The Rising Son

Rising Son KANSAS CITY, KAS., LOCALS, ETC. At the Forum Sunday afternoon, "Higher Education—Where and How To Get It," was the subject for discussion. Since the question of separate high schools has been in agitation, many have become very interested and are studying the best steps to be taken. There was a large crowd present and not a few speakers expressed their views. Prof. A. J. Neeley, chairman of the education committee, made the opening remarks. He advocated the present system of education in our city and recommended as a change, an improvement in the conduct of the boys and girls who take advantage of this opportunity. Judge I. F. Bradley gave most excellent and timely advice which brought to the minds of the listeners some facts we cannot afford to overlook nor neglect. Miss Ethel Stafford spoke strongly on the necessity of us staying with the whites and proving ourselves by being measured by the same standard with them. Mrs. Rev. Griffith, Mr. C. Patterson, Rev. E. C. Edwards, Rev. E. A. Wilson, Mr. D. W. White and others urged the necessity of looking reality squarely in the face and beginning at the fireside—the homes—and see if the needed improvement was not among ourselves and our children. Mr. F. A. Turner, Kansas City, Mo. was introduced to the Forum and talked on the needs of the race in general. In every avenue of life there is a need of loyalty to honor and manhood—to principle and truth. As a result of this meeting each high school pupil will receive a special invitation to attend the next meeting of the Forum, February 22nd, at which time the moral committee will report. There was a good attendance. J. J. Thomas was chairman, Miss Emma F. Brown, secretary. O. W. Shepherd for mayor, who knows what happened last Tuesday. P. J. Nugent will look after the city's interests in the clerk's office for the next two years. Corvine Patterson is just as jolly. He, with Smith Bradley and others, will be on the firing line. The Forum at the Metropolitan Baptist church is as it should be—a place for the intellectual study of race questions. E.F.B. GLEANINGS FROM PLEASANT Located in Rear of Independence and Tracy Avenues. Sunday school opened at its usual hour, 9:30 o'clock. Superintendent not being present, Rev. E. M. Wilson, pastor, opened services. Secretary being absent, Miss Lottie Taylor asted pro tem. Explanation from Cluster Leaf by Pastor was most excellent and exceedingly interesting. Eleven o'clock services consisted of praises, which meetings are held on the second Sunday in each month. At the beginning of the meeting, congregation sang, and read 116 Psalm led by pastor. Praise meeting was led by Mr. Wheeler, one of the deacons. Most of our members said that words were inadequate to express the sentiments of their hearts regarding their Creator. But they gave us an itemized description depending on their thoughts as an instructor of the idea and sentiment, of what they desired to express, as it was better felt than told. The meeting was glorious, and each one left the church very much uplifted, and awakened to the sense of their duty. We had a large audience. Rev. Lock of Lees' Summit, and Rev. Finnell of this city being present with us. Song by congregation, "Name of Jesus." Dismission. Services at 3:30 o'clock, the second Sunday in each month being communion day. The doors of the church was opened for the reception of members and one brother, Fitzpatric, came forward and joined by Christian experience, being — years of age. When Mr. Fitzpatric came forward and joined the church to help us push the battle to the date, it moved the audience to tears. The service is at this time unsurpassed in the history of the church. Every Christian in the audience seemed to be greatly animated by the spirit, B.Y.P. U. opened at usual hour. President F. L. Lewis, presiding. Report of social committee. Remarks by pastor. Members read the 4th chapter of Geneses, led by President. Lesson Gen. 4: 8-12 read and discussed. President announced that the literary society would meet immediately after the revival closed. All leading subjects of the day discussed. Regular services at 7:30. Song, "Am I Born to Die," by congregation. Song, "Blessed Jesus," by audience. Congregation read from 5th chapter of Matt., led by pastor. Choir entered choir box, peeled forth the beautiful hymn, "Father I Stretch My Hands to Thee. Sermon by pastor. Text, "We Are the Light of the World." Matt, 5: 14; Subject being, "Can We Depend Upon You," which was discussed with great pathos. He took up the gates that leads to the celestial city, and the gates that leads to the city of destruction. After the most excellent discussion, the choir sang, "It Pays to Serve Jesus." Doors of church was opened for the reception of members, and one Miss Alberta Davinport came forth, and joined from Christian experience. Choir peeled forth one of its beautiful anthems, "Lift Up Ye Heads, Oh Ye Gates." Collection, $20.30. Choir sang, "God of My Salvation." A series of meetings will be continued indefinitely until church sees fit to discontinue them. eBndication. Significant Court Decision. The decision of the Kansas City court of appeals that the combination of brewers that exists in that city is a trust of the kind expressly forbidden by the statutes of Missouri, and that any person who is indebted to the brewers in the combination need not pay his bill and the brewer cannot collect the debt even by going to the courts, is an indication of the trouble that is brewing everywhere for unlawful combinations. A Question for Scientists Lord Kelvin concludes from observations of light waves, capillary attraction and the movement of gaseous molecules that the diameter of a molecule varies between one millionth and one-hundred-millionth of a millimeter, Lothar Mayer calculates that a quarter of a million billions of hydrogen atoms weigh about fifteen grains. How minute, then, are the corpuscles of which the atoms are formed. Certainly a Sound Sleeper. Paul Krunger in his memoirs tells the story of a secretary whom he punished for being drunk by tying him to a wagon wheel. During the night 3,000 Kaffirs and about 4,000 Zulus attacked the Boer camp and were not driven off till daybreak. The secretary slept so soundly that he noticed nothing of the fight, and the next day, when he at last awoke, he looked around in astonishment and asked: "Have you people been fighting during the night?" Prize for Life-Saving Device. The Johannesburg Chamber of Mines offers prizes for practical suggestions and means for obviating miner's consumption, which is thought to result from the fine dust made by the drilling machines. The following awards are offered for the three best practical suggestions and devices on the subject: First prize, $2,500 and a gold medal; second prize, $1,250; third prize, $500. Salt Good for Sheen Experiments on the value of salt in the food of sheep have been recently made in France. Of three lots of sheep one had no salt, a second had half an ounce daily and a third had three-fourths of an ounce. The sheep taking salt gained more flesh and had better wool than those without it, and the sheep getting half an ounce did better than those getting more. Work of Christian Endeavorites Work of Christian Endeavoring. The Christian Endeavorers of America have built twenty-nine churches in destitute portions of the United States. Twenty-one of these have been built by the Christian Endeavor Missionary league of the Reformed church in America. Latakia Tobacco. Latakia tobacco obtains its peculiar flavor through being sprinkled with water and allowed to ferment after thorough fumigation with the smoke of resinous aromatic wood grown in Syria, states a Consular report. KANSAS CITY, MO., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. INDEPENDENCE NEWS. REVIVAL services are going on at the Second Baptist church. Rev. N. H. Caldwell of Indian Territory is conducting the meeting. Rev. J. J. Clark of the M. E. church, returned from Topeka, Kas., Saturday, where he had been visiting his family. Mrs. Howard, the evangelist, who had been assisting in the meeting at the A. M. E. church, left for Fort Smith, Ark., Thursday. The funeral services of Cynthia, the 13 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hudson of Kansas City, were held at the A. M. E. church there last Sunday at 2 p. m. The last quarterly meeting for this conference year will be held at the M. E. church next Sunday. Rev. M. H. Harris of Burn's chapel, Kansas City, will preach at 3 o'clock. All are invited to attend. A movement is now on foot to organize a co-operative store to be managed and controlled by the Colored citizens of Independence, Mo. Mr. John Mason is soliciting agent and we trust that every person interested in the race will take stock in it, for such movements as this tend to uplift a people. We wish the enterprise great success. An entertainment will be given by Mrs. Mollie Mason and Miss Henrietta Hayden at the residence of Mrs. Mason on N. Spring street Saturday evening for the benefit of the rally. All are invited to attend. The choir of the A. M, E. church has been reorganized under the leadership of Mr. Charles Bryant. Mrs. William Bryant, organist. The music rendered last Sunday was excellent and under such good management we expect fine service from them in the future. and was buried Tuesday. He was the auspices of the A. M. E. church, are being well attended every Tuesday night. The 143rd anniversary of Richard Allen will be celebrated at St. Paul's A. M. E. church next Sunday. Rv. E. Thomas of Springfield, Mo. passed through the city last Friday enroute to Ash Grove. Other's Faults. After a man has fallen, it is a terrible task for him to prove to any of his friends that there was sufficient temptation.—Atchison Globe. If there is no snow before January there will be the more snow in March and April. When the snow falls dry, it means to lie; but light and soft flakes often bring rain. Snow is the poor man's fertilizer, and good crops will follow a winter of heavy snowfall. When the first snow remains on the ground some time in places not exposed to the sun, expect a hard winter. Snow is generally preceded by a general animation of man and beast, which continues until after the snowfall ends. DO YOU EVER NOTICE THAT A wife often permits her affection to blind her reason. A woman's love can become annoying as well as burdensome. Marriage based on honest affection will withstand the ravages of time. When a woman gives way to anger she begs her own pardon with tears. Many women find happiness only when attending to the affairs of others. Confidence is not easily gained where exaggerated love of self is found to exist. To decide between love and duty has caused hours of worry to men as well as women. The man with a vice wonders why so many persons think it their duty to make public the fact. Man often shows the hard side of his disposition to mark more strongly the generous shades.—Philadelphia bulletin. ONE USE FOR NIAGARA. Great Waterfall Suggested as Extin quiper for Volcano. Pietro Mascagni, at the beginning of his disastrous American tour, overflowed with good humor. In Philadelphia late in October he met James Elverson, the editor of the Inquirer, and began forthwith to joke Mr. Elverson about America. "America," said Mascagni, "is nothing outside Italy. The Italian stars are brighter than the American ones; the Italian skies are bluer; the Italian air is softer and purer. And then there is our great volcano, Mount Vesuvius, that belches smoke and fire up into the heavens. What have you in America that is equal to Vesuvius?" "What have we?" demanded Mr. Elverson. "Well, we have a Niagara Falls that would put your old Vesuvius out in about six seconds." ROUSED THE JUDGE'S IRE. Verdict That Called Forth Declaration from the Bench. When Judge Edgar L. Fursman was holding court in Catskill a young and inexperienced attorney had as his opposing counsel an old and tried lawyer. The young man represented the plaintiff. His case was poorly presented, but Judge Fursman thought that the facts were so plain that the jury could do nothing else than give judgment for the plaintiff. Greatly to his surprise the jury returned a verdict to the court. The police eyes flashed fire, and turning square in his seat he said. "The court reverses that judgment and finds for the plaintiff. And I want it distinctly understood that it takes thirteen men in this court to deprive a man of his property and his rights." Fined for Sneezing. Samuel Motter, assistant prosecuting attorney in Buchanan county, Missouri, was fined the other day for sneezing, the justice believing the sneezed was an indication of contempt of court. The St. Joseph News describes the occurrence as follows: "Attorney Motter, though he carries about the culture and polish of Yale and other alma matters, in addition to the refinement of St. Joseph's best circles, persists in sneezing, as did all our Missouri ancestors in pioneer days—just throws back, his head and opens his mouth in an influenza smile, which is broken by lines of tender sadness just before the two ends meet at the back of his neck. Then he gathers in all the circumambient atmosphere and microbes and lets go like a fog horn, ordering with 'ash hopper', as do the denizens of Big Creek, even unto this day." It is not surprising that the court should assert its prerogative! One Month's Loss in the Mails One Month's Less in the Mails. A list of articles lost in the mails during October has been compiled and sent out by the Postoffice department. These range in value from 25 cents to $100, and include pocketknives, kodak film, electroplate, package of hairpins, scissors, playing cards, pipe, hardware, keys, beads, flower bulbs, seeds, apron, dress goods, samples, toy watch, fountain pen, watch chain, razor, box of salve, spectacles, garter, toy telephone, promissory note for $150, surgical instruments, brass buttons, safety pins, hat feathers, yarn, butcher knife, three table spoons, part of clock, type, hair brushes, match boxes, samples of pills, and combs. Johnny and His Mule. A North Missouri editor given to verse writing tells of a sad accident alleged to have happened in his town thus: "Johnny had a little mule, its boots were as hard as rock. He used to hitch the donkey up and drive him round the block. One day the little mule he stopped and would not move a shoe, so Johnny got his pocket knife and struck him just a few. Now, when the donkey felt the knife he moved himself, you bet, and Johnny—well, he also moved; they haven't found him yet." Steel and Iron. A quarter-inch bar of steel did not break [1] 8,322 pounds were put upon it; but a bar of iron of the same diameter bore 4,504 pounds only. LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. C. C. Calhoun preached morning and evening at the Second Baptist church Sunday for Rev. Hand. Rev. Oaks preached Sunday morning and evening at the A. M. E. church for Rev. Gilbert and will assist him all the week in his meeting. Rev. Gilbert is having quite a success in his meeting. He has about 25 or 30 converts. Mr. Israel Allen of Sedalia, who has been here assisting in the meetings, left Sunday evening for his home. The people were sorry to give him up. Rev. Anthony died Monday morning and was burned Tuesday. He was about 60 years old. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family. Mr. George Porter subscribed for the Rising Son. Mr. Peter Lindsay is quite ill and also his sister, Mrs. Alice Hayden, is sick. Mr. Woodson Coiley is on the sick list; also Mr. Kirk Wilson. Mr. John Mounds came down from Kansas City on business Monday morning. WANTED — SEVERAL PERSONS of character and good reputation in each state (one in this county required) to represent and advertise an old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21.90 weekly with expenses additional, all payable in cash each Wednesday direct from head office. Horse and carriage furnished when necessary. Refences. Enclose self-addressed envelope. Colonial Co., 234 Dearborn St. Chicago. Was Loved by Daniel O'Connell Was Coved by Daniel O'Connell. The death in Dublin of Miss Rose McDowell in her eighty first year removes a link between the present generation and Daniel O'Connell. Miss McDowell in the closing years of Daniel O'Connell's life was a young lady of extraordinary talents and beauty. She captivated O'Connell and had the refusal of his hand and heart. The rejection of his salt is said to have weighed heavily on O'Connell and to have been one of the proximate causes of the illness to which he succumbed. Working on a Flying Boat. Herr Gustay Koch of Berlin proposes to construct a boat which will be able to fly. The experiment, he says, will be conducted on water, by means of which the danger of cross-country trial trips would be avoided. He recently showed to the German Society of Aerial Navigation his invention, which consists of a low, flat and light motor boat floating on the surface of the water. It has adjustable steering apparatus and horizontal sails. Windmill in Use Again In Germany electricity among other curious results, has rehabilitated the discarded windmill. At Neresheim a windmill supplies power for thirty six incandescent lamps, that light a large paint factory. Another in Schleswig Holstein keeps up a steady current of thirty volts. At Dusseldorf a windmill winds up a heavy weight of which the descent works a powerful dynamo. Co-Operative Heart Breaking It has often been wondered by neighboring towns how it came that visiting Eldorado girls were always gowned richly like the lily of the valley. Beut Murdock explains it: "Eldorado girls," he says, are mighty good to each other. When one is going off on a visit or dress parade, all the other girls ban their diamonds, lace, jewelry, lingerie and the like, so that she can break the hearts of all the girls in the town where she visits."