The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for It Reaches More Homes of Colored Peop.e than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME IX. Attucks and Lincoln Alumni Banquet to President Allen. The night was beautiful, one of those Roosevelt nights, no clouds save one here and there to deepen the blue and intensify the brilliancy of the sparkling stars. 'Line air was balmy. Such was Saturday, April 8, when the Attucks Club banqueted Pres. B. F. Allen of Lincoln Institute. The place was the toothsome restaurant of that debonair princess of the culinary department, Mrs. Carr, 2401 Vine Street. At 8:30 to the tuneful strains of Prof. Chas. Watts' Imperial orchestra, amid palms and red carnations to this Tomato Bisque a la Attucks. Turkey Sandwiches a la Lincoln. Cafe Noir. Potato Salad. The following gentlemen sat down: Pres. B. F. Allen, Principal R. T. Coles, president Attucks Club; J. W. Baldwin, J. Dallas Bowser, R. W. Foster, G. N. Grisham, J. Silas Harris, Regent of L. I.; W. H. Harrison, Independence, Mo.; Archie Wilson, Leavenworth, Kan.; M. D. Wise and W. W. Yates. Messrs. L. V. Raskett, George Clay, H. O. Cook, Henry Counter, W. H. Dawley, W. F. Fairfax, B. B. Francis, C. A. Jackson, G. W. K. Love, Robt. Wiley. Judge I. F. Bradley, Editor Lewis Woods, Professors A. O. Coffin, D. N. Crosthwait, W. E. Griffin, I. M. Hornton B. J. Nesbitt, W. T. White. Doctors J. N. Birch, M. C. Carrion, J. E. Dibble, T. C. Unthank, Hon. N. C. Crews, P. O. D. J. H. Crews, E. S. Lewis and Andrew Nash. Toastmaster Coles announced the regrets of Pres. W. T. Vernon of Quindaro. Promptly at ten began the following toasts: "Our Guest," by the inimitable, W. W. Yates. "The Past Influence of Lincoln Institute," by the suave, J. S. Harris. "The Lincoln Institute Alumni," by the impassioned, I. M. Horton. "The Negro at the Bar," by the rugged, I. F. Bradley. "The Negro at the Desk," by the incomparable, G. N. Grisham. "The Negro With the Grip in His Hand," by the Medical Chesterfield, J. E. Dibble. "The Future of the Negro Industrially," by the versatile, A. O. Coffin. "The Future of the Negro Socially," by the serene, J. Dallas Bowser. "The Future of the Negro Politically," by the goldenmounted, N. C. Crews. "The Future of the Lincoln Institute," by the courtly president, B. F. Allen, under the toastmastership of the affable R. T. Coles. The "reorganized" Attucks Club gave the public to understand that it had lofty ideals to accentuate it this time. There would be no littleness, no petty jealousies to gratify, no big "I's" and little "you's." No organized clique to run things, and the quillible public believed it. But it failed to demonstrate this when it left off the program the names of some of the guests invited to the last banquet. One member of the managing committee has cleverly satisfied the gentlemen that the fault was not his. Now, gentlemen, whose was it? First Grand Excursion of the season to Moberly, Mo., Sunday, April 30, via Wabash. Only $1.25 for the round trip. Money is not everything when you have money, but when you have no money it is everything. A knocker is a back-biter with false teeth. NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION. Upon a Proposition to Issue Bonds of the School District of Kansas City, Notice is hereby given that a Special Election will be held in the School District of Kansas City, in the County of Jackson, State of Missouri, on Saturday, the 6th day of May, A. D. 1905, at which there will be submitted to the qualified voters of said school district a proposition authorizing the Board of Directors of the school district to borrow on behalf of the school district, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), for the purpose of erecting school houses and for the thereof to issue bonds of the school district, said bonds to be one thousand (1,000) in number, each of the denomination of one thousand dollars ($1,000), to be dated July 1st, 1905, payable to bearer twenty (20) years from their date, with interest at the rate of three and one-half (34) percent per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July in each year, coupons for interest to be attached to the bonds; both principal and interest to be payable in the City and State of New York in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness; and authorizing the levy and collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as it falls due and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of said bonds within twenty (20) years from their date. The qualified voters at the election shall vote by ballot; those voting in favor of the loan shall be written or printed on their ticket, "For the Loan," those voting against the loan the words "Against the Loan." Said proposition is submitted and this notice is given in pursuance of a resolution of the Board of Directors of said school district, adopted on the 6th day of April, 1905. JOSEPH L. NORMON, President of the Board of Directors of the School District of Kansas City. W. E. Benson, Secretary. 258 Miles for $1.25, that's what you get on the Moberly Excursion, Sunday, April 30th. Special train leaves Kansas City at 8:30 a. m. Lincoln Institute Gets $77,400. Lincoln Institute, the state normal school for the colored people, located at Jefferson City, Mo., gets by appropriation from the Forty-third general assembly of Missouri this year the handsome sum of $77,400. It is the highest sum ever appropriated to this school, and greater than any ever granted a Negro school by a legislature in the United States. Of this sum, $25,000 is to be used to build a new dormitory for young women pupils; $1,000 for additional books for the library; $1,000 for the summer school. The Son is a puny Mortal. It doesn't presume to dictate to God Almighty. But we find it hard to see why providence suffers such a man as Gova Vardaman of Mississippi, to use his common sense and his acquired sense to impede the progress of a struggling race which is and always must be a part of this country's national body. If we go upward we strengthen this nation, if downward we bring weakness and decay. And, too, it seems that the Kansas City Journal delights to print such damaging rot as this. We see through its trick of bringing out an editorial the next day repudiating the article. The editorial comes after the poison is sown. It is another case of "suck the eggs and hide the shells." If a Negro has the right sort of pride he will not pay for the Journal. One side of the story always sounds true until you hear the other. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, APRIL 1905. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. Now that the municipal election is over every one is calmly considering the question of bonds for the new colored high school. In the late election our people were very much divided, but now they should come together like men and vote against the bonds. There is only one regret in the late election and that is that the republicans became so divided that the democrats got into power in the city, but this is all over now and let the race work, talk, and vote against the issue of new bonds for a "Jim Crow" high school, because there is no ground whatever for such a course to be persuaded. Professor Stewart, the son of Chaplain Stewart, U. S. A., is visiting friends in Kansas City, Kan. The professor has been employed by the government as a teacher in the public schools in Porto Rico. He is now of Chaplain Prelieu of Fort Riley are touring the states. The many friends pleased to know that he has been promoted and will hereafter be stationed at Jefferson barracks at St. Louis. He and his young bride spent a few days in Kansas City with relatives and friends the past week. There will be two splendid concerts given at St. John's A. M. E. church, 941 Bell St. Kansas City, Mo., next Monday and Tuesday nights. Some of the best musical and literary talent of the two Kansas Cities will appear on the program. Miss Bertha Cole will appear as queen of the Legend, of spring in the 3-act operetta, Monday night. Mrs. Lena Mason is conducting revival services at St. John's A. M. E. church. The meetings are attended by large crowds nightly. Several persons have already joined the church. She will preach there Sunday and Sunday night. Come and hear this gifted woman. Mrs. C. E. Jones wishes to announce the marriage of her daughter, Emma Virginia, to N. Arthur Rice, Sunday, March 19th, 1905. We wish them a happy voyage over the sea of life. They are now at their home, 142 North 3rd Avenue, Pocatello, Ida. Mrs. G. H. Bennett of 1527 Virginia Ave., and niece, Miss Reynolds, have returned from Omaha, where they were called to attend the funeral of their nephew and cousin, Mr. George Harris. Moberly is considered one of the most beautiful cities of the state. Sunday, April 30th, you can go there and back for $1.25 on the Wabash. Everybody going to Moberly on Sunday, April 30th; join the merry crowd and have a nice outing. Mr. M. R. Strong has returned from a several months' visit from Mississippi. Mr. Everett Wilburn recently secured employment with the Pullman company. Mrs. L. R. Scruggs, who has been sick for a long while, was able to be at church Sunday. Rev. Vaughan will have baptizing at his church Easter Sunday morning. Bishop A. Grant went to Hannibal last week. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but it is hard to make the bird believe it. Fate may lead us up to the door of the hall of fame, but when capital whistles, we stand outside and listen. Spaniels Always on Duty. Spaniels are full of resource, and their exploits in retrieving wounded birds are wonderful. A small brown and white spaniel broke its foreleg, which was set in stiff bandages hardened with some preparation. It could only go on three legs, but hopped out after its master with the other dogs when these were taken for a walk. There had been a pheasant shoot, and the little spaniel could not resist slipping off to smell down the side of a small belt. It discovered a winged cock pheasant, dashed after it on three legs and caught and retrieved it, hopping into the road with the big bird in its mouth—County Gentleman (London). Cultivate the Memory. Many people complain of having a poor memory, and yet that faculty can be developed as easily as can the bleeps muscle. Nor is it necessary to go to any professor of memory or to master any elaborate system in order to accomplish this result. One does not have to go to a gymnasium to strengthen the arm or back. Chopping wood or rowing a boat will do it. Similarly, memory may be cultivated by an effort and amid ordinary pursuits. First Life Insurance Policy The first life insurance policy of which the details are on record resulted in a lawsuit: William Gybbons insured himself on June 15, 1583, for £383 against dying in twelve months; he died on May 18 of the next year—and the disgusted underwriters the company of those days) contested payment on the plea that he had lived twelve months of twenty-eight fays each!—The World's Work. Can Live Without Spleen. That a human being can live without a spleen has been thoroughly established. At one time it was supposed that the spleen produced the red blood corpuscles of the white ones, or charged the one into the other; but since it is known that the bone-marrow has something to do with the production of corpuscles, and that spleenless men can live in perfect health, more operations are being performed for the removal of this organ. Experiment Worth Trying For good spirits, god humor, good conduct and good living, so say cheerful thinkers, try the simple expedient of saving a little money, from week to week. As the bank balance grows so will grow high ideals of business and social existence, to say nothing of the moral courage that dares to think deeply, to claim unswerving allegiance with the cause of the just and right. Stopping an Epidemic. An epidemic in Kambun, Japan, was traced to a certain stream of water, but as the natives who drank the water could neither see nor smell the germs of the disease, they continued to drink from the stream. Then the police allowed kerosene oil to trickle into the water, and this evidence of pollution proved convincing and ended the epidemic. FISHING LINES FROM GRUBS Details In the Manufacture of Silk worm 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. Gallantry to Burn. It always makes us mad to see statements that the "old fashioned women" were better cooks or housekeepers than the women of the present day. The woman of the present day is good enough for us, or for anybody. There are a few shiftless women, but the great majority of them are admirable.-Opelika News. Human Perversity. In one of the old English comedies an undertaker reproves one of his mourners for laughing at a funeral, and says to him: "You bad fellow, you! I have been raising your wages these two years, upon condition that you should appear more sorrowful and the higher wages you receive the happier you look!" Use of Asbestos Increasing The use of asbestos by electricians is daily increasing, for it meets the most exacting requirements for purposes of insulation. Its latest application is to the "electrotherm," the new device which is already taking the place of hot-water bottles in hospitals and sickrooms. Children Sodden With Liquor The cantonal school board of Ticino, in Switzerland, complains in a circular to parents that owing to children being allowed at home to partake too freely of the strong native liquor, boys and girls often go to school in a hopelessly intoxicated condition. Mouse Made Nest of Currency. John Shanley of Milford, Coun., put a $ bill in a pocket of one of his coats, to find that some small mouse had a nest in the pocket and bad chewed up $5 of his hard-earned money to make a nice soft bed for it self. First Use of Piano There are 10,700 pieces of wood, cloth, and felt, and 1,185 feet of wire in a concert grand-piano. The earliest recorded public performance on the piano forte took place at Covent Garden, England, on May 16th, 1767. Made III by Unfiltered Water After a club dinner at a hotel in Stockholm, says the Frankfurter Zeitung, several hundred persons fell ill of typhoid, due to unfiltered river water being used for washing the vegetables. Canada an Anglers' Paradise Canada is the paradise of the angler Within easy range of Quebec are hundreds of lakes, sometimes miles in extent, which swarm with fish, and nearly all of which are free to all comers. Bless Their Hearts! The women who love you in the right way may not remember if you like poetry, but they always put up some of your kind of jam and pickles. — Atchison Globe. Cut Off Brandy Supply. The French government has abolished the cantinieres, who were a feature of every regiment. They were women who supplied the soldiers with brandy. Stone Coffin Salesmen The Liverpool police have stopped the practice—common there—of canvassing for the sale of coffins at houses where a death has taken place Cookery for Danes. A course of cooking lessons for men only has been begun in Copenhagen under the auspices of an influential committee. Youths on Coroners' Juries An English coroner points out the little-known fact that all persons over 12 years of age can be called upon as lurors. Emery Producers Greece and the Ionian islands produce more emergy than any other country on the globe. First Newspaper Ad The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652 NUMBER 51. SLAVES SATISFIED WITH LOT. Under Mohammedm Masters Conditions Are Not Severe. "In Zanzibar and Pemba slaves are very slow to take advantage of the regulations that give them the right to claim their freedom" says a traveler. "They realize that so long as they are well used their position is superior to that of the man whose freedom is his sole asset. I have found the same attitude in North Africa. From Morocco to Tripoli one sees most of the slaves well content and flourishing. The famine, the locusts, the drought and the tax collector have no terror for them; work keeps them healthy, they have enough to eat and drink and the future has no meaning at all. There is promotion; there are confidential missions to governors and friends that elevate a slave, if only in the eyes of his fellows, and there is always a chance of manumission when the owner dies and wishes to have some good deeds recorded in the books of Islam's recording angels. The sorry truth of the matter is that slaves under Mohammedan rule are much better off than they ever were under the rule of white men—in America and elsewhere." THANKS OF THE BAILIE. Possibly More Truth in Speech Than He Intended. There was an excellent man who, after serving his fellow citizens in Glasgow as a councillor, at length was promoted to the dignity of bailie, or alderman, as the rank is called in England. Though he was none the worse on that account, it is the simple fact that his education had been neglected. This he proceeded to prove—himself happily unconscious—in his speech of thanks: "I canna but say, my friends, that I am proud of the honor of being made a bailie of this great city; and I am even, I think, entitled to the honor, for I have gone through a' the various stages o' degradation that a bailie has to do to reach it!" This recalls the famous story of the councillor who objected to a proposal to place a candelabra in the council chamber on the ground that they would need to pay some one to play it! Her Transformation. **Information.