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. M. When you go to St. Louis, the World's Fair city, stop and see Z. T. Jardon. 1923 Market street. VOLUME VIII. When you go to St. Louis, the Wooddon, 1523 Market street. LEXINGTON NOTES. Mrs. Anna Williams of Kansas City spent Monday here visiting her brother, Mr. Peter Lindsay and other relatives. Mr. Joseph Bowler of Kansas City was here Sunday visiting his mother, Mrs. A. Lindsay. The W. B. F.'s and S. M. F.'s will celebrate the 26th of December at the Excelsior Band Hall. The lodge will parade at 3 o'clock, headed by the Excelsior Band; at night the S. M. F.'s and the U. B. F.'s will appear in their full regalia. Come out and enjoy yourself. Mrs. Franklin of Moberly, Mo., is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sewell. Mr. Al Williams and Mr. John Booker in the Myers Building. Remember the Yukon Restaurant on 10th street; meals 15 and 25 cts. Also a fine line of cigars and tobacco. We invite you here and insure you kind treatment—up-to-date restaurant—ice cream on Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Hunter, Prop., also Mr. Green Marcus on 9th street, lunch counter. The Ladies' Labor Union meeting will meet at the Second Baptist church on Thursday 18th, 1903, all the ladies and gentlemen are invited to come. Another Definition. Tommy—Figgjam—Pa, what is false pride? Paw Figgjam—It is the spirit that makes a whole family eat round steak for dinner for three months at a stretch in order to send cut-glass wedding presents to some one whom they would keep in ignorance of their real financial status. Too Suggestive. "If you could suggest a nice inscription for his tombstone," began the widow. "Why not 'Peace to His Ashes?' suggested the marble cutter. "Well-er-he was rather a gay person, and I don't exactly like that word 'ashes.'" He Remembered. Mr. Subuis—Good morning, Mr. Mildew. Don't you remember that I asked you to bring me some nice fresh eggs? Amos Mildew—Oh, yes: I hain't fergot it. I told 'Mandy 'bout it a month back, an' she's been savin' of 'em ever since. Gave Up Stubborn Witness. Abe Gruber, the New York lawyer, was cross-examining a witness in a country town not long ago. The man appeared to be abnormally stupid, but in fact he was determined that the New York lawyer should get no information that could be kept from him. At length Mr. Gruber said: "Well, at least you can surely tell the jury how this road runs." The witness appeared to think intently for a few moments. Then he said: "Well, when I'm coming to town it runs up, and when I'm goin' home it runs down." "That will be about all," said the little lawyer with a big sigh. Oldest American Showman H. P. Ingalls, believed to be the oldest living American showman, resides in the little town of Huntsville, O. Mr. Ingalls was born in Merrimac, N. H., March 18, 1826, and in his day was the close friend of Barnum, Van Amburg, Forepaugh and Robinson. He made a fortune by exhibiting the Siamese twins. Filipinos Love Music. The intense love of the Filipinos for music is notably shown in their funerals, their home entertainments and in their theaters. The Filipino voice is small and thin, but it makes up the deficiency in shrillness. Dedicates Novel to Roosevelt A new novel, called "The Curse of Caste," written by N. J. Lecato, is dedicated to President Roosevelt, and introduces the President by name and quotes him verbally on the color question. Following Advice. Blobbs—The doctor told Buggins to take a drink of whisky before each meal. Blobbs—What is the result? Blobbs—Buggins is now eating eight meals a day. Irish Root to Visit America For the first time in his life William Butler Yeats, the distinguished Irish poet, will pay a visit to the United States this fall. He contemplates a tour of all the principal cities. In Bostonese. "Listen to that girl's peculiar laugh." "That isn't a laugh." "No; she's a Boston girl. That's a cachinnation." American Wine. The United States ranks sixteenth as a wine-producing country. Our annual output is but a fiftieth part of France. Hello. Birdie! There is just as much worry over money as over the lack of it. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1903. ALLEN . CHAPEL . THANKSGIVING BALLY. Baptist Church $ 31.04 G. W. Teeters 121.03 T. B. Carter 77.50 M. S. Dunn 18.10 G. W. Shannon 12.35 R. W. Foster 51.75 Chas. Birch 30.07 J. H. Crews 76.00 E. L. Ward 8.20 F. J. Peck 75.00 Thanksgiving Dinner. Chas. Frazier 101.88 Bro. Cargyle 94.08 Total $697.10 Gleaning Day, Dec. 6th 119.63 Grand Total ..... $716.73 This makes over One Thousand Dollars collected for Trustees Department, which has enabled the Trustees to pay the interest and $500.00 on the mortgage in six weeks, and 33 have been received in the church. No more fear at the New York Dental company, it was quite amuseingly to see bw soon people act when they enter Dental offices and as how much pain they have got to suffer in case, while he was examining, out came the tooth and to her surprise she was handed the tooth. Did you feel the pain? No the dentist said I was careful with you and was surprising. 1029 Main street. HOLIDAY EXCURSION RATES. 1903 Christmas and New Year's 1904 1903 Christmas and New Year's 1904. The Missouri Pacific railway will sell round trip excursion tickets at reduced rates within 200 miles of Kansas City, east, west, north and south, December 24, 25,31 and January 1, good for return until January 4 1904. Teachers' and students' round trip tickets on sale between December 18 January 11, 1904. Southeastern holiday excursion rates to all southern states south of Kentucky and Virginia. Tickets on sale December 19, 20, 21 and 26, good returning within 30 days, rate of one fare plus $2 for the round trip. For all information as to rates, time and excursion tickets call on or address E. S. Jewett, Passenger and Ticket agent, No. 901 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. H. C. TOWNSEND, Fen'l Pass. Agt., St. Louis, Mo. Murderer Hilson Denied a New Trial. P. H. Hilson, the negro preacher, who was convicted of second degree murder in the common pleas court in Kansas City, Kansas, a few days Judge Holt this morning and sentenced to life imprisonment. Hilson killed his wife on North Third street in 'that city a few months ago. The Irish to the Front. Two sons of the Emerald Isle were visiting League Island navy yard one afternoon last week. "What is that?" asked Pat of a marine, pointing to the bow of the cruiser Prairie. He wished to learn the name of the boat, but as his pointed finger indicated the raft hanging from the bow, the marine answered, "That is the catamaran." "See that!" said Pat, turning to his companion, "the beautiful vessel is the Katy Moran. Another Irish name in the Amirican navy. Shure, she must have been Jack Barry's swateheart." Evidently highly satisfied, they continued their sightseeing—Philadelphia Ledger. The Only Exception Ascum—I notice, Colonel, that you always take your whisky straight. Don't you Kentuckians ever put water in your liquor? Colonel Blood—Some Kontuckians do, sah. Ascum—Indeed! Colonel Blood—Yes, sah; but they sell it.—Philadelphia Press. For special parties and night lunches, call up the Arnold Cafe, 1211 Baltimore, 'Phone 2874 Wainut. European and American. Mrs. M. Arsold Proprietress. THE OFFICIALS WERE "RUSTY." Men in High Position Had Forgotten Early Teaching. Marion H. Kerner, who was one of the first military telegraph operators in the United States, has in his possession a telegraphic key which has been used in "sending" by more noted telegraphers than any similar instrument in the country. The sending and receiving instruments are perfect models of the regular type, but together occupy a base not more than an inch and a half by two inches. A pocket battery and fine copper wires complete the outfit. It was given to Mr. Kerner just before the Magnetic Club's dinner last spring by Col. R. C. Clowry, the new president of the Western Union. This dinner was attended by most of the prominent officials of the Western Union and Postal companies, and none of the notables escaped before he had clicked off a message upon the tiny apparatus. It was the general opinion of the active telegraphers present that if any of the officials caught them sending such ragged "Morse" there would be wholesale dismissals, for some of those in power had not used a "key" in years. HAD NO MUSICAL EAR And Composer Had to Let His Well- Trained Valet Go. Canon Marriott of Bermuda spent the latter part of the summer at Lenox, Mass. The canon is exceedingly fond of music, and his acquaintance with musicians is extensive. At the Winchell cottage, where he stayed, Canon Marriott told one day a story about Offenbach. "Offenbach," he said, "once had an unusually good valet. The man could shave, cook, tailor, market, doctor horses—do, in a word, a thousand things. Offenbach, nevertheless, discharged him. "Why,' his friends said, 'did you dismiss a servant so apt?" "Oh, because," said Offenbach, pettishly, "in beating my clothes outside my door he would never keep in time." Her Pa's Compliment "My pa said something lovely about you the other day," was the way in which a "dear little, queer little" city settlement child greeted one of the settlement workers not long since. "Did he, indeed, Jennie?" answered the settlement worker, the more pleased because the "pa" in question was reported as little given to saying lovely things of any kind, and because he had been anything but gracious upon the occasion of the speaker's sole visit to his home. "And what did he say, Jennie?" The answer proved but another case of the salutary but distasteful discipline so often administered to natural but ill-advised feminine curiosity. "He said," it came, clearly, "that you was the gambest old chicken when it come to a lip-scramble that he ever seen in all his life!" Floored the Englishman At a dinner party in London Miss Beatrice Herford was taken down by an Englishman whom she discovered to be a fellow of the Royal Geographic society and who professed to know by name all the places on the map of England. Miss Herford had long struggled with such names as Cholmondley (Chumley.) Crichton, (Cryton.) and the rest, and this struck her as an opportunity. ... "As a geographer, and especially as a Royal Geographer," she said, "you will be able to tell me where Winkle is." The Royal Geographer was puzzled, and asked if she was sure she had pronounced it properly, and how it was spelled. "I pronounced it in the most English way I could," said Miss Herford. "It is spelled W-in-d-s o-r C-a-s-t-l-e."—New York Times. A Foot Race Problem "Bre'r Williams, does you think deil is a white man or a black man?" "I dunno. All I does know is—de bigges' race problem is how ter keep ten yards ahead or him!"—Atlanta Constitution. Mamma's Angel. "Now, Willie," said the careful mother, "I don't want you to associate with those Smith boys—they are so rough and rude." "Not t' me, they ain't. Why, I picked a fight an' licked 'em as soon as I struck de neighborhood." Penalty of Wealth. "Wealth has its penalties," said the trite philosopher. "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, "wealth is what compels a man to eat fancy cooking the whole year round instead of having cakes hot from the griddle and home-made preserves." Two of Them. Nell—I can't imagine any one more foolish than she is. She has simply married him to reform him. Ned—Huh, he's just as foolish! He seems to have married her merely to give her a chance to learn cooking. They're keeping house, you know. Stickler for Courtesy. "Old Bullion is the very soul of old school courtesy, isn't he?" "What makes you think so?" "Why, he wouldn't play bridge with his daughter's husband for fear he might win some of his own money back."—Town Topics. Happy Man in Georgia. "Mars Tom should be de happies' man in the roun' worl." "Think so?" "I sho' does. He spends three-fo'ths er his time huntin' en de yuther fo'the eatin' what he hunts."—Atlanta Constitution Glad He Wasn't A He—Excuse me, madam, but why do you glare at me so savagely? She—Oh, I beg your pardon—I took you for my husband. Beginning of the Season. Myer "Yes, I understand young Kickley's head was split in the game." Gyer "Ah! Sort of football opening as it were." Breeds Consumption There is an East Side group of buildings known as "The Lung block." Its tenants are locally known as "lungers." It is one of the most prolific breeding places for consumption to be found in the city of New York. It is proposed to raze it to the ground and replace it by a public park.—New York Letter. Railway Lands Advance The Canadian Pacific railway sold last year from its subsidy land nearly 2,600,000 acres, at a price averaging something less than $4 an acre. In the previous year it sold less than 1,600,000 acres, at a price averaging a little over $3 an acre. Get All the Profits. A large part of the tropical fruit used in the United States is raised by the transportation companies which bring it. Sheep Ruin Grass It takes six years for grass to grow where sheep have pulled it up and trampled it. Bulgaria's Area. Bulgaria corresponds in area to Oklahoma, and in population to Missouri. NUMBER 38 J. B. Something Doin': "Yes," said the railway manager, "where there's smoke there must be fire." Then he got busy and fired half a dozen employees who had gone wrong according to the rule "No smoking allowed while on duty." Deduction. Miss Cutting—"Then you are an agnostic?" Cholly Smallhead—"I never said so." Miss Cutting—"No; but you said you only believed what you could understand.—Judge. Addressed to Him. "I never heard a more disgusting incendiary speech than old man Brown made this morning." "Who's old man Brown?" What's the man known? "The old fellow I work for. He said: 'See here, if you don't do better I'll fire you!'" Two of a Kind "A man needn't be afraid of lightning so long as he can see it approaching," said the would be humorist. "Same way with a bullet." observed the solemn party with a far off look in his optic. No. Opposition. "I'm afraid," said the amateur actor, "it will be necessary for me to kiss your wife in the last act. You won't mind, will you?" "Not at all," replied the broad-minded husband. "I can stand it if you can." No Laughing Matter "I thought you would surely laugh at that little joke," said the humorist, as the editor solemnly glanced at the manuscript. "Not me," rejoined the man behind the blue pencil, "I never laugh at an old friend." Reform Convict—Yes, lady, when I gets out I'm goln' ter try an' get inter good serciety. Visitor—You are? Convict—Yes'n; I'm sick o' being called a thief instead uv a klepto- maniac. Those Dear Girls. Phyllis—I want you to know that I don't stand on trifles. Eliya (glancing at her feet)—No. Dear; I see you don't. Graft. "The meek shall inherit the earth, you know." "What a cinch for the lawyers!" Almost Ready "I have only two difficulties to overcome in connection with my flying machine," said the inventor. "What are they?" "Getting it into the air and making it stay there." Frank Curzon, a London theatrical manager, is intending to produce none but American plays at his theater the coming season. He is at present in New York making selections. President Roosevelt's Message to Second Session of the Fifty-Eighth Congress. DOCUMENT FROM CHIEF EXECUTIVE READ TO STATESMEN Much Important Legislation Recommended to the Attention of the Lawmakers---Policy of the Government as to Capital and Labor--- Need of Our Merchant Marine---Alaskan Boundary Question---The Venezuelan Dispute ---Development of Alaska---Causes Which Led to Establishment of New Republic of Panama---Reasons for Recognition by the United States. Iniquities in Public Lands and Postal Frauds, and Their Dire Effects, Pointed Out---Immediate Need for Treaties Making Bribery Extraditable---Our Relations with Turkey---The Consular Service---Question of Immigration---Preservation of Forests---Safety Appliances Law---Extension of Civil Service Rules---The Army---International Arbitration. President Roosevelt's annual message was read to both houses of the Fifty-eighth Congress this afternoon. It is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: The work of the Department of Commerce and Labor has been conditioned upon this theory, of securing fair treatment alike for labor and for capital. Capital and Labor. The consistent policy of the national government, so far as it has the power. The country is to be congratulated on the amount of substantial achievement which has marked the past year both as our foreign and as regards our domestic pride. Corporations. With a nation as with a man the most important things are those of the household, and therefore the country is especially to be congratulated on what has been accomplished in the direction of providing for the exercise of supervision over the great corporations and combination of state commerce. The Congress has created the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Bureau of Corporations, with for the first time authority to secure proper publicity of such proceedings of these great corporations as the public has the right to know. It has provided for the expedition of suits for the corporation of the Federal apparatus law and by another law it has secured equal treatment to all producers in the transportation of their goods, thus taking a long stride forward in making effective the work of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Department of Commerce and Labor. The establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor, with the Bureau of Corporations thereunder, marks a real advance in the direction of doing all that is possible for the solution of the questions affecting capitalists and wage-workers. Functions of New Department. The preliminary work of the Bureau of Corporations in the department has shown the wisdom of its creation. Publicity in corporate affairs will tend to do away with ignorance, and will afford facts upon which intelligent action may be taken. Systematic intelligent investigation is already developing facts the business recognize their obligation to deal squarely with their stockholders, their competitors, and the public, has nothing to prove of this bureau is not to embarrass or assault legitimate business, but to aid in bringing about a better industrial condition—a condition under which there shall be obedience to law and recognition of public obligation by all corporations, great or small. The Department of Commerce is clearing house for information regarding the business transactions of the nation but the executive arm of the government to aid in strengthening our domestic and foreign markets, in perfecting our transportation facilities, in building up our merchant marine, in presenting the enquiry into the commercial and proving commercial and industrial conditions, and in bringing together on common ground those necessary partners in industrial progress—capital and labor. Commerce between the nations is steadily growing in volume, and the tendency of the times is closer trade relation than commercial waters. We must secure to Americans the chance to participate to the best advantage in foreign trade; and we may confidently expect that the new department will justify the expectation of its creators by the exercise of this watercraft as well as by the business relations laws relating to our internal affairs as are intimated to its care. In enacting the laws above enumerated the Congress proceeded on same and conservative lines. Nothing revolutionary was attempted; but a common sense and successful effort was made in the directive to hand as to subserve the public good. The legislation was moderate. It was characterized throughout by the idea that we were not attacking corporations, but endeavoring to provide for doing away with any evil in them; that we drew the line against misconduct, not against wealth; gladly recognizing the great good that corporations confluence with his fellows does his work along proper and legitimate lines. The purpose of the legislation, which purpose will undoubtedly be fulfilled, was to favor such a man when he does well, and to supervise his action only to prevent him from doing ill. Publicity can do no harm to the honest corporation. "The purpose of the legislation is that it is the corporation which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive. The work of the Department of Commerce and Labor has been conditioned upon this theory, of securing fair treatment alike for labor and for capital. Capital and Labor. Receipts and Expenditures Needs of Financial Situation: The integrity of our currency is beyond question, and under present conditions it would be unwise and unnecessary to attempt a reconstruction of our entire monetary system. The same liberty should be granted the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit customs receipts as is granted him in the deposit of receipts from other sources. In my message of Dec. 2, 1902, a response to a petition to the financial situation, and I again ask the consideration of the Cqgress for these questions. Gold and Silver Standard. During the last session of the Congress, at the suggestion of a joint note from the Republic of Mexico and the Imperial Government of China, and in harmony with an act of the Congress appropriating $25,000 to pay the expenses thereof, the President agreed with the principal European countries in the hope that some plan might be devised whereby a fixed rate of exchange could be assured between the gold-standard countries and the silver-standard countries. This commission has filed its preliminary report, which