The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored Peop.e than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME VIII. MEXICO NEWS. Mr. John Burks has been very sick with pneumonia, but is reported better to-day. Mr. Roy Gibson has been very sick with La Grippe. Some better to-day. Mrs. Lucy Merryfield on the sick list, but better to-day. Mr. Oray Gibson has been very sick with La Grippe and spell of pneumonia but is some better to-day. Mrs. Andrew Benson taken sick Friday with pneumonia and died Saturday evening suddenly at 5 o'clock leaves husban and relatives to mourn her loss funeral taken place at 2 o'clock Sunday evening at Baptist church. Mr. and Mrs. Razz Taylor both been very sick but better now. Mrs. Gardner and family moved to the country Saturday. Mr. Rufus Howard and grand daughter are very sick Mrs. Annie White. Mr and Mrs Goatley from Kansas City arevisiting her mother and relatives in this city. Miss Oliveen Goatley has been on the sick list, but better now. Mrs. Minnie Bass has been very ill with dropsy, but some better to-day. Mr. James Rohrs is very ill. OLD FOLKS AND ORPHANS' HOME. The Old Folks and Orphan's Home is striving hard to free itself from debt. The notes fail idue this month. The managers make a strong appeal to the public for assistance. Our white friends will do more, when they are convinced that our own people are dolnug something. A few have carried the burden of this home until it is really taking on the form of an institution. Its current expenses are about $60 a month. Have you done your share by way of supporting this worthy cause? A SWELL AFFAIR. Mrs. Ida E. and Daisy D. Foster entertained a few friends at their residence, 1215 Paseo, Friday evening, January 29, 1904. All spent a pleasant evening. Refreshments were served in abundance. Menu—Salad, ice cream, cake, chocolate, punch, fruit. Those present were Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Mosley, Misses Seymour, Bostock, Bell, Fant, Gunn, Hogue, Bowles, Maxie, Pennick, Banks, Allen; Messrs. Watts, Washington, Rice, Crowe, Frazier, Danforth, Whiteworth, Crump, Roberts, Nesbitt, White, Griffin, Watts, Ward, Drs. Carlon, Key, Smith. Confession of a Doctor A London physician, at the risk of giving away the secrets of his profession, writes to a paper that in the course of thirteen visits to a victim of the grip he could do but two things of positive value. The first was to open a window and the second was to pull off three of the six blankets under which the patient was sweltering. An English View of the Jews. It cannot be denied that the Jews as a general rule, make excellent citizens. Lord Beaconsfield (a somewhat partial witness, perhaps.) said that they were "a living and the most striking evidence of the falsity of that pernicious doctrine of modern times, the natural equality of man;" that all their tendencies were conservative, and lay in the direction of religion, property and natural aristocracy.--Macmillan's Magazine. The culture of American genseng is 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 genseng will almost equal, in earning capacity, an acre of ordinary farm crops. Try it. Seeds and plants for sale by Kansas City Ginseng Company, 1425 Spruce avenue, Kansas City, Mo. MY DREAM. The other night I had a dream, Which caused me much alarm— I crossed a maddened, muddy stream, 'Twixt midnight and early dawn. In midnight blackness I hurried on, And seemed had naught to fear— The rushing waters were full of scorn, But fo rits terrors I didn't care. I walked upon a narrow plank, The waters were at its edge, My companion lost his way and sank; —At the start we had made a pledge. I stooped and caught him in some way With trembling raised him to my arms, And ventured on without dismay Rejoiced at saving him from harm. As I walked along this narrow way, The day began to dawn. The sun cam out in golden rays, And a beautiful city I was shown. To me it seemed a Paradise, A city of luxury and bliss. It was planted high upon a cliff And dwelt not therein sinful vice. With new energy and cheerful song, I hurried my footsteps o'er the deep, My companion then leaped from my arms. A second time he stopped with care To rescue him from the muddy stream, He laughed at me and at the dare As I wept and walked on in my dream. And then I weakened—began to repent That we could not reach the city of thrift. 'Twas here my friend had freed my hold And again jumped into the mighty deep. I stooped to save him like a tyrant bold But alas, I then could only weep. LEON. (To be continued.) "Named" from the Pulpit. Sydney Smith once dared Sir Archibald MacDonald to come and hear him preach at St. Paul's cathedral. "If you do I shall name you from the pulpit," he said. Undeterred by his threat, Sir Archibald went to St. Paul's. After Sydney Smith had entered the pulpit he looked hard at him and was then seized with a wonderful fit of sneezing—"Ar-chle, ar-chle, ar-chle!" after which he proceeded to deliver an excellent sermon. Street Runs Through Church. Street Runs Through Church. One of the best-known instances of churches with streets through them is that of St. John the Baptist's church in Bristol. The church is situated right over the ancient gateway into the city on the Avon, and the towering spire, standing high above the neighboring houses and streets, is a remarkable sight, as one surveys it from the roadway below. Terrible Affairs Some beast in human form wadded Doc Skinner's office keyhole full of wet paper and then telephoned him to hurry out to old Bill Jennings and bleed him. When Doc went to his office to get his tools, of course the paper was frozen and he couldn't get the key in. This is the second time this thing has happened.—McCordsville (Ohio) Exhumer. Pine Land In Luzon In the island of Luzon there are nearly a million acres of rolling pine land, with no underbrush or tropical vegetation, where the climate is like that of the upper Allegheny mountains in June. 1930 ERNEST HOGAN. At the Orpheum Next Week. THE MEMORIAL OF THE WOMEN OF THE TOWN OF BROOKLYN MISS MATTIE WILKES. At the Orpheum Next Week. Foolish English Custom. In certain back-country districts of England, on Jan. 1, which is called Childermas, every child is soundly spanked before breakfast. The date is supposed to be the anniversary of the actual day upon which Herod slew the innocents. Therefore, to keep the memory of the slaughter fresh in the minds of the rising generation, subscribers to the ancient customs are bidden to whip their children before they rise on the morning of that day. Scared for a Minute "Oh. I'm so relieved," she said, after reading the flogram which her husband had sent her from home. "I seemed to have a premonition when the messenger said it was for me that it would say that our maid had left us. But it's nothing. The baby fell down stairs this morning and broke her arm. That's all." Rich Soil of China Agriculture is comparatively easy work in China. The soil is so rich that a square mile of it is capable of supporting a population of 4,000. A witty Englishman who sought to save a tract of woodland and shrubbery from the destructive attentions of the boys of the neighborhood put up a large board bearing the warning: "Any one trespassing in this plantation will be spikified according to the law." The result was very satisfactory, as the fear of spification, whatever it meant to them, deterred intruders from passing through the woods and the trees were unmolested. Danish Bacon Factories Danish cooperative bacon factories now have about 65,000 members, and last year they killed 636,000 pigs and 10,000 head of cattle, amounting in money to $10,570,000. The price received for bacon in the English market averaged 4 cents a pound above the average price for bacon from other countries. Saving the Children A noted doctor states that 85 per cent of crippled children could be at least able to work if their diseases were treated in time. Scared the Boy RAT8' SENSE OF SMELL. Can Detect Presence of Cat From a Long Distance. "I have observed recently a rather curious thing with respect to the relationship between cats and rats, and it has led to a rather interesting reflection," said a man who takes much interest in animal life. "For a while the rats overran my place. At night there was no such thing as quiet around the house. They would scamper across the floor, bump up and down the steps and cut all kinds of capers. We secured a cat, and from the very time the cat appeared on the place the rats began to get scarce. There is nothing curious about this fact in itself. But to my personal knowledge the rats have never seen the cat. The cat has remained on one floor, and the rats on another. There has been no chasing and no conflict between them. What I want to know is how do the rats know the cat is on the place? The inquiry has caused me to indulge the more interesting reflection: How far can a rat detect the presence of a cat by the sense of smell? Evidently at consid erable distance. Else the rats at my place would not have known of the cat's presence."—New Orleans Times Democrat. ECONOMY NATURAL WITH HIM Uncle Informs Reggie That the Trait Is Inappropriate. "I would never think," said Reggie Packlham, "of going in to dinner without wearing evening clothes." "That's good," said his uncle on his mother's side. "Don't ever wear out your mornin' clo's when you can save 'em as well as not. I remember how you pa used to lay his chaw of tobacco on the window sill when he went to eat, so as not to waste it. There was a man that "as always gettin' everything out of a living there was in it. It was that disposition that kept him from ever bein' satisfied till he'd got the business down so the only thing about a steer that went to waste in his establishment was the gount the critter gave when they hit him with an ax. I guess you must git your habit of wantin' to do things right from him." The Strange New Language 'Ta Greek, nay, Japanese, to me; But Cynthia, whenever I am her, Can never well contented be Till I declare her very two. Tth I declare the day to be And than all maids I know far two-er That lovely teagle, she will sigh. In far too expie-griefs flood over me, And while I weep to see her cry, I dare all deaths to aid her, I. If you'd translate her language, for me. Since my dear fate is to be hers, For with rare charm doth she trepan man, I'd rather mine, but she avers It is a man can she prefers. Now I am man, but what's a man-man? To my dismay it adds despair To find a search for knowledge risky. For when I asked what cosmos were I froze beneath her cold state And stern reproach that I was diskie. So since for her I long and yearn, And since she her is my heart set With me desire besiege I burn; Tis this: Cynthia will unlearn The mystic language of the Smart Set Century-Old Custom Ceases. The century-old practice of ringing Storrington church bell at 8 o'clock at night has been stopped by the vicar. A romantic story attaches to the origin of the ringing *c* the bell. One stormy night a lady was lost on the Sussex downs, and she has given up hope of ever reaching the village, when she heard Storrington church bell ringing. She walked in the direction whence the sound proceeded, and reached home in safety. In token of her gratitude she made arrangements for the bell to be rung every night at 8 in perpetuity, and left an acre of ground for the use of the person tolling the bell—London Express. Elephants Nurse Infants. In Slam some of the women intrust their children to the care of elephant nurses, and it is said that the trust is never betrayed. The babies play about the huge feet of the elephants, who are very careful never to hurt their little charges. NUMBER 45 LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. Vukon the evangelist who has been here assisting Rev. Young in his revival meeting, left Monday evening for his home in Kansas. Rev. Young has closed his revival. Mr. Jordan Hook was in Independence Sunday. Mr. George Hegwood of Liberty was here Sunday and Monday and left Monday evening accompanied by Mr. Babe Jackson. Miss Ona Woods was in Hodge a few days last week. Mrs. Mary Webb is on the sick list. Also Mrs. Lucretia Hawkins is yet sick. Miss Sarah Graham who has been real sick is able to be out again. Electra Chapter No. 1 will give an entertainment on Friday, Feb. 12, at the Excelsior Band Hall. Admission 10c. Mr. Don Johnson, Mr. V. Johnson and Mrs. S. Myers went to Mayview Sunday to see their sister, Mrs. Lizzie Hopkins, who is very ill. Mrs. Florence `Hayden and three sons went to Independence Saturday evening to visit her sister, Mrs. James Bush and returned home Monday morning. Mr. Ceiling Evans and Miss Mollie Carter were in Higinsville Sunday attending quarterly meetings. ev. A. A. Gilbert closed his revival Sunday night. Mr. Israel Allen his singer, left for his home in Sedalia Sunday evening. Rev. Christian was here last week assisting in the meeting and left Saturday morning for his home in Kansas City. They are having a revival at the Second Baptist church. Miss Eva Holmes is very sick. Miss Alice Walker is sick, also Mrs. Bettie Harris is quite ill, not expecting to live. Mr. Fine Thomas is on the sick list, also Mrs. Katie Bradford. Dr. Shannon makes two trips a day. Mrs. Colman of Frankfort, Ken., the niece of Mr. Bradford, left Tuesday morning for Topeka, Kan., where she will spend a few days with her uncle and then return back home. Mrs. Hallie Q. Brown will give a recital at Zion A. M. E. church February 24th. Come out and see her. Mrs. Joseph Terrial of Kansas City is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Booker. A Golden Rule. We ought to measure our actual lot and to fulfil it; to be with all our strength that which our lot requires and allows. What is beyond it is no calling of ours. How much peace, quiet, confidence and strength would people attain if they would go by this plain rule—H. E. Manning. There are people who have safe deposit vaults in which they keep their consciences. After they are dead the vaults are opened, "What a perfect conscience!" exclaim the relatives. So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ABRAHAM LINCOLN [From "Commemoration Ode," by JAMES RUSSLLL LOWELL.] For him her old world molds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the weakest wost Of the unexhausted west, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. His was no lonely mountain peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea mark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level lined. Hawthorne's Pen Pictures of Abraham Lincoln. The tone of the dispatches gave rise to an apprehension that he might not co-operate fully in the enterprise at hand. The Secretary of War, in anger, laid the dispatches before the President for advisory instructions. They did not disturb Mr. Lincoln in the least. In fact, they rather amused him. After reading all the papers he said, in a cheerful and reassuring tone, "Mr. Secretary, never mind these dispatches; they don't mean anything; just go right ahead. Gov. Curtin is like a boy I once saw at the launching of a ship. When everything was ready they picked out this boy and set him on the ship to knock away the trigger and let her go. At the critical moment everything depended on that boy. He had to do the job well, by a direct, vigorous blow, and then lie flat and keep still while the ship moved over him. The boy did everything right; but he yelled as if he were being murdered from the time he got under the keel until he got out. I thought the skin was all scraped off his back, but his hide was not touched." "The master of the yard told me that this boy was always chosen for that job; that he did his work well; that he had never been hurt, but that he always squealed in that way. That's just the way," continued Mr. Lincoln, "that Gov. Andy Curtin does, Make up your mind that he is not hurt, that he is doing the work right and pay no attention to his squealing. He only wants to make you understand how hard his task is." Sometimes the President yielded to Secretary Stanton's judgment. Rev. Charles W. Heisler, a Methodist minister, who still survives, had rather a "soft snap" as chaplain of a hospital in Philadelphia. His wife was very ill, and the Secretary of War had just ordered him to his post of duty at the Dry Tortugas, or some place equally unsatisfactory. Heisler wanted the order rescinded. He saw Mr. Lincoln, explained the whole matter to the President, who said: "I think this preacher ought to be allowed to remain where he is." Lincoln reached to a pigeon hole in his desk and took out a card, on which he wrote: "Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: If the exigencies of the service will permit, let up on Mr. Heisler and leave him where he is. A Lincoln." Rev. Heisler went over to the War Office in high spirits. Stanton was in one of his uproarious humors. For the modern Carnot, in spite of his many virtues and his solid Presbyterianism, could, when angered, swear like a moss trooper. He read Mr. Lincoln's card and said to the minister, "Go back and tell Mr. Lincoln I will be d—d if I will do what he requests." After the President had listened patiently to Stanton's message he said with a twinkle in his eye, "Well, I never did have much influence with this administration." Rev. Mr. Heisler resigned next day as chaplain in the United States service. The next time the writer saw the President the first thing he said was: "I did something this morning which has aroused the里 of Secretary Stanton. Congressman Dennison, of Pennsylvania, came to me with the mother of John Russell, a soldier who was to be shot within forty-eight hours for unsubordination, and I gave a peremptory order pardoning the soldier and restoring him to his regiment. At a recent battle in the face of the enemy John Russell's captain ran away. When the battle was over, in which half of the company was lost, this soldier met his captain, and walking up to him, rifle in hand, he said: 'Captain ——, you are a d—— coward, and ought to be shot for cowardica' "The captain pulled out his revolver and attempted to kill Russell. They were separated. The captain preferred charges of insubordination against the soldier, and a subservient court-martial sentenced Russell to be shot, and did not even censure the cowardly officer. Congressman Dennison has just given me all the facts of this case, and I have just made the poor mother happy by saving the boy, and I did more. I dismissed the cowardly captain from the army." John Russell still lives to tell this story how the great head of the army and navy had saved his life. He reenlisted at the end of his term The renowned writer, Hawthorne, once penned the following memorable sketch of Abraham Lincoln's character: "Mr. Lincoln's whole physiognomy is a coarse one, but withal it is redeemed, illuminated, softened and brightened by a kindly though serious look out of his eyes, and an expression of only sagacity that seemed weighted with rich results of village experience. A great deal of native sense, no bookish cultivation, no refinement, honest at heart, and yet in some sort sly—at least endowed with a sort of tact and wisdom that are akin to craft and would impel him, I think, to take an antagonist in flank rather than to make a bull run at him right in front. But on the whole, I liked this sallow, queer, sagacious visage, with the homely human sympathies that warmed him; and for my small share in the matter would as lief have Uncle Abe for a ruler as any man who would have been likely to be put in his place." Lincoln was a human being. He was not a god, although Mr. Pratt approvingly quoted from Mr. John Hay this absurd paragraph: "I consider Lincoln Republicanism incarnate, with all its faults and virtues, and in spite of some movements Republicanism is the sole hope of a sick world, so Lincoln, with all his foibles, is the greatest character since Christ." He may not have been that, but he was too great a man to be emasculated, toned down and falsified into a conventionalized puppet. His faults were a part of his rugged manhood and individuality. Paint him with his warts on; that is how he would have wished to be painted. It must have been a pleasure to Mr. Pratt to have recorded the statements of an artist, a clergyman and of William H. Seward, that they never heard the President tell any anecdotes which could not have been repeated with propriety in the presence of ladies. "Nevertheless," said he, "the clergyman and the artist must have been comparative strangers to Lincoln, and Mr. Seward, if correctly quoted, was doubtless lying in the interest of what he conceived to be propriety. Hawthorne did not deem it necessary to dab a fig leaf over Lincoln's nudity of speech. He regrets that he himself had not lingered longer in the Presidential presence and see him cross his legs (which, I am told, is a very extraordinary performance), and hear him tell one of his electrical stories, for which he was so famous. A good many of these are afloat in the common talk of Washington and are certainly the aptest, prettiest and funniest little things imaginable; though, to be sure, they smack of the frontier freedom and would not always bear repetition in the drawing room." Gov. Andrew G. Curtin was one of Pennsylvania's greatest men. He was twice elected governor during war times. Col. Alec. McClure was the power behind the throne of Gov. Curtin. McClure was asked why he didn't run for governor of Pennsylvania himself, but replied: "It is better to own a governor than to be a governor." He turned Curtin against the administration, and three days before the battle of Gettysburg the governor, in a speech to the soldiers in the public square said: "Soldiers, remember, I promise you I will not play the administration at Washington on you." This angered Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, very much. He complained to Lincoln of the manner in which the Governor of Pennsylvania performed the orders of the War Department, complaining bitterly over the order and yet performing them. In other words, he kept the word of promise to the hope, but broke it to the ear. Mr. Lincoln was a good judge of men, and quickly learned the peculiar traits of character of those with whom he had to deal. He pointed out a marked trait in Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, who was earnest, able and uniting in keeping up the war spirit of his state, but was at times overbearing and exacting in his intercourse with the general government. Upon one occasion he complained and protested more bitterly than usual and warned those in authority that the execution of the War Department orders in this state would be beset with difficulties and dangers. ```markdown ``` service and fought to the end of the war and still wears "his wounds and honors" a front. Two boys, named Snyder and Rat-cliffe, ran away from their parents, while under age, and enlisted in the navy. The parents got an interview with Mr. Lincoln. They told him the only faults the boys had was this one of disobedience to their parents. "Well," he said, reaching for a blank card, "I think I can help you." He wrote to Secretary Welles: "The United States don't need the services of boys who disobey their parents. Let both Snyder and Rat-cliffe be discharged. "A. LINCOLN." This card is still retained by the parents of the runaway boys, and they often tell the tale as one of Mr. In the congressional delegation from a western state were two members who were intensely jealous of each other. He listened to the hot contest between these two congressmen about the appointment of a big postmaster. He heard them patiently, and said: "I will take your papers and decide your case the last of the week. Your rivalries recall to my mind the intense feeling between two class leaders in Sangamon County Methodist Church. Farmer Jones was exceptionally gifted in prayer. Farmer Simpkins, Jones' neighbor, was a large land owner, who could not boast of a similar gift, but was known all over the country for his skill as a fiddler, which made him a welcome guest at every country 'hoe down.' Simpkins never concealed his jealousy of Jones' power when he appealed to the throne of grace. After a remarkably effective display of Jones' vigor and eloquence as a praying man at Wednesday evening service Jones seated himself. Simpkins walked up the aisle of the little frame church and began: 'Brethering and Sibstring—I know very well that I can't begin to make half as good a brayer as old man Jones can, but, by the grace of God, I can fiddle the shirt off of him.' Gen. Campbell, of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, was one of the ablest members of the Union side in Congress. He was a close friend of Jay Cooke, and vastly useful to him in his great enterprise, the Northern Pacific railroad. Gen. Campbell was much beloved by both Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Stevens, the grand old commoner of Pennsylvania. Gen. Campbell said: "The last time I was in Washington I had a lovely interview with Abraham Lincoln." Mr. Campbell had just been Minister to Norway and Sweden. The President was in one of his brightest humors. He said to the general: "I am as happy to-day as if our army had won a victory over the rebels. Thaddeus Stevens brought me one of his constituents, a lady of sixty-five years old, with white hair. Her son, only 19 years of age, was sentenced to be shot to-morrow at noon for sleeping at his post. I took half the night to examine into the case. I cannot consent that a farmer lad, brought up to keep early hours in to bed and in rising, shall be shot to death for being found asleep when he ought to have been awake. I pardoned the boy and I sent a messenger early this morning with the welcome news to the boy's regiment. The mother, like Niobe, all tears, has just left me, and as she went out, my heart came up in my throat, when, between her tears, she got up to old Thad Stevens, who had helped her to save her son's life, and, sobbing, said: "You told me Mr. Lincoln was ugly. How could you say that. Mr. Stevens! for I think he has one of the most beautiful faces that I ever saw." Then the President laughed his sweet soft laugh, as merry as a boy, but there were tears in his eyes." Mr. Lincoln's Philadelphia speech, on his way to his first inauguration, was the key to the unselfish and pathetic selfabnegation of a pure and lofty life, and he died as did the common soldier in battle, slain by a dastard in defense of the rights of man, imperishable and imperscriptible. James Matlock Scovill to Cincinnati Enquirer. Great Because Sincere. Paul speaks of the Christians at Corinth as "epistles, known and read of all men." Each noble human life becomes a chapter in that larger Bible which is made up of the acts of the apostles of all time. Men who could not read an epistle in Greek or Aramaic could understand every jot and title of Christianity that found expression in men and women. Thousands, nay, millions, doubtless have thus come to a clearer appreciation of real Christianity through the life of Abraham Lincoln through Holy Scripture itself. He became to many minds a concrete illuminative beauty, purity and nobility of his character and conduct. Lincoln was a great man because he was animated by a great principle. That principle gave him the fortitude to stand fast for right when he stood almost alone; it is imparted to him that noble and unselfish character which so easily forgave and cherished no resentment; that principle aroused within him an intense hatred of injustice; it fired his heart with that uncuenchable ardor for liberty; that principle made him a great statesman, because it made him God's statesman, for he took his statesman ship not from the axioms of worldly policy, but from the teachings of the Word of God. Here is the secret of that in him which shall compel the admiration of ages yet to come; he was saturated in mind and in spirit with the teachings of Jesus Christ.—Rev. Frank D. Burhans. A man takes a game bag with him the first time he goes gunning for quail. Uncle Sam—You see, my dear Lady of the Snows, the things you have to sell are precisely the things we have to sell. If we should consent to so foolish a piece of business as to rob our farmers of their protection, we should certainly insist upon an open market for our manufactures. Miss Canada—Then we can't trade. We want to build up our own industries. NEED OF THE CANAL. NEED OF THE CANAL. ENTIRE COUNTRY RECOGNIZES ITS NECESSITY. Obstructionists in the Senate Are in Opposition to Their Party Followers in Schoming to Delay the Construction of the Panama Waterway. Senator Gorman's tactical maneuvers on the isthmian canal question have been successful only in uncovering the weak points in the Democratic line. Democratic Senators who originally favored the Panama route and who voted for the Spooner bill and to ratify the Hay-Herran canal treaty have no reason for opposing the present canal treaty. Democrats who held that the treaty with Colombia made too many concessions cannot logically oppose the present treaty, which makes no concessions inimical to the interests of the United States. Senators who formerly favored the Nicaragua route are right in the abstract. The Inter Ocean believed years ago and believes now that the Nicaragua route is preferable to the Panama route. The contention that there is greater risk and greater possibility of scandal in constructing a canal on the Panama route than on the Nicaragua still stands. As a canal on the Nicaragua route is impossible and as a canal on the Panama route can be constructed under more favorable circumstances than ever before, the real friends of an isthmian canal have accepted the situation, preferring a canal on the UNSATISFACTORY BASIS FOR E LUMBER WHEAT FLOUR CORN NATURAL PRODUCTS CANADA PORK EGGS CANADA ST LAMBERT'S DOCK UNITED STATES Uncle Sam—You see, my dear Lady to sell are precisely the things we have so foolish a piece of business as to roar should certainly insist upon an open Miss Canada—Then we can't trade dustries. Panama route with all its risks to no canal at all. The Democratic senators honestly in favor of an isthmian canal accepted this view of the situation when they voted for the Spooner bill. They have not changed their views and are now objecting, not to a canal on a particular route, but to the means used to secure control of the route. This objection is personal or political and cannot stand in the court of final issue when the question is a canal on the Panama route or no canal at all. On this question no one doubts how the American people would vote. East and West, North and South, Democrats and Populists, as well as Republicans, they are in favor of an isthmian canal. Mr. Gorman's scheming to defeat the ratification of the canal treaty has developed the strength of the canal sentiment in the Democratic party. There is no opposition to the ratification in the Republican party. Why, then, treat the question as a party issue? Why not act upon it in its real character, as an American question, and put aside Mr. Gorman's theory that any question, no matter how vital to American progress, may be used as a football in the game of politics—Chicago Inter Ocean. MORGAN'S CHANGE OF HEART. Senator Would Now Annex the Isthmus of Panama. Senator Morgan has "recognized" the Panama canal. But the venerable assailant of the President's Panama policy will not recognize the new republic. Instead of recognizing it as an independent government he would grab it and annex it to the Union. If anybody in this country took Senator Morgan seriously on the isthmian canal question his bill for the annexation of Panama, introduced in the Senate, would be regarded as an alarming and unexpected manifestation of "imperialistic" tendencies on the part of the venerable statesman from Alabama. Senator Morgan has violously lampooned the president for aiding the formation of the new republic and for recognizing its independence. He charged the president with having precipitated the revolution and denounced the Panama canal treaty as unlawful. But the venerable senator has executed an amazing flop. He no longer sits up nights with the Constitution and screams with frenzy as he contemplates the outrage perpetrated upon the sovereign state of Colombia by the people of Panama. Having made up his mind that nothing can now prevent the building of the Pan- ama canal, Senator Morgan is not satisfied with a "canal strip" ten miles wide. He wants to annex the entire Isthmus, canal strip, Colon, Panama and all. His bill provides that all the rights and properties of the Republic of Panama of every description shall vest in the United States of America, without reserve, and shall be subject to their sovereign jurisdiction. It is true that Senator Morgan does not propose to take the Isthmus without some compensation. He would give for it $10,000,000, which he regards as a good price for territory that contains only 31,571 square miles. He does not neglect also to provide a balm for the bereaved Colombians in the shape of $15,000,000. The eloquent senator will be warmly welcomed to the ranks of the "imperialists." The important thing to the country, however, is the fact that Senator Morgan has finally admitted that the Panama canal is a probability. No Fooling With the Tariff. No Footing With the Tarm. The unsettled conditions from which the country has just commenced to recover do not admit of introducing any new uncertainties until the sky has materially cleared. Had the boom continued there might have been some grounds for the opponents of the tariff to argue that it was bringing too much prosperity, but now that the boom has had a check the danger that would follow the introduction of a further disarrangement of trade conditions could invite nothing but disaster. The Republicans have always stood for a tariff that would enable American industry to thrive. There is no occasion now to pull away any protec RECIPROCITY NEGOTIATIONS. NATURAL PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES PIANOS TIN WARE GOODS MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES BOOTS AND SMORES HATS AND CAPS HARDWARE body of the Snows, the things you have have to sell. If we should consent to rob our farmers of their protection, we a market for our manufactures. e. We want to build up our own in- tive wall, and even if the threadbare argument that a tariff is not needed to protect goods that can be made for the export trade had any weight at any time it has always been offset by the fact that if a tariff is not needed particularly on any specific line of manufacturing, it does no hurt to that industry. Even the Democrats in Congress see that this is no time to howl calamity or to jeopardize the interests of the country, and they would hardly be extremists if they could effect anything by it. The most of their noise will be for the benefit of the galleries.