The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. LIBERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE HORRIBLE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT NEGROES IN ATLANTA, GA.,—HOW LONG IS THIS TO CONTINUE. One of the most dastardly crimes ever perpetrated in the American civilization was done by bound Anglo-Saxons upon enslaved Negro men and women at Atlanta, Ga. Saturday night of last week, in revenge for at least a half dozen people assaulted purported to have been done by Negroes in and around Atlanta, during the week prior to the night of the lawful happening. Twenty or twenty-negroes, more or less, were taken and street cars on their way home from work, beaten stabbed and brutally murdered, carbarshops, Negro business establishments were invaded and their inhabitants and proprietors chased into streets and murdered in cold bloodout the same number of Negroes were maired and mangled up, that the hospital recieved them, many of whom did. It is a fearful state of affairs into the honest upright, hardworking respectable Negroes in any community must be murdered and held responsible for a few debased brutes that not only live among their race, but among races. It is this transaction that puts the very soul of a man who is a man to think in a country, where they were brawny unwillingly, in a country where their brawny muscles have helped in a part to make, a country for which they have bled and died, a country where the stars and stripes floats upon the trees—emblem of the land of the free and home of the brave—the stand without little protection, a scape goat and the foot stool of all other races. If there is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations? if He in His appointed time rightens all things, how far are we to suffer the wrongs that have so patiently borne? is a question that forces itself upon the thinking Negro. Must we always submit like sheep City Locals. Rev. A. Berry of Parksville Mo. made your office a pleasant call this week, he is holding ten days revival services at 18th and Lydia avenue, K. C. Mo. The funeral of Mr. Tom Thompson who died after a long illness at 541 State ave. was held from the Bell St. A. M E. church the past week. Mrs. J. W. Jones of 1509 North 4th street, who has been sick two weeks her many friends will be please to learn that she is now able to be out again. Mr. Henry Adam of 317 Oakland avenue spending some time in Texas visiting his relatives. Miss Anna Murphy of K. C. Mo. is on this side of the Kaw visiting her mother Mrs. M. J. Murphy of 315 Oakland avenue. Miss Lena Love of K. C. Mo. was in the city, the guest of Miss Roxie Murphy of 315 Oakland ave. Mrs. Wiley Hollingsworth of 239 Frankland ave. is visiting relatives an friends in wynoma Miss. The funeral of Mrs. Alexander of the north end will be held from the A.M.E. thirteenth on the 26th. Mrs. Whitney of Denver, Colo., for many of this city returns for a limited stay next week. The funeral of Mr. Alonzo Singletary formerly a patrolman in this city was held last Sunday from the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, under the auspices of the Massenic fraternity Mr. Singletary was ill for over two months at his home 203 Oakland ave. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in this city. Rev. J. R. Richardson officiated. He leaves a wife, one son, mother, sisters and three brothers. Rev. A. M. Ward, pastor of the St. James A. M. E., church accompanied by his wife will leave Tuesday for Hutchinson. Kas., to attend the Annual Conference of the A. M. E. church, Kansas Jurisdiction. Rev. Ward preached his Awkward sermon Sunday night, thus closing his fourth year as pastor of the same church in this city. has been presented with a new suitfit from head to and including feet. During his conference year he has been instrumental in raising $4.500 on the church debt, recieved $1.500 in salary, and will carry to the conference, $302.00 "dollar money" and $50.00 to the Mite Missionary. His record in the city is unparalleled. driven to slaughter or must we rise in our feeble might resolving to take and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. If it means death and total extermination we just as well welcome it one time as another. We have never advised retaliation on the part of Negroes because that means too much, but we dislike to see the cowardice as exhibited by our people in a crisis. The awful treatment accorded Negroes all over this country will ultimately make of them red handed anarchist, skilled in the use of bombs and other human life taking agencies. As good as the major portion of the Negroes are striving to be, forbearance will cease to be a virtue somewhere down the line. Church houses will cease to be a place to send up petitions regarding the soul in another world-but a place to devise means to live in this world. The time is coming when some Negroes must lay down their lives for the rest of the race, or be exterminated in whole sale numbers this cannot be confined to any one locality, but north, south, east, and west alike. What must we advise? What can we do? We have advised and been advised to take our troubles to Jesus-we have been taught that they who would be free must first strike the blow and God helps those who help themselves. Certainly we are being put to a crucial test, as a race and undoubtedly these awful tragedies are object lessons to us. We must profit by them—get together unite, place more confidence in one another, get the best out of the worst. Draw a more distinct line between the good and bad among us. Set aside and eliminate the things that make us objectional, stand np and be willing to die if necessary for the right. The whole world despises a coward. If it only had been a Negro. A white man was in police court last week charged with stealing chickens, he pleerd guilty and claimed he was drunk. He was fined $5 00-we wonder if Judge Simms would have believed a Negro drunk. The same old story. Several nights ago a white conductor on the 5th St. Electric cars in this city was mysteriously shot in a dark locality on the route to the terminus of the road at 18th and Minn. ave. Because several Negroes had gotten into a mix up with the crew on this line several days prior to the shooting it was immediately said and charged that the deed was that of a Negro. If the same ungrounded accusations had been made in many other localities some innocent Negro would have been lynched and possibly a similar Atlanta occurrence. Since the search light of truthful investigation has been turned on, it develops that the bullet was intended for another man, on the car at the time-Thers being a woman in the case, all white. A good many crimes fastened upon Negroes and laid at their door, if truthfully traced up would show somebody else guilty. Something to vote for. A glance over the Wyandotte County Republican ticket and the names it contains is assurance to anyone citizen who has kept pace with the times, that it is one of the strongest tickets ever placed before the voters of this county. It is not asking too much when you are teeseed to give it your consideration we feel safe in saying that with a fair and just consideration of the same you will have no hesitency in casting your vote for those men who constitute the republican ticket, who stand for progressiveness and all the true principles of life. It is not necessary to reiterate that the Republican party is the party of parties every citizen who is true to himself and the best interest of the community in which he lives, his state and country are cognizant of the principles of republicanism. Men may swerve, but the true principles of the grand old party will live on forever, we believe that the array of noble men who have offered themselves as standard bearers, that the party may be perpetuated this fall are true blue, we therefore deem it a duty to ask you to vote for them in November. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, OVERMYER'S RECORD IN 1894 DECLARED LAW COULD NOT BE ENFORCED. Now He Says He Can Enforce the Law Which He Characterizes as a Fraud —Col. Dunmore Shows Up Democratic Pledges in Regard to Pensions and Asks Union Soldiers to Vote the Way They Shot. David Overmeyer Democratic nominee for attorney general, is considerably wrought up because Republicans have been showing up his political record with the result that he has become known as a "flopper." Mr. Overmeyer indignantly denies being a "flopper" but makes no effort to cite facts regarding his changes of front which would relieve him from suspicion. On the other hand evidence that he has a new issue and a new opinion for each campaign are continually coming to light. In 1894 Overmyer was the stalwart candidate for Governor on an anti-prohibition and anti-equal suffrage platform. To his candidacy was due the defeat of Governor Llewelling for reelection. This year Overmyer is a Democratic candidate for attorney general on a prohibition platform and claims that he will certainly enforce the prohibitory law in the remote event of his election. He now says that the failure to enforce the prohibitory law in certain localities now is the fault of the Republican officials. In 1894 he held that the law could not be enforced in localities where a majority of the people did not favor its enforcement. He even went farther in that campaign and said that the prohibitory law should not be enforced in communities where a majority of the people did not favor its enforcement. Now he has entirely changed front and says he can enforce the law everywhere. In one of his 1894 speeches Overmyer made the following statement in support of his contention that the law could not be enforced in the face of strong sentiment against it: "We submit to obnoxious laws because we are compelled to; not from choice. If the law making power