The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. BERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE LACE SCARF AS EAR TRUMPET. Publication Notice there is no one in this community would for a minute question the need there should be an up to date class newsy newspaper of our race taken in this city. If one would stop and think for a moment seriates to the golden opportunity [that we presented to us should we as a break the advantage of it for within limits of the two Kansas Cities, we thousands of as bright and intelli- men and women as can be found there under the sun, and who seem- appreciate literature. There cer- must be a cause why the colored cal of this country fail to grow and are recognized and appreciated by nations as being newspapers of careful influence and attain gigantic notion in like manner, with other papers in this country. There must cause. it because those who are engaged in newspaper business have not the ability to publish and manage the same way that it might meet with a marriag success. following is what our exchange has to say on the subject) the fact that Negro printing houses, newspapers and Negro enterprises every kind are a real necessity, if the is ever to amount to anything, and inspire our ministers leaders and men to do all in their power to them succeed, at least to patronize them, thereby setting the example and helping their followers to do likewise. each of the said neglect and disreform the part of a certain class of ours and business men is due to a reason on their part to duly consider condition, the needs and best inter- of the race. just think of the colored men who are in good circumstances, and enabled reach this point through 'the friend-up and patronage of his own race,' still gives all of his patronage to the opposite race, takes the money that he gets most entirely from his own people and sends it to build up and strengthen the enterprises of another race. Some of our people who are business explain about the lack of patronage on our people. Upon investigation we and that not one of them were taking advertising in a Negro paper. They are having their job work done by Jim now print shops, where a Negro is not allowed to dust the case, much as set type. Many Negro business men who are only receiving pennies from laborlors, hired men and washerwoman would often go to a Negro newspaper office to buy old papers for wrapping purposes though they could save money by soiling. Some Negro preachers will preach Sunday Sunday on the love of Jesus, and set up Monday morning calligraphy for a white paper, and if he reads a Negro paer all it must be free gratis. How unmindful they appear to be of the brotherhood, love and charity that they should entertain toward their own people, especially when it is very clear in their vision that they are struggling under severe oppression, their burdens heavy and that they are striving under many disadvantages for existence and livelihood.-Ex. Three District Court of Wyandotte County BROSS. Sarah Sheldon. Pliff. vs. Sarah Sheldon. Dept. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named attorney and that unless you appear and answer or before the 21st day of Feb. 1907, the petition垫亡 against you will be taken prison, and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the basis of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divoreing her from defendant and for such other reasons. for cost of this action. I. P. Bradley, Atty. for Plf. Astest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. 1st pub. Jan. 11th 1907. Publication Notice. in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Lincoln. Paul Northington, Plaintiff. William Northington, Defendants. To the above. be hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 20th day of July 1006 the petition filed against you, will be taken in true, and a judgement rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree allowing the bonds of matrimony 'existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorce plaintiff from defendant 'and awarding her her maiden name Plearl Jordan, and for most of this cult. L. F. Bradle. atty. for plic City Locals. Sister N. J. Reynolds of the Colorado conference will be in Kansas City, at Bishop conference at Allen Chapel. She is stopping at 710 E. 6th st. The entertainment which will be given Thursday Jan. 10th at Ebeneser Chapel 209 Holmes st, K. C. Mo., promises to be a grand affair as it will be something new, there will be three hundred biscuits baked and one of them will contain $2.50 in gold, every person who purchase a ticket will get one of them the one getting the lucky biscuit will get the prize. Everybody will be biscuit hungry on that night Dr. R. A. Broyles of Chicago Ill.spent a few days in the city the guest of Rev. E. Arlington Wilson. Mr. M. Hill of K.C.Mo. left this week for Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carter are happy its a fine baby boy, mother is well, J. B. Fryerson of Company B Twenty fifth United States infanty, is in the city, he is one of the number who was dishonorably discharged by the president. We find Mr. Fryerson to be a gentleman of high standing and worthy of being recognized and respected by ourbest citizens. Mrs. Bettie Watts, of 1404 N. 3rd St., and Mr. Albert Whiteside were quietly married Dec. 19th, the marriage ceremonies was performed by the Rev. Geo. a few of their immediate friends were present. Refreshments was served and they recieved many useful and valuable presents. Moproe D. Morris one of our bright young men lectured last [Sunday night at Rev. Richardson's church, Mr. Morris is as well posted on national politics as any young man of the race in this part of the country, he feels sure that Secretary Taft will be our next president, he will lecture in Topeka soon. The sisters in the sewing circle are doing quita a good work, the president sister L. E. Fitzhugh is much pleased to know the circle was able to give $55.89 in the last quarter, the circle will render an old folks concert the last of January. The brethren under the leadership of Bros. C. Williams and W.S.Brown gave to pastor D. B. Jackson two presents cast $27.50 bless these brethren. Old Folks Home To build an Old Folks Home for Kansas City, kansas. Under the management of the E. P. and B. Aid Association, 50 or 100 acres of land will be purchased within a few miles of this city for the home site. The home will be built partly on the plan of a soldiers home: the building will be of brick and stone. A committee is now looking for a location, work will begin next spring on the home as the board of managers hope to have it in operation in one year. Hundreds of old colored are in grave want, most of them are exelaves and humanity demands that they be taken care of one old man 85 years living at 2725 N. 6th St. his wife Evertine Pape is 70 years old the live with their daughter Mrs. Mattie Bibbs who has a large family and is very poor. Invalids young and old will be cared for by the home. The association is a charitable institution and will solicit the general public for aid to build the home. Committee—Isaac B. Atkinson, Chr. Isaac Taylor, treas. W. H. Bolden, Seo. Wade Reed, Mossie Martin, Mrs. S. A. Taylor, Mrs. Minnie Read, Ed Swanagan, Mrs. Kattie Jackson, Verge Jackson, George Miller, Peter Shirley, Reubin Bell, Henry Harris, "John Malone, Mrs. Minnie Payne, H. A. Jackson, L. A. Aldrieh, Henry Woadfork, W, H, Hollinsworth, Headquarters at 1508 N. street. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on Monday the 10th day of Dec. 1906, my application was filed in the office of the Prebate Judge of Wyandotte County, Kansas, for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 1121 N. 5th St., in the Third ward of Kansas City, Kansas and said application is set for hearing on Monday the 14th day of Jan. 1907, at 10 o'clock a.m. when and where all persons may attend if they see proper. E. A. Williamson, 1212 N. 5th St. REV. E. ARLINGTON WILSON, Ph. B., FOR CHAPLAIN. From the Topeka Plaindealer. "The Plaindealer would be glad to see a colored minister chaplain of the next house of representatives KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING. 