The American Citizen

THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. VOL. 18 NO 11 The Oldest LIBERAL COM Short Eulogy of C. U. Anderson. 63 years 3 months 29 days ago Chas. Upton Anderson 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 to 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 the colored wing of the republican party in great shape by appointing Corvine Paterson Street Commissioner a position 'Aunt Aggie's children' felt that they were justly entitled to for many years. Mr. Paterson filled this office under Mayor Cog some years ago and is thoroughly versed with the duties of this important office, no better man could have been selected for this position than him. Anderson wilson was appointed his clerk. The following colored officers were appointed: S. F. Brown, Press Younger, James McAfee, Gus Clark, Wm. Mosby James Glass and Rickard Austin. Colored sanitary sergeants: William Alexander, Henry Reed. William Parker, seavenger. E. F Bell city impounder. All are splendid gentleman and worthy of the various position of which they have been appointed to fill. 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. We call the attention of Ladies especially, when wanting to purchase anything in the dry goods line to call on The Goldberg Dry Goods Co. City Locals. Send us your news, Telephone Bell 1958 West. When you want a good meal or lunce call at 1510 N. 3rd. St. Mrs. Mamie Anderson of of 310 Oakland, whose husband was shot and killed last Saturday night, May 25th by an officer wishes to thank the following named person for their sympathies shown her during her sad bereavement. Wilhite Tfr. Co. $2.00 Ed Kemp. 1.00 John Green. 1.00 John Ransom. .75 Henry Bell, .50 Earnest Riiey. .50 Henry Kemp. .50 Al Horton. 1.00 Harry Frye, .50 Nick Samuels, .50 Jim Harrison, .50 C. E. Weyrauck, .50 John Montgomery, .50 Birt Holder, .50 Chas. Howard. .50 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. To the above-named defendant, you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff and that unless you appear and answer on or before the 21st day of Feb. 1907, the petition filed against you will be taken as true, and a judgement rendered the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant, and divorcing her from said defendant and for cost of this action. I. F. Bradley, Atty, for Pliff Attest: Wn. Needles, Clerk. 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.19862. The State of Kansas to the above named defendants and the unknown heirs and devisees of S.A. Snyder, deceased. Greeting: You and each of you 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 and of in the actual possession of the following described real estate, lying and situate in Wyandotte County, Kansas, to-wit— All of lots thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35), in beek siek one (51) in Armourdale, now a part of Kansas City.-Kansas, according to the recorded plat thereof. That the defendant above named and the unknown heirs of S. A. Snyder, deceased, respectively, set up, assert and claim certain estates, titles, rights or interests in and to said real estate adverse to the plaintiff, there by creating a cloud upon the plaintiff's said title and rendering the same unmarkable. That said claim of said above named defendants and the unknown heirs' and devices of S. A. Snyder, deceased, are wholly unfounded and without any right whatever and said defendants have not, nor have either of them, any estate, right, title or interest whatever in or to said real estate or any part thereof. And praising 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 devices of S. A. Snyder, deceased, in, to or upon said real estate be adjudged invalid, and that they and each of them be forever barred from asserting any claim whatever in or to said real estate or any part thereof. And you are further notified that unless you answer the petition of said plaintiff on or before the 24th day of December, 1906, the allegations thereof will be taken as true and a judgement and decree will be rendered by said Court against you in favor of the said plaintiff quieting his title to said property against you and forever barring you or any person or persons claiming thy or through KANSAS CITY, 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. 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 was sentenced to Kansas Penitentiary for grand larcency, for from one to five years. 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 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 contemtibie 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 pape', 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 haulne not any that comes from Munsey. -Plaidaler. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Nathaniel Singletary, Plaintiff, vs. No. 20168. Joseph Gruble, the heirs, devisees, administrators, executors, and trustees of Josaph 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 petition on or before the 1st day of June 1997, 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 farther relief as may be right and Publication Notice In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. April term 1907. Charles H. Love, Plaintiff. vs. No. 20138 Elmira Love, Defendant. The defendant, Elmira Love, is hereby notified that she has been sued by the plaint- tiff 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- tiff 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. Director Rub into the Sack. Director, Rub into the Scalp once daily Agent can be found at 2437 Flora Av Kansas City, Mo. Tel. Bell East 2035. Publication Notice. State of Kansas, ) Wyandotte County. (ss In the District Court of Wyandotte County. State of Kansas. M. T. Jones, Plaintiff. No. Martha Jones, Defendant. The State of Kansas, to Martha Jones Greeting: You are hereby notified that on the and day of March, 1907, the above named Plaintiff has filed his 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 demuror or otherwise object or before the 13th 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 prayed for. L. W. Johnson, Atty. for Plf. Attest this 2nd day of March. J. Will Thomas, Clerk. By E. F. Cable, Deputy. mar. 8th The Goldberg Dry Goods Co., is the coming store of this city, they keep on hand the best goods and know how to treat their customers. 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 pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Publication Notice In the District Co r 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 11th day of September, 1906, the petitioned fight 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 and for her maiden name Birdie Renick and for cost of this suit. I. F. BRADLEY, Atta. for Pliff. Attest: Wm. Needles, Clerk. Firm No. Executors Notice. 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 20 day of Jan. 1907. Now, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified that they must present the game 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. Ladies' solid leather, patent tip Oxfords extra good. $1.50 Ladies' fancy top $2.50 kid Oxfords.....1.98 Ladies' all patent leather Oxfords, R-H, 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 & gun metal street pumps. 