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. 'WESTERN UNIVERSITY NOTES.' Of all the beautiful sites in the west, none is more beautiful than the one on which Western University is situated. Sast, west, north, south there lies stretched far as the eye can reach, a beautiful landscape, and as one gazes about him, mother nature compels his to exclaim, "How delightful" as he breathes in healtha new vigor, ambition and knowledge. Aside from its being in one of the most enchanting epots, the University itself is an imposing spectacle. Stanley Hall is a beautiful pressed brick structure and is the seat of the industrial work. There the tailoring is done, under the supervision of the supervision of the efficient supervisor, Prof. Bates who has extraodinary large classes. In the dressmaking department, Mrs. Gross is conducting classes heretofore unequaled in the history of the school. Prof. Garret has a set of young people in stenography and bookkeeping which promises to compete favorably with any in the business world. Prof. Graham has an exceptionally large, bright class of students who will finish in printing this year, and the work done in architecture and carpentry, under the direction of the genial and efficient Prof. Starr, is in itself significant of the upward stride of this school which is teaching the young men and women trades and how to work well. On the third floor of Stanley Hall is the boy's dormitory. The rooms are neatly and comfortably furnished. The girls dormitory is some distance from the boys' and is called Ward's Hall. The girls' building is of white stone and no one need wish to see a more homelike place than the rooms of the young ladies. The young ladies are under the supervision of Mrs. Crews, who is gaining the love of all of her charges by her motherly, unbiased and untiring attention. Mrs. Crews also teaches literature, history, and Latin. Mrs. L. M. Edwards, the most lovable of women has by her sweet disposition and unequaled intellect and refinement, won the heart of every one connected with the school. Here is the chair of science and her work is a credit to any institution. Prof. Gregg, refined and good natured, very thoughtfully teaches his classes in logic, psychology, mathematics and german. The music of the school is far in advance of the average school of the kind in the country. Prof. R. G. Jackson, dean of the department, is one whom nature endowed with a love of music, and is earnestly working to bring the work to the highest standard attainable. He has the largest enrollment in piano and vocal music and harmony in history of the school. Rev. J. S. Johnson already has broken the record in the theological department and has as promising class in theology and oratory as any school in the country. The assistants in the Literary department, as Misses Anna Britt and Leona Troutman. The former a graduate of the school, the later a teacher from Colorado who is taking special work in the school with a view of perfecting herself for better work. The above able corps of teachers are laboring earnestly for the uplift of humanity at large, and their labors combined with the refined religious enviroments can have but one result SUCCESS. All of the work of the school is supervised by Dr. Vernon, the well known negro educator who is so eloquently pleading o place for Negro boys and girls among the good, noble and intellectual, and his efforts are having a telling effect in the increased attendance at the school this year. When a man has for his aim the good of others, by sacrificing, unselfish labor, success is bound to crown his efforts. Dr. Vernon has succeeded in getting in one of the most approved courses of study and is conducting one of the most progressive institutions of learning in the United States. The athletic associations are young but vigorous and promising. There are now over 100 students here and President Vernon says more are coming, according to requests for catalogues and rooms. MERE OPINION. One race problem we will have always with us—the race for the dollar. A sublime word-painter may fall miserably when he tries to paint the porch. It is said that there is a right way to do everything, but nobody has ever found the right way to be a sot. Noah would probably have been foolish enough to remain out if he could have picked up some other man's umbrella. In estimating the righteousness or wickedness of a man we should consider the time in which he lived, and the conditions surrounding him. Henry VIII. might not have been a wifemurderer if he could have had a South Dakota handy. THRILLING MOMENTS When a man who hates onlons finds out that his sweetheart is very fond of them. When one receives a long-expected and cherished letter and has no chance to open and read it. When we hear for the first time the darling child of our heart repeat some of our own bad words. When a man is dressing for some fine occasion, where he had anticipated pleasure and attention, and finds he has not a clean collar to his name. When reading a celebrated and thrilling book, achieved from the library with difficulty, and the pages from sixteen to seventy have been left out in the binding thereof. Prince Henry's Ruse. While attending the recent regatta at Travernunde, Prince Henry of Prussia walked a few miles to the railway station at Eutin. He was recognized by some boys, and presently had such a crowd about him as to impede his progress. To get rid of the boys he resorted to strategem, telling he he would give a mark to the one who would reach a place known as the Waldhalle. They all started on a run, and the prince duly rewarded the winner on reaching the place. Cocoanuts. A cocanat grove begins to bear fruit after six years, the crop being gathered about two years later. Almost every part of the tree can be utilized. The coarse fiber of the bark is woven into the familiar cocoa matting, and used for all sorts of rough purposes. The leaves will serve as a thatch, and the strong midribs make excellent brooms or twine. The big central half bud is cooked and eaten, tasting much like cabbage. The Impatient Father. "Mr. Phamley," began the young man, "with Emma's consent I have come to say that I would like to take your daughter away from you next June, and——" "What?" shouted her father, starting up. "Why-er—I trust you have no objection. Surely you can't expect her to stay with you all the time——" "I didn't expect her to stay with me all the time till June. What's the matter with this October?"—Philadelphia Press. THE TABLE IN SUMMER. Meetesses at Newport Discard the Accented Covering. "We don't use any tablecloths in summer," said a clever housekeeper the other day, "and you can't think what a saving of work it is. The laundress has so many tub frocks and shirt waists to do up each week she is quite overwhelmed as it is. Rather than tumbled cloths I prefer a bare table. Beside, even for dinner at night, the polished table, with its handsome centerpiece, its flowers and its silver and pretty china, is attractive. It seems to me quite as elegant as a table with a white cloth over it, and it is infinitely more summery. Through the summer we try to live in a summer-like way, leaving for cold weather the amusements and customs of winter and civilized life. We find it lends variety and zest to existence not to eat and do and wear the same things all the year round. Don't you think there's something in it?"—Newport News. BREAKING IT TO HIM SOFTLY. Stammering Clerk's Explanation Was a Good One. In a certain law office in this city there is a clerk who is afflicted with occasional fits of stammering. Recently he was sent to serve some papers on another lawyer. Upon presenting himself before the man he had to see he drew out the papers and tried to make a few explanatory remarks, but for all his gagging and coughing not a word could he utter. The lawyer who was to be served was of an irascible temperament, and he stood the clerk's sputtering as long as he could. "Come, come!" he finally exclaimed, "are you a process server or what?" "N-n-o-n" gasped the wretched clerk, "I'm-haw-ah—I'm'm-an-an elo—elocutionist."—New York Press. NAMES OF FABRICS. Muslin is named for Mosul in Asia. Bandana is derived from an Indian word signifying to bind or tie. Serge comes from Xerga, the Spanish for a certain sort of blanket. Callco is named for Calcut, a town in India, where it was first printed. Alpaca is the name of a species of llama from whose wool the genuine fabric is woven. The name damask is an abbreviation of Damascus; satin is a corruption of Zaytown, in China. Velvet is the Italian "vellute," woolly, and is traceable farther back to the Latin vellus, a hide or pelt. Cambric comes from Cambrai; gauce from Gaza; baize from Bajac; dimity from Dametta and jeans from Jean. Blanket bears the name of Thomas Blanket, a famous English clothier, who aided the introduction of woolens into England in the fourteenth century. Shawl is from the Sanscrit sala, which means floor, shawls having been first used as carpet tapestry.—Philadelphia Bulletin. POOR RICHARD JUNIOR. Prophecy is the business provided you don't invest in it. Few men are as lucky as they seem, or as unlucky as they think they are. The friend in need sometimes ceases to be a friend when he tells his need. Big fish swallow little fish—but they don't call it benevolent assimilation. Truth and politics do not often sleep in the same bed, because politics wants all the covering—Saturday Evening Post. Often the explanation has nothing to do with the case. --- ENTERTAINED IN WYANDOTTE. The Choir of Allen Chapel was pleasantly entertained by Miss Grace Bell at her home 2019 Water street, Kansas City, Kansas, last Friday night. All had a joyful time. Miss Bell is a charming young lady and did honor to herself by the way she entertained. The room was decorated with flowers and from the hanging lamp in the center of the room were sashes of Old Glory running to all corners of the table. A dainty souvenir was given to all. Those present were the Misses Ida and Daisy Foster, Miss Emma Collins, Miss Ophelia Watts, Miss Levaet Jackson, Mrs. Emma Burnett and Mrs. Johnson, Messrs. James Cess, Geo. Ross, J. A. Roberts and B. Allen Morris. MRS BOOTH:TUCKER Beyond debate, the brightest, bainiest and most beautiful woman in the Salvation Army was its famous consul. Mrs. Booth-Tucker, daughter of Gen. William Booth and wife of the commodore. Her sudden and terrible death in the railway wreck near Marceline, Mo., will shock the rank and file of the Salvation Army the world over. HALLOWEEN ON THE PASEO. Misses Dasy and Ida Foster entertained quite a number of ladies and gentlemen at their home, 1215 Paseo, Saturday evening. Many games were played. Music was plentyful and all had a jolly good time. LIFE'S LESSONS The most vicious dog barks least. A thief is one who takes liberties. The babyless go-cart is not yet in vogue. Beauty is skin deep, and few have thick skins. Debt is the hangman's noose around prosperity. Ridicule has torn down more than it has ever built. The saddest thing in life is to have nothing to live for. Too many high balls will lead you to the "three balls." Love is an inward itching of an outward alloverishness. Jealousy is acknowledged superiority—in the other fellow. The stock broker is usually in touch with his customer's purse. What you do to-day is certain; what you plan for to-morrow is uncertain. If every idle word must be accounted for, some folks would better keep quiet. Whisky and water is a good "mixer" to the chap who takes too many. There are more insane people outside the asylums than there are in them. The man who marries for money has no kick coming if there isn't any love in the home. A brave man's honor and a true woman's love have no decline on the stock exchange of life. A man is caught more times in his speech than a woman, because you can't interrupt a woman. The popular notion that our forefathers held about having large families seems to have gone out of date.—New York Herald. The Other Girl. Ho fair you looked that night in May Wh. e you and music held full sway! With eager haste I clasped your waist. To claim you for a twirl; And when, the dancing done, I told To willing ears the story old, Your soft reply was "yes," and I Forget the other girl. In lustrous silk and filmy veil You stood before the altar rail, A bride as sweet as one could meet, Of womanhood the Pearl; But as we turned to face the aisle, A shadow crossed your winning smile, And, in a pew in plainest view, I saw the other girl. Dear Rose, you are a charming wife! For ten glad years you've made my life A happy lot, and I would not Some Pointers on Trousers. Some Pointers on Trousers. A man's trousers, when a tailor presses them in the summer, are nearly always pressed with the ends turned up, but in the winter they are pressed turned down. A tailor says: "Trousers are pressed turned up in the summer because it is presumed that every man wears them turned up in this season. He wears them so because in the summer he wears low shoes, and trousers that are not turned up catch at the back in such shoes. But turned up, they don't touch the shoes; they don't catch in them; they set right. That is the main reason why we turn up trousers in the summer." Directing the Rainfall The Mandans, a tribe of American Indians, have a curious custom as regards producing and stopping rain. This business is mainly in the hands of the young men, who volunteer to stand in turn upon the roof of a hut from sunrise to sundown vociferously commanding the rain to fall or cease. They are assisted by the medicine men, who meanwhile perform their mysteries inside the hut. The young men who fail retire in dfs grace, but the winner ranks as a medicine man, an honor always won, for the cere mony is kept going daily until success is attained. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD To be caught in a lie is to be mentally blackballed by the catchers. To tell lies about oneself is bad, but to falsify regarding another is an unpardonable act. The person who is popular is the dependable person. The end of the habitual liar is ostracism. Men and boys may lie fluently, but they are particularly shy of a girl whose word can not be depended upon. Also, is it so easy to be detected. Nemesis is forever dodging the steps of the liar, and there is no sin more certain to be quickly found out. It is economy to be truthful. It pays. It is dignified. It may offend a few to refuse information desired, but it will offend more to pervert verity. It is so easy to read about a great play and to "infer" you have seen it—to speak intimately of personages whom you know only by hearsay, sight or in a casual way. There are no white lies. Petty lying is contemptible. It is so easy to "infer" that you are a guest of a hotel whose note paper you have begged from a rich friend. To suppress a confided truth is not to lie, but to re-dress the truth in order to punctuate a remark or magnify your own or another's importance is to cheapen yourself utterly.