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 Rev. Sage and his members, of Higginsville, were up assisting Rev. A. A. Gibbret in his last quarterly meeting for this conference year. Rev. Sage preached two eloquent sermons. At night Presiding Elder Snelson preached a fine sermon. His discourse was to the young people. It was quite instructive. Miss Emma Bush and Miss Lillian Christman, of Independence, were the guests of Miss Emma Hayden last week. Misses Lucy Bush and Hattie Hughes, of Independence, spent Sunday with Miss F. E. Talbott. Mrs. Rosa Bush, of Independence, was the guest of Miss E. Parker last week, also Mrs. Dehoney and her daughter were the guests of Mrs. Kirk Wilson. The colored fair at Higginsville last week was a success. They paid their premiums and had quite a little sum left. They had splendid order during the three days. On Thursday there was an address delivered by Prof. Houston of Sedalia. He stated what rapid progress they had made, and also the need of the race and different other enterprises. A. W. Walker also delivered an address. He spoke of the need of education. He said that the colored people should be on farms; their places were not in towns and cities, but they are forced to be there, in order that they may get some education. The association gave satisfactory premiums to all. Mr. Mose Green, the president, asked that every one get ready for next year. They will give $1,000 in premiums next year if the colored people will help them. The ladies showed some very fine needlework. Mr. Joseph Myers took the premium on his fine hogs. Mrs. Nelson, of Columbia, is here visiting Mrs. Joseph Myers, her sister. Miss Julla Lawson, of St. Louis, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Tom Williams, will leave on the 10th for Chicago. Mr. James Morris, of Chicago, was here visiting his mother and brother last week. The grand lodge of the U. B. F.'s agd S. M. T.'s met in Sedalia on August 16 and had a grand meeting. They are the largest body of Negroes that meets in Missouri. They paid sixty-five death claims last year and over $10,000 left. They elected S. T. Pettegrew G. M., Prof. Coleman G. M., Dr. Queen treasurer and Prof. Hubbard, of Paris, secretary; Prof. Harris, Jefferson City, secretary of the endowment. They adjourned to meet next year at Huntsville, Mo., the first Tuesday in August. The Republican county convention met in Higginsville on August 23 and nominated a county ticket. Mr. Branch was nominated for representative and Mr. Choa for sheriff, and if he is elected he will make a good sheriff. He said in his speech if the Republicans would stand by him and do their duty he would get to rest. We hope every Republican will do their duty along that line. What's the reason my people do not patronize me, when they can get groceries just as cheap from me as they can from white grocery stores? I ask that colored people patronize me and give me a chance.—W. W. Hunter. We think that you ought to patronize Mr. Hunter and every other colored man. Care of Matting. It is said by a practical housekeeper that washing matting with strong salt water will strengthen the fibers and make it wear longer. Matting should always be swept the way of the weave—that is, the way of the warp—and never across it. Topeka, Kan., July 20, 1904. Rev. F. G. Snelson: Dear Brother:—"To all the Saints and faithful brethren scattered abroad, Greeting. Grace be unto you, and peace from God, our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ." Through the providence of Almighty God and the wisdom of the late General Conference, which assembled in Chicago, Ill., I have been assigned to the Fifth Episcopal District of the A. M. E. church, embracing Missouri, North Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, California and Puget Sound Conferences. In assuming the responsibilities connected with the work of this district I beg to call your attention to the fact that with the growth of our great church our responsibilities increase, spiritual and temporal. It is our duty to preach repentance, conviction, regeneration and sanctification, without which we cannot see the Lord. In performing this important duty the salvation of souls should be uppermost in our minds; an accurate account should be kept of every conversion and accession into the kingdom of grace. In order that we may accomplish this work successfully: 1. We should have the ability and common-sense to do that which we undertake, whether it be in profession, commerce, trade or manual labor. 2. Confidence in the Cause for 2. Confidence in the Cause for which we stand. 3. Obedience to its laws. 4. Activity, full of energy and courage that oppositions and impediments cannot deter. 5. A field in which to operate, where opportunity will be given each of us to demonstrate our capability of doing the work committed to our care. BISHOP GRANT REFUGE MISSION HOME. For colored girls, at 1502 East Twenty-third street. This home has been open for the reception of girls since January 1, 1904, during which time eight or nine girls have been cared for, reformed and given employment, and are still under the guardianship of the home. This home is run by donations of old clothing, provisions, money or anything will be gladly received. Girls for reformation are taken into the home from the ages of 10 to 18 respectively. Let us come together as a race and as citizens and help this worthy cause, which is so much needed in Kansas City, and save some mother's precious girl, for remember the future destiny of the race depends upon its women. Yea, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. It is true that some of our girls go willfully astray, but, on the other hand, some are led and forced by circumstances, and would do better had they the opportunity. This home will allow them a chance to improve themselves. Beware of imitators; there is no other of its kind existing. Call and investigate. Any girl wishing admittance can have it by applying at home of president, Mrs. O. P. L. Stewart, 2211 Flora avenue. Those who wish further information can call at said address. Respectfully submitted. MRS. LILLIE SMITH 1025 Charlotte Street. Mixed Metaphor. As a "mixed metaphor," not from the rostrum, but from the pulpit, I think the following can hardly be beaten: A preacher who was rebukeing his flock for their apathy declared that but a spark of grace remained to show that they were alive at all. Then, in a parenthesis: "Lord, water that spark!"—London Spectator. To Our Correspondents. Please send in your matter by Wednesday of each week. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1904. The Boone company will leave September 4 for South Dakota and will open their season theer. The new feature of the company this year is Miss Sadie Rabmet, of Columbia, who will take Miss Hugad's place. The manager of the company is John Lange. He has proved himself to be one of the business men of the race and, further, he is a race man. LANGE AND BOON. THE WOMAN WHO WAS THE LADY OF THE WORLD Miss Emma Smith, the soprano of the company, is one of the best in her line. Memorial to Le Conte. An appropriate memorial to the great geologist and scientist, Joseph Le Conte, has been erected in Yosemite valley by the Sierra club of California. It is a lodge, built strongly and simply, containing one large room, twenty-five by thirty-six feet, with a large stone fireplace at one end, and a small room on either side the entrance on the opposite end. It is at the upper end of the valley. This Will Keep Them Off. "Throw a piece of alum about the size of a marble into a bowl of water and wet the face and hands and any exposed part lightly with it." says a writer in the Medical Times, "and not a mosquito will approach you." Shows Immensity of Vatican. The vatican was thoroughly cleaned lately, and a quantity of repainting done. The work employed 5,700 people for six months. Merely in cleaning wall papers 1,000 loaves of bread were used daily. Glycerin on Prunes. It is believed that French prune growers use glycerin to give their dried fruit its peculiar glistening appearance. Alcohol, with twice the heating power of petroleum, can be made from wood at a cost of 15 cents a gallon. School for Women Gardeners. The only school for women gardeners in London is at the Royal botanic gardens, Regent's park. . DR. SNELSON'S GREAT SERMON LAST SABBATH. "Woman and the Gospel; or, Woman's Debt of Gratitude to Christ and His Church," was the theme of an especially delightful and eloquent sermon by Presiding Elder F. G. Snelson, Ph. D., at Allen Chapel last Sabbath morning. The Doctor pictured the scene at the crucifixion when there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, and Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magda lene, and Jesus told his mother. "Woman, behold thy son, and John behold thy mother." "Christ thus set the seal of his religion and authority forever on woman. Woman owes her elevation and present day comfort to the Christian religion. Milton, our epic poet has drawn a delightful picture of Eve's blessed experience in the Garden of Eden. Neither is man complete without the woman, neither the woman without the man, and according to God's law woman has been placed in relative equality to man. The Mosaic views of the proper relation and relative position of man and woman needeth the finishing touches of Jesus Christ. He warmly espoused the cause of woman—demanded only one wife for one husband, and taught that the much-abused facility of securing divorce should be restricted to one single cause, and that infidelity. Jesus mingled familiarly as a friend with the warm hearted daughters of Israel, and b y the purity of his life, the elevation o this doctrine and the depth of his sympathetic regard for them won their confidence and affection. Oh, woman, this morning you owe a debt of gratitude to Christ above all others. You can repay it by sincerely embracing the Gospel and giving yourselves up to its high and solemn duties. As a sinner you dishonor your Emancipator and Friend. The moral character of the community is that of its women. I do not know whether the intellectual traits of man predominate hers or not, but it is true that the moral qualities of woman always predominate those of men. As is the woman's heart so is the woman's life, so is the woman's home, so is the woman's church. She has inherited the noble, responsible, sublime duty of giving moral and religious character to the home, the church and the world. Every Christian woman can do much good in the world. Cultivate your minds, your hearts, your fingers, with helpful and graceful accomplishments. Even the heroines of Homer knew no higher employment than to ply the distaff and the loom. The Greeks said that the proud daughters of Jupiter wore a veil which their own hands had finely woven. Honest, honorable labor will bing any woman he reshelter, her food, her raiment; therefore, ignoble lives for the sake of cash are as reprehensible as they are unnecessary and disgraceful. Unmeasured usefulness is open to every woman who is the proud name of such. Jesus said, "Behold thy mother." Cursed be the man that forsakes his mother and refuses to take care of her. Woe to the ungodly daughter who abandon her mother and leaves her upon the cold charities of a cruel community. "From that hour John took her into his own home"—I fear we men do not sufficiently shoulder our responsibilities in caring for these dear women who are the fountains of our life. What whole man is there that will not accumulate some treasures for home—wife and child and mother? I am an adorer, a worshiper of our own women. I have no patience with the brute Negro that hankers after a white woman, and thus serves to keep up the ravages of rape and the fury of mobs. I beg to repeat, I am an amorer of our own Afro-American women, and I am not an idolater, either, for there is nothing like them in heaven above or earth beneath or the waters under the earth. They are like themselves only. To me, they have no rivals or compeers in all God's wide and beautiful creation. I have seen the women of many lands and in their own country, for I have only recently traveled seven months in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Holland, Belgium, France and Germany, together with the islands of the seas, and among them all I have seen none that compare with my own fair Afro-American women. The best blood of all the races and climes commingles in their veins, and they combine in themselves all that is brightest and best, noblest and most beautiful in the womanhood of all ages and nationalities. In them are blended all the fire of the Arabic maiden, the exquisite taste of the French woman, the grace of the Spanish senorita, the poetic sentiment of the Italian, the wit of the Irish, the constancy of the Scotch lassie, the industry of the German fraillen, the intelligence of England's noblest dames, with a freedom and dash and subtle, resistless witchery that is wholly their own. There is no God but Jehovah, and the Afro-American women is his masterpiece. He had practiced, as it were, on women for a thousand years—had constructed Miriams and Judiths Zenobias and Cornelias, Cleopatras, Catharines, Elizabeths, and Marie Antoinettes—had turned out Grecian maidens and Roman mistresses, for nearly six thousand years, before he issued our fair and lovey ones. Then, then, did creation welcome her peerless crowned jewel! Thank God, then, for home, for such a woman—a wife; the sacred refuge of my life; for these noble feminine friends and sisters whose pure and loving companionship are among life's richest blessings and the treasures of earth. Truly, men, we have a goodly heritage! I praise God that my life has already been touched, thrilled and transformed with the life and enobling personality of such a Christian mother and wife and sister. All these are mine to-day! Oh, woman, open thy heart. This morning and "Behold thy Son!" Oh, man, "Behold thy Mother." No wonder that King Lemuel, says, "She is like the merchantship; she bringeth her food from afar." The Real Purpose of Grass A small city girl whose only playground is a paved court had the good luck recently to spend a day with her cousin in the country. Almost her first experience was a hard, full-length tumble out in the fields. As she picked herself up she seemed surprised to miss the bruises. Then she exclaimed delightedly: "I can't it lucky to the grass was there!" Father of Golf The man who was largely responsible for the introduction of golf in this country, Robert Lockhart, died recently in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was for years a linen importer in New York, and organized the first golf club in the United States in Yonkers, N. Y., in 1888. It was known as the "Apple Tree Gang." Subsequently he founded the St. Andrew's golf club. Yale Presidents' Mace. Space is provided in the gold and silver mace presented to the president of the corporation of Yale for the names of twenty more presidents in addition to the thirteen now on this symbol of academic authority. Musical Turkish Language The Turkish language is said by scholars to be the softest and most musical of modern times, being better adapted to the purpose of musical notation and recitation than even the Italian. NUMBER 22 PETER H. BURKE REV. E. R. VAUGHAN. . . The above cut represents the Rev. E. R. Vaughan, pastor of the $t. John's chapel, whose efforts along the line of church work has borne much fruit. When he took charge of the chapel, a debt of $570 stood against it. Through his efforts $500 of this debt has been paid. The outlook, with reference to his church work is very encouraging. W. H. Mrs. Maley Alexander, the prison reformer and Missionary is in the city and will hold meetings on the corner of 19th and McGee streets, commencing Wednesday evening, August 24. Every body is cordially invited to attend. The tent is comfortably seated and well lighted. A company of good singers will assist in the meeting. Mrs. Alexander is highly endorsed by both pulpit and press wherever she has worked, so don't miss this opportunity of hearing her. No admission will be charged; collection will be taken to defray expenses. Look for the big tent on the corner of 19th and McGee. Meeting every evening, continuing until the 7th of September. Praise meeting Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Making the Face Expressive. Generally speaking, what may be termed the mechanism of the face is the same in all of us, and the facial muscles are as susceptible of training as the muscles of the arms and legs. We can educate them to a considerable extent—as actors commonly do, without thinking of the problem from an anatomical standpoint—and thus may render our faces more expressive and proportionately more interesting. Irrigation In Kansas. Great state, Kansas! There is neither a mountain nor a marsh in all her length and breadth of $2,000 square miles. One third of her area is almost a barren steppe, owing to lack of rain. Irrigation will make the dry prairies a veritable "garden of the west," raise the Kansas corn crop to 300,000,000 bushels and increase her live stock valuation to $180,000,000.