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. KANSAS CITY KAN NEWS. The Metropolitan Baptist church at the corner of 9th and Washington avenue, are carrying on a very successful meeting this week. Forty converts. Brother Britt has proved to the people of Kansas City, Kan., that he is one of the greatest gospel singers that ever came in this part of the country. Miss Maude Lillian is some better at this writing. The Duncan concert was a success last Friday night. Miss Burden rendered a very difficult piece. Mr. Duncan was good at the piano. Also, with mandolin. Mr. Brown's singing was also good. Don't fail to hear the J. W. White Minstrel and Jubilee company. It will be at M. and O. Hall soon. Mr. James L. Wakes, of our city, who lived on Ann avenue, was laid to rest from labor to reward last Sunday from the Metropolitan Baptist church. Rev. Wilson preached one of those heart rending sermons, and the remains were laid to rest in Woodlawn cemetery. Rev. Ward, at the A. M. E. church, preached a good sermon, at morning services. Rev. Wilson, at the Metropolitan, preached to the men at 3 p. m., Sunday. The famous U. P. coach cleaners were over to the concert last Saturday night at the Odd Fellows' hall corner of 18th and Flora Ave., Kansas City, Mo. They made a hit. Look out for them, they are O. K. Mr. T. Drake, of 612 Jersey, is laying off. He is thinking of transferring from the M. P. railway dining car service and going to Council Bluffs, Ia. Your correspondent, G. H. JONES. Sunday, April 24th will be a big day in Moberly. NEGRO MASONS TO ERECT 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. Are you going to Moberly, Sunday, April 24th? "Noah Murphy, an aged and highlv respected citizen, died Friday, March 18, at his residence, 2839 Belleview. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon under the auspices of Gate City Lodge, No. 4679, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, of which deceased was a charter member. Allen Chapel, A. M. E. church was crowded with friends and members of the order to hear the sermons which were delivered by Rev. F. Jesse Peck, Bro. Murphv having been a member of Allen Chapel for twenty years. "He leaves a wife, sister and a host of friends to mourn his loss.". And oblige. EDWARD S. LEWIS, Carrier No. 136. SLIGHT CAUSES FOR WAR. Bloodshed Often Begun With Very Little. Provocation. At least it was no small matter that brought Russia and Japan to hostilities. There was a good deal of truth in the saying that England drifted into the Crimean war without knowing exactly why it did so. No less accurate was Lord Palmerston's familiar declaration concerning the Schleswig-Holstein troubles. Only three men in Europe, he said, ever knew what those war-making troubles were. Two of the men died before the war broke out and the third forgot what was the point in dispute. A slighting reference by Frederick the Great to Mme. Pompadour was one of the exciting causes of the seven years' war. An overturned glass of water was one of the contributing elements to another. The omission of a simple "etc." was the peg upon which an earlier one was hung. The theft of a lady's petticoat brought Moors and Spaniards to blood-shed. The smashing of a mandarin's teapot was the basis of a war between the imperial forces of Chiga and hill tribes which lasted for generations. IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Sound Advice Given by a Father to His Son. The advice given by the parent to his son at Oxford in the year 1868 against catching cold when attending the theater will not be without interest in the pantomime season. "Child—I heard that the players are gon down to Oxford, but I am unwilling that you should go to see them act, for fear on your coming out of the hot play house into the cold ayer, you should catch harm, for as I did once coming out of the theater at a publick Act when it was very full and steaming hot, and walkin a Broad in the cold, and gave me such a cold that it had Likt to a cost me my Life. Your best way in such a cold is to go to him to your one chamber directly from the play house, and drink a glass of Sack, therefur Be sure you send your servant At your hand for a bottle of the Best Canary and keep it in your chamber for that purpose. . . . Harkon thou unto the voyce and Advise of mee Thy father, Loving Tine Better then himself.—London Daily Chronicle. KANSAS CITY MO.. FRIDAY, MARCH 25. 1904. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MISSING SOUL: Dear Sir: Grant us space in which to make a few statements relative to teachers and the raise of salaries. We have been pained by the fact that while the leading business men of this city are writing strong letters to the papers, showing why teachers should have more money, and are doing all they can to create a sentiment in favor of this movement, some of our own men who have denied themselves actual necessities of life in order to enter a profession or engage in business that must die if it has not the support of our own people, are loudest in urging voters not to vote for the raise of salaries. Suppose it is time, as they say, that the colored teachers do not know what to do with their money. One thing is certain, they will put it into circulation and this of itself will benefit all who have business relations with them. There are two strong reasons why colored voters should fall into line and vote for progress: First—In order to show the community that they are civilized enough to protect and support all that is good for their women. Second—That they may not show themselves to be such dogs in the manger that they will defeat the will of leading citizens and some day, wake up to find themselves disfranchised because they do not know how to use the ballot. Where are all these superior color men, anyway? If they were half as many as they think they are, there would be a few more comfortable homes in this city and perhaps a few less women in the school rooms without enough business sense to handle money. TWO SCHOOL TEACHERS. ALL TRUE. Few politicians lead double lives. One of the kind is enough. When a man falls in love the fall is apt to break his pocketbook. When a man is addicted to political vaporizing he is apt to befog the issue. Any man who calls himself an idiot wants others to question his veracity. Some engagements end happily, but the majority of them end in marriage. Most of our enemies are too contrary to stand still while we do the coal-of-fire-heaping act. Wealth has its penalties. You never hear of a poor man spending his money for dyspepsia tablets. Any man who has been three times married and three times divorced is entitled to a front room in a daffy asylum. When one woman tells another that she is still looking quite young it means she is beginning to carry weight for age. Future of Manchuria. Manchuria will be a successful competitor for the flour trade of the Orient. The land is very fertile; there is cheap coal for the millers; the subsidized ships will make low rates and farmers are satisfied with 20 to 30 Mexican cents a day. The necessities of the rural people are few. The men, women and children labor in the fields and maintain a cheap, lowly life, living in mud houses and sleeping on mud beds. The entire household furniture and outfit is no greater than could be carried in a single wheelbarrow. # ... GRAND CHANCELLOR OF K. P. IN THE CITY. Grand Chancellor A. W. Lloyd, of St. Louis, is in Kansas City on his annual state visit in connection with the four K. of P. lodges in this city. He will remain over Sunday in order to assist in conducting the Thanksgiving ger- Volces made to order are the latest things in surgery. Actual operations have demonstrated that the larynx or vocal box can be successfully removed and the patient may recover. In order to restore speech to the patient an artificial larynx and vocal chords are provided. The voice artificially produced is incapable of inflection, but, although it is a monotone, the patient is perfectly able to carry on a conversation. As nearly as possible 8,000 gallons of fresh water are used in a large battleship daily. About two-thirds of this is taken up by the boilers, and the remainder is used for drinking, washing, cooking, etc. When the store which she has taken out with her from port has been used, a vessel has to depend upon her evaporators for further supplies. Every modern warship is fitted with evaporating machinery to distill the sea water. The Shaking of Belief. "As one grows older," remarked the lady with the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the artificial frizz in her pompadour, "one begins to lose confidence in the people and things one has believed so implicitly and trusted so completely. Don't you think so?" "Yes," agreed the plump bachelor, "especially in the mirrors." A school for theatrical critics is to be opened in Paris. The students are to attend dress rehearsals and write them up for practice. "Lots er folks ain't got coal 'nuff ter warm 'em in dis worl," said Brother Dickey, "en some'll have mo' dan dey want in de next."—Atlanta Constitution. Volces Made to Order. It Is Now Distilled The Shaking of Belief School for Dramatic Critics Brother Dickey. vices of the Knights of Pythias. The services will begin at 2 o'clock at the Second Baptist church. Mr. Lloyd reports a splendid condition of affairs in the K. P. circles throughout the state. The order is growing rapidly under the leadership of Mr. Lloyd and the prospects are brighter than ever. A share in a Riuzum vessel can be required by a foreigner only by importance, and then can be held for only two years. Wild Boar in Engine's Way. A Prussian railway train in the Diffel region the other day ran over a wild boar weighing over 200 pounds. Scientific Expedition. The Austrian warship Kaiserin Elizabeth has left Poia fog, Australia on a voyage of scientific research. World's Tunnels. It is estimated that there are 1,200 tunnels in the world of something like a total of 600 miles. There are more than 17,000 machine tending operatives in Lowell. Mass. caring for 838,000 spindles and earning over $500,000 a month in wages. Convicts Tunnel to Freedom. Thirty convicts recently escaped from the Nikolok-Ussuri Jail. In Gibbera, by driving a tunnel 180 feet long under the building. The Prussian island of Rügen, in the Baltic, is infested with adders. Last year 1,243 of these poisonous snakes were killed and bounty collected on them. The London rainfall for 1903, as measured at the Brixton observatory, was 37.95 inches, the wettest on record. The nearest known to it was in 1824, when the rainfall measured 36.3 inches. Statistics supplied by Prof. Becker of Glasgow observatory state that the past year was the wettest since 1872. Rain fell on 239 days, the total being 53.32 inches. The total fall for Greenock during the year was 87.35 inches—a record for the town. A. W. LLOYD. Convicts Tunnel to Freedom. Record Rainfalls F.L.Winn 108 W. 8th r in the State. NUMBER 51 LEXINGTON NEWS. Mr. Al. Williams daughter and son went to Kansas City, Tuesday. Mr. William Hunter is still in the restaurant business and has a fine stock of groceries. All colored people ought to patronize him. Mrs. George Annie Colley has been quite ill for several weeks. She has been so ill that her daughter, Mrs. Conway, was called home to wait on her. Rev. R. Young was sent back to pastor the M. E. church another year. The members were glad to receive him. Mrs. Robert Smith came home from the mines Saturday slick. Mr. John Thirkles took his little son to Kansas City, Monday morning to have his eyes treated at the hospital. The mass meeting was held at the A. M. E. church last Thursday, March 17th. The speakers were: Mr. William Heywood, candidate for councilman in the fourth ward and Mr. John Thirkles, candidate for city marshall were the principal speakers for the evening. Mr. Thirkles is one that was reared among you and he asks you to support him if you love your race as you pretend to, you will support him. I heard a gentleman say in his speech that he was brought out by the colored people. And you say that you are a republican. WESTON Rev. J. H. Helens, of Pleasant Hill, Mo., came here Tuesday after his wife who has been visiting her father, S. W. Vaughn. They left Wednesday for Pleasant Hill, where he has charges of the Baptist church. Mrs. Vina Tilford is very sick at her nephew Mack Bell's home. Mr. Reuben Baylis is quite sick of pneumonia. Mr. William Washington is better. Mrs. Betty Howard, sister of Mrs. B. J. Stones, died quite suddenly at her home in St. Joe, Mo., on Tuesday at 4:30 a. m. Her remains will be shipped here for burial. Miss Virgle Busey, of near Wood Bluff, celebrated her 21st birthday. She received a great number of valuable presents from her many young friends. Your agent visited Wood Bluff yesterday on business. Mrs. Martha Birch is sick with grip. We find sickness prevailing, and subscriptions prospects are good. Mrs. Annie Jones, of 427 E. 6th. p is visiting friends and relative Pleasant Hill, Mo. SPLINTERS Turkey dressing—Feathers The best a man ever did should be his standard for the rest of life. Any young man who has never been in love ought to have money in the savings bank. The man who doesn't stop to look at the sign post cannot blame anybody but himself for taking the wrong road. Jenners—Has that grand opera star such a high voice? Benners—Well, I should say so; you have to put up five punks to hear her sing. If the courts insist on setting a market value on stolen kisses some people will lose the only chance they ever had of being kissed. The Judge—Prisoner, what excuse have you to offer for attempting to kiss the defendant? The Prisoner—It was dark, your honor, and I'll take my oath that I couldn't see her plainly. TOP HESMANS EYE Fashionable Morning Gown. Tasteful morning gowns are luxuries and necessities in one and should be included in every wardrobe. This one is adapted to a wide range of materials, but is shown in pale blue chalice figured with black and white, and trimmed with white bands piped with blue. The wide sleeves and the round neck make features of the season, but a stock collar can be added ```markdown ``` 4287 Home Down, 32 to 42 busk.) whenever desired, and the sleeves can be gathered into straight cuffs as shown in the back view. The tucked fronts provide looseness without undue fulness and the half-fitted back is always becoming. