The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. BERAL COMMISSION PAID RELIABLE AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER CALL HERE VOL. 17 NO 51 The Oldest LIBERAL COM A WINNER F. S. Guyer the next judge of the 8th City court is a graduate of under Chark college at Toledo, Ohio finished the law course at the university of Kansas and at the Kansas School of Law. He has lived here in 1990, practicing law, and atent is the law partner of E. A. En- this city can now be classed for the greatest in the west both population and wealth, it goes with-warding that it is highly necessary there should be great care taken in the part of the citizens of this in selecting judges of our courts actually the North Side City court, no better man can be found in this to fill this important position than S Guyer for he is in every way fitted and fitted to discharge theses of this office. We believe the good people of this irrespective of color will see to it their influence and votes that he Is trusted and elected to this office an overwhelming majority. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. A Noted Lady Passes Away. Ms. Sylvia Robinson who was one most noted and highly respected of this city on last Thursday feb. 7, 7, passed from this life at land of bliss beyond, where and love forever reign at her 817 Washington avenue at the 48 years. She was a true de- Christian, her funeral was held James A. M. E. church on Sun- feb. 10th at 2 o'clock, under aus- sue of the Sisters of Mysterious of which she was a faithful member for fifteen years, her place this city will be hard to fill both in arch and in society circles. She was a husband, son, sister and a of friends to mourn their lost. the best of life ought to be before not behind us; greater attain- greater struggles, and greater evements are on before us. Waste your time while in school in idle but forget the things that are be- our follies and failures and press and upward until the goal is set. "The greatest good is not in falling, but in rising every time all. Keep in mind the best of life dare not be behind. Look not at great life as a model, but strive to more service, learn to do some- worthy of admiration and emu- -Ex. CARD OF THANKS wish to thank the many friends neighbors for the kindness shown during our sad bereavement at the of our beloved wife, daughter and Mrs. Kemp also for the many female floral offerings. MR. R. KEMP, MRS. P. FIELDS, MRS. LUTHER CALAWAY. MRS. ITHERY FITZHUGH, MR. JAMES FIELDS, MR. WALLACE FIELDS, MISS MARTHA FIELDS. Publication Notice District Court of Wyandotte County Shelden, Plif. Shelden, Dept. Above named defendant, you are named that you have been sued in named court by the above named and that unless you appear and an- nounce the 21st day of Feb 1907, fired against you will be taken and a judgment rendered the na- tion will be a decree dissolving the automatic existing between plain- defendants and divoreing her from ant demand and for cost of this action. L.F. Bradey, Atty, for Cham. Needles, Clerk. 1st pub, Jan. 1907. announcement of Hon. D. D. mull for Mayor of this city we will meet the approval who are interested in good legal government and law movement. He is one of our citizens and who can albe found doing all in his City Locals. Send us your news, Telephone Bell 1958 West. The Minstars Alliance met in their regular meeting. The Metropolitan Baptist church of which Rev. E. A. Wilson is pastor had good services all day Sunday collection, $27.00. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Rev. G. McNeal had good services last Sunday collection, $27.75. First Baptist Church, Rev.W. A.Bow en pastor, nad good services all day last Sunday, collection $38.00. Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist church, left at 6:30 Monday evening for a two weeks stay in Pueblo, Colo. While there he will hold a revival meeting for Rev. D. E. Over formerly of this city. Miss Hobson, of Pueblo, Colo., stopped off en route home from Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday and was the guest of Mrs. E. A. Wilson. Mrs. E. A. Wilson went to Eudora, Kansas, Thursday to attend a board meeting of the Kaw Valley Baptist Association. Mrs. Susie F. Hazle of Galesburg, Ill., who has been visiting her relatives, the Walkers on N. Eighth street, will return home Saturday morning. The Editor of this paper has known Judge Monohan for the last twenty-five yeors, and has ever known him as both honorable and upright. As Probate Judge he was distinguished for judicial discretion and sound judgement. The colored man had no better friend if he had any business to transact in Judge Monahan's court, he was certain to get fair and even handed justice The colored man and the whites man looks alike to the judge. ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself a candidate for City Treasurer, subject to Republican primaries March 2. MISS TIERA FARROW I hereby announce myself a candidate for judge of the North Side City Court subject to decision of Republican primaries. GEO. MONAHAN. I hereby announce myself a candidate for judge of the North Side City Court subject to decision of Republican primaries. U. S. GUYER. Old Folks Home To build an Old Folks Home for Kansas City, kansas. Under the management of the E. P. and B. Ai# 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 triek 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 daugh ter 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. 311. S. Wade Reed, Moses Martin, Mrs. S. A. Taylor, Mrs. Minnie Reed, Ed Swanagan, Mrs. Kattie Jackson, Verge Jack KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING, JACKSON FREDERICK DOUGLASS Publication Notice. In the District Court yandotte Covnty Kansas. Birdie Smi h, Plaintiff vs. Peter Smith, Desendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 14th day of September, 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the natre of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and restoring plaintiff to her maiden name Birdie Renick and for cost of this suit. 1. F. F.BRADLEY, Atta. for Piff. Attost: Wm. Needles, Cierk A FORTUNE FOR SERVANT. A Farm and Five Thousand Dollars to One Who Had Served Him Long and Well Washington, Feb. 9.