The Rising Son

Anne Murray - April 15-1904 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. Principal R. T. Coles, organizer of the Garrison school and one of the most practical and successful educators in the city. VOLUME IX. Principal R. T. Coles, organizer of most practical and successful educat IMPOSING EXERCISES AT GARRI SON SCHOOL Unveiling of William Lloyd Garrison's Picture-An Excellent Program Rendered. A few weeks ago Principal R. T. Coles, of the Garrison school, received a letter from Mr. Francis Jackson Garrison, of Boston, son of William Lloyd Garrison, inquiring if the school was named for his father. On being informed that it was, he sent him a large portrait of his father and five handsome volumes of his father's life for the Garrison School library. The boys in the manual training department framed the picture, and on Friday afternoon a large crowd of patrons and friends joined with the children in appropriate exercises when the picture was unveiled. It was one of the most impressive as well as instructive meetings ever held in the school. Many in the audience shed tears when the speakers referred to our benefactor and how he suffered and sacrificed for the liberation of the slaves. 1. Invocation, Rev. W. M. Hawkins. 2. Chant, 121st Psalm. 3. Remarks, by the Principal. 4. Hymn—Enlisted Men. 5. Quotations from Garrison's writings and speeches, by Seventh Grade. 6. Reading short sketch of Garrison's life, by Master Joe Bowler. 7. Hymn—How Firm a Foundation. 8. Address, Mrs. Frances J. Jackson. 9. Vocal Solo, Mr. W. T. White. 10. Remarks, Rev. M. Christian and Father Thomas G. Harper. 12. Hymn—Steal Away to Jesus. The four-volume life was written by Mr. Garrison's children and presented to the school by Mrs. Fannie Garrison Villard. The following is Mrs. Jackson's address: Teachers, Pupils and Friends: We have assembled to-day to do honor to one of America's greatest sons, the best, most loyal, most unselfish friend our race ever had. Perhaps this statement may seen extrava- slavery movement in this country, the truth of the above statement is forced upon us. Says Johnson, "No careful student of history can fail to be struck by the fact that in every crisis of human affairs men have been raised up with special qualifications for the work needed to be done at that particular time. The hour strikes for the achievement of a great reform and lo, a man appears upon the stage commissioned and equipped of God for the task." He gives the key-note to rallying thousands; he sounds the charge against an iniquitous institution, mighty in aspect but ripening for destruction. He calls a nation to repentance for its crimes against humanity and warns it of divine retribution for sin. Such men are prophets of God in their generation—misrepresented, persecuted, maligned, and sometimes slain, but always honored of God and sure at last to be honored of men. What a catalogue of such men "of whom the world was not worthy," might be culled from history—men whose bloody footsteps are the way marks of human progress and to whom under God, we owe what is most valuable in our civilization and most beneficent in the application of Christianity to society and its institutions. One of the greatest of all this host, the prophet of one of the grandest reforms that the world has ever witnessed, is William Lloyd Garrison. Born of humble but worthy parents, he inherited his literary tastes and inclinations from his father, his unswerving Christian faith from his mother. They tried to make a shoemaker of him, but he would not; they then apprenticed him to a printer, and here he seemed to find his life work and the composing-stick the most formidable weapon in the warfare he waged against sin and oppression. Your principal was most happy in the selection of the name of this great man as the name for this school, because if the boys and girls who attend this school are made familiar with the story of his life, it will be a constant source of inspiration to them and teach them a lesson of gratitude that will broaden their sympathies, deepen their charity, toward our oppressors of Phoenix by Taylor John MRS. F. J. JACKSON. gant, but when we review the anti-to-day. It is chiefly of the lesson that we may learn from this noble, unselfish life, that I wish to emphasize in my talk. No ecology of mine could add anything to his greatness. It stands out clearly defined, unique and alone in our country's history, like some lofty peak silhouetted against a clear sky, whose grandeur nothing can dim or enhance. From printer to editor seemed but a step to this new prophet. He became interested in the slaves through Lundy, a Quaker, who seems to have been the only one to keep alive the spark of liberty for the slaves. The whole country at that time seemed to be utterly oblivious to the wrongs of their black brothers in chains. Garrison left New England and went to Baltimore to assist Lundy in the publishing of The Genius of Universal Emancipation, but Lundy was a Quaker and Garrison a stern, unyielding New England, and how were two men of such opposite opinions to get along? Lundy preached gradual emancipation; Garrison immediate emancipation. They compromised matters by signing their initials to their articles. It was not long before such a bold spirit who dared to strike at slavery in its stronghold should be hampered, should be persecuted and not tolerated in a community whose prosperity depended on the slaves and the fruits of their toil. An article appeared denouncing the slave trade as practiced in Baltimore, no better than the foreign slave trade, which was termed piracy. This so incensed the owner of the ship who had taken a cargo of slaves to New Orleans, that he had Mr. Garrison arrested and tried. A heavy fine was imposed and as Mr. Garrison had no money it seemed as if he would have to serve a term in jail, but a friend from New York paid the fine and he was released. To a spirit less intrepid this experience would have cooled his ardor; what was he to gain by waging war on sin and oppression. The cause of a down-trodden only brought enmity, hatred and all uncharitable upon any one who dared assert that the blacks had as much right to liberty as the whites. In the face or this storm of rising indignation Garrison never for a moment lowered his standard or thought to temporize, to consider expediency or to compromise. His imprisonment broke off the partnership with Lundy and he went to Massachusetts to continue the war he had begun. My friends, think of a young man of 25, without money, without friends, without home, presuming to do battle against the whole country in behalf of the slave. Can the mind picture an act more sublime? Think for a moment what he had to fight against. The church, one would think, would have risen up and in no uncertain tone spoke in reheath of the slave, but did she? No, a thousand times no. She turned her back on Garrison and her minister called him a fanatic, reviled him and helped to persecute him. The state winked at the persecution of him and his followers, the press cried "away with him," and there seemed no place for him to turn for sympathy or help but the mighty arm of the Lord was about him and would not let him fail. He began publishing the Liberator in Boston, and vigorously assaulting slavery in the South and its sympathizers in the North, and nothing daunted or caused him to falter in the course he had chosen. Time will not permit me to go minutely into the anti-slavery movement, but a brief summary will show what was accounted by Mr. Garrison because he believed in right and never wavered or turned aside for one moment in his effort to establish the right and beat down the wrong. The first Anti-Slavery society was organized in Boston on a dark, stormy night in the lecture room of a colored church on December 16, 1831. They numbered twelve, and thus began the organized warfare to overcome a great moral wrong, whose small beginning gradually gathered around it a mighty host whose influence caused the mighty to tremble and whose momentum not even the mighty armed forces of the South could stop. Did this happen in a day, a year? No, patient, unceasing toll brought it about through the divine providence of God. From 1831 to 1861 is a far cry, "But truth crushed to earth will rise again—the eternal years of God are hers—But error wounded writhes with pain and dies—Among her worshipers." We come to-day hearing the olive branch of hope to the boys and girls of Garrison school. What is there for them to hope for in this country, wallowing in the slough of prejudice and rank injustice? Are we less brave than Garrison, were the times more propitious for the success of his cause than ours? Yet he lived to see the shackles of the slaves broken and the slaves made free citizens. Did he weary because every door was closed in his face? No, he forced them open, not by violence, but by the justice of his cause. Did his faith in God waver because his church and her minister passed him by on the other side? No, his faith remained steadfast in spite of all. Did he grow weary of the struggle because so few were willing to identify themselves with an unpopular movement? No, he became more tenacious of his purpose. Can we do less for ourselves and our race than did Garrison? We feel that whenever you look upon the kindly face of your patron saint, that every little bosom will heave with the determination to make the race better and stronger for having lived. K. U. STUDENTS "FLUNKED." Out of 1,250 "Jayhawkers." 225 Could Not Be the Experiment. Not Pass the Examinations. LAWRENCE, KAN., Feb. 13.—The registrar's books at the University of Kansas show that 225 students out of the whole number of 1,250 failed to pass the last examination. This is the largest number of failures recorded at this school. The reason advanced is that the work and examinations are harder and the rules more severe. There were sixty-two who "flunked" out of school, but a few of these have been reinstated. The largest list of failures in any of the departments was in the engineering school. Out of 290 students in this school so failed. Twenty-two of this number were sent home. There were 110 failures in the art school, thirty-six of whom were sent home, and there were more in the law school than previously. Athletes in the university seen to be poor students. Out of sixty-five applicants for positions on the different teams, only twelve are eligible to play. The others have not the required grade. A new rule now in effect, is that no matter how good a student is, he shall not carry more than three studies. The enrollment has reached 1,350, which is the largest number ever enrolled. There were two colored boys from our city that passed this rigid examination, Lloyd Baylor and Midian Bousfield. Lloyd Baylor deserves especial credit in passing this examination as he lost several weeks owing to sickness. WHY? Why not go West to the best country on earth; opportunities are great for our people. Those going to California will be greatly benefited by calling at the office of the Santa Fe office, 905 Main street, and have a talk with Rev. W. H. Roussean, from California. Some men lose their hair by butting in at the wrong time. CHINFAYNE. It is not safe to trust to the good heartedness of a man simply because he is fat. The less there is required of a man, the harder it is to get him to do it satisfactorily. The fact that you have done your best is no guarantee that what you have done is right. Whether an action is a favor or a compliment depends upon who makes the request for service. A desire to associate with those who have more money than he has has been the ruin of many a man. It is so much easier to attack than to defend that it is no wonder we are becoming a nation of fault finders. The trouble about professing to be good is that it requires too much effort to keep up to the record you may acquire. There was a time when mankind were all heroes, if you can believe the stories of the leftovers from a past generation.—"Uncle Dick," in Milwaukee Sentinel. NUMBER 3 KANSAS CITY, KAN., NEWS. Miss Russell, of 1040 Nebraska ave., who has been sick for the last three months, passed to the life beyond Thursday evening. Miss Russell was a devoted Christian and a good church worker. The funeral was preached by Rev. Griffith. She was taken to Emporia, Kan., for burial. Left Kansas City Thursday morning at 9 a. m., over the S. F. Ry. Mrs. Renfroe, 1719 Michigan, and Mr. Lomax, of Denver, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Penix and Mr. and Mrs. Jones last Tuesday night. Mr. T. Drake went to Topeka Thursday to spend a few days as the guest of Mr. Baker. The Negro must learn to stand by the race, as all others do. Our people here are trying to lift up the race as best they can. Any one wishing to advertise in the Son, please let your correspondent know when he comes around. Brother Proud will be at the Metropolitan church the second Sunday in May. The Orphans' Home will give an entertainment April 25th. The Willing Workers met at the Metropolitan church Tuesday night. They had on their program Mr. Quinness and Miss Josephine Reilly, but owing to it being a bad night, it was postponed until the 29th, Friday evening. LEXINGTON NEWS Mr. Marshal More of Mayview, shot and killed Bessie Vonne and her husband, and then shot himself. Probably he will recover. Miss Lottie Hawkins was in Kansas City Sunday and returned home Monday morning. Rev. Jones, of Guthrie, Okla., praached at the Second Baptist church Monday night. Mr. Archie Porter is still on the sick list. Mr. John Hunter who has been here visiting his sick mother left for Denver, Colo., Monday evening. Mr. Shebley Majors of Kansas City was here Monday on business. Mr. Wm. Hunter is still improving in his stock of groceries and also he is in the restaurant business. The S. M. T.'s will have a leap year entertainment on the 26th of April at the Barley Hall, on Main St. The ladies are expected to bring the gentlemen and the committees promise to have everything in first class style, Don't forget the time and place. Admission 10 cents. Mr. E. Conway is still in the barber business on 9th street. Rev. Gilbert was in Kansas City last week and is preparing to leave on the 39th for General Conference. The Sons of Zion will give an entertainment on the 28th, with the assistance of the Twentieth Century League. Mr. James Thorum, President; Mr. John Hegwood, Secretary. Mr. Henry Mason, one of our old citizens, departed this life at his home in East Lexington. He had been sick for about several months. He leaves a wife and three boys to mourn his loss. He was a member of the Old Men's Club. Chicken Bone as Ballast. Tissandier, the aeronaut relates that at a high altitude he once dined on a chicken and a bottle of wine. He threw out a bone of the former and the balloon at once thirty yards. He was reproached by his companion for wasting ballast.—The Woman's Work. Area of Japan. Japan's area corresponds to that of California, and Korea's to that of Kansas. QUIET HOUR Job. 31: 17. "If I have eaten my morsel alone" The patrishick spoke in scorn. What would be think of the church, were Eating her morsel alone? "I am a deliter alike to the Jew and the Greek." The mighty apostle cried; Traversing continents, souls to seek. For the love of the Crucified. Crucified are have sped; Millions are furnishings we have bread. But we eat our morsel alone. And His body broken to give them Bread. If we our morsel alone? Commune With Yourself. Enter into thy closet, and . . . shut thy door.