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THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. IBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE s. L. V. Hilton of 1415 N. 5th street has been sojoining in Chicago will am next week; albernacle Baptist Church, Armour- t208 Berger ave., regular services m. and 8 p., m. Sunday school at 1 Prayer meeting every Tuesday preaching every Thursday night. Rev. J. L. Gordon, Pastor. any one wishing to subscribe for the ERICAN CITIZEN, can secure it iss D. Wilkerson, 1523 Oak street, Scott, Kansas. legro Business League. is hoped that delegates intending to present at the Atlanta meeting bring their wives with them, as the functions in connection with the long session promise to be a feature of the meeting. Splendid preparations made for the annual banquet will, it is said surpass all former. The meeting should and will be an occasion of rest and recreation as of business. the next session of the National New-Business League will be held in Atla. Ga., August 29th, 30th, and 31st; Executive Committee, with the office of the organization, will meet the before, August 29th, for the purpose unassing the work of the year past, so finally arrange matters of detail connection with the Atlanta session. Uses are now being matured for some coaches and trains to run into Atlanta for the meeting from Chicago, Anapolis, New Orleans, and points Mississippi and Kansas from Washin City, and from one or two other sites. It is very important that those using information as to lodging and comforts in Atlanta should corral at once with Mr. G. M. Howell service president, 16 Wall St. Atlanta and that those desiring information transportation, etc. should correspond with Mr. Cyrus Field Adams, the transportation Agent, 934 S. Street, N. Washington, D. C. Publication Notice. the District Court of Wyandotte County Birdie Smith, Plaintiff vs. Peter Smith, Desendant. at the above named defendant, you are obviously notified that you have been sued in above named court, by the above named stiff, and that unless you appear and on or before on the 14th day of Septem- ber, the petition filed against you will be as true and a judgement rendered to you the nature of which will be a dissolving the bonds of matrimony between plaintiff and defendant, vesting plaintiff to her maiden name, Reick and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atta. for Plff. Wm. Needies, Clerk First Pub. Aug. 3rd. A BARGAIN. for Sale - A No. one upright piano at most reasonable figures. This is an optionable chance to secure one of best "make" and highclass instrument today. Call and examine and items. No. 411 Neb. ave. K. C. K. Elder M. Phillips of Primitive Baptist Church, the oldest preacher in the West, is all the colored preachers and white as well to give their appreciation the American citizen by working this sister among the people in the church- NOTE LETS For Rent- To desir able parties(gen man perferred) well furnished rooms one of the best families in the city,in- carn at this office. Mrs. S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave.,is prefectress of one of the most desirable man up to date Rooming house in the p-charges always reasonable. An eccentric minister caused some unease one Sunday by declaring that he did not in the least object to people sleeping while he was preaching. A few minutes later he and his hearers are disturbed by the loud snoring of man just below the pulpit. "Give me a tap on the head," said the minister. This was done, ineffectually, by him another," came the order then. Still the man slumbered. But length by dint of much tapping and making he was recalled into abashed consciousness. "You are making a roached noise," roared the minister, roaring over the pulpit edge. "I don't want your sleeping, but you are preaching other people from sleeping!" City Locals. Mrs C, Gipson Mrs Jennie Batie and Mrs Wm. Jackson of Atehison Kansas spent a few days in the city last week the guest of Mrs Anna Fairfax of 110 N. 3rd street. There will be a Basket meeting Sunday August 26th at Jerusalem Baptist Church, in Woodland addition, All Pastors and members of the different churches in the city are cordially invited Miss Jessie Steward of St Louis Mo. spent several weeks in the city, the guest of relatives Eliza Dudley and Geo. A. Dudley, She has returned to her home. Mrs. Nettie Summers of Peoria Ill. is the guest of her Ssster inlaw Mrs. Lula Summers. Mrs. Cora Taylor wife of Patrolman Jno. Jaylor is visiting in Chicago Ill. E. E.Scruggs of The Citizen is enjoying the breezes of the city by the lake. Mrs. Nettie Jordan of Oakland ave. leaves next week for Springfield Ill. Mr. Will Summers of Peoria Ill. will arrive to marrow the guest of his wife Lula Summers. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Governor E. W. Hoch. Lieutenant Governor — William J. Fitzgerald. Secretary of State — C. E. Benton. Auitor James M. Nation Attorney General — Frederick S. Jackson. Treasurer — Mark Tully. Superintendent of Schools - E. T Fairchild. (six years), Silas Porter (four years). Charles B. Graves (four years). Superintsendent of Insurance — Chas. W. Barnes. For Raiload Commissioner — Fran L. Ryan. George W. Kanavl. Charles A. Ryker. Miss Gertrude Toliver of 303. Weavly ave, will leave to morrow for Sprinfield Ill. where she will spend some time with relative It is soad that when she return it will be Mrs. in stead of Miss. Mrs. Maggie Mansfield of 305. Weaver ly avenue, who has been ill for two weeks is now stole to pe out again among her many friends. Mrs. Mattie Tucker of Oklahoma City is visiting her sister. Mrs. J. J. Lewis, of 817 Oakland avenue. Mr. Jno. Briggs formerly of this city, but now of the Great North west is in the city. Mrs. Jas. Edmond of Freeman ave. is spending the Summer at Exeilson Springs. Rev. W. M. Jackson Pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, in Edwardville Kansas, will preach his farewell sermon Sunday night, and will go to take charges of the First Baptist church at Eudora Kansas. Delegates and officers of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. leave for Atchison next week to attend the Grand Lodge session. It is rumored with a semblance of the truth that Prof. W. G. Wood and Miss Ida General were quietly married this week. The new High School building is being rpidly push to completion at 9th and Washington avenue. The Colored brother is a much divided quantity in the coming campaign He has so many grievences no betting can be done on his vote. However they are all interested more this year then ever before, It is safe to say they will all vote some were at some time and for some body. The political situation in Wyandotte County and in fact the entire State is a debatable condition, It is clearly evident that a hot campaign will be waged with some surprises in store for some body. Patrolman Alonzo Singletary who has been ill for sometime at his home on Oakland avenue, is no better. The Shrevsport L. A. excursion annually run is scheduled to arrive in Kansas city, Mo. next Tuesday. Hon. Mason S. Peters will probably be the man selected to run for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Peters is well known to the people of the 20nd district. His strenuous efforts for the securing of a Federal building is sill remembered in our city. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, DENIED A HEARING. RAILROAD WAGE EARNERS IN SULTED BY SENATE COMMITTEE. Of Which W. A. Harris, of Chicago Was Chairman. WOULD RESIGN CHAIRMANSHIP IF THE COMMIT TEE OUTVOTED HIM And Decided to Hear Claims of Wage Earners. The Democrats are this year making the usual claim that the Democratic candidates will receive the labor vote. As usual this claim is based on the very violent assumption that the Democratic party is particularly friendly to labor interests. Of course it is not true that the labor vote will go to Harris of Chicago, and neither is it true that the Democratic party is particularly friendly to labor interests. At the session of the legislature in 1897 Col. Harris was chairman of the Senate railroad committee. Several radical bills prepared by Populists and providing for extreme reductions in freight and passenger rates were pending before his committee. Harris was secretly opposed to all of these bills but masqueraded as a supporter of railroad legislation until after he had been elected United States Senator. Fearing reductions in their wages proportionate to the proposed decrease in rates a big crowd of railroad employees came to Topeka to present their side of the case to the Senate committee and beg consideration of their interests. Harris was so intent on fooling the Populists that he would not listen to these laborers for fear he might be suspected of an intention to give the railroads a hearing. He practically insulted the representatives of the railroad employees and when the Senate committee was considering whether to