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 X. KANSAS CITY, KANSAS ITEMS. Commencement at Western University, Thursday, June 8. Rev. E. R. Vaughan has had the sermons in charge for sometime. This is looked forward to as a great commencement. There will be eleven graduates from the different departments this year. Dr. W. D. Chappelle, secretary of the Sunday School Union, at Nashville, Tenn., delivered an address to the college society of Western University Wednesday night. He reports the work throughout the connection in good condition. Mrs. Martha Fields of Eighth and Freeman avenue died Saturday, May 27. Her funeral was held at the First A. M. E. church Sunday at 2 o'clock. The juvenile choir of the First A. M. E. church will render a program at the A. M. E. church of Argentine in the near future. Mrs. J. A. Ewing of 1966 North 4th street is unable to be out of doors this week. The Alpha Art club met at Mrs. Bufords this week. Dr. F. C. Goodwin, D. D. S., the subject of this sketch is a native of Tennessee. After completing the High school of Little Rock he studied at the University of Michigan. He pursued a course in dentistry at Mahary Medical college of Nashville, Tenn., where he graduated. He practiced at Little Rock very successfully, but desiring to enter a larger field came to Kansas City and opened an office in the Wyandotte building. He has a suite of rooms fitted up here that is a credit to the race. In these spacious Dental Parlors are installed some of the most improved Dental Appliances to be [Name] DR. F. C. GOODWIN, D. D. S. "Our New Dentist." found in modern dentistry. Dr. Goodwin in fast building up a large practice in Kansas City. He does all kinds of dental work at rereasonable prices. If you would have first class work in one of the finest Dental Parlors of the two cities and at a very reasonable price call at room 25, Wyandotte building, Kansas City, Kan., or call up Home, West 42, or Bell 7788. The Doctor is a rising young man and deserving of your patronage. He is a member of the Masonic and K. of P. fraternities. Mr. and Mrs. Granville Jackson of Omaha, Neb., are visiting Mrs. E. E. Braxton of 143 Troupe avenue. Mr. Charles Bertha returned home from Fort Harrison, Mont., where he had been serving in the Army. Mrs. Robert Rowland of Topeka is visiting Mrs. Eula Samuels of 815 Freeman avenue. Bishop A. A. Grant of 530 Washington avenue lectured at the First A. M. E. church Tuesday night. Several of the ministers made some very encouraging remarks concerning the missionary work. Mrs. Myrtle Tipton of Topeka is visiting Mrs. J. R. Stafford of 555 Washington avenue. The colored orphan's home of Kansas City, Kan., desires to board any one unable to care for them. They still have two more boys for adoption. The Kansas City, Kan., High school graduated ninety-six graduates, six being colored and ninety being white. It is expected that all the colored people will oppose the bonds when time comes to vote them which is set for June the 6th. The two colored schools, Douglas and Lincoln graduated twenty-nine girls and boys last week. Both schools held their exercises at the First Baptist church. Their exercises were very interesting, consisting of recitations, orations and songs. There were 21 from the Douglas and eight from the Lincoln. Mrs. Samuel Diggs has gone to Colorado Springs to visit her sister whose husband is very ill. Mr. Diggs is fast selling out his property in the West Bottoms. Mrs. Jos. A. Wilson and children will spend the summer in Alto Vista. Mrs. Mabel Jackson one of the delegates to the Women's Missionary convention at Western University, Quindaro, Kan., sang a very beautiful solo Wednesday afternoon. The Kansas City, Kan., agent is desirous that all the people pay up as we are in great need of money. INDEPENDENCE ITEMS: Young School closing exercises were held at Music hall, May 26, four girls were given certificates. Hattie May Hughes won all honors in the class. She led in studies and deportment, during the entire session, the class did not mind this so much as they did the commencement, when each thought she should be valadictorian, but Mr. Harrison did right, at least once any way, when he said, "Hattie, you have led the class these nine months and you shall have the honors." Dr. Phenix returned home Friday after spending one week in Hannibal. Mrs. Irving and Miss Wilkerson of Pleasant Hill attended the closing exercises. Mr. Wayman Hawkins and quite a number from K. C. attended the closing exercises. The annual sermon of U. B. F. and S. M. T.'s was preached by Rev. Howard Sunday, May 28. It makes us feel proud when we see Prof. Chinn on our streets. Independence needs more men like him. We will be sorry when his school opens, because he will not only go, but he will take his wife also. He says it is not good for man to dwell alone. Mr. Will Bronaugh is wearing glasses, he says his trouble has begun, before the marriage ceremony is announced, madam rumor says it will take place in June. I would like to have the privilege of answering the deacon from Macedonian, when