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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 NORTHWEST MISSOURI TEACHERS' INSTITUTE Cloza Its Labors—Strong Resolutions Indorsing Prof. B. B. Tully Indorsing Prof. B. B. Tully. We, the committee on resolutions, beg leave to submit the following: Whereas, We the committee being interested in the cause of educational advancement of the race, and Whereas, The negro teacher should be better equipped in the line of his profession; therefore, be it Resolved, That a summer normal be established at Parkville, Mo., for this purpose. Resolved, That we heartily indorse the efficient work of Prof. B. B. Tully as conductor. We also appreciate the interesting, eloquent and instructive lectures given by Prof. Baldwin and Prof. Williams of Kansas City, Mo. Resolved, That the teachers of this institute extend thanks to Prof. L. M. McAfee for his kindness in showing 4..rising son...june 30...gross us through the different apartments of Macay; also that we thank Prof. Boyd for his beneficial lecture on mathematics. Resolved, That the teachers of this institute extend thanks to the board of education and to the citizens of arkville for their generous hospitality. Resolved, That the Missouri School Journal be recommended to the teachers of the race. Respectfully submitted. A. N. BELL. R. H. BROWN. N. A. HARRIS. E. E. ANDERSON. D. E. TAYLOR. KANSAS CITY, MO., June 19, 1904. Sister District Deputy Menor Officer and Members of the International Order of Twelve, Visitors and Friends: I thank you for allowing me this grand opportunity to make known some of the work of the Maids and Pages of Honor, which is organized throughout the United States of America, with a large membership, and in a good financial condition. Through the earnest work of the Queen Mothers, the able assistance of the Sir Knights, and the financial assistance from the good and loyal daughters, we have come to stay, as there is no children's department doing more than the Maids and Pages of Honor. We care for the sick, give aid to those in distress, bury those who fall victims to death. Through the sunshine and storms we have come, and to-day we can say the following named tents are doing a great work in Kansas City: Silver Link, with Dt. Susie Dotson W. Queen. Mother; Golden Crown, with Dt. Maggie Georgia, W. Q. M.; Pearl tent, with Dt. Annie Jones, W. Q. M.; Queen Rose, with Dt. Elizabeth Richardson, W. Q. M. and Grand Queen Mother, and I have the honor to be a member of the last named tent, and do extend a hearty welcome to all good boys and girls to unite with the Maids and Pages of Honor and be benefited by their teaching. Much credit is due to Daughter Elizabeth Richardson, Grand Queen Mother, for the organization of the Maids and Pages of Honor in Kansas City. We give great praise to her name. We should ever remember and cherish the name of Rev. Moses Dickson, the noble father and founder of this grand order, while he now dwells with the angels and with God the giver of every perfect gift, we are forced to think of him and drop a silent tear to think he has gone from us. Let us love one another as love is the pillar, and charity is the foundation of the Maids and Pages of Honor. So I welcome you—yes, thrice welcome, and invite you to come and unite with the Maids and Pages of Honor and wave the banner of love Yours in the work of Taborian childen. WILLIE UELLA FEDRICK. Lewis Woods, Esq., Kansas City, Mo. Dear Sir—My success here is far above my expectations, having a class now numbering sixty pupils. The work is much more easy to handle than in Kansas City, as people are more musical and thickly settled. I give twelve lessons some days in two blocks. I have at least seventy-five pupils in sight, and will soon organize a school, that I may accommodate or instruct several hundred pupils. I am unable to instruct all that apply, for the city is too large to attempt to go north, east and west, so I have confined my work to the south end, but, as I have said, will soon arrange to instruct all applicants. Wishing you and your paper success, I am. Yours respectfully, SAM'L I. LEE. Invitation to the Suburbs. O, you, who are in the city penned, A patch of sky in view. These flies, in very pity penned, Are meant or such as you. If coyly copy of quaint Queen Anne design, And there are few that envy not This country house of mine. Now days that longest on us smile Are filled with flowers and song; Come out and visit me awhile. Are of all kinds with white bird on bought each brother greets, This wonder-sight we'll see— A thousand blooms fling out their sweets To woo the wandering bee. In hammock swung we'll gently ride, And read or tidy dream. In bosky the beside A writhe and crystal foam. Here beamsmats through leafy rifts And gild the earth below. Where apple blossoms fall in drifts —Sweet summer's scented snow. Come out, if healthy you would be— Let my request prevail! The sun's close by me, That's luckily for sale— A lovely lawn, a garden fine, An orchard filled with fruit— In fact, I'd like to sell you mine, If that one does not wish— —Town and Country. Zulu Policemen. Amongst all the South African native races there are none better qualified to act as guardians of the law than the Zulus. They are the aristocrats of Africa, dignified, honorable and trustworthy to a degree. They are far finer men physically than the ordinary Kaffirs, and this is an additional qualification as regards their courage, that was sufficiently shown in their battles with British troops in the old days. Imitation, it is said, is the sincerest flattery, and this is probably why natives of inferior races often try to pass themselves off as Zulus, although they seldom succeed in securing the distinction of entering the Zulu police force. To Our Correspondents. Please send in your matter by Wednesday of each week. The woman may accomplish all this and still be woefully lacking in true womanhood. The one essential thing has been left out—the desire to make the best of herself and to shed as much sunshine as she can in a world where there are many dark corners and many faint hearts. Mrs. Elias has money, leisure and ease, but all of these will not bring a contented mind. NEGROES AT THE WORLD'S FAIR For the convenience of colored visitors an "Information Bureau" has been established. With it are associated many of the best homes and hotels in St Louis. Have your room reserved. Stamp for reply. H. S. FERGUSON, Mgr. 1923 Market St., St. Louis, Mo. Opposite Union Station. You can't always tell a man of polish from the appearance of his shoes. BEAUTY IN NATIONAL PARK. There is a Wealth of Coloring to Be Found in the Yellowstone. Nature is a most exquisite colorist. Nowhere is her work more lovely than along the crested rims and overflow channels of warm spring pools. Tourists are seldom aware that these harmonious end brilliant tints owe their origin mainly to plant life. They are usually told by so-called guides that the colors are due to mineral matter, which tends to enhance their horror of underground waters. Algae flourish equally well in the waters of all geyser basins and on the terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs. Water bolls on the plateau at 198 degree Fahrenheit and rudimentary organisms appear at about 185 degrees Fahrenheit, although no definite line can be drawn beyond which all life ceases. Wherever these boiling waters cool to the latter temperature, algous growths appear, and by the lowering of the temperature on exposure to air still more tightly organized forms gradually come in. It is said that at about 140 degrees the conditions are favorable for the rapid growth of several species. The development of plant life at such excessive temperatures and on a scale of such magnitude seems a marvelous thing. Now where else can this be seen as well as in the Yellowstone park.-Scribner's Monthly. WANTED NO LIME IN SHOES. Wealthy Contractor Did Not Want the Salesman to Give Him Away. There is a rich contractor living out in Germantown about whom many amusing stories are told. For years he has purchased his shoes at the one place, a little shop on Main street, and thither he repaired the other day, and was waited on by a new clerk, who didn't know him. The new clerk, sizing the customer up as a laboring man, tried on a pair of cheap brogans, which suited the contractor, except that he thought them a trifle hard to pull on. "I'll fix that all right," said the clerk, and he dusted a little powder in each shoe. Much to his surprise the customer grew livid with rage. "What d'ye mane by insultin' me that way?" he demanded. Just then the proprietor came in and inquired as to the trouble. "The young dude is afther puttin' chloride o' lime in me shoes!" exclaimed the irate contractor. "Tis an insult!" The proprietor explained that the supposed chloride of lime was merely a harmless powder to make the shoe go on with greater comfort, and the old man was satisfied.—Philadelphia Record. HOT SPRINGS OF MONGOLIA. Luxurious Surroundings for Bathing Are Not Demanded. A traveler in Mongolia writes: "There are some hot springs by the road about twenty miles north of Chingpeng. The place is named Tangshan. The arrangements for those anxious to benefit by their healing properties are very primitive. A row of twenty or thirty wooden boxes the size of an ordinary packing case are ranged beside the road. In these sit bathers of every age and both sexes, with their heads protruding. Attendants with buckets continuously refill the boxes from the springs. For less luxurious bathers there is accommodation in a pool which has been dug out close by. In this they squat, scooping up the water and pouring it over their heads with brass basins. It is curious to reflect that establishments like Homburg and Aix-les-Bains have had their origin in such beginnings." Truth About Precious Stones The American garnet, the hyacinth and the stone known as spinel are commonly mistaken for rubies, and it is only within a few years that the famous ruby in the crown jewels of Russia was discovered by an expert to be a spinel. The renowned "diamond" in the collection of the King of Portugal is now known to be a white toap. PHOTO BY TAMPSON MRS. FANNIE JACKSON. The Negro State University of Missouri. The regents of the above named institution met last week and elected all of the members of the old faculty and added the following new departments to the school: Special department of pedagogy, shoemaking, and an additional department of music. Mrs. Fannie Jackson, perhaps the ablest woman of the race here in the West, was chosen professor of pedagogy at a salary of $1,100. We congratulate the regents upon this selection, as we have ever desired to see Mrs. Jackson in our state school. She is a lady of high character, fine ability, and a race leader of whom the whole state is justly proud. THE POWER OF SUGGESTION. Who ran to catch me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well?— My mother. Who will deny that many an ache and pain that all but broke baby's heart was driven away by mother's sympathy and kiss? The power of suggestion is a great one, especially when the one who suggests is the superior of the other mentally. Doctors use it to cure patients and sometimes business men resort to it to get trade. Sometimes good is the result and often bad is the conse- quence. Mother says to her little boy who stands pouting because he is asked to go to the store, "Run along, Bobbie. Mother's boy is only too glad to be of some help to his mother," and is delighted to see a smile on Bobbie's face as he seizes his cap and makes off on a run. Her suggestion was a good one. But when little Mary wakes up with a headache and shows no desire for food, mother makes a serious mistake when she impatiently cries out, "Hurry up and clean up those dishes. You needn't think you can fool me. You don't want to go to school, but I'll see that you do, my lady." A little girl once said she learned a lot of meanness from the charges her mother brought against her when she was perfectly innocent of any wrong intention. Children have feelings, often very fine ones. Because they dare not say a word in defense is no reason why their sense of justice should not be respected. Suggest good thoughts to your child if you would have the sun to shine in his inner self. The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern and to be depended on by as many inferior as it can reach—Ruskin. LINCOLN INSTITUTE. He who would grasp all of earth's good things will secure least.—S. Cluny. No subtler habit of evil is there in the world than that of self pity.—Bright. Difficulty is the rude and rocking cradle of every kind of excellence.—Gladstone. The wear and tear of rust is even faster than the wear and tear of work.—Smiles. Pleased is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.—Carlyle. Carry the radiance of your soul in your face; let the world have the benefit of it.—Fox. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.—Plutarch. To go down stream is easy, but there is a Niagara at the far end.—Dr. Alex. Maclauren. A man of energy begins to-day, if he has no good reason for waiting till to-morrow.—H. Maule. Let us work the time that is appointed us, and after that we shall rest in peace.—Cromwell. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing he has a very good reason for letting it alone.—Scott. What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.—Wendell Phillips. Sorrow is sent for our instruction, just as we darken the cares of birds when we would teach them to sing.— Richter. Mr. Curtis Wilson and Miss Elhora Hoag, of Denver, Col., who for some time has made her home with Rev. Jesse Peck, were quietly married last Saturday evening a week ago. They immediately took the train for Ft. Scott, Kan., to spend their honeymoon with Mr. Wilson's parents. They have returned and will make their home in this city. The woods of northern British America are still infested by hundreds of a queer species of bison, known as the "woods buffalo." It is much larger than the bison of the plains, which formerly abounded in such numbers. Knew What Pronoun Was. A teacher, explaining to her class that a pronoun is a word used instead of a noun, asked for an example. A small boy instantly asked to be heard, when he explained: "Ill is a pronoun. It is used instead of sick." WITH THE SAGES "Woods Buffalo." NUMBER 13. LEXINGTON NEWS. Mr. Cliff, Bradford went to Higginsville Saturday to make arrangements about the colored fair, which comes off in August. Rev. Homesely of Columbia preached Wednesday night at the Second Baptist church. Mr. Joseph Bowler of Kansas City was here Sunday visiting his mother. Miss Enna Bush and Miss Fannie Griggs, who have been here attending the institute for the past two weeks, returned home Sunday. Mr. Strauter of Kansas is here with his sick son, Mr. Lewis Williams. Miss Glover Hawkins went to Kansas City Saturday evening and returned home Monday morning. Mr. Alex Williams' sister and Miss Fannie Coats came down from Kansas City Sunday evening. Mr. Joseph Myers has been quito sick for the last ten days, but is now some better. Mrs. Nannie Hicks, Mrs. Emma Caves, Mrs. Eva Hawkins, Mrs. Georgia Parker, Mrs. Harriet Arnold, are on the sick list. Mrs. Emma Ray spent Saturday in Kansas City. The camp will have their entertainment on the Fourth of July. The township convention will be held at the court house Saturday to elect delegates to the county convention on the 5th of July. The old folks' concert was held Monday night at the St. John M. E. church. Mr. Gus Hearle subscribed for the Rising Son. We hope otacer business men will do likewise. We hope that Mr. Hearle will succeed in the proposition submitted to the people to build the bridge. We need more Hearles in our city. FREE TRANSPORTATION AND AD MISSION TO ST. LOUIS FAIR. Offer of Rising Son. The Rising Son agrees to give a round-trip ticket to St. Louis and ten admission tickets to the fair grounds to any person bringing in the largest number of cash subscribers to The Son in the next sixty days. The number of cash subscribers must not fall below twenty, however, in order to be considered. If you want to visit the fair free of cost, take up this offer. Open the Door. Open the door, let in the air; The winds are sweet, and the flowers are fair Jay bead in the world to day; If our door is wide, it may come this way Open the door! Open the door, let in the sun; He heath a smile for every one; He heath made of the raindrops gold and gems He may change our tears to diadems. Open the door! Open the door of the soul; let in Strong, pure thoughts which shall banish sin. They shall grow and bloom with a grace of virtue And their fruit shall be sweeter than that of the vine Open the door! Open the door of the heart; let in Sympathy sweet for stranger and kin. It will make the halts of the heart so that angels may enter unaware. Open the door! —British Weekly. From Postal Perplexities. When a suburb is taken into a city, it duplicates the streets and increases the postal perplexities. One letter containing $50 was sent to the dead letter office on account of no address on the outside, and the dead letter office found no address on the inside. A very exact Chicago man called at the postoffice several times, and every time abused the clerk for not finding a lost letter, and then came around and confessed that the letter had been found in one of his overcooks and had never been mailed. He was hot-headed, but his confession means that he is good-hearted. - Earl Pratt. FIREWORKS ARE EXPENSIVE Noise-Making Devices for the Fourth of July That Cost Much Money The making of fireworks has progressed rapidly in America, and we are not now dependent upon China and Japan for our firecrackers, our red lights and our noise-making, nerve-destroying devices. Time was when a few roman candles and some skyrockets furnished the larger portion of the fireworks for the celebration of the Fourth of July in the smaller towns, but modern patricism does not stop at that. Nearly every citizen of a town will lay out considerable money for his supply of fireworks, and it is not in frequent that a private family will spend from $50 to $75 in order to make a big illumination on the nation's birthday. Set pieces, such as were formerly much prized at celebrations in the average towns are now quite often seen on the lawns of private individuals, for the American workmen have learned how to make them, and that means that they are to be obtained more cheaply. The day when the small boy and his big brother had to pay ten cents a bunch for crackers has long passed by. Machinery has been invented to mold the paper cylinders and load them with powder at the rate of 1,000 and more a minute. They can be manufactured at about two cents a hundred in large quantities and retail at a profit at five cents. The combination of powder and various chemicals which the fireworks man has succeeded in mixing allows a program to be given at night which can be kept up for three or four hours if desired, with something different almost every minute. One can get up a family celebration on the curb stone in front of the house which will include not only rockets and roman candles, but pinwheels, mines, bombs, spitting devils and other things which are apt to wriggle around among the spectators, and the entire cost will not be over $5. From this figure the prices range all the way up to a carload of set pieces containing a ton of powder and costing $10,000. In some of the elaborate displays at the resorts near New York and other large cities paper, powder and chemicals are turned into sparks, flame and smoke at the rate of $5,000 an hour—more than the highest priced opera singer in the world charges for her services. The rocket which whizzes into the air and breaks into a stream of pendants or is turned into a single star amid the "Ohs!" and "Ahs!" of the spectators is still used, but it has been wonderfully changed in recent years. It stil whirrs upward in its aerial flight, leaving a trail of sparks behind, but at the end of the journey may burst into a golden shower resembling some familiar flower. Perhaps from the center falls a rain of red, white and blue balls floating gracefully downward until they almost touch the earth. Others form a cluster of long, delicate lines somewhat similar to a rainfall on a summer day and thus they are named. The rain comes down, however, at a rate of from $15 to $30 a fall—much more costly than the natural shower. The most interesting feature to the boy is the rocket which sends a group of fiery serpents down among the crowd. This year a number of new ideas in rockets have been originated, one of which is called the