—Kansas City Journal. Fish That Are Musical Many fish can produce musical sounds. The red gurnard has earned the name of seacock from the crowing noise which it makes, while another species is called the piper. Others, notably two species of ophidium, have sound producing apparatus, consisting of small, movable bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. The curious 'drumming' made by the Mediterranean fish known as the malgré can be heard from a depth of thirty fathoms. A man seldom realizes how much he can't do until he tries. NUMBER 1. HIS WISH WAS NATURAL. Lone Man Felt Need of Amalgamation with His Fellows They had been pressing him hard the whole week. The house was full of widows and pretty girls and all the other men but himself had flown because they could not stand the pace. He refused to be disturbed in his summer arrangements and so he stayed on. Sunday night they had him in the corner and the time began to wane when some one started the game of "what you'd rather be if you had your choice." There were a lot of answers and a chorus of laughter and the usual noise that goes with summer resort pastimes, and they saved the lone man for the climax. When it finally reached him, says the New York Times, it found him not only ready, but willing. "What would you rather be if you could have the power of changing yourself?" "A syndicate" was the reply. AT THE SECRETARY'S EXPENSE President Roosevelt Said to Have Perpetrated Atrocities Run. When the president of the United States makes a pun "it goes as it lays" and everybody laughs. When Secretary Shaw was trying all sorts of expedients to relieve the financial stringency he was severely criticised in many newspapers, some of which called for his retirement. In the midst of the humbub he went to the cabinet meeting. As he entered the room the president shouted at him: "Hello, Shaw!" I see from the papers that I am expected to do with you what Mitchell did with his miners." "How is that?" asked Shaw, wonderingly. "Why" said the president. "I shall have to send you back to Des Moines"—Washington Dispatch in Philadelphia Bulletin. An Aristocratic Caddy Probably the most aristocratic caddy in the country is the one employed by Justice Harlan of the United States supreme court, who is an enthusiastic golfer. He is a bright faced lad of 12, polite and attentive to a degree. When the justice reached the links the other day the boy was not to be found, and he took another boy. As Justice Harlan approached the fourteenth hole the handsome Victoria of a rich senatorial family drove up. The boy who had been the justice's caddy the previous day jumped out. He ran up to Justice Harlan, cap in hand, and said: "I am awfully sorry I couldn't get at 2 o'clock, but you see, mamma had a lunchon for Senator Depew, and I just couldn't get the carriage to come out in any sooner." The Energetic Rec Great indeed, is the amount of work which a busy bee will do in a day. Every head of clover consists of about 60 flower tubes, each of which contains a very small quantity of sugar. Bees will often visit a hundred different heads of clover before retiring to the hive, and in order to obtain the sugar necessary for a bait must, therefore thrust their tongue into about 6,000 different flowers. A bee will make 20 trips a day when the clover patch is convenient to the hive, and thus will draw the sugar from 120,000 different flowers in the course of a single day's work. Go Back to the Farm. There is no cure for conditions of depression in either organized labor or organized capital. Both depend on the markets and neither the one nor the other can command them. The real remedy for hard times, the enforced remedy for redundant labor, is a reversal of the townward tide of population. As a last resort men must dig to live, and they must go back to the land to dig. The reviving movement for the occupation of the public lands in the west is a healthy one even where it takes the form of migration to the cheaper arable lands of Canda—Exchange. The so-called witty remarks attributed to great men after their demise are enough to make them do flip-flops in their graves. N. THE RAIL Why She Studies Law Two stylishly gowned women boarded an Amsterdam avenue car at Fifty-second street that very cold morning of last week, talking animatedly and disdainfully about a certain club president whose recent action in the matter of regulations had greatly offended them. They made no efforts to disguise their rancor, and spoke loudly enough to be heard throughout the car. "It is only the rich who are thoroughly heartless," said the younger of the speakers. "I never knew it to fall in the course of my rather extensive experience that the more money people own the less heart they have. Prosperity seems to turn their hearts to stone." Presently the car stopped to admit a woman carrying an infant carefully but insufficiently wrapped in a plaid shawl. She was very pale and thin and poorly but neatly clothed, and her hands, which were uncovered, were blue with the cold. A block further down another woman boarded the car, a young, handsome woman, gowned from head to foot in a long light cloth, furlined garment, and furtrimmed hat unmistakably Parisian in make. She seated herself with a crisp rustle of silken skirts, paid her fare, and then her eyes strayted to the shivering little woman opposite her, and without a word she rose, crossed the car and took the seat beside her. "Do you know that your baby looks very cold?" she asked, putting her daintily gloved hand on the old plaid shawl. "Isn't she too thinly covered for this bitter day?" "It is all that I have," the mother answered, in a dry voice, "She There are some few railroads in this country on which it is considered quite the right thing for conductors on passenger trains to supplement the earnings of their legitimate trade by a little money "on the side" made from chance passengers. Such a road is Texas and Pacific, for instance. It is quite a common saying that the road pays its dividends to its conductors. It quite frequently happens that after a few months of service on the road a conductor has made a nice little sum of money through compacency in the matter of issuing the regular tickets when he collects fares. The road is in the habit of sending out inspectors every now and then to get an eye on the conductors who do these things. The coming of this inspector is generally well known. It happened one time that Jim Reilly, conductor on No. 3 west bound, bought for himself a diamond ring such as conductors love. It was a handsome bit of jewelry, and it cost Mr. Reilly $100. He wore it constantly. The inspector on his travels got into conversation with Mr. Reilly. He had offered to buy his fare, and had been firmly told that the company had a rule about "excess charges," which excess would be duly returned on presentation of the slim which the con- When the young woman typewriter announced her intention of joining an evening law class her friends reconstrated on the ground that the study of law makes a woman seem so masculine, but she insisted that she was obliged to do it in self-defense. "I'm being cheated right and left," she said, "and if I don't learn how to stand up for my rights I'll soon be bankrupt. Now, if I had known the first thing about law I shouldn't have been imposed upon as I was yesterday. "That scrape was the final wind-up of a transaction that had its beginning in the quarrel I had with that Brown girl almost a year ago—you know the Brown girl. I never did like her, and the germs of my dislike kept fermenting at such a lively rate that they finally developed into a clearest resolution to get even with her, in some way. "About the time that unholy determination crystallized, Mr. Venable, the race horse man, watted me to do some work for him. I never liked Mr. Venable very well either, so I refused the work for two reasons—first, because I didn't have time to do it, and, second, because Mr. Venable is a born cheat, and has never been known to pay a bill. But even while declining the proffered job Kate Brown and my contemplated revenge came into my mind. "I'm sorry I'm so rushed just now," I said, but I can send you to some one who will have time. "Then I gave him a letter of introduction to Kate and sent him on his way rejoicing. Kate, of course, was glad to get the work, just as I had predicted, and she wrote me a sweet little note telling me how lovely I was to remember her. I didn't hear from her again till yesterday, and then the communication was not transmitted by means of a sweet little note. seemed sick this morning, and I hadn't the heart to leave her while I came away. I am on my way to the factory for my week's work, which I do at home." The little hand that the lady uncovered was quite blue, and the face above it was ghastly white and pinched. "I don't thing she is sick; she's only cold," said the stranger gently. Then she looked down at her own attire, but there was nothing to take off, for the furs were undetachable. "If you will let me hold the baby under my furs for a little while I think she will soon be warm," she ventured. So she threw back the lapels of her fur-lined coat and pressed the plaid bundle against her warm heart and laid her glowing cheeks to the tiny cold face. "I'll carry her over to the factory, if you will let me," she told the mother cheerfully, "so that she won't be cold again until we can find something warmer for her. I have no children of my own, but I am very fond of babies. All women are. I think. They are so sweet and helpless, you know." They left the car at Houston street, the tall, beautifully gowned woman carrying the child in her strong gentle arms, and the other woman following with a look of bewilderment on her nalid face. "You may be sure that baby won't be cold again this winter," remarked a man who had watched the incident with the keenest interest. "Do you know that was the prettiest little act of charity I've seen for many a day?" A rich woman, too," he added significantly, with a glance at the two reviellers of wealth—New York Times. ductor gave him. They talked casually. "That's a pretty nice ring you're wearin'," said the inspector. Now at that a great fear took hold of Mr. Reilly. He knew the gentleman for what he was. He knew, too, that an admission concerning that ring would be liable to attach some suspicion, for the wages of conductors are not princely. Therefore he lied. "I'll take it!" said the stranger, diving down into his pocket. He eyed the conductor closely the while. Jim Reilly was not a very bright man. He pulled off the ring and handed it over. After that he went on his way down the car, and he enjoyed immensely the task of kicking a trump off the front platform of the baggage car into the middle of Texas. Ordinarily he was careful never to visit the front end of that baggage car. He never mentioned that ring to any one. But about a month after the occurrence he got the ring back. It came by registered mail and in the box was a slip of paper with these words: "You're not sharp enough to do much harm." Kate used her tongue, then, and she ured it to advantage, too. "That man Venable," she said, "has never paid his bill, and what is more he does not intend to pay it. He as good as told me so this morning." "Of course, I didn't tell Kate that that was the very contingency I had counted on from the beginning, but she seemed to divine as much and straightaway proceeded to accuse me of complicity in the affair. "It's my belief,' she said, 'that you two are working in collusion, but you are not going to get off if he does. You were his security—I shouldn't have allowed the work to leave the office till it was paid for if you hadn't vouched for the fellow, and if he won't pay me you've got to. I've run off five dollars' worth of circulars designed to hire countless racetrack devotees to their destruction, and I want my money for my part in the transaction even if they do go broke. "I'll bring suit against you,' she said, 'as sure as I live, if you don't pay me. You'll look nice marching down to the police court to be convicted of deceit with intent to defraud, won't you?' "At the picture of that degrading punitive expedition I capitulated. "Of course, you shall have your money,' I said. 'I'm sorry you've been kept waiting so long,' whereupon I dived down into my purse and brought up that five-dollar bill that Aunt Mary sent me for a Christmas present, and handed it over. "After Kate had left and I had regained my normal mental condition I inquired into the matter and found that she could no more hold me responsible for that man's debts that she could fly. It was solely through ignorance of the law that was scared into giving up the money, and I'm going to guard against any such future calamities." FROCKS AND FRILLS FOR THE FAIR FORECAST OF MARCH FASHIONS. The evening mantle most immediately popular is one presenting the double qualification of warmth and lightness, to which end are the filament silks, laces and crepe de chines allied to thick quilted linings and soft, fluffy trimnings. Unfortunately, the high, cozy Medici collar is a thing of the past, but there are some most alluring fancies in pelerine disposals of feathers and fur, one lovely cloak coming in the form of a loose sack coat of gauffe silk in a soft blue tone, with cape of kilt chiffon, hemmed marabout feathers, the chinois sleeves, front and base carrying a similar adornment. Evening Wrap of Panne Velvet. Many of the evening wraps this season are of panne velvet. The one ```markdown ``` shown in the cut is of that material of a delicate mauve color. It is quilted with satin of the same shade. The big collar is trimmed with several rows of very narrow white lace insertion, above which is run a piece of pearl trimming. White fox bands edge the sleeves at the wrist and the big turn up collar that flares around the neck. Mauve is a safe color to go with many other shades, and is on that account very appropriate for an evening wrap, which is made to outlive several evening gowns and seasons. Extravagant Fashions. All fashions of to-day point to extravagance. If we have inexpensive materials they are so loaded with trimmings, or are so minutely and expensively handworked that they are dear in the end. Beautiful velvents and the costliest embroideries are part of the modes of the moment, and never has luxury been carried to such a pitch in jewelry. The neck, arms and head are covered with gems, so are the fronts of the bodices, and many women introduce beautiful jewels on to the skirts—real, not imitation. Rows of pearls are festooned over many of the draperies on low bodices. Embroideries of wreaths and sprays of flowers in their natural tints, made of chiffon and shaded silk, are much worn. Informal TALKS The really smart tailor walking skirt has never a circular flounce as a foot finish. Fine white net is an innovation for bridal gowns that promises to be very popular with brides. An exceedingly pale pearl gray has appeared lately in satin coat linings as a rival to the universal white. A little handwork gives an individuality to a gown which lifts it immediately from the ranks of the ready made. As a revulsion from the very heavy line nkinds, popular lately, the correct collar and cuff sets grow sheerer and sheerer. Rows of narrow black velvet ribbon adorned with tiny gilt spangles is a favorite garment for winter afternoon gowns. Light gray English friezes or Scotch homepuns are the correct style for the Norfolk jacket walking suits at present. The proper angle for the hat aigrette is lying on the top of the crown from the back toward the front, not standing in military fashion, as formerly. A gold tissue belt, collar and cuffs suddled with jet beads was the incongruous, yet very exclusive finish upon the mink coats worn recently by a very swagger woman. Hat Worth Copying. The hat illustrated is of dark maroon velvet, faced with pale maroon and trimmed with maroon asters on the brim. The plumes of the underbrim are of dark and light maroon. FORECAST OF MARCH FASHIONS. When a child has burned its mouth by drinking coffee or tea that is too hot, ice is the remedy that will relieve the pain. The child should be given small pieces of ice to suck as long as the pain lasts. Of course a doctor should be sent for if the burn is serious and swelling of the delicate membrane ensues. But in ordinary cases the ice will allay the pain and inflammation. Ball Gown for Young Girl. This ball gown, worn by a young girl, is of light pink satin, trimmed with cream lace, with tiny drops fringing the lace flouces. Under the lace are full ruffles of a much deeper ```markdown ``` shade of pink chiffon. The bodice of the chiffon is draped with lace, with crescents of pink satin fringed with pearl drops. The girdle is of pink panne velvet. Advice to Tired Women. If the busy woman will take advantage of the following advice she will find that youth and beauty will linger with her past their allotted time. Every day after luncheon, no matter how her time is occupied, she will bathe face and neck in warm water, and in case of unusual fatigue, especially warm applications will be placed or the back of the neck for a few moments. The tired lines should next be smoothed out deftly, skin food should be applied, and then away to a darkened room for twenty minutes of complete rest. This simple procedure is so inexpensive and so easily managed that it will never be popular; but facts show that many women have been wonderfully benefited by the rest when it is needed rather than after all the work and hurry and bustle are over. IMPORTANT BILL RECENTLY INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS. Col. Brownlow's Measure Provides for National Aid to States in Supervising and Constructing Good Roads —Great Things Expected from the Scheme. The idea of the national government taking an active part in the construction of the highways, so popular three-quarters of a century ago, has for several decades been considered obsolete. But the interest manifested in the Brownlow bill, which provides for national aid to road building, shows that this idea is very much alive. It is now ten years since the popular demand that Uncle Sam do something to help out of the mud led to the establishment of an office of public road inquiries in the Department of Agriculture. The work of this office was intended to be purely educational in character. It was to collect and disseminate practical information concerning the roads of the country and means and methods for their improvement. The first work of this office was to prepare and publish a large number of bulletins and circulars treating on the various phases of road building and improvement. This work occupied several years, and it was done well. If the roads in most parts of the country remain bad, it is not for the want of information as to how they may be improved in the best and most economical manner; Uncle Sam's "good roads" office is a veritable "information bureau" on the subject. But the work of this office did not stop here. The educational idea was carried further, and during the past three years the object lesson feature has assumed greater importance. The idea as carried out is very simple. When the people of some progressive community or the authorities of some educational institution want a piece of road built to illustrate the benefits of good roads and the methods of building them, application is made to the Department of Agriculture, and, whenever possible, a government expert is sent to supervise the work. Recently a number of prominent and progressive railroad men have been giving the road question some study, and have come to the conclusion that the improvement of the roads in the territory tributary to their lines would materially increase their business. So popular has this idea become that the officials of some of the leading railways have come forward with offers to co-operate with the government in the object-lession work. Another voluntary factor in this cooperative work is the manufacture of road-building devices who desire to bring their machinery to the attention of the public. In this co-operative work the government furnishes the experts, the manufacturers the machinery and the railroads the transportation. 