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Charitable Priest. After distributing his ready money (£5) to the families of the victims of the Paris "tube" accident, M. Lanusse, chaplain of St. Cyr military school, pawned his cross and ring, a present from Pope Leo XIII, for 24 shillings and gave that away also. NUMBER 33 LEXINGTON NEWS. A mass meeting was called Thursday night, October 29th, of the ladies for the purpose of organizing a union to regulate labor prices. Mrs. Florence Hayden was elected temporary chairman. She explained to them the object of the meeting. There were several speeches made by Mrs. Caroline Hughes, Mrs. Florence Galbreth, Mrs. Jennie Paris, Mrs. Bulureson, Mrs. Liza Wade, Rev. Gilbert and Mr. A. W. Walker; after which they began to organize by electing the following officers: Mrs. F. Haydon, president. Mrs. Pinkie Mullin, vice president. Mrs. Lula Colley, secretary. Mrs. Mammie Hicks, ass't see'y. Mrs. Emily Gates, treasurer. The president appointed a committee on by-laws and constitution, to report on the 5th of November. If they are right in the effort, they ought to receive a report of every man. If we want strong men and women we must have strong mothers. We cannot have sarong mothers unless we support our women. Any women who washes hard all day, is not able to give proper attention to her child. Every colored woman ought to join. NOTICE. The Executive Committee of the Interstate Literary Association will hold its annual meeting soon to transact business relative to the session which is to be held at Fort Scott, Kansas, during the holidays. All literary societies will please select delegates, and send names of same to E. J. Hawkins, 12 Hendrick street, Fort Scott, Kansas, or E. G. Stafford, 505 Washington avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Enrollment fee for new societies, $1.50; for old ones, $1. Please attend to this at once, as al clubs who wish to be represented on the program must report on or before November 21, 1903. T. W. BELL, President. E. G. STAFFORD, Cor. Sec. JOTTING8 The soul can be horribly cold-blooded. Confidence is seldom lost, but often sadly misplaced. A girl isn't necessarily timid because she jumps at a proposal. The dark ages are those pertaining to women of unquestionable years. A good son maketh a good husband — but he is worthy of a better fate. Bables cry most when they realize that they look like some of their relations. Don't make the mistake of giving a man advice which doesn't confirm his own opinion. Nervous prostration has a pretty hard job when it tackles a man whose wife supports the family. Sometimes there is more in the adjective than you suspect when you speak of a criminal lawyer. Usually the cheerfulness of the bride's father would seem to indicate that he is the best man at the wedding. It is to weep every time one sees a well-dressed woman being dragged down the street at the end of a string by a dog. Hard on the Doctor Being a doctor in ancient Babylon was a risky matter. One of the 282 laws of Hammurabis, recently excavated at Susa, was that if a doctor made a surgical operation and the patient died he not only got no fee, but had both his hands cut off. THE CITY OF GOLD A Ramble Through Johannesburg (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) Take my arm and come with me. Swiftly through the streets of Johannesburg, past the shops 'ablaze with light, past the roitering crowd that saunters idly, past the thronged theaters where bursts of melody and spasmodic cadences of applause reach the ear through open doors. around which are the sordid tea shanties of John. But it strikes you immediately that nobody is asleep. In fact everybody is wide awake. A dozen Chinamen of all sizes and ages are sitting around a red-hot brazier, on which some mess is stewing, and all the little houses that have not lights Keep out of the light—the cold, white steadfast lights that line the mite-long streets; let us creep away into the sideways where are the tumble-down tin shanty of Ramsammy and the dirt-begripped windows of Petriskif—isane, the son of Joseph—behind which this very man is threading a needle by the light of a flickering candle. You will see him still at work when you return, this same Petriskif; well into the night he will work, plying his needle and dreaming alone of—who knows what? Then he will draw a filthy blanket over his greasy form and sleep till the morning sun awakens him, and then again the needle and the day-long dream and the candle's successor. But our business is not with him; only we must pass the road in which he dwells before we get to the east. He sits in his filth and his toll, and the memory of Poland is a boundary post between east and west, between Orient and Occident. Beyond, the houses grow bewilderingly various. Shops, leisurely started with some dim idea of being beautiful, have finished by becoming patchily tin. The builder has never finished, Unsentimental necessity grasped him by the throat, thrusting him aside to make room for a hundred aliens. We are out of the range of the white merciless are light—that discipline of truth that emphasizes our wrinkles and traces the patches on our threadbare coats. Here the light is more mellow, more pleasing. It is a yellow light, and none too bright, and here the houses are tin. They are bright enough. There is music here. Vice, gilded thinly, has its votaries, its high priest and its temples—little tin temples, scented with Florida water. The tin town continues beyond this, but the lower end is silent. So silent that you might think you had by accident happened upon a colony living up to the standard set by the moral Mr. Franklin. Early to bed they apparently are. No sound breaks the silences of the quiet night, no light gleams in any window, no smoke rises from the crazy courtyards. Early to rise you know they are, for daybreak sees this little colony alive, with bamboo roof and laden baskets, chattering, running, loading and trading. For this is the Chinese quarter. knock softly on one of the iron gates. There is no answer. Here is a door, "The Hoki Laundry." Knock here, and if anybody comes invent some laundry urgently required by a fictitious client. But nobody will come But I have not brought you here for the pleasure of knocking at an unresponsive door. I knew all along that it would not be opened to you. But in a few minutes the gates of Chinatown will be opened to us, and Chinatown, obsequious and smiling, will greet us with injured surprise and lamblike innocence. For the police are close at hand; all the while we have been walking this way they have been shadowing us on either hand. You may not have seen them, but they have been close enough. And now—watch. They appear like magic from side streets and unsuspected alleys. In ones, in twos, in threes. And they are coming to From a Distance. ward us. Did I tell you that we have one of the chiefs of police with us? There is no noise, no unclodratable whistle. A whispered word of command, and two men have scaled the iron gateway and have dropped into darkness on the other side. A second more, and the gate grates open on rusty hinges, and we are inside. It is rather disappointing at first. There is nothing suggestive of the flowery land—no pagodas or tenures or joss houses, only three sides of a garbage-strewn square, ranged around which are the sordid tea shanties of John. But it strikes you immediately that nobody is asleep. In fact, everybody is wide awake. A dozen Chinamen of all sizes and ages are sitting around a red-hot brazier, on which some mess is stewing, and all the little houses that have not lights have smoldering wicks—which is significant. Somebody flashes an electric torch over the deserted hovel. The hastily extinguished candle still glows, and its smells filled all space. There is a closed door in one corner of the apartment. The sergeant puts his shoulder to it, and the sergeant, being a man of many pounds, it gives. There is a passage, and there are some steps leading downward, and there is another door outlined in light. This yields to a push. We—that is, you, the police, and I—do not apologize, even though we have obviously broken up what promised to be a successful evening. The curiously-colored board supported on a trestle table, and the weird, pawnlike pieces scattered at our unceremonious intrusion, are implements employed in the game of fantan. It is an institution that Ho Kl, the Chow, carries away from his fatherland; it is the outward and visible demonstration of his patriotism. John Ho Kl, Wunhl, Ho Ku and Chow Ke, in no wise perturbed, sit around the wall of the dug-out in which this classical game is played. There are four vacant places at the board, and there is a trap near the roof to which a ladder ascends. The banker has departed. Gambling is a crime, even in Johannesburg, and the players fall in, outside, from whence they will march to the police station with great docility. There is another door leading from the gambling den. It is locked, evidently from the other side, but, the sergeant's shoulder is better than a skeleton key. Crash! The room is bare except for a frame bed and a table. On this is a candle spluttering in its socket. On the bed lies a man who does not move, his eyes are half closed, his hand grasps a pipe, and the sickening stench of opium fills the room. "Wake up, Johnny, where's your pass, eh?" Leave them to arouse him, and fol Town Hall and Postoffice low the police captain to the joss house. The priest opens the door of a tin shanty, in no wise differing from the dozen about, except that the interior resembles for all the world a large-sized tea chest turned inside out. Here, gold on black, certain moral precepts of Confucius crawl up the walls like so many auriferous spiders. On the altar is a small image of a black-boarded god. Before the altar, joss sticks, wooden swords, spears, and tinseled baubles. Not so very inspiring and certainly nothing to justify the unpleasant scowl of the priestly custodian. Now back again to the opium room. There is a group of policemen round the bed of the dreamer. "Can't you louse him?" I ask. Then I look and see how unnecessary I was my question. The Chinese have a pretty little cemetery of their own near Braamfontein. They That Help Themselves. Senator Dubois of Idaho, during the days when he was practicing law in Boise City, was on a certain occasion sternly reprimanded by the judge of a court in that city because of alleged contempt of court, and in addition was fined in the sum of $50. The next day, according to a custom followed in the Idaho courts, the judge called upon Mr. Dubois to occupy the bench for him during the transaction of some comparatively unimportant business. After the judge's departure from the courtroom Mr. Dubois exhibited an instance of that remarkable presence of mind for which he has ever been noted. The future senator said to the clerk of the court: "Turning to the record of this court for yesterday, Mr. Clerk, you will observe recorded a fine of $50 against one Frederick T. Dubois. You will kindly make a note to the effect that such fine has been remitted by order of the court."—Saturday Evening Post. In the Bottle. Senator Spooner relates a conversation he heard last summer in a street car in Milwaukee. "Do you have pale beer at home?" asked a young lady of her companion. "Oh, no," replied the other; "papa always gets his bottled."—Milwaukee Sentinel. THE TARIFF TIN KERING INCUBATOR. FREE TRADE INCREASED IMPORTS FOREIGN COMPETITION RECIPROCITY TARIFF REVISION FREE TRADE INCUBATOR ENORMOUS BENEFITS EFFECT OF FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION ON RAILROADS. Against a Loss of $413,000,000 in Gross Receipts, 1893 to 1897, There Has Been an Increase of $1,764,000, 000 from 1891 to 1902 Inclusive. According to page 407 of the Statistical Abstract of the United States for 1902, fiscal year, published by our useful Bureau of Statistics, the gross receipts of our railroads, in the four Democratic fiscal years, 1894-1897, were, compared with 1893, Republican fiscal year: 1893 ..... $1,207,000,000 1894 ..... 1,066,000,000 1895 ..... 1,052,000,000 1896 ..... 1,128,000,000 1897 ..... 1,132,000,000 1894..... $141,000,000 1895..... 115,000,000 1896..... 82,000,000 1897..... 75,000,000 Then came the change. By the pen of William McKinley a brighter state of affairs was inaugurated on July 24, 1897, when the Republican Dingley protective tariff became a law. Now compare the railroad gross receipts of 1897 (low tariff Democratic) fiscal year, with the Republican protective tariff years since, to 1902, the THE TARIFF TIM FREE T INCREASED IMPORTS RECIPROCITY TARIFF REVIEW INCUBA DEMOCRAT last fiscal year for which figures are yet published: 1837.....$1,123,000,000 1838.....1,249,000,000 1839.....1,230,000,000 1890.....1,501,000,000 1901.....1,612,000,000 1902.....1,728,000,000 The figures for 1902 are from the New York Times of September 26, 1903. The increases over 1897, under Republicanism and protection, were: 1898.....$117,000,000 1899.....924,000,000 1900.....364,000,000 1901.....480,000,000 1902.....564,000,000 Republican gain .....$1,764,000,000 Here is a gain to owners and workers alike of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four millions of dollars (gold dollars, not the Bryan, three-cent Johnson kind of dollars), in five years, equal to $352,800,000 gain each year. Inasmuch as, irrespective of allied railroad interests—supplies, etc.—fully 50 per cent of gross railroad earnings is paid out immediately for wages to railroad employees; these figures show that such wage-earners are directly indebted to Republicanism and protection for $882,000,000 in five years, or $176,400,000 each year. It is worthy of note that in the first Republican fiscal year after Democratic misrule—namely 1898, the rebound was so effective as to make the earnings $47,000,000 more than the prior Republican fiscal year, 1893, and the increase has gone on increasing each Republican year since. Further, as the Democratic party is now advocating the same principles (and worse) which it advocated in 1892, and used in the fiscal years ending June 30, 1894 to 1897, is it possible that any voter engaged in railroad or allied interests can, if he studies his own welfare, vote now or at any time for that party of disappointment and loss? There is a broader view and a wider interest still. The official and undisputed figures quoted above show loss of $143,000,000 in the four Democratic years, equal to $103,250,000 yearly. It is fair to presume that that ratio of loss would have continued, if not increased, had Democratic policies prevailed in the fiscal years 1898 to 1902. In such case the additional loss in railroad earnings for the five years would have been $516,250,000. Consequently the real gain attributable to Republican policies and control is: --- Estimated Democratic loss, $ 816,000,000 1898-1903 Actual Republican gain, 1898-1903 1903 1,764,000,000 Real Republican gain $ 2,280,000,000 Half of this inures to the direct benefit of railroad wage earners, and all the rest, except bond interest and occasional dividends, to the benefit of the wage-earners of allied interests and the country at large. Results and facts like these speak louder than tons of argument. Walter J. Ballard. Schenectady, N. Y. CAUSED BY THE TARIFF. Republicans Willing to Take Responsibility for Prosperity. Mr. John F. Clarke, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Ohio, opened the campaign in his state with the statement that the country was face to face with a panic and industrial depression, all, according to Mr. Clarke, brought about "by the disturbance of business caused by the high tariff taxes." Save during a brief period, when Democratic views on the tariff were in legislative effect this country has been under high protective tariff for a generation. During all that time, save during the period when the Democratic tariff was in effect, this country has steadily advanced in wealth and prosperity. Its industrial expansion has been the marvel of the civilized world. Under this tariff system it has become the foremost industrial nation of the KERING INCUBATOR. TRADE FOREIGN COMPETITION IFF GION FREE TRADE ATOR world, and its commerce has expanded in like proportion. Since the present tariff law came into effect the advance of the country in all of these directions has been immeasurably greater than it was during any similar period of time in the nation's previous history. This is the condition which has been brought about, in Mr. Clarke's language, by "the high tariff taxes." Republicans are perfectly willing to admit that the conditions which the country is enjoying are the direct result of the application of the protective tariff principle. They are perfectly willing that the responsibility shall rest on them for bringing about these results. The "disturbance of business" which has followed since Democratic legislation on the tariff was repealed and Republican legislation on the subject was substituted, is such a disturbance as has brought relief and gratification to the home of every wage-earner in the land. Mr. Clarke says the credit is due to Republican legislation. So it is.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. More Cotton in Their Ears It is not at all likely, that any part of the country held by the Republican party will chance a repetition of the experience of the years between 1893-6. Whatever the Northwest contributed to the election of Mr. Cleveland was paid for in the contrition of the years that followed. It is eminently true that the conditions have changed, brought about by the protective tariff policy of the Republican party, which has spread plenty and prosperity over the Northwest, with the rest of the country. All the Western States that ran amuck on Populism have returned to the Republican party, and it is not reasonable they are now going to stand for Cleveland or any other man who "has a moderate leaning toward tariff revision"—not at this time, at any rate. If to refuse to interfere with the present prosperity is "stubborn deafness" on the part of Republican leaders, then it would be well to stuff more cotton in their ears.—Wheeling Intelligencer. Prosperity Under Republican Rule Prosperity Under Republican Rule. The people of the United States consume the equivalent of 95 per cent of all we produce, and upon this fact Secretary Shaw declares that "not while these conditions continue will prosperity cease." Can there be a reasonable doubt as to the soundness of this view?