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 9 yards 27 or 5 yards 44 inches wide. A May Manton pattern, No. 4287, sizes 32 to 42, will be mailed to any address on receipt of ten cents. Circular Skirt Full skirts, that are confined over the bips, yet take soft and graceful folds below, make the latest shown and can be rolled upon as the favorites of the coming season. This one is circular and is arranged in small tucks at the upper portion that give a yoke effect, but is left plain at the front, so avoiding unbecoming fulness. The model is made of tan-colored foulard figured with brown and white, and is trimmed with folds of the material stitched with corticelli silk, but all the fashionable clinging materials 4865 Circular Skirt, 22 to 30 waist. Are admirable and trimming can be applique of any sort, little blas frills of the material or anything that may be preferred. Both skirt and folds are circular and the latter are shaped to fit smoothly over the foundation, which can be tucked at the upper edge as illustrated or arranged in gathers as preferred. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 10 yards 21 inches wide, 8 yards 27 inches wide, or $5\frac{1}{2}$ yards 44 inches wide. The pattern 4665 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30-inch waist measure. Tasteful Toilet Accessory. Tasteful little toilet accessories that are decorative as well as useful can be made of pretty napkin rings in China or Japanese bronze, or those ornamental wooden kind often offered for little more than the traditional song. The inside of the ring is fitted with smooth strip of cardboard and well filled with curled hair and then made into pincushion rounded at the top, after which it is covered with some bit of pretty silk or satin. The entire cushion is slipped within the ring, which is ornamental and practical, inasmuch as it stands firmly upon the dressing table and holds the various pins required in making a toilet. The cover for a China napkin may be of white satin, the top decoration a spider's web in gilt thread. The Japanese bronze ring looks exceedingly well covered with a small figure of Oriental silk, while the wooden one fills an ample need in satin or silk of the prevailing scheme of the room. For the Dinner Table. Among dining table ornamentations the brown art linen of fine quality has been converted into an additional decoration for the center. This artistic round is of more than ordinary size, is either scalloped, fringed or left plain with a hemstitch, as preferred. The embroidery is one of gay colorings, either in an Oriental design or a rich pointed pattern in which the blended many pastel shades. They can make it of whatever tint of linen desired, from a delicate tan to a dark brown, the needlework making the feature either in flower effect, a conventional plan, or bunches of blossoms and field grasses. These center pieces look well on a bare table or with a cloth of solid color, besides being an adornment for the table lamp. To Clean Velvet. Stains may frequently be removed by scraping pipeclay over the marks in the velvet, and then brushing the powder off lightly with a stiff brush. This will restore the bloom and raise the pile as well. Also, to raise the pile when much crushed, make an iron hot, cover it with a damp cloth and hold the velvet, lining side, over it. The operation cannot be undertaken alone, for while the velvet is being drawn over the hot iron the pile should be whisked with a soft brush. As it is the damp heat which benefits the pile, holding it, lining side, over a basin of boiling steaming water is also effective. Popular Picture Hat. A large white chip picture hat, with a flare front brim, is decorated with a wreath of small, half-open rosebuds in white and pale pink. Rose foliage, in which the leaves are scarcely larger than maidenhair fern, trims the under brim. Pale blue ribbon velvet is arranged around the upper side of the brim and a large loop bow of the same is on the under side at the left back. Oddities in Short Coats. A good many little short coats of the bolero order have short basques, and, despite its being rather an old fashion, some of them still pouch over back and front. Such trifles as these are entirely matters where the individual figure should be considered, and no hard and fast rule can be laid down. Some women always look best with a pouched bodice, whereas it shortens some types. Spotted Fabrics in Favor A great many spotted fabrics are used, crepe de chine and chiffon being spotted with chenille. These will be a feature of the spring modes. For some time past we have seen white crepe de chine spotted with black; now we have it in a variety of colors. Softer materials will take the place of spotted taffetas. Pattern Gowns Will Be the Rage Pattern gowns will be all the rage this summer. They are already shown in the shops arrayed in boxes, tied daintly with ribbons, and with cuffs and collars to match. Some also show insertions and applique laces, with a fringe of white linen thread. Trimming for Velvet Gown An exceedingly smart black velvet gown is trimmed with white satin revers, collar and cuffs, all braided with fine round, silver cord, while a wide band of the same adorns the skirt some twelve inches from the bottom. A Fad for Next Summer It will be quite the fad this coming summer to wear half length lace coats over the street and house gown, in order to obtain a graceful effect. They come in black and cream. The latter are often dyed to match the gown. High Collars Again. Collars are again worn very high, and are boned at the back and sides. It is pleasing to see this neatness about the neck after the floppiness we have put up with for so long. Readers of this paper can secure any May Manton pattern illustrated above by filling out all blanks in coupon, and mailing, with 10 cents, e.g. E. Harrison & Co. 65 Plymouth Place, Chisgo. Pattern will be mailed promptly. Name ... Town ... State ... Pattern No. ... Waist Measure (if for skirt) ... Bust Measure (if for waist) ... Age (if child's or miss's pattern) ... Write plainly. Fill out all blanks. Enclose 10c. Mail to E. E. Harrison & Co., 65 Plymouth Place, Chicago. --- TARIFF WALL BUSY MILLS AND FACTORIES NO FARMERS SUPERBUS FARMERS FULL DINNER PAIL G.O.P. BUY EUROPE'S GOODS BUY EUROPE'S GOODS THE UNITED STATES HER BEST MARKET. Figures Prove That Tariffs Have Not Prevented Increase of Trade—Remarkable Showing of Official Statistics. The United States is the greatest market that Europe finds for her wares. The monthly summary of commerce and finance of the United States bureau of statistics shows that the total imports of the fiscal year 1903 exceeded those of the previous year by more than $100,000,000. The imports of manufactured articles for the fiscal year 1903 were more than $412,000,000. The high place which the United States occupies in the industry of Europe shows that no increase of tariff can prevent Europe from sending us her goods in ever-increasing quantities. A German-American newspaper called Colombia, published in Berlin, calls attention to statistics bearing on this point, and shows the remarkable manner in which foreign countries have increased their trade with us in spite of tariffs. United States statistics for the year 1902, compared with statistics of 1870, show the increase as follows: Per cent. French 49 German 777.6 Boland 459.6 Italian 309.1 Switzerland 127.3 British 91 When the present American tariff was under discussion, thirteen of the leading industrial countries protested against the measure. Yet, in spite of the law, the outgoing business of at least ten of these countries with the United States has grown surprisingly. In 1898 the imports of the United States from Germany were about $70,000,000, while in 1902 they were $102,000,000. From France in 1898 the United States imported $53,000,000 worth of goods; in 1902 the imports were $83,000,000. The imports from Italy in 1898 were $20,000,000; in 1902, $30,000,000. Every one of these ten countries shows a proportionate increase, and the same is true of smaller nations in their dealings with the United States. The imports from Great Britain, however, show only 9 per cent increase. VERY MUCH INCLINE TARIFF BUSY MILLS AND FACTORIES NO FAMILIES HOSPEROUS FARMERS FULL DINNER PAIL in thirty years. But it must be remembered that for many years Great Britain had the bulk of the business. She has failed to hold her own. PROTECTION IN ENGLAND. A Cause of Infinite Worry to the Free- Traders of the United States. The growth of the protective tariff sentiment in Great Britain, under the vigorous campaign of Joseph Chamberlain, is a cause of infinite worry to a large number of the free trade newspapers in this country. If Cobdenism loses hold in England, what refuge will its exponents in this country find? In endeavoring to break the moral effect of this abandonment of free trade in the home of its votaries, some of these free trade newspapers profess to believe that the hand of England is forced in the matter; that she is compelled to turn to protection not because it is sound in principle, but as a matter of retaliation against the United States. Thus a conspicuous free trade newspaper says that the Chamberlain campaign has apparently roused in many quarters of this country "a vague feeling of distrust of the wisdom of our own policy, which has provoked this attempt at retaliation." This is an exact converse of the Chamberlain position. Mr. Chamberlain has never for a single instant used the argument that protection should be adopted for the purpose of compelling the United States to open its markets English goods. On the direct contrary he has commended the tariff policy of the United States and held it up as a model worthy of British adoption. For the free trade between the states of the American union, with a tariff against the outside world, he proposes a substantial equivalent of free trade between all of the component parts of the British Empire, with tariffs against outsiders, which is as near an equivalent of the American system of protection as the different circumstances of the British Empire will admit adopting. It is not to break into the American --- market, but to keep the American manufacturers from taking the British colonial markets away from the British manufacturers that Mr. Chamberlain urges the adoption of our policy. The things which have provoked this attitude of Chamberlain are the supremacy of the United States in manufacturing and the wonderful expansion of German manufacturing and commerce as well. Behind the Chamberlain policy there is no resentment at the tariff laws of Germany and the United States; but a resentment at the commercial and industrial expansion of both countries, which have rendered Great Britain's industrial and commercial supremacy a thing of the past. If there is any one in this country who questions the wisdom of the tariff policy of the United States, which has created the conditions above outlined, he certainly cannot be found in the ranks of the protectionists. The wisdom of our policy is most heartily indorsed by Chamberlain himself, who gives it the highest possible praise in his recommendation that it be copied by the British empire, in order that Great Britain can save herself from being driven out of the markets which her own colonies afford. There is no longer the remotest thought in Great Britain of being able to recapture the American markets.—Seattle Post Intelligencer. Official Salaries at Washington International Affairs at Washington. That $50,000 a year is an inadequate salary for the President of the United States has long been recognized by all persons who are familiar with the requirements imposed by official life in Washington at the present time. The $75,000 suggested by Senator Gallinger in the bill he has just introduced is none too much, and sufficient reasons could be found even for making the figure $100,000. When it comes to the other increases of salaries proposed in the bill—the Vice President and the cabinet officers from $8,000 to $15,000, the speaker of the House of Representatives from $8,000 to $12,000, and senators and representatives from $5,000 to $8,000—there will be more probability of active discussion. However, the same reasons that apply in the President's case unquestionably apply, and perhaps with even more force, in the cases of the cabinet officers. Certainly the Secretary of State cannot begin to fulfill his official obligations upon his salary, and with D TO STAND PAT WALL GOP. the other members of the cabinet the situation is, though in varying degree, similar. It is a perfectly practicable thing for Congress to raise the salaries of executive officers without much trouble, when it sees reason for the step. With the salaries of its own members the case is, however, very different. The first word that is heard upon such a proposal is "grab," and the record of the past shows that members of the lower House especially take their official lives in their hands when they vote for such a measure. Their constituents do not forget it at the next election. While the subject is being agitated there is another branch of the federal service which should also come in for consideration. That is the diplomatic service. Our ambassadors and many of our ministers abroad must always spend large sums from their private incomes in order to hold their places without making their government appear ridiculous to foreign eyes. With the foreign relations of this country becoming ever more complicated, and with the need of trained diplomats becoming in consequence ever greater, the United States can well afford to take early steps to place the diplomatic service upon such a basis that the country's best brains, even when unsupported by private purses, can be made available for its needs.