The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for It Reaches More Homes of Colored Peop.e than any other Paper in the State. PRINCE OF PEACE COUNCIL NO. 46, OF PAOLA INSTALLS IN MALONEY'S OPERA HOUSE. A Ba quiet After the Ceremonies. Tuesday was a gala day and night for the officers and members of Prince of Peace Council No. 46, of Paola, Kan. The occasion was the installation of the officers, in Mallory's Opera house, and banquet in De Berry hall. The retiring M. E. queen, Dtr. Kate Avery had matters in charge and it is but mildly putting it when we say she was equal to the occasion. At 10 o'clock Col. T. B. Robinson, S. G. M. of Kansas City, Mo., the installing officer, commanded Son Robert Allen to form the sons and daughters in marching order. After encircling the opera three times, they formed in a semi-circle, Dtr. Kate Avery, the conductor, introduced the newly elected M. E. Q. Dtr. Minnie M. Whitfield, Son Oliver Vantress, M. N. K. Sarah Jones, M. E. V. Q., Wm. Hunter, M. N. V. K., Elizabeth Bennings, M. E. T., Berthie Jones, M. E. S. Sidney Vernon, M. E. R., Lewis Merriman, M. N. H. P. Sallie Lee, M. E. H. Prs., Robert Allen M. N. M., Laura Bonner, and Pochahontas Strawder right and left sentinels. Laura Scott and Minnie Green, right and left cup barriers., Harry Bennings, M. N. I. G., Frank Logan, M. N. O. G. Board of Judges: Sarah Means, chairman; Emma Carter, Bennie Blackman. Board of Attendance; Jane Williams, chairman. Hugh Benning, Ida Davis, were all installed in their respective stations. The Paola Mandolin Club furnished music. The ceremonies was impressively carried out, as laid down in Gordon's manual. The vast audience sat and listened with rapt attention. Immediately after the ceremonies was concluded, the floor was cleared and those who desired tripped the light fantastic toe until the orchestra played "Home, Sweet Home." Those who desired a quelerate, patronized De Berry's Hall, where the council entertained their invited guests at a banquet given in honor of its fifth anniversary. Covers were laid for iine hundred, and quite a sum was realized. So Prince of Peace sent their banking committee the next day to increase its account. INDEPENDENCE NEWS The third quarterly meeting for this year was held at the A. M. E. church last Sunday. Rev. J. D. Barksdale, the newly appointed presiding elder, for the district, preached two very instructive sermons morning and night. Rev. J. C. C. Owens preached a very happy sermon at 3 o'clock. The attendance was good all day and every one was happy. Over $800 was raised this quarter. The pastor and people are to be commended for such excellent work. Rev. Countee gave two fine entertainments here last week. One at the Macedonia a bpstl church Wednesday night and at the A. M. E. church Thursday night. They were well attended and every one present was delightfully entertained. Come again. Mr. Walter Colley, one of the finest tenor singers in the West, and leader of the chair at Lexington is in the city the guess of his brother. Miss Effie Fisher, one of the teachers in the public school, has gone to spend the summer in Ottawa, Kan. Mr. Henry Colley has accepted a position in the Pullman car service. We wish him success. Mrs. J. T. Knapper of Liberty, Mo., is spending a few days in our city, the guest of Mrs. Edward Turner. Mrs. Fannie Anderson, who spent the winter at oFrt Robinson, Nebraska, is home again for a short stay. She is the very picture of health. Prof. Chas. Stewart of Chicago, the most noted journalist of the Negro race, will lecture at the A. M. E. church, Thursday, July 16th. Don't miss this rare treat. Admission free. Miss Mattle Clark passed through the city last week on her way home to Pleasant Hill. She has had a very pleasant year teaching school at Norborne, Mo. Rev. J. H. Allen and family were the guests of Mrs. Fannie Brown on College street, a few days last week. It is worthy to note that at the A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon three of the founders of the church here and also of Allen chapel were present in the persons of Brothers Scott, Smith and Tucker. It was indeed very interesting to hear them tell of the starting of the church more than 40 years ago. The Bible Training class is increasing in numbers and in interest. It meets every Wednesday night at the A. M. E. church. LEXINGTON NEWS There will be a basket meeting at Hoffman's Park Sunday given by members of the A. M. E. Church. Everybody is invited to attend it. The members of St. John M. E. church has begun to remodel their chapel. There will be a fair in Higginsville, given by the colored people of the county. Under the management of Mr. Green, Mr. Wm. Hegwood, G. Taylor, C. Bradford, and others. Begin August 4th. They request all colored horsemen to bring horses and other stock. See advertisement next wek. Mrs. Mary Wilson and Mrs. Martha Woodson spent the 4th in Kansas City. Returned home Tuesday. Mr. Charles Reed died in Kansas City July 4th and was brought here for burial Monday and was buried by the U. B. F.'s. He was a member of the Second Baptist church, where his funeral was preached. He leaves a wife, two brothers and a sister to mourn his loss. He was 43 years old. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family. Rev. Countee, the undertaker, came down Sunday night with Mr. Reed and returned home Monday morning. Mr. Wm. Shaffer got a leg broke in the mines a few days ago. He is getting along very nice. Mr. Eugene Conway is still in the barber business. Mr. Wm. Booker is in the ice cream business. Give them a call. Mrs. Perry of Higginsville was the guest of Mrs. Mattie Bouldridge Sunday. At a regular meeting of the Far West Commandry No. 3 Knights Templar, the following officers were elected for ensuing Templar year: A. R. Harris, Eminent Cammander, Edward Bradford, Generalissimo, Edward S. Lewis, Captain General. J. M. Harris, Prelate. J. W. Baldwin, Treasurer. S. H. P. Edwards, Recorder. J. F. S. Carpenter, Senior Warden C. H. Lewis, Junior Warden. Frank Neal, Sward Bearer. J. R. Bass, Standard Bearer. W. H. Nolen, Warden. Daniel Martin, Captain of Guard. S. H. Bacon, First Guard. Matthew Bolen, Second Guard. Nathaniel Harris, Sentnel. ORIENTAL ART CLUB ENTER TAINED. An extremely pleasant evening was spent by the members and visitors of the oriental art club on the evening of July 3rd, 1903, at the elegant residence of Mrs. Thomas Harris, 2435 Flora avenue, commencing at 4 p. m. Ladies present were: An enjoyable time was had by all. The Literary Congress and Missionary Convention of the Fifth Episcopal District, A. M. E. church, will be held at Leavenworth, Kansas, July 21, 22, 23' 1903. Rt. Rev. C. T. Shaffer, M. D. D. D., presiding bishop. The committee is putting this forth strenuous efforts to make this the grandest event in the history of the west. Ample accommodation has been provided for all who may attend. All persons going on the Electric car from Kansas City can secure a round trip ticket for 60 cents, good for three days. All others can secure a one and one-third rate by the certificate plan. Don't miss this splendid three days' literary feast. Notify at once Rev. W. B. Brooks, Leavenworth, Kansas. He can arrange for you. J. C. CALDWELL. Sec. KANSAS CITY, KAN., ITEMS. Miss Annie Reynolds is in the city) for the summer, stopping at her un cle's. 903 Ella avenue. Rev. Robert Mitchel, LL. D., who succeeded the late Dr. Grant, deceased, of the First Baptist church. Wyandotte, is having abundant success and high appreciation of his spiritual and financial pastorate at that church. The American Citizen, which had to go in the Ark during the late flood, has sent out the dove of peace and promise, who announces that ye editor and the printers devil will soon be doing business again at the old stand. Thus history repeats itself as at the close of the antediluvian days of Noah. Mayor Gilbert continues the work of sanitation. The city is being thoroughly cleaned up, thanks to his indefatigable labors and the good work of his able city councillors and also of its capable heads of city departments. Kansas City, Kansas, (the literal gateway of the West) has done herself proud in the way she arose, to meet the awful emergency and the sore needs and destitution the flood entailed upon her. Hurrah for our twin sister city of Kansas. Sam Diggs, the junk man, is back at his stand doing business; ready to buy if you have anything in his line, iron, brass, copper, lead, bottles or rags; junk of any kind. Call and see him. To the Public. Why suffer from discharges from the venerial organs and ruin your digestion with nauseous, ill tasting medicines or strong injections that may stricture you for life or necessitate a painful and expensive surgical operation when by using Dr. Comb's celebrated remedy for three nights you are guaranteed a cure. Nothing to take or inject. Good for male or female. Write at once for terms to Dr. Combs 908 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. We have in our midst Dr. McQueen Carrion, dentist, who comes to this city highly recommended in his chosen profession. His office is located at 910 East 12th St., Kansas City, Missouri, where he will take pleasure in waiting on his customers. Calyl and see him. USED IN 1858 Way back in the year 1858 the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow was used by colored people in the North and is now used all over the country from Maine to Texas and Oregon to Florida. The continued use or the preparation for such a long period of time is a positive proof that it gives perfect satisfaction to all. It makes kinky or curly hair straight soft and beautiful. Stops falling hair cures dandruff and makes the hair grow. Never fails. Warranted harmless. Only 50 cents a bottle. Get it from your dealer or send us 50 cents and we will ship you a bottle express paid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash ave., Chicago, Ill. Flock to Hear Layman. The Rev. B. S. McKenzie, rector of St. James' Episcopal church in Macon, Mo., seems to have settled the empty pew problem. For six months laymen from the local congregations have occupied the pulpit at Sunday evening services, and the church has been crowded. Direct Descendant of Royalty Mrs. Maria Bartholomew, promoter and leading spirit of the Old Colored Veterans' World's Fair association, organized to promote the interests of the exposition among negroes is the direct descendant of King Hennilok, a South American monarch. Hasheesh the Curse of Egypt. Hasheesh takes the place of alcohol in Egypt as a cause of crime and insanity. Sixteen tons were confiscated in 1901. Most of the drug is consumed in cigarettes and pipes, but much also is eaten in pill form and in sweet meats. VANITY OF GUINEA FOWLS. Stand for Hours Admiring Themselves in Mirror. A pair of guinea fowls were introduced as pets into the garden of a young man up town the other week, says the Philadelphia Record. The wings of the birds were clipped, to that they might not fly away, and they were quartered in an outhouse that happened to contain a mirror. The effect of the mirror on the guinea seems hardly credible. They post themselves before it, and there, studying their reflections intently, they stand perfectly motionless and silent for hours at a time. It is impossible to drive them away with shouts or hand-clappings. They must be carried forth bodily, and then, as soon as they can, they return. No matter how fine the weather may be, the guineas remain in the outhouse, gazing at themselves in the mirror. To get them to take exercise it is necessary to carry them forth, and then to shut up the outhouse tight. The owner of the fowls thinks that perhaps the mirror hypnotizes them. COLORED SHOES ARE POPULAR Society Does Not Take to Them, but Army Men Like, Varied Hues. Army men like varied trades. If colored shoes are not generally worn they are popular in the army, as evidenced by recent contracts given out for the manufacturing of shoes for the members of the United States army, says the Shoe and Leather Reporter. One contract was for 51,000 pairs of shoes, all colored, there being not a single pair of blacks in the order. In another order was included 884 pairs of colored shoes. This gives the impression that for army wear colored shoes are preferred. They look better for a longer period of time with reasonable care than black goods, in the opinion of the army officials. For hot weather colored shoes are viewed by sensible people as a most common sense proposition. What the World Owes Every Man. The world owes to every man a living, says Chauncey M. Depew, provided he has the industry and determination to collect it. The world owes to every man more pleasure than pain; more good than bad; more gain than loss; more happiness than sorrow; more success than failure; more love than hate; more friends than enemies; but it rests with the man himself whether he collects that debt, for the world holds fast to the good things which it possesses and lets free the bad; and it is only by labor and energy, only by determination and character that the debt which the world owes to every one is collected. Certainly. It may be questionable whether "a lady can smoke a cigarette and remain a lady." It is certain that she can be a lady without smoking.—New York World Coal Mining Statistics The total number of persons employed at the coal mines of Great Britain is 825,401. Last year the product was 227,178,140 tons. German Customs Tariff Decree The new German customs tariff prescribes that on entering goods the importer shall make declaration as to the country of origin. Lightning Kills Young Trout. A flash of lightning the other day killed a tankful of young trout in a fish breeding establishment at Helmsbach, Germany. New Weapon for Consumption. In consumption, early diagnosis is of great importance. It is now greatly facilitated by the use of X-rays. Large Combine in Sweden Swedish glass manufacturers are combining to prevent excessive competition and facilitate export. Much Smallpox at Liverpool. More than 300 cases of smallpox were under treatment at Liverpool in the middle of March. Brandy From Artichoke The Jerusalem artichoke is used in France for making brandy as well as alcohol. THE BROTHERS WILLIAMS & WALKER THE TWO REAL COONS." George W. Walker, the "Cannibal King of Dahomey," as He appeared Before the King of England. How the "King of Dahomey" Met the King of England. By George W. Walker, of Williams and Walker, the American Negro Commedians. I have had the honor of playing the "King of Dahomey" before His Majesty, the King of England. While he did not wear his royal robes, as I did, and was therefore somewhat at a disadvantage, still he looked every inch a king. He is the real thing. He treated me as one king should another. We were invited to appear at Buckingham Palace by "royal command" as it is called here. A command of this kinw is the greatest honor that can be paid t on theatrical company in England. The sentries at the Palace presented arms when we arrived and we were received in the grand hall by a hundred magnificent servants in scarlet and gold liveries, with knee breches and white silk stockings. Some of my American friends mistook these servants for the royal family and thought the ladies and gentlemen in plain clothes were the servants, but they soon came to understand Court society a little better. The servants conducted us to the beautiful gardens where we gave our show. We were treated royally. That is the only word for it. We had champagne from the Royal cellar and strawberries and cream from the royal gardens. The Queen was perfectly lovely. The King was as jolly as he could be and laughed at everything we did. The little Prince and Princesses were as nice as they could be, just like little fairies. London, June 26 London, June 27 Messrs. Williams and Walker, the eminent Afro-American dramatic artists and their troupe, have had the honor of presenting their comic opera, "In Dahomey," before the King and Queen of England at Buckingham Palace. The entertainment was nominally given for the amusement of little Prince Edward of Wales, the oldest grandson