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. G. W. K. H. L. GILLIAM L. LEE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Booker T. Washington Sends Out an Appeal for Tuskegee Intistet. 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 CASH DONATIONS RECEIVED AT THANKSGIVING ARE AS FOLLOWS: Attucks school, $7.00. Booker T. Washington, $1. Bruce, $2.25. Central High, $10. Douglass, $8.28. Garrison, $9. Lincoln High, $12. Phillips, $3. City Treasurers' Office, $6.50. Amos Johnson Lodge, $5. A. M. E. Alliance, $3.15. St. Augustine's Mission, $1.55. Friend, 45 cents. Mrs. E. C. Foster, 25 cents. Miss Esther Crowe, 75 cents. Total, $86.28. Vegetables and fruit were received from the following schools: Manual Training, Attucks, Bruce, Page, Rose-dale, Phillips and Lincoln. The Penn school sent a barrel of provisions. St. Augustine's Mission a goodly supply of vegetables, sugar and canned fruit and a tin of coal was donated by Mrs. C. A. Jackson. Miss Esther Crowe also brought 3 pumpkins. The Odd Fellows sent to the Home 4 dozen loaves of bread after their entertainment at Convention hall. Mrs. H. O. Cook donated an excellent heating stove, just before she moved into her new home. The managers of the home are grateful to all the institutions and indi- 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 the 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. viduals who have in any way helped to carry on this work. Respectfully submitted by LUELLEN WILLIAMS, Sec. TO THE RISING SON: I wish hereby to thank the teachers and pupils of the various schools and the public in general for their kindly remembrance of the Old Folks and Orphans' Home at Thanksgiving time, and supplied the following: 2½ dozen cans of corn. 2½ dozen cans of tomatoes. 1½ dozen cans of peas. 21 jars of fruit. 9 glasses of jelly. $1 worth of sugar. 75 cents worth of coffee. 50 cents worth of navy beans. 20 cents worth of hominy. 50 cents worth of rice. 30 cents worth of tea. 75 cents worth of meal. 8 pumpkins. 5 packages of oatmeal. 1 bushel white potatoes. ½ bushel sweet potatoes. 1 peck of parsnips. ½ bushel of apples. ½ bushel of turnips. 1 peck of onions. 13 heads of cabbage. Yours gratefully, MATTIE SHEPHERD, Matron. LEXINGTON NEWS. Mr. Williams of Sweet Springs was here Sunday, the guest of Dr. Ball. Mrs. Williams, the mother of Mrs. Warren Reed, Mrs. Rosa Lee and Mr. Wm. Hughes, died Saturday night at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. Warren Reed. She was about 55 years old. She leaves two daughters, one son and quite a number of friends to mourn her loss. She was buried from the A. M. E. church, of which she was a member, and was buried Tuesday. We extend our heart-felt sympathy to the family. Mr. Huston, the editor of the Weekly Conservative of Sedalia, was here Saturday looking after the interests of his paper and left for Richmond Sunday. We are always glad to have such gentlemen come among us, who are working for the interests of our race. He was the guest of Mr. Cliff Bradford while here. The U. B. F.'s, M. T.'s, and K. of V.'s will give their annual entertainment at Zion A. M. E. church on the 26th of this month. All lodges, temples and camps are invited to turn out with us. They will parade the principal streets at 3 o'clock p. m. Mrs. A. B. Johnson paid her subscription for the Rising Son, also Mr. Daniel Green and Mr. Henry Elane. Mr. Thornburgh, the grocerman, paid up his subscription. If you want fine groceries call on Mr. Thornburgh and he will treat you right; also Mr. Wm. Hunter, the colored grocerman, paid up his subscription. He is in the restaurant, grocery, and dry goods business. Call on him for your Christmas goods and you will get satisfactory goods. We think that the Hon. R. C. Kerens will make a good senator for Missouri if elected. Mrs. Luey Davis, who has been in Kansas City for a few weeks waiting on her sick husband, Mr. Clod Davis, returned home Tuesday. Mrs. Love of Kansas City, was here Sunday visiting her mother, Mrs. Smith. We want all of our subscribers in Lexington to pay up their subscription by the first of January, because we want to settle up with the company by the first of January. I will be around to see every subscriber that owes anything. Look for me from Saturday to Tuesday night, for I am coming. Adamsville, Ala., Sept. 30, 1896. Dear Friends: I only used the Ozonized Ox Marrow once and it made a great improvement on my hair. JULIA ANN EDWARDS 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. Crossing Sweeper Grows Rich. A London crossing sweeper, who was supposed to be penultless, 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. THE ANGELS IN THE CROSS THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Soul of heaven's eternal king, Of heaven's Great High Priest, our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing. That he die our deadly forst should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. That glorious form, that light us sufferable, And that bloom of majesty, Wherever we sit at heaven's high council table To sit the midst of Trinity Unity. He laid aside, and here to us he was. For seek the courts of everlasting joy, And show us with a dazzling house of mortal clay. THE HYMN It was the winter wild, While the heaven born Child, All meanly wrap in the rude manger, flesh; Had dart in his quirmit, With her great Master so to sympathize; It was no season then for her, To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around, The hooded charistol stood, Unstaind with hostile blood; The trumpet spoke not to the armed throne, As if they surely knew their sword of Lord was by. But peaceahi was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began! and the warrior whistle. Smoothly the water lakes. Whispering new joys to the mild ocean. Who now hath quite forgot to rave While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. The stars, with deep amaze The stars fill the universe Bending one way their precious influence, And will not take their flight For all the morning light, Of Lucifer, that often warned them thence! To the warrior who did blow and did glow, Until their Lord Himself bepeal, and bid them go. ```markdown ``` [Illustration of a religious scene with angels and saints.] The Senior Sewing Circle of the A.M. E. church was highly entertained by Mrs. Dehoney. They seem to have laid the Junior Circle in the shade. We hope they will take courage and be out in full bloom for the bazaar. The school teachers are equally divided in Independence. Two of them are busy after school hours, assisting in church work, and trying to prove to the people that a teacher's duty does not end in the school room; the other two are sitting on the stool of do nothing. Rev. Winrow is on the sick list again. Mrs. Hattie Jackson has a first class restaurant on East Lexington street. St. Anna's court will hold memorial services in honor of Rev. Madison, December 22. The public school is progressing nicely, but there are a number of children on the streets that should be in school. We hope to see the compulsory law passed, and I believe there will be less children in jail. INDEPENDENCE NEWS. The Nativity THE HYMN 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. 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." "This prejudice against 'race suicide,'" said Uncle Allen Sparks, "is about an 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." The shepherd on the lawn. Or are the point of dawn. Sat saintly chatting in a rustic row! Fall full thought they then might the night. Was kindly come to live with them below. Perhaps their loves or else their sheep. Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. **Moi** THE hostel door is barred. The night is dumb and dark as death. Mald Mary; The saint is tired of slippery hard. "But all the saints are silver starred. And knots of cassia and of hard. Are waked round my way!" she said, Mald Mary. The stable door stands wide. Scant lodging there for thee and me, Mald Mary; The sleepy car stir inside. But there is room where she may hide. Resting inside the door. That brings my joy of joy!" she said, Mald Mary. New Prince, New Dump HOLD a tildy tender Babe. In freezing night wight. In homely manger trembling tines Alas! a pitiful sight. The tins are full no man will yield This little Pilgrim bed. But forced lie it with silly tines. In crib to should his head. Desperite him not for lying there, But for his own comfort. An orient pill is often found in depth of dirty mire. Weigh not its crib. Its wooden dish. Not beasts that by him feed. Not his mother a poor aisle. No Joseph's simple wood. This stable is a princess court. The crib his chair of state. The beasts are parcel of his pump. The wooden dish his plate. With joy approach. A Christian wight! Do homage to thy king. The beasts are parcel of his pump. Which lie from heaven doth bring. ```markdown ``` Uncle Allen. new Bomp blaze. her night. rembling lines sight. man will yield and. lily beasts its head. ing there. square. found life. wooden dish. Him feed. pour atire. we wood. court. of state; of His pump. its plate. Christian wight I liking. humble pump. haven doth bring. 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. Kiss Once a Religious Observance. Kiss Once a Religious Observances 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. 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. NUMBER 36. Religious Thought A Prayer. Doing to him so precious, Beyond all things of price, Stove living and groom, Stove scales this house, Stove just and broken hearted Hold his lonely road, Hold his I were told, Keep me dead. From lightnings that alight me, From puffs in my path, From stars that burn and smite me, And from the whitish wind's wrath, From poison and from fever, From woe and from home, abroad, Because the love thou lovest, Keep me dear clod! You will Thine angels guard me, Lest that I fall and fall, From availables ward me, And into woes I will, Who have willed lead me, Who have led Thy rod, Because one man must need me, Keep me dear clod! Matt Gigette. The Power of Vision Where there is no vision the people perish. Powersbill XXIX, 18. There seems to be in the going through of a definite, fixed routine day after day and week after week something which saps and robs life of that which is best and noblest in it. Certainly those who lead such a life have, some more, some less, their vision obscured and their horizon contracted. Perhaps it is due to want of variety, perhaps to want of stimulus. Whatever the cause, the fact remains, it is generally admitted that one of the dangers of our age is that in our large use of machinery we ourselves are liable to become too machine-like. There is perhaps, no better example of the power of vision, than that of Columbus. History tells us how perfectly and persistently he labored to secure assistance to follow up his vision and make it real to the world. He labored to gain his vision and he labored to realize it. We wonder that such a glorious vision should have remained so long unseen. The reason is apparent. The world's brightest visions are reserved as rewards to persistent and painstaking effort and to diligent and untiring research. It is a mistake to think that all important visions have already been seen and realized. There are still worlds to discover and to conquer. Brighter visions than those which are unfolding themselves in our day and generation the world has never seen. Those who are catching gibuses of them we call geniuses or wizards. But they are in reality thinkers, workers. It is thus that they make their inspiration. Christ's vision of universal brotherhood was of all visions the most splendid and glorious. We are learning more and more of it, but we do not begin to appreciate it yet. He who crushes and robs the poor cannot by putting money so gained into institutions, however good, catch even a glimpse of the beautiful vision which Christ saw of the brotherhood which He came on earth to establish, and which is to have its final and complete consummation in heaven. It is a tearful thing to have the widow's tear and the laborer's blood crying out from the ground and reaching up to the very ear of God against unrighteous and ill-gotten gain. The rich man who has made his money honestly and who is merciful and liberal need not fear when the time comes to render an account of his stewardship. Visions of a camel stand before the needle's eye or of Dives calling to Abraham and Lazarus need not trouble him. Religion furnishes us higher ideals, broadens our sympathies, upfits our minds, gives us inspiration and strength in our daily efforts, furnishes just that which the world cannot give. In the spiritual life of that righteous father and of that saintly mother (who, perhaps, have passed to their blessed reward) we caught glimpses of visions, visions which revealed something of the divine and which have never ceased to beckon us heavenward. We have no fear of perishing, because we have visions which lead us onward and upward to that "building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."—Nathan A. Stagle. Gather Sunshine Some persons are like the human heart, masmuch as they sprinkle rest and kindness and heart's ease all through the web and woof of life's pattern. They are never too busy to save a kind word or do a gentle deed. They may be compelled to sigh bedtimes, but amid their sighs are smiles that drive away the cares. They find sunbeams scattered in the trail of every cloud. They gather flowers where others see nothing but weeds. They pluck little sprigs of rest where others find only thorns of distress. Like the human heart, they make much of the little opportunities presented to them. They rest that they may have strength for others, they gather sunshine with which to dissipate the shadows about them. The grandest conception of life is to esteem it an opportunity for making others happy. He who is most true to this higher self is truest to the race. The lamp that shines brightest gives the most light to all about it.