'The idea has proven extremely popular. Object lesson roads have been built under government supervision in twenty states; and so great has been the demand for national aid of this kind that a large number of applications have to be refused every year because the funds appropriated by Congress are insufficient to employ and pay this expense of enough experts to do the work. Already Congress has twice made an increase in the appropriations for this work, but the $20,000 now appropriated annually proves wholly inadequate to meet the demands for this educational work. It should be borne in mind that all the work of this kind done by the government is in the nature of national aid. There is, therefore, nothing new in principle in the bill recently introduced in Congress by Col. Brownlow of Tennessee, providing for national aid of a more extensive and substantial character. It is proposed that the government shall no longer confine its assistance to educational work; that it shall furnish not only information and supervision, but financial assistance. Under certain limitations, the national government will co-operate with states and counties in the improvement of the common roads, each assuming a certain proportion of the expense. If the educational work done by the government in recent years has done so much to encourage and stimulate road improvement, what may we not expect from this great extension of the principle of national aid? It is sometimes urged as an objection to national aid that it will cause the people to relax their efforts at road improvement, and to depend on the general government to do the work for them. Is it not likely to produce exactly the opposite result? The large fund which Congress will appropriate for this work will be divided among the states in proportion to population. But no state can secure its share except by complying with the conditions prescribed, the chief of which it is that it shall raise a like sum for the same purpose. Instead of discouraging state effort, this should greatly stimulate it. Again, if a state takes no action looking to the acceptance of the government's profered help, the individual counties may do so, and this again will create a rivalry among the countries. The scheme is a great one, and farreaching in its possibilities for economic development. Time and intelligence will be required to work out the details of its application, but there appears to be no serious obstacle, either practical or constitutional, in the way of its realization. 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The mre Witleonig copertcaion the etter Hirhernt Wea ated under erop in Weatern Canadar Tooa 1'sW4, 880" Acres, Yield, 1603, 117,608,760 Bus, HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES FREE, Mheoniy change for which fe) for staking entry. 8 nares ar and fuels Wanting “miter cea acafoe passe aud buys fete wih eat Alaa esate vn as mares ond toe the followiag. fF an Atias, and other erste AS AthTseccrigeatet wivtog ou te divetiatcadene ot unmnstation, Wttiwas an reer oe scat Wanda Bir Renane Cith Bolus diulorited inadian Goveranione Agouk Ca Reel Ta rel aS eat a ry Nant cea Coe Ba Ree line. /Gali wy arvewiaae Ba “™ CONSUMPTION Urleh and Scotch Landiords. There are in Ireland twenty-twe Yandlords owning over 60,000 acres, while there are in Scotland forty: seven, One of the broadest-acred of the Scottish landlords is the prime minister, who owns just 90,000 acres, with a rent roll of some $100,000, The laird of lairds is, of course. the Duke of Sutherland, who possesses over a million and a quarter acres, whieb bring him In some $350,000 per anoum. Amusementa fer Praneh Gaeldiera. A society has been organived in Paris the object of which 1s to prevent the soldiers at the French barracks from forming bad habits. The society has provided wholesome games for the array—chess, cards, deck quoits And ping-pong. So far 140,000 soldiers have been provided with games, Identified by Tattoo Marke, Tell-tale tattoo marks recording their constancy in love identified two Prisoners in North London recently Qs deserters. “I love Lottie Barton,” confessed the left arm of one, while the other man bore the initial letters of the name of the beloved object, American Cities Without Mayors. ‘Two American cities, and only two, have no mayors, They are Washing: ton and Pittsburg. Washington ts governed by district commissioners and Pittsburg, under the “ripper act,” has a recorder. Valuable Cargo Lost. ‘The most valuable cargo ever can rled by a shipwrecked vessel was that aboard the British frigate De Brook, lost of Lewis in 1798. She had aboard Jewels and specie worth $12,000,000. Southern Colored Orga, izations. Some colored Republicans have es tablished party organizations in Ala bama, Texas, North Carolina, Louse jana, Virginia and Maryland. 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A man carries his memory in his pocket when there {8 little else there. It you, wish beautiful, clear, white clothes ase Crow Ball Blue, ’ Large 9 os Package, 5 cents, People who take no thought of the future take little of the present, ‘There ie more cari iy cs nection of tne country than all ‘other diseases put together, nd until the iast few years was supposed to be Incurabie: Fora grind many years toctors pros souned ie oval diana. un prescribed ioea Femedien, and-by constantly falling to. cute ith local treatment, pronounced it incurable Setence. has. proven’ cataveh to. bon constitt Uonal diseass, and therefore requires const tutional treattbent, Hall s Catarrh Cure, man- Unctured by #4. Cheney & Co., Toledo: Oho, inthe anly constitutiona! cure sn the marke Tels taken Internally in doses from 10 drops t Wieaspoonful. Tt acts directly upon te Ulood Sndmticons surfaers oe the ststeth The oe Bend for elreulnreand testtinontals. Address FJ CHENEY. & CO, Toledo, Ob1O Bord by Drugelsts, te Foul'a Famile Piile ars the best. It {s more dificult for a man to behave well in prosperity than in ad- versity.—Rochefoucauld, THE K. G. 8. ALMANAC FOR 1903. ‘The Kansas City Southern Railway's Almanac for 1903 ie now ready for dis- tribution, Farmers, _stock-raisers, fruit-growers, truck gardeners, manu facturers, merchants and others seek- ing a new field of action or a new home at the very lowest prices, can ob- tain reliable information cohcerning Southwestern Missouri, the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations’in the Indian ‘Territory, Western Arkansas, Eastern Texas, Northwestern Louisiana and the Coast’ country, and of the business op- portunities offered therein, Write for a copy of, the K. C. 8. Al- manac and address, 8, G. Warner, G. P. A, K. C. 8. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. Very Probably. Congressman Kahn of California was walking along a Washington atreet, when a man dashed past him holding & bundle of money in each hand. Fol lowing came a merchant and a police man around the corner and asked {f Mr. Kahn had seen the thief, Recelv ing an aMrmative reply they asked “What did he look like?” The con Sressman answered deliberately: “He looked like he did not have a minute to spare.” Ghowedbhush Utlaiem: Baron Speck von Sternberg, appoint ed German charge d'affaires at Washe {ngton, bas already shown himself to be @ man of discretion, enterprise and sound common sense. In other words, he is married to an American girl, the daughter of @ rich mine owner out in Idaho, Keeping Up With the Times. At Mer’ la, the capital of the state of Yucatan, there 1s an active move- Ment on foot to organize a company for the purpose of establishing an elec- tric power plant to furnish motive power for the street railway service in the city and suburbs, Aw imaortant Diecevery. Granton, Okla., Feb. 9th.—After ten years &. H. Gosney of Granton has at last found a cure for Kidney Trouble. Mr. Gosney suffered very severely with Kidney Complaint and some ten years ago made up his mind to find a cure if one was to be had. He has tried aad tried and experi- mented with every kidney medicine he could hear of. Although he was always disappointed he kept on trying till at last his perseverance was rewarded and he found a complete cure. He {s a well man to-day and explzins Mt as follows: “Everything failed to cure me and | was growing worse and worse till | tried a new remedy called Dodd's Kid: ney Pills and I had not taken many of them before I knew that I had at last found the right thing. I am entirely cured and I cannot say too much for Dodd's Kidney Pills.” Wea ani eaay-thing:to: reconc|l® youn self to prosperity, when you come to think of it. TRY ONE PACKAGE. If “Deflance starch” does not please you, return to your dealer. If It does, you get one-third more for the same money, It will give you satisfaction nd will not stick to the tren, Beware of the man with a griev- ance, He may make gool. Deo: ‘ ¥ ei | whe hi39 : ; , Nig as | AW: ;} Mind This. ; pete itr Rheumatism f e St.Jacobs Oil pve, 2500 and 60 FOR THE GIRL WHO WAS WAITING. a” a ae ee aa ee wk a Fritz Wardein took the train at Pine Top. Twenty miles down the valley the narrow gauge connected with the through line which was to take him to the distant city, The young fellow was in high spirits as he bounded into the car and took a seat by a window, He had looked forward to this day through six long years of toil and economy. He had studied and starved and slaved—but how small seemed his labor now in the sunshine of this glort- ous present! ia his pocket he could feel the roll of bills which represented the work and the economy which pad abstained from everything except the barest necessities. And now he was actually on his way to college! And after college, what? Of course there could be but one thing after, and a warm flush rose to his face and a glad look came into his eyes. He would go back to Neuchatel and up the valley to the chalet overlooking the Bienne, Suvel would be waiting for him, and they would be married and come back to America and make a home. ‘The train rushed on, and a little old maid opposite looked across at her neighbor and wondered what made the car seem so bright and cheerful Whoa Fritz caught her glance he Jaughed and blushed, and she actually forced a tiny return smile to her grim lips. The conductor came in and found the young fellow trying to tempt @ child with a big red apple, and was obliged to wait until the comedy was over. Then the child lost her ball, and Fritz disturbed the whole car in his eager search after it. At the junction he was the first to leave the train, and was rushing down the platform when he saw a patr of frightened horses approaching, With: ‘out hesitation he sprang forward to in- tercept them. But as he left the plat: form his foot slipped, and instead of striking as he Intended, he fell direct: ly under the maddened animals. A moment later they were stopped, and he was dragged from beneath their hoofs. When the train returned. to Pine Top he was on board, crushed and unconscious, Ho was taken to the place where he had worked, but no money was found on his person, and the tarmer was a hard man, ‘The next day Prity was bundled into a wagon and takea to the town farm It was months before he left his bed ‘and began to hobble around, As soon as he Was able to work he was set to shelling corn and sorting potatoes Then It was discovered that he was skillful with his fingers, and his work was changed to making axhelves and hay rakes and other wooden tools for farm use. AS he grew stronger his work was increased. In the spring he was sent into the flelds with the hands He was not yet able to do a full day's work. If he had been he weuld have sought employment among the farm era, As it was, he could only wait One day several new paupers were brought to the farm. Among. them was a little old man who was helpless with rheumatism. He was given a bed near Fritz, For some days the two scarcely no ticed each other. ‘Then Fritz, stopped on his way out and asked if there was anything he could do. The old mar shook his head despondently. ‘Th next day Fritz stopped again and wa: allowed to bring him a glass of water After that there was a nod or wor every time the young fellow went it or out, The old man bexan to wate! for him, and would often detain hin by his bedside and make him. lister to long, rambling accounts of his mis fortunes, Fritz grew weary of th grumbling and fauitfinding, but hi Was good-natured, and listened with out taking much interest In the narra tive. * One evening, as he came Into th room, the old man motioned Nin to 4 stool by his bedside: “It's awful lonesome up here al day,” he sald querulously. “Searel == oS ta Tart & a oul Yanni ~ . 14 eects mee RN at ‘ gage — ce a Wi Ly | YP | yf _ Da gy Wi 4- 7 i | : pe ia Garmna'¥arwerdite (ateceuntctham nobody comes nigh me the whole en durin’ time.” “Ach, well; you'll soon get better and can come out to the flelds with us." answered Fritz, pleasantly, The old man scowled “Paupers’ fields an’ paupers’ work,” he snarled. “Pd rather be here, tut Ttain't right tor me te he in sech a place nohow, 1 could buy the whole caboodle if Thad my money, ‘Things alters went ag’in me. “Ach, they do seem contrary somo: times,” agreed Fultz, “Did you your money lone?" The old man did not answer for some minutes, Then he looked up de Jectedly. “1 s'pose T mout's well tell ye ‘bout it” he said; “there's no sort o' chance o' my gettin’ the money agin, 1 sarched day in an’ day out an’ couldn't find hide nor hair on (even the old rock where I hid it seemed to have sunk into the arth.” “Ja, but that was bad.” sald Fritz, “You see, [ain't never took no stock in banks an’ them things. ‘They'm al thieves an’ money getters. 1 kep! mine ‘ina tin box, an’ when Thad occastor to go away T hid tt sts of a rock under @ big yaller pine. 1 took meas ure o° the trees an’ things round, ‘that T couldn't miss findin’ it ag'in }\ ry Ao al NF Yte/ fi Bs NX iagp« Na ) : . q es ft / if ; \ \ hide 4) ‘YG A I~ Nt Wy » * A ‘eas \ a on, oN * +e Py ONS Qe Obeying a sudden impulse, he went in fearch of the rock with a crack. Wall, if you'll b'lieve me, when [come back a year arterwards, them Harber woods was ail cut down, an’ [contdn’t even plek out the stun, there was. s¢ many of ‘em, Mebbe somebody'd dug it up an’ stole the money, 1 hung Foun’ a week or two, sarchin’, but ‘wan't no use. ‘Then T got the rheu cmatiz an’ they brung me here.” | Fritz had listened attentively The Barber woods,” he said enri ously, That is the place | hat work UGK! know every tree an’ stone, mind the rock under the big pine, Did Fit haf a crack, and bushes growing ox one side?" The old man started and a fright ened look came into his dim, amneertalr | eyes, “Are you the feller who got hurt?” ho asked, huskily, “Yes."* | With a sudden effort the old mar timed his face to the wall J Boemed ke Td cen yo Kome where,” he muttered, “but 1 never “thought 0” that.” | Fritz stared at him curiously, thea "went to bed A fow days later he had occasion te “pass what had been known as the Bar ber woods, but no trees were ther [half hidden by great piles of cord | Wood and brush. The taik of tho ok man recurred to him, Obeying a sud Hden impulse he wont in seareh of the Frock with the crack, But in spite o [vie famutiarty with the woud 1 vn long time before he could diseove | it | When he returned to the town farn Hthere was a strange, exultant look 0 j his face, and every few minutos hi nee Ma Fas if to reassiire itself of something | there. He went directly: te his room ‘The old man's face was to the wall | began, “and 1 flnd the rock you ha lost.” |The old man shivered, and turned 1 | white face toward him | "And [tind the money,” Fritz eon tinued sharply. SE hat it fn my: pocke in the tin box.” ‘The old man was sitting up now. Ba his face was not eager, only. piteou | and terrified | Ach, That ne wish te tart yon, sald Brita, more softly. SIE you tel | me everything--true—L will say not ing An’ -an’ ye won't punish me? J quavered. the ob man Not {€ you Coll me everything eWall, Pot driv the mail wax! J that day. The re lar man was leh an’ he ast me. ‘They pat you in th J waskin, an’ an’ when we got in th | woods T took the money; butt didn fast toouse it, so TD hid it side th [stun ant went om Elotted on comin back ater a while an’ git it, Bu Jenttin? down the woods got me al mixed. Everything allers has worke agin me,” in an asgrieved voice Fritz did not answer, Going to. Joox near his bed he took out severa Old acho) books, whieh showed th J nurkw of much wie, ‘Then he Tet Uh teom | A few weeks Jater a glowing lette Was on its way across the water, an in due time @ young girl took it fron [the hand of the postman and read 1 While warm blushes chased each othe over her checks, Then, with a ne jtight in her big, earnest eves, sh went up inte the little chaler ove looking the Bionne and dreamed af th great country beyond the sea, and. ¢ the fine young fellaw who was goln to dy such wonderful things: Among any 100,000 people, 15,000 ax peplence during the year an accidenta injury of some kind severe enough t cause @ claim on an accident policy. Finds Banke a Necessity. The necessity of having banks which will advance money on crops, either in the field or in storage, or will loan on real estate or chattels, has become so manifest throughout Brazil, particularly in states that rely upon Qgriculture, that the state of Bahia bas taken the matter in hand and, by Fecent legisiation, bas granted spe cial privileges for the establishment of such a concern, ALTON RESUMES FAST ST, LOUIS TRAIN SERVICE. Passengers destined to St. Toute and points east should go via the Kan- fas City gateway, thereby securing the advantaxe of the Chicago & Alton's fast night train, leaving Kansas City At9 p.m. arriving fn St, Louis at 7:08 & m, Chair cars free of extra charge, Compartment sleeping cars. The Ale ton Keeps their light a’shining Just ahead of the rest. Write to L. D. Cooper, Traveling Passenger Agent, Chicago & Alton Railway, Kansas City, Mo,, for lowest rates | In Hfo'w handicap the man who secs the ghost walk would like to see tt Many School Children Are Sickty. 