2.50 Babies' 25c Shoes.....19 Children's good School shoes, sizes 5 to 8 only.....75 Same Shoes, sizes 8½ to 12.....1.00 Same Shoe, 12½ to 2.....1.25 Ladies' Common Sense, solid leather. Notice of Final Settlement. State of Kansas County of Wichita, Mo. In the Probate court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of Corvila Broadus, Deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate are hereby notified, that at the next term of the Probate Court in and for said County, to be begin 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 Covilia 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. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte. In the Probate court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Thomas P. Johnson deceased. Notice is hereby given that letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of Thomas P. Johnson late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the Sth day of May 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. C. W. Comager Administrator of the Estate with will annexed of Thomas P. Johnson, deceased. bate Judge in and for the county of (SEAL) Wyandette, State of "Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 8th day May. A. D. 1007. Van B. Prather, Probate Judge. IMPORTANT NOTICE The name and address of every soldier a late member of either of the Companies which was discharged by the President's order, is wanted by United Stat's Senator Joseph B. Foraker. Address, Hon. J. B. FORAKER, Senate, Washington, D. C. MAY 31. 1907 Votice of Final Settlement. State of Kauas County of Wyandotte. In the Probate Court in and for said county. In the matter of the Estate of Anthony Dudley, deceased. Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified, that at the next regular term of the Probate Court in and for said County, to be begun and held at the Probate Court room]in Kansas City, County of Wyandotte, State aforesaid, on the first Monday in the month, November A. D. 1905. I shall apply to said court for a and final settlement of said estate Eliza Dudley Administratrix of Anthony Dudley, decreased 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.1900 Winfield Freeman, Upholster NOTE LETS For Rent-To desirable parties(geni- teman perfered)well furnished rooms in one of the best families in the city, inquire at this office. Mrs.S. T. Mitchell of 340 Minn.ave., is proprietress of one of the most desirable clean up-to date Rooming house in the city-charges always reasonable. For Nice Furnished Rooms call on Mrs. Iday Easily at 1107 N. 6th st, conveniently located only one block from the Minnesota ave, car line, Prices reason able. Mrs. Rsed, 528 Nb. ave., has a few nicely furnished rooms to rent. Notice of Application for Parole. To whom it may concern:— This is to notify all persons that I the undersigned will on the 2nd day of October 1906 or as soon thereafter as can be conveniently heard apply to the Prison Board of the State of Kansas, for a parole from the State pententiary of the State of Kansas. Take not co and govern yourself accordingly. CLARENCE GROSSMAN NOW IS the time Subscribe For the Weekly The Oldest Negro Journal Published Weekly in this part of the Country. Published Weekly at 1510 North 3rd Street KANSAS CITY . . . KANSAS. REV. G. McNEAL, Asso. Editor. Geo. A. Dudley, Editor in Chief; Publisher and Business Managen. Terms of Subscription in Advance. One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....$65c Three Months.....40c One Month.....15c Advertising 25 cents per inch First Insertion. A Standing Display 'Ad' for 3 Months or longer 15c per inch, each insertion. Grangemouth is the name of a Moscow editor. Evidently a farmer on the side. Waldorf Astor has become so thoroughly anglicized that he is going to marry an American girl. A clergyman says that bridge whist leads to mental decline. Why doesn't he try poker for a change? Senator Pettus is declared to be a poor man and fond of poker. The last explains the first, possibly. Perhaps boys should be thankful for whippings, as somebody declares, but they seldom are before they are 45. Sweet Spring is now approaching, and Summer with the rose, so poetry's encroaching upon the field of prose. King Edward was "warmly received" in Paris, but not in the same way as when he used to be prince of Wales. The czar will reserve the right to wield the big stick over the Douma. according to the latest advices from St. Petersburg. We learn from the New York 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 has taken them longer to get out than it did to get in. It is now believed that Anna Gould is going to give Boni one more chance, in spite of the fact that he has taken a great many already. Uruguay should not be blamed for having a revolution. A review of recent South American history shows that it is Uruguay's turn. Asks the editor of the Pittsfield Journal: "Are there four girls with gray eyes in Pittsfield?" Apparently ye scribe means to get busy. Queen Maud of Norway is losing her health because she fears her husband will be killed. This queen business is not all pickles and pie. It was not long ago that all the "success" magazines were pointing to the Pittsburg millionaires as examples to the youth of the land. With 10,000 doctors in convention in Boston next summer, the rest of the country ought to have a good opportunity to get well.—Boston Globe. It is a pity that the great romancers of the sea did not live in a generation which affords such thrilling material as the log of the dry dock Dewey. A Minnesota man says he has discovered the cause of the aurora borealis. But what bearing will this have on the price of coal this year? Much to the surprise of everybody, some of the phenomenal ball players added to the leading nines as marvelous discoveries will probably make good. Cheer up, mister! The president of the Dressmakers' National Protective Association says that women's dress will be less expensive this year than ever before. The Japanese, says one of their statesmen, should adopt chairs and develop their legs. Well, short legs did not prevent them from "getting there" in the late war. Portia, as quoted by the editor of a kind of society paper, is made to say: "How far that little scandal throws his beams! So shines a bad deed in this haughty world." News comes from the east that the seventeen-year locusts will devastate the land this year. How many times in the course of a decade do the seventeen-year locusts come, anyhow? As the last suffragist was detatched from the doorknob and put into the police wagon, the premier of the great British Empire crawled out from under his bed and sighed a sigh of relief Telephone Bell W. 32 W. B. R. FUNERAL and Embalmer. The very best for all Purpose The Best Equipped White sick and on Short Notice. Charges R. sota Ave., Kans Local Office of The Ethiopian Protec Aid As Employment and Informati 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 thousand each state, to colonize them, build towns and hogs, horses, poultry and taneries, shoe and this will solve the rage a piece from 10 million 1 million dollars for 1 $12,000,000 for five yelion dollars which wac acres of land at $50. be enough land to cook family in the United state give the boys and girl ing educated something earning bad habits a Kansas has many organizations, Garden city, Dodge city, Larned, Great Bend, Hutchiusons, 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. A President of the E. P W. H. BOLDEN, Acting Secrete Peter Sh W. H. BOLDEN, Acting Secretary. Peter Shirley, Canvassing Agent. Value of Moderate Eating. No matter what kind of food is taken, the quantity should be small. The human body can live and thrive and work on a surprisingly small quantity of nourishment. Great moderation in eating is, therefore, one of the keys that unlock the doors of long living. To the Afflicted To those who are suffering with nie diseases and especially such Doctors have given up. Call on Benjaman, Bonner of Quindaro, he is o devine healer, and says cure von of the following dis Greatest Misfortune of Life Greatest importance of Life. Mayors appear to have had their troubles two centuries ago. At bielefeld, Germany, there is a tombstone with this inscription: "Here lies Johannes Burggreve, who considered his election as burgomaster of this city the greatest misfortune of his life." By a simple rule, the length of the day and night, any time of the year, may be ascertained by doubling the time of the sun's rising, which will give the length of the night; and double the time of setting will give the length of the day. Cold Baths vs. Drunkenness In the course of a discussion at the sanitary congress Mr. Weaver declared that it was almost impossible for anyone taking a cold bath every morning to become an habitual drunkard.