** She drank quantities of water, ate a lot of starry foods. Abstained from exercising every day; She assimilated hactic and a case of malted goods. But she named her fate to have to fade away. She so mourned attenuation, with a vantage like an owls. That a smile upon her face was never seen. While below her mouth were wrinkles, and above her eyes were sowls, And her nose was like a hatchet in between. But one day she fell to laughing in a strange, hysteric way. Just in thinking how ridiculous it provided. And it mellowed to a cackle that was sane enough, they sathet. Till at last she giggled every time she moved. Why, she clanked off her wrinkles, and she snickered off her frowns. And then took to all the things she shouldn't do; Now she's grown as fat as butter, and has outgrown all her gowns. But she laughs away at that disaster, too. —Elliot Walker in the Woman's Home Companion. Turquoise the Stone of the East. TURQUOISE the Stone or the East. The best turquoises are found in the celebrated Nishapur mines in Persia, in which district are two whole villages inhabited by turquois miners, who work at a depth of eighty or ninety feet below the ground, breaking the rock with hammers. Upon a turquoise being discovered, it is laid aside in its rough state, and afterwards extracted from its matrix by an elaborate method. Besides these mines, there are others known as khaki (earth) mines, in which the gems are found in boose soil, two or three feet below the surface. No Oriental, however poor, but manages to become possessed of a turquoise, even if it is only in a tin setting. Most people make sure they are in good health before they sing: "I want to be an angel." Charity covers a multitude of sins with red tape. RELIGIOUS Blow, winds of God, and bring us on our way. We set the sails to catch thee if we may. The night is dark with storm and tossing spray. And we we trust the morning, and we blow, winds of God, and bring us on our way. We will not think we are the wild waves' sport. A track is on the deep that hads to port. We follow, and the hardships dare to court. If Thou wilt guide us, we shall make the way. Blow, winds of God, and bring us on our way. Sometimes the sea is lonely. There be few. Who sail with us to countries rich and new. Some they might not safely weather through. But yet our way is onward, and we pray. Blow, winds of God, and bring us on our way. The Lowly Great. There are some plants that grow in solitary places, among desert paths, and far up mountain slopes where the hail smites them and tempests rock the sheltering hills. They are there not because the environment of soil and air are favorable for their existence, but because in these unfriendly places nothing else could live. They have their mission. They cheer the lonely traveler when crossing the barren terrains, for him they shed their fragrance on the air, or quicken his hope when climbing Alpine slopes, when hope is ready to die, suggesting God's thoughtfulness for those who, like Joseph, are separated from their brethren, and declaring his sympathetic presence in the uttermost parts of the earth as certainly as in the capitols of world-renowned empires. So there are many of God's sentient creatures dwelling in lowly places where life is maintained with effort, where voices of cheer are seldom heard, and there is nothing to stimulate an ambition to rise. To this class belong the laborer in the mines, the maid in the kitchen, the nurse ministering to age and infirmity, the farmer coaxing bread from rocky hillsides, or the stoker shovelling coal in the vessel's hold. It is a long way from such positions to the czar's throne, or the painter's studio, or the author's library, where he is employed in writing thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Yet they, too, who fill humble places have a mission, and God's love finds expression in the appointment of the lot. Their work is greater than it seems. Vast industries could have no existence without them, powerful kingdoms could never rise and rule if they did not lay the foundation and support the super structures; and the possibilities of Christian character would never have been known, had there not been such lewily lives, unfolding in strength and beauty and quietly enduring their bonesiness, disappointment, loss and pain, ever repeating the words that broke the silence of Gethsemane "Father, thy will not mine be done." In our measurement of men and their usefulness we may greatly err, and fail to discover God's relations to his own. The lowest may yet prove the mightiest, the humblest God's favorites, the greatest sufferers the most beloved of the Man of Sorrows, and when eternity shall come they may live in the goodliest mansions, wear the brightest crowns and serve in the highest places, the rewards of the future life being determined by an infallible judgment and paternal love. And all that is only a little way on; an infinite compensation for all that we suffer here, a joy that is complete, secure, eternal.—Rev. Robert F. Sample, D. D. Christian Courtesy. be courteous.—I Peter, lit. 8. One man said of another: "He is a good man, I believe, but he certainly is not very agreeable." One of the most popular English essayists of to-day remarked that we might say of some disciples of the Savior as the dog said of the hedgehog: "A rough Christian." But really there is no such a thing as a rough Christian. In proportion as one is rough and disobliging, he is not a Christian. Goodness ought to be agreeable. The New Testament is as severe in its rebuke of incivility as the Chinaman was in San Francisco. An American walking along the sidewalk pushed the Chinaman off so rudely that he fell in the mud. With the forbearance that marks his race, the Chinaman arose and began quietly to brush off the mud. And then as he went on his way, he said: "You Christian. Me heathen. Goodby." The New Testament parts company with the uncivil man as completely as that. It wants none of him. The most striking characteristic of the Savior was that he was meek and lowly in heart, and that must be the badge of his disciples as well. It may seem a little strange that such a command as this "Be courteous" should have a place in the Bible. To treat one another with genuine politeness may be important, but it hardly seems all-important. Kindness no doubt is a grace, but it is usually supposed to be a secondary grace of Christian character. We should not expect that God would inspire an apostle to tell us to treat each other courteously. But that is precisely what is done here. And since that is the case it may be that our notion of the importance of this grace is awry, and that it really is a more momentous matter than we supposed. Any one who reads the Bible carefully with this thing in mind will come to the end of it with the conviction that there is only one thing in the world greater than kindness of heart, and that is purity of heart. The greatest thing in the world is boliness; the next greatest thing is real courtesy. The Bible has a great deal to say about our manners to our fellowmen. The Bible is the best book of etiquette ever written. All that it says helps a man toward real grace of heart and demeanor. Whatever is rude in act, coarse and unlovely in character, ungentle in word or thought it unsparingly condemns. Instead of being one of the minor virtues real Christian courtesy includes in itself all the graces there are. Love is at the center of the Christian system, and courtesy is simply the way in which love expresses itself. It is a grace that the poor man can exercise as well as the rich, and the untaught as well as the cultured. It is altogether a matter of the heart. If the heart is kind the manners are sure to be gentle. No grace is more needed it, the world and none is more potent for good than courtesy. And it has the unusual merit of blessing him who gives as well as him who takes. Just as surely as one gives quietness for noisy abuse and kindness for discourtesy, so surely will he bring happiness and peace to the hearts of others and promote the well being of his own heart also. It is like the seed that the farmer sows. He gets it back multiplied. It is like the miracle of the loaves and fishes—there is more left when the meal is over than there was at the beginning. It is like a candle. You can light numberless other candles at its flame and leave its brightness undiminished. It was chiseled on the headstone of a beautiful young girl, "She was always so pleasant." That is a eulogy to be coveted. None are more blessed than they who know how to brighten the lives of others and make their way easier. We are sure to make men's hearts better when we show that goodness is agreeable.—Rev. Frank M. Goodchild. Conscience the Soul's Looking-Glass. This is a metaphor admirably true and appropriate. As in a looking glass a man views his bodily appearance, imaged without disguise or flattery, and is thus enabled to attend to whatsoever in his dress or person requires correction; so the soul, consulting the God given faculty of conscience, beholds, more brightly or more dimly outlined, in its mysterious depths, a faithful copy of its essential self with all its foulness and deformity as boldly depicted as its traits of goodness, truth and beauty. To see ourselves as we appear to others is a gift greatly to be desired and much to be profiled by; but how far do we transcend that point of view when we fully appreciate the power and authority of conscience, which not only exhibits us to our own eyes as we seem to our fellow-creatures, but, in some faint degree at least, as we strike the all-seeing eye of our Creator. The accusing image of himself seen by the man who heeds his conscience aright, is the authentic voice of God in his soul. But there is no virtue in the mere existence of this faculty. Without illumination the mirror has neither use nor meaning. So must the Divine light from above be allowed and invited to bathe the depths of our being before there can be any answering reflection in the mirror of the soul. Moreover, its surface must be kept burnished by constant use—neither dimmed by the evil damps of moral corruption, the impure exhalations of our baser desires, nor tarnished with the dust of negligence and decay. And, as a perfect reflector presents a complete barrier to the beams falling upon it, throwing back in undiminished brightness all the light that reaches its surface, so does a good conscience, when confronted by the soul in search of moral guidance or enlightenment, approval or warning, possess the property of shutting out from view behind itself all external objects and interests that might otherwise shine through from beyond to distort, confuse, or darken its oracular responses. Thus does an alert and sensitive conscience confer upon the human spirit the lofty power and privilege of seeing itself clearly in the Light of God—Alex. Matheson. Earthly Faithfulness. Earthly faithfulness is possible only by the reception of heavenly gifts. As surely as every leaf that grows is mainly water that the plant has got from the clouds, and carbon that it has got out of the atmosphere, so surely will all our good be mainly drawn from heaven and heaven's gifts. As certainly as every lump of coal that you put on your fire contains in itself sunbeams that have been locked up for all these million niums that have passed since it wave, green in the forests, so certainly does every good deed embody in itself gifts from above. And no man is pure except by impartation; and every good thing, and every perfect thing cometh from the Father of Lights.—Dr. Alez Maclaren. CHLOROFORM HIM, BY ALL MEANS! DR OSLER'S CHLOROFORM FOR THE SUPERANNUATED. FREE TRADE TARIFF REFORMER --- FACTS EXAGGERATED CONDITION OF POORER CLASSES IN AMERICA. In Spite of Large Immigration and Consequent Overcrowding Employment Is Abundant and the Percentage of Destitution in Large Cities Is Extremely Small. While no one questions that the condition of the poorer classes throughout the country is far better than ever before known, and infinitely better than found in any other country on the face of the globe, yet we hear from time to time most astounding statements of conditions in New York city, which if true, are worthy of consideration. We are frequently told that from one to two hundred thousand men are out of work, that fifty thousand children go breakfastless to school every morning, and that other equally astounding conditions prevail. It would not be really surprising if there reports were true when it is considered that there are dumped into this port every month over fifty thousand emigrants, and that every year more than three hundred thousand of these foreigners become a part of the population of the metropolis, and at once begin either to earn a livelihood or be objects of charity or philanthropy. It has been and is one of the greatest proofs of the beneficence of a protective tariff that the metropolis of this country has been able so easily and substantially to assimilate this great number of newcomers, who seem to be as unfailing as the snows of winter and the rains of summer. And so we repeat that it would not be surprising if there were one hundred or two hundred thousand unemployed at any particular time and if fifty thousand children went breakfastless to school every morning; but it seems that these statements are not only untrue, but absolutely absurd. For some months these figures have been going the rounds of the press, and in this time the matter has been CHLOROFORM HIM DR OSLER'S CHLOROFORM FOR THE SUPERANNUATED. tully investigated by an authority than whom there could be none better in the whole city—namely, Mr. Edward T. Devine, secretary of the New York Charity Organization society. Mr. Devine finds, in the first place, that there are in the city some fifteen or sixteen thousand men who float around from one cheap lodging house to another and who are found in the "bread line," and the "newspaper line," and the "lodging line," not only going from one to another, but oftentimes repeating in the same line. Mr. Devine says of this fifteen or sixteen thousand that the "numbers are permanent, the individuals are not; that they are not men who are ever regularly employed, and if they were left to themselves they would not do anything or be anything different." Mr. Devine expresses his amazement at the statement regarding breakfastless children. He has found but few, if any, and in confirmation of his statement that there are but few families who suffered in the metropolis during the past winter, he told the result of a special test which was as follows: "During the three days of blizzard, beginning January 25, we notified all the policemen of the city and all the inspectors of the health and tenement house departments that any emergency relief which they might give, to the amount of not more than $2 for any one family, would be reimbursed by us. That reimbursement is just finished, and how much do you think we were called upon to pay to these several thousand persons given carte blanche to furnish relief in our name for three days? Just $250. This proves that all these persons, employed either outside or inside the tenement districts of the city, came in contact with not more than 125 families who, in their opinion, needed immediate relief." We may conclude, then, that the condition of the working classes in this city, in spite of the enormous immigration and in spite of the fact that fully one hundred thousand skilled laborers have been affected for the past year or two by the builders' strike, is far better than certain pessimists would have us suppose. In fact, the condition of the people in New York city is surprisingly good, and it is evident that perhaps, with few exceptions, every one who wishes employment can find it. This is evident from the few calls for help, also from the immense savings of the people and also because of the immense consumptive power of the vast population found on the east side of the city. It all compares most sharply with the condition of the working classes in English cities, particularly in London, where according to several unquestioned authorities, at least one half of the population are to a degree dependent upon the charity and philanthropy of the other half. The tales of distress in the cities of free trade England are too well known to be repeated. There is no remedy but work, and work can only come through protection. With such splendid conditions in our own country, and particularly in our own great cities, we should be slow indeed to change a tariff that has brought such prosperity to the masses and to all the people in general. The Need of a Tariff. The Manchester, England, Textile Mercury comments editorially upon the fact that a British carpet manufacturer had for twenty years sent one third of his product to the United States, but that now he was excluded from this market. It also states the fact that a similar condition exists among the dress goods manufacturers of Glasgow, Scotland, the exportation to this country having fallen off very considerably. Not only that, but the exportations both of carpets and of dress goods to Germany and to the Continent have fallen off. Because of this he argued that it was essential in order to save the English market to English manufacturers for some taxation to be put upon cheaply made imports of textile fabrics. In other words, this Glasgow manufacturer sees his export markets wiped out and his domestic market encroached upon by the products of Continental manufacturers. He argues in favor of a protective tariff, of a tariff which will insure to him his home market. These appeals are not infrequent in M, BY ALL MEANS! FREE TRADE TARIFF REFORMER free trade England, and the day may come when they will be listened to and acceded to.—Textile Manufacturers' Journal. At the Expense of Americans At the Expense of Americans. Judge Taft thinks that the Philippines can be made more prosperous by sacrificing some of our home interests to them. Thus the tariff bill, in favor of which he spoke so warmly, proposes to sacrifice the sugar industry of Louisiana and the sugar beet growers of the West in order to stimulate the cultivation of cane in our Pacific colonies; and in similar manner the tobacco, fruit and other American industries are to be sacrificed. The failure of the Philippine tariff bill is sufficient evidence that Congress did not take this wonderfully altruistic view of the case, and did not see the wisdom of enriching Filipinos at the expense of Americans.—New Orleans Times. Canada Wants None of It Canada Wants None of It. The Canadian premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, has politely informed Washington that it will be "impossible for the Joint High Commission to reconvene." Canada, it appears, has no disposition to revive the effort to settle anything under existing conditions. After repeated rebuffs from our side our northern neighbor has at last become indifferent to the whole matter of better trade relations with us. Insetad, Canada has turned to cultivating commercial independence through a protective tariff of her own, and establishing closer relations with the mother country by preferential duties. —Portland (Me.) Argus. Tariff and Politics. Before we can talk of expert handling of the tariff question it must be taken out of politics. The people of the country must come to a common tariff ground. Either the Democrats must abandon free trade or the Republicans forsake their protective ideas. With the country agreed on the principle of the thing, the fixing of schedules would be but an administrative act in which knowledge might have full play.—Trenton Gazette. 9,000 DROPS CASTORIA Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. 