The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for It Reaches More Homes of Colored Peop.e than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME VIII. NEGRO MASONS TO ERECT A TEMPLE. The seven Masonic lodges in this city have been quietly working for some time with a view to erecting a temple for the accommodation of their craft. This organization has acquired the northeast corner at Fourteenth and Vine street, with a frontage of sixty feet and a depth of 150 feet, upon which preparations are now rapidly being made to build the coming spring. The proposed edifice will completely cover the lot, will be up-to-date in facilities and appointments, reaching at least three stories, with a foundation to sustain four or five, to which height it is the ultimate expectation to build. The plans so far are to make the first floor into apartments of four and six rooms each. The second floor will be converted into a large auditorium sufficient to accommodate any form of entertainment. This feature has been added because of the growing demand among the negroes of this city for suitable halls and the ever-increasing difficulty with which they are confronted in securing the same, and this feature alone ought to commend itself not only to the fraternity, but to every negro man, woman and child in Kansas City. The third story will consist of three lodge rooms, the largest of which will be for the blue lodge, one for the higher degrees and for rental purposes. Looking forward to the accomplishment of this end, a joint entertainment will be given by the lodges of this city at Convention Hall Tuesday evening, March 29, which will undoubtedly be the largest affair ever attempted among the colored people of this community. The program embraces an address of welcome by Grand Master A. K. Chinn, of Missouri; response by Grand Master S. J. Watkins, of Kansas; competitive drills for a cash prize of $75 in gold by the St. Louis, St. Joseph, Topeka, Leavensworth and Lawrence Commanderies, while the home commanderies will give exhibition drills. Afterwards Allah Temple No. 7, Mystic Shrine, will take charge of the social features, and the grand march, led by the two grand masters and staffs, will begin promptly at 10:30 o'clock. The admission price is $1; children under 12 years, 50 cents. Definitions Illustrated The difference between delusions, illusions and hallucinations was thus stated by a doctor at a trial which took place at Cincinnati: If a man thinks he can drink all the whisky he can hold without being affected by it, that is a delusion; if he tries it some evening, and on the way home sees a lamp post and thinks it is a ghost, that is an illusion; if he finally gets home and in removing his shoes imagines they are full of snakes, that is a hallucination. Eight-Hour Monument. The first monument to trade unionism was erected recently in Melbourne, Australia. It is called the "Eight-Hour Monument," as it is in commemoration of the eight-hour system, which was begun in Australia forty-eight years ago. The monument is a tall marble pillar, surmounted by an oblong block holding a globe and torch. The word "Prosperity" is written on the globe and three large figure eights are engraved on the block. Not the Right Bundle Lord Middleton, a very near-sighted nobleman, had an embarrassing experience some years ago. "Wait a moment," he said to a companion as they entered a railway carriage; "I'll just pop this bundle on to the rack." So saying he made a grab at an object occupying a corner seat, and seized a large and elderly lady, who indignantly protested against being disturbed. KANSAS CITY, KAN., NEWS. Miss Lizzie Sewell of 1618 N. 8th street, is sick with la gripe and has been for a week now. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks have moved to Mr. C. B. Johnson's. Mr. L. Oliver is able to sit up and is improving very fast. Mrs. G. H. Jones and Mrs. Drake, were invited out to luncheon at the home of Mrs. Defroes, 1719 Michigan avenue, Kansas City, Mo., last Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Barker of Topeka, Kan. Rev. A. M. Ward had 66 converts added to the church as a result of the revival last week and the week before. On last Sunday morning Rev. Ranson, the presiding elder, preached an able sermon. His text was from the 41st Psalms, and in the afternoon Rev. Harris from Kansas City, Mo., filled the pulpit. Rev. Ranson preached again at night. At the A. M. E. church last Sunday was quarterly meeting. Over 300 taken the Lord's Supper. Rev. Wilson of the 9th street Metropolitan Baptist church filled his own place Sunday. He just came home Saturday P. M. from a 6 weeks trip in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington, D. C. He has been instrumental in bringing over one hundred and fifty souls to Christ while away. Prof. H. D. Britt will not arrive until abot Thursday. Mr. Britt has a wide experience in the evangelistic field as a gospel singer. He has traveled extensively and sun gto thousands in different parts of the United States. Mr. Champ, a member of the Metropolitan church is very sick on Washington Ave. The colored men who work at the Union Pacific R. R. shops or the coach department are doing well on piece work. They are drawing $70 a month. Mr. C. Patterson, W. T. Vernon, Davis T. Jackson and others left Tuesday night for Wichita, Kan., to attend the Republican state convention. Willing Workers will discontinue meeting until after the revival are over or for six weeks. Miss Lottie Bishop of N. 8th street died last Tuesday evening at 4 p. m. of himigeres. Can You Spell? Try This. If you think you are well up in spelling, just try to spell the words in the following sentence: "It is agreeable to witness the unparalleled escasty of two harassed pediars deavoring to gauge the symmetry of two peeled pears." Read it over to your friends and see how many mistakes they make. A New York fruit dealer received 20 cents in a letter from an anonymous correspondent who says he stole a pineapple worth 15 cents from him 30 years ago, and has had no rest from his conscience since that time. It is to be hoped the fellow will now enjoy a night's rest. Contest Teetotaler's Will. The relatives of a Frenchman who left $500,000 for the building of hospitals for teetotalers are contesting the will, principally on the ground that there are not sufficient teetotalers in the neighborhood to make the hospital necessary. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1904. Vonyson We are for Roosevelt. THE OLD FOLKS' AND ORPHANS' HOME. At a meeting of the managers of the Old Folks' and Orphans' Home, February 13th, a committee was appointed to visit the Ministers' Alliance and ask its co-operation in raising funds to pay off the debt on the home. Mrs. Anna E. Ross, president; Mrs. Johanna Moore, Mrs. Della Brown, and Miss Mattie Shepherd, matron, accompanied Mr. James Tipton to the meeting of the Methodist alliance February 22. Mr. Tipton is one of the most faithful and earnest workers for the home. He not only gives his services but his counsel and his money. This worthy old man made a strong appeal to the ministers. Mrs. Ross made statements as to the amount of the indebtedness on the property and gave particulars as to the special taxes. She spoke of the difficulties that have been overcome by the six or seven members upon whom the burden of this work falls, and told of the business methods of the institution. Miss Shepherd told of the hardships We are for tat confront her in a place so crowded. She is doing her best, but finds it hard teach table manners when all have to eat in the small room where the cooking is done. She feels the need of a dining room, a play room for the children and a bath room. Six of the children attend school. There should be some place where they may prepare their lessons at home. These children attend Sunday school. The other sane given instructions by Miss Shepherd. The ministers asked many questions. They promised their hearty support and invited the committee to meet the Interdenominational Alliance the following Monday afternoon. Mr. D. Queenan was appointed to visit the alliance of Baptist ministers on the same day that Mr. Tipton went before the Minister's alliance at Allen Chapel. Mrs. L.Williams,Secy., Mrs. Joanna Moore and Miss Shepherd, met the Interdenomination Alliance. Each of the seventeen ministers present voted to take up a special collection to meet this debt and also to raise a collection once a month for the benefit of the home the current expenses of which now amount to $60 a month. In several of the churches last Sunday the pastor's made strong appeals and urge dhe necessity of our taking pride in maintaining institutions for our own people. There was a hearty response. Naught but the future can tell what the results will be. The Methodist Alliance contributed last Monday morning as follows: From Allen Chapel ... $14.00 A. M. E. Zion church ... 2.00 Burns Chapel ... 1.00 C. M. E. Church ... 2.25 $19.26 Rev. W. H. Wheeler added ... 7.4 Total ... $20.00 Received from Highland Ave. Bap. Church ... $7.35 Pleasant Vaalley Bap. Church ... 4.31 Emanuel Lodge K. of P ... 2.50 Collected by Miss Shepherd from Walters of Baltimore Hotel ... $6.65 Coates House Cafe ... 1.20 Mr. J. S. McCampbell ... 1.00 Mrs. B. B. Brown ... 1.00 Roosevelt. Dr. E. B. Ramsey ... 1.00 Mrs. John Rone, Sr. ... 1.00 Mrs. C. E. Jones ... 1.5 A Friend ... 2.5 Dr. Theo. Smith ... 2.5 A Friend ... 2.5 $12.75 Total ... $47.91 The M. E. Minister's are busy preparing for conference. They promise to give the matter proper attention as soon as conference has adjourned. The Baptist ministers will have a special entertainment for this purpose Monday March 14. Dr. Shannon has promised to give $1.00 a month toward the support of the home. Justice must be given the many who during the last three years have contributed money, fuel and provisions, and the managers of the Home promise to give a full report just as soon as this strain is removed. Three hundred dollars must be raised by April 10th. It takes money to publish these reports. Mrs. Jane Kinney is still on the sick list. Mrs. Lillie Hamilton is better but Mr. Lewis Hamilton were very sick last week. Mr. Walter Hedge has been very sick with pneumonia but is better now. Mr. H. Jones is confined to his room. Mrs. Maria Vaughn is poorly yet. Mrs. Nannie Vaughn is improving slowly. Mrs. Ophella Gilford and Lucy Gilwere attending baptizing in Kansas City, Kan. Their son, Thos. Gilford, were one of the thirty. Mrs. J. H. Helms is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Vaughn. After 60 days lay off Mr. Jno. Bosch, their foreman taken them to Murray, Mo., to lay steel in the new yards. The boys are glad to work again. After a pleasant visit with friends, Mrs. Emma Phillips returned to her home in Topeka. Mr. James, formerly of Weston, but now a prosperous farmer of Atchison, Kan., solud his place here last week to Weston Realty Co. Rev. J. H. Helms, pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist church, was the guest of his father-in-law, Mr. S. W. Vaughn and his family who mare visiting here. Mr. George Busey of Kansas City, Mo., came up Saturday evening to visit his family at Woodruff, Mo. Sixteen young ladies and men of Woodruff surprised Mr. Mose Wilson Saturday after the rpleasure. They brought their luncheon with them. Returned to their homes at a late hour well pleased. Mrs. Mary Kinney of K. C. come up to see their mother and mother-in-law whom are still sick yet. Rev. Buchanan preached at Baptist church Sunday here and left Monday Rev. B. R. Guy of the A. M. E. church filled his stand Sunday and left Monday to this home in Topeka. Mrs. Mary Hamilton, Mr. Rolla Wilson, Mr. George Ellis, Sr., Mr. Ed Hodge are subscribers of the Rising Son, also Mr. eGorge Bundy. We have had very good luck. The weather is very pleasant now and the boys are beginning to work. Your special correspondent, W. D. VAUGHN. 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; be kind and charitable to all; avoid envy, hatred and lying as vices unworthy of a Christian, and never neglect to comfort widows and orphans." More People Read. In 1850 each individual in the United States received, on the average, eighteen copies of one or more periodicals; in 1860, twenty-nine; in 1870, thirty-nine; in 1890, forty-one; in 1899, seventy-four; in 1900, 107 a year. Retribution in Abyssinia. In Abyssinia it is the law that the murderer be turned over to the relatives of the dead person, and they, if they please, may put him to death in the same manner in which the murdered person was killed. NUMBER 49 Value of Milk Diet. One of the most valuable foods for the nerves is milk, for those who can digest it. A person whose nerves are played out cannot revive himself quicker than by living for a time exclusively on milk, heated but not boiled, slipping very slowly a tumbleful every few hours. Milk, however, is a food that easily disagrees with grown people. Before starting on a milk diet, you should fast for a day or two, and wash the stomach out thoroughly with hot water. Co-operative Dairying Co-operative dairying is directly responsible for an increase in the value of Danish butter exports from about $5,000,000 to over $29,000,000. The first Danish co-operative dairy dates from 1882. Now there are, 1,057 co-operative dairies in Denmark, comprising some 140,000 members and receiving milk from 850,000 cows, or more than four-fifths of the total number of cows. The average price received for butter is 23.3 cents a pound. Were Not All Lucky. A lady who advertised recently in a London paper for the recovery of a lost lucky sixpence in a certain street, on a certain day, had over 80 lucky sixpences offered her in reply—the owners stating that they had been found at the place and time mentioned. The lady then found that she had not lost her lucky sixpence at all—she had only mislaid it. The Loving Husband's Tribute. An old gravestone unearthed near Birmingham contains the following: "I plant these shrubs on your grave, dear wife. That something on this spot might boast of life; Shrubs may wither, and all on earth must rot. Shrubs may revive, but you, thank God, can not." Where He Shone. Among the office seekers who came before President Harrison was one who wanted to represent the United States at Yokobama. "Do you speak Japanese?" asked the President. The applicant faltered; then said he did. "Well," said the President; "let me hear you speak it." "All right! Ask me something in Japanese." Autos Replace Buses The historic old "bus," which for ages has done service carrying passengers and the mails between various towns in the section of Baden, where the steam railroads do not touch, is giving way to large automobiles, which travel much more rapidly and are much more comfortable. Autos Have Their Own Field. A leading vehicle trade journal of France says that the automobile, in spite of its rapid development, has not done the carriage builders, outside of Paris, any harm, and has only affected the builders of heavy carriages in that city. Value of Cinematograph The cinematograph seems to have been rather successfully used by Paris surgeons for a very novel purpose — namely, that of exhibiting to medical students how typical surgical operations should be carried out. Wages in United States. Wages in the United States, on the average, are more than twice thoses in Belgium, three times those of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and one and a half those in England and Scotland. African Longshoremen. The Kroo boys (a tribe of aborigines inhabiting the seacoast of Liberia), as is well known in the shipping world, are the west coast seamen. They are the stevedores and long-shoremen of Africa. Polyalot Student. There is at the present time a student at the University of Leyden, Holland, who, in addition to his own tongue, speaks and writes no fewer than thirteen languages. THE HEARST BOOM MOVEMENT FOR FREE TRADE BEHIND IT. Calamitous Results That Followed the Adoption of This Policy in 1892 Would Repeat Themselves—Work-ingmen Will Do Well to Remember. The boom of William Randolph Hearst for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1904 may be said to have been launched at a mass meeting held in Washington on the 13th of August. The ambitious individual in whose behalf this movement has been organized is the reputed possessor of a fortune of several millions of dollars, represented, in great part, by a number of daily newspapers, whose columns appear to be chiefly consecrated to the destruction of wealth belonging to other people. It is upon this platform that Mr. Hearst hopes to reach the Presidency. At present he is merely a Tammany Congressman from a New York city district. In journalism he enjoys the distinction of issuing each day in four different cities the very worst lot of newspapers of large circulation and vicious influence known in any part of the civilized world. Upheaval, revolution, anarchy, assassination if need be seem to be the guiding principles in these publications. The mass meeting of August 13 in Washington was ostensibly engineered by persons claiming to represent organized labor. In the name of American labor the Hearst presidential boom is thrust forward. By appealing to the unreason and the passions of American wage-earners it is hoped to realize the political ambition of a man whose program and platform involve the ruin of labor and industry. "Down with All Trusts!" That is the battle cry of the Hearst boomers. How shall the trusts be downed? By the repeal of the Dingley tariff and the establishment of free trade. That is the trust remedy chiefly relied upon, almost wholly relied upon. When the protective tariff is swept away the trusts will disappear. Such is the Hearst promise and plan. Take free trade out of the Hearst propaganda and nothing remains. Workingmen who are now employed all the year round at the highest wage rate ever known in this or any other country, wage earners whose deposits in savings banks have increased in the past six years of a protective tariff from less than $2,000,000,000 to nearly $3,000,000,000 are expected to rally to the support of a political movement whose ultimate aim is to wreck all industry and stop all prosperity. The work people and wage earners did something of this kind in 1892, and paid the penalty in loss of employment and wages, in the melting away of accumulated savings, in the poverty, hunger and untold sufferings of themselves and their wives and children. Evidently the Hearst boomers think American workingmen have short memories—American Economist. SIGNIFICANT ADMISSION. British Acknowledgment of the Value of Protection. We confess that we never expected to see the officials of Great Britain deliberately furnish the Republican party of this country with the most convincing arguments in favor of protection. The Cobden club is knocked into a cocked hat, and the Anti-Cobden club of the Nineteenth ward—that patriotic band of intellectual economists, should at their next meeting make a minute of the subject. Important as was the announcement of Premier Balfour, the official statements of the board of trade, which is a government institution, are much more so. They announce that protection does protect; that, in spite of the fact that wages in this country are more than double those in Great Britain, the amount of exports of manufactured goods to this country has greatly decreased, while our manufactured exports to that country are increasing rapidly. The same applies to all protected nations, so that Great Britain is declared to be in a disadvantageous position, especially as the United States can, so soon as there is a full in local demand, flood Great Britain with goods at much lower rates. The first duty of a nation is to look at the welfare of its own citizens. That is what we have done. In establishing protection we have not only accomplished all that the Republican party ever claimed, but have confounded our opponents here and abroad. The British government officially announces that our policy has been a successful one and will be of great injury to its own people unless retaliatory measures are taken. Which is why we remark once more that we never expected in our day to see Great Britain, the apostle of free trade, acknowledge its own defeat and our own success. What will the Democratic party say to this in the next campaign? It seems cruel that they are deprived of their only stock argument, but facts are necessarily cruel things when opposed to fallacious theories.—Philadelphia Inquirer Can the Democracy Get Right? under the Democratic party in Congress, under the leadership of Senator Gorman, has engaged in systematic opposition to the increase of the navy—to any increase of the navy. The Democrats admit that their policy is futile. It is astonishing that they do not see that it is also sulcidly foolish. The United States has a greater extent of seacoast than any other nation except the British empire. Furthermore, the United States is pledged by its unvarying policy for three-quarters of a century, and by the firmest convictions of its people, to the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine. When the Monroe Doctrine is attacked, as it will be unless the United States make itself so strong and ready that none will dare attack it, the attack will be made by sea power. To ward off such attack the United States must have sea power. Yet the United States to-day ranks only fifth among the nations of the world in sea power. And of the four nations whose fleets surpass that of the United States three would gain greatly by breaking down the Monroe Doctrine. These are the fundamental facts of the situation. These facts were never more widely appreciated by the American people, nor were the consequences of a failure in sea power ever more clearly understood, than they are today. Yet the national Democracy, through its representatives in Congress, now attack the sea power of the nation and seeks to prevent its growth. Under pretense of working for peace Democratic Congressmen advocate a policy that would make war certain. The question that forces itself upon every thinking American is: Can the Democratic party ever prove itself worthy to rule this nation? Can the Democratic party ever get right? -Chicago Inter Ocean. PROSPERITY AND SAVINGS Deposits Have Increased to Nearly Three Billion Dollars. There is no such thing as real prosperity in this country when the general public is short of surplus money. There is no abatement of real prosperity when the general public goes on making money and saving some of it. The speculative gamble may be rolling in wealth or ao may be absolutely poverty stricken, and neither the one condition nor the other reflects the situation of the general public and the country. Something that does, unfailingly and emphatically, is the total of the savings banks deposits—the surplus wealth of the general public when we had "hard times" with the advent of the Wilson law, savings banks deposits first ceased to increase and then actually decreased. From 1893 to 1894 they fell nearly $40,000,-000, or to a total of $1,747,961,000. By 1902 they had risen to $2,750,000. Controller Ridgley's report showed that the total of the savings banks deposits is now $2,935,204,845. From the experts who "went broke" in speculative excesses we hear that national prosperity turned downward in 1901. In that year the savings banks deposits were $2,597,000,000, so that since that time to now there has been a gain of nearly $400,000,000. This gain, since the "turn of prosperity," is larger than the gain from 1893 to 1898. It is as large as the gain from 1895 to 1899, larger than the gain from 1898 to 1900, when the boom was indeed booming, as no one will deny. Nearly three billions of savings banks deposits to-day—nearly twice what we had in 1894—does not look as if the general public will yet quit of prosperity. Nor will it be, if this nation continues a policy which keeps our industries protected against foreign industries and our wage earners against foreign wage earners.—New York Press. More Work for the Policeman The Journal's prediction that the United States would soon have to exercise police power over the semi-savage republics of San Domingo and Hayti is being swiftly fulfilled. A delayed cablegram from San Domingo says that marines from the Newark and Columbia have had a pitched battle lasting three hours with the insurgents, who were routed without the loss of even one American life. The insurgents began the trouble by firing on the launch of the Newark and on a commercial steamship owned in New York. Four hundred marines were promptly ianded under cover of the guns of the Newark and the Columbia, which shelled the insurgent camp; and they engaged the Domingans, who lost two of their generals killed, one wounded, several officers captured, and sixteen men killed and wounded. After inflicting this punishment the United States forces withdrew and the Newark sailed for Guantanamo. Evidently the situation in San Domingo is becoming intolerable. The barbarian degenerates who inhabit that part of the island are only one degree better than the negroes who compose the population of Hayti. They are not fit to govern themselves, and they are becoming a menace to the peace of the whole Caribbean region. The United States can not long permit this state of affairs to continue almost within hailing distance of its island possessions. It is bound by every consideration of selfish interest, as well as by every moral obligation to the family of nations, to put an end to it. We do not want the island of Hayti, but for the sake of our commerce we must take such police measures there as will prevent any further disturbances. It is a satire on our civilization that at our very doors one of the fairest and richest islands of the sea is become the prey of savages in perpetual riot, many of them sunk in superstition and barbarism not found elsewhere on earth outside of the Australian bush and the interior of darkest Africa. It is time that the United States interfered to police this island. We can not permit any other nation to do so, and it must be done.—Chicago Journal. TOP HESYANS EYE The shirt waist boxes in cretonne, which come fitted snugly away like bureau drawers into a case covered with the material, are now imitated in miniature affairs some four or five inches in height. These are designed for a baby's boudor use. One drawer contains safety pins, another sleeve or bib holders and other silver trinkets, a third the wee socks, etc. The imitations, too, are covered with cretonne. Each small ornament is topped off with a bow of satin ribbon. The incoming styles in rattan, willow and wicker furniture for the porch are altogether fascinating. These sets include reading table, tea stand and hamper, in addition to the usual complement of chairs, rockers and benches. Many of the French sets come in a mixture of pale colorings which catch the eye at once as something extremely new. Other lovely outfits are stained or enameled in the palest of tints of lavender, pink, blue and the like. A. Pretty Liren Frock Linen fabrics are shown in almost numberless varieties and are both durable and smart. This pretty dress for a young girl is made of etamine in pale blue and is trimmed with white embroidery and novelty banding, the yoke being made of tucking and insertion combined. The waist is a simple one and is made over a fitted lining that can be cut away beneath the yoke when a transparent effect is desired, while the skirt is straight and tucked in groups, the fullness providing flare where the tucks fall free. To make the dress for a girl of ten years of age will be A 4440 Girl's Tucked Dress, 8 to 14 years, required 5 yards of material 27, 4 yards 22 or 3 yards 44 inches wide, with ½ yard of fancy tucking for yoke and 4 yards of embroidery for frill. A May Manton pattern, No. 4440, sizes 8 to 14 years, will be mailed to any address on receipt of ten cents. How to Clean Jewels. Every little while all brooches, rings and such things that are in constant use should be brushed with a toothbrush that has been dipped in eau de cologne. If the setting is open it must be done from the back, and be careful not to loosen the stones. Then lay the things in a box of jewelers' sawdust, which has been slightly heater beforehand, and leave for an hour. Gold chains may be washed in warm soapsuds, drying them on a soft towel by pulling back and forward. They may also be dried in sawdust and the particles can be blown or dusted out afterward. Be sure and get them dry, as they will be apt to become worn between the links if any dampness remains. Party Gown for a Girl. An attractive party gown for a girl of fourteen is of blue volle with full skirt shirred half a dozen times at the waist and again half way to the knees. The shirred waist has fancy reverses of white cloth embroidered in blue silk the shade of the volle, and the sleeves deeply shirred at the top have fancy cuffs like the reveres finishing them just below the elbow. A soft, white