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, dearle, hand me my lace head scarf." "Do you feel a draught?" anxiously inquired the hostess, handing over the mantilla. "Not the slightest," said "Aunt Sis" as she adjusted the head covering. "Then why do you wear it? It will make your head tender." "Oh, I think not. You see, the scarf acts as a sort of sounding board. It keeps out all other sounds except those of the human voice. When I wear this I can hear even a whisper I can't explain why it is, but it is so, nevertheless. I have had lots of fug over it, too. My boys have been taking advantage of my infirmity to whisper per to each other. I didn't hear them before I began to wear this scarf, but now I know lots of their secrets and they don't know it. It's a good joke on them." Fish Know Colors "Fish know colors," said a keeper at the New York Aquarium the other day. "They can distinguish between red and blue, or white and green, as well as you and I. Wait and I'll prove it." He led the way to a tank in which were some red and some yellow and some green fish, and in it were artificial grottoes painted respectively red and yellow and green. The keeper 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 color shields them from observation best," said he. "Now I'll change the grottoes, so as to prove my statement a second time." He moved the grottoes to different places in the tanks and again rolled the water. The same thing followed as before. Each fish darted like a shot to the grotto of its own color, where it knew it would be best concealed. To the Beloved. Everything that I made I used to bring you. Was it a song, why, then 'twas a song to sing to you. Was it a story, to you I was telling my story. Ah, my dear, could you hear 'mid the bliss and the glory? Did any one praise me, to you I said it all over. My laughter for you: how we laughed in the days past recover? My tears and my troubles were yours; did any one grieve me. I carried it straight to the love that was sure to relieve me. O my dear, when aught happens, to you I am turning. Forgetting how far you have traveled this day from my yearning. There is nobody now to tell things to; your house is so lonely; And still I am 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 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. Skinka, on the Red sea, has proved an unsatisfactory port and is to be esperseded 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 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 15th day of Sep- ber, 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decrease dissolving the bonds of mastimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and restoring plaintiff to her maiden name, Birdie Reniek and for cost of this suit.1 I. F. BRADLEY, Atta, for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk Charles De Kay, the well-known art critic, has some pertinent things to say in Broadway, concerning Americans as art collectors. "New York," he writes, "to those who are in the way of hearing about works of art in private hands, is a constant surprise by reason of the treasures that unexpectedly appear. American collectors are independent folk in some respects; they are apt to shun observation in their projects; they dislike to buy things which have been much exhibited. Moreover, they are singularly shy of each other, in a way jealous. They hold aloof, one from the other instead of taking counsel, as if they were afraid to be thought to lean on another's opinion and were pursued by the idea that a fellow collector might snatch the prize from under their noses. Sometimes their scepticism regarding objects offered them by dealers in New York is comically offset by the ease with which dealers in London and Paris mulct them of great sums. The case in point was a tapestry offered to a certain very rich man in New York for sixty thousand dollars $60,000—and declined. He went to Europe and bought a set of five tapestries of the same period (old Flemish) for the tidy sum of six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($625,000). But in this set of five, there were two pieces which were no other than the single tapestries offered nim the year before for sixty thousand dollars ($60,-000).! This tapestry had been sent back to Paris, cut in two, the halves provided with borders like the other three and the whole set of five sold to the same millionaire for one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000) a piece! It is generally agreed in Washington that Viscount Siuzu Aoki, ambassador from Japan to the United States, is the spunkiest diplomat ever seen there. When the viscount made his first call at the state department to protest against the separation of the Japanese from white children in the San Francisco public schools there is said to have ensued the most heated colloquy Secretary Root has ever had with a foreign diplomat. The ambassador of his imperial majesty was wroth all through and he let the calm-tempered Mr. Root know it without mincing words a bit. Mr. Root forthwith communicated with the president and the result was the immediate dispatch of Secretary Metcalf to San Francisco to look into the situation carefully and make a full report to the president. Viscount Aoki's wife is a German of high birth and he seemed to feel that the treatment accorded the children of Japanese at San Francisco was a personal insult constituting an international incident of grave portent. What species of animal lives to the greatest age is a question that has not been satisfactorily answered, but an official of the National zoo at Washington asserts that a giant tortoise, recently brought from Mauritius to the London zoological gardens, is probably the oldest living creature whose age is positively known. This tortoise which weighs a quarter of a ton, has lived at least 150 years, as historic documents prove. The same authority avers that 100 years is a good old age for an elephant, and no other animals, except certain birds and reptiles, reach half this span of years. But in 1821 a tortoise died at Peterborough, England, whose age was said to be 220 years. One instance, at least, is known of a tortoise which was still growing when 80 years old. Don't pay people left-handed compliments; if you want to compliment John Callahan, Plaintiff. vs. Thomas H. Lynch, Ollie E. Lynch, T. H. Lynch Mercantile Company, a corporation, and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Snyder, deceased. [Defendants NO. 19862. The State of Kansas to the above named defendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Snyder, deceased. Greeting:— You and each of you fare hereby noffied that on the 26th day of October, 1905, the plaintiff above named, John Callahan, filed his-petition in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas and commenced suit against you, and in said petition said plaintiff alleges in substance as follows: that he is now and has been the owner in fee simple and in the actual possession of the following described real estate, lying and situate in Wyandotte County, Kansas, to-wit— All of lots thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35), in block sixty one (61) in Armourdale, now a part of Kansas City...Kansas, according to the recorded plat thereof. That the defendant above named and the unknown heirs of S. A. Snyder, deceased, respectively, set up, assert and claim certain estates, titles, rights or interests in and to said real estate adverse to the plaintiff, there by creating a cloud upon the plaintiff's said title and rendering the same unmarried title. That said claim of said above named defendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of S. A. Snyder, deceased, are wholly unfounded and without any right whatever and said defendants have not, nor have either of them, any estate, right, title or interest whatever in or to said real estate or any part thereof. And praying in substance that the plaintiff's title to said real estate be adjudged good and valid and that the claims estates, rights, titles or interests of the defendants and unknown heirs and devisees of S. A. Snyder, deceased, is, to or upon said real estate be adjudged invalid, and that they and each of them be forever barred from asserting any claim whatever in or to said real estate or any part thereof. And you are further notified that unless you answer the petition of said plaintiff on or before the 24th day of December, 1906, the allegations thereof will be taken as true and a judgement and decree will be rendered yea said Court against you in favor of the said plaintiff quieting his title to said property against you and forever barring you or any person or persons claiming by or through you from casserting any claims of estate, right.title or interest in or to said real estate and giving plaintiff other relief as prayed for in said petition. John Callahan by E. L. Fisher his atty. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk of the District Court. Nov. 9 A BARGAIN. For Sale - A No. one upright piano at the most reasonable figures. This is an exeptionable chance to secure one of the best "make" and highclass instrument of today. Call and examine and get terms. No. 411 Neb. ave. K. C. K. Bethell A. M. E. Bhurch eor. of steward streets, will run a ten days Gospel meeting commencing Friday night Sept. 7th Rev. Perry and Hawkins and others will assist Rev. L. W. McComiek in these services, every are cordial invited Nice Furnished Rooms for rent with board or without, will be at home to friends on Thursday, 423 Oakland ave Mrs. Annie Williams. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County kansas. Frank Benton, Plaintiff. vs. Jane Benton, Defendant. The above nameddefendant will hereby take notice that she has been used by the above named plaintiff in the above hamed court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 300th day of April 1900 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. July its. 