—Pittsburg Times. Farmers and Exports. Some of the Democratic orators would be pleased to make it out that the falling off of the exports, which was shown by the last reports, was caused by the present tariff laws, and that the decrease of the exports worked injury to the farmers. Some have gone so far as to say that the Dingley law is responsible for the falling off of the exports of farm products. It so happens that most of the products which have shown a decrease in export are on the free list. There has been no decrease in the production of farm products. No one has been complaining because his corn crop, or his wheat crop has been a failure. Prices also are good. If the exports have fallen off it means that instead of selling in a foreign market the farmers are selling at home. Everyone is employed and is a consumer. Home people are consuming home products. The farmer is feeding his neighbors in American commercial centers. But the farmers would not have had a chance to do this were it not for the fact that the present tariff schedules make it possible for the factories to work night and day to make goods for the home and foreign markets. The farmer's prosperity is intimately linked with the prosperity of all the other classes of the country. Is the farmer satisfied? It is not likely that one who stops to consider will vote for a change.—Davenport Times. Wrong from First to Last With the tariff kept at the protective point American plants will be enlarged to do all the work necessary for this country. With the tariff taken off, with Democratic free trade, the European mills would hold that trade and gain more as this country grew. American steel and iron workers would then come into direct competition with foreign labor and wages would go down. The trust would no be crushed. There is nothing plainer than that the Democratic idea is wrong from first to last.—Lafayette (Ind.) Call. CUPOLA SKETCHES BY BUTTON WILLIAMS The Cockroach. See the peaky cockroach! Nasty little gus. Dragging through the butter— Here, you blunderbuss! Baked unto a frazzle in the apple ple— See the little cockroach With your eagle eye! See the little cockroach. Note its seraggy skate— Froiles in the butter— With his foxy mate! Swimming in the prune sauce, Ducking in the milk. See the little cockroach And his vexing skik See' the little cockroach Losses off his head— Fried into the pancake, quardruped! Mouthed in the marriage cake, in the syrup key— See the little cockroach Minus one hind leg! See the little cockroach In the oyster soup! Struggle with the oyster, Tries to loop the loop! Gobbled with a relish Flipping through your See the little cockroach— Catch him if you can! WALTER A small, hot dog is said to have almost wrecked a society event in Gotham! Lucky it wasn't a small, hot mouse or the said society event would have looked like the wreck of the Hesperus in seven seconds! 6 6 6 When a colored man prays for a chicken, his prayer is usually answered. Some folks look well, eat well and drink well and yet "enjoy" poor health all the time. "The good die young," or before familiarity breeds contempt. Many a man is in jail for stealing that which he could have purchased on credit and for which he would never have paid. A stuttering man seldom loves a parrot. Strange, isn't it, that some of these self-made men didn't put more hair on the tops of their heads? The farmer who has the longest hayrack and the tallest binding pole always hitches his outfit crosswise of the street. Some women are so stingy they don't lean back in their carriages for tear of wearing off the nap. Those too poor to travel will never oe killed in a railroad wreck. The man that always does his best will not be compelled to await his reward in heaven. 06 06 06 Scintillations. A well-told lie should be brief; entanglement lurks in side lights. A man that will cheat himself at solitaire could never be our bank cashier. Pleasure loves best to come when unexpected. A man frequently knows his enemies, but seldom knows who are really his friends. A barrel of sentiment is not so great as a little lift to a poor woman carrying a heavy basket. We are more apt in this world to love those who admire us than those whom we should admire. Most men stand adversity better than prosperity. It makes us noble to be hurt. He laughs at this who has no scar. One Ring. Please. It happened at a ball. Aweary from enthusiastic tripping in the mazy lance, she asked for a chair. Slink- MISSONY ng into it, she looked up at him and isped gratefully: "You are a jewel!" "No, I am a jeweler," he responded, "I have just set the jewel!" Despite his assumption, he has had o call in a jeweler to settle the matter. Lincoln the Man. R. K. H. Stoddard. A laborious man, who hands, Who swung the axe, who tilled his lands, Who shrank from nothing new, But did as poor men do. One of the people. Born to be Their curious epitome. To share, yet rise above, Their shifting hate and love. Common his mind, it seemed so then, His thoughts the thoughts of other men. Pleasant, poor— But now they will endure. No hasty feel of stubborn will, But prudent, cautious, still— Who, since his work was good, Would do it as he could. No hero, this of Roman mold— Nor like our stately sires of old. Perhaps he was not great— But he preserved the state. O. honest face, which all men knew, O. tender heart, but known to few— Cut off by dry rage. LINCOLN'S LAST PEVIEW BY N.A.J. FAWTROUSS. ARCH 25th has started a flood of memories in my direction ever since that day in 1865." iM The remark was made by a gentleman who saw Abraham Lincoln on the occasion of his last review of an army corps, the afternoon of March 25, 1865, near Petersburg, Va. Continuing, he said: "There had been a fierce battle early in the morning. The Union troops had been surprised by a large force of Confederates commanded by that dauntless soldier who since the war has found a warm place in nearly all American hearts by his high type of Americanism, his statesmanship displayed in the United States Senate, and as a popular lecturer, Lieut.-Gen. John B. Gordon. "Gen. Gordon had asked and been given permission to make an attempt to break the Union lines in front of Petersburg, divide the army of the Potomac and thus give Gen. Lee's army a chance to whip it in detail. "The attack was made before daylight on the morning of the 25th, and it was so much like one of Stonewall Jackson's flank movements that for more than an hour it promised great success for the gentlemen in gray, Gordon and his many thousands of picked soldiers of the army of Northern Virginia—than whom there never were better fighters—forced their way through lines that or folks thought were impregnable, and charged straight for Fort Steadman, which they captured with all of its guns and soldiers. "Up to that point Gen. Gordon's plan had worked well. He had caught his enemy napping, thrown 10,000 of Lee's best men plump into the Union lines, captured one of the largest and strongest forts, and seemed in a fair way to smash that part of Grant's army. But by this time Gen. Parke's Ninth Corps had roused up and was ready for action. The Confederates were charged from three sides. It was one of the most desperate struggles of the war. It was in that fight Henry W. Grady's father, M. Grady, was killed. Soon after daylight Gordon was back with Lee's army, but more than half the force he went out with was in the Union lines, more than 1,000 killed and wounded and nearly 4,000 prisoners. "A brilliant plan courageously carried to the brow of the hill had failed. H. H. H. "What would you do?" and its failure saved the Union army from a most humiliating and disastrous defeat." The night before, there had been an important conference at City Point, fifteen miles from Petersburg, then Gen. Grant's headquarters, at which were present President Lincoln, Gens. Grant, Sherman and Meade. Not long after the battle, the President, Gen. Grant and Gen. Meade went to the front by train. The Confederates were sending solid shot and shells into our lines when the train approached. As a shell exploded, a short distance from the car the distinguished officials were in, Gen. Grant asked: "Mr. President, they evidently aim to hurt this train—shall we stop, back up and wait until the storm passes?" "What would you and Meade do if I were not with you?" asked Mr. Lincoln. "Go ahead." said Grant. "Then make believe I am in the White House," said the great President, to whom it was no new thing to be under fire, and they ran the gauntlet, several shells exploding close to the cars, but none striking them. The train was stopped at a point close to the 4,000 Confederate prisoners. There were many colored men, servants of the prisoners, in the field. Pointing to the large gathering, Gen. Grant said, "Mr. Lincoln, there are some of the fruits of this morning's victory." "That is so, general; the fruit is there in black and white." Among the troops set in motion soon after the battle opened was the Fifth Corps. It was halted near Yellow Tavern, three miles from the scene of action, by news that there had been a happy ending of the struggle. Upon its way back to camp, the Fifth Corps was ordered to march to a large level field, form for review, and informed that the President and some of the Cabinet would soon arrive. It was nearly 5 o'clock when they arrived at the right of the corps. Word was sent down the line that, instead of regularly reviewing the corps, the President and party would ride from the right to the left. A moment later, another aide rode along, telling regimental commanders that if their men wanted to cheer, to cheer. It was freedom the corps heartily welcomed. "As the party started," he continued, "in the President and a cabinet officer in a carriage, Tad Lincoln by its side, on his pony, the Confederates, three miles away, showed their appreciation of the visit by sending a few shells in our direction, but as they fell short, no confusion resulted. "Cheering? I never before heard such cheering. Each regiment gave three times the cheers and a tiger, and then threw their caps in the air. The President was kept busy lifting his hat and bowing. He rode so close to the lines that we could see his U.S. "Never mind him, Captain." smile and hear his "Thank you, my brave boys.' The unrestrained, hearty cheers greatly pleased him. Dear 'Old Abe,' I wonder if he realized how deeply he was loved by the men he had called to serve their country. "When the President reached our brigade and the boys had cheered and thrown their black hats high in air, and many a man had called out, 'God bless you, Father Abe!' an erratic soldier dodged from the ranks and bounded for the carriage, his captain rushing after him with orders to halt and return to his place. But the man kept on. When the poor fellow dropped on his knees, the driver was signalled to stop. The irate captain came up just as the soldier began an appeal to the President to shield him from a threatened court-martial. The captain ordered the man to get up and take his place in the ranks, and his manner was not extremely gentle. "Never mind, captain; let him talk. It pleases him and does not displease me," said the President. "It was nearly dark when the review ended, and the President's party started for the City Point train, and the happy Fifth Corps swung back to camp, singing and shouting from joy at having had a good look at their great-hearted commander-in-chief. "Three weeks later the war was over, but with its ending came a sorrow so overwhelming that mourning and tears took the place of cheers and rejoicing. "Do you wonder that memory carries me back to that Virginia field, March 25, where thirty-eight years ago, President Lincoln reviewed his last army corps?" Had Morgan's Approval. An old Washington gentleman tells a story which he overheard President Lincoln repeat, and which he believes has not been published. During one of his busy reception hours, when the President was talking first to one, then to another of the many who filled the room in the White House, a gentleman asked if any news had been received from John Morgan, whose Confederate cavalry were raiding Kentucky and Ohio. "We'll catch John some of these days," replied Lincoln. "I admire him, for he is a bold operator. He always goes after the mail trains, in order to get information from Washington. On his last raid he opened some mail bags and took possession of the official correspondence. "One letter was from the war department to a lieutenant in Grant's army; it contained a captain's commission for him. Right under the signature of A. Lincoln the audacious Morgan wrote, 'Approved, John Morgan,' and sent the commission on its way. So there is one officer in our army whose commission bears my signature, with the approval of the daredilver rebel raider." LOSS OF $200,000,000 CAUSED BY FIRE IN HISTORIC CITY OF BALTIMORE, MD. Flames Rage Unchecked from the Heart of the Business District to the Water's Edge. Seventy-five Blocks, on Which Stood the Finest Buildings in the City. Are Completely Wiped Out. GREAT FIRES IN AMERICA New York, Dec. 16, 1835-Fire destroyed 674 buildings, including city best business structures. Ninth floor, business section, $17,000,000. Chicago, Oct. 8, 1871-Great Chicago fire, which ran over an area of three and a third square miles, destroying 17,450 building homeless 89,500 persons, and involving a property loss of... 200,000,000. Boston, Mass., Nov. 9, 1872-Fire ladd, waste sixty-five acres of property destroyed by death of fourteen persons. Eight hundred buildings destroyed. Property loss 80,000,000. Ottawa and Hull, Canada, April 26, 1900-Fire which destroyed manufacturing Hull and a property of Ottawa caused death of seven persons and property loss of... 17,000,000. Hoboken, N. J., June 20, 1900-North German stockade was destroyed and property loss of... 7,000,000. Jacksonville, Fla., May 3, 1901-Area two miles long and thirteen blocks while swept clear of buildings... 10,000,000. Darcyon, N. J., Feb. 8, 1892-Fire in business section destroyed seventy-five buildings. Loss... 18,000,000. St. John's, N. F., July 9, 1892-Six hundred buildings destroyed. Fifteen thousand persons rendered homeless. 