—Charles D. Holt by his will, dated November 7, 1906, and filed for probate today, bequeaths to his colored servant, Fannie E. Clark, $5,000 and a farm in Prince George's county, Maryland with all the farming implements, furniture, stock, etc. These bequests, the testator states in his will are given "as a reward for many years of faithful service and attendance." He devises to Saintie Arnold, of Virginia, $3,000 and lot 41, square 748, this city. The remainder of the estate is to go to Mrs. Lizzie Tucker, wife of T. W. Tucker, of Memphis, Penn. William A. Gordon is named as executor. Mr. Holt died January 31. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas. Pearl Northington, Plaintiff. vs. 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 90th day of July 1006 the petition filed against you will be taken as true, and a judgment rendered against you, the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divoreling plaintiff from defendant and awarding to her her maiden name Plearl Jordan, and for cost of this suit L. F. Bradley, atty, for pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles. Clerk Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Sarah C. Reagan Plaintiff, vs William Reagan. Defendant. State of Kansas Greeting: To the above named defendant, William Reagan, you will take notice that on the 28th of December, 1906, that the said plaintiff above named, has filed her position in the above and entitled court, asking for divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Unless you answer damur or otherwise object, on or before the 23rd day as March, 1907, the allegations of plaintiff will be taken as true and upon further Everybody should turn out at the primaries on March 2, and see to it that Miss Tiera Farrow is nominated for the office of city treasurer and thereby make no mistake in securing a good city official. Race Notes Cole and Johnson are not only success ful aetors, but composers of popular airs as well They wrote "The Mississippi Belle" which was sung by May Irwin, and many other well known pieces such as "Uder the Bamboo Tree," "The Congo Love Song," "The Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes" "Floating Down the Nile" "Lindy" and others. The publishers have sold over one million copies of their different song and the authors recieved a royalty of 5 cents on every copy. Cole and Jonson wrote all the music of "Humpty Dumpty," the big extravaganza brought out by Klaw and Frlanger. Other Negroes who have been successful on the stage are Black Patti, the singer, and Williams and Walker the comedians. The plans for the handsome building which will contain the Negro exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition next summer were drawn by W. Sidney Pitman, a Negro architect, who started in to learn the trade of wheelwrighting at uskegee. His unusual ability in making accurate estimates of the cost of production attracted the attention of his teachers, who advised him to begin the study of architectural drawinf. Mary Church Terrill is doubtless the most accomplished Negro woman in America. She was the first woman appointed on the board of education in the District of Columbia, and not long ago when she went to Berlin to attend the meeting of the International Association for the Advancement of Women, she surprised the entire assemblage by being able to deliver her address in three languages. She was formerly from Memphis. She now devotes much time to lecturing on subjects concerning the welfare of the Negro race. We can never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and fuffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures loves. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patiet, and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service for another, is the divine idea of manhood, of human character. 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: banks and the unknown heirs and devils of S.A. Snyder, deceased, Greeting: — You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 26th day of October, 1906, 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 b eck stery 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 title and rendering the same unmarkable. 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 ear. of steward streets, will run a ten days Gospel meeting commencement Friday night Sept. 7th Rev. Pesry 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 named defendant will hereby take notice that she has been sued by the above named plaintiff if the above hamed court, and that unless you appear and answer, on or before the 30th day of April 1966 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 Puff Attest: Wm. Needles, Clock. 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 Corvila 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 offices 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 Corvila 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. this Section R CALL HERE Executors Notice State of Kansas. County of Wyandotte In the Probate Court of Said County In the matter of the Estate of Annie Fulgham, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the under-signed on the last will and testament of Annie Fulgham, late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 29 day of Jan. 1907. 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. ANNIE FULGHAM. Executor of the last will and testament of Annie Fulgham deceased. Administrator's Notice. County of Wyandotte.) In the Probate court in and for said county In the matter of the Estate of Narcissi Matilla, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of Administration with will annexed have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of Narcissi Watilla late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 5th 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 Narcissi Matilla, deceased. It writes whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the county of (SEAL) Wyandotte. State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand. And affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 13th day October, A. D. 1906. Winfield Freeman. Probate Judge. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas }ss County of Wyandotte, 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 County, 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. 1905. I shall apply to said court for a and final settlement of said estate. Eliza Budley Administratrix 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 NOTE LETS For Fent- To desirable parties(gen teman perfed)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 Roaming house in the city-charges always reasonable. For Nice Furnished Rooms call on Mrs. Iday Easily at 107 N.6h 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 roms to rent. Notice of Application for Parole. To whom it may concern:— | This is to notify all persons that if the undersigned will on the 2nd day of October 1966 or as soon thereafter as can be convenient heard apply to the Prison Board of the State of Kansas, for a parole from the State penitentiary of the state of Kansas. Take not cee and govern yourself accordingly. CLARENCE STEWART. NOW IS the time Subscribe For the Weekly American Citizen 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 whistle leads to mental decline. Why doesn't he try poker for a change? Senator Pettus is declared to be a poor man and fond of poker. The last explains the first, possibly. Perhaps boys should be thankful for whippings, as somebody declares, but they seldom are before they are 45. Sweet Spring is now approaching, and Summer with the rose, so poetry's encroaching upon the field of prose. King Edward was "warmly received" in Paris, but not in the same way as when he used to be prince of Wales. The czar will reserve the right to wield the big stick over the Douma, according to the latest advices from St. Petersburg. We learn from the New York Mall that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and 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 detatched from the doorknob and put into the police wagon, the premier of the great British Empire crawled out from under his bed and sighed a sigh of relief An actor has become a soldier in 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. Employment and Information Bureau for the members of the Association. 1508 N. 3rd Street. Kansas City, Kansas BELL TELEPHONE 2313 WEST. ISAAC B. ATKINSON, President of the E. P. & B. Aid Association. W. H. BOLDEN, Acting Secretary. Peter Shirley, Canvassing Agent. Telephone Bell W. 32 W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. The very best for all Purpose The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges Re sota Ave., Kansas Local Office of The Ethiopian Protec Aid As Employment and Information of the Ass 1508 N. 3rd Street. BELL TELEPHON The Ethiopian Protective and Benefi ficial Aid Association, National Conven tion at Kansas City, Sept. 22nd, 1908. The National association will be composed of delegates from every State and Territory 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. Kansas has many organizations, Garden city, Dodge city, Larned, Great Bend, 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. $ ^{1} \mathrm {T O} $ ISAAC B. AT President of the E. P. W. H. BOLDEN, Acting Secret- Peter Sh 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- ration in eating is, therefore, one of the keys that unlock the doors of long living. 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." The Day's Length. 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. 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 Sciences, M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emanations from radium died in six hours. Thunder Kills Ousters Oysters are such nervous creatures that a sudden shock, such as a loud thunder-clap, will kill many hundreds of them. Not So Likely to Happen. If our hearts expanded, as readily Telephone Home W. 32 Raymond DIRECTOR Rest of Service, Fine Carriage es, at all Hours. Enameled Ambulance for wounded reasonable. Call at 431 Minne- as City, Kansay. Effective and Benefician Association on Lureau for the members association, Kansas City, Kansas, NE 2313 WEST. 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 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 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. TKINSON, P. & B. Aid Association. Mary. Birley, Canvassing Agent. To the Afflicted To those who are suffering with Chronic diseases and especially such as other Doctors have given up. Call on Doctor Benjaman Bonner 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. He refers you to any of the following persons whom he has treated for their different cases: Maggie Jenkins foot of Freeman, Mrs. R. Grigsby, Quindaro; Mrs. H. H. Everett, Quindaro; Laura Kennedy, 566 Oak, and Anna Becham 1019 Pacific both in K. C. Mo. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Isaiah Edmonson. vs. Russia Elmpson. 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 trust 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. Attorney Attest: By I. F. Bradley. Atty. Wm. Needles. Olerk. 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 TROOPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Milli- tary 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. 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, What sends me to lands where health Is found? 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— That she sheddies in? And if her he not adored, me, And I am not adored, you see, Well—I don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Expect to get in free; But if the Lord meant what he said Concerning charity, Tell me what you want. For happiness? Well, money bought this ninety-cent cigar; It bought this chair in which I loll. It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, if all this is not happiness, Well, money bought. 