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 Corvilla Broadus. Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate are hereby notified, that at the next 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 Monday in the month February, A. D.1907. I shall apply to said court for a full and final settlement of said estate. C. Patterson, Administrator with will annexed of Corvilla Broadus, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 18th day of December A.D. 1006. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. 1st Pub. Dec. 21. CONTENTMENT. A rose beside a cabin door, A sunbeam on the spotless floor: JANUARY 4. 1907 This Section CALL HERE Administrator's Notice. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. }ss In the Probate court,inland for said county In the matter of the Estate' of, Narciss Matilla. deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of Administration with will annexed have been granted to the undersigned on the Estate of Narcissus Watilla late of said; Couny, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate court of the County and state aforesaid, dated the 13th day of October, 1906. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate; are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from date of said letters, or they may be produced from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within one year after said Letters, they shall be forever barred. Elmer J. Champs. Administrator of the Estate with will annexed of Narcissus Matilla, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned. Probate Judge in and for the county of (SEAL) Wyandette, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 13th day October, A. D. 1906. Winfield Freeman. Probate Judge. Oct. 19. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. Court Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said Coudy, to be begin and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyndotte, State of Wyndotte, on the first Monday in the month, November A.D. 1905. I shall apply to said court for a and final settlement of said estate. Eliza Dudley Administratix of Anthony Dudley, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the county of Wyndotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set up hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 12th day of October A.D. 1905. Executors Notice. State of Kansas, County of Wyandotte }ss In; the Probate Court of Said County. In the matter of the Estate of Anna Will- Hams, [deceased] N. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Anna Williams, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 17 day of July, 1906. Now, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for the allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said letters, they shall be forever barred. JAMES DOWNS. Executor of the last will and testament of Anna Williams deceased. Dated. NOTE LETS For Rent—To desirable parties(gentleman perfered)well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city,inquire at this office. Mrs.S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave,is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to date Rooming house in the city-charges always reasonable. For Nice Furnished Rooms call on Mrs. Iday Easily at 1107 N. 6th st, conveniently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line, Prices reason able. Mrs. Reed, 528 Nb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rots to rent. Notice of Application for Parole. To whom it may concern:— 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 conviently 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. CLARENCE STEWART. NOW IS the time Subscribe For thet Weeky American The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY - - - - KANSAS. REV. G. McNEAL, Asso. Editor. Geo. A. Dudley, Editor in Chief; Publisher and Business Manager. Terms of Subscription in Advance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....65c Three Months.....40c One Month.....15c Advertising 25 cents per inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Ad' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. Grangemouth is the name of a Moscow editor. Evidently a farmer on the side. Waldorf Astor has become so thoroughly anglicized that he is going to marry an American girl. A clergyman says that bridge whist leads to mental decline. Why doesn't he try poker for a change? Senator Pettus is declared to be a poor man and fond of poker. The last explains the first, possibly. Perhaps boys should be thankful for whippings, as somebody declares, but 'they seldom are before they are 45. Sweet Spring is now approaching, and Summer with the rose, so poetry's encroaching upon the field of prose. King Edward was "warmly received" in Paris, but not in the same way as when he used to be prince of Wales. The czar will reserve the right to wield the big stick over the Douma, according to the latest advices from St. Petersburg. We learn from the New York Mall that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? Manohuria 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 loosing 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. Portla, as quoted by the editor of a kind of society paper, is made to say: "How far that little scandal throws his beams! So shines a bad deed in this haughty world." News comes from the east that the seventeen-year locusts will devastate the land this year. How many times in the course of a decade do the seventeen-year locusts come, anyhow? As the last suffragist was detached from the doorknob and put into the police wagon, the premier of the great British Empire crawled out from under his bed and sighed a sigh of relief Telephone Bell W.32 W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. The very best for alll Purpose The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges R sota Ave., Kansas 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. Local Office of The Ethiopian Protec Aid As Employment and Information of the As 1508 N. 3rd Street. Employment and Information Lureau for the members of the Association. BELL TELEPHONE 2313 WEST. The Ethiopian Protective and Beneficial Aid Association, National Convention at Kansas City, Sept. 22nd, 1908. The National association will be composed of delegates from every State and Teritory in the union, the association will have an exhibition of many amusing features at the same time of the convention which will run for 30 days, one hundred acres or more land will be bought by the association for exposition grounds, buildings will be erected on the ground to suit the exposition, thousands of members are now joining the association has over a thousand members. buy land by the thousand each state, to colonize them, build towns and hogs, horses, poultry of lish taneries, shoe and this will solve the race a piece from 10 million 1 million dollars for 19 $12,000,000 for five yearlion dollars which would acres of land at $50. p be enough land to col family in the United States give the boys and girl ing educated something earning bad habits on Kansas has many organizations, Garden city, Dodge city, Larned, Great Bend, Hutchinsous, Wichita, Newton, Emporia, Topoka and Kansas City have their local organization, local organizations will be set up in each state and each organization will send delegates to the national convention. Among the great objects of the association are to organize the 10,000,000 colored people of the nation into one common body to better the conditions of the whole race and for their protection. To ISAAC B. A. President of the E. H. W. H. BOLDEN, Acting Secret Peter Sh ISAAC B. ATKINSON, President of the E. P. & B. Aid Association. W. H. BOLDEN, Acting Secretary. Peter Shirley, Canvassing Agent. value of Moderate Eating. No matter what kind of food taken, the quantity should be small. The human body can live and thrive and work on a surprisingly small quantity of nourishment. Great mod- ication in eating is, therefore, one of the keys that unlock the doors of long living. Greatest Misfortune of Life Greatest misfortune of Life. Mayors appear to have had their troubles two centuries ago. At bielefeld, Germany, there is a tombstone with this inscription: "Here lies Johannes Burggreve, who considered his election as burgomaster of this city the greatest misfortune of his life." By a simple rule, the length of the day and night, any time of the year, may be ascertained by doubling the time of the sun's rising, which will give the length of the night; and double the time of setting will give the length of the day. Cold Baths vs. Drunkenness In the course of a discussion at the sanitary congress Mr. Weaver declared that it was almost impossible for anyone taking a cold bath every morning to become an habitual drunkard.