—Chicago Record-Herdal. The Navy Bill. After a prolonged fight the House has passed the navy bill substantially as it was reported by the committee. Many attempts were made to make a party issue of it, and these will doubtless be renewed in the Senate. The answer to all such attempts is found in the history of the country. If the Democrats will read the oration of Senator Voorhees at the unveiling of the Farragut monument, they will get a different viewpoint from that held by those among them who oppose the navy THE ODD CORNER write and rope and staff he dares the ascen Wall over wall, precipitous and high; Far up the snowy peak invades the sky; Relieve. Bent with cloud; and, as his gaze is bent Toward the summit, eager and intent, He weighs his perilous task; and then, eyeve. And hand alert, toils upward steadily, Until he stands victorious and content. So do he. So do thou climb, O soul! the steep of life. Up, where the peak is flushed with rosy light! Beneath, far down, shall doubt and fear be hurled. - Charles Goff Floating Prairies. A curious phenomenon, known as prairies tremblantes, or floating prairies, prevails in Southern Louisiana, and is responsible for much damage during the annual overflow of the Mississippi river. All along the gulf coast the large border of land floats on the surface of the water. The land is made by fallen timber and grasses. It gradually accumulates earth and becomes in the course of time sufficiently firm to support bushes and even trees; but the soil is only three inches or a little less thick, and below it is the water, upon which it floats on account of its lightness. Occasionally pieces of trembling prairie are detached and become floating islands. There are quite a number of these islands, floating from side to side, being frequently carried at a rapid rate by the breeze, trees acting as sails to catch the wind. Soldiers on Ski The Norwegian government has lately been setting soldiers in marching order to travel for several consecutive days on ski. The result has been to show that the military ski-runner of ordinary proficiency can travel over snow in fair condition just about as far as soldiers in marching order can move over ordinary roads free from snow. For several days the average distance was about seventeen miles. The idea of ski-running, and of all forms of movement over snow and ice, is so associated with speed in our minds that it is difficult not to feel a sense of disappointment at this relatively poor rate of progress; but it is to be remembered that it is made over country where the soldier in his common footgear would make practically no way at all—Country Life. Tibetan Customs. Kawaguchi Kel-Kal, a Japanese priest, who journeyed into Tibet, in describing the customs of the people says that as a substitute for soap the men ordinarily anoint their faces with butter instead of washing them. The combination of the butter with the natural secretions of the skin gives the countenance a lustrous black polish. The females do not use butter in this way, but boil down chips of tocha wood, which is a species of mahogany, and with the resinous wax thus obtained, usually of two tints, black and red, they color their cheeks in a fashion that they doubtless believe renders them exceedingly attractive to the Tibetan males. Smuggler's Clever Trick. Smugglling from Geneva into France used to be carried on at a great rate. Alexandre Dumas tells how Beaule, a famous watchmaker of that city renowned for his skill in smuggling, got the better of the Count de Saint Cricq, King Louis Philippe's director of customs, who was traveling as a detective. The count bought 30,000 francs' worth of jewelry on condition that it should be delivered free of duty in Paris. When he went up to his bedroom on arriving at the French capital he found his purchases on the dressing table. Beaule had bribed the count's valet to stow them away among his luggage. Queer Underclothes. Esquimaux women wear the most curious kind of underclothing, its peculiarity being that it is made of the skins of birds. These skins before being sewed are chewed well by the women in order to make them soft. About a hundred skins are required to make a shirt, and the labor of chewing the skins which form their garments is quite enough to account for the massive, well-developed jaws of Esquimaux women. Set of Valuable Dishes Mrs. Freelon Starbird of West Farmington, Me., has a whole set—the blue rosebud pattern—of old fashioned dishes. They have been in her family for more than 100 years. They were given by an old aunt to her grandfather at the age of four years, in 1794. She has many old pieces, among the rest a pewter plate—the only one left from a set which were run into bullets in 1812. Offended Telephone Girl. Herr Baltazzl, a well-known sportsman in Vienna, is being sued for damages by a telephone exchange girl, whom, in the course of a dispute over the telephone, he had, in heated language, accused of not speaking the truth. Haa Bible Printed In 1516. A Rockland, Me., woman. Mrs. Elliott Stone, owns a Bible which was printed in 1516. It came to her from the family of Gov. Bradford, of whom she is a lineal descendant. EIGHT YEARS OF TORTURE. A man standing with a stick. No suffering more keen than kidney suffering. Sick kidneys make bad blood; cause weak, stiff and aching backs; cause blind, sick and dizzy headaches, lack of appetite and loss of sleep; keep you all tired out and spoil digestion. To have perfect health, you must cure the kidneys. Read how one mas was cured by Doan's Kidney Pills after eight years of torture. Henry Soule of Pultney St., Hammondport, N. Y., says: "For eight years I suffered constant agony from kidney complaint. I endured the worst torture from gravel and the kidney secretions were excessive and contained sediment like brick dust. I had to get out of bed from ten to twenty times a night and the loss of sleep wore me out. Indigestion came on and the distress after eating was terrible. Doan's Kidney Pills effected a complete and lasting cure, and after the symptoms of kidney trouble were gone my stomach began to work as it should. This lasting cure, especially in a person of my age, proves the great value of Doan's Kidney Pills more convincingly than could any words of mine." Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all drugists; price 50 cents per box, or mailed on receipt of price by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Write for free trial. The pessimist only puts his best foot forward when he is looking for trouble. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other countries. For the last few years was supposed to be inevitable. But most many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and not a local remedy, and by constantly failing to cure with it, the disease of Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Science has manufactured by F. J. Cheasay & Co., Toledo, Ohio. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood system. They offer one hundred dollars for say one case. It fails to cure. Send for circulators and testimonial. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio Firm Name: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio Take Hall Kills Pill for constipation Diet of Japanese Troops. Japanese soldiers are fed on rice, salted fish., dried seaweed and pickled plums—a diet that is almost universal in Japan, except in the navy, where rations of meat are served. Soldiers are allowed meat when on campaigns, but rarely eat it. Lighter Than Aluminum Nodium is the name of a metal recently discovered by a French engineer. It is lighter than aluminum, but otherwise resembles steel. It is made by an electric process at a cost of about 15 cents a pound. London City Is Decreasing While London is steadily growing, the population of the "city" is constantly decreasing. In 1871 it was 47,000; to-day it is 30,000. Nearly 5,000 of its buildings are not inhabited at night. Cookery School Food. Four persons died and several were made critically ill as a consequence of eating food supplied by a cookery school attached to the Grand Duchess Alice Institute for Women at Darmstadt. Small Failures Do the Mischief Vaulting ambition makes us forget the fact that we also have a few small things to jump over before we can arrive. It is the stumbling over these that makes for failure. DOCTOR DID IT. Put on 36 Pounds by Food. Feed a physician back to health and he gains an experience that he can use to benefit others. For this reason Grape-Nuts food is daily recommended to patients by hundreds of physicians who have cured themselves of stomach trouble. One doctor says: "Although a physician and trying to aid and assist my fellow beings to enjoy good health it must be admitted I formerly did not enjoy the best of health myself. In January, 1899, I only weighed 119 pounds. At this time I was living in the Ohio Valley and began to think I had about seen my best days. One day about 3 years ago I had an opportunity to try Grape-Nuts food for my breakfast. I liked it so well that I ate three teaspoonfuls three times a day and have regularly used it up to the present time, and I now weigh 155, a gain of 36 pounds and enjoy the best of health. "Not only has Grape-Nuts made this wonderful change in me, but through it I have helped my friends, relatives and patients. The sustaining power of this food is simply wonderful. "I have one patient who is a section hand on the C. & O. R. R., who eats nothing in the morning but four tablespoonfuls of Grape-Nuts and yet does his very hard work up to lunch time and enjoys the best of health and strength. "I could name a great many cases like this and I still prescribe Grape-Nuts in my practice every day." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mish. Ask any physician about the scientific principles on which Grape-Nuts food is made. He'll tell you the principles are perfect. Then a 10 days' trial proves that the principles are carried out in the food ("all the good of the grains so treated that anyone can digest it all") Shewn in renewed physical strength and brain energy. "There's a reason." Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellville." MY WESTERN LAND. Between two oceans finds its rest, Begirt by storms on either side. And washed by strong Pacific tide, The knowledge of thy wondrous birth Gives the earth the sunshine and the sea In sea of darkness thou didst stand; Now, first in light, my Western Land. In thee, the olive and the vine In thee the enmilock and with pine, In purest white the Sunshine rose Repeats the spotless Northern snows. Around the zone a belt of maize Rejoices in the sun's hot rays; And all that Nature could command She heaped on thee, my Western Land. Great Western Land, whose touch makes free. Advance to perfect liberty. Till right shall make thy sovereign might, And every wrong be crushed from sight, Behold thy day, thy time is here: Thy people greet, with naught to fear, God hold thee in his strong right hand, My well-beloved Western Land. -Caroline Hazard in Home Mission Mag- azine. A SERIOUS C By L. E. FRANFORTHER. Copyrighted, 1903, by The Authors Publishing Co. A Three guests from the city were whiling away summer's heated time at the Wilmoth homestead. They were Lascar, son of the host, who had early gone to the metropolis, taken up law studies, and was now a rising practitioner before the bar; Benjamin Hammond, a student friend, and Miss Jennie Blakeley. The latter had been given, by doting and capable parents, every advantage along the line in which she exhibited decided taste and talent—painting—and was now making a collection of country sketches for future use in her studio. Mr. Hammond reclined drowsily in a seat. From half closed lids was seen the river's shimmering bosom, and to his cars came the sound of approaching wheels. He stirred sufficiently to behold a carriage stop at the gate, smiled, then returned to his doze. Lascar Wilmoth and Miss Blakeley had been to the adjacent village. Evidently something there transpired to strain the appearance of friendship. As the carriage stopped Lascar sprang to the ground. His extended hand was but lightly touched by the lady as she alighted, and her dark eyes were fixed unswervingly ahead when she walked away. The gentleman's brown orbs danced with the very demon of mischief, and his lips twitched. But he did not dare laugh—gracious, not! The situation was entirely too serious for that. Ten minutes later Mr. Hammond was startled by a slap on his shoulder. "I require your assistance, Ben," sald Lascar, sliding down into the seat beside him. Ben yawned drowsily, and replied: "It's always on tap for you, old fellow. Want me to ask the girl?" "Worse than that," and Lascar laughed until the other smiled. "You've got to help develop the minor points of a plot, then carry it out." When lawyer and college student put their heads together something is bound to result. While they yet conversed a female figure emerged from the house. Her lithe form was bewitchingly attired in dress of pale blue, and on her head was a broad sunshade. Mr. Hammond arose and walked away. Lascar called after him: "Take the one painted red, with black belt." "Yes," she sald, as Ben unlocked the boat and shoved it down so she could step in; "I called Mr. Wilmoth a coward, and I think he deserved it." "Lascar has been an acquaintance of mine for a long time and I never thought that of him," was the grave reply. "Oh, it sometimes takes years to find one out! He was provoked at me for what I said. I guess, for he flushed M. M. "Want me to ask the girl?" quite angrily. But the man who wishes to stand well in my favor must have stamina and be willing to dare something in my behalf. When that person ran into me with his bicycle Las—Mr. Wilmoth never said a word in censure. I'm sure he even had the audacity to be inclined to laugh." "No doubt you served him right," in the same grave voice, while a smile lurked about the corners of Ben's mouth. "But here we are, Miss Blakeley. Shall I assist you?" Placeing her hand in his, Jennie timidly found a seat