—New York Press. Religious Thought The Common Things. The sunshine and the gentle rain, The clear bird song that halts the morn. The shallow land with flower stain, The swaying banners of corn. The grass that whispers to the breeze— What common, common things are these! The broad, blue mirror of the lake That smiles back at the sleeping sky; The billows, too, that leap and break And fling their foury jewels high; That one by one Toss back the limbs of the sun. The stars that blaze as jewels blaze, Are they in their mystery, While they on their aspirations ways, Go speeding through eternity Across unfached sens of space On paths that we but dimly trace— All these are common—brook and bird, And rose of red, and meadow green; So common that they seem unheard, So common that they seem unseen. And they seem the right But burrows all of their delight. No common thing is held apart From us, or put in hold and key, But in the goodness of His heart They all are made for you and me, Is always seen God loves the best Things He makes the commonest moment. The Doing of Little Things if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldlest thou not have done to. How much rather then, when he sided to thee, wash and be clean—II Kings, v. 13. The trouble with most young Christians, and many old ones, is that they mistake the opportunities as well as the obligations of the Christian religion. The convert is usually filled with zeal so intense that, in his mind, only a great opportunity can measure up to it. When Clovis, the King of the Salle Franks, heard for the first time the story of how the Apostles all forsook the Savior and fled, leaving Him to trend the winepress of sorrow alone, he interrupted the preacher by springing to his feet, clashing his battle axe against his shield and shouting, "Oh, the I had been there with my men at arms!" Once in the early history of the church, it became necessary to pass a law that anybody who sought martyrdom, who thrust himself upon the Roman authorities in the hope of earning the martyr's crown, should be denied that happy guerdon. It was deemed proper for Christians to attend to their business and not waste time which might be devoted to other things in running around seeking martyrdom. All of this is very easily understood in the light of the present. There are thousands of people who would glory in the chance of being martyrns for Christ's sake. But God does not call us to be martyrns in that sense. He gives us no opportunity for such splendid public demonstration of the faith that is in us. He wants us to attend to the little things of life. The new Christian finds that he has no chance to blaze like a star in his path and thus attract the attention of millions, but that the Christian life consists in trying to do a multitude of little insignificant things, as keeping one's temper, telling the truth, being kind, gentle, refined and generous. For truly is it written, "What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God." Namman was very indignant when no more attention was paid to him—great man that he was—than a curt message delivered by a prophet's birelating that he could go and wash himself in the turbid Jordan river if he would be cleansed of his leprosy. He started back home in a rage, and only the common sense of his servants, who chose a fitting time to reconstrate, enabled him to see the folly of his course. But if he had been bidden to do some great thing how gladly would he have done it! If we have a zeal for God, for Christ, for our fellow men in our hearts, which would permit us to die to evidence it, why can we not exhibit the same zeal in smaller things and live so as to evidence it? Human life is made up of a "large aggregate of little things." The life that is best lived is the one which sacrifices self in little things—and in great ones, too, if need be—for others. There are chances for the martyrdom of self in a thousand little ways, each insignificant in itself, but which taken together constitute a noble foundation of character. The Christian religion for most of us must be an effort in accordance with the teaching of Christ to do the little things that lie at hand. "God much in little sees." If we do the little things that are at hand we shall gain strength, if the demand is ever made upon us, to master the great things with splendid courage and success. Let us despise not the day of small things in our Christian life.—Cyrus Townsend Brady. The Inner Life. This inner life is a tremendous reality. Its very invisibility emphasizes the realness of the reality. It is one of the richest heritages of the child of God. The outer life is only the scaffolding of the building; it is only the husk or shell. The inner life is the real building; it is the germ-hiding Fernel. All moral and spiritual defects are due to a vitiation of the inner life. The withering, lasting and uprooting of the soul's choice plants are never accomplished through the forces of the outer life; the work begins within. No man or woman with a sweet, healthy inner life can fail of success. Storms may howl and the earth may quake, but there is something within which preserves the calm eternal, and holds every whirling star of experience within its proper orbit. The inner life is fed by the waters of the Infinite and warmed by the leams of the Sun of Righteousness. How can we possess the rich, powerful inner life when body, mind and soul are constantly exercising their energies upon the vain, perishing things of earth? We must take time to cultivate the unseen fields of the soul. We must constantly stand face to face with God, drink in the strength of His nature and the inspiration of His presence. If we do not, the inner ote must perish. Prayer, meditation, reading—these are channels through which God pours His golden, vitalizing streams into the inner life. The saddest moment in life to a man or woman is when there is a discovery that the inner life is gone, and only the outer shell is left. Yet the inner life goes gradually and secretly. No one has ever been robbed of this priceless possession. Let us be watchful. Let us remember that as long as God is in this inner life there is security there, and that no thief has ever yet been able to break the lock of prayer and trust and Divine wisdom. The Gethsemane of Life. However bright the brightest of your lives may hitherto have been, yet for every one of you, I suppose, sooner or later the Gethsemane of life must come. It may be the Gethsemane of struggle and poverty and care; it may be the Gethsemane of long and weary sickness; it may be the Gethsemane of farewells that wring the heart by the deathheds of those we love; it may be the Gethsemane of remorse, and of well-nigh despair, for sins that we will not, but which we say we cannot, overcome. Well, my brethren, in that Gethsemane—ay, even in that Gethsemane of sin—no angel merely, but Christ himself, who bore the burden of our sins, will, if we ask, come to comfort us. He will, if, being in agony, we pray. He can be touched, he is touched, with the feeling of our infirmities. He, too, has trodden the winepress of agony alone; he, too, has palm face downward in the night upon the ground and the comfort which then came to blim he has bequeathed to us—even the comfort, the light, the hope, the faith, the sustaining arm, the healing anodyne of prayer. Yes, being in an agony, we pray; and the tailsman against every agony is there.—Canon Farrar. You cannot build a plous memory out of what is stolen from the poor. One Trust Never Misplaced There are days, says Canon Willink, when it is sometimes a painfully perplexing question, "Whom may I trust?" So many investments which were once thought to be perfectly safe have turned out to be well right worthless, so many securities have proved insecure, and in all ranks of life so many, once regarded as incorruptible and honorable, have broken down under the strain of temptation, that sometimes confidence in almost everybody and everything is sorely shaken. What a comfort, what a joy it is to turn to one who has never broken His word, who has never defaulted in His promises, and has never lost that committed to His keeping. Failure after long perseverance is better than not to try. Always Be Cheerful. God has a definite life plan for every human person, girding him visibly, or invisibly, for some exact thing which it will be the true significance and glory of his life to have accomplished. Away then, O man, with thy feeble complaints and feverish despondencies. If God is really preparing us all to become that which is the very highest and best thing possible there ought never to be a discouraged or uncheerful being in the world. — Horace Bushnell. There are no riches in God to the man who has a god in his riches. Our Trials Are Tests. All providences are doors to trials. Even our mercies, like roses, have their thorns. Our mountains are not too high, and our valleys are not too low for temptations; trials lurk on all roads. Everywhere, above and beneath, we are beset and surrounded with dangers. Yet no shower falls unpermitted from the threatening cloud; every drop has its order ere it hastens to the earth. The trials which come from God are sent to prove and strengthen us. Borrowed faith is worthless as religious capital. Proof of Christian Truth: It was not merely what Christ said to men about eternal verities that convinced them. It was something in Himself, an atmosphere surrounding Him, and a silent radiance shining from Him that made it easier for them to believe in their own spiritual nature and in the Divine existence and presence. Faith alone saves, but not the faith that is alone. God's Merciful Help. To every erring child God sends merciful help, says the Rev. F. B. Meyer. In the wilderness the meal is spread, and instead of remonstrance angel hands soothe the weary and despondent prophet. Our fits of depression and apparent desertion as often arise from physical as spiritual causes, and God knows our frame. THE ISSUE DEFINED SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT AND SPEAKER CANNON. Alike in the Address of Notification and in the Response Thereto, the Predominance of the Tariff Question is Distinctly Recognized. The two speeches delivered at Oyster Bay on the 27th of July, 1904, first by Speaker Cannon as chairman of the committee appointed by the Republican national convention to notify Theodore Roosevelt of his nomination for President of the United States; and, second, the speech of President Roosevelt, giving notice of his acceptance of that nomination—have settled the question as to what is the dominant issue in this year's campaign. If any doubt remained concerning the chief issue, almost the only issue, which divides the two great parties in the civic battle of 1904, such doubt has been completely removed. The tariff is the issue. It has been made the issue by the plain words alike of the authorized spokesman of the Republican party and of the candidate chosen by the unanimous action of the Republican party. In his address of notification Speaker Cannon devoted his attention to the tariff more largely than to all other subjects combined. After dwelling briefly upon the splendid history of the Republican party in its relation to the shaping of events and policies, Mr. Cannon said: "Under the lead of the Republican party for over forty years the United States, from being a third-class power among the nations has become in every respect first. The people rule. The people ruling, it is necessary that they should be competent to rule. Competency requires not only patriotism, but material well-being, education and statecraft. "The people, under the lead of the Republican party, wrote upon the statute books revenue laws, levying taxes upon the products of foreign countries seeking our markets, which replenished our treasury, but were so adjusted as to encourage our people in developing, diversifying and maintaining our industries, at the same time protecting our citizens laboring in production against the competition of foreign labor. Under this policy our manufactured product to-day is one-third of the product of the civilized world, FREE TR FREE SILV DEMO FREE TRADE FREE SILVER DEMOCRACY STILL CHASING HIMSELP. and our people receive almost double the pay for their labor that similar labor receives elsewhere in the world, thereby enabling us to bear the burden of citizenship. "Liberal compensation for labor makes liberal customers for our products. Under this policy of protection our home markets afford all our people a better market than has any other people on earth, and this, too, even if we did not sell any of our products broad. In addition to this, we have come to be the greatest exporting nation in the world. For the year ending the 30th of June, 1904, our exports to foreign countries were valued at $1,400,000,000, of which $450,000,000 were products of the factory. The world fell in our debt last year $470,000,000, an increase of $75,000,000 over the preceding year. "This, policy of protection has always been opposed by the opponents of the Republican party, and is opposed by them to-day. In their last national platform, adopted at St. Louis, they denounce protection as robbery. They never have been given power, but they proceeded by word and act to destroy the policy of protection. Their platform is as silent as the grave touching the gold standard and our currency system. Their chosen leader, after his nomination, having been as silent as the sphinx to that time, sent his telegram saying in substance that the gold standard is established, and that he will govern himself accordingly if he should be elected." Later on in his speech Mr. Cannon returned to the subject uppermost in his mind, as follows: "Correct revenue laws, protection or free trade, the gold standard and our currency system, all depend upon the sentiment of the majority of our people as voiced at the ballot box. A majority may change our revenue laws, a majority may change our currency laws; a majority may destroy the gold standard and establish the silver standard, or, in lieu of either or both, make the treasury note, non-interest bearing and irreceemable, the sole standard of value. "Sir, let us turn from the region of doubt and double-dealing, the debatable land, to the region of assured certainty. The Republican party stands for protection. It stands for the gold standard and our currency system. All these dwell in legislation enacted under the lead of the Republican party and against the most determined opposition of the Democratic party, including its leader and candidate. These being our policies, and having been most useful to the country, we have confidence in and love them. If it be necessary from time to time that they should be strengthened here and controlled there, the Republican party stands ready, with loving, competent hands, to apply the proper remedy. I say 'remedy.' Being our policies, we will not willingly subject them to their enemies for slow starvation on the one hand or to sudden destruction on the other. "Since the Republican party was restored to power, in 1897, under the lead of McKinley, our country has prospered in production and in commerce as it has never prospered before. In wealth we stand first among all the nations." Not less plain and positive on the subject of vital importance of the protective tariff as an issue was President Roosevelt in reply. He did not hesitate to declare himself in harmony with the proposition that protection is and must continue to be the settled, permanent policy of the Republican party when he said: "We have enacted a tariff law 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 whenever the need arises there should 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 tariff is beyond question; for otherwise the changes would amount not to readjustment, but to repeal. The readjustment when made must maintain and not destroy the protective principle. To the farmer, the merchant, the manufacturer, this is vital; but perhaps no other man is so much interested as the wage worker in the maintenance of our present economic system, both as regards the finances and the tariff. The standard of living of our wage workers is higher than that of any other country, and it can not so remain unless we have a protective tariff which shall always keep as a minimum a rate of duty sufficient to cover the difference between the labor cost here and abroad. Those who, like our opponents, 'denounce DE R CRACY protection as a robbery, thereby explicitly commit themselves to the proposition that if they were to revise the tariff no heed would be paid to the necessity of meeting this difference between the standards of living for wage workers here and in other countries; and therefore on this point their antagonism to our position is fundamental. "Here again we ask that their promises and ours be judged by what has been done in the immediate past. We ask that sober and sensible men compare the workings of the present tariff law, and the conditions which obtain under it, with the workings of the preceding tariff law of 1894 and the conditions which that tariff of 1894 helped to bring about." The fundamental difference in the attitudes of the two parties on the subject of protection is herein stated with great force. The Republican party stands committed to the doctrine that only through the operation of the protective policy is it possible to maintain the American standard of living, while the Democratic party, caring nothing for the American standard of living, but intent, now as always, upon cheapening and degrading American labor, brazenly antagonizes protection both as to principle and policy by denouncing it as "robbery" of the many for the benefit of the few. No matter if protection does maintain high wages and a high standard of living. Being "robbery," of course, protection must go. That is the Democratic attitude. Upon the general subject of ree-ricipity President Roosevelt said: "We believe in reciprocity with foreign nations on the terms outlined in President McKinley's last speech, which urged the extension of our foreign markets by reciprocal agreements whenever they could be made without injury to American industry and labor." By this rule there can be no reciprocity in products which compete with American industry and labor. It is a safe rule. It is the only Republican rule as laid down by the national Republican convention of 1904. It was what President McKinley meant at Buffalo in 1901. It is what President Roosevelt means now. It is also what the Republican party means all the time. --- THE ODD CORNER An Appeal to Maud. And the beets make me sad, But the onion bed is the worst. So on your bloomers, Maud, And take the pesky weeds Without any fuss. For woe is us. If ever they scatter their seeds! Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown. For the park, work, So don't try to shirk. And leave it to me alone. Just quicken your motions, Maud, And kneel through, cancer And kneel down in the dew. For it's right up to you To help get this garden clear! A Novel Team. The owner of a large ostrich farm in southern California has trained a pair of these huge birds to drive as he would drive horses, hitching them to a light buggy or trotting cart, which has in its design a third wheel. This is to prevent the vehicle from turning over. It is by no means an easy task to drive such a wierd team, as you can not pull up your "horses" by reins. If you did it would probably result in serious injury to the valuable birds. The only way to guide the conveyance is to hit the offside bird on the opposite side to that which you want him to go. Another objection to this kind of "horse" is that if he should catch sight of a bit of banana peel, or something equally attractive, he does not hesitate to make a dive sideways for it. As ostriches go like the wind, and can make a sudden dead stop, the jerk the rider receives is not a pleasant ont, if a piece of orange peel should happen accidentally to meet the eye of his strange "horses." A Chemical Detective: Truly the way of the transgressor is hard and his ingenuity is kept busy eluding the constantly increasing methods of detecting him. The latest device is extremely subtitle, and it will be a clever thief who can see his way clear out of the trap which a scientific mind has prepared for him. It was invented by a chemist of Budapest, and is a chemical powder, of a yellow color, which has the curious property of dyeing the skin of the person touching it a deep blue. The color is not removable by any known means, and washing it only makes the color deeper. However, after about a fortnight it begins to wear off, and at the end of about three months all traces of the coloration will vanish. Sword 276 Years Old Dr. J. W. Peck of Amoret, Mo., in Kansas City yesterday, has an heirloom in the form of a sword 276 years old. Dr. Peck declares it is the oldest sword in the United States. It was brought to this country by his great-grandfather more than 100 years ago, and has been handed down in his family through the succeeding generations. The sword bears the date 1629, during the time when Christian, king of Denmark, was carrying on his thirty years' war with Sweden. It bears a picture of the warrior monarch. On one side is an inscription in German as follows: "I am a good blade if you use me well." Another inscription on the reverse side says: "He who hath no love for the beautiful hath no heart in his body."—Kansas City Times. A Queer Pet. Many people have wondered why the Empress Eugenie always carries about with her, wherever she goes, a little wicker basket, and many speculations have been made as to its contents. The basket is lined with cotton wool, and in that soft substance nestles a hedgehog! It is the empress's only pet, and she would not dream of allowing it to be attended by any one but herself. She has rather a superstitious attachment to the curious creature, and believes that it has a talismanic power of insuring her safety and general well-being. Bulls Fatal to Family. It is a remarkable coincidence that on the same day that John Stewart of Westford, Vt., was killed by a bull on his farm his brother, W. D. Stewart of Bakersfield had a narrow escape from death by an enraged bull on his own farm. W. D. Stewart saved himself from the attacks of the infuriated animal by dodging around a hay crib built for sheep to feed from. Well Paid English Lawyer. Sir Edward Clarke, KC., is said to be the best-paid professional man in England. He distinguished himself in the baccarat case, the Bartlett case and the Jameson case, is a member of parliament, and was for six years solicitor general. His earnings at law are about $217 an hour. If he works ten hours a day, 300 days in a year. his income is $651,000 a year. Benevolent and Useful. Deacon Arland Eaton has caused to be placed by the roadside, near his farm buildings, in Hancock, N. H., a stone watering trough to furnish a public water supply from a neverfalling spring. It is inscribed, "Eaton, 1797-1904," and is intended to commemorate the settlement of his family in town. Kuropatkin a Crack Shot. General Kuropa'kin is a crack shot. When he was minister of war, during a tour of inspection he visited Sebasb topol and strolled with the commands ant along the boulevard, where there was a shooting saloon. His host invited him to a contest and the minister accepted, each to fire ten shots with a revolver at fifteen paces, the target being a piece of white cardboard about the size of a small cigarette case. With a revolver the general put all his ten shots in the target, to the complete discomfiture of the other competitor. Too Early To Tell. She—You say your brother is engaged to be married? He—Yes, it is just announced. She—When is the happy event to come off? He—Oh, it's too early to tell when the engagement will be broken. Yonkers Statesman. Spidera Like Music Spiders are passionately fond of music. At a performance in Missouri the concert hall was made disagreeable by the sudden invasion of spiders, which were drawn by a violin from the cracks and crannies of the ancient building. They crawled upon the floor and upon the stage. 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 ten cent, 16-ounce package of Defiance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, anywhere in the above named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and received by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before September 1st, 1904. October and November will be the best months to visit the Exposition. Remember that Defiance is the only starch put up 16 oz. (a full pound) to the package. You get one-third more starch for the same money than of any other kind, and Defiance never sticks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mail September 5th. Starch for sale by all dealers. An Independent Girl. "Your daughter plays a great deal of classical music in a rather original way," remarked the man with gold glasses. "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, regretfully. "She bought the piano and the music out of her own spending money, and I suppose she feels that she has a right to do what she pleases with them." — Washington Star. Time Improves. "The edge of the razor," said the garrulous barber, "improves by laying it away for a time." "That being the case," rejoined the victim in the chair, "I'd advise you to lay the one you are using away for about 2,000 years."—Chicago Daily News. Later They Charge The editor of Collier's complains that he only received 12,000 short stories for the contest for the big $5,000 prize offered by his paper. But 12,000 short story writers are not to be sneezed at. The danger is, they'll finally become popular novelists, and dramatize their own works, and charge us a dollar to see 'em played! Perhaps They Are Happy. Harold Hanter—Isn't it wonderful what numbers of people there are of whom one has never heard? Gertrude Giltedge—Yes, and yet I have no doubt that many of them are quiet happy in their own way.—Brooklyn Life. In your way all the roses are springing Over the keen thorns of wrong: Take heart for the future! Life's singing The old hallelula-sweet song! —F. L. Stanton. Took Advantage of 'Em: "Lightning killed two mules on the Jones place," says The Whitsett Courier, "but both animals were advanced in age, and were fast asleep at the time, and, consequently, did not see it coming." Kentucky Man's Duty. Jamboree, Ky., August 29 (Special). —After suffering for years with pain in the back Mr. J. M. Coleman, a well known citizen of this place, has found a complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Knowing how general this disease is all over the country, Mr. Coleman feels it is his duty to make his experience public for the benefit of other sufferers. "I want to recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to everybody who has pain in the back," Mr. Coleman says. "I suffered for years with my back. I used Dodd's Kidney Pills and I have not felt a pain since. My little girl too complained of her back and she used about half a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills and she is sound and well." Backache is Kidney Ache. Dodd's Kidney Pills are a sure cure for all Kidney Aches, including Rheumatism The Boy and the Bird. I've watched you from the meadow All the sunny day; Now, up to the blue, With the wings of you, An' tell what the angels say! —F. L. Stanton. HOUSE = HOLD TALKS Smart coats that cover and protect the gowns are in demand for many other occasions as well as for wear during stormy weather. This one, while primarily designed for rain, is available for traveling, driving and all occasions that are liable to mean dust and can correctly be made of silk, linen or mohair as well as of rainproof cloth, although shown in cravenette material, Oxford gray in color, stitched with corticell silk. ```markdown ``` The coat is an exceptionally good one and is made with loose fronts, fitted backs and side-backs, over which the outer portion, that is stitched at its edges and which falls over the shoulders, is arranged. There is no collar, the neck being simply faced and stitched and the sleeves are the comfortable loose ones with flare cuffs. At the waist is a belt made in two portions. The quantity of material required for the medium size is $11\%$ yards 27 inches wide, 6 yards 44 inches wide or $5\%$ yards 58 inches wide when material has figure or nap; $10\%$ yards 27 inches wide, 6 yards 44 inches wide or $4\%$ yards 58 inches wide when material has neither figure nor nap. In Lavender Linen. A captivating model of lavender linen worn within the week was of the coarse weave. The skirt was laid in shallow box plaits three inches wide at the top and four at the point at which they were released. The plaits were stitched a quarter of an inch from the edge to the point of release, and there was less than an inch of space between the box plaits. The plaits were pressed down. The skirt was short. The bolero jacket came two-thirds the way from the collarless top to the waist line, and had a yoke piece of heavy white lace which extended in a deep point over each shoulder. A narrow band of lavender linen was inserted around the edge of the lace yoke within an inch of the edge of the lace that joined the body of the jacket. The back of the jacket had two pressed-in plaits, with lace between them, and with more white lace—all these insertions being the same width as the box plaits—let in at each side between them and the armholes. The front was finished the same way, a box plait on each side, but dipping lower than in the back over the lace under blouse. The sleeves were kimono shape. Philadelphia Ledger. Natty Yachting Costume. Natty Fashion Costume Yachting costumes are the fad of the hour, and not only the experienced yachts-woman is ordering them by the dozen, but even the woman who cannot set foot on even a ferryboat without suffering the pangs of mal dermer is having her share of the nautical touch in her gowns. The material for one of the most effective is a round thread white linen and the sailor collar, cuff, belt and skirt band are in navy blue linen embroidered with white petit pois, or little peas, as the French call our familiar polka dot. The blouse follows the usual shirt-waist lines, except that it is cut down to meet the collar and a chemiseette inserted. The sleeve is the familiar shirt sleeve with the embroidered cuff. The skirt is widely gored, thirteen of them, and the embroidered band is edged with navy blue soutache on either edge. The hat band follows suit, and the shape is the regulation masculine design. House Jacket. Pretty house jackets are among the comforts of life that no woman should be without. This one is quite novel, inasmuch as it includes a yoke collar that extends well over the shoulders, and is both simple and attractive. The original, from which the drawing was made, is of white batiste, ring-dotted with blue and trimmed with bands of embroidery, collars and cuffs being of collar that extends well over the shoulders, and is both simple and attractive. The original, from which the drawing was made, is of white batiste, ring-dotted with blue and trimmed with bands of embroidery, collars and cuffs being of white; but all the pretty washable fabrics used for garments of the sort are appropriate for immediate wear—challile, albatross and the like for cooler weather. The shaped back gives admirable lines and also an effect of neatness, while the loose fronts are both graceful and comfortable. When liked, the box plaits can be omitted and rathers used in their stead. The jacket consists of the fronts, joined to a round yoke, backs and side-backs with full sleeves. The yoke-collar is separate and arranged over the whole, and there is a choice allowed between a turn-over and standing collar. At the wrists are shaped cuffs that harmonize with the yoke- collar and are exceedingly effective. The quantity of material required for the medium size is $4 \%$ yards 27 inches wide, $4 \%$ yards 32 inches wide or $2 \%$ yards 44 inches wide, with 4 yards of banding to trim as illustrated. Cheese Sandwiches A circular cracker, of the variety known as water thin, is crisped in the oven. It is then spread with rich cream cheese, rather thickly, and topped with a layer of ruby bar-le-duc. This is made of stemmed red currants floating in a delicious, thin jelly. The other cheese sandwich consists of two oblongs, $3\times 1\frac{1}{2}$ inches, of brown bread, cut very thin and freed from crust. The filling is prepared by rubbing some cream cheese very soft and blending it with minced watercress and two tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise dressing. The brown bread sandwich is served on a crisp lettuce leaf. It is a tasty and delicious sandwich for summer luncheons and for picnics. Nothing can fill its place. Novel Linen Wrap Cut upon the lines of a very full cape, there is a hint of a sleeve very cleverly managed. That portion which covers the shoulder and arm is cut longer than the rest, seamed for a short distance and decorated with a turnover band of embroidery. An emplement of the linen appears over the shoulders, and the little turnover collar and the strap that runs down the front are of the same embroidery that decorates the suggestion of a sleeve. The accompanying skirt is gored, with a box plait in each gore, and simply finished with a braid-bound hem. Materials for Wraps. Warm wraps and pretty ones as well are being fashioned out of all delicate colors of cashmeres and soft silk and wool materials and for that matter out of the two combined. For instance, the thin fancy silks that look no heavier than chiffons are used as the outer side and the same color lines the cobweb and gives it an air of practicability without robbing it of its daintiness. Girl's Frock. Long-waisted frocks always are be-coming to little girls and are exceedingly charming made of white muslin and all the many attractive fabrics of cotton and linen. The model shown is exceptionally desirable and allows of making with either high or low neck, while it is adapted both to all the materials mentioned and to the pretty light weight wools that are so cotton and linen. The model shown is exceptionally desirable and allows of making with either high or low neck, while it is adapted both to all the materials mentioned and to the pretty light weight wools that are so becoming and attractive. As shown however, the material is dotted batiste with yoke and trimming of embroidery. The frock consists of the body lining, which is optional, waist and skirt. The yoke is formed by facing the lining to indicated depth, and the waist is gathered at both upper and lower edges. The one-piece skirt is straight, gathered at its upper edge, and is joined to the waist, the sash concealing the seam. The quantity of material required for the medium size (6 years) is 3 yards 27 inches wide, $2 \%$ yards 32 inches wide, or $2 \%$ yards 44 inches wide, with $ \% $ yards of all-over embroidery and 7 yards of edging to trim as illustrated. Daring Color Combinations. Some daring color combinations in the flower-trimmed hats are seen. A picture shape in pale lavender chip was covered with crimson roses, with a few pink ones for variety. Not a scrap of foliage nor a bit of ribbon softened the contrast. The effect was pleasing, if a little striking. A pale blue wide hat had the entire flat crown covered with purple pansies. The inside brim of the hat was white maline. A turban of white chip had a crown of pansies, while a gorgeous green bird of paradise with a yellow head trimmed the side. Summer Lingerie No line of summer goods has been more attractive this season than the dainty lingerie for young girls. A pretty and serviceable petticoat is fashioned of sheer nailsook and finished with a deep flounce, edged with Cluny lace or exquisite embroidery Dainty corset covers of the finest nailsook and shirt waist ruffles, elab orate with embroidery and ribbon make most appropriate little summer gifts among girls. Scarf for the Shoulder. A novelty for summer wear is the lace scarf, or shoulder throw. This is generally lined with chiffon. There are others of silk that will be worn when expensive lace cannot be procured, and they are dainty, too, when worn with light summer gowns. Black is always a popular color for them, and is generally the choice of the one who cannot match her gown and hat. SHIP BUILT OF CRYSTALS. Product of Famous Salt Mines of Droitwich, England. This is a briny ship, which, however, has never sailed "the briny." In the sunlight it is a thing of beauty, sending back the radiance from its crystals. The salt that covers it is of unusual purity and is of the Droitwich kind, manufactured at the town of that name in Worcestershire, England, famous for its brine baths. Droitwich is probably the saltiest town of its size on earth; there are hills, mountains and giant blocks of it, of a whiteness and purity that evoke the admiration of the beholder—all of which is under cover in the converting plants. WHEN DENTISTRY WAS YOUNG. Primitive "Weapons" Once Used for Tooth Pulling. Dr. O. C. Sharpe, a dentist of Danielson, Conn., has in his possession two pairs of forceps that represent the first departure that there is any record of from the old turnkey, the first universal instrument used for the extraction of teeth. These forceps were presented to Dr. Sharpe fifteen years ago by a member of the family in whose possession they had been for over 100 years. At the time these instruments were in use there were no dentists, the tooth-pulling being done by the doctor, a muscular member of the family, or, as it more commonly happened, by the village shoemaker. On what was probably a never-forgotten occasion, a handle on one pair was broken and a strong piece of wood securely wound with the "waxed end" used by shoemakers was substituted. Exploration in Canaan At a recent meeting of the Royal Institute, Maj.