—London Telegraph. Hunt Treasure at Mont Pelos 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. Darlene Winn Do It. Once when a man loses all love for his wife is when he holds a straight flush against four aces in a little poker game and she has the four aces. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Radium Kills Mice. Before the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Bouchard stated that mice exposed to emanations from radium died in six hours. Thunder Kliis Oysters Oysters are such nervous creatures that a sudden shock, such as a loud thunder-clap, will kill many hundreds of them. The Day's Length: Telephone Home 32 buy land by the thousands of acres, in each state, to colonize these lands, farm them, build towns and cities raise cattle hogs, horses, poultry and etc., to establish tanneries, shoe and cotton factories this will solve the race problem, 10 cents a piece from 10 million people would be 1 million dollars for 12 months would be $12,000,000 for five years would be 60 million dollars which would buy 1,200,000 acres of land at $50. per acre this would be enough land to colonize every colored family in the Unite states. This would give the boys and girls who are now being educated something to do instead of earning bad habits and starving out in cities. Certificates for membership are 50 ets monthly dues 10 cts. Each state can organize itself and select it delegates to the national convention. Now let every race man and woman get busy for further information address Kansas City headquarters. Several canvassing agent are wanted in every state' and city with a good commission allowed. I am yours for the up building of the Ethiopian or black race in America' and throughout the world. To the Afflicted To those who are suffering with Chronic diseases and especially such as other Doctors have given up. Call on Doctor Benjaman Benner of Quindaro Kansas, he is o devine healer, and says he wil 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 to you any of the following persons whom he has treated for their different cases: Maggie Jenkins foot of Freeman, Mrs. R. Griggsy, Quindaro; Mrs. H. H. Everett, Quindaro; Laura Kennedy, 560 Oak, and Anna Becham 1019 Pacific both in K. C. Mo. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte county Kansas. Isaiah Edmonson. vs. Russia 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 this action. Attest: 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 even 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 TROOPS IN WAR: Their Use Urged by a German Military. Writer. A writer in the Militar-Wochenblatt raises anew the question of the use of portable shields for the protection of infantry in the attack, says the Bread Arrow. He writes approvingly of the Japanese tade 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. the infantryman with a rifle, handy shield. Furnished with a handle by which to carry it, a loophole to fire through and some arrangement to prevent its falling down, the infantryman would then find himself, like his gunner comrade, protected by a bullet-proof shield. The writer in the Wochenblatt suggests that on the march the shield should be carried on the back, when going into action on the chest, and when advancing to the attack in the left hand, so as to be at once available for use when lying down to fire, both as head cover and rifle rest. YOUR HAIR SHOULD BE DRAB. That is the Fashionable Color, So an Authority Says. "Deep auburn and the drab shades are the fashionable colors in hair this season," said the woman who makes hair coloring a speciality, as placidly as though she were commenting on the state of the weather or the advance style in dress goods. "One of my customers has to my knowledge worn five different colors or shades on her wavy tresses. Having been blessed with medium brown hair by nature she became a ravishing blonde when the fashion for bleaching first came in. "Next she took to titian red after a trip to the art galleries of Europe. Then she thought she would be more attractive as a brunette, and now her hair is drab. "The last is by far the most popular of all for the reason that is most difficult to obtain, and then it is pretty generally becoming, and it happens that women who are born with this particular color of hair are almost always clever. "How is it done? Well, in case of a woman whose hair is dark a bleach must first be used before the dye is applied. With women whose hair has turned gray it is a still simpler problem. The color lasts a year, while the head can be washed and even salt water bathing does not affect it."—New York Sun. What Money Will Do. They say that money can not buy The sweetest things in life— Health, heaven, friends, respect, content. He's a loving wife. They say that money can not buy These things for me, alas! But I— Well—I don't know! What bought my private car? Just wealth What bought my lovely yacht. Which sails me to lands where health Is what I want? What pays my specialist, dear Jim, To keep me in such perfect trim? Well—I don't know! What bought the most delightful wife A man could hope to win? What buys her every wish in life— The clothes she dazzles in? And if she not for 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 titha I give, I give I die Will slip me through the needle's eye, Or I don't know! For happiness? Well, money bought This money—cents. It bought this chair in which I loll, It bought this private car; It bought this cognac—and, I guess, If all this is not happiness. Well—I don't know! Not a Good Advertisement. A Welsh judge had before him a ease in which a printer sued a pork butcher for the value of a large parcel of paper bags with the butcher's advertisement printed thereon. The printer, having no suitable illustration to embellish the work, thought he improved the occasion by putting an elaborate royal arms above the man's name and address, but ultimately the latter refused to pay. The judge, looking over a specimen, observed that for his part he thought the lion and the unicorn were much nicer than an old fat pig. "O well," answered the butcher, "perhaps your honor likes to eat animal like that, but my customer's don't. I don't kill lions and unicorns—I only kill fat pigs!" Verdict for defendant.