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. ODD FELLOWS ENTERTAINMENT. The affair given at he Convention hall last Friday by the Odd Fellows' fraternity was a grand success in every way. The idea was conceived by Mr. Ell Harris, who with the members of the various committees worked hard and accomplished the good. The committee on arrangements were as follows: Edw, S. Lewis, chairman. Eli Harris, vice chairman. Jas. Lue treasurer. W. E. Randolph, secretary. Prominent on the committee were H. R. Edwards. Frank L. White. Moses Ricketts. B. T. Lewis. Robt. Hill. Jas. Hill. D. M. Johnson Thos. Harris. A. E. Estes. D. Griffin. C. E. Dennis. G. W. Gooch. C. L. Wilson. Manna Oden. The Metropolitan band of 25 pieces furnished an excellent program previous to the beginning of the exercises. Arthur E. Estes, manager; D. E. Blackburn, director. The Ladies of H. H. of Ruth, who furnished the refreshments, were managed by the following cocommittee: Mrs. H. R. Edwards, chairman. Mrs. Mattie Tolliver, vice chairman. Mrs. C. W. Yoakum, secretary. Mrs. H. Williams, treasurer. WILLIAMS AND WALKER COM PANY BANQUETED. Kansas City's "400" were out in full dress Thursday evening to see the performance of Williams and Walker at the Grand, and after the show a banquet was tendered the members of the company at 915 Baltimore avenue. This is the fifth year that this company has ben banqueted in Kansas City, with Mr. Bennie McClure as manager and the banquet was unexcelled by any previous ones tendered. Mr. Williams was attired in the new Haymarket cut and Mrs. Walker wore a white broad cloth with ecru and diamond buttons as trimmnigs. The other ladies wore elegant silk and lace costumes. Dr. T. C. Unthank was toastmaster. Mr. Lewis Woods gave a toast or address of welcome to the honored guests. Addresses in response were also made by Messrs. Williams and Walker, Dr. Keys, R. C. Martin and Stage Manager Shipp. The banquet table was beautifully decorated and supper served in couses. After the sumptuous feast and formal reception, tables were cleared and all who desired delighted themselves in the chase of the "light fantastic toe." Manager Judah and en Rosenthal of the Grand, dressed in their dress suits, were also guests at the banquet; also the manager of the Williams and Walker Company. LEXINGTON NEWS Quarterly meeting was held at Zion A. M. E. church Sunday, Presiding Elder Boxdale preached an excellent sacrament sermon at 3 o'clock. He left Monday morning for Kansas City. He held his quarterly conference Friday night. Rev. Mrs. Madison, of St. Louis, is here on business and will return in a few days. Mrs. Kate Colley of Independence was in the city Sunday. Prof. G. H. Green's mother died on the 12th and was taken to Macon City for burial Monday. She leaves two children and one sister. We exend heartfelt sympathy to the family. She was about 84 years old. She died in the full triumph of faith, also a member of the A. M. E. church and had been for a number of years. A gentleman from Versailles, Mo., is here visiting Rev. R. H. Young. We are unable to learn his name. Born to the wife of Mr. Wm, Hayden, Nov. 10, a girl. The election here passed off quietly. The colored people voted the straight Republican ticket with a few exceptions, and they scratched the ticket, which they ought not have done. This is our second freedom. If the Democrats had been elected the negroes would have been disfranchised. I think that President Roosevelt is one of the greatest men that lives, he is a young American, and he was just in time to help the negro and settles the labor question, which concerns the negro more than any other people. The reason is we are all laborers. Miss Tildia Parker, who is teaching in Dover, was here Sunday. Miss Daisy Goodwin of Lexington Junction was here Sunday. Mr. George Parker subscribed for the Rising Son for six months. We hope to have others do likewise. You that owe for two years and a year and not so long, please pay up your subscription. You that have quit taking it and owed, why look for me, for I am coming to see you. Laughing in my face does not pay for papers, and neither does promises. It takes money to run a newspaper. Miss Maude Harvey, who has been in Kansas City for a few weeks, returned home Sunday night. Mr. Eugene Conway will spend several days in Kansas City this week. Mr. Wm. Hunter is still in the restaurant and groceries business. Call and see him. Mr. and Mrs. White has a restaurant and ice cream parlor. Call and see them, they will treat you right. There are some things going on in this city that are entirely wrong and injurious to the race, and if you don't want to be exposed, why you'd better quit. A hint to the wise is sufficient. The bridge committee has very nearly enough money to build the bridge, and as soon as they get it, Mr. Hearle will commence business. He generally does what he says. It will be a big thing for Lexington. You that haven't subscribed, do so, and you that have, double your subscription. Colored people must take a part in every enterprise of this kind. Try to have something like other races, because we are American citizens one more time, Thank God. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Mr. and Mrs. John Barnes Davis of 1609 Lydia avenue celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary Saturday afternoon and evening. November 12. The host and hostess were the recipients of many handsome presents from in and out of town. Their residence was superbly decorated. Ferns and Southern smilax adorned the parlor in which Mr. and Mrs. Davis received their friends and the mantle was covered with ferns and yellow chrysanthemums. A large yellow pumpkin filled with fruit and yellow chrysanthemums stood in the center of a round oak table with candles shaded with green. This combination produced a lovely effect. The house was decorated throughout with Southern smilax, yellow and white chrysanthemums. Punch was served by Misses Luda Bruce and Stella Cole on the front porch, which was enclosed with canvas and heated with oil stoves. An elaborate menu was served. The following ladies assisted Of the Fifth Episcopal Diocese. Bishop Grant is one of the most noted divines in the A. M. E. connection. On last Sunday he preached a very wholesome and eloquent sermon at the Ebenezer chapel. His text was taken, from the 14th chapter, 21st verse, of John: "If you love me you will serve me and keep my commandments." The Bishop appealed to the moral persuasion of the Negro race. Upon hearing a complaint made of the place of worship, the Bishop re- in receiving: Mrs. Laws, grandmother of Mrs. Davis, Mr. and Mrs S. H. Burnett, Mr. and Mrs J. W. Baldwin, Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Phenix of Independence, Mo., Mrs W. F. Fairfax, Ms'N John Rone, Mrs. Theo. Clay, Mrs. Wm. Bell, Mrs. Wm. Garrett, Mrs. Jas. Brice, Mrs. Jno. Wheeler, Mrs. Geo. Purnell, Mrs. Jos. Knox, Mrs L. Mc Kinsey, Mrs. Dan Willis, Mrs. Wm. Blunk, Mrs. Minnie Brown, Mrs. Wm. Jones, Mrs. A. V. Mulholland, Miss Troutman, of Denver, Colo., and Miss Towers of Brookfield, Mo. Everybody had a'delightful time. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES Among recent visitors who have received a hearty welcome, and who have expressed themselves as very much pleased with what they have witnessed, we note Professor C. G. Williams and wife, of Boonville. Miss Estelle Williams, their daughter, is a member of the sub-normal department, and a valuable addition to the Sunshine Circle. Echoes of the Farmers' Convention are still in the air. In the valuable paper prepared by Professor Damel of the Department of Agriculture and Biology, he emphasized the necessity of combining the scientific and the practical phases of agriculture, if one would become a successful farmer; the importance of the ownership of land by the men who till the soil; and become the great, central, rallying point for educational work along agricultural lines, as well as in other branches, or departments, already established here. November 10, in Kansas City, Kan., the Western University eleven was defeated by the Lincoln Institute marked that out of a large number of church buildings in the A. M. E. organization, fifteen hundred of them were in a worse condition than the Ebenezer church. He gave his audience to understand that the churches must remain where they can do the most good. The Bishop also signified the fact that he stood opposed to people building so many great church edifices, which results in such large debts. "When you are in doubt and trouble," said the Bishop, "you must refer to Paul." His discourse awakened his audience to great enthusiasm. "Tigers." The game was Missouri against Kansas, and ended with the score. Lincoln, 11, Western 0. November 11, the Tigers with little difficulty defeated the St. Joseph High school team on their own field, by a score of 23 to 0; and now the Lincoln boys bid fair to become the champions of the West. "Rah for Lincoln Institute!" "The Record," the institution school paper, is out. Send for several copies, five cents each. TO OUR READERS: Beginning November 1st, the several collectors for The Son will make their rounds. We respectfully request all our readers whose subscriptions are due, to be prepared to meet our collector in a way that will bring a smile on his face. Please do not treat this notice with unconcern, because we must meet our obligations and in order to do so must urge our readers to be prompt in paying our collectors. THE NEW WAY. No more pulling, laboring, worrying and sweating out your clothing, but in a mechanical way I will teach you the waltz, two-step and schottische in one fourth the usual time, complete, for $3. Private lessons 50 cents. Regular class every Wednesday evening. Lessons 25 cents. At the Vendome, 1734 Grand avenue. D. A. WILLIS, Mgr. The annex to the John Taylor Dry Goods Co. supplies a long felt want in the big retail district. This makes the John Taylor Dry Goods Co. one of the largest and best concerns in the west. When Bettors Should Quit. When Bettors Should Quit. The London Sketch says a professional betting man should go out of business when 50 years old. After that age a man makes mistakes. Between 50 and 65 he stands to lose 75 per cent of what he accumulated before 50. Many Buried in One Grave many Buried in one Grave. While making excavations for the enlargement of a church at Roggett, Monmouthshire, Eng., the other day, about a hundred skeletons were also covered. The bodies had apparently been buried in one grave. They are supposed to be the remains of victims of the plague, or of men who fell in a border raid. The skeletons have been reinterred. Kiss Once a Religious Observance. The kiss has been common among English speaking people for uncounted centuries. It was known even to those mystical, half-forgotten persons, the Druids, who appear to have made it in some way a very important part of their religious observances. The Christian kiss under the mistletoe comes down from them, and is thought to have had in years long past a sacred significance. The Devil Grows Clumsy. A Malden woman whose sprained knee was made well by faith alone, two days after she fell from her bicycle, explains the accident "Satan had a special spite against my bicycle, because it was dedicated to God before I ever mounted it." Yet the bicycle did not suffer. The devil is growing clumsy—Boston Advertiser. Sage Fixes Wedding Date. No Korean couple would think of marrying without consulting the sage, who fixes the happy day for them. This he does simply by adding the bride's age to the bridegroom's and after determining which star rules the destiny of their united ages, he decrees that the wedding shall take place upon the day sacred to that star. Origin of Phrases: The London Daily News has discovered what a good many Americans may have forgotten—that the popular phrase "the man in the street" comes from Emerson. It occurs in "The Conduct of Life," in the section on "Worship." Speaking of the movement to repeal the corn laws in England, Emerson goes on: "Well,' says the man in the street, 'Cobden got a stipend out of it.'" Savages First to Use Mortar. Mortar was made by the people of Tahiti when our ancestors were shivering in holes in the rocks. They dived into the sea, brought up great bumps of coral, burned them in pits, using wood as fuel, and mixed the lime they got in this fashion with sharp sand and water. With this mixture the ingenious savage plastered the walls and floor of Lis house, and a better mortar could not be obtained. Discomfited Lawyer. During the last session of the Clip court in a small town in southern Wisconsin a well-known Badger lawyer came to grief by being just a little too sharp. According to his habit, he was browbeating one of the witnesses, "Now, Mr. Jones," said he, "you can answer that question a little more clearly. You are not as green as you look." "Yes," drawled the witness, in reply, "I am a butcher by profession and not a lawyer." Invention of Panama Indians: We should never have had the Panama hat but for the quick-fingered Indians of the Isthmus of Panama. Even to day their secret process for seasoning the grass blades used in weaving these hats remains unrivaled. Basketmakers of the same region make baskets which will hold water without leaking—another invention which is quite beyond us. Lanland's Chief Crime In Lapland, the crime which is punished most severely, next to murder, is the marrying of a girl against the express wish of her parents. NUMBER 33. The annual meeting of the patrons of Douglas school, corner of Twenty-seventh and West. Prospect streets, was held at the school building Friday. October 4. The meeting was large and enthusiastic. Prof. R. W. Foster, the principal, presided and in a few well chosen words stated the object of the meeting was to secure the co-operation of home in the development of the child along the lines that will enable him to successfully meet the demands of his environment. Rev. Scott of the Christian church delivered an address emphasizing the vital principles of education on broad and liberal lines. Short talks by parents attested the sincerity of their interest, after which refreshments were served by the teachers. A Contented Husband No, my wife's not educated, and when she tries to talk upon the topics of the day, you're apt to get a shock. She isn't up in music, and she never went to dances, yet when old enough to marry, she had a dozen chancs. No, she isn't very handsome, but then she takes the cake when it comes to making biscuit like mother used to make — Cincinnati! Enquirer. Product of the American Cow Product of the American Cow: The American cow is an institution of huge dimensions. She produces annually 8,000,000,000 gallons of milk, 1,500,000,000 pounds of butter, and 300,000,000 pounds of cheese, not to mention hides, leather, glue, hair, horns, and other by-products. Her total dairy crop is worth over $500,000,000 a year. Turkeys Destroy Caterpillars Dr. G. W. Field, of the biological farm in Sharon, Mass., instructs his young turkeys to find and eat caterpillars and in this way gets rid of the pests. He takes a turkey chick under his arm and, passing along the young cabbage plants, shows the caterpillar to the bird, and the former sees his finish. The young chicks are apt pupils and soon can go it alone. "Linen" Garden Party. A "linen" garden party was recently given by the lord mayor of Belfast. The most attractive costumes worm by the ladies were entirely of linen, and the men wore linen waistcoats. The idea originated in the very successful "all linen" ball at Belfast last year, which was given to aid the staple industry of Ulster. Disinfect Railway Carriages On the Bavarian state railways the passenger carriages are regularly disinfected with formaldehyde. The method adopted is to close the windows and doors tightly, and on the floor of the car is placed a pan which contains metal weights heated to a dull red color. A 20 per cent solution of formaldehyde is then poured into the pan. After having been left for about seven hours the carriage is then thoroughly ventilated. Two Ways of Competing There are two ways by which the man that is entering butter in a contest can make his butter. One way is to select the cream and make sure that all conditions are perfect. This way of making his butter is not the ordinary one and the only good that can come from the competition is that he may make a few dollars or get a medal. The real object of butter contests is to improve the conditions under which butter is made. To get any real good the butternaker must make his butter as he makes it every day and out of the cream that is an average of that he every day handles. Then he will find out what the butter judges think of his work. In this way he can make real progress and bring up his business. The information he gets from the butter judges is of far more consequence to him than would be any amount of prize money and medals. Religious Thought Prayer and Faith. Prayer wings its way beyond the skies, And reaches the eternal throne; On faith's strong pinions swift it tides, And as sweet incense there is known. Each supplant cry and forwent plea. Each inward groan and strong desire, And tear and wrestling agony, Rise as the sacrificial fire. And God is moved. He loves to grant What we request, things great or small; He satisfies our real want. Our real needs. He meets them all. We ask for bread—He feedeth us; For strength—we through Him mighty are; For courage life's rough sea to cross— He gives us grace all tils to bear. Each pure desire to heaven's high court, Whatever concern us, we may bring; For bath not Christ so plainly taught We may in prayer bring everything? If this be so, then let us cease Life's burdens previously to bear. For supplant faith will bring release From every sorrow, every Comes Page. The Possible Place. "An example that ye should follow his steps." — Peter, cf. 21. "Strike a gait that will not kill your horses and will bring your men in at the week's end in good fighting trim," was the parting order of the commanding coloned to an expedition starting out in hot pursuit of the maudling Indians. So when entering upon the campaign of life it is of first importance to take a stride you can maintain; the pursuit is long and the way often rough and weary. When choosing a calling, venturing into place in the social and domestic world, setting up moral ideals and planning the religious belief, character and work, beware of the false gait; it may be the lagging shamble of failure or the impossible dash that must end in disappointment and defeat. Every man has his own gait, his own peculiarities, that we call individualisms. For this very reason the athlete goes into training that he may standardize himself physically, and most men, by observing the laws of the state and of good society, standardize themselves civically and morally, yet without destroying their individuality. It is the high office of the "Captain of our salvation" both to direct us to the discovery of ourselves and our individual gifts and to set the marching steps for us. His steps mark the course to be followed, measure the rate of progress, standardize character and shape ideals for all noble ambitions. He would stir, stimulate, help and train our feet to follow in His own blood stained tracks. First, His is the pace possible. He has adapted it to all the race; it is neither too high nor too low, too hard nor too easy. It is spoken of as "the upward way of God" or the "high calling"—the lofty walk. Strenuous, yes! But the native nobility in us delights in such a chalenge as this. Difficulty, burden and glorious struggle make life worth living and men worth saving. The pity and grief come only with failure, and failure comes too often