The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. sorrow ned; rs; brief den EWSTO NORTHERN PEOPLE RRIS SAYS THE SOUTH HAS FORGIVEN UNION SOLDIERS. STAIN CONEY BEGS TO DIFFER. A. R. Commander Declares no Union Soldier Could be Elected to Office in South—Harris Trying to Fool Union Soldiers to Catch Their Notes, but is Fooling Only Himself. Colonel W. A. Harris has declared that the Southern people all regret the fact that there was a war and that we are all friendly to the North. He animating to his audiences that the southern voters would fall over themselves to support a Northern soldier anything he wanted. He bubbles with good will toward the soldiers to fought against him and hopes they will bubble back. On the object of his feelings and what the condition in the south is, the Toa Daily Herald says: at the Dodge City reunion last week Louel Harris made the claim for the northern people that they had accept- the results of the war and were going to abide by them, and that no of the South, today, regretted result of the struggle or would agree it if he could. The colonel did have us believe, here in Kansas, at the Southern people are as ready to forget and forgive the North as the nth is the South, but he must know such is not the case, and in make the assertions he did should be expected to have them chal- ked. Captain Coney, Department Commander of Kansas G. A. R., who folded Colonel Harris, paid a fine triumph to the personal character of the democratic candidate, but felt compelled to take exception to the Cohill's statement with reference to South's acceptance of the result of the war. Captain Coney pointed that the result of the war was written in the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States, and that instead of accepting them and abiding by them every state in the South was acting in open defiance of their provisions. He noted the case of Hoke Smith, who has just been overwhelmingly nominated Governor of Georgia in a primary election in which the chief issue was disfranchisement of the negroes of the state regardless of the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution. Captain Coney also called attention the fact that in no Southern state did an ex-union soldier be elected to the political office no matter how significant or unimportant it was. In conclusion Captain Coney handed this very warm one to the colonel: The conditions in the North and the South can never be honestly described as the same until a Union ex-colonel can go into any Southern state and be elected by the people as a Congressman at large, by the Legislature as a United States Senator, and be candidate for Governor without re-search or prejudice because of the fact he took in the war for the Union." The Captain expressed his regret that what the Colonel asserted was not true and wished to God that it were, and in that wish he will be assisted by the people of Kansas, who also wish with him to see the history of the time properly recorded and learned. BALARIES OF SUPREME JUDGES. Joseph Brittow's Paper Says they Should be Increased. The next legislature may attempt to increase the salaries of the justices and the supreme court. The Salina Journal has been making an investigation of the subject and is convinced that the justices are not receiving enough money. Kansas is prosperous and there is no reason why the candidates for representative should not have a little time to think this subject over and to gather information on the subject. The Salina Journal says: There has been some agitation in Kansas for increased compensation for our supreme court judges. As it is now they receive barely enough to make them a living. It has been the history of the politics of our state. Tulli etter carrier and the widow—twy hearts soon to beat as one. that poor men are usually elected as judges of our supreme court, that is, men who have to depend upon their practice for a living. When elected they are taken out of the practice, have no means of earning a livelihood except that which they receive as official salary. After having served on the court for six, twelve or eighteen years, as the case may be, when through they must again enter the active practice or seek employment from some corporation. Serving as a supreme justice for one, two or three terms in a measure disqualifies an attorney for the rough and tumble practice in our district courts, and it does not equip him especially for service with corporations, except in an advisory capacity. A comparison of the salary paid by the state of Kansas with that paid by other states is very striking, as the following figures will show: Chief Associate State Justice Justice Arkansas' $ 3,000 $ 3,000 California 8,000 8,000 Colorado 5,000 5,000 Connecticut 6,000 6,000 Delaware 4,500 4,000 Illinois 10,000 10,000 Indiana 6,000 6,000 Kentucky 5,000 5,000 Massachusetts 8,500 8,000 Maine 5,000 5,000 Maryland 4,500 4,500 Michigan 7,500 7,500 Minnesota 5,000 5,000 Missouri 4,500 4,500 Nebraska 2,500 2,500 New Jersey 11,000 10,000 New York 14,000 13,700 Ohio 6,500 6,500 Pennsylvania 10,000 10,000 Rhode Island 6,000 5,500 Vermont 3,000 3,000 Virginia 4,700 4,500 West Virginia 4,500 4,500 Wisconsin 6,000 6,000 Kansas 3,000 3,000 It is in the interest of the people that their judges feel absolutely independent, and to do so they should have ample compensation. Judge of the supreme court is a high and dignified position, which lawyers seek, but no man who feels the pinch of financial necessity and who continually realizes that his employment is likely to be taken away from him by a convention or a general election can be unmindful of the fact that he must be looking out for something to do in the event that such a misfortune should occur. The salaries of the supreme court judges should therefore be increased so that they may not only live with comfort, but accumulate a surplus for old age. One of the pieces of Democratic inconsistency that has been kept as quiet as possible is that of sending Mayor W. W. Rose of Kansas City, Kansas, to New York to represent Colonel Harris at the Bryan reception. Of cuorse Harris could not go as he is too busy running for an office in a state in which he does not live. He was invited, however, and turned his invitation over to Mayor Rose. Mayor Rose has been operating the city on a plan which is causing people to believe that he does not entirely agree with the Democratic plank promising absolute law enforcement. In fact he has been forced out of his office by a Republican attorney general for violating the law. Harris pretends he is running for office on an enforcement plank. He may be but if this is true it will strike the average man that he ought to have chosen as his substitute some other Democrat. Attorney General Coleman and his assistant, Fred S. Jackson, have begun a war on the trusts. Ever since Mr. Jackson has been in the office of assistant attorney general he has been gradually accumulating evidence against the various combines and studying the laws on the subject so that he would be able to make the fight. Long before he thought of getting into the fight for attorney general he was collecting evidence and he takes the position that there is no reason why he should not use the information now. The trusts or alleged trusts against which proceedings have been instituted are the millers' organization and the International Harvester company. He had been working on the evidence for some time and had evidence suf. Mr. Roberts of R. C. Mo. was th guest last Sunday of Will Everett of 35 KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, City Locals. Mrs. Mary Alexander of State av. who has been ill is improving. Dr. S. H. Thompson was called to Charleston, W.Va. this week in response to a telegram announcing the killing of his father. No particulars yet. Mrs. I. F. Bradley and family have returned from their summer vacation in the West. Mr. F. K. Douglass of the local post office department is taking a vacation and will doubtless spend it in the windy city. Politics that game the people in this city delight in playing is now holding the boards. Mr. A. A. Clemons will leave Monday night for Muskegee, I.T. where will join his wife who has been there for sometime he will likely spend the fall there. Mr. Manuel Stephens and Miss Ada Johnson of 805 S. 2nd St. Armourdale. was quietly married this week, evangelist A. Fleming officiated. A primary election to nominate a