The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored Peop.e than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME IX. LEXINGTON NEWS. Prof. Brown and wife of Kansas City were the guests of Rev. Gilbert and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Thirkles returned home from the Grand Session Monday morning, which was held at St. Charles, accompanied by their sister, Mrs. Thompkins. Miss J. Ray, of Mayview were in the city a few days last week. Mrs. F. E. Hayden, Mr. Brashere, Mr. Shipley, who were delegates to the Grand Session which was held at St. Charles returned home Monday morning. They report having an excellent time. Messrs R. Talbott, R. Wilson, L. Colley, W. Williams, spent Sunday in Independence; also Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. Mr. Clarence Elan and Miss Julia Smith were united in matrimony on July 23rd; also Mr. Abner Brookins and Miss Eva Holmes on July 23rd. Mr. James Hawkins purchased him a home on Main street last week from Mr. J. Epps. We love to see coorod people buy homes. We wish him success. The entertainment that was given by the Valiant Knights was a financial success, everybody was pleased with their drill. They will be in wellington on the 6th and in Mayview on the 13th. Mr. Lee Wright spent several days in Kansas City last week. Mr. A. W. Walker was in St. Joseph last week attending the Republican convention. I think it is a strong ticket and every Republican ought to support it. This is the year they ought to stay by their ticket closer than ever before. We want to organize every voting precinct in the state. There will be a state convention called in Sedalia or Lexington in the near future. The colored Fair of Lafayette county, which will be held at Higginsville on the 23rd, 24th and 25th. Premiums are offered on fancy work, live stock, poultry, etc. There will also be racing each day. See bills for full particulars. Jersey's Mild Police Court. The police court of St. Heller, the principal town of Jersey, England, is remarkable in several respects. First, the proceedings are always opened with prayer, second, it frequently happens that after prayers there is no more business, and every one goes home. There is so little crime committed in the island that the police force (twenty strong), is kept up only for visitors. Perfume and Moth Preventive A pleasant perfume and moth preventive is made of cloves, caraway seeds, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon and Tonka beans—an ounce of each. Add as much Florentine orris root as will equal the total amount of the other ingredients. Put together, grind into a powder and put in little bags among your clothes. Bird Killed by Golf Ball As a member of an English golf club drove, a wagtail was observed flying across the line of fire. The golf ball was seen to hit the bird at a distance of about forty paces from the striker. The wagtail fell at once to earth, and was found to be not only stone dead, but absolutely decapitated. Worn By German Bride. The German bride wears myrtle; the girl of the Black Forest takes the flower of the hawthorn when she can get it. The brides of Italy and the French provinces of Switzerland use white roses, Spanish brides go in for pinks, carnations, and red roses. To Our Correspondents Please send in your matter by Wednesday of each week. [Portrait of a man in formal attire, with a bow tie and a mustache, facing slightly to the right. The background is plain and dark, emphasizing the subject.] A. W. LLOYD, G. C. Committeeman at Large. Many Russian Nationalities. Many Russian Nationalities. There are no fewer than 110 nationalities into which the Russian population has been divided, the three great stocks being the Finns, the Tartars and the Slavs. Antique Methods of Farmin Antique Methods of Farming. Although the Brazilian state of Bahia is almost entirely an agricultural region, plows, harrows and cultivators are practically unknown there. One Use for Parrots. Parrots trained to say "Use Blank's Soap," and other such expressions, are in great demand among the manufacturers of patent goods. Miniatures Are Costly. Miniatures Are Costly. The craze for having one's miniature painted is still going on. The fashionable miniatureists charge $1,000 to $2,500. Wants Soldiers to Build Roads. General Miles still clings to his plan for employing United States soldiers in road making during peace time. Tortoise in Old Age. The oldest tortoise in the London Zoo has seen 350 summers. He has to be fed by hand with cabbages. Horse vs. Steam Power It would require the work of 25,000,000 teams to do the work now done by the railroads. American Sparrows Are Prolific. In the United States the sparrow has six broods a year; in Britain sed- dom more than three. Valuable Vegetable Food Valuable Vegetable Food. Brusse's sprouts are by far the most valuable green vegetable food. Greeting of Tibetans. A sign of politeness in Tibet on meeting a person in Tibet is to hold up the clenched hand and stick out the tongue. Warmth in Plant Roots. The roots of plants are found to have a higher temperature than the soil, but only while growing. Coal Dear in South Africa. Coal is dearer in South Africa than in any other part of the world. It is cheapest in China. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1904. THE GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS CONVENTION AND OUTING AT LEAVENWORTH, KAN. The largest and greatest gathering of race loving negro men and women from Kansas and Missouri, that has ever been witnessed in the west will assemble at Leavenworth, Kansas, Saturday and Sunday, August 21 and 22. No man or woman who is interested in the upbuilding of the race should fail to be present at this convention. One and all are invited. Owing to the indignities which are being constantly imposed upon us, the privileges denied us, the avenues that lead to everything that tends to a higher and nobler state being so tightly closed against us, we must awake from our lethargy if we would enjoy our rights as American citizens, and place ourselves in a position to demand recognition. Hence the calling of this convention, at which we hope to discuss measures by which our efforts, being united, we cannot fail to accomplish much good. Will you not give us your presence, your encouragement, and your active cooperation in this undertaking for the advancement of our people? In order that all may enjoy the sessions without being uncomfortably housed, the beautiful Korman's park, with its picturesque natural sceneries, and its wealth of cooling snake, has been selected as the meeting place of this convention. Street car transportation can be had from the station to the gates of the park. Thus, while we are discussing means for the good of the race, an enjoyable time may be had. Dr. Leonard Williams, in an article in the London Practitioner, declares that flannel underclothing is a fraud. "Dry flannel," he says, "is practically unabsorbent, whereas linen, cotton and silk are, in different degrees, very absorbent." He concludes that "woolen underclothing is, of all others, the best calculated" to induce a relaxed and unresponsive condition of the skin." S. T. JONES. MGR Condemns Flannels CARTHAGE NEWS. John J. Thomas, president of the Citizens' Sunday Forum, of Kansas City, Kan., is in the city, spending a few days with his cousin U. B. Cole. He will also visit relatives in Baxter Springs, Kan., and possibly a few points in Oklahoma and Indian Territories, returning to Kansas City on Monday next. Miss Nettie Mallory is visiting relatives and friends in the city. Mrs. Chas, Glispy of Carterville attended services at the M. E. church Sunday. Miss Ida Rose has returned home after several weeks sojourn in Iola, Kan. A unique little comedy company, composed of six members, with Prof. Wm. H. McClarin, manager, gave an entertaining performance Monday night partly for the benefit of Wesley M. E. chapel, Central Band played for the occasion. A four o'clock dinner was given Wednesday, July 27, by Mesdames A. Gibson, Granville Webb and Jack McCarty, at the home of the former, in honor of Miss Clara Tidwell, Mrs. Anna Harris and Mrs. C. J. Paulson of St. Louis. The guests were: Mesdames G. B. Abbott, J. L. Leonard, W. H. Hanford, G. F. Perry, Thad Vernon, Jas. Irwin, Edw. Emerson, G. W. Crawford, U. B. Cole, Jas. Scott, Misses Croft, Thornton, Aurora Perry, Lou Emma Abbott, Daisy and Tessie Cole, Corinne McCarty. Prof. Scott called by special request and played several of his entertaining productions for the party. Many citizens expect to attend celebration in NeoSho August 4th. The tent meetings on East Third street have closed after several weeks duration. Send all news through agent. The Carthage correspondent wishes his community to bear in mind that he is now at the service of all who feel an interest in the welfare of the race, and gladly solicits the patronage of all, and with a view to furthering the interests of the negro allow me to say also for the special assurance to our people who have been swindled of their hard earned money by imposters disguised as "race loving" negroes, that in the person of Lewis Woods, manager of the Rising Son, we find not a stranger who has blown in from either of the sea coasts for the purpose of faking his people, but we do find in him an up-right gentleman who is well and favorably known in Kansas City. Manager Woods carries as his shield, a wide reputation as a promoter and lover of his race. Corn Birds Will Not Bother. A well known farmer says he wets his seed corn with coal oil before planting it, and as a result the birds and insects do not bother it before it comes up. The oil does not injure the germ and keep it from sprouting. This has been proved by experience, as he has never had to replant.—Filmore (Mo.) Lever. Killing Rare Birds Commenting on the craze for killing rare birds wherever they may be found, a writer in London Truth says: "I should have thought that the fact that a bird is rare would be a reason for not killing it. I suppose the idea is that, however rare a bird is, something may still be done to make him rarer." Dusting Carved Furniture. There is no better way of dusting carved furniture than with a painter's brush. This will penetrate all the little crannies which could not be touched by an ordinary duster or brush. High-Power Incandescent Light. The manufacture of high-power incandescent lights is making progress at Coventry. Valuable Art Collection. Charles L. Pendleton of Providence, has given to the Rhode Island School of Design the art collection which he has gathered through a great many years of collecting. His collection comprises eighteenth century English and colonial furniture, pictures, antique Chinese porcelains, Chinese china of the eighteenth century, early eighteenth century English pottery, antique rugs and sixteenth century textiles. Origin of Spats. Where did spats come from? Highland soldiers were then first. Because of the bravery of highlanders at Lucknow and elsewhere in India during the Indian mutiny the people of England looked about for some way to show their admiration. Scrutiny of the highland dress disclosed that spats were the most suitable for adoption, so they were adopted and have been commonly worn ever since. Tuberculosis Experiments. The Royal Commission (British) appointed in August, 1901, to inquire into the relation between human and animal tuberculosis has found that human and bovine tuberculosis are practically identical. The commission reports that experiments proved that the disease produced in animals by tuberculous material, whether of human or bovine origin, was identical. A Garden Suggestion. A good way to plant pole beans is with sweet corn, says Country Life in America. Plant the beans in the same hill with the corn (after the corn is up); and the beans clamper all over the cornstalks after the ears are harvested. It saves the bother and expense of poles, and we think cornstalks look better than bean poles. Aluminum Horse Shoes In the Russian army aluminum horse shoes are said to have been tried with good results. A few horses in the Finland Dragoons were first chosen, and shod with one aluminum shoe and three iron shoes each. The experiments showed that the aluminum shoes preserved the foot better than the iron ones. Useful Thirst Quencher. To assuage thirst and cure feverishness, apple tea is a notable sick drink. It is made by slicing up raw apples into a jug, filling up the jug with boiling water, as in tea-making, then sweeten to taste. When cold, this apple tea will be found pleasantly tart and refreshing. Most Popular Christian Names William, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Thomas, George, Sarah, James, Charles, Henry, Alice, Ann, Joseph, Jane, Ellen, Emily, Annie, Frederick, Margaret, Emma, Robert, Arthur, Alfred, Edward. These, in the order given, are the most popular Christian names. Elight Through Frozen North The Lapland limited is perhaps the most curious of through express trains in that it carries fewer passengers and runs over a longer distance than any other train. This flyer leaves Stockholm, Sweden, once a week during the summer months, and runs straight through to Narvik, a Norwegian harbor, within the Arctic zone. The distance is 1.336 miles. Immensity of North Forests The northern belt of forests is perhaps greater in extent than all the other timber belts and reserves of Canada combined. It extends from the eastern coast of Labrador north of the fiftieth parallel in a northwesterly direction to Alaska, a distance of some 3,000 miles, with an average width of perhaps 500 miles. Brides Who Stay at Home According to old and established custom in Japan, the eldest child, whether male or female, must, under all circumstances, abide at and inherit the home. By this means a continuous succession is assured, and the estates cannot pass into the hands of strangers. NUMBER 18. Everybody should attend the Civil Rights convention at. Leavenworth, August 12 and 13th. For the reason, that it is the first of its kind to deal wholly with our rights as citizens. It will be absolutely free from the domination of any particular church or creed. No political chicanery or jobbery will be allowed or tolerated for an instant. Schemes on the part of an individual or a set of individuals, with cut and dried resolutions, to manipulate or define the policy of this convention, or to thwart the purpose for which it is held will be doomed to scant courtesy and no consideration. The convention is in the interest of the Colored People's Civil Rights, and not for any individual's personal aggrandizement. We want no personal strife or spleen, but we do want the best thoughts uttered without fear or favor, upon the conditions as they are, from every right thinking man and woman of the race. The convention will adjourn Saturday, August 13, in simple time for every one to get out of the city on the same evening on some one of the numerous trains. Those wishing to remain over Sunday will find splendid churches and able ministers to entertain them. August 14 there will be a grand outing at the park, where everybody can enjoy themselves and rest after the weeks' work. Splendid music, and a good time is promised all. S. T. JONES, Mgr. Dean Stanley's Impression. Dean Stanley of Westminster wore home from his first visit to America an expression of amazement which only time could efface. He was at once beset by interviewers, who asked the usual questions. "What was the thing which most impressed you in America?" was one of these. With out a moment's hesitation, Dean Stanley replied: "My own ignorance." Small Island Owned by America. Wake Island in the North Pacific, which the United States owns, is barely one square mile in area and has little economic value except for the guano deposits on its rocky surface and possibly as a stepping stone of cable connection between the United States and its Asiatic possessions. We All Ought to Be Like That. We All Ought to Be Like That. We knew a little girl once with a mighty tender conscience. When she found herself doing something wrong she would run to her mother and say, "I didn't." Then her mother would say, "Loulie, what have you been doing?" and would find out all about it. — Charlotte (N. C.) News Work for a God. To make some nook of creation a little fruitful, better; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuler, happier, more blessed, less accursed! It is work for a god.—Carlyle. Largest Police Station Largest Police Station. Scotland Yard is the largest police station in the world. It has accommodation for 3,000 policemen. Travel Billion Miles Yearly. A thousand million miles are covered by the various trains of this country in the course of a year. Irrigation in Brazil. Great irrigation works are projected by the state of Rio Gande do Norte, in Brazil. Asia Well Populated. In Asia there is an average of 120 people to the square mile. Chinese Outside China The number of Chinese outside of China is estimated at over 7,640,000. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ACCEPT8 OYSTER BAY—President Roosevelt has been officially notified of his nomination here. The townspeople at large were not permitted, as in 1900, to visit Sagamore hall and listen to the speeches, although there were many guests. At 12:30 Speaker Joe Cannon stepped forward and directed his speech to the president. He said, in part: "The Republican party under your leadership keeps its record from the beginning, under Lincoln, of doing things, the right things, at the right time and in the right way, notwithstanding the opposition of those who oppose right policies from the selfish or partisan standpoint. They dare not tell the truth about your official action or the record of the party and then condemn it." At the conclusion of Mr. Cannon's speech the president spoke as follows: Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: I am deeply sensitive of the high honor upon the president of the Kenyan party assembled in convention, and I accept the nomination for the presidency with solemn realization of the objectives. I assume I heartily approve the nomination of the president national convention has adopted, and at some future day I shall communicate to you, Mr. Chairman, more at length and in detail a formal written acceptance of the nomination. three years ago I became president because of the death of my lamented predecessor, and I purpose to carry state his principles and policies for the honor and interest of the country. To the best of my ability I have kept the promise thus made. If next November my countrymen confirm at the polls the action of the convention year after proceed. shall under Providence, continue to work with a single to the welfare of all our people. A Definition of "Party." A party is of worth only in so far as it promotes the national interest, and every high, legal, or we can serve the best of our abilities, the best service of which he is capable. Effective government comes only as the result of the loyal cooperation of many legislative majority, the officers in the various departments of the administration and the legislative and executive work together with subordination of self to the common end of successful government. The who have been entrusted with power as public servants during the past seven years of administration and legislation now come before the people concerned and have achieved the achievement. In the years that have gone by we have made the deed square with the word, and if we are continued out the great lines of public policy follow the Republican party has already laid down. A public policy to which we are committed, and therefore an efficient support. In all of this we are more fortunate than our opponents, who now appeal for confidence on the ground, which some of them have been unable to defend centrally understood, that if triumphant they may be trusted to prove false to every principle which in the last eight years they have down as vital, and thus have been able to resist the administration because of which they ask that the administration itself be driven from power. Seemingly their present attitude as to their past record has been that they were mistaken and others insincere. Not an Experimental Policy. We make our appeal in a wholly different spirit. We are not constrained to demand the same question; we are divided on what we ask, and we are continuous and, is the same for all sections and localities. There is nothing experimental about the government we are asking for; it is our performance in the past, our proved governmental efficiency, is a guarantee as to our promises for the future, or secretly, according to their several temperaments, now ask the people to trust their present promises in consideration of their past promises as null and void. We know our own minds and we have kept of the same mind for a sufficient coherence and sanity. In such a fundamental matter as the enforcement of the law we do not have to depend upon promises, but merely to ask that our demands be earnest of what we shall continue to do. In dealing with the great organizations known as trusts, we do not have to exert much effort but to point out that they actually have been enforced and that legislation has been enacted to increase the effective force of the laws. We have to propose to turn the ransals out," for we have shown in very deed that whenever by diligent investigation a trustee has trailed his trust he will be punished to the full extent of the law without regard to whether he was appointed under a Republican or a Democratic administration. We must call out and to keep them out, it has the merit of sincerity. Moreover the bestrayals of trust in the last seven years have been compared with the extent of the public service. Never has the administration of the government been on a cleaner and cleaner hand. Never has the public work of the nation been done more honestly and efficiently. Republican Policies Settled. Assuredly it is unwise to change the policies which have worked so well and which are now working so well. Prosperity, honor and interest are beyond our reach abroad. We have placed the finances of the nation upon a sound gold basis. We have done this with the aid of many who would neither openly support our country nor acquiesce in the hareness of unsound finance; and we have done it against the convinced and violent opposition of the cause. We have also opposed the French to recount the French opinions which for the moment they think it inexceeded to assert. We know what we mean when we mean money and cash currency. We mean the same thing from year to year. We do not have to avoid a definite and conclusive committal on the most important issue which has recursed been the issue of which we may have any time in the near future before then again. Upon the principles which underlie this issue the convictions of half of our number do not clash with those of the other. So long as the Republican party is in power the gold standard is settled, not as a matter of temporary political expediency, not because of shifting conditions in the economy, gold in certain But Few Are Blessed. It is more blessed to give than to receive, but the wonderful part of it that so few people know it. Keynote to Success Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. Be anything else, and failure is certain. N-Ray Suppression. The suppression of N rays by aneshetics in vegetables and minerals is much alike mining centers, but in accordance with what we regard as the fundamental principles of national morality and wisdom, we have enacted there is no simple circulation for every business need; and every dollar of this circulation is worth interest-bearing debt and in still larger measure the interest on that debt. All of the war taxes imposed during the Spanish war have been removed with a certain degree, and the accountation of an unnecessary surplus. The result is that hardly ever before have the expenditures and income of the government so closely correspond- Sound Financial Condition. In the fiscal year that has just closed the excess of income over the ordinary expenditures was $5,000,000. This does not take account of the $5,000,000 expended out of the accumulated surplus for the purchase of the Isthmian canal. It is an extraordinary proof of the soundness of the situation, the matter to be pursued of following the usual course in such matters and throwing the burden upon postity by an issue of bonds, we were able to make the payment outright of the surplus of $11,000,000. Moreover, we were able to pay this $5,000,000 out of hand without causing the slightest disturbance to business conditions. We were under which during the past few years the country has attained a height of material well-being never before reached. Wages are higher than ever before. That means we have to be a readjustment of the tariff schedules is undoubted; but such changes can with safety be made only by those whose devotion to the principle of a protective the chliff, beyond question, for other uses. ment when made must maintain and not destroy the protective principle. To the farmer, vital; but perhaps the manager is so much interested, as the other man is so much interested, as the wage-worker in the maintenance of our present economic system, both as regards the farmer. Wage Workers Are Well Off. The standard of living of our wage-workers is higher than that of any other one, and it can not be tariffed which have a privilege to tariff which always keep as a minimum a rate of duty sufficient to cover the difference exploited to commit themselves to the tariff the tariff no need would be paid to the necessity of meeting this difference between the standards of living for wage-workers here and in other countries; and the tariff to the position of magistrate to our position is fundamental. Here again we ask that their promises and ours be judged by what has been done in the working of the tariff that so bitter and sensible men compare the workings of the present tariff law, and the conditions which obtain under it, the working of the tariff law, the 1892 and the condition which that tariff of 1894 helped to bring about. We believe in reciprocity with foreign students, our efforts outside our student McKinley's speech, which urged the extension of our foreign markets by reciprocal agreements whenever they could be made without injury to our students, and the singular fact that the only great reciprocity treaty recently adopted—that with Cubs—was finally opposed almost equally to the representatives of the very party which now states that it favors reciprocity. And here again we ask that the worth of our words be judged by comparing their deeds with ours. On this Cuban reciprocity treaty there were at the outset grave differences of opinion among ourselves, and the notable thing in the negotiation and ratification of the treaty and in the legislation which carried it into effect was one highly practical manner in which, without sacrifice of princesses, the differences of opinion reconciled. There was no rupture of a great party, but an excellent practical outcome, the result of the harmonious cooperation of two successive presidents, and two successful presidents. This is an illustration of the governing capacity which entitles us to the confidence of the people not only in our purposes, but in our practical ability to govern. We have seen in the history of the last twelve years, down to this very month, is there justification for believing that under similar circumstances and with similar initial differences we would have achieved our purpose, would have achieved any practical result. We have already shown in actual fact that our policy is to do fair and equal justice to all men, paying no heed to whether a man is rich or poor, paying no heed to his race, his creed, or his birthplace. We recognize the organization of capital and the organization of labor as natural outcomes of our industrial system. Each kind of organization is to be held accountable for the rights of justice and of regard for the rights of others. Each is to be granted the full protection of the law, and each in turn is to be held to a strict obedience to the law; for no man is above it and no man is below it. We have his rights safeguarded as scrupulously as those of the strongest organization, for each is to receive justice, no more and no less. The problems with which we have to deal in our modern industry, but the spirit in which it is are manifold, to approach their solution is simply the spirit of honesty, of courage, and of common sense. Irrigation In the West. In inaugurating the great work of irrigation in the west the administration has been guided by congress to take one step further: our government toward utilizing our vast national domain for the settler, the actual home-maker. Our continent was discovered the need of an Isthmian canal to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic has been recognized, and ever since the birth of our nation such a canal has been built. The Isthmian canal is now built by the government of the United States. We conducted the negotiation with the civil society for which could be devised a system of which the spirit of self-interest was made in order to defend the treaty with Panama and thereby prevent the consummation of the canal. Our government can canal is now an assured fact, but most certainly it is unwise to entrust the carrying out of so momentous a policy to our government to be recovered to defeat the whole undertaking. Our foreign policy has been so conducted that, while not one of our just claims has been sacrificed, our relationship has been still peaceful; kind; there is not a cloud on the horizon. The last cause of irritation between us and any other nation was removed by the settlement of the Alaskan boundary. In the Caribbean sea we have made good our promises of independence to Cuba, and have proved our assertion that our mission in the island was one of justice and not of self-saggrandization; and thereby not as less than by our action in the colony and in the state that the Monroe doctrine is a living reality, designed for the hurt of no nation, but for the protection of civilization on the western coast, and for Oysters in Japan. Oysters abound in the Inland Sea of Japan. They are served in the restaurants for five cents a dozen. Railroad Building in Gulf States. During recent years the most active center of railroad work has been the southern gulf states. Health and Hope. He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. Arabian Proverbs. the peace of the world. Our稳重 growth in power has gone hand in hand with a strengthening disposition to use this power with strict regard for the peace of the world. Our稳重 international justice and goodwill. We earnestly desire friendship with all the nations of the new and old worldies and we endeavor to place our relations with other nations in the best advantage instead of hostility. We hold that the prosperity of each nation is an aid and not a hindrance to the prosperity of other nations. We seek international cooperation and that make us believe in peace within our own borders; and we seek this peace not because we are afraid or unready, but because we think that peace is right as we think it should be. American interests in the Pacific have rapidly grown. American enterprise has laid a cable across this, the greatest of oceans. We have proved in effective Chinese commerce the Chinese empire well and desire its integrity and independence. The Philippine Question. Our footnote in the Philippines greatly strengthens our position in the competition for the trade of the east; but we have also increased our opportunities in interest in the Philippines, perhaps themselves. We have already given them a large share in their government, and our purpose is to increase this share as rapidly as possible, with evidence of increasing fitness for the task. The great majority of the officials of the islands, whether elective or appoinite, are already native Filipinos. The islands, assembled. This is the first step to be taken in the future, and it would be eminently unwise to declare what our next government will take. The results are manifest. To have gone faster than we have already gone in giving the islanders a constantly increasing measure of self-government, we must take our government the present moment to give political independence to the islands would result in the immediate loss of civil rights, persecution, and the mass of the Filipinos, for the majority of the islanders have been given these great boons by us, and only keep vigilantly safeguard and guarantee them. To withdraw our government from the islands at this time would mean to the average native the loss of lids barely-won by the government, and the islands a government by Americans, assisted by Filipinos. We are steadily striving to transform this into self-government by the Filipinos, assisted by Stands on Hla Record. The principles which we uphold should appeal to all our countrymen, in all portions of our country. Above all they should give us strength with the men and women who are the spiritual heirs of those who upheld the hands of Abraham Lincoln; for we are striving to do our work in the spirit with which Lincoln approached his. During the seven years that have just passed there is no duty, domestic or foreign, which we have shirked; no necessary task which we have feared to undertake, or which we have not performed with reasonable efficiency. We have never pleaded impotence. We have never sought refuge in criticism and complaint instead of action. We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making. Yukon's Yield of Gold The annual report of the Department of the Interior of the Dominion of Canada for 1903, says: "The gold production in the Yukon Territory for the year ended June 30, 1903, amounted to $12,113,015.34, as compared with $5,566,340.52 in the previous year. The value of gold produced there last year, the next best having been in 1899-1900, when the production amounted to $8,909,464.64." Post-Graduate Tuitions. A Philadelphia street car conductor got 5 cents extra from me because I pulled the wrong bellcord. A gas company has secured more than one nickel out of my pocket because I or some of my household forgot to turn a certain little thing made to turn—Earl M. Pratt. Imitation Chocolate. Testimony in an English court showed that there is no chocolate in cheap "chocolate" candy. A substitute consisting of an extract of coconut oil is used for the "cream" and the outside is made from the ground husks of the cocoa bean, sugar and sugar. A London tradesman advertises thus: "Elopement by motor is now fashionable. Loving couples who would dodge stern parents by running away to be married can be supplied here at any hour of any day with smart motor and reliable driver, on the weekly payment system." Korean Peculiarities. Tea is almost unknown in Korea. The diet consists principally of rice, pork and dog meat. Beds are not used, the natives sleeping on the floor, which is covered with oiled paper. Man's Highest Virtue Man's highest virtue is always as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.—Goethe. Equalization of Ballroads If the world's railroads were equally distributed over the earth's surface no one would be more than seven miles from some line. Cost of Engines. The passenger engines formerly cost more on account of the embellishment. Now the freight engines are more expensive because they are heavier. Bauer's Unique Complaint "Ever since I have been washed I have not been warm," complained a pauper to a member of an English board of guardians the other day. Bridegroom Was Determined. An extraordinary marriage ceremony took place recently in England. The bridegroom was suffering from a poisoned knee, and had to be carried to church on an ambulance at the risk of his life. Destructive Modern Bullets The modern bullet will pierce the carcases of three horses in succession at 550 yards; of four at half the distance; and kill a man after passing through the trunk of a thick tree. THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM Adopted at the State Convention at St. Joseph. ST. JOSEPH.