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Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored Peop.e than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME IX. THE OLD FOLKS' AND ORPHANS' HOME. The meeting held at Allen chapel last Thursday night for the benefit of the home was by no means the success that the object alone should have warranted. Still, the managers of the home are very grateful to those who did attend and to those who lent their assistance in other ways. One must admit that it is very hard to secure a church for such a meeting at a time when there is but little by way of entertainment going on elsewhere, yet when it is considered that it requires $1,000 a year to meet the running expenses, keep up interest and installments on special taxes, and there is, in addition, a debt upon the property, one can hardly be said to expect too much when he looks for better support than was given last Thursday night. It is but another evidence that we have much more to do before we become a factor for much good in any community. The cause is a noble one. The work is conducted in a most careful manner and has the approval of the business men of the city. Why do not more of those of our own people at the head of affairs show by word and by deed that they desire to see this work built up? and built up by pursuing methods that are most direct and that do not appeal to selfish motives? When people have learned to take pleasure in giving towards the support of their own institutions, because a means of doing their duty has been afforded them, and not because of any direct personal benefit that may be derived, then will the work of maintaining such places of refuge be greatly lessened. We cannot afford to lose any opportunity of letting the world know that we are capable of doing for ourselves. Those who came from the First Congregational church to render their assistance were delighted when told that our own people would sing. But our own people did not put in an appearance, although they had promised to sing; neither was any excuse for their absence offered, so none could be given. The young people of this city have talent, but it is almost impossible to secure their services for humanity. Young people should take pleasure in making bright the lives of God's neglected ones. The eight children in the home needed a friend. Some are motherless, others are worse than motherless. These children receive good care at the hands of a kind woman, are taught to be orderly, are sent to school every day, and to church and Sunday school. The matron is an orderly woman. She rises early and has meals on time. Is she not deserving of some sympathy and some regard for her faithfulness? Dr. Sophia Jones' paper on "The Philadelphia Home and Some Noble Examples of Self-Sacrifice For Its Sake," was full of very valuable information and lent much encouragement to those of us who look for better days in Missouri. It would be hard for Miss Jones to do other than justice to this subject, for she has lived in Philadelphia and has taken much interest in the home there. She is kind enough to promise to read the paper on some other occasion. It can but put into somebody's heart a desire to do something for those worse off than himself, even though the act of charity costs much self-sacrifice. Father Harper's tatik on "A Few Practical Hints" was spirited and to the point. He urged that we unite our efforts, let not petty jealousies and envy stand in the way of our progress. Wherever we find one capable and willing to do creditable things, we should extend our support. He said it pains him and pains him deeply to see people of another race approach him with hands extended to offer sympathy and money, while those of his own dash up streets or dodge around corners to get out of the way. We must make ourselves true American citizens if we would have the confidence and respect of the American people. We must not be ever with our hands stretched out for help. We must contribute something towards the building up of the country. We must help keep up the army and the navy. We must make our weight felt by the taxes we pay and by any other service we can be to the government. We are too prone to start at the wrong end to do things. We should begin with the little things, do them well, and work up. We should, above all things, see that the ground work of our education is more thorough, and that a false conception of real things be not given. Father Harper said, further, that it is a good thing to imitate, if we imitate the right things. The Star gives us the cure for many things. For instance, we read of the receptions given by society ladies, and forthwith give receptions, not stopping to look further and draw conclusions. The Star tells that Mrs. A gave a reception, but if we look closely the same paper will tell us that Mr. A is a banker. There is much for us to do—too much for us to fritter away time seeking "a good time." Nothing worth having comes easily. It requires strict application and much self-denial to reach success. The bankers of this city go to their places of business at 8 o'clock in the morning, sit at their desks until noon, take a few minutes for lunch, and return to their work till 4 o'clock. The average colored man couldn't stay at his desk half an hour. Then we should remember that religion has made the white man what he is. All his successes have been achieved through religion. We must learn and be wise, for we have lost nearly all the devoutness that our ancestors had a generation ago. Mr. H. M. Beardsley could not be present, owing to the fact that a special meeting of the city council was held that evening. The collection was $8.25. Those who worked hard to give value in return for the money received are not discouraged. Rome was not built in a day, neither was any good work characterized by marvellous growth from the start. ANCIENT PARTY AT GUILD HALL ANCIENT PARTY AT GUILD HALL The ladies of St. Pancreas Guild will give a 1630 party at the guild hall, 2424 Tracy avenue, Thursday evenings, May 19. It is desired that as many as possible be attired in ancient costumes. A present will be awarded the lady and also the gentleman most anciently attired. There will be ancient games, and the music will consist of the airs of our forefathers. Admission, 25 cents. Supper free. Menu: Croquets, cream potatoes, hot minced rolls, pickles and slaw, ice cream a la cake. Color scheme, green and yellow. Hostesses: Miss Jennle Guy, Mrs. Edward Henderson, Mrs. J. W. Wallace, Mrs. Luellen Williams, Mrs. J. J. Bass, Mrs. J. F. Cole, Mrs. B. B. Brown. If you are right, the Son is with you, and if you are not, the Son is against you. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1904. HEAR HIM FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 13. Blind Boone, World Famed Musician, at Second Baptist Church, Tenth and Charlotte Street. Blind Boone, the celebrated pianist, will close his engagements at Second Baptist church, Tenth and Charlotte streets, Friday night, May 13. He is recognized as the world's most renown musician. Twelve hundred persons heard him at Allen chapel and they will hear him again at Second Baptist church May 13. Admission, 25 and 35 cents. Come early and secure a good seat. A NEGRO MILITARY ATTACHE. It has been decided to send a military attache to Haiti and Santo Domingo, and Captain Charles Young, Ninth cavalry, has been selected. That officer has been on duty at the Presidio at San Francisco. He is a negro. a graduate of the military academy, and possesses a fine record. His ability and fitness for the place led to his selection. FAMOUS MEN OF HUMBLE BIRTH. Oliver Cromwell was a brewer's son. The Greek poet, Hesiod, was a farmer's son. Abraham Lincoln was the son of a poor farmer. Daniel Webster was the son of a small farmer. William Cullen Bryant was the son of a physician. Virgil, the great Latin poet, was the son of a potter. Robert Burns, the Scotch poet, was a plowman in Ayrshire. Columbus, the discover of America, was the son of a weaver. Homer, most illustrious of poets, was at one time a beggar. William E. Gladstone, "the grand old man," was a merchant's son. Terence, the celebrated Roman dramatist, was at one time a slave. Demosthenes, the most celebrated orator of antiquity, was a cutler's son. The eminent French humorist, Francois Rabelais, was the son of an apothecary. Plautus, one of the greatest of Roman comic poets, was the son of a baker. The English lexicographer, Dr. Samuel Johnson, was the son of a boot dealer. The great French dramatist, Mollere, was the son of a tapestry-maker. William Shakespeare, "the chief literary glory of England," was a yeoman's son. Thomas Wolsey, the English astronomer and mathematician, was the son of a soap manufacturer. From the most humble origin, Thurlow Weed became one of the leading journalists of the United States and a great political leader. Cervantes, the illustrious Spanish author, was born of an ancient but reduced family. He early entered military service and served as a common soldier. Andrew Jackson was born at Waxaw settlement, S. C. While the future President was still a mere lad his father died, and the family was left in very reduced circumstances on a half cleared farm in a new settlement.—Los Angeles Times. TO BE MORALLY SYMMETRICAL Condition That Is Eminently Desirable, and Possible. He may have wondered why he should be enslaved on a ship and made to serve at the oar the way he was, but he had wit enough to get changed back and forth and grow muscles on both sides of his body that were useful when liberated. If you are enslaved in any way, make use of it and grow physical, mental or moral muscle on both sides of yourself, and time will prove your wisdom. Very few people are morally symmetrical on all occasions, yet every person must admit that it is desirable and possible. In place of mourning over our condition or criticising others, we should exert ourselves and acquire ability, as there is pleasure in doing so in any kind of circumstances and there is a chance of our finding later on that it was the most useful school ever attended and an absolute necessary course in order to do what we want to do to perfect our life—Earl M. Pratt. THE ECCENTRICITY OF GENIUS. Writer Points Out Peculiar Facts Well Authenticated. The proportion of distinguished men and women contributed from among the families of the clergy can only be described as enormous. In more number the clergy can seldom have equaled the butchers or bakers in their parishes, yet out of 1,039 cases of genius only two butchers and four bakers are definitely ascertained to have produced eniment children, as against 139 persons. The eminent children of the clergy outnumbered those of lawyers, doctors and army officers put together. On the other hand, such is the eccentricity of genius that the clerical profession produces more idiosis than any other class. From Havelock Ellis" "Study of British Genius." Topeka's Geographical Position. The capital city of Kansas occupies a peculiar place in American geography. The two legs of a compass applied to a map of the United States will show how nearly central is its position. Topeka is as far from Quoddy Head, at the extreme northeastern corner of the Union, as it is from the strait of Juan de Fuca, at the extreme northwest. The distance is the same from Topeka to the southernmost tip of Florida as from Topeka to San Diego, Cal. On the north and south line, Topeka is just half way between the Canadian border and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico—New York Sun. In the Hour of Defeat The well-dressed preacher cannot give the solace that I crave to day. He may advise me how to live and may help me away; He may be eloquent and wise And goodness may within him dwell, But still my heart in sadness cries For comfort, even as he sighs: "God knoweth best and doeth well." He cannot give me solace who is standing high in men's regard. When he is not in good men do By trying off and toiling hard. He blindly tells me to be strong And cries: "Work on and hope and but wealth and fame to him belong. And I still struggle in the throng. Defeated and disconsolate. I come to you. O lowly one Who still must toll and still obey— To you who have not nobly done The splendid thing and never may— I cannot be brave and still have pride And having often missed the goal Can still be brave and still have pride O teach me to cast doubt aside And still keep hope within my soul. Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal, the "holy sea," is, excepting Victoria Nyanza, in Africa, the largest lake in the Eastern hemisphere. It is 3,100 feet deep, its bot tom being 1,600 feet below sea level, and in area corresponds to Lake Michigan. European Railway Murders. The arrangement of European railway cars is still responsible for many assaults and murders. One of the latest cases is the murder of an Italian druggist on a train from Milan to Genoa. The assassin escaped with his victim's purse containing $7,000. DEAD Had Been Ill Only a Few Weeks With Bright's Disease—Was Collector of Internal Revenue Here. Frank D. Roberts, collector of internal revenue in Kansas City, died at the Maples hotel in Excelsior Springs at 10:30 o'clock last Wednesday morning of Bright's disease. He had been ill three weeks, and last Saturday his condition changed for the worse. His last moments were painless. Surrounding his deathbed were his wife his brothers, Greene, James and Charles Roberts; his wife's mother Mrs. Gabelman, and Richard H. Love his field deputy. A good man gone. Leaves a wife and many friends to mourn his loss. A KANSAS CITYAN HONORED. Edward S. Lewis, one of our efficient letter carriers and grand master of Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of Missouri, has just received official notice that he has been selected by the various branches of the order in St. Louis, Mo., to act as master of ceremonies at the Thanksgiving Day services to be held in that city Sunday, May 8, at Second Baptist church, celebrating the sixty-first anniversary of the order in America. Quite a number of distinguished guests will be present. Among them will be J. C. Dancy, recorder of deeds: Washington, D. C.; J. McHenry Jones of Institute, W. Va., grand master of the order in America; George E. Temple, St. Louis, Mo., deputy grand master of Missouri. A banquet in honor of the distinguished guests will be given at Doug las hall Monday evening, May 9. The Rev. J. C. Temple of Pittsburg Pa., brother of Deputy Grand Master George E. Temple, will be the officiating clergyman. The grand master will leave here Saturday evening, to remain one week, and while there will also pay the lodges of that city his annual official visit. Thankfulness. And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of thanksgiving. 