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 being 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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His name is Pierre Louiat. He was born in ROOM 8. KANSAS CITY, KAN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS An Old French Sailor. MISSOURI NEWS. Bernard Tapp, formerly of Camer- has received an appointment to the United States naval school at Annap- mentor McDavid has introduced a to increase the state license on milps to $200 a year. The pres- state license is $100 a year. mentor Hudson has introduced a bill divide the Seventh judicial circuit. milks make Clay, Ray and Clinton milks constitute the Seventh cir- dies and Davies and Livingston coun- the Thirty-fourth judicial circuit. mentor Major, author of the "Jim car bill recently passed by the thee has offered a bill in the sen- to reduce the minimum fine for using craps to $1. He said that it a bill for the relief of the nee- MCL Club No. 1 of the World, in Ex- Springs, has been issued a char- the secretary of state. The oef- of the club are: William Sisk, agent: William Hyden, secretary, William Flack, treasurer. This has a large membership, all of are christened "William" and "BILL" for short. That name is sole qualification for membership a person with any other name is able. ☆ right between John Gilbert, a living at Tiff City, near South City, and John Splitlog, an India which the latter was killed, be the cause of serious trouble. Indians of the Seneca tribe, of which Splitlog was a member, have an vengeance against the slayer of his friend. Gilbert's friends on the war hand say that they will take up fight and it is expected that a feud result. ☆ The Rev. Bradford H. Cox, of S04 chash avenue, Kansas City, is dead his wife is seriously ill as the re- t of eating oysters. Last Saturday it they purchased some oysters in a down town fish and oyster use and took them home. Part eaten raw and the rest were of. Sunday morning both became evil, but did not summon a physi- until Tuesday morning when Dr. P. Crutcher was called. He stated that they were suffering from ptne- poisoning due directly to the terrors. ☆ Representative Noyes of Jackson county has introduced a bill relating to the salaries of prosecuting attorneys assistants. Representative Groff already had a bill before the house which covers this case, not Mr. Noyeseller that he was trying to dispose of too much of the county's money, since the new bill. The Noyes bill provides for one assistant county attorney at a salary of $2,400 a year. The Groff measure provides for two assistants at that salary. Groff's bill also provides for two second assistants at the salary of $1,800, while types cuts them down to $1,500. Archie Gilbert of La Harpe, has the en-edged blade of a knife lodged somewhere in his interior anatomy. The blade was a part of a "Spanish shell" knife, a tool formed in the shape of a mussel shell, and the blade is detachable from the snail part. The shell was chewing on this part of the shell when he accidentally syallowed with the bullet and blade. His teacher sent him home immediately and a physician was called, but all efforts to locate the blade failed. An X-ray will be resorted to and an operation performed if the blade is in a dangerous position. The house has passed a bill by Representative Paul of McDonald county providing that any five citizens in any county in the state may at their own expense employ an attorney to assist the prosecuting attorney in the performance of his duties. It further provides that such attorney shall be recognized by the prosecutor and the court as an associate prosecutor and that no prosecution shall be dismissed over his objections unless the regular prosecuting attorney shall file with the circuit court the reasons why the case should be dismissed. According to Representative Paul this bill was introduced so as to secure the prosecution of certain dramshop proprietors in his and other counties. His argument in favor of the bill is that no matter how much evidence was introduced by competent witnesses to show that the law had been violated, the cases invariably were dismissed. The senate passed Senator Kinney's child labor bill. It prohibits children under 14 from working, and limits the hours of those 16 years of age to 54 a week or 9 hours a day. The penalty is a fine of from $10 to $100. The house passed a bill which makes a misdemeanor for any person willing to turn in a false fire alarm. The penalty is a fine not to exceed $500. Directly between Paris and Berlin; only a hair's breadth, indeed, from being on a straight line drawn between these two cities; there lies a little and independent country. By Americans it has been inexplicably overlooked. It contains a multitude of ruined casiles perched craggly. It is of the diverting area of nine hundred and ninety-nine square miles. This almost unnoticed Grossherzogthum of Luxemburg would not even now be independent had not Queen Wilhelmina been a girl. it would have remained a province of the Netherlands, although hedged in (such, again, the bewilderment of it) by Germany and Belgium and France. But its constitution makes the succession hereditary in the male line of Nassau, and so at Wilhelmina's accession it eluded her grasp and placidly entered the family circle of independent European countries; not large for its age, this new member, for its size is less than a twelfth part that of tiny Holland. Luxemburg, the capital of Luxemburg, is set proudly upon a plateau girdled by precipices two hundred feet in height. Rivers wind circumfluent at the foot of the rocks, and from the boulevarded brink there are alluring views. Until less than forty years ago the city was of a strength only second to that of Gibraltar, but by the Treaty of London, of 1867, the powers decreed that the Duchy should thenceforth be neutral, although it was a province of Holland, and that the fortifications of the capital should be destroyed. For centuries the city held a proud distinction under the alternating rule of France and Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain; and the change has not come in order that nation shall life up sword against nation, but only that in case of war great armies may maneuver without the check inherent in the very presence at this central spot of a powerful stronghold. And so, the splendid haughtiness has gone, and only fragments of the fortifications remain. But what fragments! Rocks honey-combed with passages and pierced with embrasures; grim piles of stone; and here and there, projecting over the edges of the cliff, the noble Spanish Towers. The powers decreed, too, that the army be reduced to a paltry three hundred, and the inhibition still holds. But the happy people, making a jest of necessity, smile when the handful march along with pomp of colors and blare of music; some sixth of the total army being band. But, with saving sense of humor, there is no extravagance of military title, as the commander-in-chief is but a major.