is a despotic monarch he had behind him his army to compel obedience to his will. If the law making power is the majority it has its superior numbers and greater power to enforce its will. But suppose the majority should be non-combatants and the minority should be combatants would the minority obey the law? Not if it did not suit them to do so." In that speech Overmyer characterized the prohibitory law as entirely evil and used an elaborate set of figures to prove that it did not represent the sentiment of a third of the voters of the state. To this fact, as he termed it, Overmyer ascribed the failure to effectually enforce the law in all the larger counties of the state. This portion of his speech was as follows: "Now I want to say to you in the first place that owing to the peculiar nature of the constitution of Kansas that provision was voted into the constitution by less votes than a majority of all the voters of the state. It was not illegal for that reason because the constitution provided that it might be amended by a majority of the voters voting upon the amendment; but in order to show what sort of sanction this thing has ever had I want to call your attention to a little scrap of ancient history. In that election General Garfield received 121,520 votes; General Hancock received 59,580 votes; Weaver, 19,710, scattering 35; total votes 201,045; for prohibition, 92,502, against prohibition 84,304; total 176,606; excess of presidential vote over prohibition vote 22,439 votes; votes for prohibition less than majority of all votes cast 8,743; voters in state not voting at all 64,600. Add to these the excess of votes for president, the 24,434 and you have 89,059. Add to this vote against prohibition, 84,304. Hence we have not voting for prohibition 173,343 and have voted for it 92,302 in the State of Kansas, and yet under the peculiar form of the constitution that evil provision was placed in the constitution of Kansas." AGAINST LIBERAL PENSIONS Col. Dunsmore Shows Where the Democrats Stand on the Pension Question Col. Harris of Chicago, the cratic candidate for Governor of Kansas, has been making a great play for the old soldier vote in Kansas. The friends of Col. Harris make the unique claim that he is entitled to the support of ex Union soldiers for the reason that he fought in the Confederate army to destroy the Union during the Civil war. Col. Harris preends now to be a great friend of the old soldier and his friends claim that practically all the old soldiers are going to vote for him. Just to show that these statements are not and cannot be true when the old soldiers know the truth J. M. Dunsmore, formerly an intimate associate of Harris in the Populist party and therefore well acquainted with the record of the Chicago colony, has written a letter giving a review of Harris' record regarding pensions during his public service. It is very interesting. The letter is in part as follows: "President Roosevelt authorized pension order No. 78 on March 15., 1904. This order was nothing more than a liberal construction of pension acts of congress, and by its terms declared that it should be considered as an evidential fact that where an applicant for pension has passed 62 years of age he is disabled one-half in ability to perform manual labor, and so by graduation to the age of 70 years, when that fact was to be deemed sufficient for a rating of $12 per month. "The Democratic party met in St. Louis in July, 1904, and true to the general attitude of the party toward Union soldiers, it could not refrain from criticising in its platform this very just order by the president as "an arbitrary executive order," and the nominee of that convention. Judge Parker, in his letter of acceptance, referring to pensions and the Democratic platform said, 'It denied the right of the executive to usurp the power of congress . . . Such usurpation was attempted by pension order No. 78, and effect has been given to it by a congress that dared not resent the usurpation.' "Here we have Judge Parker charging President Roosevelt with an offense for which if guilty he should be impeached. "At that convention Mr. Harris was an active supporter of Judge Parker, both before and after his nomination and was himself a candidate for vicepresident as a Parker man and sought the support of the Kansas delegation but was turned down by that body, even Mr. Farrelly refusing to support him, and Mr. Johnson declared that 'he for one' would vote forever and eternally against such a man,' referring to Mr. Harris' support of Judge Parker, and his very evident Wall street backing. The Democratic convention held at Topeka on April 25 of this year, by its platform indorsed every line of this soldier-hating platform of 1904. And now we find this Parker Democrat from Chicago, Mr. Harris, and the Brownie statesman from Shawnee county, Mr. Overmyer, going about the state proclaiming themselves special friends of the old soldiers and asking their votes." ANOTHER "ISSUE" GONE. Governor Hoch Shows that no Text Books Have Been Adopted Under His Administration. Governor Hoch has taken the wind out of the text-book issue Col. Harris of Chicago and the Star of Kansas City, Mo., have attempted to raise in the Kansas campaign by citing these non-residents to the very patent fact that the text-book commission he appointed has never held a meeting, that it has never adopted a book or any one of its members drawn a penny in compensation. Therefore if Kansas is being robbed by the book trust, which it is not, Governor Hoch and the present administration can not be blamed. Under the present law school books are adopted for terms of five years. There have been no expirations of contracts during Governor Hoch's term. No contracts will expire during his first term. Therefore nothing now in force on the school book proposition can be charged to Hoch. The Governor did appoint A. B. Carney, the Democratic nominee for state superintendent of schools to a place on the text-book commission over the protest of Mrs. Ella Burton SEPTEMBER 21. 1:06 thisSection R CALL HERE July Its. the per capita circulation in the United States on September 1, was $32.59, which is the high record mark. This is based on an estimated population of $8,897,000. At the same date last year it was $31.40. the former agent of the American Book company who is now campaigning for the Democrats but as the Democrats have endorsed the appointment he can hardly be blamed for that. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET Governor E. W. Hoch. Lieutenant Governor -- William J. Fitzgerald. Secretary of State — C. E. Benton. Autor James M. Nation. Attorney General — Frederick S. Jackson. Treasurer — Mark Tully. Superintendent of Schools — E. T. Fairchild. State Printer — Thomas A. MeNeol. Member of the Supreme Court — W. A. Johnson (six years). R. A. Burch. (six years). Silas Porter (four years). Charles B. Graves (four years). Superintendent of Insurance — Chas. W. Barnes. For Railroad Commissioner — Fran L. Ryan. George W. Kanavl. Charles A. Ryker. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. Probate Judge—Henry Meade. County Attorney—Marvin J Reitz. Clerk of the District Court—W. J. Wright, Jr. County Treasurer—J. W. Longfellow. Register of Deeds—Lou H. Chapman. Clerk of Court of Common 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. 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. 1906, 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 plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost as this action. John W. Robinson, Pliff. Attest: By I. F. Bradley. Atty. Wm. 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, 1606, 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 Piff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas. County of Wyandotte ss In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Peter Bruns ceased. Creditors and all persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said county, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid, on the first Saturday in the month October A. D. 1906. I shall apply to the said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. SOPHIA VAN TUYL. Executrix of Peter Bruns, deceased. In witnes whereof, tund undersigned Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas have hereto set my mand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 10th day of September A. D. 1906. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. Sept. 14. Right You Are. In The Kansas City Mo., Times there appeared recently the following editorial which is true to the core. All America seems a Russia to the Negro. "The news has reached Paris that many of the highest officials in Russia are living in a pititable state of terror. Some of them are dying, others are seeking safety in flight. You can't do wrong and oppress your fellow man and be happy. There are a lot of persons in this country who don't believe this, but they will find out it is true." Notes. Register of the United States Treas- W. T Vernon will arrive in Kansas City next Tuesday morning the 25th. He will campaign the state in behalf of the congressional contingent. The Negro schools in this city are about crowded to their utmost capacity. Pupils in the Primary grades at Stowe school are being taught in cloak rooms. Another Negro school has long been needed. When we will get it is a question. Mr. Joseph Williams of No. 5. Fire station is confined to his home with rheumatism. Mr. Frank Bush of 3rd and Minnesota is quite seriously ill. Let by games be by gones boys and put your shoulders to the wheel-"rally 'round the flag" and see that the excellent ticket in Wyandotte county of the Republican as well as in the state is a glorious winner. Joe Gins the black champion will be at the Century Theatre week of Sept. 30th. The Kansas City "sports" will tender him a reception at Arlington hall Monday night Oct. 1. Whit the white citizens failed to do in Atlanta to the Negro the militia and police are doing. 