The Rising Son

Reilly 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. LEXINGTON NEWS LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. R. Young, pastor of the M. E. church, preached morning and evening. The people who heard him were well pleased. His family will be here this week. Baptizing at the 2nd Baptist church by Rev. Howell Sunday, the 29th. They have quite a number of converts. Miss Esther Saunders, Miss Wolf and others are preparing to give an entertainment for the benefit of the church. The pastor's tent entertainment on the 17th was a financial success, given by the ladies of the M. E. church. Rev. Gilbert was in Kansas City several days last week. Mr. A. Williams was in Kansas City Saturday and returned home Monday. A lady of Sedalia is here visiting Mrs. J. Epps. We were unable to learn her name. Mrs Robert Douglass' sister is here visiting and will spend several weeks in our city. Mr. Thomas Williams, who went to Kansas City to have his eyes operated on, has returned and is getting along nicely. Miss Sallie Taylor, who has been here visiting her aunts and other relatives, returned to Kansas City Thursday. She preached for Rev. Caves while here. Mrs. Sallie Lee of Iowa is here visiting her sister Miss Susie Delaney who is quite ill. All of our subscribers forgot me last week. They made me several good promises. The paper cannot run unless we get the money. Please pay up. We as a race will have to learn that an enterprise started among us must be supported. I heard a colored man say the other day that the whites were not pressing the colored people. I think different. There are a great many of our people who do not care for themselves, but any colored man that cares for his race can feel the effects of the pressure. We have educated men and women and some money, and yet they are hindered from their rights as citizens. Some of these things are brought about by aur own actions. Don't forget what we said last week. Read the Rising Son. The Fifth Sunday, March 29th, will be rally day for the Second Baptist Sunday school. All are cordially invited to attend each service, especially at 3 p. m. At 9:30 a. m., Sunday school; 11 a. m., special sermon to Sunday school by Rev. S. W. Bacote At 3 p. m. a special program will be rendered by the different Sunday schools of the city. No collection at this hour. At 7:30 p. m., servise. Collection. GLEANINGS FROM PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH. Located in Rear of Independence and Trany Avenues, K. C. Mo. B. Y. P. U. opened at its usual hour, 6 o'clock, Pres, F. L. Lewis in chair; lesson, Matt. 7:1-5, which was read and discussed by Supt., pastor members. We had with us Mr. G. A. Clay, a member of the National B. Y. P. U. committee, and State B. Y. P. U. organizer for Missouri, and clerk of 2nd Baptist church, who spoke to us. After a hot discussion between Bro. Samuel Pettis, G. A. Clay, and F. L. Lewis, the following question was answered and proven by the scriptures by Gertrude McDonald: "Was Paul at Ephesus when Appollos was, and if so, did Paul see Appollos?" While collection was being taken, choir sang: "Oh, Thou, God of My Salvation," "Oh, How Lovely is Zion." Literary society will meet next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, as the revival is now off hands; Monday night, choir meeting as usual, and Wednesday night regular prayer services. Collection for the day, $14 and some cents. Pleasant Green has lost two of its brightest jewels in the persons of Mrs. Hattie Archer and daughter Katherine, who have recently left for Oklahoma territory. Katherine, one of our shining lights, and the regular secretary of the B. Y. P. U., is quite a small child, not over 10 years of age. Mrs. Archer, one of the members of the church, is greatly missed as well as her daughter. Though they have been gone one week, it seems like several months to us. We trust their stay will be a pleasant one, and that success will attend them in every good work, but that their stay will not be a long one. And any day that they should return Pleasant Green will greet them and say, welcome, welcome, thrice welcome. Every member of our church should subscribe for the Rising Son. The beautiful snow has its seamy side. It's a cold day when some people get right. Ventilation is good for crowded purses. Get together everybody; in union there is warmth. A warm heart may be a great comfort to many cold bodies. A cold snap is not the kind of a snap the poor are looking for. High prices and low temperature are not as far apart as they ought to be. Nobody ever froze to death hustling around to keep somebody else from freezing. These are not the days and nights when the motorman earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. It is really remarkable how big a load of cold a very little child of the streets can stand up under. This is not a propitious moment to take up a church collection for the heathen living in the tropics. An English sparrow ought to die, but kill him with a brick; don't let him starve to death in the snow. On these slippery pavements give your horse a chance instead of a lick. He wasn't born with steel shoes. Though a cat have nine lives, yet may she give them all up on the frozen back fence in nights like these. This is the time when the real economizer will give some poor devil a quarter to shovel off the snow instead of doing it himself. And let us not forget those also who have to take the street cars night and morning. They starve not, neither do they freeze, yet Solomon in all his glory was not a ride like one of these—W. J. Lampton in New York Sun. PENN SCHOOL SEWING CLASS. PENN SCHOOL SEWING CLASS. It may not be generally known that at the school located in the southern part of the city there is a large sewing class, composed of all the pupils of the school and conducted by a number of wealthy white ladies living in that section of the city. The object of this class is to better fit our young people for some of the duties that fall upon them by and by. Girls attending the high school are admitted and instructed along with pupils of the grades. Much interest is manifested in the work by both pupils and teachers. Principal Harris is hopeful that this may be the means of enrolling so large a number of pupils that the Board of Education will build a new school instead of the old shack now in use. The Nebraska Clothing Co. of this city, under its present management, is realizing a rapid and steady growth in trade. Its method of business has always been a source of pleasure to its many patrons, all of whom are treated with great courtesy and their wants receive the strictest attention. The big building occupied by the Jones Dry Goods Co. is always crowded with anxious buyers. The management spares neither expense nor pains in its effort to render comfort to the buying public. KANSAS CITY, MO.. FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1903. ST. PAUL BAPTIST CHURCH. St. Paul Baptist church notes regular 11 o'clock services was well attended. Congregation sang, "Blessed Assurance;" read twelfth chapter of Eph. 1:10, lead by the pastor; choir sang, "Tthere is a city made by God;" prayer by Deacon J. Slaughter; pastor preached a soul-stirring sermon, text Acts 15:12. The doors of the church were open for the reception of members by pastor. Choir sang: "Come ye that love the Lord, and let your joys be known." Four souls came forward and joined by Christian experience. Sunday school opened at its usual hour, 1:15, Superintendent Bro. C. Callway being present but feeling ill; pastor officiated; lesson exceedingly interesting; class No. 2, Mrs. J. S. Addison teacher, is the banner class. Rev. Mrs. McAllen from the East visited our Sunday school and gave us a good lecture. Mrs. Rev. McAllen is one of the leading ladies of our race. She also taught class No. 2. The school was more than pleased with Mrs. Rev. McAllen's remarks and we trust that she will give our school another visit. B. Y. P. U. opened regular hour, 6 p. m., Miss Oma Jones, president, in the chair. The union is largely attended. Mr. Geo. Clay, the state organizer, visited our B. Y. P. U. and gave us some good and interesting remarks. We hope that our young pea- we will take his remarks to our heart and work more earnestly than they ever have before. 7:30 p. m., song by the congregation, "Am I born to die?" pastor takes his text, 9th chapter of Gen. 1:16; sermon by pastor. Owing to the bad weather we had a good attendance. May God bless the Rising Son. A. B. The Ladies of St. Pancreas Guild are offering as a prize a handsome hand embroidered white linen shirt waist pattern to any lady who saves the largest amount of her spending money by Easter. So get a waist by saving the waste. If you want to know how this is done, ask Smith, the drugist. These savings will be for the benefit of St. Augustine church. Between Two Fires An American who was accorded an interview recently with Von Bulow, the German statesman, found him in a dejected mood. He was bewailing the woes of German manufacturers. The American quoted statistics showing the value of Germany's exports to the United States. "Why," said he, "we import 9,000 tons of toys every year." "Yes," said Von Bulow, "but when the children receive the toys they credit them to Santa Claus and when they are old enough to give us the credit they don't care for toys." Typewriting Telegraph Apparatus The Steljes typewriting telegraph, as used by the London police, is an apparatus for sending a message simultaneously and in typewriter characters to several places at once. The battery is a powerful magnet, and the parts are actuated by springs. The operator at one end touches the keys representing the letters and figures, at the same time turning a handle and the message is received and printed automatically by all the recording instruments on the circuit. Lizard-catching in New Orleans. Nearly half the boys in New Orleans are catching lizards and making good pocket money by doing so. The price started at twenty-five cents a hundred and the dealers found many boys willing to catch them at that figure; but the price has lately gone up to fifty cents a hundred. They are wanted by a San Francisco man who expects to make the lizards useful by catching the insects which are hurting the fruit in California. Another Printer in Congress. Among the new corps of congressmen is William O. Smith of Pansxatawney, Pa., who at one time was a compositor in the government printing office, Washington, where he worked several years. Then he went to Pennsylvania, became proprietor of a newspaper, entered politics and has now worked his way into a seat in the house of representatives. Parrots as Advertiser. A. London instructor of parrots makes a speciality of training them to be advertisers. They are taught so that whenever they see anyone enter a shop they say, "Have you tried Soo and Go's 'Milk Porridge'?" or "Hair Restorer?" or whatever the commodity is. The parrot's cage, bearing a late advertising the patent commodity, stands on the shop counter, and the bird "puffs" the article all day long, for he has been purposely taught nothing else. Some of the mammoth food manufacturing firms have bought several of these advertising parrots, and lend them out to the shops that put their particular specialty. Had the Knot Safely Tied. Mr. and Mrs. James Brazis, living nearly Kingfisher, Ok., were married three times in the same day, and probably held the record. Then went to Kingfisher to get married and after getting a license were united by the old Probate judge, S. E. Sanders. The groom thought that perhaps it might be well if J. M. Graham, Probate judge elect, should also perform the ceremony, so Mr. Graham tightened up the nuptial knot. The bride still had a lingering doubt as to the legality of either marriage and the services of a clergyman were called into requisition. After the third ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Brazis went home. High Authority on Art Sir John Charles Robinson, one of the highest living authorities on art, is 78. He was born at Nottingham, and there received his earliest education. He studied art in Paris and is an honorary member of nearly all the academies of fine arts in Europe. From 1852 to 1869 he was superintendent of art collections at the South Kensington museum and originated the system of loan collections whereby works of art are circulated through the provinces. From 1882 to 1891 he was surveyor of pictures to the crown. Reculiarity of the Letter "Q." Peculiarity of the Letter 6. A firm which was sued in the Westminster (England) county court recently for the price of a sign defended the case on the ground that the "o" in their name was smaller than the other letters. It was proved by measurement, however, that it was a sixteenth of an inch larger, allowance having been made for the fact that, owing to an optical illusion, the letter "o" always looks smaller than the neighboring letters. Judgment was given for the sign makers. How "Joe" Cannon Chews Gum Congressman Cannon is not an habitual gum chewer, but when he does indulge his performance is simply astounding. One stick of the stuff lasts big about a couple of minutes, or until the sweetness has begun to disappear. Then he throws it away and takes another, so that the ordinary 5-cent package never lasts him more than a quarter of an hour. When it is all gone "Uncle Joe" generally bites off a fresh chew of tobacco and takes genuine comfort. Women Guard Railroad Crossings In France there are 15,319 women employed as gatekeepers at the railroad crossings. They get very small pay, but the railroads provide each one with a house and a small garden patch rent free. These women work every day in the year. They may not leave their posts for a day off, even on Sundays and holidays, and their working days are from fifteen to eighteen hours long. Snake Was Too Greedy. Noticing a large cobra with a small portion of a snake tail hanging out of its mouth, a resident of Ceylon killed the reptile. During its death struggles the cobra disgorged three-fourths of a rattle snake. The resident hauled out the rest, and, on taking measurements, found the cobra to be 4 feet 8 inches long, and the rattle snake it had tried to swallow 5 feet 2 inches. Always the Best Way. A pathetic and instructive story is that which James McNally, the famous "green-goods-man," tells of his dreary old age in poverty and ill-prepate after having spent foolishly $600,000 of other people's money. The straight way is the best way. KANSAS CITY KAN., LOCALS AND NEWS. A race meeting was held at the M. & O. hall Wednesday night, in which several very good ideas were advanced tending to advance the negro to a greater and higher civilization. The speakers of the evening were Prof. W. T. Vernon, Rev. O. W. Scott and Hon. I. F. Bradley, Prof. Milton Collins presided. The marriage of Mr. John Butler to Miss Mammie Brown was very largely attended Wednesday night by their friends. The marriage took place at the First Baptist church, corner of 5th and Nebraska Ave., after which a reception was had at the home, already prepared by the groom. Mr. Butler is a young man of high standing and is well liked by all and is also an industrious young man. Miss Brown has a host of friends in the city and is also well liked by all. They received many handsome presents from their friends. The Adelphig Art club will meet Wednesday, April 1st, with Mrs. Anna Easley, 725 Oakland ave. The Sorosis Culture club met with Mrs. L. Miner Monday evening. Patrolman Ben Foster is very sick and not expected to live. Preston Anderson, a young man about 25 years old, dropped dead in a restaurant on James street Monday evening. The Oviatt Shoe Company is one of the best and most reliable firms of its kind in the West. The treatment accorded its patrons is such that it is a pleasure always to return. The store carries the best and leading grades and makes of shoes. A NATION OF APPLE-EATERS. America: People Heavy Consumers of the Succulent Fruit. The latest estimate places the total number of apple trees of bearing age in the United States at something over two hundred millions. This is nearly three trees to every person. These trees yield more than one hundred and seventy-five million bushels. Not all these apples are consumed at home, for in years of full crop more than three million bushels go abroad. Yet, the apples kept at home are more than two bushels for every adult and child. We are a nation of apple-eaters. This fact may not be to our credit, however, when we remember that a good part of all these apples are Ben Davis and other kinds that a refined and cultivated taste would not choose for its dessert. Yet probably half our people never raise an apple; and of the half who do raise them, but a small percentage grows for market; and of those who grow for market only a part make a profit from the business. Yet there is money in apple growing—Country Life in America. GIFT THAT MADE TROUBLE Unfortunately Meeting Probably Cause for Family Feud. When the tall lady in the salskali coat entered the car the short, jolly woman who was sitting near the end instantly became all smiles. It was only a minute before they were hard at it, telling all about their Christmas gifts. "Changing something?" said the tall one, motioning to a parcel the other held in her lap. "Yes," was the reply; "something some one sent me, don't know who, and as I don't like it I am going to change it. Isn't it homely? I never wear black, anyway," and in a second she had the bundle opened and its contents exposed to the eyes of her companion. The tall lady said never a word for a full moment. Then with a glance that would have frozen boiling water, she remarked, haughtily, "I sent that to you." Real Prosperous Farmin' Farmer Armour of Chicago has sold about 15,000,000 bushels of his "corner" crop of wheat and makes about $600,000 profit. He will now be able to give his wife a new dress, get an organ for his home and perhaps repaint his wagon. Farming pays in the Garden City—New York World. NUMBER 7. INDEPENDENCE NEWS. Grand Master Chinn, of Glasgow, Mo., was in the city last Saturday on official and social business. And on account of his visit a certain person was able to be out to the church Sunday. Come again, Prof. Invitations are out for the wedding of Mrs. Patience Parker and Mr. Frank Scott, on the 25th. Full account of it will appear in next week's edition. The 2nd Baptist church was rather successful in their special effort on last Sunday. They were able to raise nearly $50 and hope by the first of next month to increase the amount to $100. The True Reformers' Club will meet at the A. M. E. church next Wednesday night. All members and all who desire to become members will please be present. Rev. Caldwell and a large delegation of his members attended quarterly meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church, Kansas City, last Sunday afternoon. All the churches are preparing for Easter. Aspecial program will be rendered at the A. M. E. church by the Sunday school and choir. St. Venus court will observe Palm Sunday at the A. M. E. church. Rev. Caldwell will preach a special sermon to the heroines of Jericho. All members of courts are invited. Don't forget the musical and literary recital at the A. M. E. church April 1st under the management of Mrs. M. Stanton. Mr. Chas. Lindsay, of Lexington, and Miss Nannie Sewell, of Wellington, were visitors in our city last Monday. Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church Sunday, March 29th. Rev. M. Collins, of Kansas City, will preach at 3 p. m. Word was received here that Mrs. Bayless, a former resident of this city, died in Cape Girardeau last week and was buried there. It is reported that the died of heart failure. She was a woman of strong character, Christian integrity and sterling worth. Mrs. Bayless was a member of the A. M. E. church here. Mr. Albert Jones was elected committeeman of the Second ward at the Republican City convention Saturday night. Mrs. Lucy Lillard has moved to Lawrence, Kans., which place she intends to make her future hom. We wish her much success in her new home, thought we loath to give her up. Read the Rising Son. Read the Rising Son J. C. C. The motto of the Geo. B. Peck Dry Goods Co. is "Satisfaction." This of itself is an inspiration to a buyer. Mr. Peck has demonstrated his great business worth to the people of Kansas City, and his ability to conduct a huge business. Lewis Woods, Rising Son: Would you give me the name and address of the advance agent of the Boone Co.? I have lost it. We had the company here and enjoyed them very much. Must have them again. Yours sincerely. H. W. KNOWLES. Duluth, Minn. The Publisher's Temptation "Why is it," said the author, "that a genius is not truly appreciated until after he is dead?" The publisher looked at him with a cold, business like eye and said: "I've often wondered myself. I have been tempted never to accept another manuscript unless the writer could bring a physician's certificate of ill health."—Washington Sun. That "Touch of Nature." The chief business of Sir Wilfred Laurier at Quebec, according to the reports of those who pretend to know, has to do with the distribution of offices. It is a serious thing for a premier when his swill trough is not big enough to hold all the feet that the feeders are trying to thrust into it.—Montreal Gazette. A man may feel like a king, and his wife like a queen, but the baby is gen- FOND OF SWEET SOUNDS Wonderful Collection of Instrumente in the Metropolitan Muscum of Art Shows That the Love of Music Has Been Universal for All Time. Sea MARVELOUS —coltee-| been domesticated, as is the case a tion of musical Insti with the Chinese instruments in load ABmouts-one of the most! Korea and Japan, take on a new Na AGF iccavie crits kind in the | character with the new environment, De Bworki-is on permanent | and persist as distinct types, One ld BEAD] srivition at the Metro: | feels the isolation of conservatism— = Sholitan Museum of Art the civilization which grows from in New York. Instraments from | within, and which owes little or noth: ever country under the — stn| ing to foreign contact. One wonders are comprised in. the collection, | how long. this independence. will Which is housed in four large gailer: | maintain itself, in view of the ever: fee of the Museum, One of these gal: | growing pressure from the West, Al- . the home of the Asiatic in ready the Japanese are abandoning piesa Hoginning with China, | their national instruments and adopt. we pass successively to Japan, Korea, | ing those of modern Burope, Will Siam. Burma, India, Asiatic Russia, | the day come when this will be true ; 4“ Neavia nbd ByttA of India and of China? Will the r 1 up to] “cheng” give place to. the harmo na x South, ta Africa, | Nium, the “vina” to the violin? One & Na es oh belt Yi": sn8 Peaceck Guitar With Sympathetic Strings. and to Oreanien — Kurope fits the two remaining guilerie Fo ene whose previous acquaint ance wilh musinal instruments has Deon confined to the contents of the Korepean orchestra, the revelation of new forms in the eollvction is simply bewildering. No country ig so re mote, no tribe so unelvilized, hut has its representative. Eaypt sends the harp and the sistrum: Mexica and Vora have restored fram the mounds the clay whistles and trampets long ago buried with thelr ancient inhab ftants, China contributes its gongs of sonorous stone, and from its hoary temples brings forth the “gyo,” or crouching tiger. From far Alaska come drums made of skin, and shaped Mike a palmleat fan, ‘The North American Indian sends his love-thite and his brother ef the south his rat tle, Java has the “anklang.* with its musical bamboo tubes in octaves, Fiving a sound like rinning water From more distant Islands come the panpipes and the nose flute, And so one misht run on indefinitely. No people or tribe so primitive or so te mote but they have fivented some devier to gratify their love of sweet sound The singular fact revealed by such A collection is that all devices were Known to men from the earliest times, and may now be found among men of the mdest forms of culture. The plane of Cristoforl and — the African “marimba® are first cousins ‘The moiern oboe had a sister among the ancient Egyptians, and the fam fly is today represented in almost every quarter of the globe. China has known from time immemorial the use of the free reed which gives vs our harmonium, and the reser voir of alr which makes possible our krand organ is found in every gypsy baxpine, Even unusnal inventions Whe Benjamin Franklin's glass har monica prove not to be so. eriginal as they appear. ‘The principle of pre ducing different musteal tones — by rubbing stnooth surfaces of different rice has been applied by the natives of New Ireland in the Bismareh archipelage, who in their “kulepa kanes” have devised an instrument fn which four distinet musical tone ean he obtained by rubbing as many polished surfaces of wood, Special interest gathers about the cases which contain the instrament of our own North American Indians Here may be seen within narroy compass what our western hemis phere has contributed to the develop ment of the musical art, A pathett BAM o BE en EERE SD BD eae ES ten a EP YAN See Ro \ oy HSS Siidmeest . Samice aires mterest attaches to many of the specimens ‘There is that fine cot lection of the Sioux instruments, But a few short years ago and you might have heard their like played by their makers in one of those singular or chestral concerts which sometimes lasted for Weeks. Now, like the but falo, their day is past. No longer will the plaintive tones of me love: tute be heard as the young brave koes forth to Woo his bride, and the tappers and drums which once beat so brave a dance now serve but to adorn a museum wall, As we pass from one of the great rivilizations to another, from China to Slam, from Siam to India, from India to Persia or to Arabia, we are struck by the strong marks of na ional peculiarity. ‘The principles tre the same, but the application dif tars widely. Material, workmanship fecoration, form—each bears the ttamp of the country from which 1 ‘as come. Instruments which have been domesticated, as is the case with the Chinese instruments fn Korea and Japan, take on a new character with the new environment, and persist as distinct types, One feels the isolation of conservatism— the civilization which grows from within, and which owes little or noth: ing to foreign contact, One wonders how long this independence will maintain itself, in view of the ever: growing pressire from the West, Ak ready the Japanese are abandoning thelr national instruments and adopt: ing those of modern Europe, Will the day come when this will be true of India and of China? Will the “cheng” give place to. the harmo nium, the “Vina” to the violln?) One cannot bat feel that such a result woul be a distinct loss to the must Hefore ns, for instance, are two harps of quaint construction, with: out the uprleht pillar which fs so characteristic a feature of the Euro peat instrument ‘They are repro- Juctions of two Eeyptian harps, over the orleinals of which, now pres erved In the Louvre museum, thir tyfive centuries have passed,” Not far off are two small metal pipes, also Egyptian. of which the originals are in the Oxford musoum, In these four specimens we have the dircet ancestors of the two ehlef divisions Hot Burepean instruments — the stringed and the wind, Moving on: Swart, We pass in review the chiet families of the former division; first, those whtch are played by plucking the harps, the lutes and archilutes, ling, then those whieh are played by striking, lke the dulcimer; finally, the viols, voting and the reat, in which the tone is produced by the bow. ‘Then, we past in succession the chief families of wind instru: ments the flutes and whistles, — the reeds, single and double, and the bag. pipes, Which combine both — princt- ples. ‘The last great group of wind instruments, these played with cup: mouth pieces, fill almost the whole ot one of the European — galleries, yes ie LIV RTT oe A Je leaving the drams, bells, gongs, and other sonerous instruments to bring SEA WALL AT GALVESTON. Three and a Half Million Dollars Will The report of the board of engineers on plans for the sea wall to protect Galveston calls for three imiles of con- crete breakwater, seventeen feet above mean low tide. The estimated cost of the sea wall ts $1,294,755, and that of filling in the entire elty so as to bring its grade up to the proper level is $20 210.285 additional, making a total of $5.500.040, Arter the hurricane that almost wiped out the city it was evi dent that steps should be taken to pro- tect Galveston from another like ea lamity, A sea wall was the means de cided upon, the plan which calls for the most pretentions piece of engineer. Ing of the sort ever attempted in the United States, ‘The money needed for the enter. prise will be raised under a constitu tional provision granting coast eoun- ties the privilege to issue bonds. for protection against the encroachment of the gulf, provided the proposition is ratified by a twothirds vote of the taxpayers of the county, ‘The propo: sition was submitted to the taxpayers of Galveston county to isste $1,600,000 sea wall bonds and was carried, only twentysix votes being cast against it The people of Galveston bought tha bonds, with the exception of a very small amount, Still the money for the filling in was yet to be provided for, The eighth bill introduced in the pres ent legislature provides funds to prose. suite the work by allowing the elty of Galveston to divert for fifteen years ts state taxes from the treasury Inte a fund to be used solely for grading the city. Immense Postotfice Business. ‘The postoflice money order depart: ment handles about —$800,000,000& year. ‘The loss by the dishonesty and carelessness of clerks has been only $251 In the last (wo years, but this is partly explained by the fact that the clerks are made responsible for the money they handle, and any lose is considered theirs. The Construction of Windows. Experiments in the double glazing of windows with a view of reducing the loss of heat through them show that the two sheets of glass. should have a space of two and a half to four and a half inches between them to produce the minimum radiation, Chinese Idea of Beauty. ‘The broken and distorted foot of « Chinese lady 1s called a “golden Iily” by Chinese admirers of such distor: tions, Immense Downpour of Rain. During the forty minutes’ duration of @ cycione at Brookville, In Queene land, five focbes of rain fell A Revival of Sumptuary Latus Might Be of Service. | OD 29 (A ——) 2 esd ; Cosy eqs aA iat i Wa \s] oe A Lf A aI hm mer be i ra : SS 7 . ASN) Ok tieeg NHK: ra ay Pa iy Oe LLY ae MELT: Gk es DS the fee Cr a ay RNY Fe 2 SE ; Sey S — FRE AS PaaS bee CEM iffored the pain of cursing by the ecm as lerey, as well as @ forfeiture of 20 psn me pillings, Feisty Pa The wives of esquires and gentle FNS Rae en and knights under the rank of @ ae op Pay rd were forbidden to wear any kind Na f corses, which means the body of Pests Nis fe aetn DA kt a uae, je mee ith gold, and the wites of persons Ec ee ot having 40 pounds yearly and| | ged? Sao dows and their daughters of smaller Be Fi Cia ossessions were forbidden to wear BUNS EARS irdles ornamented with gold, silver | Jpsprat swung r gilt work or any corse of silk or ep overchief made out of the realm, Been rpD But it fs not necessary to give any Rey nore examples of the well-laid plans f kings in order to lead up to the act that they went the same way that hose of mice and ordinary men do, Maat They rlead That It Was Only | Those legislators who have recently proposed laws about kissing and cell bacy and taxing real or bogus lordd might try their duck at a few sump- tuary laws. They would be quite as well-timed as the others and more useful, and perhaps just as Mttlo heeded, especially if they should alm to “restrain the expense of citizens in apparel," for it {s sadly recorded that never were such laws made but to be ) fii ee N ra Ee ON ignored, even when deflance tight mean a trifling matter of hanging or burning alive. In the good old once-upon-a-time, when Edward MHI. was king of Eng land, furs of ermine and lettice were strictly forbidden to any but the royal family or nobles having £1,000 @ year or more—the millionaires of the time. Cloth of gold and silver and habits embroidered with jewels, lined with pure minever and other expen- sive furs, were permitted only to Knights and ladies whose income ex- ceeded 400 marks yearly, The families of knights whose: tif come was more than 200 marks and of squires possessing £200 in lands or tenements, were allowed to wear cloth of silver, with their ribands, girdles, and other accessories reasonably orna- mented with silver, They were al lowed also to wear woolen cloth of the value of six marks for the whole piece, while all the unfortunates of less prop: erty or lower rank were forbidden to wear silk or embroidered garments of any sort or such ornaments as rings, buckles, ouches, girdles and ribands. In the reign of Henry IV. not only was “cloth of crimson, cloth of velvet or motley velvet” forbidden to any save persons of high estate, but the cut of garments was regulated so that “no person, be his condition what it might, was permitted to wear a gown cut or slashed into the form of letters, rose leaves, posies of other kinds, of any curious devices, under the penalty of forfeiting the same, and the tailor who undertook the order was to be imprisoned during the king's pleasure, Likewise in the time of Edward IV. no one under the rank of a lord was permitted to wear the indiscroetly short jacket or “pike or ponlaine” to his shoes more than two inches in length, and no yeoman or person of less degree was permitted to have bolsters or stuffing of wood, cotton or cadis in his purpoint or doublet under & penalty of six shilling and eight pence fine and forfeiture, and every tailor or shoemaker guilty of making such apparel for unprivileged persons ae ee eee oe ele caeiranty (meee that sumptuary laws wore universally | man—a pdisregarded. ly peal ‘The complaint of Chaucer's Parson | ward th “concerning the sinful, costly array of | nor did clothing” 18 to the effect, with the|in two spelling modernized, that “the ain in| the gia superftulty of clothing which maketh | crash h it #0 dear to the harm of the people {s | Twenty not only to the cost of embrouding, | strewn the disguising, indenting or barring, | fall on workme shouted halt we coming. and, pai At this Y one els was the aid it. impendi first see ee ounding, paling, winding, or bending ond semblable waste of cloth in vanity, but there {s also the costly furring in their gowns, so much pouncening of chisel to make holes, so much dagging of shears with the superfluity in length of the aforesaid gowns trailing in the mire, ete.” ‘This would not come so much amiss by the way in describing & very smart 1908 frock, So it appears that these happy folk of leng ago went gayly on in their vain ways of spending very much more on gorgeous raiment than they could well afford or than the law al- Jowed and bravely defied fines and forfeiture in order to present a gallant appearance, But this is a utilitarian age, and if some strenuous soul were to introduce ‘sumptuary laws today they might prove unexpectedly popular as offering "4 very decent means of escape from the ruinous elegance of modern dress. For instance, it would be satisfying to “say with conscious virtue “Harry "wanted dreadfully to give me an er: ‘mine stole and muff this year, but | felt that We must obey the law, which ‘forbids it to any but billionaires, you know.” ar: “Mme. Branagan wished fatrly to cover my new frock with open-stitch: ing, but I wouldn't put myself in a position to be cursed by the dear bishop for all the frocks in Christen dom.” | OF, with a sigh: “Trish point would have been a love lly thing to trim this dress with, bu | we aim to be law-abiding citizens an¢ [lace ix forbidden to those with less | than $50,000 a year.” ¢ | It would be much pleasanter to say such things than to acknowledge open ly or tacitly that you couldn't affor the article or to strain every nervy to get them and pay the consequence There are plenty of level-headed wom en today who could extract a degre of restfulness out of the conscientiou: ist: Wiihisniisigamatenae ea a evans ee x oe a oy) |) i i an, (a oa _f ~~ calli See Lene Forbidden Finery Long Ago. observance @f a sumptuary law which } often warned aga could hardly be given by any sanator-|to sudden fright. jum in existence.—New York Sun, having nightmare —_—_ woke up in a sta A HERO OF THE SHIPYARDS. so weak that sh —_— help. One marn Triumph of Clear Grit, Cool Judgment | dead ia bed with and Quick Action. ject terror on hi On Friday last @ big boiler, weigh- | doubt that she d ing sixty-four tons, was about to be| duced by a night lowered Into the hold of a steamship “Persons subjes at the New York Shipyards. The | have weak heart: hundred-ton crane, 80 called beeause | ing on the back. it will lift a weight of 100 tons as | the right side anc easily as a college girl lifts a wooden | extended so they dvymbbell, was swinging its great|turn over, Most arms toward the monster boiler, | result of sleeping elghteen feet in circumference. | left side, where | Perched on the top of it was a work man—a poor Norwegian who scarce ly speaks English. His back was to ward the crane, and he never saw it, nor did any one else until it was with- in two fect of him. If the arm of the giant crane struck him {t would crash him as it would an egg shell. Twenty feét below was the ground strewn with jagged pieces of tron, to fall on which was instant death. The workmen below saw his danger and shouted to him. The man turned half way round and felt the crane coming. It was death either way, and, paralyzed with fear, he collapsed. At this critical moment when every one else had lost his head, one man was there who knew what to do, and did it. Twenty feet away when the impending doom over the man was first seen, in less than two seconds he cleared the space and stood among the jagged tron. “Jump for your life! It's your only chance!" he cried, and he braced himself to catch the falling man, while the crowd held Its breath. The two men came together with an im- pact so great that both were picked up senseless. It was a case of clear srit, cool judgment and prompt action, p Danger in Niahtmares. “TI believe that dreams sometimes kiN,” said a prominent specialist on nervous diseases the other day. “Ot course I don't know that they aro fa tal, but I have every reason to think so. I had a woman patient whom 1 was treating for a number of complt cations, including a weak heart, She could not bear any excitement and | " ey, | aN Ai a) often warned against exposing hersel! to sudden fright. She complained of having nightmare and said she often woke up in a state of terrible fright, #0 weak that she could not call for help, One morning she was found dead ia bed with an expression of ab Ject terror on her face, I have no doubt that she died from fright pro duced by a nightmare. “Persons subject to nightmare whe have weak hearts should avoid sleep ing on the back. They should lie on the right side and have the right arm extended so they will wake up if they turn over, Most nightmares are the result of sleeping on the back or the left side, where the heart is so com: pressed that it has little room for fred action,” Sithan* Oha ta Meant Of “Chunka = lank,” remarked — the Dowager Empress of China, “come here!” The keeper of the royal embroid- ery scissors approached, “It has been reported to me,” con- tinued the empress, sternly, “that you have referred to me as an old cat. Is this 80?" “It 1s, O Sister of the Green Cheese Moon,” replied Chunka Lunk, brave- ly, “but only in the most compliment: ary way. The newspapers have you killed so often, you know, that you must have as many lives as a feline!" “Um!” remarked the empress, less sternly, “that's all right, then, 1 thought perhaps my finger nails were beginning to wear off.” Gazing proudly at that badge of no-work royalty, she relapsed int the innocuous desuetude