15alm evil, 22 Though we must wait while others sow, Let us be glad for sowing For fields that rheed row on row, And for all good things growing Thought others reap where we must glean We know the hidden meaning Of scattered grain the rows between, Be thankful for the gleaning Though we are mute when others sing, Let us be glad for singing We know the silent chords that cling, Helpful impulse bringing For laughter to lift the heart That still the restless riot Against that which gives us no part, Be thankful for the quiet Though others smile when we must sigh, Let us be glad for smiling For laughter's promised by and by Our hearts and hopes beginning For this day's blows but cox to form A happy song Show dawn rays in the night of storm, Be thankful for our sorrow While others wake 'tis ours to dream— Let us be glad for dreaming For present cloud and coming gloom, For shadow and for seeming For dreaming of the pleasant ways With joy to delight or borrow Be glad for cherished days, Be thankful for to-morrow —W D Nesbit. Their First Sight of Snow. Although Luzon is a tropical country, it sometimes gets cold enough there to make a sleeper crawl under a blanket, especially in the mountains. There is an official record of its having snowed in the province of Abra twenty years ago, although no white man saw it. The natives came to town and reported a swarm of white butterflies having descended from the sky and disappeared into the earth. Thus the Spaniards knew it had snowed. Mahogany From Africa The United States imported from Africa within a year $1,327,000 of mahogany. This 14,000 tons of freight, in the absence of a direct line, was shipped via Liverpool. NUMBER 5 LEXINGTON NEWS Rev. A. A. Gilbret left for general conference Saturday morning. Rev. Dr. Howard preached for him morning and evening. Those that heard him were well pleased. Rev. Young's son of Sedalia is here visiting his parents and other relatives. Mr. R. Tahott and Mr. R. Worecuff spent Sunday in Independence and returned home Monday. Mr. Marshall Graham and several ladies of Higginsville were here visiting friends Sunday. Mrs. Florence Hayden is on the sick list. The trustees and trustee helpers and Sons of Zion will give an entertainment on the 19th of this month for the purpose of raising funds to prepare the church. All members and friends are asked to assist in this entertainment. Everything will be in first class style. Mr. Gus Hearle subscribed for the Rising Son; also Mr. Oswald Winkler, the mayor of our city. Dr. Brown of Higginsville and Mr. Graham were here Monday on business. Mr. George Higwood of Liberty was here a few days. He came after his horse and buggy and returned home Tuesday morning. Mr. Andrew Jackson of Mayview was here Saturday. Mrs. Mary Call and sister spent Sunday in Kansas City. The Glee club gave a party at Mrs. Kirk Wilson's on Saturday. Miss De Honey of Independence was here. They were highly entertained by Mr. R. Wilson and others. Mr. Harvey Parker left the city Sunday morning. Mr. Will Ford of Iowa is here and wife also. She is quite ill. She is staying with her sister. Mrs. Susie Robinson. Born—To the wife of Mr. Eugene Conway, May 2, a girl. Born—To the wife of Mr. Lewis Bouldridge, a girl. May 2. Gold Mine 3,900 Feet Deep What is believed to be the deepest gold mine in the world is being worked at Bendigo, Australia. The mine in question, which is called the New Chum Railway mine, has sunk its main shaft to a depth of 3,900 feet, or only sixty feet short of three quarters of a mile. The chief problem is how to keep the tunnels and general workings cool enough for the miners to work in at such a depth. It is usually about 109 degrees and, to enable the men to work at all, a spray of cold water let down from above has to be kept continually playing on the bodies—naked from the waist upward—of the miners. Even then they cannot work hard, or they would faint from exhaustion. His Self-Sacrificing Disposition "There isn't anything my boy William won't do to oblige a friend, if he likes him." Mrs. Hockafus was saying, "We had a leg of lamb the other day for dinner, and Willie ate till I thought he burst, but when he went out to play, ten minutes afterward, a neighbor's boy told him they were going to have roast goose for dinner at their house, and asked him to go and eat with him. Willie didn't want to be unclev, so he went along, and just as sure as I'm sitting here, he pretended he was hungry and ate more of that roast goose than the other boy did!" About Russian Priests A white Russian priest must be married, but he cannot marry the second time. If his wife dies, he must enter a monastery. Hence the Russians tell many stories of the extraordinary means to which the priests resort in guarding the health of their wives. If the priest's consort sneezes, a mild panic ensues in the household.—The World's Work. WITH THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS HOW MUCH SHOULD WE EAT? How shall one determine how much food to eat? Too much mystery has been thrown about this subject. Let your sensations decide. It must be kept in mind that the entire function of digestion and assimilation is carried on without conscious supervision or concurrence. It should be entirely unfeet and unknown, excepting by the feeling of "bien-etre," which accompanies and follows its normal accomplishment. Satiety is bad. It implies a sensation of fulness in the region of the stomach, and that means that too much food has been taken. The exact correspondence in a healthy animal, between the appetite and the amount of food required is extraordinary. As a rule, the meal, unless catenary slowly, should cease before the appetite is entirely satisfied, because a little time is required for the outlying organs and tissues to feel the effects of the food that has been ingested. If too little has been taken it is easy enough to make it up at the next meal and the appetite will be only the better and the food more grateful. No one was ever sorry for having voluntarily eaten too little, while millions every day repent having eaten too much. It has been said that the great lesson homeopathy taught the world was this: That, whereas physicians had been in the habit of giving the patient the largest dose he could stand, they have been led to see that their purpose was better subserved by giving him the smallest dose that would produce the desired effect. And so it is with food. Instead of eating, as most people unfortunately do, as much as they can, they should eat the smallest amount that will keep them in good health.—Century Magazine. JAPAN ASIATIC TO THE CORE. According to Talcott Williams in the Booklovers Magazine, it is a shallow view of the Japanese nation which regards it as Europeanized. It remains at the core Aslatic. What it has borrowed is small by the side of what it has retained. The prospect, strong twenty years ago, that its upper and intelligent classes would adopt Christianity, has vanished. There has come instead a renaissance of Shinto faith, a revival of Buddhism—just as Islam grows stronger in every Moslem country—and a widespread desire to preserve the Japanese attitude in faith, in morals and in social life. The Japanese soldier and sailor—in arms, armament, uniform, organization, discipline and drill—is European, but he addresses himself to the task with a reckless disregard of life, a secrecy, a subordination and a freedom from personal ambition which recall Aslatic rather than European tradition. THE ADVANCE OF WEALTH. The advance in the standard of wealth in the last century is recognized by all as something formidable. In the writer's boyhood, Thomas Cushing was the only man in Boston, or its vicinity, who was suspected of being a millionaire; and even in his case some regarded such wealth as incredible. He was an essentially modest, retiring man, and said to a lady of my acquaintance, who ventured to reproach him for having holes in his shoes, that he knew no real advantage of wealth, except to be able to wear one's old shoes without criticism. But what is a million dollars to day? To the eyes of many it represents economy; almost poverty; at any rate, a step toward the almshouse. John Jacob Astor was said to be worth twenty millions, and that was such a colossal fortune, people had again to alter their standard of figures in arithmetic. After this Commodore Vanderbilt's forty millions seemed but a step, and the next Vanderbilt's two hundred millions were not so wholly startling. Yet men looked with miseration on the division of this last fortune by his published will. Sixty millions to each of two sons, and the rest of the family cut off with ten millions apiece. Men felt like taking up a contribution in the churches. Yet what seemed even these wonders compared with the personal wealth of the present day!—Thomas Went worth Higginson in the Atlantic. SOURCES OF HER CHARM. Poets and lovers of New Orleans will tell you that the girl of the southern city gets her pale. creamy complexion from the magnolias that bloom in such profusion; her grace and languid ease of motion from the thousands of waving palms; the dusk of her eyes and hair from the wondrous tropical beauty of the southern nights; her voice from the whispering of the zephyr and the changeful song of the mocking bird. Much of her health is undoubtedly owing to the fruit she eats; oranges like globes of russet or greenish gold, into whose flavor has entered the perfume of the most delicous flower in the fruit world; figs, which are flowers, purple without, rosy within, the subtlest and most delicate of fruits; "watermillion," whose cool colors are as refreshing on a summer day as the draught that comes from its crimson heart—From "The New Orleans Girl." by Columbine, in National Magazine JAPANESE WOMEN IN WAR. The women of Japan do not go out and fight to-day as they have done on rare occasions in the past. We had an empress who led an army into Korea and fought at the head of her soldiers. And even in the last century, when the Shogun made his last stand against the Mikado, nearly a thousand women and girls belonging to families attached to the Shogun fought behind and upon the castle walls, and many were killed. It is different now. Only the men go out. But there is much left for the women to do, and there is not a woman in Japan who will shirk her duty. Not only must she take care of the family while the men are away, but she must work for the soldiers. Our Empress herself is the patron of the Japanese Red Cross Society, whose president is always a prince of the royal house. The women who act as nurses must lay aside their kimonas and wear the regular dress of a hospital nurse. Both before and since the war with China the women of Japan have attended the hospital training schools, where instruction is given by American and European nurses, and there are now no better nurses in the world than those of Japan.—Mrs. Sadazuchi Uchida, wife of the Japanese Consul-General in New York, in Harper's Weekly. GOOD MAY COME FROM WAR. Such good as may come from the war, such compensations as may follow in its train, must be looked for in the broadening and uplifting effects of the contest upon the countries where it is waged, and whose possession and control constitute the real casus belli. So far as the benefits to be derived from modern civilization are concerned, there can be no doubt that Manchuria will be far better off under either Russian or Japanese rule than under Chinese, as this region still is, nominally. Manchuria has already benefited greatly by Russian administration of her finances, her railroads and her local government, and these gains will be confirmed and extended when Manchuria passes completely under the control of a more highly civilized power. But to Corea most of all will the war be practically certain to bring a large measure of advantage, no matter which party to the contest may claim her as the spoil of victory. Corea, which remained up to a few years ago the "hermit nation" of the East, is still in a benighted condition, with a government and a people but few grades above savagery. The country has no educational system whatever and the masses are still in the lowest depths of ignorance and superstition. Industrial enterprise and development are rendered impossible by the national prejudice which forbids innovations of any kind as being disrespectful to the ancestral relations of the people. The existing government, as administered by all, from the emperor down to the lowest village officer, is crude, grossly inefficient and corrupt to a degree hardly appreciable by an accidental mind. The country is filled with officials who do nothing but draw their salaries, and whose maintenance, enforced as it is by every species of cruelty and oppression, is a crushing burden upon the laboring classes. Justice as administered by the local magistrates is worse than a farce, since decisions go almost entirely as a matter of favor or in return for bribes.—Leslie's Weekly. THE ART OF CLEAR DICTATION. Few people think and talk with precision and in logical order, even of the men whose trained intellectual ability is made manifest in their deliberate writing. In dictated judicial opinions and legal documents there now often appear redundancy, complexity of thought and carelessness of expression, of which the burden of interpretation is great; and sometimes the separation of the wheat from the chaff is next to impossible. Moreover, we discover in many contemporary literary productions, books and what not, like evidences that they were dictated by men who had not mastered the art. The difference between written and dictated work is made apparent in the absence of anything like individuality of literary style and in a machine-like uniformity in which there is no more literary style than in an ordinary commercial letter—New York Sun. FRENCH HOUSEWIFE'S THRIFT. The well-known thrift of the French housewife is reflected in the national finances. It is a fact that the distribution of wealth in France is wider than in any other European country. The records of the Courts of Probate in England and the notarial records in France afford data for comparison. In England the 61,233 estates administered last year amounted to $1,440,000,000, while in France 363,612 estates only netted $954,425,201. In other words, while the English fortunes were much greater individually than the French estates, the number of property holders in France were five to one compared with England.