in the boat's stern. Ben pushed off and took up the oars. At first the tiny vessel rocked terribly, and she held on with both hands. But soon came smoother sailing, and her timidity vanished to such an extent that she trailed her fingers over the side as they glided out upon the placid stream. Ben, bending to the oars, remained silent. At last the lady, cast A man and a woman sit on a bench, reading a book. The man is wearing a suit and tie, while the woman is wearing a long dress. They are surrounded by trees and a fence. "I'm simply endeavoring to realize what a whopper you are." ing up at him a coquettish glance, asked: "Can you swim, Mr. Hammond?" "Not a bit," was the reply. Then, in a tone which suggested imparting of interesting information, "When I was a boy father whipped me for going near the water, impressed upon me the fact that great men are drowned every year, and I've been afraid to attempt—hello! There's Wilmoth on the bank waving us to come ashore. Shall we?" "No, indeed!" Followed a short silence. Miss Blakeley pulled down her sunshade, so he could not observe the direction of her glance. She flipped moisture from her fingers, turned and dabbed on the other side. The oarsman stealthily moved one foot. She turned back, face towards the home shore, and continued: "He need not think we are going to have him with us. It would be too much like surrendering when I've no notion of doing—good gracious, Mr. Hammond! Look at the water!" "I thought there was something wrong with this boat, it was becoming so unwieldy!" groaned Ben. There was a tiny gurgle as a small stream continued rushing in. "We'll drown!" gasped the terrified maiden, as she drew her feet up on the seat, almost lost her balance, and came near unsetting them. "Sit still, confound it!" grumbled Ben as he saw the watery grape yawning. "Why was I such a fool as to bring you out here when I can't swim! Help! help!" Lascar Wilmoth heard the cries. He jerked off coat and boots and sprang into the stream. Lower sank the boat. It was almost submerged. In another moment he would have reached it, but Miss Blakeley, suddenly becoming aware of a chilly encroachment, gave a start and over they went. "That was an awfully close shave!" gasped Wilmeth as he dragged the half-drowned girl up the bank. "Where—where's Ben? Is he dead?" queried she when her mouth was partially free of water. "No. He is clinging to the capsized vessel. Despite the fact that I'm almost tuckered I must go to his assistance at once." "Don't Las—Lascar!" and she clung to his arm. "I must. Hang it! Do you suppose I'll stand here and see so noble a fellow as he go down without at least an effort to save him. He would do as much—and more—in my behalf, and since you unkindly condemned me my life don't count for much anyway. Besides—ah, thank heaven! There's a boat putting out from the other bank." Two months later Mrs. Jennie Wilmoth was reading from a daily paper while her husband lounged in a hammock on the porch of their city home. Presently she said in considerable surprise: "Here is an item saying Ben Hammond has entered for the Inter-Collegiate swimming race." "Yes," was the drowsy reply, "he thinks he can win." "Win! Can he swim?" "Well, I should say so! Why, the whale that made the mistake of its life in swallowing Jonah could not hold a candle to him." "Then, sir, what meant that—that—!" "Heavens!" ejaculated Lascar, endearing to disentangle the hammock's intricacies so he could sit up. "I've put my foot in it now!" "Will you kindly explain?" "Reckon I'll have to. That boat had a plug in the bottom and he kicked it out while you were watching me from under your hat." "I was not watching you, sir!" "Oh, yes you were. Otherwise you would have seen him." "You are entirely mistaken. However, that's not pertinent to the subject. Why did he kick out the plug?" "Now, don't get excited, dear. It was done so your coward might have an opportunity to display himself." The audacity of the thing so amazed Jennie that she sat perfectly quiet, starting at him. "Well" observed Lascar at last. "I'm simply endeavoring to realize what a whopper you are." SPOILED THE DAY'S SPORT. Western Hunt Followed a Coyote, Which a Chiraman Killed. Foxes are few at Burlingame, a fashionable resort in California, and following a dead aniseed bag on live horses has become rather tame sport; so when the word was whispered recently that a live coyote (price $3.50) had been secured, there was great joy, much brushing of pink coats and vigorous polishing of horns. The chase came near being a failure on account of the coyote's ignorance of his duties. Instead of running, he sat still and looked friendly and puzzled. Noises of various kinds were made, and when the coyote at last decided to move he proved himself a descendant of the animal Mark Twain made famous. When he had a good start the hunt followed. The chase was hard, and the triumph stolen. The coyote, thoroughly enjoying the sport, was peacefully loping across the San Mateo landscape, in advance of the hounds, where he was seen by a Chinese cook. There is a Chinese superstition that the flesh of wild animals makes one brave, so this cook obtained a gun and slew the beast just as the hunters were becoming excited over who would be in at the "death." They were all there, and their wrath was such that the Chinese felt the need of a courage-inspiring coyote steak at once. -Argonaut. OLD BELIEF IS REVIVED. Wearing of Amulets Now in Vogue Among the Rich. Amulets are much in favor at the present moment, and the wearers of them are by no means only of the feminine community. They are worn in all manner of quaint designs. Each precious stone is supposed to contain some property peculiar to itself, and it is needless to say that one of the most sought after is that which is said to ward off appendicitis. It seems hardly credible that people of common sense should believe in such things, but true it is that the amulet is at present much in vogue, and apart from their superstitions, it is one of the daintiest presents imaginable. The emerald is credited with a host of good influences, the crysolite is a cure for insomnia, the onyx produces peaceful existence. But the luckiest amulet of all is that containing a turquoise, whether by reason of its "true blue" color or not it is hard to say. There is an old proverb which states that "he who possesses a turquoise will never lack a friend." Certainly, from time immemorial, the turquoise has never ceased to be regarded as a lucky stone. The Book of Hours. Come, let us read the Book of Hours, Illuminated by his hand Who taught the waves their saraband. Who taught the thrushes, shuts the flowers. He sends the wind into the grass. And leads the man and maid to meet. He treasures the storm with fire-shod feet. And at his nod the clouds amass. To use he gave swift hand and eye. Made flowers and faces good to love; Said, "Go, and take your joy hereof, And I shall call you by and by." So, love, prepare we, lowly wise, By spelling out his grandeurs here, That day his Presence to receive, Nor sturge at gaze in paradise. And the century. Our New Office Boy. The new office boy has the hardest time that ever. In the first place, every other boy feels his superiority by reason of long service in the business. The new boy looks to learn and learns to look, but first digging is a bit awkward, and he feels it. This morning the information bureau called up the editorial department to inquire the date of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The new boy received the message. He went off on a jerky lift the circuit around the room, got him self befuddled and finally landed back at the telephone with this message: "Mr. Lincoln isn't in now, but when he comes in Iil ask him."—Balti more News. Quiet Hour Teach Me to Wait. So many years to wear the river's way Through the slow-carved canons down of the sea and the soil. And I have murmured at a single day Of pause and waiting measured out for me. So many years preparing of the soil For one wee flower to blossom in thy sun! And I have murmured at an hour of toll Filled with dear tasks Thou gavest to be done. What knew the river, following slow thy hand, Of might and beauty in its years to be? The blessing it should bring a barren land, The glory of its welcome in thy sea? ery and would ease his burden, and you have already made it lighter. Show the vicious man that you can see in him something worth caring for, and you thereby take off the de spair that is at the bottom of so much vice. Let your enemy see that you have not room in your heart for an bitterness against him, and his arm will fall powerless.—Archbishop Thomson. Control Your Thoughts. Until you have learned to control your thoughts, you will never be abl What guessed the crumbling sand, the moldering sod, Of all that they should bear in one glad Color, and light, and incense unto God, Uplifted on the petals of a flower? They know not; yet, obedient to thy will, They fashioned forth thy glory strong the way, to show Ah, patient Christ, be patient with me still, Who murmur in my waiting, when I know -Mobel, Earle The Home and the Child. Except the Lord build the house, in vain do its builders toll thereon—Psalms, exxvii. 1. Man is more the creature of environment than of inheritance. The doctrine of innate evil is at variance with the teachings of science and of higher theology. In some subtle manner climate and food affect and even control the spiritual as well as the physical life of a people. In a similar way the character of a man is conditioned by the home into which he, as a child, was first ushered, and where was unfolded to him all that he for many years knew of life, of humanity, of the world. The child and the home are the two most important figures of the world—the very cornerstones of humanity. The child—the picture of sweet helplessness and wonderful potentiality. The home—its creator, its protector, its providence, its all but God. These two, the child and the home, are the makers of posterity and will condition the weal or woe of unborn generations. Why, then, are we so busy with crops and stocks, with commerce and industry, politics, armies and navies, effete monarchies and new republics, while millions of babies are being misshapen, myriads of children are growing into bad ways, because thousands of homes are schools of ignorance and nurseries of weakness and wickedness? Let us withdraw for a while from the maze of political scrambles, business struggles and cordid strifes and look into our homes and attune them to the sweet har monies of heavenly virtues. The home is the preliminary battleground where evil is to be fought in its incipency and conquered. There Satan must first be met and overcome and the young soul taught how to retain its native innocence. From the sacred precincts of the domestic heart every impurity or taint must be expelled. Let no word be breathed there save that which the angels may unblushingly hear. Truth, simplicity, love and modesty are the weapons of the fireside with which we fight the demons of unrighteousness. The home in which the young are taught gambling by precept or by example is not a true home, but an agency of the gambler's den, preparing the recruits who shall later become its patrons. The real home is an exemplar of simple and holy living. To create such a home of love, holliness and intellectual life, to make of it a battery where our children can be charged with that spiritual force that can fortify them against all the temptations and allurements of the world, something more is needed than is found in the average home. Wealth, culture, music, literature, education are not enough. "Except the Lord build the house, in vain do its builders toil thereon." In too many instances has that spiritual life that made our ancestors proof against the encroachments of worldliness been lost. The old familiar device, "God bless our home," is disappearing from its wonted place. That is the secret of unhappy and inefficient homes. May God come to his home again! Parenthood is but a feeble substitute to the child of Deity. The heavenly Father must stand by the earthly parents to aid in the sacred work of preparing the child for true manhood or womanhood and developing it for life and eternity.—Joseph Silverman, D. D. The Power of Compassion. There is something marvelous in the spirit of compassion. I do not mean that it seems to feel a positive pleasure in breathing the atmosphere of distress, nor that it seems to find time for every kind of well doing, nor that the heart and memory are so enlarged that a range of interest, ten times wider and more varied than personal interest finds room, but that compassion, though it is not talent nor energy, stands in the stead of these and does their work. The social good that is done in the world is not the work of its greatest minds. These set themselves one great task, and gather up all their powers for its accomplishment. They are jealous even of the minutes. They resist all distractions. The compassionate man gives up his time to others, and yet seems to find time for all things. Like the bread miraculously multiplied, he gives and yet he gathers up for himself more than he gave. How great, again, is its power to find its way to the miserable heart. Convince the wretched man that you know his mis- ery and would ease his burden, and you have already made it lighter. Show the vicious man that you can see in him something worth caring for, and you thereby take off the despair that is at the bottom of so much vice. Let your enemy see that you have not room in your heart for any bitterness against him, and his arm will fall powerless.