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Itaway, only waiting for men like you to make them yield the wonderful crops of which they are aware of; and the business of making them successful to make them make successful you have only to establish them and use ordinary business judgment in conducting them. There are openings for mills and manufacturing plants, small stores, newspapers, newspapers, Oklahoma is new and offer wonderful opportunities for development. NOW IS THE TIME! The M. K. & T. Railway has no nands for sale, but ITIS interested in building up this wonderful, rich country. We believe the Southwest has brighter prospects than any other section of country—will have an opportunity to investigate small expense. On these dates excursion tickets will be sold via the M. K. & T. Railway to Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Texas, at Less Than One Fare For The Round Trip. THE MK AND T Take advantage of this opportunity and see the Southwest for yourself. We are in possession of all sorts of information valuable alike to the investor and homeowner. If you are interested, tell us what you want, how much you have to invest and we will gladly furnish the information. Write to-day for a copy of our book "The Coming Country." It's free. Address GEORGE HORTON, G. P. & T. A., Box B-918, St. Louis, Mo. G. W. SMITH, N. P. A., 1818 Marquee Building, Chicago, IL. H. F. HOWNKLEY, D. P. A., 408 Traction Building, Chelsea, Ohio. T. H. COOKRELL, A. P. A., 218 Citizens Hall Bank Bldg, Dee Springs, Iowa. Very Accommodating. The palm of politeness should go to the hero of the following incident in London. During the recent fog there were seventeen people in a London and Southwestern compartment. Another tried to squeeze in and failed. "Can't get any further," cried a man inside, "there's a man here with a wooden leg blocking the way." "Oh!" said the man with the wooden leg; "excuse me. Half a moment." He unscrewed his leg and put it on the rack. Don't make the hens stupid, lazy and unprofitable by overfeeding. The active, eager hen is the one that increases the egg supply. "What did Borroughs say when you made him that loan?" "Said he would be under obligations to me to the end of time." "Well, I guess he will." USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Lemon juice added to milk until it curds and these curds then bound up on parts swollen from rhumatism will bring relief. Great Scheme. "I'd like to interest you in an insurance scheme—" "Get out! I'm tired of talking to insurance men." "Ah! That's just it. Our scheme is to insure you against the importunities of insurance men."—Philadelphia Press. Cleveland Leader: "Down in the mouth, Mr. Boarder? "That's it exactly." "What's it?" "Down in the mouth." The chickens we had for dinner hadn't been properly picked." New York Sun: Dr. Gullotin had just invented his machine. "I was trying to get something for Mrs. Gullotin to sharpen her penell with instead of my razor," he explained. When his own life paid the penalty, the ladies agreed that it served him just right. Miss Strate—What were you gentlemen talking about when I came in? Gentlemen (in chorus)—Oh, nothing of importance. Miss Strate—Of course not, but what was it?—Ally Sloper. Mrs. Suburb—"You look tired out." Mr. Suburb—"I am. I have been searching for the tens of thousands of unemployed that the papers talk about." "Do you wish to help them?" "Yes. I want a man to shovel snow, but I guess I'll have to do it myself." Seed all the bare ground in the vicinity of the poultry yard to rye, crimson clover or rape or pasture at all seasons of the year. Ready tor Action. Miles—I understand Knox and Howell have at last buried the hatchet and are working together for political advancement. Giles—They may have buried the hatchet, but I'll bet each of them has a hammer up his sleeve. First Merchant—Is your typewriter expert? Second Merchant—Well, I should say so! She can pound on her machine, chew gum and isscuss Parsifal with the next door girl at one and the same time with the greatest of eas. WHO OWNS THE RAILROADS? H. T. Newcomb of the District of Columbia Bar, has compiled statistics showing that 5,174,718 depositors in savings banks of six eastern states are directly interested in the joint ownership of $442,354,086 of steam railroad securities, that insurance companies doing business in Massachusetts hold $845,889,038 of steam railroad stocks and bonds and 74 educational institutions depend on $47,468,327 invested in similar securities for a portion of their income. Other fiduciary institutions own enough railroad securities to bring such holding up to more than a billion and a half dollars, about one-sixth of the entire capital invested in railroad property. These investments represent the savings of the masses, there being twenty million holders of life insurance policies in the country, as many more of fire insurance policies, and an even greater number of depositors in banking and trust institutions, where investments are largely in railroad securities. Some wise old saws are so old their teeth have about all been worn out. Write to S. G. Warner, G. P. and T. A., Kansas City Southern Ry., Kansas City, Mo., for information concerning Free Government Homesteads, New Colony Locations, Improved farms, Mineral lands, Rice lands, and Timber lands and for copy of "Current Events" Business Opportunities, Rice book, K. C. S. Fruit Book. Cheap round trip homeseekers tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of each month. The short line to the "Land of Fulfillment." Overheard Between Dances. Grayce—Why does Helene keep her face turned so steadfastly toward that Boston girl? Afraid she'll steal her beau? Gladys—Oh, no; it isn't that. Somebody told her it was dangerous to catch cold in the back. King Arthur has just invented the round table. "You see," he explained, "Gulenevere wants to kick the children under the table when there isn't enough to go round." New York Sun Courage There are who, bending supple knees, Live for no end except to please, Rising to fame by mean degrees; But creep not thou with these. They have their due reward: they bend Their lives to an unworthy end— On empty aims the toll expend Which had secured a friend. But be not thou as these, whose mind Is to the passing hour confined; Let no ignoble fetters bind Thy soul, as free as wind. Stand upright, speak thy thought, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere; They only live who dare. —Sir Lewis Morris. TWO of a KIND BY J. C. PLUMTER (Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Mr. Philip Thompson's eyes strayed over to a map of the United Kingdom hanging against the office wall. "A dangerous coast the northeastern part of Scotland, Captain McLeod," he said carelessly, "a likely place for a wreck." "Ferry," assented Captain McLeod. "Then there's the Orkneys and the Shetlands, bad places those in a fog, Captain." The Captain nodded and looked at Mr. Thompson, then he looked out of the window. "You are going to take the Curlew to Gottenburg," continued Mr. Thompson, "and you'll come back in ballast. You'll probably take a northern route which will about bring you off that coast. It's autumn and the season for fogs, so be careful, Captain." "Et wad be a bad thing for me, a sheepwreck," said Captain McLead. "Aw might be a year finding another sheep." "No, no," replied Mr. Thompson, "I know you are a careful skipper, and if Providence ordains that the Curlew should be lost I'd see you'd another ship. More, I'd obligate myself to pay you a hundred pounds to tide you over until you did get a ship. Then you could pay it back." "Wad ye put that in writing?" inquired the skipper. "Certainly. Give me a shilling, Captain." Mr. Thompson wrote rapidly and then handed the paper to the skipper. Captain McLeod read, "For the sum of one shilling, received. I insure Captain David McLeod against the wreck of the steamer Curlew on the passage from Gottenburg to Shields, in the sum of one hundred pounds. (Signed) "PHILIP THOMPSON." "There," he said, "you see what a careful skipper I think you." Captain McLeod read the paper carefully, put it in his pocket and went down to the docks. Mr. Thompson put on his overcoat and attended a meeting of the vestry of St. Barnabas church. That evening Captain McLeod went aboard the steamer Moray, loading for Revs' She was commanded and owned by a fellow Scot, Fergus McClesh. The two skippers earnedestly until late in the night and parted with a gleam in their eyes. The morning of his departure Captain McLeod read prayers with his family and cautioned his daughters to avoid invitations to places where there was dancing. "Eet's the devil's own game," he said, "and wha wee going on ees na place for the daughters of a godly man." "Be very careful, Captain," said Mr. Thompson as he bade the skiipper A "Wad ye put that in writing?" inquired the skipper. farewell. "Don't let anything happen to the old Curlew." "Ees she censured, sir?" inquired the skipper. "All my ships are insured," replied Mr. Thompson. "The Curlew is insured for five thousand pounds." Mr. Philip Thompson, who had been for a whole year vainly trying to sell the steamer Curlew, watched her departure thoughtfully. Capt. McLood, standing on the bridge, looked back at Mr. Thompson standing on the wharf and shook his head, thoughtfully. Two days later the Moray. Captain McCliesh, cleared for Reval. The Curlew had a prosperous passage to Gottenburg, but she was slow in discharging cargo. When she had taken on ballast and was ready to return to Shields Captain McLeod wired that fact to his friend Captain McCllesh, who was then at Reval and ready to sail on his return to England. The shilling which Captain McLeod had spent in having Mr. Phillip Thompson insure his safe passage from Gottenburg to Shields did not appear such a bad investment that night of the twentieth of October when the Curlew, enveloped in as thick a fog as ever crawled over the German ocean, tossed in an ugly swell off the northeast coast of Scotland. That Captain McLeod was a care- ZIMBABWE Swore deeply and profanely, ful, conscientious skipper was evidenced by the fact that when night added its blackness to the fog he would trust the helm to no one save himself. He telegraphed so frequently to the engineer that he must have been navigating with great care, but accidents will happen to the most careful, and the Curlew took the ground with a jar which threw the mate prostrate on the deck. Sallors and stokers rushed on deck panic-stricken, for a grounding on that part of the Scotch coast meant, usually, death to all or part of a crew. "There's na use in standing by her," said the Captain, "get awa the boats." With remarkable luck or skill Captain McLeod piloted his shipwrecked crew over that ugly swell safely into a small fishing harbor and then it was that Mr. Philip Thompson heard that the Curlew was lost, and smiled, and old seamen visiting Lloyds in London read of the wreck and, shaking their grizzly heads, wondered what a ship bound for Shields was doing so far to the north. Capt. McLeod was not the only navigator who, for some reason, lay a course to the northward. When the Moray came out of the Baltic instead of clearing sou-west, or even west, Captain McCllesh pointed her nose nor-west as if he had a cargo to deliver at the Shetland islands. Mr. Philip Thompson was astounded to receive the news that the steamer Moray had arrived at Aberdeen with the Curlew in tow, having pulled her off the shore on the northeast coast of Scotland. That the news was not altogether welcome to Mr. Thompson may be inferred from the fact that, though a vestryman, he swore deeply and profanely when he heard it and even shocked Captain McLeod, who had arrived in Shields that morning, by swearing in his presence. "There's na man has the luck of Fergus McCliesh," muttered Captain McLeod. "Everything turns to siller in his hands. Aw've no sheep, and ma ensurance ees na guld since the Curlew's saved." Mr. Thompson commended Captain McLeod and McCliesh to a region from which St. Barnabas church was doing all it could to rescue people and fell into a brown study, from which Captain McLeod made no move to arouse him. The salvage awarded Captain McClesh was a generous one, and Captain McLeod called to congratulate him. "Ye're a navigator, Davie," remarked Captain McClesh with a grin. "A hundred yards above or below where the Curlew grounded she'd ha' been smashed like an egg. Mon, ye're a navigator." The board did not agree with Captain McClesh as to the ability of Captain McLeod as a navigator. They deemed his being so far out of his course ground for the removal of his certificate. Oddly enough, this misfortune did not depress Captain McLeod. He deposited in the bank of Aberdeen a check for several hundred pounds, which check bore the signature of Fergus McCliesh. With this sum the skipper bought an interest in a fishing business and gave up the sea. "Davie," said Mrs. McLeod, as she and her husband walked to kirk with their two daughters, most becomingly attired, in front, "I hope ye did na get this money in a sinfu' way." "Woman," exclaimed Captain McLeod, "wad ye think it sinfu' to hit the deli wil' a chunk of his own breemstone?" Mrs. McLeod's countenance cleared and she smiled with pride at the excellent appearance of her two daughters. RENDERED VERDICT IN RHYME Foreman of Texas Jury "Dropped" Into Poetry. A correspondent calls our attention to an interesting verdict which was rendered in the District Court of Travis county, Tex., in 1857. The defendant, Frank B. Rafter, at that time a well known citizen of Austm, was accused of gambling, which was not regarded as a very serious offense in Texas in those early days, especially if the offender chanced to be a prominent citizen. The prosecution was generally treated as a pleasant jest, but was nevertheless carried through in earnest, and a jury composed of lawyers brought in the following verdict: We, the jury, lawful men, Fine the defendant dollars ten; A guilty man beyond all doubt, Let the defendant pay himself out. Thus we've said this freezing morn. Your obedient servant, A. O. Horne, The composition of this verdict is attributed to A. W. Terrell, who at the time of his service on the jury was a young lawyer. Afterward he attained great distinction in practice, served as a District court judge, and was United States minister to Turkey under President Cleveland. Other members of the same jury who afterward achieved renown were Charles S. West, who rose to be a justice of the Texas Supreme court, and F. W. Chandler, who became one of the leaders of the Texas bar—Law Notes. Some Fabulous Confabs Zeus had been enthroned and announced that he could do up all the other gods by his sheer strength, but the king of heaven didn't seem to be in a very good humor for all that, and the rest of the divinities wondered what was wrong. Taking Hebe to one side, Zeus queried: "What was that stuff I drank last night, and why under the shade of Olympus do I feel like the second joint of a stewed owl this morning? You served the drinks, I think; maybe you can tell me what's wrong." "Huh!" snorted the pert young damsel of the wine cup. "You ought to know. It's your funeral. Don't you know yesterday was inauguration day?" "And was I inaugurated?" asked Zeus in a stage whisper. "Sure; don't you feel like it?" And the dread monarch, pressing his hands to his aching brow, wondered if the game was worth the candle after all. Robbie's Notion of Church church is a place whare yu go when sunday comes and yu wud rather stay hoam. when you git reddy to go to church yu put on yure best cloes and then when yu git to church yu see some peepele that has got better cloes and yu doant think about what the teecher says but moar about what yure frends is waring that is better than yures. I doant go to church but Ma makes me go to sunday school and she makes Pa go to church. I doant think he wants to go but he is afrade of Ma and he puts on his hat and cote and says Well I wish thare wasnt any preechers to tell me whare to git off. Then Ma sniffs and says Yu wud be a pritty sight if preechers dident help yu from going to the Dogs. And then Pa says yu dident think I was going to the dogs when I married yu, I guess thats whare I began going to the dogs, and then Ma and Pa go to church and sing I want to bee a Angel. —Milwaukee Sentinel. I cannot grasp the meaning of Earth's happiness and pain; Yet both I know await me if I can find the answer. Each step I trust leads onward, and God's universe is great; To find no incompleteness (and) Myth for Moderns. Wounded Ares showed Zeus the immortal blood flowing from his wound, and begged revenge on Athene. "Sit not by me and whine, then renegade! Truly thy mother's spirit is intolerable, even Hera's; her can I scare rule with words. Therefore I deem that by her prompting thou art in this plight." "Well, then." impertinently retorted insatiate Ares, "it's hereditary. Don't blame me. Go after her!" And the stern-visaged cloud gather in sheer despair told Paean to heel the spear wound, while Hera chuckled behind her fan. THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE. Mrs. S. W. Marine of Colorado Springs Began to Fear the Worst—Doan's Kidney Pills Saved Her. Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 St. Uraln street, Colorado Springs, Colo., President of the Glen Eyrie Club, writes: "I suffered for three years with severe backache. The doctors told me my kidnakes were affected and prescribed medicines for me, but I found that it was only a waste of time and money to take them, and began to fear that I would never get well. A friend A. B. advised me to try Doan'a Kidney Pills. Within a week after I began using them I was so much better that I decided to keep up the treatment, and when I had used a little over two boxes I was entirely well. I have now enjoyed the best of health for more than four months, and words can but poorly express my gratitude." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N.Y. As soon as a man is elected to office he makes his chief builness working for a second nomination. Defiance Starch is guaranteed biggest and best or money refunded. 16 ounces, 10 cents. Try it now. Don't waste your coin advertising for lost friendship or stolen umbrellas; advertise something else. INVENTION OF THE PHONOGRAPH Thomas Edison Relates Facts Heretofore Not Told. Thomas A. Edison related a fact of some historical interest a few days ago. When he was at work on his first phonograph many weeks were consumed in experiment. It is said that when the talking machine was first discovered it was as much a surprise to its inventor as to the world. The wizard was working on some telephone receivers and was led to put a piece of tinfoil on a cylinder. It recorded sound, and Edison was convinced that the human voice could be recorded and produced. When the time came to make an actual test Edison, with his mind on mechanical details, absentmindedly tested his contrivance with the familiar phrase, "Mary had a little lamb." These words formed the first record taken by the machine. Crawford—Have they decided to educate their daughter for a career? Crashaw—Not yet. They're waiting to see if she can't get married.