—Philadelphia Record. THE REGULAR QUADRENNIAL SQUAWK. FREE TRADE TARIFF REFORM DEMOCRACY 1904 COMPETITIVE RECIPROCITY IMMEDIATE REVISION OLD AND NEW ISSUES WEAKNESS OF EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S POSITION. While the Former Democratic Leader Criticises Bryanism, He Forgets That the Questions He Raises Also Have Been Passed Upon. Grover Cleveland has declared his belief that there is an opportunity for Democratic success in the coming presidential election. But the former President names conditions under which that opportunity must be embraced which will not appeal to all the Democrats in the land. He says in the first place that the fighting forces of the Democracy must not be summoned to a third defeat in a strange cause. They must be given the true rallying cry. Of course he means that Bryanism, in all its phases, must be abandoned. "Obsolete issues and questions no longer challenging popular interest," he says, "should be manfully abandoned." That, of course, applies to the issues raised by Bryan, but in the next breath Mr. Cleveland urges the raising of the issue of tariff reform, and an appeal to the people for economy in the expenditure of public money, as well as an arraignment of the Republicans for having made and broken promises. He would also attack the Republican policy with respect to the Philippines. But is not Mr. Cleveland toying with obsolete issues himself? Did not the American people put the seal of their disapproval upon tariff reform in 1896? Did they not express their approval of the Philippine policy in THE REGULAR QUA DEMOCRACY COMPETITIVE RECIPROCITY 1900? Is it not possible that Mr. Cleveland is as much of a back number as Mr. Bryan is in his way? Of course, this is a question for Democrats to decide, and they will have to meet it—Cleveland Leader. The Man Who Knows "A petition asking the two great political parties to promise the Filipino people that they will ultimately be given their independence has been circulated. The Democratic party will, of course, grant what the petition asks. I sincerely hope the Reputican party will not be led into any such declaration. * * * The time for decision cannot arise for several generations. A people 90 per cent of whom are still in a state of gross ignorance, and all of whom have been for 400 years denied any experience of self government at all, cannot be made over in a decade. The hope of success of our work in the Philippines is tranquility of the public mind and a condition of public attention in which the conservative, peaceful and educated members of the community are able to give their best efforts and sympathy to the present work of improving the existing government.—Secretary Taft to the Hamilton club." After the experience of 1900 it seems incredible that any considerable number of Americans should again enter into a conspiracy to destroy the conditions on which a stable government has been built up in the Philippines, and yet that there is such a conspiracy is shown by Secretary Taft's warning. His advice may therefore be well considered. It is a common sense view from a man who knows more of the Philippines than any other American—a man who stands higher in the estimation of the Filipinos than any other American. It comes from a man who remained in the Philippines a year after he was assigned to duty in this country, on petition of the Filipino people. It comes from a man who received the highest testimonials of regard and affection from the Filipinos, whose government he had organized and conducted. Secretary Taft speaks, not in hostility to the Filtipinos, not as one prejudiced against them, but as one who knows them and who is interested in their present progress and their future welfare. He is the man who knows.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The Mayflower Question: The intensely picayunish aspect of the criticism of the occasional use of the converted yacht Mayflower by the President should have kept it out of the list of campaign issues. But the Democratic minority leader dignified the matter by some remarks in the House, and the President has seen fit to reply in the form of a communication signed by Secretary Moody. The official statement makes short work of the attacks that have been made upon the President for his Mayflower trips. It is to be regretted that an equally convincing reply cannot be made to the criticism of the President's free-pass journeys by rail, notably his free ride on his long Western trip a year ago. When the President travels on the yacht Mayflower, he goes at government expense largely, and that is entirely proper. Why, then, should he not travel at government expense—if he does not pay the traveling bill out of his own purse—when he tours the country by land? The only reasonable criticism upon Mr. Roosevelt's course is that he accepted the favor of free special trains from private railroad corporations. Congress ought to provide for the cost of Presidential tours, if they can be considered a legitimate charge upon the treasury.—Chicago Tribune. Clear and Definite. The only hope of genuine tariff reform is in the party that has a just detestation of the spiolatory Dingley act, and not in the party that sings its praises with the superstitious belief that it is the main source of the country's prosperity. — Philadelphia Record. That this candid statement reflects the Democratic view and intention regarding the tariff there is no room for doubt. It is well to know where we stand and what to expect. Tariff reform, as construed by the general body of Democrats, means precisely what the Record says. It means that Democrats hate and detest the Dingley act and the protection which it carries, and that the absolute repeal RENNIAL SQUAWK. FREE TRADE TARIFF REFORM 1904 MEDIATE VISION of that act would be one of the first steps in legislative procedure to be taken after the Democratic party should have obtained full control of national affairs. After that? Another specimen of Democratic tariff making of the sort that was inflicted upon the country in 1894. Tariff reform ten years later will need no new definition. It remains always the same, always hostile to the principle and policy of protection, always ruinous to business, always destructive of prosperity. This year the Democratic party will once more solemnly consecrate itself to tariff reform, and the country will know precisely what to anticipate as the result of a Democratic victory at the polls next November. The issue is made clear and definite by the Record. Thanks! Big Export Totals. The statistics of the exports of domestic products, including breadstuffs, live stock, provisions, raw cotton and mineral oils, for the eight months up to Feb. 29, show that the factors of production on which the United States has always relied for a large share of its foreign trade are still doing their work. The exports of breadstuffs by themselves are the lowest for six years, and show a steady and rather unsatisfactory decrease since 1899. But the gain in other respects—particularly live stock, cotton and mineral oils—more than counterbalances this loss, and makes a total of $606,730,956, or $8,000,000 more than the total for 1901, which has heretofore been the banner year in this respect. This gain is somewhat neutralized by the decrease in exports of manufactures not statistically reported in the bulletin before us. But the grand totals still leave a comfortable margin in our favor from our foreign trade. Democratic Party Temporizes The Republican party is the party of protection and believes in maintaining proper tariff safeguards. The Democratic party contains a large free trade element and would if it dared commit itself bodily to free trade. But it still has enough wisdom to realize that such a course would be political suicide, so it temporizes.—Troy Times. Stupendous Figures. The New York clearing house has begun its second half century of existence. The business for the fifty years recently ended fooths up to $1.507,811,260,380 in exchanges, and $71.635,947,268 in balances. These are stupendous figures, and are due largely to about forty years of protection during the half century existence of the clearing house. 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A drinking cup, pronounced by the British museum to be 3,000 years old, has been found in a field at Stoningfield, Essex. It is now in the Chelmsford museum. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Tros. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1903. Black Teeth. Emigrants from southern Italy are many of them, disfigured by what is known as "black teeth." The teeth of these persons are affected during the period of growth by some gaseous constituent of drinking water, probably from impregnation with volcanic vapors. The defect often gives a sinister look to an otherwise handsome face, but fortunately does not, it seems, affect the strength or durability of the teeth. America's Exports to Liberia. All the kerosene, the leaf tobacco and the pine lumber used in Liberia is shipped from America by way of England. Tough on Auctioneer. An English auctioneer was compelled to sell the furniture of his own household in lieu of a debt. Paper Stronger Than Cloth. Some wrapping papers are made as strong as cloth of a proportionate thickness. Mrs. Winstow's Soothing Syrup. For churning butter, suffice it unless the Bammana, always pain, will wear a collar. So a bottle Fine Gift to University. Gustav Kohn of New Orleans, has presented to Tulane University his priceless natural history collection, which comprises every living creature native to Louisiana, besides a scientific library of one thousand volumes. Fat for Dyspeptics. The salting of meat generally renders it less digestible, but the fat of pork is an, exception to this rule. The dyspeptic who would not dare eat fresh pork will find fat bacon wholesome food. If you want creamery prices do as the creameries do, use JUNE TINT BUTTER COLOR. Hard Exercise for Jap Cadeta At the Naval Academy of Japan one hour is devoted daily to the most rigorous exercise, and naturally the tailors are a particularly hardy lot. Economy In Threshing. A great deal of grain is wasted by using old style Threshing Machines. This wastage can be entirely eliminated if you use the new and improved machine made by Nichols & Shepard Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A capitalist will respect you more if you try to borrow $5,000 than if you ask for only $5. Why It Is the Best is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. Even if a man didn't accept a leap year proposal he would refuse to admit it. How to Keep House. With all the luxuries and pleasures of this life, its big enjoyments and its smaller comforts, there is an offset or antithesis which we have to contend with in the form of aches and pains. In some way and by some means every one has a touch of them in some form at some time. Trifling as some of them may be, the risk is that they will grow to something greater and rack the system with constant torture. There is nothing, therefore, of this kind that we have a right to trifle with. Taken in time, the worst forms of pains and aches are easily subdued and cured by the free use of St. Jacobs Oil. No well regulated household ought to be without a bottle of this great remedy for pain. It is the specific virtue of penetration in St. Jacobs Oil that carries it right to the pain spot and effects a prompt cure even in the most painful cases of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sclatica. You want it also in the house at all times for hurts, cuts and wounds, and the house that always has it keeps up a sort of insurance against pain. Decline of Lace Industry Decline or Lace Industry. The making of brussels lace, which was thirty years ago the occupation of 150,000 Belgians, now employs less than one-fourth that number. X-Rays Reveal Pearls. M. Dubols, in a paper before the Academy of Science, Paris, shows that it is possible, by means of the Roentgen rays, to examine the living oyster without in any way injuring it, and to ascertain whether or not it contains a pearl. If it contains only a tiny pearl the oyster is returned, and is allowed to live until the disease has developed a large pearl. The World's Fair In making your arrangements for the World's Fair at St. Louis this summer, if you consider convenience and saving of time, you will take the Wabash Railroad as it runs by and stops at its Station at the entrance of the Fair Grounds; thus saving several miles run and return, and the inevitable jam at he big Union Station. By all means consider the advantages of the Wabash. To be a successful bookkeeper it is necessary to first be a successful book borrower. Ask Your Dealer For Aller's Foot-Ease. a powder. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, R. Roy, N. Y. The average young girl prefers quantity to quality in the matted of beaux. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because they have a stock in hand of 19 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once met the 19 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money. The manicure girl has no use for the finger of scorn. Mary Catherine The letter of Miss Merkley, whose picture is printed above, proves beyond question that thousands of cases of inflammation of the ovaries and womb are annually cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Gradual loss of strength and nerve force told me something was radically wrong with me. I had severe shooting pains through the pelvic organs, cramps and extreme irritation compelled me to seek medical advice. The doctor said that I had ovarian trouble and ulceration, and advised an operation. I strongly objected to this and decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I soon found that my judgment was correct, and that all the good things said about this medicine were true, and day by day I felt less pain and increased appetite. The ulceration soon healed, and the other complications disappeared, and in eleven weeks I was once more strong and vigorous and perfectly well. "My heartiest thanks are sent to you for the great good you have done me."—Sincerely yours, Miss MARGARET MERRLEK, 275 Third St, Milwaukee, Wis.—85000 forfeit if original of above letter proofing医學不侩 be prowors. DON'T GET WET! TOWER'S FISH BRAND ASK YOUR DEALER FOR THE SLICKER MADE FAMOUS BY A DEPUTATION EXTENDING OVER MORE THAN HAIF A CENTURY. TOWER'S gurments and hats are made of the best materials in black or yellow for all kinds of wet work. SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED IF YOU STICK TO THE SIGN OF THE FISH. TOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO. LINES. TORONTO, CAN. WABASH "Follow the Flag" WABASH TO ST. LOUIS "WORLD'S FAIR ROUTE" ONLY LINE TO WORLD'S FAIR MAIN ENTRANCE. Five Daily Trains from Kansas City. Shortest Line. Ask Your Agent for Tickets Over the WABASH E. G. SHIELDS, Troy, Pa. Agent, L. & MCCLELLAN, Worcester, Agt. KANSAS CITY, Mo. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year..... 62.44 Six months..... 75 Three months..... 49 One month..... 15 Suspectly 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. 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 . $ . 50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . 20 For two inches, three month . 5.00 For two inches, six month . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . 10.00 For two inches twelve months . 