The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. VOL.18 NO 10 66 years 3 months 29 days ar Chas. Upton Aanderson first saw the light of day in Merriam Co., Fulton, Ky. At the early age of 4 years was brought by his parents to Lafayette Co Mo. remaining here until he entered manhood. In 1863 year of proclamation he came to Kansas City, Ks. a young man at the age of 23 yr. when the fires of his youth were all aglow in its busy zeal and a noble heart he started out to make an honorable living and to be felt in the community as a citizen worthy, honest and upright. How well he succeeded in his aims and how highly he was respected by the community, the following tribute must be paid to him. Recognizing his good judgement, common sense and broad mind he was elected member of the City School Board for a term of 2 years. This however coming from the people both white and black has been held only by few of his race. Again he was honored by the city by being elected member of the city council from his ward and in his declining days when unable physically to perform other duties he was appointed Sanitary Inspector of the city. His services as a citizen were appreciated until his death, besides wielding a powerful influence in the community an city his services and influence in the church and society were indispen-sable. In 1872 he was converted and baptized into the 1st Bapt. church of this city. A few weeks afterwards was elected treasurer of church and remained until the organization of the Metropolitan church nearly 17 years ago, at the organization of the Metropolitan church as a charter member and leading spirit he was elected treasurer and remained until a few months of his death. In 1867 Dec,26 he was married Miss Fanny Miller, his companion for all these years, who helped him and cared for him. Mayor D. E. Cornell in his long list of appointments remembered he colored wing of the republican party, in great shape by appointing Corvine Paterson Street commissioner a position 'Aunt Angie's children' felt that they are justly entitled to for many years. Mr. Paterson filled this role under Mayor Cog some years ago and is thoroughly veried with the duties of this impor office, no better man could be selected for this position than him. Anderson wilson was appointed his clerk. following colored officers were appa- dled: S. F. Brown, Press Younger, me MaAee, Gus Clark, Wm. Mosby me Glass and Rickard Austin. dressed sanitary sergeants: William mander, Henry Reed. William Par- savenger. E.F Bell city impoun- ers are all splendid gentleman and part of the various position of which have been appointed to fill. When you want a nice lunch, nothing nice to eat that will cause you call at 1510 N. 3rd St. Kansas City Kas. You will find our class home made pies, chili, fish, hamburges, winnies, beans, pig feet etc. we call the attention of Ladies specially, when wanting to pur- pose anything in the dry goods to call on The Goldberg Dry Dada Co., where there can be City Locals. Send us your news, Telephone Bell 1958 West. When you want a good meal or lunches, call at 1510 N·3rd. St. Mrs. Maggie Rollins, sister of Mr. T. C. Shinall who died in Paola Kans. last Tuesday will be buried in this city from the Mt. Pleasant Bapt. church Sunday. Mrs. Ella Day of Swift Currant, Saskatchewan, Canada,died Sunday May 5 and was brought to this city Wednesday May 8th for burial. Mrs. Ella Day is the wife of H. T. Day of [608 Northup who lately went to Canada for the purpose of raising cattle. Mrs. Day was a member of Eastern Star Lodge, No. 2 and the Household of Ruth. Funeral services was held from the St. James A. M. E. Church, corner 8th & Neb. ave. Rev. A. M. Ward officiating. Interments in the Quindaro cemetery. Mr. James A. Johnson, age 30 died May 8th at 930 a.m. at the home of his mother 852 Freeman ave. Euneral Saturday morning May 11th from St. Mary's church 5th and Ann aves. at 9 a.m. Low Mass will be celebrated by the The Rev. Father Herne. Father Sorten of Leavenworth will preach the funeral sermon. Interment in St. John's cemetary. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Sarah Sheldon. Piff. vs. Charles Sheldon. Dept. Charles Election, 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 Pflf. I. F. Bradley, Atty. for Piff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clark. Publication Notice. 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.710862. The State of Kansas to the above named defendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Snyder, deceased. Greeting: You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 26th day of October, 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 (24) and thirty-five (35) in back sixty-one (61) in Armourdale, now a part of Kansas City.-Kansas, succeeding to the recorded plato thereof. That the defendant above named and the unknown heirs of S. A. Snyder, deceased, respectively, set up, assert and claim certain estates, titles, rights or interests in and to said real estate adverse to the plaintiff; there by creating a cloud upon the plaintiff's said title and rendering it that said claim of said above named, defendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of R. 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 proving in substance that the plaintiff's title to said real estate be adjudged good and valid and that the claims estates, rights, titles or interests of the defendants and unknown heirs and devisees of S. A. Snyder, deceased, is, to or upon said real estate be adjudged invalid, and that they and each of them be forever barred from asserting any claim whatever in or to said real estate or any part thereof. And you are further notified that unless you answer the petition of said plaintiff on or before the 24th day of December, 1906, the allegations thereof will be taken as true and a judgement and decree will be reordered 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 to sue. KANSAS CFTY, KANSAS FRIDAY EVENING. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express sincere thanks to our many friends and neighbors, and members of the Masonie Fraternity, especially Widow's Son, No. 17: The Sewing 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 bother. 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 Scrap 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 thinklag 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 competitian 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 emphaticly 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 matter 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 contemtible slur and malicious falsehood. 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 hannle not any that comes from Munsey. -Plaindealer. Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte [County Kansas. Nathaniel Singletary, Plaintiff, vs. No. 20168 NO. 20168. Joseph Gruble, the heirs, devisees, 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 1st day of June 1907, or the same will be taken as true and a judgement 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. To whom it may concern:— This will inform you that I Rev. G.McNeal will appear before the Board of Pardon the parole of Clarence Stewart who Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. April term 1907. Charles H. Love, Plaintiff. vs. No. 1038 Elmira Love, Defendant. The defendant, Elmira Love, is hereby notified that she has been sued by the plaint- five 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- five 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, Clerk. By E. L. Cable, Deputy. May 3. GLOSSINE. GLOSSINE. The New and most Wonderful Hair Grower. Reliable, Infallible, Innocent and Harmless. 