—Town Topics. DYSPEPSIA YIELDS A NINE YEARS' VICTIM FINDS A REMEDY THAT OURS. For Two Years Too Weak to Work—A Dose Doctors Had Tried to Check Disease. Treatment That Succeeded. All sufferers from weakness or disorders of the digestive organs will read with lively interest the story of the complete recovery of Mrs. Nettle Daroux from chronic dyspepsia which was thought to be incurable. "To be ailing for nine years is not a very pleasant experience," said Mrs. Daroux, when asked for some account of her illness. "For two years I was critically ill and could not attend to my household duties, and at one time I was so weak and miserable that I could not even walk. My trouble was chronic dyspepsia. I became extremely thin and and a sallow complexion. I had no appetite and could not take any food without suffering great distress." "Did you have a physician?" "Yes, I took medicine from a dozen different doctors, but without getting any benefit whatever." "How did you get on the track of a cure?" "A book about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills was thrown in our doorway one day. My husband picked it up and read it through carefully. He was so impressed by the statements of those who had been cured by that remedy that he immediately bought three boxes of the pills and insisted on my taking them." "Did they help you at once?" "I began to feel better the second day after I started to use the pills and by the time I had taken the three boxes I was entirely well. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can cure even when doctors fail, and they cure thoroughly, for a long time has passed since my restoration to health and I know it is complete and lasting." The surest way to make sound digestion is to give strength to the organs concerned. Dr. William's Pink Pills give new vigor to the blood. No other remedy yields such radical results. Mrs. Darvoux lives at No. 497 Sixth street, Detroit, Mich. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists in every part of the world. Dyspeptics should send to the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Scheinetady, N. Y., for a new booklet entitled "What to Eat and How to Eat." All That Saved Him "Now," began the moralizer, "take the life of your neighbor, for instance. He—" "I'd do it in a minute," interrupted the demoralizer, "if the law would tolerate it. He's learning to play a cornet."—Detroit Tribune. "Are you on good terms with all your guests?" asked the new arrival at the winter resort. "Very good terms," chuckled the landlord of the hotel; "about $10 a day.—Chicago News." OUT OF THE ORDINARY Fickle Fortune When fortune you would try to win, That fair and kickie goddess After that fair and take a spin Almost as swift as shard When far behind you try to follow, Her mocking laugh is cold and hollow. Where is there such exiting sport, Or chase so swift and thrilling. As found in practice of this sort? Though seldom comes a killing. For it to keep sleeping. Three blocks away and sedden sleeping. Sometimes you see the fickle maid And fancy she is the fickle maid But when you follow, I'm afraid. Your extra strength exerting. You'll find when from the foot-race cool That she, alas, was only fooling. That she, alas, was only fooling. That she, alas, was only fooling. Later Sea Serpent. Capt D. W. Corning of the British bark 10ward D. Troop, just in from Kobe, Japan, reported the following sea serpent story: "We were on a bowling line a few degrees below the equator. Two of the hands were sunning their shins on the end of the bowsprit and two were aloft conning the horizon. The weather was perfect. "Suddenly there came a hall from abaft the gallery on the port side. One of the men on the sprit was awakened so suddenly that he almost tumbled overboard. "When a half dozen of us reached the side of the man who had made the hall he pointed to a spot in the sea about a cable's length off the weather bow. We saw a long black object writhing and shining in the sunlight. "It was at least sixty feet over all, and on its back was perched a big white sea gull, apparently enjoying the excitement of the situation. We 'shooed' the sea gull, but it wouldn't shoo. "The serpent was black with a rough coating. We didn't notice that the sea gull was trying to peck the snake, but as we drew ahead before the stiff breeze the bird was still on its back as the two of them were lost in the direction of the west coast of Africa." The captain said they didn't lower sail and attempt to capture the serpent because of the necessity of making as quick a voyage as possible. Corning is a member in good standing of the Sailors' Belay All Grog Association. One Way to Stop Autos. Motorists have many enemies, says an English paper. Pedestrians, farmers, cabmen, policemen are among the number, but knowing how ineffectual their efforts must be to put a stop to the mania for driving at excessive speed, an ex-soldier has offered to champion their cause. The Warwickshire chamber of agriculture dismissed the matter recently, and have since received the following letter from an ex-army sergeant: "As I doubt the power of the average farm laborer to distinguish between the innocent and guilty, I offer my services. I hold a discharge as a sergeant from the army, and am a trained shot. "At least fifty motors pass my house every day. With an ordinary magazine rifle I could get about thirty daily and I offer my trained services to the chamber at a charge of twelve cents per head. I should like to hear to whom to forward the heads. I could use explosive or poisoned bullets if so desired." Have Fun With New Arrival In the "back blocks" of Australia, new arrivals are considered the legitimate butts of every joke that can be played on them. Recently a coach driver, backed up by his passengers, "buced a young man, newly arrived from England, to believe that kangaroos were now used in that district as letter carriers." "They meet the coach," he said, "and I give them their masters' letters, which they put in their pouches and carry home." The "new chum" "as incredulous, but just then a great kangaroo hopped on to the roadway right in front of them, and stood for a moment looking at the advancing coach. "Nothing for you to day," shouted the driver, and the animal, turning, disappeared in the scrub from which it had come. The young Englishman is full of wonder at the strides made in so young a nation as Australia. Two Real Curios. Martin French of West Dover, Me, has a pair of Castle shears, 200 years old. They weigh one pound, are 11 inches in length and are as keen of edge as any later day make. The same rivet that was originally put in still holds them together. He also has a copy of the last issue of a newspaper printed in Vicksburg before its surrender in 1865. It was printed on the back of ordinary wall paper and was brought home by Mr. French as a curiosity forty years ago. Old Military Order. Among some papers in the possession of Alice V. Lamdon of New Haven, Vermont, was found a warrant from Elias Post, captain, to Moses Stowe, corporal, commanding him to warn all officers and soldiers belonging to that company to appear in the east parish of Rutland, complete in arms in order for exercise. It was dated Rutland, April 26, 1792, at 8 o'clock OPERATION AVOIDED EXPERIENCE OF MISS MERKLEY She Was Told That an Operation Was In inevitable. How She Escaped It When a physician tells a woman suffering with ovarian or womb trouble that an operation is necessary, the very thought of the knife and the operating table strikes terror to her heart, and our hospitals are full of women coming for ovarian or womb operations. Miss Margret Merkley There are cases where an operation is the only resource, but when one considers the great number of cases of ovarian and womb trouble cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after physicians have advised operations, no woman should submit to one without first trying the Vegetable Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is free. Miss Margret Merkley of 275 Third Street, Milwaukee, WI., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: "Loss of strength, extreme nervousness shooting pains through the pelvic organs, bearing down pains and cramps compelled me to seek medical attention, and I hadvarion after a terrible trouble and ulceration and advised an operation. To this I strongly objected and decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ulceration quickly healed, all the bad symptoms disappeared and I am once more strong, vigorous and well." Ovarian and womb troubles are steadily on the increase among women. If the monthly periods are very painful, or too frequent and excessive if you have pain or swelling low down in the left side, bearing down pains, leucorhena, don't neglect yourself try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After bracing up and getting the first kiss a young man kicks himself viciously for having wasted so much time. DON'T FORGET A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 6 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. It is always best to examine the eggs set for hatching a week after they are put under the hens. More Flexible and Lasting won't shake out or blow out; by using Defiance Starch you obtain better re- sults than possible with any other brand and one-third more for same money. An expert witness is a man who doesn't get tangled up with himself when cross-examined by a lawyer. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, the Great Kidney and Liver World Famous, Write Dr. Kennedy's Soza, Headout, B. N., for free sample bottle. Most things that amuse a baby an- noy old folks. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Nyrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces examination, always pain, curbs wind collar, 200 bottle. Occasionally a man who runs for offi- ce is able to win in a walk. $5.00 paid monthly, will buy a $200 share of 14.25 acres of 238,000 acre plantation. guaranteed. Every condition safe guarded. Agents wanted. Best pay and territory. Mo. Moore, 210 Old Fellows' Bldg, St. Louis Mo. If you want anything well disseminated, just tell it to a woman and tell her not to tell it. Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new catalogue to today. JENKING' MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, MO. Time Lost. Jinks—What were you doing in that pawnshop? Hinks—Oh, just passing away my time.—Cleveland Leader. FITS permanently curved. No other movement after that. Best way to use of Dr. Kline's Great New Restoration. All oral habits and treatments. M. K. LINN, III, 913 North Beach, Philadelphia. Salt added to the water in which cut flowers stand keeps them fresh. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumptop has an equal for coughs and colds—JOHN B. BOYER, Trinity Springs, Inc., Feb. 15, 1900. A cloth saturated in lemon juice or and bound about a cut or wound will stop bleeding. You never hear any one complain about "Defiance Starch." There is none to equal it in quality and quantity, 18 ounces, to cents. Try it now and save your money. A hot lemonade, taken before going to bed, will cure a cold on the lungs. 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. If you want 16 oz. instead of 12 oz. for same money? Then buy Defiance Starch. Requires no cooking. Jess—Did you see the ring Jack gave May? Bess—Yes, two years ago—Town Topics. "How does it feel to be fired?" they asked the ex-salesman. "I give you a mighty chilly sensation," he said—Chicago Tribune. McFlub—Bilkins is an intelligent fellow. He always tries to reason with his wife. Sleeth—Tries to reason with his wife! An intelligent fellow! Say, old man, don't make me laugh; I've got an ulcerated tooth. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: has town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for publication 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 authenticity. FFIOE:—No. 117 West Sixth, St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. For one inch, one insertion . . . 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . 3.30 For two inches, three month . . . 8.00 For two inches, six month . . . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . . . 10.00 For two inches twelve months . . . 15.00 OLDEST 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 banquet by the Attucks Club and the Institute Alumni was one of the finest affairs ever given by the men of Kansas City. We doubt that ever before in this city's history such a splendid body of all representative men has ever assembled in Kansas City. Messrs. Coles, Horton, Cook and Dawley are to be congratulated for this affair. The speeches were of the highest order. Prof. J. S. Harris, a graduate of the school, and one of the present regents, told of the school's past influence. He mentioned the excellent men who have taught there, how the school originated and of its beneficial value to Missouri in furnishing the state a high grade teaching force. Prof. Harris was eloquent, forceful and witty. We might say here that there is no Negro in the state of Missouri, or out of it for that matter, who has worked harder for our school than Prof. Harris. His tasks are often thankless ones, yet none other have been fuller of good results to the Missouri Negroes. Prof. I. M. Horton spoke eloquently of the Alumni. He told of the sacrifices these men have made to get an education and of their usefulness to their communities. Prof. Horton is our youngest member of the oratorical crowd, but he bids fair to rank with the best of them. Professor Grisham is always replete with good things. To say he spoke, is saying his was one of the best. With Professor Bowser we must disagree. He said the Negroes seemed to be going back socially. He painted a most gloomy picture of the race. Surely the professor has had a long sleep or he is not able to see clearly, if he has failed to note the social progress going on right here in Kansas City. This accumulation of wealth, building of new schools, the buying of homes, building churches, and the efforts of worthy, young Negroes to create healthy and improved moral sentiment all go to show that we are climbing upward socially. The educational growth of our youth is further evidence of our trying to keep pace with the national life around us. Truly, we are not merging into Saxon social life. We don't want to. But the fact can't be gainaided that we are building up a healthy and moral social life of our own. This banquet itself proves the fallacy of the professor's argument. But Hon. N. C. Crews fittingly answered Professor Bowser. He presented facts about our race that proved to the guests that this was Professor Bowser's night off. One alarming thing was presented in Professor Coffin's census figures. They showed that while we are improving our social tone, yet we are losing ground in the different kinds of employment followed. According to this report we are letting vocations, the barber business, and the mechanical trades slip from our grasp. We have held our own in the professions. In some we have gained. But this means that the race is to become hollow and top heavy. We need more tradesmen, farmers and mechanics. And they must be equipped in our state schools. Hard work is the sugar of life, but lots of people prefer lemons. Most self-made men like to tell you what a hard job they had. Natural Dyes in Ireland. From moss gathered on the mountain side the peasants of Ireland dye the wool a pretty shade of brown; they gather seaweed from the thousand little bays which seam the coast of Connemara for dyeing the wool other soft shades; in the valleys are found the cock and oak leaves for still other colors, while from the peat bogs they squeeze a dark fluid to color the white wool a glossy black. From a Novel. In a novel recently published the following delightful instance of the easy descent from the sublime to the ridiculous occurs, and has been gibbeted by a spiteful reviewer: "When Margaret, white to the lips with pain, knelt in the woods one day, and kissed the cross which Herr Kasufmann had erected to the sacred memory of their early love, the leaves fell about her like telegrams from high places." Free Food for Children. Many thousands of children go to school in France every day without having had breakfast. In Paris the school canteens have proved a blessing. They buy food at wholesale rates and are thus able to supply lunchmeals of beans, vegetables and macaroni at three cents each for those who can afford to pay, while the poor are fed gratuitously. Fancy Prices for Relics For a love letter written by Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, $50 was paid not long ago. Yet a brass collar which was worn by Boatswain, the dog to whose memory Lord Byron erected a monument at Newstead abbey, fetched 21 guineas, while the collar of Thunderer, another of Lord Byron's dogs, realized 4 guineas only. Reasoning by Logic. Ethel, aged 6, is just learning to spell and is much rejoiced over her progress. She announced with great glee to her father, the other evening, that she knew how to spell "in," and proved the assertion. A few minutes later she inquired, with a puzzled air: "Papa, does 'in' backwards spell 'out'?" Boyish Indiscretion. A Pittsburgh boy who left home to pose as a man was discovered wearing trousers much too large for him. This was easy for the police. If he had been a real man, he would have worn trousers entirely too tight for him, such as so many fashion plates foist on buyers.