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. MARCUS ALONZO HANNA. VOLUME VIII. HANNA IS DEAD H E GAVE UP THE STRUGGLE AT 6:40 O'CLOCK MONDAY NIGHT. Meet Unusual Honors to Be Paid to Hanna's Memory—Official Funeral in Senate Chamber—Death of the Ohio Senator Will Cause Widespread Mourning. WASHINGTON.—(Special.) Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna died at 6:40 o'clock Monday evening at the family apartments in the Arlington hotel, after an illness extending over nearly two months, filled with apparent recoveries, followed by relapses and finally drifting into typhoid fever, which, in his weakened condition, he was unable to withstand. When the end came all the members of the senator's family were in the room except Mrs. Hanna, the senator's wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hanna. Mrs. Hanna had left the room only a few minutes before. MARCUS ALO United States Senator from Ohio. Born at Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohio. Sept. 24, 1837. Has lived in Cleveland since 1852. Is head of the firm of M. A. Hanna & Co., coal dealers; director Globe Ship Manufacturing company; president Union National bank; president Cleveland City The last sinking spell began at exactly 6:20 o'clock. Drs. Carter and Osler were then in attendance. They did not conceal the fact that life was about to end, and all members of the family were sent for. Mrs. McCormick, one of the senator's daughters, and Miss Phelps were present when the end came. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hanna were the first to arrive and they withdrew immediately to the chamber of the senator's wife, to summon her to the bedside. It was while they were absent the senator breathed his last. There were no distressing incidents attending the last moments. It was a sinking spell which terminated in ten minutes. Just after his eyes closed in death, Mrs. Hanna was able to come into the room. She bore up well under the or- --- deal and showed calmness and bravery. over the hotel like a flash. The lobby was crowded and a score of friends were waiting in Mr. Dover's room. No attempts were made to restrain grief. Senators Fairbanks, Scott and Kittridge broke down. General Dick wept his sorrow at the loss of a friend who had been a brother. So it was that conversations were a curious admixture of whispers and choked sobs. Spontaneously outbursts of unstinted tribute were heard on every side. Men who are acknowledged leaders of political parties, kings of finance and commerce and men selected to serve in the highest positions In the nation, were among those who expressed the country's immeasurable loss. It is likely that Bishop Leonard, of the Northern diocese of Ohio, of the Episcopal church, and formerly rector of St. John's church, in this city, will conduct the services. Senators and representatives visited the hotel throughout the evening and many of the dead man's friends were admitted to the death chamber. WASHINGTON.—(Special.) Both houses of congress will adjourn Tuesday immediately upon the announce- NZO HANNA. Railway company—all at Cleveland. President Chapin Mining company, Lake Superior. Directed campaign which secured nomination and election and re-election of William McKinley as president. Chairman National Republican committee since 1896. ment of the death of Senator Hanna. No business will be transacted in eith- The courage which has been displayed by Mrs. Hanna was the subject of the greatest surprise. She has been in almost constant attendance on her husband, though realizing fully there was no hope for recovery. Nevertheless, the remonstrances of the physicians and the added implorings of her children that she take some rest was unavailing until late in the afternoon, when she was attacked by a violent headache. She was given a narcotic and then she retired to her chamber, but requested that a call be sent as soon as there appeared any change for the worse. For the last two days Senator Hanna had not been conscious except at intervals and then only to obey mechanically some instructions given him by --- the physicians. Fourteen hours before the end was announced life had practically suspended, the flickering spark being kept aglow by the most powerful scientific agencies. Word of the senator's death went er house. Senator Foraker will announce the death of his colleague, and will offer resolutions of regret and for a committee to take charge of the funeral arrangements. A committee consisting of twenty senators will be named by President Pro tem. Frye, and the sergeant-at-arms will be directed to make the necessary arrangements for the funeral services both here and at Cleveland. The senate will then adjourn. The resolutions will be sent to the house at once and General Grosvenor will present resolutions of regret on the part of the house. As soon as these resolutions are adopted Speaker Cannon will name a committee of the house to accompany the remains to Cleveland. The house committee will include the entire Ohio delegation. It is expected the house will provide a special train to go to Cleveland, and that many members besides the funeral committee will attend the last sad rites. The flags on the capitol were at half-mast Tuesday, and will remain so until after the funeral. The desk of Senator Hanna in the senate chamber will be draped in mourning. There will be an official funeral in the senate chamber at noon on Wednesday, the body lying in state in the senate marble room in the morning. It is expected that the Gridiron Club quartette will participate in the services and sing the hymns. This will be done on account of Senator Hannah's intimate relations with the club. His last public appearance was at the annual Gridiron dinner. It is expected that three special trains will go to Cleveland Wednesday afternoon, one with the body, accompanied by the senator's family, another with the senators who desire to attend the funeral at Cleveland, and another for the house of representatives. 3 Markings of the Moon Probably even in prehistoric times men have noticed the face of the "man in the moon." Plutarch noticed it and even wrote a whole book about the face in the moon. But besides this, many other objects are supposed to be visible. The dark markings on the surface are likened by the Chinese to a monkey pounding rice. In India they are said to resemble a rabbit. Newspaper Work in Russia Newspaper Work in Russia. Newspaper work in Russia is not pleasant. The government spends more money on its press censors than on its schools. Last year eighty-three papers were suspended for various perlods, and twenty-six were forbidden to accept all advertisements, while 259 editors were told they could have a short vacation in Siberia if they continued their methods of reviving various public questions. Wagea in United Kingdom. Wages in United Kingdom In the United Kingdom 27,500,000 people out of 40,000,000 receive less than $60 a month for each family; 1,000,000 are in daily receipt of poor law relief; 8,000,000 have only a week's wages between them and starvation; 500 hereditary peers own one-fourth of England, and they and their dependents spend every year $1,850,000,000. Still Make Lace by Hand. Notwithstanding the progress of machine-made lace there are in France to-day about 200,000 women who make it by hand. Many of them get only 30 cents for twelve or fourteen hours' work. Value of Wild Animals Value of Wild Animals. An elephant costs $5,000 and he is likely to live twenty years. A lion will cost $1,000 and is good for twelve years. A Siberian tiger costs $4,000, a polar bear $1,000 and a black bear $200. GOOD ADVICE FOR WIVES. How to Get Along with That Needs involvement, 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 be shriveled up like a moth in a candle flame. Ylm. Dar ban a little faller, Ay tenk his name ban Yim, Ay tenk my name Ay used to seeing him. He used to stand in gateway And call me "Sweede" and ay Ant lak to hear dis nickname- Ay ban a Norak, yu say. But be ban little faller, Ay tenk his name old, And so ay used to lak him- He ban too small to scold, Ay used to say, "Val, Yimmie, Ay call ban ceded, yu Can call me Sweede-ay lak, yu And ant care vat yu du. A Dig 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 humanity? 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. Thackery wished that; and the Marquis of Farnintosh 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!" 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 scare. 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 considerable 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 Informe Reggie That the Trait Is Inherited. "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 cat, so as not to waste it. There was a man that was always gettin' everything out of a thing 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 grunt the critter gave when they hit him with an ax. I guess you must gilt your habit of wantin' to do things right from him." The Strange New Language. 'Tis Greek, nay, Japanese, to me; But Cynthia, whencee' I meet her, Can never well contented be Till I declare her very two. I will declare her very two. I'll observe the man. And than all maids I know far twe-er. That lovely tangle, she will sigh. Is far too explе-griefs flood o'er me. And while I sweep to see her cry. I'd 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. To my dismay it adds despair To find a search for knowledge risky. For when I asked what "costies" were I froze beneath her cold, hard stare And stern reproach that I was diskle. So since for her I long and yearn, And since on her is my fond heart set, With one desire beside I burn. The sick my mind will learn The mystic language of the Smart Set. —Pall Mall Gazette. 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 of the bell. One stormy night a lady was lost on the Sussex downs, and she had 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. 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. NUMBER 46 LEIXNGTON NEWS. Rev. Jimson left for his home Saturday morning who had been assisting Rev. Howell in his meeting. Rev Caldwell is here now. Mrs. Hattie Bell left for Iowa Saturday to visit her daughter. There is quite a number of people in town down with la grippe. Mr. F. Bolton, Mr. Irwin Han Rins, Mr. Lewis Smith and Mr. Ellie Williams are down with la grippe. Mrs. Mell Vinnie Bowens was found dead in bed about ten o'clock Sunday night. She was one of the oldest citizens of this town. She was the mother of Mrs. Henry Colley, who lives in Independence. She was loved by all who knew her here but not a member of any church. Mrs. Emma Smith and Mrs. M. Barker are on the sick list. Mrs. Joseph Terrial return back to K. C. after a few weeks visit Sunday evening. Don't forget the 24th to here Miss Brown. You'll miss half of your life. Mr. Leonard Britt of Higginsville was in the city last week. Mr. Henry Elam paid up his subscription for the Rising Son. Hays V. Reed will fill small or large order of coal on short notice. Call on them. The order will be promptly filled. Mrs. Missouri Stanton, sister of Mrs. John Rone and Mrs. T. W. H. Williams, died at her home in Independence February 11th, at 8 o'clock a. m. Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Rone have the sympathy of their many friends. Col. E. S. Jewett is a candidate for the presidency of the Upper House on the Republican ticket. No better se- Rev. Jesse Peck, of Allen Chapel, has been on the sick list the past week. "There's Something to See. The Great Southwest invites the entire North and East to make a tour of inspection and recreation to the principle business centers within the boundaries of Oklahoma and Indian Territories and Texas, on February 16, March 1st or March 15. This territory of immensity in all things, commands the attention of persons interested in the advancement of the Educational, Agricultural and Manufacturing growths of our country. Avoid the weather extremes of the North and East at this season of the year by taking advantage of the opportunity afforded in the low rates effective on dates mentioned by Frisco System and Connecting Lines via St. Louis and Kansas City Gateways. From St. Louis to Oklahoma and Indian Territories, $8.50; to Texas $10.00. From Kansas City and Memphis, $6.50 and $8.00, respectively. Also round-trip rate of $15.00 from St. Louis and Kansas City to Texas on above dates with liberal stop-over privileges. The Frisco System has four trains daily from St. Louis and Kansas City Union Stations to the Southwest. Cigarmakers in Germany. According to a recent report furnished by the German government, 175,000 persons are employed in making cigars in the empire. RELIGIOUS COMMENT RY eee Been | suk / Peay rane eH F aN a (Sh) Se, ore meena ki 4 ——— Faith. enabele eaihed Ta he ASIN Qewlch farkncte und through storm 1 A patntors willethess of waves tome, That he who ‘guides the woud ship o'er Bees iy the stare her shining pathway Diindsoud 1 walk thin tife's bewitderine Vp tlety steep through frozen mountain broth thorn-set barren and through Put etryne in faith 1 tread the uneven And hare my head unehrinking to the rnee Rec se’ ny Father's arm {a round. me And if the way seems rough, Tonly clasp ANG Hanut trae feuds met with a? Armer enh Ane Cokin WOR Quart hour “A woikman that needeth bot to be ashamed: 2 Pim i, 1 When a child comes into this world he comes without any character at all, He is simply a bundle of latent energies, a fagot of possibilities, oF @ piece of white paper on which, as time goes on, he will write the his- tory of a soul and demonstrate its success or failure. The science of heredity teaches us that he may have strong tendencies to either good oF evil; but when his reason puts the crown on his head, as Napoleon did at Notre Dame, be is in full command of himself and can settle his destiny beyond @ peradventure, If he is long: sighted he will see that he must not become the creature of circumstance, but must bend circumstance to the ac: complishment ot a bigh, noble, and divine purpose, Religion comes to his aid and tells him, just as an old man would tell a young man, that one course of life will in the long run, however enticing tt may be at the beginning, produce mis- ery both of body and mind, and that another course of Iffe will in the long rin produce satisfaction and happt ness, ‘This is the ehief function ot religion, and that is the only kind of relizion which ean rightfully elaim his attention. It is a man's best friend because it teaches him to seek Lis best good. Religion is the selence which tells us how to produce the highest results, and as seh no man can afford to be indifferent to tt Honse building and character build ing are governed by the same_prinel pies. In both eases the task Is dif eult—that is. if you are to have a house that will be conventent or a character that will prove satisfactory. If you slight your house you will never have what you want, and if you slight your character you wil never become what you hope to be. ‘There are pretty stern laws underly. ing beth strictures, and it Is better te take pains while building than to have pain after the work is completed. There ix, however, one serious differ ence between these two undertakings It you build a house and don't Ike it, you can get rid of It though, per haps, at a loss; but if you build 4 character and don't like It, you wil find yourself in very serious trouble Your character is really yourself, anc {{ yon don’t lke yourself when th {ime for careful examination arrives you will be compelled either In thi or in some other world to take thé whole thing down, even to the founda tion stones, and build all over again ‘Think of yourself, awakening fron the sleep of death, and, after becom ing used to the new environment, look fog back on your past life and recog nizing the awful fact that It Is a dire ful failure. The winds have bea against that house, and {t fell, an great was the fall of it. You see wha God did for you and how wretched: you Undid yourself, What regret must torment you, and how you wi hate yoursalf. A life deliberate! spoiled and — despoited, waster wrecked, and all because you had n plan, or, having one, built in deflanc of 1! ‘That is my idea of hell, an 1 can conceive of no agony more pols nant than for such a man to look fror the face of a pitying Father to hi own desperate fatlure amid the oppo: tunities of his moral life. Hell is stm ply the displeasure of God mingle with your condemnation of yourself.- Rey. George H. Hepworth, Dry Rot in Character. We do our utmost to protect great buildings from fire and tempest, and yet all the time those bulldings are Mable to another pert! not less severe —the subtle decay of the very frame- work of the structure itself. The tis- sue of the wood silently and mystert- ously deteriorates, and calamity as dire as conflagration is precipitated. ‘The whole of the magnificent roofing of the church of St. Paul in Rome had to be taken out at enormous ex. pense because of the dry rot. Scien tifle men, by microscopic and chem: {eal methods have investigated the causes of this premature decay, and after patient search they have discoy ered not only the fungi which de stroys the good tissue, but also the kpore that acts as the seed of th fungus. So this obscure maiign vege tation goes on in the heart of th wood, destroying the glory anc strength of minster and palace. Character {8 liable to a similar dan ger. All evils do not come from the es ert Nee — AAS) outside, Some of the worst possibill- ties of loss, weakness and ruin emerge from within; the destroying agents work obscurely and stealthily, and are almost unsuspected until they have wrought fatal mischief. The scl- entists expect soon to provide a means of destroying this seed before it produces growth, Christians need to destroy the seed or dry rot in char. acter, Atmosphere is a preventive of dry rot, and it is an eesential thing that the breath of Heaven should have free course through our nature. Sunshine fs a fine antidote vo dry rot. The sense of God's favor must be an abiding consciousness with us. Purity keeps out dry rot, The builder must watch against unhealthy conditions, and saturate joists and sleepers with the necessary chemical solutions. So must we keep ourselves from what- ever would infect, and evermore steep our moral faculties and life in the antiseptic influences of wuruth and grace.