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Rising Son 11 Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored Peop.e than any other Paper in the State. 1927-92 "PARSIFAL" AT CONVENTION HALL, MARCH 31st. VOLUME IX. THE PATH THE CALF MADE. By SAM WALTER FOSS. One day through the primeval wood. A calf walked home, as good calves should: should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do. Since then two hundred years have fled. And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still, he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my mortal tale. The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way; And then a wise, bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep, And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do. And from that day, o'er hill and glade, Thro those old woods a path was made: made; And many men wound in and out, And dodged and turned and bent about about And uttered words of righteous wrath Because 'twas such a crooked path. But still they followed—do not laugh— The first migrations of that caif, And tro' this winding woodway stalk- ed Because he wobbled when he walked. A moral lesson this might teach, Were I ordained and called to preach; For men are prone to go it blind Along the calf paths of the mind, And work away from sun to sun To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track; And in, and out, and forth and back, And still their devious course pursue, To keep the paths that others do. But how the wise old wood gods laugh Who saw the first primeval calf! Ah! many things this tale might teach, But I am not ordained to preach. "PARSIFAL Promptly at five o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, March 31st, the season will be inaugurated by Mr. Heinrich Conried's gorgeous production of "PARSIFAL." Promptly at 2 p.m., on Saturday afternoon April 1st, "LES HUGENOTS" will be presented, and on Saturday TOO BUSY TO LOVE. "My mother'd love me a whole lot, too, if she wasn't too busy," loyally declared a small maiden, who had hungrily watched the home leave-taking of a little companion as they set off for school. "She has pretty much housework to do." The "much housework" and other work seem to take precedence of love in many households where the members would be shocked if they fully realized the fact. Love their own? Of course they do; and all the toil is for the sake of these beloved ones, they say and really believe. And yet the work has become a fetish—not something for the family comfort, but something before which all else must give way, to which everything else must be sacrificed. Washing, ironing, sweeping, dusting, must take their appointed course and be finished according to the appointed time, whatever becomes of life's higher needs. There is no elasticity in the system, no time for tenderness or sympathy; for the hour's talk that might clear away doubt and misgivings; for comforting sore hearts or binding up wounded spirits. There are usually notable housekeepers in such households—women of whom neighbors speak admiringly and recount the wonders they accomplish—but there is seldom any deep home-spirit. Work counts for everything until some dreary day when the inevitable shadow falls across the threshold, and all things change values. The tasks that seemed so important only yesterday—what do they matter? "But, oh, for the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still!"—Selected. Toronto, Canada. Money talks, but that of a miser doesn't care to make extravagant speeches. " AT CONVEN evening, April 1st, at 8 p. m., a grand double bill of "CAVALLIERIA RUSTICANA" and "PAGLIACCI." All star casts chosen from the world's greatest singers. The Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra of 60 superb musicians, Magnificent chorus, Corps de KANSAS CITY MO.. FRIDAY, MARCH 24. 1905. FORGIVE AS WE FORGIVE. Judge Knowlton's only son forged his name. When it was discovered by the father, he agreed to keep the secret if his son would that very night leave the country and the wife and child he had dishonored. He left on the midnight train and at noon next day took a steamer for Europe. He wrote months afterward a pathetic appeal for forgiveness, but the father tore it up and threw it in the fire. That very night his son's little Glady's came to the judge, asking that she might say her prayers to him and "ask questions," the nurse would not answer. With a great love for the child, half-orphaned by her father's folly and sin, he consented. The child knelt at his knee. "Our Father who in heaven—grandpa, does that he's everybody's father?" "Yes, dear, so it says." "He must have some very naughty children, gran, does he love them, too?" Little Gladys did not see the spasm of pain which passed over the face that bent over her as Judge Knowlton answered, "I suppose he does." "Of course, fathers always love their children, even if they are naughty, 'cause they're fathers," prattled the child. The prayer proceeded: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us;—what are trespasses, grandpa?" Nurse said, "Never mind what the yare; hurry up and get to bet,' but I want to know what are trespasses?" "Wrong-doings, sins," replied the man, and his hand took a firm grip upon the arms of his chair. "Has anybody every trespassed against us, grandpa?" was the next question. Gladys wondered that her grandfather did not answer. A little hand on his arm aroused him, and the question was repeated: "Has anybody ever trespassed against us, grandpa?" "Yes, shamefully, cruelly," spoke the man, forgetting for the TION HALL, ballet, An organization of over 225 Artists and Musicians. The general reserved seat sale will open at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at the J. W. Jenkins' Sons Music Company, 1013-1015 Walnut St. Kansas City Season of Grand Opera under direction, Barrett & Oakford. wrongs. Gladys clapped her hands, "Oh, I'm so glad; then God knows just how to forgive us. I was afraid nobody had trespassed against us so's we could forgive them and show God how to forgive us. But He knows, doesn't he, grandpa? He'll forgive us just as we forgive them. Let me say it again." And kneeling more beside her grandfather's knee, she repeated with great earnestness, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us." The arrow shot by the childish hand had gone straight to its mark. Long after the little archer lay smiling in her peaceful sleep it ranked in the herat of the man who, try as he might, could not ignore it. "Forgive us as we forgive," he murmured over and over again, as he paced the floor with clasped hands and bowed head. The struggle was long and fierce, but as the light of the morning crept in, the once hard, stern, unforgiving father looked up into his Father's face add said. "Forgive, as I forgive." The ocean cable never throbbed with a sweeter message than it bore that day to the repentant wanderer, who, as he read the welcome words, "Come home," arose with a great joy and set his face toward his father's house. DON'T WAIT. Do you recall the loss of the vessel called the "Central America?" She was in a bad state, had sprung a leak and was going down, and she therefore hoisted a signal of distress. A ship came close to her, the captain of which asked through the trumpet, "What is amiss?" "We are in bad repair and are going down; lie by till morning," was the answer. But the captain on board the rescue ship said, "Let me take your passengers on board now," "Lie by till morning," was the message which came back. Once again the captain cried "You had better let me take your passen- MAR CH 31st. There are still a sufficient number of seats left to supply any demand. Do not miss the chance to hear this great company. gers on board now." "Lie by till morning," was the reply which sounded through the trumpet. About an hour and a half after the lights were missing, and, though no sound was heard, she and all on board had gone down to the fathomless abyss. O unconverted friends, for your soul's sake do not say, "Lie by till morning." Today, even to-day, hear ye the voice of God. BATTLING NELSON and YOUNG CORBETT will come together next Wednesday night out in California and while the latter is supremely confident that he will regain his lost laurels, the Dane expects to finish his man in less than ten rounds. Judging from all reports Corbett has the best of it in condition, having been in training for some months. Nelson on the other hand has had to scale down from 150 and it has not been an easy task. HARRY SPARROW, "The Mad Juggler," who has visited the Orpheum here, and who had a very unique act accompanied with individual comedy, died of pneumonia in Bellevue hospital, January 31. He had been before the public many years, and his services were in great demand. Ticked Time Two Centuries The residents of Talapam, Mex., 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 Talapam 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 Talapam, 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 244 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 tain, 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. NUMBER 49. GRAND OPEARA AT CONVENTION HALL. The musical public throughout the entire Southwest is on the very "tip toe" of pleasurable expectancy as the time draws near when Mr. Henrich Conried and his incomparable aggregations, direct from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York will appear for the first time in the West in a season of grand opera in Convention Hall, Kansas City, At five o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, March 31st, the curtain will raise on Mr. Conried's production of "Parsifal," which is admittedly more magnificent in every particular than the performance of Wagner's masterpiece given at Bayreuth. On Saturday afternoon, April 1st, "Les Hugenots" will be given with a caste that is simply invincible, as it includes such world famed names as Nordica, Sembrich, Homer, Dippel, Scotti, Van Rooy, Journet, etc. The production in Kansas City will be the same in every particular together with the identical caste, superb orchestra, with the world of supernumeraries which goes to form an ensemble which has produced opera that has scored nothing less than triumph this season in New York. The Kansas City season of grand opera will close with a fitting climax, as a grand double bill has been selected of two operas which represent the greatest achievements of the modern Italian composers. The first of these will be Mascagnis' "Cavalleria Rusticana," that little chef d'ouvre of passion and song, which is the best work of Mascagni, and who has succeeded in packing into his musical setting, the tragic love story first told by the Italian writer Verga. In this work, the West for the first time will have an opportunity of hearing Mune. De Macechi, the most wonderful dramatic soprano Italy has produced in years. The second opera will be the equally famous short opera of Leoncavallo, which rivals in its charm, power and paths. Both works will give marvelous expression to the violence and emotion of Italy. In "Pagliacci" Caruso, the world famous tenor will appear in one of his greatest roles. The approaching season of grand opera in Kansas City will be Caruso's first appearance in the West, and at this time, the West will have an opportunity of passing judgment upon this man, who today is the frenzied idol of the Metropolitan Opera House audience, in New York. LENDING TO THE LORD The Rev. George Gilfillan, the eminent divine, was distinguished for his generosity and largeness of heart. On one occasion he met a member of his church whom he had not seen at worship for a long time. Reminding him of the fact, the minister asked what was wrong. "I did not like to come in a coat I am ashamed of—it is so bare," answered the man. The minister instantly divested himself of his own coat, and handed it to his distressed parishioner. "There, my man, let me see my coat every Sunday until it becomes bare, and then call back." The worthy divine then returned to his studies in his shirt sleeves; and his wife observing him, asked what he had done with his coat. "I have just lent it to the Lord!" was Giffillan's noble answer. WHEN John Philip Sousa returns to this country from his present European tour, it is said he will bring with him the completed score of a comic opera, the book of which is being written by Harry B. Smith, and which the bandmaster will produce early next season. WARNER NAMED AMID CHAOS DRAMATIC SCENES DURING SELECTION OF SENATOR FROM IMPERIAL MISSOURI SENATOR COCKRELL TO GIVE PLACE TO A REPUBLICAN Smashed the Clock--Threw Ink Bottles, Fruit and Books -- Fought and Yelled -- But Finally the End Came and All Was Over For Four More Years at Least Born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, June 11, 1839. First occupation, picking scraps of ore from mouth of mine. Taught school, 1854. At college, University of Michigan, 1959. Joined Union army, 1862. Came to Kansas City, October, 1885.. Married Mrs. Sophia Bromley in 1866. Elected city attorney in 1867. Elected prosecuting attorney in 1868. Elected mayor of Kansas City, 1871. Elected Congressman, 1884; re-elected 1885. Chosen commander-in-chief G. A. R., at Columbus, O., in 1888. United States district attorney under Grant, Arthur, McKinley and Roosevelt. Chosen United States senator, March 18, 1905. WHAT HE SAID AFTER HIS ELECTION. "To say that I appreciate the g coming as it did almost unsolici ings.. To the Republican member eouri and to my many friends throu friendship in my behalf has secured them, one and all, I thank you, I pledge—and that to the people. T served to the interests of the part "In politics I am a stalwart Repu sonality of President Roosevelt and as announced. It shall be my aim mate factions.. I have never kept b begin now. In what I may have t no kitchen cabinet between me an "After all, there is nothing in t "To say that I appreciate the great honor conferred upon me, coming as it did almost unsolicited, would hardly express my feelings. To the Republican members of the general assembly of Missouri and to my many friends throughout teh state, whose disinterested friendship in my behalf has secured my electic, I can only say to them, one and all, I thank you. I shall go into office with only one pledge—and that to the people. Their interest will never be subserved to the interests of the party. "In politics I am a stalwart Republican and an admirer of the personality of President Roosevelt and a supporter of his policy as far as announced. It shall be my aim to build up the party and to eliminate factions. I have never kept books in politics and am too old to begin now. In what I may have to do with patronage there will be no kitchen cabinet between me and the citizen." "After all, there is nothing in this world like having friends." WILLIAM WARNER Story of the End. JEFFERSON CITY MO—The end has come and the agony is over and now the people can breathe easier. Of course, many are pleased, and many disappointed. Major William Warner of Kansas City, Missouri, has been elected United States Senator. The climax came Saturday, March 18, just fifteen minutes before the time set for the legislature to dissolve. It was the sixty-seventh ballot which did the work. The ballot stood Warner, 51; Cockrell, 82; Niedringhaus, 1; Necessary to choice, 88. There has been no senatorial contest to equal this one in Missouri politics in the history of the state. The bitter fight was watched from far and near regardless of party affiliations. It was a pretty fight, one of the most exciting that has taken place in Missouri politics in years. For two full months there had been a meeting of the joint assembly on each legislative day and the deadlock situation seemed to grow worse instead of better. Hope seemed almost gone when Speaker Hill served notice that he would help elect a democrat rather than see no senator elected. Moss joined him. Hill meant what he said, for before the joint assembly met Saturday he had held a meeting with Moss, Quig, Spangler, Autrieth and Depuy. They had agreed that as a last resort they would go to Cockrell, but only as a last resort, when it became apparent that no Republican possibly could be elected. Hill's announcement helped to make the politicians who were factionists before they were Republicans realize the situation in its true light, and Friday the Kerens men set out to find if some other candidate could win. They first tried a Parker combination, with some fifteen men who were Parker supporters and always had been. That was in the afternoon session. Kansas City friends of Kerens, Walmsley and Richardson, members of the house, Homer Mann, his closest lieutenant and others demanded the same consideration for Warner. Then Kerena Wavered. Before the night session began Keren's told his supporters to help either man, the one that stood the best chance to win. They made another effort for Parker, but he failed to grow. Then they went to Warner for three ballots and placed him twenty votes short of a majority. Up to that time Niedringhaus had given his consent for supporters to leave him, but he failed to advise them to do so. Saturday morning found conditions apparently reversed. Keren's said he had put life into the Warner forces and had done his share. He asked his men to return to him to try to elect him, and stay until he had exhausted every effort for success. Kerens thought he could get twenty democratic votes. Democrats had encouraged him to think so in the hope that they could, in that way, prevent the election of a Republican. But Neldinghaus realized that he had been put in the position of blocking the election of a personal close friend of the President. Some of his friends said: "Go to Warner." "Meet Kerens half way and call his bluff, hang on", others said, but late in the forenoon, Niedringhaus sent the word that he had released every supporter and asked that every friend of his vote for Warner. On the first ballot Saturday all except five of the Niedringhaus men went to Warner. All the Kerens men voted for Kerens. Kerens held his men through the second, third and fourth ballots. Then the word was given that Warner must get all the Niedringhaus men before he could get votes from Kerens. Back came the answer that Reichman, Daver, Bickley, Thompson and Miller, of the Niedringhaus forces, would not go to great honor conferred upon me, lited, would hardly express my feelings of the general assembly of Misgahout ten state, whose disinterested interest my election, I can only say to I shall go into office with only one Their interest will never be sub- publican and an admirer of the per- and a supporter of his policy as far to build up the party and to eli- books in politics and am too old to to do with patronage there will be and the citizen. this world like having friends." WILLIAM WARNER. Warner till the Kerens men led the way. They did not care if their leader had asked them to go. They would vote for Warner only when they could elect. Pettjohn, Bittinger, Richardson and Walmsley of the Kerens voters were demanding release before the fourth ballot. Walmsley and Richardson voted for Kerens on a promise that they would be asked to so vote for only four ballots. But the fifth came and still no release. Walmsley voted for Kerens, but after the roll call was finished, he changed to Warner. It was because he believed that he was used unfairly that Walmsley made the change, but the Niedringhaus men came back at him quickly. They threw out two of the five supposed last ditch votes to Warner. That showed that Niedringhaus had reserves to meet changes Kerens might make. Pettjohn, Peck and Bittinger hurried out to beg from Kerens a release when the sixth ballot began. He asked for time, more than could be given. Kerens Gave in at Last. It was then almost two o'clock and three o'clock was the time fixed for adjournment. Pettijohn came back with an expression on his face that chifled the hearts of Warner's best friends. Five minutes later Homer Mann of Kansas City, came back from the Kerens camp wit him expression on his face that told of a change in prospect. The roll call was nearly finished when Mann whispered to a friend "the old colonel is going to elect Warner and we're going to have a hot finish." A minute later in the dense crowd in the back of the hall could be seen the peculiar silver hair that would distinguisht "Dick" anywhere his face has ever been seen. He stood in the rear of the hall just inside the door while the clerks made the tally. Then he started down the aisle and as the members caught sight of him a mighty shout