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. Directly Below. 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 State of Kansas. You are hereby notified that on the and day of March, 1907, the above named Plaintiff has filed this petition in the District Court, asking and praying for a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty and gross neglect of duty. Unless you answer demurber or otherwise object or before the 130th day of April, 1907, the allegations, statement and averments of srid petition, shall be taken as true, and upon further proof, the plaintiff will be granted divorce. as pragged to. L. W. Johnson, Atty. for Pliff. Astest this 21nd day of March. 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 petition in the above and entitled court, asking for divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Unless you answer demur or otherwise object, on or before the 23rd day of March, 1907, the allegations of plaintiff will be taken as true and upon further proof the plaintiff will be granted a divorce as prayed for. L. W. Johnson, atty. for piff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Publication Notice. In the District Co. yandotte Covnty Kansas. Birdie Smith, Plaintiff vs. Peter Smith, Desendant. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 14th day of September, 1906, the petition filed against you will be taken as true and a judgement rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and restoring plaintiff to her maiden name Birdie Renick and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atta. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. First Pub. Aug. 3rd Executors Notice WARSAWS County of WarSAWS In the Probate Court of Said County In the matter of the Estate of Henry Fulgham, deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary have been granted to the undersigned on the last will and testament of Henry 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 Henry Fulgham deceased. Dated Jan. 29, 1907. in this S PER CALL EXWARD S THE REAL BARKED WE MUSIC New Morning since these GOODS o Muslin Underwe best; no trash at any named Gowns at $1.50 , 48c and ... $2, $1.25 and... sets, best on earth, House Dresses, $1 to wear Dresses, to 5, from 95c down Roasting Pans FR A BACKWARD SEASON Nothing but the best; no trash at any price. Ladies' Lace Trimmed Gowns at $1.50, $1. and ....50c Corset Covers, 73c, 48c and .....23c Muslin Skirts, $5, $2, $1.25 and .....50c Muslin Chemise, .....50c We sell W. B. 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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 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 15th day of December A. D. 1006. Winfield Freeman, Probate Judge. 1st Pub. Dec. 21. Administrator's Notice. In the Probate court in aid 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 wittles,whereof, the undesigned. 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 1st day March. A. D. 1007. Notice of Application for Parole. 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Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said Coudy, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room[1] in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte, State of 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 Administratrix of Anthony Dudley, deceased. In witness whereof, the undersigned, Probate Judge in and for the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, have hereto seb my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 12th day of October A.D. 1905 For Rent-To desirable parties(gentleman perfered)well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city,inquire at this office. Mrs.S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave.,is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to-date Rooming house in the city-charges always reasonable. For Nice Furnished Rooms call on Mrs. Iday Easily at 1107 N. 6th st.,conveniently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line. Prices reason able. Mrs. Reed, 528 Neb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rots to rent. NOW IS the time Subscribe For the Weekly NOTE LETS The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Friday 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 pie. It was not long ago that all the "success" magazines were pointing to the Pittsburg millionaires as examples to the youth of the land. With 10,000 doctors in convention in Boston next summer, the rest of the country ought to have a good opportunity to get well.—Boston Globe. It is a pity that the great romancers of the sea did not live in a generation which affords such thrilling material as the log of the dry dock Dewey. A Minnesota man says he has discovered the cause of the aurora borealis. But what bearing will this have on the price of coal this year? Much to the surprise of everybody, some of the phenomenal ball players added to the leading nines as marvelous discoveries will probably make good. Cheer up, mister! The president of the Dressmakers' National Protective Association says that women's dress will be less expensive this year than ever before. The Japanese, says one of their statesmen, should adopt chairs and develop their legs. Well, short legs did not prevent them from "getting there" in the late war. Portia, as quoted by the editor of a kind of society paper, is made to say: "How far that little scandal throws his beams! So shines a bad deed in this haughty world." News comes from the east that the seventeen-year locusts will devastate the land this year. How many times in the course of a decade do the seventeen-year locusts come, anyhow? As the last suffragist was detached from the doorknob and put into the police wagon, the premier of the great British Empire crawled out from under his bed and sighed a sigh of relief Telephone Bell W. 32. W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. The very best for all Purpose The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges Re sota Ave., Kans Local Office of The Ethiopian Protec Aid As Employment and Information of the Ass 1508 N. 3rd Street. W. B. Raymond FUNERAL DIRECTOR and Embalmer. The very best of Service, Fine Carriages for alll Purposes, at all Hours. The Best Equipped White Enameled Ambulance for sick and wounded on Short Notice. Charges Reasonable. Call at 431 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansay. Local Office of The Ethiopian Protective and Benefician Aid Association Employment and Information Bureau for the members of the Association. BELL TELEPHONE 2313 WEST. The Ethiopian Protective and Beneficial Aid Association, National Convention at Kansas City, Sept. 22nd, 1908. The National association will be composed of delegates from every State and 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. buy land by the thou- each state, to colonize them, build towns and hogs, horses, poultry taneries, shoe and this will solve the rai- a piece from 10 million 1 million dollars for 1 $12,000,000 for five yel- lish dollars which wou- acres of land at $50. be enough land to co- family in the Unite sive the boys and gir- ing educated, something earning bad habits a Kansas has many organizations, Garden city, Dodge city, Larned, Great Bend, Hutchinsons, Wichita, Newton, Emporia, Topeka 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 To 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 is 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 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." 