jeweled streamer—really a very beautiful piece. The columns of sparks burst into a golden spray, from which issue three balls of various colors, each ball discharging what are called pendants. They remain in the air fully a minute. Another new idea is called the diamond chain, which consists of a dozen or more links, each containing a star. A novelty is a compartment which contains either one large or several small balloons in the form of animals, clowns and other comic features. By an ingenious contrivance hot air is forced into the paper by The First Stars and Stripes. The first using of the stars and stripes in military service was at Fort Stamfox, renamed Fort Schuyler, now Rome, New York, in 1777. August 2d of that year the fort was besieged by the English and Indians; the brave garrison were without a flag, but one was made in the fort. The red stripes were of a petticoat furnished by a woman, the white stripes and stars were supplied by an officer who gave his shirt for that purpose, and the blue was a piece of Col. Peter Gansveort's military cloak. Three women worked on the flag, and it was raised to victory, when on the 22d of August the redmen and the English were defeated at the fort. The next record of the using of the stars and stripes is on the first anniversary of American Independence, which was celebrated at Philadelphia, Charleston, S. C., and other places, July 4th, 1777. The banner was used at the battle of Brandywine, September 17th, 1777, at Germantown, October 4th of the same year, and it also floated over the surrender of Burgoyne. This flag cheered the patriots of Valley Forge the next winter; it waved at Yorktown and shared in the rejoiceings at the close of the war. one of the explosions and the animals go floating away, illuminated by a flaming torch beneath similar to the common fire balloon. This is perhaps the most remarkable design which has yet been invented in what is called aerial fireworks. The most costly piece of this set, however, is known as the Japanese night bombshell and is the invention of a Japanese workman in a large fireworks factory in New York state. The bomb itself ranges from twelve to thirty inches in diameter. At the end of its flight it explodes no less than seven times, actually producing every color of the rainbow in the form of streamers, shooting stars, comets, aerospents, golden rain, parachutes, whirligigs and "spreaders." One of these bombs forms a whole exhibition in itself, as the illumination lasts fully three minutes before the last design fades away. The large bombs cost $60 apiece, owing to the rare chemicals which are used, and the amount of work upon one, for the various compartments contain over 200 feet of fuse, every inch of which has to be carefully placed in a certain position so that it will not ignite before the proper time and spoil the effect. Fireworks dealers say that mines and batteries will be very popular this year on account of their resemblance to volcanoes. The recent crumptions have actually caused a boom in this feature of fireworks, as the people desire to see the resemblance of a volcano in miniature. They can be procured in one or half a dozen colors. Most of them produce fiery scales and balls, but a new design combines stars with the balls. They have taken the place of the roman candle to a large extent and the ordinary piece which is held in the hands is gradually going out of use. One reason is that it is so dangerous on account of the shower of sparks falling over the person who holds it. The days when the patriotic citizen went to the fireworks dealer and picked out his rockets, pinwheels and other pieces are about over. The fireworks man saves him all this trouble by packing assortments in cases so that he can buy his celebration at so much a box, or, as already stated, by the car load if desired. Suppose people in the neighborhood club together and raise $250 for the evening's entertainment. They can get large rockets, a dozen large mines, a half dozen imitations of a windmill and have the choice of three or four set pieces such as "July 4," the Maltese cross, a mammoth revolving star, "1776," and the bust of a hero or statesman, if they desire. The features of President Roosevelt will be reproduced in glittering points, eyeglasses and all, not only in this country, but in the Philippines, for some very large orders containing representations of the president were sent from San Francisco to Manila several weeks ago. The fashion in set designs has changed considerably. The familiar patriotic mottoes such as "Peace, Prosperity and Freedom," "The Day We Celebrate," etc., are not so much in demand as formerly. The people prefer comic and curious ideas, but the most popular are fire pictures of men prominent in the public eye. It must be confessed that the American populace are becoming forgetful of the father of his country on independence day, for only a few pictures of Washington have been prepared in the combinations which have been ordered. Of course the set pieces are far more expensive than any other kind of fireworks. The goddess of liberty and the United States coat of arms are among the most costly at $100 each. One of the most elaborate designs is a fiery see-saw in motion with revolving Ferris wheels at the ends. The price of this mechanism is $210. Johnny's Lament. Wish I didn't have any sisters 'round Fourth of July time. Got six that are pretty decent other times, but when the Fourth comes they buzz 'round like mosquitoes. They ain't got no consid'ration for a feller's feelings. They bust in on his fun just when he's lightning a cannon cracker and want a punk fixed, and when they see the cannon sizzling they scream loud enough to split your cars and that brings your maw and she yells to you to quit teasing your sisters and then sees the cannon and rushes out and grabs you and bears you away, and you miss seeing the cannon bust into a thousand pieces. No, sir, sisters are all wrong 'round Fourth of July time. If they ain't getting your maw after you and screaming all the time fit to kill, they're moozing 'round and blubbing and saying, "Poor Johnny's burned his finger." That makes a feller with any spunk A Bunch of Fire Crackers A lit firecracker in the hand isn't worth two in the pack. There is no use pulling the trigger after the gun has been fired. Do not look a gift cannon in the mouth. REPUBLICAN PLATFORM Adopted at the Chicago Convention Last Week. The platform adopted by the Republic Ican National convention at Chicago June 22, 1904, is as follows: Fifty years ago the Republican party came into existence dedicated among other purposes to the great task of arresting the extension of human slavery. In 1860 it elected its first President. During twenty-four at the forty-four years which have elapsed since the election of Lincoln the republican party has held complete control of the government. For eighteen more of the forty-four years it has held partial control through the possession of one or two branches of the government, while the Democratic party during the same period has had complete control for only two years. This long tenure of power by the Republican party is not due to chance. It is a demonstration that the Republican party has commanded the continence of the American people for nearly two generations to a degree never equaled in our history and has displayed a high capacity for rule and government which has been made even more conspicuous by the incapacity and informality of purpose shown by its ongoings. The Republican party entered upon its present period of complete supremacy in 1897. We have every right to congratulate ourselves upon the work since then accomplished, for it has added luster even to the traditions of the party which carved the government through the storms of Civu war. THE COUNTRY'S CONDITION. We then found the country after four years of Democratic rule in evil plight, oppressed with misfortune and doubtful of the future. Public credit had been lowered, the revenues were declining, the debt was growing, the administration's attitude toward Spain was feeble and mortifying, the standard of values was threatened and uncertain, labor was unemployed, business was sunk in the depression which had succeeded the panic of 1893, hope was faint and confidence was gone. We met those unhappy conditions vigorously, effectively and at once. We replaced a Democratic tariff law based on free trade principles and garnished with sectional protection by a protective tariff and industry treed from oppression and stimulated by the encouragement of wise laws has expanded to a degree never before known, has conquered new markets and has created a volume of exports which has surpassed imagination. Under the Dingley tariff labor has been fully employed. Wages have risen and all industries have revived and prospered. We firmly established the gol' standard which was then menaced with destruction. Confidence returned to business and with confidence an unexamined prospectivity. MADE FINANCES BETTER For deficient revenues, supplemented by improvident issues of bonds, we gave the country an income which produced a large surplus, and which enabled us only four years after the Spanish war had closed to remove over 100 millions of annual war taxes, to reduce the public debt and lower the interest charges of the government. The public credit which had been so lowered that in time of peace a Democratic administration made large loans at extravagant rates of interest in order to pay current expenditures rose under Republican administration to the highest point and enabled us to borrow at 2 per cent even in time of war. We refused to palter longer with the miseries of Cuba. We fought a quick and victorious war with Spain. We set Cuba free, governed the is land for three years and then gave it to the Cuban people with order restored, with ample revenues, with education and public health established, free from debt and connected with the United States by wise provisions for our mutual interests. We have organized the government of Porto Rico and its people now enjoy peace, freedom, order and prosperity. PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES. In the Philippines we have suppressed insurrection, established order and given to life and property a security never known there before. We have organized civil government, made it effective and strong in administration and have conferred upon the people of those islands the largest civil liberty they have ever enjoyed. By our possession of the Philippines we were able to take prompt and effective action in the relief of the legations of Pekin and a decisive part in preventing the partition and the preserving of the integrity of China. The possession of a route for an isthmian canal, so long the dream of American statesmanship, is now an accomplished fact. The great work of connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans by a canal is at last begun, and it is due to the Republican party. We have passed laws which will bring the arid lands of the United States within the area of cultivation. We have reorganized the army and put it in the highest state of efficiency. We have passed laws for the improvement and support of the militia. We have pushed forward the building of the navy, the defense and protection of our honor and our interest. Our administration of the great departments of the government has been honest and efficient and whenever wrong doing has been discovered the Republican administration has not hesitated to probe the evil and bring the offenders to justice without regard to party or political ties. Laws enacted by the Republican party which the Democratic party failed to enforce, and which were intended for the protection of the public against the unjust discrimination on the illegal encroachment of vast aggregation of capital, have been fearlessly enforced by a Republican President and new laws ensuring reasonable publicity as to the operations of great corporations, and providing additional remedies for the prevention of discrimination in freight rates have been passed by a Republican Congress. THE PARTY'S PRINCIPLES. In this record of achievement during the past eight years may be read the pledges of the Republican party which have been fulfilled. We propose to continue these policies and we declare our constant adherence to the following principles: Protection which guards and develops our industries is a cardinal policy of the Republican party. The measure of protection should always at least equal the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad. We insist upon the maintenance of the principles of protection, and therefore rates of duty should be readjusted only when conditions have so changed that the public interest demands their alteration, but this work cannot easily be committed to any other hands than those of the Republican party. To intrust it to the Democratic party is to invite disaster. Whether, as in 1892, the Democratic party declared the protective tariff unconstitutional, or whether it demands tariff reform or tariff revision, its real object is always the destruction of the protective system. However specious the name, the purpose is ever the same. A Democratic tariff has always been followed by business adversity; a Republican tariff by business prosperity. To a Republican Congress and a Republican President this great question can be safely intrusted. When the only free trade country among the great nations agitates a return to protection the chief protective country should not falter in maintaining it. We have extended widely our foreign markets, and we believe in the adoption of all practicable methods for their further extension, including commercial reciprocity, wherever reciprocal arrangements can be effected consistent with the principles of protection and without injury to American agriculture, American labor, or any American industry. We believe it to be the duty of the Republican party to uphold the gold standard and the integrity and value of our national currency. The maintenance of the gold standard established by the Republican party cannot safely be committed to the Democratic party, which resisted its adoption and has never given any proof since that time of belief in it or fidelity to it. While every other industry has prospered under the fostering aid of Republican legislation. American shipping engaged in foreign trade in competition with the low cost of construction, low wages and heavy subsidies of foreign governments, has not for many years received from the government of the United States adequate encouragement of any kind. We therefore favor legislation which will encourage and build up the American merchant marine, and we cordially approve the legislation of the last congress which created the merc.ant marine commission to investigate and report upon this subject. FAVOR A POWERFUL NAVY. A navy powerful enough to defend the United States against any attack, to uphold the Monroe doctrine and watch over our commerce is essential to the safety and the welfare of the American people. To maintain such a navy is the fixed policy of the Republican party. We cordially approve the attitude of President Roosevelt and Congress in regard to the exclusion of Chinese labor and promise a continuance of the Republican policy in that direction. The civil service law was placed upon the statute books by the Republican party, which has always sustained it, and we renew our former declarations that it shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced. We are always mindful of the country's debt to the soldiers and sailors of the United States and we believe in making ample provision for them and in the liberal administration of the pension laws. We favor the peaceful settlement of international differences by arbitration. We commend the vigorous efforts made by the administration to protect American citizens in foreign lands and pledge ourselves to insist upon the just and equal protection of all our citizens abroad. It is the unquestioned duty of the government to procure for all our citizens, without distinction, the rights of travel and sojourn in friendly countries and we declare ourselves in favor of all proper efforts tending to that end. Our great interests and our growing commerce in the Orient render the condition of China of high importance to the United States. We cordially commend the policy pursued in that direction by the administration of President McKinley and President Roosevelt. RIGHTS FOR NEGRO VOTERS. We favor such congressional action as shall determine whether by special discriminations the elective franchise in any state has been unconstitutionally limited, and, if such is the case, we demand that representation in Congress and in the electoral colleges shall be proportionately reduced as directed by the Constitution of the United States. Combinations of capital and of labor are the results of the economic movement of the age, but neither must be permitted to infringe upon the rights and interests of the people. Such combinations when lawfully formed for lawful purposes are alike entitled to the protection of the laws, but both are subject to the laws, and neither can be permitted to break them. The great statesman and patriotic American, William McKinley, who was re-elected by the Republican party to the Presidency four years ago, was assassinated just at the threshold of his second term. The entire nation mourned his untimely death and did that justice to his great qualities of mind and character which history will confirm and repeat. The American people were fortunate in his successor to whom they turned with a trust and confidence which have been fully justified. President Roosevelt brought to the great responsibilities thus sadly forced upon him, a clear head, a brave heart, an earnest patriotism, and high ideals of public duty and public service. True to the principles of the Republican party and to the policies which that party had declared, he has also shown himself ready for every emergency and has met new and vital questions with ability and with success. The confidence of the people in his justice, inspired by his public career, enabled him to render personally an inestimable service to the country by bringing about a settlement of the coal strike which threatened such disastrous results at the opening of winter in 1902. Our foreign policy under his administration has not only been able, vigorous and dignified, but in the highest degree successful. The complicated questions which arose in Venezuela were settled in such a way by President Roosevelt that the Monroe doctrine was signally vindicated and the cause of peace and arbitration greatly advanced. ```markdown ``` His prompt and vigorous action in Panama, which we commend in the highest terms, not only secured to us the canal route but avoided foreign complications which might have been of a very serious character. CONTINUED M'KINLEY'S POLICY. He has continued the policy of McKinley in the Orient and our position in China, signaled by our recent commercial treaty with that empire, has never been so high. He secured the tribunal by which the vexed and perilous question of the Alaskan boundary was finally settled. Whenever crimes against humanity have been perpetrated which have shocked the people, his protest has been made and our good offices have been tendered, but always with due regard to international obligations. Under his guidance we find ourselves at peace with all the world and never were we more respected or our wishes more regarded by foreign nations. Pre-eminently successful in regard to our foreign relations, he has been equally fortunate in dealing with domestic questions. The country has known that the public credit and the national currency were absolutely safe in the hands of his administration. In the enforcement of the laws he has shown not only courage, but the wisdom which understands that to permit laws to be violated or disregarded opens the door to anarchy, while the just enforcement of the law is the soundest conservatism. He has held firmly to the fundamental American doctrine that all men must obey the law, that there may be no distinction between rich and poor, between strong and weak, but that justice and equal protection under the law must be secured to every citizen without regard to race, creed or condition. His administration has been throughout vigorous and honorable, high-minded and patriotic. We command it without reservation to the considerate judgement of the American people. Tuberoses from North Carolina Tuberoses are produced in the United States on a large scale, the market being chiefly supplied from a small area in Duplin county, North