The Rising Son

Priessor KANSAS CITY, KAS., LOCALS AND PERSONALS. D. E. Over is on the sick list. Voorhees restaurant is the place for good meals. Genial Tom Roberts was down from Topeka this week. Gilbert for mayor—where will our boys land. Abe Rutherford is able to attend to business again after a long illness. The Y. M. C. A. of Kansas City, Kas., is located in nice quarters at 440 Minnesota avenue. Chas. Stewart, president; Dorsey Green, vice president; Harry White, secretary. Dorsey Green, the discipline of Blackstone is jubilant. He says the young crowd is the real thing. It appears that the colored men has about got control of the central committee. Cowine Patterson, Reuben Harris and three other colored men are serving on jury this term of court. Rev. E. A. Wilson was in Atchison this week assisting Rev. Matthew Jones with his revival. Read and subscribe for the Rising Son. Attend the Y. M. C. A. at 440 Minnesota avenue. Jake Tillman, our old-time friend, has bought and paid for his home. Jake has put in four years steady labor for our city and made it count. Robt. Patterson has returned from Sapulpa, Ind. Ter. He says the prejudice is to great for him. Judge Donohoe's court is a busy law mart. Aunt Hagars folls is always in evidence. Hon. B. S. Smith for the state and Judge F. Bradley, L. W. Johnson and Dorsey Green for the defendant show that while they plead guilty and not guilty, that the state is ably represented by a Negro and that the defendant will be ably defended by Colored legal talent. Tobe. LEXINGTON NEWS AND NOTES. Rev. Gilbert closed his revival with about 35 additions to his church. He had quite a success. His greatest meeting will be held Sunday February 22nd, at which time they are expecting to have a grand time. Rev. Oaks left Saturday morning for his home at Hills Burr, Mo. Prof. Anthony, who was here attending the burial of his father, Rev. Anthony, left for his home Tuesday. Born to the wife of Wm. McDonald, a boy. Mrs. Nancy Brown is quite ill, also Mrs. James Bolton. Miss Pinkie Wilson left Sunday evening for Kansas City. Rev. C. Smallwood was here in Kansas City, Kas., Sunday, returned home Monday. Miss Joseph Hawkins of Kansas City came down Sunday morning to visit her mother, Mrs. Nancy Booker, returned Monday morning. We often heard it said "that it is too late to shut the stable door after the horse is out." Some of you people are talking and if you continue I will expose your names. Please let me alone. We ought to try every way to build up our race, not to tear it down. The legislative bodies are passing and trying to pass the Jim Crow car law, and disfranchizing the Negro and yet some of us are trying to cover up things that ought to be exposed. Mr. Grundy Burden of Johnson county has bought property and is now building. We are glad to have him in our city. He is an old soldier. Mrs. Hinch received a telegram from St. Paul, Minn., that her son, Howard Hedgwood, was dead. Since then we learn that he is not dead but is not expected to live long. We hope our subscribes will pay up their subscriptions. We need the money now. A paper cannot run unless you pay to keep it up. You say it is a good paper and you want what you do good published and when you do anything bad you don't want it published and if it is published you stop taking the paper a while. This paper don't want to publish anything but what is good, as a general thing. A. W. W. Novel Road-Making. A new road for transport by automobile is being constructed in the Congo Free State, and at present it extends 450 kilometres. The method pursued is simple enough. All that is done is to drive a herd of forty elephants three or four times over the track marked out by surveyors. They level down obstructions as efficiently as a steam roller. STEREOPTICON ENTERTAINMENT. There will be a first class vaudeville and stereoptican entertainment at Turner Hall, February 24, 1903, for the benefit of the Old Folks and Orphans home. The entertainment will be given under the direction of a charitable white lady of this city. Among the views shown will be some very interesting scenes from the Philippine islands. The actors of the vaudeville were trained by M. Lester Lonnergan. The entertainment has been given before, once at Music hall for charity. Since our white friends feel themselves enterested enough to do this much for us, we should show our interest and appreciation by a full attendance. Miss Rosalind Reed will sing. Music and refreshments will follow the programme. Admission 25 cents. PENCIL POINTS. Large checks are the correct thing in lawsuits this season. Don't argue with a fool. Listeners will say there are two of a kind. A coward likes to believe that discretion is the better part of valor. A man's heart is blamed for a lot of things that his head is responsible for. When a woman keeps a secret she can't keep secret the fact that she is keeping one. By the time a man gets old enough to talk well he has learned the value of not talking at all. Says an Irishman: "Every man is so honest in this country that they are compelled to offer rewards for thieves." NUGGETS FROM GEORGIA. Misery sho likes comp'ny, but de wise man ain't sociable w'en she eroun'. Hit's a mighty good idea ter make hay while de sun shine—even ef you ain't got no hoss ter cat it. If there were a railroad to heaven, some folks would refuse to travel that way, for fear they'd get wrecked on a star. No use ter talk ter folks 'bout de shortness er life, for ever' man in de worl' thinks he gwine ter live ter bury his frien's. Ef, ez de good book say, de righteous hardly escape, some er de best er us hed better be takin' out fire insurance policies right away.—Atlanta Constitution. THE FUNNY CYNICS. If it wasn't for sixty hens, the fox would not have his reputation.—Life. Tell a man he mustn't, and he will; tell a woman she mustn't, and you'll see.—Life. Often when a society woman's "cheeks burn," you can detect the odor of burning paint.—Life. Many of the people who live in glass houses go into politics and they don't seem to mind it a bit.—Puck. A woman doesn't fully understand how essentially alike all men are until her boy gets old enough for other women to make a monkey of.—Puck. HEBRIDEAN PROVERBS. The daily talk of the Hebrideans has a shrewd picturesqueness. "Let the loan go laughing home," they say. That is. "Be careful of whatever you have borrowed." If a person were to be met coldly on going to a friend's house, he would say: "The shore is the same, but the shell-fish is not the same." The impossible is denoted by "blackberries in midwinter and sea gulls' eggs in autumn." "Better thin kneading than to be empty." That is, "Half a loaf is better than no bread." "The man who is idle will put the cats on the fire." "He that does not look before him will look behind him." "A house without a dog, without a cat, without a little child, is a house without pleasure and without laughter." When it came to being well preserved Lot's wife had all her female acquaintances beat a block. KANSAS CITY, MO., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1903. THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK DON'T FAIL PAUL LAUREN THE FAM DON'T FAIL TO HEAR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. THE FAMOUS POET. Will be at Allen Chapel, Tenth and Charlotte streets, Friday evening, February 27. He will render an interesting program, consisting of his own writings. There will also be a musical program in connection. If lilys galore affect you sore And palms beset you more and more, Then do not stop; run, skip or hop To SMITH'S Apothocary Shop. With drops and pills he'll cure your ills And "PIGE" will bring around the bills Be Sure to Patronize SMIT He will deliver your goods from TELEPHONE Be Sure to Patronize SMITH The DRUGGIST He will deliver your goods free of charge if you will call TELEPHONE 1211 GRAND. INDEPENDENCE NEWS. All the churches were poorly attended on the Sabbath on account of the severe weather. Revival services are still going on at the Macedonia and Second Baptist churches. Rev. W. H. Spurlock of Cape Gi. ardean, was in the city last week visiting friends. He reports his work in good condition. A very fashionable dinner was given by Mrs. Emma Shumake last Thursday from 4 to 6 at her residence on E. Farmer street. Among those who enjoyed her hospitality were Rev. and Mrs. Rozelle, Rev. and Mrs. Caldwell, Rev. H. C. Caldwell of Indian Territory, Revs. Clark and Howard, Mesdames Montgomery, Bush, Taylor and Turner. It was an enjoyable affair. Rev. J. Will Jackson, presiding elder of the St. Joseph district of the M. E. church, held quarterly meeting here Sunday. He and Rev. Clark were entertained at tea by Mrs. J. C. Caldwell Monday evening. Mrs. Kate Colley, who has been on the sick list, is convalescing. Mr. Marcus Berry of Casper, Wyo. visited relatives here last week. He is very much pleased with his home in the far west. Mrs. Laura O'Bannon of Lees Summit paid her sister. Mrs. Jennie Jones a flying visit last week. We are glad to note that Rainey Hawkins, who has been seriously ill is improving rapidly. The Bible Training class meets every Wednesday night at the A. M. E. church. J. C. C. Whitefield's Pulit on Exhibition The pulpit which George Whitefield two hundred years ago carried with him as he moved about the country among the thousands who flocked to hear him preach, is said to be at present on exhibition in New York City. Famous Drums The drums used by the Scots Guards in South Africa have just been sold, and in some cases they fetched between $200 and $350 apiece, a price which is nearly eight times as much as they originally cost A TO HEAR NCE DUNBAR, DUS POET. This will be your last opportunity to hear him. Admission—Adults, 25 cents; children, 15 cents. REV. OSCAR J. W. SCOTT, Pastor. TH The DRUGGIST. free of charge if you will call 1211 GRAND. POINTED PARAGRAPHS: After losing his heart a young man often loses his head. Avoid whisky and water; it is a dilution and a snare. Some men's littleness is by far the biggest part of them. A gentleman of leisure excels in doing nothing gracefully. Money ceases to talk after a miser gets a strangle hold on it. Time will tell—but the woman with a secret never gives time a chance. A sensitive man, unlike a clock, is apt to go when he is run down. When the bookkeeper drops a nickel in the slot he makes a cash entry. A man has to be dunned to death before he will pay the debt of nature. It stands to reason that any man who would hook a fish would lie about it. Don't be so aggressively charitable as to make beneficiaries uncomfortable. Some men take a mean advantage of their wives by wearing their hair short. It's the girl who can't sing that seems anxious that everyone should know it. People who always say what they think usually think a lot of disagreeable things. Speaking of real estate in cities, a front foot is often worth more than a back yard. What the modern airship navigator needs is a safety anchor and something to anchor to. It sometimes happens that a politician is never so much out of place as when he is in one. The easiest money to spend and the hardest money to save is that which you haven't yet earned. It is better to spare the rod and spoil the child than spoil the child by using the rod too much. Marriage is a failure when both husband and wife make the discovery that they have married beneath them. The spendthrift is like a buzz-saw. He scatters a lot of dust while running around and has nothing but his board to show for it. GLEANINGS FROM PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH. Located in rear of Independence and Tracy avenues. Sunday school opened at 10 o'clock. Superintendent being absent Rev. E. M. Wilson, pastor, officiated. On account of extreme inclement weather, many were unable to attend services. Our pastor instructed the whole school, both teachers, pupils and visitors. Mrs. Lillie R. Taylor acted as secretary pro tem, regular sectary being absent. Explanation from Cluster Leaf by pastor, was superb. Regular eleven o'clock services, Congregation read 15 chapter of John, and 8th chapter of 1st Cor. Text, "As the father hath loved me; so have I loved you; continue ye in my love. Jno. 15: 9. References I. Cor. S: 11-12. And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died. But when ye sin so against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. His subject was "Self Control, and Endurance." The sermon was most excellently discussed. After sermon choir sang "Name of Jesus." Sunday being general rally day, $28.40 was collected. A number of members having been absent the collection did not come up to the standard. Mr. F A. Turner was present and spoke to us relative to the Bohemian and Coor songs, that were sung at the White House. In connection with that he gave reasons for publishing a Negro paper. He is a race man, and believes in the Negroes being an independent people. Made remarks conserving the sermon. Th pastor and a number of the officers and teachers and members of the church met Sunday afternoon and read and discussed all of the home readings and the Sunday school lesson, and received valuable information. So many fine thoughts were brought out, and discussed readily. They decided to have the meetings each Sunday afternoon. Quite an interest has been awakened. B. Y. P. U, opened at 6:30 o'clock President F. L. Lewis presiding. Lesson from Benhadad's defeat, I. Kings 20:12:20. Temperance lesson. The lesson was read in consort( led by the President. Lesson discussed superb. Miss Aanie Taylor was then called and acted as secretary pro tem. She then read a paper, her subject being "Unity." Regular services at 7:30. Song by audience. "Come We That Love the Lord." Choir entered choir box, sang "Father, I Stretch My Hand to Thee." Congregation read 72 Psalm, led by pastor. Sermon by pastor. Text: He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." Subject, "The Reign of a King." He discussed King Solomon's life, and the reign of the queen of Sheba. He warned sinners to flee from the warth to come. Doors of church opened for the reception of members. Choir sang "Oh How Happy Are They Who the Savior Obey." Pleasant Green Baptist church some time ago purchased a lot on Tracy avenue between Independence and Pacific streets and for that reason the lot in the rear of Independence and Tracy avenues is on sale now for $2,000. General collection for the day, $31 and some cents. We feel under obli- gations to the Son for having publish- ed our news weekly, with so much pre- cision. $ Read, subscribe and pay for the Rising Rising Son. G. W. M. Make-up of the Senate All the states in the union have their full quota of Senators except Delaware, which has none, and of the eighty-eight Senators all told, sixty-one of them are lawyers. Of the rest, one is a civil engineer, two are doctors, three are journalists, and the others are bankers, miners, farmers, business men and politicians. New Discovery of Science Hitherto Tyndall's theory that the azure tint of the sky is due to minute corpuscles in the air has been accepted. Prof. Springer of Liege has proved that the blue of the sky is purely electrical in origin, and an essential quality of the air. NUMBER 2. IF "JIM CROW" BILL SHOULD PASS Mr. Corrigan Thinks White Passengers Would Take Seats Reserved for Negroes. President Corrigan of the Metropolitan Street Railway company was asked this morning to give his opinion of the "Jim Crow" bill now being urged tor passage in the legislature by Colonel John Crisp. "I don't believe it will pass," said Mr. Corrigan. "Conditions in Missouri do not demand it. Are the common carriers to be forced to pull a coach across the state for the three or four Negroes to be found on a train? The bill isn't practicable in that regard any more than it is in its effects on street car companies. We have only one line in Kansas City upon which you find many Negroes. That is the Vine street line. We might partition a car there, but if it were half filled with Negroes, or empty, the whites would crowd in. The agitation is very largely to satisfy women. There are few men in the North, few Southern men in Kansas City, who object to the Negroes. It is too late now, forty-two years too late, to begin talking of changing a condition which we have brought upon ourselves." - K. C. Star. This from Mr. Corrigan, fittingly expresses the situation. The opinionsofseriously put by a man of Mr. Corrigan's experience only proves our contention that the average citizen is disposed to be fair and this agitation only emanates from the demagogue and small bore politician. Mr. Corrigan, we thank you. There are many men whose minds are large as well as their hearts. TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF KANSAS CITY. The Negro is passing through a critical period in his history. What our race needs most to carry us through this ordeal is Christian character, Christian character must also be the foundation stone of our progress. The Young Men's Christian Association stands for the development of Christian character in its broadest sense. The most important element in our race is the young man. On him the future depends as on no one else. The Y. M. C. A. stands for the spiritual, intellectual, moral, physical and social uplift of young men. No thinking man or woman will question the need of such a work among the colored men of Kansas City. The Colored Young Men's Christian Association of Kansas City, Mo., has opened rooms at 912 E. 12th street. Our work at present consists of a Sunday meeting for men, a night school, monthly practical talks to men, and a reading room which is open every evening from 7:00 to 10:00 o'clock. It is our desire to add other features of association work, such as baths, a gymnasium, an employment bureau, etc., and also to have the rooms open all day instead of only in the evening, but we cannot carry on such a work without the hearty support of our people and we hereby appeal to the race loving men and women of this city to give us their moral and financial support. We feel that the work we are trying to establish means a great deal to the Colored people of this