The Rising Son

Rising Son VOLUME VIII. MISS EMMA BROWN ON NEW WOMANHOOD. "Man once looked up to woman and regarded her as his superior, but in her great desire to be equal with man and to experience the sensation public honor and leadership bring, for woman's two greatest weaknesses, and her love of flattery and her desire to know all things and to explore and fine out the 'why' of everything, these desires have lowered her in man's estimation and now is her time to get back upon the thone and reign queen in the home or wherever the Dispenser of all Good shall design her to be. She should arise, go forward, ascending at every step, till she reaches her God, for she is man's glory and he will come to her. She should aim to be a true woman, stout-hearted and brave. Be one of the brightest of gifts God ever gave. Be a woman of smiles not a woman of tears. Be a woman of hope, not a woman of fears. Be a woman of joy when sorrow assails. Be a help, not a clog, when misfortunes prevail. Never mind if mistakes your life's path should throng; never mind a few jolls as you journey along. Be true to yourself and be true to your God. Be a home joy, a solace, the best that you can. "Oh, be what God made you, a helpmate to man." Trade with Switzerland. Five countries sold more goods to the Swiss in 1902 than the United States—Germany, France, Italy, Austria (frontier countries) and Russia. The grain and petroleum of the latter country enabled her to supplant the United States as the fifth furnisher of goods to this republic. But as a market for Swiss goods the far-off country holds the rank of fourth among the nations of the earth. Limited Knowledge. Booker—"I see a western Shakespearean scholar has revived that old discussion about Bacon. What do you think about it?". Roofer—"Well, all I know is that we have to pay eighteen cents a pound now for the stuff we used to get for twelve." Care of the Bazor A razor is a saw, not a knife, and it works like a saw, not like a knife. Under the microscope its edge is seen to have innumerable fine saw teeth. When these teeth are clogged with dirt honing and stropping will do no good. Dipping it in hot water dissolves out the debris from between the teeth. Town Without Women. Malwatchin, on the borders of Russia, is the only town in the world exclusively inhabited by men. The Chinese women are not allowed to live in this territory, and are even forbidden to pass the great wall of Kalkan and to enter Mongolia. All the Chinese of this border town are traders. Lack Sunday School Teachers. The scarcity of Sunday school teachers is causing much anxiety to London clergymen. In many parishes the teachers complain that their classes are too large to be dealt with effectively and helpers are not forthcoming, even from among crowded congregations. World's Oldest Kitchen. Perhaps the oldest relic in London of a mediaeval kitchen is at Westminster abbey, though little remains to indicate it save the rubble flooring, the buttery hatch and an adjoining cellar, now the handsome dining hall of Canon Wilberforce. The culture of American genseng it getting to be of considerable importance from a commercial standpoint. It is unquestionably the greatest money maker known to the world today. A square rod of ginseng will almost equal, in earning capacity, an acre of ordinary far a crops. Try it. Seeds and plants for sale by Kansas City Ginseng Company, 1425 Spruce avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 3 CARNAVAL A ADA ROBINSON. ```markdown ``` THE FILM MAKER BLACK PATTI. At the Auditorium January 31, one week, Matinee Sunday. Black Patti Troubadours VOELCKEL & NOLAN, Proprietors and Managers. In their Fareical Absurdity, entitled "DARKTOWN'S CIRCUS DAY." (Second Edition) CAST OF CHARACTERS. Bah of Darktown with an eye on Josiah With a love for a circus, ist circus on his hands profession man of the "piece" queen of the arena with the dope opera Josiah Johnson, the Poo-Bah of Darktown ..... Robt A. Kelley Mariah Johnson, his wife, with an eye on Josiah ..... A. D. Byrd Primus, his son ..... Will A. Cook Reuben, his son ..... Mack Allen With a love for a circus. Little Willie, his youngest ..... Billy Ward Prof. Slapenback, with a circus on his hands ..... Al F. Watts Handy Andy, true to his profession ..... Allie Gillam Policeman 7-11, a guardian of the "piece" ..... Leslie Triplett M'mselle Hoplightly, the queen of the arena ..... Ida Forcen Bill Barker, circus spiller with the dope ..... J. P. Reed Henri Tenori, from the opera ..... Jas. E. Worles Percy Hamfat, an actor ..... John Jones Sammy Charcoal ..... Chas. S. Bongia BELLES OF DARKTOWN. Alice Grey, Amie Smith, Georgia Dobos, Lavina Henderson, Ala E. Robinson Aline Cassels, Henrietta Hicks, Nettie Goff, Sarah Green, Georgia Hooper. SYNOPSIS Marktown Circus. Scene 2—In- terior of Theatre. Time of the sketch the following Election... by ATTI TROUF To You," octette... Reed and Bougia; Misses... Messrs. Triplett, E- Star"... Leslie T. Triplett... Rob... for me, me for me". Ada- contest, introducing... "Barn scene 1—Exterior of Darktown Circus. Scene 2—Interior of Darktown Circus. Scene 3—Interior of Theatre. Time—Present. During the action of the sketch the following musical numbers will be introduced: "Coonville Jamboree" selection by Proi. Slapback's Band "Prancing" Chorus BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS. "I've Something to Say to You," octette ..... Messrs. Watts, Worles, Reed and Bougia; Misses Smith, Henderson, Dobbs and Green. The Human "Calliope" ..... Messrs, Triplett, Bougia, Gilliam and Watts "Shine On, My Evening Star" ..... Ida Forcen and Chorus "Bedelia" ..... Leslie T. Triplett, A. Byrd and Chorus Animals' Conversation ..... Robt. A. Kelley and Company Congo Love Song—"You for me, me for me" ..... Ada E. Robinson, Al F. Watts Finale—Buck Dancing Contest, introducing "Barney," the Terrier Mascot INTERMISSION PART II. Y and NETTIE GOFF, Inst. BISSIERETTA JONES, BRI BRD and DOURS, Sketch Art THE CAMP FIRES IN THE L ing the Troubadours Lady Q ALLEN, Slack Wire Equi T A, KELLEY, the "Origina Nothn present selections fr nuding Black Patti (Mue, B Robinson, Alto, James F PART II. ALICE GRAY and NETTIE GOFF, Instrumentalists. MADAME SISSIERETTA JONES, Black Patti. WARD and DOBBS, Sketch Artists. AROUND THE CAMP FIRES IN THE PHILIPPINES Introducing the Troumbours Lady Quartette. MACK ALLEN, Slack Wire Equilibrist. ROBERT A. KELLEY, the "Original Coon." Messrs. Voelckel and Noltn present selections from the Grand and Comic Operas, in costume, including Black Patti (Mme. Sissieretta Jones), Sarab Green, contralto; Ada E. Robinson, Alto; James E. Worles, Tenor; Al. F. Watts, Baritone; Jas. P. Reed, Basso, and a chorus selected from the best Negro voices in this country. Conspirators' Chorus (Mme. Angot) ..... Company "Miserere" (Trovatore) ..... BLACK PATTI, J. E. Worles and Chorus "King of the Winds" ..... James P. Reed March from Tannhauser ..... BLACK PATTI and Company Sextet (Lucia de Lammermoor) ..... BLACK PATTI, Sarah Green, James Worles, A. D. Bryd, Will A. Cooke, James P. Reed and entire Company. STAFF VOELCKEL & NOLAN Proprietors and Managers R. Voelckel Manager with Company John J. Nolan Manager in Advance H. D. Collins Assistant Manager S. A. Raynes Musical Director Al F. Watts Stage Manager Sarah Green Wardrobe Mistress A BOB LELLY. A FINE ROOSEVELT INDORSE MENT. The Republicans of Kansas City and Jackson county put themselves on record at last Tuesday's primaries as being overwhelmingly in favor of the nomination of President Roosevelt. The delegates from every ward and from the county outside the city were instructed to cast their ballots for Roosevelt delegates to the national convention. The vote was surprisingly large considering all the attending circumstances. In the first place, few Republicans could conceive of the possibility of a defeat for the Roosevelt delegations in a city that has shown its approbation of the President's course as Kansas City has. Then, too, the day was extremely cold, and there was only one voting place in each ward. Add to these conditions the proverbial indifference to primaries, and it will be seen that the vote was exceedingly complimentary to the President. And the election was exceptional, too, for the large portion of business and professional men who interested themselves in the results. Ordinarily this class is prone to leave primaries to the political workers and their immediate following. But Tuesday it was largely represented at the polls. --- NUMBER 44 LEXINGTON NEWS Mrs. Smith, niece of Mr. Cliff Bradford and Mrs Allen of Coverton, Ky., is visiting her uncle. They will probably stay a week ortwo. Dr. Howard held service at his church Sunday and some strange minister preached for him. We were unable to learn his name. Mrs. Emma Carver was on the sick list last week and also Mrs. Harrison Curry but they are now some better. Mr. Richard Thrikles who got his leg broke a few weeks ago, is some better. Mrs. Maria Lindsay paid up her subscription for the Rising Son. Miss Alice Lundisay is expecting to go out west on a visit soon. Mr. Henry Elam is quite ill. Rev. Young is now preparing to go to the conference. He has done a good work for his church since he has been here. Every member ought to be proud of him and assist him in getting ready for conference. Mrs. Gordon, the mother of Mrs. Freeman, is some better. Our leading men must be more particular than they have been. You hurt the race especially in this community. Never get bigger than the position you hold, because you hurt us. A hint to the wise is sufficient. Call and see Mr. Conway. He will give you the latest cut. Mrs. Nancy Booker took sick at church Sunday and had to be taken home, but she is now some better. Mrs. Arthur Colman returned home from Sedalia. Miss Daisy Goodwin was called home Saturday to receive her endowment from the S. M. T.'s, the sum of $100. She will return back to Odessa, wheeer she is teaching, Monday evening. There seems to be a dissatisfaction between the white miners and the colored. You remember several years ago we asked you when you joined the union to be sure that you was granted the same privileges and rights as your white brother. You thought then it was wrong. They have drawn the color line. Now, what is it? I say to you colored miners you must unite yourselves together, make a treasury, and put in their every pay day $1 apiece and you will be able to protect yourselves like the white man. If you colored men want to build yourselves up you must attend your meetings and acct yourselves. Cost of War. Wars of the last 3,000 years are supposed to have cost $600,000,000,000. Each man who falls on the battlefield costs $2,740 to kill, and the countries of Europe to day are paying to maintain an "armed neutrality" the small sum of $50 a second. Pay of English Railway Employees. Seventy per cent of English railway employees get less than $6 a week of fifty-six hours, and 40 per cent get less than $5 a week. Day laborers on American railways are paid almost double these wages. Machinery Insurance The Stuttgarter Mit- und Ruckvergicherungs-Aktier-oesellschaft is an insurance company, with a capital of $2,000,000, which insures machinery. Domestic Blunders of Women BY A MERE MAN THE MANAGEMENT OF SERVANTS M Yone idea in these articles is to be strictly fair to women, and not, as so many other writers have done, to attack them unfairly on subjects of vanity, dress, extravagance, or any of the other well-worn topics. To have followed in the lines of my predecessors would, to my mind, have been to prove my own weakness, for we cannot change a woman's nature any more than we can man's, and, therefore, to attack women because they are fickle or vainglorious seems to me as absurd as to attempt to prove that man is not the superior animal because he is, by instinct, fond of cakes and ale. Really, I do not want to attack at all, because it is as natural to me to be fond of women as it is for children to be fond of toys. My real idea is to give women an opportunity for defense, and to prove their strength. It is for this reason that I attack them where they elect to be considered strongest, namely, in their homes. The cry of late years is that women are as good as men, that they have been persecuted and kept under for years, and that, therefore, they should not be expected, in the first years of their emancipation, to be up to competing with men as bread-winners. That is quite reasonable, and, therefore, I do not girl at their mismanagement of the political and commercial sides of life. But the management of the house they have always had, and, as I have said, there they fail sadly either to provide comfort, or to spend money in the proper way. Woman's mission is to always put the blame on some one else. Eve began it. She put the blame on the serpent, and her daughters have ever since blamed the serpent on the hearth—the servant. Do not run away with any idea that I am going, for mere love of paradox, to champion servants. A French writer has said, "So many servants, so many spies," and, in my mind, servants are many things worse than spies. But let servants be, as they are, woman's excuse for everything that goes wrong, just as servants put everything on the cat. I accept the gage. For the purposes of argument, we will admit that servants are at the bottom of all the evils of home life. Now let us inquire into that. The first question to ask the woman in the box, who is giving evidence for the defense, is: "Who engages the servants?" The answer is "I do." The witness, be it understood, is speaking on behalf of women generally. The next question is: "Who directs the servants?" The answer is the same, "I do." Pursuing this line, I ask the rest: "From me!" "And anything they don't know. I may take it, is due to the fact that former mistresses have not taught, or have failed to teach, them?" "That is so." "Then, if the entire education, engaging, paying, managing and discharging of servants is carried on by women, and if the proportion of women over men servants is very large, the entire blame for the unsatisfaction tory state of the servant question must be due to women?" The witness does not answer, and on being pressed, bursts into tears and finally says: "It is all the fault of the men!" Men, as a rule, have nothing to do with servants, the larger proportion of servants are women, and, therefore the faults of servants is only another proof that women are incapable of managing another very large section of a necessity which should go to make comfort and economy in the home. But perhaps it is not fair to judge entirely by majorities. Let us look at the exception, which again proves the rule. Bachelors keep their In one of her tantrums. servants, men or women, for years, and, with a few exceptions, always speak of them as treasures. Why is this? Ask any servant who applies to you for a situation why he or she left his or her last place. The almost invariable answer is: "I could not get on with the mistress." Ask why any gentleman's gentleman, or my lady's maid, left his or her other place, and the answers are always. "The missus, the missus, the missus." As a rule, when a servant gives notice, and is asked by his master why he wishes to leave, the answer is: "I can't satisfy my mistress, sir," or "I can't get on with the cook." Servants very self-complain that they cannot get on with "the master." It is always "the missus." Again I ask—why is this? The most unsatisfactory and sulky female servant will always smile and do anything cheerfully for her master, or the young gentlemen of the house, and when she is in one of her tantrums, it is, in nine cases out of ten, because she cannot get on with the missus, or the young ladies, or the other female servants—for the complaint of servants is always against what they call "She." "She" is the terror of the servant of either sex, and where there is dissension downstairs, the female servant is always at the bottom of it. Does not all this show that mistresses cannot manage servants, and that female servants cannot manage one another? The servants of a house cost as much, as a rule, as the rent and taxes, and yet they never give satisfaction, and are never satisfied. Why is this? I could easily find fifty reasons to account for it. The mistress who overworks, the mistress who underworks, the mistress who is unkind, the mistress who is too kind, the mistress who is too strict, the mistress who is not strict enough, the mistress who makes favorites, etc., etc., would all prove fruitful subjects to enlarge upon were they not too obvious. The remarkable thing about the whole question is, that though money will secure you everything on the earth, no amount of wages will induce servants, as a rule, to stop long in a place. It is a mistake to imagine that servants are independent and love to roam. As a matter of fact, they are terrified to leave, because they never know what character a spiteful mistress may give them, and one bad character means the street. It is the haunting fear of this which makes them, if possible give notice, before they receive it, for this is their only protection. Is it natural to suppose that any friendless, and homeless, and moneyless creature willingly leaves a good roof, good food, and good wages to run the chance of meeting a worse mistress? The thing is absurd, for the motto of servants is the not very lofty one of Gervais: "To have enough to eat and drink, to work all their lives, to die in their beets, and be buried deciently." When I was a little fellow, I heard The mistress who is overkind. a servant say that the fate of a servant was: "To work while you are young, to beg when you are old, and to go to the devil when you die." I have never forgotten it. There is very much to be said on the subject of mistresses and servants—very much more than I have either space or patience for, and there be very little use in saying it if I had, as it seems all very obvious when you come to think of it, which women apparently never do. But this fact remains. We are as much indebted to servants for the comforts of home life as we are to our wives and daughters. The only difference between the two classes is that some of us are allowed to try and manage our wives and daughters, and some of us succeed, but none of us are ever allowed "to interfere with the servants"; all wives and daughters mismanage them, to our sore discomfort and their own; another thing is that we can get rid of our servants, but not of our wives and daughters, who, I candidly believe, are really the most to blame, though, poor souls. I do believe most of them try. The fact remains, however, that women arrogate to themselves the management of servants, and prove their incapacity for the task by the deplorable state of the servant market. Men manage shop girls, waitresses, factory girls, and all sorts of women engaged in their businesses; but men cannot stop at home to manage servants, and if they could, they could not prevent their wives and daughters from interfering. The question is: What, is to be done so that we may live in peace when our day's work is done? It looks like an impasse, but it is not. The larger proportion of servants are women, therefore it is women we have to deal with. The real remedy 4s to promptly sack all your women servants, and engage men only. Men servants will cook, make beds, sweep, and wait at table. Why should they not do so for families? They do it in hotels, especially in France, in restaurants, and in the army. Women apparently cannot, or will not, learn, and women appear to be unable to teach them. Men can teach themselves to cook in a very short time, and all the rest is child's play. Yes, the solution of the servant question is to get rid of your women servants, engage men, and make them entirely answerable to yourselves. Men servants will cost a little more, but one man can do two women's work. Chinamen make capital servants; so do Hindoos. Why not Europeans or Americans? (copyright by Funk & Wagnalls Co.) FOR THEATER AND DINNER WEAR. THE LADY OF THE MIDDLE-STREET THEATRE Girl's Costume. Yoke dresses are always becoming to young girls and are shown in many variations. This one is exceptionally pretty and includes a skirt yoke, as well as one in the waist, that gives smooth fit over the hips while allowing fullness below. The original is made of sapphire blue henrietta with the yokes, sleeve caps and cuffs made of narrow bands of silk, interlaced and held by fancy stitches and laid over white, but all the simpler materials of fashion are suitable and the yokes can be of lace silk or any 4618. Girl's Costume. 