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All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE: No. 117 West Sixth St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion $ .50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion 30 For two inches, three month 5.00 For two inches, six month 8.00 For two inches, nine months 10.00 For two inches twelve months 15.00 OLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. TO PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR. O' thou who soars in intellectual skies Around thy zenith, who has nobly built Eternal tame, for ages yet to come. Whose greatness the deep ocean, long has crossed. There to old England's court has made its way Live for great honors that may yet out shin● The brightest star that lights the firm- ament. Let waves of criticism round thee roll They rise and fall like those upon the sea. They'll ever fail to reach the vaulted sky. But hug the earth and for existence strive And lie, unnoticed by the busy world. —AZALIA E. MARTIN. THE INVASION AGAINST JIM CROWISM. Tuesday of last week a number of our representative leaders from Kansas City and St. Louis met in Jefferson City to protest against the enactment of Crisp's Jim Crow car law, and to present arguments why such a law would be an infringement upon the rights and privileges of a portion of Missouri's citizenship, whose only offense is that they have black faces and were once held as slaves. The promoters of this infamous law did have conscience enough left them to concede to the Negro right of protest, feeling as they did that they were endeavoring to strike a telling blow against the personal rights and liberties of one class of citizens which the letter (if not the spirit) of the state constitution guarantees to them. On Tuesday evening Dr. Roberts, chairman; Hon. J. Milton Turner, Hon. Walter M. Farmer; Geo B. Vashon, of St. Louis; and Dr. Scott; Nelson C. Crews esq.; and several other Kansas Cityans, appeared before the joint assembly and made eloquent and forcible speeches against the inquisition and infamous step which is being pressed by Crisp and his cohorts. And that the Negro's side of the question was ably and bitingly presented by these gentlemen is substantiated by even the rankest defender of Jim Crowism. Even the white press gives the representatives of our race credit for having clearly and pointedly given good reasons for the non-enactment of this perfidious and treacherous law against a weak and defenseless race. Perfidious, because it does not represent the sentiment of the honorable white citizenship of Missouri. Treacherous, because it seeks to destroy the manhood and to curtail and degrade the constitutional and God given rights and privileges of a struggling and in offensive race and people. But if might makes right in the eyes of the Missouri legislature and the Jim Crow car law is put in force we have the satisfaction of knowing that it was done, not because the Negroes of the state had given any just reason for its enactment by "offensive conduct or behavior," but because of the unjust, inhuman and violent hatred and animosity for a much oppressed race. THE ATTITUDE OF EX-GOV. LON V. STEPHENS. In the face of the present agitation and discussion of the Negro nationally, and the acute pressure which is being brought to bear to popularize and create sentiment in favor of separate cars, libraries, etc., for our race in this state, it requires a great deal of courage for a white Democrat to take a stand in favor of the race and against the highhanded imposition of those of his fellow partisans to further humble and degrade our people. But we are glad to note the fact that there are among Democrats men who are willing to "We have turned our new leaf and begun on the first page; as we live this year we propose by the help of God and the good-thinking Negro, encouraged by the best people of this community to work and labor until we are rewarded with a purer society, a more earnest pulpit, a galaxy of teachers who are not politicians, but earnest trainers of our youth." Mr. Editor: Your editorial in the Rising Son of January 23 has so aroused me to a sense of duty that I cannot refrain from thanking you for your timely article. I can but ask the question. Whether are we drifting? What will the next generation be? What can we expect when we consider the kind of teachers that is instructing our children. From one end of this land of ours to the other goes up the cry for moral teaching. The force of example is so great. What danger are we courting when we put the training of our little children to the keeping of teachers who live day by day in open violation of the laws of decency. Not long since a body of public spirited citizens called upon a representative of the school board and entered a protest. When asked whether they had children in the schools, they said no, but they came in the interest of the welfare of the colored citizens. The reply was, "Well so long as the parents don't complain, it is not to the interest of the board to take any action. The Colored people of this city don't care what kind of teachers instruct their children. There will be immoral teachers employed just so long as the parents are satisfied. The only assured success is a chartered club for the elevation of society; and incidently have a good time. We expect this paper to be read Locals, editorials and even the advertisements are instructive. SURELY WORTHY FIRST PLACE. New York Tribune Man Discovers the Champion Grouch. Some men are affable and want to talk with every one they meet, while other men are not, and want to be left alone in their shells. Extremes, met on a Sixth avenue elevated train the other day—one of the dark, rainy days. A grim, grouchy individual sat in a corner seat reading a paper. At Forty-second street a trim little man got on and took the seat next to the sour one. After settling himself comfortably he remarked: "This is very nasty weather, isn't it?" The curly one looked up from his paper, glared at him a moment, and then replied: "Is that any of your darned business?"—New York Tribune. The new governor of British Gulana, Sir James Swettenham, is a man of original ideas, says a Kingston correspondent in the Nashville Banner. He gave a ball the other day, and at supper an enormous pie was placed in front of him. When he cut the crust four and twenty little birds hopped out and flew about the room. Their feathers had been painted in brilliant colors. At first it was thought that the idea was to illustrate a well-known nursery rhyme, but it appears that this sort of bird pie is a popular custom in the Malay states, where Sir James comes from. The birds are caught and passed around among the guests, fortune being supposed to smile upon all who handle them. Princess Irene of Prussia is better provided for in the matter of godfathers than any other woman in the world. She can boast of no fewer than 4,000 godfathers, and how she came to obtain so many is a pretty story. When she was born the war of 1866 was drawing to an end, and peace being concluded just at the time of her christening, her father, Prince Henry of Hess, requested all the officers and men of the regiment under his command to stand godfathers to his little daughter, whom he named Irene (Peace) in commemoration of the end of the war. concede that the Negro is entitled to some of the civil rights which his citizenship entitle him, and go on record as being desirous that these shall be fully secured by the lawmakers of this country. We are proud of such friends, and take pride in acquainting our readers of their noble qualities, high character and manly principle. We feel that from the utterances made by exGov. Lon V. Stephens to a representative of the Rising Son justifies us in the statement he is one having all the characteristics stated above, and is therefore our friend so far as being desirous of seeing that fairness and justice is meted out. To our representative the ex governor stated that he was decidedly opposed to the Jim Crow car bill; that such a law would impede progress, and would ultimately bring about a reaction which would disgust and annoy the white people, for whom it was intended to benefit. The governor said that he thought the whites should try to help and improve the condition of the Negro race instead of trying to make it worse by obnoxious legislation. Mrs. Stephens also expressed her views in emphatic terms. We are truly grateful for the friendly assertions of Mr. Stephens, and believe him to be sincere in all he says. If we had at this time sponsors in the legislative assembly a few men of Gov. Stephens convictions the Jim Crow car measure would go to defeat as it deserves. A COMMENDABLE MOVEMENT The opening of a Y. M. C. A. room at 912 E. Twelfth street is indeed a gratifying step. It ought to have a significant influence upon the young men of this city, and be the means of producing a good effect upon the moral standard of many of our young men who are not wholly bad. Out of the hundreds of young men of this community a very small percentage seemingly have higher ideals than the dance hall and club house, and spend their leisure hours in folly and wreckless gayety. Since, heretofore, no place for the moral and religious development of our young men has been provided this establishment of Y. M. C. A. rooms, where lectures, wholesome reading matter, gymnasium, and the better teachings of right living are in vogue, will come as a boon to the well-disposed young men of our city. This worthy movement should have the unqualified support of parents, churches and societies. PROTECTION FROM "SNITCHES." A Bill Introduced by a St. Louis Man in the Missouri Legislature. Jefferson City, Jan. 28.—The bill introduced by Senator Kineally of St. Louis providing that persons having claims for damages against cities must give notice of their suits within sixty days after the time of the alleged injury, caused much debate in the state this afternoon. By a vote of 20 to 12 it was finally laid over. Senator Clarke of Jackson spoke for the bill. He said he believed cities like Kansas City should have protection from "snitches." And we favor some means of disposing of the cheap snitches and 2x4 petrifogging lawyers that this community is cursed with. While it is a recognized fact that agitation has been the most useful weapon for bringing about reforms yet it is a dangerous and delicate one to handle in as much as at times it may do more injury to the cause for which contention is made than good. Prodigiae is an uncertain and baffling quantity with which to deal and there are times when lenoring its presence may accomplish far more than combating it. In view of this fact it is to be doubted whether the protest of a committee of Negroes before the committee on railroad of the Missouri legislature against the Jim Crow bill will ultimately be productive of good or harm. There is every prospect that Western University, located at Quindaro, Kas, will be generously treated by the Kansas legislature in the way of appropriations. The president, Prof. W. T. Vernon, has modestly asked for about $27,000, of which $17,000 will be used to maintain the school for the next two years, and the balance, $10,-000 to be spent in additional buildings, improvements and new departments. The growth and development of this worthy institution has been most gratifying to its promoters, and under the lead of the courageous and aggressive leader, Wm. Tecumseh Vernon, who knows no failure, and acknowledges no defeat, its future is assured, and its benefits to our race is incalculable. President Allen of Lincoln Institute hopes to induce the legislature to augmen its former appropriations several hundred dollars, in order that he may make many needful improvements and additions to the present facilities. We have no reason to doubt that the committee on appropriations will favorably recommend money enough to carry out Prof. Allen's plans. It is to be deplored that at this time the people of the North and South should be thrown into a discussion of the Negro question; for the more intense the agitation the greater the harm done to the black man in the South. There is a God that presides over the destiny of races as well as nations and what so ever He determines will come to pass in spite of the efforts of a few individuals who attempt to athwart or misdirect His will. The next commercial scheme is an investment company. And still the Son grows on. A COMMUNICATION Pie Filled with Live Birds Four Thousand Gcdfathers Scylla on Charybdis. Cheerful English writer informs us that vegetable food makes the blood vessels hard and stony, deposits tartar on the teeth and make them fall out, increases the fat of the body and tends to cause fatty degeneration of the heart, liver and brain, while meat gives gout, rheumatism, trichinosis, tapeworm, crysipelas, consumption and cancer. Cheerful English writer will please further inform us what particular brand of embalmed breakfast food he is booming—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Decorated Americans Have Company. Seems to be no end of the list of titles in Germany. Grand Duke of Hess has just conferred the hereditary title of court marblebist on the mason who reconstructed the ducal bathroom, while the Prince Regent of Bavaria has a royal sewer-maker and a court motorist. 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He was anxious to institute a reform by a novel appeal to the mothers. He requested each mother to bring her little girls to church with a doll, which should be the "church doll" and which the child should keep perfectly still during the whole service. It is rather discouraging to hear that not one English mother carried his good advice into effect, perhaps because none was strong minded enough to begin. But it certainly would have a quieting effect on a good many children one sees in church on a sunny Sunday morning, when the restless legs and busy brains want to go out and play very much more than they want to sit quietly by mother in church. CHASED DEER ON BICYCLE. Animal Seemingly Enjoyed His Race With the Machine. C. D. Storms of Jonesdale, Pa., was making a bicycle trip on the towpath of the abandoned Delaware & Hudson canal the other day. When he was between Glen Eyre and Rowland, in Pike county, says the New York Sun, a big buck sprang out of a thicket and into the canal just ahead of him. The deer paused a moment and took a wondering look at the man on the wheel, and then went bounding along the dry bed of the big ditch. Storms put on all speed, but the buck led him a chase of more than a mile, keeping well ahead of him. Coming to a lock in the canal the buck leaped out of the canal at one bound, cleared the towpath at another, took to the Lackawaxen river, crossed to the other side, bounded across the track of the Erie railroad's Honesdale branch, a few yards ahead of an east-bound coal train, and disappeared into the words. "Dick" Wainwright. Three jackies came to town to "blow." One, an old sea lawyer, had $26 wadded in his hip pocket. A new found friend, solicitous for his welfare, wanted him to fold the notes reasonably. "Say, my boy," he protested. "I'm too old a hand. We don't want to keep this money. We've come to town to blow and we're going to blow; and the sooner we blow the better." "What's your ship?" "The Newark." "Who's the captain?" "Dick Wainwright." "Dick Wainwright of the Gloucester?" "The same." "What sort of a chap is he? What do the crew think of him?" "Oh, Dick's all right. He's a bully fellow, only stricter'n ——"—New York Press. Investment of French Capital Investment of French Capital. A few months ago the minister of foreign affairs of France sent a letter to French consuls in the different quarters of the world, instructing them to report on the amount of money invested by Frenchmen in their various consular districts. France has always had the reputation of being an investing country, a dividend receiving country, a nation of almost inexhaustible resources. The result of the consular investigations fully sustains this reputation, showing that the foreign investments of France aggregate in round numbers nearly $6,000,000,000. Rival Speakers. While Mr. Webster was once addressing the Senate on the subject of internal improvements, and every Senator was listening with close attention, the Senate clock commenced striking, but instead of striking twice and indicating the hour, it continued to strike without cessation more than forty times. All eyes turned to the clock, and Mr. Webster remained silent until the clock struck about twenty, when he thus appealed to the chair: "Mr. President, the clock is out of order. I have the floor." The Czar's Bodyguard The Czar's bodyguard consists of fifteen Circassians noted for their keenness and courage. They accompany the Emperor everywhere, sometimes in disguise, sometimes in uniform, and on occasions as private gentlemen of the court. They keep a special watch on the kitchen, and examine everything that is cooked before it is placed on the imperial table. The wine is tasted several times a day by three persons, for fear that it should be drugged. ```markdown ``` CAT LIVES IN ICE HOUSE And Seems to Enjoy Low Temperature of the Place. In one of Philadelphia's big cold storage warehouses, says the Record of that city, is a cat that lives constantly in a temperature of ten degrees above zero, winter and summer. Moreover she seems to like it, and on the rare occasions when she is removed to the outer air she mews and scratches at the door to get back again. Rats and mice also live and thrive in that temperature, which is the secret of the cat's presence there. "We put her in the compartment that registers 30 degrees originally," said the manager of the warehouse the other day. "We had been overrun with rodents, and we turned the cat loose as an experiment. She seemed to like it, end when we moved her to the colder temperature, it had no ill effect upon her. It would be interesting to know at just how low a temperature a cat could sustain life." IMMENSE TREES IN FLORIDA. Monarchs of the Forest That Have Stood for Centuries. It is difficult even to guess at the age of the ancient live oaks, but some of them must number centuries and the oldest and greatest of them all is a monarch of the forest, with its outer branches sweeping the ground in a circle 120 feet across, with limbs as great as ordinary trunks of trees and bearing a garden of aerial ferns and air-plants upon their bark. This venerable tree is supposed to be the largest live oak in Florida. Enormous grape-vine trunks rise similarly from the ground and lose themselves amid the quarter-acre of foliage that crowns this tree; the saplings that once gave them support have disappeared long years ago, their only record being the angles and curves of grape-vine stem to which they lent their transient aid in climbing skyward.—Country Life in America. Birds Find Refuge on a Lightship. The captain in charge of a lightship situated at the entrance to San Francisco harbor recently reported to the United States light house commissioner that a large number of land birds took refuge on board the vessel. A dense smoke from northern forest fires hung over the locality and completely obscured sea and land. Evidently the birds had lost their way, and, exhausted by their long flight, the wanderers lighted on the ship undeterred by the presence of the crew. At one time sixty of the feathered guests were counted on various parts of the ship. Owls, cranes, hummingbirds and other non-marine species were noticed during the time. Claims to Have the Biggest Mills. So far as statistics in regard to cotton manufacturing plants have been published, Manchester people have the satisfaction of knowing that the largest cotton mill building in the world is that recently built by the Manchester Print Works and covering with its two wings a remarkable area. Statistics, too, show that the big No. 11 mill of the Amoskeag Manufacturing company, on the west side of the river, is the largest mill exclusively devoted to cotton cloth manufacturing in the world. That is, no portion of the No. 11 mill is used for storehouse purposes; it is entirely devoted to the making of cloth.