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. In the course of a discussion at the sanitary congress Mr. Weaver declared that it was almost impossible for anyone taking a cold bath every morning to become an habitual drunkard.—London Telegraph. Hunt Treasure at Mont Pelee. Treasure hunting has become the principal occupation of the islanders of Martinique. They dig day and night among the ruins caused by the eruptions of Mont Pelee for gold and other valuables. Once when a man loses all love for his wife is when he holds a straight flush against four aces in a little poker game and she has the four aces.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Before the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emanations from radium died in six hours. Thunder Kills Oysters Oysters are such nervous creatures that a sudden shock, such as a loud thunder-clap, will kill many hundreds of them. The Day's Length. Radium Kills Mice Telephone Home W. 32 buy land by the thousands of acres in each state, to colonize these lands, farm them, build towns and cities raise cattle hogs, horses, poultry and etc., to establish tanneries, shoe and cotton factories this will solve the race problem, 10 cents a piece from 10 million people would be 1 million dollars for 12 months would be $12,000,000 for five years would be 60 million dollars which would buy 1,200,000 acres of land at $50. per acre this would be enough land to colonize every colored family in the Unite states. This would give the boys and girls who are now being educated something to do instead of earning bad habits and starving out in cities. Certificates for membership are 50 ets monthly dues 10 ets. Each state can organize itself and select it delegates to the national convention. Now let every race man and woman get busy for further information address Kansas City headquarters. Several canvassing agent are wanted in every state, and city with a good commission allowed. I am yours for the up building of the Ethiopian or black race in America and throughout the world. To the Afflicted. To those who are suffering with Chronic diseases and especially such as other Doctors have given up. Call on Doctor Benjaman, Benner 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. Russla Edmonson. To the above named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court, by the above named plaintiff, and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 11th day Jan. 1907, the petition filed in said cause will be taken as true and a judgment rendered the nature of which will be—a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plain- and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost on this action. Attest: Br J E. F. Readley Attest: test: By I. F. Bradley. Atty. Wn. Needles. Clerk. Dec. 7 Size of Ancient Babylon. Ancient Babylon was not such a great city as some have supposed, according to H. Valentine Geere, the archaeologist. He says: "The idea of Babylon's vastness and magnificence, to which we have become accustomed, has been practically exploded. Dr. Kodewey told me that the site of the city was larger than that of any other ancient city; but ever so, the idea that it could be compared with London and its suburbs, which has been very generally held, is entirely erroneous. In point of fact, it appears that its walls were not more than eight miles in circumference. Moreover, the great palaces are shown SHIELDS FOR TRCOPS IN WAR. Their Use Urged by a German Mill stary. Writer. A writer in the Militar-Wochenblatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Bracad Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese spade work in the offensive, the more so because he mentions incidentally, as a matter regarding which there can be no dispute, that the German authorities have long since advocated the use of artificial cover in the attack, and points out that when the ground was frozen or rocky, and the spade could make no impression upon it, the attacking Japanese infantry not infrequently went forward, carrying with them filled sandbags weighing as much as forty pounds. He remarks that if the undoubtedly brave Japanese soldier found it necessary to load himself with so bulky and burdensome a protection when advancing in the open against an intrenched enemy it would seem far better to equip the infantry with a light, handy shield. Furnished with a handle by which to carry it, a loophole to fire through and some arrangement to prevent its falling down, the infantryman would then find himself, like his gunner comrade, protected by a bullet-proof shield. The writer in the Wochenblatt suggests that on the march the shield should be carried on the back, when going into action on the chest, and when advancing to the attack in the left hand, so as to be at once available for use when lying down to fire, both as head cover and rifle rest. YOUR HAIR SHOULD BE DRAB. That is the Fashionable Color, So an Authority Says. "Deep auburn and the drab shades are the fashionable colors in hair this season," said the woman who makes hair coloring a speciality, as placidly as though she were commenting on the state of the weather or the advance style in dress goods. "One of my customers has to my knowledge worn five different colors or shades on her wavy tresses. Having been blessed with medium brown hair by nature she became a ravishing blonde when the fashion for bleaching first came in. "Next she took to titian red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. Then she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. 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What bought the most delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— The mothers she dazzles in? And if he can afford me, And I am not adored, you see, Well—I don't know! And heaven? Oh, of course, I don't Expect to get in free; But if the Lord meant what he said Concerning charity. The tite I'll give before I die Will slip me through the needle's eye, Or—I don't know! For happiness. Well, money bought car. Well, money bought car. It bought this chair in which I loil, It bought this private car; It bought this cognae—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness, It bought this cognae—and, I guess. 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. 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His record includes three shipwrecks, the battle of Navarino, in which he won mention in orders, the blockade of Algiers, one capture by brigands, followed by himself and his companions seizing the Spanish ship which captured the corseir which had captured them. After serving many years before the mast he became a master and small ship owner on his own account. His name ROOM 8. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS KANSAS CITY, KANSAS Here is the Place WATCH THIS MARRIAGE. The little matrimonial episode just off the carpet in the City of Brotherly love deserves to be carefully watched. Thomas Wilkinson of New York loved a daughter of Old England. It was twenty years ago that the Saxon music began to tug at the heartstrings of the Gotham youngster, and ever since that time Wilkinson has been dreaming of a fortune not dealt with on Bradstreet's or heard of in Wall street. In other words, Thomas Wilkinson, so soon as he had mingled his glances with those of the Lancashire beauty, and visions of that oasis in the desert of life called "Home," and, assuming it in his case, at least, the course of our love was destined to run smooth, began forthwith to "prepare a place for the fair-eyed stranger whose love had so transformed his hitherto commonplace existence. Well, to make a long story sufficiently short to come within this chinna, the happy event came off in super style in Philadelphia not many years ago, and if there is a happier couple anywhere on terra firma it would difficult to tell where they might at will the happiness last? Is this adelphia wedding destined to actually illustrate the truth of ceram present-day theories regarding armeny? The public will await designs with no little anxiety. It will be remembered that the huey these days is against hasty armeny. "Don't be in too much of hurry," says the up-to-date student human life and human matrimonial additions. "Don't rush through with rightless haste a matter of such suce importance as marriage. Go Study each other. Be sure that affinity is established before the art is tied." Well, Thomas Wilkinson and Mat- Law waited twenty years after the aurora blush of love's young um before foreclosing matters. only, they have had plenty of time which to find out the lay of the ad, and the anxious public will carefully to see how the cat is going to jump. It after twenty years of waiting, every years of careful investigation each other's personalities, Thomas Martha fail to make a success in the pessimists and cynics will such a howl as has not been and the land for many a day. If the truth could be seen as it is, it would doubtless appear that it makes the difference whether the courtship and reaches through twenty years took twenty days, provided the really love each other. In love, pure and true, faithful love, that makes a success, and not see why a man and woman love each other just as well in a brief courtship as after a prolonged one. is not the length of time interven- between the first meeting and the village that, tells the story. The question is, "Do the parties real- ize each other? Is the marriage were one? Is there Heart in it, Soul and Honor and Truth—or is sure that most accursed thing, a village of convenience, or, if posi- verse yet, a marriage of sordid? Is the latter stamp of marriage degrades us. If the parties are nec it matters but little about the things. with 291 Chinese steerage passen- t war with 212 Russian steerage engagers all on their way from Vlad- ack and Shanghai to Mazatlan and muss. the British steamer Morai put in at San Diego, Cal., in dis- A virtual state of mutiny ex- board the vessel, which went guarantine guarded by immigra- tion officials, while awaiting ment of the matter. Trouble be- come after the steamer left Shang- wer between the Chinese and Le Sun in immigration contractor and steerage passengers threatened to the ship and run it back to the. The dispute was quiet but he broke out again when a boxer a coolie. On Friday last one the Russians struck a Chinaman and was head open. The 900 Chinese attacked the 200 Russians, and they could be separated four- persons were wounded. back no further than 1901, for we shall find that there were wet and snow far into April, and overcats were necessary right up end of June. There was one case in April when the thermom- monly ran up past 80 degrees suddenly dropped 30 degrees. In the thermometer hardly ever THE PRESS. Frederick J. Haskin, in the Washington Herald, says: The first printed newspaper appeared in London on July 23, 1588. It was called the English Mercurie, and was a religious publication, of which Lord Burleigh was the patron. The earliest real newspaper printed from type, one designed to give the news, was the London Weekly News, which appeared in 1649 from the print shop of N. Newberry. It proved so popular that six years later Ben Jonson wrote the first newspaper play, satirizing the venture in a piece acted on the London stage under the name of "Staples of the News." In 1641 the Parliament first permitted the newspapers to publish a report of its proceedings. In the next nineteen years there were 200 papers started in London, but all of them failed for want of support. In the United States the first attempt to establish a newspaper was made in Boston on September 25, 1690. It boasted of four quarto pages, one of which was blank. It evidently took a lively interest in politics, and its editor must have belonged to that class of journalists now known as muck-rakers, for it was suppressed. The legislature officially described it as a "pamphlet which came out contrary to law, and contained reflections of a very high nature." Boston came again, and in 1704 John Campbell, a native of Scotland, and post-master, began the issue of the Boston News-Letter. It had two pages, twelve by eight inches each, and appeared first with this announcement: "This New-Letter is to be continued weekly, and all persons who have any houses, lands, tenements, farms, ships, vessels, goods,wares, or merchandise, etc., to be sold or let; or servants run away, or goods stole or lost, may have accounts of the same inserted at a reasonable rate from 12 pence to 5 shillings, and not to exceed, who may agree with John Campbell, postmaster." When this weekly was fourteen years old it had a circulation of 300 copies weekly, and announced that it would issue an extra half sheet fort nightly, as the editor was behind on printing the news from Europe. A year afterward he announced that he had caught up eight months of the news, and that in five months more he would have all arrearages of intelligence from the Old World "needful to be known in these parts." The American Weekly Mercurie came out in Philadelphia in 1719, and the New York Gazette appeared in Manhattan in 1725. The weekly paper by that time had become a profitable venture in the larger towns, and soon spread through all the thirteen colonies, until in 1776 there were thirty-four which maintained regular issues. The determined opposition of the Crown representatives in the South prevented the foundation of several papers, and the first successful one was the Weekly Virginia Gazette, in 1736. 一 Before the end of the eighteenth century the newspaper business had crossed over the Alleghenies, the first being the "Kentucke Gazette, pub at Lexington, Ky., by John and F. Flinging bradford, in 1787. This was followed soon by the Knoxville Gazette, at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1791 and the Sentinel of the Northwest Territory, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1793. 