—Robert Shackleton in Harper's. A Sharp One. A party of English tourists, coming upon an old Highland shepherd, thought to have a little fun at his expense, says the author of "National Honor," and began asking him if he enjoyed the scenery. "I suppose," said one, "you can see a great distance from here on a clear day?" "Oh! yes, gentlemen—a great distance, indeed." "I suppose, now, on a clear day," said another, "you could see as far as London?" "Aye," replied the shepherd, "and farther than London." "As far as America and Madagascar, I should think," said another, with a wink to his companions. "Aye, to be sure; and farther, too." "Farther than America! Well, now old man, tell us how far you can see." "Weel, if the night is clear, gentlemen, you will see from this all the way to the moon." Right to be Proud. First Horse—You look real chipper today. What's happened? Second Horse—Pulled an automobile back to town this morning. "Coal smoke causes consumption" says a prominent physician.—Washington Post. "But most of the people who produce coal smoke are able to keep their families out where the air is comparatively pure."—Chicago Record Herald. When a woman marries a good-looking man, it is a sign she is going to have fits of leaulous sooner or later. Something Else. On this occasion, when shown into the parlor, the young man did not find Lucille waiting for him as usual, and after five minutes had passed and he was beginning to wonder, her father appeared and said: "Harold, I wish to have a word with you this evening." "No, sir." "You have been coming here two evenings a week for the last three or four months." "Yes, sir. Yes, I have been coming here two evenings a week." "And our friends are beginning to put two and two together." "Yes, sir." "I mean by that that they think it time I asked your intentions toward Lucille." "My intentions!" exclaimed Harold in surprise. "Yes, sir. If you are in love with my daughter and wish to marry her—" "Miss Lucille is an admirable young lady, sir, but I must say that I had no intentions, as you call them. I might have later on, but up to the present time I have simply thought of her as a most charming young lady." "Then let me ask you why you have called so regularly?" "Why, to play poker with you, sir. Some evenings I have never even caught sight of your daughter. It was your suggestion the first time I called that we play poker, and we have kept it up ever since, and I am about $50 out of pocket." "Oh, I see," observed the father after a moment, and he led the way into the library and proceeded to beat the young man out of another week's salary. He Had Business. Electric Steel. The advantage of the electric steel over the steel manufactured by the old system is its superior purity, and permits the introduction of from 20 to 20 per cent, more carbon than in the crucible steel. It can be more easily forged, is not easily affected, like the crucible steel, by the damaging influence of overheating; it is stronger and more firm, and offers a much greater resistance to wear and tear. The new system also gives added independence on account of the very ordinary material used for producing the steel. Such advantages have never been reached by any other system, and it has only recently been given to the public. This is accounted for by the fact that the inventor, Dr. Engineer Paul Heroult, a Frenchman, has kept the success a secret until he was able to demonstrate to the public a complete, successful working plant. The electric process is based on scientific metallurgical principles, which are, of course, the secret of the Invention, while the old crucible method was a resmelting system, and dependent upon the use of only the most expensive ores. This new process should be of great interest to the American steel industry.—Harper's Weekly. Chief Appah, of the Utes, holds Commissioner Leupp responsible for everything. Being told that Congress makes the laws. "If you let them make such a law you are no account in your job," exclaimed the old chief. Conundrums. When are needles like garments? When threadbare. When are manuscripts like disconsolate lovers? When rejected. Why does an ill-fitting dress resemble a pug dog's face? 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In order to determine the harmful or beneficial relations of birds to agriculture, horticulture, and all plant life, a remarkable work is being carried forward by Prof. F. E. L. Beal, who is in charge of the Division of Economic Ornithology of the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. Prof. Bear has alone examined over thirty thousand bird stomachs, the greatest work of the kind ever accomplished by a single man, while his assistants have examined an equal number, making over sixty thousand in all. A seemingly endless task it is, investigating with a microscope each minute particle in each of these thousands of stomachs, yet all this has been accomplished in a period of seventeen years. When one considers that to do this intelligently and successfully requires a thorough knowledge of the anatomy of bugs and insects, and a familiarity with characteristics of the seeds of both domestic and wild plants, the labor assumes formidable proportions to the unitiated. To increase their knowledge, workers in this line must spend much time in woods, gardens, and fields, studying hundreds of species of insects, worms, and bugs. The results of these investigations, which are invaluable to science, and of great practical importance to the American farmer, have led to a movement that can intelligently favor the increase of such bird species as are best adapted to preserve