—Archbishop Thomson. Control Your Thoughts. Until you have learned to control your thoughts, you will never be able to live a right life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," and it is because the thoughts we entertain in the hostelry of the soul are worthless and vain ones that your words and acts often bring so heavy a disgrace on the name we love. Well might the Wise Man say: "Keep thy heart above all keeping, for out of it are the issues of life." When the heart is right, the ear and the eye and the mouth and the foot will necessarily obey its promptings; but when the heart is wrong, filled with tides of ink, like the cuttlefish, it will envelop itself in the impurity to which it gives vent. If you habitually permit evil things to have their right of way through you, or lodging within you, remember that in God's sight you are here equally guilty with those who indulge in evil acts, because you are withheld, not by your fear of him, but by your desire to maintain your position among men. Be Cheerful. By enduring hardship cheerfully, or by accepting discomfort without a murmur, we may be of more real service to our fellows than by performing acts of ministry while we appear to begrudge the required effort, or while we ourselves are in an unloving mood. The way in which we do our most generous deeds is sometimes of as much importance as the deeds themselves. Many a one has been made more glad by the pleasant looks and words of one who had to refuse a requested favor, than by the reception of a desired favor from one who gave it with a sneer or a frown. The importance of the right way of doing good, in the line of giving or of with holding, should not be forgotten or undervalued. Charles Buxton says in this line, "You have not fulfilled the duty of being pleasant." How does that apply to our service to day? "If Ye Abide" Would that we were all more taken up with the personal Christ, less occupied with things about Him, more concerned with the Lord Himself. It is one of the most subtle snare laids for our feet to get us so busy with the schemes and systems, possibly good in themselves so far as they go, as that we lose sight of the one great necessity as well as crowning privilege of true discipleship—communion with the Lord. Out of touch with Jesus we are powerless for good, and destitute of blessings. If, Enoch-like we talk with God, our path becomes like that of "the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Continuance with Chris is the sine qua non of power with God and men; to abide with the King is the best possible way both to anticipate and to hasten the kingdom. Hand in Hand With God. What a vast proportion of our lives is spent in anxious and useless forbodings concerning the future—either our own or those of our dear ones. Present joys, present blessings slip by and we miss half the flavor, and all for want of faith in Him who provides for the tiniest insect in the sunbeam. Oh, when shall we learn the sweet trust in God that our little children teach us every day by their confiding faith in us? We, who are so mutable, so faulty, so irritable, so unjust; and He, who is so watchful, so pitiful, so loving, so forgiving? Why cannot we, slipping our hand into His each day, walk trustingly over that day's appointed path, thorny or flowery, crooked or straight, knowing that evening will bring us sleep, peace and home?-Phillips Brooks. Tribulations Have Value. Who can estimate the value of trials to a man? Dwight L. Moody once said: "I have an idea we will thank God in eternity for our reverses and trials more than anything else. I believe John Bunyan thanked God for the Bedford Jail more than for anything that happened to him down here. I believe Paul thanked God for the rods and stripes more than for anything else that happened to him. Are you passing through the waters? Don't get discouraged! God is with you. He was with Joseph when he was cast into prison. I had rather be in prison with the Almighty than outside without Him. You needn't be afraid of prison, or the grave, or death, or anything else. Cheer up, child of God; the time of your redemption draweth near!" Never Hides His Face. The abiding presence of God is the heritage of every child of God. The Father never hides his face from his child. Sin hides it, and unbelief hides it; but the Father lets his love shine all the day on the face of his children. As the sun is shining day and night, so your sun will never go down. Come and live in the presence of God.—Andrew Murray. Biberla. Siberia is yet the land of mystery. Popularly, it is supposed to be a country clad in ice, of dreary wastes of snow, barren plain and jagged mountains. This popular idea is not altogether correct. True, there are mountains and barren deserts; but there are vast plateaus and immense stretches of fertile, well watered plains. The climate is extremely cold in winter and excessively hot in summer. IF YOU USE BALL BLUE, Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. It would be awfully foolish for women to dress the way they do if they weren't built the way they are. When You Buy Starch When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 10 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. Occasionally a man manages to beat a woman in an argument by keeping his mouth shut. To Cure a Cold in One day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drugists refund money if it fails to cure 200. One dollar isn't much money, but it's a lot for some men to win on the races. Chance for Eulogy Why don't some of our poets dash off a few lines in eulogy of that benefactor (or factress) of the race, that all around good fellow and unintimidated rival of the cold storage trust—the hen that lays in winter?—Albany Argus. Marble in Washington State. It is said that marble quarries as rich as those of Italy or Vermont have been discovered in the hills of Stevens county, Washington. The entire region is covered with a dense growth of lofty pines. Two Dilemmas for a Woman: A woman can stand it much better to have a rainstorm come up when she is out in her best clothes than to have it clear up when she is out in her old ones which she wears only in bad weather. "Seasons" for Beggars Even beggars have their "season" in Constantinople. During the winter months the city larbors a much larger number of them than in the summer, when many migrate to the country. For Growing Girls West Pembroke, Me., March 21—Mrs. A. L. Smith of this place, says that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best remedy for growing girls. Mrs. Smith emphasizes her recommendation by the following experience: "My daughter was thirteen years old last November and it is now two years since she was first taken with Crazy Spells that would last a week and would then pass off. In a month she would have the spells again. At these times she would eat very little and was very yellow, even the whites of her eyes would be yellow. "The doctors gave us no encouragement, they all said they could not help her. After taking one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills, she has not had one bad spell. Of course, we continued the treatment until she had used in all about a dozen boxes, and we still give them to her occasionally, when she is not feeling well. Dodd's Kidney Pills are certainly the best medicine for growing girls." Mothers should heed the advice of Mrs. Smita, for by so doing they may save their daughters much pain and sickness and insure a healthy, happy future for them. A woman's idea of a stingy man is one who let's her pay car fare after she insists on doing it. All Up to Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. A woman without a streak of jealousy in her make-up is like an engine without steam. The Best Results in Starching can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz. more for same money—no cooking required. The shop lifters have organized a Steel Trust. Sekar's Home Builder Corp. So named because 50 acres produced so heavily that its proceeds built a lovely home. See Salzer's catalog. Yielded in 1808 in Ind., 157 bus. Obj. to Tenn. a bu., s. a. Mich. 128 bus. per acre. You can beat this record in 1904. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THESE YIELDS PER ACRE? 120 bu. Beardless Barley per acre. 110 bu. Salzer's New Nat. Oats, per-aer. 80 bu. Salzer Spelta & Macaroni Wheat. 1,000 bu. Pedigree Potatoes per acre. tons of Victoria Rape for sheep-acre. 60,000 lbs. Victoria Rape for sheep-acre. 180,000 lbs. Teintine, the fodder wonder. 64,000 lbs. Salzer's Superior Fodder Corn-rich, juicy fodder, per A. Now such yields you can have. Mr. Farmer, in 1904, if you will plant Salzer's seeds. JUST SEND THIS NOTTEN AND 100 in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Grosse, Wils., and receive their great catalog and lots of farm seed samples. (W. N. U.) It's ever so much easier and less en pensive to get married than to get un married. PUTNAM EADELESS DYES cost but 10 cents per package. Some infants might cry less if their mothers wouldn't attempt to vocalize I do not believe Pike's Cure for Consumption has an equal for cough and colds—JOHN BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1903. Hush money seldom works as a bribe with the talkative barber. An Exposition of Modern Wonders The World's Fair of 1904 Is the Greatest Educational Factor as Well as the Most Stupendous Entertainment that Was Ever Organized-No Words Can Describe Its Magnificence or Magnitude THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST CINEMAS . Mr. E.E. Stevens, editor of the Minneapolis Union, visited the World's Fair at St. Louis a few days ago, and the following letter in the Union describes in part what his impressions were: To Readers of "The Union": I have been through the World's Fair grounds again to-day for the third time since coming to St. Louis last week, and every day the wonder within me grows. I had imagined from the descriptions that the management intended to eclipse anything ever before attempted, but I had no idea of the tremendous size, the magnificent designs, the splendid settings, and the artistic beauty of the buildings. I was somewhat prepared to see something of the ordinary, but my mind had by no means grasped the splendors which will be open to the visitors to the World's Fair this summer. Of course the grounds and the buildings at this time are in a chaotic state, and the weather was unpropitious for pleasant visiting, but even with these drawbacks, and with nothing but the bare and in many cases but partially finished buildings to be seen, the Copyright, 1904. by Louisiana Purchase E 1 grounds are well worth traveling hundreds of miles to see, even as they are. This being the case, what will it be when everything is completed and when nature has combined with art to make this the fairest vision ever seen by mortal eyes. It would be presumptuous on my part to attempt to give a description of the grounds or of the buildings, and when I attempt a description I am at a loss for words, and can only repeat, "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful." The grounds are a natural beauty spot, and with the addition of the buildings, the statues, the fountains, the lagoon, the cascades, and all the cunning contrivances of art, the visit will be one which will never be forgotten, even if one should not go inside the buildings at all. And then the inside of the buildings—buildings covering acres and acres of ground, and stretching out for what seems to be interminable distances—when these are filled with the works of nature, of art, of science and of skill from every portion of the known world, who would be so foolish as to miss it? I would make it compulsory upon every parent who can afford to do so, AMUSED MEN OF MONEY. Conductor Forgot His Audience In His Earnestness. What is known as "the millionaire's train," running from Morristown, N. J., to Hoboken, carries a number of men known to the world of finance. The conductor is David Sanderson, to whom his passengers, grateful for his uniform good nature and efficiency, have just presented a handsome watch and a purse of gold. They insisted on his making a speech and Sanderson did so, winding up in this way: "Some people wonder why it is I have had such great success in life; why I have had no trouble with nobody. Even the other conductors don't understand it and they often ask me how I get along with the drunks on my train, an' I just tell 'em——" Such a shout of laughter went up from the millionaires that Sanderson's speech ended then and there. 1 Bimmelstein Not Interested On the car the other morning I happened to hang by the strap next to Blimmelstein's. Between begging patrons of and granting pardons to my BEEF TEA NEW TO HIM. Irishman Spoiled the Preparation by His Addition. Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of the most successful flying machine that has appeared thus far, live in Dayton, Ohio, where they conduct a bicycle factory. An aged Irishman, a faithful employee of theirs for a number of years, was kept at home last month by illness. Orville Wright, a basket on to send his children there, as they will never have an opportunity again to see anything approaching it, and they might travel all their lives and not see as much of the world as they will see here within the confines of this great Exposition. Every nation in the world will be represented, and a trip here will be a liberal education in itself. I certainly hope that every reader of "The Union" will take my advice and go to the Fair, even if they can spend but a few days there. It will be the event of a lifetime, and no one should deny themselves this much of the pleasures of the world, even if they have to deny themselves in some other direction. By all means make up your minds right now that you are going to the St. Louis World's Fair, and begin saving for that purpose right now, if necessary. And don't fail to give the boys and girls an opportunity to go. They will learn more here in a week than they will in school in a year. I wish I could make this strong enough so that every reader of this paper would make up his mind to see the World's Fair, for I am sure every one who comes will agree with THE STADIUM Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. Exposition. me that there was never anything to equal it and that the one who misses seeing it will never have another opportunity to see its equal. HYMN OF THE WEST. The Poet Stedman Has Written the World's Fair Hymn and It Has Been Set to Music. Western folk will be charmed by the beautiful hymn written by Edmund Clarence Stedman upon the invitation of the World's Fair management. He calls it the "Hymn of the West," a title befitting so splendid a production. It has five stanzas, and Prof. John K. Paine of Harvard University, has written the music, which is no less grand. The first public rendering of this hymn will be on the opening day of the great exposition, Saturday, April 30, when a drilled chorus of 600 voices will sing it. Other musical compositions specially written upon invitation of the World's Fair management are a march by Frank Vandusterstuken, director of the Cincinnati orchestra, and a waltz by Henry K. Hadley of near neighbors, I managed to read a few paragraphs in my newspaper. One of them told of a remarkable find by a Nippur expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. It was nothing less than a well-preserved and thoroughly authenticated tailor's bill nearly 5,000 years old. Since Bimmelstein himself is engaged in the clothing business, I thought he would be interested in this ancient relile, so I told him about it, but the story seemed to make no impression on him. "Hang it, man," said I, "don't you understand? It's a tailor's bill almost 5,000 years old." "Vell," he answered, "vot iss it good for? Dey can't collect it."