—London Telegraph. Hunt Treasure at Mont Pelee. Treasure hunting has become the principal occupation of the islanders of Martinique. They dig day and night among the ruins caused by the eruptions of Mont Pelee for gold and other valuables. Once when a man loses all love for his wife is when he holds a straight flush against four aces in a little poker game and she has the four aces.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Radium Killa Mice. Before the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emanations from radium died in six hours. Thunder Kills Oysters Oysters are such nervous creatures that a sudden shock, such as a loud thunder-clap, will kill many hundreds of them. The Day's Length Telephone Home W. 32 buy land by the thousands of acres in each state, to colonize these lands, farm them, build towns and cities raise cattle hogs, horses, poultry and etc., to establish tanneries, shoe and cotton factories this will solve the race problem, 10 cents a piece from 10 million people would be 1 million dollars for 12 months would be $12,000,000 for five years would be 60 million dollars which would buy 1,200,000 acres of land at $50. per acre this would be enough land to colonize every colored family in the Unite states. This would give the boys and girls who are now being educated something to do instead of earning bad habits and starving out in cities. Certificates for membership are 50 ets monthly dues 10 cts. Each state can organize itself and select it delegates to the national convention. Now let every race man and woman get busy for further information address Kansas City headquarters. Several canvassing agent are wanted in every state and city with a good commission allowed. I am yours for the up building of the Ethiopian or black race in America and throughout the world. To the Afflicted To those who are suffering with Chronic diseases and especially such as other Doctors have given up. Call on Doctor Benjaman Benuer of Quindaro Kansas, he is o devine healer, and says he will cure you of the following diseases, if you are suffering with Parlyses he will cure you of that particular disease or no charges for his service, I can also cure Bed Fever. Palpitation of the heart. Indigesting. Side Pleurisy, call on me at Quindaro Kansas Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Isaiah Edmonson, vs Russia Edmonson. 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 11th day Jan. 1907, the petition filed in said cause will be taken as a lawsuit and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plain- and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost on this action. Attest: By I. F. Bradley. Atty Wm. Needles. Clerk. Dec. 7 The day was not when the wardrobe necessary for crossing over to England was discussed with as great earnestness as to the preparation of a trousseau. Now with a couple of business suits, a heavy coat, a soft hat and a steamer trunk full of linen the regular traveler is ready for the voyage. There is always one man who wears his evening clothes at dinner and the curious thing about him is that he always looks as if he had never worn them before. But there is usually only one of this type, just as there is one of the man who appears on deck the last day out with a silk hat.--Outing. Why Du Chaluil Wes' a Bachelor. The late Paul du Chaluil was on one occasion asked why he had 'never married. "Well, once upon a time," he answered, without a smile, "an old African king who was very fond of me offered me my choice of 883 women as a wife. 'Your majesty,' I replied, 'If I should marry one of these beauties of yours there would be 883 jealous women here.' "Well, replied the king, "that is easily settled. Take SHIELDS FOR TROOPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Military Writer. A writer in the Militar-Wochenblatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Bracad 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. Then she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. "The last is by far the most popular of all for the reason that is most difficult to obtain, and then it is pretty generally becoming, and it happens that women who are born with this particular color of hair are almost always clever. "How is it done? Well, in case of a woman whose hair is dark a bleach must first be used before the dye is applied. With women whose hair has turned gray it is a still simpler problem. The color lasts a year, while the head can be washed and even salt water bathing does not affect it."—New York Sun. What Money Will Do. They say that money can not buy The sweetest things in life—Health, heaven, friends, respect, content. Or e'en a loving wife. They say that money can not buy These things for me, also. But I—Well I don't know! What bought my private car? Just wealth, What bought my lovely yacht, Which sails me to lands where health is important, What pays my specialist, dear Jim, To keep me in such perfect trim? Well—I don't know! What bought the most delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— The clothes she dazzles in? And if her heart beats not for me, And I am not worried you see. Well—I don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Express get free; But if the Lord meant what he said Concerning charity. The tithe I'll give before I die Will slip me through the needle's eye, Or—I don't know. For happiness! Well, money bought This ninety-cent cigar; It bought this chair in which I loll, It bought this car; It bought this cognac and I guess, If all this is not happiness. Not a Good Advertisement. A Welsh judge had before him a case in which a printer sued a pork butcher for the value of a large parcel of paper bags with the butcher's advertisement printed thereon. The printer, having no suitable illustration to embellish the work, thought he improved the occasion by putting an elaborate royal arms above the man's name and address, but ultimately the latter refused to pay. The judge, looking over a specimen, observed that for his part he thought the lion and the unicorn were much nicer than an old fat pig. "O well," answered the butcher, "perhaps your honor likes to eat animal like that, but my customer's don't. I don't kill lions and unicorns — I only kill fat pigs!" Verdict for defendant.—New York World. Building Up to Requirements A Kansas City man purchased a city lot with the restriction that he should not build a house on it to cost less than $2,500. After having paid for the lot he decided to build a $1,500 cottage. Before he had completed it the real estate man from whom he had bought the lot threatened to sue him for breach of contract. "This little shack you are building." said the real estate man. "lacks a whole lot of beig a $2,500 house such as you agreed to build." AMERICAN HAIR GROWER BEFORE USING PICTURES TAKEN FROM LIFE. AFTER USING NATURE'S OWN REMED This is not a chemical compound. It is absolutely harmless, will not injure the most delicate hair. It will absolutely promote the growth of hair and prevents dandruff. It makes the hair fine and silk and nourishes it to grow long and straight, prevents the hair from falling out. Finely perfumed and makes an excellent hair dressing Used by leading hair dressers and strongly endorsed by them. We have a thousand testimonials to prove all we say. It is not a new thing but has been tested for years. Price 25c JAR BY MAIL POSTAGE 7c EXTRA General Supply Agent, Mrs. E. I. Madison. 614 Troupe Ave. Kansas City, Kansas. 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 For 35 to 75 cents. And a Self Clean that makes the water clean For 50 to A. J. SH ROC that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents. A. J. SHERIDAN "In the shade of the Old Apple not you be popular by trading at a p L. J. M Staple and Fa Meats and all K "In the shade of the Old Apple Tree" is a very popular song 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." 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. 