of the King. It was his ninth birthday, and a grand party was arranged in honor of the occasion in the beautiful gardens of Buckinham Palace. These are sixty acres in extent, and contain beautiful summer houses and a lake. All the little princes and princesses and the little sons and daughters of dukes and other important persons known to the rayol family were invited. "In Dahomey" was modified and abridged to suit the requirements of the children's garden party. The children were immensely pleased with the funny darkies, the first that most of them had ever seen, but the King and Queen were still NUMBER 19. & WALKER REAL COONS." of Dahomey," as He appeared Before the England. "Dahomey" the King of England. ams and Walker, the American medians. the "King of Dahomey" before His he did not wear his royal robes, as I disadvantage, still he looked every treated me as one king should an- Buckingham Palace by "royal com- and of this kinw is the greatest honor pany in England. The sentries at the aved and we were received in the servants in scarlet and gold liveries, ings, stook these servants for the royal fam- men in plain clothes were the serv- and Court society a little better. beautiful gardens where we gave our That is the only word for it. We had strawberries and cream from the ectly lovely. The King was as jolly thing we did. The little Prince and be, just like little fairies. more amused. The King was especially entertained and laughed until he shook at some of the songs and the cake walk. The show had much in it of peculiar interest to him, for it treats of a king and his court, although a different king and court from that of England. People who were familiar with the show wondered with some uneasiness whether Mr. Walker would have the audacity to sing his great song, "Evah Dabkey Is a King," to His Majesty the King of England. He did. This is what he sang: Dar's a mighty curious circumstance Dat's a botherin' all de nation. All de Yahkees is dissatisfied Wid deir untitled station; Dey is huntin' after titles Wid a golden net to snare 'em; And de democratic people Deys mos' mighty glad to wear 'em. Ho, But dey ain't got all de titles, Fo' it is a 'cullar thing; When a darkey starts to huntin' He is sho to prove a king. Chorus. Evah dahyey is a king! - DID NOT LIKE COGNOMEN. Why Gen. Hooker Objected to Ap- pellation of "Fighting Joe." Like most other true and great soldiers, Gen. Joseph Hooker, to whose memory a splendid statue was unveiled in Boston last week, had no liking for the character of a fighter who rights just for the sake of fighting. The words "Fighting Joe" are not used anywhere in the inscription on the Hooker monument, it being the general testimony of his comrades that he particularly objected to the appellation. He is said to have himself stated the reasons as follows: "Fighting Joe Hooker" always sounds to me as if it meant "Fighting Fool." It has really done much injury in making the public believe I am a furious, headstrong fool, bent on making furious dashes at the enemy. I never fought without good purpose and with fair chances of success. When I have decided to fight I have done so with all the vigor and strength I could command." BARRINGTON IN MORE TROUBLE Bogus Lord Accused of the Murder of a Friend. "Lord" Barrington, the notorious impersonator of British peers, who six months ago married Miss Wilhelmina Cochrane of Kansas City and deserted her when he found she was not an heiress, is under arrest at St. Louis on suspicion of having murdered James P. McCann, a well known horseman, at whose hotel Barrington was stopping. Barrington was only recently released from the rock pile at St. Louis, where he was working out a sentence for vagrancy. He continues to declare his innocence. "Jim McCann will show up," Barrington declares, "and when he does I will make those who call me his murderer sweat blood." The prison- "LOOP BARRINGTON" er went on to say that he knew McCann was alive, but that for certain reasons McCann was remaining in hiding, and even though he sees the newspaper accounts of his probable murder, he will not return to St. Louis and dispel the murder theory. A body found near Bonfels was buried in St. Peter's cemetery as that of James P. McCann. Barrington will not talk of his plans for defense. He declares that he will be cleared and that he will conduct his case himself. POSTOFFICE SLEUTH IS TALL. Joseph L. Bristow Furnishes Amusement to Subordinates. Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster general—the man who has come to be called the sleuth of the department—is 6 feet 2 inches tall, but so thin that when standing erect he seems to be fully 7 feet. When seated he assumes a crouching position, making it appear that he is only a little above average stature, and when he begins elevating himself to a perpendicular attitude he seems to get up a foot a, a time. The result is interesting. When postoffice inspectors have nothing else to do they make bets of the time it will take Mr. Bristow to get his head into the rattled atmosphere he breathes while erect. There is a legend around the department that a visitor who had just been introduced to Mr. Bristow watched him straighten out for a few moments and then gasped: "Good Lord, is he never going to stop getting up?" GAINS FAME AS COMPOSER Rudolf Zwintscher Now Classed With Strauss and Wagner. After a long period of adversity some of it spent in America, where he kept body and soul together by giv- RUDOLPH ZWINTSCHER ing piano lessons—Rudolf Zwintscher has suddenly emerged into fame in London, both as pianist and as a composer. The Contemporary Review even unites his name with those of Wagner and Richard Strauss. IS THE RICHEST PRINCESS. Louise of Denmark Has a Fortune of Over $15,000,000. The crown princess of Denmark, who is now in Paris with her husband, is not celebrated for her good looks, but she has the more permanent distinction of being the richest royal princess in Europe. Her royal A. LOUSE, GROUPNESS OF HENMARK highness was left by her mother, the late queen of Sweden, a fortune of 60,000,000 marks—about 15,000,000 American dollars—and this legacy, through being wisely invested, is said to have increased to an even more impressive sum. LADY HERBERT IS DOMESTIC. Wife of British Ambassador Goes Lite tle Into Society. Lady Herbert, wife of the British minister to Washington, who has just sailed for England, has been a disappointment to Washington society. Instead of jumping into the whirlpool at the national capital she entertained but seldom, though with proper dignity, as became a woman of American birth. The truth is that society bores Lady Herbert. Certainly these inclinations are not shared by her ambitious sisters, Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Lady Herbert visited New York only on one occasion, and although many of the leaders there were eager to have her at their receptions, she refused most of the invitations and rushed back to Washington as soon as possible. She has announced that she will be in Newport before the end of the season. Lady Herbert, although in a position to shine above all other women in Washington, prefers her home and her children to all the entitled dinners and formal balls on the social calendar. NEW PAYMASTER OF NAVY. Rear Admiral H. J. B. Harris Appointed to the Position pointed to the Position. In a recently published list of naval appointments and changes appears the REAR ADMIRAL H. T. B. HARRIS name of Rear Admiral H. T. B. Harris, who has been made Paymaster General. He succeeds Rear Admiral A. S. Kenny. "Lucky" Baldwin's Plans Lucky Baldwin Plans. E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin, the California horseman, hopes that before long he will succeed in incorporating part of his famous Santa Anita ranch as the town of Arcadia. An ordinance has been passed by the supervisors giving the residents permission to hold an election July 27 to determine the question. It is said that, once incorporation is obtained, the town of Arcadia will be run wide open; that a race track will be built and that the beautiful ranch at the base of the Sierra Madre mountains will be made an ideal sporting resort. Baldwin continues to deny these rumors of his intentions. The present population of Arcadia is barely above the prescribed minimum of 500 souls, the majority of these being employees of the Santa Anita ranch. Modesty of Great Soldier. Countess, Von Waldersee, who was born and educated in this country, has been writing reminiscences for a magazine. In speaking of Von Moltke she says that "a more retiring and modest man than Von Moltke could not be found. He insisted upon having the smallest room in the house for his bedroom, with scarcely any decoration in it but the portrait of his wife, to whose memory he was very devoted. At his chateau, Crelsau, he chose also a modest room. He built there a mausoleum for his wife, the key to which was always in his pocket, and he had fresh flowers placed there every day." LOOKS AS THOUGH HE D'BEN LEFT. AMERICAN INDUSTRIES IOWA WAITING ROOM TARPI REFORM IOWA IDEA A STAND PAT SPEECH SENATOR HANNA TO THE OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. "Human Liberty and Protection to Our Labor and Industries." "Let Well Enough Alone; for God's Sake Keep Letting It Alone!" The Republican party is fortunate in the character and quality of its leadership. It is fortunate in having as chairman of its National Committee a man of the stamp of Hon. Marcus A. Hanna. The need of the hour is stalwart, uncompromising Republicanism on the part of the men intrusted with the duty of directing the party's politics. Senator Hanna is nothing if not straightforward and practical. He does not know what it is to be ambiguous or evasive. Of himself he might truly say: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man. I only speak right on. To be a plain, blunt man, and to speak right on, is an admirable characteristic in a campaign leader and manager. Senator Hanna never exhibited these valuable traits to better advantage than in his speech before the Ohio Republican State convention, June 3, 1903. Such a speech was most opportune. It was time that some big man—the bigger the better—stood up and proclaimed the dignity, the glory and the splendid record of unadulterated Republicanism; time to show a just pride in the party's principles and achievements, without apology, qualification or saving clause of any kind. Senator Hanna was the right man in the right place. A lifelong member of the American Protective Tariff League this virile Ohioan is a believer in the doctrine and policy of protection through and through, first, last and all the time. He does not think the Dingley tariff "shelter monopoly;" he knows that it does not. He does not recognize the present existence or probable occurrence of anything in the LOOKS AS THOU AMERICAN INDUSTRIES nature of "shifting needs" that now do or are likely to call for any abandonment, any abatement, any relaxation of the system of protection to American labor and industry. Here is the pith and the core of Mark Hanna's position on tariff tinkering: "Is there anybody in this great audience—aye, is there anybody in the State of Ohio—who hesitates for one moment, under all the conditions which have gone before, under all the environments of the present, under all the hopes of the future, to see one single cause as to why the Republican party should change one lota in those principles? (Long continued cheering.) "Human liberty, protection to American industries and our workingmen. (Renewed applause.) We started that slogan many years ago. It went forth and reached the hearts of every fireside in the land, and if we needed any additional tribute, or an accessory to add to the luster of that monument, it would be the continuation of happiness and contentment perceptible everywhere around us. I once said, 'Let well enough alone.' (Applause.) For God's sake keep letting it alone!" (Renewed applause.) That is the gospel that Republicans want to hear. That is the doctrine to preach from every Republican pulpit. Let protection alone. Let the tariff alone. "Let well enough alone!" For God's sake keep letting it alone!" It Belongs to Democrats Changing a tariff schedule that happens to be more or less out of harmony with the time is quite a different thing from "tariff reform." When Samuel J. Tilden was alive the modified Morrill law was in force. It was in force when Grover Cleveland was president for the first time. The Morrill law was changed twenty-three times, but these changes in schedules did not prevent "tariff reform" from being the slogan of the democracy under both Tilden and Cleveland. In other words, "tariff reform" is quite different from changing a schedule that is out of time. "Tariff reform" is the Democratic version of the industrial issue. It was then, is now and will continue to be. Republicans might as well stay on their own side of the issue, for when it comes to the next national campaign they will either have to stand for protection, without apologies, or compete with Democrats on their side of the discussion. We are aware that there are some Republicans who imagine that their party by taking the Democratic position in part will be able to crowd the Democrats off the political map. But they are very foolish ones. A party is seldom able to win victory by taking the position that logically belongs to the other party. Republicans have no reason to be dissatisfied with what has been accomplished under protection in recent times. They can continue to point to it with pride. They do point to it with pride.—Cedar Rapids Republican. Very Different. During these discussions of revision of the tariff it should be distinctly remembered that there is little if any more similarity between the Democratic idea of tariff reform and the Republican idea of changing the tariff than there is between the old Democratic tariff for revenue only idea, which has been popularly known as free trade, and the Republican policy of thorough protection to American industries. As Hon. Sterling Morton, President Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture, said, he would burn down every custom house in the land. The Republican party has favored a high tariff primarily for the protection and uplifting of American industries and incidentally to provide necessary revenue for running the government. The Democratic idea on the other hand has always been that we should have free trade or just as near free trade as it was possible to construct tariff schedules so as to provide the necessary income for government expenses.—Warren (Ohio) Chronicle. WHY TAMPER WITH IT? Discard Theory and Accept the Facte of History. It has long been a favorite doctrine among protectionists that their policy was necessary for the purpose principally of affording "infant industries" a chance to get a foothold at home against the competition of foreign products of pauper labor. That, every body recognizes as a familiar formula once vigorous enough, but now decrepit with years and employment. The Journal has but little concern about the theories, the party cries or any of the usual forms of "jawing" GH HE'D BEEN LEFT. IOWA WAITING ROOM TARITA CERFORM IOWA IDEA over the pros and cons of protection as a national policy. Most of these contentions are the merest emptiness and ordinarily serve to vex the air and men's ears to no conclusive purpose. As the Journal has said before, the record made by the operation of the protective tariff in this country is the only absolutely determining proof of results. American citizen knows what that has been; he knows that under the tariff the American republic has steadily, rapidly, substantially, permanently advanced in wealth producing prosperity in a manner and to an extent approached by no other people in the world's history. It is true, that, incidentally, domestic manufactures have been made possible and that they are fostered by the tariff, but who believes that to have been all that the tariff has done? And who believes that prices of protected products have in any single instance been sustained as a result solely of protection? At a time when the country was solely dependent upon Great Britain for free wire nails, English wire nails sold for $6; under a later duty of $6 a keg, home-made wire nails sold for less than $1 a keg. The duty on lumber is a factor in this great system that has brought the American people unparalleled employment and wealth—why tamper with it? Of what consequence is theory when fitted against the teachings of events?