the proper balance of nature, and reduce the number of those that prey too greatly on the products of orchard and field. It is difficult, almost impossible, to determine what a bird eats by his actions, as he frequently goes through all the motions of eating a hearty meal without taking a thing. The contents of a bird's stomach consist of a pulverized, soggy mass, and it is necessary to separate and study each minute particle in order to determine to what species of fruit or insect it belongs. Caterpillars are sometimes recognized by their skins, always by their jaws, and the tiny chitinous plates that surround the breathing holes. The presence of ants and wasps is discovered by the hard thorax, spiders by their mandibles, and sometimes by their eyes, which sparkle in the stomach mass like rubies. Angleworms have hard, indigestible spicules, which project from their sides. Beetles have fierce bony jaws, grasshoppers hard mandibles and tiny leg armor plates, and so on through the entire insect world. The greatest difficulty is experienced in determining the species of fruit found in stomachs. Usually it is crushed, and if it contains no seed, the only method of examination available for the investigators is to place particles of skin under a microscope and discover the texture. Grain can be recognized by the shape of the starch granules when other methods fail. "Most astonishing things have been found in stomachs of birds, everything but diamonds," says Prof. Beal. "A bird stomach which had been kept in alcohol for two years, waiting its turn to be examined, contained poison oak berries, which are the favorable food of many birds. The man who examined this stomach was badly poisoned. Vicious and deadly-poison spiders constitute a favorite bird food. The mere touch of a blister beetle would scorch the flesh of a human, yet in the stomach of one king bird, fourteen of these fiery creatures were discovered. Caterpillars with stinging spines, beetles with acrid secretions that are bitter and burning, bugs with an odor so fierce that a skunk is fragrant in comparison, and fruit bitter and rasping as quinine, and thousands of other obnoxious things are consumed greedily by the feathered throng." Undrawn Poultry . The Kansas State Board of Health has warned the storage houses that hereafter it will be illegal to offer for sale or serve on tables any poultry that has been held in cold storage plant in an undrained condition. A Squash Story. Here is a pretty good story told by Senator Clark of Montana, and which certainly would qualify him as a member of the 'Ananias Club." "That's a pretty big squash," remarked the senator, while gazing on an Indian territory specimen. "It reminds The Farm. VETERINARY. Some Questions Asked and Answered from Northwestern Agriculturist. To Become a Surgeon Please tell me what you think it would cost in order to become a qualified surgeon. The expense necessary should not exceed $1000. This is for a three or four session course of six months each, which is the requirement of our best veterinary colleges. A Female Twin Often Barren. Will you tell me in your paper if twin calves will breed when old enough? I intend to keep one for a bull. They are shorthorn stock. Twin calves, one male the other female, are known as "Free Martins" and the female is often barren. The male generally proves fertile. For Worms. I have an old mare with foal, and she has worms. What can I give her that will not be injurious? Give her all the fresh poplar bark she will eat. Every ten to fourteen days give her one pint of raw linseed oil. She can also have a teaspoonful of powdered sulphate of iron in her feed twice a day. Northern Seeds and Plants for South An Alabama reader asks whether it is reasonable to expect as good results from using Northern-grown seeds and trees as from seeds and trees raised nearer home. I will not answer this question too positively, my impression is, however, that it will be perfectly safe for the Alabama reader to plant seeds or trees grown in Connecticut, or Maine, or Illinois, or Ohio, or New York, etc. A large part of the seeds we plant here are grown in California, others in England, France, Germany, Denmark, Holland, etc. We are just as successful with them as with seeds grown right in our own garden. In many cases, I would prefer the latter, however, and I would not care to plant trees here that were grown in Maryland, Virginia, or any other state South, so long as I can get good trees grown in Northern nurseries. As for strawberry plants, I would rather have them from my own patch, or from a neighbor's, dug fresh and planted soon after, than have them shipped in from afar, unless I were sure that the plants had been freshly dug, packed up for shipment at once and in good shape, and carried through without much delay. If I am sure of these things, I would rather buy the plants from a professional plant grower who takes up the whole batch of plants, and can raise them free from fungal diseases, than to dig them in my own patch where I expect to raise a crop of fruit next season. How to Detect "Doped" Horses "No one is likely to be caught in the act of doping a race horse," said a prominent veterinarian the other day, "because the dose given is so small that it can be administered under the very eyes of the officials with little if any danger of detection, and, besides, it is given so long before the race that the horses are not then likely to be under surveillance. If a horse is to race at 3 o'clock he gets a two-grain powder on his tongue in a darkened stall at 1 o'clock. The drug takes effect in about thirty minutes and the animal breaks out into a sweat. He is rubbed down, cooled out' and done up as if he had come in from morning work. Every effort is made to keep him quiet until post time, but he very often breaks out again and is again cooled out. The doped horse never takes any warming up work, and this fact affords the best means I know of for finding him out. He is moved slowly to the starting point, great care being taken to prevent him from becoming excited until the flag is dropped. Then a kick and a dig do the work, and in an instant the full force of the dope