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. VOLUME VIII. NEGRO DOCTORS. Hurrah for Kansas City And her negro medical spill, We have a doctor for every home To administer the healing pill, And the surgeons knife is needed That we needn't feel no fear, And the old saying is not heeded A—doa man dat' nigger heah. Negro doctors is a fad And things have gotten so of late Unless a negro Doc' you've had You are not considered up-to-date. Now, when you' fevers raging high With millions meloncholy. Just call in some passerby And send for doctor Holly. Or should you need a surgeon's knife Then o'er the list quickly search And say to central with all your might. Give me the noted doctor Birch, Or perhaps, two, you'll need, Or your case prove to science a riddle And if from misery you will be freed Why whots the matter with Doctor Dittle. And then perchance a trial is called To seal your doom on a surgical plank Don't weaken or give up hope at all, There's the old reliable Doctor Unthanks And if still your thoughts to other stray And you can produce the popular fee Na matter what time of night or day Call in the ready Doctor Key. And Behold a new one upon the scene With reputation there does not vary For Physicol intelect sharp and keen Has this worthy and competent Doctor Perry. Should all of those fail a desired effect. Before on the negro's yordron hammer Why, show Doctor Lambright some respect And likewise faithful Doctor Shannon And then 'to cop the climax Let it further be installed There's Smith with a negro opotha- cary Wher you can have prescriptions filled. Thus when the negro race have learned In each, to put their trust A negro progress we will then dis cern And the victory will be for us. —Lillie Smith. SOME CUTTINGS Prison Chaplain—"My friend, aren't you sorry you are in here?" Prisoner—"No, sir; I'm in here for having five wives." "Ain't ye got a penny for a poor blind man?" "Why, you are only blind in one eye." "All right; make it a ha'penny, then." Mistress—"Are you not rather small for a nurse?" Nurse—"No, indeed, madam. The children don't fall so far when I drop them." Bertie—"Are you dining anywhere on Christmas day?" Appleby (eagerly)—"Thursday—no." Bertie—"How hungry you'll be on Friday!" "There isn't anything romantic in the statement, but," said a physician, "you can never be beautiful or keep good looks unless you eat well." "Dora." implored the young man, "if you would only assure me that you love me, I could go forth and fight the world." "Well," replied the sweet thing, "if you feel like that you might begin by breaking the news to papa." A. W. Lloyd, Grand Chancellor of the K. P.'s of St. Louis, spent several days in the city this week in the interest of the Order. During his stay here he organized a lodge of 39 members last Friday night. Brother Lloyd is a worker of the old school. He reports a general prosperous condition of the order throughout the state. He now have three good prosperous lodges in Kansas City with a favorable outlook for three more lodges. Past District Deputy Lewis Woods is entitled to the credit of getting up the new lodge. The Knights of Pythias is the order for the young man, it is conducive to his advancement. Come on boys lets get into the hand wagon for we are going ahead. WHEN MAN STAYS AT HOME. Tis Said That His Wife Soon Tires of His Company. It is surprising how soon a wife tires of the company of a man who is too much at home. Men are wise in getting away from their roof trees a certain portion of each day. Among their wives will be found a very general concensus of opinion to this effect. There will be found everywhere a disposition to pack off the men in the morning, and to bid them keep out of the way till toward evening, when it is assumed that they will probably have a little news of the busy world to bring home, and when baby will be sure to have said something exceptionally brilliant and precocious. The general events of the day will afford topics of conversation more interesting by far than if the whole household had been together from morn till night. A very little inquiry, too, will elicit the fact that men about home all day are eminently apt to be fid gety and grumpy and interfering—altogether objectionable, in short.—The Gentlewoman. --- Not Properly Understood. The Rev. Dr. C. — is a staunch Presbyterian, but liberal withal. On the Sunday previous to Pope's Leo's death he ventured to include in his prayer a petition for the prelate's recovery. "But I must have been too guarded in my reference to the case," he told a friend later, "for after the service one of my parishioners said: 'Doctor, who was the sick old man in Europe for whom you prayed? It was Judge _____ (a member of the church), wasn't it? I know he went to Europe in June, but I hadn't heard that he was sick.'"—New York Post. The Sunshine Trust. I wish it I knowed Whah de sunshine growed I'd pack my clothes an' staht An' settle down When de place was foen' An' never mo' depaht. Dis stingy way Fingeth out but Of passin' sunshine out. Has stirred my soul Beyond control An' filled my heart wif doubt. If I could speak About a week Like Congress folks I know, I be bored but Dat sunshine trust An' gib us folks a show! —Washington Star Single Eyeglass Injuries Single Eyeglass Injuries. The single eyeglass is injurious. It threws all the work on one eye. It destroys the harmony of the optic muscles and nerves. A certain Englishman has worn, for a myopic affection, a monocle in his left eye for twelve years. The left eye is all right, but with the other the man can see practically nothing. Joseph Chamberlain wears his monocle in either eye alternately, and his son does the same thing. The habit of the monocle continues to live among the English swells.—Philadelphia Record. No Energy Then Touching experiments on radium, the learned professor had remarked that they abundantly proved that everything in nature—every material—was simply and solely some manifestation of energy. "Professor," she said, with an air of finality, "it is evident that you never saw my husband in the easy-chair on a Sunday afternoon." KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1903. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1903. Mrs. Emma Caves is able to be out again. Mrs. A. W. Walker is no better, and M. L. Porter is still on the sick list. Mr. Al Williams went to Kansas City Tuesday, also Mrs. Nannie Hicks. Rev. A. A. Gilbert closed up last Sunday with the assistance of Rev. Young and his congregation and Rev. Howell and his congregation on Sunday night. The church was crowded and he preached a noble sermon, and read his financial report. The church raised this conference year, $200 or $300 and he left Monday morning for St. Louis. Rev. Young has his reopening at his new church next Sunday, at which time he hopes to raise $300. He asks everybody to come out and help him, which we hope they will do. Rev. and his congregation will be with him at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. In union they are strength. We are pleased to see the churches in our city working in union. We hope it will continue. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hunter are in the restaurant business on 10th street, where Mr. Booker formerly done business. You can get meals at all hours. Fresh fish, chicken, ham and eggs, ice cream, etc. When you come to the city call on them. The Baptist State Convention meets her on the 14th. There are expecting about 200 delegates to be here during the week. We hope everyone that can, will open their doors to the strangers. Prof. Ed Hayden, one of the young men of our city was united into matrony on Saturday night to Miss N. Woods of Cuba. Rev. Thrickles officiated. He took his bride to Slater, where he is now teaching. We hope they will have a happy and prosperous life. There were quite a number who went down to attend the wedding. We were unable to learn their names. Mr. Hayden was very much distress when he arrived, as the train was behind time and he was afraid that he would lose his bride, and I don't blame him. OUR OWN PHILOSOPHER. When designers contest for a prize the result is always a draw. Two good listeners may be friends, but two good talkers—never. Railway companies frequently hypnotize politicians by making passes. It is easy to turn over a new leaf, but it is often difficult to make it stay turned. The mirror isn't a wise-looking piece of furniture, yet it does a lot of reflecting. A brass band and fireworks are necessary in order to attract some men churchward. All sorts of useless things are to be found in the upper stories of men and old houses. Amateur photographers are not the only ones who depend on others to develop their views. The man who is trying to live a double life is generally a man who can't live one life decently. Politeness pays. When a bill collector calls you are out nothing by requesting him to call again. If you would make a friend of a man, ask his advice and follow it; if you would make a friend of a woman, say nothing and let her talk. Ages of Professors. Comparison of the ages of 1,500 university professors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland shows the average to be 60.30 years. HE 1. 1 DED ALL RIGHT. Short on Geography, Pupil Won Through His Quick Wit. A boy in grade 7 in the Belfast schools recently showed himself equal to occasions as they arise. The pupils were asked to write an account of an imaginary trip from Belfast to some foreign city, each pupil having a different city. The boy in question had Teheran for his terminus. He had no more idea where Teheran was than he had of the means of conveyance to Mars, and he just sat still and thought until within three minutes of the time limit. He then began and wrote as fast as he could move his pen, and passed in his paper on time. He started from Belfast in an automobile, and mentioned al the principal places passed through to New York. In New York city his automobile exploded and he was in Teheran. By advice of the principal of the grammar schools the teacher marked the lesson perfect.—Kennebec Journal. SPECIMEN OF ENGLISH. Assortment of Words That Convey Very Little Meaning following alluring advertisement appeared in an English paper recently: "Firms which intend to enter into direct connection with a very capable hired embroiderer, dwelling quite near at hand, of Plauen, Saxony, undergoing round of manufacturers and thus to spare much money, are entreated to lay down the address, with terms to etc., etc." Somebody in Saxony has been using a dictionary without the guidance of a phrase book. The least dangerous form that a little knowledge of a foreign language can take is the acquisition of a collection of useful and well-selected phrases rather than an assortment of isolated words.—New York Tribune. Singing Into Phonographs A young woman who makes her living by singing into phonographs talked the other day about her job. "In this work," she said, "there is one great difficulty, and that is the absence of an audience. When a singer comes out before a big audience to sing, the sight of all those persons is frightening to her, but at the same time it is inspiring; it keys her up; it takes her out of herself and beyond herself. She does better than she would have thought it possible to do. Singing into a phonograph is hard because there is nothing there to inspire and intoxicate you. Instead of a house of people eager to be pleased you have an empty room and a big cylinder. Hence you feel dull and dumpy. Exchange. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR The faith cure treatment is necessary to keep love affairs well and strong. No wonder Eve didn't care for the Garden of Eden when no furs were worn there. The careful man forgets to carry loose bills in his clothes around Christmas time. The bigger a woman is in some spots the more she wishes she were pot so in some other spots. You can never make a man believe that it won't hurt his son's morals to do a thing more than it hurt his when he did it.—New York Press. Small Freight Cars. The carrying capacity of the average German freight car is ten to fifteen tons. Cars of double that capacity are to be tested. Lock 131 Feet High The lock to be placed in the Danube Oder canal will be 131 feet high, and the highest in the world. Millions for Precious Stones. Americans imported $25,412,776 worth of precious stones last year. The Rev. Dr. Parks, secretary of Foreign Miss preached an able and stirring mon at Allen Chapel last Sunday. In the midst of his interesting discourse he laid special stress on the deplorable condition of the colored youth. Dr. Parks appeals to the mothers and tathers to check the tide of iniquity now threatening the annihilation of the colored youth of to-day. Dr. Parks is a candidate for the Bishoprie, and proposes to make an active race for the promotion He left Kansas City last Wednesday for St. Louis to attend the Conference at that point. Probably He Had Not. Peter Dressler, an old Pennsylvania politician, and long the coroner of Allegheny county, had, among other traits a peculiar fondness for free railroad passes, and never let an opportunity of securing one go by. On one occasion he was hearing the evidence in a rather celebrated case when a neatly-dressed, gentlemanly appearing young man was called to the witness chair. Looking him over carefully, the coroner asked: "What's your name?" "George Blank." "What's your occupation?" "Secretary of the Y. M. C. A." Turning to his clerk, the coroner whispered: "Say, John, have we got any passes over that line?" Woman. She said: "What is there that I would not be For your dear sake? What change of heart? Would I not put in any, every part? If love but sag? This be desires of thee? Een as the white moon rules the restless sea. And cawa its tides to answer her sweet will. So deeve the slightest wish arouse and will. And make obedience an ectasy." Oh, foolish heart of woman! Even so They make of man a master, not a mate. And lessen love by loving, soon or late. A man wears of his worship. Love This only is great love when two can be He prays and humble in equality —Theodosis Pickerling Garrison, in Lips pincott Might Have Improved It Might have improved One of the bright clerks in the office of a firm of bankers and brokers in Wall street, which is known the country over, transacted a business matter in a way which highly delighted one of the members of the firm "Get the finest overcoat in town," said the broker gleefully, "and send the bill to us." In a few days the clerk appeared in a beautiful furled coat, "pine coat-fine," remarked the broker, as he contemplated first the garment and then a bill for $1,300. "Why didn't you have oil paintings on the buttons?"—New York Post. Life's Little Duties. It may be doubted if it is within the power of any one man however great and powerful and gifted, to change the current of the world's affairs, but there is scarcely anyone who will contend that civilization would not advance, the world become better, and life for all grow more beautiful, if each citizen would perform the simple and apparent duty which he can easily do. There is one sure way of reforming the world, and that is for each person to contribute his mite—Kansas City World. She Had the Floor. A Chicago gentleman is being sued for divorce on the ground that he never speaks to his wife. There is on record somewhere the reply of another gentleman in a similar case. He admitted that he had not spoken to his wife since their marriage, but offered an excuse "I didn't like to interrupt her." Not the Same. The lady who plays bridge whist cannot be expected to countenance the man who plays poker. That's different. - Bubluth News. Shoe Exports. America is now exporting about $7, 000,000 worth of shoes a year, of which Great Britain gets one third. Life of the Reichstag. The legislative period of a German Reichstag is five years in duration. NUMBER 29 A LARGE MILLINERY FIRM EMPLOYS COLORED GIRLS TO The Eagle Trimmed Hat Co., a large Millinery company, with a wholesale house at 813 and 815 Central St., and a retail establishment at 1117 Main St. has employed eight colored girls to learn to trim hats and to make hat frames. This is an innovation to the colored girl and a worthy departure on the part of the millinery firm to give the colored girl a chance. The class occupies a large room at 117 West 6th street, where they put in the dty learning the art of making hats for this firm. The officers of the company are: E. Hirshorn, president; J. Jacobs, vice president, and C. Jacobs, Secretary and Treasurer. Their retail store at 1117 Main street is one of the best in Kansas City. The colored people of Kansas City owes this firm a deep debt of gratitude for its broadness in giving this class of employment to their girls, which they might show a disposition to pay by patronizing its retail store on Main street. Miss Annie Clark is forely of the eight girls comprising the class in millinery work. The idea of employing colored girls to do this work was suggested by Mr. Fred Spence, who is employed by Mrs Sachs. The members of the class are highly pleased with the work and they propose to stick to it and show their appreciation to the big millinery firm for its liberality and broadness. GOT HER "FRESH EGGS." Landlady Waa Willing to Humor Her City Boarder A lady cyclist from London recently decided to spend the weekend at a picturesque and secluded country spot in Surrey. It was a pretty little rustic inn at which she put up, and at the tea table she discoursed glowingly to the busxom landlady on the delight that real country butter and real fresh eggs gave to a jaded Londoner. Her faith in country produce was destined, however, to be rudely shaken for, on coming down to breakfast next morning, she was greatly shocked to overhear the good landlady say to her spouse: "The lady from Lunnon's mighty keen on fresh eggs. John. Run and get half a dozen from the grocer's, while I go and cackle in the yard"—Stray Stories. He Was Bored. An amusing story is told of President Loubet's humble brother in law, whom an enterprising interviewer called upon directly after the French president's election. "How did you take the news?" asked the interviewer. "Oh, fairly well; without any rejoicings, of course. Now, here am I for example, an ironmonger; in what way do you suppose it will benefit me that my brother in law is