sash with long streamer ends completes a chic costume. When the small maid shows a tendency to outgrow clothes, instead of letting out the hem of the skirt, when making the dress cut the waist two or three inches longer, then lengthen the frock by changing the belt. Coguetry In Eur Stoles. Stoles in every sort of fur still continue to encircle fair, slender throats. It makes little difference from what animal the soft, delicate covering is taken, and whether it be black, gray, brown or white. Neither does it seem to be a matter of great import whether the stole is long or short, broad or narrow, if it be of the circle form—that is the chief thing in regard to this bit of modishness for the fair one's toilet. The next thing considered is the way that it shall be worn. Twice about the swan-like throat is the stole wound and then coquetishly one end is thrown over the left shoulder. Homely Refreshments Perhaps it is because this is to be an economical season and many are not entertaining as elaborately as in previous years, or perhaps because fashions change a great deal in a short time; but many of the dainties served now at dinners are of simple and homely description. One of the most popular is the school girl delicacy known as fudge. Broken-up fudge and cream candy are frequently served in place of French bonbons. Table decorations are very simple, and green and silver are the favorite combinations. There is very little show of elaborateness in any of the entertainments. The predilection for home sweets has wrought havoc among the confectioners and caterers. Smart Trimmings. Fringe trimmings are considered the smartest mode of dress embellishment this season. Particularly effective are the fine silk fringes made to order with knotted headings; those of the sewing silk and twist variety are also greatly in vogue. Large fringed tassels are seen on many of the new model skirts and are a popular means this season of garnishing the elaborate evening wrap. Narrow strips of fringe insertion are attractively employed as piping at the edge of large tucks, and also in adorning the corsage. This style of trimming is commonly known as the "Tom Thumb" fringe, and when in white or delicate shade is especially chic and pretty for the embellishment of evening frocks. Worth Knowing. A good housewife will never allow anything to go to waste. Instead of buying dusters or window cloths she will make use of her discarded pocket handkerchiefs, scarfs and silk petticoats, and will find she has something better than she could buy anyway. There is very apt to be a draft at the head of a brass or iron bed, and a little curtain of some pretty creme and will add to your comfort and improve the appearance of your room. Use dark green blinds in a bedroom. It will prevent the glare so trying to your eyes. Bedroom Hangings Nothing is prettier or more dainty for bedroom decoration than the upholstery dimities in the old English style. They can be got in many patterns and launder beautifully, so are more durable than a flimsy fabric. They may be used in the entire decoration of the room for bedbed, canopy, window hangings and dressing table covers. At the windows it is prettiest to hang the curtains straight down each side with a full vallance across the top. Cushions for chairs and corner seats can be made to match too. Wear of Wedding Vells. Wedding veils must be put on now so that nearly all of the hair shows, and give a long, narrow look instead of spreading at the sides. One of the most effective lately seen was a scarf about a yard wide and three and one-half yards long, edged with a little real lace. One yard of it was turned back at the top to make a short veil, with a long one under it. This was caught on to a half-wreath of orange blossoms, which is now the proper finish. Two very small ostrich tips are sometimes seen. Butter for: a Bump. While mothers' kisses are supposed to take the soreness out of all sorts of hurts and bruises, even this sovereign specific will not keep a bump from turning black and blue. If a bump is well buttered soon after it is made, the skin, it is said, will not change color. A woman who did not believe it, but tried it all the same, says her children have been saved many ugly marks by means of this simple and inexpensive remedy. Readers of this paper can secure any May Manton pattern illustrated above by filling out all blanks in coupon, and mailing, with 10 cents, to E. H. Harrison & Co. 65 Plymouth Place, Chicago. Pattern will be mailed promptly. Name ... Town ... State ... Pattern No. ... Waist Measure (if for skirt) ... Bust Measure (if for waist) ... Age (if child's or miss's pattern) ... Write plainly. Fill out all blanks. Enclose 10c. Mail to E. E. Harrison & Co., 65 Plymouth Pleason, Chicago --- JEST AND JOLLY Economy. "You've cut down my allowance" she said. "Yes," he admitted. "I've been spending most of my time at the club recently, and I can't pay board in two places." "Then you'd better stay home," she said, and he did. But presently there was the old complaint. "You've cut down my allowance again," she said. "Yes," he admitted. "I'm spending my time at home now, and my company ought to count for something." Then she didn't know whether to advise him to go back to the club or not. Material Mourning. Brown—Smith is down with brain fever. Green—You don't say? Brown—Yes. The doctor says if he recovers his mind will be a blank. Green—Gee! But I'm sorry to hear that. He owes me $10.—Detroit Tri-bune. Considerate. The Lady—"Heavens! The boy has swallowed a piece of that lead pipe! Run! Run for the doctor!" The Plumber—"Aw, never mind! I got a lot more in me grip, mum." Natural Deduction. Brown had just given Jones a cigar and after puffing away at it for a few seconds, Jones asked: "I say, old man, where did you get this cigar?" "That's one of a box I purchased on the quiet from a smuggler," replied Brown. "Ah, I see!" rejoined Jones. "He smuggled them past the health of ficers." Warning to Others. The leap-year girl had reached the point where an interview with the young man's mother was necessary. "If you will only say that I can have your son," pleaded the fair applicant, "I'm willing to wait for him forever." "Very well," replied the maternal parent. "Just come around when the time's up and you can have him." Information Wanted. "Mamma," said small Harry, "when I grow up I'll be a man, won't I?" "Yes, dear," replied his mother, "but you must remember to be neither selfish nor lazy." "Why, mamma," he asked, in surprise, "do boys who are selfish and lazy become women when they grow up?" Balesman Was Suburbanite. The woman was doing her shopping. The counter jumper handed her a package and she slowly turned away. "Do I need anything else?" she absent-mindedly asked. "You have just bought some lawn," ventured the clerk. "Don't you think you will need some hose?"—Princeton Tiger. Shop. "That's a pretty noisy passenger you've got in there." remarked the man who was smoking on the front platform. "Is he crazy, or only drunk?" "Neither one," said the motorman. "He's just got a flat wheel in his head." "You have been calling on my daughter for some time, young man. Why don't you come down to the business?" "All right. How much are you going to leave her?" Had Them Still. The meek man, who had been unfortunate financially, was telling his troubles. "My creditors took everything." he said; "house, lot, furnishings—everything!" "Not your clothes, though?" said the man who enjoys other people's misery. "Yes," said the meek chap with a sigh, "everything but my treasurers. They—they were in my wife's name." A. Hard Fit. "Hew built in an awfully peculiar way, isn't he?" "Yes, the only thing he can buy ready-made is an umbrella." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reserved for any case of Catarrh that cannot be caused by Hail's Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Foledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the case of Catarrh that cannot be caused by Hail's Cure. We able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALKER Drugs. Wholesale Drugs, Tolledo, Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the respiratory system. Testimonials are free. Price 35 cents per system. Sold by all Drugsellers. Status of the Tortoise. It is announced that the treasury ruling that frogs' legs are fowl for tariff purposes will be appealed. Still, the precedents for queer rulings are in the treasury's favor. "You see mum," said the railway porter in Punch, explaining the company's tariff to a lady travelling with her domestic menagerie, "cats is dogs, and parrots is dogs, but a tortoise, mum, is a h insect." Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 50 cigar No other brand of cigars is so popular with the smoker. He has learned to rely upon its uniform high quality. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Praise for American Bacon. "Nothing." says the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, in its last annual report, "can take the place of American bacon as a cheap and nutritious article of food for the masses of our population. Therefore it would be a matter of deep regret if the high import duties of the new tariff law were not reduced to a reasonable degree." Camphor Forest In Formosa. A primeval forest, containing 120,000 camphor trees, measuring from seven feet to eighteen feet in circumference, has recently been discovered in Formosa. The value of this discovery is, however, greatly diminished by the fact that German chemical factories are making artificial camphor. Wages in Germany. In a German factory, which employs 2.107 men, making agricultural implements and traction engines, 25 per cent get 71 to 95 cents a day, 59 per cent get 95 cents to $1.31 and 16 per cent get above $1.31. This does not include boys or apprentices, and is for a nine-and-a-half hour day. A Physician's Advice. Yorktown, Ark., March 7th.-Dodd's Kidney Pills must not be confounded with the ordinary patent medicine. They are a new discovery, a specific for all diseases of the Kidneys and have been accepted by physicians only after careful tests in extreme cases. Dr. Leland Williamson, of this place heartily indores Dodd's Kidney Pills "as a remedy for the various forms of the diseases of the Kidneys, pains in the back, soreness in the region of the Kidneys, foul-smelling urine and cloudy or thickened condition of the urine, discharges of pus or corruption. Gout, Rheumatism, Inflammation and Congestion of the Kidneys and all kindred complaints." Continuing he says: "I could mention many cases in which I have prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills with success. For instance, Mr. Robert Weeks, farmer, malaria, haematuria or swamp fever three times, kidneys weakened, continual pain and soreness in back, which made him very nervous, had a little fever and sometimes chilly. Urine changeable, but generally very high-colored; an old chronic case who had taken much medicine with little effect. After taking Dodd's Kidney Pills about six weeks he was entirely cured and had gained fifteen pounds in weight. The last time I saw him he was the picture of perfect mazhood." Exports From Bahamas Nine-tenths of the external trade of the Bahamas, which amounted to $1,275,000 last year, is with the United States. The principal exports of the islands are pineapples and sponges, and the imports flour and earthen and glassware. To the housewife who has not yet to become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. After people pass 40 they find that they have no place to wear their new clothes unless they go to church. **Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE** Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other bluing. If your grocer does not keep it send list for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. You're going to have a fit; a show is coming to Atchison that will charge $3 admission. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—W. D. ENDELEY, Vanburen, Ind, Feb 10, 1900. Any man will have a good opinion of you if you will always agree with him. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children, squeeze the gums, reduce inflammation. For adults, wash the skin, reduce inflammation. Natives of Panama. Some of the native population of Panama have retained their customs, speech and physical type, especially those in the western part of the province, and claim to be descendants of the natives found in that section by the Spaniards. QUIET HOUR God Knows Best. And stand within, and all God's workings see. We could interpret all this doubt and unto it. And for each mystery find a key! But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart! God's plans like illies pure and white unfold; We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart; Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. Great Man's Estimate of Human Life. Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.