—Matt vi. 6. Very few men put themselves under a microscope and look at their souls with the sharp eye of critical analysis. Self-examination is a prime duty, but a duty which we either neglect altogether or perform with reluctance. The consequence is that a great many of us have yet to make our own acquaintance. To use a blundering bit of rhetoric in order to illustrate this statement, our estimate of ourselves is so different from what we really are that we could pass ourselves on the highway without a nod of recognition. If we knew ourselves thoroughly we should work with more economy of energy and to far better purpose. If we knew what we are best adapted to do, and had an inventory of the mental and moral material in our possession to do it with, there would be fewer sighs and less heartbreaking. Calm, quiet, relentless self-examination, however, is the most irksome task which we ever set ourselves, and we gladly avail ourselves of every excuse to avoid it. The simple truth is, we have a lurking suspicion that we are not as large or as faithful or as strong or as noble as we like to think ourselves, and we rather fear to look into the matter lest our suspicions should be corroborated. We enjoy the flattery or the impulsive praise of our friends, and try to persuade ourselves that the praise or the flattery is deserved. In a word, it is a universal fault that we prefer to see ourselves through a magnifying glass, and have no desire to know the exact truth. See the wrecked lives scattered along the shores of time! What more pathetic picture can be conceived than that of a man who had made the worst of himself? His early hopes and ambitions, like the timbers of a stranded vessel, lie bleaching in the sun. The waves that break on the beach sound like a dirge, and you can hear in the air the tolling of bells. Why has this misfortune befallen? In most cases because he had no high alm, and was governed by impulse rather than conviction. If he had known himself more accurately his life would not be the tragedy it is. What can we do, then, to keep ours from making these fatal mistakes? Here is a very practical question. Some will tell you to "get religion." But religion is not a thing to be plucked from a tree like peaches. True, you must have religion, but where is it and what is it? A very simple rule will unfold the great secret. Acquire the habit of self-communion and everything else will follow. Spread a few minutes every day in the silence of your own chamber, talking to your soul about the great concerns of life, and it will not be long before you have God to keep you company. Quiet, restful contemplation is more magical than magic itself. It is utterly impossible for a man to think about himself for half an hour without becoming ashamed of himself, and shame after a little will transmute itself into resolution. Look over your purposes and motives critically and impartially; shut out the world and unfold yourself to yourself. Examine your hopes and fears, coming to a deliberate judgment concerning their value, and you will find sooner or later that invisible beings, "who walk the earth both when we wake and when we sleep," are your welcome companions. There is nothing so nearly omnipotent, so transfiguring, nothing that can so quickly bring you self-control, contentment and the consciousness of God's presence in your life, as quiet self examination in solitude. You will find it a Jacob's ladder, up which you daily climb to heaven—George H. Hepworth. Keep Your Eyes on the Pattern. Many a one is asking in the midst of hardship and sorrow. "Is life worth living?" We must not be swept away by such thoughts. Ours is a God-given life and every soul is precious in his sight. Why was I born? God, who never made a human being without some purpose, plans a high destiny for every one of us. Beautiful fabrics are woven by weavers who never see their work but on the wrong side. They sit before the loom with touch edges always before them. But the master-workman knows just what he wants; he has chosen the pattern and set the weaver at work and, by and by, when the tapestry is finished, the workman is astonished at the beauty his own hands have created. We have the pattern of a perfect character in the Lord Jesus Christ. He sets us at the task of weaving from that pattern every day. "How disappointing and wearisome is my life!" we say. Where is the use in this monotonous round? But if our eyes are upon the pattern and we faithfully obey orders, though we may not see now how the right side looks, it will be a glad surprise when it is finished.—From "A Year of Sacred Song." Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.—Amiel. To Love God. To love God is to love his character, As, for instance, God is purity. And so, to be pure in thought and look, to turn away from unhallowed books and conversation, to abhor the moments in which we have not been pure, is to love God. God is love; and to love men till private attachments have expanded into a philanthropy which embraces all—at last even the evil and enemies with compassion—that is to love God. God is truth. To be true, to hate every form of falsehood, to live a brave, true, real life—that is love to God. God is infinite; and to love the boundless reaching on from grace to grace, adding charity to faith, and rising upwards ever to see the ideal still above us, and to die with it unattained, aiming insatiably to be perfect even as the Father is perfect—that is to love God.—Frederick W. Robertson. "The wages of sin is death." but the sinner is in no hurry to collect his wages. Looking Ahead. The child who has only sailed his paper boat on the edge of a placid lake might wonder, said Dr. Parker once, what was wanted with enormous beams and bars of iron, innumerable bolts and screws, and clasps and bars of metal in making a ship. Ask the sailor, and he will answer; he says we must be prepared for something more than calm days, we must look ahead, the breakers will try us, the winds will put us to the test, we may come upon an unknown rock, we must be prepared for the worst as well as for the best. We call this prudence. We condemn its omission. We applaud its observance. What of men who attempt the stormy and treacherous waters of life, without having had any regard to the probable dangers of the voyage? A spasmodic religion is always likely to have fully as much chill as fever. Doing Duty Cheerfully. Our duty is to do what God would have us do, and to do it cheerfully because it should be done. God loves a cheerful door as well as a cheerful giver. A child in the home, a man or a woman in his or her place, gives added value to a right word or deed by being hearty and loving in its speech or performance. We must say and do lovingly what we should, whether we feel like it or not. Dinah Muloch Craik shows a world of wisdom when she says: "The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to try to like what one has to do; and one does come to like it in time." Is that our method of service? Activity is the right hand of fortune and frugality the left. Need of Christ's Fellowship You will want Christ in the evening of life, for evening is a lonely time without company. You will look for Jesus when the shadows gather and your earthly friends are gone. You may not see any need of having the Master at life's noon, or early in the afternoon when the sun is still shining, when friends are many and life is gay and roseate with promise; but when evening comes there will be a change, and in that hour you will recognize your need of the fellowship of Jesus. To know the sweetness of his fellowship to-day and within its silent blessedness to walk toward heaven, is to fill both the day and the evening of life with joy untold. Faith holds the title deeds of the celestial city. Pardon for All There is not a man in the world, however criminal or however great a sinner he may be, but that God may convert him in order to adorn his soul with all the virtues and with the most signal graces—Fra Egidio. When the Sun of Righteousness appears, the frost of the soul soon disappears. Religion for Every Day The design of the relation of the sacred to the secular is that we may sanctify the secular, declares Dr. Lorimer. The secular is very apt to become degraded; there is need of religion to go into everyday life and make it better. Better be a good man than a man of goods. WITH THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS THEY KEPT THE FAITH. There have been published in The Weekly Inter Ocean a hundred or more letters from men who cast their first votes for Fremont or Lincoln. Most of the first voters for Lincoln served in the union army, and a majority of them became home-makers in the newer West after the war. All of them are telling stories of the kind that illuminate history. For example, one man, severely wounded at Cold Harbor in 1864, and who saw in Gen. McClellan his ideal soldier, went to the polls on crutches and voted—for Abraham Lincoln, because he thought Lincoln's platform was right and McClellan's wrong. Another man, who with ten thousand other Union soldiers was a prisoner at Florence, Ala., voted a black bean for Lincoln. The Confederate authorities, desiring to ascertain the sentiment of the Union prisoners, established a polling place, and decreed the prisoners should vote white or black beans—white beans for McClellan and black beans for Lincoln. The emancipated and despondent men marched up to the polls and voted—black beans for Lincoln, many of them saying: "All hell cannot make us vote white beans." In other cases first votes for Lincoln were cast in rebel stockades; in others again, on the eve of battle or on long marches or after battles. Of those who voted for Lincoln in 1860 some came from the old Whig party, some from the Democratic, and not a few from the Free Soil party. Letters have been received from men who voted for Harrison in 1840, Clay in 1844, John P. Hale in 1852, Fremont in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860. The spirit that runs through all these letters is that of devotion to principle, pride in leadership like that of Lincoln and exultation in having started right in the career of citizenship. The story of a man who rode fifty miles to vote for Lincoln, or who walked ten miles to vote for Grant, or who, wounded, was carried to the polls clutching a ticket for Lincoln in his hand, may seem extravagant in this day, but they have the pathos of heroism, and they show what stuff the fighting American of forty and forty-four years ago had in him. When men come forward by the score to testify to their pride in the fact that they voted for Lincoln in troubulous times, there is afforded to the younger and indifferent voters of this later day a lesson in political conscience and political conviction. The first voters for Lincoln were men who stood fast when danger threatened, who fought and won through their devotion to principle, and who to-day rejoice in the memory of duty done and faith kept.—Chicago Inter Ocean. THE TERROR OF POVERTY. Talk as we may about sentimental sorrows, there are few miseries so real and terrible as existence without the actual necessaries of life, the food, the shelter, the warmth and the comfort which not only make it enjoyable, but even possible. The banking houses which have recently refused to employ married men whose incomes are less than $1,000 a year are in the right of it, and are merely practicing the duty of self-protection. Love is the strongest passion known to humanity, and the man who has always stood upright may perhaps lean under the weight of another dearer than himself. "I had not loved thee, dear, so much. Loved I not honor more." Loved I find more, is a beautiful sentiment, and one well worthy to be lived up to, but as love makes heroes of cowards, so also it sometimes makes cowards of heroes. There are things in life which are worse than death, and among these are privation and suffering for those for whose good we would gladly lay down our lives. "A wife and children are poverty's teeth," says Victor Hugo, "and they bite hard."—Helen Oldfield in Chicago Tribune. THE EVIL OF WORRY. Doubtless there has been more or less worry since Adam hid in the bushes, but it is a curious physiological—indeed, it may be a psychological—fact that real worry, the worry that has a definite cause, is not so wearing as the imaginary worries that we persist in taking to bed with us. We cannot rest and be busy at the same time, and it is not hard to guess what will happen to the brain that insists on fretting and worrying when it should be enjoying the serenity of repose. There are doctors who can examine your eyes and tell you whether you have kidney disease, but how much better it would be if some specialist could arise who can locate worry and pluck it out, as it were, by the roots. It is a baleful source of poison at best, and at its worst, it is rulous. Happy the man who is able to take the measure of his worries and troubles and value them for what they are! Happy, thrice happy, is the man who can present to their attacks the impenetrable armor of serenity! His years shall be long and full of charity. His head shall be in the sunshine, and there shall be no shadow about his feet. Old men will follow him, and little children shall be his companions.—Atlanta Constitution. It's the neglect of backache, sideache, pain in the hips or loins that finally prostrates the strongest body. 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All the pain was removed from my back and the kidney secretions became normal. Doan's Kidney Pills do all that is claimed for them." A FREE TRIAL of this great remedy which cured Mr. Lovell will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. However ladylike a girl may really be, she can't show it when chewing gum. Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes, Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other blistering oil. Do not keep it send 10c for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago A well-known judge tells a story about the cross-examination of a bad-tempered woman in his court. She was an Amazonian person. Her husband obviously the weaker vessel, sat sheepishly listening. The opposing counsel pressed a certain question rather urgently, and she said, angrily, "You needn't thmk to catch me. You tried that once before." The lawyer said: "Madam, I have not the slightest desire to catch you; and your husband looks as if he were sorry he did." Little Johnnie had been taught to ask a blessing at the table. One morning there was company present to breakfast and Johanie, being a little embarrassed, made the following brief petition: "Oh, Lord, forgive us for this food."—Lippincott's. Little Elmer is fond of Bible stories, and often refers to them in unexpected ways. One day, after absorbing a potash lozenge that had been given him for his sore throat, he said: "Mamma, that fellow Esau was a chump to trade his birthmark for a mess of that stuff!" Within the last three-quarters of a century the wages paid to the laboring classes have risen in Spain only 15 per cent. They now average 45 to 62 cents a day. A Case Where the Taking of Morphine Began With Coffee. "For 15 years," says a young Ohio woman, "I was a great sufferer from stomach, heart and liver trouble. For the last 10 years the suffering was terrible; it would be impossible to describe it. During the last three years I had convulsions from which the only relief was the use of morphine. "I had several physicians, nearly all of whom advised me to stop drinking tea and coffee, but as I could take only liquid foods I felt I could not live without coffee. I continued drinking it until I became almost insane, my mind was affected, while my whole nervous system was a complete wreck. I suffered day and night from thirst and as water would only make me sick I kept on trying different drinks until a friend asked me to try Postum Food Coffee. "I did so but it was some time before I was benefited by the change, my system was so filled with coffee poison. It was not long, however, before I could eat all kinds of foods and drink all the cold water I wanted and which my system demands. It is now 8 years I have drank nothing but Postum for breakfast and supper and the result has been that in place of being an invalid with my mind affected I am now strong, sturdy, happy and healthy. "I have a very delicate daughter who has been greatly benefited by drinking Postum, also a strong boy, who would rather go without food for his breakfast than his Postum. So much depends on the proper cooking of Postum for unless it is boiled the proper, length of time people will be disappointed in it. Those in the habit of drinking strong coffee should make the Postum very strong at first in order to get a strong coffee taste." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." SELF-COMMAND. It goes without saying that what ever positive moral element there is in courage comes not from the absence of fear, but from its presence and the self-command exerted to overcome its effects. The normally constituted man, except in moments of irresponsible excitement, is frightened by any danger that confronts him. This does not necessarily mean that he is panic-stricken, but only that he is conscious of the gravity of the situation in which he finds himself. It is then the part of manhood for him to take himself in hand and repress any demonstration of his fear which might react in a demoralizing way upon himself. The courageous man makes up his mind that, no matter what comes, and no matter what threatens, he will keep cool and do the best he can. He knows, when he thinks it over calmly, that his only hope rests in never letting go of himself, but being constantly in such a state of mind that he can take advantage of any opening that offers. The frequent exertion of this self-control results in gradual hardening or seasoning, so that, although he never overcomes his fears, it is progressively easier for him to avoid being overcome by them. The actually fearless man, if we can imagine one, is not likely to be very highly organized, for a fine organism means emotional susceptibility, and substantially all savages are brave. He may be a worthy enough person, but more or less wooden. He must be classified in an exclusive category, since he possesses a trait of distinct value to himself and his fellows, but devoid of any high moral quality. As the ancient philosopher explained why the gods wished for nothing, by noting the fact that they had already everything that heart could desire, so we may say that the fearless man deserves no special credit for his good conduct in the face of peril, because he is under no temptation to behave badly.