—Brooklyn Eagle. Many Royal Visitors Coming. If all promises are fulfilled, the United States will have royal visitors galore next summer. So far these have announced their intention to visit the land of the free: King Leopold of Belgium, King Menelek of Abyssinia, the crown prince of Germany, the crown prince of Sweden and the crown prince of China. his arm, visited the sick man one afternoon. "Here John," he said, "are some dainties I have brought you. Here is some fruit; here is jelly; here is a tonic, fine for the aged, here is some superb beef tea." "Beef tay, is it, sor?" said the old man. "Shure, an' it shud be good, that beef tay. 'Tis a shrink Ol niver thried before. Ol thank ye, sor, for all ye've brought, but specially Ol thank ye for the fine beef tay." New York. All are famous composers and their compositions have the originality and high merit expected for such a signal event. The several pieces will be played by the many bands in their musical programs during the Exposition, under the direction of the Bureau of Music. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Dozens of Unique Materials Used in the Creation of World's Fair Statuary. Enduring marble and temporary staff, which have marked the statuary of past expositions, are not the only kinds at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, although more works of art carved from these materials are there exhibited than were ever collected at one place in the history of the world. Many odd materials have been made up into artistic figures that eloquently proclaim the idea of the designer. Some of these unique statues are colossal in size and large sums of money were expended in their making. Birmingham. Ala. has built a BROOKLYN GARDEN statue of Vulcan. It is 50 feet high, the base constructed of coal and coke and the statue cast in iron. It portrays Birmingham's importance as a manufacturing center. King Cotton is Mississippi's offering. Cotton is the material used, and the giant is as tall as Alabama's Vulcan. The Spirit of Utah is manifested in an artistic figure modeled from beeswax. Idaho presents the figure of a Coeur d'Alene miner cast from copper. Golden butter was used by a Minnesota artist as the appropriate material for a statue of John Stewart, the builder of the first creamery. Louisiana presents two curiosities in sculpture—a figure of Mephistopheles in sulphur and Lot's wife carved from a block of rock salt. California shows the figure of an elephant built of almonds. World's Fair Notes. The exhibits will amount to twenty thousand carloads. A machine will stamp the likeness of a World's Fair building on a penny for souvenir collectors. The Inside Inn, a hotel on the World's Fair grounds under Exposition control, has 2,359 rooms. SERVED AS MESSENGER BOY. Congressman Hardwick Mistaken for One of the House Pages. Congressman Hardwick, the boyish-looking man from Georgia, has had the experience that has befallen other youthful statesmen. He was standing close to the speaker's desk one day when one of the reading clerks, mistaking him for a page, said: "Run and bring me that paper that is lying on Gen. Grosvenor's desk." Smiling at the clerk's error, the Georgian did as requested. Half an hour later the chair recognized "the gentleman from Georgia," and to the surprise and mortification of the reading clerk, Mr Hardwick, the beardless boy, who had performed messenger duty a short time previous, arose and delivered a long speech on the race problem in the south. The Crinoline Is Coming. The new skirts with their extreme fullness, especially toward the front, will be the mother of our old curse—crinoline. Nothing but the stiffened petticoat will throw into shape the wide skirts of the immediate future. In a week or two the Irishman was back at work. The day of his return, seeing him at his post, Mr. Wright asked him with a smile how he liked his beef tea. "Shure, not a bit," said the old man, bluntly. "Why," said Mr. Wright, "beef tea is delicious if you heat it and add a little salt and pepper." "Well, sor, it may be good that way," said John. "But I put milk and sugar to it."—Los Angeles Times TICKLE GRASS BY BYRON WILLIAMS FRONT PAGE IN RED, YELLOW AND GREEN, WITH WOOD TYPE FOUR INCHES HIGH. The Beautiful Story of Imogene Constance Ingelfritz; or, How Hans Hogenblotz Won in an Unequal Battle for the Goods! (A True Story.) imogene Constance Ingelfritz was the beautiful but haughty daughter of a Shicagoo alderman. Her eyes reminded one of bluebells in the country vales in the spring time and her golden hair hung down her back like a tidy on grandmother's old armchair. Hans Hogenblotz was only a poor boy with a stone bruise. His father was a human elevator on a brick building, merely carryirr brick up a seven story ladder to a man at the top who did all the work. Hans' mother was a good worker, but because she ate custard with a fork, and didn't know which knife for the fish, she was refused the society entre and spent most of her time at home chasing underbreeches and lace-thingamajigs up and down a dilapidated old washboard. But Hans, despite the hod and the custard, loved the proud Imogene. She was the Sylvia of his boyish dreams, the Hero of his Leander, the queen of his Arcady, and because Love hopes where Reason doth despair, he dared to picture her as his—all his—some sweet day in the glorious, untried future. And then——. One beautiful afternoon in autumn, when the chipmunks were busy in the hazel brush, and the low rumbling of the coal wagon was once more heard in the land, Hans saved Imogene's life. Catching a pursuing gentleman HANS HOGENBLOTZ. cow by the tail he hung on until the bull ran himself to death in fright at this sudden attachment to his cauda appendage. It was at this juncture that Imogene Ingelfritz was bundled off to boarding school, while Haus, with grief in his heart, was set at work as an understudy to a garbage collector in the Ninety-seventh ward. His heart was as heavy as the great tins cans with which he wrestled, but he did his work faithfully and bled his time. How the weary days dragged on and on, and then something happened! At the close of a tedious week of travail and trouble, Hans was discarding his last load at the city dump, when in the quasi-darkness of the eventide, there suddenly burst from the heap at his feet a dazzling light. So great was the illumination that the shadows about the dump were entirely dispelled, and over a block away could be seen the Widow Flanahan's cow stable looming up like a turreted castle in a stage tableau. Gasping with surprise, Hans glanced down at his feet! Horrors! He could see the very bones through his great thick calf-skin shoes, and when he felt of the shoes in the scintillating light, the bones in his fingers were likewise visible. But Hans was no coward, and grabbing up the huge lump of light, he put it in a garbage can and lashed his jaded horses to the nearest drug store. As he appeared on the boulevard the electric lights became mere lightning-bugs and the darkness was dispelled as if by magic. Great crowds of people, noting the fireworks, gathered about and clamored for an explanation. A horse doctor, passing that way, took one blinking look into the garbage can and shouted: "RADIUM!" It was indeed so. And it weighed seven pounds. That night Hans locked his treasure in the henhouse and the hens, thinking a new day had arrived, got up and layed another egg, all round—er—that is, almost round! The next day, however, Hans sold three-fourths of a pound of radium for $476,300,000.07‰, and put the other six and a quarter pounds away for a rainy day. The rest was easy. He bought some store clothes and a plug hat that squatted when he went to the theater, and called on my Lady Imogene. Being leap year, she met him with a half-Nelson, and they lived happily ever afterward! Moral—Many a fortune has been carelessly thrown into the garbage. A Classic. When the springtime comes, gentle Annie And the birds flit by with twigs. We will wander forth to the rube-urbs With a cob, and scratch the pigsl WESTERN CANADA HAS AN EXCELLENT CLIMATE The Saskatchewan Valley Very Highly Favored. An interesting feature of Western Canada is its climate. Those who have made a study of it speak highly of it. The Canadian Government Agents are sending out an Atlas, and at the same time giving valuable information concerning railway rates, etc., to those interested in the country. As has been said, the climate is excellent. The elevation of this part of Canada is about 1,800 feet above the sea, about twice that of the average for Minnesota. It is a very desirable altitude. The country has a very equable climate taking the seasons through. The winters are bright and the summers are pleasantly warm. R F. Stupar, director of the meteorological service for Canada, says: "The salient features of the climate of the Canadian northwest territories are a clear, brzing atmosphere during the greater part of the year, and a medium rainfall and snowfall. The mean temperature for July at Winnipeg is 66, and Prince Albert 62. The former temperature is higher than at any part of England, and the latter is very similar to that found in many parts of the southern countries." At Prince Albert the average daily maximum in July is 76 and the minimum 48. Owing to this high day temperature with much sunshine, the crops come to maturity quickly. 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Whereupon Cactus Bill, who happened to be in town that day, and had gone to church for the first time in 25 years, fingered his revolver ominously, but thought better of it, and avenged himself by withholding the $5 gold piece he had intended to drop into the basket when it came around. He Saw Double. Mrs. Booze (3 a. m.)—What keeps you so long in the hall. Why don't you come up to bed? Mr. Fuller Booze (loaded)—Theherz two-hic—hall rackeh down here-hic—and I don't know-hic—which one to hang my hat on. Mrs. Booze—Hang one hat on each. Rather Unappreciative. Cecil (sentimentally)—Don't you feel gloomy when the sky is overcast with gray, when the rhythmic rain sounds a dirge upon the roof, and the landscape's beauties are nid by the weeping mist? Hazel (sweetly)—Yes; it's dreadfully annoying. It does make one's hair come out of curl so! His Confession. She had worked her leap year pre-rogative and he had balked at the hurdle. "Ah," she sighed, "this is a cruel and unexpected blow!" "If it will make it any easier for you," said the marble-hearted young man, "I'm willing to admit that I snore dreadfully." Same Old Story. Muggsby—That fellow Naggs is the biggest fool crank I ever met. Juggins—How's that? Muggsby—I argued with him two hours yesterday without being able to convince him that I was right and he was wrong. That Young Man Is Doomed. Anxious Mother—What are the intentions of that young man who calls on you three times a week? Pretty Daughter—Oh, it doesn't matter in the least. This is leap year and I know what my intentions are all right. A Living Proof. Wille Sapphedd—No, I have no bwothers or sistahs. I'm the only child of my pawents. Miss Oldestile—Dear me! And there are people who will persist in assert that marraige isn't a failure! No Market Left. "You know my intentions are good," he pleaded. "Of course," was the reply, "and I suppose you might sell them for paving blocks if hades wasn't pretty well paved already. As it is, it looks to me as if you had loaded up with goods for which there is n market left." Would if She Could. "I believe you'd stand before a mirror all day," said Mr. Closely snappily, "doing nothing but changing your dresses." "Perhaps I would," replied Mrs. Closely dreamily, "if I had the dresses."—Stray Stories. A Toast. "Put down that glass!" cried Mrs. Jawsum, catching her husband in the act of taking a wee nip. "If you drink that liquor I'll never speak to you again as long as I live." "My dear," said he, as he gulped it down, "here's long life to you."