-Ecclesiastes. No other book in the Old Testament has such a tone of serious sadness as the book of Ecclesiastes. All through it there is the underlying assumption, a purely practical one, that man can have the true end of his being and come to his real self only in that which brings him pure, perfect and permanent satisfaction. History shows that the wealth of Solomon's private treasury was almost beyond calculation. His wisdom was the wonder of the wise men of his day. He understood science, art, philosophy better than any of his contemporaries. The renown of his wealth and wisdom prompted the Queen of Sheba to visit him, and when she looked at all the magnificence of his realm and listened to his marvelous words, she returned to her people with the exclamation, "The half has never been told." And yet, with the praise of kings and queens, with all that wealth and wisdom could procure for happiness, he sank into wretchedness and cried, "Vanity vanities; all is vanity." What is the conclusion which naturally grows out of Solomon's estimate of human life? Man is sometimes vastly more than a finely developed physical organism, the paranoid animals. He possesses a spiritual nature, and that nature cannot be satisfied with merely material possessions. Seeking satisfaction in the things of the world was what Solomon tried to do. He failed, not because the things to which he gave himself were all improper or useless. Some of them were sinful in themselves, but others were, in their own place, of great importance, and had he used them in the right way they would not have proved so utterly useless. It is as impossible to stay the hunger of the spirit of man by an abundance of material provisions as to stay the hunger of a starving child by giving it toys and pictures. "Man doth not live by bread alone," and no one who knows himself or his fellows would question that utterance. The forces of our modern life tend to obscure the truth of the essential spirituality of man. The strain, the rivalry of economic life, the life of passion, the idol of excitement, the pleasures of society, the eagerness for speculation, these are the forces that are working deadly mischief in blinding men to their spiritual necessities. And yet, underneath it all, the soul revolts against this materialism. All our ennul, our restlessness, what is it but the soul's cry for God? Men want peace. Peace cometh from pardon and communion with God, which results in the effort to live the life of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. This peace money cannot buy, music cannot charm, art cannot wn, philosophy cannot command. The world saith in each of its departments: It is not in me. The soul's dissatisfaction with earth's things is but the other side of its desire for God. As it was with Solomon, so it is with us. Let the soul answer. Does wealth meet its needs? Does worldly pleasure satisfy? Does earthly power bring peace? When the life has grasped all these is it content? Many a soul is starving to-day in the midst of plenty. Out of the experience of Solomon comes this admonition: Be true, be pure; keep thyself unspotted from the world, obey the voice of conscience, follow the convictions of duty, do the right as God reveals it to you; fear Him, love Him, keep His commandments and serve Him with all thine heart—Rev. William C. Stinson. The Hours to Come. The hours are passing over us, and with them the day. What shall the future days be, and what the years? What we make them, such will they be. God gives us time. We weave it into life, such figures as we may, and wear it as we will. Age slowly rots away the gold we are set in, but the adamantine soul lives on, radiant every way in the light streaming down from God. The genius of eternity, star-crowned, beautiful, and with prophetic eyes, leads us to the gates of time, and gives us one more year, bidding us to fill that golden cup with water as we can or will. There stands the dirty, fetid pools of worldliness and sin; curled and mantled, film-covered; streaked and striped with many a hue, they shine there in the slanting light of a newborn day. Around them stand the sons of earth and cry, "Come bither; drink thou and be saved! Here fill thy golden cup!" There you may seek to fill your urn; to stay your thirst. The deceitful element, slipping through your hands, shall mock your lip. It is water only to the eye. Nay, show water only, unto men half blind. But there, hard by, runs town the stream of life, its waters never frozen, never dry, fed by perennial dews falling unseen from God. Fill there thine urn, oh, brother man, and thirst no more for selfishness and crime, and faint no more amid the toll and heat of day; wash there, and the leprosy of sin, its scales and blindness, shall fall off, and thou be clean forever. Kneel there and pray: God shall inspire thy heart with truth and love and fill thy cup with neverending joy.—Theodore Parker. Kind words are the golden rivets which help to hold together the splintered vase of human happiness. Thoughtless Criticism. There are few commoner faults, and few that do more harm than the indulgence of unrestrained, thoughtless criticism of others. Are you guiltless in this matter? Are you even making an effort to correct this habit which you know has made much trouble? Are you not much too free with the reputation of others, much too ready to discuss persons, not even sparing their motives which must be unknown to you? Is not this just the place where you need to reform and take a new departure both for your own good and that of others? The evil calls for a heroic remedy. Of the absent say nothing but good. Speak tenderly of people. Learn to discuss topics. Beware of imputing evil motives. "Judge not, that ye be not judged." The Bible is not a riddle but a revelation. Giving to God. We need never fear that giving to God and to God's work will make us poor. "God is able to make all grace abound unto you." There are some things of which the more we give the more we have. We do not lose them ourselves in passing them on to others. In giving our lives to God, we obtain life more abundant. And the more we give, the more we get. The handful of meal and the cruise of oil diminished not through all the long months that the prophet fed from them. The more we show sympathy to others in their sorrow or need, the more sympathy we will have in our own hearts. Sympathy is not exhausted by exercise. The more love we give out, the more love we will have to give. Love grows in loving. The way to empty our hearts is not to give. Then the powers of sympathy and the love in us will grow less. The way to get more love in our hearts is to love. We grow in giving. Christianity, a wise man has said, is "for use, or it is nothing." It means the deepening life of goodness in the heart. Our Dead. Of all the influences that work in a man's or woman's life, I know some purer or stronger than the hand that we knew. It is only when a mother dies that her children begin to understand what their mother was, and only after years when we look back on our father that we see his excellence, his integrity, his manliness and his wisdom. It was some time before the disciples got a glimpse of Jesus—only after he had gone to heaven; and it has taken eighteen centuries to imagine the full height of Jesus, and he is still growing in human thought. So it is with our dead. They are living—the only members of our family that are fully alive and know the meaning of things and the will of God most perfectly. How near they bring the unseen things to us! There is nothing brings the unseen close save Christ and those that have gone in to join him—Ian Maclaren. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. The Power of Affection. Think of life—how short it is; how much unavoidable bitterness it possesses, how much which it is easy either to bear or to chase away; and think how the power of affection can make all things right! Tremble before the chains of selfishness; free thyself from them by a new sacrifice of love and purify the heaven of home. Ascending clouds can easily expand into destructive tempests, or disperse and leave not a trace in the air. O chase them hence with the powerful breath of love!—Miss Bremer. The Greatest Loss. I may be angry with a man who might carve statues and paint pictures, if he spent his life in making mock flowers out of wax and paper; but when a man, who might have God for company shuts up and disowns those very doors of his nature through which God may enter, and lives the emptied life which every man lives who lives without God, his loss is too dreadful to be angry with. You merely mourn for him and long and try to help him if you can.—Phillips Brooks. Art in Cheerfulness To be bright and cheerful often requires an effort. There is a certain art in keeping ourselves happy. In this respect, as in others, we require to watch over and manage ourselves almost as if we were somebody else. Sir John Lubbock. WISCONSIN VETERANS MOURN LOSS OF THEIR WAR-TIME MASCOT Zinnar --- Above the lamentations over the burning of the Wisconsin state capitol, with its hoards of valuable archives and chronicles, are heard the bewailing of the "Old Guard," mourning the loss of "Old Abe," the world famous battle eagle. Hundreds of family hearths were turned into blivouac fires while veterans foregathered to swap yarns of the bird that led the Eighth Wisconsin Infantry into thirty-six battles of the civil war, from Frederickstown to Hurricane Creek. The loss of the stuffed bird that for two decades from its perch under the great dome had surveyed with imperturbable gaze thousands of visitors and sightseers has stirred a revival of stories of the old war pet. "Old Abe" was captured on the Flambeau river, between Ashland and Price counties, in 1861 by Chief Sky, a Chippewa Indian, son of Thunder of Bees, chief of the Flambeau band of the tribe. Chief Sky caught the young bird after a climb to the top of a gigantic hemlock tree, and a week later realized on his adventure by selling his captive for a bushel of corn. The bird was carried to Eau Claire just as Company C was being mustered in. The lumbermen from the pine woods voted in the eagle as a vulture, and after a surgeon's examination it was added to the list of recruits and began its course from obscurity to fame. When the company marched into Camp Randall at Madison in 1861 a salute was fired in honor of the bird, which became the mascot of the whole regiment. It went through the war, carried into battle aloft on a perch, from which it rose screaming to the length of its cord. At the end of the war the bird was placed on exhibition once in Chicago. Its value had risen from the original bushel of corn to $5 for each feather that fell from its plume, while P. T. Barnum offered $20,000 for permission to place it in his circus. In January, 1862, at Cairo, Ill., "Old Abe," who was becoming cadaverous from a diet of hardtack and "salt horse," scraped up an acquaintance with "Frank," a dog, whom he taught to go out foraging for squirrels and rabbits. According to the stories the canine friend treated the eagle as the ravens did Ellijah. One day the forager was unsuccessful, and "Old Abe" dug his talons into the dog's back and the partnership was over. In the battle before Corinth "Old Abe" was aloft in sight of the army, "whirling and dancing on his perch." Battles made him voracious by this time. Thomas J. Hill of Eau Claire, his bearer, unavoidedly entangled the rope in a clump of bushes, when the eagle became exasperated and struck his talons into his master's face. Blinded, the soldier rushed down the line, followed by his comrades, who made one of the most desperate charges in the history of the regiment. It was in a charge before Vicksburg, May 22, 1863, that "Old Abe" performed his most renowned feat. W. Edward Homaston was carrying the standard when he fell prostrate. His comrades rushed by, and the eagle, eager to be at the front, dragged him in the direction of the battle until they struck a log and were thrown back together into a clump of brush. At "What Is the King?" The Hereros, now in rebellion against Germany, have a pretty fair opinion of themselves and of their chief. One of their songs begins: "What is the king of England, what is the king of Germany compared with thee, O Mahereo, first among all princes? Have they so many thousand cattle as thou?" No! Who is so mighty as art thou?" The Hereros despise Europeans. The name for a European is "otiyrumbo"—"white thing." that instant a cannon ball passed overhead. "Tell me," the grizzled veterans end their tales; "tell me, will you, whether Abe wasn't protected by Providence." At Alexandria "Old Abe" emulated the example of the ducks at Rome, and gave warning of the approach of the enemy at nightfall. His whistle sent out scouts, who caught a spy, whom they forced to give up the counter-sign and lead them into the besieged city. The bird seemed to bear a charmed life. Not one of his bearers, conspicuous marks as they were, was shot down. The soldiers declared that the bird dodged the bullets. In his last battle, where a rout seemed imminent, "Old Abe" rallied his regiment by devouring a rabbit on his perch, heedless of roaring cannon and shrieking shell. At the close of the war the bird became a pensioner at Madison, having a room to himself in the basement of the capitol. He was exhibited at gatherings of soldiers all over the country, and was a side attraction with such celebrities as Generals Grant, Logan, Sherman, Sheridan and other Union leaders. Feathers from his glossy plumage sold at fabulous prices, and sculptors made bronzes of the famous bird. At the Grand Army reunion in Chicago May 11, 1875, the bird was an honored guest with headquarters at the Grand Pacific hotel, and later he placed the stamp of superiority on his character by a three months' sojourn at Boston. A cold caused his death March 26, 1881. With a few feeble flaps of his wings he expired in the stout arms of his keeper, George Gilles. George said Abe seemed to know that he was about to die, for when he asked, solicitously, "Must we lose you, Abe?" the bird looked wistfully into his keeper's face and then sunk back into his arms. Around him were one-armed and one-legged veterans, whose tears showed that they had lost a comrade. Besides the war eagle Lucas Fair child Post, G. A. R., loses many highly prized mementos. Tattered standards of every company, blood-stained banners captured in the war, weapons, Indian relics and a large library. There were books of camp incident and scrap books, picture albums, things that cannot be collected again. WENT TO WRONG PLACE Lecturer Mistock Penitentiary for College Hall in Pittsburg. For nearly two hours the large audience which had assembled at Pittsburg the other evening to hear Dr. H. H. Rusby, professor of botany and materia medica in the New York College of Pharmacy, sat patiently awaiting his arrival until the announcement was made that the lecturer had been lost somewhere in Alleghany. It transpired that the professor had got off the train at the penitentiary, and attracted by the bell of the institution had gone there, announcing to the guard that he was due to deliver a lecture there. The guard demurred and the tangle was not untraveled until it was too late for the learned gentleman to keep his Pittsburgh engagement. Charles Frohman's Wit. Charles Frohman, the theatrical manager, was talking to a friend about the Russo-Japanese war, recalling that Putnam Bradlee Strong and May Yoho had gone to aid the Mikado. "Putnam might get an engagement from you after the war is over," said the friend, "but what about May?" Mr Frohman reflected for a moment and then said: "We must bill her to sing 'Way Down Upon the Yalu River, Far From the Old Folks at Home.' How would that do?" In the private library of the late Pope there are hundreds of costly and beautifully bound books which were sent to him by admirers in all civilized countries and it has been decided to remove to the Vatican library those among them which are really valuable and to distribute the others among the various Catholic denominaries and colleges in Rome. Billion Dollar Grass. When we introduced this remarkable grass three years ago, little did we dream it would be the most talked-of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth; but this has come to pass. Agr. Editors wrote about it, Agr. College Professors lectured about it, Agr. Institute Orators talked about it, when we learned that the most valuable in the corner grocery, in the village postoffice, at the creamery, at the depot; in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, that wonderful grass, good for 1 to 14 tons per acre, and lots of pasture besides, is always a theme worthy of the farmer's voice. Then comes Bromus Inermis, than which there is no better grass or better permanent hay producer on earth. Grows wherever soil is found. Then farmers talk about it, when they state that they will produce 100 stocks from one kernel of seed, 11 ft. high, in 100 days, rich in nutrition and greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc., and is good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, which can be grown at 25 c a ton, and Spelt at 20 c a bu, both great food for cattle, also come in for their share in the discussion. JUST BEND 100 IN STAMPS and this notice to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crossie, Wis., for their big catalog and farm seed samples. (W. N. U.) Let a big horse go by, and half the men who see it will qarrel over its weight. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE, Address A.S. Olimsted, Le Roy, N.Y. The chafing dish has reached its level at last. Girls are making fudge in it. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. About the time love lets up on a man rheumatism takes a fall out of him. DO YOUR CLOTHES LOOK YELLOW? If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. Dominion Customs. The Dominion customs receipts for the first seven months of the present fiscal year are reported as $23,628,504. For the corresponding period of the preceding year they were $20,752,856. The increase is therefore nearly 14 per cent. Love Before Money What every right minded woman needs is her husband's love, and not the whole of his money. If she gets that the problems of life will be less difficult to solve and the divorce court only to be met with in fiction. Many English Potatoes. Over 700 kirds of potatoes are known in England. The latest variety, known as Eldorado, which is said to be remarkably prolific, and is very scarce, has fetched as much as $40 aplece. Tinte in the Spectrum. An experiment made some time ago by a professor in one of our big universities, proves that 165 separate tints are discernible to the normal human eye in the spectrum. Soap Lather for Insomnia A German physician recommends soap as a cure for sleeplessness. The soap lather must be allowed to dry on the skin before the patient goes to bed. ON A RANCH. Woman Found the Food That Fitted Her. A newspaper woman went out to a Colorado ranch to rest and recuperate and her experience with the food probably is worth recounting. "The woman at the ranch was preeminently the worst housekeeper I have ever known—poor soul, and poor me! "I simply had to have food good and plenty of it, for I had broken down from overwork and was so weak I could not sit up over one hour at a time. I knew I could not get well unless I secured food I could easily digest and that would supply the greatest amount of nourishment. "One day I obtained permission to go through the pantry and see what I could find. Among other things I came across a package of Grape-Nuts which I had heard of but never tried. I read the description on the package and become deeply interested, so then and there I got a saucer and some cream and tried the famous food. "It tasted delicious to me and seemed to freshen and strengthen me greatly so I stipulated that Grape-Nuts and cream be provided each day instead of other food, and I literally lived on Grape-Nuts and cream for two or three months. "If you could have seen how fast I got well it would have pleased and surprised you. I am now perfectly well and strong again and know exactly how I got well and that was on Grape-Nuts that furnished me a powerful food I could digest and make use of. "It seems to me no brain worker can afford to overlook Grape-Nuts after my experience." Name given by Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Get the miniature book, "The Road Get the miniature book, "The Road to Welville" in each pkg. WESTERN CANADA'S RESOURCES Farming Very Successful. By Western or Northwest Canada is usually meant the great agricultural country west of Ontario, and north of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. Part of it is agricultural prairie, treeless in places, park like in others, part is genuine plains, well adapted to cattle ranches; part requires irrigation for successful tillage, most of it does not. The political divisions of this region are the Province of Manitoba and the territorial district of Assinibola, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Athabaska. At present, however, the latter is too remote for immediate practical purposes. The general character of the soil of Western Canada is a rich, black, clay loam with a clay subsol. Such a soil is particularly rich in food for the wheat plant. The subsol is a clay, which retains the winter frost until it is thawed out by the warm rays of the sun and drawn upward to stimulate the growth of the young wheat, so that even in dry seasons wheat is good crop. The clay soil also retains the heat of the sun later in the summer and assists in the early ripening of the grain. It is claimed that cultivation has the effect of increasing the temperature of the soil several degrees, as well as the air above it. Western Canada climate is good—cold in winter, hot in summer, but with cool nights. Violent storms of any kind are rare. The rainfall is not heavy. It varies with places, but averages about 17 inches. It falls usually at the time the growing crops need it. The Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada, has agents established at different points throughout the United States who will be pleased to forward an Atlas of Western Canada and give such other information as to railway rate, etc., as may be required. That agriculture in Western Canada pays is shown by the number of test-monials given by farmers. The following is an extract made from a letter from a farmer near Moose Jaw: "At the present time I own sixteen hundred acres of land, fifty horses and a large pasture fenced containing a thousand acres. These horses run out all winter and come in in the spring quite fat. A man with money judiciously expended will make a competence very shortly. I consider in the last six years the increase in the value of my land has netted me forty thousand dollars." If all the women who look back were turned to salt pillars the streets would be full of statutes. CALIFORNIA Very Low Rate Only $25.00 from Kansas City, St. Joseph, Atchison and Leavenworth via Santa Fe. On sale during March and April, 1904. The same rate to intermediate points whose regular rate is higher. Through Pullman Tourist Sleepers to New Mexico, Arizona and California every day. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED exc- cursions three times a week. You're going to California! Now is the time to make your inquiries. Don't wait until you're ready to start on Write me, and I will quote you rates, tell you about the trains, equipment, hours departure and arrival - in fact, will tell you facts that'll be of material help after as well as before you start. G. W. HAGENBUCH, Gen. Agt., The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo. No. Oy. 905 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. Prizes for Servants. A London employment agent, to encourage her clients to give satisfaction to their employers, says she will present a gold watch to any servant engaged from her agency who remains in the same situation five years; a silver watch to any girl who keeps her situation for two years and a brooch to those who have served in the same house for one year. It has been discovered in Europe that the warmer a country the more centenarians it has. One hundred and fifty-four out of every ten thousand convicts are constantly in hospitals. III. Health of Convicts One hundred and fifty four out of every 10,000 convicts are constantly in hospital! RECORD RUN TO KANSAS CITY. Wabash Train Makes Trip in Five Hours and Fifty Minutes. Wabash train No. 9, fast mail between St. Louis and Kansas City, made a record-breaking run from St. Louis to Kansas City Sunday afternoon. The schedule time for starting is 2:20 p. m., and the regular time for the run is seven hours and ten minutes. No. 9 started one hour late, lost twenty minutes on the way and pulled into Kansas City on time, making the run in five hours and fifty minutes, five minutes faster than any previous record. There was a full equipment of a mail car, combination car, chair car and diner. At many places along the route the train showed a speed of seventy miles an hour, and between Mexico and Montgomery City a mile a minute was reeled off. The distance is twenty-four miles, and it took just twenty-four minutes to make the trip. The train was in charge of Conductor J. S. Gould. The engineer was Charles Summerville.—St. Louis Republic. 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MPFIOR—No. 117 West Sixth St. Kaneas City, Mo. ee, Advertising Rates, For ong tegh one tmsartion on ‘oF one Inch, each subsequent insertion. 3) For two tmehes, three Won ss. sesevsssee) 80D Fortwo teehes, at months veces voi, 8 00 Forte inches, aim monte 22000. 200009 oF two laches twelve. wonthar sss... 180) CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL » +. IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. x The paid circulation of Tur Ristnc Son is more than double the combined circu- lation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. oo Kansas City, Mo., March 3, 1993, Office of the Postmaster, Publishers, Rising Son, hansas City, Mo. Sirs: In response to your Inquiry, I beg to say your publication is duly entered As second class matter at this office and regularly mailed. Very respectfully, J. H. HARRIS, Postmaster. Holler Hurrah For Neff ! WHY THE NEGRO SHOULD VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. the Negro the right to the ballot, Al the ballot, enabling him to have free schools and in fact all the legislative given him by the Republican party In A PROTEST AGAINST THE BURN ING AND LYNCHING OF NE- GROES. [The following letter was originally printed in the Birmingham) AgeHer-| ald, Monday, February 29, 1904, and was also sent out by the Assoetated Press to the newspapers of the coun trys] Within the last fortnight three mem: bers of my race have been burned at the stake; one of these was a woman, Not one of the three was charged with any crime even remotely connected with the abuse of a white woman, In every ease murder was the sole ac: cusation, All of these burnings took place in broad daylight and two of them occurred on Sunday afternoon in sight of a Christian chureh, In the midst o fthe nation's busy and prosperous life few, T fear, take time to consider where these brutal and inbuman crimes are leading us. The eustom of burning human beings has become so common as searcely to excite interest or attract unusual at- tention, T have always been among those who condemned in’ the strongest terms crimes of whatever characte committed by members of my race. and I condemn them now with equa severity; but T maintain that the only protection of our civilization ts a fai and calm trial of all people charged with crime and in their legal punish ment if proved guilty, There is no shadow of exeuse for de parture from legal methods in the eases of individuals accused of mur der, ‘The laws are as a rule made by the white people and their execution i: in the hands of the white people; s« that there is little probability of an; guilty colored man escaping. ‘These burnings without a trial ar in the deepest sense unjust to m: race; but it is not this injustice alon which stirs my heart. These barbar ous scenes, followed as they are by publication of the shocking details ar more disgraceful and degrading to th people who inflict the punishment than those who receive it. If the law is disregarded when a Negro is concerned, it will soon be dis: regarded when a white man is con- cerned; and, besides, the rule of the mob destroys the friendly relations which should exist between the races and injures and interferes with the material prosperity of the communi- ties concerned. Worst of all these outrages take place in communities where there are Christian churches; in the midst of people who have their Sunday schools, their Christian Endeavor Societies and Young Men's Christian Assocta- tions, where collections are taken up for sending missionaries to Africa and the rest of the so-called heathen world Is it not possible for pulpit and press to speak out against these burn- ings in @ manner that shall arouse a public sentiment that will compel the mob to cease insulting our courts, our governors and legal authority; cease bringing shame and ridictle up- on our Christian civilization? BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 22, 1904. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 25, "04. To His Excellency, Gov, Vardaman, Jackson, Miss. Your recent utterances on the race question upon the occasio nof your in- aucuration, shows a totaal lack of either mental or moral perception, There is nothing in your make-up that responds to the glorious civiliza. Hon by whieh you are surrounded, You should have lived in the “Dark Ages,” ant yet we suspect the people of that age wonld have shunned you as they would the leprosy. Indeed, you have no place in a republic sueh as ours, for a man who would claim that education hinders rather than helps a people is either @ fool or a knave, or both. As touching the criminal tendency of the Negro, we would say that he like other races has an element who commit offenses against society; but pray tell us if at any time your hell. ish slave system, from whose evil ef- fects it will take the Negro. years to recover, ever took cognizance of the moral side of the Negro’s life, It is a notorious fact that Negro. slave: wo: men in whom the principle of virtue was strong, were physically foreed, in the most ernel manner to submit to the brital passions of the slaveholder, and God only knows how many of such erimes you are guilty, YOU may be innocent, but we are in grave doubt. If among the women of your race ‘there weer as many children whose fathers are Negroes as there are chil: ‘dren in our race whose fathers are white, then there would be some ground for your claim that Negro men desire social equality. In Kansas the people are civilized and such a miscarriage of what might have been a noble man, as you are, could not live in such moral at. | mosphere as pervades this state. This is our first sally, and we hope you will not provoke a more scathing rebuke, Yours for the uplifting of the Negro race, not the destruction, | MISS CORA BENNETT, MISS WILLA SMITH, MISS EVALYN HICKMAN. The Bee, of Washington, seems to} lose sight of what Booker ‘T, Washing: ton is doing and now makes a holler about the long green, Why don't the Bee man get some and let Washington £0 on, He is going anyhow. It looks like @ foolish man who would fight success. Let's have one leader out of 10,000,000, Go on, Booker. ‘They can't hurt you; the people that God loves is with you, | Party politics are not as active at ‘this time as they usually are, ‘There is much evidence of lukewarmness on the part of both the great political par- ‘ties, The Democrats know too well how securely they have fixed their machine and are not worrying, while the Republicans are somewhat at sea las to the best methods to pursue to insure success at the polls next spring. | Get Russian Concession. | ‘The Russian government has grant: led permission to three foreign com- panies to cut wood for three years in |the northern province of Archangel, the exports not to exceed $23,800,000 jim value, \ Piailasks Guo Malini. Inmates of St. Asaph workhouse in Wales possess a pony and phaeton, a piano and a library of over 600 vol- umes, All are provided by generously disposed persons in the district, Kaiser's Servants, The German emperor has more servants in his employ than any oth- er monarch, Altogether they number more than 3,000, about two-thirds of them being women. Aristocratic Car Drives, Among 5,000 street car drivers in Vienna a recent census showed that there are 100 knights, about fifty bar ons and four counts. Seared the Boys. A witty Englishinan who sought to save @ tract of woodiand and shrub- bery from the destructive attentions of the boys of the neighborhood put up a large board bearing the warn- ing: “Any one trespassing in this plantation will be xpifticated accord- ing to the law.” The result was very satisfactory, as the fear of spifiica- tion, whatever it meant to them, de- terred Intruders from passing through the woods and the trees were unmo: ested. Popular With the Ladies. There were few plainer men of his generation than the great Lord Brougham, and as few who took to little trouble to ingratiate themselves into the favor of women, Yet he might have picked and chosea among the fairest of society beauties, To a question where Lord Brougham was, the answer was once given, “Where the ladios are the thickest. By fol- lowing this significant guide he was generally run to earth. ves 60 Pilsen A recent cable from London to Montreal, reporting the speech of an English visitor to the latter city, con- siderably burt the feelings of Cana- dians by stating that Montreal was “the most depraved” city. A later telegram, however, soothed the ruf- fled citizens by informing them that the words quoted should have read “the worst paved city.” Formic Acid a Stimulant. The Journal des Debate recites ex- periments with formic acid, a secre- tion of ants. Eight to ten drops of the acid taken three or four times a day had a marked effect in stimulat- ing muscular activity, which might be continued a long time without re- sultant fatigue. “That tired feeling” also disappears under the influence of the acid. Danish Bacon Factories. Danish co-operative bacon factories now have about 65.000 members, and last year they killed 636,000 pigs and 10,000 head of cattle, amounting in money to $10,070,000, The price re ceived for bacon in the English mar- ket averaged 4 cents a pound above the average price for bacon from other countries. Cuvieun Marne Rhak: The most curious motor race ever organized was held in Paris, The competitors were taken to the top of the Eiffel tower, and a distant ehureh spire was pointed out to them. Then they had to descend, get aboard their machines, and find their way through the maze of streets to the chureh. ‘Town Built Over Coal Mine. Many buildings in Motherwell, Scot- land, 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 stand- still, and the town will probably soon be deserted. Examination Fever. Dr, Putnam, a Russian medical man, has been making observations of schoolboys undergoing examinatlon. 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 ts 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. ‘és naam) hintaan. The principal articles imported into Moscow are mechanical and agricul tural machinery, hardware and cut- lery, cotton, raw copper, cash regis- ters, typewriters, office furniture, bl- cycles, ete. Rubber Production. The world’s producticn of rubber was two years ago almost equally divided between Africa and South America, Now the Amazon region produces three-fifths of it. Chinese Like Swiss Watches. Swiss watches, according to a re- port just published, are becoming pop- ular In China. Those with fantastic designs on the face find the most ready sale, Grass Replaces Stee! Springs. A stecl-like grass from the volcanic slopes of Oran, Algeria, is so elastic that It can be used Instead of springs in the manufacture of furniture. Saving the Children. A noted doctor states that 85 per cent of crippled children could be at least able to work if their diseases were treated in time, Artificial Pearle. The Japanese have discovered a method of producing artificial pearls, which no one can teYi from the genu- ine article. Deaittn ta Mintans, The government makes enough money on the cent pleces made to pay the entire expenses of the mint, Laying Up Treasures. At the birth of a child in Cyprus @ vessel of wine is buried, to be served up afterwards at its marriage, California Gold, California has produced over $1, 500,000,000 in gold during the last fifty-three years, LEXINGTON NOTES. Mrs. Lucretia Bush of Independ- ence came down Saturday evening to visit Mrs. Hayden Tolbret and Mrs. Walker returned home Monday morn- ing. | Rev, R, Young left Tuesday to at- tend conference at Kansas City. | Mr. George Shelby and Mr. Chas, Gra- ham spent several days in our city this week. Mrs, Emma Smith is quite ill, Mr. Ellic Williams is improving very slowly, Born to the wife of Mr. Samuel Ber- ry, a boy, on March Sth. Mr. Luther Smith ts candidate for councilman of the Ist. ward, every colored man ought to support him by his vote and influence. Mr. William Campbell is a candidate for collector and we hope that the ‘colored voters will support him. We ‘hope that every colored man will vote ‘a5 he promises. We are losing friends ‘by our own acts. Dont be bought and jnoither be sold for a little money or ‘whiskey and then be laughed at or ‘made fun of by the one who bought andw sold you after the election is over. Mr, Fegret and Mr, Owens are can- didates for the same office they hold and if you think they are worthy of the office you should vote for them, Mrs, Amanda Hawkins, wife of Mr. Peter Hawkins, died at her home Mon- ‘day morning at 11:30 o'clock, She was one of our oldest citizens, She was about 60 years old. She leaves two daughters and a son, Mrs, Jane Porter ‘and Mrs. A. Reed, Mr George Howard ‘and a host of relatives to mourn her oss. Mrs, William Illnois is here visit- ing her mother-in-law, Mrs Henry Brown. Al Anderson, the comedian and Bil- lie Brigg will be at the Orpheum the week of April the 3rd. While in the city they will be the guests of W. Frederick Fairfax. Mrs, Eliza Thomkins spent this week in Mexico, Mo. Sonn Day who has been seriously ill is much improved at this writing. The Jordon homes on Vine st cer- taainly look good to us. Mr, Jos. Brice is much improved from his recent illness and will short- ly go to his brother's ranch in South- ern Kansas, which he hopes will prove beneficial to his health, Every one is talking of the Mason- fi affair te 29th of this month. ‘The Ladies’ Whist Club is being entertained this Saturday afternoon at thé residence of Mrs. Wallace Dean, 1627 Park Ave. Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Frederick Day are the host and hostesses of a full dress party this evening at the Ven- rome dancing academy in honor of Mrs. Eliza Thomkins Dishman of Den- ver. | Mr. Groves of Edwardsville Kansas was in the city Monday. Mrs, R. W. Faster, who has been ill for some time is convalescent. | Mr, Anderson Smith is still confined to his some with illness. . Capt. Gibbs is still in very poor health. Mr. Champ of Kansas City, Kansas fs dangerously {ll. Mrs. Sally Rogers, ex-7th, grade teacher of Lincoln has returned from Denver and has been reappointed tc teach in the Kansas City schools Mrs. Rogers is one of the best teach ers in the state and we are alway: glad to add such brilliant teacher: to the Kansas City Corps of teachers | Miss Nellie Love is able to be ou after a severe sick spell, Mrs. Earnest Garnes will return to @ay from a 3-month visit in Wash ington, D. C. Hdmund Henderson Jr. is at hom from Jeff on account of illness. ‘The Silver Leaf Club had their reg ular mpnthly dance last Friday night Easter day is April the 3rd. Mr. and Mrs, Frank Bally celebral ed thelr twelfth anniversary las ‘Thersday night at their home on E ay LANGSTON'S 3 , 4 f Shaving 4 fae, ~Pariors.. Fy / Be 718 F. 8th St, Kansas City, Mo, EO i oo En F / i "| Agency for Steam Laundry. iw " Porcelain Bath Tubs. Ny me Rooms Steam Heated, 6 Baths for $1.00. b. W_LANGSTON, Pnorntaron. Your Patronage Solicited. FINE CIGARS, ret. 4999 Mai Mrs Edmund Henderson is able to go out again after a long illness, T. P. Mohammitt of the Omaha Enterprise and Miss Helen Bradley of Battle Creek, Michigan were united in marriage Thursday night of last week. | ‘Miss Cora and Dollie Yancey gave a beautiful party last Thursday night of ast week in honor of ist, Ser. Frank- lin of Assiniboine. Editor Woods was toast master of the evening, an im- promptu program was rendered, short speeches were made by Prof. Gres- ham Bawsers Collins and Miss Anna Jones, an instrumental solo bby Miss Ida Washington and vocal solo by Mrs. Benton Dean. The evening was spent in games and social chat, refresh- ments were served after which the guests telling these excellent hosts of their delightful evening parted for home, Madame Etta Lee Shaffer is booked for several song recitals in and out of the city. Mr. Bernard Nesbitt has returned from Montgomery, Ala. where he went to attend the funeral of his brother. Miss Carnie Cross, Lincoln high school mother is quite ill, Miss Lulu Jones has returned to the city after an absence of 4 months. Miss Pattie Hollman’s mother has been very ill, ‘There will be excursions from all the neighboring towns the 29th. to attend the Masonic entertainment. L. G. Peerry of Trenton, Mo. came to the city Thursday to make ar- rangements to locate here. Transport to Be a Dredge. ‘The transport Grant, which cost $2,000,000, 1s to be made a dipper dredge for use on the Columbia river bar, and will be the biggest dredge in the world. Nine-Pound Oranae. An orange measuring twelve inches in diameter and weighing nine pounds has been grown by F. Gerber of Braam River, Kouga, South Africa. t Cotton Picking Machine. A cotton picker machine has been invented which, it is claimed, will save one-third of the crop and the wages of twenty-eight men. Voice of Wisdom. ‘The world is enlarged for us not by new objects, but by firding more af- finities and potencies in those we have—R. W. Emerson. Sheep Live on Desert. A tract of eastern Australia which thirty years ago was a sandy desert now supports over a million sheep. Metal Roofs. A metal roof is said to be positive protection against the building {t cov- ers being struck by lightning. Alpaca Came from Llama. Alpaca is the name of a species of Nama from whose wool the genuine ‘fabric is woven. Home Tel. 6226 Main, Lady Attendant. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS, counreous-rnearwrnr Parlors 1820 E. 18fh St., Kansas City. Se 1734 Grand. EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. John S, West's Orchestra FURNISHES MUSIC. D. A. WILLIS, Manager. — Factory Prices! Means the saving of dollars to our customers. Some of our com- petitors are saying ‘There's no money in the business now a days." There's not very mnch, _— perhaps, but the people who buy here are not losing sleep by worrying over that; they're satisfied if they save money, and they can save it in this store, Our Men’s $2 © Si Shoes are the best values shown in Kansas City. Tlebraska Clothing & iS ECISTERED i PATENT OFFICE r US. BEFORE ArTeR =! A Wonderful Face Bleach, AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER, both in a box for $1, or three boxes for $2 Guarans ted tn do what wesay anit to be the “beat in th World.” One box is all that is required if used se directed. A WONDERFUL FACE BLEACTI. A PEACH-LIKE complexion obtained ifused ag irected, Will turn the akin ofa black oF browa, Berson perfotiy white lafofiaightsomrenauegs testa a Brtwo will be Aotleesble, “Iedoee ‘aot turn the ‘akinin spots but bieches out white, the skin fe alping beautiful without continual, use. Will remove wrinkles, freckles, dark epota, pimples or futaps or black hends, making the ein’ ‘very wore andmooth. “Sapall pre pita tan, liver epols rer moved without barm to the skin." When you get the color rou Wish, stop using the preparation. ‘THE MAIR STRAIGHTENER. that gor in every one dollar box is enongh to EMC anyone’ ht grow lone end erst ant kcops tt from felling cut, Highly pertumed ati rae ite’ ale sof and ensy th amb. May Gt our customers t47 one of cor daiiar bores {@ worth fen datlars sctlwe eel! Tt for one dollar & box. THE NO-SMELL thrown in free. Aer ee sending us onc dollar in a letter or Post Olfice money order, express money order oF fegistercd etter, we will send ft through the Mai, rr Prepaid; or if you want it sentc. O. D., [twill couse by express, 250" extra. Th any case where it fails to do what we claim, ‘wo will return the money or send a box free oF charge. Packed so that no ope will know con- Yenta except receiver, CRANE AND CO., 122 weet Broad Street, RicmMonD, Va, "184 ...0s.e5 Telephone ...... 