—W. L. Watkinson. Ability in Ife is worth little with The Beautiful in Common Things. The Rev. W. L. Watkinson says that, on visiting an art gallery recent- ly, he noticed that some of the great: est pictures had not a splendid thing in them. The ordinary artist, when he wants to be effective, paints in a breadth of goiden harvest, or he portrays a king: fisher or some other irridescent bird. a tree In bloom, or that captivating thing, a rainbow. But you will notice that some of the greatest painters that ever lived never touch these things. They take common things—a rail- way cut, a plowed fleld—no conspicu- ous object. only the black earth, the brown earth, the red earth; but their touch Is @ supreme touch, so that you can see the blossom In the dust and the rainbow in the cloud; and the pleture, although it contains not a brilliant thing, is bathed in imagina- tion, poetry and beauty. So Christ can take the most com: mon human plants in his gurden and develop them into the most indeserib- “able beauty and interest, | You cannot follow the Good Shep- herd and forget the lost sheep, | ‘The Results of Sin. ‘There are three parties always con- cerned In every sin: First God, who is outraged by the disobedience of his children; second, some other human being, who ts touched by the act of transgression, for no sin was ever committed that did not harm some other besides the one who com: mitied it; but, third and greatest of all, the man who sins hurts himself more then he hurts God or his neigh- bor. For the stroke which he bas imparted to the Injury of elther God or man may be swiftly healed; but the injury he has done himself, in his own soul, 1s of longer continuance than the evil he has wrought to God or his neighbor. Let us not fear to emphasize this frult of sin, The transgression has dulled and dead. ened the man's own perception of righteousness, and every additional sin committed without repentance adds to the unconsciousness, until, like Israel, he does not know, he does not consider, “Be Still and Wait.” We have all taken a sorrow or a perplexity out into the noontide or the midnight, and felt its morbid bitter- ness drawn out of it, and a great peace descend and fill it from the depth of the majesty under whose arch we stood. * * * The sweet and solemn influence which comes to you out of the noontide or the mid- hight sky does not take away your pain, but {t takes out of ft its bitter- ness. It lifts it to a higher peace. It says, “Be still and wait."—Phillips Brooks. Lowly circumstances are no bar to high thoughts. Reverence and Observation. ‘The natives of India had a saying about Sir Henry Lawrence, “When Sir Henry looked up twice to heaven and once down to earth, and then stroked his beard, he knew what to do.” If we may utilize the saying, it soems to express the attitude of mind with which all Iife’s work and study should be done. The reverence which looks up, and the observation which looks around, combined with the Judgment that can reflect, become safeguards against extremes, and in- variably lead to success. | ‘The theme o: heaven ts the work of | Jesus. ‘The Untrodden Way. Fach true heart in which there ts a spark of divine life turns eagerly to- ward the unblemished page, the un- trodden way, of the new year, not with wonder simply, or with hope. but with fervent resolve that the dead past shall bury its dead, and that a nobler, fuller, sweeter spirit shall glisten in the chalice of existence. — F. B. Meyer. Never covet the possessions of others, unless you want to lose your own. POPE PIUS GRANTS DIVORCE; EVENT OF RARE OCCURRENCE 1) ee Pee Bae ee WH Al iki me MG |: a ’ BM \y F. [ets ee HN OC! oN eat “it Aw os eS fie / Ht eG Cr Winey & OES My hota Mee SM | NS eo Naame oe 2 TTNN (Ap sSutio: SRS Ree TINY Cee MR 1 IV Treats & ER Aa MN BAC RN ZN oT trace Se ZE YZ PB | eee, O 2 Vu Bol | eee, Ans seers iis ae “aR S= 200000000008 Ca. RO. a tear CTY eR lay C ROA); Loans OQ "88 OD. er _ SS foo Re ° a) ow —— Miss Loomis formerly was the wife ; Gaukler an ecclesiastical decree « of Arthur G, Gaukler of Detroit. Pope | divorce after a sensational fight las Pius X has at last granted to Mr. | .ng two and a half years. WHITNEY A HARD WORKER. His Methods of Labor as Secretary of the Navy. While the late William C, Whitney was secretary of the navy he was one of the hardest working men in the department and he was very popular among all the employes, most of whom had been inherited by him from a Republican administration. He had a marvelous capacity for accomplisli- fag results, and without seeming ef- fort he could transact business with a celerity that kept the men under ‘him constantly guessing. He had a ‘high desk in the big reception room at the navy department, where he used to stand and sign his mail and do the business of the department. He liked to meet people In that way because be could get through with them more quickly than he could if he received them one by one in a pr vate room. Atybody with whom lie really wanted to hold private conver- sation he would invite into the small- er apartment, but that was a some- what rare occurrence. MRS. GRAY MADE DECISION. Then United States Supreme Court Solemniy Handed It Down. Judge Somerville of the board of United States general supervisors tells how an experienced housekeeper decided one of the earliest customs classification cases to come before the Supreme court in Washington. Someone had imported a preparation of fish which had been assessed for duty as a sauce, Lower courts had given conflicting opinions, and when the case came before the final tribun- al the decisions were voluminous in the extreme. Justice Gray took the matter under consideration, but could not make up his mind. His colleagues being equally undecided, the justice reflected that perhaps a housewife would probably be better qualified to decide a matter of this kind. He took a sample of the article home to Mrs, Gray. “Nonsense, that's no sauce; it's fish!” she said, and the next day the Supreme court of the United States solemnly decided the article was not a sauce. LONGS FOR LITERARY HoNors. New York Society Leader Said to Be Writing a Book. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, the New York society leader, is said to long for Iiter- ary distinction. In order to gratify her ambition she intends to curtail her social life considerably for some time to come, and will occupy herself seriously in writing a book. Just what the subject is to be has not yet been given out, but the work will deal largely, if not entirely, with social life in the United States. Mrs, Fish is eminently fitted for the task she is said to have undertaken, for in the past ten years she has entertained about everybody worth knowing from & social standpoint. Grand dukes, princes, earls and counts galore, to say nothing of the robust American captains of industry, have all fallen under the charm of her brilliant per- sonality, Lately she has shown much impatience with the stupid element of society, FATHER OF BRITISH FLEET. Honor Is Sir Norvell Salmon’s Since Admiral Kepvel’s Death. Since the death of Sir Harry Kep- pel, “my beloved Ittle admiral,” as Queen Alexandra called him, Admiral Sir Norvell Salmon, V. C., G. C. B. has become father of the British fleet. He was born in 1835 and entered the navy twelve years later, While in command of the Icarus he captured the filibuster Walker, a feat for which be recelved a gold medal from the Central American states, NOW MUST PAY FOR HORSE. Senator Nelson's Reminiscences Cost Him Small Sum. Senator Knute Nelson went to Baltl- More some ten days ago and address- ed a meeting of bankers and mer- chants who were giving a banquet. The Minnesota Senator recalled in happy fashion how, during the civil war, he marched through the city as a private soldier, telling in humorous fashion how he captured a horse nat far from Baltimore. These experi ences furnished much an.usement, but a couple of days after Mr, Nelson re- turned to Washington he was given an opportunity to sce the other side of the medal. The man who owned the horse wrote, demanding payment for the property which had been appropri- ated so many years ago, The letter gives details which convince Senator Nelson that the writer was Indeed owner of the captured animal. , VETERAN OF THE STAGE. Herman Vezin Before the Footlights Since 1850. Herman Vezin of the Court theater, London, is nearly, if not quite, the oldest actor at work, He will be 75 in March. He made his first appear- ance at York in 1850, and before three years had passed had played Shylock and other big Shakespearian parts. Mr. Vezin's ancestors were French, but his father, after emigrating to America, married a German lady, and he himself was educated at the Unt- versity of Pennsylvania. It has been said of Mr. Vezin that if he were a few inches taller he would have been the handsomest man on the stage. His stature, cs he has told us, is only five feet five and a half inches, FUTURE FOR IOWA GIRL. Des Moines Singer to Have Voice ‘Trained in Europe. a ee | a ee Miss May Cord, daughter of poor Parents in Des Molnes, lowa, has been sent to Europe to have her voice cul- tivated, society women of the city named having made up the necessary expense. Her wonderful vocal powers were discovered by a local teacher, who was passing her humble home one day when the girl was singing her baby brother to sleep. He took her in hand at once and after one or two trials decided that he had found a prodigy. He has taught Miss Cord all he knows, and now she has gone abroad to finish her education. She expects to be gone three years, NOT TO BE TAKEN TOGETHER. But Minister's Announcement Was at Least Suggestive. Dr. Abbott of the English depart- ment at Columbia college recently re- marked that Chronological coherence ‘in Ideas is much to be desired, but there are times when lack of it be comes too suggestive. For instance,” he added, “I once heard a miniater make his usual Sunday morning an nouncement as follows: ‘The funeral of the late and much lamented sexton takes place Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Thanksgiving services will be held in this chapel on Thursday morning at 11.” Would Have Attracted Attention. An English newspaper, in reporting the proceedings of a Juvenile ball giv- ‘en by the mayor of the town recently, states: “For the reception the may- or was attired in his robe and chain of office, which it had been notified to him would give pleasure to some of the young people, who had not seen the gorgeous civic vestment, After welcoming the guests he disrobed, wearing only the massive gold chain." It ts to be supposed, however, that the writer does not mean precisely what be says. =u reid sci, NC aan ae al Aman im fe g \ | MA JAKNK F ie a gd a i a ae ee rra. 4 aes an 4 oc A Delicate Salad. Brase and Copper. Cut into half inch lengths celery The craze for brass and copper which has been washed and scraped | in full force. No matter how small ‘n Ice water with the juice of alemon | how peculiar looking the piece, it ' in it and place in lettuce cups for | find a place in the decorative sche individual serving. Mix to a paste | of the time. The genuine antiques 1 the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs and | 0. course, hard to find, and very ‘& teaspoonful of olive ofl; season with | pensive, but the excellent reproc salt, white pepper and powdered su-| tions are just as effective as far gar. With vinegar make the mixture | ornament is concerned. Perhaps | the proper consistency and pour over | are fortunate and have stored ay the celery., Garnish with whole sar-|some kettles your great-grandmot dines and serve with cheese wafers. had. If so, get them out and -_ what a find you have made. Dainty Tollet Device. ean be used for ecran hackota ia A dainty device for keeping the twentieth century girl's white stocks and starched collars immaculate when not encircling her fair throat is made of @ round basket. Line with silk of delicate hue, with an Interlining of wadding, sprinked with sachet pow- der, A circular piece of pasteboard covered and wadded serves for a lid and also as @ convenient resting place for the fancy pins worn at the front and back of stock collars. Blouse Coat. Blouse coats retain all their favor and give promise of still more ex- tended vogue. This one includes the shoulder capes that are so much liked and which always give a drooping and graceful effect. As shown it is made of mixed tan cheviot, simply stitched with corticelll silk and piped with plain brown cloth, but all sulting and cloaking materials are appropriate. ‘The coat consists of blouse and skirt portions. The blouse is made with fronts and back and is fitted by el 4840 Blouse Coat, ‘82 to40 bust, means of shoulder and under-arm seams. Over the shoulder are ar- ranged the cape portions which are finished with shaped straps. The sleeves are the fashionable ones that are full and ample below the elbows and smaller above and are finished with roll-over flare cuffs. At the neck is @ flat band collar. The skirt 1s made in two portions and ts fitted by means of hip darts, the full- ness at the back being laid in invert- ed plaits. The two are joined at the waist line, the seam being concealed by the belt. ‘The quality of material required for tee medium size is 5% yards 27 inches wide, 3% yards 44 inches wide or 2% yard 64 inches wide. ‘The pattern 4640 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch bust meas- ure. Handsome Beadwork Handbag. Among the multitude of handbags, the one which is the handsomest te composed of beadwark, and while it is, of course, very chic to use an old one that has been for years in the family, the up-to-date woman prefers the mod- ern ones which come from Paris and which cannot be excelled in beauty of handiwork and design. . Beaded belts are also much to be desired, with thelr fine golden or inlaid buckles. ‘The Revival of Sachet Bags. ‘The old fashion of wearing sachet bags is being revived. The bags are now heart-shaped and are suspended hy the same shade of baby ribbon. Sometimes different colors are .com- bined to give the rainbow hues 80 much sought for. Larger sachet bags, oblong and heart shape, are suspend- ed from the mirror knob of the dress- er with good effect, and they exhale a delicate fragrance that is refreshing. It is quite the fad to attach these sachet begs to coat hangers in the same color with which they are cov- ered, They are fastened at each end of the hanger and dangle at all sorts of lengths. Little Wear in Moleskin. Although moleskin garments are still much to the fore, the warning note has been sounded. They are not ‘@ good investment, and mink, sable or ermine {s a far more profitable pur- chase, In the latter fur the ermine ties of last winter, which, by the way, look better with long coats, are here again. A, 3 muft to match Is neces: sity, the big, flat “sack,” daintily lined and finished on either side with im mense chiffon frills, 1s the latest. ‘The Latest Word on Night Robes. In night robes the popular taste turns to the heavily ruffed effect. Lace ts sometimes used on the ruf- fles, but embroidery seems to be the mont important decorative feature, ‘The valance is also in evidence. Brase and Copper. The craze for brass and copper fe in full force. No matter how small or how peculiar looking the piece, it will find @ place in the decorative scheme of the time. The genuine antiques are, %. course, hard to find, and very ex- pensive, but the excellent reproduc- tlons are just as effective as far as ornament is concerned. Perhaps you are fortunate and have stored away some kettles your great-grandmother had. If ao, get them out and see what a find you have made. They ean be used for scrap baskets, jardi- nieres or anything their size and shape suggest. Dyed Laces Popular, Dyed laces increase in popularity constantly. A violet cloth gown made with @ princess model is entirely cov- ered with heavy gulpure lace dyed to mich. Under the lace an interlining of violet chiffon lends a soft lacy ap: Pearance to the gown. A deep fringe finishes the lace skirt and the same fringe trims the bodice. ‘The balloon sleeves are of fine applique lace, deep yellow in color, and are interlining with violet chiffon, The same lace 1a used in the stock. | To Clean Feathers. White and pale shades of ostrich feathers can be cleaned by making a mixture of boiling water, castile soap shaved into small pleces and a little soda. Let it dissolve and cool. Then dip the feather in and draw .t through the hand several times. Rinse thor- oughly in clean water win a little bluing in it. Shake dry and curl. For Spangled Costumes. Spangled costumes are very fash- fonable, and the tendency fs to weight light materials with heavy trimming. A gown of black net over white satin has a full skirt divided in narrow pan- els that have a round scallop at the bottom, each one surmounted with a heavy design of jet. The same idea is carried out in the wide sleeves, ‘which have white ruffled undersleeves fo complete them. A yoke and a shouldér cape are of the net heavily embroidered, A_New Lining. A new and perfect interlining for Jackets can now be found. It 1s warm and light and soft and much better than flannel or chamois skin, ‘This lining is snow white and very wide. and it does not noticeably increase the outlines of the figure. Misses’ Box Plaited Blouse. ‘Young girls are always most charm ing when wearing the simplest dresses. The very pretty waist illus- trated 1s exceedingly smart yet en- tirely free of elaboration and is suit- ed to the entire range of seasonable fabrics. The original, however, is made of pale blue mercerized linen with trimming of embroidery and is unlined. ‘The waist consists of the fitted foundation, which 1s optional, the Oi gs ay ! AN ARRON 2 his aL ' Dies HY iy 4), \ 2 Gy A 4830 Misses’ Box Plaited Waist, 12 to 10 yr, front and the backs, Both front and backs are laid in box plaits, those at the front extending to yoke depth only, those at the back full length, ‘and the closing {s made invisibly be- neath the plait at the center back. The sleeves are plaited, to fit snugly ‘above the elbows, but form soft full puffs below and are gathered into straight cuffs. ‘The quantity of material required for the medir'm size is 3% yards 21 inches wide, 3% yards 27 inches wide or 2 yards 44 inches wide, with 4 yards of insertion to trim as illustrat. ed. ‘The pattern 4689 {s cut in sizes for misses of 12, 14 and 16 years of age. errr Readers of this paper can secure any May ‘Manton patiern illustrated above by ailing ous al Dlanks in coupon, and mauling, with 10 ceata, to. K. Harrison & Co., 66 Plymouth Pisce, Cai: cago.. Pattern will be mailed promptly. NEO nd a DOW nner 1A cecereneseenemeesteneee PROT NO. eresenrnnenemnnenee ‘Waist Measure (if for skirt) ___._— Bost Measure (if for waist}.