The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Oldest Negro Paper devoted to the Race in this Section NO 46 Hearts that starve for love. Home life should be happy yet it does require thought and care to make it so. We forget that love's lesson have to be learned. But it takes a great deal self-restraint. The patience of thoughtfulness, to learn and live out the lessons of love. There are thousands of homes in which there is love and where great sacrifices are cheerfully made; and yet hearts are starving there for love's daily bread. There are homes where expressions of affection are almost known. There are many husbands and wives between whom love's converse has settled into the baldest conventionalities. There are parents who never hiss their children after they are babies and who discourage in them, as they grow up all longing for marks of affection and caresses. Let them restore again something of the affectionateness of the early childhood days and see if there is not a great secret of happiness in it. Many who are longing for richer home, gladness needs only to pray for a springtime of love with tenderness that is not afraid of affection expression.—Rev. J. R. Miller,) G. W. White has bought the Barber shop at 915 N. 3rd St. All work first class. Call and see him David Harris, 60 years old, a Negro preacher living at 2405 Hallock street, fell of a Wyandotte car at 4th and Greeley ave. yesterday morning and bryke his neck. He died at St. Margaret's hospital. Rev. J.+L. Dudley, is assisting Rev. Richardson in his revival this week, great interest is being manifested upon the part of the members in trying to win souls for Christ. The many friends of Mrs. R. Burdette will be sorry to learn that she is very ill at her home at 1710 N. 4th St. "There are more Negroes in the United States than there are Irish in the world," says Vernon, and there are as many Negroes as Jews. These people have had their oppression and got out, and now they have respect of the world. They have won their way by industry, frugality and consecration of effort. The Negro can do likewise." There were 73 lyncoings in the U. S. during the year 1906, of these 70 were colored and 3 white. The lyncoings occurred as follows: Colorado 1; Maryland 1; Indian Territory 1; Tennessee 2; Missouri 3; Kentucky 3; Arkansas 4; North Carolina 5; S. Carolina 5; Alabama 5; Florida 6; Texas 6; Georgia 6; Louisiana 9; Mississippi 13. Twelve lyncoings occurred on Sunday and they embrace every offence from the theft of a yearling calf to a criminal assault. Jane time if h on!- Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Pearl Northington, Plaintiff. William Northington, Defendants. 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 20th day of July 1006 the petition filed against you, will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and awarding to her maiden name Pleural Jordan, and for cost of this suit. I. F. Bradley, atty, fer pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles. Clerk. 1st, pub. June 1. 1906. of Kansas. County of Wyandotte {ss} In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Peter Bruns issued. Creditors and all persons interested in the affordsed 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. County of Wyandotte and State of Wisconsin, 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 claim. Sophia VAN TUYL. Brousser of Peter Bruns, deceased. In wishes whereof, the undersigned Probe Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have herate set up, and affixed the seal of the said Probate. I grant this 10th day of September, mber A. D. 1906. City Locals. Mrs. Lizzie Mills of 347 Freeman ave. died Wednesday the 9th at the age of 40 years. She was a member of King Solomon Baptist church. She leaves 2 sisters, one brother and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn their lost. C. M. Murphy will leave to day for San Monigee, Cal., where he will spend some time. Mr. Murphy is one of our oldest citizens, we hope for him a pleasant and happy trip. Mr. W: H. Rhodes, state organizer of the Knights and Ladies of the Orient is in the city in the interest of the associia- insure in this cold society it is thoroughly reliable and pays promptly. Dr. S: A. Thompson is their examiner and mation for application can be secured through him. Rev. and Mrs. R.A. Broyles of Spring field, Ill., are in the city the guest of Mrs. E. F. Madison of 614 Troup ave., Rev. Rryles is the financial agent of the Amidexter institute of Springfield, Ill. Rev. E. P. Green is holding a revival meeting at his church in Argentine, Ks. and they are meeting with great success they now have five converts. Miss Rosa Lewis of 1416 W. 10th St., Little Rock, Ark. is visiting her cousin Mrs. Mary Jones on 426 Freeman ave. She will probably spend a few months in our city. WANTED Traveling Shoe Salesman for Kansas City and suburbs? Apply at H. D. Raff & Co., Manufacturers, 207-209 Monroe St., Chicago. Life is cheaper in the United States of America than in any civilized country in the world. 'The law has less terror for the criminally disposed than in any part of the world where law is supposed to reign supreme, and yet this is called a [Christian country, and under the highest form of Christian civilization. The Annual Tuskegee Negro Conference is to be held at Tuskegee Institute Alabama, Wednesday and Thursday, February 20 and 21 1907. These Conferwas started sixteen years ago having for their purpose the uplift of the colored farming classes in the Southern States. The meetings have done incalculable good during that time and are looked forward to each year by the farmers and others who are also interested in their welfare. Reduced rates of one and one-third fare are granted for these sessions Further information, if desired, can be secured by addressing Principal Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. 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 trick 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 exslaves 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, Moses Martin, Mrs. S. A. Taylor, Mrs. Minnie Reed, Ed Swanagan, Mrs. Katie Jackson, Verge Jackson, George Miller, Peter Shirley, Reubin Bell, Henry Harris, John Malone, Mrs. Minnie Payne, H. A. Jackson, L. A. Aldrich, Henry Woadfork, W, H. Hollinsworth, Headquarters at 1508 N. street. NOTICE Notices is hereby given that on Monday the 10th day of Dec. 1908, my application was filed in the office of the Probate Judge of Wyandotte County. Kansas for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 1212 N. 5th St., in the Third ward of Kansas City, Kansas and said application to petition before Monroe. A PROMINENT CITIZEN PASSES AWAY. The announcement of the death of Robt. L. Marshman was indeed sad news to thousands of his friends in the two cities. While he was mayor of this M. B. R. L. MARSHMAN. he was ever ready to do all in his power for the best interest of the citizens of this city, and while discharging the duties of County Commissioner the position of which he held up till his death, he proved to be the right man in the right place. In death of Mr. Marshman the colored citizens of this city have lost a tried and true friend. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansasas. Sarah Shelden, Pliff. VS. Charles 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 plaintiff and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 21st day of Feb. 1907, the petition filed against you will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing her from said defendant and for cost of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Sugar a Universal Need "Sugar has modified the history of Europe and of the world in more ways than one," says a writer. "Used four centuries ago, almost exclusively in the preparation of medicines, and long afterward an article of luxury only accessible to the rich, it has by enlarged production and cheapened manufacture been brought within the reach of all. The universal use of this practically pure carbohydrate, which is not only a freely burning fuel and proteid sparer, but a muscle food, increasing the power of doing work and lessening fatigue, must have had widespread and beneficial effects on the general health. Especially in the case of children, whose greed of sugar is the expression of a physiological want, has that food been valuable in conducing to growth, contentment and well-being." The late Paul in Cairn 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 853 women as a wife. Your majesty, I replied, 'If I should marry one of those beauties of yours there would be 263 women here.' Well, replied this king, 'that is easily settled. Take them all.' That was a little too strong for me, however, and as I have had such a friend to choose from since I am still a poetor.' ed with as great earnestness as to prepareation 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. 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 11th day; of September, 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and restoring plaintiff to her maiden name, Birdie Renek and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atta, for Piff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk First Pub. Aug. 3rd. 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 featous. 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 muet 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 him 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 ensured 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. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. 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. 19882. 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 are hereby notified that on the 26th day of October, 1966, 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 of 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 lt. ck sixty one (61) in Armourdale, now a part of Kansas City, Kansas, according to the recorded platt 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 unmarital table. 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, in, 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 judgment and decree will be rendered by 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 asserting 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 exceptionable chance to secure one of the best "make" and highclass instrument of today. Call and examine and get terms, No. 411 Neb. ave. K. C. K. Bethell A. M. E. Bhurch cor. of steward streets, will run a ten days Gospel meeting commencing Friday night Sept. 7th Rev. Pesry and Hawkins and others will assist Rev. L. W. McComiek in these services, every are cordall invited. Nier Furnished Rooms for rent with board or without, will be at home to friends on Thursday, 423 Oakland ave. Mrs. Annie Williams. Publication Notice British District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Frank Benton, Plaintiff. vs. Jane Benton, Defendant. The above names defendant 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 30th day of April 1006 the petition filed against her will be taken as true and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bond of matrimony existing between the plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing him from her the said defendant, and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY. Atty. for Piff Attest: W. Needle. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte, 86 In the Probate court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of Corvilla Broad, 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 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 Broad, 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. JANUARY 18. 1507 this Section CALL HERE Adminisrator's Notice. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. In the Probate court in and 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 Wattila late of said' County, 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 precluded 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. ElmerJ. Champe. Administrator of the Estate with will annexed of Narcissus Matilla deceased. In writingswhereof the 'undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the county of (SEAL)'; Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand,'and, adjusted the seal of the said Probate Court this 13th day A.D. 1906. Winfield Freeman. Probate Judge. Oct. 19. Votice 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 Anthony Dudley, deceased. 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 begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte, State aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month. November A. D. 1855. I shall apply to said court for a 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 Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 12th day of October A.D.1906. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge Executors Notice State of Kansas County of Wyandotte {ss 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. Dated Aug. 11, 1906. NOTE LETS For Rent- To desirable parties(gen- teman 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., conveni- ently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line. *Prices reason able. Mrs. Reed, 528 Nb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rooms 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 conveniently heard apply to the Prison Board of the State of Kansas, for a parole from the State penalty of the state of Kansas. Take not cease and govern yourself accordingly. CLARENCE STEWART. NOW IS the time Subscribe For the Weekly The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY . . . . KANS. 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? Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and pie. It was not long ago that all the "success" magazines were pointing to the Pittsburg millionaires as examples to the youth of the land. With 10,000 doctors in convention in Boston next summer, the rest of the country ought to have a good opportunity to get well.