candidate for Sheriff would in our judgment be the better way to place the candidate on the ticket would tend to bring about a greater degree of harmony in the republican ranks of which is so essentially necessary at this time." The Republican Central Committee will meet next Saturday at their headquarters and will take up matters touching on the various interests concerning the fall campaign. It is hoped the republicans will get together and select a good man to fill the unexpired term of mayor let him be a man that both democrats and republicans will be proud of, there is such a man in this city and that man will make the run if the republican will unite on him and we could call his name in our next issue if requested to do. It is certainly high time in this fast growing city both in wealth and population that the wealthy as well as poor classes, democrats and republicans should pool their issues for the well being of its citizen and the continued prosperity of this now the greatest city [in the State of Kansas. The citizens of this city should feel very grateful the officers and members of the First Baptist church in behalf of their wise and choice selection of a pastor to fill a vacancy accured by the resignation of Dr. Robt. Mitchell in the person of Rev.W.A. Bowren A.B., who is a christian gentleman, a scholar and one of the albeit ministers in this country such leaders as he is ever welcome in our midst. Henry Meade candidate for Probate Judge is in every way competent to fill this very important and particular position. The republican convention made no mistake in nominating him for this office, he is well versed with all the various details and dusies of this office, he believes in honest dealing between man and man there seems to be no doubt in the minds of the people of this country as to his being elected in November with a large majority. The American Citizen feels proud of the fact that it seldom makes a mistake in its selection of good men to fill the various positions in both the county and city, as far as the state officers are concerned we are satisfied as to which ticket will win by a big majority watch this paper next week. NOTE LETS For Rent-To desirable parties(gentleman perfered)well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city,inquire at this office. Mrs.S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave.,is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to-date Rooming house in the city-charges always reasonable. For Nice Furnished Rooms call on Mrs. Iday Easily at 1107 N. 6th st, conveniently located only one block from the Minnesota ave. car line. Prices reason able. A BARGAIN For Sale—A No. one upright piano at the most reasonable figures. This is an exceptionable chance to secure one of the best "make" and highclass instrument of today. Call and examine and get terms, No. 411 Neb. ave. K. C. K. Bethell A. M. E. Bhurch cor. of steward streets, will run a ten days Gospel meeting commencing Friday night Sept. 7th Rev. Pesry and Hawkins and others will assist Rev. L. W. McComiek in these services, every are cordial invited. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. Probate Judge—Henry Meade. County Attorney—Marvin J. Reitz. Clerk of the District Court—W. J. Wright, Jr. Coroner—Dr. A. W. Little. County Clerk—R. A. Kope. Superintendent of Public Instruction George E. Rose. County Treasurer—J. W. Longfellow. Register of Deeds—Lou H. Chapman. Clerk of Court of Commn Pleas— Frank L. Kenney. County Surveyor—J. H. Lasley. Public Administrator—Maurice L. Alden. Commissioner, Second District—R.L. Marshman. Representative, Ninth District—E.K. Robinett. Representative, Tenth District.. E.A. Representative, Eleventh District.. C. D. Dail. Publication Notice In the 'District Court of the 29th Judicia district of Kansas. John W. Robinson, vs. Lillie Roblinson,§ 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 21st day Oct. 1908, the petition filed in said cause will be taken as true and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plain- and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for costos this action. John W. Robinson, Piff.§ Attest: By I. F. Bradley. Atty. Wn. Needles. Clerk. Sept. 7. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte Covnty, Kansas. Birdie Smith, Plaintiff. vs. Peter Smith, Desendant. 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 14th day of September, 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the natre of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and restoring plaintiff to her maiden name, Birdie Renick and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atta, for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. First Pub. Aug. 3rd. Notes. Notes. Who can truthfully tell what the final outcome will be in the Springfield, Mo. lynch cases. This has been a strenuous year in the municipal history making of our burg. Kansas City, Mo. and the cheap gas proposition is all gas it seems. The effort of Dennis Thompson to have it understood that the rank and file of the Negroes are for separate schools is certainly lower down then we thought M. Thompson would stoop. We have always entertained much respect for him and considered him among our best newspaper writers.. But we must say he is absolutely wrong in his article to that Mr. Dayhoff. We cannot believe that the distinguished body of men of which our city council is composed will be so narrow as to not recognize the urgent need of allowing the unconfirmed men their earned salaries. Partisanism may be a right Spite work should now cease an wounds covered up. "Pay the men" and let peace reign and the members of the council have something to their credit-done for the public and cjty at large. SEPTEMBER 7. 1906 thisSection R CALL HERE NOW IS the time to Subscribe For the Weeky 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, II. 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 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. No. 7574. 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 1966, by the above named plaint- iff, and unless you answer on or before the 4th day of August, 1966. 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 and to lots 32 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. Beggs, Clerk. By F. L. Kenny, Deputy. 1st Pub. June 29, 1966. Final Settlement In the Probate Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. In the matter of the Estate of Isaac Hatton. Deceased. Notice of Flual 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. Ist. 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 7142, 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 day of May A. D. 1906, at 19 o'clock a.m. of said day. the following described real property, situate in the county of Wyandotte and state of Kansas towti- The undivided one seventh (1-7) interest and portion, more or less, in and to the following lands and tenements, which land are held by the said defendants, along with 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 Wyandotte county Kansas. SAMUEL MC CONNELL. Sheriff of Wyandotte county, Kansas. 1st. pub. Apr.27. Mrs. James Brown of Atchison, Kas. is the guest of her niece Mrs. Anna Farfarf of 1102 N. 3rd street. Executors Notice. In the matter 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. Dated Aug. 11, 1906. Nice Furnished Rooms for rent with board or without, will be at home to friends on Thursday, 423 Oakland ave Mrs.Annie Williams. Mrs. Reed, 528 Neb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rooms to rent. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County kansas. Frank Benton, Pialtiff. 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 Pifl Atestt: Wm. Needles, Clock. Publication Notice. In the Court of Common Pleas of Wyandett County, Kansas. L. E. Hayes, Plaintiff, us. Linus S. Wolcott. Frank E. Wolcott, 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 aslot 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 300th 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 defend ant and for cost of this suit. *I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needies, Clerk. March 2. 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 Mail that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and pie. It was not long ago that all the "success" magazines were pointing to the Pittsburg millionaires as examples to the youth of the land. With 10,000 doctors in convention in Boston next summer, the rest of the country ought to have a good opportunity to get well.