15.00 TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. OUR NOBLE PRESIDENT Bishop Gaines of Georgia, one of the leading negroes of this country, invoked the blessing of God upon our good president, Theodore Roosevelt. This was done last Monday at the quadrennial conference of the A. M. E. church. The supplication of Bishop Gaines was indeed thoughtful and fitting. President Roosevelt is very popular with the American nation. He is loved by all classes—white, black, rich and poor. He is the embodiment of pure manhood and bravery. His sentiments are, "Let right prevail." Several days ago a representative of the Son was passing in proximity to one of the "clubs" of this city, when he was startled by the cry of a woman. He went to her rescue and made inquiry as to her anxiety. The woman's reply was that she was about to lose her husband. Finally the woman was admitted into the house, when she was confronted by another woman who remarked: "Lady, I don't want your husband; I have one of my own at home." From such incidents it seems that these dives not only are calculated to entice and lead astray the young women, but the older ones as well, unless they are strong and determined to do the right. The Son's good version of the question is that men are responsible for their homes and their families, and they should do all in their power to make their homes comfortable, and then commend their wives and daughters to the enjoyment thereof. A great deal can be done by the wife to make home attractive so that her husband might not desire to avail himself of the imaginary pleasure of a vile club and when both the wife and husband have centered their minds upon something high and ideal and have directed their efforts to honorable and honest acquirement of means, comfort and cheer, they may remain at home and avoid these ugly incidents. --- 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. For the first time in the history of Yale university a student of African ancestry has won a prize. The prize winner was William Pickens, a member of the junior class in the academical department. The prize is the income from $2,600—about $100 a year—given by the class of 1879 as a memorial to Henry James Ten Eyck, a member of the class. William Pickens is a resident of Little Rock, Ark. The great concern of the day seems to center on the care and future of our young women, but from what we occasionally observe, many of the older women require almost the same caution to keep them in the right path. The selection of T. D. Williamson, R. W. Alexander and Isaac Allen as guards at the workhouse is all right. These men are worthy and reliable, as well as true party sympathizers. "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 usified in the Republican administration are indeed to be commended for the recog-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 further-ance 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, Woman'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. 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. The Republicans again are in power at the City Hall and again the Negro voters are in receipt of recognition and patronage at their hands. When the Democrats were in charge, not a black fact was ever seen in the hall, except possibly a tax payer. Of course every Negro who wants a job cannot be accommodated, because there are not enough to go around. But the pie is going to many Negroes at this time who were not in a position to get a piece a while back. Mayor Neff and the Republican administration are indeed to be commended for the recognition which they are giving the Negro voters. Queer Will Pronounced Valid. Recently a very singular case of will-making came to light in an English court. A lady, possessed of considerable property, was paralyzed, so she sent for her solicitor to dispose of her estate. Bereft of speech, she was unable to give directions. The solicitor wrote down the various items on so many cards; then on other cards he wrote the names of the lady's family. That done, he "dealt" the cards. As he did so his client coupled property with names, and he was able to draw up the will. It was declared good by the court. Essence of Orange Leaves. A remarkable industry of Paraguay is the preparation of essence of orange leaves. More than 150 years ago the Jesuit priests, who then ruled that secluded country, imported orange seeds and planted groves, which have now become immense forests, filled with small establishments for extracting the essence, which is exported to France and the United States for use in soap and perfumery making. It is also employed by the natives in Paraguay as a healing ointment and a hair tonic. Where Is the Finish: According to the New York Herald the latest cure for rheumatism is going without breakfast. As the latest cure for dyspepsia is going without dinner, and the latest cure for sleeplessness is going without supper, there is apparently nothing left but to subsist on air. But then again the scientist tells us that every time we breathe we run the risk of swallowing bloodthirsty bacilli, so that the best thing, perhaps, all things considered, is not to breathe at all. Many people seem to regard the plump white oysters, so often served now in restaurants, as preferable to the grayish rather thin oyster that the gourmet is accustomed to consider the luscious delicacy best suited to his taste. Because of this false taste, oysters are beached and rendered plumb by dealers on the way to local markets. Normally, oysters are accustomed to sea water. If they are removed therefrom and placed in fresh water for a time they become much whiter than before, and apparently grow fat because they absorb the fresh water. A CHILD'S FOOT Nebraska Clothing Co DANCING 1734 Grand. EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. John S. West's Orchestra FURNISHES MUSIC. D. A. WILLIS, Manager. Good Service. Up-to-date. Palace Restuarant. Robt. Sneed, Prop. 924 Wyandotte St., Kansas City, Mo. 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 $9.00 worth of the Pomade and iterms to agenta. L. PARIS, M. Enclosed $1,000. Money Order for $1.00, for which send me your offer. $2.00 worth of the Great Southern Hair Pomade and terms to agents. Name..... Street..... Town or City..... County..... State..... Express Office..... Date of this order..... SEND ALL ORDERS TO F. J. NOTT, Box 81, Paris, Mo. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up stairs. Z, T, JOBDAN, Manager --- Giving happiness is the only secret of getting it. Nothing spoils the life like living for the spoils. An unbridled tongue goes with an unburdened brain. Sins of the imagination are more than imaginary sins. There is no delight for those who turn back from duty. A man's love of God may be measured by his life for men. A principle hung up on the wall may be worse than none at all. You can hardly expect to get fire out of a cold storage religion. Te man who can smile at a small trouble will subdue a great one. The man who is looking for a chance to be grateful is never without one. With an uneducated heart there can never be more than a half educated head. It is one thing to work up your sentiments and another to work out your salvation.—Chicago Tribune. FIGS AND THISTLES Peace is too big a price to pay for prosperity. Gold crosses do not make golden Christians. Actions are the hands of the clock of the heart. To be a man is to have a mission and a message. A wide-open Bible never made a wide-open town. The church needs manhood more than machinery. The consciousness of wisdom is usually a dream. Truth witnesses in vain where malice is the judge. There is no greatness in man without God's grace. The Lord is not a refuge when religion is all repose. The grace of a sermon is nothing unless it has a grip. You do not kill the tree of sin by picking all its fruits. No temper at all may be worse than some bad temper. He who is a respector of persons cannot respect himself.—Ram's Horn. SOME WOMEN. Carry on a conversation in a tone that savors of scolding. Show a spirit of happiness on the smallest possible capital. Lose the regard of men by being too exacting in their demands. Impart a flavor of comfort to everything of which they are a part. Have an idea men constantly are trying to attract their attention. Want the world to regard them as an authority on all social questions. Use terms of endearment which conveys neither sense nor meaning. Talk so much about loves of the past that there is a suspicion of boasting. Pose in public, and do it in an exceedingly clumsy way.—Philadelphia Bulletin. FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE. The woman who cultivates her conversational powers in order to make herself agreeable to men hasn't a bit of sense. Some wise guy said that women endured the man in order to have marriage, while man endured marriage in order to have the woman. No wonder this double-twisted strain of endurance becomes unbearable at times. When a woman indicates by her manner that a man's attentions are not desired he commonly sets it down to the fact that she doesn't know enough to appreciate their value. New York Times. Fattening Oysters. Should receive more attention from the salesman than the foot of father or mother---a misfit while the foot is growing will cause the beginning of corns and bunions that will prove painful and annoying in after years---the salesman in our children's department are not only the best, but the shoes are the best we could buy for the money. Ask for our Boys Guaranteed Shoes 1113 AND 1115 MAIN STREET. (Where there's always something doing) Up-to-date The New REGULAR ;MEALS 16c PRICE 250. 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JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. it's the little bits we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS Andrew Smith's mother-in-law that died last week was 107 years old. Mrs. Hermdon will be assistant to N. C. Cruse, clerk of the police court. All of the school children are having their pictures taken for the world's fair. Mrs. George Moose's house was robbed last Friday evening of a diamond ring. Mrs. J. S. Harris, at 1111 Campbell, is very sick. It is hoped that she will recover soon. Try an Ice Cream Cocktail, or a Lemon Glace at McCampbell's 20th Century Drug Store. Mrs. Denny, the dressmaker, has moved with Mrs. Hawkins, 11th and Highland avenue. Mrs. S. C. Rogers has returned from St. Louis, where she went to attend the funeral of her brother. Jenkins and Son and Nine Bee will play at the Association park Sunday. Game called at 3:30 p. m. Richard Fulbrig is very sick and is at John Sleuntze's, 623 Washington. We hope for him a speedy recovery. Mrs. J. W. Hawkins and little Dorothy are visiting Mrs. Nora Hicklin and other friends in St. Joseph this week. They will also go to Omaha before they return home. C. B. Ford, brother of Kirk Ford, this city, came through here with Self's Circus and had to leave the show for the time being on account of sickness, but will join them again soon. For fine wedding invitations, calling cards, etc., call on The Graham-Rhodes Printing Co., now located at 704 East 12th St., up stairs.. "Printers of Everything." Dr. A. C. Briscoe of Topeka, Kan. was in the city last Sunday and was the guest of Mr. John Long. He is a dentist and has worked his way through school. But step by step he has come, and we wish him a success. 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. J. T. McCampbell, our enterprising young druggist has installed a fine new soda fountain of the very latest make in his already thoroughly modern drug store, at 2304 Vine street. The Blind Boone company will close its season in Kansas City Friday night, May 13, at the Second Baptist church. Miss Emma Smith will render one of her favorite selections and Blind Boone will favor us with some of his original coon songs. It is hoped that many will come out. Those desiring to avail themselves of the local columns of the Son will send in their items before Wednesday of each week. The local columns of the Son is open to every body alike. If you have a short local item, send it in, as above advised. The last teachers' institute for this year was held at the Central High school last Saturday. Miss Cora Yancy taught a class in music before the institute. Both class and teacher were commented upon in high terms. Miss Yancy's work showed that the singing was not mere routine work, but was the outcome of patient drill in technical music. SODA FOUNTAIN OPENING You are cordially invited to attend McCampbell's Soda Fountain Opening, 2304 Vine street, Sunday, May 1, 1904. Dainty souvenirs for the Ladies. Mr. A. V. Minor of 2446 Flora is on the sick list. . Friends and acquaintances of Miss Lizzie E. Carter will be surprised to know that she was married to Mr. John Finley December 28, 1903, in Little Rock, Ark. They both resided here, Miss Carter being a teacher of Allen chapel A. M. E. Sunday school. They are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Howard, 1713 East Eleventh, for an indefinite time. 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. COLLEGE MEN IN INDUSTRY. Difference Between Practical and Technical Knowledge. An officer of a pumping engine company was recently asked whether college men or men trained by practice are better equipped for industrial work. He replied: "Everything being equal, the practical man is likely to know more than the technical man about actual shop work, but he is also likely to stop knowing when he should go on knowing." This feeling is general. The old-time apprentice, who developed into an all-around mechanic, is being rapidly ousted by the modern technical graduate who is a specialist. Even the modern foreman is no longer the product of apprenticeship. The trade-school creates him.—The World's Work. SAYS THE MISOGYNIST. Fellow up in Dakota celebrating his silver divorce. Somehow or other I laugh when I see a husband buy a dog to make his wife happy. I read of a case once, up in the North Woods, where a bear ran away from a woman. Most women are delicate; if they ain't, other women tell them they are. Meanwhile, the physician "heels" himself. Nothing like a change of scenery to preserve harmony. Married couple once moved from Battle Creek and are now living in Concord. I don't shun the company of women as a hard and fast rule, but I get spells. Sometimes I am happy when I fancy I am out in Manchuria shoveling snow. I don't know anything about women's clothes, but when I see a woman in decollette costume I wonder why she didn't wait till the dress was finished before she wore it.—New York Telegraph. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman can stand weeping for a man, but never blushing for him. A woman's idea of bad taste is to wear turquoise rings with pink garter straps. Generally it is the woman who married for love who is anxious to have her daughter try it for money. It is always safe to kiss a woman when there is somebody in the next room that she is afraid will find it out if she makes a fuss. What a woman likes is to have a man act toward her with boldness beyond her endurance, and then with humility, in contrition, beyond her unforgiveness—New York Times. ECHOES OF WISDOM. Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.—C. Simmons. Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.—Rousseau. Not two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; dispatch of a strong one.