis was imprisoned here?" "Yonder's the ga-a-r-d house," he replied, jerking a thumb over his shoulder, "but I dunno whether they've still got him shut up or not." —Chicago Record-Herald. William Glynne Charles Gladstone, grandson of the great commoner and heir to the Hawarden estate, has been elected secretary of the Oxford Union society, a position which his illustrious grandfather occupied 76 years ago. Young Mr. Gladstone comes of age in two or three months, and will then enter into possession of the Hawarden estate, which has been managed during his minority by his uncles, Herbert and Henry Gladstone. BREAD DYSPEPSIA. The Digesting Element Left Out Bread dyspepsia is common. It affects the bowels because white bread is nearly all starch, and starch is digested in the intestines, not in the stomach proper. Up under the shell of the wheat berry nature has provided a curious deposit which is turned into diastase when it is subjected to the saliva and to the pancreatic juices in the human intestines. This diastase is absolutely necessary to digest starch and turn it into grape sugar, which is the next form; but that part of the wheat berry makes dark flour, and the modern mill cannot readily sell dark flour, so nature's valuable digester is thrown out and the human system must handle the starch as best it can, without the help that nature intended. Small wonder that appendicitis, peritonitis, constipation and all sorts of trouble exist when we go so contrary to nature's law. The food experts that perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing these facts, made use in their experiments of the entire wheat and barley, including all the parts, and subjected them to moisture and long continued warmth, which allows time and the proper conditions for developing the diastase, outside of the human body. In this way the starchy part is transformed into grape-sugar in a perfectly natural manner, without the use of chemicals or any outside ingredients. The little sparkling crystals of grape-sugar can be seen on the pieces of Grape-Nuts. This food therefore is naturally pre-digested and its use in place of bread will quickly correct the troubles that have been brought about by the too free use of starch in the food, and that is very common in the human race to-day. The effect of eating Grape-Nuts ten days or two weeks and the discontinuance of ordinary white bread is very marked. The user will gain rapidly in strength and physical and mental health. "There's a reason." NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered from All parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria have returned to England after an extended cruise in Mediterranean waters. J. Alison Bowen, attached to the American consulate at Paris, died in that city recently. Mrs. Sallie E. Vest, widow of the late Senator George G. Vest, died recently at St. Louis. T. K. Hanna, a widely known wholesale dry goods merchant of Kansas City, is dead at his home in that city. Henrik Ibsen, Norway's greatest poet and dramatist, died recently at Christiana. His death was unexpected although for a year he had been very weak. He was 78 years old. The Maharajah or Gaikwar of Beroda, an Indian prince, was an interested spectator at a recent session of the United States senate. Emperor Nicholas has accepted the resignation of Admiral Rojestvensky which was tendered on account of ill health following wounds received in the war with Japan. Representative John F. Lacey, of the Sixth Iowa district has been renominated for a tenth term by the republicans of his district. Col. W. F. Switzler, recognized as the oldest editor in the United States and the Nestor of Missouri journalism, died recently at the home of his daughter in Columbia, Mo. He was 87 years old and commenced his newspaper career in Columbia in 1841. Mrs. Ellen Tootle, wife of J. J. Tootle, a millionaire banker of St. Joseph, Mo., has been granted a divorce from her husband Princess Ena, the prospective bride of King Alfonso, met with an enthusiastic popular welcome on her arrival at Irun, Spain, where she was met by the king. The couple received a continuous ovation on their way to Madrid where the wedding ceremony takes place. Miscellaneous. Judge Smith McPherson, in the federal court at Kansas City, has denied the demurrier of the Burlington railroad to the rebate indictment. The railroad and packing companies must now go to trial. At the supreme council of the Royal Arcanum of the United States, in session at Old Point, Va., Howard C. Wiggans was re-elected supreme regent and the entire list of officers was re-elected. The registration of applicants for lands in the Crow Indian reservation in Montana will begin at Miles City and Billings on June 14 and continue for two weeks. The drawings will begin at Billings on July 2. Charges have been made by the independent oil men of Ohio that their private telegrams are transmitted to the Standard Oil headquarters at 26 Broadway, New York. The interstate commerce commission will investigate the allegation at Cleveland. The supreme court of Missouri has affirmed the verdict of death in the cases of Mrs. Agnes Myers and Frank Hottman for the murder of Mrs. Myers' husband at Kansas City in 1904. They were both sentenced to hang on June 19 next. Thomas F. McCarry, a former prominent attorney of Grand Rapids, Mich., serving