—Boston Globe. It is a pity that the great romancers of the sea did not live in a generation which affords such thrilling material as the log of the dry dock Dewey. A Minnesota man says he has discovered the cause of the aurora borealis. But what bearing will this have on the price of coal this year? Much to the surprise of everybody, some of the phenomenal ball players added to the leading nines as marvelous discoveries will probably make good. Cheer up, mister! The president of the Dressmakers' National Protective Association says that women's dress will be less expensive this year than ever before. The Japanese, says one of their statesmen, should adopt chairs and develop their legs. Well, short legs did not prevent them from "getting there" in the late war. Portla, as quoted by the editor of a kind of society paper, is made to say: "How far that little scandal farws 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 Criticizes America, Which Made Her Wealthy. Confirmation of the report that Mme. Adelina Patti has made her final tour in the United States is found in her recent criticisms of the American people. This lady, who once lived down on Grand street West, but now dwells in a castle in Wales, largely owing to the generosity of the citizens of this city, has lately discovered that we haven't any appreciation of art, cookery, music or good manners. This is an ill return for all the complimentary words we have uttered about her, not to mention the dollars we have paid to hear her voice. Although she was born in Madrid in February, 1843, she came here with her parents as a child and grew up among the people of New York. Her brother, Carol, used to lead the orchestra at the Grand Opera House, during the Jim Fisk era of French opera-bouffe. Mme. Patti's last tour of this country was not financially successful—a circumstance that may account for her change of heart. The lady, however, insisted upon receiving her contract money to the last dollar. The im presarlo 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 Rolson. Booth then told how he and J. S. Clarke were minstrels in their younger days, and he followed this up by declaring that he used to "pick a little on the banjo." I laughed. and Booth inquired the reason, and I added, "Oh, nothing much, only Booth and the banjo seemed such an odd combination."—Francis Wilson in Scribner's Magazine. O Thou Compassionate. How deeply comforting the tender phrase, Thy greater attribute seem merged in this- Through all life's long and dark and weary maze, Thou art Compassionate. To God of Justice and of Power we turn When wrong or devastating blow cuts deep; And yet in daily struggle needs must yearn For one Compassionate. In limits of our souls we live, alone, And e'en our nearest may not understand But all "the household jar within" is known To thee, Compassionate. Thou know'st the many sorrows of the day; Wide longing, narrow opportunity— We bring life's broken toys, as children may, To one Compassionate. We may have blundered grievously and long, Darkened Thy world we might have made so bright, Still Thou dost heal the heartache and the wrong O Thou Compassionate! —May Ethidyn 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?" "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, an' a fightin' liar, and told him he dassen't take it up. Tommy's fists were clinched and his eyes were blazing, but he stood there rapidly repeating something to himself, in accordance with a long standing promise he had made to his mother. "If you'll jist wait till I've finished sayin' it," he said, "I'll knock the tar out o' you, Dick Bunker, you ple faced slob! 'But children, you should never let your angry passions—'" The other boy, however, disappeared around the corner while Tommy's lips were still moving. Flying Wedge. "Great Scott!" exclaimed the drummer who had put up in the old farm house over night. "What was that noise down below? Football rush?" "Worse than that, stranger," chuckled the old farmer, as he snuffed out the candle. "Yeou see, I have eight darters on' 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 Sls," 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 fur 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 that no longer from my yearning. There is nobody else 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 I have 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 Minnelle, who is king of the United States?" Her aunt replied: "We have no kings in the United States like you do in your British country. We have presidents. We have an election every four years and elect a new one." "Oh, yes," the child replied; "and then they shoot the old ones, don't they?"—Boston Herald. New City for Egypt. Suakin, on the Red sea, has proved an unsatisfactory port and is to be superseded by a brand-new rival which has been built up out of coral work and desert sand by the Egyptian authorities. The rival is Port Sudan, the latest addition to the cities of the British empire, and an enthusiast says that it is destined to be a place of magnitude and importance in the days when cotton shall have made it the New Orleans of the east. The place has hitherto been called Mersa Sheikh Barud. It is about 680 miles south of Suez and is capable of holding a dozen vessels of moderate size. The entrance is 600 feet across, and the land around is six feet above sea level. Posers for Scholars. Twenty words submitted to a spelling bee in Springfield, Mass., in 1846 were given to the high school class at East Liverpool by Supt. Rayman, and it is reported not one in the class correctly spelled every word. Only ten had averages of over 90 per cent. The average of the 124 pupils was $73\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. The words submitted were accidental, accessible, baptism, chirography, characteristic, deceitful, descendant, eccentric evanescent, fiercen$^{3,4}$s, feignedly, ghastliness, gnawed, heless, hysteries, imbecility, inconceivable, inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. —Pittsburg Dispatch. SHIELDS FOR TROCPS IN WAR Their Use Urged by a German Milli- tary Writer. A writer in the Militar-Woenchlatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Brcad Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese spade work in the offensive, the more so because he mentions incidentally, as a matter regarding which there can be no dispute, that the German authorities have long since advocated the use of artificial cover in the attack, and points out that when the ground was frozen or rocky, and the spade could make no impression upon it, the attacking Japanese infantry not infrequently went forward, carrying with them filled sandbags weighing as much as forty pounds. He remarks that if the undoubtedly brave Japanese soldier found it necessary to load himself with so bulky and burdensome a protection when advancing in the open against an intrenched enemy it would seem far better to equip the infantry with a light, handy shield. Furnished with a handle by which to carry it, a loophole to fire through and some arrangement to prevent its falling down, the infantryman would then find himself, like his gunner comrade, protected by a bullet-proof shield. The writer in the Wochenblatt suggests that on the march the shield should be carried on the back, when going into action on the chest, and when advancing to the attack in the left hand, so as to be at once available for use when lying down to fire, both as head cover and rifle rest. YOUR HAIR SHOULD BE DRAB. That is the Fashionable Color, So an Authority Says. "Deep auburn and the drab shades are the fashionable colors in hair this season," said the woman who makes hair coloring a speciality, as placidly as though she were commenting on the state of the weather or the advance style in dress goods. "One of my customers has to my knowledge worn five different colors or shades on her wavy tresses. Having been blessed with medium brown hair by nature she became a ravishing blonde when the fashion for bleaching first came in. "Next she took to titian red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. 