has been made to seem it important that the commission be appointed sufficient to pay the expenses of its further labor. Merchant Marine. A majority of our people desire that steps be taken in the interests of American shipping, so that we may once more resume our former position in the ocean carrying trade. But hitherto the differences of opinion as to the proper method of reaching this end have been so wide that I should not be surprised by the adoption of any particular scheme. Having in view these facts, I recommend that the Congress direct the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster-General, and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, associated with such a representation from the Senate and House of Representation, may designate, to serve as a commission for the purpose of investigating and reporting to the Congress at its next session what legislation is desirable or necessary for the development of the American merchant marine and American commerce, and incidentally of a national naval cruiser and naval reserves. While such a measure is desirable in any event, it is especially desirable at this time, in view of the fact that our present governmental contract for ocean mall with the American Line will expire in 1965. Our ocean mail net was passed in 1891, but in 1920 we have seen that the ocean mail was equal to any foreign line. Since then the Germans have put on 23-knot steamers, and the British have contracted for 24-knot steamers. Our service should equal the best. If it does not, the commercial will abandon it. If we are busy in the business it ought to be with the steamers, we must attach to the country on one hand, and on the other with exact knowledge of the cost and proper methods of carrying it. Moreover, lines of cargo ships are of even more importance than fast mail lines; save so far as the latter can be援 upon to the furnish sails, auxiliary vessels, and other means of the development of new lines of cargo ships to South America, to Asia, and elsewhere would be much in the interest of our commercial expansion. Immigration. We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind. The need is to devise some system by which undesirable immigrants shall be kept out entirely, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country. At present some districts which need immigrants have none; and in others where the population is already large, while desirable bers as to deprense the conditions of life for those already there. During the last two years the immigration service at New York has been greatly improved, and the corruption and inefficiency which formerly obtained there have been eradicated. This service has just been investigated by a committee of New York citizens of high standing, Messrs. Arthur v. Vriesen, Lee K. Frankel, Eugene A. Philbin, Thomas V. Hynes, and Ralph Trautman. Their situation at length, and conclusions with the wide range of recommendations for administrative and legislative action. It is now receiving the attention of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Naturalization Frauds. The special investigation of the subject of naturalization under the direction of the Attorney-General, and the consequent prosecutions, reveal a condition of affairs calling for the immediate attention of the Congress. Forgeries and perjuries of shameless and flagrant character have been perpetrated, not only in the dense centers of population, but throughout the country, and the doubt that very many so-called citizens of the United States have no title whatever to that right, and are asserting and enjoying the benefits of the same through the grossest frauds. It is never to be forgotten that citizenship is, to quote the words recently used by the Supreme Court, an "inestimable heritage," whether it proceeds from birth within the country or from naturalization; and we poison the sources of naturalization, that character and strength at the fountain, if the privilege is claimed and exercised without right, and by means of fraud and corruption. The body politic can not be sound and healthy if many of its constituent members claim their standing through the prostitution of the high right and calling of citizenship. It should mean something to become a citizen of the states; and in the process no loop-hole whatever should be left open to fraud. Anti-Trust Laws. In my last annual message, in connection with the subject of the due regulation of combinations of capital which are or may become injurious to the public, I recommended a special appropriation for the better enforcement of the anti-trust law as it now stands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, executive, and judicial appropriation act of February 25, 1983, 22 Stat., 854, 904), the Congress appropriated, for the purpose of enforcing the various Federal trust and interstate-commerce laws, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, the employment of special counsel and agents in the Department of Justice to conduct proceedings and prosecutions under said laws in the courts of the United States. I now recommend, as a matter of the utmost importance and urgency, the extension of the purposes of this appropriation, so that it may be available, under the direction of the Attorney General, until used, for the due enforcement of the laws of the United States in general and especially of the civil and criminal laws relating to public lands and the laws relating to postal crimes and offenses and the subject of naturalization. Recent investigations have shown a deplorable trend in the enforcement of the vital concern. By various frauds and by forgeries and perjuries, thousands of acres of the public domain, embracing lands of different character and extending through various sections of the country, have been dishonestly acquired. It is hardly necessary to urge the importance of the appropriation, stolen from the people, and of promptly and duly punishing the offenders. Postal Frauds. I speak in another part of this message of the widespread crimes by which the sacred right of citizenship is falsely asserted and that "inestimable heritage" perverted to base ends. By similar means—that is, through frauds, forgeries, and perjuries, and by shameless briberies—of the public service general and to the due administration of the Postoffice department have been notoriously violated, and many indictments have been found, and the consequent prosecutions are in course of hearing or on the eve thereof. For the reasons thus indicated, and so that the Government may be prepared to enforce promptly and with the greatest effect the due penalties for such offences, the Government will be furnished with sufficient instrumentalities and competent legal assistance for the investigations and trials which will be necessary at many different points of the country. I urge upon the Congress the necessity of making the said appropriation available for immediate use for all such purposes, to be expanded under the direction of the Attorney-General. Needs for Treaties Making Bribery Extractable. Steps have been taken by the State Department looking to the making of bribery an extraditable offense with foreign powers. The need of more effective treaties covering this crime is manifest. The exposures and prosecutions of official corruption in St. Louis, Mo., and other cities have been a number of givers and takers of bribery becoming fugitives in foreign lands. Bribery has not been included in extradition treaties heretofore, as the necessity for it has not arisen. While there may have been as much official corruption in former years, there has been more developed and brought to light in the immediate past than in preceding century of country's history. It should give policy of the United States to leave no place on earth where a corrupt man fleeing from this country can rest in peace. There is no reason why bribery should not be included in all treaties as extraditable. The recent amended treaty with Mexico, whereby this crime was put in the list of extraditable offenses, has established a salutary precedent in the United States Department has asked, and Mexico has granted, the extradition of one of the St. Louis bribe givers. There can be no crime more serious than bribery. Other offenses violate one law, while corruption strikes at the foundation of all law. Under our form of government all authority is vested in the people and by them delegated to those who represent them in official capacity, the possession and punishment of public corruption, and the need to protect a disrase. The shame lies in toleration, not in correction. No city or state, still less the nation, can be injured by the enforcement of law. As long as public plunderers when detected can find a haven of refuge in any foreign land and avoid punishment, just so long encouragement is given them to continue their practices. If we fall to do all that in us lies to stamp out corruption we can not take our share of responsibility for the guilt. The threat to self-government is uninching enforcement of the law and the cutting out of corruption. Alaskan Boundary. For several years past the rapid development of Alaska and the establishment of growing American interests in regions theretofore unsurveyed and imperfectly known brought into prominence the urgent necessity of a practical demarcation of the boundaries between the jurisdictions of the United States and Alaska, of the western shore treaty of 1855 between Great Britain and Russia, the provisions of which were copied in the treaty of 1857, whereby Russia conveyed Alaska to the United States, was positive as to the control, first by Russia and later by the United States, of a strip of territory along the contour of Portland canal in Mountains allowing and surrounding the indentations of the coast and including the islands to the westward, its description of the landward margin of the strip was indefinite, resting on the supposed existence of a continuous ridge or range of mountains skirting the coast, as figured in the treaty of 1855 at no time been possible for either party in interest to lay down, under the authority of the treaty, a line so obviously exact according to its provisions as to command the assent of the other. For nearly three-fourths of a century the absence of tangible local interests demanding the use of positive jurisdiction on either side of the coast was not maintained. In 1878 questions of revenue administration on the Stikine river led to the establishment of a provisional demarcation, crossing the channel between two high peaks on either side about twenty-four miles above the river mouth. In similar questions growing out of the extent of the coast, the interests in the region about the head Lynn canal brought about a temporary modus vivendi, by which a convenient separation was made at the watershed divides of the White and Chilkoot passes and to the north of Klukwan, on the Klehl river. These partial and tentative separation was made in the very nature of things, be it obstruction or hating. A permanent disposition of the matter became imperative. While the line so traced follows the provisional demarcation of 1878 at the crossing of the Stikine river, and that of 1889 at the summits of the White and Childof passes, it runs much further inland. It is also the line of the later modus vivendi, and leaves the entire mining district of the Porcupine river and Glacier creek within the jurisdiction of the United States. The result is satisfactory in every way. It is of great material advantage to our country, and it has moved from the field of discussion and possible danger a question liable to become more acutely accentuated with each passing year. Finally, it has furnished a signal proof of the fairness and good will with which two friendly nations can exchange national sovereignty and by their nature incapable of submission to a third power for adjudication. Claims Against Venezuela. Claims Against Venezuela. It will be remembered that during the second session of the Asia Congress Great Britain, Germany, and Italy alliance for the purpose of blockading the ports of Venezuela and using such other means of pressure as would secure a settlement of claims due, as they alleged, to certain of their subjects. Their eminent counsel, Mr. Browne, contends these claims was terminated by an agreement brought about through the offices of the diplomatic representatives of the United States at Caracas and the Government at Washington, thereby ending a situation which was bound to cause injury to the people of Venezuela and the peace of the continent. Under this agreement Venezuela agreed to set apart a certain percentage of the customs receipts of two of her ports to be applied to the payment of whatever obligations might be appertained by mixed commissioners, and to pay the due from her, not only to the three powers already mentioned, whose proceedings against her had resulted in a state of war, but also to the United States, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway, and Mexico, who were allied to the for the collection of the claims alleged to be due to certain of their citizens. A demand was then made by the so-called cockading powers that the sums ascertained to be due to their citizens by such mixed commissions should be accorded payment in full before anything was paid upon the claims of any of the so-called peace powers. Venezuela, on the other hand, insisted that all her creditors should be paid upon a basis of exact equality. During the efforts to adduce powers to the Hague, the powers in interest that it should be referred to me for decision, but I was clearly of the opinion that a far wiser course would be to submit the question to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. It seemed to me to offer an admirable opportunity to advance the practice of the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations and to secure for the Hague tribunal a memorable increase of its practical importance. The nations interested in the controversy were so numerous and in many instances benefited results would follow from their appearance at the same time before the bar of that august tribunal of peace. Our hopes in that regard have been realized. Russia and Austria are represented in the persons of the learned and distinguished jurists who compose the tribunal, while Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela are represented by their respective agents and nations presenting their arguments to and invoking the decision of that high court of international justice and international peace can hardly fail to secure a like submission of many future controversies. The nations now appearing there will find it far easier to appear there a second time, while no nation can imagine its just pride will be lessened by following the example now presented. The example of the national arbitration is a subject of warm congratulation and offers a happy augur for the peace of the world. There seems good ground for the belief that there has been a real growth among the civilized nations of a sentiment which will permit a gradual substitution of other methods than the method of war in the settlement of disasters, and that presented that we are near a position in which it will be possible wholly to prevent war, or that a just regard for national interest and honor will in all cases permit of the settlement of international disputes by arbitration; but by a mixture of prudence and firmness with wisdom we think it is possible to do away with much of the burden of the settlement at least in many cases to substitute some other and more rational method for the settlement of disputes. The Hague court offers so good an example of what can be done in the direction of such settlement that it should be encouraged in every way. The proper steps should be taken. In President McKinley's annual message of Dec. 5, 1898, he made the following recommendation: "The experiences of the last year bring forcibly to us a sense of the burdens and the waste of war. We desire, in common with most civilized nations, to reduce to the lowest possible point the damage sustained in time of war by peaceable trade and commerce. It is true we may suffer in such cases less than in other circumstances but all states are damaged more or less by the state of uneasiness and apprehension into which an outbreak of hostilities throws the entire commercial world. It should be our object, therefore, to minimize, so far as practicable, this inevitable loss and disturbance. This purpose can probably best be accomplished by an international agreement to regard all private property at sea as exempt from capture or deprivation of its rights by the United States Government has for many years advocated this humane and beneficent principle, and is now in a position to recommend it to other powers without the imputation of selfish motives. I therefore suggest for your consideration that the Executive be authorized to correspond with the governments of the principal maritime powers with a permanent force into the permanent law of civilization under the principle of the exemption of all private property at sea, not contraband of war, from capture or destruction by belligerent powers." I cordially renew this recommendation. The Supreme Court, speaking on Dec. 11, 11, 1886, through Peckham, J., said: "It is, we think, historically accurate to say that the war has now been, in its views, among the most advanced of the governments of the world in favor of mitigating, as to all non-combatants, the hardships and horrors of war. To accomplish that object it has always advocated those rules which have been imposed on the right to control the private property of an enemy on the high seas." I advocate this as a matter of humanity and morals. It is anachronistic when private property is respected on land that it should not be respected at sea. Moreover, it should be borne in mind that shipping represents, internationally speaking, a much more generalized species of property than land, with ordinary property on land—that is, property found at sea is much less apt than is the case with property found on land really to belong to any one nation. Under the modern system of corporate ownership the flag of a vessel often differs from the flag which would mark the nationality of the real ownership and money control of the vessel; an- the cargo may belong to individuals or companies. American capital is now invested in foreign ships; and among foreign nations it often happens that the capital of one is largely invested in the shipping of another. Furthermore, as a practical matter, it may be mentioned that while commerce destroying may cause serious loss and great annoyance, it can never be more than a subsidiary factor in being to terms a resolute fee. This is now a common practice in ports. The fighting ship, not the commerce destroyer, is the vessel whose feats add renown to a nation's history. and establish her place among the great powers of the world. Last year the Interparliamentary Union for International Arbitration met at Vienna, six hundred members of the different legislatures of civilized countries attending. It was provided that the next meeting should be in 1904 at St. Louis, subject to our Congress extending an invitation. Like the Hague tribunal, this Interparliamentary Union forces tending towards peace among the nations of the earth, and it is entitled to our support. I trust the invitation can be extended. Relations With Turkey. Early in July, having received intelligence, which happily turned out to be erroneous, of the assassination of our vice-consul at Beirut, I dispatched a small squadron to that port for such service as might be found necessary on arrival. Although the attempt on the life of our vice-consul had not been successful, yet the attack on the headquarters of excitement and disorder which demanded immediate attention. The arrival of the vessels had the happiest result. A feeling of security at once took the place of the former alarm and disquiet; our officers were cordially welcomed by the leading merchants, and ordered them to activity. The Government of the Sultan gave a considerate hearing to the representations of our minister; the official who was regarded as responsible for the disturbed condition of affairs was removed. Our relations with the Turkish friend remain friendly; our claims founded on iniquity were common of our schools and missions appear to be in process of amicable adjustment. Relations With China. The signing of a new commercial treaty with China, which took place at Shanghai on the 1st of October, is a cause for satisfaction. This act, the result of long discussion and negotiation, places our commercial relations with the greatest oriental empire on a more satisfactory dating than it has ever heretofore accepted. It provides not only ordinary rights and privileges of diplomatic and consular officers, but also for an important extension of our commerce by increased facility of access to Chinese ports, and for the relief of trade by the removal of some of the obstacles the Chinese Government has embarrassed it in the past. The Chinese Government has favoured and equitable conditions, which will probably be accepted by the principal commercial nations, to abandon the levy of "liken" and other transit dues throughout the empire, and to introduce other desirable administrative reforms. Larger facilities are to be given to our citizens and to facilitate the import of goods in China. We have secured for our missionaries a valuable privilege, the recognition of their right to rent and lease in perpetuity such property as their religious societies may need in all parts of the empire. And, what was an indispensable condition for the advance and development of our commerce in Manchuria, China by treaty, was opened to foreign commerce the cities of Mukden, the capital of the province of Manchuria, and Antung, an important port on the Yalu river, on the road to Korea. The full measure of development which our commerce may rightly expect can hardly be looked for, and can only be formed from the status of things in the empire; but the foundation for such development has at last been laid. Consular Service. I call your attention to the reduced cost in maintaining the consular service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, as shown in the annual report of the Auditor for the State and other departments, as compared with the year previous. For the year under consideration the excess of expenditures over receipts on account of the consular service amounted to $28,152.12, as against $68,672.50 for the year ending June 30, 1902, and $147,040.45 for the year ending June 30, 1901. The best showing in this respect for the consular service for the past fourteen years, and the reduction in the cost of the service to the Government has been made in spite of the fact that the expenditures for the year in question were more than $20,000 greater than for the previous year. Rural Free Delivery Service. The rural free-delivery service has been steadily extended. The attention of the Congress is asked to the question of the compensation of the letter carriers and clerks engaged in the postal service, especially on the new rural free-delivery routes. More routes have been installed since the first of July last than in any like period in the department's history. While a due regard to economy must be kept in mind in the establishment of new routes, yet the extension of the rural free-delivery service has led to reasons of sound public policy. No governmental movement of recent years has resulted in greater immediate benefit to the people of the country districts. Rural free delivery, taken in connection with the telephone, the bicycle, and the trolley, accomplishes much toward lessening the isolation of farm life and making it brighter and more attractive. In the immediate past the lack of just such facilities as these has driven many of the more rural farmers from the farms to the cities; for they rebelled at loneliness and lack of mental companionship. It is unhealthy and undesirable for the cities to grow at the expense of the country; and rural free delivery is not only a good thing in itself, but is good because it is one of the causes which check this unwhole-some tendency towards the urban concentration of our population at the expense of the rural areas. In the same reason that we sympathize with and approve of the policy of building good roads. The movement for good roads is one fraught with the greatest benefit to the country districts. Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Louisiana Purchase Exposition. I trust that we will not all proper ways the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. This Exposition commemorates the Louisiana purchase, which was the first great step in the expansion which made us a continental nation. The expedition of Lewis and Clark across the continent followed thereafter, and the success of exploration and colonization which thrust our national boundaries to the Pacific. The acquisition of the Oregon country, including the present States of Oregon and Washington, was a fact of immense importance in our history; first the discovery of the Pacific, the board, and making ready the way for our ascendance in the commerce of the greatest of the oceans. The centennial of our establishment upon the western coast by the expedition of Lewis and Clark is to be celebrated at Portland, Oregon, by an annual celebration. The event should receive recognition and support from the National Government. Development of Alaska. I call your special attention to the Territory of Alaska. The country is developing rapidly, and it has an assured future. The mineral wealth is great and has as yet hardly been tapped. The fisheries, if wisely handled and kept under national control, will be a business as permanent as any other, and of the utmost importance to the people. The forests if properly guarded will form another great resource. It is fitted for farming and stock raising, although the methods must be adapted to the peculiar conditions of the country. Alaska is situated in the far north; but so are Norway and Sweden and Finland; and Alaska can prosper and play its part in the New World just as those nations have prospered and played their parts in the Old World. Proper land laws should be enacted; and the survey of the public land should be provided; and land laws should be provided whereby the coal-land entryman may make his location and secure patent under methods kindred to those now prescribed for homestead and mineral entrymen. Salmon hatcheries, exclusively under government control should be established in the Sitka westward. Wagon roads and trails should be built, and the building of rail-roads promoted in all legitimate ways. Light-houses should be built along the coast. Attention should be paid to the needs of the Alaska Indians; provision should be made for an officer; provision should be made for a reliefer to relieve their immediate wants, and help them adapt themselves to the new conditions. The commission appointed to investigate, during the season of 1903, the condition and needs of the Alaskan salmon in the field, and has prepared a detailed report thereon. A preliminary report reciting the measure immediately required for the protection and preservation of the salmon industry has already been submitted to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for his attention and for the needed action. Hawaii. I recommend that an appropriation be made for building light-houses in Hawaii, and taking possession of those already built. The Territory should be zeimbursed for whatever amounts it has already expended for light-houses. The governor should be empowered to suspend or remove any official appointed by him, without submitting the matter to the legislature. The Philippines and Porto Rico. The Philippines and Porto Rico. Of our insular possessions the Philippines and Porto Rico it is gratifying to say that their steady progress has been such as to make it unnecessary to spend much time in discussing them. Yet the Congress should ever keep in mind that a peculiar obligation rests upon us to further in every way the welfare of these communities. The Philippines should be knit closer to us by tariff arrangements. It would, of course, be impossible suddenly to raise the people of the islands to the high pitch of industrial prosperity and of governmental efficiency to which they will in the end by degrees attain; and the caution and moderation shown in developing them have been among the main reasons why this development has hitherto gone on so smoothly. Scrupulous care has been taken in the choice of governmental agents, and the entire elimination of partisan politics from the public service. The condition of the islanders is in material things far better than ever before, while their governmental, intellectual, and moral advance has kept pace with their material advance. No one people ever benefited another people more than we have benefited the Filipinos by taking possession of the islands. Receipts of General Land Office. The cash receipts of the General Land Office for the last fiscal year were $11,624,743.65, an increase of $1,762,814.47 over the preceding year. Of this sum, approximately, $4,461,453 will go to the credit of the fund for the reclamation of arid land, making the total of this fund, up to the 30th of June, 1903, approximately, $16,191,836. A gratifying disposition has been evinced by those having unlawful enclosures of public land to remove their fences. Nearly two million acres so enclosed have been thrown open on oemand. In but comparatively few cases has it been necessary to go to court to accuse this person. This work will be vigorously prosecuted until all unlawful enclosures have been removed. Experience has shown that in the western states themselves, as well as in the rest of the country, there is widespread conviction that certain of the public-land laws and the resulting administrative practice no longer meet the present needs. The character and uses of the remaining public lands differ widely from those of the public-land Congress and especially in view when these laws were passed. The rapidly increasing rate of disposal of the public lands is not followed by a corresponding increase in the home building. There is a tendency to mass in large holdings public lands, especially timber and grazing lands, and thereby to retard settlement. I renew and emphasize my recommendations to the Congress for legislation available for agriculture in its broad sense, and to whatever extent they may be reclaimed under the national irrigation law, the remaining public lands should be held rigidly for the home builder. The attention of the Congress is especially directed to the timber and stone land, the desert-land law, and the commission of the Congress, which in their operation have in many respects conflicted with wise public-land policy. The discussions in the Congress and elsewhere have made it evident that there is a wide divergence of opinions between those holding opposite views on these subjects; and that the opposing sides have strong and convinced representatives of weight both in their operation and in matters of difference being not only as to matters of opinion but as to matters of fact. In order that definite information may be available for the use of the Congress, I have appointed a commission composed of W. A. Richards, Commissioner of the General Land Office; Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the National Agricultural Bureau of the Neeshaw Chief Harborer of the Geological Survey, to report at the earliest practicable moment upon the condition, operation and effect of the present land laws and on the use, condition, disposal and settlement of the public lands. The commission will report especially what changes in organization, laws, regulations, and practice affecting the public lands and on the use, condition, disposal and settlement of the public lands to actual settlers who will build permanent homes upon them, and to secure in permanence the fullest and most effective use of the resources of the public lands; and it will make such other reports and recommendations as its study of these questions may suggest. The commission may report concerning its judgement is clear; on any time upon which it has doubt it will take the time necessary to make investigation and reach a final judgment. Irrigation. The work of reclamation of the arid lands of the West is progressing steadily and satisfactorily under the terms of the law setting aside the proceeds from the disposal of public lands. The corps of engineers known as the Reclamation Service, which is conducting the surveys and examinations, has been thoroughly organized, special pains being taken to secure under the civil-service rules a body of engineers capable of enacting Surveys and examinations aregressing throughout the arid states and territories, plans for reclamating works being prepared and passed upon by boards of engineers before approval by the Secretary of the Interior. In Arizona and Nevada, in localities where such work is pre-eminently needed, construction has already been begun. In other parts of the arid West various projects are well advanced toward the drawing up of contracts for construction parts of the facilities of reaching agreements or understanding as regards rights of way or acquisition of real estate. Most of the works contemplated for construction are of national importance, involv- ing interstate questions or the securing of stable, self-supporting communities in the midst of vast tracts of vacant land. The Nation as a whole is of course the gainer by the creation of these homes, the ability of the country, and furnishing a home market for the products of the East and South. The reclamation law, while perhaps not ideal, appears at present to answer the larger needs for which it is recommended until the necessities of change are more apparent. Preservation of Forests. The study of the opportunities of reclamation of the vast extent of arid land shows that whether this reclamation is done by individuals, corporations, or the State, the sources of water supply must be effectively protected and the reservoirs guarded by the preservation of the forests at the headwaters of the streams. The engineers making the preliminary examinations continually emphasize this need, and the reservoirs lands at the headwaters of the important streams of the West be reserved to insure permanency of water supply for irrigation. Much progress in forestry has been made during the past year. The necessity for perpetuating our forest resources, whether in public or private hands, is recognized now as never before. The demand for forest reserves has been insistent in the West, because the West is the largest summer range which only such reserves can supply. Progressive lumbermen are striving, through forestry, to give their business permanence. Other great business interests are awakening to the need of forest preservation as a business matter. The Government's forest work should receive from the Congress hearty support, and especially support adequate funding for the forest reserve against fire. The forest-reserve policy of the Government has passed beyond the experimental stage and has reached a condition where scientific methods are essential to its successful prosecution. The administrative features of forest reserves are at present unsatisfactory, being divided between three Bureaues of two Departments. It is therefore recommended that forest reserves, except those involving pertaining to land titles, be consolidated in the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture. Cotton Weevil. The cotton-growing States have recently been invaded by a weevil that has done much damage and threatens the entire cotton industry. I suggest to the congress the prompt enactment of such legislation as its judgment may approve. Patents to Foreigners. In granting patents to foreigners the proper course for this country to follow is to give the same advantages to foreigners here that the countries in which they are located have to our citizens; that is, to extend the benefits of our patent laws on inventions and the like where in return the articles would be patentable in the foreign countries concerned—where an American may be a corresponding patent in such countries. Indian Affairs. The Indian agents should not be dependent for their appointment or tenure of office upon considerations of partisan politics; the practice of appointing, when the Indian agents are permitted to the vacancies that occur is working well. Attention is invited to the widespread illiteracy due to lack of public schools in the Indian Territory. Prompt heed should be paid to the education for the children in this Territory. Safety-Appliance Law. In my last annual message the attention of the Congress was called to the necessity of enlarging the safety-appliance law, and it is gratifying to note that this law was amended in important respects. With the increasing railway mileage of the country, the greater number of men employed, and the greater number of men heavier equipment, the urgency for renewed effort to prevent the loss of life and limb upon the railroads of the country, particularly to employees, is apparent. For the inspection of water craft and the Life-Saving Service upon the water the Congress has built up an elaborate and thorough method of inspection, through method of inspection and is annually spending large sums of money. It is encouraging to observe that the Congress is alive to the interests of those who are employed upon our wonderful arteries of commerce—the railroads—who so safely transport millions of passengers and millions of miles of cargo. The Federal Inspection of safety appliances for which the Congress is now making appropriations, is a service analogous to that which the Government has upheld for generations in regard to vessels, and it is believed will prove of great practical benefit, both to railroad employees and the traveling public. As the greater part of the population is employed under the control of the Congress the needed safety and uniformity must be secured by national legislation. Pensions. No other class of our citizens deserves so well of the nation as those to whom the nation owes its very being, the veterans of the civil war. Special attention is asked to the excellent work of the Bureau of pension claims. During the fiscal year ending July 1, 1903, the Bureau settled 253,982 claims, an average of 825 claims for each working day of the year. The number of settlements since July 1, 1903, has been in excess of last year's, approaching 1,600 claims for each working day. The number of claims work of the Bureau will be current at the close of the present fiscal year. Extension of Civil-Service Rules. Extension of Civil-Service Rules. During the year ended June 30 last 25,566 persons were appointed through competitive examinations under the civil-service rules. This was 12,672 more than the 12,500 persons of those who passed the examinations. This abnormal growth was largely occasioned by the extension of classification to the rural free-delivery service and the appointment last year of over 9,000 rural carriers. A revision of the civil-service rules took effect on April 15 last, which has greatly improved their operation. The completion of the reform of the civil service qualification required everywhere as a matter of the highest public importance, and the success of the merit system largely depends upon the effectiveness of the rules and the machinery provided for their enforcement. A very gratifying spirit of friendly cooperation exists in all the Departments of the Government in the enforcement and uniform observance of both the letter and the spirit of the Executive orders of July 3, 1962; March 26, 1963, and July 8, 1963, require that appointments of all unclassified laborers, both in the Departments at Washington and in the field service, shall be made with the assistance of the United States Civil Service Commission, under a system of registration to test the relative fitness of applicants for appointment or employment. This letter of complaint of the United States qualified in respect to age, physical ability, moral character, industry, and adaptability for manual labor; except that in case of veterans of the civil war the element of age is omitted. This system of appointment is distinct from the classified service and does not classify positions of mere laborer under the civil-service act and rules. Regulations in aid of employment of veterans of the civil war are several of the departments and are being gradually extended in other parts of the service. The results have been very satisfactory, as extravagance has been checked by decreasing the number of un- efficiency of the employees remaining The Army. The effect of the laws providing a general staff for the army and for the more effective use of the national guard has been excellent. Great improvement has been made in the efficiency of our army in recent years. Such schools as those erected at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley and the institution of fall maneuver work accomplish satisfactory reservation of the army. The maneuvers upon the national guard is marked, and ample appropriation should be made to enable the guardsmen of the several States to share in the benefit. The Government should as soon as possible secure suitable permanent camps for military maneuvers in the various sections of the country. The army thereby underwent not only the regular army, but to the national guard of the several States, will be so great as to repay many times over the relatively small expense. We should not rest satisfied with what has been done, however. The only people who are contented with a system of promotion by mere seniority are not interested in the standing and promotion of the latter. Just such a system now obtains at West Point. The quality of each year's work determines the standing of that year's class, the man being dropped or graduated into the next class in the relative position which his military superiors decide to be warranted by his merit. In all other similar qualities determine the rank of a man year after year in West Point, and his standing in the army when he graduates from West Point; but from that time on, all effort to find which man is best or worst, and reward or punish him accordingly, is abandoned, no brilliancy, no amount of hard work, no skill, no experience, no advance him, and no slackness or indifference that falls short of a court-martial offense can retard him. Until this system is changed we cannot hope that our officers will be of as high grade as we have a right to expect, considering the material upon which we draw Moreover, when an officer in Pershing underwent last spring in the Moro campaign, it ought to be possible to reward him without a once jumping him to the grade of brigadier-general. The Navy. Shortly after the enunciation of that famous principle of American foreign