—Omaha Bee. A New Hampshire man who wants to see the "wild and wooly West" has stopped off in Joplin. The Missouri Asphalt and Oll company at Bellamy allows none of its men to "soldier," but they are drilling day and night. Two South Missouri men had a bad fight over a sack of peanuts Monday night. They live on a farm, where peanuts are not plentiful. The worst drunk Trenton's policemen have had to handle for a long time was arrested in that town on Water street the other day. A Pettis county dry goods clerk has written a song called "Good Night, My Little Love," and dedicated it to a girl who weighs 210 pounds. There is bound to be a large attendance at the coming Fulton stock sales, "Queen," the biggest mule in Missouri, will be on exhibition there. A Liberty clothier advertises: "We are incorporated under the laws of Missouri. We have to sell clothing right or Folk will get us. And then?" Judge McKee of Kahoka, in sentencing Frank Clark to death last week, told him that he would forego lecturing him, as he didn't believe it would do him any good. The plumbers at the St. Louis World's fair have decided not to strike. Now if they will decide to work the building operations at the fair will be greatly facilitated. It is feared that the St. Joseph man who claims he gained thirty pounds in sixty days from eating a breakfast cereal is doing a "before and after" stunt for the company that makes the food. J. Wes Gotwals of St. Joseph has a peculiar appearing name, but it looks mighty fine to the editor of the De Kalb Tribune. It was put on the paid sheet of his subscription list Saturday. "God bless our subscribers. They are the best people on earth," said Editor Lyon in the Ray County Review Thursday. In the same column he printed an urgent invitation for everybody to call and settle. Colonel Henry Watterson of Louisville is to lecture at Brookfield soon and the town's 400 is all worked up. 1 Miller county doesn't get a new courthouse. The bond proposition was defecated last week by a majority of about 700 votes. Frank Coffee, editor of the Avalon Aurora, plays second base in the Avalon base ball team. A high catch or a good stop is worth several new subscribers to him almost any time. Isaiah Kirby of the Pickering News is a busy man. Mr. Kirby is business manager of the News, its solicitor, composer, editor, reporter, job printer, "devil," and, in fact, everything but the office towel, the type and press. A Central Missouri paper tells of a live, up-to-date merchant who was sleeping in church Sunday morning, when the minister woke him by saying loudly, "Brethren, why stand ye here all the day idle?" "Because they don't advertise," answered the mercant before he had collected his senses. Paw Paw Bazooo: "I see," sez Ezra Fox to-day as scorn showed in his eye, "thet this here Langley wants to make an air-ship thet'll fly. I've heered a lot o' scoffin' bout the work But now I wouldn't be surprised of Langley showed 'em, too. Whenever any feller tries to help all mankind out, a lot o' folks g't all worked up an' scoff an' sneer an' shout. But when a feller does succeed an' makes his ideas go, them selfsame folks is first, you bet, to say, 'I told you so.' Now some folks knows ef Langley makes an air-ship thet'll fly, the railroad passes thet they hold ull bld 'em all good-by." The Johnson County Star is booming W. R. Hearst for the Democratic nomination for vice president. Mr. Hearst will doubtless be tickled almost to death when he hears of it. Tom Benson of Jasper county is almost "dead for a smoke." He accidently drank some gasoline the other high tand the doctor advises him to keep away from fire for a few days. The position of foreman on a newspaper has its drawbacks. The foreman of the Keytesville Courier had to stand by and see the following in his paper this week: "Harry Aldridge, foreman of the Courier, basked in the smiles of a winsome schoolmarm at Roanoke, Sunday. Harry only goes to school Sunday, but it isn't Sunday school, either. He likes his teacher, and has about made up his mind to tell her so. Texas county is to nave another Democratic paper. The Republican at Houston has been sold to Jesse Britton, who will change its politics. This will leave the county without a Republican paper to starve to death. Marian Hughes, Nodaway county bachelor, is said to have more fine apples than any other farmer in Hughes township. "But," comments an exchange, "doesn't it seem too bad that Hughes doesn't let apples alone long enough to get a good peach?" Purd B. Wright, Librarian of the St. Joseph public library, who was elected president of the Missouri State Library Association recently, is an old time newspaper man. Whenever a newspaper reporter in St. Joseph is badly in need of a story he goes to Wright and always gets one of some kind. ODD CORNER One Story is Good till Another is Told There's a maxim that all should be willing to mind— "Tis a old one—a kind one—as true as 'tis kind." "Tis worthy of notice wherever you A friend's like a ship, when with music and song The life of good fortune still speeds him along But see him when tempest hath left him a wreck, And any mean billow can batter his gown But give me the heart that true sympathy shows, And clings to a messmate whatever wind blows; And wakes when asperion, unanswer'd, grows bold— Walt—one story's good till another is told! Remarkable Silver-Leaved Poplar. There is a remarkable specimen of the silver-leaved poplar on the lawn of Mrs. Kate Wolcott, Claremont, N. H., that has lately become known to naturalists and is being visited daily. It is nearly 20 feet in circumference, and its largest diameter is $6\frac{1}{2}$ feet. From the base rise three prominent limbs, the smallest of which is $7\frac{1}{2}$ feet and the largest 8 1-6 feet in circumference. As no member of the "populus" family is large growing and the "populus abele," silver-leaved poplar, is one of the smaller members of the family in this vicinity usually, this is counted as a rare specimen. The tree is about 50 years old and has a spread of branches from east to west of nearly 84 feet. The spread from north to south was nearly as great, but as the southern branches were very heavy and extended over the extreme length of the house, they were cut away about a year ago to prevent possible damage to the house. One limb, running to the east is 50 feet in length. The wood of the poplar is soft and usually is counted as of little value, but in recent years it has been found to make good floors when sufficiently dry, and is much used for floors in this region. The average poplar is rarely more than 12 inches in diameter. Jungle Duel to the Death. A little while ago, in Kulu, India, a few hill wood cutters watched, from an overhanging rock covered with undergrowth, a duel to the death between a full-grown leopard and a bear. For half an hour the leopard "felted round the bear, half springing at him and striking him, until, finding he could get no "forrarder" by this means, he launched himself full at his adversary and the two rolled over together. The result was instructive. Having got the "eopard's head "in chancery," Bruin made the most of his advantage, and was soon able to walk away not much the worse. The woodmen then cautiously examined the leopard, who was quite dead, his head badly mauled and crushed, and his neck bitten clean through. The moral to those who go bear shooting is pretty oval. It is in this simple and effective manner—the strongest destroying the strong—that in the jungle the social question has been solved. Curious Prehistoric Pipe. A remarkable object discovered was a stone pipe with bird head and wings in a grave not far from Simcoe. It may indicate that smoking is a much more ancient pastime than has been supposed. It raises a question of where those prehistoric people got their weed, so far from the places of tobacco culture. Later was found many pieces of broken stone pipes. This particular bowl finds its nearest resemblance in the modern metal mounted carved stone pipes of the Haldas. Chief Moses of this region possesses the modern carved pipe. But the point is not so much in resemblance of pipes as in the fact of the great antiquity of smoking on this continent. Possibly these prehistoric smokers mt- grated hither from Mexico or else- where and brought the habit with them. Archaeology has not yet enough data to determine either where these races came from or what became of them.--New York Tribune Those Sympathetic "Tickers" For the Mor For the Moneyless Man. ____ written of the face of were virtue kindness shall ask be a knock the door? Go look to your judge in his dark flow- ing grown. With the scales wherein law welgeth equity down; Where he frowns on the weak and smiles on the strong. And punishes right while he justifies wrong; Where hurts their lips to the Bible have had. To render a verdict they've already made; Go there in the courtroom and find if Is there no secret place on the face of the earth Where charity dwellest, where virtue hath birth. Where bosoms in mercy and kindness will heave. And the poor and the wretched shall ask where to be found. Is there no place at all where a knoek from the poor Will bring an angel to open the door? Oh! search the wide world, wherever Drives off with its splendor the darkness of night: When the hanging velvet, in shadowy fold, Sweeps gracefully down with its trimmings of gold; And the mirrors of silver take up and his same are gorg- as a soul e the rich of their From the lips of the angel your poverty lost; Their turn in your agony upward to God And bless when it smites you the chas- tening rod; And you'll find at the end of your life's little span There's a welcome above for a money- less man. Deserved to Live. look of fire, Where the arches and columns are gorge- ous within. And the walk seem as pure as a soul without sin; Walk down the long alse—see the rich and the great. In the pomp and the pride of their Goat Deser --- Goat Deserved to Live. "Sure, and I did, but I will tell you how it was," answered Mike. "I came home the other night from me work and me wife says to me: 'What do you think the goat's done now?' 'I dunno' says I. 'He's chewed up Finnegan's red shirt that his wife had hung on the line to dry, and Finnegan says he'll kill the goat if you don't do it wourself.' I says: 'I'll not have Finnegan or any other man lay hounds on that goat; I'll kill the Boys Struck truck a Bonanza. Boys Struck a Bonanza. A Boston druggist who went to Maine two years ago told the farmers and lumbermen in Tilden he would give from 25 to 50 cents for every skin of the Down East water snake they could send him. He had a great demand for them from customers who made them into belts and wore them around their waists next the skin as a relief for rheumatism. Owing to the retiring dispositions of water snakes few were captured and the druggist increased his offer to 75 cents for whole skins which were four feet in length. Even this did not bring as many as he wished. Then the state of Maine placed a bounty of 25 cents a head on hedgehogs, and all the hunters forgot the premium on snake skins in the zeal for the new way of earning money. Last week while three boys were building fires at the mouth of the --- --- My cousin and I live in a little cottage just large enough for two people and a maid, with an extra room for an occasional visitor. The cottage is situated in one of the numerous suburbs of New York. Among other things in which we economized were clocks. No handsome timepiece adorned our mantels. I had a gilt clock, about as large around as the watch which our great-grandfather used to carry. It cost me 75 cents.: My cousin had one of the same make, as large as a tea saucer, perhaps. If we had owned watches, what I am going to tell might never have occurred. Preoccupied as we were with our business, and our own petty concerns, neither of us observed the conduct of the clocks when they were together, although if we had looked with all cur eyes, we probably should not have seen anything unusual. Just a big clock and a little clock ticking away on the shelf. How could we guess that they were talking to each other and laying foundations for an intimate friendship? After a time my cousin went away on a vacation. I and my little clock sallied down alone to breakfast and were alone upstairs at night. No friendly voice or ticking sounded from the next room; it was quiet as the grave. On the fourth evening of my solitude I found on retiring that my clock had stopped. I laid it over first on one side, then on the other, for I remembered once having made a clock go by turning it on its side. All to no purpose! I had to go up stairs and arrange with Nora to call me in the morning. At the breakfast table I repeated the shaking operation at intervals of two or three minutes. It was of no avail. There would be one or two languid ticks, and that was all. The next night my cousin returned. When I told her my clock had failed me she remarked wisely: This poem was written by Henry Thompson Stanton, born in Alexandria, Va., in 1834, and a resident at the time the poem was written of Maysville, Ky. There is no open door for a moneyless man. Go look in yon hall where the chandelier's light. **In** long lighted vistas the *wildering* view; **Go** there at the banquet and find if you can **A** watching smile for the moneyless man. **Go** look in yon church of the cloud-teaching priest. Which gives back to the sun his same Mike Nolan was smoking comfortably in his yard in East Burlington one evening and a friend of his was leaning over the fence talking to him. As his eyes ranged over the yard he caught sight of the old billy goat. "Mike." says he, "I see you have the goat yet." "Oh. yes," says Mike. "I thought you said you'd kill the goat." hetic "Tickers" "It needs cleaning, of course. It can't be worn out already." "It is only a short time since it was cleaned." I said. "But I'll have to take it back and find out what is the matter." From force of habit I took the clock with me to breakfast the next morning. Realizing my mistake, I gave it a vicious little shake, as I set it in its usual place beside the big clock. Glancing up from time to time during the meal, we saw the little thing ticking away as joyously as it ever did. "Probably I wound it too tight, and my shaking it so much has finally lossened it, so it can run again," was my surmise. A month or so afterward the same thing happened again, and we laughed about it. The third time I did not wait for my cousin to return, but wound up her clock which she had left behind, and took them both with me to breakfast. And the little clock, which repeated shakings had failed to set to work, started off as joyously as ever, and then a fourth time the same thing occurred; only then I did not wait until morning, but brought the big clock into my room and set the little one beside it on my bureau. The susceptibility seems to be all on the part of the little one; the big one is apparently indifferent. The little one stands the separation very well for a few days; then, apparently, the loneliness is too much for it and the sight of its big friend is necessary to rouse it to action. Is there a scientific reason for this occurrence? or is it merely a coincidence? Is there a process of evolution in what we call inanimate matter and has it just arrived at that stage when the moral qualities are being developed and attachments are formed corresponding to human friendships? My cousin and I are still asking each other those questions. worldly estate; Walk down in your patches and find **1** Who opens a pew for a moneyless man. Any law for the cause of a moneyless man. Go, look in the banks, where Mammon His hundreds and thousands of silver and gold; Where, safe from the hands of the starving and poor Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore; Walk on their counters-ah, there you may stay Till your limbs shall grow old and your hair shall turn gray. Then go to your hovel—no raven has fed The wife who has suffered too long for her bread; Knife down by her pallet and kies the deathly flesh. goat meself.' An' so I got down me owld gun and took the goat out into the corner of the yard and tied him to the fence and stood fornust him to shoot him. And he gave me a kind of a knowing look like, and I minded the time when he was a little goat and played wid the children, and I couldn't kill him looking like that. So I took him down to the railroad track and hitched him between the rails and went up behind the wall until the express train came along. Presently I heard the train coming and I says to meself: 'Ole man, ye're gone now, Ye was a good goat in yer day, but ye're gone now.' An' wnd that I heard the whistle a blowin' and the brakes a grinding and the men hollering, and I says: 'What's that goat done now?' I ran to the track, and what do you think? That old goat had coughed up Finnegan's shirt and flagged the train!" cave at the end of Beech Hill pond and trying to smoke out a score of hedgehogs which were inside, they noticed that water snakes were swimming down the brook which emerges from the cave. It was then that they remembered the price paid for snake skins, and for two hours they piled green brush on the fire and killed snakes, paying no heed to the choking hedgehogs which ran by them to gain fresh air. The smoke filled the cavern so thoroughly that the snakes abandoned their den to fall under the clubs of their slayers. In two days more than four hundred snakes were slain and their skins sent to Boston by express. Three days later the druggist who cured rheumatism wired the shipper that he had all the snake skins he could use for a year, and asked that no more be sent, as he would not pay for them. CHINAMAN HAD HIS NERVE. Lowly Celestial Walked With England's Highest Nobles. Queen Victoria, with the prince constr and her family, attended in state the opening of the great exhibition of 1851. While the choir was singing the "Halleujah chorus" Chinaman, superbly robed, suddenly emerged from the crowd and prostrated himself before the throne. No one knew who he was. He might be the emperor of China himself come secretly to England to share in the great doings. The lord chamberlain, greatly perplexed, applied to the queen and the prince for advice and instructions. He was informed that there must be no mistake as to the stranger's rank and that it would be best to place him between the archbishop of Canterbury and the duke of Wellington. In this position of honor the Chinaman, with magnificent dignity, walked through the buildings, to the delight and amazement of all who watched. Next day it was discovered that he was the keeper of a Chinese junk which had just cast anchor in the Thames, and which everybody was invited to visit on payment of a shilling a head. Tree Forms Natural Arch In the Antelope Valley of California grows the strangest yucca tree of all the western dessert. The yucca is a tree not given to whims; it has been described by Van Dyke as having "a tall stalk, rising like a shaft from a bowl and capped at the top by nodding creamy flowers." But the strange arching yucca is famous for its curious form. Nobody watched it grow; all that is known about it is that it has two roots, its great stalk or trunk describing a graceful arch, rotted firmly into the ground at each end. At the top of the arch a great branch, like an extended arm, shoots forth as if pointing out the way. The arch is so high that a tally-ho coach could easily pass under it. To the Pioneers. Ye men who broke the way to life's new birth. 