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 or e'en a loving wife. They say that money can not buy These things for me alas! But I— Well—I don't know! What bought my private car? Just wealth What bought my lovely yacht, What calls me to lands where health Is found. What calls me to your specialist, dear Jim, To keep me in such perfect trim? Well—I don't know! What bought the most delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— That she wishes dazzles in? And if he not be for me, And if he 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. That he not be for me 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 Requireme Bringing 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. 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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 convair which had captured them. After serving many years before the most he became a master and small ship owner on his own account. His name is Pierre Loirat. He was born in November, 1805, and at 12 he went to ROOM 8. The Evening Story. ET UP, you lazy girl! What are you doing in bed this lovely day?" The question came suddenly, and brought a flush to the face of Dr. Watson's niece, but not before his ear eye had taken in the drawn look about her lips and the haggard paleess of her countenance. "Oh, Dolly dear! Who sent for you?" Dolly" was Nellie Gilmer's old child's term for doctor, and she still used occasionally. "Your mother, Miss, of course. Why should she not send for the old uncle when his little pne is ailing?" feeling up as he spoke. "Now, what did mamma do that for? I am not sick—only a little tired," running her fingers carelessly through the gray hair of her uncle as he bent over her. "Ah, yes, I see. Too many dances and late suppers, eh?" watching narrowly the changing expression of his niece's countenance as he questioned her. "Yes, I suppose so, uncle. Anyway, I am not sick, indeed I am not, uncle ears," she eagerly insisted. "Well, little girl, you must take a real rest. Country air, and that sort of thing, you know." But just then Mrs. Gilmor left the room and Dr. Watson turned suddenly with an earnest question. "But isn't there something else, little one?" with a gesture toward two letters lying beside Nellie on the bed, where she had cast them aside, as if in weariness. Her eyes met her uncle's for a moment only, and she answered hastily, coloring warmly as she spoke, "Oh, no, darie. I'm tired, that is all." "Well, well, my dear, you know best, of course." Dr. Watson looked out of the window instantly. He had noticed that one of the letters was in the handwriting of Harold Clayton, to whom Nellie was engaged to be married. The other was not unfamiliar, but he could not since it, and, somehow, it gave him a serious impression of unreliability. He could not rid himself of the idea that Nellie's evident depression of spirits was a result of one, or both, of those letters. He sighed petulantly and turned to the bed again. As he did so his eyes fell upon a bunch of roses lying on a stand by the bed, and he took them up to sniff at them. "Ah!" he exclaimed to himself. There was a visiting card attached bearing the name of Raoul Thenard, and on it was written the one word, "Greetings." He knew now why the handwriting on the letter conveyed both sense of familiarity and of distrust. The writing on the letter and card were the same. That of Raoul Thenard. And Dr. Watson had very good reason to now that Raoul Thenard was not a man to be trusted. But he had promised not to speak to any one of his knowledge of the man What should he do? A chill came over him. Was his early loved niece growing fond of this young man, in spite of her engagement to Harold Clayton? He turned to the bed so suddenly to startle Nellie, asking earnestly: "My child, have you and Harold quarrelled?" "Quarrelled? Oh, dear, no, uncle, not quarrelled—"she stammered, without finishing. "But there is a coldness on your part, eh? Make it up to him, my dear, make it up to him. He is a man worth any woman's love. Now, see here. Don't you want to take a drive out in the country with me this afternoon? Oh, yes, you do. Come, get up and have some lunch. I will be back for you at 3 o'clock." He rose to go as his sister entered the room. "There is really nothing seriously wrong with her, Margaret, and I want you to see that she is dressed to go out in the country with me about 3 o'clock. Good-bye now," and Dr. Watson hurried off. According to program, they started at 3 o'clock, and after a cheerful drive of an hour end a half Dr. Watson drew up at the door of a little cottage. "Come, Nellie, child, I want you to get out with me here and go into see one of my patients, a young girl not much older than yourself. Wait in the Little parlor. I will come down for you presently." And with the freedom of the family physician, Dr. Watson turn- Farmer's Individualism. Farming is virtually the only great series of occupations that is unorganized, unsyndicated, unmonopolized, uncontrolled, except as it is dominated by natural laws of commerce and the arbitrary limitations imposed by organization in business. In a time of extreme organization and subordination of the individual, the farmer still retains his traditional individualism ed the knob of the door and entered without ringing. Ushering his nice into the little room leading off from the narrow hall, he ran lightly up the steps, to return in a short while, saying: "Come, my dear." Nellie followed her uncle wonderingly. They entered a tiny, plainly furnished back room on the second floor. On the bed lay a dark-eyed black-haired young woman, who evidently had been a great beauty. On her arm lay a small bundle, from which issued the fretful wailing of a pungy infant. Nellie flushed and looked inquiringly from the girl to her uncle. Dr. Watson understood the glance, and said gently: "Claire, this is my niece, Nellie Gilmor. Nellie, you have heard me speak of an old friend, Mrs. Marc. This is her niece, Claire. She speaks English very fluently, but she has only been in this country three months. She has something to tell you. I will wait for you down stairs." He left the room, and Nellie took a chair by the girl's bedside. She reached out and laid her hand on that of the girl, kindly, saying softly: "You have something to tell me." Claire removed her own hand, flushing as she did so. "It is something that the good doctor does desire me to tell you, and because he is so good, I obey." The girl's face grew white and strained. "I was an orphan, in Paris—a stage dancer. My one relative there, my sister, died and left me alone. The struggle for bread was a hard one. Then I met—a young man. He promised to care always for me. His family, socially, was far superior to mine. A public marriage was impossible, so we solemnly made mutual promises to be faithful, and lived together as husband and wife. Two years later he deserted me, and came to New York. I followed, as soon as I could, and came to my father's sister, here. A week ago, my baby was born. The dear doctor has been very kind to me. But why does he shame me by making me tell my story to another woman who will desiise me?" she ended in sohe Nellie leaned over the bed, and kissed the girl pityingly. Yet her own face was drawn with pain. "His name, dear, please tell me that. It is not idle curiosity that makes me ask," she said gently. "Ah! The good doctor said I must be sure to tell you that. But, why? Well, it is Raoul Thenard:" Nellie hid her face in the bedclothes. Presently she looked up, and said: She paused for a moment to control her voice. "I have been engaged to be married for two years, to my childhood's friend Harold Clayton, but mamma insisted that we were too young to marry or to know our own minds, so we have been waiting. Six months ago I met another young man who has been very attentive to me. I have learned to chafe at the bond which binds me to Harold, and to wish that I might be free to marry the stranger. For he professes to love me. But neither my mother nor uncle like him and they do love and trust Harold. So I have been very miserable of late, and have really made myself ill over the situation, and Dr. Watson brought me here to see you, I think that I might hear your story, and perceive how much less miserable I am than I at first fancied." She smiled and pressed the hand of the girl beside her as she ended. "But why did the good doctor wish me to tell you the name of the man—" "Ah!" with a sharp cry, "I see! It is Raoul, my Raoul whom you do now love, and you will take him away from me!" "No, no, my dear. Do not think so poorly of