The American Citizen

Friday, May 10, 1907

Topeka, Kansas

4 pages

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page text (machine-generated)

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. The Oldes LIBERAL COM H. B. BRITT, A. B. Prof. H. B. Britt, Louisville, Ky. who has been out in the West for the last more singing in gospel meetings at the Metropolitan Bapt. church of which noted orator and linguist, Rev. E.ington Wilson, Ph. B. is pastor. After the meeting closed Prof. Britt filled some engagements at Carrolton, Mo., with Rev. W. F. Botts, Liberty with Rev. W. H. Young and Independence with Rev. J. B. Winrow. He reacts a grand success and a wonderfulgress our people are making in culture and religion in receiving the gospel song. He will leave some time this test to fill an engagement with Dr. J. Garnett, Press., Western College atown, Mo., on May 10th. He says the test is a great field for the progressive eng man. Publication Notice. the District Court of Wyandotte County, John Callahan, Plaintiff. vs. Thomas H. Lynch, Ollie E. Lynch, T.H. Rich McQuillie Company, a corporation, and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Syder, deceased. Defendants NO.10862. The State of Kansas to the above named dendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Syder, deceased. Greeting: You and each of you are hereby notified on the 26th day of October, 1906, the plaintiff above named, John Callahan, his petition in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas and commenced against you, and in said petition said plaintiff alleges in substance as follows: That he is now and has been the owner in simple of and in the actual possession of the following described real estate, lying assistante in Wyandotte County, Kansas, bait. all of lots thirty-four (34) and thirty-five in back sixy one (61) in Armourdale, as a part of Kansas City.-Kansas, in accord- ing the recorded plaat thereof. 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 real estate adverse to the plaintiff, thereby creating a cloud upon the plaintiff's said title and rendering the same unmarried title. But such claim of said above named defendants and the unknown heirs and devises of S. A. Snyder, deceased, are wholly unowned 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 part thereof. And in 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 devises of S. A. Snyder, deceased, is, to or upon said 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 before the 24th day of December, 1900, the allegations thereof will be taken as true and judgment and decree will be rendered by your court against you in favor of the said plaintiff quieting his title to said property unless you and forever barring you or any person or persons claiming by or through you from asserting any claims of estate, collattice or interest in or to said real estate or living plaintiff other relief as prayed for his said petition. John Callahan by E. L. Fisher his atty, inspect Wm. Needles, Clerk of the District Court. Nov. 9. Publication Notice. District Co r yandotte Covnty Anas Birdie Smith, Plaintiff vs. Peter Smith, Desendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 14th day of September, 1903 the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a degree dissolving the bonds of matrimony arising between plaintiff and defendant and restoring plaintiff to her maiden name Birdie Renick and for cost of this suit. for cost of this suit. I. F'BREADLY, Atta. for PlfL Astreet: Wm. Needles, Clark. First Pub. Aug. 3rd. Publication Notice 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 Date of December, 1906, that the said plaintiff above named, has filed her petition in the Court and entitled court, asking for divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty and excess cruelty. Unless you answer demur or otherwise object, on or before the 23rd day of March, 1907, the allegations of plain- t will be taken as true and upon further CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express sincere thanks to our many friends and neighbors, and members of the Masonic Fraternity, especially Widow's Son, No. 17: The Sawing Circle, the Metropolitan Baptist Sunday School, and other organizations for their kind sympathies and beautiful floral offerings during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and brother. MRS. J. J. PEEBLES. STOP! JUST THINK. A journalist by the name of Frank A. Munsey, owner of the Argosy Magazine Munsey's Magazine, The Serap Book and a Home Journal of some small circulation, owns and publishes a paper here, which he calls the Washington Times. This Times was started about 4 years and from its birth has useb every base method of yellow journalism to injure the Negro thinking in this step to cater to the prejudices of the community in which his paper has a large circulation and win in the field of competition over the Washington Evening Star a paper which is a model of American journalism. But it has not been satisfied, even under the eye and personal supervision of Frank A. Muusey, to falsify accounts concerning colored people; hence, it issues an advertising folder which contain the very falsely significant paragraph: "Washington, the Capitol of the nation has a population of 355,000 which 95,000 are colored and are disregarded in the Times' circulation. What is said below, therefore 'applies wholly to the white population.' Following this paragraph was one dealing with wealth and income which in no wise reckoned with the colored people, and then came the following: "The Times has not only not sought circulation among the colored people, but it has deliberately avoided it and in its news columns has shown emphatically that it is a paper for white people." The above is surely convincing, and we call upon the colored people all over the country to strike from their list of reading mater any and everything with which Frank A. Munsey has anything to do. He is using his organ to degrade you and debase you, and honor anb self respect demand that you resent his unjust imputation and contembie slur and malicious falsebood. His Times is like the politician who never wants office. He always has his hand out for money; and while Frank A. Munsey is declaring he does not want colored people to take his papa', his agents pleads with the colored people to subscribe and his collectors are calling upon them as upon the whites. But the sad part of it is, some of the colored people continue to buy and read this penny sheet, which was conceived in sin and born in iniquity. Strike back at this pernicious influence and crush this serpent's head; unless you prefer to slander and abuse rather than stand where you can and where it is your duty to stand for the right. Touch not and handle not any that comes from Munsey.—Plaindealer Race Notes From American Baptist Louella Thurman, a white woman who was mistaken for a colored woman and forced to ride in a "Jim Crow" car compromised her suit against the S. Railway Co. at Lexington Kentucky and received 3500 it is understood. She had received a verdict for a larger sum at a trial of the former case which was reversed. First Paper Made in England. The first English paper maker was John Tate, founded a mill at Hertford at the close of the fifteenth century. Tate made a fine thin paper, having for a watermark an eight pointed star within a double circle. White coarse paper was made by Sir John Speilman, a German at Dartford in 1580, and here the first English paper mills on a large scale were erected. Till 1690, however, when William III. passed an act to encourage the home manufacture of white paper, all the best paper for writing and printing was imported from Holland and France. Growth of National Capitol. When the extension planned for the nation's capitol at Washington has been made, the edifice, including the works of art which it contains, will City Locals. Send us your news, Telephone Bell 1958 West. When you want a good meal or lunch, call at 1510 N·3rd. St. The Fuueral of Mrs.Malinda Perkins who departed this life on last Wednesday was held Saturay evening from the First Baptist Church, Rev. W. A. Bowren officiating. She was a member of Maple Leaf temple no. 140. 'She leaves a devoted husband and three sisters to mourn their lost. We mourn the loss of the following citizen, who have passed away since our last issue, Mrs. M. Perkins, Mr. Geo. Banks and Mr. Joe Brown. When you want a good smooth and an up to date shave, go to 315 Minn. Ave G. W. White will treat you right. Executors Notice. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Henry Fulgham, late of saalfaidfCounty, 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 Henry Fulgham deceased. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kanassa. 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 divoreing her from said defendant and for cost of this action. I. F. Bradley. Atty for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles. Clerk. 1st pub. Jan. 11th 1907. GLOSSINE. GLOSSINE. The New and most Wonderful Hair Grower. Reliable, Infallible, Innocent and Harmiless. It straightens Kinky, Knotty, Knappy Hair and Causes it to Grow Long, Straight and Beautiful. There may be people that say they sell glossine, but we sell real glossine. Price 50 Cents. Please give us a call. Director, Rub into the Scalp once daily Agent can be found at 2437 Flora Av Kansas City, Mo. Tel. Bell East 2035 Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte [County Kansas. Nathaniel Singletary. Plaintiff. vs. No. 20168. Joseph Gruble, the heirs, devises, administrators, executors, and trustees of Joseph Gruble, whose names are unknown, Defendants, "State of Kansas to the above-named defendants, Greeting:-- You and each of you will take notice that you have been sued by the above-named Plaintiff who has filed his petition against you in the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and that you must answer said petition on or before the 15th day of June 1907, or the same will be taken as true and a judgment rendered accordingly, quieting the title of the said Plaintiff to Lot Eleven (11) in Block One Hundred (100) of Wyandotte City, now a part of Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas, and excluding you and each of you from any interest or estate therein or any claim thereto or lien thereon, and perpetually enjoining you and each of you and all persons claiming under; you or through you from ever setting up any claim to interest in or lien upon said premises and for such other and further relief as may