president of the republic? Why, this very morning I received three letters from people begging me to get them government tobacco shops. That is the only advantage that the election will be slow upon me. People fancy that I have influence, and I shall therefore be worried." Only Watermelon Appeases Her. All negroes love watermelons, but an insane wench at Joplin has an appetite for them that is extraordinary even for a member of her race. She has a mania for tearing her clothes off, and the only way she can be kept clothed is by feeding her watermelon. "Mistah, Ah don't keeps me elo's on unless yeh gibs me watermelon," the physician who examined her says she told him. "Dat's de only ting you kin do to satisfy me." The Jasper county court has decided that it would be better, if not cheaper, to lock her in the insane asylum than to supply her with watermelon diet—Kansas City Journal. The man who contributes to a church fund does so as a guarantee of good faith. "THE RECKLESS BOATMAN." AMERICAN INDUSTRIES RECIPROCITY PREVITATION --- As the Result of Making Our Steel Raille at Home Railway Freight Changes on Agricultural Products Have Been Reduced Over Eighty Per Cent. --- The London Stalley for August 15, 1903, contains a leading editorial article on Mr. Chamberlain's colonial policy of discriminating duties, from which we take the following extract: "We have seen that between 1866 and 1902 the cost of carrying wheat for export from Chicago to New York was reduced by over 80 per cent—roughly, from a little over 23d. per bushel to a little under 4½d. per bushel. In other words, during the period referred to the cost of carriage by railway over a distance of about a thousand miles was reduced 1s. 6½d. per bushel. West of Chicago the reductions were certainly not less. Hence it will be seen that during the past 40 years the reduction in the cost of land carriage has been extraordinary. Furthermore, we have seen that the cost of carriage from New York to this country was reduced 2½d. per bushel—that is to say, from 3 15·16d. to 1 7·16d. per bushel. Altogether, therefore, the cost of carrying wheat from Chicago to this country has been reduced during the past forty years from about 27d. per bushel to about 6d., or about 21d. Is there any reason to suppose that the extreme limit of reduction has been reached? We fail to see any? In this great reduction in the cost of transporting the Western farmer's wheat to New York and Liverpool American steel rail makers have borne a prominent and indispensable part. In 1806 we had not commenced the manufacture of steel rails and our entire supply was obtained from Great Britain, who charged us £15 10s. or $75.43, per ton, on board ship. This sum did not include the cost of car *THE RECKLUS AMERICAN INDUSTRY RECIPROCITY range across the Atlantic or the duty. (See Fossick's History of the British Iron Trade.) In 1871 we began the policy of adequately protecting our steel rail industry, with the result that we were soon producing steel rails as good as those of Great Britain at a much lower price than her rail makers had been guarding us. This price was afterward steadily reduced, so that millions of tons of American steel rails have been supplied to American railroads at less than $25 per ton, or less than one third the British price of 1866. To day the price is $28, which is exactly the amount of the duty of 1871 on foreign steel rails. But for the great reduction in the price of steel rails to American rail roads during one period referred to by the Statist it would never have been possible for Western farmers to secure the low rates of transportation for their wheat that they have long enjoyed. Nor could we ever have built up our magnificent steel rail industry without the help of an adequately protective duty on foreign steel rails. We commend these indisputable facts to the consideration of our Iowa friends who have been invited by Gov. Cummins to assist him to place steel rails in the free list. It may also be worth while to consider the further fact that all Western wheat growers are protected against the competition of the wheat growers of Manitoba and other British North American provinces by a duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat and a duty of 25 per cent on the foreign value of wheat flour—Iron and Steel Bulletin. LABOR'S SHARE. Tremendous Increase of Deposits in Savings Banks People are said to sometimes pinch themselves in order to prove that some particularly pleasurable sensation is not due to a dream. The recent annual report of the controller of the treasury admirably serves the purpose of a pinch to assure the public that the prosperity of the country is no dream. It proves that the country is wideawake and that the pleasurable sensation of prosperity is real. From the section of his report dealing with the funds in savings banks, it appears that there are in the United States 6,666,672 individual de- positors, with an aggregate accumulation of $2,750,177,000 on deposit. Taking the year 1896 as a point of comparison it appears that since that time there has been an increase in the number of depositors of 1,601,072 and an increase in the total deposits of $443,177,000. This exhibit shows the remarkable increase in seven years of 30 per cent in depositors and 40 per cent in total deposits. There is no dream about all these cold millions in the banks, mostly placed there by and belonging to working people. The total deposits in all the banks amount to about $5,000,000,000, of which the savings fund, the money of the common people, make $2,750,000,000—more than half. Clearly, not all the money in the country is owned by the great financiers. This showing of money saved by the working people of the country becomes all the more remarkable when we take into consideration the prevailing high prices. Wages have not gone up in proportion to the universal increase in prices. With only a little more money to buy with, labor pays far more for all the comforts of life. Yet the savings report shows that their share in the benefits of prosperity is no small one. Another important fact is to be gleaned from this report. Of the $2,750,000 savings deposits the New England and Eastern States possess $2,300,000,000, leaving only $450,000,000—less than a sixth—for all the Central, Southern and Western States. This proves not that the people of U.S. Central, Southern and Western states are making less money than those of the East, but that in their younger and more thriving communities there are more inducements for investment. Throughout the great West farms are being paid for, homes are being built, natural resources are being developed and new industries established. None of this can appear in a report of the controller of the treasury. But the savings thus invested are the MISS BOATMAN." PROTECTION USA most important of all. Indeed, they furnish the foundation of the country's prosperity.—Grand Rapids Her old. The Opponents of Protection Some time ago the papers opposed to a protective tariff made a great flurry because it was believed that the Republicans of Iowa would call for tariff revision. What was classed as the "lowa idea" it was claimed, would be certain to break down the walls of protection. But prosperity and high prices for the products of the farm caused the agriculturalists of Iowa to decide that it was wise to let well enough alone. But now it is claimed that the Iowa idea has switched to Minnesota, and that there will be a fight there for tariff revision. It is probable that the reports of the favor of tariff revision in Minnesota are largely exaggerated, and that the demand there may collapse as speedily as it did in Iowa. But, to those who think the assumed positions of Iowa and Minnesota are significant: Both are agricultural states. The few goods manufactured in each do not come in competition with the cheap labor of the old world. Neither Iowa nor Minnesota realize the necessity nor the true benefits of protection. States not practically interested in the tariff are poor specimens to decry its benefits. When sections which have no interest in protection oppose it, the lesson is that manufacturing states must stand solidly for it.—Philladelphia item. Industrial Absorption Said Senator Depow in London last week, speaking of our prosperity: "The railroads have never done so much business, and the absorption of agricultural and manufactured products was never so great." flow different is the absorption of protection and the absorption of free trade! The former absorbs products, the latter absorbs producers. Only One Way. Reciprocity would be good for Canada, but not so good for this country. Canada has everything to gain by it and nothing to lose. There is only one way in which Canada can secure the benefits of American trade, and that is by petition for admission.—Jersey City Journal. TWO-FOOT DRAGON-FLY. Insect That Flourished During the Carboniferous Period. Which is the largest insect is not an easy matter to decide, as the question of shape has to be taken into account. The longest known insect is undoubtedly the stick insect of Borneo. Specimens thirteen inches in length have been captured. It is an interesting example of mimetic coloring, resembling in a remarkable manner a piece of rough stick. On the bough of a tree it is extremely difficult to distinguish between the insect and the bark. Borneo is also the home of one of the largest species of dragon-fly. A specimen of the sub-family *Aschna* measures six inches and a half from wing, and is endowed with a correspondingly strong body. Another giant insect is the Hercules beetle, found in the West Indies, which rivals a sparrow in size and might turn the scale against one in weight. Some tropical butterflies measure from ten to twelve inches across their wings, as does the great owl moth of Brazil. The largest insect of antiquity was a species of dragonfly, which measured more than two feet across the expanded wings. It flourished during the carboniferous period.—Stray Stories. GROWTH OF CARD PLAYING. Now Recognized Form of Entertainment in City Homes. Card playing is a popular amusement in all forms of household entertainments now," said the proprietor of a card playing school in West Fourteenth street, "and guests at a party who do not know how to play some of the family games feel out of place and are a bore to others. This home card playing and the fact that lists of prize winners at euchres are often given in the newspapers have worked a great change. The fact that society women play bridge whist for high stakes does not alter the fact that women in cozy quiet families may play it for pennies, or even for buttons. There are a number of families that are in the habit of meeting once a week for games, and play for nickles, the money being all put into a box. At the end of each month bridge whist or progressive whist is played for that. Then the money playing objectors don't kick a bit."—New York Press. The Main Question. (A school of journalism is to be established in jumbli University at a cost of $2,000,000.) The managing editor sat at his desk When a journalist butted in. A newspaper scholar quite picturesque, With a Van Dyke to tip his chin: And he said: "Tye a lot of accomplishments To go over with you—had I better com- pose?" Said the managing guy: "Begin!" Said the journalist: "Tye a diploma here From the College of journalism— In the University I have a peer, And my touch defies criticism." I am up on the process of making inks. And think back on the art of evolving inks. In every degree of ism! "I've gone all the way from bottom to top." And know how to print a journal— I never would call a policeman a "cop", I never would stoop to the siang of the street— I would sit in the theater, and never Vulgarities I would sparn all! "And that, if you please, gives a vague idea Of what I can offer you—" "Mhm'" said the managing guy, "I see—ah— Mr. A. said the managing guy, I see- ah- But what are you able to do ? 27272727 And the journalist stared in astonishment, the pickuped up his hat, and suddenly wont 'Way out where the chill breezes blew! Oh! he who would hanker for newspaper fame, Who the lucky in print would woo, Think out we would bring your ambition But here is a pointer for you; Your learning won't balance the weight of a sneeze, Wear the balances and call your do Write your diplomas and all your degrees. Until you have learned how to DO! Intelligent Criticism. A good story is going the rounds in musical circles illustrating the tendency of amateur musicians to criticise their professional superiors. A young lady with artistic aspirations attended church one Sunday not long since at St. Stephen's, where the blind organist, Mr. Wood, plays, and where the music is generally reputed to be very fine. After the service she met some friends, who inquired how she enjoyed the music. "Oh, I enjoyed the 'singing very much,' she replied, "but don't you think Mr. Wood played a little flat on the organ?"—Philadelphia Ledger. Not Much to Look At, but— As E. H. Harriman walked down the gangplank of the Cedric when she cocked last Saturday he was the center of interest to a party of New Yorkers waiting for friends. "He doesn't look so much," remarked one woman, taking a hurried inventory of Mr. Harriman's five feet seven of stature, loosely hanging clothes, etc., "he is so little!"" "True for you," said her escort; "but diamonds and dynamite are not shipped by the carload. Harriman is both."—New York Times. Why He Was Blue. The late William Cary, for many years with the Century Company, is still spoken of affectionately by most of the authors of this country. He was a wit of the first order. One day at the office of the magazine some one said: "Say, Cary, what has been the matter with B. lately? He's as blue as indigo and refers dolefully to his salad days." "Oh, that's the time when he was a lobster," said Mr. Cary cheerfully and at once—New York Times. HOLY LAND SCENES Plains of Philistia and Sharon (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) "El Ruks; Jerusalem!" exclaims the deep guttural voice of the Turkish guard as the train, puffing and shrieking, brings the tourist of to-day into the little modern-looking depot of the city. The pensive traveler has difficulty in realizing that he has arrived at the goal of his desire, the Holy City, for he is hastily driven over a The view from the tower is magnificent. The whole plain of Sharon, with its fresh verdure and beautiful bright colors glowing in the sunshine stretches out as far as eye can reach from Mount Carmel on the north to Lydda on the south, and from the purple hills of Judea on the east to the blue Mediterranean sea on the west. Abrahan 1 THE WATER Abraham's Well dusty road to the hotel, which is situated in the midst of modern buildings. What a different journey to the Holy City was experienced by the writer some twelve years ago. Starting from Jaffa, mounted on strong Arab houses, in the cool of the morning, we passed through its beautiful gardens, orange groves and corn fields, and entered the Plain of Philistia, "the land of the stranger." Then we reached the Plain of Sharon, radiant with fields of scarlet anemones and innumerable other wild flowers. The red anemones are considered by the natives to be the lilies of the field of which Christ said that "even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." At noon we dismounted and stopped at a wayside coffee house beside a fountain. The natives came around us, asking many questions. "Are you a man or a woman?" "Are you married—is this your son?" We reached Ramlet late in the afternoon. Surrounded by tall, slender palms and olive trees, and in the midst of a sandy, barren plain, the village of Ramlet is a picturesque oasis, with its tall tower rising above the white houses. Some people think that the village stands on the site of the old Aramathea, where Joseph Abrah ```markdown ``` THE TREE lived. The Tower of Ramlet, called that of the Forty Martyrs, is of Saracenic architecture. The Moslems claim that the "forty" were companions of the Prophet. Beside the tower stands the ruined remains of the "White Mosque." built in the fourteenth century by the son of Kalaua. --- The view from the tower is magnificent. The whole plain of Sharon, with its fresh verdure and beautiful bright colors glowing in the sunshine stretches out as far as eye can reach. from Mount Carmel on the north to Lydda on the south, and from the purple hills of Judea on the east to the blue Mediterranean sea on the west. m's Well. We passed Lydda, where Peter cured Aeneas. A legend tells that St. George was born in this town, and was buried in the church, which still stands. A picture represents his conflict with the dragon, and his runcle and finger bone age exhibited in a silver casket. Soon after leaving Lydda we came to the rocky and ascending road which, winding in and out among bleak mountains, leads to the village of Beth-Horon. The stony path is surrounded by barren wastes, devoid of trees, yet bedecked with many gay flowerets, peeping from the crevices in the rocks. Turning our eyes toward the east, we saw a landscape that was also grand, though desolate. For miles the scenery presented nothing but dark hills and valleys, till our gaze rested upon the silvery waters of the Dead sea, beautiful in the glistening light of the pale moon. This sea lay three thousand nine hundred feet below us, but in the clear, bright atmosphere of the Orient it seemed to be quite near, notwithstanding the miles of unculating country which separated us from it. We gazed on its wonderful beauty, and then again on the city before us, and we were filled with joy at the thought that in a few hours we would be within the walls of Jerusa- am's Oak. Abraham's Oak. em, and our hearts would re-echo the joyful song of the psalmist, "Our feet stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Memorial to Gen. Wauchope. In memory of General Wauchope killed at Magersfontein, a hospital has been erected at Perth. CUPOLA SKETCHES By BYRON WILLIAMS He Was Afraid. He loved a little malden And he loved but her alone; He yearned to tell her of it In a hushed heroic tone— But he hesitated! He stammered, and was afraid! He loved her in the summer. And he loved her in the fall; Of all the pretty maidens He loved her best of all— But he hesitated! He stammered, and was afraid! He followed her to Dresden. And he wooed her coming back; He longed to tell his passion From Rome to Hackensack— But he hesitated! He stammered, and was afraid! Io Italy he hurried. Where the land of sunsets gold Prompts man to grow romantic And to tell the story old! But he hesitated! He stammered, and was afraid! Forthwith she shipped for I'rland, Where Dan Cupid bade him go To her, in secret conclave. WELL-! "HE STAMMERED, AND WAS AFRAID." And say he loved her so! He stammered, and was afraid! Straightway she led him onward, And she paused beside a mott: "There's the famous Blarney Stone and yonder is a boat!" The moral of this story, It is not amiss to state— **Do ask the girl you're spoons on** **Better let it go.