20,000,000. Baltimore, Mt., Feb. 7, and 8-Fire in heart of city destroyed The people of Baltimore were at worship when the flames broke out at 11 o'clock Sunday morning, Feb. 7—the outbreak of one of the worst visitations of flame the cities of the world have known. Just a few moments after 11 o'clock, a terrific explosion, shaking the city to its foundations, gave the first warning of the fire. There was a sharp, splitting roar that went up with reverberating thunder. It brought the city to its feet in terror. In a trice the churches were emptied. Panic seized the great congregations and emptied screaming, frantic men and women into the streets. In a few moments the pavements were crowded with excited people. There was another deafening roar, a whistling crash and then columns of smoke shot up over the central section of the city. Showers of red hot cinders and flaming debris began to fall over the city, sent upward and down like showers from a volcano's crater. By this time only the fire had been located. It was found that the great wholesale house of John E. Hurst & Co. in Hopkins place, near Hanover street, was in flames. The flames swept from this building with terrific fierceness. By the time the firemen were on the scene the large building adjoining, occupied by the William Roch Importing Company, was a fiery furnace. The Hurst building was in ruins in Jess than thirty minutes, gutted and crumbled by the fierce sweep of the flames. Fire gongs were clattering, calling every available piece of fire apparatus in Baltimore to the scene. The flames had swept across the street and a half dozen structures were burning. The Stanley & Brown Drug Company's building was wrecked at a breath. Buildings along Baltimore street, the city's central business thoroughfare, were caught up by the fire as if they were portions of a great string of giant fire crackers. The most desperate efforts of the firemen availed nothing. The flames rolled on, catching up other buildings with every sweep of the wind. Crash after crash shook the streets, telling of terrific explosions, and building after building was swallowed by the flames. Telegrams of appeal were sent to Washington and Philadelphia, New York was begged to lend aid. Quick responses were received. Six engines were hurried from Washington by special train. Four were brought in from Philadelphia. The fire plugs were found to be too limited in number. Every plug within a three-quarter mile radius of the seething furnace had been tapped and 350 lines of hose were playing on the flames. But the fire swept on unchecked. The temporary custom house, opposite the city hall and the postoffice, was claimed. In Baltimore street every building from Liberty to Sharp street was set afire. Then the flames swept down and caught up the next block east to Hanover. At 3 o'clock there came another roaring explosion. More than 150 barrels of whisky stored in the upper floors of the building at 24 Hanover street exploded. Tons of burning matter, flowing like lava from a crater, were thrown across the street and on to the roofs of adjoining buildings, spreading fire and heat. This new burst of flame quivered under the storm of water thrown on the fire, defied it and began to eat up the buildings on the east side of Hanover street. Here the fireman had sought to make a stand and to make Hanover street the eastern boundary of the fire-swept zone. Their efforts were as nothing. The $4,000,000 marble courthouse, the pride of all Baltimoreans, and the handsomest court building in the world, caught fire time and again, but men volunteered to do all they could to save it. The great dome of the city hall and the turrets of the Federal building rose high above the sea of flame while "Big Ben" of the city clock banged out the hours that marked the progress of the fire. Fire Chief Horton, fighting like a demon, was disabled by a live electric wire. Mayor McLane never faltered, but took personal command of the fire brigades, his clothing soaked with water, his hat gone and his body wet to the skin. His efforts roused the cheers of hundreds of volunteers, who worked until the sweat dropped from their faces and their bodies were wet, in the effort to check the roaring furnace. All the afternoon was one story—desperate, determined fight. And all the efforts of these firemen and the hundreds of volunteers had counted for nothing. At 6 o'clock Fire Chief Horton determined to use new tactics. It was decided to fight the flames with dynamite. Building after building was wrecked, hundreds of pounds of dynamite being used to blow the structures to ruins, hoping to place a gap in the pathway of the flames. It was the tactics used by the pioneer to check the prairie fire—his plowing of furrows about his homestead and turn- AREA OF BALTIMORE FIRE. Park Digest High Service Riverfront DECID HILL PARK Dr. Royel Riverfront Pulphin Bla. Fluor Tenn Ave BAL La Rytio Ewamte Franklin Street W. Baltimore Chard Lincoln ville Mt. Tanner Je. Camille Jr. High Service Historic DEAD HILL PARK L.R. Royal Historic Union St. Belle St. Pulpit St. Fluor Freight BAL L. Ayotte Edwaukee Franklin Bluest City Hall Drexway St. Drexway St. HARBURF Lowst Pt. NORTHWEST BRANCH. Union R. B. Lester Can Equestrian Hwy. Whalen's Way ing up a strip of the black earth so that the flames might die for lack of grass on which to fasten its fiery fangs. A conference of the fire chiefs was held. It was decided that the one chance of staying progress in that direction lay in sacrificing the splendid structure occupied by J. W. Putts & Co. notion dealers. der and fell into the holding back the crow of blue. Fire apparatus vered here and there, a save the city began an Every effort of the turned at this point t residence district. It that no human power sweep of the fire in the One hundred pounds of dynamite were placed in position. A fuse was applied. Then, as the police drove back the crowds there came a crash of thunder and the building lay in ruins. But even this heroic remedy failed materially to check the fire. It delayed the sweep of the flames, but only temporarily. The firemen were brought to a hait, practically powerless to make even the slightest resistance to the roaring furnace that was sending its flames 200 feet into the air. By 7 o'clock, an hour after the fighting of the flames with dynamite had been begun, forty buildings lay in ashes. A dozen blocks had been devastated. A high southwest wind swept the flames on to spread greater ruin. By 8 o'clock in the evening, an hour later, the territory bounded by Lexington, Saratoga and Baltimore streets on the north—these streets running east and west through the business district—and by Liberty, Howard and other thoroughfares further west and south, was in flames. Down Baltimore street, the pride of the city, roared parallel waves of crackling, consuming flames. The maddening work of firemen could do nothing to check it. At this time a cry went up that struck terror through the heart sick, frightened crowds that jammed the streets, their bowed heads dodging the blazing rain of clinders. "The water supply has given out," was the word that went down the fire lines and was communicated to the crowds, to be sent from lip to lip. The fresh water supply had given out wholly. Baltimore had spent $11,000,000 on its water system, yet that great reservoir had been sucked dry in the desperate fight on the flames. Almost four hundred leads of hose had been draining this great supply and hurled the billions of gallons of water on the flames. But the efforts had been of no avail. With the exhaustion of the fresh water supply many engines were compelled to withdraw from the fight. Salt water was drawn from the mains and the fight went on, but only those engines that were brass lined and could withstand the chemical action of the mineral could keep up the pumping of tons of water on the crackling flames. In the throng that fought with the police were many who began to sing hymns and to pray. At many corners groups knelt in the street and offered appeals to the Almighty. From line to line hymns were taken up. By 10:30 o'clock the flames had crossed Howard street along Fayette street. The blazing caldron was spreading its borders further to the west and southward. By 11 o'clock p. m. it was admitted that the business district was doomed. Firemen, with dynamite and hose, turned their attention to confining the flames to this central zone. Maddened by fear and excitement, the crowds began to get beyond the control of the police. Crazed men and women forced the police lines aside, and firemen found it difficult to work in the confusion. Mayor McLane acted quickly. At his orders the commanding officers of the Fourth and Fifth regiments were reached. By word of mouth practically the call was passed about, ordering the men of these two regiments to report at their armories. In the meantime a hurried call had been sent to Fort Henry. Word was sent that the situation was urgent. It was feared that great loss of life might result if the crowds became unmanageable. Orders were given at the fort and shortly afterward 200 United States regulars tramped through Baltimore's blackened streets, muskets on shoul- BELT BILLINGS BIRD ST. BLA. HARBOR LORENT PI. NORTHWEST BRANCU. UNION Rail Con. Courtesy Films Wing's Wheel der and fell into the police lines, holding back the crowd with a wall of blue. Fire apparatus was maneuvered here and there, and the fight to save the city began anew. Every effort of the firemen was turned at this point to saving the residence district. It was admitted that no human power could stay the sweep of the fire in the business section. At two hours after midnight the flames were jumping along at the rate of a block every thirty minutes. The tongues of fire were shooting ever nearer the best residence district of the neighborhood. To the west the flames ate their way with terrific rapidity. Leaping from block to block, the fire reached Jones Falls, the stream that divides Baltimore and East Baltimore, and was being driven under the gale of a high wind. Here came the turning point in the fire. When the blazing furnace had spread its boundary to Jones Falls, the wind suddenly shifted, driving the fire south. At 3 a. m., when the city had been at the fire's mercy for sixteen hours, twenty-five square blocks of the most substantial and recently built structures had been turned into heaps of blackened, smoldering embers and the fire was still beyond control. At that time the flames were rushing; to ward the old residential sections of the city. Day broke over a stricken blackened city. In the gray of the morning the firemen and volunteers, tired of exhaustion with the heat and the strain of hours, were still battling the flames. At that time they were merely holding their own. A smoking, blackened waste, fringed in by the roaring flames, told where Baltimore's business center had stood but a day before. At 11 o'clock the sorrow-striken people in the streets broke out cheering. "The fire is under control," was the word that was shouted down the lines. The all night, all afternoon, all morning fight of the weared men at the fire hose had begun to tell. Flames were battered down here and there and smothered by the streams of water. Deeper and deeper into the black waste the firemen made their way, dragging the lines of grimy hose. About forty blocks, which had borne the most modern and costly "Fireproof" Structures Wither and Tumble Before the Fierce Breath of the Advancing Fire. City at Once Placed Under Martial Law-Offers of Assistance Come From All the World. buildings of Baltimore's business district, had been swept to a blackened heap of wreckage. Just five minutes before noon the statement again was given out that the fire was under control and would be kept within the district outlined. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, with regular and state troops everywhere about the devastated district, with business paralyzed at a blow and the streets crowded with awe-streaked people. Baltimore stood a stricken, desolate city. Desperate efforts of firemen and volunteers held the flames in check for but a short time, however. Slowly, fanned by the winds that swept the fire southward, the flames regained their former volume. The firemen were driven back again, the heat forcing them to give way inch by inch. Sweeping toward the docks on the basin at Pratt street, new material was added to the fire and the flames leaped skyward again with all their former fury. On the water front a seething furnace of flame was formed. The great mills there, a half dozen steamships, the wharves laden with tons of cotton and merchandise and ware-boises crammed to the roofs with goods in storage, all offered a mighty feast to this banquet of flame. The flames spread here with appalling rapidity. The decks of a half dozen steamship lines, including the Ocean Steamship Company, the Chesapeake & Atlantic, the Norfolk, Baltimore & Atlantic, were licked up within a half hour. The fire then seized upon the cotton wharves and warehouses, laden with thousands of bales of cotton. The dry cotton was like so much oil added to the flames. All human appliances and human effort seemed powerless to check the red destroyer. The weary fire fighters were drawn back and their efforts again directed to hemming in the flames to burn themselves out along the water front. In the early afternoon the winds, driving the flames along and fanning the fire to fury, became shifting. Warning was sent to East Baltimore that the flames might leap the Jones Falls at any time and begin their sweep of destruction among the blocks of frame houses on the east side of that stream. At 2:40 p. m. the fire had been checked and begun burning itself out. The last places to go were the lee houses and coalfay of the American Ice Company. The coalfay, which spread out about 200 yards south of the leehouse, was the means of staying the march of the flames on the south and Jones Falls on the east. The Nortolk wharf of the Baltimore Steam Packed Company, which was stocked with barrels of rosin and other miscellaneous merchandise was destroyed before the fire had attacked the merchandise company's property. It took ```markdown ``` Where the fire started at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 7. twenty seven hours to stop the progress of the great fire. At least 50,000 men and women employed in the wholesale district are forced out of employment and many are in want. 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Under this ruling of the United States supreme court it was absolutely necessary to put the names of Negroes in the jury box along with white men's names, in order to comply with the decision of the United States court. The jury commission, acting under legal advice, put the names of negroes in the box, and yesterday when the juries were drawn the names of several Negroes were drawn to serve on juries. On the regular petit jury for the week commencing February 28th, the names of Wm. F. Clark, the well-known barber, and David Taylor Mitchel were drawn. On the regular petit jury for April 13th the name of R. H. Reagin was drawn. C. W. Smith, the painter, and several others were drawn on special venues. This is the first time since reconstruction days that the names of Negroes have appeared on a jury list in Dallas. It is hardly probable that any of them will sit on a jury, on account of being set aside by the lawyers on one side or the other, but there is nothing to prevent them drawing their $2 a day as long as the term for which they are drawn lasts. The jury commissioners acted right in complying with the decision of the court, otherwise the county would have been put to a great expense. The Supreme Court is bigger than the custom that has prevailed in the South of excluding Negroes' names from the jury box, and the decision of the United States Supreme Court will have to be compiled with everywhere in order to make the drawing of juries legal.—Montgomery Evening Times, February 4, 1904. Smallpox as "The Good Wife." Chapinox as The Good Wife. To this day small pamphlet is pulled to in the outer islands of the Hebrides as "bane mhath" ("the good wife"), a form of emphemism, the idea of which is that, in order to escape the ban of the disease, it should be spoken of respectfully.