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. W. M. W. C. GILA MORGAN BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. TO INCREASE ITS ENDOWMENT. Booker T. Washington Sends Out an Appeal for Tuskegee Intisitute. The Sentinel has received an appeal, signed by Booker T. Washington, on behalf of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, of which the following is a part: During the twenty-three years that the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has been in existence, counting those who have finished a full course, together with the much larger number of those who have taken a partial course, but who have remained long enough to get into the spirit and methods of the institution, we have sent out quite 6,000 men and women who are doing effective work, mainly in the South, as teachers both in the class room and of the industries, as mechanics and in domestic work. Just now there are three urgent INDEPENDENCE NEWS. Thirty-two dollars was realized Thanksgiving day and night at the A. M. E. church. Rev. Winrow is able to be out again after an illness of several weeks. The Union services Thanksgiving morning were largely attended. The M. E., the Second Baptist and the A. M. E. composed the union. If you haven't enough trouble in your family, join the St. Anna's court. Quite a deal of sickness in Independence at present. The A. M. E. church of Lexington, Mo., will no doubt receive an old new member. He says he will not attend class meeting, that he will remove his membership back to Lexington. He and his wife came to our city highly recommended about four years ago. He has never proven himself worthy of any praise, but she is a devout Christian. The old ladies' sewing circle is meeting with success. They hope to realize a neat sum during the holidays. 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. VOLUME IX. needs which I think the public would like to know about and assist us in meeting: 1. The annual cost of operating the institution is $160,000. Of this amount we can depend upon $69,933 from assured sources, leaving $90,067 to be raised through the gifts of friends. 2. Increase of our endowment fund from its present figures, $1,030,552.28 to at least $3,000,000. 3. Sixty-five thousand dollars with which to build a new dining hall—$19,000 of this amount now being in hand. No need of the school is more urgent than this one. The students will make the bricks and do most of the work on the building. We shall be glad of money toward one or all of these purposes. The smallest sum will be gratefully received. Money sent to the school will be devoted to the purposes named. Work for Alligator Hunters Alligator hunters are wanted in Venezuela, where those animals are said to exist in untold numbers. The hunting is good sport, the skins are valuable, and the oil, which is used for medicinal purposes, also fetches a good price. "This prejudice against 'race suicide,'" said Uncle Neil Sparks, "is about as inconsistent a thing as I know of. We applaud human beings for being the parents of a dozen children and we curse the unpretending house fly for being the mother of a million children." Crossing Sweeper Grows Rich. A London crossing sweeper, who was supposed to be penniless, was found, when he died, to have been the possessor of $1,500. He had made it by picking up the ends of cigars and cigarettes, doing up the tobacco in one-cent packages and selling them to the inmates of cheap lodging houses. Beer Drinking In India. The natives of India take more and more to beer. Formerly the consumption was very small; there are now, however, many large breweries, and last year their combined production aggregated nearly 9,000,000 gallons. It is said that about 40 per cent of this production is consumed by the army. Most of the breweries are in the Himalaya mountain districts, on the railroad line between the stations of Murree and Darjeling. Uncle Allen. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1904. LEXINGTON NEWS. LEXINGTON NEWS. Mrs. Smith, the Grand Most Ancient H. of J. of St. Louis was here Sunday, left Monday for Waverly and returned Tuesday and visited Queen Anna's Court No. 4 Tuesday night; left Richmond Wednesday. The men were well pleased with her visit. We are always glad to see her because she is the right one in the right place. The African lecturer, Mr. Kwilke Sakken lectured at the A. M. E. church Monday night, Second Baptist church Tuesday night, M. E. Church Wednesday night, and every body was pleased that heard him. His mission is to raise means to educate some of his countrymen. We think that the colored people should suppor thim in his effort. His lectures are grand and helpful to our race. Mrs. Lonnie Gatewood died at her home Sunday night and was carried to Eudora, Kansas, for burial. She leaves a husband, one small child, an infant baby, one sister, and other relatives to mourn her loss. She had only been living here for a short while. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family. Miss Katie Wilson has returned home from Independence, where she has been for several months attending school. On account of her health she returned home. Mrs. Katie Bradford spent several days in Kansas City last week. Miss Minerva Robinson, who has been quite ill, is some better. Mr. Isaac Jones, who was thrown out of his buggy over an embankment, was badly injured. We hope he will soon recover. Mrs. Warren Reed's mother is still quite ill. We hope our subscribers will pay us up for the Rising Son. Mr. A. W. Walker visited the World's Fair and was well pleased with his visit; also whilst there had the pleasure of seeing the President, and many other friends and acquaintances. The W. B. F.'s, S. M. T.'s and the Valiant Knights will give their annual entertainment on the 26th. They will appear in their full regalia at night. We expect some of the Grand Officers to be present, also speeches will be made. Everybody is invited to come. Tickets will be on sale at 15 cents each. No ticket will be valued except those with the seal of the said lodge. A. W. Walker, W. M.; Robert Smith, secretary. The Knights and Daughters of Tabar will give a grand entertainment on the 28th. There will be a prize given to the one holding the lucky number. Admission will be 15 cents. Mr. Frank Howl paid up his subscription for the Rising Son. There are some few white friends takes our paper and pays for it. There is a store in our city that every colored person patronizes and they give nothing to any colored person to do in any way. They ought to at least take the Rising Son, to show that they have some appreciation for colored people. Odd Foot Note to Will. At the foot of his will the Rev. William Richardson, of Lewes, England, wrote: "This is all twaddle—only wreckage of an estate to leave." But he left $87,415. Enthusiasm Easily Aroused. It is positively wonderful what energy and enthusiasm some people have in the exciting occupation of doing nothing. Husband Was Moonstruck. A woman in Oakland, Cal., got a dl- vence because, at every full moon, her husband would sit up in bed and howl, occasionally beating her and pulling her hair for a change. Celestial Refreshments. Places of rest and refreshment are commonly to be found at the halting stations on the highways in the interior, or at the villages on the banks of the great rivers of China. They frequently take the form of a small mud hut, having a dark interior filled with smoke, tea tables, forms, and an oven, where a cook is kept busy baking tea bread and frying puddings for the entertainment of the customers, whose favorite beverage is tea, although when times are good and the weather cold they indulge in some stronger, which often inebriates, and that at avery cheap rate. Professor's Witty Comment Old students of Prof. Jebb, the famous classical scholar of Cambridge, laugh over a certain lecture delivered by their mentor in a room under that in which the late Prof. Veitch was also expounding important principles and driving home his points with a thumping fast upon his desk. At last down from the ceiling upon Prof. Jebb's head fell a piece of plaster. "Prof. Veitch's premises do not appear to support his conclusions," was his lightning comment before gravely passing on with his own discourse. Qualities for Friendship. Sive me for my friend one who will unite heart and hand with me, who will throw himself into my cause and interest, who will take part when I am attacked, who will be sure before-hand that I am in the right, and if he is critical, as he may have cause to be, towards a being of sin and imperfection, will be so from very love and loyalty, and a wish that others should love me as heartily as he.—Cardinal Newman. Severe French Critic. "Every grocer's son in Paris," says a critic, "has taken to writing books in the hope of making as much money as Zola. There are 100,000 writers and 100,000 painters and they write or paint for sordid gain, not for art. They pay the butcher and baker by scribbling or daubing when they ought to be making up parcels behind counters." Electric Insects. Electric insects have been reported. A noted hunter makes the statement that upon taking up a large caterpillar in the forests of South America he received so powerful a shock that his right arm and side were almost paralyzed, and even his life jeopardized. B Remarkable Tree A very remarkable tree grows in Nevada. It is called by the superstitious Indians the witch tree. It grows to a height of six or seven feet, and its trunk at the base is about three times the diameter of an ordinary man's wrist. The wonderful characteristic of the tree is its luminosity, which is so great that on the darkest night it can be seen plainly at least a mile away. A person standing near could read small print by its light. "Linen" Garden Party A "linen" garden party was recently given by the lord mayor of Belfast. The most attractive costumes worn 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. Wanted To Grind the Water. Grandpa has a chain pump that turns with a crank. Little May was visiting at the farm, and seeing grandpa pumping, rushed out, exclaiming, "Oh, grandpa, grandpa! Let me grind the water!"—Youth's Companion. 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: 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. While making excavations for the enlargement of a church at Rogett, Monmouthshire, Eng., the other day, about a hundred skeletons were discovered. 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. Kiss Once a Religious Observance. The kiss has been common among English speaking people for uncounted centuries. It was known even to these 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 Tahir when our ancestors were shivering in holes in the rocks. They dived into the sea, brought up great lumps 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 his house, and a better mortar could not be obtained. Discomfited Lawyer. During the last session of the Cipcuit 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." Laplar 4'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. Suffocate Boy in Treacle. Two schoolboys at Lear, near the Dutch frontier, put Hendrick Basch, a companion, aged thirteen, in a barrel half filled with treacle, for cheating at pitch-and-toss. They confessed what they had done and Basch was found suffocated. NUMBER 35. The greatest event during the Holiday season—Christmas a Day Late. A beautiful cantata in which Columbia, Brittania, Santa Claus and Father Neptune will appear with all their children. Through anger Santa Claus disappoints some of his children. Christmas is a dismal day for them. "Peace and Good Will," (Angel chorus), while the little ones are sleeping. Santa Claus finally repents and is sorry for the disappointed children, and though a day late, he comes bringing gifts for all, which puts an end to their troubles. The ladies of St. Pancras Guild are preparing this Christmas treat for you, to be given at Turner Hall, corner of Twelfth and Oak streets, December 29th, 1904. 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 chances. 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 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. Turkeya 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. Living Pictures Are Popular. Living pictures—clever and finished representations of groups taken from Dresden and Sevres china—are very popular at one of the London music halls. Tobacco's Draft on the Soil It has been calculated that a ton of tobacco withdraws over a hundred-weight of mineral constituents per acre of land. 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 buttermaker 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 "A beggar died last night; his soul Went up to heaven, he said "I come unmasked, forgive it, Lord— I died for want of bread!" "Then said the Lord God out of heaven, Son, how can this thing be? Are not my saints on earth; and they Did surely comfort thee?" "They saints, O Lord!" the beggar cried Lead holy lives of prayer; How can they know of such as we? We perish unaware!" "Then said the Lord God out of heaven In wail and angry pain "O men for whom my Son bath died, My Son bath died in vain!" Lexing God Their shall have the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the greatest great commandment—I Matthew will say. No man can truly love his neighbor as he loves himself until he has first learned to keep this first and great commandment. No easy task will this, but that it is not an impossible one is testified by the lives of unnumbered thousands who have lived and in all ways done their best. "Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." was the text of the great preacher hundreds of years before Christ came. Today we teach our children that they were made to know God, to love God and to serve God. It is true that "perfect love casteth out fear," but, as with the infant races in pre-Christian days, man had first to learn to fear God, so even to-day that element of fear is needed which is without apprehension, but full of reverential awe. We cannot love God well until we know Him. In our infancy we know Him by faith. In manhood we enter upon a more intimate knowledge of Him in the daily school of experience. In mature years we say with certain confidence: "We know Him in whom we have believed." We do this be cause He has made Himself known to us in a thousand loving ways. As father, mother, lover, husband, friend, as ruler of our destiny and guide of our devious pathway: as a shadow from the heat and a refuge from the storms which fret the days of our earthly sojourning. The love of God is no passing passion, no variable emotion; but through all the ages God's paean rings out, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love." For our own good He chastens us, but His chastisements are those of one who knows our needs. Pain and sickness, poverty and suffering are facts the existence of which Jesus Christ never denied. But in those words to the afflicted warrior, "My grace is sufficient for thee." He told of the means whereby all may be endured. "He suffered," we say in the common creed of Christendom, and as we say it we know Christ's sacred heart is beating in union with the heart of humanity. In our High Priest, who ever liveth to make intercession for us, we have one who can be and who is "touched with the feeling of our infirmities." How wonderful and how beautiful! Many waste years in vain speculation as to God's revelation of Himself to us. With the Greeks of old, some say to Confucius and to Buddha and to Mohammed, "Show us the Father and it suffice us." What is truth? some ask with Pilate, and like Pilate, wait not for the answer. Yet to us today is spoken the word of life by the Eternal Word, Jesus Christ. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," and the clarion voiced declaration, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life," he gave the best, the dearest gift He had. "For a good man one would dare to die, but while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." Is it any wonder that some say, "We love Him because He first loved us?" God made me. I come from God; I belong to God; I am going to God. All religions before Christ were shadows of the true in so far as they taught truth, but with the Incarnation light came again. The Incarnation was a new creation and the Holy Nativity a new birth as the second Adam came into the world. In Jesus Christ alone can be found the answer to ever riddle asked by the sphinxes of all ages. "He is our God; we have waited for him." Heart mind and will must all be consecrated to Him in loving service. So let us learn and labor daily truly to get our own living, doing our duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call us. So let us school ourselves in loving gratitude to our God, in whom we live and move and have our being, loving Him as He draws us on, worshiping Him, putting our whole trust in Him, honoring His holy name and His word and serving Him truly all the days of our life.—Rev, Charles Mercer Hall. Fruitful Christians: Autumn is the season of fruit harvests, when the orchards have "paid their dividends," and the music of ripe apples is heard as they go rattling into their bins. Every Christian church is an orchard and every tree in that orchard is "known by its fruits." Too many there are who try to pass for Christians, but from whom the yield of graces can no more be the yield of genuine graces can no more be expected than the owner of a grove of scrub oaks would expect a crop of Bartlett pears. The fruits of the Holy Spirit—as the apostle catalogues them—are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, faith, meekness and temperance. The first essential to a fruitful Christian is that he he well rooted. No part of a tree is so invisible and yet so important as its roots. The condition of a tree commonly reports where its roots are and what they are doing. A dearth of life below ground means barrenness above ground. The roots of our religious life are our secret motives and our ruling affections, and no one can claim to be a genuine Christian unless Jesus Christ dwelt down in the core of the heart. When we are shocked to discover the loose living and spiritual barrenness of some church members, we find that the branches of their profession hang over on the church side of the wall, while their roots are in the sandy soil of worldliness on the other side. There is no heart-union to Christ; and he has declared: "Except ye abide in me ye can bear no fruit." Grapes do not grow on thorn bushes nor are figs gathered from thistles. Multitudes of people expect at some day to become Christians, and often they wish that they were Christians, and yet they do not apply the common sense principle of causes and results. To be a Christian signifies that one has the divine "root of the matter" in him, that he has a character which grows out of faith in the crucified Christ and proves itself genuine by obedience to Christ's commandments. Christian character is a growth—first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full ripe corn in the ear. There can be no vigorous growth without a deep rooting into Jesus Christ; and shallow conversions produce shallow Christians. Some Christians are bountiful fruit bearers, and the reason is that they draw all their supplies of grace and all their inspiration of daily conduct from their deep-down heart union to Jesus. Love of Jesus is the motive that subdues selfishness; and loyalty to Jesus holds them as a stout root holds a tree amid the blasts of winter's tempests or under the summer's parching droughts. Glorious old Paul was always abounding in the work of the Lord, and he told the secret of it when he said: "Christ liveth in me." A drought never affects a well rooted Christian whose soul is in constant connection with the fountain head of all spiritual power.—Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. The Cure for Discouragement The great cure for discouragement is a persuasion of being right. We have really very little to do with mere circumstances; we are not masters of the weather, we cannot control the atmosphere. The eternal consolation is in the fact that the heart is right and the suppliant means his prayer; all other changes are atmospheric, climatic, transitory, damping enough and discouraging enough in the meanwhile, but forgotten tomorrow. The devil has but a short chain and he cannot add one link to its length. This is eternal life, to know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. The clouds do not throw down the house; the house is founded upon a rock; think of the rock, not of the falling snow; think of the eternal foundation and not of the changing clouds. "The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal. The Lord knoweth them that are His." Then the chief cure, the master remedy, the sovereign assurance, must be found in the example of Christ. He was much discouraged because of the way. "He marveled because of their unbelief;" "he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief." But when he was come nigh the city, he wept over it and said: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen doth gather her young under her wings, and ye would not." They went out against him with swords and staves as against a thief; but for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame. It is worth waiting a whole winter night to behold the brightness of the coming summer. A little rain, a high wind, a fall of snow, unexpected frost, a little bitterness in the cup—these things come and go, but we, being in Christ, seek a kingdom which cannot be moved. If we are seeking nothing then discouragement will prevail—in the absence of definite purpose, distinct assault will have a tremendous effect upon us—but if our eye be single and our whole body be full of light, and if our vision be set upon a given destiny and that destiny be a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God, then apostles will shake off the viper into the fire, sleepers will throw back the garments in which they have been slum-bering and brave men will find in the end more than compensation for the way, and one glimpse of heaven will cast into eternal forgetfulness all the little troubles of earth.—Dr. Joseph Parker. So conscience chide me not. I am prepared for fortune as she wills.— Dante. At Our Right Hand. The secret of a quiet heart is to keep ever near God. Stayed on him, we shall not be shaken, and our "hearts shall be fixed, trusting in the Lord." We get above the fogs when we soar to God, and circumstances in their wildest whirl will not suck us into the vortex if we are holding by him and knowing that he is at our right hand.—Alexander McLaren. PROTECTION ROSSFELT PROSPERITY U.S.A 1904 Uncle Sam: "Don't get out. Stay and ride with us another four years. I've decided not to change chauffeurs. He's all right. He's safe, sane and conservative." TARIFF AND WHEAT THE FARMER FINDS HE IS PRATICALLY BENEFITED. Duty of 25 Cents a Bushel Prevents Dumping from Canada and Keeps Up Prices of Wheat Grown By Farmers of the Northwestern States. It is the favorite contention of all free traders, and of some republicans who have lapsed from fair and consistent protectionism under the influence of the reciprocity hallucination, that the tariff on agricultural products is of no benefit to the American farmer. They strive hard to make the farmer believe this. The Cobdenite reckons shrewdly that all that is necessary in order to get rid of protection in this country is to demonstrate to the farmer's satisfaction that he is robbed for the benefit of the protected manufacturer. If the farmer should ever come to believe this, there would soon be an end of protection. So we find the free traders bustly engaged in setting up the pins for unrestricted reciprocity with Canada in products of the soil, and, curiously enough, we find some republicans "capping up" the free trade game. Some day, we suppose, these republicans will wake up to the fact that they are being made use of by crafty free traders to destroy protection. The advocates of free trade in natural products base their argument chiefly upon the claim that the price of American wheat is fixed in Liverpool, and hence the free admission of Canadian wheat could not affect the price in this country. There would be some merit in this claim if all American wheat were of uniform and equal grade and if all of our surplus wheat was exported as wheat. Such, however, is not the case. The hard wheat of Minnesota and the Dakotas is of superior grade for milling purposes and commands a higher price by several cents a bushel than the softer wheat of other sections. Moreover, a constantly increasing proportion of our surplus wheat is exported in the shape of flour, in which the hard wheat has HAS DECIDED NOT PROTECTION U S A Uncle Sam: "Don't get out. Stay I've decided not to change chauffeurs. conservative." an extra value. Accordingly, the price of wheat in Minneapolis is at all times relatively higher than either the Chicago, the New York or the Liverpool price. Would it be prudent for the republican party to break down this price by the free admission of wheat grown on the cheaper lands and with the cheaper farm labor of the Canadian northwest? An answer to this question is given in a recent statement by James S. Bell, president of the Washburn Crosby Company, of Minneapolis, prepared for and published in the New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, of Nov. 3. Although directly interested in getting cheaper wheat from Manitoba and adjacent provinces for mixing in the mills at Minneapolis, Mr. Bell is not in favor of removing the traffit of 25 cents a bushel. His reasons in support of this view are sound and sensible. They should receive the serious consideration of the "free-trade republicans" of Massachusetts and Minnesota. Mr. Bell finds that, owing to the decrease of the wheat crop in the Dakotas and Minnesota, the duty of 25 cents a bushel has become actually protective. The farmer has discovered it to be so. After having for many years labored under the impression that he was being taxed for the benefit of eastern manufacturers, while he could not see that his own farm products were in any way enhanced in value, he now becomes aware that protection protects the farm as well as the factory, and that by reason of the tariff of 25 cents a bushel his own wheat brings a higher price than it would if that tariff were removed. Possibly, too, the farmer looks beyond the immediate present far enough to see that when Canada's great railroad projects shall have been carried out some hundreds of millions of acres of new and productive wheat lands will be brought under cultivation, and Canada will have for export 500,000,000 bushels, instead of the 75,000,000 bushels of wheat which she now markets abroad. When that comes to pass, as it surely will, the American farmer will put a still higher value on protection that protects. en in us by ur Mr. Bell rightly suggests that the removal of the duty on Canadian wheat would necessitate the removal of the duty on Canadian flour, and that, in turn, would transfer to Canada the bulk of the milling industry. Certain it is that when we have free trade in wheat we shall have free trade in flour. American millers should not forget that it may be that something can be done in the line of Mr. Bell's suggestion for a change in the drawback system that will be to the advantage of the American miller and not to the disadvantage of the American farmer. That subject is now under consideration. One thing, however, is made clearer than ever by Mr. Bell, and that is that the republican party will think twice before it embarks upon the policy of free trade in competitive natural products. AMERICAN GOODS ABROAD. The Foreign Manufacturer Is the Only One Who Is Hurt. One of the arguments, generally considered the strongest against the protective tariff, is the fact that some of the products of our tariff protected factories are shipped to foreign markets and there sold at a price lower than is asked or received for the same articles here. The conclusion which many persons draw from this state of affairs is that the American manufacturer might, if he would sell all his product at the price he sometimes gets abroad and that his failure to do so clearly points to exorbitant and unduly enriching profits. But is this conclusion just? Is not the case analogous to that of the merchant who, at the end of the season, finding that he has on hand a considerable supply of summer goods, cuts the price in order to turn his goods into cash? Might it not with as much reason be said that the merchant should have sold all the goods in question at the cut price, regardless of the stage of the season or the demand for them? There are few merchants who do not in this way clear out at some time in the year the remnants of stock, yet the man who has bought the same thing earlier in the season and paid a fair price for it does not complain. In the case of the cheap sale of American manufactured goods abroad, it is the foreign manufacturer, not the American consumer, who is hurt. Moreover, Americans have profited by TO CHANGE DRIVERS. PROSPERITY 1904 and ride with us another four years. s. He's all right. He's safe, sane and having performed and been paid for the labor; and, if the article sold is something for which the raw material has been imported, the government has helped by admitting the raw material free. But more important yet in the destruction of this argument against protection is the insignificant amount of American manufactured goods that are sold for less money abroad than at home. According to the Philadelphia North American, out of $13,000,000,000 worth of goods made in the United States but $4,000,000 worth is sold abroad at such prices. In other words, but thirty cents' worth in every $1,000 worth of American made goods is so marketed. This reduces the argument almost to an absurdity. —Columbus Dispatch. Not Sorry The Evening Post seems to think that John Hay feels bad because the French treaty was allowed to die. We doubt it. True, the secretary of state stood in the official relation of sponsor to the batch of foolish dickers negotiated by Commissioner Kasson, but we don't believe he is sorry, after three years of thinking it over, that the senate declined to sanction the sacrifice of the hosiery and knit goods, the kid glove and other thriving industries that was involved in the French treaty. Reciprocity is better understood than it was in the early part of 1901. Everybody knows more about it, including Mr. Hay. He is too good a republican and too patriotic an American not to be glad that the French treaty was smothered. It is only free traders, and here and there a free trade republican, who are sorry that the French treaty failed of ratification. Tell the Story. When the former free trade crusade was begun the United States was producing about 9,000,000 tons of pig iron annually. A couple of years of scare brought the production down to 6,000,000 tons. The resumption of confidence carried the output up to 18,000,000 tons. Figures like these tell the story truly. Price lists are deceptive, but the fact that Americans are consuming about 450 pounds of iron per capita as against less than half that quantity in the years of low prices is one that can't be got away from—San Francisco Chronicle. THE ODD CORNER Two Men of To Day. Jim Jones had a habit of laughing— Whenever he spoke he would smile— He recognized, organizer, rouble; He claimed that it meant to trifle; He paid no attention to trifles. John Smith had a habit of scolding— He grumbled whenever he spoke— He did everything with precision, when he him was a joke, He gave all his thanks to her mess; He worried and russed every day; He's rich, but his friends often won If Smith ever made living pay. —Cleveland, Leader. Sharks and War- The fishermen of the northern part of the Adriatic sea are alarmed at the number and size of the sharks that have been caught there since June. Three were taken in Istria within a few days, and a very large one was caught lately in Quarnero. The Adriatic fishermen declare that these sharks are fish that have been driven out of the Yellow sea and the Siberian waters by the many frightful submarine mine explosions. They allege that since the beginning of the Russo-Japanese war the number of sharks in the Mediterranean sea has increased steadily. It has been known for some time that the Suez canal has been the means of bringing a great many big sharks into the Mediterranean every year. The shark is a fish which will follow a ship for days and weeks, once he finds that a steady supply of offal is thrown overboard. The amount cast into the sea daily from a big passenger steamship is so great that it would suffice for half a dozen sharks, greedy as these brutes are. Therefore, it is not strange that practically every liner is dogged all the way from Aslatic waters by big sharks. The Suez canal does not stop them, and they stay with the ship till it leaves the Straits of Gibraltar. By that time most of them have found the great schools of funny and other fish that fill the Mediterranean, and they desert the ship and stay thereafter in the great interior ocean, to the vast injury of the fishermen. Safeguarding the Paper Currency. Safeguarding the Paper Currency. To the average man the paper used by Uncle Sam for currency outranks all others in value and attractiveness. This paper, used variously for money, bonds, checks, internal revenue stamps, etc., is made in Pittsfield, Mass., in one of the most perfect paper manufactories in the world. In the eyes of the government it is the perfection of its manufacture that gives value to what is known as "money paper," and there is, contrary to the general impression, no secret in either the process or formula. Reliance against imitation is placed on the skill required, and on the fact that the machinery essential to production is costly, massive and not easily capable of concealment. These, with the alds of the well-known silk fibers and the statutory provisions against its unauthorized manufacture and possession, offer the chief protection against counterfeiting; and it is acknowledged by the secret service that the government paper itself is a greater safeguard to the treasury than the intricacies of design and engraving. Only in money paper are silk threads used, but while the sheet is still soft the government watermark is pressed into the other papers. This watermark is the simple monogram, "U. S. T. D." for check paper, "U. S. P. D." for postage stamps, and "U. S. I. R." for revenue paper. Spoiled Intended Rebuke. Spoken Intercourse In the life of the Rt-Rev. Mandell Creighton, bishop of London, is a story of a frolic at Oxford on Guy Fawkes day, 1865. A bonfire was kindled which endangered some of the oldest buildings. The old warden, Dr. Marsham, was asked by the tutors to speak seriously to the raven about their unruly conduct. Thus urged, he addressed the assembled college and rebuked them for behaving in such an ungentlemanly manner, concluding with these words: "And all I can say, gentlemen, is that if you want to be behave like barbarian savages, why—ahem—ahem—you should come and ask leave first." National Hymns. The national airs of great countries are short, while those of little countries are long. "God Save the King" is 14 bars, the Russian hymn is 16 bars, and "Hall Columbia!" has 28 bars, and that of Uruguay 70, Chile 46, and so on. San Marino has the longest national hymn, except that of China. Soaked Innocent Visitor. A newly married Nashua, N. H., couple were annoyed by Halloween prank players and made several unsuccessful efforts to catch the boys and girls. Finally there came a long ring and a pail of water was poured from a chamber window over the front door, which just soaked the new suit of one of the bride's dearest lady friends, who had come to call. Partridges Tame in Maine. Partridge Table in the mall Mrs. J. B. Cole of Prospect Harbor, Maine, was sitting on her plaza when she was surprised by a partridge which alighted first on the rail and finally fluttered to the floor near where she was sitting. A few days afterward the lady living in the next house found one with her hens when she went to feed them at night. A. A. Boyce, a farmer, living three and a half miles from Trenton, Mo. says: "A severe cold settled in my kidneys and developed so quickly that I was obliged to lay off work on account of the aching in my back and sides. For a time I was says: "A severe cold settled in my kidneys and developed so quickly that I was obliged to lay off work on account of the aching in my back and sides. For a time I was unable to walk at all, and every make-shift I tried and all the medicine I took had not the slightest effect. My back continued to grow weaker until I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills, and I must say I was more than surprised and gratified to notice the back ache disappearing gradually until it finally stopped." Doan's Kidney Pills sold by all dealers or mailed on receipt of价, 50 cents per box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. If there is a woman named Pearl, she is from 30 to 35 years of age. In the same way one can almost estimate how old a woman is whose ears are pierced. FITS permanently cured. No sit or environment after first day's use of Dr. Klue's Great Nerve Ketorol Dr. R. H. KANE, Ltd., 831 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. If to pick up a pin brings good luck, the bowling alley attendants should have plenty of it. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none so equal it in quality and quantity, 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now and save your money. If a daughter of the chouse goes riding in a rubber-tired rig with a nice young man, the neighbors don't happen to see it, but tdoes an yone imagine they wouldn't see it if the patrol wagon were to call? GUARANTEED MINING INVESTMENTS. We are the largest mine operators in the west and cordially invite you to write for prospectus and full particulars about OUR NINE ASSOCIATED COMPANIES, which have joined in forming our INVESTORS' GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION, with $5,000,000 capital, TO GUARANTEE ALL OF OUR INVESTORS AGAINST LOSS. Write for free information and be convinced. ARBUCKLE-GOODE COMMISSION COMPANY, 325 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Don't be dissatisfied with your lot. Hang on to it and pray for a real estate boom. STATE OF OHI. CITY OF TOLEDO. LOUCAS COUNTY. 88. FRANK J. CURRYEN makes oath that he is senior partner in the city of Toledo County and has business in the city of Toledo County and living abroad, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRON that cannot be cured by the use of CATARRON CURSE. FRANK J. CHENYEN. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this day of December, A. W. GLEASON. REAL NOTARY PUBLIC. Hall's Catarrion Cure is taken internally and actively on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. HENYE & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by All Druggents. 