—The Lumber Trade Journal. Who Will Do the Dedging? "No political maneuvers or evasions will prevent the tariff from being the issue of the next presidential contest. Its shadow is already in the door."—Philadelphia Record. If there are any political maneuvers or evasions to keep the tariff out of next year's presidential contest they will be on the side of the Democrats. Republicans are not afraid of the tariff as an issue. They will welcome it as the governing issue. The Democrats may dodge and straddle in defining their tariff policy. Very likely they will. But not the Republicans. Their convention declaration will, we predict, be for straight protection without apologies or "trust sheltering" admissions. The Idea The main Iowa idea appears to be to get something. They are after the vice presidency now.—Philadelphia Press. Anti-Microbe. Prosperity has been an effective anti-toxin in fighting the microbe of Populism.—Albany Evening Journal Mr. Thompkins Teaches the MISSION CLASS Story % Mouse-War Veteran "Dear me," said Mrs. Thompkins, "I know the poor children mean no harm and that they act the way they do because of their home training, but sometimes they are dreadfully trying." "Tut, tut," said Mr. Thompkins. "A woman makes a mountain out of every little molehill. It's the easiest thing in the world to handle children. All that is requisite is a little tact and patience. Look here. You let me teach that mission class of yours. I'll have them so that by the time I get through with 'em they'll come up and eat out of your hand. You are an estimable woman, Mrs. Thompkins, but you lack the qualifications absolutely essential for a mission teacher. To-night at the school I wish you to sit in the background and observe how a mission class should be handled." Mr. Thompkins put on his hat and walked with his wife over to the school, which was already in session. She pointed out her class to Mr. Thompkins, and then disappeared behind a convenient pillar in the room, while her liege advanced cautiously upon the class. As Mr. Thompkins greeted the class he was received with tumultuous shouts of "Hello, whiskers," "Wee-ee ee," "Gee, but I'll bet the wind likes to see you." Mr. Thompkins sat down in the teacher's chair and waved his hand in an impressive manner. "Dear little children." he began. "Ah, cut out de 'dear kid' bizness," put in one of the class. "Were's de nice loldy wot teaches us. We don't want no members of the Gote club comin' round runnin' us." "I am to be your teacher to-night," said Mr. Thompkins. "My wife wishes me to teach you this evening." "Not for my money," said the biggest of the boys. "I'm going to strike. We're union in dis class an' we don't stand for no scab breakin' in." "But," expostulated Mr. Thompkins, "I am not going to take the class for all time. I am merely to teach you for to-night. I am not a regular teacher in mission schools." The big boy said something to the class and all the boys immediately began singing. "Ifs don't belong to th' regerlers. He's only a volunteer." "That will do, young gentlemen," said Thompkins, with dignity, and at the same time glancing apprehensively at the pillar behind which his wife was seated, "I wish to teach you this evening. I do not believe that you are being properly trained, and I will make your lesson this evening one of true value and one which you will long remember." "You'll have to show us," said the big boy, sitting down. "Git blissy." "Now, young gentlemen, before taking up the regular work of the evening let us have a little round table and discuss subjects of general interest. If any of you should like some subject explained you will please state it. Think of something which you would like to have delineated." The big boy bobbed up. "How do you make a Maltese cross?" he asked. "Talk about the cruelty of a cat playing with a mouse!" exclaimed a householder when that familiar simile was mentioned in his hearing. "Everybody knows that a cat, especially a half-grown kitten, will occasionally sport with a captive, and show as much pleasure as does the human hunter who pursues the fox, but in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand there is a pounce, and the whole thing is over. If you want to know about cruelty, flendish, unspeakable cruelty, I will commend the study of the mousetrap. "When we moved into the apartment we now occupy we were hardly settled until we made the discovery that the place was swarming with mice. My wife suggested that we get a cat, but I could not forget that cruelty which I firmly believed was part of a cat's nature. I bought a trap, baited it with cheese, and next morning I had a problem on my hands. Mousse cowered in the box, completely at my mercy. I was master of his life or death. The absolutely power I had gained didn't make me feel very proud, or yet very comfortable. I kept remembering certain lines of Robert Burns, and a kind of lump came into my throat as I made ready for the execution. At the last moment a happy thought occurred to me. I called to my wife. "This is the anniversary of our wedding," I said, "in honor of the occasion I am going to set this little heegar free." "That will be splendid," she said, clapping her hands; 'now I shall be able to eat breakfast.' "The next morning I found the trap sprung, but the mouse was dead. He was not hurt. He had died in the sheer agony of fright and desperation Mr. Thompkins turned to the black board and worked five minutes drawing with colored chalk while the class whistled and threw paper wads. "There," said Mr. Thompkins finally, as he waved his hand at the board, "there is the way to make a Maltese cross." "Naw it tain't," said the big boy. "You pull its tail; that's the way." "Such levity should have no place here," said Mr. Thompkins, turning pink. "Is there any other question, and this time I should like a sensible query." Mr. Thompkins paused while he dug a paper wad out of his ear. He endeavored to suppress his rising wrath, and when he was sure he was quite calm he said: "I will now tell you an interesting story. I know boys like stories, and I expect that you will pay careful attention." The class grew quiet, and Mr. Thompkins, rejoicing at his little stroke of diplomacy, began his story: "You know, boys, that the highest position to which the American youth can aspire is that of President of the United States—" "Ah I'd sooner be a alderman," said the big boy. "De alderman in our ward's got a snap and he owns tree saloons." "I shall ask you to preserve quiet," resumed Mr. Thompkins. "There was once a poor boy that lived on a farm—" "Gee, I was on a farm onct," said the smallest boy. "Dey had a cow dere what giv buttermilk." "This boy I am speaking of," resumed Mr. Thompkins. "was determined to become great, and he hewed rails and worked with his big, honest hands until he became the greatest man in the country. Do you know who he was?" "Jim Jeffries," yelled the big boy. "Will you please leave this room at once?" demanded Mr. Thompkins. "Chase yerself," replied the big boy, politely; "I've got a license to stay here. I don't see any medals on you." Mr. Thompkins jumped up and seized the big boy by the collar and started for the door. Immediately the rest of the class landed on him. There was a scuffle and a heavy fall, and the mission school was thrown into disorder by seeing the banner class piling on top of a tall man with whiskers who was on the floor, wildly bawling: "Take 'em off; take 'em off. They've stabbed me." A moment later the class had hurriedly jumped back to their seats. Mrs. Thompkins had appeared. "Say," said the big boy apologetically as he wiped off his face, "we're sorry, mum, that we got inter trouble and disgraced the class, but we couldn't stand for that guy for a minute. He's a bum teacher, he is. You're all rite and de gang's wid you, but no geeser like dat can butt in on us." Mrs. Thompkins smiled grimly as she restored order, and Mr. Thompkins stood out in the hall and pulled pins out of his legs and wondered if he ought to swear out warrants for the young ruffians who had upset his theories on how to teach a mission class. at being caught in the trap. "The next fellow was alive, and I got up early, put the trap in my overcoat pocket and sneaked down to Riverside Park, where I turned him loose. Then I went back, feeling distinctly foilish. "The trap is empty this morning,' I explained to my wife, letting the present tense serve to preserve my truthfulness. "'I don't believe I would bother to set it again,' she suggested a little anxiously. "I don't believe I will,' I responded heartily, and nothing further was said. "That day I confided the situation to a friend. "Oh, you'll get used to it,' he said; 'I was the same way once, but I went ahead and killed them, and now I can kill chickens, drown puppies or do anything in that line.' "That settled it. I had no desire to be a complacent killer. When I went home I splintered the trap and wrote an order for a cat. She killed several mice the first week we had her, and then the mice learned that there was danger in our apartments, and transferred their attentions to our neighbors who had traps. In the four years that followed there have not been half a dozen mice in our apartments, while our neighbors drown one of the little creatures every morning and still suffer continual annoyance from them. "The mouse trap not only inflicts terrible and unnecessary cruelty upon the little animals, but it teaches children to harden their hearts and kill. Take away the barbarous trap and install the harmless, necessary cat, whose very presence will in most cases prevent the disease for which the trap is an attempted and ineffective cure. A COOLIE PARADISE Apt Description of the Island of Jamaica, Where Orientals Find Prosperity and Create an Atmosphere of Romance—Two Cases in Point we (Special Correspondence.) “This,” recently retaarked Joseph | the hundred or more coolles tndew Chamberlain, England's colonial secre | tured to him that his plantation soon tary, as he placed a finger on # map| became noted as one of the most pro ‘showing Britain's possessions in the | ductive in the valley. ‘West Indies, “is the paradise of the| Ram Sal was now fairly started on Hindoo coolie, his road to fortune and each suc *And there, too,” added one of his | ceeding step that he took brought him ‘earers, ‘those same orlentals have | nearer to it. Year by year he added created an atmosphere that fairly | to his possessions, sometimes a plan teeke with romance.” tation oftén real estate in Port o ‘The American or European who has | Spain, where he set himself up in s ‘spent sufficient time in Jamaica or| mansion, whence he went about dl Trintdad to become acquainted with | recting his ever increasing interests the ways of the thousands of Hindoo| Thus Ram Sal prospered until twc laborers on the plantations and the| years ago, when, old in years, he a. , Ny | eoolle tradesmen in the towns inva- tiably makes the same assertions. To prove the first he usually quotes the ease of Ram Sal and as evidence of the latter he tells the story of a rajah’s son who turned coolle for love's sake. ‘Thirty years ago a Hindoo of low caste Ram Sal by name, living in a plateau town of India, found himself inextricably in debt to a bunnia—a usurious money lender. He had been bound in his boyhood for the debt of his grandfather and after working for nearly twenty years to clear it he learned to his distress that instead of ecoming smaller the obligation had steadily increased. Ram Sal saw starvation staring him- self and his family in the face, and so, when a European, coming to the village, told of a place across the “black water” where a Hindoo could earn as much as 26 cents a day and after binding himself to work for elght years on a plantation would be freed ‘of both his contract and his debt, Ram Sal straightway prepared to follow the Ce conte Se ie bi city # = PNY ‘coolie contractor whither he led ané the bunnia commanded. ‘The ship that carried Ram Sal and his family arrived in course of time at Trinidad, and there he worked fot six years, the planter in the mean time feeding him on rice and clothing ‘him, and the agent of the bunnia see dng to it that until every cent of Ram's indebtedness was paid not a cent of his hire reached his pocket, but was turned over instead to the agent by Ram's employer. At the end of the sixth year Ram Sal felt the jingle of coin in his hands for the first. for the debt of a few Tupees that his grandfather had con tracted when he took Ram's grand mother to wife was wiped out. ‘The ting of the coins stirred up a strange desire in the coolie’s heart—It awak ened his ambition and he vowed then and there that he would be rich some day and a planter himself. To that goal, during the remaining two years of his indenture, Ram Sal saved every penny that he earned, At the end of that time it was pitiably smal!—something less than a hall thousand dollars—but it was more money than Ram Sal had ever owned before, and, what was more important it was sufficient for the execution of Lis present purpose, the establish: ment of himself as a silversmith tn the Hindoo quarter of Port of Spain, in which business he prospered rap idly. Ram had not forgotten how fields ‘were made to yleld thelr increase, As ‘a planter he so directed the labors of On May 24 Uncle Ned Giggey, of Fort Fairfield, Maine, was 99, and on the following day he celebrated the an- niversary by planting potatoes, of which crop he now has an acre in the ground, Last year he cleared an acre of woodland, and this season he has it all planted. He says he {8 old enough to know how to farm, and strong enough to keep at it a long time yet. He says At fs not work but “loafing ‘round and feedin’ high” that wears men out. eooue WIG is eaten Still Farming at 99. OPPPOOROD the hundred or more coolles inde tured to him that his plantation soon became noted as one of the most pro ductive in the valley, Ram Sal was now fairly started on his road to fortune and each suc ceeding step that he took brought him nearer to it. Year by year he added to his possessions, sometimes a plan tation oftén real estate in Port ol Spain, where he set himself up in s mansion, whence he went about dl recting his ever increasing interests Thus Ram Sal prospered until twe years ago, when, old in years, he died, and when his heirs came t reckon up the estate they found it te be worth nearly $1,000,000, ‘That {s why Mr. Chamberlain, whe knows these things, spoke of hit King’s West Indian possessions as thé coolle’s paradise. But the other mat called them the field of romance be cause of the story of a rajah’s sor and many more like unto it. Here i the story: ‘The eldest son and heir of a rapat of one of the small states of Rajpu tana fell so violently in love with 1 veautiful maiden he had seen on th streets of his father’s capital that h laid aside all thoughts of his own higl caste and her equally low conditio and proceeded to woo her. Every thing went well with the lovers fo ‘WOCES, UBL Cae OF the prince's ret. inue, spying upon him, found hin Keeping a tryst with the girl. The rajah was prompt ly informed and enraged at hi: heir’s loss of caste determined to wip. out the disgrace that the son had brought upon him self and his family With the crafti ness of the orienta the rajah received his son with al the ea@antinn af « EA } gn eB devoted parent until he discovered, through spies, the next meeting place of the lovers, Then, as they were seated in a secluded pagoda, a band of the palace guards burst suddenly in upon them, and without warning first slew the matden and then turned upon the ‘prince. But the latter was too quick for the soldiers, Seizing his sword, he managed to cut his way clear and escaped into the city, where he hid. During the weeks that energetic search was made for him he kept him: self under cover, and until the efforts of his father relaxed did he dare crawl far from his hiding place. Even then he was in great danger, and, realizing that he could not hope to re- main in his father's realm, he decided to get as far away as possible, This he did by disguising and presenting himself to the nearest coolie con: tractor, and a few weeks later he was on his way to Jamaica, He had worked as a common field laborer for five years before his story accidentally became known, Over a certain number of coolies another coolie is usually placed as overseer One day the rajah’s son and his over. seer disagreed over a piece of work, ‘and the latter was on the point of using a whip on the former when the plantation’s superintendent, a young Scotchman, interfered, The gratitude of the laborer was unbounded. For once he lost his oriental stoicism and tears came into his eyes, as he said: “Master, you have saved me from & great disgrace.” The superintendent's curiosity was ‘5 2 £9 CR A pent im Ca hy al CaN cm) aver ae eee PO Itt TRS So Rep ¥" Le Sx ik ey co Vole Ect Atte § eae! 4 as Pi ch ) wo f iO PE Feve BC WTlC® oF TaWviCnn Aroused, and although the Hindoo en deavored to slink away he was presse: so hard that he finally explained hit remark, “You have saved me from a grea disgrace,” he said. “I, a rajah’s son to be struck by a Hindoo of low caste!" Then the whole story, which thé Scotchman verified later on, came out The hero of it is still employed on ar interior plantation {n Jamaica, Sea ene aanenane Tde Turns Into Finger. A curious surgical operation {ts re ported from Dresden, whore Dr, Hal nel, who was attending a girl 8 years of age who had lost ner forefinger of her right hand, amputated the secon¢ toe of his patient's right foot and sewed {t on to the stump of the mian ing finger, The two parts were then encased |r plaster, and afcver three weeks it was found that the toe had become firm); attached, forming a good substitute for the finger.