Carolina, which produces many millions of them annually for sale and for export. The bulbs are plowed out of the ground in autumn, gathered by colored women, hung up in bunches to dry for a month or two, and finally packed in paper-lined barrels. Cannon for Ornaments. Four of the cannon taken from the French off Finisterre in 1747 by Admiral Boscawen now fill the lowly if useful roles of curbposts and lampposts in front of the house, No. 2 St. James' square, London, of Boscawen's descendant, Lord Falmouth; while on Tower Hill there is a row of posts on the curbstones, every one of which is a cannon which has done service, or has ben ready to do it, against England's enemies. To Cure the Habit It is said that every bachelor in Korea, no matter what his age, is regarded as a child, dressed as a child, and treated as a child. Even if he be 70, he may not knot up his hair in many fashion or assume the garb of a man. Here is a suggestion for the solution of the great bachelor problem in this country. It is better than taxing. Kittens Kill a Poisonous Snake. Kittens Kill a Poisonous Snake. Major Walters, commanding an English regiment in Seistan, had a curious experience lately. A large poisonous viper was creeping under his bed, where it was caught and killed by two favorite Persian kittens. First English Daily Newspaper First English Daily newspaper. Two hundred years ago the first daily paper was started in England. It was called the Dally Courant and was published by Elizabeth Mailet in a shop near the Fleet Ditch, in Fleet street, London. American Beauty Excels Greclan. American women are more beautiful than those of ancient Greece or Rome. Our growing standard of beauty appeals just as much to cultured foreigners as it does to Americans themselves. The American girl is envied by her European sisters because while abroad she attracts European men. Russlans Indifferent to Palm A remarkable feature of the Cossack and Russian soldier is his insensibility to pain. In the Balkan struggle men suffering from incredible wounds used to march stolidly to the ambulance, so that soldiers left in the firing line should not have to be detached to carry them away. At some of the public libraries in London the racing news is carefully blacked out of the newspapers before they are put upon the ailes for reading. Take Care of Homeless Cats. In Cairo at the present time there is an endowment in operation founded expressly for the looting and feeding of homeless cats. German Engineers Rewarded. German locomotive engineers receive a gold medal and $500 for every ten years of service without accident. The Day Experience has taught you in advance that picnics are a delusion and a snare; so you know what to expect. If elections were held on July 5 the party that would promise to raise the tariff on firecrackers 100 per cent would get all the votes except those of the wholesalers and retailers of noise. It is generally admitted that the Chinese might have been in better business than they were when inventing the firecracker. Tell the little children about how you had only 5 cents to spend on the Fourth of July when you were a boy. They have never heard about it before. Cheer up. The almanac-makers declare that it comes only once a year. Save some of the thumbs; there will be another Fourth next July. Some foxy gentlemen go up in balloons on the Fourth to escape the noise. To see some old men holding their ears and to listen to the rumblings of their grouch, one would think they never were boys. Almost any reasoning being if he had his choice would rather be an automobile than a horse on the Fourth of July. Still, is it worth such a fuss over a little thing like licking the British? When the law bumps up against the firecracker the law usually retires from the scene with a few burned fingers and a bum eye. Doras, you are a good guesser. This is the Fourth of July—Modest, shy. Timid, shrinking, quiet, unassuming, etc. July 4th. The day we celebrate Early and late And in the middle; also around the edges. With hammers, tongs and sledges. Anvils, steam whistles, boiler factories and A grand Collision between a ton of noise And a wagonload of sound. The horse Sit around the house all day And play With their thumbs, oh, yes! I guess That's a poor joke. Great smoke! It's really funny. You can't get them You can't get them near the houses except for money. They start in bright And early a week before and keer it up until midnight. Next day The doctor holds sway. The old men set the pace when they were boys. The year of the big noise. And you can't stop the hubbub With a club Or a standing army. What's the use Of a glorious Fourth if you can't turn noise loose? If it's to be A quilting match or a pink tea That they must shoot No cracker, toot No horn— And they will not go to the trouble of being born. The doctor is a busy man. His harvest time is here; And he will make enough this week To last him for a year. THE LOVER. Last night through Death's barred door- way shrilled a voice. The voice of her who slew me upon earth. "Oh, my old lover, waken and rejoice, I give you cause for mirth. "Waken and listen and be glad of this: I, for whose kisses you were wont to yearn. Go starving for another's careless kiss And break my heart in turn. Oh, my lover, hear and heed once more, And laugh in all content." Thank God, there were no tears in her sweet eyes That day I died for her. —Theodosia Garrison, in New York Herald. THE GHOST OF A VIOL BY CURRAN R. GREENLEE Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Publishing Company. "Do I believe in psychic phenomena? Now, that is a question I find a trifle difficult to answer." The doctor leaned his handsome old head against the cushions, in deep thought. Outside the March winds howled and shrieked among the gables. A carnival of wind-devils, awake and aware, rendered the "Snugery" a veritable haven. I made no response. There was sure to be something worth the listening when my friend, the doctor, came out of his brown study. At last, with a lengthy yawn, he knocked the ashes from his pipe, hitched his chair a trifle nearer the blazing logs, and began: "I do not attempt to explain this experience of mine but I will at least vouch for the truth of what I saw and heard. At the same time I admit its improbability. "One night I sat in my office—just such a night at this—cold and blustering. I had a wakeful mood upon me, and was idly turning over the odds and ends that had accumulated upon my desk, when I came to a large envelope, containing wedding cards. It had been overlooked in the mass of the morning mall. The girl was quite a favorite of mine; one in whom I felt a special interest. Margaret Kenneth was seemingly the usual city maiden, very sure of herself and not given to troublesome impulses. Pretty enough to insure social success—that acme of the average woman's ambition. "Yet, I had fancied there was more to her, under the veneer, than appeared on the surface. I felt rather savage over her choice—one of those unexceptional nullities that the world roses. "I did a good bit of comfortable growling over modern mothers, and 'things that are,' when I was startled by a violent peal of the bell. Another instant and Mrs. Kenneth's maid stood in the door. "Dr. Bridges: Mrs. Kenneth! Oh, please come quick to Miss Margaret! Don't wait for anything! Come now!" "The woman was almost incoherent—evidently something was very wrong at the Kenneths'. Without waiting for a cab, I half ran the four blocks in the teeth of the storm. Mrs. Kenneth met me at the vestibule. Evidently she, too, was on the verge of hysterics. It was a full minute before she could control herself sufficiently to tell me that Margaret was dying. I followed to her daughter's room. Just four hours past I had met her at the Blythes' 'at home,' radiant in full health, and there she lay among the pillows, white as a dead woman "All that the mother and maid could tell me was that she had returned from the Blythes' quite early, had bidden her mother good-night, and as A man stands in front of a bed, looking at a woman lying in bed. White as a dead woman she stood in the door of the library, counted the strokes of the hall clock—eleven. Some fifteen minutes later Mrs. Kenneth heard her scream and the sound of a fall. When they reached her she was lying as I now saw her, with that fixed stare. ```markdown ``` OST A VIOLIN "Distinct and unmistakable, the two women heard the music of a violin that lasted, they could not tell how long, right above their heads, and when it ceased Margaret sprang to her feet and flung both arms upward. Out from the shadows of the ceiling were two hands that held a violin and its bow, yet trembling down the strings. "I listened without comment, but naturally placed little credence in their story. Meanwhile, I found myself with three patients. Calling the housekeeper to my aid, I administered a sedative to Mrs. Kenneth and the maid and left them to her care. I tried every known method to arouse M. H. Sprang to the center of the room. Margaret, to no avail. She was alive—a breathing corpse. "There was no change throughout the following day. I scarcely left her bedside, so absorbing was my interest in her case. It occurred to me that when the hour of the shock came around there might possibly be a corresponding reaction. We are all familiar with that mysterious influence, 'The turn of the night,' so I redoubled my vigilance as the clock struck the hour of eleven. "Five—ten—fifteen—the hand I held was wrenched from mine, and Margaret sprang to the center of the room, those awful eyes aglow with an unearthly radiance. And the room filled with the haunting, wailing 'Moonlight Sonata.' "Anderson, you may think me an old fool, but that ghost music is ringing in my ears this minute. I was frozen to my chair—spellbound—and it played the 'Sonata' from beginning to end. At the final bar, as plainly as I see your face, I saw those two hands hold out the violin. There was a rustling movement from the still figure in the center of the room, and as the music ceased I sprang forward just in time to catch her, and when I felt for the pulse I realized that the summons was answered. It was a dead woman that I held in my arms. "Some weeks after I called on Mrs. Kenneth, to find, if possible, some clue to the mystery of Margaret's death. Very reluctantly she gave me a brief history that served only to render it deeper. "The previous summer, with a party of friends, they had camped in the Swamps—refugees from yellow fever then prevalent in the city. Chance led to Margaret's acquaintance with a young planter; quite an unusual person for those wilds, and one who proved a dangerously attractive companion to a girl who had known only the most conventional atmosphere. "Travers had been educated after a desultory fashion by his father. The elder Travers had been a passionate lover of music, and when the boy grew up with this same passion, intensified into genius, the two spent their days over the violins. "Travers, the elder, died very suddenly, and the boy, thrown back upon himself, became more of a recluse than ever, caring for nothing but his music and the long, lonely tramps through the green reaches of the ```markdown ``` swamp. Into the life of this dreamer came Margaret Kenneth, and the result was certain. Mrs. Kenneth awoke to the situation, and with the vision of my 'Irreproachable Vacuity', a golden background straightway decided to end the 'little flirtation.' "There was quite a scene with Travers, who could not be made to see his possibilities in the light of improbabilities. There is no need to go into details. Those managing women always gain their end—especially when they fancy themselves in the right—as they usually do. "The evening they left Margaret was missing for some hours, and the mother wisely refrained from questioning her when she returned without offering any excuse for her absence. She came home still in that listless, apathetic mood. Months passed, and when the other man, 'The Vacuity,' resumed his attentions, she made no resistance until pressed to fix the time for her marriage. She then seemed greatly excited, but left the room, without anything marked in action or words. As soon as possible Mrs. Kenneth followed, and found her crouched down at the side of her bed in an agony of sobs. High fever ensued, and for days the fright ened mother listened to the wild ravings of swamp scenes. The sunlight over the tawny lake—Travers, always Travers—and the Moonlight Sonata. "Over and over again the fevershrill voice would call to him. Then she would listen and catch at her mother's hands. "Don't you hear it? See! How the moon shimmers on the brown water! Ah, it melts into the violin—he is playing it to me—the Moonlight Sonata." "So the agony was fought out until the strong young body triumphed and she struggled back to the burden that had been almost laid down. "I was very busy at the time and Mrs. Kenneth fancied that Margaret was always conscious of a strange presence and was silent, so I knew nothing of the mental agony that had produced the attack. Mrs. Kenneth lost no time in hurrying the preparations for the wedding. You have heard the result. The outcome was astonishing. He was drowned the night of the Blythes' 'at home.' If you remember, the levees had broken, flooding a large area of the swamp lands. "The last known of Travers, some negroes in a dug-out saw him sitting in the door of an old cabin that was built on one of those prehistoric mounds common in that section. He was playing his violin as they passed. That night the water rose several feet higher and carried away his cabin." The doctor stretched a little, yawned, and then arose to fill his pine. "That is my answer to the question of psychic phenomena." Her Mission. She was only a little woman, 'tis true, And hers was a common story; She never had dreamed of a thing to do That would lead ner to fame or glory. She could not paint, and she could not sing. And she could not write a sound! She got a face that could lend a grace. To a stylish love of a bonnet. She had not the wealth, and she knew not ease; She never had traveled for pleasure; She never the art to charm and please In the realm of social leisure. And yet she deemed that her life was blest In its humble sphere of duty. Though only those who knew her best Guessed half of its hidden beauty. For hers was a genius for little things. The realm of home to brighten. And she scorned not the humblest work that brings Some force to cheer and lighten. For comfort and order were hers to command. And the joys of life seemed longer. While childhood clung to her loving hand, And manhood, through her, grew stronger. And some who loved her were half atraid That her sphere was far too small; But, oh, the happy home she made Was a great thing after all! And when her beauteous spirit shall flee From its realms of loving and giving. Her stainless monument shall be The lives that were blessed by her living. —Woman's Life. In Training. He stood out in a vacant lot and the boys were throwing tin cans, decayed oranges and various other unsavory things at him. "I should think he would have them arrested," remarked the stranger. "Not for the world," replied the native. "It certainly is enough to make a man want to fight," asserted the stranger. "But he pays them to do it."* "Bays them!" "Pays them!" "Yes." "Why?" "Well, he says he is going into municipal politics and he wants to get accustomed to being a target."—Chicago Evening Post. In Doubt. A man in North Carolina, who was saved from conviction for horse stealing by the powerful plea of his lawyer, after his acquittal by the jury, was asked by the lawyer: "Honor bright, now, Bill, you did steal that horse, didn't you?" "Now, look a here, judge," was the reply, "I allers did think I stole that hoss, but since I heard your speech to that 'ere jury, I'll be doggoned if I a'n't got my doubts about it." Recognition of Bravery The German emperor has drawn an ornamental sketch, which is described as a "memorial sheet," to be presented, with the official anouncement of death, to the relatives of those soldiers of the southwest African colony who have fallen, or will fall, in battle against the Herreros. A REASON FOR SICKNESS. Healthy kidneys take from the blood every 24 hours 500 grains of impure, poisonous matter—more than enough to cause death. Weakened kidneys leave this waste in the blood, and you are soon sick. To get well, cure the kidneys with Doan's Kidney Pills, the great kidney specific. 1 Mrs. J. H. Bowles of 118 Core St. Durham, N. C. says: "I was sick and bedfast for over nine months, and the doctor who attended me said unless I submitted to an operation for gravel I would never be well. I would not consent to that and so continued to suffer. My back was so weak I could not stand or walk, and it aches constantly. The first day after I began using Doan's Kidney Pills I felt relief, and a short time I was up and around the same as ever, free from backache." A FREE RIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mrs. Bowles will be mailed to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. Anaesthetica Cause Deaths The annual returns of the British registrar-general show a steady increase of mortality from anaesthesia since 1863. Dr. A. D. Waller of the University of London, says that deaths due to chloroform, the popular anaesthetic in England, are caused by too much concentration of the inhaled vapor. A pump, invented by Dr. Dubois of Lyons, has proven itself especially effective in anaesthetizing animals, and has been tried on humans with satisfactory results. Dolphin Glad Sight for Sailors Of all weatherwise fish, the dolphin is the most remarkable. During a fierce gale or a storm at sea the mariner knows that the end of it is near if he can see a dolphin, or a number of that fish, sporting on the high sea waves. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any carrier that cannot be cured by Hailu Catsarin Curtis. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. W. 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Fine Note Paper It is not a pleasant thought that the brilliant white note paper which your hand rests upon may have in it the fibers from the filthy garment of some Egyptian fellah after it has passed through all the stages of decay until it is saved by a rag picker from the gutter of an Egyptian town; and yet it is a fact that hundreds of tons of Egyptian rags are exported every year into America to supply our paper mills. Problem for Naturalists. A naturalist has recently pointed out that in its native forests the hair of the sloth is green, owing to the presence on or even in the hairs of a microscopic green alga. The green color fades after death, as the chlorophyll is readily destroyed by sunlight. The question has arisen as to the desirability of restoring the hair to its green color in mounted specimens of sloths in museums. FOOD FACTS What an M. D. Learned. A prominent physician of Rome, Georgia, went through a food experience which he makes public: "It was my own experience that first led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food and I also know from having prescribed it to consalecents and other weak patients that the food is a wonderful rebuilder and restorer of nerve and brain tissue, as well as muscle. It improves the digestion and sick patients always gain just as I did in strength and weight very rapidly. "I was in such a low state that I had to give up my work entirely and go to the mountains of this state, but two months there did not improve me; in fact I was not quite as well as when I left home. My food absolutely refused to sustain me and it became plain that I must change, then I began to use Grape-Nuts food and in two weeks I could walk a mile without the least fatigue and in five weeks returned to my home and practice, taking up hard work again. Since that time I have felt as well and strong as I ever did in my life. "As a physician who seeks to help all sufferers I consider it a duty to make these facts public." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts when the regular food does not seem to sustain the body will work miracles. Look in each pkg for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellville." Porto Rican Negroes. Two-fifths of the Porto Ricae are colored, either pure negroes or mulattoes, a proportion which is a trifle larger than in Cuba (one-third), but much smaller than in the sugar-producing British West Indian islands.