—Caledonia Medical Journal. What Children Should Learn. Habits acquired in childhood are the ones that stick through life. So it is important that little ones should be taught habits of neatness, helpfulness and daintiness about their belongings. It is certainly essential for a girl and will not do a boy any harm nor make him one whit less manly. The Great Initiation Saturday Night at Jerusalem Hall 202, Missouri and Grand Aves., Under the Direction of Col. T. Benton J. Robinson, S. G. M., Was Last Saturday night, at 202 East Mo. and Grand avenues, Colonel T. Benton J. Robinson, S. G. M., ably assisted by Sons H. Rolling, S. G. D.; F. Williams, S. G. L.; Major W. H. Hannon; Daughters Sadie Frazier, Nannie J. Roberts, and Letta Moten composed the team that initiated forty women and men. The writer was an eye witness, and I am pleased to say that not a "hitch" occurred while they were being inducted into the mysteries of the order. One hundred and fifty sons witnessed the ceremonies. These newly made members were assigned to the various councils in Kansas City. After the ceremonies James R. Gordon S. G. K., lectured the new addition to the order, to be loyd to the and to obey the edicts and mandates handed down by those in authority, after which Daughters Kate Spears, M. E. Q., Jennie Shelby, M. E. Q., Huldah Jones, M. E. Q., Jennie Bryant, P. M. E. Q., and Irene Johnson prepared a spread and all pointed in the feast, at a late hour all departed for their homes, saying well done, well done. Mrs. Thomas Herndon of 2515 Highland avenue celebrated the 12th birthday of her daughter, Edna Mae, Saturday, Jan. 30, by entertaining a few of her little friends. The house was beautifully decorated with white and pink carnations. To represent the number of years o her birth there were 12 candles burning on the birthday cake. She received a number of beautiful presents. Mrs. Herndon was assisted in serving by Mrs. H. R. Edwards, Mrs. B. Johnson, Miss Mayne Barger, and Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. Snelson of Kansas City, Kan. Following is a list of those present and presents received: Bertie Tucker, jewel box. Dorothy and Edward Hill, fan and beads. Vera Wesely, oatmeal set. Joyce Dorsey, set of China after dinner cups and saucers. Annie, Paul and David Crosthwait, china cup and soucer. Alberta Wells, China after dinner cup and saucer. Grace Middleton, punch glass. Ruth and Franklyn Bradley, silver spoon. Neosho Venerable, gold ring. Hazel Sherrell, statue. Earl Sherrel, jewel box. Snelson children, four bottles of perfume. Estellene Greeer, china after dinner sup and saucer. Olivia and Edmonia Lewis, china plate. Lola Johnson, cut glass salt stand. Jessie and Floise Cola bonds. James Woodland, vase. Alline Pegg, China after dinner sup and saucer. Ida Chipley. Mrs. B. Johnson and Miss Mayme Barker, china cup and saucer. Earnestness. Take life earnestly. Take it as an earnest, vital, essential matter. Take it as though you personally were born to the task of performing a noble task in it—as though the world had waited for your coming. Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to do and to achieve, to carry, forward great and good schemes, to help a heart-broken sister. The fact is, life is undervalued by a great majority of women. It is not made half as much of as should be the case. Now and then a woman stands aside from the crowd, labors earnestly, steadfastly, confidently and straightway becomes famous.—Exchange. A Dainty Evergreen. The daintiest bit of greenery sold by nearly all florists is evergreen, and requires neither water nor care. It is an imported plant, and is evidently a member of the seawed family. Some of these plants have the roots imbedded in an oyster shell, which is hidden under the mass of greenery. Nothing could be daintiest to hang in a cozy corner than this preserved specimen of vivid green. Ferneries, too, are made of this beautiful everlasting moss, which has the advantage of never looking rusty or anything but fresh. Errors of Daily Life To live in the best possible manner, we must strenuously shun the following almost universal errors of daily life, says Helen Cook, M. D., in Good Housekeeping. First, unnecessary fatigue and strain caused by not resting entirely when we should rest, and working with more than the amount of force needed to do what we have in hand to do. Second, insufficient and improper nourishment. Third, lack of fresh air and exercise. Fourth, late hours. Fifth, lack of proper recreation. Railroad on Cypress. The Island of Cypress, in the Mediterranean, will soon have a railroad from coast to coast. The amount of 8,000,000 francs has been appropriated for its construction. Engineers with their staffs have already arrived on the ground. OUR MANNERS. It is a fact that good manners will take one where money cannot pave the way for him. If there ever was a people who should pay attention to manners and the right way of doing everything, it is the colored people. The preachers and the teachers must turn their attention to some more o fthe things that we need, other than getting ready to die and learning by heart a fe wrules from a book. We need more culture, that springs from a desire to do right. At last the ministers are crying out against the disorderly mobs that come out from our halls of learning twice a day for five days of the week. Of what use is grammar and rhetoric to our girls, if when they are still within sight of the school house, they greet each other with the vilest language? The girl who is ever on the look-out for insults, who slams down her books, pulls off her cap and jacket, flings them to the grouid and equares herself for a fight, will make what sort of woman? Whose home will she be fit to govern? As a church member, she will be a serious problem for any minister. The governor of Mississippi has said some strong things, but, sorry to say, not too strong for the case. The teachers must get down to real things and learn the difference between cause and effect, the shadow and the substance. All teaching that is not founded upon religious principles is in vain, a hollow mockery that produces false notions, bad manners and rude conduct. Book learning alone can do but little for any body. Let the preachers cry out against this false system. Let them talk about manners in public places, until there will be less objection to us in street cars, theatres and places of business. 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 look yo up so pay to the one that bring yo the Bill A Dlg at the Satirists. The instinct of mankind against satire is really a very sound instinct. Satire is always dishonest. For it is always the expression of hatred for a thing hopelessly coveted. Who satirizes humility? None but he who, not having the common human advantages, is obsessed with admiration of them. Who satirizes plutocracy? The pauper who is warmed by the notion of wealth. Who satirizes aristocracy? The man who wishes he had been born an aristocrat. Thackeray wished that; and the Marquis of Farintosh was one of the natural outcomes of his wish.—Max Beerbohm in the Saturday Review. No Heaven-bent Mob For Him At an evangelistic service at Glasgow the preacher at the end of his address cried: "Now all you good people who mean to go to heaven with me, stand up!" With a surge of enthusiasm, the audience sprang to their feet—all but an old Scotchman in the front row, who sat still. The horrified evangelist wrung his hands and, addressing him, said: "My good man, my good man, don't you want to go to heaven?" Clear and deliberate came the answer: "Aye, Awm gangin' but no wi' a pairsonally conducted pairty!" The Champion Benedict An inhabitant of Creglingen, in Wuertemberg, whose name is Fritz Kottman, claims to be the champion benefited of the world. He has been married no fewer than eleven times. His first three wives died young, the next two were drowned, one committed suicide, three died in succession, the tenth was gored to death by a bull, and he has just recently married the eleventh, who had a leg cut off by a railway train last year, so that the wedding had to be postponed till now. Dancing Entails Work. A statistician who made a study of dancing declared some little time ago that a waltz of average duration represents approximately a run of two-thirds of a mile; a quadrille, with its four figures, rather over a mile; a mazurka, a trifle over half a mile; a polka, 800 yards; a pas de quatre, two-fifths of a mile; while a ball program he declared, entailed 56,000 steps, equivalent to a journey of thirty miles on level ground. Clock Striking Thirteen. The new entrance which Lord Elliame has erected at Worsley hall contains a clock with a history. It strikes thirteen at 1 o'clock, and the object of the duke of Bridgewater, who had the works made nearly 120 years ago, was, it is said, to insure the punctual return of his workmen from dinner. The excuse had been too often given, "I did not hear the clock strike!"—London Dispatch. Eastern Coasts the Healthiest. Throughout the West Indies and peninsula of Florida the prevailing winds are from due east, which makes the eastern coasts very healthy, while on the west coasts, where these trade winds are not so constant, the climate is less salubrious. CHURCH DIRECTORY. 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. J. W. Jacobs, Berry Chapel, 20th and Summit. 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. GOOD ADVICE FOR WIVES. How to Get Along with That Needle Incumbrace, a Husband. A country vicar in the old country was noted for his excellent fatherly advice to young couples he wedded. He had printed cards of advice, which he used to distribute, besides giving guidance verbally. One of the cards was for the man and the other for the woman. That to the woman ran as follows: "When you marry him, love him. After you marry him, study him. If he is honest, honor him. If he is generous, appreciate him. When he is sad, cheer him. When he is cross, amuse him. When he is talkative, listen to him. When he is quarrelsome, ignore him. If he is slothful, spur him. If he is noble, praise him. If he is confidential, encourage him. If he is secretive, trust him. If he is jealous, cure him. If he cares naught for pleasure, coax him. If he favors society, accompany him. If he does you a favor, thank him. When he deserves it, kiss him. Let him think how well you understand him, but never let him know that you 'manage' him." THE END OF THE WORLD. various Theories as to How it Will Be Brought About. Speculations concerning the manner in which life on the world will come to an end are as various as they are interesting. Here are some of the latest theories: As the interior of the earth grows gradually cooler, the waters on the surface will sink and be absorbed until the exterior of the globe is a parched and uninhabitable desert. Another theory is that the water will encroach on the land, eating it away until the oceans entirely cover the surface. A more picturesque theory holds that our world is bound eventually to collide with some one of the innumerable comets that are tearing irresponsibly through space; or the sun's heat may suddenly become so intensified that the earth will shriveled up like a moth in a crane's flame. Yim. Dar ban a little faller, Ay tenk his name ban Yim, And nearly every morning Ay used to see him. He used to stare away And call me "Svede" and ay Ant lak to hear his nickname- Ay ban a Norsk, yu say. But be ban little faller, Ay tenk bout sax years old, And so ay used to lak him- He ban too small to scold. Ay used to say. "Val, Yimmie, Ay ant ban Svede, but yu Can call me Svede—ay lak yu And ant care vat yu du." By George! Ay'm glad, ay tal yu, Dat ay ban gude to him. Because one venter morning Ay Yimie, ay next day funeral vagon Come driving up to door. And Yim, poor little faller, Can't call me Svede no more! -Milwaukee Journal. IF YOU HAVE NEGLECTED Attending our great closing out sale of Sheet Music and Musical Instruments, you have done yourself an injustice. Think what we're doing! We are offering BELOW COST one of the largest Music stocks in the West. If you, personally, care anything for music, or if you have a friend who would appreciate it, buy it now. You will have no such opportunity to get Music of this kind at such remarkably low prices again in a long time to come. Much of it is going at a clear loss. arl Hoffman MUSIC COMPANY 800-10 MILNUT ST. KANSAS CITY, MN Why Not Have Your Prescriptions Filled at McGampell's Pharmacy Where You Are Sure to Get What the Doctor Prescribed? A full line of DRUGS, STATIONERY, TOILET ARTICLES, CANDIES, PERFUMES, CIGARS and TOBACCO: PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Medicines Delivered to All Parts of the City Free of Charge. Bell 'Phone 159 East. Home 'Phone 2396 Main J. L. WILLIAMS, Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair Shop. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship guaranteed. 707 Independence Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Only First Class Colored Shop in the City. The Very Lowest Prices. Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. What Ice Will Bear. It is said that two-inch ice will sustain a man, or a regiment of properly spaced infantry; four-inch ice will carry a man on horseback, a squadron of cavalry, or light guns; six-inch ice, heavy field guns, such as eighty pounders; eight-inch ice, a battery of artillery, with carriages and horses, but not over one thousand pounds a square foot on sledges; ten-inch ice will sustain an army, while on fifteen-inch ice a railway can be built and operated. Objections on Both Sides. Before bicycles became so common as they are now a Yankee farmer was importured by a dealer to buy one for $75. "I'd rather spend the money on a cow," was the farmer's answer. "But what an idiot you would look riding about the town on the back of a cow." "Perhaps so," replied the farmer, "but not half such an idiot as I'd look trying to milk a bicycle." Shah Knite Stockings The shah of Persia is one of the most expert knitters in the world and, when last in England, presented the prince of Wales with a beautifully-knitted silk pair of stockings, which the royal giver had worked himself. CHAS. T. WATTS TEACHER OF Violin and Piano. Instructor Imperial Band and Orchestra. Instructions based on Conservatory Methods WRITE FOR CIRCULAR. 1210 Highland Avenue. Telephone 4642 Gray. 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. DANCING AT THE Vendome Academy 1734 Grand. EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. John S. West's Orchestra FURNISHER MUSIC. D. A. WILLIS, Manager. THE MAYOR D. W. LANGSTON, PROPRIETOR. FINE CIGARS. C. H. COUNTEE. Countee Brother 914 East 12th St, iPhone 780 Grand. Carriages Why Not Have Your Prescrip McCampell's 2304 VIN Where You Are Sure to Get Whale-Headed Storks. Capt. Stanley Flower writes from the Zoological gardens at Gliz, Egypt, that the three specimens of the curlour "shoe-bill" or whale-headed stork received from the White Nile in 1902 are still in good health and condition in the Gliz gardens. No living example of this rare bird has reached England since the arrival of Mr. Petherick's original specimens in 1860. Fire Caused by Snow. A snowstorm started a fire on the premises of a farmer living at Heburerne, Belgium. He placed a quantity of quicklime near a shed on his farm, and left it there all night. In the course of the night snow fell on to the lime., and the heat thus developed became so great that it set the shed on fire, completely destroying it and its contents. Moslem Cemetery. When once filled in a Moslem grave is never re-opened on any account. To remove the faintest chance of its thus being defiled a cypress tree is planted after every interment, so that the cemeteries resemble forests more than anything else. Kilkenny Castle. Kilkenny Castle is one of the oldest inhabited houses in the world, many of the rooms being much as they were 800 years ago. Tel. 2775 Walnut. Stone Masons' Headquartera SALOON. OPEN ALL NIGHT. 1334 E. '8th St., Kansas City, Mo. RESTAURANT Old Style WE INVITE YOU TO COME TO OUR RESTAURANT AT 103 East 14th as it is the only one in this part of the city... ED LEWIS, Proprietor. E. Z. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND HAIR CUT. C. A. EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo LANGSTON'S Shaving Parlors.. 717 E. 8th St., Kansas City, Mo. J. PITMAN AND BEN MCCORMICK, ARTISTS. Agency for Steam Laundry. Porcelain Bath Tubs. Rooms Steam Heated. 