—Washington Post. BEAUTIFY THE EARTH The zeal for gardening that of late years has animated urban breasts has been looked upon by many as a fad, but it has been proved to have deeper roots than belong to the genus fad and to have been more steady and more sturdy in its growth. It is more than a fad to the business man who may be seen emerging from a "seed store" with his arms filled with bare, gravelless sticks that are to bear June roses, it is more to the school boy who thinks a plant in the ground is worth two in the botany, and it is infinitely more to the slum inhabitant to whom a chance for a richer life has come in the form of garden opportunities. Down with the billboards and up with the gardens is to be the cry in vacant lots. It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when all the bare places, the unsightly rubbish heaps, and the bleak schoolyards may be transformed into beauty spots.—Chicago Tribune. OUT OF THE HARNESS AT 60. The death of Mark Hanna at a time when waning physical strength had several times warned him that it was "time to quit" suggests an argument in the Bankers' Magazine in favor of the early retirement of business men who have accumulated enough to secure them against want. Notwithstanding repeated arguments and admonitions in this direction the list of those distinguished for their successful attainment of wealth and fame who have continued their strenuous activities long after diminution of strength has warned them of the approaching end continues to be a very long one. American business men prefer to "die in the harness." Public opinion has not been tolerant of those who give up the strenuous struggle before their strength has wasted away. Indeed the man who lays off the harness at 60 to devote the remainder of his years to following personal tastes and proclivities is very apt to be regarded as "eccentric." Moreover, men like Russell Sage cling to the daily grind of business because it is their life. To give it up is to acknowledge that the end is approaching, that the span of life is about completed. From this acknowledgment the sturdy captain of some great industry shrinks.—Chicago Record-Herald. THE KISSING HABIT. Ethnologists tell us that among the primitive races kissing was unknown. The Lappa and Maoris to-day simply rub noses. Even the average native of Japan still knows nothing about kissing. The French and the Germans are the great kissing races. The learned Erasmus, who visited England in Tudor times, says that the "mucocutaneous investment" was universal and that everybody kissed, so that he felt that he was being "kissed to death" while there. But science is now making a severe war on this too prevalent habit. The New York Medical Journal says that it is the efficient cause of much insidious bacterial infection. Even the emperor of Germany has been forced to modify the osculatory habit—Boston tiloba. DANGEROUS NEGLECT. It's the neglect of backache, sideache, pain in the hips or loins that finally prostrates the strongest body. The kidney warnings are serious—they tell you that they are unable to filter the body's waste and poison from the blood—the sewers are clogged and impurities are running wild to impregnate nerves, heart, brain and every organ of the body with disease elements. Dean The Retort Courteous. A Modeat Petition: Potash and Pottage. Wagea in Spain. CAME FROM COFFEE. STATE OF OIY, CITY OF TOLEDO, 14. ** FRANK J. CHENY encryms cath that he is seven partner of the firm of F. J. CHENY & Co., doing affordees, and that said firm will pay the sum of affordees, and that said firm will pay the sum of cases of CATARVN that cannot be cured by HALL'S CATARVN CURE. ** FRANK J. CHENY FRANK J. CHENYE Sworn to before me and handed in in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarch Cure is taken internally and acts directly to the mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENYE & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Drugstores. Take Hall's Family Plims for constipation. They say of an Atchison man that me never sweat a drop in his life. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. Many vain regrets are concealed in the stubs of a check book. Defiance Starch is put up 15 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. The girl who marries the wrong man never marries the best man. Try One Package If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. Sanitary Squad of Beas Bees ventilate their hives and keep the air pure by having a sanitary squad beat the air into motion with their wings after the manner of our own electric fans. This ventilating squad is relieved every half hour. The Power of Truth It was at a breakfast table that the wife said to her husband. "You look as though you had raised Ned at your club last night, my dear." "I did," came the honest reply, "and what is worse, he raised me back." Plana Peruvian Railway The government of Peru will guarantee the construction of a railway from the Pacific to a navigable branch of the Amazon. The skin of the whale is from two inches to two feet thick, that of a large specimen often weighing thirty tons. Railroad to Dead Sea The Mecca railway has now reached a point directly east of the Dead sea on the high tableland of Moab. A Nurseryman's Experience. Tarleton, Tenn., April 18th.-Mr. E. J. Morton, proprietor of the Tarton Nurseries, has given for publication some of his experiences which, he doubt will interest a great many people who are trying to overcome similar difficulties. Among other things, he says: "I will answer all enquirers who enclose a stamp for reply and will be pleased to tell them just how I cured myself of a serious case of Kidney, Urinary and Bladder trouble, which had tortured me for over three years. I had a fearful burning sensation when urinating and was in very bad shape till I commenced to use a medicine called Dodd's Kidney Pills. "In a very short time I found I was getting better and I kept on till I was completely cured. Every symptom of my old trouble is gone and besides being cured of this particular trouble my general health is better than it has been for years. I feel like a new man and am ready at all times to testify to the wonderful curing powers of Dodd's Kidney Pills." When a hen-pecked man takes his family out driving, you bet his wife drives. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all drugusers, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Railroad officials are not all hypnotists, although they make passes. Free to Twenty-five Ladies. The Defiance Starch Co. will give 25 ladies a round trip ticket to the St. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri who will send in the largest number of trade marks cut from a ten cent, 16-count package of Defiance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, anywhere in the above named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and received by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September 1st, 1904. October and November will be the best months to visit the Exposition. Remember that Defiance is the only starch put up 16 oz. (a full pound) to the package. You get one-third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never sticks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mail September 5th. Starch for sale by all dealers. It's very careless o fa girl to be wearing stick pins when the lights go out. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment cures Sprains and Strains. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. WALL-DAWAGED ANNAPOLIS OLD PORT ROYAL (SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE) Not so old by forty years as St. Augustine, the rival city south of the St. John of the South, but yet much older in its varied and glorious experience, is this city, Port Royal, north of the St. John's of the North. Twenty times have hostile forces made attack upon its fortifications, while again and again its defenders have gathered and waited with bated breath threatened attacks that never came. Ten regular sieges the old fort has suffered, and three times it has been captured. Tossed back and forth like a handball between the French and English while those nations were at war, it ```markdown ``` Weapons of Ancient Warfare. yet was granted no secured peace when there was respite from fighting in Europe. The hostile approach, the hasty summoning for defense, the fatal strife of battle represent that which is most consipulous in its history for a century and a half. What wonder, then, that the plowshare not infrequently turns out of these historic grounds ancient arms, fragments of shell and cannon balls large and small! Fort Anne is very well preserved, not exactly as it was, though, for the life has gone out of it. The palisaded ditch of water which ran through the moat is dry and filled up. The timbers that faced the escarpments are rotten and gone, too. No logs ready to be rolled down on besiegers; no pyramids of shot, no guns save a few condemned cannon appear on ravelins and bastions. Defenders and defenses have alike disappeared. So also within the ramparts have all the buildings that served for habitations and supplies but one, and still so much is left that one unfamiliar with its earlier appearance misses only the life it suggests but does not present. Surely, a squad of soldiers might be expected at any moment to pass through the sally port. The prison in the northwest angle of the parade, a dark, stifling cell under the bastion, seems quite as ready to receive the guilty as when the last delinquent exploded his offense there. Annapolis is a city of nameless graves. No one knows certainly where the French buried their dead, although real heroes and herolines of noble birth were numbered among them. The English cemetery under the shadow of the fort shows few names of the worthy families known to have belonged to the early populations. Gregoria Remonia Antonia, the Spanish beauty whose name has been associated with that of the Duke of Wellington, and who accompanied her husband to the field of Waterloo and watched the struggle of that day, curiously enough found her final resting place here, where the waves of English and French hostility broke upon the shore. Across the ferry to the Granville shore it is but a pleasant walk of a foreman on over North mountain to the bay of Fundy and back again. From the top of the mountain one has a nobler view than at the fort of the fair basin and still fairer enclosing hills and vales which made Samuel Champlain say, as he and his compan- PLAN OF OLD FORT ANN lons sailed through Digby gap into into the sheltered harbor in the summer of 1604. "This is the most commodious and pleasant place we have seen in the country," and after a winter on the river St. Croix and a cruise along the New England coast the French all retained the same opinion, and came back to found their permanent settlement at Port Royal. The fifteen vivacious courtiers certainly did not intend to make drudgery even of the settlement of a new country. Under the leadership of the lively Lescabot, they made light of hardships and toll. No other place in North America can boast such revels in those days, or so much decorum in sport. Among the many stories connected with the hostilities about Port Royal, the most romantic and thrilling is that of the bitter feud between Charles La Tour and D'Aulnay Charnise. The former, as the friend and associate of Poutrincourt's son, received from him at his death the right of command in Acadie. D'Aulnay held the same right from the friend of Richelieu in France. The enmity of the two men was assured, for neither recognized the claim of the other. La Tour retreated to St. John, supported by his ability to make friends, by aid from New England, and by his young bride, the most brilliant and interesting woman of the French period. D'Aulnay, the favorite of the French court, a zealous promoter of the Jesuit missions and of all measures for the improvement of his colony, remained at Annapolis. Naturally the encounters of these men during ten years of hostility are sufficiently episodic, but it is Mme. La Tour who figures most heroically in the feud. Think of a woman braving the long voyage to France to win aid for her husband from the luxurious court of Louis XIV! D'Aulnay sought to thwart her, but she escaped pursuit to England, was detained upon her return voyage a long time on the north coast and finally carried to Boston, where she prosecuted the captain of the vessel upon which she came for unwarranted delay, won her suit and returned to St. John with the desired aid. It was upon Mme. La Tour, during the absence of her husband, that D'Aulnay made his final attack. The woman made a brave defense, repulsing his first attack in February. He returned, however, in April, and treacherously gained admission to the fort. Still Mme. La Tour held out, but at length, forced to yield, she surrendered under condition that her supporters should be spared. When D'Aulnay, however, saw how few had withstood him, enraged, he commanded the execution of all save one, and compelled Mme. La Tour to witness the deaths of her followers with a halter about her neck. Under the terrible strain of such scenes the strong nerves of the brave woman gave out, and three weeks afterward she died a prisoner. It is some satisfaction to know that the Annapolis river swallowed up her foe five years later. Of him it has been said, "With power to conquer his enemies, he had no ability to make friends." Upon the death of D'Aulnay the fugitive La Tour returned from the wilds, was received once more in favor at the French court, and, by a strange twist of fate, married the widow of his former enemy, the drowned D'Aulnay. The old French road is still tracec DARGLE'S MILL, THE SITE OF THE OLD STRAIGHT MILL. along Lovers' lane, a delightfully picturesque footpath at the present day, which below the hill runs parallel with St. Georges street, the residential street of Annapolis. Across Babbling brook, near where Lovers' lane joins the main road at Dargie's mill, is one of the old French dams, and on Allen's creek a portion of the fortification built for the protection of the mills. The French settlement was doubtless concentrated at Lequille, near the mills, after D'Aulnay took command and brought his colony of farmers to Port Royal. Many relics of their habitation are found thereabout, and there are the ancient willows and apple trees which the French loved to plant, and which, as living monuments, have persisted through the centuries to mark the places where stood the homes of the Acadians. A Somnambulistic Dancer. Sommambulistic dancing is one of the latest methods of the expression of music. A young Russian girl is the "sleep dancer," as she is called, and her enigmatic ability was discovered by a Parisian magnetopath. While in a hypnotic condition this young woman, whose first name is Maddeleine and whose last name is designated only by the initial "G," will act out in pantomime the feeling in a piece of music that is played before her. Her peculiar talent has excited much attention from writers, artists and students. We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.—Seneca. NOTHING TO BE DONE NOTHING TO BE DONE DEMOCRATS SEE LITTLE PROS PECT FOR GETTING VOTES. Entire Session of Congress Has Been a Republican Vote-Making Time and the Opposition is Naturally Willing to See an Early Finish. It is said that the Democrats are as anxious as the Republicans to get an early adjournment of congress. The Republicans have been figuring on closing the session about April 30, and as they are likely to have all the big money bills of the government out of the way by that time, they can probably accomplish this without detriment to the public service. True, the date would be earlier than any previous adjournment in a presidential year for about half a century, but the work is well advanced and the leaders of the party are anxious to get home to do some preliminary campaign work. Several reasons are responsible for the Democrats' willingness that the session should end long before the national convention time. They see that nothing which will be done in congress will give them a chance to make party capital. They supposed they could embarrass the Republicans by the Smoot inquiry. This resource has failed them. The Swayne impeachment matter has no votes for them and they know it. There is no prospect of getting any Democratic campaign material out of the statehood question. Oklahoma and the Indian Territory are favorable to union. Arizona and New Mexico will accept joint statehood, although there is some opposition in Arizona to it now. Thus the Democrats are wise in consenting to let the Republicans have their own way about an early winding up of the business of the session. Everything that can be done in Congress from this time forward is more likely to aid the Republicans than it is to help the Democrats. In fact, the entire session has been a Republican vote-making time. Every big question that has been before Congress or that has been considered in any of its aspects, from the Panama treaty and postal investigation down, has helped the Republican party, and correspondingly impeded the Democracy. These are Republican days in any case, and as the deliberations and deeds of Congress, when they affect the conditions at all, help the Republicans, the Democratic members are right in consenting to an early finish of business. The presidential campaign is not likely to be particularly exciting in any stage, but the Republicans are ready to open it at any time.