-Gen. Sir Chas. W. Wilson delivered an address, in which he described the work of exploration in Palestine during the past twelve months. Operations were being prosecuted at Gezer, a city that was a place of importance long before the Israelites passed over Jordan, and had a continuous history down to the period of the Crusades. No Levitical city had hitherto been explored, and the committee were consequently desirous that the examination of Gezer should be of the most searching nature. When the work was commenced no one expected that he would find the untouched cremated remains of a cave-dwelling race which was not acquainted with metal, or the undisturbed dead of one of the Canaanite tribes, with their bronze weapons and food vessels of hand-made pottery. Yet these and other discoveries had supplied a chronological starting point for the archaeology of pre-Israelite Canaan, and had thrown a great deal of light upon the domestic life of the Amorites, and possibly of the Israelites under the Judges. New York Roof Garden. A roof garden of the Broadway variety is a novelty on the East Side. Comfort on the Roof. though concert halls and cafes of all descriptions are common enough there. The Clinton Hall roof garden may not actually be the only one east of the Bowery, but it is the first to attract general attention. One should go to the Clinton Hall roof on a bright, starlight night, which indeed is true of any roof garden.—New York Sun. Latest Novelty in Clocks The latest novelty in clocks has just made its appearance in France. It consists of a perfect representation, in antique silver, of an old church, transparent enamel forming the stained windows. The clock dial is one inch in diameter and is placed in the belfry, where tiny bells chime every hour. The roof of the church proper can be raised, disclosing a gold-lined receptacle for matches. Long Motor-Car Runs. A motor car recently made a nonstop run of 2,000 miles, the journey being from London to Perth and back twice. A motor wagon with a fiveton load ran from Seaham Harbor to London (294 miles) in fifty-four hours, including stoppages to change drivers and take up water. Will Keep Clergyman Busy. A Manchester, N. H., clergyman who returned after a month's absence on vacation found such a large mail awaiting him at the postoffice that he had to take a large dress suit case to carry it home in. BEES BREAK UP A FUNERAL Swarm Out of the Pulpit and Put the Mourners to Flight. While a funeral service was in progress in the Vernon church, near Plummer's Landing, a swarm of bumble bees which had nested under the pulpit was disturbed, and, emerging from its quarters, caused a panic among the mourners, says a dispatch from Flemingsburg, Ky. The officiating minister and friends hastily retreated from the sanctuary and were closely followed by the pall-bearers with the casket, warding off the bees as best they could in their flight. A number of the mourners and two pall-bearers are reported to have been badly stung. However, they remained until the funeral service had been concluded in the church yard. The exact location of the nest cannot be determined until the pulpit is turn away. The congregation dislikes to tinker with it at this time, the eve of a protracted religious meeting. Unless the bees remain under cover the meeting will probably be held in a grove. Publisher Exidently Hoodooed Mr. St. John Adcock, the author, is experiencing strange luck. A short time age the public were to have been in possession of his latest novel. The book was printed in Scotland, and the first edition was being sent to London by steamer, but the author received word that the ship has foundered, and his new book now lies on the ocean bed. Mr. Adcock's book of poems was also delayed in publication, by the first edition being burnt in a fire at the printer's. He says he is somewhat curious to see what dark fate is in store for his next work. Mammoth Watermelon. A This huge specimen was grown in California and weighed 350 pounds. Girls In Successful Whale Hunt A great whale hunt in Nestling Bay, Shetland islands, came to an end the other morning, after having lasted twenty-four hours. The whales, which numbered about sixty and were from ten to twenty-five feet in length, entered the bay. Next day a number of boats went out, their crews armed with guns and other weapons. There was a scarcity of hands, owing to most of the men being away at the fishing, but girls volunteered in large numbers, and from their boats kept the whales from escaping by throwing stones. Forty whales were in turn driven near shore and either shot or harpooned. Fossil in Bed of Limestone. A queer bird fossil has been found in a bed of limestone near Eureka Springs, Mo. It is quite large, and is evidently the fossil of a prehistoric bird. A strange feature is the position, showing that it was on the alert, squatting on the ground, with its head turned to one side. Scientists who have seen it say that it belonged to the cretaceous period, but they do not attempt to account for the bird's position. How it became fossilized while on the alert is a mystery. Collie Drives Off Cows and Hawks. Coffie Drives On Cows and Hawks. On a farm in Sangerville is a year-old Scotch colli which has taken up on herself the general oversight of things. No crow or hawk can alight on the place and remain any longer than it takes her to get to it, neither are the hens and geese allowed to go beyond their bounds. The intelligence that she exhibits is wonderful, and it is safe to say that no offer could tempt her owner to part with her.—Lewiston Journal. Somewhat Ungallant Toast. To Woman: The Bitter Half of Man! Peter Hoffman recently visited Savin Rock, Conn., and while there found a large gold ring firmly embedded in the shell of a live oyster. The ring was a wedding ring, in which the inscription "H. R. to L. D. 1875," was plainly visible, though it must have been in the water for a long time. BOTH TABLE AND DESK. Handsome Piece of Furniture, Ingenious and Useful. An ingenious piece of furniture is that just patented by an Indiana man which comprises a desk and table. As is shown in the picture, the transformation from one to the other is easily and quickly accomplished The Table-Desk. through the unique arrangement of the several parts. As a table a smooth rectangular surface is presented which may be used for any of those purposes to which the drawing room table is usually put. Rows of drawers, dainty lockers and shelves line the sides of the affair. Converted into a desk, the user has the advantage of a smooth writing surface, pigeonholes for the writing material and paraphernula and an ample upper ledge or shelf for such use as he may desire. Take en all in all, this is one of the most complete and handy contrivances of the kind that has been granted patent rights recently. A Valuable Gift. Will Carleton, the poet and lecturer, was lecturing in a Western city several years ago, when, on leaving the platform, he was accosted by a pleasant shabby looking old woman. "Mr. Carleton," she said, "I want to ask a great favor. Will you give me the handkerchief you carried while you lectured this evening?" "Why, what on earth do you want that for?" "I am very poor, Mr. Carleton," she said, "and if you give me that handkerchief I think I can live on it a year." Mr. Carleton stared. "A year! You shall certainly have it," and the old women retired with the handkerchief, profusely thanking him. Later Mr. Carleton learned that she had embroidered his name on it, and "raffled" it to so good effect that she cleared several hundred dollars enough to live on for a year.—Mon treal Herald. Queer English Court Decisions. A new set of false teeth was awarded last May as damages to a Clapton coachman who had bitten upon a small pebble which had somehow got into a steak-pudding he was eating at a coffee shop, and broken and strained the set of teeth he was using; while "the first and second pick of the next litter of pups" was the amount of damages gravely entered for a Plaistow dog-fancier who had had a little trouble with another of the craft as to the disposal of some pedigree fox terriers. Great-Grandma's Pattens. The pattens that our great-grand-mothers wore instead of rubbers were clogs of wood standing on a ring of iron. Straps, which the feet slipped into, held them on. Singular Fiddler. Frank Clawson is the name of a singular fiddler of Atlanta, who is without hands. Many years ago he was caught in a blizzard and his arms were frozen so badly that both hands were amputated at the wrists. For a long time the violin was silent; but, being a mechanical genius, he invented a contrivance of wire to enable him to wield the bow. The fingering was more difficult, but by practice he trained the stump of his left hand to make the necessary shifts from one string to another and the varying positions. With the violin held in place by his chin and knees and with the help of his fingerless arms, Clawson manages to play his old-time selections with nearly as much skill as he formerly did. Turtles in Fierce Eight: Two turtles, weighing not less than fifty pounds each, engaged in a fierce fight on the banks of a pond in Gardiner. For a full hour they fought on, unmindful of the spectators gathered about them. Both teeth and claws were used freely and more than once each was obliged to seek the protection offered by his thick shell. After the fight about half of one turtle's tail was found cleanly cut off, as with a knife. TICKLE GRASS BY BYRON WILLIAMS The Suicide of Swallow. Swallow was a "native." Who he was or from whence he came, none assumed so prehistoric a knowledge. Like Topsy, he had "just happened," away back in the dim, misty pioneer days of Highy, then a mere trading post, now a great city of meat strikes and cosmopolitan quarters. That is why all the newspaper boys knew Swallow, knew him as a brilliant but erratic disciple of special assignments, apt to be flush to day, a panhandler to morrow, a man with an abused past and an uncertain future made more vacillating because of the "dope" habit. Many and many a time he had been counted down and out by the gang, but he rose up smiling, like Truth, uncrushed—but hungry. And then Swallow developed a toboggan gait. The first of the month had found him the possessor of a "cow-choking wad," as the slang parlance of the club remarked. A week later he staggered into the Times office at 2 in the morning, his face drawn in abject contour, his clothing bedraggled and unkept. Sidling up to Brown, the city editor, he whispered: "It's all off, Brownie. I'm all in. There's positively nothing doing. Friends"—here he sobbed feelingly—"friends all gone—money—(sob)—all gone. Brownie, I'm gown' down to the lake and—and—go—the same old way!" That was the beginning. Brown gave him a dollar and thought that would be the ending—of both the dollar and the suicide. During the week a half dozen of the boys heard the same story and dismissed it in much the same manner. Then came a casual mention at the club, and mutual recognition that the "old war horse" was developing a peculiar trait—one which might, indeed, lead him to a rash personal act. After that the gang pitted him, argued with him, and at last wearied of him. Regularly and zealously he made the rounds, mysteriously announcing his terrible intention. Then came the fatal night when he blundered into the club where the "bunch" were agreeing for the seventy-fifth time there was "nothing in the business." Weeping softly, while his bosom heaved with emotion, he confided to the coterie that the end had indeed come! This was the fatal night! To-morrow morning they would find his lifeless body floating on the tidewater, a soggy, sorrowful speck beneath the turning curlews and the wheeling gulls! Jones of the Tribune, who had been posted zealously during the past two weeks, and to whom the suicide tale was as familiar as that of "Little Bo-Peep," arose with a flash of determination in his eye. "Swallow"—he spoke sharply—"Swallow, are you going to drown yourself?" Swallow humbly bowed his head and wept! "Well, old man, you've been a good friend to all of us here" waving his arm toward the wondering auditors—"and we have tried"—swallowing—"in our weak way to be worthy; but if you feel that you must die"—here he turned toward his fellows for their approbation—"if you feel that you must die, why - why, well all go down to the lake with you, Swallow, and find you a good, deep place!" For a moment there was deep silence. Swallow looked startlingly into the faces of his follows, realization dawning dilaterly. Then, when the full force of the statement made its impression upon his befuddled brain, he turned with a groan and, before willing friends could apprehend, had plummed down the stairs and disappeared. Consternation followed. Several of the boys, not busy for the time being, made frantic efforts to head off the desperate suicide, for despite his hallucinations many of the older men loved Swallow for what he had been, rather than what he now was. Morning came, the day sped, and again the diurnal wheel turned, but no Swallow! A week passed, then two, and his friends mourned him pliously, fervently, dutifully, feeling that they, per haps, had hastened his doom. A year had intervened, with its many changes, and Swallow was for the moment forgotten. One busy morning some three weeks later, Brown, knee-deep in the wreckage, was sparring for "30," when the door opened and in walked a nattily dressed man of good bearing, clean shaven and jaunty despite the white in his hair. Brown looked once, then he took another look and gasped! The visitor smiled and spoke, his hand extended: "Yes, it's me—Swallow! Glad to see me?" For answer Brown hugged him moderately, as was Brown's wont when prodigals returned. "But—but, where—I thought you had committed suicide! You remember you were going to drown—" Swallow interrupted him with a sweep of his hand. "I—I got married instead!"—matter of fact. "She's over at the Auditorium. Boys are coming over at 3 to morrow. Be there?" Brown was there! And the resurrection of Swallow was complete! 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. NFFICE: No. 117 West Sixth St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion .8.50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion .20 For two inches, three month .8.00 For two inches, six month .8.00 For two inches, nine months .10.00 For two inches, twelve months .12.