me. I could not prove so false to a sister woman. Besides, I realize now that it has not been love that I felt for the fascinating Frenchman. The charm of his manner blinded me to some very glaring faults which he possesses. I perceive now that only my fancy was caught, and his villainy to you has crushed even that. Pardon me, my dear. I forgot that you love him," she interpolated, as Claire, winced at her words. and economic separateness. His entire scheme of life rests on intrinsic earning by means of his own efforts. The scheme in most other businesses is to make profits, and these profits are often non-intrinsic and fictitious, as for example, in the habit of gambling in stocks, in which the speculator by mere shrewdness turns over his money to advantage, but earns nothing in the process and contributes nothing to civ- "But—but he loves you," Claire sobed. "I do not believe that he does or ever did, Claire. Some day I shall be a very rich woman, for I am an heiress to both my mother and uncle, as is well known. It was money he was after—only my money, my dear." "Perhaps so. But, oh, Miss Gilmor, he loved me once—indeed, he loved me dearly. When he left me to come to this country his money was gone, and his parents prevented his obtaining employment in Paris for fear he would marry me there. We have known bitter poverty together. I do not wonder that with your beauty and money he forgot me," sobbed the poor girl, loyally. "And could you still love and wish to marry him after that, Claire?" Nellie asked gently. "Ah, is it love that you have felt for that Monsieur Clayton, or any one else, and you ask me that? Love which is worth having is love eternal. I should be a happier woman as his wife than as any queen on her throne without love, dear child!" "Then, my dear girl, if Raoul Thenard has one spark of manhood about him, you will yet be his wife. My uncle will see to his future career if he proves worth, I am sure, and you may yet be happy. Do not be surprised at any news you may receive. I leave you now, to prove to myself whether Raoul Thenard is what you think him. Good-bye for the present." She leaned over the bed and kissed the sad-eyed girl and hurriedly left the room to join her uncle. Whatever Nellie Gilmor discovered in the character of Raoul Thenard at the long interview she and her uncle held with the Frenchman, she kept to herself, and her uncle's impressions were likewise held in silence. But the next day found them present at a marriage and a christening at which Nellie was both bridesmaid and godmother. The strange ceremonies were both held at the bedside of Claire Thenard, for under that name she insisted that she was entitled to have her marriage wish. Nellie particularly agreeing with the sick girl's claim when she declared stubbornly: "I am now his wife, Miss Gilmor, in the sight of the good God. It is only the law which I wish to obey." It was with a sigh of relief that Nellie mounted the steps of Dr. Watson's motor car when it was all over. She nestled close to the side of her uncle for a long time in silence, her hand slipped under his arm. Suddenly she spoke softly, "Dolly, dear." "Well, my pet?" "Don't you think that—that—" "Think what, little girl. I always think whatever will make you happy, if I can." "Don't you think that Harold and I have waited long enough now?" "Yes, indeed, I do, my child. And I have promised Harold to obtain your mother's consent to an immediate union," said Dr. Watson, earnestly. "Dear old Dolly, you are so good!" nestling closer to his side "I do so want to make up to Harold for the last few months." "He deserves it. my child, and it lightens my heart to hear you say it." And Dr Watson smiled to himself knowingly. "Out of Sight." When the late Mark Hanna was running the republican national campaign in 1906, in New York, says Leslie's Weekly, he was bored by a politician who endeavored to make the chairman from Ohio, see everything in a rosy way by relating anecdotes without much point. "You remind me of the Englishman" said the senator, "who was walking up Fifth avenue with an American gifted with a vocabulary of slang. A handsomely dressed young woman passed and the American exclaimed. "She is out of sight." The Englishman was nonplussed, but when it was explained that 'out of sight' meant stunningly or beautifully dressed, he declared it was deuced clever, don't you know. Soon after the Englishman met a fellow countryman, and they went up Broadway together. An elegantly attired woman passed them. "By jove she is not there," exclaimed the Englishman who had been taught slang. "But she is there, old boy; where are your eyes?" asked the other. On I mean she cannot be seen. "I see her all right; are you blind?" "Strange,' said the slang-taught Englishman: 'when that American used a clever phrase it was funny and apropos, but when I use it I am thought stupid and blind." illization in the effort. If the farmer steps outside his own realm, he is met on one side by organized capital and on the other by organized labor. He is confronted by fixed earnings. What he himself secures is a remainder left at the end of a year's business. Sober second thought is good, but sober first thought is better. THE OLD MAN AND JIM. Old man never had much to say "Cepitin" to Jim. Arconia was the wildest boy he had. And the old man jes' wrapped up in him! Never heard him speak but once Er twice in my life, and first time was When the army broke out, and Jim he went. The old man backin' him for three months. And a kid he deerd the old man say Was. jes is we turned to star away.— "Well, good-bye Jim Take keer of yourself!"" "Pearsed like he was more satisfied Jes lookin' at Jim And liken num num to hissef-like, see?" "Cause he was jes wrapped up in him! While we was drillin', a-watchin', Jim; And, down at the depot a-neerin' him **say:** "well, good-bye, Jim; Take keer of yourse!" Never was nothin' about the farm Diping a seed in Neighbors all ust to wonder why The old man 'peared wrapped up in him. But, when Cap, Biggler, he writt back 'At Jim was the bravest boy he had In the whole dern regiment, white e black. And his lightin' good, as his farmin' bad.— 'At he had led, with a bullet clean Bored through his thigh, and carried the flame Through the bloodiest battle you ever seen.— The old man wound up a letter to him At Cap, read to us, 'at sui,— the old man wound up a letter to him And take keer of hissef!" Jim come home jes' long enough I take the whim 'At he like to go back in the calvery And the old man jes' wrapped up in him! Jim, 'towed 'at he'd had sich luck afore, GuesSED he'd tackle he three years more. And the old man give him a colt he'd raised, And follored him over to Camp Ben Wade. And litley saved from "Wen, good-by, Jim! Take keer of yoursef!" 'Tuk the papers, the old man did, A'watchin' fer Jim. Fully believin' he'd makes his mark Some way—jes wrapped up in him! And many a time the word ud come 'tirreir him like the tap of a drum! At待reir instance, where Jim rid right into their cannons there, and 'tuk 'em, and printed em 't other way. And socked it home to the boys in grey As they skooted fer timber, and on and on— cute-nant —and one arm gone, and the old man's words in his mind day, "Well, good-by, Jim;: Take keer of yourself!" Think of a private, now, perhaps, We'll say like Jim, 'At's clump clean up to the shoulder- straps— And the old man's Jes' wrapped up in him! Think of him—with the war paint plum" through. And the glorious old Red-White-and- Blue, the news downs over there And the old man bendin' over there The surgeon turnin' away, with tears -JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. * Don't Despair of a Child Because * * It is Slow. * Many dull children become the very brightest and most effective men and women. There are various reasons for this fact. It is not, however, an exceptional condition in nature. Many of the hardiest plants and trees mature most slowly and bear fruit late. The problem of the dull child is one that need by no means discourage. If it were necessary to prove by examples the assertion in regard to the hopefulness of slow-minded children we could fill many pages with instances of famous men who were dullards in youth. Walter Scott, for instance, was known at school as the "Greek blockhead," since he seemed unable to master that language. Some children by too rapid growth become hulky and stupid temporarily. They could be described, in technical