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Some Cheap Clantrap The estimate held by the gentlemen conducting the Hearst newspapers of the stock of common sense and intelligence possessed by the average American workingman is evidently not a high one. These sheets pretend to be greatly exercised over their recent "discovery" that American labor is going to be discriminated against in the matter of employing workmen for the coarse kinds of labor in constructing the Panama canal. Natives of the tropics and sub-tropics (as West Indian negroes) are to be employed, and the other day Gen. Davis suggested that the use of coole labor might be necessary. Thereupon the Hearst papers—scenting an opportunity to play (to their own profit) on the assumed childlike ignorance and credulity of our laboring classes—raised the cry that American workingmen are to be cheated of the right to dig the canal, through the employment of Chinese cheap labor. "Coolles," says Mr. Hearst's hired man, in high moral indignation, "work for less than free men. But the people of the United States will have something to say about making the isthmus a slave camp." Now the people of the United States, including the laboring classes, are not exactly fools, and are fully aware of the fact that the employment of our American white labor in the work it is proposed to hire gangs of negroes and if necessary coolies to do, would be next to a physical impossibility. White men, natives of our latitudes, could not do hard manual labor under the tropical sun and in the fever haunted swamps of Panama. It is the humane purpose of the canal commission to employ so far as possible only such laborers as are injured to the climatic conditions of the isthmus and immune from the fever peril. The Hearst talk of the government's cheating American labor of the privilege of working in the Panama swamps, and "making the isthmus a slave camp," is mere claptrap, and an affront to the intelligence of the class it is addressed to.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Mr. Root as War Secretary The achievements of Mr. Root a secretary of war during the last five years are attracting attention abroad, and the London Times makes them the theme of a two-column article in which it characterizes Mr. Root as a great American reformer. The reforms instituted by Mr. Root in the departments are curiously like those which are suggested for the British army in the recent report of Lord Esher's committee. As long ago as 1899 Secretary Root defined the problems of reorganization in language almost identical with that used by the British committee with reference to the British army five years later. In 1899 Secretary Root wrote: "Two propositions seem to me fundamental in the consideration of the subject. First, that the real object of having an army is to provide for war. Second, that the regular establishment in the United States will probably never be by itself the whole machine with which any war will be fought." These words coincide almost exactly with the opening paragraph of Lord Esher's committee published last month. Secretary Root defined in 1899 the reforms which he considered essential and he devoted the remainder of his term in office with unfalling persistence and with signal success to carrying out his program, which included the formation of a war college, the admission of officers of the state national guards to the courses there and at other training schools; an increase in the number of inspectors general; the establishment of a joint board to consider army and navy questions; the passage of the militia act, which provides for the co-operation of the regular and auxiliary forces of the United States; the abolition of the office of general commanding the army, and the creation of a general staff, with a chief entrusted with the preparation and planning of war, the direction of military education and a general supervision over all the other departments of the army. This is the program which Secretary Root marked out and achieved. Now the British government, having almost identical problems on its hands, is adopting practically the same solutions of them. ISLE OF PINES TREATY. Only Question Is Whether Territory Is Part of Cuba. The Senate committee on foreign relations has decided to postpone action on the Cuban treaty, which provides for turning over the Isle of Pines to the Cuban government until the next session of Congress. It appears that the opposition to the treaty, which presumably led to postponement of action upon it, came from Americans who have settled in the island and have invested money in lands and farming industries "with the understanding that the sovereignty would remain with the United States." It is reported also that the members of the Senate committee contemplate a visit to the island to see whether it would be worth anything to the United States, and whether this government would be justified in assuming sovereignty over it. While the interests of American citizens are always to be carefully considered by our government, it is hardly to be expected that the government is to be guided in its Cuban policy by the mistaken assumptions of American settlers in the Isle of Pines. Certainly our declared policy with reference to Cuba did not warrant the "understanding" that the United States was to assume sovereignty over the smaller island. It appears to have been definitely settled that the Isle of Pines was politically a part of Cuba under Spanish rule, and section 6 of the Platt amendment, which was adopted by the Cuban constitutional convention, as an appendix to the Cuban constitution, provided only that "the Isle of Pines shall be omitted from the proposed constitutional boundaries of Cuba, the title thereto to be left to future adjustment by treaty." "It was to bring about this "adjustment," that the treaty now pending in the Senate was framed, and it was in conformity with our declared policy respecting Cuba that the treaty proposed a cession of the island to the Cuban government. The question to be determined by the Senate committee, therefore, would seem to be, not is the island worth anything to the United States, or what are the interests of American investors there, but was the island a part of Cuba, and would its retention be consistent with our declared Cuban policy?"—Chicago Record-Herald. More Canal Legislation Needed A bill has been reported to the senate which may be defective in details, but which is based on the correct principle. It makes the canal commissioners the governors of the canal strip. This is a proper centralization of power while the canal is under construction. It does away with the possibility of that friction which might arise if there were two sets of officers exercising functions in the same limited territory. There are on the commission two men of decided executive ability—Admiral Walker and Gen. Davis. The latter was military governor of Porto Rico. The civil engineers on the commission should be quite willing to devote themselves to canal problems and leave questions of government to their more experienced associates. The commissioners are on their way to Panama to look over the ground and study the situation thoroughly. The grant of authority to regulate police and other matters in the canal zone ought to follow them speedily.—Chicago Tribune. Growth of American Exports In 1845, the earliest year for which exact figures are obtainable, our exports were valued at $106,040,111 and our imports were $113,184,322. Our exports passed the $200,000,000 marks in 1853, the $300,000,000 in 1860 and did not exceed $400,000,000 until 1871. During all the years from 1845 to 1876 our imports exceeded our exports in value excepting flour. Since then our exports have exceeded our imports every year except in 1888 and 1889. We now frequently export goods of as much value in a single month as were exported in the year 1845. FOR HESMANS EYE Nutriment in Rice Water. When boiling rice some cooks allow the cereal to absorb all the water in which it is cooked, while others keep it supplied with more water and then drain off and throw it away. When the latter method is adhered to much of the nutriment of the rice is wasted. The orientals long ago discovered that rice water contains the very essence of nutriment, and travelers in oriental countries when attacked by stomach troubles incident to the climate have found that rice water, when sweetened and flavored with some favorite extract, and set away to cool, makes a jelly which may be eaten cold with cream. This makes a very nice dessert to serve to children. Misses' Eton Jacket. Eton jackets are peculiarly well adapted to young girls and are in the height of present styles. This one can be used with or without the collar and made with either the plain or full sleeves and is adapted to all the season's fabrics. It is shown, however, in bluette cheviot with trimming of fancy black and white braid and handsome gold buttons. The narrow vest is a peculiarly attractive feature and can be made from a variety of materials. sleeves and is adapted to all the season's fabrics. It is shown, however, in bluette cheviot with trimming of fancy black and white braid and handsome gold buttons. The narrow vest is a peculiarly attractive feature and can be made from a variety of materials. The cape collar adds largely to the effect and gives the fashionable droop to the shoulders, but can be omitted if a plainer garment is preferred. The Eton is made with fronts and back and is fitted by means of shoulder and underarm seams and single darts. The narrow vest is applied over the front edge and the cape collar stitched with corticelli silk is arranged over the whole, its inner edge serving to outline the vest. The full sleeves are wide and ample, finished with shaped cuffs, and can be made either with fitted linings or loose as may be preferred. The coat sleeves are made in regulation style and cut in two pieces each, being simply stitched to form cuffs. The quantity of material required for the medium size is $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards 21 inches wide, $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards 27 inches wide, or $1\frac{1}{2}$ yards 44 inches wide, with $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards of braid to trim as illustrated. The pattern 4693 is cut in sizes for misses of 12, 14 and 16 years of age. The Sachet Bag. Sachets play an important part in the modern woman's wardrobe. That delicate, evanescent perfume that clings to dainty garments can be given by sachets alone, for aquid perfumes are invariably the reverse of subtle or delicate. Nearly all straight-front corsets are worn with a sachet tucked into the top. Sometimes it is a long, straight cushion, very soft and thin, and delicately perfumed; tied around the middle with a ribbon bow. Again, it may be heart-shaped and lace-ruffled, with a tiny bow at the top. Blouse Eton Blouse Etons are among the most satisfactory of the season's wraps and offer a wide range of variety. This one allows a choice of the plain blouse or the cape collar that is extended at the back and does away with the over broad effect that so often is found. The model is made of royal blue cheviot stitched corticelli silk and trimmed with fancy braid, but it is adapted to all seams. tended at the back and does away with the over broad effect that so often is found. The model is made of royal blue cheviot sitté hoc corticelli silk and trimmed with fancy braid, but it is adapted to all seasonable suitings and the finish can be anything the 4692 House Eton, and the finish can be anything the wearer may prefer. The pointed belt is peculiarly becoming, as it gives a far more slender effect than can be obtained by a round one, and the wide sleeves are eminently desirable over the fashionable waist. The blouse is made with fronts and back and is fitted by means of shoulder and under arm seams. The lower edge is gathered at the back, plaited at the front and finished by means of the belt. The cape collar is entirely separate and is arranged over the whole, the edges being finished with braid or in any manner that may be preferred. The wide sleeves are made in one piece each and are finished with broad roll over cuffs. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 4 yards 27 inches wide, $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards 44 inches wide, or $2\frac{1}{4}$ yards 52 inches wide, with 3 yards of braid for edges or blouse and cuffs. The pattern 4692 is cut in sizes for a 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 inch bust measure. Summer Frocks in Winter. Summer Flocks in Winter Fashion's superb disregard of climate inside the house is one of the most notable symptoms of that autocratic madam's present mood. In America and Russia the custom is gradually gaining ground of assuming fairy wearables indoors in winter instead of the warm, heavy garments of a former regime. The improved method of heating houses by steam or hot water radiators has much to do with the change, no doubt. We no longer are obliged to huddle round the hearth for warmth while the room's four corners are hovering about the freezing point. But it is not alone in the house that summer garments are possible in January. At most of the smart restaurants at home or abroad diaphanous dress is the order of day and evening. In Paris this was especially noticeable one frivolous evening at the Ritz. Everybody was more or less garbed in chiffon frock and a transparent lace hat, the only woman who wore anysemblance of winter being a chic little bareness dining there before going to a ball, whose tiara was exquisitely set as a series of leccles, each point terminating in a trembling diamond. The Parisiennes are nothing if not original. To Remove Scorches This is a sure way to remove a scorched spot as long as it has not made a hole in the material: Take the juice from two peeled onions, one half an ounce of white castle soap, cut in small pieces, and two ounces of Fuller's earth, stir all together with a cupful of vinegar. Stand over the fire and let boil. When this is cool spread over the scorched spot and leave till it is dry. Then wash out the linen and you will find no stains remains. Embroidered Hosiery. The pompadour patterns have invaded the realm of hosiery, and most of the new fancy stockings are embroidered in the daintest of floral effects. Graceful rose vines form the clocks in some lovely examples, while others have Dresden bouquets scattered over their surface from instep to knee. A unique pair, seen in a smart shop had clocks formed by delicate sprays of lilies of the valley embroidered in white and green. Nine Gored Tucked Skirt. Skirts that are tucked to be sung at their upper portions and fall in folds below the stitchings have become quite general and are both becoming and graceful. This one includes also a shaped yoke that al- lows of perfectly snug and smooth fit over the hips. The model is made of champagne colored voile with pipings of brown and trimming of tiny gold buttons, but any material soft enough to allow of tucking is equally appropriate. sug and smooth fit over the hips. The model is made of champagne colored voile with pipings of brown and trimming of tiny gold buttons, but any material soft enough to allow of tucking is equally appropriate. The skirt is cut in nine gores and laid in groups of tucks that are stitched with coiffecti silk. The upper edge is joined to a round foundation yoke, over which the shaped one is applied, and the upper edge can be finished with a belt or cut on dip outline and under-faced or bound. The quantity of material required for the medium size is $10\frac{1}{2}$ yards 21 inches wide, 9 yards 27 inches wide or $6\frac{1}{4}$ yards 41 inches wide when material has figure or nap; $10\frac{1}{2}$ yards 21, 9 yards 27 or 5 yards 44 inches wide when material has neither figure nor nap. The pattern 4694 is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30 inch waist measure. Beta Must Be Wide. Sift kid belts are wider than ever—assuming the proportions of actual girdles. Some specially smart ones noted in a recent tour of the shops were fully six to eight inches wide. They were made of the most pliable kid—in red, white, all the pale tints, ccu and the like. Large buckles in silver and "gold washed" completed the smart effect. The Dragon Tea Kettle. Something new in a 5 o'clock tea kettle is shown in a pale green bronze. One design shows a dragon in springing attitude. His long forked tongue supports the tea kettle by its handle, while the long serpentine tail curls forward and holds up the bronze lamp. --- Readers of this paper can secure any Mag Manton pattern illustrated above by filling or all banks in coupon, and mailing, with 10 cents, to E. E. Harrison & Co. 65 Plymouth Place, Chicago. Pattern will be mailed promptly. Name ... Town ... State ... Pattern No. ... Waist Measure (if for skirt) ... Bust Measure (if for waist) ... Age (if child's or miss's pattern) .. LEWIS WOODS,.....Business Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.....