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. Vanyson PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PLEADS FOR THE NEGRO. His Speech Before the Lincoln Day Banquet. President Roosevelt made a speech on the race problem at the Lincoln dinner of the Republican club in New York last Monday. The president said in part: "We of today, in dealing with all our fellow-citizens, white or black, North or South, should strive to show just the qualities that Lincoln showed: His steadfastness in striving after the right, and his infinite patience and forbearance with those who saw that right less clearly than he did; his earnest endeavor to do what was best and yet his readiness to accept the best that was practicable when the ideal best was unattainable; his unceasing effort to cure what was evil, coupled with his refusal to make a bad situation worse by an ill-judged or ill-timed effort to make it better. "All good Americans who dwell in the North must, because they are good Americans, feel the most earnest friendship for their fellow countrymen who dwell in the South, a friendship all the greater because it is in the South that we find in its most acute phase one of the gravest problems before our people; the problem of so dealing with the man of one color as to secure him the rights that no one would grudge him if he were of another color. The attitude of the North toward the Negro is far from what it should be and there is need that the North also should act in good faith upon the principle of giving to each man what is justly due him, of treating him on his worth as a man, granting him no special favors, but denying him no proper opportunity for labor and the reward of labor. But the peculiar circumstances of the South render the problem there far greater and far more acute. "All Men Up." He Said. "As a people striving to shape our actions in accordance with the great law of righteousness we cannot afford to take part in or be indifferent to the oppression or maltreatment of any man, who, against crushing disadvantages, has by his own industry, energy, self-respect and perseverance struggled upward to a position which would entitle him to the respect of his fellows if only his skin were of a different hue. Every generous impulse in us revolts at the thought of thrusting down instead of helping us such a man. To deny any man the fair treatment granted to others no better than he is to commit a wrong upon him—a wrong sure to react in the long run upon those guilty of such denial. The only safe principle upon which Americans can act is that of 'all men up,' not that of 'some men down.' "In the first place it is true of the Negro, as it is true of the white man, that in the long run his fate must depend far more upon his own effort than upon the efforts of any outside friend. Every vicious, venal, or ignorant Negro is an ever greater foe to his own race than to the community as a whole. But the prime requisite of the race is moral and industrial uplifting. Laziness and shiftlessness, these, and above all, vice and criminality of every kind, are evils more potent for harm to the black race than all acts o foppression of white men put together. The Negro who fails to condemn crime in another Negro, who fails to co-operate in all lawful ways in bringing Negro criminals to justice is the worst enemy of his own people, as well as an enemy to all the people. Law abiding black men should, for the sake of their race, be foremost in relentless and unceasing warfare against law breaking black men. The stability and purity of the home is vital to the welfare of the black race as it is to the welfare of every race. Pleads for Generosity. "Let us be steadfast for the right; but let us err on the side of generosity rather than on the side of vindictiveness toward those who differ from us as to the method of attaining the right. Let us never forget our duty to help in uplifting the lowly, to shield from wrong the humble; and let us likewise act in a spirit of the broadest and frankest generosity to ward all our brothers, all our fellow countrymen; in a spirit proceeding not from weakness but from strength, a spirit which takes no more account of locality than it does of class or creed." The Son takes great pride in reproducing the manly sentiments of our grand president. The question has been asked. Is he sincere in his appeal for the rights of the Negro? We venture the assertion that he is not only sincere but in him lies the most magnificent exemplification of true manhood. Rabbits Make Trouble. Rabbits burrowing beneath the road near Abthorpe, Northants, England, have caused a number of cycle accidents. BREEZES FROM KANSAS CITY KAS. Miss B. N. Porter, niece of Mrs. L. F. Bradley, of 400 Haskell avenue, returned to her home at Bowling Green, Ky., after several months stay. She made many warm friends while here, all of whom regret to lose her excellent society. Bishop and Mrs. Grant returned home last week from the East. The bishop is suffering with a very severe cold. The many friends of Mrs. Josie A. Dugged, mother of Rev. W. L. Dugged, and Mrs. Alice Dugged Carry, will regret to learn of her death in Atlanta, Ga., January 31, of pneumonia. Out of respect to her the students of Morris-Brown college and of Spellman seminary turned out in a body. A very agreeable surprise party was given Rev. Vaughan and wife last week by members and friends of the church. The happy party, through the biting cold, brought many tokens of esteem and appreciation in the form of well filled baskets, packages and bundles. The pastor and wife assured them that their visit was no intrusion at all, but a most highly preciated visit which they hoped to see often, and that the latch string was on the outside to them always. After several selections had been sung and Madam Vaughan had served the whole party they filed away carrying happy remembrances of a grateful pastor and wife. Mr. Richard Bullett, son of Mrs. Bullett, a teacher in the Douglass school, died of pneumonia last week after a few days' illness. Miss Missouri Stanley, of Denver, Col., is the guest of Miss Etta Scott, of Tenny avenue. While here she will visit many other old friends, among them Mrs. Nelson, of 921 Splitlog avenue, and Mr. Louise Roach, 941 Splitlog avenue. She will spend several weeks here before returning to the queen city of the plains. Rev. Plummer, ex-pastor of the Rose Hill Baptist church, died here last week. Funeral was from the First Baptist church last Sunday and was largely attended by his many friends. The dental profession of our city is to be augmented by the addition of Dr. F. C. Goodwin, of Little Rock Ark., who has offices in the Wyandotte building. After several months of quiet, the separate high school question is agitated again. A mass meeting was called for last Monday night but was poorly attended but Tuesday morning some of the white students conducted themselves very unbecoming for gentlemen preparing themselves for the sterner duties of life. One of the highest traits of a true gentleman is to honestly differ without falling out and allowing those half-civilized and lowbred instincts froc cropping out if the golden rule is observed no mistake will be made. We will not say much this time. Today is the last day in which such a measure can be introduced in the assembly at Topeka and many are wondering what the Republicans will do whom we put in office. Mr. Editor: Since my last article of last week, the following is our list of subscribers to the Son: Prof. T. A. Ross, 72 S. James street; Mr. J. W. Vohles, 552 Stam avenue; Mrs. Hattie Williams, 1309 N. Fourth street; Mrs. Stephens, 908 Ella avenue; Mrs. Nel son, 921 Splitlog avenue; Mrs. Roache 941 Splitlog avenue; Mrs. Jennie Brown, 47 Splitlog avenue; Mrs. Brance, 825 Nebraska avenue; Mrs eBritt Wheeler, 841 Ella avenue. Let other Negroes subscribe for a Negro paper and help build up the race. EUGENE VAUGHN. 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. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. The high estimate placed on Dr. B. F. Allen as a gentleman, scholar, educator and race man was forcibly demonstrated by the Forty-third general assembly of Missouri, when he was invited to become one of the speakers of the Lincoln day celebration and given a prominent place on the program. "Lincoln the Emancipator" was the subject of Dr. Allen's address. He was fully alive to the subject in every sense equal to the occasion, and received frequent rounds of applause during and after the well rounded periods and lofty climaxes of his stirring address. Resolutions were passed thanking him and on the following day he received a letter from the committee asking that he allow the publication of the address in full in the columns of the Globe Democrat for the benefit of the public at large. Resolutions were passed in the general assembly a few days since requesting the repetition of the concert recently given by the students in the hall of the house of representatives on the anniversary of Washington's birthday, February 22. This will be done; and such recognition, the first that the Glee club and other students of the institutions furnished the music for Lincoln day, and other marks of courtesy received at the hands of the legislature scores another triumph for the administration. Among recent visitors we note Professors Herriford, Scruggs, Coleman, Chinn and Bruce. Lincoln institute tenders a hearty welcome to all friends of education and progress. INDEPENDENCE NEWS. Miss Florence Hickox is very sick in Kansas City. Great work is being done in the revivals of our city. A number have been converted. On last Sunday night Rev. Fitts told all his members to come to church the following Sunday morning that he had been requested by a young convert to preach a Baptismal sermon. Preachers should always tell the truth in making announcements. He had not been requested to do anything of the kind. When he heard this man had professed a hope in Christ he (Fitts) telephoned to him and asked him what church he would join. He answered, I have joined the A. M. E. church. Fitts then told him to come to his church and hear what he had to say on baptism. He being a business man, of course, accepted the invitation. The serman has been preached, and the man is still a Methodist. Rev. Fitts must try telephoning to other converts. You who promised to take the Rising Son will please leave money at Hayes' grocery store. It is rumored that Professor Chinn will be an applicant for the principalship of the Young school. If there is to be a change, we hope Professor Chinn will be the successful one as he is a man of high moral standing. The S. M. T.'s is the leading society in Independence. Both courts are in a dying condition. TUSKEGEE MEETING. We very much hope you can see your way clear to be present at the coming meeting. Reduced rates of one and one-third fare, plus twenty-five cents on the certificate plan have been secured over all railway lines south of the Ohio and Potomans and east of the Mississippi rivers. Be sure to ask for a certificate when purchasing ticket. Please notify me as early as possible if we may expect you. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. NOTICE. Two nicely furnished rooms for rent. 1232 Vine street. Mrs. Belle Williams. THE ATTUCKS CLUBS Grand Charity Ball for the Benefit of the Old Folks and Orphan's home at 2426 Michigan avenue will be given Friday, February 24, 1905. Watt's orchestra will begin at 8:30 p.m. The ladies of the home management will furnish refreshments at moderate prices. Tarner's hall, Twelfth and Oak street, Admission 50 cents. Dorris & Finley's musical comedy, "An African Missionary," a bonton of colored aristocracy, will be presented for the first time in this city at Turn ner hall, Monday, March 10, and they have promised us something to please everybody. So come and go with them for an hour or so, and you will not regret the time you spend with the African missionary. A ball after the show, and one admission to all which is 35 cents. Have your seats reserved at Smith drug store, 908 E Twelfth street, and 805 Independence avenue. Don't forget the date. LEXINGTON NEWS Two young gentlemen of Odessa were the guest of the Misses Oldens Tuesday. We were unable to learn their names. Mr. Luther Burles went to Kansas City Saturday. Master William Taylor spent Sunday in Kansas City. Born to the wife of Mr. George Chinn, a girl, February 8. Born to the wife of Mr. Plaese Hankcock, a boy, February 1. Mr. A. W. Walker went to Kansas City Saturday on business and returned home Monday evening. Mr. Penn Hawkins, of Independence, paid three months' subscription for the Rising Son. Mr. Houston, of Sedalia, was here Sunday, the guest of Dr. Ball. Mrs. Matilda Mathews is still on the sick list also Mr. Wm. Jenkins. Mr. Al Williams subscribed for the Rising Son. He is still in the restaurant business; also Mr. Green Marcus & Co. Miss Tildin Parker, of Dover, was here Sunday. Mr. Andrew MaGill got his finger mashed off in the coal mines a few days ago. Miss Katie Wilson went to Independence Friday. Notice—All correspondence must be in this office not later than Wednesday. STAMPS PUT TO NOVEL USE Brilliant Wall Decoration Evolved by Patient Monks The monks at the Hospital of St. Jean de Dieu, at Ghent, have in their leisure moments decorated the walls with gorgeous landscapes, glowing with color and full of life, formed entirely by means of the postage stamps of all the nations of the world. Palaces, forests, streams and mountains are represented, butterflies flit about in the air, birds of beautiful plumage perch on branches, snakes and lizards glide about, and innumerable animals find places here and there. The pictures are most artistic, in the style of Chinese landscape gardening, and all ready between nine and ten millions of stamps have been used. Taste and Touch. Touch, Dr. Andrew Wilson has reminded us, is probably the oldest of our senses. It is also, we may add, the most active where taste has all always been assumed to be paramount—at the dinner table. It is a fact overlooked that we like what we like far less because we taste it than because we feel it. What is there wonderful in the taste of your perfect, your ripe potato? Nothing or little. But, ah, the feeling! What have the resistance of bread, the sudden coolness of butter, the tenderness of asparagus, the crispness of biscuit to do with taste? Something almost negligible.—London Chronicle. NUMBER 43. NEGRO NEWSPAPER SCORES AUTHOR OF ANTI-MISCEGENA TION BILL. TOPEKA, Feb. 6.