—New York World. Building Up to Requirements A Kansas City man purchased a city lot with the restriction that he should not build a house on it to cost less than $2,500. After having paid for the lot he decided to build a $1,500 cottage. 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"On the train," he says, "to which cars filled with our wounded men had been attached, Mr. Lincoln looked worn and haggard. He remarked that he had been enough of the horrors of war, that he hoped this was the beginning of the end, and that there would be no more bloodshed or ruin of homes. Indeed, then and many times after did he reiterate the same hope with grave earnestness. "I related to him an incident of that day, when, having received a haver-sack of crackers and a canteen of water, I employed a half hour in going among the wounded lying on the ground, and came across a little red-headed boy in butternut clothes, moaning, and muttering over and over, Mother! Mother!' I asked him where he was hurt, when he looked up at me and turned toward me the back of his head, where a bullet had ploughed a ghastly furrow, and then with the effort expired. Mr. Lincoln's eyes filled with tears and his voice was choked with emotion, and he repeated the well-known expression about 'robbing the cradle and the grave.' "We returned slowly by train to City Point. Mr. Lincoln, overcome by the excitement and events of the day, desired to rest with his family, and, declining the invitation to take supper at General Grant's headquarters, saw no one again that evening." Mule Against Horse for Army The humble American mule is the superior of any Arab stallion that ever kicked up the sand of a desert when it comes to endurance and speed on long marches, according to K. Bullock of Dundee, Mich., who has written to Quartermaster Genera Hurphrey of the army asking permission to enter a mule of his own raising in the proposed long distance test from Portland, Ore., to New York, for the purpose of determining the best mount for the army. The Michigan man mentions the Arab stallion because one of that breed was offered for the test, and it was reported that the offer had been accepted. The champion of the American mule says in his letter to Gen. War, brevy: I see by some Yankee papers what Arabia is to do. I have a little mule named McKinley, 6 years old, weight 600 to 700 pounds, 13 to 14 hands high, which I will let the United States have to beat 'Great is Allah' in making the distance from Portland to New York. He will save half the food and sing 'America' at the cathedral on Murray hill long before any fine Arabian steed ever reaches there." Gen. Humphrey is half inclined to believe the Michigan champion of the mule is right, but, nevertheless, he feels constrained to decline the order for fear of wounding the susceptibilities of the army, which would never countenance the mule as a mount. Four Sorts of Brain Famous brains are of four sorts. The lowest group contains the minds that are stimulated greatly by alcohol, tea and other drugs and by impressions derived from the senses; the second group contains the infant prodigies, whose intellectual powers wane in middle age; the third group contains the pathological cases usually terminating in insanity; the fourth and highest group is that of true geniuses, whose powers remain unimpaired until old age. This is Hausemann's classification. spitka has come to the conclusion that men eminent in exact sciences like astronomy and mathematics have the greatest average brain weight. Next come the men of action, including statesmen and artists, and after these come the biologists, geologists and other representatives of the description sciences. The Answer Was Plain. "Where do you women put your name?" exclaimed a minister in a Woodward avenue church last Sunday night, during a plea for foreign mis- sions. And the smile that passed over the faces of the congregation showed that the men knew the answer. Bobbs—Did the prisoner really smile when the Judge sentenced him to ten years in the penitentiary? Dobbs—Yes; he lived fifteen in a boarding-house. THE MARRYING MANIA By Helen Rowland. "She's married again," remarked Kitty, as the pretty woman in the plum-colored victoria rolled past us with a genial bow. "What!!" I cried, nearly dropping my reins. "After two such unfortunate attempts." Kitty nodded. "It's always after the most unfortunate attempts," she announced tranquilly, "that they seem most anxious to try it again. It's always the people who have been most desperately restive in the bonds of matrimony who can scarcely wait for the divorce decrees to become absolute before they are back at the altar seeking a new yoke." "And a new installment of trouble," I sighed flicking my off-horse thoughtfully. "They never appear to give up hope," continued Kitty, "that they can be happy with somebody. The more miserable they have been with number one, or number two, the readier they are to take a new chance with number three. The oftener they fall, the oftener they try. The less faith they have in the man or woman to whom they have been married, the more faith they seem to acquire in matrimony itself." "Oh, I don't know," I objected, serenely. "I've seen it work the other way just as frequently. It's usually the man who was most devoted to his first wife who is in the greatest hurry to replace her with the second. It's the widower who sobs loudest at the funeral and wears the deepest mourning and goes around vowing never to marry again who is the easiest mark for the first pretty woman who make eyes at him. It's the widow who keeps her husband's grave the greenest and his picture in the parlor and bores her friends to death talking about him who is the quickest to exchange her weeds for a wedding veil and her sorrow for a substantial income. The more you miss a person, the more apt you are to replace him. The better you have loved once, the better able you seem to be to love again. Exercise keeps the heart in good working condition. Love doesn't come in a bottle; it's like a spring or a well, the more you draw on it, the more plentiful and easier it flows." "Oh!" exclaimed Kitty with a sudden burst of revelation, "it's just like gambling!" "Love?" I exclaimed, "or—" "Matrimony," corrected Kitty. "If you lose, you want to try again, to see if you can win; and if you win, you want to—win again." "And if you keep it up long enough" I added impressively, "it will become a mania." "A what?" Kitty blew her blue chiffon veil out of her mouth and looked up at me in alarm. "A habit—an obsession," I explained. "The altar like the card table, seems to hold a fatal fascination. Keep away from it altogether and you are safe; but once let yourself be drawn into the game and you can't stop playing. The more you lose the more reckless you become, and the more you win the more interested you become. A man can remain a bachelor to his dying day; but he cannot remain a widower, real or grass, for any length of time, no matter how desperately he swears off. I once knew a man who never married until he was forty; then he won and lost six wives before he died. It's like drinking or smoking. If the first glass on the first cigar agrees with you, you take another; and if it disagrees with you—" "You try another brand," broke in Kitty, gurgling. "Oh, well," she added "that's better than becoming an old bachelor or an old maid, and letting your heart grow stiff and rusty, or flabby for want of exercise." I winced. "I don't see," I retorted, "that your heart shows any symptoms of becoming rusty—" "I like widowers" broke in Kitty, looking up at me defiantly under her rose bud toque. "They know just how to keep off a woman's mental toes—" "They've had such good practice," I interpolated. "And they are so perfect at ease and skillful at saying pretty things, and subtle and artistic at making love." "It's second nature to them," I de- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Roosevelt a Linguist. It is not generally known that President Roosevelt has such knowledge of foreign languages as few men can boast. He mastered French and German while a boy in the countries where these languages are native, acquired a Spanish palio while among ```markdown ``` Kitty nodded. 