hear the employees stated that they should not be heard and that he would resign from the committee in case he was outvoted on the proposition by the other members of the committee. His course in the matter is simply cited now as a sample of Col. Harris' friendliness to the labor interests of the state. WHITE APOLOGIZES Makes Amends to Governor Hoch and Condemns Democracy W. A. White, who has apologized to Governor Hoch for statements he made about the Governor in connection with the M. K. & T. land suit, and to Congressman Charles Curtis for the false light he tried to put the congressman in concerning the Indian Territory coal lands now seems disposed to apologize to the Republicans of the state for the assistance he has been trying to give the Democratic party. He has discovered that it is useless to fight the Republican party in Kansas this year and that the Democrats are hopelessly beaten. He says that the Democratic party beafs about the same relation to politics that hell does to religion—that the party is of value only to scare Republicans and show them where they will go if they are bad. A month ago Col. Harris, the Chicago man who was buncoed into accepting the Democratic nomination for Governor of Kansas, was about ready to pull out of the race and return to his home in Chicago. The Democratic leaders induced him to stay in the campaign however and he is again making a half hearted show of confidence. That he does not feel the confidence he expresses in public is known by his utterances to friends in private. Harris knows he is defeated and no well posted Democrat can now be found who will back his assertions that Harris will win with cash. Pride even of an aristocrat is vulgar. 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 late 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 (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 Pleas 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 forecasing 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. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. H. S. Sykes, Plaintiff. vs. J. E. Bernheimer, Defendant. Tde State of Kansas to J. E. Bernheimer Greeting: You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, on the 2nd day of June 1906, by the above named plaint- iff, and unless you answer on or before the 4th day of August, 1906. Judgement will be taken against you as prayed for. The relief plaintiff is asking, is to quiet your title or claim. If any you have, in add to lots 33 and 33, in block 70, in Wyandotte City, for cost and such other relief that plaintiff is entitled to. H. S. Sykes, by Chas. W. Frye, Atty. Attest: J. L. Begga, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. 1st Pub. June 29, 1906. Final Settlement. In the Probate Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. In the matter of the Estate of Isaae Hat ton. Deceased. Notice of Final Settlement. To whom it may concern. This is to notify all persons, that, I will on Monday the 4th day of Dec. 1905, make final settlement in the above entitled estate, or as soon thereafter as shall be contentent, all persons interested take notice and govern yourselves accordingly. JOHN BARNETT, Administrator with will annexed. 1st Pub. Nov. 1905 Sheriff's Sale. In the court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Mary Bradley, Plaintiff, vs. Otis Divers and Ada Divers, Defendants. Under and by virtue of an order of sale issued by the clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for Wyandotte County, Kansas, in a certain cause in said court, numbered 1742, wherein the parties above named, were respectively plaintiff and defendant, and to me, the undersigned sheriff of said county directed. I will offer for sale at public auction, and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the front door of the court house in the city of Kansas City, in said county, on Monday the 28th of May A. D. 1006, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, the following described real property, situate in the county of Wyandotte and state of Kansas towit- The undivided one seventh (1-7) interest and portion, more or less, in and to the following lands and tenements, which said land are held by the heirs at law of Robert Divers, as tenants incommon, meaning hereby, all the right title and interest that came to the defendant Otis Divers, as the heir at law of Robert Divers and Ellen 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 Waydotte county Kansas. SAMUEL MC CONNELL. A British regiment recently ranged in Southampton after twenty years' service in India. Only six men of the regiment that sailed from England returned with it. KEEFER'S VIEWS. Populist Candidate for Governor Talks of the Harris Record. talks of the Harris Record. The record of Senator W. A. Harris, the Democratic legislator who in 1897 betrayed his Populist allies in order to bring Balle Waggener and other Democrat railroad representatives to the support of his candidacy for United States Senator, is continually rising to haunt him this year when he is a "mail order" candidate for Governor of Kansas. Col. Harris' record will not down and the most bitter attacks on the Chicago man are being made by those who were his former friends and supporters. At the 1897 session of the Kansas legislature Harris, then a state senator, introduced two measures of general interest. One was a railroad bill so notoriously untrue to fusion pledges that Governor Leedy vetoed it. Regarding the other measure, Horace A. Keefer, then a fusion member of the legislature and now the Populist candidate for Governor, says: "The other measure introduced by Col. Harris, was a Machiavellian trust deed bill that sought to deprive the unfortunate home-maker of his all in twenty days, by a summary foreclosure without even a day in court. And to those of us who opposed, he cried, 'You are pleading the baby act!' In this connection I recall the vigorous opposition he made to Senator Shelden's interest bill, and how he made himself the hero of the usury lobby by his remarkable speech in defense of Shylock. He is consistent when he defends the United States Senate that recently had such an awakening through the popular impulse of the "muck rake." THE "THOROUGHBREDS" Essential Qualifications for Entry Into the Col. Harris Class. The Kansas City Star (Dem.) boasts that Colonel W. A. Harris selected "several thoroughbreds" for places on the ticket with him. He selected as the "thoroughbreds" to accompany him in his fight, David Overnyer for attorney general and Hugh Farrrelly for lieutenant governor. He also selected "Thoroughbred" Bill Ryan of Crawford, for chairman of the state committee. David Overmyer earned his title by getting behind and passing the law requiring passengers who neglect to purchase tickets to pay an extra fare. The law is still on the statute books, but the Republican legislatures since 1887 when Overmyer was in the legislature have changed the law so that the extra fare will be returned to the passenger at the station where he departs from the train. Hugh Farrelly and Bill Ryan earned their titles by seconding the efforts of Colonel Harris when the latter introduced the notorious Harris railroad bill and put it through the legislature of 1897. This measure was so bad that Governor Leedy felt called upon to go out of his ordinary channel to censure the author. When the resolution committee of the Democratic convention met, Overmyer pulled the typewritten copy of the platform from his pocket with as calm a manner as he would approach a beef steak. He decided what his party should stand for and the voters are to be asked to indorse his choice. COMMITTEE CONDEMNED. Democrats Dismiss Their Faithful Assistant Mrs. Cooper. Probably no action of the present Democratic managers caused the members of the Democratic party more disgust than the discharge of Mrs. Minnie Cooper, who had been the main support of Col. W. F. Sapp, when he was chairman of the committee. Mrs. Cooper had the strings of the party organization almost as well in hand as Sapp and could have made a good campaign unhampered by Ryan and Pepperill. She was let go because the present leaders wanted none of the Sapp organization about. The Democratic newspapers throughout the state have been having a great deal to say on this subject since the committee organized, and they are nearly unanimous in condemning the committee. Life is short and the art of living is long. AUG.17, 1:06 nisSection CALL HERE Executors Notice: State of Kansas. County of Wyandotte In the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the Estate of Anna Williams, deceased Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Anna Williams, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 17 day of July, 1906. Now, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for the allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. JAMES DOWNS. Executor of the last will and testament of Anna Williams, deceased. 