—Good Cheer. Don't Worry. If we possessed clearer discernment we should not so often torment ourselves with sinful anxieties about the future. Our Loving Lord knew what was in man when He reiterated His remonstrances against borrowing trouble in advance, and when He said: "Be not therefore anxious for the morrow; sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Worry is not only a sin against God—it is a sin against our health and peace. It sometimes amounts to slow suicide. Honest work, however hard, seldom hurts us, it is worry that corrodes and kills. There is only one practical remedy for the sin of anxiety. Let us not climb the high wall until we get to it, or fight the battle until it opens, or shed tears over sorrows that may never come, or lose the joys of present blessings by the sinful fear that God will take them away from us. We need all our strength and all the grace that God can give us for to-day's battles. To-morrow belongs to our heavenly Father. I would not know its secrets if I could. It is far better to know whom we must, and that He is able to keep all that we commit to Him.—Dr T. L. Cuyler. Those that walk with God will al ways have good company. Silent Suffering. This grace of silence under trial is one of the most rare and difficult graces; but it is one of the most pleasing to God and most conducive to strength and beauty of Christian character. None of us love to suffer, and we all shudder at the sight of the probe or the amputating knife. But when the infinite love is engaged in cutting out a selfish hust or cutting off a diseased limb, our duty is to submit. "Keep still, my friend," says the surgeon to the patient in the hospital; "for restlessness may produce false cuts and aggravate the process." If the brave fellow is wise, he will say: "doctor, go as deep as you choose; only be sure to fetch out the bullet." Ah, the battlefield often requires less courage than the hospital! The onset of service, with drums beating and bugles sounding, does not so test the mettle of our graces as to be thrown down wounded, or to be commanded to lie still and suffer. To shout a battle cry at the mouth of the cannon is easier than to put our hands on our mouths and be silent, because "God did it." If he is silent as to explanations of trying providences, let us be silent in our filial submission. God knows what is best for us; that is enough.—Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. The man that waits upon the Lord will always be in time. Looking Off Unto Jesus. If men in the city walk the pavements with their eyes fixed upon the gutters, what does it matter though all the glories of a sunset are dyeing the western sky? They will see none of them; and if Christ stood beside you closer to you than any other, if your eyes were fixed upon the trivialities of this poor present, you would not see Him. If you want to see Him, shut out competing objects, and the dazzling cross-lights that come in and hide Him from us. There must be a "looking off unto Jesus." There must be a rigid limitation, if not excision of other objects if we are to grasp Him. If we would see and have our hearts filled with the calm sublimity of the solemn white wedge that lifts it self into the far off blue, we must not let our gaze drop on the busy life of the valleys or the green slopes of the lower Alps, but must lift it and keep it fixed aloft. Meditate upon Him, and shut out other things. Alexander Maclaren, D. D. The weakness of strength is the strength of weakness. Without Blemish God wants us to keep ourselves without blame, that He may make us without blemish. A child brings us his copy book; we see that the child's writing is without blame, or, rather, that he has tried hard, and is deserving of praise; but we see, too, that his work is not without blemish. It is by the child's faithful diligence, which keeps it without blame, that the teacher will finally bring that child's skill to a place where he shall write a page without blemish. Just so, when we keep our hearts blameless, God will be working with us as Jude wrote: "To set you before the presence of His glory without blemish." God does no ask of us that we be without faults but that we be without blame in trying to overcome those faults. Our first striving with a character, or with a pen, may be black with blots; but if it is faithful striving, it will be the way by which, in the end, God will make us faultless. Every gift of God is an invitation to claim a greater—grace for grace. Users or Wasters? There is nothing in God's universe abundant enough to be wasted. During the days of the early gold discoveries the miners united, in many camps, in devising means to dispose of a peculiar black sand of enormous weight which sifted through the sluice ways and closed the watercourses. Years later it was discovered that this contemned waste-product was composed almost entirely of metallic silver, and that fortunes had been thrown contemptuously away. Many of us despise our time as the miners did the silver sand. We "pass away time" and know not that it is the ore of achievement, the raw material from which is fashioned eternity. Only the doers, not the idlers; only the users, not the wasters—are laying up treasure for the future, here and hereafter. HE NEVER STOPS. PROTECTION IS ROBBERY INCIDENTAL PROTECTION IS RIGHT AND PROPER TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY REVISION FREE TRADE RECIPROCITY WE BELIEVE NO WE DON'T "For men may come and men may go. But I go on forever." LOW EXPORT PRICES WHO IS HURT AND WHO IS HELPED BY THEM? The American People Suffer No Injury From the Practice, While the Increase of Employment Is Greatly to the Profit of the American Wage-Earner. For the five years ending with 1903 the average of the yearly average prices of Bessene pig iron is $18.82 according to Mr. Swank's official and hitherto undisputed figures. While the average price of steel rails made from this pig iron has been firmly held at about $28 per ton to American consumers, it is claimed—and probably with truth—that many tons of rails have been sold to foreigners for $20 per ton. It is asserted by vociferous agents of foreign productive industry that this disparity in prices to Americans and foreigners is an outrage on the American buyer—on all Americans. This claim is reiterated by those who envy the prosperity of the American wage earners and their ability to as James Bryce says, "allow themselves luxuries such as the masses enjoy in no other country." Who makes money out of this? Apparently not the steel trust. If it buys Bossene pig iron at $18.82 and sells rails at $20 there cannot be much profit in the transaction. Our friends, the British rail producers are probably right, that the business has been done at a loss—a loss without taking into account repairs, interest and general expenses. Who does this hurt? Not the railroads of this country. They are substantially unanimous in allowing the exporters of rails for foreign consumption lower freight rates than charged for the consumption of American railroads. And the well-known fact that American freight rates are the lowest in the world, and are between one third and one-fourth HE NEVE PROTECTION IS ROBBERY INCIDENTAL PROTECTION IS RIGHT AND PROPER WE BELIEVE NO WE DON'T QUINCY SCOTT "For men may come and men of British freight rates, while one can ride in a first-class American railroad car (not Pullman) for about third-class fare on English roads, seems to show that their policy does not injure the American public. Who does it help? All Americans. In our best year we sold foreigners 350,000 tons of rails, in round numbers. This means $7,000,000, all to Americans, which otherwise we would not have had. The first and greatest beneficence of this so-called outrage, however, falls on the American wage-earner. Every ton of steel rails requires the digging and transporting of over two tons of ore, half a ton of limestone, and a ton and a half of coal and coke, or an aggregate of 14,000,000 tons. If the steel trust had not been financially strong enough to sell this 350,000 tons of rails at less than the American price and with a probable loss, the men who dug out and transported the 14,000,000 tons of raw material required, those who smelted and converted it into rails, with those who were employed in carrying the rails to tide water, would have been laid off. This means virtually that all of the $7,000,000, except the profits on transportation, would have been withheld from our wage earners and through them from those dependent on their trade. It was to prevent want and trade stagnation, as well as to get the profits on carrying the 14,000,000 tons that the railroads were glad to carry 350,000 tons at less than normal rates. Judge Parker and his like will probably never believe the verdict of the 8th of November showed that our wage-earners, with all dependent on their expenditures, thought the true "tariff robbers" are those who would so juggle with protection as to juggle them out of opportunity for profitable employment. The judge hoped, and probably will continue to hope, that our wage-earners know no more than the English farm laborers of the '40's, who, by voting for free wheat, voted themselves and their children into the slums of London in sympathy with Cobden's denunciations of the profits of British landlords. Diplomacy in Iowa Village A Chicago woman on a visit to her mother in the town in Iowa where she was born missed a great old cottonwood that stood on the street in front of the old house. There is an ordinance in the town against cottonwoods because they are considered a nuisance in the summer time when they are scattering their lint to the winds, and the authorities order them cut down as often as they find one and happen to think about it. "What became of the old cottonwood?" she asked her mother. Almost tearfully the mother told of how it had been cut down by the city "But," she said, "there is a big one over there at Joneses", and I am often tempted to complain to the authorities for not cutting that down, since they cut ours." "Then why don't you?" she was asked. "I don't dare to," was her reply "There is another cottonwood on this place, and that would go too"—Chi cago Inter Ocean. A Dangerous Party. Reduction of the tariff seems to be the democratic panacea for real or imaginaryills of commerce or finance. The democratic party made a fool of itself when it cured ills in 1894 by reducing the tariff tax below the safety mark of income making and tried to eke out the difference with an unconstitutional income tax. It will be observed that they did not reduce taxation in gross, but tried to delude the people by splitting the source of revenue. The congress that did this was repudiated by the people at the next election. The democratic party would repeat the performance of 1894, at least in regard to the tariff. It complains of expenditure which it knows it cannot reduce. It declares that receipts now are less than expenditures, and that ER STOPS. RIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY REVISION FREE TRADE RECIPROCITY a may go. But I go on forever." the treasury is threatened with a great deficit. Its proposed remedy for these alleged illies is a reduction of the tariff—another reduction of income which it says is inadequate now. It does not propose any reduction of expenditure, and does not mention a single item of treasury outgo that might be eliminated. All this we take from the pronouncement of the party leaders. It shows an astonishing lack of ordinary skill in housekeeping. The democratic party has become not only demagogic—it is absolutely dangerous. — Kittanning (Pa.) Press. Sympathy for Foreigners So long as the dumping of American products on foreign markets was confined to the shipping abroad of agricultural products the American free trader had not a word to say against the practice. On the contrary, he regarded it with some favor as contributing to a result he apparently wished to see achieved—namely, making England the workshop of the world. But as soon as the United States began to dump manufactured products in the British market he set up a howl. It is a curious statement, but it is true, that when any sympathy is shown by the American free trader it is for the fellow on the other side of the water; his own country and countrymen he leaves out of consideration—San Francisco Chronicle. Handicaps Fat Cadets. No fat cadet at West Point has any chance of getting into the cavalry service. Gen. Burton, the inspector, says that excessive weight is "ruinous" to a horse, cumbersome to a rider and weakens the endurance of the individual." Arkansas May Be Next It yet remains to be determined whether Arkansas will long remain a comfortable place for the democrats who can no longer feel comfortable in Missouri. ABOUT THE LONDON "CABBY." Hg Works Fourteen Hours a Day and Gets About Five Philosopher Gets About Five Shillings Pay. There are in London 2,711 cab proprietors, and of these 2,224 own fewer than five vehicles, says a writer in Outing. As you see, it is a poor man's industry. The average price for hiring a cab is 12 shillings and 3 pence a day. In addition the cabman has to pay the yard fees. He gets two horses a day and is usually fourteen hours on the box. His license costs him five shillings a year. The tax of £2 on the cab and the 15-shilling wheel duty are paid by the owner. Taking £3 day in and day out, the cabby makes about 5 shillings a day. In the season he may take in more money, but as the hire is raised on nlm it comes to the same thing. If he is not content—and there is no reason why he should be—he does not grumble unduly. Every day in London 120,000 people ride in cabs. Of course there is friction and there is a deal of noisy quarrelling over fares, but so far as my experience goes the cabby is usually right in his estimate of the distances he has traveled and the money that is due him. The cab horses are a good lot. They are worked six hours a day on an average. About three years in a hansom, however, will do up the best of them. Then they drift down to the four-wheelers. Potato Flour: While Irish potatoes may be eaten more extensively than any other American vegetable, it may not be generally known that they are capable of reduction to an excellent flour. In Austria, according to a government report, the manufacture of this flour is an important industry. Corn starch is largely unknown in Austria, potato flour being substituted. It is stated to be cheaper than wheat flour and makes a beautifully light cake. The potatoes are machined in such a manner that the starch is separated from the cells that contain it. Water is used freely, carrying away the starch into settling vessels. It is then refined, cleansed and dried. The residue is fed to stock and also used in distilleries, breweries and sugar factories. Potato flour