a sentence in the penitentiary for bribery, has been paroled by the governor. Judge Landis, in the federal court at Chicago, has issued an order restraining W. G. Voliva, his attorneys, agents, and employees from disposing of or dissipating the assets of the estate of Zion City. The foreign commerce of the United States for April aggregated $251,000,-000. The supreme court of the United States has granted the petition of the state of Kansas to file a suit against the government for the benefit of the M. K. & T., railroad. The opening of a mine at Smithfield, O., with non union miners was the signal for the beginning of hostilities by the strikers in that field. Many shots were exchanged but no one was reported injured. The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad company have appointed a committee to investigate the allegations that certain officers of the company hold stock in several coal companies. A revolt against Cuban authority in the Isle of Fines in the near future is predicted unless the United States assumes authority over it. At Lexington Ky., recently, Barmey Oldfield drove an automobile 50 miles in one hour, 13 minutes and two seconds. It is asserted that the 600 marines which were hurriedly gathered for shipment on the cruiser, Columbia are intended for the protection of the canal zone on the isthmus in case of revolutionary troubles at the coming Panama elections. In his Memorial day proclamation Gov. Hoch, of Kansas, asked that the day be not desecrated by frivolous sports and questionable exhibitions. An application for an injunction to prevent the union of the Cumberland and the Presbyterian churches has been denied at Decatur, Ill. The sub-treasury at New York has transferred $34,491,200 to San Francisco since April 18, the date of the earthquake. During the season of 1905 75,741 square bales of cotton were ginned in Greer county, Ok., making it the second best cotton county in the United States. The accounting officers of the United States treasury have completed the settlement of a claim amounting to $22,000 for extra pay due the Twentieth Kansas volunteers during the Spanish American' war. A check for the amount will be sent to Gov. Hoch for distribution. The chief of police and former prosecuting attorney of South Omaha, Neb., have been indicted for black mailing resort keepers. George L. Thomas, of New York, and L. B. Taggart, his clerk, were convicted in the federal court at Kansas City of conspiracy to violate the interstate commerce laws. The demurrier to the evidence on behalf of George H. Crosby, of the Burlington railroad, was sustained by the court. Sentence was deferred. The entire Swedish cabinet have tendered their resignations to King Oscar. George W. Perkins, vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, who had been held to the grand jury on a technical charge of grand larceny in connection with campaign contributions, has been discharged from custody by the New York supreme court. The offices of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance company of America have been closed throughout Great Britain. W. W. Graves and A. M. Wodson were nominated by the Missouri democratic state convention for the supreme court at Excelsior Springs recently. One dead and 83 injured is the result of a collision on a suburban electric line near Lafayette, Ind., recently. Nearly all the injured are veterans attending the state G. A. R. encampment. Representative Campbell, of Kansas, has filled an application in the interior department at Washington for permission to construct an independent pipe line from the Indian territory and Oklahoma oil fields to Coffeyville, Kan. Officers of the guard regiments at St. Petersburg are openly advocating the dispersal of parliament by the government. Chairman T. P. Shonts will be the principal speaker at the 25th anniversary celebration of Drake university at Des Moines, Ia., on June 14. The grand jury which investigated the Springfield, Mo., lynching reported that the two negro victims of the mob were entirely innocent of the crime charged. The report also severely censured the sheriff and police authorities. The union of the Cumberland and Presbyterian churches was formally announced in full force and effect by Moderator Corbett at the Des Moines General Assembly recently amid great enthusiasm. All factions engaged in the struggle for possession of Zion City and its industries have agreed that Federal Judge Landis shall settle all disputes between them. An earthquake shock was felt recently near Ogden, Utah. Buildings were shaken but no serious damage resulted. The trial of the rebate cases in the federal court at Kansas City has developed that many of the western jobbing houses have been receiving rebates on shipments of goods for years. During the recent interstate commerce commission hearing at Philadelphia it developed that W. A. Patton, assistant to President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania railroad had acquired stock in different coal companies to the amount of $307,000 for which he had never paid a dollar. Erwin O. Bode, city treasurer of Falls City, Neb., has confessed to a shortage in his accounts of $20,000. He has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement. The federal grand jury at Nashville, Tenn., has returned 80 indictments against members