—New York Journa) Be ROCKS oF RILLS rm a 3 For THE er MS 7 & Se FAIR ALTE” Feo 7 SFT, 6 canadien Mbit imtcianrtaitiaceaaasoninsinigs NORRIE ‘THINGS WORN BY THE GIRL WHO AFFECTS THE RURAL. ee ——- Eee el ee 6}, a es — W \QB a SS 2 ia eT sy pct SN ENE lt UY im Stile oe IIS pee) gee \ ape net (es ey a” Nh v2 Si Rete ws 5 Le a es rN on. on \\ Wi ( BA ete oh eh - RA 3 A\ + abla \y sight I > Wh Ns NS VS 5 WN) Rae ah i) a Mpa AN WY SOSA ee ea) NN ne oh ; ae rN reef v7, ks , PENTA A my a ry N I Ka Blouse With Broad Collar. Broad collars are becoming to'the greater number of womankind and are exceedingily effective on the dainty blouses now in vogue. The very pretty waist illustrated shows one of @ novel sort and ts made of pale ‘blue louisine silk with trimming of ecru lace, ‘The blouse is made with a fitted foundation and consists of a plain back and fronts that are tucked at their upper portions and joined to a round yoke. The big collar lies flat and {fs cut in wedge-shaped pieces at {te inner edge, the points of which are attached to the shield and under which 4 4 Gel reer Gi Ve A NW, A -* (a i p. Sif VA} iw @ the ribbon is passed. ‘Ihe shield and stock are separate and are attached to the waist beneath the collar. When desired they can be omitted and the waist worn with an open neck. ‘The quantity of material required for the medium size is 4% yards 21 Inches wide, 4 yards 27 inches wide, 4 yards 32 inches wide, or 2 yards 44 Inches wide, with % yard of tucking for shield, collar and cuffs. Rinhveldered Gewns, The fad for embroidered gowns brings many pretty fancies to the fore, and @ woman who has an artistic sense and is clever with her neeu.c can beau- tify her cotton gowns in any number of effective ways. Here, for instance, is a suggestion for a wash cambric that is simple, and yet has a wonderfully pretty effect: Make a shirt waist costume of white Mnen cambric, plaiting both the waist and skirt, and then over the plaits around the neck, across the bust, and just below the hips place three gar- lands of colored flowers. Make them in this way: Take wash ginghams of the colors required—say a pale green and pale pink—cut five petaled flowers of the latter and heart shaped leaves of the former; then, apart from the dress, buttonhole stitch the edges with coarse wash silk. This will make a substantial trimming which may then be sewed on the material tn the way suggested, connecting stems and ten drils can be put in a running astiteh afterward with the green embroidery silk cm > & HOUSEHOLD Yep. TALKS FPN When a window $6 diMeult to open rub the sash cords with soft soap ani the ditculty will coase, When polishing grates add a littl powdered alum to the black lead ani you will find {t does its work better © Before polishing knives warm th: board by the tire, for knives polis! much better on a warm board than on a cold one. ‘When cleaning windows don’t forse to add a few drops of ammonia to thy water. It will make your work easie: and the effect will be better. ‘Tarnished stair rods are easily clean ed. Wash them with soap and wate: and then polish with a sligitly oile cloth dusted over with finely powders ‘rotten stone, Never tolerate a dirty sink. ‘To in Sure cleanliness dissolve a little soda every night In hot water and pour ft down the sink. This will remove any erease, etc., which may adhere to the waste pipe and thus prevent its getting clogged, Every mother knows that overalls for her small boy or girl are an eco: nomical investment, For playing about on the beach, as well as romping in general, they are invaluable, Cotton rep Is an excellont material to use for overalls. A good quality of denim or duck will also stand much hard wear. A Hint From the Cleaner, A cleaner gave away enough of his Secret for renovating materials to prove very valuable to one woman, If gasoline, naphtha, or benzine is the cleaning fluid the amatour cleaner finds often that the last state of the cloth {s worse than the first. Around the spot will be a ring of discoloration that marks the stain more thoroughly than did the original spot. To prevent this the fabric should be cleaned with a plece of the same goods, the cloth rubbed lengthwise and with the weave. Continue rubbing until the material ts perfectly dry. If these directions are carefully followed, it is safe to clean the most delicate materials, How to Dress for Your Phota. Some simple facts concerning color will be usefu? to many when deciding how to dress if having their photo- graphs taken. Dark brown, dark green and plain black materials, without gloss, will take a rich black color. Dark drab, dark orange, crimson and slate will take a very rich drab color. Violet, purple, pink and magenta will come out very light, while pale blue will look white, and should be avoided. White Chip Hat. bute, Meee yy dng ‘ oa ae a Fs Aon SS ni 1 AN x WN This broad-brimmed white chip hat fs raised from the coiffure by a bane dean of pink velyet, and the wreath is of green leaves and, sprays of shaded pink flowers, Beaten Biscuit. | Into a quart of sifted flour mb a tablespoontul of lard, add a little galt and wet to a very sti dough with a gill of water and one of milk, Put through a bisenit-beating machine, put- }ting At in again and again until you have worked ft for about ten or fit teen minutes, then cut into bisenit, having the dough about one-quarter inch thick. Bake for fifteen minutes in a floured tin, after pricking each biscuit with a fork, Some persons add one-quarter teaspoonful of baking pow: der to the dry flour, It improves the biscuit, Cleaning Wash Silk Waists, ‘The most satisfactory way to clean @ wash silk waist {8 to wash It In a suds made of benzine or gasoline and white seap. Afterward it should be rinsed In fresh benzine, and, If it ts wrinkled, it may be pressed with a warm tatiron after ft is dry, A hot fron could not, of course, be used on a garment wet with benzine or gayoline, ‘The rinsing fluid may be poured from the sediment which will collect at the bottom and saved for another occasion, Boy's Costume. Little boys are always attractive dressed in sailor fashion. The very pretty little costume illustrated com- bines the blouse that slips over the head, in Peter Thompson style, with ‘8 box plaited skirt, and is exceedingly becoming to little tots. As shown, it is made of white serge, with bands of blue and is stitched with blue corticeil silk, but blue serge could be substitut- ed for white, flannel is desirable and various washable fabrics are correct. Tha costume consiets of the body Me: j Cy “Asp = 5 = ; f Ny 4 F \ ( oe c Wy +] yy ae) yr ing, which {s faced to form the shield, the autre and the Blouas, The shirt box plaited and attached to the bedy. The blouse is separate and without an opening, being drawn on over the head, It is faced to form a deep yoke and at the neck is a sailor collar. The quantity of material required for a child of 4 years is 4% yards 27 inches wide, or 2% yards 44 inches wide. wan Eee ski: Veils of white chiffon set off with a narrow border of black chiffon are among the novelties, The veils are wide enough to cover the entire face and deacend below the chin, This is necessary to prevent the “branded look,” which a soiled vlack veil border produces when the line passes across the mouth or chin, a positive disfigure: ment to the wearer, Thoso affairs are styled “Broadwalk Veils,” but ey may be worn at country villages and at “springs” and mountain rosorts far from the coast. Pearls Are in Style. Evidently the fashion in pearls dates from time so remote that history can- not fix the pertod, but It is sald they were never more popular than at pros ent. Every real pearl, it is sald, dif. fers from every other pearl, and it takes years to select the pearls for a single necklace. Imitation pearls can easily be turned out round and all alike, THE. yf Ye 903 ep 4S WELEDRESSES 7 ay eo brews rm " NAS oe 7 nea Sushes are all important for evening gowns thin seanon, Conching parasols of blue taffeta, polka dotted in white, are edged with & piping of white velvet. An accompaniment for grass linen kowns are fobs to match with charms of self material on the end, In every form the stole is the pre ferred shoulder wrap, and tx equally popular in ostrich, marabout and lace Among the imported novelties ars plaid volles, some in tones of green and blue, others in delicate paste sha tings. Advices from Paris state that ma crame fringe is being used in that city ax edging for collars and flounces om tees aowne. Lucy She dwelt among the untrotien waye Beside the springs of Tos A maid whom there were none to praise ‘And very few 0 love A violet by a moray stone Malt’ hidden from the eye Fair ae a atar, when only one Ts shining In’ the *ky She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be But she int her wrave, and of ‘The difference to me William Wordsworth. An Ancient Burial Place. Ever since the advent of man upon the earth, the question of disposal of his remains after death has been one of vital importance, It is to man's ever-present desire for a safe and suit: able repository for his dead that arch aoologists owe much of their know! edge of prehistoric time; for the 2 j a | ‘ peta i i ; |: ! we . a weapons, cooking utensils and other articles ‘exhumed from these buriab places of the ancients unfold many facts regarding their methods of living Of the various places used by the ancients In which to deposit their dead the rude stone chamber known as a cromlech was probably the most oftea adopted for any burial other than tha very common ones. ‘The picture shown fs an accurate one of a eromlech Which was discovered In a barrow near Paradis, on the Island of Guern sey. On digging into the mound the large flat top, or capstone, of the tomb was discovered, and when thie was removed the upper part of two human skulls was exposed to view, ‘The chamber was filled up with earth, and as this was gradually removed, exposing the bones of the entire fle ures, the latter were found to be in a good state of preservation, ‘The teeth and jaws denoted that they were the skeletons of adults, but not of old men, A singular feature in connec: tion, and one unexplained, ts the fact that the bodies had been so placed at Durlal that one faced north and the other south. Possibly they were pris oners or slaves, who were stain per haps buried alive at the funeral of some great tyibal chieftain or great person whose body was placed In the Iarge chamber near by, Houses Over Twe Genturiaa Ola, Workmen have been kept busy throughout the spring month on the Wingohocking meadow, surrounding the “Roek house,” the “Shoemaker house,” or the “Mendrick’s house,” as the litstorie. building is varlousty calted, which ts hilt on the huge rock At Wingohocking station, near Phib Adciphia, ‘This rock Is famous. for Helng the pulpit, or the “preacher'a rock" used by William Bonn in pre Fevolutionery days. In the famous Old meadow: throweh which, until re cent years, the beautiful. Wingohocks ing creek flowed, and in which during the revolutionary war some of the British cavalry had their encampment, there are now huge flower beds and clumps of handy flowering shrubbery. All underbrush has been cut from the Atrotch of woods on the hillside above the meadow and ‘_¢ trees are Uimmed® 2 PERS a Fy (ay ar {0 Calle. 4 Uy i, Ry i ime a bh i Ty pa qe wen imeetb ane egy une os ere Le a TUE ALD BOK MASE to Tet in the sunaight, making It pos sible to g1ow @ smooth, rich slope of velvety grass ‘There ts renewed Interest In tha historic house since Germantown res idents have been attracted to the spot Hecuuse of the Improvements, It te claimed to be one of the oldest houses in Philadelphia limits. It is not known exactly when the honse was built, al though it 1s stated on good authority that it was previons to 191. Sema historians declare that it was built by Shoemaker in 1690, others are equally confident that it was built by Gerhard Hendricks in 1682, The Deepest Ocean Point. The greatest ocean depth ever dise covered was sounded only @ short time ago, during the recent cruise of the Albatross in the Pacific, Profes: nor Agassiz was in charge of the expe: dition, and near the Island of Guam, There the beam trawl attached to @ steel cable, was lowered to the depth of 28578 fect, five miles, almost aa high as Mount Everest. By means of tnermometers attached to the trawl it was found that the water at thir depth bore the temperature of op 35 degrees, jus? y little above freer, point. Ss --- THE RISING SON. LEWIS WOODS.....Business Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... 82.90 Six months ..... 75 Five months ..... 65 One month ..... 15 Surtly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. OWN IN THIS STATE. Wice up. 