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. Z T. JO M. Z T. JORDAN. Now that the holidays have passed the churches have all turned their attention to the saving of souls. Every one should be as interested in the revival services as they were in the Christmas entertainments. A few days before the holidays Mr. Robert Jackson decided to take to himself a wife, so Miss Anna Rose is now Mrs. Anna Jackson. It was said by those present that the wedding was one of the nicest home weddings that ever took place in Independence. A few days later Mr. John Hanley said he was tired of his mother's cooking, so he and Mrs. Donnie Southern were driven to the parsonage in a hack and Rev. Allen tied the knot, and now Mr. Hanley is advising others to follow suit. Last but by no means the least, Miss E. B. Fisher was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Prof. Chinn of Glasgow. Miss Fisher is one of our public school teachers, and one who is loved by the entire community. Mrs. Chinn will finish teaching her term out, she has been a successful teacher in our schools for nine years, and we feel her place will be hard to fill, not only in the school room, but in her church as well, as she was one of those teachers who did not believe her duty ended in the public school, but she was interested in helping the fallen to rise. Upon entering her school on Monday morning one of her pupils asked her what Santa Claus brought her. Her answer was, "He brought me a husband. Santa must be a mind reader. I wonder where he put the Professor. I am sure he did not put him in Miss Effie's stocking. I suppose he set him in a chair, and Miss Fisher being the only one at the house acquainted with him to any extent would knew he was for her. However, we wish them all the success in this life and hope the sun will always shine bright in their favor, and if the professor has any single brothers, he will tell them to visit Independence, and also hope Miss Fisher will tell other young ladies what she said to Santa in her letter, so they too may write him a letter. Mr. William Bryant and Mr. Ernest Harris of Pleasant Hill, Mo., were guests of Miss Tucker on Sunday last. Last Wednesday night the two courts and two Masonic lodges met at their halls and marched to the A. M. E. church, where memorial services were held in honor of Rev. Jas. Madison. Past Grand Joshut. The program was very interesting. Opening address was made by Rev. Allen, followed by papers by Mrs. M. J. Jenkins, Mrs. Hattie Whiteside, Mrs. VOLUME IX. INDEPENDENCE NEWS. Chrisman, Mr. A. S. Jones, Mrs. Harriet Jones and Mrs. Crochia Conner spoke of his good deeds, after which Miss Minnie Tucker came forward and read resolutions. Those on the sick list are Asa Hall, Walter Scott, Mrs. Ellen Hayes, Ida Baker and Mrs. Tadlock. Rev. and Mrs. Lane are in our city visiting Mrs. Lane's mother, Mrs. Martha Garr. The news of the death of Mrs. Mattie Clark Jacobs of Richmond, Mo. was received here as a shock to her many friends. Life is uncertain, but death is sure. Snow Deer Hard to Capture. The snow deer, a beast nearly as big as the great wapiti, has seldom fallen to the gun of the European. No complete specimen has yet been sent to Europe. In England it is represented only by five skulls and horns in the British museum and as many more in different private collections. The horns are of great size, the record in the number of points, thirteen, is in the British museum. The spread between the tips of the horns is over ground. Little is known about the creature, but it is conjectured that this coloration is protective, harmonizing with patches of snow and black rocks among which it lives. The total quantity of peat in Sweden is estimated to equal a supply for two centuries of the present coal import to that country. "Spiders," says the Boston Globe, 'are passionately fond of music.' No doubt their favorite in the music line is a tarantelle.—Rochester Post-Express. The proprietor of a suburban newspaper brought up on a judgment summons at a London court, declared that "running a newspaper was only taking a short cut to the poorhouse." All Were at One Time Black While there are no black races indigenous outside of the tropics, the leading American, English, French and Italian ethnologists boldly teach that the white races of the world are simply modified negroes and that the Anglo-Saxon and other white races are of an African origin, having crossed over into Europe during the neolithic age. Their habits, character of food, environments, attitude of their homes, climate, occupation, their greater distance from the rays of the tropical sun, are some of the ethnological factors which are believed to have bleached their skins and made them white. Peat in Sweden. No. Doubt. Short Cut to Poorhouse. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1905. THE OLD FOLKS AND ORPHANS HOME. This institution that is struggling so hard for existence should receive the hearty support of all the colored people of this city, for through it we can demonstrate our ability to maintain an institution, a thing that is being more and more questioned by our white citizens. They say we can start schemes, collect a few dollars to further these schemes, but we cannot stick to any one thing long enough or deny ourselves small pleasures to carry on what our friends give us the money to start. The ladies of the Phyllis Whealey Art Club did a most timely thing when they gave a bazaar for the benefit of the home. They cleared $123.45, turned it over to the home with the request that it be paid upon the indebtedness on the property. This, with $25 from the Armour Packing Company and $5 from Mr. Gardiner Lathrop, enabled the managers to make a payment of $150. This reduces the whole indebtedness to $634.40, with all taxes and interest paid up to August 1, 1904. Rev. W. H. Wheeler had arranged to hold public services at the home last Sunday afternoon, but the serious illness of Miss Shepherd prevented the carrying out of this plan, which was to be the beginning of monthly services held by all of the colored churches, each in turn. A report of the Christmas donations will be given next week. LEXINGTON NEWS Rev. A. A. Gilbert has began revival meetings at the A. M. E. church This week a week of prayer. Presiding Elder Barksdale passed through here and preached Sunday morning. Mrs. Rosa McGee, of Kansas City, was here Sunday. Miss Mattie Porter, who has been here spending the holidays with her parents returned home Sunday evening. Mr. Luther Burles went to Kansas City Sunday morning to accompany the body of his brother-in-law, Mr. Wm. H. Caves, who was ground to bits in the machine at Wolf's laundry Saturday evening. The remains were brought Monday night and buried from the A. M. E. church Tuesday. Rev. Gilbert preached a noble sermon. He leaves a wife, mother and father and one brother and a host of other relatives to mourn his loss. We extend our heartfelt sympathy. The Tambourine Drill by twelve young ladies given by Mrs. D. Bell was a financial success Thursday, January 5th. The drill was good, also the quartette was grand. Mr. George Shelby is still on the sick list Mr. George Webb, who has been at the hospital in Kansas City, Kan. returned home Saturday evening and is improving nicely. Mr. Green Shannon and Miss Eliza Colly were united into matrimony January 1st. We wish them a long and prosperous life. Mr. Henry Williams and Miss Malisie Holmes were united into matrimony January 4th. We wish them a happy life. Great was our joy on receiving an invitation on last Monday and Tuesday to attend an informal luncheon at 006 residence of Miss Eva Taylor, given by three of our honorable young ladies. There were quite a number present. We again as young folks wish to thank these young ladies for their hospitality shown us on Wednesday, January 4, 1905 Gate Keeper Is Responsible. The gate keeper at a level crossing in France, who was held responsible for a railroad disaster, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment. GRANT HARRIS' WOUND FATAL. Preston Harris, Who Shot Him, Arrested to Await Coroner's Verdict. Grant Lewis, a negro who was shot in the right leg by Preston Harris, also a negro, in a saloon row at Fifth and Holmes streets, January 4, died at the city hospital Tuesday afternoon. Harris has been at liberty on bond while awetting trial before Justice Wieman on a charge of felonious assault. When the police learned of Lewis's death they rearrested Harris and he was locked in the holdover at police head quarters awaiting the verdict of a coroner's jury. Harris is known as "One Legged Pres," owing to the fact that one of his legs has been amputated. Character. The habit of industry can be acquired as easily as the habit of idleness. But it is always the man or boy of character who intrenches himself with good habits, and it is always the moral weakling, the characterless person, who becomes the slave of evil habits. Accomplishments are either helps or hindrances to genuine success. High qualities of character alone can make them worth while, mighty, and enduring. Man's Place in the Universe What is man but the great muscian of the universe? The universe is a great organ with mighty pipes, Space, time, eternity, are like the throats of this great organ; and man, a little creature, puts his fingers on the keys, and wakes the universe to thunders of harmony, stirring up the whole creation to mightiest acclamations of praise.—Charles Spurgeon. Valuable Artificial Fall. The Swiss engineers have worked out plans for tapping the Lake of Sils in the Engadine and letting the water drop down the mountain side, thus creating a fall that would yield 50,000 horse power. During the tourist season the lake would resume its normal appearance, owing to the necessity of storing the water. Dates Cut on Turtles Orrin E. Haskins of Lakeville dis covered a turtle on his premises which was marked "F. W., 1828." Another one close by was inscribed "E. T., 1857." The former was doubtless marked by Francis Washburn and the latter by Elias Thrasher, both former residents of the town. Curious Evening Primrose. Mrs. C. A. Cunningham of Oakland, Maine, has a floral curiosity in her yard in the shape of an evening primrose. The surprising rapidity with which its buds develop into very handsome blossoms shortly after sundown is a wonder to all persons not familiar with plants of this kind. C. M. Rouse of Essex Junction, VT., is reshlinging his barn, the first time such work has been done on the structure for ninety-two years. Mr. Rouse exhibited a shingle taken from the pile that is in good condition, being one of the hand-made kind, such as were made years ago. Oldest Cat Killed. The oldest cat in the world was killed by its owner, Belford Bonham, at Shiloh, N. J., last week. The cat was 22 years and 3 months old, and had been in his day one of the greatest of ratters. He fell ill with a cancer of the nose, however, and had to be put to death. Bedspread Made in 1805. Mrs. Denison Turner of North Stonington, Conn., is the possessor of a bodyspeed made in 1805 by her grandmother, who spun the woolen yarn from which it is made, wove the cloth, colored some of the yarn, and drew in little tufts over the face of the spread. Not Injured by Long Fall. A 5-year-old boy named Durkin climbed into a new house at Naugatuck, Conn., and fell through the hole left for the chimney into the cellar, thirty feet below, escaping with nothing more serious than a lump on his head and a few bruises. Source of Petroleum Until recently it was almost universally believed that petroleum was, like coal, derived from fossil vegetation or possibly from animals or fishes of some long past age. Now it is asserted by many scientific men that it may not be of any organic origin, but may be due to subterranean chemical action. Popular Taste Changed Two generations ago an author could not make his heroine successful without constantly calling the slenderness of her waist to the attention of the reader. For certain small mercies let us be duly thankful. The eighteen-inch waist is no longer the basic motif of the popular novel. Virtues of the Amethyst: The amyethyst, in days of chivalry, was believed to have great power for good in battles. The wearer was rendered brave, far-sseeing and honorable. The amyethyst was also said to destroy the craving for liquor, which was as prevalent in those days as it is in this. The worst year on record for tragedies of the deep was 1881-82, when the list of "missing" was swollen by the enormous addition of one hundred and forty-seven ships, with an aggregate tonnage of 41,977 tons; and the loss of life was terrible. Church on Mountain Top. It is proposed to build a small concrete church on the top of Croagh Patrick, County Maye, Ireland, for the celebration of the annual pilgrimage mass. The church will be almost 2,600 feet above the sea level. As a Rule. A New York ghost, after creating great excitement, proved to be merely the froglies of mice in a piano. When ghosts are finally discovered they are invariably so commonplace!-Buffalo Courier. True Friendship. The good friend is the friend that knows, not thinks, or fancies, or imagines, or hopes, but knows that he can tell us what he thinks and how he feels with perfect freedom and abandon. Law of Sacrifice. The law of sacrifice is this—that to those who win, to those who pay the price, the sacrifice is no sacrifice; that is to say, the element of pain is not present. They Know Better Very few men, although they talk so much about wanting to live again the happy days of childhood, would put in much of the time eating green apples. Steal Burglar Policy Some burglaries not only stole the silver plate from a house in the suburbs of London, but carried off the owner's burglar insurance policy. Sage Advice Draw the curtain of night upon injuries, shut them up in the tower of oblivion, and let them be as though they had never been. Mistakes of Dress Reformers In dress reform, as in other reforms, the mistake is to attempt to substitute something not so handsome and less expensive. Read and Ponder. You aren't really living if you aren't learning a little something every day and taking time to think.—Chicago Record-Herald. Little Objection to Slavery It may be better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave—yet there are more slaves than darlings. Better Late Than Never After kissing a pretty girl for the first time a young man always regrets the opportunities he has wasted. NUMBER 39 Peacemaker Is Stabbed. Seeing two men fighting in front of his house, M. Dujardin, of the Conservatoire of Music, Paris, took his violin and began to play in order to soothe the combatants by his music. But one of the men at once turned on him and stabbed him, and he was taken in a dying condition to a hospital. Independence Is Expensive. The people of Jersey, Channel islands, refused to carry out the provisions of the new British militia law, so the British government withdrew the regiment always hitherto stationed on the island. The islanders are out at least $550,000 a year thereby, and are inclined to regret their independent attitude. Study Prospective Bridegroom. A would be bridegroom in Kanchetka has to serve some time in a mental position in his prospective father-in-law's household in order that the bride's family may have an opportunity of observing whether his habits and temperament are worthy of her. Has 158 Descendants. Mrs. Alice Simpson, a Stockport, England, nonagenarian, has five sons and three daughters living, seventy-one grandchildren, seventy-four great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren, making a total of 158 descendants. At Least One A South African constabulary commandery office wrote to a local troop officer asking if there were any donkeys in camp. The reply came, in the troop officer's handwriting: "Yes, one—R. H. Smyes, Captain." Animals Foretell Weather It has long been known that animals are able to foretell storm or fair weather with an instinct practically unknown to man. Many sayings are based on the actions of beasts, birds, fish and insects. Pointer for Statesman. If we were a stateman we never should begin an interview with: "My attention has been called to an article concerning." etc. We would not want people to think we didn't read the papers. Money. Money that talks does little else. Money that whispers treechoes where least expected. Money that acts might save many a broken heart from a suicide's grave. Giraffe Unable to Swim The giraffe is the only animal which is unable to swim. This is on account of its long neck. Every other animal can, if put to it, manage to keep itself afloat. Canals in United States The number of canals in operation in the United States exceeds twenty thousand, and their combined length is not less than fifty thousand miles. Dinkelspiel on Habit. Habit is a vinderful ding, but it nefer yet made a man look for der towel before he get der soap in his eyes.—Dinkelspiel. When Silence Is Golden. It is a blessing for the happy home that husbands and wives do not always know exactly what each thinks of the other. Mosquitoes in London Apparently mosquitoes have come to London to stay and they seem to be making their way into the country places. Not the Man—the Son. When a man has to support his grown-up son, his mother says he has an artistic temperament.