4178 WALL’S Laundry Co., “rat-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E, 12th St., Kansas City, Me. RESTAURANT 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. eoTO THE E. 7. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND HA'R CUT. Cc. A, EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. Remember please— it's the little bits we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Sick List Locals Anderson Smith is very sick. Ed Gibs Charles Simpson Edmie Drun Ella Walker Bettle Brine has gone to Warmburg to see her people. The Seven Masonic Lodges will meet at 553 Main st. The quarterly meeting at Alem Chaple last Sunday was a success. Dr. Smelson and Rev. Peck were well pleased with the result. Dr. Carrion, the dentist, has returned from Orangeburg, S. C., where he was called to attend the funeral of his father. Prof. Baldwin spent a part of last week near Sedalla. Robert Smead's restaurant at 924 Lyandotte Street is the place for good things to eat. Meals 15c, Try us once and you"l come again. R. Ross and H. Patton's Home Talent Florida Doria Comic Opera Company will appear in Kauffman's hall, Twelfth and Oak streets, Thursday evening, April 7, 1904. After the show a grand ball will take place. There will be a chrysanthemum presented to each lady. Prof. B. W. Watts' Orchestra will furnish music. STAFF. JOE GALLOWAY, Stage Mgr. KID BOLDEN, Ass't. Stage Mgr. W. B. GARRET, Ticket Agent. 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. Mr. Henry Compton, of 1104 Charlotte street, has enlarged his dining room and made several fitting improvements. He is now in a better position to cater to the needs of the public. 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. 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. A Woman's House. Whenever a woman's house shall be her palace, her pride, her delight, she will not be the victim of ennui, or vanity, or ambition, or discontent. First Steam Warship. The first steam warship was the Fulton, built in the Brooklyn navy yard in 1818. She was 2,000 tons and carried thirty guns. Coffee Cigarettes. Parisians smoke cigarettes made of the leaves of the coffee plant. Those who have tried them prefer them to tobacco cigarettes. Mammoth Rose Bush. The largest rose bush is in Mobile, Ala. Five feet above the ground its trunk is over a foot in circumference. All Nations Adopt "Hello!" The American interjection, "hello," has been added to all the languages in which the telephone is used. First Public Library. The first public library in modern Europe was founded in Florence in the fifteenth century. Peculiarities of Philocopher. Herbert Spencer spated clocks which strike, especially out-of-door clocks. When staying in lodgings in a Berkshire village he sent a request to the owner of the principal house there that the stable clock, which struck the hours, might be stopped. He was not a good companion to go out for a drive with, as, if he did not feel well, he would ascertain how fast his pulse was beating and if, it were not satisfactory would instantly give the order to return home. "Named" from the Pulpit. Sydney Smith once dared Sir Archibald MacDonald to come and hear him preach at St. Paul's cathedral. "If you do I shall name you from the pulpit," he said. Undeterred by his threat, Sir Archibald went to St. Paul's. After Sydney Smith had entered the pulpit he looked hard at him and was then seized with a wonderful fit of sneezing—"Ar-chie, ar-chie, ar-chie!" after which he proceeded to deliver an excellent sermon. Oblections on Both Sides Before bicycles became so common as they are now a Yankee farmer was importoned by a dealer to buy one for $75. "I'd rather spend the money on a cow," was the farmer's answer. "But what an idiot you would look riding about the town on the back of a cow." "Perhaps so," replied the farmer, "but not half such an idiot as I'd look trying to milk a bicycle." Children Have No Dolls The Hindu child is probably the only doll-less child in the universe. The little Egyptians have their wooden "Ushabti"—the same style as 4,000 years ago. These were sometimes made of porcelain. When a child died its dolls were buried with it, in the expectation that their spirit forms would rise and do service in another world. Huxley on Men. Prof. Huxley once wrote to Mrs. W. K. Clifford about men: "They are very queer animals—a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness and camel-malice, with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please they are very hard to drive."—London Truth. Yellow Jack Disappears There has been no yellow fever in the United States for three years, excepting the development on the Mexican border of Texas. Some cases of yellow fever have come into Cuba from Mexico in the last three years, but in no instance was the disease communicated to others. Can Be Acclimated. The red shanked grouse preserved in Scotland is a noble bird, and is peculiar to that country, though worthy of a wide dissemination because of its large size and edible qualities. It should do well in Washington state or even in Michigan. Valuable Snuffbox. Three thousand three hundred and fifty pounds sterling was the price paid at the Hecksher sale by a well known firm of London for a snuffbox. It is made of gold and enamel, and saw service in the Louis XV. period. Peralana Like American Goods. American lamps, clocks, watches and locks have a steadily increasing sale in the bazars of Persia. Phonographs, electric fans, hand pumps and cooking and warming stoves find appreciative purchasers. Pine Land in Luzon. In the island of Luzon there are nearly a million acres of rolling pine land, with no underbrush or tropical vegetation, where the climate is like that of the upper Allegheny mountains in June. Design for Zola Monument A French sculptor, M. Charpentier, and a Belgian sculptor, M. Meuntier, have completed a design for the Zola monument, which will symbolize Zola novels, "Travall" and "Fecondite." Women Replace Men. Women are now substituted for men in the Italian postal service. Signor Gallimberti, the minister of ports and telegraphs, is responsible for the change. Power of Silence. A person that would secure to him self 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. Fares Grow Less. Since 1883 the average passenger rate in the United States has dropped from 3.5 cents a mile to 2.01 cents. Russia suffers from forest fires. It is not unusual for fire to destroy 250,000 acres of forest a year. The Eyes of Animals. Horses, giraffes and ostriches have the largest eyes of land animals; cuttlefish of sea creatures. 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I do not go about with black Hell goggles on my nose— My coat of arms a monkey wrench And gasoliny clothes. I do not have to dress and go Somewhere o' nights and stay Till 12 o'clock, and stand it while They talk me old and gray. Oh! I put my feet upon My old typewriter and I smoke my pipe and thank my stars That I can understand. Why Providence all-wise has cast My lot where surrections fall; A toast to poverty' It has Its good points after all! —San Francisco Bulletin. A STUDY IN VALUES BY ELEANOR WEST Copyrighted, 1902, by The Authors Publishing Company The train came to a standstill in front of the little, unpainted depot. Only one man stepped off, and with but a moment's pause the train steamed on again. The stranger stood a moment, glancing half curiously down the line of old, wooden buildings that formed the one street. "Same old place," he thought with a half amused smile. "If old Rip Van Winkle had come back here after his twenty years' sleep he'd never have known he'd been asleep. It's the old town that has taken a twenty years' nap this time, though." he soliloquized. "There is not a new building and hardly a change of any kind since I left." As he picked up his grip and turned towards the old weather beaten hotel, he became conscious that he was the center of interest to the loafers lounging about the platform. An hour later he sat by the open window of his room meditatively smoking. The half amused smile returned to his face as he thought of the greetings he had just received. "I wonder who all the old codgers re, anyway," he reflected. "I've a dim idea that I used to know them, but I've had too much else to think of in the last twenty years to remember them now. "I wonder if Jack Strong is still in this little one-horse town," his thoughts ran on. "Poor old Jack. I haven't thought of him before in years. I used to think the sun revolved around Jack. Well, I suppose he has vigetted here until he is like the rest of those old fogies down there. It's a shame, too, for Jack was as bright, ambitious a boy as you will often find. If it hadn't been for that conscience of his that wouldn't let him leave home after his father's accident, he might have made his way in the world without any trouble." The lawyer puffed his cigar in silence for a while. Presently the door opened and the landlord entered with a pitcher of water. Grey lazily turned his head and inquired, "Does Jack Strong live here yet?" "Jack Strong? You bet he does. Brownsville wouldn't be Brownsville without Jack. Poor fellow, he's been having hard luck this last year, though." The gossip-loving landlord perched himself on the edge of the table, glad of an excuse to talk, and rambled on for the next half-hour. By the end of that time his guest was in possession of the principal events of Strong's life during the past twenty years. "Hum, lost everything he had but the old home in that fire, did he? Had to mortgage the homestead to get funds to stock up again, had his own family and the old folks to support, his old father and mother heart-broken at the idea of leaving the home- Wool "Same old place." stead. Why isn't he just the man I'm looking for in this little deal?" he soliloquized. "I can make good use of him and do him a good turn at the same time." He smoked on thoughtfully for some time, then looked at his watch. "Guess I'll look the old fellow up," he concluded. As he rose he glanced complacently at the prosperous, elegantly attired figure reflected in the cracked mirror and thought of the probable contrast between his appearance and that of his old chum. He sauntered down the street and into the open door under the modest sign "J. H. Strong." A man in a worn, ill fitting suit hastened forward and wrung his hand heartily, exclaiming, "It does seem good to see you again, Dick, old boy. I heard you were in town and I knew you'd drop in. I've watched the door for the last hour." Grey cordially returned the greeting. For the next half hour the two men recalled old times. The lawyer enjoyed a sense of conscious superiority over his old chum. "It's a pity he wasted his life here," he thought, pityingly studying the other's careworn face. At last he pulled out his watch and turning to the merchant with a smile remarked, "Now may I talk business to you for a few moments?" Strong led the way to the little office at the back of the store. His friend carefully closed the door be- D. C. K. "But I ain't so poor that I need to sell my self-respect." fore he sat down; then he spoke in low, earnest tones for some time, carefully explaining his scheme. The merchant listened silently with an expression on his face that Grey could not fathom. "Do you see?" Grey asked at last. "You say," Strong began in a queer, constrained voice, "that this Henderson has found out that there's a vein of coal running through the old Barnes place. Old Mr. Barnes don't know it, and Henderson has offered you a big fee if you can get the place for him cheap. You've got Barnes where you can crowd him for money and compel him to sell, and you offer me a clear thousand dollars if I'll buy the place and then turn it over to Henderson; for you think maybe they'd guess about the coal if Henderson tried to buy it himself, and there are reasons why you don't want to appear in it. Is that the way of it?" Grey nodded. Jack was rising to the bait quicker than he expected. He had been a little doubtful about disclosing his hand, Strong was so likely to have queer notions. But he seemed to comprehend the situation, if he did state the case somewhat badly. "Do you remember when old Barnes lent you the money to start out in life?" Strong presently inquired musingly. "Certainly I do and it was paid back with interest long ago. I've loaned a good many people money in the last ten years, but I don't expect them to hold me in everlasting gratitude for it." A sardonic smile flitted over his face. No, the people he loaned money to didn't usually hold him in grateful remembrance. He didn't lend it to penniless young chaps without security—such as he once was, either, but it was not necessary to explain that to Jack. "It would break the old people's hearts to have to leave the old place, and they're too old to begin life over again. It would mean the poorhouse in a few years." Strong still spoke in a constrained voice. "Bosh! That has nothing to do with the question. My dear fellow, you must learn to leave sentiment out of business or you will never get along in the world. All that twaddle about heart strings and blighted lives and the rest of that stuff doesn't count when it comes to a matter of business." Gray smiled patronizingly across at Strong, with his most worldly wise air. "Besides," he went on after a moment's pause, "when it comes to a question of heart strings I guess your father's and mother's are twined about as securely about that old place of yours as old Barnes' and his wife's are about theirs, and I understand that your place goes if you don't take this chance to save it." Then he added: "Well, do you take my offer?" The merchant's face had grown white. He slowly rose to his feet and stood looking down at Grey, measuring him with honest, indignant eyes. Grey dimly wondered why he seemed to wither up under that clear gaze; why he who had towered so far above this country storekeeper when he entered the door had somehow shrunk until he seemed a pigmy beside a giant. Strong's voice was low and controlled, though intense when he spoke. "No," he said, "I won't! Yes, I'm poor, but I ain't so poor that I need to sell my self respect and every finer feeling in my nature." Suddenly his expression changed. He held out his hands with a quick, impulsive movement toward the man who had been his boyhood's chum and hero, while his face took on a look of yearning pity. "Oh, Dick, old chum!" That was all he said, but the words held a world of disappointment. They were the requiem over a shattered ideal. Grey stared wonderingly. The man who should have been awed by his manifest superiority and have envied him his prosperity was looking at him with pity struggling against contempt in his face. Someway, he couldn't adjust his thoughts to their former complacency. "That's all these confounded villagers know about business, anyway." he thought, contemptuously, as he reached for his hat. BEAUTIFYING A STATE. Two Californians Imported Birds and Turned Them Loose. "Whenever I see any of these propagandas for beautifying a city," said Senator Perkins of California, the other night. "I always think of the work done to beautify the State of California by a citizen of Altadena, which is hard by Pasadena. The man's name is Andrew McNally, and when he came to California there were few birds at Altadena, and those few were hardly what we would call beautiful. McNally made up his mind that he land needed birds, so he built him an aviary and imported many hundreds of his feathered friends. Once a year he would open the doors of his aviary and let the young birds fly whithersoever they would, and in a short time the whole country was populated with feathered creatures of every variety of hue and song. His example was followed by Joseph Grinnell and Mrs. Grinnell, both of whom were ardent ornithologists, so that now the country around Pasadena is a gaden spot for birds of beautiful plumage. Many of the birds that were imported came from Japan and China. So you see there are more ways than one of beautifying a city or a state."