一 The increase became so rapid that in 1830 the United States, with only 13,000,000 people, had more newspapers than all of Europe, with its 190,000,000 population. In 1833 the 1-cent paper made its appearance in New York, but was not successful. Then came the New York Herald, founded by James Gordon Bennett, in 1835, the first of the modern daily newspapers, which placed more importance upon news than politics. Three years before, George D. Prentice had started the Louisville Journal in Kentucky. It became the first of the great personal journals, and Prentice the first of the great editors of that remarkable type which controlled the thought of the people of America for a generation, and who would have been supreme in power if they had been united. --- No story of early newspaper life in America is more interesting than that of Matthew Lyon. Lyon was born in Ireland, and when a mere boy ran Professor Gaetano of the Boston School of Technology, has been knighted by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. Professor Lanza was born in Boston in 1848, was appointed instructor in the Institute of Technology in 1872, became professor of the engineering department in 1883 and is widely known as an author away to sea. He was sold as a slave to a Vermont farmer in exchange for a yoke of oxen. After several years he contrived to buy his freedom. He was sent to Congress from Vermont in 1797. In Washington he got ideas and went back home to establish a newspaper which gloried in the name "The Scourge of Aristocracy and Repository of Important Political truths." This paper was red-hot, and for publishing an article attacking President John Adams, Lyon was fined $1,000 and sent to jail for four months under the alten and sedition laws. While in jail he was re-elected to Congress. Later he went West and founded the town of Eddyville, Ky., which is in Lyon County, named in honor of the old Irishman. He took with him to Kentucky the press and type which he had used in Vermont, and sold it in Louisville for the establishment of the first paper there, the Farmer's Library, by Samuel Vail. --- Newspaper readers are sometimes heard to complain that "the papers are all advertisements." They are better off than their grandfathers, for in the beginning of the daily newspaper growth in this country, each paper devoted three of its four pages to solid advertising, the fourth page even not always sacred from the encroachment of the business office. When the New York Tribune was the most powerful agency in the United States, next to the Federal government, it was a small affair which printed about one-twelfth as much reading matter as does the Tribune of to-day. In the old times the size of the paper was just four pages, whatever happened. When business demanded it, the size of the paper was increased. Thus came the "blanket sheet" of which the Cincinnati Enquirer still reminds us. During the civil war the papers began to print "double sheets" and "tripie sheets," that is to say, eight and twelve page papers. Then eight pages became the accepted size, and so remained until ten years ago. The enormous circulations attended by American papers are not possible in any other country of the world because there is no other nation which has so many people who can read. The New York Herald in 1835 reached what was then considered the almost incredible circulation of 25,000. Ten years later the telegraph was invented, and the circulation of daily papers in the country was soon trebled. The civil war was the most sanguinary contest ever fought between two armies speaking the same language and having the same interest, yet it was good for only 150,000 copies a day for the best newspapers of the time. That was in the '60's. Thirty years later, when the United States fought a little war with Spain, two of the most enterprising New York papers, the Journal and the World, ran their circulation up to 1,250,000 a day, which remains the high-water mark for newspaper circulation. --- The statistics of the newspaper business under the present high development reached in this country are almost unbelievable. To provide enough paper for the use of either one of several of the largest New York papers, ten acres of spruce forest must be cleared and fed into paper-making machines every twenty-four hours. To increase the size of one of these papers, say from twelve to fourteen pages, means an increase in expense for that edition of at least $450. If this increase in size were maintained through all the editions of one week alone, the additional expense for white paper would be $5,400. Several New York papers, week in and week out, use $20,000 worth of paper. It requires seventy tons of metal to make the stereotype plates for one of the big modern Sunday editions. The total weight of the paper in the Sunday edition of several of the larger New York papers is nearly 300 tons. Thirty extra large express cars are required to carry the Sunday morning edition of the papers of Manhattan to out-of-town readers. Cardinal Merry del Val, the Papal Secretary of State, is said to be one of the most modern of men. He usually drives about in his Old World coach. and is said to play an excellent game of golf and can send a rifle bullet through a 10-cent piece at twenty yards. India will eventually control the Oriental coal markets. At present Japan is her only competitor, but Japan's coal area is only 6,000 square miles, with an annual output of 10,000,000 tons. India's present output is not so much, but her possibilities as PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. 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Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. riculture, congested districts board, commissioners of public works, national education and intermediate education, inspectors of the reformatory and industrial schools and the registrar general. The supreme court judicate, royal Irish constabulary, Dublin metropolitan police, the land commission CHILD LABOR. Alarming Conditions in the Cotton Mills of the South. The National Child Labor committee in its department officially furnished to the Woman's Home Companion each month publishes a vitally important article on child labor, by A. J. McKelway, Assistant Secretary of the committee. Mr. McKelway supplies some interesting statistics on so-called educational conditions in the Southern cotton mills, and prefaces his article with the reproduction of a contract between parents and mill owners, which reads: "I (the parent) agree that all children, members of my family, between the ages of five and twelve years shall enter the school maintained by the Pelzer company, and shall attend every school day during the school session unless prevented by sickness or other unavoidable causes, but all children, members of my family, above twelve years of age shall work in the mill, and shall not be excused from service therein without the consent of the superintendent for good cause." Mr. McKelway also says: "Two leading representatives of the Southern cotton manufacturing industry—Captain Ellison A. Smyth of the Pelzer Mills, Pelzer, South Carolina, and Mr. D. A. Thompkins, president of the Atherton Mills near Charlotte, North Carolina—appeared at the recent meeting of the National Civic Federation in New York City to expiate upon the achievements of the Southern cotton mills, and incidentally to minimize and apologize for the evils attendant upon the