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. NOTE LETS For Rent—To desirable parties, gen tlemper performed well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city, in- quire 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 Easly at 1107 N. 6th st, conveni- ently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line, Prices reason able. Mrs. Røed, 528 Neb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rooms to rent. Notice of Application for Parole This is to notify all persons that I the undersigned will on the 2nd day of October 1906 or as soon thereafter as can be conveniently heard apply to the Prison Board of the State of Kansas, for a parole from the State penitentiary of the State of Kansas. Take notice and govern yourself accordingly. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County kansas. Frank Benton, Plaintiff. vs. Jane Benton, Defendant. The above named defendant will hereby take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff in the above hamed court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 30th day of April 1906 the petition filed against her will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing him from her the said defendant, and for cost o this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atty, for Pliff Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY . . . . KANSAS. W. C. Martin, Editor, Geo. A Dudley, Publisher and Business Manager. Terms of Subscription in Advance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....65c Three Months.....40c One Month.....15c **Advertising** 25 cents per inch First Insertion. **A Standing Display** 'Ad' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. Grangemouth is the name of a Moscow editor. Evidently a farmer on the side. Waldorf Astor has become so thoroughly anglicized that he is going to marry an American girl. A clergyman says that bridge whist leads to mental decline. Why doesn't he try poker for a change? Senator Pettus is declared to be a poor man and fond of poker. The last explains the first, possibly. Perhaps boys should be thankful for whippings, as somebody declares, but they seldom are before they are 45. Sweet Spring is now approaching, and Summer with the rose, so poetry's encroaching upon the field of prose. King Edward was "warmly received" in Paris, but not in the same way as when he used to be prince of Wales. The czar will reserve the right to wield the big stick over the Douma, according to the latest advices from St. Petersburg. We learn from the New York Mail that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and ple 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 tarrows 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 gloves --- GREAT SINGER IS UNGRATEFUL. Mme. Patti Criticizes America, Whih Made Her Wealthy. Confirmation of the report that Mme. Adelina Pattl 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 impresario 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 Robinson. 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 old 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 who 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 Ethelly 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 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, 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. "You see, I have eight darters an' 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 maidella. "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 'mild 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 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 my forgetting, ochone, that no longer was meant yet. And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me. —Pall Mall Gazette. Fate of the Old Presidents In the autumn of 1901 Mrs. W. of Roxbury spent a few weeks with her daughter in Nova Scotia, returning home shortly before President McKinley was shot, bringing her niece, Bessie F., aged 6 years, home with her. Of course the child heard a good deal of talk in the house about the shooting of the president. One day Bessie said to her aunt: "Aunt Minnie, who is king of the United States?" Her aunt replied: "We have no kings in the United States like you do in your British country. We have presidents. We have an election every four years and elect a new one." "Oh, yes," the child replied; "and then they shoot the old ones, don't they?"—Boston Herald. New City for Egypt Suakin, on the Red sea, has proved an unsatisfactory port and is to be superseded by a brand-new rival which has been built up out of coral work and desert sand by the Egyptian authorities. The rival is Port Sudan, the latest addition to the cities of the British empire, and an enthusiast says that it is destined to be a place of magnitude and importance in the days when cotton shall have made it the New Orleans of the east. The place has hitherto been called Mersa Sheikh Barud. It is about 680 miles south of Suez and is capable of holding a dozen vessels of moderate size. The entrance is 600 feet across, and the land around is six feet above sea level. Posers for Scholars Twenty words submitted to a spelling bee in Springfield, Mass., in 1846 were given to the high school class at East Liverpool by Supt. Rayman, and it is reported not one in the class correctly spelled every word. Only ten had averages of over 90 per cent. The average of the 124 pupils was $73\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. The words submitted were accidental, accessible, baptism, chirography, characteristic, deceitful, descendant, eccentric evanescent, fierceness, feignedly, ghastliness, gnawed, heiless, hysterics, imbecility, inconceivable, inconvenience inefficient, irresistible. -Pittsburgh Dispatch. Their Use Urged by a German Mill tary, Writer A writer in the Militar-Woenchblatt 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, also. But I—Well, I don't know. What bought the most delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— The love of her heart? And if her heart beats not for me, And I am not adored, you see, Well-I don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Expect to get in free; But if the Lord meant what he said Concerning charity. The title I give before I die. Will slip through the needle's eye, Or—I don't know! For happiness? Well, money bought It bought this face in which I loll, It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness, What would it be? 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 beit g 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 W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR and Embalmer. The very best of Service, Fine Carriages for alll Purposes, at all Hours. The Best Equipped White Enameled Ambulance for sick and wounded on Short Notice. Charges Reasonable. Call at 431 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. Western University THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST DEPARTMENTS:—Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Norm Industrial. COURSES:—Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub- sical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, on- mony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpe- and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES:—Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, ences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION:—For terms, prices and all inducem- write to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., PRESIDENT, QUINDARO MENTS:—Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Norma ial. —Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub- Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, ou Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpe- ook-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and ing, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking ing and Gardening. GES:—Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, and Thorough Teachers. ION:—For terms, prices and all induceme o IAM T. VERNON, A. M., PRESIDENT, DEPARTMENTS:—Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES:—Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, organ and bass mony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES:—Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION:—For terms, prices and all inducements offered write to Phones {Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West" 15. Why does colored people as well as uncolored people set in the dark by a smoky poor light and drink muddy bad water full of disease germs. When they can get a first-class Bright Gas Burner Light Bright Gas Burner Light For 35 to 75 cents. And a Self Cleaner Water that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Health For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN ROOM 8, Self Cleaner Water makes the water clear as a Crystal and Health For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN ROOM 8, TA AVE. KANSAS CITY Shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular regular by trading at a popular store? J. J. MADDUX Fruit and Fancy Grocer Meats and all Kinds of Produce that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN "In the shade of the Old Appl not you be popular by trading at a p L. J. M Staple and Fa Meats and all K "In the shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular song—Why not you be popular by trading at a popular store? L. J. MADDUX, Staple and Fancy Groceries Meats and all Kinds of Produce. HOME PHONE 784 WEST. Because its employees were late a London house provided a book in which the tardy ones were to write excuses. Reasons for lateness were not much varied. At the top of the