policy now known as the "Monroe Doctrine," President Monroe, in a special message to Congress on Jan. 20, 1824, spoke as follows: "The navy is the arm from whilc. our Government will always derive most aid in support of our * * * rights. Every power engaged in war will know the strength of our naval power, the number of our ships of each class, the number of vessels we will send to which we may bring them into service, and will pay due consideration to that argument." I heartily congratulate the Congress upon the steady progress in building up the American navy. We can not afford a let-up in this great work. To stand still means to go back. There should be no cessation in adding to the effective units of the fighting strength of the fleet. We must be careful not to lose the officers of the navy are doing well their part by providing constant service at sea under conditions akin to those of actual warfare. Our officers and enlisted men are learning to handle the battle ships, cruisers, and torpedo boats with high efficiency in fleet and squadron formations, and the standard of markmanagement. The work ashore is indispensable, but the highest duty of a naval officer is to exercise command at sea. The establishment of a naval base in the Philippines ought not to be longer postponed. Such a base is desirable in time of peace; in time of war it would be indispensable. In the event of a fire we would be helpless. Our naval experts are agreed that Subig bay is the proper place for the purpose. The national interests require that the work of fortification and development of a naval station at Subig bay be begun at an early date; for unanticipated damage to a work which will consume much time. It is eminently desirable, however, that there should be provided a naval general staff on lines similar to those of the General Staff lately created for the army. Within the Navy department itself the needs of the service have brought about a system under which the duties of a general staff are partially performed; for the bureau of the Navy, the Office of the War College, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the Board of Inspection, and has been in close touch with the General Board of the Navy. But though under the excellent officers at their head, these boards and bureau do good work, they have not the authority of a general staff, and have not sufficient scope to insure a proper readiness for emergencies. We need the establishment of a general staff, and have not sufficient scope to insure a proper readiness for emergencies. We need the establishment of a general staff, and have not sufficient scope to insure a systematic control of the military affairs of the navy, and be authorized advisers of the Secretary concerning it. Isthmian Canal. By the act of June 28, 1902, the Congress authorized the President to enter into treaty with Colombia for the building of the canal across the Isthmus of Panama; it being provided that in the event of failure to secure such treaty the canal across the Isthmus of Panama course should be had to building a canal through Nicaragua. It has not been necessary to consider this alternative, as I am enabled to lay before the Senate a treaty providing for the building of the canal across the Isthmus of Panama. I am obliged to itself to the deliberate judgment of the Congress, and we can now acquire by treaty the right to construct the canal over this route. The question now, therefore, is not by which route the Isthmian canal shall be built, for that question is not yet resolved. I have included. The question is simply whether or not we shall have an Isthmian canal. When the Congress directed that we should take the Panama route under treaty with Colombia, the essence of the condition, of course, referred not to the Government which controlled that route, but to the Government which controlled it across which the route lay, not to the name which for the moment the territory bore on the map. The purpose of the law was to authorize the President to make a treaty with the power in actual control of the Isthmus of Panama. This purpose bore in the year 1846 this Government entered into a treaty with New Granada, the predecessor upon the Isthmus of the Republic of Colombia and of the present Republic of Panama, by which treaty it was provided that the Government and citizens of the United States may pass through it of way or transit across the Isthmus of Panama by any modes of communication that might be constructed, while in return our Government guaranteed the perfect neutrality of the above-mentioned Isthmus with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea might be maintained. This treaty vested in the United States a substantial property right carved out of the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada then had and possessed over the said territory. The name of New Granada has passed away and its territory has been divided. Its successor, the Government of Colombia, has ceased to own any property in the Isthmus. A woman at one time a sovereign state, and at another time a mere department of the successive confederations known as New Granada and Colombia, has now succeeded to the rights which first one and then the other formerly exercised over the Isthmus. At one time she endures, the mere geographical fact of its existence, and the peculiar interest therein which is required by our position, perpetuate the solemn contract which blinds the holders of the territory to respect our right to freedom of transit to the Isthmus. We guard for the Isthmus and the world the exercise of that inestimable privilege. The true interpretation of the obligations upon which the United States entered in this treaty of 1846 has been given repeatedly in the utterances of Presidents upon the successes of State Secretary in 1854 officially the position of this Government as follows: "The progress of events has rendered the interoceanic route across the narrow portion of Central America vastly important to the commercial world, and espoused the United States, whose possessions extend into the Pacific coast, and demand the speediest and easiest modes of communication. While the rights of sovereignty of the states occupying this region should always be respected, we shall expect that the exercise of a spirit befitting the occasion and the circumstances that have arisen. Sovereignty has its duties as well as its rights, and none of these local governments, even if administered with more regard to the just demands of other nations than the United States, will spirit of eastern isolation, to close the gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world, and justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them and that they choose to shut them, or, what is more, to number them with such unjust relations as would prevent their general use." Seven years later, in 1865, Mr. Seward in different communications took the following position: "The United States have taken and will take no interest in any question of the Isthmus against the island of Panama, or any State of the United States of Colombia, but will maintain a perfect neutrality in connection with such domestic alterations. The United States will, nevertheless, hold themselves ready to protect the transit trade across the Isthmus against invasion of either country of the State of Panama. * * * * Neither the text nor the spirit of the stipulation in that article by which the United States engages to preserve the neutrality of the Isthmus of Panama, imposes an obligation on this Government to comply with the United States of Colombia for a force to protect the Isthmus of Panama from a body of insurgents of that country]. The purpose of the stipulation was to guarantee the Isthmus against seizure or invasion by a foreign power only." Attorney-General Speed, under date of 1865, advised Secretary Seward as follows: "From this treaty it can not be supposed that New Granada invited the United States to become a party to the intestine troubles of that Government, nor did the United States become bound in the domestic broils of New Granada. The guarantee New Granada in the sovereignty and property over the territory. This was against other and foreign governments." For four hundred years, ever since shortly after the discovery of this hemisphere, the canal across the isthmus has been worked at. When made it is to last for the ages. It is to alter the geography of a continent and the trade routes of the world. We have shown by every treaty we have negotiated or attempted to negotiate with the peoples in nations in reference thereto our persistent good faith in observing our obligations; on the one hand to the peoples of the isthmus, and on the other hand to the civilized world whose commercial rights we are safeguarding and guaranteeing by our action. We have done our duties and in spirit, and we have shown the utmost forbearance in exacting our own rights. Last spring, under the act above referred to, a treaty concluded between the representatives of the Republic of Colombia and of our Government was ratified by the Senate. This treaty was entered into at the urgent solicitation of the people of Colombia and after a body especially to go into the matter of the routes across the Isthmus had pronounced unanimously in favor of the Panama route. In drawing up this treaty every concession was made to the people and to the Government of Colombia. We were more than just in dealing with them. Our generosity was such as to make it a secret and not too far in their interest at the expense of our own; for in our scrupulous desire to pay all possible heed, not merely to the real but even to the fancied rights of our weaker neighbor, who already owed so much to our protection and forbearance, we yielded in all possible ways to her in drawing up the treaty. Nevertheless, we never merely repudiated the treaty, but repudiated it in such manner as to make it evident by the time the Colombian Congress adjourned that not the scantiest hope remained of ever getting a satisfactory treaty from them. The Government of Colombia made the treaty, and the Senate called to ratify the vote in congressional ratification was unanimous. It does not appear that the Government made any real effort to secure ratification. Revolution in Panama. Immediately after the adjudication of the Congress a revolution broke out in Panama. The people of Panama had long been discontented with the Republic of Colombia, and they had been kept quiet only by the prospect of the conclusion of the treaty, which was to them a matter of vital concern. When it became evident that the treaty was hopelessly lost, the people of Panama rose literally into the arms of a single man on the isthmus in the interest of the Colombian Government. Not a life was lost in the accomplishment of the revolution. The Colombian troops stalled on the isthmus, who had long been unpaid, made common cause with the people of Panama, and with astonishing unanimity the new republic was started. The duty of the United States prevailed, and the obligation with the principles laid down by Secretaries Cass and Seward in the official documents above quoted, the United States gave notice that it would permit the landing of no expeditionary force, the arrival of which would mean chaos and destruction along the line of the railroad and of the proposed canal, and an unanticipated consequence. The de facto Government of Panama was recognized in the following telegram to Mr. Erhman: "The people of Panama have, by apparently unanimous movement, dissolved their political connection with the Republic of Colombia and resumed their independence. When you are satisfied that a de facto government, republican in nature, has been established from its own people, has been established in the State of Panama, you will enter into relations with it as the responsible government of the territory and look to it for all due action to protect the persons and property of citizens of the United States and to keep open the Isthmian transit, in accordance with the treaties existing treaties governing the relations of the United States to that territory." The Government of Colombia was not the following government, to Mr. Reppau: "The people of Panama having, by an apparently unanimous movement, dissolved their political connection with the Republic of Colombia and resumed their independence, and having adopted a Government of their own, republican in form, with which the Government of the United States of America has entered into resumption of their independence in the States, in accordance with the ties of friendship which have so long and so happily existed between the respective nations, most carnely commends to the Governments of Colombia and of Panama the peaceful and equitable settlement of all questions at issue between them. He holds that he is bound not merely by treaty obligations, but by the interests of civilization, to see that the peaceful traffic of the world across the Isthmus of Panama be turned by a constant succession of unnecessary and wasteful civil wars." Disturbances on Isthmus Since 1846. Disturbances on 1stmusm Since 1846. When these events happened, fifty seven people had entered into its treaty with New Granada. During that time the Governments of New Granada and of its successor, Colombia, have been in a constant state of flux. The following is a partial list of the disturbances on the 1stmusm of Panama during the period in question as reported to us in the report to create a complete list, and some of the reports that speak of "revolutions" must mean unsuccessful revolutions. May 22, 1850 —Outbreak; two Americans killed. War vessel demanded to quell outbreak. October, 1850 —Revolutionary plot to bring an independence of the 1stmusm. July 22, 1851 —Revolution in four southern provinces. Nov. 14, 1851—Outbreak at Chagres. Man-of-war requested for Chagres. June 27, 1853—Insurrection at Bogota, and consequent disturbance in Isthmus. War vessel demanded. Nov. 18, 1851—Pituitary disturbances. May 23, 1854—Political disturbances; war vessel requested. June 28, 1854-Attempted revolution. Oct. 24, 1854-Independence of 18thm demanded by provincial legislature. April, 1856-Riot and massacre of Americans. May 4, 1856-Riot. May 18, 1856-Riot. June 3, 1856-Riot. Oct. 2, 1856-Conflict between two na- tive parties. United States forces landed. Dec. 18, 1858-Attempted secession of Panama. April, 1858-Riot. September, 1858-Outbreak. Oct. 4, 1890—Landing of United States forces in consequence May 23, 1861—intervention of the United States forces, required by indentents. States forces required by interbene, Oct. 2, 1861—Insurrection and civil war. April 4, 1862—Measures to prevent rebels crossing Isthmus. June 13, 1862—Mosquera's troops refused admittance to Panama. March. 1855-Revolution, and United States troops landed. August, 1855—Riots; unsuccessful attempt to invade Panama. March, 1866—Unsuccessful revolution. April, 1867—Attempt to overthrow Government. August, 1867—Attempt at revolution. July 5, 1868—Revolution; provisional government inaugurated. Aug. 29, 1888—Revolution; provisional government overthrown. April, 1871—Revolution; followed apparently by counter revolution. April, 1873—Revolution and civil war which lasted to October, 1875. August, 1876—Civil war which lasted until April, 1877. July 1878—Rebellion Marcel May, 1888 — Riot May, 1889 — Revolutionary attempt. December, 1884—Revolutionary attempt January, 1886—Revolutionary distur- bance March. 1885 - Revolution. April, 1887. - Disturbance on Panama railroad. November, 1887.—Disturbance on line of canal. January, 1889.—Riot. January, 1896.—Revolution which lasted until April. March, 1895—Incediary attempt. October, 1899—Revolution. February, 1900, to July, 1900—Revolution. January, 1901—Revolution. July, 1901—Revolutionary disturbances. July, 1901—City of Colon taken by rebels. March. 1962.—Revolutionary disturbances. July. 1902-Revolution. The above is only a partial list of the revolutions, rebellions, insurrections, riots, and other outbreaks that have occurred during the period in question, yet they number 35 for the 57 years. It will be noted that one of them lasted for nearly three years before it was quelled; numerous other revolutions of experience of over half a century has shown Colombia to be utterly incapable of keeping order on the isthmus. Only the active interference of the United States has enabled her to preserve so much as a semblance of sovereignty. Had the United States had been unable to experience the states of the police power in her interest, her connection with the isthmus would have been sundered long ago. In 1866, in 1867, in 1873, in 1885, in 1891, and again in 1892, sailors and marines from United States war ships were forced to land in order to patrol the isthmus, to protect the country from foreign intrusion, to transit across the isthmus was kept open In 1861, in 1862, in 1863, and in 1860, the Colombian Government asked that the United States Government would land troops to protect its interests and maintain order on the isthmus. Perhaps the most extraordinary request is that which the United States received and which runs as follows: "Knowing that revolution has already commenced in Panama [on eminent Colombian] says that if the Government of the United States will land troops to preserve Colombian sovereignty, and the transit, if requested by Colombian charters of affairs, this Government will declare martial law, and, by virtue of vested constitutional authority, when public order is restored, will approve by decree the ratification of the canal treaty as signed; or, if the Government of the United States prefers, will call extra session of the Congress-with new and friendly members—next May to approve the treaty. [An eminent Colombian] has the perfect confidence of vice-president, he says, and if it became necessary will go to the listmus or send representative there to adjust matters along above lines to the satisfaction of the people there." This dispatch is noteworthy from two standpoints. Its offer of immediately guaranteeing the treaty to us is in sharp contrast with the result of the agreement and the removal of the Congress which has just passed its sessions to consider factually such a treaty; it shows that the Government which made the treaty really had not choose to exercise this control. The dispatch further calls on us to restore order and secure Colombian supremacy in the Isthmus from which the Colombian Government has just by its action decided to bar us by preventing the construction of the canal. Importance of Peace in lathmue. The control of violence. The terms of the whose civilized terms. world, of the means of undisturbed transit across the Isthmus of Panama has become of transcendent importance to the United States. We have repeatedly exercised this control by intervening in the course of domestic dissension, and in the invasion. In 1883 Mr. Everett assured the Peruvian minister that we should not hesitate to maintain the neutrality of the isthmus in the case of war between Peru and Colombia. In 1844 Colombia, which has always been vigilant to avail itself of its private interests, offered that in the event of war between Peru and Spain the United States would carry into effect the guaranty of neutrality. There have been few administrations of the State Department in which this treaty has not, either by the one side or by the other, been more or less important demands. It was said by Mr. Fish in 1871 that the Department of State had reason to believe that an attack upon Colombian sovereignty on the isthmus had, on several occasions, been averted by warning from this government. In 1880 Colombian was invaded by the armies of Venezuela, Italy in the Cerruti case, Mr. Bayard expressed the serious concern that the United States could not but feel that a European power should resort to force against a sister republic of this hemisphere, as to the sovereign and uninterrupted use of a part of whose territory was manipulated under the solemn faith of a treaty. The above recital of facts establishes beyond question: First, that the United States has for over half a century patiently and in good faith carried out its obligations under the treaty of 1846; second, that when for the first time it became possible for Colombia to do any advantage that would be repeatedly rendered to it for fifty seven years by the United States, the Colombian Government perceptibly and aggressively refused thus to do its part, even though to do so would have been to its advantage and immeasurably to the advantage of the State of Panama, at that time under its jurisdiction; third, that throughout the time of the disturbances and factual disturbances of every kind have occurred one after the other in almost uninterrupted succession, some of them lasting for months and even for years, while the central government was unable to put them down, or to make peace with the rebels; fourth, that these disturbances instead of showing any sign of abating have tended to grow more numérique and more serious in the immediate past; fifth, that the control of Colombia over the Isthmus of Panama could not be maintained without the armed intervention and assistance of the United States. In other words, the Government of Colombia, though wobbly unable to maintain order on the isthmus, has nevertheless declined to ratify a treaty the conclusion of which would ensure its own stability and to guarantee permanent peace on, and the construction of a canal across, the Isthmus. Under such circumstances the Government of the United States would have been