community. The undersigned members of the executive committee will gladly receive any contribution, no matter how small. A. J. STARNES, E. D. ROSS, W. W. WATERS. HOWARD HARRIS. Honor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Arrangements are in progress in Concord, Mass., for the observance of the centennial of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, May 25. The Social circle, of which Mr. Emerson was a member for forty-three years prior to his death in 1881, has appointed a committee to prepare the program. In the morning there will be exercises in the town hall for the children, and in the afternoon the exercises will be in the Unitarian church. Power of Birds. What tremendous power an eagle exerts when carrying away a lamb that weighs, say, sixty pounds or over! If you take the weight of the bird altogether, 76 pounds, then it appears that an eagle can develop more than two horse-power, and must put a strain of over 1,100 pounds on the muscles of the wings. ```markdown ``` Shop A, the principal issue storehouse at the United States arsenal at Rock Island, Ill., was destroyed by fire last week, together with its contents. It was filled with cavalry and infantry equipments of every description and a million rounds of Krag-Jor- GENERAL VIEW OF UNIT genson smokeless ammunition. The contents were valued at $1,500,000. The building was a massive structure, three stories in height, and was erected twenty years ago at a cost of $400,000. The exploding of the rifle ammunition for two hours maintained a continuous rattle of musketry resembling a battle. The fire was fought hard until the conditions became dangerous to life on account of the large amount of ammunition in the burning buildings. The building then was left to its fate, and all attention was devoted to saving the rest of the plant. The sight of the burning building furnished a spectacle to thousands of people who lined the bluffs on both sides of the Mississippi, in the midst of which the arsenal lies on a beautiful island. In the end nothing was left of the immense shop and all it contained but a mass of glowing coals. The fire had burned itself out, destroying one of the government's finest storehouses and a most valuable collection of equipment. The arsenal had been busy with large orders recently, working 1,500 men and advertising widely for machinists to work on rush orders re- MAJOR STANMORE E. BLOUNT, U.S.A. MAJOR STANHOPE E. BLOUNT, USA ceived from the war department. Most of the factory capacity is left intact, but there is an immense gap opened in the stores on hand by the work of the flames. The new small arms plant, equipped at a cost of several millions on dollars and about ready to turn out the new model of rifles, escaped the flames. Maj. S. E. Blunt, commandant at the arsenal, estimated the loss resulting from the fire at $1,765,000 and states that equipment sufficient to supply the army for three years was destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mystery, as there was no fire in the shop, no forge from which a spark might have fallen, while the electric current had been turned off over three hours before the first alarm of fire. In accordance with the usual custom, also, the entire building was gone over by the watchman and everything was seen to be in order before the doors were locked for the day. The building burned was located apart south of the shop, a three-story structure, covering about an acre of ground. Reports of casualties when the walls of the building fell precipitated a grand rush to the arsenal from the three cities and though the gates were closed the crowd rushed across the railroad and street car bridges or scaled the railroad track from Fort Armstrong avenue and ran across lots to the scene of the fire. Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance at Washington, received a telegraphic report from Maj. S. E. Blunt, ordnance department, confirming the press report of the serious fire at the Rock Island arsenal Wednesday night and placing the loss at $1,765,000. The report stated that the fire was confined to storehouse A, containing a quantity of equipments and small arms ammunition, but no machinery. Gen. Crozier regrets the disaster, but is grateful that none of the machinery of the valuable manufacturing plant at Rock Island was damaged. Can Men Work Too Hard. President Eliot of Harvard is of the opinion that no man can work too hard. Possibly President Eliot has never tried it. Let him go to the country some day and take note of some farmer who has gone forth with his hoe at sunrise every morning and worked till sunset, and is bowed, broken and rheumatic at forty-five and dies in the fifties, leaving the farm he has paid for with hard work to some "young feller" who has captured his daughter with a horse and buggy. MAIN STORENHOUSE AT ARSENAL Gen. Crozier says the ammunition destroyed formed a reserve supply and can be readily replaced from the Frankfort arsenal. As none of the machinery was damaged, the fire will not interfere with the operations at Rock Island in the manufacture of TED STATES ARSENAL. carriages for field and siege guns or other current work. WIDE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. Methodist Leaders Dispute Over Membership of Church. There is a wide difference of opinion between two Methodist editors—Editor Thompson of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, published in Chicago, and Editor Buckley of the Christian Advocate, a New York publication. At a meeting of Methodist clergymen in the latter city Mr. Thompson spoke enthusiastically, declaring that in the last four years 1,500,000 converts had been made by the church. Dr. Buckley disputed the accuracy of these figures. He declared that statistics showed Methodism to be actually declining, in some of the Eastern conferences at any rate. He believed in looking at the facts, and he declared it was a grievous mistake to take an over optimistic view. His statements were vehemently opposed by the other persons at the meeting. USE OF HIS EYES. Cuban Physician Relieves Blindness by Use of X-Rays. A few months ago the world was started by the suggestion of an optimistic oculist that the blind might be made to see by means of the X-rays. Now it appears that these sanguine hopes have been, at any rate in part, fulfilled by Dr. Astudillo of Havana. The man who has been cured was originally a resident of Madrid, and was suddenly stricken blind twelve years ago. Eventually he went to Cuba, where he came across Dr. Astudillo, an oculist, who invited him to his house in order to see if anything could be done in his case. After treatment he became able to differentiate between black and white in the daylight, and gradually to see and describe machinery of the apparatus, as well as count the flashes of incandescent lamps in the physician's study. Value of Presence of Mind. Many years ago the American warship Delaware came near foundering off the coast of Sardinia while luffing through a heavy squall during a morning watch. The "unauthorized letting go of the fore sheet" alone saved the ship from going down with 1,100 souls on board. The first lieutenant, afterward Commodore Thomas W. Wyman, with difficult climbing succeeded in reaching the quarter deck, where, snatching the trumpet from the officer in charge, his first order, given in a voice heard distinctly fore and aft, was "Keep clear of the paint work!" This command to hundreds of human beings packed in the leescurpers like sardines in a box instantly restored them to order and prevented a panic, they naturally feel MAIN STORE HOUSE Building Containing Nearly $2.00 Science of Resuscitation. They were just concluding a series of "first aid to the injured" lessons in one of the settlements, and the worker in charge thought it might be a good idea to have a written test. Among other questions she wrote: "How would you restore consciousness to a person who had been rescued from drowning?" in answer to this a maiden with an affection for polysyllables wrote: "When the resuscitation of animation is complete plump the person on a barrel till he is thoroughly exhausted." ing that if at such a time, with a line of battle ship on her beam ends, clean paintwork was of paramount importance their condition could not be a serious one. Story With a Moral. John Mitchell told a story recently in the Clover club of Philadelphia which was of a certain grim humor. Mr. Mitchell was in his first suit of evening dress. He was talking about the seriousness of life, and his story bore out his view. He said there were two sisters, seamstresses, who lived in a little room and earned their bread by sewing. They were young and pretty, but they seldom laughed; they never wore comely clothes; they did nothing but sit in a stooped attitude, sewing all day and a good art of the evening. One night, when she was quite worn out with labor, the younger said to the older sister: "Oh dear, I wish we were both dead!" The older sister's mouth took on a grim emile as she returned: "Be still and work hard. Business before pleasure." Astonished the Justice Justice of the Peace George F. Seymour sat in his Hoboken office when a young couple entered carrying with them the usual and unmistakable evidence of desire to be made one. The justice asked the young man's name. "Richard Mansfield," was the reply, and his honor stared for a moment as he reflected that the noted actor must be much older than this would-be bridegroom. Then he asked the girl's name. "Maude Adams," she timidly responded. The justice nearly fell out of his chair, but recovered when informed that the pair lived in a suburb of Hoboken. Then he tied the knot, pocketed his fee and kissed the bride. How Royalty Is Protected. The law is libel, as regards royalty, is different from that which affects other people, and in this respect greater privileges are accorded to reigning families, at least, by British law. The rule of English law is that "any publication tending to degrade or defame" royal families of this or other countries may be treated as libels. So long ago as 1787 Lord George Gordon was convicted of a libel of this kind upon Marie Antoinette. In 1801 Vint was convicted of libeling the Russian emperor, and later a Frenchman named Peltier got into trouble for an article abusing Napoleon, who was then a prisoner on the island of Elba. Stanley's Adventurous Life. Sir Henry M. Stanley, the man who found Dr. Livingstone in central Africa a little more than twenty-two years ago, is now 63 years old. He came to this country in 1855, landing as a cabin boy in New Orleans, where a merchant adopted him. While serving as a Confederate soldier he was taken prisoner. Then he volunteered in the Union navy. At the close of the civil war he became a reporter on the New York Herald, which was the making of him, for the elder Bennett sent him on several important expeditions, notably the search for Livingstone. President Roosevelt's Marksmanship In connection with the recent visit to Washington of Bill Sewall, the president's Maine guide, a story is told of a moose hunt in which they were companions some years ago. They were camping in the woods and one morning Mr. Roosevelt saw a moose not far from the camp. He grabbed his rifle and fired. Sewall came running up and said: "You've got him. How did it happen?" "Why, I almed his breast and hit the vital spot, I suppose," was the answer. "Well, you done fine, anyhow," said Bill. "You shot him in the eye." The World's Tobacco Market The World's Tobacco Market. Louisville, Ky., still holds first rank among the tobacco markets of the world. E AT ARSENAL· 000.000 of Property Destroyed by Fire. Life of University Men. Someone said in the hearing of President Hopkins of Williams college that university men nowadays have too many sofa pillows and other luxuries in their rooms. "Oh, yes, they have their luxuries, but they have also the antidotes," said Dr. Hopkins. "I see these signs of luxury, but I also see the owners of those pillows out on the board track every day, exercising in disregard of the temperature. And they are very thinly clad too. Why, they might as well be in their shirt talis!" A VENERABLE PASTOR CURED BY PE-RU-NA. Pe-ru-na is a Catarrhal Tonic Especially Adapted to the Declining Powers of Old Age. The Oldest Man in America Attribute $ ^{8} $ His Long Life and Good Health to Pe-r-u-na. Mr. Isaac Brock, of McLennan county, Texas, has attained the age of 114 years. He is an ardent friend of Peruna and speaks of it in the following terms. Mr. Brock says: "After a man has lived in the world as long as I have he ought to have found out as a great many things by experience. I think I have done so. "One of the things I have found out to is I have found out to my entire satisfaction is the proper remedy for ailments due directly to the effects of the climate. "I RELY UPON PE-RU-NA FOR ALL CATARRHAL DISEASES." "For 114 years I have withstood the changeable climate of the United States. During my long life I have known a great many remedies for coughs, colds, catarh and diarrhoea. I had always supposed these affections to be different diseases. For the last ten or fifteen years I have been reading Dr. Hartman's books and have learned from them one thing in particular: That these affections are the same and that they are properly called catarrh. "As for Dr. Hartman's remedy, Peruna, I have found it to be the best, if not the only reliable remedy for these affections. It has been my stand-by for many years and I attribute my good health and my extreme old age to this remedy. "It exactly meets all my requirements. I have come to rely upon it almost entirely for the many little things for which I need medicine. I believe it to be especially valuable to old people, although I have no doubt it is just as good for the young." -Isaac Brock A New Man at 79 Major Frank O'Mahoney, West Side, Hannibal, Mo., writes: "I am professionally a newspaper correspondent, now 79 years old. I have watched the growing power of the Petuna plant from its incipience in the little log cabin, through its gradations of success up to its present establishment in Columbus, Ohio, and I conclude that merit brings its full reward. "Up to a few years ago I felt no need to test its medicinal potency, but later when my system needed it, your Petuna relieved me of many cataratal troubles. Some two years ago I weighed 210 pounds, but fell away down to 108 pounds, and besides loss of flesh I was subject to stomach troubles, indigestion, loss of appetite, insomnia, night sweats, and a foreboding of getting my entire system out of order. During some months I gave Peruna 'a fair trial, and it rejuvenated my whole system. I feel thankful therefore, for although 79 years old I feel like a young man." — Major Frank O'Mahoney. In old age the mucous membrane become thickened and partly lose their function This leads to partial loss of hearing, smell and taste, as well as digestive disturbances. Peruna corrects all this by its specific WESTERN CANADA AROUSING GREAT INTEREST. The Wonderful Yields of Wheat Attracting Thousands. Until the last five or six years but little attention was given to that vast area of grain-producing land lying north of the 49th parallel, and immediately adjoining the northern boundaries of Minnesota and Dakota. The Canadians themselves were aware of the wealth that lay there, but being unable to fully occupy it, they have asked the Americans to assist them in converting the land from its virgin state to one that will largely supplement the grain-producing area of the North American continent and the response has been most liberal. During the year 1901 upwards of 20,000 from the United States went over to Canada, being induced to settle there by the reports that reached them of the success of those who had preceded them during the previous years. This 20,000 was increased to 30,000 during the year 1902, and it is fully expected that there will be fully 50,000 during the present year. The work of the immigration branch of the Canadian government is not now being directed towards giving information as to the advantages of settlement in Canada as it is to extending an invitation to the Americans to follow those who have gone. Those who have charge of the work point with considerable pride to the success of those who have been induced to take advantage of the offer of 160 acres of land free in Canada, and have no cause to hesitate in continuing the invitation. Many of those interested say there are no more free homesteads to be had in Canada, but the writer has most positive assurance from the Canadian government that there are thousands of such homesteads to be had, and in one of the districts now being opened up fully as good as the best, and it is probably the best. The Canadian government has est tablished agencies at St. Paul, Minn; Omaha, Neb.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chi- cago, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Milwau- kee, Wis.; Wausau, Wis.; Detroit, Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette, Mich.; Toledo, Ohio; Watertown, S. Dakota; Grand Forks, N. Dakota, and Creat Falls, Mont., and the suggestion is made that by addressing any of these, who are authorized agents of the government, it will be to the ad- vantage of the reader, who will be given the fullest and most authentic information regarding the results of mixed farming, dairying, ranching, and grain raising, and also supply information as to treight and passenger rates, etc. LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER THE BEST QUALITY STERLING 55+ CAR ALWAYS RELIABLE operation on all the mucous membranes of the body. Peruna will convince any one. Once used and Peruna becomes a life-long stand-by with old and rover. d Mr. Samuel Saunders of Blythedale, Mo., writes: "My disease was cataract of the urethra and bladder. I got a bottle of Pe-ru-na and began taking it, and in a few days I was relieved and could sleep and rest all night. I think that Pe-ru-na is a valuable remedy. I had tried other very highly recommended medicines, but they did me no good. My physician told me that I could not expect to be cured of my trouble, as I was getting to be an 'c1 man (57 years). I feel very thankful for what Pe-ru-na has done for me." In a later letter Mr. Saunders says: "I am still of the same mind with regard to your Pe-ru-na medicine." Rev. J.N. Parker. Strong and Vigorous at the Age of Eighty-eight. Rev. J. N. Parker, years, but not so much effected but that I could hold converse with my friends; but in June, 1901, my sense of hearing left me so that I could hear no sound whatever. I was also troubled with severe rheumatic pains in my limbs. I commenced taking Peruna and now my hearing is restored as good as it was prior to June, 1901. My rheumatic pains are all gone. I cannot speak too highly of Peruna, and now when 88 years old can say it has integrated my whole system. I cannot but think, dear Doctor, that you must feel very thankful to the all loving Father that you have been permitted to live, and by your skill be such a blessing as you have been to suffering humanity."