—Manchester (N. H.) Union. That Bubonic Plague. Some Mississippi negroes were discussing yellow fever days in Havana. Uncle Marcus, who was one of the group, rose to his feet, and with many gesticulations thus harangued the crowd: "Yo kin talk about de fever, ole Yellow Jack. When dat gits a holt on you-all it's mighty rough; but yo' kin most allers generally git cured. An' de smallpox am bad; it sho' gives yo' de misery in eery particular ob yo' frame; but yo' kin git ober dat, 'cept its track. But dis yere new misery ketches yo' ebery time. Dere ain't no hope fo' ye, chillum, wen ye' git took by de bonny blue flag!" Ill Omens from Chinese Mild Weather. 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When water is broken into mist it drives no mill; and when clang and clatter sound through door and window, things go not well in the house.—Claudius. Perseverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.—Longfellow. We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. —W.H. Beecher. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still and it will die of itself.—Crabbe. Since we are set here so fast in the midst of duty that we cannot escape if we would, we must find a way, even if we cannot find beauty in duty, to bring beauty out of it.—Henry Wilder Foote. 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Thompson leaves the 15th for Las Vegas, N. M., where she expects to spend the summer. Mrs Mollie Waldorn has been sick for a few days. She is some better now. Mrs. Martha Coles has gone to Chicago to visit her sister-in-law. She left Thursday evening of last week. Don't forget the Muldoon picnic at Turner hall Thursday evening, February 19, for the benefit of St. Augustine's mission. Mrs. T. B. Carter was in the city last Wednesday evening and went to the matinee, Black Patti. Willis G. Mosly of the post office has been sick for the last ten days. He is able to be out again. Read' the Son, advertise in the Son, subscribe for the Rising Son and then pay for the Rising Son. Mr. and Mrs. Edward have sent out invitations for a birthday party for their little granddaughter, Josie Dorcey. Mrs. Jos. Brice, with a strong chorus, is rehearsing the cantata Ruth, which will be given at Allen chapel before long. Mr. Chas. Bogie of the Black Pattt company is spending the week with his sister, Mrs. Nix, Thirteenth and Highland avenue. The Silver Leaf Club reception, followed by a ball, promises to be the most fashionable affair of the season. Invitations will be limited to about one hundred and fifty. Mrs. Nanie Field and Miss Swan will entertain complimentary to Miss _____ next Wednesday evening at the latter's residence. Mrs. M. L. Thomas and son, Oscar J. Thomas, leave for Pueblo, Colo., the 15th, where they expect to make their home. The most enjoyable entertainment of the season will be given at Turner hall Thursday evening February 19. It is the Muldloon picnic. You will miss a treat if you miss it. Al Sneed, at 921 Central, the Costell entertain the waiters of the Midland hotel last Friday evening. Mr. Sneed is well equipped and is a good social fellow in his line. The third Sunday in this month, February 15th, will be pastors' day at Pleasant Green Baptist church, Rev. Wilson is an earnest worker, a logical speaker, and a splendid organizer. Prof. S. R. Bailey dropped in our office and talked "Jim Crowism" for a few minutes. Our people are anxious for the Son. We hope to merit the confidence and consideration of the people because we expect them to pay for it. The Rising Son is $1.50 per year. The Ladies' Whist and the Silver Leaf Clubs was royally entertained last Friday evening at the Vendome by Mrs. Clarg, Mrs. Unthank, Mrs. Garnes, Mrs. Long and the Misses Estelle Cole and Geneva Willey. Light refreshments were served and the evening was pleasantly spent in cards and dancing. Mrs. Annile E. Brown, the mother of Harry G. Brown, who is confined to his room with sickness, sends us a letter thanking his many friends, especially Mr. Frank White, C. M. of Moses Dickson Temple and Mr. Jas. R. Gordon, King of King Solomon council, for the kind attention and courtesies shown him during his illness. --- Joseph and Freddies Jackson will always have a Rising Son for sale at 5c a copy or 50c for three months. Since the 1st of the year a number of our Colored subscribers have promised to come to this office to pay their subscription. We have been patient. We don't want to turn these delinquents over to a collection agency. We make another appeal: Please pay at once and save embarrassment. Some of you owe for from 1 to 3 years. You must make some kind of a settlement at once. Respectfully. RISING SON MANAGER The election of officers of the Oxford club took place last Monday night. After a friendly but spirited contest between Messrs. Montgomery and Simpson for the presidency, Mr. Montgomery won honors for president and Mr. Simpson was elected vice president. The other officers elected were: Henry Warfield, secretary; Isiah Triplett, assistant secretary. The ex-president, Mr. Carpenter, received many letters from the ladies asking him to use his influence for Mr. Montgomery. After the election of officers luncheon was served and a social and enjoyable time was indulged in by all the members present. Our collector will be around. Please be prepared to meet him with the money. All delinquents are expected to settle by February 1st, after which all outstanding bills will be placed in charge of a collection agency for immediate settlement. The Presiding Elders' council of the Fifth Episcopal District, meet at Ebenezerzer church Tuesday and Wednesday. Right Rev, Bishop Shaffer, presiding. From the various reports the work is progressing nicely. The bishop has the work so arranged and well managed that he can tell and help correct all reports. Among the distinguished visitors we noticed Dr. O. W. J. Scott, Prof. Vernon, Rev. Spurlock and Rev. S. S. Pitcher. Invitations have been sent our for the reception and ball given by the Silver Leaf Club, under the management of William Fairfax at the Vendome academy, February 20. Mr. D. Queenane is quite sick at his home, 2113 Highland avenue. The Monthly Social club will be known hereafter as the Silver Leaf club. Mr. Hardie Watts is gaining his health quite rapidly. He is spending a few weeks at his home in Jefferson City. There will be baptising at the Second Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. A. J. Stames has organized a Ladies' strong orchestra. Mr. Wade B. Smith new 12 room house at Seventeenth and Lydia avenue is nearly completed. FRIEND. THIS MEANS YOU. A great many friends in this paper have idea that they help it by sending news and elaborate accounts of entertainments, weddings, etc. They were never so mistaken. The way to help the Colored American is to pay your subscription bill, if you are a subscriber, and if you are not a subscriber send in your subscription. The paper contains a great amount of live and interesting news each week. Any practical newspaper man can tell you that it takes money and a great deal of it to run a paper like Colored American. Do not flatter yourself that you are helping the paper by sending it news. Send the cash—a money order, an express order, a draft or a check. When these little evidences of appreciation come along there is no doubt about the matter being printed. The above suggestion will not only apply to the people who send in long news letters, but will apply equally as well to the many intelligent, well-to-do subscribers who get the paper each week and who receive occasional notices, but who pay absolutely no attention to our bills for subscription The Colored American needs money. The Colored American. This is applicable to a few prolific story tellers and writers here about. It takes money to run this machine. A GREAT ENGLISH JOURNALIST. Characteristics of the Editor of the London Spectator. A conspicuous British invader at the moment is Mr. St. Leo Strachey editor of the famous Spectator. No one who studies his portrait will question the strength of the character back of the countenance, but, to our mind, Mr. Strachey's most pleasing characteristics are his incisiveness and breadth. It goes without saying that his early education was neglected because, forsooth, this is his first visit to America; nevertheless, he knows a deal more of our country than many of ourselves know, and, while viewing our idiosyncrasies with that amused tolerance which no true Britisher can hide and which, in turn, is amusing to us, he is the most conspicuous, consistent and stanch friend of the United States to be found in London. He is also, in our judgment, the ablest of English journalists. It is well that he should come here and acquaint himself with our people, and it is fitting that we should express our pleasure of seeing him and our wish that he might remain longer.—Harper's Weekly. Variety may be the spice of life, but the old fashioned man sticks to cloves. The Case of the Cub. (Copyright, 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Among the other women in the woodland hotel, far in that massive frest which parallels the southern shore of Lake Superior, Constance Penrhyn stood alone by reason of her beauty and her wealth. She was 28 years old, of large graceful figure, dark gray eyes, black eyebrows, raven hair and a complexion of pure white and red. Her splendid face wore a sweetly serious look and she seemed a self-contained woman of mind and heart. In her ten seasons of society she had seen no man whom she could love. She had been wooded ardently, but had remained ice. It had been her fate to arouse the desire of possession in many men. Wherever she went there were lovers sighing in her train. They could not say that she treated them unfairly, or that one was more esteemed than another. One and all they were courteously received and, when their times came, as courteously though firmly dismissed. She often told herself that she could not understand love; that she had no inherent incapacity to love and that she would die an old maid. She believed this. It must be understood that she had no irremovable prejudice against matrimony or insensate desire to preserve her freedom at any cost. She was convinced that woman is incomplete without marriage and she would have assumed gladly the duties of wifehood if she could have found a man to win her heart. This man had never come, and now, although she did not look to be older than 22, she viewed the near approach of the thirties with disquietude and the prospect of a loveless, childless age had no charms for her. These were the men at this hotel who loved her and wanted her: Erasmus Moody, professor of political economy in a state university; a slight, nervous man with eyeglasses and a tendency to dyspepsia, who rejoiced in a flow of language and had a belief that wisdom must appeal to a woman of Miss Penryn's intellectual brow. She discussed coinage with him, consumption, production and kindred topics and seemed to enjoy him mightly. He was afraid of the water and as she spent much of her time on, or in, the lake he was handicapped. Herbert Graham, 35 years old; lawyer in excellent practice; good looking, but not so good-looking as he thought himself; rather a cocksure man and a bold wooer. He valued the other lightly and had felt certain of success since she had told him that to put a jury in tears or sway the multitude from the hustings seemed to her the greatest and most desirable achievement possible to man. George Trevanton, physician, a clean and modest fellow enough, somewhat bashful, who never had a thought of gaining the prize and effaced himself greatly, worshiping from afar and gloomily. Claude Mayne DeLay, poet and writer for the magazines, in long hair, Vandyke beard and bob-tailed coat with a velvet collar, who spoiled much good paper indicting verses and made "Constance" rhyme with "chance," "glance," "lance" and "pants." A yellow visage had Claude Mayne DeLay, and calf eyes which rolled in ecstasy on slight provocation, a strong aversion to bodily exercise but a penchant for moonlight strolls and quiet nooks wherein; there was light enough for reading his manuscript to sufferers. M. C. H. Leaped to her feet. John Hammond, unanimously dubbed the Cub and mortally offensive to three of the older rivals. This was a big, loosely built youth of 23, fresh from college, with the football hair of the past season cut close, a tan on his clear cheeks, a merry, healthy laugh and an adoration in his blue eyes which he did not try to hide. These eyes had in them the light of juvenescence, a light that proves fatal to many women old enough to know better. It was during the last week of Miss Perhyn's stay that the professor proposed in form. He had invited her into the small, stuffy parlor in which no one ever sat and there he went down upon his thin knees. She did not ask him to rise, or offer to assist him. He went gallantly through a lengthy steward of affection and when he ran out of words at last she smiled and said: "I shall never marry, Professor. I admire your gifts and think you are a good man, but can go no further. No: the subject matter is quite hopeless, believe me. Please consider the subject closed." There was no getting around that. The Professor in an unusual burst of confidence told Graham about it. The lawyer chuckled and said: "You ought to have come to me first, old man; I could have told you better." He was next. It happened down by the edge of the lake, where a great hemlock had fallen and made a convenient seat. He went through glibly enough, then, not waiting for an acquiescence of which he had no doubt, slipped an arm about her waist. She wrenched herself free, leaped to her feet and turned on him a face of hot indignation. Not trusting herself to speak, she walked toward the house. He ran after her and asked shame-facedly: "Am I not to have an answer?" She glanced at him fely and replied: "You are not worth an answer." Graham did not tell the Pro A Was talking earnestly. fessor about this, but paid his bill and went back to the city that evening. It is not believed that George Trevian would have asked her to marry him if his misery had not forced him to speak. He told her that he was not good enough for her; that it was not meant for such as he to win and wear so bright a jewel; that he would not have spoken at all but that he wanted her to know that he loved her very dearly and would always love her, no matter whether she became another's wife or not. "I am only a plain man," said poor George. "and I have never expected that you could care for me, but such as I am, I love you with my whole heart and soul." She was tender and compassionate with him. She gave him her hand and told him that she esteemed him truly and any woman ought to be proud to be his wife. "You will find some one better suited to you and who will care for you," she added. "I know that you will; I shall pray that you will." There were tears in her gray eyes. Claude Mayne DeLay debated long within himself. He had little doubt of the result, but wanted to do the thing properly and in keeping with his character as a poet and rising man of letters. Should he woo her finally by moonlight, when the softening rays of Cynthia fell about her—she had praised his "Moon-Song." "O, coldly calm dead sister of the night." Or should he pop in that shady cloister of balsam pines and maple wherein he had read to her nearly all of his book of society verse, "Satan and Satin"—she had rather fancied his "Lilith" lines: "Her hair of serpent gold that wripped, and the swart diamonds of her eyes." As it happened he did not do either. He proposed in verse and left the pink paper in its envelope under her napkin at breakfast. He never got an answer and he understood why before he was a day older. He wandered by moonlight that night—wandered and wondered what form her acceptance would take. An hour later, his face pale and the clammy dew of agony on his brown, he hunted up the Professor and Trevian and told them what he had seen. This was it in brief: Rounding a turn in the path he saw a bit of sward moon-lighted. In the center of the sward stood Miss Penryn and the Cub, who loomed big and boyish. The Cub was talking earnestly; the lady's face was half averted, but her whole delicious figure seemed to droop and melt toward him in spite of herself. He took her hand. She tried weakly to withdraw it, but he was stronger than she. The Cub went from bad to worse. He drew her toward him; next instant she was in his arms, apparently content, her black hair showing against his flannel blazer. "I came away then," said the Poet huskily. "Astonishing!" said the Professor. "Women are mere creatures of impulse." "He's a good boy," said Trevianon. "She is older than he, but they will be happy." It was so with her. Men and women may try to explain it, or let it alone. After ten seasons Constance Penryn loved the Cub as fondly and much more strongly than a chit of sixteen could have done it. What is more she married him, and regards him still as quite peerless among men. 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That's why this is such a big store, and all the time growing; that's why we have had nearly forty years of successful business and have gained your confidence. For the benefit of the new comers who do not already know, we repeat: If you buy an article here that is not what you thought it was when you get it home, bring it back at once in salable condition, with duplicate check, and get your money again. Emery,Bird,Thayer,Co. Walnut, Grand Ave. & Eleventh St. A. Modest Aspiration A man was asked recently by the gruff clerk at the stamp window, after he had deposited two cents, "Well, what do you want?" He answered gently, "An automobile, please." Verily, a soft answer turnest away wrath. —Albany Arms. Jewish Student and Author So Francis Montefiore is deeply interested in the subject of Zionism, and he is also an author, having written a monograph on the life and tragic death of Mime de Lamballe, one of the terrorists of the French revolution. Work of Coast Guardians The report of the life-saving service shows that there were 385 accidents registered vessels in this country last year. But out of 32342 persons in danger only nineteen in all were lost, and the property loss was about $2,300,000. There are 272 life-saving stations, of which 195 are on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the Great Lakes and 16 on the Pacific coast. The cost of maintaining the service was $1,600,000. Our Trade With Cuba Imports into Cuba, from the United States for the first half of 1902 were 12 per cent less than for the same period three years ago, while those from Spain actually decreased, showing that so far Cuba's liberation has been an injury to this country and help to Spain. Still Cuba sent us 74 per cent of all her exports and bought from us 44 per cent of all the goods she imported. The CURVE SALOON M. COHN, Proprietor. 