'Tis not your find, through self-renouncing love It was the aim, the good to mother earth And after her children, that we hold, did move. Your patriotic hearts to cut the grove And bring the barren soil. You wrested mirth And beauty, wealth untold for future good. By patient struggle and a spirit bold. From the unknown. You toled in faith for gold Carbolic Acid Was a Nuisance. An exploring expedition in a remote part of China had a queer experience, which one of the party thus relates: "A large bottle of carbolic acid had been broken inside its wooden case. We exhausted our ingenuity in hopeless effort to unscrew the cover. We feared to carry it farther, as the burning tears distilled by it destroyed everything they touched. We dared not throw it aside, lest the unsophisticated heathen should drink it is a cheering or medicinal beverage. We had no time to wait and empty it, as the fatal fluid would only trickle drop by drop through a chink which had been cautiously and laboriously excavated with a blunt hunting knife. What were we to do? Degraning as the confession must appear, we had to deposit the torpedo in the middle of the yard and throw bricks at it until it was smashed." The Bolometer Perfected. The bolometer, invented twenty years ago by Dr. Langley, has been perfected in its adjuncts, especially the galvanometer, at the hands of Abbot, so that it will measure one hundred-millionth of a degree of temperature with readiness and precision. Automobile Boat. This is the automobile boat that won the prize at the tournament in France. Thief Claimed Sanctuary At Cologne recently a thief chased by the police took refuge in a church, and, kneeling before the altar, claimed sanctuary after the medieval fashion. The police arrested him all the same. DEVICE ENSURES FRESH AIR. Michigan Man Has Invented Contrivance of Value. Joel C. Parker, a well-known dentist of Grand Rapids, Mich., has a unique scheme for securing pure air in his sleeping-room and thus improving his health. It is the very simplicity of Dr. Parker's invention that strikes the observer most forcibly. His room is situated on the ground floor, and a window of unusual size opens to the west. Outside of this window, a light frame work of maple is constructed, and over this is stretched some finely woven cloth. This is the filter. It stops the entrance of rain and drafts and catches the cinders and numerous impurities of the atmosphere of a manufacturing district. Once in bed and with curtain closed and slide open, there is an unrestricted passage way for the filtered air to the lungs of the person in bed, but not satisfied with this, Dr. Parker erected a ventilator pipe on the top of the box. This extends clear to the ceiling of the room and at its lower end, about two inches from the top of the box, a gas jet is inserted. Before retiring the patient lights this jet. The heated air rises naturally, passes out of the top of the ventilator pipe and forms a vacuum in the pipe which is immediately filled by the fresh air from out of doors. This keeps up a continual circulation, and the sleeper's lungs can never take in the same air twice. The Toilet of a Mandarin A recent book on China contains the following account of a mandarin's toilet: "A Chinaman always sleeps with his clothes on—that is, he removes the outer garments and, having undone the waistband, anklets, collar and so on, retires to rest in his linen. The first thing on getting up is to clean his teeth, which is usually a long and noisy operation. In order to do this he takes a large mug, a silver tongue scraper, a brush and often a bit of willow twig and goes out into the courtyard to complete this part of his toilet. One of the handmaids has already filled the copper basin with warm water and brought 'the rag.' Often and often have I enjoyed the luxury of the 'hotel rag' at Chinese inns. This rag is a purely Chinese institution and consists of an old dishcloth dipped in boiling water. The mandarin rubs his head, face, neck and hands with the family rag, ties his drawers at the ankles, hitches himself up generally, puts on a pair of silk leggings and a long robe and his undress toilet is complete." Is Small but Brainy. Michael Hemmelrath of Little Rock, Ark., is probably the smallest man in business life in the United States. He is thirty-four inches in height and weighs a little more than forty pounds. He is advertising manager for a business house in Little Rock, and always appears at his place of business FOYBALL HEYDEN LANTH in a Prince Albert coat and a high silk hat. He is popularly known about town as "Mike." He has had many offers to go on the stage and exhibit himself, but has always refused. He is twenty years old and the oldest of twelve children. A younger brother acts as coachman for him and he drives about the streets with a team of goats. There are ten girls in the family of Henry Hemmelrath, the father. The Tale of a Squash Roy E. Fifield, of Stonington, Me. sent to a Barger paper the following squash story: "I took seed from a squash raised this year, scratched my name upon it, and planted it. The result was a healthy vine, bearing a $64\%$ pound squash, upon the surface of which my name appeared, clearly outlined. It was a southern squash. Lobsters Shed Their Shells Several times a year the lobsters shed their shells, and each time the shell is shed the lobster increases in size. During the shedding season they go into the coves with soft muddy bottom and conceal themselves in the mud. A new shell of sufficient thickness to protect their bodies is grown in about a month or six weeks. Canadian Pig Iron. Canada produced over $4,000,000 worth of big iron last year. FOUND THE TOWER WELL. Mason Solves Problem That Has Puzzled London, Antiquarians. For ages antiquary after antiquary found himself baffled by a simple problem at the Tower. How, in the old days, did the garrison get a supply of drinking water? The antiquary could show you the original fireplace at which William the Conqueror warmed his hands, could point approximately to the spot on which the murdered princes fell; he could lead you to the place where Henry VIII's queens were butchered, and to the tombstones that collapsed upon their poor bones; he knew the tiny dungeon in which Sir Walter Raleigh spent twelve dreadful years hidden from the light; and could have you in a twinkling in the stone dog kennel where still remains the ring to which they chained Guy Fawkes. But how these unfortunates and their jailitors drank, none could tell. The Thames hard by was not the source, they were sure. Organized search was vain. Then there came a thick-headed, unimaginative mason, to whom and his fellows the work of converting certain of the historic dungeons into store-houses for war material meant 9½d an hour and no more. His pick struck through the flooring of the corridor from which the prisoners used to enter their cells. Behind these, latter and corresponding with the main one ran, and still remains, the little secret corridor along which eavesdropping officers tiptoed to listen to conversations between captives, for the purposes of evidence. A few blows from the pick brought to light the mouth of a pit. Sixty feet down was water—thirty feet of it. The mason had happened upon the historic well for which search had been made in vain for centuries! It was as perfect as the day that the Conqueror sunk it. To-day it still carries its thirty feet of sweet spring water. KEY IS A MONSTER. Weighs Nearly Two Pounds—Relic of Old French Prison. Nowadays the smallest key is made to turn the largest locks, but in END OF THE KEY strange comparison to this is a big key now in the possession of a civil war veteran living in Bangor, Maine. The key is one of the largest, if not the very largest, ever seen in this vicinity, weighing one pound and thirteen ounces. The key was picked up on the site of an old prison at Morganzia Bend, La. about 100 miles above Baton Rouge. On the approach of Admiral Farragut's fleet during the civil war, the prison was burnt and the inmates fled. The prison was built by the French long before Louisiana was purchased by the United States and was used by those people as a confinement place for negro slaves brought there from other climes. The building was burnt for fear it would give some shelter or protection to the enemy. While the union troops were passing by the key was picked up by one of the soldiers and, considered somewhat of a curiosity, was taken along. It proved to be quite a load together with all the trappings and rations that the soldiers had to carry in those days. But the soldier carried it and finally landed the article at his home. Locksmiths who have examined the key say that it must have fitted an oaken lock, then much in use. To bear this theory out a search of the ruins of the prison at that time showed no trace of an iron lock which the key might have fitted. The oaken lock must have been at least two feet square to admit a key of such proportions.—Bangor Commercial. Remarkable Apple Cluster. Arista Webber of Auburn, Mc., has in his office a branch of an apple tree, two feet or a little more in length, on which grow, by actual count, 29 apples, which snuggle so closely together that there is not room for even more. These apples are natural fruit, not very large, of a soft pinkish color, and are covered with a bloom, so that at a short distance they resemble peaches. The Blessing of Toil. While others build and till the soil And clear obstructions from the way. Tis good to be he upon the list With those whom work is making strong. To do my little to assist In pushing God's good world along. For who that never tolls may know The bliss he has who does his best And when the day is done may throw His heels up and lean back and rest! —S. E. Kisher in Chicago Record-Ierald. Poor Pay for Teachers Pennsylvania farmers refuse to pay more than $20 per month for school teachers, but are offering $2 per day for men to dig potato STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, FRANK J. CHENEY makes out of the air is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in New York and at several stores, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRON that cannot be billed by the use of HALF CATARRON CURSE. FRANK J. CHENEY Swoote before age and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A.D. 1866. A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Home Catarron Cake is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. bend for treatment, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Daughters of HALF CATARRON CURSE. Tobacco in Japan. Tobacco is both cultivated and consumed on a large scale in Japan. The plant was introduced by the Portuguese in the seventeenth century, and the trade in it is a government monopoly. Tobacco is almost universally used in a small pipe. While cigarettes are manufactured in large quantities, they are nearly all exported. Londoners Are Better Housed While one-room tenements in London have decreased from 172,502 to 149,624, or 14 per cent, two-room, three-room and four-room tenements have increased 16 per cent, 18 per cent and 21 per cent, respectively. Paintings by Mols The finest paintings of the late Robert Mols of Antwerp, decorate the house of his sister, Mme. Osterreich, in Brussels. He is noted for the minute realism of his pictures of ships. Germans Take to Cities The Germans are especial lovers of the cities. In the nineteen cities of above 200,000 population, 36 per cent of all the Germans in the country live. The Teacher Won: Hinton, Ky., Nov. 2. For over two years two of the best physicians in this part of the State have been treating Mr. E. J. Thompson, a popular local school teacher, for Diabetes. They told him that but little could be done to help him. He made up his mind to try a new remedy called Dodd's Kidney Pills, and says: "They saved me when the doctors held out no hope. I took in all about ten boxes. I will always praise Dodd's Kidney Pills for the great good they have done for me." Many people, and some physicians, still persist in the belief that Diabetes is an incurable disease. Our teacher, Mr. Thompson, says it is curable, for Dodd's Kidney Pills cured him after two good physicians had treated him for two years without success. A remedy that will cure Diabetes will surely cure any case of Kidney Trouble. Lord Thurlow's Position. A bishop once invited Lord Thurlow to hear him preach. "No," growled the savage old lord, who affected religion but little and bishops still loss. "I hear enough of your d" nonsense in the house of lords, where I can answer you, and it's not likely I am going to listen to it in church, where I can't." Sweeper Accumulates Dirt Mrs. Crimsonbeak - You've got some dirt on your eye. John. Mr. Crimsonbeak - Yes, dear; I just swept the horizon with It. Yonkers Statesman. Graze for Walking. Paris has the walking craze. In a recent race around the fortifications, a distance of thirty eight kilometers, or about twenty four miles, there were 550 competitors Lenar Colony to Be Moved The Louisiana leper colony will be moved from Indian Camp, which is eighty miles above New Orleans, to a point near that city. At the present time Cape Colony has approximately 19,000,000 sheep and goats, roughly valued at $47,500,000. Old English Inn. The Seven Stars Inn, at Manchester, England, boasts of having been licensed for 550 years. LIKED HIS "NIP." Not a Whisky, but a Coffee Taper. Give coffee half a chance and with some people it sets its grip hard and fast. "Up to a couple of years ago" says a business man of Brooklyn, N. Y., "I was as constant a coffee drinker as it was possible to be, indeed, my craving for coffee was equal to that of a drunkard for his regular 'nip' and the effect of the coffee drug upon my system was indeed deplorable. "My skin lacked its natural color, my features were pinched and my nevers were shattered to such an extent as to render me very irritable. I also suffered from palpitation of the heart. "It was while in this condition I read an article about Postum Food Coffee and concluded to try it. It was not long before Postum had entirely destroyed my raging passion for coffee and in a short time I had entirely given up coffee for delicious Postum. "The change that followed was so extraordinary I am unable to describe it. Suffice it to say, however, that all my troubles have disappeared. I am my original happy self again and on the whole the soothing and pleasant effects produced by my cut of Postum make me feel as though I have been landed at another station." "Not long ago I converted one of my friends to Postum and he is now as loud in its praise as I am." Name furnished by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year.....81 Six months.....78 Three months.....66 One month.....11 Surprisingly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for pub- lication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE: No. 117 West Sixth St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. For one inch, one insertion . . . 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . 3.00 For two inches, three month . . . 5.00 For two inches, six month . . . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . . . 10.00 For two inches twelve months . . . 