—The Topeka Plaindealer, a negro paper, feels aggrieved because Alleman, Democrat, of Atchison, introduced a bill to prevent negroes and whites intermarrying. In today's issue it says: "Who is this man Allaman from Atchison who confess forward to offer laws for the black man and laws for the white man? Cannot Atchison county send a man of more brains than this sinceure has? The county and district must be hard up for material. This bill, though now dead and consigned to the grave of oblivion, is the size of his caliber. He has not offered a bill of importance since here he has been. Now he seeks motivity out of the poor negro. This is the way these "cheap John" white politicians do. Why don't he emulate his lord and master, Hon. P. P. Waggener, a distinguished lawyer, statesman, scholar and gentleman? You never hear of Mr. Waggener offering such infamous measures. He is not uneasy about negroes marrying white women or white men marrying colored women. Train your boys and girls, Mr. Allaman, not to marry negroes, and perhaps they will obey you. Don't try to pass laws to prevent it. That shows weakness, and furthermore, there is no tendency to intermarry." The bill has been reported favorably for passage in the house. A PLEASANT AFFAIR: The residence of Professor and Mrs. Wise of 512 Steptoe avenue was the scene of much joy and merriment on last Thursday afternoon and evening of January 26. It was the occasion of a party given by Miss Henrietta Shipley, sister of Mrs. M. D. Wise, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Horton. The affair was highly enjoyed throughout the day and evening by those present. The following is a partial list of those present and assisted in the joys by their most welcome presence: Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Horton, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hatch, Mr. G. C. Smith, Miss Mary Cisson, Miss Lizzie Whitney, Mr. L. C. Smith, Mr. K. E. Smith, Mrs. L. Smith, Miss Henrietta Shipley, Mrs. A. N. Watts, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pearson, Miss Nettie B. Smith, Miss Loma Basket of Speed, Mo., Mr. Paul San born wise, the junior member of the family, and Miss Ethel Wise, Force of Christian Examples. Sir Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, told, himself, how he was converted by Dr. Livingstone. His story is as follows: "I went to Africa as prejudiced against religion as the worst inflicted in London. To a reporter like myself, who had only to deal with wars, mass meetings and political gatherings, sentimental matters were quite out of my province. But there came to me a long time for reflection. I was out there away from a worldly world. I saw this solitary old man there, and I asked myself: 'Why does he stop here in such a place?' What is it that inspires him?' For months after we met I found myself listening to him, wondering at the old man carry out the words, 'Leave all and follow Me.' But little by little, seeing his piety, his gentleness, his zeal, his earnestness, and how he went quietly about his business, I was converted by him, although he had not tried in any way to do it." Sample of Red Tape. There are no fewer than thirty-four volumes of regulations concerning the Indian army, amounting to 6,000 closely printed pages. Chinese Marriage Law. Persons bearing the same surname, although they may not be related in any way, are forbidden to marry in China. PASSING FANCIES IN THE WORLD OF WOMEN The Spring Sleeve. The question of sleeves in the future — that is, the coming spring and summer — is one of interest, and many of the predictions made concerning them are heard with mingled pleasure and disapproval, the latter for some, the former for others. So far as the lingerie blouse is concerned, the leggonut, with a full top tapering down to rather narrow sleeves below the elbow and gathered into medium width cuffs of tucks or bands of fine embroidery, are among the latest imported models. This is the most sensible fashion of all. Its full top conceals both the too thin and the too fat arm, unless it be of the sheer variety, and its close lower portion does away with the dipping and mussing of the fuller old-style sleeve. Fashionable Necklaces The amethyst, which is enjoying such popularity this season, is a most convenient jewel, for not only is it becoming to both blonde and brunette coloring, but it also blends well with many of the fashionable shades in materials aside from the approved tints in purple, with all of which it corresponds naturally. Among the daintest of the many combinations and qualit designs in which the amethyst is used are sprays of violets, with a tiny diamond nestling here and there. Close upon the popularity of amethysts come sapphites, toazes and tourmalines, and with spring emeralds are promised superiority. Tips for the Stout While her slenderer sisters are being sarterly catered to so satisfactorily, and their lines studied and complimented, the poor woman to whom nature has been too generous in the matter of avoirdupois is obliged to work out her own salvation where her clothes are concerned, or trust to her dressmaker to "adapt" to her something originally intended for a woman half her size. Usually in the adapting so much of style and cut is lost as to render the result anything but a thing of beauty. Truly a gown, of all things, should be built for the type of woman by whom it is meant to be worn. Collars and Cuffs Smart new collar and cuff sets have the cuffs as well as the collar with a stiff underpiece. This is as deep as the upper side, and buttons once at the lower edge. The turnovers to both collars and cuffs are broad, of butcher's linen, and embroidered with a fine floss in different designs. The stuff under side obviates the necessity of wearing an under collar, and in the cuffs holds the sleeve of the waist smooth. Chic Coasting Suit If a young woman is fond of coasting she will find that a coasting suit will pay for itself by what it saves in the street suit. Nothing destroys a street suit so quickly as wearing it for coasting. The skirt of the coasting suit should be short enough not to interfere in the least with the comfort of the wearer. With it are worn gatters, either of a color to match the suit or of rich brown leather. The jacket is made to reach over the hips and may be made with or without a standing collar. If ```markdown ``` worn with a sweater the collar is not necessary. Double-breasted coats are warmer than single-breasted garments. A toboggan cap completes the costume. A heavy serge is a good material and a rich red with white cap and sweater makes an attractive color combination. Green is also pretty. Hat for Dressy Frock. For wear with the dressy frock of relvet or broadcloth, a hat trimmed in sable is most effective. This does not necessarily imply the possession of a sweeping fur set in the which is adequate skin, for a stole which is adequate for wear with the sable hat may be built of chiffon, lace and small sable heads and tails. Or more stately stoles show velvet appliqued on satin with fur ornaments and tails for a finish. Sometimes a bit of gold thread is employed in appliquing the velvet, but this must be done with great care, as it either makes the garment look extremely chic or impossibly home made. Crepe de Chine Waist Blouse of pale blue crepe de chine shirred around the shoulders, below which the fullness is laid in plaits which open out over the bust. The yoke and plastron are of guipure, the former ornamented with bands and straps of the material; each 1 strap is fastened at one end with a little button, at the other with a motif of embroidery. The collar and plastron are ornamented with little bows of black velvet. The draped leg of mutton sleeves are trimmed at the bottom to correspond. Care of Gloves. Too much cannot be said about the necessity for proper care in removing gloves from the hands, for upon this more than anything else depends the length of time a pair of gloves will wear. After unfading the gloves it should be turned back over the hand as far as the fingers, and then should be pushed off, without pulling on the fingers of the glove at all, as when this is done the threads of the sewing are broken and in a short time begin to rip. After the glove is off the hand the fingers should be gently straightened out, the gloves smoothed into shape and put into a box, to keep them from the air as much as possible, as it is the air and the moisture in it that rot the fine thread with which a glove is sewn. Fancies of the Hour For a long neck a pretty collar may be made by gathering an inch wide lace upon a very narrow band of white swiss. On the other side of the band a frill of narrower lace is sewn, and the swiss band is then covered by a fancy beading, through which is run a band of black velvet ribbon. This collar may have cuffs to match, and if it has, is all the prettier. There are a thousand and one ways of making these attractive neck finishings, and no limit to the materials which may be used, with the only proviso that they may be washable. Tubbable clothing of all sorts is a fad of the day, and a wise one it is, for it insures a freshness in one's clothing that used to be enjoyed only in the heat of summer. The Bodice. One must have sufficient fullness for the front of the bodice and yet not too much, nor in the wrong place. The bodice must neither look baggy nor should it pouch. The fullness must be from side to side, but there must be little or no drop to the folds or plaits. The fullness must be kept well to the front and not be allowed to push around under the arms. The lack of pouching is especially noticeable in evening gowns, as distinguishing them from those made last season. Bodices worn in the daylight hours are permitted somewhat more droop. The next arrangement of bodice fullness is more noticeable in profile than in front view. Inexpensive Pudding. One cup of milk, one cup stoned raisins, one cup fine chopped suet, one half cup molasses, one half cup brown sugar, three cups flour, one and one half teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful grated nutmeg, the same of cinnamon, one half teaspoonful cloves. Mix all together and boil in a form two hours; serve with lemon or vanilla sauce. To Clean Taffeta. The professional method of cleaning taffeta silk is to first sponge with gasoline, then sponge the second time with white castile soap and gasoline. Lastly sponge with clear gasoline and hang up until dry, out of the reach of fire or artificial light. THE R FAVORITE FODDER. I JUST DIDE ON THIS STATE DEMOCRACY FREE TRADE TARIFF REFORMER TARIFF TINNER TARIFF REFORMER TARIFF REFORMER MARTY A CANADIAN MENACE WHAT IS INVOLVED IN FREE TRADE IN WHEAT. Reciprocity Would Cause a Shrinkage of $100,000,000 a Year in the Value of American Grain Crops and $200,000,000 in the Value of Farm Lands. It is evident that reciprocity with Canada in the shape in which it lately has been suggested is not likely to meet with enthusiastic approval by American farmers, especially the grain raisers of the West. A very interesting contribution to the discussion of this subject is furnished by Oliver Dairymple, owner of one of the great "bonanza" wheat "farms" of the Northwest and who from experience and accurate knowledge is qualified to speak with much appositeness concerning the facts which he reviews. Mr. Dalrymple has written a letter in which he goes very fully into the matter of Canada's development as a wheat-growing country, the present effect of the Dingley tariff and what is likely to happen if the duty on Canadian grain is removed or partially removed through a reciprocity agreement. At the beginning he alludes earnestly to the prediction which is made, obviously, as he believes, with much to justify it, that Canada will within twenty-five years produce more wheat than the United States and exceed 700,000,000 bushels yearly. The Dominion claims this year to have doubled her production of two years ago, and to be steadily adding to the number of acres brought into cultivation. Against the Canadian wheat the American farmer is protected by a duty of twenty-five cents per bushel, which was imposed by the McKinley law, and replaced in the Dingley act. With a growing Canadian output of grain it is self-evident that the American producer is face to face with a very strong competition. Mr. Dalrymple gives much information showing how serious this danger will become if the present safeguards are removed. He uses very plain language and shows in no uncertain fashion his opposition to reciprocity, which he pronounces "a delusion which had its birthplace in Boston," and regarding the working of which, should the THE R FAVOR I JUST DID ON THIS TITLE FREE TRADE TANIFY DEVOURT scheme be carried out, he remarks: scheme be carried out, he remarks: "Reciprocity will cause a shrinkage of nearly $100,000,000 a year in the value of the American grain crops and $200,000,000 in the value of the grain farms of the United States, which shrinkage will increase with time. The value of our farms and grain will decline and theirs advance. "Wheat growers have sold good, merchantable wheat in the Chicago market several years off and on for 55 cents a bushel. When the duty is cut off and Canadian wheat pours in this 55-cent wheat will be seen again, and then farmers will plant their wheat lands to corn and cause an overproduction of corn, and we will read again of farmers in the corn belt using corn for fuel, and the farms will unprofitable and unsalable. Then where will our merchants and manufacturers be?" Mr. Dalrymple earnestly depreciates the plan of allowing Canadian wheat to come into this country under the drawback system, as he says "it would be as difficult to follow this bonded wheat through the states as to follow a needle through a haymow." Various ways in which Canadian interests could be promoted and those of American farmers injured through reciprocity or any abandonment of existing regulations are pointed out by Mr. Dalrymple, who thus concludes his presentation of the case: "We claim that the public welfare and fair dealing require the government to keep faith as to this twenty-five cent duty established by law on imported wheat, and to brush away all evasions and act for the largest good of the largest number. The farmers of all the grain growing states are all interested, and three-fourths of the voters of the country would be directly or indirectly benefited by the vigorous upholding of the law in question. The tea and stamp duty causing our Revolutionary war involved less money consideration than is involved in the justice of this Canadian wheat duty. The grain growers of the United States should promptly stand together and watchfully invoke and expect the aid of the public press and of their members in Washington, and appreciate the efforts of those who are assisting in the maintenance of the law in its entirety to the public good. Secretary Wilson informs us that the farming interest is the largest interest in the United States and that the annual value of all farm products is close to $5,000,000,000. It is important in national movements to look ahead, start right and keep right." This presents a very important side of the reckprociety question, and the arguments are not to be ignored. Whatever may be done toward building up trade with foreign countries it is clear that it will be neither wise nor safe to leave our agricultural industry unguarded. Notwithstanding the amazing growth of manufacturing and other interests, agriculture still is and long will be the mainstay of the country.