—Boston Globe. It is a pity that the great romancers of the sea did not live in a generation which affords such thrilling material as the log of the dry dock Dewey. A Minnesota man says he has discovered the cause of the aurora borealis. But what bearing will this have on the price of coal this year? Much to the surprise of everybody, some of the phenomenal ball players added to the leading nines as marvelous discoveries will probably make good. Cheer up, mister! The president of the Dressmakers' National Protective Association says that women's dress will be less expensive this year than ever before. The Japanese, says one of their statesmen, should adopt chairs and develop their legs. Well, short legs did not prevent them from "getting there" in the late war. Portia, as quoted by the editor of a kind of society paper, is made to say: "How far that little scandal throws his beams! So shines a bad deed in this haughty world." News comes from the east that the seventeen-year locusts will devastate the land this year. How many times in the course of a decade do the seventeen-year locusts come, anyhow? As the last suffragist was 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 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 Carriage 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. The Ethiopian Protec Aid As Employment and Informatic of the Ass 1508 N. 3rd Street. Employment and Information Bureau 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 grounds to suit the exposition, thousands of members are now joining the association has over a thousand members. buy land by the thou each state, to colonize them, build towns and hogs, horses, poultry, lish taneries, shoe and this will solve the race a piece from 10 million 1 million dollars for 1 $12,000,000 for five yelion dollars which won acres of land at $50. be enough land to col family in the Unite st give the boys and girl ing educated something earning had habit Kansas has many organizations, Garden city, Dodge city, Larned, Great Bead, Hutchinsons, 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. ISAAC B. A President of the E. P W. H. BOLDEN, Acting Secreta 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 is taken, the quantity should be small. The human body can live and thrive and work on a surprisingly small quantity of nourishment. Great modulation in eating is, therefore, one of the keys that unlock the doors on long living. Greatest Misfortune of Life Greatest importance 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 Batha 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 Pelce. 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. No Dutiful Wife Will Do It. 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 Kills Mice. Before the Paris Academy of Sctences, M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emanations from radium died in six hours. 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 Kansas City, Kansas 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 lest, to establish taneries, 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 ets. 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 1. those who are suffering with Chronic diseases and especially such as other Doctors have given up. Call on Doctor Jenjamin Bonner of Quindaro Kansas, he is o devine healer, and says he will cure you of the following diseases, if you are suffering with Parlysea he will cure you of that particular disease or no charges for his service. I can also cure Fever. Palpitation of the heart. Ingesting. Side Pleurisy. call on me at Quindaro Kansas. He refers you to any of the following perons whom he has treated for their different cases: Maggie Jenkins foot of Freeman, Mrs. K. Grigsby, Quindaro; Mrs. H. H. Everett, Quindaro; Laura Kennedy, 566 Oak, and Anna Becham 019 Pacific both in K. C. Mo. 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 position filed in said cause will be taken as is and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the coats of matrimony existing between plain- and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from lefendant and for cost os this action. Attest: By I. F. Bradley. Atty. Wm. Needles. Clerk. Dec. 7 Size of Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was not such a great city as some have supposed, according to H. Valentine Geere, the archaeologist. He says: "The idea of Babylon's vastness and magnificence, to which we have become accustomed, has been practically exploded. Dr. Kodewey told me that the site of the city was larger than that of any other ancient city; but ever so, the idea that it could be compared with London and its suburbs, which has been very generally held, is entirely erroneous. In point of fact, it appears that its walls were not more than eight miles in circumference. Moreover, the great palaces are shown to have been poor affairs after all. SHIELDS FOR TRCOPS 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 Bread 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. They say that money can not buy They say that money can not buy These things for me, alas! But I—Well—I don't know! What bought my private car? Just wealth, What bought my lovely yacht, Which calls me to lands where health is still good to shoot. What pays a special care, 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 idolized, you see. Well—I don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Express my joy, get a job! 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 me a bottle which I loll, It bought this private care. It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness. 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 belts a $2,500 house such as you agreed to build." "Don't form too hasty judgment." AMERICAN HAIR GROWER BEFORE USING PICTURES TAKEN FROM LIFE. AFTER USING NATURE'S OWN REMEDY This is not a chemical compound. 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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. 530 MINNESOTA AVE 852 FREEMAN AVE inner Water Filter as a Crystal and Healthy. 75 cents. 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His name ROOM 8. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Here is the Place An Old French Sailor. NOTED PEOPLE Edward Henry Harriman, the rail- ding and one of the financial owners in Wall Street, was born in in New Jersey, where his father a clergyman. Harriman entered Street while still in his teens, became a broker at 21 years of age. He formed a profitable connec- tion with William K. Vanderbilt, and name a private banker. In 1887 Mr. Harriman became a director in the Ili- sis Central Railroad. In 1899 he brought through the big financial dea- t which he gained control of the Chi- cade and Alton Railroad. He bought Kansas Pacific Railroad in 1898. In May 1901, that the terrible bat- ter control of the Northern Pacific place between E. H Harriman one side and J. J. Hill and J. Pier- Morgan on the other. Hundreds men were ruined, and on May 11th promisure was made by which Harriman became a director in both the Eastern Pacific and the Burlington trades. He has three daughters two sons. Edward VII. King of England, Ireland and Ireland, Emperor of India was born November 9, 1841. He is the eldest son of Queen Victoria after consort, Prince Albert. He is seventh of the sovereigns of the state of Hanover. He came to America in the fall of 1860 and visited the principal cities of the United States it was entertained at Washington by resident Buchanan. He was known Earon Renfrew. He was educated Oxford University, England. He in the great English derby in 1839 stagnain in 1900. He married Princess grandra of Denmark on February 1833. Edward visited Egypt in 1875 he made a tour of hisire of India. He ascended the one January 22, 1901. Frederick M. Warner Gov. Frederick M. Warner, of Michi- lson, was born at Hickling, Notting- hamshire, England, on July 21st, 1865. He was brought to the United States on only three months' old, and when at months old both his parents died mently, and the boy was adopted by the Hon. P. D. Warner, of Farming- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ There are few things more important to the human life than the selection of proper associations; for they not only reflect character, but also affect it, and upon the experiences of childhood depend the memory and sentiment of maturer years, which are the building factors of future nobleness. Upon the