language, as not yet "cerebrated"—that is, to coin a word, "brainized." Bones and muscles have grown more rapidly than brain and nervous system. But in multitudes of cases the nervous forces develop later, catch up and become predominant. Then you have a bright man or woman out of a dull, slow child, says Calvin Dill Watson. In some children nature seems to take a rest for a year or more. In these dull periods that come to certain constitutions the child should not be forced too much. There are for the time not sufficient reserves of nerve force; but this may be slowly storing up. Then the boy or girl all at once wakes up, becomes alert, active, bright. The slow-minded child should never hear one discouraging comment upon himself. He should never be told that he is dull, and if he finds it out for himself and speaks of it he should be reminded that there is a vast difference in the rapidity of the development of various minds. He should be encouraged to look forward hopefully to a time when his efforts will be rewarded by an awakening of his faculties. Though it is true that/ all dull children do not become bright men, it is also true that all precocious and bright children do not fulfill their promise. Do not press the slow child over much. Give him time. He may be a sleeping giant, who takes longer to rub his eyes open and yawn himself awake than feebler bodies do. In every case treat such hopefully. HAY FEVER *Having used Peruna for catarrh and hay fever. I can recommend it to all who are suffering with the above diseases. I am happy to be able to say it has helped me wonderfully.* Mayme E. Smith. 444 E. Mound Street, Columbus, Ohio Hay fever is endemic catarrh. It is caused by some irritating substance in the atmosphere during the late summer months. It is generally thought that the pollen of certain weeds and flowers is the cause of it. Change of locality seems to be the only rational cure. The use of Peruna, however, stimulates the nervous system to resist the effect of the poisonous emanations and sometimes carries the victim through the hay fever season without an attack of the disease. A large number of people rely upon Peruna for this purpose. Those who do not find it convenient to change their location to avoid Hay Fever, would do well to give Pernua a trial. It has proven of priceless value to many people. 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Deafness 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 out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure Send for circulars free F J CHENEY & Co. Toile to O. Sold by Druggists, press O. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation Then with a pump closely fitted at the top, not so much as an ant can get into the well Under the old method of using rock to top of ground I have known of rats mice, snakes frogs and even rabbits getting through the walls and into the water rendering it unfit for use by man or beast—D S Wade Campbellsville, Ky. "Not yet, but soon," spells failure. Speaker Jos. G. Cannon has ‘been stumping the state of Meine. His au- diences have been large. ‘The increase in drinking among Chi- ago women is causing alarm. Cock- ails and wine are the preferred drinks. ‘The entire route of the line of the fan Francisco, Idaho & Montana rall- oad, which Is to shorten the distance setween Roise, Idaho, and San Fran- sco by 625 miles, is already cross sectioned and construction out of Cald- well, Idaho, will begin within twenty ays. The company is now looking af- ter bridges and structural steél. The Dowager Empress of China has appointed a committee to-consider the Feports of the Chinese commissioners who recently returned from abroad, and to make recommendations to the throne concerning the question of the organization of an upper house of par- Mament from among the Chinese offic tals, as the beginning of a parliament. ary govefnament. The government receipts for the month of Avgust, 1906 were $56,007, 596, and the expenditures $47,848,449 Jeaving a surplus for the month of $8,155,147. For the month of August, 1905, there was a deficit of $4,660,061 ‘Th: receipts for August, 1906, were: Sastoms, $29,012,059; increase over August, 1905, nearly 3 millions; inter. nal revenue, $21,855,189; increase, $3,990,000. The expenditures for the month show a decrease as compared with August 1905, of $1,202,044. The Principal decrease was $2,758,000 in he navy expenditures. Tt 1s remarkable that amid all the rime, bloodshed and horror with which Russia is filled, the music halls and cafes of the capital are thronged alghtly by gay crowds. A brother of Premier Stolypin, writing in the Novoe Vremya, calls attention to the weak- Ress of his countrymen, who in the presence of the greatest crisis, he says think only of pleasure. M. Stolypin says it was always thus in Russia that officers on the eve of a battle carouse and spend money that would feed starving peasants’ families. He calls it the spirit which inspired the orgies f the middle ages while thousands were dying of the plague. The feeling against the Jews in offic. lal circles at St. Petersburg has been greatly intensified by the terrorist outbreaks of the last two weeks. The Jews, it 1s belidyea by government agents, are furnishing the brains of the revolutionary movement. Official reports of assassinations and lawless- ness never omit to mention very prom inexttly the part played by the Jews The last week saw the launching 0: two parties, the Nationat in St. Peters ‘burg and the Russian Popular party it Moscow. The principal planks in bot! plattérms are for the exelusion of Jews from all political activity and fron service in the army, the latter to be commuted, as in the case of the Tar tars and Finns, for money considera- tions. ‘The Moscow organization pur Poses to rid he country of Jews by in dorsing the Zionist movement and urg: Ing the governmerit to assist it. Up to twenty years ago John E. Mc eann was the confidential clerk of the Yate Russell Sage. Mr. McCann had a Teve for poetry and he quit the service of the multi-millionaire to pursue his fastes. Mr. McCann says that after he Weft Mr. Sage in 1890, he only saw him three times. The last time, Mr. Sage complained that Mr. McCann had left hhn alone, and he was indignant when hi: former clerk explained that be- eause of Mr. Sage’s great wealth the visits would have been misconstrued. ‘These men were friends, of great abil- ity and having mutual respect and per- sonal liking . But they were separated Because cne of them possessed $80, 000,600 and the other did ‘not and it as the poor man who considered these millions’a bar to friendship. How often is this the case in the more re- tired walks of life. Oftener than will ever be told. Self-denial is a hand maid of self-respect, and. to the property poor but sensitive, high-minded man it te preferable to the associations and glamour of wealth, which only yield @iscontent and humiliation. Service and sacrifice have again found reward fm a well sustained manhood and an approving conscience. Emmet Turpin, the onty prisoner in the Iég jail at Nashville, Brown coun- ty, Ind., since last fa!l is serving a sen- tence of 250 days for selling liquor il- Tegally. He carries the key to the jail and acts in the triple capacity of jailer, Janitor and prisoner. When he wants anything. he unlocks the door, goes eut and gets it and returning, again Jocks himself in. He is threatening to sue the county for services as janitor. It is Priscilla’s first visit to the eountry; she has heard the cackling of the hens, and connected it with the laying of the eggs; she hears-the cow moo, and calls to her mother. “Mam- ma, come quickly, the cow has laid some more milk.”—Harper’s Weekly. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. O68 *HOpas LIPtoR Wi:l Sail OF tae | Vattea States September 21. : ® |. Bryan and Folk have been ensaged tor two addresses each in Kansas, w | ‘Mrs. William Astor, of New York, is | im at her apartments in the Hotel Som- erset, Boston. | a | The American Pharmacevtical Asso- | elation will work for compulsory spec- | fal education and national examination | for druggists. | * | | The Realty Trust company which Hid a small banking business at Mem- | phis, Tenn, has failed. Assets $60,000, ' abilities, $50,000, | x | A sroup of French bankers has of- | fered the Chilean government a loan of ; $2,000,000 for reconstruction purposes | j€xclusively. The Chilean congress is considering the proposition. * | The, controller of the currency has | ssued a call for a statement of the | condition of national banks ‘at the | close of business Tuesday, September 4. | : | The interstate legislative committee | of the Southern Cotton Association, in session at Hot Springs, Ark, is mak- | ng an effort to fix a minimum price | at which cotton shoula pe sojd. + | Ex-Governor David R. Francis, of | Missouri, has reached Vienna for the | purpose of presenting to Emperor | Francis Joseph the gold medal com- | Memorative of the St. Louis exposi- | ton, ie | m | The strained relations between | Spain and the Vatican are occupying the attention of the entire Spanish | press and public, the liberal papers | | demanding the immediate denunciation of the concordat. | e | | The seventh annual convention of the National Association of Postoffice Clerks, at Indianapolis, adjourned to | mect next year in Peoria, Ill. Frank T. Rogers, of Chicago, being. elected | president. _® . The attorney general of Kansas has veen investigating the\ International | Harvesting company, and as its organi- | tation is obnoxious to the Kansas anti- | Trust laws, he proposes to drive it. | fom the state. x | ‘The comptroller of the currency has | | approved the application of E. T. Guy- | mon, K. B, Santney, A. B, Asher, B. N. Sapp and L, A. Bunker to organize the Commercial National bank of Hutch- | {nson, Kansas, with $100,000 capital. * | It ts reported that the Pennsylyania | Railroad company had concluded a deal by which it expects to turn over to the United States Steel Corporation its control of the Cambria Steel Com- | pany, but all efforts to confirm the re- port were unsuccessful, * Paul O. Stensland, the absconding president of the Milwaukee Avenue Bank, Chicago, has been arrested at Tangier, Morocco. His crookedness |!avolves a million dollars, and the dis- tress caused by his acts has affected | thousands, of workingmen and their families. * The agitation for Missouri river (freight steamers grows apace. The | steamer Gunther has just brought 100 | tons from Omaha to Kansas City, and jhad no trouble from the river. The )|merchants of Kansas City are deter- | mined to break the railroad freight charges with a line of river steamers. * A stage driver named B. Gillespte, | who took President Roosevelt and par ty through Yosemite three years ago, | was held up by a lone bandit three | miles from Ahwanee, Cal., and the pas- sengers relieved of their valuables. | One of the victims took a snap shot | | of the robber. - a iacac tl fee eRe 5) AE a aes + “The largest death roll since the month of the Iroquois theater fire,” summarises the report of Coroner Hoffman for the month of August There were 390 deaths in Cook coun ty as against 338 for July ,and 356 for April, the next largest month. The in crease in the death rate is attributed to the excessive’ heat. There were twenty-seven deaths by heat as against one for the month of July. Sul cides also increased with the hot weather. There were thirty-nine dur ing August. Needless Precaution. Reporter—Perhaps you will not ob- fect to telling me where yoy got the money to buy up all those fine apart- ment houses you own.” Former Officeholder (under susple fon)—I would rather not commit my- self as to that. z Reporter—That will not be necess- ary in any event. The judge and jury will commit you, all right.” ,Ond schooner squadron, now at Gib | rattar, is preparing to entertain on his flagship) the armoured eruiser Drake, Real Admiral Brownson and the offic- ers of the United States second cruiser squadron, bound for the F.1 East. * A terrorist organization among the troops, aiming at the extermination of all the authorities has been discovered at Odessa, Russia. Extensive corres- pondence with other revolutionary bodies was seized, and fourteen offic- ers and one army surgeon were arrest- ed on the charge of having-conducted secret mectings of soldiers. ® Fletcher D. Proctor, son of United States Senator Redfield Proctor, was elected governor of Vermont, Sept. 4. by a large majority. The Republican organization claimed that his plural- ity over Percival W. Clement, of Rut- land, the Independent-Democratic can- didate, would exceed 15,000. The nor- mal Republican plurality in Vermoat is about 21,000, * A new banking fngtitutfon, which will be entitled the American bank, to be organized in Berlin under the aus- pices of the Darmstadter bank with a capital of $6,250,000, will introduce American securities and co-operate in large financial transactions in the United States, Canada and Mexico, the first operation to be the reorganization of the Mexican Central railroad. t Incomplete returns indicate that Representative John S. Little, Demo- cratic nominee for governor of Arkan- sas, will have a majority of 50,000 over John I. Worthington, Republican. The vote for John G. Adams, Prohibition nominee for governor, may not exceed 3,000 and that of Daniel Hogan, Social ist, probably will reach 2,000.Estimates are that of the 135 members of the senate and house at least 125 will be Democrats. The Democyatic state nominees other than for governor had no opposition. * At the National Irrigation congress held at Boise, Idaho. some startling statisties were presented by Professor Samuel Fortier, of the University of California, in his discussion of the “Value of a High Duty of Water and the Means of Obtaining It.” He made the assertion that in the Western states $50,000,000 was expended an- nually in securing and distributing wa- ter for irrigation and that of the water thus distributed, fully 75 per cent was wasted casuing a net loss to the people of the Western states of more than $35,000,000.. * Miss Nan Bryant, a pretty girl of Graniteville, S. C., is dying at a hospi- tal at Augusta, Ga., in consequence of heving been kissed with undue force by her lover, Theodore Brown. A week go Miss Bryant and Brown went walk- ing, and when she returned her cheek was bleeding. She sald that she had seratched a pimple. Blood poison de- veloped and she was taken to Atlanta for treatment The girl confessed that the wound was inflicted by A lover while he was kissing her. “Theo- doré Kissed me,” said the girl, “ana once playfully bit my cheek. He bit harder than he intended and caused the wound.” t The local health department_pf San Francisco kas completed its report of the deaths from the earthquake of April 18 and the total is 452. Of the victims 266 were killed by the falling walls, 177 perished by fire, seven were shot and two died as the result of pto- maine poisoning, due to eating “emer- gency” canned goods of poor quality; 351 were men and seventy-seven wo- men. Four hundred and twenty are believed to have been white, eighteen Chinese and four Japanese. Eleven were less than a year old. The figures given relate to the deaths proved to have occurred. * A large body of workmen assembled at Rudoguzewka, neaf St. Petersburg, A large body of workmen assembled at Rudoguzewka, neat St. Petersburg, to attend the funeral of a comrade when some one unfurled a red flag which was placed at the head of the procession. Orders for its removal issued by the commander of the troops in the town were ignored and troops were sent to seize the flag. The work- men crowded about for the purpose of defending it when the Cossacks were ordered to charge with drawn sabers In a moment they were in the midst of the throng slashing right and left. Six persons were killed and from twen ty to twenty-five wounded. That Terrible Youngster. “Tommy,” said his elder sister, se- verely, “you had no business to come into the parlor when Mr. Lovett was calling on me.” “That's all right, sis,” answered Tommy, “I could see that yoy were on- ly playing “telephone. He was ringing you up—O, you needn't hide your left hand behind you—but he had his lips entirely too close to the receiver.” | \ . i : . een, gE" ees k \ or he a A % = OWN) Wien 1 Wy Y %. CBN WY lp, S A "yp. ‘eg / ve we ie eee ey _ GE [ Bek ALWAYS PEATE THEN! To prevent any more revolutions in Cuba let the Cuban government follot cout the ‘above suggestion. cage |. [mranad O gs Cra YB | Ee ee yi 2 So ey bal Ne? Aa Ane AG a ” es POPULAR wry Nh () oa % Nees | Yl ares || Vo &- Pat - Books that will be popular with the pupils during the new term of school. Pensions for everybody at the age of 60 years was among the proposals adopted at a session of the Trades Un- fon congress in Liverpoot, the advo- cates of the