—Rev. J. N. Parker. Mrs. F. E. Little, Tolona, Ill., writes: "I can recommend Peruna as a good medicine for chronic catarrh of the stomach and bowels. I have been troubled severely with it for In a later letter she says: "I am only too thankful to you for your kind advice and for the good health that I am enjoying wholly from the use of your Peruna. Have been out to the Yellow Stone National Park and many other places of the west, and shall always thank you for your generosity."—Mrs. F. E. Little. Mrs. F. E. Little, Tolana, Ill., writes: "I can recommend Feruna as a good real as a good medicine for chronic catarrh of the stomach and bowels. I have been troubled severely with it for over a year, and A TRAVELER AT SEVENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE. 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. also a cough. Now my cough is all gone, and all the distressing symptoms of catarrh of the stomach and bowels have disappeared. I will recommend it to all as a rare remedy. I am so well I am contemplating a trip to Yellow Stone Park this coming season. How is that for one 71 years old?" Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Santamari, Columbus, Ohio WINCHESTER FACTORY LOADED SHOTGUN SHELLS "New Rival" "Leader" "Repeater" If you are looking for reliable shotgun ammunition, the kind that shoots where you point your gun, buy Winchester Factory Loaded Shotgun Shells: "New Rival," loaded with Black powder; "Leader" and "Repeater," loaded with Smokeless. Insist upon having Winchester Factory Loaded Shells, and accept no others. 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Write for descriptive brand and special offers to The Triangular Non-Dilution CREAM SEPARATOR produces 800 more cream than old creams and complies with major or power one operation stating areas with ventilated areas inexpensive, inductible. Has every mark of the bit prior applied separator and desiccator and is used to desiccate cream and spread creatine to MERCANILE SYNDICATE. Dept. L. Kusana City, Mo. 1 PISONS CURE FOR CURES WHEN ALL FIRST FAILLS Imm. Use Inj. Inj. Use Consumption THE RISING SON. OLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL . . IN KANSAS CITY, The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— the little bits we collect here are there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Read the Rising Son all the time. The Republican party is the ship all else is the sea.—Douglass. Miss Emma Pinkett is on the sick list. Do not fail to hear Miss Rosiland Reed at Turner Hall, February 24. And still we have friends, even if the times are troubles. The Republican party is the ship, all else is the sea.—Douglass. It is not by what you have, but what you are that you are judged. Mr. Burton Hill has invested in real estate. The Lincoln celebration, February 12th, was a success. Genial Charlie Lee has resumed his position at the Baltimore. The Republican party is the ship all else is the sea—Douglass. Live a pure life and bear a good name and your reward w ill be sure and great. Jas. Runnels will have the agency of the Ozono Toilet Articles after March 1st. Every colored person should read Rev. Dr. Wheeler's sermon in Monday's Journal, the 16th of February. The Roosevelt club and Rough Riders will meet at 17 W. 6th street tonight. Saturday. Lewis Woods, our genial business manager, spent a few days in St. Louis this week. The chief actors of the vaudeville are white friends who have volunteered their services. The vaudeville entertainment will be strictly high class in every particular. The Old Folks and Orphans' Home is struggling to free itself from debt. More commodious quarters are needed. Mrs. Mamie Downey and Mr. Frank Pogy was married Thursday, February 12th by Rev. Damons at the pastor's residence. Attend the vaudeville entertainment February 24, and help the Old Folks and Orphans' Home to clear off its debt. Mrs. Belle Pope announces the marriage of her daughter. Dovie Margaret to Dr. Rufus M. Stakes at Leavenworth, Kas., October 7, 1902. At home after March 1st, 1903, 922 Frederick avenue, St. Joseph, Mo. The Ladies' Drill Corps of the A. S. & D. of J., will give an exhibition drill at Olathe in the near future. Col. T. B. J. Robinson and Capt. Nannie Reed are drilling them constantly. Everybody should read the speech of the Hon. John S. Wife of Virginia. Read the Rising Son next week. Tell your friends to be sure to get a copy. Read this letter from one of the foremost men of the South. John Wannamaker: "No power on earth is so strong to build up a town so well as a paper well patronized, and its power should be appreciated. The man who overlocks his town paper injures himself by injuring his town and townsmen." Its amazing how many there are who are willing to sell out their reputation, and amazing at what a low price they will make the painful exchange. Some king remarked that he would not tell a lie for any reward less than an empire. It is not uncommon for a man to sell out all his honor and hopes for a score or a half score of dollars. --- Dallas Foster, son of Prof. R. W. Foster, has just completed a small electric plant, and is now installing it in his father's residence. He has built a small steam engine that develops three horse power, and the dynamo electric machine he built will furnish electricity enough to light twenty incandescent lamps. This machinery was built from Dallas' own models and plans. He made the pattern out of wood and had them cast in metal and did his own machine work. He is a practical worker along the line of electrical engineering. Say, George, have you been out on 12th street lately? Yes. Did you stop in Smith's Drug Store? Yes. I wanted a prescription filled; but my he was so busy while I was there, several calls over the phone and a number of us there to be waited on shows conclusively that Mr. Smith is the right man in the right place. He is doing a nice business. He keeps a nice line or toilet articles and a complete stock of drugs: his soda fountain is up to date. He is accommodating and attentive to the wants of his ever increasing trade. He deserves the patronage of all the Colorati people. Go see him, inspect his stock. He will gladly entertain you and I am going again. Dr. Crossland will not arrive home as soon as we had expected. Before coming home he will take a course in Medicine in Paris, France and in some part of Germany—The Enterprise. If he would take a lesson of good common sense, he would never return to these parts to pester the good people of this state. Mr. Editor: Is it not about time that those Negroes who were false to themselves and to their party were called off from all committees on Jim Crow legislation, and be given a back seat in the Forum? Why pretend or allow pretenders so much prominence? Such represent nothing but deceit and disaster. Whither Are We Drifting As a Race? February 8, 1903. The Forum of Kansas City, Mo., elected seven delegates from its body of intelligent colored men to represent the interests of the colored people of this city before the Railroad committee at Jefferson City to oppose the Crisp bill, better known as the "Jim Crow Law." Railroad tickets were furnished and unfortunately some of the delegates failed to get their tickets, and parties were carried to Jefferson City that were not elected; could not be elected and do not stand from anything from the intelligent Negroes standpoint. Why was this? The gods honor her who thinketh long before opening her lips. A vain woman is to be feared, for she will sacrifice all of her pride. Give heed to the voice of an old woman; sorrow has given her wisdom. Respect always a silent woman; great is the wisdom of the woman that holdeth her tongue. Give heed to her to whom children have come; she walks in the sacred ways and lacks not love. Trust not the woman that thinketh more of herself than another; mercy will not dwell in her heart. A mother not spoken well of by her children is an enemy of the state; she should not live in the kingdom's wall. A woman, that respects herself is more beautiful than a single star; more beautiful than many stars at night. A woman that is not loved is a kite from which the string has been taken; she driveth with the wind and cometh to a long fall. Blue eyes are said to be weakest. Upturned eyes are typical of devotion. Wide-open eyes are indicative of rashness. Side-glancing eyes are always to be distrusted. Brown eyes are said by oculists to be the strongest. Small eyes are commonly supposed to indicate cunning. People of melancholic temperament rarely have blue eyes. The downcast eye has in all ages been typical of modesty. The proper distance between the eyes is the width of one eye. Eyes with long, sharp corners indicate great discernment and penetration. The white of the eye showing beneath the iris is indicative of cool deliberation. Gray eyes turning green in anger or excitement are indicative of a choleric temperament. An eye the upper lid of which passes horizontally across the pupil indicates mental ability. Tubes of gelatin containing germs of a disease warranted to kill locusts and grasshoppers are to be distributed to American farmers. Several insects will be inoculated and then released in order to spread the disease. And still the Son grows on. Rev. S. Pickett of the Mt. Moriah Baptist church was a caller this week. Ho! Mr. Muldoon and his crash suit at Turner Hall. The Forum is a desirable place to stop when visiting St. Louis, located at 2614 Lawton avenue. Are you a subscriber to the Rising Son? If not, why not? $1.50 per year in advance. Frank Williams, G. L. of the S. and D. of J., was a caller this week. Prof. and Mrs. Crosswade paid our sanctum a pleasant visit. See the Jackson Boys for extra copies of the Son. Rev. Dr. H. B. Parks, financial secretary of the A. M. E. church, was in our city a few days this week. 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 Negro Roosevelt club of St. Louis is booming. There was 200 members added to the roll last week. Will Harris, the "I. McCorker" of the Indianapolis Freeman, called on us while passing through our city enroute to Leavenworth to visit his sick mother. We expect this paper to be read. Locals, editorials and even the advertisements are instructive. The only assured success is a chartered club for the elevation of society; and incidently have a good time. J. E. Mason, of Independence, Mgr. of the Negro department store, was in town this week looking for supplies and soliciting shares. 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. Lewis Woods, the manager of the Rising Son, while in St. Louis this week, had interviews with several gentlemen who are interested in reference to the St. Louis exposition. The consensus of opinion was that it was doubtful about a Negro exhibit. The Rising Son desires to thank all those who lent their presence to our Lincoln day celebration and to Prof. Yates, Col. Geo. Wasson, Prof. Coffin, Miss Anna M. Jones and Miss Cora Yancy, together with the students of Lincoln school we feel grateful, and the Rising Son will endeavor to merit your support. 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 Miss Emma Smith, with the Blind Boone Concert Co., is proving an attraction that is flattering to the management and reflecting credit upon herself and home town. Miss Smith is blessed with a splendid soprano voice, which she has under good control, and is receiving very favorable notices from the press and lovers of good music. This young lady was reared and educated in Kansas City, Mo., U. S. A., and thus in the far north, in Canada and Manitoba, Kansas City, Mo., is advertised by the sweet singer. Miss Emma Smith, with the Blind Boone Concert Co. FOR THE OLD COLORED PEOPLE'S HOME. Friends of the Old Colored People's home, an institution for the support of aged Negro men and women and for orphans, situated between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets on Michigan avenue, will give an entertainment for the benefit of the home Tuesday evening, February 24, at Turner hall. Vaudeville work will be put on by the Hailey children, stereopticon views will be shown by Mrs. M. Losee. It is said that the home is in especial need of funds just now and this entertainment is given with a view to relieving the situation as much as possible. The Old People's Home is a worthy cause and should be patronized. Mrs. Losee is one of the charitably inclined ladies of the city. She has given this entertainment before for charity. The effort should be appreciated. 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. The sailor is always glad to see a lighthouse, but it's different with the actor. OUR DRUG STORE. --For the Right. A QUERRY. SOME CHINESE PROVERBS. WHAT THE EYES SAY Fighting Grasshopper Post ZOMODONE, THE NEWEST AND MOST RAPID HAIR GROWER IN EXISTENCE. 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LIBERAL CREDIT EXTENDED. This is an unprecedented chance to make money. Write quick for territory and particulars. Address THE HELEN MARTIN TOILET CO., 910 E. Leigh St., Richmond Va. PLEASE MENTION THIS PAPER WHEN YOU WRITE. ALLEN CHAPEL. The Cantata of Ruth will be given one evening during the bazaar week. It promises to be very good indeed under the able management of Mrs. Lula Brice and Miss Cornie Cross it is sure to be a success. The rehearsals are Monday and Friday evenings. There will be some fine music. Don't miss it. Watch the Rising Son for the date. An elegant set of dishes is to be given to the lady bringing in the greatest amount over twenty dollars at the bazar. Six of the popular ladies of Kansas City have entered this contest and they are every one hard at work already. The ladies are Mrs. Jessie Woodland, Agnes Johnson, Anna Wheeler, Minnie Hendrix, Annie Hillard and Lottie Curtis. There is also a handsome quilt to be contested for, made by Mrs. Purnell. It is beautifully made and quilted. Three ladies have already entered the contest and as many others as wish may enter. Send your name in to Mrs. Scott, 813 E, 10th street. "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" is the name of the quilt. The Bible readings and weekly meetings of last week were well attended. The Tuesday evening class was splendid and a large attendance. The report was good and if the mebers continue to come out and pay up their class dues the stewards department will soon be in a good condition. If the leaders of the various classes would do their duty they would have no trouble getting the members to do theirs, but some of them are so busy telling their members what they are not going to do that their influence is not as it should be. Mrs. Jennie Richardson, vice president of the Loyal Legion is still unable to be out on account of illness. We were pleased to see Father Tiptoe, who has been very sick, in his accustomed place last Sunday morning. We always miss him. We are always glad to welcome the strangers to our services. The young men have been increasing each Sunday. We are glad that we have some one who is able to interest them. Our church needs more young men. Our stewardesses are kept busy looking after the sick and needy of our church. MERE OPINION. Bad luck gets the blame for a lot of poor judgment. Every man would like to be a genius, but few can afford it. Nearly every man can hypnotize his conscience without taking lessons. Life might be one continuous round on pleasure if it were not for the day after. The spirit of rivalry has given the world about everything it has any right to feel proud of. Clothes may not make the man, but the boy who puts on his first top hat thinks they help a lot. Pity the man whose wife goes around telling about the habits she has made him give up. A little nonsense low and then is relished by the wisest men if they know the preacher isn't listening. It is not at all surprising that the girl who gets vaccinated on her leg is foolish enough to call it "limb." Country relations would be more warmly welcomed if they didn't always carry such horrible satchels. Even the crustiest old bachelor wants to know whether it's a girl or a boy the minute he sees the baby. A level surface is naturally flat, but there is a vast difference between a level-headed man and a flat-headed one. Good fortune never gets to walking right in without knocking until a man can have "private" printed on his office door. It isn't what a man earns but what his wife doesn't spend that finally enables him to arouse the envy of the neighbors. People who are good simply to keep from disgracing their children should put in extra time praying to be led not into temptation. Men who by referring to Lincoln as a rail-splitter attempt to make the lowly laborer satisfied with his lot forget to mention that Lincoln gave up rail-splitting as soon as possible. The man who is known as "a prince of good fellows" is likely to be referred to as "a lobster" when his money is gone.