be right and proper. Nathaniel Singletary, Plaintiff. By Smith and Henderson. Atty. for Pliff. Attest: J. Will Thomas. Clerk. To whom it may concern:— This will inform you that I Rev. G.McNeal will appear before the Board of Pardon the parole of Publication Notice. In the *District Court of Wyandotte county* Kansas. April term1907. Charlet H. Love, Plaintiff. vs. No. 20138 Elmira Love, Defendant. The defendant, Elmira Love, is hereby notified that she has been sued by the plaint- iff above named, in the *District Court of* Wyandotte County, Kansas, for a divorce on the grounds of abandonment, and that, she must answer the petition filed by the plaint- iff on or before the 15th day of June, 1907 or said petition will be taken as true and judge- ment rendered divorcing plaintiff from the defendant. Atty. for plaintiff. Attest: J. Will Thomas, Olerk By E. L. Cable, Deputy. May 3. When you want a nice lunch, something nice to eat that will please you call at 1510 N. 3rd St. Kansas City Kas. You will find first class home made pies, chili, fresh fish, hamberges, winnies, bake beans, pig feet etc. Pleasant Green Baptist Church Notes. Rev. J. H.Harge of DesMoines Iowa, is in the city the guest of Rev.Grant Kirby of 930 Oakland and will fill the pulpit Sunday at the C. M. E. church. Dr. J. W. Anderson of Dallas, Tex. was called to the city last week on the account of the death of his uncle C. U. anderson. Last Sunday a great crowd witnessed the baptizing of the Pleasant Green Baptist church. Revs. G. McNeal and P.M. Mack emerged 27 souls. The col. for the day was $55.87. Mrs. C. C. Jones 1406 N. 3 St. is indisposed this week. Mr. A. W. Stratton of St. Paul Minn. is in the city this week. Sergeant Briggs of Ft. Riley Troop 'C' 9th Cavalry is in the city the guest of Miss Gant and Miss Broad of 614 State av. The Ministers Alliance met at the M. & O. Hall Monday in its regular meeting at eleven A. M.. The meeting was called to order by the president. The Metropolitan church reported good services all day Sunday. Preaching by the pastor. Collection $28.00. Eight Street church reported good services with two additions to the church Preaching by the pastor. Collection $18 Pleasant Green good services all day Collection $26.00. Mt. Pleasant reported good services Collection $22.00. King Solomon church reporteb good services all day Communion services at 3 P. M., Preaching by the pastor, with a collection of $14.00. First Baptist church reported good services all day, Preaching by Rev. F. T. Fishback with three additions to the church. Collection $36.00. Mrs. A. Hinton of 711 Jersey,who has been indisposed for several weeks, is on the road to recovery. Dont fail to call on The West Side Dye house for up to date dyeing cleaning and repairing. Mr J. H. Cornelious is a first class workman and will please you. Give him your patronage. No. 333 Minn. Ave. Our meeting is closed and we thank God for the addition of twenty souls for baptism We expect to baptized the 2nd Sunpay in April. The Sewing Circle meets at the church every Friday and the good sisters serve dinner, supper, and all kinds of refreshments. Come out and enjoy yourself They also have aprons and other wearing apparel on sale at reasonable prices. in this Sec PAPER CALL BACKWARDSE THE REAS dollars worth of New Sprin now forced on the Market a ay Morning Ma se on sale. ABACKWARDSEASON Thousands of dollars worth of New Spring Dry Goods and Shoes are now forced on the Market at ridiculously Low prices. Saturday Morning May 11th. We Place these on sale. SHOES Better than ever. Shoes with six Ladies' solid-leather patent tip Ladies' fancy top, $2.50 kid OL Ladies' all patent leather Oxford Ladies' all patent kid Oxford's Ladies' $1.25 and $1.50 Strap Ladies' $1.25 and $1.50 White Ladies' $1.00 White Canvas OL Ladies' $3.50 all patent and gum Babies' 35c Shoes.... Children's good School Shoes s Same Shoes, sizes 8½ to 12.... Same Shoes, sizes 12½ to 2.... Ladies' Common Sense, solid l All our Peters Shoe Co.'s $3.50 Ladies' While Rose Shoes, .. Ladies' Zaidee (marked 3 dollar 200 Ladies' White Waists, bout for $1.25 and 1.50 THE GOLDBERG 550 Minnesota Ave. Mr. Shoes with style, snap, finish leather patent tip Oxford's extra pop, $2.50 kid Oxford's . . . ent leather Oxford's, Rice-Hutch ent kid Oxford's $4. and $4.50 S and $1.50 Strap Sandals . . . and $1.50 White Canvas Oxford White Canvas Oxford's . . . all patent and gun metal Street shoes . . . Old School Shoes sizes 5 to 8 only sizes 8½ to 12 . . . sizes 12½ to 2 . . . on Sense, solid leather hand turn Shoe Co.'s $3. shoes special in Rose Shoes, . . . (marked 3 dollars) Shoes . . . White Waists, bought to sell for $1.25 and 1.50 in this sale. GOLDBERG DRY GOOD A Ave. Kansas Better than ever. Shoes with style, snap, finish fit and wear. Ladies' solid-leather patent tip Oxfords extra good.....$1.50 Ladies' fancy top, $2.50 kid Oxfords.....1.98 Ladies' all patent leather Oxfords, Rice-Hutchin special 2.50 Ladies' all patent kid Oxfords $4. and $4.50 Shoes.....3.50 Ladies' $1.25 and $1.50 Strap Sandals.....98 Ladies' $1.25 and $1.50 White Canvas Oxfords.....95 Ladies' $1.00 White Canvas Oxfords.....75 Ladies' $3.50 all patent and gun metal Street Pumps.....2.50 Babies' 35c Shoes.....19 Children's good School Shoes sizes 5 to 8 only.....75 Same Shoes, sizes 8½ to 12.....1.00 Same Shoes, sizes 12½ to 2.....1.25 Ladies' Common Sense, solid leather hand turned only, 1.25 All our Peters Shoe Co.'s $3. shoes special in this sale..2.25 Ladies' While Rose Shoes,.....1.25 Ladies' Zaidee (marked 3 dollars) Shoes.....2.25 200 Ladies' White Waists, bought to sell THE GOLDBERG DRY GOODS CO. Publication Notice. ta the District Court of Wyandotte County State of Kansas. The State of Kansas, to Martha Jones Creeiting: You are hereby notified that on the and day of March, 1907, the above named Plain- siff has filed this petition in the District Court, asking and praying for a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty and gross negligence of duty. Unless you answer demurer or otherwise object or before the 13th day of April, 1907, the allegations, statementf and averments of srid petition, shall be taken as true, and upon further proof, the plaintiff will be granted divorce, as prayed tor. J. L. W. Johnson, Atty. for Pliff. Attest this 2nd day of March. J. W. Thomas, Clork. By E. F. Cable, Deputy. mar. 8th Notice of Final Settlement State of Kansas County of Wyandotte, In the Probate court in and forsaid County. In the matter of the Estate of Corvilla Broadus, Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate are hereby notified, that at the next term of the Probate Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte and State aforesaid on the first Monday in the month February, A. D. 1907. I shall apply to said Court for a full and final settlement of said estate. C. Patterson, Administrator with will annexed of Corvilla Broadus, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 18th day of December A. D. 1006. Winfield Freeman. Probate Judge. 1st Pub. Dec. 21. Administrator's Notice. In the Probate court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Joseph Anderson, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of Joseph Anderson late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the last day of March. 1907. 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. Samuel Diggs. Administrator of the Estate with will annexed of Joseph Anderson deceased. In witness whereof the 'undersigned Pro- M. T, Jones, Plaintiff. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. }ss MAY 10. 1907 This Section CALL HERE ARD SEASON REASON of New Spring Dry Goods in the Market at ridiculously ing May 11th. style, snap, finish fit and wear. 10 Oxfords extra good.....$1.50 Oxfords.....1.98 duds, Rice-Hutchin special 2.50 $4. and $4.50 Shoes.....3.50 Sandals.....98 e Canvas Oxfords.....95 Oxfords.....75 on metal Street Pumps ..2.50 sizes 5 to 8 only.....75 1.00 1.25 feather hand turned only, 1.25 shoes special in this sale..2.25 1.25 (ers) Shoes.....2.25 ought to sell to in this sale.....98 DRY GOODS CO. Kansas City, Kansas. Votice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte, In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. 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 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 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 NOTE LETS For Rent—To desirable parties(gen- tleman perferred)well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city, inquire at this office. Mrs.S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave, is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to-date Rooming house in the city-charges always reasonable. For Nice Furnished Rooms call on Mrs. Iday Easily at 1107 N. 6th st,' conveniently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line, Prices reason able. Mrs. Reed, 528 Neb.ave., has a few nicely furnished rots to rent. This is to notify all persons that if the undersigned will on the 2nd day of October 1908 or as soon thereafter as can be conveniently heard apply to the Prisen Board of the State of Kansas, for a parole from the State pennitary of the State of Kansas. Take not ce and govern yourself accordingly. And few there were who, passing, saw NOW IS the time Subscribe For the Weekly ‘ American Citizen fhe Oldest Negro Journal Published ‘Weekly in this part of the Country. nea eee at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY - - - - - KANSAS, Rev. G. McNEaL, Asso. Editor. eee Geo. A. Dudley, Editor in Chief; Publisher and Business Manager. ‘Terms of Subscription in Advance. Gas Yeats cosa cee sestnann $9 S100 Bix Months..........-.0seeeeee + O5C Whree Months..........-..