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 kangas. Frank Benton, Plaintiff. vs. Jane Benton, Defendant. The above named defendant will hereby take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above hamed court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 30th day of April 1906 the petition filed against her will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing him from her the said defendant, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty, for Pliff Attest: Wm. Needles. Clerk. July 1s. Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandette County, Kansas. L. E. Hayes, Plaintiff, us. Linus S. Wolcott. Frank E. Welcott, Elizbeth Chapman and her husband J. P. Chapman, Evelyn Collar, F. T. Collar, John Miller W. T. Little and Company and S. F. Scott, et al, Defendants. John Miller, W. T. Little and company and S. F. Scott, non-resident defendants. To you and each of you: You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the above named plaintiff in the entitled action, in the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandotte County Kansas, and that unless you answer the petition filed herein on or before Monday April 23rd, 1906, said petition will be taken as true, and a judgment will be rendered in said cause against you, and each of you of the following nature to-wit: A judgment in favor of said plaintiff, quieting his title to the following described real estate, situated in Wyandotte City, now a part of Kansas, City Kansas, and more particularly described as lot 15 and 16 in Block 64 in Wyandotte City, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas, and restraining and enjoining you and each of you from claiming or attempting to claim any interest in or to, or title to said property or any part thereof, and a further judgment against you and each of you for the costs of said action. L. E. HAYES, Plaintiff, Mar. 9. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas 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 306th day of April, 1806, the petition will be taken as true and a judgement rendered, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff and defendant and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles. 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 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 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, Whole Made Her Wealthy. Confirmation of the report that Mme. Adelina Patti has made her final tour in the United States is found in her recent criticisms of the American people. This lady, who once lived down on Grand street West, but now dwells in a castle in Wales, largely owing to the generosity of the citizens of this city, has lately discovered that we haven't any appreciation of art, cookery, music or good manners. This is an ill return for all the complimentary words we have uttered about her, not to mention the dollars we have paid to hear her voice. Although she was born in Madrid in February, 1843, she came here with her parents as a child and grew up among the people of New York. Her brother, Carol, used to lead the orchestra at the Grand Opera House, during the Jim Fisk era of French opera-bouffe. Mme. Patti's last tour of this country was not financially successful—a circumstance that may account for her change of heart. The lady, however, insisted upon receiving her contract money to the last dollar. The im presario was almost ruined, although the fault was the diva's own. She couldn't sing! Her voice had lost its fine quality. She wasn't a "diva" any longer. The American people found this out and refused to assist in maintaining Craig y Nos castle.—Brooklyn Eagle. 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. ❖ Thou Compassionate. How deeply comforting the tender phrase, Thy greater attribute seem merged in this— Through all life's long and dark and weary maze, Thou art Compassionate. To God of Justice and of Power we turn When wrong or devastating blow cuts deep And yet in daily struggle needs must yearn For one Compassionate. In limits of our souls we live, alone, And e'en our nearest may not understand But all the household jar within" is known To thee, Compassionate. Thou know'st the many sorrows of the day; Wide longing, narrow opportunity— We bring life's broken toys, as children may, To one Compassionate. We may have blundered grievously and long, Darkened Thy world we might have made so bright, Still Thou dost heal the heartache and the wrong © Thou Compassionate! —May Ethelyn Bourne, in Overland Monthly. Of No Importance. Two men were standing together on an East River ferry boat 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 frenzled finance captains, is he?" he asked. "No, he—" "Writes up trusts and things, then?" "Oh, then he's a prizefighter or an actor—he is rather husky looking." "No, no! He's just a plain author—writes stories." "Oh!" the friend exclaimed, the look of interest suddenly dying out of his face—New York Journal. True to His Promise. The other boy had called Tommy a liar, a 'a fightin' liar, and told him he dassen't take it up. Tommy's fists were clinched and his eyes were blazing, but he stood there rapidly repeating something to himself, in accordance with a long standing promise he had made to his mother. "If you just jist wait till I've finished sayin' it." he said, "I'll knock the tar out o' you, Dick Bunker, you ple faced slob! 'But children, you should never let your angry passions—'" The other boy, however, disappeared around the corner while Tommy's lips were still moving. Flying Wedge. "Great Scott!" exclaimed the drummer who had put up in the old farm house over night. "What was that noise down below? Football rush?" "Worse than that, stranger," chuckled the old farmer, as he snuffed out the candle. "You see, I have eight darters ah' each one of them has a beau who calls on Thursday nights. Wall, the first couple that gets the parlor can have it. That's why they are running." LACE SCARF AS EAR TRUMPET. Elderly Lady Has Discovered It Acts as Sounding Board. With advancing years a dear old lady has found that her hearing has become somewhat affected. She has not found it necessary to use an ear trumpet as yet, but it is difficult at times to catch all that friends say. Anything said in an undertone is completely lost to her—that is, it was until she hit upon a novel idea. While visiting a friend recently the hostess had pitched her voice almost to the straining point and her vocal organs were getting tired, when "Aunt Sis," as she is affectionately termed, interrupted her by saying: "Please, dearie, hand me my lace head scarf." "Do you feel a draught?" anxiously inquired the hostess, handing over the mantilla. "Not the slightest," said "Aunt Sis" as she adjusted the head covering. "Then why do you wear it? It will make your head tender." "Oh, I think not. You see, the scarf acts as a sort of sounding board. It keeps out all other sounds except those of the human voice. When I wear this I can hear even a whisper I can't explain why it is, but it is so, nevertheless. I have had lots of fun 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 rolled the water with his hand, and the fish fled, the red ones to the red grotto, the yellow ones to the yellow grotto, and the green ones to the green grotto. "They know which color shields them from observation best," said he. "Now I'll change the grottoes, so as to prove my statement a second time." He moved the grottoes to different places in the tanks and again rolled the water. The same thing followed as before. Each fish darted like a shot to the grotto of its own color, where it knew it would be best concealed. To the Beloved. Everything that I made I used to bring you. Was it a song, why, then 'twas a song to sing to you. Was it a story, to you I was telling my story. Ah, my dear, could you hear 'mid the bliss and the glory? Did any one praise me, to you I said it all over! My laughter for you; how we laughed in the days past recover? My tears and my troubles were yours; 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 little else that 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 longue time I will 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 Snakin, 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 cast. 