The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for It Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME VIII. A Letter from Hon. John S. Wise Replying to a Virginia Judge. New York, December 22, 1902. My Dear Judge: Thank you once again for that sweet kind letter so grateful at this particular time when so many folks are saying mean things about me. They do not disturb me, because I know I am right and that they are wrong. When a man knows he is right he is serene and abuse does not ruffle him. The knowledge that they are violating plighted faith, and the doing mean, disreputable and dishonest things, makes them irritable and abusive. In a sense their wrath amuses me. In another sense I am moved by pity for their narrow-mindedness and vindiciveness. They cannot turn back the hands of time or obliterate history. I agree most heartily with all you say about the importance of denying suffrage to ignorance, and limiting it to intelligence. Any fair limitation of the right to those sufficiently educated to possess understanding as well as character must be approved by every right-thinking man; but when the limitations are not imposed in good faith; when they are applied with the confessed purpose of race discrimination; and when they are enacted by fraudulent abandonment of pledge and in defiance of all authority; the questions resulting are broader than any question of party or color and recur to the proposition whether, in defiance of law and precedent, a fractional oligarchy, in perpetuity, can establish itself, by over-rthrowing all Democratic-Republican government in any state of the Union. That is the question presented by the Virginia situation. We are just at the threshold of the inquiry. You are much mistaken if you consider my cause is lost. I went to the courts simply to have a judicial determination whether the courts have power to redress this character of wrong. If the Supreme Court sustains the views of the court below, Congress will confront this issue with no pretense for saying the sufferers have redress in the courts. It must meet the responsibility, and cannot shut its eyes to the fact that every promise of the nation to the Negro race stands broken, in defiance of the pledges which the states gave the nation thirty years ago; and that if they are to remain broken, the nation stands guilty of a wrong and a crime to these people. No people can exist in a free community without the power of self-protection. The ideas of freedom and political serfdom are inconsistent. The men who freed the slaves saw this so clearly that they bestowed suffrage upon the Negroes, as a means of political self-protection, pre-maturely. NEGRO SUFFRAGE A CRIME. Negro suffrage, as and when it was conferred, was both a crime and a blunder. It never ought to have been conferred at the time it was. It ought to have been made gradual. But it was conferred, wisely or unwisely. And the Southern States solemnly coveted to accept it. At the present time it is nothing like as dangerous or as monstrous a proposition as it was then. There are thousands and hundreds of thousands of Negros fully qualified for the exercise of suffrage. The element of unlifted ignorance might easily be reached by equitable laws if they were fairly administered; and the evil might thus be practically eliminated. But a foul device, thinly disguised, but universally admitted, whereby it is sought to remit every Negro possible to political slavery, without touching the lowest or most ignorant white, is repugnant to every sense of manhood, of far-sightedness, or good faith. The Negro is not what he was thirty years ago. We, as much as anybody else, have encouraged in him the aspiration for liberty and the sense of manhood. With those feelings stimulated and those rights acknowledged by us, we have seen him rear children, pay his taxes, accumulate property, vote, serve the state as her soldier and grow up not only with the pride of citizenship, but bearing its burdens along with his white fellow-citizens. Is it manly, is it just, is it honest, to seek now to filch him out of his rights, to trample out his ambitions, to remit him to a servile position? Would any white race stand it? Can we expect him to remain with us, so degraded? Can we afford to lose him? With his place vacant where would we be? Do we not boast that he is the best of servants? Are we not spared the tyranny of more exciting laboring classes? Would not our condition be pititable by a course of mean tyranny and the denial to him of rights which we are pledged by every consideration of honor and of interest to respect, if we drove him from our midst? No, sir, we could not afford it. There is not a pig-headed, bourbon, fool, Negro-hater living who, when pressed, will not admit these truths. And if it be true that honor and self-interest make it so that his lot is cast with us, in the name of reason and humanity, I ask, what have we to lose by being just and humane to him, or by according to him those political rights which white men deem essential to the protection and the preservation of their liberty? God help the state that falls within the control of small souls who cannot see these great truths through the bloody mists of race prejudice. If Virginians are not large enough and broad enough to see them, then her old race of statesmen is extinct, and the pigmies and degenerates who guide her destinies now will have to be curbed and led away from political and economic suicide by the stronger and broader and truer humanity which controls the nation. Our people cannot ignore the existence of the nation. By bitter and bloody experience we learned we could not dissolve the Union. Against our will and in spite of us, these black people were made freemen. SOUTHERN PEOPLE NARROW. And, once more, if the Southern people are so narrow and behind the advancement of the age, as to seek to violate their plighted faith, and to remand this race to slavery, they may bring down upon themselves the heavy hand which has never smitten them without carrying its point. We hear a great deal of fine talk about the sovereignty of these communities nowadays, and about their right to regulate their own social and political problems. But Virginia's son, John Marshall warned them nearly a century ago, that the sovereignty was subordinate to federal authority, in matters which federal laws reach, and the federal laws is supreme on questions of citizenship. They have paid bitterly in the past for ignoring these warnings. We heard much also of the duty to maintain white supremacy. This talk springs from no honest fear that white supremacy is imperilled. It is intended to enlist race sympathy from those who will not take the trouble to inform themselves upon the problem. But I say God help a white supremacy attained by breach of plighted faith to the nation; by cruel and unjust race discrimination against the blacks; by laws ordained without any legal sanction; lacking in any broad apprehension of the true relations between the races; dictated by vicious and hall civilized race prejudice, and committed, for their administration, to willing tools, whose only idea of civic duty or loyalty is to work to perpetuate the rule of the faction which installed them. Do not tell me that government under any such auspices will be better. No government so conceived or so executed, will be better than the bad men who size it, or the worst men who administer it. It is not democratic or republican government. It is the domination of a faction which neither respects the principles of government it pretends to administer, the rights of the government, nor its own pledges "Doing evil that good may come of it" has been the pretense of usurpers and tyrants from the time that government began, with the invariable result that the evil has been done and the promised god did not come of it. I feel a contempt for the expression so often heard that even if the method resorted to, to eliminate the Negro vote, was bad and vicious, the results will emancipate thought in Virginia and build up what the parties using this argument of con entence are pleased to predict, will be two respectable parties there. In a word, that with the Negro vote removed as a fusing influence upon the whites, the whites will divide upon public issues, as they have not done before. Those who talk this way are of two classes—they are either Democrats, who do not believe what they say, and say it as a consoling balm to their own consciences, or in order to reconcile credulous opponents; or they are people who hope always for better things and do not know the men who devised and are executing the scheme. Verily, the man is gullible who with knowledge of the career of the people, who have been piloting the politics of Virginia for the past thirty years, thinks that they have done anything or planned anything which will permit the power which they have seized, and in which they have intrenched themselves with such care and cunning, and toil, to slip from their grasp now or hereafter. Have not forty-seven of these men ordained a constitution which they were solemnly bledged to submit to the people for ratification or rejection? Have they not, while refusing to take any oaths themselves, in direct defiance of the law under which they were assembled, erected cursus of fealty to their work, from every officeholder, great and small, in the commonwealth, under threat of vacating his office unless he acknowledges their supremacy within thirty days from the time they asserted it? Have they not deliberately, by ordinance, provided for the amendment of all existing registration laws and the disfranchisement of at least two-fifths of the electorate which chose them, without consulting that electroate, as they promised to do? Did they not so jealously regard this new enrollment of voters that they consulted their partisans in every part of the state and named personally every member of every registration board in every magisterial district and in every ward of the state. Who ever saw such an act or ordinance as this before? Were these men chosen to carry out the plans of these conspirators, or for a fair and exalted purpose? LET VIRGINIANS ANSWER. Let every citizen of Virginia, affected, by the work of these tools of this conspiracy, answer this last query in the light of his knowledge of the character and attainments of the individuals chosen at his home to do this deed of political murder. And finally, has not every appointee, beneficiary and recipient of preferment, since this alleged new constitution has been put into operation, been one of those who planned it, and for whose benefit is was devised? Read the list and answer me. Do not tell me they intend to lose their grip. The statement is a reflection upon your intelligence or upon mine. I tell you they gained this power, corruptly, to enjoy it themselves; and will retain it as unscrupulously as they gained it. Under the plea of fettering the Negro they have fettered all the whites also. There is no more hope of white men successfully overcoming their factional domination than there was that black men, or black and white men, would do so. The poor deluded people of the state have, under the false fears excited by appeals to their race prejudices, allowed the coterie of Bourbon politicians, typified by the leaders in this convention, to fix upon them a thraldom, the end of which no man living can foresee, unless it is broken by the power of the law; and judicially declared to be, as it is, an outrage upon the rights of the people. It is worse than any monarchy, for it has no single head to chop off. It is as specious in its pretences of benefits, and will be, if it is permitted to stand, as tyrannical and corrupt as the Venitian Seignory of Forty. In spite of all these people say to the contrary, I love Old Virginia better than any spot on earth, and her old glory is as dear to me as to any of her sons. I am heartily ashamed of what has been done there. I will break it up root and branch if I can, as a duty which I owe, not only to my clients, but to my native state. If I cannot, that is all; but I am neither afraid nor ashamed to try, even if I be the only white son of Virginia who feels as I do. Is it or not natural that the Negroes, who are wronged by this thing, should seek in every way in their power, to obtain redress? Are they so beneath the notice of the law that they are not entitled to seek its protection? Are their claims so preposterous and outrageous that a reputable lawyer cannot present and urge them without appassion upon his character and ability? These questions bring their own answers. A negative answer must come from every honest man, lawyer or layman, for it is the boast of our profession that no man is so humble, or even so base, that he is not entitled to have the best aspect of his case presented to a court for judgment; and that no human being is so low in the scale of human rights or political consideration, that the highest court in the land should turn a deaf ear to his prayer for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I took their case, knowing full well the unreasoning and brutal prejudice my actions would excite. How could I doubt this would be so, when I recalled that my father's life-long service to the state did not protect his hairy hairs from villainous aspersions. He defended Caliboun in the mayoralty contest in Virginia in the seventies. WILL PLAY GAME TO FINISH. I have undertaken the task of bringing these galants to book, and we will play this game to a finish. It may end in the courts, or it may end in congress, or it may end in some other way, but if they think it is ended or that it is even fairly begun, they are reckoning without their host and woefully deluding themselves. It is too large a game to be decided by one throw of loaded dice. They are playing for political power. But my clients, a throng of 100,000 of God's creatures, who have been taught to think they are men and promised manhood by their state and nation, are not playing; they are praying and struggling and antagonizing in the inquiry whether they are freemen or sefs and chattails. At the end we shall know who is right and who is wrong; and, whatever that end may be, I know I am on the side of the weak against the strong; of humanity against bigotry and prejudice; of advancement and progress against obstruction and negation; of good faith against broken pledges of honor; of popular rights against unscrumulous usurpation; of experience and enlightened civilization against the besotted prejudices of the exslave-owner and the provincial jealousy of a lower type; upon the side of God against man's injustice and the heartless, selfish trickery of small politicians. In all my life I never had a cause in the justice of which I felt more confidence, or advocated a measure which I felt was more surely for the benefit of all the people concerned. Thus feeling, I am unaffected by adverse criticism and more and more resolved to go on with the good work. And the time will come when everybody—friend and opponent—will see that I was right—right as God's precept—"I do unto others as ye would they should do unto you." Let this be my answer to all that has been said. I trust to time for my vindication, and in the meantime am just as well, just as prosperous, and as happy as if the heathen did not rage furiously against me. Yours truly, JOHN S. WISE. Warning to Lovers The man who rehearses his previous love affairs to his inamorata makes a big mistake. She's likely to come right back at him with the story of her own life, and he may not like it. Remember the good maxim. What you don't know won't hurt you. East Has G. A. R. Candidate. A movement has been started in the New England states for the election of Major Austin S. Cushman of East Orange. N. J., as commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the annual encampment in San Francisco next October. 