he asked why his church was not invited to take place in the Union services with the A. M. E., the M. E. and Second Baptist on Decoration day, my answer in part would be thus: These three churches are working for the advancement of the race, and we are using every effort to stamp out immorality. We cannot say this of the Macedonian, take Mrs. Florence Chrisman and daughter from the Macedonian, and nothing but immorality and vice will be left, and as long as this church has such a corrupt preacher as the one they have and as long as he continues to buggy ride with the Pool girl so long it will remain to its self and not be recognized by the other three churches. The Pools could not lead in the Second Baptist church is why they left and organized the Macedonian, being corrupt themselves, of course they could not get any joiners but corrupt ones. So they took only two moral members, the ones I mentioned. The Second Baptist is marching on to victory. The Rising Son says some of the teachers in K. C. are corrupt, I say the same about the Macedonian. THE NEW PYTHIAN HOME. The well known K. of P. organization has erected a magnificent edifice at 3127 Pine street, St. Louis, Mo. They will move into their new quarters about the first week in June. The property cost $10,500 and represents the reward of a magnificent effort on the part of the promoters. Organized August 26, 1879, in Vicksburg, Miss., by Hon. Thos. W. Stringer, now has 75,000 members with grand lodges in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Ohio, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Washington, Indian Territory and lodges in Oklahoma, California, New Mexico, Nevada and West Indies, with property valued at $10,000,000 and $150,000 in cash. Each state handles its own endowment. The first lodge organized in Missouri, was Pride of the West No. 1, in St. Louis, during 1881. There are now 54 lodges in the state, 14 of which are in the city of St. Louis, 5 in Kansas City and 1 each in Hannibal, Kirksville, Macon, Moberly, Huntsville, Keoto, Jefferson City, Joplin, Festus, Popular Bluff, Fredricktown, Commerce, Richmond, Ardmore, Columbia, Carruthersville, Ironton, Farmington, Cape Girardeau, Potosi, Paris, Fayette, Garthage, Cottonwood Point, Carrollton, Louisiana, Warrensburg, St. Joseph, New Madrid, Neelyville, Miami, Charleston and De Soto, with a membership of 4,000. Endowment Department. This department was organized in the state, during the year 1893, under the administration of Mr. W. E. Osborne, grand chancellor. The collections for the first year were $950 death claims paid $900, the collections to date $55,750.60; death claims paid $45,600; balance in bank $10,150.60. The property 3137 Pine street, St. Louis was purchased for $10,500. The following gentlemen members of the commission negotiated the purchase: W. W. Tice, H. B. Wood, W. M. Johnson, J. M. Denny, A. W. Lloyd, president; Dr. W. P. Curtis, treasurer; W. E. Osborne, secretary. WAITERS' CATERING ASSOCIATION. The above is the title of a new organization composed of foremost waiters. The purpose of the association is to train waiters and adapt them to the highest art in the profession and to supply caterers with men well drilled in the dining room art. The headquarters of the association is 1223 Baltimore avenue. It is nicely arranged and supplied with both phones, 3010 Grand. The following comprise the officers of the association; J. D. Strong, president; Wm. McKnight, treasurer and business manager; Jno. T. Morland, secretary. The leading men of the enterprise are in addition to the officers, Wm. Garrett, Ed. Hudson, J. H. Riley and Chas. Wilson. The association supplies a lond feel need. THE QUEEN OF ALL HAIR TONICS A PLAIN RECITAL. Talk is cheap, and actions speak louder than words. In order to prove to the public that Glossine is the greatest and most meritorious of all hair tonics we will give free to every reader of this paper, not a sample; but a full size box. If Glossine was not the best hair tonic in all the whole wide world this offer would bankrupt us. Glossine, queen of all hair tonics is the most wonderful remedy for the human hair ever discovered and has astounded the whole world by its miraculous and mysterious power in lengthening, straightening and beautifying the human hair. It is the result of long years of careful study and the earnest researches of Miss Helen Martin. a beautiful and attractive woman who is acknowledged to be the most skilful and famous beauty doctor of the day. She is a wonderful and most magnificent specimen of womanly grace and beauty, and although now 58 years of age she scarcely looks to be 30. When asked by what mediums she had been able to so successfully preserve the attractiveness and beauty of youth, Miss Martin said, Why it is very simple to me and every woman be she white or colored, young or old or as ugly as sin itself can become pretty, shapely and graceful if she will only do as I advise. As a child I was never considered pretty, in fact I was not even thought to be good looking and for this very reason ever