8 to 14 years. contrasting material o, made of bands of velvet or silk ribbon in place of the folded silk. The waist is made over a body lining on which the full front and backs and the deep pointed yoke are arranged. The sleeves are the full ones of fashion with caps that combine with the yoke to give the needed broad effect. The skirt is straight, gathered and joined to the yoke, which in turn is joined to the waist. The quantity of material required for the medium size (12 years) is $5\frac{3}{4}$ yards 21 inches wide, $5\frac{1}{4}$ yards 27 inches wide or $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards 41 inches wide, with 20 yards of banding to make as illustrated. The pattern 4618 is cut in sizes for girls of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years of age. Frozen Meat.—When using frozen meat the great point is to slowly and thoroughly thaw it before cooking. Mint Sauce.—When chopping mint for mint sauce, add a little sugar, and you will be able to chop it far more easily. Brushes.—The backs of brushes of silver or nickel can be kept bright by rubbing with a flannel dipped in ammonia. Fruit Tarts.—Put the sugar used for sweetening fruit tarts in the middle of the fruit, not on the top, or it will sodden the pastry. Stale Loaves—Wrap stale loaves in a cloth. Dip into hot water for half a minute, take off the cloth and bake for a quarter of an hour in a steady oven. In the Wash.—The linen turns yellow after washing because it is not rinsed enough. The soap left in at the laundry turns the garments yellow in wear. How to Cook Liver. Here is an appetizing way to have liver for a dinner, that may be new to FOR THEATER Bertha waists of all sorts are in vogue, but none other has the peculiar charm of the handkerchief sort the grace of which is apparent at a glance. This one is made of violet crepe de Chine with yoke and cuffs of chiffor, velvet and trimming of ceru lace, but both yoke and cuffs can be omitted and the waist made low with elbow sleeves when desired. The pointed outline of the yoke and the IN WOMAN'S INTEREST some. Cook or try about three slices of fresh pork to a pound of liver, have fried onions with it, and also a gravy improves it. Cut all the meat up in quite small pieces, put it altogether in a deep dish with the onions and gravy poured over. Don't buy the red liver, it is not near as good as the yellow, try it, and you will see; and don't cook the liver the least bit too much, as frequently happens; it will be so different when just cooked through. Cleaning Fancy Collars. Net and lace collars, that there is danger of pulling out of shape during the washing process, should be carefully folded and sewed lightly together before being put into the suds. Never rub things of this kind. Make a suds with soap-jelly and warm water. Lay the folded collars in this and leave for twenty minutes or half an hour. Then squeeze in your hand and souse up and down in suds till clean. Repeat the process in another clean lot of suds if there is any doubt of the cleanliness, and finally rinse in warm water and squeeze as dry as you can. If ironed at once on a well-covered board, wrong side up, first under a cloth and then without, no starch will be needed. Miniature painted pins are again in fashion, but this time they are of copper instead of china. They are mounted in gunmetal, all shapes and sizes, and are prettier than any miniature pin shown in many years. They are used for bolts, brooches, hat pins and coin cases. The coin cases have the appearance of being watches, and the pictures are usually surrounded by tiny rhinestones. On opening the case by the spring, just as a watch would open, and touching an interior spring, the coin emerges. This is a clever arrangement, and there is no danger of losing the coins. Tucked Blouse. Blouse or shirt waists made with tucks arranged in groups are among the designs shown for the advance season and are admirable for the new cotton and linen waistings of spring as well as for the wool ones of immediate wear. This one is made of mercerized cotton showing lines of blue on white and is unlined, but can be used either with or without the fitted lining and is available for all materials in vogue cotton and linen waistings of spring as well as for the wool ones of immediate wear. This one is made of mercerized cotton showing lines of blue on white and is unlined, but can be used either with or without the fitted lining and is available for all materials in vogue. The full length tucks at each side of the center, with those at the shoulders which extend to yoke depth only, make a most desirable combination, while those at the back give the tapering lines that always are becoming. The waist consists of the fitted lining, fronts and back. At the center front is a regulation shirt waist plait that meets the groups of tucks at each side. The sleeves are tucked to be snug from the shoulders to the elbows, but are full below and are gathered into straight cuffs. At the neck is worn a fancy stock of silk, with a turn over collar of white lawn. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 4 yards 21 inches wide, $3 \frac{1}{4}$ yards 27 inches wide or $2 \frac{1}{4}$ yards 44 inches wide. AND DINNER WEAR. deep points of the bertha make noteworthy features and the gauntlet cuffs are among the latest shown. To make the waist for a woman of medium size will be required $5\frac{1}{4}$ yards of material 21, 4 yards 27 or $2\frac{1}{4}$ yards 44 inches wide, with one yard of velvet and $6\frac{1}{4}$ yards of appliqués. A May Manton pattern. No. 4604, sizes 32 to 40, wirt be mailed to any address on receipt of ten cents. 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch bust measure. Waist With Fancy Yoke Collar. Every woman knows the value of a gown that can be made high or low neck as occasion demands. This very charming model accomplishes that end and is eminently smart under both conditions. As shown it is made of white crepe meteore with heavy cream lace as trimming. The yoke-collar is separate and can be worn over the waist made low, as shown A 4607 Waist with Fancy Yoke Collars, 32 to 40 bust in the small sketch, or over the entire foundation as preferred. The sleeves form full soft puffs that extend slightly below the elbows and can be made with or without the deep cuffs. To make the waist for a woman of medium size will be required 4½ yards of material 21 inches wide, 4 yards 27 or 2½ yards 44 inches wide. A May Manton pattern No. 4607, sizes 32 to 40 will be mailed to any address on receipt of ten cents. An Underskirt Any girl who has an old party frock of taffetta can make a very pretty underskirt to wear with her house and evening gowns. For the ruffle get wash net, or point d'esprit, and across the bottom place bias bands of silk. Sew the ruffle to the skirt with another band and you have a very dainty affair. Floral Chains in Place of Beads Floral chains are taking the place of the bead ones, which have been so popular until recently. These floral fancies are made of ribbon or silk, and are worn chain fashion. Violetts, bounon roses and forget-me-nots are the favorites. Informal TALKS Knife cleaning will be more easily accomplished if you mix a little carbonate of soda with the bath brick on the knife board. When making cakes begin by warming the basin. This will cause the ingredients to mix more readily and the result will be a lighter cake. If a cork seems too big for the neck of a bottle, soak it for three or four minutes in boiling water and then try it again. It will probably go in then quite easily. Wash children's slates occasionally with water in which washing soda is solved. This will take off the greasiness which makes writing on the slate a difficulty. PRETTY THINGS TO Wear Fur is the ultra modish trimming. Sheer light evening gowns are set off with ermine fur. Squirrel and moleskin are used on darker gowns. Jet fringes are favored for sheer black or white frocks. On evening gowns green velvet leaves make an attractive decoration. Embroideries in rich oriental colorings, flecked with gold and silver, bear the stamp of excellent style. Buttons of all sizes are used, cut steel being most costly and brilliant. Enameled buttons are employed to carry out the color scheme on a frock. Readers of this paper can secure any May Manton pattern illustrated above by filling out all blanks in the cover, and mailng, with 10 cents, to E. H. Harrison & Co. 65 Plymouth Place, Chicago. Pattern will be mailed promptly. Name ... Town ... State ... Pattern No. ... Waist Measure (if for skirt) ... Bust Measure (if for waist) ... Age (if child's or miss's pattern) ... Write plainly. Fill out all blanks. Enclose 10c. Mail to E. E. Harrison & Co., 65 Plymouth Place, Chicago. STATE OF OHO, CITY OF TOLEDO, as. FRANK J. CHENRY makes oath that he is senior partner of the arm of F. J. CHENRY & Co., doing at the estate of his late aunt, and that said will will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLL. AS for each and every person may not be cured by the use of HALY'S CURVE CURSE. NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. NAMES & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Drugsists, 766. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Atmosphere in the Home. The real art of decorating, says an authority, is to allow nothing to be in a house that is not a treasure. Having established this principle, then surround these treasures with a fitting atmosphere. It is this marvelous gift of atmosphere that makes the treasures (even though they may be commonplace in the eyes of the vulgar) effective or ineffective. Smokers find Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 56 cigar better quality than most 10c brands. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. A widow can make people believe she could learn a lot even from young girl. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. The fellow who wants a soft berth generally has to oust some one else out of it. Try One Package. If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. When love flies out of the window, alimony walks in at the door. The U. S. Dart. of Agriculture U. C. N. Dept. of Agriculture Gives to Salzer's Oats its heartiest endorser. Endorsement New National Oats yielded in 1903 from 150 to 300 bu. per acre in 30 different States, and you, Mr. Farmer, can beat this in 1904. If you will, Salzer's seeds are pedigree seeds, bred up through careful selection to big yields. Salzer's Beardless Barley Per Acre Salzer's yielded..... 121 bu. Salzer's Home Builder Corn..... 300 bu. Speltz and Macaroni Wheat..... 80 bu. Salzer's Victoria Rape..... 60,000 lbs. Salzer's Teosinte, the quick-growing fodder wonder.....160,000 lbs. Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass..... 50,000 lbs. Salzer's Pedigree Potatoes..... 1,000 bu. Now such yields pay and you can have them Mr. Farmer in 1904. SEND IOG IN STAMPS and this notice to the John A. Salzer-Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and you will get their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples free. (W. N. U.) It is usually the silly woman who succeeds in duping the wise man. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teaching, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, also pain, cures wrist cold. 200 bottle. Some girls find it easier to pick a quarrel than to pick a husband. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Quinine Tablets. All drugstores refund money if it fails to cure. 200 Limit to Speed. It is the opinion in engineering circles that steam railway engines have now reached their highest possible speed for regular traffic. The weight of machinery required, and the waste of energy in carrying fuel and transforming it into power, seriously hamper further speed development. Village In Volcano. A little Japanese village, thirty miles from the town of Kumamoto, is situated in the center of a volcano, which may some day become active. The village, lying 900 feet below the top of the volcano, the walls of which are very steep, is quite hidden. Its 2,000 inhabitants seldom leave this place. Value of the Banana The banana possesses all the essentials to the sustenance of life. Of wheat alone, or potatoes alone, this cannot be said. When taken as a steady diet the banana is cooked—baked dry in the green state, pulped and boiled in water as a soup or cut in slices and fried. A Dentist's Advice. Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 25th.—Mr. Harry L. Lewis, Dentist, 607 Sumit street, this city, says: "I certainly advise anyone, no matter how severe they may have Kidney Trouble to take Dodd's Kidney Pills. "I was troubled with Kidney Disease for several years and Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me. I had used many so-called remedies without any benefit. Four months ago, I was flat on my back with this painful trouble and must say that I almost gave up hopes of ever getting any better. Through a friend's advice I purchased six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. "At first I could see but little benefit, but after two weeks, I could see an improvement. I had been getting up several times at night and pines in my back were very severe. When I had taken six boxes I felt better than I had for years. The pain had all gone and I didn't have to get up during the night at all. I continued the treatment until I had used several more boxes, and now I am glad to say that I am completely cured." Paradoxical as it may seem, you can save yourself a lot of trouble by getting rid of it. If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothes use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 on package, 5 cents. Whine a man is under a cloud the silver lining theory doesn't always hold good. In dreams his life passed by him in review. He looked and saw there cold condition's thrall. Although the world said he had failed, he knew That he was, somehow, helpless in it all. That he was, howone, helpless in it all. Give credit for his effort, brave and true— Full praise and rank for doing all he can. Not what he reaches, not what he can do. The thing he reaches for feeds his heart too. Don't blame him if perchance he soon should fall. Struck down by circumstances' deadly hand. If, climbing to the heights o'ertopping all. In face of odds that no one can command. A rock o'erhanging falls and crushes him. Say not he would not climb who died to climb. Blame not the builder of the fated ship, Should helmsman let her run upon the rock. The house may not be wrong, though timbers slip And tremble at the earthquake's awful shock. We cannot judge the works of man or God. Each man treads paths no other man e'er trad. Wilshire's Magazine. QUIET HOUR Prayer. And he said unto them. When ye pray say, Our Father—Luke xl., 2. Jesus took it for granted that men were going to pray. He always prayed himself. It was his habit, his nature, his life. The evangelists fail to tell us many things which he said and did, but they make large room for his prayers. His praying was one of the outstanding and awe inspiring features of his life. He was found praying before every important step in his career. And what he did he expects all men to do. To lift his eyes to heaven and say "Father" was natural and easy, but it is not so easy to many of us, and some of us have doubts as to its reasonableness and value. We are living in an age when men are determined to get if possible to the bottom of things. Everything is subjected to analysis, investigation, criticism, Prayer, as all admit, has roots which run down into the realms of mystery, and it is not surprising that earnest people should be asking many questions about it. Before prayer is studied in its scientific aspects let the soul commune long with God. Praying is an instinct, a deep-seated instinct in every unspoiled heart. If it is safe to follow the hint given by a falling eyelid and postpone all study until the mind has been refreshed by sleep, so also is it safe to follow the instinct which at certain times impels us to throw a passionate wish Godward. If, then, you have your questions, pray first and face your questions afterward. If you have your doubts, pray first and then deal with them one by one. The chemistry of prayer is interesting, but it is demoralizing if the study of it is made a substitute for lifting one's eyes to heaven and saying. "Father." In these words of Emerson, "As well might a child live without its mother's milk as a soul without prayer." One reason why many persons have lost faith in the efficacy of prayer is because they and others have made their prayers too small. Let us discard the notion that prayer is simply asking for things. Prayer is, first of all, adoration, pouring out the soul in the presence of manifested greatness and beauty. When in the scriptures we catch glimpses of the worship which goes on behind the veil we do not hear angel or archangel or saint asking for things. The burden of the prayer is, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty." Surely we violate no law of the universe when we adore. Prayer is thanksgiving; it is giving something to God. It is the glory of man to be able to return thanks. Animals do not know how to feel or to say "I thank you." But to feel gratitude is human and to give expression to it is always becoming. We will not allow a boy to pick up our handkerchief for us in the street without some vocal recognition of his kindness; what shall we say of men and women who take the good things which the great God offers to them daily and turn away without ever once saying in heart or by lip, "I thank thee?" Surely there is no law in God's universe which is transgressed by the expression of glad and genuine gratitude. Prayer is also confession. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous—no, not one. We have all broken the commandments of the Heavenly Father, and modern science has discovered nothing which renders it unreasonable for a man to say to God: "I have sinned. I am sorry." The man who tramples on us in the street and hurries on without so much as "I beg your pardon" is put down instantly as a boor, and where does a man belong who, sinning against his Creator, never asks to be forgiven? Many a man' is discontented, sour, and ill at ease because he carries in his heart a load of unforgiven sins.