—Colton. SHE REMAINED A BIRD. Strange Coincidences in Life of a Kentucky Woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Martin started early in life to feather her nest well, and has always had her eye on the main chance. She began life as Elizabeth Bird of Harrison county, near Paris, Ky. Her first venture outside of the home nest was when she married Bud Martin. When Mr. Martin died she married Edward Crow, a farmer. When the time came to change nests she allied herself with William Robbin, and lived happy until the matrimonial season for Mrs. Robbin again rolled around. Then David Buzzard, a widower, more attractive personally and socially than his name would indicate, appeared, and Mrs. Robbin became Mrs. Buzzard. Into the Buzzard roost Mrs. Buzzard carried one little Martin, two little Crows and one little Robbin. One little Buzzard was already there to welcome the other birds.—Philadelphia Ledger. The largest monolithic piece of stone used for building is one of the great base stones in the Great Pyramid, which weighs eighty-eight tons. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. COURTEOUS TREATMENT Parlors 1820 E. 18fh St., Kansas City. The Bostonian's The quick response to our display of these famous shoes shows the critical eye of Kansas City glanced and was fascinated. 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Feeling this kisses on my face and hair! - Elsa Barker, in Lippincott's. "To Let— Furnished" By EVELYN GLOVER "Rose Cottage," said Molly Page, "That's it. I could cry when I think it ought to be mine." Two girls had dismounted from their bicycles, and stood staring at a long, low, ivy-covered cottage. The hodge inclosing its garden was dotted with wild roses, and the air was alive with sounds of summer. "Then did old Mr. Harvey tell you he'd leave it to you?" asked the other girl sympathetically. "Why, many a time! He took a great fancy to me because I used to go and read to him when he was in Westbourne Square, and he was always talking about his cottage in the country. Then he died awfully suddenly, you know, and there was no will, and it's gone, with everything else, to a Phillistine of a nephew in Australia. I know hell want to level it and sow the ground with bush or something! Those cloudhopping farmers always take it as a personal insult if there's anything between them and the sky line!" "I suppose it's empty now? I wish we could see over it, don't you?" said Mary Fordham. "There's a man working in the garden. We might ask, perhaps," said Molly doubtfully. They propped up their bicycles and walked toward the gate. Molly heatatingly accosted a blue-shirted back which bent over a rosebush. "Do you happen to know if there'd be any objection to our seeing over the cottage? I knew the late owner very well." The back straightened itself instantly, and a bronzed, sixfoot individual faced the questioner. "Not the slightest," he said. His voice was pleasant and culture$\textcircled{1}$, and the crimson rushed into Molly's cheeks. "I beg your pardon," she faltered, "I thought——" The giant's brown eyes twinkled. He perfectly understood the workings of the mind of this pretty young woman, who was blushing so becomingly. "I have the key in my pocket," he said. "I'm well—well, gardener and caretaker, and hired man, and everything else till Mr. Hamilton arrives. I—the fact is, I worked under him in Australia, and I've come over to see to some of his affairs, and get things a bit straight for him. I'm trying to reduce this place to something like order." He strode to the end of the garden, picked up a loose short coat from the grass, and thrust his long arm into its sleeves. Then, with an easy "At your service," he led the way toward the house. It was a house calculated to delight any woman's heart—a house with long, low rooms, and quaint, unexpected corners and recesses suggesting delightful possibilities in the matter of furnishing. "Oh!" she gasped, as they stood in a small bare, sunlit apartment of paneled oak with old-fashioned, diamond-paned windows, "how could Mr. Hamilton bear to let this?" "Well, you see, the whole thing's a bit cramped to a man who's been used to an expanse of twenty square miles or so," said Gerald Wrately. A farmer in a field "Not the slightest," he said. with a smile. "By the way," he added. ed. "you said you knew old Hardy pretty well?" "Yes." said Molly. "very well." "Queer thing his dying intestate. I was rather interested because the housekeeper at his Westbourne Square house—I've just come from there—had some yarn about a girl to whom this shanty'd been promised. I hoped there was nothing in it." Molly was twisting a dirty blind-cord with careful industry. "Why," she said, "when a man dies without a will, stories of that sort invariably crop up, don't they?" The giant laughed nervously. "I say—I wonder if I might ask you something. The fact is—you see Hamilton said I was to furnish this place as soon as possible. He thought it would let better, and I knew nobody here, and a chap hardly likes to undertake that sort of thing without advice. I've got nothing in yet. I'm putting up at the Nag's Head for the present. If—if you could see your way to giving me any suggestions—" "Oh," said Molly, "we—we should be very glad to give you any—well—theoretical help in our power—shouldn't we, Mary?" "Molly," said Aunt Harriet Page, looking up from her embroidery, "I've sent a card to Mr. Hamilton for Wednesday. It seems to me that if we make no advances toward that young man he will think we have some feeling with regard to Rose Cottage. I always told you, Molly, that you made a great deal too much of an old man's idle speeches." Molly flushed with annoyance. "I have got a strong feeling about Rose Cottage, Aunt Harriet; and I don't care what Mr. Hamilton thinks. I don't want to meet him!" "That's simply ridiculous!" said Miss Page decisively. "I credited you with more sense. I don't know what's come over: you since that absurd holiday with Mary Fordham, Molly." Somehow, in spite of her professed unwillingness to meet the Phillistine from Australia, she found, during the next day or two, that she was quite looking forward to Wednesday's At Home. She was engaged upon that' K. K. K. "Say that again, please!" particular afternoon in putting the finishing touches to her toilet when Miss Page, in semi-deshabille, hurried into her bedroom. "Molly," she said. "Oh, you're ready—that's right! Go down at once, will you? He's actually arrived at this hour!" "Who?" said Molly. "It's only half-past three." "Mr. Hamilton. Say that I'm coming in a minute." For a moment a refusal trembled on Molly's lips, but with a petulant little shoulder-shrug, she walked downstairs and turned the handle of the drawing rom door. "Good afternoon, Miss Page," said a cheerful, familiar voice. "I hoped if I arrived early that the fates might——" "You?" faltered Molly. The room seemed to swim for a moment. "Oh, how do you do? I beg your pardon, but I was told Mr. Hamilton was here." "Well—er—yes." Gerald Whately rammed his hands nervously into his trouser pockets. "You see, the fact is—er—I am Hamilton myself. I didn't exactly say so at Lelham, because—" "What?" crled Molly. She sat bolt upright in her chair, surveying him with a sudden angry light in her eyes. "Say that again, please!" The visitor said it again. He was manifestly happy. "I—I won't believe it!" crled Molly. Her quick mind had flashed to her first meeting with the blue-shirted workman. "You—you couldn't be!" "Well, I am, really—Gerald Whately Hamilton, you know. Miss Fordham found me out the last night at Leham—caught sight of one of my checks—only I made her swear not to say a word until—until—" "You deliberately deceived me!" flashed Molly. "Well, remember what the alternative would have meant! I consider I had every excuse." Molly's blushes deepened. "Very soon," continued Gerald Hamilton, unheedingly, "I began to find that—well, that it just mattered all the world to me whether you liked blue chintz or pink, and all that. Only I wasn't going to tell you so till I got my affairs quite settled—some of them were in a bit of a muddle—and till I came to your aunt's house in my own name. And now—" "Well," said Molly unyieldingly. "I still want a tenant for Rose Cottage." I don't see what I've got to do with that. "The tenant I want would—would just have to take me along with the place," said Gerald Hamilton, daringly. "I've got so fond of it." Molly's face drooped. "It's rent free," said the broad- shouldered, anxious landlord. Still no reply. "Don't you think that furniture would be awfully wasted on anybody else, Molly?" Molly raised a hot face which dim- pled into the suspicion of a smile. "There's—there's something in that." she admitted. And then the clodhopping farmer held out his arms.—Home Chat. For men and nations, yesterday lives with to-day into to-morrow.— Henry Morley. PAPER THAT STOPS BULLETS. Experiments Made by Swedish Government Are Interesting. A series of interesting firing trials has been undertaken by the Swedish government. The purpose of these experiments was to examine the effect of shooting against pasteboard. The trials were conducted on the wharves of the Swedish navy in Karlskrona, and the target used was a prepared one of millboard, against which fire from revolvers, rifles, carbines and machine guns was directed. The pasteboard, which was three inches thick, resisted completely the bullets fired from the small arms, but was perforated by the projectiles from the machine guns. The experiments may be said to have given very interesting results. Bullets from the carbines used are able to penetrate wooden planks five inches in thickness, but they could not penetrate the pasteboard, which was only three inches thick. Stunts for Hindu Youngsters. Little Hindu boys who don't know how to behave themselves are punish- ed in their own peculiar fashion. Instead of having to stand in corners with their faces to the wall, the bad ones at school may be ordered to stand on one leg and hold their ears for half an hour—a very tiresome pastime, especially when one is not used to it. Or, when they fall asleep over their books, they may have their "scalpknots" tied to the wall in such a way that the drowsy heads cannot droop forward. KISS THE CAUSE OF DEATH. Peculiar Fatality Reported from Hanley, England. A kiss has indirectly caused the death of Sally Rudkin, one of the oldest inhabitants of Hanley, England. The old woman went to the Gilbert treat, an ancient Hanley institution, at which, after the feast, the old people sing and dance, and those who are adjudged the best receive half a crown each and a kiss from the mayor. There is keen competition among the women for the mayoral kiss, and Sally Rudkin determined to get one. Entering into the spirit of the thing, the mayor ran away, so she turned to one of the aldermen, and, flinging her arms round his neck, kissed him with ardor. The astonished alderman started back. Sally Rudkin lost her balance, fell and broke her leg. She was taken to the infirmary, but the shock to her system had been too great, and she gradually sank and died. Their Relative Size. JAPAN MASSACHUSETTS CALIFORNIA A writer in the London Chronicle says: "A few years ago—it may be the same to-day—the popular markets of the poorer quarters of Rome and even the stalls of the butchers near the Partheon showed rows and rows of cats hung up for sale, with the skins off but the tails carefully left on, to show that they were not rabbits. For an old-fashioned Italian does not think a rabbit quite fit for human food, nor will any Italian peasant eat the meat of sheep. Anything winged, however, is his favorite food. Like the lady in Boccaccio's story, he eats a parrot when he can get one." Honoring the New Arrival. The birth of a child among the working class in Cumberland, England, has been from time immemorial, and is still, celebrated by the making of a mixture called "rum-butter." Its ingredients are butter, sugar, rum and spices, and it is a really palatable compound. Every person entering the house where a birth has taken place is offered a taste for several weeks after the event. It is an insult to the child, and its parents to refuse the proffered daity, and not to proffer it is considered equally discourteous. Cookery Lessons for Men A course of cookery lessons "for men only" has recently been initiated in Copenhagen under the auspices of an influential committee. It was felt that there were in that city a large number of young unmarried men, such as students and clerks, who were debarred from any real home comforts, and that a knowledge of cookery would aid them towards domesticated habits, to say nothing of benefiting their digestions. A BULLET-PROOF OINTMENT. It Commands a High Price Ameng Russian Soldiers. A number of reservists from Perm, on entraining at Tchelabinsk, for the far east, were observed to have in their possession small bottles, of the kind provided by the state for vodka, filled with a curious greenish substance. A few days later some soldiers were noticed dyed a deep olive green, and an inquiry was held. Some of the soldiers admitted that before leaving their village a wise woman named Lietkin had sold them, at a rouble a bottle, a holy ointment, the chief ingredient of which was marrow taken from the bones of saints buried at Soloviets monastery, near Archangel. The ointment rendered anyone smecared with it bullet-proof, and as the soldiers expected that the Japanese might attack their train at any moment they were preparing. It appeared that the less fortunate soldiers had begged to be allowed to buy some of the ointment, and the further the train got east the higher rose the price.—London Mirror. Curious Custom. In Friesland, it seems, there is a custom that the news of a birth or death is announced verbally by a man who calls at every house in the village for that purpose. If he brings the news of a birth he wears white gloves, if of a death they are black. Some days ago a child was born dead in a Friesian village. It was necessary that the usual announcement should be made, but in what colored gloves? The harbinger was a man of resource. He went his rounds wearing one white glove and one black one. Doctoring an Ostrich. To relieve his paralyzed legs from his 250 pounds weight, this ostrich was placed in a sling while a mild current of electricity was applied to his legs. The first two days he appeared to receive no benefit from the treatment, but it gradually brought back blood and life, and he is now running around in the London zoological gardens. A Very Gay Ghost. "No," said the widow with a sigh, "Mrs. Buttin does not call upon me any more. She called right after I moved in here and was perfectly lovely. She did not know I was a widow and I did not take the trouble to enlighten her. She spied a photograph of the late lamented on the mantel. "Your dearly beloved, I presume,' she said with a smirk, and I nodded assent. "She called again a few days later. After a few common place remarks she glanced at the photograph again and said in a poor-child-how-I-pity-you sort of way: "My dear, I don't want to make any trouble, but I saw him at the theater the other night with a big, stout, blonde girl.' "Great heavens,' I gasped with affected horror. 