influences of home life are child's thoughts, ambitions and love educated, and accordingly are these traits revealed in after life as he gravies naturally to his most congenial sphere. To all, the responsibilities of good examples are very great; but to the curandans of youth they are incalculable, for no amount of pretext is efetual if example be missing. The associations of youth are peculiarly indelible to a child's memory, and no one can foresee by what little vitality an impressionable child may be influenced. A merody, a gentle word and glance, the odor of certain garden flowers, or a frown, an inju-sse, may alike affect their thoughts, from the dawn to the end of life, "for memory has as many moods as the temper and shifts its scenery like a forlama." When loving associations have been accumulating within us for years, even the possible suggestion that there would exist any possible substitute for them seems almost a sacrilege. George Eliot says: "The illusions that begin for us when we were less acquainted with evil have lost none of their value when we discover them to be illusions. They feed the ideal better; and when loving them we still strengthen the precious habit of loving something—not visibly, tangibly extent, but a spiritual product of our visible, tangible selves. Cherish the childish love and associations—the memory of that warm little nest in which every high pulse was fledged." with equal force, however, must remove the remembrance of unkindness, ruthless and all kinds of injustice—and what more accumulative and powerful its effects than bitterness, from +++++++++++++++++++++ A prominent southern physician, up- reaching his office one morning, found an old negro who had been a servant in his family standing in the waiting room, relates the Woman's Home Companion. The old negro, after mentioning several painful symptoms, related his usual hardluck story. F. H. Harriman. ☆ Edward VII. Significant Hint. ton, Mich. He was educated in the public schools of Farmington, and on September 19, 1888, he married Miss Martha M. Davis, of Farmington. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1889, when he built an extensive cheese factory in Farmington, and he now owns seven of these factories. He was made a state senator of Michigan for three years, from 1895 to 1898. He was elected secretary of state for Michigan in 1900. He became governor in 1904. His home is in Farmington, but his public offices are at Lansing. Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, was born in Ohio, in 1841. He was taken by his parents to Missouri while only a lad. He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1860, and, after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1863. He then went to the territory of New Mexico. He was the delegate to Congress from New Mexico from 1873 to 1877. He married Miss Hallie Davis, daughter of ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, and moved to that state. He was secretary of war from 1891 to 1893. He was elected a United States senator in 1895, and was re-elected in 1900. He has a magnificent home near Elkins, W. Va., but lives in Washington while Congress is in session. He is many times a millionaire and is interested largely in the coal and lumber properties of his state. Eugene V. Debs. of the American Railway Union, was born in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1855. He was educated in the public schools of his native city. In 1871 he went to work as a painter in the car shops of the Vandalia Railroad. He worked for three years as a fireman on this railroad. His first public office was that of city clerk of Terre Haute. In 1881 he was elected as a member of the Indiana state legislature. He gained great fame as an orator when he nominated Daniel Voorhees for the United States Senate. He was next made grand secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of Engineers. He was re-elected 14 times. He organized the American Railway Union on June 20, 1893. He is married and lives in Terre Haute, Ind. which emanates atheism, and, in face, almost every sad, doubting characteristic to which the "desh is heir." What little child was ever taught Christianity or the love of God by the doctrine of hell fire only? And what little heart, permeated with the natural impulses of youth, was ever made happy or genuinely good by the monotonous doctrines of the eternal consequences of good conduct? Childhood's longings are not always perversely oustinate, and if in maturer years we should have quite "put aside childish things," still it is the refinement of cruelty to insist upon children sharing our interests, for to the little girl whose arms are hungry for a doll there can be found no solace in housekeeping receipts; nor with any degree of satisfaction to a boy could Gibbon's Rome ever substitute the joys of "Tom Brown at Oxford." Unquestionably, the pursuance of childish duties is as important as those of after life, but also with equal justice should they find recompense in childish joys, which will ever encourage and feed the memories of love and justice. If "ignorance is a painless evil," so also is the memory of those merry, innocent childhood days, the thoughts of which, like the sun, rise every morning to flood the day with happiness, and to which rays respond and blossom life's highest impulses. In life's complicated game, when the devices of skill are so frequently defeated by unforeseen and unavoidable incidents, what better capital and offset to depression than happy memories, to which one's mind naturally reverts, and such cheerfulness not only makes life desirable, but from a practical standpoint is a fine asset for all. In encouraging children by example associations, happy environment and every rational form of indulgence, on unconsciously benefits humanity in general. The future of all countries depends upon its children, and their early influences and associations. Science and religion are but different sides of the same shield. The physician filled a small bottle and said: "Take a teaspoonful of this, Mose after each meal, and come back in a day or two if you do not feel better." "Mars John, I can't take dat medicine," answered Mose. "You will have to take it if you want to get well." Stephen B. Elkins Eugene V. Debs. America's National Air. The uses of a national anthem are many. It serves to cheer soldiers and sailors in time of war and arouses and thrills all of the people with patriotism even in times of profound peace. But have we a national anthem? Certainly we have three patriotic ales, "The Star Spangled Banner," "Hall Columbia," and "America." "Dixie" is too Southern, and "Yankee Doodle" too Northern; so are "John Brown's Body," and "Marching Through Georgia," which are both excellent tunes for troops en route. The three first named, however, are not sectional, but national. The English have their "God Save the King," the French their "Marsellaise," the Germans their "Wacht am Rhein." Austria, Italy, and Russia each have a national air, and nearly every country on the map. Some way ought to be found for the American people to choose one for themselves, either one of the three patriotic ales commended as national or some other Most of our naval and military bands prefer "The Star Spangled Banner." No Northerner can object to the further glorification of Old Glory if the people should select this one; no Southerner can object, either, because Francis Scott Key, the author, was a Southern man. The poem is fine; the