1 winced. ING MANIA. clared. "They've practiced it all on the other woman." Kitty jumped. "I wouldn't give much," she retorted with her nose in the air, "for an actor who couldn't play his part well after a few years of rehearsal." "Nor I," I agreed promptly. "It's the same with widows," I added. "They know just how to smooth your fur the right way and coax you into a good humor, and keep you purring with comfort and—" "I suppose," interrupted Kitty, thoughtfully, "that's why a woman who has been married once always can marry again without any trouble. I've known girls who have spent years and years catching their first husband and turned around, in the first year of their widowhood and caught the second without crooking a finger." "Widows," I remarked, mildly, "know enough not to crook their fingers at us. Besides," I remarked, "anything is more attractive on which some man has already set the seal of his approval." "And no doubt," went on Kitty, "after one has gotten used to depending on man for her opinions and her frocks and to sitting opposite him at breakfast—" "And quarreling with him at night," I interjected. "And to having him around the house, one does miss him dreadfully, just as one misses the family cat or the morning paper when it's not there." "And you can get so used to anything," I averred, "even trouble, or work or bad cooking, that you will miss it when you no longer have it. Even a man who has been nagged for a few years, or a woman who has been bossed or browbeaten, misses the excitement after several months of monotonous calm and single blessedness. It's the very unevenness and distracting uncertainty of matrimony that makes one feel so lost without it. Anything can become a habit, even a husband or a wife, or the family jars; and your morning scrap or your midnight curtain lecture may become as necessary to your contentment as your morning cocktail to your appetite or your toothbrush to your toilet. I once knew a man who lived in a flat near the elevated train. He got so used to the rattle and rumble that when he moved into the country he piled away and they had to bring him back to the roar of the city again. Everything in life is a habit; and matrimony is the strongest habit some of us ever acquire. Sometimes it acts as a stimulant, like black coffee or cigarettes; and sometimes it acts as a sedative, like opium or a pipe; but whichever way it works you get to depend on it—" "It must be exhilarating," broke in Kitty leaning back against the drap cushion of my trap, with a sigh. "Something like a cold plunge on a winter morning, a little strenuous and uncomfortable, but calculated to see your blood flowing and your pulses beating." "And to thoroughly wake you up!" I added. "And to keep you in tone." "And out of tune." "And to prevent you from stagnating" "And from growing one-sided." "Or egotistical." "Or too contented with life." Kitty dimpled. "It's a sort of necessary evil, isn't it?" she said enthusiastically, "like the gasoline in the automobile, and the grease on the wheels, and the cgyne in the chill sauce." "Oh, it isn't absolutely necessary. I protested, "until you get the mania. The fatal mistake lies in trying it the first time. You know the adage, "If you never take the first glass, you'll never take the second." "Nonsense!" cried Kitty. "There are some people here with the marrying mania in their blood." "Like tuberculosis," I suggested. "Yes," agreed Kitty, "or kleptomania, or original sin. Look at the bigamists and the women with the divorce habit." "It's born in all of us, I'm afraid." SI sighed, "like the thirst for blood in the lion or the tiger. Only circumstances prevent some of us from ever indulging it." "What circumstances," inquired Kitty, turning on me disconcertingly, "have prevented you." "Oh," I answered, looking properly few years ago learned to read and write Italian. The tongue of his Dutch ancestors is familiar to him and his friend Jacob Riis taught him the language of Denmark. Mr. Roosevelt also has picked up a considerable smattering of Gaelic. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more gonds brighter and faster colors than any other color. One 10c package celsius silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. Ask your druist or we will send postpaid at 10c a package. Write for free booklet-to-Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. *MONROE DRUG* gloomy, "financial ones and—and others." "What were the others?" demanded Kitty, persistently. "One of them," I said meekly, "is timidity." Kitty laughed. "And one of them," I pursued, "was very rich." "What!" "And one of them was too poor." "How sad!" Kitty gurgled. "And one of them—the last one," I continued, looking very hard at Kitty. "wears a rosebud toque and a tulle knot under her chin and—" "Go on," said Kitty. "And laughs when I talk seriously." "I didn't" cried Kitty. "And," I finished, leaning over to give my horses an unwarranted sting of the whip! "consideres me totally ineligible." "As for that," retorted Kitty, "I wouldn't encourage any man—" "What!" "In a bad habit—not even the bad habit of matrimony." A No Encouragement. Dobbins—I see the physicians have announced that Jenkins will recover. Bronson—Yes, the lawyers informed them that the estate was not large enough to go round. A Substitute. Being very close-fisted, Mason had never allowed himself the costly habit of smoking. He always felt himself a loser when any one treated to cigars. But on one occasion, when the party he was with entered a stationery and cigar store, he made up his mind to have his share of the treat. 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Unquestionably it is, when the state's existence is in danger, and the state has the right to call upon the individual to sacrifice himself for the general good under such circumstances. But, while an extension of matrimony would be a good thing for the state, the absence of it does not imperil the state's existence; and therefore it does not seem that to marry is an imperative duty when one's private interests are opposed to it. There may be a thousand reasons why a man does not marry, but one is enough, if it is a good one. If he himself is convinced that marrying would not increase his happiness, he should remain unmarried. If he realizes that he possesses traits of character that would curse his offspring, he should have, none. If he can not earn enough to give his wife a good home he should have no wife. If he has some nervous disease he should remain single. If he is not generous, sympathetic and affectionate he should not force any woman to live with him. 