employment of children in those mills. The industry could not have had a better spokesman than Captain Smyth who with twenty-five years' experience in cotton manufacture, represents a mill that is considered a model—in a region notorious for its low standard in regard to the employment of children. He is undoubtedly one of the most humane and enlightened Southern mill owners; but it is all the more unfortunate that the best are thus thrust forward as champions of a system that they must know is inherently evil, as apologists for conditions that they would not tolerate in their own establishments and as defenders of abuses that competition under bad laws has forced upon them. Both gentlemen complained bitterly of indiscriminate criticism of the Southern mills in reference to their employment of children, and even condemned the really moderate statements of the representatives of the National Child Labor committee In particular they protested against an estimate of the number of children employed in Southern mills, for which I cheerfully accept responsibility. In an address published in March, 1906, I said: "There must be 60,000 children from six to sixteen now working in the mills of the Southern states, and my opinion is that there are 60,000 under fourteen years of age." Now, in his zeal to refute this statement, as afterward quoted, Captain Smyth is guilty of a serious misquotation of the census. He says: "In the census figures of 1905 the statement is given by the officials that in South Carolina there were employed 9,763 children under sixteen years of age in all gainful occupations, including those on farms." He repeats: "These figures include children of gainful occupations, agricultural and otherwise." As a matter of fact, the census bulletins of 1905 which were quoted are called the "Census of Manufactures," and are confined exclusively to manufacturing statistics. The number of children from ten to fifteen years employed in all gainful occupations in South Carolina was, according to the general census of 1900, not 9,700, but 95,280. Of course the greater part of these—76,295, in fact—were employed in agriculture; but that leaves 18,855 employed in other occupations. If Captain Smyth will look at the 'Census of Manufactures" that he has so optimistically misread, he will Pruning Trees. If pruning was not done early in the season, attend to it at once. Do not allow your trees to waste a large amount of their energy on the development of unnecessary branches. Throw their vitality into those which are to remain. But do not go at the work of A National Evil. --- perhaps see that not only were 9,700 children employed in factories, but of these 9,096 were engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods and knit goods alone—one of the facts which, being "in the South, he is supposed to know, and ought to know." Returning now to my statement that there must be 60,000 children of from six to sixteen working in Southern mills, to which Captain Smyth so strenuously objects, the Captain ingeniously figures as follows: "There are 9,000,000 spindles in the Southern states. The children work in the spin- VETERINARY. Remedies for Troubles of Animals Suggested by Northwestern Agriculturist. Looks Like Rickets. My hogs have been running in the corn lot all winter. It has been frozen and rather rough, and the hogs are large and heavy for their age. They have been fed on shorts, slop and corn. They have become sore in their front feet so that they can hardly walk in the morning and go on their knees. Can you give cause and remedy?—A Subscriber. Jamieson, Neb. It looks like rickets, rather than sore feet. This comes from lack of mineral material in food, and their growing too fast. Use coal, salt and lime remedy, and see that they get less heavy feed for a few weeks and give each one-fourth pound Glauber salts every five to ten days. Lumps in Cow's Bag. My cow has just above the base of one teat, two or three hard lumps apparently about the size of a hazel nut and for some time that teat has given stringy milk. There is no special soreness and the cow is nearly dry. Can you suggest anything so that the lumps will disappear by the first part of June, when she is due to calve? E. W. C. Lumps in cow's teats do sometimes disappear after cow dries up, and when cow is fresh again there is no trouble. But as a rule they come to stay, and are apt to plug the canal so as to completely obstruct the teat. Tincture of Iodine painted around the base of teat assists in causing absorption of the lump, but is not a sure cure. Shoe Boil. (1) I have a mare and she has a bunch on the elbow or upper joint of her fore leg. I think they are called shoe boils. They are about as big as a hen egg. Would you advise cutting them out and can any one do it? They are not sore. (2) Do you know of any way or any thing that will take the stain off a white horse when she gets colored by lying down in stable? Plenty of bedding don't seem to remedy the trouble.—E. Leatherman. (1) Shoe boil or capped elbow can be easily cut out. There is very little danger. Put twist on horse's nose and have a man twist, not so tight as to injure nose but sufficiently tight to make him feel it more than the cutting. Make incision up and down leg through center of tumor. Be careful not to cut horse's leg below elbow. The horse so he cannot lie down for two or three weeks. Cleanse parts once a day. Any loose skin should be removed if not too big to cover opening. (2) Horse may be clipped so as to get rid of hair and will so get rid of most of the stain. The skin can then be washed with soap and hot water. Keep animal tied so he can not lie down, or make a pair of pants for hind legs to attach to blanket, and use only clean bedding, straw or shavings. A white horse can be made whiter after washing by rinsing off with a very little bluing in water sponged over body. prune on the haphazard system, or from a "sense of duty." Prune for results that stand for improvement. Aim to preserve a proper balance of head without producing a stiff, formal effect. Cut out weak wood, wherever found, even if it does somewhat disturb symmetrical outlines. The devel- ning rooms. Each spinner, on an average, takes care of 600 spindles. Therefore there could not possibly be more than 15,000 spinners employed in the Southern mills, and all are not children by any means." Well, we have gone over these figures with a cotton manufacturer who has been an advocate of legislation restricting child labor, and the results were astonishingly different: There are 9,700,000 spindles now reported in Southern mills. From estimates substantiated by statements made by manufacturers when decaring that The Farm. A Sick Ewe. I have a yearling ewe that has lost complete control of her hind quarters which seem to be paralyzed. Otherwise she appears in perfect health and has good appetite. Have wintered the sheep on upland prairie hay and flax straw. The rest of the flock are in perfect health.