530 MINNESOTA AVE. 852 FREEMAN AVE. In an Excuse Book. aner Water Eilt r as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. ERIDAN M 8, Tree" is a very popular song popular store? ADDUX, ency Groceries inds of Produce. Res. 420 Nebraska ave. Tel. 383 997 SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Hours: From 10 a.m., till 4 and from 6 till 9 p.m. C. H. C. JORDAN. M. M., M. J. T. Roberts TONSORIAL PARLO All the Latest Style Hair Cuts Shave strictly Up-to-Date 438 MINNESOTA AVE. French seamen have a dozen in person of a centenarian. The sailor belongs alike to the navy to the merchant service, for he is in both, and it would be difficult say in which of the two his advent were the most thrilling. His roi includes three shipwrecks, the b of Navarino, in which he won tion in orders, the blockade of All one capture by brigands, follow himself and his companions seizing Spanish ship which captured the sair which had captured them, serving many years before the he became a master and small ROOM 8. KANSAS CITY. KANSAS CITY, KANS Here is the Place An Old French Sailor. The Young Folks. WITH GRANDPA IN YOUTH. "Now, all sit quiet if I'm to tell you about the time when I, a mere boy, left home and went to Texas." And Grandpa leaned back in his big armchair to be more comfortable while he talked. The children, towing more than anything else to hear Grandpa talk when in his reminiscent mood, arranged themselves about the old gentleman's knees and became very still, scarcely daring to breathe lest they frighten away his recollections of ye olden time. "Well, when I was in my eighteenth year," resumed Grandpa, "I had a little misunderstanding with my uncle, with whom I was making my home, and decided that I was not welcome in his house. Of course, this was only sensitivity on my part, as I in later years learned. But being a headstrong and independent sort of a chap, I made up my mind to go out in the world on my own hook, looking no longer to my relatives for a home and occupation. "All I possessed at that time was a fine riding horse and saddle, both having been earned by my own labor. So I felt free to mount my horse one fine morning in the early fall and ride down the turnpike before any of my uncle's family were awake. Knowing that they would feel some anxiety concerning me—and perhaps might think "After a breakfast or fried bacon, HARB me cowardly to depart in this stolen fashion when none were about to see me off—I took the pains to leave a note to my uncle explaining that I was now my own man and had decided to seek my fortune in the Far West. I also added a few sentences to let him know that I felt I was not altogether welcome in his house, and that my pride would not let me remain there no longer. Then, asking to be remembered by my aunt and cousins, I signed my name, giving no other information as to my future whereabouts than could be got out of the two words, Far West." see open for you is to stay here through the winter with me and work on my place. I'm going to clear 50 acres of land this winter and I'll pay you well if you want a job chopping down trees. By spring you ought to have saved enough to take you to the point of your destination. And—I've a boy of my own that I might send with you. I'd like him to get out in the world and learn to lean on his own shoulders a bit. It'll make a man of him and of you, too. "Well, the offer just suited me, so I spent the winter chopping down forest trees and having a nice time on and ax to frighten away snakes, tarantulas and stretch—flat on the ground hair, rope, for the Texas you, and correct they will no insect or snake would a rope of that soot. If we would fall asleep with starry heavens over us, we would build a car bit of brush we had chance patches of timber and which we carried tides of our wagon. We also can "As I rode down the turnpike that morning I felt as though the whole world was before me, and that I might get what part of it I chose by the mere riding after it. And I rode, too, all that day, stopping only now and then at some farmhouse to beg a drink of water. I did not tarry long enough to partake of food, though I was repeatedly invited to do so by the cordial farmers to whom I appealed for water. But toward evening I began to feel faint from hunger. As I had eaten only a light supper on the evening previous and had departed that morning without my breakfast, I had good cause to feel the pangs of a craving appetite. So I rode in at the first gate which I happened to come to after sundown. "The good people took me in and set before me a fine meal, which I did full justice to. Then, after a pleasant hour with the family in a big, cheerful sitting room, I was shown to a bed chamber in which I was to spend the night. As I disrobed myself I happened to think about a little matter which till now had slipped my mind—an empty purse. How was I to pay for my meals and lodging on the following morning? Never had I been from home except Do Birds Sympathize? Animals experience grief over the loss of their young, but not over the death of one of their number. Death itself seems to have no meaning to them. When a bird seems to mourn for its lost mate, its act is probably the outcry of the breeding instinct which has been thwarted. to go to the town near our farm, or to some neighbors' for dinner in response to an invitation. And when in town with my uncle or aunt the money was always in hand to pay for meals at the restaurant or hotel. Thus the situation was a new one to me and I began to feel very uncomfortable, indeed. "After worrying myself into a nervous state, I arose, dressed myself and went down stairs to call my host and explain to him my sore plight. Though he had retired, he came in response to my call, and sitting down in front of the dying fire in the great fireplace, he listened to my story, which I told in an embarrassed manner. To have partaken of the farmer's hospitality, then to have roused him from his bed to tell him of my inability to pay for my accommodations was, I thought, a piece of unpardonable conduct on my part, and I fully expected his censure. But, to my surprise—and I may add my pleasure—the good man clapped me on the shoulder and said: "So far as I'm concerned, my young fellow, you're welcome to all this place affords; but I'm wondering how you are to make it through to Texas." (I had named that as my destination.) "You're not the sort to sponge your way, I see that. So the only way I can ard tack and coffee, we broke camp and see open for you is to stay here through the winter with me and work on my place. I'm going to clear 50 acres of land this winter and I'll pay you well if you want a job chopping down trees. By spring you ought to have saved enough to take you to the point of your destination. And—I've a boy of my own that I might send with you. I'd like him to get out in the world and learn to lean on his own shoulders a bit. It'll make a man of him and of you, too.' "Well, the offer just suited me, so I spent the winter chopping down forest trees and having a nice time generally. There was a fine young girl in the family whom I grew to be very fond of, and it made me very particular about my language, manners and personal appearance. I would hitch my horse to the sleigh of an evening and take her to the neighbors to spelling matches, husking bees and taffy-pullings. In this way the winter passed all too quickly, spring coming before I wished for it. "Before starting to Texas I sold my horse for $150, my saddlè for $20, which, added to the sum of my winter's earnings, made quite a neat purse. In the company of my employer's eldest son, who was about my own age, I set out for Memphis, where we were to take boat down the Mississippi river to New Orleans. From there we would go by the Gulf to Galveston, Texas. "If I talked all night I could never tell you the many and varied pleasures of that trip down the river and across one corner of the Gulf of Mexico. But on landing at Galveston our environment changed considerably. "All was new and wild, and many Indians and Mexican half breeds were to be seen on the streets. The day of our arrival a detachment of soldiers birdtuters a cry of distress the birds of other species within hearing, will hasten to the spot and join in the cry—at least in the breeding season I have no proof that they will do it at other times. And I do not call this sympathy, but simply the alarm of parental instinct, which at this season is very sensitive. The alarm cry of many --- ```markdown ``` from the nearest fort came into town with a band of Indians that had attacked and taken prisoners a small traveling circus. The Indian chief was dressed elaborately in the clown's gay costume which the clown wore only when in the circus ring. Another brave was imposing in the ring master's swallow tail coat and a pair or green spangled tights, the latter garment belonging to an acrobat or bareback rider. All the members of the little show band were safe and accompanied the soldiers along with the prisoners, feeling most thankful, so they said, to have escaped without losing their scalplocks; and that night the tent was pitched and the full performance given to the soldiers and people of Galveston tree of charge. "Well, I looked about for something to do, but my companion decided upon building a little business house in town in which to open a general store. He would get his stock of goods by boat from New Orleans. After a week's sojourn in Galveston, and finding nothing to do I decided to try my luck in another part of the state. Joining some travelers who were bound for San Antonio I found myself on the great prairies of Texas, a most magnificent but formidable sight. Every little while during the journey we met bands of Indians, but luckily none of them were on the warpath. At night we would spread our blankets on the ground, after beating about on the spot to be slept on with stick HAMB d proceeded on our way." and ax to frighten away any chance snakes, tarantulas and centipedes. Then around this spot we would stretch—flat on the ground—a horsehair, rope, for the Texans would tell you, and correct they were, too, that no insect or snake would crawl over a rope of that sort. Thus protected we would fall asleep with only the