—Troy Times. TARIFF AND "DUMPING." Lower Export Prices Assist in Maintaining Low Home Prices. The tariff question is one which is seldom treated with fairness or with proper regard to existing facts and public sentiment. Too much of the writing on this subject is with the intent to influence politics, or by exaggeration to create a false sentiment. Free trade in this country is a present impossibility, and so there is very little thought of doing more than to revise the tariff; but once we come to the details of tariff revision we find the same prejudice or a partisan argument used. One of the most popular theories at present is that where a manufacturer in the United States sells in foreign countries at a lower price than that which he sells at home it is therefore established that domestic prices are too high, and that if the article be a protected one the protection is too high. This does not follow at all in its entirety. The practice of "dumping" a surplus product in a distant market is one familiar to our domestic commerce and is recognized as sound, as far as the individual who does it is concerned. No manufacturer, whether of butter and eggs or of structural steel, can continue to do business unless he make a profit. He cannot manufacture most economically and therefore be able to give the lowest price unless he can operate to his most economic capacity. Were the practice of dumping forbidden, the manufacturer would be able to produce goods only to the measure of the minimum demand. If the demand were extraordinary the market would be short. There is objection to the dumping practice on the part of those who are subject to sudden and unusual competition, and so we cannot blame our Canadian friends for objecting to th ITE FODDER. DEMOCRACY TANIFE TINERITE ME TOU TANIFE REFORMER MARTID practice of dumping American surplus products in their own country, but for our own protection we have to do something of that sort. If the existence of this practice were to result in a lowering of the tariff, where the tariff was reasonable as our theories go, then our producers would be confined to a product measured by a minimum or no more than normal demand, and the practical effect would be to raise prices in this country, because, as we said before, a profit must be secured. But with foreign markets to take without disturbance to home markets any surplus there might hapen to be, the manufacturer is able to produce on a more economic basis, can secure his permanent profit in his regular markets and simply dispose of at a bargain sale whatever may happen to be in surplus. This is "dumping," as we understand that term; it is disposing of a surplus at what is usually, perhaps always, a loss on the particular goods sold in order to maintain the volume and general profits of a business. If Congress, in revising the tariff will take into account simply the regular and permanent foreign trade, no harm will be done; but the danger is that these occasional low prices as the result of surplus dumping, will be taken as the standard, and so great damage be done to manufacturing in dustries and to consumers who depend for a reasonable price on their purchases upon an economical producing output.—Minneapolis Commercial West. Have Had Enough of It The New York Post has a long article urging President Roosevelt to use his great office in compelling Congress to reduce the tariff. The article is no doubt convincing to the Mugwums and some Northern Democrats and a very few Republicans, but it should have no effect whatever on the Southern states. If we of this section have had enough of any issue in national politics it is the tariff.—Vicksburg American. Why? The Inter Ocean of Chicago says, "The tariff was not a vital issue in the campaign." Why, then, did the editor of that journal fill columns of his paper before election with arguments designed to prove that it was protection that had brought prosperity to the country, and that it would be disastrous to make changes in the tariff while everybody was doing well under the existing schedule?—San Francisco Chronicle. The "Cold Air Cure." Cold air purifies the blood, energizes the heart, puts new vim into the muscles, helps the stomach, wakes up the liver, lifts the whole being to a higher plane of life. The most successful consumption resort in the world is Davos, a winter resort in the Swiss Alps, near the Engadine, where the snow is six feet deep and the temperature close to zero all winter. Every winter hundreds of tubercular patients from all parts of the world resort to Davos to take the "cold air cure." Cold air cures (there is no doubt about it), when accompanied by wise and skillful management, and careful regulation of diet. In the summer season this great healing force is available only in a small measure by means of cold baths, ice rubs, and fans; but in the winter season, the keen frosty air is everywhere, ready to be put to work as the great uplifting power it is when rightly applied. The winter season alone provides continuous tonic conditions. The dense air, containing from one-eighth to one-fourth more oxygen than mid-summer, stimulates the vital processes to a higher degree of activity. Here is a healing force which is in operation day and night, and steadily lifts the patient up to a higher level until the ebbing tide of life turns backward, and renovating forces of the body resume their activities with all the old-time vigor. The Price of Indoor Life Within the past twenty years there has been a steady development of confidence in the out-of-door method of treating pulmonary tuberculosis. The wonderful success that has attended the outdoor treatment in all countries, irrespective of altitude or special climatic advantages, has demonstrated the immense value of the out-door life as a curative means. This is not surprising, since man is naturally an out-of-door animal. The indoor life which most civilized human beings live is wholly artificial. We pay an enormous price for the luxury of living in houses. Not only pulmonary tuberculosis, but a large number of other chronic maladies are the natural outgrowth of the lowered vital resistance which results from the conditions imposed by modern civilized life. We have become too much civilized. A mild return to savagery is the one thing needful at the present time. In cold weather we can not live out of doors, but we can take care to supply our living rooms, and especially our bed-rooms with an abundant supply of pure cold air. This is a very excellent remedy for morning headaches, which usually mean air-poisoning. Appetite Juice. The taking of food into the mouth is a signal to all the digestive organs to prepare for work. Even the sight and odor of food may cause an outflow of saliva, and at the same time the gastric juice pours into the stomach. Pawlow, of St. Petersburg, in experiments upon a dog, observed that when food was introduced into the animal's stomach through an opening made for the purpose it was not acted upon; the digestive juice was not poured out, and the stomach apparently remained inert for nearly half an hour. On the other hand, when the animal was allowed to see and smell the food, the saliva and the gastric juice poured forth abundantly, even though the animal did not actually taste a morsel. It is important that the food should be retained in the mouth for a sufficient length of time to make the proper impression upon the nerves of taste, so that the entire digestive apparatus shall be thoroughly prepared to carry the food substances through the successive steps of the digestive process. The thorough chewing of the food produces an abundance of what Pawlow calls "Appetite Juice," which is the best and most important juice formed by the stomach. Hence food must be well relished, and eaten with careful attention to very thorough mastication. Vital Activity in Cold Weather. The vital fires burn brighter in cold weather. The whole tide of life moves with greater activity. The process of digestion is quickened because the process of oxidation is increased. The liver requires oxygen for making bile and performing all its varied functions, and the oxygen we breathe in cold air, improves the function of the liver, so it can do one-seventh more work than before. The muscles, also, depend for their activity upon oxygen. In an excess of carbonic acid gas the muscles are asphyxiated, and so one feels depressed in warm weather. A person does not get out of breath so easily in cold air as in warm. The woodchopper can swing his axe with more energy on a cold day. Cold air aids in the elimination of the poisonous matters which are all the time forming within the body. When oxygen is not plentiful enough to make the vital fires burn sufficiently to consume the fuel and waste of the body, then much of the waste material is left behind in the form of imperfectly burned substances, which may be called cinders of the body. Burning Up the Body Cinders All food must be burned within the body to be of any value. If too much food is shoveled in, the body furnace is clogged. If too little draft is supplied the fuel is not entirely consumed. This leaves "clinders" which are the cause of many chronic diseases, and of premature old age. The fuel supply may be regulated in the dining room. The draft is dependent on the kind and amount of air breathed. Cold, crisp, fresh air furnishes perfect draft. The blood takes from this kind of air, when it is breathed in, just the element needed to burn the food. Six breaths of out-door air contain as much of this element—oxygen—as seven breaths of overheated, indoor air. As man breathes about eighteen times per minute this means a loss of four thousand breaths a day by living in a hot, close indoor atmosphere. The amount taken in depends on the habits of life. A deep breath must be earned. A few moments vigorous outdoor exercise will do it. The nostrils dilate, the chest heaves, the heart quickens, the lungs expand, and the fresh air is pumped into the body at a rapid rate. The draft is open. The cinders are burning up. The whole system is being cleared of rubbish. Don't be afraid of cold air. There's life and health out of doors. Alcohol vs. Strength The laborer, the traveler, and the soldier use alcohol under the delusion that it produces strength. When fatigued, the laborer takes a glass of grog, and feels better. He imagines himself stronger. His increased strength, however, is wholly a matter of imagination. The use of alcohol makes a man feel stronger—makes him believe that he can do more work, endure more fatigue and hardship, and withstand a greater degree of cold than he could without it; but when an actual trial is made, it soon becomes apparent that the ability is lacking. Numerous experiments have shown that alcohol decreases muscular strength. Says Dr. Brunton, "The smallest quantity takes somewhat from the strength of the muscles." Says Dr. Edmunds, of London, "A stimulant is that which gets strength out of a man." Some years ago a series of experiments were made for the purpose of determining the influence of alcohol upon the muscular strength. The combined strength of all the different groups of muscles in the body was found, in the case of a healthy young man, to be 4,881 pounds. The young man was then given two ounces of brandy, and the test was repeated. He felt confident that his strength was increased. In fact, it was found to be only 3.385 pounds, a loss of more than one-third. A notable diminution in strength was still present ten hours after the administration of the brandy. Real Healing Agents. There are many fictitious remedies. Some make a man feel better when he is really getting worse. The most valuable measures which can be employed in dealing with the sick may be said to be baths, exercise and diet. The chronic invalid can be made well only by being reconstructed. The sick man must be transformed into a healthy man by a process of gradual change. He has been months or years in tearing down his constitution and substituting an inferior grade of material. Now this process must be reversed, and little by little, the old tissues must be torn down and new tissues built in their place. Warm baths help throw off stored up poisons, and cold baths hasten the destruction of waste tissues, increase the activity of the heart and of all the organs, encourage the formation of the digestive fluids, and increase the appetite for food. By means of exercise the movement of the blood is quickened and the old diseased tissues are broken down and carried out of the body. Exercise always diminishes weight. By exercise a normal appetite is earned and deep breathing encouraged. Pure simple food is the proper material with which to construct a new and healthy body. Man is built of what he eats. The house is no better than the material. Thus baths, exercise, and a natural dietary constitute a curative trio, each helping the other. WHOLESOME RECIPES. Tomato Sauce—One quart strained tomatoes, one tablespoonful nut butter, one grated onion. Mix well and boil five minutes. Thicken with cornstarch to the consistency of thick cream. Salt to taste. Cream of Peanut Soup—One cupful ground peanuts; one-half teaspoonful celery salt; one small onion cut fine; one pint cooked tomatoes. Cook slowly and long. When done rub through a colander and add three pints of rich milk or part milk and part cream. Let come to a boil and serve at once. Macaroni with Kornlet—Boll until tender one and one-half cups of macaroni broken into inch lengths, in salted ater. Rub one can of hulled sweet corn through a colander or use the prepared Kornlet, and add to it one pint of cream or nut cream. Heat to boiling and thicken with one tablespoonful of flour. Mix with the cooked macaroni, add one and one-fourth teaspoonfuls of salt; turn into a pudding dish and brown in a hot oven. Date Dainties—Wash and steam for about ten minutes some choice dates. Split one sloe, remove the seed, putting in its place one-fourth of a walnut meat; press together and roll in powdered sugar ReligiousThought Not one kind word ever spoken, not one kind deed ever done, but sooner or later returns to bless the giver. If everyone would be only half as good as he expects his neighbor to be, what a heaven this world would be! Nay, why should I fear Death. Who gives us life, and in exchange takes branches. He is like cordial Spring That lifts above the soil each buried thing. Like Autumn, kind and brief— The frost that chills the branches, frees the leaf. Like Winter's stormy hours That spread their fleece of snow to save the flower. The lordliest of all things— Life lends us only feet. Death gives us wings. Kissing no covert thrust. Let me walk onward, armed with valiant trust. Oh! all ye we frightened folk. Whether ye wear a crown or bear a yoke. Laid in one equal bed. When once your coverlet of grass is spread. What daybreak need you fear? The love will rule you there which guides you love. Where Life, the Sower, stands. Scattering the ages from his swinging hands. Thou waltest, Reaper, lone. Until the multitudinous grain hath grown. Sorrow the Sower, when thy blade Harvests my feast of ravish! God's husband thou art Our Faith and Our Bodies. Prov. xxiiii. 