—Philadelphia Pre Pain in the Region of the Heart. Persons who have pain in the region of the heart, palpitation or heartburn think themselves suffering from heart disease when they seldom have any disease of that organ. In nine cases out of ten they are suffering from dyspepsia. The remedy—avoid indigestible food, excitement, take plenty of leg exercise out of doors—be regular in habits—avoid constipation and eat at least once a day How the Chinese Beat Time. A Chinese child is considered a year old at its birth, and its age is reckoned not from its birthdays, but from its New Year's days. If it is fortunate enough to be born on Feb. 1, the day before the Chinese New Year's day, it is said to be two years old when it is two years old. It is one year old when born, and another year is added on its first New Year's day. Derivation of Panama. It is supposed by some that Panama derived its name from the native word for butterfly. Explorers of the interior tell of swarms of butterflies, which at times rise on slopes of the mountains 'n dense clouds, darkening the sunshine. Others maintain that the name is from an Indian word, meaning abounding in fish. Paints Pope's Picture. Pope Plus X. is having his portrait painted by a French artist, M. Gabriel Ferrier. The picture may be described as a stage portrait, the Pope sitting on the pontifical throne and wearing the tiara. It is said that though the Pope's face is full of benevolence, M. Ferrier in all the lengthy sittings did not once see the Pope smile. He Knew the Distance Asked how far off he thought heaven was, the old colored brother replied: "Hit ain't no furder dan I kin fly, ef I faith才 faith enough ter git de wings—en de devil don't set fire ter 'em on de wa! '—Atlanta Constitution. Smoking Time. There is more smoking of pipes done in cold weather than at any other time, and, more pipes and smoking tobacco sold during the cold weather than during the temperate and heated spells. Making New Bank Notes The presses of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are now running eight and day on new national bank notes. Largest Window in Britain. The largest window in Britain is the east window in York cathedral. It is 75 feet high and 32 feet wide. Invest in Submarine Cables. There is $300,000,000 worth of English money invested in submarine cables. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Most horticulturists are grafters, but it is a mistake to suppose that all grafters are horticulturists. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use Defiance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. When the flying machine is perfect, ed we can visit our castles in the air: YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Girls, don't seek husbands; go after the bachelors. Ask Your Dealer For Allen's Foot-Ease. A powder. It rests the feet. Cure Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Gallous, Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrown Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FRE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Tombstone epitaphs don't fool the recording angel. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, suffers the gums, reduces tummation, allays pain, cures wounds colic. 20c a bottle. While the little dog is barking the big one abscends with the bone. Rheumatism's Killing Pain. Left in quick order after taking 10 doses of Dr. Skirvin's Rhematic Cure, in tablet form. 25 doses 20c, postnail. WIS. DRUG CO., LA CROSSE, WIS. (W. N. U.). When a woman loses her temper she shows her age. Pain in the Persons who have pain in the ing from heart disease when they are suffering from dyspe of leg exercise out of doors- THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME Are Never Without Peruna in the House for Catarrhal Diseases. MR. AND MRS. J. O. ATKINSON. INDEPENDENCE, MO. Wiggle=Stick (Patented) Laundry Blue Wiggle=Stick DIRECTIONS FOR USE: Wiggle-Stick AROUND IN THE WATER. Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE won't spill, break, freeze nor put clothes. Costs 10c and equals 20c worth of any other bluing. If your grower does not keep it send 10c for sample to THB LAUNDRY BLUE CO., 14 Michigan St., Chicago. Lincoln Daints ABSOLUTELY PURE PLUCK WINS—It ALWAYS wins. We had pluck wins 15 years ago to put an absolutely pure house paint on the market and it won. Ensure that we wear the new work, keep your work enough to guarantee it. Ask your dealer for flax and write us for special color design for your house—free. Lincoln Paint & Color Co., Lincoln, Nebr. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We sell: FREE and postpaid a 200 page treatment on Piles, Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100 page itilus, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by our mild method, non-paid a coat tillured—we furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR, 1010 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo. LADIES 88 to 115 paid weekly, doing plain sewing at home; experience unnecessary material sent free everywhere... Send gramped addressed envelope for particulars. Weber Manufacturing Co., Dept. W, 1195 Broadway, New York. CAPITAL IRON WORKS TOPEKA, KANASB Engineer, Repairs, Castings, Grate Bars, Builders' Iron Work and Steel Beams. HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID for DUCK and GEESE FEATHERS. PAYNE & LEEK, Lincoln, Nebraska. LAND Best in West Farming in Kansas—Ranching in Colorado. One tenth cash. Union Pacific. 215 Shadle Bluff, Kansas City, Mo. UNDER date of January 10, 1897, Dr. Hartman received the following letter: "My wife had been suffering from a complication of diseases for the past 25 years. Her case had baffled the skill of some of the most talented physicians. One of her worst troubles was the chronic constipation of several years' standing. "She also was passing through that most critical period in the life of a woman—change of life. In June, 1896, I wrote to you about her case. You advised a course of Peruna and Manalin, which we at once commenced, and have to say it completely cured her. She firmly believes that you are dead only for these wonderful remedies. "About the same time I wrote you about my own case of catarrh, which had been of 25 years' standing. At times I was almost past going. I commenced to use Peruna according to your instructions and continued its use for about a year, and it has completely cured me. "Your remedies do all that you claim for them, and even more. Catarrh cannot exist where Peruna is taken according to directions. Success to you and your remedies." John O. Atkinson. In a letter dated January 1, 1900, Mr. Atkinson says, after five years' experience with Peruna: "I will ever continue to speak a good word for Peruna. In my rounds as a travelling man I am a walking advertisement for Peruna and have induced many people during the past year to use Peruna with the most satisfactory results. I am still cured of catarrh." John O. Atkinson, Box 272, Independence, Mo. When old age comes on, catarral diseases come also. Systemic catarrh is almost universal in old people. This explains why Peruna has become so indispensable to old people. Peruna is their safe-guard. Peruna is the only remedy yet devised that meets these cases exactly. Such cases cannot be treated locally; nothing but an effective systemic remedy could cure them. This is exactly what Peruna is. It does not receive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. ELECTRIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER & RESTORER. Do it your self Before Using After Using WHY PAY OTHERS TO STRAIGHTEN AND DRESS YOUR HAIR yourself, at your own home, by the simple use of the Mime, tion and Comb, which enables any one to straighten and beautify trouble and very little expense. This marvelous preparation posits grow rapidly, stops it from falling out, cures dandruff and aids in the hair on healthy condition; restoring it soft and glossy. Price THE BERNICE ELECTRIC COMB is the safest and by for the ever invented, as it does away with that sorghin, burning and it often caused by the use of irons, and, as it will last a lifetime, it she desire to increase the beauty of their hair. By its use, in connect nice Electric Straightener and Restorer, kinky, stucco and unm straight, soft and pliable, and can easily be arranged in any style. Try WHY PAY OTHERS TO STRAIGHTEN AND DRESS YOUR HAIR, WHEN you can do it yourself, at your own home, by the simple use of the Mme. Bernice great preparation and Comb, which enables any one to straighten and beautify their own hair, with no trouble and very little expense. This marvelous preparation positively causes the hair to grow rapidly, stops it from falling out, cures dandruff and all diseases of the scalp, restoring the hair to a healthy condition, rendering it soft and glossy. Price of Preparation - 80 cts. THE BERNICE ELECTRIC COMB is the safest and by far the best article of this kind ever invented, as it does away with that scratching, burning and unnatural appearance so often caused by the use of irons, and, as it will last a lifetime, it should be used by all who desire to increase the beauty of their hair. By its use, in connection with the Mme. Bernice Electric Straightener, the unmanageable hair becomes straight, soft and pliable, and can easily be arranged in any style. Try it. Price of Comb. $1.00. A TRIAL IS CONVINCING Do Not Be Mislead into taking inferior or everything else that is good, may cost you a and will do you more good than anything else We send the Fair Straightener and Comb ceipt of purchase price, $1 80, to any part of the and address, City and State, with street num Order or Express Money Order to The BERNICE DRUG CO., 3 and goods will be Do Not Be Mislused into taking inferior or cheaper preparations, as our articles, like everything else that is good, may cost you a little more money, but will last you longer and will do you more good than anything else you can buy, and are cheapest in the end. We send the Fair Straightener and Comb together (or separately), express paid, on receipt of purchase price, $1.20, to any part of the United tates or Canada. Write your name and address, City and State, with street number, PLAINLY, and send Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order to The BERNICE DRUG CO., 33 West 42d St., N. Y. City and goods will be sent at once. Why We Grow Old. In answer to the question. "Why do we grow old?" a medical writer gives these three reasons: "We do not get enough physical exercise in the open air, we are poisoned by microbes which the scientists have not succeeded in destroying, and we are depressed by fear of death." What Ice Will Bear It is said that two-inch ice will sustain a man, or a regiment of properly spaced infantry; four-inch ice will carry a man on horseback, a squadron of cavalry, or light guns; six-inch ice, heavy field guns, such as eighty pounders; eight-inch ice, a battery of artillery, with carriages and horses, but not over one thousand pounds a square foot on sledges; ten-inch ice will sustain an army, while on fifteen-inch ice a railway can be built and operated. THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER. PRICE 25c. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out this blank and send it with $1.00 and you will receive by express $9.00 worth of the Pomade and items to agents. Enclosed please | P. O. Money Order for $1.00, for which send me as per your offer, $3.00 worth of the Great Southern Hair Pomade and terms to agents. Name..... Street..... Town or City..... County..... State..... Express Office..... Date of this order.... SEND ALL ORDERS TO THE TRAIN SERVICE OF THE MIS- SOURI PACIFIC. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time; 10:10 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arrives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and Southeastern trains. The only line leaving Kansas City after the Operas, Lodge meetings and Sunday night Church service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m., in time for all Eastern connections. 10:20 p. m.—10:50 a. m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment. Pullman Sleeper sand Compartment cars; Reclining Chair cars, (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at E. S. JEWETT, Pass. & Ticket Agent. F. J. NOTT. PARIS. MO. --- After Using DRESS YOUR HAIR, WHEN you can do it simple use of the Mme. Bernice great Prepara- raighten and beautify your own hair, with no mous preparation positively causes the hair to dandruff and all diseases of the scalp, restor- soft and glossy. Price of Preparation—80 cts, safest and by far the best article of this kind orching, burning and unnatural appearance so last a lifetime, it should be used by all who By us use, in connection with the Mme. Ber- kly, stu boon and unmanageable hair becomes inged in any style. Try It. Price of Comb. $1.00. CONVINCING for cheaper preparations, as our articles, like a little more money, but will last you longer you can buy, and are cheapest in the end. b together or separately), express paid, on re- the United tates or Canada. Write your name number, PLAINLY, and send Post Otil e Money 33 West 42d St., N. Y. City be sent at once. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Rev. S. W. Bacote, Second Baptist Tenth and Charlotte. Rev. F. J. Peck, Allen Chapel, Tenth and Charlotte. Rev. E. R. Vaughn, St. John's Chapel, Ninth and Bell. Rev. W. M. Hawkins, Ebenezer church, Second and Holmes. Rev. J. M. Harris, Burnes Church, Eleventh and Highland. Rev. S. W. Scott, Christian Church, 21st and Summit. Rev. R. P. Christain, A. M. E. Zion, Fifth and Belmont. Rev. J. T. Smith, A. M. E., Westport, 43rd and Prospect. Rev. J. W. Jacobs, Berry Chapel, 20th and Summit. Rev. W. S. Wheeler, Asbury A. M. E., 19th and Cherry. Rev. James H. Allen, A. M. E., Independence. Rev. J. J. Clark, M. E., Independence. Rev. T. H. Ewing, Vince Street Church, Vine street. Rev. F. G. Snelson, Presiding Elder, A. M. E. church, 401 Cleveland Ave, Kansas City, Kansas. The wind went forth her land and sea Land and free Found and kept up to meet it; Stately pines bowed down to greet it; While the wailing sea And the forest's murmured sigh Joined the cry Of the wind that swept 'er land and sea. The wind that blew upon the sea Furious and foe. Through the wind that roared upon the sea. The wind I was whispering on the lea Tenderly: But the white rose felt it pass. And the fragile stalks of grass Shook with hurt to see" All her trembling petals shed, As it fled So gently by the wind upon the lea. Blow, thou wind, upon the sea In tenderness or wrath, on land or seal - Adelalde A. Proctor. Profits in Pecan Raising. Some of the finest pecans in the world are said to be raised in Florida, where the industry is becoming important. A long time—eleven years—is required for a pecan grove to come to maturity, so that it requires patience to wait for the profits, and there are records of single trees yielding as much as $16 worth of nuts in a single season. In Jacksonville, twenty-six trees, lining an avenue, yielded 800 pounds of nuts that sold for $60 in cash. And at the same time the trees adorned the avenue and added greatly to its attractiveness. "By Jove, old chap!" said Mr. Maklinbrake with enthusiasm, "your wife must have been a mighty handsome woman when she was young. Even in all these years she hasn't changed so much—though, of course, it couldn't have been many years since she was young and hand—but when you come to think how little it takes to make some people look old, you know, you wonder how she manages to conceal the ravages—that isn't exactly what I mean, but she's the youngest looking woman for her—for her—have you got a match? My cigar has gone out."