6 Baths for $1.00. Your Patronage Solicited. W. B. COUNTEE. UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers.. Pennished for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MO ations Filled at Pharmacy Street NEWS&GSSIP 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 When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. Miss Ella Walker is on the sick list. Mr. James Wilson has gone South for the winter. Ernest Hogan will be at the Orpheum next week. Miss Mame Shelton 1318 East 14th street, is still very ill. Miss Iolanthe Taylor has been quite ill but is convalescent. Miss Geneva Willey is improving from a severe sick spell. Mrs. Tillman will entertain the Ladies Art Club this week. The Silver Leaf Club dance was largely attended last Friday night. Mrs. John Herndon was at home to the Ledies Art Club last Wednesday. Mrs. Missouri Stanton of Independence, is improving slowly from her recent illness. The L. W. C. will meet with Mrs. J. W. Baldwin Saturday afternoon, February 13. Mrs. L. J. Holly has returned from a two months visit in Washington, D. C. with her parents. Mrs. H. R. Dandridge of Kansas City, Kan., has been quite ill, but at this writing is on the mend. Mrs. B. B. Brown entertained the T. T. Social club Friday afternoon at her home, 615 East 6th street. Miss Jennie Guy who always holds up Lincoln was out of school a part of last week on account of illness. Mrs. Earnest Garnes who has been visiting friends and relatives in Washington, D. C., will return home soon. Mrs. Mae Branche and Mrs. O. B. Johnson of Kansas City, Kan., attended the Silver Leaf Club dance Friday night. The T. T. Aart Class will meet in the Guild parlors, 2424 Tracy avenue, Friday afternoon, February 12, at 2 o'clock sharp. Lewis Woods will go to Tuskegee next week to be the guest of Booked Washington and visit his training school. To the Rising Son I have a pleasant stay in Cali but will soon be home in Excelsior Springs soon the Will House will open up for business March 15. Rev. Phillips of Georgia is still halting a revival at the Second Baptist church with good success; about forty have already been baptized and the meeting will continue through the week. Mrs. Abraham Handy and Mrs. C. Thurston of 525 Gilliss entertained five members of the Black Patti Company and a number of other friends last Thursday night, February 4th. A most enjoyable time was had. Those present were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. William Garrett entertained a few friends last week in honor of Mr. J. G. Wilson of Chicago, who was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Dandrige of Kansas City, Kan. A dainty luncheon was spread and the evening was very pleasantly spent. Mr. Wilson, after making a visit here, spent a week in Keokuk, Iowa, before returning home. Mr. Reed, Mr. Cooke, Mr. Minor, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Beecher, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Davis, Dr. McCraig, Mr. Ingram, Master Bowler, Mr. Handy, Mr. Thurston, Miss Ida Forces, Miss Luvenia Henderson, Mrs. Henrietta Cooke, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Newby, Mrs. Ford, Miss Bradley, Miss Brown, Miss Freeze Miss Thurston, Miss Jordan, Miss Boone. P. T. Moore and C. Eli Harris have formed a company and gone into the undertaking and embalming business. Their parlors are located at 1820 East Eighteenth street. These gentlemen are classed among the most prominent people of our city. They are generous, enterprising business men, each being a well known citizen and are for any movement that tends to advance the race to a higher plane of civilization. Mr. Moore is a gentleman of high character and culture, having successfully passed through several colleges of embalming, etc., thus qualifying him for the business that he is now engaged in—holding certificates verifying the J. B. H. C ELI Harris. same. Mr. Moore is late of Denver, Colo., where he is also established in the undertaking business, doing a flourishing business. Mr. Harri sis also well known in the city and throughout the state, having filled the office of Grand Master of the G. U. O. O. F. for a number of years. For the past 20 years Mr. Harris has made Kansas City his home. He is highly esteemed in the community in which he lives. He is an officer of the Vine Street Baptist church, an exemplary Christian gentleman and a zealous church worker. He is widely known among the various secret societies of the city. These gentlemen, we must say, are a credit to the Negro race, and are worthy of the patronage of the people. Their establishment is centrally located. Their terms reasonable. Their work guaranteed. Give them a trial. They will treat you right. They are desirous of having the public call and inspect their place of business. Open day and night. THE TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE. The Thirteenth Annual Session of the Tuskegee Negro Conference will be held at Tuskegee, Ala., Wednesday, February 17, 1904. The Workers' Conference composed mainly of teachers and others interested in the educational, moral and civic uplift of the Negro people, will be held on the followin gday, Thursday, February 18, 1904. 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. Mrs. Tunley, 2437 Flora avenue, gave a valentine party Friday evening, the 12th. A large number of young people weer out and a very pleasant evening was pent in games and dancing. 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. Mrs. Geneva Shifticy 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 line 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. Fares Grow Less. Since 1883 the average passenger rate in the United States has dropped from 3.5 cents a mile to 2.01 cents. 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 Plait- Business Course and Stenography, Farming, Stor- Gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Advantages. Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of T and Industrially Trained Teachers. 50 Per Month. School Opens Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial. Courses. Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry and Archi- making, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, and Stenography, Farming, Stock raising g and Laundering. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial. Courses. 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Thompson, Mgr. Meals 15 Cents. Porterhouse Steak 15c up. 327 West 6th St., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. MERCHANT TAILOR. or here is the place to buy? Because we pay Come and see us. sh Up-to-Date. KANSAS CITY, MO. Tel. 159 East. Kansas City, Mo "Emily present this little trifle to one who she regards." More than seventy-five years ago Emily took up her quill pen and in dainty characters wrote the dedication on the fly leaf of "Friendship's Offering." In spite of her bad grammar a glance at the faded and delicate writing with its quaint flourishes and aristocratic angles is enough to prove that Emily was a fine young lady and that she really meant at least a little more than she said. Poor Emily! Her lilies and roses are long withered, along with the other flowers which bloomed in the reign of King George IV., to whose "Most Excellent Majesty" the little morocco bound volume is dedicated. And "one who she regards" has gone also with the rest. Were they married one day—Emily and "one who she regards?" Or did Emily die early of a broken heart, perhaps? Her handwriting looks as if she might have easily fallen a victim to some such old fashioned malady. And did "one who she regards" leave Emily behind and come to the States to seek his fortune? Certainly in some way the book which Emily gave him as a valentine in 1826 found its way to this country and, passing from hand to hand, finally turned up on the stalls of a little second-hand book shop in the French quarter of old New Orleans. The little book is spotted with brown and yellow now; its morocco cover is badly marked and torn. But for the sake of the unknown but dear and dainty Emily—as well as for its own—it shall be cherished hereafter and given such care as Emily herself might wish for "the little trifle" which perhaps told a tender secret to the unnamed man who was its original owner. "Friendship's Offering" is a fat and sturdy little book of nearly 400 pages. It was handsomely and well bound, as is proven by the fact that even to-day it makes a gay show with the gold rosebuds and scrolls stamped on its back. It was one of that great crop of annuals which people of good condition were wont to send to their friends on the recurrence of New Year's and St. Valentine's days. We do such things differently now. Instead of a volume of 400 pages stuffed with stilted verses and tragic tales written by as many lords and Ladies—nothing less than Esquires being admitted under any circumstances—we send to our friends a gay card stamped out of colored paper by a machine. And we pick up this old volume of "Friendship's Offering" and laugh as we look over the table of contents. But poor Emily's long forgotten love affair is not the only ancient memory revived by a glance at the little book. Buried in its table of contents are the names of twenty people who in their day were famous as literary lights, but who have long since flickered out into oblivion. Who remembers Mona, Eliza, Caroline and the rest, whose 'Legendary Stanzas,' "Romantic Tales," and "Lines to a Wreath of Dead Flowers" moved Emily and her sisters of the 1820s to tears? Who remembers Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet and friend of Lamb? Least of all, what modern reader would follow him as for half a dozen pages or more he "Treads with slow and mournful steps the loved and lonely岸?" Lord Byron died less than two years before this volume of "Friendship's Offering" was printed, and it is pretty full of newly found verses by his Lordship. Mr. Washington Irving sends some verses by his late Lordship, "extracted by that gentleman from the album of Captain Medwin," and it only needs a glance at the first line—"Be it so—we part forever"—to recognize the true Byronic flavor. Lady Caroline Lamb, who had been separated from her husband the year before, and whose intrigues with Lord Byron were still familiar, "extracted from her album" another set of verses by his late Lordship, the perusal of which at this date is likely to provoke a smile of amusement—they are so typical of the strained and grandiloquent poet. In all the emphasis and extravagance of italics and capital letters, Lord Byron implores Lady Caroline to let him go and, Lady Caroline apparently takes a malicious pleasure in printing the verses by way of showing that the poet was much in love with her. Since still the vulture tears my heart—Let me this agony endure. Not thee—O! dearest as thou art! In mercy, Chara, let us part! Who is writing poetry of this kind now? And if such poetry were written, who would read it? There is one paper in "Friendship's Offering" which might well furnish a text for some one who is anxious to accuse Dr. Conan Doyle of plagiarism in the creation of Sherlock Holmes. The paper is by the late "Richard Lovell Edworthy Esq." father of the better known Maria Edgeworth. It is called "Stage Coach Physiognomists" and relates how one of the passengers was able to tell the full life history of all his fellows by simply noticing such bits of gesture, manner or apparel as have since guided the famous detective in his amazing discoveries. Sherlock at his best was never more observing or more astonishing than this casual coach passenger who traveled the same way more than fifty years before him. L. E. L.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon—whose pen name is more familiar than her writings, was then in her 65 ANX "LOVE'S WHISPERS"—Bouguereau. early twenties, and contributed half a dozen sets of verses in heroic style. Nor was "Friendship's Offering" without names which are well known even now. Miss Mitford has a sketch, "The Lady of Beachgrove," full of old-fashioned sentiment and ladylike mystery. Perhaps the best remembered things about Miss Mitford is the fact that when she was only ten years old she drew a prize of $100,000 in a lottery, and that after her father had squandered her money she supported him for years by the earnings of her pen. Robert Southey, then in his prime, has a long poem in the fat, little book, and Miss Jane Porter, whose "Scottish Chlefs" and "Thaddeus of Warsaw," had already been printed, is represented by a melancholy tale. Mrs. Opie mourns through a couple of "Epitaphs for Friends," and modest T. Hood Esq., has an ode on autumn, quite like the similar efforts of young poets before and since his time. T. Hood Esq. was not yet thirty years old when "Friendship's Offering" was printed. He had recently left the engraver's trade for literature and had hardly begun as yet to make a name for himself in his new line. Doubtless if the "Present Editor" could have foreseen that his modest contributor was to write "The Song of the Shirt" and "The Bridge of Sighs," and the other poems which have made him famous, "T. Hood Esq." would have been given more prominence in the table of contents. But the "Present Editor" is, not "LOVE'S WHISPE the only man who has made such a mistake. Plentifully sprinkled in among the professional poets and literary men and women are my Lords and Ladies. Not for a moment does the "Present Editor" forget that he is editing a volume of the "gentry and nobility," to whom his work is dedicated. The Rt. Hon., My Lord Dillon, has some bad verses on "Spain" in the syriotic manner, and My Lord Dorchester is given several pages for a sad and silly apostrophe to an "Astrologer." "Friendship's Offering" is illustrated with three or four ancient steel engravings, representing such classic scenes as "Eneas and Dido," views of Ispahan in Persia, and illustrations for the "Laughing Horseman." All in all, Emily's was a valentine well worth having. Since she wrote her quaint dedication on its flyleaf two English kings and one queen have died, and the fourth monarch is now on the throne. What valentine of the present year will be as well worth looking over in 1975? Character of Day Changing Good St. Valentine is rapidly being transformed from the patron saint of loving hearts into the head of a gift enterprise. If he keeps up the pace established for him this year he will soon rival St. Nicholas. It seems only yester-year since the amorous swain gave expression to his feelings in burning words, hidden in the depths of paper lace and impossible cupids. Now the approach of the affectionate old saint finds the young man's thoughts, if not his fancy, turning toward violets at advanced prices, bonbons in extravagant receptacles and gifts quite out of the old simple spirit of the day. A fashionable shopkeeper insists that the vogue of valentine gifts is largely a matter of evolution, and that for several years they have been growing more general, more personal and more expensive. A young man who usually is satisfied with sending the object of his admiration flowers, bonbons or books, now selects a gift that will show relations of a more intimate nature. Flances, especially, let their imagination and their purse-strings run riot. KEEPS UP CUSTOM OF THIRTY YEARS Big valentines and little valentines, fat valentines and thin valentines, white valentines and red valentines, cheap modest little valentines and proud and costly valentines—every old kind of valentine dangled from shelves and lay heaped on counters, while a half dozen clerks were busy attending to the rush of St. Valentine's day. There was the young man with one hand on money in his pocket buying a white $1.25 valentine, with eyes riveted on a red $3 creation. Clearly, he wished he could afford the red. In a corner, looking uneasy, were two young women discussing animatedly a heap of pink and blue valentines. Unnoticed by the crowd inside the shop, a coach drew up to the curb. It was a most pretentious "turnout," with coachman and footman in livery, with a pair of restless bays and with shining harness mounted heavily with glistening silver. The footman CRS"—Bouguereau. jumped to the sidewalk as quickly as his tight-fitting buckskin breeches permitted and opened the coach door. An old man, a very old man, alighted and, resting on his cane, made for the front door of the valentine shop. None noticed the newcomer. Every one was busy with his own affairs. But the owner of the shop saw the customer, greeted him pleasantly and led him to a chair. A valentine the old man wanted. The proprietor seemed to know his man. A white satin box long and wide, was produced, and within lay what was likely the most gorgeous valentine ever sent in New York. It was brilliant crimson, gold mounted and in the centre of the pillow, in oil, was a landscape, an emblem and an inscription which the writer, from afar, could not make out, Evidently the old customer was pleased. For some minutes he gazed admiringly at the costly piece, then closed the box, smiled approval and left the shop, followed by a clerk carrying the box to the coach. 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Co-operative Dairying Co-operative dairying is directly responsible for an increase in the value of Danish butter exports from about $5,000,000 to over $29,000,000. The first Danish co-operative dairy dates from 1882. Now there are 1,057 co-operative dairies in Denmark, comprising some 140,000 members and receiving milk from 850,000 cows, or more than four-fifths of the total number of cows. The average price received for butter is 23.3 cents a pound. Badium In Pitch-Blende. Prof. Cook of Northwestern university has shown that there is sufficient radium in pitch-blende to make it possible for a photograph to be taken by it directly. Prof. Cook states that the value of the experiment lies in the proof of a new way in which to discover radium in minerals. PRESSMAKING COLLEGE Ladies are taught in about 15 weeks the Woman's Kerser System of Dressmaking. Graded by the Kerser System of Writing. In particular, KERSER'S LADIES' TAILORING SYSTEM, Kau City, MO. Some people acknowledge that they have a skeleton in the closet and don't make any bones about it either. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 13 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains more for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. He is all write—the corresponding secretary. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure. J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Were it not for the fools the wise guys would get left. $6.00 per M. Lewis' "Single Binder," straight 5c cigar, costs the dealer some more than other 5c cigars, but the higher price enables this factory to use higher grade tobacco. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. It's a tough turkey that is able to hold over for another term. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For the sickest of the sick, use the Bammina, always pain, cure wind colic. So a bottle Business is a mantle that covers a multitude of queer transactions. Earliest Green Onions. The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crossie, Wis., always have something new, something valuable. This year they offer among their new money making vegetables, an Earliest Green Eating Onion. It is a winner, Mr. Farmer and Gardener! JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10c, and they will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages. 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. In all over 10,000 plants—this great offer is made to get you to test their warranted vegetable seeds and ALL FOR BUT 10c 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.) There are many kinds of tears; none are shed from indifference. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Should be in every home. Ask your grocer for it. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Great is the physician who can cure a woman of an imaginary disease. Fever Comfortable I will wear my with my feet. A friend recommended ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. I used two boxes of the powder, and my feet have been entirely comfortable ever since. ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE is certainly a godsend to me. Wm. L. Swormstedt, Washington, D. C." Sold by all Druggists. 220. Hot air is too frequently mistaken for real wisdom. =Stick Blue stick AROUND IN THE WATER. it spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. cluing. If your grocer does not keep BLUB CO., 14 Michigan St., Chicago HUMOR OF THE DAY Best-Paying Part of the Business. "How are you finding business, doctor?" was asked of a physician. tor" was asked of a physician. "Capital," he replied. "I have all "Capital," he replied. "I have all that I can attend to." "I didn't understand that there was much sickness about." "No, there isn't. But we physicians do not depend upon sickness for an income. O, no; most of our money is made from people who have nothing the matter with them." Slight Misunderstanding. "Uncle, will you have some pate de fole gras?" asked the fair hostess of a relative who was dining with her. "Will I have a plate fer grass!" echoed the old man, who was slightly deaf. "Say, sis, do you think I'm Nebuchadnezzar or a hoss?" Merry Yuletide La Montt—I see you up to Edna's home a great deal. Don't you know there are judgments hanging over her father's head? Le Moyne—It matters not so long as mistletoe is hanging over Edna's head. Hard Work. Mother—Willie, I'm so glad you study "Moral Philosophy." I put a $10 bill in it and I see the money's gone. Willie—Yes, ma, and I wish you'd put the stuff nearer the front. I had to turn over 243 pages to find it. Modern Way. "Shall we notify the count's relatives that he is being held for ransom?" asked the trusty lieutenant. "I should say not," replied the bandit chief. "Advertise him for sale in one of those American journals devoted to the interests of title-seeking heiresses. See?" How He Knew Tattered Tommy—Soy, mister, could youuse gimme a quarter t' git sumpin' t' eat? I hain't had nuthin'—Benevolent Citizen—Ah, I see, my man, that you are not a member of the local faction known as "the Union Republicans." Tattered Tommy—How do youuse make dat out? Benevolent Citizen—They are not asking any quarter, they say. Quick Change. Sweet Singer—"Did you notice the new diamonds in my ears?" Comedian—"Yes, they are very large and attract a great deal of attention." Sweet Singer—"Thank you." Comedian—"I means the cars." Summer and Winter. "Who is this man who is telling us that he has found a way of exterminating mosquitoes?" "He's the same man who last July was exulting over the fact that he had found a cheap substitute for coal." Gratitude. Jings—Did the man that brought back your dog get his reward? Jangs—I should say so! He got out of the yard alive! Supply vs. Demand. "Poets are born, not made, you know," remarked the quotation fiend. "Of course," rejoined the philosophical person. "No sane man would think of disputing the assertion." "Why not?" asked the p. f. "Because it would be the height of folly to manufacture an article for which there was no demand," answered the wise guy. Bad Outlook for the Ball! "Why is this witness not in court?" the judge angrily demanded. "Balliff, go immediately and bring him here. His absence is inexcusable, and I shall not——" "If your honor please," interrupted counsel for the defense. "I am afraid your balliff will never be able to reach him. He has gone to heaven." CAUGHT BY THE GRIP. RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA. MISS FRED WEINDERGER. R. JILAS S. LINCOLN HON. JAMES R. GUILL. MISS ALISE DAERBLAK. MISS JEAN COWILL. JUDGE HORATIO J. GOSS. "The world of medicine recognizes Grip as epidemic catarrh."—Medical Talk. LA GRIPPE is epidemic catarrh. It spares no class or nationality. The cultured and the ignorant, the aristocrat and the pauper, the masses and the classes are alike subject to la gripe. None are exempt—all are liable. Have you the grip? Or, rather, has the grip got you? Grip is well named. The original French term, la gripe, has been shortened to the busy agent to do woe? Without a word has been coined that exactly describes the case. As if some hideous giant with awful Grip had clutched us in its fatal clasp. Men, women, children. whole towns and cities are caught in the baneful grip of a terrible monster. The following letters speak for themselves as to efficacy of Peruana in cases of la gripe... after effects. After Effects of La Gripe Eradicated by Pe-ru-na. Mrs. Fred Weinberger, Westerlo Albany County, N.Y., writes: "Several years ago I had an attack of la gripe which left my nerves in a prostrated condition. Then I had an other attack of la gripe which left me worse. I had tried three good physicians. To Make Sugar in Japan. An Osaka firm of dealers in sugar is preparing for the establishment of a sugar refining plant, and it is stated that the company, which is backed by foreign capitalists, has already dispatched representatives to England and United States to purchase machinery. No Use for Wagons. Carts wagons, drays, trucks, etc., are not employed largely in Syria and Palestine. On the farms a wagon of any description is hardly ever seen. Grain is brought in on the backs of camels and donkeys. Delivery wagons are unknown in Syrian cities. Pardona for Duelists Four Hungarian deputies, including the present prime minister, Count Tiszta, who have been sentenced to various short terms of imprisonment for dueling, have just been pardoned by imperial decree. Sheep Live on Desert Sheep Live on Desert A tract of eastern Australia which thirty years ago was a sandy desert now supports over a million sheep. Metal Roofs. A metal roof is said to be positive protection against the building it covers being struck by lightning. Alpaca Came from Llama. Alpaca is the name of a species of llama from whose wool the genuine fabric is woven. WELL POSTED. A California Doctor With 40 Years' Experience. "In my 40 years' experience as a teacher and practitioner along hygienic lines," says a Los Angeles physician. "I have never found a food to compare with Grape-Nuts for the benefit of the general health of all classes of people. I have recommended Grape-Nuts for a number of years to patients with the greatest success and every year's experience makes me more enthusiastic regarding its use. "I make it a rule to always recommend Grape-Nuts and Postum Food Coffee in place of coffee when giving my patients instructions as to diet, for I know both Grape-Nuts and Postum can be digested by anyone. "As for myself, when engaged in much mental work my diet twice a day consists of Grape-Nuts and rich cream. I find it just the thing to build up gray matter and keep the brain in good working order. "In addition to its wonderful effects as a brain and nerve food Grape-Nuts always keeps the digestive organs in perfect, healthy tone. I carry it with me when I travel, otherwise I am almost certain to have trouble with my stomach." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Strong indorsements like the above from physicians all over the country have stamped Grape-Nuts the most scientific food in the world. There's a reason. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book "The Road to Wellville." WINCHESTER .22 CALIBER RIM FIRE CARTRIDGES. Winchester .22 Caliber Cartridges shoot when you want them to and where you point your gun. Buy the time-tried Winchester make, having the trade-mark "H" stamped on the head. They cost only a few cents more a box than the unreliable kind, but they are dollars better. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS EVERYWHERE. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. WE SEE: PENL and postpaid a 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 600 page films, treatise treaties of some of them, the thousand treated; and 1000 page treaties of others, either on Piles or DRS. THORNUTT & MINOR. 10, 3) Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. whole towns and cities are caught in the banal grip of a terrible monster. After Effects of the Grippie Eradicated by Perugina Mrs. Fred Weinberger, Westerlo, Albany County, N. Y., writes: "Several years ago I had an attack of la gripe which left my nerves in a prostrated condition. Then I had an other gripe which left me ill. I had tried three good physicians H WINCHES .22 CALIBER RI Winchester .22 Caliber C them to and where you tried Winchester make stamped on the head. T a box than the unreliable FOR SALE BY ALL PILES NO MONEY TO We sem: PRICE and postpaid Rectem; also 100 page illus. by our mild method, noose pa DR8S. THORNT O Lesson number one. Starch is an extraction of wheat used to stiffen clothes when laundered. Most starches in time will rot the goods they are used to stiffen. They They contain chemicals. Defiance Staroh is absolutely pure. It gives new life to linen. It gives satisfaction or money back. It sells 16 ounces for 10 cents at all grocers. It is the very best. MANUFACTURED BY The DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA NEB. GREGORY'S Wrapped GEEDS Dive into world of fun J.J. H. Gregory & son, Marlboro, Mass BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. but all I vain. I gave Perima a trial. In a s time I was feeling better and now I am as well as anyone."—Mrs. Fred Weinberger. Hon. James R. Guill of Omaha. Hon. James R. Guill is one of the oldest and most esteemed men of Omaha, Neb. He has done much to make it what it is, serving on public boards a number of times. He endorses Peruna in the following words: I am 68 years old, am hate and hearty, and has helped me attain K. Two years ago I had la grippie—my life was despatched of. Peruna saved me"—J. R. Guill. A Relative of Abraham Lincoln. Mir. Silias S. Lincoln, who resides at 913 I Street, N. W., Washington, D.C., has the honor of being third cousin to Abraham Lincoln. He writes: "I had a gripe five times before using your medicine. Four years ago I began to have a headache, but not been troubled with that disease. I now do as much work at my desk as I ever could in my life. I have gained more than ten pounds in weight." S. S. Lincoln. Pe-ru-na Not Only Cured La Gripe but Benefited the Whole System. Miss Alice M. Dressler, 1333 N. Bryant Ave., Minneapolis, Minn., writes: "Last spring I suffered from the lappie and was partially cured but the bad after effects remained through the summer and somehow I did not get strong as I was before. One of my college friends who was visiting me asked me to try Peruna and I did so and found it all and more than I had expected. It not only cured my back pain but I felt health, built up the entire system and brought a happy feeling of buoyancy which I had not known for years."—Alice M. Dressler. An Actress' Testimony. Miss Jean Cowill, Griswold Opera House, Troy, N.Y., is the leading lady with the Aubrey Stock Co. She writes the following: "In past winter of 1901, I suffered for several weeks from a severe attack of gripe, which left a serious catarrhal condition of the throat and head. "Some one suggested Peruna. As a last resort, after wasting much time, the doctor I told the remedy faithfully, and in a few weeks was as well as ever," Jean Cowill. A Southern Judge Cured. Judge Horatio J. Goss, Hartwell, Ga., writes: "Some five or six years ago I had a very severe spell of grippe, which left me with systemic catarrh. A friend advised me to try your Peruma which I did, and was immediately benefited and cured. The third bottle completed the cure."—H. J. Goss. 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 be pleased to give you his valuable advice grafts. Address Dr. Hartman, President of the Hartman Sanitation M FIRE CARTRIDGES. Cartridges shoot when you want point your gun. Buy the time- having the trade-mark "H" they cost only a few cents more kind, but they are dollars better. DEALERS EVERYWHERE. STILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. A 200 page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured aid a cent filtured - we furnish their names on application. TON & MINOR, 1031 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. Looking for a Home? Then why not keep in view the fact that the farming lands of 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada are sufficient to support a population of 50,000,000 or over? The immigration for the past six years FREE Homostead Lands easily accessible, while other lands may be purchased from Railways and Land Companies. The grain and grazing lands of Western Canada are located in the Rockies and cattle (feel on grass alone) ready for market. Markets, Schools, Railways and all other conditions make Western Canada an enviable spot for the settler. Write to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, for a descriptive Atlas, and other information or to the authorized Canadian Government Agency, No. 75 W. Main Street, Kensington, City, Mo. CAPSICUM VASELINE (PEET STREET COLLEGE STREET) A substitute for and superior to mezzard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-allaying and curative qualities blister title to Marmoree's I. It holds the toothache, pain, and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend it as the best and safest external counter irritant, also known as sand and dust a sulphur gel. A needle is used and stomatitis and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable to the patient. A needle should be accepted by the public unless the same carties our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESPROUGH MG. CO., 17 State Street, New York City. NEW PENSION LAWS SENT FREE Apply to NATHAN RICKFORD, 914 F. S. L. Washington, D. C. Hired with: Thompson's Eye Water When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 7, 1904. MISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Heat cough syrup. Tastes good. Use in time. Book by druggist. CONSUMPTION STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up staira. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out this blank and send it with $1.00 and you will receive by express $2.00 worth of the Pomade and iterms to agenta. Enclosed please [P. O. Money Order for $1.00, for which send me as per your offer, $2.00 worth of the Great Southern Hair Pomade and terms to agents. Name...... Street...... Town or City...... County...... State...... Express Office...... Date of this order...... SEND ALL ORDERS TO F. J. NOTT, Box 81, Paris, Mo. FAST MAIL SERVICE A GOOD THING MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY The Train Service of the Missouri Pacific. The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time: 9:50 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and South-eastern trains. The only K. leaving Kansas City after the Operas, bridge meetings and Sunday night Churc service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m., in for all Eastern connections. 