guilty of folly and weakness, amounting in their sum to a crime against the nation, had it acted otherwise than it did when the revolution of Nov. 3 last took place in Panama. This great enterprise of building the interstate city of the whims, or out of respect to the governmental impotence, or to the even more sinister and civil political peculiarities, of people who, though they dwell atar off, yet, against the wish of the actual dwellers on the isthmus, assert an unreal supremacy over the territory. The possession of a territory fraught with such peculiar capacities as the isthmus in question carries with it obligations to mankind and this can not be built by private enterprise, or by any other nation than our own; therefore it must be built by the United States. Treaty With Republic of Panama. Treaty with Republic of Panama. Every effort has been made by the Government of the United States to persuade Colombia to follow a course which, was essentially not only to our interests and to the interests of Colombia, but to our own will. These efforts have failed; and Colombia, by her persistence in repelling the advances that have been made, has forced us, for the sake of our own honor, and of the interest and well-being, not merely of our own people, but of the people of the 18thm of Panama and the people of the civilized countries of the world, to take decisive steps to bring to an end a condition of affairs which had become intolerable. The new Republic of Panama immediately issued this treaty, and this treaty I herewith submit. By it our interests are better safeguarded than in the treaty with Colombia which was ratified by the Senate at its last session. It is better in its terms than the treaties offered to us by the Republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. At last the right to begin this great undertaking is made available. Panama has done her part. All that remains is for the American Congress to do its part and forthwith this treaty will be signed by a project colossal in its size and of well-known, incalculable possibilities for the good of this country and the nations of mankind. Provisions of Treaty. By the provisions of the treaty the United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama. There is granted to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of a strip ten miles wide and extending three nautical miles into the sea at either terminal, with all birds and marine animals in the area, for the construction of the canal or for its auxiliary works, and with the islands in the Ray of Panama. The cities of Panama and Colon are not embraced in the canal zone, but the United States assumes their sanitation and, in case of need, the maintenance of order therein; the United States enjoys within the granted limits all the rights, power, and authority of the territory to the exclusion of the exercise of sovereign rights by the Republic. All railway and canal property rights belonging to Panama and needed for the canal pass to the United States, including any property of the respective companies in the cities of Panama and Colon, the works, property, and personnel from taxation as well in the cities of Panama and Colon as in the canal zone and its dependencies. Free immigration of the personnel and importation of supplies for the construction and operation of the canal are granted. Provision is made for the use of military force and the building of fortifications by the United States and the condemnation of private property for the uses of the canal, the stipulations of the Hay-Herran treaty are closely followed while the compensation to be paid to the name, being ten millions of dollars payable on exchange of ratifications; and, beginning nine years from that date, an annual payment of $250,000 during the life of the convention. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. White House, Dec. 7, 1903. 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For one inch, one insertion 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion 8.00 For two inches, six month 8.00 For two inches, twelve month 8.00 For two inches, twelve months 10.00 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 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. Lets get down to business; let the preacher, the teacher, the professional man, the business man unite and come together and work to one end, and greater results will appear. Lets stop talking, quit debating, and lets get down to business and lets do something, the hour of doing is now at hand. John the Baptist, headed by Rev. Dr. Bacote paid Allen Chapel a financial visit on Sunday, November 30, and did lavishly supply that holy wafer, but John Westley, headed by Rev. Dr. Peck returned the complement on December 6th with sufficient amount of Holy Ghost on hand of raising 5 better. John you have got another visit to pay us. Rev. Jesse Peck in addressing his audience last Sunday evening called the attention to the 1st chapter of Josua 5th to 9th verse, "I will be with the at all times, be ye steadfast and unmoveable." He also outlined the workings of Moses he referred to the book of Moses saying among the authorities of the Scripture none were greater than Moses. The education of to-day compared with Moses is only modern, for when Moses wrote the book of Moses he did it from self experience and eye witness, so says the Scripture: Moses did walk and talk with God, but as there is no change in God's promise so it could be with you as with Moses if you could become as conscientious in our religious creed as Moses was. The man or woman who served God for choice has never failed, to prove that we will refer you to Josua who succeeded Moses who did lead the children into the Promise Land. Mrs. A. J. Starnes was in the city last week, being the guest of Mrs. W. E. Griffin. Mr. William Rice entertained the Sons of Allen, an organization of young men of Allen Chapel with Mr. Fraizer, president and a number of their friends last Wednesday evening at the residence of Mr. Sonions on Highland avenue. Those present were: Rev. Peck, Mrs. G. L. Oatman, Ida and Daisy Foster, Lottie Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, Mrs. I. C. Carter, Mrs. M. Benton Deane, Mrs. Leona Page, Mrs. Allen Carroll, Mrs. A. B. Robison, Mrs. Rosetta Bunkly, J. D. Roberts, A. W. Fox, B. Allen Morris, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Caryle Harvey Shipton, Henry Leaves, A. W Saunders, J. W. Crow, W. H. Baker Dr. Key, A. E. Hackley, Lizzie English, J. B. Lucas, C. D. Brazier, D. A Dayle, Vallie Bowman, Wm. Fairfax Refreshments were served in an abundance variety. Tea Growing in India. The half-million acres cultivated in tea in India produce 190,000,000 pounds, the investment being about $160 an acre. The labor required is thirteen persons to the acre. One pound of India tea will produce seven and a half gallons of tea of a given strength, while the tea of China will produce but five gallons. We must save the dollars. Money takes all the color out of a man's skin and the kink out of his hair; makes rich and curly. To do this it requires moral training. What we want to do is to begin at the foot of the ladder and climb up; not stand at the top and fall down. What we want is Artellectual seeking of life, business sagacity. His closing words were: "God moves in mysterious ways wonders to perform. Mrs. L. Ashton Woods, graduate of Freedmen's Hospital and Training School for Nurses at Washington, D. C., Superintendent of Moses Prolvident Hospital at Baltimore, Md., and late Superintendent of Douglass Hospital and Training School at Kansas City, Kas. Mrs. Woods is well informed along the line of the care, management and appreciation of a hospital by her people. The training of our young colored women in the profession of nursing and sending them out to care for the poor sick in their homes and work hand in hand with the physician, will eventually break down the prejudice that now exists among the colored people to a hospital. Mrs. Woods has formed and incorporated her association under the state laws of Kansas with headquarters at 347 Washington Avenue, Kansas City, Kas. The officers names are as follows: Mrs. Laura B. Smith, President. Miss Frances Gamer, Vice President. Mrs. Ella E. Braxton, Rec. Sec'y. Mrs. Armilda C. Scott, (Bonded) Treasurer. Mrs. L. Ashton Woods, General Superintendent and Manager. The association has fitted up a branch office at 12271/2 Highland avenue, Kansas City, Mo., where nurses can be had at any time. Secret orders can have their sick cared for at reasonable rates. Churches can have their poor sick cared for by calling up a nurse. The association has made arrangements with the editor of the Rising Son to open and run a subscription list for the contributors. The list was kindly headed by Rev. S. W. Barcote, with a large base burner, hard coal stove. Commencing November 1st, through daily sleeping car service, Kansas City to Jacksonville, Florida, via Memphis, Pirmingham and Atlanta, will be inaugurated by the Frisco System and will be continued throughout the winter months. The Southeastern Limited train leaves Kansas Cit yat 6:30 p. m. daily, making the run to Jacksonville in 38 hours. In addition to through sleeper to Jacksonville this train carries elegant chair cars and Observation Cafe car, operated by Fred Harvey. No other line offers such superb service. For further information write or address J. C. Lovrien, Ass't Gen'l Pass'r Agent, Kansas City, Mo. MANAGEMENT OR THE IMPERIAL BREWING CO., OFFERS INSULT TO NEGROES. The fact that the management of the Imperial Brewing company has offered insult after insult to the Negro race of this city should generally be known. As was stated in our issue of several weeks ago, the Imperial Brewing company had charge of Forest park and every Negro who dared to venture there was told to leave at once. It is stated also that the Imperial Brewing company has control of the Willis Wood theatre, where colored ladies are invited to either take the gallery where toughs sit, or leave the house. This instance of incivility has been particularly crushing to the feelings of our wives and daughters. This company conducts a brewery, the product of which it is expected shall be consumed by the general public. The Imperial company has made a strong bid for Negro patronage so far as the drinking of its beer is concerned and thousands of dollars have gone into its coffers as the result. But it is now time for the Negro to look up at the sign before he enters a saloon for a glass of beer and if he sees the word "Imperial," pass it by. There is plenty of other beer brewed by men who would not think of offering the manner of insult to the colored race which has been directed by the Imperial Brewing company, and it be hooves the Negroes to retaliate by rejecting the use of its beer. For Christmas and New Year cards see Rhodes. In raised gold $1.25 per 100. The intentions of the Rising Son are to treat the colored patrons right and just, but you must make up your mind to pay for same. When you send in your notices to be published, you must find time to send in your aside. MOMENTS OF MIRTH BRIEF BITS OF WHAT PASSES FOR HUMOR. Cause of the Lady's Malevolent Glare —A Natural Question—Happiness in Georgia—Anticipation Versus Experience—Mamma's Little Angel. Grieved. "I'm afraid there is a great deal of dishonesty in some of these trusts," said Senator Sorghum, sadly. "But you have always defended the trusts!" exclaimed the friend. "Yes. Of course you expect a trust to take advantage of the public, but when the men who organize the deal get to taking advantage of one another—that's dishonest." The Burglar Woman. "Silence or you're a dead man!" the burglar hissed, with revolver leveled at the man's head. "Madam," whispered the man, divining the burglar's sex, "your mask is not on straight." "Heavens!" she exclaimed. And as she tried to adjust it, thus taking her off her guard, sprang upon her and disarmed her.—Philadelphia Press. Anticipation Vs. Experience. Old Gentleman—Do you think, sir, that you are able to support my daughter without continually hovering on the verge of bankruptcy? Suitor—Oh, yes, sir; I am sure I can. Old Gentleman—Well, that's more than I can do. Take her and be happy.—New York Weekly. A. Private Opinion. Mrs. Hornihand—"I see byer where they've went an' formed a boys' brigade." Farmer Hornihand—"Fer goodness sakes, don't let our boy Joe see that piece." Mrs. Hornihand—"Why, Sillas?" Farmer Hornihand—"He's got too much of a leanin' toward military like now, seein' that he's been soldierin' on that job o' corn cuttin' fer th' last two weeks." His Favorite "What is your favorite hymn?" asked the man who was writing an article about captains of industry. "Man wants but little here below," replied Mr. Dustin Stax. "Is that—er—an exactly appropriate sentiment for a promoter of combinations?" "No, I don't intend to take it personally. It is intended to apply to the other fellows." Knew What She Wanted. "I didn't know Miss Passay was interested in municipal matters." "She isn't, either." "Well, I saw her pay fifty cents yesterday for a book on the 'Best Methods of Flirtation.'" "Yes, poor old girl. She thought it was 'Flirtation.'" The Question. A He—I'm sure I can marry any girl I please. She—Yes, but could you please any? Easily Proved. "The man who tries to convince a woman in an argument," said the sage of Sageville, "is a fool." "But how may I obtain the proof of that assertion?" asked the very young man. "By asking any woman," answered the modern Solomon. M. Brancato & Bro. Fresh and Salt ...Meats... Fancy and Staple Groceries. Oysters, Fish and Game in season. Fruits and Vegetables. Canned Goods of all kinds. Tel 2412 Black. 211 W. 6th St. For a good Meal Here is the Place Shaving and Hair-cutting next door. There you will find a Pool Hall in good order. All at S. M. Chamler's, 112 E. 6th. Berlin Cloak Co. Children's Day To-Morrow. ```markdown ``` Children THE IMPERIAL Is Now Being Managed by at Ind and Oak. When you are in this part of the City Stop in. and have a good social game of pool at..... NEW CENTURY POOL HALL I have a nice line of cigars and tobacco... Sam Jones to shine your shoes and S. L. Clemens, the barber. GRAND. TOM NORWOOD David T. Beala Geo. R. Barse Edward George A woman in a hat FURS! SAMPLE SALE NOW GOING ON AT The PARIS 1117 MAIN STREET. IF YOU HAVE NEGLECTED Attending our great closing out sale of Sheet Music and Musical Instruments, you have done yourself an injustice. Think what we're doing! We are offering BELOW COST one of the largest Music stocks in the West. If you, personally, care anything for music, or if you have a friend who would appreciate it, buy it now. You will have no such opportunity to get Music of this kind at such remarkably low prices again in a long time to come. Much of it is going at a clear loss. arl Hoffman MUSIC COMPANY 630-10 MILLIVET ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. Extraordinary Bargains! 300 Military Coats, made for a big St. Louis firm who recently failed on this account sold to us at a price for cash. You get the benefit. 123 Coats at $6.98 Regular $12.00 values. 177 Coats at $10.00 Regular price, $18.00. This lot include all colors. Big Bargains will be offered. See them before Buying. W. H. SEIGER, 2nd Vice-Preset CHAS, H. V. LEWIS, Cashier DAVID T. BEALS, President. W. H. SEIGER, 2nd Vice-President. FERNANDO P. NEAL, Vice-Prest. CHAS. H. V. LEWIS, Cashes Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business Feb. 6, 1903. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts..... $5,981,798.86. U. S. Bonds, at par..... $ 523,000.00 Municipal Bonds at par..... 827,441.14 Cash and Sigat Exchange..... 4,180,685.29 5,031,126.48 Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. 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Do Not Forget to Purchase one of our famous 5 lb Boxes of 25 cent Candles. 5 lbs. for $1.00. 516 E. 12th St. CHAS. T. WATTS TEACHER OF Violin and Piano. Tel. 2775 Walnut. Stone Masons' Headquarters SALOON. Instructor Imperial Band and Orchestra. Instructions based on Conservatory Methods WRITE FOR CIRCULAR. 1210 Highland Avenue. Telephone 4642 Gray. OPEN ALL NIGHT. 1334 E. 18th St., Kansas City, Mo. NEWS & GASSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— it's the little bits we collect here an thar e That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Wm. Crump on sick list. Elliot Harris is very sick. Mrs. Annie Ranzle of 638 1-2 Cottage Lane is again very sick. Dr. Perry has spent the better part of last week in Columbia, Mo. Have your money ready, for I will be in to see you.—James Rummels. Mr. John Day is still on the sick list and improves slowly. I. M. Horton expects to spend the holidays at Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. L. J. Holly will remain in Washington until after the Holidays. Mr. Crawford White, who has been quite ill for some time is improving slowly. Mrs. E. M. Glass will leave for her home at Little Rock soon. Room 2, Lincoln High School, gave $250 instead of $150, in thanksgiving offering for the Old Folks' Home. Mrs. Shelly has returned from a three months visit to Washington, D. C., and others eastern cities. The Whist Club Ladies report a very pleasant meeting with Mrs. Sandy Edwards last Saturday afternoon. Father Harper gave and interesting lecture last Friday evening on "Confirmation at St. Augustus church." Mrs. Sheton, one of St. Augustus communicants is quite ill at her home, 1318 East 14th street. Mrs. H. C. Quinn of 1021 Passeo, entertained a number of young folks last week at whist and other amusements. J. D. Bowser and his corps of teachers spent last Friday at Leavenworth, Kansas, visiting the schools of that city. Dr. Unthank, Mrs. Ernest Garnes and Miss Louise Unthank will spend the holidays in Washington, D. C. Miss Bessle Washington who is teaching in the southern part of the state will spend the holidays at home. Quite a good number of society people of the two Kansas City's attended the Silver Leaf club dance lasf Friday night. The Blind Boone Concert company are now touring Kansas with marked success. Mrs. W. Frederick Fairfax was at home to the Ladies Art Club, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Florence Sands, believes in keeping all of her debts paid up, so says the reporter for the Son. Mrs. Helen Carter of Chicago is at the bed side of her sister, Mrs. Stella Davis of 714 Charlotte. Miss Nora Henderson of Topeka is in the city with Mrs. L. M. Henderson her sister, at 310 East 6th street. Nick Chiles, business manager for the Plaindealer of New York was a caller at our office last Saturday. Mr. Henry Booker left last week for Boston, Mass., where he expects to make his future home. Mrs. Booker will join him later on. Mrs. John Herndon will entertain the L. W. C., Saturday afternoon, December the 19th at her residence on Vine street. Mrs. Herndon will be assisted by Miss Moore. Mrs. Fannie Brinkly is now in Minneapolis, where she was called by the death of her sister. Mrs. Walter Smith who died very suddenly last week. Next year being Leap Year, we suppose that a goodly number of the gentlemen will keep open house New Year's Day and the ladies will have the pleasure of going fro mhouse to house and wishing them a happy New Year. Mrs. E. M. Williams of 814 East 8th street was given a musical surprise party Saturday night. Miss Fanny Reed was leading lady. For special parties and night lunches, call up the Arnold Cafe, 1221 Baltimore. 'Phone 2874 Walnut. European and American. Mrs. M. Arnold, Proprietress. For Sale, an up-to-date restaurant, Call and see Sam Chandler at 114 East 6th street. The Dentist, Dr. Carrion of 910 East 12th street, we invite your attention to the fact that he is established her and is competent as a workman, he is one of our race and must be encouraged along the professional line. If you need anything in the teeth line stop in and see him. PRIVATE BOARDING SCHOOL. Miss F. F. Jones, recently of Palladelphit, Pa., has reopened her private day and boarding school for girls in this city at 1213 Bellefontaine avenue. Primary, academic, and college preparatory. Private lessons also given to persons preparing for civil service or other examinations. For terms address Miss F. F. Jones, 1213 Bellefontaine avenue. Miss Jones is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has taught in Wilberforce University, Paul Quinn College, Texas, and the State Normal College of Florida. Dan Lucas of this city spent thankgiven in Columbia, Ohio, with his relation and old friends. There never was such a stir among them as this one. Thirty-six in families dine together on the 26th of last month. Mrs. Lucas was much pleased to see so many of his friends and to shake hands once more. Dr.Smith the Druggist on 12th St. is still busy, but desires to meet you and shake hands before Xmas. Mr. Campbell the Druggist, on 2304 Vine is well pleased with the outlook of his business so far, it should be encourageling to us as well as it is to him. Don't fail good people to encourage the colored man who has ventured into business. Dr. Sophia B. Jones, a graduate of the medical department of the University of Michigan, is enrolled among Kansas City's physicians. Dr. Jones has had much experience, having been resident physician in Spellman Seminary, Atlanta, where she established the first Nurse's Training School in the South, and also in Wilberforce University. She was until her removal to Kansas City, on the staff of Douglass Hospital, Philadelphia. She may be found at 1213 Bellefontaine avenue, where she will do office work for the present. Office hours, 10 to 12 a. m., 4 to 6 p.m. One business department in the Rising Son will not permit us to get out a special number, but when we go to close our file of this year we hope to get out a special number, and the cover will be the out side number of our this year's file which will be on exhibit at the World's fair. I wish everybody a Merry Xmas. All Gents contemplating keeping open house to the Ladies New Years day, please send notice to the Rising Son in time for publication a week before, so as to give the Ladies time to order flowers and hacks. Mr. John Smithwho has been in poor health for the past two years died last week and was buried from the family home in Kansas City, Kansas last Sunday. J. P. Williams, H. T. Sommerville. Artistic tailors. Suits made to order, Ladies' tailoring neatly done. Altering, repairing and cleaning. All work guaranteed. 