6019 M. BLIND BOONE CONCERT COM PANY PLAYING TO CROWDED HOUSES. The Blind Boone Concert Company whose territory of operation this season embraces the northern part of the United States and Canada, reports unprecedented success. The tour thus far has proven one of exceptional advantage. The personnel of the company is, as usual, up-to-date, each member possessing the required skill 1910 MISS EMMA SMITH. The Popular Soprana Singer With the Blind Boone Concert Co. the Bring Boone Concert Co. The above is a good likeness of Miss Emma Smith, a product of Kansas City, who is now filling an engagement with the Blind Boone Concert Company. Miss Smith possesses a splendid soprano voice, which is fast bringing her into fame. She was reared and schooled in Kansas City, having THE JOHN LANG HOSPITAL SOLD After a heroic struggle for existence, facing prejudice on account of location and contending against financial odds, the John Lang Hospital was obliged to close its doors and the committee concluded to dispose of the property. It was offered for sale last October, and since then the Negro hospital has been in "statu quo" and the ounding has been marked "For Sale." There being no buyers, Dr. T. C. Unthank with the spirit characteristic of the man, came forward and made the hospital management a good offer, and it was accepted. There is some consolation in this, for the property remains in the hands of colored people. Dr. Unthank paid for the property NUMBER 3. G. B. G. that goes to make first class artists Blind Boone is at his best and holds his audience in wonderment while the fair songsters supply the finishing touches with professional and artistic precision. The Blind Boone Concert Company is an aggregation of talent and an enterprise of which Kansas City feels very proud and its citizens note with much delight the flattering success attendant upon the sterling efforts of its worthy manager, Mr John Lang. graduated from the Lincoln High School. Miss Smith is the recipient of many press notices of high praise which is very pleasing to her many friends in Kansas City, as well as to the management of the Blind Boone music, before whom she has had the honor of appearing, speak of her as a thorough artist. Her success is the result of struggling perseverance and her effort is duly being rewarded. about $4,000, just what it cost the committee. He will use it as a homestead and will move his family in just as soon as the final papers are made out. The property is located on Michigan avenue, between 12th and 13th streets, an ideal location for a residence and will serve this purpose better. Dr. T. C. Unthank is one of the most progressive citizens, with a splendid practice. He is interested in all movements that tend to benefit the race and community in which he lives. He has a highly cultured lady as a companion and an interesting baby of which he is justly proud. He is a positive, aggressive, educated Negro of the younger generation, who will yet make his mark as a credit to the race and honor to himself. --- THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE. It is well to wander sometimes in the Through its ever-smiling gardens, wh Where the beds are gay with roses an And our hopes, like soaring songsters Let us all be little children for awh Through the sweet and sunny meadow There's a Queen within an arbor, wh With a lily for a scopter and a rose And her laws are love and laughter, f Never hate or pain or money enter it So we sing the songs the children sim As we wander in the golden land of The Work o It is well to wander sometimes in the land of Make-Believe. Through its ever-smiling gardens, where the heart may cease to grieve. Where the beds are gay with roses and the paths are paved with gold, And our hopes, like soaring songsters, their mercurial wings unfold. Let us all be little children for awhile and make our way Through the sweet and sunny meadow land of Make-Believe to-day. There's a Queen within an arbor, where she rules in high renown. With a lily for a scapeer and a rose wreath for a crown. And her laws are love and laughter, for they know not sorrow there— Never hate or pain or money enter in her kingdom fair. So we sing the songs the children sing and play the games they play As we wander in the golden land of Make-Believe to-day. Mr. John Preston was in a discontented and uncertain frame of mind. He told himself a dozen times over that he had been very badly treated; that life was a blank. Mr. John Preston had been (and still was, for the matter of that) honestly in love with little Lucy Minton. But there had come a time when John wanted his way, and Lucy knew that she meant to have hers. John Preston had gone off in a rage—and had cooled five minutes afterward, when it was too late. "I never want to see you again—it has all been a mistake." Miss Minton had declared. "I sincerely hope, for your own sake, that you will find some one who will understand you." There are quite a number of people in this world ready to be sympathetic on an emergency; when the emergency comes you wonder why you haven't thought of them, and begin to see virtues in them they never before possessed. There was Miss Clara Harcourt, for instance. True, she was reported to have a temper, but Clara Harcourt thought well of him; there was much in that. During three days Mr. John Preston thrust out of his mind the image of Lucy Minton and resolutely held before him that of Clara Harcourt. On that third evening he came out of his office into the raw air, and thought for a moment what a hideous place the city was. He came to a long, narrow street, with various articles hanging outside the shops for sale, and with other streets opening from it. Wandering aimlessly and stopping now and then to look at the shops, he came to one the window of which was fitted with small cages holding birds. From inside came a noise of barking and yelping, mingled with the twitter of many birds. And that was where he saw the puppy. The puppy was not associated in any way with ordinary puppies, or even ordinary dogs; he had a cage to himself. And as John Preston stopped to look at the shop his eyes were on a level with those of the puppy. He was a nondescript sort of fellow, that puppy. In a word, he may be said to have been all head, like a species of hairy tidpole, and to have had no legs to speak of. "Nice dawg for a lady, sir," suggested a man in his shirt sleeves, who lounged out through the doorway at that moment. "E's a 'andsome dawg, that." "I should scarcely have called him handsome," said John Preston, with a smile. "You take 'im in your 'ands, sir," urged the man, opening the cage, and hauling out the puppy unceremoniously. "Feel 'is teeth, sir." Not desiring to appear an amateur, Mr. John Preston felt his teeth; and, incidentally, the puppy, not to be outdone in courtesy, "felt" Mr. Preston's finger. On the man urging again that this was really a very good dog Mr. Preston remembered that Miss Clara Harcourt had once said that she loved dogs; this should be a propitatory gift—an excuse for calling that night. So the puppy was bundled unceremoniously into a basket, and fastened down with a skewer, as though he had been so much meat; the price was paid and Mr. John Preston walked away with him, wondering a little, before he had gone a hundred yards, why he had bought him at all. He wondered still more during the DOG FARK And That Was Where He Saw the Puppy. next half hour, because the puppy kicked. More than that, he wrigled a blunt little nose out of one corner of the basket and yelped. Finally, in desperation. Mr. John Preston boarded a car and there the real trouble began. The car had just started. when the land of Make-Believe. are the heart may cease to grieve, and the paths are paved with gold, their mercurial wings unfold. te and make our way land of Make-Believe to-day. are she rules in high renown, wreath for a crown, or they know not sorrow there— her kingdom fair. and play the games they play make-Believe to-day. of the Puppy puppy announced who he was, and where he was, by a series of yelps that drowned the rattle of the wheels. Instantly all eyes were turned on Mr. Preston and he endeavored to suppress the puppy by pressing him hard between his knees. "I don't billeve the pore thing can breathe in there," said an elderly lady sitting opposite. "Come to that. I don't think the law let's yer keep 'em shut up like that." Mr. John Preston looked helplessly round, and then he observed a curious thing. He was looking straight into eyes that he knew, in a corner of the car—the eyes of Miss Lucy Minton, and the eyes were dancing. Of course, etiquette demanded that T "I Wanted to—to Give Him to Someone I'm Very Fond Of." he should take absolutely no notice of her; indeed, no sooner had the dancing eyes met him, than they were turned in another direction. The puppy continued his yelping. It was only when the conductor began to make kindly inquiries concerning the breed, and what it was fed on, and other things, that Mr. John Preston caught up his basket and swung off the car into the road. The car passed him as he strode along gloomily. He had an idea that he could see those laughing eyes looking out through the lighted windows at him. He told himself recklessly that he did not mind what she thought, although his heart was bitter enough; he tried to look forward to sasking in the smiles of Miss Clara Harcourt. "Keep still, you little beast!" he exclaimed, petulantly, as he shook the basket. "I wonder if you'll be quilter if I take you out and carry you?" He pulled out the skewer, and dragged forth the small wriggling animal from the basket. Tossing the basket into a doorway, he tucked the puppy under one arm and strode on again. But he didn't know that puppy: it wrigled and wrigled, and kicked and squirmed, until at last it was actually hanging by its head under John Preston's arm. Then, as John stooped to gather him up affresh, the puppy made a dexterous forward plunge, and shot right out of his arms. And with what surprising agility he moved on those diminutive legs! John Preston whistled, and called, and snapped his fingers; the puppy tucked his small legs under him and went on at a sort of romping gallop. Suddenly he stopped, however, and John Preston felt that he had him. The puppy stopped near a slight, girlish figure walking on ahead of John Preston; more than that, the puppy flung himself right in front of the feet of the girl, and "yopped" at her, and made little forward rushes at her toes; so that she had to stop and stoop down and pick him up. John Preston, going forward with raised hat and with thanks on his lips, stopped in astonishment; the girl who held the puppy was Lucy Minton. "This is your puppy, I think," she said. "Y—es," he stammered. "I slipped out of my arms, Miss Minton." slipped out of my arms, Miss Minton." "Shall I carry him?" she asked, almost in a whisper, and immediately added: "Mr. Preston?" "You're very good," he said lamely. The puppy knew how to manage himself, thank you; he was perfectly comfortable. He snuggled down against Lucy's muff, and—his mission accomplished—went fast asleep. She carried that happy puppy all the way to the depot. There Mr. John Preston, with a memory of his wrongs, suggested that he would take the dog himself, and spare her further trouble. But the puppy made such a frightful business of it, and kicked and yelped and howled to such an extent that, for the sake of peace, the dog --- had to remain called up against Lacy's muff. "Goodby, Mr. Preston," said Lucy, when they got outside their own particular station, and stood together in the dark road. And she held out the puppy in both her hands toward him. "I don't know what to do with the little beegar," he said, helplessly. "O," she said, softly. "Then why did you buy him?" He suddenly took hold of her hands—puppy and all. "I wanted to give him to—to someone I'm very fond of; someone who'll be kind to him because of me—someone who—" Of course, you understand that it is absolutely impossible to make intelligent replies to anyone when an excitable puppy is making soft dabs at your chin and when you are vainly striving against him. But, at all events, Mr. John Presson seemed to be quite satisfied and the puppy went to sleep again, obviously content that he had put in a very fair evening's work.—Black and White. WATCH SMALL AS A NICKEL. Triumph Scored by an American Maker of Chronometers. The smallest watch yet turned out in this country has just been put on the market, although few are on sale yet. The new watch is the size of a 5-cent piece. The smallest watch which American watch factories had hitherto succeeded in making had been as big as a quarter, so the new watch is looked upon as marking a distinct advance in the industry in this country, where watches have only been made for a little more than half a century. Watchmakers also regard it as indicating that the time is not far distant when Americans will soon overtake the old world's watchmakers, the Swiss, in turning out watches of minute size. The Swiss still make a watch smaller than the Americans, but the watch just put on the market here by both the Waltham and the Elgin companies, the two largest watchmaking concerns in this country, will have the advantage over the Swiss watches that all the other watches made here have possessed, namely, that of being turned out in quantity. Under American methods the daily output in one factory is 2,500 a day. The new watch is the result of months of patient endeavor by the watchmakers and machinists. For every new sized watch designed new machines have to be made, and as the size of the watch is reduced, by so much more must these machines be made more delicate. It Did Not Matter The man in the case was old and profoundly in love with a young, beautiful and fashionable woman. Whether she loved him in return is not said. It is enough to say that she permitted his attentions—nay, more, she encouraged them. In fact, they were to be married. Is it necessary to state that he was rich? "My darling," he said to her as he clasped a magnificent bracelet of diamonds about her wrist. "I love you more than I can tell you." He spoke the truth, too, for it is easy for an old man to love a young and beautiful woman who smiles upon him. "Oh," she laughed, as she tapped him playfully on his bald head, "you don't have to! Money talks, you know." And the old man thought it was so very bright and funny that he stooped down and kissed her. Her Letter and Her Answer "Would you be kind enough to return my photograph?" she wrote. "I gave it to you in a moment of girlish folly, and I have since had occasion to regret that I was so thoughtless in such matters." Of course she pictured that photograph framed and hung up in his room, and was inclined to think that he would part with it with deep regret. Just why she wanted it returned is immaterial. Of course he had offended in some way, but it is unnecessary to inquire how. The answer to her note came the following day. "I regret," it read, "that I am unable at this late day to pick out your photograph. However, I send you my entire collection, numbering a little over 500, and would request that you would return all except your own by express at my expense." Failure. Not always is it he who wins his way Through proud achievement to his world- ly goal. Upon whose shoulders falls the sacred stole Of sweet serenity when wanes life's day. Ofttimes the weary who beneath the sway Of so-called failure would give up his role. Has risen through the gloom with strengthened soul. And caught the gleam of some divine ray. Failure. Failure, success are terms but relative; They are not measured in the Mind DI- Are like the watcher who, at sun-decline, As daylight fades beholds the even star. -Herman Montague Donner in "Lyrics of a Finnish Harp." Uncomfortable Finnicus—"I wonder why it is that those who attain the pinnacle of success never seen to be happy?" Cynnicus—"Because the pinnacle of success is like the top of a particularly tall lightning rod with a particularly sharp point, and those who succeed in perching temporarily upon it usually find that they are targets for all the world's thunder."