from the false pace. The wise and loving apostle calls us to submit to the divine example and to establish our steps by His, and to follow on the golden mean that is made surely possible to all the serious and noble. Again, His is a pace progressive, He ever leads—even along the higher levels of thought, development and endeavor. He is ever calling us on and on and upward. And His is a pace that arrives. One who follows in His steps meets duty with preparedness and halls opportunity with readiness, fights his last battle with increasing strength and strides along the last march with hope and joy unabated and a faith triumphant. In all the maze of systems and creeds Christianity is the only practical religion. It is workable in every human situation. It gets there in every dark problem and splendid enterprise if properly employed. When fine schemes have failed, and devoted, weary feet halt by the way or go far afield, this golden course offers a way out and on to success. Taking leave of his sons, an old Virginian said: "I have no estate to leave you, my dear boys, but a good name. Remember that behind you stand seven generations of honest men and as many generations of good women. Be worthy of them, and go out in the world and do something worth while." Behind us are fifty generations of the faithful who, by following His steps, "have fought a good fight, finished their course and kept the faith." Let us try to be worthy of them and of the Master whose disciples they were, and let us go out into life and do the things we can best do. These are things worth while. when walking with Jesus you've nothing to fear. — C.O. Wright. The Battles in Life Dean Stanley said, "There is always the wine-press to be trodden before we drink the juice of the grapes—there is always the battle to be fought before the victory is ours." And after all our rebellion we know that it is better so. Would you wipe from your memory the victories you have gained over self, over the world, ever temptations that tried you to the limit of endurance? Do you remember the feeling of strength that succeeded the time of doubt and uncertainty while the question, "What shall I do?" bung in the balance? You were not left alone to settle it. The Father kept before you the right solution, but your human nature cried out for a different one, and so the warfare went on until the divinity within you overcame and the victory was yours. The next battle was not so hard because you had won the conqueror's wreath at the close of the greater struggle. Would you be as strong today if you had never met a foe worthy your greatest efforts to overcome? The best things in character are not the accidents of birth—the things that are born with us and are a part of our nature, no matter how noble they may be. They are only the helps that will be needed to brace up the structure when the earthquakes come that will shake it to its foundation. We can thank God for them and take courage in our equipment, but the best things are those, that, not having naturally, we labor for until they are ours by conquest. Our very struggle to obtain them makes them priceless, and, knowing so well what life was before they were a part of it, we wonder how another can abuse what has cost us so much to acquire. Every victory is a beacon light that shines forward on the way we must go and lights up the battlefields of the future so that we can go forward in the confidence of a strength that has overcome even greater foes than those awaiting us. Grace Sufficient. It can never be preached too often nor be too much magnified—the grace of God—but we need to emphasize much more than we do the all-sufficiency of that grace. There are many—not too many—gracious people in the world, but the trouble is they lack power to make their graciousness effective. Now, it is not so with the Lord. He is merciful and loving, but he is also able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can think or ask. He can do all that he wants to do. It is the conviction of this truth that gives moral fiber, and courage to stand in the hour of trial, and faith to endure when all things seems to be passing away. It was this which made Spurgeon great, not his ability as an orator. He tells us of one of his experiences: "I was riding home, very weary with a long week's work, when there came to my mind this text: 'My grace is sufficient for thee,' but it came with the emphasis 'laid upon two words: 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' My soul said: 'Doubtless it is.' Surely the grace of the infinite God is more than sufficient for such a mere insect as I am; and I laughed and laughed again, to think how far the supply exceeded all my needs. It seemed to me as though I were a little fish in the sea, and in my thirst I said: 'Alas! I shall drink up the ocean.' Then the fathers of the waters lifted up his head sublime and, smiling, replied: 'Little fish, the boundless main is sufficient for thee.'" Unanswered Prayers. It would be a calamity to have all prayers answered; and if God did not love you He could, no doubt, always send to you that for which you pray. But, while He hears all your prayers, as a loving Father He answers only those that will be best for you. Would you take the matter out of His hands? You do not know what is best for your life; you cannot see a step beyond the present, so thick are your tears and so little do you know of what lies beyond. But God is infinite in knowledge and infinite in His love. Therefore, while you pray for that which you most desire, fail not to add, "If it by Thy will." God loves you. Whatever else you forget, still remember this. You are precious in His sight. You are His child, and that which is best for you He will do, and here you may rest your soul. We read in the Apocalypse of golden vases "full of odors which are the prayers of the saints," and perhaps all our prayers in some way are kept in heaven until we shall arrive there; and it may be that God will permit us to review them in the light of the better land, in order that we might see why some were answered and others were not; and then no doubt we shall be satisfied that all was done just as we should have wanted could we have seen the end from the beginning. For Every Separate Need. As there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need. The power which moves the world is hope. An anxious, doubtful, timid man can accomplish little. Fear nereus us. Hope inspires us. To cultivate and strengthen our hope we must increase our faith in goodness and in a God of love.—Hawthorne. The Diving Carpenter. We are all placed in this world to do a work very like that which the Lord did. If we would live a religious life, we are to follow the Lord in the regeneration. Thus we are to be spiritual carpenters as he was the Divine Carpenter. We are, with the Lord's help—help that He will so gladly give us—to rear up a life, to form a character, in which He can dwell with us. And in the building of this life, this truly religious life, we must always carry with us the Divine Carpenter's rule, the rule that is brought down to our hands in the two great commands and to our very finger ends in the ten commandments.—Rev. William H. Mayhew. GERMAN COURTHOUSE BUILT ALONG AMERICAN LINES [Illustration of a large, multi-story building with a tower and a clock tower, surrounded by trees and a river. The building has a large entrance and several windows. The sky is dark, suggesting it might be evening or night.] The new courthouse (rathaus) at Leipzig, Germany, is among the first buildings in Europe to be constructed according to modern American methods—that is, its component parts are principally of steel, or, as one German magazine calls it, "Chicago construction." The plans were furnished by the noted architect, Hugo Licht, who Famous Kansas Editor the Victim of Heart Disease. Col. D. R. Anthony, the noted editor of the Leavenworth Times and brother of Miss Susan B. Anthony, the woman suffragist, died at his home at Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 12, of heart disease. He was 80 years old. He had served both as mayor and postmaster of Leavenworth, as a member of the Kansas, legislature, and in 1886 was made a government director of the Union Pacific railroad. Col. Anthony had a noteworthy career filled with stirring incident. His body was covered with scars, traces of wounds received in combat with his enemies, for Col. Anthony was as much at home with the revolver as with the pen. He was the hero of a hundred battles during the early days of the state, when Kansas was on the frontier and men held life at little value. Col. Anthony went to Leavenworth in 1853. Almost on the day of his arrival he attended a "Free Soil" meeting, and made an address that astounded the followers of John Brown and the men engaged in fighting the border ruffians. An attempt was made to kill him that night, but the young easterner returned the fire with such interest that one of his assailants nearly lost his life. On May 10, 1875, a rival editor, angered at Col. Anthony's merger schemas, confronted him as he was entering the opera house and fired on him at close range. One of the bullets entered Col. Anthony's body near the heart, and his recovery was considered marvelous. In the civil war Col. Anthony helped to raise and was made a lieutenant in the First Kansas Cavalry. He was promoted by degrees to colonel, and distinguished himself in the S. Colonel D. R. Anthony. battle of the Little Blue. When he was mayor of Leavenworth during the stirring days of the border wars his life was sought several times by irate Missourians, but his quickness with the pistol saved him. He was married Jan. 21, 1864, to Miss Annie E. Osborn of Edgartown, Mass. They had several children. Artificial Butterflies. The preparation of artificial butterflies mainly consists in spreading with a camel's hair brush very thin mucilage or paste over the wings of ordinary butterflies and then sprinkling over this certain delicate metallic powders of various colors. By this process a very common butterfly can be transformed into one that is extremely rare. The fraud came to light, says the Liverpool Post, through an alleged specimen of a red admiral, the fly so widely noted for its brilliant red and white hues. has produced what is called a fine example of the German and English renaissance, combined with modern treatment. The building, which cost $2,500,000, contains a number of spacious halls, notably the "ratsplenarsaal," and a festival hall. Leipzig which is the center of the German book trade, has a population of 500,000. WOMAN ACTIVE IN POLITICS. Mrs. Sarah Foster Stumped Entire State of Idaho. No campaigning done by women anywhere this fall—and mighty little done by men—compares with the record made in Idaho by Mrs. Sarah Foster, president of the Woman's National Republican association. In a canvas-covered prairie wagon she plunged across the country by day or night—it mattered not to her—stumping the state for Roosevelt. From one mining town to another she went, speaking fifteen minutes here or twenty minutes there, as the case might me. Then she was on the road again. Sometimes Mrs. Foster enjoyed the luxury of a real bed in a real house, but more often it was a pine board in a miner's shack, where a curtain was strung up to divide the men's and woman's uarters. One morning she held a bit of mirror for the party candidate for assembly to shave by, after which he in turn held it for her to do up her hair. The Sport of Killing. The present revulsion from the killing of animals for sport is an indication of the increasing delicacy of the sensibility of the time. The thought of inflicting needless pain on any living creature as a means of obtaining pleasurable excitement has become horrible. The animal has risen to a new place of dignity. It has become a creature to which more consideration is given. Besides, the whole tone of modern society is of a keener sensibility. Pain in itself shocks the nerves of the observer of it. A little bird struggling in the agony caused by a sportsman's bullet is likely to stir in him a feeling of pity which turns pleasure-seeking into mournful self-accusation. Prince Captured by Cupid. The prince of Annam, Ham N'gi, formerly emperor and king of Annam, who was captured by the French sixteen years ago and detained a captive in Algiers, has fallen in love with a French girl, Mlle. Laloe, daughter of Judge Laloe of Algiers, whom he met frequently at dinner at her father's. He arrived in Paris some time ago for permission of the French government, when consent of the minister was obtained. He will become a Frenchman and give up all his pretensions to the throne of Annam. He is quite an artist and devotes much time to painting. He has an interesting studio in hisilla. Electricity in Agriculture. The application of electricity to general agriculture has been successfully made in southern France and has been followed in Germany on an even greater scale. Power is provided from a central plant, and motors for thrashing grain, grinding of flour, pumping of water, etc., are rented to proprietors, who find that the work can be more quickly and cheaply done than by the use of horses. The application of electricity to growing seeds has been found exceedingly advantageous, such use of the subtle agent having been first made by the experiment station at Amherst, Mass.—Cleveland Leader. Famous Educator to Retire. Rev. Dr. Edmond Ware, D. D., who has just announced his intention of retiring next summer from the post of head master of Eton, is one of the most famous and popular pedagogues in Great Britain, and is regarded with reverence by pupils who have distinguished themselves all over the world. For more than forty years he has played a prominent part among the educational forces of Eton, having been one of the most successful assistant masters long before he was selected to be head. Volcano's Crater to be a Public Park. A most original thing is to be done to the famous Diamond Head crater by the local government. The park commission desires the place for use as a public park. To convert the crater of a volcano into a public park is highly original, but old Diamond Head possesses such peculiar and unusual features that a beautiful park could be made out of it. Diamond Head is one of the most picturesque sights in this island. It stands about 1,000 feet in height at the highest point, but consists only of an outside rim, for inside is the crater about a mile and a half in circumference. If the place is turned over to a park commission a road will probably be built around the crater, running on the crest. Inside the place could be made into a park. High on the cliffs are some ancient burial caves of the Hawaiian chiefs and these places would add interest to Diamond Head as a park. The selection of Diamond Head for a park possesses for the Honolulu resident nothing of the uncanniness that such a place might inspire in the minds of others less familiar with the crater. The volcano has been extinct for hundreds of years. It was one of the earlier of the Hawaiian volcanoes to become extinct, and only in a dim tradition among the ancient lore of the Hawaiians is there any reference to the time that Diamond Head hurled forth fire and lava. Fertile Cuba. The soil of Cuba is extremely fruitful. Cabbages there are so large that heads weighing twenty pounds each are common. All vegetables do well. Radishes may be eaten from fourteen to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce in five weeks after sowing, while corn produces three crops per year. Sweet potatoes grow all the year. Quick is the succession of human events. The cares of to-day are seldom the cares of to-morrow, and when we le down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles: "We have done your worst, and we shall meet no more."—Cowper. An Honest Opinion: Mineral, Idaho, Nov. 14th.—(Special.)—That a sure cure has been discovered for those scilatic pains that make so many lives miserable, is the firm opinion of Mr. D. S. Colson, a well known resident of this place, and he does not hesitate to say that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. The reason Mr. Colson is so firm in his opinion is that he had those terrible pains and is cured. Speaking of the matter he says: "I am only too happy to say Dodd's Kidney Pills have done me lots of good. I had awful pains in my hip so I could hardly walk. Dodd's Kidney Pills stopped it entirely. I think they are a grand medicine." All sciatic and Rheumatism pains are caused by Uric Acid in the blood. Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy Kidneys, and healthy Kidneys strain all the Uric Acid out of the blood. With the cause removed there can be no Rheumatism or Sciatica. Black Fridays. The American Black Friday was September 24, 1869, when Jay Gould and James Fiske, Jr., attempted to create a corner in the gold market. The whole country was in a ferment for several days, but the day was saved b y the report that Secretary Boutwell had thrown $4,000,000 on the market. The English Black Fridays are two-one the Friday on which the news reached London that the young pretender, Charles Edward, had arrived at Derby; the second, May 11, 1866, when the failure of Overend, Gurney & Co., London, the day before was followed by widespread financial ruin. Mrs. Roosevelt's Secretary. Miss Isabel Hagner, private secretary of Mrs. Roosevelt, has a fortune ample for all the frivolities of Newport and Tuxedo or fo辽颁 of her life between Fifth Avenue and Belgrave square, but she prefers to follow the useful career she mapped out for herself when, with a thinner purse, she entered public life. When Miss Hagner came into ahandsome inheritance recently she gave no sign of intention to leave her present post. FOR SALE. Horses, Mules, Harness; One and Two-Horse Baggage Wagons; Landaus, Berlins, Hansom and Four-Wheel Cabs, Victorias, Ten-Seated Passenger Coaches, at reasonable prices for cash. This is surplus equipment purchased on account of the World's Fair. Address D. Jamison, Superintendent Passenger and Baggage Department, St. Louis Transfer Company, Broadway and Spruce street, St. Louis, Mo. Quick Lunch Unhealthful. Sir William McEwen, a professor of Glasgow university, is a late authority for the view that "the quick lunch" is a health destroyer. In an address to the Charing Cross Medical school of London, he said that people seemed to act as though "food should be thrown into the stomach as a sandwich into the pocket." He complains that "mastication is not taught in schools," and says it is time that "certificates should be given in schools for sound digestion. Instead of doing that, we appoint royal commissions to inquire into the causes of physical deterioration of the race." A soft berth is always hard to find. The pawnbroker leads a lonely existence. Mayor J. H. Powell of Henderson, Ky., in issuing his characteristic annual Thanksgiving proclamation, among other things, says: "Let us be thankful that our colonels are not so full of corn as our corn is full of kernels. Though the surrounding soil, tickled with a hoe, is laughing with a harvest, poor folks are still with us. From thin soup and cold potatoes, good Lord, deliver them. Oh, Christian men and women, astonish the stomach of the starving sufferer with oysters, turkey and mince pie. Adorn the ragged pauper with comfortable clothing. An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. "Dearly beloved, let us play upon a harp of a thousand strings a new song of praise, give thanks unto the Lord for the most charming crop of beautiful babes ever born in the old town since creation dawned and the morning stars sang together. Sweet, dainty, darling ones, like sunbeams in shady places, kick up your little