61512 East Twelfth St., Kansas City, Mo. The Little Folks' Bazaar, under the management of Mrs. D. N. Crosthwaits, at her residence last Saturday afternoon and evening was a grand success. Over $30 was realized. The little folks worked very faithful and deserve much credit for their noble work for such a worthy institution as the Old Folks' and Orphans' Home. These industrious little ones should be encouraged to organize and give a bazaar, or something of the kind once or twice a year. 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. MEALS 15 CENTS. Fugley Meal Worth the Money Porter house steak from 35 cents up. 327 W. 6th St., Kansas City, Mo. is on at C. Collins' Big Dry Goods House. And we are selling them at prices that defy competition, SUITABLE ARTICLES FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS IN OUR OTHER DEPARTEMENTS Ask for one of our Calendars. C. Collins WATCH THIS NEXT WEE FOR OUR HOLIDAY G Collins Dry Goods 1431-33-35-37 E WATCH THIS SPACE NEXT WEEK FOR OUR HOLIDAY GOODS SURFACES' DRUG STORE. CORNER 18TH AND LYDIA. Men's S en's Suits Men's Suits $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00 Values at $15.00 $15.00 A certain maker of Men's Fine Clothes had a big lot of Suits to sell at a very low price. He did not need money---he could control a million with the stroke of a pen, but his season was over and he wanted to get rid of the Suits. We bought them----now it's your turn to buy, if you need a Suit. Among them handsome finished and unfinished worsteds ana stylish Scotch effects---beautiful fabrics that usually find their way to the counters of the best custom tailors. Hand Tailored Made better than the ordinary tailor makes his clothes. You'll be delighted with their perfect style. Grand Avenue Floor. Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. Successors to BULLENE, MOORE, EMERY & CO. Subscribe for the Rising Son I DESIRE TO ANNEE I still wait for you at best and most reliable clo further state that we are wants of men, boys and warmest of winter clothing thing in clothing needed Shirts, shirt waists, sweat suits, caps, hats and over Everything for men in su nishings, cravenetts and have full lines of men's h the latest shapes and exce The name of Browning, one and all of our patron pleased to serve you in an DESIRE TO ANNNOUNCE to my friends that I still wait for you at Browning, Cing & Co., the best and most reliable clothing house in Kansas city. I further state that we are fully prepared to meet the wants of men, boys and children, in the neatest and warmest of winter clothing. Our stock embraces everything in clothing needed by men, boys and children. Shirts, shirt waists, sweaters, knee pants, two and three suits, caps, hats and overcoats for boys and children. Everything for men in suits, overcoats, ulsters and furnishings, cravenetts and mackintosh rain coats. We have full lines of men's hate in soft and stiff styles of the latest shapes and excellent qualities at low prices. The name of Browning, King & Co. is a guarantee to one and all of our patrons. Call, ask for me; I will be pleased to serve you in any way I can. --- Strong & Garfields Top-Notch Shoes. In our search for the best this line satisfies for years of experience demonstrates its superiority over all others. The Non-Auqua sole is found in no other line and affords the wearea a DRY WARM FOOT. John M. Mellon London You've tried the re .McCampbell A full line of Stationery fumes, Cigars and Tobac tied the rest, Now get the AT Campbell's Pharm of Stationery, Toilet Articles, Cand gars and Tobacco. Prescriptions a S Tel A STORE LIKE You've tried the rest, Now get the best FOR A STO FOR A STORE LIKE THIS The Christmas news is little short of a Deluge! Gift for Pockets Gifts for Neck Gifts for Back Gifts for Hands Gifts for Head Gifts for Feet This store is a guieee you the latest whisp Nebraska CLOTHES 1113-11 Where there's a For Pockets - Handkerchief For Neck - Neck For Back - Smoking Jacket For Hands - Glove For Head For Feet more is a guise for you. It spreads the latest whispers of Holiday Hints. Kaska Clothing CLOTHES FOR MEN AND WOMEN 1113-1115 Main Street. here there's always something do Gift for Pockets Handkercheifs. Gifts for Neck Neckties. Gifts for Back Smoking Jackets. Gifts for Hands Gloves. Gifts for Head Hats. Gifts for Feet Shoes. This store is a guiee for you. It spreads before you the latest whispers of Holiday Hints. If ills 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 ground the bills. Be Sure to Patronize SM He will deliver your go 908 E. 12th St. SMITH The L deliver your goods free of charge if you h St. Phone B & K TRUTH TIME 1101 MAIN ST. 2304 Vine. W. W. WATERS. STRONG AND GARFIELD CO'S "WALL STREET" The John Kelly Shoe You who have worn them know they are good and give the best satisfaction in style, comfort and service. Our mid-season styles are correct and give you the latest ideas of Ovlatt Shoe Co., 520 Minn. Ave., 1105 Main, K. C. Kas. K. C. Mo rest, " Now get the best AT Well's Pharmacy. y, Toilet Articles, Candies Per- acco. Prescriptions a Specialty.] ORE LIKE THIS Handkercheifs. Neckties. Smoking Jackets. Gloves. Hats. Shoes. e for you. It spreads before pers of Holiday Hints. Clothing Co FOR MEN AND WOMEN 115 Main Street. always something doing. SMITH The DRUGGIST goods free of charge if you will call Phone 1211 Grand 1105 Main, K. C. Mo Tel.159 East. RELIGIOUS COMMENT Our Days. We could not go. Our feet would stop, and so God lays a little on us every day, And never, I believe, on all the way, Will burdens bear so deep. Or pathways lie so threatening and so But we can go, if by God's power We only bear the burden of the hour. QUIET HOUR What We Really Need. "Take that thine is, and go thy way."— Matt. xxii. 14. There is a large number of things in the world which we can get on very well without. There is also a large number of things which we covet because we think them necessary to our happiness, but which we really do not need. Lastly, there are a few things, but only a few, which we must have in order to make our lives what God intended they should be. A large part of our discontent comes from not having what we ourselves think we ought to have, but what Providence evidently regards as unnecessary to our development. This difference of opinion between us and the Almighty is the fruitful source of much human misery. We demand that He shall agree with us, whereas it is clearly our duty to agree with Him. Our ignorance is the standard by which we measure His wisdom, and yet if one of our children should assume the same attitude toward us it would well nigh break our hearts. Instead of accepting what comes and making the best of it, we constantly pray that God will do what we want to have done, and because the prayer is not answered we not only grow spiritually cold, but open the door to a great many doubts, which literally freeze the nobler part of our natures. If a tyro should come into our warehouse or manufactory and ask us to conduct our business on the basis of his inexperience rather than on that of our hard earned knowledge, the difference between us and God is that we should indignantly eject him, whereas God pities us for doing precisely the same thing. The forbearance of the Almighty with our wilfulness and conceit, His everlasting patience with us under such circumstances, is one of the most wonderful facts of the universe, and one of the most thrilling and startling. Human life may be reverently compared to an opera. God is the author of the music, and He gives each person the part he is to take. Religion is simply the drill master, who constantly enjoins upon us the necessity of strictly following the score, and constantly insists that we cannot make changes in the score without injuring the unity of production. But suppose each singer should insist on singing in accordance with his own interpretation, and suppose, further, that you had the impression that these various and discordant interpretations represented the author and not the personal peculiarities of the singers, what a strange piece of music it would all be, and what a queer idea of the author the listener would have! Well, that is precisely what we are doing all the time in matters of religion, and that is why we make of it such a jumble and jangle. Sing the music as it was written, and it is exquisitely beautiful and uplifting; but let it be sung as each individual thinks it ought to be sung, and the discord becomes deafening and disheartening. Our real wants are very few, though we are apt to think them very many. We can be happy—this is true of at least nine-tenths of the world—with what we have we if we know how to make the most of it and the best of it. It takes but little to make the soul contented if we do not try to make our avarice and our envy contented also. When we begin to count the things we ought to have we begin to be miserable, but when we begin to be thankful for the things we really possess we begin to be happy. You do not need wealth, nor yet fame, nor a palace, nor a park. If you have a shelter and have made that shelter a home, if you have dear ones whose love is trustful and confiding, whose lives are woven into yours by threads of steel, pray what more is there to ask for? If you are not happy then, you can hardly expect to be happy in heaven, for heaven has only love to offer. This happiness is the product of faith, and of faith alone. A love which death can destroy is simply anticipated anguish. Souls that are knitted together may be torn apart, but their love for each other is as indestructible and as lasting as the throne of God.—Rev. George H. Hepe worth. The Upper Currents Doctor Peabody, in one of his inspiring talks to the students of Harvard, draws a picture of a vessel lying becalmed in a glassy sea. There is not a breath of air to fill a sail. While the men wait and watch, however, they notice that all at once the little pennant far up on the masthead begins to stir and lift. There is not a ripple on the water, not the faintest moving of the air on the deck; but when they see the pennant stirring they know that there is a good wind rising in the higher air, and they quickly spread their upper sails to catch it. Instantly the vessel begins to move under the power of the higher currents, while on the surface of the water there is still a dead calm. In life there are higher and lower currents. Too many set only the lower sails, and catch only the winds which blow along on earthy levels. But there are also winds which blow down from the mountains of God. It would be an unspeakable gain to us all if our life fell under the influence of these upper currents. We would be wise if we so adjusted our relations with others that all our days we should be under the influence of the good, the worthy, the pure-hearted, the heavenly—J. R. Miller. Second-Mile Christians Love, says Rev. H. B. Hallock, does not think of counting miles. It never says, "Can I stop here?" "Have I done my share?" It is a characteristic of love to be doing always more than is expected or required. Love goes the second mile, and counts not a weary thing to go ten thousand more. This is what the religion of the second mile does for men. It brings heart enlistment; it causes us to serve, not because we must, but because we will, because we love, and therefore delight to do the will of the one we love. The second mile Christian realizes Christ's love for souls and therefore tries to win men to him. The second mile Christian realizes Christ's longing for the extension of his kingdom, and therefore gladly gives according to his ability for the spread of the gospel. Christ's interests become his interests, Christ's glory his glory, Christ's cause his cause, under the sweet, compelling restraint of love. The second mile Christian is a very happy Christian, because he has got beyond the religion of doubtful debate, of finely drawn questions between right and wrong, out into the region of voluntary, glad-hearted, love-prompted service. What Christ asks of us, and puts before us as a privilege in this gospel of the second mile, is not the hard-wrought service of a neatly calculated less or more but that overflow of doing which counts duty a delight because the heart is in it. "Go with him twain!" To-day. No loving word was ever spoken, no good deed ever done, "to morrow." We cannot act in the unborn future, nor in the dead past—only in the living present. That is why "every day is doomsday," for to-day holds life and death character and destiny, in its hands Opportunity says with Jesus, "Me ye have not always." We say, "I will take my chances. There is plenty of time." Ah, how often do we say "some other time," to find that there is no other time! Some things we can do "not always." How shall we find out what things can be done at any time, and what things now or never? Only by living in the faith that to-day is the only day we have and challenging every opportunity for its meaning. Esau filled his life with a regret for trifling one day. Esther's was full of glory for one day's courage. Peter slept one day and lost a matchless opportunity. Mary's name is fragrant forever for the loving deed of a day. Do your best now. "For the common deeds of the common day Are ringing bell. in the far away." —Sunday, School Times Two Painters Two painters each painted a picture to illustrate his conception of rest. The first chose for his scene a still, lone lake among the far-off mountains. The second threw on his canvas a thundering waterfall, with a fragile birch tree bending over the foam. At the fork of the branch almost wet with the cataract's spray a robin set on its nest. The first was only "stagnation"; the last was "rest." Christ's life was outwardly one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived; tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time, till the worm body was laid in the grave. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there. At any moment you might have gone to Him and found rest. And even when His enemies were dogging Him in the streets of Jerusalem, He turned to His disciples and offered them as a last legacy, "My peace."—Henry Drummond. I Do Set My Bow in the Cloud. I was out of the cloud that the deluge came, yet it was upon it that the bow set! The cloud is a thing of darkness, yet God chooses it for the place where he bends the arch of light! Such is the way of our God. He knows that we need the cloud, and that a bright sky, without speck or shadow, would not suit us in our passage to the Kingdom. Therefore he draws the clouds above us, not once in a lifetime, but many times. But, lest the gloom should appall us, he braids the cloud with sunshine—nay, makes it the object which gleams to our eyes with the fairest hues of heaven—Horatius Bonar. RECIPROCITY A "TROJAN HORSE." FACTORY RECIPROCITY PROTEC EOUNDRY FREE TRADE TION FREE TRADE LIKE TROJAN HORSE LIKE TROJAN HORSE ANCIENT LEGEND APPLIED TO MODERN CONDITIONS. Danger That Free Trade May Gain Entrance to the Citadel of Protection Disguised as Reciprocity in Competing Products. (The ancient Greeks, being unable to storm the city of Troy, won entrance through a stratagem. An immense wooden structure, known afterward as the Trojan Horse, was hauled by the Greek army to the plains of Troy, outside the city; then the army, in seeming dismay at the impregnable walls, marched away and apparently raised the siege. The Trojans, attracted by the huge horse, as if it were some new-found idol, moved it into the city. That night, as the citizens slept, a hundred Greek chiefs emerged from the spacious interior of the horse, opened the gates for the Greek army, and the city was devastated.) The walls of ancient Troy withstood all open attacks of the enemy; the walls of protection are now impregnable against free trade assaults. The wooden horse ruse that caused Troy's downfall would have failed had not the citizens, with an overweening sense of security, been lured into admiration of the pleasingly devised idol. Shall reciprocity, through its blandishments, be another Trojan horse? Shall reciprocity be the siren note RECIPROCITY A FACTORY PROTEC FREE TRADE to lure the ship of prosperity to destruction? Shall reciprocity be the flaw to cause a disastrous break in the powerful chain of protection which now upholds the structure of our commercial grandeur? Shall reciprocity be the wedge to make a crevice for eventually unloosing all the destructive waters of free trade? Shall tariff reduction, which can lawfully only originate in the House, be enacted under the guise of a treaty by the Senate while the people sleep to the hypnotic tone of reciprocity? Shall the sentimental idea of favoring Cuba, to our own assured detriment, also extend to Mexico, Central and South America? Why not Canada? Why not England? Why not all countries, so that we could, with one massive upheaval, destroy our great prosperity policy of protection and slide gracefully into the free trade camp on the toboogan of reciprocity? Upon the action of the Congress, in special session assembled, the nation awaits for a legacy of continued prosperity, or else the direful disaster which always has and always will follow free trade policies, whether enacted into law in the past under the new discredited slogan of "tariff reform," or henceforth by the sugar coated name of reciprocity. TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN. False Logic of the Advocates of Wider Foreign Markets. "One of the most important problems before the American people is that of markets. In this all parties agree. But while the parties agree upon the importance of the ultimate fact they do not agree upon the methods to be pursued in the accomplishment of the desired end. The plan proposed by the minority party is to throw our commercial doors wide open for the free importation of the products of foreign labor. Members of that party insist that if we do this we will, of necessity, have unrestricted access to the markets of other countries. They urge that if we will but allow Europe to cloth us, furnish us our glass, our earthenware, our hardware, our steel rails, our structural iron and everything else we produce, we will thus secure a most wonderful export trade. "They insist that the way for us to capture the markets of the world is to throw our markets open to the world. The logic of the opinion is, if we give away what we have we will then have an abundance. England has had free goods for half a century, but she has never had free trade. She has run against the tariff at the entrance of every country she has attempted to invade, and now her colonies, having become vigorous, are begging to impose duties upon her products, and Mr. Chamberlain resigns his position in the cabinet, and at the time of life when most men are about to retire to the quiet of their homes goes out to make the fight of his life in behalf of protection. There is a great difference between free goods from foreign countries and free trade in foreign countries. "Think of it. Our farms produce $4,000,000,000. Our car shops and factories produce more than all the shops and factories of any other two countries on the map by $3,000,000,000 per annum. The productive capacity, without duplication, amounts to $11,000,000,000, of which we export in rund numbers $1,500,000,000 and import $1,000,000,000. We therefore consume practically 95 per cent of all we produce. Suppose we open the doors and allow Europe to close the United States and furnish us our manufactured goods, who will consume the products of our farms, and what shall we do with the products of our factories? No, we will take reasonable care of our own, encouraging those who can afford it to buy some of their luxuries abroad and from the importation of these luxuries— "TROJAN HORSE." RENPROPRITY FOUNDRY TION FREE TRADE laces, jewelry and fancy fabrics—we will collect a good portion of our revenue and we will sell our surplus in foreign countries."