music inspiring. Probably most Americans prefer it to the other two. It certainly warms the blood more and is far more thrilling. An incident in point, as to its effect on a historical occasion is related by the Baltimore Sun. "At a certain critical period when Dewey's fleet was anchored in the harbor of Manila and international complications were feared, a British squadron steamed into the harbor and the band on the flagship of the British admiral played 'The Star Spangled Banner.' American naval officers said they had never been stirred more deeply by the strains of this martial air than on this occasion." While we of the South retain our state pride and heredity insistence on state's rights, believing American liberty to be founded thereon, nevertheless in this section, as well as in the North and West, national feeling grows stronger as time goes on. Certainly we should have a national air, and the people should choose it. —Houston Chronicle. Man's Last Resource. The human race is dying. This is the dictum of Dr. J. H. Kellogg of Battle Creek, and he brings abundant statistics to prove his assertion. Perchance, even, we are now dead and have not yet discovered it, our minds alone being alive, and, stalking the earth in immaterial bodies, they deceive us with the reality of the unreal, as Hume once proved at least to his own satisfaction. The fact that Peary and others have found tropical flora and fauna in the Arctic regions, and that the birds and beasts of that inhospitable part of the earth have been reduced from giants to pigmies, is used to prove that where now is but ice and snow were once the monster palms and chattering monkeys. The doctor says that "life" in the shadow has bleached man's skin and through this has damaged his kidneys and his liver." He has nearly lost his sense of smell and most of his diviately implanted instincts. "With instinct dead, man has used his intelligence in some part wisely in his effort to adjust himself to the new conditions of existence which confront him, but unfortunately he has unwisely created artificial conditions and relations of a most dangerous and destructive nature." In other words, "man has lost his horse sense," and has taken refuge in furnace heated houses, eats meat, drinks coffee and alcohol, smokes tobacco and turns night into day. He cultivates disease for the sole apparent purpose of parting with his money to the doctors.—Duluth News. Boyce—They say that Smith's wife has money. Joyce—She ought to have; she grabs all that Smith earns. While the Chinese have been creating havoc among their forests for centuries, the Japanese have taken care of theirs, and today more than a third of the area of Japan is still under forest. There are only twenty sawmills in the whole country. 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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. Se·1 for circulars free F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation for them because he has married me the fact would prove him to be a very slight and shallow-natured man. Do I ever consider the truth of those words: "There is perhaps nothing a man hates more than a woman's—even a dear woman's—Don't be long." It makes him feel tied by the leg like a bird with a string, and some one to pull it at the other end."—Philadelphia TO THE YOUNG MOTHER I want to give a little advice to young mothers. I feel that I have had a little recent experience with babies, as I am the mother of six little ones. Five are with me and one has been transplanted to the Master's Garden. My oldest child is nearly nine years old, while the baby is five months. They are all hearty and rosy now, but, with one exception, they were sickly in babyhood. Let me advise you. My experience was gained with many tears and wakeful nights. No matter what the old folks say, never give the bables solid food until they have the most of their front teeth, and never before the tenth month. When you do begin feeding solids, you cannot be too careful. If anything disagrees with baby try something different. When you find something that agrees with him, do not be in a hurry to change. One of my little girls began to fall when about five months old. I found that she was not getting enough of "Nature's food." I tried to feed her on cow's milk in different ways, but it seemed that her little stomach rebelled, and she would not drink it at all. One day she seemed so sick and hungry that I decided to try her again on milk, but when I went to prepare it, I found there wasn't a bit of sugar in the house. Baby was crying so pitifully that I was in despair. Fortunately, I thought of a jar of honey in the pantry, and with this I sweetened the milk. She was delighted with the new drink. For the next five months she lived on milk and honey, for I soon had to wean her. She got well and was as fat as could be in a short time. In the tenth month, I began to put pieces of bread in the milk and honey. Gradually, I added other articles to the bill of fare, and when she was eighteen months old she could eat a little of almost everything on the table. When she was twenty months old I was taken sick and was unable to attend to her myself. She took sick with bowel trouble. I guessed the cause, but could not help myself. One day my little boy came to me and said, "Mamma, Aunt Winnie just gives Mertle meat all the time." Aunt Winnie was the old colored cook. It was impossible for me to get another cook, or to change her methods. As quickly as I could get up, I put Mertle on a bread and milk diet, and she got all MRS. CARRIE M. SOLLIE. Luther's Store, Ala. TO MAKE CANDIES By Norma Williams. 1 Butter Scotch—One cupful of brown sugar, half a cupful of water, a piece of butter the size of an egg, and a teaspoonful of vinegar. Boil about twenty minutes, and flavor if desired. 1 Chocolate Caramels—Put one cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of sweet milk and a tablespoonful glycerine into a kettle and boil fast. Wash the mixture in a cupful of grated chocolate, and then in cold water. Pour into buttered pans. 1 Cream Dates—The white of one egg, half an eggshell full of water. Stir in confectioner's sugar until stiff, sprinkle sugar on the moulding board and mix until very smooth. Make into small flat balls; cut the dates in two; take out the seeds and put half a date on each side of the balls. Cocoanut Candy-Grate up the meat of two coconututs, put in a kettle with four pounds of pulverized sugar, the beaten whites of two eggs, the milk contained in both nuts. Stir together over the fire until you discern an appearance of candy turning back into sugar. Take off immediately. Make into round, flat cakes and put on buttered dishes to harden. If you want part of it pink stir in the least bits of pokeberry juice after you remove theandy from the fire. 一 Boston Cream Taffy—Boll two cupfuls if granulated sugar in a cupful of cold water; add a tablespoonful of vinegar and two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar. it should be boiled until it snaps in cold water; add a teaspoonful of any essence preferred, and turn the candy out; when cool enough, pull white. For nut molasses candy, have the kernels ready, either whole or chopped, and sprinkle either over the taffy when it is poured out; they will sink in, and the whole can be out into squares as it cools, with a knife dipped into ice water. Or the nuts may be sprinkled over a dish and the candy soured over them. 