————-ee Age Gf obila's or mise's pattera)_ ‘Write plainly. Fill out all banks Enclose 100. Mall to E. E Harrison & Go, 66 Plymouss Place, Chicaga. CANADA AND AMERICA WHAT CHAMBERLAIN'S TARIFF MEANS. It is In Our Power, by a Reciprocity Treaty, to Secure the Canadian Markets—Matter Worth Prompt and Serious Thought. "Mr. Chamberlain's scheme," President Schurman of Cornell told the New York Manufacturers' association, "would inevitably reduce the volume of agricultural products you now send to Great Britain, and the volume of manufactured products you now send to Canada and other British colonies." That such would be the effect of Mr. Chamberlain's policy there can be no doubt. Mr. Chamberlain's plan is to enlarge and make more nearly self-sufficient the British imperial industrial plant. To do this he must first get greater food supplies from within the British empire. This he proposes to do by giving British colonial agriculture a tariff preference in the English market, thus stimulating its extension. Then he proposes to protect British manufacture at home by a tariff on foreign manufactures. With the home market thus secured, British manufacture will be strengthened for competition abroad, and especially in the colonies. Canada has already given British manufactures a tariff preference. With a reciprocal preference for her agriculture she would maintain this preference, and perhaps increase it. Other British colonies would incline toward a similar exchange of tariff preferences. The result would be curtailment of American exports of both agricultural and manufactured products to the British empire. It is true that the success of this plan involves a sacrifice by Canada of her aspirations to economic independence. If she adopt the Chamberlain plan she must be content to let Great Britain be the mill and Canada only the farm. While far-sighted Canadians may see that it would be better in the long run to reject the Chamberlain plan, its adoption offers large immediate profit to the agricultural interest, which in Canada is overwhelmingly stronger than the manufacturing. It also involves an economic turning away from America, and an economic turning toward Europe, with all the social and political implications of such a change of attitude, while the Canadian spirit is more American than European. Nevertheless men are wont to prefer immediate to remote advantages, and the Canadians are no exception to the rule. That men will close their eyes to their highest future welfare to obtain present profits was well shown in the long resistance of the agricultural south to the policy of protection. Even to the point of taking up arms the South preferred immediate profits of agriculture to the national economic independence which only the combination of manufactures with agriculture could give. In spite of Canada's essentially American spirit—in spite of the relinquishment of economic self-sufficiency it involves—Canada will prefer the Chamberlain plan, because it offers immediate profits to agriculture, unless she receives solid inducements to reject it. "In view of the facts," said President Schurman, "would it not be prescient statesmanship and shrewd politics for us to negotiate without delay a treaty of reciprocity with Canada? The attitude of Canada toward Mr. Chamberlain's scheme will settle its fate. It is still in our power to-day to secure the Canadian markets, and keep Canada politically anchored to this continent. To-morrow it may be too late." With Mr. Chamberlain's plan, dangerous to our commerce and hostile to the ideal of a wholly American America, as it is, we cannot directly meddle. The action he proposes is wholly within the sphere of British domestic legislation. We have no more right to object diplomatically to his tariff bills than England has to ours. We can defeat his plan if Englishmen have any common sense left, only by making it worth while for Canada to reject it. Is it worth our while to make it worth Canada's to reject it? Is it to our interest to prevent Canada from becoming European? Shall we keep Canada American? These questions are certainly worth prompt and serious thought.—Chicago Record-Herald. Foreign Trade in Iron and Steel. The government figures of our iron and steel exports and imports for the month of December show plainly the effects of the changed conditions of the trade. The exports were $1,600,000 larger than in the corresponding month of 1902, while the imports were $3,000,000 smaller. This makes our total imports for the calendar year 1903—$41,253,333—equal almost exactly to the imports for the calendar year 1902, while it brings the exports to $99,036,697—a figure a little more than a million dollars larger than that for 1902. The question will be at once raised as to whether the gain in exports has been as great as was to have been expected considering the extraordinary measures the steel trust took to secure foreign trade when it found that the home market was shattered. Exceptionally low rates were quoted, it will be remembered, on rails for foreign shipment, so that rails were even sold for delivery in Asia Minor at a price five or six dollars below the American purchasers. To help themselves out the manufacturers secured railroad freight rates on steel for export at a discount of one-third below domestic rates. It appears now that the December exports were 20 per cent larger than the exports of December, 1902, 17 per cent larger than those for November, 1903, and 15 per cent larger than the average for the first eleven months of last year. Taking steel rails alone it appears that the December exports were $203,741, as against $21,216 in December, 1902, $180,006 in November, 1903, and an average of $66,700 for the first eleven months of 1903. The increase is noteworthy, but it is hardly sufficient to answer positively the question as to whether a sufficiently large market for our surplus steel products can be obtained abroad to bring our exports again up to the record figure of $129,633,000 for the calendar year 1900. Mr. Bryan as a Dupe. "I was put in nomination twice by my party," said W. J. Bryan at Burlington, N. J., "only because it was known there was no chance for my election." This is a most remarkable utterance. It is a public confession by Mr. Bryan that in both his presidential campaigns he was a dupe—that from the beginning by his own party he was betrayed and befooled. There is some reason to believe that with reference to his nomination in 1900 Mr. Bryan's opinion is partially correct. There doubtless were Democratic leaders then who saw no way of ridding their party of the incubus of Bryanism save by letting Mr. Bryan run again and be defeated. But there is not one scintilla of evidence that any such conspiracy as Mr. Bryan charges existed in 1896—not even in the form of passive acquiescence in Mr. Bryan's aspirations, destructive as they were seen to be. None who saw the Chicago convention of 1896—saw the wrathful, prayerful, and even tearful energy with which many Democrats there strove to withstand the Bryanites frenzy—can entertain such an idea for a moment. Nor was this energy displayed by the conservative Democrats alone. Scores of men in that convention were as radical for free silver as Mr. Bryan. Yet they regarded the stampede to Mr. Bryan as a treacherous desertion of Mr. Bland. All through the hours between Mr. Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech and the actual nomination these men argued and pleaded, with tears in their eyes and until they could hardly stand or speak, with delegates not to desert "Old Silver Dick"—the man who had worked all his life for silver and deserved the reward of that issue's triumph in his party. During his European tour Mr. Bryan is said to have been fully converted to the theory of Tolstoi, that any man who serves his fellow men under present conditions must be a martyr. This pessimistic theory may account for Mr. Bryan's description of himself as a dupe. However that may be, Mr. Bryan's mentality has long been known to be trivial. His presentation of himself as a martyr or dupe is probably, in the light of the facts of 1896, only another instance of his customary mental pettiness. $700,000 a Year for Protection A recent cable dispatch in the New York Herald says: "The Tariff Reform league is already one of the wealthiest political bodies ever formed in England. Its subscription list, apart from donations, amounts to £140,000 a year. During 1904 its purposes to print and distribute not less than a hundred million leaflets and pamphlets, some of the latter big enough to be called a volume.—Herald special cable dispatch. To American protectionists $700,000 a year must seem a mighty sum to devote to the propagation of protectionism. It is nearly twenty times the sum annually contributed for that purpose in their own country—a country with a reading population fully three times as great as that of Great Britain. Reckoned on a per capita basis, the subscription list in England—to say nothing of donations—is sixty times greater than in the United States. And yet the amount placed at the disposal of the Tariff Reform league in behalf of protection does not seem so large when it is remembered that British free traders donated $800,000 outright to Richard Cobden. No More Fearliness. As an argument for free trade the Louisburg, W. Va., Independent propounds this clincher: "When an infant under the nursing process has grown bigger than his pa, why not take away the bottle and let him feed himself?" That's easy. Uncle Sam let the fool free trader break the bottle once and it cost him dearly before he got another, several of his infants having died in the meantime. Now he proposes to keep it handy by, and all his children are entitled to its benefits alike. It is so resourceful that while the grown up infants use it, the little infants come in for their full share and get it. Uncle Sam would be ungenerous to ask permission to act the fool more than once in a generation.—Moravian Falls (N. C.) Yellow Jacket. Chamberlain's Alluring Program It is a very alluring program. Both the city laborer and the country laborer are to live more cheaply under the Chamberlain tax than before. There is to be a wider market for British exports and a smaller market for foreign imports. The agricultural elements are to share with the manufacturing elements in the new prosperity. The foreigner is to pay the tax, but where the foreigner is colonial the tax will not be burdensome. Whatever anybody thinks of Mr. Chamberlain's political economy, nobody is likely to deny the shrewdness of his appeal to the voters of Great Britain—Detroit Free Press From "Under the Elm," read at Cambridge, July 8, 1873, on the hundredth anniversary of Washington station commanded of the American army. Prized, as all prize, the justice pure from fear, and rewarded to honor first, then love him, then revenge. Such power there is in clear eyed self restraint, And purpose clean as light from every selfish taint. O man of silent mood, A stranger among strangers then, How art thou since renowned the Great, the Good, Familiar as the day in all the homes of men! The winged years, that winnow praise and blame, Blow many names out; they but fan to flame The self renewing splendors of thy fame. Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; High poised example of great duties done Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn As life's indifferent gifts to all men born; Dumb for himself, unless it were to God, But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, Tramping the snow to coral where they trot, Held by his awe in hollow eyed content; Modest, yet firm as Nature's self; unblamed Save by the men his nobler temper shamed; Not honored then or now because he wooed The popular voice, but that he still withstood; Broad minded, higher souled, there is but one Who was all this, and ours, and all men's THE IMMORTALITY OF WASHINGTON'S NAME On every hand in this land and in the uttermost parts of the earth, is shown the respect in which the great name of Washington is held. There is no name in all the world so honored by its geographical use. At the ex- army, and in some statue or tablet in nearly every town known to the thirteen colonies, and in the hundreds of towns and great cities that are now the centers of prosperous communities in what were then unknown lands. Here are some answers from little school children when they were asked the question "Who was George Washington?" "He was a great general who whipped the British," "He was the first president," "He was a good man, who fought for his country," "He was the father of his country," "He was a brave man who said that this country should be free," "He was the greatest man, and Lincoln comes next." So it went, as the question was put to a score of children, and from not one came an answer that showed ignorance. Haughty they said he was, at first, severe; But owned, as all men owned, the steady hand Upon the bridle, patient to command, Prised, as all prize, the justice pure from fear. On every hand in this land and in the uttermost parts of the earth, is shown the respect in which the great name of Washington is held. There is no name in all the world so honored by its geographical use. At the extreme north of Greenland is Washington Land, and a little east of it is Cape Washington. Then there is a Washington in Oxford county, Ontario. in the mid-Pacific, south of Hawaii, is Washington Island, and further south, on one of the Fiji islands, is Mount Washington. In Paris is the Rue Washington, opening into the Avenue des Champs Elysees. Turn to the United States and you will find 2916 Washingtonts, which means more than five for each state, District, territory and each of the foreign possessions. Of these, the first that comes to mind is the national capital, then the great northwest state, and after these the numerous subdivisions of the various states. In Alabama there is a Washington county; in Arkansas, a county and a town; in California, a county, two towns, three townships, and to these are added Washingtontown and Washington Corners; in Connecticut there is a town and a Washington Depot; in Florida a town; Georgia, a county and town; Idaho, a town; Illinois a county, a town, two townships, and to these are added Washington Heights. In this list the word "town" is used in its broadest sense so as to embrace everything from a hamlet to a city. Indiana has a county, two towns, and forty-three townships; Iowa, a county, a town, forty-one townships, and to these are added Washington Mills and Washington Prairie; Kansas, a county, two towns, six townships, and a Washington Creek; Kentucky, a county, a town and Mount Washington; Louisiana, a parish and a town; Massachusetts, a town and Mount Washington; Maine, a county, a town and Washington Plantation; Maryland, a county, a town, Washington Junction, and also Mount Washington, Michigan, a town, two townships, Washington Island and Washington Harbor; Minnesota, a county, a town, a township, and Washington Lake; Mississippi, a county and a town. In Missouri is a great nest of Washington; a county, a town, twenty-one townships, Washington Centre and Mount Washington; Montana, Washington Bar, Washington Gulch and Mount Washington; Nebraska, a county; North Dakota, a North and south Washington lake; New Hampshire a town, a township and Mount Washington; New Jersey, a town, five townships, Washington crossing, Washingtonville, Washington Corners and Washington Place; New York, a county, two towns, Washingtonville, Washington Mills, Washington Hollow and Washington Four Corners; North Carolina, a county and two townships. Then comes Ohio, with a remarkable display, a county, four towns, forty townships, Washingtonville, Washington Station and Mount Washington; Oregon, a county; Pennsylvania, a county, three towns, twenty-one townships and Mount Washington; Rhode Island, a county and a town; Vermont, a county and a town; Virginia, a county, a town and "Washington's Birth Place," in Westmorland county, Washington, Washington lake; Wisconsin, a county, six townships, Washington Island and Washington Harbor; Wyoming, Mount Washington. When one thinks of the monuments to Washington, the first that comes to mind is the mighty shaft in the capital. Then there is the celebrated marble statue in the central hall of the Capitol at Richmond, by Jean Antoine Houdon, and not far away the imposing monument in Baltimore, surrounded by a colossal statue of the patriot. There is no state, in fact there is no city of any considerable size, where Washington is not continually kept in mind by the same tablet to his memory, and they are increasing now more rapidly than ever before, since the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution, the Colonial Dames and the various other patriotic organizations have begun their work. These are seen in the granite tablet under the Washington Elm, in Cambridge, commemorating that event of July 3, 1775, when the great general took command of the first American C. W. EARL OF BUCHAN'S TRIBUTE. Sent Washington a Box from the Wal- jace, Oak. The New York Times published an article in reference to the disposal of the box made from the oak that sheltered Sir William Wallace after the battle at Falkirk, and giving the letter of presentation in which the Earl of Buchan presented the box to Washington. It seems that the Earl of Buchan, friend and patron of Robert Burns, was so delighted with the heroic part that Gen. Washington took in the American War of Independence that he showed his appreciation in the manner described. The letter and box were intrusted to the care of a Mr. Robertson, a Scottish artist. Robertson arrived in New York in October, and in December went to Philadelphia to fulfill his mission. This was in 1791. On Friday, Dec. 13, of that year he presented the box to the president. "He was much embarrassed," he said, "on being introduced to the American hero, but was soon relieved by Washington, who entered into familiar conversation with him, and introduced him to Mrs. Washington." The Earl of Buchan expressed the wish that he might have a portrait of Washington and that Robertson might be the artist. Washington sat to Robertson for the portrait in miniature, and when that was finished the artist painted a larger picture from it in oil for Lord Buchan. This picture was painted at the close of May, 1792, when Washington wrote to Lord Buchan thanking him for the present of the box, and saying of the portrait: "The manner of the execution of it does no discredit, I am told, to the artist." The picture was sent to Europe by Col. Lear, and Robertson received the thanks of the Earl of Buchan. In his letter of thanks to Buchan, Washington said: "I will, however, ask that you will exempt me from compliance with the request relating to its eventual destination. In an attempt to execute your wish in this particular I should feel embarrassed from a just comparison of relative pretensions and fear to risk injustice by so marked a preference." The box was taken to Mount Vernon at the close of the session, where it remained until Washington's death, when he committed it to the Earl by the following clause in his will: "To the Earl of Buchan I commit the box made of the oak that sheltered the great Sir William Wallace, after the battle of Falkirk, presented to me by his lordship in terms too flattering for me to repeat, with a request to pass it, on the event of my decease, to the man in my country who should appear to merit it best, upon the same conditions that have induced him to send it to me. Whether easy or not to select the man who might comport with his lordship's opinion in this respect, it is not for me to say; but, conceiving that no disposition of the valuable curiosity can be more eligible than the recommitment of it to its own cabinet, agreeably to the original design of the "Goldsmiths Company" of Edinburgh, who presented it to him, and at his request consented that it should be transferred to me, I do give and bequeath the same to his lordship and in case of his decease, to his heir, with my grateful thanks for the distinguished honor of presenting it to me, and more especially for the favorable sentiments with which he accompanied it." $100 Reward. $100. The padders of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that scientists have not yet discovered. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive candidate in a being constitutional disease, requiring a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in the form of a spray on the surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient a natural cure. The propensity of nature in doing its work. The propensity have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer it cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENRY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Drugs, T5c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. No man who has a torpid liver can look on the bright side of things. FARMERS ORGANIZE. What promises to become a most powerful factor in the produce markets and from which farmers will reap immense benefit, took life in the organization of the Farmers' Grain and Live Stock Commission Co., at Chicago, IL. This Company will handle shipments of grain and stock at all the primary markets, will have feeding stations for stock, and will operate elevators, etc. The project has a strong backing from influential farmers and business men and will so doubts receive universal endorsement. Opportunity, with ability, makes responsibility. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Sometimes a man lies when he smiles and says nothing. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. There is no substitute for hard work in winning success. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—10 oz. for 10 cents. Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. He who hunts for happiness runs away from contentment. FOR RENT OR SALE On Drop Payments, SEVERAL CHOICE FARM Sand for list. J. MULHALL, Sloux City, Iowa In the field of destiny we reap what we have sown. All Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz more of it for same money. Town Built Over Coal Mines Many buildings in Motherwell, Scotland, look like the leaning tower of Pisa. The little town is built over the side of a coal mine. Some houses have collapsed, business is at a standstill, and the town will probably soon be deserted. Examination Fever. Dr. Putnam, a Russian medical man, has been making observations of schoolboys undergoing examination. He says that the average effect of an examination is to make the pulse beat twenty to the minute quicker. The First Cultivated Rose It is said that the first cultivated rose was planted in Belgium in the year 1522. The damask rose was taken to England from France in 1573, the moss rose about 1724 and the China rose fifty years later. Moscow Imports. The principal articles imported into Moscow are mechanical and agricultural machinery, hardware and cutlery, cotton, raw copper, cash registers, typewriters, office furniture, bicycles, etc. Rubber Production. The world's production of rubber was two years ago almost equally divided between Africa and South America. Now the Amazon region produces three fifths of it. SURE The Robust Physique Can Stand More Coffee Than a Weak One. A young Virginian says: "Having a naturally robust constitution far above the average and not having a nervous temperament, my system was able to resist the inroads upon it by the use of coffee for some years but finally the strain began to tell. "For ten years I have been employed as telegraph operator and typewriter by a railroad in this section and until two years ago I had used coffee continually from the time I was eight years old, nearly 20 years. "The work of operating the telegraph key is a great strain upon the nerves and after the day's work was over I would feel nervous, irritable, run down and toward the last suffered greatly from insomnia and neuralgia. As I never indulged in intoxicating liquors, drugs or tobacco in any form I came to the conclusion that coffee and tea were causing the gradual break-down of my nervous system and having read an article in the Medical Magazine on the composition of coffee and its toxic effect upon the system, I was fully convinced that coffee was the cause of my trouble. "Seeing Postum spoken of as not having any of the deteriorating effects of coffee I decided to give up the stimulant and give Postum a trial. The result was agreeably surprising. After a time my nerves became wonderfully strong. I can do all my work at the telegraph key and typewriter with far greater ease than ever before. My weight has increased 35 pounds, my general health keeping pace with it, and I am a new man and a better one." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellville." Texas Cattle Traffic. In the number of cattle Texas equals that of all the states east of her and south of the Ohio and the Potomac, while he value of her stock exceeds theirs by more than $36,000. 000. Wholesale Co-operation The English Cooperative Wholesale society has 1,392,399 members, and does an annual business of $88,500,000. The similar Scottish society does $29,500,000 of business. Blunt Truth. An English writer has written some "confessions" in relation to his reading when a boy. Dickens he had no liking for until later years, but Browning, Macaulay, and Pepys interested him. He says that book lovers are few—a few thousands at most among the millions. If men would but dare to confess, he adds, it would be found that not one in a thousand has ever read Shakspeare.—Albany (N. Y.) Journal. Peculiar Text. Little Elmer had accompanied his father to church one morning, and the minister discoursed from the text: "Why halt ye between two opinions?" Upon returning home his mother asked if he remembered the text. "I can't remember the exact words," replied Elmer. "but it was something about a hawk between two pigeons." First Steam Warship. The first steam warship was the Fulton, built in the Brooklyn navy yard in 1815. She was 2,000 tons and carried thirty guns. Pope Lauds Journalists. Recently the Pope took a stylographic pen from a Protestant journalist's hand and pronounced a benediction. He returned the pen, saying: "No one has a nobler mission than a journalist in the world to-day. I bless your symbol of office." RECORD RUN TO KANSAS CITY. Wabash Train Makes Trip in Five Hours and Fifty Minutes. Wabash train No. 9, fast mail between St. Louis and Kansas City, made a record-breaking run from St. Louis to Kansas City Sunday afternoon. The schedule time for starting is 2:20 p. m., and the regular time for the run is seven hours and ten minutes. No. 9 started one hour late, lost twenty minutes on the way and pulled into Kansas City on time, making the run in five hours and fifty minutes, five minutes faster than any previous record. There was a full equipment of a mall car, combination car, chair car and diner. At many places along the route the train showed a speed of seventy miles an hour, and between Mexico and Montgomery City a mile a minute was reeled off. The distance is twenty-four miles, and it took just twenty-four minutes to make the trip. The train was in charge of Conductor J. S. Gould. The engineer was Charles Summerville.—St. Louis Republic. Prof. Karl Pearson, the English anthropologist, is trying to relieve red-headed people from the stigma which he says has attached to them from the remotest antiquity. To this end he is compiling a census, asking schoolmasters, for instance, for the records of their red-headed pupils. He believes that Aristotle drew on his imagination when he wrote: "He that has red hair is proud, envious and deceitful." Metal Geta Tired Metals get tired as well as living beings. Telegraph wires are better conductors on Monday than on Saturday, on account of their Sunday rest, and a rest of three weeks adds 10 per cent to the conductivity of a wire. Wireless Telegraph on Liners. Atlantic liners to the number of fifty have wireless telegraph apparatus to communicate with forty-eight land stations. Sixty British and twenty-four Italian war vessels are so equipped. Close Saloons and Save Money. Liverpool has closed one-third of its saloons during the last ten years, and so decreased her police force in consequence as to have effected an economy of $40,000 yearly. English Wages. The average farm laborer's family in England lives on $185 a year; the average mechanic's family spends $300. Bake by Electricity. A baker's over in France, which is heated by electricity, is said to be a success in every particular. In northern Italy there is a cooperative association for every 1,000 inhabitants. LESS THAN HALF rates to Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Texas on February 16th, March 1st and 15th. If you contemplate a trip Southwest, don't overlook this. Don't delay. Write to-day. GEORGE MORTON Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agents, St. Louis, Mo. THE RISING SON LEWIS WOODS,..... Business Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO GFSUBSCRIPTION RATES: Gees ‘news montha. vs. at One month eee u Surtetly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kanaas City, as Second Cluss Matter. Correspondents wanted In every city nd town in this state. Write as. All news matter intended for pud- Moation should reach our office not las ter than Tucaday, of exch week and taust be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of auth- enticity. FFIORI-No. 117 West Sixth Sty, Kansas City, Mo. re ‘Advertising Rates, fone 19h, one insertion. on for fone inch, cach sutsequeat insertion 30 OF two iwehes, three MOU ssssesescsone, BOD Fortwo inches: a1 month vvc...sssr vel 8D For tre ene ine montbn 000000090 for two inches twelve woUtha 2s. 13.0 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL +». IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. * The paid circulation of THE Risinc Son is more than double the combined circu- lation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. LEE Kansas City, Mo., March 3, 1903, Office of the Postmaster, Publishers, Rising Son, Kansas City, Mo. Sirs: In response to your Inquiry, I beg to say your publication is duly entered &s second class matter at thia office! and regularly mailed. Very respectfully, J. H, HARRIS, Postmaster. ey | NEGROES ON JURIES. | For the First Time in Many Years ‘Shay Ave Brawn ih Selma. ‘The case involving the right of Ne- Eroes to sit on juries in Alabama, re- cently decided by the United States Supreme Court, is being regarded by the county authorities of Dallas in the selection of juries for that county, ‘The Selma Times has this to say on the subject In a case that went up from Mont: the United States Supreme Court held that when Negroes were excluded from being drawn on juries, on motion of any attorney defending a man, the ver dict could be set aside, when a con: vietion was had. 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 le: fal advice, put the names of negroes in the box, and yesterday when the juries were drawn the names of sev oral 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 Mit chel were drawn. On the regular petit jury for April 1th the name o R. H. Reagin was drawn. C, W. Smith the painter, and several others were drawn on special venires, This is the first time since recon struction days that the names of Ne kroes have appeared on a jury list ir Dallas. It is hardly probable that any of them will sit on a jury, on ac count of being set aside by the law vers on one side or the other, bu there is nothing to prevent them draw ing their $2 a day as Jong as the tern for which they are drawn lasts, The jury commissioners acted righ in complying with the decision of th court, otherwise the county woul have been put to a great expense, Th Supreme Court is bigger than the eus tom that has prevailed in the Sout of excluding Negroes’ names from th jury box, and the decision of th United States Supreme Court wi have to be complied with everywher in order to make the drawing of jurie legal.—Montgomery Evening Time February 4, 1904, Another great calamity has befallen: our nation in the great destruction by fire of property in Baltimore this week. Just think of $100.000,000.00 going up in smoke and flame! But one of the most pleasant features of this terrible disaster is that Baltimore is able to take care of her loss with- out any outside aid. 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 {4s lees salubrious. THE NEGRO'S RIGHT TO SIT ON GRAND JURIES VINDICATED BY THE UNITED STATES eueeeue eae? Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 19.—The As- ‘sociated Press dispatches to day brought to the colored people of Mont: ‘gomery and Alabama word as to the successful fruition of one of the cases carried to the United States Supreme Court by Hon, Wilford H, Smith, 159 ‘Nassau Street, New York City, the colored attorney who has been prose: ‘cuting in the State courts an attack ‘upon the validity of the Alabama Con- stitution which has fraudently dis: franchised so many fo our best cit }wens, One of these cates waa sub- mitted to the Supreme Court, January cid without argument, and two others were argued by Mr. Smith on the fol lowing day, January 4th, The case ‘submitted January 3rd. is the one in which a decision has now been handed down, It is a case carried to the Su- preme Court to establish the right of Negroes to sit on Grand Juries in ev- ery Southern state, or wherever the Negro is brought before state courts on whatever charges. The following is the report sent out by the Associated Press, and establish- es this right most clearly: Washing: ton, Jan, 18th, The United States Supreme Court today reaffirmed the ruling made some time ago in the case of Carter vs. the State of Texas, to the cfect that the exclusion of Negroes from grand juries in cases involving criminal charges against members of ‘their race is in violation of the Con- stitution, and therefore, not permis- sable. The decision was delivered by Gal Rising Sun Feb 19 INGMAN.. .. Justice Holmes, in the case of a resi- dent of Alabama, named Dan Rogers, who was indicted for murder by a jury composed entirely of white men, and from which, it is charged, all Ne- ‘groes were excluded because of their cor iThe Supreme Court of the state upheld the regularity of the ‘action, but Rogers brought it to the ‘Federal Court on a writ of error, with ee result that the decision of the state court was reversed, and the case remanded to the state court for furth- er proceedings not inconsistent with today’s opinion. “The dicision was based on the Car- ‘ter case, in which it was held that [exclusion of all persons of the African race from a grand jury which finds Indictment against a negro in a state court, when they are excluded entirely because of race and color, denied him equal protection of the laws, in yiola- [tion of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, whether such exclusion is throngh action of the legislature, or throug the executive or administrative officers of [ne state." Now it ls up to the Negro people | themselves to contend for their rights \in this matter, The highest judicial | einunat in the land has indicated the right of the Negroes to representation on grand juries, and our race throug: out the Union owes Mr, Smith a debt of gratitude which it will hardly be leuseae Browning's Pretty Compliment. ‘As all the world knows, the rela- tion between Tennyson and Browning. was one of friendship and mutual ad- miration. Once in Browning's pres- ence the question whether Tennyson was open to the charge of plagiarism was started. “Tennyson suspected of plagiarism?” he exclaimed. “Why, you might as well .uspect the Roths childs of picking pockets!” Rats as Human Food. A successful rat show was held at Cheltenham, England, recently. There were sixty exhibits of black, gold, gray, white, piebald and tan rats. They are not yet part of the live stock of the farm, but as dormice were fatten- ‘ed by the ancient Romans a British farm journal thinks there is just a chance that rats might be bred for table use, | Scared for a Minute. “Oh, I'm so relieved,” she said, af |ter reading the telegram which her [husband had sent her from home, "E | seemed to have a premonition when | the messenger said it was for me | that it would say that our maid had |ieft us, But it's nothing. ‘The baby | fell down stairs this morning and | broke her arm, That's all.” Value Literary Degrees. In a foreign office report on the trade of Nanking, it is stated that such is the value placed on literary degreee by the Chinese that during @ period when hundreds of the inhabl- tants were dying daily from cholera no fewer than 17,000 students visited the city to compete for two hundred vacancies. Sometimes Fatal. “L haf reed vair much about 2@ what you call pneumonia!” sald the despairing Frenchman who has recent- ly become a citizen, “but eet ees an- othair reason for me not to under- stand ze language. I learn how to Pronounce ze word ‘noomonia,’ and zen I learn ze doctaires sometimew pronounce it ‘fatal!’ By gar!” DEATH CAME VERY SUDDEN. Joseph Miner one of the old citizens of this city died last Sunday night. Mr Miner was a good man. He and his wife for many years run a dress. making shop at Fifth and Broadway. Prior to that time he run a barber shop on Union Ave, He leaves a dear wife, A. V. Miner and son Lou Miner and ewo daughter, Josey and Gertrude and brother to mourn his loss, They have good property in the city and 4 well balanced mother to care forit. you and you have our sympathy. We have sived in this city over one quarter of a century and our Republl- canism has never been doubted or questioned by the stalwart Republi. cans who have thus lived hefe and know us, and we don’t purpose that a small bore like this little lying Cross: land, jumped up here from the South, shall further call our integrity or prin- ciple into question. St. Jo Spectator For God's sake donn’t let us have any more churches. We are an over- churehed and out-churehed people, so far as edifaces are concerned. If you are dissatisfied with your church re- lations don't form a separate congre- gation; either affiliate with a well established congregation of your own Faith or Join some other church that will lift you up, a chureh in which entelligence, righteosness and order prevail. A meeting of the Lincoln Institute Alumni will be held at the residence of Prof. J. Silas Harris next week. ‘The object of said meeting will be for the purpose of forming a permanent organization in this city. A banquet will be given later on at which many distinguished men of the race will be present and speak. Cards will be sent out in a few days. ‘Tribune Sar G. The burning of a colored man and his wife in Mississippi is but the nat- ural result of the teachings of the chief executive of that hellhole, What better can be expected where ignor- ance reigns in the highest gift of the people of that commonwealth, The Bee of Washington seem to lose site of what Booker T, Washington ts doing and now make a holer a beet the Long gree why don’t the Bee man get some and let Washington gon on he xoing anyhow it look like a folis man who fite a success let lone one leader ‘our of 10,000,000 Goon Booker they cant’ hurt yo the people that love us with, 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 cout from our halls of learning twice a day for five days of the week. Of what use is grammar and rhetor- je to our girls, if when they are still within sight of the school house, they greet each other with the vilest lan- guage? 