went up. He was cheered to the echo when he walked to the desk of the presiding officer and stood close to Chairman McKinley, the president of the senate. No one doubted his purpose. The democrats made an effort to adjorn. It failed. Kerens stood while the vote was taken. Then he was allowed to speak to a question of personal privilege. His speech was short, but he told the assembly to elect a Republican senator and if it believed Warner was the man to elect him, "and as I said yesterday to my friend's, God speed him," he said. The Democrats had hoped to prevent an election by obstruction. They forced a roll call on a motion to take a recess. That killed time. The hands of the clock pointed to 2:25 o'clock when that roll call was finished. Democrats anticipating an attempt to turn back the hands of the clock, something always done in the closing day of a session, had stationed Wornall, Simmons, Nelson and some senate employees near the clock to interfere with any such attempt. They did not have long to wait. They Smashed the Clock. While McDavid, Morton, Kinneally and other Democrats were telling Clerk Roach not to call the senate roll for the sixty-sixth ballot, on senator, which had been ordered, a man with kinky hair and dark face carried a ladder into the hall close to the clock. But it never reached the clock. The guard pounced upon him and took the ladder away. Republican members came to the rescue and there was a general tussle and some blows were struck before the ladder was carried bac to the rear of the hall. The same magnetic influence that draws a duck to water leads a Kansas City Democratic politician in the direction of trouble. Joe Shannon and Representative Casey were soon in the thick of the throng. Seeing there was no hope --- of getting at the clock, which stood twelve feet above their heads, to turn it back. Representative Stewart, threw a book at it and broke the glass front, but did not stop it. Some one else threw an orange, which brought a pile of shattered glass to the floor. Then Godfrey, an old man, member from St. Louis, threw an ink well that smashed the pendulum and stopped the clock, but the dial and the hands were still intact. Godfrey had not taken time to see what the ink well contained, and it happened to be full of ink. In its flight it scattered ink omen and women. Representative Wells of Dunklin seized a chair and went over a dozen desks holding it high over his head. He failed to reach Godfrey, so he made a dive at Stewart, but before he could strike he had been seized by other Democrats. Of course, while this was going on in a crowded part of the room, there were plenty of others taking minor parts and some few members will home with black eyes. Nor was the affair without interest to the rest of the big crowd that packed the hall. Everybody was standing up and a good many were on the desks. Sena ahrot eta o aartora yeetao etator Nelson, having disposed of the man with the ladder, headed a small party that undertook to drag President McKinley from the chair. Republicans fought them back. Yelled "Three O'Clock." By this time the Republicans were trying to call the roll in spite of the clamor. The Democratic senate clerks refused to call the senate roll, but the Republican clerks of the house called it in spite of them. They were making such record as they could when Democrats began to yell, "3 o'clock." Representative Casey of Jackson had found a pole used to raise and lower windows and climbed on a desk from which while attention was attracted to another part of the house, he had deftly turned the hands of the clock so that they read one minute after 3. With that for an excuse, a score of Democrats started trouble with the clerks again snatching away the half-finished roll call. The chairman was pounding fiercely with his gavel and trying to make people sit down. It did no good. For just a minute it looked as if a general fight would be precipitated, for Peck, Bauman and others of the heavy weight class of Republicans were fighting their way to the desks and there was a fight going on at each of the presiding officer's desks. Then President Fields, democrat, president pro tem. of the senate, stood on the desk in front of McKinley and begged the Democrats to hear him. They quieted, and with them the Republicans. Fields begged the Democratic members by all the party traditions they held dear not to disgrace the party, but sit down and vote as gentlemen and in good faith. Senator Dickinson, standing on a desk in the body of the hall, seconded the appeal and did it successful. From that time on there was no disorder. The final joint ballot, the seventh of the day, sixty-seventh of the session, was taken. A few Democrats voted for Niedringhaus, but all except Nelson changed back to Cockrell. Excepting only Dauer, the Republicans voted for Warner and Dauer afterwards sent a note asking to be recorded as voting for him. The final ballot stood, Warner, 91, Cockrell, 82, Niedringhaus 1. After the announcement of the ballot all the old paper in the room was thrown about. The joint assembly was soon dissolved, and members went out to find something to eat. It was 3 o'clock before the hall was cleared. That was the hour fixed for adjournment. Showed Warner's Popularity. Showed Warner's Popularity. It is something that has probably never happened before that a deadlock should last until the last day of the session and still more unusual was it that in the last quarter of the last hour of the last day of the session one man who could have been elected senator by popular vote should be elected to the Senate. The cheers that greeted Warner's name every time he received a new vote were a tribute to his popularity and still more so were the expressions of congratulation from Democrats as well as Republicans when the result was finally attained. here is something odd about Missouri's present senatorial delegation. In 1892 the two parties picked their bestorator to run for governor. Majior Warner was the Republican nominee and William J. Stone the Democratic nominee. They campaigned this State and as politicians say, they "set it afire." Warner's slogan was "Stand p for Missouri," an expression often used since while Stone talked "Democracy." Now these two men are to be Missouri's representatives in the nation's Senate. Verified the Scriptures Joseph H. Chote, who is soon to be succeeded by Whitelaw Reed as minister to the court of St. James, has established a reputation in England for always saying the right thing at the right time. This facility was demonstrated at a London banquet, where, as is more often the case over there than here, the gallery of the hall was filled with women. Mr. Choate arose to make his first speech as ambassador. Looking about him, or rather above him, he began with: "Now I know what the Scripture phrase means when it is written; 'Thou madest man a little lower than the angels.'" FOR SALE TOILET AMERICAN FACTORIES WORLD LAND BANKER FROM MATRIX SUGAR FROM BELGIUM DIESS GOODS MAKED IN FRANCE WOOLENS MADE IN GERMANY CIGARS FROM CUBA SUGAR FROM RUSSIA JULKS MAKED IN FRANCE TARIFF AND TRUSTS THE SUREST MEANS OF REGULATING. Not Through Increase of Imports from Abroad, but by the Competition Which Comes from the Creation of Extensive Facilities for Home Production. --- The Chronicle on more than one occasion has pointed out the futility of attempting to regulate the trusts by means of the tariff. It has furnished incontestable evidence that prices under the British free trade system have fluctuated as largely, and that consumers have been called upon in times of active demand to submit to as heavy advances made by the iron masters of the United Kingdom as those imposed by the same class of manufacturers in the United States under protection. The obvious inference to be drawn from such a showing is that the law of supply and demand cannot be set aside for any considerable period by combinations, no matter how carefully formed. The producer may put up prices, but he cannot maintain them if the consumer is unable to or refuses to buy; and, on the other hand, the freest kind of competition does not avail to keep down prices when there is, as frequently occurs, an excessive demand which outstrips production. That was the case during recent boom years in the United States, and what was witnessed then was only a repetition of what occurred long before the word "trust" had its present meaning attached to it, a fact attested by the Liverpool price lists of present meaning attached to it, a fact within a period of twenty years prices were doubled under a brisk demand and cut in half when the demand fell off. There can be no doubt that the surest regulator of prices is the creation of extensive facilities for producing, and that result, experience teaches, can be best achieved by applying the stimulus of protective tariffs. It was through the agency of the latter that the enormous producing capacity of the United States was created; and if every nation possessing the requisite resources could be induced to follow POTENTIAL FORE FOR SALE TOILET AMERICAN FACTORIES WORLD FROM SOUTLAND COURTERT MADE IN AUSTRI SUGAR FROM BELGIUM DRESS GOODS MADE IN FRANCE Its example and promote production the inevitable result would be a condition which would absolutely preclude violent fluctuations in prices and would keep them near a reasonable level. In any event it is impossible by tariffs to prevent combinations in restraint of trade. The attempt to do so would merely hasten the movement which has already begun, that of converting what may be termed national into international trusts. An agreement has already been signed by all the representatives of the British, French, German and Belgian steel rail makers which extends over a period of three years, and is likely to include American makers, by which zones will be assigned. It is expected that this new pool will come into operation on Jan. 1. If it does it will tax the ingenuity of the tariff revisionists to frame a schedule which will reach the international combine. That is not saying that it is impossible to reach such combinations, for they can be by the imposition of graduated taxes which would destroy the advantage which accrues to producers from operating on a large scale. The country, however, may well hesitate about pursuing such a course, and in the long run it will probably decide that the best kind of regulation is that which gives an equal show to all capital and effectually prohibits such abuses as those which flow from secret understandings between railroads and favored shipers—San Francisco Chronicle. Why Remove the Tariff? Harry Wilcox, an Oskaloosa boy who is now traveling in Canada, writes an interesting letter to the Herald and incidentally gives the best reason in the world why free trade with Canada is not desirable at this time. In his own language he says: "The markets of Canada generally are much lower than those of the United States. The Canadian farmer here can take his wheat to the American market, pay twenty-five cents duty per bushel, and still realize five to seven cents per bushel more than if he sold at his home market, not one hundred yards away." The Herald, in commenting on this points out that Canada lands are much cheaper than those of the United States, and that Canadian farmers are further removed from their own markets, and proceeds to say: "These two things, if permitted to operate without any restraints, would drag the American farmer down to a level of the disadvantages suffered by his neighbors along the border. As it is the American farmer has to compete with a difference of from five cents to ten cents a bushel. The Canadian is willing to pay the duty of twenty-five cents per bushel and then knock off from five to ten cents in order to dispose of his grain. The situation is the Canadian's misfortune and we can see no good reason why America should become a charitable institution and lop off the tariff, thereby slapping its own people on the face to gain a smile from the subjects of John Bull."—Burlilgton Hawk-Eye. Indefinitely Postponed. The Philadelphia Record is discouraged. It has about reached the conclusion that there is not going to be any tariff ripping in the near future. It says, after sadly recording the fact that there will be no extra session of Congress in the spring, either to revise the tariff or to suppress abuses in railroad transportation: "As for an extra session in October of which hints are occasionally dropped in the White House, for all the time this would gain the new Congress might as well begin the regular term in December. Whether the session opens in October or December there will be no revision of the tariff by a Republican House preceding the elections for Congress. After all the efforts of our presidential champion of tariff reform the subject may be regarded as indefinitely postponed and the stand patters may congratulate themselves on their victory." The stand-patters do indeed congratulate themselves upon having warded off a blow that meant much mischief and great harm to the business of the country. Wholly Unobjectionable There is a certain class of products free trade in which between the United States and Canada is greatly to be desired. The Milwaukee Sentinel says: "A reciprocal and satisfactory extradition agreement with Canada would IGN COMPETITI ON. WILL BE DOLED UNION HARVESTAGE POFERTHOUSE BISHOP OF AMERICAN INTERIOR STUDY UNDER STEEL MADE IN BULGARIA WOOLENS MADE IN GERMANY CIGARS FROM CUBA SUGAR FROM RUSSIA JILKS MADE IN FRANCE be a form of reciprocity unobjectionable to the most rooted standpoint." able to the most rooted standpatter. Reciprocity in escaped criminals, free trade in fugitives from justice, the unrestricted exchange of commodities which each nation should be glad to give up and still more glad to take—that kind of a reciprocal trade arrangement would prove in the highest degree satisfactory. It is about the only kind that would. Significant. It is a suspicious fact that many of the journals persistently demanding tariff revision are violently opposed to railroad regulation. They are clamorous asserting that the only way to get at the trusts is through the tariff, but they advertise their dishonesty when they oppose all attempts to regulate those trusts not affected by tariff schedules. If they were sincere they would hold up the hands of the President in his effort to reach the greatest of all combinations in restraint of trade—the big railway corporations—San Francisco Chronicle. A Tariff Lesson. The McKinley tariff of $2 cents a pound was imposed July 1, 1891, and since that time the tin plate production in this country has grown rapidly and importation has decreased in like measure. Here are the figures: In 1891 the imports of tin plate into the United States aggregated 327,882 tons; in 1903 they were 47,360, and much of this was for manufacture of articles for export instead of for home consumption. In 1891 the total production of tin plate in the United States was 552 tons; in 1902 it was 366,000 tons. All of this increase was made possible by the operation of protective tariffs. In 1891 the average price of full weight coke tin plate was $5.50; in 1904 it was $3.82. There is a moral in this for all Americans. It is: Stand pat on the tin plate tariff—Harrisburg Telegraph. Result: Lower Wages Whatever else lower duties may bring, they will surely bring lower wages. That is as inevitable as that the night will follow the day. It is a condition which we cannot avoid and should not disregard. is detected by a gradual loss of elasticity in the outer skin which subtly turns expression lines into wrinkles. JOHN H. WOODBURY'S FACIAL SOAP TRADE FOR THE SKIN MARIL SCALP AND Emulsion keeps the skin firm wholesome and well nourished, thus retarding the ravages of time. For over 30 years this Face Soap has been indispensable to its acquaintances. 25 cents A CAKE. Woodbury's Facial Cream applied regularly whitens and preserves the natural condition of the face skin. INITIAL OFFER In case your dealer cannot supply you send us his name and we will send prepaid, to any address for $1.00 the following toilet requisites. 1 Cake Woodbury's Facial Soap. 1 Tube " Facial Cream. 1 " " Dental Cream. 1 Box " Face Powder. Together with our readable booklet Beauty's Masque, a careful treatise on the care of the "outer self." Making a Sale. "Let me see some of your black kid gloves," said a lady to a shopman. "These are not the latest style, are they?" she asked, when the gloves were produced. "Yes, madam," replied the shopman; "we have had them in stock only two days." "I didn't think they were, because the fashion paper says black kids have tan stitches, and vice versa. I see the tan stitches, but not the vice versa." The shopman explained that vice versa was French for seven buttons, so she bought three pairs—Tidbits. How It Began. Representative Hay, of Virginia, tells of an altercation in a colored club in Richmond that resulted in nearly all the members being hauled before a police magistrate. "You were present during this trouble?" asked the magistrate of a witness. "Yes, yo' honah." "Then tell us, in a few words, just how the difficulty began." "Weli, yo' honah," replied the darky, with much gravity. "I think it was when the chairman of de entertainment committee swatted de secretary oavh de head wif de lovin' cup."—Collier's weekly. Limited Capacity. "Barney says he reads all the new books that come out, and yet he can never discuss them." "Probably reads them so fast that he has to forget one to make room for another."—Detroit Free Press. When a man is set in his ways he is not apt to hatch out any new ideas. SCIATIC TORTURE PAIN SUFFERED BY MR. MARSTON AS GREAT AS MORTAL CAN STAND. For Six Months He Could Not Turn in Bed—He Tells of a Remedy Which Has Given Perfect Relief. The case of Mr. Marston shows that sciatica can be cured, and no one afflicted by it should allow himself to be disheartened. He was first stricken about a year ago, and for six months he suffered pain which he thinks the most intense that any man could possibly stand. Asked about the details of his remarkable recovery, Mr. Marston gave the following account: "I was attacked by a numbness or dull feeling just back of my right hip. I didn't know what the matter was, but thought it was simply a stiffness that would wear away in a short time. It didn't, however, and soon the pain became so very bad that every step was torture for me. When I finally succeeded in getting home, it was just as much as I could do to reach my room and get to bed. "The doctor was sent for, and when he had examined me he said I had sciatica. He prescribed for me, and advised me not to try to leave my bed. The advice was unnecessary for I couldn't get out of bed if I wanted to. It was impossible for me to turn from one side to the other. The moment I attempted to move any part of my body, the pain became so excruciating that I would have to lie perfectly motionless. "I suffered this torture for six months without getting any relief. Then I discharged the doctor, and on the advice of a friend I bought a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and began to take them, three at a dose, three times a day. I was determined to give them a thorough trial. "Two months after I began to use them I was able to leave my bed and walk about the house, and a month later I was entirely cured and able to go about my work as usual. I think Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the best medicine I ever used, and I heartily recommend them to anyone who suffers from sciatica." Mr. Marston is a prosperous farmer and may be reached by mail addressed to Charles P. Marston, Hampton P. O., New Hampshire. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured other painful nervous disorders, such as neuralgia, partial paralysis and locomotor ataxia. They are sold by all druggists. My Love dwelt in a northern land, A gray tower in a forest green Wheres, and on either hand The long wash of the earth seen and leagues on the gown of yellow gaud, The woven forest boughs between! And through the silver northern night The sunset slowly die away. And herds of strange deer, lively-white About the coming of the light, They fled like ghosts before the day! I know not if the forest green Still girdles round that castle gray; I know not if the boughs between Towering day; Above my Love the grass is green. My heart is colder than the clay! —Andrew Lang. A TOUCH OF LIFE'S IRONY BY ZOE RINEHART (Copyright 1995 by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Suffering much pain? Oh, no; not enough left of me to feel much pain. I guess. There's nothing of me below the belt but pulp. A fellow in a fix like that is past feeling, I reckon, and that's something to be thankful for, if a fellow has anything to be thankful for in a time like this. It's only a question of a few hours, they say. No. 6 and the Coast Limited came together like—well, like nothing this side of perdition, I guess. I was in the chair car, and the first thing I knew after the crash, I found myself in closer quarters than I was ever in before, or ever will be in again. They finally got me out and brought me here. There's one thing. I've no folks to be cut up over this affair. It'd be mighty tough for a fellow to be taken home to his family all mashed in like this. I've some friends that have been notified, and they'll see I'm put away decently and in order, so to speak. It'll be a little hard on Sue. Do you know, as I've been laying here, waiting for the end of this business, I've been doing a little bit of thinking. It's queer the way a man's life turns out, after all. Three hours ago I was on my way as fast as steam could carry me, to Sue and the kids. She's got three, and everybody says they look more like Mart than like Sue. I was happy, if that's what you'd call the feeling a man has when he's about to get what he's been hankering after in his waking hours and in his dreams for fifteen years. And now look at me. I was going to marry Sue. Yes, tomorrow was to have been my wedding day. You see, Sue's been a widow for five years now. And since Mart died of typhoid, she's had a pretty tough time getting along with the youngsters and all. Sue wasn't raised to work, that is, to work to earn her daily bread. But Mart didn't leave her much. Say, man, if you know—as you more'n likely don't—what it is to see a woman you you've loved with a heart-breaking love for fifteen years—I say if you know what it is to see that woman having a hard time to live, suffering and pining and maybe starving in secret, and know that you've no right to comfort her, and that there is no way to make her take of your plenty—God! If you know what that is, you know something of what the pains of hell must be like. I loved her long ago. I worshipped the ground she set her dainty feet on fifteen years ago, when we were all three—Sue, Mart and I—young people together in the old neighborhood. Sue knew it, of course. But I wasn't a good-looker, nor a bright talker, as Mart Day was, and he got the inside track, and came in under the wire ahead of me. They were married. Well, of course, when a thing like that happens there's nothing for the fellow that gets left to do but "grin and bear it," as I've M. Some may think differently, but I've never held it's a sin for a man to love a woman even if she's married, provided he loves her in the right way, and lets her alone. For I take it that if a man has loved a woman with all the mind and heart and soul the Lord has given him, he can't very well pull his love up, root and all, in a minute, and throw it away, just because she's gone and married another man. I never saw Sue after she married heard my old mother say. Mart. Never saw her again until she'd been a widow for three years. Her pink checks were faded, and there were gray streaks in her hair, and his children were around her. But, my God! I loved her still. And then a hope that I'd been wandering up and down the world trying to stifle and kill, sprung up, full-sized, and took a mighty hold on my soul. But there was no wrong in it then. Any man had a right to woo her, for she's been a widow for three years. But I didn't woo her. I couldn't Wilson Asked her to be my wife. I loved her better than the very life blood in my veins, but I didn't seek her out. I saw she loved him still—him who had been her husband, for whom she had borne children. Though he was dead and gone, she loved him still. God! If I had only been the other man—aye, dead, as he was, but loved—by her. She was poor. More than that, she was frail, and didn't know how to do things that bring in money to buy daily bread. And there were the children, still too young to help. She was proud, too, proud as Luci fer. She chose to suffer in silence rather than accept anything that saved of charity. I saw it all, her pride and her sorrow, and her poverty. I had money. I hadn't had anybody to spend it on during all the years the woman I loved was married to another man. You'll never know the hours the days, I spent thinking of schemes to help her without her finding me out. But she saw through all pretexts sooner or later, and she wouldn't let me help her in any real way. She had a long spell of sickness, and got up from it paler and weaker than she had ever been. Then I went to her—I knew I couldn't help her in any other way—I went to her and asked her to be my wife. And she promised. She promised with tears of gratitude to marry me. Told me looking into my eyes that she didn't love me, but only respected and honored me. But for the sake of the children—his children—she would be my wife. Heavens, man, can you put yourself in a place like that? But I loved her. You may not understand me, you may sort of pity me, or worse yet, you may feel a contempt for me, when I tell you that my heart fairly burst with the wildness of its joy. Fifteen years is a long time to love a woman, to love her hopelessly, to hunger for the sight of her face and the touch of her hand, and yet know that they belong to another. Now she was to marry me. True, she didn't love me. But that wasn't her fault. I suppose I couldn't have all of heaven on this earth. I said it was queer the way a man's life works out. A man may fall in the purpose of a lifetime through a stupid little blunder of some fellow he has never seen. To-morrow I would have married Sue, but to-day a chump for got to flag a train. Yet I don't say I have any kick coming against fate. Still I think I could die a little happier if I'd only been—the other man. No, there's nothing you can do for me; I'm quite comfortable. Thanks just the same. I haven't to wait you know. Good-bye. To live in the hearts we leave be hind is not to die.—Thomas Campbell A QUICK RECOVERY. A Prominent Topeka Rebecca Office Writes to Thank Doan's Kidney Pills for it. Mrs. C. E. Bumgardner, a local off cer of the Rebeccas, of Topeka, Kans., Room 10, 812 Kansas Ave., writes: "I used Doan's Kidney Pills during the past year for kidney trouble and kindred ailments. I was suffering from pains in the back and headaches, but found after the use of one box of the remedy that the troubles gradually disappeared, so that before I had finished a second package I was well. I therefore heartily endorse your remedy." of Topeka, Kans., Room 10, 812 Kansas Ave., writes: "I used Doan's Kidney Pills during the past year for kidney trouble and kindred ailments. I was suffering from pains in the back and headaches, but found after the use of one box of the remedy that the troubles 'gradually disappeared, so that before I had finished a second package I was well. I therefore heartily endorse your remedy." (Signed) Mrs. C. E. Bumgardner. A FREE TRIAL—Address Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Not Much Risk Examining Physician (for insurance company)—"I'm afraid we can't take you, sir. You are too great a risk." Applicant (resignedly)—"Well, per haps I am. The fact is, that when I get sick I never send for a doctor. I just lay around until I get well." Examining Physician—"Eh? Um—we'll take you." A Modern Cottage. Paper Hanger—We'll have to paper right over the old paper. We can't get this paper off without taking the plaster along with it. Paper Hanger-No, because the plaster sticks to the paper. Dolly's Reminder. Charlie Dinbats (to Dolly Semis quaver, who is about to make her de but)—Tell me when you sing and I'll send you some flowers. Dolly—Please remember at the time that the only flowers I care for are on hats. Town Topics. CUTE CLARA. Aunt Jane—"No, Clara, you aren't pretty. But I suppose the young man who calls upon you tells you you are the most beautiful woman in all the world?" Clara—"Yes, but it is after I have lowered the gaslight."—Boston Transcript. All Arranged in Advance. Tess—They say if you walk down stairs backward with a lighted candle in your hand the first man you meet will be the one you marry. I'm going to try that on Halloween. Jess—So am I. It must be done on the stroke of 8 o'clock. Tess—Oh! You don't have to do it at any particular hour. Jess—Yes, I do. I told Jack Han som to call promptly at 8 o'clock. His Explanation. "But why," I asked the good wife, "are you so anxious to secure the top flat in that ten-story apartment house?" "Because," exclaimed the household freight payer, "the elevator would be a great help to us in bringing up the children." Qualifying. "They're comparatively rich, aren't they?" "Well, I wouldn't say 'comparatively,' but 'relatively.' They have a rich uncle of whom they expect great things." You never hear a man advocating polygamy in talking to his wife. THE SIMPLE LIFE. Waye That Are Pleasant and Pathe That Are Peace. It is the simple life that gives length of days, serenity of mind and body and tranquility of soul. Simple hopes and ambitions, bounded by the desire to do good to one's neighbors, simple pleasures, habits, food and drink. Men die long before their time because they try to crowd too much into their experiences—they climb too high and fall too hard. A wise woman writes of the good that a simple diot has done her: "I have been using Grape-Nuts for about six months, I began rather sparingly, until I acquired such a liking for it that for the last three months I have depended upon it almost entirely for my diet, eating nothing else whatever, but Grape-Nuts for breakfast and supper, and I believe I could eat it for dinner with fruit and be satisfied without other food, and feel much better and have more strength to do my housework. "When I began the use of Grape-Nuts I was thin and weak, my muscles were so soft that I was not able to do any work. I weighed only 108 pounds. Nothing that I ate did me any good. I was going down hill rapidly, was nervous and miserable, with no ambition for anything. My condition improved rapidly after I began to eat Grape-Nuts food. It made me feel like a new woman; my muscles got solid, my figure rounded out, my weight increased to 126 pounds in a few weeks, my nerves grew steady and my mind better and clearer. My friends tell me they haven't seen me look so well for years. "I consider Grape-Nuts the best food on the market, and shall never go back to meats and white bread again." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. I ask in each pkg. for the little book. "The Road to Welville." SCIENCE and INVENTION Electricity is lighting houses not only, but cigars as well. An ingenious electric cigar lighter consists of a metal box, perforated and mounted upon a standard and supplied with 110-volt continuous current from the lighting mains. Inside the box are two carbon pencils which are brought in contact by the depression of a thumb piece or button on the outside, and then separated by a spring mechanism which holds the carbons just far enough apart for an arc to be formed. By inserting a cigar in an orifice in the front its unlighted end becomes ignited by contact with the arc, the whole operation taking scarcely five seconds and costing 10 cents per kilowatt hour. In other words, 500 cigars may be lighted for about one penny. Taking into account interest and depreciation, the new lighter will scarcely be a formidable rival of the safety match. Not for Women Alone: In a Broadway car a few days ago a metropolitan belle had no hesitation in pulling from one of the recesses of ner dress and secured by a long gold chain around her neck, a locketlike device, and opening it, take therefrom a powder puff, with which she carefully went over her face before alighting from the car. An observer of the male persuasion took occasion to indulge in a dissertation on the frivolities of the females, but it was not long before he had attention called to the enlighten ing spectacle of a man engaged in vigorously grooming his mustache with the aid of a pocket mirror and a jointed comb. The jointed comb is quite generously affected by the sterner sex, and it is for him as well as the ladies that the telescoping comb has been made by an ingenious inventor from London, Ohio. It will be readily seen how this implement, being made in four parts, one fitting in the other, will form a very compact article. The larger end piece is not supplied with teeth, but comprises a casing into which the other parts collapse. Brooklyn Eagle. National Telephone in Japan. Telephones in the land of the mikado are government institutions. The service has been established since 1890. There are forty-five exchanges in Tokio, employing sixty-three men and twenty-five women clerks, and 115 men and 1,722 women operators. The number of subscribers at the end of November, 1904, was 35,265. The telephone department has 2,537 miles of bare wire, 201 miles of aerial cable 169 miles of underground cable and 2.58 nauts of submarine cable employed in the service. The charge to subscribers varies according to the size of the town, being 48 yen per annum in some of the smaller towns and 66 yen in Tokio and Osaka, the middle charge of 54 yen being made in Yekohama and other places. The call office fee is 5 sen for a conversation not exceeding five minutes, with an additional 5 sen for each addition al five minutes' conversation within town limits, and 10 sen with similar regulations for out of town subscribers. Will Save Cattle and Horses The latest invention for installation in stables and cattle sheds, and having for its primary object the immediate rescue of horses and cattle in case of danger, especially by fire, is called "The Lightning Release Lock." There is no device on the market to day applicable for the purpose mentioned, which combines so perfectly simplicity of construction, with efficiency of operation. It answers a requirement, the absence of which has been keenly felt by horsemen and cattle owners for many years, particularly in buildings where many horses and cattle are housed, and which are particularly susceptible to danger by New Stall Stock. fire, in consequence of the confusion attending the release of the animals The lock is worked by the pull of a lever. It can be placed in any part of the stable that will best answer its purpose. There is one lock in each stable, which is connected by piping running through the same, from one part of the stable to the other. The serviceable part of this lock is that it can be utilized independently, for daily use, leaving the main lock to be used only in case of emergency. Electric Motors on Long Island. The management of the Long Island railway has decided to substitute electric motors for locomotives in the handling of all passenger trains. An order has been placed with a Pittsburg firm for motors enough to superseve every locomotive in active service in this department. Power will be taken from a wire overhead after the manner employed in trolley car operation. By the beginning of the summer traffic it is expected that all trains on this line will be run by motors, doing away with the smoke, cinders and other discomforts of railroad travel in warm weather. Treating Wrong Disease. When St. Jacobs Oil The old monk cure, strong, straight, sure, tackles Hurts, Sprains, Bruises The muscles flex, the kinks untwist, the soreness dies out. Price 20c. and 50c. Many times women call on their family physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one from dyspepsia, another from heart disease, another from liver or kidney disease, another from nervous exhaustion or prostration, another with pain here and another with pain there, alike to themselves and their easygoing and indifferent, or over-busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases, for which he, assuming them to be such, prescribes his pills and potions. In reality they are all only symptoms caused by some womb disease. The physician, ignorant of the cause of suffering, encourages this practicing patient to be no better, but probably worse, by reason of the delay, wrong treatment and consequent complications. A proper medicine like Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, directed to the cause would have entirely removed the disease, thereby dispelling all those distressing symptoms and impairing his memory. It has been well said that "a disease known is half cured." In cases almost innumerable, after all other medicines had failed to help and doctors had said there was no cure possible, the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, supplemented when necessary by medical advice and counsel, has resulted in a perfect and permanent cure. The government these cures is attested not only by the entire disappearance of pain, but by a gain of flesh, a clear complexion and a cheerful disposition. A SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE—Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a scientific medicine, carefully devised by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman's delicate organism. It is purely vegetable in its composition and perfectly harmless in its effects in any condition of the system. It contains no alcohol, opium, digitalis or other injurious ingredient. DR. B. V. PIERCE Buffalo N. Y. *Dear Sir—I was very low, and our home physician said I would never be well until I went to the hospital. Knowing what I did of your medicine I concluded to try it and felt sure it would cure me. To-day I thank God for Dr. Paul's medicine. I was keen keeping it up. I was glad of April and I could crawl about and in three weeks I could do all my own work, laundry and all. I have A Neat Compliment. It is not always the critic who pulverizes the poet. At a literary dinner the other day, the New York Tribune says, two minor poets were heard in conversation. "I saw your villanelle in the Blank Magazine," said one. "Did you?" said the other. "Yes, and I heard rather a neat compliment passed on it by a young lady," "What did she say?" The first minor poet laughed. "Why," he replied, "she wanted to know if I had written it." Not Quite Such a Fool as He Looks. Cholly—So Miss Tartun loosened up and said a good word about me, did she? Archie—Yes; she said that when one got better acquainted with you one found you were not half as big a fool as you appeared to be.—Chicago Tribune. Second the Motion. So far his testimony warrants the belief that any time he would like to have an "h" placed after the last letter of his name, Senator Smoot's request will be cheerfully granted.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Awful Anxiety First Tramp—I was worried to death when I was in one hospital. Second Tramp—Tought you was goin' to die? First Tramp—No; but I was scared dey might gimme one of dem cures for de drink habit—Brooklyn Life. The First Piano. A Boston man has the first American piano. Boston ought to worship an instrument that has never had ragtime played on it, and that has never been hitched tandem in front of a mechanical player. His Excuse. Mrs. Candie—What excuse have you for coming home so late? Mr. C.—M'dear, I had an exshellent one when I left the club, but I fancy I must have lost it getting out of the cab. Foreigner. What is the significance of the eagle that is stamped on Ameri can money? Uniter States Citizen—It is the emblem of its swift flight. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there eatest one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that its cause is the human body. The disease now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hairsth is a catarrh taken in application to the skin and the surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assuring that the patient will be healthy. He provides so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to Send for their testimonials. Address: MAY & OO, Foods, O. Sold by Halli Drugs, 1200 W. 12th St. Take Halli Family Plus for constipation. A good way to rid plants of lice is to wash them with soap suds which have no odor. Insist on Getting It Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch. This is because they have a stock on hand of other brands containing only 12 oz. in a package, which they won't be able to sell first, because Defiance contains 16 oz. for the same money. Do you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. taken six bottles of Dr. Pierce's medicine and feel real good, but an not getting to stop until am sure I am curred. I all my all my友妹 friends about Dr. Pierce's wonderful medicine. "They tell me they are looking for Dr. Pierce," and I answer it is all due to Dr. Pierce's favorite Prescription. Thanking you once more for your kindness I remain. Yours truly. Miss E. G. TAYLOR. Box 91. Spring Arbor, Mass. An honest dealer will not urge a substitute in place of "Favorite Prescription." That is not good, as good, although avidous druggists will sometimes say so for the sake of the greater profit to be made upon the inferior article. Shun all such. Every wise and careful housewife recognizes the value of a good home medical book. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Advisor is that kind of a book and the best of its kind. It used to sell for $1.50 per copy. Now a big edition is being given away. USE it. Paper coarsely covered 21 cm wide to cover mailing only. French cloth binding ten cents extra. Address Dr. K. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y. ASSIST NATURE Little now and then, with a gentle lazive, or, if need be, with a more searching and cleansing, yet gentle cathartic, to remove offending matter from the stomach and bowels, to tone up and cleanse the body, to sharply action, and you thereby avoid a multitude of derangements and diseases. Of all known agents to accomplish this purpose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are unequaled. Once used they are then discarded. The T. Pierce Pellets are to keep the bowels open and regular, not to further constipate, as is the case with other pills. Hence, their great popularity with sufferers from habitual constipation, piles and their attendant discomfort and manifold deficiencies. The "Pleasant Pellets" are valuable in all cases of billowness, sick and billions headache, dizziness, costiveness, or constipation of the bowels, sour stomach, windy belchings, "heart-burn," pain and distress after eating, and kindled deficiencies of the liver, stomach and bowels. T. e marked-down hait it was strong in her. She had been telling her husband that her dearest woman friend had made her feel so cheap. "Like 20 cents/" she queried. "Like 29," she replied. Shake In Your Shoes Allen's Foot Ease, a powder, cures pain, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by ali drugists, 25c. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The less polish a man has the more reflections he is apt to cast. Catarch of the Bladder and Kidney Trouble absolutely cured by Dr. Br. Kennedy's favorite remedy. World famous for over 30 years. Bottle ofWho would not rather be a victim of prosperity than of adversity? TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Ibuprofen Quinidine Tablets. All drug stores are stocked. Takes 14 hours. B. W. Grows signature 14 on each box. 25c. A doctor's generosity usually ends with the prescribing of large doses. Talking machines—Victor and Edison are the best; cash or payments, $1 weekly. Write to day, JENKINS' MUSIC CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. 30,000 records in stock, Mention this paper. It's a whisky strait for the toper who hasn't got the price. Wanted Representative in every community. Money making home business. Any one can do it. Find out what it is. Send address. M. A. Donohue Co., Chicago. To keep lomous fresh a long time invert over them a glass dish that fits closely. DON'T FORGET A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Wine, only beats. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. A jackknife in the hands of a boy is almost as dangerous as a jackpot in the hands of a man. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children (touching, nothes the pain), reduce inflammation, allows pain, curves who cools. Exc bottle. A man is compelled to lie to a woman occasionally if he would retain her friendship. All Up-to-Date Housekeepers use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because it is better, and 4 oz. more of it for same money. Lemon juice and salt will remove iron rust. $20 to $40 Highest grade Estay and Kabul Mason & Hammond Kabul Mason (these usually garanteed like new; special descriptions and prices for the asking. Write to today. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. When writing mention this city. 112 Lowest expected yield available when common cage run only 20 feet from house. Edited from Rusty Nest New Exp. Sta. Traced extra yardage. Assisted by a team of assigned everyone. Heads often contain more than 100 grains. Straw strong tail with dead leaves. Birds eat. Whisks. Bally two weeks earlier. One seed guaranteed continuous Wheat. Free shipping. Seeds Free Free big packages standard garden seeds worth $100 at usual prices from beautiful new catalog and a big deal. All come to anyone remitting for in stock or after sale. Catalogs are available from Rusty Nest New Exp. Sta. and get presents with pure seed orders. GRISWOLD SEED CO., 113 So. 10th St., Lincoln, Neb Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: All news matter intended for pub- lication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of auth- enticity. WFIOE: No. 117 West Sixth, St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion 8.50 For two inches, a subsequent insertion 20 For two inches, three months 1.00 For two inches, six months 8.00 For two inches, nine months 10.00 For two inches, twelve months 15.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. The people yet realize the necessity for a new charter. Kansas City is expanding but she cannot go very far under the presi charter. The people should not allow the politicians to prevent the onward march of a growing metropolis. The Negroes of Kansas City are to be congratulated upon the formation of a club of gentlemen who are to devote their best energies to moral, social and intellectual welfare of the colored people of this city. These gentlemen have begun their work well by furnishing some needy support to the Old Folks' and Olphians' Home. If such a policy is carried out the needs of worthy institutions working among Negroes of this city will find this club helpful and at the same time the club will grow in influence and power beyond its most sanguine hopes. That the club has not attached itself to any political organization or special faith but intends to work upon broad principles of humanity bespeaks much for a liberality and breadth which must secure the confidence of the majority of all classes. We hope its purpose of furnishing our citizens attraction of a high order will be attended by financial as well as artistic success. It goes without saying that every body in the grand old State of Missouri is proud of the newly elected Senator. The Major was truly the biggest man, but the other fellows didn't seem to know it and lots of us. We are glad that the honor of U. S. Senator has fallen upon such a noble statesman as Major Warner, was do honor unto his country and his State with much credit. Neither will he go round when he gets to the Senate looking to be introduced. All factions of the party are satisfied with the election of this old soldier. We could not have been better represented. He is in touch with the President and Missouri is in a fair way to be well represted in the Senate and get all that is coming to her from a political standpoint. Kansas City is for once proud of having the U. S. Senator from Kansas City. All elements of the Repo- can party, I believe are satisfied. The Hon. R. C. Kerens seems to rejoice over the election of Maj. Warher, after he realized it was the wishes of the people. MISSOURI WON. Missouri won the track meet with Kansas University held in Convention at Kansas City last Friday by a score of $57\frac{1}{2}$ to $37\frac{1}{2}$. This will in some degree even up for the Kansas football victory last Thanksgiving. BURNS M. E. CRURCH. NV James M. Harris, Pastor. A storm struck the pasionage last Friday night on the return of the pastor from the Annual Conference which convened in St. Louis. The party was led by G. C. Pryor and wife, Ed Lewis and wife, S. Young, M. Hill, Rosa Johnson, Mrs. A. Farr, Margarette Woods, Annie Hawkins, Miss Blanche Hill, Mrs. Mary Crawford, Mr. Chas, Harris, Monroe Johnson, Ludlow Martin, Mrs Julia Taylor. Fifteen dollars worth of provisions were left. The pastor and wife were happy. The Burns church property is valued at $17,000.00. Last year the church raised $3,577.00 There are 230 members. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS ITEMS. Watch for new ads in the "Son" from business men of K. C. K., in the near future. Take the "Son" and make it a great race paper that can defend you in time of need. Mrs. Sophronia Price, after several weeks illness is improving. Mr. L. J. Maddux of 10th and Everett, the popular grocer will give the "Son" man an ad soon. Mr. Milton Austin has moved into his new and cozy home on Oakland avenue this week. Mr. J. Rhodes' business is expand- ing. In addition to his coal business he is now supplying any amount of fine building stone. Read the "Rising Son," don't bor- row it. Subscribe for it and help foster race enterprise. Mr. Jackson Fox who has been ill for a long time with consumption died last Friday evening. His funeral was preached by Rev. Vaughn at St. John last Monday afternoon. A large number of Masons participated in the ceremonies. He belonged to Mt. Aetna, No. 26. He was a member of St. John A. M. E. church. Blind Boone Concert Co., will give a concert at St. John A. M. E. church April 1. Mr. Geo. Walker of 941 Bell St., has been very sick with pneumonia but is rapidly recovering. Mr. A Grant left for St. Louis the first of the week to make preliminary arrangements for the quarto-centennial of Bishop Turner's election to the Bichoric. Mrs. Grant has been quite sick, but is improving. Quarterly meeting at St. John A. M. E. church Sunday 26th. Rev. M. Collins, presiding elder, will officiate. Mrs. Lena Mason, the great evangelist will preach the sacramental sermon in the afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The election of Major Warner, who has been a good friend to the race for 40 years, as a senator from Missouri, causes rejoicing on this side of the line as well as on the other. The new senator made a telling speech last night at the Auditorium to 3,000 persons. He advised the Republicans to stand by the party nominees and keep Kansas City, Kas, the metropolis of the state a Republican municipality. This is sound advice. Nothing will be gained by the republicans dividing their vote. All that the race has bad in the way of political favors or consideration came from the Republican party. They have not all ways dealt justly or fairly by us but they have always done more than any other party and it is foolish now to try the party of Ben Tillman, Gov Vardeman and men of that stripe. Stick to the party of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, McKinley and that stalwart man whose motto is "all men up and no men down" Theodore Roosevelt. Let the dissatisfied republicans set the disputes among themselves and not throw away their strength and help their enemies. All social, religious and other news matter will be thankfully received by Eugene Vaughn, Agent for the "Rising Son." 939 Splitit avenue. UNIVERSITY OF MSSOURI Columbia, Missouri, March 18, 1905 Fred Kelsey, Publisher. RHODES SCHOLARSHIP MEN. President R. H. Jessus of the Missouri State University has just been notified that John S. Custer, Liberty; Ransom Harvey, LaGrange; C. W. Leaphart, Brookfield; Henry T. Moore, Macon; Herbert B. Smith, Fattonville; and Jos. C. Snyder, Kirkwood; have passed the Rhodes Scholarship examination, George R. Elliott, St. Louis and John G. Welch of Columbia, who passed the examination last year are still on the eligible list. From these eight, the Missouri Committee on Selection, composed of President R. H. Jesse of the University of Missouri, Chancellor W. S. Chaplin, Washington University, President Wm. Henry Black, Missouri Valley College, Right Reverend Daniel S. Tuttle, St. Louis and Right Reverend John J. Glennon Archbishop, St. Louis, will select the Missouri Rhodes Scholar for 1905. This scholarship will yield approximately $1,500 a year for three years. Only two scholarships can be held at one time for the same State. Engene Blodgett of Shelbina was appointed last year. He and this year's appointee will fill Missouri's qouta until 1907. LINCALN INSTITUTE NOTES Among many distinguished visitors form the Legislature, during the last week of the session, were Colonel R. C. Kerens; former Lieutenant Governor Ball; Senator Elliott, and Rev. Father Cahn of New Madrid. Excellent addresses were made by several of these gentlemen to the faculty and students assembled. Each expressed great interest in the welfare of the school, the race it represents, and a desire to do every thing possible to increase the prosperity of the school and of the Negro. Among other visitors of distinction from out of town we note Professor R. T. Coles, the scholarly Principal of Garrison school, Kansas City, Mo. in his address, Professor Coles emphasized the necessity of the Negro's becoming a producer of wealth, and the value of the industrial feature of education in promoting this idea. The speaker highly applauded the condition of the school; the literary and industrial work which he saw in operation; the missionary and self-sacrificing spirit of the President and Faculty. Several members of the Board of Regents recently visited the institutes to develop plans for the erection of the new dormitory for girls. It is the desire of the Regents that the building shall be ready for use in September. One and all of them manifest much interest in the uplift of the institution. J. S. YATES. Origin of the Monocle: The proposal to permit the use of spectacles to British soldiers is a reminder that from their prohibition came the monocle. About a century ago an army order was issued forbidding officers to wear eyeglasses or spectacles. But a short-sighted officer belonging to a crack regiment had no mind to resign his commission or stumble blindly, and he invented the single eyeglass. When called to account by the authorities he claimed that the monocle, being of the singular number, did not contravene the order against spectacles and glasses in the plural. Red tape accepted this literal rendering of the law, and, becoming popular in the British army the monocle was adopted by civilian beaus. Of Other Days. Down on the floor here, me and you, Doing some stunts like I used to do With other babies in days gone by; Dimped of cheek were they, laughing of And, ah, but the lips of them they were red! And the yellow curls on each tousled head Were wonderful, shimmering, dancing curls! Oh, the old-time boys and the old-time girls! And the funny things that we used to do! Let us get down here, me and you! Let us get down here, me and you! We are walking around of the Out of the misty years troop back The children of old, and a-pick-a-pack We rump upstairs and we go pell mell Downstairs at the sound of the supper Hang on, don't holler, I won't hurt you; Oh, this is the way that we used to do! You are filling the place in the heart of The place of the children that used to be, —Houston Post. Honesty That Irritated. "Once, when I had occasion to withdraw $25 from my bank," remarked the consecientious man, "something happened which almost tempted me to think that honesty may at times be not so very commendable. By a curious mistake, considering the small amount of money, the cashier handed out six five-dollar gold pieces. Without thinking what it meant to him I shoved one of the coins back saying: 'You have given me too much.' The look that man gave me I have never forgotten, although even at this day I cannot describe it. But I can assure you it was not a grateful glance." Easy When You Know How. "It's remarkable," said the doctor, "how much excitement a bean, or some equally small object, can cause when it is lodged in a baby's nose. This morning a frantic mother rushed into my office and implored me to extract a bead which her baby had put into its nose. Improvising a suitably bent probe from a hairpin I borrowed from the hysterical woman I succeeded in removing the bead in less time than it would take time to count six. And the first thing the woman said was: 'Why, I could have done that myself.'" TOO LATE. An angel passed over the earth one morning and met a little child in a sunny field, "Little one," said he, "do you love your Master?" The child looked up with bright eyes and said: "Yes, I am one of His little lambs." "Then," said the angel, "there is work for you to do, go and do it." "Yes, I will do it after a little while," said the child, "it's only morning now; the day will be so long and I do love to play." And the child ran away after the butterflies and flowers. The angel on his way murmured: "The day will end, night comes and it will be too late." In a few years the child had grown into a school boy. The angel visited the earth again one morning, and, passing near the school, found the boy locked out, too late for school. "My boy," said he, "the day is passing, night will come and your work is not yet begun." "Oh," laughed the boy, "there is plenty of time; the sun was shining so brightly I could not stay shut up in a school-room." In a few more years the angel visited the earth the last time. He was passing down a hill one evening when he overtook an old man leaning on a staff. Slowly he plodded down the hill toward an open grave. "My friend," said the angel, "have you completed the life-work which was yours to do?" "The night is come," said the old man, "and my work is not yet begun; the day seemed so long but now it is too late." And he toottered into the open grave. FARMER'S LAND WAS SOUR Simple Test With Litmus Paper Showed Acid. The state experiment stations are doing a great work for the farmers. The following incident shows how simple some of the tests are "when you know how," says a writer in Country Life in America. A station official was going over a farm with the owner when they came to a crawfish piece of land just back of the barn, the very weeds looked yellow and unhealthful. "I am inclined to think," remarked the agriculturist, "that this land is too acid for productivity. We can determine this in a moment." Taking a blue piece of paper from his pocket he stooped and dipped the paper in some of the soil water that was standing in a cow track. To the owner's astonishment the blue paper changed to a red color as soon as it was immersed. "There," said the agriculturist, "we have our proof. This is just a piece of litmus paper. For 5 cents you can buy a similar piece at any drug store. Its change of color shows that the land is sour. Crops cannot thrive on sour land any more than children can thrive on sour milk." FISHING LINES FROM GRUBS. Details in the Manufacture of Silkworm Gut. It has been found that silkworm gut forms the best line for fishing purposes, partly on account of its great tenacity and partly because it is so transparent. Every year a sufficient number of Spanish silkworm grubs are selected for this purpose. After they have eaten enough mulberry leaves, and before they begin to spin, they are thrown into vinegar for several hours. Each insect is killed and the substance which the grub in the natural course would have spun into a cocoon is forcibly drawn from the dead worm into a much thicker and shorter silken thread. The threads are then placed in pure water for about four hours and afterward dipped for ten minutes in a solution of soft soap. The fine outer skin is thus loosened, so that the workman can remove it with his hands. The threads must be dried in a shady place, and are often bleached with sulphur vapor until they acquire the bright appearance of spun glass. How the Frenchman Read His Book "A curious way to read a book was what I saw the other day coming up from New Orleans," said J. T. Simpson of Chicago. "It was in a Pullman sleeping car, and we had a pretty good crowd of northbound tourists. Among them was a queer looking Frenchman; at least, I judged he was such. On his seat I noticed a dozen paper back novels. Shortly after breakfast he began reading one of these at the open window by his seat. As soon as he finished a page he tore it off neatly and threw it out the window. The books were all in French, and before we got to Atlanta he had read three and scattered the French printed pages for hundreds of miles"—Atlanta Constitution. To Stop Sneezing. "There are times when to sneeze is to be embarrassed," said a society man; "at a dinner table, a social function of some sort, or in the theater, for example; but most people console themselves with the thought that it is something that can't be prevented. They are mistaken in this belief, however, for it can be prevented, and by a very simple expedient. When one feels the premonitory symptoms of a sneeze coming on, if he will just press firmly down on the lip on either side of and a little below the nostrils, the symptoms will gradually die off and the sneeze will be avoided."