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, fierceens, feignedly, ghastliness, gnawed, heiress, hysterics, imbecility, inconceivable, inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. —Pittsburg Dispatch. SHIELDS FOR TROOPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Military Writer. A writer in the Militar-Wochenblatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Broad Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese spade work in the offensive, the more so because he mentions incidentally, as a matter regarding which there can be no dispute, that the German authorities have long since advocated the use of artificial cover in the attack, and points out that when the ground was frozen or rocky, and the spade could make no impression upon it, the attacking Japanese infantry not infrequently went forward, carrying with them filled sandbags weighing as much as forty pounds. He remarks that if the undoubtedly brave Japanese soldier found it necessary to load himself with so bulky and burdensome a protection when advancing in the open against an intrenched enemy it would seem far better to equip the infantry with a light handy shield. Furnished with a handle by which to carry it, a loophole to fire through and some arrangement to prevent its falling down, the infantryman would then find himself, like his gunner comrade, protected by a bullet-proof shield. The writer in the Wochenblatt suggests that on the march the shield should be carried on the back, when going into action on the chest, and when advancing to the attack in the left hand, so as to be at once available for use when lying down to fire, both as head cover and 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 titian red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. Then she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. "The last is by far the most popular of all for the reason that is most difficult to obtain, and then it is pretty generally becoming, and it happens that women who are born with this particular color of hair are almost always clever. "How is it done? Well, in case of a woman whose hair is dark a bleach must first be used before the dye is applied. With women whose hair has turned gray it is a still simpler problem. The color lasts a year, while the head can be washed and even salt water bathing does not affect it."—New York Sun. What pays my specialist, dear Jim, To keep me in such perfect trim? Well—I don't know! What bought the most delightful wife man could hope to win? The life— The clothes she dazzles in? 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 be able to go free; But if the word meant what he said Concerning charity The tite I'll give before I die. Will slip me through the needle's eye. Or—I don't know! For happiness? Well, money bought This ninety-cent cigar! It bought this chair in which I loll. It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness. 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 beating a $2,500 house such as you agreed to build." "Don't form too hasty judgment," replied the owner. "True, it hasn't cost that much yet, but I intend to put a solid gold brick in the chimney." —Kansas City Times Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. The very best for all Purpos The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges R. sota Ave., Kan Western W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR and Embalmer. The very best of Service, Fine Carriage for alll Purposes, at all Hours. 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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 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. 630 MINNESOTA AVE. 852 FREEMAN AVE College, Normal, Sub-Normal and Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, al), including piano, organ and and Mechanical), Carpentry, Print Course, Stenography and Typewriter Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Healthful Climate, Good in- rices and all inducements offe NON, A. M., D. D. DENT, uncolored people set in the dark and drink muddy bad disease germs. aner Water Eilte as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. ERIDAN M 8, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS "Tree" is a very popular song popular store? ADDUX, ncy Groceriesinds of Produce. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Res. 420 Nebraska ave. Tel. 383 W10 SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Hours: From 10 a. m., till 4 p. and from 6 till 9 p. m. C. H, C. JORDAN, M. M., M. D Here is the Place J. T. Roberts TONSORIAL PARLO All the Latest Style Hair Cuts. C Shave strictly Up-to-Date 438 MINNESOTA AVE. An Old French Sailor. French seamen have a dozen in person of a centenarian. The sailor belongs alike to the navy to the merchant service, for he served in both, and it would be difficult say in which of the two his adventures were the most thrilling. His crew includes three shipwrecks, the last of Navarino, in which he won motion in orders, the blockade of Algern one capture by brigands, followed himself and his companions seizing Spanish ship which captured the sail which had captured them. He serving many years before the he became a master and small owner on his own account. His name is Pierre Loirat. He was born November, 1805, and at 12 he was ROOM 8. When a magazine prints a picture of a naked woman it is called art. When a newspaper prints a picture of a naked woman it is called vulgar and revolting. A new match factory is to be built in Detroit, Mich., by W. E. Bailey, formerly connected with the Walker-ville Match Works. A special feature of the equipment will be machinery into which blocks of wood are put at one end and coming out as matches already boxed at the other end. Dispatches from Philadelphia state that the Reading has a force of clerks at work revising the entire passenger rate schedule of the system to bring it down to the basis of $2 \frac{1}{2}$ cents a mile, the rate established by the Pennsylvania. The new rates will go into effect coincidentally with those of the Pennsylvania. Directors of the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Co. of Hamburg, Germany, have informed the stockholders that the company's total losses in San Francisco amounted to $4,365,000. The stockholders will be obliged to pay an assessment of 50 per cent on the capital stock, as the reserves on land amount only to $2,500,000. The indebtedness of Zion City is placed at nearly $5,000,000, in a detailed statement issued to those interested. The creditors have voted to accept the proposal to pay by funding the entire indebtedness for eighteen years. It is proposed to relieve the present financial difficulties by a mortgage on 4,000 acres of undivided land of the city. A meeting of the directors of the General Paper Co. took place in Milwaukee to discuss the dissolution of the concern. It was said that the company had closed up its affairs as a corporation, following the decision of the United States Supreme court that the company was a trust. The directors, have a new plan which will bring the business within the law. The New York Central railroad has fixed the pay of motormen working within the "electrified zone" at $3.75 a day, and that of the assistants at $2, the day to consist of ten hours. It is reported from Poughkeepsie that only actual running time will be counted to make up the ten hours. The engineers who are likely to be drawn for this service are said to be dissatisfied. Their average wage is $35 a week, with some of them running as high as $200 a month on account of overtime and specially important assignments. The report of the Pennsylvania commissioner of mines for 1905 gives the value of the state's production of coal at the mines as $350,000,000 and the value at points of distribution as $550,000,000. The anthracite production was 78,647,020 short tons and bituminous production 119,361,514 tons. The commissioner says that there was an over-production of bituminous coal, with the result that at times the price fell to 75 cents a ton at the mines. Even with an enormous production, he says, these conditions were unprofitable to the producers. A Washington dispatch says that the State Department is in receipt of communications from American business men in the Far East, and from American officials, showing that under the guise of military exigencies, Japanese officials are preventing the entrance of American goods into Manchuria, while Japanese merchants are afforded an opportunity to get their wares into the country duty free. Reports indicate that the open door, which Japan promised in Manchuria, is not likely to exist for any nation other than Japan. President Howard Eliott, of the Northern Pacific, is quoted as saying that all stories of damage by rust in the wheat fields of the territory traversed by his road are canards. The only cloud on the horizon out there is the secrecy of labor, which has seriously retarded the building of the extension of the Riparia, Wash., to Grangeville and Lewiston, fdaho, as well as all other work. President Eliott says that the gross earnings of the Northern Pacific for the fiscal year to June 30 will be $62,000,000 an increase of $10,000,000. A Paris cable says that according to information received from St. Petersburg, the Russian government has obtained the consent of its German creditors to the postponement of the payment of the treasury bonds about to fall due. The Russian government hopes to raise a loan in France next year sufficient to cover the amount of the coupons due in 1807. Captain (to soldier in ballooning division)—Now, then, Gruenzug, in with you—sharp! Soldier (advances hesitatingly towards the car of the balloon, and then stops)—Please, sir, in my oath of allegiance I swore to be true and faithful on land and water, but there was TELEGRAPHIC NEWS Eight hundred thousand dollars have already been expended by the printers' union to secure an eight-hour day. Forty persons were poisoned by impure ice cream at Salisbury Beach, Mass., and six of the victims are in a serious condition. Terrorists in Poland continue their work, spreading death and destruction. A dozen cities were invaded in a single day, as if by a prearranged plan. Directors of the Standard Oil company have declared a dividend of $5 a share on the company's stock. This compares with a dividend of $5 three months ago, and $6 a year ago. E. E. Drake, treasurer of Elkhart county, Indiana, committed suicide. Ill health, followed the loss of $50,000 of the county funds by the failure of the Indiana National bank, which he had to replace. That Chicago is the home of all Pullman cars and that they should be taxed there was the claim made by Corporation Counsel Lewis when he attacked the valuation of the Pullman company before the board of review. In an address to the people of North Carolina, Governor Glen, after calling attention to recent lawless acts by the mobs, announced that in the future the militia would be Instructed to fire on the crowds when that step is deemed necessary by the sheriff of the county in which the trouble occurs. Antiseptic barber shops, pharmacists and patent medicine manufacturers in the United States will be compelled to cease using the red cross as a trade mark if the convention agreed upon at the recent international Red Cross conference in Geneva is lived up to in every detail by the United States. Wm. J. Bryan's dates are as follows: Arrives in New York August 30. He will visit New Haven and Bridgeport August 31, Jersey City September 1, Chicago September 4, Lincoln September 5, St. Louis September 11, Louisville September 12 and Cincinnati September 13, stopping at Kansas City on the return trip. When the maneuvers of the Atlantic fleet are completed this formidable array of sea fighters is to be dispersed. Rear Admiral Brownson will take some of the best armored cruisers to the Asiatic station while the other ships will be sent to different places along the canal. The principle rendezvous of most of them will be at Hampton Roads. Between thirty and fifty Mexican laborers and bystanders were killed in Chihuahua, Mexico, by the explosion of a carload of dynamite on the Mexican Central railroad. The car was being transferred for transportation to the Robinson mine at Santa Eulalia. Bodies and pieces of human flesh were hurled into the air and picked up a mile distant. Windows were broken in almost every house in town and many walls were cracked. Several American foremen are reported among the killed. D. W. Travis, Kansas fish and game warden, is making a campaign to preserve the prairie chickens. He stopped in Topeka enroute to the northwestern part of the state, where he will hold a conference with several of his deputy wardens. The state fish and game warden has been informed that hunters in the northwestern counties are killing chickens out of season and he will instruct his deputies to put a stop to the practice. Prairie chickens cannot be killed according to the law until September 15. Since the arrival of John G. A. Leishman, the new American ambassador to Turkey in Constantinople several weeks ago, the State department has had no advices whatever from him and it is assumed at Washington that the sultan of Turkey is still unwilling to receive Mr. Leishman in his ambassadorial capacity. The elevation of the American mission to Constantinople from a legation to an embassy was distasteful to the sultan, who has taken no action to raise the Turkish legation in Washington to an embassy. The Wabash road has announced a tariff applying to the Missouri river Toledo rates on grain via Chicago. Chicago local traffic officials of Eastern roads say they are unable to fathom the reason for this step by the Wabash, and declare they will take no notice of the cut rate. The assumption, however, is that the Wabash, By a Victim Sonny—Pa, what is a safety match? Pa (looking carefully about to see if his wife is within hearing distance) —A safety match, my boy, is when a baldheaded man marries an armless woman.—New Zealand Free Lance. The only way some people have of making their jacks is to make asses of themselves on the stage. with its own connections in the West, has decided to take care of the heavy grain buying at Omaha and St. Louis which followed the settlement of the recent war on proportional rates between the Missouri river and St. Louis. With one bullet straight through his heart and another through his temple, entering at one side of his head and coming out at the other, Charles Williams, a negro of Hattiesburg, Miss., has survived for three days and the prospects are that he will eventually recover. The wounds were inflicted by a 38-calibre revolver, fired at short range by another negro with whom Williams had quarreled. Williams fell over as though dead. The undertaker was telephoned for, but a surgeon beat him to the scene and when the dead wagon arrived the wounded negro was able to sit up. Since then he has been eating heartily and the physicians venture the opinion that he will recover if no unforseen complications arise. After an unexplained absence of thirty-one years, Professor Charles H. Frye, former superintendent of the Chicago Normal school, has returned home. One of his first acts upon arrival at his home was to hand a roll of crisp $100 bills, totaling $5,000 to his wife, with the remark: "Ask me no questions." Frye was 31 years old when he disappeared. Since that day no word had been received from him by his wife. He was recognized immediately in spite of his years and altered appearance. He is said to have made money in the Philippine lands, where he resided for several years. His wish that no questions be asked regarding his wanderings has been respected and he has settled down at home as though nothing had happened. In the Grand Army parade at Minneapolis Thomas A. Martin and Col. Chas. W. Keeting became so much over-taxed that they died. Mr. Martin was senior vice commander of the Department of the Potomac and was a clerk in the Treasury department in Washington. He died while on the way to the emergency hospital. Colonel Keeting was an examiner and appraiser in the customs department in New Orleans and for the last ten years had been commander of the joint G. A. R. departments of Mississippi and Louisiana. He headed the two divisions in the parade and died an hour after reaching the hospital. One of the most dangerously injured of the veterans was George A. Penny of Logan, Ia., who stepped in front of a motor car. Alexander R. Chicholm, paying teller of the First National bank of Birmingham, Ala., has been arrested charged with the embezzlement of $97,000 of the bank's funds, given a preliminary hearing before a United States commissioner and put under bond of $50,000. Failing to furnish the bond, he was placed in the custody of the United States officials. W. L. Sims and C. M. Hays, manager and assistant manager of a stock and cotton brokerage house, were arrested, charged with aiding and abetting the embezzlement of national bank funds. They were also given a preliminary hearing. Both furnished bonds. It is said that practically all of the money embezzled by Chicholm has been used in speculation in cotton futures and that his losses have extended over a period of several months. It is said that he traded under an assumed name, made all his payments for margins in cash and that not one of his intimate friends knew of the transactions. The controversy involving the rate differentials between the gulf and the seaboard in the shipment of export grain from Missouri river points has been adjusted at Chicago at a special meeting of the executive officers of the Western trunk lines committee. When the new tariffs go into effect September 1, the rate on wheat from Kansas City to Baltimore will be $22\frac{1}{4}$ cents, and on corn $21\frac{1}{4}$ cents. The rate to the gulf is fixed at $17\frac{1}{4}$ cents on wheat and $16\frac{1}{4}$ cents on corn. While the rates to the seaboard from Omaha are identical with the tariff from Kansas City the gulf quotations from Omaha are $18\frac{1}{4}$ cents and $17\frac{1}{4}$ cents. The adjustment was effected on the basis of local from Kansas City and Omaha to Chicago and the Mississippi river points east thereof. The gulf lines will publish their own tariff. Under the arrangement effected, Chicago grain men can buy the Western grain, bring it to Chicago for rehandling and reship it to the seaboard on an equal footing with Missouri river points. Was Not Acquainted Was Not