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 grould and equares herself for a fight, will make what sort of woman? Whose home will she be fit to govern? As a church mem- ber, she will be a serious problem for Jany 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 be tween cause and effect, the shadow and the substance, All teaching that 1s not founded up on religious principles is in vain, ¢ hollow mockery that produces false notions, bad manners and rude con duct. Book learning alone can do bul little for any body. Let the preachers ery out agains this false system, Let them talk abou manners in jublic places, until ther will be less objection to us in stree cars, theatres and places of business To the Subscribers of the Son after | One year has rebfts our collector will come around in the of Mr. Dayton Please pay him yo mo yo ow 80 pay up and give us @ chance Please don't say yo ar coming down as never come, I shave got time loook yo up so pay to the one that bring yo the Bill ‘WOODS, Mer. Dromedaries Like Tobacco. Most dromedaries, according to @ menagerie proprietor, are particular. ly fond of tobacco smoke, and can be made to do almost anything under \ ee dnanenes, CHURCH DIRECTORY. Rev. 8. 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 chureh, Second and Holmes. Rev. J. M. Harris, Burnes Church, Eleventh and Highland. Rev. 8. 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. 8. Wheeler, Asbury A. M. E,, 19th and Cherry. Rev. James H. Allen, A. M. E., Inde- pendence. 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, The Chamolon Benedict. An inhabitamt of Creglingen, in Wuertemberg, whose name is Fritz Kottman, claims to be the champion benedict of the world. He has been married no fewer than eleven times. His first three wives died young, the next two were drowned, one commit- ted suicide, three died in succession, the tenth was gored to death by @ 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 Entalls Work. A statisticlan who made a study of dancing declared some little time ago that a waltz of average duration rep- resents approximately a run of two- thirds of a mile; a quadrille, with its four figures, rather over a mile; @ mazurka, a trifle over half a mile; a polka, 800 yards; @ 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. Gleb. dthinn: @hldeee. The new entrance which Lord Elles- mere has erected at Worsley hall con- tains 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, “1 did not hear the clock strike!"— London Dispatch, Phenomenon of the Tropics. ‘A curious phenomenon has been noticed in the tropics that can never be seen at higher latitudes, A min- ing shaft at Sombrerete, Mexico, ts almost exactly on the Tropic of Can- cer, and at noon on June 21 the sun shines to the bottom, lighting up the well for a vertical depth of 1,100 feet or more. Destroy Cork Oaks, Formerly ltaly was a large pro ducer of cork, but a great part of the splendid cork oak forests has already Deen destroyed. In some provinces— as, for instance, in Calabria—the trees have been felled and used for charcoal making; in other provinces they have been cut down on account of their high potash contents. hiamai es een | Light Havana cigars contain less nicotine than those of Porto Rico, and those of Porto Rico less than those of Germany. When one smokes the nicotine lodges just back of the burn- ing part. Cigarettes are worse for the eyes and lungs than cigars be cause of the smoke from the burning paper. Highest Postoffice. ‘The postoffice of Ancomarca, in the Andes of Peru, is 16,000 feet above the sea and is probably the highest {mhabited spot on earth. Attending our great clcsing out sale of Sheet Music and Musical Instruments, you have done yonrself an injustice. ‘Think what we're doing! We are ffering BELOW COST one of the largest Music stocks in the West. If you, personally, care any- hing for music, or if yeu have @ friend who would appreciate it, buy It now. You will bave no such opportunity to get Music of this kind at such remarkably low prices ogain in a long time tocome, Much of itis going at aclear loss. loffman L., MUSIC COMPANY. iy Sheu =e Ea LANGSTON’S '. Shaving Ld . . nt Parlors.. a : " 717 E. 8th St, Kansas City, Mo. of wr“ naw cdma Agency for Steam Laundry. a / Porcelain Bath Tubs. nN Rooms Steam Heated. ; 6 Baths for $1.00. D. "FINE "CIGARS fn Your Patronage Solicited. cM, COUNTEE, W. B. COUNTEE. Countee Brothers, UNDERTAKERS AND ————— —————— u Licensed Embalmers.. 914 East 12th St, 1Phone 780 Grand. Carriages Furnished for All Geoasiens. KANSAS CITY, MO Why. Not Havent our Prescriptions Hiled at Att | McGampell’s Pharmacy 2304 Vine Street 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. Ben ‘Phone 159 East. Home ‘Phone 2396 Main J. L. WILLIAMS, —-GENERAL—— Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Repair | Shop. Good Material and First-Class Workmanship guaranteed. 107 Independence Ave. Kansas City, Mo. | Only First Class Colored Shop in the City. The Very Lowest Prices. : Residence 416 Laurel. Telephone 1052 Red. Gen. Gordon in Battle, It has been said of the Inte Gen, Gordon “he was the shining scimitar which the war god wielded when he cleft his enemies; he dressed for bat- tle as others would dress for a ball, and when the ‘boys’ saw his clean gauntlets and shining epaulets they ate all their rations lest they should die before they had a chance to finish them.” Terrible Affair. Some beast in human form wadded Doo Skiiiner'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 of: fice to get his tools, of course the Paper was frozen and he couldn't get the key in. This {s the second time this thing has happened.—McCords- ville (Ohio) Exhumer. Plant Food in Soll. A recent bulletin of the depart ment of agriculture says: “It ap Dears that practically all soils con tain sufficient plant food for good crop yield; that this supply will be indefin- nitely maintained, and that this ac- tual yield of plants adapted to the soll depends mainly, under favorable conditions, upon the cultural meth- ods and suitable crop rotation.” CHAS. T. WATTS, TEACHER OF Violin and Piano. Instructor Imperial Band and Orehes'ra. Instructions based on Conservatory Methods WRITE FOR CINCULAN. 1210 Highland Avenue. Telephone 4642 Gray. When Your Water Pipes Freeze CALE OR TELRAHONE W. D. Foster Electrical and Steam Engineering also Sanitary Plumbing WORK GUARANTEED, PRICES REASONABLE “TEL. 2315 PINK Address 1215 PASEO. * DANCING Vendome Academy | 1734 Grand. EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. John S. West's Orchestra FURNISHRS MUSIC. D. A. WILLIS, Manager. : 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 @ noble task in {t—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 freat and good schemes, to help a heartbroken sister, The fact is, life {s undervalued by a great majority of women. It is not made half as much of as should be the case. Now and then @ woman stands aside from the crowd, labors earnestly, steadfastly, confidently and stralghtway becomes famous.—Exchange, A Dainty Evergreen, The daintiest bit of greenery sold by nearly all florists is evergreen, and requires nelthor water nor care, It is ‘an imported plant, and is evidently » member of the seaweed family. Some of these plants have the roots imbed- ded in an oyster shell, which ts hid- den under the mass of greenery. Noth- ing could be daintier to hang in cory corner than this preserved spect- men of vivid green, Ferneries, too, are made of this beautiful everlasting moss, which has the advantage of nev- er looking rusty or anything but fresh, Reon Catia ti To live in the best possible manner, we must strenuously shun the follow. ing almost universa) errors of daily life, says Helen Cook, M. D., in Good’ Housekeeping. First, unnecessary fa- tigue 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, Iack of proper reo- reation. River of Bulohur. ‘The River Doubs, on the westers Swiss frontier, 1s frozen over, and when the ice cracks fumes of sulphur, which take fire when a light 1s applied tise into the air. Old Style WE INVITE YOU TO COME TO OUR RESTAURANT AT 105 East 14th as it is the only one in this part of the city.. ED LEWIS, Proprietor. @otro THE E. 7. UNEEDA SHAVE AND HAIR CUT. Cc. A, EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. Remember please— 'ts the little bits we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Oseph is still improving. George Bervinte is improving much. Miss Geneva Willey is still confined to her room. Miss Maude Railey and Mr. Gamble were quietly married last week. Mrs. R. T. Coles was at tome to the Ladies Art Club Tuesday afternoon. Mr. John Day has been out of school a part of the week on account of illness. Mrs. Wade B. Smith has been quite sick but is a little improved at this writing. Mrs. Mamie Shelton, who has been sick for the last four months remains about the same. Lenten services begin February 17. A course of instructive lectures will be given by Father Harper. Miss Ida Railey returned to Garrison School Monday morning after being ill several days at home. The L. W. C. Club was royally entertained last Saturday afternoon by Mrs. J. W. Baldwin and Miss Lutie Bunce. Mrs. Leon Jordon is at home again after spending several weeks with her sister, Mrs. Josie Rivers Wright of Topeka. We are now coming up to a city election let us put our best foot ford if we are to gather maby we can win but not a part. F. C. Trien of K. K. has been sick but is at his post again. Jim Williams has been sick but is again at his post in the depot. The T. T. Social club will observe the Lenten season. The club will meet at Art each Friday afternoon during Lent in the guild parlors 2424 Tracy Ave. Mrs. John Rone has been very ill the past week, in fact too ill to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Missouri Stanton at their home in Independence Sunday. When the collector come around don't forget to tell him your troubles He don't have many but some men do, but we have to pay or quit and you must pay that all. To the Negro that teach Negro school shod teach the to patronize negro enterprises and all so negro doctors and lawyers and every thing that we produce. For the past two weeks the Second Baptist church has been carrying on a revival and men have been converted. Dr. Bocot is well pleased with the work of Rev. C. H. Phillips of Richmond, Va. To the many subscribers out of the city that we can't see and don't no in Plattsburg, Mo., and many other place why dont you pay up we have tried to please you send to the office at once please. The Rising Son regrets the loss of M. A. Hanna. He was great man to his country and to his party as well. May he be at rest with his dear friend, McKinley who lite shine as brite in heaven as on earth. Prof. Greshham entertained several of his friends of the two Kansas Citys last Tuesday night at his home on Flora Ave. The veening was pleasantly spent in whist, ping pong and flinch and refreshments were served. The Rev. Father Hasper has been ill during the past week. The Clover Leaf Club very pleasantly entertained a few of their young friends Tuesday evening, at the Vendome dancing academy. The committee on arrangements spared no pains in making it a swell affair. Refreshments were served and dancing was the leading feature of the evening. All present reported a good time. A NEGRO ENTERPRISE. P. T. Moore and C. Ell 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 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. Prof. L. L. Thompson is doing a nice business at 327 W. 6th street. For many years he was employed at Carl Hoffmann's Music Company, but now is in business for himself. Don't forget the number. The Dentist, Dr. Carrion of 910 East 12th street, we invite your attention to the fact that he is established her and is competent as a workman, he is one of our race and must be encouraged along the professional line. If you need anything in the teeth line stop in and see him. Miss Mattie Shepherd, matron of the Old Folks and Orphans' home will call upon the citizens for subscriptions towards paying off the debt on the Home. Miss Shepherd is well qualified for the position she occupies, and is most desirous of having things as they should be. She is most anxious for a separate ward for the children, in which there will be a dining room, play room, a bath room and a study. But we cannot dream of these things so lon gas thee is a debt upon the property. We hope the public will give Miss Shepherd their hearty support. Great efforts are being made by the schools in making preparations for the World's Fair exhibit. Mrs. Missouri Stanton, after several illness died at the home of her mother Mrs. R. C. Connors on Indendence last Thursday. Mrs. Stanton was the wife of the late Rev. Stanton and a sister to Mrs. T. W. H. Williams and Mrs. John Rone of the city. She had been a devoted christian and a faithful worker in the church for several years. She was much admired and loved by all who knew her. She leaves leaves a mother, two children and four sisters to mourn her loss to whom we sincerely extend our hand of sympathy. Mrs. William Hubble, Mrs. L. J. Holly, and Mrs. J. Silas Harris will enter tain the Ladies Whist Club and their beaux and husbands at the residence of Mrs. Hubble this Saterday afternoon and evening this no doubt will be a pleasant affair as these three social leaders always do. Honor to themselves and their guests. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Stevenson of St. Louis announce to their Kansas City friends the birth of a daughter whom they have named Mary Grace. Mrs. Stevenson was formerly Ida Abbot who taught Lincoln School kindergarten for several years. WESTERN UNIVERSITY QUINDARO KANSAS. For the Moral, Intellectual and Industrial Training of our Youth. Departments. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, State Industrial. Theological, Classical, Normal, Preparatory, Carpentry and Architecture, Printing and Book-making, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Tailoring, Business Course and Stenography, Farming, Stock raising and Truck Gardening, Cooking and Laundering. Advantages. Good Buildings, Healthy Moral Tone, A Faculty of Twelve College-bred and Industrially Trained Teachers. For Illustrated Catalogue Just Out Write to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., RELIABLE D No Delay--Satisfaction Guarantee We are the most reliable dentists in the oldest practice in the city. Our success grade work done by gentlemanly operat We Guarantee to Please. Our This firm is backed by a wealthy corpo- oughly responsible. All work is guarara Reliable Dentistry --Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and price in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths tee to Please. Our Reliability is Unquestioned. backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thor- onsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D., Prest., Quindaro, Kaa. RELIABLE DENTISTRY No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths We Guarantee to Please. Our Reliability is Unquestioned. This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth.....$4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k.....$2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth ..$2.65 Platinum fillings.....500 Cleaning.....500 We do as we advertise— Teeth extracted without pain FREE. We are here to stay. Cleaning ..... 50c We do as we advertise— Teeth extracted without pain FREE. We are here to stay. NEW YORK D ESTABLISHED NEW YORK DENTAL CO ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. Main St. Second Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. Open Daily. Night's till 9. Sundrys 10 to 4 NEW YORK DENTAL CO ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. THE GREATEST HAIR DRESSING NELSON'S St NELSON'S STRAIGHTEN BEST FOR THE HAIR It is n THE Straightine NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is unlike any other market. It is chemicals, and is therefore absolutely HARMFUL and roots of the Hair, removes dandruff and nonnishing and stimulating the roots of the long and luxurious, at the same time stoppies it from drying. The NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is sold by drugs CENTS A CAN. If you cannot get it from you US 30 CENTS, in stamps, silver or Money Orde (one month's treatment) by mail, securely FREE BRUSH OPER. Address: STRAIGHTINE is unlike any of the other Hair preparations on the market. It contains no powerful or dangerous and is therefore absolutely HARMLESS. It works directly upon the scalp of the Hair, removes dandruff and other diseases of the scalp and skin, and stimulating the roots of the Hair, thereby causing it to grow rich, making them stop stepping it from splitting, breaking off or growing. STRAIGHTINE keeps the Hair soft and pliable, making it easy to do up e. Delightfully perfumed. STRAIGHTINE is sold by druggists and agents everywhere. PRICE 25 N. If you cannot get it from your druggist or one of our agents, SEND it, in stamps, silver or Money Order, and we will send you one large can of treatment by mail, securely wrapped, together with our great OFFER. ADDRESS: NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is unlike any of the other Hair preparations on the market. It contains no powerful or dangerous chemicals and is therefore absolutely HARMLESS. It works directly upon the scalp and roots of the Hair, removes dandruff and other diseases of the scalp and skin, nourishing and stimulating the roots of the Hair, thereby causing it to grow rich, long and luxurious, at the same time stopping it from splitting, breaking off or falling out. STRAIGHTINE keeps the Hair soft and pliable, making it easy to do up in any style. Beautifully perfumed. NELSON'S STRAIGHTINE is sold by drugstores and agents everywhere. PRICE: 25 CENTS A CAN. If you cannot get it from your drugstrict or one of our agents, SEND US 30 CENTS, in stamps, silver or Money Order, and we will send you one large can (one month's treatment) by mail, securely wrapped, together with our great FREE BRUSH OFFER. Address: AGENTS WANTED Write for Terms and Particulars NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains "FOLLOW THE FLAG." Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnificent buildings—the Wabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No 8. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falls and Buffalo next evening, aud New York and Boston second morning, saving a day's travel. Through service. Wabash is the only line that does it. Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City, Mo. Courses. M. B. H. 1029 Main St. TEETH BINGO PLACE Kinky, Curly Hair Straight It is not only the BEST DRESSING made for the Hair, but NELSON M'F'G CO., Richmond, Va. J. P. WILLIAMS. H. T. SOMMERVILLE. Artistic Tailors Artistic Tailors Suits Made to Order. La ly Done. Altering, Rep ALL WORK GU 615½ East 12th Street, There is n For being de to Order. Ladies' Tailoring e. Altering, Repairing and Clea ALL WORK GUARANTEED. 12th Street, KANSAS Suits Made to Order. Ladies' Tailoring Neatly Done. Altering, Repairing and Cleaning. There is no reason For being without A good piano nowadays---Our easy payment, plan makes it possible for you to own Don't forget to mention my name w. S. Baker, Salesman. A Kimba without sacrificing any of the pleasures possessed by a Kimball makes it an orn tones makes it a source of endless enjoy W. W. Kimball C W. S. BAY mball Pi ing any of the pleasures you now enjoy... The mball makes it an ornament to any home source of endless enjoymenh. Kimball Co. W. B. Rob Est. 1857. A Kimball Piano without sacrificing any of the pleasures you now enjoy...The style and finish possessed by a Kimball makes it an ornament to any home, and its sweet tones makes it a source of endless enjoymenh. W. W. Kimball Co. W. B. Roberts, Manager Est.1857. 920 Walnut WHEN WE MENTION the growth of Kansas City we must not overlook Matthaeis, the Baker, one who has built a large business and interested himself in the welfare of common people. He has one of the largest bakeries in the city He has merited the confidence of the people One of the things that made him famous is Jersey Cream and Quaker Mothers Salt Rising Bread Bread that makes the little folks happy Ask your grocer for it MATTHAEIS BAKERY, 901-3-5-7-9-11-13 West 17th Street --- M. B. A. WEBER, ME If you want a suit to ord go and save money. W no rent. BER, MERCHANT want a suit to order here is the pl save money. Why? Because v it. Come and A. WEBER, MERCHANT TAILOR. If you want a suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay no rent. Come and see us. Style, Fit and Finish Up-to-Date. S. W. Blvd. Kansas Ci 2825 S. W. Blvd. Probably even in prehistoric times men have noticed the face of the "man in the moon." Plutarch noticed it and even wrote a whole book about the face in the moon. But besides this, many other objects are supposed to be visible. The dark markings on the surface are likened by the Chinese to a monkey pounding rice. In India they are said to resemble a rabbit. --- ladies' Tailoring Neat- repairing and Cleaning. GARANTEED. KANSAS CITY, MO. moreason without W. S. BAKER, Salesman All Piano so you now enjoy...The style and finish nament to any home, and its sweet pymenh. Co. W. B. Roberts, Manager Est. 1857. 920 Walnut The Old Home RESTAURANT Prof. L. L. Thompson, Mgr. Meals 15 Cents. Porterhouse Steak 15c up. 327 West 6th St., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. ERCHANT TAILOR, der here is the place to Why? Because we pay Come and see us. A Good Soldier Bayard, the flower of the French knighthood, the soldier without fear or reproach, never forgot his mother's parting words. She said to him: "My boy, serve God first; pray to Him night and morning; he kind and charitable to all; avoid envy, hatred and lying as vices unworthy of a Christian, and never neglect to comfort widows and orphans." Kansas City, Mo ```markdown ``` Copyrighted, 1902, by The Authors Publishing Company. "No," said Miss Southnell, pulling with unnecessary force a petal from the rose she held. "there is no such thing as Platonic friendship!" "Pardon me for the contradiction, and with all due respect to your opinion, still I am sure it has existed—and does exist to-day—between man and woman," persisted he in the golf suit. "But I have no proof of it, save your word; and I have never seen it demonstrated. Invariably the ending of so-called 'Platonic friendship' is in the merry chimes of wedding bells," laughed Miss Southnell. "Stuff and rubbish!' The young man did not express himself audibly in these words, but he thought it with great emphasis. Aloud he said: "Do you mean to tell me you really believe that a woman and a man can't continue on terms of friendly equality without coming out at the finish in that homely old way? If, as you say, it usually ends by failing in love, it is my opinion that the woman is the first to discover that she has been the one to nurse the flame." "But women never propose!" Miss Southnell's dark eyes flashed meaningly, and a row of pale teeth set themselves with cruel force into the soft, red lip beneath. "Positively you frighten me, Miss Southnell. Dismiss that tragic air and let us talk the matter over sensibly—at least we won't quarrel about it. I think you are a won't obstinate, little 'Daughter of Eve,' but we each believe our individual opinion to be the correct one. Suppose we demonstrate it—you and I—suppose we form a compact of Platonic friendship. There is sufficient affinity between us, I think, to make it interesting and not enough—don't you know—to make it dangerous. Come, what say you?" "Oh, that would be quite impossible! Can't you understand that it would place me in an absurly conceived light, believing as I do that Platonic friendship does not exist? Were I to agree, it would mean that your heart must fall a victim to mine, and the thought is quite unpleasant." "Unpleasant! Thanks, very much. I admire your candor. But according to my views, there is no end—no climax, you understand. Just in our case, I assure you. Now, will you consent?" There was a slight hesitancy—an undefinable reluctance—in her manner; but he had wished it to be so; the compact was made, and she closed it with a faint "Yes," and sealed it by giving him her hand. This was at the beginning of the watering season, and they had known each other three whole weeks. The hot days and cool nights rolled by in monotonous success, but the day MICHAEL "There is no such thing as Platonic friendship." was never too hot for Jack Blair to spend the choice portion of it with Miss Southnell—she was the recipient of all his joys and his sorrows; they rowed together, frolicked in the surf together; sat together on the beach where the dashing waves murmured something which they could not understand, and where the moon came out and cast their shadows in bold relief against the cliffs, yet never did they deviate from the true course of Platonic friendship, although "their set"—because they did not understand— associated their names with significant and knowing winks. And thus the season drew to a close and the time for parting came—as it always will. On the eve of her departure. Blair called to bid her goodby. He felt a vague regret at this separation, but consoled himself with the thought that it was a most natural regret—such as he would have felt at a long separation from a beloved sister. But with all respect to his sincerity in this belief, let it be said that he never possessed a sister. As he came into full view of the hotel veranda, he was annoyed to find that his last evening with her must A "Please don't say 'falling in love,'* she pleaded, mercilessly, be shared with another. Under the banner of Platonic friendship, he had fully made up his mind to kiss her at parting, but now as he realized that even this could not be carried out in the presence of anyone who did not understand their relations, he dug his heel viciously into the gravel. "Oh, Jack!" joyously exclaimed Miss Southnell, as she came within close range of them, "Mr. Noyes has kindly offered to assist me to the station in the morning. Kind of him to be willing to carry my bird cages and hand boxes, isn't it?"—this with a thoroughly appreciative gance in the direction of Mr. Noyes, upon which suble flattery that young man blushingly took his immediate departure. "Well, it's a wonder that cad had sufficient decency to know when to make himself scarce!" irritably commented Mr. Blair, "and as to seeing you to the station, anyone would be glad to do that, but I don't know who has a better right than I." "Why, Jack! Such conceit is quite unpardonable. Positively, you say that as though you were jealous. Remember, there is no such thing as jealousy in Platonic friendship," said she sweetly. Platonic friendship! The d — ; I beg your pardon. What a blind fool I have been! I might have known that no sane man could for any length of time look into those eyes without—" "Please don't say 'falling in love,'" pleaded she mercilessly, with a subdued twinkle in her eye—"that would spoil everything, and on the very last night, too." "But that is just what I meant to say. I yield, dear; I don't believe there is any such a thing as Platonic friendship, either; both right and might are on your side. Come let us be Platonic lovers, instead." Strangely, the veranda was deserted, and even the moon was coqueting among the flecks of clouds, leaving the two for an instant in absolute obscurity. "I cannot help saying, 'I told you so,' came in a muffled voice from out the darkness. When a few moments later, the moon threw off he fleecy draperies, she illumined a picture of another pain of pilgrims entering Eden; and alsg! The immortal Plato had lost his two disciples. Paris Loses Old Elm. Paris is mourning the loss of its oldest tree, an elm planted by order of Sully in 1600, in the Rue St Jacques. It is laffless this year. NATIVE GARB THE RULE. Few Japanese Have Adopted the European Costume. There is a general idea that the progressive Japs have almost abandoned their picturesque native dress in favor of European garb, but nothing could be farther from the truth. It is possible to walk the streets of Tokio for days without meeting a sin- 大美 gle native of either sex in European dress, and in the country western costumes are almost unknown. Even among men European dress is confined chiefly to officials and men who are connected by business or other relations with foreign residents. KITTEN SAVES MAN'S LIFE. Tiny Wanderer Means of Rescue of Drunken Man. When one sees a newspaper headline to the effect that a cat or kitten has saved a human life, the story which usually follows is that the animal with acuter olfactory perception smelled smoke and aroused the sleeping master or mistress by springing upon the bed and clawing and mewing. A Philadelphia kitten, however, did something more original in the way of lifesaving. It was a very tiny Maltese, a homeless wanderer on a bitterly cold night. Seeking shelter, puss came upon a man so drunk that he had fallen asleep close to a wall. Puss crept under his coat, and grateful for the warmth she purred and mewed in delight. It chanced that two doctors attached to a hospital passed that pair, their attention being arrested by the kitten's mews. Thinking it a case of distress, the men started to investigate and quickly found the kitten and her unconscious protector. All their efforts to arouse the man proving unavailing, both were hurried to a hospital, where it was found the man was very badly frostbitten and that he would surely have been frozen to death.—Vogue. Baby's Miraculous Escape. At a fire in New Milford, Conn.. the other night a baby was mistaken for a bundle of clothes and thrown out the window. The child was discovered about half an hour later, but was not injured in the least. ADJUSTABLE METAL SUPPORT. RADIUM SLIDE WITH CORK SUPPORT. A cup designed for applying Radium externally, the little radium tube being fixed in the cork near the mouth of the tube.—New York World. Too Loud in Praver. The trustees and other members of the congregation of United Brothers of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, secured an injunction restraining Isaac Tenant from worshiping aloud. Tenant had long occupied a front pew of the church, and his loud and resounding "Amen" during prayer and sermon was more than the rest of the congregation could stand. The trustees talked with Tenant and asked him to pray to himself, but in any event to omit the "Amen." He replied that he would not. Hence the resort to law. Productions of United States. Japan produces 100,000,000 pounds of cotton per year, while we produce 80 per cent of the entire world's crop. We also produce 40 per cent of its steel and other mineral products. 33 per cent of its coal, 30 per cent of its iron and grain and 25 per cent of its wheat. Has New Breed of Hogs B. E. Moore of Winsted, Conn., has ordered from the South Sea islands three mule-footed hogs, a boar and two sows, which can live where common hogs would starve, and which weigh from 600 to 800 pounds. MUST KEEP FATHER'S PROMISE. Russian Girl Forced to Marry Man Chosen for Her. Tatyana Yussipova, an unusually handsome Kirghis girl of seventeen, presented herself, a few days ago, before the presiding judge at the District court in Astrakhan with the following prayer: As an infant of 5 years she had been betrothed by her father to the ten-year-old son of a neighbor, the father acting according to Kirghis custom. The young man now claims his bride, and although the latter loves another young tribesman she is held by both parent and bridegroom to her infantile betrothal. The weeping girl prayed the judge to extend to her the right of Russian law to choose her own husband. After a careful reference to the code the judge ruled that as the Russian law gave the fullest freedom of religious and moral rites and customs to the non-orthodox subjects of the czar, the father's power was paramount, and the disconsolate girl's appeal was refused. WOMEN NOW RAISE MICE. Seem to Have Overcome Their Constitutional Aversion. Two exhibitions of fancy mice within the last ten days—once at Cheltenham, the other at Walthamstow—have brought to light the fact that mouse breeding as a hobby and even as a means of making money (for rare specimens are literally worth more than their weight in gold) has taken strong hold of a large number of persons, especially of the female sex, in all parts of the country. There is at present no available information as to how the ladies have conquered the constitutional aversion to the tiny rodents, but the fact re- A Pair of Valuable "Black and White Even Marked" Mice. mains that even in the most fashionable circles ladies are the possessors of valuable mouseries and have succeeded in evolving some beautiful specimens of the house tribe.—English exchange. Prince Not Fond of Athletics The Slamese prince, who in the early 90s was a member of what was then at any rate the most cosmopolitan college in Oxford, found it very difficult to reconcile his autocratic notions with the practice of undergraduates. Being asked by the captain of the boats to go down and do a little "tubing," he drew himself up to his full five feet and replied: "When I go on the river at Bangkok I have 80 slaves to row me." Owl Makes Nest in Stove Mrs. Sylvius Little of Whitman, Mass, found her range smoked badly, so she took down the stove pipe and cleaned it, thinking the trouble was there. Next she thought to sweep off the oven top and removed the stove covers to find an owl snugly stowed in the space, blocking the smoke exit. She captured him and had him for a pet. He had come down the chimney and crept into the stove when the fire was out. New Zealand's Old Age Pensions. New Zealand pays out $1,000,000 in old age pensions. A person must be 56 years old, a resident for twenty-five years, a clean record—that is, never has been convicted of crime—and his yearly income must not exceed $250 and his capital not more than $1,500, nor must he have deprived himself of property in order to qualify himself for a pension. He then receives $50 per year. Stone Saved Warship. The British warship Bellelse struch on the Labrador coast on Sept. 22, 1835, and when she was docked at Portsmouth a month later it was found that the stone here figured had plugged a leak and saved her and her crew. The stone has just been recovered from a little-used storehouse at Portsmouth, and has been placed in a prominent position near Admiralty House. World's Cotton Spindles The number of cotton spindles in the principal countries of the world is as follows: Great Britain, 47,000,000; continent of Europe, 34,000,000; United States, north, 15,000,000; United States, south, 7,000,000; East Indies, 5,000,000; Japan, 1,500,000. THE MASKED MODEL Mrs. Haskell, Worthy Vice Templar, Independent Order Good Templars, of Silver Lake, Mass., tells of her cure by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DRAB MRS. PINKHAM: Four years ago I was nearly dead with inflammation and ulceration. I endured daily untold agony, and life was a burden to me. 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AT ALL GROCERS 16 OUNCES FOR 10 CENTS. Manufactured by The Defiance Starch Co., OMAHA, NEB. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment cures Cuts, Burns, Bruises. The golf girl goes a golfing in the giddiest of gowns. The sun shines sultry on her in the surliest of frowns. O'er the green she chases gayly in a fierce perspiring march, But her clothes don't show a wrinkle. Cause she used Defiance Starch. AT ALL GROCERS 16 OUNCES FOR 10 CENTS. Manufactured by The Defiance Starch Co., OMAHA, NEB. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. Largest growers of ONION and Vegetable Seeds in the World. Our Prices range from 60 cents to $1.50 per pound, and no better seed is found on earth. How to grow 1,200 habitable Onions per acre with each ounce order. Cataloging In, for postage. John A. Salzer Seed Co., LA CROSS, WIS. THE LINCOLN IMPORTING HORSE CO. Lincoln, Nebraska German Coach, Percherons, English Shire French Draft and Belgians. The LARGEST importers of FIRST. 