256. Take Hall's Family Plans for constipation. Some people seem to think that it is better to make good than to do good. AN INVITING PROSPECT: Will Canada in the next quarter of a century take the place of the United States as the great wheat exporting section of the western hemisphere? Everything points that way. In the opinion of experts the United States has reached high water mark as a wheat exporting country. The increasing population over there has reached the point when home consumption is becoming annually greater in proportion than the increase in wheat production. As a matter of fact wheat production is decreasing over there as the land becomes more valuable and by reason of the demand for other forms of produce for home consumption. It is said that the wheat crop this year is not more than 70 per cent. of the crop of 1901 and much below the crops of 1902 and 1903. It is estimated that this year the United States surplus for export will not be over 100,000,000, which is less than any year since 1878 with two exceptions. Not only is this the case, but a considerable quantity of the best Canadian wheat is being imported into Minnesota and also Chicago. All this tends to keep the price of wheat near the dollar mark, and "dollar wheat" is the loadstone that will attract farmers to the Canadian Northwest, where land is cheap and can be farmed on a wholesale basis, particulars of which may be had from any Canadian Government Agent. The reduction of American exports will have the double influence of increasing Canadian production and keeping up the price. It constitutes a rosette prospect for this country, and needs no exercise of optimistic enthusiasm to foresee the near expansion of the Dominion into the actual position of the "granary of the empire." Puzzles Unbalance Brain. Puzzles Unbounded Brain An Englishman has been sent to an insane asylum through too much study of newspaper puzzles. New Aid to Temperance. The general introduction of street cars in English towns has diminished the consumption of beer. Workingmen, on their way home to the suburbs in the evening are now carried past saloons at which they used to linger. te es BOSS : See PASSii ae Pe ANC ~ RA ua fen EN = WORLD abo G\\\e WOPTEN > - Chic Shiny Sequins. lente and as it grows older it grov Spangles and glittering sequins |in beauty and fruitfulness, its blo ‘transform & gown. Nothing but se-| soms filling the air with its fragrance quins of exceptional size and beauty, | It is indeed a fit emblem of marriag ‘and nothing poor in the way of dress | promise and hopes. will be tolerated nowadays. This is ‘The orange tree ts considered tyt also the case with paillettes. If you | cal of love because, though its fruit ‘are going to appear in spangles at all| golden and its flavor and scent de you must be beautifully and plentt-| cious, its rind is bitter, and as ever fully bespangled—in fact, your dress| one knows who has experienced | must be @ shimmering, glittering | Cupid's dart causes pain. ‘The orant mass, preferably of jet, enhanced by | is emblematic of gratitude as well | the lightness of chiffon or tulle or the | of genius and love. beauty of black chiffon velours. Black oe with a touch of color is seldom, if A Fashionable Fur. ever, to be tolerated. Black or the| 4 pow fur which will be much ust blackest, however, with all {ts deli: | for revers and cuffs 1s known as yett cious lights and shades, 1s beautiful. | Though the name suggests somethlt Even dull blacks have a chic all their | entirely new, when literally transl Liberty Silk Waist. Blouse of ivory liberty smocked at the top forming points and with sha!- low yoke composed of bands of the material fagoted together. The fronts Bo: ey one Abr Stine) BAY | \\ i LS x Al i Se Is ii [2 e Ae A av ph WT HY ity, ty, Ms iv We are also finished with the fagoted bands. The collar and sleeve ruffies are of the Irish guipure, and the cra- vat is of the liberty. Attractive Evening Wraps. The majority of evening wraps for the coming winter are to be longer than those worn last year. There will be more bright colors seen, and satin, brocade, velyet and embroidered cloths will later take the place of the all-white wrap which was so popular a few months past. The furtrimmed evening wrap 1s again immensely fashionable, and as is the case now when one or two un: usually smart models are made up in a certain new and, at the same time, effective style, they will frequently be imitated and copied in many different ways. On some models there is only a deep collar of white lynx or sable with no other fur trimming to the wrap, but again are seen models on which there is not only the deep fur cape or standing collar, but the sides ‘of the cloak will be faced with it, Uniaue Ribbon Trimming. There is a smart ribbon trimming, which disports itself in frilled flounces and makes such an effective adorn: ment for an evening frock, where taf- feta, silver or gauze ribbon is used. Very dainty is a debutante’s dress made of white tulle mounted on soft satin, the skirt treated with six rows of horizontal silver gauze ribbon ap- plied in sets of two, with a frill lace between each, The bodice is cut in pointed effect and slightly gathered across the figure, adorned at inter- vals with little butterfly bows of sil- ver gauze, and made still more at- tractive by a ribbon-trimmed fichu ar- ranged around the decollete and held with a large bow caught in place by a silver butterfly. & ‘Grakiv. Little Wark Backed: A pretty little work basket is made of stiff cardboard cut ont in four sec- tions, each one about six inches high and five broad at the top, slanting to a width of three and a half inches at the base, Ribbons at the top and bottom of each section fasten them together in form somewhat like a tall strawberry box, These sections are covered with ecru erash, and on the outside of one is attached a needle pad covered with a flap of canvas, Another side of this little basket car- ries a tomato pincushion made of silk. A third is decorated with two little emeries in the form of strawberries, and the last section has a pocket in which to keep buttons, spool cotton, braid, ete, Celeste'’s Fritters, Stale sponge cake, cut into rounds with a cake cutter, Slice the cake carefully and fry fo a nice brown. Dip each slice for a second in a bowl of boiling milk, draining this off on the side of the vessel; lay on a hot dish and spread thickly with strawberry fam, peach jelly oy other delicate conserve. Pile them neatly and send eround hot, with cream to pour over them. Meanina of Orance Blossomea. ‘The orange tree is regarded as a prince among trees and the emblem of genius. A peculiarity of this tree fs that it bears frult and flowers at the same time. Its leaves are ever- green, and as it grows older it grows in beauty and fruitfulness, its blos- soms filling the air with its fragrance. It is indeed a fit emblem of marriage promise and hopes. ‘The orange tree is considered typl- cal of love because, though its fruit is golden and {ts flavor and scent deli- cious, its rind fs bitter, and as every: one knows who has experienced It, Cupid's dart causes pain. The orange is emblematic of gratitude as well as of genius and love, A Fashionable Fur. A new fur which will be much used for revers and cuffs 1s known as yetta, ‘Though the name suggests something entirely new, when literally translat ed it means the skin of a baby calf. Inagine converting the skin of a soft eyed “bossy” into dress accessories for the smart girl—and yet that 1s Just what is happening. In coloring, of course nothing could be more ef fective than the beautiful brown, with its streaks of soft, creamy white and delicate fawn, In its texture the new fur ts very soft and silky, which means that it would be easy to em broider if a touch of elaborateness 1s needed.—Woman's Home Companion paitekall’ Rasen: Select six smooth, medium-sized po- tatoes. Wash, using a vegetable brush, and place in a dripping pan, Bake in a hot oven until soft, remove and cut a slice from top of each and scoop out inside. Mash, add two tablespoon- fuls of butter, salt, pepper and three tablespoonfuls of hot milk; then add the whites of two eggs well beaten. Refill skins and bake five to eight minutes in a very hot oven. Potatoes fhay be sprinkled with grated cheese before putting in oven, Leather Trimmings. Kidskin plays a prominent part in approved miodels of the dressmaker’s art, adapted to be worn during the Ampending cold weather. This leather ‘is singularly susceptible to dyeing processes, hence its adoption in. pref erence to other hide. Season's Smart Sweaters. The worsted sweaters of this seasor are very smart. They come in al colors; some have blouse fronts an¢ fitted belts; others are in Norfolk style, with belt and straps; these are very stylish, Some are made with col lars, others without bigs ae ta Bika: Flowers made of quarterinch satin ribbon, which is tied inahard knot at the top of the petal, give the effect of an apple blossom or Alpine bloom, and are especially attractive in bodice decorations, Girl's Dress of Blue Wool. The skirt is plaited over the hips, below which the plaits open out, The tablier is plaited and trimmed with silk braid and a strap of the material tipped with red satin and fastened with a gold button, The bottom 1s finished with a row of the braid, ‘The front of the blouse is plaited and ornamented with buttons. It 1s trimmed around the top with the CLO vik a | \ i eS braid and bands of the material, the latter tipped with satin and fastened simulating a yoke or collar. The sleeve has two puffs at the top, the rest of it is tight fitting and trimmed at the wrist with the braid The girdle is of the red satin, Fad for Men's Cloth. Men's cloth, it would appear, ts to have quite a vogue for plain costumes this winter, The best tailors show @ decided intention to exploit the warm and durable materials, which, when in best imported shaps have everlast- ing qualities, WAGNER WAS f00 STRENUOUS. Threatened to Ruin the Only Fano in faraway Nome. a eee ree One of the characters fy Nome. Alaska, was Dick Dawson, who had a saloon, dance hall and gambling hell combined, and had brought his out: fil, including an automatic piano, down from Dawson City over an almost {m passable route. One day when things were rather quiet in the place, Oscar, the chief and only musician on the staff, got to work with the automatic piano and pumped at the pedals in ambitious style. He had ground out a lot of old. fashioned home and mother songs when suddenly, without the least warning, he struck into the “Ride of the Valkyries.” When the crashing opening chords first sounded, Dawson, who was stand ing at the end of the bar, started an¢ looked around, to see what was the matter. Then the music took on lighter tone, and as a delightful thrill ing run sounded out in the treble he settled back to enjoy it. Again came a clash and thump thump, thump, as the bass chords go to work again. Dawson started ove toward the plano on the rin “Don't bother yourself, Dick,” said § bystander. “That's all right, that mu ste, That's Wagner.” “Who the ——'s Wagner?” was the answer, “Ell kill that Oscar for let ting him spoil the plano!"—New Yor! ein How He Meant to Reform. When Dick Wintersmith was Con gressman at Washington,” said Phil Thompson, “it hapened that a friend of ours fell il, His name was Johy Wires. “He drank considerably, John dtd and that last night of his life he ha¢ spilt whisky all over his beard, “He wanted it dark in the room: so when the nurse went ont he reach ed for the candle and attempted t extinguish it. “His long beard, full of alcohol caught fire instantly and burned hin up. “There was a great deal of grie among us and consternation. ““This ought to be a lesson to us. decided Dick, "to stop drinking « while.’ “'So It ought,’ assented Joe Black burn, ‘What are you going to dc about It, for instance?” “Me? said Dick. ‘Well, it’s come te this pass with me that I have firm! resolved never to blow out anothel candle.’"—New York Times, Tabs Your Bitaw Alond.. Many people when away from home find it difficult to sleep well in a strange bed, and arise in the morning with a sense of having passed a de. cldedly unsatisfactory night. Vice. President Knowlton of the Raymond & Whitcomb company, who ought — to know, says the trouble is all in the pillow. It's the pillow first, last and always. He has slept in many lands and under all imaginable conditions, and years ago came to the conclusion that with one’s own pillow at hand it mattered little about the bed. On an extended tour he always takes his pil low with him, stowing it carefully at the bottom of the trunk for future reference. “If 1 could start life over again,” he says, “Il would learn to sleep without a pillow (the only proper way), but the art must be acquired during childhood, The next best thing is your own pillow wherever possible. Try it and be convinced.” Goad ‘Exolanation. The Rev. James T, Dougherty, ree tor of St. Mary’s church at Canandat gua, tells this story of his recent visit to the St, Louis exposition: “In one of the buildings I met a voluble Trish man In charge of an exhibition of Lrish relics, My attention was especially called to the stump of a tree in whieh was Imbedded so firmly as to be irre movable, the points of a fine set of deer antlers, [was interested. ‘How do you suppose the deer had come to get his horns so firmly fastened?” | asked “egurey [don't know, your river ence, was the reply, ‘but L think he must have been “buttin’ in.” "—New York Times, « Knew How Freshman Felt. The inanguration of Dr. Luther te the presidency of Trinity college, Har! ford, which took place recently, sie gested an incident of a rainy day ‘some years ago. A freshman was wath ‘ing along in front of Northam hail when the strap that held his books suddenly parted and they were seat tered over the wet pavement, He wa Just about to punciuate bis thoughts with a few wellchosen words, when he heard some one just behind him Catching himself, he glanced over his ‘shoulder and saw Prof. Luther, whe smilingly said: “Say it; go on ans say {tI never can, you know.”—New York Times. Knew What Was Proper. Dr, William H. Tolman, Director of the American Institute of Social Service, tells a story of a “fresh air youngster who was received at the country house of a friend of his for a two weeks’ stay. “He was from the slums," sald the harrator, “and. sup posed to be ignorant of the comforts of life, let alone the amenities, At the dinner table the first day they handed him for dessert a triangle of apple pie. fresh, hot and delicious, The New Yorker inspected it and remarked ‘Apple ple and no cheese, Hell.’ "~- New York Times. - The Azure, “Milan ode Wis, deaival areata fulfited Where careful notrawn pase trem. view. And ery huartcorya hushed ahd Bo WOH L wing my Jovons Might ‘ro aaure realms where tanture lee, But nat to wonder msatie: height fata Pata nN GW" Orlane Pines Dance) al. e fay tn, at maa face ie REET ethic ee a, Life's twilight) path with pitfalls as TURE a tas, Geo. Gh Secale Ta ety? at, Aaa Minion, tl SOU Uy Gta a fr oor aa LYS th COVE At the early age of 30 I settled down to a life of single blessedness on my patrimontal estate. 1 had seen life and the world in every phase and clt- mate and congratulated myself on being through with storms, literal and figurative, This tdylllc existence was rudely in: terrupted by the rising of the widow above my horizon. When she Durst upon my vision the history of the world recommenced, For a day and a night Twas dazzled, stupefied, and when T learned that her iands adjoin- ed mine T knew by instinct that it was all up with me. Tam not one of those who struggle against their passions and for my ex: pected tranquillity 1 had counted not on my will, but on freedom from temptation. So [ let myself go, 1 visited my neighbor and did not conceal from her the feeling with which she had in apired me. Accustomed to admiration and declarations of love, she received mine calmly, but replied: “shall never marry again, My hus. band was the best of men and I loved him dearly, ‘That is enoiigh for one life.” And when T urged, pleaded, protest. ed with the energy of sudden passion she smiled and said: “What a tyrant you would be! No, I wish to be free.” She was a Creole of New Orleans and possessed the soft, langorous beauty that, even in its decline, made another creole widow, Josephine Beau harnais, so irresistible. But my wi ow was only 24 years old and ye in the perfect bloom of youth. Ie late husband, an American railway promoter, had left her a large fortune which she appeared anxious to ex change for French soil, After pur chasing the estate adjoining mine she enecossively acquired other properties until she threatened to surround and ingulf me. One day she said “You have a lovely bit of forest that makes an ugly jog in my line, | will give you a hundred thousand franes for it.” “It is not for sate to you," Ureptied “Take it if you want it She raised her eyebrows and her shoulders and dropped the subject, bu returned to it next day in the billiard room of old Count Lavilleuce, whom she had Just defeated, for she was ar excellent player, for @ woman. “Come,” she said, “Twill play you for a promise to sell against that ple ture by Dirtks that you covet so." Then I lost my head and answered “No, but [will stake the forest asains a kiss!” She looked at me more in amuse ment than in anger | "You are joking,” she said, | Am 12 You know 1 would, pind sell the forest for a kiss, but 1 know {you would not consent to the ex | change. So let us play tor them," wir Ny \ i W le F “IT have half @ mind to take you up,” she laughed. “You dare not!" I cried, for I knew her temper. “O, 1 dare not." she eried. “Very well, We will make the game 300 points” It was a fine game, for we were well matebed, and, having co much at stake, played our best. For my part 1 swear that I thought only of the kiss, not of the forest. The game went on with alternate advautace until she bad scored 290 to my 282. Then I made a runet of sixt@ean “ith ease and stopped, balked by @ aifeutt Shot, Within one point of victory, Bhe also, after running up to 299. found herself confronted by an awkward configuration, but the shot) was so much easier than some which she had made that T gave up the game for Jost, She aimed carefully and stead. ily, played—and missed by a hair's breadth! T waited half a minute before play. ing, for my hands trembled so. that T could hardly hold the cue, It was an easy shot, but not for me at that moment, My ball earomed Haghtly on the light red, advanced timidly for the dark, and just hissed Ht! | “Ab, 1 have lost!’ she exclatmed fe : fee ih q ~ Nel (i i i iif MY { q i | \j y ‘ " (QZ with a nervous laugh, “Well, Twill payin half an hour, in the grove.’ She ran away, blushing, and soon T saw her strolling, with careful care lessness, toward the grove, It was a Jong halt hour--though TE shortened it by ten minutes, In the sacred grove she came to me without a word and frankly and loyally offered her sweet lips When Tratsed my hand f saw that sho was pale. She trembled and tat a hand on my shoulder as if for sup port, ‘Then she laughed softly and “whispered "It wasn't fair, you know, 1 onght fo have made that shot. 1 -T cheated!” | So, though she lost she won aot the forest alone, but its owner and all bis Worldly goods, while he won not mere: ly one poor kiss, but bliss prolonged Chicago Tribune. TAKE ROGUES’ FINGER PRINTS. Bertillon System Extended to Include ‘amas Phatshinn The measurements invented by M, Rertitlon for the identification of erim inals have beon extended by the sys tom of fingermark — identification, which ts based on the Rertillon con tention that the lines on the skin of the finger tip de not alter, says the New York World, If the skin be: comes worn away the lines will repeat themselves, This method of recoxnt tion is used in Engiand, in Cairo, Dresden, Vienna and Buenos Ayres, It is simpler than the older method of bodily measurements. A metal plate as covered with a liquid: black plement and the finger tp is pressed on toil. ‘The finger marks are mag nifled and the lines counted. ‘Then the compartinenty are examined and ifn card is found with the same marks the Identity of the person is. settled, Any ordinary policeman can take the impression What He'd Mave Dene. Charles M. Schwab, after his re turn from the west, was praising Sap Franciseo, when some one interrupted him with the remark “Hut you hurried back home, You did’nt stay long.” “You speak,” sald Mr. Schwab, “ob Hauely, Your remark, in on indirees way, Is disparaging. It ix like the remark that 1 once beard a bachelor make on a train “He was an old and erusty bachelor, and it was his Ill fortune to be seated beside a woman with a baby that cried and cried. ‘The woman dandled the baby, earessed it, jumped it up and down, sang to it, But it only shrieked the louder. Finally, in despair she ex claimed “Dear me, T don't know what to do with this ehild’ “The bachelor leaned toward her. “Shall T open the window for you madam?’ he sald.” 3 fr} ey Wm ig "Mrs. L. C. Glover, Vice-Pres. ident Milwaukee, Wis., Business Woman's Association, is another one-of the million women who have been restored to health by using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound. “Dean Mrs, Poss aw: — Twas mare ried for several years and no children blessed any home. ‘The doctor said had a complication of female troubles and Teould not have any children tn less Leould be cured, He tried to eure me, but after experimenting for seve tral mouths, my nisband became dis- gusted, and one nijht when we noticed the testimonial of a woman who had been dured of similar trochle through. the use of Lydia PB. Pinkham's Vegetabie Compound, he went oat and bought a bottle for me. DP used. your medicine for three and one-half Jinonths, improving steadily in health, (and in twenty tee months a ehild leame. TL eannot fally express the joy ‘and thankfulness thet isin my heart, Our home is. a difacent place pow, as [we have something to hive for, ant all the eredit. is) due to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- Ipound, Yours very sincerely, Mus J..c. Glove, G14 Grove ste, Milwanlcon, Wis.” View President, | Milwankea | Pisiness Woman's Association. ¢s00 | forse t if oriainal of above detter proving genuine | hess eannot Le srosuced | | ‘Walid @ncukiad A cook wrote to her folks at home AOL Jon an that whe WAH OL watine Hel with her pues, nays the Cleveland Leader, She tinsel wrote with & pens HI, and then copied her lower with w pen, Her mistress: found the peneitod copy in the kitchen and very. tne properly read it, Here is a part of this spistle: “They make me work very hadr, they do Us cookin, bakin’ and sWapin’ all the time; and here Tam tow at this minit writin’ ta yer wid me right hand, elaynin’ (hee snow from the sidewalk with me left hand and shovelin’ coal into the furnace Wid ty other! Watches of Olden Days, ‘There ix uncertainty ay to when the portable watch, ay we anerstand C today, came tite use, 10 was peat Ahly AL the Close af the sixteenth eon tury, Queen Elizabeth awied a large PUNO OC walehieh,' Ouen Stary Ot Senth wan the) posenkor of w whut shaped wath, In fiet, the death's howd pattern way al that tine mei in vonne. Bndless were the styles, fon there were watehes shaped like hooks, pears, Watterfites and. tuts. The Neemberg emg was a speetal shape, and was first made in 1600. Seek Both Brains and Beauty. Brains and beauty are no longer en. amios Women who poxsexs one now tultivate (he other Greatest in the World. Arlington, Ind. Dee Sth GSpeetaly MEW. A, Hysong,. the photoxra: dhet, wh moved here recently. from dapp. Ky. ix frnly of the opinion chat Darks Kidney Pills ane the greateat Kidney Remety the world has ever anown sin the yenrs 1901 and 1902." anys Jar Hssomg, nt for sone tne he fore Twas atlicted with Kidney: Trou Ble, My dolita: Wore woreswinl, wilt and T Apally wot sea bad {could not firm tn bed without assistance. In the Spring of (802 1 wae induced, by. a friend, ta try Hodd's Kidney. Pills and after using one and one half boxes t Wan and am will completely ciirad, Several of any neivhbors, tee, used: Dot's Kidney. Pills mudd an every ease they ali as-recoinmended Cure the early symptoms of Kidney Divsnse, sich wa Hackwehe, with Dodi’ Kidney Pits aeat yom will ee er have Brivt | wen the members of the police foree accompany the Litverty bell on @ More Flexible ard Lasting, “won't shake outer blow out, by using Defiance Starch sou obtain better re sulte than possible with any other brand and one-third) more for wae money. Marines Assist Police. Mritish marines recently assisted the French police in dealing with Brite ish Jack tars ona horday Ina French port, This courtesy is now to be re ciprorated, and French marines are to be allowed to assist British police in dealing with French sailors clay making in # Hritish port A git] misses her mother when she dies, but she doesn't fully appreciate what the loss really means till hoe father acts ike marrying again. Waste of Coal. A aquare foot of uncovered ppm, filled with steain at 16H pounds pres: sure, will radiate and dissipate in @ year the heat put into 3,716 pounds of steam by the economic combustion of 348 pounds of coal. Thus, ten square foot of bare pipe corresponds approx: {nately to the waste of two tons of coal per ancum.—Scieatife Americam OLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL . . IN KANSAS CITY. TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circula- tion of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. To you who have done your duty we are very grateful. But to you to whom we have sent the Son for several years, and when our collector calls you get mad, we feel that you are not treating us right. We desire to say that every subscriber who treats us in this manner, we shall place the bill in the hands of a collection agency. If we must lose your friendship it is better to lose it square than to lose it with our money in your pocket. 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. Let us quit kicking at the man or woman who is trying to do something, and do something yourself and you won't have time to kick. 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. The battle is over and victory is ours. The colored boys helped to bring it about and they desire to share the spoils. If they cannot get the plums they will come in for the leavings. Now the colored boys are in good humor, and it is in the power of the Republican organization to keep them in that mood. 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 Sates. 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 tails. Warranted harmless. Send us fifty cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address, Oxonized Ox Marrow Co., Wabash Avenue, Chicago Ills. There Are Bachelor Girls. A Boston authority states that no woman is an old maid until she is willing to confess to being one. Ergo, there are no old maids.—Washington Star. The Son is still hollowing for Kerens for senator. We regret to announce the sad end- ing of George J. Baer. We would rejoice to see the Hon. Gardiner Lathrop have anything he wants. Postmaster Joseph H. Harris is to succeed himself as postmaster at Kansas City. There was a time when the Negro was united in church work, but he is getting split on that proposition now. I wonder if the time will ever come when he will see the wisdom of uniting his forces as other races of people do, for the good of the whole race? The Negro has only yet learned how to bury one another, but how to raise one another in uniting for our mutual benefit, the Negro has been near-sighted. Why have we not some creditable stores in Kansas City. We say education solves the problem. We have plenty of education—then why not deliver the goods? It has been a long time since we heard that song, "You may have all this world but give me Jesus." But the white folks got all the world before you quit singing and in such a way that you will get but very little of it. Does education mean to sit down and do nothing? In our community we have at least 35,000 and the best we can offer to-day is little restaurants, a barbershop, two little undertaking establishments and a one-horse paper. And yet some say we are progressing. Whatever the public might think, we know we have tried to do our duty toward our race, and many institutions with which we have been identified, and also to the Republican party. Our conscience is clear in so far as our journalistic effort is concerned, but we do not know how much longer we shall publish. Had we received the support from our race that is due us, we could run a paper independent of politics. We know the Negro needs a race advocate in this city, but you must know it is hard to fight everybody's battle alone. My success means your success and vice versa. NEGRO GIRLS ARE BARRED. Not Admitted to the Industrial Home at Chillicothe. To the Son: Your columns of yesterday told of the arrest of three negro girls, 10, 11 and 12 years of age respectively, on the charge of stealing money and other valuables from a number of houses they were allowed to enter under various pretexts. If precedents established in our state is followed, they are too young to be sent to jail, and the question arises, What shall we do with them? There is an institution, established and controlled by the state, at Chillicothe, known as the Industrial Home for Wayward and Incorrigible Girls, for just such cases as those referred to here, but which refuse absolutely to receive negro girls now, although the writer remembers well that no such discrimination was made the first few years of its existence. Why are negro girls refused admission to that institution now? The Anglo-Saxon does not relish the spectacle of even negro girls of such tender years incarcerated among suen ened criminals in gloomy prisons, and yet the question is asked. Are these little pests to be turned loose to prey upon the public at will? The negroes of this state have urged both the governor and the legislature by petition and in person to erect a modest building upon these grounds at Camicothe for the detention of way ward and incorrigible negro girls, such as herein described, but our efforts have been in vain. NELSON CREWS. Rev. A. A. Gilbert, of Lexington, Mo., united in marriage on December 1. Mr. George Polk and Miss Bertha Johnson, 616 Campbell street. Also, on the same night, were united Mr. Jesse Worten and Miss Ada Thompson, both of Kansas City, Kan. Knows a Lot, but Not Everything. Knows a Lot, but Not Everything. The following advertisement appeared in a recent issue of the London Post: "I do not know everything, but I will undertake anything, anywhere, any time. I know America from pork yards to the hub of culture. Australia from Kauri to Bottletrree, the continent taught me French, German and other things, familiar with all stocks, deeds and lawyers' genial ways, can draw and plan to scale, reviewers say I can write, 35 and tough." Debt No Source or Worry. Etienne Dumont said of Mirabeau that he never thought of paying his debts except the most pressing ones, and that probably it was not expected that he should do so. Dr. Snelson is well pleased with Springfield. No church debt, pleasant surroundings, considerable general intelligence and wealth among colored citizens and a splendid city from which to issue the "Central Christian Recorder." We wish the doctor and his accomplished and prepossessing wife absolute success and happiness. WE NEVER SLEEP I New Port FOR Finished Rooms and Cafe Corner Eighteenth and Tracy, Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. L. NORTH, Prop. DAY AND NIGHT. established 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL F & CAMPBELL RENTALS. INSURANCE: Bldg., Cor. 9th & Walnut Sts. KANSAS CITY, MO urity DAY CANDIES are Headquarters for MAS CANDIES to purchase one of our famous 25c Candies, 5 lbs. for $1 CANDY KITCHEN t. 516 East Twelfth St le at Retail large Wholesale House. Hotel Neatly Furnished Near Corner Eigh 1807 Tracy Avenue MRS. V. L. N OPEN DAY JOHN P. TILLHOF. Established TILLHOF & REAL ESTATE. REAL ESTATE: RE 203-204 Hall Bldg., BOTH PHONES 1469 MAIN. Pu HOLIDAY We are He CHRISTMAS Do not forget to purc 5 lb. Boxes of 25c O PURITY CAN 18 East Twelfth St. Big Sale at the Large W JOHN P. TILLHOF. Established 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL. TILLHOF & CAMPBELL REAL ESTATE. RENTALS. INSURANCE: 203-204 Hall Bldg., Cor, 9th & Walnut Sts. BOTH PINES 1469 MAIN. KANSAS CITY, MO Do not forget to purchase one of our famous 5 lb. Boxes of 25c Candles, 5 lbs. for $1. EAGLE TRIMMED HAT CO. 304 W. 9th St. PAINT CO. (DEVOE. T, VARNISH, BRUSHES. Tel. 946. 1214 GRAND AVENUE the French Dry Cleaner OP. Savey Hotel EAGLE TRIP DIAMOND PA PAINT, VARN C. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. ARNETT, The F OF. Savoy Hotel EAGLE TRIMMED HAT CO. 304 W. 9th St. DIAMOND PAINT CO. (DEVOE.) PAINT, VARNISH, BRUSHES. C. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. Tel. 946. 1214 GRAND AVENUE. ARNETT, The French Dry Cleaner LADIES FINE WEARING APPAREL A Specialty. HOME TEL. MAIN 1252. BELL, WALNUT 2823. 1610 Penn Street, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI SPRINGFIELD NEWS The Rev, Dr. S. G. Snelson, who, according to Bishop Grant's report, lead the old Missouri Conference in the percentage of Dollar Money, as presiding elder of the Kansas City district, has mutually exchanged appointments with the Rev. M. Collins, at Springfield, Mo. Dr. Snelson is pastor there, and Rev. Collins is presiding elder. In a few days, Dr. Snelson, as editor-in-chief, with an able corps of assistants throughout the connection, will issue the "Central Christian Recorder," from Springfield,Mo., 510 East Centre street. The advancement of African Methodism and the promotion of the race in men and measures are the primary objects of this new venture in Christian journalism. Dr. Snelson is an experienced editor and the "Central will probably be a strong force for good in the great Central West. Bishop Grant preached a powerful Thanksgiving day sermon at Springfield at 11 o'clock and delivered his notable lecture at night on "Some Problems Confronting the American People." Call up Home Phone 5327 Main ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Of the various makes of milking machines that are being sold on the market the Thistle seems to stand at the head, though it has few friends in the United States. We hear from it however from time to time in England, Germany and Australia. In those countries it is being tested quite extensively, with varying results so far as making itself friends and enemies. In recent tests in Germany it has been used continually for a year or two but the cows where it is used are not kept for milking purposes beyond a year and a half. Then they are sold to the butchers and new cows purchased. It has been asserted that the milking machines dry up the cows and reduce the length of the milking period. With cows that are only to be milked to the end of one milking period it is impossible to ascertain the truth of this. A few cows purchased would not allow themselves to be milked by the machine. Some of the hard-milking cows had to be stripped by hand after the machine had done what it could, but the easy-milking cows were milked clean by it. It seems to be evident that if we are to have milking machines we will have to develop a special class of cows with teats of a certain conformation and with milk ducts that easily and quickly give down the milk. Short Life of Scallop. The scallop is the butterfly of bivalves, and, like the lepidoptera, has a short and lively life. Three years is the limit of existence, and then the scallop shell is somewhat larger than a trade dollar. The age is denoted by stripes across the shell, which tell the same story as the rings on a tree stump. WE NEVER SLEEP All our $1 Street Hats, 29c All our $1.50 Street Hats ..... 48c 500 Children's Caps, worth 50c ..... 25c Our Large Stock of Plumes will be sold at the wholesale price: 12-inch Plumes, 25c 14-inch Plumes, 48c 16-inch Plumes, 75c Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. Express Paid Both Ways. Christmas Toys and Gifts in Abundance at Emery, Bird, Thayer's. Emery, Bird, Thayer's 125-127 West Eighth Street. Between Delaware and Wyandotte Streets, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. THEODORE SMITH, COOKING STOVE Wabash Train Leave KANSAS CITY, 11:30 p. m. Daily Arrive WORLD'S FAIR STATION, 7:00 a. m. " Arrive ST. LOUIS (Union Station), 7:15 a. m. " EQUIPMENT---Pullman Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches. Sleepers and Coaches open at 10:00 p. m. for occupancy. Wabash is the only line to WORLD'S FAIR Main Gate. Return Train leaves St. Louis 11:45 p. m. for Kansas City. Ask your Agent for Tickets over the Wabash. ```markdown ``` Milaware and Wyandotte KANSAS CITY, MISSISSIPPI DORE S DRUGGIST WELFTH STREET, 805 11 Main Grand PH KANSAS CITY, MISSISSIPPI Set articles, School S hone and See if We are in S Stove and and Wyandotte Streets, CITY, MISSOURI. ORE SMITH, BUGGIST. TH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES: { Home 5646 Main Bell 2170 Main AS CITY, MO. Vicles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. And See if We are not there with the Goods. Store and Hardware Co. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wheelsale 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 Spoolalty. ...A new line of.... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. A NEW A NEW sh Train THE RISING SON. A Res f.>49 ere KA A ‘Ge NYT » 2 ak fff 7 1s | ad it £3 | akan be "A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. G.'H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue, Remember please— It's the little bite we collect here and there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. : LOCALS, Mrs, Sam Chandler left last week for St. Paul, where she is to spend sev- eral weeks visiting her brother-in-law ‘Will Chandler, | ROOMS FOR RENT—LIGHT HOUSE- KEEPING At 1816 Wedland avenue, Heat and gas furnished. Rooms $3.00 and $3.50. A desirable place for anyone wishing a room at a home-like place, Bath free. Call on the big department store of Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co,, for toys for the children, | ‘The Jines Dry Goods Company has on hand everything to please the little folks and the big folks, too, John Taylor Dry Goods Co, is show- ing some fine things for Christmas, WANTED.—Colored lady to use leisure time soliciting. Experience un: necessary. Very profitable. Call 205 Wales Bldg, corner of Sixth and Dela- ware, Mr. H. Patton is the proprietor of @ restaurant for ladies and gentlemen at 921 Wyandotte street. Dinner is served from 11:20 to 2 p.m. Short orders are served at all hours between 6:30 a, m, and 10:30 at night. Good service. Hot creme de menthe, claret phos- phate, coffee, chocolate, root beer, beef tea, Roman punch, Jamaica ginger, English Breakfast tea, clam and to- mato 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 advertise- ments, and when such is sent in to our office cash must accompany it. AGENTS WANTED.—-$50 per week ‘and expenses easily made selling com: bination policies for a big sick and ac- cident company, Write to-day, Ad: dress U. 8, Protective Society, Salis: bury, 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 preparauuns 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 ,ete. Bell ’Phone 2655 Main, Fred Spence, 1007 Walnut stret, Kansas City, Mo. a I stayed in Missouri until 1 made it g0 Republican satisfied. John Titus Feterman, the brilliant author and reader, is open for engage- ments, Will read and recite from his new book, (in press and out in a few days, “Tragedies and Comedies, or Joe and Jane's Adventures in Kansas City and St. Louis.” His terms are very reasonable. Address 3021, East 18th street, San Joe Sephus, Agt. Mrs. Mamie Durant Vincent has now opened her dressmaking parlors and ladies’ tailoring school at her resi- dence, 1228 Walnut street, for the benefit of our girls and ladies, COTTAGE FOR SALE. T have for sale near 26th and Vine, @ nico cottage, with about four rooms, offered at the low price of $1,000; $100 cash, the remainder at $15 monthly at 6 per cent.; best bargain of its kind in the city; get further particulars of W. J. RATCLIFF, 613 Mass. Bldg. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. The good people who wish to visit the springs, will find first class accom- modations at Fred F, Elliot's, Rates seasonable and service good. War Relics Lack Tone, Some of the old guns purchased by the town of Crewe from the British government and placed in the local park as “war trophies,” had never Deen used on foreign service at all, it 4s discovered. THANKSGIVING OFFERING OF LINCOLN SCHOOL, For the Old Folks and Orphans’ Home, Room No. 1, Miss F. F. Jones...$ 1.42 Room No. 2, Mr. D. G. Watson... 2.65 Room No. 3, Miss Jennie A. Guy, 3.53 Room No. 4, Miss Belle Scott... 1.61 Room No. 5, Miss Maggie Lewis, 1.41 Room No. 6, Miss Amelia Hunt.. 1.51 Room No. 7, Miss Nellie Bank... 1.16 Room No, 8, Miss Ida Overall... 