—London Answers. Cowboys in Laced Boots. The few cowboys left in the West are taking to laced boots. There was a time, in the heyday of the cow country, where a special grade of fine, high-heeled, thin-soled boot was manufactured solely for the cowboy trade, since cowboys were always very vain about their footwear. But with decadence of their trade the cattlemen have lost their small vanties, 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 "Negus" Originated. Negus, as much enjoyed in the army as grog is in the navy, attains its name from a jovial colonel in the days of George I. This Col. Negus was accustomed to drink the mild elixir of the ancient Roman, wine and water, and made himself so famous in the habit of avoiding imminent quarrels or cooling hot debates among his junior officers by saying in his hearty, contagious tones. "Come, boys, let's drink some of my liquor," till Negus became the sobriquet of wine diluted with water—as the cup of truce. A man who knows it all spends most of his time telling it. To run up a bill is human, to pay it is divine. Fate may lead us up to the door of the hall of fame but when capital whistles we stand out side and listen. Kansas City needs a new charter and a new depot and above all things good government. Sow the annual Candytuft in the spring as early as the ground can be planted. Select Your Boys'Spring Cloths Now There is a superb collection of new Spring' styles from America's foremost designers here for your choosing. There are many exclusive patterns in this im- plemented Saturday afternoon. You will be shown elsewhere and cannot be duplicated later by us. As the sweetest style item ever, we would suggest that you make an early selection. Prices here are always the lowest consistent with style and quality. New Russian, Sailor and Eton Suits, New Norfolk and Double Breasted Suits $5, $6.50, $7.50, $8.98, $10 and up. $5, $5.95, $8, $10, and $12 New Spring Top Coats, $5, $6.50, $8, and $10.50. New Headware and Furnishings The very newest ideas are here in a bewildering variety of patterns and colorings; very special values to-day in New Caps at 50c, New Blouses at 50c, New Tams at 75c New Shirts at 59c, New Shape Collers at 2 for 25c, New Suspenders at 25c, New Belss at 25c We wish to dispose of this collection that we have gathered together, because we want the space in the warehouse. There are many as 500 rolls of a pattern. There are Oriental, classical and floral designs. These are especially adapted to use in decorating halls, living rooms, libraries and dining rooms. They have formerly sold for 35c, 50c, 75c and 81.0c. You can buy them now for, roll, 15c. We also have on display fine decorated wall papers from 10c up to $15.00 per roll. Estimates Furnished. (Fourth Floor.) Estimates Furnished. (Fourth Floor.) Emery, Bird, Thayer & JOHN P. TILLHOF. Established TILLHOF & CO. REAL ESTATE. RENTAL 203-204 Hall Bldg., Cor ROTH PHONES 1469 MAIN. DIAMOND PAINT PAINT, VARNISH E. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. Tel. 94 Established 1889. HOF & CAMP ATE, RENTALS, IN Hall Bldg., Cor. 9th & W N. KANSAS AND PAINT CO. PAINT, VARNISH, BRUSHE Mgr. Tel. 946. 121 Hotel New Po FOR Furnished Rooms and Ear Corner Eighteenth and Tra racy Avenue, Kansas C V. L. NORTH N DAY AND N EODORE SM DRUGGIST, E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDE Home 4211 Main Bell 1211 Grand PHONES KANSAS CITY, MO. s, Toilet articles, School Supplies by Phone and See if We are not the zing Stove and H ESTABLISHED 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL T & CAMPBELL RENTALS. INSURANCE: Build., Cor. 9th & Walnut Sts. KANSAS CITY, MO. PAINT CO. (DEVOE.) VARNISH, BRUSHES. Tel. 946. 1214 GRAND AVENUE WE NEVER SLEEP New Port FOR Finished Rooms and Cafe Inner Eighteenth and Tracy, Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. NORTH, Prop. DAY AND NIGHT. DORE SMITH, DRUGGIST. BELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. Main Grand PHONES | Home 5646 Main Bell 2170 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. Art articles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. One and See if We are not there with the Goods. Stove and Hardware Co. JOHN P. TILLHOF. Established 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL TILLHOF & CAMPBELL REAL ESTATE, RENTALS. INSURANCE: 203-204 Hall Bldg., Cor. 9th & Walnut Sts. BOTH PHONES 1489 MAIN. KANSAS CITY, MO DIAMOND PAINT CO. (DEVOE.) PAINT, VARNISH, BRUSHES. C. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. Tel. 946. 1214 GRAND AVENUE Hotel New FOR Neatly Furnished R Near Corner Eighteen 1807 Tracy Avenue, MRS. V. L. NO OPEN DAY A THEODORE DRUGG Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET PHONES { Home 4211 Main { Bell 1211 Grand KANSAS C Dealer in Drugs, Toilet articles, Sc Give us an Order by Phone and See if The Stoeltzing Stove Hotel New Port FOR Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES | Home 4211 Main | Bell 1211, Grand PHONES | Home 5546 Main | Bell 2170 Main Dealer in Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. Give us an Order by Phone and See if We are not there with the Goods. CHEF'S COOKING STOVE TIN WORK a Specialty ...A new line of..... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. Catalogue ONLY $10.00 CASH OR CREDIT Catalogue FREE. --- --- --- A special purchase brought to us 5,000 rolls of this high grade Wall Paper, brought to us at a price of $100. There is a very low figure. There is a big range of patterns, suitable for bedrooms or first floor rooms. They are worth 25c to 50, but our price now will be, roll. 10c Call up Home Phone 5327 Main Beat Stoves Made. Largest Stock In City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Peninsular Agents for... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co. German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Light for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces. Cash, balance $5.00 a month, buys this 3-year guaranteed Buggy—$37.50 on time payments or $33.50 cash. We trust honest people located in all parts of the World. CENTURY MANUFACTURING CO. Dept.40,36 EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. WE NEVER SLEEP THE RISING SON. NEWS & GASSIP Eugene Vaugan, Agt. Kansas City, Kas. 938 Split Logs A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there That enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Mrs. Ellen Alexander is on the sick list. Mrs. A. Gilbert spent Sunday in Kansas City. Mrs. Green White is quite ill; also Mr. Cebron Wilson. We want a lady or gent who would like to work on the Son. Mrs. E. A. Watson, of 1314 East 16th street, is on the sick list. Mrs Rev. Pck seems to be failing very fast and is very low. Mrs. Rosa MaGee of Kansas City is here visiting relatives. Miss Eva Pounds of Kansas City spent a few days here last week. Mr. Abraham Carter is still confined to his bed but is now better. The Wilson House burned to the ground last week at Excelsior Springs. Messrs. Author and Johnnie Britt and Daniel Loyd of Higginsville were here Sunday. Blind Boone and Miss Robinett spent Sunday in Topeka, Kas., with Dr. Bristow and wife. Look out for our Easter Number. It will be the best that we have ever gotten out. Secure your space now. Miss Lottie Hawkins and Miss Maggie Johnson spent Sunday in Higginsville the guest of Mrs. M. Perry. The selection of Mr. W. B. C. Brown as private secretary to Senator Warner is a good one. He is a lawyer of distinction and a man of dignity. The Twentieth Century league gave a St. Patrick entertainment at Zion A. M. E. church Friday niglift, March 16. It was a financial success. Mrs. Garrett of Higginsville gave a reception Saturday. Several of our ladies and gents were invited down. They report of having a swell time. It was a swell affair. The Son is pleased to congraulate Mr. E. S. Van Valkingburg in his new field. Mr. Van Valkingburg is entitled to the honorable position and is in every way qualified to fill the same. The fine lodges of K. of P. of this city, the McKinley No. 21, Lilly No. 8, New Era No. 40, Progress No. 42, and Prudence Court No. 66 are preparing to give a grand Easter ball at Turner Hall. Two nice rooms to rent at 1104 Howard with the use of the kitchen. This will just suit a single lady or a man and wife who desire light housekeeping. See Miss Sadie Thornton, at Lincoln Ward school at noon hour or at 1104 Howard. Mrs. Lena Mason, the great evangelist, will preach the sacramental sermon for Rev. Vaughan at St. John's A. M. E., 944 Bell street. St. John will have a series of meetings and Mrs. Mason will preach. Everybody is invited out. Come early and get a good seat. The meeting begins at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, March 26, 1905. The firm of Emerey, Bird & Thayer will soon erect a new addition to their store on the north side, extending from Grand Ave. to Walnut north. This is an evidence of their business growth. It is a store that does business strictly on its merits. To the readers of this paper you need not be afraid to invest your money in merchandise in this store. They will treat you right. Gentlemen: Please send me two bottles of the Ozonized Ox Marrow for the hair. Think it is one of the best hair pomades made. MRS. JOHN GRAF. The regular monthly meeting of Attucks Literary will occur this Thursday evening at the Lincoln High School, when Mr. W. E. Griffin will read a paper upon the subject. "The Drift of Modern Thought." The patrons and members of the club are assured an intellectual treat. All are cordially invited to attend and to participate in the discussion. Watch for the Attucks Post-Lenten Lecturer, Dr. J. W. E. Bowen. See next issue of Rising Son for time and place. One among the great feature of the week is Rev. Lena Mason at Allen Chapel. She is doing a great work in a series of meeting. Quite an addition has joined the Church and many [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. REV. LENA MASON. are seeking and in a financial way she has been a success, and she is doing great work throughout the City wherever she goes. Don't fail to hear her next Sunday and Sunday night. Cole and Johnson while at the Orpheum this week, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Lang at their residence, 912 Park, last Thursday evening. The evening was spent in music and singing and Blind Boone of the Blind Boone Co. was delighted when Johnson put on some of his popular airs, and Boone was ready to respond, as the world knows his talent to reproduce any piece of music that he hears. Johnson of the Cole & Johnson Co. as pianist has but few equals. The evening was well spent for all present. Tea was served and among those present were John Lang, the manager of the Blind Boone Co., Miss Lang, and Mrs. Robney, Cole and Johnson of the Orpheum Circuit, and J. W. Johnson an associate of theirs, and Louis woods of Kansas City; Dr. T. C. Unthank and wife, Miss Marie Smith, Cora Robinet. LEXINGTON NEWS Mrs. Jennie Whitworth of Kansas City is here visiting. Mrs. Laura Franklin, of Omaha, Neb., came Sunday night to see her father, Mr. Bricoe Taylor who is quite feeble. Mrs. Eliza Brown returned home Monday morning after spending a few weeks at St. Louis, attending the Annual Conference. Rev. Hardin Smith preached at the Second Baptist church Sunday morning and evening. Rev. Clark of Independence was sent from the M. E. Conference here. He enters in this new field of labor Sunday. Every one was pleased that heard him preach. Mr. Robert Moses is quite sick. Mrs. Alice Holmes is on the sick list. DR. CARION NOT GUILTY No intent to Kill When He Shot Pp Dr. Crossland. ST. JOSEPH, MO., March 18. A jury in the criminal court tonight returned a verdict of acquital in the case of assault with intent to kill against W. A. Carion, a negro physician. Carion and Dr. J. R. A. Crossland, formerly United States minister to Liberia, as a result of a political quarrel, engaged in a pistol duel on a business street of the city last summer, and Crossland was so badly wounded that for several weeks he was not expected to survive. Crossland was organizer and president of the Republican Colored Men's League of Missouri. Have You Tried It? I used only one bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow and my hair has stopped breaking off and has greatly improved. When I started using this wonderful preparation my hair was seven inches long and now it is ten inches or more. I beg to remain yours truly, MINNIE FOASTER, 314 Southward street, Key West, Florida, August 28, 1904.—One bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow will do as much for you and it also makes kinky hair straight and soft, it also cures dandruff. Warranted harmless. Send us fifty cents and we will mail you a bottle postpaid. Address Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash ave., Chicago, Illinois. I love to hear some sacred song Or hallowed hymn she used to sing. Or pray the pray'r she used to pray That she pray'r she used to cling Who was her comfort day by day. The mem'ry of her holy life Remembrance to cheer me on my way. Strengthen us on Amid life's toll, from day to day. To that sweet place where mother's and deal with paid Sand point Write you OZON 76 Wabs TO POINTS IN Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida ARKANSAS, Reached most convenient by this Route. Round Trip Homeseekers' Tickets at rate of ONE FARE plus $2, on sale first and third Tuesday of each month. For descriptive literature and detailed information as to rates, train service, etc., address J. C. LOVRIEN, ASSISTANT GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT, KANSAS CITY, MO. KINK-INE MAKES THE HAIR GROW LONG, STRAIGHT, SOFT AND SILKY. CURES DANDRUFF AND STOPS FALLING HAIR. ...IS THE..... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, It was also English chef and who are prepared to colored peas The Best story has to It was discovered by Dr. Roberts, a famous English chemist, who has made a study of the scalp of cooled people for the past thirty years, and who after much time and experience has learned a great Tonic especially for the cooled people. The Doctor says that his experience and study has taught him that the scalp of the cooled person is the greatest after laboring and testing, these years he has discovered the greatest **REMEDY** the WORLD has ever known for the Hair of cooled people. **KINN-INE** will make the hair **GROW** from one to three inches per month if the directions and instructions are carefully followed out. We have many cases on record where the above hair has been obtained, and we do not hesitate when we need it. **KINN-INE** is the only safe preparation in the WORLD that is guaranteed to make the Hair **STRAIGHT** and make dry hair smooth and stop it from breaking off and falling out; takes out all the kinks and knots, causes Dandruff, makes the hair soft and silky, and by nourishing the roots gives it new life and vigor, restoring it to its original condition. I am glad to say it has done my head more good than anything I ever used. Send me three dozen more bottles of Kinki-line at once, like hot cakes and works wonders on the hair. LARGE BOTTLE SENT PREPAID for 35e; SIX for $1.40, and ONE DOZEN for $2.80. FREE! 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. 1784 Telephone 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co., Furnished Rooms To Rent. Meals at All Hours. At 1001 E. 18th St G. SMITH; Propr. BOYS AND GIRLS Since Mother's Gone. Since mother's gone I miss the smile And gentle voice that used to cheer My baby. my cheer My boyish heart, day after day. And put to flight each care and fear be be along my way. No more about the home I see her ply her daily care. Or hear her sing some sacred song, Oracle. For right to triumph over wrong. -Alva N. Turner, in Washington Post. Fun with a Fly Seesaw. Here is an amusing little trick that you will find lots of fun: Stick a long lead pencil in the end of a spool of thread so that it will stand upright. Now get a piece of very stiff blotting paper and from it cut a strip two inches wide and about a foot long. On each end of this put a drop of molasses or syrup. Now balance the strip of blotting paper, with the syrup side up, on the point of the pencil. You should have See-Saw in Operation. two players, although one will do. Each player chooses an end of the paper. In a moment a fly will alight on one end, attracted by the syrup, and that end of the paper will go down a trifle. Then another fly will light on the other end, or perhaps several will come there for the sweets and things will be reversed. As more flies come, alighting on the ends, the paper will lean first this way, then that, till it overbalances and falls to the tables. Then the player whose end grew so heavy as to cause the tumble wins. We would not advise you to try this in the house, but rather out of doors in the warm sunshine, where the flies will not bother any one. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gent's dine up stairs. Z. T. JOBDAN. Manager AGENTS WANTED To sell Kinkine. Read their advertisement elsewhere in this paper, also what our customers say of it. Maud Wilson, Marion, Ind., writes: "Kinkine gives satisfaction. I take pleasure in recommending it." Mary G. Sommer, Alton, Ill., writes: "I have used your Kinkine with wonderful results." Fanny Meyers, Danville, Va., writes: "I am glad to say that it has done my head more good than anything I ever used." Rose Holt, Atlanta, Ga., writes: "Send me three dozen more bottles of Kinkine at once; goes like hot cakes and works wonders on the hair." Large bottle sent prepaid for 35c; six for $1.40, and one dozen for $2.80. FREE! to show what KINKINE will do send 10c.; and we will mail a sample postpaid. Agents wanted everywhere to sell KINKINE. Write to-day for terms. THE KINKINE COMPANY..... 343 West 14th St., NEW YORK. First-Class Restaurant and Cafe Meals 6. a. m. to 11 p. m. Short Orders MRS. ELIZA RUSSELL. Proprietor 90 E 12. Upstairs. Give me a cal PUBLIC LIBRARY UNEXCELLED SERVICE VIA FRISCO SYSTEM AND THE SOUTHEAST, AND TO Kansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas AND THE SOUTHWEST. The Famous Health and Pleasure Resorts, EUREKA SPRINGS AND HOT SPRINGS, Is no Experiment READ WHAT A CUSTOMER SAYS OF IT and ONE DOZEN for $25. To show what KINK-IME will do send loc, and we will mail a sample postpaid. WANTED everywhere to sell write today for $25. Airt-Class Work & Prompt Delivery 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. For the Lawn, Garden and Farm FLOWER SEEDS Poultry Supplies. Berry Boxes Baskets and Crates. SPRING BULBS N. B. - Write for price of anything in this line. Miss Ida E. MILLINERY Miss Ida E. Foster, MILLINERY PARLORS Hats made to order in latest styles der in latest styles direct from the East. Hats made to order in latest styles direct from the East. Lincoln I MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL F BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN In Institute TE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. President. Lincoln Institute DEPARTMENTS: COLLEGE, NORMAL, PRE DUSTRIAL AND D COURSES: Classical, College Prepara Model Training School, Music Drawing, (Fine Arts and Mechani ing, Blacksmithing, Machinery, S Gardening, Printing, Typewriti Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Fre with Modern Improvements, Bu Diplomas are licenses to teach in state. A few deserving students a to earn their way. All applicants of good moral character. For fun. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN JEFFERSON CITY, NORMAL, PREPARATORY, IN- TERIAL AND DOMESTIC. College, College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Long School, Music (Instrumental and Vocal), Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodwork- ing, Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories Improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, licenses to teach in any public school in the reserving students are assisted in their efforts day. All applicants must present testimonials character. For further information write to BINKLIN ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. PERSON CITY, MISSOURI. COLLEGE, NORMAL, PREPARATORY, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC. COURSES: Classical, College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Model Training School, Music (Instrumental and Vocal), Drawing. (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodworking, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories with Modern Improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are licenses to teach in any public school in the state. A few deserving students are assisted in their efforts to earn their way. All applicants must present testimonials of good moral character. For further information write to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT HOTEL M 721-723 Charlotte St Room and Board $5.00 per week. Rooms Single Meals 25 cents. Hot and Cold Bath EL McRAY Charlotte St., K. C., Mo. per week. Rooms without Board $2.50 and $2. Hot and Cold Baths Included. Room and Board $5.00 per week. Rooms without Board $2.50 and $2 Single Meals 25 cents. Hot and Cold Baths Included. BEN McRAY, Prop. and Mgr. ON CREDIT LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS AND SUITS... Men's, Boys' and Children's Suits and Overcoats direct from our factory to the wearer at factory prices cash or easy monthly payments. We trust honest people located in all parts of the world. Write for free catalogue. GENTURY MFG. GO. Dept. 4036 East St. Louis, Ill. N CREDIT AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS AND SUITS... Boys' and Children's Suits and Over- direct from our factory to the worker at any press cash or easy monthly payments, untrust honest people located in all parts of the world. Write for free catalogue. CENTURY MFG. GO. 4036 East St. Louis, Ill. ON CREDIT LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS AND SUITS. Mary Joyce and Children's Suits and Overcoats direct from our factory to the wearer at factory prices cash or easy monthly payments. We trust honest people located in all parts of the world. Write for free catalogue. GENTURY MFG. GO. Dept. 4036 East St. Louis, Ill. In a London printing office a year or two ago a confidential balance-sheet was being produced. One of the compositors was approached by a well-dressed stranger and offered a large sum for a copy of the figures in the balance-sheet. "No!" he replied, "I could not think of such a thing." The Bell Phone 2315 Pink. Hats re-shaped and made over. American[Plan] BETRAYING A MASTER. Orders promptly filled. Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. All Modern Improvements temper, however, tried another man, who agreed to secure a copy for him. A spoiled sheet gave him an opportunity of betraying his trust, and he would have dove so had not a private detective arrested both him and the man who had offered the bribe. To come the warning lest we, knowing our Lord's will, deliberately disgareg Appalling Mortality Among the Little Ones Due to This Cause-Proper Attention to Health of Mothers Would Save Many Lives The number of deaths due to tuberculosis is tremendous. When the word is spoken one instinctively thinks of pulmonary consumption. This is the form which attacks adults and which we see daily gathering in its victims. There are other forms, however, more common in children, that levy tribute upon them without culling attention to the relationship between these diseases and consumption of the lungs. Dr. Jacobi is authority for the statement that "Tuberculosis kills as many people, old and young, as diphtheria, group, whooping cough, scariatina, measles and typhoid fever taken together." In all of our cities active stops have been taken to protect the people from the above named diseases. Until quite recently, however, a few years at most, nothing was done to reduce the mortality from tuberculosis. Now, however, the attention of the world, the common people and the health authorities, has been called to its curability and preventability. The causes, the modes of scattering, and the prevention are all being studied, and an educational campaign is on to wipe out this "white terror." The children suffer from tuberculosis of the bones, the bowels and lymph glands. Tubercular meningitis is frequently found in early life and is uniformly fatal. Only by careful attention to the food and daily habits can the rising generation be made immune from these varied forms of tuberculosis. The fact that over one half of all babies born die before they reach the age of five years, proves that the 'constitutional capital' bequeathed them is small. Is the proper attention paid to the diet, exercise and out-of-door life of the mother? If this were done, the child would undoubtedly have greater vitality and could by proper care and education live above the tuberculosis of childhood and of adult life. Cause and Cure of Gastric Catarrh. Chronic congestion of the stomach, known as gastric catarrh, is usually caused by one of the following errors, or by all of them put together: Eating too much or too fast; swallowing food insufficiently masticated; the use of such coarse foods as cabbage, greens, etc.; mustard, peppersauce, ginger and other condiments and spices; pastry containing animal fats; free fats, which lodge in the stomach and remain there a long time; pork, griddle cakes and burned fats—these are the things that produce gastric catarrh. The first and most necessary step in the treatment of this disease is to remove the cause of the trouble. We may induce activity of the skin by hot applications followed by cold or hot bath followed by a short application of cold; fomentations followed by a short cold application to the stomach. These treatments are useful, but the most important factor is the regulation of the diet. A fruit diet is best, for the reason that in gastric catarrh there is a great accumulation of germs, which are destroyed by fruit juice. A well-prepared diet of toasted bread, zwiebel, granose biscuit, etc., is also useful in these cases. Bedroom Climate. A person at the age of sixty years has spent about twenty years of his life in his bedroom. Have you investigated the average sleeping room climate? If you were sent as a missionary to some distant pestilential spot the climate of which was as unhealthful as that of the average bedroom, would you not feel that you were risking a great deal for the sake of the heathen? On the tombstone of tens of thousands of those who have died from tuberculosis might appropriately be inscribed. "Disease and death were invited and encouraged by a death-dealing bedroom climate." To show that this is no exaggeration it is only necessary to call attention to the fact that fully half of the tubercular patients placed in outdoor consumptive hospitals make a satisfactory recovery. If fresh air will cure the disease, it is certainly a wonderful preventive of it. It is not more reasonable to deliberately breathe impure air than it is to drink impure water or to eat unhealthful food or wear infected clothing. Tender-Hearted Savages. One of the most anomalous features of our Christian civilization is the slaughter house, especially the abattoirs of our great cities, where veritable torrents of blood perpetually flow, the ebbing life of millions of innocents which die that man may feast. Indians are not noted for being over-sensitive; and particularly deplore any exhibition of weakness. The interior of a slaughter house, however, is said to have proved too much for their powers of self-control. The Chicago Record states that "a party of fifteen Blackfood Indians recently visited the killing room of Armour's plant. One fainted, three more were ill, the rest covered up their eyes. They were hurried out of the place into the fresh air." A. Good Reform. The abominable practice of wearing long skirts for the stree. is dying out. Pretty as it is to see a summer dress negligently trailed over a smooth lawn jeweled with daisies, the sight of a woman dragging her gown in the street, sweeping up the flth and collecting millions of microbes, is a revolting spectacle; and yet with a long skirt the only alternative is to hold it up, a practice which induces cramp in the arm, as well as cold fingers in winter, and gives a decidedly ungraceful walk and attitude. A Cure for Cold Feet An excellent and simple remedy for cold feet is the application of cold water. Step into the bathtub, let the cold water run in a little faster than it runs out. Standing in the water, rub one foot with the other, rapidly, ten or twelve times. Then change and treat the other foot in the same manner. Keep up this alternate rubbing for about three minutes. The feet will have become very red, and as you step out of the water, you will find them burning and glowing with the warm blood brought into them by this means. Some Chinese Baths. A traveler in Mongolia writes: "There are some hot springs on the road about twenty miles north of Chingpeng. The place is named Tangshan. The arrangements for those anxious to benefit by their healing properties are very primitive. A row of twenty to thirty wooden boxes the size of an ordinary packing case is ranged beside the road. In these sit bathers of every age and both sexes, with their heads protruding. Attendants with buckets continually refill the boxes from the springs. For less luxurious bathers there is accommodation in a pool which has been dug out close by. In this they squat, scooping up the water and pouring it over their heads with brass basins. It is curious to reflect that establishments like Homburg and Aixles-Bains have had their origin in such beginnings." Training the Skin. The usual effect of a draft of cold air upon the back of the neck is a cold and a sore throat. Many years ago Dr. Brown Sequard, an eminent French physician, devised a means by which sore throat from this cause might be prevented. By blowing upon the back of the neck with a pair of belows, increasing the time each day, he trained his patients until they could endure this treatment for half an hour without injury. It is not necessary to be exposed to a draft of air on the back of the neck in order to obtain this result. By means of the cold bath, the wet-sheet rub, the shower bath, towel friction, etc., the skin may be educated to contract on the slightest increase of cold. Daily exposure to the contact of cold air is of the utmost importance. It is because of the constant exposure to cold that the Indian's body is "all face" the skin of his whole body has learned to take care of itself. Dr. Lorenz Strict Teetotaler At a banquet given to Dr. Lorenz, wine was served. He pushed the wineglass aside. Someone enquired if he was a total abstainer. He answered: "I am a surgeon. My success depends upon having a clear brain, a steady nerve, and firm muscles. No one can take any form of alcohol without blunting these physical powers; therefore, as a surgeon, I must not use any form of spirits."—Journal of Inebriety. In Harmony with Nature Modern science as well as experience has shown that contact with natural surroundings, especially fresh air, sunshine and the ozoning emanations from growing plants, has marvelous health-imparting virtues. In these natural agencies is active the power which created and maintains all things and which is constantly communicated to all living things as the essential condition of continued life. The more closely man comes to Nature, the more deeply he may drink from the fountain of life and healing. To live in harmony with Nature in the fullest and truest sense is to live in harmony with God; and to live in divine harmony is to be happy. How to Resist Old Age. A chain is as weak as its weakest link. The body is as weak as its weakest organ. To combat the onward march of old age all organs must be marshaled to harmonious resistance. This resistance can be developed best by cultivating "reaction." This means that the body forces act against some external stimulation and overcome it. The best developer of reaction is cold—either air or cold baths. This must be done gradually, especially if one is already weak. Cultivate the power of resistance by daily exposure to cold air. Live out of doors as much as possible. The ability to resist cold will also enable one to resist pneumonia, dyspepsia, apoplexy, diabetes, obesity, old age. The cold morning bath is a wonderful youth preserver. Try it. Begin carefully. At first rub face, arms and chest with the hands dipped in cold water. Then the rest of the trunk and the legs. Dry quickly and exercise for ten or fifteen minutes. In a mounth you will hardly know yourself. Try it. SEEDING IN PROGRESS IN WESTERN CANADA. Mild Weather is Bringing Thousands of Settlers. The splendid yields of wheat, oats and barley produced by the farmers of Western Canada and the excellent prices received for the same, have been the means of giving an increased interest throughout the United States. As a result the inquiries made of the Agents of the Canadian Government have nearly doubled over those of the same period last year. Railroad companies are putting on increased carrying capacity to meet the demand made upon them for carrying passengers and freight. Everything points to a most prosperous year. There is room for hundreds of thousands additional settlers, much new land having been opened up for settlement this year. It is quite interesting to look through the letters received from the Americans who have settled in Western Canada during the past few years, and considering the large number it is surprising how few there are who have not succeeded. An extract from a letter written by Mr. Geo. M. Griswold of Red Deer, Alta., formerly of Grever, Montana, written on the 2nd of January is as follows: "I am located $1_{2}$ miles from a beautiful lake 10 miles long, where there is church, school, 3 stores, creamery and two postoffices. The fine stock, both cattle (cows and steers) horses, hogs and sheep are rolling fat, grazing in pasture to-day, just a little snow, hardly enough for good sleighing, as we just had a Chinook which has melted the roads and laid bare the fields and pasture. There are fine wheat, oats, barley and flax raised here, also winter wheat and timothy hay for export to British Columbia. This is a mixed farming and dairy country. This is the right time to get a foothold in the Canadian West, as it was some years ago in the United States. We are free from wind gumbo and alkali here and have fine, clear soft well and spring water at a depth of from 5 to 25 feet, and lots of open overflowing springs." Telegraphic advices from Medicine Hat say that seeding has commenced at Medicine Hat, Lethbridge and other points. At the former place the temperature moderated gradually until on the 19th the maximum was 45 and the minimum 26. Thermometer readings since then have been as follows: 20th, 47 and 38; 21st, 54 and 34; 22nd, 56 and 39; 23rd, 48 and 40; 24th, 48 and 26. During the last few days in February considerable ploughing was done near Lothbridge. P. A. Pulley, a recent arrival from Montana, ploughed and harrowed fifteen acres, and E. Lalliborty about the same amount. Rev. Coulter White has also been harrowing his farm. All report the ground frost free and in excellent condition. Bricklaying has also begun in town. At Hartney further east on the 25th February the sun was warm and bright, wheeled carriages were in use and the plowed fields look as if they are ready for the press drills. There is every appearance that spring has arrived, but farmers do not wish to be deceived by appearances and consequently have not commenced to use their bluestone and seed wheat. How He Could Tell Stonewall Jackson's negro body-servant knew before anybody else when a battle was imminent. "The general tells you, I suppose," said one of the soldiers. "Lawd, no sir! De gin'ral nuver tell me nuthin!' I observates the 'tention of de gin'ral when he prays, jest like we all, mornin' an' night; but when he gets up two, three times in a night to pray, den I rubs my eyes an' gits up, too, an' packs de haversack—caise I I done 'aine out dere's gwine to be old boy to pay right away." He Was Wondering A Scotch doctor, who was attending a laird, had instructed the butler of the house in the art of taking and recording his master's temperature with a thermometer. On repairing to the house one morning, he was met by the butler, to whom he said: "Well, John, I hope the laird's temperature is not any higher today." The man looked puzzled for a moment, and then replied: "Well, I was just wonderin' that myself." Ye see, he died at twal o'clock."—Exchange. Why He Is Puzzled. A young man in Platt county is in a quandary. He lives on a farm, but has been courting a girl in town. Finally he asked her to marry him. She seemed willing, but said she could never live on a farm. He then proposed moving to town and engaging in some other business, but she said if he was fool enough to do that she wouldn't have him. He is still figuring.—Smithville, Mo., Herald. Friend (on ice)—What are you studying over? Mr. Ulgimugg—I can teach any girl to skate in a day, but with that fool, Mr. Handsome, they don't learn to stand alone in a month.—New York Weekly. Did Not Catch Happiness "I thought we were guaranteed a right to the pursuit of happiness?" "Well?" "Well, I pursued happiness into a saloon last night." "Did you catch it?" "I did when I got home."—Houston Press. A Remarkable Tomb of St. Ursula and the sisters of her order. The tomb dates back to the sixth century after Christ. The bones are of various shapes and sizes. HUMOUR of the DAY Taking Fiendish Revenue. Taking Pleiden Revenge. Friend—Well, your old love has married your rival, I see. Discarded Suitor (flendishly)—Edeath! I've got even with him! They will quarrel the first week, fight the second and separate forever in the third. Friend—Great snakes! What have you done? Discarded Suitor—I presented the bride with one of those fluffy, redeyed, snarling, barking pet dogs.—New York Weekly. Handing Out a Strong Hint "Say, Doc," instuated the man who was trying to get a little free medical advice, 'supposing you had a case of chronic dyspepsia, now; what'd you consider the best course to pursue?' "Well, sir, if I had such a case I should treat it according to my professional ability, and then charge what I believed a fair fee. Do I make myself plain?" A Gentle Touch. Mrs. goodthing—Here's some ple, but you got a dinner from me yesterday. Why don't you learn some trade? Tramp—I have learned one, ma'am. I'm a retoucher.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. A Bad Break Nordy—Why did you fire your stenographer? Butts—Oh, he was always making blunders, and he finally got me into serious trouble with my best girl. Nordy—As to how? Butts—I dictated the message, "send you a box to keep your collars in," and he transcribed it, "to keep your colors in." Too Much of a Celebration. "I saw Henpeck to-day and he was very much under the influence of drink," remarked Nagget. "Well, there's some excuse for him," replied Mrs. Nagget. "He lost his wife last week." "I know, but a man should be able to celebrate without making a hog of himself."—Philadelphia Press. Avoiding Extravagance. Mr. Biblets—Now, m' dear, I'll tell you how I happened to get home so late if you'll only listen. Mrs. Biblets—All right. Turn off the radiator before you begin, will you. Mr. Biblets—Wha' for? Mrs. Biblets—Oh, it seems so extravagant to have steam and hot air both going at once. Her Mirror "I'll take that," said the man, indi- citing a silver-mounted hand glass, "and I want you to engrave on it: 'From J. J. B. to Phyllis.'" "Very well," replied the salesman; "we'll put it on the back here—" "Oh, no, put it around the edge on the front. I want her to see it."— Philadelphia Press. A Crusher for Top. "I wish they'd invent a new expression occasionally," said Top, as he perused the account of a recent wedding. "It's always 'the blushing' bride." "Well," replied Mrs. Top, "when you consider what sort of husbands most girls have to marry you can't wonder at them blushing."-London Tit-Bits. 