—Chicago Record-Herold. Probably nothing jars an angry man like the presence of a self-closing spring on a door he wants to slam. Actual Results from Baldness After Only 4 Weeks' Use of ZOMODONE. Actual Results from Baldness After Only 4 Weeks' Use of ZOODOOONE. FIGS AND THISTLES. The genius of the church depends on its genesis. Heavenly manna is better than earthy mammon. Foes without are less to be feared than faults within. Watch out for the devil when he bids you "Good-by." Old truths are too great a price to pay for new doubts. The temperature of the heart can not be gaged by the head. Selfsafness is the cause of sin and sacrificing service its cure. Men are valued by others in about the inverse ratio of their own valuation. The star of faith will shine long after the comet of fame has disappeared. To take the fuel of lust into the heart is to invite its fires to consume the life. The first thing some people do when troubles fly into their lives is to clip their wings. Happiness depends not on the things the heart has but on the heart that has the things. Almost every fool thinks that he is bright enough to throw dust in the eyes of the Divine. Talk about "looking for opportunities for doing good!" We may as well talk about looking for fire-wood in a forest or for water during a flood. The world is full of such opportunities. Some people make a great show of fleeing from the roaring lion that men may not see the secret serpents they carry in their pockets.—Ram's Horn ETIQUETTE OF THE AUTOMOBILE. Never incur danger to yourself, but do not regard the safety of others in the least. When you run over little children pay for them, thus avoiding all unpleasantness. Don't on any account run down a policeman, as it awakens them and makes them cross. Avoid all billy goats. The fact is a goat smells nearly as bad as an auto, and can but nearly as hard. Always blow your horn while passing a hospital as it rouses the inmates and keeps them from sleeping too much. Old people are harder to kill than young ones, as they are usually tougher, but their bones break easier, hence they make good sport. An auto flend has the right of way on any road and any other human beings passing along do so at their own risk. Always bear that in mind. If a farmer stops you and wants to chew the rag, get his whiskers tangled in the gearing and start suddenly, and you'll have lots of fun. If you happen to start a runaway never stop to see the finish, although you can safely watch it for considerable time. To be caught when the remains are picked up is often embarrassing. The latest fashion is to give your machine a nice, neat name, thus doing away with suggestive appellations. An eastern man calls his auto "The Soul Hoister." Another man, with euphony in his soul, calls his machine "The Heaven Filler." When you have killed a prominent citizen and feel that you wish to make some reparation send a wreath of roses with a motto reading, "He Stood in the Way of Progress."—Chicago Chronicle. BITS OF PHILOSOPHY. The valnest hopes are generally the most roseate. Incongruous theories are often mistaken for great principles. The has beens are bad enough. The might have beens are worse. It is not always so much what a man has, as how it pleases him. Charity never excuses a wrong; at most it only seeks to palliate it. For every rose there is a thorn, unless you know how to avoid it. The worst form of selfishness is to destroy the enjoyment of others. Few people, indeed, ever come to believe that they have a sufficiency. Love, we are told, finds out everything. And at that it is often disappointed. It is well enough to be hopeful, but hope, like faith, must be backed up with works. Men who pursue impossibilities enjoy the activities of life and none of its rewards. In a majority of cases people who rise from penury to opulence forget all the journey except the last stages. WHAT ONE WOMAN OBSERVES. When fidelity becomes obligatory, life holds but few pleasures. How easy it is to blame people for not being patient under affliction. Nothing reaches a woman's heart so quickly as a man's desire to confide in her. We may all prate of moral strength, but when temptation comes along one is apt to fall down flat. While her whole nature may revolt at a union, woman's tender heart oftimes prevents a rupture. We cannot bid love stay or depart. The little god is totally oblivious to hospitality or the lack of it. Love, like the rose, is so sweet that one always tries to pluck it despite the thorns, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT. Job was one of the boilers that did not explode. After praying for goodness some people forget to be good. Sometimes men blow out the gas after blowing in all their money. It is reported that a St. Louis boy ate so much honey he was attacked by hives. Every man has his particular bent —especially after he gets in the rheumatic class. When a man begins to go down hill he meets a lot of people with their noses turned up. When a woman wants to say anything mean pertaining to men in general she says they are all alike. Fame is a glorious thing, but a small regular income is much more satisfactory to the average man. Don't tell your troubles. It doesn't do any good, and besides it takes up the other fellow's time who wants to tell you his. WIGWAM WISDOM Doubt always travels on snowshoes. The coward shoots with shut eyes. A starving man will eat with the wolf. There is no cure for the Firewater's burn. The Paleface's arm is longer than his word. Small things talk loud to the Indian's eye. No Indian ever sold his daughter for a name. When the fox walks lame the old rabbit jumps. A squaw's tongue runs faster than the wind's legs. Young Courage and Old Caution make a strong pair. The wigwam is plenty strong enough for the Indian's jail. The Indian scalps his enemy; the Paleface skins his friend. If the Indian could lie like the Paleface he would rule the earth. Before the Paleface came there was no poison in the Indian's corn. The Indian takes his dog to heaven; the Paleface sends his brother to hell. There will be hungry Palefaces so long as there is any Indian land to swallow. When a man prays one day and steals six the Great Spirit thunders and the Evil One laughs. There are three things it takes a strong man to hold: a young warrior, a wild horse, and a handsome squaw. —Charles Stow in New York Press. GO TO COLORADO! GO TO COLORADO! via the Burlington Route Cheap Rates All Summer. $15.00 Round Trip to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. on certain dates. Two Fast Trains Leave Daily at 10:40 a. m., and 9:35 p. m. Ticket Office, 823 Main St. & Union Depot. 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OFFOIE-No. 117 West Sixth St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . $ 1.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . $ 1.00 For two inches, three month . $ 8.00 For two inches, six month . $ 8.00 For two inches, nine months . $ 10.00 For two inches twelve months . $ 15.00 The Rising Son is devoted to the best interests of our rase, a fearless advocate of right and fair play. There are those in high places who read and receive this paper and its benefits who think that printers' ink and labor are produced by wind and talk. Now, to all such we ask you again to pay us what you owe. Some of you have gained your notoriety through this paper. Come and see us with the money. A LITTLE COMFORT There should be ten thousand Lewis Woods in this state. Too much can't be said in your praise. You are a study for me How you kept your valuable paper alive so long is a wonder to me and yet it is in its infancy to what I hope to see it and need not tell you I am with you. Respectfully, JOHN LANG, Mgr. Blind Boone Concert Co. CLIPPINGS. The Appreciations of "Mother." To the Star: I have read with much interest the letter to The Star of "A Woman and a Mother" on the question of "What to De With the Negro." I am a little inclined to the belief that mother is bordering on pessimism when she asks, "Will you stain your hands and bring shame and disgrace upon this land of the free and the brave by trying to exterminate the whole race?" Don't waste your valuable sympathy, mother; "the poor, downtrodden Negro" will take care of himself. He has his schools, churches and colleges; he has been entertained at luncheon by the President of these United States, an honor which mother cannot boast.-K. C. Star. In spite of all this "Jim Crow" agitation, we have no fears for we believe this is a healthy discussion serving to put our people on their good behavior and producing friends for a docile people in places we know not of. If the Negro is let alone he will make friends and a name for his people and the country he loves so well. COON SONGS AT WHITE HOUSE. There Were a Feature of a Musicale Last Evening. Washington, Feb. 13.—Mrs. Roosevelt resumed her Friday evening musicales at the White House tonight. There were a large number of invited guests, who listened to an interesting programme, which began at 10 o'clock and lasted until midnight, and included Bohemian songs by Mr. Boge Oumiroff, baritone, and coon songs by Miss Mary L. Leech, soprano. Mr. Rudolph Prusha was the accompanist at the plano. Those present included the members of the cabinet, representatives of the diplomatic corps and of congress, with the ladies of their families and friends from resident and New York society.—K. C. Journal. Why not Bohemian songs. No. It must be scare heads in bold black type to magnify the importance of the COON. VARIATIONS OF A PROVERB. "All is not gold that glisteneth."—Middleton ("A Fair Quarrel"). "Gold all is not that doth golden seem.—Spenser ("Faerie Queene"). "Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold."—Alanus de Insulis. "All, as they say, that glitters is not gold."—Dryden ("The Hind and the Panther"). "All is not golde that outward showeth bright."—Lydgate ("On the Mutability of Human Affairs"). "But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is not gold as I have herd it told."—Chaucer ("The Canterbury Tales"). SENTIMENT OF AUTHORS. He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.—Emerson. A man can never be a true gentleman in manner until he is a true gentleman at heart.—Charles Dickens. Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.—Samuel Smiles. Some men are easily excited, but the carpenter manages to keep his spirit-level. SOME POSTSCRIPTS Canada has 100,000 Indians, the United States 270,000. The puffin is the most punctual of birds in the matter of its annual migration. Thousands of caribou, or North American reindeer, are to be found in Newfoundland. Newfoundland caribou make two annual migrations—south in the fall and north in the spring. The most familiar examples of migrant birds are swallows, swifts, white-cars, plovers and curlews. The coast of Newfoundland is indented by deep and narrow bays, back of which rise steep and rugged hills. Some few birds, notably the blue throat, accomplish the whole of their migratory journey in one stupendous effort. Six million persons are expected by the Japanese to visit the exhibition to be opened at Osaka, Japan, next March. Warm feet have much to do with white hands. When feet are habitually cold the hands are always red or blue. Germany's latest addition to her navy is the Chinese torpedo boat Hilung, which was captured by the Germans at Taku. What is known as an angel shark, an ugly fish with an eight-inch mouth containing three rows of teeth, has been caught with a hand line at Felixstowe, England. More than sever times the distance round the earth has been walked by a Dover (England) postman, named Eden Hearn, who has just retired after forty years' service. NEXT MORNING PHILOSOPHER. A good listener is never without friends. An incessant talker is seldom without enemies. There are times when the fool-killer needs an assistant. Often people who ask for public judgment want to take an appeal. When a man realizes his folly the chances are even that he will amend it. "Out of sight out of mind" does not apply to the detective or the tax inquisitor. When a man takes the public into his confidence he should be careful not to betray it. "Fine feathers make fine birds," but without the feathers no one would care to harbor them. The man who does not share his troubles with his neighbors is a stoic worthy of emulation. The romance of love is a flower that may produce either a crabapple or perchance a nectarine. It requires great caution to decide a dispute between two friends without losing one or both of them. Admittedly there is no standard of greatness, hence the difficulty of deciding who are the truly great. When a woman sues to recover for breach of promise and receives a verdict of six cents she realizes the worthlessness of it. CLEANINGS. Love may laugh at bolts, but politicians do not. Justice only takes a man's part, but injustice takes it all. A new baby in a home soon makes the rest of the furniture look shabby. Lightning doesn't belong to a union, yet it is the most persistent striker. When it comes to word painting poets and novelists are not in it with sign writers. There may be some things a woman doesn't know, but no man can tell her what they are. If men were half as good as their obituaries the recording angel would have to look for another job. Many artists who claim to be wedded to their art seem to have been handicapped by divorce proceedings from the start. According to the market reports Kentucky whisky has gone up. Heretofore it has made a specialty of going the other way. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR Worry makes everybody thin except fat people who worry over their fatness. It is an ill wind that does not blow a driver's dust in the eyes of the man who is trying to beat him. The man who wouldn't be a fool over the right woman doesn't deserve to have the right woman be a fool over him. Engaged people put on magnifying glasses when they look at each other's virtues. The day they are married they take them off. A woman's imagination is so lively that if her bare feet were in a tub of snow she would believe that a handsome fur around her neck was keeping her feet warm.—New York Press. PHILOSOPHIC MAUNDERINGS When quiet prevails it is a 10-to-1 shet that there's no baby in the house. Insincerity sings that it wants to be an angel and then sends for a doctor. The man who is always howling at fortune accomplishes quite as much as the bulldog baying at the barn. In the natural speeding of events a mother-in-law now and then shows herself to be a good fellow by lifting the mortgage. It's one thing to write a book and another to write a right book right— Baltimore News. The Maybee Love Affair. BY ADA C. SWEET. (Copyright, 1802, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) The stenographer bowed to the coachman on his box. Joyce took off his hat and then leaped down and stood ready to speak to the fair and dignified young woman. She asked after the man's family, bowed again, smilingly, and walked quickly away, down the long, lighted street. It was half past five in the evening. More than one pair of eyes noted the chance meeting upon the sidewalk. The coachman climbed back to his seat, muttering to himself. He was waiting for his employer, Henry Maybee, the railway margeate. "I've just seen Miss Salome, sir." "Where," asked Maybee, looking up and down the street. "She came out of that big door, sir, an hour ago, and she stopped and asked after the children, and then went her way without saying anything about herself." "Well—which way?" Maybee's voice was anxious. "Just down street—that way," said the man. "Very good, thank you, Joyce." "She do be workin' in this big place," said Joyce. Mr. Maybee stepped into the carriage, closed the door; and Joyce gathered up the reins for the homeward drive. Before the fire sat Lewis, the rich man's son. He looked up when his father came in. His salutation was but an indifferent murmur. The elder man affected a brisk cheerfulness. He drew his chair to the fire, threw the evening papers to Lewis, and feligned not to notice that they dropped upon the rug. "How are you, and has the doctor been here to day?" inquired the father. "Yes, father, same old story," answered the young man. "Advises a change, and all that—" "You must have a change," began the elder Maybee— "Quiet and rest would be a change," sighed Lewis. "I've been traveling these six months—and I'm tired of new things. Let me stay here. I like the sameness of life that the doctor complains-of." His face drooped again—the pale, listless face. He sat down far back in his deep chair, and to his father's ear there came the whispering sound of a half stifled sigh. Henry Maybee, too, bowed his head, and sat looking into the fire. Then he telephoned to Dr. Bell, asking the old physician to come and see him, that evening, if possible. When the two friends were seated together in Mr. Maybee's study, the railroad man began without any ifs or buts: "What shall I do with Lewis, Doctor?" "What's the matter with him?" asked Dr. Bell. "What's the matter with him? Why, you're his physician and ought to know!" retorted Mr. Maybee. "What's the real matter with him?" persisted the doctor. "In love," said the father, laconically. "And a hard case," the doctor muttered, "lasts a good while—travel, change, other women, sea voyage, and A "I've seen Miss Salome, sir." no yielding. The thing has become chronic—got on his nerves—lowered his vitality—unless we can rouse him, he's gone." "Gone! What do you mean?" "Gone!" repeated the doctor. "Gone?" said the father, in a trembling voice not at all like his own. "Gone for good!" said the doctor, with decision. "But Doctor," expostulated Mr. Maybee, rallying. "Men have died and worms have eaten them, but not for love—" "All nonsense!" said the doctor, "Rank nonsense, and no one knew it better than Shakespeare, who put the words into the mouth of a coquette. Men have died for love, thousands of 'em. Some one way, some another—by wars, by disipation, by suicidal hard work, by loss of interest in life—a hundred ways—your boy's going the way of indifference." He paused, aghast at the effect of his words. Mr. Maybee looked the stricken man that he was. At last he spoke: "He's in love with that minx, Salome, my ward—the girl from out West, you know, and she's run away from him and from me—I was glad when she went. She would have made his life wretched and