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. This is a busy week for school teachers. The Afro-Americans are with Roosevelt because he is with them. "Thrice armed is he whose cause is just." Our cause is just and we are bound to win. If Parker is elected wages will go down. Remember that, Afro-American working people. We should rely upon the strong common sense of the people to rebuke Democracy at the polls. The Republican party seeks to convince the people. The Democratic party seeks to scare them. Let our colored citizens turn out Friday and do honor to our distinguished Republican nominees. And still the burnings go on under mob law. One day these deeds, like chickens, will come home to roost. The Republicans and citizens are extending a warm welcome to Senator Fairbanks, the nominee for vice president. Is Joseph W. Folk the first reformer of the great state of Missouri, and is he the first man that tried to convict criminals of all kinds? The Republicans have been fighting for a principle for thirty-odd years or more, and there is no reason why they should go out of their ranks to find a reformer. Stay at home and don't go a flirting with eagles that have no wings; they may not land you softly; they haven't done so yet. So let every Republican vote his own ticket. Maryland is normally Republican, and in spite of the unfair election law, which aims to disfranchise all Afro-Americans, the state will give a good majority to Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The Southern Democratic oligarchy delights to honor Vardaman, Tillman, Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, and others of their like, whose stock in trade is their hostility to the Afro-American people. The Democrats are using the alleged woes of the Filipinos Just now during the campaign, but when the election is over they'll have no more use for the brown man of the Orient than they have now for the black men of America. Don't all rush at once to the neighborhood of Eighteenth and Woodland and invest in property, simply because the property holders there are frightened out of their homes. Wait awhile and give prices a chance to drop. An elaborate program has been arranged to entertain our distinguished guests, Senator Fairbanks and Hon. C. P. Walbridge, nominee for governor. The program of the concert and speaking at Convention hall will be especially interesting. The Afro-Americans, the French-Americans, the Irish-Americans, the German-Americans, the Bohemians --- Americans, the Scandinavian-Americans, the Italian-Americans, and every other class of Americans will this year vote for the typical Americans, Roosevelt and Fairbanks. In union there is strength. Negroes of this city are making another plunge into business enterprises. It is to be hoped that they will profit from past experiences and let not their hard earned dollars get away through loose business methods. It has been said that the Negroes of this city draw from public funds nearly one-quarter of a million dollars annually, and yet they cannot support one little institution. If each one was to give the small sum of 10 cents, there would be no need of an appeal to the white citizens. The Department of Justice, under the Roosevelt administration, has unearthed many cases of peonage in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and successfully prosecuted many Southern Caucasians who were holding their Afro-American brethren in bondage. In every instance the offender was a Democrat. The United States, by constitutional amendment, has given the right to vote to every man without regard to race or color; but this enactment of the whole people is nullified by the Democrats of certain Southern states, who declare that only Caucasians shall exercise the rights of seffrage. The Republican party has taken up the matter and made a declaration for reduction of representation in cases where the franchise has been unconstitutionally limited. This will be carried into effect by the next Congress. "I know of the bravery and character of the Afro-American soldier. He saved my life at Santiago. I have had occasion to say so in many articles and speeches. The Rough Riders were in a bad position when the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry came rushing up the hill, carrying everything before them. The Afro-American soldier has the faculty of coming to the front when he is needed most. In the civil war he came 400,000 strong, and I believe he saved the Union.—President Roosevelt. BRANCH HEADQUARTERS HERE Republicans Recognize Kansas City's Political Importance. Branch headquarters of the Republican state committee will be established in Kansas City. This is the first time either state committee has recognized Kansas City as anything more than a spot on the map, and no formal action has been taken on this subject even now. However, there is an agreement that W. S. Dickey is to be chairman of the executive committee which Chairman Neidringhaus is now selecting. It was also agreed at the St. Louis meeting that if Mr. Dickey chose to establish a headquarters for Western Missouri at Kansas City it would please the candidates and be thoroughly satisfactory to the committee. The headquarters will be in St. Louis as they always have been, but the branch in Kansas City will have supervision of detail work for at least half of the state. The telephone will be used daily to compare information and prevent complications. The Son is glad that Mr. Dickey is to be given this responsible position and that Kansas City is selected as the headquarters. We wil then have right under our eyes an example of what a qualified man of integrity can do for his town or city. Wait for the Moberly excursion Sunday, Sept. 11th, via WABASH. $1.25 Round Trip to Moberly Sunday, Sept. 11th, via WABASH. Visit your friends at Moberly Sunday, Sept. 11th, $1.25 round trip via WABASH. Moberly excursion train stops at Brunswick, Keytesville, Salibury and Huntsville Sunday, Sept. 11th, $1.25 round trip. Sunday, Sept. 11th, will be a great day at Moberly. Everybody going on the excursion. Sunday, Sept. 11th, will be the last excursion to Moberly this season. Take advantage of it and go along. Open house at Moberly. Best town in the country for Sunday excursions. Train leaves Union depot at 8:30 the a. m., Sunday, Sept. 11th, for Moberly. Only $1.25 round trip. SOUTHERN MOB LAW. Within five days three Negroes have been bound at the stake in Georgia for alleged crimes. The cessation of this awful barbarism for the past year or so in the South was only temporary, the old blood-curdling record having been maintained during the past several months. In the cases of Reed and Cato, who were burned on the 16th at Stratessboro, Ga., both were tried in court and sentenced to hang September 9. Though death the sentence meant, whether the lapse of several weeks in the execution or simply an unnatural desire to see and smell the burning of human flesh and witness an awful spectacle, will possibly never be known. The fact that these criminals were burned, after being sentenced to a death penalty for crime, makes the case one of new record and one which gives the legal authorities more power than ever to bring to justice those who too kpart in the burning. They deserve conviction and punishment to the fullest extent of the law of England. To the board of managers of the Old Folks and Orphans' home: Enclosed please find a report of all money received by me for the home from November, 1903, to August 12, 1904: From Mrs. Lizzie Morgan (for board of child) ..... $ 9.00 From Mrs. L. Munley (for board) ..... 2.25 From Mrs. Edna Hersey (for board) ..... 2.00 From Mrs. Harden (for board) ..... 1.00 From J. L. Walker (for board) ..... 12.00 From B. F. Cargyle (for board) ..... 1.00 From Geo. Logan ..... 2.65 From Rev. Dickerson ..... 2.35 From Mrs. Dickerson ..... .25 From deacons of Second Baptist Church ..... 2.26 From Mrs. Newview, for Ladies Covenant No. 20 ..... 4.00 From Mr. and Mrs. Harris ..... .50 From Mrs. Parham ..... .25 From John Franco (at brick yard) ..... 3.40 From C. H. Ward (for barbers at D. Lucas's shop) ..... 2.40 From T. G. Jackson (Building L.'s Union) ..... Laborers' Union) ..... From D. G. Watson. ..... From Dr. J. F. Shannon ..... From Dr. E. B. Ramsey ..... From J. T. McCampbell ..... From Theo. Smith ..... From T. W. Bell ..... From a friend ..... From a well-wisher ..... From Mrs. Annie Morris ..... From Mr. Snell ..... From Coates House Cafe ..... From waiters Baltimore Hotel ..... From Mrs. W. W. Waters ..... From Mrs. C. E. Jones ..... From Mrs. John Rone, sr ..... From Mrs. B. B. Brown ..... From Attucks School ..... From M. E. Conference ..... From Allen Chapel ..... From A. M. E. Zion Church ..... From C. M. E. Church ..... From Asbury M. E. Church ..... From St.Luke's A. M. E. Church ..... From Burns M. E. Church Report of receipts and disbursements of the Old Folks and Orphans' home from August 12, 1903, to August 12, 1904: Receipts from business men and other white citizens..... $183.00 From County Court..... 50.00 From colored churches as follows: From.Allen Chapel, A. M. E. 28.30 From Asbury M. E. Church.. 4.04 From A. M. E. Zion Church.. 2.00 From Baptist Alliance..... 3.33 From Second Baptist Church 26.51 From Rev. S. W. Bacote.. 2.00 From Burns M. E. Church.. 3.08 From C. M. E. Church.. 2.00 From Green Pasture Baptist For car fare (for carpenter who donated service)..... .50 For lumber ..... 77.50 For carpenter work ..... 25.00 For painting ..... 2.50 For interest on mortgage ..... 60.00 For insurance on house, etc. ..... 10.80 For attorney fees (for trans- ferring lot, donated)..... 5.00 For recording deed to lot don- ated ..... .135 For securing abstract ..... 25.00 For premium on Julia Fisher's insurance ..... 4.50 For printing reports ..... 5.35 $1,045.29 Balance on hand ..... 13.01 $1,058.30 Respectfully submitted, LUELLEN WILLIAMS, Sec. 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 sprite 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. 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. NEGROES AT THE WORLD'S FAIR If things are as they say, good will be done. There must be an element of good in anything that will make negroes sticw together and resent insults that are needlessly thrustt upon them. In time they will learn to forsee these unpleasant features and take steps to forestall them, but never can this be done until they love self less and each other more. PECULIAR FACTS. It does not matter what a white publisher says in his paper concerning a Negro, the Negro subscribes for the paper and pays for it every week. If the white publisher should tell the Negro to stick his head in the fire and burn it off, he would promptly obey, and his friends buy the paper and pay for it. The time has come for the Negroes to consider these things. Subscribe and pay for journals run by colored publishers, and thus enable the journals to say more about the race. THE NEW MERCHANDISE FOR AUTumn wearing has been arriving for weeks past. Never has this store had a better and more representative stock of goods to show than right now. From top to bottom the new things are now on display. It is a good time to inspect the new things. Emery, Bird Thayer 66 Successors to BULLENE, MOORE, ENERY & CO. Wabash Train TO ST. LOUIS Leave KANSAS CITY, - - - - 11:30 p. m. Daily Arrive WORLD'S FAIR STATION, - 7:00 a. m. " Arrive ST. LOUIS (Union Station), - 7:15 a. m. " Wabash is the only line to WORLD'S FAIR Main Gate. Return Train leaves St. Louis 11:45 p. m. for Kansas City. Ask your Agent for Tickets over the Wabash. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. M. C. SHIELDS, TRAVELING PASSEYER AGENT. 903 MAIN STREET. The Stoeltzing Stove CHEF'S OVEN Sunday, Sept. 11th, will be a great day at Moberly. Everybody going on the excursion. Sunday, Sept. 11th, will be the last excursion to Moberly this season. Take advantage of it and go along. Only one more excursion to Moberly this year. Sunday, Sept. 11th. Train leaves Union depot at 8:30 a. m., Sunday, Sept. 11th, for Moberly. Only $1.25 round trip. Napoleon Heads the List. Prof. Cattell of Columbia university, has taken the four principal encyclopedias of the world—English, French, German and American—and made out a list of a thousand famous men and women to whom is given the most space. He has found that Napoleon heads the list, Shakespeare comes second, Mohammed third and Voltaire fourth. George Washington, the first American in the list, is number nineteen. Grilled Lion Steaks Delicious. An explorer who has often by compulsion eaten the flesh of animals not generally used as human food says that grilled lion steaks are delicious and much superior to those of the tiger; that the flesh of the rhinoceros, properly prepared, has all the good qualities of pork; that the trunk and feet of young elephants resemble veal, and that stewed boa constrictor is a splendid substitute for rabbit. What Is Home? Home is not a name, nor a form, nor a routine. It is a spirit, a presence, a principle. Material and method will not and cannot make it, says a writer in the Cooking School. It must get its light and sweetness from those who inhabit it, from flowers and sunshine, from the sympathetic natures which, in their exercise of sympathy, can lay aside the tyranny of the broom and the awful duty of endless scrubbing. Blisseful Dream It makes a woman quiver with joy to think that if she were a duchess she could be haughty even to the cook.—Leavenworth Times. L. S. McCLELLAN, RENT. WESTERN PASSENGER AGENT. EET. KANSAS CITY, MO. love and Hardware Co. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Agents for... Peninsular Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Henter, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Specialty. .....A new line of..... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. Evil in Fretting. The one reason why some women lose their beauty after marriage, for which they are not to blame, is that of unhappiness. The essential thing to a woman's beauty is happiness. A week's fretting will age her to an astonishing degree, while a real unhappiness robs cheek and lip of color, eyes of light and life, and destroys all the soft, rounded curves of winsome femininity. His Expression of Mourning. A boy was engaged in kite flying when he was approached by an elderly lady, who said reproachfully, "Why, Tommy, couldn't you manage to do without kite flying on the day of your poor father's funeral?" "Oh, it's all right. Mrs. —," replied Tommy, reassuringly, "It's a mourning kite. I fitted a black tail to it this morning."—Kansas City Independent. An Appropriate Time. "We will sing 'Awake, Ye Saints,' immediately before the, sermon tomorrow," announced the minister at choir practice on Saturday afternoon. "Don't you think," inquired the observant tenor, "that it would be more appropriate to sing it immediately after the sermon?"—New Orleans Pleayune. It Banshes Flies. Place in every room this mixture: Half a teaspoonful of white pepper, one teaspoonful of brown sugar, and one of cream, well mixed together. If cream is not available, use strong green tea well sweetened. Dentist in Need or Forgiveness. Little 5-year-old Edith was taken to a dentist, who removed an aching tooth. That evening at prayers her mother was surprised to hear her say: "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our dentists." Natural Fast for Chinese. The Tien-Tsu-Husl. or Society for Natural Feet, is making many converts in China. In some regions young men sign a pledge not to marry girls with artificially crippled feet. Prizes for Window Gardening. Paris offers prizes for window gardening. 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. Remember please— 'ts the little bits we collect here a n there That enables us to run from year to year.' LOCALS. 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. Mrs. Dalie Senro of Chicago is visiting Miss Fannie Green, 1551 Main street. Wait for the Moberly excursion Sunday, Sept. 11th, via WABASH. $1.25 Round Trip to Moberly Sunday, Sept. 11th, via WABASH. Visit your friends at Moberly Sunday, Sept. 11th, $1.25 round trip via WABASH. There was a grand love-feast at Allen chapel last Sunday night. A large attendance was in evidence. Mrs. W. H. Bousfield and her son, Mideon, have left for St. Louis, where they will visit the world's fair. W. H. Bousfield has returned from Excelsior Springs, where he has been for the past week. Annie Gaines was called to Columbia last Wednesday on account of the death of her brother. Mrs. Luanna Reed, daughter of Mr. Abe Lyle, after spending several weeks with her parents, returned to her home in Jackson, Tenn., on last Thursday. Miss Fannie Green of 1551 Main street entertained the club ladies last Tuesday with a fine dinner. Every detail of the dinner was arranged with an eye to style and pomp. All enjoyed themselves. The Old Folks and Orphans' home is grateful to Mr. C. A. Jackson for one heating stove. Dave Caffs and Louisa Washington were married Thursday evening at the residence of J. S. Adsom. Dr. J. E. Dibble wishes it known that he is still occupying his office on Twelfth street and has not moved into the Masonic building. Mrs. Lola Manly, accompanied by her husband and two children, has been in the city on a visit to her mother, Mrs. John Rone, sr. Have your printing done at National Printing company, a negro business doing modern printing. 205 Wales building, Sixth and Delaware. Dr. F. B. Nofsinger announces he will be a candidate for renomination for county assessor, subject to action of Republican county convention. 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." 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. There will be a public rally next week for the purpose of seeing what the colored people of Kansas City will do, as a whole, to pay off the debt on the Old Folks and Orphans' home. A big basket meeting will take place at Kerr's park Sunday, September 4, under the auspices of St. John's A. M. E. church and associate churches of the two Kansas Citys. Free basket dinner will be served. A small fee of 10 cents is charged for admission to defray the park expenses. It is hoped the attendance will be large. THE MINISTER'S DUTY. The minister of the Gospel is one o the great leaders of the people. It is his duty to give them sound advice and direct them in the right way in this world as well as to point out the way to the life everlasting. In the present campaign it is the duty of every Afro-American preacher who has the true interests of his race at heart to explain to his people the issues as they affect the Afro-American. He should show that the Democratic party has always been the bitter foe of the race, and has invariably opposed every measure proposed by the Republican party to better the race's condition. Mrs. Mamie Vincent has returned home from an extended trip through California and Oklahoma, where she has been on business, and will open her dressmaking parlor and ladies' tailoring school at her residence, 1228 Walnut street, where she will be glad to see all of her friends and acquaintances. G. E. SIMPSON. 