+e0+-+-40€ One Month.........0.0-seeeerer ee LC ‘Advertising 25 cents per inch First Insertion. ‘A Standing Display ‘Ad’ for 3 Months er longer isc per inch, each insertion. Grangemouth is the name of'a Mos cow editor. Evidently a farmer on the side, " Weldort Astor has become #0 thor sughly anglicized that he ts going to marry an American girl. A clergyman says that bridge whist Jeads 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 Mast explains the first, possibly. Perhaps boys should be thankful for whippings, as somebody declares, but *hey seldom are before they are 45. Sweet Spring is now approaching, and Summer with the rose, so poetry's ancroaching upon the field of prose. King Edward was “warmly re- velved” in Paris, but not in the same way as when he used to be prince of Wales. The czar will reserve the right to wield the big stick over the Douma. according to the latest advices from St. Petersburg. ‘We learn from the New York Mail that women are using garters to keep those long, arm-length gloves in place. But do they hold? — Manchuria will be finally evacuated by the Japanese in a few days. It Ras taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It 16 now belleved that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has talen @ great many already, Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of re cent 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 hus- band will be killed. This queen busi- ess {s not all pickles and ple. It was not long ago that all the “success” magazines were pointing to fhe Pittsburg millionaires as ex- ‘amples to the youth of the land. ‘With 10,000 doctors in convention in. Boston next summer, the rest of the gountry ought to have @ good oppor. tunity to get well—Boston Globe. It ts a pity that the great romancers of the sea did not live in a generation which affords such thrilling material fas the log of the dry dock Dewey. A Minnesota man says he has dis- covered the cause of the aurora borealis. But what bearing will this thave on the price of coal this year? Much to the surprise of everybody, "ome of the phenomenal ball players ‘added to the leading nines as marvel- ‘ous discoveries will probably make good. Cheer up, mister! ‘The prestdent of the Dressmakers’ National Protective Association says that women’s dress will be less expensive this year than aver before. The Japanese, says one of thelr statesmen, should adopt chairs and develop their legs. Well, short legs id not prevent them from “getting NOG Sh the late crue Portia, as quoted by the editor of @ kind of society paper, is made to say: “How far that little scandal throws his beams! So shines a baa deed in this haughty world.” News comes from the east that the geventeen-year locusts will devastate the land this year. How many times im the course of a decade do the sev- enteen-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’ Empife crawled out from un- der his bed and sighed a sigh of re- et _ An actor has becoine a soldier.in —e Bell W. 32. Telephone Home W. 32 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 Minne sota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. Local Office: of a> - REE EE The Ethiopian Protective ana Beneficias Ard Assccration a Employment and Information {ureaufforithe_members ea of the Asso_-ation. : Wie 1508 N. 3rd Street. Kansas$City, Kansas. BELL TELEPHONE 2313 WEST. ISAAC B. ATKINSON, . President of the E. P. & B. Aid Association. W. H. Boipen, Acting Secretary. Peter Shirley, Canvassing Agent. ‘The Ethiopian Protective aud Benefi- cial Aid Association, National Conven- tion at Kansas City, Sept. 22nd, 1908. ‘The National association will be;com- posed of delegates from every State and ‘feritory inthe union, the association will have an exhibition ef many amus- ing features at the same time of the con vention which will run for 30 days, one hundred acres or more land will be bought by thefassoeiation for exposition grounds, buildings willbe erected on the grounde tesnit the exposition,thousands of members are now joining the associe - tion has over a thousand members. Kansas has many organizations, Gar- den city, Dodge city, Larned, Great Bend, Hutehinsons, Wichita, Newton, Emporia, Topoka and Kansas City have their local organization, local organiza- tions will be setup in each state and each organization will send delegates to tbe national convention. Among the great objects of the asso- ciation are to organize the 10,000,000 col ored people of the nation into one com- mon body to better the conditions of the whole race and for their protection.1\To Mayors appear tg have had thelr | troubles two centuries ago. At iiele teld, Germany, there is a tombstone with this inscription: “Here lies Jo- hannes 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 che | day and night, any time of the year, | may be ascertained by doubling the time of the sun's risiug, which will give the length of the night; and dow ble the time of setting will give the length of the day. aren Cold Baths vs. Drunkennesa, In the course of a discussion st the sanitary congress Mr. Weaver do clared that it was almost impossible for anyone taking a cold bsth every morning to become an habitual drunk- trd.—London Telegraph. “Hunt Treasure at Mont Pelee. | Treasure hunting has become the principal occupation of the islanders ot Martinique. They dig day and | night among the ruins caused by the eruptions of Mont Peles for gold and other valuables, Rin: Diastitel Wiha Absit Die ae: | Once when a man loses all love for dis wife 1s when he holds a straight flush against four aces in a little po- ker game and she has the four aces.— Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Radium Kills Mice. Before the Paris Academy of Sch ences, M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emanations from radium died in six hours. Thunder Kills Oysters. Oysters are sueh nervous creatures that a sudden shock, such as a load fiunder-clap, will kill many hundreds of them. Not SojLikely to Happen. ' J readily buy land by the thousands ‘of “acres; in each state, to celonize these lands, farm them, build towns and cities raise cattle hous, horses, poultry and ete., to estab lish 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 mil lion dollars which would buy 1,200,000 acres of land at 850. per acre this would be enough land to colonize every colored family in the Unite states.5.'This would give the boys and girls who are {now be- ing educated 'something to do instead of earning bad habits and starving ,out in cities. E£Certiticates for membership are 50 ets monthly dues 10 cts, Each state can or- ganize itself and select it delegates to the national convention. Now let every race man and woman get busy for fur- ther information address Kansas City headquarters, Several canvaasing agent are wanted in every state’ and city with a good commission allowed. Tam yours for the up ouilding of the Ethtopian or biack race in America and throughout the world. . To the Afflicted. ‘Tc!tLoae who are suffering with Chro- hie diseases and,especially,such as other Doctors havej given up. Call on Doctor Benjaman;Bonner of Quindaro Kansas, he iso devine healer, and says he wil eure you of the following diseases, if you are spffering with Parlyses be will cute you of that perticular disease or no charges for his service, I can olso oure Bed Fever. Palpitatior of the heart, In- digesting. Side Pleurisy. call on me at Quindaro Kansas He refers you to any of the followiag pereons 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. ie Semen za Publication Notice. Inthe District Court of; Wyandotte eounty Kansas. ‘a Isaiah Edmonson, Russia Edmonson. ‘To the above named defendant. you are hereby notifiedjthat you have been sued in the above named court,by the above named pluintizt.and that unless you appear and ‘answer on or before ‘the Ith day Jan. 1907. the petition filed in said cause will be taken 5 trae aad a judgment renaered the nature of which Will-be, decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between piain- and defendant and divorcing plaintiff trom defendant andffor cost os this action. Attest: By I, F. Bradley. Atty. Wann. Needles, Olerk. Dee.. 7 Size of Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was not suck a great city as some -have supposed, ac- cording to H. Valentine Geere, the archacologist. He’ says: “The idea of Babylon's vastness and magnifi- cence, to which we have beco-ue ac customed, has been practically explod- ed. Dr. Kodewey told me that the site of the city was larger than that of any other ancient city; but ever 80, the idea that it could be compared with London and its suburbs, which has been very generally held, is \en- tirely erroneous. In point of fact, it ‘appears that its walls were not more than eight miles in circumference. Moreover, the great palaces are shown SHIELDS FOR TROOPS IN WAR. ‘Their Use Urged by @ German Mill- 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 /Br¢ad Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese spade work in the offensive, the more so because he mentions inaientally, as a matter re garding which there can be no dis- pute, 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 f the at- tacking Japanese infantry fot infre- quently went forward, carrying with them filled sandbags weighing as much as forty pounds. He remarks that if the undoubtedly brave Japa- nese soldier found it necessary to load himself with so bulky and bur- densome a protection when advancing in the open against an intrenched en- emy 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 shicld should be carriedion 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 Save. oe ee eee “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 ad- vance style in dress goods. “One of my customers has to my knowledge worn five different colors or shades ou her wavy tresses. Hav- ing been blessed with medium brown hair by nature she became a ravish- ing blonde when the fashion for bleaching first came in, “Next she took to titian red after a trip to. the art galleries of Europe. Taen she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. “The last is by far the most pop: lar of all for the reason that ts most difficult to obtain, and then it ts pret- ty generally becoming, and it happens that women who are born with this particular color of hair are almost al- ways clever. “How is it done? Weil. n cage 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 prob- lem. 