— Rev. C. B. Jefferson. . One Source of Danger. Each battlefield has perils that are all its own, says the Archbishop of Canterbury; and there are those which belong essentially to the stir and haste in which we are called to live, and even to the wideness and the speed of the knowledge which is within our daily reach. We are furnished nowadays, as men never were before furnished, from a hundred sources with new facts, almost every hour, about what is going on in the world; facts, if we consider them, whereof each caries its share of human joy and sorrow; an accident here, a shipwreck there, a fire, an inundation, a great crime, or, perhaps, somewhere far away, a famine or earthquake, or the outbreak of some war. We read these things daily, and we cannot, without an effort, realize that they happened only a few hours before, that the harrassing anxiety, the crushing grief are, even at the moment we read, bowing the head or breaking the heart of those on whom the blow has fallen; and yet somehow we cannot bring ourselves to care very much. The unending series of facts, of human sorrows, brought ceaselessly before us day by day, is apt, beyond question, unless we are kept by God, to bring a dead ening of the power God gave us of practical human sympathy, and to induce the habit of passing by on the other side. Christ's Never-Failing Love Christ's Never-Falling Love. No words can describe Christ's enthusiasm for God's children, for whom he has fitted up a world so beautiful as this, says the Rev. N. D. Hillis. Standing upon the corner of the street, he watched the multitude go surging by, clothed in rags, faces wan and gaunt, seared with passion and sin, and broken-hearted and disappointed; and, watching, his heart was moved with compassion, and he stretched out hands of loving help. Stooping, he took the little child in his arms, and in that moment his love hung above the babe as once the star hung above his own manger. With eyes filled with all-comprehending and all-comforting love, he sought for the prodigal who had made his life a waste and a desolation as others seek for a diamond lost in the pubish. With infinite hope and winsome love he gazed upon the publican and the prodigal, as some miner stands in the gorge that is rich with treasures of gold that lie just beneath the surface. And the common people owe their rise in happiness chiefly to his attitude, teachings and influence. Opportunity Offered to All. Lost opportunities never come again, but it is never too late to get all that is left. A noble-hearted fellow, who had been rescued from a life of debauchery and crime, stood on the deck of a steamer telling a companion how he came to turn darkness to light. Suddenly he pointed to the sun, its crimson orb just setting in the expanse of the sea. "Just look at that!" he exclaimed, "and to think how in all those years I missed the beauty and glory that I might have seen! That sun was just as magnificent then as now, but I was down among the beer-kegs, caring more for them than for this glorious sight." And then he exulted in his present opportunity, and the power that the gospel had given him to see the beauty and the sublimity of God's handiwork. Do we realize how sin deprives us of our great opportunities? What a wealth lies within our reach! Poverty comes from within. To be in Christ is to be a possessor of infinite riches. Inspiration of the Christian. It requires no courage to fight when victory is assured. The true hero will battle for the right though defeat is sure. In the long run truth and righteousness will wear out error and wickedness, though every fight be lost. That which ought to be will be finally. Men perish, but God endures. No one is a fit recruit for Christian soldierhood who does not "endure as seeing Him that is invisible." To lose one's life for the right is to find it. "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." The soldiers of the Cross fall, but God rescues the standard, and with fresh rallies renews the war for the world's final peace. "Lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," is the inspiration of Christian endeavor. Helping Others to Christ. Huber, the great naturalist, tells us that if a single wasp discovers a deposit of honey or other food, he will return to the nest and impart the good news to his companions, who will sally forth in great numbers to partake of the fare which has been discovered for them. Shall we who have found honey in the rock Jesus Christ be less considerate to our fellow men than wasps are of their fellow insects? asked Mr. C. H. Spurgeon. Ought we not rather, like the Samaritan woman, hasten to tell the good news? Common humanity should prevent one of us from concealing the great discovery which grace has enabled us to make. Heroism. Herolism always bears a cross before it wears a crown. SOUNDING THE ALARM. GERMAN PRESS WAKE UP !!! WE MUST RESIST THIS YANKEE INVASION GERMANY --- TELLS PLAIN TRUTII. TELLS PLAIN TRUTII. CHAMBERLAIN'S POWERFUL ADDRESS AT CARDIFF. Upon the Consuming Capacity of Their Own People All Producing Countries Must Mainly Depend for General and Permanent Prosperity. Among the speeches delivered by Joseph Chamberlain in his vigorous campaign for protection in Great Britain, that of Nov. 20 at Cardiff is one of the ablest and most interesting. His main endeavor was to enforce the proposition that it is upon its own home market that a country must chiefly depend for substantial and enduring prosperity. In this he succeeded thoroughly. He told the Cardiff coal operators that it was of far more value to them to sell their coal for use at home than to export it to foreign countries, and that they would suffer from any condition that should work against the industries of Great Britain as a whole. The story of the lost trade in tin plate must have made a strong impression upon the Welshmen who had lost it. In 1832, Mr. Chamberlain told them, they exported 450,000 tons, and the United States was their principal market. Last year they sold only 65,000 tons to the United States. The McKinley tariff of 1891 was what brought about the change. As the United States now produces 400,000 tons of tin plate yearly and employs 50,000 wage earners in that industry. He warned the Welshmen that they could not hope to hold even the trade of 65,000 tons, for the United States will soon make all of the tin plate which it requires. Just at this point Mr. Chamberlain made a curious slip. He declared that in 1890, if Great Britain had had a protective tariff as a basis for comparion on the tin plate could have been prevented. Said he: "What special interest had the United States of America in keeping a trade which only amounted to 550 tons of tin plate, if we had been able to go to them and say, 'If you will leave tin plates to us, we will in return give you something;' or even if we had said, 'If you will leave tin plates to us, there is something we will take from you.' And in either of these cases if we had dealt with business men, as business men ourselves, I believe we could have made an ar- SOUNDING rangement. It would have been better worth while for Mr. McKinley to have allowed tin plates to remain to us, provided on his side, he had employment for American workmen to a larger extent in some other industry in which America was interested." We think Mr. Chamberlain is mistaken in supposing it possible to have made such a dicker with Mr. McKinley, just as we think he will experience great difficulty in persuading the colonies to refrain from industrial development along lines that conflict with British production. The tendency of live, progressive peoples of the Anglo-Saxon race is to make things for themselves, not to pay foreigners for making them. Mr. McKinley had the sagacity to see in tin plate the possibilities of a new and valuable industry if suitably safeguarded by a protective tariff, and it is idle to suppose that he could have been persuaded to side track his splendid project because of any trade dicker which Great Britain could possibly have proposed. Neither do we think that Canada and Australia will consent to stifle their own industrial development in return for the proffer of tariff preferences on their natural products. Mr. Chamberlain will undoubtedly succeed in displacing free trade and installing protection, but he has yet to learn what protection is not, and that the old plan of keeping the colonies in a state of industrial subjection and dependency will not work. The world is moving too fast for that. FREE-TRADE STALKING HORSE Reciprocity Being Used as an Indirect Way of Surrendering the Home Market. The proposition to establish "closer trade relations with Canada" has been stirred up once more. The stirring up comes from the towns and cities in the United States located along the Canadian border. Such towns and cities, for their own benefit, would like to have free trade with Canada. As a result of such free-trade they would secure family supplies, such as butter, eggs, beef and pork, cheaper than at the present time. The hotels and cottagers along the great St. Lawrence river, if free trade were established, would buy their commissary supplies much cheaper than at the present time. The American camper along the St. Lawrence can steal over into Canada and buy a leg of mutton for about half the American price, and he concludes that that is a nice thing to be able to do. Everything is cheaper in Canada than in the United States because there is a greater demand in the United States and more people to be fed. If our tariff laws were changed several millions of Americans living near the Canadian borders would be fed and fatten on the products of Canada. These are the issues as they are and not as they are made to appear to be at the so-called "reciprocity" conventions. The "reciprocity" sentiment comes from Minneapolis, where the mills are sighing for Canadian wheat; from Detroit, where the people would like to have the American wage system continued and also like to have the benefit of the low priced farm and family supplies from across the border in Canada. The Minneapolis mills are now owned by English capital and the Minneapolis newspapers announce that they are in favor of "reciprocity with Canada," which would include free wheat. A great many people in Boston are in favor of "reciprocity with Canada because they could buy beef and pork butter and eggs cheaper from the Canadians than they can buy them now from the people of Iowa. By the way how could a Canadian treaty be arranged? Are we to swap wheat for wheat, corn for corn, hogs for hogs cattle for cattle, butter for butter eggs for eggs? These are competitive articles. They are the staples of both countries. Blaine's idea of reciprocity was to swap northern products for tropical products. He never proposed to try to trade with the people that were in the same business as the people of our own country. Reciprocity treats with Canada have been difficult and unsatisfactory because both people are in the same business. The Americans have the advantage of the Canadians because we have a great country and a great home market. They have a great country and no home market. Therefore they are talking gibbly about "reciprocity" and suggesting that the American people are mean and "ungenerous" because they do not trade and buy more stuff from Canada. Some of our own people say that we ought to be good and THE ALARM. GERMAN PRESS WAKE UP !!! WE MUST RESIST THIS YANKEE INVASION GERMANY blow our money into Canada. Reciprocity as a general proposition is now simply used as a means of giving up part of the American home market to the foreigner. Some people are attempting to do by reciprocity what they have been unable to do by free trade.—Des Moines Capital. Olive Milns. Protectionist. "I was driven out of England," says Olive Milns in a contribution to the American Economist. Why? Not for any crime, not because of any offense, or dereliction. Simply because, as a woman, she could not support herself in that free trade country. So she came to this protected country. With what result she tells most forcibly and entertainingly. Denied the privilege of self-respecting self-support in the land of her birth, she "sailed for this glorious country," as she says, "where industries are protected from foreign competition, where a woman can be somebody and do something for herself." No American can read the story told by Miss Milns without a feeling of pride at the tribute which she pays to the superior conditions which prevail here in relation to woman's work. No fair mind can reject her conclusion that it is because of protection that women find in our country opportunities and possibilities such as are not to be had in free trade England. It is a potent plea for protection from a woman's point of view. A Food Tariff in England The fear has been expressed in some quarters that a food tax in England will lessen the market value of our exports of agriculture. Singularly enough this sort of opinion comes from those who have all their lives held that the consumer pays the tax. It cannot be denied that a British tax on food might have some effect on the price of our agricultural exports, but it would be because of a lowered consumption on account of higher British prices, and not because the British can transfer his import tax to the American producer.—Kansas City Journal LASTING RELIEF. J. W. Walls, Super- intendent of Streets of Lebanon, Ky. "My nightly rest was broken, owing to irregularities of the kidneys. I suffered intensely from severe pain in the small of my back and through the kidneys and was annoyed by painful passages of abnormal secretions. Doctors failed to relieve me. I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills and I experienced quick and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney Pills will prove a blessing to all sufferers from kidney disorders who will give them a fair trial." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., propletors. For sale by all druggists. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., propletors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. It's the love of the other fellow for your money that is the root of all evil. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to light and washing. A man's opinion of his neighbors' is generally governed by his neighbors' opinion of him. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Physical culture is one thing and carrying coal up three flights of stairs is quite another. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. Any wise wife knows it is policy to let hubby think he is the boss. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. has an up-hill time of it. has an up-hill time or it. Many a man is on the level and yet Mother Gray, Sister Teachers for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishism, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Worm Drops. Over 300,000testimonials. At all Drugstiffs, 25c. Sample FREE Address A. S. Olmsted, LeKoy, N.Y. We are too apt to share our troubles and keep our joys to ourselves. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. Dodging the Tax Collector. In the American citizen's attitude toward his debt to the state, at least so far as the rich are concerned, is perceived a steadily strengthening inclination to make fewer and less insistent demands upon himself. He discards the high sense of honor required by his social code and resorts to various devices, scarcely stopping short of down right perjury to dodge the tax collector—Boston Advertiser. Quadricycle Fire Engine. A quadricycle, composed of two tandem bicycles arranged side by side, has been invented in Paris to serve as a fire engine in cases of emergency. It is worked by four men, and is fitted up with the necessary hose pipes and fittings, which occupy the space between the riders. On reaching the scene of action it will be the work of a minute to bring the hose pipes into play on the fire. Statue of Pope Leo Bondi, the Italian sculptor, has commenced to work on the great marble statue of the late pontiff, which will crown a hill that overbooks Carpineto, Italy, Pope Leo's birthplace. Agriculture in Castile. Land in Castle is in greater part devoted to the production of wheat, and during planting and harvest times laborers, especially reapers, are taken there from Galicia. DR FED HIMSELE Found the Food that Saved His Life. A good old family physician with a lifetime experience in saving people finally found himself sick unto death. Medicines failed and —— but let him tell his own story. "For the first time in my life of sixty-one years I am impelled to publicly testify to the value of a largely advertised article and I certainly would not pen these lines except that, what seems to me a direct act of Providence, saved my life and I am impressed that it is a bounden duty to make it known. "For 3 years I kept falling with stomach and liver disorders until I was reduced 70 lbs, from my normal weight. When I got too low to treat myself, 3 of my associate physclans advised me to 'put my house in order' for I would be quickly going the way of all mankind. Just about that time I was put on a diet of Grape-Nuts #edigested food. Curiously enough it quickly began to build me up, appetite returned and in 15 days I gained 6 lbs. That started my return to health and really saved my life. "A physician is naturally prejudiced against writing such a letter, but in this case I am willing to declare it from the houseets that the multiplied thousands who are now suffering as I did can find relief and health as easily and promptly by Grape-Nuts. If they only knew what to do. Sincerely and Fraternally yours." Name of this prominent physician furnished by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." A CALENDAR WATCH. The First One Coat $2,600—Made for Napoleon Bonaparte. A watch that tells the second, minute, hour, day of the week, day of the month, and changes of moon, is a timepiece that until recently could be owned only by the nobility because of the high cost. The first one cost $2,600 and was made entirely by hand and consumed over two years time in construction. About 50 years later a Swiss concern placed some on the market which could be sold in this country for about $200 each. This watch that has hitherto been sold at a price which only the well-to-do could afford, has just been put on the market at a low price and it is a watch which fills a long felt want. If a watch tells us the hour and the minute of the day, why should not the same machine tell us the day of the week, day of the month, and month of the year? A prominent manufacturer has realized the usefulness, if not the actual necessity of such a time-piece, and by simplifying the mechanism and arranging to turn them out in large quantities, has, after several years of work and the expenditure of a large amount of money, succeeded in producing a watch thoroughly reliable in every way. This watch is a perpetual calendar as well as a time-piece, and what is of more interest to the public, is sold at a price but a fraction above that of an ordinary watch of like grade. Contrary to the supposition of the uninitiated, it is not an intricate assembly of complicated parts, but is as simple as any regular time-piece. On the dial, in addition to the small second dial, it has three small dials of like character, one showing the days of the week, another the days of the month, while a third shows the month of the year. By an ingenuous attachment to one of the wheels, when the hour and minute hands show midnight, the small hands indicating the days of the week and the days of the month, move forward automatically one day, thus saving the wearer the necessity of changing the calendar attachment, and in consequence the watch needs no care or attention after being once correctly set except to be wound regularly. The manufacturers have been quick to appreciate the certainty of a large demand for this article in this country and have arranged to market them through Delhart Mufrs. & Traders, Ltd., a prominent New York house who, as an introductory measure will furnish them direct to the public. An article that so completely fills the want has seldom been seen, and has hitherto been utterly disregarded by manufacturers. It can consistently be said that for usefulness and reliability this is one of the most attractive articles in the watch line. An advertisement setting forth the merits of this watch appears also where in these columns. Even the silk covered umbrella has its ups and downs. CAPSICUM VASELINE (GETTING IN COLLECTION TERMS) A substitute for and superior to blister or any other skin condition, the most delicate skin. The painless and corrosive qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend the best treatment for this condition as an external remedy for pain in the chest and stomach and all the nausea, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for its affordability. Many people say it is the best of all your preparations. Price 15 cents, at all dousers or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we are accepted by the public unless the same cartes our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROURO MFG. CO., XII XII XII CALENDAR WATCH (Cut Full Size) These changes are made AUTOMATICALLY at mat. The movement is setstem and setat. Pivoting缸 jeawed holes heat grade, expansion balance quite highly decorated decorated depth, accuracy and reliability. Made in Switzerland and nearly all by handwork in the city of Zurich, the difference is the diffie distance indicate. Every man will want a few nava and useful timespaces. If used on examination, you do not find everything as represented. We are the selling agents for the DELLIHARI WATCHER and only a limited number at the present price. Quantities of two or more $400 each. New York, NY expresses cargo to any part of the United States, all orders accompanied with re- mittance in full. REFERENCES. Commercial Agencies, New York Banks, or any Express Company. ADDRESS DELLHART MANUFACTURERS & TRADERS, LTD., Dept. D. 7 E. 17th Street, NEW YORK THE RISING SON. LEWIS WOODS..... Business Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... 