$1.00 Six months.....1.5 Three months.....4.0 One month.....1.5 Strictly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE: No. 117 West Sixth St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . . . 8.50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . 8.20 For two inches, three month . . . 8.00 For two inches, six month . . . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . . . 10.00 For two inches twelve months . . . 15.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. THE RACE PROBLEM. Something must be done for the young negroes of this land. There must be more real teaching done, more training and more practical religion behind the teaching and training. Ministers must teach the people to live stricter lives and to value their homes more. The home life must be purer. Fathers must guard and protect their homes. They must support their families so that mothers may stay at home and learn to instruct their children in right living. Young women should take more care in selecting a husband. They should not take upon themselves the responsibilities of married life without knowing what it involves, and being prepared to take pleasure in doing the duties of the home and bearing the responsibilities that fall upon wife and mother. The mother should look forward with joy to the coming of a little one into her home. She should study how best to feed and clothe it, how to guide its steps and to direct its thoughts aright. And as the little family grows, she should study how to repress jealousy and strife and how to encourage generosity and union and self sacrifice. Less stress should be put upon fine clothes and furniture. The ordinary working man cannot provide these things. For some years yet to come we must be content to build up character and secure modest homes. The Bible has been driven from the schools at a great cost. There must be greater effort put forth by teachers to make pupils respect the rights of others and to be in obedience to authority. It will not suffice for a few to do their duty in this respect. There must be united effort, and so continuous that the effect will be seen in the conduct of school children as they wend their way homeward. Teachers are not to blame for all the disorder one sees, unless it be in that they fear the displeasure of parents to such an extent that they overlook many serious things for the sake of peace. The price they pay surely is great. None better than the ministers can tell parents what they are laying up for the future when they indulge a rebellious child in resisting the teacher's authority. We must learn to appreciate the good, the right; we must learn to respect authority, and that soon or we are lost. The schools should make good citizens. The Rising Sun is very well pleased with the administration thus far. The Son was glad to see Nelson Crews chosen as police clerk. We are lso especially proud of Mr. Albert E. Holmes, city treasurer, for the appointment of R. E. L. Bailey and also to Mr. Lee Keeler, city auditor, for appointing a colored gentleman from the Ninth ward. The Son hopes that it will have nothing to regret concerning this administration. All that we ask is for the party leaders to deal fair with us and we are sure to treat you right. If you are right, the Son is with you, and if you are not, the Son is against you. $1.25 to Moberly and return Sunday, April 24th. The Rising Son wishes to commend those ministers who have appealed to their congregations for assistance for The Old Folks' and Orphans' Home, and thereby greatly lessened the strain upon the managers of the home. The institution is being manged in a most systematic manner by Miss Shepherd, the matron. It is pleasing to see the harmony that exists among the old people and the order and freedom shown by the children. "WESTERN UNIVERSITY, QUINDARO, KANSAS." Second Anniversary of the Chautauqua Meeting. To the Public: One year ago we issued a call for a meeting of those interested in any and all movements calculated to inure to the benefit of the race. This call met with such a generous response on the part of all Race lovers in the west and was productive of such good results that all felt ustified in effecting a permanent organization, which was done at the last meeting, one year ago. The purpose of the Chautauqua is as declared by its motto "The Unity and Uplift of the Race." To that end, the condition of the Race was discussed in all its phases, and plans formulated for a furtherance of the work. That all attempted might not be visionar yand impractical, but permanent in all its results, bureaus were appointed to inquire into the condition of the Negroes of the West, and through the direction of such report on the work, status and progress of the Race along the lines comprehended under these bureaus, respectively. At the next meeting to be held in June, members of these Bureaus with others interested will read papers and discuss questions arising from the same. Many of the leading Negroes of the country have signified their intention ti be present and participate. The following departments will be represented this year—Educational, Ministerial, Agricultural, Business Men's, Industrial, Legal, Medical, Press, Women's Club and Fine Arts. Systematic work is being done in these departments and reports will be made at the next meeting. The sessions this year will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th or June.) Larger and more varied programs will be had at this session. The public is requested to co-operate in this effort for the betterment of the Race. Other announcements will be made later. Yours for the advancement of the Negro. W. T. VERNON. President. J. N. GARRETT. Secretary. To the neglect of the retiring mayor of Kansas City is attributed the fearful condition of our down-town streets. Never in the history of the city have the streets been in such a miserable condition. Grand Avenue, Main, and Walnut streets, from 12th street to 5th street, form a solid mass of holes, which are deep enough to endanger the lives of teamsters. The improvement of this thoroughfare should have been looked after at least a year ago, but Mr. Reed neglected it until several weeks ago, in order to campaign for the governorship. Delaware street is now being repaired, and it is hoped that our new mayor, Mr. Neff, will see that these streets are put in repair at once, so that teams may pass over them without breaking the vehicles, wearing out the teams and jolting the teamsters from their seats to say nothing of the discomfort occasioned pedestrians during bad weather. It is to be hoped that the colored boys will receive their share of patronage in the distribution of the rewards to be granted by the incoming of this administration. The Shipping Clerks run the first big excursion to Moberly, Sunday, April 24th. Area of Alaska. Alaska is a great empire, of the vast size of which few people have any conception. It is more than 550 times as large as the state of Rhode Island and nearly equals in area all the states of the Union east of the Mississippi river. Seal for Japanese Prince. Ten eminent Japanese artists were busy for months deviding a seal for the young crown prince of their country. This is now put on everything he wears or uses. The Independent Order of Shipping Clerks run the larges excursions out of Kansas City. Go with them to Moberly, Sunday, April 24th. $1.25 round trip. sightly that all men and children will shun them. President Roosevelt will be re-elected, but he will sigh a thousand times for private life. King Edward will be the last king of England." Spangler has planned to close out his store and preach his prophecies. I fa man loses all his money he alos manages to lose nearly all his enemies. Good Service, Up-to-date The New Palace Restuarant. Robt. Sneed, Prop. 924 Wyandotte St., Kansas City, Mo. DANCING AT THE Vendome Academy 1734 Grand. EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. John S. West's Orchestra FURNISHES MUSIC. D. A. WILLIS, Manager. Straightener and Shampoo Drier...... trivance for straightening refractions been apparent. The many men me with unruly and rebellious heads g unproductive of results. It is el straight hair but almost an im- m. The Magic Hair Straightener y brings under subjection the most It's use a few minutes daily, fol- the hair where hours of combing produc- will accomplish such results. The shampoo, will dry the hair quicker and early employed, and lessen very de- the Straightener consists of a steel tip. The bar is heated to an ordi- monous stove; the comb then at- arrangement, and is then ready be regulated to suit the require- f the teeth is best adapted for wom- d of hair as fast as combed. The hair and beard. It will be found all who take pride in their asements of physicians, price $1.25 NESS RIGHTENER MFG. CO., Lury Building, The Magic Hair Straightener THE necessity of a practical contrivance for tious or too curly hair has long been appara- and women, endowed by nature with unrul- of hair, have found ordinary combing unproducti- comparatively an easy matter to curl straight hair possibility to straighten curly hair. The Magic quickly, effectively and satisfactorily brings unde uncontrollable head of hair or beard. It's use a f lowing instructions, will straighten the hair wher will not. It will save the loss of hair that excess It is positively the only device that will accomplis- use of the Straightener after the shampoo, will do better than the many methods ordinarily employ- edly the risk of catching cold. The Straightener bar with a handle of comfortable grip. The bar nary heat by means of gas, lamp or common stove, tached parallel to it, by an ingenious arrangement for use. The teeth of the comb can be regula- ments of the user. The full length of the teeth is ens' use and straightens a heavy head of hair as f teeth shortened is preferable for men's hair and f an indispensable article of toilet by all who take personal appearance. It has the endorsements of pl ADDRESS MAGIC HAIR STRAIGHTENER 407 Century Building The Magic Hair Straightener and Shampoo Drier..... THE necessity of a practical contrivance for straightening refractions or to curly hair has long been apparent. The many men and women, endowed by nature with unruly and rebellious heads of hair, have found ordinary combing unproductive of results. It is comparatively an easy matter to curl straight hair but almost an impossibility to straighten curly hair. The Magic Hair Straightener quickly, effectively and satisfactorily brings under subjection the most uncontrollable head of Hair or beard. It's use a few minutes daily, following instructions, will straighten the hair where hours of combing will not. It will save the loss of hair that excessive combing produces. It is positively the only device that will accomplish such results. The use of the Straightener after the shampoo, will dry the hair quicker and better than the many methods ordinarily employed, and 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 DENTISTRY anteed--Teeth Examined Free the city. We have the largest and access is due to the uniformly high erators of middle ages; no youths Our Re'iability is Unquestioned. corporation, and is therefore thor- aranteed for 15 years. RELIABLE DENT No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to grade work done by gentlemanly operators of mi We Guarantee to Please. Our Reliability This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, a oughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth...$4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k...$2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth...$2.65 Platinum fillings...500 Cleaning...500 W Teeth extracted without pain FREE. NEW YORK DENT ESTABLISHED 20 YEAR No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. 500 We do as we advertise— pain FREE. We are here to stay. DENTAL CO D 20 YEARS. Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. aily. Night's till 9. Sunday: 10 to 4 FLOUR KELLEY'S BEST Kelley Milling Co K. C., U. S. A. KEEP GUESSING If they keep on guessing long enough some one will be sure to hit the right nail on the head. Here is what a prophet of York, Pa., prophesies and predicts: York, Pa., April 1.—The prophesies of Lee Spangler, a York merchant, are creating a stir here. During the past 12 years Spangler has issued pamphlets and tracts warning people to prepare for the end of the world in June, 1908. The lates of his prophecies which he alleges were fulfilled were the death of Senator M. A. Hanna and th breaking out of the war between Russian and Japan. Spangler claims his prophecies are revealed in visions. Spangler says: "When the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor it was told to me in a vision that a foreign country would perpetrate a terrible crime against this country. There has been no peace since. The war now going on in the East is insignificant in comparison with wars that are to follow. Within a year Europe and most of the Asiatic countries will be fighting. The United States will be at war with foreign countries and there will be race wars at home. The severity of next winter will be great. We will have cool summers and rigorous winters until the world is destroyed by fire three and one-half years from now. Before the destruction anarchy will hold sway. There will be famine and epidemics. God's wrath will be especially visited upon women. They will become so un- AGENTS WANTED. M. BENZEMAN 1029 Main St. Up-to-date REGULAR MEALS 18c MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. TEETH WITHOUT FLOSS Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Is the selling of all worthy grades of Clothing for men—and selling each grade right. By "selling right" we mean selling under an absolute guar antee of satisfaction to your heart's content or the cheerful return of your money. Our very complete stock of new spring merchandise cannot fail to impresss you favorably, both as to quality and price. WAITERS' COATS AND JACKETS. H. WHITE CO., 932 MAIN STREET. Heim's KANSAS CITY $11 EN.B.CO. OLD LAGER SPECIAL BREWS SCHARNAGEL SELECT KYFFHAUSER PERFECTION 1880 1890 1900 SALES: 12000 59946 130578 BBLS. BBLS. BBLS. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. THOMAS AND Artistic Ta THOMAS AND HOLMES Artistic Tailors THOMAS AND HOLMES, Suits made to order. Altering, Repairing and Cleaning. 615% E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. SAVE Y DOLLA AVE YOUR DOLLARS SAVE YOUR DOLLARS Invest them for good earning and safety. You can put them in safe and reliable oil stocks in the Chanute Kansas Oil district. Stocks can now be had at a very low price that will double, thribble, and possibly quadruple in value within six months. Every dollar put into these stocks at this time will earn from 50 to 100 percent for the next fifteen or twenty years. This is a rare opportunity for persons of means to invest their money and for persons earning a little to put their earnings into the best investment within reach. Easy terms, For Full particulars call on C. H. POW 903 Main St., C. H. POWELL, 903 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. 903 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. ```markdown ``` THE SEASON IS HERE FOR BOCK BEER This Trade Mark Is The Guarantee of the Genuine Popular Brew. THE MOST DELICIOUS OF ALL IS MADE BY HEIM Ladies Tailoring neatly done. All work guaranteed. NEWS & GOSSIP Wm. Fairfax, Society Reporetr. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue Remember please— it's the little bits we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Mr. R. C. Craddock, of St. Joe, Mo., is in the city on business. Invitations are out for the Clover Leaf ball April 26th. The Rising Son will contain the full program next week. Mrs. Ella Davis, 714 Charlotte, is on the sick list. 924 Wyandotte street is the place for a first class meal for 15c. First excursion to Moberly, Sunday, April 24th. Miss Pearl Harton, 1824 Madison avenue, is quite indisposed. Mrs. Denny, the dressmaker, has moved with Mrs. Hawkins, 11th and Highland avenue. Babe Ross is much improved and his many fiends hope he will soon do at his post again. The Baptist Ministers' and Deacons' alliance met at Excelsior Springs last week and were guests at the Wilson House. Messrs. Fox Johnson, Carl Murphy and Hoy Payne of St. Joseph are visitors of Mrs. Arthur Salsburk of 1617 Virginia avenue. The Blind Boone Concert Company will give a concert at Allen Chapel the 27th. Admission 25 and 35 cents. Two rooms for light housekeeping. Inquire at 2435 Flora avenue. Mr. Henry Wilson and wife, of Excelsior Springs, Mo., were in Kansas City this week. Mr. Wilson is proprietor of the Wilson House, of Excelsior Springs. When the collector come around don't forget to tell him your troubles He don't have many but some men do, but we have to pay or quit and you must pay that all. Mrs. Mammie Jenkins leaves for her home in St. Louis after spending 3 weeks with her friend, Mrs. L. M. Henderson, of 310 East 6th St. An excellent program has been prepared. Addresses will be delivered by Rev. Father Harper and Mr. H. M. Beardsley, president of the Upper House of the City Council. Mr. R. C. Craddock, of St. Joseph, Mo., is spending a few days in the city, en route to Colorado Springs, where he expects to spend a few months for his health. Every one should read the Rising Son. A thorough canvas for new subscribers will soon be made. Let no one refuse to take this paper. Any one paying cash can get the Son for $1.00 a year. If you desire one of the Magnetic Hair Straighteners or some Ozone we have it in stock at the Rising Son office and all other preparations from the Boston Chemical Co. Mr. Henry Compton, of 1104 Charlotte street, has enlarged his dining room and made several fitting improvements. He is now in a better position to cater to the needs of the public. Mrs. Julia Hilliard, formerly of Kansas City, died April 14th in Chicago. She leaves three sons and three daughters and many friends to mourn her loss. She was the mother of Mamie Hilliard. Owing to the serious illness of her faather, Miss Vallie Bowman will go to Fort Madison for an indefinite time. Mr. C. H. Mott, who lives at 1407 Vine, is in for repairs from wounds received on the train. Mr. Mott is tarin porter. Visit your Moberly friends Sunday, April 24th. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OLD FOLKS' AND ORPHAN'S HOME. An interesting program will be rendered at Allen Chapel, Thursday evening, April 28th, as follows: 1—Invocation—Rev. E. R. Vaughn. 2—Introductory Remarks—Rev. S. W. Bacote 3. — Chorus — Allen Chapel Chorale 4. — The Philadelphia Home and 4.—The Philadelphia Home and Some Noble Examples of Self-Sacrifice Its Sake—Dr. Sophia Jones. 5.—Solo—By a little girl, First Con- 5. —Solo—By a little girl, First Congregational church. 6.—A Few Practical Hints—Rev. Father Harper. 7.—Solo, by a lady, First Congregational Church. 8. —Address—Mr. H. M. Beardsley. 9. —Solo—Member First Congregational Church. 10. —A Plea for the Old Folks' and Orphan's Home—Rev. W. H. Wheeler. 11. —Solo—Member First Congregational Church. Exercises will begin at 8 o'clock. Admission free. Mrs. J. F. S. Carpenter, of 1732 Lydia avenue, who has been on the sick list for several weeks, is able to be out again and will be pleased to meet her many friends at her new home, which she has just moved into at 1533 Park avenue. While some of the teachers in the colored schools do their duty by colored enterprises, others lay back and criticise the efforts of others, but you must learn to help the things that help you. We can be used, but you must be used likewise. Gourd 200 Years Old. What is believed to be the oldest gourd is owned by E. F. M. Hurt of Fazette, Maline. It is more than 200 years old and as good as when it was plucked from the vine. Mr. Hurt's grandmother had it for eight-five years. It was handed down to her youngest son, the present owner. This gourd was grown in Virginia in 1701. Deadly Sleeping Sickness One peculiarity of the sleeping sickness, which is causing much havoc among the natives of Uganda, is that for a year or longer the victim may seem perfectly well, and often the disease makes itself first known by unthe patient, who, instead of sleeping, due signs of exalation on the part of is very much awake. Gold on the Isthmus. The impression prevails that the land between Panama and Colon is rich in mineral deposits, and there is reason to think that the popular belief is not without considerable foundation in fact. Reports have reached Panama of rich deposits in the Veragua region. Log House 1,200 Years Old. Japan claims the oldest wooden building in the world. It is a log storehouse in Yara, which is now used to shelter some of the Mikao's art treasures. An age of 1,200 years is claimed for it. Some of the logs are nearly worn away by the weather. THE GREAT SOUHERN HAIR POMADE. THE GREAT HAIR GROWER AND STRAIGHTENER. GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Fill out this blank and send it with $1.00 and you will receive by express $8.00 worth of the Pomade and iterms to agenta. Enclosed please (P. O. Money Order for $1.00, for which send me as per your offer, $9.00 worth of the Great Southern Hair Pomade and terms to agents. Name...... Street...... Town or City...... County...... State...... Express Office...... Date of this order...... SEND ALL ORDERS TO F. J. NOTT, Box 81, Paris, Mo. Home Tel. 5225 Main. Lady Attendant. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. COURTESY TREATMENT Parlors 1820 E. 18th St., Kansas City. at Comfortable Prices. Its easy said---yet not one store in fifty can do it. You can get lots of good shoes ---if you pay the price---and there are any amount of cheap shoes---if you don't mind the quality and fit. If you get shoes at this store you get both---comfortable shoes and comfortable prices ---Union Made? Certainly. Nebraska Clothing Co. 1113 and 1115 Main Street. (Where there's always something doing. M. B. D. W. LANGISTON, PROPRIETOR FINE CIGARS. The Woodman Shoe All Styles All Leathers $3.50. THE NEW 1904 STYLES in this popular line now shown in our grand assortment of gentlemen's shoes, makes and styles always right at headquarters which keeps our shoes popular with all. John Kirk Rockingham The Kelley Style Correct for Spring. Our display right now in the 1904 shoe styles make an Art Study in Shoes. Correct in every detail, shape, leather, and weight. A Grand Assortment at $3.50. OVIATT SHOE CO., 520 Minn. Ave., K. O. Kas. 1105 Main. FIRST EXCURSION TO Moberly Mo. SUNDAY APRIL 24 FIRST EXCURS TO Moberly SUNDAY AP Via the Wabash Line. $1.25 - ROUND Under the auspices of the Ind Clerks. Two trains leave Kansas Ci Spend the day with your friends- Office, 903 Main Street, or from the c 5 - ROUND TRIP - $1.25 the auspices of the Independent Order of Shipping two trains leave Kansas City 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. day with your friends. Tickets on sale at Wabash Main Street, or from the committee. Under the auspices of the Independent Order of Shipping Clerks. Two trains leave Kansas City 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Spend the day with your friends. Tickets on sale at Wabash Office, 903 Main Street, or from the committee. Take Zinn's GAS for your Spring Blood Me it for the Blood, Live Only 25c a bottle. GAS·KA Spring Blood Medicine---nothing equal for the Blood, Liver and Kidneys. c a bottle. All Drug Store for your Spring Blood Medicine----nothing equals it for the Blood, Liver and Kidneys. Only 25c a bottle. All Drug Stores. 1920 This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes tiky or shiny hair look great. It shines the scalp, prevents the hair from tailing out or breaking off, cures dandruff and it helps to keep hair soft for forty days and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. It was the first preparation ever imitated. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to work. It is the best hair it is healthy, life-like appearance so much desired. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and anyone in need of superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not the only hair pomade that equal to full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists or the $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express mail to the company or mention name of this product when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. LANGSTON'S Shaving Parlors.. 718 E. 8th St., Kansas City, Mo. TOM BOLES AND BEN MCCORMICK. ARTISTS. Agency for Steam Laundry. Porcelain Bath Tubs. Rooms Steam Heated. STRONG AND GARFIELD CO'S "WALL STREET" There is no reason For being without A Kimball without sacrificing any of the pleasures you now possessed by a Kimball makes it an ornament tones makes it a source of endless enjoymenh. W. W. Kimball Co. A Kimball Piano A Kimball Piano without sacrificing any of the pleasures you now enjoy... The style and finish possessed by a Kimball makes it an ornament to any home, and its sweet tones makes it a source of endless enjoymenh. W. W. Kimball Co. W. B. Roberts, Manager Est. 1857. 920 Walnut Countee Brothers, 4 East 12th St. iPhone 780 Grand. Carriages Furnished Why Not Have Your Prescriptions In McCampell's P 2304 Vine St Where You Are Sure to Get What t A full line of DRUGS, STATIONER CANDIES, PERFUMES, CIGAR PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECI Medicines Delivered to All Parts of the Bent 'Phone 159 East. 4 East 12th St. iPhone 780 Grand. Carrington Furnished for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MO Why Not Have Your Prescriptions Filled at McGampell's Pharmacy Where You Are Sure to Get What the Doctor Prescribed? A full line of DRUGS, STATIONERY, TOILET ARTICLES CANDIES, PERFUMES, CIGARS and TOBACCO. A. WEBER, MERC If you want a suit to order he go and save money. Why? no rent Style, Fit and Finish 2825 S. W. Blvd. ..HEALTH IS If you would gain health and w remember the necessity of reliable pr which we make a specialty of giving tion. — We fill prescriptions just as t Our motto is TO PLEASE; A. WEBER, MERCHANT TAILOR, If you want a suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay no rent Come and see us. ..HEALTH IS WEALTH.. If you would gain health and wish to retain the same remember the necessity of reliable prescription compounding, which we make a specialty of giving the most careful attention. We fill prescriptions just as the doctor writes them. Our motto is TO PLEASE: PRICES RIGHT. Remember its the RELIABLE PRES PHARMACY S. W. 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ERCHANT TAILOR, order here is the place to Why? Because we pay Come and see us. Finish Guaranteed. Kansas City, Mo. IS WEALTH... and wish to retain the same viable prescription compounding, if giving the most careful atten- ust as the doctor writes them. LEASE; PRICES RIGHT, If you are constantly suffering with headache get your eyes examined; it may be your eyes causes it. The Rollable Optical Dept. Bromo Ammonia for that cold ---a cold today, pnemonia to- morrow. The Century Marvel Corn Sheller ---a sure cure or money re- funded. Painful walking made easy. the RESCRIPTION S. W. Corner 5th and Broadway. Phone Home 1626 Main. :: Open all night. "I miss old Rivers most of all at this yacht club," remarked Sanderson, regarding the menu with bored impatience. "He always knew just how to order a dinner." "Some of us eat," assented MacPhail, saddly, "and some of us dine. Poor Rivers dined." "And wined," put in Barlow, briskly. "Dear me, what suppers we have had together at this very club." "It seems impossible to realize that he dead. If I hadn't attended his funeral, and in the capacity of pall-bearer, too. I quite believe I should doubt it now, and set it down as one of his practical jokes." "What did he die of?" asked Barlow, suddenly. "I was in Italy at the time and knew only the fact of his death." "He died as appropriately as he lived—of heart failure," said MacPhail, smiling. "Why 'appropriately'?" Why appropriately. "It's very evident Barlow did not at: TILSON "Then she's another one." tend bis funeral," remarked MacPhail, dryly. "You're speaking in parables, old man," returned Barlow, cheerfully. "Didn't you ever hear about Rivers' love affairs, old chap?" questioned MacPhail, irrelevantly. "Of course, I knew all about Mollie Preston," said Barlow, "but I supposed that was more or less of a secret." "Mollie Preston!" exclaimed the others. "Then she's another one. Why, we never dreamed of Mollie's being in it, too." "But I've always supposed she was very much in it," said Barlow. "In fact I never knew there was anyone else." "Let's have your story, old man, and then we'll tell you ours, for it's very evident you've never heard of poor old Rivers' funeral procession." "It's rather an odd tale," said Barlow, but then Rivers was rather an odd chap, you know. There was something about Rivers—something so spontaneous, you know." "Rivers' charm lay in his unexpectedness. One couldn't predicate Rivers. He was so certain to do the other thing. "He certainly did it this time," went on Barlow. "Do you fellows remember the old Egyptian palmist who had a shanty down on X street? Well, Rivers told Mollie one of his fabulous tales about this old charlatan, and Mollie's curiosity was so excited that she asked Rivers to make an appointment for her with the Egyptian. "She drove down there one day, heavily veiled, and was ushered into the awful and mysterious presence of the Egyptian. It was very impressive. Mollie told me so herself. The palmist wore a heavy turban over his eyes, and what was left of his face was concealed by a heavy black board. "She said the palmist held both her hands in his most tenderly—in fact, caressingly—and said impressively: "You are in love." "Mollie jumped nearly out of her chair, but the rascal held her hands firmly and then proceeded to describe the man. He painted Rivers to the life, even mentioning that little scar he got in Heidelberg, of course. Molle recognized the portrait and went away quite shaken up. Until then she had fancied herself desperately in love with Billy Brown. "I can't tell you his name," said the old rascal, 'because my art doesn't carry me so far, but I can tell you that this man means to call on you this very evening, and some time during the visit he will sing "I Arise From Dreams of Thee." "Well, you may imagine how frightened Mollie was when she was all by herself and thought it over. She said the only way she managed to quiet her nerves was to telephone directly to Billy Brown and beg him to call on her that evening, and some time, some how, some way, manage to sing, or even just hum, 'I Arise From Dreams of Thee.'" "Billy responded like a man. He said he was surprised and altogether filled with deep and mingled emotions at the request, but he'd come and do his best." "Think of Brown singing anything," put in MacPhall. "Go on, for heaven's sake, man; don't keep us all in this suspense," roared Sanderson. Barlow sipped his wine luxuriously, tantalizingly. "They both arrived together," he drawled, "and just as Mollie parted the portieres of the drawing room, they both burst, simultaneously, into 'I Arise From Dreams of Thee.' Boys, it was really dramatic." "And was it Rivers?" questioned MacPhail. "Why, of course; because she had asked Billy to sing it, so in that way she tested fate. She didn't dare disobey the finger of providence when it was pointing so unerringly at old Rivers. He sat out Billy Brown, and she accepted him." "That explains why she shipped Billy," remarked Sanderson, reflectively. "But I wonder why she kept her engagement to old Rivers so quiet?" "You know Rivers always hated publicity of any kind," returned Barlow. "But he really couldn't keep that Egyptian affair dark. He had to tell some one, and it chanced to be me. It was here in this very club one evening last summer. He said he nearly died when Billy Brown started up and sang 'I Arise From Dreams of Thee,' almost at the very instant he began to sing it, but he just put it down as a remarkable instance of thought transference, until Mollie herself confided the whole story to him." "I think it's even better than his funeral," commented MacPhail. "It certainly couldn't have been an ordinary funeral," remarked Barlow. "It was, indeed," assented MacPhail, "most bizarre. As I told you, he died ostensibly from heart failure. Dropped suddenly in the bank while he was cashing a check. "The funeral took place from his apartments uptown, and I never saw such a crowd of girls in my life at a funeral before. All the girls we knew he knew, and a regiment of girls he knew we didn't; at least, we'd never seen them before. Buzon "I Arise From Dreams of Thee'I" "Mollie was there and well to the fore, although we never suspected she was more than an ordinary mourner, but she and all the other girls wore crepe rather ostentatiously, and really seemed overcome with grief. "I got over by Mollie and asked her who the deuce they were, and she tossed her head disdainfully, and said she didn't know; they were probably stenographers." "We found out later they were from the rural districts." put in Sander- son, excitedly. "Rivers had made hay while the sun shone in his own characteristic fashion." "But who were they?" asked Barlow, in admiring awe. "They were his fancees," said Sanderson, solemnly. "Do you mean all of them, one continuous performance?" asked Barlow. "Nothing else," answered MacPhail. "His will proved it later. It was found that he had left his all, his little all—some half million of dollars—to be divided equally among them. You can readily imagine their surprise on finding themselves so numerical when they had fondly believed they were the one and only." "I always said Rivers was a genius," said Barlow, thoughtfully, sipping his champagne. "How they all must miss him," suggested MacPhail. "What's become of Mollie Preston?" asked Barlow, suddenly. "Oh, she married Billy Brown last Easter. He managed to persuade her that the Egyptian had made a mistake—case of mistaken identity—but that she would make no mistake if she took him, and put aside her weeds." MacPhail lifted his glass sparkling with yellow sauterne. "Here's to Rivers," he said, heartily. "To the dearest, most incomprehensible, delightful and altogether impossible and completely lovable young scamp that ever graced this club." And the men, standing, drunk the toast in sudden silence—Boston Globe. HAD THE GAMBLERS SCARED. Mrs. Sage and Mrs. Gould Created a Ripple on the Bowery. The visit of Miss Helen Gould and Mrs. Russell Sage to the mission in No. 55 Bowery on the night of St. Patrick's day caused a commotion in a gambling house next door. When their automobile drew up in front of the mission a crowd gathered. The names of the visitors were soon passed to the gamblers. The gambling place is used as a poolroom in the afternoons and a faro game is operated there at night. A well-known lightweight prizefighter acts as doorkeeper in the daytime and occasionally as lookout at night. He was on duty when Mrs. Sage and Miss Gould entered the mission, and it was he who passed the scare to the men inside. Play was interrupted for a few minutes, but more mature consideration led the men to believe they had nothing to fear from the women, so they returned to the game. Several players, however, were curious enough to go into the mission to see the visitors. After the service they returned to the gambling room and reported how Mrs. Sage had asked the male quartet to sing "Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight" Then they bought some chips and began to "buck the tiger."