—Chicago Tribune. Steamer for Fruit Only From a Thames dockyard the other day was launched the first steamship ever built, in which the whole of the internal space, except what is required for the engines and bunkers, is to be devoted to the transportation of fruit. It will carry a dead weight cargo of 5,000 tons. Cool air is kept systematically circulating throughout every part of the fruit space. The steamship will carry bananas, the annual importation of which into England has increased, in three years, from 1,500,000 to 5,000,000. The careless eye read gathering for catering. There are millions of instructions heard and read every hour in this world and the world needs better ears and eyes and voices and penmanship. —Earl M. Pratt. The Wind. In Another Tangle. Grow Careful Eyes. --- --- BE NOT DECEIVED To the COLORED PEOPLE OF AMERICA. KING OF ALL HAIR TONICS, "OZONO." BEFORE. AFTER. Mr. Henry Stewart of Roanoke, Va., writes. Before using (zono my head was perfectly bent). Now a nice growth has occurred. (zono is perfectly gran.) Recognizing a eners now on the and simple, wa- though the a for unate even purchased to any BEFORE. AFTER. Mrs. Mart Holman, of Valley Mills Texas, writes: Ozono is the only hair tonic that has ever done my hair any good. It has caused my hair to grow long and straight. straighteners, men murderage to the ba- which are filled with sound a warning advertisements as which is sold with $200. Now, we you are dissatisfied we have advertis- e content. Join us people Ozone as the Kin- Kinky, Harsh, C Jezema, Bandra BEFORE. AFTER. Mr. George Branch, Mahon, Texas, writes: Ozono has done me a world of good. Everyone that uses it will use no other hair tonic. out. Oogon starch and the hair stain on the hair are treated. The price of which is good a sum of One Dollar Bills of Eggs, plant and cure, removes small beads. Nature's great beast is beautiful. We will also CHEMICALLY Rastly, to prove for our sake that as so removed it as to remove it. The actual value simply to introduce to our good Monee one hears has granted us the Miss Maggie B. Proctor, Fairfield, Texas, writes: I have used Ozono, and give it my hearty recommendation. I have been fooled so often it does me good to recommend honest goods. HENRY BELL, CREEDS, Va., writes: I cannot say too much in favor of your goods. This is the universal opinion in my county. The Magic Hair THE necessity of a practical condition or too curly hair has long and women, endowed by nature of hair, have found ordinary combin comparatively an easy matter to cure possibility to straighten curly hair quickly, effectively and satisfactorily uncontrolable head of hair or beard,lowing instructions, will straighten will not. It will save the loss of hair. It is positively the only device that it use of the Straightener after the hair better than the many methods ordinarily the risk of catching cold. To bar with a handle of comfortable grynary heat by means of gas, lamp or attached parallel to it, by an ingenious for use. The teeth of the comb can contents of the user. The full length of cens' use and straightens a heavy heat teeth shortened is preferable for me an indispensable article of toilet by personal appearance. It has the endo. ADDRESS MAGIC HAIR STRAIR 407 Cen Hair Straight tical contrivance for st has long been apparent by nature with unruly by combing unproductive ter to curl straight hair curly hair. The Magic factorily brings under or beard. It's a use a few straighten the hair where loss of hair that excessiv 价 that will accomplish the shampoo, will dry goods ordinarily employed cold. The Straightene ortable grip. The bar is lamp or common stove; ingenious arrangement, comb can be regulated length of the teeth is be heavy head of hair as fa fale for men's hair and be toilet by all who take p the endorsements of phy ADDRESS STRAIGHTENED ```markdown ``` The Magic Hair Straightener THE necessity of a practical contrivance for straightening refractious or too curly hair has long been apparent. The many men and women, endowed by nature with unruly and rebellious heads of hair, have found ordinary combing unproductive of results. It is comparatively an easy matter to curl straight hair but almost an impossibility to straighten curly hair. The Magic Hair Straightener quickly, effectively and satisfactorily brings under subjection the most uncontrollable head of hair or beard. It's use a few minutes daily, following instructions, will straighten the hair where hours of combing will not. It will save the loss of hair that excessive combing produces. It is positively the only device that will accomplish such results. The use of the Straightener after the shampoo, will dry the hair quicker and better than the many methods ordinarily employed, and lessen very decidedly the risk of catching cold. The Straightener consists of a steel bar with a handle of comfortable grip. The bar is heated to an ordinary heat by means of gas, lamp or common stove; the comb then attached parallel to it, by an ingenious arrangement, and is then ready for use. The teeth of the comb can be regulated to suit the requirements of the user. The full length of the teeth is best adapted for women's use and straightens a heavy head of hair as fast as combed. The teeth shortened is preferable for men's hair and beard. It will be found an indispensable article of toilet by all who take pride in their personal appearance. It has the endorsements of physicians, price $1.25 407 Century Building, MN Established 1889. OFF & CAMPBELL Rentals and EPHONE 146 Walnut St. John P. Tillheff. Establish TILLHOFF & B Real Estate, Rent TELEPHON 3-204 Hall Bldg., Corner 9th M Walnut Real Estate, Rentals and Insurance. TELEPHONE 1-469. 203-204 Hall Bldg., Corner 9th St. Walnut St. Kansas City, Mo AGENTS WANTED. BEFORE. AFTER. which is sold with an iron-ion guarantee to do all that is claimed for it, or we will forfeit $200. Now, we ask you a plain question—would we absolutely agree to forfeit $200 if we have advertised for several preparations, if they were not true to our we claim for them? We have advertised for several preparations, are glad to say that every one who has used Ozoo has been satisfied in every respect. 100,000 people are to day using our preparations, and every purchaser recommends Ozoo on hair tonics. Ozoo will positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Hardy, Cake, Chocolate, and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying scalp diseases, Itch, Eczema, Dandruff and Scurf cannot live after Ozoo has been applied. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair long and adorable. Now, right here, let us make a statement. Many firms are advertising remedies to straighten the hair, but when they send the preparation they tell you to use hot irons, Friends, do not use hot irons, they will burn up the life of the hair, and cause it to drop. Straightenings without any outside assistance. Nothing but Ozoo is necessary, and the hair is not straightened any time. The good effects on the hair are seen in a day or two after the first application. The price of Ozoo is $5c, a bottle, 4 boxes do the work. We make this liberal offer, good at any time. Cut out this coupon and send to us, enclosing with it the sum of $100. We will send four boxes of Ozoo and one large bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner, which can blacken the plant, and cures all skin diseases. Also removes all facial imperfections, and actually removes small-neck pits. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—the aucteur—removes wrinkles, moth patches, freckles, and all facial blemishes. We will also include one package of our celebrated Soap Soap, which is absolutely CHEMICALly PURE, and no soap but a pure soap should ever be used on the scalp. And, we will prove our liberality, we will put in a pint package of Anti-Odor, a positive cure for Scalp Itch, forms of Worm Diseases. Chilblains, Sore and Frozen Fetus, also removes all snails and scorpions. The actual value of this Grand Aggregation is $4.00, but we let you have it for $1.00 simply to introduce honest goods. In order to protect the public in general from imitations of our goods, and to avoid mistakes, we have placed upon our coupon our Trade-land, one head showing Short Hair and the other head Long Hair. The U.S. Government has marked, and it is registered in the Patent Office at Washington, so if the coupon has this mark, you can use it on coupon having the two heads on it. As to our responsibility, we refer you to the Editor of this paper or to the Metropolitan Bank of Richmond, Va. A last word. OZONO is absolutely guaranteed to straighten hair and cause a beautiful, luxurious growth. If your hair is already straight, you can use it to secure a glossy finish. Send us $1 at once, and the goods will be sent the same day we receive your order. I enclose you $1.00, for which please send at once the following goods: 4 Boxes of Ozone, worth $2.00, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Refiner, worth 50c, 1 Bottle Electrical Skin Food, worth $50c, 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- Odor, worth $50c, 1 Package Scalp Soap, worth $50c. Total, $4.00. If you want 4 letters like above, send $3.00. If you have a friend who has no coupon, let her write her name on a piece of paper and pin to coupon when you send your order. ```markdown ``` TRADE-MARK. MORE. AFTER face that there are many SO-CALLED hair growers, and appearing to executors, of which it is thought that it was acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was purchased at auction what it was bought through test by the colored people of that time, remedy, true to all that was claimed for it, and every member of the colored race, because they taught, soft and fine, and as beautiful as an article apparel upon the market were also make capital out of the merits of other people. ground firms have entered the market, offering of which are worthless, causing the hair to fall, and the colored people are acquiring the animal fats, and do the hair more harm than careful what you use on your hair. Do not bib words. Buy the King of all Hair Tonics, OZONO. dry the hair quicker and died, and lessen very de- ner consists of a steel is heated to an ordi- cate; the comb then at- tempt, and is then ready to suit the require- s best adapted for wom- fast as combed. The beard. It will be found the pride in their physicians. price $1.25 ER MFG. CO., ng, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Kans Unsurpass trains on Fair grow cent build Wm. J. Cam OBELL, Bad Insurance 469. Kansas City, Wm. J. Campbell LL, Insurance. Kansas City, Mo. AFTER. O CALLED hair-growers and hair-straighteners, honest statement to the colored race into secretary, Mrs. S. M. Moore, through ORZONO. It was not offered for sale on ocea help unless it was on market people of that time it was pronounced and claimed for it, and worthy in every respect race, because they found it to cause the hair as beautiful as an April morning. Now market there are only a number of people parts of other people's goods. Seeing out one market, offering hair-growers and hair using the hair to fall out and doing great work, putting these in a manner air more harm than good. To these let us your hair. Do not be deceived by flaring of all Hair Tonics. all that is claimed for it, or we will forsit could we absolutely agree to forselt $5.000. they were not true to all we claim for them we were not true to all we are glad to say that in every respect, rations, and every purchaser recommend positively take the Kinks out of Knottie will make short, harsh hair long hatching, every growing group diseases. Ich zomo has been applied. It will stop you to its natural color, making the hair long Many firms are advertising remedies to preparation they tell you to use hot irons top the life at any time. The good effect application. do the work. We make this liberal offer upon and send to us, enclosing with it the four large boxes of Ozonon and one large black skin brief, which is an off-season all the facial imperfections, and actually use fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food- patches, patches, and all facial blem- bated scalp Soap, which is absolutely soap should ever be used on the scalp. And int package of Ant-Odor, a positive cure of the human body, such as arm plets, etc. is $4.00, but we let you have it for $10 to protect the public. It general from it have placed upon our coupon our Trade in the Patent Office at Washington you will make no mistake. Use only the responsibility, we refer you to the Edito need to straighten hair and cause a beauty straight, you can use it to secure the goods will be sent the same day w CHEMICAL COMPANY, 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. HEMICAL CO. LAST, RICHMOND, VA.: at once the following goods: Single Electrical Skin Refiner, worth worth 50c., 1 Package (1 pint) Anti- p, worth 50c. Total, $4.00. House No. state. you have a friend who has no coupon, pin to coupon when you send your order. The Stoeltzing St The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. A COOKING OVEN WABASH Kansas CIt Unsurpassed service. "FOLLOW THE PLAG." Daily Trains 5 Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. 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