'That is strange. I buried him in Woodlawn five years ago. What would you advise me to do?"—New York Times. Electric Fan on Light Wire Every year brings out some new design in electric fans. What is probably the latest thing in this line is the little contrivance shown here. Compactness and economy are its chief recommendations. The construction is very simple and the cost slight. The fan can be screwed directly into the socket of an ordinary bulb, consuming the same amount of current as a sixteen candle power lamp. The speed of the blades is said to be 1,600 revolutions a minute. Curious Guam Superstition. In the island of Guam a curious superstition is held by the natives. They believe that on a certain night all of the dead come forth from their graves and walk around, having a good time. To facilitate the festive occasion a candle is kept burning on every grave through the night. Burglars Played Mean Trick. Even the device of leaving a safe unlocked, with a card inviting burglarls to open it, is no longer a protection. A man tried it at Minersville, Penn., and the burglarls played him the trick of locking it so he could not open it himself. ACTOR FEARED A MIX-UP. Russian Wolf Combination, the actor, has Washington as as many friends an Ohio politician. The lawmakers have never forgotten his favorite play of some seasons ago, and he is always called Crane recently "Senator." Mr. played in Washington, and was royally received at the White House, the Capitol The lawmakers have never forgotten his favorite play of some seasons ago, and he is always called Crane recently "Senator." Mr. played in Washington, and was royally received at the White House, the Capitol and the clubs. While at one of the latter a gentleman who had enjoyed the actor's performance remarked: "Well, Crane, I want to make you a present. I'm going to give you a dog." "What breed?" asked the actor. "A Russian wolfhound," was the reply. "Sorry," said Mr. Crane, "but I can't accept a Russian wolfhound." "Why?" asked the friend in surprise. "I have a Japanese valet," answered the actor, "and as for myself, I'm neutral."—New York Times. Found Gold In a Hen Coon. Two boys, W. O. and C. P. Danielson of Medford, Ore., in March, 1894, while cleaning out an old chicken house for a family by the name of Roberts, found buried under the surface $7,000 in coin. The Roberts family claimed the money and the boys turned it over to them. Afterwards the boys brought a suit in court to recover the money, on the ground that they had found it and were entitled to it, as against all the world, except the owner. The Roberts family claimed that one of their number had buried the money there, and that in fact the money was not lost. The case is now before the supreme court of Oregon as to who is entitled to the money. The interesting information was developed at the trial that the Roberts family gave to each of the boys five cents, and expressed the hope that the Lord would bless them An Illuminating Crab. One of the marine curiosities fished some time ago from the bottom of the Indian ocean was a mammoth crab which continually emitted a bright white light, similar to that seen in the spasmodic flashes of phosphorescent luminosity emitted by the common glow-worm. The crab was captured in the daytime and placed in a large tank containing specimens of fish, nothing peculiar except its immense size being noticeable in the broad glare of the tropical sun. At night, however, when all was pitchy darkness, the crab lit up the tank so that the other creatures in it could be plainly seen. In this ingenious monogram every letter of the alphabet can be made out. Small Claims Paid by Government. There have been several 1-cent claims against the United States government. One was by the Southern Pacific, which submitted a bill of $5.29 for hauling government freight. It was a bond-aided road, only part of its bills against the government being paid in cash, the rest going to the railroad's credit on the bonds. In this case its credit was $5.28 and its cash 1 cent. Another government obligation of a single cent was in favor of a chemical company, which, for some unexplained reason, agreed in a public competition to supply 16,892 pounds of ethyl ether for 1 cent. The offer was accepted. There were nine signatures, one that of a rear-admiral, on the paper, relating to the establishment of this claim and the warrant for payment had to be signed by several persons. A Long Sleep. An agricultural laborer in Russia is reported to have slept for seven months. He "dropped off" while at work in the fields, was carried home, and remained slumbering for the period mentioned, watched from time to time by physicians. Curiously enough, he lost so little flesh that no attempt was made to feed him. When he awoke he was as weak as an infant, but after a fortnight's nursing was strong enough to return to his work. Denew's Dinner Invitation Chauncey M. Deppe was accosted by a beggar who had "seen better had "seen better days." The man wanted five cents. The senator shook his head and passed on. But the man followed him. "Please give me five cents; I've had no dinner," he persisted. T "Nother have I," replied the senator shortly. "Very well, then." said the fellow, suddenly assuming an air of patronage, "make it ten, and we'll dine together."—New York Times FATE OF AN EXPLORER. Made An Idiot By Tortures Inflicted By Tibetans. His last journey was to the Gorn, into the strange countries that I close the Himalayas, and when they found him again, he was like that—again Gorn pointed to the portrait of the stricken man's son. He was like that—only worse—far worse! He had set out young, vigorous, alert; he came back bowed as if with age, his hair white, his face sunken and furrowed, his mind disordered, and peculiarly horrible must have been the expression of his eyes. For the lids had been slit across the middle, and were now but half healed. He is said to have toterted into the station without knowing it for what it was; as though he had been led to a point in the road and left to take his chance. Thus he returned again, and one no knew where he had been or what great trials had so changed him; for he had no answer to the questions they put, and he was alone; he knew nothing, his memory and with it his whole past seemed lost to him, nor did he even recognize the friends into whose care he had come. They sent him home after a while, to this house; and here he was won back to some semblance of life by the devoted woman, whom, later on, he married—the mother of his son. He lived here quietly for a number of years, he and his wife and the boy, and then one night he blew his brains out.—Metropolitan Magazine. DAN DALY AND THE EDITOR Comedian Had Rather the Best of Short Controversy. Dan Daly in his younger days essayed to write fiction, and went to the editor of a Boston paper with his first effusion. The editor criticised the work severely and advised the future comedian to study Nathaniel Hawthorne. The vein of humor peculiar to Daly had developed even at that early date. He said reflectively: "If my story were printed it would measure about half a column, would it not?" "About that," replied the editor wondering what that had to do with it. "Your rate of payment is $5 per column, I believe?" pursued the young man. "Good day. I like to be pleasant and agreeable and popular with everybody; I am even willing to dethrone Hawthorne to please an editor—but not for $2, not for $2." Whereupon he casually departed.—New York Times. Compromised With the Rat: A Portland man who maintains a summer cottage on the cape has during the past winter exercised a bit of diplomacy that achieved the desired result nicely. During last fall a large rat made its appearance about the cottage that defied all efforts to trap or exterminate it, and the aggressive campaign was abandoned in despair. But it would not do to leave the rodent in full and free possession of the premises, as the mischief it might inflict on the furnishings during the winter would be considerable. The owner concluded to try an expedient that suggested itself to him, and, as before stated, the plan proved an emphatic success. At least once a week the cottage has been visited and a quantity of food left in the cellar. This arrangement was at once ratified by the rodent, which has abstained from depredations in consideration for the bounty upon which it has waxed sleek.—Kennebec Journal. A Criminal Paradise. Spain's criminal settlement in the Zafarina Islands is said to be quite a paradise of convicts. Their liberty is restricted only so far that they must not leave the islands and must return at night to prison unless they obtain leave of absence for the night. At 6 o'clock in the morning the convicts leave the prison. Some do a little work, but the majority go straight to the various wineries and hostleries where they pass the day drinking singing and occasionally breaking the monotony of life with a little knifing—for each respectable prisoner carries his "faca" (knife) day and night with him. This idyllic state of things appears less strange if one considers that the prison warders—the "capa-tares"—are the liquor sellers of the islands, and that a good deal of illicit trading is carried on in those places of resort, the prisoners buying revolvers, ammunition, housebreakers' tools and similar articles.—Chicago News. His Package. Long-Lived Married Women. By far the greater part of the centenarians who died in 1903 were women, and nearly all of them were married. One of these specimens of longevity had not slept out of London for sixty years, which fact the Lady's Pictorial takes as a proof of the purity and invigorating power of London air. ONE DOLLAR WHEAT. Western Canada's Wheat, Fields Produce It—Magnificent Yields—Free Grants of Land to Settlers. The returns of the Interior Department show that the movement of American farmers northward to Canada is each month affecting larger areas of the United States. Time was, says the Winnipeg Free Press, when the Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa furnished the Dominion with the main bulk of its American contingent. Last year, however, forty-four states and districts were represented in the official statement as to the former residence of Americans who had homesteaded in Canada. The Dakota still head the list, with 4,006 entries, Minnesota being a close second with 3,887, but with the exception of Alabama and Mississippi and Delaware every state in the Union solded settlers who, in order to secure farms in the fertile prairie country of Canada, became citizens of and took the oath of allegiance to, the Dominion. Last year no less than 11,841 Americans entered for homestead lands in Canada. From the Gulf to the Boundary, and from ocean to ocean, the trek to the Dominion goes on. Not only the wheatgrowers of the central Mississippi valley, but the ranchers of Texas and New Mexico, and the cultivators of the comparatively virgin soil of Oklahoma, are pouring towards the productive vacant lands of the Canadian Northwest. It is no tentative, half-hearted departure for an alien country that is manifested in this exodus; it has become almost a rush to secure possession of land which it is feared by those imperfectly acquainted with the vast area of Canada's vacant lands, may all be acquired before they arrive. There is no element of speculation or experiment in the migration. The settlers have full information respecting the soil, wealth, the farming methods, the laws, taxation and system of government of the country to which they are moving, and they realize that the opportunities offered in Canada are in every respect better and greater than those they have enjoyed in the land they are leaving. Canada can well afford to welcome cordially every American farmer coming to the Dominion. There is no question but that these immigrants make the most desirable settlers obtainable for the development of the prairie portion of the Dominion. Full information can be had from any authorized Canadian government agent whose address will be found elsewhere in this paper. To Improve Coffee Culture. The experts of the Agricultural department have a theory that the degeneration of the modern coffee culture has been based upon seed originally imported from Arabia, and that by getting back to the wild coffee plant, the habitat of which is the Province of Kaffa, West Africa, a new variety may be created, the value of which will be incalculable. A supply of Kaffa coffee is to be secured through King Menelik. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarr Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney, of Toledo, O. to be capable in all business transactions and financialable to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALKER. TOLEDO. Wholesale Drugs, Toledo, Hall's Catarr Cure is taken internally, acting as a drugstore in the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Drugsellers. Corn Culture in Australia. The corn-producting states of Australia are New South Wales and Queensland—New South Wales having 167,733 acres, producing 3,844,993 bushels, or 22.9 bushels an acre, and Queensland 116,983 acres, producing 2,569,118 bushels, or 22 bushels an acre. K. C. S. Almanac tor 1904. The Kansas City Southern Railway Company's Annual Almanac is now ready for distribution. It contains the usual monthly calendars, many useful household hints and information concerning the country in Missouri, Arkansas, the Indian Territory, Texas and Louisiana. Write for a copy to S. G. Warner, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. Filipinos Eat Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers furnish the Filipino an important article of diet. They are caught in nets while in swarms, sunridd and eaten with brown sugar. 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-ounce 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. You can buy for half price from some people by showing them the cash. Mistake of the Irish Mate. It was a quiet evening not long ago in the harbor of Norfolk, Va., when the Irish mate of a vessel leaned over the rail and watched the steamer Helvetia come slowly in. The mate thought it was another ship in which an acquaintance sailed. "Ahoy, there," he called, "what ship is that?" "The Helvetia," was the response. "To hell with yourself." yelled back the mate, and the incident was closed. Maska Carry Disease. The New York Medical Journal notes the discovery that the lending of masks by costumers is a probable source of disease transmission. Violent tubercle bacilli were found in eight out of forty-two masks examined. Penny Savings System The school children of Columbus, O., are $24,225.25 richer now than two years ago, when the penny savings system was started by the board of education. The average accumulation of the depositors is $7. Seat of the Trouble. A little Maine girl came to her mother one morning and said, "Mama, I don't feel very well." "Well, that's too bad," said mama, "where do you feel the worst?" "In school," was the prompt reply." Soap Trees in Algeria. Soap trees are being cultivated on a large scale in Algeria. Each tree bears from 50 to 220 pounds of fruit, the size of a horse-chestnut, which yields a soap free from alkaline qualities. A Boy's Story. Cross Roads, Warren Co., Tenn. May 2nd.