page one would write "Train delayed," or "Omnibus horse died," as the case might be, and the rest fell into the habit of making ditto marks and letting it go at that. But not long ago one man had a new excuse. He wrote with pride; "Wife had twins." The second slow person that morning was in a great hurry, and did not notice the innovation, but made his customary ditto marks, and the rest of the men on that page followed suit. The excuse book was abolished. Example of the Postage Stamp. The late Judge Andrew Wylie, of Virginia, had a happy gift of illustration. The judge cast in 1860 the only vote for Lincoln that was given in Alexandria, Va. In an address on Lincoln he once illustrated in an odd way the power of perseverance. "Lincoln persevered," he said, "and it is only those who persevere, they who concentrate their energies, who succeed. Don't give three years to journalism and then, discouraged, try the law awhile. Don't learn the grocery business and in a little while take up placer mining or plumbing. Consider, rather, the postage stamp, whose useful depends on its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Think What a Family Then! "Well," said the first policyholder, throwing aside his paper, "there is at least one thing we can be thankful for concerning our Mutual friend, Mr. McCurdy." "What's that?" inquired the second policyholder. "That he isn't a Mormon." --- 530 MINNESOTA AVE 852 FREEMAN AVE. College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical), including piano, organ and bass and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing Course, Stenography and Typewriting Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering ion, Healthful Climate, Good Infu- sions and all inducements offered NON, A. M., D. D. PRESIDENT, uncolored peoplelet set in the dark and drink muddy bad disease germs. aner Water Eilter r as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. ERIDAN M 8, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS "Tree" is a very popular song-What popular store? ADDUX, ncy Groceries inds of Produce. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Res. 420 Nebraska ave. Tel. 383 W140 SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Hours: From 10 a. m., till 4 p.m. and from 6 till 9 p. m. C. H. C. JORDAN, M. M., M. D. Here is the Place J. T. Roberts TONSORIAL PARLOR All the Latest Style Hair Cuts, Clear Shave strictly Up-to-Date 438 MINNESOTA AVE. An Old French Sailor. French seamen have a dozen in the person of a centenarian. The old sailor belongs alike to the navy and to the merchant service, for he served in both, and it would be difficult to say in which of the two his adventures were the most thrilling. His record includes three shipwrecks, the battles 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 corsoir 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 sea. --- ROOM 8. KANSAS Mr. Investor, This is a Permanent, Sure, Conservative, Dividend Earner. KANSAS CITY STEEL and IRON FOUNDRY corporated under the Laws of the State of Columbia, under Federal SUSPENSION, $100,000,000, divided into 100,000 non-assessable shares, par value $100,000,000. The company is now building two factories, one in Kansas City, Mo., and other in Sour Lake, Texas. The City plant alone covers 5½ acres. These factories will be in operation by January 1st. They represent an outlay and value of $235. There is not a cent of incumbrance in the amphitheatre steel and iron casting will be the only one for the picture of iron and steel castings. Southwest. All orders for steel castings have to be placed in the. The factories there are about months behind with their orders. Crude Oil Power Co., turning out very star-shaped pounds per day and malleable iron castings, will outcompete in the entire the company controls, furthermore, to manufacture the new Crude oil and Portable Refiner and motor. This engine will be manu- ated at a very minimum cost and be sold at a very large profit. As it is operated from the Crude Oil it absolutely displace the Gasoline Portable Refiner will refine Crude oil the wells. This will effect a revo- in the oil business as the produc- cut down 50 per cent of the cost of profits from the casting foundries will reach $200,000.00 a year. With right to pay and with no fuel bills, an natural gas is developed on the own plants, this company is the Eastern Producer out of lowest. It has the field to itself, and for steel and malleable iron to secure additional funds for the amount of the company's properties, to complete its work, the company is offering an issue, of 100,000 of stock. issue is offered at 25 cents per par value $1.00. The subscriptions investors are invited to this event. This will be held from the foundry department making at present prices a profit per cent on the investment. This estimate no account is made accrued by the sale of the full Investment. Development alone will add vast financial possibilities of the competition of investors is directed character of the officers of the firm. Reference is furnished by the State Bank of Kansas and the State Bank of Kansas. For further information, to F. C. Vincent, Fiscal Agent, bealtar Building, Kansas City, Mo. OUR MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN everyone, rich or poor, an oppo- nancy to become a stockholder in one big industries of the country. can buy stock now at 25 cents per and have several months' time to or it. It will pay you to buy all in carry before the advance. buys forty shares of stock, payable own and $1 per month. $50 buys 200 of stock, payable $15 down and per month. $100 buys 400 shares of payable 400 down and $10 per buys 1,000 shares of stock, payable $50 down and $25 per month. buys 2,000 shares of stock, payable own and $50 per month. $1,000 4,000 shares of stock, payable $100 own and $100 per month. DR.COE'S MATRIOUM. LOCATED AT 20TH AND WANDOTTE. INVALID'S HOME IN THE WEST. punished with a civil staff of physicians and assists for treatment of all non-ronic Diseases. ROOMS for accommodation of patients. Basil Surgical Operations Performed with and Success when Surgery is Necessary. CASES OF WOMEN Well equipped to treat diseases Many who have sickle worms. Special book for women. FILES PERMANENT CURE POSITIVELY GUARANTEED brief life history part of well. Special Book BIOGELLE Radically Cured in Ten Days. under a Positive State. Special FREE Book restaurant treatise of Vital Bicycle, Rupture, Stricture PUPPLED CHILDREN CURED by improved trained attendants. WRITE FOR FREE BOOK ON Pet Curtature of Hair Lice Hair Lice Kidney, Bladder, Blood and Nervous Diseases. successfully treated at home by Consultation Free and confidential, at entry by letter. Taunty Years' experience. Illustrated Book Store giving much information. Call at office. C. M. COE, OFFICE, 915 WALNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Can sell your Real Estate or business no matter where located properties and Business of all kinds sold likely for cash in all parts of the Uni- tates. Don't hesitate. Write today de- sign what you have to sell and give price on same. If you Want to Buy of Business or Real Estate any at any price, write me your re- ments. I save you time and money. DAVID P. TAFF, THE LAND MAN, P15 Kansas Avenue, TOPEKA, KANSAS. God Mother to Her Husband. Home time ago a loving couple at New York says the Press, applied to Houghton of the "Little Church around the Corner" to be married. are you both been baptized?" the case inquired. "No; I haven't," said a astounded bridegroom elect. "She be added, hastily and proudly. You must be baptized before I can be added, hastily and proudly. --- THIS COMPANY is building Two Great Factories, one at Kansas City, the other Texas. Both Plants will have the same initial capacity, at the advantage of natural gas for fuel, and splendid transp. The company's purpose in both plants will be First—A Steel and Malleable Iron Casting Foundry to manufacture Malleable Iron and Steel Castings at a lace by any other known process. This will be the only plant of Kansas City, and we are already assured of orders that will of this department. This department alone will pay big returnment. Kansas City, the other at Sour Lake, the initial capacity, and both will have and splendid transportation facilities. will be casting Foundry Castings at a larger net profit than be the only plant of this character in of orders that will tax the full capacity one will pay big returns on the total in- is building Two Great Factories, one at Kansas City, the other at Sour Lake, Texas. Both Plants will have the same initial capacity, and both will have the advantage of natural gas for fuel, and splendid transportation facilities. The company's purpose in both plants will be First—A Steel and Malleable Iron Casting Foundry to manufacture Malleable Iron and Steel Castings at a larger net profit than by any other known process. This will be the only plant of this character in Kansas City, and we are already assured of orders that will tax the full capacity of this department. This department alone will pay big returns on the total investment. Second—A Portable Crude Oil Refiner or refining Crude Oil at the wells. These final price for great profit, and they will. The use of this machine makes it pos-Less than by Present Methods. Oil Engine which is destined to Supersede the me initial horse power can be developed engines can be used wherever the gas-special crude oil burner manufactured tove, furnace or boiler at low cost and make it possible to heat, cook and gas, gasoline, kerosene, wood or coal, the same horse power at half the cost. denatured alcohol; just crude oil at less $6.30 per barrel. INVESTMENT demand for whose product is as STABLE, IS THE DEMAND FOR BREAD AND carries with it NONE OF THE SPECU-ent in mining stocks or a grambling flyer offering you