—New York Press. Heaven on Earth. If husbands and wives were always sweethearts there would be no longings for another and better world. Religious Thought A Sunday Night Lord of all things after afar, Thy glories tames from sun and star; Center and soul of every sphere, Yet to each living heart how near! Sun of our life thy quickening ray Shoots on our path the glow of day; Star of our hope thy softened light Cheers the long watches of the night. Our midnight is thy smile withdrawn; Our noontime is thy gracious dawn; Our twilight attch thy mercy's sign; All save the clouds of sun, are thine! Do This in Remembrance of Me. When Christ, at the supreme reunion, wished to put a little light into the hearts of his disciples, he taught them an act, and said to them, "Do this in remembrance of me." He knew well that when he was departed this act and the words that accompanied it would be a sure means of evoking his figure in their sad meetings. And the provision was realized. Each time, in their immense sorrow, that they assembled to break bread in memory of him, they felt him to be in their midst. I think that all wounded hearts should follow such an example. Have you lost a loved one? Do something in memory of her—of him. And, above all, love one another in memory of her—of him. It is not to mechanical gestures that Jesus invites his own. he well knew that to break the daily bread from day to day would be for them a perpetual renewing of the union of which he was the center. In communicating in memory of him they would love one another in him and love him ever more. He would be revealed in their circle and re awakened in their souls. His words would sing on their lips, and his image brighten their memories. Those dear ones you weep for are leading you gently toward one another and are saving to you. In memory of me, love ve one another. Life divides us. Shadows fall across the hearth. After the departure of the loved ones difficulties arise of which they knew not. Let yourself be led into pardon by those who have entered into peace. Hear them say to you: In memory of me, forgive. Those who sleep have left a work. Their hands are folded, the work is unfinished. Would you feel indeed near them, feel yourself in accord with them? Do in remembrance of them what you know they loved to do, all day long, when their absence weighs upon you, render to them the homage of actions at which their souls may smile and say: It is for the thee that I do it. The true worship of God is a worship in spirit and in truth, full of the gift of one's self. The true worship of memory is a loving, acting worship, in which the heart full of love cases itself in doing works of pure good will. When the living do that which used to displease the dead; when children walk in paths where the benediction of dead parents cannot follow them; when about the empty places at the fireside a life of forgetfulness is installed, a life disdainful of those things which the absent one loved, then are the dead twice dead. There are houses in which all that one sees recalls the thick weeds which in the cemetery invade forgotten tombs. There we felt what it is to be really dead, buried, forgotten. It is rare that one loves the other in such dwellings. In them there breathes a selfish spirit, and everything in them is consecrated, is sacrificed to the satisfactions of the present moment. There, above all, each lives for self. All that pertains to the category of the ideal, of the soul, is there considered as smoke. It is a sad world, cold and brutal. Let us not live this short, ungrateful life, where the dead are cast behind as so many non-values. Let us keep the solidarity of those who are gone with those who remain. Let us do works of disinterested goodness, in memory of the dear ones who have taken their flight. Life will gain thereby in perfume, warmth and mutual gentleness. It will, moreover, gain in depth, brightness and power. And the habit of living with those who have crossed the passage of death will make it more familiar to us. They have passed that way, they have prepared the way for us. Their loved faces smile to us from the other shore.—Translated from the French The Test of Men One recognizes in our own rough daily judgments that fidelity is the discriminating test of men. We are told that So-and-So has made a certain statement. That gives the statement no significance of value to us. But So-and-So also made it. That quite alters the matter. He is a faithful man and his own trustworthiness covers all that issues from him. It is what we seek in servants—simple fidelity in all quiet and unostentious duty. And it is what we crave in friends. "Give us a man," said Dean Stanley, "young or old, high or low, on whom we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fall; the friend, faithful and true; the adviser, honest and fearless, the adversary, just and chivalrous; in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages." For, as Paul joyfully realized, fidelity is the very nature and characteristic of God. Whatever else changes, he changes not. He abides faithful because it is his own being. He cannot deny himself. Love, says Paul, is a greater thing than faith or hope, but love in this sense is simply fidelity, the realization in life of the faithfulness of God. Paul's doctrine is that fidelity, which is simply veracity in action, is sovereign over life. And this is Christ's doctrine: "Be thou faithful unto death and I shall give thee a crown of life." That was the closing verse in a small Christian tract prepared for distribution to the Japanese soldiers going to Manchuria. A captain read it with delight. "That is the religion for us," he said. A curate whom the late Archbishop Temple proposed to send to a very difficult post, was urged by his friends to decline on the ground that he would not live two years in the strain and trial of it. He came to Temple. "Yes, it may be so," was the reply, "but you and I don't think of things like that, do we?" Dying is a trifle, an incident in the temporary episode of life, but fidelity is no trifle. It is an anchorage in the eternal moral integrity of God. To betray it for the sake of life or any other baule is to trade glass for diamond; to build hay, whose end is fire, instead of gold, which is to be tried and to endure. This conception of what, after all, is the greatest thing in life, dignifies our common ways. It brings the heroic within the reach of each one of us. If we can display the divine nature in our common living, then that glory is possible to everyone. And it is by taking advantage of this possibility of fidelity in the ordinary things of life that we shall come some day without knowing it to the glory of the divine character realized in life —Robert E. Speer. The Secret of Purity. Purity, even in the defiling ways of the world, is a grand possibility; how can we make it a glorious achievement? The only defence against an ill contagion is exuberant health. It is the man who is run down who becomes the victim of the pestilence. It is not otherwise in the realm of the Spirit. If we are to be protected against pestilence that walketh in darkness, we shall have to be possessed by a plenitude of spiritual life. How is that defensive life to be gained? "This is life * * to know Jesus." To know the Master is to appropriate the Master's life. "I am come that ye might have life and that ye might have it more abundantly." It is in this abundant life that we find the secret of moral security. If life is to rise within us like a well, it must be the Christ. He is "our refuge and strength." Our offensive and defensive forces are to be gathered in him. Familiarity with Jesus makes a man invincible against the world. "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheth me." "We are more than conquerors in Christ." Rev. J. H. Jowett. A Bad Example to One's Self. A Bad Example to One's Self. No man does any deliberate evil without first imagining himself doing it. The worst example that any man can have is one of his own making. The mental image of himself becomes his pace-setter. Let the man who wants to break off from the smoking habit think steadily of himself in an old haunt, in an easy chair, with the blue smoke curling about him, and the temptation to resume the practice at once becomes almost irresisible. And so with the yielding to any appetite or passion—the place to check it is in the rising thought of it, the imagining one's self indulging in it. Hence the Bible lays so much stress upon the thinking of evil. "As (a man) thinketh in his heart so is he." "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report—think of these things." The Power of Faith. The man who accomplishes anything in this world is and must be a man of faith. Strong men, forcible men, virile men are men of faith. It may be a low type of faith—faith in self—but it is faith. Be axenclale says: "Weak faith makes weak men." How much stronger should be the man who has faith in God, the faith that says: "I can do all things through Christ who strengtheth me." This is faith of the highest type. Be done with saying what you don't believe, and find in your soul the divinest, truest thing in which you do believe, and work that out. Be the noblest man that your present faith, poor and weak and imperfect as it is, can make you to be. So, and so only as you take the next step forward, as you stand where you are now, so only as you think the curtain will draw back, there will be revealed to you what lies beyond—Phillips Brooks. Sin the Only Enemy. There is only one thing in the universe to fear. Sorrow, death, disaster, poverty, sickness—none of these. In them, and through them, God's hand and God's love are seen. As Paul wrote: "What then shall we say to these things? . . . Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." Sin is the only enemy. Sin may use God's blessings to overthrow us; but sin is not from God. And even sin cannot enter when we let God keep watch. Curfew for Married Men. The very latest curfew idea comes from Waycross, Ga., where a demand is made that the bell shall ring for the coming home of married men rather than of the children. SOME PEOPLE NEVER WILL LEARN. PROSPERITY GREATE REFORMER PROGRESS PROTECTION ELECTION Nov.8.1904 LEON BARNETT THE MUGWUMPPERIL REPUBLICAN LEADERS NEED TO BE WARY. Demand for Tariff Revision Comes Chiefly from This Unstable and Unwelcome Element—Country's Future Prosperity in Danger. We recently read with some interest a trenchant editorial in one of the Eastern Democratic journals which inculcated, as the very first duty confronting the Democracy in its present low estate, the peremptory bouncing of the mugwump elements which have been sapping the party's vitality and paralyzing every party function. To the insidious burrowing of these parasites in the Democratic body politic our Democratic contemporary attributed the greater part of the Democratic troubles. Professing a state of political holiness equivalent to actual sanctification, the mugwumps are in reality as sordid as the rest of mankind, entirely insincere, utterly unreliable, colossal in self conceit, impotent for the accomplishment of any purpose whatever, and certain death to any political enterprise or party upon which they fasten themselves. In the opinion of our contemporary, the Democracy, like Job, must procure poisherds and scrape itself clean of them. We can heartily sympatize with our afflicted Democratic contemporary, and wish it and its party well rid of these political parasites, but in the name of all that is human we protest against their being dumped on to the Republicans. The Republican party is sturdy and healthy, but it could never stand the mugwumps, and there are already signs that some of them have crawled on to us. It is evidently, in fact, from mugwump sources that the rumors have emanated which profess to put President Roosevelt in the position or repudiating his pledges, provoking a quarrel with his party and spending the next four years in a vain attempt to rip up the tariff and adopt the Democratic platform of fake reciprocity and tariff revision. We find this story, extra session stuff and all, in the New York Times and Evening Post, and there is SOME PEOPLE NEVE PROSPERITY PROT ELEC Nov. 8. no question whatever that all this persistent talk of unsettling business comes from mugwump headquarters. The mugwump press is merely the organ of the importing and shipping interests, which are bent on destroying American manufactures, so far as they can be destroyed, in order that merchants engaged in foreign trade may increase their business, and ships mainly owned in foreign countries may get bigger loads each way. The Chronicle has already stated that we do not believe a word of these stories. Even if they were not contrary to the express pledges of President and party the national finances will admit of no tariff tinkering. Before election the secretary of the treasury was compelled to make an open argument to prove that we should not have an actual deficit at the close of this fiscal year, and in his predictions of coming out even or better come true it will be a very "tight squeak." We do not know that they will prove true. Now there is one way in which the customs duties can be increased, and one only, and that is by abandoning the protective system and adopting the Democratic decree of "tariff for revenue"—that is, a tariff which encourages the importation of foreign goods to displace American products. If we are to maintain the protective policy, to which the party and the President are pledged, we need every cent of the revenue produced by the present tariff. It has been proved that this tariff will produce all the revenue that the country ought to spend, and that while doing so it effectually protects American industries. In other words, it does exactly what it was meant to do, and should not be disturbed. And in view of the fact that the latest advices indicate a Republican majority of 14.5 in the House of Representatives, we refuse to believe that there is any chance --- whatever that suic a majority can possibly be paralyzed in so short a time by the bacillus mugwump, even in its most malignant form.—San Francisco Chronicle. PROTECTION AND WHEAT. The American Farmer Now Sees Where He Comes In. The market reports record the purchase for Chicago account of 82,000 bushels of Manitoba wheat and an additional amount of 50,000 bushels for a miller in watertown, N. Y. Further heavy importations of Manitoba wheat for account of Eastern millers are expected. All of this Manitoba wheat has to pay the duty of 25 cents a bushel charged on entry into this country. Free traders have in the past scoffed at the duty on wheat, asserting that it afforded no protection to the farmers; that the price of wheat was fixed by the foreign markets and that protection could by no possibility benefit the wheat growers of the United States. The market this year has shown that once more the free traders have been insisting on the correctness of theories which facts have disproved. The American wheat farmer, situated at the same distance from Chicago as is the Manitoba wheat farmer, has been enabled to receive this year 25 cents a bushel more for his wheat than has the farmer on the Canadian side of the line. The American market price for wheat, ever since harvest, has been relatively higher than the price elsewhere in the world. Had it not been for the protective tariff duty on wheat, foreign wheat would have been rushed into this country, particularly from Canada, and the price in this country would have gone down to the foreign level very promptly. As it is, the American wheat farmer has enjoyed this year a large, immediate and direct benefit from the protective tariff, as well as the indirect benefit which he has always enjoyed in the past. His wheat has commanded a higher price, by the full amount of the protective duty, than it would have brought had wheat been on the free list. The increased earnings of the farmer have been reflected in heavy buying ER WILL LEARN. PROGRESS ECTION ECTION 8.1904 LEGAL BARRITY of other products for distribution in agricultural communities, and thus the benefit which the farmer has received from protection has been distributed around to all of the industries which supply the demands of the farmers. The wheat tariff has afforded a perfect, concrete illustration of the beneficial workings of protection. —Seattle Post intelligencer. Insisting Upon Cheaper Things. Insisting Upon Cheaper Things. The Minneapolis Tribune is not pleased with Secretary Shaw's proposed enlargement of drawback privileges as a substitute for tariff reduction. This plan the Tribune thinks is very well as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough. It insures to the manufacturer increased advantage in the shape of cheaper imported material entering into his manufactures, and in that way gives him a better chance for foreign trade, but it does not compel the manufacturer to sell any cheaper to the American consumer. In the view of the Tribune this is all wrong. The proper thing to do is to reduce the tariff, bring in foreign competition and force down prices. That is the view of tariff revisionists generally. What they are after is an era of cheaper things. Of course, they know, or ought to know, that to get cheaper things as the result of what Gov. Cummins calls "potential competition"—the competition of cheaper foreign pay rolls—necessarily involves the cheapening of American labor, the lowering of American wages and the American standard of living. It is the people who do not want cheaper things at the cost of cheapening labor and wages and of lowering the standard of living that are opposing the potential competition which is contemplated by the revisionists. They don't believe it would pay to cut down the purchasing possibilities of eighty millions of consumers. --- Cupid Aided by Microbe Secret Code in Prison Secret Code in Prison Harry and the Doctor From this proud lofty station, We view the lake's expanse, We watch with keen elation The waters loose distance, Huge waves are fiercely dashing. Their manes their sides are lashing, As gladiators clashing. They surge and fierce advance. Here every place seems quiet, No turmells vex the car, No tumult and no riot A gravestly scene rings. Ringed by the sky and ocean We watch with quick emotion The polishing sea gull's motion. He plunges, spurring fear. Here where the air is rarer Than air is wont to be, Your roseleaf face seems fairer Than Helen's face to me. Your white creeps are glowing, Their girlish puttings showing. Hark! how the wind comes blowing O'er all the land-locked sea! Far below the big lake's lying, And creeping oer the land. The shrill sea gulls are flying— A hoarse tumultuous band. They breast the breezes blowing, Olympian tourneys going. Their sharklike blowing O'er surging sea and strand. Chicago's squares are teeming Beneath keen sapphire sky, Taking on the skies, The chattering swallows fly. And exiles from every nation, Outcasts or poor of station, Where despots and tyrants die. The suggestion that the matrimonial fever is due to a microbe has been less strongly opposed by medical men since the recent experience of Pottstown, in Pennsylvania, says the Philadelphia Record. A number of young people who were cast for parts in a series of amateur dramatic performances were victims of an epidemic of marriage. It began during the rehearsals, a young man first showing symptoms of the malady, which soon extended to the young woman who was the most intimately associated with him in the plays. The advocates of the microbe theory were not surprised when others presented evidence of infection. Before the rehearsals ceased five couples announced their engagement. Since then the manager, theprompt and the stage carpenter have succumbed to the disorder, and there is a reasonable expectation that the epidemic will extend to persons outside the dramatic party. Out of the license fees already gathered the county clerk has