heels and make of earth a heaven. "With charity unto all and malice toward none, I do hereunto subscribe my official signature to the words that have been written this fourth day of November." A Little Free With the Judge. Congressman Bankhead, of Alabama, has a weakness for gambling stories. One that he tells is of a time when a spasmodic attempt was being made to drive gamesters out of Mobile. A witness was on the stand testifying for the defense, it being well known that the judge was a skillful poker player. The witness talked of "going blind," "raising," "passing" and so on, and finally his honor said, gravely: "Mr. Jackson, you are using a good many of what I presume are technical terms. Will you be good enough to explain some of them?" The witness, with equal gravity, replied: "I shall be pleased to do so, your honor, if you will kindly let me have your poker deck for a few moments." Mme. Bernhardt's Recreation. Here is a sample of Mme. Bernhardt's breezy, easy style of writing, from a letter written to a friend from her fort on Belle isle, in Brittany: "You want to know what I do at Belle isle. I rest. I rest by fatiguing myself. I lead a paradoxical life at Paris, as you know. One must breathe, nevertheless. The same destiny which has made me the servant of an art in which the brain, heart, sensibility, intelligence alone work has given me a taste, a need, a mania for physical movement. How do I reconcile these two? I do not, but I go to Belle isle. I see you laugh: 'What! Belle isle for nature so insatiable? It is so little—Belle isle.'" Marries a iTger. A curious custom obtains among the Coorgs. When one of them kills a tiger or a panther, he is married to the dead animal. Propped upon a framework on wood or bamboo the animal is carried in procession and the marriage ritual is strictly observed, while lavish hospitality is dispensed. Many People But Few Houses. Italy and Spain have fewer houses in proportion to their population than any other country in the world. The Argentine Republic and Uruguay have the most. TILL NOON. The Simple Dish That Keepa Cne Vigorous and Well Fed. When the doctor takes his own medicine and the grocer eats the food he recommends some confidence comes to the observer. A Grocer of Ossian, Ind., had a practical experience with food worth anyone's attention. He says: "Six years ago I became so weak from stomach and bowel trouble that I was finally compelled to give up all work in my store, and in fact all sorts of work, for about four years. The last year I was confined to the bed nearly all of the time, and much of the time unable to retain food of any sort on my stomach. My bowels were badly constipated continually and I lost in weight from 160 pounds down to 88 pounds. "When at the bottom of the ladder I changed treatment entirely and started in on Grape-Nuts and cream for nourishment. I used absolutely nothing but this for about three months. I slowly improved until I got out of bed and began to move about. "I have been improving regularly and now in the past two years have been working about fifteen hours a day in the store and never felt better in my life. "During these two years . have never missed a breakfast of Grape-Nuts and cream, and often have it two meals a day, but the entire breakfast is always made of Grape-Nuts and cream alone. "Since commencing the use of Grape-Nuts I have never used anything to stimulate the action of the bowels, a thing I had to do for years, but this food keeps me regular and is fine shape, and I am growing stronger and heavier every day. "My customers, naturally, have been interested and I am compelled to answer a great many questions about Grape-Nuts. "Some people would think that a simple dish of Grape-Nuts and cream would not carry one through to the noonday meal, but it will and in the most vigorous fashion." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Wallville." Show us the way to see the good That comes into our lives each day. The blessings dimly understood That gives us clarity the way. Give us content with gold and gear— Though much or little we possess— Let us be glad for what is here On this, our day of thankfulness. But broaden, too, the soul and mind So that our thanks will not be found By custom's rule and rate confined Winter the one day's narrow bound. Let us be glad for this end. Give us the heart to understand The graciousness of spreading trees; The charm of some wisely chanted. The storm and sunshine—all of these For all the brightness of the dawn. And cheerfulness of noon and night; And that joy shines brightly. Give us the grace to see aright. Let us remember each kind word By weight of goodly feeling blest— Each gentle thing we've said or heard— And blot from memory the rest. Give us the grace to see and know The benefit along the way— The many things that help us so Let us be thankful every day. WHY THE CLOSEL WAS THANKFUL It was short-waisted and voluminous of skirt. When Miss Mary lifted it from the old nail-studded hair trunk a faint perfume of lavender filled the garret room. The silk was still as fresh and bright as when she had last worn it, and yet how many years had passed since then. She had liked the gown. Now she passed her delicate hand over the soft surface, as if it was some old and treasured memory she was caressing. She heard a rustle from between the folds as her fingers passed across the silk, and she looked to see its cause. A yellowed card, a dance program it was. "R. B."—That stood for Ransom Beasant—killed at Getsburg in Pickett's charge. "Morgan"—She could not remember him—a visitor to the county probably. "C. C."—How many "C. C.'s" were scattered down that card! Curtis Chamberlain had had almost every other dance that night. He had taken her to that dance, she remembered now, and he had told her that she never looked so pretty. What had they quarreled about—she and Curtis Chamberlain? She could hardly remember now—a word misunderstood, a look misinterpreted. She had been unforgiving and he proud, and the little rift had widened to a chasm. Now he was "old Col. Chamberlain," and she Miss Mary Tullock, with rather a queer sense of loneliness at her heart. Wizard "I was to meet my youth." To-morrow would be Thanksgiving—and what had she to be thankful for? To-morrow there would be family gatherings at all the old homesteads—and she would sit alone at her dinner table, waited on by old Aunt Sally as she did every day in the year. If she and Curtis Chamberlain had married perhaps—she blushed softly at the thought—perhaps the old house might have rung with happy laughter on these holidays. She, too, might have been looking eagerly for the returning faces of those she loved—if she and Curtis had not quarreled. She looked across at the Chamberlain house. How cheerless it was—how homeless. And there was the colonel coming out now, gray-haired, white-mustached, but erect and soldierly as ever and with the courtly grace of a by-gone generation. She watched the colonel down the street and then a little smile came into her face. She ran down the stairs almost like a girl to the little spindle-legged secretary, where she wrote a hurried note. Then she summoned Sally from the back kitchen. "I want you to carry this note over to Col. Chamberlain's right away, Sally," she said. It was a pretty figure which the colonel saw entering the drawing room Thanksgiving night. Some dainty miniature had stepped delicately forth from its frame. Miss Mary had kept a certain youthfulness in age of which this old gown, with its reminder of her girlhood, seemed but the perfect expres- slon. It had grown old with her, or she stayed young with it. She gave him both hands in welcome, and the colonel bowed and raised them to his lips in courtly fashion. "You did not tell me I was to meet my youth," he said, looking down at her. "Do you recognize it after so many years?" she answered. "I have never forgotten it, and you—your youth has never left you. I lost the best of my life back yonder where we took divided paths. Tonight I find it again—find that you hold it in your hands. Won't you give it back to me again, with yourself? The soft hands he took in his own trembled slightly, but they made no movement to release themselves. "And you really want this faded, bygone relie of the past," she said. "I sure do," said the colonel. "Then—I don't know—but I think I'll give it you. I reckon I just kept it all these years for that," assured Miss Mary. Five minutes later Sally opened the door. "Miss Mary!" she cried. "The cun'l and yo' better be comin' along to yore dinner. I done rung dat bell an' rung—" She stopped and looked at her mistress and at the collar seated beside her. "Marse Curtis," she said with dignity, "de dinner is served an' fo' what you are' bout to receive may de good Lawd make you truly thankful." "Carving the Turkey" ```markdown ``` THIS is the innocent diagram. T THIS is the man who is very wise at carving the turkey before your eyes—he got up the innocent diagram. THIS is the fork and the carving knife, that soon are to fill him with thoughts of strife, when after a smile and a jolly word, he tackles the toothsome and roasted bird—the forl and the knife for the foolish man who got up the turkey carving plan, outlined in the innocent diagram. X THIS is the way that the knife will slip right out of the gentieman's frenzied grip, and clash in its vigor against the plate when he tries to follow the lines so straight—the lines that he drew on the leg and breast to show where the carver could do his best at slicing the beautiful, roasted fowl that now makes him mutter and frown and growl, because of the innocent diagram. ```markdown ``` THIS is the face of the nearest guest who came to the dinner all gayly dressed, and now has the gravity upon his vest, and inwardly curses like all possessed because of the mishap unfortunate that landed the carving knife upon the plate and scattered the turkey and all its juice in all directions, for it was loose; and fostered the wrath of the bragging host who made that foolish, untimely boast about the innocent diagram. A HIS is the remnant and scraps and wreck of turkey dressing and breast and neck that show how skillfully has the host made good his bluster and brag and boast about how easy it is to slice a turkey into the portions nice for guests who wait till they're nearly starved until all desperately he's carved and hacked and haggled the bird to bits, and acted like he has lost his wits because of the innocent diagram—the helpful and plainly drawn diagram which shows him exactly the way to cut—and O, how his wife murmured low "tut, tut!" when he, with a blank and a dash and a slam got rid of the innocent diagram!—W. D. N., in Chicago Tribune. 图 Table Decoration. Scarlet ribbons lend themselves admirably to almost any form of table decoration, particularly if chrysanthemums and wheat are the chief decorations. A cornucopia of wheat, filled with grapes and lying on a mat of mountain ashberries or small red apples, is exceedingly pretty, and long stalks of wheat tied with ribbon the shade of the mat should be placed diagonally across the ends of the table. If the table is round the centerpiece is sufficient. HOUSE = HOLD TALKS The habit coat which will accompany the walking skirt bids fair to be plain, and the sleeves, like those in most garments, will be moderate. An effective model of light weight mustard brown cloth is trimmed with passementerle braid. The skirt is hung in small box plaits, with the exception of the front breadth, and attached just about the knees with little clusters of braid loops. The bottom of the skirt is trimmed with rather an elaborate pattern done in the braid, but at this point the plaits are left free. The bolero has reversible fronts faced with silk in the same tons and embroidered with the passementerle, the coat fastening with passementerle loops and buttons. The sleeves are gathered into the cuff by means of a row of small box plaits taken in the material half way between the shoulder and elbow. The cuff about the hand is trimmed with passementerle Shoe Lore Slippers run to gayety and high heels. Some of the new ones have eight straps. Cuban heels are more fashionable for walking than French heels. Many women are wearing a plain-vamped shoe without a tip. Dull kids will be more fashionable this season than for some time. Patent leather is the thing for dress occasions, but is not durable for hard wear. It seems true that toes are becoming more pointed than for several years past. In high dress shoes cloth uppers are in good taste. Bronze slippers, buttoned with a strap across the instep and worked with bronze beads, are modish. As for stockings, extreme open-stitch styles are demode, and a fine but plain woven hose is the correct thing. Joy of the Boudoir. One woman who uses a costumer in her room says that it is the joy of her life. A costumer always needs explanation, for no one is quite sure of it by its proper name. It is the clothes hanger with a central pole and prongs or one kind or another at the top. The woman who uses them says that she keeps her outdoor wraps, which she is constantly using, on the costumer, has them always at hand, and does not have a remorseful conscience because they are not tucked away in the closet. Anything she wishes to have conveniently at hand she puts on the costumer, including the clothes which she removes when she retires at night. One of these in the bent wood costs $5. It can be finished in enamel to match chamber sets if desired. Misses' Tucked Coat. Tucked coats worn with belts that confine them at the back and sides are exceedingly becoming to young girls and are among the latest and most attractive models shown. This very excellent example is adapted both to the costume and to the general wrap and to the many materials of the season, but is shown in a mixed brown cheviot trimmed with brown velvet edged with fancy braid. The long lines of the front, provided by the tucks which pass over the belt, add greatly to the style and make a specially noteworthy feature. The 10 sleeves are the new ones that are full at the shoulders and are finished with roll-over cuffs. The coat is made with front, back and under-arm gores and is finished at the neck with a simple roll-over collar. The sleeves are full and are plaited into bands that are concealed by the cuffs. The belt is adjusted over the back and fronts to the center tucks, where it passes through openings left for the purpose and is closed invisibly. The quantity of material required for the medium size is 5 yards 27 inches wide, $2\frac{3}{4}$ yards 44 inches wide or $2\frac{1}{4}$ yards 52 inches wide, with $1\frac{2}{4}$ yard of velvet and $1\frac{3}{4}$ yards of braid to trim as illustrated. Ivory in Fashion Again. Ivory toilet sets have once more come into fashion after years of neglect, during which time silver-backed brushes have been in vogue, which have been superseded by gold ones. and again by tortoise-shell sets punched in gold, at present the apex of extravagance and fashion. Some people say it is the interest we feel in the Japanese at this moment that has brought back the ivory toilet sets into favor, but others declare it is simply the moment for ivory. A jeweler says that there is another cause, and that is that ivory is not quite so expensive as it was. It is being used either plain or carved, and sometimes delicately colored with art nouveau tints and designs. Blouse or Shirt Waist Plain shirt waists always are in demand and always fill a need. This one shows the new sleeves that are full at inches wide, 7 yards 44 inches wide box plait at the center front. The model is made of Russian blue silk Ian mohair, stitched with cortexfelt silk, and is worn with a belt and tie of black taffeta. All waisting materials are, however, appropriate, the many mercerized cottons, as well as wool and silk. The waist consists of the fitted lining, which is optional, fronts and back 1 The back is plain across the shoulders, drawn down in gathers at the waist line, but the fronts are gathered at their upper edges, also, so forming becoming folds. The sleeves are in shirt style, gathered into straight cuffs, and at the neck is a regulation stock. The quantity of material required for the medium size is $3\%$ yards 2 inches wide, $31\%$ yards 27 inches wide or 2 yards 44 inches wide. Novelty From Paris. "Tillou' is the name Parisians apply to the greenish yellow or yellowish pale green called after the linder tree. It is seen in the smart broocader which imitate old fashioned colors chiefly seen now in scraps of hoarded satin or brocaded velvet, or in some hereditary garment handed down by a long-pedigreed colonial dame. One cannot say tillou' is strictly becoming to the majority of women, out a pronounced brunette, with a clear, high color, may safely venture upon wearing this fashionable new shade near her face without the aid of a lace assistance. It is seen in the narrow waistcoats of dressy broadcloth costumes. About Muffs. Muffs are a very important item in the fashionable girl's winter outfit; and the new ones are just as quaint and cid-timey as are the smart effects they accompany. There are the familiar flat pouch shape, the round pillow, bigger than ever; and nowadays they term the Victorian what used to be called the granny muff. A very fascinating novelty combines a handbag and muff; the bag is mounted invisibly in the top of the muff, just a jeweled clasp peeping out to indicate its whereabouts. Others in the same style show merely a purse, but either form is in the height of fashion. Beautiful Irish Lace. The newest thing in Irish lace might better be called French-Irish. It has the beauty of the work of Irish crochet, treated after the wonderful fanches of the French. It's a wonderful combination. For the Irish work only a few patterns—the shamrock predominating—and make them over and over; while Paris indulges in marvelous, daring flights, and illumines everything she touches with radiant changes. Cloth Collars. One sees a few cloth collars in the shops, handsomely embroidered by hand and applied with curious little motifs. They come in white, black and a few colors, and make a lovely accessory to the cloth gown of similar shade. Deeper than these is a white cloth collar that reaches the proportion of a shoulder cape, embroidered with handsome padded Easter lilies. A New Ead in Ties. Grass-green tape ties in white canvas golf and tennis oxfordes are a late summer fad at the country clubs, links and tennis courts. Both men and woman have taken to wearing them. CHANT ROYAL OF THE TURKEY Farmer Cuisine's Turkeys **Bird of all birds!** No one can thee deride; **Bird of two meats, the salient brown, the white;** **O democratic gird, our Nation's pride, In thee might prince and potentate deceive;** **Hall to thy bosom, plump and brown and fair;** **Hall to thy drumsticks and thy side-hoes ear;** **Hall to thy heart and liver-rich morceaux;** **Hall to thy wishbone and thy bishop's nose!** **All hall again!** Accept this votive lay, **O bird that comes with coming of the snow;** **The sovereign bird of our Thanksgiving Day.** **Ye gods.** To sniff the juices as they slide **Aowny thy breast!