15.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL . . . IN KANSAS CITY. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. Kansas City, Mo., March 3, 1903. Office of the Postmaster, Publishers, Rising Son, Kansas City, Mo. Sirs: In response to your inquiry, I beg to say your publication is duly entered as second class matter 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. Just now the desperate fight which Mayor Reed, of Kansas City, is making for the Democratic nomination for governor, seconded by the stragetic cunning of Harry Hawes, police commissioner of St. Louis, are the two thing giving prominence to the fact that a superhuman effort is being made to distract public attention from the odium which boodling investigation and grand jury indictments have thrown upon the dominant party in Missouri politics. It's a huge effort to hide the shells after the robbery of the nest has been discovered. So it is urged that Missouri has climbed from twentieth place to fifth. It might also be properly urged in rebuttal that in spite of its Democratic handicap Missouri has advanced to its present rank. A party whose leaders in politics have reached the past master's art in extorting the sheckles by devising, inventing and introducing bills and laws hostile to corporations, by birthing imaginary health societies, and forming legislative combines, should not be allowed by the public to escape conviction by emphasizing the fact that a few Republicans have been found in the same category. It is just that very thing that the Democratic machine is trying to do. Both Reed and Hawes are essentially machine candidates, and are put forward on the basic principle that either way the machine wins. Their labors are thus divided. The spell-blinding mayor insists that boodling is not an issue, that the great state is slandered, that all Democrats are honest, and only the Republican minority are thieves. Then Hawes jumps into print and insists that the republicans are at the bottom of all this muss, stirring up strife and fomenting discord. He further insists that the minor party is trying to force upon the Democracy an undesirable candidate for governor. All of which is being done for the two-fold purpose, first, that the machine may organize the party so as to prevent the nomination of the St. Louis circuit attorney, J. W. Folk, and second, to boll the people into peaceful forgetfulness of the rottenness and corruptableness with which the state has been governed. Now, the Kansas City mayor is, strange to say, an Iowa carpet-bagger, though he affects the swagger of a Missouriian. While the St. Louis police commissioner is a rank youngster, still showing the freshness of the butter brand, and the only conceivable reason for allowing either of them even a shadowy pretense for the ardent ambition thus displayed lies in the circumstance that the "push" is hard pressed and its affairs bordering on a crisis. Judge Gantt, of the supreme court, an ex-confederate soldier and a Southerner to the manor born, a thorough gentleman who is in every way amply qualified to exercise the high function of chief executive, is in all probability to them a doubtful quantity. For, though conservative, it is extremely doubtful whether he would stan by the "indians" and countenance the bold thievery, rascality and crookedness as the present incumbent has done. As for Folk, the very mention of the St. Louis attorney's name is sufficient to throw cold chills over the bolest, from Ed. Butler down. MEAGER ACCOMMODATIONS FOR NEGRO THEATRE GOERS. THE accommodations which the managers of the Kansas City theatres extend their colored patrons is much worse this year than usual. While the treatment accorded their colored patrons has never been very considerate, it is less so now. Heretofore a section was set aside for negroes where they were all bunched together, but now they are invited to the gallery, where the toughest characters are wont to sit. The negroes of this city should force an intelligent resentment of this treatment by remaining away from the theatres for a season or so and use the money thus saved for some good purpose. Otherwise the gallery will become their regular section in the theatres. NO NEGROES AT FOREST PARK. The arrival of the cool autumn days effected the close of the season at Forest Park. The park is practically controlled by the Imperial Brewing Co., and we are told that during the entire summer a negro was not allowed to be seen in the park, not even to investigate or look around. If this is true, the negroes should show resentment by refusing to drink Imperial beer. If this is done, next year they may at least be allowed to enter the park and gaze upon the beautiful plants and flowers if nothing more. A SOUTH CAROLINA NEGRO HAS SAVED $100,000 WITH WHICH 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 it in all the departments and the innovation will be watched with interest. He has rented No. 528 E. Broad street, an dgoods are arriving.—The Star. There seems to 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. 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. If a corresponding amount of money, science and careful attention were given to the development of the human race as has been devoted to the development of the fast horse, evidently there would be a proportionate increase of two-minute men and women. What with the trusts' investigations, boodle investigations and investigations of mobbings and lynchings, evil doers of high and low degree will alike be compelled to recognize the fact that laws are made to be respected and not broken. A race that has at all times been patriotic and loyal to their country, that has never been accused of treason and has always obeyed the call to arms can't be wholly bad. We protest that all the vices are not centered in the Negro race and deny most emphatically that all the virtues are the divine heritage of the white race. Many a man who poses as the architect of his fortune would be in hard luck if the building inspector were on to his job. The Negro must understand that along with education, endurial or otherwise, he must get money. Wanted Exact Information. Wife (3 a. m.)—"John Henry, you're drunk." John Henry—"No, no (hie), my dear; I'm only ti(hie)red. Wes my slippers?" Wife (in disgust)—"Over there beside the fireplace, where they have been since six o'clock last evening." John Henry (after wandering around for half an hour)—"Susme me (hie), my dear. Wes the fireplace?" Practical Reform. Louis Andre, the well-known criminal judge of Paris tribunals, has devoted all of his fortune to the purchasing of lands and creating large settlements at Haut de Saint Jean, near Chartres and Choisy, where exculpits can find work and happy surroundings. SOME GOOD 1: INGS TURNED OUT BY THE FUNMAKERS. Fish Dinners of Different Sorts—New Explanation of a Racing Term—Uses for Radium and Polonium—The Dreams of Boyhood. Their Use "What I don't see," remarked the cheerful idiot, "is the use of scientists discovering new metals like radium and polonium, that costs thousands of dollars an ounce." "It is done for the benefit of the future trillionaires," replied the wise guy. "They can get rid of some of their money by building yachts, automobiles and airships out of those metals." On a Charger. Teacher—And what was the request that Herod's daughter made in respect to John the Baptist? Pupil—She asked to have his head brought in on horseback. Teacher—Where did you come by that ridiculous idea. She asked to have it presented on a charger. Pupil—Well, and ain't a charger a horse, I'd like to know? In a Pitiable Flight. "No," said the beautiful widow, "I couldn't sleep for weeks after my husband died." "How pitiful," put in her sympathetic friend. "You see, I had mislaid his insurance policy, and for a while I was really afraid I'd never be able to find it." Merely Amusing "You may talk as you please," said the man who thought he was in society, "but it is ridiculous to pretend that the masses are not interested in the reports of the doing of the swell set." "Of course they're interested," replied the plain man; "everybody's interested in a good joke." Misunderstood Him "Young man, you say you have a claim on my daughter's hand, and you come to me to press it?" said the father. "I said nothing of the kind," replied the young man, straightening up; "if I wanted to press your daughter's hand I wouldn't be here." Something to Watch. "Ah, good morning, Mr. Wrubber," said Mrs. Gaddle. "I meant to run up to see your wife this morning. Do you think I'll find her at home?" "Sure of it," replied the man. "There's a new, family moving their household effects into the house next door to-day." Not Yet Fairly Started. "He says he's in business for himself now, manufacturing automobiles." "Yes." "And he claims not one of his machines has ever been known to break down on the road." "That's right; he hasn't sold any yet." Not Fit for Publication: She (at the ball game)—What do they call the man who throws the ball? He—The pitcher. She—And what do they call the one who seems to act as judge? He—Well, I'd hate to tell you some of the things they call him. Put to the Proper Use. Wife—You know, dear, you told me to invest that money so that I'd have something for a rainy day. Husband—Yes. Wife—Well, here's the investment. Did you ever see a lovelier rainy-day skirt in your life? Boyhood's Hones "I tell you. I'll be master of my house when I'm a man!" said little Bennie. "That's what your father thought when he was your age, Bennie," replied the boy's mother. Racing Term—Left at the Post. "I understand Goodman is a candidate for mayor of your town." "Yes; but so is Crookley." "Goodman is surely better able to fill the place." "Yes; but Crookley's better able to get it." His Acknowledgment "I never heard Dinsmore acknowledge that he was growing old before to-day." "How did he acknowledge it?" "He announced that he felt just as young as he ever did."—Detroit Free Press. Warning Against Celibacy. Warning Against Celibacy At Cherry Point, Northumberland county, Virginia, is the grave of Izatis Anderson, who died Aug. 11, 1823, age 44 years 6 months and 12 days. His epitaph states that: "He was a worthy and estimable man, a kind neighbor, a faithful friend and a good citizen. In other relations of life he might have been equally praiseworthy, but he died a bachelor, having never experienced the comfort of being a husband and father. This situation he found so comfortless that in his last will he directed this stone to be placed over his remains, with an inscription warning all young men from imitating an example of cellibacy which yielded no other eventful fruits but disappointment and remorse. Inscribed at his request by his friends." Grief Conquered. I will forestall the grief that years may bring. Within my room alone, on bended knee, I will besech that, when grief comes to me. God's comforts some as well to heal the sting. Come joys divine when earthly joys take wing; And when my loved ones die, to me be given. Some clearer evidence of God's dear heaven, Filling my soul with peace, and comforting. So grief shall find me armed, and, as a fae Yields to a warrior stronger far than me. Grief shall present a flag of truce to me, And own itself my vassal, bending low, While I, the victor, shall have gained from grief A deeper knowledge of divine relief. from grief a deeper knowledge of divine relief. - Anna Temple. Heligoland in Winter During the winter there are no visitors at Heliogoland, and life is very dull on the island. Nearly all the shops are shut and, if you want to buy anything, you have to ring or knock before you can attract attention. The lodging houses are also closed, and the fishing boats are drawn up on the beach above high water mark. At night the Heliogolanders gather in the public halls, the men to drink beer, smoke and play cards, and the women to dance. There are no formalities, as all the islanders have known each other from infancy.—Foreign letter in Four-Track News. HER TURN CAME LATER. Pretty Girl's Sweet Revenge for Merited Punishment It is strange how teachers forget the punishment they have inflicted. Yet it may not be strange, after all, tor among a large number of instances it is probably difficult to single out any one in particular. A friend of mine who had taught school once upon a time met a pretty young woman recently and became much attached to her. She was apparently very fond of him, but there was always a rogish twinkle in her eye. Finally when he popped the question she looked at him archly and said: "Well, when you hauled me out of line and sent me up to your room to stay a half hour after school, just for laughing out loud, I didn't think I'd ever get square with you. Now, you've given me the opportunity," and she whispered "Yes." Her fliance called for explanations, and when these were in order he learned that she had been a pupil in one of the higher grades of the school in which he began his career as a teacher.—Worcester Spy. THE CURE OF STINGS. Many Remedies That Can Be Applied to Relieve Suffering. All sorts of stings—whether from wasps, bees, hornets or bumblebees—should be sucked to remove as much poison as possible; then have a slice of acid fruit, apple, tomato or peach, or a crushed berry or grape, either ripe or green, bound lightly to the wound. If the pain is very severe after a minute take off the fruit, wash the sting in warm water and bathe it well in alcohol. Then wet a folded linen rag in either alcohol or vinegar and bind on the sting. If neither alcohol, vinegar or fruit of any sort is at hand, try a bruised plantain leaf. Change the application, whatever it is, every ten minutes until the pain suides.—Good Housekeeping. TAKEN FROM LIFE: This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe hair straightener curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp, prevents the hair from falling, makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over the counter. It is the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of Ox Marwax as the genuine never falls to the ground. It is so healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A soles necessity for ladies, Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best hair straightener possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to hair. Full directions with every product and dealers or send us $0 cents for one botton express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this product. Write your name and address plainly to OXONIZED OX MARROW CO., Over a thousand Suits and Overcoats Specially priced for Saturday selling at Styles suitable for all ages, big brother of 16 years. B style, and guaranteed to gfv RUSSIAN STITS, 3 TO 16 YEARS SAILOR SUITS, 3 TO 16 YEARS ETON BLOUSE SUITS NORFOK, SUITS DOUBLE BE FVNCY RUSSIAN OVERCO LONG BO A big variety in each of the mixtures and lain navy b cannot be matched regular $6.00' to $7.00. Saturday Emery, B Successors to BULLENE. $5 Values up to $7 table for all ages, from the little tot of 3 yrs. of 16 years. Every garment this season is guaranteed to gfve satisfaction. STITTS, 3 TO 16 YEARS. R SUITS, 3 TO 10 YEARS. BON BLOUSE SUITS, 4 TO 9 YEARS. NORFOTK, SUITS, 5 TO 16 YEARS. DOUBLE BREASTED SUITS, 7 TO 9 YEARS. RUSSIAN OVERCOATS, 3 TO 9 YEARS. LONG BOX GVERCOATS. 7 TO 9 YEARS. City in each of these styles to choose for lain navy blue; values that matched regularly for less than $7.00. Saturday's Sale Price, Bird, Thay more to BULLENE, MOORE, EMERY & CO. Styles suitable for all ages, from the little tot of 3 years to his big brother of 16 years. Every garment this season's best style, and guaranteed to give satisfaction. RUSSIAN STITS, 3 TO 16 YEARS. SAILOR SUITS, 3 TO 10 YEARS. ETON BLOUSE SUITS, 4 TO 9 YEARS. NORFO'K, SUITS, 5 TO 16 YEARS. DOUBLE BREASTED SUITS, 7 TO 16 YEARS. FVNCY RUSSIAN OVERCOATS, 3 TO 9 YEARS. LONG BOX GVERCOATS. 7 TO 16 YEARS A big variety in each of these styles to choose from; fancy mixtures and lain navy blue; values that cannot be matched regularly for less than $6.00 to $7.00. Saturday's Sale Price, Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co. Successors to BULLENE, MOORE, EMERY & CO. If lils galore affect you sore And pains beset you more and more, Then do not stop; run, skip or hop To SMITH'S Apothocary Shop. With drops and pills he'll cure your ills And "PIGE" will bring around the bills. Be Sure to Patronize SM He will deliver your good 908 E. 12th St. STOVE For Stoves R Phone 1214 Main. S. A. N THE FOLK who simply Are not th You'll wait cold morn OVER 7, 8, 9, 10 Nebraska CLOTHES 113 and 114 Where there's all SMITH The DRU will deliver your goods free of charge if you will 12th St. Phone 121 OVE REPAIR For Stoves Ranges and Furnaces. Main. S. A. METZNER, 304 W. KANSA HE OLKS who simply sit and wish Are not the ones who catch the fish You'll wake up one of these cold mornings without an OVERCOAT 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 Dollars Braska Clothing CLOTHES FOR MEN AND WOMEN 113 and 118 Main Street. Where there's always something doing. He will deliver your goods free of charge if you will call 908 E. 12th St. Phone 1211 Grand. STOVE REPAIRS STOVE REPAIRS Phone 1214 Main. S. A. METZNER. 