—The World's Work. Record Bus Rider An elderly Brixton man claims to be the "record" omnibus rider of England. For the last twenty-five years, with the exception of Sundays and holidays, he has journeyed each day to the city on the same 'bus and occupied exactly the same seat. Greatness. Those who are born great think they have achieved greatness; those who have achieved greatness think they have had it thrust upon them; those who have had greatness thrust upon them think they were born great National Magazine. Also Wasted Sweetness Dr. Dabbs of London writes: "I do not war against large hats for women, as they are hygienic, inasmuch as they prevent so much feminine kissing, always to my mind an insatiable and supererogatory habit." Belic of Michael Angelo. A wooden crucifix, said to be one of the earliest examples of Michael Angelo's work, has been discovered in the church of San Spirito, Florence, by Professor Henry Thode, of Heidelberg University. Plant Life in India India has perhaps a greater variety of plants than any other country in the world, having 15,000 native species, while the flora of the entire continent of Europe only embraces about 10,000. Jealous of Babe Brother Two little boys living near St. Quentin, France, drowned their baby brother in the river flowing past their home, as they thought their mother neglected them for his sake. Long Boots Cause of Drowning It was declared at Edinburgh recently that more fishermen were drowned from the custom of wearing long boots than by all the storms in creation. Carries His Visiting Card. When a Russian dies he is buried with a paper in his hands. On this is written his Christian name, as well as a prayer for his soul. Estimates Sun's Light The illuminating power of the sun at zenith is estimated by M. Charles Fabry at 100,000 candles. Value of English Farm Land. Farm land in England ranges in price from $60 to $120 an acre. The Preacher's Evidence. Roland, Ill., June 27. — Diabetes has so long been looked upon as an incurable form of kidney disease that a sure cure for it must rank as one of the most valuable medical discoveries of the age. And every day brings forth fresh evidence that Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure diabetes. Important evidence in their favor is given by Rev. Thos. P. Norman, the well-known Baptist minister here. Mr. Norman says: "I had all the symptoms of a bad case of diabetes and received so much benefit from the use of Dodd's Kidney Pills that I cheerfully recommend them to anyone suffering from that dread disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure the worst form of diabetes." Dodd's Kidney Pills, always cure diabetes, one of the final stages of kidney disease. All the earlier stages from backache to rheumatism are naturally much more easily cured by the same remedy. Dangerous Complexion Improver. Two young girls of Berlin found their eye sight failing and their parents sent them to a doctor, where they had to undergo a cure lasting for some weeks. Questioned by their parents as to what they had been doing to bring their eyes to such a condition the girls confessed that they had washed their faces in water mixed with frogs' eggs in order to secure a delicate complexion. 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 tencent, 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. Forest of Papyrus Trees Very few persons know that Italy, among her other treasures, possesses a small forest of papyrus trees, which grow on the banks of the Anapus, near Suracure. This is most curious, as it seems that this tree can only live on the waters of the Nile, the Clane and this small and insignificant stream at Suracure. HOW JACK LONDON "ARRIVED." Popular Author Struggled Hard for High Position He Holds. Jack London, the fascinating short-story writer and brilliant war correspondent, now at the front, is but twenty-eight years old. Three years ago he was unheard of by the reading world. To-day he is read everywhere, is sought by publishers, and the pages of the magazines, from The Century down, are open to him. The story of how he "arrived," how he first set foot upon the stepping-stone to success, he tells in The Editor, the New York magazine for literary workers, incidentally giving the latter class some excellent advice. Here are a few of his tense, pregnant sentences. Work! Don't wait for some good Samaritan to tell you, but dig it out yourself. Fiction pays best of all. Don't write too much. Don't dash off a 6000 word story before breakfast. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible—if you care to see in print the things you write. Keep a notebook. Travel with it, sat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. "As soon as a fellow sells two or three things to the magazines," says Jack London, "his friends all ask him how he managed to do it," and then he goes on, in his own racy way, to tell how it happened to him. He had many liabilities and no assets, no frecme and several months to feed. He lived in California, far from the great publishing centers, and did not know what an editor looked like. But he sat down and wrote. Day by day his pile of manuscripts mounted up. He had vague ideas, obtained from a Sunday supplement, that a minimum rate of $10 a thousand words was paid, and figured on earning $600 a month, without overstocking the market. One morning the postman brought him, instead of the usual long, thick manuscript envelope, a short, thin one. He couldn't open it right away. It seemed a sacred thing. It contained the written words of an editor of a big magazine. When, modest as ever, he had figured in his mind what the offer for this 4000-word story would be at the minimum rate $40, of course—he opened the letter. Five dollars! Not having died right then and there, Mr. London is convinced that he may yet qualify as an oldest inhabitant. Five dollars! When? The editor did not state. But, by and by, in the course of its wanderings, one of his stories reached an editor who could see the genius of Jack London, and had the patience to penetrate beneath the husk of wordy introduction and discover the golden grain. Here is the incident that proved the turning point in Jack London's literary career, as he so graphically tells it: "Nothing remained but to get out and shovel coal. I had done it before, and earned more money at it. I resolved to do it again, and I certainly should have done it, had it not been for The Black Cat. "Yes, The Black Cat. The postman brought me an offer from it for a 4000 word story which was more lengthy than strengthly, if I would grant permission to cut it down half, Grant permission? I told them they could cut it down two halves if they'd only send the money along, which they did, by return mail. As for the $5 previously mentioned, I finally received it, after publication and a great deal of embarrassment and trouble." And the rate he received for his first Black Cat story was nearly 20 times what the five dollar editor paid! Nor is Jack London the only writer who has been lifted from obscurity to prominence by the lucky Black Cat, which, as the New York Press has truly said, has done more for short story writers and short story readers than any other publication. Each of its famous prize competitions has brought new writers to the front. In its most recent, the $2,100 prize was won by a young Texan who had never before written a story, and the second, $1,300, went to a lawyer's wife in an obscure Missouri town. It has just inaugurated another contest in which $10,600 will be paid to writers in sums of from $100 to $1,500. This will, no doubt, add many new names to the list of those who have "arrived" through its recognition. The conditions are announced in the current issue of The Black Cat, and will also be mailed free to any one by the Shortstory Publishing Company, Boston, Mass. Even those who cannot write a winning story themselves may earn $10 by giving a timely tip to some friend who can. But all should bear in mind that it will be entirely useless for any one to send a story to The Black Cat without first reading and compiling with all the published conditions. Here is a chance for the reader to dig dollars out of his brain, for what life does not at least contain one tawworth telling? Swiss Protest. The inhabitants of Claro, a Swiss village, met in general assembly and passed a resolution informing the ecclesiastical authorities that they (the villagers) would become freefinkers unless the village cure, who was unpopular, should be removed. Heavy Catch of Fish Seven German steamers recently returned from Iceland to the German harbor of Geestemunde with 900,000 pounds of fish. THE RISING SON. LEWIS WOODS.....Business Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... 82 56 Six months ..... 75 Three months ..... 49 One month ..... 48 Selectly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for pub- llication 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 auth- enticity. OFFICE—No. 117 West Sixth St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. For one inch, one insertion . . . $ 5.0 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 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. To our Republican leaders of the State of Missouri: We fully realize that this is a white man's state and your party is a white man's party, but there is not a hole or corner in this state that you can carry without the negro vote. We serve notice on you now that we have been baffled and kicked and cuffed about long enough trying to help you make yourselves big men. A certain Republican said to us the other day, "Come in." We want him to fully understand that we have never been out, because we cannot do, as he can do. But without a change in the complexion of the Missouri politics and a short change, the negro will be forced out of the party, either into a party of his own or into some other party. It is very trying and discouraging to endure the hardships necessary to run a paper for the benefit of the race and to promote individual interests, only to find that after you have subscribed and have received the paper for a year or more, you have nothing to give in return but excuses and excuses. If you do not want it or cannot pay for it, why take it? The idea of you people increasing our expenses by increasing our subscription lists and then when we come around have nothing but frivolous excuses—that don't pay our bills! Now to our colored friends of the city—and lots of you, too, who claim to have great force of character and great principle behind it, do you know what principle means? We will say, just as it occurs to us, that so many good people were once our very best friends, but just so soon as they get into our debt ranging from 75 cents to $1.50, we and that our list of friends has grown considerably smaller. We have about resolved to accept this motto, "Only in God we trust; the others must pay." God hates a coward. No warrior that He ever sent out to fight His battles was afraid to hoist his flag on any ground. If our preachers will preach Christ and Him crucified and then live it, they will not be afraid to attack the devil or his angels. There is a great work to be done, but it takes valliant soldiers and true to do it. C. W. Roberts, who succeeded his brother, Frank Roberts, as collector of internal revenue, is a good business man and is worthy of the consideration he has received at the hands of the government. As he becomes better known he will be better liked. My dear, good Dr. McCray, before you can hope to have an abundance of success, you must learn to give the other fellow what belongs to him, as well as to get yours. A hint to the wise is sufficient. To the colored subscribers of the Rising Son: You whom the shoe does not fit, don't wear it. The home is the place to build character. We are dodging everything good and pure. Watch the Son next week and get ready to count the stars. The Old Folks and Orphans' Home. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is godlike.—Mann. All women are born reformers and they want to begin on some man. CUPOLA SKETCHES BY BYRON WILLIAMS The Heart Garden. Your heart is but a garden heresin you sow the seeds; All thorns grow the seeds; Then sow to suit your need! Just plant the seeds of kindness; Cast out the seeds of sin. For they but choke the flowers When once the sprouts begin! Pull up the tares and thistles And nurse the blossoms rife. That they may shed their perfume, And that they may shed their thorns. ```markdown ``` "So the ladies have started a new fad, eh?" "Yes, they are hand-painting their stockings now." "I suppose the styles next spring, then, will cost a lot of money." "How's that?" "Why, they'll be way up, won't they?" 6 6 6 This being leap year it is only natural to presume that the greater number of suicides will be among the male population. A Chicago newspaper writer has turned up his nose at a $20,000 salary. We might add that he has turned up his toes, also. A staid and otherwise reliable paper says mistletoe has lost its popularity. Never! Not as long as there are warm, rosebud lips and somebody to kiss 'em! Before marriage he called her the star of his existence, but after marriage this did not entitle her to receive a star's salary. Korean women of the upper class are rigorously excluded from masculine eyes, a custom to the originators of which, the lover of effeminate beauty will ever be thankful. "I CHAW PLUG." The longer and whiter the patriarch's whiskers, the more "pt is he to squirt tobacco juice all down the front of them. A Michigan preacher has eaten so many yellow-legged chickens this winter, he cackles every time he hears the housewife call "Sic 'em!" to the dog. If the energy and time expended in chewing the rag were used in masticating vultures there would be less dyspepsia and nightmare in the world. --- What's the Use "What's the use in trying?" Tamts the tempter in your ear. "What's the use in hoping?" Asks the devil with a sneer! But while life is earnest, Youth is hopeful, brave and strong! Where can be the error, Just to hope and plug along? Between Worries A company has been formed to manufacture pure electric water. The nectar is said to be very palatable; does not injure the liver or give one electric lights. Weep copiously, dear ones, the ping pong fad is dead. After the obsequies, you may trade your outfit for a phonograph and annoy the neighbors. Yes, girls, this is the open season for bachelors. Aim high and slightly ahead, so as to catch 'em on the run. "If a twelve-foot snake takes its tail in its teeth and eats its way around to the back of its neck, how many times will the said tip of the said tail pass any given tooth?" asks an editor. Ah, the curse of strong drink! A fellow writer says Nebuchadnezzar was the original breakfast food man because he ate grass. C. K. Sober of Lewisburg, Pa., is devoting 600 acres of land to the cultivation of 75,000 chestnut trees. Cruel wretch! Are there not chestnuts enough already? Many a young man has gone to the postoffice expecting a letter from his love, and received instead a dun from his "wash lady." Life is not all love letters. The poems we "ought to know" are all right, but the kind we write are the ones you want to forget as soon as you can. Or before you can, as they won't stand preserving. ```markdown ``` The puzzle problem maker asks: "If a gentleman stole a Plymouth Rock chicken in the new of the moon and had a misery in his stomach three weeks after, will another gentleman, who bagged a brown leghorn when the moon was full, prefer roast possum to watermelon?" We fear the proposition is incorrectly stated. To begin with, no gentleman would steal a lone chicken. He would form a trust and steal the entire brood, roost, coop and all! # —Many young girls have shown infatuation for old hymns. Nebraska Clothing Co. KANSAS CITY MO. The Stylish Bostonian Shoe Has Taken the Town. This is the season for handsome shoes and our styles have attracted thousands who have never traded with us before. Kelly Styles PLEASE THE LADIES No line of shoes excite more favorable comments this season than John Kelly's line of Rochester, N.Y. They make the exquisite styles for summer wear. Oviatt Shoe Co. 620 Minn. Ave., K. C. K. 1105 Main WHEN WIVES WERE PLENTIFUL. Conditions in English Marshes Two Centuries Ann. Defoe, the author of "Robinson Crusoe," traveled through the great eastern marshes of England in 1722. He records that in that "damp part of the world" it was common to meet with a man who had from five to fifteen wives; indeed, he says, that some had more. Defoe adds that a merry fellow, who had himself had about a score of wives, told him that the men of the marshes, being seasoned to the damp climate, took little harm from it, but that they went into the "hilly country" for their wives. "When they took the young lasses out of the wholesome and fresh air they were healthy, fresh and clear and well; but when they came out of their native air into the marshes among the fogs and damp, there they presently, changed their complexions, got an ague or two and seldom it above half a year or a year at most." One wife was sacrificed, another was procured; and so the process went on. Defoe is careful to state that this merry informer "fibbed a little"—at least, concerning his own wives; but he declares that the general statement is perfectly true. Joke Not on Him. At Oxford university a certain undergraduate was adjudged too fond of dress, and it was decided to correct this weakness by dropping him bodily into a fountain. The victim was seized one night when attired in evening dress and promptly immersed. To the surprise of his assailants, he made no resistance, but seemed thoroughly to enjoy his bath. "This won't improve your clothes, old man," said their leader. "Oh, these aren't mine," he replied, mildly. "I heard what was on, so I slipped in and borrowed your dress things for the occasion." Think for Yourself. There is nothing which adds so much to the treasures of the mind and increases its power as its own thinking. Learn to think for yourself, says the Philadelphia Press. It is all very well to hear and read the wisdom of others. But one should not let this take the place of one's own thought. Many persons are like cisterns; they are good to hold the thoughts of others. But when the time comes that they are forced to rely on themselves they have no power to do so. Rival to Roman Goose. An instance of a sacred bird giving an auspicious omen and assisting in the triumph of the imperial army is cited by Mr. Ito Miyoji, at one time chief secretary of the Japanese imperial cabinet. When the Emperor Jimmu was marching his forces against Nagasunchiko, a crow of dazzling brilliance perched upon the point of his bow, and blinding the eyes of the rebels, secured victory to the imperial troops. Sea Absolutely Without Life There are no fishes in the Dead sea—no life of any kind. The percentage of solids in the water is enormous—about 26 per cent. The principal solid ingredients are the chlorides of sodium, magnesium and calcium. The deepest part of the Dead sea's bed lies 2,600 feet below the level of the Mediterranean; its depth there is 1,310 feet. Oddly enough, it has a cloud system of its own, for one may frequently see cloud banks lying over the Dead sea which are six or seven hundred feet below the level of the ocean. Found It. In one of the neighboring cities a family was seated at dinner when the doorbell was rung. The servant went to the door. It was noticed that she held long parleying, and it was surmised consequently that there was some element of uncertainty in the interview. On her return, the master of the house inquired: "Well, Bridges, who was it?" "It was a gentleman, str, looking for the wrong house." An Atchison woman is so fat that she can't get in bed with herself. John Kelly Rockingham WIVES OF AMERICAN PIONEERS. Composedly Faced Hardships in Com- panery of Their Husbands. In regard to the wives of army officers in the pioneer days a writer says: "They attended their husbands when fighting the Indians, living on floatboards on the turbulent Missouri and Mississippi rivers. One patriotic woman, the great-grandmother of Mrs. Fred Grant, had one daughter named Missouri, who was born on the river of that name; another called Louisiana, from the then distant region; one son named after Tippeacanoe Harrison; another called Anthony Wayne, and still another called Amercus after the whole country. This dear woman had twice married in the army—two gallant husbands wrapped in the flag of the Union, she would say, as the tears flowed down her wrinkled cheeks. She has numerous descendants in the army-to-day. Col. Ben Lockwood is a grandson, Lieut. Symmes Ross a great-grandson and there are others." Fan Making in Early England. During the time of Charles II fan making was carried on extensively in England, and was a very lucrative business, but soon some enterprising individual began importing them from India, which resulted in a petition being presented to the government against importation. The petition, however, was not wholly successful, for fan importing was not stopped, although a duty was imposed which succeeded in protecting home industry and in satisfying the manufacturers. HOLY LAND NOT LARGE. Great Events That Have Transpired in Small Space. When one thinks of the great events that have taken place in the Holy Land, the multitude of cities, villages and towns, the countless millions who have been born there and whose bones now lie in its rock-ribbed hills, the small dimensions of Palestine are almost startling. West of the Jordan, where most of the historic events took place, there are only 3,800 square miles, including all the geographical divisions now called Palestine; including the land both east and west of the Jordan, the total area is 9,840 square miles. The length of Palestine from north to south is about 150 miles. It varies in breadth from twenty-three to eighty miles. Comparison. Is the handmaid of intelligent judgment. Never mind where the store stands or what the salesman promises Let the Clothing do the speech-making through the test of comparison—we are not afraid of the verdict you give in the judgment of our Men's $9 Suits. 