—Buffalo Spress. Lives of Different Meaning It is noble to be alive to the littleness of earth, but it is nobler to become impressed with its greatness; to the animal life it is only a pasture ground; to ordinary men it is the commonplace world; but to him who lives above it it becomes a shining moon. Mean Fling at Scotchmen. Mean Pingit at Scotchman A man who says he is an Englishman writes to the Westminster Gazette that he has learned that in 1567 there were only thirty-six Scots in London, and that he now knows the meaning of the expression, "the good old times." Islands Have Disappeared. The "Royal Company's Islands," supposed to be in the Pacific ocean, have been removed from the maps of the Hydrographic Institute of the British Admiralty because all efforts to find them have failed. Easy. The teacher had been talking about a hen sitting on eggs, and, with the incubator in his mind, asked if eggs could be hatched in any other way, "Yes, put them under a duck," was the response. Women Workers of London. There are in actual practice in London five women builders, two women architects, seven women house painters and dozens of women who are employed as internal house decorators. First Artificial Teeth. It has been found that false teeth were used by the people who lived in 1000 B. C. These teeth were made of ivory and fastened to an ivory plate by means of a fine gold wire. Austrian Old Age Pensions. Austrian Old Age Pensions. Under the Austrian poor law every man 60 years old is entitled to a pension equal to one-third the amount per day which he has earned during his working days. First Pantomime. The first regular English pantomimo is said to have been "Harlequin Executed," produced at the Lincoln's Inn Fields theater, Dec. 26, 1717. Lake Disappears. Lake Chad is gradually drying up, and recent researches tend to show that its complete disappearance is only a question of time. Rich English Counties. Rich English Counties. Lancashire, England, is the next richest county to London. It is rated at £24,000,000, against London's £43,500,000. Largest Deposits of Nickel. The largest deposits of nickel are on the island of New Caledonia, a French possession in the South Pacific. Women Carry Malls. Many of the rural letter carriers in the Tyrol are women. on Walnut Street Floor EVERY DAY Offers From Three to Ten and Two Keep That Fact Before your Mi From Three to Ten and Twelve Barges Keep That Fact Before your Mind's Eyes Offers From Three to Ten and Twelve Bargains Keep That Fact Before your Mind's Eye Emery. Bird Thayer LOVE. ELMT UP HOMES EOR RED PEOPLE. We have what you are prepared to meet the most criti- cal in rental and business property for people. Should what we present f you, make your plans or wishes k we will buid to suit you on Easy T are the only recognized Negro real es in Kansas City prepared to rent exchange on easy terms. Give WE & JACKSON state, Rental and Loan onic Bldg. 18th and Woodland ast 1846X. W THE FLAG" EXCURSE TO Moberly day, April 30th, $1.25 ROUND TRIP $1.2 Trains Stop At RUNSWICK, SALISBURY and HUNTSVILLE CHEAP HOMES COLORED PEOPLE We wh We are prepared to meet tastes in rental and busi- ored people. Should wh suit you, make your p and we will buid to suit We are the only recogni dealers in Kansas City sell or exchange on ea call. LOVE & J Real Estate, Renta Masonic Bldg. 18th Bell Phone. East 1846X. "FOLLOW THE FLAG" WABASH M Sunday, Apr $1.25 ROUN Traina CRUNSWICK, SALISB CHEAP HOMES EOR COLORED PEOPLE. We are prepared to meet the most critical of tastes in rental and business property for colored people. Should what we present fail to suit you, make your plans or wishes known and we will buid to suit you on Easy Terms. We are the only recognized Negro real estate dealers in Kansas City prepared to rent, buy, sell or exchange on easy terms. Give us a call. LOVE & JACKSON. Real Estate, Rental and Loan Office. Masonic Bldg. 18th and Woodland Ave. Bell Phone. East 1846X. Sunday, April 30th, 1905 $1.25 ROUND TRIP $1.25 Trains Stop At CRUNSWICK, SALISBURY and HUNTSVILLE Special Trains Leave Union Depot 8:30 A. M. Ecturing Leave Moberly 7:00 P. M. Tickets on Sale Wabash T And Union Depot, Me THEODOR DRUG Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH ST PHONES | Home 4211 Main | Bell 1211 Grand On Sale Wabash Ticket Office 803 and Union Depot, Morning of Departure HEODORE SMIT DRUGGIST. 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDEN S. { Home 4211 Main { Bell 1211 Grand PHONES { Home { Bell 2 Tickets on Sale Wabash Ticket Office 803 Main St. And Union Depot, Morning of Departure. Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES | Home 4211 Main | Bell 1211 Grand PHONES | Home 6646 Main | Bell 2170 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. Dealer in Drugs, Toilet articles, Give us an Order by Phone and See STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE.... CENTURY Dining Room 1923 Market Street, Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, Sta Order by Phone and See if We are not there with FIRST-CLASS PHONE 518X GRAND. 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. ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Oysters in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gentle dine up staira. Z. T. JORDAN, Manager 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. --- GEO. W. K. LOVE. DAY and Twelve Bargains e your Mind's Eye --- S EOR PLE. we have just what you want. let the most critical of business property for col- mat we present fail to ans or wishes known you on Easy Terms. ized Negro real estate prepared to rent, buy, y terms. Give us a ACKSON, and Loan Office. and Woodland Ave. EXCURSION TO oberly Mo. April 30th, 1905 TRIP $1.25 Stop At URY and HUNTSVILLE Ricket Office 803 Main St. Turning of Departure. E SMITH, AGIST. STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES { Home 5646 Main Bell 2170 Main South Side Pressing Co. CLEANING, REPAIRING and PRESSING LADIES WORK A SPECIALTY KANSAS CITY, MO First-Class Restaurant and Cafe Meals 6, a. m. to 11 p. m. Short Orders MRS. ELIZA RUSSELL, Proprietor 910 E 12, Upstairs. Give me a cafe ELMER JACKON. J. F. BASIL, PROP "Men are better off than in my time," said Eileen. "It took me two weeks to get auit." Main and Seventh Sts. B.K. KANSAS Broadway at 32nd Street NEW YORK Factory, C LLHOF. Established 1889. LLHOF & CAMPBELL ESTATE. RENTALS. INSTITUTE 204 Hall Bldg., Cor. 9th & Waltham 1460 MAIN. MOND PAINT CO. PAINT, VARNISH, BRUSHES. PBELL, Mgr. Tel. 946. 1214 C Call up the Phone 27 Main Hotel New Po FOR Satly Furnished Rooms and Near Corner Eighteenth and Tracy, 1007 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City RS. V. L. NORTH, OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Main and Eleventh Broadway at 32nd IN P. TILLHOF. TILLHOF REAL ESTATE BOR BOATH PHONES 1400 MAIN. DIAMOND PAINT A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. JOHN P. TILLHOF. Established 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL TILLHOF & CAMPBELL REAL ESTATE, RENTALS, INSURANCE: 203-204 Hall Bldg., Cor. 9th & Walnut Ste. BOTH PHONES 1480 MAIN. KANBAS CITY, MO. DIAMOND PAINT CO. (DEVOE.) PAINT, VARNISH, BRUSHES. C. A. CAMPBELL, Mgr. Tel. 946. 1214 GRAND AVENUE Call up Home Phone 5327 Main Neatly Fur Near 1807 Trade MRS. W OPEN CASH OR CREDIT Hotel New Port FOR Neatly Furnished Rooms and Cafe Near Corner Eighteenth and Tracy. 1807 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. MRS. V. L. NORTH, Prop. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. FREE. Cash, balance $5.50 buys this 3 - year Buggy—$37.50 or mentors or $33.50 can honest people look parts of the World. Write for free catalog Surreys, Phaetons, St Wakont. CENTURY MANUFACTURER Dept. 4036 EAST C. COLLINS, THE MERCHANDISE MAN, is prepared to supply your wants in all lines of merchandise. We have a large supply of Spring Goods. Call and inspect them before you go elsewhere. In our Ladies' Department they will spare no pains to suit you. Easter Goods by any quantity. Hats Dress Goods, Suits, Shoes, Children's Goods, and a full and complete line of merchandise. Watch this space for next week. 18th, Corner of Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri. 1431----35. J. RICH. THE GREAT Atlantic Pants J. RICH. B. RICH. THE GREAT Atlantic Pants Co. ...TWO STORES, 16 EAST 7TH ST., AND 2825 SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD... Sults to Order $17.50. Pants to Order $3.50 RICH BROS., Props. attention Gua ranteed or Money Refunded. KANSAS CITY, MO. A wide choice of fabrics from Cheviots to Worsteds. The collar and lapels are a trifle wider than last season's style and roll a little lower. New styles in Hats; new Neckwear; new Shirts. street NEW YORK Factory, Cooper Square established 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL F & CAMPBELL RENTALS, INSURANCE Bldg., Cor. 8th & Walnut St. KANSAS CITY, MO. O PAINT CO. (DEVO R, VARNISH, BRUSHES. Tel. 946. 1214 GRAND AVEN WE NEVER SLEEP el New Port FOR Finished Rooms and Cafe Corner Eighteenth and Tracy, Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. L. NORTH, Prop. DAY AND NIGHT. ONLY $10.00 FREE. 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. Write for free catalogue of Buggies, Surreys, Phaetons, Spring and Farm Warons. CENTURY MANUFACTURING CO. Dept. 4036 EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. THE GREAT B. RIOH ic Pants Co. KANSAS CITY MO. WE NEVER SLEEP NEWS&GSSIP 888 Split Logo 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. To run up a bill is human, to pay it is divine. A man who knows it all spends most of his time telling it. Mrs. Ella Talley is also on the sick list this week. Mrs. S. C. Rogers is teaching a class in Independence. We want a lady or gent who would like to work on the Son. Mr. Carter is on the sick list this week, but he is improving. Look out for our Easter Number. It will be the best that we have ever gotten out. Secure your space now. Rev. Hawkins is doing a good work at his mission, 11th and Woodland. Kansas City needs a new charter and a new depot and above all things good government. When a telephone girl steals a man's heart, it is no crime, because a fair exchange is no robbery. Miss Zelia Page, director of music in Langston University, was in Kansas City to attend the Grand Opera. Rev. Anderson of Kentucky is assisting Rev. Dr. Mitchell of the First Baptist church, in a revival. Cheap homes at reasonable terms can be bought of Love and Jackson, 18th and Woodland. Ave. Prof. B. F. Allen has a return date May 9th, to address the Y. M. C. A. at the Second Baptist church. Fate may lead us up to the door of the hall of fame but when capital whistles we stand out side and listen. All hands around for Moberly, Sunday, April 30th,—big doings—fun for everybody, plenty of coaches and refreshments. The Slayton's Jubilee Singers gave a grand entertainment at Allen church last Monday evening. The house was well filled. Love and Jackson can rent you a house when other agents fail. If you have a house for rent list it with them, 18th and Woodland. Last Tuesday was a victory for the Democrats; they carried everything that was in sight. It seems strange how things change so quick. George Mosley died last Friday night and was buried last Sunday from Allen Chapel. He leaves a wife to mourn his loss and many friends. If you need money for spring improvement on your properties, call on Love and Jackson. Terms are reasonable and transactions confidential. Mrs. J. Rhodes of 832 New Jersey Ave., entertained a host of young friends last Friday night. The refreshments served were very delicious. Professor Allen's masterly addresses in Kansas City will appear in the next issue. 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. Milwaukee, Wis., June 23, 1893. Gentlemen: Please send me two bottles of the Ozonized Ox Marrow for the hair. Think it is one of the best hair pomades made. MRS. JOHN GRAF. Another Negro enterprise is the Love & Jackson real estate firm, located in the Masonic building. The firm is doing well and could do better if the colored people would do their duty toward them in the way of patronizing them. Sunday was a busy day at the McRay hotel. Slayton's Jubilee Singers stopped at the McRay hotel last week. Give the Newport hotel a call at 1807 Tracy. Ticked Time Two Centuries. The residents of Tlalpam, 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 Tlalpam 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 Tlalpam, 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 241 years and it is but natural that it is tired and wants to be sent to a museum. Why Snow Bursts a Gun. In a discussion at the Royal society on the effects of sudden pressures, in London recently of some experiments on the effects of sudden pressures, attention was called to a singular experience, which, it was said, people who go shooting in winter sometimes have. If the muzzle of a gun happens to get plugged up with a little snow, the gun invariably bursts when fired in that condition. Light as the plug of snow is, it requires a definite time for a finite pressure, however great, to get it under way, and during this short time the tension of the powder gases becomes so great that the barrel of the ordinary fowling-piece is unable to withstand it. A South African Hoodoo Man. A colored man, Jaul Jones, has been committed for trial by the Wynberg Magistrate on a charge of practising as a doctor without a license. Paul Pulse, a laborer, said he went to Rock's farm, where the accused lived. He found the accused and told him that he was sick. Accused took witness into his bedroom, took a tin, put something into it, 'truck a match and set fire to it. He then snapped his fingers over it and took a bull's eye glass and examined his chest and body, looked over some playing cards and told witness that there was a frog alive in his stomach—Johannsburg 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. Sweetening Sugar. All sugar is not sweet, or rather sweet enough to come up to the required standard of sweetness, so some kinds must be sweetened artificially. There are many establishments where this process is carried on. A cone of sugar is placed over an apparatus apex downward, many little holes in the apparatus coming in contact with the point of the cone. A thick liquid is poured on the flat end of the cone and the machinery is set in motion. The holes become the mouths of the suction tubes and the sweetening liquid is drawn through the cone, giving it the necessary quality. SPECIAL OFFER Will send one large, full size bottle, price 35 cents, of Kink-line, the great hair straightener and grower and one 25 cents cake of Kink-line soap to every lady and gentleman that will send us 40 cents in stamps or silver to help prepay expressage. Read the Kink-line advertisement elsewhere in this paper. "Kink-line Co., 343 West 14th street, New York." The Son representative called to inspect the millinery work which the Misses Fosters, at 1215 Paseo avenue, are doing. He found the work very commendable indeed. The ladies are turning out some very nice hats, and they ought to be encouraged by our race. "Say," queried the Avondale maid, "what is that old adage about the moss and the stone?" "A revolving fragment of the Paleozic age accumulates no crytogamous vegetation," answered her girl friend from Boston. Love and Jackson are the only real estate agents in the city who make a study of your demands and make a special effort to meet them. 18th and Woodland. The McRay Hotell is open and running full blast. Step in and they will be glad to see to your wants. It is up to date and in good shape. 721 Charlott St. A big excursion from St. Louis will be in Moberly, Sunday, April 30th the same day the Kansas City Excursion goes there. Write your St. Louis friends to meet you at Moberly. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McCall enter tained at dinner Mrs. Rev. Vaughan Mrs. Lena Mason and Miss Thornton last Friday. An elaborate menu was served in courses. Mrs. J. H. Crews is teaching millinery in St. Joseph. We're Selling Lots of SHOES That's not anything new for the shoe business in this store is good all the year' round. We simply state facts because there is a reason behind it—a good reason why so many mothers come here for their Boy's Shoes. The best ads we or anyone could write would not bring them here time and time again if they were fooled the first time. --- Bring your boy here once Nebraska Clothing Co. KENNEDY CITY, MO Furnished Rooms To Rent. BY DAY OR WEEK Meals at All Hours. At 1001 E. 18th St G. SMITH.; Propr. CARLO AS A WITNESS. A grizzly St. Bernard proved this the other day in the superior civil court, to the satisfaction of the judge, jury and witnesses. About a year ago the dog was kidnapped from a Revere farmer, and subsequently sold to a Brookline livery stable keeper for fifteen dollars. The Revere farmer advertised, but to no purpose. Business one day took him to Brookline. He was accompanied by his six-year-old daughter. They were driving slowly through the main street. Suddenly the child uttered a cry. "Look, pa! Oh, look! look! Carlo! Carlo!" There on the green, with tall extended and with eye dilated, his great body trembling with excitement caused by that voice he loved, stood kidnapped "Carlo." "Oh, come, Carlo!" cried the child eagerly. There was a merry bark, and the dog was by the side of the wagon in a twinkling, wagging his bushy tail and prancing in doggish glee. The farmer, of course, took possession of the dog. The Brookillite laid his grievance before the court. It took two days to hear the case. The complainant put in evidence to show that he purchased the dog of the man who reared him. On the other hand, the defendant described every mark and scar on the dog. "I think I'll postpone the trial in order to have the dog in court as a witness," said the judge. A deputy sheriff brought the canine to court the day following. "Carlo!" yelled the livery stable keeper. The dog only sniffed and moved uneasily. "Oh, Carlo! Carlo!" cried the farmer's child. The huge St. Bernard's tail went round. In another second he was bounding down the corridor to his mistress. The case was then submitted to the jury, and after five minutes deliberating the jury returned with a verdict for the farmer.—Boston Traveler. An Evening THE OLD FOLKS AN Wm. Frederick Alexander, assisted b talent, will give an April 27 at Turner H The curtain will Admission 25 cents. An Evening of Vaudeville FOR THE OLD FOLKS AND ORPHANS' HOME Wm. Frederick Fairfax and Clarence Alexander, assisted by Kansas City's best talent, will give an evening of vaudeville April 27 at Turner Hall. The curtain will raise promytly at 8:30 Admission 25 cents. Music by Watts' orchestra. All of the proceed fit of the Old Folks are All of the proceeds will be for the benefit of the Old Folks and Orphans' Home. KINK-INE MAKES THE HAIR GROW LONG, STRAIGHT, SOFT AND SILKY. CURES DANDRUFF AND STOPS FALLING HAIR. Is no Experiment It was discovered by Dr. Roberts, a famous English chemist, who has made a study of the scalp of colored people for the past thirty years, and who, after much time and experience, has prepared this great Tonic especially for the colored people. The Doctor says that his experience and study has taught him that the scalp of the colored people requires a special treatment, and he has discovered the greatest REMEDY the WORLD has ever known for the HAIR of colored people. He 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 results have been obtained, and we do not hesitate to KINK - 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, cures Dandruff, makes the hair soft and silky, and by nourishing the roots gives it new life and vigor, restoring it to READ WHAT A CUSTOMER SAYS OF IT Mrs. Rose Holt, Atlanta, GA., writes: good than anything I ever used. Send me three dozen more bottles of Kink-ine at once; goes like hot cakes and works wonders on the hair. LARGE BOTTLE SENT PREPAID for $35; FREE! To show what KINK-INE will do send IOC, and we will mail a sample postpaid. ACENTS WILL everywhere to sell KINK-INE. Write to us. THE KINK-INE COMPANY. 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. GEORGE ANDERSON, Buying and Selling Horses Saddle Horses a Specialty. 