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HARRIS, Postmaster, 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. A picnic will be given at Boyd's park Thursday, July 23, for the benefit of the Old Folks and Orphans' Home. There will be many attractions to make the day a most enjoyable one, ofFF participants see bills and also an article in this paper next week. It is hoped that the public will patronize this effort on the part of the managers of the Home, since the great demand made upon the public owing to the damages done by the flood, has led many promisedwys(actees(gC oam) caused many promised subscriptions to the home to be withheld for a few months. There are 14 children and 5 old people in the Home. The mob organized at Evansville, Ind., is a sad picture to behold in a free country like ours. Seven white men had to be shot down to preserve order within a stone's throw of our churches and within two square's of the Mayor's office. The men who wanted to lynch a fellow human being for violating the law are themselves murderers, and are willing to commit murder in order to satisfy their thirst for the blood of a fellow being. OLD GLORY. Old Glory was born on July 4th, 1776, or 122 years ago, in Philadelphia, Pa., when the British colonies assumed the position of free and independent states, and declared to all the world, that in the future all government control over the American people could only be exercised by the consent of the governed, or the people. October 13, 1781, or 127 years ago, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army and tendered his sword to George Washington, commander in chief of the American army at Yorktown Pa. Since then the American Flag has been honored and respected by all civilized nations of the earth. Our flag went first to the Northwest territory on the Great Lakes, then to Mexico, and was unfurled on the ramparts of Montezuma. We next see Old Glory on the Islands of the Sea, 18,000 miles from where it was born and on the other side of the earth. The sun never sets on the territory over which old glory floats. Is there a boy in America, white or black, who does not love our government and is not proud of our flag? No, not one. God bless the stars and stripes which wave over the destiny of this great Nation. Antiques in Negro Cabins It is said by experts that the finest antique, colonial furniture in this country comes from the south. Much of it has been discovered in the cabins of aged negroes who were formerly slaves. When these rare, carved old pieces of mahogany were discovered by their masters they were often given to the negroes, not understanding the valuation of them that would come later. A richly carved mahogany sideboard was found recently in chicken roost in one of the southern tes. This was bought by a dealer small sum and after it was reu sold to a customer for $250. ```markdown ``` FIELD FOR ST. PATRICK. Multitudes of Snakes Infest Northeast ern Assiniboia. A St. Patrick is required to drive out the snakes that infest northeastern Assiniboia, Canada, where the Swan river is joined by a little stream known as Snake creek. Millions of the reptiles find a home among the surrounding rocks and the river bottoms. On a warm day the snakes leave their hiding places and bask in the sun. Although the district is uninhabited parties of travelers have come upon the scene when the ground is covered by this loathsome army. It is a curious sight to see the reptiles forming themselves into ball-shaped masses and proceed with a half-rolling, half sliding motion. They are of the common garter variety and quite harmless. There is only one other quarter of the globe that rivals the district, and that is on the China sea, where the snakes are in such numbers as to form an almost solid mass when they take to the water. GATER AND HIS MONEY. Folly of Oven Savings Bank Is Again Illustrated. Hereafter whenever poor Mr. Gater of Trenton, N. J., hears himself facetiously described as having money to burn he'll probably retire into some secluded spot and indulge in a few reproachful clicks at his own person. This is because he joined the innumerable throng of idiots who, through distrust of all banks, devise cunning hiding places for their savings, and has now paid the customary price of such folly. Mr. Gater's secret repository was the oven of his kitchen stove, which was not being used in the summer time, and this plan worked finely until the first autumnal fire was started. Ten minutes thereafter Mr. Gater bethought him the $65 in bills which were in the oven—and then they were but ashes. The oven savings bank is capable of being improved upon. Due to One Glass of Wine A beautiful private yacht, well known in European and Asiatic waters, has for skipper a silent man whose face bespeaks a history. He was formerly captain of the great steamship China, which, when but two years old, wert aground at full speed in the Straits of Bab el Mandeb, near the Red Sea. During a banquet in the saloon, a beautiful woman was claiming the captain's attention. Word was brought from the bridge that lights were in sight; then lights fifty yards away; then "lights upon us!" But Lady X. urged the captain to take one more glass of wine with her, and while they drank that last glass the crash came. Fortunately, no one perished, but the good ship was ruined and the captain was dismissed from the service. Birds Call Them from Bed. Some children in Cranford, N. J., think they know just how the old king felt "when the pie was opened" that contained the "four and twenty blackbirds" for the blackbirds have been waking them up regularly every morning since March 1. About 6:15 every morning a tremendous squeaking noise like the creaking of a giant gate sounds right outside the bedroom window and the children open their eyes wide to see the hundreds of black wings flying by. The birds light on the top branches of some very tall trees near the house, and there they chatter noisily for an hour or so. A Long-Headed President Miss Alice Fletener, president of the Anthropological society, has introduced a new departure in setting apart the first thirty minutes of each of its meetings as a time in which members, visitors, travelers, explorers and others, may report on matters of interest to the society of a nature too brief to be made the subject of a paper, yet of sufficient importance to be of value to anthropologists. The innovation has already proved the means of bringing out a large number of valuable suggestions and bits would have escaped. Has Lived His Life. Amos Martin of Princeton, Pa., has just passed his one hundred and sixth birthday. He was a Highland piper at the battle of Waterloo. When he married his first wife, who was a spinster and owned a farm, he drove to her place with a blind horse, found her in a shed milking a cow, held an umbrella over her while he proposed in a manner most unconventional—for it was raining—and wedded her next day. She died when he was 96 years old. Five years ago he wedded a widow who was 60 years old. That Corn Beef Mine After all, it may not be necessary to continue the fight against the meat combine, as word comes from the Yellowstone Park of the discovery of a deposit of corned beef sufficient to feed the world for a long time to come. That the information comes by way of Munich does not make it any the less reliable. The discovery is credited to a cowboy. The only trouble possible in utilizing the deposit would seem to be in ruining the park by mining operations. New Idea in Dentistry Suppuration at the roots of teeth is treated by electric rays by Dr. Stebel of Munich. A powerful electric light is focused upon the bony cavities of the jaw, setting up irritation, increasing to violent inflammation, and a layer of tissue comes away. The suppuration ceases, the looseness of the tooth disappearing. The operation is difficult, but is reported to have been successful in fourteen cases. HOW A SNAKE MOVES. Wonderful Rib Formation of the Unpopular Rentile. Now any one who has looked at the skeleton of a snake—and it is really a very beautiful object—will have been struck by the great number of ribs, which may be as many as ten hundred and fifty pairs. In these lies the secret of the ability of the serpent to do some of the wonderful things. The lower end of each rib is connected with one of the broad scales that run along the under side of the snake, and when a rib is twisted slowly backward, it pushes on the scale, the edge of the scale catches on the ground or whatever object his snakeship may be resting on, and the body of the snake is pushed just a little bit forward. Of course, each rib moves the body but a mere trifle, but where the ribs are so many, and they are moved one after another, the result is that the snake moves slowly but steadily ahead.—St. Nicholas. KEEP A CHEERFUL MIND. The One Way to Obtain Victory Over Adversity. To be cheerful when the world is going well with you is no great virtue. The thing is to be cheerful under disadvantageous circumstances. If one has lost money, if business prospects fail, if enemies appear triumphant, if there is sickness of self or those dear to one, then is it, indeed, a virtue to be cheerful. When poverty pinches day after day, month after month or through the years as they pass, and one has ever to deny self of every longed for luxury, and the puzzle of how to make one dollar do the work of two has to be solved, then the man who can still be cheerful is a hero. He is a greater hero than the soldier who faces the cannon's mouth. Such cheerfulness is the kind that we need to cultivate.-Milwaukee Journal. Living Conditions in Egypt. A traveler of the upper Nile thus describes a typical native village: "The houses are built of Nile mud, each house accommodating a family of no matter what size, the inhabitants of each village almost all related to each other, comprising sometimes several hundreds of people. Their streets are littered with filth, animals of every kind obstruct one's path, dogs growl and snarl at the appearance and intrusion of a stranger, women rush about, hiding their faces in their yawmshaks lest a white man should behold their features. Flies in swarms settle on the children and lay their eggs on their eyelids, unwashed, because they believe it to be contrary to their religion to wash or remove the flies from their eyes." Richest Cathedral in the World. Richest Cathedral in the World. The Cathedral of St. Isaac, in St. Petersburg, which was recently robbed of about £5,000 worth of diamonds, is considered to be the richest cathedral in the world. It cost more than £2,500,000 to build. The gold alone used for gilding and ornamenting the interior amounted to about three and a half hundredweight. All the vessels of this sacred edifice are composed entirely of gold and silver and weigh about four tons. The interior of the building is most gorgeous, and contains a great number of statues, mosaics, bas-reliefs and precious "ikons," or holy pictures, which are of great age, and are supposed to possess miraculous powers. The Needs of Africa. Lord Cromer, speaking at Khartoum of the needs of the country, recently said: "Except sand, crocodiles and hippopotam, of all of which there appears to be a superabundant supply, there is not enough of anything in the Soudan." If the region could exchange its hippopotam, crocodiles and sand for railways, educated natives and "dust"—to use a colloquialism for money—it would be reasonably happy and prosperous. This is the problem of commerce the world over—to exchange what one does not want for what one needs. How It Really Happens. "Johnny," cautiously inquired Mr. Sixiaweek of her little brother, when he called the other evening—"she" was putting the finishing touches to her toilet upstairs—"have you—er—does your—er—do you—er—ever hear your sister speak of me?" "You can't pump me," promptly replied Johnny. "I don't butt into my sister's business." Then Johnny picked a shiny stick out of the hall rack and went out. This is the way it happens in 999 cases out of 1,000, but the funnies for the colored supplements could never be clubbed into believing it.—Exchange. Hard to Cure. An inhabitant of Creglingen, in Wurtemberg, whose name is Fritz Kottman, claims to be the champion benefited of the world. He has been married no fewer a than eleven times. His first three wives died young, the next two were drowned, one committed suicide, three died in succession, the tenth was gored to death by a bull, and he has just recently married the eleventh, who had a leg cut off by a railway train last year, so that the wedding had to be postponed till now. Steel and Sea Water When steel is exposed to the action of sea water and the weather it is said to corrode at the rate of an inch in eight-two years; an inch of iron under the same conditions corrodes in 190 years. When exposed to fresh water and the weather the periods are 170 years for steel and 630 years for iron. --- EMANCIPATION AT MOBERLY, MO., AUG. 4, 1903 AT MILLER'S FAIR GROUND PARK. EXERCISES OF THE DAY Grand parade in the Fair Grounds at 2:30 p. m. Moberly Silver Cornet Band and the Huntsville Band. First Section: Showing the emigration of the negroes to Missouri in 1803. Second Section: Showing the transportation of 1803, consisting of two ox teams, six bell horse team such as were used a hundred years ago to carry goods, long before railroads. Third Section: A company of G. A. R soldiers, a company of Spanish-American soldiers. Fourth Section: A float showing the educational and mechanical industries of 1903. Fifth Section: A group of Arabian horsemen, a group of Turkish horsemen. Committee of Arrangements: REV. BATES, Pastor of the Sec REV. WILLIAMS, Pastor of the Choates Street. H. LOWRY. JESS MILLER, J. NEW BABE QUINN, LESLIE JESS BROWN, Manager. G. T Train leaves Union 5,000 PE ADMISSION V. BATES, Pastor of the Second Baptist W. WILLIAMS, Pastor of the A. M. E. Street. RY. JESS MILLER, J. NEWBY, JOS. BABE QUINN, LESLIE QUINN, OWN, Manager. G. T. CARR, Union leaves Union Depot 0000 PEOPLE ADMISSION, AD REV. BATES, Pastor of the Second Baptist church. REV. WILLIAMS, Pastor of the A. M. E. church of Choates Street. H. LOWRY. JESS MILLER, J. NEWBY, JOS. BROWN BABE QUINN, LESLIE QUINN, JESS BROWN, Manager. G. T. CARR, President. 5,000 PEOPLE EXPECTED ADMISSION, ADULTS 15c, CHILDREN 10c. ```markdown ``` The fan made an almost simultaneous appearance throughout Italy and France, in England and Spain. Its most artistic flights have been achieved in France; but not even to France will Spain yield in its use of the fan as "an important weapon in the mimic warfare of coquetry and flirtation." Whether the Spanish lady is in church or a place of amusement, whether visiting or walking, it is always in her hands, frequently portraying the horrors of the bull-fight. Corresponding with these, certain French revolution fans represent Charlotte Corday carrying a dagger in one hand and a fan in the other! To Improve American Cattle to Improve American Cattle. Henry C. Moore of Sloux City, believes that it is possible to interbreed the Arctic musk ox with cattle of the temperate zone, and that stock so produced would be able to withstand the severe winters of the United States. He has been in communication on the subject with Peary, the Arctic explorer, who is favorably impressed with the idea. "The vast loss of the present season among herds of the Western ranges," said Mr. Moore, "emphasizes the necessity of trying to infuse hardier blood into American cattle." Indoor Snowstorm. A writer tells of an indoor snowstorm on a very clear, cold evening at a party given in Stockholm, Sweden. Many people were gathered in a single room, which became so warm as to be insufferable. The window sashes were found frozen and a pane of glass was smashed out. A cold air current rushed in and at the same instant flakes of snow were seen to fall to the floor in all parts of the room. The atmosphere was so saturated with moisture that the sudden fall in temperature produced a snowfall indoors. Oklahoma's Only Battlefield. The only battle ever fought on what is now Oklahoma soil took place on the Washita river near the Antelope hills. Here in 1868 Gen. Custer, with 900 cavalry, engaged in a deadly combat with Black Kettle, a Cheyenne chief, with an unknown number of warriors. Custer lost nineteen soldiers and one officer, but won the fight, killing Chief Black Kettle, with 103 braves, and taking fifty-three prisoners.