** Because traveling is expensive and while you are hesitating the girl may get an chance and leave you holding the sack. Don't be afraid of 'em, fellers, go right after the answer. They like to say 333 Thomas Jes run out an 'fagged or', Simple Simon did 'fagged' keboodle, Jist afore they sld Inter deep dammaction— Pilot struck him slaunchwise Simple had t' die! Poks took on like mothers Crys took on like mothers But t' bobs and whimperln' Couldn't bring him back! See that craft out yonder Where the shadders lie— How we vis tors How we honor Si. Unspoken Words. The kindly words that rise within the heart. And will fill it with their sympathetic tone. But die ere spoken, fall to play their part. And claim a merit that is not their own. The kindly word unspoken is a sin— A sin that wraps itself in purest gulse, and tells the heart that, doubting, looks within. That not in speech, but thought, the virtue lies. It is not so another heart may thirst For that kind word, as Hager in the lip. Poor banished Hagar!—prayed a well might burst From out the sand to save her parching child. And loving eyes that can not see the mind Will touch the unexpected movement of the lip. Ah! can ye let its cutting silence wind Around the heart, and seathe it like a whip? Then hide it not the music of the soul. Dear sympathy, expressed with kindly voice. But let it, like a shining river, roll To deserts dry—to hearts that would rejoice. And He will bless you—He who struck these chords Will strike another when in turn you seek John Boyle O'Reilly. QUIET HOUR Thou Shalt Not Worry. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." - Matt. vl. 34. Christ was, above all things practical. That was his marked characteristic, the one which especially endears him to mankind, for it establishes between us and him the personal relations of teacher and pupil. I like to think of him as a friend who has all the resources of wisdom at command, who is for some reason, interested in my welfare, who has furnished me with certain truths which I could hardly discover for myself and in which I can place as much confidence as the mariner on tempestuous seas does in the compass that guides him through storm and darkness. Surely he was well aware of the trials, troubles and sorrows, and uncertainties through which we pass, for they filled his own short career to the very brim. No man has ever suffered more than he did, and none has been pricked by as many thorns. And yet he calmly tells us to possess our souls in peace, not to anticipate the future, neither to worry about what may happen to-morrow; but to bear as best we may whatever burden is on our shoulders, and let the morrow take care of itself. He does not speak of this as the better policy to pursue, but as an imperative duty imposed by the laws of the universe and by the God who decreed them. What does he mean by this strange utterance? Perhaps by searching we may find out. Worry, to begin with, is useless. It produces no good result. On the contrary, it is utterly destructive in its nature. So far from preparing you to overcome disaster, it renders you unfit to meet it. It debilitates the soul and robs you of the very strength which you pray for, because you see it will be needed. To worry is to endure an agony before its time and so prolong your misery. God says, "You must suffer pain to-morrow," and you reply, "Then I will suffer it to-day also." Suppose that our faith was perfect, if our souls were in accord with the providence of God, if we really felt that a hand controls events and that behind the hand is the heart of a Father; that what we must bear he will give us strength to bear; that if we are not masters of the situation, he is—would not such a faith quiet our restlessness, and should we not resemble the sea of Galice after Christ said, "Peace, be still"? The element of worry would be well-night eliminated, and, with the feeling that whatever 'is' is right, we should borrow nothing from the future, but simply bear the present sorrow. It is profitable for you to so far anticipate the effect of a given cause that you prepare to meet it; but when you have done all that can be done, it is exceedingly unprofitable to so weaken yourself by worry that the coming sorrow is doubled in weight. As much as lies in your power—and it is a quality of character which admits of great development—live in today. Cultivate a quiet and peaceful frame of mind. He did it and was undisturbed by threatening circumstance, and you may follow afar off. What you are doing now calls for all your strength, and if there is more to follow then the additional strength will be given. God's providence is both wide and tender, and the more you trust in it, the sweeter will be your life, the brighter will be your hope, the fairer will be your general outlook, and the nearer will heaven seem to you. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."—Rev. George H. Hepworth. Things Worth While. Whatever adds in even the smallest way to the world's brightness and cheer is worth while. One who plants a flower in a bare place where only bleakness was before is a benefactor. One who says an encouraging word to a disheartened neighbor, gives a look of love to a lonely one, or speaks a sentence which may become strength guidance or comfort to another, does something worth while. We never know how small a thing may become a benediction to a human life. It was worth while for David to write the Twenty-third Psalm to go singing everywhere to the end of time. It was worth while for Mary to break the alabaster vase, pouring the nard on the head and feet of the Master; all the world is sweeter ever since from the perfume of her ointment. Every singer who has sung a pure, joyous song, has given something to earth to make it better. Every artist who has painted a worthy and noble picture, or made the smallest thing of beauty which will stay in the world, has added something to the enriching of our human life. Every lowly Christian who has lived a true, courageous life amid temptation and trial, has made it a little easier for others to live right. Every one who has let fall into the stream of this world's life wholesome words, good words, divine lessons, has put into the current of humanity a handful of spices to sweeten a little the bitter waters. It is always worth while to live nobly, victoriously, struggling to do right, showing the world even the smallest fragments of divine beauty.—J. R. Miller, D. D. What God Listens For It is said that once when Sir Michael Costa was having a rehearsal with a vast array of performers and hundreds of voices, as the mighty chorus rang out with the thunder of the organ, and roll of drums, and ringing horns, the cymbals clashing, some one man who played the piccolo far away up in some corner, said within himself, "In all this din it matters not what I do!" and so he ceased to play. Suddenly the great conductor stopped, flung up his hands, and all was still—and then he cried aloud: "Where is the piccolo?" The quick ear missed it, and all was spoiled because it failed to take its part. Oh, my soul, do thy part with all thy might! Little thou mayest be, insignificant and hidden, and yet God seeks thy praise. He listens for it, and all the music of his great universe is made richer and sweeter because thou givest him thanks. Bless the Lord, O my soul—Mark Guy Pearce Strength in Patience. Patience is really the capacity for and habit of enduring. It is shown by the serenity with which we submit to the annoyances caused us by others on the one hand, and is displayed in a wider and deeper sense by the fortitude which one exhibits in all concerns of life in good and bad fortune. It is an unfortunate characteristic of many energetic and really able, high-minded men that they can not wait the issue of things; they are impatient of delay, must needs see events result to their liking at a stroke, as it were, and therefore their efforts in life end in disappointment to themselves and to others. Like the squirrel in the cage they make much movement but no progress. On the other hand, there is occasionally brought into high relief a patient man who grasps and holds in spite of the greatest obstacles a success so splendid that his endurance and the result of it are an inspiration to the world. Be Cheerful By enduring a hardship cheerfully, or by accepting discomfort without a murmur, we may be of more real service to our fellows than by performing acts of ministry while we appear to begrudge the required effort, or while we ourselves are in an unloving mood. The way in which we do our most generous deeds is sometimes of as much importance as the deeds themselves. Many a child or man has been made more glad by the pleasant looks and words of one who had to refuse a requested favor, than by the reception of a desired favor from one who gave it with a sneer or a frown. The importance of the right way of doing good, in the line of giving or of withholding, should not be forgotten or undervalued. Charles Buxton says, in this line, "You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled the duty of being pleasant." How does that apply to our service of to-day? Purpose in Suffering. Life is full of suffering and pain, and these have not been put before us blindly or without care and sympathy. They are full of purpose. There is a divine message in them if we will only read it. A loving discipline is locked up with them as the sparkling yellow gold in the hard rock of quartz. God's hammer of pain is but breaking with steady blow after blow the quartz to give us that gold. Especially on the young should we call to see these truths of God's dealing with the children of this great humanity of his. They should resolve to meet suffering bravely, not be whipped and scourged to it like coward slaves. The young especially have that power of resistance, that capacity for endurance of suffering, if they would but see it, which may mold greatly their lives in God's providence and God's discipline. The man who is ashamed of his religion is a shame to me. OVER THE TEACUPS Corn Starch Meringue. Scald a pint of milk, add two teant tablespoonfuls of corn starch mixed to a smooth paste with cold milk, stir until smooth and thick, cover and cook for half an hour. Beat together the yolks of three eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt; add to the corn starch and stir for five minutes, then flavor and turn into a pudding dish. Cover with a meringue made by whipping the whites of the eggs to a stiff, glossy froth, with three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; dust with a little more sugar and put into a moderate oven until pale brown. Serve cold. For the Little Girl Outdoor costume of serge for little girl, the skirt forming box plaits at the hem, and with box-plaited boiler to correspond. The boiler has no collar, but is finished with a shad- * ed strap of embroidery, over which a loose collar may be added for occonal dressy effect. A. Toilet Hint: Oatmeal for the face and hands wet with water soon sours, but prepared in the following way it will keep any length of time: Take those cupfuls of oatmeal and five of water or less quantity in the same proportion; stir well and let it stand over night in a cool place; in the morning stir again; after awhile sur thoroughly and strain; let it stand until it settles, then carefully pour off the water and add enough bay rum to make the sediment as thick as cream, or thinner if preferred. Apply to the face with a soft cloth; let it remain until nearly dry, then rub briskly with a soft flannel. Shake the mixture well before using. The old-fashioned stamped brass cornices for windows have been revived. These are now considered more desirable than the universally used pole. Careful housewives always have extra covers of heavy muslin over the ticking of their pillows and mattresses, which are taken off at stated intervals and laundered. To make shrimp salad take equal quantities of chopped canned shrimp and celery cut in small pieces; add a little chopped parsley and chives and mix with salad dressing. After scaling fish and picking ducks, geese, etc., did you ever try rubbing them well with a damp cloth dipped in cornmeal? Try it; you will be surprised to see how nicely it cleans them. A good layer of newspapers underneath a carpet will prevent all danger from moths, which have a strong objection to printer's ink and will not come anywhere near it to lay their eggs. GLEAN-INGS Gold tissue, veiled in white chiffon, forms exquisite ball gowns. Women as well as girls wear the coil of hair so low on the back of the neck that it rests on the shoulders. Colored vells are conspicuous by their absence. Millady seems to care for nothig but a black or white vell or a combination of the two. The matched sets of turn-over collar and cuffs will be as popular the coming season among tallened neckwear as they have been this summer. Chiffon vells ornamented with cheenille velvet, hand embroidery and Mexican drawn work are on view, but they are not nearly so popular as the self-edged plainer sorts. A sash of moussellie chiffon or AUTUMN GOWNS FROM PARIS. liberty silk is a charming finishing touch. It should be gracefully draped around the waist and is best with either no loops or only one. Informal TALKS. Stained flower vases can be cleaned by adding to a lather made of soap powder some vinegar. Shake till all stain is removed. To get a nice polish on eyeglasses moisten with alcohol and polish as usual with chamois. By this means all grease is removed. As centerpiece a small fernery will be inexpensive and it adds greatly to the attractiveness of a table. Do not select too high a dish or too high a plant. To destroy crickets place a little ginger cordial in a saucer on the hearth at night. This will attract the crickets, which will die after having partaken of it. If you allow house plants, or rather the pots containing them, to stand in saucers containing water that has drained through the pot rotting of the roots will result. Revival of the Pinafore. New models for pinafores are as chic as can be. The revival of the style is welcomed by all but those who fuss over laundry bills. For children the full gathered pinafore hung from a shallow yoke is a favorite model. The yoke is cut either square or round, but in either case is well hidden under revers of the material trimmed with lace or embroidery. Berthas are sometimes substituted for the revers, but wherever the yoke is exposed it is elaborately trimmed with needlework or is contrived of all over embroidery or lace inserts. Few of the new aprons have sleeves. Older girls wear bretelle aprons with shoulder straps and a tiny bib in front intersecting the straps. One of these aprons has bretelles of embroidered bandings, joined by a beading to a ruffle of embroidery to match. The little bib is made of alternate rows of banding and beading, and the waistband is of the banding. Blue Shaded Muslim. Shaded muslins are the moment's fad. A dainty gown of this description is of blue muslin in striped effect, shading from dark blue to almost white. The skirt made perfectly plain and full. The bodice is made with a AUTUMN GOWNS The first gown is of brown cloth. The skirt is plain, but covered half its length with the full basque of the jacket. The upper part of the latter is in the $\bullet$ rm of a blouse with plain yoke extending in rounded tabs over the shoulders, forming epaulets. The yoke is ornamented with passometer buttons and trimmed around the neck and down the front with blas bands of white silk bordered with dark brown galloon or braid, the ends finished with tassels. These white silk bands and galloon trim the girdle, which is of dark brown velvet; and from the cuffs, all the ends being finished with tassels, and the cuffs also finished with frills of lace. The full upper part of the --- chemisette of white Irish point lace and deep collar of same. Plain, full sleeves. The high waist girdle of the darkest shade blue. The hat is of blue lace straw, adorned with white violets. The Secret of Good Coffee. Most Americans boil coffee in a pot over a hot fire, but that is not the right way to make it. Nobody makes better coffee than the old negroes of the West Indies. They are famous for it, so if you want good coffee try their way. Put the coffee in an enameled pot, pour the boiling water on it, cover it up, and then let it just come to the boil again. Do not let it stand, but strain it at once through a clean bag made of channel. The quantity of coffee used should be one tablespoonful to each breakfast cup. Never use condensed milk with coffee unless you want to spoil it. Always serve and drink it hot. New Style Turban. NEW OYE VIEWS New style turban in tan and hello trope. The plumage is in shaded lavenders and hello trope. A Good Dentifrice. Camphorated chalk is one of the simple dentifrices that never go out. One can prepare it at home just as well as to pay a druggist to do it. All that is necessary is an ounce of powdered camphor and fifteen ounces of prepared chalk. If it is desired to have the dentifrice foam, add a little powdered castile soap. Mix thoroughly by sitting through coarse cambric a number of times. England's Insan. In England one person in every 298 ins. insane. IS FROM PARIS. sleeves falls like a ruffle over a put of the material. The standing collar is of lace. The other rown is of sage green cloth. The skirt is made with group of plats on each side of which at the bottom is trimmed with gold buttons and the black galloon, the ends of the latter finished with tassels. The bolero is bordered with the galloon with tassels at the corners. The reversa collar is trimmed with white guipure