—Town and Country. PORTRAIT OF MISS ALICE ROOSEVELT MUCH ADMIRED Milton AFTER PHOTO OF COSTUME'S MASTER ICICLES ON TELEGRAPH WIRES DO MUCH DAMAGE The portraits of Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Alice Roosevelt which were exhibited at the Paris exposition and were purchased by President Loubet and presented by him to President Roosevelt, now hang in the White house, where they are attracting much attention. The painting received a PRATT'S ARMY RECORD LONG. Chief of Carlisle Indian School Began Service in Civil War. Lleut.-Col. R. H. Pratt, for thirty years chief of the Carlisle Indian school, who will be retired from the army as a colonel, is 62 years old, and began his military career as an en- P. LIEUT-COL. P. H. PRATT listed man with the Ninth Indiana Infantry. He afterward joined the cavalry and fought with distinction during the civil war. He entered the regular army in 1867 as lieutenant and was breveted captain for gallant services in the war of the rebellion. Col. Pratt is a native of New York state. President Roosevelt's Good Nature President Roosevelt's Good Nature. President Roosevelt had more fun than a schoolboy at the wedding of Senator Cockrell's daughter—joked with the girls, shook hands with the matrons and exchanged "jollying" remarks with the young and old men. At the wedding breakfast he made a short speech. In which he astonished everybody by saying that although Missouri is a splendid state he could not think of living there. "No," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "I wouldn't live there if I could, because I think so much of Senator Cockrell and admire him so greatly that I don't see how I could keep from voting for him, and as he is a Democrat, you know that would never, never do." ICICLES ON TEL WIRES D One can hardly fully realize the extent of damage that can be wrought by the united efforts of drops of water, especially when accompanied by a freezing temperature. Telegraph wires are often coated to a considerable thickness with ice, and break under the load, but a thing occurred during a late rainstorm which linemen of the different telegraph companies say they never experienced before. On the Peoria line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, near Maquen, the ice formations on the wires were truly remarkable. An icicle easily forms at the end of a water spout, but when a tele- great deal of praise from art critics, who saw them in Paris. The portrait of Alice Roosevelt presents her in characteristic pose, her head thrown up and backwards. She was painted in a gown of white tulle, the same as she wore at her coming out party at the White house. Harry Wadsworth, assistant clerk of the Senate committee on claims, is a great expert on Indian sign language. He is credited with being able to converse with all kinds of red men. Recently he was appointed Indian agent for the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming. Seeing a band of Nez Perces Indians the other day on a steer car, on which he was also a passenger, Wadsworth commenced to attract their attention by his signs. They eyed him suspiciously, but one, more friendly than the others, eventually crossed over to the new Indian agent's seat. "I am sorry," said he very apologetically for a red man, "but I never learned the sign language. I can only speak English." When Kitchener Laughed. At the durbar state ball Lord Kitchener's knowledge of the figures was of the vaugest kind and in consequence all he succeeded in doing was to the himself and his partner in the most absurd knot, to the intense amusement of the others in the set and of the large crowd looking on. The hero of Khartoum was beaming with delight, and so he blundered through to the end. When the music ceased at the end of a quadrille he was in the middle of the room looking for his partner, and laughed heartily when she came up and found him. Victor Hugo Museum. Paris is about to add to its literary attractions by opening a Victor Hugo museum. It is to be established in one of the quaint Louis Treize houses still surviving on the Place des Vosges which was inhabited by the poet while he was yet the young lion of "Hernani." Dr. Hale's Idea of Philanth Dr. Edward Everett Hale says if he were a millionaire he would buy a large tract of land near Boston, divide it into four-acre lots, build a small house on each lot and present them to the poor at a nominal rental and at the end of ten years give them the house. Record in Scotch Coal Shipments. Scotland shipped 11,279,422 tons of coal last year, constituting a record. EGRAPH O MUCH DAMAGE graph wire coats itself with a half-inch diameter of ice, and then deliberately allows about 2,000 icicles, varying from three to four inches in length to form between the short stretches which exist between the poles, the phenomenon is a rare one. Figuring approximately the weight supported by one of these light wires for the same distance, one 2nds that the short length held in suspense over 200 pounds of rain droops. They snapped in scores of places, and hundreds of dollars have been expended for repairing the broken ones. The interruption to business is also serious. THE ODD CORNER The Blind Lover. They tell me that her eyes are blue, Her cheeks display a wild rose hue— What need is there to tell! The graces of her smiling glance, The peeping dimples that entrance, I feel their beauty's spell; When first I heard her singing. How swift the shadows flew! While yet the strain was winging I felt her heart was true. I cannot view her locks of gold, Her little ear's enticing mold, Whereon no gem is hung; But where no nest in mine, What they reveal none can divine-- No poet ever sung! To me a sense is granted Unknown to other men, And by its light enchanted I see beyond their ken -Samuel Minturn Peck in Boston Transcript. Lucky Box. London's latest fad is carrying "Lucky Boxes," which are made of ebony, with a secret spring holding the cover. Inside of each is an Egyptian eye, which is supposed to assure the good fortune of the wearer in all affair of love or business. Besieged by Snails. A dealer in edible snails at Paris, France, recently received a consignment of twenty-five large barrels from the vineyard districts. Before retiring to bed he opened each barrel to make sure that the snails were alive and fresh. Instead of fastening the barrels down again, he merely spread tarpaulin covers over them, the result being that in the night the snails escaped. The man, who slept in a little room off his shop, was awakened in the dark by some of the snails crawling over his face. For the moment he was too terrified to move. Then he sprang from bed in search of a light, but he tred on some of the snails, which were all over the place, and fell heavily to the ground, inflicting a serious wound on his head. Screaming out that he was being murdered, he fled into the street, where a gendarme subsequently found him fainting from loss of blood. Through the open door was moving an innumerable procession of snails. The shop and bedroom were found to be covered with them, and hours were occupied in returning them to their barrels. Bill Fish of Bear Lake. Bear lake, an isolated and deep sheet of water among the highest hills of Chautauqua county, N. Y., has in its depth a curious fish known locally as the bill fish. It is a gar, and is a connecting link, so naturalists say, between fish as they are to-day and as they were in prehistoric times. The bill fish is found in this state only in this Chautauqua county water. It has a horny coat of mall and a sharp, long bill, full of formidable looking teeth. The bill fish grows to weigh 20 pounds and looks ferocious. —New York Sun. Early Steam Motor. In 1838 an Englishman who hid his identity under the pseudonym of "Saxula," wrote to the London Mechanics' Magazine describing a steam motor carriage, which he had invented ten years previously. With the article he A-Tubular boiler. B-Tubular chimney and steam chest. C-Steam pipe caused dry in channel, working an endless chain wheel on the crank shaft and two small fly wheels. E-Another less chain wheel, either fast or loose on the main axle. G-Coke box and wheel. G-Feed door in chimney. I-Polot pole. enclosed a drawing of the carriage, which was published by the editor. Both reading matter and illustration were reproduced in the (American) Mechanics' Magazine several weeks later. A young New Yorker, whose interest was aroused by some comments of the American editor in regard to the possible effect which such an invention might have on the movement in favor of better roads in America, kept the copy of the paper in which this pioneer automobile was described. The illustration is the one originally published in America at that time. Philadelphia Ledger. Old Railway Time Table, Queer Document Recently Discovered by Lackawanna Officials—Speea Not a Requisite of Travel fa the Year 1838, Why He Declined Office. Alabama Negro Refuses Political Appointment Through Considerations of Friendship for the Widow of His Former Owner. The Scourge of Typhoid, One of the Most Easily Preventable of All Ills--Ignorance or Carelessness Responsible for Its Dreadlul Ravages. ‘This month the Lackawanna rail- Toad {s entering the seventy-fifth year of its existence, for in January, 1828, the Ithaca and Owego railroad, now @ part of the Lackawanna system, re- ceived its charter, says the New York ‘Times, The iackawanna officials recently recently came across an old time table, which is a queer-looking bit of printed paper with a picture of an old-fashioned locomotive with two freight cars. It was published in July, 1838, and announced a new arrange: ment “while finishing the road,” which proves that {t took over ten years to complete the first twenty: nine miles, the length of the complet: ‘ed Ithaca and Oswego road. ‘The train was called a “transporta: tion train” and left Ithaca daily at 4p. m., except Sundays, It stopped at “Howe's Turnout, Whitcomb and ‘Wilsey’s Mills to take and discharge loading and receive cars” that might be “in readiness to join the train." ‘The train from Ithaca went only as far as Gridley’s, where it arrived at 8 p. m., taking four hours for the trip From there another train left at 4 p m. for Owego, arriving in that town at 7a. m. Freight cars were called “burden cars,” and only those regis Not all the negroes of the South are anxious to hold office. ‘There are some among the more intelligent of the race who cannot be prevailed upon to ac- cept such preferment. Among these is A. D. Wimbs of Birmingham, a ne- gro Republican leader, who has been offered and has declined the appoint- ment as deputy collector of internal revenue. Behind that simple announce- ment is a narrative that will be read with interest’ and appreciation by every person who understands the feeling that existed between the races before the civil war. ‘Wimbs, it seems, is an ex-slave and @ man of considerable ability. Upon becoming a free man he studied law, and has won a position as an attorney and counselor, and ts now connected ‘with one of the most important legal firms in his state. When he was ten- dered the federal job the firm, feeling that he was too valuable a man to lose, immediately increased his salary by @ neat sum, on the condition that he should not sever his connection with it and should decline the appoint. ment. He held this proposition tn abeyance. He felt that he owed it to himself to take the office and thus Of the ills that flesh is heir to tr phoid fever is among those most easily avoidable. Even in the complete clvill- zation of to-day {t should be of rare oc- currence and in that age of reason which the scientific world will recog- nize as the true millennium, when com- mon sense shall prevail, it will no longer vex the human race. It may be sald with truth that every death from this dreadful malady 1s a contribution either from ignorance or carelessness to the graveyard. The former is in- excusable; the latter little less than criminal. Like death of which dread specter {t 1s too often the forerunner, typhoid fever is no respecter of persons, says the New York Sun. The barriers of so- ciety do not stop It, nor is there safety in the tsolation which wealth secures, Its victims are among the high and low, and in its wide sweep It gathers in the millionaire and the pauper, for the chief distributor of its germs the water we drink, At one period or another during each year it is not improbable that the TOLD IN ALL LANGUAGES. Familiar Story Is Known All Over the aca The story of the man with seven sons who gave to each of them in turn a bunch of seven sticks with in- structions to break them, and each son failing to break them as a whole, succeeded in breaking each stick in- dividually, is one of the oldest stories in the world, and its lesson, “United we are strong, divided we are weak,” is as old as the story, An illustration of the general acceptance of the story was given at the public evening school in the Morgan street chapel a few evenings since. Miss Clark, the teacher, told the story in English to the class of some fifty foreigners who are learning to speak and to read the English lan- guage, when several of the pupils said they were familiar with it in their own tongue and the lands from which they came, Thereupon the story was told by one pupil who had been in this country from Palestine but & few tered in the secretary's office were permitted to run on the road. Such cars had to have a certificate of ft- ness from the engineer. Cars not be- longing to the company were hauled on condition that they carry a “way bill of loading” and pay toll at the gates at the rate of three cents per ton per mile.” It was no uncommon thing to see a horse trader sitting in the last car holding the halter of his horse, the animal trotting along the track be. hind. To-day the Lackawanna loco motives are among the most powerful ‘in the east. The rails of the early ‘days consisted of flat bars of iron, two ‘and one-half inches wide, five-cighthe of an inch thick and were laid on tim: bers running lengthwise, Across the car floor was an iron sheathing, to prevent loosened rails from flying up and injuring passengers As engines had no whistles, the onls warning the engineer could give was to raise the safety valve balance and let the steam blow off, Trains would stop for passengers at any place along the line; all the traveler had to dc was to stand by the rails and wave his hand and often trains slowed dowr to allow the fireman to jump off anc chase chickens from the track. secure advancement. But then came an appeal to him which he had not the heart to refuse. For a number of years he had managed the property of his “old mistress,” the widow of his former owner. Notwithstanding thoir changed conditions, he has always re- ferred to her as his “old mistress,” and devoted himself to her interests and services with that loyalty and un- selfishness which characterized his people in other days. When “old mistress” declared that if Wimbs were to cease to look out for her affairs she would be much embarrassed and wouldn't know to whom to turn, that settled the matter with him. He wouldn't have the job if it would cause her pain or uneasiness, and hir post: tive declination went forthwith to Washington, It {s such characteristics as Wimbs displayed in this beautiful incident that cemented the friendship between ‘the “old-time” negroes and whites of the South. Unfortunately such incl dents are becoming fewer every year In the north, where blood runs cold ‘Wimbs’ sacrifice for sentiment will not be understood or appreciated, but in the South the people will under stand it.