is largely used by the Israelites in this and other countries during the Feast of the Passover, for as wheat flour is a strictly forbiden article during that festival, potato flour is a welcome assistant to the housewife, who, in her preparation of "Pesach" dainties, finds it capable of transformation into delicious cake. —Indiana Farmer. The Vigil. I see the window of my sweet — heard the west, the glitter of the markets. The trellised window toward the west. The oder of the margarette I had pressed lightly pressed Is fault and rare. I bear the beat. It almost seems, within her breast Of her thrice tender heart, and feel I vibrant passion stir her rest! And through the open window borne In subtle tincture on the air. The perfumes of the roses worn At last night's ball a message bear Unto my heart with passion torn! Light angled, they wander outward where I stand, and whisper low unto The eager car of my despair! What if but vain the thought I fear quite what she drawn aside. My sleeping beauty should appear And I should see her tender-eyed! Vain phantasys! The white dawn clear Will touch her hiss to waking wide; Till then she dreams of dreams What she moonlight hoot! — New Orleans Times-Democrat. Too Good for Him. The man's unsteady legs and listless eyes were about the only evidence of his previous night's offense when he was arraigned in a police court the other morning. "Now, if you have anything to say for yourself I'll hear it," said the magistrate. "S damn outrage," replied the prisoner, somewhat thickly. "Ten dollars fine for contempt of court," announced the magistrate. "What have you to say now?" "S damn outrage," repeated the man. "Ten dollars additional fine for contempt," said the judge. "I give you just one more chance to defend yourself." "S no use, Judge," came the reply, with considerable feeling. "You're too good at repartee for me." Lock Your Jag in the Bottle Large locked corks, original in design, are being shown in the shops for Christmas presents. All of them have about as much silver, or nickel, as cork, but they fit in the average sized whisky bottle all right, and are really a decoration. Small Yale keys, only one for each cock, lock the bottle as tight as an office safe. If a man doesn't happen to leave his bunch of keys lying around loose his whisky is perfectly safe from purloining servants. If he loses his keys he must break the neck of the bottle to get at his tipple. No duplicate key can be made for him. If a man prefers a certain blend of whisky, Scotch or American, he can leave it on his sideboard at home or take it to his club to be called for when required. Most club men would find this plan a great economy. A. Profitable Flower Bed. Two hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents' worth of violets were raised and sold by a young girl who employed her leisure time from household duties in flower growing. Her violet patch measured 20x25 feet the first season, and the violets were sold to a near-by florist at fifty cents a hundred blossoms, netting a profit of $92.50. The second season, having transplanted more violet plants in about ten feet more of ground, $129 was realized in the sales.—From How to Make Money. . Her Sunday Best- will far outshine her neighbors', if it be worn beneath a fair clear complexion. Dress the face in the best and most becoming colors nature offers, by faithfully using.— JOHN H. WOODBURY'S FACIAL SOAP TRADE FOR THE SKIN MARK. SCALP AND Complexion WOODBURY'S FINGER SOAP It weeds out all facial impurities and nourishes the skin structure thus cleansed. 25 cts. a cake. Woodbury's Facial Cream, whitens and freshens the skin, while softening. INITIAL OFFER. In case your dealer cannot supply you send us his name and we will send prepaid, to any address for $1.00 the following toilet requisites. 1 Cake Woodbury's Facial Soap. 1 Tube " " Facial Cream. 1 " " Dental Cream. 1 Box " Face Powder. Together with our readable booklet Beauty's Masque, a careful treatise on the care of the "outer self." Booklet free on application. THE ANDREW JERGENS CO., OINGINNATI, O. Good Husbands. When a man has no notion that he is entitled to any of the money he earns he is called a fairly good husband.—New York Press. I do not believe Plaso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOHN F. BOYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. The man who knows just how the stock market is going never tells you until after it has gone. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drugs refuse the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grow's signature is on each box. It is possible to repeal a law, but not a banana. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allows cures with colds. 20c a bottle. An Atchison man is so giddy that his wife has established a detective Mother Cray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms Over 30,000 testimonial. At all Drugstores, 25c. Sample FREE Address A S Olmsted, Letkov, N.Y. Many a cook deserves to be burned at the steak. When Your Grocer Saves he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. The most difficult part of a drinking song is the refrain. THE PERUNA ALMANAC IN 8.000.000 HOMES. The Ieruna Lucky Day Almanac has become a fixture in over eight million homes. It can be obtained from all drugstores free. Be sure to inquire early. The 1905 Almanac is already published, and the supply will soon be exhausted. Do not put it off. Get one to day. One is apt to make a fool of himself acting smart. FLOCKING INTO CANADA. Immigration From Dakota and Adoling States—Major Edwards, United States Consul General at Montreal, Describes the Movement as Due to Scarcity of Land. Montreal, Nov. 15.—Major Allison Edwards, United States Consul General, who returned to-day from a visit to his home at Fargo, North Dakota, said in an interview: "The proper way to describe the manner in which the people you are getting are the ing over into Western Canada is to say they are coming over in droves. Among the people there did not seem to be any thought of there being a boundary line at all. It is simply a question," added the major, "of there not being any more land in North Dakota and the surrounding States, and the people are flocking to Canada to get good farms. Naturally the number that will come over will increase all the time, and I may say the people of North Dakota are comebest people in the west. They are well supplied with money and are well acquainted with the conditions under which they will have to work." The agents of the Canadian Government are prepared to give the fullest information regarding homestead and other lands. Good Point About Beauty. There's one very satisfactory things about beauty; no matter how much you have you do not take away from any one else. Tourist Enrich Greece. It is estimated that about 4,500 travelers from the United States have visited Greece during each of the last four years, and have annually left about $1,500,000 in the kingdom. PASSING FANCIES IN THE WORLD OF WOMEN Capes Very Generally Worn. The voluminous sleeves in the gowns have led us gently but surely to the cape as the most desirable form of evening wrap. Most of the wraps are still in a state of evolution, though, and have still more or less the semblance of a sleeve. This may be of the "sling sleeve" variety, resembling nothing so much as the bandage for an injured arm; or they may be what appears as a deep cape in the back, shaped into sleeve in the front. A charming evening wrap—this on the purely cape order—was in a faint, smoke-gray, the garment perfectly plain, but the right side front very long and so shaped and draped as to permit of the end being thrown gracefully over the left shoulder in quite a swashbuckling fashion, and there it was held in place by four hand-wrought silver buttons. Still another form of coat, and this one of the best Paris models of the year, is built very much on the lines of a vestment and apparently slips on over the head like the chasubles they imitate, till one discovers that the slides are left open, or rather without a seam, being simply fastened beneath the arms with buttons and loops of the silk. Heavy gold embroideries on the neck and sleeves further emphasize the vestment idea. Double Veils Worn. Double veils are still worn of chiffon, one a shade lighter than the other, artistically drawn about the flat-shaped hats. The hemstitched veils of chiffon are among the most popular styles. They are simple and plain, but they are refined, delicate and universally becoming. The tab effects on stocks are rapidly giving way to a finish of a plain bow or a four-in-hand. Tabs are not so fashionable as formerly, no doubt because of the monstrosities thrust on a long-suffering public during the tab craze. Wide ribbon streamers are shown on some of the very extreme models in winter hats, and for the right woman are fascinating and becoming. Bands and ruchings of fancy and plain ribbons are high in favor for trimming evening gowns, and, indeed, any pretty house gown of soft, light materials. They are generally of taffeta or messaline, and often two and sometimes three widths of the same ribbon are used. Buffles and Muffs. Some very dalny sets of hat, ruffle and muff are to be seen just now. One is in brown fur and chiffon to match. The hat is wide of brim, entirely covered with the fur, and trimmed with ruches of the brown chiffon. Only about five inches of the muff is in fur, the widening edges consisting of pleated chiffon, much tucked and ruched at the edges. The ruffle is a mere band of fur with pleats and ruches of chiffon at either side. Girl's Winter Dress. Girl's dress of rough blue cloth, trimmed with black braid. The skirt is gathered at the top and encircled below with little plaitings of the material headed by bias bands of the same, the latter trimmed with the braid. The blouse forms a graduated box plait in the middle of the front, on ```markdown ``` each side of which is a group of fine side plaits confined at the top with a little strap and button. The shoulder collar is plaited, trimmed with bias bands and braid, and bordered with a little plaiting. The plastron, showing at the top and where the plait is cut out, is of beige cloth trimmed with soutache. Spots on the Face. Bathe your face with warm water in which a little bicarbonate of soda has been dissolved, and use the following lotion for your face: One dram ace tate of lead and eight of elder-flower water. Taffeta or Cloth Waist: Blouse of taffeta or cloth, plaited at the top and gathered at the bottom. where it is finished in bolero fashion with a band of the material piped with a contrasting color and ornamented with spirals of soutache. The yoke is of the material, cut with overlapping tabs at the shoulders, piped with the contrasting color, ornamented with the soutache spirals and finished around the neck with rows of stitching. The fronts of the yoke are turned back to form little revers, faced with the same color as M the pipings and ornamented with little buttons. The fronts of the blouse open over a narrow waistcoat of the material. The standing collar is of lace, finished at the top with a scalloped turnover of the material ornamented with little buttons. The corset girdle is of the same color as the pipings and revers. The sleeves are plaited at the top and finished with cuffs made and trimmed like the yoke. Cashmere for Little Folks. Cashmeres, so enthusiastically accepted by their elders, are being generously used for the little folks. These, while soft and graceful and rich in coloring, lack some of the serviceable qualities of the flannels. Then there are "wool delaines" quaintly flowered, and a new, very smooth and hard twisted serge, and albatross and mohair, and very light weight worsteds; and for occasions, silks of dainty colorings bowedwered with tiny flowers. With all these and more to choose from, surely there is no need of Little Miladi being inartistically or uncom fortably clad. The "blouse" suits, the waists of which "blouse" but slightly but are comfortably full, and the skirts shirred or plaited full into the band, are all round favorites for the miss of 6 to 10. These may or may not be of the guimpe order or its modification, the "suspender" dress, with its broad shoulder straps worn over a dainty white waist. The sailor suit still has its following, as has its first cousin, the Peter Thompson. And then there are little plain blouse suits that have wide sailor collars and cuffs of white pique and a jaunty silk tie, tied in a sailor's knot. Designs in Stoles. Stoles with long ends of course are more elegant, and the ends are finished with rows of tails. There is a fur garment that has just appeared which is very like a fuchu, and there are as well pelerines made of one, two or three kinds of fur combined. Naturally, sable is the most fashionable fur of the season. Ermine will be as popular as it was last season. Both the pure white ermine and the ermine with the black tails tipped with yellow will be worn. An attractive little pelerine of white ermine has a yoke of white velvet embroidered in large white silk daisies with yellow centers. Both heads and tails are more in evidence than they were last season. THE RIGHTS OF SONG. May a London Student Sing With the Windows Open? To sing with the windows open or shut was the burden of a motion which came before Mr. Justice Warrington the other day. An interim injunction was asked for to restrain a gentleman who is training for the operatic profession from singing with his windows open, and to restrain him from singing after 11 o'clock at night. His counsel, in opposing the application, said that the gentleman was a most artistic person—in spite of the fact that the other side had declared that "our voice is more like the howling of a dog than the voice of a professional singer." The gentleman lived in a very small flat, and if he had to sing with the window shut, it would be like placing him in a box. The other side, said counsel, had been in the habit of making retaliatory noises by knocking on the floor. Finally Mr. Justice Warrington said that he could not ask the gentleman to sing with the window shut until the trial of the action, but he would accept an undertaking that the music he ceased to fixed hours. -London Mail. NEARLY FOUR CENTURIES OLD. St. Augustine, Fla., Has Oldest House in America. The oldest house in America is in St. Augustine, Fla. This building, by comparison with the winter resort hotels in that town, is not a pretentious structure, but when it was built it was undoubtedly one of the principal structures of the town. It is built of coquina rock, a mixture of sand and shell, which is the same material used in the building of the Ponce de Leon hotel and the Alcazar. It is not known in what year this building was put up, but it was short- Oldest House in America. ly after the landing of the Spanish, which was on the 8th of September, 1565. The building is in a fairly good state of preservation. The interior is beautifully finished in highly polished wood. It was occupied by the Spanish offi cials during the time Florida was a Spanish colony, and was later the home of the attorney general during the English possession. It is not now inhabited. The Magic Mirror of Japan The magic mirror of Japan. The "magic mirror" of Japan is a disk of bronze, usually from six to eight inches in diameter. It is silvered on the front, which is a little convex, and there is a raised pattern on the back which is rather concave. The polished pattern is generally a landscape, flowers, animals, or Chinese characters. It is not visible in the front of the mirror, but when strong sunlight is reflected from the front of the mirror to a wall or screen the pattern of the back is visible on the screen in bright lines on a black ground. Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F. R. S., with Prof. John Perry, F. R. S., was the first to give the true scientific explanation of this magical effect. It seems that the design on the back alters the convexity of the front, making it flat, in fact, along the lines of the pattern. Consequently the light reflects from the front is not dispersed at these points of the design, and they appear brighter on the screen. Cravats of Wood Pulp. A syndicate of English capitalists is engaged in an endeavor to promote a market in this country for the silks made chiefly from wood pulp. This product is principally obtained in South America, Paraguay furnishing a large supply. The vegetable silk has its origin in trees and is readily adaptable to native looms. The woven threads are supercalendered, which process presents a silky finish resembling mercerized goods. For several years past this glossy material has been sold in piece lengths to the upholstery trade, by which it is utilized for filling purposes. The selling test of artificial silk for cavatrs is anxious awaited by local manufacturers. A Thanksgiving Serenade. SAID THE CUNNING FOX TO THE WILY TURK. IF YOU WILL MARRY ME, WELL ALWAYS LIVE AS ONE. MY DEAR, FOR I'D EAT YOU UP, YOU SEE. Collecting Bird Statistics. The bird club at Bellows Falls, VT, had been divided into two sides with the object before them of seeing which side should see and name the largest number of birds during the season of 1904. One side saw 89 different varieties and the other 83. Six varieties not seen by the winning side but seen by the others makes the total number of birds named by the club 95. Cotton Business in 1841. The first shipment of cotton from the port of Galveston to Boston was made by the firm of Ennis & Kimball, in 1841, on the schooner Brazos, Capt. Hardy commander. This was a new departure in business and was noted with much interest as promising many benefits. King's Valuable Art Treasures The value of the art treasures at Windsor castle, which have been discovered and rearranged by King Edward, is estimated at about $60,000,000. So great is their value that the king has been unable to get them insured so far. Letter Carrier's Faithful Service Letter Carrier's Patient Service. Nat Cummings, a rural delivery carrier at Lancaster, N. H., has made a record of which he well feels proud. Last Wednesday he missed his first trip since entering the service, Jan. 1, 1902, or a period of about thirty-four months. DEVIL CUARDED THE GOLD. His Satanic Majesty's Portrait indicated Treasurer House. In this instance, as often, His Satanic Majesty proved a good guide to riches. Recently workmen were papering a wall in an old house at Perpignon, in the south of France. On the wall was fixed, as a curious ornament, a very ancient sculptured chair. The workman found it necessary to remove this, and discovered that the back of the chair had hidden a mural painting of the devil, horns, tail, cloven foot, diabolic grin—all. Sounding the wall with their hammers the workmen easily found there was a hollow space behind it, into which they broke. There lay a big pile of tarnished gold pieces, some French, most of them Spanish. Of course this wealth amounting to some thousands of frances, reverted to the owner of the house. He rewarded handsome those who found it, and does not concern himself whether it was accumulated by the aid of the sulphurous personage whose portrait indicated its hiding place. Newest Style of Lighthouse. The Ram island ledge (Maine) lighthouse, now practically finished, will, it is claimed, be the best in the world of its class. The appropriation was $166,000. The tower is of hewn stone, and the exterior is nearly as smooth as marble. It is lined with white enamel tiling, and the interior is finished in quartered oak of the finest quality. The glass is diamond shaped. The lantern is of bronze, cost $10,000, and the salt air will have no effect upon it. The $7,000 lens for the lamp was made in Paris. The photograph shows the tower as THE LIGHTHOUSE Ram Island Ledge Lighthouse. it looked just before the staging was removed. Seven men are at work on the Interior. The light will be of the third order, and will be a flash. The lighthouse is as firm as the great rock on which it stands. It will be of the greatest possible advantage to all masters of vessels entering or leaving Portland. Music-Charmed Water Interesting experiments showing the influence of a tuning-fork on jets of water have recently been made at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. A jet of falling water consists ordinarily of two parts—a clear column and a troubled portion. When the troubled part is photographed, with the aid of the electric spark, it is seen to be composed of a succession of drops following one another too rapidly to be separately perceived by the eye. These drops are irregular in size, shape and distance from one another. But if a vibrating tuning-fork is placed in contact with the stand from which the jet starts, the drops fall into order with beautiful precision, a drop being cast off with each vibration. Many remarkable effects may be produced. A continuous jet may be thrown into a form like that of a vibrating string. Memorial to a Robber In the little town of Forlimpopoli, near Bologna, a memorial tablet is about to be unveiled in the Municipal theater to the memory of a famous robber chieftain named Passatore. The reason why the theater is chosen for the home of his memorial is that in it was performed his most famous exploit. In September, 1854, while one of Rossini's operas was being performed in the presence of all the local beauty and fashion, Passatore and his band "held up" the audience and robbed them of all their valuables to the last penny. Palace of a King. The palace of Alexander the Great was an imposing structure in its time, and the wonder is that any vestige of it stands to-day. It was built in a manner much more substantial than that of today, though advocates of steel construction claim that the modern structure will defy time as long as any of those built by the ancients. Time alone will determine how much truth there is in this contention. On the Asiatic plain are the massive remnants of an ancient gateway fringed with weeds, and, vaguely knowing who he was, the natives tell that this is all that is left of the palace of Alexander. THE ODD CORNER weak Which counts the lives and the gains Weighs all the losses and the pain. And eagerly each fond word drains A joy to seek. When love is strong It never taries to take heed, Or know if its return exceed Its gift if its love has no greed. No strifes belong. It hardly asks If it be loved at all; to take So barren seems, when it can make Such bliss, for the beloved sake. Of bitter tasks. Its cestasy Couns find hard death so beauteous It sees through tears how Christ loved us. So much we miss I love is weak, so much we gain I love is strong. God thinks no pain Too sharp or lasting to ordain Blind Grocer's Clerk The stuff heroes are made of is never more clearly illustrated than in the case of men who, without the excitement of battle, calmly prepare to meet inevitable misfortune. When John E. Berden of Jobstown, N. J., realized that blindness was to be his fate he was a young man clerking in a grocery store. A wealthy sister offered aid that his burden might be lightened, but he would have none of it. Deciding that in no other place could he find so much freedom and consequent enjoyment as amid surroundings with which he was already familiar, he began impressing them on his mind as his sight continued to fail. Developing the senses of touch and hearing to a remarkable degree, he continued to care for the horses and open and close the store. Likewise, he continued to drive about the country soliciting orders, and never forgot how to put up orders as accurately as a person possessing full sight. He quotes prices on all kinds of machines, explains their mechanism, and conducts patrons through the warehouse as though he were laboring under no disadvantages, and because of his determination not to give up to his affliction gets much more out of life than many of his more fortunate but less brave brethren. Editor-Bride Knew News: The Tamaqua (Pa.) Register recently told of a pretty little romance in which Miss Anna L. Hensberger, its editor and manager, and A. J. Person, general traffic manager of the Alpha Portland Cement Company of Easton, figured as the principals. Saturday, Nov. 5, the couple went to New York, where they were married. No announcement was made of the wedding until Mrs. Person, true to her editorial instinct, printed the story as a "beat," which, in the parlance of the print shop, means exclusively. Mrs. Person announces that she will continue as editor and manager of the Register for the present. She is one of the most successful newspaper women in the state, and superintends the mechanical part of the paper as well as the editorial. She is a very charming and accomplished young woman and is highly esteemed. Oldest Hotel in Europe. The Goldenes Kreuz (Golden Cross) at Regensburg (Ratisbion), in Bavaria, is the oldest hotel in Europe King Ferdinand I. halted at it on his way to his coronation in 1531, and no other hotel in Europe possesses records of such great antiquity as the Golden Cross at Ratisbion does or can boast of having had so many royal visitors as have enjoyed its hospitality. The existing visitors' books, which date from 1819, contain the names of more than 500 imperial, royal and princely personages. The room is shown where, in 1865, the late Prince Bismarck, at that time Prussian minister, slept when he came with his sovereign to hold the conference war was the last attempt to prevent war between Austria and Prussia. The negotiations were held in the "small hall" of the hotel, under the presidency of King William of Prussia. The host is equally proud of the autographs of Schiller and other men of letters which he possesses. The author of "William Tell" wrote the words, "Und eine Heimath ist es" ("It is indeed a home"), in memory of his stay there and no landlord could wish for a better advertisement. Tree Bears Freak Apples Everybody knows there are red apples. That is to say, the outside of the apples are red, it would not be safe to bet, however, that there are no apples the fruit of which is red to the core for George Stevens of Lee Valley, N. Y., has a tree in his orchard that bears apples that are red on the inside. The tree is self-planted and is about eight years old. When it came up it was regarded as a sort of scrub, and the owner was inclined to cut it down. But when it commenced to hear and produced fruit that was red on the inside it was considered a freak and allowed to grow. The tree hangs full of apples every year. The skin of the fruit is light yellow, like a pippin, and the flesh runs from a bright red to a salmon color. The apples are not large, but are good eating, being as the freshman said, "nayther swate nor sour, but tagt." These apples are a curiosity to a* who see them. It seems to be a case where the red color* matters has gone into the fruit instead of the skin, as it usually does. by friction and penetration warms, soothes and cures the worst cases. Price 25c, and 50c. MINERS CARRY GREAT WEIGHTS. Strength of Chileans Sustained Without Meat Diet. Perhaps the greatest weights borne for any distance are the loads of ore brought up from the mines of the Andes by the miners of Chile. Darwin visited a copper mines in a ravine leading from the main range of the Cordilleras, where the work was carried on by such primitive means that, though the mines had been worked in the mountains for at least two centuries, the water was removed in some by carrying it up shafts in leather bags on men's backs. Sir Francis Head, when visiting a similar mine, found that all the ore was carried up to the surface, a vertical climb of 450 feet, by the miners, and that the average weight carried was 250 pounds. This load was not carried up a winding stair, but up notched trunks of trees, set almost upright, one touching another. The food of the Chilean miner, according to Darwin, consisted of ratios of sixteen tigs and two small loaves of bread for breakfast; for dinner boiled beans; for supper wheat crushed and roasted. They scarcely ever tasted meat. --- Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in $A_4$ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. It your grocery tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Fishing Wheels. A curious plan for catching fish is used on the River Columbia. A number of wheels are set up in the middle of the stream, which, as they turn around, catch up the fish and cast them into troughs by the river banks. As much as five tons weight of fish a day has thus been taken. Ask Your Doctor to make sure your Foot-Fase. "I tried ALLEN'S FOOT EASE recently and have just bought another supply it has cured my corns, and the hot, burning and itching sensation in my foot which was almost unbearable, and I would not be without it now - Mrs W. W. Walker Camdon, N. J." Sold by all Dr. Desperes, 250. Many a man would be delighted to have a wife who would drive him to drink. FREE REMEDED BESTSELLER FAVOURITE The Dearest the Best One soon finds that inexpensive things or persons are bad, incompetent, and in the long run ruinous at any price. John Oliver Hobbess in London Mail. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charl H. Flutcher In Use For over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Expert Testimony. "There are fifteen symptoms of drunkenness," said a medical witness in an English police court. The judge hastily fined the defendant $0 and called for the next case. The well earned reputation and increasing popularity of the Lewis "Single Binder, straight e cigar, is due to the maintained high quality and appreciation of the smoker Lewis' Factory, Pooria, Ill. In Man's Behalf Most women begin to get hurt after they are 30 years of age, but they can't understand why their husbands don't keep right on yearning to hold them on their knees. Inquiry into the history of every inmate of a lunatic asylum will develop the fact that he always believed in clairvoyants and fortune tellers and spirits. A man is always different from that which women think he is. LEWIS WOODS,..... Business Manager. 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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. THE FREEMAN IS RIGHT. As Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, has been in public office for forty years and is now seventy years old, there does not seem to be any injustice in asking him to step aside for new blood. While giving him full credit for useful services and a blameless life, there does not seem to be any just reason why he should be given a federal job to "break his fall." There are Repubileans in Missouri fit to take his place, and it should be remembered that it has been "mighty long time between drinks" for Missouri Republicans. Where are all the Republicans of Missouri? Cobenel R. C. Kerens was considered the best man in Missouri till it came his time, then what a seramble. He has led us in the past and we were proud to have his lead, so now he is entitled to be sent to the Senate and we should be proud to see him. He will till the bill with credit to Missouri. JOPLIN, MO., Dec. 12—Senator Hugh McIndoe announces that he will support R. C. Kerens for senator. Upon being asked his opinion of the senatorial contest, Senator McIndoe said: "It would seem that some of the persons actively interested in the promotion of senatorial candidacies are losing sight of the real issue in the contest, which is not as to who shall become the distributor of federal patronage in the state of Missouri, but rather as to what Republican in Missouri is best equipped and most entitled to the United States senator ship. "The question of federal patronage has done more to disrupt the party and keep Missouri Democratic than the combined efforts of the opposition, even with the aid of its odious election laws. The Republican party has been ridden to death by the few who would deal out the patronage, at the expense of the innumerable thousands of loyal Republicans in Missouri, who are tired and weary of postoffice squabbles and contentions. "In the list of aspirants for the senatorship I have no doubt that any one of them could satisfactorily meet the requirements of the office, but the candidate whose name comes first is that of Richard C. Keenens, and among Republicans it seems to be a case of for or against Mr. Kerens. "Two years ago, with a view to restoring party harmony, I voted for a candidate who had not been identified with party leadership. In the next senatorial caucus Mr. Kerens will receive my uspport. "He is as well equipped to represent Missouri in the senate as any other Republican, and in point of party service leads all others. As a leader, asking nothing for himself, he has unselfishly devoted time and money in his party's behalf. During the last campaign, for harmony's sake, he voluntarily took his place in the ranks, yet as ever his best efforts were devoted to the upholding of Republican principles, and this at a time when he could not have had the senatorship in mind, for there is no Missourian can say a Republican successor to Senator Cockrell was expected. Three times, in preceding cancuses, Mr. Kerenus has been given the party nomination when it but represented the shadow. Now give him the substance. "If Mr. Kerens is sent to the senate he will not have to wait the probationary six years before he is permitted to become identified with the policies of the party. On account of his wide acquaintanceship with other Republican leaders, Mr. Kerens would at once take front rank in Senate councils as did the lamented Hanna. "It is noted that the Democratic Press is intensely opposed to Mr. Kerens' candidacy, but this is the sort of opposition that is complimentary rather than otherwise. A great leader is always the mark of the opposition. It was so with Hanna, McKinley and Roosevelt. If Mr. Kerens' nomination would tend to disrupt the Republican party in Missouri he would have an undercurrent of support from every Democratic newspaper within the state. Certain opponents of Mr. Kerens within the party press to question his loyalty to the president and attempt to make capital against him with assertions by innuendo that he is a persona non grata to the president, and that the latter will decline to recognize him in making federal appointments, even though elected, and this sort of a campaign is persistently maintained by aid of the Democratic press, notwithstanding the fact that the president has stated in unequivocal language that he will keep hands off in the senatorial contest and will be satisfied with whatever selection may be made by the Republicans of Missouri upon whom the responsibility rests." 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 it is due in greater part to the wicked attempt of the World and Judge Parker to blacken the character of the President of the United States. The Son is still hollowing for Kerens for senator. We would rejoice to see the Hon. Gardiner Lathrop have anything he wants. 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. Paris, Mo., July 15th, 1899. Gentlemen: When I began using the Ozonized Ox Marrow my head was so bald I was ashamed of myself but now my hair has grown three inches all over my head and I have only been using it two months. 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 THE GREAT SALE OF Christmas Toys IS ON AT C. COLLINS' BIG DRY GOODS HOUSE Visit our Toy Room and it will tell. Among things that will please the little folks we mention: DOLLS Everything in the line of Toys And we are selling them at prices that defy competition. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS In our other Departments. Save Time and Money by Stopping Here. C. C. Collins Dry Goods Store 1431-33-35-37 E. Eighteenth St. Neatly Furnished Rooms and Cafe Near Corner Eighteenth and Tracy, 1807 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. MRS. V. L. NORTH, Prop. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Do not forget to purchase one of our famous 5 lb. Boxes of 25c Candles, 5 lbs. for $1. ARNETT, The French Dry Cleaner LADIES FINE WEARING APPAREL A Specialty. 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 wayward and incorrigible negro girls, such as herein described, but our efforts have been in vain. NELSON CREWS. THE GREAT SALE Christmas IS O C BIG Visit our Toy Ro Among things that will please DOLLS Baby Bugs E Sleds China Disc Everything in And we are selling them at pri SUITABLE A CHRISTMAS In our other Save Time and Mon C. C. Collins D 1431-33-35-37 Call up Home Phone 5327 Main Hotel N Neatly Furnished Near Corner Eigh 1807 Tracy Avenue MRS. V. L. N OPEN DAY Pu HOLIDAY We are He CHRISTMA Do not forget to pur 5 lb. Boxes of 25c PURITY CA 18 East Twelfth St. ARNETT, The F LADIES 4 Ma HOME KANS Christmas Headquarters where there is everything for all Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. Successors to B'LLENE, MOORE, EMERY & CO. WE NEVER SLEEP Mail Orders Promptly Attended To. Express Paid Both Ways. HOME TEL. MAIN 1252. BELL, WALNUT 2823. 1610 Penn Street, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI A man in a long coat stands in front of a painting of a man in a chair. The man in the chair is holding a book and looking at the man in the coat. IT IS OUR FUU taste and t and Over lines approved by IS OUR FUNCTION to grape taste and to develop it. O and Overcoats are cut proved by fashion. T IS OUR FUNCTION to gratify that taste and to develop it. Our Suits and Overcoats are cut on the approved by fashion. $12 to $30 For Holiday Gifts we s wear, Gloves, Suspende everything of the best quai Browning, HENRY CASPER, Manager. THEODOR DRU Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH ST PHONES { Home 4211 Main } Bell 1211 Grand KANSAS Dealer in Drugs, Toilet article Give us an Order by Phone and S The Stoeltzing Stove Holiday Gifts we show complete line moves, Suspenders, Canes, Umbre of the best quality. Prices reason Downing, King & Co. ER, Manager. 11th & M THEODORE SMITH DRUGGIST. 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPEN Home 4211 Main Bell 1211 Grand PHONES Home KANSAS CITY, MO. Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, St Order by Phone and See if We are not there w eltzing Stove and Hard For Holiday Gifts we show complete lines of Neckwear, Gloves, Suspenders, Canes, Umbrellas, and everything of the best quality. Prices reasonable. THEODORE SMITH. DRUGGIST. Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES | Home 4211 Main | Bell 1211 Grand PHONES | Home 5646 Main | Bell 2170 Main Dealer in Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. Give us an Order by Phone and See if We are not there with the Goods. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. CHEF'S OVEN Wabas A NEW abash Tra TO Wabash Train TO ST. LOUIS Leave KANSAS CITY, 11:30 p. m. Daily Arrive WORLD'S FAIR STATION, 7:00 a. m. " Arrive ST. LOUIS (Union Station), 7:15 a. m. " EQUIPMENT---Pullman Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches. Sleepers and Coaches open at 10:00 p. m. for occupancy. Wabash is the only line to WORLD'S FAIR Main Gate. Return Train leaves St. Louis 11:45 p. m. for Kansas City. Ask your Agent for Tickets over the Wabash. M. O. SHIELDS, L. S. MOOLELLAN, TRAVELING PASSENGER AGENT. WESTERN PASSENGER AGENT. 903 MAIN STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. I "He is rich," said Beau Brummell, "who inherits a taste in dress." FUNCTION to gratify that to develop it. Our Suits rcoats are cut on the fashion. show complete lines of Neck- ders, Canes, Umbrellas, and quality. Prices reasonable. King, King & Co. 11th & Main Sts. ORE SMITH, BUGGIST. 11 STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES { Home 5646 Main Bell 2170 Main AS CITY, MO. Circles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. And See if We are not there with the Goods. Move and Hardware Co. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Agents for... Peninsular Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Cliermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. TIN WORK a Specialty. ...A new line of... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. LOCALS. LOCALS. Mrs. Sam Chandler left last week for St. Paul, where she is to spend several 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 J.nes Dry Goods Company has on hand everything to please the little folks and the big folks, too. John Taylor Dry Goods Co. is showing some fine things for Christmas. WANTED.—Colored lady to use leisure time soliciting. Experience unnecessary. Very profitable. Call 205 Wales Bldg, corner of Sixth and Delaware. Mr. H. Patton is the proprietor of a restaurant for ladies and gentlemen at 924 Wyandotte street. Dinner is served from 11:30 to 2 p. m. Short orders are served at all hours between 6:30 a. m. and 10:30 at night. Good service. Hot creme de menthe, claret phosphate, coffee, chocolate, root beer, beef tea, Roman punch, Jamaica ginger, English Breakfast tea, clam and tomato bouillon, are some of the leaders at McCampbell & Houston's Hot Soda Fountain. CASH IS THE WAY. Reading notices and announcements will always be rated as advertisements, and when such is sent in to our office cash must accompany it. AGENTS WANTED.—$50 per week and expenses easily made selling combination policies for a big sick and accident company. Write to-day. Address U. S. Protective Society, Salisbury, Mo.. If you desire one of the Magnetic Hair Straighteners or some Ozone we have it in stock at the Rising Son office and all other preparations from the Boston Chemical Co. Solo Mandolins, John Hobbs, Thas N. Grant; Second Mandolin, J. E Johnson; Guitars, Fred Spence, Wm Williams. Gate City Mandolin Club Music for parties .etc. Bell Phone 2655 Main. Fred Spence, 1007 Walnut stret, Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. W. H. Owens, 2424 Flora has four large rooms to rent. Gas in every room and water in kitchen. $10 per month. John Titus Peterman, the brilliant author and reader, is open for engagements. 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 parlor and ladies' tailoring school at her residence, 1228 Walnut street, for the benefit of our girls and ladies. COTTAGE FOR SALE. I have for sale near 26th and Vine, a nice cottage, with about four rooms, offered at the low price of $1,000; $100 cash, the remainder at $15 monthly at 6 per cent.; best bargain of its kind in the city; get further particulars of W. J. RATCLIFF, 613 Mass. Bldg. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MO. The good people who wish to visit the springs, will find first class accommodations at Fred F. Elliot's. Ratesasonable and service good. Flint, Ala., June 14th, 1900. Dear Sirs: I have used your Ozonized Ox Marrow only a short while and it has improved my hair wonderfully. ROTHA FRANCIES. When the collector comes to you for your subscription, why not pay him? Why tell him you want to see Woods? To my colored friends, I want the money, and they can see me any time. It does seem you ought to know when the year is out. I wish you all a merry Christmas and that you will live long and prosper. Many thanks to you for past favors. Dr. Smith succeeds because he knows his business and attends to it. He contributes liberaly to churches, and all charitable institutions. We should always support a man of this kind. The editor wishes him continued success. NOTICE Dr. Smith, the druggist, has no interest in the "Stock Drug Company," which is to be opened by some of the physicians of our city, but will continue to do business at 908 E. 12th street and 805 Independence avenue. Dr. Smith is serving up-to-date hot drinks. Give him a call. Buy your Christmas goods at Smith's. S. J. Herndon, clerk under N. C. Crews at the city hall, died at his home last week at Pleasant Hill. George Clay is acting at present as clerk under N. C. Crews, clerk of police court. There will be merry things going on holiday week at the churches. The meeting that was called last week at Allen Chapel to take steps in raising some money to pay off the debt on the Old Folks' and Orphans' Home was an evidence of what we will do. That is the duty of every good man or woman of the race, to come out and help lift this debt. Just think how easy it could be done. Only $70.50 pays the bill. Let every one do his duty for once. Let us raise this money. Milwaukee, Wis., June 23, 1893. Gentlemen: Please send me two bottles of the Ozonized Ox Marrow for the hair. Think it is one of the best hair pomades made. MRS. JOHN GRAF. 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 something 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 fist 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. Give 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. Short Life of Scallon: 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. 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 been used on foreign service at all, it is discovered. Ripe Olives. Many people say they don't like the taste of olives. On inquiry 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. Youngster's Real Grace. A curly-haired chap, aged 5, confided 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." GAMBLED WITH DUKE'S MONEY. Dishonesty of Servant Taught Wellington a Lesson. Even the "iron" duke of Wellington had his difficulties with the servant question. Chaplaim 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 contained but a scanty supply at any given time. The oldest could not have been more than a couple of months in his possession. Of his reasons for thus acting he made no secret. 'At one time,' he said, 'I used to do as others do—gave my orders to the house steward and handed him the money to pay the bills as he presented them to me. This went on for a year or more, when to my surprise and disgust I got letters from tradesmen humbly begging that I would settle their accounts, which had been long standing. I found on inquiry that the fellow had been gambling with my money, leaving my creditors unpaid. From that day to this I have made it a point to pay my own bills, and to keep my accounts with tradesmen as short as possible.'" ACCOUNTED FOR THE GULLC. Artist's Explanation Easily Sufficed for Simple-Minded King. George Chambers, an artist, was once commissioned by King William IV. of England to paint a picture of the attack on a fortress on the Spanish coast by a frigate commanded by his majesty, who was then the duke of Clarence. The attack took place at night. Chambers completed a beautiful picture from some rough sketches that were in the king's possession, and when submitted for approval his majesty was delighted with it, but Chambers had taken an artist's liberty with the picture and for the purpose of relieving the somber veil of night had introduced some sea gulls skimming the waves. "Hallo, 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 majesty," replied Chambers, "but you gave such a rousing broadside with your guns that they all woke up and flew about." "Ah, so I did; so I did, Chambers. I forgot that. Very good! Very good!" Latin Alphabet. Our alphabet is derived from the primitive alphabet of Italy, which belonged to the Western Greek type. As early probably as the ninth century B. C. it was carried by the Chalcidians of Euboca, an island of Greece, to Cumae, near Naples, Italy. It became the parent of five local Italic alphabets—the Oscan, the Etruscan, the Umbrian, the Faliscan and the Latin. Owing to the political supremacy of Rome the Latin ultimately displaced the other national scripts of Italy, and became the alphabet of the Roman empire, and afterwards of Latin Christendom, thus spreading over Western Europe, America and Australia until it became the dominant alphabet of the world. Relic of War of 1711. At Pointe Les Monts, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is a lighthouse, the keeper of which recently turned out of the sand an old-style sword bearing on its blade the date "1711." It is undoubtedly a relic of the ill-fated expedition of Admiral Walker, who left England in 1711 with 11,000 men and a large fleet to take Quebec and Montreal. When he got off Seven Islands he was overtaken by a dense fog and a great storm arose. He refused to take the advice of a French pilot and as a result the British ships were dashed to pieces on the rocks of Egg Island and next spring 900 bodies were lying there. Red-Haired People Sought. Students of red-hairiology say that a woman adorned with bright red tresses is brighter, more deceptive and more ambitious than a woman having other colored hair. Whatever truth there may be in this, it is a fact that red-haired women have a strange fascination for most men, and red-headed old maids are almost unknown. Red-haired men are equally in demand in the matrimonial market, for they are said to make the most devoted of husbands. Hence the reason of a club of girls in Dresden, members of which pledge themselves to die old maids rather than marry any but young men with red hair. Patria. I would not even ask my heart to say If I could love another land as well As thee, my country, had I felt the spell. Or if I could birth, or learned to obey The charm of France, or England's mighty sway; I would not be so much an infidel As once to dream, or fashion words to What land could hold my love from thee away. For like a law of nature in my blood I felt thy sweet and secret sovereignty. And like a birthmark on my soul thy sign. My heart but a wave and thou the flood; I am a beast, and thou the mother tree; Nor should I be at all, were I not thine. —Henry Van Dyke in Collier's. Queer Funerals of Korea. The Koreans have a curious dread of the spirits of their ancestors and of demons, which leads to all kinds of precautions and propitiations. Most elaborate and expensive graves are made for the dead, generally on a terrace scooped out of a hillside, with a mound and railings, a grove of trees, and a shrine with an avenue of strange carved stone figures of men and beasts. The amount of land kept out of cultivation by these burial places is said to be almost incredible. Milking Machines. 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. 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. 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. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE.... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. ...IS THE.... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services striptly first-class. Ladies and Gentle dine up stair. Z. T. JOBDAN, Manager GO TO E. Z Barber UNEEDA SHAVE A C. A. E A. G. HOWARD Ir now ready to fill your orders for quantities Home Phone 1695 Main. *JOHN P. TILLHOF. Established TILLHOF & C REAL ESTATE, RENTA 203-204 Hall Bldg., Corr. Both Phones 1460 MAIN. DIAMOND PAINT PAINT, VARNISH, C. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. Tel. 946 C. H. Countee. Countee Brothers, 4 East 12th St. (Phone 780 Grand. Carriages Furniture $15,000.00 SALE BANKRUPT OF J.P. Louis Stock of COMMENCING A Saturday, Dec This Entire Stock with 50 Cents on the Dry Goods, Millinery, Goods, Shoes, Rubber, Scarfs, Ladies' Waists. Also line of HOLIDAY GOODS REMEMBER THE 1413 & 1415 E. 18th S Trustee Sale. J. Established 1889. LHOF & CAMPBELL STATE, RENTALS, INST. & Hall Bldg., Cor. 9th & Wail- KANSAS MAIN. BOND PAINT CO. PAINT, VARNISH, BRUSHES. L., Mgr. Tel. 946. 1214 G. Intee. Brothers, UNDERTA ..Licensed Phone 780 Grand. Carriages Furnished for All Occasions. 200.00 SALE $15, ANKRUPT SALE of Louis Stock of Merchandise COMMENCING AT 8 A. M. Saturday, December This Entire Stock will be Sold at Cents on the Day Goods, Millinery, Men's Fur- dals, Shoes, Rubbers, Ladies Scarfs, Ladies' Skirts and Waists. Also a full line of DAY GOODS AND REMEMBER THE PLACE, 1415 E. 18th St. (Cor. Intee Sale. J. P. Louis Dry Goods, Millinery, Men's Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Rubbers, Ladies' Fur Scarfs, Ladies' Skirts and Waists. Also a full line of KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT --- --- Nebraska Clothing Co. KANSAS CITY, MO. Wise People who like easy, comfortable shopping, while the choicest and most beautiful things are still unpicked will buy now while the stocks are full. The best Christmas Shopping Time is RIGHT NOW. Furnished Rooms To Rent. BY DAY OR WEEK Meals at All Hours. At 1001 E. 18th St. G. SMITH. Propr. GO TO THE E. Z. Barber Shop UNEEDA SHAVE AND HAIR CUT. C. A. EVANS 107 East 14th, Kansas City, Mo for coal and feed in large or small cities. Street number 1025 Pacific. ed 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL. CAMPBELL DETALS. INSURANCE: For. 9th & Walnut Sts. KANSAS CITY, MO. INT CO. (DEVOE.) SH, BRUSHES. 946. 1214 GRAND AVENUE. W. B. Countec- ERS, UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers... Furnished for All Occasions. KANSAS CITY, MO. SALE $15,000.00 PT SALE of Merchandise G AT 8 A. M. December 17th. Work will be Sold at In the Dollar y, Men's Furnishing Robbers, Ladies' Fur s' Skirts and Also a full e of DDS AND TOYS THE PLACE, In St. (Cor. Grove.) J. P. Louis Sale. FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. Home Tel. 5225 Main. Lady Attendant. A. T. MOORE UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND LICENSED EMBALMERS. COURTEOUS TREATMENT Parlore 1820 E. 18fh St., Kansas City. THE TRAIN SERVICE OF THE MIS- SOURI PACIFIC. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY The four flyers that leave Kansas City Union depot daily for St. Louis and all points East—note the leaving time: 10:10 a. m., 1:10 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 10:45 p. m. No other due from Kansas City offers to the traveling public such train service via St. Louis. Note the new departure of the fast mail at 1:10 p. m. arrives in St. Louis at 10 p. m.; close connections in St. Louis with the Grand Union stations with Eastern and Southeastern trains. The only line leaving Kansas City after the Operas, Lodge meetings and Sunday night Church service, at 10:45 p. m. and arriving in St. Louis at 7:20 a. m., in time for all Eastern connections. 10:20 p. m. -10:50 a. m.; Omaha & St. Paul Express. Elegant equipment. Pullman Sleeper sand Compartment cars; Reclining Chair cars. (all seats free). For all information and tickets call at Union Depot and 901 Main St., City Office. E. S. JEWETT, Pass. & Ticket Agent. 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HGRWOMAN'SWIT "I reckon I've cured you of your contrariness for good and all!" cried Farmer Haines, swinging in at the kitchen door standing an old shot gun behind the stove and scowling fiercely as he took his accustomed seat at table. His blazing eyes challenged those of a slender girl engaged in emptying the steaming contents of several pots into a line of waiting dishes. "Why, father, what have you done?" The girl's hand went up as if she felt a clutch at her pretty throat and her eyes flashed a back of defiance not unmixed with fear. "If you have killed him, finish your mad work and shoot me, too!" she cried, dropping a saucepan and rushing for the door. The old man turned to stop her, but, even as his arm was raised, the door flew open and a young man, ministerally garbed and very much out of breath, nervously dabbling at his chubby face with a large silk handkerchief, entered precipitately and confronted the young woman. "Dora Haines!" he gasped, "you look all worked up. What's the matter? I thought I heard—" "Ask father—he knows," faltered Dora, breaking from the affectionate grasp of the Reverend Giles Faxon and flying down the pathway leading to the road. "What—what's happened?" asked the parson, seating himself and gazing with impatient curiosity at the stalwart Haines, as he proceeded to transfer his dinner from the stove to the table. "What—what's Dora so put out about? I thought I heard—" "You heard nothing!" declared the farmer, pausing to level a warning finger at the preacher, "do you understand? You heard nothing!" "But I certainly—" Haines in one stride was at the other's elbow. His great fist was within an inch of the reverent nose. "You shut up and let me talk," he hissed. "That Barker fellow has been snooping around here again contrary to my orders. He's after my Dora, and she—the ninny loves him. Hear that? Loves him!" "But Barker's a forger—I thought he had left the country." "Will you be quiet? Dora would have run away with him if I hadn't kept my eye skinned. I warned him that the next time he came around I'd put shot into him, and I guess I've kept my word." "Oh, I trust you haven't—" "Never you mind. You've heard nothing and you want to let that stick in your memory or you may come to harm. If you have any idea of marrying my daughter, mind what I'm telling you." "Was Dora going to him when I came in?" "Go and see, for all I care—but remember—you heard no shooting." The Reverend Giles Faxon, in any thing but a happy frame of mind, let the house. Several farm hands were coming in from the fields to dinner. A woman stands in front of a man sitting at a desk. The woman is facing the man, who is sitting behind the desk. There is a pot on the floor in front of the woman. "If you have killed him, shoot me, too!" His first impulse was to inquire of them as to Barker and the shooting, but he remembered Haines' warning and let them pass unquestioned. "Pernaps he is lying wounded down there by the creek," he thought, "perhaps—oh, God—perhaps Haines killed him—and it is all my fault. I will go and see. Dora, if she expected him, may be there before me." Less than half an hour had elapsed since Faxon, on his way afoot from his school to dine with Haines and his daughter, had heard high words from a clump of trees near the creek by the roadside—words, followed by the report of a gun. He had distinguished the voices but, being of a timid nature, had hastened his steps toward the farm house, not pausing to inquire into the cause or effect of the strange occurrence. Arriving at a little bridge that spanned the creek, Faxon, leaving the road, tremblingly plunged into the underbreech, calling: "Dora! Dora! Where are you, Dora?" There was no answer and the young A man in a suit is speaking to a woman in a dress. They are standing in front of a table with a glass of water. 