304 West Sixth Street, KANSAS CITY. METZNER THE FOLKS who simply sit and wish Are not the ones who catch the fish. You'll wake up one of these cold mornings without an OVERCOAT 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 Dollars. Nebraska Clothing Co CLOTHES FOR MEN AND WOMEN 113 and 115 Main Street. Where there's always something doing. DAVID T. BEALS, President. FERNANDO P. NEAL, Vice-Prest. Union N KANSA Statement as made to the C close of bus Loans and discounts..... U. S. Bonds. at par..... Municipal Bonds at par..... Cash and Sigat Exchange Total..... LI Capital Stock..... Surplus Fund..... Undivided profits..... Unearned interest..... National Bank Notes Outst Deposits..... DIR Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. has made to the Comptroller of the Curren- close of business Feb. 6, 1903. RESOURCES. Banks and discounts..... $5,981,798.5 S. Bonds, at par..... $ 523,000.00 Municipal Bonds at par..... 327,441.14 Bach and Sigat Exchange..... 4,180,685.29 5,081,126 Total..... $11,012,924. LIABILITIES. Capital Stock..... $ 600,000.00 Corpus Fund..... 800,000.00 Individued profits..... 78,771.00 Earned interest..... 94,985.00 National Bank Notes Outstanding..... 423,000.00 Posits..... 9,516,170.00 $11,012,924.00 Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency al the close of business Feb. 6, 1903. Loans and discounts ..... $5,981,798.36. U. S. Bonds, at par ..... $ 523,000.00 Municipal Bonds at par ..... $37,441.14 Cash and Sigat Exchange ..... 4,180,685.29 5,031,126.48 Capital Stock ..... 600,000.00 Surplus Fund ..... 800,000.00 Undivided profits ..... 78,771.60 Unearned interest ..... 94,988.00 National Bank Notes Outstanding ..... 423,000.00 Deposits ..... 9,516,170.17 $11.012,924.79 L. T. James. A. J. Snider. C. W. Whitehead. J. P. Merrill. H. J. Roseorana. O. H. Dean. C. J. Schmelzer. G. W. Lovejoy. Geo. W. Jones. Geo. D. Ford. E. W. Zea. C. J. Schmeizer. David T. Beala Geo. R. Barse Edward George. ups up to $7 tittle tot of 3 years to his ment this season's best son. 9 YEARS. 10 16 YEARS. SUITS, 7 TO 16 YEARS. 9 YEARS. BOATS. 7 TO 16 YEARS. to choose from; fancy Shayer Co. The DRUGGIST. large if you will call Phone 1211 Grand. REPAIRS and Furnaces. ER, 304 West Sixth Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. wish to catch the fish. of these out an DAT Dollars. Fishing Co. AND WOMEN Street. something doing. W. H. SEIGER, 2nd Vice-President CHAS. H. V. LEWIS, Cashier Bank MO. of the Currency at the 6, 1903. $5,981,798.36. 000.00 441.14 0,685.29 5,081,126.48 RESOURCES LIABILITIES DIRECTORS. $5 THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— it's the little bits we collect here an ther e That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Mrs. Louisa Parker is quite ill, also Mrs. H. M. Walker. Mrs. Kirk Wilson who has been quite ill is able to be out again. Allen Chapel is preparing for a rally on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Virgil Warren and family has moved to Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. John Marshall has purchased a home on east 11th street. Mrs. Lucy Davis went to Kansas City Saturday to spend a few days. Rev. Mudd was here and preached for Dr. Howard Sunday. Mrs Liza Yancy is in the city visiting her brother and other relatives. Mr. Charley Dorton fell Saturday night and broke his shoulder. The Portnightly Dancing club was largely attended last Friday night. Miss Bessie Washington is teaching school in the Southern part of this state. Capt. Gibbs improves slowly. moved to 1015 Oak street. Mrs. Theodore Clay is visiting friends and relatives in Hannibal, Mo. Mr. Crawford White who has been ill the last two weeks is convalesant. The Silver Leaf club gave their regular monthly dance last night. Miss Victoria Overall who has been ill for some time is convalesant. Miss Maud Thorton has been out of school for the past three weeks on account of illness. Mrs. S. M. Bacole was at home to the Ladies Aid club last Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Garrett will soon move to their new home, 14th and Highland. Quite a number of Kansas City, Kansas people attended the Silver Leaf club dance last night. Big preparation are being made for Thanksgiving dinner and rallies at most all of the churches. The Allen Chapel Choir concert last Friday night was a success, socially and financially. Miss Grace Bell a member of Allen Chapel Choir will shortly leave for St. Paul to make it her future home. Mr. Terry of Minneapolis was in the city a part of last week as the guest of Wm. Frederick Fairfax. Mrs. Jeff. Thurman has sent her daughter to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend Spellman college. A large audience was out to hear the Rev. F. Jesse Peck, and welcome Mrs. Peck back to Kansas City last Sunday morning and evening. Mr. John Day has purchased a beautiful thoroughly modern home on 25th and Montgall avenue, where he will soon move his family. Miss Annie Jackson has been church clerk at the Second Baptist church. Miss Jackson is a good person for the place. She succeeded Mr. Clay. The Ladies Art club meet with Mrs. Herndon last Wednesday a week and with Mrs. Francis Jackson Wednesday of this week... The first dance of the Tuesday night dancing club on the 27 of last month was largely attended and a very pleasant affair. Miss Mary Davis of Boon, Iowa, is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. S. J. Hubbert of 1317 Independence avenue. The Charity dinner and concert for the Old Folks' and Orphans' Home last Thursday was a grand success. Will give full report in our next issue. Mrs. Rosa Jenkins has returned to Canton, Ohio, after spending several weeks in the city looking after the improvement of their property. Mrs. Rexie Alexander of 517 Vine, is very sick and has been so for the past five weeks. Her many friends hope her a speedy recovery. Miss Bertha Brayer Hawking of Omaha who has been visiting relatives and friends in the city for the past three weeks returned home this week. Mrs. John Johnson, Mrs. A. B. Johnson, Mrs. Freeman, Mr. Conway and Mrs. Booker, paid up their subscriptions for the Rising Son. We hope others will do likewise. Jos. Bris, 412 East 11th, payed the largest subscription to the Son in its history. It was a long time coming, but it was good when it reached our office. Mrs. R. H. Hall of Fort Robinson has been visiting her mother, Bell Martin of 1012 Troost avenue. She left last Sunday for her home and the Son wishes her a safe return. For special parties and night lunches, call up the Arnold Cafe, 1221 Baltimore, 'Phone 2874 Walnut. European and American. Mrs. M. Arnold, Proprietress. Miss Atchia Davis, of Fair Haven, Washington, after spending three or four weeks in our city visiting relatives and friends, left for her home Sunday, November 1. Miss Lillian Wells who has spent the past two weeks in Denver will return home this month. She has improved much in health and will probably be able to resume her studies at school. It is hoped that peace will prevail among the members of Allen Chapel and that everybody will put the head and heart together and help roll away the stone. Rev. F. J. Peck is the right man in the right place. Mr. Robert Akers and Miss Annie Richardson were united in matrimony last Wednesday. October 26, also Mr. Abraham Carter and Miss Amelia Nelson. Thursday, October 27th. We hope them a long and prosperous life. When at leisure call at the New Century Pool Hall and Boot Black parlor. I also carry the leading brand of cigars and tobacco. Furnished rooms upstairs. Tom Newrod, Prop. 554 Grand. Mrs. Bruce assisted by some of the Allen Chapel ladies will give a reception next Wednesday night, at the parsonage in honor of the Rev. and Mrs. F. Jessie Peck, who have lately returned to our city from Denver, Colorado. Several of our young men went to Independence Saturday evening to a party. Among them was Mr. Jordan Hook, Mr. Robert Tolbreth and Mr. Alfred Hawkins, also Miss Mifget Graham. They reported of having a good time. We beg to offer an apology to the readers of the Rising Son for the absense of the "Local News" in our last issue. The Locals were overlooked in being mailed in time for the press. We will try and not let it happen again. Mr. and Mrs. White will open up their restaurant in their new building, Saturday, November 7th. They will serve chitilens, fresh oysters and refreshments. They will serve meals at all hours. Don't forget the place, at his home on 4th street when you come in town and call on them. A number of young people gave a Halloween party at the Worthan home on Highland avenue last Saturday night. Quite a number of Halloween games were endulged in and dancing as well, and with Dr. Coffin as the Gypsy fortune teller. The evening was a very enjoyable one. The ladies of St. Augustine church are preparing to repeat the Flower Cantallo that was given last spring, and proved to be such a brilliant success, has been requested that it be repeated and the ladies have consented to repeat it at the Old Turner's hall, 12th and Oak, one night of Thanksgiving week. Please don't use my name in connection with public entertainments or parties or programs without my consent. DR. L. N. BURCH. Why don't you pay your bill to the paper? We come and hunt yo' up, then yo' give us yo' word of coming down to the office and the last till we see yo' a goin' to get mad if we turn yo' bill over to a collector. Do as yo' would have us do to yo' if yo' owe yo' we pay it, so please pay us. Yo' have to pay the white man for his paper and then can't get yo' name in it, only when yo' have done something bad. Miss Versia Ward gave the Royal entertainers a swell time last Tuesday evening at her sister's, Mrs. Alice Turmus, 421 East 6th street. The evening was spent in games and dancing. Lunch and drinks were served by Mr. W. Shoemaker, Miss A. Jefferson, Mr. H. Sanford and Miss L. Graham. Music furnished by Miss Babe Taylor and Miss Emma Marce. Red, White and Blue club organized by Jessie May Kinney. Ethel Kinney, Rosa Abanathy and Fannie Bradley gave a pound party at 503 Grand Ave., at Mrs. Stradford, in honor of their little friends. They had a great number of their friends and served luncheon in courses, Ice Cream and Cake, Coffee, Cheese and crackers, Ham, and Pickles from 7 to 11 p. m., Monday October 19. 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 aditional, all payable in cash direct each Wednesday from head office. Horse and carriage furnished when necessary. References. Enclose selfaddressed envelope. Colonial, 332 Dearborn St., Chicago. On his return from Europe and at a reception tendered him in New York at one of the churches Booker T Washington, in the course of a speech said: I desire to impress upon my people a fact which I fear we appreciate too lightly, that in all the world there is not the opportunity afforded us that there is in this country. We have no reason for complaint. If we do not get on the fault is with us, not with the white man. Miss Mollie Reynolds was married to Mr. Russell Smith at the residence of 403 Locust street, Tuesday night, October 27. by Rev. J. S. Addison. The following friends and relatives were present: Mr. and Mrs. Banks, Mr. and Mrs. H. Smith, Mrs. Cora Scroggins, Miss Alice Smith, Mr. James Reynolds, Miss Annie Reynolds. Refreshments of all kinds were served. Many precious presents was received. LESSONS IN ART NEEDLE WORK. The ladies of St. Pancreas Guild are giving every Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. at 615 East Sixth street. These lessons in needle work are given at a very small price. Dr. Theodore Smith is a hustler. Less than two years ago he began business with a stock of goods valued at less than $500; to-day his stock will invoice more than $3,000. The Doctor's store is being patronized by some of the best negroes in Kansas City. His business is flourishing and continues to increase. This goes to prove that the article which came out in the "Star" a few months ago stating that negroes would not patronize one another in business is absolutely false. I most emphatically object to my name being used either privately or publicly in any matter whatever, without my consent. Dr. J. N. BIRCH. Is there a man In Atchison who honestly likes his wife's new fall hat? Dr. F. C. Shannon is confined to his bed. tI is hoped that he will be able to be at his post soon. Royal $3.50 Shoes For Men. Patrician $3.50 Shoes For Ladies. The two best $3.50 Shoes in the world All the latest styles HOLLAND SHOE CO., 1021 MAIN STREET SOLE AGENTS. Laundry Agency and Cigars . . . Ladies' & Gents' Shoes Polished MISS VERSIA WARD, cashier. Phone 2013 Red. 926 Wyandotte St., K. C. Mo. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE.... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up stairs. Z. T. JOBDAN, Manager THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER. PRICE 25c. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out this blank and send it with $1.00 and you will receive by express $2.00 worth of the Pomade and terms to agents. F. J. NOTT, PARIS, MO. Enclosed please [P. O. Money Order for $1.00, for which send me as per your offer, $2.00 worth of the Great Southern Hair Pomade and terms to agents. Name..... Street..... Town or City..... County..... State..... Express Office..... Date of this order..... SEND ALL ORDERS TO F. J. NOTT, Box 81, Paris, Mo Everything Pertaining to Music. PIANO KNOWLEDGE. How much do you know about the qualities of a Piano or other Musical Instrument? Couldn't you be deceived easily in that matter? Nine out of ten people can be, and therefore trust to the honesty of the dealer. How important then, that you buy from a house with a reputation of many years behind it. This is the oldest and largest music house in the West. arl Hoffman MUSIC COMPANY 602-20 MALMUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MO Telephone 2101. Quick and Pleasant FRISCO SYSTEM Excellent Service to points in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida And the Southeast, and to Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas And the Southwest. Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, etc., furnished upon application to James Donohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. Five Dozen C. F. and American Beauty Corsets Given Away Absolutely Free WE HAVE JUST COEPLETED ARRANGEMENTS with the Kalamazoo Corset Co., the makers of the celebrated F. C. and American Beauty Corsets, to give away the above number of corsets free of charge. Our unusual offer which is very easy to understand and just as easy for you to accomplish is a follows: To every lady who will bring to our Corset Department a purchaser for one F. C. or American Beauty Corset at the regular retail price of $1.00, we will a corset of the same make in any style or color, absolutely free of charge. The corset given you free is the reward for your services in helping us to introduce these corsets to the lady whom you bring with you, for we know that she will come back for an pair has worn out made to introduce tively not be repe COSTUME with you, for we AMERICAN BEAUTY Style 326 know that she will Kalamazoo Corset Co. Sole Makers come back for another corset when the first pair has worn out. This is a bona fide offer made to introduce these goods and will positively not be repeated. SALE WILL LAST and the offer will be withdrawn NOV 1, providing the quantity named has not been given away before that date. We will be glad to have you call at our corset department and learn more about our proposition whether you desire to take advantage of same or not. C. COLLINS, Dry Goods @ Millinery, 1429 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. AMERICAN BEAUTY STYLE 369 Kafamazoo Corset Co. Sole Makers 1429 E THE John Kelly Shoes IN PROPER FALL STYLES John Reilly Rochester All late mid-season styles are now in and will delight any woman who appreciates FINE FOOTWEAR. Popular prices $2.50 to $3.50 STRONG AND GARFIELD CO'S "WALL STREET" Oviatt Shoe Co., 522 Minn Ave 1105 Main K. C. Kaa. K. C. Mo. J. SEGE J. SEGELBOHM, ...TAILOR... Opposite New York Life Bldg. THE GREATEST HAIR DRESSING NELSON'S Straightine Makes Kinky, Curly Hair Straight It is not only the BEST DRESSING made for the Hair, but THE MOST WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is unlike any of the other Hair preparations on the market. It contains no powerful or dangerous chemicals, and is therefore absolutely HARMLESS. It works directly upon the scalp and roots of the Hair, removes dandruff and other diseases of the scalp and skin, nourishing and stimulating the roots of the Hair, thereby causing it to grow rich, long and luxurious, at the same time stopping it from splitting, breaking off or falling out. STRAIGHTINE keeps the Hair soft and pliable, making it easy to do up in any style. Delightfully perfumed. NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is sold by druggists and agents everywhere. PRICE, 