—New York Press. IN THE COCKTAIL CHERRY. Dr. Wylie Discloses Some Mysteries of Its Composition. Some of the mysteries of composition of the cherry in the insidious cocktail, the clear, beautifully colored jellies fed to the sick and convalescent, as well as the more substantial articles of food, were disclosed by Dr. Harvey W. Wylie, chief of the bureau of chemistry, United States department of agriculture, in the last of a series of five lectures on "Home Economics," delivered before the Philadelphia branch of the collegiate alumnae at the rooms of the association. The popular taste demands the addition of colors to food which will give them the tint people imagine nature imparts, said Dr. Wylie. These dyes are made mostly from coal tar. Some are not harmful, yet it is a deception. Most of the coffee sold as Mocha and Java comes from Brazil. Cherries such as are used in cocktails are filled with glucose, flavored with prussic acid and dyed with aniline dye. Vinegar is often made from beet root alcohol. Olive oil is almost never made from olives. The adulteration of food debases commerce, and leading manufacturers are beginning to realize it and to take action against it. — Philadelphia Public Ledger. A. Puddlin' Business. Kemble, the artist, was sketching in the mountains of Georgia recently, when he fell in with a particularly angular "cracker." The man posed for him in various positions, spending over an hour, and when Kemble asked, "What do I owe for your trouble?" the mountaineer answered, "I reckon a dime'll be about right, suh." The artist showed him the sketches and asked what he thought of them. "Wall," was the drawing reply, "seems to me it's mighty puddin' business for a man to be in, but you must be makin' suthin' out of it or you couldn't afford to throw away money like this for jest gettin' a man to stand around doin' nothin'."—Montreal Herald. A Song of Hope. $\textcircled{1}$ $\textcircled{2}$ $\textcircled{3}$ $\textcircled{4}$ $\textcircled{5}$ WATER LINE $\textcircled{6}$ $\textcircled{7}$ $\textcircled{8}$ SHOWING HOW THE MISSOURI EXPLOSION HAPPENED. No. 1, the turret; 2, interior of turret; 3, the breech of the twelve-Inch turret gun, showing how the back draft blew the flash back to the powder piled up for the next charge; 4, the hoist, down which the flame swept that ignited the 1,600 pounds of powder in the handling room 5; 6 is the hoist communicating with the magazine, and the cross shows the point the flames reached before they met the water by which the magazine was flooded and by which the ship was saved from being completely destroyed; 7, torpedo tube; 8, the magazine. Aged Financier Pleased at Cordiality of Brokers. Russell Sage was seen in Broad street, New York, the other day for the first time in over a year, and the occasion was seized by a crowd of brokers who make their headquarters in front of the Exchange building to give him an ovation. Mr. Sage's right hand was converted into a pump handle and one young broker stood off from the crowd and shouted: "What's the matter with Uncle Russell?" Instantly the reply came: "He's all right!" The aged financier was evidently much pleased by the warmth of his greeting, and he lifted his hat and bowed all around, just like a man who has been elected a school trustee by his admiring townsmen. For two years Russell Sage has been seen on the street only at intervals, which have been gradually widening during the last year. DIDN'T WANT AN ASSISTANT. Musician's Rebuke More Gentle Than Wan. Deserved. Dr. Hans Richter, the great musical conductor, who entered on his sixty-second year a few days ago, is noted for his absolute mastery and ease while wielding the baton. The noted German was rehearsing in London on one occasion when a peculiar little tapping sound, soft but most irritating, caught his attention. After enduring it for some minutes in silence he looked around for the offender, and said, in his broken English: "I must ask you not to beat time with your foot;" and then quietly added, as if it had only just occurred to him: "When I am conducting. I cannot always agree with your foot!" The expression of his face drew the sting out of the sarcasm, and everybody laughed. School to Teach Auctioneering Col. Carey M. Jones of Davenport, a well-known live stock auctioneer, in association with a number of other prominent auctioneers, will open in July in Davenport, Iowa, a school of auctioneering and oratory. The aim of the school will be to develop auctioneers capable of rolling off talk by the yard. There will be courses in oratory, grammar and other branches and a competent specialist in charge of each department. Col. Jones conducted sales of fancy cattle in seventeen states of the union last year. REPARTEE IN COUNCIL HALLS. Shafts of Wit Pointed and Not Very Delicate. Reparate as practiced by dignified solons in the New York legislature takes on somewhat of a Bowyer complexion at times. One day the house was considering a certain measure when Mr. Cook of Erie said courteously: "The gentleman who has spoken in opposition to this bill is a pinhead." He referred to Mr. Cox of Buffalo, who in his politest manner replied, "The gentleman who favors this bill," of course referring to Mr. Cook, "has a vacuum where his brains ought to be." Whereupon Assemblyman Lynch hastened to observe cordially: "Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to find that, for the first occasion since I have served in the legislature with them, I can agree with both Mr. Cox and Mr. Cook. I agree with what Mr. Cook said about Mr. Cox and I indorse what Mr. Cox said about Mr. Cook." Then the bill was passed. Pope Pius Makes Many Changes Pope Plus Makes Many Changes. Plus X. is still engaged in planning and decreeing numerous important reforms in the Roman curia. He has just reduced his Noble guard from seventy to forty-five, and reductions both in numbers and salary are anticipated shortly in the ranks of the Palatine and Swiss guards, whose disciplinary regulations, more especially as regards morality and mixing in quirinal society, have been of late revised with startling severity. There is reason for believing that the pope will shortly publish motu proprio a decree ordaining that no post in the Roman curia, diplomatic or otherwise, shall hereafter carry with it any right to a cardinalate. Considerable reductions in the salaries of nuncios and other diplomatic servants are also announced. Copper King's Reputation Good. Out among Montana miners some wonder is expressed because police protection was sought in New York the other day by W. C. Green, the copper king, when someone threatened him with a gun. Twenty years ago and more "Billy" Green was known in Montana as about the last man on earth to go to the police with his troubles. In those days he was "plenty quick on the draw," and always ready to fight his own battles, being known as "a dead game man" from Anaconda to Tombombate. The Lover's Prayer. O Lord of all, because we twain We true and fond, We love our past, and are not fain To see beyond. This world—Thy world—is surely fair; And we are glad, Oh, more than glad, to breathe its air As less and lad. Not unto us is wealth or power, But we possess A blessing in each bird and flower For happiness. We are not proud, for we have known The strokes of pain; But we are But, Lord, since then our hearts have grown No more like twain. There is no struggle past our strength, No grief-save one Lord, make the ways of equal length Where we must run. Out of the dear old world we call To Thee above, Lord, Thou wilt know, in knowing all, How much we love. -J. J. Bell, author of "Wee MacGregor." How Japanese Harvest Corn. The Japanese have a queer way of harvesting their wheat. Instead of ruthlessly cutting it down with a scythe or reaper, they pull up much of it by hand, and clip off the roots with shears, for they wish to keep the beautiful, long golden straws from getting bruised or broken. With the Japanese, who do everything neatly and allow nothing to go to waste, the straws are almost as valuable as the grain. They first flatten the straws, and then, after being softened, they are woven, either whole or split, into matting, baskets, hats and many other articles. Had Good Cause for Action. A breach of promise action was recently brought by a Miss Dawes of Manchester, Eng., against William Brown of Bournemouth. The plaintiff's counsel said that Mr. Brown had been engaged to Miss Dawes for twenty-eight years. The courtship began when Miss Dawes was 18; she is now 46. William Brown had written his sweetheart innumerable letters, but suddenly went to America, and on his return married another woman. The jury awarded Miss Dawes $3,750 damages. Saved Bottle of Bluing. A Lowell, Mass., man who had closed his house for the season visited it after the extreme cold set in last winter, and found that the only damage done was the freezing up of a bottle of bluing. The liquid expanded as it froze, breaking the bottle, but retaining the shape of it. He picked off the pieces of glass that still clung to it and stood the frozen bluing in a dish. Nine weeks later he visited the house and the frozen form of the bottle was still there, with only a slight dripping at the base of the bluing. Great Comet of 1861. The great comet of 1861 was discovered by Teebutt at Sydney, Australia, May 13 of that year. On June 29 and 30 it was discovered in France and in England. It was Donati's comet, so named from the fact that it was discovered by Dr. Donati at Florence, in June, 1858, that was credited with having great influence in France on the vintage. It is a fact that that year was a favorable season and the products were advertised as "les vins-de la comet." This, like many other speculations on comets, has no scientific basis. Names of Japanese Warships Japan has christened her big battleships after great mountains and the smaller war vessels from some well-known natural features of the country. It may also be mentioned that at the end of the name of every Japanese ship is either the termination kan or maru. They stand, as it were, as equivalents for our own USS and SS. Kan means war vessel, and is applied, of course, only to the emperor's fleet. Maru, which means round, is applied to merchant vessels—why, it is difficult to say. Remarkable Nevada Tree. A very remarkable tree grows in Novada. It is called by the superstitious Indians the witch tree. It grows to a height of six or seven feet, and its trunk at the base is about three times the size of an ordinary man's wrist. The wonderful characteristic of the tree is its luminosity, which is great that on the darkest night it can be seen plainly at least a mile away. A person standing near could read the finest print by its light. Dog Got His Dinner. An intelligent bulldog, having the habit of appearing at a prominent North End residence in Concord, N.H., at meal times, and usually getting some dainty titbits, showed up recently gingerly carrying a note in his mouth, which, on being opened, was found to read, "Please give me some dinner." The dog got it, and in abundance, too. Town Sold Bazer Collection James Perkins, a dependent upon the town of Rochester, N. H., died about a year ago, leaving a curious collection of razors, which the overseers of the poor placed on sale. In the annual report recently issued it appears that the town treasury was enriched $167.28 from the sale of the old razors found in the trunks of the deceased. The Use of Bread. 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BS bu a 4 AY (i? ‘ \ fae od » fi ma Sed ey Ca tS le / “Oh, George, I'm so happy!” “What's up? Some of the neigh bors in trouble?” A Correction. “T want to thank you,” said the lady visitor, “for your review of my ‘His- tory of Female Suffrage.’ But, by the way, you had one queer typographical error.” “What was that?” inquired the po litical editor to whom she had been referred by mistake. “You spoke of me as ‘a new h-l-s ter-t-c-a-l writer.” “That's so, ‘Hysterical’ is spelled with a ‘y.'” ‘The Famine View. “Mamma,” asked small Floramay, “was the earth created before man?” “Certainly, my dear,” replied her mother. “Why was it?” continued the uittle Inquisitor. “It was probably known,” explained the wise woman, “that it would be the first thing he'd want after his ar- rival.” As She Understood. “Dear me,” exclaimed the pretty Iit- tle woman as she glanced over the sporting page for the first time,” how this poor man must have suffered with insomnia!” “What man?” asked her husband. “Why, Billy Broadfist. The paper says last night was the first time be tad ever been put to sleep.” He Makes Talk. MeJigger—-There isn't a man in town who can keep the conversational ball rolling like our friend Gayrake. | ‘Thingumbob—Nonsense! He never says anything worth listening to. /_ MeJigger—No, but he does @ lot of things worth talking about, E:} we 6 ay SA) eae AY hs aes a YG} ti) al, oe, te Ae Mae A Sis & BE) bi Cg es S Brigand—'Tis the millionaire’s mother-in-law that we've captured, not his wife. Shall we threaten to kill her if he don't send £6,000, instead of ten? Chief—No, we'll threaten to send her back if he don't send £20,000.— Boston Traveler. It Draws Iteelf. “You,” said the artist, “I drew this sketch of the scene of the accident in Jess than an hour.” “Not all the details, surely,” ex- claimed his admirer, “All that crowd,” for instance—" “0, it's easy to draw a crowd when you start sketchimg.”"—Philadelphia Press, Near the Limit. Growell—Speaking of mean men, that fellow Duffey is about the limit Howell—How's that? Growell—Every time he goes into a crowded barber shop for a shave he gets his hair cut just to keep others walting. It 1s Sometimes Done. “Fle doesn't know enoegh about the law to be a successful lawyer.” “Well, let's make him a judge” This is really a very serious and dangerous condition to be in. Perfect rest is sleep. Do not take medicines, Any remedy for insomnia may bridge you over for a time, but in the end will wreck the nervous system and shorten life, Only useful inemergency cases in the hands of an intelligent phy- sician, Take plenty of outdoor exercise, avoid excitement, be regular in habitsand take a saucer of at bedtime, in its natural state or with cream, milk and sugar, which will make a refreshing sleep a possibility and regulate the bowels, . 