bought a new overcoat and the Every prison has its secret "telegraph," for it was not to be expected that cunning offenders could be long confined together, even on the "separate cell" system, without discovering a method of secret intercommunication. Prisoners "rap their messages" to each other, and experience has shown that an attentive car may receive and understand a communication thus made through the thickest prison wall. The raps correspond regularly with the letters of the alphabet, which is arranged for the purpose into six rows, the first beginning with "a" and the last beginning and ending the series with "z." The first rapping indicates the row in which the letter is to be found, one for first, two for second, and so on; the subsequent raps, given after a slight pause, show the number of the letter in the row. At first the table must be kept in mind, but after a little practice the prisoner is enabled to dispense with all conscious reference to it, the message being really received, as in the Morse telegraphy, in the form of symbols standing in place of letters. "Papa," said Harry, "what does a man mean when he says to another man, 'I'll fix you?'" Now, Mr. Bonsail was reading the evening paper and didn't want to be disturbed, so he answered rather impatient. "Don't bother me. Harry. Don't you see that I am reading?" "But, papa," said the boy, "I wish you would tell me, for I want to know, and I won't bother you any more." "Oh, it means 'I'll do you up!'" "I'll do you up," repeated Harry; and then, after thinking a moment—"but, papa, what does 'I'll do you up' mean?" "Now, I'll tell you," said the father, "and then you must not ask me another question this evening. It means that some man is going to kill another man." And Harry, who was only 5, opened his eyes wide, looked stupefied, and presently walked away. About a week later the little man was taken ill, and as Dr. Aluslie, the family physician, was not within easy reach, a strange doctor was Mushrooms Coming Food. Talking about eating recalls a vein of chatter that the famous special correspondent, J. A. MacGahan, once fell into at a dinner party. He insisted that the time would come on this earth when the mushroom would be the life sustaining vegetable throughout the world. The fact that it can be raised in the dark and under ground commends it to the agriculturists several hundred years hence, when every available square foot of Here where they brew the weather, Where "Old Probs" fronts the sky, Come birds on timorous feather dances with the wind, You see them faint and straining, Our colon of vantage galining, They wheel and polise disdain, And pretty tactics try. Gray tattered clouds are drifting So tranquil through the air, The sunshine's splendor sifting still the air, the sunshine's His yellow rays are gleaming, Rich barbaric jewels streaming, Some splendid spendthrift seeming, And tossing tawny hair. There snarls Chicago's river, Colling with foul scorpion spit, Black, seething currents shiver the earth, the seething currents, Winding like a serpent creeping To sting fond, tender dove, Her girlish vigil keeping And yearning for her love. Like some vast emerald etching The rolling prairie seems Some green Siberia stretching The sapphire sky smiles tender, All flecked with aerial foam, Chicago's ringed with splendor, Two million are at home. Ah, Rose, on Time's swift river We drift to Death's shoreless sea, Our two notes to deliver Whose fate we and me. For Youth and Love must perish And Beauty, too, will fade. The boyish hopes we cherish, The dreams of your soul! MES B KINSELLA Registry Division, Chicago Postoffice preacher who does most of the marrying has ordered a new carpet for his wife. It is recalled that of the 102 young men and women who were transported from San Francisco to Manila in a government vessel to become public school teachers seventy-eight went through the marriage ceremony before the ship reached the Philippines. Among the victims in this case were many hitherto obdurate bachelors, whose transformation could be accounted for only by the germ theory. Other instances where matrimony has assumed an epidemic form have been explained as the effect of example, but there is noting in the conditions inconsistent with the operation of microbe. At first view it may seem unreasonable to think an organism so minute as to be visible only under a high microscopic power could work a man weighing 200 pounds; but any person afflicted with the grip will not doubt the enormous power of a disease germ. It has produced a suicidal mania and might, therefore, inspire a man with a purpose to marry. In Russia the clew is not so much in the system itself as in the nihilistic method of manipulating language with a view to concealment. This is clear from what happened recently in one of the central prisons. Word had gone round to protest, not only against an excess of heavy work, but against the bad quality of food supplied to the prisoners, and the protest was to take the form of a refusal to perform the usual tasks on the men being called together after breakfast. Somehow or other the governor obtained the message as it had been rapped through all the walls, but he took it literally as a plot to break prison by the whole of the convicts, so he armed the whole of the warders to the teeth, taking effective measures to prevent the assembly on the morrow. This blunder had a highly beneficial effect upon the discipline of the prison, for the convicts obtained not only immediate immunity from the heavy tasks to which they had not been accustomed, but afterward enjoyed better food and more humane treatment. called in. The doctor had a solemn face and a solemn manner, and Harry did not feel altogether sure of him. Presently Mrs. Bonsail left the room to get something that was needed, and Harry thought he would make friends with the doctor by opening a conversation with him. "Going to give me some medicine, doctor?" "Oh, yes," answered the doctor. "I'm going to give you some medicine. Don't worry, my little man; I'll fix you." Suddenly there came to Harry the explanation that his father had recently given him of those fearful words, and, throwing off the covers, he leaped out of bed, rushed for the door, and before the doctor could recover from his amazement at the boy's astonishing behavior, the little fellow was clinging to his mother out in the hall and begging her to send away the man who was going to "do him up." It took half an hour to get Harry quieted down and another half-hour to persuade him to take the strange doctor's medicine. the earth's surface will be covered with human dwellings. The mountainous regins, uninhabitable to mankind, would harbor the flocks of sheep and droves of cattle that the government would raise for feeding her citizens. Caves would be dug and modern methods discovered for raising mushrooms with the same certainly as cabbages. A new crop every morning would mean 365 crop yearly. Col. Sellers had the same idea about eyewater. The "cellars" pun is tempting, but resolutely put aside. Sy } PDR pe SEWASSING, _. cit AP WA NC i= i = WORLD “#§\\ O° WOMEN - + ete for the Hair. yreduced one-half. Drain the chopne Ornaments for the hair are always in demand, and play a very important part in one’s appearance. Each even- ing gown should have its own head- dress. With tulle nothing is prettier than little close wreaths of flowers, with a rosette of ribbon or aigrette effect of fern or smilax at one side. ‘With velvet or brocade, or on an older woman, I prefer an ostrich tip or aigrette, which can be caught to the hair by a jewel or knot of tulle. Ribbons are apt to look heavy in the ‘Ahair, but crisp big bows at one side are very pretty, especially with flow- ered silks and quaint dresses. Tulle or ribbon is nice about the throat, worn with slides of diamonds or pearls, in place of a whole dog col- lar of jewels. Fans are, for the most part, tiny as to size, except the feather ones, which are always in fashion. A fan is a most charming and fascinating thing. Essentially feminine and trag: flo and dainty, it expresses so much in ways that words never could. 1 have always wondered why women so often scorn to carry a fan, for noth ing takes the place of one. Drees for Lovely Woman. One of the loveliest dresses ts of satiny liberty silk in a delicate pink, And it might well serve as a costume for a bal masque if the fair wearer had a floral headdress, though it is ‘not at all loud and none too showy for any evening wear. This dress is a flounced affair, the skirt being in triple flounce efwrt. Each Rounce is cut out in petal shape around the edge and between ‘hesc petals another petal of palest pink chiffon is introduced. The ‘petals are edged with tiny pink sequins and the velnings aze donc in glisten- ing silks. Three sinped ounces form the elbow sleaves and the pretty Dlouse Lodico !s Ukewise formed of three overlapping sections, those like the skirt flounces being «ded in this petal effect. It would bo difficult to design a lovelier dress, For a fair one ‘too short to wear the triple skirt effect -one flounce could be trimmed deeply and be as pretty, without detracting trom the height. Princess Again in Favor. ew y Dns \ 3 co : a ne Ag bee, “\Qhan ieee’ emt Aare al wet. AW NY 4 ‘| \ { Re j Ht ei yi f f Len & | md ih i i A Rn! AY LEN KAgyS RA AN q SOU SN, NE AD RT TTI gee een seen ae The close-fitting princess 1s a popu lar vogue of the s:ason. This mode 4s of white peau de sole. with trig Layer-Cake Fillings. Custard Filling—Mix together one farge tablespoonful of corn starch, two heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar and a pinch of salt; beat one egg and add, then stir in gradually two cups of milk and bring the whole to the boil- ing point in a double boiler; cook un- ti thick, stirring constantly, then add the grated rind of one lemon; do not and the juice for fear of its curdling the custard; after putting the layers of the cake together, a sprinkling of powdered sugar and lemon juice may he added to the top layer. Whipped Cream Filling—Stir a seant tablespoonful of gelatine in two tablespuonfuls of cold water and let it soak two hours; whip a cup of rich cream to a stiff froth, add a quarter cupful of pulverized sngar and a halt tearpoonfil of vanilla; dissolve the gelatine by setting it over the tea kettle or ina dish of hot water, then when dissolved whip it) into the cream; spread between the layers of A good sponse cake, aiGhuccece Ga eatin. ¢ Twelve tres mushrooms will be re- quired for his dish Drain them on a cloth after washing thom thoroughly. Cut off and cha the stalks. Ina stew: pan put ane onree of butter and one- halt ounce of flour Sur this over the fire for two minula: Add oxe pint of Proth and stir until the quantity is reduced one-half. Drain the choppeu stalks thoroughly and put them in the sauce with three tablespoonfuls ot parsley that has been washed and chopped, one tablespoonful of shalot, washed and chopped, a saltspoonful of salt and half that quantity of pepper. Cook over a brisk fire for eight min: utes, Then put two tablespoonfuls of ‘oil in @ sauce pan and set the mush- rooms in with the hollow part upper: most, Fill them with fine herbs and sprinkle over them one tablespoonful of crumbs. Brown for ten minutes ir @ brisk oven and serve very hot. Mew ideas in Conaments. Leather bags with handsome silver carvings are very neat, providing the leather match the gown. One can get the most beautiful colored leather in gray and purple, lavender, ereen, ivory colored, brown and tan. Indeed, one can match almost any gown with a bag. The mountings can be carved silver and if well executed, they can be transferred from one bag to an- other, ‘The cost is little, and it is worth while to transfer wie clasp. To own a dozen wrist bags is no unustal thing nowadays. Many wom: en own a bag for each coat and for each gown, and some Ko so far as to order a bag to match each hat. Thus the bags count up into the dozens. ‘There are little trunks that come for the safekeeping of these bags ‘They are very shallow and are scent ed with sandalwood. One was made entirely of sandalwood, while the in: ner part was fitted with satin pads tc Keep the bags separate. Banat adios Bienes AN, The draped bodice {s unaoubtedly “the thing.” It is as becoming to the too full as well as to the too thin fig: ure. It brings out the waist line, and {ts folds across the bust may easily be arranged so as to greatly increase the apparent size of the flat figure, while by using little material and drawing it close the exuberant figure can be held down firmly and appear of the perfect middle size. ‘The average American figures lack both bust and hips, but the fashions of today are kind toward those de ficfencies, and the plaited, shirred, and yoked skirts can easily be made to render the figure apparently fuller at the hips, and these, together with the ‘draped bodices, are vastly improving ‘the appearance of many women, Uses for Old Shawls. If you have the good fortune to poe sess_a fine old crepe or lace shaw! which, perhaps, was the pride of yout grandmother, but has been laid by for years, bring it out now, Such a shaw! is a treasure, and one whieh, perhaps you could not afford to buy, even were its duplieate in eNistence, ‘These old shawls make lovely skirt draperies and tunies, and whoever possesses one may think herself fortunate, ‘en eeniiniie. Muaniia meats. For evening dress wear, the seven eighths length cireular coat it’ it called is the enly really elegant wrat for opera, theatre and evening car riage wear. ‘These coits have enor: mous sleeves fastened in wide enffs, or left to flow out to the width of lit Ue ballet skirts. ‘they are graceful, very useful fa pet cro -bing voluminous: gowns, and exsist i color and ma terial, Blouse Rolero. An exceedingly smart little coat t* of the blouse bolere (ype, and is made of sealskin, with « sidie of embrotd ered cloth, over which in front the fur fronts fall in two rounded tabs. A flat collar finish of embroidered cloth matching the girdle borders the neck line, and from under this clotn collar, which ends in a whorl on either side of the front, fall short jabots of soft lace, Whipped Apples. This fs a delicate dessert for chit dren or an invalid. Stew a half dozer large, tender, tart apples, using speec to keep them white and soft, — Set aside until cold. Whip a half pint of sweet eream and the whites of twe eggs toa stiff broth, add the apple and whip all thoroughly together, Sweeter to taste and flavor ditto, Pour inte 4 mold and set on the ice until needed Pr a ey ee To prevent the hands getting rough and coarse in’ winter use almond paste, Here ix a good recipe: Pound together an ounce each of orris root starch and bitter almonds (blanched) and then add the well-beaten yolks of two eggs, ten drops of attar of roses and a wineglasstul of spirits of wine To Avoid Wrinkles. After bathing the face with warm water and carefully drying it, rub ft all over with the ball of the thumb. This stimulates the circulation and braces the muscles. If there are deep lines at the sides of the mouth to the nostrils, lay the thumb along them, and then work it from side to side. Delicious Nut Bread. Add chopped nuts, hickory’ or Eng lish walnuts, to any entire wheat or graham bread recipe, allowing two thirds of a cupful of nuts to each we Alum-sized Jcaf. NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES SOON TO BE OF ENORMOUS STRENGTH i i a i lll iN xz | se A) Lo, SR g o 1a Saget” a an. oe By ae ee) Cal EO vine 4 i) ; RY Re Sa ( Sy TO gh ie A RESTS ae wey Nee, Src Ag NGF: WT ee py ee d fern xs ira f(r " ‘ GbE z Sin eat Pe ps phere aS eat ee aes Pe War in the East Has Demon- strated the “Naval Vnreadi- ness” of Other Nations Than Russia—Magnificent Vessels That Fly the Stars and Stripes. Is the United States destined to become the greatest maritime power in the world? Secretary Morton's estimates for the navy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, are $114,530,638—an in- crease of $17,372,448 over the appro: priation for 1905, an increase of $34, 713,847 over that of 1904, and the largest ever made in the history of the country. Of the recent estimates, $45,255,833 is set apart for the “in- crease of the navy,” including con- struction and machinery, armor and armament, and equipment. Today the United States is building four more battleships than Great Britain—now the greatest war nation and the total tonnage of our first- class warships in course of construc: tion exceeds the tonnage of simflar vessels being built by each of the other four great powers. No nation is at present advancing s0 rapidly with her navy—with the ea- ception of Great Britain—as the United States, and this is a day of remarkable naval advancement in all parts of the civilized world, Japan, for instance, is said to be planning to spend $60,000,000 for new battleships and the extension of her arsenals, although the amount now ‘being actt ally expended is $15,000,000. Russia, since the war has been so disastrous to her, has decided to extend het original construction plan, and will soon build eight first-class battleships Germany, despite the discontent ex pressed there in the late elections is hurrying forward her shipbuilding program. Italy and France are not fai behind the others in the race for nava supremacy; Austria-Hungary is add ing to the strength of her squardon: even Brazil is spending $7,250,000. fo new navy; Argentina, $4,605,000. Chile, $3,250,000, while Venezuela Colombia and Mexico are appropri ating smaller sums, and even slow: going China is adding to her sea) strength at a cost of $2,500,000, ‘Thus, according to the latest official figures, $530,000,000 is expended an nually by all the nations for their naval defense against one another. And this year it is estimated that the sum will reach $560,000.00, Of this vast amount nearly one-half will be expended by the United States and Great Britain. ‘The desire for “readiness” prevails in all nations. ‘The war between Rus: sia and Japan has taught an object lesson to the great powers of the world, It demonstrated the “unreadi ness” of Russia, It has demonstrated that navies supposed to be neon querable were in reality inefficient The Japanese have revolutiontyed the entire scope of naval warfare: They have shown that most of the nations of the earth are in a state of ‘unreadiness.” ‘The other day a high naval authority expressed the: belief to the writer that if Japan had en gaged In war with the United States instead of Russia the showing made by this country might be anything but creditable. All of Japan's naval tac tles have been on the modern Tine of excellence, ‘The old naval mode of warfare, when ships brushed by one another exchanging broadsides, was slowly graduated to a range of two to three miles. It remained for the Japa- hese to Increase the range to five, six and seven miles But what position does the United States find itself in today? Only a few weeks ago the greatest battleship in the American navy—-the Conneeti cut—was Iaunched at Brooklyn. ‘This battleship was built to rank with the xreatest batileships of Great Britain and the other powers, bat although searcely in the sater, {t will be soon traiting In the wake of greater, better pattleships that are now being plan: ned for the immediate future. These ships will have greater tonnage; they will be armed with greater guns with longer range, and they will be manned by the best men that the world can produce, In a word, the mixhty bat- Uesbip of the future will be a huge mechanical! death trap whose gun ners will he scientsti« in the mathe- matical ealenlation of projecting shot from Jong ranges and men of fron in the execution of their expert mark manship. In order to show how it is proposed to expend the millions it will be neces: sary briefly to review the progress of the American navy. For years the navy was equipped with only 7,500 men. This state of affairs continued up to the time that the new navy was begun in 1886. Then the number of men began to Increase, until, in 1888 to 180, there were {000 10. 