—Exchange. water supply of at least three-fourths of the population of the United States contains the germs of typhold, and tn the late summer and autumn and eazly winter months, the dryer seasons of the year, when springs are low, 80 much more prevalent is this scourge that It might well be called “the low- water fever.” In one group of 6,000 tabulated cases one-half occurred tn the autumn months, 1,500 in the sum- mer and 1,500 in the rest of the year. While it ts true that the germ of typhoid may find its way into the sys- tem from other sources than from drinking water, careful scientific in- vestigations have demonstrated — be- yond the possibility of doubt that this is the chief agent of infection, Streams or lakes, along the shores of which dense populations exist, are more pol Inted, and therefore more poisonous, than are the reservoirs from isolated mountain streams or sparsely settled water sheds, and yet the germs of a single case of typhoid in any locality may find their way into the sources of supply and cause widespread dissem: nation of the disease. weeks, in pure Hebrew; another | voune man told it in Yiddish, which >| is the Hebrew language as it Is spok- on by most of the people of that race 1 | from Eastern Europe, A young wom- 1}an told it in Roumanian, another | young woman told it in Polish, and a 1 | young man told it in Russian. It was . | only a day or two before Christmas, | and many of the members of the class ‘| were working in the stores during the 1| shopping season, or it might have "| been told in half a dozen more dia- 1 | lects, the evening schools having at y | least twenty different nationalities !) and languages represented in thelr ’ | various classes.—Hartford Courant, , » Cause and Effect. > Old Doctor—"I hear you have givea . | Sloboy up. Is there no hope for him?" 1} Young Physician—"I'm afraid not. r | He won't pay his bill.” ‘ eee s| Heaven lies about us in our infancy » | —the neighbors attend to the matter , | later, aN INVESTORS LOSE MONEY “Get-Rich-Quick” Concerns Have Got Away With Enormous Sums Belonging ‘To Depositors. A. J. Arnold, the head of the turf investment company which went to the wall in St. Louis, has sailed higher and fallen harder than any schemer who ever tackled the turf as a way to riches, Other plungers on the turf have been known for their own indi- vidual losses or gains, Such men as Riley Grannan, “Pittsburg Phil" and others played for themselves. When they lost they were the only losers. ‘It was different with Arnold. He couldn't lose. Arnold was a born schemer. He be: gan scheming when he was 20 years of age, and he is now 42, He began with nothing, and the reports say that he has failed for about $2,000,000, It 1s something of a trick to be able to fail for such an amount, and in that respect Arnold has been a magnificent success. Arnold began carefully and dir\ not seek notoriety. He was way dotm at the start and handled 10-cent pieces. Later he got hold of some haif dollars and about ten years ago he began to handle paper money. He never an- tagonized anyone. He kept plugging and his friends believe now that he never meant to cause any patron to lose money. Arnold had an idea that he could do something that can never be done, so his friends say. Here was Arnold’s scheme in his own words: “If you had $10,000 in cash, a good Jockey, a string of good horses and facilities for finding out what was going on, don’t you think you could turn out a few hundred dol lars’ profit every week? Well, that is just what I am doing, and the few hundred on every $10,000 that I have enables me to pay 5 per cent interes! every week. If I intended to bust, you jdon’t think 1 would buy race horses j and farms and other things that could be seized, do you? Not much; if T was a crook I would be doing business {t a different way.” Arnold's argument won. In the lat ter part of 1900 he had enough money to establish his cooperative busines: and to advertise it. Money began t flow in and Arnold began to pay ow 5 per cent a week. The investors go the interest and the principal back 1 they wanted it. Arnold began to bn} farms; his name appeared in the dail newspapers as a prominent factor o1 the turf. One day he made a big kill ing at St. Louis and people read abou » 4) r) : o <a > \Ay SLRYAWWNSY It The result was he received more See iene The Arnold scheme succeeded so well that others imitated it. Millions of dollars were invested. The turf, of interest and the schemers were forced Withdrawals meant ruin, Arnold be- ing the first in the field was naturally the first to fail, because he handled the most money. Ryan Also Under Arrest. John J. Ryan, head of the turf in vestment company bearing his name, was arrested on a bench warrant is sued by Judge Douglas, The indict ment alleges fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, whieh is the same charge brought in the indictment against Arnold and Gill Raids in Other Cities. In New York and Chicago the police have raided the offices of the “get rich-quick” concerns which operated along the samo lines as the Arnold company. The books of these firms show they did business in enormous amounts, reaching up into the mil lions. Investigation into their stand. ing and legitinacy is still going on, WAYS OF BETTING CONCERNS. Some of the Various Kinds of So- ‘Ratied Suid tavdabenant Gaiausee ‘There are at least four kinds of con. cerns connected with horse racing schemes for making money, which may be vlissed as follows: Co-opera tive companies, which give informa tlon and place comiaissions on one or more races each day. as well as Invest ing money in the purchase of horses, racing, and breeding establishments: information and commission bureaus, information or tipping associations, and commissioners who either place wagers or profess to do oat the various tracks or In the large pool rooms in different parts of the coun uy. Columns, and in many Instances ‘whole pages, of sporting and daily ‘newspapers are used by organizations ‘nd individuals in displaying the tempting offers of “sure-thing” money winning information, as to the condi: tion, exercise, and stable knowledge of well-known animals which are te run in the several events, Investors are assured that they have only to send on any amount, from $10 up, in or- der to have it doubled or trebled in an Incredibly short space of time, and all that is asked of them by the adver tisers 1s a small percentage of the winnings, in addition to a daily fee of from $2 to $10, for the exclusive inside information. ‘These concerns guaran: tee to place the bets in the bands of ¢ E\ W'® 5 ‘\, ee NS a“? RSG DSS SVIsr veliable commissioners at the track named oF selected. Those who give tips for a considera: tion of from $1 to $10 a day send their Information by letter or wire each day to thelr customers, who are supposed to be able to place their bets at will Then there are many commissioners who advertise that they are in a po- sition to place wagers at the track or in poolrooms all over the country for percentage of the winnings, and the accounts of their customers are set: ued each day, or each week, or on de- mand. It is unreasonable to suppose wat all the money sent to these com missioners could be invested at any one track, and the mailing schome ts simply a subterfuge for making an Individual book in many instances, Neither the tipsters nor the com: missioners nor the Arms which com- bine both information and the placing of bets on it give any guarantee of winning, but they are blindly trusted by those who believe that they are being furnished with the most exclu: sive information, which in the long run must turn out to be both correct and profitable, One of the prominent “turf Invest: ment or co-operative companies,” which is now among those which are not paying out any cash to the hun. dreds of clamoring customers, sent thousands of circulars broadcast throughout the United States a few weeks ago, in which they sald: “We started in the turf investment business five years ago last’ August. Since that time we have used a per centage-winning system wilen has en: abled us to jy a weekly dividend of not less than 5 per cent We have not missed one single weekly dividend and have paid in the five years divi dends amounting to $1,360 on a $100 investment. “Bear in mind, our business is large ly transacted through the United States mails. If we had failed to de as we promised the postal authorities would have stopped our mail long ago Our position is such that we can take no chances even if inclined to do so for We must be perfectly square o stand to be convicted for using the walls for fraudulent purposes,” GOES TO AID MACEDONIA. Gen, Stephanott Summoned to Fight ‘Against the Turks. Gon, Rasil Stephaofi, who has beon summoned) to Macedonia to take: part fu tho War of his countrymen against Bree” | 5 | ot : | 1\ YH [eel 7% A BS 7 ‘ peal GY the Turks, has been a shoe merchant in Grand Rapids, Mich., — severa years, He was active in the war of IN77 and has been in communteation with other Jeaders in the anthTurk movement for a long time, When he roturns to Macedonia, he says, bia ommand will number 125,000, Good Child Labor Law. No child, young girl or woman can be empioyed more chan sixty hours @ week fn Canada, and the law is strict lv enforced. f- = ed a. hi : ta f ee Soa, ne Te Eppa hg aah Vey :* rs <2, N Pe Reo ~ eae es ea Ne ih es SrA Pa Se at ice Cr re a Bee NSS ae ee Pik Ss Sy Bc eae oy ; y 7 (jj Ls an iy F re M. F Seg ja oe ori oo SE ee & : & SY +, . ay 2 Ot, ROWS toy eé 8 <S ¢ We ROSS SHS. + Oo % the 4 ee MR ht Shy My Bl MS Miss Rose Peterson, Secretary Park- dale Tennis Club, Chicago, from experi ence advises all young girls who have pains and sickness peculiar to their sex, to rely on e is, t an Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. How many beantiful young girls develop into worn, listless and hopeless women, simply because euficient attention has not been pind to tele phesient development. No woman is exempt from physical weakness and periodic Pain, and young girls. just budding into womanhood should be carefully Guided phytically as well as morally, If you know of any young lady who is sick, and needs motherly advice, ask her to write to Mrs, Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., whe will give her advice free, from a source of knowledge which is un aoe in the country, Do not hesitate about: stating details which one may not [ke to talk about, and which are essential for a full understanding of the case, QU> fliss Hannah E. Mershon, Collings- CAR wood, N. 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OFFICE-No. 117 West Sixth St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . . . 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . 3.00 For two inches, three month . . . 8.00 For two inches, all 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 taik. 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. The Negro Advocate, of Richmond, Va., is before us. We gladly put it on our exchange list. Its tone is brave and positive and we hope for it a successful career and that its hopes may be realized. ITS FATE. The bill championed by John T. Crisp known as the "Jim Crow Car Bill" is to-day sleeping that sleep from whence no traveler returns. The manly stand taken by the good men of the state legislature in behalf of right between man and man is appreciated by the Negroes of the state of Missouri. Good government cannot be maintained in a republic like ours by dividing the masses. We have no malice against our county man, "Mr. Crisp," but rather look upon him as a man who has been disappointed, and when in the very throes of political death he curses the black hand that rocked him to sleep in his infancy, he is obliged to yield up the ghost in the molest of his friends without them shedding a tear. ALLEN CHAPEL Last Sunday being a lovely day the services were well attended and the morning sermon was suitable to every one present and we are sure that every thinking person, both saint and sinner, found something to help him during the next six days. We were brought face to face with things that we seldom trouble ourselves to even think of in the right way. Surely a great deal of good is accomplished by such talks in a city like this. Let us have more of them and there might be fewer cold Christians. The collection last Sunday was taken up by the stewards. The brothers went at the business in the proper way. Told the congregation just what they wanted that money for, and just how far behind they were with their Pastor's salary. Now that is the way to go at these things; tell us just the plain truth and we will always do our whole duty, for we never intend to owe any Pastor a cent. We hope the brothers will always tell the people just where they stand. Special meetings of the various classes will be held this week. We are getting down to business now, and if you do not intend to be of any service to Allen Chapel you better ask for your letter. But unless your back class dues are paid up I do not see how you could even do that, for no one is in good standing in any organization unless they keep up their dues. This year promises to be a record breaker in our church. There will be very little room for people who are tired of work. Our Quarterly meeting will be the second Sunday in March and we want to start in with the new quarter owing our Pastor nothing. Let us all send in our back class dues before that time. If you can't get to class Tuesday nights bring it along Sunday morning and in that way you will always keep up. Your leader will be pleased to receive it. Miss Ophelia Watts was unable to be out last Sunday on account of illness. We hope to see her out soon. Mrs. Nettie Scott managed the organ during her absence. Do not forget that we desire the assistance of every member and friend in the bazar. The cantata will be very good. All of the trustees and the pastor are asking their friends to join their clubs for the April rally. You need not stay from church, for they are coming around to call on you if you do. The only way to get rid of them is to help them. We expect success and do not intend to be discouraged at anything. The Rising Son is for sale by Freddie Jackson. Eakimos Have No Religion. Mr. Hanbury, the recently returned Arctic explorer, who has been studying the Eskimos, says they have no religion—not even a belief in a Supreme Being. FIGS AND THISTLES. Better crawl to heaven than fly to hell. All methods fail without right motives. Dialectic darts will never deter the devil. Secret sins are the secret of nearly all sin. To reject correction is to refuse wisdom. The best evidence of Christianity is Christ made evident in the Christian. He who is wise in his own conceits is apt to be foolish in his own concerns. He who loves Him leans on Him and he who leans loves Him more and more. Some men are kicking up a dust in the church to hide the dirt they make in the world. The grace to do small things may be greater than the gift of doing great things. It is no use asking God to warm your heart while you are living in the Arctic of sin. Every groan on God's grindstone may mean a greater glisten in His polished stone. The wise man will hide his knowledge where fools are laying out their ignorance. God's aeroes are known in heaven whether their pictures appear in the papers of earth or not. If we are nothing but sponges depend upon it God will send us the pressure of pain to squeeze us. The prospect of a big Sunday dinner has spoiled the preaching of many a good sermon—Ram's Horn. WHAT ONE WOMAN OBSERVES. In great actions men resemble lions, while in smaller deeds they are very like mice. Compulsory fidelity brings in its train deceit, distaste and sometimes destruction. Boys are not men until they are well grown, but women are women from their first compliment. There are many people who believe a thing true rather than take the trouble to prove it false. When a man discovers he is no longer pleasing to women he is apt to indulge in moral platitudes. In a rain storm a woman would much rather get her stockings wet all the way up than the narrowest hem of her skirt. A woman who disparages her own sex by holding up its foibles to public ridicule should be shunned alike by man and beast. For the hysterical woman we may feel a good natured pity, but for the man who yields to the same weakness there is nothing but a withering contempt. BOYS. PLEASE DON'T— Grumble because the home dinner is not always a banquet. Tell your friends that you find more pleasure out than at home. Stare at and gossip about the girls while attending divine service. Litter your room with literature which has no place in good society. Arouse the entire household when you enter the house after a night at the club. Flare up in anger when father tells you late hours are not conducive to good morals. Imagine mother distrusts you because she makes inquiry regarding your associates. Throw the letters received from girls into a bureau drawer which never is locked. Fancy the world owes you a living which is to be had without work.