—The following is the platform adopted at the Republican state convention: We, the Republican of Missouri, in state convention assembled, heartily indorse the administration of President Roosevelt, who has made the name of an American citizen respected in the remotest portions of the earth, and who has "taken care that the laws be faithfully executed," and thus demonstrated that there is but one law for both rochi and poor alike. We cordially indorse the platform of the Republican party adopted in Chicago as a true record of a glorious past and the hope of a great and honorable future, and pledge our hearty support to the nominees of that convention, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks. We charge the Democratic party of this state with willful and deliberate deception in its party platform in declaring that Republicans are responsible for the $21,000,000 debt owed by the state of Missouri when the Republican party went out of power. When the Republican party first came into power in this state they inherited a debt of $36,000,000, every dollar of it created by the Democratic party. In six years the Republican party reduced this debt to $21,000,000, while it has taken the Democratic party 30 years to pay off a portion of what remained, leaving more than $4,000,000 in the forma perpetual debt, fastened upon the state by the Democratic party. These facts appear from the reports of Democratic state auditors. The Democratic party has controlled the government of the state of Missouri uninterruptedly throughout 30 years, with the result that it now makes the confession "that the paramount issue before the people of Missouri is the eradication of bribery from public life in this state." We declare ourselves against bribe givers and bribe takers alike. Both are criminals, and we demand the punishment of each without regard to station in life or political affiliations. We neither solicit nor desire their support. We do not recognize fine spun theories, distinguishing between boodlers, whether principals or accessories, whether in state or municipal government, and upon these principles we have consistently stood since our organization. We pledge the people if we are intrusted by them with the government of the state to give a clean, honest and business-like administration; than special favors shall be extended to any man or class of men or corporations; that all men shall be treated alike under the law, and receive alike the protection of the law. We condemn the system of control of the police and election of officers through boards appointed by the governor of the state, a system which has laid its grip on the throats of the people and throttled their will. And we favor home rule, whereby the people of each locality shall select their own officers, and the enactment of such laws as will bring this to pass. The sanctity of the ballot as a means of perpetuating a republican right of a citizen to cast his ballot and have it counted, or when the right to judicially investigate fraud in election is abridged, obstructed or interfered with, the fundamental principles of our government are shaken. We demand that the sanctity of the ballot shall be preserved; that votes shall be counted as cast; that fraud in elections shall be judicially investigated and corrected, and the perpetrators punished. And we pledge ourselves to the enactment and enforcement of laws to this end. We favor the principle of state appropriation to aid and encourage townships and counties in road improvements, and of co-operation between federal and state authorities to this end. The burden of expenses should be distributed so that corporate and other interests benefited shall assist the agricultural classes in road improvements. We are opposed to the practice of leasing convicts in this state to contractors for their private gain, at the price of 50 cents per day—the expense of feeding, clothing and housing being borne by the state—as a stigma and a crime against free labor. We appeal to the free, skilled and mechanical laborers of the state to aid the Republican party in abolishing this Democratic prison method. The prevalence of divorce from the sacred bonds of matrimony in this state we deplore, and we are in favor of immediate and careful revision of the divorce laws to the correction of this great evil. We believe that the improvement of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers is essential to the growth and prosperity of our state. In view of the building of the Panama canal, due to the action of the Republican party, the commercial importance of this work of river improvement is especially urgent and necessary, and we call upon the representatives in congress of this state to further liberal and just appropriations to this end. To Remove Warts. To remove a wart pour on it a drop of vinegar and then cover it with as much carbonate of soda as the vinegar will absorb. Keep it on ten minutes and repeat the application twice or three times daily. In a few days the wart generally drops off, leaving only a tiny white mark. Cost of a Locomotive. The modern locomotive costs from $15,000 to $18,000. We favor free books for the public schools of our state, and liberal appropriations and ample provision for the education of Missouri's youth and humane and adequate care of those unforturates who are thrown upon the bounty of the state. We oppose the corrupt lobby which has grown up under Democratic rule, and believe in fair and strict and immediate legislation for its eradication. We condemn the insincerity of the Democratic party in proposing a plan of initiative and referendum so cumbrous and to make is operation impracticable, and we are in favor of a just and honest measure that shall give to the people of this state the largest control of and participation in legislation and government. The railroad pass to public officers has been productive of continuous civil in the government of this state, and we favor the strict and impartial enforcement of existing laws in this matter, and do not favor the creation of a privileged class in this state entitled by constitutional amendment to ride free upon the railroads of Missouri. These principles we submit to the law abiding citizens of this state. Upon them we have consistently stood in the past and upon them we ask for the support of all good citizens. Versatile Woman Few head waiters know as many languages as a woman named Scheidreiter, who died at Salzburg, aged 73. As a girl of twelve she had taken a position as maid with a wealthy family, and had in the course of years visited all parts of the world, graciously acquired the faculty of speaking, besides her native German, six languages—English, French, Italian, Arabic, modern Greek and Turkish. Her Whipping Position A young woman applicant for a school in a Kansas town was asked to answer the question: "What is your position upon whipping children?" And her reply was: "My usual position is on a chair, with the child held firmly across my face, face downward." She got the school. Meat Inspection in Belgium. Frozen meats and live cattle are subjected to a sanitary inspection by the government before admission into Belgium. The communes are authorized to cause a second examination of meats introduced into their territory without cost to the persons interested. While the production of beet sugar has decreased about 13 per cent, during the last two years, or from 6,760,000 metric tons to 5,900,000 metric tons, that of cane sugar has increased during the same period from 4,063,000 metric tons to 4,437,800 metric tons, or about 9½ per cent. Goat Milk for Children. In Paris a Swiss brings a herd of goats in summer and parades through the streets selling the milk, which is beneficial to children. He plays a little air on a mouth-organ, and is always followed by his goats and a crowd of eager little folks. Wife for Six Shillings. Wives in Tanganyika are considered a luxury, and even in Zulukland they cost from £30 to £160; but on the Tanganyika Plateau one can be had for five or six goats. One goat equals 8d to 1s, therefore one wife equals 6s at the most. Advocates Frugal Dinner Dr. Robertson Wallace says that a little soup, a morsel of meat and vegetables, or a piece of fish, a sweet, and a bit of cheese is dinner enough to keep a man in health. Sunflowers Make Good Fuel. Sunflowers make good fuel. The stalks when dry are as hard as wood, and make a good fire, and the seed-heads, with the seeds in, burn better than coal. Prefer to Blak Lives. Only one person in five uses the tunnel built in London for crossing the street near the Bank of England. The others prefer to take their chances among the horses and vehicles. Power of Locomotives. The average locomotive will draw three hundred tons of goods a mile every three minutes. It would take a man and his team ten times as long to haul a single ton for one mile. In the Bahama islands the flamingoes build their nests of mud so high that the rising tide will not flood the eggs. Railroad Mileage. Railroad Mileage. There are seven miles of railroads for each 100 of area. Injure French Wine Market. A French wine merchant in London complains that "Italy, with its Chian- ti; Spain, with its Rioja; Germany, with its Rhine wines, and, above all, Australia and California, with their imitation Bordeaux and Burgundy, have materially injured the market of France." Valuable Vegetable Food. Brussels sprouts are by far the most valuable green vegetable food. CALUMET LAKING POWDER NOT MADE BY THE TRUST The Wonderful Growth of Calumet Baking Powder Is due to its Perfect Quality and Moderate Price Used in Millions of Homes Used in Millions of Homes Eccentric Grave Digger. An eccentric Shropshire, England, sexton, who has just died at an advanced age, had been for over sixty- one years connected with Wellington parish church as gravedigger and sexton. The man had never ridden in a train or any other kind of vehicle. Lose Suit for $2,000,000. The heirs of a Frenchman named Thiery, who died in Venice in 1676, claim that Napoleon took $2,000,000 belonging to their ancestor, says the Paris Matin. They have unsuccessfully sued the French government for its return. Why Bread Is Toasted. We toast bread not merely to brown it, but to take out all the moisture possible, that it may be more easily moistened with the saliva and thus easily digested; then we brown it to give it a better flavor. A Woman at Twenty-five A man can work if he is one-sided or defective, but not so a woman. "If," says Clouston. "she be not more or less finished and happy at 25, she will never be."—Medical Record. British West Africa. The British possessions in West Africa cover 500,000 square miles, containing 20,000,000 negroes, and easily capable of producing a yearly cotton crop of 10,000,000 bales. Happy is the man who has no acquaintance with bill collectors. BUNCH TOGETHER Coffee Has a Curious Way of Finally Attacking Some Organ. Alls that come from coffee are cumulative, that is, unless the coffee is taken away new troubles are continually appearing and the old ones get worse. "To begin with," says a Kansan, "I was a slave to coffee just as thousands of others to-day; thought I could not live without drinking strong coffee every morning for breakfast and I had sick headaches that kept me in bed several days every month. Could hardly keep my food on my stomach but would vomit as long as I could throw anything up and when I could get hot coffee to stay on my stomach I thought I was better. "Well, two years ago this spring I was that sick with rheumatism I could not use my right arm to do anything, had heart trouble, was nervous. My nerves were all unstrung and my finger nails and tips were blue as if I had a chill all the time and my face and hands yellow as a pumpkin. My doctor said it was heart disease and rheumatism and my neighbors said I had Bright's disease and was going to die. "Well, I did not know what on earth was the matter and every morning would drag myself out of bed and go to breakfast, not to eat anything, but to force down some more coffee. Then in a little while I would be so nervous, my heart 'would beat like everything." "Finally one morning I told my husband I believed coffee was the cause of this trouble and that I thought I would try Postum which I had seen advertised. He said 'All right' so we got Postum and although I did not like it at first I got right down to business and made it according to directions, then it was fine and the whole family got to using it and I tell you it has worked wonders for me. Thanks to Postum in place of the poison, coffee, I now enjoy good health, have not been in bed with sick headache for two years although I had it for 30 years before I began Postum and my nerves are now strong and I have no trouble from my heart or from the rheumatism. "I consider Postum a necessary article of food on my table. My friends who come here and taste my Postum say it is delicious." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Get the book, "The Road to Well ville" in each pkg. The Labor of the Child I. Shut them from the light of day, Dividends, dividends; Rob them of their youth and play, Dividends, dividends; Stunt and dwarf the coming race, Flabby limb and bloodless face— A prison mill, the infant's place— Dividends! Dividends! II. Steal their freedom and their joy, Dividends, dividends; Sacrifice the girl and boy, Dividends, dividends; Foolish, blind, impotent state, Sowing dragon teeth of hate— Save thy nurslings from this fate— Dividends! Dividends! —Robert Loveman. The Cross on the Plain BY GEORGE DYER ELDRIDGE Copyright, 1901, by The Shortstory Pub. Co. (All rights reserved.) A land so desolate that imagination might not picture it; the surface alternating in gray and red, where the disintegrated line and sandstone lay side by side without mingling; a soil too coarse for vegetation, hard with the baking of a burning sun, and worn into ridges, where the spring torrents from the melting snow of the mountains had eaten away the softer earth. In scattered clumps, gray sage—seeming in its lifeless dryness rather a part of the dead soil than a living growth from it. Here and there gleamed white in the sunshine masses of bleached bones of cattle—perhaps of men—who had wandered there and died. The vast plain that stretched, a dead waste, to the mountains which hung like banks of mists on the edge of the horizon, was broken by hideous masses of red sandstone, gigantic, water-worn into curious shapes by the floods of aged untold. Here, one sood isolated, in the form of a crouching animal ready to spring; there, they lay along the plain, as if huge lizards had been suddenly turned to stone. Again, one towered like a pillar, carved with strange devices of a forgotten people, and yonder, in masses and groups and rows, they seemed the ruins of some vast city, whose streets and squares must have echoed to busy feet hundreds—thousands of years ago. Not a tree in the vast plain, but over all a sky without a cloud, and a sun, not yet at the meridian, that burned with more than tropic heat. Suddenly, in the very center of this horror of desolation, appeared a man. He was crouching in the water-worn hollow of one of the biggest rocks, cowering in its blackest shadow and gazing off across the wide plain to the dim mist that told where the mountains lay. There was a hagard, hunted look in his face, and when in the deep stillness, unbroken by the hum of a locust or the buzz of a beetle, a bit of sandstone dropped from the great boulders, he shivered as with fear and drew deeper into the shadow of the hollowed rock. After some minutes, he seemed to gather courage and suddenly dropped from his rock-shelter, flat upon the ground, still, however, within the shadows of the great boulder. Then he raised his head and again gazed away toward the mountain. It was as if he felt that the mountain had eyes and was watching the great plain, on which anything that moved would be seen through the clear air and known by its power of life to be strange to that dead world. After a time he was crawling like a lizard, out of the shadows, across a stretch of hot sunlight, in among the scant sage bushes—crawling as if he would be a part of the gray and red earth, if only he could burrow into it and escape sight. Even when he reached the sage bushes he did not rise, but instead, crept on and, on, until he came to one of those hideous water-worn gullies, into which he rolled without raising his body from the ground. There he lay for a time, as if expecting that the dead plain would A rocky landscape with a large boulder in the foreground, surrounded by sparse vegetation and a mountain range in the background. Cowering in its blackest shadow, give some token that his caution had been in vain. Streams of perspiration rolled down his face and mixed with the white dust that was rising constantly from the dead soil, working into the pores of his skin and parching his mouth and throat as he lay and listened to his own heart beats and the awful silence. Evidently the gully had been selected as leading in the direction he wished to take, for finally he rose to a crouching posture and began to move up its course, walking almost swiftly, though with still bended back, where it was deep and the sage bush hung over it, and crawling again where it grew shallow and lay open to the sun. In this way, after an hour of toll, he reached a mass of boulders, around which the gully bent, and here he raised himself in A man in a boat is pulling a rope across a rocky shore. In the background, another man is walking along the shore. the deep shadows on the side farthest from the mountains he had watched so intently before he began his journey and darted suddenly under the overhanging ledge, where the water had worn away the softer rock, and hid again in a hollow as before. Then followed hours of strange toil. At times the man lay flat on the hot plain and dragged himself along, taking minutes to move his own length, so that any one watching would have needed a keen and steady eye to be certain that he moved at all. Then, in a friendly gully, he moved faster, with the crouching posture of the morning, and even once, where the great boulders stood like the ruins of an ancient city, he almost ran through the black shadows of what seemed once to have been a street, only throwing himself down to crawl where an open place, like a cross street, let in the unwelcome sunlight. The perspiration had ceased to flow, for every drop of moisture was burned from his body. The grime stood on his face in dry patches; his eyes were red and bloodshot; his tongue hung from his mouth, and even the hot stones had ceased to burn his flesh, so hot had it become in his fierce struggle under that un-tempered sun. In the early afternoon, he stopped to rest in the shaded hollow of a boulder, and suddenly, as he looked to the ground, his face blanched under its coating of grime. A broken sage bush told where a foot had passed! This man had reached a point where signs of humanity were more terrible than the death that surrounded him on every hand! He looked again, and the pallor became more terrible, with the set terror of despair. He recognized the spot where he had rested in the morning and from which he had crawled to the first gully! It was his foot that had broken the sage bush, and all these hours of superhuman toil had availed only to bring him back to his starting point! Then he rose erect, no longer creeping, no longer skulking, upright, as God meant man to walk, and took the direction in which lay the mist that was a mountain. Hours passed again! The sun had almost touched the top of the mountains, which now rose huge and dark before the man who dragged on and on, over the dead plain, with purple face and swollen hands and feet, filled with but one thought, conscious of but one wish, to reach the shelter of the mountains, and there to find water, and, drinking, perchance to die. Long shadows ran out to meet him; a cooler air from the mountain heights touched his brow. In a gully, high up among the ragged pines, he caught a sheen of light, where the last sun rays struck a falling stream. Suddenly, from behind a great boulder, a horseman barred the way, the briidle-rein hating loose, a short rifle at his shoulder, aimed at the hunted man's heart. The fugitive stopped, his weary head dropped, and with his swollen hand he made the sign of the Cross on brow and breast. Then came the sharp, quick ring of the rifle, and the man fell, with arms outspread, and with a single groan lay dead, himself making the sign of the Cross on the dead plain. The horseman adjusted his rifle across his saddle, gave one glance at the dead body, to make sure that his aim had been true, and rode away into the depths of the mountains. CORN A VERSATILE PRODUCT. A large quantity of corn is used annually in the manufacture of whisky, and nearly 15,000,000 bushels are used every year in the manufacture of cologne spirits and alcohol. Even in the manufacture of these products nothing is lost. The glutinous and other restuces in the manufacture of starch, glucose, whisky and alcohol are used as cattle feed. "Access on Pronoun." Two negro women boarded a Pennsylvania avenue car at Seventh street. One was a large, dark-skinned woman, flashily dressed; the other was a small, yellow woman, wearing a modest gown. The women were discussing a mutual friend, Mr. Jenks. The large woman spoke in loud tones and pronounced the name of the man as though it were spelled J4-n-k-s. It was evident from the expression on the face of the smaller woman that she was annoyed by the loud talking and mispronunciation of her friend. Finally she protested: "You speak of Mr. Jenks as though his name were spelled with an 'i' instead of an 'e'." "Oh, yes," the large woman exclaimed, "I perceive you puts the access on the pronoun."—Washington Times. The Boy Speculated. Baron Moncheur, the Belgian minister, visited Baltimore last month. At a dinner in Baltimore he said: "The spirit of business enterprise and speculation is what impresses me most profoundly in America. For instance, I was riding one day on the outskirts of Washington, and at a certain place I dismounted and got a little boy to hold my horse. I was gone about ten minutes, and on my return I found the first boy gone, and another, a smaller one, standing at the horse's head. "How is this?" I said. 