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, Wit! Do, They say that money can vor buy The sweetest things tn ieee Health, Reaven, friends, ‘Tespect, content Grve'en a loving wite hey say that moncy can not buy These things for mer acs! But Went don't know! What bought my private car? Juat wealth What. bevght ms" lovely yacht Which sails me fo lands Wwiteve health orl found sh every spat? pays my speciailst, dear To keep me in such pertect triint WellT don't now! What bought the most delightful wite Aman could Nope to win What buys her every wish in. ite ‘The clothes she dazsies, in? And if ‘her heart beats not ‘for me, And Iam not adored” vou see, "Well—T don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Txpect £0, get tn frees But if’ the sora meant’ what he aid Concerning ‘charity. Big tae Th give Berore 1 ate Suip me Uirough the needles eye, ? Or<I don't know! For happiness? Well. money bought Tale minety-cent clvars Te bougit thle chair ne whieh T tol, Te'bburht this private cars Bp bought this comnac and T gueas, If all Sis isnot happiness, Welle! don't know! “New York Press, tae a Gnd A Welsh judge had before him a ease in which a printer sued a pork butcher for the value of a large par- cel of paper bags with the butcher's advertisement printed thereon. ‘The printer, having no suitable 1- lustration to embellish the work, thought he improved the occasion by putting an elaborate royal arms above the man’s name and address, but ulti mately 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 ani. male like that, but my customer's don't. J don’t Kill lions and unteorns —I only kill fat pigs!” Verdict for defendant—New York World. Building Up to Requirement. A Jsansas City man purchased a sity 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 rottage. Before he had completed it the real estate man from Whom he had bought the lot threatened to sue him for greach of contract. “This little shack you are building,” sald the real estate nan, “lacks a whole lot of beitg a $2,500 house such 2s you agreed to ei | AMERICAN | | HAIR GROWER poe tee GI7E2 SS. eS EQ Ain \ VE ae Ke SBP Ee Do) iif: "ee OG) A ireihitt \\i : ne By MG SS) im] 1 Ell (Oe BEFORE USING er AFTER USING | NATURES OWN REMEDY URE EDY, ~This is not. a chemicalgcompound. — It is absolutely harmless, .will{not injure thefmost delicate hair.+ |; will absolutely promote the growth of hair and pre vents dandruff. It makes the hair fine and silky and nourishes itsto grow long and straight, prevents the hair from@falling out. Finely perfumed and makes an excellent hair dressing. Used by leading hair dressers and strongly endorsed by them. We have a thousand testimonials to prove all we say It is not a new thing but has|been tested for years, Price 25c JAR * POSTAGE To EXTRA General Supply Agent, Mrs. E. b. Madison. 614 Troupe Ave. Kansas City, Kansas. pany dees colored people as well as uncoloxal peoplet' set in the datk w by a smoky poor light and drink muddy bad | water full of disease germs. \ When they can get a first-class Bri ht Gas Burner Light ong Lg For 35 to 75 cents. Anda re | Self Cleaner Water Filter a : that makes the water clear as a Crystal and Healthy. For 50 to 75 cents, | ‘ a | A. J. SHERIDAN | ROOM 8, 520 MINNESOTA AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANSIf! . ~ “In the shade of the Old Apple Tree” is a very popular song—¥y not you be popular by trading at a popular store? L. J. MADDUX, ° Staple and Fancy Groceries Meats and all Kinds of Produce. HOME PHONE 784 WEST. 852 FREEMAN AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS In an Excuse Book. raey Because ts employes were late a London house provided a book in which the tardy ones were to write excuses. Reasons for lateness were not much varied. At the top of the page one would write “Train delayed,” or “Om- nibus horse died,” as the case might be, and the rest fell into the habit of making ditto marks and letting it go at that. But not long ago one man had a new excuse, He wrote with pride: “Wife had twins.” The second slow person that morning was in a great hurry, and did not notice the innovation, but made his custo- mary ditto marks, and the rest. of the men on that page followed suit. ‘The excuse book_was abolished. Example of the Postage Stanv. The late Judge Andrew Wylie, of Virginia, had a happy gift of illustra- tion, 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 perséverance. “Lin- coln persevered,” he said, “and it is only those who persevere, they who concentrate their energies, who suc. ceed. Don't give three years to jour- nalism and then, discouraged, try the Jaw awhile. Don’t learn the grocery business and in a little while take up placer minivg or plumbing. Cypstder, rather, the postage stamp, whose use. ful depends on its ability to stick to one thing until it gets, there.” Think What a Family Then! “Well,” saiq the first policyholder, throwing aside his paper, “there is at least one thing we can be thankful for concerning our Mutual friend, Mr Res. 420 Nebraska ave. Tel. 383 White SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICAL INSTITUTE Office Hours: From 10 a. m., till 4p. ™ and from 6 till 9 p. m. C. i, C. JORDAN, M. M., M.D. Peerereenemc Here is the Place J. T. Roberts TONSORIAL PARLOR All the Latest Style Hatr Cuts, Clo Shave’ strictly Up-to-Date 438 MINNESOTA AVE. An Old French Sailor. Prench seamey have a dozen in aH person of a centenarian. The st sailor belongs alike to the 20"? tH! to the merchant service, for he 9" fn both, and it would be ditticul. 8 say In which of the twa his adventitét Were the most thrilling. His reo"! includes’ three shipwrecks, the toil? of Navarino, in which he won 7° tion in orders, the blockade of Als one capture by brigands, followed OF himself and his companions soi7ins Spanish ship which captured te fe sair which had captured them. vig serving many years before i sale 3, master and sm! es eoties< cmaster, ant ‘His name Packer, the Scout Alfred Packer, a scout with a history, died recently at Denver. Parker, who was an army scout, started to guide a party of five men from Salt Lake City to New Mexico in 1873. They became lost in the mountains where the snow was six feet deep, and Parker alone survived. The bodies of the other five men were later found. One body was dismembered. Parker disappeared but was captured in 1883. He was convicted of murdering his five companions and was sentenced to forty years imprisonment. He always declared his innocence of murder. He claimed that in his absence from camp one of his companions killed the others and on his return attempted to kill him with a hatchet whereupon he shot the man. He was released on parole in 1961. Packer was 64 years old. The generally accredited story of the Packer case and the statement to which Packer clung is as follows: In 1873 Packer started from Salt Lake City with a prospecting party for the neighborhood of the Los Pinos agency in Colorado. The party finally broke up into three bands, the third of which, composed of six men, was under the leadership of Packer. The weather was cold and the mountains were deep with snow and ice. Toward the end of February their food supply ran low. After enduring great hardships, they took the moccasins from their feet, cut them in strips and boiled and ate them. There were no signs of the place they sought, but Alfred Packer offered to ascend a high mountain peak and look for the agency in the distance. He suffered terribly on the journey of several days. When he approached the camp on his return he saw a man bending over the fire. He called and the man grabbed a hatchet and rushed at him. The man was mad and uttered a fearful cry. Packer shot him to protect his own life. To Rid the Lawns of Weeds. Several home owners have asked how lawns can be kept free from weeds. The only entirely satisfactory way is by pulling up or cutting off the weeds as they appear. There are liquid applications advertised for destroying weeds., but it stands to reason that anything powerful enough to affect a weed must be equally harmful to the grass. The only way in which such an application could be used safely and effectively is by applying it to each weed, and this involves about as much labor as digging or pulling it up. Pull a weed, or cut off its top below the crown, and that's the end of it; therefore I advise this method as the most satisfactory one for ridging a lawn of these pests. But of course such a method cannot be applied to a large lawn, or one would be spending nearly all his time fighting weeds. Much can be done to lessen the chance of injury from these intruders by so feeding the sward that it will get and keep the start of them. Encourage it to "stool" out so thickly that ordinary weeds will not be able to establish themselves among it, or will be choked to death by its luxurant development. As was said in the article of last month where lawn making was treated, great care ought to be taken to procure only perfectly clean seed. But, with all possible precautions against them, weeds will come in, and such aggressive and persistent ones as thistles dandelions and dock only can be kept down by pulling or cutting or so feeding the grass that its luxuriance makes their presence hardly noticeable.—The Outing Magazine. QUICK VERY QUICK LUNCH Proof of It. Wiggs—I had an awful dream last night . I dreamt that I was run over by an automobile. Wiggs—At last the horseless nightmare has arrived! There is no dearth of dramatic variety in New York City, when the books of the theatres show that there is an average of fifteen new plays produced each month in the year. Deceit is a boomerang; the just punishment for deceiving others is self-deceit. The Evening Story HEART He slammed the door and walked vigorously down the road. This sudden determination after weeks of uncertainty, added an unusual firmness to his step, and his erect bearing and brisk pace bore testimony to the stearfastness of his purpose. It was better to know the worst; far better; besides, one always exaggerates one's ills. How many times in the lives of ordinary mortals do they imagine that death is upon them only to discover that they are suffering from a prosaic attack of indigestion. He inhaled the cool air of the early day, and felt as young as the happy children who flocked by him to school. He feasted his eyes on the fresh green and budding flowers in the little gardens that he passed, and felt almost merry. Who can help being merry on a spring morning! He had worried himself unnecessarily he was sure. He had a whole lifetime before him—he felt it in his blood—in which to rejoice in the mere fact of living. His pace quickened, his breath came faster, and his whole being was filled with the joyfulness of spring. It was only when he suddenly stopped with a gasp, arrested by a sharp pain that pierced him like a knife, that he realized that his anxiety was not so needless, that he was only deceiving himself because of his great longing for happiness, his great longing for life. He went more slowly now, and as he turned the corner the luring red lamp on the house opposite invited him to learn his doom. Was it better to know the worst after all, he wondered; yes; surely the certainty would be better than this gnawing doubt, this hoping against hope, this clutching at the straw of possu- He lifted the latch of the gate with a hesitating hand, paused a moment on the broad stone steps, then knocked a trifle timidly at the forbidding door. He was shown into the waiting-room, a large and cold