mine unbearable, and I told her so!" "Well, I must be going—" the doctor said after a silence. "A case or two to see before I go to bed." "Do you mean what you say about Lewis, Doctor? You know he is my all—I am alone but for him. Can't you think of something?" "We've tried everything," replied Dr. Bell. "There's nothing to do but let him alone. Perhaps he'll pull out of it himself if we give him time. Anyway he will if he's the right sort of man, and if he isn't—" "Don't say that, Doctor, he's my son!" Mr. Maybee was white and aged in look. The blow had been sudden, this M. K. "Unless we can rouse him, he's gone." serious turn in what he had regarded as a piece of silly nonsense. He sank back in his great leather chair, when he had said good-night to the doctor. Deep thought took hold of him. He had no particular grievance against Salome McIntyre. Her father had left her to the care of his old friend, and after she came from college she had settled in the Maybee home, which was ruled, as to its domestic affairs, by Aunt Sophie—an ancient widowed poor relation of great pride and self-importance. All had gone well until Lewis came home from his trip around the world. He fell an easy victim to Salome's big blue eyes and pretty ways. The father saw at once what had happened. His plans for his son were sadly interfered with. He tried to pack Salome away on a visit to her western friends, but the girl wouldn't go. Then he had what he called a "business talk" with her. He explained how little money she had and told pains he had been obliged to take to save for her even that, and talked about her earning her own way, and the upshot of the business talk was, that Salome left the house, bag and baggage. She wrote for an accounting as to her small property, through an attorney. Mr. Maybe promptly turned the matter over to his attorney and the lawyers settled the whole affair within a month. Salome prepared herself, and went to work as a stenographer, but she announced her plans to no one. Lewis, easily led to believe that Salome had fled before his lover-like attitude, was in despair. He was trotted here, and galloped there, South, East, West and North, by sea, by land, in foreign countries and at home, and he grew daily into settled invalidism. That was the outcome of "business methods" in a love affair. So, with head on his breast, the old man sat. As the clock struck eleven he heard his son's lagging step in the hall and on the stairway, as he went to his sleeping-room. The next day, Mr. Maybee said to Joyce: "Wait for me at the western door of the Wampum Building. Wait from five to six, and if you see Miss Salome McIntyre—why tell me when I come out." "Yes, sir," said Joyce, his small black eyes twinkling. As Salome worked as a stenographer, in the Wampum Building—and a very poor stenographer, if the truth were to be told—of course Joyce saw her come out of the door, as she did on this, as on every other evening, at half past five. He pretended not to notice her, and accordingly she took no note of him, but walked quickly away—her cheeks reddening in the keen fresh air. Two days after, when Salome came down from her work she was met at the big outer door by Mr. Maybee. "Salome," he said, "Won't you come home to dinner? Here's Joyce with the carriage." And before she could speak he had opened the carriage door, and was helping her into it. "I shall walk," announced the old gentleman, as he slammed the door shut. Lewis sat inside of that carriage, and Salome found it out even before she heard the door slam. At the wedding, Dr. Bell was one of the few guests outside of the Maybe family. The keen-eyed medical man saw nothing to disturb his opinion of himself. Lewis was a well and a happy man. That was certain. And next to him in joyous content stood his father. This cigar is made exclusively of high grade imported Havana Filler Tobacco, with a Sumatra wrapper, and a better cigar cannot be bought, even at a cost of twenty-five cents each. WITH THE SAGES. Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.—E. P. Whipple. Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.—William Hazlitt. The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is short if it do not.—Colton. Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations.—Richter. Justice is the insurance we have on our lives and property, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.—Penn The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficiency if it do not—Colton. We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.—Phillips Brooks. This is the law of benefits between men: the one ought to forget at once what he has given, and the other never to forget what he has received.—Seneca. There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence can tell what the end will be.—Thomas of Malmesbury. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.—Richter. Let us be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructible force, only changing its form and passing from pain into sympathy—the one word which includes all our best insight and our best love.—George Elliot. There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he may render himself most acceptable to the Creator by doing good to His creatures.—Fielding. Never did any soul do good, but it came reader to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love, or gratitude, or bounty practiced but with increasing joy, which made the practicer still more in love with the fair act—Shaftesbury. We often magnify troubles and difficulties and look at them till they seem much greater than they really are. Some of our troubles, no doubt, are real enough, but yet are not evils. Foresight is very wise, but forsore row is very foolish; and castles are at any rate better than dungeons, in the air—Lord Averybury. PHIL OSOPHY'S CHATTER. If you can't advertise something new, advertise the old in a new way. Worry is not to be encouraged, but the man who never worried never accomplished very much. Some men expend enough money in telling you what they used to be to enable them to really be something at present. Of what use is your ability unless people know you have it? Of what use is anything unless it be known? You cannot be known unless you advertise in one way or another. The man who loses heart because there are so many others in the field forgets that he, too, can be in "the other fellows" way and can stay in the field, by indulgent advertising. Many a man can talk psychology, cosmology, ontology and several other "ologles," who lacks plain every day common sense. A high sounding vocabulary is no indication of real ability.—Jewelers' Circular. Vanity is an unblushing bribe taker. Even repartee wins popularity with age. Sarcasm has many admirers, but no friends. A bracing atmosphere produces a jaunty air. Thought is only free when it finds expression. The gift of silence has saved many a reputation. The hard-headed man is sometimes an easy mark. Knowledge is ability to read between the lines. No wish is to be ignored when it is backed by endeavor. Happiness and success are synonyms, but success and happiness are not. Life would hardly be worth living if one could not forget with some discrimination. It is a poor joke that won't stand repetition; it is a good joke that won't suffer by it. Say what you will, the bulk of the populace prefers an entertaining lie to a commonplace truth. Increases Power of Microscopes. Microscopes which ordinarily magnify 11,000 times have their power increased to 16,000 diameters by immersing the lens in vaseline oil. 'Everything pertaining to Music.' 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PICAN CIGAR CO., Anthony Overton, Manager Western Division, Station "A" Kansas City, Mo. --- COURTIN' A WIDDER "Yes, cousin Deb, there is no use talkin' I've seen more bad luck than any man livin' and it does seem sometimes as if the Lord or the Old Boy—I dunno which—had a pickler spite again me, and took delight in plin' on the whacks' Who would ever have 'sposed a big, noble lookin' woman like I Lindy would have dropped off right in the dead of winter when my rhoematfis and lumbago, and ashmy and brownhooters, always rage the wust kind? O, dear' what shall I do?" and Elenezer Pert. a little wizened man, with pale watery blue eyes, and scattering wipes of yellow hair, burtled his nose in the depths of a gincham handkerchief a yard square, and groaned dismally. "Do," responded cousin Deb. "Why, spunk up and put the best foot forward. A wildderer of your age with nine children on his hands has got to bustle. You can't lay round and eat and sleep and smoke old cob pipes same as you always have done." "I never disputed Job's troubles," sniffed Ebenezer, and he floured the ginham handkerchief spasmodically, "never he had 'em like me—but his comforters was angels compared to mine. 'Twould melt a heart of stone to see the way I'm fixed. But my sufferin's air about over—I shall never clump winter hill—I feel it in my bones. I ain't had a decent thing to eat since poor Billyndy died, nothin' but dough cakes and slops, and my stummick is all out of kitter. Poor Billyndy! what a treasure I've lost! so poutent, so clever natured!" "Look here, Ebenzer, I've advised and advised, but is what it amounted to." If there is anything I despise it is a snivellin' man that has got no gumption. You've got to face acts, Blindy's gone, you've lost your berden bearer, and all your howlin' won't bring her back." and Deb flashed a glance at her elderly relative which was far from sympathetic. "I know it, Deb—" he whimpered, "but my poor heart is buried in her grave. Nobody knows my feelings but myself. I shall never find another to take her place—not if I live to be as old as Methusserler." She took all the care of the critters and the minkin', and the barn and the house, and the young uns, and if—" "If," broke in Deb sharply, "you don't stop your wallin' I'll leave this house inside of twenty minutes, bag and baggage. I've heard it jest as long as I a gain' to' I have been here two months and you've not made the least effort to git a housekeeper." "I'd like to know who I'm goin' to gitt?" querted Ebenezer, and he eyed her warily through his fingers. "Well, there is plenty of widders I heard Elder Trigger say there was twenty-seven drawin' plinshins out of the government, right in this neighborhood." "Well," said Ebenezer in a resigned tone, "it's poory cool weather for a man of my years to start out lookin' up widders, but I 'spoce its got to be done. Do you think of any pertickler one you can rickemend?" "Well let me think—there is Mus Hoblen, she's as smart as a steel trap." "Yes, but I won't have her, she is homilier than a bodge fence." "Mis' Davis is a pretty good cook, but she is slow." "I won't have her nuther, she is crosser lookin' than buttermilk, and would jar on my feelin'." "How about Mis' Brown, she is very capable." "I don't want her. I couldn't rellish her grab. She's got false teeth, cause I watched her handlin' 'em down to the donation, when she thought nobody was seen." "How would Nancy Green do?" "Nancy Green!" and he opened his little eyes in horror. "Cousin Deb Potter, air you crazy? A woman that's been disgusted from 'tree livin' hus- A man and a woman are standing in front of a clock. The man is holding a book and the woman is holding a handkerchief. "A widderer of your age with nine children on his hands has got to hustle." bands! Why, I wouldn't stay in the same house with that woman for a million dollars!" "Well, I can't think of anybody else that could fill the bill unless its the widder Jumper over to Durham. Don't you remember, she was Janie Dobson?" "Janie Dobson! Well, I guess I do!" and a sickly smile overspread his withered face, "I courted her considerable when we was both young. I 'spouse she was really the woman I should have married, but we had a little bust up, and she married old Progist, and I merried Polly Dudley—and then she was a widder and mer ried old Jumper jest after I married Blindy and things has always gone kind of skewy for us both. Poor little Janie, she was an awful pooty girl, red cheeks and black eyes, and shaped just like a weasle. I snum Deb, how I would like to see her and git to talkin' over old times! Who knows but I can coax her to keep house for me awhile; and then—umum—" and he poked his cousin's ribs significantly. "That's the way to talk. Ebenezer. I think she would come over and jump at the chance. All you lack is gitup. Why can't you ride over to Durham to night—strike while the iron is hot you know." "Sart'in Deb, sart'in!" and he spring to his feet with a sadnessness which fairly took away her breath, "just hunt me up a paper collar, and grease my best boots, and don't forget a clean handkerchief in case I should shed tears. I spect the neighbors will say its airy for me to go courtin' widders, but what they say don't put short cake in my mouth, or mend the holes in my stockin' s. Nosiree—" and he snapped his fingers—"Let 'em cackle!" The widow Jumpers' kitchen was as cosy and comfortable as fresh paint and paper, cretonne covered furniture, and gay home made rugs could make it. A cheerful log fire blazed in the A man and a woman sit at a table. The woman is wearing a white apron and is smiling at the man. The man is sitting in a chair and looking at the woman. The table is covered with a white cloth. There is a picture frame on the wall behind them. "I snum, Janie, if this don't seem like old times!" old fashioned fireplace, and Janie was in the act of lighting the evening lamps when there came a loud rap raprap at the door. "It's only me—Mis' Jumper," answered a faint voice from outside. "Don't you remember Eleneer Pert?" "Well I guess I do!" and she threw the door wide open letting a stream of warmth and light upon the shivering figure on the doorstep. "I am so glad to see you, Mr. Pert!" and she clapped his numb fingers effectively. "Let me take your overcoat and muffler, you must be nearly frozen! Now set up to the fire and give your poor feet a good toastin'. Have you been to supper—no—well then let me git you some and a cup of hot tea—shant I!" "I should feel turbly obleed it you would Mis' Jumper. I don't mind tellin' you I'm jest about on my last legs. I pose you've hearn about poor Blindy?" "O. yes, Mr. Pert, such sad news always travels fast. But you must try and reconcile yourself to the ways of providence." "I try to marm—but it's pesky hard," and he began to ransack his pockets in quest of a handkerchief."Losin' Blindy was a terrible blow!" "It must have been, Mr. Pert," and the widow rubbed her nose with a corner of her white apron sympathetically."But I can feel for you—dear friend—I have lost two beloved companions—" "But four, marm—think of four—three of 'em as likely females as ever stirred—a bannock—the other—to my sorrere—was a weak vessel, who forsook a loving' husband for a sewin' machine man—but she got her comuppance. O, marm—I've been called to wade through seas of trouble—yes seas." "I know you have, poor girl, but you must try and bear up—it is the only way. I don't suppose you have much appetite, but do set down and force yourself to eat a few mouthfuls anyway. Here is cold chicken and lemon tapioca cream, and boiled cabbage and canned string beans, and a two quart jug of old cherry cider—drink every drop—do now—it will do your soul good." Solemnly, and as though he was performing a sacred duty, Ebenezer proceeded to manipulate his knife and fork, and when the plump chicken was reduced to bones and the taploca cream had vanished from sight, when every fragment of cabbage and canned string beans had disappeared from the platter, and the last drop of old cherry cider had gurgled slowly down his throat, he leaned back in his chair and smiled upon the widow with moist eyes. "I be'lieve I never see leviert chicken then yours, Mis' Jumper! rooster or pullet?" "Rooster." "I snum Janie if this don't seem like old times, come over here and set down side of me, I want to have a long talk with you." "In just a minute, Mr. Pert." "O, now Janie," and his face took on an injured look. "Don't call me Mr. Port. It used to be 'Ebby' once, don't you remember?" "Yee-eas?" "I've thought of you all these years Janie, I have I swan—I never see anyone I loved half as well as I did you. Phaps you don't believe it but its the truth. Now things has worked our way soon's we jine conditions. Say, Janie, will you hew me?" "O-O-O-My-My-My—1" "Say 'Yes', Janie." "Yes, Ebby." ADDED TO HIS DIGNITY. Newly-Elected Congressman Conscious of the Honor. He was a large man and his bosom swelled with pride as he stepped up to the desk and registered. It was evident that he knew he was a man of distinction. The clerk glanced at the name and was puzzled. "Haven't you stopped with us before, Mr. Barker?" asked the clerk. "Dozens of times," answered the large man. "I thought I recognized you," said the clerk, "but there seems to have been a change in your name." "There has been," asserted the large man; "a most important change." "You always registered before as 'John Barker,' and now you have it 'H. J. Barker.'" "Of course, of course," returned the large man. "I guess you haven't heard from my district or you wouldn't worry about that. I've been elected to Congress." "Oh," said the clerk, puzzled. "That gives me another initial, doesn't it?" "I don't quite see—" "What a thundering lot of ignorance some of you city people have. That makes me Honorable John Barker, doesn't it? And that's H. J. Barber for short, ain't it?" THE USES OF TURPENTINE A Very Valuable Article to Have Around the House. Turpentine, either in resinous form or in spirits, has a household value. A child suffering with the croup or any throat or lung difficulty will be quickly relieved by inhaling the vapor and having the chest rubbed until the skin is red, and then being wrapped about with flannel moistened with fiery spirits. Afterward sweet oil will save the skin from irritation, says the Woman's Home Companion. In the case of burns and scalds turpentine has no equal. It is the best dressing for patent leather; it will remove paint from artists' clothes and workmen's garments; it