'You are not the boy I left my horse with.' "No, sir," said the tiny urchin, 'I speckillated and bought the job off the other fellow for a dime.' "Of course, after that," the minister ended, "it was impossible for me to 'bear' the market."—Kansas City Journal. Mavor McClellan's Simile. Mr. McClellan was accompanied by a friend. He was smoking the last quarter of an immense cigar and talked earnestly. In front of the entrance to the Potter building a half-dozen newsboys were sorting papers. The mayor was caught there in the crowd, and delayed a few seconds. One of the gamins "spotted" him. "Hey, fellers," he said, in a low tone, "dat's de mayor." "Golly," said another. "Look at de size of de smoke. Folly him and see where he tro's de butt." As the mayor, smiling at what he had overheard, pushed on, he remarked to his companion: "Such is fame—mostly a big smoke."—New York Mail. The Land of Long Ago. Where happy hours sleep. Where languid rivers glide. With stately slow and deep; Where fadeless bloes rose. And Love sits azure-eyed. There comes no frost, nor snow, Beware away Oer gardens fair and wide, And slow the waters creep. Through blossoms bending low Above the charmed tide. How sweet to rise and go From ways where mortal weep, For fear deeds To dreams that roses heep, Where crystal waters flow, And golden days abide. -R.G. Coventry in English Country Life. Has Learned Much of Africa A recent statement in the Scientific American says that M. Chevalier, the noted French explorer, has just returned from a prolonged trip through Central Africa, where he secured a valuable collection of interesting documents and photographs of the country and its people. A phonograph, which he took with him was the medium for obtaining reords of the languages of the various natives in the regions which he explored. In a course of lectures which M. Chevalier is to deliver he intends to reproduce these records JEST AND JELLY Ready to Shoot. The other day seven-year-old Clarence was seen climbing through the skylight with his father's shotgun clutched in his chubby fist. "Clearance, come here, sir!" shrieked the nurse. "Where are you going with that gun?" "You leave me alone," said the youngster. "I'm after that stork what brought the baby to Tommy Brown's 'cause we don't want one of them bawling kids around here."—Brooklyn Life. Obvious. Mr. Squirtz—Good morning, Mr. Potts. Will 'ee come and 'ave a drink? Mr. Potts—Well—hic—ash a marrer fac—I've—hic—ed one already. An Ambition "So," remarked the sultan of Morocco, "that bandit wants to run the government!" "Yes," was the answer. "He says he's tired of being dishonest. Besides, he thinks he can make graft pay better than brigandage." Would Show No Mercy. Hogan (calling on next door neighbor)—I suppose ye've heard th' illiant, classical music that's bin imyatin' from me residence for th' pasht wake or so? We got wan avt thim mechanical pianny-players on thrile. Clancy (fiercely)—On thrile, it is? Glory be! I only wistt I wor the judge!—Puck. Sauce. "The impudence of that young brother of mine!" exclaimed Mrs. Nagget. "He just told me I was no chicken when I married you." "Well," replied her unsympathetic husband, "that's true enough. You weren't a chicken, were you?" "No, I was a goose." Disgracing Herself. Mrs. Smartset—"For mercy's sake, don't let me hear you talk about books in society again!" Cultured Daughter—"Dear me! Why not?" Mrs. Smartset—"Strangers will think you have been a cash girl in a book store."—New York Weekly. No Children Permitted. No Children Permitted: She was tired and vexed. She had been wandering about all the morning looking for an apartment suite. "I know why they turned Adam and Eve out of Eden," she said. "Why?" "Because they had a rule that barred out children and dogs." His Hard Fate. "Yes'm, I wuz drove away from home when a mere child by the heartless cruelty of me stepmother." "Poor fellow! What did she do?" "She insisted on giving me a bath every Saturday night." Usual Way. Newpop—"Our baby is awfully fond of me." Neighbors—"Oh, of course." Newpop—"Fact. Why, the little begar sleepes all day while I am downtown and stays awake all night for the sole purpose of enjoying my society." In a Peck of Trouble. Paterson Pete—I dreamt last night dat I had a million dollars. Stacked Oates—Did yer enjoy it? Paterson Pete—Nit! I wuz sued for breach uv promise, operated on for appendicitis an' mentioned fer de vice presidency 'fore I'd even got it counted.—Judge. They Were Kind to Him The Mosquito—Do you see that tired looking ham on the front steps? Well, I heard him say he was hungry, and so I went over and gave him a bite. The June Bug—And I heard him say he was thirsty and so I went over and gave him a dip. Unavoidable Inference. "Poor Jim! He dazzn't call his soul his own any more!" "What? I didn't know that poor old Jim was married—New York Sun. QUIET HOUR Abide With Me. When heart and mind are light and free. fore, While it unknown are toll and strife, In life's sweet morn, abide with me! In manhood's prime, if grievous care Oppress my soul with burdens sore; At life's high noon be this my prayer, Abide to bless me evermore. And when the sands of time have run, When shadows fall at eventide, Mid gathering gloom at set of sun. Mimi Eather Watson, life, through death, with me abide! — Emily Houseman Watson. The New Life. Anyone who reads the New Testament with carefulness, notices that it sets before men a new life. A line is drawn between "the world" and all which is not "the world"—out of "the world"; that is, out from the graves of men, and from their ways, there are those who come at the call of the Lord, chosen by Him, and who henceforth live under His rule. St. Paul speaks of them as dead to the past and living unto Christ. They are not taken out of the earth when they answer to the divine call; but they live as the citizens of another earth, which is "their own." They have earthly wants and duties and experiences, but they have these as being for the time residents here. But they are under the flag of another country, whose symbol is often drawn as the cross; which may also be seen as a basin and towel; or, even better, as the throne of God and the Lamb. They are under the laws of heaven, which are summed up in the two commandments which are binding in all worlds. Their methods and usages are those of heaven, which are well adapted to this world. Thus, in business the men of the new life are diligent, enterprising, economical, and at the same time, "fervent in the spirit, serving the Lord." In society they are generous, thoughtful of others, seeking the well-being of the poor, the homeless, the people of the highways and hedges. To their feasts they call those who cannot make return. They seek rather to please than to be pleased; to amuse than to be amused. Their fashions are imported from above; their tastes, habits, preferences; their spirits and behavior, and all which makes a life. They do not seek to be singular, yet consent to it, when to be peculiar is to be kind, helpful, in a constant ministering to others. There is here nothing strained or artificial, the life is natural, but according to the new nature. If it demands effort at first, it becomes easy. If it attracts notice, it soon wins approval. A man in this new life walks with God. He lives of the divine spirit, so that as many as trust him are made whole. He shows that it is more blessed to give than to receive. It was so with our Lord, who was Lord and Savior of men, and the giver of spiritual life, but who met the duties of a man. He was baptized, as other good men are. He paid his taxes, drawing the money from the sea. He gave health, sight, life, which are heavenly gifts. He fulfilled all righteousness, while he was redeeming the world. This is a high grade of life. It exalts the man. So far as I can trust my own observation his life is easier, happier, and in all respects more satisfactory than the old life would have been. Some men bear no part with Christ. They do not confess him or obey him. Some are devoted to him. There is a third class of men who divide their life; some parts are secular and some Christlike. A portion of Sunday is new, the rest of the week is old. I believe that these last have the hardest lot of all, are least contented, and get the least of the world's good. It is the single eye and the single heart which will achieve success. The earth is greatly in need of the men of the new life. Let them stand for their own country, and strife here is lessened, rivalries are innocent, confusion and discord disappear; there is peace on earth and there is good will among men. The order is to be observed. The new life is given by the Life himself; we open the heart to him and he gives of his life. Then the new spirit has dominion over us, and in the freedom of our choice we do our daily work and have the earnest of the treasures which are reserved for us in the country which is our own.—Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D. D. Good Thoughts from Everything: Good Thoughts from Everything. One may extract good thoughts and holy aspirations from everything that presents itself amidst the variety of this mortal life. A devout soul standing over a brook on a very clear night and seeing the heavens and stars therein represented, exclaimed: "O my God, these very stars which I now behold shall be one day beneath my feet, when thou shalt have lodged me in thy celestial tabernacles; and as the stars of heaven are here represented, even so are the men of this earth represented in the living fountain of divine charity." Another, seeing a river flowing swiftly along cried out: "My soul shall never be at rest till she be swallowed up in the sea of the divinity, her original source." Another contemplating a pleasant brook, upon the bank of which she was kneeling at her prayers, being rapt into an easyst, often repeated these words: "The grace of God flows thus gently and sweetly, like this little stream." Another, locking on the trees in bloom, sighed and said: "Ah, why am I alone without blossoms in the garden of the church?" Another, seeing little chickens gathered together under the hen, said: "Preserve us, O Lord, continually under the shadow of thy wings." Another looking upon the flower called heliotropium, which turns to the sun, said: "When shall the time come, O my God, that my soul shall faithfully follow the attractions of thy goodness?" And seeing the flowers called pansies, which are beautiful but without fragrance, "Ah!" said he, "such are my conceptions; fair in appearance, but of no effects, producing nothing." As the great work of devotion consists in the exercise of spiritual recollection and ejaculatory prayers, the want of all other prayers may be supplied by them; but the loss of these can scarcely be repaired by any other means. Without them we cannot lead a good, active life, much less a contemplative one. Without them repose would be but idleness and labor vexation. Wherefore I conjure you to embrace this; exercise your whole heart, without ever desisting from its practice.—James Mudge, D. D. Christ and Common Tasks. Doubleless there are thousands of consecrated and zealous Christians who, compelled to expend their chief life force upon plain tasks in humble spheres, are inclined to regret that their place or calling is not more friendly to spiritual development. Here is, for instance, a spiritually aspiring young man, who is troubled because his daily work, though innocent in itself, serves as a constant drag upon his spiritual nature, instead of an encouragement to his spiritual progress. How much easier it would be to be a Christian, he has thought, if he might be employed in writing editorials for a religious magazine, or teaching in a college, or preaching the Gospel, instead of endlessly adding up columns of figures. Here again is a large-spirited woman, who feels that her life might become vastly more helpful to the cause of her Master if she could escape the drudgery of household cares and become a lecturer or authoress—follow some line that looks especially friendly to moral expansion and spiritual fruitfulness. But two things may be said. First of all, these occupations that look most friendly to the growth of the soul have their own peculiar temptations to spiritual depression; they are not always in themselves as helpful to spiritual progress as they seem. And in the next place, the main question for a servant of Christ is not what our work is, but the spirit in which we do it. It is quite as easy for the worker to redeem his work as it is for the work to glorify the worker. Because there were saints "of Caesar's household" there was a breath of the fragrance of heaven about the very throne of Nero. Tent making in the hands of a St. Paul becomes an employment fit for a kling. The garments created by a Dorcas look as though stitched with threads of gold. Watching; a flock of sheep becomes as sweet a work as the vocation of him who has the gift of tongues, when angels sing to the shepherds from the clouds.—Rev. George Francis Greene, D. D. The Peace of God. "The peace of God which passeth all understanding." May it not be that there is a fuller meaning in this expression than we are accustomed to see? Not only does this heavenly peace in itself pass human understanding, it lifts its possessor above the desire to be understood. A large part of our lives is spent in an endeavor to make plain to others our motives, plans, purposes; to vindicate our judgment, opinions, conduct. There are few lessons harder to learn than the isolation of every life; it is as though the veil of our humanity shut out from each heart all save the great High Priest, who alone can enter into the inmost recesses—the hidden, sacred center of the soul. When we have ceased to struggle for full and complete "understanding" from hnuman source, when we can leave our lives and our reputations in the hands of him, who "understandeth our thoughts afar off," content to wait his time to "bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday"; then, and then only, shall we possess that "peace of God." It is not the restless, surging sea, which frets and chafes the shore, that God has chosen as a symbol of the peace which he bestows, but a stream whose current, deep and strong, pursues within its channel a steady, onward course, unmarried by tides that ebb and flow. Had we sought sympathy only from him, whose "brethren received him not," and whose "disciples understood not his sayings," then had our hearts been spared much of sorrow, and then "had thy peace been as a river." Conversion. You have the child's character in these four things—humility, faith, charity and cheerfulness. That is what you have got to be converted to. "Except ye be converted and become as little children." You hear much in these days of conversion, but people always seem to think they have got to be made wretched by conversion—to be converted to long faces. No, friends, you have got to be converted to short ones; you have to repent into childhood, to repent into delight and childlikeness—John Ruskin. THE RISING SON. LEWIS WOODS.....Business Manager. Published Every Week One Year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... $75 Three months ..... $60 One month ..... $15 Society paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE: No. 117 West Sixth St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates For one inch, one insertion ..... $ 30 For one inch, each subsequent insertion ..... $ 20 For two inches, three months ..... $ 10 For two inches, six months ..... $ 80 For two inches, nine months ..... $ 10 For two inches, twelve months ..... $ 15 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL . . IN KANSAS CITY. TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circula- tion of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. November 8 is among the things that the Democrats view with alarm. The Republican party seeks to convince the people. The Democratic party seeks to scare them. C. G. Williams of Booneville, Mo., and A. W. Lloyd of St. Louis, were elected as members at large to the state committee. The Honorable Nelson Crews placed them in nomination. Mr. Bryan declares that it was cowardly for the Democats to dapot a platform that was silent on the money question. A big majority of the Ameri can voters will, for once, agree with Mr. Bryan on that proposition. The colored people of the two Kansas Citys had a fine day for their celebrations at the different resorts August 1st. Crowds were in attendance and seemed to enjoy themselves accordingly. Speeches, music and feasting was the order of the day. The day was duly celebrated in Leavenworth, Topeka and Lawrence. Threatening skies indicated moisture, yet but little materialized, but in some places light showers interfered somewhat with the festivities. The crowds, generally speaking, were socially inclined and well benaved which speaks volumes for the cooled race. The Republican party in its platform tells in plain language what it intends to do. The Democratic party is not specific, but intimates that it will work wonders. Now, if you had a job of important work you wanted attended to, would you give it to the fellow who has been sitting on the storebox for forty years, whittling, bragging and fault-finding, or would you entrust it to the other fellow who has been "doing things," and doing them right, notwithstanding the faultfinding and nagging of the chap on the storebox. The American people demand results, not talk. They like the man who delivers the goods. The Republican party is the party of action; it delivers the goods. The bill-of-lading of the Republican National convention specifies the kind and quality of goods proposed to be delivered. They will be delivered in good order and without shortage or breakage. And the man on the storebox will sit and whittle and scold and brag for another spell. The folly of that handful of negroes calling themselves Lincoln Republicans, in making a spectacle on themselves before the civilized world by even suggesting the nomination of a negro for president, will do much toward making for us a host of enemies among those who are already jealous of the privileges we have. The negro has not learned to govern his home or his church. These things come first. When we have discipline at home and sufficient bank account to permit us to live well upon our income, then may we cast about for a position of honor, that takes thousands of dollars a year to keep it up. Let us busy ourselves in securing good homes, in getting on foot business enterprises where the boys and girls may find employment, in seeking to overcome the malice and spite and envy that so long have divided our efforts and made the best among us little more than the worst. No, the need of the hour—the crying need—is not a negro president, but more negroes that are breadwinners for their families, noble examples of manhood to their sons and protectors of the virtue of wife and daughters. Why Davis Was Nominated. Democratic Voter—How did the convention come to nominate Davis, a man more than 80 years old? Didn't they know his age? Democratic Delegate—Some one referred to him as an "octogenarian," and the boys immediately jumped to the conclusion that he was worth eighty millions. That settled it. THE REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET For Lieutenant Governor—John C. McKinley of Unionville. For Secretary of State—John E. Swanger of Milan. For Treasurer—J. F. Gmelich of Cooper county. For Auditor—Henry Weilder of Ste. Genevieve. For Attorney General—Herbert S. Hadley of Kansas City. For Railway Commissioner—Frank Wightman of Monett. For Presidential Electors-at-Large —Lawrence M. Jones of Kansas City and D. M. Houser of St. Louis. State Chairman—Selection to be made by state committee and nominees for governor and lieutenant governor. Probably either W. S. Dickey of Kansas City or Thomas Niedringhaus of St. Louis will be chosen. The federal crowd tried to have selection made in state convention, but its plan was turned down by a close vote and after a spirited fight on floor of convention. ROOSEVELT. Somehow, when we heard of his nomination at the late Republican convention we felt a premonition that at the proper time his election to the chief office of the United States would follow. Be that as it may, our desire is that such will be the case, and that another four years of prosperity will be ours to enjoy. This may sound or read a little premature, but all the same we feel that Theodore Roosevelt, the present incumbent, will most assuredly occupy the exalted seat another term. So far as the colored race is concerned, we feel sure that as a race and American citizens, they will receive justice at his hands. In the past, Roosevelt has been friendly, considerate, and as to the future, we have no fears, but rather an abiding faith. Roosevelt is a literary statesman, a man who thinks and then acts, with the precision of a skilled marksman. In the affairs of state he is "at home," and we believe well qualified to sustain and guide the things on hand to a successful issue. At least it is the aim and ambition of the Rising Son to work faithfully and steadily for the cause and elect good men to positions of honor and trust. Italian Joan of Arc The Italian sculptor Ettore Ferraria has completed a relief portrait of "the italian Jeanne d'Arc." Signora Stamura, for Ancona, which she helped to defend during the siege by Barbarossa. She inspired courage in the citizens by her exhortations, and during a sally applied the torches with her own hands to the German siege towers, according to tradition. She was a widow. Cheerfulness and Grumbling. How many people in real life there are who are a perpetual drain on the sympathies of their more cheerful friends and neighbors! They like to be comforted with strong, uplifting words; they appreciate cheerfulness—in others. It does not occur to them that it is a cultivable quality, just as grumbling is. Excuse of Kaffir Witness. "I am too ill to come to court today; I remand the case to to-morrow," was the excuse sent by a missing Kafir witness to the assistant magistrate at Kimberley. Irish Hospital for Consumptives. All the local authorities in the county of Cork, Ireland, have united to establish a sanatorium for consumptives on the banks of the Lee, several miles above the city of Cork. Advocates Frugal Dinner Dr. Robertson Wallace says that a little soup, a morsel of meat and vegetables, or a piece of fish, a sweet, and a bit of cheese is dinner enough to keep a man in health. More Women Die of Drink. The deaths of women directly arising from intemperance have increased, said the bishop of Croydon, England, by 150 per cent since 1875, as shown by the registrar-general's returns. PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO. The Negro has made tremendous strides along the educational line, and education is recognized the world over as the polishing stone to man. The question may be raised of what good will a diploma from a school or college be to a young man, it he does not carry any force of character: or what use it is to him if it does not fit him for a calling of some kind? When in school, the youth should be in the preparatory department, getting ready for the difficulties of life. But when he comes out and comes with nothing but a diploma showing that he has rubed up against Greek and Latin—no trade—no profession—then, I claim, you have sent out a worthless man. You have educated him above the environments by which he must be surrounded. He wants to be a bookkeeper or something for which there is no demand. He goes into some white man's office seeking a job, and there tells of the grades he has made in school and all else he has accomplished. The white man, after questioning him thoroughly, usually thanks him for coming around and telling him about the various branches in which he is so learned. Finally, he winds up and tells the young Negro, "I hope there will be an opening for you in such and such a place, but he doesn't say, "Yes, I need just such a man as you for clerk or bookkeeper, and you may work your way up right in this store." Now, then, we will turn back and determine what progress is. Progress means a little more than keeping pace with the times in dress and being, as the Negro terms it, fashion plates. We should imitate other things than dress and we should excel in many of the common things. If we are going to imitate the white man in dress, why not imitate him in his every day life—in those things that make dress necessary? We would like to see the negro keep pace with the times by securing property, by conducting business of all kinds, by uniting his forces and starting stores on a small scale, then sucking together until these stores grow into large business houses. This is what the white man did. When we view this wonderful progress in a certain light, it is neither so great nor so rapid. Out of th 10 million Negroes in the United States, perhaps only from 500 to 1,000 carry on business enterprises and are successful. This does not show that enough Negroes are striving to be recognized in the business world. Too many negroes have said, "Let my wife and children do as I had to do." Not so. You should have prepared the way for them. It is the duty of every father to lay the corner stone of his family's prosperity. It will be much easier for your boy or girl to secure another acre of ground if you have taught him or her the value of an acre, how to get one, and then have left him one. Let us look back a few years, when ground in the neighborhood of Kansas City could have been bought for $50 an acre. Such property now is practically out of the Negro's reach. Just as prices have run up here, they have elsewhere. As a rule, when it comes to making an investment in a business like way, the black ma nwaus until the thing desired is out of his reach. And when he does buy, he is forced by circumstances to make the purchase. Before we lay claim to having made such rapid progress, we should have something to produce that will show that we can go into the markets of the world and hold our own. Now we whoop and holler and clamor because we are not recognized. In the meantime, the white man is still stepping on the blind side of us, buying all the land in sight, building all the factories, and running all the railroads, to say nothing of operating all the stores. Don't you know, my brother, that if we had put the same time and energy into business methods as we have spent in building churches, organizing societies to bury us when we die, and in making grand displays, there would not be so much said about the Negro problem. White peopel would recognize our money and business enterprises. Let's hasten the day when our ministers and our teachers will see the wisdom of coming together along this line. One negro individually rising does not mean much. He must carry some of the rest wih him. Let us waste no more time in imitating the dress of the white man, but let us produce something tangible—something that will stand as a living monument to our genius and our handicraft. My advice to you is to be honorable, upright, and not too proud to work. Let your word be your bond. If you owe a man, pay him, no matter how small the debt. Small things count. Seek to be good citizens and have some say in the city in which you live. Have an interest in the business concerns of that city. The reason why some men have so much force in a city is because they control so much. Do you see? You may not heed now, but sooner or later you will be driven to it, or driven out of existence. Turn around and look at the other side. Get the money, thrift and business intelligence that will solve the Negro problem. American Iron Abroad. The last railroad built in India has American rails. Americans export their iron and motors, their machinery and galvanic wires to South Africa. Egypt, too, has more than one Philadelphia bridge. Three hundred railroad cars from Jersey City have found their way into the land of the Pharaohs, and in the foundries of Pittsburg electrical tramways were forged to connect Calro with the Pyramids. Great Britain Invites Attack Great Britain Invites Attack. Capt. C. Ross says in the United Service Magazine: "It is undoubtedly the case that Great Britain, the corner stone, of the British empire, by reason of lack of efficient leadership, national organization and national discipline is not in a fit state to enter upon a struggle with any of the other nations of the first rank; and for that reason alone she invites attack." Confuse the Demons. The Chinese are convinced that the plague is the work of demons. One way of getting even with them is to advance the date of New Year by several days. This, they aver, contuses the demons, and when they find out how they have been fooled they are ashamed and slink away with their plague. We All Ought to Be Like That. We knew a little girl once with a mighty tender conscience. When she found herself doing something wrong she would run to her mother and say, "I didn't." Then her mother would say, "Loulie, what have you been doing?" and would find out all about it.—Charlotte (N. C.) News Injure French Wine Market. A French wine merchant in London complains that "Italy, with its Chianti; Spain, with its Rioja; Germany, with its Rhino wines, and, above all, Australia and California, with their imitation Bordeaux and Burgundy, have materially injured the market of France." Thought Worth Remembering. Thought Worth Remembering: He who makes a flower grow gets some good for himself, and he also gives good to every passer-by who sees its beauty. The gardener is blessed and blesses. Why is not everyone for some portion of his time a gardener.—Canon A. Barnett. Sulphur in Sicily. The largest producer of sulphur is Sicily. The deposits occur in Miocene limestone, with unaltered beds of gypsum below, and it exported in 1903 475.508 tons, of which nearly one-third was for the United States. Bridal Crown of Silver. In Norway, Sweden, and Servia the bridal crown is of silver. In Bavaria and Silesia glass, pearls, and gold wire are used; in the islands of Greece, vine-leaves; in Bohemia, rosemary, and so on. English Coal Near Surface. Some workmen when repairing the Granville Road, near Blackheath, Staffordshire, England, found, within eighteen inches of the surface of the road, a coal seam four or five inches in thickness. New York Traction Traffic. The city of New York in the twelve months ended with February, for the first time in its history, passed the billion mark in the number of 5-cent fares paid to local transit companies. More Women Die of Drink. The deaths of women directly arising from intemperance have increased, said the bishop of Croydon, England, by 150 per cent since 1875, as shown by the registrar-general's returns. Not Friends. Only Married. When a man and woman were put in the dock at the Southwark Police court, the magistrate asked if they were friends. "No," said a policeman, "they are man and wife." Police Taught Politeness. Lessons in "civility and department" are given to the Swiss police, so that they may, on all occasions, conduct themselves "with dignity and grace." Red Blouses Forbidden. The Sultan has forbidden the wearing of red blouses by Armenian women. The color is believed to symbolize the bloodshed in their country. Perjury Is Common. An English country judge recently remarked: "Not a case comes into court but what there is perjury on one side or the other. Rolling Stock for Freight. The freight engines and cars engaged in the traffic of this country would make a string 9,000 miles long. 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. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. Why Not Have Your Prescription. Filled at McCampell'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 Oyster Bay settled in 1653. In 1642 a party of English adventurers direct from New England attempted to settle at Oyster Bay, and actually purchased the land from the Indians, but the Dutch drove them out. Eventually a compromise was made and the Dutch and English divided Long Island between them. The first permanent settlement on the site of the present village of Oyster Bay was then made in 1653. Present Day Amber Is Resin According to the best modern authorities the so-called amber found in Syria, India and Madagascar is not amber at all, but a resin, nearly allied to copal, which is the product of leaf-bearing trees growing at the present day. True amber is the resin of acicular trees long since extinct, and there is a good deal of conflict among scientists as to which geological period it belongs to. Training of Japanese Wrestlers In the place of training to remove superfluous flesh, as do the athletes of other lands, the wrestlers of Japan eat to put it on. Great size and weight do not appear to interfere with their agility. Instead it is one of the principal moans of overcoming an adversary. To "Feel" Music. An electrical device by which muscle can be "felt" instead of heard is the result of a recent invention. The musical vibrations are transformed into electrical ones in something the same way that they are in a telephone wire. Eoila Umbrella Stealers A Parisian who has been much annoyed by duns has connected his bell handle with a powerful electric battery and switches on the current at psychological moments. So far the police have declined to interfere. Value of an Aspiration. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust, and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.—Robert Louis Stevenson. First Big Expositions The first exposition was in Paris in 1798; the first in England in 1828. and in America in New York, in 1853. These were not international like the World's Fair. The first of these was in London in 1851. A. WEBER, ME If you want a suit to orc go and save money. W no rent Style, Fit and Fl 2825 S. W. Blvd. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT Why Not Have Your Prescrip McCampell's 2304 Vir Where You Are Sure to Get W A full line of DRUGS, STATI CANDIES, PERFUMES, PRESCRIPTION Medicines Delivered to All Par Bell 'Phone 159 East. A. B. D. W. LANGSTON. PROPRIETOR FINE CIGARS. Descendants of Wetah Kings. The Cadwaladers, of Philadelphia, claim descent from the family of the same name who were once Kings of Wales. The first American settler was Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, who was chairman of the "Provincial Commissioners" in the seven years war. 1756-63, and likewise chairman of the great tea meeting held in Philadelphia in 1773, the precursor of the Boston Tea Party and of the Revolution. Enormous Cakes. The most remarkable cakes ever made were among the gifts at the Victoria jubilee celebration. The finest of these stood thirteen feet high, welighed a quarter of a ton and cost $1,500. Another figured at the wedding of the Arctic explorer, Admiral Markham. On the top was a sugar model of H. ... S. Alert, wedged in the center of an iceberg. Gave Name to Port Arthur Port Arthur was named after Lieutenant Commander Arthur of the British navy, who anchored his ship in the bay one day about fifty years ago. His was the first foreign ship that had visited the bay. Harvard Memorial Gate. Senator Penrose was one of the contributors of the Harvard class of 1881 to a gift of a $10,000 memorial gate, to be presented on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. Quilca House Sold. Quilca House, County Cavan, where Dean Swift wrote part of his "Gulliver's Travels," has been sold in the Irish Land Judge's court, together with the demesne. No Italian Small Coins in France. Italian small coin no longer circulates in France, having all been returned to Italy some years back, since when it has been demonetized in France. Improvement in House Numbers. A new idea is to have the number on the front door of houses painted in luminous paint, so that it is visible in the dark. Broken Bat Mark of Grief. A broken bat was sent by his club comrades as a mark of their grief to the funeral of an English cricketer. Beautiful Women of Brittany. The women of Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, are celebrated for the beauty and the fine texture of their caps. NEWS & GOSSIP A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. *the* `little bits` we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Ice cream social at the Guild hall, 2424 Tracy avenue, every Thursday evening. Remember that a social is held at the Guild Hall, 2424 Tracy avenue, every Thursday evening. R. R. Finley, who has been sick at the Douglas hospital passed away Saturday, July 23rd, 4.30 p. m. Mr. Thomas Easley of Hannibal is in the city the guest of his sister, Mrs. M. E. Henderson, 7th and Paseo. Mrs. Alice V. Watkins, of Kansas City, Kan., is conducting a teachers' institute for one month at Anadarko, Okla. Geo. W. Walker, the artist, and Green Henri Tapley, his private secretary, passed through last Tuesday evening en route to New York. Harry G. Brown left Sunday for St. Louis, where he will spend two weeks. He will be the guest while there of Mrs. Laura Walker, his aunt. Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson of 160 East 13th street was re-elected as Grand Queen Mother of the Order of Twelve at St. Charles, Mo., last week. Mrs. M. E. Henderson, Mrs. Mollie Purnell and Miss Bryant, entertained at cards last Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Fred Clay of Hannibal, Mo. Mr. W. H. Holder who several years ago went to the Philippine islands to teach school, has returned to Kansas City. He will remain several weeks, at least. Miss Blanche Moore of Leavenworth, Kan., is visiting her cousin, Miss Beulah Compton. Miss Moore is a popular young lady among the Kansas Cityans. 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." Mrs. Annie Floyd, of 1511 Highland avenue, and her mother, Mrs. Gordon, visited the World's Fair last week and returned, having spent a delightful and profitable time. When you visit Weston don't fail to visit the ice cream parlor and the lawn on Washington street. Good times and music to suit the occasion. Lewis Hamilton, Prop. If you desire one of the Magnetic Hair Straighteners or some Ozone we have it in stock at the Rising Son office and all other preparations from the Boston Chemical Co. 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. Miss Mazie Key, sister or Dr. Key, paid Kansas City a visit after attending the Colored Women's National Association in St. Louis. Miss Key is one of the public school teachers of Baltimore, Md. The Lincoln Park at 9th and Hardesty is at the disposal of the Negroes of Kansas City. It is one of the most beautiful spots in Kansas City. Apply to Mr. Richard Jordan of the Sons and daughters of Jerusalem. The Fifth annual convention of the National Negro Business League will be held at Indianapolis, Ind., on Aug. 31st and Sept. 1st and 2nd of this year. It is hoped that a large representation from the several states will be present. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Floyd, of 1311 Highland avenue have just returned from St. Louis, here they spent last week attending the World's Fair, accompanied by Miss Helen Gould Floyd. All report a fine time. They roomed while in the city at Mrs. Roberts, of 2223 Market street. Ed Mitchel for the past 33 years was a porter on the Missouri Pacific, met with an accident last Thursday night at Jefferson City, which caused his death. He was a good man and was well liked by all the porters who knew him. He was a member of the Second Baptist church and a member of Rone Lodge No. 25 and was buried from the church last Tuesday, August 2, at 10 a. m. He leaves a wife and many friends to mourn his loss. Rev. S. W. Bacote officiated. The K. P.'s of Missouri met in Joplin the 19th and 20th of July and there held one of the most rousing and successful sessions ever held in this jurisdiction. The working of the order shows great gain in membership and also in finance. A. W. Loyd the grand chancellor who succeeds himself, deserves much credit for the prosperous condition of the K. P.'s throughout Missouri. Mrs. H. H. Curtis, the Grand Worthy Counsellor of the Court of Calanthe, crowned herself with glory through the annual report. The election of officers for the ensuing year was as follows: A. W. Lloyd, G. C. H. H Curtis, G. B. C. J. A. Denny, P. G. C. Rev. F. D. Avant, G. P. W. A. Gunnell, G. K. of R. and S. — Baker of Farmington, G. M. of E. J. D. Sexton, G. M. F. D. J. Curtis, treasurer of Beneficiary Board. W. E. Osborne, secretary. B. F. Adams, G. M. U. B. Cole, G. I. PERSONAL. Gentleman, 28, South American, a British subject, refined, cultured, honest, educated abroad, good moral character, ambitious, desires acquaintance of a colored lady with means, one who is sincere and honest; object matrimony; correspondence solicited, with photo, which will be confidential and returned if desired. Success St. Nicholas, 475 W. 159th street, Manhattan, New York. STATEMENT BY PROF. W. H. LYNCH. OF SALEM. MO. By this use of the newspapers in the school the thoughtful teacher will be enabled to find the trend of the pupil for good or for evil; hence can know best how to manage the pupil to develop true manhood and true womanhood. It has been said that reading makes a full man. Certainly Bacon of England never uttered a truer sentiment. He is a paid subscriber for 56 newspapers and magazines, and has for years made it a rule to take every newspaper in his own county. He said: "I am too poor to do without the papers. Let me urge you, fellow-citizens, to take all the papers that you can afford. Take your home papers and your county papers by all means. Take them into your homes and read them, and have your families read them. Take them into your schoolroom and have your pupils read them. The newspaper is the most valuable agent for progress and prosperity in the community. It is a boon to civilization, a promoter of education, the motive power of enterprise and progress. Take the papers, PAY for them, and read them. If I could not read a word, if I were blind and deaf, I would take a newspaper and have it thrown at my gate, so that when people passed by my home they would know there is a man who is interested in the welfare and upbuilding of his community. Let our motto be: "The newspapers and the public schools are the universities of the people. TO OUR COLORED FRIENDS. Please don't ask us for credit when you bring an ad to the paper. Please bring the money. We pay as we go and you must pay. Report of the proceeds of the Japanese social given at the residence of Mrs. J. F. Cole, July 21st, by the Woman's Auxiliary, for the benefit of the Old Folks and Orphans' Home: Returns from Contestants: Mrs. Carter ..... $18.00 Mrs. Compton ..... 3.10 Mrs. J. Thomas ..... 3.35 Mrs. M. E. Henderson ..... 1.25 Irving Clay ..... 6.85 Printing .....1.00 Ice Cream .....1.80 Costumes .....3.84 MRS. C. E. CUMMINGS. President. MRS. J. F. COLE. Secretary. LINES On Jones' Dry Goods Company. By Joe Sephus, the New Practical "Ad" Writer." If at first you don't find "Jones,"' Try, try again; When your courage should appear, If you're wanting something queer You will find it, never fear, "At Jones' Jones' Jones'." If you're wanting dry goods "swell" Try, try again; Jones' got them sure as—well, Try, try again; Then if you should change your mind, Shoes or groceries, any kind, These, by wagon loads you'll find At Jones' Jones' Jones'. If you want confections sweet, Boots or shoes or notions neat, Dry goods, groceries, books or meat, These and more at prices fair, For they do things on the "square," At Jones' Jones'!! Jones'!!! Once they had a little place Jones', Jones', Jones'! But by patience won the race, But by patience won the race, Jones', Jones', Jones'! Now they cover half a square, Handle goods from everywhere, Coarse and fine, rich and rare! At Jones'! Jones'!! Jones'!!! 12th and Main Streets. NOTE—I entered their store once and got lost, it was so immense. I'm wiser now, when I go there to shop I provide myself with a guide and a "roll" J. S. "I'M NEXT TO YOU." Frazier Smith and Jack Burnett wrote it this way: CHORUS. (Always join in.) Well! Now I guess that I'm next to you And I see your little game; In the morning I'm going down to ask the judge the judge To give me back my maiden name; You have trifled 'round in this here town. To me you ain't been true— To me you are been true Now your home is GONE, so be amblin' on. Cause I'm certainly NEXT to you WHEN YOU CELEBRATE Have your printing done at NATIONAL PRINTING CO., a Negro business doing modern printing. Reasonable prices. Work done for in or out of the city on short notice. Church and Lodge patronage solicited. Ring us up. Bell 'phone, 2443 Black; 205 Wales Bldg., 6th and Defaware, Kansas City, Mo. THE OLD FOLKS' AND ORPHANS' HOME The Ladies' Covenant No. 20 is tendered thanks for $1.00 sent to the Home. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. The good people who wish to visit the springs, will find first class accommodations at Fred F. Elliot's. Rates reasonable and service good. The remarks on the Social Pleasures of the Japanese by Rev. Father Harper were received with delight by both old and young. The managers of the Home are very grateful to Mrs. E. Foster, Mrs Pinkie Jones and Mrs. Oden of 1221 Highland avenue, each having made a dress for an old lady at the Home. Rev. Father Harper announced last Sunday morning, two weeks ago, that owing to the fact that an entertainment was to be given for the Home July 2, the usual Thursday evening social at the Guild hall would not be held on that evening. He urged his members to attend the Japanese social and help the institution. It is only about once a year that a big effort by way of entertainment is made for this work, and the churches will confer a great favor by giving right of way on that particular evening. Father Harper's kindness is appreciated. Rev. W. H. Wheeler visited the Home last Saturday and held a prayer service with the inmates. Australian Birds in London. A cargo of 14,000 Australian birds has been brought to London by one steamer. They were sold at the dock to dealers. The Thinking Cap. He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skil. Our antagonist is our helper.—Burke. A Thought for the Week. If you are not honest in your buying and selling you cannot be honest in your praying. Insults in Cambodia The following is quoted by the Gaulois from a French government report: "To cut off his head is the most serious insult that can be shown to a Cambodian; happily, this prejudice is not shared by the other people of Indo-China." CURL-I-CURE will to th n- When you meet a person your first impression is governed largely by his or her appearance. The same applies to you. If you are attractive, beautiful, trim, neat and look fresh and well kept you will see first impression will be that if you look like hundreds of others — no individuality — mussed up, and as though you had no interest in your appearance. Nothing adds to or detracts from a lady's or gentleman's appearance so much as the hair. Nothing indicates their character, their gentlemanly demeanor, and their hair. We all know how much care is taken of the hair by all the leading society ladies in all the large cities. 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Even in Spain waterfalls are now being used as a source of electric power. In one case twenty-three small villages are supplied from the power station. In Italy the employment of innumerable waterfalls has enormously increased the output of manufactured silk. "Here," says an English writer, "is a form of power that will last longer than Great Britain's coal fields." Another Reason: A document in French at the last session of the senate was placed at each United States senator's desk. Senator Tillman said that there were not seven men in the senate who would know the Lord's prayer if they saw it in French. Senator Hoar, who heard this guess, added: "Perhaps so, perhaps so; but that would not be because they can't read French." Suicides Find the Way. Vienna has a new prison so arranged that suicide or escape by its prisoners was considered impossible. One of its first inmates, a boy, hanged himself by means of his trousers on the edge of the heating apparatus. Joy in One's Work. 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Amon and Barn on Highland in E Seventeenth St. Vine St. in Lydia Ave. different parts of the HER & Remember, the more you brush the hair with a stiff hair brush, the sooner you will obtain the desired results. Co-Operative Hand Laundry GIVE US A TRIAL. All Work First Class. Strictly Hand Work SYLVESTER VAUGHN, Manager. 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. CRUTCHER & WELSH National Union Natl Kansas Statement as made to the at the close of busi Kansas City, Mo., le to the Comptroller lose of business June 9 Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business June 9th, 1904. Loans and discounts..... $ 6,227,005.01 U. S. Bonds at par..... $ 600,000.00 Municipal bonds at par..... 337,618.31 Cash and sight Exchange..... 3,505,016.55 4,442,634.86 Total..... $ 10,669,699.87 Jones. E. W. Zea. G. W. Whitehead, J. P. Merrill. Geo. Neltzer. O. H. Dean. Gro. brothers, UN ..Li and. Carriages Furnished for A e for Ris Countee Brothe 4 East 12th St. iPhone 780 Grand. Carriage 4 East 12th St. iPhone 780 Grand. Carriages Furnished for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MO Subscribe for Rising Son. Tel. 1505 Main, both lines. David T. Beals, President. Fernando P. Neal,Vice-Presst. RESOURCES David T. Beats. George R. Barse. Edward George. C. H. Countee. Positively nour ing detracts so much from your appearance as short, matted, unattractive curly hair. Your hair as it is now, looks like ninety-nine out of every hundred colored persons' hair. is an ideal, safe preparation and makes kinky, right. We guarantee it absolutely, tonic, cleans and softens the many fibers of the hair, soft, silky, pliable and easily managed. 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Then more you brush the hair the quicker the desired condition. 323 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Hand Laundry roost Avenue. IS A TRIAL. ass. Strictly Hand Work VAUGHN, Manager. ON PAYMENTS. 1 Houses and Building Lots terms. Among them are: Larn on Highland Ave. $1,600 Seventeenth St. 1,000 One St. 900 Darla Ave. 1,700 ment parts of the city. See us. ER & WELSH 1006-1008 BALTIMORE AVE. National Bank, Nasas City, Mo., the Comptroller of the Currency of business June 9th, 1904. LIABILITIES Capital stock..... $ 600,000.00 Surplus fund..... 400,000.00 Undivided profits..... 35,447.23 Unearned interest..... 16,560.00 National Bank. No notes out. standing 500,000.00 Deposits 9,037,636.64 $ 60,669,339.87 DIRECTORS thers, UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers.. Carriages Furnished for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MO for Rising Son. V. H. Sreger, 2nd Vice-Presst, Chas, H. V. Lewis, Cashier. 600,000.00 400,000.00 35.441.28 10,560.00 Fernando P. Neal, W. E. Thorne, Felix L. La Force G. W. Lovejoy Gro. W. Jones Gro. D. Ford W. B. Counlee. $50,000 GIVEN AWAY $50,000 IN GOLD SOUVENIR COIN OF ADMISSION NOICE! Cut out this coupon, write name, address and estimate, in ink, mail with 50 cents to Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Co. St. Louis, Mo. Name: Address: The Board of Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Co. Company will set aside an appropriation of $50,000, which will be presented, in its entirety, to the per-tenant owner of the EXACT number of paid admissions the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which opened at St. Louis, April 30th and closes December 1st, 1904. Should no one succeed December 1st, 1904, should no one succeed the number, the money will be presented to the nearest correct estimate. This widens opportunity to secure a magnificent Fortune costs NOTHING. Our object in making an appropriation other is to advertise and promote the souvenir co. to the World's Eight. The SOUTHERN CITY OF ADMISSION 1893 GRAND LODGE OFFICERS 1903-1904 K. of P. OF MISSOURI G. C., Aaron W. Lloyd, 2629 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. 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. 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, 1499 Market st., St. Louis. Members of Board—D. E. Gordon, 3245 South Jefferson Avenue, W. W. Trice, 622 North Beaumont Supreme Representative, Chas. H. Brown, St. Louis. E. J. Carruthers, St. Louis. R. C. Carter, St. Louis. PRIDE OF THE WEST LODGE NO. 1, K. OF F., meets 24 and 48 Monday evening in each month, at H. L. LONG, C. C. John W. Johnson K. of R. and S. Xiao DAMON LODGE NO. 6, K. OF P. meets 2d and 4th Wednesday evening in each month, at 8 o'clock, at Jeff erson hall, 10 o'clock, at Lennon WM. H. BUTLER, C. C. sley Hudson, K. of R and S. FIDELITY LODGE NO. 7, K. of P., of Springfield G. H. Wheeb K. of R and S. LILEY LODGE NO. 8, K. of P. of Kansas City E. H. TAYLOR, C. C. James A. Doyle, K. of R and S. NORTH STAR LODGE NO. K. of P., Hannibal, meets 2d and 4th Tuesday evening in each month MILLIVINE BARNES, C. C. 5. 3. 0 ungate K of R and S LONDON STAR LODGE, NO 19, London, of Macon, meets 2d and 4th Monday evening in each month. W. A. WALLACE, C. C J. O. McNitt, K. of, R. and OILENT LODGE NO. 11, K of, P. of Joplin, T. GREEN, C. P. P. H. Curtis, K of, R. and HARRISON LODGE NO. 12, K of, P. of Huntsville, meets 24 and 4th Thursday evening in each month. 11 N. Main street. JAMES A. DENNY, C. C W. T. Ansel, K. of R. and S. ST. PYTHAS LODGE NO. 13, K. of meals meet at 8 o'clock each month, at 8 o'clock, at Jefferson站, 765 North son avenue. W. B. WILLIAMS, C. C. Anderson K. of R. and S. CRYSTAL LODGE NO. 14, K. of P. of Fenton JOHNSON SOLOMON, C. C. B. B. Bathinger, K. of R. and S. FLORAL LODGE NO. E. K. of P. of Poplar Buff, HARRY CAIN, C. C. S. E. Townsend, K. of R. and BURSER LODGE NO. 16. K. of evening in each month, at 8 o'clock, at Jefferson hall, 756 North Jefferson, W. M.SKEEN, C. C. JOHNSON, W. M. Johnson, K. of R. and S. T. W. STRINGER LODGE NO. K. O F. Meets 1st and 3d Thursday evening in each month, defer Jefferson, Jefferson hair, defer avenue. LAWRENCE HAWKINS, C. C. M. L. Turner, K. of R. and S. MORNING STAR LODGE NO. by K. of R. of Freed堡town, meets 23 and 4th Tuesday evening in each month. CHAS. THORNTON, C. C. John C. Rayce, K. of R. and S. Souvenir Colns of Admission are of artistic and appropriate design, are invaluable as moments of this greatest of all Expositions and are similar to the Columbian Half tickets, an intrinsic value we will accept when in exposition. We also receive tickets of admission to the World's Fair, and for this purpose will maintain a ticket once at the main entrance to the Fair, once at the main entrance to be open every day during the World's Fair, and once we want one of these Souvenirs, but only a limited number will be offered for sale. Price, 50 cents. With every Souvenir Coln purchased we allow one estimate to be given to the price of paid admissions to the Fair. New WORLD'S FAIR, ST. LOUIS MO. CE: Cut out this Coupon, write name, address estimate, in ink, mail with 50 cents to Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Co., St Louis, Mo. ess State MY STATEIR COMMERCE LODGE, NO. 19, K. P.O. of Commerce, meets 1st and 2d Tuesday evening in each month. GEORGE ALLEN, C. C. Elbert Burns, K. of R. and S. RICHMOND L. DGE NO. 20, K. of P., of Richmond, meets 1st and 3rd Thursday evening in each month. HORACE RANDLE, C. C. Louis Lee, K. of P. and S. ul Randle, K. of R. and S. MKINLEY LODGE, NO. 21, K. of P. of Kansanville. C. E. Russell, C. C. Peter J. Slos, K. of R. and S. EAGLE LODGE NO. 22, K. of P. of Noeebeyville. N. E. BRUNSON, C. C. Samuel Haynes, K. of R. and S. CARHUTHERSVILLE LODGE NO. 22, K. of P. of Carruthersville. G. W. HARRIS, C. C. Bert W. Hecker, K. of R. and S. ACME LODGE NO. 24, K. of P. of Columbus. Sergt. W. H. TURNER. C. C. J. C. Burton. K of R. and S. J. C. BURTON K. of R. and S. MOTHERS LODGE NO. 25, K. of P. of Moberly, meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday of K. in each month at 8 o'clock. R. L. SCOTT, C. C. G. M. West, K. of R. and S. RISING SUN LODGE, K. of P. of Keota. Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday evenings in each month, at 8 o'clock. A. L. SPENCER, C. C. T. W. White, K. of R. and S. JOLDEN STAP LODGE NO. 27, K. of P. of Ardmore. A. A. WOODSON, C. C. J. W. Bonds, K. of R. and S. TOUSSAINT LODGE NO. 28, K. of P. meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday evening at each month, at 8 o'clock, at Kicker's hall, Newcastle ave. and North Market. FRED LINDSEY, C. C. John S. Palmer, K. of R. and S. 2631 Marcus Avenue. BURLEIGH LODGE NO. 29, K. of P. of Farmington CHAS BAKER, C. C. Lewis L. Hill, K. of R. and S. PYTHAGOR'S NO. 30, K. of P. of F. FLETCHER, C. C. H. F. Boyd, K. of R. and S. ANCHOR LODGE NO. 31, K. OF P. of Cape Girardeau, M. meets 1st and 3d Thursday evenings of each month at Castle hall, JONES, C. C. Albert M. Oliver, K. of R. and S. CHRISTOPHER LODGE NO. 22 K. of P. of Fetosl. ARTHUR CAYCE, C. C. Isom Johnson, K. of R. and S. PHILOSOPHIAN LODGE NO. 33 K. of P. of Fetosl. W. E. BIRNSON, C. C. Eugene L. Chirk, K. of R. and S. SEMPER FIDELIS LODGE NO. 34, K. of P. meets 2d and 4th Friday evening in each month, at s clock, at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. O. J. BIGGS, C. C. H. M. Cabell, K. of R. and S. FAYETTE LODGE NO. 30, K. of P. of Fetosl. Meets first and third Wednesday nights of each month at Masonic hall. B. F. ISAAC, JR., C. C. H. B. McAllister, K. of R. and S. OLYMPIA LODGE NO. 38. K. of P. of Carthage, meets every Wednesday evening in each week. K. J. LIONARD, C. C. U. B. Cole, K. of R. and S. COTTONWOOD LODGE NO. 37. K. of P. of Cottonwood Point, meets 3d and 4th Tuesdays. ARDAN ANDERSON, C. C. Simon Lyeed, J. of R. and S. WEST GATE LODGE NO. 38. K. of P. of Kirksville, meets 2d and 4th Mondays. G. BROWN, C. C. E. H. Johnson, S. S. ROCK SPRING LODGE NO. 39. K. of P. meets 2d Tuesday and 4th Thursday evenings at Jefferson Hall, 66. Jefferson av. St. Louis. M. McCarthy, K. of R. & 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 3d Tuesday evening at Eleventh and Franklin ave. CHARLES S. WHITE, C. C. Jererson L. R. and S. CAROLLTON LODDEN, NO. K. of P., of Carrollton, meets Monday and 31 Tuesday. L. L. LANE, C. C. Clyde L. Allen, K. of R. and S. PROGRESS LODGE NO. 44 K. of P. of Kansas City, meets 22 and 88 HARRY R. GRAHAM, C. C. D. W. Herring, K. of R. and S. MISSOURI LODGE NO. 44, K. of P. of Louisiana. DR. G, B. GOINS, C. C. Chas. Covington, K. of R. and S. NEW MADRID LODGE NO. K. of P. Prof. R. D. Cherry, K. of R. and S. WARRENSBURG LODGE NO. 46, K. of P., of Warrensburg. LEVI SIMS, C. C. J. W. Cooper, K. of R. and S. ST. JOSEPH LODGE NO. 47 K. of P., of St. Joseph. PHILIP HAYNES, C. C. MIAMI LODGE NO. 48, K. of P., of Miami. 