1.18 Room No. 9, Miss Sadie Thornton 1.50 $16.00 8. R. BAILEY, Principal. TO THE QUEEN OF THE HEARTH: for the Peace of Her Kinadom. NN eR ee st I ne ee sl “My mother is my mother still; the holiest thing alive.” How many of the mother's of today feel that the lives they lead will call forth the sentiment expressed in the above, from the hearts of their chil: dren? |The child intuitively knows its parents and the lives of the former are but reflections of those of the latter, You cannot deceive them, | In this age of science, invention, 1a- bor unions, strikes and mob violence, comes a clear, plercing cry which sounds louder than the din of the busy world, and once gaining the attention, holds it enthralled by the force of its necessity—it is the cry of fallen wom: en for better mothers, Not every woman who holds a cooing infant to her bosom is a mother. The term “mother” is one of the deartest words in the English va- cabulary. It is inseparable from the others of the trio—"Home,” “Heaven.” The major premise, the solution and conclusion of the “race problem” is the training of our girls and boys. Society has degenerated until in the early part of the twentieth century it is on a level with Roman life during Nero’s reign when Lygia taught Pe tronius that there existed a remnant of virtue. No price is set on virtue now, and ‘tis the fashion to keep abreast of the times. “The modest fan is lifted up no more, | And maidens smile at what they blushed before.” How often we hear parents chant “A charge to keep I have,” and yet how many stop to think, “My children are my charges and I must one day render an account for my stewardship.” “Teach them (the children) to know piety at home and requite thelr pa- rents; for that is good and acceptable before God.” 1 hear one say, “I tell my children every day how to live and how to act.” Yes, I know you do, but know thou that teachers and parents must tread the path you would have your children trod. You cannot be a sign-post, ‘Their feet are too young and tender to crush the clods of adver: sity that lie in the path of virtue, The homes of my people are too often sheltes from storm, a place of rest after a day's toil, True, some of us have comfortable homes and pay: ing positions, but the homes of the | largest families are void of parental Jeare, Why? But the mother whe | should mold and shape the budding | mind of the child ts too often away all day as a bread-winner, She returns at even probably to find the cause of het toil about ready to retire and pos sibly for some mischief must be pun ished by one too tired to explain the wrongs thereof and advise a better course of action, Raiment and food is necessary t« your child’s existence and yet there Is a refining influence in a confidential chat with mother. ‘Too often I heat parents say, “I shall rejoice wher school begins, so I may be rid of you." Oh, dear mother, for your child’s soul for your own future happiness, never | utter those words again. If your child has faults, who has a better right te correet them than you. Drive them |from you if you will and one day you | shall implore God to open a. prisor door and free your son, Your children need yon, They need talks from you that will explain away much that is left for them to discover by experience, Be companions of your children | Your presence need not hinder the youthful enjoyment, Let your comrad ship rather enhance the pleasure ‘There comes a time in a child's histofy | when all the latent powers are needed | to overcome the temptations through which each must pass, Only the Go | of virtue can save, N, VIVIAN ANDERSON. Ripe Olives. Many people say they don’t like the taste of olives. On inguiry it will often be found that they have never tasted a thoroughly ripe California olive. They are a valuable article of food and should be more freely used, Youngster’s Real Grievance. A curly-haired chap, aged 5, con- fided to some visitors in an aggrieved tone: “It's enough to drive a man crazy to have his mamma get up in the middle of the night and spank him ‘cause he wants to talk.” Lhe WITH DUKE'S MONEY. Dishonesty of Servant Taught Wel- linaten a lLeessn. Sree ecmNioe iis ene ae ay 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, though his cellars con- tained but a scanty supply at any giv- en 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 dis- gust I got letters from tradesmen humbly begging that I would settle their accounts, which had been long standing. 1 found an inquiry that the feliow had been gambling with my money, leaving my creditors unpaid. From that day to this I have made ft 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 Sutficed 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 Span- ish coast by a frigate commanded by his majesty, who was then the duke of Clarence. The attack took place at night. Chambers completed a bean: tiful picture from some rough sketches that were in the king's pos: session, and when submitted for ap: proval 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, hallo, 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 majes- ty," 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 did, Cham: bers. I forgot that. Very good! Very good!” Latin Alphabet. Our alphabet is derived from the primitive alphabet of Italy, which be- longed to the Western Greek type. As early probably as the ainth cen- tury B. C. it was carried by the Chal- cidians of Euboea, an island of Greece, to Cumae, near Naples, Italy. It became the parent of five local Italle alphabeis—the Oscan, the Etrus: can, the Umbrian, the Faliscan and the Latin. Owing to the political su- premacy of Rome the Latin ultimately displaced the other national scripta of Italy, and became the alphabet o the Roman empire, and afterwards of Latin Christendom, thus spreading over Western Europe, America and Australia until {t became the domt- nant alphabet of the world. Relic of War of 1711. At Pointe Les Monts, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Is @ 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 ex- pedition of Admiral Walker, who left England in 1711 with 11,000 men and 8 large fleet to take Quebec and Mon- treal. 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 pleces on the rocks off Egg fsland and next spring 900 bodies were lying there. Red-Haired People Sought. Students of redhairology 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 ts a fact that red-haired women have a strange fas: eiuation for most men, and red-head ed old maids are almost mmknown 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 whieh pledge themselves to die old maids rather than marty any but young men ‘with red hair. Patria. T would not even ask my heart tom IVT could love another land aa well? As thee, my’ country, had “Y Feit! the Of Ili at birth, oF learned to obey The ‘charm of “France. or England's nly kay T waild hot beso much an Infldet AsManee to dream, oF fashion words to te What land could hold my love from thee way For ike a law of nature in my blood Tfelt thy wweet And secret sovereignty. An ikea birthmarke on my’ aout thy ign y ite tx but a wave. and thou the floods MY den a"ieat. ‘und: howl the matter oad Nor ‘should be at ‘all, "were Tok thine =Alenry 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 propitiations, Most elaborate and expensive graves. are made for the dead, generally on a ter: race scooped out of a hillside, with a mound and railings, @ 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 {s sald to be almost incredible. A. OC. HOWARD Ir now ready to fill your orders for coal and feed in large or small quantities. Home Phone 1695 Main. Street pumber 1025 Pacific THE OLD FOLKS AND ORPHANS’ HOME. Among those who thought of the Home and its inmates at Thanksgiving was Mr. R. E. L. Bailey of the city treasurers’ office, He circulated a sub scription paper among the clerks and secured a donation of $6.50 to be used to supply necessities, It is needless to Say that this donation was as accept able as it was unexpected. While the members of the board were holding @ meeting at the Home last Friday afternoon, Rey, 8, W, Scott of the Summit Street Christian ehureh, accompanied by a number of the mem bers of the Woman's Board of Mis sions, of the 2ist and Summit Chris tian chureh, suddenly made their ap pearance, After a short speceh by the president, Mrs, Belle Pierce, and the secretary, Mrs. Anna Lewis, they pre sented a goodly supply of fruit, vexe: tables, sugar, ete, Then Rev. Mr Scott held a short service of prayer and offered much encouragement t the little foree that has struggled so hard to maintain @ refuge for the un fortunate. Some weeks ago a large donation of underelothing, house jackets and vari ous other useful articles was sent te the Home by Mrs, Frank Smith an¢ Miss Nellie Behme of 1224 Vine street This came through the kindness of Mrs, R. 'T, Coles. ‘The Thanksgiving donations fron the schools were greater by far thi year than they have ever been. A full acknowledgement will be made in the next issue of the Rising Son, Mr W. F, Fairfax was kind enongh to offer the home the privilege of hav ing a table at the entertainment giver at Turner Hall in honor of William and Walker, $10.80 was realized anc Mr. Fairfax has the deepest gratitude the managers can offer, One of the features of the entertain ment to be given by the ladies of St Pancras Guild at Turner Hall Decem ber 29h, will be a dol contest, ‘Th following menu will also be served Oyster soup, sandwiches, cottee, te ream and cake, Will begin serving a 6 o'clock pom Matter of Expense. “ovhen you first entered polities," said the young man who is looking for knowledge, “did you set out with the determination to win at any cost?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum, “L set out with the determination to win at ay little expense as possible,” Washington Star, is ess ao ————_—_—_ Strength of Lancewood. A piece of lancewood an inch square will stand a strain of 2,000 pounds be: fore breaking. Opals. Imitation opals at present never de- ceive. In the present day there are three kinds of opal known commer cially—the Oriental opal, the fire opal, and the common opal. For a long time the world was indebted for its ‘opals to Hungary, but today most of the opals come from Queensland and New South Wales, Plant Which Kills Hunger. In Peru is found a singular plant capable of qfelling hunger or thirst for several days. Il is named erytho lnxylon cocoa, ‘The plant appears to narcotize the nerves of the stomach and suspend the digestive functions without affording nutriment Mliteracy Among Negroes. Miteracy among negroes is about even times as commen as among whites, and this ratio between the races has not altered materially in the last ten years Hliteracy among Southern negroes is more than four times that among southern whites, Gis hl dae abana. The keeper of the lHgbthouse near Creseent City, Cal, reports a hattie between a sea tion and an octopus The octopus wound its tentacles around the lion's body, but the lien bit off one of them after the other and ate them, Others then helped to. dis pose of the oetopus’ carcass French Customs Officials. Nothing seems to excape the vigh lance of the French customs adminis: tration. There appears to have sprung Up @ trade in foreign lustrated post cards which were sent blank in pack ets through the post ax printed mat ter, The customs have now interdict ed the transmission of the picture post cards, and require that they be SeMt AS post parcels, whieh have to pass throngh the customs and pay duty as prints The Biggest Fee. An expert stenographer informs ma Hhat the biggest fee known in the pro. fession is $100,000, ont of @ celebrated piece of litikation in’ Pennsylvania ame years ago that involved some $14,000,000, Some of the stenogra. phers in the ease were able to retire from business completely after the work was done.—Boston Herald. men The | J) Place 5 il Where Hf |] Goos A Clothes VW Are Tsoi VAY I Ans AA i The TORR UIIE. Prices AS LOW AS THEY CAN BE SOLD FOR. Furnished Rooms To Rent. BY DAY on WEEK Meals at All Hours. At 100) E. 18th St. G. SMITH. Propr. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ooesI® THB. +06 CezveY Dining Room 3923 Masket Strect, ST. LOUIS, MQ MEALS AT ALL HOURS, Oyeters in any Style. Hervices strictly Gretcless. Ladies and Gents dine up tire, 2, T. JOBDAN, Maseger @o To THE E.Z. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND HA'R CUT. Cc. A, EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo The Indispensable Aunt. What would the world become with: ont the self-sacrifice and helpfulness of the maiden aunts 1 cannot tmagine, Among the brightest queens of heaven Will be those who took care of ocher people's children. De Witt Tarmage, Watch's Variation. As to the sympathetic vagaries of watches, a correspondent writes: °l discovered some Years ago That 1 was the metal buckle of my braces that caused the trregulurities of my own particular watch. 1 therefore now make a rule of putting my‘ peetacie case on the Inside of my watel pack 6, Thus, cutting off the connections, London Chronicle Lineman Saver Lives. When a gasoline humeh began to sink in the Russian river, California, and two men were In danger of drown ing, Robert Jordan, a telephone tne man at work on the banks, swim out with wire to the lanneh and a com: panion banled the endangered men to shore | mikahettha at Reures tiinnar, Tt is sametimes the custom in ue: sia for each lady at a bie dinner to smoke a tiny cigarette between each course, This Is supposed to assist digestion, besides removing the flavor of the previous course from the pal ate. Doctors Often Great Schemers. A woman thinks @ doctor shows mmigbty poor judgement in wanting to look at her tongue when she could be using It to tell him all about her symptoms, Had His Approval. Senator Hoar hated Benjamin But ler he was the one man that Hoar conld not abide and his son inherited the feeling, as witness this remark made when asked if he were going to attend Butler's funeral: No, tain not going, but Lapmove of it” Difference Recognized, A seandalmonger is a person who talks to our neighbors about us, An entertaining Ulker Is a person wie tells us mean stories about our Helge bors. Wome Tol. 6226 Main. Lady Attendant. A. T, MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. covartous _rneatitny Parlors 1820 E. 18th St., Kansas City. ‘THE TRAIN SERVICE OF THE MIS. SOURI PACIFIC. Ms 2 TT q\§ SNe rhe’ foul Hyata that pave’ Hanae City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time, 10:10 a.m, 1:10 pom, 9:15 p.m. aaa 10:45 p.m, No other line from Kansas City offers to the traveling pais weit (rai autvies Vb EL: Lelia Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arrives in St. Louls ae 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louls with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and Southeastern trains. The only line leaving Kansas City pf ter 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 connee- thos. 10:20 p, m.—10;59 a, m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express, Elegant equipment, Pullman Sleep: er sand Compartment cars; Reclining Chair cars, (all seats free), For all jatitaralion vad) tieheta eal at Union Depot and 901 Main St., City Office. E. 8. JEWETT, Pass. & Ticket Agent. ee eee oeeeceruueceneeweees } WONDERFUL: | DISCOVERY } s Curly Hair Made Straight By § S ilaic. . » mF a eo: Pe 1 a TSG "ORIGINAL. ; OZONIZED OX MARROW | eae eee : TN OUEMc LE Ge CurantlOnaTeAraeh atte a Bi eitriey ca Cetera ert B taid'tor siralgntening kinky wales }leware of B ieeltaa oy Warts hate anita gira indie atice aa eon Nr grcitaalatattcae aint B preperation sonst erab at eles ee Ebon ann Agents wanted everywhere. UNEXCELLED SERVICE VIA Ai) ) Tero —_——» TO POINTS IN Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Ceorgia, 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 Homeseckers? Tickets at rate uf ONE PARE plas 20m gate feat En third Tuesday of each months smereratae ant Cr Arnot, eaves Det oeP ER aes, j Ramen CITY M On 184 s.e0..5. Telephone ...... 4178 WALL’S Laundry Co., Aret-Clase Work & Prompt Delivery. 708 E,12th 8t,, Kansas Oity, Me, PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE READ TO CONGRESS Document Deals Voluminously with Questions of State---Tariff Left for Future Communication---Position of the Government Toward Organized Labor---Dealing with Ilegal Combi- nations. Uuminously with questions of state. The subject of tarif revision ts left for a further communication. Sub stantially the message is as follows To the Senate and House of Represen- tarives seusetiy eetity. Burk Wragperity: tt OF * Wy due ty the Nigh indlsid wa tiernshite taken t Dita thotar therein is the working eoantinued govern b xprecand thelt Vor'the ; Aisivine vhiees < and tenn cheaaied . Caton Against Exteavagance Capital and Labor Taithe atoms chieyiiented mesnanian felations of capltal and Inbot atl expe Mily Of oFsanized capital and organierd Vstors to enel other and to, the pable-at Wren con 1 in tinpiortation only. to the intimate questions of family lite As totig Ae the states rotaln the prim ary contol of the police power the cls chmstances must be altogether extreme which requite Interference by the federnt auithorities, whether dn the way of safe Kuarding (he rghte of laar or in. the way of Sookie that wrong I tot done by pnmnly persons who shileld themselves. be Rind the name of liber, TC there te te Matinee to the federal counts, Interfer tice With the mails, or interstate com merce, or moleetatinn) of federal property, er if the state authorities In some crisis whieh they Are unable to face call. for help. then. the federal government. mas fhterfore; but though such dnterferenen may he caused bya condition. ot thinge Arising ONL of trouble “connected with fome yuestion of lator the interference tteett simply takes the form of restoring Grider without regard tthe questions which have catsed the breach ef enter for to Keep order te 4 primary duty and “ina time of divorder and violence all oth. er quivations alti {to abesianee until or fer has boon restored, In the Dlatitet of Columbia and in the territories the federal Inw covers the entine tel of gy ernment: but the labor question Ik only Acute In populous centers of commer, manufactures, oF mining. Neverthe le Hoth inthe enactment and inthe. et forcement of IAW the federal gavernment Within Ib testricted sphere shuuil setae qanmnte’ tothe stats governmoniac expe: clally tn @ matter so vital is. this affect ine lator. L twiteve that under modern Snelustrial conditions Ht ts often necesaaes and even where not necessary, It he ved Sften wie, that there shoul, be organ {nation of Inbor In order better to secure the rights of the Individual wrge-warker All oncouragement shouhd be given to any Ach organization, 8 lonur as Cis cot ducted with & due and event regard tor the rights of others. Phere are. in. this Counts. some labor unions which dive habinuatty, and other liber Unions whiek Have often, heen among the most effec: tive agents in working for gond citheen. ship and for uplifting the condition. of those whose welfare should be closest. ti our hearts. But whet any lahor unter Books Hoptoper ends, at serks to achies Moper eds hy Improper means all good Citizens and more espectally all honorable Julie servanta must oppo the wrong dotiue a8 resolutely ae thes Waukl appest the wrongdoing of any great corporation Of course ang violence, DIutalS. OF Cor: ruption should not for ye moment. t tolerated. Wage-workere sive an entire right to organtae anid by all peaceful ane Honoratie imei to endeavor ta, persuade their follows to Join with them i ong Haations ‘They have a legal rlaht. which according to circumstances, tay of ana Hot he a mnoral Tsht, to refuse ty word $n company with men whe decline to oh their ormantantions. "They Mave under ne ehcumstances the right to commit vie Jonce Upon those, whetliet capitalists wake-Workers, Who Teftice UW suppor their organizations. or who side wit thse With Whom they aye at odds fo mote nite te hitoleratie tn any. form The amendment and strengthenins of the employers’ lability law is ree ommended, and the passage of a lay requiring the adoption of a block sig nal system, to prevent railroad acei dents urged. Unions of Government Employes, The message continues: ‘There is no objection to employes the government forming or belonging t unions: but the government ean neithe discriminate for nor discriminate agains Ron union men Who are in its employ ment, or who seek to be employed unde Mt. Moreover, It is @ very grave. Impro prlety for Kovernment employes to ban themselves together for the, purpose 6 extorting Improperly high ‘salaries. fror the government. Expectally la this tru of (hose within the classified seryiee. Th Jetter carriers, both municipal and rara ave as a whole an excellent body of put Me servants. They should be amply pal Hut heir payment must be obtained ty arguing their claims fairly and honorad) Before the Congress, and not by. bandin together for the defeat of those congress men who refuse to give promices. whic They ean not in conscience give, Th Administration has already. thken_ stot to prevent and punish abuses of this ni ture, but Ie Wil! be wise for the Congres to supplement tis action by legislation an paarTY AA Bea Much can be done by the government Yn labor matters merely by giving pub- Noity to certain conditions. ‘The bureau Of labor has done excellent work of this Bind in many different directions, I shall | eet tain very evil forces, which are more or lesa at work everywhere under the condition. of modern Industrialism, bee Cane startlingly prominent, Corporations. When we come to deal With great cor- PONT ns Nhe teed for the Koveriment to et diteethy is far greater than in the se of Iabor. because Feat corporations vn bvcame sve only. Wy enealiie tn Ine terstite commeree. nnd Interstate eo merce ie twulutly the eld ot the Ren Habe oernment. Its an absurdity. 