—Kansas City Journal. Mercerized duck will make smart shirt-waist suits. Green is quite noticeable in the new spring cotton goods. Hints of what tailors will do in the spring indicate much trimming. Cotton etamines promise to be among the popular fabrics for summer wear. Pongenette is the name given to the newest comer among the desirable thin cottons. --- CREWS @ CAMPBELL 806 and 808 East 12th St. Barber Shop and Pool Hall. Hot and Cold Baths. All the choice brands of cigars and tobaccos. Robert Simpson, H. M. Kennedy, Allan Bates, Barbers. SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED $100 Coats, 50c Vests 25c Pants 25c Overcoats $1.00 Suits Dyed $2.00 Goods Called for and Satisfaction Guaranteed delivered same cay Your patronage solicited Tel. 2643 Walnut. Kansas City, Mo. Quick and Pleasant FRISCO SYSTEM Excellent Service to points in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida --- Amusements: dwn horse races, bicycle races, greasy pole climbing, merry-go-round and balloon as- sion. Base Ball Moberly vs. Chillicothe. night and Street Parade at night at 8:30 m. ing by some of the most able men of our e. to eat and ice water in abundance. is and churches will be open at night to certain the many visitors. and enjoy yourself, come and see your apple whom you have not seen for years. one and see the parade at Miller's fair round park at 2:30 p. m. night parade at night and the race presen- tion of one hundred years. EVEN--EXCURSIONS--SEVEN Des Moines, Kansas City, Montgomery, Ala., Sedalla, Cannibal and Chillicothe. Darktown horse races, bicycle races, greasy pole climbing, merry-go-round and balloon ascension. Torchlight and Street Parade at night at 8:30 p.m. Speaking by some of the most able men of our race. Come and enjoy yourself, come and see your people whom you have not seen for years. come and see the parade at Miller's fair ground park at 2:30 p. m. Torchlight parade at night and the race presentation of one hundred years. SEVEN--EXCURSIONS--SEVEN From Des Moines, Kansas City, Montgomery, Columbia, Sedalia, Cannibal and Chillicothe. EXPECTED CHILDREN 10c. Everything Pertaining to Music. PIANO KNOWLEDGE. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By --- And the Southeast, and to Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, etc., furnished upon application to James Donohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. $1.25 round trip. How much do you know about the qualities of a Piano or other Musical Instrument? Couldn't you be deceived easily in that matter? Nine out of ten people can be, and therefore trust to the honesty of the dealer. How important then, that you buy from a house with a reputation of many years behind it. This is the oldest and largest music house in the West. arl Hoffman MUSIC COMPANY 1923-24 MILNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MN. Telephone 2101. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 76 WASHINGTON D.C. MARROW CO. 76 WASHINGTON D.C. MARROW CO. THE RISING SON. y eA Bites 0. ‘ peel KY WA RY i sy wr | 58 5 i i= ae i Aim, Fulriss, Society Reporets, A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— the little bits we collect here an thire elitists iin rem recta sects E LOCALS. Frof, Comin will soon go tO 1exas to it his little daughter. Mrs. Wilson, on Highland avenue, ho was badly burned a short time , died Monday and was buriedifrom \e Second Baptist church Wednesday fernoon at 2 o'clock and was laid to t in Union cemetery. ‘The oBone Concert Company will be ome next Thursday for a summer va- cation after a very successful tour the past season, Mrs, Willy left last week for Chi- cago to visit her daughter, Kittle Wil- ly Love. Mr, Wallace Deane has purchased a home on Park avenue. The Silver eLaf Club will have two "or three swell outings this summer. : Mrs. Frances Mock will soon go to Minnesota for the summer. Miss Vera Westly of Sedalia was in the city Sunday, the guest of her sis- ter, Mrs. John Day. Mrs, Fannie Bunkley has much im: proved in health and if nothing hap: pens will be at her post of duty next September at Phillips school, where she will be quite welcome. Miss Nellie Banks and Miss Jennie Guy went to Chicago last week. Campbell strect aristocracy taiks of going to Warrensburg for an outing. The Grand Chapter meet here next Wednesday, Miss Flora Cummings went to Chi cago this week. Mr. Daniel Lucas has remodeled and <besutificd his home on Flora avenue Mrs, John Day will go to Sedalia the first of the week to spend a couple o weeks. Mrs. Sandy Edwards will spend ¢ few weeks on their farm. Miss Ruby Bradshaw has returned from a visit to St. Louis. Paui and David Crosthwaits wil ‘spend a few days at the Jordan farm the guest of Mrs, Sandy Edwards. Mr, Wade B. Smith is on his vaca tion, Mrs, Carrie Ganger Harris of Gal veston, Texas, will visit Mrs, Willian Fairfax in August. Prof. Moten, teacher of Mathematics at Jefferson City, spent a few days ir the city last week, Mrs. Lou White will go to Ft. Madi ‘son, Iowa, the 11th for a month’ visit. Read the Rising Son. Mrs. Dora Yancy, of 503 Quincy avenue, is confined to her bed from 1 dislocated or fractured shoulder a present. This disability was cause ‘vy an accident while riding on a cabl car. Mr, Willis Jackson and Mrs, Tol Miller were married July 7th, 1903, a the home of the bride, on Kingstot avenue. We congratulate them ant Wish them success. Mrs, Mary Chace of 705 Wyandott street, after a long illness, meets wit! a painful accident in fracturing he hand, Miss Annie Wright and Miss Magel White of Lexington, Mo., spent Satu: day and Sunday, the 4th and 5th inst as the guests of asister at 624% Hai rison, Miss Ida Coffral of Boon, Towa, 1 visiting Mrs, Mary Davis, 920 East 6th ‘The Sons of Allen were royally en- tertained Wednesday, July 1, by their president, Mr. Charles Frazier, at the home of Mrs. 8, H. Burnett, 811% Charlotte street, whose home was Veautifully decorated with carnations, sweet peas, and nasturtiums. Mrs. Durnett was assisted by the following ladies: Mrs. 8. Lee, Mary Hill, Lou Brice, and Mrs, J. Woodland, ‘Those present were: Miss Frazier, Mr, Hines and Rice, Mr. and Mrs, Arnett, Mr. and Mrs, Hurd, Mr. and Mrs. Rosamond, Mr. and Mrs, Ross, Mr, and Mrs, J. Brice, Mr. and Mrs, Hackley, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Cargil, Dr. Keys and John Fry, Mrs, Richardsoa, Miss Dunn and Miss Barett, Marguerite Eloise Cole, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Cole, was baptized last Sunday morning at St. Augustine's Church by the Rev, Father Harper. Sponsers were Mrs, C. EB. Cummings, Mrs, B, B. Brown, and Mr, Isaah Horton, FOR SALE. For sale, by R, E. Shryock Real Es- tate and Loan Company, 705-706 Pos- tal Building: $2,000—Five room cottage and 50 foot lot, paved street, good location, $1,750—Seven room frame, East Side; all special improvements in and paid; easy terms, $1,250—Five room frame, good repair; easy terms, Smith, the Druggist is prepared to Serve you with the cold drink, When yon go down town stop at 908 east 12th street. Mrs. J. H. Hubberd, has opened a first clase restaurant at 706 East 12th street, and is now ready to serve his friends with anything, good to eat. Breakfast, 6 a, m. to 9 a. m. Dinner, 12 n. to 2 p. m. Supper, 5:30 p. m, to 8 p. m. Luncheon and Short orders at all hours, i Home made ples. We will appre- ciate the visits of friends at 706 East 12th street. A MOST POPULAR SPEECH. Effort of New York Clubman That Has Become Historic. Tt was at a dinner at the Tilden club. Several men had responded to toasts, when finally a clubman well known in soclety, something of a firstnighter, and who practices law when the mood {s on him, was called on for a speech. He is known as a raconteur, but his ability to entertain a crowd is rather that of a story teller when demi-tasse and cigars are served than as an orator with sonoraus de!ivery. Ho «is quite wealthiy’ “Gentlemen,” he began, “I, do not know why I have been called on for &@ speech. The honor should have been awarded to others. However, I have one qualification. It is that I know how to be brief. “Gentlemen, this s all T have to say. It is a speech in five words, and here it is: ‘Let me pay tho bill.’” The applause which followed the short speech can be {magined. It was unquestionably the greatest after: dinner speech that had ever been de livered in the Tilden club. It has be- come historle—New York Mail and Express, THE SCENE WAS CHANGED. Loving Husband Not So Ready With His Autograph. He kissed devotedly the hand that Passed him the autograph album, and wrote therein: “{ write my name upon this virgin page. Would that 1 could inscribe it upon the purer scroll of your heart in that invisible ink which shall only appear when the thing upon which it is written is warmed at the fires of love which takes no note of time!” ‘That as a year ago. They are mar ried now, and when she asks him for Mis autograph, in the shape of a good ly sized check, to liquidate her millin- ery bill, he grasps that album or a Jarger book, if handy, and threatens to throw it at her, His Appetite. In a recent book on gastronomy ap- pears this anecdote of the gastronomic prowess of a Swiss guard in the em- ployment of the Marechal de Villars: “One day the guard was sent for by the marechal, who had heard of his enormous appetite, “How many sir Joins of beef can you eat?" he tenta- tively asked. “Ah, monseigneur, for me I don’t require many—five or six at the most.’ ‘And how many legs of mutton?’ ‘Legs of mutton?—not many —seven to eight.” ‘And fat pullets? ‘Oh, as to pullets, only a few—a dozen. ‘And of pigeons?’ ‘As to pigeons, mon: seigneur, not many—forty, perhaps fifty.” ‘And larks?” ‘Larks, monselg: neur?—always.’ ” Wedding Cake Disaster. Paris the other day enjoyed the un- usual aight of a cake five feet four inches in height being carried solemn- ly along the streets by two men, with a third walking behind. One of them slipped, and the majestic piece of con- fectionery.was crushed to pleces upon the tram-line. The cake belonged to ‘a young Pole, and was for his wedding breakfast. It 1s one of the customs of Poland for the groom to give a cake exactly as tall as the bride. The extle had the utmost difficulty in getting his order attended to in Paris, and ho shed bitter tears when the cake was ruined, A Strange Act of Faith. In 1856 the KaM™irs of the Xosa tribe were converted by a medicine man, who induced them to slaughter ‘thelr cattle and destroy their corn, ‘promising that new herds, which no man could number, would on a certain day spring from the soll, They obeyed his teaching to the let: ter, ard @ hideous famine which all but exterminated the tribe was the natural conseqence. Rarely on this earth has any race enjoyed the tre: mendous exaltation through which this tribe must have passed before I perpetrated its stupendous act of faith, ‘i Dacian Gumeiiebation.. In his “Random Reminiscences,” Charles H. E. Brookfield says that his great uncle, Henry Hallam, the histor- ian, was invited by Tennyson to be godfather to his first boy, Hallam readily consented. As they were walk- ing up the churchyard, side by side, the historian inquired of Tennyson, “What name do you mean to give him?” “We thought of calling him Hallam,” sald the poet. “Oh, had you not better call him Alfred?” modestly suggested the historian, “Ay,” re- plied the bard, “bat what if he should turn out a fool?” A Home Thrust. Chaplain Russell of the Missourt house of representatives recently dem- onstrated the efficacy of prayer by a supplication that 1s said to have transformed the attitude of the mem: bers of the house, a majority of whom formerly read the papers during the chaplain’s petition: "“O Lord,” he prayed, “I ask that those in this house who rise to thelr feet for prayer may not continue to read their papers while the chaplain prays. Grant that they may have some respect for God if they have not for the chaplain” ANTIMONY Mut LirsLE Voce Medical Science Has Almost Entirely Discarded It. That. terrible poison, untimony, known most familiarly in the com- pound called tartar emetic, has a very interesting history. It was introduced into medicine some centuries ago by Paracelsus. Its name signifies that it is “against monks,” as some on whom it was tried displayed the now familiar symptoms, Its use in modern med!- cine has been reduced to the vanishing point, with other depressing measures, such as bleeding. In the table which arranges the elements in series and shows their connections—so that all are probably modifications of one un!- versal substance—there Is a sequence, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, ant!- mony, bismuth, Sir Lauder Brunton has shown that these possess many common properties in thelr action upon man and that these properties vary in relation to the place of each in the scale. In the days before chloroform antimony and tobacco were ‘used to produce the partial uncon. aclousness which attends their action. FRANKLIN A GREAT AMERICAN, Plan to Celebrate Anniversary of His Birth is Worthy. x The American Philosophical socte- ty’s plan to celebrate in 1906 the two hundredth aniversary of the birth of Franklin, the great founder of the soctety, 18 particularly appropriate and happy. A signer of the declara- tion of independence, a stout patriot on every occasion, a man of vast re source, whose labors in the constitu tional convention it is impossible to overestimate; a wise and skillful diplomatist, who was instrumental in bringing about the French alliance, without which the history of the world might have been different; a sage, counselor, wit, and man of the world, he shows in his life and career how it is possible to start with nothing and from nothing, and to render great serv- ices to his country, to “win the world” and gain ‘mmortal fame. Sk Himiebed Stanane. The finest diamond ever tmported paid no duty to the customs officers, having smuggled itself in from some other planet in a meteorite. Packed in a thick envelope of meteoric tron, It fell to earth in Diablo canyon, at the foot of Crater mountain, Arizona. its coating being broken into numer. ous particles by contact with — the rock formation of the ground. Some six weeks ago a party of geologists, discovering these fragments, at first thought them indications of a re- markably pure vein of iron ore, but their true character was soon discern: ed, and in one of the pleces picked ‘up by Prof. G. A. Koenig, the dla. mond was found imbedded. Tt is now on exhibition at the American Mu lek of Natural History. aecictah a Coc ih cal A number of Parisians who were in the siege have decided to erect a monument to the memory of the pig: cons that carried the dispatches which kept up communication with the outside world, It will consist of a pedestal surmounted by a bronze vase, on which will be cast a group of the birds that proved of such utility to the French. The committee in- cludes the names of many well-known Mterary and scientific people. The gratittide comes somewhat late, for after the war the pigeons in ques- tion were xold by auction and com- meocrated in pigeon ples. His Humorous Explanation. Au amusing instance of @ minister stumbling on a text of a humorous ‘personal application {s that related of a widower who had remarried with. in a year after his first wife's death. His friends and congregation thought him very expeditious and on the next Sunday, when his text was announced, they could scarcely control them: selves. He rose in his place in the pulpit and said: “My beloved brethren, you will find my text in the seven teenth verse of the fourth chapter of Second Corinthians, “Our light affite tion, which fs for the moment.'” ‘Tea Was Not Missed. The late Augustus Hare was fond of relating an amusing Incident which illustrated the absent-minded: ness of his cousin, Dean Stanley, and Dr, Jowett. Both were quite devold of either taste or smell and for some reason both were inordnately fond of tea, One morning they had each drunk eight cups when suddenly, as Jowett rose from the table, he ex claimed: “Good gracious! I forgot to put the tea in!” Neither had notic: ed the omission as they sipped their favorite beverage. What Puzzled Him. Commenting on the death of a brother of his flock who, while Intox! cated, went to sleep on a railroad track and was run over by the engine, Brother Dickey sald: “Dat de jug he had wid him didn't git broke w'en he wuz runned over was one er dese tings dat’s providential en hid fum our onderstandin’, But ter save my life I can't see how a man could go ter sleep on a railroad track or any- whar else wid sich good lquor ‘long: side him!"