apartment, sparsely furnished with the leaving of furniture too old or cumbersome to be used elsewhere. A sombre paper lined the walls, and heavy curtains added to the general gloom by shutting out the light of day. Torn magazines long since out of date were scattered about the table, and, seating himself before one of these, he tried in vain to interest himself in a long and tedious article. When his attention wandered, he noticed that the other occupants of the room glanced furtively at him once or twice, as if seeking for comfort or companionship, but when he would have spoken, they returned to their magazines, and absently turned the time-worn pages. One by one they disappeared into the room beyond, one by one they reappeared; some happy, some indifferent, many despondent. At last he was the only patient remaining, and he went forward hesitatingly to hear the verdict, but the doctor's grave and kindly face was indefinitely cheering, and the sense of dread that he had felt in the waiting-room slipped from him. The doctor followed him into the consulting-room and closed the door behind him. It hardly seemed possible that tire quarter of an hour that followed could be a division of time. It was an indefinite period that seemed to pass in the flash of a second, but yet to last for an eternity. Every word that passed left an indelible impression on the man's soul, and when he thought of that interview afterwards, he saw that a man may discover the depth of his feelings more truly in a rew tense moments than in the whole of an even lifetime. So it was over then. He could hardly realize it. Mechanically he passed out into the open air again. He hesitated on the step and looked about him like one dreaming. Could he indeed be the same man who stood here so short a time ago? He made way that the woman with the baby might ring the bell. He heard at the back of his brain the baby's gurgling laughter. The bell rang, the door opened and closed again. The sounds passed mistily through his brain without a realization of their various forms. The thought crossed his mind that he had tood thus, thought thus, and felt thus a thousand years before. He walked unsteadily to the gate, then, pulling himself together he shut the gate with A Chicago teacher gave a boy pupil a question in compound proportion for home work one evening, which problem happened to include the circumstances of "men working ten hours a day to complete a certain job." By Miss Seaforth. a determined click, and proceeded firmly on his homeward journey. So it was all up. Heart, A year, a day, an hour of life might be all that was left to him—these cases were uncertain—and but an hour ago death had seemed to him a vague thing or some far future. His whole perception, his entire outlook, had totally changed in the past few moments. The trees were no longer green to him, the air had a different taste, the sky a different hue. He no longer noticed the belated children who wended their way to school and retribution. If it were not for the boy—that was his one thought—if it were not for the boy! How many a time in the first years after his wife's death had he been overwhelmed with thankfulness that his boy was left him, that no years of lonely decrepit old age faced him blankly in the future. How often had he stood by the boy's bed and prayed that health might be granted the child, precious health, that is unaccountable for all our sins and most of our virtues. That the boy should live, that had been his prayer, that his cry, always. He had not thought of himself, life had seemed so sure a possession to him till only a few months ago. If only it were not for the boy! He felt a sharp grip at his heart. He paused. He must be calm. Ne excitement, no worry; nothing to hasten it, for the boy's sake. His back was bent now, his step slow and dragging, and a vague rage filled his heart. He felt that the people who passed him did not care, that his fate was nothing to them, that this time next week, this time tomorrow, life, precious life might be his no longer, and they would go on their way and hardly a soul would notice, hardly a soul would care. The budding flowers only mocked him with their promise of life. The familiar sounds of the street came muffled to his ears, and he saw the familiar sights as from behind a veil. When he reached his home there seemed to be a gray life-lessness over everything like the twilight of an autumn day, and a heavy sense of misery descended on him. He moved a chair to the darkest corner of the dining-room and sat down to await his son's return. Three hours of school on a fresh spring morning seems to a child a long and dreary imprisonment, and the animal spirits held so long in check must need find vent in the dinner hour; and a schoolboy is hardly the most sympathetic being in whom to confide one's scrores, so as father and son sat at their mid-day meal, the man looked at his son and wondered. Should he tell him? There was no one on earth who cared for him but the boy, and he wanted the boy to know. He wanted somebody's active sympathy. One doesn't like to be sentimental, and in ordinary life people pretend almost indifference to those they love best on earth, but as a crisis, or in a sudden shock, one longs to see some emotion, and feel the genuineness of affection. He wanted the boy to care. He wished so much that the boy would not forget him. He wanted to see that he was more to the boy than his pleasures, more than that interminable cricket-match of wretch the child was still chattering enthusiastically. He looked at his son's happy face across the table. With a selfish brute he felt himself to suffer after all these years of striving solitary for the child's happiness, he had wanted to spoil it all, to bring unutterable misery into the boy's life merely for the satisfying of a selfish longing, and yet—he pushed his untasted meal away from him and gazed staccadastly out of the window. Then, if he didn't tell the boy, what then? What had he done that he should suffer this agony or dread for months, for years, perhaps, alone? Could he bear the awful burden of it? Was he only to know that each "Good-night" might be the last that he would wish his boy, that each breakfast might be the last meal they would take together? When death, tragic and sudden, is inevitable, why should not one find a kinder death at one's own hand, he asked. Suicide; why not? It would come to the same in the end, except for the shame to the boy. But was no never to think of himself? Why should not the boy suffer, too? Why should we consider his son, after all? The child had all his life and happiness in front attached to the page: "Deer, Sir, I refoose to let my sun James do his sum you give him last night as it looks to me like a slur on the 8-hour system, enny sum not more than 8 hours he is welcum to do but not more. Yrs trooly, Samuel Blocksky."—Success. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Ask your druggist or we will send postal at 10c a package. Write for free booklet-To Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. *MONROE DRUG CO., Uniroyale, Me of him, while he—his head bent tower between his shoulders, and, he still looked searchingly into the far distance. The man fought out a great temptation there by the window, and when he looked back into the room again the boy was talking of the school examination. That evening was destined to be remembered by the boy for the rest of his life. It was such a jolly evening. He never remembered his father so merry. His lessons were soon over that night. His father explained away the difficulties so cleverly. It was only when he came to say "Goodnight" that his father seemed irritable, as if he wished to get it over quickly, though he looked at him strangely, and held his hand much longer than usual. But, of course, it was nothing and the boy went to bed with a light heart and a longing for the morning. It was past midnight, and the man could not sleep. The rays of the moon that crept through his window seemed horribly chill and deathlike. He arose and paced about the room, but sleep would not come. Suddenly a paroxysm of fear overwhelmed him. What if he died at that moment, there by himself in the cold moonlight? It seemed so fearful to be there alone. An irresistible longing came over him. He opened his door softly and crept into his son's room. The flush of sleep was on the boy's cheeks, his closed eyelids shone white in the moonlight, and the breath was soft and regular. He looked the embodiment of sleeping youth and health, and the father's heart was glad at the sight of him. "He is quite happy," he said to himself. "I'm glad he is happy. You'll always be proud of me, my son," he whispered, bending over the sleeping child, "and, thank God, you'll never know that I was very nearly a coward." A look of peace overspread his countenance. "I'm glad I didn't do it, little chap, so glad," he murmured sleepily. They found him dead the next morning, with his head on the child's pillow. Delimitation in a tunnel is probably one of the novelties of international law. It has just been carried out between Italy and Switzerland in the Simplon. There have been several incipient disputes as to the precise point at which one jurisdiction ended and the other began, and to place such incidents out of the range of possibility for the future, a mixed commission was appointed to draw a boundary line in the bowels of the mountain. Their work has just been successfully completed. It is noted as a curious detail that the temperature in the tunnel during the work was about 52 degrees Fahrenheit. LEARN A TRADE Plumbers, Plasterers and Bricklayers earn from $4.50 to $8.00 a day. We teach these trades thoroughly in three months by actual practice. Positions secured for graduates. Write for FREE illustrated book No. 5 Coyne's Trade School, 840 No. Ashland Ave., Chicago. The Modesty of Mary. Mistress—Why, Mary, this figure of Venus is covered with dust. Maid—Yes'm. Mistress—Didn't I tell you to brush it off? Maid—Yes'm. Mistress—And why didn't you? Maid (blushingly)—Because, cure me, I thought it needed something on it. —From The Bohemian. MARRY Our new plan brings WEALTH, BEAUTY and CULTURE. We are a family, and a people by what married. Fina and directory Free. SOUTHEWEST SOCIAL CLUB, Dept. B.P.O. Box 894, Kansas City, Mo. Old Man Draws the Line. Arthur Herkimer, the Missouri historian told at a dinner at St. Louis story about the famous Governor Claiborne F. Jackson. "Jackson," he said, "married one after another, five sisters. "When, the fifth time