—Philadelphia Bulletin. PENCIL POINTS. Youth and debt are the world's greatest stimulants. It takes pluck to acquire fruit from your neighbor's tree. Some men are pleasant to talk to, but disagreeable to listen to. Burglaries are willing to enter almost any house—except a station house. Many a man finds it difficult to induce his neighbors to have a good opinion of him. The man who pays his rent must hustle and the man who doesn't pay is obliged to keep moving. Take the conceit out of some people and their most intimate friends would be unable to recognize them. Some fine examples of still life are said to exist in the mountains of Kentucky, but they are hard to find. EVERYDAY THOUGHTS It takes a tailor to size a man up. When a man comes after dinner he comes before dinner. Almost any caller is a bore if he comes at the wrong time. Country preachers are usually long on sermons and short on salary. The richer a man is the harder he tries to make people believe he is poor. Eventually the poor may inherit the earth—when Mr. Morgan gets through with it. A pawnbroker says it takes a man of nerve to soak his umbrella when it is raining. Two of the most bitter things in life are being jilted by a girl and a dose of quinine. Love and a Castnet. BY F. H. LANCASIER (Copyright, 1903, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) His castnet! Paul surveyed it proudly as it hung in the falling light. Fully eight feet long, close-meshed and leaded. Woven of the strongest sea-land with a bag that would hold a hundred mullet. How many hours of patient toil it represented, only Paul Joffrion knew. Hours made up of minutes snatched from a fisherman's over-crowded life. Stitch by stitch with the other boys roasted at dinner or smoked cigarettes in the soft afterglow or snored before the blazing pine-knot fire. So had the castnet grown. Sometimes the broad shoulders bent to their task and ached from the strain of the day's labor; very often the tired fingers had cramped with weariness, but the lad's stubborn will had never faltered. The day he had brought home his store of twine, the sea-island accounted the best of its kind, and whittled out the soft-pine needle. Ah, that had been a proud day. With that day had begun the thoughts that kept him awake and working, while others slept. "Sometimes catch plainty, sometimes mebble not catch any. Say, mek it even, say catch feety mullet every night. Two mullet fo' five cents. Das twenty-five time five cents. Das five quarters. Say mek one dollar and a quarter every day. Say it costs me a quarter a day to leave,—'bout das, with tobacco. Das leave me six dollar a wik. Tres bon. I buy him!" The "him" so joyously referred to being a little two-roomed cabin, nestled upon a point that ran out into the gulf. It was owned by a crushed old fisherman who insisted that the house and its half-dozen sandy acres was worth fifty dollars, because "she done fenced on tree slips already." Fenced by the blue waters of the Mexican Gulf! Everybody said th* the price was preposterous; the cabin was on the verge of dilapidation; forty dollars was enough and to spare. But Paul was resolved to have it, even, as he told himself under his breath, "even if I have to gieve forty-fie dollars fo' it." And why? All because a certain dark-eyed daughter of the "old man" had praised the spot. She was a pretty girl, was Marguerite, and her pet name of Bébé seemed comically out of keeping with her high head and flashing eyes. The "old man" was proud of his daughter and skillfully kept the young men at a distance. No, but what they were welcome to his house, very welcome. So welcome that he talked to them himself,—all the time. Never for a moment deserting his self-appointed task. "I tought I'd seet him out, me," one of the boys reported. "I stay till dark, yes. Late. But dr. old man, he wouldn't even go feed hes horse. No." Paul was not one of the boys who had tried to outsit the "old man" on the old man's front gallery. He had a bolder plan,—when his castnet was done—and And at last it was done and from thence forward every moonless night when the tide was in Paul might have been found waist deep in the water listening for the ruffle of the mullet. The strong cord of his net noosed around his left wrist, a lead between his strong front teeth. Over his right arm the folds of not carefully gathered for spreading. Instantly, at the ruffle of an oncoming school the alert figure rose higher and bent backward in unison with the backward swing of the trained right arm, gathering force for the throw. The arm swoops forward and the body with it; the lead flies from between his teeth; the net from his arm. Ah, how beautifully it spreads and sinks over that school of mullet. Totally a prince of castnets. Slowly he draws in the line on his left wrist. His heart thrills at the weight. "Heavy, sho! Mebbe a hundred. Feel talk it." But he cannot investigate his gains A fisherman stands in a dock, holding a net. Paul Surveyed it Proudly as it Hung in the Falling Light. out here. With the heavy wet net and its catch on his shoulders he wades sturdily back to the beach. Eb, bien! it is well, indeed, that his shoulders are broad and his chest deep. So the night wore to morning and he was glad, cleaning his fish and selling them,—and sleeping like the dead through the afternoon. Then there were the nights that were light, very beautiful, with a silvery beauty, but very bad for the fisher who fished with a castnet. The next day Paul would walk the beach with no fish to sell, blue as though he had had a college education and was bothered over the "social problems" and politics. Weeks when he met his payments; weeks when he was short and his creditor sour; at last in March the Sunday came when he could stride into church with a piece of paper in his breast pocket and in his breast the sensation of a man who owned the earth. As the congregation came straggling down the grassy path he turned and said carelessly over his shoulder to the boy who walked with Bébé: "Well, I buy das point place, me." "Sho," ejaculated the youth, "How much you goeve to' him?" "Oh, I dunno. Feefty-five dollars, mebbe." "Sho!" The boy gave place mechanically, and Paul walked beside Bébé with the air of a man enjoying his rights. Bebé eyed her wealthy author with carefully concealed admiration. "Das nice place you got," she remarked collectedly. "Yas, right nice—when I get him fixed up. Roof lik some. I'll split some boards next wik. Mek fence, too!" Then under the inspiration of J. M. Koehler Told Her About His Jestnet—and His Love Told Her About His *castnet*—and His Lova. her openly expressed interest, Paul reached for hiltberto undreamed of heights. "Tink mebbe I paint him some day. What color you tink look nice?" Hébé rose to the emergency with an exulting sense of power. Yellow. Did not M. Paul think yellow a very pretty color. Oni *acquaintment*. M. Paul thought yellow the prettiest color in the world,—for a house. So they waxed quickly confidential and walked so close together that when the "old man" saw them coming up the slope he hid things under his breath that it was not proper to say on a Sunday evening. Where was madam, his wife and trusted ally. What could she be thinking off! He brought the front legs of his chair down upon the floor with a bang that jarred his teeth and strode to meet that absorbed couple. "Bonjour, M. Paul." "Bonjour, M. Zenon." They reached the gallery before either spoke again and Bébé quickly disappeared. For all his boldness, Paul's hand shook as he rolled and lighted a cigarette, but the thought of his castnet steadied his nerves. "I tink I come see Bébé," he announced quietly. The "old man" snorted with astonished indignation. "Sho!" "Yas." There was a pause while the indignant parent gathered his sarcastic powers for withering work. Then:— "What you not to hit a wife?" Ah, ha! Paul's hour of triumph had come very quietly. He tossed away the stump of his cigarette, nipped his mustache and aros, to thrust his hands into his pocket. "I got a castnet, me," he said with subdued exultation. "She's eight feet long and made of seasland." He gave the old man a moment to take it all in and added. "I bought das point place last wik. Das deed all right?" For a long moment the old man stared at the unfo sed paper with a reverence for the written word known only to the illiterate. Then the crying need of action came over him and he lunged heavily into the inner room. "Bebe, oh, Bebe! What for you don't hurry with das coffee, chere?" When the coffee-drinking was concluded the "old man" went away submissively to feed his horse and madam carried her cigarette to the kitchen steps. Paul and Bébé sat side by side in their hide-bottom chairs, and as they watched the moon come sailing up over the wide, wide Gulf he told her about his castnet—and his love. Disconnected. "Say, Mame," said the hello girl during a hull in the calls, to her intimate friend, who occupied the next chair, "Is it true that you have broken off your engagement?" "Sure thing," answered Mame, as she chewed her gum with renewed vigor. "Oh, Mame, did you, really?" "Well, I guess." "Well, I guess!" "Oh, Mame, what was the matter?" "He heard about my going down the river with a strange young man." "Oh, Mame, did he really?" "Yep. Then he had the nerve to can me up over the 'phone and read the riot act to me! Said if I was going to carry on like that he didn't want me to be wearing his ring." "Oh, Mame, what did you say?" "Ring off!" "THE LITTLE MOTHER." W. E. Nankeville's new melo-drama, "The Little Mother," will open at the Gillis next week, beginning Sunday matinee. The plot of this play is too long to tell in detail, or even blunt at, because there is so much of it; but the heroine, Nan Morton, or otherwise known as "The Little Mother," is the finest little heroine ever created. She is a poor little girl, that is the mainstay of her family, that consists of two younger brothers, a sick mother and a drunkard of a step-father. POINTED PARAGRAPHS: A man seldom has any trouble in finding trouble. A blind horse can see what his owner is driving at. It takes a rich man to enjoy the pleasures of poverty. Farmers and washerwomen get a living out of the soil. Bacon can be cured by smoking, but the tobacco habit can't. Kleptomania is said to be the most lucrative form of insanity. Most young men get a lot of rye mixed with their wild oats. A locomotive engineer can make his own headlight by tanking up. Somehow cut-diamond rates are always higher than the original prices. The man who wins a half-mile dash starts out afoot and comes in ahead. Men may boast of their honesty, but only women return borrowed umbrellas. The mountaineer always takes a peak when he wants to obtain a good view. Lots of people in this world would be miserable if they couldn't find fault. If a rooster were as big as his crow a whole family could dine on one for two weeks. Preachers may not amount to much as carpenters, but they are usually expert joiners. Some wives are so jealous they won't even allow their husbands to hug a delusion. Some men's heads are so soft that a shadow from a brick wall produces a serious impression. At the moment of his birth every man has a brilliant future before him—and it usually remains there. Every time a great man does anything along comes some little man who claims to have advised him. Fewer marriages would be failures if the contracting parties were not such hypocrites during courtship. Formerly the office sought the man, but at the present stage of the game it is kept busy trying to dodge him. An English paper says there are 250,000 women married annually in London. The average Chicago woman thinks she is overdoing it if she marries three times in five years. Probably a small boy never so thoroughly realizes that fighting is wicked as when he is getting the worst of the encounter.—Chicago News. FLASHES OF THOUGHT Tact teaches men when to be silent. The less some men have the more they don't seem to want. One sure way to lose your friends is to become a chronic kicker. A woman can have only one past, but she is not limited as to presents. It matters not what your ancestors were; it is what you are that counts. Men who make a specialty of picking quarrels rarely complain of a short crop. Just about the time mosquitoes quit putting in their bills the legislators begin. Possession may be nine points of the law, but self possession is a law unto itself. When a young man tells a girl he isn't worthy of her love she is foolish to doubt it. Fortunately for a man's peace of mind he seldom hears other people's real opinion of himself. There is only one class of men who look well when they are in a box, and those men draw salaries as baseball pitchers. See T. Lee Adams for all garden seeds and tools. NEGRO ENTERPRISE. Smoke a 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. 'Everything pertaining to Music.' THE Chickering Piano and Mason & Hamlin Organ Were Selected by MASCAGNI For his two concerts at the Auditorium Monday and Tuesday. arl Hoffman MUSIC COMPANY 102-20 MALNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MN C. H. COUNTEE. Mgr. W. B. COUNTEE TEL. 780 GRAND. COUNTEE BROS., Undertakers. Licensed Embalmers. Carriages and flowers furnished for all occasions. 914 E. 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. The WEST SIDE HOUSE. FURNISHED Rooms From 25 ets Up. Or Rates by the Week. At 1118 N. 3rd St., Kansas City, Kan. H. BELL, Proprietor... ARMSTRONG & NUGENT Heim's celebrated Scharnagel beer. Me- Heaver whiskeys, Guinness XX stout and all the best beams of imported and do- mental liquors. Free hutch at all hours L. W. SUMPTER and SON. Undertakers & Embalmers. Tel 261 Main. 609 Main St. Mrs. Bottle Jorden Can be found at her old stand at 419 Cherry St..... Dressmaking and Plain Sew- ing.....Old Clothes Made Over. Broughams, Landaus, Tallahos, Wagon- ettes, Buggles, Runabouts, Trape, Express, Pneumatic Tires. Quimby Livery & Carriage Co. George M. Quimby, Mgr. Telephone 448 Grand. 909-11-13 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. Louis Rosenberg, Propristor. O. M. Palton, Bartender. Fine Wines, Liquors And Cigars. Louie's Place Union Bar. 1334 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. The ELITE RESTAURANT J. H. Voehrsse, Prop. Meals at all hours 15 cents up .... Ice cream and fruits in season..... Give me a call. 852 STATE AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANS The CURVE SALOON M. COHN, Proprietor. Importer of and Dealer in Pennsylvania Ryes and Kentucky Bourbon, Fine Wines, Gins, Cordials & Cigars. 543 Grand Avenue. N. E. Cor. Independence and Grand. Family bottle trade promptly attended to. Dunbar Cigar. 3 CENTS, of high grade imported Havana Fil- oper, and a better cigar cannot be five cents each. RICAN CIGAR CO., Anthony Overton, Manager Western Division, Station "A" Kansas City, Mo. Frock of Dark Green Cloth. The skirt is finished with a flounce slashed open in front and bordered with black braid, motifs of which ornament the corners. This is headed by a hand of black velvet embroidered in colors, which crosses in front. The blouse has a large shoulder collar made with plaits on the shoulders, bordered with the braid and trimmed in front with bands of the embroidered velvet, which also forms the collar. These bands are finished with passementerie pendants. The ```markdown ``` flowing sleeves, bordered with the braid, are made with plains on the outside, which are confined by straps of the embroidered velvet. The draped girdle is of plain black velvet.