1113-1115 Main St. BOSTONIAN Western Fine Art Studio W. C. O. JACQUES, Pres't Studio, 912 E. Twelfth St., Kansas City, Mo. We take this method to notify the public that we have opened A FIRST-CLASS ART STUDIO In this city, where we enlarge and paint all kinds of pictures. Our Pictures are in the reach of everyone, and we ask the patrones of our people who want to see us succeed. Our Work is strictly first class in every way. We employ nothing but Negro artists and we will give you good work. To introduce our work to the public we have decided, for the next 30 days, to make fine LIFE SIZE PASTEL PICTURES FOR 50 CENTS. We will simply make you a fine life size Pastel Picture for 50 cents, worth $5.00. Remember, this offer will only last for the month of May. Come to the Studio and see our work. ART SCHOOL. We also give lessons in the art of Painting and drawing for $6.00, in three weeks. We guarantee satisfactory Drawin' Crayon and Pastel Painting—Oil and I W SHORTHAND AND MUSIC. Payments weekly, in advance. HOUSES ON PA We have some good Houses and Can sell on easy terms. 5-room House and Barn on High 4-room House on E. Seventeenth 5-room House on Vine St..... 4-room House on Lydia Ave..... Good Lots in different parts of CRUTCHER & Of Painting and drawing from We guarantee satisfaction on Painting-Oil and 1 Water- ments weekly, in advance. W. C. C. ON PAW good Houses and easy terms. Am- and Barn on Highland in E. Seventeenth St. in Vine St..... in Lydia Ave..... different parts of the HER & We also give lessons in the art of Painting and drawing from 12 to 6 p.m. A full course for $6.00, in three weeks. We guarantee satisfaction or no pay. We teach Free-hand and Canvas Painting and Gel Estimates. We also see and use SHORTHAND AND MUSIC. Payments weekly, in advance. Call and see us. Respectfully, W. C. O. JACQUES, Artist. HOUSES ON PAYMENTS. We have some good Houses and Building Lots Can sell on easy terms. Among them are: 5-room House and Barn on Highland Ave.....$1,600 4-room House on E. Seventeenth St.....1,000 5-room House on Vine St.....900 4-room House on Lydia Ave.....1,700 Good Lots in different parts of the city. See us. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT Why Not Have Your Prescriptions McCampell's B 2304 Vine St Where You Are Sure to Get What A full line of DRUGS, STATIONERY CANDIES, PERFUMES, CIGA PRESCRIPTIONS A SP Medicines Delivered to All Parts of the Bell 'Phone 159 East. WOODEN & C DEALERS FANCY and STAPLE GROCERIES These are men of your race. We have prices We invite you to come in and Tel. Home 2745 Main. Our Prescriptions FIRE Spell's P 1804 Vine Street are to Get What the IS, STATIONERY FUMES, CIGARS PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIAL Referred To All Parts of the C EN & G DEALERS IN APPLE MES || FRE .... your race. We have the you to come in and see us. Why Not Have Your Prescriptions Filled at McGampell's Pharmacy 2304 Vine Street Where You Are Sure to Get What the Doctor Prescribed? A full line of DRUGS, STATIONERY, TOILET ARTICLES CANDIES, PERFUMES, CIGARS and TOBACCO. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Medicines Delivered to All Parts of the City Free of Charge. Bell 'Phone 159 East. Home 'Phone 2396 Main These are men of your race. We have the same goods and same prices We invite you to come in and see us. We treat you right. Tel. Home 2745 Main. 1339 East 18th Street. A. B. D. W. LANGSTON. PROPRIETOR. FINE CIGARS. $16,000 Stock of Milline Ladies' trimmed hats $1.98 Worth $4.75 Pattern hats - - - $2.75 Worth $7.50 Children's trimmed hats $1.25 Worth $2.98 Sailors, black and white 10c R. FEIST. 707 Millinery $1.98 Street Worth $4.75 $2.75 French Worth $7.50 nats $1.25 Child's Worth $2.98 white 10c ha $16,000 Stock of Millinery To be sold at Less than Manufacturer's Cost..... Tel. 1305 Main, both lines. and drawing from 12 to 6 p.m. A full course the satisfaction or no pay. We teach Free-hand Oil and Water Colors and India Ink. Also ily, in advance. Call and see us. Respectfully, W. C. O. JACQUES, Artst. PAYMENTS. Houses and Building Lots ms. Among them are: On Highland Ave.....$1,600 Eighteenth St.....1,000 St.....900 Ave.....1,700 parts of the city. See us. R & WELSH FLOUR Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. Scripts Filled at 's Pharmacy Wine Street Get What the Doctor Prescribed? ATIONERY, TOILET ARTICLES S, CIGARS and TOBACCO. ONS A SPECIALTY. Parts of the City Free of Charge. Home 'Phone 2396 Mal & GARNER ALERS IN FRESH and SALT ....MEATS..... We have the same goods and same me in and see us. We treat you right. 1339 East 18th Street. LANGSTON'S Shaving Parlors.. 718 E. 8th St., Kansas City, Mo. TOM*BOLES AND BEN MCCORMICK, ARTISTS. Agency for Steam Laundry. Porcelain Bath Tubs. Rooms Steam Heated. 6 Baths for $1.00. Your Patronage Solicited. TEL. 4392 MAIN. Millinery To be sold at Loss the Manufacturer's Cost..... 98 Street hats - - - 25 75 Worth $1.28 75 French Sailors - - - 98 Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. NEWS & GOSSIP A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. Remember please— 'ts the little bits we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Miss Daisy Day is in St. Joseph. Mrs. J. T. Martin, 1223 Highland, is on the sick list. Mrs. Sam T. Jones of Leavenworth was in the city this week. Miss Frankie Kennedy left Wednesday for a visit in Chicago. There will be some pleasing features at the Japanese social July 21. The building laborers will hold a picnic at Pastime park July 4. The proceeds from the "C Luncheon' amounted to $13.50. The collection at the Vine Street church Sunday, June 19, was $14. Rev. R. R. Findley is very sick at Douglass hospital, Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. D. N. Crosthwaite brought a basket of fruit for the little sick girl. Mrs. B. T. Louis and her daughter, Murtel, left last week for Excelsior Springs to spend two weeks. G. W. Leavel and Permar will get up a card in the shape of a heart. I hope they will have a suck— Jack Fields and wife of Denver are in the city visiting their old friends. All of the colored teachers who taught last year have been re-elected. Mrs. Mary Tipton, wife of Mr. Jas. Tipton, has been quite feeble for some time. J. W. Madoow, one of the old-timers, was in the city last week visiting his many friends. Mrs. Essex Allen of St. Joseph, sister of Mrs. May Peck and Mrs. Bessie Evans, is visiting Mrs. Peck. The Deacon's Union of the Second Baptist church held services at the home last Sunday. The collection was $2.26. Mrs. Bessie Evans is on the road to recovery and her many fr friends are very glad. She is in a hospital at St. Joseph. Miss Fredericka Jones and Miss Amanda Wheeler were the only colored teachers who passed the recent examination. Miss Burton, formerly of Denver, Col., sang a solo at the Vine Street church Thursday evening, June 23, to the delight of the audience. Henry Compton, who has been running the Orz restaurant, will open the Delmonico at 915 Baltimore. He invites his friends to call at the opening July 6th. He is no longer at 122 W Seventh. 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." Bettie Johnson, 2125 Brooklyn, has returned to her home after a two weeks' visit to Sweet Springs, where she visited her mother and many friends. Miss Annie Vincent will leave Satsurday for Oakland, Cal., to attend to some important business and will be gone two weeks. On her return she will open a dressmaking school for our girls at 1228 Walnut. 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. Mrs. J. M. Davis of 1817 East Seventeenth leaves this week for Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, to visit friends and will then go to Et. Louis, Mo., to spend a week at the world's fair. A MADAME SHAFFER July 4th, 1904, there will be a grand musical and literary concert at First Baptist church, Fifth and Nebraska, Kansas City, Kan., for the benefit of the church. Given by Madam Shaffer of Kansas City, Mo., and some of the best musical talent of the two cities. Madam Shaffer is very favorably known throughout this country. R. C. Sayles, city manager. Robert Mitchell, pastor. The total amount collected for the benefit of the Old Folks and Orphans' Home association at the Vine Street Baptist church Sunday, June 19, was $15.—Victoria E. Overall. Mrs. Oxley of the True Reformers was called to St. Louis suddenly, owing to the death of her brother, who was accidentally killed by a passenger train. Mrs. Oxley returned last week with her three orphan nieces, who will find a home with her. Mr. W. Dawley, at a public meeting a few weeks ago, declared his intention to be of whatever assistance he can to this charity. He gave a check for $1 then and just before his departure from the city for his vacation, sent another check for $1. Rev. Jesse F. Peck is encouraging practical business among our people and is behind a scheme to run a cooperative hand laundry at 519 Forest avenue. We hope all who can will have their work done there, and then pay for it after it is done. Miss Mamie Gomaway of Minneapolis and Lula Smith of St. Paul, Minn. will be the guests of Mrs. Anderson Smith at 2528 Highland. Cards will be sent out for the reception in honor of the young ladies Saturday evening, July 2, at the residence of Mrs. Smith, 2528 Highland. Every housekeeper is earnestly requested to remember the old people and children, when she is putting up fruit for the winter, and be kind enough to set aside a jar of fruit or a glass of jelly for those who cannot help themselves. Send a card to Miss Shephard at 2446 Michigan avenue, and she will see that such donations are called for and properly used. Sir Knight Weas, the G. L. of K. of P. of the Grand Jurisdiction of Missouri, made his annual visit here last Tuesday, June 28, 1904, and was heartily received by the McKinley Lodge No. 21 and Degree No. 43, Lillie No. 8 and New Erie No. 40. He left for St. Louis on his way rejoicing and well pleased with his visit to Kansas City. The concert at the Vine Street church June 23 was a decided success. The programme was unusually good. In fact, what was presented was enough for two good entertainments. The singing was exceptionally fine and Miss Overall's reading was given marked attention from beginning to end. The report of proceeds will be stated later. Little Clara Cranshaw, aged 7 years, died at the home Friday noon. The body was held at Countee's undertaking rooms until Monday, when the mother came and the funeral was held. Rev. Jesse F. Peck was telephoned to come and conduct the burial service. He came without delay and the last rites over the remains of the little one whose earthly career was so short, were touching and beautiful. Countee Bros. made no charge for their services. FOR SALE. CUPOLA SKETCHES BY BYRON WILLIAMS The Cow and the Man. If man were like the cow That ruminates and chews Her cud, He off whisks his brow From wrinkling with the blues Of care! Instead he chews the rag And flails his air with blow And blare! Contracts brain leak and fag And paints, with white of snow, His hair! He dies, alas! at last! His struggles all are o'er And done! The long line windeth past To earth's last open door The grave! Why is it man alone, Of intellect and brain The grave! Will yawp in reckless tone, In chaos most insane, And rave! Behold the cow! Her cud She chews in peace, and shames Dull care! While man defies the flood And, parrot like, defames The cow! B. M. C. "AN OLD LANDMARK"—ONE OF WILSON'S IDLE MOMENTS. "That new French actress is a great acrobat isn't she? Did you get onto her triple split last night?" "Triple split! No. I am two splits short. How was it?" "Well, she did a split on the stage, split a bottle of beer in the wings and used split infinitives throughout the evening." It was at this very point that somebody yelled "Police!" ```markdown ``` Rag-Time Rags. Mau's curiosity at times almost equals his necessity. Silence does not breed contempt. To the fellows who swore off January 1—Have you made the first payment on that farm? When told that a prominent citizen was verbose, Jones wanted to know why he didn't try dieting. That will never work. Several of our most verbose newspaper friends haven't had a square meal in weeks. The flapjack of to-day is better than the angel food of to-morrow. The chairman requested a full membership at the next meeting, and it said all members but one were fully up to the limit. That one was on the water wagon and refused to fall off. A visitor in the Garden of Eden while out walking one eve, dropped his Cain. He was un-Abel to pick it up again, but A-dam relieved his mind. Yes, it helps some at times, to be in a position to free one's mind. ```markdown ``` Old Man Corntassle—"I swan I don't understand this here part of John's letter at all, by hen!" Mrs. C.—"What does he 'low, father?" O. M. C.—"He 'lows this: He sez: 'It was a excitin' minute with th' red 'an' orange in the lead and th' college yells rippin' up the atmosphere." Mrs. C.—"Law sakes, I never hearn tell oh a college yellin' afore!" O. M. C.—"Deacon Whitehead sez when I sent Johnnie there it was a most intellectual college, but I never s'posed the dum thing could talk out loud!" 666 C. M. Moss PUZZLE PICTURE-FIND THE MOST POPULAR MAMAS THE UNIT- STATES ```markdown ``` Lest we be misunderstood we desire now to go on record as one who will not run a daily paper in St. Louis during the democratic convention. With the papers already there, and with those run by Editors Bryan and Hearst, there will be an ample supply to meet all presidential aspirant demands without our "butting in"—and we are not going to "butt." Beacons Line the Coast. That the United States government has been mindful of the welfare of people who go down to the sea in ships is shown by the fact that there are 9,000 burning lights and signals stretched along the American coasts, forming a perfect link, so that the navigator never need be beyond sight of one of the beacons. One thousand of these are located on the Atlantic coast, 1,500 are scattered along the rivers and inland waterways, 500 on the great lakes and 200 on the Pacific coast. Of the grand total, including lighthouses of different classes, buoys, beacons and danger signals, 3,000 are lighted, giving forth their warnings at night time. Of these a score or more throw a beam of 100,000 candle-power. Ruthless Time. Time hath he, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherech he puts alms for oblivion. A great sizel monster of ingratitudes; Those scraps are good deeds past; which As fast as they are made forgot as soon As done; perseverance dear my lord. Keeps honor bright; to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take th' instant For honor travels in a straight so nar- way? row. When one but goes abreast; keep, then, the path; For emulation bath a thousand sons That one inside from the direct forthright, like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by And leave you hindmost; And fallen in first Or like a gallant horse fallen in first rank. BY THE WOMAN HATER. The spinster can't understand why there is such a thing as a divorce law. It is easy to confound the "advanced woman" with the "forward woman." A woman may not be able to keep a secret, but she can easily enough concoct one. The same woman who rules her household with a rod of iron wonders why her husband is always broke. Flatter some women and they'll never forget it; neglect to flatter others and they'll never forgive you. I've been watching a spoony couple across the street for the last twenty minutes. I think I'll take a little cod liver oil. The man with the rent in his trousers—there are two kinds of rents—is necessarily either married or single. Or else single or married; it's a surmise.—New York Telegraph. UNEXCELLED SERVICE VIA FRISCO SYSTEM TO POINTS IN Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida AND THE SOUTHEAST, AND TO Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas AND THE SOUTHWEST. The Famous Health and Pleasure Resorts, EUREKA SPRINGS, AND HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, Reached most conveniently by this Route. Round Trip Homecensers' Tickets at rate of ONE FARE plus $2, on sale first and third Tuesday of each month. 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Kansas City, Mo., le to the Comptroller pose of business June 9 $6,227,005.01 Capital stock Surplus for Undivided p Unearned in National Bank Standing Deposits ... 4,442,634.86 0.609.6.7 DIRECTORS, James. J. W. Zon. C. W. Whithead. J. P. Nerrill. G. W. Melitzer. O. P. Dean. G. W. brothers, UN ...Lin and. Carriages Furnished for A 435 East Eight Sale Now COLLE DEPARTMENT 18TH AND FLORA ing through and part ces us to have a large days. to at a very low price. save time and money better. and complete stock of L. ery department. It is complete stock of S., LADIES' and C assortment of Ladies' Suits is now on purchases made her er Saved is a Dol COLLE 9th and Flora Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business June 9th, 1904. Countee Brothe 1427-1433-1435 Ea The Big Sale C. CO BIG DEPART AT E. 18TH A The Paseo is coming through torn down. This forces us to within the next 30 days. Our stock must go at a very save car fare, but will save time visit—the earlier the better. We carry a full and complete Inspect our millinery depart children here. A complete stock STRAW HATS, LADIES Tnere is a large assortment from which to select. Our stock of Ladies' S can save 25 per cent on purchas A Dollar Saved C. CO 18th an 1427-1433-1435 East Eighteenth Street. The Big Sale Now Begins BIG DEPARTMENT STORE AT E. 18TH AND FLORA AVE. The Paseo is coming through and part of our store must be torn down. This forces us to have a large Clearing Sale within the next 30 days. Our stock must go at a very low price. You will not only save car fare, but will save time and money by paying us an early visit—the earlier the better. We carry a full and complete stock of Merchandise. Inspect our millinery department. It is easy to fit out your children here. A complete stock of Tnere is a large assortment of Ladies' Underwear, from which to select. Our stock of Ladies' Suits is now on display and you can save 25 per cent on purchases made here. C. COLLINS 18th and Flora. ```markdown ``` Here is a good tailor perhaps, help you to a You will find our Spril length, with broad shot swing that made to heretofore monopolized We are trying to impr card. $12 t BROWNING, @ CO., I tailor to your o you to a good figu our Spring Suits re broad shoulder effec made to measure nopolized. g to improve the re $12 to $3 Here is a good tailor to your order, who can, perhaps, help you to a good figure. You will find our Spring Suits roomy and of full length, with broad shoulder effect and forward swing that made to measure garments have heretofore monopolized. We are trying to improve the ready-made standard. --- David T. Beals, President. Fernando P. Neal, Nice-Prest. C. H. Countee. 4 East 12th St. iPhone 780 Grand. Henry Caspar, Mgr. All Work Guaranteed. Altering, Cleaning and Repairing. E D. Kansas City, Mo. onal Bank, y, Mo., Camproller of the Currency June 9th, 1904. LIABILITIES capital stock..... $ 600,000.00 surplus fund..... 400,000.00 Undivided profits..... 35,442.23 Unearned interest..... 16,560.00 National Bank Notes out- stranding..... 500,000.00 Deposits..... 