in which the galloon is run. The waistcoat is of white cloth ornamented with gold buttons. The full sleeves, bordered with the trimming flora over puffs of the material finished with cuffs trimmed with the galloon and gold buttons. The girth is of black velvet—Wiener Chic. --- --- The Nevada Mail says thatductor C. E. Blair is steppingbecause he has become the fathertwins. Of course, the Mail does notmean to insinuate that ConductBlair is running, or anything like that.While "Rube" Ogglesby, candidatefor railroad commissioner, is not anorator, that railroad incident "fixed"him so that he can stump the statecreditably if necessary.Will Anderson of Livingston hasbeen proclaimed the champion fiddlerof that county. It is said he can handout "Turkey in the Straw" in a way that will almost make a Metlypreacher dance. Maryville Tribune; E. E. E. Jimsey opines that when Jim K said at Sodalia the other day that was no better than his party he nished good and sufficient reason he should not be nominated for error. The Utica Herald wants to k what the explorers will do after North and South poles are discover; If they simply want something keep working at they might begin hunt for a better place to live than Missouri; Joseph W. Folk now has the gubnational press bureau, which is backed by so many good Missouri papers that there are not a few people who believe he will find the nomination in the top drawer when the time to look for it comes. The editor of the Pineville Democrat likes alliteration, and uses it wherever he can. He heads his column of rural news as follows: "Next Notes," "Mudge Musings," "Power Pickings," "White Rock Whittlings," "Tiff City Tinklings" and "Cyclone Capers." P. A. Jackson of Virgil township, who lives near Nevada, has raised a sweet potato which weighs nearly six pounds. Unfortunately for Jackson, though one of the Nevada papers announced the accomplishment of the agricultural feat in the same column with a couple of fish stories the other day. A Kirksville girl has made a lifelong enemy of one of the older women of that town. Noticing a pretty gold locket hanging from a chain around the girl's neck the other day the woman asked if she might look in it. All she saw was a little white card, on which was written "Darn your curiosity." A hot Tamale can exploded in Sedalia the other night. It is strange that such accidents do not occur more frequently. The Nevada man who is advertising for 500 hickory nut pickers is probably the same man who blires the driftwood catchers that way. John Turgger, a Saline county young farmer who entered the service of a railroad six months ago, has been advanced twice. Evidently Tugger has a null. Since the Hume telephone system has been connected with that of Rich Hill several "centrals" along the line have stopped taking the Rich Hill papers. They don't need them now. 1 W. T. Carrington, state superintendent of public instruction, is sending requests to all the school teachers of the state to observe Eugene Field day, which will be the first Friday in November. John Lucieswki of Jasper county has raised a bean twenty-five inches long. "If John keeps this up," comments the Paw Paw Bazoo, "he will soon gain a reputation as a regular bean Pole." Over in Moberly the people pay great deal of attention to holidays. A Moberly paper says that beginning October 15 the barbers will charge fifteen cents for shaves, with nothing additional for shaving holidays. 1 The Lecton Times says that, in spite of its name, Peasant Hill has become the toughest town of its size in the state. It holds the record for fistic encounters, knock down and drag out fights, run plays and carving bees, according to the Times. Ajax Fleming of the Braymore Comet, in printing a list of the newspaper men who "graduated" from St. Joseph, placed the name of Major John L. Hittinger among the dead ones the other day. J. B. Stuart of Brexel is the owner of a calf that "plays a possum" now and then. The other night Mr. Stuart saw his calf lying in the yard apparently dead. He went up to it, but it did not move. Standing with one foot on each side of the prostrate calf, Stuart began to look for the cause of its death. Suddenly the calf arose, and with Stuart on his back, started for the other side of the passage. After riding too yards Stuart decided to get off, "Whoa," he yelled. The calf stopped, but strange to say, sprained his ankle. Stuart says that next time he goes out to examine a "dead" calf he'll take a saddle along. When I was young I recollect, My mother had a way Uf dropped all my nicknames when I chanced to disobey. Or when I tried to shirk my work, By arguments or names. I 'member how shed' change my minA By simply saying 'James!' I 'member how I use to kick When mother wanted wood. THE RISING SON. LEWIS WOODS,..... Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: OLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circula- tion of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. Kansas City, Mo., March 3, 1908. Office of the Postmaster, Publishers, Rising Son. In response to your inquiry, I beg to say your publication is duly entered as second class master at this office and regularly mailed. Very respectfully. J. H. 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. It will be interesting to know just what argument our colored brethren who have heretofore supported the Democratic party in general and Mayor Reed in particular will use to show why the latter should be elected governor. It is said that Mayor Reed has permitted the splendid accumulating of holes in the asphalt streets to continue uninterruptedly in order to demonstrate to the rock-ribbed brothems from the rock-ribbed counties who may chance to attend Carnival how little his honor's rusticity has been affected by having twice been elected mayor of this growing metropolis. A good name, a disposition and will to work and to save, plenty of good common sense, added to what learning in books one is able to acquire, will discount a thousand theories on "How to Solve the Negro Problem." In view of the above facts, the homely injunction, "Lay dead and saw wood," could never be more advantageously employed. Forty years after all can scarcely be said to be the beginning in the life time of a race or nation. There seems ta be a prevailing disposition on the part of the business interests regardless of politics to think that placing bonds in the hands of the present Democratic City Administration would be much the same as pouring water into the proverbial rat hole. Evidently "Whole hog or none" was the inmost secret of Tammany Hall, when they determiner to nominate McCollen for mayor of Greater New York. In the case of Miller the reinstated bookbinder as in every instance In which President Roosevelt has taken a decided stand he has again shown his characteristic firmness. Senator Morgan of Alabama, says that he favors the incorporation of an Anti-Negro planks in the next Democratic platform and this let the world know that the party is opposed to the negro in any way exercising government affairs. While it may be truthfully said that the world has never had need to doubt the hostility of the Democratic party toward the black man, yet it may serve a good purpose after all in that it may undecide those poor deluded mortals of the present generation known as Negro Democrats and who have been laboring under the halucination that it was not the Republican party that freed us. When at leisure call at the New Century Pool Hall and Boot Black parlor. I also carry the leading brand of cigars and tobaccos. Furnished rooms upstairs. Tom Newrod, Prop. 554 Grand. When a fellow is frozen out of a good thing it naturally makes him hot. LET THE COURTS PUNISH NEGRO CRIMINALS. J. B. Gibbs who was on trial in the Criminal Court for murder in the first degree, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Gibbs was tried for the killing of Edward Moore several months ago by shooting him in the back. The verdict was a surprise to everyone in the testimony of the witnesses, indicated that the shooting of this man was avoidable, and the fact that the democracy of this community refuses to punish negroes for crime, is a very dangerous condition of affairs so far as the Negro race is concerned. Judge Woffords words of advice, given when sentencing Gibbs were appropriate and if the courts were to punish negroes who commit crimes and who run hell joints the operation of which is calculated to make criminals of the worst type. Judge Wofford would not have occasion to lecture the Negro race every time he sentences a nego. Gibbs was identified with a "social" club, the kind that is a curse and injury to the Negroes of this community. The "clubs" have rolled up handsome majorities for the Democracy—and this fact explains the action o the courts in dealing justice (?) to negro criminals. A SOUTH CAROLINA NEGRO HAS SAVED $100,000 WITH WHICH TO COMMENCE. Richmond, Va., Sept. 9—I. J. Miller, a Negro of Columbia, S. C., said to have saved $100,000 will open an exclusively Negro department store on Broad street, of this city. Negroes will conduct all the departments and the innovation will be watched with interest. He has rented No. 528 E. Bronc street, an dgoods are arriving.—The Star. The best and wisest thing for Americans Negroes to do today is to keep to himself from a laborer's standpoint make friends with the intelligent and better class of white people, trust the God that brought him out of the southern bondage, and last, but not least, by preparation with his face toward the enemy, standing like a brave man and die only in the last ditch in defence of right. The question paramount for the negro to decide is that regardless of what others say or think or do, he must keep on driving. PHILOSOPHICAL Once a fisherman, always a liar. A lazy man is always trying to work other people. Luck is a combination of an opportunity and the man. It is easier to brag of one's future than it is to boast of one's past. When money is tight the pawnbroker is apt to take the pledge. Stealing a march is not larceny any more than firing a servant is arson. Though the wind is invisible the same cannot be said of a sight draft. Horses are like eggs. It is impossible to tell what's in them until they are broken. Talk is cheap, but when a young man is in love he naturally thinks the chief talker a little dear. Naturally the man who leads a crooked life is unable to keep both feet in the straight and narrow path. If the average woman knew what her neighbors say of her she would probably talk about them worse than ever. The millennium will be at hand when people instead of asking what a man is worth can find out by looking at his tax receipts. RELIGIOUS MUSINGS. Faith alone lifts the fog of the future. We are bidden to take, not to make our cross. Revenge is sweet—but only in the mouth of a fool. Variety is the spice of life, and vice is the cayenne pepper. He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself. To some people, "I" is the largest letter in the alphabet of life. Many men consent to be shut out of heaven that they may stand in with this world. The twinges of conscience are like an aching tooth, very annoying, but yet a sign of life. Weeds thrive best in richest soil. This applies to churches as well as to fields and gardens. Some folks "lose their mind" because they have given others "a piece of their mind" so often they have none left for themselves. The Old Scheme. Write uncle Joseph dearie, And say the city's best. That we're of pavements weary, And want a cooler spot. Say we think the farm exquisite, And get up some pretext To make them all a visit— I know they won't be vexed. And, Maude, indite a letter Unto the Daily Star— Perchance the Eagle's better— And say the Joneses are About to cross the water— To Paris they'll repair. Where their pretty, winstime daughter Will be fairest of the fair. —Brooklyn Eagle. Lothia's Accident. By Helen A. Beckwith. Copyrighted. 1908, by The Authors Pub. Co. Lothia was in an unpleasant mood. It caused her to forget her habit of prim, orderly neatness—a quality so deeply inculcated as to seem a part of her very self. Left motherless before her recollection, she had grown to womanhood under the watchful care of an indulgent father. He had never given her preemptive command, but had led her nevertheless, high-strugg and wayward though she was, in his own way, by sterling advice, with love and gentleness, and often a seeming acquiescence to her whims. The plans for her future were made in her early childhood, but Robert Yates had been wise enough to keep this from his headstrong daughter, while he had guarded against complications. Of late her father had changed, and Lothia was uneasy about it. It was now two weeks since a bulky letter arrived for him, which she delivered gaily remarking on its size, and curious as to its contents. When her father saw the envelope, his face became ashen, and he lost his geniality. Although Robert Yates had looked forward for many years to what was before him, now he wallowed in the "slough of despair" at the culmination of his hopes. With the thought of separation ever before him, he could not regain his old cheerfulness. To-day and another letter arrived bearing the same postmark. Lothia had sent this one in, fearing a repetition of the former scene. Shortly she was summoned into her father's presence, to be addressed with sternness, and, she thought, with cruelty. "Lothia, you are grown to womanhood, and it is time that you were settled in life. In your infancy I made an arrangement for your future; now the time has arrived for the fulfillment of that plan. To-norrow a gentleman will visit us whom I desire you to treat with the greatest respect, as I esteem him highly, and—be he is to be your husband in the near future." Lothia's great, blue eyes voiced her astonishment, then slowly filled with tears, but after a moment's pause her father continued: "His name is S. E. Aaron Woolbridge." "Is he young, papa?" asked the girl with tremulous lips. "Well, no; not extremely young; forty, or thereabouts." "O papa, how could you!" she sobbed. The man moved uneasily about the room. At last he stopped before her. "There is no use of becoming hysterical" he said. "You must do my bidding." "But why, papa?" "Because it is best—because—because I command you." The fire of indignation flashed from her eyes. "Well, then I won't; that's flat," she cried, rushing from the room to leave her father filled with sad wonderment. Catching her sailor hat by the brim she jammed it upon her head with vicious earnestness, not stopping, as was her wont, to brush back her rebellious rings of copper colored hair, for the breeze made sad havoc with them if left loose. She would go where no one would find her, and think it out. The narrow wagon road wound A man in a suit stands in front of a woman seated at a desk, looking at him. "Oh, papa, how could you!" she sobbed. around the foot of the mountain close to its base. Now that Lothia was high above the road the meadows seemed far below her. She glanced down involuntarily, and thought how easily she might end it all. As she leaned forward a trifle, the better to see the bottom, the loose earth slipped beneath her feet; instinctively she grasped a root, but it gave way, and she plunged downward, clutching at vines and briars. She closed her eyes, vindictively saying, "Now, papa, you'll be sorry." "Are you hurt?" anxiously asked a gentleman, bending over Lothia, as she regained consciousness. "Why did you stand there?" spitefully cried the girl, struggling to a sitting posture. "I know you stood there just so I couldn't fall; you're a mean, hateful thing." The man stepped respectfully aside, with a look of amused perplexity on his face. "Was this a wilful deed?" we asked. "No, 'twasn't; I slipped, and you might have stayed away so I could have been hurt; I hate the sight of you," she cried, angrily, while the tears filled her eyes. "Do you really wish to be injured? I am sure I would be glad to assist you in any way that I can. I might accommodate you by throwing you as high as possible and letting you come down unattended. I could throw you quite high; I am over six feet tall, and am strong, while you are but a feather's weight." Lothia laughed gaily. "You're not sucn a bad sort after all," she said, "but I do wish you hadn't been there so they could have found and sent HARVARD "Are you hurt?" me home; I guess then papa'd be sorry." "Yonder is a flat rock which will make a comfortable seat; let us be friends, and you tell me all about it Miss—Miss—ah"—offering his hand to assist her. "Yates, Lothia Yates; now, what is your name." The man seemed suddenly confused, but finally stammered out, "Silas." "Well," she began. "you see papa is just as good as gold, but something has got hold of him lately, and he wants me to marry an old man with the horridest name. Say, haven't you another name?" The man reddened as he replied: "Yes; Aaron." A silvery peal of laughter floated up the mountain side. "Why, isn't that funny; that's the old man's name, too. Aaron Wooldridge forty; just think of it. If I had been hurt maybe papa would have felt so sorry that when the old man comes to-morrow he would send him away." "Does forty seem to you so very old?" queried the gentleman. "O dear, yes; papa is sixty; I am twenty, and papa has been old ever since I can remember him. I wish I had been hurt just a little so I could make a fuss, but I haven't a scratch." "Now Miss Yates—" "Say, Lothia, it seems as if I had known you always." "Very well, Lothia. I am a medical man, Dr. Aaron; you are generally bruised. I will bandage your head, your ankle and your arm, and will convey you to a farm house nearby, where I will arrange for you to remain until sufficiently recovered to be removed. Of course, the length of time rests with yourself. In the meantime you can communicate with this old man and tell him your feelings; perhaps, he may release you." "That's capital," she cried, clapping her hands. Robert Yates was informed and came to see his daughter daily, but never mentioned her would be suitor. Her letter, filled with bitter scorn and loathing for an old man of forty, bearing such a horrid name, was duly written and given to one of the farm hands to post. Time flew on the wings of the wind for Lothia. Bandaged as she was—for she dared not admit the ruse—the time that passed seemed wonderfully short. The doctor's visits were awaited with feverish expectation. "Lothia, this is my last visit." "Your—last—visit," she gasped, while the color forsook her cheeks. She felt that the sunshine was going out of her life forever. "Must this ruse continue, or shall we end it now?" he asked, gravely. "I hardly think Mr. Woolbridge will trouble you." The doctor's pocket was bulging with the mail he had just received. One envelope caught the girl's eye. "Where did you get this?" she cried, taking up the letter. "From the post; it belongs to me. Forgive me, Lothia, but I am S. E. Aaron Woolbridge. I stayed on here, hoping to overcome your prejudice, and win your love. I find your real sentiments voiced in this letter, and—" his voice quivered perceptibly—"I can stay no longer." Lothia crimsoned with shame. "I don't want you to go," she sobbed. "What does this mean, little one? Is it that you care for me?" "I don't care for anything but you; can you forgive me?" "On one condition—that you marry me without delay, before I get older." he said, folding her in his arms. "How could I have been so foolish?" she whispered from her safe shelter. 