613 East 9t St., in rear. Kansas City, Mo. 1784 ..... Telephone ..... 4178 WALL'S Laundry Co., First-Class Work & Prompt Delivery 708 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Mo. of Vaudeville DR D ORPHANS' HOME Fairfax and Clarence by Kansas City's best evening of vaudeville fall. raise promytly at 8:30 s will be for the bene- d Orphans' Home. For the Lawn, Garden and Farm FLOWER SEEDS Poultry Supplies, Berry Boxes SPRING BULBS Baskets and Crates. 417 WALNUT ST. Kansas City, Mo. 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 d Hats re-shaped and made over. Lincoln In MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, der in latest styles direct from the East. Hats made to order in latest styles direct from the East. In Institute TE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. President. 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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 American Plan HOTEL M 721-723 Charlotte St Room and Board $5.00 per week. Room Single Meals 25 cents. Hot and Cold Bath All Modern Improvements TEL 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 CREE LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S C Men's, Boys' And Children' coats direct from our facto factory prices cash or easy We trust honest people loca the world. Write for GENTURY M Dept. 4036 N CREDIT AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS AND SUITS... Boys' and Children's Suits and over- direct from our factory to the women at prize cash or easy monthly payments. The highest people located in all parts of the world. Write for free catalogue. ENTURY MFG. GO. 4036 East St. Louis, Ill. ON CREDIT LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS AND SUITS... Men's shoes and children's shoes 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. Orders promptly filled. Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. temper, however, tried another man, who agreed to seize a copy for him. A spilled sheege gave him an opportunity of betraying his trust, and he would have done so had not a private detective arrested both him and the man who had offered the bribe. To as comes the warning lest we, knowing our Lord's will, deliberately disregard Nature's great disinfectant is sunlight. It is a most interesting fact that this wonderful light, which promotes the growth of useful plants and sustains animal life, at the same time destroys by its very brightness all sorts of germs which are brought in contact with it. It is this fact alone which renders the earth inhabitable. Germs develop with such marvelous rapidity that they would quickly overwhelm us by their very numbers if not constantly destroyed by the sun. A little computation will readily show this. Some germs are capable of such rapid multiplication that they may double every fifteen minutes under favorable conditions of temperature and food supply. Estimate the number of germs which might be produced in a single day of twenty-four hours, or ninety-seven doublings. The number would be more than thirty-two thousand billion billions, or sufficient to cover eighty thousand square miles a foot deep, or fill a space of more than fifteen cubic miles. The increase of a minute organism occupying a cubic space of not more than one twenty-thousandth of an inch to such prodigious magnitude is beyond comprehension, and practically cannot occur; for while the germ may grow at this immense rapidity for a short time, the polens which it produces become destructive to itself. The material upon which it feeds is also exhausted, so that its growth ceases. Doubless all have noticed the fact that mold grows during the night and in dark, damp cellars. Bright sunlight quickly destroys germs, mold, and other parasitic organisms. Diffused daylight does not act nearly so rapidly, but accomplishes in the course of a few hours what bright sunlight is capable of doing in a few minutes. It is clearly evident, then, that in order that our houses should be kept free from germs, they, like our bodies, should be made full of life. The shutters should be opened, the curtains raised, and the light admitted to every room in the house, closets included, so that the disinfecting power of light may be exercised in every nook and corner of the dwelling. Occupation and Tuberculosis. The influence of occupation as a cause of consumption is shown by Dr. J. M. French in the Medical Examiner. At least four classes of employments ments have a tendency to favor the development of tuberculosis. They are: 1. Sedentary employments in illventilated apartments, involving confinement in impure air, and other unwholesome conditions. This class of occupations is typified by the so-called sweet-shops for the manufacture of various articles of clothing. 2. Employments which necessitates the inhalation of irritating dust and noxious vapors. Such are those of stone-cutters, bleachers, matchmakers, file-cutters, grinders, engravers, etc. 3. Employments which involve the overuse or abuse of certain muscles. These are athletes, prize fighters, gymmasts, wrestlers, professional bicycle riders, ball players, etc., a large proportion of whom die eventually of phthisis. 4. Employments which involve undue familiarity with intoxicants. These are those connected with manufacture and sale of wine, beer and the various classes of alcoholies. Tatham's tables show that, taking the average mortality from consumption at one hundred, that of publicans is one hundred and forty, of brewers one hundred and forty-eight and of bartenders two hundred and fifty-seven. Overcoming Hereditary Tuberculosis. Much is being said nowadays respecting the out-of-door treatment of tuberculosis, a disease which, while rarely directly transmissible by heredity, is one the predisposition to which is in the highest degree hereditary. It has been clearly shown by numerous experiments in various parts of the United States that out-of-door life with regular hygienic habits, irrespective of attitude or special climatic advantages, is capable of so aiding the natural powers of the body as to effect a cure of this formidable malady without the use of drugs of any sort. Tuberculosis is a disease of civilization. It scarcely exists among savages who live in the primitive state, but quickly appears among such people when the habits of civilization are adopted, especially the indoor life. The South American monkey and the North American Indian alike fall victims to this disease when shut away from the sunlight and active exercise out of doors. The time is not far distant when every large city will find it necessary to provide conveniences for the application of this simple curative measure, not only for the purpose of rescuing the victims of pulmonary tuberculosis from the certain fate which awaits them, but as an essential measure for protecting the public health. Health Observations Abroad One of the most pitiful sights in England is to see young women acting as barmaids in the public drinking places, and to see women elbowing their way to the bar and then stand there, shoulder to shoulder with a crowd of coarse, half-drunken men, and with them partake freely of intoxicating liquor. Unfortunately, this painful sight is not at all rare, and it is quite common to see drunken women reeling about in the streets. What a sad commentary on our modern civilization. In Copenhagen it is the custom to dress young schoolgirls so that their arms are almost or entirely bare, even in weather when Americans appreciate their overcoats. This practice necessarily chills the blood, and tends to produce congestion of the internal organs, and undoubtedly lays the foundation for colds, pneumonia and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is making sad havoc among the urban population of Norway. It is pitiful to note how this plague is decimating this once hardy race. Sedentary life, indoor confinement and defective ventilation are undoubtedly the most prolific causes, for fifty per cent of the tubercular cases make a satisfactory recovery when they are sent to some outdoor sanitarium; and what will cure a consumptive would certainly have prevented the onset of the disease. The liquor curse is undermining the physical stamina of the Swedish race. Liquor drinking among the working classes is almost universal. One third of their population die before the age of twenty-one, and one-fourth of those who live, are rejected from military service on account of physical disqualifications. An American Puzzle. Dr. Lorenz, of bloodless surgery fame, cannot understand how Americans enjoy fair health on a diet that would depopulate any other country. "The pies, puddings, sauces and innumerable other dishes, most of which are unhealthful in the extreme, partaken of by young and old alike in America, have caused me to wonder," says Dr. Lorenz, "that the people are not physical and constitutional wrecks." The secret is to be found in the simple, hardy lives of the forefathers of the present generation. Their vigorous health has bestowed upon the grandchildren wonderful constitutional vigor. But the change from the simple to the luxurious is working havoc. The rising generation have squandered the constitutional capital bequeathed to them and are rapidly becoming physical bankrupts. A halt must be called and the simple habits resumed or the prophecy of Dr. Lo rezn will surely be realized. BREAKFAST BREADS. Corn Puffs.—Beat together two and one-half cupfuls of unskimmed milk and the yolks of two eggs, until thoroughly blended. Add two cupfuls of best granulated corn meal. Beat the batter thoroughly; stir in lightly the whites of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth; turn into heated irons, and bake. Corn Dodgers.—Scald one cupful of best granulated corn meal, into which a tablespoon of sugar has been sifted, with one cup of boiling milk. Beat until smooth, and drop on a griddle, in cakes about one inch in thickness, and bake slowly for an hour. Turn when brown. If preferred, the baking may be finished in the oven after the first turning. Hominy Gems.—Beat one egg until very light, add to it one tablespoonful of thick sweet cream, a little salt, it desired, and two cupfuls of cooked hominy (fine). Thin the mixture with one cupful or less of boiling water until it will form easily, beat well, and bake in heated irons. Sally Lunn Gems.—Beat together the yolk of one egg, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and one cupful of thin, ice-cold, sweet cream. Add slowly, beating at the same time, one cup and two tablespoonfuls of sifted Graham flour. Beat vigorously, until full of air bubbles, add the white of the egg beaten stiffly, and bake in heated irons. Cream Corn Cakes.—Into one cup of thin cream stir one and one-half cups of granular corn meal, or enough to make a stiff batter; add one-third of a teaspoonful of salt; beat well, drop into heated irons, and bake. Cream Graham Rolls.—To one-half cup of cold cream add one-half cup of soft ice water. Make into a dough with three cups of Graham flour, sprinkling in slowly with the hands, beating at the same time, so as to incorporate as much air as possible, until the dough is too stiff to be stirred; then knead thoroughly, form into rolls and bake. Hoecake.—Scald one plint of white corn meal, with which, if desired, a tablespoonful of sugar and one-half teaspoonful of salt have been mixed, with boiling milk, or water enough to make a batter sufficiently thick not to spread. Drop on a hot griddle, in large or small cakes as preferred, about one-half inch in thickness. Cook slowly, and when well browned on the underside, turn over. The cake may be cooked slowly until well done throughout, or, as the portion underneath becomes well browned, the first brown crust may be peeled off with a knife, and the cake again turned. As rapidly as a crust be comes formed and browned, one may be removed, and the cake turned, until the whole is browned. The thin wafer-like crusts are excellent served with hot milk or cream. THOUSAND-MILE RIDE LONG TRIP, WITH HEALTH AND PLEASURE THE OBJECTS. Correspondent Writes of Journey in Texas and Mexico With a Party as Guests of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Gilson Willett, special correspondent of Leslie's Weekly, writes entertainingly of a thousand-mile horseback hunt in Texas and Mexico with a party as guests of the Southern Pacific railroad. The members of the party represented twelve different states. At Sabinas, Mexico, he says: "Over half of the thousand-mile journey has been completed—and the fellows who are here for their health are now hard as nails; those who came along with an appetite for pleasure are well-nigh satiated; and the sportsmen have brought in, day after day, incredibly huge bags of ducks, geese, rabbits, squirrels, and no end of small game, not to mention big hauls of deer, bear, wild turkeys and fish. All of which is due to about the most healthful region in the Union; to a section of country where pleasurable diversion is eternally at hand, and to a territory that is literally a sportsman's paradise hitherto untreated and unshot and unfished." Mr. Willett bestows a deserved eulogy on the splendid hospitality of the Southern Pacific and the hearty welcome accorded the party in southern cities from New Orleans onward. Visitors to southwest Texas will not need to be told of the really marvelous work done by the Southern Pacific in building up that section of the country. Mr. Willett says: "Then we again boarded our train and railroaded on for the most of a day, through a country in which the Southern Pacific has caused a blade of grass—not to speak of stalk of corn, cane or sugar, and blossom of cotton—to flourish where none grew before. "Thirty miles farther inland—on the San Diego river—we made our first camp in Mexico. After that our camps were from twenty to fifty miles apart. And thus we have progressed on our thousand-mile horseback hunt, passing through strange villages and seeing queer peon customs, visiting the headquarters of mighty ranches of a million acres, where the owners escorted us to the front door with six hundred white horses, or six hundred black horses, or six hundred bays, as the case might be, and having all sorts of diversions of big hunts, and witnessing many kinds of unique sights in primitive and quaint old Mexico. "Our first three or four camps were made on one of the largest ranches in the world—the Trevino ranch of 1,000,000 acres. Of this great ranch—as big as a New England state—as on all the other great ranches we have traversed, the Southern Pacific management obtained all hunting and fishing privileges. "It was on the great Trevino ranch that the healthseekers of the party first discovered that they were getting in Mexico exactly what they had come for—a new constitution. The sportsmen of the party, too, were out late and up early on "the chase that pleaseth." The motto always was to kill only such game, however plentiful it might be, as was actually needed for consumption at our table, for the Southern Pacific stands for the killing of game for food only." Many interesting stories of the district traversed are related by Mr. Willett. He concludes: "Thus on this trip every promise made by the Southern Pacific railroad has been kept to the letter—just as similar promises will be kept on the second annual thousand-mile horseback hunting party already talked of for next year." The Fingerless Man Explains He was a man of 40, with the three last fingers of his right hand missing, and when he saw that the man on his right was looking and wondering he said: "You have been in a zoo, haven't you?" "Oh. yes." "You have noticed bones lying about on the floor of the lion's cage?" "Certainly." "And you have put your hand through the bars of the cage after one of them to see what the lion would do. "No, I never did any tom-fool thing like that. Any man of common sense knows that the lion would bite him. So that's the way you lost your fingers, is it?" "No, not exactly." "How not exactly?" "Why, I got the bone out all right, and the lion only grinned at me, but next day, while sawing wood on a machine, I got these fingers in the way of the old saw and they were nipped off. Next time you go to the zoo try it on. You don't know how easy you can get the bones out." The Cullinan Diamond. Speculation is rife in mining circles as to what might have been the fate of the Cullinan diamond had it not been picked up on the surface. A stone of that magnitude, if carried to the washing machine, would not pass through the cylinder, and might conceivably be picked out and carelessly thrown aside with the discarded lumps. If, on the other hand, it reached the rollers, it would inevitably be smashed into several pieces. Wells, the old Kimberleyite, who had the good luck to find the record stone, is said, by the way, to have been rewarded by a check running into five figures. -Diamond Fields Advertiser. Short Items of Interest Gathered from All Over the World In 1898 Earthquakes were felt in Austria on 209 days. Vegetable Life Does not exist in the sea below a depth of 1,500 feet. The Sea Freezes at 29 deg. Fahr.; fresh water lakes at 32 deg. Fahr. The Hottest And coldest months for the ocean are August and February. Has a population of 1,133,756 white people, and 3,308,355 colored. St. Petersburg Occupies six large and many small islands at the mouth of the Neva. Scotland Is connected with Iceland by a submerged bank at a depth of 500 fathoms. The Largest Island In the world is New Guinea, 306,000 square miles; Great Britain is 83,826 square miles. Three-fourths Of the area of Japan is mountainous, and less than 16 per cent. is under cultivation. The Caspian Sea 180,000 square miles, is the largest lake in the world; Lough Neagh is 153 square miles. Mount Everest In the Himalayas—29,002 feet—is the highest mountain in the world; Ben Nevis is 4,406 feet. The Forests of Roumania Cover about one-sixth of the total area of the country, reaching a total of over 7,000,000 acres. The Average Depth Of the sea is about 12,000 feet; the average height of the land above sea-level is about 1,500 feet. Queensland Possesses the most interesting flora, and the most numerous and valuable wild fruits in the world. Russia In Europe alone has an area of 2,000,000 square miles; the area of Siberia is 5,000,000 square miles. The Norwegian Lakes Sometimes freeze with such rapidity that it is possible to cross them on ice formed in a single night. Butterfiles Are so numerous in Uganda that they may be seen covering the ground in dense white or yellow clumps. The Area Of the groups of islands of which Japan is composed is about two-thirds greater than that of Great Britain. The Congo Flows with considerable rapidity in its upper reaches. A speed of 350 feet per minute has been registered. The Deepest Sounding Yet made in the oceans is the Ald rich Deep, to the East of