10 e pect to eliminate the abuses 4 great cor- Aitone by state action, te be diteult to be patient with af argument that sich tatters shoukt be left te the statist, be moive than one state pursties the polls Sf creating on easy terme enrpont= <owhich ate never operated, 8ithin That atate at al tut It ather states Whose Tawe thet genore, The national Kovernment alone cain deal adeanately With these kteat corporations, "Te try to oat with them In wa. Ititemperate,, db structive. or demagogie spirit. would, tn i feolatatity, meat that KOLhINE. Whats ever Would be accomplished, wand, with absolute certainty. (hit IE Anything were nveompliatied it would be of A harmeul nature, The American peuple need. to tinue to shaw the very quatities that they have shown—that te, menteration, Rood sense, the earnest Heaite to avold Going any damige, and yet the qulet dee termination to procesd, ate by step, without halt atl without hurry, In eame huvting Of at least in minimlaing whats fyer of mischief or of evil thete is to Ine teretate commerce Inthe conduct of teat corporations. ‘They are acting In ho spirit of hostility to wealth, elther Ine Misidual or eotyorate, They are not uguinst the rich man any more than xainet he pone man On. the contrary, they are friendly alike toward rieh man and toward poor man, provided only thit Sich ate tna spirit of Justice and dee teney toward hie fellows Great corpora: Uons are necessary, arul only men of kreat and angular mental power ean mange such corporations successfully, And such man must have great rewards, “Hut these corporations skould be mane aged with due regard to the Interest of the patie as a whote, Where this enn Sie done under the tyresent laws It must be done. Where these laws come. short omhers shoukl be enacted to supplement them ‘The Durean of corporations has made careful preliminary Investigation of mans important corporstions. Tt will ‘make a speckal report on the beef Industry, Bureau of Corporations. The polley of the hurea Is to accom: Dish the purposes of It creation by co- operation, et antagonism: bs making Constrnctive legislation. not destructive Prosechtion. the Immediate object of tts Inquiries; by: conservative fnvestigation Sf law and fact, and by refical. to. fave Incomplete and hence necessarily Inaeens tate reports. Ite polity being thts one OF open Inquley tite, and not attack. ups on. Misiness, the bireatt has been able to Rain not only the confidence, but, better SUI the co-operation of men engaged in Teattimite business The Mirena afters to the Congress the means of geting At the cost of. prodie: tion af our various great staples of com: Rebates. Above all else, we must strive to keep the Highway eof commerce open to all fon equal terms: and te do. this It ds nec caus to puta complete stop to aU tes hates “Whether the shtpper-or. the rail Fond 1240 blame makes no difference; the tehate must be xtopped. the abuses. of the private ear and. private terminal [tick and) sitetrack systems must he Stopped, and the legislation of the, FICS: Sighthy Congress which ieclares It toh nnlaw6il for any person er corporation te Offer, grant, give, aollelt, accept, OF res Gulve uns rebate, concession, oF dixceim: ination Inv respect of the transportation 0 any. Mopertys Jn Mniterstate or forehen Commerce whetely such property. shal hy aig device Whatever be transported At a desk tate than uit named tn. the Uaniffs published by: the carrier must by enforced. While Tan. af the opinion that at present It would-be undesirable, Af 4 Were not impracticable, finally. to elath the” Interstate) Commerce” Commisslor With general authority to fix Failroa tates, Tdo not teileve that, as a falr se. punty te shippers, the Commission shoul he vested with the power, Where a giver rate hae heen challenged. and after, fit hearing found to be unreasonable, to de olde. subject t Sudichtlrestew, wha Shall bea reaconable rate to take tt place; he ruitng of the commission. t Hake ‘effect immediately, and. to obtal Unless and Unt Me Is reversed ty. th Court of review. In me. Judgment th most finportant legislative act now need fa ais fegneds. the tesulation of corpora tions Is! This act ty eonfer onthe Inter state Commerce Commission. the powe to rovise rates and. regulations, (e_Fe Mined rate to at once go Into effects an to stay In effect “untes wud unui th COURL Of TeVieW Teversen Mt | Much space Is here devoted to 1 | consideration of the problem of th proper housing of the poor in ou great cities, and the importance of proper solution of the question shown | On this subject the message says: | There xhould he xevere child-labor an | tactory-inspection laws. It ty very. deste | abte that married women should not or In factories, ‘The prime duty of the ma [is to work, to be the breadwinner; th | prime duty’ of the woman Isto be th || mother, the housewife. "AM questions. « [tari and finance sink into utter Inelg | nificance when compared. with the. tre | mendous, the vital Importance. of tryin )|to shape conditions so that these. tw || duties of the man und of the woman cx -|'be fulfilled under reasonably” favorat _| circumstances. If a race does not hiv ;| plenty of children, or if the children | not grow up. or if when they grow 1 | Mey"are unhenithy tn body and-stunte "| or vicious in mind, then that race is de 1 | cadent, and no heaping up of wealth, 1 2 | splendor of momentary material. prose > | ity, can avail in any degree ax offscts, - Agriculture. +] ‘The Department of Agriculture hi grown Into an educational snattutie nt & theater Ge tear Cheek oe and With many other fistitutions and in: dividuals, ‘The world 14 carefully search- ed for new varieties of grain, fruits Rrasses, vegetables, trees, and shrubs, Suitable to various localities 1 our coun: try; and marked benetit to our producers has resuited, Irrigation. During the two and a half years that have elapsed since the passage of. the reclamation act raph progrest has been made in the surveys and examinations of the opportunities for reclamation Inthe thirteen states and three territories. of the arid West, Construction has already Boon begun on the largest and most {m- portant of the Irrigation works, and plans are being completed for works which will utilize the funds now avallable, ‘The reclamation act has been found to be re- markably complete and effective, and 80 broad tn Its provisions that a wide range of undertakings has been possible under it, At the same time, economy Is guar- anteed by the fact that the funds must ultimately be returned to be used over again, Forests. Tt fs the cardinal principle of the for- est-reserve policy of thie Administration that the reserves are for use. What- ever interferes With the use of thelr re- soures fs to be avoided by every posatble means. Hut these resources must be used in such 4 Way as to make them perma- nent Although the wisdom of creating tor- eat reserves Is nearly everywhere heart. lly recognized, yet in a few localities there has been misunderstanding — and compliint. ‘The following statement Is therefore dositabte: The forest-reaerve polley can be auc: cessful only when It has the full support of the people nf the West. IC ean not safely, art should nat In any ease, be tm- posed upon them agalnst their wil But Heither ean we acept the views of those Whose only Interest in the forest Is tem porary: who are anxious to reap what they Nive nat sows and then move away, Waving desolation behind. them. The making of forest reserves: withtn railroad and wogon-road land-grant time Its will hereafter, ax for the past three Years. beso managed as to prevent the issue, under the act of June 4, 1807, of hase for exchange or teu selection Cisue ally called scrip). In all ease where forest reserves within arcas covered. by land grants appear to he exxential to the prosperity of settlers, miners, of oth- ers. the goverpment lands within such Proposed forest reserves will, as in the Fecent past, be withdrawn from sale or entry pending the completion of auch negotiations with the owners of the land grants as will prevent the creation of 80- called xerip. Establishment of game reserves wherein may be preserved specimens of our wild animals which are now rapidly tending toward extinction Is urged. Pensions. ‘The vetornns of the civil war have a claim upon the nation such as no other body of our citizens possess, ‘The pen- sion bureau has never in its history been managed in a@ more satisfactory manner than tx now the ease, Indians. The progress of the Indians toward elv- Nization, though not rapid. Is perhaps al that could be hoped for in view of the circumstances, It Is commonly. declared that the slow advance of the Indians ts due to the unsatisfactory. character, of the men appointed to take immediate charge of them, and to some extent this Is tue While the standard of the em- ploves in the Indian service shows great fmprovement over that of bygone. years, and while actual corruption or flagrant dishonesty Is now the tare exception, It fs nevertheless the fact that the salaries paid Indian agents are not large enough to attract the best men to that fleld of work, ‘To achieve satisfactory results the official in charge of an Indian tribe should possess the high qualifications Which are required In the manager of a large business. but only In exceptional cases Ix IU possible to secure men of such a type for these positions Postal Service. In the Postottice Department the sery- ive has ficreased tn effleleney, and con: Mitione as te revenue and expenditure continue satisfictory. ‘The Increase of revenue during the year was $9,258,181.10, OF 6. per cent. the total recelpts amount: ing to SIGLOSEH0H, The expenditures Were $152.052.116.10, an Increase of about {per cent over the previous vear, being thus $559.42. 26 In exces of the curs rent revenue. Ineluded In these expendi: tures was a total appropriation of $12. $56,637.45 for the continuation and exten: sion of the rural free delivery service, Which was an Increase Of $4,902,237.98 over the amount expended for this. pure pose in the preceding fikeal year, Large 4s this expenditure has been. the bene: cent results attained In extending the free lsteibution of malls to the residents of rural districts have justified the wis- dom of the outlay. Statistics brought Mown tothe Tst of October, 1908. show that on that date there were 27.138 rural routes established, serving approximately 12,000,000 of people in tural districts. re- mote from. postoffices. and that there were pending at that time 8,859 petitions for the establishment of new rural routes Unquestionably some part of the genera Increase In receipts is due to. the tn: creased postal facilities which the rural Service has afforded, ‘The revenues have Also been aided greatly by amendments in the classification of mail matter, and the curtailment of abuses of the second: class muiling privilege. ‘The average In- crease in the volume of mail matter for the period heginning with 1902 and end ing June. 1408 cthat portion for 1905 be ing atimateds. i8 40.47 per cent, ax com: pared With 2546 por cent for the. perio Immediately preceding, and 15,92 for th four-year period Immediately preceding that ‘The message here points out the need for improvement in our consulai system, advises the creation of a na tional art gallery and suggests the Jenactment of a national quarantine law. Meee ee Gen abe Laws Concerning Citizenship, Not only are the laws relating to nat- uralization now defective, but those re- lating to citizenship of the United States ought also to be made the subject. of sclentifie Inquiry with a view to. prob- able further legislation, By what acts expatriation may be assumed to have been accomplished, how long an. Amer- lean citizen may reside abroad and. re- ceive the protection of our — passport, whether any degree of protection should he extended to one who haa made the declaration of Intention to become @ citl- zen of the United States but has not se- cured naturalization, are questions 9f serious Import, Involving personal rights and often producing friction between this xovernment. and foreign governments. Yet upon these questions our laws arc Se een eee et atone oe Soere cans abroad, with @ view to appropriate legislation. Currency. The attention of the Congress should be expecially given to the currency ques Von. ‘and that the standing committees on the matter in the two houses charged with the duty, take up the matter of oUF currency and see whether It ts not pos- sible to Recure an agreement In the Busl- nest world for bettering the system; the committees should consider. the question of the retirement of the greenbacks and the problem of securing In our currency such elasticity as in consistent with mate ty. Every silver dollar should be made by law redeemable in gold at the option of the holder. Merchant Marine. T especially commend to your tmmedi- ate attention the encouragement of our merchant marine by appropriate legisla- tion, ‘Tariff, ‘On the tariff I shall communicate with you later, Immigration and Naturalization, In dealing with the questions of imml- eration and naturalization itis Indis- pensable to keep certain facts ever be- fore the minds of those who share In en= acting the laws. First and foremost, et us remember that the question of being 4 good American has nothing whatever to do with a man's birthplace anymore than it has todo with his creed. In every generation from the time. this gov ernment was founded. men of foreign birth have stood Inthe very” foremoxt rank of good citizenship, and that. not merely In-one but In every fleld of Amer= Joan activity; white to try to draw a dis tinction between the man Whose parents came to this country and the man whose ancestors came to it several generations hack {4 a mere absurdity, Good Ameri: canism i a matter of heart, of consel- ence, of lofty aspiration, of sound com: mon sense, but not of birthplace or of ‘There te no danger of having too many Immigrants of the right kind, But. the citizenship of this country should not be debased. It ie vital that we should keep high the standard of well-being among our wage-workers, “And therefore we should not admit masces of ‘men. whose standards of living and whose. personal customs and habite are such that. they tend to lower the level of the Amerlean wage-worker; and above all we should not admit any man of an unworthy type, Any man concerning whom we can say that he will himself be a bad citizen, oF that his ehitdren and grandchildren. will detract. from instead of adding to the sum of the good clUzenship of the coun try. Similarly we should tike the great= ost, care about) naturalization. Under the Constitution It ts tn the power of the Congress "to establish uniform rule of naturalization,” and numerous laws have from tme to time heen enacted for that purpose, which have been supplemented In afew states by state laws having spectal application, ‘There should be a comprehensive revision of the naturalization laws,” ‘The courts having power to naturalize should. be definitely named by. national nuthority: the testimony upon which naturaltzation may be conferred should be definitely pre= scribed; publication of Impending natural- ization applications should be required. in advance of their hearing in court; the form and wording of all certificates, Issued should be uniform Uhroughout: the coun= try, and the courts should be required to make returns to the Secretary of State at stated periods of all naturalizations conferred. Protection of Elections. The power of the government to pro- tect the Integrity of the elections of Its own officials’ {Inherent and has. been recognized and affirmed by repeated dec arations of the Supreme court, ‘There fs no enemy of free government more Aangerous and none 0 insidious as the corruption of the electorate, No one de fends or excuses corruption, and It would seem to follow that none would oppose vigorous measures to” eradicate Ite T recommend the enactinent. of @ law dle rected against bribery and corruption in Federal elections. ‘The details of such @ Jaw may be safely teft to the wise discre= tion of the Congress, but It should Ko ag far ag under the Constitution. it is possible to Ko, nnd should Inchide severe penalties against him who gives or ree elves a bribe Intended to influence his Act or opinion as an elector; and provie Slona for the publication not only. of the expenditures: for nominations. and. elec Uons of all candidates. but also. of all contriiutions ‘recelved and” expenditures made by political committees, Delays in Criminal. Prosecutions, No subject ts hetter worthy the atten- tion of the Congress than that portion of the report of the Attorney-General deal Ing with the long delays and the great obstruction to Justice experienced In the cases of Beavers, Green and Gaynor, and Benson, Were these Isolated and special cases, T should not call your attention to then! but the difficulties encountered. as regards these men who have been indict- ed for erlmingl practices are not excep tional; they are precisely. similar in kind to what occurs again and again dn the case of criminals who” have sufficient means to enable them to tike advantage of a system of procedure which has grown up in. the Federal courts and which amounts in effect to making the Taw easy’ of enforcement against the man who has no money, and difficult of en- forcement, even to the point of xome= Umes securing Immunity, ax regards. the | man who has money. In criminal eases || the writ of the United States should run throughout {ts borders. ‘The wheels. of Justice should not. be clogged, as. they have been clogged In the cases” above mentioned, where It hax proved absolute: Iy Impossible to bring the accused to the place appointed by the Constituuon for | his trial. | TAU present the Interests of the Inno- Joent man are amply safeguarded; but the Interests of the government, that Is | the Interests of honest administration, [that is the Interests of the people, are | not recognized as they should be.” No subject better warrants the attention of | the Congress, Indeed, no subject better | warrants the attention of the bench and the bar throughout the United States. Many Gurbestionn for the imnrnve Upon the attitude we are willing to take toward our army, and expecially toward our navy. It is not merely unwise, Tt is contemptibte, for a nation, as for an tn dividual, to “use high-sounding Innguage to proclaim {te purposes, or to take po- sitions which are ridiculous 1 unsupport ed by potential force, and then to refuse to provide this force. If there ts no in« tention of providing and of keeping the force necessary to back up @ strong atl: tude, then it is far better not to assume such an attitude, ‘The steady aim of this nation, as of all enlightened nations, should be to atrive to bring ever nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of Justice, “There are” kinds of peace which are highly. undesirable, which are in the tong run as destructive 8 any war. Tyrants and oppressors have many times made a wilderness and called It peace. The peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of Injustice, all these should be shunned 8 we