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Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, etc., furnished upon appli- cation to James Donohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. TAKEN FROM LIKE: OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Fancy & Staple Groceries AND Table Luxuries Vegetables in Season. Fresh & Salt Meats. Teas & Coffees. G. JONES, E 17th St., Kansas City, Mo. THE RISING SON. NEWS&GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— 'is the little bits we collect here as there That enables us to run from year to year.' LOCALS. Mr. Will McKnight has been on the sick list. The Oxford club will give their full dress ball next week. Garrison School has a new manual training teacher. J. D. Bowser has a large sedwing class in his school. Mrs. Wesley, mother of Mrs. John Day is still quit ill. The Countee family will soon move to their new home on Vine street. Mrs. Frozen of 708 East 17th street, has been ill the past week or so. Mr. Sam Jones reports as doing well down in Mexico. Miss Joyce Darcey has returned from a visit in St. Paul. Mrs. Daugherty who has been quite ill is able to be out again. Don't ask your friend the news, but read the Rising Son. The Missouri A. M. E. Conference meets in St. Louis this week. Mrs. Ema Brahfield has gone to Chicago to make it her home. Mrs. Anna Jones' sisters will come to Kansas City to make it their home. Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Richard Allen, Mrs. Brown and Pierce Brothers. Mrs. Wade B. Smith came in from White Church to attend the Priest of Pallas parade. Mr. Tim Cooper returned from a trip to Mexico, where he went for his health. Jessie Pierce will make his home with his sister Mrs. Richard Allen on Highland avenue. Rev. Parks preached a able sermon to a large audience at Allen Chapel Sunday morning. Miss Etlille Coles is at home with her friends, 2323 Lydia, at J. D. Bouser. Mr. Johnnie Harris will return to Jefferson City this week to take a college course. For special parties and night lunches, call up the Arnold Cafe, 1221 Baltimore, 'Phone 2874 Walnut. European and American. Mrs. F. Arnold, Proprietress. Grannie Pierce will make her home with Mrs. Younk, her daughter in Kansas City, Kansas. Miss Stella Cole is at home to friends at 2323 Lydia avenue, the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dallas Bowser. The Silver Leaf club dance last Friday night was a very pleasant affair. The next dance will be the first Friday night in November. The Rising Son is on sale at Allen Chapel; Smith's Drug store, 908 East 12th and at Patton's barber shop, 926 Wyandotte. Quite a good many of the Kansas City, Kansas people went to White Churcer last Sunday, to a corner stone laying. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clay of 545 Tracy avenue entertained at a very elaborate dinner Sunday in honor of Mrs. John Lowe of Denver, Colorado. The other guests were Mr. C. A. Long, of Kansas City, Kansas; Mrs. Whitener and Miss Sadie Whitener. The Vendome Dancing Academy, 1734 Grand avenue, Kansas City, Mo. The only first class dancing academy in the city. Equipped with electric fans and soda fountain. Ice cream soda and all soft drinks are served. John D. West's orchestra furnishes music. Dancing every Monday and Thursday evenings. Admission 15c D. A. WILLIS, Manager. Miss Anna Stafford and M. Hollaway of Kansas City, Kansas were quietly married last week. The Son extends congratulation. Mrs. I. F. Bradley of Kansas City, Kansas, after several days confinement, was able to be out again. Her friends was glad of her recover. Mr. Dammet Queenan is preparing to give a big entertainment for the Old Folks and Orphan Homes. Let everyone help Mr. Queenan for this worthy cause. Send all social notes to W. Frederick Fairfax not later than Wednesday night and we will gladly publish them in the Rising Son. Help make the Rising Son an interesting paper by contributing your bits of news. This means one and all. Rev. F. J. Peck of Denver county burried his infant babby, from Allen Chapel, last Wesday evening. It was not a surprise to his friends. We mourn with Rev. Peck as one of our own. His many friends was glad to see him. Dr. J. E. Perry, who has practiced in Columbia, Mo., for eight years with a flattering success, has recently located in Kansas City. The doctor has purchased a house at 1214 Vine street. This he expects to occupy in a very few days. His office is located at 704 East 12th street. Office phone 1211 Grand. Residence phone 69 East. Concert to be given by the choir of the Allen Chapel, on Wednesday night, October 21st. Allen Chapel choir will give a grand musical concert to assist in getting new books for the choir. The choir is rehearsing under the direction of Mrs. Mabel Lucas, Instructor and Miss Opiela Natts. Organist. It is to be hoped that this entertainment will be largely attended. The Lygeum club, a society of young ladies of Lincoln High school, has organized again for the purpose of elevating the literary standard of the members. The officers are as follows: Pricilla Washington, President. Fanny Whitney, vice president. Irene oRbinson, AssistantOzdhV.a Irene Reeves, Secretary. Maggie Robinson, Ass't Sec'y. Anna Jones, Treasurer. Executive Committee. Rothia Wise, Chairman, Myrtle Foster, Mary Richardson, Albertine Fletcher, Minnie Maxis. The entertainment given last week at the Vendome, by the Woman's Auxiliary of the Old Folks' Home, netted 18,$40. The total receipts amounted to $48.80, while the expenses including prizes, were $30.40. Miss Foster brought in $25, Mr. Sid Turner $5.60 and Miss Jackson $11.75. The Woman's Auxiliary is a district organization from the main body of the Old Folks' Home and its chief object is to assist in caring for the matron's salary. Mrs. J. F. Cole, Sec'y. Mrs. C. E. Cummings, Pres OBITUARY. Miss Alhexta Owens, daughter of Elder Ownes of Kansas City, Kansas, died last Tuesday morning after a brief illness. The funeral was Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Miss Owens was the pride of the household and weel liked. Elder Owens her fatcher, is one of the best known ministers in the state. Read the Rising Son. WANTED—SEVERAL PERSONS of character and good reputation in each state (one in this county required) to represent and advertise old established wealthy business house of solid financial standing. Salary 21.00 weekly with expenses additional, all payable in cash direct each Wednesday from head office. Horse and carriage furnished when necessary. References. Enclose selfdressed envelope. Colonial, 332 Dearborn St., Chicago. A CARD OF THANKS. We wish to sincerely thank the friends and public who so kindly assisted us in the time of our bereavement during the short illness and death of our daughter and sister Julia. WHAT WOMEN LIKE. There are many things that please woman, but nothing more than To be told that she is fascinating when she knows that she is not. To be told that she is well dressed when she realizes that she is shabby. To be talked to reasonably when she knows that she is fearfully unreasonable. To be talked to sensibly when she feels that she is awfully frivolous, and to be treated like a butterfly when she is a Solomon of wisdom. All items for publication must be in by Wednesday evening. The "Best-Girl" Habit, "Why," asked her anxious and excited mother, "do you think he is coming to the point at last?" "Well," the maiden replied, looking demurely down at the rug, "when he took me in his arms and kissed me last night he said he'd got so used to me he didn't believe he could ever break himself of the habit." A Combination of Discomforts "I see that those progressive Mexicans get the latest weather report stamped across the envelopes of the letters they receive." "Well, it must be enough to make a man feel pessimistic to get an envelope stamped 'Continued rains and much colder,' with an unexpectedly large bill inside." Wanted the Real Thing "Matilda!" shouted old Crawfoot, angrily, "stop pounding on that planny." "Oh, papa." lisped the girl in gingham, "the paper says music will kill mosquitoes." "Well, then, why don't you play music?" Maternal Pride. First Young Wife—The photographer said my baby was the prettiest baby he'd ever seen. Second Young Wife -- That's strange. He said the same thing about mine. First Young Wife—Well. I suppose he saw your baby before he saw mine. In Kansas. "Do the Kansas farmers expect much for their money?" asked the hat salesman. "I should say so." responded the lightning-rod agent. "After they buy a lightning rod they expect you to send along a thunderstorm so they can test it."—Chicago News. Both Sides Of It. She—It's lots of fun to flirt with a man till you get him to propose and then say "No." He—Yes, and it's lots of fun for the man, too; but he runs an awful risk. She—How's that? He—She might fool him and say "Yes." Changes His Mind. "My doctor," remarked the Nervy Boarder, "thought I was drinking too much strong coffee, but he changed his mind." "What made him do that?" "Took a meal with me at the boarding house and had some himself." Something Wrong. "It has been said," remarked the philosophical person, "that the man who works steadily never has occasion to worry." "The jay who said that was nutty," rejoined the man who was born tired. "It's working steadily that worries me." Saving a Fee Mother—Why, Johnnie, what on earth have you been doing? Johnnie—Fight'n! And you owe me 50 cents. You know that tooth you was going to pay a dentist to draw? "Yes." "Well, Billy Biffer knocked it out." Classified. "I suppose you thought you were fishing when you caught me?" growled the man who was always disagreeable. "Well, I used to think so," sighed his litter wife, "but now I know I must have been bear hunting." Professor Was Out. The Professor—A collector, you say? Did you tell him I was out? The Factotum—Yes, sir, but he wouldn't believe me. The Professor—Humph! Then I suppose I'll have to go and tell him myself—Brooklyn Life. Wheres She Drew the Line. Mrs. de Fashion—My dear, I have picked out a husband for you. Miss de Fashion—Very well; but I want to say now, mother, that when it comes to buying the wedding dress I am going to select the materials myself, so there! It Comes Back. Subbubs—Do you really mean to say you keep a cat? Backlotz—Yes. Subbubs—I shouldn't think you'd want one around the house. Backlotz—I don't, but the cat insists. From the Mosquito's Standpoint. Brown—What is good for a mosquito's bite? Jones—Most any sort of human flesh, I believe, is considered good. 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Like melody her voice Her face like morning And all my heart rises Because her love What dream of dream So strangely sweet Give me but this One dream of her Sweetheart, the d —Frank Dempster She OUR LITTL By ESTHER Copyrighted 1901 by The Aut ```markdown ``` The sun was sending long lines of yellow light through the western windows of the pleasant school room. Forty pairs of little hands were busy putting books and slates for the day, and forty pairs of little feet shuffled restlessly in their eagerness to be free. Miss Boyd gave a tired sigh as the last small kindergartner was out of sight. Had to day, she wondered, been more than usually full of bruised heads and cut fingers demanding her attention, hair ribbons and apronstrings to be tied, and small outbreaks of mischief to be checked? She rested her head on her desk. Patter, patter, came the sound of bare feet down the hallway; the door was timidly opened. Was it a host cap or book, she wondered; but there was no impatience in the thought. Her soul yas full to overflowing with a boundless love for all child life, and though her body might sometimes weary of the constant demands upon it, her heart remained strong and rested. She turned to little German Freddy with the smile which the smallest kindergartner said made you "feel so comfy," and there was no trace of fatigue in the bright voice as she said: "Well, little one, what is it?" "Our little sister," stammered Freddy, "she wants to see you." Miss Boyd laid her hand upon the boy's shaggy hair. "Tell me about your little sister," she said. "Oh, she's just our little sister," replied Freddy, "and she's sick all the time. Her bed is by the window, and when you go by she all the time says 'I want to see the good teacher.'" "Very well, Freddy, I will come to tomorrow. Will that do?" Freddy shifted his weight to the other foot. "When I came to school today she said, 'Maybe the good teacher will come home with you tonight, Freddy.'" And "the good teacher" went, for was it not a little child who wanted her? In her work among the children she had entered many strange homes and brushed against all kinds and conditions of humanity, but, notwithstanding her experience, the first sight of little sister almost startled her. The few sunbeams which found their way through the narrow window seemed to loiter gladly in the red gold of the child's hair, which lay in rich profusion on the pillow and framed a face of surpassing loveliness. As Miss Boyd leaned over the sleeping child—this sweet, tender flower breathing out its delicate life amidst the foulness of a tenement house—as she noticed the transparent whiteness of the little face in vivid contrast to the brilliant red of the lips, she wondered what the eyes would reveal. As if an answer to her silent question, the little one stirred, and slowly the white lids were lifted. The tears came into Miss Boyd's own as they met them. In the sleeping child nothing, save, perhaps, the wonderful whiteness of "Well, little one, what is it?" he face, seemed to indicate suffering. The story was all in the eyes. Brown they were, without one gleam or sparkle which belongs to the eyes of childhood. Eyes which had stored up all the pain and suffering of long days and "nights devoid of case;" eyes which, in a man or woman, make the heart ache, but once seen in a little child haunt forever. Miss Boyd leaned over and kissed the white forehead. "I have come, little sister," she said. The child smiled faintly. "Ah, it is the good teacher," she said. "I knew you would come." and then her eyes voice is; wrong fair; rejoices; be there; dreams so choice is eet and true? blise; dream of you. herman, in Ainslie's. LE SISTER R HOARE. Authors Publishing Company wandered hungrily to some sweet wood violets which Miss Boyd wore. Taking them from her belt, the teacher said with a simple smile, "Would you like them? My boys and girls bring me some every day, and I should like to share with you." The glad light which flashed into the child's eyes showed that they could speak a language other than pain. "I cannot hold them" she said; "please put them on my pillow;" and then for the first time Miss Boyd noticed that the small hands were shrunken and misshapen and lay on the bed as if lifeless. The child looked at them with a sad little smile. "Mutter says they M. C. E. The little one stirred and slowly the white lids lifted. will not always be so," she said. "Some day I shall go to God's country and He will touch my poor hands and make them all well. Then I can gather violet for myself—when I'm in God's country." Many a day after this found Miss Boyd by the bedside of the little sufferer, and the violet aways came with her. There was only one thing the little one loved better than the violet, and that was her father's violin. He was a stolid old German with sleepy blue eyes—sleepy except when he was bending over little sister or his beloved violin. Then he seemed transformed, and a world of love and tenderness shone in his face. "Play about the country, vater," little sister would say when her pain was very great, and Miss Boyd would close her eyes and listen to brooks babbling through green meadows, the glad voices of birds and the low crooning of summer winds. She could almost smell the violets and see the blue of June skies as the man breathed the country into his violin. And gradually the lines of pain on the child's face would disappear and only the sad eyes told the story of anguish. "It is always so," said her mother. "The vater's violin can soothe her better than anything else. But it will not be long ere the great Vater takes her in His arms and soothes her forever." A week had passed and Miss Boyd had not called at the house, when one day Freddy said, "Miss Boyd, our little sister's going to die, and mother wants you to come to night if you can." Miss Boyd found a wonderful change in the little child. The look of pain and suffering had gone from the eyes, and in its place was a light which only the whispers of messengers from God's country could have brought. "She does not suffer," said the mother. "The doctor says she will go tonight and we wanted you." And so the mother and father and the "good teacher" sat by the bedside watching and waiting while little sister passed into the silent land. Only the tick-tock of the clock and the shortened breathing of the child broke the stillness of the room. Suddenly she half raised herself. "The country," she said, and tremblingly the water took his violin—but alas! the babbling of the brook had the sound of tears running through it; the songs of the birds were hushed and sad; the low crooning of the winds was changed to sobs and moans. All the anguish of the father's breaking heart was voiced in his violin. The music ended with a crash, and, leaning over the little misshapen hands, the strong man wept. "Never mind, water," whispered the child, "the good God will not let you forget the gladness—some day you will play it again," and with a little sigh she slipped from the arms of the weeping carthly father into the arms of the Heavenly Father—into God's country. "Our little sister is all well now." said Freddy to his schoolmates the next week. "Mutter says she runs in the meadows and gathers violets for herself now—away up there in God's country." The gladness has not yet come back to the vater's violin. Sometimes, though, there is a little throb of joy, like a laughing spirit struggling to be free, and the mutter will say, with tears in her eyes, "Ach! the gladness —some day he will play it again." LIPTON'S BAIT WAS CHEESE. Yachtsman Always an Adopt in the Art of Advertising "I remember very distinctly," said an old gentleman in the Walford-Astoria, "the first we inhabitants of Glasgow heard of Tom Lipton. And to think that he is now a man of world renown. Tom and I were schoolboys together. Then I went to Eton and lost track of him. I studied law, and when I returned to Glasgow Tom had hung out his shingle as a greengrocer in an obscure street. He was competing with well established firms, and for three years ploiled along almost unnoticed and with only a small number of customers. But one day the Glasgow papers bore an advertisement something like this: THOMAS LIPTON WILL SELL AT market price good cheeses filled with coin of the kingdom; the cheeses have been prepared especially, and are laden with three pences, sixpences, shillings, half sovereigns and sovereigns. "This astonishing announcement attracted a lot of attention and the little shop of Lipton, greengrocer, was besieged. He sold his cheese by the pound, and in each slice one was quite sure to find at least a silver coin. What a trade he drew! He sold cheese by the thousands of pounds. It cost him a goodly penny, too, because he gave away in this fashion about £500. But Lipton was established. For years he was known as 'Chosee Lipton,' and each Christmas he would conceive some brilliant scheme along lines that appealed to the public. His opening of finely decorated grocery shops in the London slums was of course, the masterstroke."