—Wisner Chic. Fashions in Millinery. Lace plays a very important part. Long scarfs of lace and chiffon mingle together, and both are frequently worked with chenille. Beaver hats are all the rage, and there is a good deal of the astracthan trimming in various hues, as well as black. There are sable toques and plenty of petit gris and these are sometimes trimmed with flowers, but the mixture is congrulous. It looks well with the fur stoles of the same skin, lined withermine, and completed by a huge grannie muff. The Persian kaftan is a shape in hats which has been revived and may possibly supplant the present Spanish tooreader. These have a handsome ornament, sometimes in front, either paste or colored stones, and when they are made in sable and other good furs this gives great effect, especially when white moire is mingled with the fur. Nothing is more effective, as a rule, than a black hat trimmed with silk cord and gold tasseled ends, drooping plumes falling over the back and at the side. Colored feathers are often introduced on black beaver, as well as on black felt, and there is a great fashion now for bright emerald green aigrettes. Thick ruches of ribbon encircle many of the crowns. Informal TALKS Bunchy or fluffy neckwear is quite pause; flatness alone prevails. Many of the latest trimmings, just from Paris show a combination of as many as six different materials. Seeming simplicity, avoiding all over-elaboration of trimming effects, marks the winter's smartest hats. Nasturtium is a darker variation of the prevailing burnt orange tone and is more becoming to many people. The latest style of modern tea gown is a curious combination of princess and empire gown and long lace coat. A vest of embroidery in blues or dull orange linen is exceedingly effective and smart for a bise volle gown. In shape there is nothing perceptibly new, even in the most swagger costumes. Long vertical lines graces fully sloping toward the back is the prevailing effect. Colors for Rainy Days Umbrellas of green, blue and bright red will, it is said, detract from the somberness of wet streets and drizzling weather during the coming season. Black umbrellas, to relieve the situation, have borders of plaid or black and white check joined to the edge by hemistitching. Natural wood handles with sterling silver initials are bidding for favor. Gun metal handles jeweled or inlaid with silver are seen on some of the handsomest umbrellas. A Wonderful Gown An imported gown seen lately crested much wonderment. Some fancied the chiffon underdress must have been painted. At any rate, the dress started white and ended black. In reality it was comparatively simple. To begin with, the dress was of white silk with an overdress of white and black lace. At the neck the lace was white and there, too, the chiffon underneath it was white. At the bust THE FASHION WEEK Mrs. George Gould's Gray Satin Miss Greta Pomeroy's Pink Evening Embroidered Net Dinner Gown Wrap. black lace was introduced, but the under chiffon remained white down to the hips. There, following the line of another broad black applique, green chiffon was introduced; with the white it fell quite to the foot. At the next black applique another layer of green was introduced. Each followed the lines of the applique so perfectly that no seam could be traced. On below came a black one, which simply gave the green a dark hue. All these accumulated skirts were edged with ruches of maline, over which the black lace edge fell demurely. Luscious Salad For a late supper or luncheon where a salad a bit heavier than a plain vegetable one is desired the following is a delicous one: Have a pint of cold, plain boiled potatoes; pass them through the sieve, open one pound of French walnuts, put them in boiling water, so as to remove the skins with ease. Leave the nuts as much as possible in halves, dry them with a towel and cool them. Cut the tender part of two romaine salads one-half a finger length, reserving the hearts to be divided in four parts for the top of the salad. Put in ice water fifteen minutes, drain in a salad basket or in a clean towel. Do not bruise, as it must be crisp. A Moleskin Jacket. For the bitter days of January moleskin jacket that fits snugly to the figure and buttons well up to the chin, was recently made. No other than the tender brown is introduced into this coat, and it is buttoned up with large buttons of royal copper. The jacket comes but a few inches below the hips and is double breasted. A big round muff of the soft fur goos with it. New Golf Screen The new golf screen shown here is of oak. It can very easily be taken apart and put away in several pieces—a fact that is a consideration in the matter of moving it about. The screen stands about a yard high and is quite ornate. Pink Satin Dinner Frock A dainty dinner frock of pink satin is made with a long clinging skirt appliqued in renaissance lace. The waist is relieved by touches of black velvet which give it a very Frenchy appearance. There is a pointed girdle of the lace. The short sleeves are of the satin, with a ruffle of lace under the full ruffle of satin. The bodice is filled in above the girdle with soft white chiffon. Clusters of tiny pink rosebuds are caught in with the knots of black. Velvet ribbon adorns the front of the bodice. Adornments for the Hair files made of painted chiffon, with jewels on their wings, gold or silver or frosted leaves, wings made of white gauze dappled with bold or silver, or of black gauze jetted; light wreaths of flowers or berries, or a twist of gold or silver net lit up with sequins of pearl or steel. With a white gown a wreath of green leaves looks well, and with a green one a garland of barberries or white heather. But everything of the kind should be light, unless the wearer is of the massive order. Toque of Plaited Chiffon The toque illustrated was seen at one of Mrs. K. J. Collins' musicals. The brim is of plaited chiffon wound with narrow sable bands and finished by a large velvet bow in the back. The A crown was of white lace over chiff on—Philadelphia Ledger. New Hat Helps Wardrobe. Nothing helps out between the season's wardrobe as much as a new hat. The advanced shapes for spring are flat and broad and pretty effects in fancy straw braids are among the first models which are noticeable for their simplicity. One stylish hat was fashioned of black and white straw braid, with no suggestion of a crown. The hat was made to be worn over the face, the brim dipping a trifle in front and very decidedly in the back. The only trimming was a soft white silk scarf at the back with two long ends. Spanish Salad. A new and delicious salad which hails from sunny Spain is made of ripe bananas and English walnuts. The bananas are cut in thin slices with a silver knife. The walnuts should be one-third the quantity of the bananas. Chop the nuts fine, mixed with the fruit, and the whole heaped on a platter covered with crisp lettuce leaves. Season a mayonnaise dressing with red pepper and pour it over the salad. Place in the icebox until time for serving. How to Cleanse Sponges. When a sponge gets silmy and disagreeable to the touch it can be restored to its original condition by the application of a raw potato. Cut a potato in halves and rub the sponge with the portions, then wash it thoroughly with water and the silmy feeling will have quite disappeared. For House Gowns. Albatross cloth and nun's veiling seem to be the favorite materials for house dresses. Volle still holds its own, and it is a pity that so few cashmere and Henrietta cloth gowns are seen. Both fabrics make up with soft clinging effects that are charming. French School Children on Strike. An extraordinary strike is reported from Crezieres, near Peitieres, France, the school children of the elementary school having refused to attend their classes unless their head master, M. Caill, was dismissed from his position. The children allege that they have been harshly treated by their master. They are supported by their parents, who have petitioned the government to send down an official to inquire into the affair. This the government has agreed to. Much Railroad Property Condemned. Local inspectors of the Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have condemned 2,500 box cars, flats, etc., as lightweight or light capacity. The condemned cars will be burned and the iron sold as scrap. Schley to Tour the West Admiral Schley, accompanied by Col. and Mrs. A. K. McClure of Philadelphia, is to make an extended tour of the west, going as far west as southern California, where the early spring will be spent. Just In Time. Broadland, So. Dak., Feb. 23d.—Beadle county has never been so worked up as during the last few weeks. Every one is talking of the wonderful case of G. W. Gray of Broadland, the particulars of which are best told in the following statement which Mr. Gray has just published: "I was dying. I had given up all hope. I was prostrate and as helpless as a little babe. I had been ailing with Kidney Trouble for many years, and it finally turned to Bright's Disease. All medicine had failed and I was in despair. "I ordered one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills and this first box helped me out of bed. I continued the treatment till now I am a strong, well man. I praise God for the day when I decided to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Everybody expected that Mr. Gray would die and his remarkable recovery is regarded as little short of a miracle by all who know how very low he was. Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly a wonderful remedy. A woman generally gets on a joke much as she gets off a car—that is, backward. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. It should be all clear profit to the man who makes filters. PROSPERITY IN CANADA The Farmer in Western Canada Achieves Wonderful Success. One of the first things that the man who wishes to change his residence endeavors to find out is where he can go and succeed. It need be a matter of little doubt or indecision now. During the past four or five years the development of Western Canada has been so rapid, and the conditions of life there so widely known, that upwards of 100,000 Americans have taken up their homes there, and the experience of these people is that they are thoroughly satisfied with their choice of home. The methods of farming there are similar to those adopted in the United States, but the operations are simpler, the yield of grain greater and the profits more satisfactory. Ranching is carried on with lots of success. Mixed farming is always profitable, while the results in grain-raising are as certain as splendid soil, excellent climate and lots of sunlight can give. The yields of——, but nothing is as satisfactory as the experience of the farmer himself, and extracts are selected from one. A good, intelligent farmer named Mears, John Mears to be exact, left Cavaller county, North Dakota, two years ago and followed the thousands who had already gone to Canada. He had twenty-five years' experience in Minnesota, in buying grain, including flax, but in all his experience he never saw a district so well suited to the growth of flax as Western Canada. The financial results of Mr. Mears' operations in a single season are as follows: Wheat, 3,000 bushels, 1 hard, at 57½c, $1,785; 2,680 bushels 1 Northern, at 54c, $1,457.20; 1,750 bushels, at 35c, $612.50; Speltz, 154 bushels, at 75c, $115.50; Flax, 324 bushels, at $2, 698. Total, $4,598.20, a return of more than $4,500 from a little over 250 acres, an average of $18 per acre, is surely testimony sufficiently strong to satisfy the most incredulous as to the money to be made out of the soil of the Canadian West. It is to facts like these—arguments expressible and demonstrab'e in dollars and cents—that the steady northward movement of American farmers is due. Mr. Mears is settled near Arcola, Assa. A number of Americans who have chosen Western Canada as a home had the idea that a man enjoyed less freedom in Canada, but they soon found their mistake, and say the laws of Canada are the most liberal in the world, and such as prevent the litigation which breeds so much bad feeling between people in the United States and costs them so dear in lawyers' fees. The government has established agencies at St. Paul, Minn.; Omaha, Neb.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Wausau, Wis.; Detroit, Sault Ste. Marle and Marquette, Mich.; Toledo, Ohio; Watertown, S. Dakota; Grand Forks, N. Dakota, and Great Falls, Mont., and the suggests'on is made that by addressing any of these, who are authorized agents of the government, it will be to the advantage 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 freight and passenger rates, etc. PROVE DOAN'S FREE HELP. Those who doubt, who think because other Kidney Remedies do them no good, who feel discouraged, they profit most by the Free Trial of Doan's Kidney Pills. The wondrous results stamp Doan merit. SOUTH BARTONVILLE, ILL., Feb. 8, 1908. — "I received the trial package of Doan's Kidney's Pills and have bought several boxes of my druggist. They have done me much good. I was hardly able to do any work until I began taking them; now I can work all day and my back does not get the least bit tired." BIRD GRAY. LADY ON EDITOR STAFF OF LEA RELIGIOUS Sends the Following Grand the Merits of Cuticura Rem Treatment of Humour Blood, Skin and So LADY ON EDITORIAL STAFF OF LEADING RELIGIOUS WEEKLY Sends the Following Grand Testimonial to the Merits of Cuticura Remedies in the Treatment of Humours of the Blood, Skin and Scalp. "I wish to give my testimony to the efficiency of the Cuticura Remedies in what seems to me two somewhat remarkable cases. I had a number of skin tumours—small ones—on my arms which had never given me serious trouble; but about two years ago one came on my throat. At first it was only about as large as a pinhead, but, as it was in a position where my collar, if not just right, would irritate it, it soon became very sensitive and began to grow rapidly. Last spring it was as large, if not larger, than a bean. tended down into my chest was all gone, and my neck now seems to be perfectly well. "About five or six years ago my sister had a similar experience. She had two large lumps come under her right arm, the result of a sprain. They grew rapidly, and our physician wanted to cut them out. I would not listen to it, and the tried the Cuticura Remedies (as I did a few months ago) with magical effect. In six weeks' time the lumps had entirely disappeared, and have never returned." "I have great faith in the Cuticura Remedies, and I believe they might be as efficacious in similar cases with other people, and thus save suffering, and perhaps life. I have seen the use of them myself, that I love them." A woman writing at a desk. and was unable to speak, when her daughter, at my suggestion, tried the effect of the Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent. Strange to say, she was very shortly relieved of the most distressing symptoms. The swelling seemed to be exteriorized, and she is now able to be around her house, and can talk as well as ever. "It seems to me that I have pretty good grounds for believing that Cuticura Remedies will prove successful in the most distressing forms of blood and skin humours, and if you wish to use my testimonial as herein indicated, I am willing that you should do so, with the further privilege of revealing my name and address to such persons as may wish to substantiate the above statements by personal letter to me." CUTICURA REDEMEDIES are sold throughout the civilized world. PICK bottle in the form of Chocolate Coated Pills, $2.00 per vial, Curticura Soap $2.00 per cake. Send for the great work. "Humors of the Blood. The Thoughts of the Art. Illustrations, Testimonials, and Dr. Japanese and Chinese. British Depot, 27-38 Charterhouse So., London Paris, Paris. Australian Depot, R. Towns & Co., Sydney. POTTER DIE Sole Proprietors, Boston, U. S. A." CUTICURA REMEDIES are sold throughout the civilized world. PRICES: Cuticura Rescue, 40c. per bottle in the form of Chocolate Coated Pills, 5c. per unit of 60c. Cuticura Ointment, 60c. per box, and Cucuria Soap 25c. per cake. Send for the great work. "Humours of the Blood, Skin and Scalp, and How to Care Them," 64 Pages, 60 Diseases, with illustrations, Testimonials, and Directions in all languages, including Japanese and Chinese. Business Depot, 272 Chateauhouse S., London, E. C. French Depot, 85 Due a de, Sole Proprietors, Town & Co. Sydney. FOTO DRAW AND CHEMICAL CORPORATIONS, Sole Proprietors, Boston, U. S. A. SALZER'S Rape Rich gives Rich. FARM SEEDS BUYLB NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS SALZER'S SEEDS NEVER FAIL! 1,000,000 Customers Protested record of any accident on earth, and will move for more. We do, by July 15, move, move and hence this imprecedented offer. $10.00 for 10c. We will mail upon receipt of 10c. in stamps our great catalogue, worth $10.00 to any customer with any farm seed samples. Routte, Rearless Harley, Bromus. With $10.00 to get a start with, upon receipt of 10c. Please advise with 10c. to Salzer. in sample. Baltimore alone, se. Send at once. Reflected with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water YOUNG MEN Learn Telegraphy and B. business here and secure good actions. Write J.D.BROWN, Mgr., Redallia. Some men achieve justice and some Some men achieve justice and some have it thrust upon them. SENSIBLE HOUSEKEEPERS will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. A married man doesn't relish advice from a bachelor. --- Aching bodies are eased. Hip, back, and join pains overcome. Swelling of the limbs and droopy signs vanish. They correct urine with brick dust sediment, high colored, excessive, pain in passing, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills dissolve and remove calculi and gravel. Relieve heart palpitation, sleeplessness, headache, nervousness. SALEM, IND., Feb. 5, 1903.