25 CENTS A CAN. If you cannot get it from your druggist or one of our agents, SEND US 30 CENTS, in stamps, silver or Money Order, and we will send you one large can (one month's treatment) by mail, securely wrapped, together with our great FREE BRUSH OFFEE. Address: AGENTS WANTED Write for Terms and Particulars NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. THE GREATEST NELSON'S Greatest HAIR DRESSING Straightine Makes Strong & Garfield's Top Notchers Our season's best styles are now shown in our windows and should be seen by all the best dressers in town. 17 West 9th St. CORSET OVER THE Girl's Frock. Simple designs are generally more becoming to young girls than the more elaborate ones and a pretty frock which combines both simplicity and good taste is shown here, made up in red cashmere and cream colored lace. The dress may be made with or without a lining and may be finished with a guippe or made all in one. Narrow tucks in the waist and sleeve add to the attractiveness of the design and the handkerchief frill is the latest finish for a guippe dress. This style is fitted to the yoke edge, with points at front, back and shoulder. The lining may be faced to yoke depth with lace or made of ```markdown ``` contrasting material. The attached skirt is of the five-gored style and may be made with or without the circular flounce. The back may be gathered or fullness taken up by an inverted boxplait. A pretty dress for school or general wear might be constructed in blue serge with bands of Russian embroidery or rows of soutache braid for trimming. The braid is quite inexpensive but very effective. Pointer on Starching. When starching toilet table covers (or anything that has the new-fashioned fringe trimming) double the cover into four and gather the fringe tightly into the hand; hold it firmly while you dip the middle of the cover into the starch. When dry, shake the fringe well, comb carefully with a large toilet comb and you will find it falls as softly and prettily as when new. Of Empire Green Cloth: The skirt is composed of three overlapping, shaped flounces, each bor- posed of three over- boundes, each bordered and finished at one side with a band of white kid, embroidered with nailheads of steel and let. 1 The bolero and bell-shaped sleeves are trimmed to correspond, and the corset is of the cloth, trimmed at the bottom with an embroidered kid band, forming a girdle. The guipme and puffed undersleeves are composed of guipure insertion and bands of the kid, the latter embroidered with steel nailheads only. -La Guides des Conturieres. For a Pretty House Gown. The best possible material to use in making the pretty house gown is nun's veiling or albatross. These fabrics art not expensive. Indeed, very nice pieces may be picked up in the shops as low as 40 or 50 cents a yard. House gowns are made very simply. They are trimmed with fagoting, velvet ribbon and dyed lace. Soft materials are attractive when made up in the form of accordion plaited gowns, which are still fashionable. Lace collars and cuffs form appropriate decorations for these gowns. With the Housewife Old Papers. They may be laid over ice to retard the melting. Newspapers may be used to clean windows and kitchen ranges. They may be cut into bits, moistened and sprinkled over the carpet before sweeping. They can be put under the carpet, as they are excellent nonconductors of heat and cold. The illustrated weeklies may be circulated among friends and sometimes exchanged with mutual pleasure. They may be given to children to cut into scallops and points and bars and stars, being far more amusing to most babies than many toys. They may be used in an emergency or a chilly night like a pair of extra blankets on your bed. Some housekeepers have been known to stitch them in sheets for the purpose, one or two layers deep. They may be made into picture books to amuse visiting children. The larger the better, so that a number of children may gather round it. Styles In Short Suits The walking suits will be made with the three-quarter length coat. To be sure, these long coats have been worn LONG EVENING COAT OF ENGLISH BLUE CLOTH WITH TRAINING OF SAME, STANDING COLLAR OF BLACK SILVER THE COAT OPENED LEFT SIDE BROSTEDLY BACK VIEW OF PRECEDING all summer. However, to relieve the sameness of the styles, Eton jackets in walking suits are going to be very popular, the coats ending either at the waist line or below the knees. In the long coats many tucks going outward ars used. The coats are fitted in the back; some with belts and some without. The skirts are straight and close-fitting, with a good deal of flare at the bottom. Brown is the color most seen and almost any rough material will be extremely popular. The Fashionable Hat. Silk beaver hats will be extremely fashionable this season. The newest have the surface exactly like that of men's silk hats. A few have the pile brushed the wrong way. Some have a long, thick nap. These hats are to be had in fawn color, beige and pastel. They are trimmed with velvet folds and ostrich feathers. A stunning beaver plateau shape is shown at one of the shops. It is in pale beige tones and is lined with light blue tulle, shirred so as to form a series of little puffs with a narrow band of the beaver between each line of the shirring. The crown is trimmed with a twisted band of chiffon velvet, the shade of the beaver, and this is secured with a handsome turquoise buckle. On the left side of the crown are attached two blue ostrich feathers, shaded from blue to white, one curving forward and the other toward the right. Don't fail to add a drop or two of vanilla flavoring to a pot of chocolate. It is a great improvement. Don't close the oven door with a bang when cake is baking; the jar has spoiled many a fine loaf. If you heat your knife slightly you can cut hot bread or cake as smoothly as if they were cold. Don't wonder that corned beef is tough if put into hot water first, nor that it is too sait if the water is not changed at least three times while boiling. Neuralgia may very often be specially relieved by applying a cloth saturated with essence of peppermint to the seat of pain. A too rapid boiling ruins the flavor of any sauce. It must boil up once, but should never do more than simmer afterward. THE WELL DRESSED WOMAN Empire evening gowns will be revived with added glory. Even the fairly short skirt, to be successful, must be full. A favorite Paris shade is mushroom, which will tone with the autumn browns. Mixtures of golden brown and mauve or golden brown and green will be popular. Oriental buckles and Indian gems have been pressed into the service of fashion. All manner of flat stole pelerines are fashionable, not to say indispensable, just now. The shorter the bolero the more elaborate the belt, which becomes an important item. Sable and chinchilla are to reign this coming winter like the twinkling gondoliers in the opera. Take this to your comfort—where you want three summer hats you can do with one winter one. Sweaters Are in Favor. Sweaters will be worn this winter for all occasions, except when milady wishes to be very dressy. There is no more desirable article of dress for all manner of outdoor sports in cold weather. They are also useful to wear under jackets and ulcers during the zero weather that swoops down upon us from Medicine Hat once in a while during the winter. The name, hitherto, has been against them. The very word sweater called up visions of a clumsy, ill-fitting garment, ungraceful and unbecoming, which made the finest figure look like the worst and the worst look worse than ever. Of late, however, these blouse sweaters and vests have been so improved in appearance that they now are really pretty and as useful as they are becoming. Dressay White Waist Blouse of white mousseline de sole. The yoke is tucked in fine tucks, and The joke is taken to this the lower part is shirred and puffed. Below this it is made with groups of tucks, then shirred and puffed again at the bottom. ```markdown ``` The yoke is bordered with bands of white satin fagoted together and forming points. These pass over the shirring and the points are finished with motifs and pendants of lace. The sleeves are made and trimmed to correspond.—Le Mode Elegante. Elaboration In Order. It is needless to state that a house gown may be made as elaborate an affair as one's individual inclination may dictate. Materials and trimming which would be most unpleasant conspicuous if worn outside the home circle may be employed in fashioning the house gown. One of the shops is showing a richly embroidered silk garment, a sort of tunic, with a collarless neck and half long sleeves. The color is dull red, time-faded and a little stained. The embroidery which trims this garment is a gorgeous mingling of colors, with little bits of mirrors introduced in the design at frequent intervals. This would make a charming gown if combined, say, with a sunplaited eolienne skirt of a nearly matching shade of red.—Chicago Collier Latest Shoulder Adornment. An empire scarf is quite one of the best approved shoulder adornments of the immediate moment. Some there are in chiffon, and crepe de chine, and mousseline de soie that are quite delightful. There is a particul ar art in the disposal of these negligge wraps that many alm at, but, alas! how few attain. They should be worn in degrade fashion, slipping off the shoulders at the back, and held by the arms in correct position in front. To Remove Dandruff. Put one ounce of flowers of sulphur into one quart of water, agitate often for several hours, then pour off the clear liquid, and saturate the head with it every morning. This does not produce the extreme dryness sometimes occasioned by the continued use of borax. Ladies' Russian Costume. One of the smartest designs shows for fall is the Russian costume. Its simple lines are most becoming, and it is one of the very easiest modes to make. Trimmed with braid or buttons, it is the very essence of good taste. The waist has the long shoulder seams and is shaped by under arm seams. The sleeve may be simply trimmed with braid and buttons or it may be slashed and show a puff sleeve of light colored, mull. Suede make. Trimmed with braid or buttons, it is the very essence of good taste. The waist has the long shoulder seams and is shaped by under arm seams. The sleeve may be simply trimmed with braid and buttons or it may be slashed and show a puff sleeve of light-colored mull. Swiss or any preferred material that corresponds with the rest of the costume. The skirt is the circular shaping in two pieces, with front overlapped in Russian style. It is fitted by darts, has an inverted box plait in the back and may be long or medium sweep. This mode is suitable for a house dress, or if made of heavy material is an excellent model to follow for a street gown. Made up in brown boile, with strappings of brown silk and white soutache braid, with perhaps a touch of light blue at the neck, the effect is most satisfactory and the cost of such a costume exceedingly small. If made of blue zibeline, using stitched bands of cloth for ornamentation, a most satisfactory street costume will be the result. Wool crash, Melton, chevlot, tweed or light-cloaking are suitable materials. CUPOLA SKETCHES BY BYRON WILLIAMS The Form Divine. Several country editors of my acquaintance are indulging a criticism of woman and the way she draws her dress about her form divine when she walks. They are divided against themselves. Some of them think it is vulgar for a woman to show the lines of her form by her swathing, while others profess to like it and pronounce the fashion not only au fait, but modest. in "the little old town far away" small boys, dressed in a bland smile and a bold defi, daily bathed in the brook, to the perturbation of an old maid who lived hard by and whose finer sensibilities were rudely shocked. She complained to the police, and the boys were routed to a place farther up stream. Again she complained. "Madam," expostulated the town marshal, "you cannot possibly see these boys from your library window." "Indeed I can," piped the maiden lady, in unconcealed anger. "I use this telescope!" We fear some of those editors are seeing the human form divine through the old maid's telescope. ```markdown ``` In God's Country Where the waving fields of corn Skirt the roadside sere and dun, Where the river winds along in a rhythmic, droning run, Where the listless, floating hawk In the azure blue is high, Where the clouds are phantoms white On the winds that buoy them by- On the waves that buoy them by- There my heart is free As a heart can be, And my soul is in tune with Thee! Where the southing winds are crisp In the autumn time of red, Where the apples wild are tossed To the limpid waters sweet Where the limpid waters sweet Lie asleep upon the sand, Where the leaves float to and fro To their haven on the strand— Are my soul free As a heart can be, And my soul is in tune with Thee! Where the people live content With the joys of humber birth, Where the plowman and his sons Are the kings of a fertile earth, Where the sympathetic hand The clasp of brotherhood, Where heart is soft, And the heart is understood— There my heart is free Wisdom The last newspaper form had fallen into the jaws of the great perfecting press, when Babcock left the office with an idle hour in prospect. Down in Madison street he passed an auction joint. Being a student of sociology, the newspaper man entered. Inside there was an appearance of what a slangist might term "easy money," with no "cavil on the ninth part of a hair," as Shakespeare puts it. After "our hero" had seen a ruthless slaughter of be-silvered and be-ebonied toilet articles and other boud尔 brice-a-brac, he opened his arms to opportunity and bid 25 cents on "a pretty, dalty, prismatic, cut glass olive dish." "And sold!" snapped the crier so promptly that Babcock blinked his way to a realization of his purchase through a chaparral of maze! "Gentleman right over there," added the auctioneer to the cash boy. Babcock handed a $2 bill, so the be- and took one hasty look at his purchase. "Pressed glass!" he commented in- audibly. "marked down from 13 cents on any bargain counter in the city!" And he snickered at the thought of a city newspaper man being a sucker in his own ball-i-wick. "Beware of the man who offers you something for almost nothing!" had been his motto always, but now — "Here's yer change, mister," inter- rupted the boy. Babcock reached and clasped — !!! What was that? Yes, $2.25! "Thanks!" he said (mentally), and with the olive dish under his arm, he walked away whistling, the dish and 25 cents "to the good." When he reached home he sealed the bargain by kissing his wife and telling her, sub rosa, that not even a city auctioneer can get the better of a dyed-in-the-wool newspaper Bohemian. ```markdown ``` Peter Cooper had fifty-five years of domestic happiness and morning fire-building. Mr. Cooper was an ingenious man. When a cradle became necessary in his home, as was sometimes the case years ago. Peter rigged a selfrocking table, with a fan attachment. Afterward he patented the device and sold the patent. There were many opportunities "in those days!" WINCHESTER Take-Down Repeating Shotguns Don't spend from $50 to $200 for a gun, when for so much less money you can buy a Winchester Take-Down Repeating Shotgun, which will outshoot and outlast the highest-priced double-barreled gun, besides being as safe, reliable and handy. Your dealer can show you one. They are sold everywhere. FREE Our 140-Piece Illustrated Catalogue. WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. NEW HAVEN, OONN. POISONED The human body is constantly produc ing poisons, which are carried off through the kidneys and bowels. When these organs become clogged, then look out. Constipation, Sick Headache, Stomach Trouble, Fever and Billiousness result. Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin acts gently on the liver, kidneys and bowels. Guros Indigestion and Constipation permanently. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, IL THE CREWS OF "SALAMONS" AND "BELLARMS" TOWER'S Waterproof OILED TEN BRAND CLOTHING BOLD AROUND THE WORLD A. TOWER CO., Burlington, Mass., U.S.A. TOWER LANE, CO., Burlington, TORONTO, CAN. You might make a visit to your poor kid fashionable by calling it "slum work." YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocery sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Make any man show his assets and you will find they consist largely of two birds in a bush. Ask You Druggist for Allen's Foot-Ease. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE recently, and have just bought another supply. I have my corn, and the hot, burning and itching sensation my feet which was almost unbeatable, and I would not be without it now.—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J." Sold by all Druggists, 220. An Atchison woman not only laughs at her husband's jokes, but claims she thinks they are funny. Inslat on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because it contains 16 ozs. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. It doesn't necessarily follow that because the wife of a count is a countess the wife of a governor is a governess. A St. Louis World's Fair Information Bureau has been established at at 903 Main Street, Kansas City, in charge of Mr. L. S. McClellan, where information will be cheerfully furnished. Some men work overtime in trying to lay up something for the rainy days of their grandchildren. Mrs. Winslow's boiling Syrup. For children teething, softens the grums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind soils. Ice bottle. Mosquitoes bite more readily than fish, but they are equally hard to catch. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 20c. The fellow who wastes his time doesn't seem to realize that he will need it all before he dies. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best 16 oz. for 1 Ocents. Once used, always used. If we had our lives to live over again we might make even a worse job of it. All creameries use butter color. Why not do as they do—use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. It isn't very pleasant to have the tables turned on you, nor a hose, either, for that matter. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. When a girl blushes the other girls say: "Well, I like her cheek!" Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch. it will keep them white-16 oz. for 10 cents. The smallest thoughts are sometimes expressed in the largest words. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight so cigar, made of extra quality tobacco. You may use cigars not so good. Lewis' Factory, Pearls, Ill. Love may laugh at locksmiths, but it never even gives the poor installment collector a pleasant look. --- FREE T PAXTINE TOILET ANTISPITT TO WOMEN! To prove the healing and cleanse Tollet Antiseptic we will mail a large trial package with book of instructions absolutely free. This is not an expensive package, but vince anyone of its value. Women all over the country are praising Paxine for what is has done in local treat- all inflammation and discharges, wonderful as cleansing vaginal douche, for sore throat, nasal congestion, and sinusitis, and for whiten the teeth. Send today; a postal card Noted by druggists or sent postpaid by us, 56 ounts, large box. Satisfaction gun—uned. THE LARGE BOX, Boston, Mass. $14 CHAINING. U.M.C. CARTRIDGES AND SHOT SHELLS represent the experience of 35 years of ammunition making. U.M.C. on the head of a cart- ridge is a guarantee of quality. Sure fire—accurate—reliable. Ask your dealer. Catalog sent upon request. THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 & $3 SHOES UNION MADE You can save from $3 to $5 yearly by wearing W. L. Douglas $3.50 or $3 shoes. The usual that have been cost- ing you from $4.00 to $5.00. The imme- sional sale of W. L. Douglas shoes proves their superiority over PETER H. BURGESS Sold by retail shoe dealers everywhere. Look for name and price on bottom. This unique Carolina Cot pose there in value in Douglas shoes. Coronado the highest grade Pat. L. Leone. Fast Color Repairs used. Our $4 Bill Edge line cannot be equalled at any price. Illustrated Catalog Free. W. D. DOUGLAS Prochaska M Early in the morning, late at night, or whenever used, Defiance Starch will be found always the same, always the best. Insist on having it, the most for your money. Satisfaction or money back guaranteed. It is manufactured under the latest improved conditions. It is up-to-date. It is the best. We give no premiums. We sell 16 ounces of the best starch made for 10 cents. Other brands are 12 ounces for 10 cents with a tin whistle. Manufactured by THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Neb. RAPAN'S TIBULES Hipans Tabures are the best dye-pedia medicine ever made. They have been sold in the United States in over 100 countries, burn, slick headache, distress, bad breath, secreth, and every ill condition or cured by Hipans Tabures, really give relief within twenty minutes, drugstore sell them for ordinary drugstores sell them. stomach are relieved or cured by Ripana Tabulas. One will generally give relief within twenty minutes. The freest package is enough for ordinary occasions. All druggists sell them. Afflicted with core eyes, use When writing to advertisers please mention this paper. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO 45, 1903 PISO'S CURE FOR CURED WHEAT ALL KEEP AFTER Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION PATIENCE. If when morning breaks, Clouds obscure the sky, Fear not clock who makes Clouds, has sunshine nigh. Be patient. If the garden parch, Thirsty for the rain, Know April follows March- Showers will obtain. Be patient. When Mary's other beau Calls before you do, Don't get mad and go; He'll get tired, too. Be patient. If the good wife frown, Walk a little while, Keep your temper down, Soon will come a smile. Be patient. When you're out of health— If you're feeling sick— Do not dose yourself, Get a doctor quick. Be patient. THE EUTAW FLAG By MARY E. RINGGOLD. Copyrighted, 1908, by The Authors Publishing Company Charleston, South Carolina, "the City by the Sea," on the morning of February 14, 1777, was unusually cold and dreary. Sleet and snow whirled hither and thither, and a biting northeast wind made it advisable for all not obliged to face the storm to remain within. Jane Elliott was seated near a window, mechanically passing her needle through a dainty piece of embroidery. She felt a chill at her heart; the premonition of parting from a much-loved parent, now dangerously ill. An elderly woman entered the room. "Mr. Elliott is awake," she said, "and wishes to see you." Rising quickly, the girl went to her father's bedside. "Ginnie," he murmured, using his favorite name for her, as with trembling touch he smoothed her hair, "do, not weep because I am soon to leave you. For long years I have missed your dear mother's sweet smile. I shall be glad to go in search of her. You have the same smile, the same laughing blue eyes and tender mouth. As women of your type love only too well, it behooves you to be exceedingly careful in your choice of male companions. Most women's lives are made beautiful or utterly ruined by the love they accept. You must not stay here. This land of rebels is not fit for my sweet flower. Promise that, when left alone, you will return at once to England." A deep pallor in the girl's face replaced the flush of a few minutes before. "It is time for the doctor," she exclaimed, rising. "I think he is coming." "Ginnle," said her father, "you have not answered——" Without apparently hearing him she left the room. Outside the door she paused. "I could not promise and I could not answer," she murmured, "for, heaven help me, I love a rebel who glories in his defiance of England's king." By evening the storm passed away. The stars shone brightly; the moonlight glorified all surrounding objects. Again Jane Elliott stood near a window, at the back of the house. She saw a familiar form enter the gate. She opened the door. A moment later Capt. William Washington stood before her. "Why have you come here?" she asked. "I thought you were miles away with the rebels." "You must know," he replied, "I returned to see your sweet face once more. To carry in my heart, amid the tumult and strife of battle, a picture of azure eyes, and sun-kissed hair; of Hend. "Ginnie," said her father, "you have not answered——" dimpled chin and laughing mouth. These shall nerve me to stand firm for the cause of liberty and right, until I return to claim them for my own." "Nay, how can that be?" she asked. "My father to-day has commanded me to return to England as soon as——" Her lip quivered. She could not complete the sentence. "And you will obey him?" he questioned. "Nay," she faltered, "I cannot let you go. I shall not return to England. When in battle your flag floats above you, remember I honor it for your sake." "I have no flag to carry with me," he repiled, "and there is no time to get one. I leave to-night for the camp." "I will make you one," said Jane. Cutting a large square from the heavy silk curtain and binding it with gold braid taken from the girdle which had encircled her waist, she handed it to him. "Take it," she murmured, "and keep it unsullied for the sake of your country and Jane Elliott. Both shall be proud of their hero, whether he returns bearing it triumphantly aloft, or folded above his breast." M. M. "Jane, have you no word of welcome for me?" "Jane, have you no word of welcome for me?" A bell rang. It was the signal that visitors, perhaps the soldiers of the king, were approaching. "God bless you, dearest," said Washington, taking the flag and kissing the hand that held it. "May He keep you safe until we meet again." Then he passed out of one door as the guests entered the other. Mr. Elliott sank into a semi-conscious condition that night and became gradually weaker, until, a week later, as in a dream, he entered into that great unknown. Jane did not return to England. Months and years passed. She received tender letters from Capt. Washington, full of devotion to her, to his country, and telling of his promotion to the rank of colonel. In the spring of 1781 Jane sat near an open window, inhaling the fragrance of tea and cloth-of-gold roses, and watching the many-hued humming birds, as they flitted about, slipping sweet refreshment allike from the poisonous trumpet flower and the coral honeysuckle. The deep blue of the sky, the bright sunshine and a gentle breeze made a perfect day. Yet Jane was sad. She had not recently heard either from or of her lover. She was startled by the opening of the gate, and looking up, recognized Col. Tarleton, a British officer, though he wore the garb of a civilian. "Miss Elliott" he said, standing near the window, "you do not know how delighted I am to see you." "Are you just returned from the seat of war?" she asked. "If so, can you tell me anything about Col. Washington?" "Are you in earnest? What can a rebel of the worst type be to you? Besides, I hear he is so illiterate he cannot write his own name." "You have been misinformed," said Jane coldly. "At any rate," glancing at his hands, "he can make his mark." Col. Tarleton frowned. So she knew that Washington had, by a stroke of his saber, cut off two of his (Tarleton's) fingers, while catching his horse's bridle in an attempt to make him a prisoner. "One truth I did hear, however," he remarked. "Just after the battle of Cowpans, as he was riding through the woods, he met Miss Evelyn Morris, carrying her sick brother in her arm. She had fled when the fighting began in search of a place of safety. He conducted her to a friend's house. Admiring her bravery and courage in risking her own life to save the boy's, he fell desperately in love with her. The feeling proved mutual and they are to be married in a short time. He wins hearts so easily I wish I had seen him during the campaign." "To me your memory seems poor," said Jane, "but had you looked behind you at the battle of the Cowpens, you would certainly have had that pleasure." Col. Tarleton made no reply, but, bowing low, departed. She had scorned him, but he had left an arrow to rankle in her heart. Jane left the window, passed into the garden, and seated herself on a vine-encircled bench. So this was the reason for his not writing. She was forgotten, or worse, discarded for a new love. It seemed impossible to believe it. He was too noble and honorable to be untrue to the woman he had taught to love him. Tears filled her eyes. Her head drooped. Why had he not written? She did not wish to believe it, and yet—! Suddenly the sound of martial music recalled her wandering thoughts. The victorious troops were passing through the city. Her lover should be in command. Why was he not with her? Alas! Must she believe Tarleton's cruel tale? The music died away. She bowed her head on her clasped hand and became oblivious to all, save her own sad misgivings. She did not hear the gate open behind her nor see the advancing form, nor note the eager gaze of the eyes that rested lovingly upon her. "Jane," said a familiar voice, "have you no word of welcome for me?" "Why have you not written recently?" she asked, coldly, not raising her eyes. "Look up and see," he replied. "Forgive me," she said, seeing that his right hand was in a sling. "I was wounded," he said, "but I have brought you back, unsullied, the flag you gave me. It is covered with glory. Long years hence, still known as the Eutaw flag, it will be cherished and honored by all Americans, but especially by the sons of Charleston. Will you not give me yourself in exchange for it?" Jane trembled with joy. Tarleton had told a falsehood. "I have no choice." she replied. "Who could resist the hero of Eutaw and the Cowens." *Author's Note*--The above named flag really exists; came into existence as stated in the story; is in the possession of the washington Light Infantry, of Charles Todd, one of the four Revolutionary flags still is use. It is known as the Eutau flag. LIFE THAT IS UNCONSIDERED. Billions of Living Things That Swarm on the Globe. Few persons ever consider the enormous amount of life other than human which exists the world over. In populous London, for instance, there are three times as many rats as people, and three times as many sparrows as rats. Cultivated country districts in England are said to contain from 700 to 1,000 birds to the square mile. As for the insect population, that is quite beyond any statistician to figure out; but the fact that each bird certainly consumes on an average fifty insects a day may give the person who tries to imagine it some faint idea of the terrible figures needed to express it. The insect population of a single cherry tree infested with aphides was calculated by an authority at 12,000,000. M. Yung, a French entomologist, has killed the ants in five hills by means of a poisonous gas, and undertaken the prodigious labor of counting the dead. The results, beginning from the smallest hill, were, respectively, as follows: Seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, 19,333, 53,018, 64,470 and 93,964. The real figures probably averaged 5,000 higher in each case, as no allowance was made by M. Yung for absent and escaped ants. WHY SHE WANTED TO KNOW. Ambitious Woman Would Get Even for Snubbings of Society. A woman who lives on the fringe of fashionable society in this city and is consumed with an ambition to break into the innermost circle, recently went to a psychic and had him read her character. The psychic happened to be a man of unusual honesty and candor, and the social climber was impressed with the truth of the things he told her about herself. "Do you know," she said to him, "I could make your everlasting fortune for you by recommending you to my acquaintances? I have enough social influence to have you taken up." "But you would expect some return," suggested the psychic. "Yes, I would," acknowledged the woman, "and I'll tell you just what I want you to do. I want you to read the characters of certain women and tell me all the mean things you find out about them." "Why?" "Well, I feel there is no use of my trying to deceive you. Those women have snubbed me cruelly, and I want to be able to say things about them that will sting."—New York Press. She turned and spoke in tones that matched Him. Her tear-clouded eyes of blue I gave her bread because her voice Reminded me of you. "I think I am entitled to a medal," he said. "For what?" "Why, I'm sure I can write poetry, but I never tried, and I'm not going to." How a Farmer was freed from Misery PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are as far ahead of the old fashioned Dyes as electricity is of a Rush light candle. Putnam Faibleless Dyes are cleanly, as they neither stain the materials Dyes are for sale by all good drugstores everywhere, or mailed direct at, Lee's package. MONROE, DRUG CO., Vanvally, Md. KEEP THE BOWELS REGULAR The cause of two-thirds of the serious ills of life and one-half of all who die prematurely can be traced to persistent constipation. 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It does not always show itself at first, but appears just in this way, when some unusual movement or action brings sharp pains and exhaustive aches, telling of sick kidneys. So Mr. Plangman's experience bore this out. Continuing, he says: "I did not know the cause of the trouble, but I am led to believe now that it was first brought about by jumping in and out of the wagon and in some way I may have strained my back. "I was constantly growing worse," he continues, "and I became very much alarmed about my condition. I knew that something had to be done or serious results were sure to follow. I went to a specialist here in Sherman, and underwent a rigid examination." Then he relates how the doctor told him that it was a serious case, but that he could cure him for fifty dollars. Cantaloupe and fried sausage met at Breakfast this year. The Best Results In Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. 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