—Philadelphia Press. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. How Pastor's Rebuke Was Robbed of Its Effectiveness. The pastor of the little country church had been much annoyed by having the members of his congregation straggle in long after the service had begun. One Sunday morning, when he felt that further forbearance with this fault was impossible, he decided to rebuke some conspicuous offender. About twenty minutes later than the proper hour, there entered a mild mannered little woman, one of the regular attendants of the church, but quite incorrigible in her tardiness. The minister looked up, fixed her with his spectacles, and remarked: "Sister, you are very much behind time. I hope you will not be so late in getting into heaven!" The little woman looked up, smiled sweetly, and, without a trace of confusion, replied, placidly: "I shan't care about that, doctor, so long as I get there!" And now the pastor feels that the smile that went round the church somehow spolled the effectiveness of his reprimand. The Allusion Classical The agricultural appropriation bill was before the House. Representative Rixey of Virginia was advocating an increase from $15,000 to $25,000 for the experimental farm owned by the government at Arlington. He said the small amount allowed was not enough to produce substantial results. Representative Wadsworth, is charge of the bill, pointed out that $15,000 was appropriated for the farm annually, and that year after year this mounted up, and in time would have become formidable. "Rome was not built in a day," he added in conclusion. "No," replied Mr. Rixey, "Rome was not built in a day, and if Romulus and Remus had been members of the committee on Agriculture Rome would never have been built."—Washington Times. Looks Suspicious. A Chicago man refuses to testify in court whether he had a bank account of $2,000,000 or not, on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. Must not have had it. Any man with that much money is in no danger of being incriminated. 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And he bowed pleasantly and passed on, leaving the newspaper man wondering. Good Roads for New Hampshire GOOD ROADS for NEW HAMPShire. Gov. Bachelder of New Hampshire has appointed an engineer who is at work mapping out the highways of the state. When this has been done a comprehensive system of road improvement will be begun. It is intended that every section of New Hampshire shall be provided with a first-class gravel road and the cost is expected to be from $800 to $1,500 per mile. The state is to appropriate $100,000 a year for this purpose, and the governor thinks that in six years 600 miles will have been completed. --- PUTS BAN ON WIDOWS. New York Magistrate Wants Maident Given a Show. Magistrate Luke J. Connorton of Brooklyn has just promulgated the opinion from the bench that "Widows should not be admitted to dances to the exclusion of maidens and they should not try to make a matrimonial agency of a dance hall." The edict was promulgated because the municipal hall in which the St. Patrick's day ball is to be held is too small to accommodate all who have applied for admission. The vote among the managers of the ball on the question of the admission of widows was a tie, and the final decision was left to Magistrate Connorton, whose decree stands as the final decision, from which there is no appeal. Bishop of London "Stumped." The following tale, doubtless apo- cryphal, is told of the bishop of London. Having indulged that precious pastime of asking any small boy or girl in the audience to ask him a question, Dr. Ingram was met by the fol- lowing: "Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Jacob's lad der when they had wings?" It is sad to record that even the bishop of London was driven to make the usual hu- milating and miserable escape by returning: "What little boy or gir would like to answer this?" WHEN NATURE IS REMISS. Seemingly Forgets to Endow Human Beings With Needed Faculties. Nature nods undoubtedly at times, as in the case of the child born without a brain whose case has been made public this week. Not long ago an infant was born and lived three weeks with a hole through its heart. Thousands of us are color blind, others have no musical sense. And there are many Laura Bridgmans, many Helen Kellers. The queen of Roumania has or had at her court in personal attendance upon herself the daughter of a blind nobleman. She could neither hear nor speak, and had to be taught to communicate by holding the throat of a speaker and imitating the vibration produced by the effort. But what a grudge against nature must such a one as Lyon Playfain discovered ever feel! Here was a girl who was blind, deaf, dumb and could neither taste nor smell. One might be pardoned for asking if such a life was worth living. Yet there was a beautiful lesson in such an existence, as the great warm heart of Playfair discovered. He sent her a pretty finger ring and the poor mite replied in this pitifully pretty letter: "Dear Sir Lyon Playfair: Sir Lyon Playfair sent Edith ring in box. Edith thank Sir Lyon Playfair for ring. Sir Lyon Playfair come to see Edith. Good-by. Edith." During his first visit the child had closely examined his hands, wrists, arms and face, her touch being marvelously accurate. A year later he went again to see her. At first she did not recognize him and no one b trayed his identity. At length she turned back the cuff of his shirt and touched his wrist. Her face lit up with intense joy. "It is the Englishman who gave me the ring," she rapidly spelled out on her fingers. And in a second she had flung her little arms around his neck and was weeping with delight at the recognition. PAINTS OF THE ANCIENTS. Water Colors Were Invariably Used in the Olden Days. Paints as now employed in the arts, both mechanical and decorative, were not known to the people of ancient times. Pigments they had in abundance, but the art of mixing them so as to make them enduring had not been discovered. Nowadays when the artisan is applying varnish he puts up a sign warning passers by to beware of paint, which shows that by the average man varnish is regarded as a species of paint. The two are, indeed, closely related, but it will surprise most people to learn that, while varnish is a product known in very remote ages, paint as used to-day is of comparative recent origin. The paint used in Babylon and Nineveh and in Pompeii was composed of pigments mixed not with oil but with water, to which had been added a little glue, egg albumen or perhaps sometimes caseln, which is albuminous matter from milk, or the gluten from cereal grains. Glue, however, was the most universal grinding material. Such paints are now known as fresco paints or water colors. They have not gone out of use, as is illustrated by the reported statement that the New York rapid transit subway walls are to be painted throughout with some of these preparations. Seven Wonders of the World. There have been different objects classed as the Seven Wonders of the World at different periods of the world's history. The seven wonders of antiquity were: The Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Tomb of Mausolos, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) by Phidias, the Pharos of Egypt, or else the Palace of Cyrus cemented with gold. These have been strung together in the following lines, which can be committed to memory without much difficulty: The pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid; Next Babylon's garden, for Amytis made; Then Mausolo's tomb of affection and guilt; Fourth, the Temple of Diana, in Ephesus built; The Colossus of Rhodes, cast in brass, the sun; Sixth, Jupiter's statue, by Philias done; The Pharos of Egypt, last wonder of old. Or the Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold. Wake Me a Song. Out of the silences wake me a song, Beautiful, sad, and soft, and low; Let the loveliest music sound along, And wink at a wall of woe Dim and dread. Out of the stillness in your heart— A thousand songs are sleeping there— Wake me a song, then dull of art! The song of a last despair, Dark and low, the silence of a moan. Out of the stillness, tone by tone, Cold as a snowflake, low as a moan. Out of the darkness flash me a song, Frightly dark are darkly bright; Let it sweep as a lone star sweeps along The mystical shadows of the night. Sing it sweet, Where nothing is drear, or dark, or dim, And earth-song soars into heavenly hymn. How They Interpreted It. We are taught not to be anxious for the future, as the future will come in time. We are taught in the Sermon on the Mount not to think of the future, because the evil we do in one day is sufficient.—Answers of London school children. HOW TWO BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ESCAPED DREAD CATARRH BY USE OF PE-RU-NA. Catarrh Robs Women of Health and Beauty. Pe-ru-na Makes Women Healthy and Beautiful. Miss Amanda Johnson. Miss Flora Hauser, 1032 S. New Jersey Street, Indianapolis, Ind., writes: "I think I must have been troubled with catarrh ever since I was very young, aggravated each time I caught a cold. This did not prove sufficiently serious to be obnoxious until last winter. Then my head and nose were so stopped up that I felt I must do something. Peruna was recommended to me by a friend. I used it for four weeks and found to my relief that ifcured me. I have not had a bit of trouble since. My head is clear, and I can safely affirm that Peruna cured me."—Miss Flora Hauser. Hundreds of Women Cured by Pe-ru-na of Annoving Catrarr. DR. HARTMAN has probably done more than any other physician toward popularizing a means of escape from the facial deformities, such as watery eyes, twisted nose, offensive cheeks, and ears, due to the ravaging effects of catarh. He has made chronic catarrh a life-long study. His remedy, popularly known as Peruna, is the most famous remedy for catarrh in existence. Probably there is not a man or woman, boy or girl within the bounds of the United States, but not heart-running. By far the largest majority have used Peruna. The multitude of people that have been cured of chronic catarrh by using Peruna can never be known. 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C. $50 PER WEEK made by AGENTS selling STREAM COOKERS and other novelties PEERLESS COOKER CO., Burbank, M. Miss Amanda Johnson, Fairchild, Wis., writes: "I write to tell a number of years and I thought it so I went to an oak and wore them for In fact, I felt wow slon that the troop head and that it friends had used thought I would t in a short time E eyes were in spl much improved and I was glad to get such a good medicine. No Woman Afflicted With Osarrh Can Be Either Beautiful or Attractive. Miss Flor "I write to tell you how much Peruna benefited me. For a number of years I had pain in my head around my eyes, and I thought it was because my eyes needed treatment, so I went to an occultist and had glasses fitted to my eyes and wore them for some time, but felt no relief whatever. In fact, I felt worse than before, and came to the conclusion that the trouble was not with my eyes, but with my head and that it must be catarrh. As so many of my friends had used Peruna with benefit for this trouble, I thought I would try it. I was not sorry that I did so, for in a short time I began to improve, and in four weeks my eyes were in splendid condition, my general health was much improved and all the catarrh of the head was gone. I was glad to get rid of this trouble and am glad to endorse such a good medicine as Peruna."—Miss Amanda Johnson. Miss Flora Hauser. "I write to tell you how much Peruna benefited me. For a number of years I had pain in my head around my eyes, and I thought it was because my eyes needed treatment, so I want to an occultist and had glasses fitted to my eyes and wore them for some time, but felt no relief whatever. In fact, I felt worse than before, and came to the conclusion that the trouble was not with my eyes, but with my head and that it must be catarrh. As so many of my friends had used Peruna with benefit for this trouble, I thought I would try it. I was not sorry that I did so, for in a short time I began to improve, and in four weeks my eyes were in splendid condition, my general health was much improved and all the catarrh of the head was gone. I was glad to get rid of this trouble and am glad to endore such a good medicine as Peruna."—Miss Amanda Johnson. No Woman Afflicted With Casarrah Can Be Either Beautiful or Attractive. Miss Flora Hauser. Many a girl has regained her faded beauty, many a matron has lengthened the days of her comely appearance by using Peruna. Peruna produces clean mucous membranes, the base of facial symmetry and a perfect complexion. The women have not been slow to discover that a course of Peruna will do more restoring yesteryear to beauty than all the viruses known to science. While it is true that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located, yet it is advisable for everyone to use Peruna as a preventive and not wait until catarrh SEM. 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