1228 Walnut. Mr. S. B. Mackey, of Boulder, Col., and Miss Mattle Overton, of Denver, Col., were married August 24. They spent last week in Kansas City, the guest of W. J. Thompson, after which they left for St. Louis to visit the world's fair. Mr. Mackey held an important position in Boulder. After visitin gthe world's fair, Mr. Mackey and his bride will make their home at Creed, Pa., where the former will act as private secretary and stenographer to Hon. H. C. Caelbertson, a railroad and lumber magnate. Mr. James Scott, planist, of Carthage, Mo., also composer of the "Fascinator," "Summer Breeze," "On the Pike," spent Sunday in Kansas City, guest of Miss Emma Smith, soprano for Boone company. He was much pleased with the city and thinks he will make this his headquarters. There have been over 2,000 of his compositions sold here. Mr. Boone will leave September 4 for the Dakotas. From there the company will go to Canada until after the election. Moberly excursion train stops at Brunswick, Keytesville, Salibury and Huntsville Sunday, Sept. 11th. $1.25 round trip. Open house at Moberly. Best town in the country for Sunday excursions. QUARTERLY MEETING. The quarterly meeting will be held at Allen Chapel August 28. Also at Lexington, Mo., on the same date, and at Westport September 4, Ebenezer September 11, Independence September 18. St. John's September 25. PATRIOTISM—LOYALTY. Re-union of Twenty-third Kansas Regiment. When President McKinley issued his call for troops to engage in the Spanish-American war, the negroes of this country willingly offered their lives as a sacrifice to the protection of its honor and good name. From every state Negro troops were enlisted, went to the front as brave and fearless men, and won glory and fame by their valiant and patriotic stand. Among the dauntless Negro soldiery that went to their country's call was the 23rd Kansas Regiment of Colored Volunteers, whose courage and bravery has made it famous throughout the land. Theirs was a short, but exciting campaign; and, after peace had been declared they came home with all the glory of loyal and patriotic soldiers. Since then the 23rd Kansas has kept their organization intact, and have formed the custom of holding an annual reunion. The 5th annual reunion will occur on September 4 and 5, at Stewart's park, corner 9 and Quindaro boulevard, Kansas City, Kan. They have arranged for a series of army attractions, viz: GQ into camp on Sept. 4th. Army life in camp. At 2 p. m. contest drill. At 5 p. m. special attraction. A professional high diver will leap from an elevation of forty feet into a pool of water. At 8 p. m. band concert. Programme for Sept. 5th: 6 a. m.—Reveille. 7 a. m.—Mess call. 8 a. m.—Inspection by Colonel Jas. Beck, of Lawrence, Kan. 10 a. m.—Street parade, headed by the 23rd Kansas band through the principal streets of the two Kansas Cities. 2 p. m.—Speaking by Colonel Jas. Beck, of Lawrence, Major John M. Brown, of Topeka, Professor W. T. Vernon, President W. U., Quindaro, Hon. Nelson Crews, of Kansas City, and others. 4 p. m.—Sham battle. 8 p. m.—Athletic program. Refreshments and dancing both day and night. 1 The Poetical, Practical "Ad" Writer of Kansas City, Mo. So send in "ads," your name and "scads," And we will make concessions. The Rising Son good work has done; Its aim is for the best. Again we say, subscribe and pay, And we will do the rest. For there you'll find food for the mind. From the poets and from the sages. Office, No. 117 West Sixth street, Kansas City, Mo. Lewis Woods, business manager. 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; Keep on tramping over stones You will find them without "Phones" 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, 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 To give me back my maiden name; You have trifled 'round in this here town, To me you ain't 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 print- ing. Reasonable prices. Work done for in or out of the city on short not- ice. Church and Lodge patronage so- licited. 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. PERSONAL. 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Lost in a silent world of stone, A solitude of vacant halls. What are my thoughts in this well place? The wonders of science? the world? the new? No, men are still of the human race; I think of a woman; I think of you. -James Oppenheim in New York Sun. AN ACT Mrs. Boldero, having been advised by the doctor "to keep up her strength," had ordered for luncheon a rump steak and kidney pudding, which she was just about to carve, and some mutton cutlets, now in front of Miss Lucy Westlake, her companion, whose principal duty was to read Mrs. Boldero to sleep after the present meal and dinner. Lucy's voice trembled as a shot stout, red-faced woman opened the street door. "May I speak to Mr. Roper?" she asked, and, turning her back, the woman of the house shouted his nar at the foot of the narrow staircase. He came down a few moments later in the act of buttoning his shrunken faded cont. The pudding was served in a white basin with a napkin around it, and the parlor stood, interestedly looking on, while Mrs. Boldero cut a V-shaped piece out of the top, placed this on a plate, and began to spoon out the contents. Suddenly pausing, with the spoon in her right hand, she turned wrathfully toward Mary. "Where," she severely demanded, "are the kidneys?" "Cook said the butcher didn't send them in time," was the answer. Mrs. Boldero felt disappointed. She had thought of the pudding once or twice since her 19 o'clock breakfast. "Take it away!" she exclaimed, and Lucy Westlake tried somewhat markedly to look as if the affair possessed no interest in the world for herself, as, indeed, it would not if Mr. Roper had not chanced to pass the house at that moment. Mr. Roper occupied one room in a very small house a few hundred yards away. He looked more than sixty years of age; he was short, erect, and remarkably thin. His limp-brimmed felt hat, once black, had now become green; his tightly fitting coat had faded from dark blue to brown. From one of her servants (Mrs. Boldero had a habit of exchanging confidences of the kind) she had learned that Mr. Roper half starved himself. "He certainly looks as if a good meal would do him good," she would remark. Nevertheless, Mrs. Boldero felt a kind of interest in the old man, who often passed her window, and this afternoon she happened to look up in time to recognize him. "Ah!" she cried, "it would be an act of charity to give it to that poor man!" "What is that!" asked Lucy. "Mr. Roper," was the answer. "It would make him a meal every day for a week. I have a good mind to send it"—— "Oh, but"—— "I bag your pardon?" said Mrs. Boldero, sharply. Lucy's cheeks were crimson, for she perceived what Mrs. Boldero could not see—that, although his clothes were fit for the cast-bin, Mr. Roper was a gentleman. "You couldn't do such a thing," murmured Lucy. "Not perform an act of charity? And why not pray?" asked Mrs. Boldero. "Mary," she added, "take away my plate and the pudding. I will have some cutlets. Cook can put the basin in a basket, and Miss Westlake small carry it to poor Mr. Roper directly after luncheon." Lucy Westlake looked inclined to rebel. But, although Mrs. Bolder might be a tring woman to live with M. Gould "I am Major Roper," he said. In many respects, Lucy had a comfortable home with sufficient salary to enable her to help her own people. Caution prevailing, she set forth half an hour later with tingling cheeks and reluctant steps. A wide-brimmed hat shaded her face from the sun, the basket hung on her left arm as she timorously drew near to the terrace of small houses where Mr. Roper lodged. "Oh, but"—— g earth and sky smoke is illly stirred. city streets alone between the window'd world of stone, ant halls. lights in this weird cience? the world? the the human race; man; I think of you. Lucy's voice trembled as a short, stout, red-faced woman opened the street door. "May I speak to Mr. Roper?" she asked, and, turning her back, the woman of the house shouted his name at the foot of the narrow staircase. He came down a few moments later in the act of buttoning his shrunken, faded coat. "You wish to see me?" he inquired, with a bow. "Ye- es, if you please," said Lucy. M. M. M. Never since his boyhood had he felt such temptation at the sight of anything to eat. glancing from the basket to Mr. Roper's face, and scarcely knowing how to explain her errand. "A remarkably fine day," cried Mr Roper, with a cough. "Mrs.—Mrs. Boldero saw you pass cur window," Lucy faltered. "I have not the—er—pleasure of Mrs. Boldero's acquaintance, I believe." "Still," said Lucy, becoming more nervous every instant, "she knows you very well by sight." Mr. Roper straightened his back; he had been somewhat of a buck in his day—major in a line regiment, retired on half pay some years ago. His only son had come to a melancholy end, and, having fewer numerous debts of honor undischarged, Major Roper had felt it incumbent to take them on himself. In order to raise immediately the necessary sum of money, he had requested the bulk of his pension, retaining, in fact, sufficient only to support the barest existence. Another year and the debt would be wiped out; then, Major Roper told himself, he would once again be able to hold up his head. "Mrs. Boldero presents her compliments," said Lucy, drawing on her invention, "and she—she has sent you th—this." "And what is 'this?' he demanded, fixing his single eyeglass, and leaning forward to peer into the uncovered basket. "A—a rump steak pudding." He stood glaring at Lucy's rosy face while he ferociously twirled his mustache. "I am Major Roper!" he said. "Mrs. Boldero thought"—— "She evidently thought that she could insult me with impunity." "I—I am very sorry," faltered Lucy. His annoyance was the greater, if possible, on observing that the pudding was not even whole, yet, incongruously enough, the sight of it tickled his palate. Still, Major Roper found his appetite easier to control than his pride, which had never been more aggressive than now, when he looked forward shortly to leave Borrowfield and to live again within reach of a London club. "You will kindly present my compliments to Mrs.—cr"—— "Boldero," faltered Lucy. "To Mrs. Boldero, and tell her that I am very much—very much obliged." "She will be rather hurt," said Lucy, "And I," said Major Roper, "am rather hurt." "I do wish you would let me leave it!" cried Lucy, holding out her arm with the basket in her left hand close to his face. "I have told you I am Major Roper!" he answered, stepping backward. "Mrs. Boldero will be immensely an- gry," murmured Lucy, gazing from the basket into his face. "Angry—with you, do you mean?" "I am afraid she will," said Lucy, with a deprecatory smile. Major Roper began to cough. "You will kindly present my compliments to Mrs.—er—Boldero, and say that I am greatly obliged, and accept her—her gift in the spirit in which, no doubt, it is offered." "Oh, thank you!" exclaimed Lucy, and, with an air of extreme relief, she saw Major Roper take the basket. "You will wait a moment for the—for the basin?" he suggested, as she would have turned away. "I can come to-morrow"—— "There is no necessity to give you that trouble," he insisted, "if you will pardon my closing the door." He did not wish her to follow his movements, so, leaving Lucy standing on the top step and the street door ajar, the major held the basket gingerly as he walked along the passage to another door which led to a back yard. There he removed the basin from the basket, standing this on the red tiles while he gazed with mingled sensations at the top of the half cold but still savory pudding. Never since his boyhood had he felt such temptation at the sight of anything to eat. Holding the basin now at arm's length, he stepped toward the dust bin, and therein emptied the enticing contents. A few feet to the right was a tap, and, stooping in front of it, Major Roper turned the water into the basin, which he afterward dried upon a duster that hung from a nail in the wall. Having replaced the empty basin, he carried the basket into the house and opened the street door. "A thousand apologies for keeping you," he said, offering the basket to Lucy, whose face looked quite cheerful again. "I hope you will enjoy the pudding, major!" she cried, with a laugh which made him feel almost young again. "You will kindly tell Mrs.—er—Mrs. Boldero it is one of my favorite dishes," he answered, with a bow, and Lucy nodded brightly as she walked away with the basket.—New York Telegraph. HE WOULD TAKE NO RISKS. Cowboy Wanted to Have Decent Chance of Spending His Money. "In the West," said Mr. William Sturgis of Cheyenne, Wyo., "the people take very slowly to the notion that government should busy itself in the endeavor to regulate public morals. "For that reason, although we have a pretty stiff state anti-gambling law, the statute is of little potency, and the boys gather in the old familiar centers to bet their coin against faro, roulette, hazard or poker. "Not long ago one of my clients, of the cowboy tribe, who had deposited $1,000 with me, made a trip to town, and for several days got me to let him have about $100 per diem. I thought he was trying his luck at faro, and finally, when he had spent just half his capital, I advised him that the writing of checks was getting monotonous, and that if he meant to keep on playing to withdraw the remaining $500 in a lump, so that he need not 'bother to hunt for me.' At the same time I advised him in strong terms to stop then and there and take no chances in losing the money he had acquired through months of patient toil on the plains. He heard me through with the utmost patience, taking no apparent heed of my rebuke and then said: "I know what you say is true, Judge; but supposing I should die right sudden and get no chance to spend that other $500?"—Washington Post. Their First Falsehood "It is said there should be implicit confidence between married folk," said a Fifth avenue clergyman whose church is not far from Fortieth street. "I am a believer in this little injunction, but I am also certain that I once married a couple who tried to deceive not only one another, but even themselves, at the altar. I knew them both. He was a bachelor of seventy; she was a spinster of about sixty. But you would not have thought so when they came to get me to marry them. She was attired like a shopgirl out for her first ball, and his ralment bespoke the youthful dude of twenty-two or twenty-three. His snow white mustache had been dyed black and waxed until the ends looked like knitting needles. "I asked them their ages. "Now each was aware of deceiving the other, but I want to tell you both looked positively happy and untroubled over the conscienceless falsehoods with which they had begun their married life."—New York Herold. To a Haven at Last I have seen the worst of the world, and I care no more For chances and changes, for perils affloat and ashore. God is over them all; a spirit more calm than fate My times upon Him walt. In the uttermost parts of the sea there the corals grow. And the wealth of its oozy floor no divers know: When the laboring ship strains on through an ocean of weed Our captain takes good heed. But better heed takes he who steers without chart the storm. When the north blow cold and the south breeze the warm; That, though he splinters the ship on the coral marge. He hath her crew in charge. From the peril of fire and flow, from the roof and rock He hath gathered them man by man—a wet land. He will bring them home to the haven where they would be. Over a jasper sea. —Black and White Oriental rubles are worth, weight for weight, about twelve times the value of diamonds. WITH THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS EXPORTS OF MONEY BY ALIENS. An important matter in connection with the immigration question is the drain upon the monetary resources of this country caused by the presence of an immense alien population whose members have relatives or interests in the land of their birth. Consul McGinley says that the best opinion in Greece is that the 20,000 Greeks in the United States send home every year not far from $2,000,000. Taking this as a basis for the home-sending power of the other twelve or thirteen million foreign-born residents of this country, we have an annual tribute paid by the United States to Europe on account of immigration of more than $120,000,000 a year! In ten years $1,200,000,000 in American gold lost to the country. But this average of $100 a year for every foreign-born resident as his home-sending capacity is evidently too large, though when we consider the saving capacity even on small wages (and many of them make big wages) of many classes of immigrants and the well-known custom among these—notably the Italians and to a considerable extent the Scandinavians—to send to what they still call "home" the larger share of their earnings, it is not so greatly in excess of the actual amount as would at first appear. But even halve it, calculate the average amount sent by the Greek immigrant to be twice the sum sent by the average immigrant of other nationalities, and the amount sent abroad each year is so immense that a less prosperous, a less wealthy and a less rapidly developing country would long ago have felt the drain seriously.—New York Press. FREEDOM WITH VARIATIONS With hardly an exception, employers have fought for the right to hire workmen who were desirable, independent of the dictates of any union, or other organization. The opponents of the unions have condemned them because, it was said, they disputed this inherited right. But now, this National Metal Trades Association, this avowed champion of free shops, has made an alarming discovery. It has discovered that it is dangerous to allow individual employers to hire anybody, and that this right belongs only to the organization. Not the labor organization, of course, but the Employers' National Metal Trades Association.