83.54 Six months ..... 7.5 Three months ..... 6.0 One month ..... 1.8 Selectly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write as All news matter intended for pubi lation should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of auth- enticity. OFFICE: No. 117 West Sixth St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. For one inch, one insertion.....8.50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion.....20 For two inches, three months.....5.00 For two inches, six months.....8.00 For two inches, nine months.....10.00 For two inches, twelve months.....15.00 ... 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. PRESIDENT: ROOSEVELT Great credit is due to President Roosevelt for the universal prosperity with which this country is being crowned. Business failures have been tew and the commercial growth is steady. His splendid statesman like course toward us as a free people has been such to endear him to us and our posterity, and wishing to see his broad minded administration continue for another tena, we heer and now pledge our unqualified support to his nomination and election in 1904. He has proved himself the worthy successor and peer of Lincoln, Grant and McKinley. His fair and impartial attitude toward our people from every section of this great country, has convinced us that every man whose case comes before him, will receive the same careful consideration, characteristic of him, regardless of his color or previous condition. We speak of selfmade men as though they were miracles. In referring to them as such as mean that, in spite of difficulties, they have attained remarkable excellence. But every worthy individual is selfmade, by the grace of God. Even under the most favorable circumstances a man, if he is to amount to anything, must make himself. It, therefore, behooves us to go to work upon ourselves. We ought to take ourselves more seriously in the highest possible sense. We have capacities. God has made us for some good; He has given us each one talent at least. The sons of God, we do not belong to the rubbish pile of the universe. If we will take ourselves in hand—if we will be ours and not try to be somebody else—if we will serve our town mission—if we will faithfully and honestly accept and meet the situation as we find it, we will surprise ourselves sooner or later when the results will begin to appear. Japanese Idea of Beauty. In Japan a lady who has a huge proboseis is always a great beauty and a reigning belle. There are a few large noses among the natives, and hucky is he or she upon whom nature lavishes one. In all Japanese pictures representing the supposedly beautiful woman the artist invariably improves on nature by depicting this feature as abnormally developed. Coffee Growing. The land used for coffee growing, exclusive of the area used for the production of other fruit in connection with coffee, exceeds 3,600,000 acres. The value of the property, including buildings, machinery and other utensils, is more than $1,350,000,000, based on the low values that have prevailed from 1900 to 1902. Rice as a World's Food: Only one-third of the world's population use bread as a daily article of food. Nearly one-half of the people of the world subsist chiefly on rice. God has punished other people who forgot Him. Some day He will snatch His arm of protection from around us, on account of our deceit and the deception in our churches. The police judge of Kansas City should be a man of high standing, of true principal of law and order. We know it is a sacrifice to the man we are goin gto mention, but for the sake of good government, let us persuade Cyrus Crane to become our candidate. The committee in session a few nights ago at the Midland hotel were some of the leading Republicans of Kansas City. They made no mistake when they solicited J. H. Neff, the propieeor of the Drover's Telegram, to enter the race for mayor. Mr. Neff is a business man of high standing, good qualities, and in fact, has all the characteristics which go with a good mayor. We invite all the Davis element and all other elements that have the Republican party in its heart to get on the ship that is going through. To the Negro Theater Goers:—Why don't you quit talking about being insulted in the Kansas City theaters? Has the house got to fall down on you before you can take a tumble? To the Subscribers of the Son after One year has rebuffs our collector will come around in the of Mr. Dayton Please pay him yo mo yo ow so pay up and give us a chance Please don't say yo ar coming down as never come. I have got time looko yo up so pay to the one that bring yo the Bill GOODS Mer Dare Holes in iron With Oxygen. The well-known combustion supporting properties of oxygen are turned to advantage in a new German process for perforating thick iron plates. The part in question is heated to incandescence by an oxyhydrogen blowpipe and then subjected to the full action of a jet of pure oxygen. A hole of a determined size is bored within four minutes through a twelve-inch iron plate. Water in Food. Foods which contain only a small percentage of water are usually unfit for human consumption until they have been cooked. This simply means that the culinary art, reduced to its simplest terms, consists in innumerable devices for adding water to food in an attractive manner. Spanish Beggars. There are 190,227 professional bergars in Spain, of whom 51,948 are women. In some of the cities beggars are licensed to carry on their trade. Seeking alms is recognized as a legitimate business, and the municipality demands a percentage upon the collections. Seville is the only city in the kingdom which forbids begging in the streets. Cradled in Water Lily Leaves. Caught in Water Ery Leaves. Down in Brazil the babies of the peasants are rocked in fairylike cradles made of the leaves of water lilies floating in their natural state, these leaves are very large, frequently measuring a yard in diameter, circular in shape and with an edge which turns up an inch or more, like the border around the tray. True Bravery. Who is the man that in the course of his life is not capable of an act of courage or of a generous action? That which characterizes the truly brave man is the habit of perfect calmness in the midst of dangers; it is the daily and constant application of the principles of conscience.—Scudo. Aids Prof. Koch A Vienna manufacturer, Leopold Kupelwieser, prompted by the result of Prof. Koch's investigations relating to intermittent fever, has placed at Dr. Koch's disposal the island of Brioni (situated west of the peninsula of Istria and about sixty miles south of Trieste) to enable him to continue there his investigations. Fencing May fairly claim advantage over almost every other exercise in that it develops equally body, brain and nerves. Physical strength less than mental concentration is here required. If every muscle of the body is called into requisition, even more so is every quality of the brain. Oldest Church Building The oldest building in the world that has been uninterruptedly used for church purposes is St. Martin's cathedral in Canterbury. The building was originally erected for a church, and has been regularly used as a place for religious gatherings for more than 1,500 years. Wouldn't Happen Again. "Please excuse my son's absence from school," wrote Paterfamilias to the teacher. "He had to stay at home because his mother cooked, but it won't happen again." Artificial Honey A greater part of the honey sold in this country never saw the inside of a bee hive. A little dextro-glucose a little water and a little levo-glucose make "pre, select table honey." This is quicker than a bee can make the 2,625,000 cells necessary to gathering a pound of honey. NEVER WITHOUT A CHAPERON. Dutch Girls Alw. Attended by Their Elders. The Dutch girl does not enjoy anything like the amount of freedom granted to her English or American sister. She is a very carefully chaperoned young person and when she goes to the theater it is with her elders, not merely with a friend or two of her own age. At the dances she attends, songs, recitations and music for the entertainment of the elders form a part of the regular program and the chaperons sit at tables socially enjoying their coffee or other refreshments, while the young folk glide over the waxed floor to the strains of the latest waltz. Dutch maidens have to make the best of their opportunities of amusement, for when it pleases their parents to seek the quiet of home they must meekly accompany them. In their country the idea of a girl being unchaperoned at a dance is not to be thought of—at any rate, not yet! CARRIED POLITENESS TOO FAR Act of Courteney that Lost Lighthouse Official His Position Recently the British warship Sparrow visited the native kingdom of Tonga, in the south Pacific, over which the British government exercises a protectorate. Its ruler is a dusky and spirited young man who calls himself King George II. When the Sparrow was in the harbor of the Tongan capital a ball was to have been given on board. But the electric light failed and all sorts of expedients were resorted to for the purposes of illumination. An obliging customs official of high standing removed the light from one of the lighthouses in the harbor and took it aboard the Sparrow. For this risky piece of politeness he was dismissed by the Tongan government. The captain of the Sparrow interceded with King George on his behalf, but his majesty was inexorable, which indicates that he knows his business. To Encourage Good Architecture To Encourage Good Architecture. The cities of St. Petersburg and Paris have an interesting device for encouraging good architecture. Buildings which are so artistically constructed that they are regarded as ornaments of the city are exempted from taxation for a period of years. The profession of architect has a much higher standing in Paris than in American cities. A high standard of qualification for the profession is enforced by the voluntary associations which control admission to its ranks. The Paris architect signs his building in a conspicuous place on the front, as an artist does his painting. Paris and other continental cities could teach us much in regard to the promotion of artistic building—Boston Transcript. Fever That Seldom Dies Out. Do you know there is such a thing as "newspaper fever" and that it just worms and burns its way into a fellow's system and remains there as long as life lasts? It is a fact. Men who work around newspaper offices know it to be true. They know it is true not only to the men who work in the business, but many others who never happen to get into the business at all. There is an old legend to the effect that if a man once takes the Mississippi river water he will keep coming back to the same old river, no matter where he goes. It is the same way in the newspaper business. Taste it once and you have got it in your system for good.—New Orleans Times Democrat. New System in British Army. Confidential reports are henceforth to play an important part in British army discipline. Exact reporting is to be rigidly insisted upon. If the reports are favorable, a promise of accelerated promotion is held out to the officers; if the reverse, he will be condemned to retire from the profession for which he shows himself unfitted or too careless to qualify. Two adverse reports in succession will bring up the question of removal even to men of long standing; the juniors of less than three years' service will be incontinently dismissed if they do not show up well. Essence of Orange Leaves One of the remarkable industries of Paraguay is the preparation of essence of orange leaves. More than 150 years ago the Jesuit priests, who then ruled that secluded country, imported orange seeds and planted groves, which have now become immense forests, filled with small establishments for extracting the essence, which is exported to France and the United States for use in soap and perfumery making. It is also employed by the natives in Paraguay as a healing ointment and a hair tonic. Unwearying Trust. I will not ask continual ways of peace, unfailing good—may, rather to be tried, And in affliction's furnace lose my dross, If only so I may be purified. Thy love shall raise it, blooming, from the dust. — Lulu Whedon Mitchell. Rain that Does Not Reach Earth. Rain that Does Not Reach Earth. In the Colorado desert occur rainstorms during which not a single drop of water touches the earth. The rain can be seen falling from the clouds high above the desert, but when the water reaches the strata of high, dry air beneath the clouds it is entirely absorbed before falling half the distance to the ground. Rev. S. W. Bacote, Second Baptist, Tenth and Charlotte. Rev. F. J. Peck, Allen Chapel, Tenth and Charlotte. Rev. E. R. Vaughn, St. John's Chapel, Ninth and Bell. Rev. W. M. Hawkins, Ebenezer church, Second and Holmes. Rev. J. M. Harris, Burnes Church, Eleventh and Highland. Rev. S. W. Scott, Christian Church, 21st and Summit. Rev. R. P. Christain, A. M. E. Zion, Fifth and Belmont. Rev. J. T. Smith, A. M. E., Westport, 43rd and Prospect. Rev. W. S. Wheeler, Asbury A. M. E., 19th and Cherry. Rev. James H. Allen, A. M. E., Independence. Rev. J. J. Clark, M. E., Independence. Rev. T. H. Ewing, Vince Street Church, Vine street. Rev. F. G. Snelson, Presiding Elder, A. M. E. church, 401 Cleveland Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. A. T. Moore, who formerly resided in this city has returned and will take up his profession as undertaker and embalmer. Mr. Moore has been engaged in the business for the past four years in Denver, Colo. He has many friends here and there is no doubt of his success. Mr. Moore is a A. E. A. T. Moore. graduate from Myers school of embalming, post graduate from the Pil-Training school for embalmers, and holds a state certificate issued by the board of health. He will open his parlors about February 1st at 1820 East 18th street, under the firm name of A. T. Moore Undertaking Company. Cure for Sore Feet. When your feet become swollen after your long walks, bathe them in water in which charcoal has been boiled. Strain the water through a cloth before putting the feet into it. Measure Earth's Crust Measurements of gravity throughout Europe and Asia are expected to give a better idea of variations in weight and of distribution of the bulk of the earth's crust. If our readers could find as much time to pay for the Son as the Son more news and better encouragement, finds time to supply them with the news, it would be enabled to give lots more news and better encouragement. THE OLD HOME CHILI RESTAURANT L. L. THOMPSON, Prop. MEALS 18 CENTS. Every Meal worth the money. Porterhouse Steak from 35c up. 327 W. 6th St., Kansas City, Mo. 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've 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 602-20 MILNUT, ST. KANLAS CITY, NM --- SHORT STORIES OF MORE OR LESS HUMOR. Why Old Rip Was Disgusted—Connoisseur Passes Judgment on Reggie—Where Diogenes Should Have Looked for an Honest Man. In Doubt The hostess arose hastily. "Excuse me a moment!" she exclaimed, as she hurried toward the kitchen. "Why, what's wrong?" asked her guest. "Why—er—I'm not sure whether that's the cabbage burning or Charlie smoking a Turkish cigarette!" Not Tragic. She—I suppose you attended the amateur theatricals last night? He—Yes, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. She—The idea! I never heard of "Macbeth" affecting an audience like way before. He—No; you see we simply laughed till we cried. Not a Good Turn: "If I ran against $10,000 it would turn my head." "I ran against $10,000 once and it came near turning my head all the way round." "You don't say?" "Yes, it was in the shape of a touring car and it twisted my neck." Now They Don't Speak. Phyllis—Mr. DeCoyne asked me to sing for him the other evening after he had been introduced. Sibyl—And what did you sing? Phyllis—How do you know that I sang at all? Sibyl—Oh, I noticed that he didn't ask you to sing to night. Sympathy. Miss Jilt—And when you told him I was married did he seem to be sorry. Miss Hilt—Oh, yes; he said so quite frankly. Miss Jilt—Did he really? Miss Hill—Yes, indeed; he said he was exceedingly sorry, although he didn't know the man personally. Keeping It "This clock," said the customer, "is of no use to me. I want you to take it back." "What's the matter?" demanded the jeweler. "It's warranted to keep good time." "That may be the trouble. It certainly doesn't give good time." Muzzle the Dogs. Hydrophobia is always unknown in North Germany. The reason is obvious. All dogs are muzzled; if one runs mad the poison dies with him. For yellow fever and malarial diseases the mosquito bar is analogous to the muzzle for hydrophobia. Infection can be prevented from escaping. Against every germ there can be found a means of protection. . Life as One Sces It. One secret of a happy life is learning to live by the day. It is the long stretches that tire us. We think of life as a whole, running on for years. But really there are no long stretches. Life does not come to us all at once. It comes only a day at a time. Wealthiest Royal Family. The Russian imperial family enjoys the distinction of being the wealthiest family in Europe. The civil list of the Czar amounts to $12,500,000 a year. In addition to this enormous revenue, he draws an income of an additional $5,000,000 a year from his exclusive estates and mines. When Your Water Pipes Freeze CALL OR TELEAHONE W. D. Foster Electrical and Steam Engineering also Sanitary Plumbing WORK GUARANTEED. PRICES REASONABLE 'TEL. 2315 PINK Address 1215 PASEO. Corn Crop Statistics. The corn crop, which is the most valuable one, required for its production 88,091,993 acres last year, and yielded on an average 25.5 bushels, aggregating 2,244,179,925 bushels, which was marketed at an average price of 42.5 cents, representing a total value of close to a billion dollars—$952,868,801. Clever Dogs. When an Egyptian dog wishes to drink at the Nile he goes a short distance up the river and howls for some time. The crocodiles being attracted by the sound immediately crowd to the place, while the dog hastily runs to the part which the crocodiles have left and drinks in safety. She Might Have Done Better "You are feeling badly because your daughter is going away," said one of the guests to the sniffing mother of the bride. "Yes," she replied. "I have just learned that two of the young men of the wedding party have more money than the bridegroom."