—Orbra Young, the eleven-year-old son of Mr. Lester Young, of this place, has never been a strong boy for almost from his birth he has suffered more or less with a distressing Kidney Complaint. Recently, however, he has appeared to be growing stronger and better till, indeed, to-day he is a splendid looking hearty lad. He is a bright and very intelligent boy and speaks of his former illness in this way: "I have been bothered with Kidney Trouble nearly all my life. I was gradually growing worse, and at last it got so bad that I had to get up three or four times every night. I commenced to use a medicine called Dodd's Kidney Pills and in a short time I was better. Now I can sleep all night without getting up and I feel well all the time. Dodd's Kidney Pills are a good remedy, and I can't help but speak a good word for them." Highly Probable. A good story is told of a University of Pennsylvania freshman, who was asked early in the beginning of the term by one of the professors whether he had proven a certain proposition in Euclid. "Well, sir," he replied, "proved is a strong word. But I will say I have rendered it highly probable." Making Wood Pulp. In the manufacture of wood pulp logs of fir are placed in a strong chamber and there subjected to the action of superheated steam until the water in every cell is converted into explosive gas. The chamber is then opened and the log explodes, converting itself instantly into wood powder. First Flying Machine. In the eleventh century the English monk, Oliver of Malmesbury, a Benedictine, invented a flying machine in which he had such confidence that he jumped off a high tower with it and broke both his legs, four ribs and one arm. He died—the first martyr of aerial navigation. Where Fossils Are Found. The marl beds of New Jersey, the chalk beds of New England and the limestone of Eureka Springs are among the formations of the cretaceous period. These formations contain the fossils of the great reptiles and of the birds that succeeded them. BOAKED IN COFFEE. "When I drank coffee I often had sick headaches, nervousness and biliousness much of the time but about 2 years ago I went to visit a friend and got in the habit of drinking Postum. "I have never touched coffee since and the result has been that I have been entirely cured of all my stomach and nervous trouble. "My mother was just the same way, we all drink Postum now and have never had any other coffee in the house for two years and we are all well. "A neighbor of mine a great coffee drinker, was troubled with pains in her side for years and was an invalid. She was not able to do her work and could not even mend clothes or do anything at all where she would have to bend forward. If she tried to do a little hard work she would get such pains that she would have to lie down for the rest of the day. "I persuaded her at last to stop drinking coffee and try Postum Food Coffee and she did so and she has used Postum ever since; the result has been that she can now do her work, can sit for a whole day and mend and can sew on the machine and she never feels the least bit of pain in her side, in fact she has got well and it shows coffee was the cause of the whole trouble. "I could also tell you about several other neighbors who have been cured by quitting coffee and using Postum in its place." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellville." JEST AND JOLLY As It Happens. "Why do you rent?" asked the old man. "Houses can be bought on easy terms. Why don't you buy one?" "Because," replied the wise young man. "I've had three friends who tried it. In each case they gave me a pitying smile as they took possession of their own homes. In each case I was informed that the only way to live was to quit paying rent. In each case I saw the fortunate fellow neglecting his business in the spring in an effort to get his taxes reduced; and in each case an inquiry as to what they were doing a few years later brought the reply, 'Trying to sell my house.' If it's just the same to you, I'll continue to rent a little while longer." Getting Even. Patience—You say they quarreled? Patrice—Yes, and she returned all his gifts. And what do you suppose ae did? "Can't guess." "Sent her half a dozen boxes of face powder, with a note explaining that he thought he had taken at least that much home on his coat since he knew her." Perfectly Clear. Tommy—Ma, what's a stepmother? Tommy's Mama—Why, if I should die and father should marry again, the lady would be a stepmother. Tommy—O, I see. You'd step down and out and she'd step in—Indianapolis Sentinel. What They Have Done. "Is there anything at all in flying machines up to date?" "Certainly." "How do you make it out?" "There's been a lot of money put into them, hasn't there?" "Of course." "Well, you haven't heard of any of it being taken out, have you? It's still there." Booming Business. "That lobbyist seems to have a good deal of money to spend," remarked the first councilman, "Yes," replied the other, "he's work' ing for an ordinance to allow automobiles unlimited speed." "Ah! in the interest of the auto club?" "No, the undertaker' trust."—Phila- delphia Ledger. A New Definition "You don't think the man was intoxicated?" "No, sir." "Why?" "Because he could keep his feet by leaning against a wall without trying to get a grip on the bricks with his fingers." An Expensive Name. "Darringer, what's become of your friend? I haven't seen you with him for over a week." "I cut him! His name is Hava drink, and every time I called him that he said, 'I don't care if I do. He was too expensive.'" Stranger—So you went to school with Rudolph Skipping, eh? I suppose you know he is now a famous writer? Uncle Fletch—Sho! Why, him and me used ther same copybook, an' I know my writin' 'd beat his'n all holler. After the Tips "How attentive your waiters are to that ostrich," remarked the lion to the cashier of the Jungle restaurant. "I never saw monkeys so polite before." "Yes," remarked the beautiful tigress, who acted as cashier, "they were reading in the Jungle News this morning that ostrich tips are very valuable." The lady—How is it, my poor man that your life is so full of regrets? Gritty George—I used to be an editor, mum. "Yes. Isn't it too bad? She never will be able to talk of love in a cottage without making people laugh." Thousand Times More Dangerous The havoc wrought among children by the different food atrocities forced upon their unprotected stomachs is a thousand times greater than the havoc wrought by the liquor habit in adult life. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD Is the perfect food for growing children, as it is made from the whole grain of the wheat, without the brains, bones and nerves being bolted out of it. "Good Afternoon" to Corpse. "Good Afternoon to Corpse One's risibilities are sometimes stirred even at a funeral. The other day in Brooklyn, after the pastor had said his word and turned over the services to the undertaker, he was surprised to hear that worthy announce from alongside the casket: "Now the friends will please step forward and say 'Good afternoon' to the corpse."—Homiletic Review. Paper Hose and Gloves Paper gloves and stockings are now being manufactured in Europe. The stockings have been carefully examined by experts, who praise them loudly. These stockings will last almost as long as the ordinary stockings. The paper of which they are made is during the process of manufacture, rendered into a substance closely resembling wool, and is then woven and treated as ordinary wool. Mosquitoea at Sea. Mosquitoes do not thrive on steamships, and are seldom seen in them after a day or two from harbor. On sailing vessels leaving tropical ports they often live for weeks or even months, the stagnant rain water in boats, buckets and elsewhere furnishing good breeding places for them. Rule Is Reversed. In all the lower orders of life it is the male who develops special adornments, such as gay feathers and gaudy hues, to attract the female. The reversal of the process among humans seems to indicate that woman has got into a false position somehow. Happy West Indian Babies The West Indian negroes allow their babies to romp about in the open air all day long, almost, if not entirely limbs as much as they like, and it doesn't matter how dirty they get. Consequently they are the happiest babies in the world. Britishers Grow In Height Statistics show that in fifty years the average height of British men has risen an inch. The present average height for a man is 5 feet 8½ inches. Those Who Have Tried It will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 19 oz. Too many eye-openers impair the vision. won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. The finger of suspicion has few good points. 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 Bowls and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. A fool is more foolish to-day than he was yesterday. Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze nor spot clothes. Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other bluing. If your grocer does not keep it send 10c for sample to The Laundry Blue Co., 14 Michigan Street, Chicago. Tears often say what the tongue cannot. When Your Grocer Save he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. No girl is willing to believe that marriage is a failure from hearsey. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight so cigar, made of extra quality tobacco. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. The iceman and the coal man both swear by the thermometer. Thousand The havoc wrought among children is a thousand times gre PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. 25 YEARS ESTABLISHED We read FREE and postpaid a 204 page treatise on Files, Flatlands and Diseases of the Rectum; also 800 page flatts, treatise on diseases of Women. Of the thousands cared by our staff, 1000 have been cared for by PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 1030 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. A Nurse Says: "Pe-ru-na is a Tonic of Efficiency." MRS. KATE TAYLOR MRS. KATE TAYLOR. Mrs. Kate Taylor, a graduated nurse of prominence, gives her experience with Peruna in an open letter. Her position in society and professional standing combine to give special prominence to her utterances. CHICAGO, ILL., 427 Monroe St. "As far as I have observed Peruna is the finest tonic any man or woman can use who is weak from the after effects of any serious illness. "I have seen it used in a number of convalescent cases, and have seen several other tones used, but I found that those who used Peruna had the quickest relief. "Peruna seems to restore vitality, increase bodily vigor and renew health and strength in a wonderfully short time."---MRS. KATE TAYLOR. In view of the great multitude of women suffering from some form of female disease and yet unable to find any cure, Dr. Hartman, the renowned specialist on female cataract diseases, has announced his success in the treatment of many cases as make application to him during the summer months, without charge. Address The Peruna Medicino Co, Columbus, Ohio. ```markdown ``` are delicate and no drastic purgatives should ever be given. Neither should a mother give her child any concoction containing opiates. If necessary to assist Nature to move the little one's bowels give Dr.Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Pleasant to the taste — contains nothing which can harm the most delicate organism. Physicians will testify to the truth of this statement. See page 21 of our book of "Proofs." Write for it today. Mrs. Allie Jackson, of Farmer City, III, writes: "My seven months old baby, I was in poor health. I had tried numerous remedies with no good results, until the baby lost much flesh, and was in poor health. A friend recommended a bottle at the drug store and gave the contents to the baby according to directions, after which there was a decided improvement in his condition. I bought a bottle about a month, with very satisfactory results, his stomach and bowels being in good health, condition and his former weight regained." Your Money Back If It Don't Benefit You PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Montello, III. Looking for a Home? Then why not keep in view the fact that the farming lands of IGUACHE FARMS in WESTERN CANADA FREE Western Canada are sufficient to support a population of 50,000,000 or over? The immigration for the past six years FREE Hamastad Lands easily accessible, while other lands may be purchased from Railway and Land Companies. The grain and grazing lands of Western Canada are the best on the continent, producing the best grain and cattle fields, schools, railways and all other conditions make Western Canada an enviable spot for the settler. Write to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, for a descriptive Atlas, and other information. Invited to Government Agency J. S. Crawford, No. 5 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Mo. W. L. DOUGLAS $4.00, $3.50, $3.00, $2.50 UWON MOCK SHOES BEST IN THE WORLD. W.I.Douglas shoes are worn by more men than any other make. The reason is, they hold their shape,itbetter,wear longer, and have greater intrinsic value than any other shoes. serurree Look for name and price on bottom. Douglas uses Corona Collskin, which is everywhere conceived to bathe the finest Patent Leather yet produced. Fast Coat or Layers used. Shoes in black, green or white. Wrist or Cuffs. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. 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I want a representative in every township in Kansas. Right troop will be raised. S. Z. Barber, Mgr., Etn. Life Insurance Co., Topeka, Kansas. PENSIONS to Civil War Veterans. Honorably discharged with 80 days service. $6.00 60 years old. New PENSION required. Nonmedical examination. Blyton & Wilson, 31th St., Washington, D.C. Est. 185 NEW PENSION LAWS SENT FREE Apply to NATHAN BICKFORD, 914 F St. Washington, D.C. No More Blind Horses For Specific Ophthalmia, Moon Blindness and other sore eyes. Bary Co., Iowa City. Have a sure cure. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. If afflicted with sore eyes, give Thompson's Eye Water eo TO THE E. Z. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND Ha'R CUT. Cc. A, EVANS 107 Bast tith, — Kansas City, Mo. CHAS. T. WATTS, TEACHER OF Violin and Piano. 1210 Highland Avenue. Telephone 4642 Gray. 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THE TRAIN SERVICE OF THE MIS- SOURI PACIFIC, ee, . 