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CENTS. High grade imported Havana. ST. VALENTINE. Not rose, not tender eglantine Not dill, not the cabbage. Blue-veined the blues are. I know, And darkly red the roses glow, But I have sent the ironweed, Unmouth and harsh, whose dusky seed The palms of unseen sowers sow. Not rude my emblem, if you find My meaning here, though faint outlined, For from sudden clash of thought No purer fire can be wrought Than hint-stell spark of mind to mind. Nay, as you touch it time shall bring A glimpse of low horizon-ring, And dreamy sweep of plant breeze That unddin-ness over grassy soas- The rustie of the wind's broad wing. From my rough hand to lay in thine I send this offering—its a sign of love until my latest breath of iron faith that holds through death— A sunburn Westin valentine. —Ernest M. Muffey in the Woman's Home MISS NANGY'S FIRST VALENTINE MISS NANGY'S FIRST VALENTINE BY MARIE BOTHILDA Miss Nancy Larkins, up to her fortieth anniversary, had never received a valentine, moreover, the lady had always declaimed against such "sentimental nonsense." Perhaps the former clause of the foregoing proposition may explain the reason for the latter, and then, again, the latter peculiarity may have been a case of sour grapes. Her friends were divided in opinion. The village gossips had dubbed her "old mad" sometimes alluding to her as "peculiar," both favorite epithets which wise people bestow upon those who venture to disagree with public opinion. She lived with an orphan niece, somewhat secluded, seddon left home to gad about, never gossiped with her neighbors, and positively refused to attend the weekly reunions of the "L. S. C.", which initials she sarcastically interpreted to mean "Ladies" Scandal Club." instead of the authentic one of "Ladies Sewing Circle." Miss Nancy is cold and unsympathetic, so the village gossips said, but regardless of consequences, she nudibly sniffed her contempt at their pet traditions and amusements. There was one however, whom her cold, forbidding exterior could not deceive. Her next door neighbor, Colonel Watson. He had traveled, he had seen the world—and women—and was able to look deeper than corkscrew curls and a tilted nose to find the jewel that others were too obtuse to see. The colonel had settled in the village some three years previous to this story, with a young daughter. His garden adjoined that of Miss Nancy; in fact, he could look over the fence and see that maiden—a thing he often did—whenever she came out to trim her rose bushes, loosen the earth around her pet plants or "shoo" the chickens out of the lettuce patch. So also, she could look over the fence and see the colonel—a thing she often did slyly, for he was a comely person to look at—and see him fussing about his garden. There was generally a "good morning" or a more nod, as is customary with close neighbors, but there was no lolling on the fence or gossiping. The acquaintance went no farther than circumstance formality. What their elders lacked in cordiality, the two girls made up in close intimacy. It did not take three years for them to become clums, and their constant chatter about the affairs of each household, put both the colonel and Miss Nancy in possession of every little secret. Trifling confidential communications by his daughter, small scraps of information concerning Miss Nancy, and his interpretation of village tattle, which he treated like dreams as always meaning the contrary, created in the colonel's breast a warm regard for the woman who possessed the courage of her own convictions and the bravery to live her life J. She looked over toward the colonel's garden. in her own way regardless of the ambitious desires of the public to manage it in their way. He had also discovered certain peculiarities of Miss Nancy which were not generally known. It appeared that she had been feeding and clothing a poor woman and her two children while the husband and father was lying sick in a hospital in a strange city. He had also followed her at a distance on Christmas eve, when she was carrying a heavily laden basket of good and cheerful things. He would have been glad to help her carry the burden, but he was afraid of being snubbed, the brave colonel that he was. When he saw her deposit her basket at the door of a humble dwelling, and, after tapping gently, scurry away to avoid being caught in such a shameful act, he stared in astonishment, and his heart went pit-a-pat lest she should catch him in the act of spying upon her. Had he not heard the Widow Mullins sing her praises, with tears in her honest eyes? "Whin Mickey bruk his leg last winter, an' I wor that bad wid the asthmy I couldn't wurruk, the two of us'd abeen in the poor house but for that same Miss Nancy. Whin I kissed the hand of her an' said: 'May the good Lord bless ye, Miss Nancy, mavourneen, an' may ivy hair of yer head be a mould candle to light ye to glory,' she scowled at me till I wor scairt. But 'tis the warrum heart she has, alanna, an' 'tis angered she she is whin tould of it." These and many other little telltale incidents affected the sensitive heart of the colonel, and he sought opportunities to make a closer acquaintance with the lady who was evidently fanning into a bright flame the dying embers in his bosom. But the fates were against him until a brilliant idea occurred to the youthful minds of the two girls, a little scheme of their own, over which they had many a giggle. They had noticed the colonel looking over the fence furtively when puttering about his garden, and his bow, and "good morning," and they had also noticed the staid Miss Nancy peeping out of the corner of her window which overlooked the garden of her martial neighbor. In Y. M. fact, they caught her in the act one day, and her explanation, "I do believe it is going to rain," did not deceive them in the least. They saw the beginning of a romance and, girl like, they schemed to help it along. Valentine's day was approaching, and this gave them an idea and an opportunity to conspire against their elders with safety. They knew that Miss Nancy had never received a valentine, and that she was a violent opponent of such sentimentality. "And do you really mean to say that you never got a valentine, Aunt Nancy—not even a small one—when you were young?" Lottie asked the question. She had reached the mature age of nineteen years and had a collection of those tender missives of all shapes and sizes which were the envy of her less fortunate friends. "Never." sniffed Aunt Nancy with a scornful toss of her head. "I'd like to have seen a young man dare to send me one of the silly things when I was a girl. I never could see any sense in Valentine's day. "It is positively infamous, girls. Do you know that St. Valentine had nothing to do with the absurd custom, and it is a shame to fasten it upon him. Are you aware what it means?" The girls shook their heads. "I thought not, most girls do not, or they would scorn the horrid things. It began in an old heathen custom of celebrating a festival on the 14th of February on account of the return of spring. The birds at that time began to prepare their nests, twittered on the tree limbs, where they cuddled up close, sat on the house tops and rubbed their little beaks together, or caused one another about. In the dark ages, firts and lovers, called 'galantines,' sent love letters to their charmers on that day, and we call the day 'Valentine' because it sounds like the name which means a flirt, a gallant. It is wicked for Christians to have anything to do with it." Lottie looked over at Mabel, the Colonel's daughter, and slyly winked. "But, Auntie." persisted the girl. "you had lovers when you were young, didn't you? They were queer lovers not to care enough about you to send you one." Miss Nancy's corkscrew curls fluttered impatiently. "I never had a lover, child. I wouldn't have the idle fellows hanging around me, so they kept away because I wasn't silly enough to suit them. Pooh! the idea of running around to dances and parties and sitting in dark corners with their arms around my waist! That was something I never fancied. I shudder when I think of such a thing." When Mabel went home she told her father all about Miss Nancy's views on the subject and her learning. "Dear me, she must be a blue stocking," was all he said, adding, however, so that Mabel did not hear it: "She's a fine woman all the same." Bright and early the postman came, and as he was obliged to deliver whatever Uncle Sam hands him to deliver, whether acceptable or not, he handed Miss Nancy a missive with a sus- pleious edging of lace around the envelope. The girls snickered and ran away, watching, however to see what Miss Nancy would do with it—she seldom received letters, and this was something unusual. Turning it over and over suspiciously, she looked around furtively and put it in the bosom of her dress without opening it. By and by she went up to her own little room and opening it, this is what she read: "This heart I present to Miss Nancy, Dare I hope that some day she'll be mine? For her I have long had a fancy, I confess it in this valentine." Her usually pale cheek flushed a vivid scarlet, but she looked over toward the colonel's garden. Lottie bursting in upon her, she hastily hid the missive in her bosom. "Oh, Auntie, Auntie, did you get a valentine? What fun, a valentine at last. I saw the postman deliver it, and it looks just like one of mine." "No, it is not a valentine," said Miss Nancy stiffly, "it is a letter from a friend." She blushed again at the prevarication, for Nancy was truthful, too much so, some said. Lottie saw it and rushed over to Maelel's. "She's got it, Mabel, she's got it, and she says it is from a friend. Come over and we'll finish our scheme." The horrid girls danced in upon Miss Nancy and actually caught her studying the tender missive. Without listening to her protestations, they each gave her a good hug, and seized the valentine. "Who is it from?" queried Lottie. Mabel examined it critically, and whispered mysteriously in her friend's ear, loud enough, however, for Miss Nancy to overhear: "It looks like papa's writing; it is papa's writing." Then hand it back, she said aloud: "What a beautiful valentine. It is actually hand painted. See, dear Miss Nancy, it is like a heart, with little pink hearts all over it and sprigs of lovely forget-me-nots intertwined. Whoever sent you that loves you truly. I wonder what it can be?" "I know," said Miss Nancy shortly, "the impudent fellow." Clapping on her hat, she went straight up to the colonel's front door, which he happened to open at that moment to go out. With an indignant toss of her head and without uttering a word, she cast at the amazed colonel's feet the poor innocent valentine, and, turning, fled home again with her heart going pita-pat and her knees shaking under her. Within an hour, a special messenger handed Miss Naney a plain envelope. Opening it, the same valentine dropped out, but written in a bold hand in penmanship unlike the rest, were the words: "I accept the authorship of this valentine and stand by it." Miss Nancy, with a woman's intuition, perceived that she had made a mistake, and in her confusion rushed up to her little room, locked the door and dropped the curtain, probably to keep the impudent colonel out. But he was watching and accepted the signs as favorable, for he called that evening to apologize. "Miss Nancy," he said, "permit me to call you that, everybody else does; I was amazed that you should even suspect me of such an underhand act as sending a valentine when I have a tongue to talk with and express my sentiments. I saw immediately that somebody—I will not say who"—he looked at the two girls sharply, who blushed and stole away—"but as I have long held the same sentiments in your regard, I accept the situation and resolve to speak my mind, the opportunity presenting itself. Can you forgive me, my dear Miss Nancy?" Miss Nancy evidently did forgive him, for the neighbors, not so very long afterward, were astonished to see the belongings of one house moving into the other, the girls superintending the matter, the colonel and Miss Nancy being mysteriously absent on a trip somewhere. Home-Made Valentines Sometimes the valentines made at home find greater favor than any one can buy. Hearts may be cut from watercolor paper and painted red, or My Sweet Heart gilded and a verse written on one side. By a little ingenuity and folding of paper quite a packet may be made in heart shape. A box of candy hearts is a pretty valentine. Original rhymes are acceptable and not so hard to make after all. Cakes neart shaped may be sent as valentines, and ribbon bows pulled to represent a heart are pretty. Valentine Gifts. A heart-shaped cut glass flask for perfume, or a heart-shaped box with silver top for the toilet table, or a ring with a true lover's knot encircling a whole pearl, a turquoise, or an amethyst, which is the February birth stone, would please a young girl. A heart shaped locket with a single pearl and having a place for hair and a photograph inside, is a pretty gift, as is also a pendant of the same shape for the watch chain CHILDREN ARE NOT WANTED. Dr. Shrady says that American Women Prefer Pets. That the American family is becoming a back number and that American women prefer pets to children is declared by Dr. George F. Shrady, editor of the Medical Record. Dr. Shrady became famous as Gen. U. S. Grant's personal physician, and DR. GEORGE F. SHADY his observations have been made in a large measure among the "smart set" in New York. He recently wrote an article for the Medical Record in which he printed statistics showing how families are decreasing. Taking these official figures as the basis of his argument, Dr. Shrady goes on to declare that the birth rate in the United States, especially among the well to do, is rapidly getting as low as it is in France, where general alarm has been caused for the future of the country. Life in flats and the demands of society are given as the principal causes why the American born woman dislikes to raise a family. APACHE A MAN TRACKER. Wonderful Keenness With Which He Follows a Trail. As a trailer the Colorado Apache has no equal. He possesses the acute instinct of the hound combined with an accurate sense of vision. A turned leaf, a fleck of gravel cast aside, the displacement of a pebble from its bed—all are clear, readable pages. They ask few if any particulars of the man they are to follow. They will, as they progress on his track, gather up for themselves one by one little items as to his personality, which are nearly always verified in the end. When following a trail over the iron-capped rocks and stony arroyas of Arizona, his face is a picture of intense concentration; not a syllable escapes him; his pace varies from no visible cause. At times he almost runs. Then, with a rapid glance behind, he glides along slowly and with eyes glued to the ground, possibly for hours. Here and there may be a few stretches of sand, but dry sand leaves after the footstep only an indentation, closing after the pressure, so that, to the inexperienced eye, it might have been a horse or a mule that made it, and not a man—Outing. MERCER SHREWD IN POLITICS. Nebraska Congressman May Succeed Bribitow in Payne's Cabinet. Representative David H. Mercer of Nebraska, whom President Roosevelt would like to appoint to the office of the fourth assistant postmaster gen- DAVID HENRY MERCER eral, now filled by Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas represents the second or Omaha in Congress. He is a lawyer and an acute politician of wide and favorable acquaintance in the Republican party. Echo of Pigott Forgery. An English weekly, speaking of headlines, tells of an excellent one which appeared over a story of the Pigott forgery. In that case one of the devices by which Sir Charles Russell brought the unfortunate forger to bay was by getting him to write the word "hesitance." In the forged letter the word was misspelled "hesitency." The day the flight of Pigott was announced an editor suggested the headline, "The Man Who Hesitetes' Is Lost," and it was so excellent that it was immediately put in type. LORDS WAIT FOR REPORTERS. Unusual Incident in the Upper House of the British Parliament. All was ready in the House of Lords on a Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock for the debate on the education bill, yet not a word was spoken. The House awaited the pleasure of the press. Silence fell upon the chamber, and a hundred peers and blisps and some thirty peerses turned to each other to fill in the time with smiling conversation. Every one looked at the reporters' gallery. Its condition explained the suspended animation of the House. It was empty. The practice of the peers is to meet at 4 o'clock and to sit for half an hour doing nothing. Half past four o'clock is the time fixed for the orders of the day, and the reporters rarely attend till that hour. But the House had arranged that the speeches should begin at 4 o'clock. It had, however, omitted to apprise the press gallery of this intention. Emissaries were sent in search of reporters. Two were found. As soon as they had taken their places in the gallery Lord Londonderry rose.