—U. S. Ravely. Remove wool over the small of back and hips. Blister with following. Biniodine of mercury, one ounce; lard or cosmoline seven ounces; mix and rub well together and rub well into parts. Keep patient where she can not get her nose to blister for ten hours, after which blister can be wiped off. It would be better to build a sling or frame to keep her in so that she can touch feet to floor, than to allow her to lie down all the time. To Cure a Mare's Bag. I have a mare that after having a colt two years ago her bag became hard and lumpy on one side and caused the milk to partly dry out on that side. Now she has about two weeks left before coming in again, and her bag begins to get hard on that side just as before. She has been kept in a good stable.—P. L. Vinge. Minn. Keep on light feed, with very little grain; bran, dry, is better than oats or corn if she is in good flesh. After colt gets to sucking well and fever is all out of bag, you can increase feed. In case one side of the bag stays hard, give the mare one-half ounce Potash Nitrate three times a day in feed or water, and bathe that side of bag with cold water three times a day. Rickets/in Pigs: When my pigs were about two months old their legs began to swell and the bones seem to have become enlarged. Sometimes they are better and walk about, although lame, and then grow worse again. They have been fed soaked barley, oats and milk. Have never been shut up in a pen but allowed to run around. They are about ten months old but will probably not weigh over a hundred pounds.—A The disease seems like rickets, in which case the bones become softened from lack of lime in food. The following is good to give them: Soft coar, finely broken up, 50 pounds; air-slacked lime, 10 pounds; common salt, 10 pounds. Mix and put in a box in a sheltered place where the pigs can get to it anytime they wish. Two Recipes. (1) My mare, about nine years old, has a soft bunch on the joint of her hind foot. It is about the size of half an egg and seems as though there was blood or water in it. She is a little lame when she works hard or when we drive her. (2) Which is the best way to feed horses cracked corn, dry or soaked in warm water?—A. S. (1) Blister with Gombault's Caustic Balsam, and follow in three weeks with cantharides ciment blister. (2) I find that horses are more subject to colic when fed cracked corn, than with ear corn, especially as the weather gets warm. If you feed cracked corn, you should use an equal amount of bran and ground oats. This will obviate the trouble as far as colic is con- thick, to allow a free circulation of air. It is a most excellent plan to cover every cut that is made with a thick coat of paint. This prevents unnecessary loss of sap, excludes rain, keeps away insects and assists the wound to heal rapidly.—The Outing Magazine. their business would be ruined by raising the age limit to fourteen, sixty per cent of these spindles are run by children under that age, or 5,820,000 spindles in all. The average child under fourteen cannot operate more than 312 spindles, which would indicate the employment of 18,650 spinners under fourteen. It is further estimated that in addition to these child spinners there are 24,450 doffer boys practically all under fourteen, and 8,300 boy sweepers, raising the total of children under fourteen employed in cerned. Feed dry, as the horse will eat more slowly than if fed wet. An Abscess. Will you please tell me through your paper what is the matter with my sow. She has a bunch on the lower part of her back. It started about a month ago about the size of an egg, now it is about the size of a quart measure.—W. S. It appears like an abscess and should be opened. First make a very small opening to the most dependent part so that it may easily drain when well opened. At first make opening with very small blade of knife until you are convinced what the material is within. If you find fluid very thick and cheesy it requires a much larger opening, to drain easily. Be sure and cut lengthwise of body as there is less danger of bleeding too much. For a Lame Horse. What can be done for a horse five years old, weight 1,000 that has been lame for over two years in the front feet? It appeared shortly after breaking him to drive—first noticed him just slightly lame; it seemed to grow worse gradually for six months; and has kept about the same ever since. He is not stiff in any way above the feet. When I pared his feet I found some pus in around the frog especially at the heel which seems to be warmer than natural. Last spring I pared his feet and applied flax seed poultices for several days with no results. He is in pasture summers and in barn winters—J. N. There are so many causes of lameness that get overlooked, that it is hard for one not acquainted with the different diseases to see a slight change in the foot which may cause the horse pain and consequently lameness. If your horse has a wide, self-shaped foot, with a flat sole that drops down, which is common after founder, as your case indicates—it would need supporting instead of being cut away. This kind of a foot needs a bar shoe with upper surface of shoe concaved so as not to touch the sole of foot, bearing on the wall and frogs only. A leather sole can be placed between shoe and foot, and foot packed with tar and oakum when shoe is put on. The shoe should have three clips drawn up so as to hold shoe from moving; one at toe which may be let into the hoof, and one on each side of hoof. These do not want to be cut into hoof but should be drawn in toward hoof after nailing on shoe, so as to prevent foot from expanding when weight is put on it. In case heels are contracted ease quarters so that shoe does not press on quarters too hard. If heels are high lower them so that frog gets bearing on the bar. A shoe without calks is preferable. Drive slowly, as trotting is not advisable till foot gets stronger. The Only Way. An applicant for the post of mistress in a country school was being questioned by those in authority. "And what is your position with regard to the whipping of children?" one member asked. "My usual position," she replied, "is on a chair, with the child across my knees, face downward!"—Tit-Bits. comic operas, owns a farm in Indiana but he doesn't work at it very persistently himself. He has been spending the winter at Pasadena, California, and from there he wrote to a nursery at Dayton, Ohio, ordering a lot of fruit trees. He forgot to explain that he wanted his trees delivered to his Indiana farm and as his letter came ```markdown ``` three operations alone to 51,400. But the bulletin of the Bureau of Labor No. 52, issued May, 1904, reports "a large number" of children under sixteen employed in Southern mills in at least fifteen operations not considered by Captain Smyth, who will perhaps allow us 8,600 additional children under fourteen employed in these capacities that he did not mention, which will make up our modest sum of 60,000; and in consideration of his assumed concession on this point we will not take into account double shifts for night work, which, we are afraid, would swell our sorrowful total. Figures and reports of conditions that are as accessible to Captain Smyth as to myself would indicate the employment of at least 76,000 children under sixteen in Southern mills, and an estimate showing 60,000 of these to be under fourteen is conservative. I might add that the census bulletin estimates that 997 children from five to nine years of age were actually reported as employed in the Southern states, and this number should be at least trebled. In fact, the conditions both as to age and hours of work in the Southern