starry heavens over us. In the morning we would build a campfire with bits of brush we had gathered from chance patches of timber on our way and which we carried tied on the back of our wagon. We also carried jugs of water, for we found none for 50 miles at a stretch sometimes. "After a breakfast of fried bacon, hard tack and coffee we broke camp and proceeded on our way. "In San Antonio I visited the old Alamo, then a rain so fresh from the destroyers' hands as to be held very lightly, but which later became a historical place of deep interest to not only the Texans, but to the people of the entire United States. "Well, after one week in San Antonio I succeeded in getting employment, but I confess it was not to my liking, for it was carrying the mail from San Antonio to Austin, a distance requiring two days' hard riding on a Texas pony, and I tell you those little beasts can travel, too, like the wind. But it was not the hardship to be suffered from riding so long without rest, for I was strong and a splendid horseman; it was the danger of losing my scalp, for the country still swarmed with bands of Indians, some of them very hostile toward the white stranger, who was crowding them further and further from the lands that had been their own. I would leave San Antonio at daydawn, stop at dark at a line hut, the habitation of a Frenchman, whose obdiousness and alarm is a universal language which all creatures understand more or less. But I doubt if sympathy as we know it—the keen appreciation of the suffering or the misfortune of another, which implies power in a measure to put ourselves in that other's place—even in its rudimentary form, exists among the lower orders.—John ject in stopping there I never knew (nor have I ever see anyone who ever knew of his coming or going away), and pass the night under his hospitable roof. In the morning I was up before dawn and on my way, carrying across the pommel of my saddle, the little leather mailbag containing the United States mail. And all that summer I stuck to my job, though the heat on the prairies was something I cannot explain. When the cool winds of November blew across the level waste I was through with my contract with the government, and gladly joined my friend at Galveston once more. There I went to clerking for him, remaining three years. "But the old ties of home had not been fully severed, and a longing came over me to visit the old scenes again. So, bidding, good-by to my friend and employer, I set sail for New Orleans, going toward home. En route to my uncle's house I stopped at the place where I had found friends and employment the winter before going to Texas. All were glad to see me and to hear of the son and brother who was doing so well in Galveston. I renewed my vows of friendship and went on to my uncle's, to find awaiting me a cordial welcome and a complete forgiveness for what might have been called my waywardness, but which was really my extreme sensitiveness and pride "But, having an object dear to my heart in mind for the near future, I let bygones be bygones and settled down at my uncle's home to work and save money. All the time I kept up a correspondence with the young lady whom I had taken such a fancy to during my term of wood chopping for her father." "Ah, I bet I know who she was," broke in Laura, the youngest grandchild. "She was Grandma, the young girl was!" A smile flitted over grandpa's face, as he slowly rose from his chair. "You guessed right, my dear," he said. "And I hear her voice telling us it is time to join her and stop the story telling for the night. So, away with you to the kitchen, if you're going to make that taffy. I'm getting anxious to do some of the pulling. 'The story tonight has carried me back to the times when your grandma and I were young like you chaps, and made taffy-'" "Come, my dears," called a gentle voice from the hall. And grandpa answered: "Yes, granny dear, we children are coming." And the children laughed as they ran from the room with grandpa between them, for despite his 80 years he was as sprightly as they. Birth Rate Alarms France. In France, public attention again has been drawn to the national peril involved in the constantly diminishing birth rate by the publication of the vital statistics for 1905, showing births for the year of 807,292, a decrease of 10,937 from the total of 1904. The reason for this decrease is not to be found in a reduction of the number of marriages, in which the statistics show a slight increase over 1904, but it apparently arises from the aversion of the French people to raise large families. The National Association, which is studying the matter has reached the conclusion that it is necessary to inculcate the idea that any couple that raises more than three children merits and is entitled to public gratitude and protection. THE LITTLE BUGS HENT TO SEAT IN A HAT ONE FELL OVERBOARD JUST THINK OF THAT! S ON THE BIG HAT HAS STRUCK BY A GALL THAT HAS THE SED END OF THIS BUGHHOUSE TALE "Mamma," said the little girl, "may I learn roller skating. "Yes, my darling daughter." answered her mother. "Strap the skates on your feet and go and sit down to the piano." Prof. H. W. Wiley of the department of agriculture believes that the stalks of sweet corn might be made to yield sugar of the best quality. They contain much more sugar than those of the common field corn, and the sugar content is at its maximum when the ears are pulled. Over the hills and through the dale, A rabbit hunting we will go! Across the bridge that spans the brook A-tracking Bunny in the snow. Beneath the bowlers on the bank Sometimes we'll run our prey to ground; We'll let 'em loose and see 'em run: For killing is not in our line: We're only hunting just for fun. * ANCIENT "FREE DELIVERY." * * _____ * Indians Had One for Generations, * * Says One Investigator. * "Archaeological research reveals many important details of the domestic economy of ancient times, but practically nothing that indicates the character or even the existence of what are today regarded as vital branches of an adequate public service," says Frank Abal Flower in Records of the Past. "Perhaps there were no such branches in those times and perhaps there were many of which we have no inkling, because they were organized, like an afternoon reception, in such form that they could and actually did disappear without leaving palpable traces behind. The general delivery of private information from house to house, theoretically at public expense and actually under government regulation, is supposed to have been unknown to the ancients of all periods; but I can state that one of the most effective as well as one of the most interesting systems of 'rural free delivery' ever conceived was in use for untold generations by the Indians on the north shore of Lake Superior, especially the Pillagers, and, I suppose (prior to the demoralization wrought by the advent of the Caucasian) by the Indians of other laucas. "Under the tribal law, every person who travels over the trail must examine the contents of each post office that he passes for the purpose of forwarding any messages which are deliverable in the direction that he is pursuing. If the first person who passes the cache or post office in which I have deposited my letters knows my family or where they are, and expects to see them, he must take the message to them. If he intends to go only a portion of the way, he copies my message, leaves the original as he found it, and deposits its copy in the last postoffice that he passes on his journey toward my wigwam. "If another person comes into the trail on the hither side of this copy, he must repeat the operation described, delivering the copy to my family or his own copy into the last cache on the road he travels in their direction. "I asked the civil chief of the Pilagers how long his people had used this beautiful and effective free delivery system, and he replied 'Always.' "As the Pilagers claim to be the aboriginal natives of the soil where the remnant of their tribe is now located and as the tepee of the present hereditary chief overlooks the graves of more than thirty generations of his ancestors, the term 'always' in this case must mean, at the lowest, many, many centuries." Those New Hats "Why do you think she has a rat?" "Oh, I was judging by that trap on her head." Fate is a sapricious goddess who makes some of us run automobiles and others run from them. The Santa Fe has adopted a system of service pensions. ☆ Fifty thousand Christmas postal cards were mailed to Japan from Honolulu. ☆ The district court at St. Paul has ordered the Great Northern to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be granted restraining the proposed issue of $60,000,000 of stock. W. E. Corey, president of the United States Steel corporation, has reached Paris, and it is denied that he intends to marry Mabelle Gilman during his present visit to Europe. ☆ President Penna of Brazil, has authorized a municipal loan for Rio Janeiro of $50,000,000, and it is rumored that the mayor of the city will try to float the loan in New York. Efforts are being made by the cotton growers of the South to have the Postoffice department issue a fraud order against the New York Cotton exchange and forbid it the use of the mails. ☆ Announcement is made by the State Department that the United States will co-operate with England in any movement looking to the amelioration of conditions affecting life and liberty in the Congo Free State. ☆ Under an agreement which became operative January 1, all private rebates to shippers are abolished by all the railroads in the United Kingdom, and any company giving rebates to secure traffic is liable to a heavy fine. 