of the fertilizer trust. The defendants live in various parts of the country. Congressional. The senate has passed the bill opening for settlement 505,000 acres of land in the Kiowa, Commanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Senator Burton, of Kansas, has made a proposition to the senate, which was accepted, that if no action was taken in his case by that body he would resign in case the supreme court failed to grant him a new trial. After listening to sensational charges of treachery against Mr. Hepburn by Representative Cooper, the house sent the railroad rate bill to conference. The house conferees are representatives Hepburn, Sherman and Richardson. The free alcohol bill has passed the senate as it came from the committee. The bill now goes to conference on the amendments added to it by the senate A bill has been introduced in the senate, said to be an administration measure, which provides for a more rigid inspection of packing house products. All meats whether for interstate or foreign commerce must have the government's "O. K." A resolution has been introduced in the senate to investigate the legal effect of the recent supreme court decision regarding Senator Burton, of Kansas. The denatured alcohol bill has been ordered favorably reported by the senate finance committee. THE POINT OF THE PROVERB An old proverb advises the shoe-maker to stick to his last. It means that a man always succeeds best at the business he knows. To the farmer it means, stick to your plow; to the blacksmith, stick to your forge; to the painter, stick to your brush. When we make experiments out of our line they are likely to prove expensive failures. It is amusing, however, to remark how every one of us secretly thinks he could do some other fellow's work better than the other fellow himself. The painter imagines he can make paint better than the paint manufacturer; the farmer thinks he can do a job of painting better, or at least cheaper than the painter, and so on. A farm hand in one of Octave Thanet's stories tells the Walking Delegate of the Painters' Union, "Anybody can slather paint;" and the old line painter tells the paint salesman, "None of your ready made mixtures for me; I reckon I ought to know how to mix paint." The farm hand is wrong and the painter is wrong: "Shoemaker, stick to your last." The "fancy farmer" can farm, of course, but it is an expensive amusement. If it strikes him as pleasant to grow strawberries at fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs that cost him five dollars a dozen, it is a form of amusement, to be sure, if he can afford it, but it's not farming. If the farmer likes to slosh around with a paint brush and can afford the time and the expense of having a practical painter do the job right pretty soon afterward, it's a harmless form of amusement. If the painter's customers can afford to stand for paint that comes off in half the time it should, they have a perfect right to indulge his harmless vanity about his skill in paint making. But in none of these cases does the shoemaker stick to his last. There is just one class of men in the world that knows how to make paint properly and have the facilities for doing it right; and that is the paint manufacturers—the makers of the standard brands of ready-prepared paints. The painter mixes paints; the paint manufacturer grinds them together. In a good ready-prepared paint every particle of one kind of pigment is forced to join hands with a particle of another kind and every bit of solid matter is forced, as it were, to open its mouth and drink in its share of linseed oil. That is the only way good paint can be made, and if the painter knew how to do it he has nothing at hand to do it with. A paint pot and a paddle are a poor substitute for power-mixers, buhr-mills and roller-mills. The man who owns a building and neglects to paint it as often as it needs paint is only a degree more short-sighted than the one who tries to do his own painting or allows the painter to mix his paint for him. ONE UNVIOLATED RULE. Club Servitor Had Seen Them All Broken Into Bits, Save That One. A certain club, the name of which need not be mentioned, has strict regulations against gambling, relates the American Spectator. A quartette of club members decided to break the rule by a game of poker for small stakes, so they adjourned to one of the small rooms and told an old servant to bring a pack of cards. When he brought them one of the members asked: "John, I suppose it would be something utterly new in this club if we were to do such a thing as play for money with these cards?" The negro scratched his head and deliberated, finally answering: "Boss, I've been wiw dis club a long time, and I'se seen many things." "Yes, but what have you seen?" "I've seen ebry rule of dis club vi'lated 'ceptin' one." "What is that one?" "De rule 'gainst gibbin' tips to deservants." Prince Von Bulow, the German chancellor, who was overcome by a fainting spell while delivering an address in the reichstag recently, is a political personality scarcely less interesting than was his great predecessor Bismarck. In spite of his well-known and ardent patriotism his courtesy to France on one occasion drew from another member of the reichstag the remark that "Herr Von Bulow thinks in French or Italian and then translates into German." He was twice offered the rank of prince before accepting. Followed Instructions A lady going from home for the day, says a writer in the New York World, locked everything up carefully, and for the grocer's benefit left a card on the back door. "All out. Don't leave anything," it read. On her return she found her home ransacked and all her choicest possessions gone. To the card on the door was added: "Thanks. We haven't left much." Singular Fact The way to make a woman real happy is to bring her a potted plant on a thousand-mile railway journey that she could buy around the corner for ten cents.