7 There are certain passages of Scripture, of which this is one, whose real significance is at last being discovered. In a vague and general way we always believed that a man's thoughts possess a kind of creative energy, but we have not appreciated the practical value and importance of this fact. We have simply glanced at it and then passed by on the other side. The rough diamond was under our very feet, and we every day trod on the spot where it lay, but not until recent years has any one picked it up and polished it and shown us its radiant beauty. At last, however, it has been re- vealed to us that in its broadest sense the heart makes the man, and that the words, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he," are not the expression of a poetical fancy, but of a literal and awful, as well as an encouraging truth. The basis of all true reform lies in the fact that body and soul not only reflect each other's moods, but that in the ideal man, the Christ man, the soul is undisputed, master of the body. The world has gone wrong for many generations, and become entangled in the meshes of inherited maladies, simply because men have chosen their own way in opposition to God's way. The world's mental attitude has been the fruitful source of bodily evils from which it has suffered. If the universal mind had convinced itself in the beginning that unselfishness is more profitable than selfishness, that purity pays dividends, while impurity lays assessments, and had continued through the centuries lovingly to live along the lines of the Creator's plan, pain would be a thing unknown, the word "disease" would never have been colined, and death would be like the sweet sleep of childhood, from which we would wake in heaven. So far as the world is God's world, it is perfect; so far as it is man's world it needs the succor of mighty remedial agencies. Now, since mental conditions produce disease, then it must follow that mental conditions may check disease, and even produce health. Let us linger here for a moment, for we are kneeling on the ground as the Christ passes by, and touching the hem of his garment; we are on the threshold of very wonderful discoveries, the value of which cannot be estimated. If it be true that to possess the Christ spirit is not merely to bear the lilis of life serenely, but also to prevent them to a degree, then for the first time we lift our religion out of its theological environments and make it priceless, practical truth. When it is forced upon us that no man can be wholly well, either in body or in soul, who is not consciously God's child, and that we are well or ill in body and soul in proportion to our filial relations to him, then we put religion where it belongs, on the strong foundation from which in our ignorance of natural and moral laws we long ago removed it. The important fact for men to recognize is this; that the cardinal virtues are the cornerstones of a healthy body and a healthy character. The spirit of the Christ dissipates that condition of mind which produces disease and tends to reproduce health as surely as wheat seed, if properly sowed, will furnish a wheat crop. The assertion is entirely within the bounds of known scientific law, that the ideal man is he who reverently looks to heaven and says, "In him I live and move and have my being." Here is the grand lesson to ponder, that faith is reposeful, that it is the equivalent of strength, for it is the miracle-worker that not only enables us to bear pain, but lessens the pain itself—Rev. George H. Hepworth. A Gentle Call. Sometimes the Christian life begins very simply, especially with the young. Among those who have been under good influences in the home, the church, the Sabbath school, and have been living sweet and gentle lives, free from grosser forms of evil, it is unreasonable to expect any violent "experience" or marked change in the manner of living. Failing to recognize this fact, many parents continue to wrestle with the Lord in prayer for the conversion of their children long after that change has really taken place; while the children and young people themselves, on account of the same mistaken impression, continue long in strong efforts and deep, unsatisfied longings to become Christians after God has indeed accepted them and they are actually living devotedly in His service. It is well for us all to recognize how simply and quietly the Christian life sometimes begins. A thoughtful girl of sixteen years, living in the country at a distance from the church which made attendance irregular, read, on a Sunday, the memoir of a Christian woman. On closing the volume, she said to herself, "That was a beautiful life." After a little thought, she added, "And I should like to live such a life." A few minutes later she kneeled down and said: "Lord, I will try from this time." The decision was made. She went on steadily, and is still a useful and influential Christian woman, honored and beloved, and widely known for her beautiful and devout character.—Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D. The Hard Life The transgressor's life is hard in its deprivations. The question is sometimes raised whether the sinner does not, after all, get more out of the world than the true disciple of Jesus. He who has turned from evil to live with God never raises that question. He knows that the earth, without peace of heart, without joy in right and sympathy with good, without the happiness of God's presence and delight of service, is a hard and narrow and unhappy place. The true and full inheritance of the earth belongs to the children of God, and to no others. Far back, also, in every transgressor's consciousness, lies the hard trial of self-contempt. He may not admit it to his thought. Conscience may be ill-educated and under careful discipline; but in the moments when he sees clearly, the sinner is self-judged. God has let us sit upon the seat of counsel, and we see what value we have put upon our souls in bartering with evil. "Still, as of old." Man by himself is priced; For thirty pieces Judas sold Himself, not Christ." It is hard to fear to meet one's own thought sitting as the judge; to dodge and shift and evade the quiet hour that brings self-condemnation. It is hard to be, amid whatever passing joys, without God and without hope in the world, that is so full of hope and so bright with the presence of our Heavenly Father. Cost of True Religion. Said the Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D.; I entreat you, do not covet a cheap religion. What costs nothing is commonly worth nothing. To become a new man, and a better man, and a strong man, and an heir to glory, means more than signing a card, or "rising for prayer," or going into an inquiry meeting. It means the thorough uprooting of old sins and the implanting in you of a new nature. The whole question of your salvation must be settled between you and your Savior; the inquiry meeting you need most is an honest hour with the loving Jesus. No book, no sermon, no friend, no pastor can save you; Jesus can. Whatever He bids you, as he speaks through your conscience, do it. The loving Savior—who has waited for you too long already—says to you: "Follow me." Start at once, and you will find the path of obedience is the straight road to heaven. The Spirit of Simplicity. The spirit of simplicity is a great magician. It softens asperities, bridges chasms, draws together hands and hearts. The forms which it takes in the world are infinite in number; but never does it seem to us more admirable than when it shows itself across the fatal barriers of position, interest or prejudice, overcoming the greatest obstacles, permitting those whom everything seems to separate to understand one another, esteem one another, love one another. This is a true social cement that goes into the building of a people.—Charles Wagner. Obedience to the Spirit. You little think how much the life of all your graces depends upon your ready and cordial obedience to the Spirit. When the Spirit urgethe thee to secret prayer, and thon refuseth obedience; when He forbids thee a known transgression, and yet thou wilt go on; when He telleth thee which is the way and which not, and thou will not regard—no wonder if heaven and thy soul be strange.—Richard Baxter. GENERAL HENRY KNOX Patriot, and Friend of Washington. Birthplace of Henry Knox, on Summer St. Boston The stress of revolutionary days developed strong characters, but never one more versatile and attractive than that of Henry Knox, who served as major general in the continental army; was Washington's chief of artillery, the first secretary of war under the constitution, and the founder of the Society of the Cincinnati. The qualities of mind and heart in Knox were such that he greatly endeard himself to Washington, so that the latter wrote, only a few weeks prior to his death: "I can with truth say that there is no man in the United States with whom I have been in habits of greater intimacy, no one whom I have loved more sincerely, nor any for whom I have had a greater friendship." Though it was to Maine that Knox retired when his cabinet services were over, and it is there his ashes rest, Massachusetts claims him as a son. He was born July 25, 1750, in a little two-story wooden building, with a gambrel roof, situated near the foot of Sumner street, Boston. He was the seventh of ten sons born to William and Mary Campbell Knox, who were of Scotch-Irish extraction. Of his large family only four sons lived to maturity. Two of these were drowned at sea, and when young Knox MAJ. GEN. HENRY KNOX Dirthplace of Henry Knox as about to be graduated from the Boston grammar school he found himself not only fatherless, but the sole support of his mother and small brother William. Taking a place in a book store, he diligently improved every spare moment in studying the volumes at his command, and entirely by his own efforts acquired a fine knowledge of the French language, stored his mind with historical facts, and became familiar with the classics as he found them translated into English. This occupation was to his liking and when he was 21 he went into business for himself, calling his establishment "The London Bookstore." "This store," said Harrison Gray Otis, "he came a fashionable morning lounge and was a place of great attraction for young and old. No one was a more frequent visitor than Miss Lucy Fluck er, daughter of the royal secretary of the province, who found it necessary to linger long over the purchase of her reading matter, and soon gave her heart to Knox. "It was of no moment to her that Knox was a tradesman, while her fa ther was a social dignitary; that Knox was a 'rebel' and her people. She was 18 and determined to wed the man she loved. "The gallant bookseller's place of business thus became the locale of a pretty romance, and the Gazette, which had published its date of opening, made just three years later the following announcement: "Last Thursday was married by Rev. Dr. Caner, Mr. Henry Knox of this town to Miss Lucy Flucker, second daughter to Hon. Thomas Flucker, Esq., secretary of the province." Political troubles thickened, and in less than a year from their marriage Knox and his wife had left Boston by night. He, having declined all inducements to take service in the royal forces, repaired to the headquarters of Gen. Artemas Ward, in command of the colonial troops, and offered his services as a volunteer, declining any special commission. The sword which he had worn in militia service Mrs. Knox had secreted in the lining of her cape and this weapon he now carried as a defender of the patriot cause. Gen. Knox's part in the great conflict which followed is too well known GRAVE OF GEN. KNOX (MARKED BY NATIONAL) to call for more than brief recapitulation. Military engineering was his strong point. Among the formidable works which he threw around the beleaguered city of Boston, the fort on Roxbury neck, excited the greatest admiration of Washington. His difficult but successful undertakings at lake Champlain, his return with the noble train of artillery from Ticonderoga, his appointment by congress to the chief command of artillery, an office in which he rose under successive ranks of colonel, brigadier general and major general, his cabinet service as secretary of war, are points in our country's history on which one loves to dwell. But his life as a private citizen after his retirement to Thomaston affords a better view of his personal traits and develops the fact that his was a most dominating personality in any community. In was in 1794 that Gen. Knox took up his residence in Thomaston, Maine, in the famous mansion Montpellier. This was three stories in height and was fashioned in the style of a French chateau. Many distinguished foreigners were guests beneath this hospitable roof, and the first Independence day after Knox's advent 500 of the inhabitants of Thomaston were entertained. Mrs. Knox was a woman of fashion, who had been quite the leader and oracle of Washington's drawing rooms, and the general was interested in all public affairs. He kept up active correspondence with the leading men of the times, and was a friend to educational movements. In 1806, when the first commencement exercises of Bowdin college were to be observed, Gen. and Mrs. Knox drove in carriages to Brunswick to be present. A heavy rainstorm made the journey tedious, and in the darkness of the night the general's carriage was overturned and the occupants rolled down a steep embankment. No one was hurt, however, and the company proceeded on their way in comparative good humor. The storm continuing, the exercises had to be postponed for a day, and it is a matter of history how Brunswick and the adjoining town of Topsham were x. on Summer St. Boston GRAVE OF GEN. KN taxed to their utmost to find suitable accommodations for the influx of visitors. Mrs. Knox had plenty of self will, and it was no uncommon thing for her and her worthy partner to differ in opinion. When it came to domestic affairs, skilled military tactician though he was, it must be acknowledged that he was usually worsted in the encounter, and only saved the day by retreating in good order and usually in good humored amusement. Their affection was too intense and deep for any trifles to disturb, however, and they remained lovers till death divided them. Neither at this time nor at any other should her mother have been surprised at Lucy's display of spirit, for Mrs. Flucker was herself the heroine of an interesting romance of the early history of Maine. Her father, Gen. Samuel Waldo, was companion-at-arms and bosom friend of old Sir William Pepperell, and great was the joy of the comrades when an engagement of marriage was made between their children. But Andrew Pepperell being indifferent, twice postponed the wedding day, so when the preparations had been made for the third time, preparations befitting the rank of two of the wealthiest families in America, Miss Waldo met her lover at the hour of the ceremony, not to marry him, but to break off the match then and there. In less than six months she be- --- came the bride of Thomas Flucker, a gentleman of French Huguenot descent, and crown secretary. It was through her father's interest in the Muscongus Waldo patent that Lucy Knox came into possession of part of the immense estate of Maine. To her share Gen. Knox added many acres, which he gained by legislative action and by purchase. Every environment and circumstance in Knox's life held significance for Washington. He showed appreciation of his ability when Harry Knox's forts were first constructed, and was soon for putting "the gentleman from Worcester" (it was here that Knox had advanced him from one important office to another, and when at the end of the war Washington took formal leave of his officers, dignified man that he was, he made no pretense of hiding the tears that coursed down his cheek as he grasped Knox's hand and kissed him with affection. As long as he lived he depended on Knox's advice, and kept in touch with his friend's business and domestic events. Some of his highest messages were for this comrade, and it is touching to remember that several days after the "father of his country" had breathed his last, the slowness of the mails having kept Knox uninformed of the fact, the latter penned a long, chatty letter, from Montpelier, which closed thus: "I pray that your days on earth may be days of felicity, without clouds sickness or sorrow." Knox's historic mansion has long since disappeared—it was built of wood—and only a memorial boulder, erected by the local D. A. R. chapter, which bears his name, marks its locality. Visitors are shown "The Old Church on the Hill," to which he gave a bell cast by Paul Revere, and toward the erection of which he contributed liberally, and in the cemetery, which, in his lifetime he had given to the town of Thomason, is his grave, marked with a plain shaft of limestone bearing this inscription: The Tomb of Major General HENRY KNOX, Who died Oct. 25th, 1806, Aged 56 years. "Tis Fate's degree, Farewell the lost crown. The Hero's home, and the good Man's crown." One Youth for Washington. The father of one