—London Chronicle. DEATH CLAIMS BRAVE FIREMEN. Chief of Milawuke Department and Three Others Sacrificed. The bursting of a cask of nitric acid in the building of the Schwab stamp works at Milwaukee last week while the firemen were fighting an insignificant blaze there, caused the deaths of Chief James J. Foley, Capt. Andrew White, and Edward Hogan and Thomas Droney, pipemen. Several other firemen were made dangerously ill by inhaling the fumes of the acid. It was a sad and unusual scene at the fire station when Foley passed away. Members of his family, a number of priests, newspaper men and A. B. other friends who have always admired the chief for his frequent acts of bravery—for he always led his men—were present at the end. The chief was conscious until the last, and made a brave fight for his life, but finally said it was all over with him, bade good-bye to those standing about, and died as he always said he expected to die, at his post of duty. The death of Chief Foley robs the Milwaukee department of one of the ablest fire fighters in the country. Under his direction the force has been built up to a high state of efficiency, and the chief has become well known among the firemen in large cities. He had been at the head of the department for twenty years and was the oldest fireman on the force. He is the inventor of fire fighting apparatus used in every city in the United States. He has been president of the National Fire Chiefs' Association. The Man Who Filled the Dredge The Man Who Filled the Dredge. To an Irishman, just over, were being shown the various points of interest along the New Yorca water front by a longshoreman friend. They came to a dredge that was working in the river, and the friend explained how it cleaned the mud from the bottom, and kept the channel at proper depth. While they were talking the big scoop, laden with slime, was hoisted up, "Phat do ye think o' that?" asked the friend. "Begob," replied the one just over, "the mon that fills it down below hasn't any cinch." Millionaire's Generous Offer: Joseph Battell, a millionaire land owner of Middlebury, Vt., has offered to rebuild the b stress portion of that town, which was recently destroyed by fire. The proposition of Mr. Battell is to buy the sites of all the buildings burned and to erect on each a fireproof building. Mr. Battell will also assist the concerns to resume business. The only restriction that he makes is that the voters of the village must guarantee in a mass meeting that no salecons shall ever be opened in the village. Congestion of People New York is swamped with people—literally. The condition in the streets and the various railways, surface and elevated, make one think of the oob and flow of vast tides of an ocean. In acute stages they again suggest a picture of New York as one huge "teter"—a long plank balancing daily, down in the morning and up at night. There is room on the plank for a thousand persons to stand and ten thousand fight twice a day for a foothold. LEHMAN TO AID THE JEWS. First American to Win Rhodes Scholarship Maps Out Life's Work. Eugene H. Lehman of Pueblo, Col., the first American to win a scholarship under the Cecil Rhodes educational fund, is taking a postgraduate course in Columbia university and is associated with Dr. Felix Adler and Dr. Richard Gotthelf in their ethical culture movement. He is 24 years old EUGENE H. LENMAN and was graduated from Yale last year. "I expect to devote myself to studying the condition of the Jews in Europe and eastern countries," said Lehman in speaking of his coming work at an English university. "It is a great question and one in which sociologists can do a great deal of good. I expect to accomplish some results in this European question. My scholarship will give me an excellent opportunity. I will devote my life to the work." GLASS BRICKS THE LATEST. German Invention of Much Value to Floriets. "Glass bricks are the latest. Here is a sample one," said the bricklayer. The glass brick was transparent. It resembled the paper weights of glass that are often seen. It would have made, indeed, an excellent paperweight. "The idea of these here glass bricks," the man went on, "is to build hothouses out of them. They are just as transparent as panes of glass, and they keep out the cold better. Thus they would save much fuel. "A hothouse is the most poorly protected place, you know. A small one will sometimes need a ton of coal a day to keep it warm. And so it's the idea that a hothouse of the kind that needs a ton of coal a day can be supplanted by a glass brick hothouse of the same size, and then it won't burn more than a quarter, or, at the outside, a half ton of coal a day. "These bricks are made in Germany. We'll soon be making them here, though, if they prove to be a success." -Philadelphia Record. MORRIS MAY BE MADE JUDGE. Minnesota Congressman Suggested For Newly Made Federal District. While no official announcement to the effect has been made, it is believed that Representative Page Mor- CONGRESSIAN PAGE, MORRIS Congressman PAGE, MODES ris of the Sixth Minnesota district will be appointed by the President to the additional United States district judgeship recently created in Minnesota. Congressman Morris refused to run for Congress again. Trick Worked Both Ways At Greensburg, Kas., after the railroad had appropriated eighteen cars of coal that were billed for that town, it set off a car for its own use. As soon as the fact was known forty men with teams gathered round it and proceeded to help themselves. They weighed and turned in their tickets to the station agent and told him they were ready to pay for the coal any time the railroad company wanted it. They thought taking coal billed to other folks was a game that would work both ways, and it did. A Veteran Artist. Melton Prior, the famous special artist of the Illustrated London News, represented that journal at the Delhi durbar and has now gone to Somali land, where he will join the expeditionary forces. This will be Mr. Prior's twenty-fifth campaign, besides many other important commissions. BEAUTY AND PURITY Ancient and Modern Ideas on the Subject. Time and Disease the Effacing Agents of Beauty. What Has Science Done to Restore the Lily and the Rose? Bromo-Seltzer Fromptly cures all Headaches Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny, Plato a privilege of nature, Theocritus a delightful prejudice, Theophrastus a silent chest, Carneades a solitary kingdom, Homer a glorious gift of nature, Ovid a favor of the gods. Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world, and yet none of these distinguished authorities has left us even a hint of how beauty is to be perpetuated, or the ravages of age and disease defied. Time soon blends the lily and the rose into the pallor of white flowers, with crenulous disjugations and crimsones the Roman nose with unsightly flushes, moth, if not rust, corrupts the glory of eyes, teeth, and teeth yet beautiful by defacing the complexion, and fills the sensitive soul with agony unspeakable. If such be the unhappy condition of one afflicted with slight skin bleisms, what must be the feelings of those in whom torturing humors have for years run riot, covering the skin with scales and sores and charging the blood with poisonous elements to become a part of the system until death? It is valid to attempt to portray such suffering. Death in many cases might be considered a blessing. The blood and fluids seem to be impregnated with a dery element which, when discharged through the pores upon the surface of the body, infames and burns until, in his efforts for relief, the patient tears the skin with his nails, and not until the blood flows does sufficient relief come to cause him to desist. Thus do complexional defects merge into torturing disease, and piquen vantage give place to real suffering. A little wart on the nose or cheek grows to the all-devouring lupus, a patch of tetter on the palm of the hand or on the limbs suddenly envelops the body in its fiery embrace, a bruise on the leg expands into a gawning uche, which reaches out its fangs to the sufferer's heart in every paroxysm of pain, a small kernel in the neck multiplies into a dozen, which eat away the vitality, a great pearl-like scales grow from little rash-like inflammations in such abundance as to pass credulity; and so on may we depict the sufferings to which poor human nature is subject, all of which involve great mental distress because of persons' disfigurements. If there were not another external disease known, eczema alone would be a sufficient infliction on mankind. It pervades all classes, and descends impartially through generations. While some are constantly enveloped in it, others have it confined to small patches in the ears, on the scalp, on the breast, on the palms of the hands, on the limbs, etc., but everywhere its distinctive feature is a small watery blister, which discharges an acrid fluid, causing heat, inflammation, and intense itching. Ring-worm, tetter, scaled head, dandruff, belong to this scaly and itching order of diseases. Psoriasis, our modern leprosy, with its mother-of-pearl scale, situated on a reddened base, which bleeds upon the removal of the scale, is to be dreaded and avoided, as of old. Impetigo, barber's erys, itch, ipsilips, and a score of minor disorders make up in part the case of eczema, caused by no aloison to those afflictions which are manifestly impurities of the blood, viz.: swelling of the glands of the throat, ulcers on the neck and limbs, tumors, abscesses, and mercurial poisons, with loss of hair, because the whole list can be comprehended in the one word scrofula. It is in the treatment of torturing, disguising humors and affections of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, that the Cuticura remedies have achieved their greatest success. Original in composition, scientifically compounded, absolutely pure, unchangeable in any climate, always ready, and agreeable to the most delicate and sensitive, they present to young and old the most successful curative of modern times. This will be consider ed strong language by those acquainted with the character and obstinacy of blood and skin humors but it is justified by innumerable successes where all the remedies and methods in vogue have failed to cure, and, in many cases, to relieve, even. The Cuticura treatment is at once agreeable, speedy, economical, and comprehensive. Bathe the affected parts freely with hot water and Cuticura soap, to cleanse the sur ace of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard rubbing, and apply Cuticura Ointment to allay itching, irritation, and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and, lastly, take Cucicura Resolvent, to cool and cleanse the blood. This treatment affords instant relief, permits rest and sleep in the severest forms of eczema and other itching, burning, and scaly humors, and points to a speedy, permanent, and economical cure of torturing, disgusting humors, eczemas, rashes, and infarmations, from infancy to age, when all other remedies and the best physicians fall. The remedies constituting the Cucicura system will repay an individual scrutiny of their remarkable properties. Cuticura Soap contains in a modified form the medicinal properties of Cuticura Ointment, the great skin cure and purest and sweetest of emollients, combined with the most delicate and refreshing of flower odors. It purifies and invigorates the pores of the skin, and imparts activity to the oil glands and tubes, thus furnishing an outlet for unwholesome matter, which if retained would cause pimples, blackheads, rashes, oily, mothy skin, and other complexional disgustations, as well as scalp affections and irritations, falling hair, and baby rashes. Its gentle and continuous action on the natural skin surface allows the lace to be transparent, soft, flexible, and healthy. Hence its constant use, assisted by an occasional use of Cuticura Ointment, realizes the fairest complexion, the softest, whitest hands, and the most luxuriant, glossy hair within the domain of the most advanced scientific knowledge to supply. Cuticura Ointment is the most successful external curative for torturing, disguising humors of the skin and scalp, avoiding loss of hair, in proof of which a single anointing with it, preceded by a hot bath with Cuticura Soap, and followed in the severer cases by a full dose of Cuticura Resolvent, is sufficient to afford immediate relief in the most distressing forms of 'itching, burning, and scalp humors, permit rest and sleep, and point to a speedy cure when all other remedies fail. It is especially useful to treat tortures of the skin and children, cleaning, soothing, and healing the most distressing of infantile humors, and preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, and hair. Cuticura Ointment possesses, at the same time, the charm of satisfying the simple wants of the toilet of all ages, in caring for the skin, scalp, hair, and hands far more effectually, agreeably, and economically than the most expensive of toilet emollients, while free from every ingredient of a doubtful or dangerous character. Its "One Night Treatment of the Hands," or "Single Treatment of the Hair," or use after athletics, cycling, golf, tennis, riding, sparring, or any sport, each in connection with the use of Cuticura Soap, is sufficient evidence of this. Of all remedies for the purification of blood and blood vessels, many approaches in specific medical treatments Cuticura Resolvent. It neutralizes and resolves away (hence its name) scroffulous, inherited, and other humors in the blood, which give rise to swellings of the glands, pains in the bones, and torturing, disfiguring eruptions of the skin and scalp, with loss of hair. Cuticura Resolvent extends its purifying influence by means of the pores to the surface of the skin, allaying irritation, inflammation, itching, and burning, and soothing and healing. Hence its success in the treatment of distressing humors of the skin, scalp, and blood, with loss of hair, which fail to be permanently cured by external remedies alone. The grandest testimonial that can be offered Cuticura remedies is their world-wide sale, due to the personal recommendations of those who have used them. It is difficult to realize the mighty growth of the business done under this name. From a small beginning in the simplest form, against prejudice and opposition, against monied hosts, countless rivals, and trade indifference, Cuticura remedies have become the greatest curatives of their time, and, in fact, of all time, for nowhere in the history of medicine is to be found another approaching them in popularity and sale. In every case, every people they have met with the same reception. The confines of the earth are the only limits to their growth. They have conquered the world. To the test of popular judgment all things muniune must finally come. The civilized world has rendered its verdict in favor of Cuticura. The ODD CORNER The Street. If time should lag and pleasure pull And life seem dull and incomplete. With open eyes and ears and heart, Just stroll along some city street. A thousand interests, you'll find Are lying at your very feet; Life's comedies and tragedies Enacted on the crowded street. In drama, with a smile or tear Of ready sympathy, you greet The very scenes that every day Are passed unheeded in the street. And characters which, true to life, Afford in books the greatest treat, Are but the prototype of those Who pass you hourly on the street. All human joys and sorrows touch, All races, sects, and classes meet And mingle in a common world, On that great middle ground, the street. Clocks Visible at Night. It is easy to tell the time on the average public clock during the day, XII IX VII VI VIII IX II I but very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to tell it during the night, and for this reason a suggestion which has been made in a foreign scientific journal is of interest. The first of the two accompanying pictures show a clock as it appears at night and the second picture shows the clock as it should appear. In the first picture the figures showing the hours are very faint and the two hands are quite indistinct. In the second picture no figures are visible, and there is only one hand, but, as will be seen, the claim is made that a dial of this kind will indicate the time correctly and clearly, even on the darkest night. Many public clocks are now illuminated, but experience shows that such illumination does not tend to make them as clearly visible as they should be, partly owing to the shadow of the heavy framework. A French scientist suggests as an improvement, first, that the dial shall be darkened at night; second, that the hour hand shall be brilliantly lighted with white or green light, and, third, that each hour shall be marked by a luminous red point, instead of by the hour hand. He also says that the present vertical position of public clocks is utterly erroneous, and that they ought to be inclined downward, as they could then be seen much more easily. Finally, he points out that only a few changes are necessary to bring about this improvement, and that it is ridiculous in our age to have in our cities costly clocks which the of very little use except during the hours of the day. A Cat's Long Journey. A family once left Swanley Kent, and went to Dedham, near Colchester, Essex, taking with them two cats. A few days after their arrival at Dedham one of the cats disappeared and it was not seen again for six days, when it turned up at the old home at Swanley. The distance from Dedham to Swanley is about eighty miles. How the cat crossed the Thames is a matter still to be explained. "Pussy," being beyond a good deal thinner, was none the worse for its long journey.—London Answers. Oldest Version. This is a facsimile of a passage from the oldest known version of the gospels. The Coolest of Eakirs Describing the Simsbury (Connecticut) fair, the Hartford Courant says the fakirs were many, and their devices to catch the unwary were varied, but one fellow outdid the rest, and did the crowd handsomely. His only apparatus was an unblushing cheek and a nimble tongle. His style was much like this: "Now, who will give me a dollar? What? No one will give me a dollar? Ah, thank you, I have one. Now, who will give me the next dollar?" and so it went on for a few minutes, the crowd which gathered being anxious to see what new scheme he had up his sleeve. After he had gathered in twenty-seven dollars, and the crowd began to look pretty well squeezed, he said: "Well, now, gentlemen, you deliberately give me this money to do what I please with it? I can buy a present for my wife or SISTER BEATRIX A letter recently received by Dr. Hartman from Sister Beatrix, 410 W. 30th street, New York, reads as follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir; "I cannot say too much in praise of Peruna. Eight bottles of it cured me of catarrh of the lungs of four years standing, and I would not have been without it for anything. It helped several Sisters of Cougha and colds and I have yet to find one case of catarrh that it does not cure." Interesting Letters from Catholic Institutions. In every country of the civilized world the Sisters of Charity are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to their care, but they also minister to their bodily needs. With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and disease, these wise and prudent sisters have found Peruna a never-failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received from a Catholic institution in Detroit, Mich., reads as follows: Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Sir: "The young girl who used THE NORTHWESTERN COMPANY of DES All policies required by law to be secured by department of funds limited by charter to loans on Fire. FEAT: A Limited Liability Compulsory distribution of the SECURITIES ON STATE A DEC. 31, '96, $97,400 DEC. 31, '97, $36,700 DEC. 31, '98, $119,000 DEC. 31, '99, $277,200 DEC. 31, 1900, $372,000 DEC. 31, 1901, $695,800 DEC. 31, 1002, $1,122,000 TOTAL ADMISSION $1,380,000 AGENTS WANTED: Reliable energy earnings by selling our ten year endowment in THE HOME OFFICE. For OFFICE D. F. WITTER, President. ARTHUR REYNOLDS, Vice President. G. W. 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Address or apply to THE HOME OF OLLEY, Fourth Elm, observator Bldg., Des Moines, Iowa. OFFICERS. D. F. WITTER, President. ARTHELLEY, Vice President. W. M. MARGUARD, Treasurer. C. C. CROWKILL, Secretary. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We sent FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page ilus, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by our mild method, no paid a cent till cured. We furnish their names on application, DRS. THORNTON & MINOR, 1030 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. 