from which the last cable news had brought her. Colonization Not a Success, France spends annually for her col onies @ little more than $25,000,000 while the aggregate of its busines: with them, export and import, is but $62,000,000, and but 4,000 a year emi grate to French colonies, But France has not been the least successfu country in building @ colonial em pire, for Germany's geographicall; large possessions cost more than ths aggregate of the exports and import fom them An Eight-Ton Pincushion. ‘The biggest pincushion in the world fe @ strange species of cactus growing down on the hot desert sands of Ari- ona between Prescott and Phoenix. People in that part of the territory know the freak as “niggerhead” cac- tus. Its counterpart {s not known elsewhere in arid regions of America, and scientists say it is equally scarce on other continents. This marvelous growth of cactus is supposed to be he Sah , i Le aan 7 ee, aa) Seite 3 aaa: SN A rae i HEA A 2 CORY a (GSN eae Teta Oy A ry os Avi aor W ieee = ON 3 PA over a century old, and possibly sev- eral centuries old. It stands thirty- one feet above the sands of the desert It is more than fifty feet in diameter, and its weight is estimated at eight tons. The Wallopai Indians say they have been told that the strange growth was there, as large as It is now, when their ancestors ranged unhindered across the deserts from Mexico to the Columbia river. ‘The Bud of a Tree. Among the curious things recently discovered by the students of plant life 1s the fact that a bud taken from one tree and grafted on another, car- ries the age of the original tree with it, It has always been believed that the bud so transferred began a wholly new life, but this new theory it may, after all, be more theory than fact, as yet—shows the matter in_an entirely different light. For example, if a bud be taken from a tree that Is twenty-five years old with a natural life of fifty years and grafted on another tree, it will not live as long as its parent tree te entitled to live, the full fifty years, but only for the period of life then left to the tree—twenty-five years. Oldest Elevator Man. Another claimant to distinction as the oldest elevator man in Chicago has appeared. He is Charlie Anderson of Field's, who, when a boy about 18, in the year 1873, was givon charge of the first passenger elevator in that establishment, near the Washington street entrance. Mr. Anderson con- tinued to operate it for twenty-nine years, until it was recently removed. “They had to tear it down to get rid of me,” he says. He now acts as “starter” for a group of elevators in the new annex. Diet of Mahometans. It is a rule with Mahometans to be gin a meal with salt and finish with vinegar. If they begin with salt they will escape the contagion of 70 dis eases. If they finish with vinegar their worldly prosperity will continue to increase. The host {s in etiquette bound to be the first to start eating and the last to stop. Two Drinks, One Glass. It seems incredible, yet it is a fact, that one can drink water and beer at the same time out of one glass. Any ordinary glass will suffice, and the first thing to be done ts to pour beer into it until it Is half full, ‘Then over the beer is to be carefully placed a piece of smooth linen, and as soon as this is in position the water may be poured into the glase, drop by drop. As the specific gravity of water is quite different from that of beer it ts impossible, under these circumstances, for the two liquids to mingle. Either water or beer can now be drunk out ‘of tho glass, though the manner of “drinking is different in each case. The water can be drunk in the ordinary 4 e ie tay iro fashion, but the beer must be taken through a straw, Though this is really an easy trick, great care is necessary in pouring the beer and water into the glass and in placing the piece of linen in proper position, ; Strange Freak of Nature. A woman named Blondel, living at Honfleur, France, recently gave birth to a fomale child with extremities like those of @ monkey. ‘The hands and feet have only four flagers and toes respectively, but instead of nails they have long claws, while the skin hangs Mke a bag. It 1s not expected that the child will live. 233 THE WEEKLY PANORAMA MINER AND SOCIAL LEADER. Wealthy Connecticut Man Finde the Strain Top Great Henry K. McHarg, Jr., of Stamford, Conn., who is exceedingly wealthy, has returned home from Virginia, where he has been working as a common laborer in the iron and coal mines in which his father is largely interested. He endeavored to combine the duties of a society leader by night with those of a workman by day, but found the strain too great. His work in the mines was of the hardest kind. He was employed twelve hours a day, seven days in the week, receiving at wages $1.40 per day. At night, when the other laborers and miners were abed, McHarg would often lead a cotillon or take part in some other social event. He had entrance to the most exclusive social circles and was a general favorite. He was taken ill with pneumonia and had a close call for his life. He proposes to return to the mines as soon as he regains his health. LONGSTREET IS ALMOST WELL. Veteran of the Confederacy Recover ing from a Serious Illness. Gen. James Longstreet, whose marriage to Miss Ellen Dortch, the beautiful young southern woman, is still well remembered, has nearly recovered from his long illness. Gen. Longstreet is now living in Washington. His wife has not been able to resume her position in society during the GEN. JAMES LONGSTREET GEN. JAMES LONGSTREET oast season, owing to Gen. Longstreet's ill health. Gen. Longstreet is a familiar figure to the public. He graduated from West Point in 1842, taking part in the Mexican war, and obtaining the title of brevet major for his valiant deeds. In June, 1861, he resigned to join the confederacy. He was promoted to the rank of major general in 1862. He was a favorite member of Lee's staff, and was at the head of several fiercely fought battles in Virginia. Booker Washington Not a Musician. Pedro Tinsley, once a porter of a Northwestern parlor car, has resigned his position as vocal director of music at Tuskegee institute and will go back to railroad work. He gives as a reason that Booker Washington has "little conception of music," and he brings forward evidence: "He wanted me to make the boys and girls there sing loud. I had a class of 400 voices and when they sang plantation melodies it was something fierce the way they would roll them out. No, Mr. Washington knows nothing about music." WELL-KNOWN WRITER DEAD "Nym Crinkle" Passes Away at His Home at Monsey, N. Y. Andrew C. Wheeler, better known as "Nym Crinkle," a well-known newspaper writer, died last week at his home at Monsey, N. Y. He had served on the staff of various New York papers and was well known as a musical and dramatic critic. In addition to many articles in current magazines on these topics he was also the author of "The Chronicles of Milwaukee." "The Primrose Path of Dalliance," "The A. B. A. C. WHEELER (NVM CRINKLE) Twins' (a comedy), and other smaller feuilletons. He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. Many Hands Work on Doll. The most peculiar feature of the doll trade is that no one factory makes the entire doll. A toy turtle with a clock in its chest, has to pass through the hands of three men and thirty-seven girls before it is ready to be put on the market. Some doll makers employ many hands inside the factory and send the different parts to the homes of the workers to be completed there. TYNER'S LONG PUBLIC CAREER. Assistant Attorney General Has Held Many High Offices. James N. Tyner, who, it has been rumored, is to resign from the assistant attorney generalship of the general, and in 1889 he was appointed JAMES N. TYNER Postoffice department, but who ridicules the idea that he is going out because of the complaints against his department in the get-rich-quick case, has had a long and distinguished public career. A former resident of Indiana, he was member of Congress from that state from 1869 to 1875. From 1875 to 1882 he was successively second assistant and first assistant postmaster general, and postmaster to the position he now holds. He went out in 1893, however, but was reappointed in 1897. He is 74 years old. Honeymoon Thirty Years Old The honeymoon tour of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Hull of Danbury, Conn., interrupted almost at its beginning, thirty years ago, was begun all over again last week. They have become grandparents since then. Mr. and Mrs. Hull were married on March 11, 1873. They started to visit Wisconsin and return through Kentucky. The trip ended abruptly at Albany, for a business telegram called Mr. Hull home. They decided then to postpone their tour until the first anniversary of their marriage, but something happened then to prevent and also on following anniversaries. This year they sailed up the Hudson to Albany. They will visit all the places they intended to and will be gone a month. Mr. Hull is wealthy.—New York World. MAJOR SYMONS MUST WORK. Master of White House Has Many Duties to Keep Him Busy. Duties to Keep Him Busy. Major Thomas W. Symons, the President's new master of cere- PLAJ THUS. W. SYNTONS monies, will have many duties to perform aside from the social tasks involved in the white house management. He will pay all the white house bills and be the military aid to the nation's chief executive. Major Symons will accompany President Roosevelt on all his journeys. Leads Choir in Workhouse. A small fortune has come to Bentley Wormold, a well-known character on the streets of Akron, O., who, since running through an inheritance of $40,000 twenty years ago, has lived bit or miss, spending a great part of the time in the Cleveland workhouse, where long ago he won fame in that institution as the leader of the choir on Sundays. His present inheritance comes by the death of an uncle at Leeds, England. An aunt says she will make application for the appointment of a guardian. Wormold was in the city prison on the usual charge of intoxication when the news came that he was again a favorite of fortune.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dollars for Ninety Cents Each. Dollars for Ninety Cents Each. As a novel method of advertising a business house in Washington sold 1,000 new $1 treasury notes for ninety cents each. The sale lasted just two hours and all that time the line of would-be purchasers of "good money at reduced rates" was over a block long. No person was allowed to be more than one bill at a time, but there was no limit upon the number of times each person might buy. In consequence the line was of the nature of an endless chain. As each ninety cents was handed to the cashier a bill of sale was made out and a dollar bill was wrapped up like an ordinary purchase and delivered to the customer. AS THE WORLD REVOLVES ENCIRCLING WORLD ON FOOT. Hungarian Has Undertaken a Leng and Arduous Journey. Andreas Chrometz, a Hungarian, 31 years old, has undertaken to encircle the world afoot. Except when crossing bodies of water that cannot be circled he proposes to traverse his entire journey without the aid of conveyances of any sort. He left his native town of Turo, Marton, Hungary, Sept. 4, 1901, tramped across the continent into England, went over all of the provinces of the king's domain and then cut for Canada. He visited the principal cities there, then journeyed over New York state to the metropolis. He reached Philadelphia Feb. 6, spent a few days there and then started for Pittsburg, where he now is. At every town in which we stops Chrometz secures the postmark of the place and a short descriptive note as proof positive that he was there. He sells pictures of himself and carries voluminous clippings which tell of his travels. He expects to reach Chicago in the course of the coming month, and hence will journey to San Francisco and take a steamer for Japan. COAL OPERATORS GO FREE. Judge Chetlain Decides That He Has No Jurisdiction. Acquittal of the Indiana coal operators was ordered by Judge Chetlain at Chicago in an opinion which he rendered on the motion of the defense to take the case away from the jury. The seventeen defendants against whom a special grand jury returned JUDGE CHETLAIN indictments charging them with entering into a conspiracy in restraint of public trade in violation of the antitrust law of Illinois were held blameless by the court and the jury signed a verdict of not guilty. Judge Chetlain took the case away from the jury on the general ground that the acts of the defendants affected interstate commerce and therefore were within the sole jurisdiction of the federal courts. His decision that he was without jurisdiction in the matter was, he said, given with much reluctance. Indiana Honor Miss Longfellow: A delegation of Ojibway Indians paid a visit to Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of the poet, at the Longfellow home in Cambridge, Mass, last week, and left as a remembrance a belt of wampum. Miss Longfellow, with her two sisters, Mrs. Dana and Mrs. Thorp, entertained the visitors. The gathering in the old-fashioned library was a picturesque one. The delegation was headed by Chief Wabunosa. Miss Longfellow was invited to visit the tribe at Garden River reservation, Ontario, next summer. LAWYER'S FEE IS $2,000,000. Richest Commission on Record Due to Panama Canal Deal. New York lawyers believe that by the passage of the Panama canal treaty by the United States senate William Nelson Cromwell of that city will receive the largest fee ever paid to a lawyer in this country, if not in the world. The report finds general credence in Wall street that $2,000,000 of the money to be paid by the govern- W.T. N. CROFTWELL ment for the partly finished ditch across the isthmus will go into Mr. Cromwell's pocket. Englishmen to Visit Canada. At the suggestion of Lord Strathcona and Lord Aberdeen a party of members of both houses of parliament is being organized to pay a visit to Canada in the autumn recess. The object is to study the resources of the dominion, with a view to a more thorough enlightenment of the people of Great Britain. BIGGEST CRAB EVER FOUND. One in Brooklyn Museum Over Elever Feet in Diameter. The biggest crab ever discovered, it is said, is now mounted and on exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences. The natural home of this creature is under 600 to 4,000 feet of water. The crab measures $11\%$ feet in diameter and for the most part it has a very beautiful complexion—for a crab—ranging from a delicate old rose tint on the top of the carapace and legs to a pale brownish shade on the underside. The two front legs have the usual crab claws, which are big enough to crush a man, but the others end in narrow brown hoofs without toes. The eyes on the branches are enormously large and the feelers are as big as garden hose. The crab was taken off the Japanese coast and formed a part of a collection made by Prof. Bashford Dean of Columbia college last year and it was presented to the Brooklyn museum by Eugene G. Blackford. It took more than a month to mount it. It is supposed that the giant crabs grow to twelve feet in diameter, says the Detroit News-Tribune, but the one in Brooklyn is the biggest ever captured. Not many of them are captured—not more than ten or twelve a year—although the Japanese are fishing over the grounds where they are found all the time. The Japanese fishermen set lines several miles in length, with many hundreds of hooks, which are sunk to the floor of the ocean and left over night. When the lines are hauled in next morning all manner of extraordinary things are found attached, from giant crabs to sea lines. BUFFALO HAD TO CLIMB. Logic of Situation Wouldn't Permit Any Other Movement. A near relation of the late Baron Munchausen on the maternal side, lineally descended from Ananias and Sapphira, was telling a party of friends about treeing a ball buffalo in one of the trees of California. "That story lacks likelihood," remarked the man who knows everything, like so many other men; "the buffalo belongs to the ruminant family, has four or five stomachs and walks on hoofs. It has no claws at all and could no more climb a tree than a Jersey cow." "As a general proposition you are right," said the wory teller, with perfectly unruffled mien. "But this case was quite exceptional. We were after the buffalo with four of the most vicious dogs that I ever knew. One was a boar hound, one a great dane, one a pauvie, or wolf hound, and the other a registered bulldog, with jaws like wrought iron. Well, they brought the buffalo to bay at the foot of a big tree and pressed him so blamed hard that he just had to climb. That was his only salvation." Not That Time. Senator Hoar, at the New England Society dinner that was recently held in Philadelphia, told the following story of his friend, Rev. Joseph Erskine of Edinburgh. "The good Mr. Erskine at one time in his life lost hankerchief after handkerchief. He found, on investigation, that it was on Sundays these losses occurred, and accordingly one Sabbath morning Mrs. Erskine sewed his handkerchief in the tail pocket of his coat. "Noo," said she, "noo lat us see what will happen." "Mr. Erskine, with the sewed-in handkerchief, passed down the aisle of the church that morning as usual to ascend to the pulpit, but as he sailed by the amen corner he felt a gentle tuge behind, a delicate nibble among his coat tails. Thereupon he turned on the disappointed old woman in the corner and said with a triumphant smile: "No' the day, honest woman; no' the day." Champ Clark Taken for a Minister. Champ Clark of Missouri was mistaken the other day for a Methodist exhorter. Congressman Clark had just completed a period in an impassioned speech against a claim bill, which he regarded as iniquitous. In appealing to his colleagues to make a record for economy, he said: "Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation." Soon afterward the house adjourned and a thin, little man, hard of hearing, said to him: "Brother Clark, I came into the gallery just as you extended your invitation to those godless colleagues of yours to lift their feet out of the miry clay. I knew you was a minister the minute I set eyes on you." Mr. Clark said something about his duty, and it cost him $3.55 among his friends when the story got out.—New York Tribune. His Style of Pills A Southern colored preacher of nimble mind and ready tongue, was in the habit of boasting that he could preach on any subject, and still keep the discourse in religious channels. One Sunday night he said to his congregation: "Now let any of the brethren name a thing to talk about. Anything." "Talk about pills!" shouted a keen old man who sat in the front row, and was desirous of tripping the preacher. "Pills!" A good subject! As you know, brethren, there are many kinds of pills. There are sugar-coated pills, to cure 'most anything. There are bromide pills to make you sleep. There are quinine pills' for colds. But the pills I shall now consider are the gos-pills." The easiest way to flatter some people is to tell them they are flattery proof. DOAN'S DEAL GENTLY Its the gentle and effective action of Doan's Kidney Pills in Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary troubles that make them famous with Men, Women, and Children. Mt. PLEASANT, Ohio — I received the sample of Doan's Kidney Pills, and never had any medicine do me so much good in so little time. I had Congestion of the Kidneys and Bladder so severe it caused a pressure on the lungs like Asthma, but through the use of Doan's Pills I am free and easy now. Geo. W. SMITH, Veterinary Surgeon, P. O. Box 41, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Acing backs are eased. Hip, back, and loin pains overcome. Swelling of the limbs and dropsy 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. Aged people find Doan's Kidney Pills a great comfort for declining years. They cure incontinence and urinary weakness peculiar to children. BAXTER SPRINGS, KANSAS — I received the free sample of Doan's Kidney Pills. For five years I have had much pain in my back, which physicians said arose from the kidneys. Four boxes of Doan's Pills have entirely cured the trouble. I think I owe my life to these pills, and I want others to know it. SADIE DAVIS, Baxter Springs, Kansas. When an opportunity meets the right man the world begins to talk about luck. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure the. Impulsive eloquence is the kind that flows from the cannon's mouth. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs — W. O. EMBLEY, Van Buren, Inc., Feb. 10, 1900. Many a coolness has arisen from a heated argument. Ask Your Denier For Ailen's Foot-Ease. A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample moulded FUEG. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leloky, N. Y. Few women can pass a mirror without pausing to reflect. 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. Concentrated Wisdom. The marriage of a young man while a student in college is an unusual event. It may be added that it is also an imprudent, because premature step. It is of no use, however, to tell the boy so—first, because it will do no good, and second, because he will find it out in due time without being told.—Portland (Ore.) Oregonian. CHEAP EXCURSIONS EAST During the coming summer months many conventions and meetings will be held in the Eastern territory, for which very low rates of fare will be made, with long limit of tickets, affording the general public an opportunity to visit Eastern cities and pleasure resorts. Among the most prominent meetings are: German Baptists, Bellefontaine, Ohio, in May. Ancient Nobles, Mystic Shrine, Saratoga, N. Y., in June. Woodmen of America, Indianapolis, Ind., in June. National Educational Association, Boston, Mass., in July. Epworth League, Detroit, Mich., in July. B. P. O. E., Baltimore, in August. Fraternal Order of Eagles, New York City, in September. The Wabash Line, with its own rails from Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago to Buffalo, via Detroit and Niagara Falls, offers unequaled facilities. Write for rates to L. S. McCilean, W. P. A., 903 Main street, Kansas City, Mo. Mounted Women Nurses India has a staff of mounted army nurses. The Indian government allows these ladies of the Indian Nursing Service thirty rupees a month for the keep of their horses and free conveyance of their animals to and from active service. This corps of nurses are all ladies of good social position, and have to undergo three years' training in a general hospital before qualifying. Did He Gamble? This is one that is said to be new. A countryman went down to the city and returned full of tales of the time he had had. He was relating them in the village store and one of the admiring crowd inquired if he had gambled. "Gambled!" he shouted, "gambled! Why, my friend, I played the goldinged slot machine till no more gum would come. Did I gamble? Well, say!" Dr. Glenn New Peabody Agent Dr. G. A. Glenn, formerly commissioner of education in Georgia, will succeed the late Dr Carry as agent of the Peabody educational fund. Cremation Spreading in Germany. During the past year 861 persons were cremated in Germany—an excess of 200 over the previous year. Gold in Central America. The largest gold mine in Central America, the Rosario, produced $1,000,000 last year. Acning backs are eased. Hip, back, and loin pains overcome. Swelling of the limbs and droopy signs vanish. They correct urine with brick dust sect- ment, high colored, excessive, pain in pass- ing, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills dissolve and remove calculi and gravel. Relieve heart palpitation, sleeplessness, headache, nervousness. FREE — GOOD FOR OLD AND YOUNG. Doan's Kidney Pills. A SPECIAL TAX FOREST MILLIARN CO. Buffalo, N.Y. Please send me by mail, without charge, trial box Doan's Kidney Pills. Name Post office State (Out cut coupon on dotted lines and mail to Forest Milliarn CO. Buffalo, N.Y.) Medical Advice Free - Strictly Confidential. No, Maud, dear; we should scarcely call an organ grinder an all-round musician. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. It alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. More people brag about what they are going to do than about what they have done. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. Probably the most unsatisfactory thing on earth is compulsory love. 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 Choctaw Nations in the Indian Territory Louisiana, 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. "Ethergram" Suggested. The attempts to coin a name that will fit the discovery of Signor Marconi increase every day. Up to the present time "Marconigram" has been the favorite term, but recently an English scientist evolved the word "Ethergram," and this has been received with acclaim. It is said that Marconi himself likes it, and recognizes that it is peculiarly applicable to his epoch-making discovery, which is simply and plainly a message written by ether. Full of Detail. An American woman in Japan bought a can of mushrooms and found the directions translated into English as follows: "Directions—If several person will be to eat this in that manner they shall feel satisfied nutrition and very sweet or it can put in the hot water for the half hour and then take off the lid. They shall be proper to eat. It can be supply without putridity for several years." The Tulip Mania. During the tulip mania in Holland, in 1636 and 1637, a single bulb of a tulip named the Viceroy was sold for four tons of wheat, eight tons of rye, four fat oxen, eight pigs, twelve sheep, two hogsheads of wine, four barrels of beer, two barrels of butter, a thousand pounds of cheese, a bundle of clothes and a silver pitcher. FOOLED THE HOSPITAL. Was Pronounced Incurable, but Got Well on Pure Food. Sometimes in a case of disease resulting from the use of improper food the symptoms are so complex that medical science cannot find the seat of trouble, and even the most careful hospital treatment fails to benefit. A gentleman of Lee, Mass., says: "On April 1st, 1900, I was sent home by one of our Massachusetts hospitals, saying nothing more could be done for me. I have been a great sufferer from nervous diseases and rheumatism and nervous prostration and had previously been treated at Sharon Springs and by a number of doctors without getting much assistance. "One day I was feeling worse than usual when I read an article about your Grape-Nuts that impressed me so that I sent out for a package. I commenced using it at breakfast the next day." "For fifteen months I never missed one day. If you ever saw any one grow strong and improve it was I. I gained from 125 pounds to my old weight of 165. I will always be a cripple from rheumatism, but otherwise I am so much improved that I now feel as well as any man in the country." Name furnished by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There is a recipe book in each package of GrapeNuts that will interest the housekeeper. THE RISING SON. HARRY R. GRAHAM, Editor. FRED A. TURNER, Associate Eldertor. LEWIS WOODS.....Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE- No. 117 West Sixth St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . . . $ 5.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . 3.00 For two inches, three month . . . 15.00 For two inches, six month . . . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . . . 10.00 For two inches, twelve months . . . 15.00 OLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. NEGROES THANK IRELAND. Call Upon the Archbishop to Express Their Gratitude. Washington, March 22.—A delegation of members of the negro press of the country and of the Negro Pen and Pencil Club called on Archbishop Ireland to daydry and expressed to him their gratitude and appreciation of his stand in behalf of the negro. Remarks expressive of the gratitude of the race were made by Henry P. Slaughter, president of the Pen and Pencil club; L. M. Hershaw, Hon. John P. Green and Judson Lyons, Bishop Ireland, in responding, said that to him the stars and stripes had no meaning whatsoever unless they mean the brotherhood of man. The idea of a distinction being made in civil and political matters because of race or language or color, he declared, is unAemriclan. "A man," he said, "is a man, and that is all that the American constitution requires or that it should require if it is truly a constitution expressive of liberty." He urged his callers to have patience, and said that, with it, the march of civilization and of Christianity would result in full recognition of their civil and political rights. He expressed the opinion that there was not in the history of the world an example of similar progress made by any people of any color and of any race equal to that made by the colored people in the forty years since President Lincoln declared them free and independent. He predicted that what had been accomplished in the last forty years would be quadrupled in the next forty years. REV. T. B. HILLARD OF GEORGIA SPEAKS "The Negro must be hindered by no obstacle, no matter how oppressed, no matter how deep the race prejudice may be; he must ever look upward and forward, and never loose hope. Let hope, like an eternal spring ever dwell in his breast." He said: "Fix your self in the soil, stay on the farm, buy land. Every advantage hangs on the possession of the solid qualities of life. Don't wait for others to help you, help yourself. Build school houses, unite yourselves in good race enterprises. Support every good undertaking, and the results will take care of themselves, as an old farmer once said in the conference: 'take advantage of your disadvantage.'" THE SUFFRAGE CONVENTION A national convention of Negroes as advocated by the "Negro Advocate" of Virginia meets our approval. We are for a united effort on the part of Negroes for an even brake as positive American citizens. He who would be free should and must take action. Let us have the convention by all means, but how about Cleveland or Indianapolis. We believe in a compact organization for the purpose of educating the average colored voter along higher ideals in politics for the purpose of eliminating thakir and mercenary Negro from party politics and keeping the boodler from mixing with the thoughtless Negro. It is our purpose to educate the Negro politically to believe that it is more to them to have proper and manly legislation, than the mere idea of electing some man to office for the salary attached. To have the laws administered to all citizens alike, without regard to color or kind, to nominate and elect such men as are above boodling and peddling patronage, but who love their country and who hold the constitution as being sacred in every particular and will interpret the law according to fact, regarding every defender of the flag an American citizen, regardless of color A DESIRE. If I had words at my command But without hope alone I stand. When lofty thought within me burn, And blissful visions I discern. If I had might to wield my pen To give this knowledge unto men, How happy would each moment be, Could I but win this victory. I'd sing the day through with the birds, If I had words. A. E. M. WANTED—SEVERAL PERSONS of character an good reputation in each state (one in this county required) to represent and advertise an old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21,000 weekly and expenses additional, all payable in cash each Wednesday direct from head office. Horse and carriage furnished when necessary. References. Enclose self-addressed envelope. Colonial Co., 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. Washington, March 9, 1903. Mr. W. H. Williams, 814 E. 8th St. Kansas City, Mo. My Dear Sir; Your letter referring to the bill to provide pensions for ex-slaves has been received by Senator Hanna He directs me to thank you for your favor, and to say that the bill was introduced by request, and he is advised that the Pensions Committee of the Senate is not favorable to its passage. Yours truly. ELMER DOVER. Private Secretary. Where oh, where is the political prophet who was so positive as to deputies, clerkships and justice? Kansas City, Mo. March 3, 1903. Office of the Postmaster, Publishers Rising Son In response to your inquiry, I beg to say your publication is duly entered as second class matter at this office and regularly mailed. The Rising Son is the only paper published by Colored people in Kansas City, Mo., that is entered at the post office as second class mail. The man who thinks twice before he speaks often keeps his mouth shut. The man who has learned to do something better than any one else, who has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse surroundings can take from him. It is better to show a man how to make a place for himself than to put him in one that some one else has made for him. The Rising Son is devoted to the best interests of our rase, a fearless advocate of right and fair play. There are those in high places who read and receive this paper and its benefits who think that printers' ink and labor are produced by wind and talk. Now, to all such we ask you again to pay us what you owe. Some of you have gained your notoriety through this paper. Come and see us with the money. A war has been declared upon these immoral leeches who are in the pulpit. immoral leeches who are in the pulpit. Where there is a faint suspicion of immorality or vice emanating from men in high places it would be well to investigate and lay the blame where it properly belongs for the good of the whole. There is no reason why the Pilgrim Baptist church should not have a clean pulpit. The Roosevelt Club and the new line up among the boys is progressing nicely. If you are in a glass house be careful how you throw stones. Hogg Would Be Senator Former Gov. James S. Hogg of Texas, who has made millions in oil now desires to succeed Joseph W. Bailey in the United States senate. Though the contest is four years off, Hogg is trimming his sails for it by getting on intimate terms with the members of the present legislature. Death of Aged Indian Prince. The Pioneer of India reports the death at Moulmein, in his ninety-fifth year, of Mirza Nazim Shah, who was taken to Moulmein after the mutiny, and has since been detained there. He was a brother of Bahador Shah, the last king of Delhi. A Towering Legislator The Arkansas legislature has one member who is six feet eight inches in height, but when the question is put to him he says he is five feet twenty inches tall. He is a school teacher.-J. S. Rowland of Valley Springs. Born in Lincoln Log Cabin. Mrs. Nellie M. Moore of East Pepperell. Mass., a cousin of Abraham Lincoln, is preparing a family geneology. Her father was born in the same log cabin in which the martyred president first saw the light. Oldest Revolutionary Daughter. The oldest of the few remaining original Daughters of the Revolution is Mrs. Mary F. Cobb of Russlaville, Ind. Her father was a private in Washington's army, and her grandfather was a captain. --- Bigh no more, ladies, sigh no more— Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore. And be bibble and bonny, telling all your sounds of woe into her heart. But let them go, And be you bilthe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into her nonny, nonny! THE WORK OF THE PUPPY THE WORK OF THE PUPPY 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 "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 almessly 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 tadpole, 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 uceremoniously. "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. Pres- DOG FANC And That Was Where He Saw the Puppy. ton remembered that Miss Clara Harcourt had once said that she loved dogs; this should be a propitiiatory 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 next half hour, because the puppy kicked. More than that, he wriggled 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 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 b'lieve 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 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 basking in the smiles of Miss Clara Harcourt. "Keep still, you little beast!" he ex- T "I Wanted to—to Give Him to Someone I'm Very Fond Of." claimed, petulantly, as he shook the basket. "I wonder if you'll be quiet 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 wriggled and wriggled, 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 afresh, 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—cs," he stammered. "He 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 colled up against Lucy'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 beggar," 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 someone I'm very tond 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 Preston 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. WIT AND WISDOM. Many are driven with a blind bridle to a blind bridal. Those whom we love make life's sunshine or shadows. Experience hardens soft characters and softens hard characters. Sunshine paints fruits and flowers, as happiness glorifies a face. A genius should be kept in a glass case as a model for inventors. The world about us is often but the mirror of our own thoughts and wishes. Many people take a melancholy deligat in viewing all life through green goggles. A Roman collar and a clerical cut is not always the trademark of a Christian. Never bother about what other people say or do, but be careful that you do not do worse. To win a woman's love is often a hot Scotch for a man. The reaction a fizz thoroughly frappe. A woman need not be at all clever to win a man's love, but she must be mighty clever to keep it. Flattery is the cubterfuge of those who want to curry favor and do not know exactly how to go about it. Never waste your time on people who do not believe in you. Your very honesty will assume the garb of knavery. The best friend that a conceited girl can have is a big brother. He will cure her by the ministration of electric shocks. People who make their mark in this world are not affected by the criticisms of failures.—Kate Thyson Marr. BITS OF PHILOSOPHY. Self-denial does not bring remorse with it. The scandal business is usually conducted by retail. Innocent flirtations are probably on a par with white lies. The home is no place for the storage of neighborhood gossip. Even the deserving do not always get what they are entitled to. A present suitor hath ever the trump to play against the absent lover. The man who borrows trouble pays it back in liberal installments to his friends. Whenever we lift another man's burden we gain more strength to carry our own. Love, like genius, is not an integral part of character; it is a gift, an inspiration, direct from heaven. As a rule of life, one finds that the truth lies somewhere between first impressions and final decisions. A man who talks constantly has a thousand ways at hand in which to make a fool of himself. A silent man has but one. We do not grow away from our beginnings, nor from any of our successive stages of growth; we simply keep adding, inch by inch, to our mental and spiritual as well as to our physical stature, but we never grow away from any part of it—we can only "add on." PIN ON YOUR MIRROR. A wise judge has delivered himself of some rare epigrams on the subject of women. The case that called them forth was an exceedingly small one, but the words of wisdom were worthy of an international feminine dispute. Here they are: "Women would make the world better if they would stop gossip." "It is better for a woman to stay in the house rather than in her back yard." "Rear fences breed more unhappiness than drink." "A woman who gossips should be fined. I'll fine the next one I find talking about her neighbor." "Many a good dinner is ruined by gossip—the dinner burns." "Some women would rather hang over a back fence and gossip than do their duty by their children." "If women would stop gossiping we would have less need for prisons." PENCIL POINTS. Regard for petty things often will! dwarf a man's ambition. You may try to do many a day's worry, but you can only do one day's work at a time. True education looks to the strength-ening of the hull of the ship rather than to the gilding of the figure-head. When we get so selfish that we want the earth, we are not likely to give much thought to the world to come. "Everything Pertaining to Music." Many Points Of excellence recommend The Emerson Piano to music lovers, but one of its strongest features is its great durability. The Emerson is built to last. We guarantee it. A reasonable price and easy terms, buys it. For sale by arl Hoffman MUSIC COMPANY FOLSOM MALNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MN C. ELLIOTT & BRO., DEALERS IN Staple & Fancy Groceries. Fresh and Cured Meats. 