youngster of 9 essayed to set him right on the differentiation of Washington and Lincoln, "Stand up like a man and say in a clear voice, I think Washington was a greater man than Lincoln because he freed our beloved country, America, while Lincoln only freed the slaves." The speech being well learned by heart, the young Demosthenes went to school Friday chock full of prospective glory. On his return his indulgent parent asked, "Did you say your piece?" "Sure, said it big and loud, too?" "That's good, What did they say?" "Nothin'." "Not a word?" I thought that speech would be well received. What did you say? OX (NURSED BY NOVENIENT) Can you remember it exactly?" "Sure! I got up and said, I think George Washington was better'n Lincoln, on account of how Washington freed the United States and Lincoln freed the niggers." Senator Daniels' Good Example Senator Daniels of Virginia set a good example in a Washington street car a few days ago. The car was crowded when an elderly lady entered. The men retained their seats and appeared not to notice the lady, who was standing. Then Senator Daniels, who still carries a bullet for the Confederacy, rose and holding his crutches in one hand grabbed a strap with the other, offering the lady his seat. The woman protested, but finally accepted the courtesy and called her young son in from the platform to introduce him to the senator from whom the lad was able to learn a lesson in politeness. German Imperial Post The imperial post in Germany requires its service 12,551 railway trains daily. In a year these trains traverse 294,000,000 kilometers, or about the distance between the earth and the sun. Kaiser Commends Patriotism Married eight years, a German named Drew, has seven sons all of whom he has pledged to the German army. The kaiser has written him a letter strongly commending his patriotism. Recommended by Prominent Physicians and Chemists Calumet Baking Powder Perfect in Quality Economical in Use Moderate in Price STATEHOOD TALK. Senator Beveridge Lapsed into Thought. Senator McCumber of South Dakota was talking on the statehood bill. The senator is a mild-mannered man who talks like a college professor. Senator Beveridge, who is in charge of the bill, did not like some of the things McCumber said and did a little nagging. He explained to his own satisfaction what the attitude of Mr. McCumber was. The thread of his argument was that all senators stood together on all matters of public concern, while McCumber he thought senators legislated best about things with which they were familiar. "That is a very beautiful sentiment, Mr. President," McCumber began after Beveridge bad finished. "And is it not true?" Inquired Beveridge, with elaborate politeness. "But," continued McCumber smoothly, "we have not all that infinite knowledge of everything in the United States which qualifies every man to pass intelligently upon every subject that come before the Senate." And Mr. Beveridge lapsed into thought.—Washington Post. IT'S THE TERROR OF ALL WOMEN. Backache Quickly Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mrs. W. H. Ambrose tells how her pains vanished never to return when she used the Great American Kidney Remedy. Dover, Ky., Feb. 13th (Special)—So long has Backache been the terror of the women of America that the numerous reports of the complete and permanent cures of this allure now being made by Dodd's Kidney Pills are causing wide satisfaction and not the least remarkable of these cures is that of Mrs. W. H. Ambrose of this place. Mrs. Ambrose says: "I had such pains in my back at times I could hardly move and some symptoms showed that my kidneys were affected. One box of Dodd's Kidney Pills drove away all the pains and I have never been troubled since." Backache is the kidneys first notice that they are out of order and need help. If they get that help in the form of Dodd's Kidney Pills all will be well. If they are neglected the disease may develop into Diabetes, Bright's Disease or Rheumatism. After a couple have been married two weeks the neighbors lose all latter eat in them. So named because 50 acres produced so heavily that its proceeds built a lovely home. Salzer's catalog. Yielded in Ind. 157 lb. 0100 199 lb. Fenn. 888 lb. and in Mech. 229 lb per acre. You can beat this record in 1965. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THESE YIELDS? 120 lb. Reardless Barley per acre. 310 lb. Salzer's New Natural Barley per A. 80 lb. Salzer Spelt and Macaron Wheat. 1,000 lb. Pedegree Potatoes per acre. 14 tons of rich Billion Dollar Grass Hay. 90,000 lbs. Victoria Rape for sheep—per A. 160,000 lbs. Tesoune, the tedder wonder. 54,000 lbs. Salzer's Superior Fodder Corn Now such yields you can have in 1905, if you will plant my seeds. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 100 in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and receive their great cat- tag and lots of farmseed samples. [W.N.U.] A man is in hard lines when you have to tell whom he married to identify him. Every Day is Celebrated as Sunday. Few people know that other days of the week than the first are being ob- served as Sunday by some nation or other. The Greeks observe Monday; the Persians, Tuesday; the Assyrians, Wednesday; the Egyptians, Thursday; the Turks, Friday; the Jews, Saturday; and the Christians, Sunday. Thus a perpetual Sabath is being celebrated on earth—From "Success Magaz- une." One man passes the plate in church and a good many other men let the plate pass them —THE RISING SON. a fn at ashe | PW} MAES NG ie el i 7 - ia | io ) r rf 53 » | aN eaaal Tah eae ieee nannies A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo G.'H. JONES, 612 Jersey avenue. Remember please— It’s the little bits we collect here ond there That enubles us to run from year tw year.” LOCALS. G. A. Clay is on the sick list. We will accept Thomas K, Niedring- haus, as it was the will of the ma- jority. \ Why do so many of our colored friends refuse to pay such a small bill as a paper Dill? Mrs. Fanny Garth of 2025 Madison avenue, is a lover of her race, and in race enterprise you can always de- pend on her to do her part, Miss Agnes Johnson, of 2519 High- land avenue, is a woman of her race. You can depend on her and her word is her bond, We hope to see all the friends of Rev. F. J. Peck out next Sunday, Business of importance is to be trans- acted. The members of Prudence court met at the hall, 553 Main street, last Friday evening and had a good meet: ing. Mrs. Dr. Perry was in the chair, Mrs. D. A, Doyle, of 1621 BE. Thir- teenth street, is able to be ont again after three weeks of a very severe atiack of la grippe. Fred Douglas Lyceum will give a Danquet in honor of Professor W. T. Vernon, Thursday, February 23, at the A, M. EB. ehureh, Everybody in vited. Mr. R. Hopkins, of 1609 Virginia avenue, is very ill, At present old age is the trouble, He was born in the year of 1818 in the state of Vir- ginia, Mrs. Josie A. Dugged, mother of Rev. W. S. Dugged and Mrs. Alice Dugged Cary, died at her home in At- Janta, Ga., January 31, in the triumph of Christian faith. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family in this their sad hour, ‘The visitor of the past week, Capt Jones, of Wichita, and Martha A Jones of the same city, the mother of Mrs. Mable Peak and Mrs. E. A. Peak, of Baltimore, the mother of Rey, Peak, and Rey, W. H. Peak, his brother, all of whom were his guests the past Week and was summoned on account of Mrs. Peak's illness, Miss Annie Austin was found in the Colaned alley in the rear of 405 W. Fifth street’ Monday morning at 7 ovclock. The body lay face downward in the snow and was frozen, It is said there was no injuries on the body and that she was overcome by the cold and wandered in the alley where she froze. She was sent to 914 E. Twelfth street, Countee’s undertaking rooms, Her address is not known, A. Muhalland, after nearly two months of illness, died last Saturday, February 11, at 5 o'clock p.m. For the past ten years he was employed at Mr. Hoffman's wholesale Mquor house as city delivery man, No one can miss him more than his mother and father. He was a man of a good character and was a lover of his race. He believed in race enterprise. He was a member of the John Turner lodge, and attended Allen chapel, and ‘was a loyal supporter of that church. He leaves an aged mother and father, two brothers and many relatives and a host of friends to mourn his loss. He was buried from Allen chapel Febru- ary 14. The Rev. F. A. Peak offi- ciated. Jobn Lang, of 912 Park avenue, the manager of Blind Boon company, spent Sunday at home with his wife. Miss Smith spent Sunday in the city with her mother, also a member of the company. Blind Boon spent Sun- day in Columbia, Mo., with his wife. Manager Lang reports a favorable season with his company and says, owing to the weather there are more failures this year with companies like this than there every was known be- fore, He extends his best regards to all his Kansas City friends, He will return to Kansas City in Mareh and fill a ten days’ engagement here. ‘The people of Kansas City are always will- ing to weleome Messrs. Lang and Boon any time they have to spend with us, The people of Kansas City are proud of Miss Smith, the soprano singer, she being a Kansas City girl. ‘The McKinley Lodge, K. of P., will meet at 553 Main street. Miss Jessie Griffin is in the grocery business at 99 James street, We wish her success, Give us more plucky girls like her. 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 Those who promised to subscribe for the Rising Son, please leave the money at Hayes’ grocery store on Lexington street, 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 invit- ed to come and see for yourself. Regu: lar 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, If you desire one of the Magnetic Hair Straighteners or some Ozone we have it in stock at the Rising son office and all other preparauuns from the Boston Chemical Co. Flint, Ala., June 14th, 1900, Dear Sirs: I have used your Ozon- zed Ox Marrow only a short while and it has Improved my hair wonderfully. ROTHA FRANCIES. Dr. Smith succeeds because he knows his business and attends to it. He contributes liberaly to churches, and all charitable institutions, We should always support a man of this kind, The editor wishes him continued success, AGENTS WANTED.—$75.00 per week an expenses easily made selling combination policies for a big sick and aceident company, Write to-day. Address U, 3. Protective Society, Salis. buy, Mo. Malkak Waanten, An unsuccessful effort has been made in France to revive the fair of Heaucaire on a scale comparable to that of the gvod old times, ‘These fairs began in the thirteenth century, and gradualiy rose to such propor: tions that in 1790, for Instance, the business transacted amounted to 40,- (00,000 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 re- gion of all the regions of the carth ts more favored by nature for Ue pro- duction of cereals, It ig claimed that wheat in its wild, uneuttivated state has its home in the sembarid regions, and that from here it has been trans. Ported to every quarter of the globe. Lortdanta “4h. leéle: thaiy.? Reporting upon the “Little Itetv" of one of London's most crowded «s+ tricts, the health officer of the dis- triet says that the Halians are “gen- erally snperior” to the English yer- Sons who are thelr neighbors. they Also take more care of their children, among whom the death rate is low, and they are sober. Impromptu With a Sting. A quaint story has teen lately re called of a duchess who had enter tained a famous literary man for a week and then produced the inevita- ble autograph album with the request for “something Impromptu.” In vain the author protested that the mere sight of the book paralyzed every one of his ideas, so at last, in a frenzy of despair, he seized the pen and wrote: “It I was a dook I would have a bet- ter cook.” ‘Tableau, Measures Growth of Plants. The United States department of agriculture has a clever little instru: ment which is used to record the daily growth of a plant. The top leat of @ seedling is held in a tiny clasp which in no way harms the plant. To this clasp is attached a small lever, the point of which is furnished with an indelible pencil, which rests light+ ly upon @ paper record. As the plants grow the pencil naturally travels up- ward and leaves on the paper a record of the plant's growth. This shows the exact increase in growth of plants reared by electricity to those grown normally. Benefits ef Proper ireathina. ‘The habit of slow, measured, deep breathing that covers the entire luag surface is of more value and im- portance than you will ever believe until you have tried it, and when you have established the habit of breath: ing in this manner you will say some remarkable things in its favor, It will reach all points of your physical sys tem. All the benefits that occur from @ healthy condition of the blood will in a greater or less degree be yours, for the manner and completeness with which the inspired air comes in contact with the blood in the lungs is of the utmost importance to every vital process.—Christian Work and Evangelist, ROOMS FOR RENT—LIGHT HOUSE. KEEPING At 1816 Wedland avenue, Heat and gas furnished. Rooms $3.00 and $3.50, A desirable place for anyone wishing a room at a home-like place. Bath free. Mr. H. Patton is the proprietor of 4 restaurant for Indies 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, acai Hot creme de menthe, claret phos: phate, coffee, chocolate, root beer, beef tea, Roman punch, Jamaica ginger, English Breakfast tea, clam and to- mato bouillon, are some of the leaders at McCampbell & Houston's Hot Soda Fountain. 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 VY. 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 ia 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 ehil- dren in the way that they should go, and may they not go astray. So help me God! MRS. ROSA Y, SAMUELS. NOTICE. Dr. Smith, the druggist, has no In- terest in the “Stock Drug Company,” which is to be opened by some of the physicians of our city, but will con tinue to do business at 908 E, 12th street and 805 Independence avenue, Dr, Smith is serving up-to-date hot drinks, Give hima a call, Milwaukee, Wis., June 25, 1895. Gentlemen: Please send me two bot tles of tho Ozonized Ox Marrow for th hair, Think it Is one of tho best hair pomades made, MRS. JOUN GRAF. CASH IS THE WAY. Reading notices and announcements will always be rated as advertise: ments, and when such is sent in ta our office cash must accompany it. AND | Since Mother’e Gone, Since mother's gone T miss the smile Ana gentie voice thit used to cheek My Posish heart. day after days And put to Mwht eacit care aid fear Whieh chanced to be alone my Way No more ahout the humble, home Tee her ply. her dally vate Or hear her sing tone sacred song, Or plead with Goa interven. prays For right to Uiumph over wron T love to hear some sacred sons Or hollowed hymn she used ts sina, On pony the eaysr whe: seat pray ‘Phat 1 to'Tim may tiny. | Who was hor comfart day hy dey The men'ry ‘of Mer holy lite Remains to chest mean ms. Strenuthens iny nowt aed pres an Amid “ites toll) from day! te shy To that ewect place where ethers gon TAINO, Turner, in Washington Post Fun with a Fly Seesaw. Here is an amusing little trick that you will find lots of fun: Stiek a lone Jead pencil in the end of a spool oi thread so that it will stand upriy! Now get a piece of very stiff blottiag paper and from it ent a strip two inches wide and about a toot jong. On each end of this put a crop 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 (Z= ‘See-Saw in Operation. two players, although one will do. Each player chooses an cnd of the paper. In a moment a fly will alight on one end, attracted by the syrup. and that end of the paper will Ko down a trifle. Then another fly will light on tho other end, or perhaps: sev eral will come there for the sweets and things will be reversed. AS more files come, alighting on the ends, the paper will lean first this wey, 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. A HALL FOR RENT At 529 Grand Avenue, Just the Place for Lodges $25 per Mapth. FRANK OLENO CO. "tars drone Furnished Rooms To Rent. BY DAY on WEEK Meals at All Hours. At 1003 E. s8th St. G. SMITH. Propr. rin rein AU 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 it we keep our eyes open. A fow days ago, while riding my bicyele down Madison avenue, [ heard the twittering of sparrows, and, looking up, saw in the mouth of the stone lion on the corner of the building of ono of the city’s prominent clubs the ro- mains 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 stopped and made a sketch of tt. While standing on the opposite corner sketching, the policeman of that “beat” came over to talk with me. He seemed pleased that T should have noticed the birds. Me said that the sparrows had been keeping house there for several years He had often stopped to watch them build their nests, and iater feed their little ones, whieh later would play around the lion's heal, sitting on his nose oF eyebrows ax saucily as contd be, as much as to say: "You may look fleree, but— who's afraid ?"