stocks whose val- as a real estate purchase or the infinitely GREATER PROFIT to you. trey stocks will be used for further Investment in an industrial enterprise, no competition and for whose pro-ith it no risk. the dire need of a factory of this char-WE PROPOSE TO GET THE BUSI-steel castings are used every year in Every pound of this material has come now from six to nine months behind buildings, blacksmith shops, offices (G) acres of land advantageously sit-Belt Line railways. WE HAVE DEVELO-OUT OWN GAS AND OIL LAND. Thus pass City, so there will be NO TRANS-market, which in itself can take our un-FREIGHT TO PAY. Eastern producers we field to ourselves. Kansas City alone and malleable iron castings annually, ent. Cent, 435 Gibraltar Building, regarding the Crude Oil To manufacture Special Machinery for refining Crude Oil at the wells. These machines can be manufactured at a nominal price for great profit, and they will revolutionize the Refining of Crude Oils. The use of this machine makes it possible to refine crude oil at 50 per cent Less than by Present Methods. Third—A Crude Oil Engine To manufacture a Crude Oil Engine which is destined for Present Gasoline Engine, because the same initial horse power at one-half the present fuel cost. These engines can be used in line or steam engine is used. The special crude oil by this company can be affixed to any stove, furnace or boiler large profit. The use of this burner will make it possible to steam at less cost than by using natural gas, gasoline, kerosene. Just think of an engine that will develop the same horse power. No need to use gasoline, coal or even denatured alcohol; just than 60c per barrel instead of gasoline at $6.30 per barrel. SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENT We are building an enterprise the demand for whose profit PERMANENT AND SUSTAINED AS THE DEMAND FOR BUTTER. Investment in this industry carries with it NON-LATIVE RISKS incurred by an investment in mining stocks in the wheat market. We are offering you stocks are, and will be, as safe as a real estate an investment in government bonds, with infinitely GREAT. Every dollar derived from the sale of the treasury stocks will development of the company's interests. Investment in an IH manufacturing a staple commodity having no competition and ducts there is heavy demand, carries with it no risk. Kansas City has for many years, felt the dire need of a meter. We are supplying this need and WE PROUSE TO NESS. Millions of tons of malleable iron and steel castings are used in Kansas City and the Southwest States. Every pound of this out of the Eastern factories, which are now from six to nine with their orders. Our foundries, machinery buildings, black and laborties will cover upward of five (5) acres of land, and on the Missouri Pacific and Oregon/Belt Lineways, OPED OUR OWN NATURAL GAS ON OUR OWN GAS AND there will be no fuel cost. We are in Kansas City, so there is PORTATION to the great Kansas City market, which in its tire product. With NO FUEL AND NO FREIGHT TO PAY, can not compete with us. We have the field to ourselves, is using upwards of 300,000 tons of steel and malleable iron. There will be no limit to our development. F. C. VINCENT, Fiscal Agent, 435 Gibraltar, Kansas City Mo. Please send me all information regarding the Crude Power Co. Signed Address. NOTE--Write Name and Address Plainly. To manufacture a Crude Oil Engine which is destined to Supersede the Present Gasoline Engine, because the same initial horse power can be developed at one-half the present fuel cost. These engines can be used wherever the gasoline or steam engine is used. The special crude oil burner manufactured by this company can be affixed to any stove, furnace or boiler at low cost and large profit. The use of this burner will make it possible to heat, cook and steam at less cost than by using natural gas, gasoline, kerosene, wood or coal. Just think of an engine that will develop the same horse power at half the cost. No need to use gasoline, coal or even denatured alcohol; just crude oil at less than 60c per barrel instead of gasoline at $6.30 per barrel. SUBSTANTIAL INVESTMENT We are building an enterprise the demand for whose product is as STABLE, PERMANENT AND SUSTAINED AS THE DEMAND FOR BREAD AND BUTTER. Investment in this industry carries with it NONE OF THE SPECULATIVE RISKS incurred by an investment in mining stocks or a grammbling fiber in the wheat market. We are offering you stocks whose values are, and will be, as safe as a real estate purchase or an investment in government bonds, with infinitely GREATER PROFIT to you. Every dollar derived from the sale of the treasury stocks will be used for further development of the company's interests. Investment in an industrial enterprise, manufacturing a staple commodity having no competition and for whose products there is heavy demand, carries with it no risk. Kansas City has for many years, felt the dire need of a factory of this character. We are supplying this need and WE PROPOSE TO GET THE BUSINESS. Millions of tons of malleable iron and steel castings are used every year in Kansas City and the Southwest States. Every pound of this material has come out of the Eastern factory and is now from six to nine months behind with their orders. Our foundries, made by building buildings, shops, offices and laboratories will cover upward of five (5) acres of land advantageously equipped on the Missouri Pacific and Orient Belt Line railways. WE HAVE DEVELOPED OUR OWN NATURAL GAS ON OUR OWN GAS AND OIL LAND. Thus we are no fuel cost. We are in Kansas City, so there will be NO TRANSPORTATION to the great Kansas City market, which in itself can take our entire product. We OWN OWN GAS AND NO FEIGHT TO PAY, Eastern producers can not compete with us. We have held to ourselves, Kansas City alone is using upwards of 300,000 tons of steel and malleable iron castings annually. There will be no limit to our development. Please send me all information regarding the Crude Oil Power Co. Carnival Week In Kansas City October 1-6. Make Kansas City's greatest store you quarters. Everything for the family and the home greatest store your head. family and the home. L, Thayer Co. S CITY. Make Kansas City's greatest store your headquarters. Everything for the family and the home. Emery, Bird, Thayer KANSAS CITY. "I want you to join a society for the suppression— "I'll join no society for the suppression—" "Hold on! This is a society for the suppression of societies for the suppression of anything."— Louisville Courrier-Journal. TAPE-WORM Expelled alive in 60 minutes with head, or no fee. Not tasting. Large pamphlets or scrapbook DR. M. NEY 8MITH, Special 114, 512 Pineet, St. Louis, Mo. The Publishers Newspaper Union. K. C. Mo., Lincoln, Neb. V IX NO. 28 VARICOCELE A Safe, Painless. Permanent Cure GUARANTEED 30 years' experience. No money accepted until its well known CONSULTATION and valuable BOOK FREE or at office. DR C. M. COE 015 W麓街 M. D. Q. S. M. COLL, JD, W. WANHURT, KANSAS CITY, MO. to be act as godmother to her lover. Tranquility having been restored, Dr. Houghton issued a certificate of baptism bearing the young lady's name as godmother and the certificate of marriage, same date, containing her name A girl can look so marriageable when a rich bachelor comes on the scene. --- --- Remember the name. KANSAS CITY. PRIVATE HOME for confinement cases. Adoption. Beautiful grounds and building. Location and surroundings very exclusive. Strictly ethical. For full participants, address Office. 15-16, 1214 Main St. U.S. G. Hughes, M. D., KANSAS CITY MO PRESIDENT No fee charged unless collection is made. ANTHONY P. WILSON, Atty. We make collections in all parts of the United States. "You must be baptized before I can perform a marriage ceremony for you," he announced. "Fire away—no, I don't mean that. No fire, of course—to prevent fire, of course—I mean all right." A few minutes of consternation followed, when it was seen that there was not one present who could be a witness, but finally Dr. Houghton solved the problem by having the bride THE DREAD CANCER. Statement of Progress Made by Science to Conquer It. In Harper's Weekly for March 3 I published, under the heading, "The Coming Conquest of Cancer," an article the contents of which were unexpectedly sufficient—inevitably more than sufficient, indeed—to arouse extremely widespread attention. In consequence of its publication, Dr. John Board of the University of Edinburgh, whose work I was describing, has been almost overwhelmed with correspondence which, at such a stage as this in his experiments, is much more than irksome, since it causes serious delay in the completion of his immeasurably important work. I, also, work ten hours a day in any case and have found it difficult to cope, in any sympathetic and adequate fashion, with the inquiries which have reached me from all parts of America. How much, then, can be said by way of tentative and courteous suggestion for the benefit of any American physician, upon whose soul there now weighs a case of inoperable cancer? In the first place, I would urge that the knife must on no account be abandoned when possible. If the new treatment realizes all that it promises, the knife in cancer will be abolished; but at the present stage it would be absolutely unjustifiable to withhold it and replace it by the trypsin treatment—even though this would amount to the performance of an extremely interesting and possibly valuable experiment. Apart from this, however, let us consider the possible means by which trypsin may be administered. In our ignorance it is plainly necessary the matter invariably being urgent, to employ every possible means. In the case of a tumor of the face, for instance, and wherever possible, a solution of trypsin must be locally applied Secondly, pills or tablets of pancreatic