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The most competent housekeepers in the country use Red Cross Ball Blue and no other. Just try it once and you will see the difference. All grocers all it. Large package $a FRAUDS IN A BALE OF HAY. Frauds In Watch Cases. According to an article in the Cincinnati Commercial, a fifty-one pound stone was recently found in that city secreted in a bale of hay of eighty pounds. This is not as bad as finding a lump of lead nearly one-half the weight of the solid gold watch case secreted in the center of the case. Gold watch cases are sold by weight, and no one can see where this lead is secreted until the springs of the case are taken out and the lead will be found secreted behind them. These cases are made by companies who treat it to be honest but furnish the means to the customer. It is not pleasant for anyone to find that he has lugged a lump of lead in his watch case. Another trick the makers of spurious solid gold watch cases is to stamp the case "U. S. Assay." The United States does not stamp any article made out of gold and silver except coin, and the fakir, by which the watch wants to make the public believe that the item had something to do with the stamping or guaranteeing the fineness of watch cases. Another trick of the watch fakir is to advertise a watch described as a solid gold filled watch with a twenty or twenty-five year guarantee. These watches are generally made of CO. Dam if the watch has paid for the watch he finds that the Company which guaranteed the watch to wear is not in existence. The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, who are constantly exposing these frauds, will furnish the names of the manufacturers who are in this questionable business. Fotrune never helps the man whose courage fails. The Editor of the Rural New Yorker Than whom there is no better Potato Expert in the Country, says: "Salzer's Earliest Potato is the earliest of 38 earliest sorts, tried by me, yielding 464 bu. per acre." Salzer's Early Wisconsin yielded for the Rural New Yorker 788 bu. per acre. Now Salzer has heavier sizes than above. See Salzer's catalog. JUST LAND 100 IN STAMPS and this notice to the John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse, WI., and receive lots of farm seed samples and their big catalog, which is brim full of rare things for the gardener and farmer, easily worth $100.00 to every wide-awake farmer. The Salzer's Teosinte, yielding 160,000 lbs. per acre, of rich green fodder, Salzer's Victoria Rape, yielding 50,000 lbs. of sheep and hog food per acre, together with Salzer's New National Oats, which has a record of 300 bu. per acre in 30 states, so also full description of Alfalfa Clover, Giant Incarnat Clover, Alsike, Timothy and thousands of other sodder plants, Wheat, Speltz, Barleys, etc. (W. N. U.) The smile of some women is enough to give you "cold feet." To Wash China Suk Presses. China silk dresses may be quite successfully washed. Remove all spots with bentine. Then wash in warm soapsuds, rubbing between the hands, rinse through several waters. Use Ivory Soap and do not rub the soap on the dress. Vring as dry as possible, wrap in a sheet or clean cotton cloth and, when partially dry, iron. ELEANOR R. PARKER. Hope tells a flattering tale, but it don't pay the bills. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best. 16 oz. for 10 cups. Once used, always used. Every husband doesn't know a lot of things his wife suspects. 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 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Egotism is the mirror that always reflects self. IF YOU USE BALL BLUE, Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the Best Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Some men's popularity is due to their ability to conceal their thoughts. CAPSICUM VASELINE A substitute for and superior to mustard or any other paste, and will not blister the most delicate skin. The pain-alaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It will stop the toothache at once, and relieve headache and toothache. It is safe and safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pain in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim to be the best preparation for the household. Many people say "it is the best of all your preparations." Price 15 cents, at all druggists or other dealers, or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps we will send you a tube by mail. No article should be shipped to you. We carry our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. CARE HOGS A new illustrated book on how to keep hogs free from LICE, WORMS and SCURVY, PROTECT FROM DISEASE AND BRING TO EARLY MATURITY AT SMALL COST. Contains illustration of hog-dipping plant and many suggestions of value to farmers. ITS PRES. WRITE FOR. ADDRESS. MOORE C. & M. C. KOAN. KOAN State, Mio. Kansas City, Mo. To Improve Orchards. The government of New Brunswick, through the Department of Agriculture, is preparing to operate a number of orchards or direct the operators beginning next spring, with the object of encouraging and bettering the fruit industry in that province. Arrangements have been made with the owners of several farms and the idea is ultimately to have one orchard in every county. American Cara for Germany. The Bavarian railway has just completed an American palace railway carriage from material imported for this purpose two years ago from the Pullman factories in Pullman, Ill. This is the first railway car of the kind to be introduced into Germany and will no doubt be the forerunner of a regular system of railway carriages of this kind on German railways. Austrian Spiders. The Austrian spiders of the genius desis live in the crevices of rocks between tide marks on the shore, and by spinning a closely woven sheet of silk over the entrance imprison air, in which they are able to live during floodide. DD: COFFEE Discover Mild Remedies That Restore Sight to Blind People. Dr. W. O. Coffee, a noted oculist, 800 Good Block, Des Moines, Iowa, has discovered mild medicines that people can use in their eyes at home. Dr. Moines uses Sodium Granulated Lids, Uleers on the Fees. Weak Sore Eyes and any kind of eye trouble. Dr. Coffee has just printed 80,000 of his famous 30-piece book on Eye Diseases and wants you to free it from paper. This book tells how to care for the eyes and prevent blindness and how his mild treatment cures all diseases at home at small expense. Office to-day for his book. Don't wait to go blind. Attach thyself to the good and thou wilt become one of them. Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Cost 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other bluing. If your grocer does not keep it send 10c for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. Pessimism is more dyspeptic than philosophic. FITS permanently curved. No fit or nerveness after it. Send for FREE @ 80.00 for Great Nerve Restoration. R. D. H. K. Luild, Ltd. 913 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA. If a man is a born fool he can at least blame it on his ancestors. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. 25c a bottle. Who moves the world, first moves a single soul. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. When a woman puts a price on her love it is sure to be price—less. Cheap Excursions to the South. On February 16, March 1 and 15, the Kansas City Southern railway will offer to the public the extremely low rate of $10.00 for the round trip to all points on the, Port Arthur Route, including Beaumont; Port Arthur, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Texarkana, Fort Smit, Mena, De Queen and all intermediate points. The return limit on these tickets will be twenty-one days from date of sale, with stopover privileges at all points south of Kansas City on the going trip. Any information desired by the public relative to these cheap excursions will be cheerfully furnished upon application to B. G. Warner, G. P. and T. A., Kansas City, Mo. Introduced by the U. S. Dept. of Agr. It is a tremendous cropper, yielding in good land 80 bu. per acre, and on dry, arid lands, such as are found in Mont. Idaho, the Dakotas, Colo. etc., it will yield from 40 to 60 bu. This Wheat and Speltis and Hanna Barley and Bromus Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass, makes it possible to grow and fatten hogs and cattle wherever soil is found. JUST SEND 100 AND THIS NOTION to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and they will send you free a sample of this Wheat and other seeds together with their great catalog, alone worth $100.00 to any wide-awake farmer. (W. N. U.) Love is the minor strain of life's symphony. The Coreans use neither bedsteads nor chairs. Money refunded for each package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYES if unsatisfactory. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN F BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Peculiar Coincidence. A remarkable coincidence was noted at St. Margaret's church, Ipswich, England, the other day, two bridegrooms bearing exactly similar Christian names and surnames being married to two girls whose Christian and surnames were also exactly identical. A Professional Nurse Tells Her Experience With Doan's Kidney Pillas Montague, Mass. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Gentlemen—I heartily wish those who are suffering from backache and disturbed action of the kidneys would try Doan's Kidney Pills. As was the case with me, they will be more than surprised with the results. I had been troubled for years with my spine. I could not lie on either side. Spinal cramps would follow, and words could not explain the agony which I would endure. While in these cramps I could not speak or move, but by making a great effort after the cramp had left me I could begin to speak and move a little, but my whole back was so sore and lame that I could not even have the back bathed for some time. My nerves were in a terrible state. I would rather sit up at night than go to bed, dreading the cramps and the terrible backaches. I consulted physicians, but got only a little relief for the time being. Seeing your advertisement, my mother urged me to try Doan's Kidney Pills. After using one box I was better, and have ever since been on the gain. I have no backache and no cramps now and I feel like a new person. My nerves are better and I know my blood is purer. Words cannot express my thanks to you for what Doan's Kidney Pills have done for me. In my work as professional nurse I have a chance to recommend them; and they did me so much good that I will do so on every possible occasion. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold at 50 cents per box. Address Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., for a free trial box. Design for Zola Monument. A French sculptor, M. Charpentier, and a Belgian sculptor, M. Meunier, have completed a design for the Zola monument, which will symbolize Zola novels, "Travail" and "Fecondite." Women Replace Men. Women are now being substituted for men in the Italian postal service. Signor Gallmberti, the minister of ports and telegraphs, is responsible for the change. Power of Silence. A person that would secure to himself great defense will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say—Shenstone. Firearms for Savages Manufacturers of the United States almost monopolize the Liberian trade in firearms, and keep large stocks of their goods in the country. Shark a. Fast Swimmer. The shark holds the record for long-distance swimming. A shark has been known to cover 800 miles in three days. Three Doctors' Opinions. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 15th—Physicians have accepted Dodd's Kidney Pills as the standard remedy for diseases of the Kidneys and kindred complaints. R. H. Dunaway, M. D., of Benton, Ill., says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me of Diabetes after everything else had failed and I was given up to die. I have since prescribed them in my regular practice for every form of Kidney Trouble and have never as yet known them to fail." Jesse L. Limes, M. D., St. John, Kansas, says: "I prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills for the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McBride of this place who suffered from Epileptic fits following Scarletina; results were miraculous; I have never seen anything like it." Leland Williamson, M. D., Yorktown, Ark., says: "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best medicine I know of for all forms of Kidney Disease. I believe in using the remedy that relieves and cures my patients, whether ethical or not and I always prescribe Dodd's Kidney Pills and can testify that they invariably accomplish a permanent and perfect cure of all Kidney Complaints." Never Free From Ice. There is a point near the famous Stony Cave, in the Catkill mountains, where ice may be found on any day of the year. Giving Alcohol to Children. Many French mothers give alcoholic drinks to their children in the belief that it makes them strong. Premier Gets No Salary. The office of premier of Great Britain, as such, does not carry with it any salary. DUNCE OF HIS CLASS. Reasons Why Many Children Are Blow to Learn. Many a boy has been a dullard at school and has made a failure of his after life simply because there was some defect in his ears which made it impossible for him to hear distinctly or some defect in his eyes which made it impossible for him to see things as they were, says the Saturday Evening Post. The brain gets not only the most of its information through the ears and the eyes, but also the most of its skill in the all-important faculty of judgment. And if the ears do not hear well and the eyes do not see correctly, both information and training are necessarily defective and awry. These facts are obvious; yet thousands on thousands grow up, struggle, fall wholly or partially, die without knowing the simple and perhaps easily curable why of their misfortunes. And in every school to-day there are these curable so-called dullards. Every pair of young eyes and young ears should be suspected until they have been competently examined. A LITTLE TOO EARLY. Farmer Thought 2 a. m. Appropriate Time for Breakfast. Farmers are always early risers, but a pension examiner, traveling in Kentucky, had an experience which taught him what the rural idea of "early" is. He put up at a farmhouse for the night and asked to be called for an early breakfast. In what seemed to him ten minutes after he had gone to sleep he was awakened by knocking on the dodr. "Get up in there!" a voice shouted. "It's gittin' up time. Your breakfast is ready." The examiner arose in the dark, slowly dressed, and came into the breakfast room. "What time is it?" he asked. "It's about 2 o'clock, I reckon." "Well, what the thunder do you mean by waking me at 2 o'clock?" "Didn't you say you wanted an early breakfast?" said the farmer, with deep concern. The Projectiles We Use. We have now armor piercing projectiles, deck piercing projectiles, semi-armor piercing projectiles, common forged and cast steel projectiles, cast iron projectiles, shrapnel and so on, in endless variety. As the work the gun, whether ashore or afloat, will have to do can be pretty clearly predicted, it would appear as though one, or at most two, kinds of projectiles were enough. These two would naturally have, the one a high penetrative power and the other a large capacity for internal charge, giving great destructive power when the shell is burst. No one who has not examined carefully the effect of bursting a shell in a closed space can have an idea of its destructiveness. A small six-pounder shell, of about $2\frac{1}{4}$ inches diameter, containing three or four ounces of powder, burst in an ordinary room and breaking into twenty or thirty fragments, would probably destroy everything in the room.—Scientific American. Speech Saved From the Flood Mr. Curtis of Kansas, a new member of the Committee on Ways and Means, did not make a speech on the Cuban reciprocity bill, although he had a tariff speech ready for use. "I want to save it," he said, "for a general tariff debate, should one occur. I think a good deal of that speech, for it was incidentally the means of saving the one book of my library that escaped from the ravages of the flood that swept over Topeka last summer. "I was reading on the subject, and had the second volume of Colton's 'Life of Clay' in hand. I laid it upon a tin box, resting on the top of the bookcases, and when the waters flooded the house everything but that went. "How it escaped I don't know. It is the sole relic of a library that I had been gathering since 1879, when I began the study of law."—New York Sun. The Trust In Burma. The wily oriental soon assimilates such occidental methods as suit his purpose, and it is hardly surprising that, in due course, such institutions as the "trust" and the "corner" should have appeared even in a happy-golucky country like Burma. Most men who have been even to India know what splendid little ponies are to be had from Pegu, and how admirably adapted they are for polo playing. It will be readily understood, then, that considerable disgust has been occasioned at Rangoon by the formation among Burman pony dealers of a veritable "corner," the result of which has been that Rs. 350 is asked for anything with four legs, while good ponies are priced at Rs. 600 and Rs. 700.—London Navy and Army. A Sentiment. The sky shall write about thine eyes That smile on me from depths of blue; The sun that radiantly doth rise Shall paint thy smile so winsome, too. The leaf, the bud, the bird-song light. The flowers that nod, the stars that shine. France Uses More Sugar. In consequence of the reduction of the French import duties on sugar, which came into force on Sept. 1 last year, the amount consumed in France in the three months following showed an increase of 77,000 tons. FOR THIRTY YEARS Congressman Meekison Suffered With Catarrh—Read His Endorsement of Pe-ru-na. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON, OF OHIO. CONGRESSMAN MEEKISON, OF OHIO. Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own State America. He began his political career by serving four consecutive of the town in which he lives, during which time he became vice president of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this Catarrh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was queried foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against enemy. At last Peruna came to the rescue, and he dictated the Dr. Hartman as the result: "I have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel grate thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to use it a short time longer I will be fully able to cradicate thirty years' standing."—David Meekison, ex-member of C Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his own State but throughout America. He began his political career by serving four consecutive terms as Mayor of the town in which he lives, during which time he became widely known as the founder of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio. He was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of his party in his section of the State. Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman, Catarrh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was his only unconquered foe. For thirty years he waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal enemy. At last Peruna came to the rescue, and he dictated the following letter to Dr. Hartman as the result: "I have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encouraged to believe that if I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing."—David Meekison, ex-member of Congress. THE season of catching cold is upon us. The cough and the sneeze and nasal twang are to be heard on every hand. The origin of chronic catarrh, the most common and dreadful of diseases, is a cold. It is the way the chronic catarrh generally begins. A person catches cold, which hangs on longer than usual. The cold generally starts in the head and throat. Then follows sensitiveness of the air passages which incline one to catch cold very easily. At last the person has a cold and has been bitten by a fly or a bee, discharge from the nose, hawking, spitting, frequent clearing of the throat, nostrils stopped up, full feeling in the head and sore, inflamed throat. The best time to treat catarrh is at the very beginning. A bottle of Peruna propionic acid has been diluted with a common cold thus preventing chronic catarrh. Mrs. A. Snedeker, Cartersville, Ga. writes: "I saw that your catarrh remedy, Peruna, was doing others so much good that I thought I would try it and see what effect it has for me. My case is an old one and I have none of the acute symptoms now, because I have had a second long that I had none of the aches and pains, but a general rundown condition of the whole body—sore nostral wound and stomach." Mrs. A. Snedeker While many people have been cured of chronic catarrh by a single bottle of Peruna, yet, as a rule, when the catarrh becomes thoroughly fixed, more than one bottle is necessary to complete a cure. It is the best remedy of catarrh of twenty years' standing. It is the best, if not the only internal remedy for chronic catarrh in existence. But prevention is far better than cure. Every person subject to catching cold should take Peruna at once at the slightest symptom of cold or sore throat at any year, unless this prevent what is almost certain to end in chronic catarrh. BAD BREATH Don't disgust your friends any longer. Your foul breath either comes from undigested and fermenting food in the stomach, or from a feverish condition, the result of Constipation. Dr. Caldwell's (LAXATIVE) Syrup Pepsin sweetens sour stomachs, cures Indigestion and Constipation. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Monticello, III. $500 Given Away To a certain number of con- sumers buying ALABASTINE and sending us before October 15, 1804, the closest estimates on the popular vote for the dealer in Alabastine for the easy con- ditions imposed in this contest, which is open to all. ALABASTINE is the only sanitary wall coating. Any one must practise MV with cold water. Not a disease-breeding, out-of-date, hot- water, glue lamineine. GREGORY'S SEEDS Sold under 8 guar J. J. H. CREGORY & SON, Marblehead, Mass. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER THE BEST QUALITY STRAIGHT 15 CIGAR ALWAYS RELIABLE Your jobber or direct fresh Factory, Poole, Ile. Mrs. A. Sneedcker, Cartersville, Ga. writes: "I saw that your catarrh remedy, Pe runa, was doing others so much good, ruma, was doing that I thought I would try it and see what it would do for me. My case is an old one and I have none of the acute symptoms now, I had the disease had the disease so long that I had none of the aches and pains, but a general rundown condition of the whole body—sore nose and throat and stomach. I did not want it. would try it and see what it would do for me. My case is an old one and I have none of the acute symptoms now, because I have had the disease so long that I had to take the pills and pains, but a general rundown condition of the whole body—sore nose and throat and stomach. I had a good appetite but my food did not nourish my system. I had come down from 140 to about 75 pounds in weight. I now feel that I am well of all my troubles."—Mrs. A. Sodeker, "Winter Catarrch" by Dr. Hartman, "Health and Beauty sent free to women only. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Of the Hartman Saplarium, Columbus. FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada DURING LAST YEAR. There are settled and settling on the Grain and Grazing Land, and are prosperous and satisfied. Sir Wilfred Laurier recently said: "A new star has risen on the horizon, and it is toward it that every immigrant who leaves the land of his ancest home and seek a life for himself now turns his gaze" Canada. There is Room for Millions. FREE Homesteads given away. Schools, Churches, Railways, Markets, Climate everything to be desired. For a descriptive Atlas and other information apply to Superintendent Immigration. Ottawa, Canada, or authorized Canadian Government Agent—Burford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gent's dine up stairs. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER. PRICE 250. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out this blank and send it with $1.00 and you will receive by express $8.00 worth of the Pomade and iterms to agents. Enclosed please (P. O. Money Order for $1.00, for which send me as per your offer, $3.00 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. arrives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and South-eastern trains. The only 1. leaving Kansas City after the Operas, bridge meetings and Sunday night Church service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m. for all Eastern connections. 9:55 p. m. - 10:50 a. m.: Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment, Pullman Sleepers and Compartment cars; Reciling 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., Arst-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. John P. Tillheff. Establish TILLHOFF & Real Estate, Rent TELEPHONE 1469. 203-204 Hall Bidg., Corner 9th m Walnut The Stoeltzing Stove 8 n O T --- John P. Tillheff. THE NEW YORK TIMES This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes any or all hair look the best. It imes the hair, prevents the hair from fall-out, makes the hair grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. 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REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER 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-Like complexion if used as directed. Will turn the skin of a black or brown person four or five shades lighter, and a mutilate person perfectly white. In forty-eight hours a shade skin in spots but bleaches out white, the skin remaining beautiful without continual use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark spots, pimples or bumps or black heads, making the skin very soft and smooth. Will remove without harm to the skin. When you use the color you wish, stop using the preparation. THE HAIR STRAIGHTENER. that goes in every one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair grow long and straight, and keeps it from falling out. Highly perfumed and will make your hair shine. We will send one of our customer boxes is worth ten dollars, yet we sell it for one dollar a box. THE NO-SMALL thrown in free. One person sending one dollar in a letter or Post Office 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. 256. extra. In any case where it falls to do what we claim, we will 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, & CAMPBELL, rentals and Insurance. Sove and Hardware Co. 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. 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I have been fooled so often it does me good to recommend honest goods. BLOKE 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 curb possibility to straighten curly hair, quickly, effectively and satisfactorily uncontrollable head of hair or beard, lowing instructions, will straighten to 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 ordained cidedly the risk of catching cold. The bar with a handle of comfortable grievary 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 of ans' use and straightens a heavy head teeth shortened is preferable for men an indispensable article of toilet by a personal appearance. It has the endorsed ADDRESS MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHT 407 Cent Hair Strain etical contrivance for s car has long been apparent by nature with unruly dry combing unproductive letter to curl straight hair early hair. The Magic disfactorily brings under or beard. It's use a few straighten the hair where loss of hair that excessive device that will accomplish the shampoo, will dry hoods ordinarily employed cold. The Straighten ortab* grip. The bar is lamp or common stove; ingenious arrangement, comb can be regulated length of the teeth is be heavy head of hair as fa- sale for men's hair and be toilet by all who take pr the endorsements of phy ADDRESS STRAIGHTENER --- The Magic Hair Straightener and Shampoo Drier..... THE necessity of a practical contrivance for straightening refractions or too curly hair has long been apparent. The many men and women, endowed by nature with unruly and rebellious heads of hair, have found ordinary combing unproductive of results. It is comparatively an easy matter to curl straight hair but almost an impossibility to straighten curly hair. The Magic Hair Straightener quickly, effectively and satisfactorily brings under subjection the most uncontrollable head of hair or beard. It is a use 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 $1.25 407 Century Building, MI PAINT CO Paint, Varnish ES 946, 944 GRAN DIAMOND PAINT DEVOE Paint PHONES 946. AGENTS WANTED. BEFORE. AFTER. Recognizing the fact that there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners now on the market, and knowing to a certainty that many of these are frauds pure and honest wish to make a straight-forward, honest statement to the colored race through this great business, we have 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 pronounced an unauthorized article, and the meritorious every response of the confidence of every number of the colored race, because they sound to 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 whose marked success, numerous films have created, and 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, numerous animals, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us sound a warning—better beware of being deceived by daring advertisements and big words. By the King of all Hair Tones. 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 given from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-Mark, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has issued a trade-mark, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington. So if the coupon has 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 and luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a gloss, long growth. Send us $1 at once, and the goodwill be sent the same day we receive it. 1 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 50c., 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth 50c. 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 put to coin when you send your order. ```markdown ``` TRADE-MARK. MORE. AFTER face that there are many SO-CALLED hair-grow- market, and knowing to a certain man h to make a straight-forward, honest staten- saper. In the year 1814 our late secretary, Mr- ance, acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was a length of hair in a woman, though test by the colored people of that time medy, true to all that was claimed for it, and every member of the colored race, because they taught it and fine, and as beautiful as an article appears upon the market, there are also make capital out of the merits of other people crumbs firs have entered the market, offering of which are worthless, causing the hair to f leth and the colored people are putting the animal fats, and do the hair more harm than careful what you use on your hair. Do not long words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, AFTER. there are many SO-CALLED hair-growers and hair-straightening to a certain extent, of the South India pair, a straight forward, honest statement to the colored race the year 1851 our late secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through hired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or hire it was wasted as a long period of time by the colored people of that time it was pronounced an end to all that was claimed for it, and worthy in every respect ber of the colored race, because they found it to cause the soft and fine, and as beautiful as an April morning. Now, upon the market there are a lot of numerous people. The out of the menia of other people's goods. Seeing our friends have entered the market, offering hair-growers and hair-crew worthless, causing the hair to fall out and doing great damage to the colored people, bringing these quantities on the menia, and do the hair more harm than good. To these let us that you use on your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring Buy the King of all Hair Tonies, OZONO g guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $1000 if separations, if they were not true to all we claim for them? years under our guarantee, and we are glad to say that we are not sure we will agree to separations using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends ours. Ozono will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Yummy, Troublesome Meat. It will make short, harsh hair long and give every woman a very good haircut. It will not hive after Ozono has been taken. It will stop your restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long we a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to they send the patient the haircut they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop at any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozono is necessary. You can. You can stop the use at any time. The good fees two after the first application. We make this liberal offer. Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the will forward to you four large boxes of Ozono and one large nail, which makes black skin bright, rough skin soft and also removes all facial imperfections, such as acne and also includes moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemish and the young look younger. package of our celebrated Soap Soap, which is absolutely of our Womb Disease Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet; ars arising from the human body, such as arm pits, etc. and Aggregation is $1.00, but we let you have it for $1.00 good mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade- Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington; and mark on it. You will make no mistake. Use the only Bank of Richmond, Va. solutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beauti- f your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a of at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. BOSTON C. 310 E. BROAD. Close you $1.00, for which please send Boxes of Ozono, worth $2.00, 1 Lb. 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, dor worth $0.00; 1 Package Scalp. want 4 lots like above, send $3.00, write her name on a piece of paper. nightener and Shampoo Drier...... for straightening refrac- rent. The many men only and rebellious heads active of results. It is hair but almost an im- agic Hair Straightener under subjection the most few minutes daily, fol- lore hours of combing passive combing produces. dish such results. The dry the hair quicker and lazy, and lessen very de- gener consists of a steel air is heated to an ordi- cate; the comb then at- tent, 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., mg, BOSTON CHEMICAL SIO E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND $1.00, for which please send at once the follow- ing: Ozono, worth $2.00, 1 Bottle Electrical! Skin Electrical Skin Food, worth $0.00, 1 Package with 50c., 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $0.00. Total Ho City State It is like above, send $2.00. If you have a friend name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon whe STON CHEMICAL CO. SIO E. BROAD ST., RICHMOND, VA. : which please send at once the following goods: worth $2.00, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth real Skin Food, worth $0.00, 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- package Scalp Soap, worth $0.00. Total, $4.00. House No. City State ve, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. COMPANY ash, Brushes. AND. 1214 GRAND AVE. --- --- A young sinner is bad enough, but a gray-headed sinner beats de devil himself. 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'weever he gits holt er a sheep he swallows him—cloze en all! W'en de po' man cry en he don't git no answer up yander, he orter 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. Files 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. Pot well with old newspaper. BEFORE RITTER. Miss Annie A. Wijse, Onanceck, 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. C. 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. BEFORE AFTER 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. 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 Snseezing. A medical paper says a sneeze is instantaneously dispelled by pressing the finger upward against the division of the nose at the point where the upper lip inside joins the gum. Another plan is to exhale all the air possible from the lungs the moment you perceive indications of a sneeze. Waste of Millions. Dalnay harbor, near Port Arthur, built by Russia for an ice-free terminal port for the Siberian railway at a cost of 17,000,000 rubles, is a disappointment, for since the breakwater has been built it freezes over as did Vladivostok. The nearest possible ice-free bay is in Korean territory. Addressing Letters for Italy. A correspondent in Italy advises those who send letters to friends in that country to write only the initials of the first name, because it is quite customary in Italy to place the surname first, which leads to many mistakes when letters are asked for by foreigners. Water's Part in Universe. Water plays an indispensable part in both the environments and the internal chemistry of life. It forms more than half the weight of most living things, and all the active parts of animals and plants consist of water holding the other ingredients in solution or suspension. Decline of a Great University. The University of Valladolid, Spain, was once famous and was founded by Ferdinand the Saint in the 12th century. It attained its greatest importance in the 16th century, when there were 6,000 to 7,000 students upon its rolls. Nowadays they number about 1,000.