30th & S. W. B'i'ved. Kansas City, Mo. Langston's Shaving Parlor. D. W. LANGSTON. Proprietor. N. R. Shaw and Ben McCormick Artists. BATHS 25c. FINE CIGARS. Porcelain Bath Tubs. Rooms Steam Heated. Agency for Steam Laundry. 718 E 8th St., Kansas City, Mo. Your Patronage Solicited. The CURVE SALOON M. COHN, Proprietor, Importer of and Dealer in N. E., Cor., Independence and Grand. Family bottle trade promptly attended to. Fancy & Staple Groceries ...AND... Table Luxuries Vegetables in Season. Fresh & Salt Meats. Teas & Coffees. G. JONES, E 17th St., Kansas City, Mo. GO TO COLORADO! Burlington Route $15.00 Round Trip to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. on certain dates. Two Fast Trains Leave Daily at 10:40 a. m., and 9:35 p. m. Ticket Office, 823 Main St. & Union Depot. FRISCO SYSTEM Superior Service, Wide Vestibuled, Electric Lighted Trains between Kansas City, and Oklahoma City, Denison, Sherman, Dallas and Fr. Worth, Texas, and all points in the South-East and South-West. Junction Ticket Office. --- THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— it's the little bits we collect here an there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. How do you like the Rising Son? Watch our Easter edition. Mrs. Watts has been on the sick list. Ask your neighbor to read the Rising Son. How about your subscription? Have you paid? Mr. and Mrs. Preston Alexander are on the sick list. Watch the Son closely, you may miss something. Mrs. F. Sands, of 1216 Baltimore, has a nice front room to rent to gentleman. Willis Hinton has charge of the Walnut street cafe of the Midland. The Twentieth Century club danced last Wednesday night. Hand your locals to Wm. Fairfax, our society reporter. Mrs. Eliza Williams, of 814 E. 8th, met with a painful accident this week. Mr. W. H. Williams is in Topeka contracting. Mrs. W. B. Smith is at the bedside of her husband who is very sick. See the Jackson Boys for extra copies of the Son. Mrs. Mildred Taylor is able to be out again. Go to Langston's for baths and good barbers. Viola Chapman will have extra copies of the Rising Son for sale. C. H. Lewis and wife are at home to their friends at 1935 Flora Ave. Mr. Thomas Powel, of Milwaukee, Wis., is visiting his sister, 1017½ Charlotte street, who is very sick. James Marshall of No. 11 fire company has moved his family to 1311 Independence. Mrs. Lewis, of Chillicothe, Mo., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mahala Marshall. All grand officers of the S. & D. of J. are requested to meet at Gorden's Hall this Saturday at 2. p. m. Furnished front room with bath and gas, to rent to a gentleman. Apply 1411 Brooklyn avenue. Prof. H. R. Graham, of Quindaro, was in our city for a few hours yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Fogy, of 814 E. 8th, have left for St. Louis, to make that village their future home. Rev. Henderson, of Kansas City, Karn, preached at the Pleasant Green Baptist church last Sunday. RISING Son—Gal 1—Mar 26 Bob Mrs. A. J. Starnes' dancing class has been quietly postponed until after Lenton season. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Starnes entertained the Chess Club last Wednesday evening. Call on Smith for pure drugs and toilet articles. Ice cream soda and soda, all flavors. Mrs. Chapman entertains the Ladies' Art class next Wednesday afternoon at 615 East 6th St. Mrs. Felix Shaffer has been confined to her room for the past two weeks with the typhoid fever. Prof. and Mrs. J. Silas Harris' concert at Westport' last Tuesday night was a grand success. Mrs. Hattie Clay Burnette, who has been sick for two months, is able to be out again. Boys, count the places you can point to with pride held by our people in the City Hall or County, either. Smith, the druggist, is very busy yet. He would like to see you at his drug store. He keeps a fine line of toilet articles and the choicest brands of cigars. Mr. Wade B. Smith, who has been ill the past two weeks, is some better and will soon go to Excelsior Springs for his health. Go to T. Lee Adams for flower and grass seeds, lawn mowers and garden tools. 417 Walnut. Rev. E. M. Wilson will celebrate his 3rd anniversary as pastor of Pleasant Green Baptist church April 19th. A rooming house, consisting of 14 rooms completely furnished, with bath and gas, for sale. Inquire at house, 560 Oak street. A grand mass meeting of the S. and D. of J. is called for the 2nd Friday night in April. All grand officers and members are expected to be present. Mrs. B. F. Sayers, of Vinita, Ind. Ter., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sayers, of 559 Campbell. She makes a very flattering report of Vinita and the adjacent country. J. R. Gordon, S. P. G. G. K. of the S. & D. of J., will visit Sedan and other points in Kansas on an inspection tour. Jas. Runnels will have a full supply of Ozona Toilet articles. See him for these valuable preparations. Why so much caucussing among some of our church leaders, are the preachers right. The Roosevelt club is an assured. fact. J. W. Baldwin, Pres.; Dr. T. C. Unthank, Sec.; Lewis Woods, Chairman Executive Committee. Mrs. Mollie McDonald, sister of T. H. Elliott of No. 11 fire company, is very sick at the home of her Brother George, on the Southwest boulevard. One of the May attractions will be "The National Flower," an operetta in three acts, to be given under the auspices of St. Pancreas Guild, in the month of May. Mrs. Lou White entertained the Ladies' Trustees and club of the Second Baptist church at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Wm. Fairfax, last Friday night. Our people are anxious for the Son. We hope to merit the confidence and consideration of the people because we expect them to pay for it. The Rising Son is $1.50 per year. Mrs. Nannie Roberts, of 1834 Woodland, who has been suffering with La Gripe, is now better. She is the efficient 1st Lieut. of Gorden's princesses of Jerusalem. The beautiful linen shirt waist hand embroidered, offered by the Guild of St. Augustine church will be on display at Smith's drug store, 914 East Twelfth street. Miss Nannie McCune and Mr. Morrow were married last Thursday. The wedding was a quiet one. The newly married couple went at once to housekeeping at 11th and Campbell st. The Son wishes them many years of happiness. Col. T. B. J. Robinson, S. G. M., will conduct the iniation of all candidates of the S. & D. of J. to-morrow night. The S. P. G. K. and all the grand officers are expected to be present. Frank Williams, S. G. L., will assist. W. E. Garrett, 107 Keith and Perry building, has a special bargain for any one wanting to buy ground near the Bruce school on easy payments of $5.00 per month. $1½ blocks from 15th street cable The Midland Hotel has put in a head bell man who is in every way competent. He has charge of 20 young men who are as intelligent and bright a set of colored youth as can be found aywhere. Our boys are doing nicely. The Princess of Jerusalem entered a contest after a-banter against two unknown companys at the Vendome last Saturday. Of course Gorden's P. of J. won the prize. Miss Capt. Nannie Reed and Col. Robinson will see to it that the princesses rejoice with the prize of $5. The Rising Son will get out a double edition April 11th. Our Easter edition will be devoted to a review of the progressive negroes of Kansas City, who have helped to build our schools and churches and those who have encouraged business ideas among these people. We shall review the history of those who have helped to make Kansas City a good place for the progressive negro to live in. Rev. Hurst, who has caused so much trouble in the Pilgrim Baptist church, has at last decided to leave the church. This lecherous preacher has decided to try to establish another church somewhere. The Pilgrim Baptist church will build on their lot on Charlotte, near 6th, and until they can occupy their own property, they will worship at 1119 Independence ave. The Evangelist Caldwell is now serving them. The impression that Dr. J. E. Dibble was responsible for the article appearing in the Journal is incorrect. The writer of the article was Dr. Lee Roy Dibble, a white man, with offices in the New Ridge Building. Mrs. Lucinda Crowley, an old citizen, died last Tuesday of infirmities due to old age. She leaves 11 grand-children and 7 great grand-children. She was the aunt of T. H. Elliott, captain of No. 11 fire company, the mother of Mr. Whibby, the furniture man, and your reporter has often heard them tell of the wonderful vitality, endurance and patience of Aunt Zinda until we learned to call her aunt. The funeral was conducted last Thursday from Asbury chapel by the Rev. Elder Denny, of Odessa, Mo., and Rev. A. L. Darden of our city. Kansas City, Mo., March 25, 1903. The Oriental Art club was entertained March 20th at the home of Mrs. Mary Tipton, 2806 Gennessee street. All reported a pleasant time. MRS. DIXIE BRYANT, President. MRS. FRANCIS JOHNSON, Secretary. MRS. R. M. _____ Instructress. RELICS OF DARKER TIMES Ignorance in Many Forms Still Work Mischief. All England has been indignant at the crime and at the insufficient punishment of a mother who punished her daughter brutally for a "bad habit." Almost every one can remember such an illustration of punishing children for being ill which occurred in his neighborhood or family during his childhood. The fact arouses the thought that the old-time punishments of the insane, of the aged, etc., are by no means past. To every oculist's office are frequently brought the pitiful victims of stupid school teachers who are still often punishing children for the astigmatism, myopia or hyperopia which has prevented them from seeing figures on the blackboard or from studying diligently, or from being as bright-minded as the teacher wishes. We know of one railway superintendent who punishes his men who are growing presbyople by discharging them if they wear glasses. One wonders if the detestable superstition of the evil eye, and the horrible punishment inflicted on its supposed possessor, has not arisen because of strabismus.—American Medicine. IN NO HURRY TO WORK. Young Man Had Faith in the Ability of His Father. Judge Morgan J. O'Brien of New York was recently chatting with a Harvard student, a son of a prominent business man and a close friend of the judge, about his career at college. The youth complained that, owing to his "paltry allowance of but $3,000 a year," he was getting heavily in debt. The judge condoled with him and then remarked: "I suppose after you are graduated you intend to enter into business?" "Well, no judge," replied the youngster; "not as long as father has his health." A. Peculiar Philanthropist "Tip" in the New York Press tells of a peculiar philanthropist who has been doing his good work regularly for years. He goes from undertaker to undertaker about once a month and asks for the unpaid funeral bills. If he can buy for fifty cents on the dollar he does so; if for seventy-five he does so; if for ninety he does so. If he is asked to pay in full he does so. The undertaker is required to send a receipt in full to the debtors, but without mentioning the name of the one who paid the bill. The philanthropist understands well the hard strain it is for the poor to bury their dead decently, and knows the rapacity of the undertaker. New Order of Veterans. Half a dozen old soldiers were exchanging reminiscences the other day in Ottawa, Kan., and were telling each other just how the civil war should have been fought. "Curley" Harrison, a local joker, happened along and listened a while. Finally he became a trifle weary and said: "I am going to found a new association of old soldiers, to be composed exclusively of those who admit that they did not put down the rebellion and who further admit that they got scared and ran repeatedly. There are only thirty of us in the state so far as I know. I expect to hold high office in the order, for I outran every other man at Chickamauga." Last Phase of Sensation. Ernest Schilling, the coachman who created a sensation years ago by eloping with the daughter of Millionaire Morosini, has returned to his old vacation and is now coachman for a doctor in Astoria, N. Y. After their elopement the young couple went to live in a poor quarter of New York city, the husband becoming a car conductor. Seven months of this kind of life was enough for Mrs. Schilling, who quietly disappeared one day. Her husband has never seen her since. After a lengthy period of living in retirement the wife returned to her father's home. Oxygen a Heart Stimulant A strip of turtle's heart which had ceased to contract was put by Prof. Lingle in a jar containing oxygen and its beating was sustained for three days. IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD. The amount invested in the Siberian railway is $401,700,000. In the United States 40,000 locomotives haul 1,500,000 cars. The first electrical railway was that of Siemens of Berlin in 1879. The oat crop and sugar crop have each increased six-fold in fifty years. The annual loss of fruit from insects is put by the United States entomologist at $300,000,000. It is a popular saying in Brazil that every ton of rubber from the upper Amazon costs two lives. The average yield of wheat in the United States is fifteen bushels to the acre; in England forty bushels. The number of passengers carried by boats on the great lakes is from a quarter to a third of a million each season. The 10 cents a pound tax on color in oleomargarine has reduced its manufacture from 30,000,000 in the quarter preceding the act taxing it to 13,000,000 in the subsequent year. The only considerable fields of anthracite coal, aside from those of Pennsylvania, are those of China, which, however, are vast in comparison with those of Pennsylvania. The snuff users of the United States have increased in number about 6 per cent a year for several years, taking the annual consumption as the basis of calculation. The aggregate weight of pinches of snuff taken last year was 18,000,000 pounds. The French sardine crop for the year is a failure. One of the causes assigned is at variance with the experience of the ordinary fisherman; it is that the fish are too large. The sardine comes principally from the Atlantic coast of France—not from Sardinia. SOME FLOWER LORE "Forget-Me-Not" is Myosotis. "Youth and Old Age" is represented by Zinnias. "Arum Lily" goes under the alias of "Jack-in-the-Pulpit." "Old Maid's Eyes" botanically translated means "Coreopsis. "Elephant Ears" is the familiar appellation for Caladiums. If you say "thank you" for seeds or flowers they will not grow. "Bachelor Buttons" is another way for calling Globe Amaranth. "Black Eyed Susans" are the common dark centered yellow daisies. The formation of the Antirrhinum is responsible for its being nicknamed "Snap Dragon." Celesia is usually designated "Cock's Comb" because of its resemblance to a rooster's crown of glory—his comb. "Love Lies Bleeding" is in botany called Caudatus and takes the former name from the drooping sprays of red flowers adorning it. "Balloon Vine" is generally called "Love-in-a-puff" on account of the fact that each little balloon contains three black pea-shaped seeds, each marked with a white eye in form of a heart. OUR OWN PHILOSOPHER Now the ice man is up against a game of freeze-out. In the race of life it isn't the fast man who comes out ahead. Money talks—but during the holidays it is apt to go without saying. If the truth is mighty and will prevail it should show more signs of becoming prevalent. Trouble, like cayenne pepper, is not very agreeable in itself, but it gives zest to other things. Counterfelters are not very particular about their work. They are satisfied if it is passable. It depends on what you do after you are out of bed whether early rising is beneficial or not. The world would be better off if some people never got up. FEASTING WISDOM Lord, let mine enemy stuff himself. A sharp carving knife turneth away wrath. A feather in the cap is worth two in the gravy. Blessed is he that saveth the mince pie until the day after. He that controleth his appetite is mightier than he that formeth a trust. A temper under control aided mightily in keeping the turkey likewise. A slice of white meat to the poor is better than the long end of the wishbone. ```markdown ``` Clothing Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired in Good Order PRICES REASONABLE. AARON TOLBERT, 112 E. 6th Street. MERCHANT TAILOR..... Style, fit and finish Up-to-date. If you want a Suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay cheap rent. Come and see us. 8252 S. W. Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. Take the Label Out Of the best $3.50 hat you can find in Kansas City, you cant tell it from Our $2.50 Ones. If you can't who can? A dollar is a high price to a two-cent label. Nebraska Clothing CLOTHES FOR MEN AND WOMEN The JOHN KELLEY S AT OVIATT'S. a high price to pay for Clothing Co S FOR MEN AND WOMEN KELLEY SHOE OVIATT'S. A dollar is a high price to pay for a two-cent label. 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This is a Colored Man. Eyes Tested Free. Solid Gold and Gold filled Eye Glasses and Spectacles for sale on Easy Payments. NEGRO ENTERPRISE. Smoke a Paul Laurence Dunbar PRICE 5 CENTS. This cigar is made exclusively of high grade imported ler Tobacco, with a Sumatra wrapper, and a better cigar bought, even at a cost of twenty-five cents each. COLORED-AMERICAN CIGAR Main office Chicago, Ill. Anthony Overton, Manager W Station "A" Kansas C ince Dunbar Cigar. CE 8 CENTS, usively of high grade imported Havana Fil- ra wrapper, and a better cigar cannot be twenty-five cents each. MERICAN CIGAR CO., Anthony Overton, Manager Western Division, Station "A" Kansas City, Mo. 