1 Sarr ee ae | C sega mT Yee ‘The four flyers that leave Kansas . nts East—hote the leaving 15 p.m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling Note the new departure of the fast £30 p.m; close connections in St Louis with the Grand Union station: with astern and Southeastern train ‘The only line leaving Kansas City af ter the Operas, Lodge meetings ani Sunday night Church service, at 10:4 p.m. and arriving in St, Louis at 7:2¢ a.m, in time for all Kastorn connec tas, 10:20 p. m.—10:59 a, m.; Omaha & St. Pant Express, Elegant equipment, Pullman Sleep er sand Compartment cars; Reelinin Chatr cars, (all seats free), For al information and tickets call at Union Depot and 901 Main St., Cit Office. E. 8. JEWETT, Pass, & Ticket Agent a i ee Quaker ” Rye! hie. Pucty, Quality s. Hirsch & Co., GRAND LODGE OFFICERS 1903-1904 K. of P. OF MISSOURI. GC, Aaron W. Lioyd, 2629 Lucas ave, St Louis. GV. CG, Jas, A, Demay, Huntsville Mo. P.G. ©, W. H. Goff, 2337 Wash st St. Louis GP, Rey, F. D, Avant, Clarksville Mo. GK. of R. & 8, W. A. Gunnell, De Soto, Mo. GM, of E, BB. Burris, Macon, Mo. GL, J. W, Ware, Commerce, Mo, GoM R, Dr. J. g@teDowell, 2300 Market st, St al GM. at A, B. F, Adams, 615 East 10th st, Kansas City. G1. G,, Geo, A, Donaldson, Pars, Mo G. 0. G, Geo, M. West, 101 E, Buck- hardt st, Moberly Secretary and Treasurer, Benefict- ary Board, Dr, W. P. Curtis, 1409 Mar- ket st., St. Louis. Members of Hoard—D. F. Gordon, 224 Routh Jefferson avenue; We W. rive, 62 North Tewumont Supreme Representatives Chas. 1 Brown, §t. Louts, B. J. Carruthers, St. Louts HC. Carter, bu toale eee ge WAL OW. UICCKNER, C, S. Lm. Gof, Kueh. and Bn W 'T, MUMFORD LODGE No. PK OF Y, micecs tat and 3d Tuesday \oning th each month at § o'clock, i Jefferson hall, 703 North Jetter: gon avendo, RE Low DANIEL RosTICk, C. C. B. Bland, KooF Rand 8. EXCELSIOR LODGE No. 3B. OF V, nieete ad-and (th Thursday evening In euch month at § orcock, In Jefferson hall, 10s North getter: son avenue, St. Louls 1. KOMEO STEEL, C. C. Sol Lindsay, Ke ot, & 8. =I MOUND CITY LODGE No. 4, kK. Jol P.. meets 1st and dd. Monday evening veach month, at 8 oclock, at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefter: son avenue, Bt. Lots ‘A. BLACKWELL, C. C. DW, Prantiy, Ko of Rand 3, “a DESOTO LODGE No. & Kot P Ot De Soto, Mo, meets 20 Monday Kind sth Saturday ‘evening In each honth, ats o'clock, at Masonle Maly Bouth Main’ and'St. Louis wtreets HL LONG, C. ©. _John W, Jobnaon_ K. of Round 8 DAMON LODGE NO. 6, K. OF P, meets 2h and ath Wedlnenay eve ineweh month, at Socluck, at Jet: ferton halh i Ninn Horton aes VAL TE BUTLER, CC, Wesley Hudson, of Ruand'S FIDELITY LODGE No. # K>of Py, of Springtold TA, FREEMAN, CC. | " Go Wonk ect a's. LILEY LODGE NO & K. of Pa of Kansan eity BH TAYLOR, €.¢. James A Degen, K. of Rand 8. Be NORTH STAR LODGE _NO_- Kon Py of anniv, meets 2a Mod’ 4ah ubeaday "eventigg in each month MILLVINE BARNES, Cc, J. de Pugalte, hot Rand 8. ——_Loxk STAR LopGE No 1 Kot bof Macon, meets 2d and fin “atofday evening in each month wy ee a wanuace, o..6 3.0. Manic 2 cee and "9 JORIS Loved Noo Kot < Or doit N. 1. GREEN, C_C. HH. curtis, Kot Rand 8 HARRISON LoDGr No, 2, B eat Huntsviie, moots 24 and RY vin iiesiay evering in each, Month TN. Main street JAMES A DENSY, © & wot ani Ke ot Rand 8. Sst Py AS LovGE No. 1s, wah, oe P, meets and. ath Tues: oy day evening in euch month, at 8 Ofdicek at Jefterson hall, 15 ‘North Jetterson avenue WB WILLIAMS, ©. ¢. P_E. Anderson Ko of Kasd i : CRYSTAL LODGE No. 14, & of Pi ot Fema bid taninger hoor Ht. aod 8 FLORAL LODGE No. 15, K. of FoF Poplar Biut TARY CAIN, CC, 8. F. Townsend. Kot Rand 8. EUREKA LODGR NOW, Kot Ph ineets Ist und rd Wednesday Svening in each month, at s-u'clock, We Setfervon hall, qos, North Setter: aon ave. WM, SKEEN, CC. Wy M! Johnson, Kcr Rand S m .TW. STRINGER LODGE No. 1K OF P.. meets Istand” ad Hiutsday eveiling in each ‘month At y orcluck, at Jefferson Duly, 105 North Yefterson avenue LAWRENCE HAWKINS, C. C. att. Turners Roof Round 8. |g MORNING STAR LODGE No. | Te aR ee ot rreuericktown: Tieets 20, and “ith ‘Tuesday evening a euch month CHAS. THORNTON, ©. €. “Sohn €, Raye ot Re and So COMMERCE LODGE NO. 18, K of Py of Commerce, mocia ist and Sra ueaday eventing” tn each GEORGE ALLEN, C.€. Elbert burns, 1 of Rand 8. RICHMOND LoDGR NU. 3, of Pot Richmond, meets ist'and | MEY Sra! rhursday evening kn each month | HORARS Raxpnn, @ c Si Raab teas Baud B | Paul nandies of Rand BO | MIKINLEY LOLGE NOH, of Py of Kansas chy | Cy Russell, ©. Cc. Nee Pater J. Sloss, K. of Te und 8 EAGLE LODGE No. 2 K, 0 P., of Neoleyvilie | WE BRUNSON, C. ©. | FD sumner Miynes RE OF Rand 8. | CARRUTHERSVILGE | LODGI | NOM KC OF B, of Canvithers Ville, GW. HARRIS, C. Cc. ‘ACME LODGE NO. 24, K. of P. jer URNER, ©.¢, aPC Miurton K. of Re ahd 8. |e HoBeKLy Lopar. No. 3, K of Puy of ‘Moberly, meets: Tet an | Sra" “ruesduy. evening In eac month at 8-0'clock | Ro I. SCOTT, C. C |g. at, West. Kk. of Rand 8. | “gp CRISING BUN LopGR. Kor P of Keota.” Meets int and a0: ‘Thurs Quy evenings in each month, at | o'iock. ne i AL. SPENCER, C.C. | __t w, White, 16. of Rand 8. GOLDEN STAR LODGE NO xo P,, of Ardmore. ‘A WOODEON, Cc. | FS sw, Bonde, Kor Re tad 8.” TOUSBAINT LODGE XO, 28 OF Ps Moca Int and 34 ‘Tyead | evening Inveach month, at 8 o'sloc | At'Kicker's hall, "Newstead as |. at Kickers BURLEIGH LODGE NO. 2%, K. of Pa Ot Farmianton CHAS BAKER, ©. ¢. " Lewis L. Hil, Kot Rand 8. PYTHAGOR/S NO %, K. of P., ironman MF Boyd, Koop Ke am 8, ANCHOR LODGE NO, 31, K. OF pe aT ape Mitrardouts Me, nests Tak ud Ht ued" exainiy 9 Se ier Montn we Caste ONO AN A GONE, C. Ce Albert Mt ollvere Root Kecand Soo + CHRISTOPHER LODGE NO -®, Paria Data LaTty : ‘AHCTHUT CAYCE, CC Taom Jonnaon, Ie. ot We awd Bt Fy PHLOSUPHIAN .ODGE NO. 8, io Or eer Bans Wile! HOBINSON, Cc. C, __ugene b. Cut, Root and 8, SEMPER FIDELIS LODGE NO. eri TR on Bev nieets, 2a) and “Ath MBE Hisuty cventnge inveuch monty a ane ‘Clock, ‘at Jefferson hall, 703 North fereon avons. nee * (0. J. BIGGS, C. Cc. Hs cabot 1, of Rand & “pm PAETTE popan Nom Rot py A Fayette OD nights" of cach month at Mason a B. F. ISAAC. JR. CC, John H, MAttisier, Kot To ania 8, OLYMPIA LOLGE NO. %, K. of po ott Carthuger, meets every Wednesday evening in each week. FUROR ee. TR. Cole, Ko of Rand Se COPTONWOOD LobGE No, #, Kor Ps ue Cottonmond Spout Tnecta 3H and. tth Tuesdays, : TGHRDAN ANDERSOS, ©. c, Simon tyed, Ke ot te and 8 WEST, GATE, LobGETNOT®, Kat Par Rirketilies mecte 2d Bia"ten Stomaays OE nrown, ©. ¢ E. H, Johnson, ie ot Re and @_ = ROCK SPRING LODGE NO- 3%, itp Stmwcis ado Pueedage and Hh thursday oveningsat cofterson ETE NS Rectontay wt beac Ja. sect ELovult cc TOO A oe ee 8, “SEW ARKA NO. OK of Fy = WALTER PRITCHARD, C. C. “St Lovis Lopae Noa, K, OF Be reste ist apd od Tueeeae sree Ings in euch “month, at Reventh Tait etanhine ave. CHARLES: witre, ©. ©, _defferson ‘C. Covington, Kot Re and 8, CARROLLTON LODGE NO. 42 Ko of te, of Carrollton meets, 2a Monday “and St Pucsday : LL, DANE, ©. C. “Clyde 1b, Alton, 1, 0 fi ae Bo PROGKESS” LODGE NO KrOPe at Kanaes cliy, Neste © way Ss ‘an’ mondays HkRiy He Grattas, ©. c. JD. Ww. ertings Kooe Ream oS MISSOUTT LODGE No, ai Root Eyer hauler DG" corys, cc Chas, Covington, Re oF Be nd 8 NPI MADIUD LODGE NO. EY wy fs nib. Cherry, K. of R. and 8. “Bankes RG —LopaE No. $61 OL By ot earrenebae, PV. W. Cooper. kof Rand 8. Sh JOSEP LODGE NO. @ Ke ut Pernt Bt. donee PHILIP HAYNES, ©. &. “MIAMI LODGE Now ws, Ko of Mant SSamil HE Moore, KE. of Re and 8 CLARK P, BEASON, C. @ GRAND COURT OFFICERS. 1.0.0. c G. W. C—Eliza M. Curtis, Joplin, Mo. G. W. L—Bertha Burles, St. Louls. G. W. L—Mary L, Rolen, St. Louis. G. W. 8. D.—Annie Kemp, Freder- icktown. G. W. J. D.—Mattie Yarborough, St. Louts. G. W. R. of D.—Marietta Poulson, St Louis. G. W. Rec. of Dep.—Julia Hyde, St. Louis. | G, W. Orator—Fannie Baker, Farm- ington. |G. W. W. Escort—Lavinia Taylor, Paris G, Con.—Rebecca Chenault, Fayette. G. Ass’. Con.—Minnie Mansfeld, Huntsville. G.W, Herald—Rosa Lynch, Neeleys- ville |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, cat a oe 95 Meets 3d Thursday in aff fs cach month at 2:30 p. Ete. mm. at Jefferson Hall, GIANRE SA 705 N. Jefferson Ave. (I Madame Jennie Irving, aS Ww. C. Mrs. D. Crews, R. of D. SPRIG OF MYR- TLE COURT No. 13 meets 4th Friday tn each month, at 3:8 p.m, at Jefferson hall, 708 North Jet- ferson avenue, A. W. LLOYD, W. c MRS, KATIE ROSS R, of D. EUREKA COURT NO. $9, meets “ta ‘Thuraday in act month, at 3:30 p. m. at Jefferson hall, 10 North Jefferson ave nue, "RS. MISSOURI WILLIAMS, W. C, MRS. MATTIE GIL RBE, R. of D, SYRACUSE COURT NO. i meets Ist Friday in each month, at 9:30 D. m., at Jefferson hall, 76 North Jet- ferson avenue, MISS LOTTIE MO. MAN, W. c, MRS MAMI ED. WARDS, R. of D. crime tienes acc! FIDELITYCOURT NO. 101 meets 24 Wednesday in each month, at 8:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 768 North Jefferson ave- nue, HATTIE: BRIGHT, Wi ARBANIA M. WILLIAMS, R. of D. PRIDE oF THE WEST COURT No. 123 meets 24 Wednes- day in each month, At 3:20 p, m,, at Jet: ferson hall, 106 North Jefferson ave- nue. MRS, ANNIE PHIL- LIPS, W. Cc. FANNIE B, NEW. COMB, W. R. D, i QUEEN ESTHER SN GE NO. 15 moots 24 Fri ioe. day in each month, Pr at 3:0 pm at s 5 Kickers’ hall, New- AWRY, stead avenue and LENT North Market street. MRS, MAMIE (\ NICKENS, " W. C. ory MRS. MAMIE PIER: SON, R. of D, ee % AEE FAIR cALANTHE S \ ie COURT No. 16. Poe Meets second Tues- te Kaa day in each month, NUR see Pack ek EINES Seerton tena? MRS MATTIE (\ YARBROUGH, ANY W.c ¥ MRS. MARY L. RO. 4 LEN, R. of D. a FAIR HERIMONE AA COURT NO. 1%, PA FEB Meets fourth Thurs- (Pease day in each month, BRS, ferton hall, 06 North REN ESA serternon avenue. (| Miss MINNIE ((\ RO8S, W. C. ey Miss | WILETTA HYDE, R. of D. 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GI.OM@@IN ES isa true hair food, and conse- quently. true hair tonic, which feeds, invigorates, Vitallzes, pornieates, fertilizes, resuscitates, enlivens, and stimulates the bulbs, glands, oll sacs, follicles, adjuncts, and roots of the human hair. When the plant ia withered, sickly. droop” ing, and dying, we xive It water efe 5 a oe WY, Pe GLOSS@INE two the harsh, 5 Bab | tesigtes dropning, azine halt tor A Oy Gy | on tis princi ae camtinan Sense 4 ARS QS AY | was GxvOmes tes formulated \ Au Pots: ff | by ove of America's most noted phar- y ° macists—not from lead, mercury, bis- = uth, and otfier mineral poisons, but R from Yexetahie and) botanical prox ducts only, which ean work no Inlury ie. te I tothe human hair. Cupldity and the ay - Gesire for quick wealth have tempted Y, . Ayg AM] many people, ignorant both as to A Pa Pliarmacy ‘ania Chemistry. to sell to a iho peopie so-called hair tonics, whiten p y 3 {on account of their low price) con. on . 4 fain ‘mineral poisons, the Immediate = ; effect of winlen cause the halr to xrow Pas VAcar quickly, but whose certain end is fall~ / a 7 AN | nw hair and a bald head. ‘There ts \ 7 BPM | only one sate course to purme—use + er fall | ons ‘on your hair an "absolutely i a co Peace, vegetable remedy for the p fair, such as Co Xv (> @ @ EIN 3S re FF NG Fests wien dan Gui Go good and work ns Injurs’ Which is the chien est to buy, GILOSMSINES, a genuine, meritorious hair tonic at @ moderal Price, or a Worthfess hair Kling’ nostrumm at m Denny} CeCMROREAL ED cures ail diseases of tho halr and scalp, and slves to the hair length, tustre, lite, vitailty, nd beauty.. Tt makes the hair grow quickisy thick, long, and luxurious: covers ail bald spots; gives to it that beautiful, shiny gloss (from which It takes Its name), and causes the halr to grow so long alld so soft that t-can be dressed with case atid as YoU pleate. GILOSBINE: makes the hair soft, wavy, atraluhe, wlossy, and gives tolie'a texture as fine and pliable ws tue softest silk: Price for are box, BOc.¢ price for the complete treatment (3 large boxes), ouly 1.00. We pay all charges. NO‘TE..—Many druggists may try to soll you something else, on whieh they make more profit, or because they may ict have GLOBSENE in stock, If Your Uruggist cannot supply you, send the price, with sour name and address and name of dealer, and we wiil send same promptly, prepaid. CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL CO., Sole Owners, 9 Governor St., Richmond, Va. UNIFORM RANKS K. of P. | PYTHIAN coM- PANY NO. 1K OF P., mecta ‘Arai : Wednesday evening ‘ in ench. month, at W o'clock. at. hall, Gor. Jofterson and Morgan. KH, BARTON, apt. B, F. JOHNETON, Ree. ene g FAR WESTCOM- PANY NO. foie hNgry isi tate Sin) riday evening tn COM AH ones msntn se ~ Riper ae Tat GEEKY Si etotton tn Foe SU? aucun, RACE. warren Sit. TAN tee. s MOUND city 2 COMPANY NOoE PR ORE ites Aero iiss oe BAD Cg \5 ot exch month, ms ha ES ae Grelneke True’ “Hetormers cote me halt PAL GN i Le JONES, SHAN cay) Biche, WM. A. PITT, wt mh ; BATTLE AXE COMPANY NO. 4, ; KO OF P., “meets A tr Fase fae oo sof hig in euch month, ~ Ate) Otelock nt Jefterson hall, 75 cone Northvefterson’ av- LAA eniie SSA Wnt noniyson, iOS Capt. GE a wan, <= ‘Ree, Ghe Stoeltzing Stowe and Hardware Co. ee eee ee BOaaeeonaaaanea = Beat Stoves Made. spr k _, Largest Stock in City. ‘ Se ay oe il Prices the Lowest. oS rd, Wholesale ood Retell Peninsular pa oe Lae a oral Stee! Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Bur. | neg Fy Sy | ners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... ct em Peninsular Stove Go. Ome Er Tice or Cent tn Weeds lormont re ee ih ‘Onk Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. | iia | Hie 4 | TIN WORK @ Speoisity. Pell acenol [1 sicsia names 6-0; —— | Window and Door Soreens and Refrigerators heme ach YE: "Phone 1451. bak HR pare) ge gi 1329 Grand Ave. ep L'OVERTURE COMPANY NO. 9, t’ KORE. meats Cad Cg “ese month. X'S Sy OF victor at cor. Jet er 2K apenas CSOPNSA chaneNce W. Sei cen SALTERS, Ree. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Rey. S. W. Bacote, Second Baptist, ‘Tenth and Charlotte. Rey. F. J. Peck, Allen Chapel, Tenth and Charlotte. Rey. E, R, Vaughn, St. John’s Chapel, Ninth and Bell. Rey. W. M. Hawkins, Ebenezer chureh, Second and Holmes. Rey. J. M. Harris, Burnes Church, Eleventh and Highland, Rev. S. W. Scott, Christian Church, 2ist and Summit. Rey. R. P, Christain, A, M. E. Zion, Fifth and Belmont. Rey, J. T. Smith, A. M. E., Westport, 43rd and Prospect. Rey. J. W. Jacobs, Berry Chapel, 20th and Summit, Rey, W. 8. Wheeler, Asbury A. M. E, 19th and Cherry. Rey. James H. Allen, A. M. E,, Inde pendence. Rey. J. J. Clark, M. K, Independence Rey, T, H, Ewing, Vince Stree Church, Vine street. Rey. F, G, Snelson, Presiding Elder A. M, E. chureh, 401 Cleveland Ave, Kansas City, Kansas. an 5 “FOLLOW THE FLAG.” AGA iv Trai MORN |) Daily Trains Kansas City to St. Louis. Unsurpassed service, smooth track, fast time. All trains on the Wabash run directly through the World’s Fair grounds, St. Louis, in full view of all the magnifi- cent buildings—the Wabash is the only line that does it. Wabash Train No 8. Leaving Kansas City 6:15 p. m., arrives Niagra Falle and Buffalo next evening, aud New York and Boston second morning, saving a ay" travel. Through ser vice. Wabash is the only line that does it. tC S. McCLELLAN, Western Passeuger Agent. Kansas City, Mo.