一 Zephyrhs—Put into a soup plate, or other leep dish, a tablespoonful of orange flower water, the whites of two eggs, and add to it gradually enough confectioner's sugar to bring it to a consistency of pretty hick iceing. Now stir into this as many chopped almonds as the iceing will take up until then drop little lumps of this mixture cold in white paper, and bake a lit' golden colony in a slack oven; now lift them out, remove the paper and set them on a dish, strewing them with finely powdered sugar and leaving it firm. This recipe is quite as good, if not better, made with filberts or walnuts. The nut should be chopped until it is about asarge as the head of a pin. Brilliant French Varnish for Leather—spirits of wine, three-quarters of a pint; vinegar, five pints; gum senegal in powder, one half pound; loaf sugar, six ounces; powdered dials, two ounces. Dissolve the gum and sugar in the water; train and put on a slow fire, but don't soil now, put in the galls, copperas and the alcohol; stir well for five minutes; set off; when nearly cool strain through fannel, and bottle for use. It is applied with a pencil brush. Most superior. IN THE SICKROOM Good cheer is better than medicine. The jest has an important part to play as a remedy for irritability. Don't tell long stories. Don't rehash other people's trials. Don't think up miserable possibilities. Order, observation and obedience are three cardinal virtues in a nurse. Add to these tact, the want of which is the base of nearly every sin a nurse may commit. Question—Bad breath comes from a disordered condition of the stomach or from defective teeth. Have a dentist examine your teeth thoroughly and put them in condition. Then if the bad breath continues see a doctor about your digestion. In the meantime brush the teeth night and morning with a tooth-wash, containing myrrh, and rinse the mouth with the following. Thymol seven and one-half grains; borax, fifteen grains; dis AMERICA AT TRADE CUBA CUBA GOOD SERVICE CUBA Cuba—See, here, Mr. Interventio n, I'se liable to jump out of these clothes some day! Cuba—See, here, Mr. Intervention, I'se liable to jump out of these clothes some day! Uncle Sam—Don't think of it! If you did you'd startle my friend over there half to death! Fred Fairbanks, son of the Vice President, has been indicted for perjury at Springfield, Ohio, in connection with his marriage to Miss Scott of Pittsburg. The charge is that Mr. Fairbanks went to Steubenville, disguised himself as a workingman, and said that he was a resident of Adams county, and that Miss Scott was a resident of the county. On this statement, he secured a marriage license, and was married. The couple immediately left town. He denies that he misrepresented. by ten hours off duty. It also provides that under certain contingencies and in case of accident the time fixed may be exceeded. The enforcement of the law is placed in the hands of the interstate commerce commission and the federal courts. The penalty provided is a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000. The act is to apply to trains doing an interstate or foreign commerce business. Senators Elkins and Scott of West Virginia voted for the bill. ☆ William T. Stead, in the course of his international peace propaganda, proposes an international pilgrimage of peace, in which notabilities from all over the world would take part, to start from the United States for The Hague by way of London, Paris and Rome and to arrive at the Netherlands capital at the time the second peace conference assembles there. Mr. Stead says he believes that such a pilgrimage would exercise the greatest moral influence ever known. He expects President Roosevelt will support the suggestion. C. T. Neilhart of Osage county, Kansas, when the second group of representatives was called to take the oath as a legislator, refused to be sworn and called for the affirmation which was administered by Judge Johnston. Mr. Neilhart said in explanation: "I took a course in moral philosophy and ethics and I have religious scruples against the oath. I am not a Quaker. In taking an oath a man asks God to condemn him and it seems to me that a man's word ought to be good enough to stand by itself. I have taken a few oaths in my life, but not very often." ```markdown ``` James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad company, says in a letter to Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota that better management of railroads is not needed as much as increased mileage. He said that 1.100 million a year for five years would be necessary to give the country the mileage necessary to transact the business actually in sight without computing the natural increase. The western country has grown so fast that the railroads have been unable to keep pace with it, Mr. Hill said. He believes that the building of additional trackage is the best solution of the problem. ☆ The President sent to the Senate a message urging some action by Congress toward remedying the situation caused by the break in the Colorado river four miles below the international boundary line in Mexico which threatens the property interests in the Imperial valley of California. The President's message contains a long review of the situation and says that prompt action must be taken, otherwise conditions will become so extreme as to be impracticable of remedy. Probably with an expenditure of 2 million dollars, he says, the river can be restored to its former channel and held there indefinitely. ☆ Senator La Follette's bill, which passed the U. S. Senate by a vote of 70 to 1, provides that railway employees engaged in handling trains shall not work more than sixteen consecutive hours, which period is to be followed Wm. J. Bryan says in the Commoner that his Topeka speech was not an announcement of his candidacy. He says: He simply stated in Topeka what he stated elsewhere, that he was not ready to make an announcement on the nomination. Whether a nomination should be declined or accepted depends on conditions under which the offer is made. The platform is a mot by ten hours off duty. It also provides that under certain contingencies and in case of accident the time fixed may be exceeded. The enforcement of the law is placed in the hands of the interstate commerce commission and the federal courts. The penalty provided is a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000. The act is to apply to trains doing an interstate or foreign commerce business. Senators Elkins and Scott of West Virginia, voted for the bill. ☆ Wm. Alden Smith of Grand Rapids, will succeed Senator Russell A. Alger in the U. S. Senate from Michigan. William Alden Smith used to be a newsboy in Grand Rapids, Mich. He learned how to run a popoorn stand and directed his energies to that work for a time. Then he managed to get a place as page in the Michigan legislature. While working as a page he also was correspondent for a Chicago newspaper. It was while in Lansing that Smith decided to read law. It is said that in returning to Grand Rapids in a box car, on the road for which he later was the attorney, he was pitched from the train b ya brakeman. At 20 Mr. Smith was offered the nomination for Congress, but declined. Four years later he accepted the nomination and was elected. This was in 1895. He has served in Congress ever since and has also retained his position as general attorney for two Michigan railroads. In the House he is a member of the ways and means committee. He recently acquired a controlling interest in the Grand Rapids Herald, which he sold on the streets as a