—New York Press. APPETITE ON THE OCEAN. Must Greatly Reduce Profits of Steamship Companies "It is often said," remarked the traveled man, "that steamship companies make big profits out of seasick passengers. So they may, but the others make the balance even. "There are so many meals on an ocean liner, and such healthy appetites are cultivated at sea, that I can't imagine how the companies make any profit out of passengers. "Not long ago I traveled from Panama to Guayaquil on an English liner. The first breakfast was from 7 to 9, the second from 9:30 to 12, lunch from 1 to 3, tea from 4 to 5, dinner from 6 to 8, and supper from 9 to 11. If anybody got hungry between meals, as often happened, the deck steward came around with beef tea, biscuits, oranges, bananas and other trifles. "I never missed a meal, and I don't think anybody else did. They were good, hearty meals, too." "The German lines across the Atlantic and the lines running from England to the West Indies are also very liberal in feeding passengers." A Medical Defense of Corsets. The use of the corset is to transmit the pressure of the skirt bands to the hips and the ribs, and so to protect from their pressure the organs in the region of the waist. The conclusion is, that so long as skirt bands are fastened round the waist, corsets should be worn. They should be stiffer than usually made if they are effectively to protect the soft, middle portion of the body from the pressure of the waistband. The front should be quite straight, and the waist measurement should be at least as large as the wearer's waist, measured over a single, soft garment. The abuse of the article consists in employing it as a means of compressing that which it was meant to protect from compressing, namely, the soft, middle portion of the body. Fashion in corsets has of late made a motion in the right direction, in the straight, stiff front.-Medical Press and Circular. The Rose of Yesterday. "True love is but a transient thing, And hearts are dull and cold." So pessimist Worseongs are all for gold. The snowball bush beside the door, The scene of new-mown hay Are there the same as of the yore-- Where is the rose of yesterday? There's not in all the world a heart That ear was true The same dull mischief heart To pierce the target, bliss. The shady line of maples beck The recreatant away From tell and sew and stormy wreck Where is the rose of yesterday? "There is no kiss that's worth the pain-- The same old pessimist again. In trouble and bewail. The ivy rope that used to hold A little bit of mischief away For lovers new in place of old-- There is the rose of yesterday. British Boats Lead. Official statistics for 1903 show that the British have 336 steamships of over 5,000 tons, against 59 German, 34 American, 39 French, 16 Japanese and 10 Russian. ```markdown ``` America may wrest a new industry from England—the building of turbine engines for ocean steamships. Already the Cunard company has appointed a commission to examine the American invention, and Lord Inverlyde and a number of other notable men interested in that company will come to America and test for themselves the value of the western turbine engine. There are at present only two builders of marine turbines in the English speaking world—C. A. Parsons of England and C. G. Curtis of New York, and to these two men German, British and American steamship owners have turned, with the object of procuring faster ocean greyhounds. In regard to Mr. Curtis it is said that while he has but one turbine in service—a yacht 178 feet long, commissioned in April, 1902, and in continuous service since that time—not one cent has been spent in repairs of the turbine, which appar- WISH FOR PHILIPPINE SERVICE. Soldiers Anxious to Remain in New Passions. Experience seems to be proving that not only is the Philippine service attractive to soldiers who have never been there and are anxious to cross the seas to learn what dreams may come in the land of adventure, but also those who have been there some time are eager to remain, says a dispatch from San Francisco. Word has reached the Seventh infantry that it will not be necessary for it to assign any recruits from the depot here or at Columbus barracks and New York, as there are 300 men in Manila waiting to be transferred to the outgoing regiments. A great many of the soldiers in the regiments under orders to proceed to the United States are short-term men, who in the natural course of events would be discharged from the service shortly after their arrival here. A large majority of these have signified their willingness and desire to remain in the Philippines, so pleasing have they found their service there. The war department has therefore informed the Seventh infantry that not only are there 300 recruits awaiting transfer to the Seventh, but enough men to give each of the outgoing regiments 300 men apiece. As the Seventh infantry needs only 200 recruits, the need will be amply covered. An advantage will be gained also by procuring experienced men. Ethel Rockefeller in Society Like all the other Rockefellers, Miss Ethel G., daughter of William G. Rockefeller, is musical, and highly educated, but has little or none of the retiring disposition which characterizes most others of the name. She is fond of outdoor life, is a capital whip and frequently rides to hounds across the country. She and her immediate family are much more liberal in their religious views than the John D. Rockefellers, and they go into society a good deal besides. Conscience Fund Contribution Conscience Fund Contribution. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock received the following letter, together with a money order, from an Oklahoma man recently: "Cashlon, Ok.— To the Secretary of the Interior: I Inclose $1 to pay for one small stick of pecan timber that I took in the Chickasaw nation. I have an earnest desire to make all things rite, and I no of no other way than thro your department. In sincerly ask grifvines for the auful sin. Yours resp." Kaiser's Gift to Americans. The German emperor has presented a costly piece of porcelain from the royal Prussian factory to Ross R. Winans of Baltimore. Md., in recognition of his labors in restoring part of an ancient Roman frontier fortress near Homburg, Germany. In the course of his excavations on the site of the fortress Mr. Winans found many interesting articles, including bronze spear heads, swords, Roman locks, buckles, coins and ornaments. Calendar Making. Now is the time of year when the makers of calendars are busy. Most of the big lithograph firms are up to their eyes in work, for the business of making calendars is a growing one. Many of the big insurance companies put out from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 annually, and it is said that one patent medicine firm alone distributed 7,000,000 last year. A conservative estimate places the number of 1903 calendars made in the United States at a hundred million. Girl Will Wear Man's Uniform Annie Rooney, a young woman of good character in Seattle, Wash., has adopted the uniform of a United States marine and declares her intention of wearing it instead of the skirts in which members of her sex usually enfold their persons. The police say there is no law which will prevent her carrying out her purpose, as she does not seek to disguise her sex by wearing the habiliments of man. TURBINE ENGINE COMPARATIVE SIZES OF CURTIS TURBINES OF THE SAME POWER AND COAL CONSUMPTION AT THE ENGINES OF THE J.S. MAISER WILHELM II. ently is now as perfect as on the first day that steam was turned into its boilers. Although no persons connected with the Curtis company would admit that negotiations are going on, an official of the Cunard company said that Lord Inverclyde's commission would thoroughly investigate the turbine designs and probably would be MILNER'S RISE TO POWER. From a Poor Journalist to Rank of African Viceroy. The Austrian government sent a private car to Trieste for Lord Milner on his arrival from Africa, but when he reached Vienna there was no one to receive him at the station except an employee of the hotel, where he had engaged rooms. He carefully counted his pieces of baggage and awaited the customs inspectors, who, however, did not molest him. A Viennese newspaper credits Lord Milner with the remark that, having been originally a poor journalist, he had succeeded in attaining the rank of African viceroy by his perseverance in fighting for the ideas of Rhodes and Chamberlain. NOT AN HABITUAL DRUNKARD. Intoxication on Legal Holidays Condoned by Judge. A man who gets intoxicated only on legal holidays does not fall into the drunkard category, according to Judge Harper of the common pleas count of Stark county, Ohio. In a divorce suit brought by Minnie Rerick against William Rerick the allegation was made that the husband is a habitual drunkard. The defendant testified that he got drunk on national holidays only and that the wife could prove nothing else. The judge in summing up the case declared the plaintiff had failed to sustain her chief allegation and he refused to grant her separation. PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR CHINESE. Chicago Board of Education Gives Them a Chance to Learn English. For the first time in the history of the public schools of Chicago the board of education has issued a circular to the Chinese of the city, inviting them to attend the Jones School evenings, so that they may receive lessons 館夜學義文英 替着去年本埠學部劍設館氏夜 晚公家學堂乙所在夏利順街奕 鄉歐馬扶衙門等連體押一二三 四五等晚由七打館至九打館止 准于西拾月五晚碧勉請凡有志 習英文事人日間謹然不暇然夜 晚可依朗就學分文不收 宋士鐘氏醫客 The Notice in Chinese. in the English language. A handbill has been distributed to every Chinese laundry in the First ward, calling the attention of the Chinese to the fact that they can get lessons in English. Superintendent Megan, in charge of the night schools, claims that a good teacher can teach the rudimentary features of the language to Chinese or any other nationality. Asquith May Be Chancellor. A London print says that Mr. Asquith, who has just reached his fifty-first year, may change his name before his next anniversary arrives, for the political barometer points to stormy weather, the foundering of the present government bark, and the consequent launching of a new Liberal ship of state. In that not improbable contingency the Liberals will have to look out for a new lord censor, their last occupant of that high office, Lord Herschell, having since passed away. The choice would seem to lie between Mr. Asquith and Mr. Haldane, the two most eminent of Liberal lawyers. in the United States within three months. Mr. Curtis himself is extremely sanguine as to the future use of turbine engines on big steamers. He says they will result in swifter trips and in greater comfort to passengers, and that the saving in space will permit of the carriage of more passengers and of heavier cargoes. BOERS GET THEIR BIBLES. Many Volumes Taken by British Soldiers Being Sent Back. Considerable progress is being made with the work in connection with the collection and return of Boer family Bibles found by British officers and men in deserted farm houses in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony in the course of the recent war. The Bibles are being received at the London headquarters of the Society of Friends, which was requested by Lord Roberts to undertake the work of collection and return. As the volumes are received they are registered and then placed in a strong room. Many of the Bibles are of considerable intrinsic value, apart from the genealogical and sentimental value they possess for their Boer owners. Some of them contain family records dating back well over a hundred years, and, owing to the nomadic life led by the early Boer settlers, it would be impossible to replace these records from any other source. Descriptions of the books received, or which are known as the result of correspondence to be in England, are being circulated broadcast throughout South Africa, with the result that many of the Bibles have already been claimed, and, the claims having been verified, have been restored to their rightful owners. South Africa, published in London, recently printed some photographs of Boer Bibles showing the elaborate character of the records they contain. Women Object to Statue. The beautiful new statue on the top of the Kirkpatrick memorial fountain in Syracuse, N. Y., offends the women of that neighborhood, and they threaten to destroy it unless it be clothed. The statue is the work of the sculptor, Jerome Connor, and is entitled, "The Boy and the Parrot." Both figures are clothed in the garb of nature. The women of the vicinity will not allow their children to play in Union park, where the statue stands. They will probably memorialize the common council regarding it. Has Seen Great Changes. Christian Smith, now living on his farm near Harper's Ferry, saw the Baltimore & Ohio railroad develop from a horse car line into its present great steam railroad system. When 20 years old in 1832 Mr. Smith was employed as a teamster to drive the cars on a stretch of fifteen miles. When locomotives were adopted he became an engineer and supervisor of engines. He left the service of the company in 1873, but is still a vigorous old man. Mayor Locked in Cell Mayor Smallley of North Plainfield, N. J., was showing a party of friends through the county jail in Somerville the other day. A deputy sheriff took the friends to show them an improved cell, leaving the mayor behind by mistake. A green jailer found him, and thinking he was a confidence man, of whose coming word had been received, locked the mayor in a cell, where he remained an hour before the mistake was discovered. Refused Naturalization Papers NURSE NATURALIZATION Papers. Judge Lander of Lancaster, Pa., last week refused naturalization to an Italian and a russian. They answered questions satisfactorily as to the forms of government in this country, but admitted they could not read or write English. The judge said it was a mistake to make citizens of men who did not take enough interest in affairs of their adopted country to read and write its language. Kaiser Champions Painters The kaiser's latest role is that of champion of the painters whose pictures have been rejected by the management of the annual German art exhibition. Out of 5,000 pictures offered only 600 have been accepted and it is alleged that the selections are due to favoritism and improper influences. It is stated that the modern impressionist school is favored at the expense of the other styles. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the for a great many years doctors cannot be incurable for a case and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it is a serious disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured in the only constitutive disease and therefore requires constitutional cure on the market. It is taken in doses from to drops to a teaspoonful. It acts on blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They form a thick membrane it fails to cure. Send for circulations and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENKY & CO., Toledo, O. Goddard Hospital. Fall's Family Plans are the best. A wise man hopes only for the things that are possible and probable. $15.00 TO TEXAS AND RETURN. Tickets will be on sale October 20th at St. Louis and Kansas City with limit of 21 days, giving a most excellent opportunity to investigate fruit and truck farming in East Texas, which is yielding such magnificent returns. Trains leave St. Louis via the Iron Mountain route with through cars at 2:21 p. m. and 8:20 p. m. For Texas printed matter addressed D. J. Price, G. P. and T. A., I. and G. N. R. R., Palestine, Texas A good many men would be poorer to-day if their ancestors had left them more. A Fortune in Ginseng Growing. A few square rods of your back yard in cultivated ginseng will yield as much profit as crops on an ordinary farm. Splendid for women to cultivate. Send 2 cent stamp for catalogue and instructions how to grow it to Kansas City Ginseng Co., 1425 Spruce street, Kansas City, Mo. Inventing lies has cheapened many a good man's reputation. ALTON RESUMES FAST ST. LOUIS TRAIN SERVICE. Passengers destined to St. Louis and points east should go via the Kansas City gateway, thereby securing the advantage of the Chicago & Alton's fast night train, leaving Kansas City at 9 p. m., arriving in St. Louis at 7:44 a. m. Chair cars free of extra charge. Compartment sleeping cars. The Alton keeps their light's shining just ahead of the rest. Write to L. D. Cooper. Traveling, Passenger Agent, Chicago & Alton Railway, Kansas City, Mo., for lowest rates. Little Willie—"Say, will a Welsh rabbit hurt you?" Little Bobby—"No, not unless you eat it." Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 5c cigar. Price to dealers $60.00 per M. They cost some more than other brands, but no more than 5c cigar should cost. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Il. When a man has his leg pulled it makes him feel limp. GINENG-1 grow, buy and sell ginense. One square rod will yield 1,500 worth of seeds in one year. An illustrated publication that tells all about the postpaid for Sac D. E. well, Cambran, Mo. 178 Self-important men seldom get out of the wage-worker class. THE K. C. S. ALMANAC FOR 1903 The Kansas City Southern Railway's Almanac for 1903 is now ready for distribution. Farmers, stock-raisers, fruit-growers, truck gardeners, manufacturers, merchants and others seek home at the very lowest prices, can obtain reliable information concerning Southwestern Missouri, the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations in the Indian Territory, Western Arkansas, Eastern Texas, Northwestern Louisiana and the Coast country, and of the business opportunities offered Berlin. Writers, G. K. C. S. Almanac and address, S. G. Warner, G. P. A.. K. C. S. Ry Kansas City, Mo. A scientist who investigated the color of a cyclone found it blew. ```markdown ``` A striking contrast between Defiance Starch and any other brand will be found by comparison. Defiance Starch stiffens, whitens, beautifies without rotting. It gives clothes back their newness. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO... Omaha, N.C. FREE T PAXTINE TOILET ANTIQUE FILM FREE TO WOMEN! To prove the healing and cleansing power of Paxline will moll a large trial package with book of instructions absolutely this is not a sample, but package, enough to convince anyone of its value. When we are praising Paxline for what it has done in local treat-all inflammation and discharges, wonderful as a cleansing vaginal douche, for soe throat, nasal catarrh, as a mouth wash and to remove tartar and whiten the teeth. Send today a postal card sold by drugstores or sent postpaid by us. 60s. large box. Satisfaction guaranteed THE R. PAXTON CO., Boston, Mass. 124 Columbia Ave. DON'T SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocer. bc. a package. Just as soon as a girl goes to lunch-eon with married women she begins to think she is worldly. A Feat of Endurance. At St. Mary's church, Grundishburg, Eng., on a recent Sunday, eight members of the Norwich Diocesan Association rang upon the bells of the church a true and complete peal of Bob Major. When it is considered that this consists of 5.040 distinct changes and occupied the performers two hours and fifty-three minutes, it must be regarded as a feat of considerable endurance. Turf for Fuel An English Irish syndicate has been formed for the purpose of removing one of the worst evils with which Irish industrial development was afflicted, viz., dear coal. The industrial difficulties due to the absence of coal in Ireland are to be removed by the use of turf, in which the island abounds. This is to be cut, dried and pressed into bricks. HouseSmiths. The "housemiths" are those iron workers who put together the steel skeleton frames which are now used in the construction of all large buildings. Easy to Get. Pierpoint, O., Oct. 5th.—Remarkable Indeed is the experience of Mr. A. S. Turner, a man now over seventy one years of age, and whose home is here. For many years this old gentleman had suffered with a very unpleasant form of Kidney Trouble, a kind that very often bothers aged people. He would have to get up four or five times every night, and this very tiresome disease was fast wearing him out. At last after having almost made up his mind that he would never be able to get relief, he stumbled over a medicine which relieved him almost immediately, and has cured him permanently. It is so very easy to get and so simple that Mr. Turner thinks everyone should know of it. Every dealer in the country has it, and all you have to do is to ask for Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Turner says:— "I can heartily and honestly recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills for they cured me. Several others in the family have used them too, and always with the best results. I think they have no equa." When a fellow is frozen out of a good thing it naturally makes him hot. Too Many Wheels. Old John Curtis, the Atchison clock tinkerer, mended a clock one day, says the Globe, and when he went to collect his pay the woman noticed that he had left one wheel out. "How is this, Mr. Curtis?" said the woman, "you have left a wheel out of the works." Curtis was anxious to get his money. "Oh, that's all right," he said, "that was what was the matter with it."—Kansas City Journal. Motor Face in Woman Many women are discovering that "living on a motor car" is most destructive of beauty. Moderate motoring, by improving health and the capacity for sleep, enhances a woman's charms, but the hardened tourist type of 150 miles a day tans and coarsens her skin and gets crow's feet around her eyes, her face loses its soil, womanly contour and gains hardness and determination. OIL Supply Diminishes For two years the oil consumption of the world has exceeded the production. The stock of crude Pennsylvania petroleum above ground is December, 1900, was 13,174,717 barrels, while in December, 1902, the amount thus stored was only 5,699,12 barrels. Pennsylvania has the greatest American oil field. IT'S A MISTAKE. To Attribute Coffee Ils to Poor Grades of Coffee. Many people lay all the blame for the diseases caused by coffee upon the poor grades of coffee but this is an error as the following proves: "I have used every kind of the best grade of tea and coffee that can be got from a first class grocer but never found one that would not upset my nervous system and it was not until I began to drink Postum Food Coffee in place of coffee and tea that I had relief from the terrific attacks of nervous sick headache from which I had suffered for 30 years. "I had tried all kinds of medicines but nohe helped me. "Soon after I stopped drinking coffee and began to drink Postum the headaches grew less and it was not long until I was entirely cured and I have never had a return of this distressing trouble for nowadays I never drink coffee but stick to Postum. "As soon as my wife saw what Postum had done for me she gave up coffee, which she had drank all her life. This was six weeks ago and she is a changed woman, for her neryousness has all disappeared and her face has become smooth and her cheeks have a good rosy red color She sleeps well, too, something she could never do while she drank coffee. We consider Postum a house hold necessity in my house and have induced many friends to try this wonderful food drink in place of coffee." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wullville. TALE OF A CONNECTING LINK. Apparently Authentic Account of Infant Born With a Tail. The Parwinian theory has recently received more tangible support in the Gaya District, where an infant has been discovered who is possessed of a tail. The case is reported to the Indian Medical Gazette by Capt. Chatterton, I. M. S., and the infant is apparently causing a sensation, and may in time, for aught that can be said, be worshiped as the god Hanuman, the monkey god come back to earth. Capt. Chatterton describes this curious child as follows: "The child had what appeared to be a tail. I made the following note at the time. The spine is apparently perfectly normal. Over the base of the sacrum is a brawny swelling, from the lower portion of which emerges a perfectly skin-cover, tail-like appendage, about three to three-and-a-half inches long. This appendage is capable of a limited amount of motion: It wags slightly when the infant takes the breast. There is no evidence of any bone in this 'tail.' It feels tough and elastic. It appears to be connected by soft attachments to the sacrum. The tip of the coccyx can be felt in its normal situation, under cover of the 'tail.' All the other parts of this baby were normal. The parents absolutely refused to entertain the idea of having the tail removed. The reason is, I think, that the fame of the baby has already begun to spread, and I have no doubt that, by judicious management, it will prove a source of income to its parents."—From the Amrita Bazar Patrika. WHY SAILORS WERE SLOW. With Soft-Spoken Captain They Missed Usual Encouragement. Admiral Watson always prohibited swearing on the vessel where he happened to be, and if any luckless officer enforced an order from the bridge with an oath, he was called upon for a private interview with his superior. But another matter in his squadron troubled the admiral. His was the flagship, and yet her men were sometimes the last to finish the execution of a command or to carry out a manoeuvre. One day when the seamen were behind in getting down from the rigging he called the captain to him. "Why is it," he asked, "that here on the flagship, where we ought to be the quickest, the men are behind the other ships?" While the officer was seeking for an inoffensive reply, a volley of oaths came floating across the water from the captain of the nearest ship. "Well, you see, admiral, our men don't get the right kind of encouragement, sir."—New York Times. The Closed Door I never crossed your threshold with grief But that I went without it; never came hurtly but you fed me, eased the blame. And gave the sorrow solace and relief. I never left you but I took away The love that drew me to your side Oh! Friend, who gave and comforted, who knew Relief from this unceasing loss of you? Be it for fault, for folly, or for sln. Oh! terrible my penance, and most sore— To face the tragedy of that closed door Whereby I pass and may not enter in. —Theodolia Garrison, in Harper's Ba- Love Before Money. Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, the authoress, tells of a conversation touching the advisability of marrying for money which took place between two young ladies of her acquaintance, aged respectively twelve and thirteen. Said the thirteen-year girl: "I shall not marry any but a very rich man. I couldn't for the life of me be tied down to a pauper." "Oh," came from the twelve-year youngster, "how can you talk so? I couldn't marry unless I cared for the man. I'd rather marry a man who had $10,000 a year if I loved him than a millionaire I couldn't love!"—New York Times. The Tail of a Cat Silently he stole forth from 'neath the bushes, with noiseless tread, toward the dark and gloomy mansion where dwelt his lady love. Then he burst forth in the fulness of his spirit the song of the tale of his love. As if in direct answer to his serenade, a window was raised, and immediately came the sound of a boot hurling through the air. The broken-hearted lover turned away into the cold and cheerless night, muttering as he went: "Human beings never appreciate us cats when we are in love." Came Down Hard. Freddie is a boy of five years, and he has a little brother who is just beginning to walk. The younger brother's name is Frank, and while Freddie likes him in a certain way his nose has been rather out of joint since his arrival. The other day he said to his mother: "Ma, did our baby come right from heaven?" "Yes, my son," replied his mother. "Well, then," said the young hopeful. "I guess he must have lit on his feet; that's what makes him so bow-legged." Children's World Fair St. Petersburg is to have a world's fair devoted "to child education, its growth, its achievements, and its most advanced methods." Seventeen million children in Russia have no school opportunities at all PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are as far ahead of the old fashioned Dyes as electricity is of a Rush light candle. Putnam Fadeless Dyes are clearly, as they neither stain the are also spotless, nor are the for the picnic tables everywhere. The for the picnic tables everywhere, or marketed directly at by a package, Fadeless Dyes are sold in the grocery everywhere, or marketed directly at by a package, MONROE, DRUG, CO., Unionville, Boy's Touching Gratitude As a tribute of gratitude for having restored him to health, Walter Carr Byrd, seven years old, recently donated the munificent sum of 52 cents to Jefferson hospital in Philadelphia. It was the first public contribution ever received by the institution, and Acting Superintendent Gregg was as much pleased as though some multimillionaire had bestowed a princely benefaction. It is calculated that the number of timber sleepers on the railways of the world does not fall far short of 1,495,000,000, and a low estimate of their value is $900,000,000. This alone constitutes a serious drain on the timber supplies of the world. Japan's Beat Customer. During each of the last five years the United States has bought more of the products of Japan than any other country, and more than all Europe, yet British India and Great Britain each sell more to Japan than does the United States. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. The man who contributes to a church fund does so as a guarantee of good faith. Mrs. Winokow's Soo-liang Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, curses wind sores. Doe a bottle. When a mother looks at her boy in his new clothes, it is not to admire, but to jump him about the spots. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Defiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. The man who considers himself a brick never boasts of being a common-clay specimen. Allen's Foot-Ease, Wonderful Remedy. "Have tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE, and find it to be a certain cure, and gives comfort to one suffering with sore, tender and swollen feet. I will recommend ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE to my friends, as it is certainly a wonderful remedy.—Mrs. N. H. Guilford, New Orleans, La." No person is so punctual when it comes to keeping appointments as the bill collector. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. It takes a cold snap to get the drop on a thermometer. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the brightest and fastest colors. Love in a cottage doesn't have a lanitor to contend with. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12 ounce packages of other kinds? Keep an eye on the man who boasts of his honesty. PUTNAM are as far ahead of the old fashioned Dyes as girds nor spot the kettle. The live package co. Fadeless Dyes are for sale by all good druggists. Some people never go ahead because they are never sure they are right. CHEAP EXCURSIONS TO THE SOUTH. On October 26th, the Kansas City Southern Railway (Port Arthur Routes) will run a cheap excursion from Kansas City and all stations in Missouri and Kansas to Lake Charles, shreveport, and Austin. The rate the round trip will be $10.00, limited to 21 days from date of sale good to stopover on going trip at all points on route provided a destination is reached in teaching or in 13 days from date of sale. Exceptionally low rate, together with liberal stopover privileges allowed, should insure a great crowd, especially in snow conditions. A full season of the year to visit the southland. Similar low rates will probably be placed in effect from points north and east of Kansas City. Ask your ticket Every effort will be made by the company to secure the safety and comfort of our staff. We will provide suitable locations to visit of other information will be cheerfully furnished. Address either S. G. Warner, G. P & T. A. F, E. F. Company, 1000 N. 10th St., H. M. Morris, T. R. A., Kansas City, Mo. Some people talk too much to really say anything. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. There is no hope for the poor girl who is stone blind to the sparkling beauties of a solitaire. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Largative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure 22c. Pity the misguided amateur gardner who tries to live on the vegetables he raises. GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS GOLD HOUSEKEEPERS Use the best. That is why they buy Red Cross Ball Balls. At leading grocers, 5 cents. A man of many ceilings—the train announcer. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, blind, bleeding or protruding Piles positively cured or money refunded. ALLEN'S DISCOVERY for FILES, a new discovery that absolutely cures all kinds of Piles. Prepared for Piles only. All Drug Stores, SoC. Sent by mail on receipt of price. Address Lock Box 852, Le Roy, N.Y. The fellow who invests in green goods is generally done up brown. STRAIGHT TO THE SPOT The SHERRODS The scene is in Clay County, Indiana. The tale begins with the blissful love of a young farmer and a girl teacher, which culminates in a marriage that brings perfect bliss in spite of poverty and hard work. The development of an intricate plot, worked out in a masterly manner, keeps the interest of the reader at the highest tension, as one follows the awakening of ambition in the young man, his life in Chicago where he rises rapidly in his profession, his first downward step, the frightful entanglement into which his weakness leads him, up to the tragical end which brings into high relief the characters of two noble women. "A first-rate American Story, full of Action and Interest." "A first-rate American Story, full of Action and Interest." "Like others of the successful books which have had enormous sales, it has that indelible something about it which few stories possess, and which forces a book into universal popularity." 