Acquainted. In preparation for Benjamin Franklin's birthday anniversary the teacher required the pupils to ask their parents something about that person, or bring pictures or clippings from the newspapers. All were prepared, but one little boy, who ran in late and breathlessly exclaimed: "Teacher, my mother never knew Ben Franklin!" MADAME FUTURE. FOR TELLS 1908 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS GOME, EARLY AND AMOUS THE POLITICAL SANDS OF TIME AT THE POLITICAL SEASIDE. WHAT'S THE ANSWER? IF YOU EAT MEAT HEAVY AND RICH FOODS IF YOU WEAR HEAVY CLOTHES IF YOU DRINK TOO MUCH. IF YOU WORK IN STUFFY POORLY VENTILATED QUARTERS YOU NEED NOT BE SUPRISING IF THE SUN SENDS YOU DOWN AND OUT. Paste this Hot-Weather Picture in your Brain if you want to avoid Sunstroke and Prostration during the heated Period. The Paris Temps devotes a leading article to Secretary Root's speeches in South America and the Monroe doctrine. It says: "Latin America feels the need of guarantees against the United States as well as against Europe. The Monroe doctrine protects the republics against Europe, but it leaves them defenceless against the United States." The Temps says that Brazil favors the United States, owing to its coffee and rubber exports, adding: "But it is to be hoped that the Brazilian statesmen will not sacrifice Pan-Americanism to Monroeism, except compatibly with what the Latin republics owe to Europe and owe to their own destinies." Seven men were seriously injured, two probably fatally, in a shooting and stabbing affray on a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train at Sparta, Wis. Louis Feltz, who said he lived at Milwaukee, apparently becoming demented after leaving a parlor car, where he had been the object of comment on account of his unkempt appearance, drew a knife and attacked the conductor. A struggle followed, during which these were injured: Louis Feltz, shot eleven times, may die. W. W. Hubbell, village marshal of Sparta, stabbed six times, may die. H. Cunningham, Oconomowoc, Wis., passenger conductor; stabbed. John Christianson, brakeman; stabbed in back. Harry English, hand wounded by stray bullet. Alfred Johnson, brakeman; stabbed twice in the back. Feltz boarded the train at LaCrosse, Wis., to go to Milwaukee. When he attacked Conductor Cunningham, Brakeman Johnson went to the aid of Cunningham. Feltz was pressing these men so hard that Brakeman Christianson went to their assistance. As the train stopped at Sparta, Feltz jumped from the car. An encounter with the marshal of the village followed, and Feltz was arrested. The leading senators, deputies, former cabinet ministers and members of the French institute and of the French academy have united in an address extolling the outlawed Russian parliament as the bulwark on which Russia's hopes are dependent. The address says: IF YOU DRINK TOO MUCH. IF YOU WORK IN STUFFY POORLY VENTELATED QUARTER! No.3 Paste this Hot-Weather Picture in Sunstroke and Prostration during the A Complex Personality. A deputy who had just been elected, says the Paris Figaro, has been thus variously described on the walls of his district: "Noble mind," "Dull scoundrel," "Statesman in the largest sense of the word," "Sinister ruffian," "Great citizen," "Drunken brute," "Distinguished economist," "Satyr," "Eloquent orator," "Muddy individual." What sort of a man is this? History teaches us that a representative government and individual liberty are the only certain means on which a nation can found progress and prosperity. As the friends of Russia we watched with profound interest the creation of the Russian Parliament and its struggle for existence. The triumph of liberty in Russia, which we hope is near, will permit the Russian and French people loyalty to support the Franco-Russian alliance upon the basis of common ideals and interests. The Russian Parliament is dead. Long live the Russian Parliament. Senator Pierre Barthelot, ex-minister of foreign affairs, forwarded the address to Prof. Mourontseff, who was president of the lower house of the Russian Parliament. There are millions of jackrabbits in Texas, and in spite of the fact that they are steadily hunted and hounded from one end of the state to the other, there is no apparent diminishing of their numbers. Out in West Texas and in the southwestern portion of the state the jacks are most abundant, and in the latter section they are seriously interfering with the operation of trains. A passenger train on the Southern Pacific railway was halted west of San Antonio with a suddenness that was startling to all aboard. Investigation revealed the fact that it was jackrabbits. The long eared creatures had crowded upon the tracks and were so dazed by the light of the engine that they permitted themselves to be killed by the hundreds, their bodies actually impeding the progress of the train. It is explained that on account of the unusual dryness of this portion of Texas the rabbits are drawn to the railroads in search of food at night. They come by thousands, and have made themselves not only a nuisance, but a positive menace. In Kansas grasshoppers have been known to halt trains on numerous occasions, and locusts have been equally successful in delaying traffic, but never before have jackrabbits been known to interpose an impediment to the overland travel across the continent. Railway officials are at their wits' end to devise a remedy. IF YOU EAT MEAT HEAVY AND RICH FOODS IF YOU WEAR HEAVY CLOTHES No.1 No.2 YOU NEED NOT BE SUPRISED IF THE SUN SENDS YOU DOWN AND OUT. in your Brain if you want to avoid heated Period. MISS TANTALIZING If the pretty girl knew how tempting she looks when she clasps her hands behind her head and leans back in her chair, she would do it, just the same.—Somerville Journal. Over 50,000 convicts are engaged in productive labor in 296 penal and reformatory institutions in the United States. ```markdown ``` An operation which has aroused the interest of medical men all over the country was performed in Harper hospital, Detroit, recently by Dr. H. O. Walker. A portion of the fibula, or lower side calf bone, of a boy of 12 was removed and replaced with the corresponding portion of the skeleton of a young dog. The inserted portion has joined the healthy sections of the boy's fibula and it is all now growing as one piece. Danny Buck is the son of a wealthy Lansing furniture manufacturer. The boy had suffered from babyhood from a tendency to tuberculosis. He lost the use of one of his legs and was taken to Harper institute, where Dr. H. O. Walker, Dr. W. M. Seymour, Dr. F. B. Allison and other staff doctors were called into consultation. They were satisfied that some form of necrosis or death of the bone had set in. The boy was taken to the operating room and a young dog, healthy in every part, was also brought in. The child and dog were given an anesthetic at the same time. While the child's bone was uncovered by the sharp instruments of the surgeons, the dog's right hind leg was also opened, and while only the middle necrosed portion of the boy's fibula was carefully sawed away, the fibula of the dog's leg was entirely removed. How seriously the export meat business of the United States was injured by the agitation regarding the condition of the Chicago packing houses, which resulted in the passage of a law for improved inspection, is shown in a bulletin just issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor, giving the figures of exportation for July. It shows an abnormal falling off, which cost the beef trust and cattle growers several million dollars in thirty-one days. In July of last year there were exported 5,232,794 pounds of canned and tinned meats at a total value of $542,168. For the month just ended the total number of pounds sent abroad was only 1,639,852, valued at $104,710. For the seven months ended in July there were exported in 1905 more than 431/2 million pounds at a value of more than 4 million dollars, as against nearly 20 million pounds in the same period of this year, at a value of much less than 3 million dollars. There was also a falling off in the export of cattle. During July a year ago the numbers sent abroad exceeded 490,000 at a valuation of 3 million dollars. This year there was a decrease of more than 150,000 head. In fresh beef there were exported in July, 1905, 21,074,326 pounds at a value of $1,963,012, as against the present year's 16,467 pounds, valued at $1,546,191. The exports in salted and pickled beef, tallow, hog products, oleomargarine and dairy products also showed a marked decrease. Secretary Bonaparte spoke to a Chautauqua assembly on the subject of "Anarchism and Its Remedy." His remedy is the death penalty, with imprisonment for mild offenses, and whipping at the post. "In the first place," said he, "the unlawful acts prompted by anarchism should be made crimes, insofar as they are not, strictly speaking, crimes already, and as crimes they should be visited