5 TRAINS 5 Kansas City to St Louis The Wabash has the only line running direct through the World's Fair ground. Wabash back to New York, where it travels to Buffalo, New York, Boston and the East. L. S. McCLELLA N. Western Passenger Agent, 903 Main Street, Kansas City Mo. There are degrees of evil doing, but none of them are worth taking. In Winter Use Allen's Foot Ease. A powder. Your feet feel uncomfortable, nervous and often cold and damp. If you have sweating sore feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot Ease. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cents. Sample sent free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Second—To be a "society man" and a lover of pleasure is fatal to success. smoke it up? Yes?" and the crowd nicked assent or remained silent while the fakir jammed the twenty- seven dollars into his pocket, saying: "Thank you, gentlemen; I will be here at nine o'clock in the morning." Perh aps he was. Hand-to-Hand Fight with Bear- The other day, while George Anderson was walking back to flag any trains that might be following the one he was with, on the South Fork branch of the Pennsylvania railroad near Scalp Level, Altoona, Pa., he heard some one walking along behind him. Thinking it was a tramp, who was about to hold him up, he turned suddenly to find himself confronted by a black bear walking with its hind legs and with its paws outstretched to grab him. Desperate from fright, he brought his brake pin into play, knocking brain down. He then pounded the prostrate brute into a state of coma, after which he cut its throat. Summoning the other members of the crew he carried the carcass to the train and took it to Altoona. The bear weighed 150 pounds. Some Odd Resemblances. Odd resemblances to various objects, which can only be regarded as accidental coincidences, are presented by a number of fungi, says the Rev. A. S. Wilson in knowledge. There is the Jew's-car fungus, which grows on stumps of the elder, and is so named from its unmistakable likeness to a human ear. The goasters are curiously like star-fish; asbeer has an extraordinary resemblance both in form and color to a sea anemone; equally remarkable is the likeness to a bird's nest seen in species of crucibulum, cyathus and nidularia. The most of these are too small to impose on one; the resemblance is singularly exact, and a large specimen might almost pass for the nest of some small bird, the eggs being admit: by represented by the little oval fruits of the fungus. Indian Headsman. Nowhere is to be found a more pompous or a more awe-inspiring person than the headsmans, who plays in India the role which the official hangsmans plays in a European city. His deadly work he performs with great skill, and in his bearing there is a certain dignity which is never seen in a European hangman. Moreover, while in Europe, the populace regards a hangman with a feeling which is partly ```markdown ``` contempt and parity horror, the people of India respect and fear the public executioner, and never seem to think that he has lowered himself in the social scale by accepting the office of headsman. On festive occasions, and when arrayed in his robes of office, the executioner is decidedly a picturesque figure, and altogether different from the somber and grim hangman of Europe. Pays High Price for Beauty A well-known English woman pays $4,000 a year to be made beautiful. Her treatment lasts from six to seven hours every day. She is kept in a bath for one hour, and a dark room, for four, and for the remalde is bandaged from head to foot in chemical preparation. Queer Method of Suicide. "A man once cut his throat with the picture of his mother," is the committ of Roland B. Molineux on the reason for one of the regulations in the death house" at Sing Sing. Odd Items from Everywhere. The temperature of a swallow's body is extraordinarily high, no less than 112 Fahrenheit. Herr Noll of Berlingen in Germany has made a clock warranted to go 10,000 years without winding. Garfish, sunfish, basking sharks and dolphins all have the habit of swimming with their eyes above the surface of the water. In a recent test a quarter-inch bar of steel did not break till 8,332 pounds were put upon it, but a bar of iron at the same diameter bore 4,504 pounds only. The gulf stream is 200 fathoms deep off Cape Florida. Near Cape Hatteras the depth is only half as great, the stream appearing to have run uphill, with an ascent of ten inches to the mile. The most valuable statue in the world is that of the god Diabutsun, in Yokohama, Japan. It is sixty-three and one-half feet high, weighs 450 tons and contains 500 pounds weight of pure gold. entry of the civilized world harity are known. Not only do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges commi- tured to their care, but they also provide body needs. With so many children to take care In Winter Use Allen's Foot-Ease. The Peruna was suffering from laryngitis, and loss of voice. The result of the treatment was most satisfactory. She found great relief, and after further use of the medicine we hope to be able to say she is entirely cured."—Sisters of Charity. This young girl was under the care of the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna for catarh of the throat, with good results as the above letter testines. From a Catholic institution in Central Ohio comes the following recommend from the Sister Superior. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio ON LIFE and SAVINGS IN MOINES, IOWA. With the State Auditor of Iowa. Invest- ment Mortgages on Farms and on its own policies. URES: Expense Fund. Warnings among its Polleyholders. DEPOSIT WITH AUDITOR. 47.00 20.00 162.00 238.00 020.00 379.35 1,801.82 UNTED ASSETS, 1,164.74 and experienced agents can treble their commissi- ment policies. Address or apply to Wilh. Loisr. Observatory Blg. Des Moines, Iowa. CERS. C. M. REELER Asst. Secretary. K. M. HIDWIN Actuary. W. L. FAIR. General Attorney. CRAYKE PRIESTLE M.D. Med. Director. TILL CURED, 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. A 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured and a cent filtured—we furnish their names on application. TON & MINOR, 10 30 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. 5 TRAINS 5 Kansas City to St Louis The Wailah has the only line running direct- through the World's Fair ground. Wash- tah train No. 2 leaving Kansas City Cty. in daily service, direct to Buffalo, New York, Boston and the East. S. M CLELLAN. Western Passenger Agents, 03 Main Street, Kansas City Mo. Idleness is the post graduate course of worthlessness. INSIST ON GETTING IT. 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Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public either in buying his goods or in repair- ing of watches and jewelry (which is a specialty) assures nothing less than complete satisfaction. Bargains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, baby rings, fadies’ gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. Ghe Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. — RAROBSRRARRAR ae ree Beat Stoves Made st Uargest sesch tm City | ipeierrrmleredl Fricea the Loweat. | i Caer ¥ Yi Rrra whiney" Peninsular CL rE —_— ay san gee Steet Ranges, Stes! Oven Cook Stoves, Base Bur | Sa By | ners, Furnaces, ard all goods made by the. | f Rae] i Peninsular Stove ee RY = German Heater, Soft Coal Hascheater, Cole'stto .N 3 inet, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont er ee Onk Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces 5 RES |. TIN WORK e Speoialty. se ieee) i N| ‘Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 4 a PD (0, "Phone 1451. RP) AVON} 200 cRaNp avener, SS ae 913-015 Flot STREET. CRUTCHER @ WELSH, 716 DELEWARE STREET, Ti you want to buy a House, li so want to rent a House, If vou want to. sell a House, If you want to borrow Money, Ii you want to [nsure your House or Furniture - SEE-—_—_—- CRUTCHER. (Q WELSH, | Tel. 1315 2054. 716 Deleware St. ae HE new, non-failing and tnfallibie com- AER = Dined greatment for the human laity OZONO aiid CEDROLINE, used con” otntise ‘conor ‘ail to fen t6 ‘the. Mair if enath: sire te and heaney One Sar B Ago the directorsot the ROSTUN CHESTICAL ma C5. with the sole purpose and intention to . . produce nn abootutele perfeot and relate A\ frestmene fon tha Hain appropriated t the sum of $60 for’ this purpose : Alone, Tho gervires of three of the . World's mostenoted chemists were se Cured, wiioy after twelve months of iD investyration and contiyexperiinents, i have successfully formulated a treat Rent ag potent and powrertute tet go harniless and fonocenty that its inutnedinte Seecte Goon aie Hale order ‘yon Che falrneuicuae ‘This treatnient can be used Frail faith and confidence: as itis certain Fedral resutea most gratittang:cauaing Hie iste’ eg"grow fon rand fusuriant, Straiciityand of amost deliente and pliable features Ve prevents the tendency of tho Haro araw up, contract cur and ¢angie, thus making tt easy to dress the fale tn , Ge S Any stile desired "It causes the Hair to HK ) FON cut on all bala spots Scant’ partings, 2, tere inplaces and hare tenpies. tt fesurets io prevent the Hair from falling, breaking bd, Bat and apiteeing at the ends. “his wreat ‘ AWD compinna renimenets now the mont wonderful elses tec gygueh forthe Hairin the whole wide world. i Ay a ‘The most generous offer ever made by any firm Le on earth, Cut out this advertisement, and send to us, Maho with only 81.50, and. tmmedietely upon receipt of same, Wo Mill send to you a fuil and complete treatment, consisting of xa Pwo caten larve boxes of OZONO, king ofall Hale Tones, worth $200; also two tarze bottles of CEOROLINE, the tightnine yi Mair Growers worth $210); also ome jarge package of our Ingest dis Wi] Covers. POWDERED EGG SHAMPOO, worth si. ¢ also one Dar ot ; Surcelotrated and renowned PURITY SCALP SOAR, worth 2¢ and Ve Sue" Tyine, package of” ANFI-OBOR, the ‘most wonderful” fot Spectnity ot tho day, worth aie. This grand collection, worth 4 all $500, wit bo Ae helt of Wi. BO mud Sour Hamieang Adare Nigh FON, phy iid “eh uplete dineetions, together, With Our beautiful Souvenir Catalogues Just!) Called tive tollet educator of the day. NOTE.To all who have over bought OZONO we will send this great bargain omer forronty @1.00-. Your word will be sumelent. ‘simply tell us when aiid where Sivomnatt Te ANS ashore oor ty made with ths ohare of ancuriny yout Agent, ‘eho eam coin money walling oe preparations.” No mintigrsiere Sou We, 9 Cun get our goods safely to yOu, Bo not delays order to-day. Address BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. Mention this paper when you write. : FLOUR KE L oY ve F = KELLEY'S BEST rae) tex! Beats all the Rest PRED 7 Manufactured by KANSAS CITY, U.S. AL y y Wid ge Are You ak, of P, ss ¥q7- a , e \ a — Wy aly . 1 4 1 Se Fig If Not, Why Not? \ aa NUK, WHY NOT: Nin Gere Do you know that the Knights of Pythias { 2 Be cue reer VERE ON > The four departmerts of the Order are as USMY SESS fouewe: SH ~ 3 Subordinate Lodge. AS A.W. LLOYD, Grand Chancetior ot In this the members are united to = SRR USN YON eare for and protect each other in health as well as in sickness and distrest Oniform Rank. In this department our young men are receiving a military educa: tion which they can get in no other way, thus making them better and more useful citizens, Ladies’ Court. In this the wives, mothers, widows, daughters and sisters of Knights are united for the common purposes of life. Endowment. In this department we are paying out thousands of dollars annually to the widows and heirs of deceased Knights. IF THERE 1S NO LODGE IN YOUR LOCALITY, CONFER WITH THE DEPUTY CHANCELLOR OF YOUR DISTRICT, OR WRITE A, W. LLOYD, GRAND CHANCELLOR, 2629 LUCAS AVE., ST. Louis, MO., FOR TERMS UPON WHICH TO ORGANIZE A LODGE. 6 ito A WARK UN itv Trai YAM | Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnifi- cent huildings theWabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No sb. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p.m. arrives Niagra. Falls and Buthalo next evening, aud New York and Boston second morning, saving a day's travel. Through ser- vice. Wabash is the only line that does it, L. S. McCLELLAN, | Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. Onion National Bank ATONE C ° Statement as made to te Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business Loans and Discount: ceiaaxaeeeasine Rea Taw abe: $5.795,696,.26, VS Bons, at par Dre terserersasexsanec ge SURSSDODIOD: Cash and Sight Exchange UeeSetasvenianeteainns SAMTITL4 4,313,958.78. Total, x Spseveastsessa® 5 see ee sees: $10,110,655.01 Capital Stock Psie +8 600,009.00 A LETTER FROM MISS SUSIE BOGGS, No. 780 Charlotte, St Kansas City, Mo., Aug., 1902, American Mutual Ald Association, St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen: want to thank you for the promptness in the payment of the claim that was due me for the time that I was seriously i, and also want to thank your agent, Mr. G. A. Clay, for bis regular attention to sne cand your doctor for his visiting me every day while L was sick, which was @ great saving for me since it cost me nothing Yours for success, SUSIE BOGGS. We don't go around boasting about what we have done; we allow others to do this Those persons who feel that they should be insured against accidents and sickness, we courteously invite you to Investigate all, companies of this nature, and if you find any one among them that will afford you the privileges, and benefits that we do, then we appeal to you to go in to such company; but if not, then we throw open our books for your enrollment. Whether you would be insured or not, eall to see us; we would be pleased to post you on the laws of fraternal insurance, G. ACLAY, Organizer, 1108 Charlotte St. W. C. COMBS, Examiner, 1104 Charlotte, St. Ready for Death, A man, beirg seriously ill, asked his wife to send tor the minister, who came, and talked some time with the good old man, On leaving he tried to comfort the wite, saying that while Jobn was very weak he was evidently ready for a better world, Unexpect: edly, however, John rallied and said to bis wifes “Jenny, my woran, Tl maybe he spared to you yet." “Na, na, Jobu,” was the reply; “ye've prepared and I'm resigned. Dee noo.” Cost Falls on Venice. As the Italian government doclines to contribute, the whole cost of recon: Structing the fallen campanile of St. Mark's will be borne by the Venice municipality, So They Did. “Doctor,” she said, archly, “some Physicians say kissing isn’t healthy, you know. What do you think of it?* “Well, really,” replied the handsome | young doctor. “I don't think you or T should attempt to decide that off. hand. Let's put our heads together and consider.”—Philadelphia Press, Satisfied with Dog’s Warning. When a dog entered the cell of Maurice Bouche, imprisoned at Lille, France, and under sentence of death for the murder of a woman and licked his hand, on the morning of the day ‘of execution, the murderer, who had all along protested his innocence and expressed confidence in a reprieve, im: mediately prepared for death. Wt. Halyard Tabernacte No. 7 meets firstand nd St. Louls ave. Kev. N.C. Bruns ®p Srenue. Daughter Murthy Jonnwn SiMiehier Ahhte ty. Byles, Sesothenn, Gate City Ladea, No. 4019, @ U. Oat 0. F UN rbdays, ot each Mopth, Cver? Tet and i B.S RWIS, PS. Tone Lodwe, No. oA, F & A. M., meets en the iat aid 3d Monday nishite tv ench month. All Master Maggie in, good ntanding are cor Giatly Tyited. "ta, MeCampbell, W. Mey 2418 Flora TX: Mozee, Sec'y Woynt Olive Lode Nook ALE & & Mt: meets the 24 and 4th’ Friday io euch month, at Gh and Charlotte sts All visiting members are Invited, M W. Wootten, W. Mt 1002 Flora ave? J. fi. Har- fa, Neorotaty, 740 Rast 12th street St Joba's Chapel, on Bell street, between Sta and St. Louis’ ave, Rev. N. ¢. Buren, pastor. “Sunday” services il a.m, and 130 'P. m. Sunday. schoo! at $:90 &. Mm, Brayte meeting Wednesday evening and ‘Teachers meeting “Thursday evening. Vine Street Haptist church, T. H. Boring. pastor. Sunday services 11.8 a. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school, 2:30 Prayer meeting Friday evening. Rbenezer A.M. E. Church, cur. 24 and Holmes, Rev. A. A. Gilbert: pas tor. Sunday services, 11a. m, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school, 3:30 p.m. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M,, meets second and fourth Mon- day evenings in the month. J. W. Crowe, W. M. H. J. Spigener, Sec’y. Allen Chapel, south-eastcorner 10th and Charlotte streets Rev. 0, J. W. Scott, pastor. Sunday services 11 a m, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School, 2:30 p.m. Clase Meeting Tuesday, 8 p.m, Prayer Wednesday, 8 p.m. Choir practice Monday evanine Second Baptist ©. wreh, cornet Tenth and Charlotte. S. W. Baeaie, D. D. pastor, Sunday services: Preaching, 11 a. in, and 7:15 p. m.: Sunday school, 2p. m._ Weekly meetings, Monday B. Y. P. U. meeting, 8 p. m. Wedoesday night, prayer meeting. Highland Avenue Baptist church Sunday services, 11 a, m. and 8 p.m Preaching, Wednesday evening, 8 p.m Praise meetings Monday evening B. Y P.U. Sunday school 2 p.m. G.W. Rovp, Pastor. Mrs. A. 1. CumMINes, Clerk. Pleasunt Valley Baptist church, Rosedale, Kansas, Surday services; Preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday school, 9:30 4. m.: BY. P.U..7 p. m3 w. HF. and M. Society, Thureday evening praise meeting. Rev. H. U, STR'CKLAND, Pastor TreKken, Clerk. Pleasant Green Baptist church, In- dependence and Tracy ave. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p.m. B, Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m. Weekly services—Prayer meetingsand missionary, Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock p. m. Young People’s Literary and Progressive Club, Thursday even- ings. Church meeting, Friday before the second Sunday in each month. E, M. WILSON, Pastor. Residence 1603 East 13th st. Burns Chapel, M. E. Church. Sunday School, 9:30 a. m. Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Cass Meeting, 2:30 p. m. Epworth League, 7:00 p. m, Preaching, 7:45 p. m. Literary Tuesdays 8:00 p. m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Class Meeting, Thursdays 8:00 p. m. Corner 1th and Highland, J. M. Ham's Pastor. Sunday Services—Sunday School 9:30 a, m.; Preaching Ha. m.; Class Meeting p.m; Epworth League Bible Reading Poo'p.' m.; Epworth League Prayer Meet= iow 1:20 p. m.; Preaching 8 p,m. Weekly Services Prayer Meeting Wednesday Rim Ppworth League Bible, Reading iday, sop. mi. bimonthly: Chole Ite. hearsals Monday. Asbury M. B. Church, 1th and Cherry, Kansas City, Mo.. Wim. H. Wheeler, Pastor, residence IM East Twenty-fifth street. H. PATTON, Prop R. HERNDON, T. J. PATTON. BARBERS Laundry Agency and Cigars. Ladies’ andGents’ Shoes Polished. 926 Wyandotte St. KANSAS CITY MO, Prof. L.L. Thompson c.s. P. The celebrated Mind Render and Dl ‘vine. 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