—st Nicholas. Pindertoy. oA ge Neth 0.9 07 Ky LAD oo a) SOO ae Y . S Sa) 50S 00 4 SOO Ros eae This frolicsome frog needs only to be ent ont 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 inst 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 arca of ninety nine acres, anil its surface 1s composed of one great floating mass of asphaltum, seamed with veins of clear water, Fre it and a similar lake in Vene. zucla, the world's supply of asphalt is drawn, says the Washington Post, | The Pitch Lake iy a hideons place 's0 far ax smells are concerned, for the afr all about it is heavy with’ nox- fous vapors, and from the conter of the lake gushes a fountain of liquid asphattim, in whieh there float and break bubbles containing most hor- rible gases ‘The workmen go ont on the surface of this lake and ent great slabs of asphaltum, which are curried away, But the next morning the hole they loft is filled mp axain wiih the piteb, which has risen during the night, 80 that the supply seems to be inexhaust able. This curions lake was discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh when he lauded tn ‘Trinidad in 1545, 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 sult so thick and strong that a man can vide across it on horseback with safety, In Central Asia, near the Casplan Sea, is a lake of beautiful rose water, while the banks are covered with salt crystals ax white as snow. From the waters of this lake there arises a flowerlike oder. The color and the odor are supposed to be eaused by vegetable matter in the depths. There used to be @ curious Inke on the top of the Voleano de Agua, in Guatemala, 14,000 foct above the level of the sea. It was not fed by springs nor by rivers, but was cansed by ac: cumulations 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 de: steuetion, and digging a great barran ca, or ravine, in the mountainside whieh is still vs le No Daylight Weddings. A Russian bride is not submitted to the trying ordeal of appearing in white satin and lace in cold, broad daylight. The wedding takes place by candle light in a drawing room, Ge PPP UeNV ET Or EST ESTE SS ® ° e ¢ & 2 :Lincoln Institute3 $ HISSOUR STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YouTH & : BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. President. < e DEPARTMENTS: @ . COLLEGE, NORMAL, PREPARATORY, IN s & DUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC. @ } SOURRER Ca ign teparatns Xana thm, @ drawing. (Hine Arts and Mechanleal) Carponteys Wonslworks, @ ® ing, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe making, Farming and @ @ . & @ AVDVANTAGES: G00 Location, Pree Tuition, New Dorm tories @ Fitness ah fs any avis en! ine e of good moral character. For further information write to @ eo _. ; , At - ¢ © BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, ALM.vL LD, Pres. . JEPPERSON CITY, MISSOURL, : ryYYvYY_YYVeTtTTYrTYTYTYTYTTTTTVTVCTCCT CC CC KELLEY’S } FLOUR BEST @ Kelty’s Best i a Beats all the Rest. IGH PATENT. 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I may not reach with earthly wings The heights and depths of God. So faith and patience, wait awhile!— Not doubting, not in fear. For though I fear, father's smile Shall render all things clear. —G. Rawson. SECOND BY BELLE SECOND CHOICE BY BELLE MANHAIES (Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Rufus Winslow was the fac simile of his twin brother Dick in face and figure, but in temperament and disposition they were opposites. They both came to love Kate Laurel, the prettiest girl in Yorkville; Dick, with a warm, winning affection; Rufus, with a feebulous exacting intensity. earnest voice, listening with rapture to the faint whispers of the trembling girl. When they were pronounced man and wife, Rufus folded her in his arms and kissed her. "I'll keep the certificate, Kate. It'll be safer from your father's eyes." "Yes," replied the girl, "but I must As for Kate, when she was with Dick her fancy wandered to Rufus, and when in the presence of the latter she longed for the former. Her fickle fancy wavered like a weather-cock until one day after witnessing Rufus conquer an unmanageable horse, she flew in fear to the willing, open arms of Dick. When Rufus heard of their engagement, he became gloomy and morose and swore to himself that he would still woo and win Kate. Judge Laurel, father of the fair Kate, frowned upon the attachment and forbade Dick the house. To complicate matters, war with Spain was declared and Dick and Rufus, who were sergeants in the National Guard, must perforce serve their country. They marched away with their company to join the regiment at a rendezvous camp, leaving Kate disconsolate. One day when her father was absent from home, she went to the camp and spent a sadly happy day with Dick. "Kate," he said, when bidding her goodbye, "why can't we be married before I go to war? Then nothing could part us. Will you, Kate?" Kate would, and they arranged that a week from that night she should come to the little town near camp. Dick would get a few hours' leave, and meet her there with a minister and a license. As the marriage was to be a secret one on account of Kate's cruel parent, they decided to meet on the edge of a grove in the outskirts of the town. ALs for the plans of mice and men—especially soldier men. On the night set for the wedding, which was the last night the company would remain in camp, Dick was detailed on special duty and could not get relieved. He groused to think how Kate would wateen and wait and wonder at his nonappearance. In his extremity he was obliged to confide in Rufus. "You can get off, Rufe. Won't you go and explain to note that I cannot leave without dishonor. Here I have the license and minister engaged, but the captain is inexorable. He would not let me off if I were to tell him the real reason." "Yes," said Rufus thoughtfully. "I'll go and explain to her and bring you a message." Rufus obtained leave and started for town. On the way thither he laid a plan of action which war to make good his assertion that Kate should wed him. He went to the county clerk, who easily believed him to be Dick, got the license, chanced the A "Why can't we be married before we go to war?" name and then, at the hour appointed by Dick, called for the minister. It was the darkest of dark nights, and the young minister regretted that he was not able to discern the features of the slight girlish figure in waiting. "Dick," she half whispered. "Kate, darling!" he replied in a perfect imitation of his brother's duvet tones. "We must hurry!" said the prospective bride. "Papa suspects, and may have followed." So in the darkness, the minister hurriedly spoke the words of the ceremony. Rufus responding in strong, "Dick." she half whispered. earnest voice, listening with rapture to the faint whispers of the trembling girl. When they were pronounced man and wife, Rufus folded her in his arms and kissed her. "I'll keep the certificate, Kate. It'll be safer from your father's eyes." "Yes," replied the girl, "but I must go. I am so afraid. Good-bye, Dick," and she vanished in the darkness. "Well, Dick," said Rufus the next morning, "I transacted all your busi- A ness, saw the clerk, the minister and Kate." "What did she say? Did she blame me?" "She said very little. She was scared out of her wits. Thought the Judge was pursuing her. She only stayed a moment." En route to their southern camp, the brothers seemed to have exchanged personalities. Dick was quiet and somber; Rufus, happy and jubilant. When they pitched camp and the first mail came in, there was a letter for Dick from Kate, and he tore it open with his first expression of happiness. Rufus braced himself now for the inevitable disclosure and the hot quarrel—perhaps fight—to follow. He saw Dick's expression of surprise at the opening line. In a moment he looked up with no trace of anger, only amusement, in his bright face. "Well, say, Rufe, here's a good one on you. That wasn't Kate you gave my message to. She sent Lena Faxon." "Lena Faxon!" Rufus felt a tightening band about his brain. "Yes, let me read you part of my sweetheart's letter. H—m, oh, yes, here it ta: "When I said nothing would keep me from you, I never dreamed of being taken ill (I am well now), but the day before the one set for our wedding, I was seized with tonsillitis. I should have come, but I was too weak to raise my head from the pillow. The only person I dare' send was Lena. She never tells anything—her one virtue. I sent for her and told her I was to meet you and marry you, and asked her to explain to you how impossible it was for me to come. She promised. I think she always had a soft spot in her heart for you. She came over next day and said she saw you, but she was so provoking. Said you could only remain a moment and sent me no message, and kissed her good bye! Now, sweetheart, I love and trust you and know you were simply sending me a kiss, so I am not jealous as she would have me be!" "The idea, Rufe, of your not knowing your future sister-in-law any better than to mistake another for her. I'd know Kate in any darkness, but then, of course, I would." Rufus was silent a moment. When he replied he spoke in a curious voice. "Lena is tall and slender, like Kate, and she didn't speak aloud, and was in such haste and fright." "But what did she say when you told her I could not come?" asked Dick. "I told her, and I see now that she was confused and could not have grasped the matter. She called me Dick, I remember. On the same day that Dick read her letter to his brotner, Kate was alternately reading and kissing one from Dick. Then she went to see Lena. "Oh, Lena," she said, laughing, "I have got such a good one on you! wasn't Dick you kissed good-bye, but Rufus." "Rufus!" exclaimed Lena, turning white. "Yes; they would not let Dick off, and he sent Rufus to explain to me, and he evidently thought you were me, for Dick wrote that Rufus said I was in great waste and in fear of papa. I am mighty glad now that I was sick. I would have had my journey for nothing, and I wouldn't have had Rufus kiss me for the world. It is a wonder you didn't know him. I would have known Dick, but then, of course, I would. Dick's regiment never saw actual service, and was mustered out six months after muster in, but Dick won lieutenant's straps and the Judge's favor. That winter Dick and Kate entered into the felicity of domesticity, and began life in a cottage of modest appointments, but of roseate-hued atmosphere. Lena was the first person Rufus visited on his return, and she anxiously awaited his coming. "You thought you were stealing Dick from Kate, and I thought I was taking her from him," said Rufus bluntly. "We were both fooled. No one knows it but you and I, and no one ever will. The marriage is illegal, because the license was made out for Kate, and you responded in her name. If it's annulled, it can't be done without more or less publicity. There's but one way to make it straight, and that is for us to marry—under right names this time. We can't have our first choice, either of us, so we might as well take second." Lena reflected and consented. MADE THREE FATHERS PROUD. Twins as Christmas Presents in New York Families. Three proud fathers walked into Borough President Joseph Cassidy's office in the Queens Borough Hall, Long Island City, yesterday afternoon, to hand in official reports for the month of December. "Hello, John, what did you get for Christmas?" said the borough president to John J. Hurley of 343 Jackson avenue, Long Island City. "My wife made me a present of twins, and they are a fine bouncing boy and girl, and are doing well, thank you," said Hurley. "Good for you, John. What did you get for Christmas, then?" said the borough president to James Kane of Eighth street, Long Island City. "Sure, me wife made me a present of twins, too—a boy and a girl—and both are doing nicely," said Kane. "Well, you two are lucky fellows," said the borough president. "Charlie Schneller's wife made him a present of twins also," said Stenographer Robert McMahon, as Secretary Charles Schneller of the building department approached Borough President Cassidy's desk. Mr. Cassidy is seriously thinking of applying for a vote of confidence from President Roosevelt.