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Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa- These pails are said to be absolutely proof against germs. Dr. Woodward states that if it is shown by reputable chemist that no injurious substances are used in their manufacture they will be accepted. To stablish a Dairy Herd. O. C. Gregg, founder of the Minnesota Farmers' Institute, says: There is one question of more vital interest to dairy men today than this question of obtaining dairy cows that will make a profit over and above the cost of their care and feed. We struggled with that question for about eleven years and made no practical headway in improving the dairy cows on our farm, but did succeed in learning those things which have enabled us to be successful in selecting and breeding dairy cows for twenty years last passed. We cannot within the limit of this brief article write at length the essential things that one must know in order to be a successful purchaser and breeder of dairy cattle, but we will give a few short sentences that will give the prominent or salient points in this important department of successful dairy work. 1. In selection of grade and native cows be sure to obtain great body capacity as well as udder with pronounced well holes, or entrances of the milk veins through the abdominal wall. Add to these indications a full eye and great vitality. 2. There is more stress to be laid upon the quality of the cow than upon any quality derived from any dairy breed. 3. Breed will give some distinct qualities that should be borne in mind. As a rule the Island cattle are richer in the quality of their milk. There are individual family exceptions to this statement found in other breeds. We are writing in a general way. 4. The milk of the Holstein cattle is excellent for its carrying quality. The cream does not rise as quickly after milking. It is considered as excellent milk for children's food. 5. There are happy nicks to be formed in using a full blood Jersey bull and grade Holstein cows in breeding a high producing grade dairy cows. 6. Cows to be used as dams in producing good grade dairy cows should not have too heavy a "top" i.e. be strongly inclined to the beef type. 7. The most important factor in dairy cattle improvement is the sire. He must be reasonably near the dairy type himself and be backed by good or great performing ancestors. The better this record of great performers is, the greater the certainty of good results. 8. We have found that a great dairy ancestry will develop a strong dairy type in the dairy sire. Didn't Tell Her Then. Dr. Emdee—Your wife should take a long sea trip. Mr. Wise—If she goes I won't be able to pay your bill. Southern Progress. The material progress of the South during the past ten years is shown by its production of 103,629,000 500-pound bales of cotton, 5,606,441,899 bushels of corn, 685,126,341 bushels of wheat, 659,037,244 bushels of cats, 120,000,000,000 feet of lumber, 571,629,336 short tons of coal, 263,829,252 barrels of petroleum, 27,342,506 long tons of pig iron, 15,692,158 long tons of phosphate. in that period the South increased the capital invested in its cotton mills from $92,000,000 to $250,000,000, and nearly trebled the number of its spindles, having increased the 3,693,000 which it had in 1897 to 9,760,000 in 1906. During the same period the South built 15,901 miles of rail road, bringing its total mileage up to 64,035. It exported to foreign lands through its ports merchandise aggre gating in value $4,478,000,000. Optimist—After all, the best of luck is only what you make it yourself. Pessimist—Oh, you can talk, but I never get anything but bad luck. Optimist—Well, then, it's up to you to make the best of it.—Philadelphia Press. Reflections of a Bachelor: _____ The less she means it the more naturally a girl can smile. It might be worth while to be good if anybody would believe it. KICKS AND CACKLES. Never use musty or dirty litter. We are often inclined to mistake lack of "gumption" for "hard luck." Keep the stable and dairy room in good condition, fresh air, dry and clean. Good judgment is of more value than either knowledge or skill, al- though each is desirable. The imitation gives just as good satisfaction as the genuine as long as a difference is not known. When calves are fed skim milk it should be warmed to blood heat before giving or it may cause scours. When chopped and fed to the fowls two or three times a week, raw onions act both as an appetizer and a stimulant. Chickens will eat them in preference to other food. --- If you make the mistake of crowding too many chickens into a small house you will find they will not do well, and disease will create havoc before it can be checked. If every person were to receive credit for intentions instead of actions, many a one would be judged differently than under the present plan. The fumes of wood alcohol are very injurious to the eyes. Beware of compounds containing it. Druggists often disguise it with the technical name of methyl alcohol, or the abbreviation of "Meth." We talk about educating the patrons of a creamy community and then expect the buttermaker there to do the job. We are often mistaken as to which needs the educating. We must conclude that the sluggish spirted, dull eyed man must have a poor chance in this world when we remember that even the old cow must have a bright eye and a highly strung nervous system in order to be a success. Send to the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, St. Anthony Park, for a copy of bulletin No. 101, Professor Harry Snyder's report on "Forage Crops of High, Medium and Low Protein." It discusses farm crops, such as hay, clover, alfalfa and corn fodder. It gives very valuable information for the farmer. Be sure that the halters put on the colts are strong and well fitted. If broken or rubbed off, it will not be forgotten, and the result will be a halter-breaking horse and a nuisance. Folks do not shut their eyes when they strike with the hammer. Then why try to do a year's work on the farm with no plan? Gleanings. Do not wait until the potato vines are covered with beetles before spraying paris green, but attend to the work of destruction on the first signs of the appearance of beetles, so as to avoid as much damage to the plants as possible. The peach borer works from June to September, or, rather, the moth is always busy attacking the trees. Careful examination should be made for the borer at least every two weeks, and if the trees show indication of being attacked cut the borers out. It may not be known that if cow peas are moved while the pods are very small a new growth occurs, but such is the case, and sheep will prefer the second growth to any other. The roots of cow peas contain nitrogen, and will improve the soil, even when the tops are cut off and used. No plant will long survive if the leaves are cut off, hence the way to destroy Canada thistles or other plants that persist in growing is to keep them cut down. As fast as they appear above the ground cut them, and, as they will become weaker after each cutting, there arrives a time when they can no longer grow. When a woman buys a hat that suits her, she says when she exhibits it at home: "It was only $6.99, but I will always believe they made a mistake in the price." If you have on the farm a patch of brush, either scrub timber or a peach or plum tree thicket, and will fence it for the calves and cows, the land will probably pay better than for any other use. It will provide The Farm. Planting Asparagus. No vegetable is so easily grown and generally relished as asparagus, but it