10.000, Since the Spanish war, when there were 10,000 men in our navy, the authorized number has been 31,500, with 2.5000 apprentices, Ry a change that has taken place recently, all men in training have been consolidated with the apprentice class, so that the au thorized force in the navy is 34,000, There are about 31,000 men now serving, and 2,000 more are wanted. With the increase of men the ex: | penses of the navy department in creased, ‘The pay beeame biter, and the service was consequently. better, Potty officers received more: money, es the lust year the United States has put into the water more tonnage in battleships and ervisers than ever be- fore in any one year of its history, and Jaunched more first-class war ves sels thin any other nation in the world, Now, all these ships must. be paid for, The average cost of a first class battleship is $6,000,000, and an armored cruiser abont the same Final payments are to be made on the Ohio, the Virginia, the Nebraska, the Rhode Island, the Louisiana, all first class battleships, and on the Pennsyt vania, the West Virginia, the Colorado armored cruisers The battleships now being built were planned on the best type of war ship that existed. The Connecticut was constructed, for instance, on th plan of England's Africa, Britannic and Hibernian, all known as the King PL, we gs ° ee eg CENTAGE OF NAVAL seapTRRITACE OP NAVAL Fudward class, which are of about 16. 40 tons. ‘The Connectient has a ton- nage Of 16,000 and horse power, of 1500 as against 18,000 horse power of the King Edward class, It was be lieved by the Ameriean builders that we had as good. if not a better, ship than the best war vessel in England On the Connecticnt we are able to get 200 more tons of coal than they are on the English ships: our stip is 25 feet longer and 2 fect less beam than theirs. The spend is probably about the same, ‘The ships of the King Bd ward class make 18.5 knots an hour and it is expected that the Comneett Cut will make 18 knobs. ‘The draught of both classes of ships is the same 20 feet Winches, Up to the present time the Connection! represents the best model of a battleship now afloat Tut the war sharks are looking ahead of the Connecticut. ‘The British warships of the Kin Edward class Will soon be superseded by those of the Lord Nelson class, the latest type now under discussion inthe English navy yards. ‘This new class consist fof ships of 18,000 and 20,000 tons, With six turrets distributed forward, aft and amidships, each carrying two twelveineh guns, whieh Is the most powerful and effective gn that has Jeon made for ships. ‘This new elas of ship will, it is believed, outrants any other now afloat, and, in order to Koop pace with the other nations. the United States 1s now planning for a class to equal it, thus outclassing tts latest: batUeship, the Connectigut A great advance is also being made lig the guns of warships. The English figured op a forty caliber for the King Edward class, but the United eit believes that it has a better gun toan this, On ships of the King Edward] class they have four nineand-twor tenthineh gune in the smaller tur rets, While we have, on the Louisiana for instance, eight eizhtinch guns that are folly as good, ‘Then, the English have ten sixineh guns, while we have twelve seven inch guns, Rut while the -sixsineh gin wits rated as efficient in the past, the recent sea fight off Port “Arthur fully indicated that it has not the penetration at the range at which the Japanese batileships fought, The seven-inch guns reached the Japanese but did tittle damage, The range of sea fighting that the Japanese have Tengthened to seven miles in some ins stances has rendered many of the “gins now in service in the American and other navies practically useless in battles with uptodate nations. ‘The Cold naval battle where ships ham “mered one another to pieces at a dis- tance of one mile or less has passed into ancient history along with the day when Perry's flagship was turned into a shambles on Lake Erte | The modern battleship) must be Fequipped with perfect machinery, and | it must be manned by experts capable fot handling ft. At the range of five | to seven miles it requires twelve-tneh, | fitty-caliber sims to do the work, and the sivinch gum is destined to go ont | of existence on battleships in a short time. ‘The future ship. in the opinion fof authorities, must be twice the pres: Jent weight and armed with twelve: Finch guns, In building war vessels of | this latest type equipped with twelve: [inch guns it will be seen at a glance how easily the millions will melt away. | With the new ships and the new guns must come expert marksmanship It now costs the United States navy $5,500,000 a year for target practice. | Good marksmanship is the keynote o! | stccess to a navy. ‘The Jananeno have demonstrated this, Retween two ships equally equipped and of the same ton nage, they defeated their enemies on account of their supettority in gun nery, ‘The only way to maintain ex pert marksmanship is by constant practice, It will be readily understoor why target praction is so expensive when it Is known that IC costs $1,004 every Lime a twelve ineh enn te fired The projectilos of the most power fal twelveineh gums have an angle of fall of about 11}y degrees at six miles and therefore the danger space af a battleship forty feet high is about sixty yards. In order, then, te make a bit with a perfect gun and perfect aiming the range must he Known within one half of (his amount With reliable pointers at the guns Jongeranse fining becomes: principally a training in range-tindings~ New York Times ‘When Theater-Goere Smoke Most. “You wouldn't suppose on the: first thonght that there is any conneetion Betweon the state of the drama and the retail tobaceo trade,” says a man who runs a cigar stare close to ane of the down town theaters, hut there {i such a conneetion, and it is a ‘clos fone, On any night when the theater has a musical comedy show or any: thing of that kind Peet twiee the busi ness Edo when the performance Isa comedy, drama or tragedy. Now that have pointed the ‘thing ont yeu see the reason for It, of course, ‘The Hebter forms of entertainment in whieh the bunehing of good looking chorns girls is a featnre ts attended largely by men who go by themselves They xo out between the gets in crowds and during the play and after it is aver my business is good Sut with the other Kind of shaw, even though the home be crowded, the bulk of the andionce consists of couples. Men take their wives a their sweethearts and, as a genera rule, sit still between the acts to dis cuss the play. The difference ts. 8a qarked {n my business and the fae is so well established that Lmake Ita rile to know the coming shows a: long beforehand as possible aad gov em the kind and amount of etek | have ou hand accordingly. 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Phonographs, like some people, are shy of originality Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality. of Deflanee Stireh mikes it Text to Impossible te sell any other brand, Girls bes. the question when they tr yto induce men to propose A ans Cae Tine “Am using ALLENS FOOTEASE, and can truly say Fyvould uot have been without, {itso long, had Lknown the retief it would give my aching feet, Dubin it a rare pood thing fornnyone having saroor tired foot — Mra Matilds Holtwert, Providence, ROL" Sold by all Druggists, 2. Ask boduy. Climate of California Desert, ‘The climate of the California desert fs mldwinter és the finest tobe found in the World, har none, The ale is Vatiny, the days warm amd the nichts Cool enongh for comfortable stoop. Mosquitoes, fleas and other inset Pests are unknown Gave by the Ine dians and half bred, whase society it Ls not necessary. ty enitivates, white files ave absolutety a minus quantity on the desert, English Marriage Rate, ‘The marriage rate is higher in Eng. Jand than elsewhere, being 15 1,000, Tn most other countries it varies from Fito 10 a 1000, The highest birth: rate, according to a volume of statis tics, referring chiefly to foreign coun: tries, issted by the British Hoard of ‘rade, is in Roumania 30a 1,000. ‘That country also has the highest death rate, 27.7 4 1.000, ‘The Towost marriage rate is in Sweden, where tt fe a 1,000. Knew When He Had Enough. “See here, old man, what in thun: der did you mean by advising my daughter to go abroad to study music? She's no phenomenon, and 1 cant! af- ford it, You know all that? “Hut we're on the same flat, aren't we? LE know when Tye had enough.” Detroit Free Press ‘Bansclaiiv tar Women; Champion, Mich, Jan, ath (Spee etal) A case of especial Interest te women ts that of Mrs. A. Wellatty wife of a well known photographer here. It is best given in her own words, “L could not sleep, my feet were cold and my limbs cramped,” Mrs. Weilat states. "1 had an awful hard pain across my kidneys. Ehad to get up three or four times In the night. & was very nervous and fearfully dew pondent. “L had been troubled tn this way for five years when 1 commenced to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, und what they caused to come from my kidneys Will hardly stand description “By the time t bad finished one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills Twas cnred, Now [can sleep well, my limbs do not cramp, I do not get up in tha night and I feo! better than E have tn years, [owe my health to Dodd's Kidney Pills Women’s lila aro caused by Lise eased. Kidnoys; that's why Dodd’ Aidney Pills always cure them, Made Him Crazy. A man has recently been sent to aa insane asylum at London because bit mind gave way after he had tried te polve several newspaper puzzles, a eeaeaaaaeaaaeaaaceammaaaearaacaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaasaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaa THE RISING SON, LEWIS WOODS, Blriuess Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO Se SCHSCNIPTION RATES: gee Year nw Loar 4 Ste mena i i fuetetiy paid tn ndvance Matered at tie Post Ofice at Kanaas Oisy, ds Second Coase Matter, Correspondents wanted in every city ana tow it thisatate, | Write us Alluews matier intended for pub Meation should reach our office not) bas ber than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of auth entieity oie " RICE: No. 117 West Siatt. St, Kansas City, Mo. cere Ts OS ceremony Advertising Rates, CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. * The paid circulation of THe Ristnc Son is more than double the combined circu- lation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. The Rising Son does not feel that it has done anything wrong when it did not support a Kansas City man for the United States Senate. We sup: ported Colonel R, C. Kerens of St Louis because we thonght him worthy and deserving of that honor, and do yet. We were somewhat like Senator Clark in this matter—when we called on him to support Walter Dickey for National Committeeman, he said he had his word out, and to break it he could not sleep at night, Now then, he thinks that the other boys of Kan sas City onght to support his candi date, which perhaps might have been Irie they ought to have done it but they, too, had a conselence, and Shad to sleep at might,” so therefore they could not afford to break theit promise Miss Cora EB. Jones, foster sister of Mrs, John Lang, after spending seven years in the Provident hospital in the city of Chicage, has long since com pleted her course of study as a trained nurse, and in the past nine months she has been chosen by some of the best physicians of Chieago to wait upon their patients, and has proved herself equal to the occasion, ‘The peo: ple of Kansas City whom she left will receive her gladly next Saturday, when she returns to her fostersister, Mrs. Lang, and where she will make her home for the time being, We fee! very proud of the record she has made and wish her much suceces in her un dertaking ‘To the Jackson county Republicans You have told the colored brother that if he proved loyal and yon were sue. cessfil, what a share of the plume he wonld receive, ‘The colored brother took you at your word, You have car ried the county, and yon have carried the state, but thus far not a motlyr's son of us has yet received a thing in Jackson county. What kind of prayer and hymn do you propose to put up to the black man at the next election? We have been taught by the highest authority that he who is faithful shall be rewarded. What have you to of. fer but a slap in the face? Year after year the ery has been: “lf the Ne. xtes would only be loyal!” Wherein is your loyalty to the loyal being dem onstrated? Thomas FE. Watson, late Populist candidate for president, recently told an audience at Crawfordsville, Ga that Southern politicians keep the Ne gro question alive simply to sustain] their local political monopoly. It sn srves the same purpose for them as the old “bloody shirt” question used ty perform for the Republican party of the North, As long as the whites can be kept solidified by: shouting “nig: ker,” it 1s not necessary to strain thelr fooble imteilect in trying to discuss really intellectual fsstes, Of course, the alleged fear of “Negro domina- lion” and social equatity is a_ mere pretense, What they are really afraid of is losing the honor and otters. ‘The Freeman, ‘The Son certainly agrees with this sentiment A.W, Lloyd, candidate for commis sioner of public buildings and grounds at Jefferson City, Mo,, is a member of the state committee, He is. rand chancellor of the Jurisdietion of Mis souri, Koof BP. Mr, Lloyd is a citizen of St. Louis, a man of energy and abil ity. ‘The Son Is very desirous to sec such a deserving man reeeive some of the recognition that hard work and faithfulness on the part of the best negrors deserve, Veo J. Silas Harris, after a serviee of six years, retives from the regency of Lincoln Instiuite and we hope to coe ity siteceod himself. Prof, Harts is one oy the foromost inet of the state an elucator, politielan and race man, woo has done mucit for his race bere in Missouri, By his untiring efforts Hineoln Institite hiss been made thy first Necro school in the country, and ve solee the sentiments of the Ne feos of Missourd when we say: that he shooht remain on the board ot beacat fo the Party Leaders of Kansas Coy and dackson Coo—The Nexto hax ot lis eye on you, Promises will only keep so. tong, and then yon must make good. You can't fool us all the time on promises You do the right thing, You got yours, how give dis ons. Yes, we want some ‘of the nlew jobs, This is the beginning of a new year i one and all honestly eome face to face with ourselves, view onr faut wad shortcomings and resolve to he hypocrites no longer, Let us: strive for a whole year to live up to: those new resolutions for our own geod here and our betterment hereafter, No weak people or nation can make iiself stronger unless it has a sure foundation upon whieh to build. ‘That Haven must be morality, thru Ys yttod brotherhood Why do so many of our colored friends vefuse te pay such a smal bill asa paper bill? ‘The Son believes in rewarding those who have been faithful, ‘Thar is why we were for Col, Kerens, We will accept Thomas K, Nivdving: haus, as it was the will of the ma jority KERENS NOT DISCOURAGED NOR PRONE TO CRITICISE. Col RoC Kerans, Wao rae Recon Hr the face for the United States senator Ihip, is submissive to the will of the Republican majority, When questioned fn regard to the aatcome of he sea. torial tieht Col, Berens handed inquir ors a typewritten statement, which, he ‘id, expressed everything he wished o-say on the subject. It follows: “Tam not discouraged and have no words of eritelam, 1 is my sehoo! of polities to baw umeomplainingly to the Will of the majority. TE believe in the Republican. party and. its” prineiples, and in the policies enunelated by Pres ident Roosevelt, who deserves the sup port of every loyal citizen, In the future, as in the past, 1 will devote my energies for the purpose of main: taining Republiean suprmacy in’ Mis- sour. “To the thoagands of loyal Repub: leans who have assisted me in tis contest return my heartfelt thanks, Their unselfish devotion will always he cherished as the most pleasant memory of my life.” In regard to the reported Filfpino movement, Col, Kerens said he had heard no talk of such a thing on the part of his friends before leaving Jet: ferson City, and that no rumor of a movement of this kind had reached hi sinee his arrival in St. Louis Fri. day evening. Tassume that it is not erie lucent Weapon Used by Red Men. An Indian ay is attracting meh at tention in Rockland, Me. It was found by William Geyer of Friendship while | repairing a road, ‘The ax is of stone, is @ perfect specimen and weighs” seven and onehalt pounds Caught Shark in Lasso. Richared Moore, # yaektsman of Bath Beach, Le f. reeentis lassord a shark, six feet eight inches long, whieh Weighed 225 pounds, If was in the middle of a schoel of menhaden when discovered by its captors Both Started in Early. | From a marriage license tssued at [Ratiani Vee thd tle ks 10.8 and’ woman, eel 23 years old, it ape peared thst! Wes the prospective uae Ss third matehmonial venture and the room's sera | Calcutta India’s Chief Market. )_Calentta is the Javtest distributing point for manituetared goods in India, and there are nearly Gea people tributary to and sdeyendent upon this market for thew supplies, both by pe and rai | Caterpillars’ Healthy Appetites. A caterpillar an acmenth will devour 6.000 times its own Mt it will take an avarage man three months bee fore he eats a auantity of food equal to his own weight Peculiar Claim for Damages. A Washington county, Maine, man seeks Indemnity from the state for daniage done his orchard by wild ant mal More Valuable Than Diamonds. Oriental rubies are worth, weight for weight, about twelve times as such aa dlamonia: Hot Springs Special. Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City and Het Springs, Arkansas, ard return daily, is now provided for by — 6 la o = Wu on s be °° ae) me Ss 3 a & [iia so ¥ Vabaites So “es © i 53 38 2S Salk oer = 3 e Beat ss Ist og | ; > es Leaving Kansas City at 12:01 noon daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Indepen- dence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this “Hot Springs Special” is the Elegant Dining Cars. This train connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Trains for For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, *: E, S. JEWETT, Passenger and Ticket Agt. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY, MO. Telephone 740 Hickory. LINCOLN INSTITUTE. Missouri's Great School for the Edu- cation of the Negro Youth of the Great West. It may not be generally known that there is located at Jefferson City, Mo. the greatest Negro sehoot in the Unit- ed. States, This school was estab- lished more than thirty years ao by the generosity of Negro soldiers, who desired to see the children of eman- Cipated slaves fitted for the new re: sponsibilities which awaited them as citizens ‘The school underwent many hard: ships tn its struggle for existence, un Wii it was taken under the: friendly Wing of the state, since which time fis progress has heen phenomenal. This school, with a fieulty of thirty teach: ers and ten departments, is doing a work along literary and industrial lines that is not surpassed by. any Neuve school in the country, As an evidence of what the school is doing for the uplitt of the Negroes of the state, it will only be necessary to call attention to the great work accom plisheded by the normal department The object of tis department is to Ht teachers for the sehools of the state, and of the $57 teachers (col: ored), now employed in the schools of Missouri, 36:2 received a part, or all of their schooling at Lineoln Institute, and it is a pleasure for us to say that these young men and young women have made Missouri the foremost state in the Union for the highest education of the Negro race, Here eat be found more college graduates among Ne gros, according to popiilation, than can be found in any state in the Union Farming, stock raising, shoe-making, blacksmithing, dress making, tailoring, carpentering, gardening, wagon mak- ing, moulding, music, painting, draw- ing, hat making, horse shoeing, cook- ing, millinery, housekeeping, laundry: ing and other useful things are taught which will help the young people to | solve the Negro problem, We visited thi school a few days ago, and it gives “us pleasure to say that we were as Htonished at what we saw and, if for no | other reason, we are proud of Missouri band her law-making for this great | school. SOME GOOD THINGS SAID. WT, Carrington, state superintend: ent of would be unwise for the State Normal to take any steps backwards.” J.D. BHI, Inspector of High Schools: “We must find a larger place for moral training in our high sehools.” W. 1. Porter, Tarkio catlege: “We must teach rural subjects if we are te reach rural people, We need not Jower the tone of onr sehols, for ma tire study Is in the rest sense a ent ture study.” MoS. Wildman, Central College The ideal of the public sehool te Whiely all other ideals are subordinats is ideal citizenship.” Ro Hi. Jesse, President of the Uni versity of Missouri: “Lineoin Institute should be reorganized along the Tne: of Booker T, Washintgon’s famom seook W. AW, Yates, Kansas City (colored) ‘he Nesroes do not want an indus trial school, ‘They want an institutton “like the University of Missouri, wher they may study what they desire, Al do not intend to be farmers and me anime Le We are glad to know that Rey, Wy H. Wheeler of Asbury chapel ealled upon his gongregation for a collection and took his offering to the eltadel in time for it to be a help in the prep avation of that Christmas feast, Every time a Negro does suely an act he demonstrates his fitness to lead his jannia, A. OC. HOWARD Ir now ready to till your orders for coal and feed in large or small quantities. Home Phone 1695 Main. Street number 1025 Pacific. en eeenmneaenentieensisnsasiasyeanmaeementsi7ee Jous B. Trantor. Established ises. Wo J. Cammnent TILLHOF & CAMPBELL REAL ESTATE. RENTALS. INSURANCE: 2O3-eCa mall Bidg, Cor Sth & Wainut sre: Kor Poses 160 MALS. KANSAS CITY, MO. DIAMOND PAINT CO. (DEVOE.) PAINT, VARNISH, BRUSHES. C. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. Tel. 946. 12144 GRAND AVENUE nthe : At the Vendome Dancing Academy. 1734 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. DANCING EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING ADMISSION 20c. Class Every Wednesday Evening, Thursday Afternoon and Saturday Evening. ADMISSION 25c. MUSIC BY IMPERIAL ORCHESTRA PROFESSOR J=FFREY BUSS, Instructor of Dancing. D. A. WILLIS, Manogor. Hotel New Port 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. A Quiet Game. If mother has asked you not to get dirty after you have dressed for a drive, and you do not know just what to do to amuse yourself, get some one to play the following little game with you, It Is very simple, but will help the time to pass pleasantly: “L see a color you don't see," says one, “What color may it be?" asks the other, “It may be pink (or some other col- or in the room.) says) the first in quirer. ‘Then he begins the question: ing. Is it the paper? The ribbon on your hair? The pink in the doll’s dress? And so on, until happily the gulesser mentions the exact article of pink that has been chosen. The sue cessful guesser than take her turn at saying, “I see a color that you don't see,"—Washington Star Sws Ay (8 Be h Uh eed fees) — j \ ty bey) “He is rich,” said Beau [ \ ( ;? Brummell, “who inherits a ot the taste in dress.” hy k= \ Ww i 0 — | T IS OUR FUNCTION to gratify that | taste and todevelopit. Our Suits (c__y = and Overcoats are cut on the lines approved by fashion. F Si2 to $30 For Holiday Gifts we show complete lines of Neck- wear, Gloves, Suspenders, Canes, Umbrellas, and everything of the best quality. Prices reasonable. Browning, King & Co. HENRY CASPER, Manager. 11th & Main Sts. Fruit Jar Battery. A correspondent writes Seeing Clad SoM eNO GARE E Levore nee farsi Sil adaware First T obtained a few old dry bat teries and took the carbons out of fist “he ALO CARSON S Oneme rea CARBONE) A zine Li. | H i BZ 5 iA H 5 ical H | — i es them; at the store I obtained a num- ver of zines (stick) sometimes called pencil zines, [then washed ont a few Jars and made pasteboard covers like Fig. 1. I then put the zine and carbon fn the cover, filled the jar two-thirds full of sal ammoniac and pnt in carbon and zinc, my battery then being com. plete. THEODORE SMITF., DRUGGIST. Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES {Heriail Grand Puones | Borstvo wala KANSAS CITY, MO. 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. Ghe Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. ae nastics ch 7 Heat Stoves Made. a Pe ene HAM) ei ict-n04 2 Peninsular a he oy Stee! Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Bun. oa io aoa | ners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the.- eee Hh Peninsular Stove Ce. Re \ Hel i German Heater, Soft Cont Bnssheater, Cole's Hot " Hae ae Gat Staves, Sebill Steel Ranges and’ Feruneee, I ScSSh fire 7} TIN WORK @ Specialty. rey yoni © Sen Uae See Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators Bel remem bal Feeotee Coa ‘Phone 1458. py ae ag 1329 Grand Ave. The Rat and the Dove. ‘There can be no doubt that strong attachments are formed between ant- mals, and that they are capable of emotions of pity ans acts of generos: ity, not only toward their own. kind, Int even toward creatures of ancther species A gentleman who had a great rum ber of doves used to feed them near the barn, At such times not only chickens and sparrows, but also rats, were accustomed to come and share the meal, Ove day he saw a large rat fill ity cheeks with kernels of eorn and run to the coach house, repeating thts performance several times, On going over to investixate, he found a lame dove eating the corn which the rat had bronght : Such an aetion or the part of human beings would be looked upon as a charitable desire 1 relieve the neces sities of a helpless cripple—and we must also +0 consider it in the ease of the rat. a - ; laltene. Barden. Batak. This is a source of endless delight to a little girl just able to use her needle. ‘The necessary reqnisites are a small square of green art denim, some pret- ty remnants of flowered chintz, and a small box of tiny crystal beads. If the little one is able to sit and use her needle, she will take unlimited pleasure in clipping the flowers and foliage from the chints and transfer- ring them to her square of green in artistic and odd effects, The crystal Deads are a good substitute for dew, and with a little ingenuity can be most effectively placed. When com: pleted the garden patch ean be utilized for a pillow top, or can be made the nucleus of a quilt, CASH Cala- , OR \ KY) FT logue ONLY $10.00 bagpall \Wet Piece fash tren $0 te om ea Bugey— 837.50 on tine pay- KK fn) are itr i ORS I D ecnrinsnnsanitanst epee CLD Seis nam, NEWS & GOSSIP A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo G. H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS Mr. Lonie Smith of Canada is spending a month with his parents in Westport. Mrs. Katie Jordan Bufkins of St. Louis is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sandy Edwards, at 2000 Olive. Mrs. L. M. Crossthwait, who has been confined to her home for several weeks, is out again. Colored Agents wanted. Agents, big money sure. For particulars call forenoon Sunday at 305 E. 11th street. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Perry gave a reception Friday evening, December 30, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart of Montreal, Canada. Beautiful large parlor room furnished, for rent to neat man and wife. Light housekeeping accommodations. Mrs. Shith, 2442 Flora avenue. Mrs. William Frederick Fairfax's niece, Mrs. Apha Jackson, the coming singer of the race, of Fort Madison, Iowa, has returned home after spending the holidays in Kansas City. H. Powell has bought a hotel and will move in it soon, at the corner of Missouri avenue and Oak street. Mrs. John Lang, of 912 Park is on the sick list at this time, but her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Stewart of Montreal, Canada, spent the holidays with Mrs. Stewart's mother, Mrs. Alfred Perry, are visiting Mr. Stewart's relatives at Social Circle, Ga., where they will remain the month of January, after which they will return and spend the month of February with relatives and friends in Kansas City, before returning to their home in Canada. 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. 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 parlors and ladies' tailoring school at her residence, 1228 Walnut street, for the benefit of our girls and ladies. 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 liberally to churches, and all charitable institutions. We should always support a man of this kind. The editor wishes him continued success. AGENTS WANTED.—$75.00 per week an expenses easily made selling combination policies for a big sick and accident company. Write to-day. Address U. S. Protective Society, Salisbury, Mo. The Ladies Whist Club will be entertained on Saturday afternoon, January 14, at 1213 Bellefontaine avenue, by Mrs. Allen and Misses Thornton, Drs. Leach, Bradbury and Jones. Henry Compton, proprietor of the restaurant at 915 Baltimore avenue, has gone to quite an expense to fix his place so you can be served in a first class manner, and you are invited to come and see for yourself. Regular meals at the proper time, and short orders at all hours of the day or night. This is the place for good things to eat. A large surprise donation party by the citizens of Springfield generally were given Dr. Snelson and family Christmas week. Welcome addresses were made by officers of all the church boards and by the citizens generally. The occasion was a great social event of the season. The social event of holiday week was the full dress afternoon reception and ball at night, given at the Vendome the 30th, by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Perry in honor of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Stewart of Canada. Mrs. M. E. Mew, assisted by a florist, had the ball beautifully decorated. W. Frederick Fairfax had charge of the refreshments, with the following ladies to receive: Mrs. Theo Clay, Mrs. Willie Bell, Mrs. J. Sillas Harris, Mrs. J. F. Bradley, Mrs. John Herndon, Mrs. Wm. Frederick Fairfax, Miss Maude Oldham, Miss Lucy Day, Miss Corine White. Mr. Dallas Foster and Johnnie Haris furnished music. The guest of honor, Mrs. L. C. Stewart, was gowned in a beautiful pale green silk crepe over pink tafeta and lace trimmed in Persian lace and with diamond ornaments and pink American beauty roses. About 200 guests were present Dr. F. G. Snelson is happy in his work at Springfield, Mo. Mrs. Snelson has recently recovered from a desperate illness here, is much better and has joined Dr. Snelson and the family in Springfield. A grand union service of all the colored churches was held Christmas morning and Dr. Snelson was chosen by the pastors to preach the Christmas sermon. A crowded congregation listened to a most powerful and brilliant sermon on "The Adoration of the Wise Men." It is said that his discussion of "gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh," was absolutely original and sublime. A collection of over $75 was taken at the Christmas service. On New Year Sabbath morning Dr. Snelson's services were so impressive that eight persons came forward and united with the church. Dr. Snelson officiated Dec. 26th at the marriage of Professor Oscar F O'Neal, of Union, Mo., and Miss Bessie Hill, a teacher, at Beggs, Ind. Ter. Driving Ostrich to Wagon. The work of breaking an ostrich to harness requires infinite patience. He wears a collar at the base of his neck, and from this straps are passed underneath his body and attached to the wagon. No bit is placed in his mouth, the reins being simply tied over his bill. In driving him the reins are crossed, for the reason that he will invariably take the opposite direction from that in which is head is pulled. If you pull his head over to the left, for instance, he will instinctively jerk it back and swerve to the right. Just why he does this nobody knows. Whatever the reason, this habit is a great advantage to the trainer, for with the lines crossed he can be driven just the same as a horse. Fair of Beaucaire. An unsuccessful effort has been made in France to revive the fair of Beaucaire on a scale comparable to that of the good old times. These fairs began in the thirteenth century, and gradually rose to such proportions that in 1790, for instance, the business transacted amounted to 40,000,000 francs. Before the middle of the last century the railway changed all this, and to-day the fair is a mere shadow of its former self. Great Country for Wheat. The delta of the Tigris and the Euphrates, now partially a desert and partially a swamp, contains over 5,000,000 acres of land. Perhaps no region of all the regions of the earth is more favored by nature for the production of cereals. It is claimed that wheat in its wild, uncultivated state has its home in the semiarid regions, and that from here it has been transported to every quarter of the globe. London's "Little Italy." Reporting upon the "Little Italy" of one of London's most crowded districts, the health officer of the district says that the Italians are "generally superior" to the English persons who are their neighbors. They also take more care of their children among whom the death rate is low, and they are sober. Another Frivolous One "I suppose," said the frivolous passenger to the gloomy captain, "that you call it the donkey engine because it hasn't much horse power." 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? ROOMS FOR RENT—LIGHT HOUSE- KEEPING At 1816 Wedland avenue. Heat and gas furnished. Rooms $3.00 and $5.50. A desirable place for anyone wishing a room at a home-like place. Tree tree. 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 boulion, are some of the leaders at McCampbell & Houston's Hot Soda Fountain. To my friends and relatives of this city: I guess you are all wondering about the separation of Mr. Allen G. Samuels and Mrs. Rosa V. Samuels. It is all about Miss E. T. Harris of this city. When he met her he told her that he was not married and he lied. He has eleven children in Shreveport. The oldest one is 24 years old and the youngest one is 11 months old. He has forsaken his home for Miss E. T. Harrison. He is 11 Kansas City with her. When he was in the city of Shreveport he claimed to be a great preacher, and he has lied to the people and he had to leave. By the help of God I will raise my children in the way that they should go and may they not go astray. So help me God! MRS. ROSA V. SAMUELS. 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. Milwaukee, Wis., June 23, 1893. Gentlemen: Please send me two bots of the Ozonized Ox Marrow for the hair. Think it is one of the best hair pomades made. MRS. JOHN GRAF. 