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. COUPON 爱 爱 爱 3 3 X 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 en- gagement will be made by one person. 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 admissions and will deliver the $50,000 IN ONE Louisiana Purchase Souvenir Coin Co. ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. Cut out this address and paste on the envelope you send us. GRAND COURT OFFICERS. 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.—Mattle 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. Protector—Rosa Blake, De Soto. Jesse D. Robinson, Secretary and Treasurer Endowment Bureau. Surprise Representative. INDEPENDENT COURTS OF CALANTHE. M Hand holding branch with leaves ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` 1. 0. 0. C. M. L. ROLEN. M. PRIED. J. L. COOMBS. J. D. ROBINSON. A. M. WILLIANS. Aria Court No. 1. Meets 3d Thursday in each month at 2:30 p.m. at Jefferson Hall, 705 N. Jefferson Ave. SPRIG OF MYRTLE Court NO. 13 meets 4th Friday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. A. W. LLOYD, W. C. MRS. KATIE ROSS, R. of D. EUREKA COURT NO. 88, meets last thursday in each month, at 3:20 p.m. at Jefferson hall, 705 North Jefferson avenue MISSOURI WILLIAMS, W. C. MRS. MATTE GIL- REE. R. OF D. SYRACUSE COURT NO. 113 meets last Friday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MISS LOTTIE MOM- MAN, W. C. MRS MAMIE ED- WARDS, R. of D. FIDELITY COURT NO. 101 meets 23 Wednesday in each month, at 3:30 p. m. at Jefferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. HATTIE BRIGHT. W. C. ARSANIA M. WILLIAMS, R. of D. PRIDE OF THE WEST COURT NO. 123 meets 23 Wednes- day in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Je- ferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MRS. ANNIE PHIL- LIPS, W. C. FANNIE B. NEW. COMB. W. R. D. 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, • 18,380,187; Pan-American Exposition, • 6,380,869. DON'T DELAY! Write immediately and remember that all you have to do to entitle your parties to the intellectual and profitable contest is to enclose 50 cents for a beautiful, rare and artistic NEW YORK BUREASE SOUVIMIR FUN GRANT LOS S CAREER M QUEEN ESTHER NO. 25 meets 2d Friday in each month, at 3:30 p. m., at Kickers' hall, New- stead avenue and North Market street. MRS. MAMIE NICKENS, W. C. MRS. MAMIE PIERI- SON, R. of D. M FAIR CALANTH COURT NO. 134. Meets second Tuesday in each month. at 2:30 p.m. at Jefferson hall, 704th Jefferson avenue. MRS MATTIE YARBROUGH. W.C. MRS MARY L. ROLEN. K. of D. M FAIR HERIMONE COURT NO. 136. Meets fourth Thursday in each month, at 3:30 p.m., at Jeferson hall, 706 North Jefferson avenue. MISS MINNIE ROSS, W. C. MISS WILETTA HYDE, R. of D. 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All the hospitals and almshouses in Berlin are regularly supplied with fresh flowers from the public gardens, while twice a week each of the national schools receives from 100 to 150 specimens of four different kinds of plants for use at botany lessons. Will Marry Sweethearts' Mother Will Marry Sweethearts' Mother. The sweetheart of a man at Colmar, Prussia, died some time ago. He was accepted subsequently by her sister, who died, however, two days before the wedding day. In a few weeks he will wed the mother of his two former sweethearts. Japanese Letter Writing The Japanese address their letters the reverse of what we do, writing the country first, then the city, the street and number, and the name last of all. FREE TO 25 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 percent, 16-ounce package of Defiance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, any where in the above named states These trade marks must be mailed tc 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. Gray Hairs Hereditary Gray hairs at an early age are hereditary in certain families. It is thought to be a result of men with dark hair marrying women with dark hair through several generations. Personality Also. A successful singer says that one must have more than a fine voice in this age of the world in order to be heard.—Earl M. Pratt. Magnetic Sand in Java Magnetic iron sand has recently been discovered on the south coast of Java, and it is reported to be very valuable. A Trip to Colorado, Utah or California is not complete unless it embraces the most beautiful resorts and grandest scenery in Colorado, which are found on the Colorado Midland Railway, the highest standard gauge line in the world. Exceptionally low summer round trip rates to Colorado interior state points, Utah, California and the Northwest are offered by this line. For information address Mr. C. H. Speers, General Passenger Agent, Denver, Colo. Water in Grass. The amount of water given off by an acre of grass is estimated at thirty hogsheads a day. About 300 parts by weight, of water pass through a plant to one part fixed and assimilated in its tissues. Important to Mothers Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Hutchins. Ruin Threatena Campanile. A telegram from Ravenna says the campanile of that town is threatened with the same fate as the campanile of St. Mark's, Venice. Reflection of love in emotion. Congeniality, a sense of humor, and endless patience—these are the three "must-have" of wedded happiness. Neuralgia is said to be successfully treated in Italy by the use of blue light. Odd Cause for Fine. A shabbily dressed man, wearing a pair of army trousers, was arrested and fined in Stratford, England, for "bringing discredit on his majesty's uniform." Ships Spars to Maine. A Seattle firm has shipped to Maine a large number of spars for use in shipbuilding. 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After using two boxes the backache all left me, the kidney secretions cleared up and the action of the kidneys became normal." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Chief Harris will be mailed to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all ders; price fifty cents per lox. Wash Sheep With Fire Engine A remarkable use for the fire engine in agricultural England is sheep washing, which may be seen in progress on a large estate at Uxbridge, about fifteen miles from London. There a little steam fire engine throws 100 gallons a minute on the fleece of each animal. Ever horses are washed in a similar manner. The Cotton Crop in Egypt. The sowing of cotton begins generally about the 15th of February in upper Egypt and terminates in the first fortnight of April in the most northerly provinces of lower Egypt; occasionally, in exceptional years, the sowing is continued right up to the end of April, without any injury to the crop. Poeta Are So Unpractical. There is a very pretty little poem beginning with "Dainty little dandelion, smiling on the lawn." Ever hear it? It sounds pretty, doesn't it? "Dainty little dandelion, smiling on the lawn." So many things sound pretty in poetry that are pests when met out of doors.—Achison Globe. Arriving at a Verdict. Kushequa, Pa., Aug. 1.—(Special)—In this section of Pennsylvania there is a growing belief that for such kidney Dissases as Rheumatism and Lame Back there is only one sure cure and that is Dodd's Kidney Pills. This belief grows from such cases as that of Mrs. M. L. Davison of this place. She tells the story herself as follows: "I have suffered from Rheumatism for thirty years and find that Dodd's Kidney Pills have done me more good than any medicine I have ever taken. I was also bothered with Lame Back and I can only say that my back hasn't bothered me since I took Dodd's Kidney Pills." Considering that Mrs. Davison only took two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills, the result would be considered wonderful if it were not that others are reporting similar results daily. Kusquea is fast arriving at a verdict that "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the one sure cure for kheumatism." When a man begins to take whisky as a medicine he soon becomes a chronic invalid. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science can cure. It is catarrh. Halle's Catarrh Care is one of the cures now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutive infection. Halle's care takes in internal, actually directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the organism, disease, and giving the patient strength by building up a strong and resilient nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer to cure. Send for the皮质 case that it falls to address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. ToK. Take Halle's Family Flik for constipation. Nothing makes a girl so weary as to have a young man threaten to kiss her. Insist 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 your word 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. It takes more than a club to kill time. During August the visitors to the World's Fair, St. Louis, can stop the great Napoleon Bonaparte for $1,000 guests. Hotel accommodates 1,600 guests, is electric lighted and strictly first-class in every respect. Located only two blocks north of main entrance World's Fair. Take Wabash shuttle trains or through Olive cars from Union Station. Hotel Napoleon Bonaparte, St. Louis. 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Cause—corruption and indifference in the management and oversight of theaters. For the last few weeks we have been talking about the slaughter by fire of hundreds of women and children in New York. Cause—corruption and indifference in the management and oversight of steamboats. The theaters were somewhat improved, temporarily at least. The steamboats may also be temporarily improved. We do not know. It is doubtful, to say the least. For back of it all lies a vast indifference. We Americans take the chances. We accept grade crossings, reckless automobiles, firetrap hotels, buildings which fall down, steamers and theaters and railway trains exposed to fire, New York Central tunnels, anything, everything, in the way of needless danger, just as we accept political corruption in general, because we simply do not care. We would rather not make an effort or a fuss, or lose our time. We tried to get through congress a law making ship owners pecuniarily liable for lives destroyed. The ship owners interfered, congress was obedient, and the people lay down and forgot. We tried to get through congress a law for more stringent inspection of steamboats, and it was killed with the plea of economy. Let us eat, drink and be merry, to to-morrow we may burn up ourselves.—Collier's Weekly. WORK THAT SHORTENS LIFE. Metal polishers are said to become disabled in about seven years. For that reason they command high wages. Most of them die of consumption. The stonecutter's life is a little longer, but death comes to him in the same way. Workers in trenches and sewers, street cleaners, canal-diggers, workers in caissons, tunnels, in compressed air, bridge builders and railroad laborers are short lived. The tunnel under the North river cost more than a score of lives by accidents besides permanently impairing the health and shortening the lives of unknown scores. Building of the New York and Brooklyn bridges was very fatal to human life. An engineer told me that they kept the facts out of the newspapers as much as possible. All great works of engineering are prosecuted at an expense of human life and health.—Health Culture. UNIQUE GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. The business men of Argentina, Mo., have come to the conclusion that there is only one way to have good roads. That is by building them. They have decided, therefore, to give up a day to the business of repairing the road between their town and Kansas City. All the stores, banks, hotels, newspaper offices and other business houses of Argentina are to be closed for an entire day in order that every man in the place may get out with a pick or a shovel and work on the road. By doing this the citizens of Argentina think they can be reasonably sure that there will be something to show when they get through for the sacrifice of their time and the exercise of their muscles. There will be no chance for unscrupulous contractors or public officials to defeat the will of the inhabitants or to steal or misappropriate their money. The business men of Argentina are wise in recognizing the importance of good roads, and they are to be commended for the earnestness with which they are endeavoring to increase the mileage of improved highways in this country.-Chicago Record-Herald. CONTENT AND HASTE IN WORK President Charles W. Eliot says in the July World's Work that the principal sources of satisfaction and content in daily work are the active exercise of one's powers; achievement, or the getting well done something worth doing; harmonious co-operative effort, putting mind into work or using judgment and skill, successfully encountering risk, making adventures and mastering novelty and variety. It is, unquestionably, easy to have all satisfaction in daily work destroyed by the imposition of conditions which make satisfaction impossible. If labor is pressed beyond the limits of strength and health, content in it is impossible. Any overwork destroys the physical basis of satisfaction in toil. If the hours of labor are exaggerated, so that reasonable time for meals, family life, recreation and sleep is not to be had, the due satisfaction in toil will not be realized. The conditions of modern urban life tend to develop in the American population an unreasonable haste and stress in both work and play. This haste and stress are quite as highly developed in the higher employments as in the lower; and, relatively to numbers, overwork now prevails in the higher employments more than in the lower, probably because there is more and keener pleasure in them, and they are, therefore, more liable to be pursued with an inordinate zeal. ENGLISH IN JAPAN. Until forty years ago an English book was practically unknown in Japan, the only foreign literature studied was the Chinese, and the first language to be taught in the schools was the Dutch. Now, while English is the most common among the people, and is studied by all high school pupils, German and French are favored generally by scholars and physicians. There is a foreign language school in Tokyo, where almost all languages are taught, and, curiously enough, Russian is the favorite. The study of English literature in Japan is represented by Prof. Yuzo Tsu Chouchi, who has translated into Japanese some of Shakespeare's plays — "Othello," "Macbeth," and "The Merchant of Venice." The most widely known English writer in Japan is Carlyle. All students of English literature in Japan read his works. Next to Carlyle comes Macaulay, and the new Hanyaku, or translation style, was practically created by borrowing his language by the Minyushamen a literary band in Tokyo. Emerson is greatly admired, and his writings have influenced many notable Japanese journalists to-day. Mill and Herbert Spencer have also influenced the thought of modern Japan. Tennyson, Longfellow, Wordsworth, Byron and Milton are the most popular poets, and in fiction Irving, Thackery, and Dickens are the best known Bellamy's "Looking Backward" has been recently translated into Japanese.—Chicago Journal. DISREGARD OF HUMAN LIFE. The widespread condition of danger to human life in the appliances of our eager and hurrying civilization can only be due to a certain carelessness, a lack of earnest attention to the safety of the community. Partly, no doubt, it is due to too much cagerness to save expense and make the greater profit, even at the risk of occasional unnecessary losses. Corporations, capitalists, contractors and builders need to be held to stricter requirements and lawmakers and officials need to be held to a higher responsibility; but it all depends in the last analysis upon the state of the public mind and the spirit of the people. There is where a higher regard for life and care for the general security needs to be cultivated.—New York Journal of Commerce. JAPANESE HUMANITY. Without a single white man to advise or control, with few war correspondents to comment or criticise, the Japanese are keeping up in this campaign as high a standard of humanity and kindness to their foes as any civilized power in the world. Prisoners who have escaped "speak in enthusiastic terms of the manner in which the Japanese treat the Russian wounded. The Japanese army doctors, it seems, are splendid, and they personally saw to the comfort of all the Russian wounded." Civilized man is an incarnate paradox Having called to his assistance all the highest talents in one department of science to provide the most awful and barbarous instruments for destroying his fellow-man, he summons with the same breath the massers of another science to undo as far as possible the inevitable consequences of the use of shot and shell torpedoes and submarines and all the other deadly machines of modern warfare. Looked at from one aspect war is the negation of all humanity, regarded from another, it evokes humanity's loftiest products.—London Telegraph. A POPE'S DEMOCRACY. The Papney loves precedents, and Plus X. has been vastly gratified by a statement put into his hands by one of his librarians that Pope Sixtus V. of old time, had a sister who, very finely dressed, was brought to her brother by the cardinals. Thereupon the pontiff affected not to know her She was therefore hurried out of his presence. "The cardinals," says the record, "led her out of the palace and had her dressed in her usual clothes—those of a washwoman." Then she returned and the pope, "advanced from his throne, embraced her and called her his dear sister." Plus X has now a quotation ready for those who criticise the present dress of his sisters.—London Chronicle. BLUNDER OF THE RICH MAN. It is a bad blunder for the rich men to try to shirk their civic duties. It creates prejudice against them. They may not care for that, but it is a matter of serious care to them whether or not the law is upheld. Without law their vast property interests would be worth nothing. The more the people respect the law the better it will be for the property owners, and if for no higher and nobler reason it is clearly in the material interest of the rich that law an dorder shall prevail and it is therefore in their interest to discharge their civic duties with faithfulness and with willingness and to respond cheerfully to the demands of the state authorities.