女 Five persons have been frozen to death in the vicinity of Thron, West Prussia, and other deaths from cold are reported from various parts of the country, where the temperature ranges from 5 to 10 degrees blow zero. ☆ It is stated that according to the definition of the immigration law, the Japanese of Berkeley, Cal., who issued the revolutionary paper containing a veiled threat against the president are anarchists and, as such, are subject to deportation. ☆ A New Year's gift of nearly 3 million dollars was made by John B. Rockefeller to the University of Chicago. This is the largest gift of Mr. Rockefeller's to the institution and brings his total benefactions to the university up to $19,416,922. The Cuban situation darkens and it is predicted in high circles at Washington that war is the only solution. The Cuban people are well aware that another United States intervention will mean a protectorate. Secretary Taft's statement that another outbreak would cause a permanent occupation was clearly understood. Announcement is made that James J. Hill, official head of the Great Northern Pacific, the Burlington and the Canadian Pacific railroads, will retire from the active management next July. The announcement comes from Mr. Hill himself. His successor will be his eldest son, Louis J. Hill, first vice president of the Great Northern. Crazed by jealousy, Mrs. Lucy Shannon shot and probably mortally wounded her husband, Leonard Shannon, in Maryville, Ill., and then attempted to take her own life by jumping into a well. Paul Shannon, her brother-in-law intercepted her and she turned and attacked him so vigorously that he was compelled to beat her into insensibility. Nicholas Shishkoff, who was one of the trustees of the American famine fund of February, 1891, has sent to London, accompanied by an appeal for funds, an account of the awful famine conditions in Russia. "Fifteen years ago," says Mr. Shishkoff, "when the famine was less serious we had 4 million dollars, now we have only 1-2 million dollars." M. Shishkoff estimates that about 30 million peasants will need assistance. At a recent conference held at the Ministry of Commerce, St. Petersburg, it was decided that agricultural machinery required by peasant emigrants to Siberia and other portions of the Russian Empire would have to be ordered abroad next year, as the Russian factories would be unable to deliver in time. Next year an attempt will be made to introduce Russian machinery among the settlers. Emperor William has startled Germany by appointing Bruno Paul, the carictaurist of Simplicissimus, to be director of the Berlin Industrial Art ra ra eS the consequence. Expenditure w 3 rete... Bee eee! CASSATT’S CAREER. — am Way of Running the Pennsyl-. » wenta Rallread, ; ski plays—apparently withou feutec? Factlity in the actual detail @ the. work gave him-faculty in th Mig attairs. My. Cassatt had the faculty of appre Mating that he could not do every (@img himself, that his duty was to £2 Geet the task of greatest importance: fan@ attend to that and then to take the (ext most important task and attend t: @at, and so on. The rest was done by fits generals, and the pest chief Is th me who can pick the best generals Mest men are eaten up by details ‘Bey never get time to do the ble Wines decause they are slaves to the (ide things. They confound the neces. ity of knowing how to do little thing: wR the necessity of doing them. Mir. Cassatt did that first which was We and death to the Pennsylvania ‘This ts why he was a general in fact fe well as in title. Mr. Cassatt knew She proper relations between work and west. When he quit work he made : geod Job of the change and courted the Biy 23 ardently as he had courted ths te. He applied this rest rule to the army under his command, and no set @ milway employes work under more Bumane and considerate rules than ‘hese of the Pennsylvania. ‘There are ten or twelve vitally dif. Gwent methods of running a grea! waftree@ = The = Pennsylvania way tands first, because it is the most highly developed on the continent. ‘The method from this point of view, simple. It follows the old adage: “A place for everything and every: Ming in its place.” The system of ad- ministration is perfect. Pennsylvania ailrozd officers come as close to being perfect mackines as it is possible for fen to come. There are more than 600 @ them: Every one has his specific Quty. if he fails in that he is repri- manded or discharzed. If he does more fhan he is listed for he is again repri- wanded. There must be neither dere- fiction nor interference. The Pennsylvania school produces wutomatic railroad men. They may be teressfully transplanted from one ut- ‘ision to another, but history bas filed to record that they can be moved ‘@ awy other system. Mr. Cassatt was first and foremost mengineer. He also remembered that te Mkes money to make the mare ZO, Gertsin[y he took money, more than a tarrel of it, to make the Pennsylvanii s-ifrm: New York to Chicago, 4 dis- tance of littfe fess than 1,000 miles, in tighteen hours. The long, glittering Mel pathway over which the fyer makes its daily trip has been literally paved: with dollars, just as much so as W President Cassatt had taken the en- tim output of the United States mint wad strewn it along the whole dis- famee. For in the past six years there Ms been no less than $200,000,000 pat to.improvements of the road between Me mrermyctis of the East and ‘he qiem distritiing center of the West. When Alexander J. Cassatt became president of the Pennsylvania railroad im 1899, he had an idea stowed awav in Ais mind—the feasibility of establish ing. un eighteen-hour schedule between Wew York and Chicago. It might be Better to say that he had an {dea of a Sourteen-hour schedule, for that ts what he was aiming to establish. How tong Cassatt had had this idea no cae konws_ ‘As engineering schemes appeared to flemand ‘the supernatural. ‘Bt is told that at a meeting of the di- jeetars of the Pennsylvania railroad a yeat azo one of them turned angrily to the-prosident and said: “Cassatt, you have gone engineering mad.” Bw Cassatt had his vindication wher two trains, one going east and te other west, covered the distance Between New York and Chicago in three minutes less than eighteen hours, tHe time scheduled for their run a ant week before. % there any ground for wonder that men doubted the sanity of President Eassati when he declared that to sue. essfully operate the Pennsylvania rait- woad-it was necessary to blow away tie sided of the mountains in order to lay iz tracks where there were alread; 2 SENTRA patina papery tunnel from Jersey Cicy to a site cov- ering two blocks of the heart of New York for a passenger terminal? A Lost Circus Monkey. It was a cold dark night, the wind was blowing and a mournful sound heard where the leaves went sweeping back and forth under the trees. In a house on the outskirt of a little town a light burned near the window and sev- eral times since dark a little boy who sat inside, had gone to the door to look down the road upon which he expected his father to return. It had been a fine day for the boy, he had been to the cireus, and his mind was crowded with thoughts of the won- derful sights and questions he wished to ask his father about them. Soon he heard steps outside and in another minute the two were talking eagerly and laughing aloud about the funny tricks of the clown. The front door through which the father had en- tered was closed and locked, but sud- denly, though no sounds had been heard on the porch, there was a dis- tinet knock on the door. “Who can that be, Billy?” asked the father, “we are not apt to have visitors at this hour.” “It must be a tramp,” replied Billy, “you know they often follow a circus and are not always good looking fel- lows, either; suppose we do not open the door.” ‘Oh, that wouldn't do,” answered the father, “It might be some one who needed help, or a message from a neighbor.” So Billy hurried to the door and call- ed from the inside. “Who is it? What do you want?” But not @ word came in reply, only a kind of grunting such as might be made by one who was suffering, At this the father stepped forwara quickly and threw open the door, say- ing: “If itcis a tramp he must be in trouble.” “Oh, maybe he fs sick!” exclaimed eprang the tramp who had been Billy, but the door swung open and in crouching in the dark. Billy gave a lit- tle scream of