New Zea land. Here the sea is 30,930 feet deep. Japan Is fifty times smaller than Russia in superficial area, and her total population is about one-third that of the Russian empire. Luke Biwa Is the only large sheet of fresh water in Japan worthy of mention. It is 36 miles long, 12 miles wide, and its greatest depth about 300 feet. Loch Tay Is one of the deepest lakes in the British Isles. A maximum sounding of 503 feet has been made in this lake, whilst the mean depth is 199 feet. New Zealand's Scenery is so beautiful and so varied that it has been termed a combination of Switzerland, Southern France, Norway, the Tyrol and North Italy. Recent Travelers in Tibet Have noticed that while the effects of rarefied air are severely felt at altitudes of between 14,000 and 16,000 feet, on going yet higher all disagreeable sensations pass off. Snow, Even in the tropics, never melts, but remains continuously all the year round above a height of 16,000 feet; in colder climes the "snow line" is much lower than this. Though icebergs Sometimes rise to a height of 200 feet above the sea level; eight-ninths of their total height is below the water. During the Challenger Arctic expedition an iceberg three miles in length was seen. Kang-wha Is an island off the west coast of Korea of considerable strategical importance. It has a curious appearance, owing to the fact that it is crossed from east to west by four parallel chains of mountains. A Volcanic Eruption At St. Vincent once threw a cloud of dust against the wind to St. Barbadoes, a distance of 100 miles. The deposit fell for twelve hours over the entire island, attaining a thickness of nearly half an inch. Its estimated weight was, therefore, nearly 2,000,000 tons. In Central China There is a province—Yunnan—the entire population of which, men, women and children are hopelessly given to the opium habit. The poppy is cultivated in almost every available patch or arable land, and the inhabitants are absolutely demoralized and fit for nothing by reason of their abuse of the drug. The Kea Is a greenish-brown parrot of New Zealand, which is as dangerous to the sheep of that country as wolves would be. These carnivorous birds fasten themselves on the backs of grazing sheep, tear through wool and skin to the kidney-fat, which they devour, leaving the unfortunate animal to perish in agony. In the East African Protectorate go about well armed. They carry a stout, ace-of-spades-shaped spear, a real buffalo-hide shield, a heavy, double-edged sword, a club, and several strong sticks. Their principal "garment" is a plentiful coat of terra-cotta earth, and they wear numerous articles of metal as ornaments. In 1898 A Misapplied Word. Everybody who has had experience in carving knows that not only are sharper knives required, but also probably more skill and practice to carve a duck than any other fowl. Admiral Dewey was a guest at a dinner table where his host had that serious task to perform. As the admiral watched the almost desperate endeavors of the carver to disintegrate the bird he smiled mildly. His host happened to notice it and felt a bit plued, as he was not in the best of temper, anyway. "You appear to be amused at my awkwardness, Admiral," said he. "Not at all, sir; not at all," was the reply. "I was only thinking why the term duck was used as a word of endearment and goose one of reproach." Mulea Hard to Kill. A correspondent who was with Coli. Younghusband's mission to Tibet tells a mule story: "Mules, apparently, do not die from any cause. When the mission first crossed the Jelapa a mule slipped in the dusk and fell into the lake at the bottom of the ass. It was thought to be drowned. Next morning a convoy found it with its nose just above the ice, the rest of its body literally frozen in. Pickaas were brought and the animal was dug out. It is now working as usual." Hamilton's Mild Praise of Wife Here's the way Alexander Hamilton wrote of the young woman who soon afterwards became his wife, in a letter that Mr. J. P. Morgan has just added to his autograph collection: "She is a good-hearted girl, who, I am sure, will never play the termagant; though not a genius, she has good sense enough to be agreeable, and, though not a beauty, she has fine black eyes, is rather handsome, and has every other requisite of the exterior to make a lover happy. And, believe me, I am lover in earnest, although I do not speak of the perfections of my mistress in the enthusiasm of chivalry." Would the lady have been pleased, ladies, if she had looked over his shoulder while he was writing it? A Difference of Opinion "Dey say dar's a doctor come ter de front who give it out dat a man orter be killed off w'en he gits ter sixty," said Brother Williams. "Now, lemme see. W'en I wen sixty I had one wife in Alabama, two in Texas, en one in Tennessee, en I walked all de way fum Texas ter Georgy, en I been here ever since, enjoyin' my honeymoon all by myself; en de fust ere de year I was eighty-six, en I shingled my own roof, en raised de devil ginrully!"—Atlanta Constitution. ALUMET BAKING POWDER NOT MADE BY THE TRUST The Wonderful Growth of Calumet Baking Powder Is due to its Perfect Quality and Moderate Price Used in Millions of Homes Houston Post: "Are dogs good eating, papa?" "No, son, they are bad eating; don't ever twist a dogs tail when he is at dinner." 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. A strong, unsweetened lemonade taken before breakfast will prevent and cure billious attack. NO TONGUE CAN TELL How I Suffered with Itching and Bleeding Eczema Until Cured by Cuticura. "No tongue can tell how I suffered for five years with a terribly painful, itching, and bleeding eczema, my body and face being covered with sores. Never in my life did I experience such awful suffering, and I longed for death, which I felt was near. I had tried doctors and medicines without success, but my mother insisted that I try Cuticura. I felt better after the first bath with Cuticura Soap and one application of Cuticura Ointment, and was soon entirely well. (Signed) Mrs. A. Etson, Bellevue, Mich." In order to realize the full value of some things they should be well insured. Great Activity Is shown without any disagreeable after-effects, by Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin, in going to the seat of your trouble, when you are a victim of Constipation, Billiousness, Headache, Indigestion, Dizziness, etc. It gently but firmly drives out the poisons that are causing your illness, and braces up all your internal organs to do their proper work. Try it. Sold by all druggists at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it falls. At least until grass makes a start to grow it is usually best to feed the poultry regularly three times a day. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any mice of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Bail's Wholesale Drugs, Toiled, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the hen house. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Drugs. Take Hall's Family Plies for constipation. Sawdust on the floor of the hen house will keep the biddies' feet warm and induce egg production. 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 %-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 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Chronic bargain hunters soon begin to take on a shop-worn look. Puck: Finnegan—Oh, yis, Oi, can understand how thim astronomers can calkilate th' distance av a shartr, its weight, dinstly and color and all that—but th' thing that gets me is, how th' divvle do they know its name. Maw Hoptoad—Them actors is a scandalous lot. Paw Hoptoad—What's wrong now, Mirandy? Maw Hoptoad—I jest heard that felter say he supported Madam Mojjesky for nine years an' had a wife in the company, tew! ‘Will It Cure Consumption? I@s an insult to your Intelligence for a dealer to attempt to palm off upon you a substitute for this world-famed medicine. You know what you want. It’s his business to meet that want, When he urges some substitute, he’s thinking of the larger profit he'll make++:not of your welfare. Avoid all such unprincipled dealers. " Conviction Follows Trial ‘When buying loose coffee or anything your grocer happens to have in his bin, how do you know what you are getting ? Some queer stories about coffeo that is sold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out, Could any amount of mero talk have persuaded millions of housekeepers to use Lion Coffee, the leader of all package coffees for over a quarter of acentury, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity? ‘This popular success of LION COFFEE can be due only to inherent merit. There is no stronger proof of merit than con- tinued and increasing popularity. ra It the verdict of MILLIONS OF LIGs HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince f aie, A you of the merits of LION COFFEE, po- Ny it costs you but a trifle to buy a tik, Boy of package. It ts the easiest way to RG Qi ‘ i convince yourself, and to make iN PEI Ag you a PERMANENT PURCHASER. ye] oS, “4 LION COFFEE Is wld only 1.11), sated pacagoy [ei S10 Fy I) A and reaches you a# pure and cloau as when dy left out A yh AND factory. RO» Hed fel ‘iioichead on every package, bgt sf Bara tease Liscsitets (or slowbie presales: PAM YU SOLD BY GROCERS ees EVERYWHERE CON 57 WOOLSON SPICE CO, ‘Toledo, Ohio, PS ab ats }, wa cannot hold out the promise ‘that Dr. Pierce's Golden Meds ical Discovery will cure con- sumption when thoroughly eeaved and established. We doubt {f boy jnedicine will then cure, although fundreds have been curod by the “Discovery” after their attending phyaitians had pronounced their exses regolar tubercular consumption, The fact is that the ‘Golden Medical Disoovery "does cure severe throat and bronchial affections, lingering coughs, and those obstinate, wasting, ‘run: down”? conditions which, if, neglected or improperly trented, run on and terminate in genuine consumption. We know that thousands of men ‘and women although in the advanced « of feeblenews and emaciation— palid, wasted and broken-down with all the terrible symptoms of hacking gongha aight -eweats, hectic fever, absolute Brosization,, and even bleeding from lungs-have been restored ‘by the ate of this marvelous medicine to per manent health, strength and vitality. But it must be taken in time, before the lungs have been filled with tuber: cular deposita, or have actually begun to break down. Da R. V, Pence, Buffalo, N. ¥.: Dear Sir1¥ ehren me pleasars to send 304 gale tettrogntal most some other Dur au rer may be saved, es 1 was, by Dr Plerce Golden Medical Discavory. Tad a cougt for years: expectorated & great deal and wa slowly ailing” Could eat three good Meals jay but was losing flesh every der Fast t welett from 150 pounds down to 1 My fles eer thing vo, aay are but mane ap penta anything to any one but made up my mine 0 be 2 SOUTHERN GONDITIONS ANy POSSIBILITIES, ‘In no part of the United States has there been auth" eDaderfal Couunereais Tatuatei ead ‘eredaral development ar aloug tb thes of Aerieinatebenteat ad the Yaroo L Mtantssippt Weituy Weativoaterin tie: States of enmemse. SiUiZalbpl und Loustana, within tue past tel Seertaatee eae ta tone gave: doasien suett Petsinuon. "splendid buninee bucks, have rs erwcted, "var. inte bere snore tea Coubled irguiue’ “Hundreds of industrice have Sech'esuablianed arnt uy'a newt there ie an Sprecedented vemund for Day Laborers, Skilled Workmon, and Especially Farm Tenants, Parties with small capital, norking an oppor ween to foreuSne, fam oie; farmene ho Sd pecker us ent tare couie ot veary before Parcuetlne and tay lahore i fede o,f sriewaouid witens a portal cand wo Mr dc Merry, Assixtant General Passenger Agent, Pectiiuc Tuan will promptly mia pred Pade crane. the eorrey abOre de matter concerning the territory above de PAY TUITION AFTER POSITION IS SECURED Te et wan enmnmin te DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Kansas City, Ft. Scott, St. Louls, Pt, Smith, ‘Muskogee or Ft, Worth, MAIL COURSE FREE. ms HIGH GRADE TELEPHONES ss eee mem Suntan coe 3 eae) FARMERS’ LINES A SPECIALTY, i ee Telephone & Electric Co, sid 96 Tucan Ave., St. Louis, U.8, dy OWI or ain’ weet pula tens. Heaptlsad, Tascce Bien saa tat: SOT aetntetetht ent gaente sooner astneeee nuts eatrens ere Bate, bedi REBELS SANDHOLM DRUG 00., Des Moines, Iowa. Ww. N. U. KANSAS CITY, NO. 15, 1906 EIR UCA AL DONT ORR, DENSION were ee ROU? eminc Renee Medicus Advisers ateout Dr. Pierce's Golden Discovery, and I said, that sounds more i, tena — than soz pins, ‘else that I had beard. 1 ab roe fouaht aftr of sou famaun remedy a before I had taken half of one bottle | felt Better, Pook thirveen borties and it made ; new man of +] 1 gained sixteen pounds an never have hed a cx since. | feel spl and give all the lit to your medicine. cee ral Sbeldon Ave, Chaiham, One. Canade Da R V. Prence, Buffalo, N. ¥.: Dear Birt ik ferent bier eae ail, T eavieht & ae ‘wht Tings and throat re rerz tes cou also raised 8 great a pectaned a. Tiihourcountry phvalcian and be said tha if my cough could not be broken up eee T could see benefit ee so Tiporet ‘a bottle thd fa two wees Use was Fone "I'am pare the "Golden Medical ‘Dis Scraze hone Pius pesereeh feeb Favorite ts rere 00d for troubles for wi tis tor SY Tonine that others may be benefited as nave boaa,fresgler our Wire Me Bakar re Morgan, Oconto ‘oo. Wis qq Good temper is Dr. Pierce’s isrens/s'm: health, and good health 1s largely « may er of enlily activity of the Dowels, Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellows euro constips | tions They ure sate, sure. and spocuy | and ones taken de not have % be taker jaiwaye. uu litte Pollet” is @ gentl Karate, ang wo 8 mild cathartic. “Phey never PD caer, ah dtuguinen ellets. ery ay EN EXCURSIONS 4 i TER TO THE eS A ph, Free Grant Lands CAN a £ oF F Western Canada. During the monthe of March and April, there will be excursions on the various lines of rail way to the Canadian Went. Hundreds of thousands of acres of the best Wheat and Grasing Lands on she Continent free to the settler. ‘Adjoinige lands may be purchased trom ratl way aud latid companies at reasonable prices. For Information an to route, coxt of tranapor talion ete, apply. to Superintendent of Tmt ‘gration, Ottaws, Canada, or to, authorized Can Satay overaineneAgent-—J.'8" Crawford, No tae W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, MissourL any who formerly smoked 10$Cigars now smoke LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER | STRAIGHT S* CIGAR ‘Your jobber or direct trom Factory, Peoria, Lik 20 to $. Highest grade ne Mason & Hamlin, Story hark, Kimball, Chicago Cottage, slightly used fraranteed Like new: apecial dracrfptions an Brives tor the aaking. Write to-day. JENKINS’ MUSIC HOUSE, KANSAS CITY, #0 ‘Wheo Wilting wealion tla panes. Alabastine ------ Your Walls % Just ask the doctor if there isn't @ danger of disease in your walls, § Don’t take our word for it—ask him. = Make him tell you, 8 There is only one perfectly sani- : tary and hygienic wall covering. § That is Alabastine—made from @ Alabaster rock—then colored with © mineral colorings. B ,. Atavasring is cleanly, because it & is made from pure rock—Alabaster @ rock and pure water, It is not stuck § on with sour paste nor smetly glue. $ When your walls need covering, § you don't need to wash ALABASTINE 8 of. Just add another coat, for ALa- B pasting is antiseptic as well as £ beautiful. The most beautiful decor- 8 ations are possible with Alabastine, 8M Any decorttor or painter can pat It. B Poe chaise ystureett Tasiscon Alas $ dastine boing aeltvored tn the origtaed Biche. tiNie"yoarvonly safeguard Reston suberitudlo ot wortblens Kaleor Be ert aed Sad free sugwestions: BF sour dealer can't suttty sow, send we hie B Sameand wwe willure that vew hate dlabastine : ALABASTINE COMPANY, 8 Grant Ave., Grand Kapida, Mich, feaeaitew ‘York Office, 105 Water St. gene ev PISO'S CURE FOR ng CONSUMPTION © Se HUMOR. the By A DOr B> 1% Wing 4 Do glen WON eed ef ern aie Vay 7; ong SET pees ERNE Wa EAE -V ICY ese eS ae ‘Thought There Was an inducement. The man with the confident air walked into the tobacco department of the big store, called the manager to one side and whispered: “T've come in to get the prize, but T don’t want anybody to know it.” “Prize? What prize?” “Why, my wife gave me a smoking set for Christmas, and I've used every evening since then. Don't you give a fellow some kind of a reward for that?” Unfortunate Points. “Don’t you want to do something to which you can point with pride when you get out of congress?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “This ambition to point with pride has been the means of getting too many people out of congress,.”—Wash- ington Star. Wanted to End the Supply. RaQ SRS = SN = st vot eon a re ay ; Nae et Gr aL rai fr Ta Geis sab R/O Willie—Say, ma, do storks bring de babies? Mamma—Yes, Willie. Willie—Say, ma, can I take pa's rifle aud go huntin’ dis afternoon? A Handicap. Mrs, Hiram Offen—How long were you in: your last piuce? New Servant—Just a month, ma'am. Mrs. Hiram Offen—Indeed? What was the trouble? New Servant—Th’ trouble was that I got sick an’ couldn't I'ave no soon er—Philadelphia Press. Keeps Cows. City Friend—Do you keep a cow? Mr. Oulotz of Drearyhurst—I have @ strong suspicion that I do. What T have to pay my milkman every week certainly ought to be enough to keep two or three cows, Preferred Creditors. “Pa, what's a preferred creditor?” “The kind I prefer is the one who is willing to take it for granted that Til pay him just as soon as I can con- veniently spare the money.” Wired. Hicks—Charley wired me last night Weber—What an absurd expres: sion! “Wired!” As if you were a champagne bottle or a cheap bou- auet! Third Rail. Eastern Man, visiting in the West— Has the third rail reached your town yet? Western Man—Sure thine! We mde @ man out of town on Monday, ar other man on Wednesday, and the third was rode out of town to-night! Yonkers Statesman, Proof Positive. Lawyer—You say you were sitting in a room, could not see the road, heard nothing, and yet you swear, sir, that an automobile passed at 7 o'clock. Witness—Certainly; 1 smelt it.— Puck, Love's Tribulations. a i Y) EX ge A oa — lee ng s Mi é oS rr: GA, say D> f e> . oe Teacher—Whai .s the future of “tc love". Reginald—I kin predick Freddie's future if he don't quit wink!n’ at me eal here, Periodical Breaks, Hammersly — The beer-drinking habit seems to be growing on you Why don't you try to break yourself? Guzzles— Break myself! Why that's just what I do every week short ly after pay-day!” Told in Confidence, Mayme—Daisy is going *o keep her engagement to young De Smyth a se cnet. Fdyth—How do you know? Mayme—Why, she told me so her cl A Land of Mystery. ‘The Great American Desert once so called, the wild solitudes of the West- ¢rn mountain ranges, end the snow wastes of the Yukon, wave yielded up their inmost secrets; out the Ever- glades, in the southernmost interior of our southern most state, are today al- Most as little known of white men as wlien the early navigators first char- tered the contour of the Cape of the End of April.