extract, containing trypsin swallowed. Thirdly, and this is most important, solutions of trypsin must be injected under the skin as near as possible to the growth. Dr. Beard believes this solution at the strength of four per cent. of trypsin is the weakest that is desirable. Of this, only a few drops may be injected at first, but day by day the dose may be increased, according to the patient's symptoms, until as much as, perhaps forty drops of such a solution may be injected daily. Is trypsin dangerous the reader will ask. The most obvious answer to that is of course that a gland, without which he could not live, is constantly producing trypsin within him. But it might be that the body would resent the presence of any more than a very small quantity of this substance. It is Dr. Beard's belief, however,—based upon his embryological studies, and not yet experimentally demonstrated—that trypsin has no injurious action whatever upon the normal living cells of the body. Indeed, it is difficult to see how it can have any such injurious action, for it acts in an alkaline medium, the blood and the tissues are always alkaline, and therefore there is no reason why, if it had this power, it should not digest those cells of the body with which it normally comes in contact; for instance, the cells of the tiny tube through which it normally flows. On the other hand, large doses of trypsin produced temporary symptoms of severe poisoning in the two mice which Dr. Beard has already and indisputably cured of cancer, as I described in my last article. But of course this should be so. Whatever may or may not happen in the case of man, at any rate in the case of those two mice—similar experiments are of course now proceeding—the trypsin caused the breaking down of the cancer cells and the pouring of the poisonous products of their death into the blood stream. One of these products, Dr. Beard thinks, may be alcohol, which would account for the symptoms of intoxication exhibited by the mice. As the cure proceeded, the cancer cells were killed and the products of their death absorbed and disposed of.—C. W. Saleeby, M. D., F. R. S. Edin., in Harper's Weekly. . Old Enough. He—If you marry me I will ask for no more. She—You'd better not—you'd be polygamist. Many a town man dates his downfall from the day he began keeping a cow. A town cow is so mean that she soon teaches her master bad habits. This is how soundly a boy sleeps in the morning: It will take his father at least ten minutes to wake him up, and it will take his mother an hour and a half. It doesn't make much difference whether a man has one or a dozen children; his grocery bills are about the same. If he has a big family, the children eat more roughness. "When I went away from here last September," said the guest, who arrived at a seashore hotel the other day, speaking to the landlord, "you told me that I would not find the place here this year. It is still nere, however." "I said probably," answered the host, with a sigh. "Well, what did you mean by probably?" "Well, there was every chance that the winter gales would blow the root off." "But they didn't." "There was every chance that the winter seas would roll in here and pound the bulkhead to pieces and smash in the hotel." "But they didn't." "There was every chance that tramps might come along and turn in for a smoke and set the thing afire." "But they didn't," insisted the guest. A "There was a probability—a strong probability—that the watchman might get drunk and pour kerosene into the stove and burn things to the ground. I believe he is a man who gets drunk and makes use of kerosene that way." "But he neglected to do so last winter?" "It seems so. I figured that we would have the usual number of thunderstorms in the spring, and as the house stands in an exposed situation there was a probability that it would be struck by lightning." "We had the thunder storms, but the house escaped all damage." "As you see." "And so you were obliged to re-open this summer, and you'll have to run it again until September?" "That's my luck." "Oh, well, don't take it too hard. Fill 'er up and do your best, and let every guest understand that he will be expected to put in about half his time praying for an earthquake and a tidal wave and a conflagration to follow. You'll beat the insurance companies yet." The president and the cabinet of France have refused to adopt the action of the council of the Legion of Honor in granting Sarah Bernhardt admission into the charmed circle of French Knighthood. So Sarah must never wear the long-coveted bit of red ribbon on her breast. A hard-hearted decision? Not by any means. One of the rules laid down by Napoleon Bonaparte when he instituted the order was that no person who had a questionable past, whose private life had a stain upon it, should ever be admitted. Sarah Bernhardt is a gifted woman. She is a genius of high order. But The brilliant woman's private life has not been above reproach, as everyone knows. She has defied the moral laws. Her son Maurice was born out of wedlock. Bernhardt never denied this nor her other escapades. How then could she be given a clean bill of health for her sixty checkered years of life? It may seem hard to remind a woman of her past delinquencies. But Bernhardt is a public character seeking public honors and the public morals are concerned. She has reaped what she has sown. For years she has snapped her fingers at conventionality; that is to say, at the decencies of life. And she has been made to understand at last that the way of the transgressor is hard. Much is pardoned to genius—too much—but when genius sins, it must suffer the same as mediocrity—and more. Jack London has learned that fact. And Gorky, the Russian novelist. And Preacher Herron. And many others in the public eye. The French cabinet did well. The world everywhere needs a revival of the teachings of the stern law of moral obligation. There is too much of a disposition to excuse delinquency in high places. There is too much talk about "moralis being a matter of environment," etc., etc. The punishment of the great actress is keen, but no nation can afford to overlook its own ideals of feminine honor and virtue for the sake of any individual high or low.—Des Moines News. PERUNA PRAISEL. Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir:-- I was a terrible sufferer from pelvic weakness and had headache continuously. I was not able to do my housework for myself and husband. I wrote you and described my condition as nearly as possible. You recommended Peruna. I took four bottles of it and was completely cured. I think Peruna a wonderful medicine and have recommended it to my friends with the very best of results. Esther M. Milner. Very few of the great multitude of women who have been relieved of some pelvic disease or weakness by Peruna ever consent to give a testimonial to be read by the public. There are, however, a few courageous self-sacrificing women who will for the sake of their suffering sisters allow their cures to be published. Mrs. Milner is one of those. In her gratitude for her restoration to health she is willing that the women of the world should know it. A chronic invalid brought back to health is no small matter. Words are inadequate to express complete gratitude. There is no satisfaction keener than being dry and comfortable when out in the hardest storm YOU ARE SURE OF THIS IF YOU WEAR TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING BLACK OR YELLOW On sale everywhere A J TOWER CO. BOSTON, U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO. TORONTO, CANADA 412 There is one thing the majority of fathers can be thankful for: There is no possibility of their daughters falling in love with the chauffeur. Tom—Well, darling, I have seen your father and he has given his consent. Grace—He approves of love in a cottage, then? Tom—No; but he says that a girl who spends so much time golfing and motoring as you do really has not much need of a home.—Tatle. Cholly—I thought perhaps you had a preference for Bobby Jones? Mildred—Nonsense! You are just as welcome here as he is. Why, he is the most insufferable bore I know.—Judge. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing and when it is entirely closed, 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. Toledo, O. Sold by Drunges, price 75. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation "Does your new chauffeur give satisfaction?" "Yes; I think we are going to be very well pleased with him. He ran over two people yesterday and managed both times to get away before anybody discovered our number."—Modern Society. Blessed is the man who eats his bread by the light of a wife's smile. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFs. The contract for Clinton's new municipal electric light plant has been let at $30,000. It will be operated by the city. Reuben Clark, of Utah, has been appointed assistant solicitor of the department of state, succeeding Frederick Van Dyne of New York. Building operations in Winnipeg, Manitoba, are tied up as practically all the men engaged in that work are on strike in sympathy with the plumbers. The International Harvester Company will be called upon to face the trust law of Kansas, the attorney general having decided to oust it from the state. Otto D. Stallard, cashier of the People's National Bank, Sedan, Kansas, has absconded, leaving a letter that he was short in his accounts and had been detected. The steamer Lora being the first of the new river line boats from St. Louis to Kansas City, had a triumphal trip, being hailed by crowds in city and country. The arrival of Secretary Taft in Cuba gave hope to the people of that Republic that the insurrection would be brought to an end, through the influence of the United States. Several of the legations at Tangier have protested against the efforts of Raisuli to impose irregular and irritating taxes on Moorish horsemen attached to the foreign missions, but Mohammed el Torres, the Moroccan foreign minister, is at a loss to know how to act. An attempt was made on the life of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria Hungary, as the prince was traveling through Salgo-Tarjan to Vienna on a special railway train, when enormous stones were hurled through the window of his carriage. The territorial joint statehood convention was held at Phoenix, Arizona, and Charles F. Ainsworth of Paeonix, was nominated for delegate to Congress. The platform adopted indorses President Roosevelt and invites the labor vote. It was a mass meeting rather than a convention, for no county organization exists. Violent strike riots have occurred at Grenoble, France. A mob tore down the doors of a big factory, carried out the furniture of the establishment, piled it in the street and set fire to it. The mob proceeded to the police station, believing that two of their comrades were in prison there, and sacking it, making a bonfire of the furniture and papers. The troops were able to disperse the mob only by the free use of their rifle butts. The Secretary of War, Mr. Taft, has made the announcement that,Charles E. Magoon, governor of the Panama zone, has been appointed governor general of the Philippines. Governor Magoon will sail from Panama for the United States September 24 and will depart almost immediately for the Philippines to take up his duties there. Secretary Taft said that no decision had been arrived at as to Magoon's successor in the canal zone. A typhoon, or hurricane, off the coast of China at Hong Kong drove ashore or left in a sinking condition 12 ships. It lasted two hours, and all business in the city was suspended. The dead was placed at 100. The report of the foundering of the Fatshan is said to be untrue. Only two persons on the Fatshan were killed. The French loss includes officerers. The British gunboats Robin and Moorhen and the torpedo boat destroyer Taku were damaged. The gunboat Phoenix and the French torpedo boat destroyer Francisque were wrecked. Ocean liners, junks, sampans and ferry boats were piled up in the streets and the flooded highways blocked with wreckage. The American ship S. P. Hitchcock was driven ashore. Later—One thousand lives were lost in the typhoon, and millions of property destroyed. The next meeting of the isthmian canal commission is scheduled for October 1 on the isthmus of Panama, but the meeting may be deferred until November, at the time the President makes his visit. Chairman Shonts intends to go to the isthmus with the President, or will be there at that time, and if the meeting is deferred he will not be obliged to make two trips. There comes a time in every girl's life when she feels her princess oats to such an extent, it is a wonder she doesn't demand that the men, in addition to taking off their hats, also take off their neckties. REVOLUTION! THE GOVERNMENT THE POPULAR GAME OF RUSSIA JUST NOW. more & Ohio and presumably, with The tailor-made girl is wonderfully other members of the Union Pacific and fearfully made. The man or woman who uses common sense in investing a small sum of money will have a larger sum to reinvest later on. There is only one road to success and that is the profitable investment of your savings. You can't earn enough at the average occupation in a lifetime to become independent or even comfortably fixed, and opportunities to embark in business are exceptionally rare for those of small capital. Are you ambitious to succeed in life? Do you want to get a start on the road to wealth? Then you must make your money earn more than the interest a Savings Bank or a farm mortgage will pay. At 4 per cent it takes your dollar twenty-five years to earn another dollar in the savings bank. However, don't make the mistake of thinking that your dollar does not earn a great deal more than that. The trouble is that it goes into the banker's pocket instead of into your own. There is no uncertainty about money-making. The life of every rich man who earned his own wealth shows that it is plain "Common Sense" and the courage to grasp opportunities when they are presented. Many men think they could make money if they only had a start, but they overlook the fact that they must use the "Common Sense" way of getting a start, "Common Sense" investments and a careful application to business followed up day after day will bring wealth to any man of ordinary ability. You may ask the question: Where can such investments be found? The answer is that successful men are finding them every day. ACTIVITY IN INDUSTRIALS Have you noticed the increased activity in manufacturing during the past three or four years? Have you ever stopped to consider the reason for it. The immense profits from industrial enterprise have startled the world. Last year the dividends paid on industrial stocks greatly exceeded the dividends paid on all the railroad and bank stocks in the United States. The richest men in the country made their money out of the great industries, and today are making more money in this way than in any other Industry. Rockefeller, Hearst, Schwab, Clark, Rogers, Carnegie, Frick, Ellis, Heinze and hundreds of others are constantly adding to their immense wealth by the dividends from their industrial stocks. THE TIME TO BUY IS WHEN THE STOCK IS LOW. The big industries of the country, the ones that are paying millions in annual dividends, are operated on a scale that would astound the average person. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent for machinery, etc., but they turn out a thousand tons of material where an ordinary enterprise takes out much less. It's output that counts. The Crude Oil Power Co., will be operated on the same business-like and extensive basis that has made other great industries famous for the wealth they produce. The officers and directors of the company have invested heavily in this enterprise and are devoting their time to put it on a dividend paying basis without salary or remuneration of any kind except their share of the dividends the board will regularly pay. REVOLUTIONARY THE POPULAR GAME OF "E. H. Harriman and his associates, have acquired control of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company and propose using it, with probably the Chicago & Alton as the connecting link, in forming with the Union Pacific a t rough line from ocean to ocean. Mr. Harriman and James Stillman have for some time been directors of the Baltimore & Ohio and presumably, with other members of the Union Pacific salary until the enterprise is on a dividend paying basis. All stockholders are on an equal basis, each share shares alike. The stock offered to investors is the regular, treasury stock, and every dollar you invest should return to you many fold. This stock is not a gamble but a business proposition that will appeal to the common sense of every man or woman that investiga es it. At the low price at which stock is offered and easy terms for payment, no one can afford to be without some of it whether the investment be large or small. A few dollars a month that can be easily spared may be the means of giving many a man or woman a start that will lead to the accumulation of a fortune. $100 invested in the Crude Oil Power Co. should yield a larger income than $1,000 invested in ordinary securities, and your investment is just as safe as a farm mortgage or a government bond. There will no doubt be an enormous demand for this stock. Shares in a proposition so well and favorably known among manufacturers and the general public are bound to sell very rapidly. If you are considering an investment, investigate now and if you find that it has not been misrepresented place your order without delay in order to get in while the price of the stock is low. Investors who contemplate purchasing a block of stock amounting to $1,000 or more are requested to make this fact known to the fiscal agent as soon as possible that the requisite amount of stock may be reserved for them. See announcement on another page. Mexico's great national celebration in honor of its independence day has been held and no American blood was spilled. For weeks weird stories have been coming from the Mexican juntas in the United States in regard to a general massacre of all foreigners, scheduled for September 16. It was stated that special bitterness existed against the Americans in Mexico, who were blamed for the opening and developing of the great republic. Coupled with a general massacre of Americans there was to have been a revolt against Diaz and the institution of a new government. Although President Diaz investigated these reports and pronounced them baseless, and our minister to Mexico, David E. Thompson, sent reassuring messages to his countrymen, there was a panicky feeling in some of the remote districts of Mexico where lonely Americans would be helpless against an uprising. But nothing happened. Instead of an anti-American sentiment it appears that the most cordial relations existed between the Mexicans and foreigners from the United States. Not a single arrest for serious disturbance of the peace was reported from any point in the republic. One of the most significant of the failures in municipal ownership that has occurred recently is the telephone ownership in Glasgow, Scotland. The object of municipal ownership of the telephone system in Glasgow was, as usual, to give cheaper and better service to the people. It not only failed to do so, but the attempt resulted in bankruptcy. When the authorities found that its revenues failed to pay the bills they refused to levy a tax to cover the deficiency, but turned it over to others. THE GOVERNMENT F RUSSIA JUST NOW. party, have been extensive holders of its stock. It is now said that the 40 million dollars in round numbers of Baltimore & Ohio stock recently sold by the Pennsylvania Railroad company to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., has been disposed of by the banking house to the Union Pacific interests. The tailor-made girl is wonderfully and fearfully made. GEORGE BAKER He is Helping Their Business. First Stork—What do you think of President Roosevelt's ideas as to race suicide? Second Stork—I think that the least we can do is to make him an honorary member of our society. BEE BAKER The Mere Semblance of Comfort. Elephant—Goodness- I wish I was born to flounder around in cool water all day long. Hippopotamus—Cool water? I'm so hot-blooded that this little tank they give me is up to boiling point more than half the time. BASK DALL Philomena—Hasn't Mr. Shouter a beautiful voice? Virginia—Yes. It must be lovely to sit next to him at a baseball game. MARIE He—Aren't you going to kiss me before I go. She—And will you surely go then. The International River Jordan Company has been organized to bottle and, ship the water of the river by that name to all parts of the world; the water to be used for baptismal purposes. If there is virtue in this water, the wonder is that it has been neglected for 19 centuries. "We are not going to have much of a wedding. Jack and I want to have everything as simple as possible." Myrtilla—"Yes, dear, you will have. You'll have each other, won't you?"