—Stuart Reid in the Federationist. DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL DO. An engineer who starts to build a bridge and then keeps finding better places to put his piers, and wondering whether he has selected the best location or not, will never get the bridge across the river, writes O. S. Marden in Success. He must decide, then go ahead and build the bridge, no matter what obstacle he may strike. So it is with the builder of character; he must decide finally what he will do, and then make for his goal, refusing to look back or be moved from his course. Tens of thousands of young people with good health, good education and good ability, are standing on the end of a bridge, at life's crossing. They hope they are on the right way, they think they are doing the right thing, and yet they do not dare to burn the bridge they have just crossed. They want a chance for retreat in case they have made a mistake. They cannot bear the thought of cutting off all possibility of turning back. They lack the power to decide conclusively what course they will take. FOR HAWTHORNE MEMORIAL. In all probability Hawthorne was never happier than when he lived in the little red cottage at Lenox, Mass. During his residence there, amid those Berkshire Hills, he wrote the "House of Seven Gables." A movement is now on foot to erect a suitable memorial to Hawthorne on the site of this little cottage. The present year would be a most appropriate time to build such a monument, as it is just one hundred years since Hawthorne was born. Surely this centennial anniversary of his birth should not be passed by unnoticed.—From "The Haunts of Hawthorne," by James Melvin Lee, in Four-track News. LET US BEAUTIFY OUR CITIES. There is no reason why American cities should not be made as attractive as those of Europe. We have the means, and there is no lack of true love of the beautiful in our city populations; but in the rush to lay up material belongings this has been allowed, to a large extent, to lie dormant, although indications of its existence are not wanting in the older communities, where the people have largely gotten over their rush for wealth and have time to "spruce up about the place," as the phrase goes in New England. Let us multiply these pleasant places "in our midst." It is well worth while, for they are not only sightly and restful to the dwellers here, but are attractive to the strangers within our gates, and so draw business here. —Brooklyn Eagle. WHAT "OLD GLORY" MEANS: "Old Glory" signifies more to an American than anything in the world. It speaks with an eloquence unsurpassed; it represents high ambitions voiced by millions of people; it fills the heart with a sense of duty, a desire to stand by the colors, and for it has been made the claim that it has been in more battles and seen more victories than any other flag in the world. No other standard is there for which so many men have fought and died, and which has never been struck in token of submission. Nothing can be more beautiful than the flash of blue and crimson and white, and, as it spreads majestically to the breeze, or ripples in the varying winds, there comes to the onlooker a sort of wireless message, bringing him closer to the wonderful something that will cling to the banner forever; a something given to it by the principles represents; by the thought of long and weary marches; of sea fights and land fights, grim and great; of the thousands who have followed it from seeming defeat to victory, and who have gone down into the valley of death, their last cry a wild huzzah to urge their comrades onward that the "Stars and Stripes" might be planted on the highest ramparts.—Four-Track News. THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS The exasperating, if legal, course of the Russians may have in the end a good effect, if it stimulates an international conference on the rights of neutrals on the ocean. At present international law is the will of the power that has the most guns at sea. It is simply a thin veneering for practical anarchy. It is binding only so far as a nation considers it expedient to observe it. If Great Britain were now to give notice that she intended to observe how far her neutral rights were respected, Russia would close up her books on international law and her admirals would acquire great caution. If the world wishes to take another step forward now is the time, with the shame and destruction of the present conflict fresh in mind, for the strengthening of the Court of Arbitration and an extension of its jurisdiction.—Boston Transcript. LEPROSY AND FISH. The recent announcement of a cure for leprosy does not appear to have created much of a stir among the medical faculty in this country. The reason is that reports of this sort are never trusted till it is proved that they are based on long, careful and authoritative experimentation, and again, there are so few cases of leprosy in this part of the world that the local population and local practice are practically unaffected by it. The item of prevention is more important, in this as in all other diseases, than is that of cure, and for some time the exemption of civilized races from this appalling curse has engaged the thought of scientists, Leprosy occurs slightly among the Norwegians, but is found chiefly among the Chinese, the Syrians and the Kanaikas. The only part of the United States where it has obtained any hold is in the Gulf states, and it is easy to see that it might have been taken to them form the Antilles, where cases are occasionally found, and where a few leper colonies have been established. The indication, therefore, is that it is associated with the sea, and the English medical men who have been discussing the matter custain the view that it is a result of eating fish.—Brooklyn Eagle. FIFTY YEARS A CLERK. A few years ago a Wall street bank clerk celebrated the completion of the fiftieth year of his service in the employ of a single bank and the papers singled it out as a matter of note that an American had been content to serve one master for 50 years. And it was a matter of note. We printed some little time ago a striking little article on "American Quitters." Those were men of brains and energy who quit when their job was done in order to go higher up and do a better job, better still. But most of us are more fitted to clerk it than to organize, and what is energy in abler men is often just plain restlessness among the rank and file. To serve one master well for 50 years is an achievement. It ought to be made distinctively an American one.—Leslie's Monthly. CHECKING MOTOR MADNESS. It is time to put a stop to motor madness. We mean both kinds of madness, that of the beggled "scorcher," who drives his locomotive at furious speed upon the highway without regard for limb or life of himself or of others, and also that of those who in impudent exasperation hurl stones or shoot bullets at the "scorching" law-breakers. Doubtless it is not right to shoot at motormen or at their engines, though it is not difficult to understand how strong the provocation to do so is at times. That form of madness must be checked. But so must be checked the inciting cause of it, which is far more prevalent—New York Tribune Calumet Baking Powder complies with the pure food laws of all states. Food prepared with it is free from Rochelle salts. lime, alum and ammonia. Trust Baking Powders sell for 45 or 50 cents per pound and may be identified by this exhorbitant price. They are a menace to public health, as food prepared from them contains large quantities of Rochelle salts, a dangerous cathartic drug. Why Immigrants Wait. The steerage rate from Europe to this country has been cut to $7.50, but still the immigrants are hanging back, probably for a trading stamp inducement. More Flexible and Lasting, won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. The telephone girl may be flirty, and yet somehow or other she rings true. FITS permanently cured. No file or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Killian's Nerve Restore er. Send for FREES $2.00 trial bottle, Philadelphia, Pa. A good day's work is generally worth a month of physical culture. No chromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs. -W. E. O. ENDLEY, Vanburen, Ind. Feb. 10, 1903. Parker-Davis Ticket 1872. It may surprise a good many of the younger American citizens to learn that there was a Davis and Parker presidential ticket in this country thirty-two years before the present reverse combination appeared. In 1872 David Davis of Illinois was nominated for president by what was called the Labor Reform party, which held its convention in Columbus, O. His running mate was Governor Joel Parker, of Connecticut. That was the year when the Democratic national convention chose as its presidential candidate Horace Greeley. Thrifty George Gould It is believed that George Gould has about doubled the value of the property left by his father. The latter's dying injunction was, "George, look after your brothers and sisters," and the dutiful son has faithfully remembered his father's words. Gould controls about 16,000 miles of railroad, counting the Western Pacific, which one of his New York directors recently admitted constitutes the Western link of the transcontinental system. Human Hidea. It is said that in the preclents of Westminster Abbey the fingerplate of a door is covered with leather made from human skin, but the story is not based on anything firmer than tradition. Books do not exist, however, bound in human skin. LEARNING THINGS We Are All in the Apprentice Class. When a simple change of diet brings back health and happiness the story is briefly told. A lady of Springfield, Ill., says: "After being afflicted for years with nervousness and heart trouble, I received a shock four years ago that left me in such a condition that my life was despaired of. I could get no relief from doctors nor from the numberless heart and nerve medicines I tried because I didn't know that the coffee was daily putting me back more than the Drs. could put me ahead. "Finally at the request of a friend I left off coffee and began the use of Postum and against my convictions I gradually improved in health until for the past 6 or 8 months I have been entirely free from nervousness and those terrible sinking, weakening spells of heart trouble. "My troubles all came from the use of coffee which I had drunk from childhood and yet they disappeared when I quit coffee and took up the use of Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Many people marvel at the effects of leaving off coffee and drinking Postum but there is nothing marvelous about it—only common sense. Coffee is a destroyer—Postum is a rebuilder. That's the reason. rebuilder. That's the reason. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wellville." MODERN WOODMEN WEEK WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS Beginning Monday, September 5th, 1904. COACH RATES FROM ALL KANSAS POINTS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 3rd and 4th The Wabash is WOODMEN OFFICIAL ROUTE and will run special trains from Union Depot, Kansas City, Sept. 3rd and 4th. Woodmen Trains leave Saturday Night at 9:00 p. m., 11:00 p. m., and 11:30 p. m., and on Sunday, September 4th, trains leave Kansas City, 10:15 a. m., 10:30 a. m., 9:01 p. m., and 11:30 p. m., all trains direct to World's Fair Main Entrance. RATES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BE SURE YOUR TICKETS READ VIA WABASH FROM KANSAS CITY. H. C. SHIELDS, Traveling Pass. Agent. L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Pass. Agent. 903 MAIN ST., KANSAS CITY, MO. $45.00 The 20th Triennial Conclave, Knights Templar U. S. A., and Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., at San Francisco in September, are the next occasions for which the Santa Fe will make reduced rates to California. Any one, whether member or not, may take advantage of the reduction. If you're going to make the California tour, this is your chance to do it economically, comfortably, and thoroughly. On sale August 15 to Sept. 10, inclusive. Limited to October 23. For full particulars address the undersigned, Descriptive Literature free. G. W. Hagenbuch, General Agent, 905 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. Mary Todd Lincoln Mrs. Elizabeth H. Thompson, of Lillydale, N.Y., Grand Worthy Wise Templar, and Member of W.C.T.U., tells how she recovered by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I am one of the many of your grateful friends who have been cured through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and who can to-day thank you for the fine health I enjoy. When I was thirty-five years old, I suffered severe backache and frequent bearing-down pains; in fact, I had womb trouble I was very anxious to get well, and reading of the cures your Compound had made. I decided to try it. I took only six bottles, but it built me up and cured me entirely of my troubles. "My family and relatives were naturally as gratified as I was. My niece had heart trouble and nervous prostration, and was considered incurable. She took your Vegetable Compound and it cured her in a short time, and she became well and strong, and her home to her great joy and her husband's delight was blessed with a baby. I know of a number of others who have been cured of different kinds of female trouble, and am satisfied that your Compound is the best medicine for sick women."—MRS. ELIZABETH H. THOMPSON, Box 105, Lillydale, N.Y. $8000 forift of original of above letter printing. MODERN WOOD WORLD ST. L. Beginning Monday, S COACH FROM ALL KAY ON SALE SEPTEMBER The W WOODMEN OF and will run special trains from Sept. 3rd and 4th. Woodmen at 9:00 p. m., 11:00 p. m. Sunday, September 4th, train 10:30 a. m., 9:00 p. m., and 11 World's Fair Main Entrance RATES OPEN T BE SURE YOUR TICKETS READ W H. C. SHIELDS, Traveling Pass. Agent. 903 MAIN ST., K $45 California The 29th Triennial Conclave, K ereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F. are the next occasions for which rates to California. Any one, w advantage of the reduction. I fornia tour, this is your chance ably, and thoroughly. On sale Limited to October 23. For full particulars a Descriptive L G. W. Hagenbuch The Atchison, Tope 905 Main Street WORLD'S FAIR ST. LOUIS, MO. BILLON AVENUE HOUSE Rate $1 per day for bed and breakfast Give free brochure from Foothills Ground Entrance. Everything new. Service the best. Cool and sightly. Send for circulars. Gratiot & Wilden, 6111 W. Park Ave., St. Louis, Mo. $1,200 TO $3,000 A YEAR is being made by graduates of the Western Veterinary College practicing and in government positions. Catalog free. Dr. J. H. WATTLES, 1130 Holmes St., kansas City, Mo. PISO'S CURE FOR CURE WITH LIME LIME Best Cough syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION --- She Was Frank. He—And so you refuse me? She—I must. "It is because I am poor, I presume?" "No; that is not the reason." "Because my family is less estocratic than yours, perhaps?" "No." "I see. You want to marry a title." "No; I have no such ambition." "Hum! Very strange! Then why is it you refuse me?" "It's because I can't bear the sight of you."—New York Weekly. Once a Newaboy. David R. Francis, president of the St. Louis fair corporation and ex-governor of Missouri, began life as a newsboy, and to the sharpness which he acquired while acting in that capacity attributes a good deal of his success. There was a convention of newsboys at the fair the other day, and President Francis told them some of his boyish experiences, much to their delight. A Voluminous Writer Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, who died in Beauvoir, Miss., on Tuesday, had written 600 novels and 400 novellettes, besides innumerable poems and magazine articles. His total literary output exceeded 46,000,000 words, and he is said to have earned $10,000 a year thereby. If that was not genius, where will it be found in this practical world? Zeke Settling Down. Mr. Crowfoot—I'm glad to hear that jeke is settling down on something at last. He says he's up in town spending every dollar on gardens. Mrs. Crowfoot—Did he say what kind of gardens, Hi? Mr. Crowfoot—Yes, he said roof gardens. That's the only place they have room for gardens in the city.—Chicago Daily News. Keeps the Bishop Busy. If Bishop Potter keeps a scrap-book no doubt he is too busy with the scissors and paste just now to answer his critics. MODMEN WEEK 'S FAIR LOUIS September 5th, 1904. RATES KANSAS POINTS MBER 3rd and 4th Wabash S OFFICIAL ROUTE From Union Depot, Kansas City, Trains leave Saturday Night n., and 11:30 p. m., and on leave Kansas City, 10:15 a. m., :30 p. m., all trains direct to TO THE PUBLIC VIA WABASH FROM KANSAS CITY. L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Pass. Agent. KANSAS CITY, MO. 5.00 and Return Nights Templar U. S. A., and Sov- at San Francisco in September, in the Santa Fe will make reduced whether member or not, may take if you're going to make the Cali- to do it economically, comfort- e August 15 to Sept. 10, inclusive. address the undersigned. Literature free. h, General Agent, eka & Santa Fe Ry., Kansas City, Mo. CURED AT HOME If you have weak eyes, falling in, stugrated life, acuity over a certain period, catarr or deformes, write full description of your case and a trial treatment will be sent you FREE OF CHARGE. This First Treatment is safe and harmless and has assured many severe cases. Dr Moore was appointed by two Governors, Chief Eye and Ear Surgeon to the Missouri State Institution for the blind and was also Professor of the Eye and Ear in the American Medical College. Crosseyes attained by new publications method. Write to DK. HARVEY MOORE. Eye and Ear Institute, Suite 29, Odd Fellows' Ridge, St Louis. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 36, 1904 BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. COULDN'T LIFT TEN POUNDS. Doan's Kidney Pills Brought Strength and Health to the Sufferer, Making Him Feel Twenty-Five Years Younger. J. B. Corton farmer and lumberman, or Deppe, N. C. says: "I suffered for yeas. with my back it was so bad that I could not walk any distance nor ever ride in easer hungry. I J. B. Corton farmer and lumberman, of Deppe, N. C. says: "I suffered for years with my back it was so bad that I could not walk any distance nor even ride in easy buggy. I do not believe I could have raised ten pounds of weight from the ground, the pain was so severe. This was my condition when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They quickly relieved me and now I am never troubled as I was. My back is strong and I can walk or ride a long distance and feel just as strong as I did twenty-five years ago. I think so much of Doan's Kidney Pills that I have given a supply of the remedy to some of my neighbors and they have also found good results. If you can sift anything from this rambling note that will be of any service to you, or to any one suffering from kidney trouble, you are at liberty to do so." A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster-Milburn Co., Bualo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers; price, 50 cts. Remarkable Clock. One of the most remarkable forms of clock in the world is a clock fan manufactured by a Swiss jeweler. The clock consists of twelve leaves hinged like an ordinary fan. The number of the hour is marked from 1 to 12 at the end of each of these leaves. The fan timepiece starts at 6 o'clock and expands regularly for twelve hours, when it suddenly closes up and starts all over again. The half hour is indicated by the leaf of the fan being only half extended. She Warned John. Yeast—I see some people call them automobiles, some motor cars, some smoke wagons; what do you call them? Crimsonbeak—I call them—Mrs. Crimsonbeak (breaking in)—Remember, John, there are ladies present.—Yonkers Stateman. Medical Department Washington University. The first two years are devoted mainly to practical training in laboratories of Anatomy, Pathology and Bacteriology, by specialists and life-workers in these branches. The last two years are given to personal study of disease in clinical laboratories, hospitals and dispensaries, not merely affiliated, but under the full control of the institution. For particulars and catalogue address the Dean, 1806 Locust Street, St. Louis. One Sunny Day. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because they have a stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money. No Opportunity Offered. "Married one day and died the next," is the record of a Western man. And the divorce lawyers didn't even have an opportunity to send him their business cards! Those Who Have Tried It will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. An Ohio genius is said to have invented a device for utilizing the heat of an argument. Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. A poor excuse may be better than none, but it's difficult with poor relations. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, the Great Kidney and Liver Care World Nurem World, Kennedy's Bona, Roundout, N.Y., for free sample bottles. Card playing should be confined to either the drawing room or the aneroom. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curses what colds. Sunbeams of wit quickly melt the ice of sarcasm. The Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chwanga, send Home Eye Book free. Write them about your eyes. A girl can be terribly ugly without ever discovering it. WEATHER WISDOM! THE ORIGINAL TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING ELSE WILL TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES CATALOGUES FREE SHOWING FULL LINE OF GARMENTS AND MATS. A. J. TOWER CO., BORTON, MASS., U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LTD., TORONTO, CANADA. Many who formerly smoked 10¢ Cigars now smoke LEWIS'S SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR Your Jobber or direct from Factory, Poorta, Ilh DENSION JOHN W. MORRIS, Successfully Prosecutes Elon Musk, Laws Punishment US, Pension allow, 3 yrs in civil war, 15 adjudicating claims, atlily sale. FINE OLD TINDER BOX. Interesting Curio That Recalls the "Good Old Days." In these days of electric lighting tinder boxes stand in the same relation to illumination as a flintlock does to the modern firearm. They, however, serve as interesting curios, and many at present in England are ornate to a degree, and show no little artistic and decorative skill. This one belongs to a Mr. Oswald Barron. He procured it in Flanders. It is of oak and handsomely carved on all its faces. On the sliding lid is wrought a tuliplike flower, rising from an or namental pot. The box is seven and a half inches long and has only one division, which is longitudinal. DOG KEPT LONG WATCH. On Guard Twenty-Four Hours Without out Food or Water. When Miss Bonnie V. Lynn returned from her rural mail delivery route on Tuesday she was much surprised at the nonappearance of her faithful old dog Tracey, which always accompanies her on her rounds. Diligent search and inquiry developed nothing as to the whereabouts of the faithful companion. The members of the Lynn household were grieved by the absence of the favorite canine, which was regarded almost as one of the family. They were confident that nothing short of death or imprisonment could prevent Tracey from returning to them. Next day, when Miss Lynn was again covering her route, she was surprised, upon stopping to deposit some letters in a box, to find the lost dog lying near the place, faithfully guarding an empty envelope that she had dropped on the ground the day before. For twenty-four hours Tracey had kept vigil over this envelope, evidently realizing the responsibility that rested upon his mistress and believing the preservation of the envelope was of vital importance. During this long watch the dumb animal had neither food nor water, and not until the envelope was picked up would it desert its post.—Los Angeles Times. Dog No Match for Woodchuck It is unusual to see a woodchuck drive a dog; it is usually reversed, and the chuck takes to his hole, to be dug out by the dog. A Phillips canine followed his mistress, who was on a drive through the back towns of Phillips the other day, and after driving off all the heens from the farms along the road he came upon a woodchuck near the road. He barked with joy at the sight of that strange animal, and with one leap he landed in front of the woodchuck. Then he stopped—there was something in the woodchuck's eye that indicated that there might be serious trouble. The dog discovered it and backed away to safety, and, strange to state, the woodchuck followed him; followed him until the poetry was all out of the experience and the fun was all gone. Finally the dog acknowledged his defeat by dropping his tall and starting for Phillips at a very fast pace.—Bangor News. With Matches. Bend five matches until they are almost broken and place them as shown. Then drop a little water on the broken ends and see the extremities stretch till they form a star. Volcano Still There. Workmen were driving an artesian well near Pisa, in Italy, recently, when a huge column of gas rose up from the boring made in the ground, followed by an eruption of warm water, sand and mud. Frightened at this unexpected turn of events, the men ran away. Engineers came up and were investigating the phenomenon, when a workman approached with a lighted match. This ignited the escaping gas and a column of fire rose very high, which lit up the neighborhood throughout the whole night. Efforts were made without success to extinguish the fire, which continued for days, accompanied by eruptions of sand and subterranean noises. In ancient times a volcano, known as the San Giuliano, existed on a neighboring hill, but has long been inactive. Onossum Traveled in Bananas While a consignment of bananas from Jamaica was being unloaded at Bradford, Pa., the other day, an opossum jumped out. He was captured and is being cared for by the owners of the bananas. Lightning Woke Him Up. George Nugent of Beverly Farma had his slumber disturbed recently by being suddenly precipitated to the floor, the slats of his bed having been ripped out by lightning. "AS COOD AS $7.00 SHOES." "Hereford I have been wearing $2.00 shoes and I have been wearing $3.00 shoes, which I have worn every day for four months. They are so satisfactory. I do not want to wear them." INTERNATIONAL UM. GRAY KNOWLES, Asst. City Solicitor, Philadelphia Brockleton leads the Men's Shoe Fashions of the World. W. L. Douglas uses Corona Coltakin in | Send W. L. Douglas for Catálogo giving in l. the W. L. Douglas for Catálogo giving in l. the W. L. Douglas for Catálogo made in W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. DEFIANCE STARCH 16OZ. 10CTS. It is the purest, cleanest starch made. It is free of injurious chemicals. It can be used where ordinarily you would be afraid to use starch of any kind. That's Defiance. Your grocer sells it. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEB. AVegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stonnacles and Bowels of INFANTS' CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SANUEL PITCHER Pumphin Sand - All Senses - Rocky Salty - Joint Bone - Pumphin Sand - All Senses - Worms Sand - Cervical Nipple - Mangrove Plum. A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Pitcher NEW YORK. Mr. two this old 35 Doses = 35 CENTS. EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. W. UNION MADISON $3 $5.00 $2 shoe sale four mo. intend to return WM. GRA. Brockton Leads W. M. Leads his $3.50 shoes. Corona to be the flusst Patent --- 1 W. L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.50 and $3.00 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. The reason they are great sellers is because they fit, shape, fit better, wear longer, and have more value than any other shoes. W. L. Douglas guarantees their value by stamping the name and address on each shoe, and by besting Sold by shoe dealers everywhere. *Fast Color Eyeglasses used exclusively.* THE TRAIN SERVICE OF THE MISSOURI 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 connect- ces. 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. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. COURTEOUS TREATMENT Parlors 182C E. 18fh St., Kansas City. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up stairs. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager UNEXCELLED SERVICE VIA FRISCO SYSTEM 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 Round Trip Homesekers' Tickets at rate of ONE FARE plus $2, 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, MISSOURI. Look! Look! The Latest Sensational Jewelry Novelty. EINE PEARE SHELL HEART BROOCHES like cut mounted with any letter of the best 14 K. gold filled wire. Send us at once twenty- five cents in stamps and receive one. The same brooch with a name of eight letters or less. forty cents in stamps. SOLE AGENTS DUNHAM BROS. & WEIR Mail Order Dealers In General Merceandise. Household 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. Hotel Occidental Room by the Day or Week. MEALS AND LUNCH AT ALL HOURS. CIGARS AND ICE CREAM Mrs. D. L. Morth, Proprietor, 1001 East Eubbtecnt, Kansas City, Mo PROF. L. L. THOMPSON THE CELEBRATED Mind Reader and Divine Healer Advice Given in all Business Matters Institute OOL FOR COLORED YOUTH ALLEN, A. M. President. HOME PHONE 5327 MAIN. 2323 Highland Avenue KANSAS CITY, MO Co-Operative Hand Laundry 579 Troost Avenue. GIVE US A TR All Work First Class. Strictly SYLVESTER VAUGHN, E US A T First Class. Strictly STER VAUGHN, M ident. ce-Prest. W. H. S. Chas. H. GIVE US A TRIAL. All Work First Class. Strictly Hand Work SYLVESTER VAUGHN, Manager. David T. Beals. President. Fernando P. Neal.Vice-Presst. Union National Bank, Kansas City, Mo., Statement as made to the Complain at the close of business June RESOURCES. 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... $10,669,639.87 DIRECTORS, David T. Beals. L. T. James. E. W. Zea. George R. Barse. C. W. Whitehead. J. P. Merrill. Edward George. C. J. Schmeltzer. O. H. Dean. C. H. Countee. Countee Brothers, 4 East 12th St. Phone 780 Grand. Carriages Furnishes LINGOLN NINTH ST. and HARR THIS NEW PARK WILL BE OPEN THE SEASON CLOSES, UNDER THE J. R. GORDON. L. B. ROBINSON A. WEBER, MERC If you want a suit to order he go and save money. Why? no rent Style, Fit and Finish 2825 S. W. Blvd. made to the Comptroller of the close of business June 9th, PICES. LIAB. ..... $6,227,005.01 000.00 618.31 016.55 4,442,634.86 ..... $10,669,639.87 DIRECTORS, T. James. E. W. Zea. G. W. Lo. W. Whitehead, J. P. Merrill. Geo. W. J. J. Schmeltzer. O. H. Dean. Geo. D. F. e. Brothers, UNDER ..Licensed 780 Grand. Carriages Furnished for All Occasions COLN PARK ST. and HARDESY NEW PARK WILL BE OPEN FROM NOON SEASON CLOSES, UNDER THE MANAGER N. L. B. ROBINSON. J. BER, MERCHANT ant a suit to order here is the save money. Why? Because Come , Fit and Finish Guarantee lvd. K Statement as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business June 9th, 1904. David T. Beals. L. T. James. |E. W. Zea. G. W. Lovejoy. Fernando P. Neal. George R. Barse. G. W. Whitehead. J. P. Merrill. Geo. W. Jones. W. E. Thorne. Edward George. C. J. Schmelzer. O. G. Dean. G. D. Feud. Felix L. La Force. Countee Brothers, UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers.. THIS NEW PARK WILL BE OPEN FROM NOW ON TILL THE SEASON CLOSES, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF J. R. GORDON. L. B. ROBINSON. J. C. CHASTIAN. 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. Style, Fit and Finish Guaranteed. 2825 S. W. Blvd. Kansas City, Mo KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT Why Not Have Your Prescription? McGampell's L 2304 Vine St Where You Are Sure to Get Wha A full line of DRUGS, STATIONE CANDIES, PERFUMES, CIGA PRESCRIPTIONS A SP Medicines Delivered to All Parts of Bell 'Phone 159 East. HOUSES ON P We have some good Houses Can sell on easy terms. 5-room House and Barn on High 4-room House on E. Seventeen 5-room House on Vine St..... 4-room House on Lydia Ave... Good Lots in different parts CRUTCHER & Make Your Prescriptions Filled at Campell's Pharm. 2304 Vine Street Are Sure to Get What the Do DRUGS, STATIONERY, T PERFUMES, CIGARS a PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Fees Delivered to All Parts of the City F East. Horn TES ON PAYMENT Some good Houses and B on easy terms. Among House and Barn on Highland A House on E. Seventeenth St. House on Vine St. House on Lydia Ave. In different parts of the TCHER & V Why Not Have Your Prescriptions Filled at McGampell's Pharmacy Where You Are Sure to Get What the Doctor Prescribed? A full line of DRUGS, STATIONERY, TOILET ARTICLES CANDIES, PERFUMES, CIGARS and TOBACCO. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Medicines Delivered to All Parts of the City Free of Charge. Bell 'Phone 159 East. Home 'Phone 2396 Main 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. Tel. 1305 Main, both lines, ribe for Risk Subscribe for Subscribe for Rising Son. RESOURCES. A TRIAL. Strictly Hand Work UGHN, Manager. W. H. Seeger, 2nd Vice-President, Chas, H. V. Lewis, Cashier. LIABILITIES. Capital stock..... $ 600,000.00 Surplus fund..... 400,000.00 Undivided profits..... 35,443.23 Unearned interest..... 96,560.00 National Bark Notes out- standing..... 500,000.00 Deposits..... 9,037,636.64 $10,669,939.87 ACTORS, T. Zea. G. W. Lovejoy. Fernando P. Neal. Merrill. Geo. W. Jones. W. E. Thorne. Dean. Geo. D. Foid. Felix L. La Force. UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers... Furnished for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MO N PARK CHARDESTY AVE. WE OPEN FROM NOW ON TILL ORDER THE MANAGEMENT OF BINSON. J. C. CHASTIAN. ERCHANT TAILOR, Order here is the place to Why? Because we pay Come and see us. Finish Guaranteed. Kansas City, Mo FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. Options Filled at Us Pharmacy Long Street What the Doctor Prescribed? STATIONERY, TOILET ARTICLES , CIGARS and TOBACCO. ONS A SPECIALTY. Parts of the City Free of Charge. Home 'Phone 2396 Mal PAYMENTS. Houses and Building Lots ems. Among them are: On Highland Ave....$1,600 Eighteenth St....1,000 St....900 Ave....1,700 parts of the city. See us. R & WELSH or Rising Son. LIABILITIES. W. B. Countee. K. C., U. S. A. ..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. A Large Line Perfumes, Toilet articles, Tooth brushes, Combs and Brushes, Fountain If you are constantly suffering with headache get your eyes examined; it may be your eyes causes it. — The Rollabie Optical Dept. Bromo Ammonia for that cold ---a cold today, pnemonia to-morrow. The Century Marvel Corn Sheller ---a sure cure or money refunded. Painful walking made easy. the RESCRIPTION E. W. Corner 5th and Broadway. Phone Home 1626 Main. :: :: Open all night. ute" to New York RELIABLE PRESCRIPT PHARMACY S. W. Corner 5th and Phone Home 1626 M Call in and see us. Open all night. The "All-Rail Route" to New All Through Trains of the "Big Four Route" Use the New Grand Central Station of the New Y & Hudson River Railroad. r Route" Station of the New York Central 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 running theough 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. in New York, the greatest city on the Ameri- New York City and only one railroad from surply this is an advantage, which no traw of the Big Four Route enter the Grand Cen- engers right in the heart of the city, and only hotels. Vills without Extra Charge. via Big Four Route. Lake Shore and Mich- tlys, stopover not exceeding ten days will be conductors, and deposit of ticket with the tick- ly on arrival. P. P. A., Room 204 Boston Building. Way Think of it! The only railway station in New York, the greatest city on the Americas can carry 10,000 passengers. The Southwest running through ours cars into it? Surly this is an advantage, which no traveler can afford to overlook. All through cars of the Big Four Route enter the Grand Center, which is the 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. Rock Island Way To Colorado "The Rock Island Way" is to give you information intelligently concerning the trip, where to go, what to do and how to do it after you get there. "The Rock Island Way" carries you direct to or from Colorado Springs or Denver. No other line has this advantage. Round Trip, $150 August 20, 23, 27, 30; September 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, from Miss points and any point on Rock Island lines in Nebraska, N Oklahoma. 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