—“I received the trial package of Doan's Kidney Pills and I must confess they did me wonderful good. It seems strange to say that I had tried several kinds of kidney medicines without doing me any good. I had backache, pain in my bladder and scalding urine, and the sample package sent me stopped all in a few days, and with the package I am now using from our drug store I expect to be cured permanently. It is wonderful, but sure and certain the medicine does its work. I was in constant misery until I commenced the use of Doan's Kidney Pills."—CHAS. R. Cook. P. O. Box 90, Salem, Washington Co. Ill. "I wish to give my testimony to the efficiency of the Cuticura Remedies in what seems to me two somewhat remarkable cases. I had a number of skin tumours—small ones—on my arms which had never given me serious trouble; but about two years ago one came on my throat. At first it was only about as large as a pinhead, but, as it was in a position where my collar, if not just right, would irritate it, it soon became very sensitive and began to grow rapidly. Last spring it was as large, if not larger, than a bean. A little unusual irritation of my collar started it to swelling, and in a day or two it was as large as half an orange. I was very much alarmed, and was at a loss to determine whether it was a carbuncle or a malignant tumor. "My friends tried to persuade me to consult my physician; but dredging that he would insist on using the knife, I would not consent to go. Instead I gave a small bottle of Cuticura Resolvent and a box of Cuticura Ointment. I took the former according to directions, and spread a thick layer of the Ointment on a linen cloth and placed it on the swelling. On renewing it I would bathe my neck in very warm water and Cuticura Soap. In a few days the Cuticura Ointment had drawn the swelling to a head, when it broke. Every morning it was opened with a large sterilized needle, squeezed and bathed, and fresh Ointment put on. Pus and blood, and a yellow, cheesy, tumorous matter came out. In about three or four weeks' time this treatment completely eliminated boil and tumor. The soreness that had ex- People who marry for money are sometimes divorced for love. Mother Gray's Sweet Iowders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. Some societies spend a dollar in an effort to raise a dime for charity. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch, makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. Once an honest man went into politics, but he died from shock. ALL UP TO DATE HOUSEKEEPERS use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Some men know just enough to makeools of themselves. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the grums, reduces inflammation, allain pain, cares wail solid. So bottle. Anybody can break into society with a diamond-tipped gold drill. Doan's Kidney Pills. A SPECIFIC FOR constently advising others to use them. Recently I recommended them to an office boy for his father, who was disabled with salt rheum. The man's feet were swollen to an enormous size, and he had not worked for six weeks. Two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment worked a perfect cure. You never saw a more grateful man in your life. "I am very much interested in another case where I have recommended Cuticura just now. My housemale's mother has a goatite mother reached a very dangerous patient. The doctors told her that nothing could be done; that she could live only two or three weeks, and that she would die of strangulation. She was confined to her bed. Chicago, Nov. 12, 1902. St. Jacobs Oil to cure Lumbago and Sciatica There is no such word as fail. Price, 25c. and 50c. General Samuel Thomas General Samuel Thomas. Gen. Samuel Thomas left a fortune of over $10,000,000 to be squabbled over. The good that men do lives after them. Thomas was the hardest proposition after the almighty dollar that I ever knew. If he ever did any real good to his fellow mortals I should like to see the record of it. He never put a dollar anywhere that he did not calculate on getting $100 profit on the investment. Harold, cut off with $5,000 a year, will attempt to break the will.—New York Press. ALTON RESUMES FAST ST. LOUIS TRAIN SERVICE. Passengers destined to St. Louis and points east should go via the Kansas City gateway, thereby securing the advantage of the Chicago & Alton's fast night train, leaving Kansas City at 9 p.m., arriving in St. Louis at 7:08 a.m. Chair cars free of extra charge. Compartment sleeping cars. The Alton keeps their light a shining just ahead of the rest. Write to L. D. Cooper, Traveling Passenger Agent, Chicago & Alton Railway, Kansas City, Mo., for lowest rates. Using Iron as a Medicin Iron is a strengthening medicine when given in an assimilated form. But many stomachs refuse it, however it may be manipulated by the drugist or mingled in the mineral spring by the band of nature. A new means has been found for rendering it generally assimilable, namely, by mixing citrate of iron in the food of hens. After this has been done for about a month the yolk of the eggs becomes rich in iron, and the most delicate stomach can digest it. Professor Willing to Work. Heinrich Peterson, recently a professor in a Baptist theological seminary in Hamburg, Germany, is acting as a motorman on a trolley line in Chester, Pa. Prof. Peterson, who speaks five languages fluently, came to this country a few weeks ago expecting to receive an appointment in the theological seminary. He was disappointed and immediately went to work with the trolley company. A Generous Convert. Ballington Booth has been telling his friends about a woman who stood up to testify to her conversion in the days when he was with the Salvation army. She said: "I was very foolish and vain. Worldly pleasures, and especially the fashions, were my thought. I was fond of silks, satins, jewelry, ribbons and laces. But, my friends, I found they were dragging me down to perdition. So I gave them all to my sister!" Punctuality a Thief of Time Mr. Max Hecht writes: "On Thursday of last week, at 3:30, the hour for the rehearsal of 'Trial by Jury,' I met Mr. Gilbert at the stage door of the Lyric, and congratulated him on his punctuality. 'Don't,' he replied, 'I have lost more time through being punctual than through anything else.'"—London "M. A. P." Three to One. The failure of the formalin injection in the case of Editor Gonzalez weakens faith in the New York discovery that it was a remedy for blood poisoning. Nevertheless the fact of three successes against one failure should not discourage investigation. With the c St. Jac to c Lumbago a There is no such word a WESTERN CANADA HAS FREE HOMES FOR MILLIONS. Uwphards of 100,000 Americans have settled in Western Canada during the past 5 years. They are CONTENTED, HAPPY, AND PROSPEROUS, and there will still for MILLIONS. Wonderful yields of wheat and other grains. The best grazing lands on the continent. Magnificent climates in the southern and northern regions. Excellent churches, splendid railway facilities. HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 140 ACRES FREE the only charge for which is 40 for entry. Send to the following for an Atlas and other literature, as well as for certificate giving you reduced railway rates, etc. Superintendent of immigration, Ontario, Canada, or to S. Shawyer, 522 S. Main St., Kansas City, Mo., the authorized Canadian Government Agent. SAVE MONEY Buy your goods at Wholesale Prices. Our 1,000-page catalogue will be sent upon receipt of 15 cents. This amount does not even pay the postage, but it is much more useful in good faith. Better fit for it now. Your neighbors trade with us—why not you also? Montgomery Ward Co. CHICAGO The house that tells the truth. I BUY BRAINS AGENTS WANTED for The New York Evening News, the dollar-a-year fee for 15 cents. Keep posted! Last market, fashions, stories, solitics, etc. Joseph Howard, Jr., the most famous newspaper, for us in New York. Howard's column alone is worth more than the entire price of the paper. Only one dollar per article, this and only the rest. Walter Scott, Editor and Proprietor, New York Evening News, 187 Broadway, New York. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 9, 1903 PISO'S CURE FOR GREES WHERE ALL ELSE FAIL. Best Cough Byrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by drugrists. CONSUMPTION Cold English Homes An American woman in London writes: "I have said that I am at a loss to know whether the lack of heat in English homes and business buildings is caused by hardness or stinginess. I used to think it the latter till I found numerous delightful English friends objected to my own heated home. Actually some of them 'cut' me every winter so far as calling on me is concerned, because they say my rooms are too 'stuffy and hot.'" Astonished the Duchess According to a London weekly the duchess of Marlborough is astounded at the extravagance displayed by New York society during her present visit to relatives there. Especially was she amazed at the splendor of an entertainment given in Newport by the wife of her kinsman, Cornelius Vanderbilt, who brought an entire company over from New York to amuse her guests one evening. Pastor Splits a Church. Rev. George N. Howard, pastor of the Bank Street Free Will Baptist church of Batavia, N. Y., the publication of whose love letters has caused a big sensation and who demanded a thorough investigation, has repudiated his call for an investigating council, and to prevent any investigation has organized a successful bolt in his church. New Senator of German Descent Senator Ankey, just chosen from the state of Washington to the highest legislative body in the land, is of German descent. His father was named Schmidt and died on his way across the plains in the early days. His widow soon afterward married a man named Ankey, and her son by her first marriage, the present senator, changed his name to please his stepfather. Churches With Few Attendants Many churches in the central districts of London, each occupying ground worth $1,000,000, have congregations on Sunday morning of not more than a dozen persons, and usually half of them are curious Yankees. Shadow of the Poorhouse. J. Pierpont Morgan says he has no personal property to pay taxes on, as his debts exceed his assets. This is sad. We had always supposed that Mr. Morgan was comfortably fixed by this time. How We Hustle. The "hustlingness" of the American is a perpetual source of wonder to the slower-minded Briton. A New York lady has just received from the United States government a sum of money that was claimed by her more than 105 years ago. Shakespearean Rellic for Sale. "1585, June. I bought it. I saw it. May, 1536. I nailed it. I carved it. William Shakespeare," is the inscription on a small oak cupboard about to be sold by auction at Snitterfield, near Stratford-on-Avon. Valuable Lamp for Railroads. A long-burning oil fount for switch and semophore lamps is being put into use. It holds oil enough for seven days and nights with one filling, and the wick needs no attention in the meantime. old surety, obs Oil cure and Sciatica as fail. Price, 25c. and 50c. Working for relatives is about as satisfactory as eating soup with a fork. 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 Southwestern Missouri, the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations in the Indian Territory, Northwestern 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. Best Way to Memorize. To economize time in memorizing a poem it should be read as a whole; that is, entirely through each time. Tests made in psychological laboratories show that to memorize one verse at a time takes one-fourth longer. Charcoal Eph's Daily Thought. "Incompatibility of tempah," said Charcoal Eph, explaining the law, "am lak, lo' instance, ah bitch up er spavined mewl wid er race hoss an' speck dem t' plow, Mistah Jackson."—Baltimore News. ALL UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocer. Stolen sweets often cost the most in the end. Pike's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure. J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave. M., Minnesota, Minn., Jan 6, 1900. Precaution Against Burial Allive. In some of the Parisian cemeteries there are open vaults connected with electrical appliances to prevent the burial of persons who may be only in a trance. --- HUMOR OF THE DAY Crusoe's Comment. "What! Is this Mr. Crusoe?" inquired the newly arrived shade. "Well, I declare, but I am glad to see you!" "Thank you," smiled the shade of Crusoe. "Perhaps you could give me some news of the world you have left. You know I once acquired the habit of wondering what was going on, and never have got over it." "Oh, there's nothing particularly new," answered the newcomer, "except that a ship captain reports that your old island is overrun with lobsters." "Ah!" muttered Crusoe. "And so they have begun running excursions to my old familiar haunts at last."—Judge. Cf. Emma—Do you know how old Hilda is? Ella—No; but I do know that she orders her photographs from an old proof. He Asked A:Misa "What's the trouble, my boy?" queried the minister of a young member of my flock. "You look sad." "And I feel sad," replied the young man. "I asked Miss Silverton to be my wife and she declined the honor." "That's too bad," said the parson. "But it's in accord with the Scriptures which say, 'Ye asked and received not, because ye asked amiss.'" "Well, what would you advise me to do?" queried the youth. "Next time ask a widow," replied the good man with a suspicious twinkle in his eye. No Need of Shouting. "Shut the door," bellowed the irate merchant. "Where were you brought up, sir—in a sawmill?" "Well, I'm not sure as to that," replied the young drummer in honeyed accents, pressing both hands to his ears, "but of one thing I can assure you, my dear sir, and that is that I was not brought up in a boiler factory." The voice at the telephone was a roar. "Hello, central!" "Hello!" replied the soft voice. "Give me Main 99.999. And, say, central, he's the agent of this flat I'm living in. I'm going to ask him what's the reason we don't get any steam heat. Please take your ear away from the 'phone while I am talking to him." Spoiled, but Not by Her. He (chuckling over a job of teakettle mending)—Maria, I believe there was a good mechanic spoiled when I went into the shipping business. His wife—I don't know about that, but you spoiled a good bachelor when you got married.