will drive away moths if a few drops are put in closets and chests; it will persuade mice to find other quarters if a little is poured into the mouse holes; one tablespoonful added to the water in which linens are boiled will make the goods wonderfully white; a few drops will prevent starch from sticking; mixed with beeswax it makes the best floor polish, and mixed with sweet oil it is unrivaled as a polish for furniture—the latter mixture should be two parts of sweet oil to one part of turpentine. Some physicians recommend spirits of turpentine, applied externally, for lumbago and rheumatism. It is also prescribed for neuralgia of the face. DRIVEN OUT BY BOLL WEEVIL Alarming Ravages of the Pest in the Southern States. One of the most serious and damaging results of the invasion of Texas by the Mexican boll weevil is made public for the first time by ex-State Senator A. H. Carter of Fort Worth, who states that many thousand of South Texas farmers are leaving the state and locating elsewhere, because of the devastation wrought in their localities by these pests, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat. He says that possibly 50,000 people, all told, will go to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, particularly to the two last countries, and that he knows of many people who have already left the state. Not only are the boll weevil ruining the south part of the state, but they are being discovered in other sections. A farmer living in this county has recently found the pest about five miles north from this city. The question, Senator Carter says, is the most serious one that the people of not only Texas, but the entire cotton-growing sections of the South, have to contend with since Texas was admitted into the Union. The Open Sky. Underneath the open sky I would let the world go by. Every shred of harassing Lapsing with the swallow's wing; Every scrap from care's gray boom Vanishing amid the bloom; Every tissue of regret Fading like the mists that fret after a storm; like the morn In the Orient is born; Every grief, or old, or new. Soothed by God's unchanging blue, And the hush-song of the rill In the shadow of the hill. Where the beech boughs whisper so Tender, lovingly, and low; Every double, and low; and blow Ever from the vision-zone By the airs as kind as creep Through the filled fields of sleep; Every fear transmitted to Hopes as prisma as the dew, And the old earth-joy again Flooding soul and heart and brain; Underneath the open sky I would go to be by! —Clinton Scallard in Anglesey' Afterthoughts. "It frequently occurs," said the member of Congress, "that the most important part of a woman's letter is the postscript." "Yes," answered his wife, "and I have been informed that quite frequently the most important thing about a bill is the amendment." WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. "And it was the custom of Mrs. Washington to spend the day preparing for the tea which was served in the early evening."—Life of Washington, Martha Custis Washington. Martha Custis Washington. Back in colonial days. Did you bake and brew and find much to do in a thousand wifely ways? In a thousand wifely ways? And when fields were drift with snow, In when rooftops of the year. Did you catch each shy rift of stray sunshine, And fill the house with good cheer? Martha Custis Washington, Were you an amiable wife. In those mystic old days was he—to you— The dear object of your life? What did his birthday mean to you, O. woman of honored name. Did you know that some day the whole round world Would ring with his well won fame? Or was he to you just a loving mate— one who would cares forsake. And when you were our confidences, Over the birthday cake. Martha Custis Washington, Back from the shadows come. And tell us the ways of those glad old days. The songs we have left unsung. Show us your home—the tender side— A guest to your fireside take. And tell us about that happiest hour, Over the birthday cake. Though first to lead, in war and peace, He was first in the home, I say. And, so, in the home let us think of him, As we keep his natal day. LIFE AT MOUNT VERNON Washington's Beautiful Home To Mount Vernon, historically the most interesting place on our continent to the patriotic American, a tide of pilgrims from all over the world continues to flock each year. Over 100,000 visitors have tried the experiment of a seat in one particular chair in the mansion, and the register shows many thousand callers annually. A favorite occupation of patriotic pilgrims, as they wander through the mansion and over the grounds, is to imagine how life went on here in Washington's time. The rooms, so empty and silent now, used to re-echo with much stately merry-making; and divertement, too, of a lighter sort, for Washington was fond of having young people around him at Mount Vernon, and he loved to them happy. He sometimes sought to enter into the amusements of his beloved adopted daughter, beautiful Nelly Custis, his wife's orphan grandchild; and rather deplored the fact that his presence acted somewhat as a restraint upon her lively companions. He used to go into the garden and gather roses himself for Nelly. On Washington's birthday, 1799, Nellie Custis was married to his favorite nephew, Lawrence Lewis. That was a grand day at Mount Vernon! Ceremonious observance was not so strict at Mount Vernon as in the executive mansion at New York and Philadelphia; yet here, as elsewhere, that dignity which was inseparable from Washington's character and manner, inspired all who came in contact with him. Our first President did not inaugurate the practice of greeting callers at a reception with a handshake. Ye, he was as charming a host as he was great as a soldier and a statesman, and his gracious wife was a fitting helpmate in rendering guests happy and comfortable. A lawn party at Mount Vernon must have been a most delightful function. One can see in fancy, the fine ladies and gentlemen walking about in the flower garden and admiring the sago-palm, the lemon trees and the century plant, which had come from the West Indies, and which were kept in big tubs, that could be moved into the hothouse in winter. Washington took great interest in his garden and lawn. Many of the trees he had set out himself before he A Tea at Mount Vernon. brought Martha Washington as a bride to Mount Vernon, and he loved to lead his guests about and show how his planting had thrived. Could one in fancy repeople the grounds and mansion with the distinguished company that used to gather here, what a quaint and pleasing picture it would be! Soldierly Count Rochambeau and eloquent Marquis de Chasteaux and their suites; noble and courty Lafayette; the young Spanard, Marquis D'Yrugo (who gave his heart to the fair Philadelphia, Sally McKean), and—more than all these to us—our own Franklin, Jefferson and Ham'ton, and illustrious revolutionary generals beyond the naming, would move through the historic rooms and over the grounds, while music from Nelly Custis' harpsichord would float through the open windows. And the private soldier and the neighboring poor would be here too. Washington wrote from a revolutionary battlefield to the manager of his estate: "Let the hospitality of the house with respect to the poor be kept up. Let no one go away hungry. If any of this people A (From a Famous Painting.) should be in want of corn, supply their necessities." —Christian Herald. HAS A VALUABLE RELIG. Balustrade Behind Which Washington Took Oath of Office. The recurrence of Washington's birthday recalls some interesting points, and its observance by a dinner at the old Morris house was highly appropriate. This storied mansion will gradually drop the Jumel name and also its associations, while those of the Morris family will resume their importance. It was built by Col. Morris of the British army, who married Mary Phillipse, Washington's first love. Morris acquired the Phillipse manor by this marriage and built this lordly dwelling for a manor house. The property was confiscated during the Revolution, and Washington made it his headquarters during the darkest time of the great conflict. After election to the Presidency he drove out to the old house in his state carriage accompanied by a few friends and reviewed those scenes of painful interest. One of the most recently discovered memorials is the balustrade behind which Washington stood when he took the oath of office, and which is now preserved in the Historical society. The discovery of this relic was made by myself, and if the reader will pardon a brief introduction of the first person, I will tell how it was done. Some years ago I frequently visited Bellevue hospital, being acquainted with one of its medical staff. I noticed at that time resting against the wall in the hall a large stone slab on which, as I was informed, Washington stood during the inauguration. When the statue of Washington was subsequently erected at the sub-treasury in Wall street this stone was used as its base, but how or why such a relic should ever have been stored in Bellevue hospital was a question not easily solved. Eventually I learned that the demolition of Federal hall and the purchase of the Bellevue property occurred at nearly the same time, and hence all available materials were removed to the latter, where they were used in the charity buildings. After my surgeon friend left the hospital my interest was continued by my occasional visits to the adjacent morgue, and at one of these visits my attention was casually attracted by the large veranda near the hospital porch. Looking at it closely I noticed a strange difference in workmanship, for while most was comparatively modern, in the centre the style was rude and primitive, and took the shape of a balustrade. The latter on closer examination was composed of thirteen bars, each end being marked by a halberd, and the whole was so different in style from the other work that they evidently could not have belonged to the same age. Then I recalled the slab which I had once seen in the hall, and the chain of immediate thought convinced me that I was gazing on the old balustrade of Federal hall. The builder of the veranda had utilized it as a matter of economy and had escaped detection, but I reported my discovery to the Historical society, which lost no time in securing this valuable relic—New York letter to Troy Times. Observances of the Day. One hundred and seventy-one years ago, Feb. 22, George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born at Wakefield, Westmoreland county, Virginia. As early as 1781 the soldiers of the patriot army and the allied French forces celebrated his birthday in elaborate fashion. Gen. Washington then had his headquarters at Newburg and wrote Count de Rochambean as follows: "The flattering distinction paid to the anniversary of my birthday is an honor for which I dare not attempt to express my gratitude; I confide in your excellency's sensibility to interpret my feelings for this and for the obliging manner in which you are pleased to announce it." In 1790 the Society of the Cincinnati gave a public celebration in Philadelphia in his honor. They marched through the streets and to the executive mansion where they paid their respects to the president-general. Six years later a motion was made in congress to adjourn in honor of Washington's birthday. The motion was lost by disaffected members, who made a plea of bad precedent. This became known about the town a large crowd gathered which made so much noise that congress had to adjourn and the precedent was set. GA at Promises for Electricity Prof. Mason of the Smithsonian Institution, says that the most needed achievement of 1903 is the discovery of a satisfactory method of economi- sing electricity. Some day, he says, in the not distant future the rivers will make all the electricity we want. We shall harness the streams and they will heat every house, run every wheel and light every lamp. When Guests are Expected. In preparing a room for a guest, if only for a few days, do not neglect to place a variety of books at his disposal, says the Washington Star. If there is no bookshelf in the room, books and magazines should be placed on a low table near the window. Many a visitor has gone through tortured, sleepless nights in a strange house, with not a line of reading matter to be got at. Unearth Body of Abbot Recent excavations on the site of St. Augustine's abbey, Canterbury, Kent, England, have brought to light the leaden coffin and coffin plate of Abbot Ulric I. (895-1006), and the body of another abbot wrapped in silk vestments, much decayed, with pieces of copper gilt clasps. Numerous fragments of carved marble, brightly painted stones, gilded pinnacles and figureheads have also been unearthed. A Painful Marriage Custom. The penalty among the Hottentots for widows who marry again is a somewhat severe one. It is the rule among these people that, before so marrying, a widow must cut off the joint of a finger and present it to her new husband on the wedding day. New Cure for Lamp Hack Rutledge, Minn., Feb. 16th.—Mr. E. C. Getchell of this placo relates a happy experience which will be read with interest by all those who have a similar trouble. It appears that last winter Mr. Getchell was seized with a lameness and soreness in his back which grew worse and worse till at last it became very bad and made it very difficult for him to get about at all. After a time he heard of a new remedy for backache which some of his friends and neighbors said had cured them, and he determined to try it. The name of the remedy is Dodd's Kidney Pills and Mr. Getchell has proven that it is a sure cure. He says: "I used two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills according to directions, and my lame back was entirely cured and I am all O. K. again. Dodd's Kidney Pills are as good as represented." This remedy is very popular here, and has worked some remarkable cures of Backache and Kidney Trouble. Many a woman's prematurely gray hairs can be traced to marriage with a man whom she proposes to reform Bathing the Baby. Young mothers naturally feel anxious about the baby's bath. It is best to begin at six weeks to put the little one in water, first folding a soft towel in the bottom of the basin. Use only Ivory Soap, as many of the highly colored and perfumed soaps are very injurious to the tender skin of an infant. E. R. Parker. The more you loaf, the more likely you are to have bad habits. THE K. C. S. ALMANAC FOR 1903. The Kansas City Southern Railway's Almanac for 1903 is now ready for distribution. Farmers, stock-raisers, fruit-growers, truck gardeners, manufacturers, merchants and others seeking a new field of action or a new home at the very lowest prices, can obtain reliable information concerning the railroads and Choctaw Nations in the Indian Territory, Western Arkansas, Eastern Texas, Northwestern Louisiana and the Coast country, and of the business opportunities offered therein. Write for a copy of the K. C. S. Almanac and address, S. G. Warner, G. P. A., K. C. S. Ry, Kansas City, Mo. But few men exhibit their bravery until after the danger is past. 8108 Howard 8108 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease called catarrh, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical community. Catarrh is a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, setting directly upon the blood and mucous surgeons, and building a foundation of the disease, and giving the patients strength by building up the constitution and priversors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollar for its cure it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonial. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, O. Sold by drugstores Tac. Ball's Family Pills are the best Love is blind, especially the brand known as self-love. THE BEST RESULTS IN STARCHING can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. The truth would seem less brutal if people were better acquainted with it. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for same money. There never was an ugly girl in the world—ask her. Beginning February 15th, the M., K. & T. Ry, will sell Colonist Tickets to California at very low rates, viz.: St. Louis, $30.00; Kansas City, $25.00; tourist Car through to San Francisco leaves St. Louis each Tuesday at 8:33 p. m. ask any Katy Agent or address James Barker, Gen'l Pass Agent, M. K. & T. Ry., 202 Wainwright Building, St. Louis. The people who are looking for trouble generally want it sugar-coated. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. Be absolutely honest, and you will be very disagreeable. WASHINGTON. | Semy hee, ite Caesar, cs and brave, Qeatain was on his wreath; He ays the heartless conqueror, and ied. the tyrants death: France had its eagle; but hie wings, though lofty they might rear, Were eth in false ambition's fight, and dipped in murder's gore. ‘These hero-gode, whose mighty sway ‘would fain have chained the waves, ‘Who Mashed their biades with tiger-seal, to make World of laver— Who, “hough “theit, Kindred “Darred the ‘path MUI flercely. waded on— Oh! where shall be their “glory” by the side of Washington? He fought, but not with the love of strife —he struck but to defend; And, ere he turned a people's foe, he sought to ben friend He strove to keep his country's right, by Feapon'a genie word: And sighed when fel) injustice threw the challenge—sword to sword, He stood, the firm, the calm, the wise, the patriot, and ange: He showed no deep. avenging hate—no Burat of wienpot, rae. He atood for iHberty and truth, and Gauntlessiy: led on, TIN shouts of victory gave forth the Rame of Washington. He saved his land, but did not lay his soldier (ranpings down To change them for the regal vest, and dons kingly crown, Fame was too earnest in her joy—too proud of uch a ton To Wet a robe and tte mask a noble Washington. —Elisa Cook. A Tale of the Revolution “Curse the Continental Congress! TM desert to the British camp. They have food, warm clothing, comfortable quarters. I'll do it to-night!” Having reached this determination, the bentry leaned his musket against a tree and began swinging his arms and stamping his feet upon the flinty ground, in hopes of obtaining animal warmth by violent exercise. Few know how near the infant re public came to being strangled that dreadful winter at Valley Forge. After defeating the British at Saratoga, with the nation ringing vith shouts, patr! ote politicians guzzling wine and food beside warm firesides in thanksgiving for Washington's victory, the victor- ous army was tracking the snow with blood from unshod feet all the way from Whitemarsh to winter quarters at Valley Forge. From Dec. 11 to the 18th—seven days—they tramped the nineteen hundreds in bare feet, bareheaded, tat: tered rags; many other hundreds crawling on hands and knees or car. ried by thelr comrades. No food, no shelter, weak with starvation, less than fifteen thousand all told, fifteen hundred fighting men at a pinch. Over beyond, a small matter of twenty miles at Philadelphia, a vigorous, well fed, well-clad army of twenty thoue und British troops. If they had only known! Washington's heart bled, and he pro- tested, argued and threatened in vain. Congress was cngaged in wordy dis cussions as to the proper construction of the “Articles of Confederation.” Afraid of exceeding their powers, they permitted vast stores of food, cloth ing and other necessaries to perisn at the commissary stations, while thelr army, the only army that could save the infant nation, was starving, perish ing from cold. A fow hours’ march one vigorous charge, and the famished patriots could have been overcome ‘The latter would have rejoiced, for i had reached the point when that firs law of nature, self-preservation, was uppermost in their minds. One blow and there would have been no more Congress of politicians, no more in fant nation; today there would no have been any United States; this country would new. be an English col ony. One man of all, in the midst of gen tral despair, had hope in God—Wash ington. He Infused some of his trus Into his hopeless soldiers, but humar ‘fork V MO RS k Vi Vi Nate WV N GG an \ NE A a Ss ee ey Ae ge “The Father of ui Country.” nature rebelled. So it was small won- der that the lonely sentry yielded to ‘the outery of the flesh and r@solved to desert his post, throw over the poll: Ucians and end his struggles against the home enemies, He wore a thin blouse, his panta Joons, too short for his limbs, dis: closed nakedness; his head and bosom were bare to the keen, sharp, wintry blast, and through his apologies for shoes his swoolen feet protruded, blue and frost-bitten. “Tis of no use,” he muttered, “To remain here {8 death from starvation or frost, While over yonder there is plenty.” He faced in the direction of the British camp. “There is nothing to prevent me—a few hours’ tramp, and then, food, shelter and warmth.” He drew his rags closer around him, but they gave him no warmth, Again he swung his arms and stamped his feet. “We won at Saratoga, and Congress has ordered us to give thanks; to eat, rink and de merry.” He forgot his misery in a loud burst of laughter. Merry, on what? For seven days no rations have been issued. We have eaten the barks of trees and gnawed the roots of plants to stay our hunger. No clothing for our frozen bodies, no shoes fur our benumbed feet or gloves for our stiff, paralyzed hands. Self: Preservation is the first law of nature. I will do it, The British camp is not far away. They are our enemies, our oppressore—Pooh! Better a thousand times oppression and a full stomach than this.” : Looking carefully around in all dl rections, his gun still leaning against & tree, forlorn as himself, the sentry ‘was on the point of starting toward plenty and warmth, when he was con fronted by two officers, Seizing his gun with the instinct of a soldier on duty, he cried out: “Who goes there?” “Saratoga,” came the answer. “Pass, Saratoga,” mumbled the sen try. But the officers did not move on. “Sentry,” said one of them whos face was concealed under the brim 0 an old, worn hat, “you are shiveriny and no wonder in this plercing cold. “Aye, but not with cold alone, spoke up the sentry with the reckles Et un a aN au i &¥ nw ay A 4 : fr E i in a See energy of despair. “The beating of my heart draws echoes from an empty stomach. | am perishing.” “Your name and regiment, soldier?” queried the officer mildly. “Silas Thornton,” was the answer as It at rofl call, then adding, “Franklin's contingent.” Removing a heavy cloak, the officer threw it over the sentry’s shoulders, likewise taking off his gloves and furred overshoes, he held them out to the soldier. “Sontry, retain these until 1 shall send for them to-morrow.” Saying which, he passed down the slope toward the officers’ quarters with his companion. “General, you have saved one man from death for desertion. Did you hear his soliloquy?” “Franklin, that man would never have suffered death at my hands had he gone to the enemy and been caught.” “What an example for the army!” said Franklin with a chuckle, “Listen, oh, wise philosopher,” said the other. “God alone knows what {s in the mind of man, What the heart of that poor sentry expressed, I too have felt, but guarded the secret of my thoughts. I have often been moved to cast away my sword, and let these scheming, quarrelsome politicians fight their own battles. To-night, my sentiments are the same as that poor soldier's. My hopes are stronger than his, that is the only difference.” ‘The two walked on in silence, until pressing each other's hands they part ed for the night. Desertion was fat from the sentry’s thoughts after his visitors had departed. A careful ex: amination of the heavy cloak, the gloves and the fur boots gave him ne clue to their owner, He donned them without) compunetion, and — thei warmth restored bis perlshing patri otism, ‘I will wait until to-morrow night," he muttered; “there 1s ne necessity to-night.” Toward noon the next day an aid de-camp entered a log hut, in. whick were huddled human beings, the flow er of Washington's army, every stey he took sinking into the ooze of the muddy floor, and called: “Silas Thornton!” The soldier tumbled ont of his cole bunk of tree limbs and pine bows drawing his rags around his body te hide its nakedness, and saluted, The aid-de-camp smiled pitifully, though he was as ragged as the soldier, and re turned the salute, “The officer who loaned you certatr articles of wearing apparel last nigh would have yeu return them in per son; follow me.” Straight they went to the headquar ters of the commanderin-chief, the Quaker's old, barn-like house, and int the presence of Washington, who wa: surrounded by his officers, with Frank lin prominent among them, “Are you more hopeful to-day, my friend?” inquired Washington, taking Thornton's hand and pressing it gent ly. But the soldier hung his head an¢ found no immediate answer, At last: “General, | have returned your gar ments, the cloak, the shoes and the | boots.” His face flushed, but Wash | ington eyed him with a benevolent smile or his counienanee, “Keep them, my friend. I shall never wear such luxuries again, until—' ‘Inere was a moisture in his eyes “Come, gentlemen, to dinner. Some good friend has provided us with s feast. Nay, Thornton, you must no refuse my hospitality.” Thornton ha¢ saluted and was about to withdraw | when he was restrained by his com | mander-in-chief. | A wandering pig had been ruthless ly slaughtered, as thin and lean as his human captors, but by loug stewing with sweet potatoes and turnips, he made @ savory mess, Pine bark phate ed aes genteel ta tps, Tes Agate that he ate nothing but sweet po- tatoes and turnips; the others, fam- Iistred, noticed nothing but the food. “Gentlemen,” sald Washington when the trenchers were emptied and noth- ing remained of the feast, “I have called you together for consultation, Gen. Varnum, what have you done for our alleviation?” “wrote Greene this, but have never received an answer or even an ac: knowledgement: ‘In all human prob- ability, the army must dissolve, Many or the troops are destitute of meat and are several days in arrears, The horses are dying for want of forage. The country in the vicinity of the camp {s exhausted. There cannot be & moral certainty of bettering our con: dition while we remain here. What consequences have we to rationally expect?" Varnum folded his arms and looked glum. Ur. Thacher arose to say: ‘Gentlemen, I too have written, but have never received the slightest ac- krowiedgement. They say I am feath- ering my own nost,” and the doctor laughed. “I am—with pine boughs. But this Is what 1 wrote: *'Men enough cannot be found In a condition fit to discharge the mill tary camp duties from day to day, and for this purpose, those who ara naked borrow from | those who have clothes.’ Washington looked al ‘Thornton with a ead smile, The doctor grew eloquent. “The men have nc material to raise their beds from the damp ground and consequently are suffering from disease and death. The army, however, is not without consola tion, for the commander-in-chlet— Washington interrupted: “That {8 bad enough, doctor, with out endeavoring to make it worse by appealing to the imagination.” He cast a look of affection upon the worthy doctor, who intended to complimen his general. then took up the conver sation himself. “I wrote Gov. Clinton a few day ago, and my communication met wit the same fate as the others—oblivion T explained the situation fully, amon, other things writing: ‘For some day past there has been little less than | famine in the camp. A part of th army has been a week without an; kind of flesh, and the rest, three o four days. Naked and starving @ they are, we cannot enough admir the incomparable patience and fidelit of the soldiers, that they have not, er || this, been excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and desertion.’ | “Gentlemen,” continued Washing ,| ton, “I confess to you that, recently | my mind has been in a revolt, I fee J a8 docs a deserter wno has been tr humanly treated and flees from hi || persecutors, leaves the cause of hi | tyrant and seeks his own welfare. Bui in the midst of these chaotic thought | there is one hope brightly burnin | within me. We are not fighting fo || ourselves nor for the politicians. W aro struggling to establish a country | we are assisting at the birth of a ney and glorious nation, one whose gor | ernment is based upon human liberty || 4s countless throng, a myriad sufferin | people constantly throng my brain’ an ,| hold out their hands appealingly. Wer }]1 to cast away the sword now, as || have been tempted to do, what answe | shall I make to thoso appealing one} | who place their hopes on me and upo Jus mil? It is thelr sacrifice, not our | and if we who complain of a littie su , | fering now, privation, hunger and cok Rae md Uy were to abandon them for the sake of a few comforts for our remaining years—gentiemen, it would be a erime, We are working, struggling, fighting for generations to come, My lite is theirs—" “And mine—and mine—and mine—" rang around the table, But Silas ‘Thornton, who was Fitting as one dumb, suddenly arose and, looking up to Heaven, gave a roar as if something obstructed his utterance. “If T had a thousand lives I would yleld them all up to torture In such a cause!" Then he sat down amazed at his temerity in such a presence, but Washington reached across the rough pine table and grasped his hand, gave him only one look which pierced deep into his soul and smiled a knowing smile which Silas Thornton under- stood, Lord Brougham's Tribute. Lord Brougham: “It will be the duty of the historian and the sage in all ages to omit no occasion of commem- orating this illustrious man, and until time shall be no more will a test of the progress which our raco has made in wisdom and in virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal name of Washington.” » ME oe ‘ ore ee ere ere. I et ky . nS pitas or We yp Ser ee ae ¢ SO ee ie /| co re ee LY i | SS f Oc] Acts Gently; Xe VE } tee ay 1 \ A | Acts Pleasantly; CN? ELAN oa ce : 1 aan | Acts Beneficially: yen A . bs oY, / . ein $ ed / @cts-truly as a Laxative. ve Vi Fife COMES J Syrup of Figs appeats to the cultured and the ‘ Mie f, fi oR well-intormed and tothe healthy, becatise its come ECO NE LE GS ponent parts are simple and wholesome and bes “44 >\ a cs Settee rae Sy wuse tacts without disturby the natural tunes o> mT a NY 4, tions, as itis wholly free from every objectionable < Pa a ws ; quality or substance, In the process off oe “Svea gt gee Usthuacturing figs ate used, as they are egg . ae ha oe) pleasant to the taste GUC ANE a nENAE oe acl oN LooS®S virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained cy, ss SOE ae | 4 od from an excellent combination of plants met die RY ees. Known to be medicinally lasative and to “EN a Jae Fyn, act most beneticially, Ae US 7" Heed Vonet its beneticia! etlect— buy the Ns at 2.427 genuine—manutactured by the Oo ee i, er pee, 4 CLFoRNAfiG rRuPC EL ai se Bee. ‘ ED Loviaville, ryPeP FPSMCINSS. CO a wy awh For eele by oll druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle, BAD BACKS. Bad backs are found in every housetold, A bad back 4s & back that’s lame, weak or aching, Most backache pains come from kidney derange ments and should be promptly attend eto. Reach the cause of backache by re % ieving tae kidneys : and curing thetr ills. 4 Doen’s Midnes te 8 at a1) Pills are for the kidneys only and cure the dangers of urinary and bladder disorders, from common inflammation, to Dropsy, Diabetes, Bright's disease. Case No. 40,321—Mr, W. H. Ham: mer, well-known builder, residing at 125 N. Hinde street, Washington C, 1, iets, says: “Iam glad to endorse a remedy which possesses auch inesti mable value as Doan's Kidney Pills ‘They cured me of inflammation of the biadder which had cated me much an Boyance and anxiety because of the frequency and severity of the attacks, T have advised others to take Doan’s Kidney Pills and 1 know they will not be disappointed in the resuits.” | A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Hammer will be mailed on application to any part of the United States, Address Foster-Milburn Co,, Buttalo, N.Y. For fale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box. | No man {8 so Wise that he can't leart from a fool. | Don't you know that Deflance Starch, besides being absolutely su: Perior to any other, Is put up 16 Ounces in package and sells at same Price as 12-ounco packages of other kinds? | How many great things are prom feed after you are dea ! as Ry OES aN NA aA VW Hey Gy DY hee 7 Te omcmah— qOWEity |} TX % | WATERPROOF VIS (OU GattNe "seo |) ‘Made m black or yellow forall nds) YU R7/, eft wan Ona creme ANS, V// eS isha P>A\\\\ te tame TOWER on the utter |0//) octamer east AS , | | AVE MONEY ee Bay your goods at Wholesale Prices, Que 1000N0¢" cataloune wii be nent wea HOUT fSatate” Tle Urvoant |B BBs nor eer tay sh pata, wut te 1 fn good fatth. Better send for it now, NY Rote’ veurubure trade with uso” wus wot yout 1 | Vn | nln Weds Q : : CHICAGO | ‘The house that telia the troth. ia at Emigrants from Ulster. Vister has ent out 1,085,590 emt: Brants during the fast Ofty years, ITS Permancatty caret oe to a voneness atten racer ber Kineis wreat Nore Nectorer Eo pore fei, Kutnie Levee fou Arh Sty Ybuauety iy When a man loses his breath from runing can he rin and catch it? Pino's Cure is com eRt medionne we ever used for all affections ct the throst and lance —Wae © Ravaney, Vanburen, ind. Bb 10, 1900, An idle brain is the devil's scheme factory. If you don’t Ket the biggest and best It’s your own fault, Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there 1s positively nothing to equal it in qual: ity or quantity, Even the Kieptomaniac wont always take a hint Stops the Cough and Works Om the Cold Lazative Bromu quinine Tablets, Price A lazy man is always anaions to get busy When there is nothing to do Perfectly simple and simply perfect fe dyeing with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Buy what you dont need and tater o1 you Will gel) what you do niced Clear white clothes ero a sign that the housekeeper ‘uses Hed Cros Nall Blue, Large 2 02. package, 3 cont. ‘The bath tub has saved more souls than the pulpit. Mra. Winslow's Soothing &yrup. For chliurea teertingy wiftens the rain Teicea tm Batniuation, ally pala,curee wind lle” Bc w butte: Man is born with a character, but he has to make his own reputation DEFIANCE STARCH should be tn every household, none 80 Rood, besides on more for 10 cents thaB Shy otter brand of cold Water stureb. Men are always looking for some one to back them; but its different with horses. WESTERN CANADA inthe Grasary of the World.” "The Land of Buns seinnt FOE PESTieS grates ee UOSE: Mircn wast pio iden 8c LONTaN ayes $e tage 98,8 OH + ys attae bunts ae Cita “a wa eed oricenl earn HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES FREE, Renee seweeeeeeree sy fein ADE 23 teas hae te! per TON ma Creators, Crenpent rand ive Fs g) Sneanistor Breen, Bein, g Guntloneter MAME R IE voitewer foe Vo reat what eye ON PF aise valaiog § 98» soul taj. Batay SS Billion Doliar Grass Ree Bohs uate Rama So itn akin pipe 2S nets ARR rerentenoticonns t00, pee maivranectan RAJOHN A’SALZER SEED Co.