with such penalties as are particularly distasteful to the criminals and therefore the most effective deterrents to crime. In dealing with a convicted anarchist, to keep him for years in a penitentiary merely burdens the community with the support of an irreconcilable enemy, with the constant risk of his escape or pardon, and the certainty that, whenever he leaves he will be, if possible, a worse man than when he entered. On anarchists, the death penalty should be imposed by law and inflexibly executed whenever the prisoner has sought, directly or indirectly, to take life; for offenses of less gravity, I advise a comparatively brief, but very rigorous, imprisonment, characterized by complete seclusion, deprivation of all comfort and denial of any form of distraction, and which could be, to my mind, advantageously supplemented by a severe, but not a public, whipping; the lash, of all punishments, most clearly shows the cutit that he suffers for what his fellow men hold odious and disgraceful, and not merely for reasons of public policy. The final and most truly vital condition of success in ridding the country of anarchism in practice is that American public opinion should recognize the utter emptiness, the inherent folly of its theory and of all the kindred ready-made, furnished while you wait schemes for the social regeneration of mankind." Silence does not always give consent. it sometimes spells skidoo. When a girl has an out of town steady she is a mighty poor manager if she does not contrive to know some girl well enough, in her steady's town to visit. The preachers insist that the people are almost all sinners, and dead wrong. The candidates declare the people dead right, no matter what they want or do. Somebody is wrong. The Evening Story. By HELENE GRAVES. LD MRS. LATIMER stood in her big bedroom, an irresolute expression upon her face. Then she suddenly smiled, and the smile changed her at once from a homely woman into a beautiful one. It was like autumn sunshine flashing down a gray valley, or dawn gilding the somber hills. "She will be pleased—Maudie will be pleased." Mrs. Latimer murmured the words half aloud. "And, of course, I want to please Tom's wife." She fitted a key into one of the drawers, a drawer which had not been opened for a number of years, and her face began to grow pale. For this was a drawer full of sacred memories—a drawer dedicated to sorrow. Years ago, when Anna Latimer had been young, and in her own way pretty, a soft, brown eyed, and brown haired girl, she had lost her first born child—a boy named Leslie. Afterwards, when Tom was born, people said that Anna Latimer would forget. The new baby would heal her grief, and so perhaps it did. Anyway, her visits to poor little Leslie Latimer's grave grew fewer, and at last coased altogether. But all the same the woman cherished a green grave in her heart, a grave abundantly watered with tears, and though she loved Tom—nay, adored the boy—he could never quite take the elder brother's place, the throne that by sacred right belongs to the first born. Tom had married a little over a year ago, falling in love with a pretty, flax en haired little creature, fascinating and well dowered besides. And now, a year and three months later, Mrs. Latimer found herself a proud and happy grandmother, whilst pretty Maudie smiled, pale but triumphant, feeling herself a crowned queen forever, rapturous with delight over the pink bundle she strained in her warm, white arms, dreaming already of a great future for her boy, eager to lavish all the world on him. Hadn't she spent a fortune as it was in the purchase of all those dainty appointments which belong by right to a baby? Fine garments spun of cobweb, face trimmed and beribboned. Didn't the little nursery in the flat in Sloane street smell of violet powder? Wasn't it fragrant with rose petals? "For baby must have everything lovely about him;" that was Maudie's dainty, insistent cry. She had a full purse, and a right to spend her money as she liked; also, she was adored of her husband. Mrs. Latimer drew a deep breath, which was almost a sigh, turned the key and pulled open the drawer. Then a flicker passed over her face, and for a second her eyes grew dim with tears, tears of almost intolerable pain and regret, for herein the large drawer, put away with God knows what care and solicitude, and sprinkled with the salt tears of a mother's agony, were pile upon pile of cambric robes, quaint little pique pelisses, and all the garments which belong to infancy. Hard and quaint in cut compared to present fashion, but beautifully made and rich with dainty stitching and good lace, immaculate in their crispness, their spotlessness. They were the clothes which had belonged to little Leslie—to the dead child. For Mrs. Latimer had made a coffin of that big drawer, a lavender scented coffin and there she had hidden away all that her first born had ever worn. His toys were there, too—some gay, woolly balls, a wonderful silver rattle, a string of red coral; also, in an envelope, hidden away under some tiny caps, a withered rose which had fallen from a chaplet, placed with so many others, on the tiny coffin. She picked up a long, cambric robe, and pressed it to her cheeks, then fell a-thinking. She had never dressed Tom in any of these clothes. They had been too sacred, too precious, for the new baby's use. But now she wanted to give something to her grandson, something personal, and with a history of its own, not the mere gift which could be purchased. Her grandson was bringing the past back to her even more vividly than his father had done, and in a curious way she seemed to identify the new come baby with Leslie himself. It seemed to her that Mandie's baby stared at the world with Leslie's eyes, and he was so warm, so dimpled so Back to Infants Size. Surgeons and medical men in Birmingham, England, are baffled by the case of Albert Miller, an engraver of that city, who has been literally shrinking away for seventeen years. The disease from which he is suffering is known as osteomalacia, and is exceedingly rare. Its cause is unknown, but its most distinctive symptom is a softening of the bones, sweet. A cuddlesome bundle to be crooned over and sung to, with hair like fine fluff, and eyes as blue as new cropped violets. Yes; baby must wear dead Leslie's clothes; for why, Mrs. Latimer asked herself with a faint smile, should they be confined any longer in the drawer? They were so beautiful, too, more substantial than mere modern garments, such flimsy robes of lace and muslin overtrimmed with ribbon. These robes were good—good. And Maudie would be so pleased. She smiled again at the thought, for Anna wanted to take the girl more into her life. Maudie as yet was an incomprehensible creature to her, a pretty bit of daintiness, a girl who smiled on the whole world, but had no special smile for the woman who had hoped to be a second mother to her. But—and here Mrs. Latimer quivered—when she came into Maudie's room, and showed her daughter-in-law the gifts she had brought, Tom's wife would understand her better. they would no longer be smiling acquaintances to each other, but women clasping hands over a cradle, and baby would laugh and crow, curling up his pink toes, the baby she wanted them to call Leslie, and whom she could hardly think of without a little catch of her breath—a little, joyful sigh. Maudie was delightful as she thanked her mother-in-law for the garments she had brought. She smiled and extolled the robes, she held them out at arm's length, and waxed enthusiastic over each. There was nothing wanting in her gratitude—except—except—well, she might have spoken in just the same way if the clothes had come from a store, instead of from a drawer which had its own sacred history. Didn't she recognize the fact that hot tears had dripped over these bundles of cambric—salt, blinding tears? "He'll look lovely in them, won't he?" Anna Latimer gazed down at the bassinette, and Maudie nodded her pretty head, then the two women kissed and parted. But somehow Mrs. Latimer had fancied that Maudie would kiss her differently, not as she kissed everyone else—coolly—lightly. She had expected warm arms to be flung around her neck, warm lips to be pressed to hers, warm tears perhaps on her cheeks. Well, she was disappointed, but what did it matter? Maudie was not of much consequence, really. It was baby whose shrine she had come to worship at, bringing her offerings with her. "Poke them in a drawer, nurse," said Maudie. "Funny, ridicuous old robes, which would make baby look just as if he had come out of the ark!" Nurse sniffed and held up a little pique cape, a cape rejoicing in an old-fashioned frill and ruff. "Did you ever see the like, ma'am?" she muttered. "Why, it is the sort of thing one could give a Toby dog to wear. And to think they dressed poor mites like this thirty years ago! We know better now!" Maudie laughed deliciously. "Mrs. Latimer meant it