9,037,636.64 $ 10,069,339.87 OBS. Eighteenth Street. Now Begins LLINS' MENT STORE FLORA AVE. and part of our store must be have a large Clearing Sale now price. You will not only add money by paying us an early stock of Merchandise. nt. It is easy to fit out your ' and GENTS' SHOES of Ladies' Underwear, its is now on display and you made here., a Dollar Made. LLINS Flora. TWIXT A Good Figure and A Good Tailor I Would Choose the Latter. your order, who can, good figure. Suits roomy and of full der effect and forward measure garments have the ready-made stan- $30. --- W, H. Steege, 2nd Vice-Presid. Chas, H. W. Lewis, Cashier. LIABILITIES 600,000.00 400,000.00 35,447.23 16,560.00 Ferrardo P. Neal, W. E. Theine, Felix L. LaForce, W. B. Countec. UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers.. B & K MADE IN LONDON 11th and Main St. $50,000 GIVEN AWAY $50,000 IN GOLD SOUVENIR COIN OF ADMISSION NOTICE: Cut out this Coupon, write name, address and estimate, in link, mail with 50 cents to Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Co., St. Louis, Mo. Name Address City State MY ESTIMATE IS The Board of Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Company will set aside an appropriation of $50,000, which will be presented in its entirety, to the per capita expenditure of the EXACT number of paid admissions to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which opened at St. Louis Aurail 30th and closes December 1st, 1944. Should no one succeed in obtaining the necessary number of admissions will be presented to the one who secures the nearest correct estimate. This golden opportunity to secure a magnificent Fortune costs NOTHING. Our object in making this announcement is to promote the sale of our Souvenir Coin Admission to the World's Fair. These SOMALIA CALLED AFRICAN STATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GRAND LODGE OFFICERS 1903-1904 K. of P. OF MISSOURI. G. C., Aaron W. Lloyd, 2029 Lucas ave., St. Louis. G. V. C., Jas. A. Demay, Huntsville, Mo. P. G. C., W. H. Goff, 2337 Wash st. St. Louis. G. P., Rev. F. D. Avant, Clarksville, Mo. G. K of R. & S., W. A. Gunnell, De Soto, Mo. G. M of E., E. B. Burris, Macon, Mo. G. L., J. W. Ware, Commerce, Mo. G. M. R., Dr. J. W. McDowell, 2300 Market st., St. Louis. G. M at A., B. F. Adams, 615 East 10th st., Kansas City. G. I. G., Geo. A. Donaldson, Paris, Mo. G. O. G., Geo. M. West, 101 E. Buck- hardt st., Moberly. Secretary and Treasurer, Benefici- ary Board, Dr. W. P. Curtis, 1409 Mark- et st., St. Louis. Members of Board-D. E. Gordon, 324 Ft. Washington Avenue, W. W. Price, 324 North Housham. Supreme Representative Chas. H. Brown, St. Louis. B. J. Carruthers, St. Louis. R. C. Carter, St. Louis. PRIDE OF THE WEST LODGE NO. 1, K. OF F., meets 2d and 4n Museum evening in each month, at 3 o'clock in hall, 8n North Jefferson avenue, St. Louis. WM. W. HUCKNER, C. C. Wm. Goff, K. of R. and E. W. T. MUMFORD LODGE NO. 2, K. OF F., meets 1st and 2nd Tuesday evening in each month, at 3 o'clock at Jefferson hall, 9n North Jeffer- son avenue. DANIEL BOSTICK, C. C. B. Bland, K. of R. and S. R. ROMEO STEEL, C. C. Sol Lindsay, K. of R. & S. MOUND CITY LODGE NO. 4, K OF P. meets 1st and 3d Monday evening in each month, at 8 o'clock. Jeferson hall, 706 North Jeffer son avenue DE SOTO LODGE NO. 5. 2 K. of P. of De Soto, Mo., meets 26 Monday and Tuesday, evening in each month, at 8 o'clock in the South Main and St. Louis streets. H. L. LONG, C. C. John W. Johnson K. of R. and S. 爱 DAMON LODGE NO. 6, K. OF P. meets 2d and 4th Wednesday in each month on each person's North defender at Jaf- erson Hall in the North defender at WM. H. WALTER, C. C. ley Hudson, K. of R and S FIDELITY LODGE NO. 7, K. of P., of Spartanburg B. A. FREEMAN, C. C. H. Webb K. of R and S LILEY LODGE NO. 8, K. of P. of Kansas City B. H. TANLOR, C. C. James A. Boulder, K. of R and S NORTH STAR LODGE NO. 9, K. of P., of Hamiah, meets 2d and 4th Tuesday evening in each month. LILLIVE BARNES, C. C. J. I. Eingst, K. of R and S LONE STAR LODGE, NO MK K OF P, OF Macau, meets 2d and 4th Monday evening in each month. W. A. WALLACE, C. C J. O. McNutt, K. of R. and J O McNett, K of P, and I J O McNett, DGE NO. B, K of P of depth. N. T. GREEN, C. C. H. H. Curtis, K of R, and 8 1. HARRISON LODGE NO. 12, K. of P. of Huntsville, meets 24 and 4th Thursday evening in each month. HARRISON LODGE NO. 13, JAMES A. DENYN, C. C. W. T. Ames, K. of R. and S. ST. PYTHASIAS LODGE NO. 13, K. of E. meets 24 and 4th Tuesday day of the week, at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. W. B. WILLIAMS, C. C. P. E. Anderson K. of K. and P. E. CRYSTAL LODGE NO. 14, K. of P. of lesu JOHNSON SOLOMON, C. C. B. B. bammer: K. R. and K. B. Banning K. of K. and S. B. Banning 10. K. of K. B. Poplar Bluff B. Poplar Bluff HARRY CAIN, C. C. S. E. Townsend, K. of R. and S. ETREKA LODGE NO. 18, K. of P., meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday evening in each month, at 0'clock, at Jefferson hall, with Jefferson on M. SKEEN, C. C. W. M. Johnson, K. of R. and S. T. W. STRINGER LODGE NO. 18, K. OF P., meets 1st and 2d Thursday evening in each month, at 0'clock, at Jefferson hall, with North Jefferson avenue. M. L. TURNER, K. of K. and S. MORNING STAR LODGE NO. 18, K. of P., of Fredericktown, meets 2d and 4th Tuesday evening in each month. JOHN C. RAYSE, K. of K. and S. Souvenir Colns of Admission are of artistic and appropriate design, are in valuable amounts of this greatest of all Expositions and are similar to the Columbian Half. All souvenir Colns will accept them in exchange for regular tickets of admission to the World's Fair, and for this purpose will maintain a ticket office at the main entrance to the Fair, where it will be open every day during the World's Fair. Every one wants one of these Souvenirs, but only a limited number will be offered for sale. Price, 50 cents. With every Souvenir Coln of Admission purchased we allow one exhibition of our own collection, but no number of paid admissions to the Fair. No one WORLD'S FAIR, ST. LOUIS, MO. ON. write name, address 50 cents to Louisiana Mo. St. Louis, Mo. Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Co. COMMERCE LODGE, NO. 13, K. of P. of Commerce, meets and dues Tuesday evening in each month. GEORGE ALLEN, C. C. Elbert Burns, K. of R. and S. Elbert Burns, L. DGE NO. 29, K. of P. of Rhimmes, meets and dues Thursday evening in each month. HOUSE RANDLE, C. C. Lewis Randle, K. of R. and S. Paul Randle, K. of R. and S. Pierce of Sons, K. of R. and S. EAGLE LODGE NO. 22, K. of P. of Niceville, E. BRUNSON, C. C. Samuel Haynes, K. of R. and S. CARRIERSNILLE LODGE NO. 22, K. of P. of Carruthersville. G. W. HARRIS, C. C. Bert W. Heidker, K. of R. and S. ACME LODGE NO. 21, K. of P. of Columbia. H. H. TURNER, C. C. J. C. Burton K. of R. and S. MOBERLE LODGE NO. 23, K. of P. of Moberly, meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday evening in each month at 8 o'clock. R. L. SCOTT, C. C. M. West, K. of R. and S. HISING BUN, LODGE, K. of P. of Kernau. Meets 1st and 3d Thursday evenings in each month, at 8 o'clock. A. L. SPENCER, C. C. T. W. White, K. of R. and S. OLDEN STAP LODGE NO. 27, K. of P., of Arlington. A. A. COODSON, C. C. J. W. Bonds, K. of R. and S. TOCESAINT LODGE NO. 28, K. OF P., meets 1st and 3d Tuesday evening in each month, at 8 o'clock. E. Kicker's Mail News. K. W. Bonds, K. of R. and S. A. A. WOODSON, C. C. J. W. Bonds, K. of R. and S. TOUSSAINT LODGE NO. 28, K. of P., meets 1st and 2nd Tuesday each month, at 3 o'clock, at Kicker's hall, Newstead ave and North Market. FRED LINDSY, C. C. John S. Palmer, K. of R. and S. 2021 Marcus Avenue. BURLEIGH LODGE NO. 29, K. of P., of Farmington BURLEIGH C. C. F. FLETCHER, C. C. H. F. Boyd, K. of, R. and S. ANCHOR LODGE NO. 31, K. OF P.O. BOX 1177 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings of each month at Castle hall. Castle hall, John M. JONES, C. C. K. of R. and S. PHEP LODGE NO. 32 Petoski. PHUR CAYCE, C. C. Mon. K. of R. and S. THIAN LODGE NO. 33 Paris. R. BOBINSON, C. C. Clark. K. of R. and S. SIDELIS LODGE NO. C. meets 23 and 4th ing in each month, at Jefferson hall, 705 North O. J. BIGGS, C. C. of R. and S. SPRIG OF MYR- TLE COURT NO. 13 meets 4th Friday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jeff- erson avenue. JOHN M. JONES, C. C. Albert M. Oliver, K. of R. and S. CHRISTOPHEP LODGE NO. 32 K. of L. Oliver, C. C. ARTHUR CAYCE, C. I. Iam Johnson, K. of R. and S. PHILOSOIAN LODGE NO. 33 K. of P. of Paris, W. E. ROBINSON, C. C. Eugene L. Clark, K. of R. and S. SPEMER FIDELIS LODGE NO. 34 M. K. Cabel, K. of R. and S. Friday evening in each month, at 8 clock, at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson avenue. O J. BIGGS, C. C. H. M. Cabel, K. of R. and S. FAYETTE LODGE NO. 35, K. of P. of Fayette Meets first and third Wednesday nights of each month at Masonic and third Wednesday each month at Masonic F. ISAAC, JR., C. C. Mr. K. of R. and S. BLODE NO. 26, K. of Arthage, meets every evening in each week. L. LEONARD, C. C. of R. and S. OOD LODGE NO. 37, K. of Cottonwood Point, at 6th Tuesdays. N. ANDERSON, C. C. of R. and S. TEE LODGE NO. 38, K. of Kirksville, meets 24 days. C. C. of R. and S. ING LODGE NO. 39, meets 2d Tuesday and evenings at Jefferson Jefferson av., St. Louis. W. LOUGH, C. C. ALEY, K. of R. & S. SAA NO. 40, K. of P., St. Mary PRITCHARD, C. C. MRS. KATIE ROSS, R. of D. EUREKA COURT NO. 89, meets 1st Thursday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. RS. MISSOURI WILLIAMS, W. C. MRS. MATTIE GIL-REE, R. of D. SY RACUSE COURT NO. 113 meets 1st Friday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Jefferson B. F. ISAAC, JR., C. C. John H. McAllister, K. of R. and S. OLYMPIA LODGE NO. 36, K. of P. of Carthage, meets every Wednesday evening each week. J. L. LIDENARD, C. C. U. B. Cole, K. of R. and S. COTTONWOOD LODGE NO. 37, K. of P. of cottonwood Point meets 2d and 4t Tuesday, JORDAN ANDERSON, C. C. Simon Lepage, J. L. LIDENARD, C. C. WEST GATE LODGE NO. 38, K. of P. of Klirksville, meets 2d and 4t Mondays. C. G. BROWN, C. C. E. H. Johnston, K. of R. and S. ROCK SPRING LODGE NO. 39, K. of P. meets 2d Tuesday and 4th Thursday evenings at Jefferson Hall, 366 N. Jefferson av. St. Louis. J. D. WHALEY, K. of R. and S. J. D. WHALEY, K. of R. & S. NEW AREA NO. 40, K. of P. of Kansas City WALTER PRITCHARD, C. C. ST. LOUIS LODGE NO. 41, K. OF P. meets 1st and 2d Tuesday evenings at South Smith, at Elvaston and Franklin ave. CHARLES S. WHITE, C. C. Jefferson, invington, of R. and S. CARROLL NO. 42 K. of P., of Carrollton, meets Monday and 3d Tuesday L. L. LANE, C. C. Clyde L. Allen, K. of and S. PROGRESS LODGE, N. C. K. of P., of Kansas City, meets 2d and 4th Mondays. HARRY R. GRAHAM, C. C. D. W. Herring, K. of R. and S. MISSOUR LODGE NO. 44. K. of P. of Louisiana. DR. G, B. GOINS, C. C. Chas. Covington, K. of R. and S. NEW MADRID LODGE NO. 45 K. of F. Prot. B, D. Cherry K. of R. and S. Prof. R. D. Cherry, K. of R. and S. WARRENSBURG LODGE NO. 46, K. of P., of Warrensburg. LEVI SARR, C. C. J. W. Cooper, K. of R. and S. ST. JOSEPH LODGE NO. 47 K. of P., of St. Joseph. PHILIP HAYNES, C. C. MIAMI LODGE NO. 48, K. of P. of Miami. Samuel B. Moore, K. of R. and S. CLARK P. BEASON, C. C. Never put off till to-morrow the friend who is willing to lend you money to-day. 函 GEORGE ALLEN, C. C. 安 Cut out this address and paste on the envelope you send us. has any advantage in this contest. YOU are just as likely to get the $50,000 in Gold as any one. It is all pure luck. Should there be more than one correct estimate, the $50,000 will be divided equally between the persons making the exact or nearest correct estimates. There may be no ties or dividing of this money; the enormous sum of WHY NOT YOU? The Lucky Winner will be notified the instant the official announcement of the total number of paid admissions is made by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. We will accept all paid admissions and will deliver the $50,000 IN ONE ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. GRAND COURT OFFICERS. I. O. O. C. G. W. C.—Eliza M. Curtis, Joplin, Mo. G. W. I.—Bertha Burles, St. Louis. G. W. I.—Mary L. Rolen, St. Louis. G. W. S. D.—Annie Kemp, Fredericktown. G. W. J. D.—Mattie Yarborough, St. Louis. G. W. R. of D.—Marietta Poulson, St. Louis. G. W. Rec. of Dep.—Julia Hyde, St. Louis. G. W. Orator—Fannie Baker, Farmington. G. W. W. Escort—Lavinia Taylor, Paris. G. Con.—Rebecca Chenault, Fayette. G. Ass't. Con.—Minnie Mansfield, Huntsville. G. W. Herald—Rosa Lynch, Neeleysville. G. W. Protector—Rosa Blake, De Soto. Jesse D. Robinson, Secretary and Treasurer Endowment Bureau. Supreme Representatives. M. L. ROLEN. M. PRIED. J. L. COOMBS. J. D. ROBINSON. A. M. WILLIANS. INDEPENDENT COURTS OF CALANTHE. M Aria Court No.1 Meets 3d Thursday in each month at 2:30 p.m. at Jefferson Hall, 76 N. Jefferson Ave. Madison, Illinois Hand holding a flower SPRIG OF MYTLE COURT NO. 13 meets 4th Friday in each month, at 3:30 p., m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. A. W. LLOYD, W. C. MRS. KATIE ROSS, R. of D. Hand holding a plant EUREKA COURT NO. 89, meets 1st Thursday in each month, at 3:39 p.m. at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MISSOURI WILLIAMS, W. C. MRS. MATTIE GIL- REE. R. OF D. Hand holding a flower SY R A C U S E COURT NO. 113 meets lst Friday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jeff- erson avenue. MISS LOTTIE MOM- MAN, W. C. MRS MAMIE ED- WARDS, R. of D. COFFEE FIDELITY COURT NO. 101 meets 3d Wednesday in each month. at 3:30 p. m. at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson avenue. HATTIE BRIGHT, W. C. ARSANIA M. WILLIAMS. R. of HAND PRIDE OF THE WEST COURT NO. 123 meets 2d Wednesday in each month, at 3:30 p., m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. GREAT BAG OF GOLD as soon as you reach this city. The total paid admissions to Chicago World's Fair were - 21,480,147; Paris, France, Exposition, - 18,380,167; Pan-American Exposition, - 5,380,859. DON'T DELAY! Write immediately and remember that all you have to do to entitle you to participate in this intellectual and philosophical event is to spend 50 cents for beautiful, rare and artistic QUEEN ESTHET NO. 25 meets 2d h. day in each mo at 3:30 p. m. Kickers' hall, N. stead avenue North Market str MRS. MAMIE NICKENS, W. MRS. MAMIE PU SON, R. of D. QUEEN ESTHER NO. 25 meets 2d Friday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Kickers' hall, Newstead avenue and North Market street. MRS. MAMIE NICKENS, W. C. MRS. MAMIE PIERSON, R. of D. 蜜 FAIR CALANTHE COURT NO. 124. Meets second Tuesday in each month, at 2:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MRS MATTIE YARBROUGH. W. C. MRS. MARY L. ROLEN, R. of D. FAIR HERIMONE COURT NO. 136. Meets fourth Thursday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MISS MINNIE Hand holding a branch of flowers. ROSS, W. C. MISS WILETTA HYDE, R. of D. UNIFORM RANKS K. of P. S PYTHIAN COMPANY NO. 1, K OF P. meets first World meeting in each month s o'clock, at hall, Cor. Jefferson and Morgan. R. H. BARTON, B. F. JOHNSTON, Rec. M FARWESTCOM MANY NO. 2, K first Friday evening each month, at it hall, at hall, Corp. apperson and Morgan. WM. H. BUTLER. Capt. WALTER WILL. IAMS, Rec. 5 MOUND CITY COMPANY NO. 3. K. OF P., meets 2 Tuesday evening at 8:30 p.m. at 8 o'clock. True Reformers hall. R. L. JONES, WM. A. PITTS, Rep. C C C BATTLE AXE COMPANY NO. 4. K. OF F. meets 3d Friday evening in each month, Jennerson hall, 762 Jennerson hall, 762 North Jefferson avenue. Wm.H.ROBINSON Capt. A WARD Rec. V L'OVERTUR COMPANY NO. 9, and second Tuesday in each month. at o'clock, at cor. Jeff- organ. J. H. KENT. Gant. CLARENCEH. SALTREN. Ree. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Rev. S. W. Bacote, Second Baptist Tenth and Charlotte. Rev. E. R. Vaughn, St. John's Chapel, Ninth and Bell. Rev. W. M. Hawkins, Ebenezer church, Second and Holmes. Rev. S. W. Scott, Christian Church, 21st and Summit. Rev. R. P. Christain, A. M. E. Zlon, Fifth and Belmont. Rev. J. T. Smith, A. M. E., Westport, 43rd and Prospect. Rev. J. W. Jacobs, Berry Chapel, 20th and Summit. Rev. W. S. Wheeler, Asbury A. M. E., 19th and Cherry. Rev. T. H. Ewing, Vince Street Church, Vine street. Rev. F. G. 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It cannot fall to lengthen, STRAIGHT and beautify the hair. OZONO is positively guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction to all who use it. It cannot fall. Thousands of delighted customers scattered all over the world unite in saying that OZONO is true to all that is claimed for it. OZONO is king of all hair tonics. The price of Onoo is $80 a box. It takes four boxes to complete the treatment. No hot iron are used. We do not use heat-resistant gloves. We do not intend to be jong, soft, straight and beautiful. Onoo prevents falling, breaking and spitting, brittle hair. OUT OUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT and mall sale to us with and immediately upon receipt of same we will send to you no matter We will also send you one large package of Onoel egg sham We will also include a case of Curtly Soap Ship, worth $80. This soap is We will also include a case of Curtly Soap Ship, worth $80. This soap is absolutely pure and unadultered and made especially for use by the above great offer in the box and sent to you our Curtly Soap Ship, which is the most beautiful soap we have. actually worth it. This excelsent filling out, consisting it. It simply rubbed well into the skin, allowed to so comes off in rolls, bringing with it all the dead, dark, scar and wrinkled skin. It will brighten UP the BLACKSTONE from three to large-size jar of our Electrical Skin Food, worth $50, which increment and brighten up the skin. It will look younger, and lastly, to prove our liberality, we worth $50, which removes all smells and odors from the cornstarch thresk, so much. Treated with OLIVINE. GREENERMALL ALL OF THE ABOVE-ENTERTAINED PACK GREENERMALL ALL OF THE ABOVE-ENTERTAINED PACK. This send money by registered letter or by money order obtai YOUR name and address plainly, and address. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO. 310 E. BEAUTIFUL FACE LOSES ITS BEAUTY SOME HEAD OF HAIR. GLOOS quently a true hair tonic, which fee fertilizes, resuscitates, enlivenes, and stimulates adjuncts, and roots of the human hair. Wha BEAUTIFUL FACE LOSES ITS BEAUTY WHEN UNADORNED WITH A HAND-SOME HEAD OF HAIR. GLOSSINE is a true hair food, and consequently a true hair tonic, which reacts, invigorates, vitalizes, permeates, fertilizes, restores nutrients) similar to fertilizers, adjuncts, and roots of the human hair. When the plant is withered, sickly, drooping, and dying, we give it water ere it die. Just so should we apply GLOSSINE to the unskightly dropping, dying hair, for on this principle of common sense was GLOSSINE formulated by the macleis—not from lead, mercury, bismuth, and other mineral poisons, but from vegetable and botanical products, while we cannot naive to the human hair. Capidity and the desire for quick wealth have tempted many people, ignorant both as to pharmacy and tenure, and the people-called hair tonics, which (on account of their low price) contain mineral poisons, the immediate effect of which cause the hair to grow quicker whose certain and is failing hair and a bald head. There is only one safe course to pursue—use only on your hair an absolutely guaranteed degree of beauty for the hair, such as GLOSSINE really is, which can only do good, and est to buy, GLOSSINE, a genuine, price, or a worthless, hair-killing nostrum at all diseases of the hair and scalp, and gives and beauty. it makes the hair grow quickly, hair spots give to it a beautiful shiny plaque causes the hair to grow so long and so soft you please. GLOSSINE makes the hair to it a texture as fine and pliable as the soft price for the complete treatment (3 large boxes) NOTE--Many druggists may try to make druggists of you, they may not druggist cannot supply you, send the price, w of dealer, and we will send same promptly, pr CONTINENTAL, CHEMICAL CO., Sole Own The Stoeltzing Stove est to buy, GLOSSINE, a genuine, mertorious hair tonic at a moderate price, or a worthless, hair-killing nostrum at a penny? GLOSSINE cures all diseases of the hair and scalp, and gives to the hair length, lustre, life, vitality, and beauty. It makes the hair grow quickly, thick, long, and luxurious; covers all bald spots; gives to it that beautiful, shiny gloss (from which it takes its name), and provides a soft, silky texture. It is also useful for you please. GLOSSINE makes the hair soft, wavy, straight, glossy, and gives to it a texture as fine and pliable as the softest silk. Price for large box, 50c.; price for the complete treatment (3 large boxes), only $1.00. We pay all charges. o, a genuine, mertorious hair tonic at a moderate g nostrum at a penny! GLO$$INE cures hair, and gives to the hair length, neat, life, vitality, grow quickly, thick, long, and luxurious; covers all tight, shiny gloss (from which it takes its name), and and so soft that it can be dressed with ease and as sakes the hair soft, wavy, straight, glossy, and gives illusions to the hair length. Price for large box $0.00 at (3 large boxes, only $1.00. We pay all charges. may to try sell you something else, on which they may not have GLO$$INE in stock. If your and the price, with your name and address and name promptly, prepaid. O., Sole Owners, 9 Governor St., Richmond, Va. Stove and Hardware Co. NOTE--Many drugstores may try to sell you something else, on which they make more profit, or because they may not have GLOSSINE in stock. If your drugstores cannot supply you, send the price, with your name and address and name of dealer, and we will send same promptly, prepaid. CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL CO., Sole Owners. 