manufacturing states in particular are paralleled only in that period of England's industrial history when the poorhouses emptied their little waifs into the maw of the cotton mills. Captain Smyth also denies emphatically and excitedly that a spinning frame with adjustable legs for small help was "ever made, ever seen or ever attempted." He is referring to another statement of mine that "a spoofer had recently been put on the market with adjustable legs for small help. If the Captain will turn to Draper's Textile Texts he will find the aforesaid spoofer advertised thus: "Another important feature of our construction is the use of adjustable legs in the frame, so that the height of the machine may be suited to the operative. Small help is used in some mills, and full-grown help in others. The motions required in spooling are very fatiguing if the spindles are not at a proper height for easy manipulation, and this height necessarily varies with the height of the attendant." I recognize the technical difference between a spoofer and a spinning frame in my statement. Yet as children of six years have been found climbing upon the spinning frame to mend the broken threads it would be perhaps an act of humanity to invent also a spinning frame with adjustable legs for small help. Captain Smyth, referring to Mr. Lovejoy's statement that "there are Southern cotton mills in which parents sign contracts to send their children to work upon reaching a certain age," confessed that this applied to him individually, but complained that the whole truth was not told with regard to the contract; wherefor the remarkable contract, a vivid illustration of the peculiar point of view of the mill owner, is quoted in full at the top of this article as given by the Captain. Read the contract and answer the question: "Could you conceive yourself signing such a document to bind your own children?" That is, after all the real test. Now we gladly admit that the first part of this contract has done much for the training of the children of the Petzer Mills. It has given the mills so good a reputation that, I am told, the statement that one has worked there is in itself a recommendation, and the present superintendents of the other mill owners who drain the schools of schools referred to. In fact, we know of nothing else that shows more conclusively the fatwittedness of those mills obtained their education in the children who have attained the mature age of eight or nine years. Yet Captain Smyth should really understand that even this part of the contract hardly appeals to the large body of American citizens, who are accustomed to the idea of compulsory free education supported by the tax payers; while the second part of the contract, binding whole families to the mill, is simply unspeakable. We have known a widowed mother to leave another mill making such requirements, simply because she did not choose to bind her twelve-year-old child to drudgery. roads are trying to collect a thousand dollar freight bill and are looking for the "first Ade to the injured." Queen Alexandra is but one of the many royal ladies who bear the name of "Alex." Her two nieces Princess Alexandra of Hesse, who is now the widow of the Grand Duke Sergius of Cows in comfortable quarters consume less feed, thrive better, and give more milk. Use no dirty, dusty feed just previous to milking; if fodder is dusty sprinkle it when fed. Allow no strong smelling material in the stable for any length of time. Store the manure outside the cow stables and haul away as often as practicable. The majority of our farmers treat the young calf as they do the older individuals of the herd. They do not appreciate the fact that the calf is a baby and ought to be treated as such. Did you know that if your finger nails get too long, some cows will let you know it by squirming about when you are milking, and maybe by upsetting things? Take time to trim your nails once in awhile. The kicking cow is a result of bad treatment of the heifer. Upon the care given the heifer the first few times she is milked, depends, in a large measure, her future character in this respect. "The Kicking cow is not born—she is made that way." The practice among our farmers of breeding the dams in the herd to any sire most convenient must be abolished before the state will be supplied with good dairy herds. The dairymen should choose his breed and then use only the best sire obtainable. Remember that the head of the herd is half the herd. Next time you have a vicious helper to break try this method. Put a strong halter on her and tie her up to a post in the cow yard fence, bringing her nose close up; then take a long rope and tie it up to the post a foot or so below her nose crowd her close alongside the fence, bringing rope around her, letting it pass along her shoulder, side and hip, and tie to the next post behind her. She will then be held firmly against the fence. If she shows signs of kicking, pass a strap around her hind legs behind the udder and draw them together and buckle them there. Rarest American Coins Dealers say that fifteen rarest American coins are worth a total of $16,000. Here is a list of them: First is the New York doubloon, coined in 1751 by Ephram Brasher, a jeweler. It has a record price of only $505, but is regarded as the scarcest of all American issues by experts, who believe that if a specimen were offered for sale today it would bring $3,000 at least. It is the only gold coin of American coinage struck prior to the opening of the first United States mint. This coin weighs 411 1/2 grains and its intrinsic value is about $1. There are only five of them known to exist. The second most valuable coin is the half-eagle of 1822, which has a record price of $2,165. This coin was bought originally for $10 from a man in Wall Street, New York. Fourth is the 1804 dollar, only four or five being known to collectors in the United States. It is valued at $1,000. The fifth coin is the Washington cent of 1791, of which pattern one impression was made in gold, and is valued at $1,000. The few copper impressions are also highly valued. The design was not accepted by the government. Ranking with this coin in point of rarity is the Washington half-dollar of 1792 struck in gold. This was struck as a compliment to Washington, and was carried by him as a pocket piece. It sold for $500 in 1875. It is now practically unobtainable, and valued at $1,000. An Oversight. When Chappie got up the other morning he wandered around his apartment in his pretty pink pajamas, the very picture of woe. "What's the matter, sir?" inquired his valet. "I don't know, Alphonse," he groaned; "I passed a most unhappy night." Alphonse looked him carefully over, "Oh, sir," he exclaimed, "I know what was the matter. The trouserines of your pajamas were not creased. You must be more careful, sir. Those I had prepared for you were hanging across the foot of the bed."—From The Boy hemlian. In South Australia it costs the railway companies $80,000 a year to remove the vegetation which grows on the permanent ways. The belief in the Wandering Jew is still held in France among the peasantry of Brittany and Picardy. When a violent wind storm comes on the make the sign of the cross as they say ("C'est le juif errant qui passe!"). Boyer--They say he is a very gungorous man.