is rarely ever found in the farmer's garden except an occasional root planted by the birds. Asparagus comes on after the going of the winter supply of vegetables and before the coming of the new crop, hence, is greatly appreciated by the cook as well as the family. There is no excuse for the farmer to neglect these perennial roots in the garden such as asparagus, rhubarb, horseradish, etc. They are always welcomed by the entire family every member of which is as hungry as can be in the spring for something green. Asparagus on toast for breakfast, rhubarb pie for dinner and the two for supper, with horseradish as a relish, sounds like good living to us. The asparagus plants can be very easily grown from seed sown in the garden. When they are one or two years old they are large enough to plant in rows, where, with very ordinary care they will last for a generation and produce abundant crops every year. Asparagus, like other vegetables, does best in a rich, deep soil that has been well supplied with decayed compost. Before planting the roots the land should be deeply plowed and thoroughly tilled with disk and smoothing harrow. This is important, because the roots should be placed in the ground so that the surface can be plowed and cultivated each spring without injury to the crowns of the plants. This reduces the care to a minimum amount of hard labor. The rows should be at least three and one-half to four feet apart, with the plants every ten to twelve inches in the row. Open furrows with a plow which shall be six to eight inches deep. Drop the roots into these and cover with the plow. Level with a harrow. Cultivate to control weeds during the summer. If the rows are covered with barnyard litter in the fall the ground will not freeze very deeply underneath it, hence, the plants will start early in the spring. Work this dressing into the soil which will keep it in a productive condition. Do not cut the asparagus for table use until the plants are strong and well established which is usually at the end of the second year of their growth. An old asparagus row may be cut for weeks or even months without injury to the plants if they are in a vigorous healthy condition. Don't allow the seed to scatter about the field because they will make a mass of plants. Plant asparagus seed or plants this spring. —Northwestern Agriculturalist. Experiment with Lambs. Some breeds of sheep attain heavy weights if pushed from the start, but they must have rich pastures and be given plenty of grain. A full allowance of hay will be sufficient, with but little grain, but some of the mutton breeds can consume over 2 pounds of grain each per day. An experiment with lambs at the Iowa station showed that 109 lambs of various breeds consumed 34,501 pounds of food in 90 days, and gained 4678 pounds, while seven selected individuals of the breeds consumed 23,792 pounds of food and gained 3291 pounds. The gain was at the rate of 1 pound increase in live weight for each 7.37 pounds of food (dry matter) of all breeds tested, and 1 pound for each 7.25 pounds of food by the seven special breeds, the food consisting of corn, oats, bran, oil meal, turnips, mangels, pea hay, clover hay and timothy, the average gain being a little over half a pound a day. The cost of the gain in live weight was 2.88 cents per pound for the selected breeds and 2.93 cents for the others. This does not include the fleece, labor or manure. The lambs sold at $4.75 per hundred pounds, live weight, and the yearlings at $4.25. Shropshire yearlings dressed over 62 per cent. Where early lambs are gotten into market the prices received are sometimes very high, and the growth of the lambs is promoted by liberal feeding and care. The object in calling attention to the mutton breeds is to show the importance of feeding lambs and sheep, instead of depending on cheap lands and scanty pastures. In the summer give the sheep good pastures and grain; in winter feed a variety of food, using plenty of hay and grain and give them comfortable quarters at night. about recipes for fly protection. While endeavoring to make comfortable the calves and cows during fly time, do not allow cows, calves, horses and mules to occupy the same lot or shed. Mules and horses make life a burden for calves and dairy. ```markdown ``` THE VETERINARIAN. From the Kansas Farmer. Mare with Sore on Shoulder. I have a bay mare, 23 years old this spring, that has a sore on her shoulder that does not seem to heal. The sore has matter in it and discharges at times. Kindly advise me what to do for it. F. L. W. Stacey, Minn. Answer.—You will need to remove all the pus from your horse's shoulder before you can expect that it will heal, then use a 3 per cent Zenoleum solution in order to cleanse the part thoroughly, and I believe it will heal all right. Enlargement on Cow's Throat: I have a 2-year-old half Jersey cow that has a lump on throat just back of jaw bone on left side that is about the size of a hen's egg. I first noticed it about three weeks ago. I would like to know if, it is lump-jaw and what to do for it. L. C. L. Soldier, Kans. Answer.—I would suggest that you apply a stimulating liniment over the enlargement on your animal's throat. You can doubtless get the stimulating liniment from your druggist already prepared. Fistula. I have a brown mare, weight 1,200 pounds, 8 years old, that has been running in corn-stalks and shed all winter. About ten days ago I noticed a swelling on top of withers back of where the collar rests. The lump is about equal on each side and seems quite hard with no soft spots as yet, but seems to be very sore. I have used no treatment as I am afraid of fistula and did not know the treatment for it. Can you advise me? Damar. Kans. Answer.—I would advise you to use a fly blister over the enlargement on the withers and see if you can't get the fistula, which is probably started, absorbed. If you can not then if will be necessary for you to have it opened and follow the directions in the press bulletin. Mare Out of Condition. I have a bay mare, 6 years old, in foal that will bring a colt in about six weeks. She weighs about 1,300 pounds and is in fair shape. She has a swelling under her belly about eight inches across and ten inches long and about the center of her belly. It is not so bad at night as when turned out all day or worked in the mornings. She has been this way for about a week. What can I do for her, and will it hurt her to be worked? What is good for a horse out of condition that eats well but does not fatten? Its hide is very tight. Hugoton, Kans. A. S. Answer.