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. BOYS AND GIRLS Since Mother's Gone. Since mother's gone I miss the smile And gentle voice that used to cheer Me boyish heart, day after day. And when I stood in a fear Which chanced to be along my way. No more about the humble home I see her ply her daily care. Or hear her sing some sacred song. Or plead with God for silent prayr For right to triumph over wrong. I love to hear some sacred song or hallowed hymn she used to sing, Or that I pray may used to pray, Or that I pray may firmly cling Who was her comfort day by day. The memory of her holy life Remains to cheer me on my way. She was on my shoulder on Amid life's toll, from day to day. To that sweet place mother's gone. - Alva N. Turner, in Washington Post Fun with a Fly Seesaw. Here is an amusing little trick that you will find lots of fun: Stick a long lead pencil in the end of a spool of thread so that it will stand upright. Now get a piece of very stiff blotting paper and from it cut a strip two inches wide and about a foot long. On each end of this put a drop of molasses or syrup. Now balance the strip of blotting paper, with the syrup side up, on the point of the pencil. You should have A See-Saw in Operation. two players, although one will do. Each player chooses an end of the paper. In a moment a fly will alight on one end, attracted by the syrup, and that end of the paper will go down a trifle. Then another fly will light on the other end, or perhaps several will come there for the sweets and things will be reversed. As more flies come, alighting on the ends, the paper will lean first this way, then that, till it overbalances and falls to the tables. Then the player whose end grew so heavy as to cause the tumble wins. We would not advise you to try this in the house, but rather out of doors in the warm sunshine, where the flies will not bother any one. HALL FOR RENT At 529 Grand Avenue, Just the Place for Lodges $25 per Month. FRANK OLENO CO. 529 Grand Avenue KANSAS DITY. Furnished Rooms To Rent. BY DAY OR WEEK Meals at All Hours. At 1001 E. 18th St. G. SMITH, Propr. In a Lion's Mouth. Not all of the delights of spring are for the country boy. We who live in the city have a host of them, and can see many a strange and pleasing sight if we keep our eyes open. A few days ago, while riding my bicycle down Madison avenue, I heard the twitering of sparrows, and, looking up, saw in the mouth of the stone lion on the corner of the building of one of the city's prominent clubs the remains of a last year's nest, and two sparrows getting ready to build a new one for this year. It was such a novel place for a bird to choose for housekeeping that I stopped and made a sketch of it. While standing on the opposite corner sketching, the policeman of that "beat" came over to talk with me. He seemed pleased that I should have noticed the birds. He said that the sparrows had been keeping house there for several years. He had often stopped to watch them build their nests, and later feed their little ones, which later would play around the lion's head, sitting on his nose or eyebrows as saucily as could be, as much as to say: "You may look fierce, but—who's afraid?"—St. Nicholas. Pindertoy. This frolicsome frog needs only to be cut out and the three parts pierced through the dots with a pin, sticking the pin into a cork or stick to hold it firm. If pasted on an old visiting card it will have more body and last longer. Queer Lakes. One of the most singular lakes in the world is the celebrated Pitch Lake of the Island of Trinidad. This lake spreads over an area of ninety-nine acres, and its surface is composed of one great floating mass of asphaltum, seamed with veins of clear water. From it and a similar lake in Venezuela, the world's supply of asphalt is drawn, says the Washington Post. The Pitch Lake is a hideous place so far as smells are concerned, for the air all about it is heavy with noxious vapors, and from the center of the lake gushes a fountain of liquid asphaltum, in which there float and break bubbles containing most horrible gases. The workmen go out on the surface of this lake and cut great slabs of asphaltum, which are carried away. But the next morning the hole they left is filled up again with the pitch, which has risen during the night, so that the supply seems to be inexhaustible. This curious lake was discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh when he landed in Trinidad in 1595, on his way to the mouth of the Orinoco in search of El Dorado. Another strange lake is situated on a peninsula which juts out into the Caspian Sea. The whole surface of this lake is covered with a crust of salt so thick and strong that a man can ride across it on horseback with safety. In Central Asia, near the Caspian Sea, is a lake of beautiful rose water, while the hauks are covered with salt crystals as white as snow. From the waters of this lake there arises a flower-like odor. The color and the odor are supposed to be caused by vegetable matter in the depths. There used to be a curious lake on the top of the Volcano de Agua, in Guatemala, 14000 feet above the level of the sea. It was not fed by springs nor by rivers, but was caused by accumulations of snow and rain—in fact, was an immense reservoir. It lasted for centuries. Then, one day, the sides of the lake gave way, and down the waters rolled, dealing death and destruction, and digging a great barranca, or ravine, in the mountainside, which is still w. 9d. No Daylight Weddings. 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For descriptive literature and detailed information as to rates, train service, etc., address J. C. LOVRIEN, ASSISTANT GENERAL FREEMEN AGENT, KANSAS CITY, MO. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IN THE... MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services stitty first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up stairs. Z. T. JORDAN. Manager ST. LOUIS, MO W. B. Countee. UNDERTAKERS AND ..Licensed Embalmers.. } Rest Only in the Grave Tia cithe ot hn lighted health ry iw he, nu atid hve Rivicke wid curtes” wiihout A Id sit ge Ing. bake oF bal 1 Piewald teach We tay ae 1 Wome” The Hose of Quiet, for s 1 weak, For pour and rich, have at i That Mowe ts narrow and dark and But the wily Peacefal House of a arses Clareice slangéh e 4 a, 5. SENORITA. Lig ¢ LY CLMLAS WW CUNO (Copyright, 1904, by Dally Story Pub, Co.) tnez opened her eyes Janguidly to @nother day, but suddenly her listles hess gave Way to an excellent exhibi ion of activity. With a wild shriek she sprang from the couch, for there on the showy covers, magnified to twice its size by her imagination, crouched a dreaded Mextean tarantula She rushed from the room of the low hacienda, all of whose apartments opened on the wide veranda that ex tended all the way around it, and Tushed unwittingly into the arms of the tall American officer that hap: Dened to be passing. She was Denighteowned, it is trie, but not A whit heeded the officer. He strode hastily into the room, crushed the huge spider beneath his heel, and. then, willy-nilly, raised the still. trembling bit of Kumanity and kissed her on the cheek, saying, “Nifla (my ehild)— there, little girl, do not be frightened,” aud walked unceremoniously away. Inez’s cheek burned, not because he had kissed her, for, truth to tell, she had been kissed Defore, but at his words. Child, little girl, am 1!" she ex: claimed, and her black eyes flashed, ‘The idea of calling her @ little girl, Who had but yesterday refused the heart and hand of Don Juan Dorado, the richest ranchero in Santa Cruz! Little girl, indeed! She would show him! And in that moment she re: solved to. bring the tall, handsome American to her feet. The American officer, on leave of absence, was visiting Santa Cruz with the object, 60, at least, It was noised about, of buying a silver mine, Oh, yest) When it came to buying silver mines, they all had one to sell in Santa Crt. He was feasted and entertained to his heart's content. Even the uncle of Inez, the prosperous Don Alvaro, invited him to a dinner in the bosom of his family. He came, with his gold epautets, Jingling spurs and glittering sword— a very Apollo in regimentals, ‘The Donna Alvaro was dressed in her best for the occasion, but Inez surpassed herself in the ehie, telling manner in which she displayed ber charms, Oh, yest ‘The captain was im: Pressed. He admired openly and al most overstepped even Spanish bounds fu the manner in which he compli monted her from head to foot, The American could make love. No doubt of it! He sat listening, enraptured, while Inex twanged her mandolin and sang plaintive Spanish songs of love to him. And he sished deeply when she had finished “Ah,” he murmured softy, “if you only meant It when you sang.” Decidedly the American was already ensnared. Inez’s eyes flashed with triumph, She would bring him to her feet yet But at that moment Don Alvaro came to talk “mine” and Inez had to bo content with languishing and co- quettish looks, After that ho came many days, for Don Alvaro still wished to talk “silver mine” to the captain. Inex aud her bea | eS \ ARS % AOR EN ASS M\ Ba BAe LBS ERE RY \\y) aes AY FW Na | SS SN ~ Aa \ AX SI ay eer et re em affaim began to progress finely, Each day ne grew more sentimental and whe felt that every visit enmeshed him more and more in her toils, Poor girl, she could not play with fire with- gut burning her own fingers—or, to be more correet, seating her own heart. One day her captain, as she began to call him, came with news. “Tbe government is going to station a company of cavalry at Santa Cruz,” he said, “and TE haye requested that I be stationed here with my command,” Inez Was delighted. She almost threw herself into his arms there and then, but she restrained herself and save vent to her Joy tn variously: in- tonated “Obs” and “Abs.” Would she walk fn the garden by moonlight? Oh, yes! Although, in: deed, it was against Spanish custom to be so familiar with a man, But the captain? “He was such a dear fel: low!" she told herself and perhaps— Ah, yes, he might declare his love, She would make him. Yes, she would pluck for him a rose from the | Pa. ery oe ee it maa ik Ty ate i Y i ae Ne ae SG AN hie es #, iE mi viata oa ‘NG ey y/A\ f aM BR) H/} Wi) & EB I/O SM |/. Oe oat 7 Se Br 4 ee ee Her linsiare danaerauaie: near bie: trea. n-the Tar, dart eoraer of (ite @aty den, Now he is bending down for her to put it in his button hole. Mer lips aire dangerously near to his, He eould hiss her before she could get-away, but he does not, Fool that he is, does Fhe not see that he may? She is dis- appointed, but never imind. | "Oh, my captain,” she gurgles, leaning closer to him, and pressing his arm to ber as they walk slowly down the pathway, “is It not delightful?) So still and lovely and the moon so sik very bright!” “Ah,” laughs the captain, “is it not Just a night for a lover,” and he presses her arm tenderly, Inez looked at him coquettishly and, laughing a gleeful, heart-free laugh, sho plucked a scarlet daisy from its stem. "See," she cried, hewitchingly, “T will test my lover's love, Unos, dos, tres,” she counted, “one two, three— he loves, he loves mo not, he loves— Ah, he loves,” she eries, dancing with glee, but in a moment she was quiet. ‘Looking up soulfully she asks, “Ah, my captain, tell me, do you think be loves?” “To be sure." the captain answers, laughing and ulting her little ehin up with bis hand, “how could he help loving you?” AL that moment there was a ery, “ine, Inez!” It was Donna Alvaro calling her. [col thought Inez, “how provok- ing” “But before they went Into the "house ske whispered, “you will come to sew me to-morrow?” “Oh, yes.” the captain whispered in roturn, but he reckoned without his superior at the Post In the morning Inez almost wept [when she heard that her captain had | heen suddenly called back to the Post “He did not even say farewell to me,” she wailed to herself. But the news had a mitigating element, Casearo, the town gossip, brought it, “Ah, does the Senorita know, he | said insinuatingly, “the Gran Capitan has bought himself the Hacienda Do- lores but yesterday, No? Ob, but he j has. And he told me, yes, to me, my: self, that he is going to live there alone, ‘Perhaps some Senorita,’ the Captain sald to me, ‘will take pity vpon me before long and he my wife. Quien sabe? At any rate, be had said, yes. hie took me into his confidence, he Sid, Lbave one in view, and perhaps ~who knows." Casearo. threw his arms out in ex | pressive Spanish way and the heart of | Inez beat loudly within her breast. | “He is going to have everything ready.” she sald to herself, “befor he asks me.” The fire that she had played with burned deep, for she n« longer thought of him tn the vengeful spirit of that morning when he had kissed her and called hey -Nina.” Two weeks later, there was a great commotion in Savta Cruz, The whole town turned out to welcome the com ing of the cavalry company, “Ah, there comes the train,” some. one shouted, People craned their necks and every one was excited, The train puffed and snorted into the sta- tion and the platform was soon bright with blue uniforms and clanking ares, ‘There was the “Gran Capitan." Inez ran forward to meet him, extending both bands as welcome. ‘The captain took but one of them, “Ah, Inez, delighted to see you,” he said. Turning to a beantiful git) by his side, he continued, “Allee, this ts the Senorita that 1 was telling you about.” “This is my wife,” he added to Inez. “We were married yesterday. You— both of you, must be good friends.” “Oh,” murmured Inez stiMfy, “I am ~rlad—to meet—your wife. ‘The words choked her and she hur- ried away to hide her chagrin, ‘The next issue of the weekly Clang- or, a newspaper of Santa Cruz, and, in fact, the only paper of southern New Mexico, contained the following announcement “We take pleasure in announcing that the bans have been published for the marriage of Don Senor Juan Do- rado and Senorita Inez Alvaro, The Senor is one of onr prosperous Span- ish citizens, while the Senorita ts con- sidered the belle of Santa Cruz, We wish them luck." GROWTH OF THE TELEPHONE. Number of Messages in 1904 Estimat- ‘ed at 5,000,000,000. From a modest beginning, twenty five years ago, to the place which the telephone occupies in the world’s Ife today, says Cent Per Cent, is a growth of which the mind can form no adequate conception from mere fig- ures, but it is a low estimate to place the number of messages exchanged in the United States in 1904 at 5,000, 000.000, for that was the amount of 1902. ‘The Cleveland Finance cuts that number in half in order to ex- clude all but business messages, and then estimates the time saved on 2.5710,000,000 messages, over all other forms of communication, at ten min- utes each, in order to ascertain the amount of time saved in the year 1902, and reaches a total of 25,000, 600,000 minutes, or 416,666,666 hours, or 17,061,111 days, or 4,830 years. The profits on the telephone bust- ness in America are placed approxi mately at the annual figure of $50,000, 000, one-half of which at least will be saved by the semi-automatic tele- phone exchange that is now being in- troduced; but in order to get a just conception of the value of such an in- vention, we must add the enormous amount of additional time which will be saved at each end of the line, that is, by the doing away with the sery- fees of so many operators In the ex- change, and the elimination of the now necessary waiting by the sub: seriber in his office. Is Life Worth Living. Ie life worth living? How ean you Look up into Son sites of blue, Me heaven's sunshine smnite and. bask, And such a question dare to ask? At blossom time, how enn you hear Mithe moskengers with otes, high, clear, Fiom ranch and” bough. prockalin ta might Without'a thrill of glad detight? Tow can you know the gentle press Gu cheek and brow of Wind's caress, At not within veur bosom feel An earnestness, «new born geal? Is Ife worth Hving? How ean you Gaze lovingly in eves so. tre And not Within thelr depths behold, Phe Wiehe that blends cach hour. with gold? How can you, the one's who wear The crown. of motherhood. bright, fatn, Reeauery thus. when ‘gainst your breast Two litte Warm, red lips are pressed? HKathleen Kivanagh in New Orleans Time-Demovrat. Fichter Fond of Candy. Melton Prior, the London war cor: respondent, says Gen, Fukushima {s one of the hardest workers in. the Japanese army, neither smokes nor drinks and has an unconquerable love for sweets. Mr. Prior called upon him to protest against the manner in which correspondents were being kept away from the fighting line. The gen. eral mildly replied that this was ac. cording to strict rules, whereupon Prior lost his temper for a moment and indulged in some emphatic re marks. The Jap warrior looked at him blandly, and with a smile held ont a small box, saying: “Have a sweet, Mr. Prior.” Whereupon the humor of the situation appealed to the correspondent and a pleasant chat followed Plans to Ald Moar Litleanta, Judge A. B, Dissette retired from the common pleas bench of Cleveland last. week, his term having expired He intends to devote the remainder of his life to giving legal advice and ald to those who are unable to pay for such service, “Ten years on the bench,” he says, “have shown me the necessity of sueh a practical philan thropy. The poor man undoubtedly is at a great disadvantage in court be cause of his inability to engage conv petent counsel, and 1 know of no way in which a lawyer ean do more good than in remedying this unavoidable de fect as much as lies in his power.” . Countess Is Actress. Countess Margaret Cassini, niece and adopted daughter of the Russian ambassador to this country, will de vote her cnergies to amateur theat ricals in Washington this winter. She is a born actress, graceful, beautiful, clover, with a good voice which she knows how to use, and she has taken up acting with her usual zeal, energy and taste, Her favorite character tq Judith, although she ts at home i comedy as well as tragedy. | OLD CROSS OF LOUISBURG. Interesting Relic Owned by Harvard University. In a closet in the library at Hare vard college fa stored one of the few existing relics of the campaign of Sir William Pepperell and his New Eng landers against the French stronghold of Louisburg, in the year 1745, This relic is an tron cross that Is be lieved to have adorned a chureh in Louisburg, How it came into the pos: session of Harvard is not known at this time, as no antiquarian has ever taken the trouble, it appears, to estab: lish its history since it became a col- lege possession. About sixty years ago Mr. John T. Sibley, then librarian at Harvard, found the cross in a lot of discarded articles stored in one of the smaller buildings on the college grounds, It was marked with a tag on which was written the statement that the cross was brought from Louisburg by one of Pepperell’s soldiers. Mr. Sibley at: (; 2 ( ad , | c( Tah 1 \\ on i ns tempted to trace the history of the relle in order to discover under what circumstances, and by whom, it was presented to the college, but so far as his successor knows, he made no headway in his quest. In 1841, shortly after its discovery by Mr. Sibley, the cross was stored in a small building that stood back of the Charles river national bank, near the college. ‘The building was burned in 1845, and the cross was found in its ashes, undamaged except for slight pitting caused by the heat. Taken in hand by Mr. Justin Winsor, then librarian, the cross was given a heavy coat of gilding, such as it had borne originally, and was fixed to the east wall of Gore hall, in the library building. Here it remained for many years, until alterations made its re- moval from the wall necessary. It was next stored in the cellar of the library, remaining there until the early 808, when it was firmly fixed in the stone peak of the gable over the entrance to the brary. The cross is made of soft iron and appears to have been the work of a Lonisburg blacksmith, the workman- ship being rougher than would have been produced by the skilled {ron- mongers of France, The cross to-day weighs abont ten pounds. Its cross-piece is 21% inches long, terminating in fleur-de-lis which are 4% inches wide by 6 inches long. An ornament of similar propor: tions caps the upright, or standard, the total length of which at present Is 29 inches. Before broken off the cross was about 49 inches long. Both cross: plece and standard are 1 inch wide ead Sk inch: thiek. Dead Man's Wishes Ignored. In a plain deal coffin, carried on a tradesman’s cart, the body of Dmitri Ragoskin, aged 194, was recently Horne to its last rest at Kharkoff, Rus: sla, Very different was the funeral planned by Ragoskin for himself. For the last seventy years every penny he saved went into a fund, which was to remain intact until the day of his death in order to provide hiny with the most magnificent funeral posgible. When he felt old age creeping on him he set about making his own coffin, carving and inlaying it regardless of expense. In the sides were two pan- pls of beaten gold, supplied by a St. Petersburg firm, and‘on the top were the monomaniac's initials set in tur- quoises and small pearls. When Rago- skin died his relatives sold the gor geous coffin and silken shrouds and di- vided among themselves the $15,000 accumulated for the funeral. The lo- cal undertakers are up.in arms. Insect Wings. 