—From Secretary Shaw's speech at Akron, Ohio. A Bad Taste in the Mouth: While supporting the Cuban reecliprocity dicker with a mild degree of enthusiasm the New York Commercial does not share the belief expressed by some of the optimistic Cubaphiles that opposition to that blundering proposition has "virtually ceased." The Commercial sizes up the situation shrewdly and wisely when it says: "We would like to think that way. It is not easy, however, to shake off a feeling that many a law-maker in Washington is going to give his vote for ratification only on promise of similar support at the regular session for some pet measure of his own or for other bills whose path to passage at the moment looks thorny, at least. From. Nov. 9 to Dec. 7 is likely to be a good period for 'trading' inside the capitol of the United States." Exactly so. If the Cuban deal stood solely upon its merits as an economic and a political question it would class as about 100 to 1 against. But the "trading" element makes a difference. Account must be taken of it. What with trading for patronage and trading for favor in high places, the odds are reduced greatly. It seems to be a case of dicker all around. Sugar in Congress has always left a bad taste in the mouth. History is in a fair way to repeat itself at the extra session. Tariff and Bank Notes "The government has the same duty to protect its people against unlimited importations, if thereby we are enabled to produce for ourselves, as it has to prevent the general issue of bank notes in order that the integrity of our currency may be preserved. To say that we cannot divert the natural channels of trade to our advantage is to impeach our intelligence."—@gov. Cummins, Sept. 26, 1903.—Burlington Hawk-Eye. Always Dangerous. Tariff experiments, based merely on theory, are ticklish. They have split a British cabinet and endangered a party majority in Parliament.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. CUPOLA SKETCHES BY BIRON WILLIAMS Learning He begged the maiden for a kiss, But Clarice shook her head a bit; She vowed 'twould be ecstatic bliss; She said she wouldn't think of it! He pleaded like a true born knight- There nothing was in love amiss! She argued it would not be right To give a full grown man a kiss! Her saucy face showed grave alarms, ir cherry lips were set with fright! A "WAS DONE JUST RIGHT!" But Willie took her in his arms. And—what he did was done just right! She did not scream or make a scene. But blushed at learning Cupid's lore; And snug in Willie's supple arms. She pursed her pretty lips for more! They're married now and bless the day. When Clarice learned what joyous bliss alongside human way, Upon the arms, kiss. --- No Fish Story. A serpent eight feet and five inches in length was taken last Sunday with a grab hook near the town shoal. In its maw were a red fox, a half-grown wildcat, and a bunch of keys. This is no fish story, either.—Linn Creek, Mo., Reveille. This remille us of a little incident that happened the spring of the big wind. That was the year the pieplant all froze. But anyhow: A clerk, much given to being belated in the morning, was called onto the carpet by his superior, an old school German, and told to come earlier or lose his position. The clerk, thoroughly frightened, turned a new leaf and for several mornings was the first man at the office. The proprietor, wishing to felicitate him upon his punctuality, summoned him and said: "Hans, come here yet. "I haf noticed," he said, "Hans, I haf noticed dot you are early of late! "You were behind pefore! "But now you are de fairst at last!" What's that? You've heard— Well, it's no fish story, anyhow! 90 90 90 Christmas Eve. In my lazy chair by the grate's soft glow, In a dream of home do my musings flow! In a jeweled car, wattling softly by, With a rhythmic swing, to enchanted sky! "Tis the great "front room" on a Christ- man eye. With the weaved ones dear in the fancy's weave! There's the "home-made" tree all ablaze with light! There's joy sincere—"Stop! I love that sight! But the car swings on in its fitful way, The scene is lost in the firelight's play! But a vision comes, in a flood of gold: `With a start I gaze in the grate! - Behold! Here are embers, too, and I see - I see! In how many boiling coals, not the Christmas tree!` But, ah God! how sweet! In the bright fireplace. That which thrills my soul is my mother's face! ga ga ga A WEEK'S SUPPLY OF BAIT. Never neglect having bait laid by for a rainy day. The optimist is a man that does not believe: There is sand in sugar. That policemen are in league with burglars. That the milkman waters the milk. That his grocer gives short weight. That the world needs fixing. That hard times are just ahead. That there are no times like the old times. That every man is dishonest until proven honest. That virtue is a lost quality. That life is not worth living. Are you an optimist? ya ya ya Another Pipe. "My! This must be Indian summer," said Bings' wife, looking out of the alcove window yesterday morning "See how smoky and hazy the air is." "You are mistaken, dear," respond Bings. "The man who lives in the flat above is sitting on the front steps trying a new brand of smoking to baccal." To Exterminate Prairie Dogs 16 Exterminate Prairie Dogs. In Nebraska, where whole town ships are covered with prairie dog v ages, an expedition of scientists is experimenting with methods for ex terminating the pests. The most effective means used hitherto is the putting into their holes lighted balls of cotton saturated with carbon bisulphide, which gives off a deadly gas.—Exchange. Aerial Excursions A project is on foot in Geneva for the establishment of aerial excursions to view the summit of Mount Blanc. Mrs. Winnlowa Soo-Ling Syrup. For children teething, softens gum, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind sore. See a bottle. Love that lives on beauty alone will soon starve to death. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN F. BOYEN, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 19, 1900. A woman can't feel dressed up and feel comfortable too. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white-18 oz. for 10 cents. It doesn't pay to snub a man who owes you money. FITS Permanently Cured. We do or do not weariness after a cold. FITS $2.00 trial bottle and treaties. F.R. H. KLARK, Lek. 81 Aven St. Philadelphia, Pa. Any woman would raher have you took her over than overlook her. If you want creamyery prices do as the creameries do, use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. Some people work overtime trying to get shorter hours. When You Buy Starch Buy Defiance and get the best 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Oil and water won't mix, except in the form of stock. Scientific chance to learn a paying profession. Short time completes. Small expenses while learning. Practice enough for 110 students. Information free. T Leaf Handrud Remover stones falling like pieces of clay in Sent postpaid. Kaitlin Up-to-date Barber College. 1888 N. 6th St., Kansas City, kansas. Write today. A woman never forgives a man who doesn't admire her. Do Not Delay, But Write To-Day. In this issue of the paper the World's Greatest Jewelry Establishment, Mermod and Jaccard's (St. Louis), announce they will send Free to our readers their magnificent catalogue containing thousands of illustrations with prices of the most beautiful things in the world in Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, etc., etc. Their prices are the lowest in America for fine goods. If you are going to make any Xmas gifts you would do well to send for it at once. American Patents. The United States patent offices issues one-third of the whole number of patents issued in the world, or nearly as many as France, Germany and Great Britain combined, and four and a half times as many as Germany, the only one of our near competitors which makes novelty researches before granting patents. The Happier Man A North Missouri paper asks: "Who is the happier, the man who possesses $100,000 or the man who has seven daughters?" To which another exchange replies: "The man with the surplus girls, of course. The man with the money is not satisfied, and wants more. The man with the seven daughters is satisfied—he has enough." Glaciers Disappear The *Lus* in Greenland is mellinmore rapidly than it is formed. Comparison of the descriptions of the Jacobshaven glacier shows that its edge has receded eight miles since 1850, and it has lost twenty to thirtyfeet in 'depth. Use More Whisky In sixty years the annual per capita consumption of whiskey has gradually decrease from two and a half to one and a fourth gallons. In forty years the consumption of beer has increased from less than two to more than seventeen gallons per capita. ABOUT FEAR Often Comes From Lack of Right Food. Napoleon said that the best fed soldiers were his best soldiers, for fear and nervousness come quickly when the stomach is not nourished. Nervous fear is a sure sign that the body is not supplied with the right food. A Connecticut lady says: "For many years I had been a sufferer from digestion and heart trouble and in almost constant fear of sudden death, the most acute suffering possible. Dieting brought on weakness, emaciation and nervous exhaustion and I was a complete wreck physically and almost a wreck mentally. "I tried many foods, but could not avoid the terrible nausea followed by vomiting that came after eating until I tried Grape-Nuts. This food agreed with my palate and stomach from the start. This was about a year ago. Steadily and surely a change from sickness to health came until now I have no symptoms of dyspepsia and can walk 10 miles a day without being greatly fatigued. I have not taken a drop of medicine since I began the use of Grape-Nuts and people say I look many years younger than I really am. "My poor old sick body has been made over and I feel as though my head had been too. Life is worth living now and I expect to enjoy it for many years to come if I can keep away from bad foods and have Grape-Nuts." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road 's Belleville." as common wire of the same size Every horizontal wire in Page Fence is genuine Page Wire. Double ordinary fence wire and pull it against Page Wire single and you will see the double strength of Page Wire. A year's subscription to our Fence Paper FREE and full descriptions of Page Fence, if you send us this coupon, filled out. I intend to buy... rods of fence. State: Cut out and mail to PAGE WOEN WIRE FENCE CO., Adrian, Michigan. TRADKE MARK Straighten Up The main muscular supports of body weaken and let go under Backache or Lumbago. To restore, strengthen and straighten up, use St. Jacobs Oil Price 25c. and 50c. Page Fence is Twice As Strong as come horizon Pago V and put you will Wire. Paper F Fence, My Name is..... Address..... I intend to buy....rods of fence. Cut out and mail to PAGE WOVEN Looking for a Home? Then why not keep in view the fact that the farming lands of 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada are sufficient to support a population of $0.000.000 or over? The immigration for the past six years has been phenomenal. FREE Homestead Lands easily accessible, while other lands may be purchased from Railway and Land Companies. The grain and grazing lands of Western Canada are the best on the continent, producing the best grain, wheat, and hay. Markets, Schools, Railways and all other conditions make Western Canada an enviable spot for the settler. Write to the Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, for a descriptive Atlas, and other information. Send the Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 15 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. ```markdown ``` A striking contrast between Defiance Starch and any other brand will be found by comparison. Defiance Starch stiffens, whitens, beautifies with- out rotting. It gives clothes back their newness. It is absolutely pure. It will not injure the most delicate fabrics. For fine things and all things use the best there is. Defiance Starch 10 cents for 10 ounces. Other brands 10 cents for 12 ounces. A striking contrast. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO. Omaha, N.C. LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5' CIGAR ANNUAL SALE OVER 5,600,000 Your Jobber or direct from Factory, Peoria, Ia. CAPSICUM VASELINE (PUT UP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES) A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other condiment. It is the most delicate skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and treat it the best and safest external counter irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chest and stomach and all illnesses. We will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in the household. Many people say 10 chests at all druggists or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in poststamps we will send you a box made. No stamps should be given to us without our permission. Carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROUG MFG. CO. 17 State Street, New York City. CAY LIFE FREE Views of Atlantic City at the best mated to anyone sending us name and address of two or more friends who are suffering from Colchic. J. J. BURKE 151 WAYNE ST. PHILA. Superfluousness of Men. That women cannot be gay and agreeable in the society of their own sex alone is a superstition that has been very largely dissipated by the unqualified success of ladies' clubs. It is quite possible for women to continue to meet each other day after day apart from men without scratching out each other's eyes, to dine harmoniously and gaily together without male guests, and, in short, to get along quite pleasantly by themselves. Cashing Bank Checks A Nebraska court has held that where a man receives a check in payment of a bill, and lives in the same town with the bank on which the check is drawn, his only safeguard is to cash the check by the following day at the latest. Were Finally Hitched. "There was not a hitch of any kind," says an esteemed contemporary in its account of a wedding, "from the time the engagement was announced until the service was read." Then, of course, the happy pair were hitched all right. Dird Migration. The fact that day birds become nocturnal at migration time, uttering notes used on other occasion in the year; that they fly at a speed beyond their ordinary powers and at hights beyond their ordinary haunts, leads Dr. Catke to believe that they possess in their powers of flight and soaring some principle not employed on any other occasion and hitherto not taken into account by naturalists. Animal and Vegetable Foods Animal foods, judged by bulk and weight, are more expensive, pound for pound, than vegetable foods. But, as a whole, vegetable foods are not more economical. Animal foods furnish more than six-tenths of the protein and nine-tenths of the fat of the total food consumed. Antiquity of Man The evidence presented has been regarded as conclusive by competent geologists acquainted with the locality in proving the great antiquity of man in the Delaware Valley. It seems that we may now infer that he was there certainly during the later glacial deposits at Trenton, if not during preglacial times. Bright's Disease Cured. Whitehall, Ill., Dec. 7.—A case has been recorded in this place recently, which upsets the theory of many physicians that Bright's Disease is incurable. It is the case of Mr. Lon Manley, whom the doctors told that he could never recover. Mr. Manley tells the story of his case and how he was cured in this way: "I began using Dodd's Kidney Pills after the doctors had given me up. For four or five years I had Kidney, Stomach and Liver Troubles; I was a general wreck and at times I would get down with my back so bad that I could not turn myself in bed for three or four days at a time. "I had several doctors and at last they told me I had Bright's Disease, and that I could never get well. I commenced to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and I am now able to do all my work and am all right. I most heartily recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills and am very thankful for the cure they worked in my case. They saved my life after the doctors had given me up." Large Gift to Hospital An anonymous donor has given $1,500,000 to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, to buy the land required for extension. Inslet 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 of these contains 10 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Were it not for clouds people would be unable to appreciate sunshine. W. N. U. KANSAS CITY NO. 50, 1903 OLD PEOPLE are not in a physical condition to experiment. You can't afford it. That is why we recommend Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin for old people. It acts upon the kidneys, liver and bowels, and if you keep those three organs in good condition you are sure to feel well. It's guaranteed by your druggist at 50o and $1.00. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, III. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contains Mercury. so mercury will surely destroy the sense of small and completely damage the whole system when entering the water. You should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is from them. Hall's Cataract Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. contains no mercury, and is interchangeable with the other systems in buying Hall's Cataract Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney. Sold by Druglusts. Please瓶 per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. It doesn't necessarily take an athlete to be long-winded. 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. What the dew is to the flower kind words are to the heart. IF YOU USE BALL BLUE, Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Love is blind, so naturally lovers make spectacles of themselves. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. Thought travels fast, but some people's thoughts never travel far. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLE. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Patience is a virtue when it has a little hustle on the side. All Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz, more of it for same money. The man who always says exactly what he thinks is often silent. RECORD RUN TO KANSAS CITY. Wabash Train Makes Trip in Five Hours and Fifty Minutes. Wabash train No. 9, fast mail between St. Louis and Kansas City, made a record-breaking run from St. Louis to Kansas City Sunday afternoon. The schedule time for starting is 2:20 p. m., and the regular time for the run is seven hours and ten minutes. No. 9 started one hour late, lost twenty minutes on the way and pulled into Kansas City on time, making the run in five hours and fifty minutes, five minutes faster than any previous record. There was a full equipment of a mail car, combination car, chair car and diner. At many places along the route the train showed a speed of seventy miles an hour, and between Mexico and Montgomery City a mile a minute was reeled off. The distance is twenty-four miles, and it took just twenty-four minutes to make the trip. The train was in charge of Conductor J. S. Gould. The engineer was George Nelson and the fireman was Charles Summerville.—St. Louis Republic. Antarctic icepergs Icebergs in the Arctic regions are neither so large nor so numerous as those seen in the Antarctic seas, but they are usually loftier and more beautiful, with spires and domes. When the sun shines on them, they look like a fairy city. Famous Child Student. Torquato Tasso was famous throughout Italy before he was nine years old as an accomplished Greek and Latin scholar, and the author of clever and polished verses; and at thirteen he was the intellectual center of the brilliant court at Urbino. Death of British Centenarian. An authentic centenarian, Viscountess Glentworth, died recently in England, age one hundred years and three months. She was married seventy-seven years ago to the grandson of the Earl of Limerick and celebrated her golden wedding with her second husband in 1897. Profits in Municipal Plants Municipal development of water, gas, electricity, street railways, markets, baths and cemeteries in Nottingham, England, has shown an average annual net profit of $155,000 for the last four years. The money is applied to the reduction of taxes. Manufacture Toys The manufacture of toys has become important as a domestic or house industry among the people in the little principality of Meiningen, and the small villages in the country about Sonneberg contain many skilled woodcarvers and cabinet makers. Kept Tab. A New York girl testified in a breach of promise case that the defendant had kissed her exactly 1,388 times. She must have used a street car register on him and rung up every kiss as she collected it.—Denver Post. China's Census. A recent census of China shows that that country, crowded with "teeming millions," has 103 to the square mile, Belgium has 220 to the square mile, Great Britain 130 and Germany 105. The Lost Tribes of Israel The ten tribes of Israel were lost 721 B. C., when carried captive by Salaimaneser, King of Assyria. Their fate has been a matter of all sorts of speculation. The Best Results In Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. It is mighty hard for a woman to keep from cheering the winning side, no master whose it is. The Missouri mule family numbers 300,000, the total value of which is 23 million dollars. Fayetteville is to have a barber soon. The young men's social club has postponed several social affairs until he arrives. A couple of fond parents down in Christian county have named their new son Russell Sage Pierpont Morgan Rockefeller. The baby's surname is Pitts. "There was one consolation in not having turkey on Thanksgiving," says Editor Ganz in the Pike County News. "We weren't fed on turkey hash the balance of the week. A thief entered a henhouse in Warrensburg a few night ago and stole a dozen chickens but dropped a purse containing $140 and it was found next morning by the owner of the fowls. The thief must now choose between freedom with the chickens and his $140 with a penitentiary sentence. Somebody told the manager of the Ridgeway opera house last week that a certain attraction which he had booked was no good. The manager returned the reserved seat money and then told the people that he would not recommend the show. The show turned out to be a good one and the manager of the opera house is out about $25. The Christmas card "poem contest" being conducted by Miss Isabello Mae Doolittle in the Paw Paw Bazoo, is progressing nicely. Yesterday Miss Doolittle printed the poem of a little girl—none other than little Teeny Ricketts, daughter of Paw Paw Corner's beloved postmaster. The poem follows: He's comin' soon. Kris Kringle, Over the roof he'll skin. With presents for little Nell and Kate, An' little Tom an' Jim. I want a doll-an' a doll house, I want 'em like the dickens, An' gum an' candy—don't forget me, Kris Yours truly, Little Teeny Ricketts. 