since I was a girl of sixteen I have made a study of such agencies and materials which tend to beautify and adorn the human person. In the glorious vegetable world which nature has so bountifully be stowed upon us there are hundreds of innocent mediums which after my long life of study and investigation I have been able to successfully blend and formulate into various preparations which enchance and preserve the life and beauty of the hair and skin. I owe my own good looks and youthful appearance to these preparations which are the results of my life long work. As to Glossine I have never known it to fail to cause the hair to grow long, straight, soft and luxurious. It matters not how harsh or kinky it may be and I care not if it be short broken, splitting at the ends or failing out Glossine will positively make it soft, straight and plant. It will give to the hair lustre, length, life and beauty and no head of hair can be so harsh and refractory but that Glossine will make it so pliant and wavy that it can be dressed with case and in any prevailing style desired. It will restore gray hair to its former color, make the hair grow out on all bald spots, and on the temples where the hair is usually thin and unsightly. Glossine is highly, sweetly and most delicately perfumed, and its color and subsistence is very attractive to all. Seeing our great success and with the desire to trade upon our reputation gained by long years of honest dealing numerous unscrupulous firms are trying to fool the people into buying spurious and harmful compounds for the hair and skin, that cause the hair to fall, thus causing baldness and ruin; mar and deface the delicate texture of the human skin. In their wicked desire to gain money, these people do not hesitate to sell the people many preparations which are dangerous to life itself. In order to discountenance and condemn such dishonest methods, Miss Martin has decided to give a full sized package of Glossine to any reader of this paper male or female who will send their name and address. Do not delay. Write today. A postal card will do. We will also send our catalogue which describes in detail our hair tonics, face bleaches and other toilet requisites. Address: Miss Helen Martin, care Continental Chemical Co., No. 9 Governor Street, Richmond, Va. A knocker is a back-bliter with false teeth. Dr. W. H. Key is reported as being quite ill. [Picture of a young woman with a dark haircut and a light-colored dress with a high collar. She is looking directly at the camera.] MISS LILLIAN TOOLEY the gifted entertainer about whom so much has been said. Who will appear in Kansas City some time during this summer. The following furnishes rich commendation as to her worth in her chosen line of work. Miss Tooley will be assisted by Miss Nora Douglass $ ^{1} $ the brilliant young pianist of the Prof. N. Clark Smith Studio of Chicago. Five years ago Miss Lillian Tooley of Missouri, came to the Anna Morgan Studios, 825 Fine Arts Building, (Ohicago, Ill., as attendant. During the first two years of her service in the Studios she recognized the value of the work taught there and the benefits to be derived, and quietly began to acquire, mostly through her keen observation of the teachers, pupils and their work, a knowledge of the art of reciting. On Wednesday evening, May the 5th, Miss Morgan, the founder and director of the Studios tendered her a testimonial recital which was largely attended by the patrons and friends of the Studios. It was a pleasant surprise to all present to see how much of the truth in the art of expression Miss Lillian has acquired, and her program was a varied and entertaining one. During the past year she has had a number of engagements in and about Chicago and in Indiana. Last summer Miss Tooley gave thirty five recitals in Missouri, and has many return dates for the coming season. Her friends all join in wishing her the success she so richly deserves. Miss Morgan's introduction was full of praise and commendation, not only of her artistic ability as a reader but of her sweet and amiable disposition which has won many friends for her during her five years of association in this Studio. The closing remarks made by Miss Tooley expressing her gratitude to Miss Morgan and the teachers were deeply felt by all present. On this occasion Miss Tooley was the recipient of many tokens of appreciation in the form of words of commendation, flowers, checks, etc. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Miss Lilly Tooley is perfectly qualified to give a complete program of recitations, monologues and songs, and does not require the services of any assisting artists aside from her accompanist. I heartily recommend her to churches and clubs who desire an entertainment. She is sure to please. ANNA MORGAN. Founder and Director The Anna Morgan School of Expression. Fancy Prices for Belica. 