** To mark with eyes grown bright **Each movement of the knife and fork** Around thee in a sacrificial rite; The incense of thy stuffing fills the air. And holds the senses in its fragrant snare; Rich lech from thy rosied body blows. That could tempt one in dyspepsia's throes; Not now shall pneumogastric lils delay. Where thou art art we barnish all such eel Thou sovereign bird of our Thanksgiving Day. Let others chant of capons, grilled or fried. Of partridge baked with truffles, which unite their squid flavors and become allied In tibbits fair to agustatory sight; Let others prate of pickled peach and ear. Let those who will by cakes and pud- dings sweat. Or who, like Omar, praise the wine and rose— "Chacun a son gout," as the proverb gives. And yet were Vatel-or the great Dupre— Alive, they, too, would praise thee in rondeaux. Farmer Cuis It all came about through Farmer Cuisine's reprehensible habit of discussing his affairs with all the world and his wife. It was natural that Cuisine should swell with pride as he viewed his flock of Thanksgiving turkeys. They were birds. Fat and feathery, with a strut like the foreign nobleman of cheap melodrama, they basked in the sunshine of local popularity and were rightly voted the finest in the county. So far all was well and the goose hung high in the Cuisine household. But fate, at the eleventh hour, a favorite time with fate, brought the turkey farmer in juxtaposition with his undoing, and so kindly provided this story for the edification of the public. Hercetofore it has been the belief of most people that turkeys are born to be fattened, killed and eaten. "The expression, 'He hasn't got sense enough to come in out of the rain,' was coined, it is believed, on a turkey farm, for this species of domestic fowl will stay out in the wet until washed away unless its owner intervenes in his own interests. But it seems the turkey has been much maligned. He is in reality a sensible bird, as this story will prove. Cuisine made the mistake of underrating turkey intelligence when he held forth one day to an admiring audience of friends and relatives on the astonishing success of his efforts at turkey breeding. "Look at that big fellow," said Cuts line, pointing at a gobbler, who stalked disdainfully past with tall feathers elevated. "I have been fattening him especially for the table of President Roosevelt. He's bigger than anything around here, and I'm going to have him weighed and sent to the White House for Thanksgiving. The news paper fellers will get a hold of it and my name will be in print from New York to the Golden Gate. I shall kill him in a day or two from now. The others are all booked to go this week. I expect to do right well with 'em all." Thus thought Farmer Cuisine, with an eye to the shekels after the killing. It never occurred to him the gobbler might be listening. Nor did he dream for a moment that turkeys were intelligent fowl and would just as soon continue to strut the earth as be trussed for the table. Had he understood the birds better, or had he attended a mass meeting of gobblers called that evening on the stone fence behind the barn, he might have refrained thereafter from taking the domestic fowl into his confidence when discussing his plans. The meeting was called to order by the gobbler already referred to—he of the disdainful stalk. In a few well-chosen gobbles he retailed to the silent audience the story of their fate, repeating mournfully the remarks made by Cuisine concerning his plans. For them the speaker, or rather gobbler, explained the days were numbered. The glorious season of unlimited corn was drawing to a close. He pierced the haze of the future and there behold the terrible apparition of a headless turkey, trussed and stuffed and garnished, borne aloft like a sacrifice while a hungry multitude applauded expectantly. He looked closer at the apparition, and to! it was his own image that he beheld --- Thou sovereign bird of our Thanksgiving Day. Of old the poets praised the browner's side. The haunch of half-dressed steers, the rump of bear, The palmate, backin, and the spitted hare, The palmate of venison, the hearts of does, The sturgeon and the pies of peacocks' toes; The wasgall bowl, the mead, the sack, the thief; But the thief praised not or in rhyme or prose. Thou sovereign bird of our Thanksgiving Day. Bird of our chill and bleak November-tide. Unknown to thee the joys of migrant flight. Thou thayward bird, thy virtues far and wide. Are betaled in homely phrases trite; Hall to thy carcass, hail! A last En- Hall to thy bones that to the soup repair; Hall to thy kickshaws rich in gastric Hall to the hash wherein thou shalt repose; Such is the fate of all that are of clay- Hall and farewell! 'Tis all that life be- Thou sovereign bird of our Thanksgiving Day. ENVOY Friend, you may journey far, or here or there! All menus try, essay all bills of fare. Dine with the Germans or the Eskimos. And as a sybarite or gourmond pose; But in the end you will return and say, As I do now at this chant royal's close "Thouso sovereign bird of our Thanksgiving Day." —New York Times. ine's Turkeys there, headless, trussed, and stuffed, and garnished. The gobbler gulped with emotion as he followed the picture to its finish. A shoulder run through the audience, and feathers trembled like the leaves of the forest when a storm approaches. Each turkey saw his finish, too. Farmer Cuisine will never know bow narrowly he escaped death himself that night. It was actually proposed by some of the younger and more excitable birds that the flock unitedly set upon their confessed enemy and beat him to earth with claw and beak and wings. But, as some one has said, "Calmer counsels prevailed," and the unanimous decision of the meeting was that safety could best be found in flight. From that point the discussion was carried on in turkey whippers. "The meeting stands adjourned," finally gobbled the forensic fowl, as one by one the turks trooped away. The rest of the story is almost too distressing to be told, but an extract from one of the morning papers, published the day after the mass meeting, may be here reprinted. It ran: "Last night a band of skillful rascals completely cleaned out Farmer Cuisine's turkey house. So cleverly was the robbery effected that not a single feather remained on the ground, and not a sound was heard to disturb the farmer or his family. Some persons in this vicinity are sure of a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day. From the wholesale nature of the steal it seems likely that the thieves contemplated supplying an entire township with Thanksgiving dinners. There is no clew to the robbers. "Later—Some wag caused much merriment by relating a circumstantial story of seeing the Cuisine flock of turkeys, led by one solemn looking gobbler, walking, in single file down the main street, in the dead of night. He watched them, said the wag, and could swear that they all marched on until they reached the edge of the woods, where they separated with a chorus of glectual gobbles and disappeared in the bushes. It was a good little story, well told, and the teller's stock rose appreciably in the community. He repeated it with such gravity and apparent conviction of its truth that the listeners were convulsed." But that didn't bring back Farmer Cuisine's turkeys, and he is still inconsolable. He has given up raising turkeys, and says he intends to raise turkey rubarb instead. A Thanksgiving Song. A Thanksgiving Song. It's comin' on—Thanksgiving! in the fullness. If we were thankful, we're a livin'—well, that's just a sayin' all! If that much we can say— A Journeyin' on the way It matters that something like a glad Thanksgiving day! It's comin' on—Thanksgiving! or the time for glin' thanks We're somewhere on the sunny side of Jordain's stormy banks! If but much we can say What matters the May. It means that life's had something like a glad Thanksgiving day! It's comin' on—Thanksgiving!—life had sorrows-life had signs. But still we read our title to them man- hood! If that much we can say Neath bloomy skies or gray. It means that life's had something like a glad Thanksgiving day! —Fiona L. Stanton in Atlanta Constit --- SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... $1.50 Three months ..... $1.50 One month ..... $1.50 Surically paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE-No. 117 West Sixth St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. For one inch, one insertion . . . 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . 3.20 For two inches, three month . . . 8.00 For two inches, six month . . . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . . . 10.00 For two inches twelve months . . . 15.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. Roosevelt will continue to do business at the old stand. Rooseveltism suits the people of the United States. Texas would have gone Republican too, if the President had dined with another Negro. Next Thursday has been set apart as the day of Thanksgiving. We have much indeed to be thankful for, so let us observe. According to the way the electoral vote of Missouri was cast, the casual observer thinks that the women must have voted. Any of the following party men would make good senatorial timber; Col. R. C. Kerens, Major Warner, C. P. Walbridge, Gardiner Lathrop and Chairman Neidringhaus. Of course the people of the state of Missouri are rejoicing over the signal and unusual victory achieved last Tuesday. But had the victory been more complete the rejoicing would have been more intense. If the Filipinos think they would enjoy liberty under a Democratic administration they are very much mistaken. Let some of the brown people come to the United States and travel through the South and they would be consigned to Jim Crow cars and subjected to all sorts of unjust discriminations. It may be true, as the New York World says, that the sweeping Democratic defeat was due in part to the foolish attempt to make an issue of the Booker Washington dinner; but is due in greater part to the wicked attempt of the World and Judge Parker to blacken the character of the President of the United States. The Williams and Walker show at the Grand is the crowning link in the profession. Bert Williams and George W. Walker and the stars of the show hold their own and stand among the best and most noted. Some new features have been added to the show that are commendable and interesting. The costumes are more gorgeous and appropriate than heretofore. The company played before a crowded house each day diring the week. IT STRAIGHTENED HER HAIR. Dear Sirs:—I inclose fifty cents for one bottle of Oxonized Ox Marrow. I have tried it and it is so wonderful for straightening kinky hair, I recommend it to all my friends." The above letter was written by Mrs. Ennis Colbert, Vanderbilt, Pa., June 22nd, 1904. Oxonized Ox Marrow will straighten your hair, too, no matter how kinky it is. It also cures dandruff, stops hair falling and makes the hair grow. Never fails. Warranted harmless. Send us fifty cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address, Oxonized Ox Marrow Co., Wabash Avenue, Chicago Ills. Physique Outranks Intellect. An English naval cadet who took eleven first prizes on his training ship and in the first examination gained 97.6 per cent of the possible marks, has been rejected on medical examination for the navy, owing to a small defect in one little toe. EFFECT OF MODERN GUN FIRE Intense Discomfort, if Nothing Worse, Produced by Sound. It is a disputed question whether the men on modern warships serving the big guns inside the casement or those serving the gun on the upper deck suffer the more from the effect of the firing. Two distinct factors are to be taken into account—the effect of the explosion at the muzzle of the gun, commonly known as the blast, and secondly the violent shock which is transmitted from the gun. This shock, although producing distinct action on the skull, the spinal column and the larger joints, giving rise to general shock, probably does not damage the drum of the ear. The blast has far reaching consequences. Officers say that in addition to violent shock a feeling of great depression at the pit of the stomach is experienced. The ear suffers more damage from big gun fire than any other part of the body. When the ear is injured the surgeon generally looks for a rupture of the membrana tympani, or for a permanent deafness. The first, if attended to at once, is curable, but deafness is irreparable. HAS GAME, BUT NO SNAKES. Newfoundland a Country of Great Interest to the Traveler. The American who happens into Newfoundland will find innumerable causes for interest and surprise. The interior of the island is a wilderness primitive and practically unexplored. A quaint, slow, uncertain railway traverses the heart of the island, but for 500 miles of travel over mountains, through dense forests and by the margins of salt water bays and estuaries not a town is to be seen. Herds of caribou, as tame as barnyard cattle, stand staring at the passing train. From the bosom of lake and river trout and salmon are forever leaping. Brant, geese, wild ducks, grouse and many wild birds that migrate thither in the summer can be found all over the island. Here they mate and breed, and their goslings and chicks make the woods and waters vocal all summer long. Newfoundland, like Ireland, is innocent of snakes and reptiles. The Wind and Sea. The sea is a joyful comrade, He hung wherever he goes; His merriment shines in the dimpling plains. That whirlkie his hale repose; He hays himself down at the feet of the sea; And shakes all over with glee. And the broad-backed billows fall faint on the shore. In the mirth of the mighty sea. But the wind is sad and restless. And cursed with an inward pain; You must hark as you will, by valley or fill. But you hear him still complain. He walks on the oaren mountains, And shrieks in the wintry sea; He soars in the cedar and moans in the plee. And snudders all over the aspen tree. Welcome are both their voices. And I know not which is best— The laughter that slips from the ocean's orips. Or the comfortless wind's unrest. There's a pang in all rejoicing. A joy in the heart of pain. And the wind that saddens, the sea that globbers. Are singing the self-same strain! —Beward Taylor. Ants Good to Eat. Ants, writes Ernest Thompson Seton in Country Life in America, are available for food when one is lost in the North woods. They are usually to be found dormant in dead and hollow trees, sometimes in great numbers. Bears and flickers eat them in quantities, and I have met win men who claim to have done so, but I never tried them myself and suspect they are unpleasantly acid. Prof. E. B. Southwick, however, says: "In my early days, when chopping wood I have often eaten the frozen black ants. The formic acid in them made an agreeable relish to the pork and bread sandwich that formed my lunch." Remedy for Burns. For a dry burn, carron oil. Shake the bottle, saturate a soft cloth with the mixture and lay over the burn. Then cover closely with cotton batting or flannel to keep out every bit of air and secure the whole with a light bandage. Burns may also be treated by a thick application of any bland oil, vaseline, sweet oil, castor oil, butter, cold cream or any fat not rancid, excepting glycerine, which is too irritating. Soft powders may also be dusted on flour, laundry or corn starch. For a burn by scald or steam apply a dressing of saturated soda. Nicknames Grown to Honor. Many religious sects are now known by what were originally nicknames. These epithets, coined in derision, have "appreciated" and grown into honorable epithets. "Methodism" was a nickname originally, an undergraduate nickname, applied to Wesley and his friends because they lived by rule and method. Every one knows what it is now. So people use the word quaker without any contemptuous connotation, and even a word like ranter was on the way toward respectability when ranting seemed to fall out of fashion. Ancients Loved Mixed Drinks Mixed drinks were common among the ancients, who were chaotic not alone in this. The cellars of the Roman consuls were generously stocked with amphorae bearing clearly the mark of the date and place of vintage, but the Roman always watered his wine or made of it a concoction of wine, water and honey flavored with spice served hot. All houses were equipped with small furnaces for the purpose of heating these mixtures. Wabash Train TO JULEP IS OF ANCIENT ORIGIN. Fragrant Concoction Can Be Traced Back Many Centuries. Julep is of very ancient origin, reviving visions of the great Haroun al Raschid, who quaffed from his golden bowl a distillation of gul—as, i. e. gul, a rose—ab, from a distillation of rose water which, after its transition through Latin countries is met again in France as juleppe; then later, deprived of its double p and e by the Saxon, ever impatient of unnecessary luggage, it becomes plain julep, a concoction of brandy and water flavored with pungent herbs. Although mint julep has become peculiarly an American patronymic, it must have come from England. Some twenty-five years ago an Englishman near a Western city in whose nostrils lingered the memory of mint and julep, sent back to the garden of his boyhood for roots from his old mint bed in Essex, and soon had its rival flourishing about his cistern where by family law it received all the refuse water from libations for thirsty drinkers. The reminiscences inspired by this exotic combined with good old Kentucky bourbon or rye were hardly eclipsed by the mint julep of Virginia's Sambo. TWO SAMPLES OF PRAYER. Appeal for Needed Assistance and a Petition in Person. At a prayer meeting in Mississippi during the civil war, a brother offered this prayer: "O Lord, we thank Thee for all Thy boundless goodness; for this rich and beautiful land of ours; for our brave women and valiant men. We think Thee that we are fully able to take care of ourselves on land; but, O Lord, we do most humbly implore Thy assistance when the yankees send those infernal gunboats to destroy us." A prominent southern lawyer who had just repented of his wild ways and joined the church was called upon in a religious meeting to pray. He started off very well, but did not know how to stop. After asking the Divine blessing on everything he could think of, he finally, with a determined effort, ended with these words: "Yours truly, P. Q. Mason."—Harper's Weekly. Nature's Defense: How are children so often able without injury to swallow such sharp things as pins, needles, tacks and bits of glass? The secret, as disclosed by Dr. Albert Exner of Vienna, lies in the fact that, when a pointed or sharpened body comes in contact with the lining of the stomach or intestines, the part touched contracts and puckers so as to thicken itself in that place. At the same time it withdraws itself in such a manner as to form a little pocket and gradually twists the object around so as to turn the edge or point away, pushing the thing along. Effective Rat Trap. "There were a lot of rats in the storage room of my stable." writes a citizen of Johannesberg, South Africa, "and we had great difficulty in getting at them. They were shy of all traps, and did a tremendous lot of damage at night, lying quiet all day. At length I put in the room a square tinned box, about two feet deep, and in it placed some burned cheese. The rats immediately got interested in the cheese, climbed up the outside of the box, and, having got inside, could not ascend the slippery tinnling. In this way we killed a great many." DIAMOND PAINT, VARNISH C. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. ARNETT, The Fr ```markdown ``` Wabas ST. I COMMENCING Leave KANSAS CITY. THE COLORED BROTHER AT WORK. By Samuel E. Moffett. The time is past when the only careers in life open to a negro were to pick cotton, make up berths in a Pullman car, or wait on a table. The study of the negro population of the United States recently published by the Census Bureau discloses some facts that show very clearly that the colored race is steadily developing a complete social and industrial system of its own. There is hardly any branch of industry in which negroes are unrepresented, and that statement includes the women as well as the men. A large city could be formed without a single white man in it, and yet lack for no trade or profession. There are 21,268 negro teachers and college professors in the United States, and 15,530 clergymen. The negroes could finance a railroad through their eighty-two bankers and brokers, lay it out with their 120 civil engineers and surveyors, condemn the right of way with their 728 lawyers, make the rails with their 12,327 iron and steel workers, build the road with their 545,980 laborers, construct its telegraph system with their 185 electricians and their 529 linemen, and operate it with their 55,327 railway employees. Colored people complain that they have to sit in the galleries in white theatres, but their 2,043 actors and showmen might give them theatres of their own in which they could occupy the boxes in solitary grandeur. They have fifty two architects, designers and draftsmen, 236 artists and teachers of art, 1,734 physicians and surgeons, 212 dentists, 210 journalists, 3,921 musicians and teachers of music, and ninety-nine literary and scientific persons. The colored baby can be introduced to the world by negro physicians and nurses, instructed in every accomplishment by negro teachers, supplied with every requisite of life by negro merchants, housed by negro builders, and buried by a negro undertaker. There are negro bookkeepers and accountants, clerks and copyists, commercial travelers, merchants, salesmen, stenographers and telegraph operators. Negroes are in every manual trade—carpenters, masons, painters, paperhangers, plasterers, plumbers, steam fitters, chemical workers, marble-cutters, glass-workers, fishermen, bakers, butchers, confectioners, millers, shoemakers, tanners, watchmakers, gold and silver smiths, bookbinders, engravers, printers, tailors, engineers, photographers, glovemakers—everything that statisticians think it worth while to count. And the curious thing is that in whatever line a negro man is at work there also is a negro woman. The only occupations which the colored women have allowed their men-folk to monopolize are those of the architect, the banker and broker, the telegraph and telephone lineman, the boilermaker, th trunkmaker and the patternmaker. Every one has his vanity card to play. The preacher gets a man into the fold by telling him of the "great influence" he has upon others. Saturday IN THE LESS EXPENSIVE SECTION. Saturday will be a "banner day" in this thirty department. Read about the bargains: WOMEN'S UNION SUITS, of fleece lined cotton, natural gray; buttoned down the front, sizes 4, 5 and 6; worth 50c, suit 39c. KNITTED SHAWLS, large size, all colors and blacks; 50c to 75c values; Saturday, each 29c. KNIT UNDERSKIRTS; such a warm garment; some cotton mixtures, others all wool; solid colors; also fancy bordered style; worth in the regular way 50c to $1.00; sale price 39c and d 49c. KNIT TOQUES, for children; worth 35c to 50c each—many pretty combinations of colors, price, each 25c. WOMEN'S HOSE, of black cotton; worth 15c; on sale Saturday for, pair, 9c. CORSETS; worth from 50c to 75c; all sizes, Saturday only, 10c. MEN'S SHIRTS; unlaundered; all white; sizes 14, 14½, 16½, 17, 17½, 18 and 19; bosoms, collar band and cuffs made of the finest 2,100 linen; worth 75c and $1; each 25c. WARM FURS, large Fox Boas; full 60 inches; long, very fluffy; finished with brush tail and claws; worth $7.00 and $8.00; price $5.98. FOX BOAS; about 50 inches long, with brush tails, chain ornament and claws; worth $4.50; price $2.98. HANDKERCHIEFS, for men and children; large and serviceable, each 3 cents. (Walnut Street Floor.) Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. Successors to BULLENE, MOORE, EMERY & CO. ```markdown ``` G.P. Savoy Hotel EAGLE T DR. T. C. DEN 125-127 We Between Delaware KANSAS C THEODORE DRU Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH PHONES (Home 4211 Main Beil 1211 Grand EAGLE TRIMMED HAT CO T. C. CHAP DENTIST 127 West Eighth St 125-127 West Eighth Street. In Delaware and Wyandotte KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI CODORE SM DRUGGIST. E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 IND home 4211 Main cell 1211 Grand PHONES Between Delaware and Wyandotte Streets, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE PHONES ( Home 4211 Main (Bell 1211 Grand PHONES ( Home 5646 Main (Bell 2170 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. Dealer in Drugs, Toilet article Give us an Order by Phone and The Stoeltzing Ste Toilet articles, School Supplies by Phone and See if We are not the Sing Stove and Hot 100 . --- and Wyandotte Streets, CITY, MISSOURI. ORE SMITH, BUGGIST. 11 STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE PHONES | Home 5646 Main | Bell 2170 Main Cicles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. And See if We are not there with the Goods. Sove 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 Bunners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Specialty. .....A new line of..... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. NEWS & GOSSIP A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Rev. A. G. Wilkerson, son-in-law of L. L. Thompson, will arrive in the city Sunday. 2319 Highland. J. H. Doughtry of Chicago was a caller at our office this week and renewed his subscription. He wishes to extend his respects to his many friends and expressed the same wishes for Mrs. Doughtry. Clarence Brown of Chicago was in the city this week. He informed us that he and Miss Jennie Watts of this city were married last week. Rev. B. F. Watson preached at Allen chapel last week and Bishop M. A. Grant preached last Sunday morning. Robt. Woods of Chicago, brother of Lewis Woods, was a visitor in the city last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Stewart have purchased a home at 1293 Bluff street, where they are now located. Mrs. Alice Howard of 613 Cottage Lane, who took seriously ill six weeks ago, is slowly improving. Miss Annie Runnels, who has been in Topeka, Kan., visiting her father, Charles Runnels, who was injured in a run-away, has returned to the city. Mr. Tom Claypool has returned to the city after spending the summer in St. Louis. Mr. John Thirkles and son of Lexington, Mo., are visiting in Kansas City this week. Miss Sadie Moore will take a run up to Lawrence, to be present at the reception to Williams and Walker. Mrs. Christian, of Baltimore avenue, has left for St. Louis, where she will view the many sights of the World's Fair. Miss Annie Stone of Denver, Colo., who is stopping at 561 Campbell St., with her aunt, Mrs. M. Moore, has been on the sick list ever since her arrival in the city. Mr. P. Moody, of Topeka, Kan., en route from the World's Fair, is spending a few days in the city. Miss Mamie Brent leaves for her home in Sedalia, Mo., after an extended visit with Mrs. Lizie Lewis, 577 Troost avenue. Mrs. Sadie Baker of 1117 Independence avenue, is able to be out again. Mrs. Berdie Kennedy is convalescing. Mr. Tom Bass of Topeka, Kan., is in Kansas City, where he expects to stay during the winter. Mrs. Martha Cooper of 566 Troost avenue is on the sick list. Miss Lula Robinson, of Missouri City, is visiting relatives in this city. Those who have donations for the Home will save themselves trouble by calling up 'phone East 607. Call up Bell 'phone East 607, when you have something to donate to the Old Folks and Orphans' Home. One elegantly furnished front room up stairs, to rent for $2.50 a week. No objection to a room mate. Apply after 5 o'clock. 2421 Flora avenue. Get the habit of going to McCampbell & Houston's durg store for what you want in the line of drugs, perfumes, candies, stationery, cigars and tobacco. NOTICE! Do you remember what delicious ice cream soda McCampbell & Houston served this summer? Well, they promise to maintain the same degree of excellence with their hot soda this winter. The good people who wish to visit the springs, will find first class accommodations at Fred F. Elliot's. Rates reasonable and service good. Dr. Theo Smith, our Twelfth street druggist has opened a first class drug store at 805 Independence avenue, under Dr. McCray's office, with a full line of drugs and toilet articles. Give him a call. Mrs. Mamle Durant Vincent has now opened her dressmaking parlor and ladies' tailoring school at her residence, 1228 Walnut street, for the benefit of our girls and ladies. J. T. McCampbell, our enterprising young druggist has installed a fine new soda fountain of the very latest make in his already thoroughly modern drug store, at 2304 Vine street. The Moore undertaking establishment has expended over $800 in improvements. Since remodeling the place and establishing a sample parlor in neat arrangement, it is the finest in the West. The firm invites the public to inspect its parlors. COTTAGE FOR SALE. I have for sale near 26th and Vine, a nice cottage, with about four rooms, offered at the low price of $1,000; $100 cash, the remainder at $15 monthly at 6 per cent.; best bargain of its kind in the city; get further particulars of WANTED.—Colored lady to use leisure time soliciting. Experience unnecessary. Very profitable. Call 205 Wales Bldg, corner of Sixth and Delaware. Mr. H. Patton is the proprietor of a restaurant for ladies and gentlemen at 924 Wyandotte street. Dinner is served from 11:30 to 2 p. m. Short orders are served at all hours between 6:30 a. m. and 12:30 at night. Good service. Hot creme de menthe, claret phosphate, coffee, chocolate, root beer, beef tea, Roman punch, Jamaica ginger, English Breakfast tea, clam and tomato bouillon, are some of the leaders at McCampbell & Houston's Hot Soda Fountain. CASH IS THE WAY. Reading notices and announcements will always be rated as advertisements, and when such is sent in to our office cash must accompany it. AGENTS WANTED.—$50 per week and expenses easily made selling combination policies for a big sick and accident company. Write to-day. Address U. S. Protective Society, Salisbury, Mo. , 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. Solo Mandolins, John Hobbs, Thas N. Grant; Second Mandolin, J. E Johnson; Guitars, Fred Spence, Wm Williams. Gate City Mandolin Club Music for parties .etc. Bell 'Phone 2655 Main. Fred Spence, 1007 Walnut stret, Kansas City, Mo. I stayed in Missouri until I made it go Republican satisfied. The Old Stair Carpet. Old stair carpet can be turned to good account as follows: First shake it well and cut away the bad parts and with the best of it make pads for doubling short lengths and tacking them at the edge of each step where the tread comes before laying the new carpet. This will make a new carpet wear twice as long and also make it very soft to walk upon, says the Brooklyn Times. Quells Hunger and Thirst: In Peru is found a singular plant, capable of quelling hunger or thirst for several days. It is named erythoxylon coca. A decoction of one hundred grains of this plant produces this effect for forty-eight hours, the muscular energy being preserved. The plant appears to narcotize the nerves of the stomach and suspend the digestive functions, without affording nutriment. Doctoring by Contract. The French department of Lot and Garonne has made a remarkable innovation. There are 126 doctors in the department, and a contract has been made with them to look after the health of the poor people in the district for an annual payment of $10,000. The doctors engage to give their services irrespective of the number of people who desire them. Priest-Ridden People. Six million people in Thibet have to support an army of 430,000 priests, who produce nothing but beautiful illuminated copies of the sacred writings. They hold all the public offices. Saves Hand From Amputation A London doctor, by grafting the sciatic nerve from a live spaniel into a man's lacerated wrist, is said to have saved the hand from amputation. GAMBLED WITH DUKE'S MONEY. Dishonesty of Servant Taught Wellington a Lesson. Even the "iron" duke of Wellington had his difficulties with the servant question. Chaplain George R. Gleig wrote of the great soldier: "As to his table, it was in every respect such as became his position. His wines were excellent, through his cellars contained but a scanty supply at any given time. The oldest could not have been more than a couple of months in his possession. Of his reasons for thus acting he made no secret. 'At one time,' he said, 'I used to do as others do—gave my orders to the house steward and handed him the money to pay the bills as he presented them to me. This went on for a year or more, when to my surprise and disgust I got letters from tradesmen humbly begging that I would settle their accounts, which had been long standing. I found on inquiry that the fellow had been gambling with my money, leaving my creditors unpaid. From that day to this I have made it a point to pay my own bills, and to keep my accounts with tradesmen as short as possible.'" ACCOUNTED FOR THE GULLS. Artist's Explanation Easily Sufficed for Simple-Minded King. George Chambers, an artist, was once commissioned by King William IV. of England to paint a picture of the attack on a fortress on the Spanish coast by a frigate commanded by his majesty, who was then the duke of Clarence. The attack took place at night. Chambers completed a beautiful picture from some rough sketches that were in the king's possession, and when submitted for approval his majesty was delighted with it, but Chambers had taken an artist's liberty with the picture and for the purpose of relieving the somber veil of night had introduced some sea gulls skimming the waves. "Hallo, halo, Chambers!" said his majesty. "This will never do to have the birds flying about at night. They were all gone to roost." "So they were, your majesty," replied Chambers, "but you gave such a rousing broadside with your guns that they all woke up and flew about." "Ah, so I did; so I did, Chambers. I forgot that. Very good! Very good!" Latin Alphabet Our alphabet is derived from the primitive alphabet of Italy, which belonged to the Western Greek type. As early probably as the ninth century B. C. it was carried by the Chalcidians of Euboea, an island of Greece, to Cumae, near Naples, Italy. It became the parent of five local Italic alphabets—the Oscan, the Etruscan, the Umbrian, the Falliscan and the Latin. Owing to the political supremacy of Rome the Latin ultimately displaced the other national scripts of Italy, and became the alphabet of the Roman empire, and afterwards of Latin Christendom, thus spreading over Western Europe, America and Australia until it became the dominant alphabet of the world. Relic of War of 1711. At Pointe Les Monts, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is a lighthouse, the keeper of which recently turned out of the sand an old-style sword bearing on its blade the date "1711." It is undoubtedly a relic of the ill-fated expedition of Admiral Walker, who left England in 1711 with 11,000 men and a large fleet to take Quebec and Montreal. When he got off Seven Islands he was overtaken by a dense fog and a great storm arose. He refused to take the advice of a French pilot and as a result the British ships were dashed to pieces on the rocks off Egg Island and next spring 900 bodies were lying there. Red-Haired People Sought Students of red-hairiology say that a woman adorned with bright red tresses is brighter, more deceptive and more ambitious than a woman having other colored hair. Whatever truth there may be in this, it is a fact that red-haired women have a strange fascination for most men, and red-headed old maids are almost unknown. Red-haired men are equally in demand in the matrimonial market, for they are said to make the most devoted of husbands. Hence the reason of a club of girls in Dresden, members of which pledge themselves to die old maids rather than marry any but young men with red hair. Patria. Patria. I would not even ask my heart to say If I could love another land as well As home, my country, had I felt the touch of Italy at birth, or learned to obey The heart of France, or England's mighty sway. I would not be so much an infidel As once to dream, or fashion words to A life. What land could hold my love from thee away. For like a law of nature in my blood I felt thy sweet and secret sovereignty, And like a birthmarch on my soul thy My life but a wave, and thou the flood; I am a leaf, and thou the mother tree; Nor should I be at all, were I not thine —Henry Van Dyke in Collier's. Queer Funerals of Korea. The Koreans have a curious dread of the spirits of their ancestors and of demons, which leads to all kinds of precautions and propitations. Most elaborate and expensive graves are made for the dead, generally on a terrace scooped out of a hillside, with a mound and railings, a grove of trees, and a shrine with an avenue of strange carved stone figures of men and beasts. The amount of land kept out of cultivation by these burial places is said to be almost incredible. FECUNDITY OF FINNY TRIBE. No Danger That Any Important Fish Will Become Extinct. In a chapter on the artificial cultivation of sea fish, contributed by R. B. Marston to Aflalo's "British Salt Water Fishes," it is stated that there need be no fear that such important fish as the cod and the herring can ever become extinct or even reduced in numbers by man, except locally. A cod of ten pounds has a million eggs. On July 26, 1895, Prof. Hensen calculated that there must be over 278,000,000,000 of impregnated cod eggs in each square Norwegian geographical mile of the surface of the Skagerrak. Consequently the three or four hundred millions of eggs artificially hatched and turned in annually from a Norwegian hatchery are only a drop in the ocean. In America, however, codfish culture has had beneficial results in establishing lucrative fisheries in inshore waters of New England that had entirely depleted or had not contained any great stock of them previous to the operations of the fish commission. Still more splendid have been the results from the culture of shad, once a luxury obtainable only by a few, but now plentiful and comparatively cheap. COULD NOT WORRY DISRAELI. Public Posting of His Debts in No Way Affected Coming Premier Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, premier of England, was noted for his nonchalance and what would be called in American slang "nerve." One time when he was still a young man he was driving with Sir Philip Rose to Shrewsbury, where, at the general election, he had been nominated as the conservative candidate for parliament. As they neared the borough Sir Philip noticed a large poster, stopped the carriage and, calling his friend's attention to it, remarked: "It is something about you." Disraeli read the words printed in large letters: "Judgment debts of Benjamin Disraeli, tory candidate for Shrewsbury." Undercatha was a last or debts upon which judgment had been signed. This he perused carefully. Then he turned to Sir Philip and said placidly: "How accurate it is! Now let us go on or we shall be late." He won the election. The Fall Fever. Somehow when the fall comes on, And the leaves turn and come down— Feel like throwing up my job— Feel like getting out of town. Want to ramble in the woods— Want to hear only when blow— Want to hear the chopper's voice— Want to hear the cattle low. Want to trudge across the field When the night is drawing high To the home from which the smoke Rises to the yellowing sky. Want to sit down by the fire In the evening in the fall, While the blazes from the logs Throw their shadows on the wall. Want to lie down in the night— Want to feel that rest of brain That comes from the bears On the roof the fall of rain. Want to go to sleep and rest To the patter that comes down On the shingles in the fall Of the old house out of town. —Frank H. Brooks in New York Herald. Little Things of Life Dr. Johnson wisely said: "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything." Life is made up of little things. It is but once in an age that occasion is offered for a great deed. True greatness exists in being great in little things. We should be willing to do a little good at a time and never wait to do a great deal of good at once. If we would do much good in the world we must be willing to do good in little things, little acts one after another, speaking a word here, giving help there, and setting a good example at all times; we must do the first good thing we can, and then the next, and so keep on doing. A. G. HOWARD Ir now ready to fill your orders uqar Home Phone 1695 Main. Merchant. Desires to thank his many friends for their past patronage, and extends to them a hearty invitation to inspect his fall supply of Thanksgiving and Xmas goods. Nebraska Clothing Co. KANSAS CITY MO. 1113 and 1115 Main St. AT IT EVERY DAY. MEN'S FALL CLOTHING. What a world of worry and waiting it saves to get your Suit or Top Coat ready made. Almost every man would be glad to buy it that way, they say, IF the style and fit could be depended upon, O, that "if;" how it has made the manufacturer scratch his head to make clothing that would pass inspection for this store, and to be good enough in every way that we allow our label to be placed upon them. They must be correct in every detail, made just as good as the merchant tailor's clothes at half his price. We want to say to you that Nebraska Clothing is good clothing, correctly constructed and correctly priced. MEN'S O' COATS Includes all the new things up to date at $5.75 and up to $21.00 STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE.... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services striotly first-class. Ladies and Gent's dine up stairs. Z. T. JOBDAN, Manager GO TO THE E. Z. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND HA'R CUT. C. A. EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo Temper Is Good Thing—in Harness. "I wouldn't give much for a man that hasn't temper," says D. L. Moody. "Steel isn't good for anything if it hasn't got temper. But when temper gets the mastery over me, I am its slave and it is a source of weakness. It may be made a great power for good all through my life and help me; or it may become my greatest enemy from within and rob me of power. The current in some rivers is so strong as to make them useless for navigation." The Camera Fiend. He took the house, he took the barn, The children at their play. He took the dog, he took the cat, A boy and a dog play. He took the pretty parlor maid A swinging on the gate. And posed me with a toke and voke The picture simply great. He took Priscila fifty ways— Indoors and out of doors Cloaked in clothes She roped in pinoforea. He took himself away by stealth One night without aden. He took the decorated miscreant! He took Priscila too. —Mimna living in Lippincott's Magazine Way Is Open to All. A platform is not necessary to the performance of a duty. A gallery is not a requisite. Patrick Henry's honor and fearlessness of personal consequences in the performance of the work that lay before him have inscribed his name on the roll of fame. It is open to all of us to be honest and honorable, brave in the tasks that fate places in our way—Exchange. for coal and feed in large or small citie Street number 1025 Pacific. ST. LOUIS. MQ. Home Tel. 6225 Main. Lady Attendant. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. COURTEOUS TREATMENT Parlors 1820 E. 18th St., Kansas City. THE TRAIN SERVICE OF THE MIS- SOURI PACIFIC. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time: 10:10 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arrives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and Southeastern trains. The only line leaving Kansas City after the Operas, Lodge meetings and Sunday night Church service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m., in time for all Eastern connections. 10:20 p. m.—10:50 a. m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment. Pullman Sleeper sand Compartment cars; Reclining Chair cars, (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at E. S. JEWETT, Pass, & Ticket Agent ```markdown ``` This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky hair look smooth and soft. It sheds the soap prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off. Cases dandruff and minkes that hair grows long and silky. Sold in tortoise shell. It is the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Original Ozonized OX Marrow is put up only in fifty cent. size. It is not molded by such methods as usual. Upon getting the grooming, it as never before is put on. It is then vital, giving it that health. Life the appearance so much needed. A toilet necessity for preparation performed. Owing to its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cent. Sold by drug store bottles postpaid or $1.40 for three bottles, express paid to pay postage and express paid to pay shipping. Please mention name of this paper when ordering. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. UNEXCELLED SERVICE VIA FRISCO SYSTEM TO POINTS IN Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida AND THE SOUTHEAST, AND TO Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas AND THE SOUTHWEST. The Famous Health and Pleasure Resorts, EUREKA SPRINGS AND HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, Reached most conveniently by this Route. Round Trip Homeseeers' Tickets at rate of ONE FARE plus 85 on sale first and third Tuesday of each month. For descriptive information and detailed information on rates, train service, etc. address J. C. LOVRIEN, ASSISTANT GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT, KANSAS CITY, MO. Christmas Presents When the girl had gathered all her gifts in her boudoir on Christmas night and closed the door, she picked up a silky object, surveyed it for a moment, then put it back on the table with a pat. "And I really like you best of all," she whispered, "because mother's love went into the making of you." That is a common feeling. A homemade Christmas present has more value and is more appreciated than any article purchased in a shop; in every stitch is a loving thought for the one who is fortunate enough to receive it. It is amazing how beautiful an object can be made with a yard of linen, a few skeins of embroidery silk, and an attractive design. Here are a few hints for the woman who always makes it a point to put love into her gifts to family and dearest friends: An Attractive Veil Case. In this are of many veils a convenient and dainty receptacle for their safe keeping becomes almost a necessity. This extremely pretty one is practical as well as ornamental, and can be made from a number of materials. The peculiar and essential feature is the arrangement of the ribbons on the inside. These are four in number and each should be an inch in width. The ends of each piece are attached to different sides of the case; that is to say, the two ribbons that are crossed at the center are attached to the outer edge of the upper section of the cover and to the inner edge of the lower section, and the ribbons that are placed straight in exactly the opposite manner, or to the inner edge of the upper section and to the outer edge of the lower. By this arrangement the case is made to open at both sides, and the simple act of closing and opening it causes a veil, laid flat on either side, to be held fast beneath the ribbons, which are transferable. The outside of the case can be of linen, silk, suede or leather, decorated with painting or needlework; or, again, it may be of brocade or flowered silk and left without further ornamentation. In any case the inside should be padded and perfumed and covered with some soft silk. The foundation for the case is two pieces of cardboard of equal size. Each of these must be covered inside and out and completely finished before the ribbons are attached. When this first step is taken the two are held together, but a ribbon tied neatly about the whole makes an attractive finish. Group of Novelties. Pinchshions, photograph frames and pretty bags always find a welcome, no matter how many already may be possessed. The convenience of a pincushion, which can be hung at the side of a mirror or in some similar position, is self-evident. A novel and useful one can be made from a large size doll's parasol. To get the best results one of some bright colored silk should be used. It must be closed and the cover tacked to the stick at each rib; then each of the sections becomes separated from every other and can be fitted at the top and stuffed either with bran or wool wadding picked into bits. When the cushions are slipped into place they can be tacked firmly to position and the parasol further ornamented with bows of ribbon tied on wherever fancy indicates. To Butcher's Wonderful Family. Mrs. Barron was one of the new "summer folk" and not acquainted with the vernacular. Consequently, she was somewhat surprised upon sending in an order for a roast of lamb to the nearest butcher, to receive the following note in reply: "Dear Mam. I am sorry I have not killed myself this week, but I can get you a good leg off my brother (the butcher at the farther end of the town). He's full up of what you want. I seen him last night with five legs. Yours respectful. George Gunton."—Youth's Companion. make the best foundation the parasol should have a hooked handle, by which, it can be hung, but should such not be obtainable a ribbon loop can be attached to a handle of any sort. Novel Photograph Frame. The demand for photograph frames knows no limit. Any slightly novel sort meets with as hearty an approval as if it were the first of its kind. A really charming novelty can be evolved from a bit of chamois skin left in its original shape. The charm lies in the irregularity of the edges, which should not be trimmed. The opening is cut round, square or oblong, as preferred, and is supplied with four brass paper holders, the points of which are pressed through the leather and turned back against the skin until needed. When the photograph is put in place one point of each holder is turned down against the back, where the other remains, ```markdown ``` as already placed, thus holding the picture firmly. The lower edge of the skin is slashed into narrow strips to form a fringe, and its surface is decorated with painting or fire etching, as preferred. The upper edge is turned under to form a hem, and into this hem is slipped a little brass rod, which keeps the frame in shape. To the ends of this rod is attached the ribbon hanger, which terminates in big bows or rosettes. Gifts Made of Handkerchiefs.—Handkerchiefs seem ever to be serving some new use. One of the latest is the making of dainty bags for fancy work and the like. A particularly pretty bag of this sort requires two handkerchiefs, the size used by men, or small mufflers. They should be of fine linen. The upper handkerchief, embroidered with a border of forget-me-nots within the hem, is cut at the center to form a circular opening, the edge of which is faced to form a casing, in which is inserted an ordinary ```markdown ``` wooden embroidery ring as narrow as obtainable. The embroidered handkerchief is then laid over the plain one, and the two are stitched together on the line of the hem. Ribbon bows are attached to each of the four corners, and a ribbon hanger to the edge at the opening, with full bows at each end. Another equally charming gift that can be made from handkerchiefs is a bureau cover. For this three or four are required, according to size, and they can be as simple or elaborate as desired. While embroidered kerchiefs are always dainty, yet there are also many novelties in color that can be utilized with good effect. But to get the best results the edges should be plain. Whatever the number and whatever the style, each handkerchief should Kill Game Out of Season. Reports of the wholesale slaughter of deer and game birds out of season come to Duluth from the ranges. It is claimed that scores of men are engaged at hunting to supply camps and individuals in the towns with venison and partridge. The rate at which game is being killed, it is claimed, will make serious inroads on deer and partridge this year. The season for partridge opened on Oct. 15, but the young birds have been full grown for a month. The deer season does not open till Nov. 10.-2. Paul Pioneer Press. have lace insertion at the ends, and then all be joined together to form a strip by means of beading. Around the entire edge of the cover is a frill of lace, which forms a finish. A still further decorative effect can be gained by threading all the beading with colored ribbon, terminating in bows of many loops. Fine plain handkerchiefs, with embroidery of small flowers in color, are exceedingly dainty and attractive, and many other variations can be made. Some Useful Trifles.—The gift that combines utility with beauty is often the most welcome of all. Catch-alls can never be too numerous. The simple three-cornered form is by no means new, but becomes novel when made from unfamiliar materials. Such a one consists of a square of plain Japanese or Chinese fine quality of matting, painted in a bold yet simple design. It is then folded and bound two edges together and two separately, and is finished with ribbons and a hanger. When painting is beyond the skill of the maker, embroidery in crewels can be substituted, or, again, the square can be of denim or heavy linen, lined with the same and interlined with stiffening, and the decoration, painting or embroidery, as preferred. Poppies painted in bold strokes on the dark blue of the denim are singularly effective, and many other novel designs will suggest themselves. The problem of how to care for the necktie is ever present to the masculine mind, and any practical device for its safekeeping becomes a boon. It was long ago conceded that hanging is the best and really only desirable method provided for its preservation. To make an ornamental hanger, obtain a level board, half an inch thick, oblong in shape, and as long as desired and cover it with embroidered linen, or with some handsome bit of brocade. Then complete the board with a brass rod, attached at each end by means of protruding rests, after the manner of a miniature towel rack. Supply the upper edge with brass screw rings, by which it can be hung against the wall, and the rack will be complete. Amateur photography has become so general an accomplishment that it is quite safe to offer an attractive receptacle for views and the like to any friend. A novel one is made with a number of gray mounts. covered and held together by means of silk cords, passed through holes made near one edge. The mounts, as many in number as may be desired, are laid one over the other. Then two covers of the exact size are made and placed one beneath and one on top of the pile. The holes are carefully drilled through each one, and the cords are threaded in and out, through the entire number, binding them together, and terminate in knots and ends. The covers can be of leather, fire-etched; of linen, embroidered; of velveten, fire-etched; of handsome brocade, or of any one of a dozen materials. Game Birds Killed by Storm. It is seldom that a hurricane and thunderstorm brings in its train a deluge of game birds. This singular spectacle, however, was witnessed in the Tarbes district recently. The storm broke over the district in the evening, and when the gale was at its height, about 10 o'clock, large flocks of quail, which must have been migrating at an invisible height, were beaten to the ground, the plain around the city being thickly strewn with their bodies. In the grounds of the Hotel de Paris the birds were picked up in dozens.—Jandon Globe TERRIBLE SUFFERING TERRIBLE SUFFERING THIS YOUNG WOMAN APPRAILED IN VAIN FOR HELP. When Hope had Almost Settled Into Utter Despair Relief Came from an Unexpected Source. Mrs. Emma Heidebreder, of No. 1828 Joy street, Burlington, Iowa, whose husband is an employee of the Rand Lumber Co., tells a story of pitiful suffering: "For about five years," she says, "I had a host of physical illies that kept me unvalid and puzzled the doctors. Some of them thought I was going into consumption. At times I was so weak that I could not comb my hair or even wash my face. Then excruciating pains ran suddenly up my hair and I had to be carried to bed screening in my agony. I could no longer do my work and the drain upon my husband's purse was very heavy. I craved food but what I ate only gave me discomfort. My liver was torpid, and often I had to be carried to the door for air to save me from suffocating. "The worst was the pain which seemed as if my thigh were being pushed out of my body. The best doctors could do was to deaden it by narcotics. Once they thought I could not live for more than two days. In one of my worst attacks, a friend said: 'Why don't you try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills? They are the only thing that ever helped my rheuma-ism.' "I took his advice. After using one box I felt better, and I continued to use the pills for three or four months with steady improvement until I was well. For four years I have been able to do all my household work, and no longer have so take medicine for any serious trouble. I gave one box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to a man on crutches because of rheumatism and advised my market woman to buy a box when she was complaining of the same trouble. I heard that he was soon able to throw his crutches away, and she told me she had got rid of the rheumatism by the use of one box and could not thank me too much." Testimony multiplies as to the magnificent curative powers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in cases of rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous headache, palpitation of the heart and all forms of weakness in either male or female. They are sold by all druggists throughout the world. Science Had No Remedy. Congressman Hemenway of Iowa cells with unholy glee how an eminent scientist was discomfited while lecturing in an interior town of the Hawkeye state. The scientific party, at the conclusion of a lecture which he had been delivering, announced that he should be glad to answer any question in order to elucidate such points as might need clearing up. In the audience was an inveterate joker—a tall, gaunt man with an anxious, careworn look. The joker arose and in solemn tones announced that he had a question. The lecturer bowed. "I shall be only too happy to reply to it, sir," said he. The tall man cleared his throat, and then, in a loud voice said: "I would take it as a considerable favor if you would tell me whether this science has produced any remedy for warts." Paper Clothing. A London wholesale haberdashery concern has introduced a species of paper undersuits and hosiery, samples of which are now being shown in the New York markets. These goods are offered at popular prices and save laundry bills. Japanese paper handkerchiefs are selling more freely than formerly. A specially constructed "wallet" is on sale to go with them. Separate divisions are provided for clean and soiled kerchiefs, the latter being burned. Emperor William on his Mediterranean cruise abstained from all strong drink. Orange juice and mineral water were his favorite tipples. President Roca of Argentine, in his annual message, proclaimed his country prosperous and at peace with all the world. The longest span of telegraph wire in the world is 6,000 feet in length. It runs over the River Keitnah in India. Why It Is the Beat is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death halows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred, too.