1 = ‘ 2 LARVA VEE: Aisi fw & The middle position of a fly's wing in flying. The arrows show approxi- mately the resistance of the air, 1. Downstroke. 2. Upstroke, 3. Tra’ jectory of a fly’s wing tip when mak- ing 300 vibrations and going six feet yer second, Conditions a Century Ago. A copy of the New Hampshire Ga- zette published at Portsmouth, N. H., in September, 1810, informs us that there were at that time 29.474 slaves in the territory of New Orieans on which a tax of $22,000 was paid, In the election returns it shows that Lis. bon, then called Concord, had 145 vot- ers and was strongly republican GIRL'S TRAMP ACROSS MEXICO. | ——- Ohio Girl Had No Trouble Till She Tried ta Banter a Mine. | Miss Hazel Mason, 19 years old, has the distinction of being the only white woman who ever followed the moun: tain trail on horseback from Oaxaca, Mex., across the continental divide, to an Indian village forty miles away. When Miss Mason walked through the village every Indian woman on the place would run and look at her, com- menting on her features and physique. Their favorite remark was “Que alta,” which translated means, “Gee, how tall” Miss Mason's home is in Toledo, ©,, but she has lived in Detroit, and spent six months in Mexico, going to that country last winter and remain- ing until a short time ago, While in Mexico the native Indians gave Miss Mason a wide berth, ax they consider- ed her a hoodoo, ‘They are very superstitions, but did not attempt to molest her till she wanted to go down into a mine. When the Indians learned of this they pro- tested, telling the superintendent they would never work in the mine again, as It meant certain death to the work- men for a woman to enter the shaft. Another of their superstitions is that the mine will never yield gold or sil- ver again. Because of these superstitions the native women are not permitted even to look down the shaft.—St. Louis Re- public. KILLED DEER WITH FIST. Game in Honduras. “A fow weeks ago, just before T left ‘for Denver, we had venison for dinner ‘whieh our cook killed with his fist Game is so plentiful that all one has ‘to do is to stand on his back porch and use a revolver to obtain almost any- thing in the way of meat that one could wish for." H. W. Lang, vieo president of the Denver-Honduras Banana company, was telling of the attractions of his Honduras home. “The manner in which our cook ob- tained the venison was this,” contin- ued Mr. Lang. “We had been having high water in the Ulua river, which flows through our plantation, and one morning our cook noticed a herd of halt a dozen deer swimming across It. He jumped in a canoe, and killed one with a blow of his fist, However, deer Are not the only game which we have & chance to try a shot at. “Leopards, alligators, beautiful trop- feal birds of every description, snakes of wonderful hues, are all numerous, Wild ducks can be secured in plenty— a fow hours’ shooting brought me fit- ty the other day, and parrots, which make excellent eating, having much the flavor of squabs, are also plentl- ful."—Denver Post. Steenlechasing onan 0% Attempts are being made in France to train oxen for saddle riding, and DP Ze rs, ve (js ht, fe de ced Je de VIP (it 4 Rat eeeconensler alt (rye. Hl Hint i Hi TAT 1 heat MRIS SRR {Giggs CHES sed ag Me po ee alge gh Ns ey, a halle Ms ale SD several races have been organized to test thelr capacity, ‘They have been irained not only as racers on “the flat,” but also ax successful jumpers The above illustration is trom a photo graph of a well known french sports: man riding his ox at a leap-off. ‘The bride and saddle used are similar tu general design to those used for hunt- ers, with the exception that a very powerful bit is employed. As in their excitement the animals are disposed to lose their temper, the precaution is taken of studding the points of their horns. Salmon Dammed Stream. A heavy fall of snow in Scotland a few weeks ago caused the River Tay to rise suddenly, One of the big dams in the stream overtlowed with the result that the salmon lying in the numerous pools at once made a rush to get higher up the stream. A work- man, engaged in carting stones from the bed of the river, was astonished at the moving mass of salmon passing, So phenomenal was the shoal that the carter deemed it wise to stop his charge in the middle of the ford to allow the fish to pass, ‘The salmon swam like lightning through the wheels of the cart and around the horce’s legs. In the space of a tew minutes several hundreds passed this particular point. A Remarkable Cure. Edward Carr has been discharged from the Chester hospital ax the most remarkable eure of the day, Carr fell a distance of sixty feet some months ago from the top of a building. His injuries were: Hips dis located, leg and both arms broken, forehead contused, back of head cut, teeth knocked ont and ankle broken: His strong constitution pulled him through, and the physicians say that he will be able to resume work ina few weeks.—Chester (Pa,) Cor. Phila- delphia North American. Had Long Chase to Kill Fox. Ned Higgins of Sanbornton, N, HL, has a handsome fox that he shot near the Hill depot. H chased the fox from Sanbornton to Hill Station across country for eight miles. NURSE OF JAMES G. BLAINE. Colored Girl Who Watched Over Him In Infancy, Still Lives, After living for 66 years in an old house in Uniontown, Pa., which has just been torn down to make way for the march of progress, “Aunt Keziah’! Jackson, for years a nurse of James G. Blaine, has gone to live with her son, Charles Jackson, Sho Is now aged 83. ‘The childhood home of “Aunt Ko zlah” was at Brownsville, about twelve miles from Uniontown. The Browns were among the most highly respected colored people of that section, and Keziah Brown, in her youth, was al- most constantly at the home of Ephraim L, Blaine, father of the fu- ture “plumed knight” of American polities, At the time of the birth of James G. Blaine, Jan, 31, 1830, Keziah Brown was a girl of eight years, and from the time that tke future statesman was five months old until he was two years of age, the little colored girl looked after him almost constantly. When young James was old enough idl Se: | : Pes ee #4 | Se Hy ne a 5 nt ba” 4 on H Ee j Jal f 4 id ones ff | b—~ ‘eziah” % oe, Jachson. ] to go to school he was led there by the little colored girl, and “Aunt Kezi- ah” now frequently says with pride: “Jim Blaine, even when he was a lit tle boy, was the smartest one in the school, and his father used to say, ‘He is the smartest boy I have and he will live to be a senator or congress: man.’” Another incident concerning the Blaine family which is related by “Aunt Keziah” is that when Gen. Anr drew Jackson passed over the old na tional pike through West Brownsville in 1833 on his way to Washington to be inaugurated a second time as presi dent, she was then a girl of eleven years, and with other children went out to see the president pass, and the children shouted, “Hurrah for Jack son,’ and James G, Blaine’s father, who was a stanch Whig, reprimande¢ them for thus greeting a Democrat. Joy Dethroned Reason. Hugging to her breast a big store doll that breathes artificially. “Queen Esther" of the East Side crooned and sang as she sat in the psychopathic ward of Bellevue hospital, The doctors say that the girl fe hopelessly insane—her reason de throned by the sudden joy of her life as “saleslady” at the doll counter of a great New York department store. Esther Bloomstein is her full name. Her life was that of suffering and sor- row in the gloom ¢hat hangs like a pall over the tenement house district, She never had a “dolly” of her own; she never had any childhood, She secured a holiday position in astore. The sudden joy at the transi tion overcame her—New York Ex change, Queer Result of Child's Prank. Whilst playing at) Eltham, Kent, England, a child caused a remarkable fire by throwing a lighted match inte the hollow trunk of a huge tree, A quantity of dry leaves and rubbish im- mediately became ignited, and the interior of the tree was soon well alight. As the flames soared upwards a number of bats and owls were seen flying aimlessly in the vicinity of the quarters from which they had been so unexpectedly dislodged. When the outbreak was got under control by the firemen it was found that fully thirty feet of the interior of the trunk had been burnt out, The tree still stands supported mainly by the bark, which escaped the fire. Mounted Coffee Cups. Silver mounted coffee cups on the order of those in which certain confec tlonery shops serve hot chocolate or coffee are utilized these days for the dining table. They add a decorative sar oo rE, fey NS > Sas? note, particularly if Coalport, as in the illustration, or some other fine porcelain, be the ware selected, A cup and saucer complete the set and spoons to match the silver mount are added, when it is desired to have everything In accord, Has Sword of David Garrick. White Whittlesey of Danbury, Conn, has been presented a sword, worn up- on the stage by David Garrick, The hendle ts ornamented with jewels and the blade bears evidence of many apir ited fencing encounters. Nature's Wise Provision. ‘The bones of flying birds are hol low and filled with air, thus combine ing the greatest strength with the least weight. A. H. Mrs. L. C. Glover, Vice Pres. Milwaukee, Wis., Business Woman's Association, is another one of the million women who have been restored to health by using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: I was married for several years and no children blessed my home. The doctor said I had a complication of female troubles and I could not have any children unless I could be cured. He tried to cure me, but after experimenting for several months, my husband became disgusted, and one night when we noticed a testimonial of a woman who had been cured of similar trouble through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, he went out and bought a bottle for me. I used your medicine for three and one half months, improving steadily in health, and in twenty-two months a child came. I cannot fully express the joy and thankfulness that is in my heart. Our home is a different place now, as we have something to live for, and all the credit is due to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Yours very sincerely, Mrs. L. C. Glover, 614 Grove St. Milwaukee, Wis." Vice President, Milwaukee Business Woman's Asa'n- Women should not fail to profit by the experience of these two women; just as surely as they were cured of the troubles enumerated in their letters, just so certainly will Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cure others who suffer from womb troubles, inflammation of the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous excitability, and nervous prostration; remember that it is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound that is curing women, and don't allow any druggist to sell you anything else in its place. An Indiana Lady Tells of a Wonderful Cure: — If there is anything in your case about which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. She can surely help you, for no person in America can speak from a wider experience in treating female ills. Address is Lynn, Mass.; her advice is free and always helpful. $5000 FORFEIT if we cannot forth with produce the original letters and signatures of above testimonials, which will prove their original genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham McGee, Lynn, Mass. XI "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM: It is a pleasure for me to write and tell what your wonderful medicine has done for me. I was sick for three years with change of life, and my physician thought a cancerous condition of the womb. During these three years I suffered unbold agony. "I cannot find words in which to express my bad feelings. I did not expect to ever see another well day. I read some of the testimonials recommending your medicine and decided to write to you and give your treatment a trial. "Before I had taken half a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, I began to sleep. I have taken now six bottles and am so well I can do all kinds of work."—MRS. LIZZIE HINKLE. Salem, Ind. your case about which you would like to Mrs. Pinkham. She can surely help you can speak from a wider experience. Stress is Lynn, Mass.; her advice is free forthwith produce the original letters and signatures of will prove their absolute genuineness. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass. KEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED, postpaid in 282-page treatise on Piles. Fistula and Diseases of the chest on Obesess of Women. Of the thousands cured by these paid a cent or more for forming their applications. INTON & MINOR. 3000 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. and 1000 Oak St. Kansas City, Mo. You never lose any of your sorrow by shedding lour looks. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Tratining Piles. Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 50c. A man may have enough money to keep him out of heaven and still not have enough to get into society. Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of De-fance Starch is fast, taking place on all other stands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Many a young man who thinks he is a girl's intended is only her pretended. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Plattner. In Use For Over 30 Years, The Kind You Have Always Bought. ORDINARY Uncle Ezra. I remember, I remember, how my mother used to tell me. And the licking, when I called old Es a "dried up pappy guy." I remember how the angels hovered o'er him— How my crabbed, cranky uncle was most especial pet— But time seemed petages seemed powerless to floor him; The' the angels may want Uncle Ez, they haven't got him yet. I remember, I remember, how we flat- ened, he looked, he lent him in the I remember how we kept him in the warmest, lightest room: warmest, lightest room; When he kept on chewing he cut mother used to eat him— She was tempted to whack him on his sky piece with her broom. But we never childed uncle, never said a thing. And they never let me mar his life with any boyish wrank And to-day we fondly pet him, never let Tragedies in Little. Angered by what he thought an unjust reprimand from his teacher, Walter Dale, a 14-year-old pupil in the Denver schools, took a dose of carbolic acid and died in the midst of his companions. When the remains of J. J. Burnside, one of the victims of a snowslide at Alta, Utah, were found, it was discovered that death had come not from suffocation or cold, but heat. The man had been pinned against a stove by the rush of snow. "Hold the line and listen. I'm going to kill Pearl and myself." With this advice over the 'phone to a friend, James Garfield of Minneapolis committed murder and suicide. After starving itself two weeks because its mate had been taken away, a lion in the St. Louis zoo died of a broken heart. Ring from Human Blood. "Iron in the blood" expresses, no doubt, a chemical fact as well as a figure of speech, but probably not one in a thousand, even among chemists, ever saw ferrum canguinis materialized to visible metal. This feat, however has been performed by M. Barruel, head of the chemical laboratories of Paris. M. Barruel, who has, in his time, practiced much phlebotomy on the human subject, has systematically extracted chemically the ferrum from the other constituents. This he transformed into minute globules or "pears," of iron. At last the idea occurred to him to have them all welded together, and the result is an iron ring made from human blood, which he wears on his finger.