'Live? Yes! Live to see you well rewarded!' clergyman floundered around for several minutes without observing any sign of a scuffle. Suddenly he heard a voice and, guided by the sound, soon came upon Dora Haines kneeling beside the prostrate form of a man. Dora appeared not to notice Faxon who, as soon as his eyes fell upon his rival's face against the girl's heart, cried out: 'How can you, Dora? He is a felon—he who forged old man Cotton's name—the man whose arrest is worth five hundred dollars.' Dora turned upon him with scorn in her beautiful eyes. "He is innocent!" she cried. Barker stirred and the farmer's daughter again gave him her attention, calling him by endearing names—names the Reverend Faxon had never before heard from her lips. A sigh escaped Dora's lover and suddenly he sat up, looking longingly into the girl's eyes and then letting his gaze wander to the surprised countenance of the parson. "Dora knows I'm innocent, he said, and then something like a smile brightened his handsome features—a smile of triumph. Faxon made a move as if to withdraw. "Not yet!" cried Barker, and there was strength in his voice. "Stay!"—and Barker's hand was raised. In it he held a shining revolver. "Dora's father told me, before this little forging incident, that she loved you, so when you stooped to forge another's name and further stooped to accuse me—old Cotton's clerk—for love of her, believing that she really loved you, I let it appear that I left the country. But I was not very far away. One night I stole to Dora's window to say goodby, and learned from her lips that her heart was mine. Her father interrupted us and, believing the lie you spread concerning me, would have held me to claim the reward. Dora pleaded for my liberty and her father let me go, threatening to shoot me should I again be seen on his place. To-day I came to expose you and to take Dora away as my wife. I managed to send her a message to meet me here, but her father saw me and kept his promise. As for you—you will soon change your ministerial garb for a striped suit." "That will come later; just now you have work to do—the last task you will perform as a clergyman, I think for some time—marry us!" The Reverend Giles Faxon trembled, hesitated and stuttered. Dora bid her face on her lover's shoulder. The point of Barker's pistol rose a trifle and—Faxon did his duty. "Will he live? asked Faxon, for Dora and Barker were very silent following the strange ceremony and the clergyman feared—or did he hope?— that his victim might be passing beyond the power to accuse him to the world. "Live? Yes! Live to see you well rewarded," cried Barker, springing to his feet. "Why—why, I thought you were badly wounded," declared the Reverend Giles Faxon. "He would have been," said Dora, nestling close in her lover's arms, "had I not thought to put blank cartridges in father's gun." One On the Mule: William H. Taft, secretary of war, weighs 320 pounds. His predecessor in office, Eilhu Root, tips the scales at only half that figure. When Secretary Taft was civil governor of the Philippines his health was sadly undermined. He was laboring under great responsibility in governing the archipelago, where conditions were yet so disturbed as to give Secretary Root and President Roosevelt much concern. Mr. Root therefore requested Judge Taft to keep him advised by the new Pacific cable as to the state of his health. One day this message came to Mr. Root from Gov. Taft at Benguet, in the mountains near Manila: "Rode ten miles on a mule to-day. Am feeling much better. TAFT." Mr. Root chuckled and doubled with mirth in the chair which Secretary Taft has since discarded as too small. He dictated this reply: "Taft, Benguet. Glad to hear it, but how is the mule? ROOT." She Declined the Seat. Georgie was a well behaved little boy. He had been especially taught by his father to be polite to ladies and in a crowded car always to give up his seat to one of the gentle sex regardless of age, social condition and good looks. On a Subway car last Sunday papa had an unlooked-for and embarrassing illustration of how well Georgie had learned his lesson. The car was crowded, but Georgie had preempted a seat. A handsome young lady entered at one of the stations at which the train stopped. There was not a vacant seat. "Take my seat, ma'am," said little Georgie, as he doffed his cap. She didn't take the seat. She looked fierce enough to box his ears, and the passengers had to laugh in spite of her mortification. Georgie was sitting on papa's lap when he so gallantly offered to give up his seat to the pretty young lady.—Exchange. The Goddess From the Machine. The Goddess From the Machine. Singing for phonograph seems to be as high-paid musical exercise as there is. A phonograph company has offered a prima donna, who sings at the Metropolitan opera house this winter, $14,000 for four songs. That is, $6,000 as soon as the songs are sung, and $2,000 a year for four years as a reward for not singing into any other machine. Great and many are the means of income of a goddess of grand opera. She could live splendidly on what she can get for using a pill, a perfume, a piano, or a phonograph.—With the Procession, Everybody's Magazine. A Toast Let him who will drink to his love, O or pledge a friend in wine, A rousing toast I will give to thee, O enemy of mine! Pour forth the amber liquid; fill Your glasses to the brim. Heres to the man whose heart for me Bears naught but hatred grim! How off when steep ascents I climb Would I cast down my load, Did not his royal emuity My lagging footsteps goal! So drink again, your tumpers raise, And galehly clink me. Had he told the man who jumps me well- Down with "Mine Enemy"— - Blanche Goodman, in Smart Set. Italian Judicial Scandal. A singular judicial scandal has broken out in Naples and the district depending upon the Neapolitan tribunal where the discovery has been made that no fewer than 13,000 public prosecutions, great and small, have during the last few years been allowed to lapse and disappear from the lists, owing to magisterial neglect and corruption. The excuse for the magistrates is that they have only followed a system of long standing. Edison and Pasteur Thomas A. Edison has settled down to the life of a country gentleman under the shadow of the New Jersey mountains. Americans are inclined to forget that his is one of the great names of the world. Aent this fact, says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle, I recall an interview with Pasteur, the immortal French bacteriologist, in which he said, with the simple and unaffected vanity of a Frenchman: "Your Edison is a great man. When the history of our generation comes to be written the two names that will stand out most prominently in science will be his and—mine." Newspapers of the World It has been calculated that, taking the population of the whole world, there is one newspaper to every 82,600 persons. The United States supports 12,500 newspapers, of which 1,000 are dailies, these being round figures. Germany has 5,500 journals, of which 800 are daily. England takes second place in the European record with 3,000 newspapers, of which 809 are daily. France has nearly the same number—namely, 2,819—but of these only a fourth appear daily or twice or thrice a week. Seek to Lower Death Rate. German manufacturers have united in a movement to lower the industrial death rate. In Holland there is a museum of safety, which has demonstrated the value of educating the public in the use of safety appliances. JEST NUTS Pulske Mr. Booze—My explanashun—hie—I hope is shatisfactory, my deearsh. Mrs. Booze—Your excuse is pretty good, but it isn't as good as father used to make. Ambition. The successful politician was reading a book on etiquette. "Polishing up a bit, are you?" asked one of the faithful. "Yes," replied the great man. "When I get through this I think I'll be a smoother proposition than ever." A Good Thing. She—"Do you think there is anything in palmistry?" He—"Yes, for some people," She—"Who, for instance?" He—"For the fellow that gets the money for looking at somebody's else hand!" DIDN'T BELIE Mr. Booze—My explanashun—hic- Mrs. Booze—Your excuse is prett used to make. Extent of Her Acquaintance. A friend who was calling on Miss Carolyn Wells at her home in New Jersey happened to mention some people who lived further down the same street. "Are you acquainted with the family?" asked the visitor. "Y-yes," answered Miss Wells, with a touch of hesitancy in her voice; "that is, I speak to the dog every morning when I go by."—Saturday Evening Post. His Social Invitation "I wish you please, suh, write me a invitation ter my ole frends," said the prisoner under sentence. "Ali right," replied the jailor, "what do you want me to say?" "Des say, 'You is respectfully invited ter attend a social hangin', Friday mornin', 12 o'clock sharp, der man ter be hung bein' me. Come one, come all—de great en de small, en come in time. De hangin' is free ter all my fr'en.'s." Knew His Game. Tom—I saw Slickley the other day, and he was looking exceedingly prosperous. Dick—If you see him again tell him I'm out of town. Tom—What for? Dick—He once confided to me that the only time he ever pretended to be a swell dresser was when he was broke and out borrowing money. Detroit Free Press. Not the Real Article Cholly—Some of us fellahs were discussing the drama lawst night and I got an idea in my head---- Miss Pepprey—You didn't really? Cholly—Pawisively! Fact, I assuah you! All my own idea, too. Miss Pepprey—Oh! that's different. You'll find it wasn't really an idea. Doing His Share. Shea (between sips)—Phwy don't yez hov a bargain day, Moike, an mark'r down ivething in the house? Sullivan (producing slate)—Mar-rk down, is it? Begorra iv Oi do much more mar-rkin' down Oi'll be in the poorhouse. That makes two sivinty-folye yez owe me—Town Topics. O Yes! He Thought of Her Mother—Tommy, have you eaten all your sweets without even thinking of sister? Tommy—O, no mama. I was thinking of her the whole time. I was afraid she'd come before I had finished them!—Stray Stories. Uninterested. "Over there, ladies and gentlemen," said the guide to the party of "Personally Conducted," "are the famous mud baths of——" "Don't interest me!" said the gentleman from the United States, indifferently, "I've run for office too many times at home."—Puck. Simple and Natural Exploration. Mrs. Newlwied - Oh, Henry, what's the matter with you? Are you sick? Mr. Newlwied - Justaht a (hic) trifle, m' dear. You shee, barber put bay rum on my (hic) mustache, an' it 'fected my shtomach. Aa Explained. Judge—"Were you ever la prison?" Witness—"Well, not exactly; still I'm now serving a life sentence." Judge—"Why, how's that?" Witness—I'm married. --- DROP NO. 13 Woodby Booth—Now I know what the manager meant when he promised me a long run. It's 1,433 miles to New York. Village postmaster—We ought to have another clerk here. Inspector—More than she can do, eh? Village postmaster—Yes; why, sometimes she don't get through reading all the postcards before 10 o'clock at night—Tit-Bits. Never Touched Him. "If you open your mouth," hissed the burglar, "you are a dead man." "Huh!" rejoined the ex-candidate as he blinked at the dark lantern, "I've been a dead one ever since the election." SIEVE HIM. I hope is satisfactory, my dearsh. ty good, but it isn't as good as father Bright Woman: Mr. Klose—I'm glad to see some women have begun a crusade against the killing of birds for hat trimmings. It's certainly a cruel—" Mrs. Klose—"It is so cruel, dear, and I just hate to wear my last winter's hat because it has a bird on it. I saw a lovely hat downtown to-day for $40 that hasn't even a feather on it. Let me buy it to morrow? A. Pleasant Change "When I first met you," snapped the woman who had been married for her money, "you occupied a low mental position, and it's only due to me that your present position—" "Is a hymeneal one, my dear," interrupted her husband, smiling sweetly.—Catholic Standard and Times. Nct Fitted for It. "He says he doesn't enjoy gunning or fishing." "No; how could he? You only have to hear him talk to know that." "Why?" "He's the most matter-of-fact and unimaginative person in the world."—Philadelphia Press. Confidence Tom—Very nice girl, indeed, and between you and me, I think she'll marry the first man who asks her. Dick—You don't mean it? Tom—Yes, and the reason I think so is that I'm going to be the first man. Woodby Booth—Now I know what I used me a long run. It's 1,433 mile Merely for Show. Maude—"I never carry my pocket-book in my hand when I'm shopping." Clara—"Why not?" Maude—"Because I'm afraid some one might snatch it from me." Clara—"Is it an expensive one?" Nothing Like Experience. Elderly Party—Don't you think automobiling a poor form of exercise for young men? Miss Quickstep—I don't know. It—is seems to be good for the arms. Explained. Kelly—Glory be! But isn't it a picture av yerslif I see in th' newpapers advertisin' that new patint midicine a' saylin' it cured yez av chronic rheumytism? Shure divil a wan liver suspected that ye wor throubled wid any kind o rheumytism. Clancy—Troth, I niver suspicted if messil till I took wan bottle av the midicine an' tin dollars—Puck. Candor. "I understand that you went to Pliggins to borrow money." "Yes," answered the amiable but impecunious man. "What's the trouble? Have I ever refused you anything?" "No." "Then why didn't you come to me?" "Well, the truth is, you're so easy that there's no sport in it." Declared His Intentions Mrs. Rusher—Has Mr. Goldcolln with whom you have been dancing all the evening at last declared his intentions. Mabel? Mabel—Yes, aunt. Mrs. Rusher—I am so glad! And what did he say? Mabel—He declared he would never marry.—Stray Stories. Easily Explained "How do you account for the fact," asked the doctor, "as shown by actual investigation, that thirty-two out of every hundred criminals in the country are left handed?" "That's easily accounted for," said the professor. "The other sixty-eight are right-handed."