--Atlanta Constitution, ae Me Blan of Ghatastes, After studying and photographing more than 40,000 pairs of ears of per- sans, including those of 2,000 insane and 800 criminals, and those of 300 animals, an English criminologist is forced to conclude that the ear gives no clew to personal traits. This is a hard blow to so-called sclentists who ‘think they can pick out the enemies of society by the angles at which the ‘latter wear their ears, WHY BALD MEN UNCOVER. City Salesman Manifests Curlosity on the Point. One question the city salesman would like answered pertains to bald- headed men. “Why do so many of them take off their hats In public conveyances and other places where « head covering Is the proper caper?" he inquires, with Brave concern. “It {s no uncommon thing to see men take off their hats in street cars, and nine-tenths of those who do it are bald-headed. One would think they would be afraid of catching their death of cold riding about in that exposed state in draughty weath- er, but evidently they are troubled by no such considerations. Neither does vanity deter them. A denuded scalp has no terrors for them. I asked one bald-headed man why so many of his ‘kind thus cheerfully advertised their paucity of locks. He said he couldn't Answer for other men, but that he did it to give his hair a chance to grow, and I would like to know if all | would give that reason.” DIDN'T MIND BLACK FLIES. 5 Brush Away That Durned Bee Baid the Guide. A guide in the Maine woods was brazging the other day about his in difference to the attacks of the black files, from which those in his party were suffering greatly. A $10 be was made that he couldn't let the files settle for five minutes on hi bare back. The guide stripped, and the insects came in good numbers and began t bite. He did not wince. ‘Then one o the party got behind him, took ¢ burning glass out of his pocket, and the sun being out, focussed It on th guide's shoulder. The guide squirmes and wriggled. He stood it for som seconds, then he blurted out: “1 can stand all the back flies ih Maine, but brush away that durnei bee! He won the bet. } Sian eh: akan marae. The committee which {s raising the fund of $150,000 for the erection of a building for the department of phil osophy at Harvard university as a memorial of Ralph Waldo Emerson has announced a gift of $50,000 to ward that fund from one anonymous benefactor and of $10,000 from an: other—the former conditioned on the completion of the fund by the next commencement and the latter on its completion in time to admit of the corer stone being laid In connection with the celebration of the Emerson centennial on May 24. These two gilts bring the total amount now on hand to $125,000, Thoroughbred. “1 was coming from my hotel on Christmas day, when a litle urchin ran up to me with a newspaper. As he ran he fell, and some other boys xot ahead of him and tried to sell me fa paper, but [ refused to bny until the “little fellow came up, half crying, “with his papers. 1 handed him halt “a dollar, and when he reached in bls pockets to get me the change I said: | ‘Never mind, sonny. Keep the change. ‘He looked up in my face and said, ‘Say, Mister, you're a torobred.’ Now that’ was the only Christmas present I had that day, but to my mind it was the best I could have had."—Capt. Jack Crawford in the Household, The Fan in History. As in a mirror, the fan, the origin of which {s lost in the twilight of Orien- tal legend, reflects the habits, cus- toms, arts and taste of every country which has made a friend of an article xo useful and ornamental. Greece was the first European country to adopt the fan—two birds’ wings—one of Its uses being by acolytes in the temples to drive away the flies from the sac: riflce, It served the early Christians in the catacombs a similar purpose when the bread and wine was spread for the sacrament; a custom which lasted In the Roman Catholic church to the fourteenth century. Millionaires Pulled Up. Several notable persons have fallen vietims to the new ordinance at Washington forbidding —automobites speeding. Lieut Robert 8, Clark of the Ninth infantry, the stepson of Itishop Potter, aud the wealthiest man in the army, Was the rst pun: shed. He paid the cour: $10. for inning his machine at a twenty-four: miileanhour gait, Frank Joy, a vroker, was caught and fined $10 and « millionaire from the West who ap: peared ax John Smith in the police records paid $5 for five minutes of joy at the rate of twenty miles an “hour, The wife of a European offcial, re cently arrived in Shanghai, was sure prised one afternoon to receive the following “ehit:” “Dear Madam: ‘This morning you ave order to us of a teak musie abinet is not tight to at what you told me as the picture, The pleture vty one drawers can have folding, iad other four drawers all of pully it, Please you may come down to we and thanks.” ‘The lady hurried down at once to pully out the tangle.—TItBits, Children With Banking Accounts. ‘The town of Nous, Belgium, is de- sirous. of abolishing poverty | within its borders. To this end every child in offictally registered as soon as ft is born, and a banking account open- ed in its name by the municipal aw thorities with a deposit of twenty cents, By the time the child attains te majority @ small sum awaits bin to assist his starting jn business, The Leading Dry Gooods Store. Millinery, Notions, Ladies’ and Gents Furnish- Ing Goods, Boots and Shoes. Since the waters have receded and our city is being again prepared and made a good place to live in—-we have been busy preparing our stock for the trade which is complete in our lines for the summer trade and we are now prepared to furnish anything in the line of merchandise during the month of July. We have the largest and most complete stock in the city--- Come and seefor yourself, 1429-31-33-35-37 E. 18th St. Corner of Flora. FIRE WORKS tues 2 Packs Fire Crackers 5c We can also save you money on Drugs, Paints and Glass. Prescriptions filled at « LOWEST PRICES .« Surface’s Drug Store Sth &lydia . MOBERLY Wi EXCURSION | cm $1.25 Round Trip CREAT WESTERN CLUB JULY 12TH. ae miss it! Big Day! Have music and plenty refreshments L. W. Carter, President; W. W. Yates, Ist Vive President; W. W. Waters, 2nd Vice President; Dr. T. C. Unthanks, Secretary; Theo. H, Clay, Treasurer; F. 1. Lewis, Corresponding Secretary: Frank Wilson, Sergeant: avarm, ‘The National Negro Business league will meet in Nashville, Tenn., during the month of August, 1903. The execu- tive committee has decided upon Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday, August 19, 20, and 21, as the dates for the mect- ing. WANTED—SEVERAL PERSONS of character an good reputation In each state (one in this county re quired) to represent and advertise an old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21.00 weekly and expenses additional, all payable in cash each Wednesday direct from head office, Mee and carriage furnished wher aecessary. References, Encloye —«elf-addressed envelope. Colonie: Co,, 334 Dearborn St., Chicago. For Good Service in Grocery and Meat Business . . . CALL UP 455 GRAND THAT'S ALL BROWNING BROS. WILL DO THE REST S. W. COR, 21ST and SUMMIT. L. W. SUMPTER & SON, UNDERTAKERS, ENBALMERS | Tel. 261 Main, 609 Main St. Just to keep your head cool, MEN’S STRAW HATS 15 | 25 35 up. Nebraska Clothing Co Ww. B. RAYMOND Licensed Funerel Furs nishor and Embalmer. No Extra Charge Bor Work Ia Kansas City, Stssonet, 431 MINNESOTA AVE. Tel, 32 Want, Kansas City, Kansas MRS, BETTIE JORDEN i idMtan't 1505 E. 17th St, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing. Old clothes made over. ‘The people who talk about money Deing the reot of all evil are those: who haven't: any All in All. I am a pilgrim of the withered staff My gaze illuminate, and fruit and chaff Are naught. But pour me tears of rain I will bear it. But pour me tears of rain And I will care not if I weep or laugh, Wandering the world, and thou my god- like love. Thou art the diszy universe above Sensa sunny winds to please, make acacia bloom. For my great wonder, O my poet love, To thy sweet moods I would be like a dower Soft in the flowing wind, or like a pool Beneath the purple rain; from hour to hour Thou swayest; I am thine, priestess or fool. I care not if my life be song or sob. So in the night I hear thy strong heart throb. —Florence Brooks in Century. In the Sugar B It had been understood by the Dixon and the Taylor families, and by most of the people for five miles around, for that matter, that Tom Dixon and Bessie Taylor became engaged as they were riding home together from the county fair in October. The exact date and exact circumstances of such things are always of vital interest to an agricultural community. It was a match that pleased both families, as Tom was a fine young farmer, and Bessie a smart girl of nineteen, who could have had the pick of half a dozen. The marriage was not to take place for a year, and the course of true love ran smooth until December. Then Bessie Taylor suddenly exercised the prerogative of her sex. Tom was too sure of her, and he must be made to understand that his bird was not yet caged. There was to be a spelling bee at the red school house. He and Bessie would go, of course. As both of them were accounted among the best spellers in the community, it was probable that they might be asked to choose sides. It was unfortunate for Tom that he forgot to say that he would drive up to Taylor's at a certain hour for Bessie. He meant to, and he had no doubt that she would be ready, but the matter slipped his mind, and when the evening finally arrived, he got out of his cutter at the door, only to be told that Bessie had been gone half an hour. More than that, she had gone with a windmill man who was canvassing the neighborhood and stopping at her father's house. Tom Dixon was stunned. Here was coquetry, treachery, deceit. It didn't occur to him that Bessie felt pliqued over his neglect and wanted to "get even" in the only way open to her. Neither could he know that she had told the windmill man that her old beau would probably escort her home. He gasped—he muttered—he swore. Then he got into his cutter and put the whip to his horse and sent the animal over two miles of smooth road on a dead run. His first idea was to kill that windmill man on sight, his second was to kill the pair of deceivers, his third was to blow his own brains out and die the death of a martyr. Then he happened to get a fourth idea, and he adopted it and stuck to it. He entered the schoolhouse with his jaw set and a firm resolve to make a certain person repent in sackcloth and ashes. Bessie Taylor was there, but he saw her not. The windmill man was there, but he was too insignificant for a second glance. The homileat girl for six miles around was there, having hired her brother to bring her, and Tom walked straight up to her, and began to laugh and giggle and flatter. Worse was soon to come. It happened that he was chosen to lead one A rommie walked straight up to the homeliest girl. side, while Bessie was not. Everyone looked to see him call her name as first on his side, but he overlooked her entirely. It was the homeliest girl who was called, although it was known that she would go down and out on the first three-syllabled word. When only he and Bessie remained on their feet the climax of his meanness came. When they got among the hard words he stood and glared across at her as if he had never seen her before, and, in her confusion, she blundered and left him victor. Next day it was known far and wide be song or sob. ar thy strong heart brooks in Century. gar Bush that Tom Dixon and Bessie Taylor were "out" and, though several parties volunteered their services as peacemakers, the gulf could not be bridged. The couple were brought together at a candy-pull and apple-bee and a second spelling school, but they held aloof from each other and resorted to sarcasm. The old folks on both sides tried their hands, but the result ```markdown ``` "Oh, Tom!!" she exclaimed, was the same, and it finally came to be understood that the match was off for good. Time wore on and the month of March came in. Mr. Dixon had 200 sugar maples in his woods, and there was sugar making every spring. On the night of the fifth he gave a "sugar-off" party to half a dozen young fellows and their girls, and, of course, Bessie heard of it. Tom head that she heard of it, and also that she said she never could see any romance in trailing about the wet woods and eating maple wax off a chip, and so he repeated the performance a week later. This time she had no remarrs to make, and he felicitated himself that he had made her feel real bad. Three or four days after his second party Mrs. Taylor said to her daughter: "Bessie, I've got a great yearning for a taste of new maple sugar, and if it wasn't for my sore heel, I'd go over to Dixon's bush and ask Tom for some." "And what a goose you'd make of yourself," snapped Bessie. "Well, I dunno. There's worse fellers than Tom Dixon. I've never been mad at him." "But you ought to be. You should not stand up for any one who has acted as mean as he has." "No, mebbe not, but perhaps you were a little bit to blame. I'd like some new maple sugar, as I was saying, and next to that I'd like two or three leeks to eat with bread and butter. The leeks must be coming up in the woods now, and I can fairly taste 'em. If father wasn't so busy to-day, I'd have him go down in the woods and look for some." Bessie made no reply, but an hour later, when the mother happened to look out of the kitchen window and saw her climbing the pasture fence and making for the woods, she said to herself: "Our woods and the Dixon's woods join and if leeks and maple sugar don't get together, it won't be my fault." Bessie reached the home woods and began to look for leeks. Here and there one was beginning to sprout, but she passed them by and went further. By and by she came to the line fence dividing the farms. The leeks on the other side looked bigger, and, after a long look between the rails, she climbed over. Yes, the leeks were bigger. She had pulled three or four and was still wandering along, when she passed a brush heap and a rabbit ran out with a great rustle. Naturally, she screamed. The rustle of the rabbit was follow- ed by the hoot of an owl, and natu- rally the girl screamed again. She heard the sound of footsteps near at hand, and was about to scream for the third time, wher she heard the words: "Miss Taylor, do not be afraid." It was Tom Dixon, with two pails of sap suspended from the neck-yoke on his shoulders. In her hunt for seeka she had wandered into the Dixon sugar bush. "Oh, Tom!" she exclaimed, as she turned to face him "You mean the windmill man." "I do not—I mean—I mean—well, you ought to have asked me to go to spelling school with you." "But you had better company." "So did you." "Miss Taylor!" "Mr. Dixon!" It was just growing dusk when Tom and Bessie reached Taylor's. Tom had a handful of leeks and Bessie had a big maple chip, with a big lump of sugar wax on it. "Why, Tom, it is this you?" exclaimed Mrs. Taylor, as the pair walked in. "Yes, aunt Sal," he replied, "and here's the leeks and maple sugar and Bessie, and—and—" "Well, I never, never did see," she remarked, as she turned from her work of peeling potatoes to give Tom a hug and Bessie a kiss—Cyrus Derleckson in Boston Globe. The Golfer's Paradise I ask but little when I'm dead As recompense for earthly woes, No golden crown upon my head, No harp to weary hands and toes; No halo I wear, indeed. No means— I only ask, a well rolled mead. He扑打 me then, the watchful soul, A pitter for firce or king That's guaranteed to make the goal. The tees shall be the sort from which One drives two hundred yards at least, While over hurdle, bunker, ditch The balls shall rise as though of yeast; The niblick, mashie and the cleek Shall never miss or make a slip, While only those who Scottish speak Shall have a card of membership. Here on this field of perfect strokes I'll play a winning game with all Who beat me when on earth, the folks Who say I cannot hit the ball; And best of all, the games between, When o'er my nectar I am heard My triumphs to recount, I ween, There'll not be one to doubt my word. —William Wallace Whitelock in Life. Eccentricities of Genius. "One of the first things she did as soon as the success of her book became the talk of Paris was to fly from the city into a hidden retreat, and no communication from the outside world was tolerated by her—not even her letters were forwarded." The lady with this remarkable genius for shyness is Mme. Marcelle Tinayre, author of "La Maison de Peche." She gave some interesting advice at a later time to another lady who "became the talk of Paris." This was Mdille. Thouret, who tried to shoot M. Marcel Prevost. M. Prevost had made free use of Mdille. Thouret's private letters in one of his romances. "Why shoot at him, my dear?" wrote Mme. Tinayre. "You did not hit him and Paris now laughs at you. Now if you had printed his letters Paris would have laughed at him." Pat's Capability. What'll you charge for taking away these ashes, Pat?" I asked, pointing to the Winter's accumulation. "Slvin dollars an' a half, Sor," promptly replied the owner of the village garbage cart. "What?" I exclaimed. "Why, I thought you charged 75 cents a load?" "Thot's right, Sor," agreed Pat. "Sevinty-five clats a load ut do be." "Well," I estimated, eying the pile of ashes speculatively, "there isn't any ten loads here. There's not more than five, or maybe six at the outside." "Don't be ather fretttin' yersilf over that now, Sor," said Pat, cheerfully. "Shure, just leave ut to me entoily, Sor, an' O'll make tin loads out av ut widout anny botheration at all, at all, Sor." A Wide Difference. Kate—is there much difference in their social position? Nell—Oh, yes. Her father gets a salary and his father gets wages. The Up-to-Date Author. "Yes, sir," said the up-to-date author, "I may say that I've been quite successful in a literary way. What do you think my capital was, in starting out?" "Don't know." "A bottle of ink, a couple of pens, a ream of paper and a dozen stamps!" "And now?"