—London Globe. Hen of Many Colors Poultry fanciers at Fairmount, N. J., are mystified over the color change in one of Wesley Lindabury's Leghorn hens. Last summer she was white. Now she is brown. This particular hen is 5 years old and for the last two years has been the chief attraction of the neighborhood at the Lindabury hennery. She was raised by Mr. Lindabury and belongs to the brown Leghorn variety. Last spring she turned from brown to pure white. In September brown feathers began reappearing. To-day she is entirely seal brown in color. During the last two years the changes have taken place twice a year. In summer she is pure white, in winter seal brown. In summer her eyes change to pink. Dove Tip. In certain places in Arizona and other arid regions doves nest far from water, where last fall's weed seeds are many and varied, flying back and forth from nest to water twice a day. Were a Scripture being written now, and some profit were said to be guided by a dove to a spring of water, none could doubt. Travelers familiar with nature's signals, as well as the resident, sheep herders in dry mesas, often find their way straight to a rare water hole by watching the flight of doves, as bee men find treasure by the flight of a bee—Sunset Magazine. Traffic in Human Skin The experiments in skin-grafting which have been so successful of recent years have led to a new form of livelihood, which is fairly remunerative. Several of the London hospitals have on their books the names and addresses of many men and women who have undertaken to sell portions of their cuticle whenever the necessity arises, and it is said that quite a regular traffic is now being done in the buying and selling of human skin. The persons who are willing to sacrifice their flesh for money are by no means confined to the poor and destitute class. Boats Used but Once. One of the strangest postal arrangements in the world is to be found in China. Twice a week small mail boats leave Tchung-King for itchang, a trip of two to five days down the YangtseKiang. These boats never return; they are made into firewood, because it would take several weeks to get them back over the rapids. Hatched In Cold Weather An Oakland, Me., hen has just appeared with a brood of 8 chicks. It is safe to say that they are kept in the house, where it is hoped to keep them along until more moderate weather is the style again. The nest was stolen in the midst of some cedar growth, where the hen found no shelter but the trees. Bacon's Prophetio Words Roger Bacon (1214-94) may have foreseen the possibility of making dynamite and other powerful explosives when he wrote the following words: " small portion of matter, about the size of the thumb, properly disposed, will make a tremendous sound and coruscation, by which cities and armies might be destroyed." Taught Carp Meaning of Words A Spanish naturalist, Dr. Ribera, has proved that fish can hear and distinguish sounds and words. Concealing himself behind a bush he taught the carp in a pond to come to the surface for food every time he spoke a certain sentence. To other words, not associated with feding, they paid no attention. Barest American Book The rarest American book is the New England Primer, "the little Bible of New England," as it has been called, which is so rare that the earliest printed editions have vanished, no one knowing, indeed, when and where the first edition was actually issued. New Divorce Rule Unpaid costs in divorce actions in the Preble, Ohio, county courts aggregate an immense sum and the members of the Preble county bar have supplied the remedy. Hereafter littlants will be required to deposit casts in full when suit is entered. Car vs. Auto. A rather amusing thing occurred at Bridgeport recently, which shows the power of automobiles. An auto struck a trolley car and the front wheels of the latter were thrown off the track. The macrine lost a guard, but aside from that suffered no damage. Put Blame on Printers One of Browning's remarks is characteristic. He once said to Dr. Knight "that all the unintelligibility of 'Sordello' is due to the printers. They would change my punctuation and not print my comas, semicolons, dashes and brackets." ALL DONE OUT. Veteran Joshua Healer, of 706 South Walnut street, Urbana, Ill., says: "In the fall of 1899, after taking Doan's Kidney Pills I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings Kidney Pills I told the readers of this paper that they had relieved me of kidney trouble, disposed of a lame back with pain across my loins and beneath the shoulder blades. During the interval which has elapsed I have had occasion to resort to Doan's Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings of an attack. On each and every occasion the results obtained were just as satisfactory as when the pills were first brought to my notice. I just as emphatically endorse the preparation to-day as I did over two years ago." Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. "Young Dr. Swift calls every day on the little widow." "Dear me! Is she as ill as all that?" "No, but she is as pretty as all that."—Ex. A Bargain. If you wish to buy a bargain, all you have to do is get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin, and use it at the least sign of headache, dizziness, constipation, billionsness, indigestion, etc. This small investment will be the best bargain you ever bought, for it will bring you health at a nominal cost. Try it. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it fails. The man who goes into a thing with a swelled head always comes out with a sore one. "Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy gave no prompt and complete relief from dyspepsia and liver derangement. I. T. Trowbridge, Harper R. N. J." The latest sanitary mattress is said to be stuffed with breakfast food. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury. 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 $ \frac{3}{4} $ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If 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. MEDICAL EXAMINER States Treasury Pe-ru-na. DR. LLEWELLYN JORDAN, Medical Examiner of the U.S. Treasury Department, graduate of Columbia College, and who served three years at West Point, has the following to say of Peruna: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from your wonderful remedy. One short month has brought forth a vast change and I now consider myself a well man after months of suffering. Fellow sufferers, Peruna will cure you." A constantly increasing number of physicians prescribe Peruna in their practice. It has proven its merits so thoroughly that even the doctors have overcome their prejudice against so-called patent medicines and recommend it to their patients. Peruna occupies a unique position in medical science. It is the only internal systemic catarrh remedy known to the medical profession to day. Catarrh, as everyone will admit, is the cause of one-half the diseases which afflict mankind. Catarrh and catarrh diseases afflict one-half of the people of United States. Robert R. Roberts, M. D., Washington, D. C., writes: "Through my own experience, as well as that of many of my friends and acquaintances who have been cured or relieved of catarrh by the use of Hartman's Peruna, I can confidently recommend it to those suffering from such disorders, and have no hesitation in prescribing it to my patients,"—Robert R. Roberts. Catarrh is a systemic disease curable only by systemic treatment. A remedy that cures catarrh must aim directly at the depressed nerve centers. This is what Peruna does. Peruna immediately invigorates the nerve-centers which give vitality to the mucous membranes. Then catarrh It takes a college graduate about twenty years to learn how little he knows. Pise's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure. J. W. O'BHEN. 322 Third Ave. N. Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 6. 1900. Before selecting the seed be sure of your soil. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Defiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. He who dwells on his troubles always dwells in them. Many Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. At all Drugstiffs' 22c Sample mailed FREE Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Many who formerly smoked 10c cigars, now smoke Lewis' "Single Rinder" straight 16c cigar. The best combination of the best tobacco. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Your conscience must be a light to you, but it cannot be a law to others. BABY'S TERRIBLE SORE Body Raw With Humor—Caused Untold Agony—Doctor Did No Good—Cuticura Cured at Once. "My child was a very delicate baby. A terrible sore and humor broke out on his body, looking like raw flesh, and causing the child untold agony. My physician prescribed various remedies, none of which helped at all. I became discouraged and took the matter into my own hands, and tried Cuticura Soap and Cultura Ointment with almost immediate success. Before the second week had passed the soreness was gone, not leaving a trace of anything. Mrs. Jeannette H. Block, 281 Roseclale St., Rochester, N. Y." One realizes the impotence of money when he tries to buy love. Winter Service 1904 and 1905 6 TRAINS DAILY TO ST. LOUIS. For Omaha and Lincoln, 9 a. m. and 10:20 p. m. For Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Independence and Coffeyville 9:55 a. m. and 10:80 p. m. Also the New "HOT SPRINGS SPECIAL" leaving at 12:01 Noon; arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. Through Sleepers, Diners and Chair Cars to Ft. Smith, Little Rock and Hot Springs. For Pueblo, Denver and Pacific Coast Points at 10:40 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. For Joplin and Way Stations 2:25, 9:45 a. m. and 7:40 p. m. To Lexington, Sedalia and Way Stations, 5:45 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph, 5:45, 9:00, 10:50 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. For Ktowa, Wichita and Way Stations, 12:01 noon, and 10:20 p. m. For Local Coupon Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information call at UNION DEPOT OR CITY TICKET OFFICE, 901 MAIN STREET. P. S. JEWETT, Passenger and Ticket Agent. Another Prominent Physician and Eddorses Pe-ru-na. Many Children Are Sickly. [Stamp] disappears. Then catarrh is permanently cured. If you do not derive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartmann, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. If afflicted with Thompson's Eye Water Every housewife gloats over finely starched linen and white goods. Conceit is justifiable after using Defiance Starch. It gives a stiff, glossy white-ness to the clothes and does not rot them. It is absolutely pure. It is the most economical because it goes farthest, does more and costs less than others. To be had of all grocers at 16 oz. for 10c. THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO., OMAHA, NEB. 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE MIXED FARMING WHEAT RAISING RANCHING Three great pursuits have again shown wonderful results on the Free Homestead Lands of Western Michigan. Magnificent cultivate farmers placing in their shirt sleeves in the middle of November. Allen bound to be more than pleased with the final results of the past season's harvest. Extract, coal wood, water hay in abundance, schools, churches markets consistent. Apply for information in Superintendent of Impoundment Government Agent, 125 N. Jefferson, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Please say where you saw the advertisement. Girls' Costs, 100 in all, worth $5.00 and $6.00, will be on sale, for ..... $3.98 Girls' Costs, worth $7.50; 25 of them on sale today for, each ..... $4.75 Girls' Costs, 25 in all, worth $10.00 and $10.98, will be on sale, for, each ..... $6.98 Girls' Costs, just 25 of them, mostly samples, worth up to $20.00, on sale now for, each ..... $10.00 In the January Sale of Muslin Underwear. 25c: Corset Covers for 19c - Nainsook Corset Covers, made with one piece back, fitted skirt effect, full sloped front. Front, neck and arm holes trimmed with hemstitched ruffles. One big tableful tomorrow for, each..... 19c 15c All Silk Ribbon 10c This great lot of All Silk Ribbon which will be placed on sale tomorrow morning at under-the-market prices, means that our patrons will save 5c on each and every yard. We bought them, an immense quantity, at an under-the-market price. As they were bought so will they be sold. The plain ribbon is in black, white, cream, pink, cardinal, light blue, turquoise and navy. There are five different styles of the fancy ribbon and assorted colors in each styles. Both of these styles of ribbons sell in the regular way for 15c; on sale here tomorrow for. 10c yard. (Fifth Floor) Emery, Bird, Thayer Successors to BULLLENE, MOORE, EMERV & CO. Don't Lay It Up. Don't lay it up that bitter grudge— Against your friend or neighbor, Or dig about its hidden root With so much care and labor. Nay! Rather badly pass it by, Or thrust it out to tide and die. You may be right and be be wrong, Yet if you do your duty And cultivate instead of hate That trouble and beauty, The time may come when he may feel How gruddy you with others deal. Don't lay it up not let a thought out of your grudge possess you When takes untruthful reach your ear That trouble and distress you Nor chase the wrong with hated breath— A he will run itself to death. Instead, build up an honest life Upon a sure foundation, And let the human castle walls Be strong in their formation. Then may you count earth's rules shock. Your house is built upon a rock. —New York Weekly. How the Frenchman Read His Book "A curious way to read a book was what I saw the other boy coming up from New Orleans," said J. T. Simpson of Chicago. "It was in a Pullman sleeping car, and we had a pretty good crowd of northbound tourists, Among them was a queer looking Frenchman; at least I judged he was such. On his seat I noticed a dozen paper back novels. Shortly after breakfast he began reading one of these at the open window by his seat. As soon as he finished a page he tore it off neatly and threw it out the window. The books were all in French, and before we got to Atlanta he had read three and scattered the French printed pages for hundreds of miles "—Atlanta Constitution. To Stop Snezing. "There are times when to sneeze is to be embarrassed," said a society man; "at a dinner table, a social function of some sort, or in the theater, for example; but most people console themselves with the thought that it is something that can't be prevented. They are mistaken in this belief, however, for it can be prevented, and by a very simple expedient. When one feels the premonitory symptoms of a sneeze coming on, if he will just press firmly down on the lip on either side of and a little below the nostrils, the symptoms will gratefully die off and the sneeze will be avoided."—London Answers. Cowboys in Laced Boots. The few cowboys left in the West are taking to laced boots. There was a time, in the heyday of the cow country, where a special grade of fine, high-heeled, thin-soled boot was manufactured solely for the cowboy trade, since cowboys were always very vain about their footwear. But with decadence of their trade the cattiemen have lost their small vanities, and a half full of them ride in the more comfortable laced boots. So is the old top boot, once worn by most city men, vanquished in its last stronghold.—New York Sun. How "Negus" Originated. Negus, as much enjoyed in the army as grog is in the navy, attains its name from a jovial colonel in the days of George I. This Col. Negus was accustomed to drink the mild elixir of the ancient Roman, wine and water, and made himself so famous in the habit of avoiding imminent quarrels or cooling hot debates among his junior officers by saying in his hearty, contagious tones, "Come, boys, let's drink some of my liquor," till Negus became the sobriquet of wine diluted with water—as the cup of truce. Chinese Marriage Law. Persons bearing the same surname, although they may not be related in any way, are forbidden to marry in China. First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo What Japanese Trains Are Like. The railway traveler in Japan buys a first, second or third-class ticket; or, if he wishes to go cheaper still, he can get a ticket entitling him simply to stand on the platform! Many of the cars can be entered either from the side or the end. The principal difference between the first and second-class coaches is the color of the upholstery. None of the cars are very clean. Many of the third-class coaches could serve, without much alteration, as ordinary pigtys. This is all the more remarkable when the incomparable cleanliness of the Japanese home life, even of the humblest, is taken into consideration.—Booklovers Magazine. Cow Made Clean Haul. Frank Dow pitched a tent in a pasture, where he employed himself in picking berries at Meredith, N. H. During his absence a cow tipped the tent over and devoured nearly the entire camping outfit. Among the things eaten was a pound of salt pork, six quarts of berries, four candles, one quart of cooked beans, the sleeves of a coat, a bundle of newspapers, half a dozen doughnuts, a peck of potatoes, a number of cookies and several other articles. Harm Done by Paris Green. Speaking of the potato an observant Maine farmer states that for several years past he has noticed no potato balls, although previously the plants were covered with them. He gives as a reason for this that the paris green, used so generously in recent years for the extermination of the bugs, killed the flowers of the plants and thus prevented them from going to seed. Cow Gives Birth to Triplets. At the Rock Cliff farm, North Smithfield, R. L. of which Hiram F. Thayer is proprietor, an Ayrshire cow has given birth to three calves, a most unusual occurrence. All of the calves appear to be healthy, although they are somewhat under size. The same cow two years ago gave birth to twin calves, both of which were of the usual size. Letter and Envelope of Bark Ellory A. Baldwin of West Upton received a unique letter from his son, who is on a fishing trip in Maine. The envelope was stripped from a birch tree and held together with a postage stamp and the letter was written on a large piece of bark and folded twice, the same as an ordinary piece of writing paper. Korean a Hard Language. Korean is a difficult, language to learn. Trifling errors are likely to lead a foreigner into great embarrassment. It was only the smallest mistake that led an impassioned preacher to warn his congregation that unless they repented they would be relegated to "a cellar"—the Korean word for cellar and the nether world being almost identical. In like manner the story of Lazarus, who fell sick, was told to a Sunday school class with an unauthorized ending. 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Sir Walter Parratt, organist of St. George's chapel, Windsor, can accompany a full choral service with his left hand and his feet and write a letter at the same time with his right hand. Queen Victoria was ambidextrous; she could draw as well with the left hand as with the right. Prof. Morse of the Baltimore university and Sir Edwin Landseer were able to use either hand impartially; and the great artist-scientist of the Renaissance period in Italy, Leonardo de Vinci, was ambidextrous. Conjurers and jugglers must be able to depend upon the left hand as much as upon the right. All who possess ambidextral power declare it to be a most highly prized faculty. The Japanese appear to be the most ambidextrous nation in these days, though many Orientalists are able to use either hand with impartiality. 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