\ ses ee eee ee ie fETCREGORY'S LES SEEDS aaa An Ideal Woman's Medicine, te For Sry ANS i ey eT \\\ 3 ea) Sl eee =~ ies Hoan gle So says Mrs. Josie Irwin, of 325 So. College St., Nashville, Tenn., of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Never in the history of medicine has the demand for one particular remedy for female diseaces equalled that at tained by Lydia BE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, aod never during the lifetime of this wonderful medicine tas the demand for it been to great as iL is to-day From the Atlantic to the Pacifie, and throughout the lengthand breadth Of this great continent come the glad tidings of woman's sufferings relieved by it, and thousands upon thousands of letters are poring in from qrrateful women saying thal it will and posts tively does enre the worst forms of female complaints. Mrs. Pinkham invites all woe men who are puzzled about their health to write her at Lynn, Mass, for adyviee. Such corres spondence ts seen by women only, and no charge is made, $3.20 QUGIAS | OU ¥ DP Fins Spo union mane W. 1. Dougias makes ard sella ssore mania Geadvens, Welt (Hende Sowed Process) sho. a than any other |manetactorer fn the weeld: $25,000 REWARD & Toraino W. fs Douglen 5 scairtea atta a Se Sa a ee AX, Whtee for'stand Site fis WoL. Douglas $5.50 CR a7, ARDY He has convinced them that the style, fit, Weare anerecen fine Saves suswenn waesT w, t Dovatas $4.00 city EOCE LINE, Bone te eee ese Cit crrartantte! patent Cait, Enamel Bre Calf Cn, Wat Red, Cond Cautions Tins tains Vianet’ on boteaae WLM AM eck TOR ahes, = 5 AL 1 1 sentence ete | eat eonminatin ya" a et Seti ah Bein crest ytegteaty B | Saaretiiebolntteds at tan RINSE | @iSvesteat con 856 Casal e's New brioanay tae ee KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT Are You a K. of P. If Not, Why Not? Do you know that the Knights of Pythias is the strongest and most progressive order of the age? The four departments of the Order are as follows: In this the members are united to care for and protect each other in health Uniform Rank. In this department our young men tion which they can get in no other wa more useful citizens. each other in health as well as in sickness and distress. our young men are receiving a military educa- get in no other way, thus making them better and mothers, widows, daughters and sisters of for the common purposes of life. we are paying out thousands of dollars annually heirs of deceased Knights. LODGE IN YOUR LOCALITY, CONFER WITH NANCELLOR OF YOUR DISTRICT, OR WRITE A. CHANCELLOR, 2629 LUCAS AVE., ST. LOUIS, UPON WHICH TO ORGANIZE A LODGE. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains City to St. Louis. Once, smooth track, fast time. All ash run directly through the World's Louis, in full view of all the magnifi- e Wabash is the only line that does it. Train No 8. City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls evening, and New York and Boston driving a day's travel. Through ser- the only line that does it. L. S. McCLELLAN, or Agent. Kansas City, Mo. Uniform Rank. In this department our young men are receiving a military education which they can get in no other way, thus making them better and more useful citizens. In this the wives, mothers, widows, daughters and sisters of Knights are united for the common purposes of life. In this department we are paying o to the widows and heirs of deceased K IF THERE IS NO LODGE IN YOU THE DEPUTY CHANCELLOR OF YOU W. LLOYD, GRAND CHANCELLOR, MO., FOR TERMS UPON WHICH TO WABASH 5 Dai Kansas City to Unsurpassed service, smooth train trains on the Wabash run directl Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full cent buildings—the Wabash is the Wabash Trai Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., and Buffalo next evening, aud N second morning, saving a day's vice. Wabash is the only line th L. S. M Western Passenger Agent. In this department we are paying out thousands of dollars annually to the widows and heirs of deceased Knights. IF THERE IS 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. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." 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 magnificent buildings—the Wabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No 8. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls and Buffalo next evening, aud New York and Boston second morning, saving a day's travel. Through service, Wabash is the only line that does it. Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. U. S. Bonds, at par. Municipal Bonds, at par. Cash and Sight Exchange. Total. LIABILITIES Capital Stock. Surplus Fund. Undivided Profits. Unearned Interest. National Bank Notes Outstanding. Deposits. Total. DIRECTORS:—David T. Beals, L. T. Jain Ferdnando P. Neal, Geo. R. Barse, C. W. W. Jones, W. E. Thorne, Edward George, H. J. Ford, Felix L. La Force, C. J. Schmelzer, E. A LETTER FROM MISS S. American Mutual Aid Association, St. Louis. Gentlemen:—I want to thank you for the claim that was due me for the time also want to thank your agent, Mr. G. A. C. me, and your doctor for his visiting me even was a great saving for me since it cost me. Yourself. We don't go around boasting about our others to do this. Those persons who feel that they shad and sickness, we courteously invite you to this nature, and if you find any one ample privileges, and benefits that we do, then a company; but if not, then we throw open a Whether you would be insured or not, can to post you on the laws of fraternal or not, National Bank, KANSAS CITY, MO. Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business November 25, 1902. RESOURCES. $5,796,696.20 $ 523,000.00 366,161.54 3,424,797.24 4,313,958.75 $10,110,655.00 LIABILITIES. $ 600,000.00 275,000.00 63,033.40 106,983.00 standing. 423,000.00 8,642,638.60 $10,110,655.00 T. Beals, L. T. James, A. J. Snider, G. W. Lovejoy, R. Barse, C. W. Whitehead, J. P. Merrill, Geo. W. Ward George, H. J. Rosenerans, O. H. Dean, Geo. L. J. Schmelzer, E. W. Zea. ER FROM MISS SUSIE BOOGS. Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business November 25, 1902. Loans and Discounts..... $5,796,696.26 U. S. Bonds, at par..... $ 523,000.00 Municipal Bonds, at par..... 366,161.54 Cash and Sight Exchange..... 3,424,797.24 4,313,958.78 Capital Stock..... $ 600,000.00 Surplus Fund..... 275,000.00 Undivided Profits..... 63,033.42 Unearned Interest..... 106,983.00 National Bank Notes Outstanding..... 423,000.00 Deposits..... 8,642,638.62 DIRECTORS: -David T. Beals, L. T. James, A. J. Snider, G. W. Lovejoy, Ferdandm P. Neal, Geo. R. Barse, G. W. Whitehead, J. P. Merrill, Geo. W. Jones, W. E. Thorne, Edward George, H. J. Rosencrans, O. H. Dean, Geo. D. Felix, Felix L. La Force, C. J. Schmelzer, E. W. Zea. association, St. Louis, Mo. to thank you for the promptness in the payment me for the time that I was seriously ill, and I agent, Mr. G. A. Clay, for his regular attention to his visiting me every day while I was sick, which me since it cost me nothing. Gentlemen:—I want to thank you for the promptness in the payment of the claim that was due me for the time that I was seriously ill, and I also want to thank your agent, Mr. G. A. Clay, for his regular attention to me, and your doctor for his visiting me every day while I was sick, which was a 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. boasting about what we have done; we allow feel that they should be insured against accidents usly invite you to investigate all companies or find any one among them that will afford you that we do, then we appeal to you to go in to such we throw open our books for your enrollment insured or not, call to see us; we would be pleased of fraternal insurance. 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, call to see us; we would be pleased to post you on the laws of fraternal insurance. G. A.CLAY, Organizer, 1106 Charlotte St. W. C. COMBS, Examiner, 1104 Charlotte, St. --- Subordinate Lodge. Ladies' Court. Endowment. David T. Beals, President. Fernando P. Neal, vice-Presst KELLEY'S BEST Beats all the Rest Manufactured by KELLEY MILLING CO. KANSAS CITY, U. S. A. SALVATORE MARIA CASA DE MADRID W. H. Seeger, 2nd vice-Prest Chas, H. V. Lewis, Cashier. No. 730 Charlotte, St. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 1982. Yours for success. SUSIE BOGGS. J. L. WILLIAMS, Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair Shop. Good Material and First-Class Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. Is This Really True? Yes! Some of the choicest qualities and prettiest designs in Watches and Jewelry are in the show window of : ; ; ; J. A. WILSON, 1816 W. 9th St., KANSAS C Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of B and the public either in buying his goods or ing of watches and jewelry (which is a assures nothing less than complete sa Bargains in diamond rings, engagement and w baby rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always The Stoeltzing Stove and Hard on in soliciting the patronage of his friends public either in buying his goods or in repair- patches and jewelry (which is a specialty) nothing less than complete satisfaction. Diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, dries' gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. Itzing Stove and Hardware Co. Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public either in buying his goods or in repairing of watches and jewelry (which is a specialty) assures nothing less than complete satisfaction. Bargains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, baby rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. COOKING STOVE 'Phone 1451. 1909 GRAND AVENUE. 913-915 E. 19th STREET. BUTCHER @ WELSH, 716 DELEWARE STREET. You want to buy a House, You want to rent a House, You want to sell a House, You want to borrow Money, You want to Insure your House or Furniture SEE BUTCHER @ WELSH, 2054. 716 Deleware St. CRUTCHER 716 DELEWA If you want to buy a Ho If you want to rent a Ho If you want to sell a Ho If you want to borrow Mo If you want to Insure you CRUTCHER Tel. 1315 2054. If you want to buy a House, If you want to rent a House, If you want to sell a House, If you want to borrow Money, If you want to Insure your House or Furniture CRUTCHER @ WELSH. Tel. 1315 2054. 716 Deleware St. OZONO AND Cedroline cover, POWDERED EGG our celebrated and renowned one 1-pint package of Al the milk $5.00, will be sent on receipt of $1.50 and and complete directions, together with called the toilet educator of the day. New York. That will be our best offer for only $1.00. Your work will be you bought it. This liberal offer is who can simply coin money selling our can get our goods safely to you. Do not do BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 every, POWDERED EGG SHAMPOO, worth $2c.; also one bar of celebrated and renowned PURITT SCALE POP, worth $2c. and one 1-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, the most wonderful toilet toilets on receipt of $1.50 and your name and address, with full plain directions, together with our beautiful Souvenir Catalogue, just educator of the day. All will be worth OZONO we will send this great bargain $1.00. Your work will be sufficient. Simply tell us when and where this liberal offer is made with the object of securing good Agents, coin money selling our preparations. No matter where you live, we is safely to you. Do not delay; order to day. Address EMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. $5.00, will be sent on receipt of $1.50 and your name and address, with full plum, with our beautiful Souvenir Catalogue, justly called the toilet educator of the day. NOTE.--To all who have ever bought OZONO we will send this great bargain offer for only $1.00. Your word will be sufficient. Simply tell us when and where you bought it. This liberal offer is made with the object of securing good Agents, who can simply buy more money you live, we can get our goods safely to you. Do not delay; order to-day. Address BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. Mention this paper when you write. A man, being seriously ill, asked his wife to send for the minister, who came, and talked some time with the good old man. On leaving he tried to comfort the wife, saying that while John was very weak he was evidently ready for a better world. Unexpectedly, however, John rallied and sald to his wife: "Jenny, my woman, I'll maybe be spared to you yet." "Na, na, John," was the reply; "we're prepared and I'm resigned. Dee noo." Cost Falls on Venice. As the Italian government declines to contribute, the whole cost of reconstructing the fallen campanile of St. Mark's will be borne by the Venice municipality. --- Ready for Death. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Peninsular Agents For... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces .....A new line of..... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators THE new, non-failing and infallible combined treatment for the human Hair, jointly, cannot fail to lend to the Hair length, lustre, life, and beauty. One year ago the directors of the BOSTON CHEMICAL O. C. produce an absolutely perfect and reliable treatment for the Hair, appropriated the sum of $6000 for this purpose and the world's most noted chemists were secured, who, after twelve months of investigation and costly experiments, in all faith and confidence, as it is certain to produce results most gratifying, causing the Hair to grow long and luxuriant, in all faith and confidence, as it is certain to produce results most gratifying, causing the Hair to grow long and luxuriant, in all faith and confidence, as it is certain to produce results most gratifying, causing the Hair to draw up, contract, curl, and tangle, thus making it easy to dress the Hair in various styles, to grow out on all bald spots, scant partings, thin places, and bare temples. It is sure to prevent the hair from matting at the ends. This great treatment is now the most wonderful remedy 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 I 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, immediately prepared for death. St. Halyard Tubercleach No. 7 meets first and St. Louis Ave. Kev. N. C. Bruns up avenue. Daughter Martha Johnson H. S. Slaughter Abbie L. Pyles, Seosethna. Gate City Lodge, No. 4679, G. U. of O. P. meets at 143 E. 18th Street, every first and third Fridays, of each Month. E. S. LEWIS, P. S. Rone Lodge, No. 25, A. F. & A. M., meets on the 1st and 3d Monday nights in each month. P. M. meets on the 2nd and 4th days are cordially invited. G. G. Campbell, W. M. 32th Flora. T. A. Mosey, Secy. C. Mount Olive Lodge No. 58, A. F. & A. M., meets the 2d and 4th Friday in each month, at 6th and Charlotte sts. All visiting members are invited. M. W. Wooden, W. M. 192 Floor ave. J. H. Harris, Secretary, 710 East 18th street. St John's Chapel, on Bell street, between 9a and St. Louis ave. Rev. N. C. Buren, past secretary, 710 East 18th street. 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening and Teachers' meeting Thursday evening. Vine Street Baptist church, T. H. Ewing, pastor. Sunday services 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school, 2:30 Prayer meeting Friday evening. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, cor. 24 and Holmes. Rev. A. V. A. Gilbert, pastor. Sunday services, 11 a.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 Monday evenings in the month. J. W. Crowe, W. M, H. J. Spigener, Sec'y. Allen Chapel, south-east corner 10th and Charlotte streets Rev. O. J. W. Scott, pastor. Sunday services 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School, 2:30 p.m. Class Meeting Tuesday, 8 p.m. Praye. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Choir practice Monday evening. Second Baptist church, corner Tenth and Charlotte. S. W. Bacote, D. D., pastor. Sunday services; Preaching, 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m.; Sunday school, 2 p.m. Weekly meetings, Monday B. Y. P. U. meeting, 8 p.m. Wednesday 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. Boyd. Pastor. MRS. A. B. CUMMINGS, Clerk. Pleasant Valley Baptist church, Rosedale, Kansas, Sunday services Preaching 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; B. Y. P. U., 7 p. m. W. H. F. and M. Society, Thursday evening praise meeting. Rev. H. E. STRICKLAND, Pastor TUCKER, Clerk. Pleasant Green Baptist church, Independence 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—Prayermeetings and missionary, Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock p. m. Young People's Literary and Progressive Club, Thursday evenings. 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 11th and Highland, J. M. Ham's Pastor. Sunday Services—Sunday School 9:30 a. m.; Preaching 11 a. m.; Class Meeting p. m.; Epworth League Bible Reading 2:30 p. m.; Epworth League Prayer Meeting 3:30 p. m.; Epworth League Weekly Service—Prayer Meeting 9:30 p. m.; Epworth Bible Reading Friday 8 p. m., bi-monthly; Choir Rehearsals Monday, Asbury M. E. Church, Chimney Church, Kansas City, Mo. Wm. H, Wheeler, Pastor, residence 1812 East Twenty-fifth street. H. PATTON, Prop R. HERNDON. T. J. PATTON. BARBERS Laundry Agency and Cigars. Ladies' and Gents' Shoes Polished. 926 Wyandotte St. KANSAS CITY MO. Prof. L. L. Thompson O. S. P. The celebrated Mind Reader and Divine Healer' Advices Given in all business matters. Hours: $-8:30 p. m. to 11 p. m. 716 Broadway FRISCO SYSTEM Superior Service, Wide Vestibuled, Electric Lighted Trains between Kansas City, and Oklahoma City, Denison, Sherman, Dallas and Ft. Worth, Texas, and all points in the South-East and South-West. Junction Ticket Office. 917 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Walters and Porter's Headquarters And Information Bureau. BEN McRAY, Press' and Treas. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gentes dine up stairs. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager 1784 ..... Telephone ..... 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co., First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. J. B. LESTER, BARBER SHOP. 559 GRAND AVE. Hot and Cold Baths, 15c. Large, New Porcelain Tubs. Good barbers. Give us a Call. J. M. PAINTER, Manufacturer of ..THE EAGLE BITTERS... 903 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, KANSAS CITY, MO. OUR SPECIAL Richmond Club Rye and Old Elk Rye. Joe Alpert, SAMPLE ROOM. ED BRADFORD, Bartender. MILLINERY, HAIR GOODS, NOTIONS, DRESSMAKING, TIPS CLEANED DYED AND CURLED. MAIN STREET FAIR, D. PECK, Prop. Dolls, Doll Wigs, Doll Arms and Every- thing Pertaining to Dolls. 553 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. Fancy & Staple Groceries ...AND... Table Luxuries Vegetables in Season. Fresh & Salt Meats. Teas & Coffees. G. JONES, E 17th St., Kansas Oily, Mo. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIKE: OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted). This wonderfully flavored is the only safe preparation in the world that makes skinny or early hair straight as shown above. 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