—Tit-Bits. Saving at the Spigot. Mrs. Grimes—Yes, the electric lights are awfully nice, but they must cost you lots. Mrs. Grant—Of course, they do cost a good deal; but then, you know, a bunch of matches lasts so much longer.—Boston Transcript. His Suspicion. "Bilgins says he is an independent voter." "Well," answered Senator Sorghum, "I suppose that means that he hasn't been able to persuade anybody in either party to promise him an office." —Washington Star. Worst Part of It at Home. Neighbor—How long did you stay at the club yesterday, Jones? Jones—Oh, the best part of the evening. Mrs. Jones—Why, John, you came home in half an hour! Cause and Effect. Mrs. Hix—I got my husband to admit that he was a fool to-day. Mrs. Dix—"How did you manage it?" Mrs. Dix—"I showed him some of the letters he wrote me during our courtship." Too Much Practice. The Adipose Lady—The human fly seems to be out of sorts to day. The Circassian Girl—No wonder; he told me the twins were indisposed last night and he had to walk the ceiling with them for four hours.—Puck. MISE KEPT. at the manager meant when he promo- ses to New York. The Practical Test. "Is that invention of yours practical?" "I don't know yet," answered the inventor. "It works all right, but I haven't yet put any shares on the market."—Washington Star. Heading Her Off. She—You're so bashful, Mr. Callow! I really believe that if you ever marry the lady will have to propose. He—W-well, but I might have—er—nerve enough to decline! Mary Catherine The letters of Miss Merkley, whose picture is printed above, and Miss Claussen, prove beyond question that thousands of cases of inflammation of the ovaries and womb are annually cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Gradual loss of strength and nerve forces told me something was radically wrong with me. I had severe shooting pains through the pelvic organs, cramps and extreme irritation compelled me to seek medical advice. The doctor said that I had ovarian trouble and ulceration, and advised an operation. I strongly objected to this and decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I soon found that my judgment was correct, and that all the good things said about this medicine were true, and day by day I felt less pain and increased appetite. The ulceration soon healed, and the other complications disappeared and in eleven weeks I was once more strong and vigorous and perfectly well. "My heartiest thanks are sent to you for the great good you have done me."—Sincerely yours, Miss MARGARET MERKLEY, 275 Third St., Milwaukee, Wis. Miss Claussen Saved from a Surgical Operation. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—It seems to me that all the endorsements that I have read of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound do not express one-half of the virtue the great medicine really possesses. I know that it saved my life and I want to give the credit where it belongs. I suffered with ovarian trouble for five years, had three operations and spent hundreds of dollars on doctors and medicines but this did not cure me after all. "However, what doctors and medicines failed to do, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did. Twenty bottles restored me to perfect health and I feel sure that had I known of its value before, and let the doctors alone, I would have been spared all the pain and expense that fruitless operations cost me. If the women who are suffering, and the doctors do not help them, will try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, they will not be disappointed with the results."—MISS CLARA M. CLAUSSEN, 1307 Penn St., Kansas City, Mo. $5000 FORFEIT If we cannot forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Cur. Lynn, Mass. . COMPLETELY RESTORED. Mrs. P. Brunzel, wife of P. Brunzel, stock dealer, residence 3111 Grand avenue, Everett, Wash., says: "For fifteen teen years I suffered with terrible pain in my back I did not know what it was to enjoy a night's rest and arose in the morning feel ng tired and unrefreshed. My suffering sometimes was simply indescribable. When I finished the first box of Doan's Kid ney Pills I felt like a different woman I continued until I teen years I suffered with terrible pain in my back. I did not know what it was to enjoy a night's rest and arose in the morning feeling tired and unrefreshed. My suffering sometimes was simply indescribable. When I finished the first box of Doan's Kidney Pills I felt like a different woman. I continued until I had taken five boxes. Doan's Kidney Pills act very effectively, very promptly, relieve the aching pains and all other annoying difficulties." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. V. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box Watermeion Syrup In York county, Virginia, they are making watermelon syrup, which is said to be rich and soft, in taste, and as good as it sounds. The south sends the earliest watermelons away. She can by no means eat all the later and best. Inevitably, there is great waste of watermelons. Watermelon syrup, watermelon sugar; there is a new industry in the bud. If the flavor of watermelon syrup is as happy as it is painted maple syrup will have to look to its laurels. Besides, it is getting harder every year, in the cities at least, to get genuine maple syrup—With the Procession, Everybody's Magazine. Wigg—B Jones is generous to a fault. Wagg—Yes, but it's his own fault. The most difficult part of a drinking song is the refrain. One is apt to make a fool of himself acting smart. The letters of Miss ture is printed above prove beyond question cases of inflammation womb are annually Lydia E. Pinkham's "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—Grace told me something was radically w pains through the pelvic organs, pelled me to seek medical advice. trouble and ulceration, and advised this and decided to try Lydia E. I soon found that my judgment things said about this medicine w pain and increased appetite. The complications disappeared and in e and vigorous and perfectly well. 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The famous city that was once the garrison of the second Augustan legion, the capital of South Wales and the seat of an archbishopric, is now a sleepy little town lying between the industrial centers of Pontypool and Newport, but is far enough away from both to have maintained the dignity and pathos of its isolation. Here are to be seen the ruins of a Roman amphitheater, a great oval bank of earth called Arthur's Round Table and an enormous mound once fortified by the Romans. The officers and men of the crack Roman regiment and their wives and families left many remains of their occupation—tombstones, fragments of household utensils, needles and fibulae, remains of villas and baths, lamps, glass and enamel ornaments, carvings, rings, scals and the like, to be gazed upon in the cases of the local museum. The whole place, with its combination of hill and winding river, with low-lying houses nestling in abundant trees, forms a picture which many a painter has sought to portray on canvas. Do You Know What An Aniline Blue Is? The Handy Bluing Book, whose "ads" have been appearing regularly in our compass for several months past, is well covering of special mention to all our readers. One sheet from the Handy Bluing Book will produce ten gallons of blue water of the proper consistency for the laundry. Decades since, Aniline bluing was tested by Germany, the dye comboissieurs, and now it is the only blue upon the European market. It is used by shirt and collar factories everywhere. Why? Because it will not spot, streak, pierce or injure the linens and will bring them out a snowy white. When a man recommends his favorite patent medicine to an invalid, he says: "No doctor will prescribe it; the doctor doesn't want you to get well." Merkley, whose picture, and Miss Claussen, son that thousands of men of the ovaries and secured by the use of Vegetable Compound. A usual loss of strength and nerve force long with me. 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Pinkham's Vege- disappointed with the results." — Ann St., Kansas City, Mo. With produce the original letters and signatures of love their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. When Answerirg Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds. BEARS IN YOSEMITE BEARS IN YOSEMITE NUMBERS RETURNING TO THEIR ANCESTRAL HOME. Seem to Be Awear of Their Immunity From Death or Capture and Willing to Be Friendly Toward the Humans That Have Supplanted Them. The bear has come to his own again And, though his own coincides with a cherished possession of the United States government, says a writer in the San Francisco Chronicle, his bear ship is welcome and will not be no lested. The return of the bear to Yosemite valley not only adds interest, but it also directly justifies the name of the valley. Before the white man came says tradition, a young brave, armed only with a club, had a conflict with a monster grizzly under the Roya Arches. The battle was long and fierce; the terrific claws and the crushing hold of the giant bear were met by the slender young hero with light foot evasion, now to this side, now to that, with an occasional blow delivered with all the force of his strong arms. Again and again he parried in instant death, and struck at the dripping jaws and the great skull, till at last he gave the die blow and the snarling brute sunk to the ground. Then he returned to the tepes of his tribe and told of the deed. His fellow tribesmen gave the here the name Yosemite (large grizzly bear), and in the march of time his descendants, the tribe, and their valley home took on the name. Since then times have changed in the high Sierran valley and with the Indians who once dwelt between Yosemite's stupendous walls went the big game which shared with them what nature gave to all her mountain children. But last year there was a recrescence of bruin in the Yosemite. Late in the fall two showed themselves and one was trapped. The other retreated shyly to the shadows whence he came, but reappeared at times, uneasy, slinking, to seek food of human production. This season the bear tribe seems to have returned in earnest. All summer long two cinnamon bears have frequented the vicinity of Glacier point, making regular explorations near the little hotel in search of food. A month ago a camp, maintained by a carpenter at work on El Capitan bridge, was entered at night and deploiled of various edibles suited to braun's appetite. With the advent of autumn and especially since the heavy storm, the bears are leaving the higher mountains and incidents have multiplied. Tracks of single bears and of a bear with a cub have frequently been found on the road at the foot of El Capitan and a bevy of children out on a Saturday frolic on horseback in that locality returned abruptly with an excited bear tale. Every few days Indians tell of seeing one or more and a few days age three children going to school at noon, not a fall grown bear, which turned out, sitting up in a sociable fashion looked at them in wide-eyed curiosity its tracks measured eight inches. The same day five different persons saw another bear ambling through the orchard near the old Hutchings cabin in plain view of the village. The new Yosemite bears seem to be aware of their immunity from firearms within the national and state parks and are not in the least belligerent. Hawaiian Forests. The forests of the Hawaiian islands have been studied by the servants employed by the department of agriculture. There are two very distinct kinds of forests in the islands, one or the drier lowlands near the sea and the other on the mountain slopes where there is a heavy rainfall. The coastal forest is composed exclusively of "algaroba," or the "mesquite" of our southwest, which was introduced by Father Bachelot in 1837. From the original tree, which is still standing it is estimated that at least 50,000 acres of forest have sprung, fairly well distributed over the different islands. The native forest of the mountain slopes is distinctly of tropical character. None of the familiar trees of the north temperate zone are present. One looks in vain for oaks, the maple pine or spruce. The more important trees are the "lehua," "koa," "mamane" and "kukui." The Loving Dead. We hold our sacred dead aloof. We put them by like treasures old. No more for them or death or root. But narrow dwellings lone and cold. The dear, warm hearts that fell asleep? Why shun them in our secret thought? What it a distance keep. As if some change were in them wrought? They cease not from their constant love. They are not strange and far away. Their presences about us move. Closer than presences of day. How it must grieve them, when they came Oh, let us hold our dear ones close Closer and closer, when they move Beyond the veil! For no one knows The preciousness of you. James Buckingham Apt Pupils. The form of western education which the Filipino women, particularly the older ones, take to with the most willingness is card playing. They easily master all the American games—cuchre, poker, seven up, bridge and the like—and spend whole days in playing them. They learn very quickly when to "order it up," "raise the ante," and so on, and acquire the skill of the heathen Chinece which the veteran Bill Nye was somewhat surprised at—New York Tribune Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. 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He dawdled here and there, he became a louder about theaters, he picked up acquaintances who were a damage to him. And, finally, when he tired of it all, he resorted to the revolver and brought the worthless game to an end. "He had too much money ever to amount to anything," said the family doctor, and it is a remark rich in moral warning.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. BIRDS AS LETTER CARRIERS. "Frigate" Usefully Employed in the Islands of the Pacific. The "frigate" is the swiftest of all sea birds, and in some of the equatorial isles of the Pacific is used as a letter carrier. Taken from the nest before it can fly, it is handed on a fish diet by the natives, and in the course of a few months becomes so tame that it can be liberated during the day and will return to its perch at sunset. It is the practice of the natives of the Ellice group, near Samoa, to exchange the birds after they have been tamed. 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