—George Elliot. Mira, J. H. Giles, Everett, Pa., Suffered years with kidney and gravel trouble. Cured by Dr. David Kennedy's favorite Remedy, Rondout, N.Y. 8110. A woman never doubts what her husband says when he gets home late. 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Recipe of Old Dr. SANCTUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alk. Straw - Rohde Salad - American Seed - Peggyment - Di Carbonate Salad - Wine Seed - Cypress Bungue - Wintergreen Bungue A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Hitchner NEW YORK. A 16 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Charles H. Hitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Where the Torpedo Falls. A remarkable fact about this ingenuious and now most accurate weapon is that down to the present war in the Orient there had been no instance of a ship under way being struck by a torpedo. All its victims had been caught at anchor, or were otherwise stationary. Now the question arises: If the torpedo boat, which has power to catch the hare, cannot cook him, how is the cooking to be done by the submarine which can neither see him nor catch him? The design certainly is to use the submarine against ships under way to replace the torpedo boat, which cannot act in daylight. And it is an open question, which experience alone can decide, whether it will be easier for a submarine to catch the hare by day than it has hitherto proved for the torpedo boat to catch him by night. Certainly enthusiasts will be by no means satisfied if the submarine proves capable merely of attack on ships at anchor. Japs Have No Alphabet. The Japanese, like the Chinese, have no alphabet in the ordinary sense, every word in their written language being represented by a separate character. In telegraphing in these languages, therefore, about 10,000 words are selected, and figures ranging from 1 up to 9,999 are allotted to each word. Each word of a message to be transmitted by telegraph in these languages is then first given its proper number by the telegraph clerk, by means of a dictionary which has been prepared under the authority of the government. These numbers are then transmitted by the Morse alphabet, and, when received, the message is translated back into the Chinese or Japanese characters by reference to a corresponding dictionary. Highest Price for Real Estate Highest Price for Real Estate. The highest priced real estate in London is near the Bank of England. Lad sells there at the rate of $375 per square foot—$16,250,000 an acre. From this center the price diminishes in a receding tide rising again in the Strand to a price of from $60 to $100 a square foot. In Bond street, in the West End, a still higher price of $175 per square foot, or more than $7,500,000 an acre, has been reached. One Thousand Words a Minute One Thousand Words a Minute. A recent mechanical wonder is a telegraphic instrument that sends 1,000 words a minute 1,000 miles in length. A human operator can transmit fifty words a minute. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANIS CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SANUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alk Sweet - Rhubarb Sweet - Amarine Sweet - Pineapple - Dr. Carburetine Sweet - Mint Sweet - Cherry Sweet - Whiskey Sweet Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles Pitcher NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. A curious tree grows in Malabar, India. It is called the tallow tree, from the fact that its seeds, when boiled, produce a tallow which makes excellent candles. Insist on Getting It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they can be able to sell fruit. Defiance starch contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Norway's coast line—1,700 miles in a straight line—becomes 12,000 miles if followed around the fjords. In these fjords are over 150,000 islands. Mother Grav's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Grav, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE Address A S Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y. "I suppose you have made it a rule in politics never to forget a friend." 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THE ANDREW JERGENS CO., CINOINNATI, O. Wiggle Stick WASH BLUE Costs 10 cents and equals 20 cents worth of any other kind of bluing. Won't Freeze, Spill, Break Nor Spot Clothes DIRECTIONS FOR USES Wiggle=Stick around in the water. At all wise Grocers. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Hitchens. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE OENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Vienna telephone call boxes are provided with napkins and the inscription: "Wipe, if you pleas." Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. 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When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or fatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration or are best with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lasitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all-gone" and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. A Severe Case of Womb Trouble Cured in Philadelphia. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I have been cured of severe female troubles by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I was nearly ready to give up, but seeing your advertisement I purchased one bottle of your medicine, and it did me so much good that I purchased another, and the result was so satisfactory that I bought six more bottles, and am now feeling like a new woman. I shall never be without it. I hope that my testimonial will convince women that your Vegetable Compound is the greatest medicine in the world for falling of the womb or any other female complaints." —Mrs. May Cody, 2660 Birch St., Philadelphia, Pa. other, and the result was so satisfactory that I and am now feeling like a new woman. I shall speak that my testimonial will convince women bound is the greatest medicine in the world for any other female complaints." — Mrs. May Adelphia, Pa. Woman is cordially invited to write to Mrs. thing about her symptoms she does not iss is Lynn, Mass., her advice is free and allying woman who asks for it. BLUEING BOOK. BLUE. No bottles. No paddles. No waste. Gives the same day. Ask your grocer for it or send 10e for a book of 25 leaves. Book Co., 87 E. Lake St., Chicago, Ill. MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. EE and postpaid a 232-page treatise on Plains, Fiatula and Diseases of the 105-pages, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands sured by south, same paid a cantil cured on diseases of women on application. CHORNTON & MINOR. 2800 Olive Street. St. Cotton, Mo. and 1050 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. OUR NAME and will send you prospectus and full particulars of NINE SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, ZINC AND QUICKSILVER you will send your name and address. Mining Maps Free. COMMISSION CO., 232 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Remember, every woman is cordially invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything about her symptoms she does not understand. Her address is Lynn, Mass., her advice is free and cheerfully given to every alluring woman who asks for it. NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 232-page treatise on Piles, Fistula and Disease of the Rectum; also 105-page illus. treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by our own method, none paid a cent cure; we furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR, 328 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. and 1000 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. WE WANT YOUR NAME and will send you prospectus and full particulars of NINE SUCCESSFUL GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, ZINC AND QUICKSILVER Mining Companies, if you will send us your name and address. Mining Maps Free. ARBUCKLE-GOODE COMMISSION Co., 328 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. with situde sleepy "want hopel tried Vegen trouble you n AS your of v good that I purchased another, and I bought six more bottles, and am now never be without it. I hope that now that your Vegetable Compound is for falling of the womb or any other Cony, 2660 Birch St., Philadelphia, I Remember, every woman is a Pinkham if there is anything all understand. Her address is Lyn cheerfully given to every alling w HANDY BLUE In sheets of PURE ANILINE BLUE. No amount of blueing water each wash-day. Ask you The Handy Blueing Book Co. PILES NO MONEY We send FREE and postpaid Remaining price. Please contact our mild method, none pain DRS. THORNTON WE WANT YOUR NAIL SUCCESSFUL COLD, SILVER, C Mining Companies, if you will send ARBUCKLE-GOODE COMMIS "ALL SIGNS FAIL IN A DRY TIME! THE SIGN OF THE FISH NEVER FAILS IN A WET TIME. WHY DON'T YOU WEAR TOWER'S FISH BRAND SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW AND KEEP DRY? BEWARE OF MITATIONS, LOOK FOR ABOVE TRADE MARK, A. J. TOWER CO., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., Ltd., Toronto, Gan. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment is a positive cure for Piles. KIDDER'S PASTILLES STOWELL & CO., Mfr. A Sure relief for Asthma. Bold by mail, printed or by mail, 85 cents. Charlestown, Mass. When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. PISO S CURE FOR CURE WITH THE MAIN BEST TYPES OF CURE Use in the cold by grazing. CONSUMPTION About one-half of the drinking saloons in London are owned by one firm. This trust, since it came into existence, has caused a deterioration in the beverages it sells, and the British workman growls in consequence. Ask Your Druggist for Alien's Foot-Ease. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT EASE recently, and have just bought another supply. It has cured my corn, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my feet which was almost unbearable, and I would not be without it now—Mrs. W. J. Walker, Camden, N. J." Sold by all Druggists. 220. It was probably some married man who first discovered that troubles never come singly. St. Louis, Oct. 16.—It has been announced that Kabo Corsets, made by the Kabo Corset Co., Chicago, have been given the Grand Prize and highest award by the board of judges at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Perhaps some people are descended from monkeys, while others merely dress differently. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight to cigar. The highest price so cigar to the dealer and the highest quality for the smoker. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Total cost of German federal telephone system, up to date, is $60,000,000. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Moves in the upper circles—The gallery god. HUMOUR of the DAY Had Learned to Save. Father—Halloa, where did you get all those toys? Son—I bought 'em with the money you gave me. Father—But I gave you that money to teach you how to save. Son—Yes, pa; I keut it for three weeks, until I learned all about saving, and now I am learning how to shop.—Stray Stories. Sarcasm. "Why, John," said Subbubs, returning from a month's vacation, "the lawn is all dried up." Can't understand it. sir., replied the lazy caretaker; "I worked hard on it all the time you was gone." "Ah! You shouldn't work so hard. You probably ran the lawn mower over it so vigorously that you scorched it." Couldn't Touch Him. The Golfer—Are you laughing at me, boy, because I missed the ball again. The Caddy—No, I was just thinkin' what a cinch it would be to be your bad little boy.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Sizing Him Up. "Pon my honor!" complained HI Tragerdy, with an air of great disgust, "that railroad is positively atrocious. It took me thirty-two hours to come from Chicago." "What are you talking about?" demanded Lowe Comerdy. "That's mighty good time for a freight train." Laid It to the Sermon. Rlp Van Winkle waked rather flustered from his twenty years' sleep. "Yes—yes," he muttered hastily, "the sermon was very fine. Perceiving, however, that he was not in church in time, he tottered down the hill. Some Relief in the Situation. "Don't you sometimes feel discouraged about our political system?" "No," answered Farmer Corntossel. "I kind o' like it. It's a great relief to have a man come around shakin' your hand an' tellin' you stories without tryin' to sell you books or lightnin' rods." A False Alarm. HOTEL RULES Hotel Guest—Oh! all right. I thought it was some reporter sending up his card. Askitt—Say, do you believe it is possible for two people to live as cheaply as one? Knottt—After reading all the statistics I could find on the subject before I married I was convinced that they could, but— Askitt—Well? Knottt—After I had been married three months I lost all faith in statistics. How He Got Even. She had just worked the "I'll-be-a sister-to-you" degree on him. "Excuse me, Miss Chillington," he said, "but as I am already well supplied with elder sisters, would you mind being a grandmother to me instead?" A Bachelor's Guess. "There is a boy in London who can understand three different languages." "What are the baby talk, grandma talk, and English?" Russian Jews to Be Protected. Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle has received a letter from Sir Stewart M. Samuel, M. P., indicating that Russia will soon make great reforms in her treatment of the Jews, incidentally abolishing the discrimination which has hitherto been exercised against Jews bearing American passports. Sir Stewart is the nephew of Sir Samuel Montague, who, when a member of the English parliament went into Russia and was driven out because he was a Jew. He writes that it is "highly probable that a relaxation in or abolition of the anti-Jewish regulations will soon take place." Population of Spain. According to the census of 1890, the population of Spain was 18,891,574, of which 9,087,821 were males and 9,803,753 females. The number unable to read and write, including children, is given at 11,000,000. That the number of illiterates is being slowly reduced is evidenced by the facts that in 1860 only 19.97 per cent of the population could read and write; in 1877 the proportion had increased to 24.48 per cent, ten years later to 28.49 per cent, and in 1903 to 33.45 per cent. The populations of the largest cities are given as follows: Madrid, 539,825; Barcelona, 533,000; Valencia, 213,550; Seville, 148,315. Woman Suffrage in Australia. "We are one ahead of you, we let the women vote," said an Australian to an American reporter recently, "and my word, they do it, too. They take just as much interest in politics as the men do, and join political clubs and attend political meetings and discuss the situations and conditions as intelligently as the men. It is only the last year or so that they have voted in federal elections, but they have had suffrage in colonial politics for years." Belies Her Ancestry. Sir Charles Dilke's wife, who died recently, was the granddaughter of a man named Strong, who was forced to leave Savannah in the American revolution because o this royalist sympathies, and she was the grand-neice of a man who was tarred and feathered by our Revolutionary sires for the same reason. In view of Lady Dilke's keen sympathy with her husband's republican and radical views, it may be that she entertained no serious grudge against America on account of those old family scores. ANOTHER LIFE SAVED. Mrs. G. W. Focks, of Salisbury, Md. wife of G. W. Focks, Sheriff of Wico- mico County, says: "I suf- fered with kid-ney complaint for eight years. It came on me gradually. I felt tired and weak, was short of breath and was trou- bled with bloat ing after eating, and my mico County, says: "I suffered with kidney complaint for eight years. It came on me gradually. I felt tired and weak, was short of breath and was troubled with bloating after eating, and my fimbs were badly swollen. One doctor told me it would finally turn to Bright's disease. I was laid up at one time for three weeks. I had not taken Doan's Kidney Pills more than three days when the distressing aching across my back disappeared, and I was soon entirely cured." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo,N.Y. No Runaway Horses in Russia Runaway horses are unknown in Russia. No one drives there without having a thin cord with a running noose around the neck of the animal. When an animal starts the cord is pulled and the horse stops as soon as it feels the pressure on the windpipe. $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that attacks has been able to cure in all stages, and that positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Cataract being a constitutional disease requires a cure be taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the eye, and being taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the eye, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing the necessary powers that they offer. One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to address E. C. GHENEY & CO., Toledo, O Sold by all Draftsmen. Take Halls's Family Fund for constipation. A good many poor people have faithfully followed the injunction, "Be good and you'll be happy." TRADE MARK A Marvel of Relief St.Jacobs Oil Safe and cure for Lumbago and Sciatica It is the specific virtue of penetration in this remedy that carries it right to the pain spot and effects a prompt cure. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. THOUSANDS HAVE KIDNEY TROUBLE AND DON'T KNOW IT EDDY PUDDIT, 111 DR. N. LIMER, 1800. To Prove what Swamp-Root, the Great Kidney Remedy. Will Do for YOU. Every Reader of this paper May Have a Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mall. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for more sickness and suffering than any other disease, therefore, when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble is permitted to continue, fatal results are sure to follow. Your other organs may need attention—but your kidneys most, because they do most and need attention first. If you are sick or "feel badly," begin taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, because as soon as your kidneys begin to get better they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. The mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root the great kidney and bladder remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Root will set your whole system right, and the best proof of this is a trial. liver and bladder troubles, the symptoms of which are—obliged to pass your water frequently night and day, smarting or irritation in passing, brickdust or sediment in the urine, headache, backache, lame back, dizziness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, nervousness, DEAR SUE, I was in the Army. I had a 10-year less kidney trouble and within the past year it became so severe and complicated that I suffered everything and was much alarmed my strength and power was lost leaving me. I saw the doctor and asked for advice. I began the use of the medicine and noted a decided improvement after taking Swamp Root only a short time. I say that I am entirely cared and strong. In order to be very sure about this, I had a doctor exame some of my water to day and he pronounced that I was healthy. I know that your Swamp Root is purely vegetable and does not contain any harmful drugs. Thanking you for my complete recovery and recommending Swamp Root to all sufferers I am. Very much. C. RICHARDSON. Swamp Root is not recommended for everything but it prompts cures kidney. EDITORIAL NOTE.