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. NUMBER 6 HAD TO HAVE EXERCISE. And He Got It By Bumping Into the Fighting Editor. Thud, clatter, brump! The editor looked up from the congenial task of spoiling someone else's story. "Sometimes," he said, "I feel sorry for spring poets." He blue-penciled another half-column into silent nothingness, and paused again to bark to the sounds of strife coming from the next room. "It seems to me," he said, "that tnesa squeals are in some wise ramiar to mine cars." He telephoned a "stop" message into the fighting editor's den, and the next moment that heated and dusty functionary appeared leading a battered wreck by the car. "This is the fourth time he's been up this week," said the man of muscle. "Can't I finish him?" The editor held up a merciful hand. Then in a kind and tender voice he spoke to the poet. "Why have you returned four times?" he asked. "Most of your brethren find once enough." "My doctor tells me I must get some violent exercise," the poet said, "and this is the only way I can afford to take it."—London Answers. Duty of a Gentleman. On one occasion, having returned from playing poker at the club, my grandfather said: "When a man is hard up he should borrow; but he must devote his energies to paying back and remaining the equal of the man from whom he has borrowed. If he cannot pay back, let him be frank about it; for it is better to steal than to cheat." And again: "To ride straight and to shoot straight, to win money cheerfully and to lose it cheerfully, never to be boorishly in debt or swinish drunk, to enjoy flowers and music, and if possible to be in love with at least one good woman, is half the duty of a gentleman." "What's the other half, grandpa?" I had asked him. "Why, to be a gentleman, of course." The People's Schools. The schools belong to the people and will be what the people make them. It is a mistake to suppose that school officers and teachers are the only ones that have to do with the making of the schools. The people set the pace for the teachers and school officers. If a school officer does not meet the ideals of the people he is turned out at the first election. If a teacher does not meet the ideals of the people the teacher is quickly reached through the school officers. So it gets back to the people in the end. The man that thinks the schools are not good enough should set himself about having them improved. It is astonishing how much one person can do to improve the schools when he sets himself about it.—Henry F. Thurston. A Skeptic in the Pew. Your sermons about the Hercafter, Full of dim, theological love. We greet with irreverent laughter— Can't you reach the Sweet Hercotore? The hymns that drone up to the rafter, While the deacons contentedly snore, They pall with the praise of Hercafter— Let us sing of the Sweet Hercotore. No elint of the walls alabaster The foam of the ship pleas abaft her On a sea with invisible shore — The sunrise of every Hereafter Is the sunset of some Heretofore. Appointment Recalls Brave Act. Appointment Recalls Brave Act. Capt. Harry Leonard of the United States Marine Corps has been ordered by President Roosevelt to the Chinese capital as military attache of the American legation. During the Tien-Tsin campaign he risked his life by going to the rescue of a wounded comrade, carrying him to safety on his back across a fire-swept field, and lost his arm as a penalty for his achievement. In Women's Interests In all Shades and Colors. Elaborate blouses—some so elaborate that they are nothing but bits of lace and embroidery and fragile stuff, caught together in involved ways, go with the more elaborate linen suits and with those stunning little white mohair and vole and serge suits that will be so much in evidence all summer. Ninety nine out of a hundred are white—probably even a higher percentage than that; the bundroth the palest seashell tint of pink or blue or violet. The blosses, colored ones, if so delicate a tint could be called color, usually depend upon hand embroidery and upon the most exquisite of hemistitched plats and they hand run tucks for trimming. Broderie Anglase ideas have invaded the realms of these delicate stuffs not to a great extent, but just a few execlots are flung here and there in the blind designs to accentuate the fineness of the work. Power drawn work blosses are seen, except those wonderfully fine ones. Japanese straight through, from the flat, broad embroidery to the curious little patches of drawn work done In the imminitable oriental way. Handsome Costume. A handsome dress seen at a fashionable jeweler's was made of pale mauve veliling, the full skirt hooped at the bottom with a wide band of guipure. The bodice was made with a jacket effect, the square-corner basques cut sharply away from a pointed vest of flowered silk, the background of which was a silvery white grosgrain. The large, flat jacket collar covered the shoulders and was garnished with lace and tucking. It showed at the throat a high lace collar banded with mauve velvet. The short sleeves turned back above the elbows in shallow cuffs from which issued lace flouces. They were met by the long, white gloves that have now become one of the extravagant items of outdoor costume—Chicago Tribune. In Pale Gray