—N. Y. Press. Needed Study "De man who really gits de worst of a curbstone argument," said Uncle Eben, "is de one dat might have been doin' somethin' better wif his time."—Washington Star. A London man has invented an engine to be run by air. Presumably hot. IMAGINARY DISEASE CASES THAT CALL FOR OPERATIONS OF "FAKE" NATURE. Hallucinations Cured by Humoring Whims of Patients—Singular Case Cited in Illustration. According to a Detroit surgeon, there are many sane persons who, believing that they are threatened with some dangerous disease, insist on undergoing severe operations in order that their lives may be saved. "We do not really perform these operations," he explains in the News-Tribune, "but I have assisted at many imaginary ones to gratify the whim of a patient suffering from some form of hysteria. "We had a young girl here a year ago with a most obstinate attack of hysteria which took a very curious form. She would never lie down in her bed, but invariably sat bolt upright with her back against the foot rail, constantly turning her head from side to side like an automation. "I had watched her do this many times, and one day I asked her why she continued it, to which she replied that there was a string in her head which pulled it from side to side, and that until it was cut she would have no rest. "This remark gave me an idea, and I asked if she would allow me to examine her head. She was perfectly willing, and after an inspection lasting 20 minutes I gravely announced that she was quite right, and that the only cure was a slight operation in order to sever the string. "She clapped her hands with delight like a child and declared that it was what she had told several doctors, but that they had all laughed at her. Would I perform the operation at once? I thought it better, however, to defer doing so until the morning, after I had consulted the visiting surgeons. "Having explained the circumstances, the imaginary operation was agreed upon, and the following morning the young woman was led into the surgery, placed upon the operating table and anaesthetics were administered. Part of her luxuriant brown hair was cut off and a portion of the back of the head two inches above the nape of the neck was shaved smooth. "Then, in order that there should be something to show for the imaginary operation, the scalp was lanced until the blood ran, leaving a cut about two and a half inches in length. This was bound but not strapped and the patient was conveyed back to her bed, where she remained for 40 minutes before returning to consciousness. "Meantime I had taken a piece of an ordinary E violin string about four inches long and soaked it in water until it resembled a raw sinew, the object of this, of course, being to show the patient the actual string taken out of her head. When she returned to consciousness she was told how entirely successful the operation had been and shown the string which had been the cause of all her trouble, after which she fell into a natural sleep and awoke perfectly restored. From that day to this she has been entirely cured of her hallucination." The "Corn Gospel" Train "Is it really true, I want to know, that them blue-sky farmers can actually make an extra kernel grow on an ear of corn?" A farmer in Nebraska was asking the question, says Eugene Lyle, in World's Work. He was half contemptuous of the "blue-sky" farmers. They were young men a third of his age, professors in the agricultural school of the state university, with education and linen collars. Never in their lives had they driven a load of produce to town. And what could they know about farming, anyhow? But despite the old veteran's sniff, there was a waver of credulity in his tone, and in his look positive eagerness. What if, after all, the vague and disdained thing, book learning, held secrets to make his land yield more than its usual crop? School Tasks in Switzerland. A Geneva correspondent of a London paper thinks the sums done in a Swiss school sufficiently extraordinary to telegraph some of them to his journal. The father of a schoolboy, aged eight, living at Chaux de Fonds, sends to the Impartial the following problems as specimens of the home work the youngster had recently been set to work out at the cantonal school. Multiply 5,101,520,253,935 by 3,530,-252,015,105. The boy obtained the following answer: 18,009,652,153,375,778-242,093,675. Divide 71,-z1,283,542,000 by 24,538,714,212. After some hours' work the youngster obtained as answer 2,910,555,525. The mere reading of those terrible figures should make every small boy glad he does not live in Switzerland. Artificial Storm at Sea The inhabitants of Aboukir, near Alexandria, were recently treated to a wonderful spectacle. It became necessary to destroy some 16 tons