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Putnam Fords either silk, wool or cotton equally well everywhere, or manied direct at lie a package PERSONAL Will the woman who suffers with slok headache please try Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin Your druggist sells it PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, Ill. Bloodine CURES All Forms of BLOOD POISON Such as Ecroiula, Eczoma and Rheumatism. Positively unprotected to cure if directions are followed. $1 per bottle. Address The Bloodine Co. 325 W. 11th Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. WEATHERWISE IS THE MAN WHO WEARS TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKERS A reputation extending over sixty-six years and our guarantee are back of every garment bearing the SIGN OF THE FISH. There are many imitations. Be sure of the name TOWER on the buttons ON SALE EVERYWHERE. A J TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. U. S. TOWER CANADIAN CO. Limited, TORONTO, CAN. --- the pain was less. He began to gain and is to-day a well boy, his life saved by Doan's Kidney Pills. RUDDLES MILLS, KY — I received the free trial of pills. 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L. DOUGLAS '3.50 & '3 SHOES UNION MALE You can save from $3 to $5 yearly by wearing W. L. Douglas $3.50 or $3 shoes. The cost of these that have been you from $400 to $500. The im- mense sale of W. L. Douglas shoes proves over all other makes. PETER H. Sold by retail shop everywhere. Look for man and price bottom. Though the form and off prices there is value in Douglas shoes. Corona is the highest grade flat. Leather made. For our $4 Bill Gift Line could be equated at any price. Shoes by mail. 24 cents extra. Illustrated Catalog free. W. L. BOLTGLAS, Brooklyn, Bask. Afflicted with Thompson's Eye Water sore agent, new. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 41, 1903. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO'S CURE FOR COWS WHERE ANEW CRAFTS Beauty Good Syrup. Taste Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION --- MANY WOMEN— Want men to understand that they must never be contradicted. Demand recognition of their services out of proportion to merit. Feel a sense of affront at being compared to a woman in public life. Have no compunction in patronizing a man with a questionable reputation. Look at the pretty man to the detriment of one of the sturdy, rugged type. Consider themselves exempt from criticism, no matter what they choose to do. See the hideousness of wrong-doing most forcibly when a woman is the offender. Will contours to an indiscretion as though it were something of which to be proud. Gauge the force of a man's character by his ability as a parlor conversationalist. Constantly chatter about girlhood happy days, no matter how far back it takes them — Philadelphia Bulletin. PASSING GLIMPSES A woman without an opinion is like an egg without salt. Bloodshot eyes usually indicate that their owner is loaded. Oh, no, Cousin John, South America is not South Africa. Give some men credit and you start them on the road to the almshouse. A little woman's alliments are usually two or three times as large as she is. A woman will often say no when she means yes, but never yes when she means no. Men are more apt to complain of the ingratitude of friends than of the injustice of enemies. When a servant girl waits until ironing day to demand more wages she believes in striking while the iron is hot. WITH THE SAGES There is no duty which we so much underrate as the duty of being happy, —R. L. Stevenson. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—Franklin. Blessed is the man that has found his work. One monster there is in the world, the idie man.—Carlyle. Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.—Henry Ward Beecher. The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill humor of others.—Empson. Very few men have the opportunity of being great, but all can be true, just, honest and faithful, even in small things.—Samuel Sutles. Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts in tails lower world.—Isaac Watts. For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to binge—such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.—Plato. Last of the Jersey Indians Dan Halstead, the last survivor of the Indian tribes that once inhabited New Jersey, is living the life of a hermit on the Morris farm, near Norma, in that state. He is said to be the grandson of a former great chief. His sole companion in his solitude is a mongrel cur. He makes his living by fishing and truck gardening. It isn't so much what the college graduate is going to be as what he is. Just as soon as a girl goes to lunch-eon with married women she begins to think she is worldly. The Stoeltzing Stov CHEF'S OVEN --- MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY The Train Service of the Missouri Pacific. The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time: 9:50 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and South-eastern trains. The only 1. leaving Kansas City after the Operas, stage meetings and Sunday night Churus service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m., in for all Eastern connections. 9:55 p. m.—10:50 a. m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment, Pullman Sleep- ers and Compartment cars; Recilining Chair cars, (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at Union Depot and 901 Main St., City Office. E. S. JEWETT, Pass. & Ticket Agent. 1784 . . . Telephone . . . 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co.. First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. Heim's KANSAS CITY $11 F.M.B. CO. OLD LAGER SPECIAL BREWS: SCHARNAGEL SELECT KYFHHAUSER PERFECTION 1880 1890 1900 SALES: 12000 59946 130578 BBLS. BBLS. BBLS. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A Wonderful Face Bleach. AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what wessy and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as lipped. A PEACH-LIKE complex completion if used in a DIRECTED. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a multicolor person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade or two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin of a black person beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or tumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Small pox pits, tan, liver spots are removed. Wash the skin with color wash, using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it sitting out. Highly perfumed and makes the hair shiny. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars yet we sell it for one dollar a box. HIY WOOH! shown in free. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepared; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by soft and easy to emb. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Agents for... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the.. Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Roast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces TIN WORK a Specialty. ...A new line of.... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. WESTERN UNIVERSITY For the Moral, Intellectual and Industrial Training of Departments. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Ind Courses. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry, Fabrication, Printing and Book-making, Dressmaking and Plait- tailoring, Business Course and Stenography, Farming, Stu- dent and Truck Gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Advantages. Good Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of T lege-bred and Industrially Trained Teachers. Terms $7.50 Per Month. School Opens For the Moral, Intellectual and Industrial Training of our Youth. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial. Theological, Classical, Normal, Prepacatory, Carpentry and Architecture, Printing and Book-making, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Tailoring, Business Course and Stenography, Farming, Stock raising and Truck Gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Good Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of Twelve College-bred and Industrially Trained Teachers. For Illustrated Catalogue Just Out Write to S Thi Yes! I pretties are in Kansas C e w. 9th Mr. Wilson and the publ ing of watch assures not gains in diar y rings, ladie ROOSEVELT Headquar APPLL e Roosevelt Rep I hereby make a myself to do al dore Roosevelt f Is This Really True Yes! Some of the choicest qualities are prettiest designs in Watches and Jewelry are in the show window of :::: Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jewelers J. A. WILSON, S W. 9th St., KANSAS CITY Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of his land and the public either in buying his goods or in buying of watches and jewelry (which is a special assures nothing less than complete satisfaction) gains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always ROOSEVELT REPUBLICAN Club Headquarters 117 W. 6th St., Kansas City APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP The Roosevelt Republican Club at Kansas City, Mo. I hereby make application for membership in the above-menue myself to do all in my power to secure the nomination and advance Roosevelt for President in 1904. WILEIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., Prest., Quindaro, Kas. Is This Really True? Yes! Some of the choicest qualities and prettiest designs in Watches and Jewelry are in the show window of : : : : Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public either in buying his goods or in repairing of watches and jewelry (which is a specialty) assures nothing less than complete satisfaction. Bargains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, baby rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. ROOSEVELT REPUBLICAN CLUB. ROOSEVELT REPUBLICAN CLUB. Headquarters 117 W. 6th St., Kansas City Mo. APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP To the Roosevelt Republican Club at Kansas City, Mo. I hereby make application for membership in the above-named club and pledge myself to do all in my power to secure the nomination and election of Theodore Roosevelt for President in 1904. Name..... Address..... Address ..... Age..... Meeting night the velt-loving Negro L. W. Carter, M. ers, 2nd Vice-Pres surer: F. L. Lew m. "BE Meeting night the second and fourth Thursday'in each month, velt-loving Negro join. No dues required in this club. OFFICERS. L. W. Carter. President; W. W. Yates, 1st Vice-President, 2nd Vice-President; Dr. T. C. Unthanks, Secretary; Treasurer: F. L. Lewis Corresponding Secretary; Frank Willis, firm. "BE A SPORT Meeting night the second and fourth Thursday'in each month. Let every Roosevelt-loving Negro join. No dues required in this club. L. W. Carter. President; W. W. Yates, 1st Vice-President; W. W. Waters, 2nd Vice-President; Dr. T. C. Unthanks, Secretary; Theo. H. Clay, Treasurer; F. L. Lewis Corresponding Secretary; Frank Williams, Sergeant-at-arm. "BE A SPORT." DRINK..... Quaker M ...A Swell Drink for Quaker Maid R ...A Swell Drink for Swell Peo Quaker Maid Rye. ..A Swell Drink for Swell People... S. HIRSCH & CO., KANSAS CITY S. HIRSCH & CO., KANSAS CITY, MO QUINDARO KANSAS. Department. Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial. Courses. Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry and Arch making, Dressmaking and Plain Sewin and Stenography, Farming, Stock raising ing and Laundering. Advantages. My Moral Tone, A Faculty of Twelve Co Trained Teachers. h. School Opens Sept. 14 Really True of the choicest qualities and isms in Watches and Jewelry now window of : : : : Pioneer Negro Jeweler WILSON, KANSAS CITY, M. writing the patronage of his friends or in buying his goods or in repair- ed jewelry (which is a specialty) less than complete satisfaction. ings, engagement and wedding ri- guards, etc., can always be obtain REPUBLICAN CLU W. 6th St., Kansas City Mo. ON FOR MEMBERSHIP club at Kansas City, Mo. on for membership in the above-named clu- power to secure the nomination and elec- tion in 1904. Occupation...... and fourth Thursday'in each month. Let No dues required in this club. OFFICERS. A SPORT." Maid Rye. ink for Swell People... For Sale Everywhere. CH & CO., KANSAS CITY, MO No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth.....$4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k.....$2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth .$2.65 Platinum fillings.....$50c Cleaning.....$50c We do as we advertise— Teeth extracted without pain FREE. We are here to stay. NEW YORK DENTAL CO ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. YORK DENTAL ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. J. L. V Blacksmithing, H Shop. Good Workn 707 Independence Ave. Only First The Residence 416 La WABASH Kansas C Unsurpassed servi trains on the Wabas Fair grounds, St. cent buildings—the Wabas Leaving Kansas C and Buffalo next e second morning, sa vice. Wabash is t Western Passenger A. WEBE If you want a go and save m no rent. L. WILLIAMS —GENERAL— Wining, Horseshoeing and Washing. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship guaranteed since Ave. Only First Class Colored Shop in the City. The Very Lowest Prices. 416 Laurel. Telephone FOLLOW THE 5 Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis eed service, smooth track, fast the Wabash run directly through lands, St. Louis, in full view of all things—the Wabash is the only line of Wabash Train No. 1 Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives No. 10 next evening, aud New York No. 11 evening, saving a day's travel. The Wabash is the only line that does it. L. S. McCLELLA Passenger Agent. Kansas EBER, MERCHANT I want a suit to order here is the price and save money. Why? Because it. Come and J. L. WILLIAMS. Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair Shop. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship guaranteed. 707 Independence Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Only First Class Colored Shop in the City. The Very Lowest Prices. Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. WABASH "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnificent buildings—the Wabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No 8. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls and Buffalo next evening, and New York and Boston second morning, saving a day's travel. Through service. Wabash is the only line that does it. Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. A. WEBER. MERCHANT TAILOR, If you want a suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay no rent. Come and see us. Style, Fit and Finish Up-to-Date. S. W. Blvd. Kansas City NEGRO ENTERPRISE. Smoke & Paul Laurence Dunbar Cig 2825 S. W. Blvd. NEOP Paul Laur This cigar is made e ler Tobacco, with a Su hought, even at a cost ORED-AMERICAN CIGAR Chicago, Ill. Anthony Overton, Manager Station "A" Kausa THE new, non-falling bined treatment for OZO60 and CEDR60 tolsty, cannot fall This cigar is made exclusively of high grade imported Havana Filler Tobacco, with a Sumatra wrapper, and a better cigar cannot be bought, even at a cost of twenty-five cents each. THE new, non-fatty, oil-free combined treatment for the human Hair, OZONO and CEDROLINE, used jointly, cannot fail to lend to the Hair length, and beauty. One year ago the directors of the BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., with the sole purpose and intention to produce an absolutely perfect and reliable treatment for our hair, provide the sum of $0.00 for this purpose alone. The services of three of the world's most noted chemists were sequestered, plus they have involved in investigation and costly experiments, have successfully formulated a treatment so potent and powerful, yet so harmless and non-toxic, that effects on the Hair border upon the miraculous. This treatment can be used in all faith and confidence, as it is certain to produce results most gratifying, causing the Hair to draw up, contract, curl, and tangle, thus making it easier to care for any style desired. It causes the Hair to grow out on all bald spots, scant partings, thin places, and bare temples. It is sure to provide the Hair, Hair Grower, worth $2.00; also one large package of our latest discovery, POWDERED EGG SHAMPOO, worth $80; also one bar of our celebrated and renowned PURITY SCALP SOAP, worth $2.50, and another bar of our specialty of the day, worth $2.50. This grand collection, worth in all $5.00, will be sent on receipt of $1.50 and your name and address, with full, plain, and complete directions, together with our beautiful Souvenir Catalogue, justly called the toilet educator of the day. NOTE. To all who have ever bought OZONO we will send this great bargain offer for only $1.00. Your word is sufficient. Simply tell us when and where you bought it. This liberal offer is made with the object of securing good Agents, who can simply coin money soiling our preparations. No matter where you live, we can get our goods safely to you. Do not delay; order to day. Address BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va. 1029 Main St. TEETH IMMOTION PLATE RK DENTAL CO PUBLISHED 20 YEARS. Second Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. Open Daily. Nighs till 9. Sundays 10 to 4 WILLIAMS, GENERAL Hesseeing and Wagon Repair Material and First-Class Ownship guaranteed. Kansas City, Mo. Class Colored Shop in the City. Every Lowest Prices. Rel. Telephone 1052 Red. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." 5 Daily Trains 5 City to St. Louis. Smooth track, fast time. All run directly through the World's ais, in full view of all the magnifi- abash is the only line that does it. On Train No 8. 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls ing, aud New York and Boston a day's travel. Through ser- only line that does it. L. S. McCLELLAN, Agent. Kansas City, Mo. , MERCHANT TAILOR, t to order here is the place to ey. Why? Because we pay Come and see us. DRO ENTERPRISE. Smoke a Irence Dunbar Cigar. PRICE & CENTS, made exclusively of high grade imported Havana Fil- Sumatra wrapper, and a better cigar cannot be cost of twenty-five cents each. ED-AMERICAN CIGAR CO., Anthony Overton, Manager Western Division, Station "A" Kansas City, Mo. THE new, non-failing and infallible com- bined treatment for the human Hair, OZONO and CEDROLINE, used con- tinently cannot fail hand to the Hair. Kansas City, Mo