—New York Times. Fearful Engines of Destruction Fearful Engines or Destruction. Hand grenades and bombs were used with terrific effect at the capture of the 203-Meter hill, Port Arthur. Their use was contrary to the spirit of the international rule which forbids the cruelty of the dum-dum bullets. Certain other engines of war have been rejected by civilized nations, however, in times gone by, because they were too destructive and too horrible. England has still in keeping a secret war plan of the tenth earl of Dundonald which the authorities rejected because, while it was infallible, it was too inhuman to use by man against man. Even Louis XV. of France had backbone enough to refuse Dupre's terrible invention. If the story of this discovery be true, the plan was to create by a secret process a conflagration whose intensity was but increased by water. It would burn town or fleet. Louis refused to have the secret published and it went down to the grave with Dupre. The Two Ships As I stand by the cross on the lone mountain's crest. Looking over the ultimate sea; In the gloom of the mountain a ship lies at rest. And one sails away from the lea; One spreads its white wings on a far- ward With pennant and sheet flowing free; One hides in the shadow with sails laid aback— The ship that is waiting for me! But lo! in the distance the clouds break away. The ship is blowing portals I see. The Gate's glowing portals I see. And I have from the outgoing ship in the bay the song of the sailors in glee. So I walk the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'r dark Galilee. And Iuit' for the signal to go to the thug. They Cook Their Shoes. "The wise man takes proper care of his shoes when there is snow on the ground," said a retailer who was asked why a pair of patent leathers bought within a week had lost their shape. "When a man, or woman either, for that matter, who has been walking in the snow gets home with damp shoes almost the first thought is to dry them as quickly as possible. They are put under the stove or on the steam radiator. One customer told me his wife dried his shoes in the oven. This is folly. "If wet shoes are dried too quickly the leather will shrink and rot, no matter how expensive the make. In winter time particularly shoes should be dried slowly and given a rest. If a person has two pairs of shoes and lets one pair stay in the trees when not worn each pair will last at least twice as long." London Tramways. London has only 115 miles of tramways. GEORGE WASHINGTON BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL OLDIER and statesmen, rarest unison; High-poised example of great duties done Simply as breathing, a world's honors worn as life's indifferent gifts to all men born; Dumb for himself, unless it were to God, But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, Dramping the snow to coral where they trod, Field by his awe in hollow-eyed content; Modest, yet firm as Nature's self; unblamed Save by the men his nobler temper shamed; Not honored then or now because he wooed The popular voice, but that he still withstood; Broad-minded, higher-souled, there is but one Who was all this and ours, and all men's. WASHINGTON. Never to see a na Hath been given na Unless to those w Gazed silent where Unsheathed the sys Shot union through Of our loose atom Around a single w And making purge Out of that scabby Nebulous at first Through mutual s The common faith He chose, as men Nor ever faltered Of petty cares that But kept right on Strong to the end, The popular temp Wasted its wind-b The noisy marvel His soul sate still Virginia gave us t Cast in the massi Of those high-state Which into grande She gave us this What shall we give As in the dear old Before the inevita Mother of states s Thou gavest us a And we owe always Be to us evermore As we forget thou Mother of States s Virginia, fitly nam Extracts from Fa Addre Never to see a nation born Hath been given to mortal man, Unless to those who, on that summer morn, Gazed silent when the great Virginian Unsheathed the sword whose fatal flash Shot union through the incoherent clash Of our loose atoms, crystallizing them Around a single will's unpliant stem. And making purpose of emotion rash. Out of that scabbard sprang, as from its womb. Nebulous at first but hardening to a star, Through mutual share of sunburst and of gloom, The common faith that made us what we are. * * * * * * * He chose, as men choose, where most danger showed, Nor ever faltered 'neath the load Of petty cares that gall great hearts the most, But kept right on the strenuous up-hill road. Strong to the end, above complaint orboast: The popular tempest on his rock-mailed coast Wasted its wind-borne spray, The noisy marvel of a day; His soul cote still in its esteemed abode. Which into grander forms our mortal metal fan; She gave us this unblemished gentleman: What shall we give her back but love and praise As in the dear old unestrang-ed days Before the inevitable wrong began? Mother of states and undiminished men, Thou gavest us a country, giving him, And we owe always what we owed thee then. * * * * * * * * Be to us evermore as thou wast then, As we forget thou hast not always been, Mother of States and unpolluted men, Virginia, fitly named from England's manly queen! A group of soldiers on horseback facing a fortress. Extracts from Farewell Address of Washington One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable. Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. Observe good faith and justice to wards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberations and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of the fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however speciosa the pretexts. It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. All Men Paid All Men Paid Him Tribute There is no qualification in the praise great men have given Washington. Those who have spoken or written of him at all have done so in terms of absolute ecology. Gladstone, for instance, said of him: "I have almost idolized him for sixty years." Later he wrote: "Washington is to my mind the purest figure in history. I look upon Washington among great and good men as one peculiarly good and great. He has been to me for more than forty years a light upon the path of life." It was Lord Erskine who said: "I have a large acquaintance with the most valued and exalted class of men, but you are the only human being for whom I ever felt an awful reverence. I sincerely pray God to grant a long and serene evening to a life so gloriously devoted to the universal happiness of the world." John Richard Green, the student of great men, wrote of Washington: "No nobler figure ever stood in --- S lon born to mortal man, so, on that summer morn, at the great Virginian word whose fatal flash in the incoherent clash is, crystallizing them still's unpliant stem. use of emotion rash. ord sprang, as from its womb. but hardening to a star, care of sunburst and of gloom, that made us what we are. choose, where most danger showed, neath the load on gall great hearts the most, the strenuous up-hill road. above complaint or boast; rest on his rock-mailed coast borne spray, of a day; in its unstormed abode. is imperial man the mold shared ages old or forms our mortal metal ran; unblemished gentleman: her back but love and praise unestrang-ed days sole wrong began? and undiminished men, country, giving him, is what we owed thee then. as thou wast then, hast not always been, and unpolluted him, and from England's manly queen! rewell ss of Washington Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust, to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies. Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. Him Tribute the forefront of a nation's life." And Lord Brougham declared Washington to be "the only man, in fact, upon whom the epithet 'great,' so thoughtlessly lavished by men, may be justly bestowed." The Marquis de Chastellux, a French officer and a member of the French Academy, in 1786 said of Washington: "Brave without temerity, laborious without ambition, generous without prodigality, noble without pride, virtuous without severity, he seems always to have confined himself within those limits beyond which the virtues, clothing themselves in more lively but more changeable and doubtful colors, may be mistaken for faults." Lord Byron wrote: Yes; one—the first, the last, the best— The Cincinnatus of the West, When any dares not hate— Bequeathed the na Te make man blu of Washington, was but one WAS CURED RAPIDLY RHEUMATISM IN TWO SEVERE CASES MASTERED IN FEW WEEKS. The Remedy Used by Mr. Schroepel and by Captain Lafour in Great Demand in Victimity of Their Homes. In the winter of 1902-3 Mr. Schroepel was confined to his bed by a severe attack of rheumatism. His doctor's treatment proved unsuccessful, but he subsequently regained his health by means which he describes with great enthusiasm. "After five or six weeks of helplessness and pain," said he, "during which I was receiving regular visits from the doctor, I felt as bad as ever. Just then my mother, a woman eighty years of age, paid me a visit. She had received great benefit from Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and she was confident they would help me. At her solicitation I gave up the doctor's treatment and took the pills in its place." "And were you cured as the result of taking her advice?" "Yes, quickly and thoroughly. Before the second box was finished I felt very manifest improvement, and within two weeks I was able to leave my bed and take up my neglected farm work. I continued to use the pills, however, until eight boxes had been taken, although long before that I felt that every vestige of the disease had been eradicated. "Are there no traces left?" "Absolutely none. For a year and three months there has never been the slightest return of the old trouble. For this happy result I and my family freely praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Within the bounds of China township, St. Clair county, Mich., there is no better known farmer than Mr. Henry Schroppel. His cure has therefore naturally attracted a great deal of attention. One of Mr. Schroppel's neighbors, Captain George Balfour, after hearing of the salutary results in Mr. Schroppel's case, decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for an attack of rheumatism from which he was himself suffering. He took eight or ten boxes and now declares himself free from the painful aliment. It is little wonder that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are much in favor in the community where Mr. Schroppel and Captain Balfour are so well and favorably known. They are sold by all druggists and are equally successful in curing neuralgia, sciatica and partial paralysis A Good Precedent. "My dear," said Mrs. Mildly, as she dusted Mr. Mildly's table, "this would be a great deal cleaner world if there were not any men in it." "If there were not," retorted Mr. Mildly, "the women would do exactly as the Lord did—hunt around for enough dirt to make a man out of."—Collier's. RAW ITCHING ECZEMA Blotches on Hande, Ears, and Ankles For Three Years—Instant Relief and Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "Thanks to Cuticura I am now rid of that fearful pest, weeping eczema, for the first time in three years. It first appeared on my hand, a little pimple, growing into several blotches, and then on my ears and ankles. They were exceedingly painful, itching, and always raw. After the first day's treatment with Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, there was very little of the burning and itching, and the cure now seems to be complete, (signed) S. B. Hge, Passenger Agent B. & O. R. R. Washington, D. C." What She Considered Natural What She Considered Natural. Mr. Crimsonbeak—I like to see a man act natural. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Well, I don't. I hate to see a man make a fool of himself—Yonkers Statesman. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any of these Catches that cannot be cured by Hail's Caterpillar Care. P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. He understated, have known F. J. Cheney and his business. 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An office seeker always harps on the need of political reform. Try One Package If "Defiance Starch" does not please you, return it to your dealer. If it does you get one-third more for the same money. It will give you satisfaction, and will not stick to the iron. Hero worship is always directed toward people we don't know intimately. Paya to Advertise. Mr. Snowball—Hi, yah! I see an "ad" in the Blackville Times dis mawnin", "A strong, healthy gal wants permanent job—willing to work fourteen hours a day." Dat's de very gal I wants for a wife.—Puck. Essential. Ida—My father gave me an automobile. May—And does he still give you pin money? Ida—No, fine money.—Chicago News. FreeBook DEFORMITIES AND PARALYSIS will be sent free, postpaid, upon request. This book is of a hundred pages, handsomely illus- tated, in lieu of an experience of over thirty years in the treatment of Crooked Feet, Spinal Deformity. It tells of the only thoroughly equipped Sanitarium in this country devoted exclusively to the treatment of these conditions and how they may be cured without surgical operations, plaster pins or other severe treatment. Send for this book, and it directly interested, mention character of the affliction and special object will be sent with the book. The L. C. McLain Orthopedic Sanitarium. 100 St., WINTER SCENE IN THE NORTH February is a month of severe storms and intense cold. Even in the South where the prevailing temperature is much above wintry latitudes, February brings sudden changes of temperature. Mercury sometimes drops 20 degrees in a single night. Therefore, the following health hints are applicable to the whole of North America: Ventilation. The sleeping rooms should be well ventilated, but so as to avoid direct currents of air. Bathing. Those in vigorous health should take a cold water towel bath every morning before breakfast. Those in feeble health should take a brisk dry-towel-club every morning. Diet. The diet should be a generous one, including meat, and occasionally fresh vegetables. The nights being long and the days short, as much sunshine as possible should be let into the house during the day. Clothing. The head should be kept cool at all times. The feet should be kept warm and dry, day and night. Peruna. When unavoidably exposed to cold or wet, a few doses of Peruna will avert bad consequences. Precaution. When seized with a chill, or even slight chilliness, a dose of Peruna should be taken at once. 111 Lowest reported yield 60 bushels, when common cows ran only 20 bushels. We have a new crop from Russet by Exp. Exp. Sts. Proved extra early and hardy crops. We have a new crop everyone. Heads often contain more than 100 grains. Straw is available. We have a new crop doesn't trust or lodge. Stand our winds. Fully two weeks earlier, anyone remitting 100 acres or silver. Catalogue only. free. Write to day. Ask for our Premium List BUSWOLD SEED CO. 113 S. 20th St. Lincoln, Neb. 10,000 Plants for 16c. More gardens and farms are planted to Salzer's Seeds than any other in America. We own over 800 acres for the production of our warranted seeds. In order to meet your demand, make you the following unprecedented offer: Gardeners Postpaid 1000 Early, Medium and Late Cabbages, 1000 Blue Juliet Turpines, 1000 Bumblebee Lettuce, 1000 High Nettle Lettuce, 1000 Rare Lushon Radishes, 1000 Gloriously Brilliant Flower, Above seven packages contain vermiculated seed, to keep your furnished bashels of brilliant flowers, and to keep your vegetables, together with our great catalog, selling all about flowers, and to keep all of your 16c in stamps and this notice. John A. Salzer SEED CO. w. n. c. La Crosse, Wis. Are made of heavy Kid, Box Calf or Mule Skin. Extra heavy un- bleached drills are used for linings, and vamps are double lined. 