3 There is a man living in Henry county named Richezell—but he isn't. 2 The editor of the Parnell Sentinel is preparing to land a fearful jolt on the solar plexus of the Standard Oil trust. He proposes to cut out oil entirely and go to bed at Sundown every night. If you want to live to a ripe old age move to Linn county. There are nine persons over 90 years old and twenty-four over 85 living in that county. Down in St. Louis a day or two ago a man who bought a tobacco stand found later that he was the owner of a carefully selected line of fine shavings and sawdust. The Trenton Republican-Tribune thinks it evident that the man who sold out was one of those silent, thrifty fellows who say nothing and saw wood. And now comes Jacob Collett, who lives near Aulville, with a story of a vine that bore nineteen pumpkins, the total weight of which was 759 pounds. The "trouble hunters" of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone company's Hannibal branch struck the other day. They have found more trouble since than they had found in weeks before. A Marshall widow, who removed her dead husband's picture from the parlor to the dining room several weeks ago, has now placed it in the attic. Her friends expect the announcement within a week. A faker with a brand new graft is working a game in Southern Missouri. When he strikes a town he locates the best attended church and goes to it on Sunday. During the benefaction he falls over in a fit to gain sympathy. Finally he recovers and works the congregation for $20 or $30 "to get home to Iowa with." Paw Paw Bazoo: "This world uf oufn's in danger, friends," sez Uncle Ezra Fox, *Ezra* poundin' with his fist upon a cracker box. "I tell you that this country is a 'fooolin' with the saw with that there plan to dig acrost that neck uf Panama. Now take the old Pacific —n't it bigger by a heap than that there old Atlantic? Ain't it almost (wict ez deep)? Well, sposin' that we dig that ditch—it's reason, friends, by Joe—the biggest ocean's bound to make the other overflow. The water from the west ull come on through with might an' main an' flood all France, them Netherlands an' Italy an' Spain, An' jest ez like ez not 'twould flood some other countries, too. Most like it would back on us—you can't tell what 'twould do. No, sir," concluded Ezra, "it is mighty plain to me that this here country ought to stop an' let that isthmus be. But if it don't we might as well start buildin' on an ark. I tell you what, the future of this world is mighty dark." "We have the consolation of knowing," says Cels Calvert in the St Joseph News and Press, "that when we die there will be no serious dispute over the division of our estate." But why not cut out the "serious?" It is possible to ride thirteen miles in one direction on the Bilby ranch in Atchison county. Under the头 of "A Painful Nail" the Nodaway Forum printed the most interesting ingrowing toenail story Missouri has known for a long time Thursday. Speaking of the "most unkindest cuts of all," the Tina Herald, in telling of a killing in Kansas City recently, said, "The sum of $597.69 was found on the body—which proves that the dead man had not been in the city long." Mrs. W. H. Miss Whittaker, a prominent club woman of Savannah, Ga., tells how she was entirely cured of ovarian troubles by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MISS. PINKHAM: — I heartily recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a Uterine Tonic and Regulator. I suffered for four years with irregularities and Uterine troubles. No one but those who have experienced this dreadful agony can form any idea of the physical and mental misery those endure who are thus afflicted. Your Vegetable Compound cured me within three months. I was fully restored to health and strength, and now my periods are regular and painless. What a blessing it is to be able to obtain such a remedy when so many doctors fail to help you. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is better than any doctor or medicine I ever had. Very truly yours, Miss EASY WHITTAKER, 604 30th St, W.Savannah, Ga." No physician in the world has had such a training or such an amount of information at hand to assist in the treatment of all kinds of female ills as Mrs. Pinkham. In her office at Lynn, Mass., she is able to do more for the ailing women of America than the family physician. Any woman, therefore, is responsible for her own trouble who will not take the pains to write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice is free. A letter from another woman showing what was accomplished in her case by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimonials which we are constantly publishing from grateful women prove beyond a doubt the power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to conquer female diseases. $5000 FORFEIT we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. The World's Grandest Jewelry Establishment WRITE TO DAY FOR Lowest Priced Houses in America for Fine Goods Our Great Holiday Catalog SHOWING THOUSANDS OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS IN Diamonds Watches Hall Clocks Mantel Clocks Music Boxes Gold Jewelry Silver Jewelry Solid Silver Silver Plate Statuary Bronzes Table China Cut Glass Stationery Leather Goods Umbrellas Opera Glasses Gold Spectacles FREE This grand catalogue is sent to you free. If you are going to make any Christmas gifts you should write for it at once CHRISTMAS GIFTS .25 cts to $10,000.00 Every article guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction ask your Banker about us Fill out this Common and mail to clay and address it to MERMOD & JACCARD JEWELRY CO., St. Louis, Mo. GENTLEMEN: Please send me your Great Illustrated Catalogue. Name Town County State MERMOD & JACCARD Jewelry Co. Dept. WU ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. You can seldom catch a storyteller by putting salt on his tale. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds Mary Kate "Dear Miss, Pinkham: I am so grateful to you for the help Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has given me that I deem it but a small return to write you an expression of my experience. "Many years suffering with weakness, inflammation, and a broken down system, made me more anxious to die than live, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound soon restored my lost strength. Taking the medicine only two weeks prognosed a new change, and two months restored me to perform. I am now a changed woman, and my friends wonder at the change, it is so marvellous. Sincerely yours, Miss MATTIE HENRY, 429 Green St, Danville, Va." Real Estate, Rentals and Insurance TELEPHONE 1469. ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gent's dine up stairs. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER. 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 iterms 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. FAST MAIL SERVICE A GOOD THING MISSOURI PACIFIC RATHWAY The Train Service of the Missouri Pacific. The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time: 9:50 a.m., 1:10 p.m., 9:15 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p.m. arives in St. Louis at 10 p.m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and South-eastern trains. The only k. leaving Kansas City after the Opera., dge meetings and Sunday night Churc. service, at 10:45 p.m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a.m., in for all Eastern connections. 9:55 p.m.—10:50 a.m.: Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment, Pullman Sleepers and Compartment cars; Recelling Chair cars (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at Union Depot and 901 Main St., City Offo. E.S. JEWETT, Pass. & Ticket Agent. 1784 Telephone 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co., First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. John P. Tillhoff. Established TILLHOFF & C Real Estate, Rental TELEPHONE 203-204 Hall Bldg., Corner 9th m Walnut Sts. The Stoeltzing Stove CHEF'S OVEN --- 272 This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe hair pomade that can easily hair straight as shown above. It mimoses the scalp, prepares the hair from falliness, makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over the years by your favorite hair salon. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to work. Ox Marrow is the most important it is that healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A delicate necessity for ladies, Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every product and dealer us $60 cents for one botton and express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this product. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Quick and Pleasant FRISCO SYSTEM Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida And the Southeast, and to Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, etc., furnished upon application to James Donohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the box." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BEACH. A WONDERFUL FACE BEACH. A PHOTO of a complex containment if used as directed. Person four or five shades lighter, and a mutant person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours shade or two will be noticeable. It does not turn the skin red, but it makes the skin beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Will move without harm to the skin. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling cut. Highly pertuned and keeps it from falling cut. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. THE NO-SHELL thrown in free. Any person sending in one letter or Post Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepared; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will be the hair soft and easy to comb. In any case where it fails do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will含 contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. Published 1889. Wm. J. Campbell & CAMPBELL, rentals and Insurance. PHONE 1469. Kansas City, Mo Sove and Hardware Co. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Peninsular Agents for... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schall Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Specialty. ...A new line of... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair Shop. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship guaranteed. 707 Independence Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Only First Class Colored Shop in the City. The Very Lowest Prices. Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. 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 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 OFFER. Address: AGENTS WANTED Write for Terms and Particulars NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. Is This Really True? Yes! Some of the choicest qualities and prettiest designs in Watches and Jewelry are in the show window of : : : : : Kansas City's Pioneer Negro Jeweler, J. A. WILSON, Mr. Wilson in soli and the public eith ing of watches a assures nothing Bargains in diamond baby rings, ladies' gold The Magic Hair THE necessity of a pra- tious or too curly ha- and women. endow- of hair, have found ordi- comparatively an easy ma- possibility to straighten, quickly, effectively and s uncontrollable head of hair lowing instructions, will will not. It will save the It is positively the only de- use of the Straightener affer- better than the many me- cidiously the risk of catchi- bar with a handle of com- mary heat by means of gas tached parallel to it, by a for use. The teeth of the ments of the user. The fu- ens' use and straightens a teeth shortened is prefera- an indispensable article of personal appearance. It ha- MAGIC HAIR on in soliciting the patronage of the public either in buying his goods or matches and jewelry (which is a nothing less than complete sale of diamond rings, engagement and wives' gold guards, etc., can always satisfy of a practical contrivance for straight, too curly hair has long been apparent. Then, endowed by nature with unruly and rough ordinary combing unproductive of it an easy matter to curl straight hair but a tighten curly hair. The Magic Hair lively and satisfactorily brings under subject head of hair or beard. It's use a few minitions, will straighten the hair where housel will save the loss of hair that excessive compulsion the only device that will accomplish such tightener after the shampoo, will dry the hair he many methods ordinarily employed, and back of catching cold. The Straightener consists of comfortable grip. The bar is heat means of gas, lamp or common stove; the curl to it, by an ingenious arrangement, and teeth of the comb can be regulated to sucker. The full length of the teeth is best adaightens a heavy head of hair as fast as is preferable for men's hair and beard. I am article of toilet by all who take pride in insurance. It has the endorsements of physicians. ADDRESS HAIR STRAIGHTENER M Mr. Wilson in soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public either in buying his goods or in repairing of watches and jewelry (which is a specialty) assures nothing less than complete satisfaction. Bargains in diamond rings, engagement and wedding rings, baby rings, ladies' gold guards, etc., can always be obtained. The Magic Hair Straightener and Shampoo Drier..... THE necessity of a practical contrivance for straightening refractions or too curly hair has long been apparent. The many men and women, endowed by nature with unruly and rebellious heads of hair, have found ordinary combing unproductive of results. It is comparatively an easy matter to curl straight hair but almost an impossibility to straighten curly hair. The Magic Hair Straightener quickly, effectively and satisfactorily brings under subjection the most uncontrollable head of hair or beard. It's use a few minutes daily, following instructions, will straighten the hair where hours of combing will not. It will save the loss of hair that excessive combing produces. It is positively the only device that will accomplish such results. The use of the Straightener after the shampoo, will dry the hair quicker and better than the many methods ordinarily employed, and lessen very decidedly the risk of catching cold. The Straightener consists of a steel bar with a handle of comfortable grip. The bar is heated to an ordinary heat by means of gas, lamp or common stove; the comb then attached parallel to it, by an ingenious arrangement, and is then ready for use. The teeth of the comb can be regulated to suit the requirements of the user. The full length of the teeth is best adapted for womens' use and straightens a heavy head of hair as fast as combed. The teeth shortened is preferable for men's hair and beard. It will be found an indispensable article of toilet by all who take pride in their personal appearance. It has the endorsements of physicians, price $1.25 MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER MFG. CO., TED. MINNEA DND PAINT CON DIAMOND DEVOE PHONE DEVOE Paint, Varnish, Brushes. S. J. THALHEIMER. AGENTS WANTED. age of his friends goods or in repair- which is a specialty) delete satisfaction. at and wedding rings, in always be obtained. straightener and Shampoo Drier...... for straightening refrac- rent. The many men only and rebellious heads active of results. It is hair but almost an im- magic Hair Straightener der subjection the most few minutes daily. fol- lence hours of combing passive combing produces. all such results. The dry the hair quicker and youed, and lessen very de- mer consists of a steel r is heated to an ordi- re the comb then at- ent, and is then ready ed to suit the require- s best adapted for wom- fast as combed. The beard. It will be found the pride in their physicians. price $1.25 ER MFG. CO., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. COMPANY fish, Brushes. AND. 1214 GRAND AVE. 407 Century Building. 1214 GRAND AVE. THE OLD RELIABLE PAWN SHOP OF SAM LEVY Great Big Bargains in Unredeemed Clothing Jewelry. Special Bargains in Overcoats and Watches for the next 30 days. COME AND CONVINCE YOURSELF. 113 Main Street. WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO KANSAS. For the Moral, Intellec Theological, Classic Theological, Classic tecture, Printing and B Tailoring, Business Coun and Truck Gardening, C Good Buildings, He lege-bred and Industrial Terms $7.50 Per Mo Moral, Intellectual and Industrial Training of Departments. Logical, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Ind. Courses. Logical, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry, Printing and Book-making, Dressmaking and Plait- ing, Business Course and Stenography, Farming, Stor- gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Advantages. Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of T and Industrially Trained Teachers. 1.50 Per Month. School Opens S For the Moral, Intellectual and Industrial Training of our Youth. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry and Architecture, Printing and Book-making, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Tailoring, Business Course and Stenography, Farming, Stock raising and Truck Gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Good Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of Twelve College-bred and Industrially Trained Teachers. For Illustrated Catalogue Just Out Write to WILEIAM T. VERNO WABASH Kansas O Unsurpassed service trains on the Wabash Fair grounds, St. I cent buildings—the Wabash Leaving Kansas O and Buffalo next ev second morning, sa vice. Wabash is th Western Passenger A. WEBEN If you want a go and save m no rent. I T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., Prest., Quin- 5 "FOLLOW THE FLAG Daily Train Kansas City to St. L. passed service, smooth track, fast time the Wabash run directly through the bounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the buildings—the Wabash is the only line that Wabash Train No 8 Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagara alo next evening, aud New York and morning, saving a day's travel. Thro- Wabash is the only line that does it. L. S. McCLELLAN, Passenger Agent. Kansas C EBER, MERCHANT T you want a suit to order here is the place and save money. Why? Because we rent. Come and see WILEIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., Prest., Quindaro, Kas. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnificent buildings—the Wabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No 8. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls and Buffalo next evening, aud New York and Boston second morning, saving a day's travel. Through service. Wabash is the only line that does it. Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. A. WEBER, MERCHANT TAILOR, If you want a suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay no rent. Come and see us. Style, Fit and Finish Up-to-Date. W. Blvd. Kansas ReliABLE DENTIST Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examining most reliable dentists in the city. We have the lice in the city. Our success is due to the uniform done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; antee to Please. Our Reliability is Unqualified backed by a wealthy corporation, and is there to consible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. 2825 S. W. Blvd. RELIABILITY No Delay--Satisfaction We are the most reliable oldest practice in the city grade work done by gentle We Guarantee to Pleas This firm is backed by a oughtly responsible. All No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths We Guarantee to Please. Our Reliability is Unquestioned. This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth.....$4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k.....$2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth.....$2.65 Platinum fillings.....$50c Cleaning.....$50c We do as we advertise NEW YORK DENTAL ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. Main St. Second Floor. Entrance on Main St. Open Daily. Nigh's till 9. Sundry NEW YO ESB 1029 Main St. 1029 Main St. Second Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. Open Daily. Nigh's till 9. Sunday to 10 to 4 TOM MAYER Training of our Youth. Library, State Industrial. Carpentry and Archi- ing and Plain Sewing, Farming, Stock raising. Faculty of Twelve Col- School Opens Sept. 14th. THE FLAG." Trains 5 St. Louis. fast time. All through the World's of all the magnifi- ly line that does it. No 8. Drives Niagra Falls York and Boston el. Through ser- oes it. LELLAN, Kansas City, Mo. ANT TAILOR, is the place to because we pay me and see us. Kansas City, Mo ANTISTRY eth Examined Free We have the largest and to the uniformly high middle ages; no youths utility is Unquestioned. and is therefore thor- 15 years. TEETH WITHOUT PLACE We do as we advertise— We are here to stay. DENTAL CO ERS. free on Main Street only. til 9. Sunday 10 to 4