is felt, stimulating the animal to run the race of his life. "After the race an antidote is usually given, but it is sometimes well along i. the night before the excited horse regains his normal condition. The strain on the nervous system is terrific. For this reason 'dope horses' have short careers as a rule and are of little value for breeding purposes." was an enterprising fellow, and he had found out in some way that by feeding milk to a squash vine tremendous squashes could be raised. So he raised this one, and it was a whopper. He had to drive a long way to town over rough roads, and unfortunately in unloading the squash it dropped to the ```markdown ``` Breeding Stock. If the poultry flock is carefully inspected in early fall and a couple of dozen of the very best hens selected to be used especially for breeders, the improvement will soon be noticeable. The entire season's batch of chicks should be produced from these selected hens, and the balance of the flock used for the table and market. A male bird of good size, vigorous and full of life should be chosen to head the breeding yard, and he should be between one and two years old. If eggs are especially desired, a watch should be kept upon the flock, and the best laying hens placed in the breeding yard. Then with a male selected also from a laying strain a splendid foundation for a flock of layers will be laid. Neighborhood Cooperation. The farmer of 1,000 acres or more has the advantage over him of 80 or 160 acres in the use of improved machinery. The small farmer has not work enough to justify an investment in all the labor saving machinery, as the large farmer has. The result is that it costs the large farmer less per acre and less per bushel than it does the small farmer. This discrepancy however, can be overcome if several small farmers cooperate in the purchase of machines and divide the use of them. Cooperation and neighborly exchange overcome a multitude of handicaps. Lame Lambs. What was the matter with my lambs? Last April, when a few days old, quite a number were taken lame, mostly in hind legs, but some of them soon got so that they could not get up on their front feet. A few of the least lame have run with the flock all summer but I don't think a single one has recovered. It was quite wet here last spring. Am I likely to have the same trouble next spring?—C. D. Either ricickets or rheumatism is the trouble. The first comes from lack of lime in the bones, and the animals should be given slacked lime with their salt. Rheumatism may come from wet yard or pastures when weather is raw and cold. Give potash nitrate in five or ten grain doses, two or three times a day. The same conditions should be guarded against next year. For a Run Down Mare I have a twelve year old mare that is not doing well. Her mane is short and skimpy. She is poor and I can't get her fat. Is there anything I can do for her? If the skin trouble is spreading over the entire body and she is inclined to bit or rub off her hair, make up the following: Cotton seed oil 3 quarts; oil of tar 1 pint; sulphur (powdered) 1 1.2 pounds; heat and rub in well. Shake well so as to mix before using; apply every day for three days. Wash with hot water and soft soap on fourth day. Keep in warm stall and blanket before and after washing. Stable should be well warmed, so animal will not chill. Chicken Chatter Hens will lay rich, fresh eggs if they are provided with wholesome and nutritious food. New nests should be provided for the hens after each laying season. The axe is the best cure for poultry diseases you do not understand. After the second year the hen's value begins to lessen as a winter layer. Lice and vermin may be destroyed by burning a pound of sulphur in the poultry house. If bought in the fall, breeding stock will be in better condition for duty in the spring. Do not market the eggs found in a hidden nest. They are not always fresh. One good breed of chickens on a farm, properly attended, is worth a dozen different breeds. Keep the early hatched pullets unless you are raising them especially for sale in the fall. A good insecticide can be made by putting a pint of kerosene in a gallon of whitewash. When you next select eggs for hatching remember that sick or overfed hens do not lay very fertile eggs, and if an egg is allowed to get thoroughly chilled it may not hatch. had been churned into butter. He was a resourceful man, so he entered the butter among the dairy exhibits and took a prize with that. You can't keep some men down." The art of quarreling is to put the other fellow in the wrong GEORGE BAKER. A --- DANGER First Skater—Hello, there! Keep a way from that hole in the ice. Do you wish to drown? Don't you see the sign, Danger? The Other Skater—Oh, yes, I see the sign, but I wished to make sure that it really was dangerous. Seed Grain and Seeds. Really first class seed oats, wheat, barley or corn are always scarce and hard to buy. Any amount of the medium kind can usually be had, but the really first quality is a different matter If you have this of your own raising and have taken such care of it as to insure good germination you are a lucky farmer. We hear every spring much about poor seed corn and corn that failed to grow but very little is said concerning the small grains or the seeds. I fully believe there is as great a per cent of such that fail to mature a crop as of the corn but we hear less about them simply because we seed broadcast or thicker in the drill and do not notice when they fail us. Grain of any kind that was put in the bin damp and allowed to heat makes very poor seed even if a portion of it grows. We want it to more than simply grow. It should make a strong and vigorous growth the same as required of corn if we are to reap a full harvest next season. The same is true of clover seed. Where clover was allowed to lie in the swath last fall for weeks and much of it sprout it simply means that it will not sprout again. Seed that has been thus handled never Misrepr Tom—So you got fired out of that h Jack—Yes, and after they had told Mrs Easy—Yes, Fred, they call this Mr. Easy—Very appropriate, Helen, palm. Trying Fresh Paint W First Skater—Hello, there! Keep a wish to drown? Don't you see the sig The Other Skater—Oh, yes, I see th it really was dangerous. Two Questions Answered. What can I do for a stallion, weighing about 1,800 pounds, whose nose runs with clear water, after whinnying or holding his nose up high, as stallions will do. I have given him some medicine, but it does not seem to have much effect if any on the run. will look bright and can be detected by its dead color. If you have not your grain or seed secured for spring sowing it is time that you were on the lookout. Soon about one half the farming community will be in quest of it and then it will be next to impossible to secure any.