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FOR THE KITCHEN Delectable Dainties That Are Easy of Preparation Sanitary Dough Mixing There is a strong demand from many quarters for an improvement in the long prevailing method of bread-making. In the first place, objection is now made against the time-honored yeast process, which is said to be uncleanly, and the "salt leaven" method recommended; but this is rather more difficult to bring about, for the reason that a very delicate regulation of temperature is necessary. Another objection raised against the present manner of making bread is the use of the hands in the mixing of the dough, which is said to be a very unsanitary operation and should be avoided. As the dough must be mixed, it is said that it can be done more thoroughly and in a more cleanly manner by a machine, and an apparatus for the purpose is shown in the accompanying cut. The device consists of a suitably shaped standard of metal, which is fastened to the table. Attached to this are two straight movable rods of galvanized iron, each about 11 inches 1 long, controlled from the center by a thumbnut. The rods when passed through handles of bread pan and secured keep the pan rigid while the mass of ingredients is being easily and quickly mixed by revolving the curved tinned rod seen in outline. To Renovate Carpets. Carpets which have grown dirty, have lost their color and have become dull and old-looking can be nicely renovated in the following manner: Cut up into very small pieces about an ounce of laundry soap and make it into a lather with a pint of boiling water, then add another quart of water and an ounce of borax. Put this mixture on the range and bring it to a boil; then remove it and when it is quite cold add one ounce of alcohol one of ammonia and one-half ounce of glycerin. Do but a small portion of the carpet at a time and renovate it by wetting a clean flannel cloth in this mixture and rubbing in vigorously until the spots are removed and the color brought back. Another way to bring the color out may be used, and it may be accomplished in the ordinary sweeping if salt or dried tea leaves or a mixture of both be thickly sprinkled on the carpet an hour before the sweeping is begun. Use a good, stiff brush when sweeping and the whole appearance of the carpet will be marvelously improved. Paris Bread. One cupful of chopped boiled ham one-fourth cupful of cream, two table spoonfuls of Parmesan cheese, paprika to taste. Cut bread into slices one fourth of an inch thick. Fry to a delicate brown in smoking hot, deep fat. Pound the ham to a paste, adding the cream as needed. Season with cayenne pepper. Spread the mixture on the fried bread, sprinkle the cheese over the top and brown in a hot oven. Cold Meat Croquettes. Take any cold, fresh meat, with enough cold ham to flavor the meat; chop together very fine; add half as much rolled cracker, salt, pepper, nutmeg and prepared mustard to taste; a little lump of butter and a teaspoonful catsup; mix well together; make into cakes, dip into beaten yolk of egg roll in cracker crumbs and fry in a little lard to a nice brown. Filled Eggs. Boil the eggs until very hard, take off the shell, cut in half, take out the yolks, do not break the white; rub yolks to a cream with melted butter, season with chopped pickles, pepper and salt and a little mustard; put the mixture into the whites, cut a slice from the bottom of the egg so that they will stand on a platter; decorate with lettuce leaves or water cress. Tea Muffins. Two and a half cups of flour, one teaspoonful of salt and two scant ones of baking powder; whip the yolk of one egg, add slowly one-half cup of sugar and a cup of milk, add to the flour, making a soft dough; add a tablespoonful of butter and the beaten white of the egg; fill muffin pans half full and bake in hot oven about thirty minutes. Mayonnaise Dressing. Put the yolk of two eggs in a deep dish, with a little salt and white pepper; into these stir briskly some olive oil, which must be added very gradually, and alternated every little while with a few tablespoonfuls of vinegar. This dressing should have an agreeable flavor and rather a stiff consistency. Salads In making salads have the greens crisp and salad cold. The salad should taste of neither acid nor oil. The ingredients should be well mixed. Jolior more goods brighter and faster colors than any other. One 100 package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. 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FRENCH POLITENESS. Builder of Submarines Tells of His Experiences. Simon Lake, the builder of submarines, returned recently from Paris, where he was much impressed with French politeness. "A delightful civility," he said, the other day, "marks the demeanor of the French people. A French nobleman is as polite to his servants as a poor American is to a millionaire. In the shops the salepeople receive you with an air that is neither servile nor impudent, an indescribable air of friendliness that is wholly charming. In the subway and on the electric tramways and omnibuses the conductors are as polite as though their cars were their parlers and you an nonored guest. "I congratulated a Frenchman one evening on the good manners of his nation, and he was very much pleased. He told me an anecdote illustrative of French politeness. "He said during the revolution a noble was on the way to the guillotine. As he rumbled in the cart along the boulevards howls and jeers from a half drunken crowd were rained upon him, and finally a young woman, as she ran along beside the turmoil, cried: "You tall villain, you will soon be shorter by a head." "Does that please you, madam?" said the doomed noble civilly. "Yes, it does," she answered. "Then,' said he, 'I do not die in vain.'" France is said to be proceeding cautiously in Morocco for fear the sultan may proclaim a "holy war." Under such circumstances the child of Allah is a holy terror. Piso's Care for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. SAXUEL Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1300. Lucky is the married woman who can tell a lie—when she hears it. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, to cents. One-third more starch for the same money. Where girls are concerned liquid glances will make a fellow solid. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 16 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. 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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 throw 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."—Athena 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 premontory 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 usually 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-heels, thin-sided boot was manufactured solely for the cowboy trade, since cowboys were always very vain about their footwear. But with decadence of their trade the cattleman have lost their small vanities, and a full half 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 "Neous" Originated. Nogus, as much enjoyed in the army as grog is in the navy, attains its name from a loyal colonel in the days of George I. This Col. Nogus was a customer 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 tone: "Come, boys, let's drink some of my liquor," till Nogus became the sobriquet of wine diluted with water—as the cup of truce. COUPLES BROUGHT TO ALTAR Enticing Premiums Caused "Epic demic" of Marriages In certain quarters of the world entailing premiums are put upon early marriages. Some years ago the mayor of a southern town in France offered a coward of $20 to every couple under the age of 24 who sought the matrimonial altar during his term of office. The mayor expended many thousands of francs in the manner described. Many years ago when the number of marriages in a certain Albanian town was far below the average, the municipal authorities publicly announced that all persons who married within a certain period should be exempt from local taxes for the space of five years. An epidemic of marriages set in at once. A well-known Austrian nobleman was anxious to encourage matrimony among the peasants on his estate. He undertook to provide each bride with four pairs of gloves yearly. The offer acted like a charm. Troubles of Young Folks Here are two excuses for lateness and non attendance at school: "Miss Miss. Will you be so kind as to forgive Johnny for being behind time this morning, as he was unable to discover his sox, which afterwards proved to be in the ashpit, where they had no doubt been deposited by the family dog, which we intend to not rid of at our earliest convenience." The second is even more unusual: "Samuel cannot come to school this afternoon as he has glued his head to the dresser and we have not been able to separate him yet." Invalid "Nightcens" A cup of hot milk flavored with orange flower water, or a little beef tea, is an excellent 'nightcap' for an invalid, causing sleep to come more quickly and to be more restful than it would be otherwise. Beef tea, as usually prepared, is stimulating but has little nutritive value. If the white of an egg be mixed with the beef tea and it is heated to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit its value as a food will be greatly increased. 1784 . . . Telephone . . . 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co., First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. How About the Luxuries? We have about the corn and wheat, The rice that takes the rice, And if the sugar crop is sweet And if a hammer sows About the lettuce and the hay— Lettuce and hay. But we would like to question, pray, How is the pumpkin crop? They tell us that the trees are round, The horse is sand marn. The potted healthy corn and sound, The turkeys stock and plump. It is cool and cold and cold news Of corn and plump and cold. But really, why don't we enthuse About the pumpkin crop? Of course we need the things that make Our diet right now. And while we willingly partake Of good things that we do, Nor would them stir with tongue or pen Nor such good things deceive. We can't help wishing now and then For toothsome pumpkin pies. 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 ambling outfit. Among the things eaten was a pound of salt pork, six quarts of berries, four cannels, 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 Areshire 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. It Looks Good. Oh, a 'possum fat, Hangs from the limb, And the world looks good When I think of him, And the face tall, And a fire is high, And the yellow vans, And the punkin pie Are in season now, Brought by dog, And hog, and the world Looks good to me! And mosquitoes they Don't shab to more, And no reeds n'tt on the sandy shore, And they ain't a thing That kid put my joy- Exceptin' now That I ain't no boy Like I was—and loves leave me And the moon's world Looks good to me. —Houston Post. Rats Have Their Rights. It may be news to many that even the rat, considered as the deprudating, outlawed creature that he is, has some rights under the law of Illinois. He may be killed—he should be killed, perhaps—but in the manner of his taking off the possibility of cruelty must be considered. A fine was as sessed against a man who had poured kerosene over rats in a trap, afterward setting fire to them, and in any case a rat killing contest by dogs would be stopped. Ressarches of Bright Punils An Irish boy explained that the Bible declared that all the proud would be punished by being turned into animals on the faith of the text: "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted and he that exalteth himself shall be a baste!" A young pupil when asked why Moses took off his shoes in the presence of the burning bush, gave as a novel explanation: "Please, sir, to warm his feet." "Our country is governed a lot better than France and Germany comes next," said another little fellow. "Then there's a lot of others, and then comes Persia. Our country always comes first, whoever you like to ask." J. RICH. B. RICH. THE GREAT Atlantic Pants Co. ...TWO STORES, 16 EAST 7TH ST., AND 2825 SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD... Suits to Order $17.50. Pants to Order $3.50 RICH BROS., Props. satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Refunded. KANSAS CITY, MO. ..HEALTH IS WEALTH. 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So let my love be told her, And let my faith declare Dawn sparkles on her shoulder, Dusk hovers in her hair, And coil up shows For me a rose, My dream and my despair! —Cassel's Saturday Journal. Ambidexterity. Gen. Baden-Powell has long been able to write and draw with either hand with equal facility. During some manoeuvres which took place when his right arm was useless owing to the bite of a dog, he wrote and illustrated his daily reports entirely with his left hand, says the "House Beautiful." 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. The Shah of Persia signs his name with either left or right hand; artisans in the east are frequently able to work with either hand with equal skill, and they also bring both right and left foot to their aid. The Season The Season. Ahl! be content to guess them, For were I to express them. To take care of my Hush! My views about the winter Would shock a seasoned printer Nay, make his dark blush. The delightful of creatures, I view my comely features Now turned all blue and red A flating red and vivid A boathly blue and livid O woe for beauty fled! By lils I am afflicted. In number unrestricted. Are childhols ever healed? 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The residents of Tialpam, Mux., complain that the public clock of that town is useless; repairs are made every week, but every week the clock gets out of repair and can never be kept in good condition. The Tialpam clock is probably the oldest public clock on the American continent. It was originally installed as a cathedral clock in the year 1657; in 1790 it was donated to the council of San Agustin de las Clevas, near Tialpam, when it was installed there and set in motion. Since that time it has never undergone repairs until a few weeks ago. The clock, however, has told the time for 247 years and it is but natural that it is tired and wants to be sent to a museum. Why Snow Bursts a Gun. In a discussion at the Royal society on the effects of sudden pressures, in London recently of some experiments on the effects of sudden pressures, attention was called to a singular experience, which, it was said, people who go shooting in winter sometimes have. If the muzzle of a gun happens to get plugged up with a little snow, the gun invariably bursts when fired in that condition. Light as the plug of snow is, it requires a definite time for a finite pressure, however great, to get it under way, and during this short time the tension of the powder gases becomes so great that the barrel of the ordinary fowling-piece is unable to withstand it. A South African Hoodoo Man A colored man, Jaul Jones, has been committed for trial by the Wynberg Magistrate on a charge of practising as a doctor without a license. Paul Pulse, a laborer, said he went to Rock's farm, where the accused lived. He found the accused and told him that he was sick. Accused took witness into his bedroom, took a tin, put something into it, 'truck a match and set fire to it. He then snapped his fingers over it and took a bull's eye glass and examined his chest and body, looked over some playing cards and told witness that there was a frog alive in his stomach.—Johannesburg Star. Singed Hair of Cat and Dog. Henry Adams a Henry county farmer, was in the city yesterday with a very naked dog and a strange tale of the odd effects of a bolt of lightning that struck his house during the severe storm of Monday afternoon. The lightning struck the kitchen, running down the pipe of the stove, shaving the fur clean from the back of a cat that was asleep beneath the stove, striking the dog as lightly as it had struck the cat, running down the animal's legs to the ground, leaving a trail of singed fur in its wake and doing no damage to either animal beyond a severe fright.-Baltimore Sun. Korean a Hard Language. Korean is a difficult language to learn. Trifling errors are likely to lead a foreigner into great embarrassment. 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James Swinburne, in Electrical Review. Sweetening Sugar. All sugar is not sweet, or rather sweet enough to come up to the required standard of sweetness, so some kinds must be sweetened artificially. There are many establishments where this process is carried on. A cone of sugar is placed over an apparatus apex downward, many little holes in the apparatus coming in contact with the point of the cone. A thick liquid is poured on the flat end of the cone and the machinery is set in motion. The holes become the mouths of the suction tubes and the sweetening liquid is drawn through the cone, giving it the necessary quality.