—Brooklyn Eagle. You seldom call at a home without finding some of the wife's folks living with her. But how many husbands do you know who have relatives living at his home? Wives really run things. There should be a law giving a woman the right to divorce without trial when her husband has such a wandering foot that he moves more than once a year. Kansas News. In Newton, which is a railroad town, Mr. and Mrs. Carr announce the arrival of a new male Carr last week. The first negro Chautauqua assembly held in the West took place at Pittsburg. It was well attended. Colonel Major, the Topeka negro editor, claims to be the pioneer, not only in spelling reform, but also in grammar reform. A local horse buyer at Junction City has received an order for several carloads of small horses. He says the order comes from the Cuban government. In the Sixth district the Republican nominee and the Democratic nominee for Congress are known respectively as "Irrigation Bill" and "Alfalfa John." "Out in Colorado," says the Jewell City Republican, "they hide the fall fashion plates ten days before election to get the women interested enough to vote." James Overturf a farmer living in this county, near Cherryvale, was struck by lightning out of a clear sky while fishing, and killed instantly. He was 77 years of age. The original constitution of Kansas, adopted July 29, 1859, which has been in the office of the secretary of state for 50 years, has been turned over to the State Historical Society. The latest fake to be sent to Eastern papers is a story that a flock of sea-gulls from the Gulf of Mexico saved the corn crop in Barton county. As the story goes, grasshoppers were about to take the crop, when the gulls, which had lost their way from the water, swooped down and ate all the hoppers. John Collins of Topeka, who was found g ytliuof iniffifweiVetaoinetaon found guilty of killing his father, plays a baritone horn in the penitentiary band. J. E. Marcell, the Highland bank wrecker, leads the prison choir. Willie Sell, who killed his father, mother, sister andetaoinetaoninet mother, brother and sister, works In the penitentiary drug store. Two brothers, G. L. Bowman of Pittsburg, and W. H. Bowman of Marshfield, Ore., are enjoying a visit together after a separation of fifty-two years. W. H. Bowman is 80 years old and his brother is four years his junior. The older brother went to California in 1854 and has since resided on the Pacific slope. G. C. Bowman has always lived in the Middle West, and for many years has lived in Cherokee and Crawford counties, where he is known by every old resident. Marianna, the 16-months-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Horace Whittlesey of Emporia, is the owner of a dress worn by William Henry Harrison, once President of the United States, when he was a baby in old Virginia. William Henry Harrison was born in 1773. Miss Ellen Windsor, who was "Tippecanoe" Harrison's nurse, was given the dress by the mother of the ex-President. She, in turn, gave it to her friend, Mrs. Chapin, for her baby to wear. Years afterwards, Mrs. Chapin passed it on to her friend, Mrs. J. C. Whittlesey, and Horace Whittlesey was the next baby to wear the little garment. H. S. Hadley, attorney general of Missouri, has accepted the invitation of the Kansas Bar association to make a speech at the meeting of the association here next January. Clyde Miller, secretary of the Republican state central committee, has prepared a statement on the subject of naturalization and suffrage. Mr. Miller says: "This committee has a number of inquiries concerning the effect of the new naturalization law passed by congress upon the right to vote at the coming election. The public should understand that it has practically no effect upon that subject at all." Congress regulates the matter of naturalization, but Kansas regulates the matter of suffrage. In Kansas, any male citizen 21 years old, or any male person of that age who has declared his intention to become a citizen, who has resided in this state six months, and in his election precinct thirty days, except rebels, convicted felons, etc., is entitled to vote." Because the board of railroad commissioners has refused to subpoena all of the witnesses Carr W. Taylor wanted brought to Topeka to testify in the implement rate and cattle rate bearings, Mr. Taylor wants to have the members of the board impeached and thrown out of office. Mr. Taylor is the attorney for the state board of railroad commissioners. The Supreme court will be upon at its next sitting to whether or not a note bearing ried woman's name, signed husband, with her permission valid claim against the wiferty. Judge Lobdell in the county district court held that note is valid. W. L. A. Johnson, commissioner of the bureau of labor and station sending out blanks to the mayor all the county seat towns in the asking for information resources portunities for the establishment manufacturing, mercantile and industrial plants. The blanks of authoritative statements represent railroad service, the usual motive power for manufacturing dustries, the amount of power price and quantity of natural gas the cost of slack and lump coal blanks also call for a full list of natural resources in the section, minerals, brick, shale, clay, cement rocks and the volume of natural products. The information contained in this way will be included in the forthcoming report bureau and will show the research development and industrial opportunities to be found in Kansas. A few Sundays ago, reporter Ellsworth Messenger, a farmer over to the county attorney, and demanded the arrest of a boor's threshing crew that was waging the Sabbath." The counsellor was busy pulling weeds, garden and suggested that the plainant go before the justice peace in his own township, but informed that the justice was waging his windmill. He was that to telephone the sheriff and he attend to the matter, but he was loading cattle at the stock farmer was exasperated and he to saddle a horse and go for stable, but his good wife, busy canning fruit, informed the boys had driven the horse village where the boys were line-up for a ball game, and the girls had gone to a plance. The er has been drunk on hard coffee since and stoutly refuses to be Attorney General Coleman had derided an opinion in which he that a number of the third class of Western Kansas can but officers and perform the other municipalities until after a speed of the legislature. In the boom such towns as Ulysses, dreckey, and other small towns had largeulations. And these cities had established city governments. the population dwindled down 1,200 or 1,500 to 75 or 100 in instances all of the city officers went back east. The cities did without a local government not feel the need of one until boom struck the country they want to again establish the government, but the attorney holds that this can only be done a test suit or after a special legislature. G. B. Crichton one of the sons in J. P. Baden Produce Company ory and perjury case, went on stand at Winfield as a witness the state and made a confession in cating F. E. Rosebrook, presiding the company, and also formed further evidence against E. R. B. It was Crichton's statement to prosecuting attorneys since this that caused the arrest of Roek in New York. Rosebrook is with forgery and with getting ey under false pretenses. Critchon produced letters he said that from Balzer, Rosebrook's managing crooked work. He that he was told to learn the life by heart and then destroy them December, 1904, the plant was a $70,000 insolvent. Crichton te he was ordered by Rosebrook and zer to falsify the books and would protect him at that. He He exonerated C. T. Wells, proce of the C. T. Wells Produce co of Arkansas City, and G. F. Ando of Winfield, of any culpability charges of perjury on which the now held. He declared that he treasurer of the company, pro the statements made to the se of state as to the condition of concern June 30, 1904, and Jan 1905. The prosecution, however endeavor to hold them for ever the parts of the statements further by them. The city council of Wellington granted a franchise to parties senting the Wichita Natural Gas company to supply the city with gas for a period of twenty years rate to private consumers not exceeding 20 cents per thousand. The pany has considerable material hand already, and promises to be nishing gas by January 1.