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A little girl the ether day tlustrat+ ed two things—the dimculty of select- {ng the right noun of multitude and the inborn cruelty of childhood. She wanted © game—a game of her own favention. “What is the game?” eked her nurse, The innocent eyes drightened as the answer camo: “You de @ poor little blind Iame lamb and TH be a flock of tigers.” Japanese Newspapers. Tm 1868 the first Japaneso newspa- per, with some news translated from the Dutch, was published. Now Ja- pan has 1,600 dally newspapers, but there are no evening newspapers among them. One of the Tokio papers, the Japan Times, fs printed In Eng Mish, but 1s produced by Japanese ex- clusively, | A Welsh Pisa. In Wales there exists the “falling tower” of Caerphilly Castle, which is 77 feet in height and inclines no less than 11 feet out of the perpendicular, In proportion this is greater than the Tower of Pisa, which is 180 feet and loans 16 fect. 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Dr. Hartman's medical lectures are eagerly scanned by many thousand readers. ‘One of the most timely and interest ing lectures he ever delivered was iis recent lecture on the blood impurities of spring, The doctor said in substance that every spring the blood is loaded with the effete accumulations of winter, de ranging the digestion, producing shu: gishness of the liver, overtaxing. the Kidneys, interfering with the action of the bowels and the proper circulation of the blood, This condition of things produces what is popularly known as. spring fever, spring malaria, nervous exhauve tion, that tired feeling, blood thicken: ing and many other names Sometimes the vietim ts bilious, dys: peptic and constipated; sometimes he ig weak, nervous and depressed; and ogain he may have eruptions, swelle ings and other blood humors, Wiich: ever itis, the eause is the same—efs fete nccnmulations in the blood Nothing is more cercain within the whole range of medical science than. that a course of Pernna in early spring: time will perfectly and effectually pres vent or cure this almost universal af fection, Everybody feels it in some degree. A great majority are disturbed: con- siderably, while a large per cent of the human family are made very misera: ble by this condition every spring Peruna will prevent if taken in time. Peruna will cure It if taken as dl- rected Peruna is the Ideal spring medicine of the medical profession, If you do not derive prompt and sate isfactory results from the use of Po- rona, write at once to Dr. Hart: man, 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, ‘Chia. GOTO THE E. Z. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND HA'R CUT. C. A. EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo CHAS. T. WATTS, TEACHER OF Violin and Piano. Instructor Imperial Band and Orchestra Instructions based on Conservatory Methods WRITE FOR CIRCULAR 1210 Highland Avenue. Telephone 4642 Gray. 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Adams, 615 East 10th st., Kansas City. G. I. G., Geo. A. Donaldson, Paris, Mo. G. O. G., Geo. M. West, 101 E. Buckhardt st. Moberly. Secretary and Treasurer, Beneficiary Board, Dr. W. P. Curtis, 1409 Market st. St. Louis. Members of Board-D. E. Gordon, 3315 South Jefferson avenue; W. W. Trice, 622 North Baumont. Supreme Representative Chas. H. Brown, St. Louis. B. J. Carruthers, St. Louis. R. C. Carter, St. Louis. PRIDE OF THE WEST LODGE NO. 10, meets 24 and 4th Monday evening, at 8th, at 8 o'clock, at Jefferson hall, 455 North Jefferson avenue, St. Louis. WM. W. HUCKNEK, C. C. Wm. Goff, K. of R. and S. W.T. MUMFORD LODGE NO. 2, K of P., meets 1st and 43 Tuesday evening half, at 8 o'clock at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson son avenue, St. Louis. DANIEL BOSTICK, C. C. B. Bland, K. of R. and S. EXCELSIOR LODGE NO. 3, K. K of P., meets 2nd and 4th Thursday evening half, at 8 o'clock at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson son avenue, St. Louis. R. ROMEO STEEL, C. C. Sol Lindsay, K. of R. & S. MOUND CITY LODGE NO. 4, K of OF P., meets 1st and 3d Monday evening in each month, at 8 o'clock, at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson square, A. A BLACKWELL, C. C. D. W. Brantley, K of R. and S. DE SOTO LODGE NO. 5, K of K, of De Soto Mo., meets 2d Monday and 4th Saturday evening in each month, at 8 o'clock at Masonic hall, Main South and St. streets. H. H. H. N. C. C. John W. Johnson, K of R. and S. DAMON LODGE NO. 6, K. OF P. meets 2d and 4th Wednesday evene person hall 76 North Jefferson WM. H. BUTLER, C. 5 Wesley Hudson, K. of K. and S. FIDELER LODGE NO. 7, K. of P. of Springfield B. A. FREEMAN, C. C. G. H. WEB K. of R and S LILLEY LODGE NO. S. K. of P. of Kansas City G. H. TAYLOR, C. C. James A. Dicker, K. of R. and S. NORTH STAR LODGE NO. S. K. of P. of Hannibal, meets 24 and 4th Tuesday evening in each month BULLYNE BANNES, C. C. L. J. EARP, K. of R and S. W. A. WALLACE, C. J. O. McCUNN, K. of R. and 1 ORIENT LODGE NO. 11. H. K of. of Joplin. H. Curtis, K of R. and S. HARRISON LODGE NO. 12. K of. of Huntsville, meets 23 and 4th Thursday evening in each month. 17. N. Main street. J. MASON, C. C. W. T. Ames, K. of R. and S. ST. PYTHAS LODGE NO. 13. K. of. of R., meets 23 and 4th Tuesday evening in each month, at 8 half. J. Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson avenue. W. B. WILLIAMS, C. C. P. E. Anderson K. of R. and S. CRYSTAL LODGE NO. 14, K. of P. of Lorton. P., of Fostus. JOHNSON SOLOMON, C. C. B. B. Bailinger, K. of R. and S. FLORAL LODGE NO. 15, K. of P., of Poplar harbour. MARRY CAIN, C. C. E. S. Townsend, K. of R. and S. EUREKA LODGE NO. 16, K. of P., meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday evening in each month, at 8 o'clock at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jeffere- ve. WM. SKEEN, C. C. M. Johnson, K. of K. and S. T. W. STRINGER LODGE NO. 17, K. OF P., meets 1st and 3d Thursday evening in each month, at Jefferson hall, 706 Jeffereon avenue. North LAWRENCE HAWKINS, C. C. Turner, K. of R. and S. 爱 MOHNING STAR LODGE NO. meets 2d and 4th Tuesday evening in each month. MOHNTON, C. C. C. RAYES, K. of P., C. C. 咏 COMMERCE I ODGE NO. 19, K. of P. Commerce, meets lat and 3rd Tuesday evening in each month. GEORGE ALLEN, C. C. BURN Ellens, K. of R. and S. RICHMOND LODGE NO. 20, K. of P., of Richmond, meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday evening in each month. HORACE RANDLE, C. C. Lewis Road, K. of P. and S. Paul Randle, K. of R. and S. MKINLEY LODGE NO. 21, K. of P., of Kaneville, C. C. S. R. Russell, C. C. Peter J. Sloss, K. of R. and S. EAGLE LODGE NO. 22, K. of P., of Neckyville, C. C. N. E. BRUNSON, C. C. Samuel Haynes, K. of R. and S. CARRUTHERSVILLE LODGE NO. 23, K. of P., of Carruthersville. G. W. HARRIS, C. C. Bert W. Heldker, K. of R. and S. ACME LODGE NO. 24, K. of P., of Columbi. Serget. W. H. TURNER, C. C. J. C. Burton K. of R. and S. MOBERLY LODGE NO. 25, K. of P., of October, meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday evening in each month at 8 o'clock. G. M. West, K. of R. and S. RISING SUN LODGE, K. of P. of Keota. Meets 1st and 3d Thurs. nights in each month, at 8 clock. A L. SPENCER, C. C. A. A WOODSOM, C. C. J. W. Bonds, K. of R. and S. TOUISSAINT LODGE NO. 28. K OF P., meets 1st and 3d Tuesday evening in each month, at 8 o'clock at Kicker hall, Newstead ave and North Market. FRED LINDSY, C. C. John S. Palmer, 23 Mar. Avenue. 路 BURLEIGH LODGE NO. 29, K. of P., of Farmington CHAS BAKER, C. C. Lewis L. Hill, K. of R. and S. PYTHAGORES NO. 30, K. of P., of Ironton F. FLETCHER, C. C. H. F. Boyd, K. of R. and S. ANCHOR LODGE NO. 31, K. OF P., of Cape Girardeau, Mo. meets 1st and 3d Thursday evenings of each month. JOHN M. JONES, C. C. Albert M. Oliver, K. of R. and S. CHRISTOPHIE LODGE NO. 32 K. of P. of Petros W. E. ROBINSON, C. C. Eugene L. Chirk, K. of R. and S. SEMPER FIDELIS LODGE NO. 31. K. of P., meets 2d and 4th evening in each month, at 8 o'clock, at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson avenue. O. J. BIGGS, C. C. H. M. Cabell, K. of R. and S. FAYETTS LODGE NO 33, K. of P. of Fayette F. E. Foye, JR. Meets third Wednesday nights of each month at Masonic hall. B. F. ISAAC, JR, C. C. John H. McAllister, K. of R. and S. OLYMPIA LOGE NO. 36, K. of P. of Carthage, meets every Wednesday evening in each week. U. B. Cole, K. of R. and S. WEST GATE LODGE NO. 38. K. of P. of Kirksville, meets 2d and 4th Mondays. E. H. Johnson, K. of R. and S. ROCK SPRING LODGE NO. 33. K. of P., meets 2d Tuesday and th Thursday evenings at Jefferson Hall 106, St. Louis. J. A. McCULLORN, K. of R. J. D. WHALLEY, K. of R. & S. NEW AREA NO. 40, K. of P. of Kansas City. WALTER PRITCHARD, C. C. NEW AREA NO. 40, K. of P., of Kansas City. WALTER PRITCHARD, C. C. ST. LOUIS LODGE NO. 41, K. OF P. meets 1st and 3d Tuesday evenings at Eleventh and Franklin ave. CHARLES S. WHITE, C. C. Jefferson C. Covington, K. of R. and S. CARROLLTON LODGE NO. 42, K. of P. of Carrollton, meets 1st Monday and 3d Tuesday. LAKE E. LAKE, C. C. Clyde L. Allen, K. of R. and S. PROGRESS LODGE NO. 43, K. of P. of Kansas City, meets 2d and 4th Mondays. HARRY R. GRAHAM, C. C. Herring, K. of R. and S. MISSOURI LODGE NO. 44, K. of P., of Louisiana. DR. G. B. GOINS, C. C. Chas, Covington, K. of R. and S. NEW MADRID LODGE NO. 45. K. of P. Prof. R. D. Cherry, K. of R. and S. WARRENSBURG LODGE NO. 6, K. of P., of Warrensburg 8, LENI SIMS, C. C. J. W. Cooper, K. of R. and S. ST. JOSEPH LODGE NO. 47 K. of P., of St. Joseph. PHILIP HAYNES, C. C. MIAMI LODGE NO. 48, K. of P. of Miami Sam B. Moore, K. of R. and CLARK P. BEASON, C. C. 爱 GRAND COURT OFFICERS. I. O. O. C. G. W. C.—Eliza M. Curtis, Joplin, Mo. G. W. I.—Bertha Burles, St. Louis. G. W. I.—Mary L. Rolen, St. Louis. G. W. S. D.—Annie Kemp, Fredericktown. G. W. J. D.—Mattie Yarborough, St. Louis. G. W. R. of D.—Marietta Poulson, St. Louis. G. W. Rec. of Dep.—Julia Hyde, St. Louis. G. W. Orator—Fannie Baker, Farmington. G. W. W. Escort—Lavinia Taylor, Paris. G. Con.—Rebecca Chenault, Fayette. G. Ass't. Con.—Minnie Mansfield, Huntsville. G. W. Herald—Rosa Lynch, Neeleysville. G. W. Protector—Rosa Blake, De Soto. Jesse D. Robinson, Secretary and Treasurer Endowment Bureau. Supreme Representatives. M. L. ROLEN. M. PRIED. J. L. COOMBS. J. D. ROBINSON. A. M. WILLIANS. CALANTHE. Hand holding a branch of leaves. Aria Court No.1 Aria Court No.1 Meets 3d Thursday in each month at 2:30 p. m. at Jefferson Hall, 705 N. Jefferson Ave. Hand holding a branch of flowers. SPRIG OF MYRTLE COURT NO. 13 meets 4th Friday in each month, at 3:30 p., m. at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. A. W. LLOYD, W. C. MRS. KATIE ROSS R. of D. Hand holding a bouquet of flowers EUREKA COURT NO. 88, meets last thursday in each month, at 8:30 p. m. at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson avenue MISSOURI WILLIAMS, W. C. MRS. MATTE GIL- REE, R. of D. Hand holding a flower SY RAC USE COURT NO. 112 meets 1st Friday in each month, at 2:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jeff- erson avenue. MISS LOTTIE MOM- MAN, W. C. MRS MAMIE ED- WARDS, R. of D. Hand holding a branch of flowers. FIDELITY COURT NO. 101 meets 3d Wednesday in each month, at 3:30 p. m. at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. HATTIE BRIGHT, W. C. ARSANIA M. WILLIAMS R. OF D Hand holding a branch of leaves. PRIDE OF THE WEST COURT NO. 123 meets 24 Wednesday in each month, at 3:30 p., m., at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson avenue. MRS. ANNIE PHILLIPS, W. C. FANNIE B. NEW. COMB, W. R. D. Hand holding a rose QUEEN ESTHER NO. 125 meets 2d Friday in each month, at 3:30. p. m., at Kickers' hall, New- stead avenue and North Market street. MRS. MAMIE NICKENS, W. C. MRS. MAMIE PIERI- SON, R. of D. M FAIR CALANTHE COURT NO. 134. Meets second Tuesday in each month, at 2:30 p. m., at Jeferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MRS MATTIE YARBROUGH, W. C. MRS. MARY L. ROLEN, R. OF D. FAIR HERIMONE COURT NO. 136. Meets fourth Thursday in each month, at 2:30 p. m., at Jeferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MISS. MINNIE Hand holding a branch of leaves. ROSS, W. C. MISS WILETTA HYDE, R. of D. UNIFORM RANKS K. of P. PYTHIAN COM- PANY, L. K. OF P., meets first Wednesday evening in each month, at 1 o'clock, at hall Cor. Jefferson and Morgan. R. H. BARTON, Capt. B. F. JOHNSTON, Rec. PYTHIAN COMPANY NO. I, K OF P., meets first Wednesday evening at cor. o'clock, at hall. Cor. Jefferson and Morgan. R. H. BARTON, Capt. B. F. JOHNNETON, M FARWESTCOMPANY NO. 2, KOF P. 4, meets firstFriday evening in each month, at 8hallCor. Jefferson andMorgan.WM. H. BUTLER.Capt.WALTER WILL-IAMS. Rec CITY OF NEW YORK MOUND CITY COMPANY NO. 3, K. OF F. , meets 2 Tuesday evening of each month, at 8 clock, True Reformers' hall. K. L. JONES. WM. A. PITTS. Rec. 5 BATTLE AXE COMPANY NO. 4. 1st Friday evening 3d Friday in each month, 4th o'clock, at Jefferson North Jefferson avenue. Wm.H.ROBINSON, Cark. L.C.E. L'OVERTURE COMPANY NO. 9. F. M. meets second Tuesday in each month, at 8 a.m. at the person and Morgan. J. H. 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Removes irritation wristly bumps, dislays itching spots, small pumps, and all facial imperfections, and brings back to the most failed complexions, exudates moisture and peach-like tint of youth. Positively not injurious. Used by old and young. It is the greatest discovery of the twentieth century. In order to prove its great, beautifying power, we will send a large sample by mail, postage paid, absolutely free. Write to-day to BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 East Broad Street, RICHMOND, VA. BEAUTIFUL PACE LOSES ITS BEAUTY WHEN UNADORNED WITH A HAND-SOME HEAD OF HAIR. GLOSSINE is a true hair food, and consequently hair tonic, which feeds, invigorates, vitalizes, permeates, fortifies, remodulates, enlivenes and stimulates fortifying, and roots of the human hair. When the plant is withered, sickly, drooping, and dying, we give it water are it die. Just so should we apply GLOSSINE to whiten unsightly dropping, dying hair, for on this principle of common sense was GLOSSINE formulated by our LAICA and noted pharmacists—not from led, mercury, blumth, and other mineral poisons, but from vegetable and botanical products, which can work no injury to the human body. Quality and the desire for quick wealth have tempted many people, ignorant both as to plants and animals, to the people so-called hair tonics, which (on account of their low price) contain mineral poisons, the immediate effect of which cause the hair to grow quicker than whose certain and deforming hair and a bald head. There is only one safe course to pursue—use only on your hair an absolutely healthy vegetable emulsion of the hair, such as GLOSSINE really is, which can only do good, and est to buy, GLOSSINE, a genuine, price, or a worthless, hair-killing nostrum at all diseases of the hair and scalp, and gives it and beauty. It makes the hair grow quickly, hair spikes, gives to it that beautiful, shiny grey causes the hair to grow so long and soft you please. GLOSSINE makes the hair so to it a texture as fine and pliable as the soft price for the complete treatment (3 large boxes) NOTE.--Many druggists may try to make more profit, or because they may not have druggist cannot supply you, send the price, w of dealer, and we will send same promptly. CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL CO., Sole Owner The Stoeltzing Stove Co. est to buy. **GLOSSINE**, a genuine, meritorious hair tonic at a moderate price, or a worthless, hair-killing nostrum at a penny? **GLOSSINE** cures all diseases of the hair and scalp, and gives to the hair length, lustre, life, vitality, and beauty. It makes the hair grow quickly, thick, long, and luxurious; covers all spots; gives to it that beautiful, shiny gloss (from which it takes its name), and can also long and so soft that it can be dressed with ease and as you please. **GLOSSINE** is the best of the three to it a texture as fine and pliable as the softest skin. Price for large box, 50c. $ price for the complete treatment (3 large boxes), only $1.00. We pay all charges genuine, meritorious hair tonic at a moderate price, with a CLOUSINE tuxedo and gives to the hair length, lustre, life, vitality, w. quickly, thick, long, and luxurious; covers all shiny gloss (from which it takes its name), and gives to the hair that is brushed with ease and as the hair soft, wavy, straight, glossy, and gives as the softest silk. Price for large box, 50c.; large boxes), only $1.00. We pay all charges. may try to sell you something else, on which they may not have a CLOUSINE in stock. If your the price, with your name and address and name prepay, please. Sole Owners, 9 Governor St., Richmond, Va. Love and Hardware Co. NOTE...Many druggists may try to sell you something else, on which they make more profit, or because they may not have GLOSSINE in stock. If your druggist cannot supply you, send the price, with your name and address and name of dealer, and we will send same promptly, prepaid. CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL CO., Sole Owners, 9 Governor St., Richmond, Va. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. Wholesale and Retail Agents For.... Peninsular Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Speciality. ...A new line of..... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. "FOLLOW THE FLAG." 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