shun unrighteous war. ‘Tho goal to net before us as a nation, the goal which should be set before all mankind, fs the attainment of the peace of Jus: tice, of the peace which comes when each nation tx not merely safe-guarded in Its own rights, but scrupulously rec- omnizes and performs its duty toward others, ‘There ts as yet no judicial way of en- forcing w right in “international Iaw. When one nation wrongs another oF Wrongs many others, there Ie no. tribu- nal before which the wrongdoer ean. be hrought, Either it Is necessary aupinely to acaulesce tn the wrong, and thus put 4 premium upon brutality and aggres- sion, or cl4e It Ie necessary for the ag: grieved nation valiantly to stand up for its rights, Until some method ie devised by which’ there shall be a degree of In= ternational control over offending na- Hons, It would bem wicked. thing for the most civilized powers, for those. with most sense of International obligations and with keenest and most generous ap- preclation of the difference between right and wrong, to disarm. If the great ¢lv= ized nations of the present day should completely disarm, the result would mean fan immediate recrudescence of barbar= ism in one form or another. Arbitration Treatles. We are in every way endeavoring to holp on, with cordial good will, every movement which will tend to. bring Us Into more friendly relations with the rest of mankind. In pursuance of this polley € shall shortly lay before the Senate treaties of arbitration with all powers which are willing to enter Into. these treaties with us. Furthermore, at the request of the Interparliamentary Union, an eminent body composed of practteal statesmen from all countries, I have asked the Powers to join with this gov- ernment In a second Hague conference, at which It ts hoped that the work al: ready so happily begun at ‘The Hague may be carried some steps further to- ward completion. This carries out the desire expressed by the first Hague con- ference itself Polley on Western Hemisphere. It ts not true that the United States feels any land hunger or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the western hemisphere gave such as are for their welfare, All that this coun- try desires ix to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people conduct them= selves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable em cleney and decency in social and political matters, If It keeps order and pays Its obligations, it need fear no Interference from the United States. Chronle wrong- doing, or an Impotence which results In a general loosening of the ties of clvil- lzed soclety, may in America, as else- where, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the western hemisphere the adherents of the United States to the Monroe doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, In flagrant cases of such wrongdoing oF Impotence, to the exercise of an inter- national police power, Our interests and those of our south: ern neighbors are in reality tdentical, ‘They have great natural riches, and If within thelr borders the reign of Taw and justice obtains, prosperity Is sure to come, to them, While they thus obey. the pri- mary’ Inws of civilized society they may rest assured that they: will be treated. by us in a spirit of cordial and helpful sym- pathy. We would interfere with them only in the last resort, and then only 1 It became evident that thelr Inabiucy for unwillingaess to do justice at home And abroad had violated the rights of the United States or had tnvited foreign Aggression to the detriment of the en- Ure body of American nations. In asserting the Monroe doctrine, in taking such steps as we have taken in regard to Cuba, Venezuela, and Panama, and in endeavoring to elrcumseribe the theater of war in the far East, and to secure the open door In China, we have acted In our own Interest ax well as in the interest of humanity at large. ‘There are, however, cases in which, while our ‘own interests are not greatly involved, strong appeal t# made to our sympathies, ‘Vhere are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror ag to make us doubt whether tt is not our manifest duty to endeavor at Teast to show our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have Suffered by It ‘The cases must be ex- treme in which sch a course In justl- fable, But in extreme cases action may be justifiable and proper. What form the ‘action shall take must depend upon the circumstances of the ease; that ts, upon the degree of the atrocity and upon our power to remedy It. ‘The eases. in which We could interfere by force of arms as we interfered to put a stop to Intolerable conditions In Cuba are neces- sarily very few, Yet It is not to be ex- pected that a people Ike ours, which fn Xpite of certain very obvious shortcom- ings, nevertheless ns a whole shows by Its consistent practice tts belief in. the principles of clvil and religious. lberty And of orderly freedom, a people among whom even the worst crime, lke the crime of lynching. is never more than Sporadic, so that Individuals and not Classes are molested in thelr fundamental rights—It is Inevitable that such a na- cation of the Monroe doctrine to the western hemisphere. Unless our attitude in these and all similar matters 1s to be & moro boastful sham we can not afford to abandon our naval programme, Our Yolce in now potent for peace, and is 50 potent because we are not afraid of war, But our protestations upon behalf” of Peace would neither receive nor deserve the slightest attention if we were im= potent to make them good, The Army. ‘Within the last three yearn the United States has set an example in disarma- ment where disarmament was proper. By law our army is fixed ata maximum of one hundred thousand and a minimure of sixty thousand men. When there wae Insurrection in the Philippines we kepy the army at tho maximum. Peace came {n tho Philippines, and now our army han been reduced to the minimum at Which 1€ ts possible to keep It with due Fexard to its efficiency. ‘The guns now mounted require twenty-eight thousand men, if the coast fortifications are to be adequately manned. Relatively to. the nation. It ts not now so large as the po- Moe force of New York or Chicago rela- tively to the population of elther city. We need more officers; there are not enough to perform the regular army work. It Is very important that the ofM- cera ‘of the army should be accustomed to handle thelr men in masses, as {tI also important that the national guard of the several states should be accus- tomed to actual field maneuvering, espe- cially in connection with the regulars, ‘For this reason we are to be congratu: lated upon the success of the field mas venuvers at Manassas last fall, maneuvers in which a larger number ‘of regulars and national guard took part than was ever before assembled together In thme of peace. No other clvillzed nation has, relatively to Its population, such @ die minutive army as ours; and while. the army Is so small we are not to be ex: cused If we fall to keep Mt at a very high grade of proficleney. Great progress has been made tn pro- tecting our coasts by adequate fortit= cations with sufficient guns. We should, however, pay much more heed than at present to the development of an exten- sive system of floating mines for use In all our more important harbors, ‘These mines have been proved to be @ most for- midable safeguard against hostile fleets, The Philippines. In the Philippine islands there has deen during the past year a continuation of tho steady progress which has ob- tained ever since our troops definitely ‘kot the upper hand of the Insurgents, The Philippine people, or, to speak more ‘accurately, the many tribes, and even races, sundered from one another more or less sharply, who go to make up the ‘people of the Philippine Islands, contain many elements of good, and some ele- ments which we have a tight to hope stand for progress. At present they are utterly Incapable of existing In Inde pendence at all or of building up a cly- Nization of thelr own. T firmly. belleva that we can help them to rise higher and higher in the scale of civilization and of capacity for self-government, and I most earnestly hope that In the end they will be able to stand, if not entirely alone, Yet In some such relation to the United States ax Cuba now stands, ‘This end {a not yet in sight, and it may be in- definitely postponed’ {f our people are foolish enough to turn the attention of the Filipinos away from the problems of achieving moral and material prosperity, of working for n stable, orderly, and just government, and toward foolish’ and dan- Kerous intrigues for a complete independ ence for which they are as yet totally unfit. On the other hand our people must keep steadily before thelr minds the fact ‘that the justification for our stay In the Philippines must ultimately reat chlet'y upon the good we are able to do in the Islands. I'do not overlook the fact that in the development of our interests in the Pacifle ccean and along Its coasts, the Philippines have played and will play ‘an important part, and that our interests have been served in more than one way ‘by the possession of the Islands. But ‘our chief reason for continuing to hold ‘them must be that we ought in good faith to try to do our share of the World's. work, and this particular plece ‘of work has’ been imposed upon us_ by “the results of the war with Spain. ‘The pine Islands Is akin to, but not exactly like, the problems presented to the other great civilized powers which have pos- Sessions In the Orlent. More distinctly than any of the powers we are endeay= oring to develop the natives: themselves fo that they shall take an ever-increas- Ing share in their own government, and as far as 1s prudent we are already ad- mitting thelr representatives to a_gov- ernmental equality with our own. There fare commissioners, Judges, and governor in the islands who are Fillpinos and who have exactly the same share in the gov- ernment of the Islands as have thelr col- Ieagues who are Americans, while In the lower ranks, of course, the great major- ity of the public servants are Filipinos, Within two years we shall be trying the experiment of an elective lower house in the Philippine legislature. ‘Meanwhile our awn people should re- | member that there Is need for the high est standard of conduct among the Amer- Jeans sent to the Philippine Islands, not only among the public servants” but among. the. private Individuals. Who Ko to them, It ts because 1 feel this 80 dveply that in the administration of these Islands I have positively refused to per= mit_any discrimination whatsoever | for political reasons and have insisted that jn choosing the public servants consid. eration should be paid solely to. the | worth of the men chosen and to. the heeds of the Islands, ‘There Is no high- er body of men in our public service than we have In the Philippine islands under Gov, Wright, and his associates, So far ax possible these men should be iven a free hand, and thelr suxgestions Shoula “receive the hearty. hacking both of the Executive and. of the Congress, ‘There Is need of a vigilant and disinter- ested. support of our public servants In the Philippines by good citizens here in the United States. Unfortunately hither- to those of our people here at home who Calumet Baking Powder Health- Economy A man who will submit to being imposed upon by his kin can be worked by a book agent. 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Cairo can boast of the possession of the oldest herbarium in the world. It is in the museum, and consists of a collection of dried plants or portions of plants taken from the wreaths and garlands found in mummy-cases and from the edible plants which were set in earthenware vessels on the floor of the sepulchre. Many of these floral remains are so well preserved that, after being treated with warm water, they can be handled as if they were modern specimens, while their colors are also remarkably well preserved. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 junces, 10 cents. Try it now. Bachelors. Be Warned! The woman who jerks her head as she walks is not uncommon, and on close acquaintance you will find that she is given to flickeness. She trifles a little too much with love, and is just the woman to miss a good husband and be sorry afterward.—Exchange. 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A Russian official in Egypt, some time ago, bought in the papyrus market a document which has proved to be a valuable addition to Green literature. It is a commentary on Plato's "Theaetetos." It is to be printed at once. Heroes and Cowards. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards. They simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake and sleep, we grow and wax strong or we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become. Queer Names in England. The wild and woolly west is usually supposed to have a monopoly of queer names for its towns, but England has a Dirtcar, Hangman Hill, Deadman's Green, Friends' Fell and Hungry Bentley, among others. Situation of Chemulpho Chemulpho, the port of Seoul, the capital of Korea, looks out over a vast shallow bay, where the tide rises thirty feet. No Statues to Archbishops. There is not a single statue in London to an Archbishop of Canterbury from Thomas a Becket to Randall Davidson. 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Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. The average housekeeper's idea of hell is a place where she will have to wash dishes forever and ever. MEXICAN Mustang Liniment cures Sprains and Strains. TWENTY BUSHELS OF WHEAT TO THE ACRE IS ACRE IN FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Is the record on the Free Home- stead Lands of Western Canada for 1904. The 1900 farms from the United States, who during the past seven years have gone to Canada participate in this prosperity. The United States will soon become an importer of wheat. Get a free homeestead or purchase a farm to Western Canada, and become one of those who will be purchased. Apply for information to Superintendent of Imig- ration, Ottawa, Canada, or to authorized Canada Government Agent, J. S. Crawford, No. 12 W. New York, New Jersey, Missouri. Please say where you saw this advertisement COMMERCIAL SWAY OF COAL. Facts Prove It More Valuable Than Gold, Says a Writer. Has the reader ever stopped to consider that, viewed from whatever standpoint it may be, coal is of more gold? asks a writer in Cent Per Cent. It may seem a strange thing perhaps, to put it in this blunt fashion, but the facts will bear one out in this assertion. Coal is of greater value, in its initial feature, as an article of production. The output of coal in the United States last year was 359,000,000 tons, worth at the pit's mouth $506,000,000, while the value of gold production was perhaps $80,000,000. This is taken only as the initial value, and in the case of coal there is an increase in its value, use and service out of the question for the moment, at every point distant which is reached from the place of its production, while the gold valuation remains the same wherever it is used. In fact, coal is of so great importance as a mere item of product that other things one hears much of sink into nothingness when compared there-with. Oil, which, according to its friends, was to drive coal out of business has not realized all that was expected. The state of Ohio seems to have passed its meridian and the oil promoters and gushers of Texas no longer gush as they did a year or two ago. The oil industry can no more snuff out the coal industry than the planet Jupiter can hurl itself against and snuff out the sun. Geologists calculate that enough coal remains in the bowels of the earth to last a thousand years. Dare they predict with equal confidence that the petroleum supply at any given place will last five? Petroleum is the only possible competitor to coal and its flow is so speculaative and uncertain that it assuredly will never jeopardize the coal interests of the country. IT DID LOOK LIKE IT. Physician's Tender Ways Justified Litle One's Idea. A college professor was talking about the late D. W. Fiske, who left to Cornell university $500,000. "Fiske," he said, "had a shrewd sense of humor. One day he was talking about a certain fashionable physician, a tall and robust man, always beautifully dressed, a flower in his buttonhole, his nails polished by a manicurist, his handkerchief perfumed—you know the type, I guess. "Fiske said this gentleman impressed women profoundly with his manner, at once hearty and delicate. He said the man among his brother physicians was laughed at for an ignoramus. Few of his brothers, though, had so lucrative a practice as he. All the women of wealth for ten miles round about employed him. "One afternoon he called on a lady, the young wife of a millionaire, to treat her for some slight indisposition. She sat on a sofa in her drawing room. Her little daughter, a child of seven or eight years, played by the window. The physician, with his well-known manner, seated himself beside his pretty patient, looked sympathetically into her eyes, took her hand and laid his finger on her pulse. "Grave and tender, in this attitude he sat there, and then he happened to glance at the little girl. She was regarding him curiously. "You don't know what I am doing, do you? he said to her. "Yes," said the little girl, "I do. You are making love to my mamma." Requested One Favor Eugene Spuller was minister of public instruction when Casimir-Perler was president of France. When the doorkeeper brought him his letters one morning Spuller said to him: "Were you not supposed to be on duty last night at 11:30 o'clock?" "Yes, sir." "And you were not there?" "That is correct," replied the doorkeeper, "but I have a sick mother, your excellency. I wished to visit her." "Quite proper," returned Spuller, "and I hope your mother will soon recover. But I would like to ask you one favor. If you go to visit your mother once more, please have the kindness not to lock me in my office. I had to spend the night at this desk because I could not get out!" Willie's Question. Where do you go when you go to sleep? That's what I want to know; There's loads of things I can't find out. But nothing to bother me so. Big fields covered with flowers. And tall trees, and trees. A hundred times nicer than ours. Often, dear mamma, I see you there. And sometimes papa, too; And last night the baby came back from heaven. And like he used to do. And played by he used to do. So all this day I've been trying to thank Oh, how I wish I could know. Where is my country is Where sleepily little he go. Ben Harrison's Rejoinder. Many of the choiceest bits of repartee in our history are to be found in the field of politics. Every schoolboy is familiar with the saying of Benjamin Franklin, as the group of anxious faced, yet loyal, men stood around to sign the immortal declaration of independence: "Now we must all hang together, or we'll all hang separately." But the rejoinder of the signer, Benjamin Harrison, to the above witticism is not so well known. Harrison, a portly man, looking down over his ample proportions, replied: "Yes, but when they drop us off at a rope's end, some of you lightweights will be kicking and suffering long after I'm done for." A Warning. It is not often that poetic contribution overtakes people in this life, but a ease in point is that of a New York man who dropped dead from heart failure brought on by the excitement of beating his wife. The moral of which is that husbands with weak hearts should abstain from this marital amusement. Mouse Picks the Banjo. The newest marvel of Aroostook county, Maine, is a mouse that has been taught to pick the banjo. H. C. Nelson, the man who owns the mouse and trained it, declares that the little animal has charmed the house cat with its banjo playing and that the two, once mortal enemies, are now chums.—New York Sun. Profits From Fools The winnings of the bank of Monte Carlo are said to average nearly $25 a minute, or about $6,250,000 a year. The merchants have gone to New York. The farmers have gone to the harvest field. And there you are. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces insufficiency, always pain, cures what cannibal. Zoe a bottle China's criminal code has been revised. The barbarous punishment of "slicing to pieces" has been abolished, and it is believed that all torture will be abolished soon. No Hurry to Learn "I ain't in no hurry ter leave dis world," says Brother Williams. "It's mighty hot in de summer time; but den, de nex' wort' might blaze in winter!"—Atlanta Constitution. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Poison Ivy. Poison ivy has three leaflets and Virginia creeper has five. The former has white berries, the latter purple. The leaves of poison ivy often change to beautiful tones of yellow and red in the fall and are sources of great temptation to any one who is out hunting autumn leaves for decoration. It is better, however, not to run the risk which one incurs by handling this plant, unless one is positive he is immune from its effects. Fixed His Own Reward. There is one finder of other people's property who, if only half honest, has a saving sense of humor. In an elevated train a citizen dropped a pocketbook containing $50 a few days ago. The next day through the mail the book and $25 were returned to him with this note: "Dear Sir—I needed the missing amount to pay an urgent creditor. I think you are damn lucky to get anything at all."—New York Sun. Millions in Melons Thirty million dollars have been paid by the East to Colorado melon growers in the Arkansas valley district since the discovery of the famous Rocky Ford cantaloupes. Pay of Public Executioner. The English public executioner, as a rule, receive $50 every time he exercises his duties, and in the case of a reprieve he is given $25, provided that he has been retained. Woman's Preference Any woman is perfectly willing to do without necessities as long as she can have plenty of luxuries. HAPPY CHILDHOOD. Right Food Makes Happy Children Because They are Healthy. Sometimes milk does not agree with children or adults. The same thing is true of other articles of food. What agrees with one sometimes does not agree with others. But food can be so prepared that it will agree with the weakest stomach. As an illustration—anyone, no matter how weak the stomach, can eat, relish and digest a nice hot cup of Postum coffee with a spoonful or two of Grape-Nuts poured in, and such a combination contains nourishment to carry one a number of hours, for almost every particle of it will be digested and taken up by the system and be made use of. A lady writes from the land of the Magnolia and the mocking bird way down in Alabama and says: "I was led to drink Postum because coffee gave me sour stomach and made me nervous. Again Postum was recommended by two well known physicians for my children, and I feel especially grateful for the benefit derived. "Milk does not agree with either child, so to the eldest, aged four and one-half years, I give Postum with plenty of sweet cream. It agrees with her splendidly, regulating her bowels perfectly although she is of a constituted habit. "For the youngest, aged two and one-half years, I use one-half Postum and one-half skimmed milk. I have not given any medicine since the children began using Postum, and they enjoy every drop of it. "A neighbor if mine is giving Postum to her baby lately weaned, with splendid results. The little fellow is thriving famously." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum agrees perfectly with children and supplies adults with the hot, invigorating beverage in place of coffee. Literally thousands of Americans have been helped out of stomach and nervous diseases by leaving off coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. Look in plkg. for the little book, "The Road to Wellville." For Infants and Children The King Alway Bears the Signature of Chat. This CAS THE GENTAUR NEW RIVAL" BLACK PO the thoroughly modern and scien ter Factory Loaded "New R ern, penetration and more u any other shells. The speci patent corrugated head use shells give them strength to E TO GET WINCHESTER The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hutchens. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. HESTER "AL" BLACK POWDER SHELLS. Highly modern and scientific system of load- use of only the best materials which make ery Loaded "New Rival" Shells give bet- tration and more uniform results gerer- er shells. The special paper and the Win- corrugated head used in making "New give them strength to withstand reloading. ET WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Ripon of Old Dr. SANCUEL PITCHER Purplein Sand - Alk. Spars - Michalcite Salts - American Sand - Riparian of Limestone Sand - Purplein Sand - Coppered Sugar Mineral Flour A perfect 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 CANS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. WINCHEL 'NEW RIVAL' BLACK It's the thoroughly modern an- ing and the use of only the W Winchester Factory Loaded "Ne- ter pattern, penetration and mo- ally than any other shells. The chester patent corrugated head Rival" shells give them strong BE SURE TO GET WINCHEL It's the thoroughly modern and scientific system of loading and the use of only the best materials which make Winchester Factory Loaded "New Rival" Shells give better pattern, penetration and more uniform results generally than any other shells. The special paper and the Winchester patent corrugated head used in making "New Rival" shells give them strength to withstand reloading. BE SURE TO GET WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. HAVE YOU A HORSE? WOULD YOU LIKE US TO SADDLE? SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL FOR THE MOST WONDERful SADDLE OFFER EVER HEARD Plays by which anyone can have the nicest saddle in the neighborhood, out in the open and send it. You will receive our New, Big and Beautiful Special Saddle Catalogue, large, handmade photographic Illustrations of all kinds of Men's, Women's, Boys' and Girls' Saddles, Stock Saddles, Ranch and Range Saddles, SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE, PLAIN and FANCY SADDLE EVERY IMAGINE JLE KIND AND STYLE AND SHAPE OF SADDLE OUR PRICES WILL ASTONISH AND PLEASE Y You will get our Very Latest and Most Astonishing Liberal Offer, you get our New Free Trial Plan, you will receive a saddle offer that every owner should use, you own a horse, don't fail to cut it, and send us today and see what a you get by return mail, free, ADDRESS, SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHIC W. L. DOUGL 3.500 SHOES W. L. Douglas makes and sells more shoes than any other manufaturer. The reason W. L. Douglas makes these shoes is their style, easy fitting and superior wearing qualities. If you shoes in my factory and those of other makers, the high quality, durable and of greater intrinsic value than any other. Sale for the year ending July 1, 1970, were $20,200,000. W. L. Douglas guarantees their value, stamping this name take no substitute. Sold by shoe dealers everywhere. SUPERIOR IN FIT, COMFO "I have seen W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoe for the last satisfaction. If that superior in comfort, can be sold to E. S. M. E. Depot Co., $3.50 be the finest Patent Leather made. Fast Color Cycle. W. L. DOUGLAS, SADDLE? SADDLE OFFER EVER HEARD he mails it to you and in his send it to you and in your Special Saddle Catalogue, instructions of all kinds of and Girl's Saddles, and Rango Saddles, PLAIN AND FANCY SADDLES, STYLE AND SHAPE OF SADDLES. MOMISH AND PLEASE YOU. AT Astonianly: Liberal Offer, you will receive a saddle after that every horse own a horse (full tail) and you get you by return mail, free, postpaid. EBUCK & CO., CHICAGO. DOUGLA MOES MEN makes and sells more men by other manufacturer in the station, giving guiding advice to the horse and the high grade of the horses and the high grade of the shoes and the high grade of the shoes on the horse. price by: $21.25,040.00. value by: $21.25,040.00. dealers everywhere. N FIT, COMFORT L. Douglas £5.90 shoes for the last tender, the proper in the comfort and care we collect in his £5.90 shoes. Coltkin In his £5.90 shoes. made in: Colorful tyre and W. L. DOUGLAS, Bro the World Take the Right "to No trouble. No Confusion. All Wabash the main en SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL SADDLE OFFER EVER HEARD OF, an offer by which anyone can have the most saddle in his neighborhood, but this cut out and send it to us and you will receive New Big and Beautiful Saddles Cataloge large, handmade photographic Illustrations of all of them! Mon's, Woman's, Boys' and Girls' Saddles, Stock Saddles, Ranch and Range Saddles, SMALL, MEDIUM AND LARGE, PLAIN AND FANCY SADDLES. EVERY IMAGE IS KIND AND STYLE AND SHAPE OF SADDLE. OUR PRICES WILL ASTONISH AND PLEASE YOU. You will get our Very Latest and Most Astonishing Liberal Offer. You will get our New Free Tranil Trial, you will receive a saddle offer that every house and send to today and what all you get by return mail, free, postpaid. and sells more men's $3.50 manufacturer in the world. the greatest seller in the world is because of their excel- qualities. If I could show you the difference between the makes and the high grade leather used, you would under- er any angle. Why they heat should it better. any angle. Why they heat should it better. framing his name and price on the bottom. Look for it- everywhere. COMFORT AND WEAR. 50 shoes for the last twelve years with absolute mile comfort and wear no matter setting from Hair Collar. No Deer Hair. Included. It. Up his $3.90 shoes. Corona Gelt is conceded to Fast Color Yelts used exclusively. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Massachusetts. World's Fair? Take the Wabash Right "to the Gates" No trouble. No Crowding. No Confusion. All Wabash Trains stop at the main entrance. W.L. DOUGLAS $3.50 SHOES W.L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.50 shoes than any other manufacturer in the world. The reason W.L. Douglas $5.50 shoes are the greatest sellers in the world is because of their excellent style, cowboy and superior wearing qualities. If you know your difference between the shoes you may find your facturer and high graver you will find why W.L. Douglas $5.50 shoes cost more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer and are more comfortable. W.L. Douglas is on the market to day, and why the sales for the year ending July 1, 1901 were $26.1,040.00. W.L. Douglas guarantees their value by stamping his name and price on the bottom. Look for it—take no substitutes. Sell by shop dealer everywhere. SUPERIOR IN FIT, COMFORT AND WEAR. * There worn. W.L. Douglas $5.50 shoes for the last twelve years with absolute comfort and the best fit. Find the best price and the best quality. $0.00 to $1.00. R. S. McCullough, Dept. Ctl., U.S. Int. Revenue, Richmond, Va. W.L. Douglas uses Corona Colfskin in his $5.50 shoes. Corona Colfskin is conceded to be the finest Patent Leather made in the world. W.L. DOUGLAS, Brookton, Massachusetts. Going to the World's Fair? Uniformed employees to name reasons able private boarding houses. All railroads connect with the dav and m Fell local agent to route you via the Wabash. track to the World's Fair. Ample rest and eatin L. S. McCLELLAN, H. Western Passenger Agent. tet with the daw and night you via the Wabash. The r. Ample rest and eating ro N, H. C. inger 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. SMOKERS FIND LEWIS, SINGLE BINDER 5f Cigar better Quality than most 10f Cigars Your Jobber or direct from Factory, Pearl, Ill PISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best country syrup. Waste God. Use in time. Sold by druglate. CONSUMPTION W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 50, 1904 BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. --- WADASU DODLES. BADDLE. YOU. you will wear horse helmet out stand. HICAGO. H. C. SHIELDS. Wanted RAW FURS all kinds From all sections of the country. Will pay highest cash prices. A. E. BURKHARDT, International For Merchant, CINCINNATI, O 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 teeth was well looked after, very hot food 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 among 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, we 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 infant'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 astute diplomatist, "but it is my child and not myself who has hired the apartments. You have made no objection to his asking his parents to stay with him. So here we are!" Court Ladies Dishonest. Mme. de Crequy 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 relics. The Duchess de Noalles, 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 pounded in a mortar 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 relic was always more efficacious." The Lighthouse. Neath a canopy of night, Gift by foamy seas. Stands the lighthouse, spectral, white, Firm to every breeze. Be the weather foul or fair, Far its beacons show. To the world rim billows where Freighted sea ships go. And the pilots heed and sail Hy its far off gleam. As it glitters, small and pale, Like a star abame. So the Union towers white, So its beacons shine. So its stars illume the night With a gleam benign. And the stately nations all Sailing fast and far. So our coast coasts stands tall Freedom's guiding 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 emoluments 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 otium 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. Around the lily pool I strolled And met the goldenrod. With all its wealth of pluming gold Sun lifted from the sod. The asters, white and amethyst, Looked up, wide eyed, to see The rose red apples in their must Of green - you know the tree. I walked alone at first, and then, All suddenly, knew The spirits of the apple and glen Were there - all there but you. I searched the orchard and the wood, Your voice seemed ever near. And the shards of the wood Were in my he, I my dear, -Cincinnati Tribune. How the Frenchman Read His Books. "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 gradually 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 vanities, and a full half of them ride in the more comfortable laced boots. bo 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 hearty, 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. Kansas City Southern Railway "Straight as the Crow Files" KANSAS CITY TO THE GULF PASSING THROUGH A GREATER DIVERSITY OF CLIMATE SOIL AND RESOURCE THAN ANY OTHER RAILWAY IN THE WORLD, FOR ITS LENGTH. Along its line are the finest lands, suited for growing small grain, corn, flax, cotton; for commercial apple and peach orchards, for other fruits and berries; for commercial canals, potato, tomato and general truck farms; for sugar cane and fleece valleys for merchandise timber; for raising horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry and Angora goats, at prices ranging from FREE GOVERNMENT HOMESTEADS to twenty-five dollars or more per acre. Cheap round-trip, homeseekers and one-way colonist tickets on sale first, and third Tuesdays of each month. Write for a copy of "CURRENT EVENTS", published by the KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY THE SHORT LINE TO "INEXPENSIVE AND COMFORTABLE HOMES." H. D. DUTTON, TRAV. PASS. AGT., KANSAS CITY, MO. S. G. WARNER, G. P. AND T. A., KANSAS CITY, MO. F. E. ROESLER, TRAV. PASS. AND IMIG'N AGT., KANSAS CITY, MO. Lincoln Institute MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. President. DEPARTMENTS: COLLEGE, NORMAL, PRE- DUSTRIAL AND I COURSES: Classical, College Prepa- Model Training School, Music Drawing. (Fine Arts and Mechan- ing, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Gardening, Printing, Typewri- Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Fri with Modern Improvements. B Diplomas are licenses to teach in state. A few deserving students to earn their way. All applicant of good moral character. For f BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEY JEFFERSON CITY, The Woodr FORMAL, PREP TERNAL AND DOM COLLEGE Preparatory, High School, Music (Ins tarts and Mechanical), Machinery, Shoe writing, Typewriting, Good Location, Free Tu provements. Buildi enses to teach in an serving students are a All applicants must character. For further BKLIN ALLEN, A PERSON CITY, MIS oodm Ail ALL, PREPARATORY, IN- AND DOMESTIC. Stage Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Music (Instrumental and Vocal), and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodwork- machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories ments. Buildings Heated by Steam, to teach in any public school in the students are assisted in their efforts applicants must present testimonials er. For further information write to N ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. 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 SHOE COMPANY 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. Unusual Style Unusual Comfort Unusual Value A Shoe That Deserves Your Fullest Confidence. OVIATT SHOE CO., OE CO., ell &. Houston's 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. 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. A Large Line Perfumes, Toilet articles, Tooth brushes, Combs and Brushes, Fountain Syringes and Hot water bottles at gratifying prices. RELIABLE PRESS PHARMACY S. W. C. Phone N. Call in and see us. Open Drs. Unthank, Shanor AND B. F. McQueen Dentist, Announce the Removal of The N. E. Cor. 18th St. December 1st, 1904. Home J. RICH. THE GREAT Atlantic Park ...TWO STORES, 18 EAST 7TH ST., AND 28 Sults to Order $17.50. Pan RICH BROS., atisfaction Gua ranteed or Money Refunded. Announce the Removal of Their Offices to the N. E. Cor. 18th St. & Paseo. December 1st, 1904. Home Phone 3490 Main. J. RICH. B. RICH. THE GREAT Atlantic Pants Co. ...TWO STORES, 16 EAST 7TH ST., AND 2825 SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD... Sults to Order $17.50. Pants to Order $3.50 RICH BROS., Props. attraction Gua ranteed or Money Refunded. KANSAS CITY, MO. Countee Brothers, 4 East 12th St, Phone 780 Grand. Carriages Furnished RELIABLE DE No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed-- We are the most reliable dentists in the city, oldest practice in the city. Our success is grade work done by gentlemanly operators. We Guarantee to Please. Our Re This firm is backed by a wealthy corporate oughly responsible. All work is guaranteed. Full Set of Teeth $2.00 Set S. S. White Teeth... $1 Gold Crowns 22-k... $1 Bridge Work, per tooth... $1 Platinum fillings... $1 Cleaning... $1 Teeth extracted without pain F NEW YORK DE ESTABLISHED 20 1029 Main St Second Floor. Open Daily. N 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 ca. Main Street only. Open Daily. Nights till 9. Sundays 10 to 4. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT STOVE R FOR ALL STOVES S. A. MOT AND RANGES. Both Phones 1214 Save time and carfare by buying your Patent Medicines and drug necessities at attractive prices. Remember its the C. H. Countee. If you are constantly suffering with headache get your eyes examined; it may be your eyes causes it. The Rollable Optical Dept. Bromo Ammonia for that cold ---a cold today, pnemonia tomorrow. The Century Marvel Corn Sheller ---a sure cure or money refunded. Painful walking made easy. the RESCRIPTION W. W. Corner 5th and Broadway. Phone Home 1626 Main. :: Open all night. Canon, Lambright, and Green Carrion, Artist, of Their Offices to the St. & Paseo. Home Phone 3490 Main. GREAT Pants Co. AND 2825 SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD... Pants to Order $3.50 DS., Props. KANSAS CITY, MO. W. B. Countee. UNDERTAKERS AND Licensed Embalmers. No Purchased for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MD DENTISTRY Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free In the city. We have the largest and access is due to the uniformly high operators of middle ages; no youths Our Reliability is Unquestioned. Corporation, and is therefore thor- guaranteed for 15 years. $2.00. Teeth...$4.00 $2.65 $2.65 $500 $500 We do as we advertise— at pain FREE. We are here to stay. DENTAL CO ED 20 YEARS. FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. REPAIRS Metzner, 304 W. 6th St. phone 1214 Main. KANSAS CITY, MG