newsboy thirty-five years ago. - The isthmian canal commission at Washington opened bids from private contractors for the completion of the Panama canal. The basis on which the contract will be awarded is a percentage of the cost of completing New work. Bidders were required to accompany their proposals with a certified check of $200,000 and the successful bidder will be required to give bond in the sum of 2 million dollars. The government expressly reserved to itself the control of sanitation, of engineering and of quarters and food of employees. The work to be done by the contractor, therefore, has been confined to the actual work of construction. The proposals provide a system of rewards for the completion of the work in a shorter time than the contract calls for. W. J. Oliver of Nashville, Tenn., and Anson M. Bangs of New York, associated together were the lowest bidders for the construction of the canal. They propose to do the work for 6.75 per cent upon the estimated cost. The bids were opened by Chairman Shonts. Four proposals were received. The basis of the other three bids was as follows: 7.19 per cent., 28 per cent. and 12.5 of the estimated cost of the work. ☆ Dr. Von Lecoq of the Berlin ethnological museum, who some time ago made discoveries of Buddhist antiquities in Northeast Tarkestan, has arrived in Berlin. His most precious discovery, he says, consists of fifteen chests filled with manuscripts in no fewer than ten languages. These, with other articles dug out of sand, are relics of a highly cultured and artistic people that once inhabited those regions. the organization is also important, and the general line to be pursued in the campaign cannot be ignored. The platform ought to fit the issues; the candidate ought to fit the platform, and the party organization should be in harmony with the party's purpose. The sparrow that tries to live in an nest yet once does she it bitch it bitch The lower House of Congress passed C2S private pension bills in one day, out of 700 on the calendar. To the horrors of famine have been added an outbreak of smallpox among the refugees at Sing-kiang necessitating the demolition of the flat sheds erected to shelter the thousands who have arrived there in search of food, Captain Kirton reports that 300,000 destitute persons have been driven back toward their homes and that terrible scenes are being enacted along the line of retreat. He estimates that 1-4 million persons will die at Sing-Kiang alone and. 406,000 at Antung, where small relief works have been started. One million persons in all seemed doomed, the officials say. The distress is largely due to lack of means of communication and the fear that the Chinese officials might appropriate any work they undertake. As the dikes are dilapidated, renewed rains are certain to cause fresh floods. Every house in the neighborhood of Antung visited by Captain Kirton contained bodies or dying persons. The relief committee, which had $75,000 at its disposal, has instituted relief works under foreign supervision. ☆ The special message of President Roosevelt on the Brownsville affray was accompanied by various exhibits, including maps of Brownsville and Fort Brown, a bandoleer, thirty-three empty shells, seven ball cartridges picked up in the streets a few hours after the shooting; three steel jacketed bullets and some scraps of the casings of other bullets picked out of the houses into which they had been fired. The President declares that the evidence is positive that the outrages of August 13 were committed by some of the negro troops that have been dismissed, and that some or all of the members of the three companies of the Twenty-fifth infantry had knowledge of the deed and have shielded the guilty ones. The negro troops are referred to by the President in his message as "midnight assassins," and he declares that very few, if any, of the soldiers dismissed without honor could have been ignorant of what occurred. That part of the order which bars the soldiers from all civil employment under the government is revoked by the President. This clause, the President says, was lacking in validity. The discharged troops, however, will be forever barred from reenlisting in the army or navy. As to this the President says "there is no doubt of my constitutional and legal power." Senator Foraker moved that the message be printed. He said the testimony on which the President based his conclusions was taken behind closed doors, and that the discharged men had a right to a hearing where they could make a defense. ☆ Herbert D. Peirce, United States minister to Norway, is the subject of sensational charges at Washington, made by Prof. H. W. Elliott of Cleveland, O., in connection with a hearing on a resolution for the further protection of fur seals on the high seas. Professor Elliott stated that while Mr. Peirce was representing the United States government before the Hague tribunal in the settlement of claims growing out of the seizure of the sealing vessel J. Hamilton Lewis by the Russian government, on the charge of piracy, he also represented the owners of the vessel and even instituted action in the United States district court for the District of Columbia to insure the payment of his fee out of the money awarded to the vessel owners. Representatives Champ Clark and John Sharp Williams questioned Mr. Elliott about the charge, and said that it reflected so seriously upon the administration that it most be loowed into carefully. The chief purpose of Prof. Elliott in appearing before the committee, he explained, was to have the United States annul the lease of the sealing privileges which it has granted to the North American Commercial company. He stated that the officers of the company perjured themselves when they obtained the lease, as they swore they were not engaged in pelagic sealing. In spite of this cath, he says, they equipped the J. Hamilton Lewis, in command of Captain Alexander McClain, which Prof. Elliott alleges was rightfully seized by the Russian government. This seizure was in 1901, and Mr. Elliott made the statement that Mr. Peirce's activity in collecting a fee from the vessel's owners was in 1905. Mr. Peirce was the government's "master of ceremonies" for several years. He was in personal charge of the members of the Russo-Japanese peace conference and escorted Prince Henry of Prussia through the United States. Wifey—John, dear. I suppose you'll be angry, but I was walking through a china store this morning and broke something. Hubby (anxiously)—How careless! Was it something costly? Wifey—It was that $20 bill you gave me.