9 Governor St., Richmond, Va. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. ```markdown ``` CHEF'S OVEN Wholesale and Retail Agents For... Peninsular Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the.. Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Specialty. Wabash TO sh Train TO Wabash Train ST. LOUIS COMMENCING J Leave KANSAS CITY, Arrive WORLD'S FAIR STATION, Arrive ST. LOUIS (Union Station EQUIPMENT---Pullman Sleeper Cars and Coaches. Sleeper 10:00 p. m. for occupancy. Wabash is the only line to W Return Train leaves St. Louis Ask your Agent for Tickets ow M. C. SHIELDS, TRAVELING PASSENGER AGENT. 903 MAIN STREET, KA ING JUNE 5, 1904. 11:30 p. m. Daily STATION, 7:00 a. m. " ion Station), 7:15 a. m. " Human Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair mes. Sleepers and Coaches open at occupancy. Line to WORLD'S FAIR Main Gate. St. Louis 11:45 p. m. for Kansas City. Tickets over the Wabash. L. S. McCLELLAN, AGENT. WESTERN PASSENGER AGENT. STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. Leave KANSAS CITY, 11:30 p. m. Daily Arrive WORLD'S FAIR STATION, 7:00 a. m. " Arrive ST. LOUIS (Union Station), 7:15 a. m. " EQUIPMENT---Pullman Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches. Sleepers and Coaches open at 10:00 p. m. for occupancy. Wabash is the only line to WORLD'S FAIR Main Gate. Return Train leaves St. Louis 11:45 p. m. for Kansas City. Ask your Agent for Tickets over the Wabash. M. C. SHIELDS, L. S. McCLELLAN, TRAVELING PASSENGER AGENT. WESTERN PASSENGER AGENT. 903 MAIN STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. Use American Equipment. The first electric railway in Peru, from Lima eight miles to the Pacific, and another contemplated from Lima ten miles to the seaport, Callao, will have American cars and dynamos. --- --- Our Great Special Offer AFTER it die. Just so should we apply GLOSSINE to the harsh, acidic soil on this principle of common sense was GLOSSINE formulated by one of America's most noted pharmacists—not from lead, mercury, lead sulfate, or any other substance but from vegetable and botanical products only, which can work no injury to the human hair. Uptidity and the ability to absorb many people, ignorant both as to pharmacy and chemistry, to sell to the people so-called hair tonics, which contain mineral poisons, the immediate effect of which cause the hair to grow quickly, but whose certain end is failable. Only one only one safe course to pursue—use only on your hair an absolutely guaranteed vegetable remedy for the hair damage, really is, which can only do good, and work no injury. Which is the cheap- Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. Marriage Forblidden the Deformed. Deformed persons, which are very rare among the Sakals, or those attacked by dangerous disease, must make a vow of celibacy.-Singapore Straits Budget. 9,000 DROPS CASTORIA AVegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Optum, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Reprint of Old Dr. SANUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Mr. Sterna - Raspberry Salve - Asparagus - Parsley - St. Cyrpus Salve - Virgin Seed - Cinnamon Sugar Mintygran Parmer Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. For Simile Signature of Charles H. Flitcher. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Flitcher. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound A Woman's Remedy For Woman's Ills. Early in the morning, late at night, or whenever used, Defiance Starch will be found always the same, always the best. Insist on having it, the most for your money. Satisfaction or money back guaranteed. It is manufactured under the latest improved conditions. It is up-to-date. It is the best. We give no premiums. We sell 16 ounces of the best starch made for 10 cents. Other brands are 12 ounces for 10 cents with a tin whistle. Manufactured by THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha, Neb. A NEW WABASH TRAIN TO St. Louis COMMENCING JUNE 5th, 1904 Leave KANSAS CITY, . . . 11:30 p. m. Daily Arrive WORLD'S FAIR STATION, 7:00 a. m. " Arrive ST. LOUIS (Union Station) 7:16 a. m. " EQUIPMENT—Pullman Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches, Sleepers and Coaches open at 10 p.m. for occupancy. Wabash is the only line to WORLD'S Famous Train Station Thrift. Leave St. Louis at 1:45 p.m. for Kansas City. Ask your Agent for Tickets over the Warehouse. H. C. SHIELDS, L. S. McCLELLAN, Trav. Pass. Agent. Western Pass. Agent. 803 MAIN STREET, KANSAS CITY, MG. HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID for DUCK and GESE FEATHERS. PAYNE & LEEK, Lincoln, Nebraska PENSIONS to Civil War Veterans. Honorably charged with 30 days service; 66 p. 25 paid service. All applications required. No medical examination. Byington & Wilson, 728 17th St., Washington, D.C. K180-880 NEW PENSION LAWS SENT FREE Apply to NATHAN BICKFORD, 914 F St. Washington, D. C. 900 DROPS Various Names of the "Hub." Boston, Mass., is called the City of Notions from the amount of Yankees notions manufactured there. The city was first called the Hub of the Universe by Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wished to convey the idea that the world moved around that city. It is also called the Tri-mountain City, from the three hills upon which it was originally built. BIG DROP IN BINDER TWINE We are selling the highest grade standard binder twine made, shipping it to any address you desire. Our customers can buy in carload lots. For our a special inside price, our guarantee and money back guarantee, our insurance proposition against hail or storm, for the most liberal binder twine offer that will be made this season, cut this notice out and mail us. You will hear from us by return mail. Address. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Cincage, IL When a widower begins to tell his troubles to a widow she knows he is going to ask her to share them. This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the bowels and destroy Worms, Sold by all Drugstores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A. Ols, Stmsted, Roe, N.Y. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers All Up-to-Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Money talks—especially when a long distance telephone is used. $36.00 per M. Lewis' "Single Binder," straight 5c cigar, costs more than other brands, but this price gives the dealer a fair profit—and the smoker a better cigar. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Excessive politeness is generally a foe to truth. Is It Not Worth While if you travel, on business or pleasure, to get the best service for the lowest rates? Ask the Erie Railroad Company, 555 Railway Exchange, Chicago, for full information. Booklets free describing Summer Tours and the Beautiful Chautauqua Lake Region; also Cambridge Springs. There are diamonds everywhere you dig. 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. Man wants but little here below but he wants that little badly. Important Announcement to Recta Sufferers. For 27 years Drs. Thornton & Minor, the well known Kansas City rectal Specialist, been treating Piles, Fistula and Disease and has a positive guarantee, which required no money till cured and we are pleased to announce that this famous institution has been given the office at 3259 Olive St. St. Louis, Mo. Now they will be fully equipped to administer the wonderfully successful Thornton & Minor system of treatment, and one of the most important assistants will be stationed at St. Louis, immediately from this time forth. Those who have not investigated the Thornton & Minor system of treatment should write at once, and these assistants will be stationed on diseases of the rectum is mailed free and postpaid to all afflicted. They also mail a 108 page book containing all these books which contain the names of the patients in need of treatment in prominent throughout this section of the country, who have been cured by Drs. Thornton & Minor, it would certain-patiently get these books and thoroughly inform these writing to some of the many people who have been cured in years past. They positively accept no money until the patient has been cured. The permanent cure has been effected. Read the comment in another part of this paper and write to-day for the free books. Address Drs. Thornton & Minor, 3969 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. It is quite possible to hang a picture that is not well executed. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Hutchins. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 27, 1904 BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. BELOVED OLD GLORY Enchanted web! A picture in the air, Drifted to us from out the distant blue, From the shadowy ancestors through who brave care. We live in magic of a dream come true. With covenanter's blue, as if were glass. In dewy flower-heart, the stars that passed. O blood velled blossom that can never blight! O symphony in red, white, blue!-fan- fare Of trumpet, roll of drum, forever new Reverence, roll of the Bell, that beat Its tones of liberty the wide world through! In battle dreaded like a cyclone blast! Symbol of land and people unsurpassed The brilliant day shall never have a night. On foreign shore no pomp so grand a sight. No one is friendly, naught consolatory. Like glimpse of lofty spar with thee bedlight. Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory." Thou art the one flag, an embodied prayer. On highest and most perfect to review: Without one, nothing; it is lineal square. Has properties of all the numbers, too. Cube, solid, square root, root of root, It for His essence the Creator cast, For purity are the six stripes of white, This number circular and endless. Six times, well knows the scholar wan and hoary. His compass, spanning circle, can alight— Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory." Boldly thy seven lines of scarlet flare; (Red is thy trumpet's tone, it means to dare!) God favored seven when creation grew; The seven planets, seven lunes contrast; The seven metals, seven days, not last; The seven tones of marvelous delight That lend the listening soul their wings But why complete the happy category That gives thy thirteen stripes their charm and might? Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory." In thy dear colors honored everywhere, The great and lyrical ternion we view; Fall in love, and Charity are numbered there, And three nails the crucifixion knew. Three offended when one has tres-pressed, God and one's neighbor and one's self-agast. Charity be holy, and soul, and manhood's height; The Father, Son, and Ghost may here unite; With the earth, and the sky. With texts like these, divinely monitory, What wonder that thou conquerest is the night. Our hollowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory." ENVOL. O blessed Flag' sign of our precious Past, Triumphant Present and our Future vast. Beyond starred blue and bars of sunset bright, Lead us to realme of Equal Right! Float on it every loosely allegory Kin to the eagle and the wind and light, Our hallowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Glory." The spirit of the Fourth is no respecter of persons. It seizes hold of the millionaire as well as the ragamuffin whose only means of celebration lies in snatching up defective explosives discarded by his more fortunate brothers and endeavoring to make them "go off." His is intense anticipatory excitement and pleasure, but it is no keener than the zest with which Charles M. Schwab, man of millions, prepares for and celebrate the nation's natal day. Mr. Schwab always endeavors to spend the day in the town of his boyhood, Loretto, Pa., where his father and mother live. No matter where he is, or what the business, he usually manages to turn up at his magnificent country home on the hill overlooking the town a day or two before the Fourth; and with him come box after box of all manner of fireworks. Some of the protechnics he uses to make glad the hearts of his little friends—the children of former playmates. The fireworks which Mr. Schwab reserves for himself are set off on the night of the Fourth, when he gathers at his house his friends and relatives for miles around. The display lasts until well into the night. It is dazzling and gorgeous in the extreme, and it causes many an honest former friend to ejaculate from the depth of his wonderment and awe: "Well, I swan, but Charlie's a hummer!" Origin of Our Banner. It has often been asked what suggested the design for our star-spangled banner. There are many traditions afloat concerning the origin of the design, but the one in which there is undoubtedly the most truth is that which credits the design to Washington. The general found in the coat-of-arms of his own family a hint from which he drew the design for the flag. The coat-of-arms of the Washington family has two red bars on a white ground, and three gilt stars above the top bar. The Ame.lean flag, once decided upon, was rushed through in a hurry, for the army was badly in need of a standard. Beware of Sweet Breakfast Foods Many of the breakfast foods upon the market are sweetened with gluside, a drug substitute for sugar. The direct interference with the gastric digestion and the assimilation of food caused the French Government to prohibit its use as a dietetic substitute for sugar. Children love it because it is sweet, hence the danger. In selecting foods for daily use is the one that will be found free from all injurious substances—safe for the children—for all, sick or well. Prepared by a physician and chemist whose name on any article is a positive guarantee of its purity and healthfulness. The Skylark. unferries. Idigst be thy matn oe moorland and leaf! Idigst be oe hour Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where on thy dewy wing. Where art thou journeying? Thy love is in Heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen. O'er moor and mountain green. O'er the red streamer that heralds the day; Low in the heather blooms. Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Blessed of happiness! Bless'd is thy dwelling place! O, to abide in the desert with thee! -Hogg. Russian Women Students. A Parisian journal says in regard to the numerous Russian female students in the French metropolis that they are for the most part very plain and without any feminine charms. Most of them are very poor, live in garrets and starve their bodies while they study hard. Most of them are Nihillista. Napoleon's Furniture. In the library of Hinchelero Castle, Lord Camanon's residence in Hampshire, are the table and chairs which Napoleon used when he signed his ablication at Fontainebleau. Silence and Speech. It is frequently one's *c* to be silent. It is never a duty to carry plainness of speech to the verge or over the border of ill-temper or rudeness. Poverty Fosters Consumption. Consumption is four times as frequent in families whose annual income is less than $300 as it is in families receiving more than $1,200. How Men Are Judged. The world has a way of believing that the man who is always puttering around can't do anything else. Insiat on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. We have counted, and know, that a certain Atchison woman has been fatally ill nine times. Do You Want the Lowest Rates either one-way or round-trip excursion, to any point east of Chicago or St. Louis? Ask the Erie Railroad Company, 555 Railway Exchange, Chicago, for complete information. Three fast trains daily from Chicago and St. Louis through to New York, Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and other eastern points. Stop-over without charge at Nagara Falls, Cambridge Springs and Beautiful Chautauqua Lake. You often wonder that a woman does not pull her baby's arm out at the socket. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Add Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. When we see an article labeled "Hands Off," we always want to handle it. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. We all 'doctor' too much. A good doctor is a blessing, but a poor one is a curse. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. If a man loafs long enough he will finally get an office. Beware of Many of the breakfast foods upo The direct interference with the Government to prohibit its use a heace WHY HOT WEATHER MAKES WOMEN NERVOUS. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. Wear free and postpaid a 232-page treatise on Piles, Infections and Diseases of the Rectum; also 100-page illness, traction on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by ourmild method, none paid a cent treat. cured we furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 2000 Olive Street. St. Louis, Mo. 1040 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. Blanche Grey. A Well Known Canadian Lady Sends Letter of Endorsement to Pe-ru-na. Miss Mary Burns, 28 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, N. S., writes: "Having used Peruna for indigestion and stomach trouble and to build up a broken down stomach, I was pleased to state my experience with this excellent medicine. I had been troubled with stomach trouble and poor digestion for some years, and although I tried many remedies and dieting, nothing seemed to restore my health until I used Peruna. In three months I had entirely recovered my health and strength."—Mary Burns. PILES NO MONEY We send FREE and postage Rectum; also 100-pageillus our mild method, none pay DRS. THORNTON HANDY BLUEIN For Laundry U Send 10c. or package to THE HANDY BLUEING BOOK CO., 87 WHERRETT's CHIGGER CURE CURES CHIGGER & MOSQUITO BITES At Drugslist or Mail Box. The O. E. WHKRETT CO., Atchison, Kann. Wiggle Stick Wiggle-Stick LAUNDRY BLUE Won't spill, break, freeze not spot clothes. Costs 10c. and equals 20c. worth of any other bluing Afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water A woman thinks her husband is better than she wants him to think she thinks he is. GRAND EXCURSION. Missouri Pacific Railway — National Democratic Convention and World's Fair. ST. LOUIS AND RETURN. Excursion tickets on sale July 2nd to 6th, fifteen days' return limit. Round trip rate, $7.75. Elegant equipment, palace coaches and chair cars, dining cars and Pullman sleepers. Seven trains daily to St. Louis. We are in it. You cannot miss us! For excursion tickets and all information call on or address No. 901 Main street, Kansas City, Mo. E. S. JEWETT. When a watch isn't paid for it stands to reason that it should run in debt. Sweet Break In the market are sweetened with glu- gastric digestion and the assimil- a dietetic substitute for sugar. C he danger. In selecting foods for d Suggestions by Dr. Hartman.—How to Combat the Nervous Depression Incident to Warm Weather. Nervousness is very common among women. This condition is due to anamnic nerve centers. The nerve centers are the reservoir for nerve vitality. These centers become bloodless for the want of proper nutrition. This condition is especially noticeable during the warm season. Every summer an army of invalids are produced as a direct result of weak nervous systems. This could easily be overcome by the use of Peruna. Peruna stalks at the root of the trouble by correcting the digestion. Perfect digestion furnishes increased nutrition for the nerve centers. Perfectly digested food gives these reservoirs of life a vitality which creates strong, steady nerves, and in this manner fortifies and nourishes life. Miss Blanche Grey, a prominent young society woman of Memphis, Tenn., in a recent letter from 174 Alabama street, writes: "To a society woman whose nervous force is often taxed to the utmost from lack of rest and irregular meals, I know of nothing which is of so much benefit as Peruna. I took it a few months ago when I felt my strength giving way, and it soon made itself manifest in giving me new strength and health."