—Stray Stories. He. Knew. Her. Mrs. Powers—Thomas, if you were to live your life all over again, and if it came to the matter of choosing a wife, do you think you would choose me!" Mr. Powers (submissively)—There's no doubt about it, Marla, provided you wanted me. BOMBING "I want to see some Brussels," he began the prospective customer. WASHINGTON OREGON IDAHO NORTH DAKOTA CATARRH OF THE SIOMACH AND BOWELS WILMINGTON MIDDLE EAST CATARRH OF THE PELVIC ORGANS NEWYORK PENNSYLVANIA OHIO VIRGINIA NORTH CAROLINA GEORGIA CATARRH OF THE HEAD AND THROAT A heavy hand upon the land CATARRH PE-RU-NA CURES CATARRH Peruna is recommended by fifty members of Congress, by Governors, Consuls, Generals, Majors, Captains, Admirals, Eminent, Physicians, Clergymen, many Hospitals and public institutions, and thousands upon thousands of those in the humbler walks of life. RUNNING FOR COVER. THE ORIGINAL TOWER'S TRADE FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING (MADE IN BLACK AND TELLOW) WILL COVER YOU AND KEEP YOU DRY IN THE WETTEST WEATHER. ON SALE EVERYWHERE. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTER. A.J. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. TOWER & NATIONAL CO., TARRINGTON, N.J. ```markdown ``` The Triangular Non-Dilution CEMEP SEPARATOR produces 90% more cream than old products. Includes specialized complicated machinery or power. On its operation strains, aerates and ventilates milk. Makes cream on each own inexpensive, indistinctible. Has every mark of the higher price separator and many quality features. Describes circulars and special offers to agents and farmers. MISCANTILE SYNDICATE. Dept. P. Kansas City, Mo. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives cans. Quick relief and curets worst FREE. Dr. R. H. GREEN'S SONS. Box B. Atlanta, Ga. The scandal monger is always sure of an audience. Double Your Income. by securing agency in your city for the Northwestern and Life Savings Co., of Dos Molines, Iowa. It is a strong company. Write them to day. The coal man is sometimes lying in weight for customers. Becking a New Home? Why not try the great Southwest? Low colonist rates on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Ask for particiars and literature. Address James Barker, Gen'l Pass Agent, M. K. & T. Ry., 203 Walnwright Bldg., St. Louis. Machine-made poetry is not always product of a typewriter. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. All the world loves a lover except the fellow who has been cut out. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Gatarr that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarr Cure F. J. CHENEY & CO. Props.. Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known O. J. Cheney, for 5 years in business, have perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truza, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, D.; Walding, Marvin & Marvin, Wholesale Hall's Caterbury Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces. It is used for bruises. Price per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A man may have a weak chin and still have a strong beard. Sick, Nervous AND Neuralgic Headaches EMERSON'S BROMO-SELTZER 10 CENTS. CURES ALL HEADACHES. QUICKLY CURED BY BROMO SELTZER SOLD EVERYWHERE. 10¢ An argument isn't always worth the time it takes to convince your opponent. Ask Your Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feest and Ingesting Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease is new art right those easy. At all druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed Fugg. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeLtoy, N. Y. If pity is akin to love it must be a poor relation. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure 25c. Women wish for long life minus old age. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Read their advertisement in another column of this paper. Many a man who poses as a martyr is simply a dub. WHEN YOU BUY STARCH buy Defiance and get the best, is on for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Why is it that a bald head is not so greatly respected as gray hairs? No muss or failures made with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. No, Maude, dear; Indians do not always travel on scalpers' tickets. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight so cigar. Made by hand of ripe, thoroughly cured tobacco, which insures a rich, satisfying smoke. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. The fire of genius is often unable to make the pot boil. --- ```markdown ``` The Woman with a Beautiful Complexion is the woman whose cheeks portray the glow of health. The sedentary life of most women makes it absolutely necessary for them to assist nature in keeping the functions of digestion in a healthy condition. That's why Dr. Caldwell's (Lazative) Syrup Pepsin is so popular with the women of America. It is a gentle corrective habit stimulating the liver and kidneys to healthy action—hence no headaches, no constipation, no nervousness; instead—the glow of health. 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CRUTCHER @ WELSH, 716 DELEWARE STREET, * Tf 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 : ————- SEE——___- CRUTCHER. ©@ WELSH, Tel. 1315 2054. 716 Deleware St. Pa ee ee eee eee ee ne et ee eee ae ve a HE new, non-tailing and tnfailible com ATT SEIS Dined greatinent for the human Hair, 4 OZONO and CEDHOLINE, used con: {oimtly, cannot tail to lend to the Hair oot, aistre, ite) and Deautr, Ore sone By ago thé directorsot the BOSTON CHEMICAL WW we CO... with the sole purpose and intention to produce an absotutely perfect and relianie freatment for tha Halt, appropriated B the sum of $0.40 for’ thls purpose i Blone. ‘The services of three of the ° World's most noted chemists were se- } Cured, who, etter twelve months of iD fnvostization and costly experiments, is A Rave successfully formiulated a treat: i" mont 89 potent and powerful, 3c4 80 . harmiess and fonocont, that its immediate a effects upon the Halt border upon the Pulracuiclis.| This treatment can {be used i fll faith’and conndence, as {tis certain e fo Produce results most gratifying. causing the Tieir ee grow ‘lon ‘and ‘fuxurlant, ] straight, and of a most delicate and pliable foxture. "it prevents the tendency of the i Hair to draw up, contract, curl, and tangle, ti thus maKing easy to drew the Hale is i ALY st;lo desired. “It causes the Hair to i” AD ea ‘ow out on all bald spots, scant partings. i Pe pi iin places, and bare vempien. It fw aure to sf glen prevent the Hair from failing, Dreaking f Off, and mplltting at the ends. ‘This great Bh theca RIS combined treatment iy now the most wonderful remedy. HRY races forthe Hairin thewholowide world. BA va ‘The most generous offer aver shade My any firm i on earth. Cut out this advertisement, and BeLd to us, A NSLS, with only Wis8o, and: immedieely uyom recelyt ot samy we 4 Y ‘Will send to you @ Tull and complete treatment, consisUng of i oF vo extra larne boxes of OZONO, king of alt HairTonies, worth $2.00; also two large bottles of CEROROLINE, the Nghining WH) rawr crower*woreh edtnteito one fargo package of our atest ale Bd Wa) covery, POWDERED EGO BIEAMPOG: worth be. ° alee one bal ot WD curceieurated and renowned PURITY SCALE BOA, worth 250, and " one I-pint package of ANTI-ODOR, the miost_ wonderful. tollct spectaity of fhe day, worth #50. ‘This grand collection, worth in all $5.00, will bo sons on receipt of 1.50 and your name and address, with full, plain, and complete directions, together with our beautiful Souvenir Catalogue, justly ‘called the tollet educator of the day. NOTE. Tojall who have ever hought OZONO we will send this groat bargain offer for only @1-00. | Your word will he suficient, "simply’tell us when and where Ai pouht Te His uneral offer ie made with the object of kecurini yond Avent, ho can simply coin money selling our preparations. No matter: v0, Wo can got our yoods safely to'you. Bo not delays order to-day. Address BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. Mantlan thin ausar uhen cau ucke K ¥ S . R . KELLEY’S BEST S d : i Beats all the Rest [eta ae cs) f * haar BS Manufactured by my 1 HIGH PATENT. KELLEY MILLING CO., CEE on eater rE) KANSAS CITY, U.S. A. K fP SY ak. of P, eee: N, qi V7 xh. If Not, Why Not? yeaah ’ y ied de Do you know that the Knights of Pythias iNi@ fo Is the strongest and most progressive order Wie By . ? VRE IA ng, dean arty The four departments of the Order are as Pe Sa follows: SMI. : r Ree Subordinate Lodge. = A.W. LLOYD, Grand Chancellor of In this the members oro untted to. Misourt, 20:0 Lucas Avenue care for and protect each other in health as well as in sickness and distrose Uniform Rank. In this department our young men are receiving # military educa. tion which they can get In no other way, thus making them better and more useful citizens. Ladies’ Court. In this the wives, mothers, widows, daughters and sisters of Knights are united for the common purposes of life. Endowment. In this department we are paying out thousands of dollars annually to the widows and heirs of deceased Knights. IF THERE 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. oo Ay NWN I Deity Tra N YN e)] Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnifi- cent 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 ser- vice. Wabash is the only line that does it. L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. David T. Beals, President. W. H. Seeger, 2nd vice-Prest, Fernando P. Neal, vico-Prest, Chas, H. V. Lewis, Cashier, Onion National Bank Nion ariona ank, KANSAS CITY, MO, Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business November 25, 1902, RESOURCES. Logna and Discounteycssirsnsaccecterseeroevicrersges $5,796,696,26 WB, Bonde, at DAP. vo. csccrsesarssesssrcesessee's sok 688,000.00 Municipal Bonds, at par..ccccccccecesseseesecereeeees 366,161.54 Cash and Sight Exchange. .....cccceeeeeeeeeeseooenes SAQULTOT.ZE 4,313,958,78 TOtAl, .eesecesseseeesaeeeeceeeiceccueecssennenesseesenenees $10,110,655,04 LIABILITIES, GADIAL BLOCK. nsx. cortrnsversvenswennnsesessveneeessesuveinesvese18) 600,000.00) Burploe Pond. i0::cssscssiystesseoosasanaserssneunsessesceerasives 81800000: Undivided Prom <.62,csessenenstsnenerrsaneessecennanasacensnne OSORRAS Unearned Interest Lattanupsrerscessaacctinssauteossssissere | LOR DRSOD National Bank Notes Outstanding. ......6ecccsccesseeeeeeeeeenees 428,000.00 WPDOBItR: sreeieesitersevnsesenenastvascsiwasieasneneserstescnarnee BONSSE GS TOA, ..es.sscseerersnevesesennsstenniestonesensseseresene es $10,110,655,04 DIRECTORS:—David 'T. Beals, 1. T, James, A, J. Snider, G. W. Lovejoy, Ferdnando P. Neal, Geo, R. Barse, C. W. Whitehead, J. P. Merrill, Geo. W. Jones, W. EF. Thorne, Edward George, H. J. Rosencrans, O. H, Dean, Geo. D, Ford, Felix L. La Force, C, J. Sehmelzer, E. W. Zea, ESE A LETTER FROM MISS SUSIE BOGGS. No. 730 Charlotte, St Kansas City, Mo. Aug., 1902. American Mutual Ald Association, St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen:—1 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 sne ,and your doctor for his visiting me every day Wille I was sick, which was a great saving for me since it cost me nothing. Yours for success, SUSIE BOGas. ‘We don’t go around boasting about what we have done; we allow others to do this, Those persons who feel that they should be insured against accidents and sickness, we courteously Invite you to investigate all companies of this nature, and if you find any one among them that will afford you the privileges, and benefits that we do, then we appeal to you to go in to such compang; 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. Ready for Death. 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 Jobn was very weak he was evidently ready for a better world. Unexpect- edly, however, John rallied and sald to bis wife: “Jenny, my woman, I'll maybe ho spared to you yet.” “Na, na, John,” was the reply; “ye're prepared and I'm resigned. Dee noo.” Cost Falls on Venice. As the Italian government declines to contribute, the whole cost of recone structing the fallen campanile of St Mark's will be borue by the Venice municipality, 80 They Did. “Doctor,” she sald, archly, “some physicians say. kissing {sn’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, {m- mediately prepared for death. | p upel ‘ | Wa Suny ScHOon, AND SECRET LODGES. Commu «1 ian Lodge 80,405. G.U.0.08 OF, Pr St ete Ase St. Mary's Tabernacie, No. 2, meets ficxt and etka daye cae Ne mentee Utang presue, Meaesr Lake healer oe Boicteer UaPe Uther eoseeae Wt. Hualyard Tabernacto No. 7meetafirstand Na Bu Louls ave. Mew. NG. beast ep ‘avenue. Daughter Martha Jonson i 2. kOe Sees note GER N80, gE 0.8 Uird Pridays, of euch Month, Ovo? Seve an i E. 5. LEWIS, P. 8. Rone Lodye, NA 25, A. F. & A. M., meets zo the Ist and 3d Monday nights In each month. AN Wirt Bangi mia cy gian got Giatly Invited, .G. MeCampbells W. By 241 Fee Te noses beste TX Mount olive tease Nota FA &: M:, meets the 2a and 4th’ Friday in Sich nowt atta sed Shanes eee Mifare ede W. Wooden, W. a 1902 Flora ave; J. H. Har- Hea Nermeetay fh maar une tet Ut Jobbis Chapel on Bell etre, Derwows 9ta And Bt. Louis'ave. Rev. N. ¢. Buren, Panor’ ‘Guaday” sorvices it" ain sind Fp: me 'Bundey”echsel iat ‘ads, te Brnyer meeting Wedsesday" ovesing” aft Reathers’ meeting ‘Thursdoy” carte: Vine Street Baptist church, T. H. Ewing, pastor. ae eat services ll a m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school, 2:30 Prayer meeting Friday evening. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, cur, 24 and Holmes, Rev. A. A. Gilbert, Be tor. Sunday services, 11's, m. and 7:30 pm Sunday school, 3:30 p. m. Pritchard Lodge Nu. 42, A. F. and A. M,, meets second and fourth Mon- day crenings in the month. J. W. Crowe, W. ._H. J. Spigener, Sec’y, Allen Chapel, south-east corner 10th and Charlotte streets Rev. O. J. W. Beott, eee: Sunday services 11 a m, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School, 2:30 p.m. Clase Meeting Tuesday, 8 p.m. Praye. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Chair practire Monday evening. Second Baptist «...u.rch. corner Tenth and Charlotte. S. W. Baon'e, D. v., tor. Sunday services: Preaching, ire in, and 7:18 p. m.: Sunday school, 2p.m.. Weekly meetings, Monday B. Y. P. U. meeting, 8 p.m. Wednesday night, prayer meeting. Highland Avenue Baptist church Sunday services, 11 8. m. and 8 p.m Preaching, Wednesday evening, 8 p.m Praise meetings Mondny evening B. Y P.U. Sunday school 2 pa G. W. Boyp. Pastor. Mrs. A. K. Cumminas, Clerk, Pleasant Valley Baptist church, Rosedale, Kansay, Surday services} Preaching 11 a.m. and 8p. m.; Sunday school, 9:30 a. m.; BY, P.U.. 7 p. my Ww. HF. and M. Society, Thursday evening praise meeting. Rov. H, FE. STRICKLAND, Pastor Pleasant Green Baptist church, In- dependence and Tracy ave, Sunday school, 9:30 a, m. Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p.m. B. Y. P, U., 6:30 p. m. Weekly services—Prayer meetings and missionary, Wednesday evenings at 8 O'clock p. m. Young People’s Literary and Progressive Club, Thursday even- ings. Church meeting, Friday before the second Sunday in each month. B, 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 Dm. Class Meeting, Thursdays 8:00 p. m. Corner 11th and Highland, J, M. Ham's Pastor. Sunday Serviees—Sunday Schoo! 9:30 a. mi Preaching Ila. m.t’ Class, Meeting Paint Bowortn txague Bible, Reading ‘so"p mt Roworth League Prayer Meet fig Por, me" Preaching 8p. my Weekly Setvicearprayer" Meeting Rvednenday” Bama Bpworth Longue, Bible. Heading 1dny 8 prom bimonthly; Chott He hearsils Monday. “Asbury MM 8. Church, (th and Cherry, Kansan City, AMo., Wm: Hi. Wheeler, Pastor, residence Isl? Bast Twenty sftth street, H. 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