—Rich mori (Va.) Times Dispatch. It's the thoroughly modern and scientific system of loading and the use of only the best materials which make Winchester Factory Loaded "New Rival" Shells give better pattern, penetration and more uniform results generally than any other shells. The special paper and the Winchester patent corrugated head used in making "New Rival" shells give them strength to withstand reloading. BE SURE TO GET WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. Up-to-Date Bricks. Bricks are now being made of clean sand and ground quicklime that are said to be as substantial as granite. They cost $2.50 a thousand. The mixed ingredients are forced into a strong steel cylinder mold by means of a screw. After the air has been sucked from the cylinder, hot water is admitted, the rock being formed by the resulting pressure and heat. Country Life in America. Tuberculosis Experiments The Royal Commission (British) appointed in August, 1801, to inquire into the relation between human and animal tuberculosis has found that human and bovine tuberculosis are practically identical. The commission reports that experiments proved that the disease produced in animals by tuberculous material, whether of human or bovine origin, was identical. Immense Duck Egg. A duck, which is the property of Mr. T. Lane of Chesterton, England, has just laid an extraordinary egg. It weighed 10% ounces, was 4% inches in length, and 8% inches in circumference. The whole of the contents filled a half pint measure. Y. M. C. A.'s Deserved Success When the Y. M. C. A. was started on June 6, 1544, it had twelve members and its weekly expenditure amounted to sixty cents. Now it owns buildings valued at over $30,000,000, and has a membership well over 600,000. Would Gamble With Mayer World Demand With Mayor. On being sentenced to seven days' hard labor at the workhouse for being drunk, a Lowestoft (England) man took a coin from his pocket and offered to toss the mayor whether it should be fourteen days or nothing. Seems Out of Place. Among the monuments to great men erected in Westminster abbey, says the London Daily Mail, "in the holy quiet of the cloisters, is a monument to—a prizefighter." Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, nottep the pain, reduces fussation, always pain, causes colic. See a bottle. "Quick as Thought." "Quick as thought" is not very quick. While a light wave would travel around the equator in a second a nerve wave makes but about 100 feet a second. Larger Sleeping Car Berths One of the few railroad companies that owns and operates the sleeping cars in service on its lines, is the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The sleeping cars on that line were formerly Pullman cars, operated by the Pullman Company, but for a dozen years past the railway company has owned and operated the sleeping car equipment. In building its sleeping cars, a departure from the old standard pattern of cars has been made to the extent of adding about six inches to the width and height of the sleepers. This permits of wider and higher berths. Length has also been added to berths, so that comfort is found in them which is lacking in ordinary sleeping cars. These large cars are in service on practically all of the lines of the St. Paul Road, and are very popular with the traveling public. Largest Screw Ever Made A screw, 85 feet long, and weighing eighteen tons, has just been completed in England. This is the world's record. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. All spinsters are single from chance — they say. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nerves affect it. Just a use of Dr. Kline's Great New Boots. Best for use in the kitchen and treating it is Dr. Kline, Ldl, 301 Arch Street. Most Expensive Fur. The most expensive fur is that of the black fox at Kamschatka, the skin of which, when dressed, becomes a very attractive blue. A single skin is worth as much as $1,000. WINCH "NEW RIVAL" It's the thoroughbringing and the use of Winchester Factory Pier pattern, penetrationally than any other st chester patent corru Rival" shells give BE SURE TO GET V EX-SOLDIERS The Devil's Lake Reservation Lands, North Dakota, soon open under homestead law. Right of entry determined by drawing, conducted by U.S. officials. Ex-soldiers may register and film by agent. One person can act as agent for but one soldier only. To meet the demand of soldiers for agents I have arrived with a number of citizens in North Dakota, near these lands, to act as agent for soldiers. To pay the agent and myself for trouble and expense, there will be a charge of $10,000 for registration. Should the soldier draw a number entitling him to tract of land, the same agent will file for him, locate and select his land for a fee of $2500. If the soldier prefers he may, instead of paying this $2500, go and select his own land. Soldiers not required to pay $150 an acre on their land until six months after their filing. ACT PROMPTLY Registration begins Ang. Snap up and end. Ang. Bath. No time for delay. Send air and your discharge, or certified copy thereof, and I will send you a paper pass. Please mention the look after the entire matter and see that the agent does his duty. Should you not be registered them, they will be returned. Local agents wanted to whom I will pay reasonable compensation for services. Address. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY. NO. 32, 1904 BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. W. H. Miss Nellie Holmes, treasurer of the Young Woman's Temperance Association of Buffalo, N.Y., strongly advises all suffering women to rely, as she did, upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: — Your medicine is indeed an ideal woman's medicine, and by far the best I know to restore lost health and strength. I suffered misery for several years, being troubled with menorrhagia. My back ached, I had bearing-down pains and frequent headaches. I would often wake from restful sleep, and in such pain that I suffered for hours before I could go to sleep again. I dreaded the long nights as much as the weary days. I consulted two different physicians, hoping to get relief but finding that their medicine did not seem to cure me. I tried your Vegetable Compound on the recommendation of a friend from the East who was visiting me. "I am glad that I followed her advice, for every ache and pain is gone, and not only this, but my general health is much improved. I have a fine appetite and have gained in flesh. My earnest advice to suffering women is to put aside all other medicines and to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." — Miss Natalie Holmes, 540 No. Division St., Buffalo, N.Y. — $5000 for first original of above letter pro-ving genuineness cannot be produced. Lesson number one. Starch is an extraction of wheat used to stiffen clothes when laundered. Most starches in time will rot the goods they are used to stiffen. They They containa chemicals. Defiance Starch is absolutely pure. It gives new life to linen. It gives satisfaction or money back. It sells 16 ounces for 10 cents at all grocers. It is the very best. MANUFACTURED BY The DEFIANCE STARCH CO. OMAHA NEB. USE FAULTLESS THE BEST STARCH FOR LAUNDRY WORK FOR SHIRTS COLLARS CUFFS AND FILM LUMEN BLACK POWDER SHELLS. modern and scientific system of load- only the best materials which make loaded "New Rival" Shells give bet- on and more uniform results gerer- sells. The special paper and the Wing- ated head used in making "New hem strength to withstand reloading. WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. A NEW WABASH TRAIN TO St. Louis COMMENCING JUNE 5th, 1904 Leave KANGAS 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—Pulman Steepens Free Re- eliting Chair Cars and Concerts. Steepens and Conches open at 1 p.m. for the 2023 Wabash, in the only time to WORLD'S FAIR Main Gate Return Train leaves St. Louis 11:45 p.m. for KANSAS CITY Ass your Agent for Tickets over the Wabash. H. C. SHIELD, L. S. McCLELLAN, Trav. Pass. Agent. Western Pass. Agent. BOSS MAIN STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. PISO'S CURE FOR FREE WELL IF YOU ARE Best Congo������. Yankee Goods. In the Bold by druggite. CONSUMPTION --- 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 connecti ons. 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. Home Tel. 5225 Main. Lady Attendant. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. CURTENTOUS TREATMENT Parlors 162C E. 18th St., Kansas City. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services striptly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up atlra. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager 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 Homesecekers' Tickets at rate of ONE FARE plus $3, on sale first and third Tuesday of each month. For descriptive literature and detailed information as to rates, train service, etc., address J. C. LOVRIEN, ASSISTANT GENERAL, PASSenger AGENT, KANSAS CITY, MO. Lincoln Institute MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. President. DEPARTMENTS: COLLEGE, NORMAL, PREPARATORY, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC. COURSES: Classical, College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Model Training School, Music (Instrumental and Vocal), Drawing, (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodworking, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories with Modern Improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are licenses to teach in any public school in the state. A few deserving students are assisted in their efforts to earn their way. All applicants must present testimonials of good moral character. For further information write to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI. ST. LOUIS. MQ BEST MEALS IN THE CITY Open From 8 a.m. to Private Service If Desired 12 p. m. Short Orders All Hours The Oriental Cafe 910 EAST 12TH STREET. OVER SMITH'S DRUG STORE. HUNT & BROWNING, PROPRIETORS. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Look! Look! The Latest Sensational Jewelry Novelty. EINE PEARE SHELL HEART BROCHES like cut mounted with any letter of the best 14 K. gold dilled wire. Send us at once twenty-five cents in stamps and receive one. The same brooch h with a name of eight letters or less. forty cents in stamps. SOLE AGENTS DUNHAM BROS. & WEIR Mall Order Dealers in General Merceasease. House old Novelties and Agents Supplies. 3019 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. Palace Restaurant M. T. Moore, Prop. Meals 15 Cents. 924 Wyandotte St., KANSAS CITY, MO. 1784 Telephone 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co., First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the hair from a front and right out of breaking off, cures dandruff and makes the half grow long and silky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted� and the same form of sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitations. Get the Original Ozonized Ox Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the straightness soft and beautiful, given to it the health of its body. The much desired, a Tollet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers. $140 for three bottles. We pay all expenses charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Institute OL FOR COLORED YOUTH ALLEN, A. M. President. Moj Great Civic Rights ..CONVENTION.. Friday and Saturday Aug. 12th AND 13th And a Grand Outing Sunday, Aug. 14 THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR DISCUSSED BY LEADING COLORED MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WEST EVERYBODY WILL BE THERE 2-Splendid Bands-2 WILL FURNISH MUSIC AT BEAUTIFUL KORMAN'S PARK LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. S. of M. T. Temple No. 52. of Kansas City, Kansas, will run an excursion from the city on said date. Mrs. Sylvia Robsin, Amie Booker, Committee. SEE NEWSPAPERS AND PROGRAMS LATER S. T. JONES, Manager. Immense Duck Egg. A duck, which is the property of Mr. T. Lane of Chesterion, England, has just laid an extraordinary egg. It weighed $10\frac{1}{4}$ ounces, was $4\frac{1}{4}$ inches in length, and $8\frac{1}{4}$ inches in circumference. The whole of the contents filled a half-pint measure. Will Marry Sweethearts' Mother. The sweetheart of a man at Colmar, Prussia, died some time ago. He was accepted subsequently by her sister, who died, however, two days before the wedding day. In a few weeks he will wed the mother of his two former sweethearts. Orchids Easy to Grow. Many orchids are not the difficult flowers to grow that most people suppose, says Country Life in America. There are at least fifty out of ten thousand varieties of these regal blooms that may grow in the domestic greenhouse. Her Way. A woman's way of saying to the minister that she would like to whale her boy, who has just knocked over the water pitcher, is to declare: "Dear little chap; he is so full of innocent spirits."—New York Press. Irrigation In Idaho. The valleys of the Payette and Bois rivers, in southern Idaho, are soon to be the scene of a stupendous irrigation work by the government. The project is to reclaim 372,000 acres or land. Gray Hairs Hereditary. Gray hairs at an early age are hereditary in certain families. It is thought to be a result of men with dark hair marrying women with dark hair through several generations. Will Teach the English Tongue. English is in the future to be an optional subject in all public schools in Saxony on the ground that it is "the most widely used civilized language in the world." Whisky Stored in Church Thorverton church, Devon, England, was recently used as a storehouse for whisky which had been taken from the village inn during a fire. Bismarck as St. Peter. In the great mosaic picture up in the cathedral at Aix-les-Bains. St. Peter has the features of Blamarc. Windmills in Germany are now used to produce power to drive electric motors. Hood's Narrow Escape. How near the ridiculous may come to the sublime would have been aptly illustrated, if tradition speaks true as to the title which Hood first devised for the poem by which he is best known. He is said to have called it "The Tale of a Shirt." Where False Hair Comes From. Most of the black hair used in wigs and "switches" comes from the convents of Italy and Spain, while the fair and red hair comes mainly from the heads of Russian, Swedish, German and Danish peasant girls. Many men say we know what to do if we were at liberty. When one gets cornered the one thing not to allow is discouragement. It is useless, harmful and unnecessary. It is purely physical, and thoughtfulness with will power prevents it. Melancholy is death to good work. It can, with few exceptions, be rested, forced, exercised or doctored off.-Earl M. Pratt. Diet That Kills Babies Babies are often fed, or rather starved, said Miss May Yates to the British Women's Temperature association, on cheese, fried fish, tinned salmon, pickles, gin and beer. Use Liner for Hotel. One of the Hamburg liners was used as a hotel ship in the harbor of Kiel during the recent races. The rates for meals and lodging were from $5 to $10 a day. Fogs Increase Mortality. The mortality curves in London rise in proportion to the density of the fogs and consequent exclusion of sunlight, which is the deadly foe of disease germs. English Is Optional Study English is in the future to be an optional subject in all public schools in Saxony on the ground that it is "the most widely used civilized language in the world. Advertising Thread As an advertisement of its thread a well-known firm has, after several attempts, connected Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus with 1,250 yards of cotton. Swimming Harder Than Climbing. An Austrian physician, Dr. F. Mueler, has made experiments which demonstrate that swimming is harder work than mountain climbing. Refuge of Fugitives. Nice has become the headquarters of fugitive Parisian criminals to such an extent that the French officials find their work considerably facilitated. Whenever a man is wanted they prompt hunt for him in that city, often with success. Peat Supply of Sweden. Sweden's supply of peat seems inexhaustible. In the province of Norrbotten alone there are 8,648,000 acres of moss land, and the total quantity of peat is estimated to equal a supply for two centuries of the present coal import to Sweden. Stamps Not Historically Correct. On some of the postage stamps of St. Kitts-Nevis, England, the authorities have depicted Columbus gazing intently through a big telescope. As a matter of fact, telescopes were not invented till over 100 years after Columbus was born. Cabinet of Labor Men. Premier Watson, the Australian labor leader, who was called upon to organize a ministry has formed a cabinet in which all but one are members of the labor party. ..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 carfare by buying your Patent Medicines and drug necessities at attractive prices. If you are constantly suffering with headache get your eyes examined; it may be your eyes causes it.—The Reliable Optical Dept. A Large Line Perfumes, Toilet articles, Tooth brushes, Combs and Brushes, Fountain Syringes and Hot water bottles at gratifying prices. 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. Remember its the PHARMACY S. W. Corner 5th and Broadway. Phone Home 1626 Main. Call in and see us. Open all night. The "All-Rail Route" to New York Call in and see us. Open all night. The "All-Rail Route" to New York All Through Trains of the "Big Four Route" Use the 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 in New York, the greatest city on the American continent. Only one railroad station in New York City and only one railroad from the Southwest mainline 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 Central Station in New York City, landing passengers right in the heart of the city, and only a few minutes walk or drive to the principal hotels. 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. 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. $6.00—ROUND TRIP—$6.00 Think of it! The only railroad station in New York, the greatest city on the American coast, can be reached by car or by train. The Southwest running the tough 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 you can find the heart of the city, and only a few minutes walk or drive to the principal hotels. 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. 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. 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. Tickets, sleeping car berths and information as to the cost of reaching any point in the East will be furnished on request. Rock Island System J. A. STEWART, J. W. JONES, Gen'l Agt. Pass. Dept. City Pass. Agt., 900 Main Street. KANSAS CITY. RELIABLE DENTISTRY 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 We Guarantee to Please. Our Reliability is Unquestioned. This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Tickets, sleeping car berths and information as to the cost of reaching any point in the East will be furnished on request. Rock Island System J. A. STEWART, Gen'l Agt. Pass. Dept. J. W. JONES, City Pass. Agt., 900 Main Street. KANSAS CITY. 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.....$50c A. B. B. Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth... $4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k... $2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth... $2.68 Platinum fillings... 50c Cleaning... 50c Teeth extracted without pain FREE NEW YORK DENTAL CO ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. 1029 Main St Second Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. Open Daily. Nigh's till 9. Sundry. 10 to 4 1029 Main St Second Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. Open Daily. Nigh's till 9. Sundry: 10 to 4