—Miss Blanche Grey. Pe-ru-na Contains No Narcotics. One reason why Peruna has found permanent use in so many homes is that it contains no narcotic of any kind. Peruna is perfectly harmless. It can be used any length of time without acquiring a drug habit. Peruna does not produce temporary results. It is permanent in its effect. It has no bad effect upon the system, and gradually eliminates catarrh by removing the cause of catarrh. There are a multitude of homes where Peruna has been used off and on for twenty years. Such a thing could not be possible if Peruna contained any drugs of a narcotic nature. At this season of the year we are peculiarly liable to inflammations of the stomach and bowels. It is the part of wisdom to learn how to cut them short and in the easiest and quickest manner. Peruna does this by its peculiar power over all forms of catarrh troubles. TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. With a 232-page treatise on Piles. Fistula and Diseases of the freastion on Diseases of Women. Ut the thousands cured by a centill cured on freastion their names on application. H & MINOR. 3200 Drive Street. St. Louis. Mo. and 1000 Oak St. Kansas City. Mo. G BOOK Ask Your Grocer Or Druggist E. Lake St., Chicago THE NORTH-WESTERN LINE NEW HOMES IN THE WEST Almost a half million acres of the fertile and well watered lands of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, will be thrown open to settlement by the Government in July. The lands are best reached by the Chicago & North-Western Railway's direct lines from Chicago to Bonestead, S. D. All agents sell tickets via this line. Special low rates. HOW TO GET A HOME Send for a copy of pamphlet giving full informa- tion as to dates of opening and how to secure 100 acres of land at nominal cost, with full descrip- tion of the soil, climate, timber and mineral resources, towns, schools and churches, opportu- nities for business openings, railway rake, etc, free on application. W. B. KNISKERN, Passenger Traffic Manager, CHICAGO, IL. MIDDAY FETTLES dies are trouble-free, clean and still most of all free and easy. For their use and you will not lose without them if food is not prepared prepaid for by HARLEM SORREL, LADY BABY, BROOKLYN, N. I. Bkfast Foods inside, a drug substitute for sugar. Action of food caused the French children love it because it is sweet, daily use THE TRAIN SERVICE OF THE MIS SOURI PACIFIC. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time; 10:10 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arrives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and Southeastern trains. The only line leaving Kansas City after the Operas, Lodge meetings and Sunday night Church service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m., in time for all Eastern connections. 10:20 p. m.—10:50 a. m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment. Pullman Sleeper sand Compartment cars; Reclining Chair cars. (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at Union Depot and 901 Main St., City Office. E. S. JEWETT. Pass. & Ticket Agent. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. COURTEOUS TREATMENT Parlore 1820 E. 18th St., Kansas City. GO TO THE E. Z. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND HA'R CUT. C. A. EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo A. WEBER, M If you want a suit to o go and save money. no rent Style, Fit and F EBER, MERCHANT TAILOR, you want a suit to order here is the place to and save money. Why? Because we pay rent Come and see us. Style, Fit and Finish Guaranteed. A. WEBER, MERCHANT TAILOR, A. WEBER, MERCHANT TAILOR, If you want a suit to order here is the place to go and save money. Why? Because we pay no rent Come and see us. The "All-Rail Ro All-Rail Route" to New York The "All-Rail Route" to New York All Through Trains of the "Big Four Use the New Grand Central Sta & Hudson R "Big Four Route" New Grand Central Station of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. Use the New Grand Central Station of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. Forty-second Street and Fourth Avenue, New York. Center of the Hotel, Residence, Club and Theatre District Think of it! The only railroad station can continent. Only one railroad station in the Southwest running through cars into it, one can afford to overlook. All through central Station in New York City, landing pass a few minutes walk or drive to the principal Stopover at Niagara Falls On through tickets to or from the Eagan Southern and New York Central Railway allowed at Niagara Falls, on notice to train et agent at Niagara Falls station immediate C. W. GREEN, T RELIABLE No Delay--Satisfaction Guarantee We are the most reliable dentists in oldest practice in the city. Our super grade work done by gentlemanly ones We Guarantee to Please. This firm is backed by a wealthy, roughly responsible. All work is g The only railroad station in New York, the greatest city on the Ameri- Only one railroad station in New York City and only one railroad from running the rough cars into it! Surely this is an advantage, which no trav- look. All through ours of the Big Four Route enter the Grand Cen- New York City, landing passengers right in the heart of the city, and only walk or drive to the principal hotels. Over at Niagara Falls without Extra Charge. With tickets to or from the East, via Hig Four Route, Lake Shore and Miehl- and New York Central Railways, stopover not exceeding ten days will be Niagara Falls, on notice to train conductors, and deposit of ticket with the tick- aagaara Falls station immediately on arrival. W. GREEN, T. P. A., Room 204 Boston Building. ReliABLE DENTISTRY Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free Most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and price in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths antee to Please. Our Reiability is Unquestioned. Is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thor- ponsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Think of it! The only railway station in New York, the greatest city on the Americas, can carry cars. The Southwest running through cars into it? Surely this is an advantage, which no traveler can afford to overlook. All through cars of the Big Four Route enter the Grand Center, where the main streets are right in the heart of the city, and only a few minutes away or drive to it. Stopover at Niagara Falls without Extra Charge. On through tickets to or from the East, via Big Four Route. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and New York Central Railways, stopover not exceeding ten days will be allowed at Niagara Falls, on notice to train conductors, and deposit of ticket with the ticket agent at Niagara Falls station immediately on arrival. *** C. W. GREEN, T. P. A., Room 204 Boston Building. No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth... $4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k... $2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth . $2.65 Platinum fillings... 500 Cleaning... 500 We do as we advertise Teeth extracted without pain FREE. We are here to stay. Cleaning ..... 500c We do as we advertise— Teeth extracted without pain FREE We are here to stay. NEW YORK DENTAL CO ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. Main St Second Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. Open Daily. Nigh's till 9. Sundays 10 to 4 NEW YORK ESTABLISH 1029 Main St Second Open 2825 S.W. Blvd. ```markdown ``` Prof. L. L. Thompson Will move out to his new home at 2316 Highland Avenue in a few weeks from 318 West 6th St Will still run RESTUARANT at 327 W. 6th St. WALL'S Laundry Co., First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. ...18 THE.... ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up staira. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager Good Service. Up-to-date. Good Service. The New Palace Restuarant. Robt. Sneed, Prop. REQULAR ;MEALS 156 924 Wyandotte St., Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, Mo TEETS WITHOUT PLAN Beside the Stile. We both walked slowly over the yellow grass. Bellows the sunset sky. And then he climbed the stile I did not pass. And there we said good-by. He paused one moment; I leaned on the stile, And faced the hazy lane; But neither of us spoke until we both Just said good-by again. And I went homeward to our quaint old arm, And he went on his way; And he has never crossed that field again From that time to this day. I wonder if he ever gives a thought To what he left behind- And I start sometimes, dreaming that I hear A footstep in the wind. If he had said one regretful word. Alas! our hearts were full of angry pulse. And love was choked in strife; And the style, beyond the yellow grass. Stands straight across our life. —Good Words. WOULDN'T TAKE COPPER "A pound's worth of stamps, and the cash all in copperes? I can't take it; you must bring silver!" said the postmistress to an old Irishwoman. "But Mr. Johnson sent for them," said the Irishwoman. "Can't help it," said the postmistress, who was an old maid, and as crusty as if she had been hard-baked. "Faith and sure, marm," said the Irishwoman, "I can't go widout 'em." "But I say," said the postmistress, "I won't take copper," and she banked the little door in the old woman's face. The Irishwoman was nonplussed for a minute or so, and then a brilliant idea occurred to her, which she put into operation at once. Taking a penny from the bag, she knocked at the little door with it. "Well, what do you want?" said "Well, what do you want?" said the old maid, opening the door. "Is this the postoffice, marm?" said the Irishwoman, politely. "You know it is!" snapped the old maid. "Plaze, marm, do you sell stamps?" "Of course I do!" "Would you be after giving me one, then, marm?" said the Irishwoman. The postmistress could not refuse this request; though a pound's worth of copper was not a legal tender, a penny most certainly was, and she handed out the stamp, and swept the penny into the drawer. In a few seconds another rap at the door brought up the old maid again, who was getting her tea. "Well, what is it?" she demanded, angrily. "Sure, marm. I'm thinking I'll be wanting a stamp," said the Irishwoman, with a look of innocence ten inches deep, and she put a penny down. The old maid, in giving her the stamp, brought her open hand down with a thwack on the desk that would have caused a mortal explosion in a blackbeetle, and her looks would have turned XXXX beer into vinegar on the spot. "Thank you kindly," said the Irishwoman again, with a curtsy that made the old maid blush and wish that swearing wasn't a sin, and the door went to with an extra bang. In a few minutes more there was another rap at the door, and the old maid sprang from the tea table with something that did sound just a little like an oath, but which we hope was not one. "What do you want now?" she said to the old dame looking in at the little doorway. "I think I'll have a stamp, honey!" was the answer, delivered with most exasperating humility. "Here, then" said the old maid, with a look of hate that would burn A woman stands at a desk, looking at a man in a hat. A trash bin is placed in front of her. "Faith an' sure, marm, I can't go wid-out 'em." a hole through a firebrick, if it could have been converted into force. "Where'll I put it on the letter, sure?" said the old lady, coaxingly. "Go hang yourself, you old hag!" said the furious postmistress, and the door went to with a bang that shook the whole building. Another rap came presently, and then the old maid let out something beginning with a big D; but she turned it into something else at the last minute, and looked round for some weapon, for there was murder in her heart. But it was no use, she knew the old dame was within her rights, and with hands clenched till the nails entered the flesh, she again opened the little door. "Plaze, marm, is this a postoffice?" said the Irishwoman, with a look childlike and bland, and then the postmistress went off. After dancing round the room like a gushing tide of fifteen summers, and upsetting the tea table in her gyrations, she clapped her hands together in an ecstasy of boundless rage and madness. "Sure, marm, it's good news you've been havin' this morning, you're so livey," said the old lady outside; and then the gushing maiden went off again, jumping like an india-rubber ball. "Plaze, marm, do you sell stamps here?" said the Irishwoman, putting her head inside. "Oh, dear, oh, dear!" sighed the postmistress, after her exhausting exercise, "Whatever do you want now?" "I'll be troubling you for a stamp, I'm thinking," said her tormentor. "Very well; there it is," said the old maid, with an effort to be calm that shortened her life several hours. "Oh, thank you kindly," said the beldame outside, and the little door went to once more, this time with a gentler swish than before. After listening awhile, the postmis- T "I'll be troubling you for a stamp, I'm thinking." thinking," said her tormentor, tress, hearing nothing more, sat down on a chair and wondered what Irishwomen, and this one in particular, were made for. Then she wondered if it would be possible to lure this one inside and cut her throat, and then she felt like crying, and then she looked at her broken teacups and the comforting tea that was wasted, and then she crouched down in a corner, and, opening a drawer, put her head inside it, and swore a volley of feminine oats into it in a hoarse whisper. This comforted her for a minute, and then came that awful rap at the little door again. With a groan that seemed to come all the way from her toes, she rose to her feet and walked round the room two or three times to cool herself, and she opened the door again. "A stamp, if ye plaze," said the impostor outside, with a smile of superhuman innocence. "How many do you want?" said the humbled postmistress. "Oh, sure, marm, only one at present; I'll be comin' again soon; maybe it's a rale good customer I'll be, marm," and she turned away. "Take them now, please," said the old maid, in a taint, choking voice. "I'll take copper."—Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. MAN IN HIS HOME What Male is There Who Will Stand Up for Man's right's? As society is made, it is almost impossible for a man to go the right way about his relations with woman. The system prescribes a certain attitude. It is the attitude of crawl, saalaam, obsequiousness and second fiddle. If you depart from it by a hair's breadth your women become suspicious of you. If you advise other men to depart from it you get a bad name. Women stand up for women's rights and are made the subject of applause, bouquets and illuminated addresses. The man who dares come out strong for men's rights does not breathe. Men do not want him. They are like canaries in cages, afraid to go out lest the cat get them. Peace at any price is man's rule of life. Abroad he will swagger and bluster and bully. "Nemo me impune lacesit!" he roars. At home his watchword is "Blessed are the meek." Abroad he frowns and breathes fire; at home he is plain, unvarnished "him." Abroad he struts, at home he slinks. Abroad he is very wise, at home he is a little child.—Gentlewoman. Mr. Morgan's Cigars Among distinguished users of tobacco, says the United States Tobacco Journal, there are few more prominent than J. Pierpont Morgan. Mr. Morgan is a heavy cigar smoker, and he is particular about what he smokes. He has his cigars made for him especially in Havana. Each has a red band with gold lettering and the initials "J. P. M." Sometimes after board meetings in various enterprises these labels are found on the floor, and there is a great scramble for them, as they are regarded as mascots, especially in the different Wall street offices. Mr. Morgan's cigars are very large, and the label is wide enough to make, if it were metal instead of paper, a ring for the finger of any ordinary man—a little loose for the fourth finger and a little tight for the thumb. The usual price he pays is $450 per thousand, which is less extravagant than one of his partners, whose smokes cost him $880 per thousand. ..HEALTH IS WEALTH.. If you would gain health and wish to retain the same remember the necessity of reliable prescription compounding, which we make a specialty of giving the most careful attention.—We fill prescriptions just as the doctor writes them. Our motto is TO PLEASE; PRICES RIGHT, Save time and carlare by buying your Patent Medicines and drug necessities at attractive prices. Perfumes, Toilet articles, Tooth brushes, Combs and Brushes, Fountain gratifying prices. eas Remember its the RELIABLE PRES PHARMACY S. W. C Phone Call in and see us. Op and see us. Open all night M. S. S. HOME PHONE 3412 MAIN. The "St. Louis Line and a mighty good line it is; the very be the West; rails weigh eighty pound bridges are steel and the track is sp few curves, and the grades lighter t Kansas City and St. Louis. Service Leave Kansas City..... Ar. World's Fair Station Ar. St. Louis Union Station Through car service; standard a ing chair cars Kansas City to St. Loe tire length of the Fair Grounds before $6.00—ROUND TR L. Louis Line" is a good line it is; the very best NEW rail trails weigh eighty pounds to the y steel and the track is splendidly bale and the grades lighter than on any city and St. Louis. Service is as follow Kansas City.....7:50 World's Fair Station 7.30 L. Louis Union Station 7:50 high car service; standard and tourist t cars Kansas City to St. Louis, the tra cars of the Fair Grounds before stopping ROUND TRIP—$ The "St. Louis Line" is Open and a mighty good line it is; the very best NEW railroad ever built in the West; rails weigh eighty pounds to the yard; ties are oak; bridges are steel and the track is splendidly ballasted. There are few curves, and the grades lighter than on any other line between Kansas City and St. Louis. Service is as follows: Leave Kansas City.....7:50 P. M. Ar. World's Fair Station 7.30 A. M. Ar. St. Louis Union Station 7:50 A. M. Through car service; standard and tourist sleeping and reclining chair cars Kansas City to St. Louis, the train passing the entire length of the Fair Grounds before stopping at main entrance. June 13th, 20th and 27th. s, sleeping car berths and information any point in the East will be furnished J. A. STEWART, J. W. Gen'l Agt. Pass. Dept. CITY KANSAS CITY e is nore r being with Tickets, sleeping car berths and information as to the cost of reaching any point in the East will be furnished on request. There is no For being There is no reason For being without A good piano nowadays--Our easy payment plan makes it possible for you to own Don't forget to mention my name w. S. Baker, Salesman. A Kimball without sacrificing any of the pleasures you n possessed by a Kimball makes it an ornament tones makes it a source of endless enjoyment W. W. Kimball Co mball P any of the pleasures you now enjoy... masi makes it an ornament to any h force of endless enjoymenh. imball Co. W. B. E Est. 18 A Kimball Piano without sacrificing any of the pleasures you now enjoy...The style and finish possessed by a Kimball makes it an ornament to any home, and its sweet tones makes it a source of endless enjoymenh. W. W. Kimball Co. W. B. Roberts, Manager Est. 1857. 920 Walnut A Large Line Rock Island System If you are constantly suffering with headache get your eyes examined, it may be your eyes cares it. The Rollable Optical Dept. Bromo Ammonia for that cold ---a cold today, pnemonia tomorrow. The Century Marvel Corn Sheller ---a sure cure or money refunded. Painful walking made easy. RESCRIPTION S. W. Corner 5th and Broadway. Phone Home 1626 Main. Open all night. KENTUCKY RESTAURANT Prof. L. L. Thompson, Mgr. Meals 15 Cents. Served in First-Class Style. Porterhouse Steak 35c up. 327 West 6th St., KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Line" is Open The very best NEW railroad ever built in enty pounds to the yard; ties are oak; rack is splendidly ballasted. There are lighter than on any other line between Service is as follows: Day.....7:50 P. M. Station 7.30 A. M. On Station 7:50 A. M. standard and tourist sleeping and reclin- ing to St. Louis, the train passing the en- ounds before stopping at main entrance. ND TRIP—$6.00 perths and information as to the cost of East will be furnished on request. RT, J. W. JONES, Pass. Dept. City Pass. Agt., 900 Main Street. KANSAS CITY. 1890 all Piano ares you now enjoy...The style and finish ornament to any home, and its sweet enjoymenh. Co. W. B. Roberts, Manager Est. 1857. 920 Walnut W. S. BAKER, Salesman