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Importance of Good Food Great thinkers in every age have recognized the vital importance of wholesome food; its intimate connection with the sane mind through the medium of the sound body. "An empty stomach produces an empty brain," said a famous French author. Lodi Meteor Is Genuine. The Smithsonian Institution's expert, F. W. Crosby, examined the meteor which fell at Lodi, Cal., and pronounced it not only genuine, but the largest ever found in the United States. It weighs between ten and twenty tons. Negro Authors. Daniel Murray, one of the workers in the Library of Congress, has prepared an exhibit of books and pamphlets by negro authors, showing 2,300 titles, beginning with Hiempsal, King of Numidia, in 120 B. C. Co-Operation for Women. The Countess of Warwick intends to establish agricultural settlements in different parts of England, where women who are expert in horticulture, dairy farming and poultry raising can work on the co-operative principle. She believes that the problem can be solved by training intelligent and educated women to these callings. Never. Never cultivate second or third-rate folk, except for artistic purposes. Meet them, if you must; leave them when you can. You need expect nothing from them that they can conscientiously withhold, for they are after your goods, while keeping a strict and jealous watch upon their own. All you can get from them is material, never any spiritual, intellectual, wise, sane or moral or helpful messages. White Blood Corpuscles. Recent experiments in 1rance show that the white blood blood corpuscles, or "leucocytes," besides absorbing foreign bodies, destroying worn-out cells, absorbing liquid poisons, and carrying food substances to the tissues, also fulfill a very important function in distributing medicinal drugs to all parts of the body and carrying them in particular to the location in which they will do the most good. Delicate Question Decided. "I hardly know what to make out of the boy," he mused, as he contemplated a bright, intelligent youngster standing before him. "You can't be too careful in the choice when they are just entering life. On the whole, however," exclaimed the carnibal chief, with sudden resolution, "it might as well be an Irish stew!" RESTAURANT Old Style WE INVITE YOU TO COME TO OUR RESTAURANT AT 103 East 14tn as it is the only one in this part of the city.. RED LEWIS, Proprietor. WILLIAMS, GENERAL Boeing and Wagon Repair Special and First-Class to guaranteed. Kansas City, Mo. Ored Shop in the City. Lowest Prices. Telephone 1052 Red. RICHARD TAYLOR, PROPRIETOR Tel. 2775 Walnut. Stone Masons' Headquarters SALOON, OPEN ALL NIGHT. 1534 E. '8th St., Kansas City, Mo. NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— it's the little bits we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Mrs. Geneva Willery is quite ill. Revival services are gain gon at all of the churches. Mrs. Mame Shelton 1319 East 14th St., is stil Ivery ill. Mrs. Missouri Stanton is not much improved at this writing. Mrs. Minnie Beachon is on the sick list at 1713 Woodland ave. Mr. and Mrs. C. Cook's little girl has been sie kbut is convalescent. Little Helen Gould is the most popular baby born in Kansas City in 1903. The ladies al around are having leap year parties. What is the matter with K. C.? The Silver Leaf Club dance will take place at the Vendome next Friday night. O. F. Ward has bought him a lot out in Round Top and will build at 2810 Mersingtono. The Son is very thankful tt Mrs. Laura Walton, of Washington, Mo., for her kindness. The public is invited to attend the Forum Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Guild hall. Mrs. Lillie Martin of Denver, Colo., spent a month with her mother, Mrs. Joanna Moore, at 710 E. 6th. For Sale—Full dress suit; chest size 40; cost $70 new; will sell cheap. Call at 1609 Lydia avenue, city. Miss Ella Thompkins, daughter of Captain and Mrs. Thompkins, of this city, was recently married in Chicago. Miss Edna Holt who has been at home Keokuk, Iowa, for the last seven months returned to the city last week. Mr. H. Wilson of Chicago has been visiting his old friend Harvey Dandridge of Kansas City, Kan., the past week. Three chair barber shop, including bath tubs, for sale; doing good business in a business locality. Proprietor wants to leave the city. 559 Grand Av. Mr. and L. Grant Peery, ex-members of the L. W. C. and the Silver Leaf Clubs, who moved to Trenton about a year ago, will return to the city in March to live. W. A. Love, Jr., of Harrisonville, was the choice of the Republicans last Tuesday and will be the delegate to the national convention in Chicago June 30, 1904. Dancing at the Vendome academy every Monday and Thursday evening and Thursday afternoon. John S. West's Orchestra furnishes music. S. A. Willis, Mgr. A pleasant time is expected at the Silver Leaf Club dance next Friday evening, Feb. 5th, at the Vendome. The Fortnightly Dancing Club is taking a long needed rest. Mrs. L. J. Holly, who has been visiting her parents in Washington, D. C., will return home the 4th of February. Her little son Lucius will remain in Washington to attend school. This is leap year, ladies, 100 first class calling cards for 50 cents, Rhodes, 11 West 9th St. Masonic, Odd Fellows and Pythian emblematic cards. See Rhodes. Prof. L. L. Thompson is doing a nice business at 327 W. 6th street. For many years he was employed at Carl Hoffmann's Music Company, but now is in business for himself. Don't forget the number. The T. T. Art class will meet Friday January 29, in the guild parlors, 2424 Tracy avenue at 2 o'clock sharp. The class will be under the instruction of Mrs. B. B. Brown and others. One of the old ladies of the Old Folks and Orphans' Home died last Sunday night at 8 o'clock. Ebenezer church, of which she was a member, took charge of the remains and put her away nicely. She was laid to rest in Union cemetery. Mr. Albert Miles gave a dinner last Monday night to a limited number of his friends at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Garrett's, a four course dinner wa sserved as well as wine and champagne and cigars. Mr. Ed Hudson was toast master. Mr. Henry Norman and Thomas Abram sang several solos and the rest of the evening was spent in music and dancing. It was a celebration of Mr. Miles' 21st birthday, and was much enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Geneva Shiftiey Birch, after a long illness died with consumption Thursday night of last week and was buried from Allen chapel Saturday afternoon. She was from Boonville, Mo., but had lived here for a number of years and was much liked by all who knew her. She was a cousin of Prof. M. D. Wise, and a niece of Mrs. Chas. Simpson, who came from mSt. Paul to be with her in her last hours. She professed a hope in Christ and was ready to meet death. The bereaved husband and relatives have the Son's sympathy. 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. If you send in a subscription to the Son, please send in the amount of the paper. Thanking you in advance money for the time you desire to take for any favor you may extend to us. Buys Ancient Chariot The Metropolitan Art Museum of New York has just purchased an old chariot for $50,000. It was unearthed near Rome some time ago, and is 2,600 years old and splendidly preserved. Sanitary Test. The death rate of infants and young children—those under five years of age—is the true test of the sanitary conditions and of the sanitary administration of a community. Pneumonia and Alcoholics. Of every one hundred alcoholics attacked by pneumonia, seventy die, while of every one hundred non-alcoholics so attacked, only twenty-three die. Worked Both ways. Brownovitch—Three weeks ago Mingles married a widow whose conversational powers attracted him. Smithinski—Well, what of it? Brownovitch—To-day he applied for a divorce because the aforesaid conversational powers almost distracted him. Drawing the Line. "Would you object to stating how you made your first $1,000?" said the heart-to-heart interviewer. "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "but in discussing this matter I want you to draw the line strictly at the first thousand." - Washington Star. Such a Sad Affair. "Ah, those good old days in the boarding house! How I miss them!" The star boarder who had married gazed soulfully into the misty past. "It is such a mental deprivation," he sighed. "not to hear anybody say 'Please pass the prunes!'" Disappointed. Old Rip—Confound a liar! I don't care anything for these clothes, but that gun was guaranteed to last fifty years.—Pittsburg Chronicle. It Seems Strange "It's a darned funny thing," commented the actor who had been harshly criticised, "that the dramatic critics never seem to think that possibly they are the ones who have no adequate conception of the part that a fellow plays." Just the One. Ernie—Ida is actually going to marry that young man who gambles and drinks. Evt—Yes, I heard that she wanted a husband awfully bad. Friendly Repartee. Hewitt—There goes the girl that I am to marry. Jewett—She does look eccentric. WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO KANSAS. For the Moral, Intellectual and Ind Department Theological, Classical, Normal, Pr Courses Theological, Classical, Normal, Pro- tecture, Printing and Book-making, Dre- tailoring, Business Course and Stenog- and Truck Gardening, Cooking and Lau Advantage Good Buildings, Healthy Moral To- lege-bred and Industrially Trained Team Terms $7.50 Per Month. For the Moral, Intellectual and Industrial Training of our Youth. Departments. Logical, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Ind. Courses. Logical, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry, Printing and Book-making, Dressmaking and Plaiting, Business Course and Stenography, Farming, Steam Gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Advantages. Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of T and Industrially Trained Teachers. 50 Per Month. School Opens Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial. Courses. 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, Cooki g and Laundering. Advantages. Good Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of Twelve College-bred and Industrially Trained Teachers. For Illustrated Catalogue Just Out Write to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., RELIABLE D No Delay--Satisfaction Guarantee We are the most reliable dentists in the oldest practice in the city. Our succe- grade work done by gentlemanly operat We Guarantee to Please. Our This firm is backed by a wealthy corp- oughly responsible. All work is guarar M. T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., Prest., Quincy ReliABLE DENTISTRY --Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examining most reliable dentists in the city. We have the l price in the city. Our success is due to the unifor done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; Atten to Please. Our Reiability is Unqui backed by a wealthy corporation, and is there possible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., Prest., Quindaro, Kas. RELIABLE DENTISTRY 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 Cleaning ..... 50c We do as we advertise Teeth extracted without pain FREE. We are here to stay. NEW YORK DENTAL ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. Main St. Second Floor. Entrance on Main S Open Daily. Nigh's till 9. Sundry THE GREATEST HAIR DRESSING NEW YORK D ESTABLISHED 2 1029 Main St. Second Floor Open Daily. THE GREATEST H NELSON'S Str NELSON'S STRAIGHTHair BEST FOR THE HAIR It is n THE NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is unlike any other chemicals, and is therefore absolutely HARMLESS and roots of the Hair, removes dandruff and moisturizing and simulating the roots of the long and luxurious, at the same time stopp falling out. STRAIGHTINE keeps the Hair soft in any style. Beautifully perfumed. NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is sold by drugstri CENTS A CAN. If you cannot get it from your US 20 CENTS, in stamps, silver or Money (Order one month's treatment) by mail, securely FREE BRUSH OFFER. Address: AGENTS WANTED Write for Terms and Particulars NELSON STRAIGHTINE is unlike any of the other Hair prepara- ment, it contains no powerful oil and is therefore absolutely HARMLESS. It works directly up the Hair, removes dandruff and other diseases of the scalp and stimulating the roots of the Hair thereby causing it curious, at the same time stopping it from splitting, bree- dly. Straightine keeps the Hair soft and pliable, making it de- lightheartly perfumed. STRAIGHTINE is sold by druggists and agents everywhere. If you cannot get it from your druggist or one of our in stamps, silver or Money Order, and we will send you o'r's treatment) by mail, securely wrapped, together with OFFER. Address: ENTS WANTED Terms and Particulars NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is unlike any of the other Hair preparations on the chemicals, and is therefore almost identical to the chemicals 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 breaking the hair, and helps the Hair soft and pliable, making it easy to do up in any style. Delightfully priced. NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is sold by drugstores and agents everywhere. PRICE, 25 CENTS A CAN. If you cannot get it from your drugstores or one of our agents, SEND US 30 CENTS, in stamps, silver or Money Order, and we will send you one large can of NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE, a mail, secure wrapped, together with our great FREE BRUSH ADDRESS. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains 5 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. B. B. 1029 Main St. and Industrial Training of our Youth Departments. General, Preparatory, State Industrial. Courses. General, Preparatory, Carpentry and Archi- ting, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Stenography, Farming, Stock raising and Laundering. Vantages. General Tone, A Faculty of Twelve Col- led Teachers. School Opens Sept. 14th M., D. D., Prest., Quindaro, Ka DENTISTRY Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free in the city. We have the largest and success is due to the uniformly high operators of middle ages; no youths Our Reiability is Unquestioned. corporation, and is therefore thor-guaranteed for 15 years. TEETH WITHOUT PLATE out pain FREE. We are here to stay. DENTAL CO MED 20 YEARS. and Floor. Entrance on Main Street only Daily. Nigh's till 9. Sunday. 10 to 4 ST HAIR DRESSING Straightine Makes Kinky, Curly Hair Straight It is not only the BEST DRESSING made for the Hair, but THE MOST WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER Because of the other Hair preparations on the scalp, it contains no powerful or dangerous HARMLESS. 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He has one of the largest bakeries in the city He has merited the confidence of the people One of the things that made him famous is Jersey Cream and Quaker Mothers Salt Rising Bread Bread that makes the little folks happy Ask your grocer for it MATTHAEIS BAKERY, 901-3-5-7-9-11-13 West 17th Street --- --- M. S. S. A. WEBER, ME If you want a suit to ord go and save money. W no rent. BER, MERCHANT want a suit to order here is the pl save money. Why? Because w A. WEBER, MERCHANT TAILOR. If you want a suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay no rent. Come and see us. Style, Fit and Finish Up-to-Date. S. W. Blvd. Kansas Ci 2825 S. W. Blvd. 2304 Vine. KANSAS CITY, MO. reason without JAMES BAKER, Agent. Piano u now enjoy. The style and finish sent to any home, and its sweet enh. W. B. Roberts, Manager Est. 1857. 920 Walnut Now get the best Pharmacy. Articles, Candies Per- rescriptions a Specialty. --- The Old Home RESTAURANT Prof. L. L. Thompson, Mgr. Meals 15 Cents. Porterhouse Steak 15c up. 327 West 6th St., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. CHANT TAILOR, here is the place to buy? Because we pay Come and see us. --- Tel. 159 East. Kansas City, Mo WINTER IN LOVERS' LANE. In lovers' lane 'its winter now' (Will springtime never come again?) And not a bird from any bough (Volves the old divine refrain. The path that gleams gold Shows star on evan Pale fragile blossoms Whiter than June's And not a footfall w When the faint silk Gints over the cover Spilled, summer loo Those tremulous try The meeting joy, the Will hearts no more In memory haunted Ah, wait till April's Rings, rich with r Till May once more Weaves amurously— —Clinton Scobard A POOR IN BY HARRIET Copyrighted, 1903, by The A A POOR INVESTMENT It was a crisp, wintry day. The few pedestrians who preferred a brisk walk in the open to a halfhearted attempt at keeping warm in an overcrowded car, were hurrying down Broadway. The snow crackled under their brisk tread and the cold north wind crept in behind high coat collars and mischievously nipped hiding ears. In the stenographer's room at the People's Bank, Miss Ramsey sat by the low radiator, "trying to thaw," as she expressed it, the while she sorted the accumulation of yesterday's correspondence. As she worked, a comfortable feeling of contentment stole over her. Of a truth her lines had fallen in pleasant places. The bank was perfection in all its appointments. The duties which came under the stenographer's ken were neither arduous nor unpleasant. Stocks, bonds, deposits and investments were so familiar that they almost wrote themselves, as her fingers traveled over the shining keys. But, not the least pleasant of her surroundings were her associates; those officials and minor incumbents, who made up the working force—the living furniture of a well appointed establishment. There was the president. Few of officers could boast an employer so affably courteous, so thoughtful of others, so near the ideal, as the Hon. Mortimer Belding, president of the People's Bank. He commanded the unbounded respect of the entire force, and as for Miss Ramsey, to her he was the embodiment of all the graces that could be bottled up in one employer. Then, there was the president's son, who occupied the dual role of cashier of the bank and the ardent admirer of Annette Ramsey. And, such is the frailty of human nature, to this frank, open-hearted, care-free scapegrace, Miss Ramsey had given her whole heart. A half smile flickered at the cowers of her mouth as she thought of Jack Belding. She remembered his advent into the office. More potent still was the recollection of his father's righteous indignation when Jack came home from college in dire disgrace. It was the old story of misapplied energy and the doubtful glory of athletic victory at the expense of ignominious defeat in every "exam" in the course. There was no interruption in her happy musings as she went out into the general office to file the letters. Memory was busy bringing out all the little things that had gone to make the past year a memorable one. There were the scrolls in the park Maurice Miss Ramsey sat by the low radiator, after office hours last summer. She could see yet the comprehending grin of the ragged newsboy as he moved away from a certain bench in order to leave Cupid a clearer field. Musing in this happy fashion, Annette finished her task and answered with alacrity the call from the president's sanctum. His pleasant "Good morning" harmonized perfectly with her genial mood and the day's quota of correspondence ran smoothly on under his friendly supervision. "You may leave the letters on my desk for signature, Miss Annette," he said, as the dictation ended: "I shall be away the greater part of the day straight --- nmed with green and lesscent star- s of the cold s white lilies are. wakes the hush over of the moon t whence the thrush ing, its jocund