—From “The Everglades of Florida” in the February Century. Such Dear Friends, Too. - Clara—I'll tell you a secret, dear, if you'll promise never to repeat It. Maude—All right. Out with It. Clara—Fred proposed to me last night. Maude—Oh, say, doesn't he do it awkwardly, though? Senator Stone of Missouri was pass- ing through the senate restaurant. He stopped and said to a waiter, “Is this pumpkin pie?” “Yes, sir it 1s," replied the waiter. “It looks like it might be sweet potato ple,” said Mr. Stone, “Let me taste it.” The senator was handed a fork and tasted the pie. “es, it is pumpkin pie,” said Mr. Stone. “You know, | am from Mis souri and have to be shown.” But he didn't buy the pie— new York World. Representative Brownlow of Ten nessee led Martin W. Littleton, presi dent of the borough of rooklyn, up t the White House and presented hir to President Roosevelt. “Mr. President,” he said, "I want you to know the man who did more foi you in the last campaign than an; other on earth.” “How's that?” asked the president looking Littleton over carefully, “Why,” rownlow replied, “Littleto fs the person who made the nomnatin, speech for Judge Parker at the St Louis convention, In the Spring. Lowndes, Mo., April 10th.—Mrs. H. C. Harty of this place, says:— “For years 1 was in very bad health. Every spring 1 would get so low that 1 was unable to do my own work. 1 seemed to be worse in the spring than any other time of the year. I was very weak and miserable and had much pain in my back and head. 1 saw Dodd's Kidney Pills advertised last spring and began treatment of them and they have certainly done me more good than auything I have ever “used, “was all right last spring and felt better than I have for over ten years. 1am fifty years of age and am strong: er today than I have been for many years and I give Dodd's Kidney Pills credit for the wonderful improve- ment.” ‘The statement of Mrs. Harty is only one of a great many where Dodd's Kidney Pills haye proven themselves to be the very best spring medicine. ‘They are unsurpassed as a tonic and are the only medicine used in thou sands of families, ‘There is apt to be trouble In the fam. fly when the better half finds out how the other half lives. Watching Blankets. lave ready three tubs of moderately warm water; for the first water make a strong suds by using plenty of Ivory Soap. In this Rae @ pair of blankets and stir with the clothes stick until clean; then rinse through the other two waters, putting a little soup in each. Wring by hand and stretch ey on the line. ELEANOR R. PARKER. Uncle John—Can you tell me what calendars are for, Bobby? Bobby—Sure. ‘They are to keep u: from forgetting Christmas and the Fourth of July. Foun ot day on NORTH SOUTH BAST: WEST 7OU Wibh FinD jipe=i WATERPROOF @ILED CLOTHING EVERYWHERE. \pammmcmmmmcmey The best moteriah shilled workmen and tererhemteeny IWER'S Sickers, Costs ond Mats fonous the world over They art made in. Tam | Heese els aon infaction All reliabve denier sel! then. A.J.TOWER CO. BOSTON MASS.0.A_ ALL OTHERS | owen common co. Linites ROUTO. can, that has built up our reputa- tion for good reliable foot wear throughout the central states. | It is called the “HOOSIER SCHOOL SHOE and was made by us at first for chil dren only. So popular did it beeome however that dealers all over insist ed on onr making the same shoe in women’s sizes. ‘The results have Deon phenomenal. We have made and sold over 3,000,000 pairs of “Hoosier School Shoes” and the de- mand is constantly increasing. It is made of the best inaterial by expert workmen, It looks well, wears well and fits the foot. Ask your dealer for “Hoosier Schoo! Shoes." TAPPAN SHOE MFG. CO., COLDWATER, MICH, °* 7 BEGGS’ BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach, PE-RU-NA “UP rotHe STANDARD etd 7 ) j vi sachs J ‘i PS ay \ Oy ah ci a Ga wie La xl; aa CIES erg ARE, Ue NTS + eee A RS Same WRAY BTA ee ee UNCLE SAM—“‘A High Standard is Required of Any Catarrh Remedy That Has Been Endorsed by so Many Trustworthy and Prominent People.” 32 YEARS SELLING DIRECT We are the largest manufacturers of vehicles and harness in the world sell- ; ing to consumers exclusively. 0 og Metnste tens ee Gee 2 ae AG armas Ing ifnot satistied as to Y A pan Soe N Asay) see Seine “Cae —) RAY DY Bete GS CRA SUSE geal Oban me ar carey ty Sey tee csnoe Eluthart Carriage @ Harness Mid. Co. Elkhart, Indiana, W. L. DOUGLAS ‘UNION FOR wo. $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES ii. LW, fy, Dangian #3.80 shore wre the greatest arilers in the paeidncennseat tachment at Viet as alitay win Sues Fisrinearine guntiigs. Way wre Yuet ae vou werhoae tad Eee eae BE WUE og. Rios utes tucer elite wttete Mae ite ne iameersanaarcaegeegeey sine than oy RAN RTNG Me sahara dake wed. uta wa Rhlece tieie'rulun by acaurpin hig wwe med price otek Bits obettsHaltoer aaa fae i bae'nn tats, Wed hepeinetoutstiiee ama hy aie ddutersenery wiveres Sr met ice Where} outive, W:k.-ongiassiiorenre within yourremehy HETTER THAN OTHER MAKES AT ANY PRICE “permet faze gra Taam ta onal hott pnt ot Teo Parelh at ashe Ba Capel Savion ane indionaic ne bes bho 'W. L. Douglas $2.50 and $2.00 shoos bocanso thoy fit tter, hold their shape, and wear longer than other makes. W.L.DOUGLAS $4.00 SHOES CANNOT BE EQUALLED AT ANY PRICE. Gila eonateed to betne ase tend tether prado FANT COLOR EVELETH WILLNOT WEAM MRARSY peasant ily ata tance dates ea es Make rns wren Msrtted etsy sprung Arle W.L.DOUCLAS, BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS ENE Fae er. Pi etre are erenn Ae | Winter Service 1904 and 1905 M oa To it i LW. For Omaha and Lincoln, 9 a, m, and ; 10:20 p. m. For Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Inde. pendence and Coffeyville 0:65 a, mand ‘ 10:80 p.m. Also the New "HOT SPRING® SPECIAL," leaving at 12:01 Noom arrive In Hot Springs to Hreakfast ‘Through Sieepers, Diners and Chair Cars to Pt Sinith, Little Rock and Hot Springs, For Pueblo, Denver and Pacific Coast Points at 10:40 am. and ¥:30 pom. For Joplin and Way Stations 2:26, 9:46 n,m, and 7-40 p.m. To Lexington, Sedalia and Way Stations, & 46 a.m. and 6-00 p.m Leavenworth, Atchison and St. Joseph, 6:48, 900, 10 50. mand 6-00 p.m. For Kiowa, Wichita and Way Stations, 12.01, noon, and 10:30 p. m. For Local Coupon Tickets, Bleeping Car [erths and all information call at £. 8. JEW! . von Agent, Passenger Dept. vor in Ay Jobin’ Seniinics Cry Fonse aaent Kansas" Eltye Mo. | Velannane FAO Miokors $2 5 t C lif | VIA SANTA FE From Kansas City to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Franciaco. ‘There are only u few of the places to which tickets may Le bought @& this rate. Proportionate reductions from other points, You've heard of California's rich soil {ts picturesque scenery, the kindness of tte climate, The place for farmer, tourist, invalid ‘Tickets on sale—datly—March 1 to May 15, Liberal stop over privileges. No better train service than the Santa Fe's, ‘Three trains daily. ‘Tourist Sleepers, Free Chair Cars, Harvey Meals, ‘Whether you go now or later, write the undersigned for descriptive literature, information about trains and rates, Ask all the questions you desire, We'll answer them, GEO. W. HAGENBUCH, General Agent, The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Companp 905 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, Mo. 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 booked 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." 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 grudally 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, varquished 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. Driving Ostrich to Wagon. The work of breaking an ostrich to harness requires infinite patience. He wears a collar at the base of his neck, and from this straps are passed underneath his body and attached to the wagon. No bit is placed in his mouth, the reins being simply tied over his bill. In driving him the reins are crossed, for the reason that he will invariably take the opposite direction from that in which is head is pulled. If you pull his head over to the left, for instance, he will instinctively jerk it back and swerve to the right. Just why he does this nobody knows. Whatever the reason, this habit is a great advantage to the trainer, for with the lines crossed he can be driven just the same as a horse. Pays for Stolen Vest. Some months ago the vicar of Rogate, Sussex, received a letter from Australia asking him to try to find a man in his village who had had his waistcoat stolen thirty years ago. The vicar found the man and told his Australian correspondent. In due time he received a letter inclosing $50 for the owner of the waistcoat. The writer said that with the $2.50 he had found in the waistcoat he had gained a new start in life and was now well to do. BEING READY AND WILLING The firemen, on the alert for a "call" that may come at any moment, illustrate the readiness and the loins girded about to which our Savior referred. 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.—Selected. AGENTS WANTED To sell Kink-line. Read aao.A paa ment elsewhere in this paper, also what our customers say of it. Maud Wilson, Marion, Ind., writes: To sell Kink-line, the great hair pleasure in recommending it." Mary G. Sommer, Alton, Ill., writes: straightener and grower. Read their derful 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 advertisement elsewhere in this paper, and works wonders on the hair." Large bottle sent prepaid for 35c; six for $1.65, and one dozen for $3.10. FREE! to show what KINKINE will do send 15c., and we will mail a sample postpaid. Agents wanted everywhere to sell KINKINE. Write to-day for terms. THE KINK-INE COMPANY. 343 West 14th St. NEW YORK. Juryman's (ruptful) excuse. A juryman who appeared before Sir James Hannen in a London court room recently was in deep mourning and claimed exemption from service on the ground that he was interested in a funeral that day at which he desired to be present. "Oh, certainly," said the courteous judge, and the man went sad-facedly away. "Do you know the man you have exempted?" asked the clerk. "No," said Sir James. "He is an undertaker," was the reply. Professor's Atrocious Pun Professor Strunk of the English department of Cornell university is a fond papa, as well as a desperate punster. His favorite form of exercise is trundling a baby carriage along the campus walks. One day while he was so employed a friend hailed him with the query: "Giving your son an airing, Billy?" "No." replied the professor with dignity. "I'm giving my heir a sunning." Women Clerks in London. London's women clerks are increasing in number with remarkable rapidity. According to an official return their ranks, which, in 1891, included 17,859 young women, rose to a total of 55,784 in the year 1901. Male clerks increased in the decade by 34.2 per cent only, whereas their rivals advanced by no less than 300 per cent. Experiments With Oil. After six weeks' experiment with two different oils, the borough surveyor of Kensington, London, has reported that the system of laying dust by oil is unsuitable for London. Not only is the cost twice as much as for water, but the smell from the oil caused many complaints where it was used. The Irish National Bird Good luck to the Aigle, America's bird, that stands for the land o' the tree! Faix I'm not the wan to be sayn' a word that ruffle its feathers. Not me! I'm pauper o' the bird as I'm proud o' the land An' gnd to be under its wing. But there is another bird aliqua grand Whose praises I'm wishful to sing. Now he not pucker yr face wid a smile. 'Tis soberest truth that we've got A national bird in the Emerald Isle That's aisly kung o' the lot! Ay! 'national bird.' He is certainly that. Though others may claim him at times. He's the best most wid the fortunes of Pet. At home an' in far-away climes. An' faix 'tis the Irish that love him the pet. An' welcome his favors the most; The man's not true Irish that has him for guest Without feelin' proud to be host. He seas out the Irish raygardless o' place— At home or abroad in New York— So here's to the National Bird of the Race. Here's to hip burrah!" for the stork, -T A. Daly in Catholic Standard and Times. Care for Berlin Paupers As many as 1,300 persons seek refuge on some days in the "warm rooms" maintained in Berlin for paupers. Four cobblers and a tailor are paid by the city for mending the garments of the paupers while in these rooms. "Sitting" Joke. Standing jokes are common enough, but whoever heard of a sitting one. What about the young man who sat on his sweetheart's new hat and warbled: "I'm sitting on the style, Mary?"—London Tid-Bits. To Thine Own Self Be True. To Thine Own Self Be True. Let everything else go, if you must, but never lose your grip on yourself. This is your priceless pearl, dearer to you than your breath. Cling to it with all your might. Give up life itself first. —Success. AND WILL BLANCHE BATES marry 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 in any way, are forbidden to marry in China. Substitute for Rubber. A new substitute for rubber is being made in Mexico from the guayule plant. See Our Window Display for Elegant Easter Suitings Order Early to Avoid Rush Work Kansas City. New York. Chicago. Corbett System OF TAILORING FINEST ON EARTH "Clothes That Gentlemen Wear" 1025 MAIN ST. KANSAS CITY MO. WE CARRY THE LARGEST line of London Woolens of any Tailoring establishment in the world and cater especially for the colored trade. GIVE US A CALL Statement of the Condition of the BON NATIONAL BANK KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Controller of the Currency at the close of business TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1905 RESOURCES ENTS $6,188,336.51 I $600,000.00 BONDS, AT PAR 488,181.37 1,088,181.37 EXCHANGE 4,003,957.73 $11,280,475.61 UNION NATIONAL BANK KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI as made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1905 LIABILITIES CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS FUND UNDIVIDED PROFITS UNEARNED INTEREST NATIONAL BANK NOTES OUT STANDING DEPOSITS. TOTAL. $ 600,000.00 400,000.00 74,117.98 77,130.00 500,000.00 9,629,227.63 $ 11,280,475.61 DIRECTORS Whitehead Realty Company. Ford-George M manufacturing Company. James & Sons, W holesale Crockery. F. Schmelzer & Sons Arms Company. Merrill & Comp any, Wholesale Lumber. D. Dean, McLeod & Holden, Attorneys. Realist. Loans and Real Estate. Las. U. S. Water & Steam Supply Company. Bing Mill, Sash and Doors. Digitalist. Loans and Real Estate. President. Vice-President. And Vive-President. DIRECTORS C. W. WHITEHEAD, Whitehead Realty Comp. EDWARD GEORGE, Buford-George M anufac. L. T. JAMES, T. M. James & Sons, W holesale. C. J. SCHMELZER, J. F. Schmelzer & Sons A. J. P. MERRILL, J. P. Merrill & Comp any, W O. H. DEAN, Warner, Dean, McLeod & Ho GEORGE JONES, Capitalist. EDWARD W. ZEA, Loans and Real Estate. GEORGE D. FORD, Treas. U. S. Water & Ste. G. W. LOVEJOY, Planing Mill, Sash and D 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. The Stoeltzing Stove and C. W. WHITEHEAD, Whitehead Realty Company. EDWARD GEORGE, Buford-George M manufacturing Company. L. T. JAMES, T. M. James & Sons, W holesale Crockery. C. J. SCHMELZER, J. F. Schmelzer & Sons Arms Company. J. P. MERRILL, J. P. Merrill & Comp any, 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. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Adents For... Peninsular Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the... Peninsular Stove Co German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces TIN WORK a Speolalty ...A new line of... 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Remember its the RELIABLE PRES PHARMACY S. W. C Phone Call in and see us. LE PRESCRIPTION ACY S. W. Corner 5th and Broadway. Phone Home 1626 Main. " " and see us. Open all night. ```markdown ``` COOKING STOVE If you are constantly suffering with headache get your eyes examined; it may be your eyes causes it. The Rellable Optical Dept. Bromo Ammonia for that cold ---a cold today, pnemonia tomorrow. The Century Marvel Corn Sheller ---a sure cure or money refunded. Painful walking made easy. We are the most reliable dentists in the city. We have the largest and oldest practice in the city. Our success is due to the uniformly high grade work done by gentlemanly operators of middle ages; no youths This firm is backed by a wealthy corporation, and is therefore thoroughly responsible. All work is guaranteed for 15 years. Full Set of Teeth $2.00. Set S. S. White Teeth.....$4.00 Gold Crowns 22-k.....$2.65 Bridge Work, per tooth ..$2.65 Platinum fillings.....500 Cleaning.....50c We do as we advertise— Teeth extracted without pain FREE We are here to stay. NEW YO EST 1029 Main St Get the Hassle Of Trading McCamp Prescri 2304 VINE ST WE O Peruna, Mennen's Talcum Powd Laxative Bromo Quinine All $1.0 All 50c ANY QUANTITY PARTS C "Maine S. H NEW YORK DENTAL ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS, 1029 Main St Second Floor. Entrance ca W Open Daily. Nighs till 9. Get the Habit of Trading at McCampbell & House Prescription Drug Store 04 VINE ST. TELS. WE CUT THE RATES na, - - 75c Bell Pine Tar Hor men's Talcum Powder. 15c Liquozone [large] ative Bromo Quinine, 20c Liquozone [small] All $1.00 Preparations 85c or Less. All 50c Preparations 45c or Less. Y QUANTITY OF MEDICINE DELIVERED PARTS OF CITY FREE OF CHAR Maine" Ar ANY QUANTITY OF MEDICINE DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF CITY FREE OF CHARGE. S. H. Finkelstein, Prop. Carries a complete line of Furnishing goods, Hats, Shoes and Umbrellas We Also Make Sur to Y OUR MOT YOUR MONEY Also Make Suits to Your OUR MOTTO: YOUR MONEY'S WO We Also Make Suits to Your Measure OUR MOTTO: YOUR MONEY'S WORTH "Hot Sp Long looked for I and Hot Springs, Ark the Hot Springs Spea Long looked for improved Train Service between Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now "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 Hot Springs Little Rock MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Fort Smith Coffeyville Leaving Kansas City at 12:01 noon daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Independence (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'l Agt.Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY, MO. P TEETH IMMOTION PLAN TAL CO ERS. Since on Main Street only. till 9. Sunday. 10 to 4 Houston's Store. TELS. (Bell 159 East. Home 2396 Main TES. Tar Honey, 20 [large] 8 [small] 4 For Less. Less. DELIVERED TO AN CHARGE. Ancho ---