— "I employ a secretary, two servants, and keep ten typewriters busy eight hours a day! Talk about 'Genius'—but I haven't time to talk now—I must get off a couple of new novels on the fast mail." Couldn't Fool Her. "My dear Miss Mylluns," said the impecunious young man. "I love you more than I can find words to tell." "But I presume you could tell me in figures," rejoined the beautiful heiress in tones that suggested the ice man. Luxury. Mrs. A.—"Would you like to be very wealthy, dear?" Mrs. Z.—"Yes, indeed. I'd like to be so wealthy that I could hire a girl to do nothing but set the rubber plant out in the morning and bring it in at dusk." Land of Feuds. "So Kentucky is a bad state?" interrogated the friend. "I should say so," responded the drummer. "I thought I was counting the milestones and they turned out to be tombstones." Solar Plexus Blows. The pugilist speaks of knockout blows over the solar plexus, but it is the stomach that receives the shock, and from it the nervous disturbance originates. One trouble with the average "sure thing" is that it's so mighty uncertain. The human hair is absolutely the most profitable crop that grows. Five tons of it are annually imported by the merchants of London. The Parisians harve upwards of 200,000 pounds, equal in value to $400,000 per annum. Ready for Season's Business Richard A. Canfield, richest gambler in the United States, after returning from England to New York to answer a charge of keeping a gambling house, is preparing to open his gambling rooms at Saratoga for the season. George's New Vehicle "George has a new kind of automobile." "Has he? I haven't seen it." "Yes. It's hydraulic. I think. We were all talking about electric autos, and steam ones, and gasoline ones, and George spoke up quick and said he was traveling on the water wagon." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Early Devotion to Art We read of Mr. Betts, who has won an art scholarship, that he was born in Little Rock thirty years ago "and has given his entire time to art ever since." If true this certainly indicates a degree of precocity eminently deserving of the scholarship. Larger Than the Pyramid. The Egyptian pyramids cannot vie in size of stones with the ruins at Baalbec in Syria. The stones of the latter are 60 feet long and 20 feet square. Diplomatic Photographer. A German photographer, Kunwald, says photography, when taking a picture of a lady of doubtful age, places sheets of celluloid between the negative and the printing paper, thus producing a very softening effect, which hides the discrepancies of age. Travels of the Kaiser The litinerary of the Kaiser for the last year, just published, shows that since the same date in 1902, his majesty has made sixty-two jorneys or a total of 24,000 miles. Limitations of Science Every action of human free will is a miracle to physical and chemical and mathematical science, says Lord Kelvin in the London Times. Test Your Eyes The normal human eye can read 100 fers seven-twentleths of an inch high at a distance of twenty feet. Park Statistics. Paris has one acre of park for every fifteen persons; Liverpool, England, one for every one thousand. For Aged People Bellnower, Mo., July 6th.—Mr. G. V. Bohrer of this place has written an open letter to the old men and women of the country, advising them to use Dodd's Kidney Pills as a remedy for those forms of Kidney Trouble so common among the aged. Mr. Bohrer says: "I suffered myself for years with my Kidneys and urinary organs. I was obliged to get up as many as seven or eight times during the night. "I tried many things with no success, till I saw one of Dodd's Almanacs, and read of what Dodd's Kidney Pills were doing for old people. "I bought two boxes from our druggist and began to use them at once. In a very short time I was well. This is over a year ago, and my trouble has not returned, so that I know my cure was a good, genuine, permanent one. "I believe Dodd's Kidney Pills are a splendid medicine for old people or anyone suffering with Kidney and urinary troubles, for although I am 84 years of age, they have made me well." Street Cleaners of Paris. The street cleaners of Paris form a little army. They number altogether 3,880. They are divided into brigades, under the command of forty-four superintendents and 159 foremen. Five hundred sweeping machines are used, and these, with the water carts, find employment for 1,600 horses. The cost of the service works out at about twelve cents a square yard per annum. The Boss Girl of Kansas. The Oxford (Kan.) Register says that Gene Showalter of that town is the typical Kansas girl. Although but sixteen years old, she taught the biggest school in the country during the past school year. After school closed she went home and helped her father plow for oats. Then she made a lot of clothes for herself. Now she is taking a little vacation in the form of a term at a teachers' summer school. Tornado Lore. The months of greatest tornado frequency in the United States, as shown by the reports of Lieut. John Finley of the United States Signal Corps, are May, April, June and July, in the order named. The hours of greatest frequency during the day are from 3:30 to 5 p. m., just after the hottest part of the day, when warm ascending air currents are most liable to meet cooler descending ones. More to Come. A storekeeper in Newcastle, Ind., has secured an injunction to prevent the family that lives overhead from cooking onions because the odor drives custom away. 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Barmaids Are Barred. Women are forbidden to be employed as barmaids or in liquor shops in any capacity by the Bengal legislative council. First Life Insurance. The first life insurance society was started in London in 1698 and another in 1700. Neither was successful. Women on Railways It is said that more than 15,000 women are employed on the six principal French railways. Making a Country Home interests everyone. The M., K. & T. doesn't claim a clear recipe, but its publications treat of the enormous growth of fruit culture in East Texas, the money-making possibilities in the gas, oil, lead and zinc regions of Missouri and Kansas, and the delightful climate of Texas and Old Mexico. Ask for them. Address, "KATY." 514 Wainwright Park, St. Louis, Mo Where Mexico Leads. The mexican postal department has taken a new and novel means of informing the public of the weather bulletins given out by the weather bureau. Every letter which passes through the office is now stamped with the indications for the next twenty-four hours. This stamping is done at the same time that the postage stamps on the letters are concealed, and the receiving stamp affixed. On the Installment Plan. A bashful youth and buxom mald who had traveled sixteen miles to the parsonage were much perplexed on being informed that the marriage fee was one dollar. The young man could only produce fifty cents. The malden naively suggested that the preacher marry them as tar as the money would go.—Lippincott's Magazine. New Tornado Boat The Erne, the first of the type of torpedo boats designed since those of the Cobra class, which has a tendency to break in two in the middle, is just launched on the Tyne. She has a forecastle instead of a turtle deck and is of greater displacement than the older class. The speed is $25\%$ knots. Gen. Bell Welcomed Home. A hearty and enthusiastic welcome was accorded Gen. J. Franklin Bell, U. S. 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It was for the murder of Miss Bishop, after a vicious attack, that a negro was burned at the stake at Wilmington, Del. liver the keys to the cell in which the negro was confined. One of the masked men summoned a doctor, who responded promptly and dressed the wounds of the sheriff, which are not dangerous. The negro made a confession to the brother of the young woman and others who visited the jail after his capture. A special from Stevenson says Gov. Jelkus has been notified of the Scottsboro lynching and asked to order an investigation. Five of the leaders of the mob were recognized and it is thought their arrest will soon be made. Relative of Bismarck in America. Jesco Von Puttkamer, the 14-year-old grandnoblew of Prince Bismarck, is a press feeder in a job printing establishment in Wilkesbarre, Pa. His aunt, Mrs. Mary Royer, with whom he lives, is a scrubwoman. The boy's father, Francis Von Puttkamer, was an officer in the German cavalry. About twenty-five years ago, the boy says, he quarreled with Prince Bismarck and fled from Germany, giving up home, position and money. In New York he was at one time a dishwasher. He married and two children were born—Marguerite, aged 16, who is now a mill worker in Philadelphia, and Jesco. Dowager Czarina's Kind Heart. The dowager Czarina is a great favorite in Russia. Among other stories illustrating her character is this: She saw on her husband's table a document regarding a political prisoner. On the margin Alexander III had written: "Pardon impossible; to be sent to Siberia." The czarina took up the pen and, striking out the semicolon after "impossible," put it before the word. Then the indorsement read: "Pardon; impossible to be sent to Siberia." The czar let it stand. NADA 1 WINNIPEG 2 WINNIPEG 3 IOWA 4 WINNIPEG 5 OHIO 6 NEW YORK 7 TENNESSEE 8 TENNESSEE 9 MISSOURI 10 ALBANY 11 ALBANY 12 KENTUCKY 13 WEST MICHIGAN 14 NORTH MICHIGAN 15 SOUTH MICHIGAN 16 BOSTON 17 GEORGIA 18 GULF OF MEXICO 19 ATLANTIC OCEAN CANADA PACIFIC OCEAN WASHINGTON MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA GRETON IDAHO WYOMING SOUTH DAKOTA GRETON NESNASKA CALIFORNIA NEWADA UTAH COLORADO KANSAS ARIZONA NEW MEXICO TEXAS GULF OF MEXICO ATLANTIC ALASKA NEXICO Locations of a Decade of Lynchings. Rockefeller's Close Supervision. Mr. Gladstone's Subterfuge. Canon Cattley, who died at Gloucester, England, the other day, used to tell a story of how on one of his visits to Gloucester Mr. Gladstone kept a rule of the cathedral in the letter while breaking it in the spirit. Mr. Gladstone was conducted over the building by a verger named Cross—a man of unusual culture—whose account of the features of interest was more intelligent than such expositions usually are. The statesman, highly pleased, tendered a "tip" of half a sovereign. The man respectfully declined the gift as against the rules. Mr. Gladstone dropped the piece of gold on the floor. "There," he said, "the rules will not prevent your from picking it up." And they didn't. Suffers in Cause of Freedom Prince Victor Nackachidze, the Russian anarchist, who with his wife has been expelled from France, was compromised in the great nihilist conspiracy of 1887 in Russia and was condemned to death. This sentence was commuted to imprisonment in Siberia, but aided by his flancee, who followed him, he escaped and sought refuge in Paris. He has been in trouble with the French police several times because of his connection with anarchist piots. The prince is a man of great refinement and education and belongs to one of the most illustrious families in Russia. His wife, by birth a baroness, is a very clever woman, holding a diploma as a physician --- The lynchings of the negroes at Wilmington, Del., and Belleville, Ill., the efforts of mobs to mote punishment on negro criminals at East St. Louis and Peoria, and the widespread discussion at this time of the race problem, have turned the attention of the public again to the prevalence of lynching and the causes therefor. Statistics of the last ten years show that 1,483 lynchings have occurred in the United States in that time. The following table gives an exhibit of the extent of mob law for each of the years: 1893 ..... 200 1899 ..... 107 1894 ..... 190 1890 ..... 115 1896 ..... 171 1901 ..... 96 1896 ..... 121 1802 ..... 95 1897 ..... 166 1903 to date ..... 45 Last year shows the best record for twenty years. January, February, March and April of this year indicated that 1903 was to be even more free of the outbreaks, but June contributed fourteen lynchings to the record, and eleven men and one woman, all negroes but one, were victims of the wrath of mobs in May. The roll by states during the last ten years is as follows: Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Nebraska Wisconsin Arkansas Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Montana Missouri ON RIDL HARR (Chief Executive of Delaware, who is facing the Negro Mob Problem.) bama, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky following in the order named. Sheriff Defends His Prisoner Andrew Diggs, a negro, was taken from the jail at Scottsboro, Ala., and hanged by a mob. The negro was arrested for an attack on Miss Alma, the 19-year-old daughter of Dr. B. B. Smith. The sheriff seized two pistols when the mob arrived and, mounting the stairs, sald he would kill anyone who attempted to come up. The In former years John D. Rockefeller's supervision of Standard Oil Company affairs took in even the smallest detail. On one occasion, commenting on a monthly statement, he called a refiner's attention to a discrepancy in regard to bungs, articles worth about as much in a refinery as pins are in a household. "Last month," he said to the subordinate official concerned, "you reported on hand 1,119 bungs. Ten thousand were sent you at the beginning of this month. You have used 9,527 this month. You report 1,012 on hand. What has become of the other 580?" Apparently Mr. Rockefeller's idea was: Take care of the bungs and the barrels will take care of themselves. Kaiser as an Art Critic. Even in art the kaiser is a autocrat. Leoncavallo, whose new opera, "Roland of Berlin," has been composed upon a commission from him, is now in Berlin collaborating with his German translator, Herr Bock, and he has submitted for the kaiser's selection two endings—one tragic and one, in the hackneyed phrase, "happy." The latter is 'that of the real German legend, which bestows upon the plebeian hero. Henning, a noble maid to wife. Leoncavallo bestows upon him the golden spurs of knighthood and makes him fall in the service of the great elector. The composer hopes to win the kaiser to this ending as the more artistic. MISS HELEN BISHOP REAL ESTATE AGENTS Wanted by the Land Department of the Orient R. R. Co. We have good opportunities for live men in this department. Write for booklet. Send references if you want to act as our agent. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS Use the Red Coral Ball Rose. At leading prices. Nature's Compass in the tropical northern territory of South Australia travelers need not carry a compass. 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