'Wot are yer cherishin' so tenderly in the bottle, Daniel? Dopey Dan—It's some gasoline I foun'! I'm goin' to look aroun' and see if I kin pick up an ottermobile. Needed Money. De Style—Was the Duke on his knees when he proposed to Miss Millyins? Gunbusta—No; on his uppers. Does Not Hold Good Always. "There's nothing like perseverance; it wins out in the long run." "Not always; did you ever see a hen on a porcelain egg?" WOMEN NOT TRUTHFUL This Statement Has Been Unjustly Made, Because Modest Women Evade Questions Asked By Male Physicians. Mrs.J.H.Farmer Mrs.Ella Lee Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advice—A Woman Best Understands A Woman's Ills. Two Slides to a Question. Old Joshua Martin was noted for his ability to make a close bargain, but once in a while he met his match. "I say, mister," he began, as he walked into a barber shop one market day, while waiting to dispose of his load, "farming's mighty bad nowadays. You ought to lemme have a shave for five cents. Why, if I should tell you the price I had to take for my garden sass—" "Mebbe," returned the barber, "but fact is, I ought to charge you double price now by rights, for farmers' faces are just about twice as long as they used to be. You ought to be thankful for being let off on one fare! Shirt Was in Limbo. His Washerwoman's Son (re a missing shirt): "Please, sir, mum sez dad's bin 'risted for drunk 'n disorderly 'n hittin' a pieceman, an' if you want yer shirt you'll have to bail it out." Orders Dishexed The orders of General Health have been disobeyed, when you feel under the weather, weak, tired, irritable, and suffer from headache, constipation, billiousness, etc. The only sure, safe and permanent cure for this condition is Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It has a gentle action all its own, superior to that of pills, powders, and cathartic waters. Try it. Sold by all drummers at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it falls. IMPOSSIBLE AMBIDEXTERITY Speaker—"I defy anyone in this audience to mention a single action that I can perform with my right hand that I cannot do equally well with my left.' Voice from the Gallery—"Put yer left hand in yer right-hand trousers pocket!"—Chicago News. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Stoessel Now a Jew. According to newspapers published in the Far East, General Stoessel, defender of Port Arthur, is of Jewish origin. His grandfather, Abraham Stoessel, a goldsmith by trade, went to St. Petersburg from Monrovia about 1835. His son on reaching manhood embraced the Russian orthodox faith and he whose name is now famous the world over was brought up in the same belief. Voluminous muffs with fulled ends are furnished with narrow bands of fur and lined with white satin. WOMEN NOT This Statement Has Been Modest Women Eva Male Physicians. Mrs.J.H.Farmer An eminent physician says that "Women are not truthful; they will lie to their physician." This statement should be qualified; women do tell the truth, but not the whole truth, to a male physician, but this is only in regard to those painful and troublesome disorders peculiar to their sex. There can be no more terrible ordeal to a delicate, sensitive, refined woman than to be obliged to answer certain questions when those questions are asked, even by her family physician. This is especially the case with unmarried women. Is it any wonder, then, that women continue to suffer and that doctors fail to cure female diseases when they cannot get the proper information to work on? This is the reason why thousands and thousands of women are now corresponding with Mrs. Pinkham. To her they can and do give every symptom, so that she really knows more about the true condition of her patients, through her correspondence with them than the physician who personally questions them. If you suffer from any form of trouble peculiar to women, write at once to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., and she will advise you free of charge. The fact that this great boon, which is extended freely to women by Mrs. Pinkham, is appreciated, the thousands of letters received by her prove. Many such grateful letters as the following are constantly pouring in. Ash Mrs. Pinkham's Advice—A Wom FACE LIKE RAW BEEP. Burning Up With a Terrible Itching Eczema—Speedily Cured by Cuticura. "Cuticura cured me of a terrible eczema from which I had suffered agony and pain for eight years, being unable to obtain any help from the best doctors. My scalp was covered with scabs and my face was like a piece of raw beef, my eyebrows and lashes were falling out, and I felt as if burning up from the terrible itching and pain. Cuticura gave me relief the very first day, and made a complete cure in a short time. My head and face are now clear and well. (Signed) Miss Mary M. Fay, 75 West Main St. Westboro, Mass." Adder Sent to Actress A German actress was sent a box containing an adder, and was nearly bitten by the snake. Which would indicate that some live American press agent has taken up his residence in Germany.—Denver Republican. Watch the early chicks for lice. They always come from the hens and if the chicks are to be kept free of them the hen must also. Defiance Starch should be in every household, none so good, besides 4 oz. more for 10 cents than any other brand of cold water starch. Those women who look as if they would "blow away" can sweep and dust all around their heavier sisters. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. When a young man starts down the course of true love he tries to make a record. Smokers find Lewis' "Single rinder" straight 50 cigar better quality than most 100 brands. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Only a natural-born hypocrite is capable of laughing heartily at an ancient story. Why It Is the Best is because made by an entirely different process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more for 10 cents. Duck and Oyster Dressing Bill Smith, colored, a few days ago found in Great House Creek, where the water was shallow, a wild duck that had been caught by an oyster and drowned. The bird was supposed to have been feeding near the oyster, and seeing the mouth of the oyster open, inserted its bill. Then the oyster, of course, closed its mouth, catching the bird by the bill, and we suppose, owing to the immense size of the former, the duck was unable to get its head out of the water and was drowned. Bill says it beat all he "eber seed."—St. Mary's (Md.) Beacon. Sympathy.—Mrs. Royle—"I have had such a cold that I couldn't speak for three days." Mrs. Coyle—"How you must have suffered!"—Tidbits. TRUTHFUL In Unjustly Made, Because ade Questions Asked By Mrs. Ella Lee Mrs. Ella Lee, Frankford, Ind., writess Dear Mrs. Pinkham: "I want to thank you for what your medicine has done for me. "Three years ago I had inflammation of the ovaries and diarrhea on my womb. I was under the doctor's care for about three months, and the only time I was not in pain was when under the influence of morphine. The doctor would be an invalid the rest of my life. I had given up in despair, but one evening I came across one of your advertisements and decided to write you for advice. I did so and commenced to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I began to improve at once, and I was a woman, and I know it is all due to your advice and medicine. Mrs. J. H. Farmer of 2809 Elliott Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: I cannot thank you enough for what your advice and medicines have done for me. They have made more good than all the doctors I ever had. "For the last eight years I have suffered with female troubles; was very weak; had nervous prostration, and could not do my work; but I am happy to say Lydia E. Pinkham's compound has made a different woman of me in perfect health and have gained in weight from 98 pounds to 122 pounds." No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record for actual cures of female ills as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. an Best Understands A Woman's Hea NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 YEARS ESTABLISHED. We send FREE and postpaid a 232-piece freight on Piles. Rubble and Diseases of the Rectum also 105-piece lilies, treatise on Diseases of Women. Of the Diseases treated by our mild method, none paid a call! cured — to furnish their names on application. DRS. THORNTON & MINOR. 900 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. and 1030 Oak Bk, Kansas City, Mo. 900 DROPS CASTORIA Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SANUEL PATTERY Pumpkin Seed - Alk. Sour Banana Slices Amarine Seed + Paprika Dill Carbonsulfide Mint Sugar Capered Sugar Mintgrass Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Gail H. Patter NEW YORK. 48 months old 35 DROPS - 35 CINES EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. PILES NO MONEY We send FREE and postage Western; also OGP, livi- vial or mild method, none per DRS. THORNTON If afflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE EXCURSIONS TO THE Free Grant Lands OF Western Canada. Western Canada. During the months of March and April, there will be excursions on the various lines of railway to the Canadian West. Hundreds of thousands of acres of the best Wheat and Grazing Lands on the Continent free to the settler. Adjoining lands may be purchased from railway and land companies at reasonable prices. For information as to route, cost of transportation etc., apply to Superintendent of Immigration to authorize. Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri Around the World "I have used your Fish Brand Slickers for years in the Hawaiian islands and found them the only solution. I am now in Hawaii. (Africa) and think a great deal of your coats." (NAME ON APPLICATION) The world-wide reputation of Tower's Waterproof Oiled Clothing is the positive worth of all garments bearing this Sign of the Fish. TOWER'S tion of Tower's Water- proof Oiled Clothing that ensures the positive worth of all garments bearing this Sign of the Fish. A. J. TOWER CO., Boston, U. S. A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LIMITED, Toronto, Canada. VERY FEW. IF ANY, CIGARS SOLD AT 5 CENTS. COST AS MUCH TO MANUFACTURE. OR COST THE DEALER AS MUCH AS "CREMO" IF THE DEALER TRIES TO SELL YOU SOME OTHER ASK YOURSELF WHY? "THINGS WORTH KNOWING" MUSKOOGE, I. T. WACO, TEX. SAN ANTONIO, TEX. SAHWNEE, O. T. SO. CALESTER, I. T. OKLAHANIA CITY, O. T. AUSTIN, TEX. MUSKOGEE, I. T. DALLAS, TEX. WACO, TEX. FT. WORTH, TEX. SAN ANTONIO, TEX. GALVESTON, TEX. SHAWNEE, O. T. GUTHRIE, O. T. SO. McALESTER, I. T. HOUSTON, TEX. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T. The Largest Cities in TEXAS, OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY Are all Located on the MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY P. S.—This is a reason why you should travel and ship your freight via 'The Katy' Salzer's National Oats Greatest oat of the century. Vieled in Ohio 187, in Mich. 22d, in Mo 255, and in N. Dakota 810 bus. per acre. You can beat that record in 1005. For 10c and this notice we mall you free lots of farm seed samples and our big market, selling all about this oat wonder and thousands of other seeds. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. WNU La Crosse, Wis. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hitchur. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. TABOOS DINNERS TO TRANSLATE. An Innovation That Furnishes Food for Mind. Miss Lina Small, following the lead of so many fashionable women who have somewhat tired of society, is tabooing dinners and teas and devoting her talents to the translation of popular American novels into German. She has spent much time in Germany, and while in Berlin last summer suggested to the proprietors of a publishing house that she be allowed to submit some of her translations. The result was that she closed a contract with them, and the publishers are much better off financially for the Chicago girl's suggestion.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A Queer Delusion. Mr. Campbell, the Irish solicitor general, speaking the other day upon delusions, told a story of a North of Ireland Protestant who was perfectly sane save on one point. This staunch Protestant harbored the delusion that one of his legs belonged to a Roman Catholic, and therefore when he went to bed every night he used to leave the Catholic leg outside the blanket by way of punishment. An Ex-Sheriff Talks. Scott City, Kan., March 20th—(Special.)—Almost every newspaper tells of cures of the most deadly of kidney diseases by Dodd's Kidney Pills, Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Rheumatism and Bladder troubles, in fact any disease that is of the kidneys or caused by disordered kidneys is readily cured by this great American remedy. But it is in curing the earlier stages of kidney complaint that Dodd's Kidney Pills are doing their greatest work. They are preventing thousands of cases of Bright's disease and other deadly ailments by curing Kidney Disease when it first shows its presence in the body. Speaking of this work Ex-Sheriff James Scott of Scott County says: "I have used eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and must say that they are just the thing for Kidney Disease. We have tried many kidney medicines but Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best of all." Lemon juice is much nicer for salads than vinegar. This is especially true of fruit salads. GOOD POSITION For You if You Clip and Send this Notice. Five young men or women from each County may take a course in Draughon's Business College, Kansas City, St. Louis, Fort Scott, Kansas; Muskogee, I. T., and elsewhere, and give agreement to pay tuition out of salary after course is completed and good position, which the College will guarantee, is secured. If not secured no tuition to be paid. HOME STUDY FREE. Applicants not ready to enter under this offer may take lessons BY MAIL FREE until they can enroll for personal instruction which would save cost of board, etc. The above Company conducts a chain of twenty (20) Colleges in THIRTEEN STATES. Largest corporation of the kind in the world; $300,000 Capital. Seventeen Bankers on Board of Directors. If interested CLIP and SEND this notice, and you will receive Catalogue and full particulars. When you find a patient man, you have found a hero. Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new catalogue to-day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. Wash fruit-stained hands in lemon juice to take off the stains. PLAN FOR BASEMENT BARN. Quarters for Twenty Head of Cattle and Two Teams. The accompanying plans are for a basement barn 35 by 58 feet, to accommodate twenty head of cattle and two teams of horses. The basement wall is 8 feet high, 1 foot thick, and composed of cement concrete. If stone is used for wall instead of cement, the building should be 2 feet larger each way to allow for the thicker walls that would be necessary. Unless gravel is scarce and stone plenifluent cement is much to be preferred to stone masonry and is cheaper. A is the horse stable; B, the boat stall; C, root house; D, cow stables. H D C B H H 5' A H H Ground Floor Plan. H. passages. The small squares, three on one side and two on the other, shown in the ground floor plan, are ventilating shafts 10 inches square, which extend from the ceiling of the basement to the plate of the barn where they are open to the outside. Fresh air should be admitted through 2-inch tiles placed in the walls one foot above the level of the basement floor, and in such position that draughts will not strike the animals. Windows should be all hung at the top. Stable doors should all be cut in two horizontally, making the bottom part 3 feet 6 inches high. The barn posts are 18 feet high and the roof is blimped. The cost of building varies in different localities, but a fair estimate would be about as follows: Excavating, $10; cement wall, $225; cement floor, $125; timber, $230; lumber and shingles, $315; lumber for stable fitings, $70; hardware, $40; carpenter work, $175; silo, $140. This estimate is for first-class workmanship, and matched lumber. The foundation timbers may be made up of 2x10 inch planks. For the superstructure, square timber should be used. Timber Framing of Upper Floor. The outside timbers marked A are 2x10 in. planks lying on concrete wall. The cross timbers marked B are 10x10 in. The small black square represents the location of posts, which are placed so as not to interfere with passager in the basement. A House of Cement and Stone J. W. R.—Would it be advisable to build a house 24x28 feet and 18 feet high of cement and stone? How thick should the walls be? How much cement would be required and what would be the cost of the walls? Houses built of stone are durable and warm, but they never should be plastered directly on the stone. The walls should be strapped and then lathed and plastered, for if plastered on the stone wall, the walls are all ways colder, especially in the winter, and the moisture in the rooms will condense on the walls, making them wet. All brick, stone or concrete walls should be strapped before being lathed and plastered. The walls should be 20 inches thick for first story and 18 inches for second story. Mortar for laying stone for such a building may be composed of one part of Portland cement to five parts of sand. The cost of stone work will depend on the cost of material, where the building is erected and the class of stone work required. For plain rubble work the usual price per cord is fifteen dollars where cement is used in making the mortar. Your walls would cost $420, estimating them at $15 per cord. You would require about 40 barrels of cement. H. How to Mend Table Linen. A housewife whose table linen always does her good service mends it with embroidery cotton of a number to correspond with the quality of the cloth. Under the ragged edges of the tear she bastes a piece of stiff paper and makes a network of fine stitches back and forth over its edges. Thin places and breaks in linen may run with the flax or embroidery floss, and towels should be mended in the same way. Tea Growing Experiments Some of the farmers near Santa Rosa, Cal., are experimenting with tea growing, and their efforts seem to be meeting with success. It is said that there is no reason why tea should not be grown in some sections of this country, though the earlier South Carolina experiment is not known to be making great headway. Sensible Rules of Club Some easy-going citizens of Hunger Mo., have organized a "Don't Worry club. The certificate of membership bears the following pledge: "I hereby promise that, to the best of my ability I will not worry, knock, fret, roar or chew the rag, but will endeavor to remain sweet and contented for a whole year." Lettuce for Insormala Insomnia can be cured by eating lettuce. PE-RU-NA CONQUERS CATARRH THE WORLD OVER. The Population of the Earth is 1,400,000,000. One Million Die Annually of Catarrh. PE-RU-NA has been successfully introduced in CANADA, MEXICO, WEST INDIES, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, AND THE ORIENT. ALL over the world Peruna is known and used for catarrhal diseases. The Peruna Girl has traveled 'round the globe. Her face is familiar everywhere that civilization reaches. Universally Praised. From Africa to Greenland, from Man- From Africa to Greenland, from Man- churia to Patagonia, the face of the Peruna girl is familiar and the praises of Peruna as a catarrh remedy are heard. Successful In North and South. Peruna crossed the Equator several years ago, to find in the Southern Hemisphere the same triumphant suc- cess that has marked its career in the Northern Hemisphere. A Standard. Peruna is a standard catarrh remedy the world over. It cures catarrh by eradicating it from the system. Permanent Cure. It obviates the necessity of all local treatment and its relief is of permanent character. Without a Peer. No other remedy has so completely dominated the whole earth as Peruna. In Every Tongue. In all languages its glowing testi- monial are written. In all climes the demands for Peruna increase. Lemon juice added to fruit juices that do not jell readily, such as cherry, strawberries, etc., will cause them to jell. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR FILES. Irritating Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure you in 6 to 14 days. 50c. Gargle a bad sore throat with a strong solution of lemon juice and water. USE THE FAMOUS. Red Cross Ball Blue, Large 2 oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Joy cometh in the morning—but not if you've made a night of it. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, cure Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all Drugists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A.S. S. Olmsted, R.O.Y. The man who does his very best work today is in a fair way to do even better tomorrow. Millions of Vegetables. When the Editor read 10,000 plants for 16c, he could hardly believe it, but upon second reading finds that the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., than whom there are no more reliable and extensive seed growers in the world, makes this offer which is made to get you to test Salzer's Wheat and Vegetable Seeds. They will send you their big seeds and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages. ALL FOR BUT 150 POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 20c in postage, they will add to the above a package of famous Berliner Culiflower. [W. N. U.] The juice of half a lemon in a cup of black coffee without any sugar will cure sick headache. SPECIAL EXCURSIONS TO SOUTH WEST. February 7 and 21, March 7 and 21 1905, Via Kansas City South- TO PORT ARTHUE, BEAUMONT TEX., LAKE CHARLES, GALVESTON HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO, TEX., and all other points on the K. C. S. Ry., for tickets with 21 days limit and privilege of stopping off enroute on both going and return trip. For literature describing "THE LAND OF FULFILLMENT" the country along the K. C. S. Ry., or for further information regarding these excursions write to S. G. WARNER, G. P. & T. A., K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. Let Common Sense Decide Do you honestly believe, that coffee sold loose (in bulk), exposed Millions of American Homes welcome LION COFFEE daily. There is no stronger proof of merit than continued and increasing popularity. "Quality survives all opposition." Also the New "HOT SPRING8 SPECIAL," leaving at 12:01 Noon; arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. Through Sleepers, Dinners and Chair Cars to Ft Smith, Little Rock and Hot Springs. For Pueblo, Denver and Pacific Coast Points at 10:40 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. For Joplin and Way Stations 2:25, 9:45 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. To Lexington, Sedalia and Way Stations, 5:45 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph, 5:45, 9:00, 10:50 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. For Kiowa, Wichita and Way Stations, 12:01, noon, and 10:30 p.m. For Local Coupon Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information call at UNION DEPOT OR CITY TICKET OFFICE E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agent, Passenger Dept. 901 Main St. JOHN J. SHINE, City Ticket AGent (Kansas City, Mo. Telephone 740 Hickory. An Extensive Laboratory. To supply this remedy to the whole world taxes to the utmost one of the best laboratories in the United States. A Word From Australia. Walter H. Woodward, Bomadier Royal Australian Artillery, Hobart, Tasmania, writes: "I suffered for several years with a distressing condition of the head and throat, caused by continual colds. "My head and nostrils were stopped up most of the time and there was a discharge, and my sense of smell was affected badly. "After two weeks use of Peruna I found this condition quite changed, and so I continued to use this remarkable medicine for over a month. "I am very glad to say that at the end of that time I was cured and felt in fine health generally, and am pleased to give Peruna my honest endorsement." Let Common Do you honestly believe, that THE LION This has made LION COFFEE Millions of American Home There is no stronger proof of ing popularity. "Quality sur- (Sold only in 1 lb. package (Save your Lion hen SOLD BY GROC MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Also the New 'HOT SPRINGS arrive in Hot Springs to Break and Chair Cars to Ft Smith. For Pueblo, Denver and Pacific Coa For Joplin and Way Stations To Lexington, Sedalia and Way St. Leavenport, Atchison and St. Joseph For Kiowa, Wichita and Way St. For Local Coupon Tickets, Sleep UNION DEPOT OR C E. S. JEWETT, Gon'l Agent, Pa. JOHN J. SHINE, City Ticket AG Telephone 7 KIDDER'S PASTILLES. A Sure relief for Asthma. Sold by all Bargains. StOWELL & CO., Mrt. BEGGS' BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach. From Hawaii. Prince Jonah Kalanianaole, delegate in Congress from Hawaii, writes from Washington, D.C., as follows: "I can cheerfully recommend your Peruna as a very effective remedy for coughs, colds and catarrh trouble." A Cuban Minister. Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States, writes from Washington, D.C., as follows: "Peruna I can recommend as a very good medicine. It is an excellent strengthening tonic, and is also an effecacious cure for the almost universal complaint of catarrh." (gonzalo De Quesada. From All Quarters of the Globe. We have on file thousands of testimonials like those given above. We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of the vast number of grateful letters Dr. Hartman is constantly receiving from all quarters of the globe in behalf of his famous catarrh remedy, Peruna. In Sense Decide it coffee sold loose (in bulk), exposed to dust, germs and insects, passing through many hands (some of them not over-clean), "blended, you don't know how or by whom, is fit for your use! Of course you don't. But LION COFFEE is another story. The green berries, selected by keen judges at the plantation, are skillfully roasted at our factories, where precautions you would not dream of are taken to secure perfect cleanliness, flavor, strength and uniformity. From the time the coffee leaves the factory no hand touches it till it is opened in your kitchen. EE. THE LEADER OF ALL PACKAGE COFFEEES. Times welcome LION COFFEE daily. of merit, than continued and increas- survives all opposition." ages. Lion-head on every package.) needs for valuable premiums.) CERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. Winter Service 1904 and 1905 6 TRAINS DAILY TO ST. LOUIS. For Omaha and Lincoln, 9 a. m. and 10:20 p. m. For Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Independence and Coffeyville, 9:55 a. m. and 10:30 p. m. SPECIAL" leaving at 12:01 Noon; breakfast. Through Sleepers, Downers hill, Little Rock and Hot Springs. cast Points at 10:40 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. seph. 2:25, 9:45 a. m. and 7:40 p. m. v. Stations. 5:45 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. seph. 5:45, 9:00, 10:50 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. stations, 12:01, noon, and 10:30 p. m. Stepping Car Berths and all information call at CITY TICKET OFFICE passenger Dept. 901 Main St. Gent Kansas City, Mo. 740 Hickory. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 12, 1905 PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION A ERE ; Sara i ty ey, Pace kt Sa “Fa a bee be vk. BY sy q es ee ye > yy 7, is : MAJOR WLLLIAM WARNER. United States Senator-Elect. From Missouri, AN ULTIMATUM TO VENEZUELA BY THE UNITED STATES, IT MUST AGREE TO ARBITRATE President Castro Told That His Gov ernment Will Either Settle the Asphalt Centroversy or Take the the Contequeneet, WASHINGTON —In the language of the laymen Veneruola ean set inte a tow with the United States demanding divestment of ports and bombard. ments if the Latin republic wants to. Otherwise Verevitele will be expected to refer the quarrel between ft and the United States on behalf of the Aspluit trust to arbitration, The United States Is awating Venezuela's r y these propositions France, so far as tis intentions eat Ye learned here, has simply warned 9 w that jt must not interfere Physically with the French eable, and thay if it does the repairs will be made by French warstips, whieh are Tealy to sail for La Guaryra from Ja maiva Franes is auxioas to have its quarrel with Veneniela settled by dip: Jomacy, Wut has not sent representa, Vons whieh are half as strong as those Of (he Vuited States considered in the eh: of quastultimatums, The Unied States is practically any fous (o get an early answer from President Castro for the reason that Mt is reported here that he is making financial arrangements with reat Brit ain and Germany, whieh. if carred out, Would leave the United States no rey enuies out of whieh to pay itself an Andemuity for the alleged denial of Justice to the Asphal trnst he State department inehules for @bstous reasons otler matters than the Asphalt trust for arbitration, sueh fs (he case of duare, and tie claims df the Orinoco Steamship company —a Minnesota concern LKE BULL DOG's GRIP. @yama's Men Still Hanging to the Elanks of the Retreating Army. ST. PETERSBURG —The first news from the front, after twenty-four ours’ silence, reached here Sunday The telegraph lines, which had been tur were again in operation, It is be Hieved that Chinese bandits destroyed part of the line and Mutt the Japanese wid not reach it, General Lineviteh, Kuropathin’s suecessor, is stilt re treating and the Japanese are hang fn to his flanks like bull dogs. ‘The fighting is continuous. ‘The wagon trains and heavy artillery are strug Binz alony the roads in advance and hordes of infantry, with field guns are fighting desperately in one range wf hills after another, They told the Positions as long a> possible and re treat only when utter defeat threat ens them, In the meantime, thous ands of horses and Chinese ponie: and whole villages of Chinamen ar struggling over the roads to pull an Bift the vauablo stores, artillery an ‘ammunition to safety, Hundred: 0 dead horses line the roads, New Assault on Germs. MILWAUKEE, — Shall soiled linen Je passed over the counters of grocer: fes and bakeries? Health commis: Yoner FP, M, Schultz of this city says “No” and has started a crusade for the tenefit of the publie health, We) thas decreed that groceries, bakeries, | milk shops and places where food is Fold shall noc be used as landry agen-| «i | A girl needs no chaperon after she ge able to call some chapherown, | Lawyer Shot Him, VINCENNES, IND—A. 4, Taylor, ex-councilman and saloonkeeper, was ghot fatally by Louis A, Meyer, a laws yer, Taylor aceused Meyer of being Fosponsible for a suit Mrs. ‘Taylor Drought axainst a keeper of a dive where she alleged Taylor spent too anuch tine Are Leaving Viadivostok. PARIS.—The Harbin correspondeat wt the Paris Martin reports that many wivilians from Vladivostok are pass: {ing through Harbin bound for Europe. ADMITS PEACE POSSIBILITY. The St. Petrsburg Novoe Vremyr Dis: cusses the Matter for Fist Time. ST. PETERSRURG.The Si, Pe: tersburg Novoe Vremya editorially for the first time admits the possibility of peace, It says “After all, the war is Tike all ort ors, it must end sometime by peace. Remembering how dearly we paid for the lack of foresight of our diplomacy during the negotiations preceding the ear which Was largely responsmible for our military and naval unprepared: ness, it would be well now for our diplomacy to look ahead for peace, PARIS. A report reached here that the hing of Portugal may consent to promote the conclusion of peace or at All events the opening of negotiations betweea Russia and Japan, $3,000 DIAMOND HAUL, Thieves Successfully Loot a Des Melnes, ta, Show Windew, DES MOINES, Breaking a hole in plate giass show window — large hough to permit him to fusert an arm, an unknown man Saturday might re: meved a tray of diamonds valued at $3.00 from the window of Holmes & Irvine, cast side diamond brokers, and ot safely away, Ut wax early in the evening, and the display of Jewelry had not been removed to the safety vault. Bill House Ammenament Adopted JEFFERSON CITY, — The senate adopted the house amendment to Mor ton’s bill to place the exeise com: missioner of St, Louts on salary, ‘The bill aS amended provides that the excise commissioner shall have a sal ary of $5,000 a year with $4,000 for clerical help. The rest of the fees collected must be paid into the state treasury. The bill makes the saloon keeper pay $18 a year in fees for ob: taining his Heense. The bill will bring about $10, 600 into the state treasury that under the Dockery ad Mministration went to the excise commissioner, { KANSAS CITY THEATRES. } WILLIS WOOD—"The Girl and the Randit” closed at the Willis Wood March 25 and on Sunday night, Mareh 28, Will be followed by the favorite American aetress, Florence Roberts in classic repertoire, "This attrac: tion will be on for an en fire week and wii be well Worth attending. Florence Roberts Nas few equals in her line and ts sup: ported by & most excellent company. | AUDITORIOM "A. Jolly Amorican |‘rrainp” will entertain thousands. at |the Auditorium week beginning March 26i—Sunday matinee. This is a bis | production and a big cast and appears in Kansas City for the first time, It Jis full of fun and funny incidents, Don't miss it. No advance in prices, ORPHEUM—May Vokes, the well known actress, and her company wiit be seen at the Orpheum next week in “A Model Maid." The sketch is said to be very amusing, Sydney Deane & Co, have a voeal novelty, “Christmas on Blackwell's Island.” Popular and high class songs are sung. Klein, Ott Bros, & Nicholson, known. professton- ally as “The American Kings of Mel- ody,” will be heard in their speciat- ties, Gardner & Stoddard have a pot- pour! of music, impersonations and mimiery. Miss’ Stoddsrd_ introduces her original character "Summertime Susie.” William Thompkins is a ver: satile entertainer, Heeley & Mooley, the English grotesques who were a | bie hit nt the Orpheum two years axo, have returned from their European |tour with a reconstructed eecentroque Jact. ‘They are good comedians and Jelever aerobats. ‘The kinodrome. will show moving pictures. Matinees every day. | NEWS NOTES, a8! Captain George T, Hodges, chiet Wel clerk in the quartermaster's de ‘part HS) ment at West Point is dead. He wa: OF 161 years old, He served in the Civil **) was in the Sixth United States infan 00) try, | John 1. Boland, for many years | prominent in St, Louis circles, a Con. spt tederate vetran, is dead in his country ny|home near St, Louis, Mr, Boland was ss-| born in Ballington, Va., and leaves pe, [three daughters and two sous, Statement of the Condition of the UNION NATIONAL BANK KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1905 RESOURCES LOANS AND DISCOUNTS «. se. ee ee ee ee ee ee $6,188,336.51 U. S, BONDS, AT PAR... .. «. see ++ ee +4 $600,000.00 OTHER HIGH CLASS BONDS, AT PAR .. .. .. 488,181.37 1,088,181.3/ CASH AND SIGHT EXCHANGE... .. 0. 6. se ee oe oe oe oe 4,003,957.73 TOTAL 66 oe oe ce ce oe ee te te ne oe oe te oe oe 00 06911; 200/476.01 LIABILITIES CAPITAL STOCK 6. 6. oe oe oe ae ae oe ce oe 08 oe a 06 600/000,00 SURPLUS FUND 0.0 cu ce cece ce ce ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 400,000.00 UNDIVIDED PROFITS .. 0. 6. ce ce ce te ee ee te ee ee ee oe 74,117.98 UNEARNED INTEREST .. . oe ne ee ee oe oe oe oe 77,130.00 NATIONAL BANK NOTES OUT STANDING .. oe oe oe ee oe — 50U,0UU.UU DEPOSITS. 6. os oe ee oe oe te ae oe en tees caus se suins OORUCR7ES TOTAL. 66 oe se oe se 60 06 00 00 oe oe oe 00 00 06s 11 COOATEOT DIRECTORS C. W. WHITEHEAD, Whitehead Realty Company. EDWARD GEORGE, Buford-Gecrge Manufacturing Company, L. T. JAMES, T. M. James & Sons, Wholesale Crockery, C, J. SCHMELZER, J. F. Schmelzer & Sons Arms Company. J.P. MERRILL, J. P. Merrill & Company, Wholesale Lumber. O. H. DEAN, Warner, Dean, McLeod & Holden, Attorneys. GEORGE JONES, Capitalist. EDWARD W. ZEA, Loans and Real Estate. GEORGE D. FORD, Treas. U. S. Water & Steam Supply Company. G. W. LOVEJOY, Planing Mill, Sash and Doors. WM. E, THORNE, Capitalist. FELIX L, LA FORCE, Loans and Real Estate, DAVID T. BEALS, President. FERNANDO P. NEAL, Vice-President. WM. H. SEEGER, Second Vive- President. J. RICH. B. RICH. TH E GREAT Atlantic Pants Co. + TWO STORES, 16 EAST 7TH ST., AND 2825 SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD... Sults to Order $17.50. Pants to Order $3.50 RICH BROS., Props. atisfaction Gua ranteed or Money Refunded. KANSAS CITY, MO. HEALTH IS WEALTH.. If you would gain health and wish to retain the same remember the necessity of reliable prescription compounding, which we make a specialty of giving the most ali atten- tion.—We fill prescriptions just as the doctor writes them, Our motto is TO PLEASE; PRICES RIGHT, Save time and carfare by buying ae your Patent Medicines and drug q SS Be eS vi ; 5 0 necessities at attractive prices. W yevars CORUmRY [ounered wun hasten A Large Line Se maaale Spaces Perfumes, Toilet ariicles, gee: ’ Bromo Ammonia for that cold Tooth brushes, Combs --a cold today, pnemonia to- and Brushes, Fountain) morrow. Syringes and Hot water The Century Marvel Corn Sheller “a sure cure or money re- bottles at funded. Painful walking made gratifying prices.| easy. | Remember its the RELIABLE PRESCRIPTION | $. W. Corner Sth and Broadway. | PHARMACY Phone Home 1626 Main, 1 : Callinandsceus. Open all night. At the Vendome Dancing Academy. 1734 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. ADMISSION 200. Class Every Wednesday. Evening, Thursday Afternoon and Saturday Evening. ADMISSION 25c. MUSIC BY IMPERIAL ORCHESTRA PROFESSOR JEFFREY BUSS, Instructor of Dancing. DO. A. WILLIS, Manager. , AGENTS AND SALESMEN Sweetening Sugar. Wanted to sell Kinkine; read their] ay gugar is not sweet, or rather advertisement elsewhere in this pa-] sweet enough to come up to the re- per and write them at once, quired standard of sweetness, so some ae kinds must be sweetened artificially. i There are many establishments where | Flint, Ala., June 14th, 1900, this process is carried on. A cone of Dear Sirs: I have used your Ozon-] sugar is placed over an apparatus apex ized Ox Marrow only a short while and | downward, many little holes in the ap it has improved my hair wonderfully.| Paratus coming in contact with the ROTHA FRANCIES, | Boint of the cone, A thick Mquld ts GERTRUDE BERKLEY, a great fa- yorite with Kansas City theater goers, is playing with suecess in Proctor’s Fifth Avenue theater, New York. Ree cently she appeared in Dion Boucl- caull’s “The Jit" BEING READY AND WILLING, The firemen, on the alert for a “eall” that may eome at any moment, iMustrate the readiness and the loins girded about to whieh our Savior re: ferred. For all emergencies the Lord requires our readiness, and we may be the means, in God's hand, of saving our fellow-men from destruction. —Se- lected. No Delay--Satisfaction Guaranteed--Teeth Examined Free We are the most reliable dentists in the elty. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success Is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths We Guarantee to Please. %= Our Re.iability is Unquestioned. This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thor- oughly responsible, All work is guaranteed for 15 years, | Full Set ¥ Teeth $2.00. Set 8.8, White Teeth....$4.00 earru Gold Crowns 22-k......++.. $2.65 Lridge Work, per tooth .$2.68 Platinum fillings...........500 Cleaning ......ssssss+4ees+,-500 We do as wo advertive— ‘eoth extracted without pain FRI:E, We aro here to stay. | ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS, 1029 Main St Shen bauge” Nguoi O Sundaes to 0% Get the Habit Of Trading at———————_- , McCampbell & Houston’s Prescription Drug Store: 2304 VINE ST. TELS. | {lomo 296 Mito WE CUT THE RATES. Peruna, . - 5c Bell Pine Tar Honey, 20 Mennen’s Talcum Powder, 15c Liquozone [large] - 85c Laxative Bromo Quinine, 20c Liquozone [small] - 45c All $1.00 Preparations 85c or Less, All 50c Preparations 45c or Less. ANY QUANTITY OF MEDICINE DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF CITY FREE OF CHARGE. ‘“ eS ” Maine “AS Anchor S. H. Finkelstein, Prop. Carries a complete line of Furnishing goods, Hats, Shoes and Umbrellas # wt We Also Make Suits to Your Measure OUR MOTTO: YOUR MONEY’S WORTH Hot Springs Special. Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provided for by the @ se oN Ge gs = O ae Se LTT Sa S oS 7) S Do <— ee ll oes a) 2 <j Asse) £3 #5 pAb = ox Boe = = za 5 eV 5 Leaving Kansas City at 12:01 noon daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Indepen- dence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock, ‘Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this “Hot Springs Special” is the Elegant Dining Cars. This train connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Trains for all Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, call or address , E. S. JEWETT, Gen’! Agt.Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY, MO, Telephone 740 Hickory. ‘Sweetening Sugar. AN sugar is not sweet, or rather sweet enough to come up to the re quired 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 ap- paratus coming in contact with the point of the cone, A thick lquld ts poured on the flat end of the cone and the machinery is set in motion, The holes become the mouths of the sue- tion tubes and the sweetening liquid ts ¢rawn through the cone, giving it the necessary quality. AND WILL BLANCHE BATES mar- ry the man who owns the private car she tavels in, or the writer of the frigid latitudes—Jack London—who was recently divorced. And another dramatic problem; Did Rejane dance on the table? Chinese Marriage Law. Persons bearing the same surname, although they may not be related tn ny way, are forbidden to marry in China.