Claiborne Jackson broached a matrimonial proposition to his father-in-law the old man was $0 and quite deaf. This is the conversation that ensued: "I—want—to—marry—Lizzie!" "Oh, yes, I hear you. You needn't rouse the neighborhood." It is Cruel to the Child. The practice of "forcing" a young child's musical talents, Moriz Rozenthal, the well known pianist, unhesitatingly condemns. "It is a great injustice to the public to foist a child's undeveloped talents upon it, but it is a far greater injustice to the child. There is nothing so inherently poetic TRY THEM FREE No Money Required a cent of money—no deposit—not even a referen home for six days and if perfectly satisfaf best glasses you ever saw at any price—send If the glasses for any reason do not suit you—if bargain you ever had—return them and you a positive that you can see better with Trusight that I want to send a pair especially fitted to you for tester today.. TRUSIGHT SPECTACLE CO a cent of money—no deposit—not even a reference. You wear the glasses in your own home for six days and if perfectly satisfactory in every way—if they are the best glasses you ever saw at any price—send me only $1 and the glasses are yours. If the glasses for any reason do not suit you, if you don't believe them to be the best bargain you ever had—return them and you are out nothing. It is because I am so positive that you can see better with Trusight Spectacles than with common glasses that I want to send a pair especially fitted to your eyes on 6 days' free trial. Send for tester today. TRUSIGHT SPECTACLE CO., $36 Ridge Blidge, Kansas City, Mo. not even a reference. You wear the glasses in your perfectly satisfactory in every tray—if they are the y price—send me only 81 and the glasses are yours. not suit you—if you don't believe them to be the best them and you are out nothing. It is because I am so with Trusight Spectacles with with common glasses fully fitted to your eaves on 6 days' free trial. Send PECTACLE CO., 623 Ridge Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. CURED WITHOUT THE KNIFE! Fistula, Fissure, Bleeding, Iching, Ulceration, Constipation and all Rectal Disease. Guaranteed. Send for Booklet. DR. M. NEY SMITH Specialist. Pine St., ST. LOUIS, MO. Established in St. Louis in 1888. FADELES her dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally age. Write for free booklet--How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Color LESS DYES and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Leach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Mo. English Sex Rivalry. One of the London daily papers is apparently doing its best to stir up a spirit of rivalry and hostility between the sexes. Week by week, it asks such questions (to be answered by its readers) as, "Which have the best time—men or women?" "Which are the nobler sex?" and so on. The present question is, "Which are the braver sex?" This is one reader's view: "How about the woman who can stay at home dress in gray and eat cold mutton while the husband is out dining? How about the husband after-dinner green or yellow chartreuse, sir? Green please, while the children have cocoa made with water because no milk can be afforded." We can only say, comments the Globe, that the man who has the courage to keep his wife on cold mutton while he rolls round the restaurants, and who flaunts his green chartreuse in the indignant faces of his watered-cocoa drinking children, must be a man of no mean courage. We will go further. He must be an absolute daredevil, a man who, like Nelson, knows no fear. For ourselves we would rather mount the deadly breach at the head of a forlorn hope than take on a contract like this. Imagine the flames that must shoot from the little eyes appearing over the edge of the cocoa cups. No one but a hero could stand it. We think this one letter settles the problem. Only a man could do a thing like this. Therefore men are the braver sex. A Homestead Law Defined. An Irishman, wishing to take a "homestead," and not knowing just how to go about it, sought information from a friend. "Mike," he said, "you've taken a homestead an' I thought maybe ye could tell me th' law concernin' how to go about it." "Well, Dennis, I don't remember th' exact wordin' uv th' law, but I can give ye th' manin' uc it. Th' manin' uv it is this: Th' government is willin' t' bet ye 160 acres uv land against $14 that ye can't live on it five years without starvin' t' death." The negro republic of Iberia has twenty-two species of rubber trees. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS THE KIDNEY DISEASES THESE CONDITIONS HEIGHT'S DISEASES THE ABBETT DISEASES continued the use in and continued the use in and continued the use in and continued the use in package. The public may rely of mutations. Sold only in dexter "Well, do you consent?" "Yes. I consent,' said the old man. He shook his head and added slowly. "Yes, you can have her. You've got em all now, my boy. But for goodness' sake, if anything happens to that poor misguided girl, don't come back and ask me for the old woman." No Freight Blockade. There is one thing tolerably certain, that if James J. Hill leaves the carrying trade of the Pacific to the Japanese the goods will be delivered.—New York Commercial. aginative. If you put him upon the stage before he has attained his mental equilibrium you are running the danger of making him self-conscious, theatric, and of stunting in him the development of a quality which as a musician he is lost without. But, Gott sie dank, the custom is a passing one." —From "Little Glimpses of Famous DR. COE'S SANITARIUM. LOCATED AT 26TH AND WYANDOTTE. BEST INVALID'S HOME IN THE WEST. Organized with a full staff of physicians and surgeons for treatment of all common diseases, THIRTY ROOMS for accommodation of patients. Difficult Surgical Operations Performed with Shell and Success when Surgery is Necessary. DISEASES OF WOMEN Well equipped to treat diseases of women. Many who have suffered for years cured at home. Special book for women FREE PILES PERMANENT CURE POSITIVELY GUARANTEED without knife, signature. New accepted until patient is well. Special Book FREE VARICOGELE. Radically Cured in Ten Days, under a Positive Guarantee. Send for Special FREE Book New restorative treatment for loss of Vital Power, Hydrocele, Rupture, Stricture, etc CRIPPLED CHILDREN GURED by improved methods. Trained attendants. WRITE FOR FREE BOOK ON Club Feet. Curvature of Lung, Eye, Skin, Spine, Hare Lip, Kidney, Bladder, Epilepsy, Catarrh, Blood and Smooth troubles. Nervous Diseases. Patients must consistently treated at mail. Consultation Free Consultation, at office or by letter. Thirty years experience. 170 page Illustrated Book Free, giving much valuable information. Call at office or write to DR. C. M. COE, OFFICE, 915 WALNUT ST., KANSAS CITY, MO. PRIVATE HOME for confinement cases Adoption Beautiful grounds and building Large roundings very exclusive. Strictly ethical. For full particulare, address. Offices, 15,16,1214 Main St. U.S. G. Hughes, M.D., KANSAS CITY, MO. VARIOCOCELE A Safe, Painless, Permanent Care GUARANTEED 90 years' experience. No money required. Patient is well. CONSULTATION and valuable BOOK FREE, by mail or at office. DR. C. M. COE, 915 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo. TAPE-WORNING Expelled from school with head or nose. Worming. Laundry pumps or cestamp. DR. M. NEY SMITTL, Specialist, 518 Pines St., Louis, Mo. The Publishers Newspaper Union. K. C. Mo., Lincoln, Neb. V. X. No. 8 13 WEEKS FREE Or 15 Months for Only $1.00 The Kansas Farmer The "old reliable" KANAS FARMER, established in 1863, the best genuine agricultural weekly paper in the West. It solves the problems for the busy farmer. It helps and interests every member of the farmer's family. It has 12 regular departments. Its contributors are expert authorities. It contains 24 to 32 pages each week. Sent on trial three months free. Test it. Clip the coupon below. THE KANAS FARMER CO., Topcka, Kauga. I accept your trial offer to new subscribers to send me the KANSAS PANZER three months free. At the end of the three months I will either send $1.00 for a full year from that date or write you to stop the paper, and you are to make no charge for the three months' trial. Name. . . P. O. . . I Want to Prove to You That Trusight Spectacles Are the Best You Ever Wore. Simply Send Me Your Name. I will send you my perfect Trusight Eye Tester with which you can test your own eyes as well as the most skilled optician. When you return the tester with your test I will send you a pair of Genuine Trusight Spectacles that will rely fit you on 6 days' free trial. I won't ask for Every hatchet-faced gossip is in her glory when it comes to wielding a hammer. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any failure and cannot be cured by Hall's Cureth Cure. F. J. CHENYE & CO., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. ChenyE for the last 15 years, and I believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions financially able to carry out any obligation made by his firm, WALDING, KING & MARINO. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Calarith Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. "There is a new song I want," remarked the customer, "but I can't think of its name—something about a riot and fight at Sing Sing or some such place." "I guess this must be it" ventured the new clerk, as he looked for THE CELESTIAL ARMY. I stood at the open casement And looked upon the night. And saw the westward goin' stars Pass slowly out of sight. Slowly the bright procession Went down the gleaming arch, And my soul discerned the music Of the long, triumphal march. Tik the great celestial army, Stretching far beyond the poles, Become the eternal symbol Of the mighty march of souls. Onward, forever onward, Red Mars led on his clan; And the moon like a mailed maiden Was riding in the van. And some were bright in beauty, And some were faint and small. But these might be in their greater heights The noblest of them all. Downward, forever downward, Beyond earth's dusky shore. They passed into the unknown night— They passed and were no more. No more! oh, say not so! And downward is not just: For the sight is weak and the sense is dim That looks through the heated dust. The stars and the mailed moon. Though they seem to fall and die. Still sweep in their embattled lines An endless reach of sky. And though the hills of death May hide the bright array. The marshaled brotherhood of souls Still keeps its onward way. Upward, forever upward. I see their march sublime. And bear the glorious music Of the conquerors of time. And long let me remember That the palest, fairest one May to diviner visions he A bright and blazing sun. —Thomas Buchanan Read Tied to a Drunkard. Let us look in to the lot of the woman who is tied for life to a drunkard and a gambler, the tears and shame, the sorrow, the pitiful pleading, the hopelessness, and worse than all, the strain on the loving, tender heart. Love and hope are the two chief factors in human happiness; without these the heart breaks—breaks slowly, thirty or forty years may do it—but, through the breaking process there is a smile on the face, the eyes hold not even a tear, the lips murmur, "Oh! yes, my husband is quite well; he and I think of going to Herrogate soon. I have lately been troubled with twings of rheumatism." Surely there can scarcely be a harder lot than that which has fallen to the drunkard's wife; no going back, no kiss and be friends, no hope that death will take her trouble out of her sight, for that would be murder; besides, she would not wish it love dies hard in the breast of a good, true-hearted woman— There are other paths into which women are called to walk that hold many briars. They may be closely identified with those whom they can not respect, humiliated by their nearest and dearest, or they may be, through no fault of their own, cast on the mercy of the world. Their truth in friends may have been ruthlessly broken. Women seem born to endure, and to endure in silence, that which would crush many a man. How many thousands of women there are who could have supported themselves in comfort had they acted selfishly or shut their eyes to the needs of helpless dear ones! And how many more who have refused offers of happy homes because they were needed at home? Two cases—one of them very sad—clamor for recital. A young girl of the working class had a blind sister and an aged father, to whom she was devoted, a lover came along—a man earning good wages, steady in his habits; in a word, an ideal husband for the girl he had chosen—but she refused him. She would not leave her father and sister. Later on, when she was no longer wanted by any one, despair, perhaps or loneliness, drove her into intemperate habits, and the woman of heroic soul is begging her breast. The other case is brighter. It is that of a girl who had an aged and infirm mother. Like the other girl, she had a lover, and she too, dismissed him for the mother's sake. Years afterwards the mother died, and the true lover, whose vows meant "until death do us part," again claimed his chosen one, and again was told to wait or marry some one else. Proper respect must be shown to the mother's memory. He waited, and at the end of another year—his full seven years of waiting—he won a heroine. Poisonous snakes and destructive sugar rats caused the importation of the mongoose from India to Jamaica years ago. This lively little animal killed off the snakes and thinned out the sugar rats, but it especially enjoyed destroying the chickens. Now it is a costly nuisance. All the island poultry has to be kept within wire netting above the ground and the price of eggs is high. One of the most interesting little charities is that of a Yorkshire, England, station master, who every week of his life makes a toy railway engine. At the end of the year he sends the lot to a hospital for the use of the boys in the institution. The life of the baby rhinoceros in HOTEL DE LA VIE ADVANCE OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN. It is the current belief that the nineteenth century discovered woman, but in reality she was her own. Christopher Columbus and found herself. The nineteenth century only brought her a new outlook. Up to that time woman had been content to be the chief industrial factor in the home, her activities being limited to the making of the family wardrobe and preparing the family food. In colonial times few could afford imported goods, and it is said that all the graduates of the Harvard class of 1770 wore home-spun, home made clothes. Then two inventions came which freed woman from this too heavy work. Rev. Edmund Cartwright, D.D., invented the process of automatic weaving early in the nineteenth century, and in the third and fourth decades of that century Walter Hunt, of New York, and Elias Howe, of Massachusetts, perfected the sewing machine. Having more time on her hands, woman then began to widen her view-point and enlarge her sphere of usefulness. The Dorcas sewing societies began to add a little literature to their weekly programs. A few brave souls began to think seriously on the question of woman suffrage. Others began investigating the social, religious, moral, industrial and political conditions of the country. At first man looked on in terror. To him this could mean nothing short of national calamity. He saw in his mind's eye the old household gods of domesticity, peace, and industry thrown from their pedestals and relegated to the cobwebbed attic with the useless cradle, the forgotten darning needle, and the neglected preserve kettle. He pictured life as a homeless chaos with strange creatures coming and going on all earthly missions save those of homemaking and homecoming and home keeping. In 1851, when Mrs. Amelia Bloomer., Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, and Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell came out in a weird-looking costume, half masculine, half feminine, poor man almost collapsed. He had a further vision of his very apparel being taken from him along with his civil and religious privileges. He was prepared for the worst, and prophesied dire things to his country and to the world in general. But in the course of time it began to dawn upon his understanding that woman was really doing things that were worth while. He saw an improvement in the treatment of the wards of the nation in detention homes and houses for the insane, and he knew that he was not responsible for it. He saw schools and colleges opened for girls, and found woman back of the movement. He saw laws enacted that protected woman and her rights and safeguarded children, something he had long overlooked. He saw active benevolence where inspiration and helpfulness had lain dormant before. He saw historic spots recclaimed and the beauties of nature protected, where his own efforts had been ineffectual. He saw libraries spring up as flowers in a night and go traveling all over the isolated places of the country to carry a word of advice or a course of instruction to those who were hungry for it—something well worth doing, but he had never thought of it. He saw schools equipped with manual training appliances, kindergartens for the children of the poor, and rescue homes for unfortunate girls and women. He saw homes for the aged, the helpless and the blind, and he had to acknowledge to himself that woman was doing it, and that the country was growing far wiser and better and happier because of it. He turned to his home, and saw his greatest fear laid at rest forever, for woman had not only failed to overturn the household gods, but she set them up on newer and stronger pedestals. How Washington Neglected His Duty. In the traditions of any member of the Washington family the story of Martha Curtis is of supreme importance, writes Cora A. Moore, in the New Broadway Magazine. It happened one day that she was visiting at the plantation of a neigh Women and Home. MARY There was no attic cluttered with the useless and forgotten paraphernalia of homemaking. He found the modern woman's two handmaidens, Science and Commonsense, doing innumerable things that Tradition and The-Way-That-Mother-Did never dreamed of. The intelligent, persistent advancement of woman in America is indeed one of the greatest chapters in the wonderful story of this ever-remarkable country. In 1845 Elizabeth Blackwell applied to twelve medical schools before she was finally permitted to matriculate at Geneva, N. Y. We now have seven medical colleges exclusively for women, with over 1,400 students in them, and there are upwards of 8,000 women physicians and surgeons practicing in the Union at the present time. Harriet K. Hunt was refused admission to Harvard in 1850 under the decision that "whenever a woman should prove herself capable of an intellectual achievement, this latter would cease to constitute an honor for the men who had previously prized it." But in less than thirty years, Radcliffe, the annex to Harvard, was built for women students, and last year the enrollment there was over 400. The Moravians established female seminaries at Bethlehem, Pa., in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, but the first womans' college in the world was the Wesleyan Female College at Macon, Ga., founded in 1836. Today when a list of leading college presidents is made out it cannot be confined to masculine names, but must of necessity include Miss Caroline Hazard, of Wellesley; Miss Lillian Wyckoff Johnson, of the Western College for Women; Miss Laura Drake Gill, of Barnard, and Miss M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr. The number of girls now studying in our colleges runs far into the hundreds of thousands. When Anne Hutchinson felt called to preach, some 250 years ago, Boston was thrown into spasms of horror. Our pious forefathers thought that evil times were indeed upon them when a woman aspired to exhort and have a seat in the religious councils with the men. Today there are theological colleges solely for women; they are admitted to many similar schools for men, and 4,000 women are established in pulpits, either in sole charge or as assistants to their husbands. Kate Field defied a tradition of newspaperdom when, she entered the office of a New York daily and asked for a place on the staff. She got it, and later established a magazine of her own. Mrs. Frank Leslie came to the rescue when her husband failed, by taking her magazine and putting it firmly on its feet again. Today women are a recognized factor in the world of news and literature. 