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. The big store of Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Co. is sometimes termed the Western Emporium of Merchandise. The management of the company is regarded as being the best obtainable. C. A. Evans' Barber Shop For first class work. The ELITE J. W. Voorhees, Prop. Meals at all hours 15 cents up ..... Ice cream and fruits in season..... Give me a call. 552 STATE AVE. KANSAS CITY, KANS C. C. 13K John W. Holliday Roman 11 BLUE GRASS LANDRETH'S Garden CLOVER, TIMOTHY O O T. LEE ADAMS 412 Walnut Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. Garden Tools, Poultry Supplies. The Tavern is bright and warm and gay. And the travelers laugh as they sit at play; Priest and courtesan, lady and lord; Crowd together the gaming board; Jester and judge see the red wine brim— Outside the roads are far and dim! The Tavern talk is loud and high, Honors and jealousies, minstrelsy, Politics, pleasure, and loud above. The dominant note is a cry for love; Yet each to his neighbor a mystery still— Dark is the night across the sill! Each comes alone to the Tavern old. Some in tatters and some in gold; Each goes hence on his lonely way, 'Roff of his rags' or his doublet gay; Each steps alone on the wide threshold— Outside the night is black and cold! Life greets the guests at the Tavern door; Death speeds them, forth to return no more; With the stirrup cup that all must drain, The last dark brew of tears and pain, Death touches his lips to the bitter rim— Outside the roads are far and dim! ```markdown ``` Dclores' Secret Sorrow If there was one thing more incongruous about Dolores Drummond than her name it was the generally accepted feeling among her friends that her life was blighted by a secret sorrow. Her name was certainly a misnomer. It was always a mystery to the uninitiated that Mrs. Drummond, wholesome, handsome, sensible and cheerful, should have chosen Dolores as a fit name to be given to her pretty little blonde daughter. But christened with it she was, a tiny, red-faced morsel, with no pronounced characteristics. But in a few months she had developed into the daughter she might have been expected to be. If that mother ever regretted the dolorous name selected for her child, she would have been the last one to say so. And if, again, with her daughter grown to womanhood, she had a slightly superstitious feeling that the name had something to do with the troubles which came to her still she said not a word. Strangers looked a second time at Dolores for pure pleasure. It was not that she was a beauty, but she was so wholesome and healthful, and, to all appearances, so perfectly happy and contented with life that it was restful to see her. And why of all people she should have been chosen as the victim of a secret sorrow it was hard to tell. It came about in this way. As Dolores grew to womanhood lovers came to her as they will to every attractive girl. Not so many as to some, perhaps, for she was what her friends called "a marrying girl." While she was a general favorite there was never a long line of admirers following in her wake, but the few who were devoted to her loved her with a serious purpose. One of these was Jabez Marx, professor of Latin and Greek in the college of the town. There were other younger men who found Dolores fair to gaze upon, and while Marx was more frequently at the house, Dolores was more often with the others. Among these was young Dr. "Dick" Richmond, who lived next door to the Drummonds and whom Dolores had known all her life. Matters were in this state when one day, while Dolores was away from home on a visit, Marx, who was of apoplectic build, died suddenly. Dolores came home for the funeral, wept bitter tears of regret at her treatment of this lost friend, and then and there, it was said, made vows of eternal m陵hood. It was a great surprise to every one. If she had loved Jabez Marx she had concealed it well; but then, who can read the heart of a girl? No one ever advised Dolores when it was known that her mind was made up. Still it was a shame, and young Dr. "Dick" said something of the kind one warm February morning as he jumped the fence and sauntered into the lummonds' yard. The expression of his mouth looked as Wilson Dolores was making pies. If he had something else between his teeth, but if he did no one else heard about it. Dolores was cooking. Mr. and Mrs. Drummond were to celebrate a wedding anniversary, and the relatives THE TAVERN. were coming from far and near to be present, and there would be a houseful. Dr. Dick leaned against the window and Dolores looked out with a smile. Again Dr. Dick's lips came together, and he seemed to be saying something between his teeth, though he made no sound. For nearly ten minutes he stood without a word. Then he spoke, and there was a grim look about his chin which made it look more determined than Dolores' own. "Dolores," he said, "why is it that you never speak of Marx? Don't you think it would be better for you: . "I've been a stubborn goose." don' you think it would relieve your feelings a little?' Dolores gasped. It was not often that she had lost her equilibrium, but the pie she was holding trembled violently, and to save it she set it down heavily upon the table. She turned red and white, then red again. She took the pie in trembling hands and carried it to the oven. "He was a fine fellow." continued the doctor, apparently unnoticing. "I knew him in some ways better than you did. Dolores. I remember him when he first came here when I was a little fellow. Then he taught me all the Latin and Greek I know. He was a good instructor. He would rather read Latin and Greek than eat his dinner. Made you feel something the same way. Why, I could read Horace by the hour with that big fellow sitting in the chair before me "Then that nice little house of his in the professors' colony on the college grounds! We fellows used to go over and see him sometimes. That was before I lost my college leading strings and could look upon a professor as an ordinary man. We used to smoke pipes with him. The whole house was saturated with pipe smoke. You would have made short work of those pipes, Dolores." It looked as if Dolores would make short work of the pies. Her fingers had suddenly become thumbs. She overturned things needlessly, her face was very red, and there were tears in her eyes which might have been tears of grief; they looked more like those of anger. "It must be hard for you to pass the little house, Dolores," continued the doctor, "and think that if things had not been as they were you would be living there now, perfectly happy, with perhaps a little Marx—" "Dick!" Dolores' eyes were blazing now, but the light went out, leaving an expression of hurt and wounded delicacy upon her face. She had grown very white now, and she sat down trembling. "You won't mind telling about him after a little," said the doctor encouragingly, "and it will really be a relief to your feelings, you will find. It would be a comfort to you to talk to some one who knew him well. There is a great deal in the familiar name of any one you love. His was a good old-fashioned name, Jabez—" "Dick!" the word came with almost a shriek. "You know I never did call him by such a name; you know I never would, you know I-I never could—" "Never could, Dolores, never could?" For an unathletic young man Dr. Dick had made quickk work of getting into the window. "Never could, Dolores?" he repeated, and his voice was very deep and tender. "No," said Dolores, slowly, as she looked up with a great light on her face, as if a sudden revelation had come to her "No, Dick, I never could." Dolores put her arms on the table and hid her face in them. Dr. Dick's arms were also occupied. "Dick," said Dolores, after a minute, "I've been a stubborn goose. I felt so sorry and it seemed to me I had treated him so badly that I thought—I thought—" "I know you too well, Dolores," said the doctor, with a face very close to hers, "to believe that you ever really loved that man. And we have lost three whole years." The wedding anniversary celebration was a great success and friends and relatives came from far and near. Dolores looked as pretty as a picture and more unlike her name than ever. Never had she been so gay and lively. There was to be a repetition of the marriage ceremony, it seemed, later in the evening, for suddenly the company was silenced by the strains of the wedding march. In through one door came the minister in his gown, and down the stairs came Mr. and Mrs. Drummond, and following them Dolores and Dr. Dick. "Dolores has on her mother's wedding gown and veil," whispered one of the relatives. "Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?" read the minister from his book, and the astonished guests saw that the father and mother had separated, leaving the young couple in the center, and it was the hand of Dolores which her father was giving to Dr. Dick. "Well, did you ever?" gasped the flighty young cousin. "It takes Dolores Drummond to do things a hurry, whether it is to be old maid all her life or to be married without a wedding card of a wedding present."—M. A. Taft in Philadelphia Ledger. ONE ON MR. BOWEN. Lack of Appropriate Raliment Put Him in Painful Position. A Western senator brought to the capitol yesterday a good story about Minister Bowen, which the minister himself recently told at a dinner. "I was asked some days after I arrived here in Washington," said Mr. Bowen, "why I had stuck so closely to my rooms at the hotel, and had not showed myself around town. "The reply was a rather painful one, but nevertheless fully truthful. It was because I hadn't the clothes." Thereupon Mr. Bowen told how he had been commissioned to hasten north suddenly and without opportunity to provide himself with the heavier wearing apparel necessary for residence in a cold climate. As soon as he reached town he put a local tailor to work upon an outfit. The hardship of the situation was that Mr. Bowen had ordered some riment from London, and this was coming across the Atlantic in a British bottom, which was one of the very first ships to be held up by the blockading fleet of the allies. There was no help for it, and Mr. Bowen's London clothes, such as as are necessary for proper appearance in polite society, are still somewhere in South America. He had reason, therefore, for being personally grateful when the blockade was raised and his clothes had an opportunity to go forward to Caracas—Washington Post. The Boys. Where are they?—the friends of my child- hood enchanted— The clear, laughing eyes looking back in my own. And the warm, chubby fingers my palms have so wanted. As when we raced over Pink pastures of clover. And mocked the quall's whir and the bumble bee's drone? Am I never to see them romp back to their places. Where over the meadow, In sunshine and shadow. The meadow lak's trill and the bumble bees drone? Where are they? Ah! dim in the dust lies the clover; The whippoorwill's call has a sorrowful tone. And the dove's—I have wept at it over and over— I want the glad lustre of youth, and the cluster Of faces asleep where the bumble bees drone. —James Whitecomb Riley. Making a Lawn. The lawn should be the first care in any home-ground, says Country Life in America. All effective planting of shrubs and plants has relation to this foundation. Homelikeness depends also upon it. Grass will grow anywhere, to be sure, but mere grass does not make a lawn. You must have a sod; and this sod must grow better every year. This means good and deep preparation of the land in the beginning, rich soil, fertilizing each year, re-sowing and mending where the sod becomes thin. Usually we water our lawns too much, making the grass shallow-rooted and causing it to fall early. Every inducement should be made for the grass roots to go down. Hi Harix—Hev yew heerd ennothing from yewr son sense he went tew the city? Si Oatbin—Yes; he writ that he wus carryin' purty near everything afore him. Hi Harix—What fer kind uv a job hes he? Si Oatbin—He's workin' in sum eig foundry; a "hash foundry," I think he sed it wus. TERRITORIAL EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES CARIDDA PACIFIC DISCOVERY FRENCH CESSION PROVINCE OF LOUISIANA FIRST MEXICAN CESSION 1800 MEXICO TEXAS ANNEXATION 1805 GULF OF MEXICO ORIGINAL AREA OF THE UNITED STATES 1780 ATLANTIC OCEAN The territorial expansion of the United States since the close of the war for independence has been as marvelous as the industrial growth and the increase in population. To-day the total area of the states, territories and colonial possessions is fully five times what it was when the peace treaty was signed with Great Britain in 1783. The map illustrates only the acquisitions on this continent. The United States, 120 years ago, was comparatively land poor, stretching east and west from the Atlantic ocean to the Mississippi river and from the Canada line south to Florida, but not including Florida. Hundreds of thousands of square miles of the best soil for agriculture in the world, lying PACIFIC BY DISCOVERY FIRST MEXICAN CESSION 1840 MEXICO ASIA ALASKA BANNA BAY PACIFIC OCEAN WOMAN FOILS BOLD FELONS. Mrs. Jesse T. Mills, a Sheriff's Bride, Prevents Two Jail Deliveries. Mrs. Jesse T. Mills, wife of the sheriff of Thurston (Wash.) county, has prevented jail deliveries twice since her marriage a year ago. Last week the prisoners made an attack on the jailer in an attempt to escape. The sheriff was absent and when a "trusty" ran to his home close by to give the warning Mrs. Mills quickly armed herself and ran to the jail, reaching there just in time to drive back a dozen prisoners who were rushing from the door. The jailer had been killed and the murderer had escaped, but Mrs. Mills at the point of her gun drove the remainder of the prisoners back to their cells. Christ Benson, the jailer's murderer, has since been captured, and as a re- MRS. LESSE T. MUS suit of his confession regarding a plot to kill the jailer and escape a number of the prisoners may be severely punished. Lost Whiskers on Ring Until a few days ago E. W. Dennis of Sioux City prided himself upon having finer whiskers than any man of his acquaintance. In an evil moment he began playing pong pong with a charming young woman, who chaffed him into betting his beautiful hirsute adornment against her fluttering heart. He is a crack player, but the girl proved to be his superior and she ruthlessly demanded her pound of whiskers. In spite of his all but tearful pleadings she cut off the flowing silky beard, strands of which, tied in bows of ribbon, she distributed among her friends. There is a vague rumor that Dennis contemplates going to Alaska to escape the raillery of acquaintances. Qualities of Oklahoma Citizens Qualities of Oklahoma Citizens. Will Alexander, a leading citizen of Kiowa county, Oklahoma, thus epitomizes the attributes of the true Oklahomaan: "He has all the sobriety of Kansas, the fearlessness of Texas, the sturdiness of Iowa, the frankness of Tennessee, the endurance of Minnesota, the thrift of Nebraska, the industry of Ohio, the conservativeness of Indiana, the energy of Illinois, the incredulity of Missouri, the savvity of Mississippi, the versatility of Georgia, the chivalry of Kentucky, and if these attributes don't entitle the Oklahoma citizen to all the courtesies in the calendar of social amenities then, in the language of Tom Watson, I would like to know where am I at." Women Admire Mrs. Paget. Since Mrs. Arthur Paget has taken up her residence at the Waldorf-Astoria the corridors of that New York hostelry have been extremely lively. "There's Mrs. Paget, you know, the great London swell," a half hundred women murmur as she passes along. Some rise from their chairs to follow her to the elevator, while others call to their friends in the palm room to nurry out and catch a sight of her. Mrs. Paget gowns herself in such a conspicuous manner that this adds to the notice she excites. beyond "the father of waters," mines rich with metals said the harbors of the Pacific coast belonged neither to the government nor its people. Forty-five such states as are now represented upon the flag, each by the star, could not have been carved from the territory within the boundaries at the time of the birth of the nation. Recent territorial expansion, not noted on the map, is as follows: 1897, Hawaiian islands, 6,740 square miles; 1898, Porto Rico, 3,600 square miles; 1898, Guam, 175 square miles; 1899, Philippine islands, 145,000 square miles, paid $20,000,000; 1899, Samoan islands, 73 square miles; 1901, additional Philippines, 68 square miles, paid $100,000. ORIGINAL AREA IN THE UNITED STATES 1780 CASSION LOUISIANA 1800 GULF OF MEXICO ATLANTIC OCEAN TAUGHT HIM GOOD LESSON. How Justice Dugro Reprimanded Vociferous Lawyer. A lawyer who spent brieflessdays of his career in this city and is now a successful practitioner in Milwaukee told at the Fifth Avenue the other day of the debt he owes to Justice P. Henry Dugro for teaching him to curb and tame the tumultuous voice with which nature has endowed him. "I was a vociferous cub," said the lawyer, "until one day Justice Dugro lifted me into the seventh heaven of judicial approbation and let me down suddenly into the inferno of ridicule. "I am sure my argument must convince your honor," I said, after a ten-minute assault on the ear drums of the court. "It is overwhelming," remarked Justice Dugro, quietly, and my chest expanded. "Indeed, my ears are still buzzing," added the Justice. "I deny your motion." "And I slipped out of court chastened in spirit."—New York Mail and Express. Remarkable Family Reunion A remarkable family reunion was that of the Thurstons recently held in the town of Rumford, Me., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Trueworthy Thurston, aged respectively 84 and 79 years. The family consists of the parents, six sons and two daughters, with seventeen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Thus far not a single death has broken the circle At one time the members were widely scattered, but all now reside in or within easy distance of Rumford, in what has come to be called "the Thurston district." The youngest, a plump boy weighing over ten pounds, was born there on the day of the reunion. HAS OUTLIVED A CENTURY Canadian Statesman Intellectually Active at Advanced Age. Senator David Wark, the centenarian Canadian statesman, who will soon take his seat in the Canadian senate, has served in that body continuously since 1867. Mr. Wark is a native of Ireland. He left that country when he was 21 and went to New Brunswick, which was then a prosperous colony. For nearly 100 years he has lived in DAVID WARK the town of Fredericton, and his great age seems not to have impaired his faculties. Senator Gorman and Senator Frye are very close friends. During all the time Mr. Gorman was in the senate he and Mr. Frye had a standing pair, and each has voted exactly as he wanted to in the absence of the other, except on matters of politics. It is called "an elastic pair." "Gorman," exclaimed Mr. Frye to the Maryland senator the day the extraordinary session began, "I want you to remember that that elastic pair of ours is on again." "All right," replied Mr. Gorman, "but you must not complain if in these piping times of war that pair gets stretched so far that it breaks." She Found Bank Bills. Mrs. Mary McClintock of Claremont, N. H., in sorting paper stock at a paper mill the other day found two letters containing bank bills issued by state banks more than forty years ago, before the days of the national bank. The three bills found were: A $10 bill, issued by the Commercial Bank of Whitehall, N. Y., in 1859, and two $2 bills, one issued by the Union bank of Troy, N. Y., in 1861, and the other by the Stark Bank of Bennington, Vt., in 1862. Resemblance. "This is a bust of papier mache. Visitor—I" i swan, if he don't look enough like George Washington to be his brother."—Town and Country. Napoleon's Road Over Pass. The road constructed by Napoleon over the Simplon pass has 264 bridges and rises to a height of 6,560 feet. Foreigners in German Empire. Of the 757,000 strangers living in the German en.pile, 380,000 are Austro-Hungarian and $8,000 Dutch. A Cure for Rheumatism Alhambra, Ill., March 23d.—Physicians are much puzzled over the case of Mr. F. J. Oswald of this place. Mr. Oswald suffered much with Rheumatism and was treated by doctor after doctor with the result that he got no better whatever. They seemed unable to do anything for him, and he continued to suffer till he heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Oswald began a treatment of this remedy, which very soon did for him what the doctors had failed to do and they cannot understand it. This is the same remedy that cured Hon. Fred A. Busse, our State Treasurer, of a very severe case of Rheumatism some years ago and which has since had an unbroken record of success in curing all forms of Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble. There seems to be no case of these painful diseases that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure uromptly and permanently. An observant man may forget a lot that he hears if he only remembers all that he sees. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. If money talks, the change that is coming to you must be back talk. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For childuon teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, ailsys pain, cures wind soothe. Zec s bottle. The wise man enjoys the little he has while the fool is seeking for more. PUTNAM F/ DELESS DYES color Silk, Wool and Cotton at one boiling. Astronomy interests a few, but gastronomy catches the multitude. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. The command "Swear not at all," doesn't apply to swearing off. We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of theft that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarach Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO. Props. Toledo, O. We. W. CHENEY & CO. Known as J. Cheney for the last 15 years and J. Cheney honorable in all business transactions and financial to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRUAK. Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, O. We. W. TRUAK & MARVIN, Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarth Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all draughtsists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Marriage is sometimes a failure and always an assignment. Mrs. F. Wright, of Oelwein, Iowa, is another one of the million women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Young New York Lady Tells of a wonderful Cure;— "My trouble was with the ovaries; I am tall, and the doctor said I grew too fast for my strength. I suffered dreadfully from inflammation and doctored continually, but got no help. I suffered from terrible dragging sensations with the most awful pains low down in the side and pains in the back, and the most agonizing headaches. No one knows what I endured. Often I was sick to the stomach, and every little while I would be too sick to go to work, for three or four days; I work in a large store, and I suppose standing on my feet all day made me worse. "At the suggestion of a friend of my mother's I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it is simply wonderful. I felt better after the first two or three doses; it seemed as though a weight was taken off my shoulders; I continued its use until now I can truthfully say I am entirely cured. Young girls who are always paying doctor's bills are sitting in my medicine. It costs so much less, and it is sure to cure them. —Yours truly, ABDLAEIR PRAHM, 174 St. Ann's Ave., New York City." —51000 forfeit if original of above letter growing geniusness cannot be produced St. Jacobs Oil Is the greatest remedy in the world for all bodily Aches and Pains for which an external remedy may be used. Price, 25c. and 50c. MRS. RATH'S BABY Tired Mother's Touching Story of Anxiety and Suffering. Curtura Brings Blessed Cure to Skin Turtured Baby and Peace and Rest to Its Worn Out Mother. It is no wonder that Mrs. Helena Rath was taken sick. Single-handed, she did all the housework and washed, cooked and mended for her husband, Hans, and their six children. After a plucky fight to keep on her feet, Mrs. Rath had to yield, and early in 1902 she took to her bed. What followed she told to a visitor, who called at her tidy home. No. 821 Tenth Ave., New York City. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page illus. treatise on Diseases of theomen. The thousands cured by DR. THORNTON & MINOR, 10:30 Oak St., Kannan City, Mo. "I hired a girl to mind the children and to do whatever else she could. I couldn't stay in bed long, Sick as I was, it was easier for me to crawl around than to lie and worry about my little ones. So I got up after a few days, and let the girl go. I had noticed that she had sores on her face, hands and arms, but I paid no attention to that until Charlie, my youngest, began to pick and scratch himself. He was then ten months old, and the girl had paid more attention to him than to any of the others. Charlie was fretful and cross, but as he was cutting teeth, I didn't think much of that. Even when a rash broke out on his face I wasn't frightened, because everybody knows that that is quite common with teething babies. Several of my others had it when little, and I thought nothing about it. "But the rash on Charlie's poor little face spread to his neck, chest, and back. I had never seen anything quite like it before. The skin rose in little lumps, and matter came out. My baby's skin was hot, and how he did suffer! He wouldn't eat, and night after night I walked the floor with him, weak as I was. Often I had to stop because I felt faint and my back throbbed with pain. But the worst pain of all was to see my poor little boy burning with those nasty sores. "I believed he had caught some disease from the girl, but some of the neighbors said he had eczema, and that is not catching, they told me. Yes, I gave him medicine, and put salves and things on him. I don't think they were all useless. Once in a while the itching seemed to let up a bit, but there was not much change for the better until a lady across the street asked me why I didn't try the Cuticura Remedies. I told her I had no faith in those things you read about in the papers. She said she didn't want me to go on faith nor even to spend any money at first. She gave me some Cuticura Ointment—I think the box was about half full—and a piece of Cuticura Soap. I followed The agonizing, itching, and the frightful scaling, as in psoriasis of the scalp, as in scaled head, pimples and ringworm; the awful of worn-out parents, as in milk or demand a remedy of almost suco cope with them. 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"I wouldn't have believed that my baby would have been cured by a little thing like that. Not all of a sudden, mind you. Little by little, but so surely. Charlie and I both got more peace by day, and more sleep by night. The sores sort of dried up and went away. I shall never forget one blessed night when I went to bed with Charlie beside me, as soon as I got the supper dishes out of the way and the older children undressed; when I woke up the sun was streaming in. For the first time in six months I had slept through the night without a break. A "Yes, that fat little boy by the window is Charlie, and his skin is as white as a snow flake, thanks to the Cuticura Remedies. 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DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. Fools and children tell the truth, which is more than can be said of tombstones. HUMOR OF THE DAY After the callers had departed the mother took the little one aside. "It isn't polite to speak of a stomach-ache before people," she explained. "It shows you have been eating too much." The little one pondered this for some time. "Is a backache polite?" she asked after a while. "Well, it isn't quite so bad to say you have a backache," was the reply. The little one promised to remember, and she did. The next time there was company to dinner she announced at the conclusion: "I've got a backache that's worked clean through." Might Have One That Was Suitable. Binks—You haven't got a half a dollar you want to lend me, have you, old man? Jinks-I don't think so. Just wait a minute, though, and I'll look 'em over. Properly Classified. "We've been having a little dispute as to the difference between courage and foolhardiness, and we have decided to leave it to you." "Well, state your case." "How would you classify a man who walked into a powder mill smoking a pipe? If that doesn't require courage, what does it require?" "Nothing at all." "Nothing at all?" "That's it. The less a fellow has of everything, including brains, the more likely he is to do it. You couldn't call him foolhardy without flattering him." Voice of Experience. "What!" asks the attorney, "you a married man, and yet you say you do not know where a woman's pocket it?" "Yes, I'm a married man," answers the witness hotly, "and I want to tell you that when you get to be one you'll find out that it's all you want to do to keep your eyes on your own pockets without trying to find out where your wife's are!" An Increase. Smith—I hear you are the father of a bouncing boy. Let me congratulate you. Jones—I'm the father of two bouncing boys; twins, you know. Smith—Ah, indeed! Then permit me to extend my congratulations. One Includes the Other "Which do you think should be more highly esteemed, money or brains?" "Brains," answered Makecash. "But nowadays the only way a man can convince people that he has brains is to get money." - Stray Stories. Too Stingy Casey—Av all the close fiskted ould misers that liver Oi see Dolan's the worst. Cassidy—Oh, 'tis the family trait wid him. Casey—The family trait? Nonsense! Shure, he'd niver trait wan man, let alone a family. They Came Back. La Montt—Homer sent out ten poems entitled either 'A Merry Christmas' or 'A Happy New Year.' La Moyne—"How did he make out?" La Montt—Oh, he got many returns. The Correct Way. His Adored—Oh, Gawge! Possibly you didn't approach Papa properly? Gawge—I realize that. I ought to have approached him from behind—with an ax! "What," asked the would-be funny man, "is the difference between me and a ground hog?" "Not much," replied the snake editor, at whom the query had been fired, "only in speaking of you I'd cut out the 'ground.'" DISGUISED CATARRH. PERUNA THE GREAT MUSIC There are a multitude of women, especially housewives, and all other women obliged to be on their feet constantly, who are wretched beyond description, simply because their strength and vitality is sapped away by catarral discharges from the pelvic organs. These women get up in the morning tired, drag themselves through their daily duties tired, only to go to bed at night as tired as before. --- Mrs. Eva Bartho, 133 East 12th Street' N, Y. City, N, Y., writes: "I suffered for the leucorrhea, in connection with ulceration of the womb. The doctors advocated an operation which I dreaded very much, and strongly objected to go under it. Reading of the value of Peruna, I thought best to give this well-known a title as I bought three bottles of it at once. Now I am a changed woman. Peruna cured me; it took nine bottles, but I felt so much improved I kept taking them in perfect health, and have so much. I am to day in perfect health, and have so much fit so well for fifteen years."—Mrs. Eva Bartho. MISS LOUISE MAUON. Miss Louise Mahon, 3 Glen Ballie Street, Toronto, Ont. Can, Secretary of the King's Daughters and Secretary of Lady Macecabees written. If all women knew of the benefits of her treatment, we would have many happier and more healthy health has never been too robust, and I am easily fatigued and can not stand much. About a year we was surmised that I had to take my bed and become weaker and weaker. A friend advised me to try Peruna, and I have great reason to be grateful. For in two years I was out of bed and in a room where I was not sure that my health is much more robust than formerly. I take Peruna once or twice a month and keep well."—Louise Mahon. Peruna is such a perfect specific for each case that when patients have once used it they can never be induced to quit it until they are permanently cured. It begins to relieve the disagreeable symptoms at once. The backache ceases, the trembling knees are strengthened, the appetite restored, the digestion made perfect, the dull headache is stopped and the weakening drains are gradually cured. These results certainly follow a course of treatment with Peruna. Barbara Alberty, corner Seventh and Walnut streets, Appleton, Wis., writes as follows in regard to Peruna: "For years I have suffered with backache and severe pains in the side. I doctored so much that I became discouraged. A school friend told me how very much Peruna had benefited her and I sent out for a bottle, which did more to relieve me than all the other medicine I have ever DON'T GET BLUE MADRID You may feel out of sorts, all run down, cross, irritable, headache,back ache, nervous, discouraged, blue-but you need not. Eat what you want, keep regular hours, get plenty of sleep and take a small dose of Dr.Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin after each meal. If constipated, take a tablespoonful before going to bed. Mrs. Sarah A. McTracanen, of Corning, Ohio, wrote in notes "I will visit in Tacor- ville, I. I come across your Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. I have used two and one-half bottles, and it has done me more good than all the medicine I have used for two years. I will use it if you will need three or four bottles and what it will cost to send it to Corning, Perry County, Ohio, and oblige." Your druggist sells this remedy if he is a good druggist. 50c and $1.00 bottles. Your Money Back If It Don't Benefit You PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, Ill. Paradoxical as it may seem, many a man who declares his opinion. Has none. With a Few Dollars to invest, the farmer or artisan destruc ous of changing his location should investigate conditions in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Texas, "Business Chances," and other interesting books telling of the prosperity and progress in the Great Southwest, free, Address "KATY," 304 Wainrot Bldg., St. Louis, Mo. Low Colonist Excursions from the North on the first and third Tues- days of each month. Look not upon the wine when it is red, nor upon the rum when it is bay Mother Gray's Sweet Lovers 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 test- mials. At all druggists. 25c. Sample FREE. Address A. S. Olmated, LeRoy, N. Y. Success is the only road on the map that leads to prosperity. Colonist Rates to California. Tickets to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and numerous other points in California will be on sale daily to and including June 15, 1003, by the Santa Fe at rate of $25.00 from Kansas City. These tickets will be good for stopovers at various points in California en route, and will be honored on fast trains carrying Free Chair Cars and Pullman Tourist Sleepers. The best line to California is the Santa Fe, a road under one management and operating trains over its own rails. SANTA FE GEO. W. HAGENBUCH, Gen'l Agt. Passenger Department A. T. & S. F. Ry. Kansas City, Missouri. MRS. EVA BARTHO. ```markdown ``` PERONA THE GREAT TON Colonist Rates Tickets to Los Angeles, San numerous other points in Cali to and including June 15, 19 of $25.00 from Kansas City for stopovers at various point will be honored on fast trains Pullman Tourist Sleepers. The best line to Californi one management and operati Literature describing the State free by applying to the SANT GEO. W. HA Gen'l Agt. Fassenger De Kansas City WESTERN CANADA GRAIN GROWING. MIXED FARMING. The Reason Why more wheat is grown in Western Canada is to keep short mountains than to exceed them. This is because the portion to the simplest. The more northerly attitude in which wheat will grow to perfection, the better 101a. Therefore 621a per bushel as fal a standbuster 601b. in the East. Area under crop Western Canada, 1981, 1, 987, 350 Acres, Yield, 1902, 17, 1926, 254 Ba. HOMELESS AND OF GO AWAY for which a standbuster may be made entry. Abundance of water and food; building material cheap, good grass for pasture and bay, a fertile soil, a sufficient rainfall; and a ultimate giving an assured bend to the following for an Atlas and other literature, and also for certificate giving you reduced freight and possession; Ontario, Canada, or to J. E. Crawford, 22 Waundt St., Kansas City, Mo. the authorized Canadian Government Agent. BROMO- SELTZER CURES ALL Headaches 10 CENTS--EVERYWHERE If afflicted with / sore eyes, use / Thompson's Eye Water SEND for our dandy gold plated Fountain Pen only the coin for its days, to introduce it. MINNESOTA SUPPLY CO., Minneapolis, Minn. --- taken. I used it faithfully for two weeks and it completely cured me. I have not had any pains since, anywhere, but feel like a new woman. I am truly thankful for what Peruma has done for me."—Barbara Alberty. Mrs. Kate Mann, 806 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ont., Can., Vice President of the Ladies Aid Society, writes: "I am pleased and proud to have been found through its use. I suffered for years with backache and dragging down pains and often had to go to bed and stay there when I was so have and I could find the health and no trouble with simple gobstant to me when Peruma was brought to my notice. Every drop seemed to give me new life and every dose made me feel much better. And I could find the health and no trouble with me I would advocate it so that other suffering women should know of it. I have been in perfec- health for one year. I enjoy work and pleasure be- cause I am able to work hard and be heavy to bear when you are in good health. Peruma has simply been a household blessing, and I never will be without it again."—Mrs. Kate Mann. MRS. KATE MANN. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Anna Martin, 47 Hoyt St. Brooklyn N. Y., writes: "Perma did so much for me that I feel it my duty to recommend it to others who may be somatically affected. About a year ago I had a friend who was very sick. Backache, dizziness and irregularities, and life seemed dark indeed. We had used Perma in our home as a time, and for colds and catarach, and I was very sick. In the months I became regular, my pains had entirely disappeared, and I am now perfectly well." Mrs. Anna Martin. Mrs. Wm. Hettrick, Kennard, Washington County, Neb., writes: "I am fifty-six years old and have not felt well since the Change of Life began ten years ago. I was in misery somewhere most of the time. My back was very weak, and my flesh so tender it hurt me to lean against the back of a chair. I had pain under my shoulder blades, in the small of back and hips. I sometimes wished myself out of this world. Had hot and cold spells, dizziness and trembling of the limbs, and was losing flesh all the time. After following your directions and taking Perma I now feel like a different person."—Mrs. Wm. Hettrick. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Peruna can be purchased for $1 per bottle at all first class drug stores. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio s to California. San Diego, San Francisco, and California will be on sale daily 1909, by the Santa Fe at rate. These tickets will be good points in California en route, and is carrying Free Chair Cars and nia is the Santa Fe, a road under ing trains over its own rails. the route, equipment and the undersigned. TA FE AGENBUCH, department A. T. & S. F. Ry. city, Missouri. U.M.C. cartridges and shot shells are made in the largest and best equipped ammunition factory in the world. AMMUNITION of U. M. C. make is now accepted by shooters as "the worlds standard" for it shoots well in any gun. Your dealer sells it. The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Bridgeport - - Conn. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives quick relief and speeds worst case. Book of treatment and 10 DAY'B treatment FREE. Dr. H. H. GREEN B SONS. Box E. Atlanta, Ga. W. N. U. KANSAS CITY, NO. 13, 1903 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Rest Cough Syrup, Tastes Good, Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION Are You a K. of P. If Not, Why Not? Do you know that the Knights of Pythias is the strongest and most progressive order of the age? The four departments of the Order are as follows: In this the members are united to care for and protect each other in health Uniform Rank. In this department our young men tion which they can get in no other w more useful citizens. In this the members are united to care for and protect each other in health as well as in sickness and distress Uniform Rank. ment our young men are receiving a military educa- can get in no other way, thus making them better and ons. wives, mothers, widows, daughters and sisters of and for the common purposes of life. ment we are paying out thousands of dollars annually all heirs of deceased Knights. NO LODGE IN YOUR LOCALITY. CONFER WITH CHANCELLOR OF YOUR DISTRICT, OR WRITE A. AND CHANCELLOR, 2629 LUCAS AVE., ST. LOUIS, S UPON WHICH TO ORGANIZE A LODGE. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains City to St. Louis. vice, smooth track, fast time. 