9:55 p. m. -10:50 a. m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment. Pullman Sleepers and Compartment cars; Recelling Chair cars, (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at Union Depot and 901 Main St., City Office. E.S. JEWETT. Pass. & Ticket Agent 1784 ..... Telephone ..... 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co., First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. TILLHOFF & CO Real Estate, Rentals TELEPHONE Real Estate, Rentals and Insurance TELEPHONE 1469. 203-204 Hall Bldg., Corner 9th fl Walnut Sts. Kansas City, Mo The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware ```markdown ``` CHEF'S STOVE --- PRICE 25c. John P. Tilhoff. 100 This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe hair pomade for curly hair straight as shown above. It mimoses the scalp, prevents the hair from falling, makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over 100 years, it is the first hair pomade ever made. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of Oz Marrow as the genuine never fails to work. It is the best hair pomade that it healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies, Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every product and dealers or send us 50 cents for one botton express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this product. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois Quick and Pleasant FRISCO SYSTEM Excellent Service Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida And the Southeast, and to Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas And the Southwest. Detailed information as to excursion dates, rates, train service, etc., furnished upon application to James Donohue, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2 Guaranteed to do what we say and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required if used as directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACH A PEACH-LIME complex obtained if used in a directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mutate person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade the skin in spots but not visible. It does not turn the skin in spots but not visible. It maintains beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft, smooth, small pox pits, tan, liver spots removed, and red spots. Will color the skin with, soon using the preparation THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and makes it hairy and easily perfumed. And makes the hair soft and easy to wear. And of our customers say one of our dollar boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. We are not free. Any person sending us one dollar a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express mail. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know contents except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 122 west Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. & CAMPBELL, Rentals and Insurance. PHONE 1469. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Agents for... Peninsular Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Specialty. ...A new line of... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. --- to points in Wm. J. Campbell Kansas City, Mo Co ```markdown ``` 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 b'd. Now a new growth has appeared. Ozono is perfectly grane. BEFORE. AFTER. Mrs. Mart Holman, of Valley Mills, Texas, writes: Ozono is the only hair tonic that has ever done my hair any good. It has caused my hair to grow long and straight. BEFORE. AFTER. Mr. George Branch, Mahon, Texas, writes: Ozono has done me a world of good. Everyone that uses it will use no other hair tonic. BEYOND METCH Miss Magg. e. St. Proctor, Fairfield, Texas, writes. I have used Ozono, and give it my hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often it does me good to recommend honest goods. BEFORE AFTER Henry Bell, Creeds, 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 contious or too curly hair has long and women, endowed by nature of hair, have found ordinary combing comparatively an easy matter to curly possibility to straighten curly hair. Quickly, effectively and satisfactorily uncontrolable head of hair or beard.lowing instructions, will straighten the 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 ordinalcidely the risk of catching cold. The bar with a handle of comfortable grimnary heat by means of gas, lamp or coated parallel to it, by an ingenious for use. The teeth of the comb can be moments of the user. The full length ofens' use and straightens a heavy head teeth shortened is preferable for men an indispensable article of toilet by a personal appearance. It has the endors ADDRESS MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHT 407 Cent Hair Straight Optical contrivance for st air has long been apparent by nature with unruly a very combing unproductive letter to curl straight hair nearly hair. The Magic affairfully brings under or beard. It use a few straighten the hair where loss of hair that excessiv ness ordinarily employed cold. The Straightener ortable grip. The bar is lamp or common stove; the ingenious arrangement, comb can be regulated length of the teeth is be heavy head of hair as fas sible for men's hair and bea tlet by all who take pr the endorsements of phys ADDRESS STRAIGHTENER --- The Magic Hair Straightener and Shampoo Drier..... THE necessity of a practical contrivance for straightening refractious or too curly hair has long been apparent. The many men and women, endowed by nature with unruly and rebellious heads of hair, have found ordinary combing unproductive of results. It is comparatively an easy matter to curl straight hair but almost an impossibility to straighten curly hair. The Magic Hair Straightener quickly, effectively and satisfactorily brings under subjection the most uncontrollable head of hair or beard. It's use a few minutes daily, following instructions, will straighten the hair where hours of combing will not. It will save the loss of hair that excessive combing produces. It is positively the only device that will accomplish such results. The use of the Straightener after the shampoo, will dry the hair quicker and better than the many methods ordinarily employed, and lessen very decidedly the risk of catching cold. The Straightener consists of a steel bar with a handle of comfortable grip. The bar is heated to an ordinary heat by means of gas, lamp or common stove; the comb then attached parallel to it, by an ingenious arrangement, and is then ready for use. The teeth of the comb can be regulated to suit the requirements of the user. The full length of the teeth is best adapted for 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 MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER MFG. CO., 407 Century Building, AGENTS WANTED. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. DIAMOND PAINT COMPANY DEVOE Paint, Varnish, Brushes. PHONES 946, 944 GRAND. 1214 GRAND AV 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 frauds, and simple, we wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great paper. In the year 1871 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through a fortunate circumstance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or purchased to any extent until 1875, 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 announced an honest, legitimate remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and worthy of every respect of the confidence of every member of the colored race, because they found it a 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 firms 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 scalp, 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. Do not be deceived by haring advertisements and big words. Buy the King of all Hair Tories. which is sold with an iron-chain guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $30,000. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $50,000 if we have advertised for your preparations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? We have advertised for your preparations, are all glad to say that every one who has used Ozono has been satisfied in every respect. 100,000 people are to-day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozono for hair founies. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Harsh, Kinky, Cure, Restore, Refresh, Shampoo, Shampoo, Shampoo, Straight, it will cure your head of all treating, worrying, itching. Ithy Eczema, Dandruff and Scurf cannot live after Ozono has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and healthy. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten the hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons, Friends, do not use hot irons, they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop, and the hair straightens without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary, and the hair is not affected at any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozono is $6c, a bottle—4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, which is good at any time. Outcut this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of all our purchases for large boxes of Ozono and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which you will pay for the plant, and cures all skin diseases. It also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-pox pumps. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—No more pox pumps—removes winkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes. We will also include one package of our celebrated Soak Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALLY PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should be used on the scalp. And, we will prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for oily skin, and some forms of Dermat Diseases. Chiblains Sore and Frozen Fect; also removes all speckles and odors. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $1.00, but we let you have it for $1.00 simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public it, from imitation of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, our Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has granted us this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. If so the coupon has this trade-mark on it, you will make no mistake. Use only the 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. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful, luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy, long hair. Send us $1 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $2.00, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth 50c, 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- Odor, worth $9c, 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $9c. Total, $4.00. If you want 4 lots like above, send $0.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. # TRADE-MARK. BEFORE. Using the fact that there are many on the market, and knowing to a we wish to make a straight line is great paper. In the year 1811 circumstance, acquired the recourse to the treatment and 1825, when we offer a thorough test by the color ultimate remedy, test by the color violence of every member of the colony, and strife, all of which the genuine article appears upon the face and make capital out of the excess, numerous fruits have been the remedy of worm, whichever the hair and scalp, and the colored diled with animal fats, and do the bring-in-be careful what you use cents and big words. Buy the Kit OZONO BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. SIO E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND, VA. nightener and Shampoo Drier...... for straightening refractent. The many men only and rebellious heads active of results. It is hair but almost an imagic Hair Straightener straightener the most few minutes daily, fol- lore hours of combing passive combing produces. dish such results. The dry the hair quicker and yed, and lessen very de- ener consists of a steel air is heated to an ordi- der; the comb then at- ent, 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., $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: Ozono, worth $2.00, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, Electrical Skin Food, worth $50c, 1 Package (1 pin worth $0c., 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $0c. Total, $4.00 House No. City State It is like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who le name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you buy it. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. COMPANY ash, Brushes. AND. 1214 GRAND AVE --- AFTER. SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-strightener, in fact of these Trends more aware, honest statement to the colored face our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through it for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or market, there are always a number of people as claimed for it, and worthy in every respect red race, because they found it to cause the man beautiful as an April morning. Now, market there are always a number of materials of other people's goods. Seeing out for the market, offering hair-growers and hair-raising the hair to fall out and doing great people are putting these questions under the hair more harm than good. To these let us your hair. Do not be deceived by daring of all Hair Tonics. do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit would we absolutely agree to forfeit $100 if they were not true to all we claim for them we would not be assured we are glad to say that died in every respect, parations, and every purchaser recommends will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, will positively take the Ozoma out of itching, worrying scalp diseases, Itech, Ozoma has been applied. It will stop your air to its natural color, making the hair long. Many firms are advertising remedies to the preparation they tell you to use hot irons, up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop from the hair. But the Ozoma is not hard to stop the use at any time. The good effects first application. does the work. We make this liberal offer, up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop from the hair. But the Ozoma is not hard to stop the use at any time. The good effects first application. does the work. We make this liberal offer, up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop from the hair. But the Ozoma is not hard to stop the use at any time. The good effects first application. celebrated Scalp Soap, which is absolutely a package of Anti-Odor, a pure cure Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, in the human body, such as feet, arm pits, etc. to protect the public it, general from imita- tions have placed upon our coupon our Trade- head Long Hair. The U.S. Government will not make no mistake. I use only the air responsibility, we refer you to the Editor Va., Madison, Hair and cause a beauti- ally straight, you can use it to secure a and the goods will be sent the same day we CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street. RICHMOND, VA. CHEMICAL CO. and at once the following goods; bottle Electrics! Skin Refiner, worth worth 50c. 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- osap, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. House No. City. State. If you have a friend who has no coupon, and pin to coupon when you send 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'ene he gits holt er a sheep he swallows him—cloze en all! W'en de pe' man cry en he don't git no answer up yander, he orter remember he been hollerin' so long en loud, he done deafen 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 or mischief is w'en 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. Fles Dislike Clover. A simple and effective preventive for files 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 SPEER. Miss Annie A. Wise, Ouncecock, Va., writes: I and my sister have both used Ozono and we recommend it to everyone. It is the finest hair grower and straightener on earth. Mr. W. G. Diggs, Swarthmore, 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. BEFORE AFTER Mr. Mark Taylor, Haverhill, 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 has 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. Dalny 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.