of powerful dynamite, and the explosives—sufficient to blow up a town—were taken to sea and placed beneath the water. Something like a submarine earthquake followed the explosion, which was heared for miles around. A waterspout shot into the air to a height of about 2,000 feet, and fell back in dazzling spray. Simultaneously the sea became a whirlpool of seething water, as if agitated by a hurricane. A recent number of the Windsor (Manitoba) Free Press contains excellent article on the prospects Western Canada, a portion of which we are pleased to reproduce. The agents of the Canadian Government, located at different centers in the States, will be pleased to give any further information as to the need and how to reach these lands. "Just now there is a keener interest than ever before on the part the outside world, in regard to claims of the Canadian West as a of settlement. At no previous has there been such a rush of immigration, and the amount of information distributed broadcast is unpendently great. "In the majority of the States, the Union and in Great Britain opportunities for home-making are achieving of even a modest competence are at the best limited. Moreover, according to the social and dustrial conditions prevalent in the communities, the future holds out promise of better things. It is a strange, then, that energetic young men should turn their eyes to Canada's great wheat belt, where even man can pursue fortune without hindrance of any discouraging cap. "The inducements held out by Wern Canada are powerful and manifest by the great movement in progress. That the prospects considerably more than reason certain is borne out by the history the country and its residents. The promise of gain is powerful, but added to it there is the prospect of corresponding social and civil election, it should prove irresistible young men of a particularly desirable class for any new country. "The Canadian West is alive with opportunities for the young man aims at becoming more than a matron in the civil and national fathom. Some of the eager young fellows arrive on the prairies daily are trained to become more than more prosperous farmers. In the nature great municipal and provincial development will be in the hands the people. The stepping stone both financial prosperity and prominence is, and will be, the for Every professional opening are hundreds of agricultural open The Canadian prairies are teen with opportunities for the honest, industrious of all classes, but are specially inviting to the ambil young man who seeks a field for energy and ability which he feels herent within him. The familiar of "Back to the soil" is more a vain sounding phrase when applied to Western Canada." A Gentle Slam Miss Jolly—Eddie Blank is a ful flatterer. You can't believe a he says. But I always like to m him. Kathleen—Must be a case of u tual admiration. I've heard him the very same thing about you— troit Free Press. Write Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N for sample of Garfield Tea. Mild land The cheapest way to acquire a utation for wisdom is to agree everybody. CORDIAL INVITATION Miss Barrows Tells How Mrs. P. Ham's Advice Helps Working Girls Girls who ww are particular susceptible to male disorder especially the who are oblig to stand on the feet from man until night stores or faeries. Miss Abby F. Barrows Day in and **Girls who are particulate susceptible to male diseases especially the who are obliged to stand on the feet from men until night stores or fast ries.** Day in and out the girl Miss Abby F. Barrows Day in and out the girl to and she is often the bread-winner the family. Whether she is sick well, whether it rains or shines she must get to her place of employment perform the duties exacted of her smile and be agreeable. Among this class the symptoms of female diseases are early manifested in weak and aching backs, pain in the lower limbs and lower part of the stomach. In consequence of frequent wetting of the feet, periods become painful and irregular, and frequent there are faint and dizzy spells, loss of appetite, until life is a burden. All these symptoms point to a rangelength of the female organ which can be easily and promptly cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Miss Abby F. Barrows, Nelsonville Athens Co., Ohio, tells what this great medicine did for her. She writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham. "I feel it my duty to tell you the gown Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier have done for me. Before I took them I was very nervous, had the headaches, pain in back, and periods were irregular, I had been to several doctors, they did me no good. "Your medicine has made me well and strong. I can do most any kind of work without complaint, and my periods are right. "I am in better health than I ever was and I know it is all due to your remedies, recommend your advice and medicine to who suffer." It is to such girls that Mrs. Pinkham holds out a helping hand and tends a cordial invitation to correspond with her. She is daughter in-law Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty years has been advising sick women free of charge. Her long record success in treating woman'sills makes her letters of advice of untold value every ailing working girl. Adress Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.