—I think your mare will be all right if given plenty of exercise. You had better feed your animals that are not doing well considerable oilmeal in the feed. C. L. Barnes. Lady Gaga Grace—That mathematics professor has been making desperate love to me Mattie-I thought he claimed to be an authority on figures. The Bishop of Digne stated recently in the Paris Gaulois that, while some of the priests are now living on their savings, others are supporting themselves by mending watches, making beehives and knitting jerseys. Sick men are never interesting invalids because they are not dressed in lace trimmed things with blue ribbons in them, and their beards always grow. lute quiet as it is possible to give the cow and this she can't have if the mischievous colt or mule is at every turn nipping her back. In cayenne pepper we have a pure, energetic, permanent stimulant. Why not use it instead of whisky and Best Poultry and Eggs. Consumers of dressed poultry are gradually realizing that the best table poultry and eggs are the cheapest for them to buy; that the edible portion of a nicely fattened, well fleshed fowl is nearly twice that of a thin one of the same size—sufficient to more than offset the difference in price says U. G. Cox. The quality and flavor of the meat of the well fleshed and fattened bird is also superior to that of the poorer fowl, though it necessitated but little difference in the labor required to market the two kinds. It happens, too that the old claim that "an egg is an egg" has silently crept out of existence. Whatever may be said regarding the color of the shell as an indication of its contents, it is certain that a dozen eggs of good size and of uniform shape—and color also—is a better purchase than a dozen of assorted shapes and sizes at the same price. And it is the nice, clean, fresh looking eggs heaped up in a basket that always attracts the purchaser's eye and leads him back again to the same place when more of this staple is wanted. As the people become better acquainted with this matter, they will insist upon having the best quality, and the dealers will be able to pay the poultrymen better prices and buy more stock. As there is more profit in this better quality, the breeder is certain to receive his full share of the benefit. 2. Secret of Success. Scribbler—To what do you attribute your phenomenal success, Doctor? Doctor—To my ability in mastering the art of concealing my ignorance. Virtues of Newspapers The American newspaper has been the worthy subject of eulogy by an enlightened solicitor for advertising. He says, in effect, that the New York newspaper has enormously improved, and that what has been called sensationalism has almost disappeared. Not to dwell upon any topic that may excite unpleasant or regrettable contemplation, it may be well to say that all newspaper men, and many intelligent laymen, have long been conscious that the New York newspapers have long been rising to the intellectual and spiritual heights which many provincial newspapers, and newspapers of other cities have long been conscious of occupying. As a matter of fact, the newspapers of this country, with some exceptions, of course—for it is inevitable that some editors and publishers are no better than they should be—have always been better than the politicians. Another fact is that almost, if not quite all our gains for local good government, are due to the press. The same may be said of the influence of the press in securing good government for the country at large; while Mr. Godkin, who was a war correspondent in his younger days, used to say that the most noteworthy result of the Crimean war was the modern war correspondent. The critic of events, the exposer of wrong and sham and of the bad treatment of soldiers, the discloser of the incapacity of leaders of armies, the describer of war's horrors—this was the war correspondent. And what of the newspaper's exposition of political offenders? All this has lain in the back of the heads of the men who have made newspapers. But there have been concessions by news-gatherers to what they have regarded as the public taste, and those who try to play down to the crowd almost always get below its level. The episode seems to have passed, according to the illuminating advertising gentlemen; but there was once a time when the news-gatherer was very contemptuous of the editorial page. There was once a managing editor of a New York newspaper who was so successful in the management of his job that he expected to succeed the editor-in-chief, who was one of the foremost of his class. "And when I do succeed," he used to say, "the first thing I'll do will be to kill the editorial page." Well, he did at last succeed, and the editorial page is livelier than ever.—Harper's Weekly. Lack of Appreciation. "Nothing destroys my confidence so quickly and so entirely in a personability," remarked the philosopher of "Boozy Corners," "as to bear him complain that he is unappreciated. The man of worth who, when he thinks that he is entitled to a loving cup, receives a lemon squeezer, naturally feels chagrined, but, if he is of the right stuff, he makes no sign. Neither does he brood over the disappointment, but dismisses it, turning to the pursuit of achievement. I have noticed that those who beowail lack of appreciation are usually valued at their true worth. They are simply suffering from an exaggeration of the ego. He who does his work well need not worry that no laurel leaves bodeck his brow, nor applause of multitudes titulates the tympanum of his ears. Happiness enough for him is in the consciousness of service rendered. "I have seen many instances where a man's value was set higher than he deserved by his fellows—I have seen few men who were reckoned below their real worth. Indeed, here we approach the basic reason of the oft-repeated complaint of lack of appreciation, to-wit—as our legal friends say to make the bill for services more palatable—envy. Small men wince at the good fortune of their neighbors and friends. How often do you hear this said: 'There is nothing in that fellow (referring to one who is rich or famous); I went to school with him; as if this incident were sufficient to stifle genius and deaden endeavor. Lack of appreciation is the cry of the weakling. Be busy, be strong, be true, and in the final sum of human achievements, it reckles but little that life is not a serenade, a street parade, or a perpetual festival in your honor." A Quaker Who Turned Painter When it came time for the small son to take his place among the wageearners of the family—and that this came early—he communicated to his father his intention of being an artist. As has happened so often, the father objected. Not only did it seem to him most unpracticable from a monetary standpoint, but also contrary to the Quaker doctrines. In a family where brass handles on furniture were removed because they were considered frivolous, and were replaced by knobs of dark walnut, this was not a matter of small importance. Moreover, the father had intended that the boy should be a pharmacist. A compromise was out of the question, but architecture recommended itself to the Quaker mind as servant an utilitarian purpose. At the same time, with the possibility of making infinite charts and drawings, it approached closely enough to the tutorial to satisfy the young Charles. Three years of apprenticeship to an architect followed. Then, having come to the realization that the construction of buildings and the painting of pictures are decidedly different phases of art, the boy took a position with a photographer, and eventually accompanied him to New York. From the tinting of photographs—a phase of work at that time immensely popular—he drifted into pastel work and water-colors, finally taking up oil portraiture. His success overcame even the Quaker principles, and dignified the work as a profession, in the eyes of his father. P.D.Q. She—You're a brute. He—Yes? Well, you say I treat you like a dog. Public opinion seems sadly divided as to the usefulness of the man who makes two shares of stock grow where one grew before.—Detroit News. Her Claim to Fame. Stella—Is she a Daughter of the American Revolution? Bella—No, indeed; merely a cousin of the recent Cuban one. Many a man pesters a woman to death to have him, they get married, and in about five years he is looking