kindly," she observed lightly. "But, nurse, can't you fancy precious baby dressed up in these stiff and starchy old clothes! Hide them away and say that they are at the wash or something else if Mrs. Latimer ever asks for them again." How,were they to guess, either of them, that a woman—an old woman—was standing by an empty drawer, weeping passionately, feeling, now that she had made her sacrifice and given her gift, that she had robbed the dead for the sake of the living? Only a tragedy in cambric—but a tragedy none the less! A Crow Gets Drunk Charles H. Burns of West Chester, Pa., has a pet crow which has developed a liking for strong dring, and as its owner is a prohibitionist, there is probably trouble in store for the bird, which fell from grace recently. It was "borrowed" from the Buras place of business, taken to a hotel and fed upon morsels of cracker well soaked in whisky. It was not long until the bird accrued a fine specimen of "jag" and did all sorts of things. Then it was returned to the owner by messenger. Thinking it was in need of a drink, he placed it beside a pan of water, but the bird promptly had a fit. It recovered from this and is none the worse for its experience with the boys. caused by the dissolving of the lime in their composition. Miller was originally 5 feet 8 inches tall, but during the period of his illness he has lost nearly 3 feet and now he lies in a child's cot. His head alone remains of normal size and his brain is abnormally active. It must be tough to hate a man everybody else likes. FEDERAL CONTROL Committee of American Bar Association Attacks State Insurance Departments. Charging that more is lost to insurance policy holders through destructive legislation than mismanagement and dishonesty of company officials and "the incompetence or unfaithfulness of the majority of the state insurance departments," the committee of the American Bar association on insurance law asks insurance companies to frame a model law. The committee's report will be submitted to the convention of the association which meets at St. Paul August 29-31, and makes the following recommendations: First—That the insurance committee be directed to draft and report to the next annual meeting of the association a bill that shall safeguard the interests of the life companies and their policy holders, but which shall require deferred dividends on life policies to be biennially apportioned, credited and notified to the holders of such policies. Second—the repeal of the so-called reciprocal or retaliatory tax laws. Third—the repeal of the valued policy laws. Fourth—The creation in each state of the office of fire marshal. Fifth—Stricter incorporation laws in the several states, with particular reference to the capital stock and stockholders' obligations in insurance companies. Sixth—The enactment of a federal statute forbidding the use of the malls to persons, associations, co-partnerships or corporations, conducting any kind of insurance business in the United States, who are not licensed to transport such business by the states where such persons, associations, co-partnerships or corporations are domiciled, or under whose laws any such corporations are created. Seventh—The enactment of a federal statute providing for the supervision of inter-state transactions in insurance. After giving figures to show the intensity of the insurance business in the United States the report says: "The most conspicuous exhibition of legislative unwisdom is found in the bills prepared by the Armstrong committee and passed by the New York legislature. The most conspicuous because it has had the widest advertisement and because of the things which the committee might have done but failed to do; and its ignorance of the subject is confessed. Government supervision of insurance companies is urged as a necessity but the burdensome taxes levied against the companies by the various states are declared to be unjustifiable. These taxes, which are said to amount to $25,000,000 a year, are ultimately paid by the policyholders. Of state insurance departments the report says: "The trouble is that the state insurance departments are sinecures. They are political prizes. Knowledge of the insurance business is the last thing required. They are mere collection agencies. They offer the most seductive opportunities for fraud and graft that exist in the United States." Although denying that this charge applies to all state insurance departments, the report cites the disclosures made in New York, Pennsylvania and Minnesota as specific instances to prove its general correctness. State insurance commissioners are quoted as saying that they are powerless to accomplish the objects for which their offices were created, and the report adds: "As a matter of fact, the system of state supervision as administered under the laws now in force is a miserable failure. The honest and intelligent commissioner is barred from effective supervision by the very laws he is bound to enforce, which afford golden opportunities that dishonest officials have been quick to grasp. The report then quotes figures to show that the great mass of insurance business is inter-state in character, and gives many authorities to show that the popular demand is for federal rather than state control. It also answers the argument that the supreme court has held that insurance business is not commerce. "The real opposition to the federal supervision of insurance does not rest upon the absence of congressional power, but rather in the disinclination to exercise it. That objection is political in character and has no solid foundation." A Swinging Gait. Mr. Wood had been unfortunate enough to break his leg while on a summer vacation, and when he returned home, the nursemaid, who was observing his process of locomotion by means of crutches, remarked to her young charge, "Priscilla, come quick, here comes your papa on swings." -Harper's Weekly. AMONG THE STARS. The Atchison Globe Contributes Thoughts Celestial and Terrestrial—Wise and Otherwise. Women can throw as well as they can run. A woman is sure to say of her rival: "She is so deceitful." A great deal of good taste can be shown in saying nothing. It must make a boy parrot awfully mad to be called Polly. "I am sorry," does about as little good as anything in the world. Any man can attract attention in a small town by riding home in a hack. We wonder if preachers know that people rip it to them behind their backs? Lately people have a favorite drug store as surely as they have a favorite church. When we always think that we oest looking people stay at home. If you want to keep your friends you must occasionally leave them alone. Certain men want to be leaders, and certain other men want to be followers. The world is cruel. Instead of sympathizing with a jealous woman, it laughs at her. We are compelled to admit that some men we don't like are quite popular and prosperous. Unfortunately there seem to be more ways of being disagreeable than there are of being agreeable. The one thing that stands by you, keeps you interested in life, and is always the same is your regular work. Sometimes we think a woman is patient and self-sacrificing in order to have something to "throw up" to her husband. The trouble with the woman who has success with flowers is that her family hasn't a window at home to look out of. A man does so many foolish things every year that he staggers under a terrible burden of humiliation by the time he is fifty. When a horse has spring halt, it must feel a good deal like a woman who wears long garters and has them keyed up too tight. Listen to any girl of sixteen and the tenth word she will say is "chum," and it appears every fifth word in her conversation afterward. One great trouble is that those who need the exercise in tennis and ball games are the ones who look anything but graceful in taking it. When a man has as many as three night shirts, it doesn't mean all good luck: The third was made to have in the house for company. The manager of a railroad has about as many friends as a base ball ampire. And a base ball ampire isn't sure of the friendship of his own wife. The people are becoming so capable these days that they not only attend to their own business, but have spare time for touching up the neighbors'. If you were a candidate for office, how many men would take off their coats and go to work for you? You are conceited, no doubt, but how many? What has become of the old-fashioned woman who "dressed up" for going down town, summer or winter, by putting a shawl over the dress she happened to have on? Some how it gives a man a feeling that there has been a conspiracy against him to hear of a piece of gossip after it has floated around among his friends for a week. Years ago, the greatest nuisance was the man with dance tickets for sale. Now the greatest nuisance is the man who has investment stock for sale. 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