surprise, then stepped back, for somehow he felt he would like to have his father meet this strange tramp first. But not a question would the visitor answer, he only shook his head, and, then, spying a loaf of bread on the ta- ble leaped toward it and began to help himself without the least hesitation. By this time Billy was laughing and the visitor heartily joined in, that is he winked his eyes, cocked his head on one side, and did many funny things which were much the same as laugh- ing. “Strayed from the circus,” said Bil- ly's father directly; “we must give him a night's Icdging in some safe place and telegraph to the company about him in the morning.” So this is what they did, and by noon the next day Billy's tramp, a great big monkey, was put on the train, to join his circus company and soon was again busy entertaining the children who watched outside his cage—Pittsburg Press. Graceful Hands. It is next to impossible to make the hands slender. You can make them ‘graceful by indulging in certain Del- sorte exercises, stretching the fingers to the utmost and closing the hand slowly and gracefully. You can also keep your hands soft and white by us- ing a pure soap and cosmetic jelly. If, in addition, the nails are beautifully manicured, the extra plumpness will not matter so very much. The main thing is to have the hands white and soft, the nails polished and clean ana to move the hands gracefully. All these delightful conditions can be cul- tivated. Wa tier meen timed aki: ‘Once again long, graceful trains are to be seen, and as they are becoming alike to short and tall, stout and slen- der, it is to be hoped that the fashion has come ‘~ <‘ay—were such a thing to be drea of. It is to be noticed that most of the younger women still have their ball gowns cut rather short —that is, while long all around, the train is scarcely noticeable. Naturally, the comfort of a short. dancing gown is great, but then the charming lines given to the figure by a long sweep of ‘sik or satin should more than compen- sate for the slight inconvenience, and as a matter of fact, a long train is no more difficult to manage and looks far better when gathered up than a short- er one, +t tt t+t+t+sss Fotos se sees sauce. Two years aco the Mellhen- neys entertained the President's old- est daughter, now Mrs. Loneworth, in their New Orleans home at carnival time and last year the President him- self was their guest. The Little Things of Dress and Fash. jon, Muff chains are exceedingly popular again and just among the set that were almost the first to discard these usef 1 as well as ornamental things a few short seasons ago, ‘The little loop of cord that the furrier tacks into one side of the muff is supposed to be slipped on the wrist, and so keep the muff chained to its wearer. But, like so many other plans of mice and men, it went astray. Since its introduction more muffs have been lost and mislaid than ever before, and so the muff chain ts back again, and, need one say, more elaborate than ever before? The Craze for Corals has proven 4 perfect godsend in some families. Those dear, delightful people wha cling to the garret storeroom, where all the discarded finery of the family is laid away out of sight, are bringing out the treasures of long ago, only to find them held in higher esteem today than they ever were. What even ar antique dealer would not offer a five- cent piece for a year or two ago. wil fetch almost any price today. It is not the pale Indian corals that are in the front rank just now, albett they are considered the finest possible a few years back. It ts the deep red Ceylon coral that holds front rank at present, and the deeper the color the higher the price. A charming set seen at Tiffany's the other day was about the color of red sealing wax, and mounted in Etruscan gold, the effect was delightful. __They Say That with all the fashions of our grandmothers, earrings are back again. Of course, one does not refer by this to the ear studs or the flat but- tons that have been so popular for sometime in pearl and in turquoise. Rather it is the long pendant kind with which we are threatened, and which are wont to make a dowdy old lady out of éven the sauciest debutante that ever was. If 'tis true, ‘tis pity, to par- aphrase an old quotation for the ear- rings of the long pendant variety could never, by any stretch of the imagina- tion, be considered either ornamental or becoming. Even in their most artis- tie aspect—admitting that they have any at all—they are not attractive, ana their only excuse is that they are cost- ly, and their making gives employ- ment to artist artisans, who might oth- erwise suffer for want of work. Among the Dainty things from France that exclusive shops import are the prettiest of lingerie covers for al- most everything in use in the bedroom and boudoir “This column has taken note long ago of the fad for lingerie pillow covers, not intended to supplant the handsome embroidered silks and satins, but of such transparent batiste and linen ones slipped-on over the handsome silk ones, displaying all the beauty of the work, while offering a dainty and adequate protection. One house in New York takes orders for such covers to be slipped on over the exquisite silk and satin covered bed coverlets, that are filled with eith- er lamb’s wool or ciderdown. Since twenty dollars is a medium price for those elegant luxuries, it well pays to have a sheer lingerie cover made that may be slipped on when desired. Although the Trend is toward the plain and severely tailored shirtwaist the kind that the tailor invariably re- fers to as a shirt—in neckwear, the tendency is exactly the opposite. Elab- orate to a degree are the collars, stocks, jahots and whatnot that are to top those same plain shirts. But in accord with present commonsense tules, those are to be fashionable from linens and batiste, and nothing that will not withstand the assaults of the laundress, her washtub and polish- ing iron, is to be thought of for a mo- ment. ‘The simpler of real laces, val- enciennes, breton and such, are whip- ped on for edges and as much fancy stitching as the maker knows or is capable of may be displayed on both choker, turnover and jahot. Colored Materials are being used by good shirtwaist and blouse makers more than the plain white that has held sway for so long. Charming strip- ed effects appear in sheer linens, and open checks in china silk find favor, too. Front fastenings are another nov- elty. and the appearance of a tiny Pleated ruffle, lace edged, either side of this fastening is a novelty, Art should be an appeal to man’s higher nature. Jeff Davis, the new Senator from Ar- kansas, is a shining social light, yet he has never worn a swallow tail coat and he vows he never will. Sinater Joe Bailey has the same prejudice against society's conventional garb when he came to Washington fresh from the Plains of Texas some fifteen years ago. SHOP BY MAIL. © 4 WITH PERFECT SATISFACTION. é The great January Sale is now in progress. Be- i Tow are two of its wonderful bargains. Send for the - complete Sale Pulletin, which is as big as this whole 22 Paper. IT IS MAILED FREE, PEABL BUTTONS, 3c, DOZEN. A remarkable opportunity to get good pear! but- tons very cheap: Lay in’a big supply. Your choice ©; 20 of six sizes as illustrated (order. by number,) In our January sale, 3g, per dozen or 30g, for 12 dozen. 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Indeed, there can be no effectual catarrh rem- edv that is not also a tonic, In order to thoroughly relieve any case of catarrh, a remedy must not only have a specific action on the mu- cous membranes affected by the ca- tarrh, but it must have a general tonic action on the nervous system. Catarrh, even in persons who are otherwise strong, is a weakened con- dition of some mucous membrane, There must be something tc strength- en the circulation, to give tone to the arteries, and to raise the vital forces, Perhaps no vegetable remedy in the world has attracted so much attention from medical writers as HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS, The ee effi- cacy of this herb has recognized many years, and is growing in its hold upon the medical profession. When joined with CUBEBS and COPAIBA a trio of peel ogni formed in Pe- rune which constitutes a specific rem- edy for catarrh that in the present state of medical progress cannot be improved upon. This aotion, rein- forced by such renowned tonics as COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS, COR- YDALIS FORMOSA and CEDRON SEED, ought to make this compound an ideal remedy for catarrh in all its stages and locations in the body. ® From a theoretical standpoint, there- fore, Peruha is beyond criticism. The use of Peruna, confirms this opinion, Numberless testimonials from every quarter of the earth furnish ample evidence that this judgment is not over enthusiastic, When practical ex- perience confirms a well-grounded the- ory the result is a truth that cannot be shaken, °* M. 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