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GRAND CHANCELLOR, MO., FOR TERMS UPON WHICH TO WABASH 5 FOLLOW Dai Kansas City to Unsurpassed service, smooth train trains on the Wabash run directly Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full v cent buildings—the Wabash is the Wabash Trai Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., and Buffalo next evening, aud N second morning, saving a day's t vice. Wabash is the only line tha L. S. M Western Passenger Agent. The Stoeltzing Stove and In this department we are paying out thousands of dollars annually to the widows and heirs of deceased Knights. IF THERE IS NO LODGE IN YOUR LOCALITY, CONFER WITH THE DEPUTY CHANCELLOR OF YOUR DISTRICT, OR WRITE A. W. LLOYD. GRAND CHANCELLOR, 2629 LUCAS AVE., ST. LOUIS, MO., FOR TERMS UPON WHICH TO ORGANIZE A LODGE. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnificent buildings—the Wabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No 8. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls and Buffalo next evening, aud New York and Boston second morning, saving a day's travel. Through service. Wabash is the only line that does it. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. Wholesale and Retail Agents For... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the.. Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Specialty. ...A new line of... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1209 GRAND AVENUE. 913-915 E. 19TH STREET. Really True? of the choicest qualities and signs in Watches and Jewelry show window of : : : : Pioneer Negro Jeweler, A. WILSON, St., KANSAS CITY, MO. policiting the patronage of his friends ather in buying his goods or in repair- and jewelry (which is a specialty) less than complete satisfaction. rings, engagement and wedding rings, old guards, etc., can always be obtained. ER FROM MISS SUSIE BOOGGS. Is This Really Yes! Some of the choices prettiest designs in Watches are in the show window Kansas City's Pioneer J. A. WILS 1816 W. 9th St., KANSAS Mr. Wilson in soliciting the pat- and the public either in buying h ing of watches and jewelry (w assures nothing less than con- Bargains in diamond rings, engagen- baby rings, ladies' gold guards, etc.. A LETTER FROM MISS SUE American Mutual Aid Association, St. Louis, Gentlemen: I want to thank you for the of the claim that was due me for the time also want to thank your agent, Mr. G. A. Cla- me, and your doctor for his visiting me was a great saving for me since it cost me Yours F We don't go around boasting about whi others to do this. Those persons who feel that they shou and sickness, we courteously invite you to this nature, and if you find any one among privileges, and benefits that we do, then we company; but if not, then we throw open on Whether you would be insured or not, call to post you on the laws of fraternal insurance Is This Really True? Yes! Some of the choicest qualities and prettiest designs in Watches and Jewelry are in the show window of : ; ; ; Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public either in buying his goods or in repairing of watches and jewelry (which is a specialty) assures nothing less than complete satisfaction. Bargains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, baby rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. American Mutual Aid Association St. Louis Mo. association, St. Louis, Mo. to thank you for the promptness in the payment me for the time that I was seriously ill, and I agent, Mr. G. A. Clay, for his regular attention to its visiting me every day while I was sick, which me since it cost me nothing. Gentlemen:—I want to thank you for the promptness in the payment of the claim that was due me for the time that I was seriously ill, and I also want to thank your agent, Mr. G. A. Clay, for his regular attention to me, and your doctor for his visiting me every day while I was sick, which was a great saving for me since it cost me nothing. Yours for success. SUSIE BOGGS. We don't go around boasting about what we have done; we allow others to do this. Those persons who feel that they should be insured against accidents and sickness, we courteously invite you to investigate all companies of this nature, and if you find any one among them that will afford you the privileges, and benefits that we do, then we appeal to you to go in to such company, but if not, then we throw open our books for your enrollment. Whether you would be insured or not, call to see us; we would be pleased to post you on the laws of fraternal insurance. We don't go around boasting about what we have done; we allow others to do this. Those persons who feel that they should be insured against accidents and sickness, we courteously invite you to investigate all companies of this nature, and if you find any one among them that will afford you the privileges, and benefits that we do, then we appeal to you to go in to such company; but if not, then we throw open our books for your enrollment. Whether you would be insured or not, call to see us; we would be pleased to post you on the laws of fraternal insurance. G. A.CLAY, Organizer, 1106 Charlotte St. W. C. COMBS, Examiner, 1104 Charlotte, St. --- Subordinate Lodge. Ladies' Court. Endowment. COOKING OVEN SALVATUR SALVATUR A. W. LLOYD, Lucas Chancellor M. Abbott, 2020 Lucas Avenue Best Stoves Made Largest Stock in City Prices the Lowest. No. 730 Charlotte, St. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 1992. Yours for success. SUSIE BOGGS J. L. WILLIAMS. Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair Shop. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship warranted Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. Union Nafi KANSAS Statement as made to the Comptroller November RESOV Loans and Discounts. U. S. Bonds, at par. Municipal Bonds, at par. Cash and Sight Exchange. Total. LIABILITIES Capital Stock. Surplus Fund. Undivided Profits. Unearned Interest. National Bank Notes Outstanding. Deposits. Total. DIRECTORS:—David T. Beals, L. Ferdnando P. Neal, Geo. R. Barse, C. Jones, W. E. Thorne, Edward George, Ford, Felix L. La Force, C. J. Schmelze National Bank, KANSAS CITY, MO. Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business November 25, 1902. RESOURCES. $5,796,696.26 $ 523,000.00 366,161.54 3,424,797.24 4,313,958.78 $10,110,655.04 LIABILITIES. $ 600,000.00 275,000.00 63,033.42 106,983.00 423,000.00 8,642,638.62 $10,110,655.04 T. Beals, L. T. James, A. J. Snider, G. W. Lovejoy, R. Barse, C. W. Whitehead, J. P. Merrill, Geo. W. Hard George, H. J. Rosencrans, O. H. Dean, Geo. D. J. Schmelzer, E. W. Zea. Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business November 25, 1902. Loans and Discounts..... $5,796,696.26 U. S. Bonds, at par..... $ 523,000.00 Municipal Bonds, at par..... 366,161.54 Cash and Sight Exchange..... 3,424,797.24 4,313,958.78 Total. $10,110,655.04 DIRECTORS:—David T. Beals, L. T. James, A. J. Snider, G. W. Lovejoy, Perdnando P. Neal, Geo. R. Barse, C. W. Whitehead, J. P. Merrill, Geo. W. Jones, W. E. Thorne, Edward George, H. J. Rosencrans, O. H. Dean, Geo. D. Ford, Felix L. La Force, C. J. Schmelzer, E. W. Zea. OZONO AND Cedroline BEFORE UR GROW RESULT OF 3 WEEKS 3 POMIDAL FOR combined treat for the Hair The most on earth. O with only $1.50, and will send to you a fu two extra large boxes £.00; also two large Hair Growth womens EGG covery, POWDERED EGG our celebrated and renowned one 1-pint package of AN combined treatment is now the most wonderful remedy for the Hair in the whole wide world. The most generous offer ever made by any firm on our behalf will be to us, offer $1.50, and, immediately upon receipt of same, we will to you a full and complete treatment. consisting of ra large boxes of OZONO, king of all Hair Tons, worth two large bottles of CEDROLINE, the lightning worth $1.50 and one large bottle of DERED EDG EGG SHAMPOO, worth $50; also one bar of and renowned PURITY SCALP SOAP, worth $25c. and package of ANTI-ODOR, the most wonderful toilet treatment, worth in all of $1.50 and your name and address with fun, together with our beautiful Souvenir Catalogue, justly the day. We ever bought OZONO we will send this great bargain word will be sufficient. Simply tell us when and where we will be securing good Agents, selling our preparations. No matter how you live, we you. Do not delay; order to-day. Address CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. ocean generosity offer ever made by any firm on earth, with only $1.50, and immediately upon receipt of same, we will send to you a full and complete treatment, consisting of extra large boxes of OZONO, king of all Hair Towers, worth $1.00; one large NINE, the lightning Hair Grower, worth $2.00; also one large package, covery, POWDERED EGG SCALPPO, worth $50; also one bar of our celebrated and renowned PURITY SCALP $OAP, worth 25c. and a package of ANTI-ODOR, the most wonderful toilet speciality of our company. $5.00, will be sent on receipt of $1.50 and your name and address, with full plain, plain text, to our beautiful Souvenir Catalogue, justly called the toiler educator of the day. $5.00, will be sent on receipt of $1.50 and and complete directions, together with a called the toilet educator of the day. NOTE.—To all who have ever bought offer for only $1.50. Your word will be you bought it. This liberal offer is made who can simply coin money selling our pre can get our goods safely to you. Do not de BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 NOTE.--To all who have ever bought OZONO we will send this great bargain offer for only $1.00. Your word will be sufficient. Simply tell us when and where you bought it. This illegal offer is made with the object of securing good Agents, who can simply coin money selling whatever we offer you live, we can get our goods safely to you. Do not delay; order to-day. Address: BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. A too zealous desire to hear both sides of a story is really a weakness for gossip. DONE, THE NEWEST HAIR GROWER Makes the Hair grow with lightning-like rays. MODONE prevents Falling Hair, Grey Hair, Brid ed Scurf. Cures Dandruff, Itch, Tetter, Eczema, Leads, Scanty Partitions, Splitting Ends, and Bald Tet uxuriant, soft, fine, silky Hair. Makes the Hair g ine in most every instance in which it is used. Z and softens and lengthens the Hair, so that it can not a fraud or a fake, to get your money, but as MODONE acts quickly; results are seen at once ist, send in your order right now—do not delay. ZOMODON ZOMODONE, THE NEWEST AND MOST RAPID HAIR GROWER IN EXISTENCE. Makes the Hair grow with lightning-like rapidity. No waiting for results. ZOMODONE prevents Falling Hair, Grey Hair, Brittle Hair, Curly Hair, Harsh Hair, and Scurf. Cures Dandruff, Itch, Tetter, Eczema, and Ring-Worm. No more Bald Heads, Scanty Partings, Splitting Ends, and Bald Temples. ZOMODONE grows long, luxuriant, soft, fine, silky Hair. Makes the Hair grow down to and below the waist line in most every instance in which it is used. ZOMODONE is a direct Hair food, and softens and lengthens the Hair, so that it can be arranged in any style desired. Not a fraud or a fake, to get your money, but an honest remedy, tried and true. ZOMODONE acts quickly; results are seen at once. If you want Hair down to your waist, send in your order right now—do not delay. No free samples sent; a sample is not sufficient to do good. Price. 50c., or 3 bottles (a complete treatment) for $1.00, or will send four complete treatments for $3.00. AGENTS WANTED. Everything is in favor of the Agent. LIBERAL CREDIT EXTENDED. This is an unprecedented chance to make money. Write quick for territory and particulars. Address THE HELEN MARTIN TOILET CO., 910 E. Leigh St., Richmond Va. PLEASE MENTION THIS PAPER PLEASE MENTION THIS PAPER WHEN YOU WRITE. David T. Beals, President. Fernando P. Neal, vice-President. Sitting Bull, Jr., is working on a Nebraska railroad. Perhaps he wants to learn a new war whoop from the engines.—Buffalo Express. Kropotkin's Work Near at End. Prince Kropotkin will shortly finish his history, in English, of Russian literature, on which he has been engaged some years. Long Service in Militia. Lieut.-Col. William C. Capelle of Boston has been connected with the Massachusetts militia for fifty years. Brains of Perthshire Men. Perthshire men possess the largest and heaviest brains in Scotland, declares Prof. Ramsey. Fast Time for Motor. In Fournier's last motor trial against time, he covered 120 feet in every second. No Cholera in Egypt. Cholera is officially declared to have disappeared from Egypt. Actual Results from Baldness After Only 4 Weeks' Use of ZOMODONE. W. H. Seeger, 2nd vice-Prest, Chas, H. V. Lewis, Cashier. RESOURCES THE new, non-falling and infallible combined treatment for the human Hair, jointly, cannot fail to lend to the Hair length, lustre, life, and beauty. One year ago the directors of the BOSTON CHEMICAL CO. with the sole purpose and intention to produce a treatment for the Hair, appropriated the sum of $0.000 for this purpose alone. The services of three of the women's chemists were secured, who, after two years of investigation and costly experiments, have successfully formulated a treatment so potent and powerful, yet so harrowing that effects upon the Hair border upon the miraculous. This treatment can be used in all faith and confidence, as it is certain that pressure must gratify, causing the Hair to grow out straight, and of a most delicate and pliable texture. It prevents the tendency of the Hair to drawup, contract, curl, and tangle, and it prevents the Hair from any style desired. It causes the Hair to grow out on all bald spots, scant partings, thin places, and bare temples. It is sure to prevent the Hair from falling, breaking or fraying. Prince Bismarck's Wife. Sidney Whitman's book on Bismarck contains a chapter on the great man's wife, who was one of those women who live entirely for their husbands. She never tried to wield political influence. Can't Even Surmise. The Rev. Dr. James Nicholas Lann of Goshen, N. Y., married thirteen wives and lived ninety-three years. There is nothing to show how many centuries he thought he lived. Victory for Free Thinker The Curtis library of Meriden, Conn., has accepted Franklin T. Ivens' offer of $1,000 and placed the works of Voltaire and Paline upon its shelves. Mr. Ivens is a free thinker. The report that Lord Roberts will visit Boston as the guest of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company seems to lack foundation. Copper in New South Wales. Copper mining in New South Wales began in 1845; since when 300 discoveries of copper have been made, and thirty-eight mines have been worked. MURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL. AND SECRET LODGES. Cosimo a.141 Lodge No. 2035 U. O. Of Q. F meets at 1413 E. 8th at. 2nd and 4th Wednes- day days in each month, at 8 o'clock, J. H. Heltz, N. G.; W. R. Potterson, P. S. St. Mary's Tabernacle, No. 2, meets first and third Fridays in each month at 1734 Grand avenue. Daughter Luise Beasley H. P. Daughter Mary Pinevie, Sesothena. St. Halary Tabernacle No. 7 meets first and nd St. Louis Ave. Rev. N. C. Brums up' avenue. Daughter Johnson H. P. St. Shauzley Abbie L. Pyles, Sesothena. Gate City Lodge, No. 672 G. U. of O. F. meets at 1413 E. 15th St., every first and third Fridays, of each Month. E. S. LEWIS, P. S. Rone Lodge, No. 25. A. F & A. M., meets gn the 1st and 3rd Monday nights in good standing are cor- dially invited. Campbell, W. M., 2415 Flora. T. A. Moose, Secy. Mount Olive Lodge No. 58, A. F. & A. M., meets the 2nd and 4th Friday in morning at the 6th and Charlotte sts. All wishing to attend all morning at W. Wooden, W. 1902 Flora ave. J. H. Harris, Secretary. 710 East 12th street St John's Chapel, on Bell street, between 9a and St. Louis ave. Rev. N. C. Buren, pastor. Sunday services 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school 2:30 Prayer meeting Wednesday evening and Teachers' meeting Thursday evening. Vine Street Baptist church, T. H. Ewing, pastor. Sunday services 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school, 2:30 Prayer meeting Friday evening. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, cor. 2d and Holmes. Rev. A. A. Gilbert, pastor. Sunday services, 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school, 3:30 p.m. Pritchard Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A. M., meets second and fourth Monday evenings in the month. J. W. Crowe, W. M., J. H. Spigener, Sec'y. Allen Chapel, south-east corner 10th and Charlotte streets Rev. O. J. W. Scott, pastor. Sunday services 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School, 2:30 p.m. Class Meeting Tuesday, 8 p.m. Prayer. Wednesday, 8 p.m. Choir practice Monday evening. Second Baptist church, corner Tenth and Charlotte. S. W. Bacote, D. D., pastor. Sunday services: Preaching, 11 a.m. and 7:15 p.m.; Sunday school, 2 p.m. Weekly meetings, Monday B. Y. P. U. meeting, 8 p.m. Wednesday night, prayer meeting. Highland Avenue Baptist church Sunday services, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Preaching, Wednesday evening, 8 p.m. Praise meetings Monday evening B. Y. P. U. Sunday school 2 p.m. G. W. Boyd, Pastor. MRS. A. B. CUMMINGS, Clerk. Pleasant Valley Baptist church, Rosedale, Kaunas, Surday services Preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday school, 9:30 a.m.; B. Y. P. U., 7 p.m.; W. H. F. and M. Society, Thursday evening praise meeting. Rev. H. E. STRUCKLAND, Pastor TUCKER, Clerk. Pleasant Green Baptist church, Independence and Tracy ave. Sunday school, 9:30 a.m. Preaching, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p.m. Weekly services—Prayer meetings and missionary, Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock p. m. Young People's Literary and Progressive Club, Thursday evenings. Church meeting, Friday before the second Sunday in each month. E. M. WILSON, Pastor. Residence 1603 East 13th st. Burns Chapel, M. E. Church. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Preaching, 11:00 a.m. Cass Meeting, 2:30 p.m. Epworth League, 7:00 p.m. Preaching, 7:45 p.m. Literary Tuesdays 8:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Class Meeting, Thursdays 8:00 p.m. Corner 11th and Highland, J. M. Ham's Pastor. Sunday Services-Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Preaching 11 a.m.; Class Meeting p.m.; Epworth League Bible Reading 2:30 p.m.; Epworth League Prayer Meeting p.m.; Preaching 8 p.m.; Weekly Services-Prayer Meeting Wednesday 8 p.m.; Epworth League Bible Reading Friday 8 p.m. bi-monthly; Choir Rehearsals Sunday, Asbury M. E. Church, Bland Cherry, Kansas City, Mo., Wm. H. Wheeler, F pastor, residence 1812 East Twenty-fifth street. H. PATTON, Prop R. HERNDON. T. J. PATTON. BARBERS Laundry Agency and Cigars. Ladies' and Gents' Shoes Polished. 926 Wyandotte St. KANSAS CITY MO. Prof. L. L. Thompson C. S. P. The celebrated Mind Reader and Divine Healer' Advices Given in all business matters. Hours:—6:30 p. m. to 11 p. m. 716 Broadway THE TWO WALTERS WITH THE Oriel Club, 917 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Walters and Porter's Headquarters And Information Bureau. BEN MCAY, Pres't and Treas. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE.... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gentlemen up staira. Z. T. JOROAN, Manager 1784 ..... Telephone ..... 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co.. First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. J. B. LESTER, BARBER SHOP. 559 GRAND AVE. Hot and Cold Baths, 15c. Large, New Porcelain Tubs. Good barbers. Give us a Call. L. W. SUMPTER and SON. Undertakers & Embalmers. Tel 261 Main. 609 Main St. Mrs. Bettle 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, Buggies, Runabouts, Traps, Express, Pneumatic Tires. Quimby Livery & Carriage Co. George M. Quimby, Mgr. Telephone 448 Grand. 909-11-13 E. 12th St. Kansas City, Mo. I Heim's celebrated Scharnagel beer, Me- brayer whiskies, Guiness XX stout and all the best brands of imported and domestic liquors. Free hot touch at all hours The WEST SIDE HOUSE. FURNISHED Rooms From 25 acts Up. Or Rates by the Week. At 1118 N. 3rd St., Kansas City, Kan. H. BELL, Proprietor... C. H. COUNTEE, Mgr. W. B. COUNTEE TEL. 780 GRAND. COUNTEE BROS., Undertakers. Licensed Embalmers. Carrlages and flowers furnished for all occasions 914 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By RATEN FROM CIRCLE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.