—In order to prove the wonderful merits of Swamp Root you may have a sample bottle and a book of valuable information, both sent absolutely free by mail. The book contains many of the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from men and women cured. The value and success of Swamp Root are so well known that our readers are advised to send for a sample bottle. In sending your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure to say you read this generous offer in this A NEW WABASH TRAIN TO St. Louis COMMENCING JUNE 5th, 1904 Leave KANBAS CITY, . . . 11:30 p. m. Daily Arrive WORLD'S FAIN STATION, 7:00 a. m. * Arrive ST. LOUIS (Union Station) 7:16 a. m. * EQUIPMENT. Pullman Sleepsers. Free Re- clining Cars and Couchs. Sleepers and Couches operated 10 a.m. to WORLD'S WABASH. On the only line to WORLD'S LAIR Main Gate. Return Train leaves St. Louis 11:45 p.m. for KANBAS City. Ask your Agent for Tickets over the Wabash. M. C. BHELDS, L. B. McCLELLAN, Trav. Pass. Agent. Western Pass. Agent. 903 MAIN STREET, KANBAS CITY, MO. TRUSSES Elastic Stockings, Eto. Flavell 1601 Spring Garden Catalog FREE. (Afflicted with) Thompson's Eye Water When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. Going to the W Going to the World's Fair? "Follow the Flag" All railroads connect with the d Fell local agent to route you via the track to the World's Fair. Ample rest L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Passenger Agent. All railroads connect with the day and night trains on the Wabash. Tell local agent to route you via the Wabash. The Wabash has the only track to the World's Fair. Ample rest and eating rooms. 903 MAIN STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. WABASH liver and bladder troubles, the symptoms of which are—obliged to pass your water frequently night and day, smarting or irritation in passing, brickduck or sediment in the urine, headache, backache, lame back, dizziness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, nervousness, heart disturbance due to bad kidney trouble, skin creations from bad blood, neurologia, rheumatism, diabetes, bloating, irritability, wormous feeling, lack of ambition, loss of flesh, sallow complexion, or Bright's disease. If your water, when allowed to remain undisturbed in a glass or bottle for twenty four hours, forms a sediment or settling or has a cloudy appearance it is evidence that your kidneys and bladder need immediate attention. Swamp Root is pleasant to take and is for sale at drug stores the world over in bottles of two sizes and two prices—fifty cents and one dollar. Remember the name, Swamp Root, Dr. Kilner's Swamp Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. paper. The genuineness of this offer is guaranteed. **COUPON.** Please write or fill in this coupon with your name and address and Dr. Kilner & Co will cover the cost of Swamp-Root the great Kidney Remedy. A Better Lye than you can tell MERRY WAR POWDERED LYE The Best Cleaner and Soap Maker A Beautiful Metal Match Safe Free It is lithographed in five bright and permanent colors, showing a picture of "The Girl who can tell the Best Lye" sent to your address free for one of our Lye labels and the name of this paper. This safe is an ornament to any room and users of Merry War Lye should not be without one. E. Myers Lye Co., 400 S. Third Street, St. Louis, Mo. World's Fair? Take the Wabash Right "to the Gates" No trouble. No Crowding. No Confusion. All Wabash Trains stop at the main entrance. Uniformed employees to name reasonable private boarding houses. the day and night trains on the Wabash the Wabash. The Wabash has the only rest and eating rooms. H. C. SHIELDS, ent. Traveling Passenger Agents COUPON. AZTECS AS MEDICAL MEN. Ancient Race Believed to Have Been Advanced in Healing Art. According to a recent medical writer the ancient Aztec race of Mexico was far advanced in the practice of medicine. The native Mexicans practiced massage, splints were used in the dressing of fractured bones, inflamed gums were lanced with obidian knives, aching teeth were extracted, salt was used as an antiseptic and ground obidian as a dusting powder. Stiffness of the muscles and joints were treated by the sweat bath, wounds were sutured with human hair the actual cannery was applied to the edge of the wounds, and venom was drawn out of poisoned wounds by sucking while bleeding was practiced in obstinate headaches. The hygiene of the tooth was well looked after, very hot foot being avoided, as was the use of cold water after eating hot food. Wooden tooth picks, clean water, and powdered charcoal served for dentifrice. In short, the practice of medicine uneasy, these early Mexicans compares very favorably with that in vogue at the time of the landing of the pilgrim fathers. MATCH FOR HIS LANDLORD One Who Objected to Children Is Cleverly Outwitted. Landlords in Paris are becoming day by day more absurd in the restrictions they put on their tenants. Some will not allow a dog to be kept; others will not permit any pet whatever and some even will not allow children to be in the house. A clever individual has just managed, however, to overcome this last objection. He had seen an apartment he liked and well knowing that the landlord objected to children, he said nothing of the existence of his only child, a boy of two years, but simply had the lease made out in the tenant's name. When he came with his family to take possession the proprietor flew into a passion and objected most strongly to the child. "Pardon me," said the naughty diplomatist, "but it is my child and not myself who has hired the apartment. You have made no objection to his asking his parents to stay with him. So here we are!" Court Ladies Dishonest Mune de Crepy in her memoirs has a good deal to say about the want of common honesty displayed by the great ladies of the old and luxurious French court in the matter of relies. The Duchess de Noallies, a very great lady indeed, was a sad offender in this respect. "Once she annexed part of the arm of St. Jeanne de Chantal, which she had borrowed from the nuns of the Visitation, and which she had refused to give back. It was discovered that she had caused it to be poured in a mottar and mixed with some drug for her son, the Duc d'Ayen, who was suffering from the measles. It was quite true she had stolen a piece of the true cross, for she told the archbishop that a stolen relihe was always more efficacious." The Lighthouse. Near a corpse of night, Girl by forty seas. Stands the lighthouse, spectral, white, Firm to every brave. Be the weather foul or fair, Far its beacons show. To the world rim billows where Freighted sea ships go. And the pilots head and sail By the far off glamour. And the tide and pale, Like a star abound. So the Union towers white, So its beacons shine. And its stars illumine the night With a gleam benign. And the stately nations all Sailing fast and far. So sounded the towers tall, Freedoms a sinking star. — Henry F. Thurston in "Telemachus and Other Poems." Telephonic Fences. Barbed wire fences are being utilized for telephonic communication among the farmers in the neighborhood of Woodland, California. The greater part of the lines consist of wire fences running along the sides of the roads or dividing the farms, poles and elevated wires being supplied wherever necessary. Branches or loops are added extending to the residences of the farmers living along the route. The undertaking has proved so successful that the original promoters have induced others to join them, and the line is to be greatly extended. Bull Fighter Made Much Money Bull Fighter Made Much Money. The emulations of a Spanish matador of the first rank appear to be quite equal to those of an English jockey of equal prominence. The famous matador, Louis Mazzantini, retired from the bull ring after a professional career of twenty-three years. His total profits, without including living expenses, amounted to £160,000, but he lost £80,000 in unlucky speculations. He looks forward, however, to enjoying his othum cum dignitate on the £80,000 remaining. Altogether Mazzantini has killed in the ring 3,500 bulls—London Globe. Poacher's Shrewd Trick. A poacher, writing in the Country Gentleman of London, says: "When I left home at night to go poaching I always left an end of a candle burning in a saucer of water in my bedroom; this was arranged so that it would splutter out about 10 o'clock, just as if I had extinguished it and retired for the night. This I did because I discovered that the keepers were given to watching my house for signs of my leaving, and it was a long time before they found that a candle could go out without human agency." WATER A PLANT COPIOUSLY. Sprinkling Every Day Not the Best Way to Get Results. Improper watering is often the cause of failure with plants. The usual plan is to sprinkle a small quantity of water daily in each pot containing a plant. If those who water plants in this manner, as most beginners do, could see the florist water his plants they might fear the plants were being drowned, but they would learn a lesson in plant culture that would be of much benefit. The florist waters his plants (with few exceptions) either daily, every other day or twice a week, according to the weather, and when the watering is done the soil about the plant is completely saturated. The pot being well provided at the bottom with drainage material—usually broken pieces of pots—the surplus water passes off, yet the soil is so wet that the roots can absorb from it all the moisture required for the best development of top growth. One watering of this kind a week will do vastly more good to the plants than the daily sprinkling so generally practiced. TRAIN BIRDS AND FISH. Marvelous Skill Displayed by Japanese and Korean Showmen Japanese and Korean showmen, in addition to their skill as jugglers and acrobats, display a truly marvelous skill in teaching animals tricks. They not only exhibit educated bears, spaniels, monkeys and goats, but also trained birds and, what is the most astonishing of all, trick fish. One of the most curious examples of patient training is an exhibit by an old Korean boatman of a dozen drilled tortoises. Directed by his songs and a small metal drum, they march in line, execute various evolutions, and conclude by climbing upon a low table, the larger ones forming of their own accord a bridge for the smaller, to which the feat would otherwise be impossible. When they have all mounted they dispose themselves in three or four piles, like so many plates. I. Walked Alone. I Walked Alone. I walked alone in the twilight aisle Through maple, oak and pine. When autumn signed, and sighed, and signed. In sadness kin to mine. Across the path the sun had cast A vibrant golden shade. For summer, who so lightly passed And strewed her blossoms there. Around the lily pool I strolled And met the goldened. With all its wealth of plumming gold Sun lifted from the soil. The asters, white and amethyst, Looked up wide eyed, to see The rose red apples in their mist Of green—you know the tree. I walked alone at first, and then, All suddenly, I knew The spirits of the wood and glen Were there—all there but you. I searched the orchard and the wood, Your voice seemed ever near. And then, at last, I u derstood— You were in my he—my dear Citizen's Tribune. How the Frenchman Read His Book How the Frenchman Read His Book. "A curious way to read a book was what I saw the other day coming up from New Orleans," said J. T. Simpson of Chicago. "It was in a Pullman sleeping car, and we had a pretty good crowd of northbound tourists. Among them was a queer looking Frenchman; at least, I judged he was such. On his seat I noticed a dozen paper back novels. Shortly after breakfast he began reading one of these at the open window by his seat. As soon as he finished a page he tore it off neatly and threw it out the window. The books were all in French, and before we got to Atlanta he had read three and scattered the French printed pages for hundreds of miles."—Atlanta Constitution. To Stop Sneezing. "There are times when to sneeze is to be embarrassed," said a society man; "at a dinner table, a social function of some sort, or in the theater, for example; but most people console themselves with the thought that it is something that can't be prevented. They are mistaken in this belief, however, for it can be prevented, and by a very simple expedient. When one feels the premonitory symptoms of a sneeze coming on, if he will just press firmly down on the lip on either side of and a little below the nostrils, the symptoms will gr...nally die off and the sneeze will be avoided."—London Answers. Cowboys in Laced Boots. The few cowboys left in the West are taking to laced boots. There was a time, in the heyday of the cow country, where a special grade of fine, high-heeled, thin-soled boot was manufactured solely for the cowboy trade, since cowboys were always very vain about their footwear. But with decadence of their trade the cattlemen have lost their small vantiles, and a half full of them ride in the more comfortable laced boots. So is the old top boot, once worn by most city men, vanquished in its last stronghold.—New York Sun. How "Negus" Originated. Negus, as much enjoyed in the army as grog is in the navy, attains its name from a jovial colonel in the days of George I. This Col. Negus was accustomed to drink the mild elixir of the ancient Roman, wine and water, and made himself so famous in the habit of avoiding imminent quarrels or cooling hot debates among his junior officers by saying in his heart, contagious tones, "Come, boys, let's drink some of my liquor," till Negus became the sobriquet of wine diluted with water—as the cup of truce. LIVE STOCK EXPOSITION, CHICAGO November 26 to December 3. A big show in a big town by of cattle, horses, sheep and swine. A liberal education for the farmer, demonstrating methods of results in the bank account. That's what the International Exposition for 1904 will be. Incidentally, there are the large stores, theatres, concerts and of the great city. Of course you are going to Island. Reduced rate will be me The Rock Island Agent will t A big show in a big town by battle, horses, sheep and swine. A liberal education for the inner, demonstrating methods and skills in the bank account. That's what the International position for 1904 will be. Incidentally, there are the are stores, theatres, concerts and the great city. Of course you are going on and. Reduced rate will be made The Rock Island Agent will t in a big town by big breeders s, sheep and swine. education for the stockman and strating methods of feeding and ank account. at the International Live Stock 1904 will be. y, there are the attractions of catres, concerts and busy streets y. you are going over the Rock ed rate will be made. island Agent will tell you about it A big show in a big town by big breeders of cattle, horses, sheep and swine. A liberal education for the stockman and farmer, demonstrating methods of feeding and results in the bank account. That's what the International Live Stock Exposition for 1904 will be. Incidentally, there are the attractions of large stores, theatres, concerts and busy streets of the great city. Of course you are going over the Rock Island. Reduced rate will be made. The Rock Island Agent will tell you about it JAS. A. STEWART, General Agent, Kansas City, Mo. coln Inst I STATE SCHOOL FOR COL AMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. Institute CHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH LIN ALLEN, A. M. President. Lincoln I MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEY Lincoln Institute DEPARTMENTS: COLLEGE, NORMAL, PR DUSTRIAL AND I COURSES: Classical, College Prepa- Model Training School, Music Drawing. (Fine Arts and Mechani- ing, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Gardening, Printing, Typewri- laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Fri- with Modern Improvements. B Diplomas are licenses to teach i state. A few deserving students to earn their way. All applica- tion of good moral character. For s BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEY JEFFERSON CITY, The Woodn AGE, NORMAL, PREPARATION, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC Classical, College Preparatory, Nor- Training School, Music (Instrume- tion, Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpe backsmithing, Machinery, Shoe-mak- ing, Printing, Typewriting, Sewi- ring. AGES8: Good Location, Free Tuition, Modern Improvements. Buildings I mas are licenses to teach in any pub A few deserving students are assist their way. All applicants must pre- moral character. For further info. IN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A.M., JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOU Woodman AL, PREPARATORY, IN- LIV, AND DOMESTIC. College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Pool, Music (Instrumental and Vocal), and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodwork- Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories Furnitures, Buildings Heated by Steam, to teach in any public school in the students are assisted in their efforts all applicants must present testimonials ater. For further information write to IN ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. IN CITY, MISSOURI. Goodman Shoe All Styles—All Leathers $3.50 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. The Woodman Shoe A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. America's best union labor with America's best leather brings results and has made this the leading line of $3.50 shoes for gentlemen's wear. reserves A Shoe That Deserves Your Fullest Confidence. OVIATT SHOE CO., 520 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, Kan. 1105 Main St. Get the Habit Of Trading at SHOE CO., 1105 Main St. CO., ain St. Get the Habit Of Trading at McCampbell & Houston's Prescription Drug Store. 2304 VINE ST. TELS: (Bell 159 East. Home 2396 Main. WE CUT THE RATES. Peruna. - - 75c Bell Pine Tar Honey, 20c Mennen's Talcum Powder, 15c Liquozone [large] - 85c Laxative Bromo Quinine, 20c Liquozone [small] - 45c All $1.00 Preparations 85c or Less. All 50c Preparations 45c or Less. ANY QUANTITY OF MEDICINE DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF CITY FREE OF CHARGE. Rock Island System STRONG & GARFIELD CO. Unusual Style Unusual Comfort Unusual Value ..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. Co-Operative Hand Laundry GIVE US A TRIAL. All Work First Class. Strictly Hand Work SYLVESTER VAUGHN, Manager. J. RICH. B. RICH. THE GREAT Atlantic Pants Co. ...TWO STORES, 16 EAST 7TH ST., AND 2825 SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD... Suits to Order $17.50. Pants to Order $3.50 RICH BROS., Props. atisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. KANSAS CITY, MO. C. H. Countee. W. B. Countee. Countee Brothers, UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers.. 4 East 12th St. iPhone 780 Grand. Carriages Furnished for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MD RELIABLE DENTISTRY No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths We Guarantee to Please. Our Reliability is Unquestioned. This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth... $4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k... $2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth... $2.65 Platinum fillings... 500 Cleaning... 500 We do as we advertise—Teeth extracted without pain FREE. We are here to stay. NEW YORK DENTAL CO ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS. 1029 Main St Second Floor. Entrance on Main Street only. Open Daily. Nigh s till 9. Sundays 10 to 4 KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. STOVE REPAIRS FOR ALL STOVES S. A. Metzner, 304 W. 6th St. AND RANGES. Both Phones 1214 Main. KANSAS CITY, MO. Save time and carfare by buying your Patent Medicines and drug necessities at attractive prices. 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