tuna. settings are they done, the parting pain? be wooded and won lovers' lane? bingle call capture, up the glen, her flowery thrall and their-said then! in the Delineator. INVESTMENT MAK WEEKS. Authore Publishing Company. ening out that Walters deposit matter." Miss Ramsey went back to her room and was soon busily transcribing. Out in the bank, Mr. Belding was giving some final directions, looking in as he finished, to say to Annette, "Take your time and go home early." Then he went out and for the rest of the morning, work claimed the undivided attention of the entire force. Noon came quickly, and the half hour luncheon at a downtown cafe was over all too soon for the pair sitting at a corner table drinking their coffee in quiet contentment. As they L. L. "No, father, I have forgotten nothing," went back to the bank, Jack seemed unusually preoccupied. "It is nothing, dear," he assured Annette, "only a little matter of business and a premonition for which I cannot account." His words lingered with Annette as she entered her little room and prepared to finish her task; but, as yet, they were only of passing importance. In fact, she had almost forgotten them as her typewriter clicked busily and the last "Very truly yours" was duly appended to an unusually long document. This done, she carried the little pile of neatly written letters into the private office, standing by the window a moment as she turned to come out, to watch the crowds now beginning to throng Broadway. Re-entering her own sanctum, she gave a little cry of delighted surprise, for Jack Belding stood by her window gazing abstractedly down the street. At the sound of her voice he turned and without a word stretched out his arms. With a woman's quick intuition, she divined the unusual berniness of his mood and gazed tenderly into the face so close to hers, as if she would read therein the innmost secrets of his soul. "Dearest," and his voice broke a little, "there's a paper in father's desk that I must see without delay. Shall we look for it together?" "Oh, Jack, is it necessary to touch his private papers? Can you not wait until his return? He is so particular about everything belonging to him," replied the girl. "Yes, Annette, I must have that paper at once, or——" and there he stopped. "Come, dear, and then we will go sight-seeing up-town," he added, reassuringly, and drew her with him into his father's private office. Outside, sleighbells jingled musically. Annette stood by the desk as Jack quickly examined the different compartments. The minutes seemed lengthened into hours as he rapidly searched every crack and crevice. Then, with a sigh of disappointment, he stood erect, only to encounter his father's eyes fixed steadily on him from the doorway. Surprise, filial love and distrust struggled for the mastery as he took a step forward, encircling Annette's waist as he did so. His father stared frowningly at the pair standing before him. "Is it my own son who prizes into his father's private papers and is it Miss Ramsey who accepts with equanimity the attentions of John Belding?" he said scathingly, his anger waxing hotter as the pair stood motionless by the desk. "Miss Ramsey, will you go to your room? I will talk with this --- young man alone," and he took a step toward them. The big clock in the corner ticked monotonously and still Jack Belding stood motionless before his father. Then, in a voice husky with suppressed emotion, he said, "Father, Miss Ramsey has promised to be my wife. Whatever you have to say to me, must be said to both." Now, indeed, was Mortimer Belding rightfully indignant. "You have evidently forgotten your social standing, my son," he said, and Annette's cheeks burned at the implied taunt. "No, father, I have forgotten nothing—not even that package of securities missing from our vaults," replied Jack, thoroughly aroused at last. A shadow of fear crossed Mr. Belding's face—he tried to speak, but the words died on his lips, for his son towered above him accusingly, and Annette Ramsey gazed with wide-open eyes, first at the father, and then at Jack. There was silence for a moment and the shadows of a winter afternoon encircled them. Then, Jack spoke again. "Father, they have searched all morning for that package. I saw you take it out myself. To-morrow there will be an investigation. Do not sink that, too, on Wall street. I tried to find it in your desk and thus save my father from public exposure. I am not a thief." Without a word, the president of the People's Bank strode over to his desk, and, pressing a secret spring, drew out the package of securities and gave it to Jack. Then, as he bowed his head, the two stole out and quietly shut the door. In the solitude of her own room that night, Annette Ramsey said to herself, with a sigh for her shattered ideal, "Man at best is a poor investment. Human nature is never a safe bank of deposit." WAS RATTLED BY PROMOTION Young Actor's Laughable "Bull" in His First Speaking Part. Charles Frohman, the theatrical manager, tells of an amusing and ludicrous mistake made by a young actor in a play once produced by Mr. Frohman. The young actor had, up to this time, employed his talents in enacting such roles as called for no speech on his part. But in this play he was intrusted with the following line, the only words to be spoken by him during the entire play: "The King is dead! Long live the King!" The critical time arriving, it was observed by other players that the young man who was to acclaim the new monarch in the words just quoted was suffering from a dreadful attack of stage fright. His cue came, but no words could he speak, so frightened was he. Finally, however, he pulled himself together and, in desperation, shouted at the top of his voice: "Long live the King; he's dead!" Upon the Threshold Once more we stand with half-reluctant feet. Upon the threshold of another year; That line where Past and Present seem meet. In stronger contrast than they do elsewhere. Can Recolection smile, or, ill at ease With what is past, wish only to forget Say, canst thou smile when Memory's lininger gaze Once more recalls the dying year to you? Wouldst thou live o'er again those chang- ing days. Or bid them fade forever into night? A solemn question, and the faltering heart Scarce dare say "Yes." yet will not say "No?" For joy and sadness both have played their part In making up the tale of "long ago." Here Memory sees the golden sunlight gleam Across the path of life and shine awhile; And now the picture changes like a dream. And sorrow dims the eyes and kills the smile. So—it has gone—where all has gone before. The moaning wind has sung the dead year's dirge. Time has rolled on against the crum- bling shore. And sinks the worn-out bark beneath the surge. Here ends the checkered page of prose and verse. Of sharply words and lines writ all way. There they must stand for better or for worse. So shut the book and bid the year good-by! Sporting Blood Will Out When Mr. Bosanquet, the well-known English cricketer, brought his eleven over here a few years ago he met at one of the matches with the Gentlemen of Philadelphia a fair young girl, who was very much interested in and enthusiastic over the game. Captain Bosanquet had just played a brilliant inning, but had been bowled and was strolling around the ropes, chatting with his friends. It was just then that some one introduced him to the American girl. "Oh! Mr. Bosanquet," exclaimed the girl. "I think cricket is perfectly sweet! You made a lot of runs, didn't you? And I was so excited when the bowler got you out. Why, I'm worn to a frazzle; I've lost two pounds at the least!" "Money or weight?" was the Englishman's impassive reply. Where Marriage Is In Favor Modern Hindoso honor marriage so highly that no bachelor is ever consulted on any important affair, and the man who cannot be induced to marry is looked upon as "beyond the pale of nature." Russian State Scenter: The Russian state scepter is of solid gold, three feet long, and contains among its ornaments 268 diamonds, 360 rubles and fifteen emeralds. SIGNALS USED BY INDIANS. Savagege Had Primitive but Effective Form of Telegraphy. The Red Indians in their palmy days were experts in long-distance signals. For this purpose they made ingenious use of smoke-rings and fire-arrows. By day the wary Indian, by a clever manipulation of his blanket over a small ramp fire sent up wreaths of smoke, which said to all friends within a radius of thirteen miles, "Look out! Enemies are near." Two such first-air puffs mean, "Camp here," one called merely for "Attention," and three spelt "Danger." At night similar warnings were conveyed by a system of fire-arrows, which flashed across the sky in glowing tracks, shooting upward and presently falling, each with its particular significance, which an expert only could decipher. The arrow-heads were specially treated and prepared with gunpowder and fine bark, and, as they blazed against the dark background of night two meant danger, and three gave token of most urgent need. Thus these quick-witted children of nature anticipated in rude but effective fashion the modern methods of long-distance signaling.--Montreal Herald. MOTORS ON THE WATER. Aquatic Launches Have Attained Wide. Popularity It is said that the motor launch business of the country runs into several millions of dollars annually. There are all kinds of motors, mostly using gasoline. The motor generally is not reversible, and a clutch or feathering screw is used, or the flywheel in smaller sizes is taken in the hand and started the other way. The development of the racing automobile with its attendant refining of weight in the construction of the motor, has provided a constantly improving motor for the driving of fast launches. Automobile boats are now made as they should be, instead of built to order. Most of the parts are interchangeable and can be replaced by any com- English Portable Propulsion. English Portable Propulsion. potent chauffeur of an ordinary automobile. The two vessels to-day most in the public eye are the Adios and the Standard. The Adios is fifty-five feet long, with propelling power developed by a string of eight single cylinder engines on one shaft. The engine is of Leighton type, built in Syracuse, and very great speed has been obtained from it—New York Herald. FOR A SCRAPBOOK, $12,500 Record Price Glven for Volume Many Centuries Old. A tiny book of vellum, centuries old and beautifully illustrated with a hand-painted miniature, was sold yesterday at Messrs. Sotheby's auction rooms for the record price of £2,500. The manuscript was part of the celebrated collection of the Rev. Walter Sneyd. Its size is $4\frac{3}{4}$ inches by 3 inches, and its age is something over 600 years. It has no title, and may be described as a literary and pictorial medley on philosophical and Biblical subjects, many of the illustrations, which are the chief value of the volume, having no connection with the text. There are in all 190 leaves, containing 267 miniatures. Various episodes in the life of a monk are portrayed, one picture giving the appearance of a monk playing golf; another of what looks like a conjuring performance by monks and runs combined. Nearly every page has small incipient drawings of grotesque animals, human beings, birds and devils. There was a keen contest for the possession of the book, the bidding starting at £200, and ending at £2,500, the price offered by Mr. Quaritch. —London Mall. Wrestling. This reproduction from an old English print shows how men used to wrestle while mounted on the backs of other men. Reculiar Habit of Bird The white tern has the curious habit if never bringing less than two fish at a time to its young. It carries the fish crosswise in its bill and sometimes returns from its excursions with no less than four fish thus carried. It is easy enough to understand how it captures the first fish, but naturalists are unable to comprehend how the bird manages to retain it while securing additional ones. Its ability to hold three fish in its bill and still capture a fourth is particularly puzzling. Senator Never Shaved. In one respect Senator Stewart of Nevada is a remarkable man. He has never been shaved. At the age of 16 his beard began to grow, and has been growing for sixty years. IMMENSE PILE OF DOLLARS. Structure Giving an idea of Andrew Carnegie's Beneficence. In his effort to avoid the ignominy of dying rich Andrew Carnegie has given away nearly $100,000,000. The amount of his known benefactions is $50,912,223, and it isn't at all unlikely that other donations unrecorded would amount to the $9,000,000 necessary to bring the total up to the $100,000,000 mark. In silver dollars "stacking" ten to the inch, the 100,000,000 coins would pile in single column 160 miles into I am more afraid to carry your mail a stick. I must give and hold it. the air. In cube formation, allowing for each coin at the base to touch rims with the others, these coins would form a pile nearly fourteen feet square at the base and 100 feet high. Such a pile would be larger by far than most of the library buildings which Mr. Carnegie has provided for. Travels of a Marked Lobster. About three months ago a fisherman caught a large seed lobster marked H. A. K., which he put overboard in Seguin harbor, Malne. This was noted in the Jonesport Enterprise, with the request that anyone catching this lobster would in turn report. On Dec. 8 George Marshall caught the same shellfish near Mark Island, which as soon as punched by the inspector will be placed in Hatchet harbor. This is interesting to those who are studying the habits and vagaries of the esculent crustacean, and guesses are in order as to when this specimen will next show up. Poplar Tree Worth $1,500. The great value of timber is shown in the case of a tree recently cut near Waynesville, N. C. The giant of the Alleghany mountains was a curly poplar, so large that twelve horses were required to haul away the butt cut, which was twelve feet long. The lowest limb was eighty feet from the ground. This single tree contained 25,000 feet of first-class lumber, most of it useful as veneering, and its value was $1,500. The single tree was worth more than the entire mountain farm upon which it stood. Big Cigarettes. Burmese cigarette smokers do not necessarily smoke a great number of the paper pipes to become "flends," as the white strip in the photograph would indicate one cigarette should be enough to satisfy any one's longings in that direction for a few hours. Cats Kill Intruding Snake. A native woman living in Old Calro, Egypt, was entering her house the other day when to her great terror she perceived a snake of formidable dimensions, which had taken possession of the hearth during the owner's absence. The woman fled, leaving the door open. Her cat then appeared on the scene, entered, saw the cobra, put up its back and tail, spat and otherwise manifested its hostility, and in turn went out. A few minutes afterward it returned with a second cat. After a similar exhibition both went out and returned with a third, and similarly went away, returning finally with a fourth. Considering that sufficient to kill the snake, the four then fell on the reptile, and after a short but fierce struggle the latter was literally torn to pieces. Costly Eight Over Nickel When a telephone of the Chicago telephone company is "busy" the nickel which you are supposed to have dropped in is supposed to drop out again. Constable John Small tried it 15 times and the nickel didn't drop once, he says. So he sued for the nickel. The telephone company paid $300 in counsel fees and had to surrender the nickel in the end. Eur Seal Once Land Animal It is not generally known that the fur seal was once a land animal. The baby seals are actually afraid of the water, they would drown if thrown into it, and have to learn to swim by repeated efforts. When once they have been taught to swim, however, they soon forget to walk. THESE BIRDS ARE INGENIOUS Use Spectacle Frames and Clock Springs for Their Nests. The crows of the orient are said to be far advanced in the art of stealing beyond the crows of this country. The story is told of a pair of crows at Bombay that robbed an optician of spectacle frames, entering his room repeatedly for that purpose! These birds carried off eighty-four spectacle frames of gold, silver and steel, which were so ingeniously woven together in their nest that it was a veritable work of art. In the Swiss Museum of Natural History at Soleure is a wagtail's nest built entirely of clock springs. Several clockmakers' shops were near, where the waste lay scattered about the doors. This the birds had woven with much ingenuity into a nest more than for four inches across and entirely comfortable for the little family. PICKLES CAUSE OF SUICIDE. At Least, That is a Jersey City Police Captain's Theory. According to Capt. Wohlleben of the Sixth precinct station, Jersey City, nine out of every ten persons who attempt suicide in that section of Jersey City are fond of pickles and other sour foods. He says that pickles are to blame for the actions of Mrs. Louise Daberkon of No. 878 Tonnele avenue, who ate a quantity of them with salted herring on Thursday night and shortly afterward slashed her throat with a knife and a razor. "There are more suicides in Germany than in any other country in Europe," said the captain, "and, according to medical authorities, the sour food of the German is responsible for the suicidal mania which is characteristic of their temperament." —New York Herald. A building with a tower and a clock The above "Bit of Old Liverpool" shows a portion of St. Peter's church and a corner of Church street. This is now one of the handsomest and busiest parts of the city, and is intersected with tramways which run in all directions. The sketch was made about 128 years ago.—Liverpool Mercury. Getting Even. A remarkable case in which Daniel O'Connell appeared was one in which a man was charged with murder. The evidence went all against the prisoner. When the time came for the defense to be made it was announced, "The murdered man will now be called." The supposed victim went into the box and satisfied the court as to his identity and existence in flesh. The judge directed the jury to return a formal verdict of not guilty, but the good men and true insisted on retiring and did so. Presently returning, the found the prisoner guilty. "Heavens, gentlemen," said the judge, "of what is he guilty? Not murder, surely?" "No, m'lord," replied the foreman, "but if he didn't murder the man he stole my old mare three weeks ago." "Officially Dead." A curious incident occurred in an English police court recently where a man named Travis was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for obtaining a postal order by false pretenses. He pleaded that he was "officially dead," and his story was that when with the British army in South Africa he deserted, obtained some clothes from the Kaffirs, made his way to the coast and worked his passage home. He then discovered that he was reported dead, and though he subsequently gave himself up as a deserter the war office gave an official assurance that he had "died at the front" and would not arrest him. Preaches to Travelers. This great biblical truth, confronting the railway passenger as he looks out of the car window, is painted on ETERNITY APRIL DEATH THE JUDGE MEET 30 CHRISTMAS APPETITED TO BE A THE VIRGIN OF MANY the side of a house just above the tunnel between Move and Brighton, England. The letters are so large they may be read on even the fastest trains. Mongrel Resents Insults. A Leominster man has a mongrel dog named Snip that resents an insult from customers. Small boys sometimes jeer at the dog, or stick their thumbs to their noses and wiggle their fingers, and the animal chases them, snapping at the boys' clothing. What Becomes of It If a man eats two pounds daily, near two pounds daily must in some way pass from his body, or disease and a premature death is a speedy and inevitable result. The food that is eaten must contain the elements necessary to supply nutriment to the system and free from all substances that bind the bowels. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD If eaten daily there will be a daily action of the bowels, waste removed, nutriment retained. It's Nature's food for man. Served hot or cold. Palatable—Nutritious—Easy of Digestion and Ready to Eat My signature on every package. Dr. V. C. Price Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts. A cook book containing 76 excellent receipts for using the food mailed free to any address. FOR SALE BY LEADING GROCERS. Prepared by PRICE CEREAL FOOD COMPANY, Chicago, Illinois. M. Miss Gannon, Sec'y Detroit Amateur Art Association, tells young women what to do to avoid pain and suffering caused by female troubles. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: — I can conciensiously recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. I suffered for months with general weakness, and felt so weary that I had hard work to keep up. I had shooting pains, and was utterly miserable. In my distress I was advised to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it was a red letter day to me when I took the first dose, for at that time my restoration began. In six weeks I was a changed woman, perfectly well in every respect. I felt so elated and happy that I want all women who suffer to get well as I did." — Miss Quila GANNON, 330 Jones St. Detroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art Association. — $5000 for felt if original of above letter proofing genuineness cannot be produced. When one considers that Miss Gannon's letter is only one of the countless hundreds which we are continually publishing in the newspapers of this country, the great virtue of Mrs. Pinkham's medicine must be admitted by all. PERSONAL Will the woman who suffers with sick headache please try Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin Your druggist sells it PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, Ill. KATY SAYS: You cannot select a more delightful trip at this season than the trip to Old Mexico. A trip to Old Mexico is scenery and sxy that vie with each other in exquisite beauty; the out-of-door life and the peculiar charm found only in the tropics—all of which are in Old Mexico is quantify foreign—a country of picturesque sights and scenes; a veritable glimpse of a new world. The Pullman sleepers the trip can be made from St. Louis to Mexico City comfortably and without change en route. Our attractive booklet: To the old Mexico en route and entertainingly describes the customs and characteristics of the people. Don't think of visiting San Antonio. See Katy's Agent or write Salzer's National Oats Greatest oat of the century, Yielded in 1900 in Ohio 187, In Benton, of the State, and in N. Dakota 310 bus. per acre. You can beat that record in 1904! For 10c and this notice we mail you free lots of farm seed samples and our big catalog, tell- ing all about this oat wonder and the outside of the stock. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. La Crosse, Wis. An experienced dinner committee man says: "I am in favor of a society for the suppression of toastmasters. I am not in favor of suppressing them, but I would engage a man with a club to bat them a good one if more than one minute and a half was used in introducing a speaker. The usual toastmaster looks upon himself as the band, while the rest of the speakers are spokes in the wagon wheel." No Likeness. Mrs. Hersey was unhappy over the stern severity of her new photographs. "Norah," she said to her pretty waitress, "do you think this photograph looks like me?" Norah's warm Irish heart came to the rescue. "Shure, Mrs. Hersey, dear," she replied, quickly, "if you looked like that would I ever have two afternoons a week?"—Boston Christian Register. Not Afraid of Any Mule. A farmer near Cape Girardeau, Mo., who means business, has put the following sign on a fence post in front of his house: "Wanted—Too bye a mule, fifteen hands high. If you can trade come and let me see you. Don't keer for meenness. Kin handle any mule this syde of hell." Kind Words to a Man. A man hears mighty few kind words. He doesn't suit his wife or his children, and the neighbors have frequent occasions to be shocked. Give a man a kind word and he is so unaccustomed to it that he will almost shrink, as from a blow.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Best for the Eyes. A medical journal says that in the continued use of the eyes in such work as sewing, typewriting, bookkeeping, reading and studying the saving point is looking up from the work at short intervals and looking around the room. This practiced every ten or fifteen minutes relieves the muscular tension and rests the eyes. Time in Various Countries. Belgium and Holland use Greenwich time. In Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Scandinavia and Switzerland, one hour before Greenwich time rules. Short Lifetime in India In India the average duration of life of the native is twenty-four years, as against forty-four in England. Rats Are Destructive. Rats are estimated to destroy food to the value of $60,000,000 yearly. A. have good Thing. "Am using ALLEN'S FOOT EASE, and can truly say I would not have been without it so long, had I known the relief it would give my netching feet. I think it a rare good thing for anyone having sore or tired feet. Mrs. Matilda Holtwort, Providence, K. I." Sold by all Drugstores, 25c. Ask to day. Bread is the staff of life, but the payroll is the stuff. Teosinte and Billion Dollar Grass. The two greatest fodder plants on earth, one good for 14 tons hay and the other 80 tons green fodder per acre. Grows everywhere, so does Victoria Rape, yielding 60,000 lbs. sheep and swine food per acre. JUST SEND 100 IN STAMPS TO THE John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse. Wis, and receive in return their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. (W. N. U.) A fancied wrong is harder to bear than the real thing. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. Even the political machine is apt to get rusty without constant oiling. ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED? Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. It's generally the things we can't get that we want most. Lewis' "Single Binder." The richest quality cigar on the market at straight six. Always reliable. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill. Never meddle with people who don't meddle with you. ARKANSAS TRAVELER RESPONDED. Got Back in Rhyme at Missouri Pacific's General Passenger Agent. H. C. Townsend, general passenger and ticket agent of the Missouri Pacific with headquarters at St. Louis, sent out a novel holiday greeting to patrons of the road and was surprised to receive a response in -hyme from a man in Arkansas. Here is the greeting followed by the answer: This is the train that runs so fast Across the plains to mountains vast; This is the train that's never late, And keeps its service up to date. And takes you there for work or rest; This is the train that runs to the land Of mountains high and canons grand; This is a true hotel on wheels; It leaves you with best of meals; This is the train with lowest rate- St. Louis to the Golden Gate. If you should wish to go that way, See H. C. Townsend, G. P. A. This is what the Arkansas traveler wrote in response: H. C. Townsend, G. P. A.: I received your card to-day, And I'm writing now to say That your train's AI-O. K. I'm a regular passenger And I'm here to tell you sir It's a corker-sure enough: Please don't to this as a puff- All your train care are snuff- Strictly in it-just the stuff! Makes me restless when I read Of the comfort and the speed- To pick my coffee and skip On that train-Get! What a trip! Feed you like a millionaire- Gosh! Just read that bill-of-fare- Gender steaks, well done or rare; Game and things from everywhere! Salads, deserts, coffee, cake- Wow! It makes my stomach ache! And the rates-I'll swear to you, Same as cutting naught in two! (Shame to take such service cheap- Ought to make us pay a heap!) Guess I've said about enough. (Every word is straight-no guff.) So I'll sign myself with care; Truly yours, A. PASSENJAIRE. The boy who makes hay while the sun shines shovels pavements when it snows. 10.000 Plants for 160 This is a remarkable offer the John A. Salzer seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., makes. They will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages. figures. 2,000 delicious Carrots. 2,000 blanching, nutty Celery. 2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce. 2,000 splendid Onions. 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. This great offer is made in order to induce you to try their warranted seeds—for when you once plant them you will grow no others, and ALL FOR BUT 16c POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 20c in postage, they will add to the above a package of the famous Berliner Cauliflower. (W. N. U.) Many a self-made man would probably turn out a different kind of a job if given another trial. 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 mall 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 Charles Summerville—St. Louis Republic. Paradoxical as it may seem, a man feels downcast when he is on his uppers. HUMOR OF THE DAY Blissful Ignorance. Fred—The ingenuity of woman is certainly beyond the comprehension of man. Joe—What's w. rrying you now? sue—what's worrying you now? Fred—Why, young Blank's sweet-heart sent him an elaborately constructed penwiper for a Christmas present, and he wore it to church under the impression that it was a new fangled cravat. And That's No Lie. Brown—Every president should be given a second term. Green—Because why? Brown—Fewer of his friends would be disappointed during his second term. Green—How do you figure that out? Brown—Why, he would have fewer to disappoint. New Office Boy—A man called a few minutes ago and wanted to thrash you." Editor—What did you say to him? New Office Boy—I say "I'm very sorry, but he ain't in." Knowledge Is Power. "George tells me that his father died of indigestion," remarked the bride of two short weeks. "I'm awful glad I found it out." "Why so?" asked her dearest friend. "Because," she replied, "under the circumstances George will never dare refer to the bread and pies his mother used to make." A. Trifle Shy. He was captain of the can brigade, and before the bar he stood—'twas not the bar of justice, but another just as good. He laid thereon a nickel and said, "Fill up de can." The barkeep yanked the faucet, and the bucket half full ran. The captain gazed in wonder, then spake he after while, "Say, cully, wot's de matter? Dat ain't de same ole smil! Alax Would Have Failed. "That is Ajax defying the lightning." "Well," answered the man with the tincuous manner, "there's always a strong chance that lightning won't hit anybody. If the same amount of electricity had been after him in the battery of an automobile I don't think Ajax would have been so courageous." Satisfied. "Anyway, there's no marrying in heaven," growled the old bachelor passenger as he glared fiercely at the bridal couple across the aisle. "Well, I don't care," retorted the blushing bride, as she nestled her head on the manly bosom of her accomplice, "there is heaven in marriage anyway." "A Burning Question." One broiling July day Uncle Zeke, an aged "cullid gemman," who was pushing a barrow of bricks, paused to dash the sweat from his dusky brow; then, shaking his fist at the sun, he apostrophized it thus: "Fo' the Lawd's sake, war wuz yo' last Janooary?" "The Land of the Midnight Son." $ Bilker—My sakes! Here's a story of a man going to marry a woman he doesn't know. Enpeck—That's nothing. The only difference between him and the others who marry is that this fellow isn't deceived to the point of thinking he knows her. No Harm Done. Bifbang—I once knew a youth who smoked fifty cigarettes daily without any particular harm resulting therefrom. Bifraf—Is it possible! Bifbang—Yes; and the only noticeable effect was the death of the smoker. Somewhat Bitter. "She has money," they said. "Some of us," retorted the spiteful one, "can get married without it." MEDICAL EXAMINER It's the thoroughly modern and scientific system of loading and the use of only the best materials which make Winchester Factory Loaded "New Rival" Shells give better pattern, penetration and more uniform results generally than any other shells. The special paper and the Winchester patent corrugated head used in making "New Rival" shells give them strength to withstand reloading. BE SURE TO GET WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We sell: FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Diseases and Diseases of the Earth. The prices are based on the actual cost of the shells by our mild method, none paid a cent till cured. We furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. to 10 Oak St. Kansan City, Mo. Other Prominent Physicians and Endorse Pe-ru-na. DR. LLEWELLYN JORDON, Medical Examiner of the U.S. Treasury Department, graduate of Columbia College, and who served three years at West Point, has the following to say of Peruna: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from your wonderful remedy. One short month has brought forth a vast change and I now consider myself a well man after months of suffering. Fellow sufferers, Peruna will cure you." A constantly increasing number of physicians prescribe Peruna in their practice. It has proven its merits so thoroughly that even the doctors have overcome their prejudice against so-called patent medicines and recommend it to their patients. Peruna occupies a unique position in medical science. It is the only internal systemic catarrh remedy known to the medical profession to day. Catarrh, as the disease which afflicts mankind, half the disease which afflicts mankind, Catarrh and catarrhal diseases afflict one half of the people of the United States. Robert R. Roberts, M. D., Washington, D. C., writes: "Through my own experience as well as that of many of my friends and acquaintances who have been cured or relieved of catarrh by the use of Hartman's Peruna, I can confidently recommend it to those suffering from such disorders, and have no hesitation in prescribing it to my patients."—Robert R. Roberts. Dr. R. Robbins, Muskogee, I. T., writes: Peruna is the best medicine I know of for coughs and to strengthen a weak stomach and to give appetite. Besides prescribing it for catarrh, I have ordered it for weak and debilitated people, and have not had a patient but said it helped him. It is an excellent medicine and it fits so many cases. To large practice, and have a chance to prescribe your Peruna, I hope you may live long to do good to the sick and the suffering. Dr. M. C. Gee writes from 513 Jones St. San Francisco, Cal.: "Peruna has performed so many wonderful cures in San Francisco that I am convinced that it is a valuable remedy. I have frequently advised its use for women, as I find it insures regular and painless menstruation, cures leucorrhea WINCH 'NEW RIVAL' It's the thoroughly ing and the use of Winchester Factory Ler pattern, penetration ally than any other shchester patent corrug Rival' shells give t BE SURE TO GET W PILES NO MONEY We sell 2 FREE and postpaid Rectum; also 100 page illus. by our mild method, none pa DRS. THORNT MEXICAN Mustang Liniment cures Sprains and Strains. ```markdown ``` A striking contrast between Defiance Starch and any other brand will be found by comparison. Defiance Starch stiffens, whitens, beautifies without rotting. It gives clothes back their newness. 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 16 ounces. Other brands 10 cents for 12 ounces. A striking contrast. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Neb. Ripans Tabulines are the best day apps in the United States, and the millions of others they have been sold in the United States in a single capsule. Inpatient heart breath, severe throat, and every liver disease are treated by Ripans Tabulines give relief within twenty minute package to enough for ordinary use. Ripans Tables are the best diet Dess. and medicine ever made. A bundle of vitamins has been sold in the United States in a single year. Unification, heart health, good digestion, breath, sore throat, and every liness arising from a disordered pneumach are relieved by Ripans Tables. The five package is tailored for ordinary occasions. All diseases call them. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, N. 5, 1994 BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH CURPS cure coughs and colds. [Illustration of a man with a beard and mustache, wearing a suit and bow tie. The background is plain white with a decorative border of small diamond shapes. Text above the illustration reads: "1890."] Dr. Llewellyn Jordan, Medical Examiner United States Treasury. ```markdown ``` and ovarian troubles, and builds up the entire system. I also consider it one of the finest catarrh remedies I know of. "—M.C. Gee, M.D. Catarrh is a systemic disease curable only by systemic treatment. A remedy that cures catarrh must also directly at the depressed nerve centers. This is what Peruma immediately invigorates the nerve centers which give vitality to the mucous membranes. Then catarrh disappears. Then catarrh is permanently cured. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruma write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will give you to give you his valuable advice. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. BLACK POWDER SHELLS. A modern and scientific system of load- off only the best materials which make loaded "New Rival" Shells give bet- on and more uniform results gener- sells. The special paper and the Wing- gated head used in making "New then strength to withstand reloading. WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. In a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the treating on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured aid a cent fill cured. We furnish their names on application. TON & MINOR. 1010 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. U.M.C. SHOT GUN SHELLS are found on every American farm where there is a live boy. New Club loaded with black powder. Nitro Club and Arrow loaded with any smokeless powder. They are "Duck Killers." Catalogue free. The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. BRIDOUPORT, CONN. Agency, 313 Broadway, New York. 50,000 AMERICANS WERE WELCOMED TO FARMER WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada DURING LAST YEAR. They are settled and settling on the Grain and Grazing Lands, and are prosperous and satisfied. Sir Waffed Lindsay, a man of great intellect, has risen on the horizon, and it is toward it that every immigrant who leaves the land of his ancestors to come and a home for himself now exists. Room for Millions. FREE Homesteads given away, Schools, Churches, Railways, Markets, Climate, everything to be desired. For a descriptive Atlas and other information, apply to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada or authorized Canadian Government Accommodation, Moffett, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. Earn $20.00 per week Kansas City Barrier College teaches you the trade in a week. Secured credit for your training. Catalog mail free. Barring. Catalog mail free. Barring. Catalog mail free. Barring. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO S CURB FOR COLLEGE WORK AT LETTERS 113 Best Cough Syrup. Great Green Use in time. Good by request. CONSUMPTION ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up stairs. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER. PRICE 25c. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out this blank and send it with $1.00 and you will receive by express $2.00 worth of the Pomade and items to agents. Enclosed please [P. O. Money Order for $1.00, for which send meas. 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 8!, Paris, Mo. FAST MAIL SERVICE A GOOD THING MISSION PACIFIC RAILWAY The Train Service of the Missouri Pacific. The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time: 9:50 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arrives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and South-eastern trains. The only 1. Leying Kansas City after the Operas, 2. Age meetings and Sunday night Chur., service, at 10:45 p. m. and ex-riving in St. Louis, at 7:20 a. m., in 6:50 a. m. for all Eastern connections. 9:55 p. m.—10:50 a. m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment. Pullman Sleepers and Compartment cars; Reelning Chair cars, (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at Union Depot and 901 Main St., City Office E. S. JEWETT, Fass. & Ticket Agent 1784 ..... Telephone ..... 178 WALL'S Laundry Co., Aest-Class Work & Prompt Delivery 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. TILLHOFF & CAMPBELLE Real Estate, Rentals and I TELEPHONE 1469 203-204 Hall Bldg. Corner Width Walnut Sts. --- 100 --- F. J. NOET PARIS MO John P. Tillhoff. ```markdown ``` OZONIZED OX MARROW This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or irritated hair soft, keeps the scalp, prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off, ores daunting and fluffy hair, and provides forty years and used by thousands. Warranted honor, it was the first preparation ever used for strands of hair in institutional settings. Get the Original Ozonized Pomade, keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful, giving it that healthy, life-like appearance so gentle and children. Elegantly performed, tweaked and most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equivalent to 50 cents in contributions with every dollar and dealers or sell in 50 cents for one hat, a $25 express charge, a $50 send帖 or express money order. Please mention name of this product. Write your name and address planner to: OZONIZED OX MARROWCO., 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 And the Southwest. Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, etc., furnished upon application to James Denohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER A Wonderful Face Bleach, AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2. Guaranteed to do what mossy and to be the chise in the one box all that is required if mossa directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH A PLACE-BLUE LABEL covered in printed paper, will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a multicolor person perfectly white. In forty-eight shades hues, the skin will be darker. It does not turn the skin to shades blacker than the skin is making beautiful without continued use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, plumps or blemishes from skin, and smooth. Small skin pits, tan, liver spots removed without harm to the skin. When you get the color out well, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER, that goes on one dollar box is couch to make your hair grow long and straight, and from fall to spring. It packs the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is packed the hair soft and easy to comb. Many of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is packed the hair soft and easy to comb. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or post money order, express money order or cash, will receive it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want to send C. O. D., it will come by express, 26c. exc. mail. When it falls to do what we claim, we will return or send a book free of charge. Packed so that no one will know continue except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 123 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. & CAMPBELL, rentals and Insurance. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Agents for ... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the. Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coat Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Rings and Furnaces TIN WORK a Specialty. ...A new line of... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. Wm. J. Campbell Kansas City, Mo BE NOT DECEIVED To the COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. Mr. Henry Stewart of Roanoke, Va., writes. Before using Ozono my head was perfectly bald. Now a nice growth has appeared. Ozono is perfectly grand. BEFORE AFTER Mr. Hart Holman, of Valley Mills, writes; Ozono is the only hair tone that has ever done my hair any good. It has caused my hair to grow long and straight. Mr. George Branch, Mahon, Texas, writes: Oomo has done me a world of good. Everyone that uses it will use no other hair tonic. Miss Maggie B. Proetor, Fairfield, Texas, writes. I have used Ozone, and give it my hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often it does me good to recommend honest goods. Henry Bell, Croeds, Va., writes: I cannot say too much in favor of your goods. This is the universal opinion in my county. The Magic Hair THE necessity of a practical contitions or too curly hair has long and women, endowed by nature of hair, have found ordinary combing comparatively an easy way to curly possibility to straighten curly hair, quickly, effectively and satisfactorily uncontrollable head of hair or beard, lowing instructions, will straighten it will not. It will save the loss of hair. It is positively the only device that we use of the Straightener after the shank better than the many methods ordinarily the risk of catching cold. The bar with a handle of comfortable, primary heat by means of gas, lamp or attached parallel to it, by an ingenious for use. The teeth of the comb can be moments of the user. The full length of en's use and straightens a heavy head teeth shortened is preferable for men an indispensable article of toilet by a personal appearance. It has the endorsed ADDRESS MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHT 407 Cent Hair Straight The technical contrivance for st r hair has long been apparent by nature with unruly by combing unproductive ter to curl straight hair, early hair. The Magic affectorily brings under or beard. It's use a few straighten the hair where loss of hair that excessively blee that will accomplish the shampoo, with dry beds or ordinarily employed cold. The Straightene ortab grip. The bar is lamp or common steve; ingenious arrangement. comb can be regulated length of the teeth is be heavy head of hair as fas for men's hair and be toilet by all who take pr the endorses of phy --- The Magic Hair Straightener and Shampoo Drier..... THE necessity of a practical contrivance for straightening refractions or to 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 less-en very decidedly the risk of catching cold. The Straightener consists of a steel bar with a handle of comfortably-grip. The bar is heated to an ordinary heat by means of gas, lamp or common steve; 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 women's 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 $1.25 407 Century Building PAINT CO Paint, Varnish ES 946, 944 GRAN DIAMOND PAINT DEVOE Paint PHONES 946, AGENTS WANTED. BEFORE AFTER Recognizing the fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frands, and simple, we wish to make a straight forward, honest statement to the colored face through this great paper. In the year 1971 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, required the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchased to any extent until 1975, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored face, because they found it to cause the hair to grow long and straight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, whenever a genuine article appears upon the market there are always a number of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods, seeing our marked success, numerous freshly have entered the market, offering hair growers and hair straighteners, many of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the hair and inland, and the colored people are buying these spurious compounds, which are filled with animal fats, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—be careful what you use on your hair. To not be deceived by flaring advertisements and big words, Buy the King of All Hair Tones. The actual value of this Grand Angagement is $10, but we let you have it for $10 simply to introduce a honest goods. In order to protect the public, general from imitation, Mark, one head show us Short Hat and the other head Long Hat. The U.S. Government has granted us this trade mark, and it is registered in the Extent of Washington, D.C., and is used in the U.S. Government coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. We encourage you to bear in mind that hair and cape are a beautiful and luxurious growth. If you already have a already strong, you can use it to secure a glossy, long growth. Send us $10 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods. enclose you $1,40, for which please send at once the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $200, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c, 1 Package (4 unit) Anti- Oid Worth $10, 1 Package Soap Skin, worth $10, Total $4,60 If you want a little like photo, send a snap. If you have a friend who has no coin, let her write her name on a piece of paper and turn it upon when you send your order. ```markdown ``` ADDRESS TRADE-MARK. BEFORE. being the fact that there are many in the market, and knowing one we wish to make a straight for a great paper. In the year 1870 the circumstance, acquired the receptive credit and, by two after a thorough test by the college climate remedy, trust to all that wares of every member of the colony, soft and fine, genuine article papers upon the e and make capital out of the less, numerous items have entered, many of which are worthless, so valuable and difficult to deal with animal tails and do the muzz- be careful what you use of rats and big words. Buy the king ORE. AFTER. never that there are many SO CALLED hair-growers and flat, and knowing to a certain extent many of these are to make a straight forward, honest statement to the paper. In the year 1814 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. M. Moore, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered until 1815, when it was put upon the market and much more tested by the colored people than honestly, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every member of the colored race, because they found a knight, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April mute, upon the market, and made capital out of the merits of other people's good qualities have entered the market, offering hair grow of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall out a little, and the hair more harmful than good. I carelful what you use on your hair. Do not be deceiving words. Buy the king of all Hair Tones, OZONO. with an ironclad guarantee to, we ask you a plant question— are you ready to grow your own certified for several years under the has used Oromo has been satis- shed people are to today using our pre- Carly, Karly, kactory, Imbosom- it. It will cure your head of a druff and cruise cannot after- ting out. It will restore gray hair here, let us make a statement the hair, but when they send the hair straight, they will burn straightness and straightness forever. You can are seen in a day or two after the of oromo is taken, a battle—looks skinless. Woman will be dollar, and we will forward to tactical Sun Roller, which also skinless. Women will be another—removes wrinkles, the old look young and the you produce too many packages of our love our liberality, we will put out or mouth, all forms of Woman smell and odors arising from introduce honest goods. In order goods, and to avoid mistakes, and show you short Hair and they GROMO will have this trademark on growth. Send us $100 on it. As to the Metropolitan Bank of our GROMO will have great growth. It will grow. Send us $100 on it, a order. BOSTON BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 306 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA SIO L. BROAD ST., RICHMOND, VA. nightener and Shampoo Drier... or straightening refrac- rent. The many men and rebellious heads active of results. It is air but almost an im- agic Hair Straightener subjection the most few minutes daily, fol- lore hours of combing passive combing products, as seen results. The day the hair quicker and wet, and less yet de- mer consists of a steel air is heated to an ordi- nate the comb then at- ten, and is then ready 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., 1,000, for which please send at once the following good Ozono, worth $2,600, 1 Battle Electrical Skin Refiller, 1 Electrical Skin Food, worth $1,000, 1 Package (1 unit) thus, 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $600, Total, $4,000, House No. City State in this place, send sign. If you have a friend who has name on a piece of paper and pin it upon when you send MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. COMPANY ash, Brushes. AND. 1214 GRAND AVE. --- AFTER. SO CALLED hair growers and hair straightening. I am many of these are franlal pice aware, honest ectangent to the coorod race our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through at for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or as put upon the market and met with marked and as claimed for it, and worthy harvey respect red race, because they found it to cause the and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, the mark and as claimed in the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our for the market, offering hair growers and hair-cusing the hair to fall out and doing great people are buying these spurious compounds, in the form than does, for them as your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring of all Hair Tonies. do all that is's aimed for it, or we will forl would we also fully agree to foster Stout if they were not true, all we claim for them is guarantee, and we are glad to say that led in every result. arrivals, and every pureer recommends with the post-trade the linkscourt of Kinne, to Fare, it will make short, arch having Il-fitting, worrying scalp diseases, Itin, do not have been annulled, it will stop your of its natural color, making the hair long Many firms are advertising remedies to sa preparation they tell you to use not trans, and life is not the hair, and cause it to drop and stop. Not until the last week of the stop the use at any time. The gour- flocs first and into the work We make this liberal offer, some of the goods to us, and to the vol of four large boxes of Oven and one large abcs black scan light, rough skin soft and over a few feet imperfections, and actually not too much. We know that it has a much hat/ch, freckles and all facial blem- ing look younger cibrated, and a Soap, which is absolutely and a very good, the present business. And, a short package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure Diseases, Chibblains, Sone and Frosted Feet, in the human body such as feet, arm pits, etc. and the other two are very good for to provide the pulse of the time. we have placed them our coupon our Trade- cher, and the Long Haier. The U.S. Government it, you will make no misuse. Exerci tive the responsibility, we refer you to the Editor Weekend, Au. We will often hair and cause a health safety and health. You can use it to secure a nd the goods to us sent the same day we of CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. and at once the following goods, bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth worth five, 1 Package (lime) Anti- oap, worth five Total, $4.60. House No. City. State. If you have a friend who has no coin, fillin too upon worth your and your order, a young sinner is bad enough, but a gray-headed sinner beats de devil nimself. We is commanded ter make de gospel fly, but most er us is in de habit er flyin' oursef we'en we se de gospel comin'. Lay it ter yo heart dat Satan ain't no wolf in sheep's clothin'. W'eneven he gits holt er a sheep he swallows him—cloze en all! W'en de po' man cry en he don't git no answer up yander, he orter re- member he been hollerin' so long en loud, he done deafenal all de angels. Ef preachin' didn't do nuthin' but put folks ter sleep, it would still be a great benefactor, kaze de only time some folks is out er mischief is 'wen dey done close dey eyes ter de worl'. - Atlanta Constitution. UP-TO-DATE PROVERBS. Modesty is not so easily shocked as prudence. A woman's train of thought is often on her dress. The more knowing a man is, the less he knows. Sometimes a comedian's divorce is his first serious part. Marriage is seldom a failure when Cupid furnishes the capital. Elies Dislike Clover. A simple and effective preventive for flies in a room is the presence of sweet clover. Flies have an especial objection to the plant and quickly make their escape from any place in which it is kept. To Brighten a Mirror To brighten a mirror, rub with a clean cloth dipped in a cream made of whiting and cold water, to which a few drops of ammonia are added. Polish well with old newspaper. ```markdown ``` BEFORE AFTER. Miss Annie A. Wise, Onaneock, Nya, writes: I and my sister have both been Ozono and we recommend it to every- one. It is the finest hair grower and straightener on earth. Mr. W. C. Diggs, Swartimore, Pa. says: I have used your preparations. They have done more than you claimed for them. I heartily recommend them. BEFORE AFTER Miss Clara M. Bentley, Topeka Kan, says: My hair was short and knotty and kinky. Now it is long and fine, Ozono did it. MR. TAYLOR MR. MARK TAYLOR, Haveriill, Mass., says: Your discovery is little short of a miracle and surpasses the ingenuity of man. Miss Louisa Logan, New Orleans, La., says: I send you my photograph, so that you can see what your Ozono be done for me. Temperature for Cold Bath. Letting the water stand in the tub all night secures for the body about the right temperature for a cold bath; and the falling snow and the driving rain furnish moisture for the hardening of the skin. To Cure Sneezing. A medical paper says a sneeze is instantaneously dispelled by pressing the finger upward against the division of the nose at the point where the upper lip inside joins the gum. Another plan is to exhale all the air possible from the lungs the moment you perceive indications of a sneeze. Waste of Millions. Dalnay harbor, near Port Arthur, built by Russia for an ice-free terminal port for the Siberian railway at a cost of 17,000,000 rubles, is a disappointment, for since the breakwater has been built it freezes over as did Vladivostok. The nearest possible ice-free bay is in Korean territory. Addressing Letters for Italy. A correspondent in Italy advises those who send letters to friends in that country to write only the initials of the first name, because it is quite customary in Italy to place the surname first, which leads to many mistakes when letters are asked for by foreigners. Water's Part in Universe. Water plays an indispensable part in both the environments and the internal chemistry of life. It forms more than half the weight of most living things, and all the active parts of animals and plants consist of water holding the other ingredients in solution or suspension. Decline of a Great University The University of Valladolid, Spain, was once famous and was founded by Ferdinand the Saint in the 12th century. It attained its greatest importance in the 16th century, when there were 6,000 to 7,000 students upon its rolls. Nowadays they number about 1,000.