resolution contending that the money necessary for the pensions could easily be raised from among the wealthy by taxing land values, * ‘The Galveston-Dallas News, in its third cotton crop report for the cur- rent season, shows that the crop has deteriorated and is further threatened by rains, intermittent showers and fogs and the depredations of insect pests. Nevertheless, the condition in Texas on August 24 was 8.1 per cent better than on the same day last year, Indian Territory 4.5 per cent better; Oklahoma 12 per cent better. The crop averages about two weeks late in point of maturity. Labor is scarce for all industries. Secretary Wilson assured the repre- sentatives of the meat packing inter- ests of the country with whom he held a conference at Washington that he had no authority to extend beyond the first of October, next, the placing of labels on canned or other meat pro- ducts. He told the packers flatly that they must be prepared on that date properly to label their goods, or they would not be permitted to send them through the channels of interstate commerce. The question was raised as to the status of the goods now on themselves of the wholesale and retail- merchants of the country. The secre: tary said it was manifestly impossible for the government to inspect them. The owners or holders of the foods he suggested, would have to take their chances on selling them. One thing was certain: They could not be shipped from one state to another. * Governor James ©. Davidson has been nominated to head the Wisconsin republican state _tick- et, having defeated =‘ Speaker Irvin L. Lenroot, of the last assem- On the waters of Long Island sound within view of Sagamore hill, on Sep- tember 8d, the president of the United States reviewed the greatest fleet of American warships ever assembled. ‘There was a war ship for every state, forty-five i all, ranging in size from the magnificent 16,000-ton Louisiana, just completed, to the fleet torpedo boats and the submarines. There were also one troopship and colliers. In bly, his only opponent, by a majority that may run as high as 20,000. Day: idson carries with him his running mate, W. D. Conner, of Marshfield, for Heutenant governor, who defeats John S. Strang, of Oshkosh, for second place. Davidson won the nomination In spite of the fact that United States Senator La Follette canvassed the state for Lenroot, making speeches for his candidate in nearly every portion of tae state. Davidson and several of his adherents also made an active can- vass. ‘ “Neither side can whip the other,” is the concise statement now. heard everywhere in Havana, and it may al- so be fuirly construed to be the grow ing conviction of thoughtful persons throughout the island of Cuba. In Ha- vana, at least, this conviction has led, among unprejudiced persons, to ex. pressions of an ardent hope that the prerogative of the Platt amendment will soon be utilized by the United States for the purpose of éffectually putting an end to a condition that everybody believes is otherwise bound to srow more and more intolerable Nobody appears to believe that the in. surgents will take Havana, although this is not regarded as impossible, es- pecially when it is considered ‘that co- operation in such a movement assur- edly would come from within. Every- body concedes that the government troops can continue their record of victories in almost all open fights with the insurgents, but how the govern. ment, with the forces now at its com- mand, and in view of the small num- ber of enlistments, ever can prevail against its enemies who fight in the same old method of guerrilla warfare, is a conundrum which nobody pretends to solve. That the yinsurrection is growing constantly is undeniably evi denced every day.and the decree of pardon recently extended by the gov. ernment has brought no appreciable change in the situation. three columns oe. stretched along the sound twelve/battie ships, four ar- moured cruisers, four protected cruis ers, four monitors, six destroyers, six torpedo ‘boats, three - submarines, troopship and tive auxiliaries. In peace paint of spotless white, wreathed in rainbows of flags, ship rails manned “close aboard,” the splendid fleet un. derwent the ceremony of inspection by the President of the Unitea States Pmeee 21800 deliberately Joe Gans in the forty-secont 1. the best and longest fen, Goldfield, Nevada in many Both men were tired whey 1, ended, but Gans was appisonsy strenger.* He was away ay! points and had smashed aya ge son all through the fight ithout bg badly hurt kimself. Shortly af." forty-second round commen men were in thelr ustizl cline. ss had bis head on Gans’ shouje. his arm down. Several tines jy Gans below the beit, apparent ¢ Ing a vital spot. At last he dcoy ¢ his right arm and hit Gans a yg blow square in the groin, The ey boy sank to his knees and roitey on his back, Referee Silor yj hesitation ordered Nelson to tic ner and awarded the fizht to Gays a foul. Siler’s decision received unanimous approval . ‘The fou! yay obvious that not even men wo bet on Nelson could say that i: not been committed. All through long camtest Nelson had niga rough tactics. He repeatedly hy Gans and had to have his head hay away by the referee. PEER EEE EE ay ' THE NEW RATE Law, , a — % The Inter-State Commerce Com, mission Besieged with Petitions SPSS EES e+ 4 45, Shippers of the country are taj advantage of the new railroail tre rate law to seek relief from the ing state commerce commission for si they regard as unreasonable or yj conditions imposed upon them jy railroad companies. Petitions are jing received by the commission f shippers, inyolving not only ques nat are raised directly by the rece enacted law, but iacluding some auertions into which an endeavor being made to breathe a new life, | A series of petitions was fled ¥ |the commission, presenting a quest iwhich has been, at various times, fore the commission for many yi and on which the commission Iu dered at least four decisions | The Texas Cattle Raisers’ Asw tion of Texas entered a conl against the Missouri, Kansas & Ta railway and many other railwo porations because of a charze of f car on live stock made by the ‘e al railway at Chicago. The com)jaia maintains that the charge is esc and unreasonable and that it onciil ‘be included in the through rate os loads of live stock from Texas to cego. Intervening ia this petition as Dlainants are the Amerfean Nitin Live Stock Association and tie (or Belt Meat Association. The interstate commerce conn! stoner decided several years a0 t the charge of $2 a car, as a tran or terminal rate in Chicazo, was cessive. It fixed $1 a car as the f er tariff. The case was taken (0 supreme court of the United § and the order of the commission $1 a car as the rate of terminal ct in Chicago was overthrown 00 ground of lack of authority. | Now, under the new law, tle plainants again appear before 1! terstate commerce commission #! that the case be reopened and tt! commission decide in the light new act. | Dovetalling into this case is complaint filed with the comm It is that of the American Live® Association and the Cattle Ie! Association of Texas, against the ™ as & Pacific Railway company a ticularly all of the other railroad lt west of the Mississippi river It is urged by the complainants the defendant company yfvst ‘make a joint through rate on live in carload lots, shipped from poit!® ‘Texas to the market centers si! Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, and X City. * In 1904 the defendant co’ ¢ celed its joint rates on tive stock ® ‘now will accept such trasfic ot q [the understanding that the stock le transhipped at junction ois! the Texas & Pacific Railroad Com with other lines. This, it is re? 4 the complainants, is unjust an! reasonable and subjects them (0 tneonvenience and damage. T°? therefore that the commission 08? the railroads defendant in the to quoic to them a joint rate 0" stock as formerly. The Old Soldier's Logic: “Such reasoning,” said Geu- F Grant, in a military argument, minds me of the reasoning of old a Sandhurst, Corp. Sandhurst ¥# © day drilling a batch or raw re ‘Why Js it, he said to a bright 100! chap, ‘that the blade of your se curyed instead of straight?" 4 “The blade is curved, the © J answered, ‘in order to give mot? to the blow.’ “ “‘Nonsense,’ sald the corporal.” blade is curved so as to fit ‘he 2 bard. If it was straight, how * you get it into the curved sca”! you idiot."”