2,500 of them registering under the name of journalists alone. There are many papers and periodicals run entirely by women, and no one is surprised. Women illustrators have become as general as women writers. Maud Humphrey, Alice Monroe Pape, Ida Waugh, Jessie Wilcox Smith and Florence Scovel Shinn have created child pictures that have been an acquisition to the book world. Madame Bougueran some years ago took the first prize ever given an American woman at the Paris Salon, and only recently Mary Cassatt was honored there with a whole day's exhibit of her work. Man was much startled when Maria Mitchell, a demure Quakeress, followed the mathematical bent of her mind and plunged in to the study of astronomy; yet when she died at her post at Vassar College in 1889 there were scores of other women in this country eagerly following the path that she had opened to them. When Mrs. Farriett Beecher Stowe was given a check for $10,000, representing the first royalty on "Uncle Tom's Cabin," she did not know what to do with it, having never seen a check before, yet in the past few years an American woman. Mrs. Ella Rawls Reader, has been the trusted and able financial agent of British uniform. The business that he had with the Major he transacted quickly, declining an invitation to stay because, as he declared, he was on his way to the Governor at Williamsburg on matters of importance. But the host repeated the invitation more urgently, slyly remarking that he had also beneath his roof the hand- The Latest Fashions. several South American republics. Now there are women employed in nearly every bank in the United States. Lack of Courtesy an American Failing Courtesy, courtesy, courtesy! What a beautiful thing it is, and how rare. It is one of the great factors in success. It helps to make life sweet for all of us. It is an accomplishment and a virtue. Why is it so little taught, learned or practiced? Not long since I entered a stationery establishment where all kinds of printing are done. Like the majority of Americans, I was in something of a hurry—with many duties and engagements to fill the day. I wanted to ask the price of a certain piece of work I desired done, which might have resulted in my permanent patronage. There were three men and a young woman within speaking distance; all were busy with customers; two of them glanced at me, but otherwise ignored my presence. I waited five minutes and no one had approached me or spoken to me. Then I went elsewhere. How easily one of these attendants could have said in a gracious and polite manner, "Madam, I will be at Liberty in a few moments. Will you wait?" It would have satisfied my sense of the decencies of business association and secured my patronage. Over and over I have had this experience in American cities. I prefer America to any other country I have ever seen, but I do not believe this lack of courtesy could be found in one shop in 100 abroad. It not only costs nothing to be polite and affable, but it pays. How curious that the dividend-loving, progressive American so frequently forgets this fact. I am confident, the more I see of life, that all employes in whatever situation reflect the color of the mind which directs them. I Ponge With Silk Coat. This costume has a plaited skirt of cream colored ponge trimmed with a full frill of lace above which are bias folds of dull olive green taffetas. Accompanying the skirt is a delightful little coat, fitted by a deep silk girdle, below which appear postillion straps, bordered and appliqued with lace. There is an Empire vest of silver braid above which rises a yoke of cream colored lace. Embroidered lace is stitched about the shoulders to form a collar and above these are bias folds of silk. The sleeves are puffed and extend below the elbow in close rows of shirring and these are imprisoned in a network of bias silk folds in original design. Ah, a-lady in the case! That was different. But the plans of men have often waited on Cupid. When the officer bowed low over the hand of the lady whom he met in the Major's drawing room he forgot Williamsburg and the Governor. And she, pleased with the courage of that Colonel, George Washington, of whose military MARY MOST FAMOUS BEAUTY. No One Has Ever Gained the Fame of Dolly Madison. Dolly Madison! Truly the name itself is one to conjure with. To one even who forgets all the dates and battles and great generals and other momentous events of history, it clings with persistence like the lingering perfume of some old sweetheart, writes Cora A. Moore, in the New Broadway Magazine. It means simples and coquery and laughing eyes and all the charm and witchery that make some women wonderful. All this Dolly was, the demure Quaker maiden from Philadelphia, who burst from the chrysalis of a somber girlhood to the brilliant butterfly existence of a womanhood that found her the absolute queen of society, the arbitrator of the positions of the day, the first lady of the land! Her parents, who were Friends, had moved from Virginia to Philadelphia for the advantages of the religious associations here afforded. Dorothea—they called her Dorothea then—used to walk on Chestnut street in that afternoon promenade which Chestnut street still celebrates, and she wisely watched the ladies of fashion in their gay brocades and bright colored silk stockings that peeped beneath their petticoats; for her heart deeply loved all the sinful pretty fineries that her faith rebuked. At nineteen she married, as her parents wished, John Todd, a staid and proper Quaker, a lawyer of Philadelphia. At twenty-three she was a widow, and then it was that she began to develop as herself. Aaron Burr had asked permission to bring to call on her one of the rising statesmen of the day, and all in a flutter the gay young wrote a woman friend that the "great little Madison is coming to see me this evening." She got herself up in a mulberry satin gown that set off to advantage the pearly white and delicate rosettes of her complexion, and when, in her mother's candle-lighted parlor, she extended a soft, dimpled hand to the unimpressive little man in a set of black, with ruffled shirt and sine shoe buckles, he was almost once by the radiance of her beauty, the laughing eyes of Irish blue and the saucy black curls that escaped from the demure cap of white tulle. She was the loveliest woman he had ever met and he went at once about his wooing. In a few months the rumor of an engagement was affloat in society. Martha Washington, with the privilege of a family connection, made bold to ask Mrs. Tedd how matters stood. When the widow blushingly admitted the truth, she was assured that it was all right and that the match should have the blessing of President and Mrs. Washington. There followed a splendid wedding. The dun-colored Quaker abode in Philadelphia was not grand enough, and so it was celebrated in Virginia, at Harewood, the home of the bride's sister, and it was a very different scene from the first wedding that took place in the Friends' Meeting-house. If the rate of consumption of 1996 were maintained indefinitely, without change, says the National Geographic Magazine, our coal would last approximately 4,000 years, but if the constantly increasing rate which has marked the consumption during the past ninety years be maintained, our coal will practically be exhausted within 100 years. It does not seem probable that the rate of increased consumption will be affected materially for a great many years to come, and hence the estimate of 100 years will be nearer the truth than 4,000 years. The real life of our coal fields probably will be somewhere between these extremes, and it seems probable that it may be about 200 years. conveyed the newly married pair to her town house in Williamsburg. Pleasant interests for some time demanded the presence of Colonel Washington at the capital. Later he took his bride and her two children. Martha Parke Curtis and John Parke Curtis, to his own estate at Mount Vernon, where they enjoyed that happy do Without question, the man who is at the head of that printing establishment which is herein referred to lacks courtesy, and his influence permeates the whole institution. I remember an apartment house where the crankiness and brutality of a landlord who had never learned self-control was reflected by all the elevator boys and attendants in a lesser form. I know another where the good nature and kind heart of the proprietor is to be found in some measure in the deportment of all his employees. If a haughty, disagreeable or impertinent man or maid meets me at a door where I call I know the ruling spirit of that household promises similar qualities, unless it chances, to be a transient attendant who has not been long enough in the new position to shake off the mental habits of the last employer. To the manager of any department in any of our large shops can be traced its prevailing spirit of either courtesy or brusqueness which patrons encounter. There are shops—a few only—which it is a pleasure to enter; there are others—many others—where intention, sullenness or a lefty air of condescension prevails from manager to elevator boy. It is well to remember one thing: The really great people of the world—those born with great brains and hearts—have always been courteous, simple and kind in manners to their fellow men in all stations of life, and if you want to imitate real greatness, as well as to make life sweeter for everybody, you will cultivate these accomplishments.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Progress in New Zealand. A number of great engineering projects are under way in New Zealand, looking to the utilization of some of the many water-powers of that country. The most notable of these is the harnessing of the famous Huka falls at a cost of $8,000,000, which will supply the AucRland district with 76,000 horse power. I An Attractive Blouse Design. The one sketched here is an instance of what can be done in concentration of detail, plain silk muslin being used for the blouse. It is mounted over lining taffetas, which, by the way is more durable than pure silk, while it has the same appearance and is not nearly as expensive as the latter. Three little bias folds are fulled around the shoulders ending under revers of silk bound with very narrow braid and appliqued with medallions of thread lace. A jabot of the lace gauged under a fancy button appears at the end of each revers. The sleeves are long having the length supplied by detachable cuffs of transparent lace. Higher Buildings in Canton Among the new buildings being erected off Shameen, in Canton, where the recent fire occurred, are some four storied buildings, and the lofty character of the buildings generally is in strong contrast with their surroundings. than her usual fascination. That evening, long after the rest of the household had retired, he and the charming widow sat by the fireplace in the subway tunnel, will carry the water a chaperon to regulate the tide of swiftly moving events. Soon there was a resplendent wedding at the home of the bride. Direct Life of Our Coal Fields