—Boston Transcript. The Czar's Necklace Sold Under the Hammer. A magnificent pearl necklace, once the gift of a Russian czar, and as illomened as it is beautiful, was sold at auction for $85,000 on Fifth avenue to prevent a possible panic in Wall street. The great circlet of precious stones for which the czar paid $135,000, became the property of J. Drelicer & Son, diamond dealers, of No. 202 Fifth avenue and any American who will give the handsome commission its owners ask and is willing to face the "hoodoo" that has brought disaster on every man or woman to whom it has descended, may become its possessor. A year before he died, in 1894, Alexander III, father of the present emperor of Russia, ordered the royal jeweler to search out the fifty-four finest pearls in Europe of uniform size and of the first water and to fashion a necklace for the wife of his ambassador to Austria, who had won his majesty's undying gratitude by a great diplomatic stroke which had much to do with rehabilitating Russian supremacy at a time when it was in sad decay. When the present emperor succeeded to his father's throne he removed the Austrian ambassador in disgrace, it is said, and the diplomat went to Paris, where the necklace was the envy of all the grande dames of the Third Republic. But close on the heels of their triumphs in France the former envoy and his wife began to feel the pinch of poverty, and they sold the circlet to a Paris diamond merchant for $60,000. An American broker, suddenly made rich by a great "strike" in Wall street amazed Paris by his lavish expenditures, which he capped with the purchase of the necklace at a price exceeding $100,000. He brought the pearls to America and gave them to his wife. There is a story that, while the woman wore them at the greatest functions of the "400" her husband lost his fortune in the street and had to take back his gift and sell it for the necessities of life. But of this there is no certainty, and when next heard of the necklace had passed into the jewel collection of the Francis P. Church estate. That was less than five years ago. The necklace became the property of another Wall street broker, then and until two years ago a power on 'change, and a man still generally believed to be worth millions. His fortune began to dwindle immediately; speculations went wrong, the market wrought steadily against him, until it is said that today only his collection of jewels stands between the former prince of finance and utter ruin. In his last desperate effort to gain funds the Wall street man took the royal necklace to the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, and commissioned the auctioneer to sell it, with his other jewels, to the highest bidder. He stipulated only that his name should not be divulged. If it is, he declared, "not only I will be ruined, but there will follow such a crash in Wall street as it has not known in many days, and many millions that may be saved would be jeopardized." The auctioneer kept his part of the agreement, but a few learned of the tragic story, and about one hundred rich men and women gathered in the galleries at 366 Fifth avenue when the man with the hammer finally reached catalogue number 1928. Perhaps so that he could tell the story afterward, one man offered $5,000 with a laugh. The auctioneer frowned angrily, and the crowd groaned. But by leaps and bounds the bids went by $1,000 at a time until $50,000 had been offered. Both men and women had joined in the game, swaying in fascination. Some one bid $65,000, and Maurice Brower of 12 John street lifted the figure quickly to $70,000. A richly dressed woman said, "I make it $78,000." Her name was lost in the shout that followed the bid by C. S. Davison. "Ill give $85,000," he said quietly, The auctioneer tried vainly to get more for the precious necklace, and the crowd gasped and gasped again when the hammer fell. Davison immediately announced that he had purchased the necklace for J. Dreicer & Son. He understood he said, that they would offer the string at private sale. The day's total receipts were $195,984.65. More than half, it is said, were gained from the broker's jewels. Whether it is enough to avert the crash will be known in the next few days.—New York American. A Cornhill tailor, says the London Mail, has the following poster in his window: Mi Nu Gudes ar Speshull Selekted with a vu to Kwaliit and Stile Kombynd with Ekonomikal Charjes Nu Amurrican Few people can claim descent to female Freemason. Lord Duncan however, can trace back his title to the only woman everceived into the craft. Elizabethberger, sister of the last Viscount aile of that family saw, while the proceedings of a Masonic from a place of concealment in father's house. She was detected forthwith initiated. Portraits of wearing the Masonic apron still She afterward married Richard worth, and had by him two sons whom the youngest, St. Lester, assumed to his maternal uncle's estimate assumed his surname, being created Viscount Donerlea in VO T L They tell this story of an EK judge's passage with a well known rister, noted for his skill at replay. The barrister was arguing a point before the court when the of an ass came in through the wrist "One at a time, brother, one at time," observed his lordship soot. The spectators tittered and the rister concluded his remarks. Thereupon the judge proceeded sum up. He, too, was interrupted the resonant bray of the ass. The barrister looked curiously the room. "There's a wonderful echo in building, my lord," he observed. I sought my father's study, his busy over his sermon, but he his kindly head to listen. I swallowed the lump in my throat several times then stated my determination in ulous tones. I braced myself for stern answer. It came. But it fearful anti-climax. He looked steadily through his glasses for suspensive moments, and then a "Certainly, of course, my boy" was all. I was free, but I had robbed of my "situation." My hero tumbled to the ground. Now this all. The dear man actually offered to help me. Among his friends was T. Barnum; surely his name would of value, my father thought so. He lived not far away, in Bridges. Armed with a note of introduction sought "the great showman" in home and was graciously received had had some correspondence with manager of the Philadelphia Musa a minor theater in the Quaker that gave two performances a day. I told Mr. Barnum this. "What's his name?" aswed the st man. "William Davidge, Jr," I answer "That's all right; I know Dav So he wrote a note which coun this astonishing endorsement: "The bearer, Mr. Otis Skim known to me. His parents are ently respectable. He has a st talent and a yearning for the I suspect Barnum chuckled over little joke after I had bowed out amid an outpouring of thanks the letter did the business. I present myself to Davidge at Philadelphia on the strength of the showman that had so picturesquely set my "yearnings" I was enrolled member of the company at the nficil salary of $8 per week. My stage career had begun—Bob My stage career had begun-Bah ian. An Animal's Toilet Cats large and small make the most careful toilet of any class of animal, excepting those of possums. The lion and tigers wash themselves in each the same manner as the cat, watch the rubberlike ball of the forefoot in inner toe and massing it over the face and behind the ears. The foot is the same time a face sponge a brush, and the rough tongue comes the rest of the body. Hares also use their feet to wash their faces, and a hare's foot is so suitable for a bird that it is used to apply the "paint" the face for the stage. An Adamless Eden in Texas, according to a dispatch from that state, to the dream of Mary F. Hayden, a Chicago go writer, and Miss Hayden is preparing to make it more than a dream. She is arranging to establish a colony of thousand women in Refugia county South Texas. She has acquired title of 5,000 acres and is now at work on the plans for her novel and unique colour. A writer in the London Lancet finds that the average of life has been in creased from a "trifle under forty years in 1554 to a trifle over forty years in 1900." A gain of eight years in less than half a century is tremendous. Should progress continue the world will again see Methuselah Boyle—I heard that he was quite sprinter. "The mob that pulled off the lynching bee at Annapolis has been described as 'thoroughly orderly.' After a while these affairs may become enjoyable."