—Forest Henry. What a Good Bed Means. Did you ever stop to think, at night when you are lying in your soft, warm bed resting after being out in the cold all day, that stock appreciate the same comforts as much and must have them or suffer? If you never thought of it and don't believe it, just try one night sleeping in the woodshed on some corncobs with a damp horseblanket for a cover, and then you are getting just as many of the comforts of life, as much of the stock do. They may live through it and not complain, but they have their way of paying you back and it will not be in growth or the full milk pail. Comfort means thrift and production. I'll comfort and suffering means poor stock and no money in the business. Great men are landmarks along the eternal way resented. hotel? me that it was fireproof. ps. place Palm Beach. Everybody you meet holds out his with His Fingers. away from that hole in the ice. Do you sign, Danger? e sign, but I wished to make sure that The watery discharge is from the tear duct which empties into the nostrils from the eye. He is simply showing his ardor and desires by crying. (2) Behaving cross to other horses; laying on of flesh; lack of usual symptoms of return of heat in eighteen to twenty-one days. Perhaps no one understands—not a wife or mother herself—what a man sided life the stay-at-home woman says the Philadelphia Bulletin, how important it is that she should be able to meet all her daily requirements. She who is an at-home woman holds more positions and transmits more business than many a man doing her busy day. She must be a financier, and have to a cent the expenditure of her little household, or that part of the machinery will be out of gear when setting up day arrives. She must be both judge and jury, capable of settling the differences in her small household of adjusting matters, and of maintaining peace. Often it is necessary she should be capable designer and dressmaker, able to cut down and fit her own and her husband's old clothes for the husbands. She also has to be a present and schoolmistress to her young boy teaching them manners and relating watching the development of the young minds. One of her greatest duties is that queen and helpmate. She must, if cess is to be hers, throw herself back and soul into her husband's interest share his fears, divide his responsibilities and multiply his toys. Knowing that being a wife or mother means all this, there are no some girls and women who sneer and pity the ones who have chosen to do this work, which they understand when they pledged their marriage vows, and to do it to the best of their ability. Instead of sneering it would be when if each would-be bride were to so easily ask herself whether she is capable of carrying out all the various positions which in course of time will probably fall to her lot. It is true nobility, worthy of the highest admiration when a mistress a household strives to faithfully and cheerfully discharge all the various and petty tasks which from day to day face her. No newspapers will ring with her famous acts, with the great work she is doing, but those in her own circle her husband, children, parents and friends—"will rise up and call her blessed," and "she will rejoice in time to come." Wives and mothers should ever remember that the best work is not done in the center of a large stage over which rolls the note of public apporation and applause, but in a quiet tile place, unseen and unnoticed except by those around us. Of all the careers, professions, employments and work open to women there is none which gathers such a harvest of love as that of the wife—be she wife, mother or sister. A Remarkable Voice Miss Bertha Bird, who has been the lighting London and provincial audiences with her marvelously fine voice, has won for herself the reputation of being able to sing the highest top note in the world. Her voice has an extraordinary compass—five Cs, nearly two octaves higher than that of the average soprano, the upper notes more over being of a pure flute-like timbre quite electrifying in effect. Operatic excerpts which in their original key are beyond the attainment of almost any living singer Miss Bird can sing as written, thus giving them the desired brilliancy and excitation. Miss Bird is a native of Melbourne, Victoria, and showed remarkable musical ability at an early age. She made her first appearance in the Melbourne town hall on March 11, 1899, and immediately achieved conspicuous success, the critics comparing her voice to Jenny Lind's and to that of her fellow countrywoman, Mme. Melba. She then toured Australia with great success and made her first appearance in England in 1901. Since then Miss Bird has almost invariably been the premier at every entertainment where she has assisted—Philadelphia Record. Rented Houses The highest percentage of rented houses in the United States is found in Washington, D. C., says the New York Sun. Three-fourths of the private families in that city live in rented homes. Next to the District of Columbia the State with the largest percentage of rented homes is Rhode Island, and after that South Carolina. The Southern States all rank high as renters because of the negroes. The smallest percentage of rented homes is found in North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma. A special room will be reserved in the International Art Exhibition to be held in Venice this year for the works of English and Scottish artists and of American artists resident in London. Nine thousand three hundred