Etamine. Among the pretty and dainty ideas which amateur dressmakers can utilize is a shirtwaist suit of pale gray etamine. The skirt may be plaited all around, a plait coming down each seam and one in the middle of each gore. The middle of the front gore may be left plain and embroidered in the Hardanger work which came from abroad last summer. The stitching is done in white linen floss, and thus offers a pleasing contrast to the material. The strap under which the waist buttons in front, the cuffs, and a fancy collar, are all done with the same embroidery. Besides this fancy collar there can be two others that are less elaborate and some white linen etamine ones which wash to look like new and wear extremely well. Long Lines Still Popular. While ruffles and flouences are incidence upon a large proportion of the thin summer frocks, they are not the rule, and some of the finest lingerie models have skirts whose length line is unbroken save by flat or inset trimming, horizontal, vertical or in separate motifs. Valenciennes framed medallions such as we have already described the set in at intervals around some lingerie skirts, just above the hem. Coat Suit of White Duck The severe tight-fitting tailor coat in half and three-quarter length demands a maker of ability and a wearer of excellent figure, but given this combination it is, an exceedingly smart and elegant garment. In the above model the skirt is laid in small plaits at intervals over hips, forming ```markdown ``` a panel front, and on the coat there are plaits on each side, running from shoulder to bottom. A similar treatment is given to the otherwise plain sleeve. Green taffeta is used for the flat collar. Black Silk Shirtwaist Suit Excellent for a standby is a black silk shirtwaist suit, because it can be brightened with a lace shoulder collar for dressy wear or with fancy neck collars. If well made the skirt may be worn with all sorts of dressy waists and thus enlarge its sphere of usefulness. A most attractive design for the waist of such a suit has a fitted lining and is made of lustrous china silk. It is tucked in one-eighth inch tucks to form a yoke and to make the caps for the sleeves; the latter are tucked to tightness at the op and flow in graceful fullness or the waist, where the fullness is confined in a band. An infinite variety of collars and stocks may be worn with this waist and thus fit it for all but the dressiest occasions. The tuck idea can be carried out in a yoke for the skirt. Severe Linen Frock. A pretty suggestion for a linen frock has a panel front heavily stitched and A strapped just below the waist line in round scallops, held in place with pearl buttons. The same effect is carried out on the front of the blouse and the unique sleeve fastens from elbow to wrist with buttons matching those on the skirt and bodice. Girdles of different shades are worn if desired, but those of white kid are in better taste. The turnover on stock is Hardanger embroidery. For the Summer Girl. For wear with wash trocks, that are to have things pretty nearly all their own way this summer, there are charming parasols in linen, plain and embroidered, that are as practical as they are pretty, and that is saying a great deal. The frame has the wires enameled in white and then thickly wound with a white silk floss, white the tips are each a small pearl head. The openwork cycledted embroidery covers the entire frame, and for border there are three shaped rows of the sheerest linen. The lining is of rose-pink gauze, that casts a most becoming light upon the fair face beneath, and the stick is one of those long alpenstock affairs in corkwood, with irregular carvings and a knob handle, in which a powder puff is deftly inserted. A rosette of the linen finishes both the tip and the handle of the umbrella. Blouses for All Occasions. Repented, prophecies have been made regarding the passing of the linierie blouse, but it still remains one of the essential features of a woman's wardrobe. The newest models blouse very slightly. There never were so many simple little blouses worn, nor so many elaborate ones; but for vastly different occasions. The blouses trimmed with the least bit of embroidery and lace or with tucks and the tiniest French headings are worn for mornings and shoppings, in place of the stifter waist of a year or two ago. As Fashion Dictates. That the elbow sleeve and the sleeve with the long, close cuffs are established for the season no one questions, and that a broader shoulder line than that of last year is accepted as also a definite fact, but the fear that we were on the way to the once popular gigot monstrosities seems to have been without grounds, and those hardy ones who pushed forward audaciously along the indicated path must needs retrace their steps if they would be in the height of the mode. For the Children Soak half a teacupful of bread crumbs in milk and heat up light with a fork. Grease a cup with butter, add a lightly beaten egg to the bread crumbs and sweeten very slightly. Pour the mixture in a cup and steam for twenty minutes. Panama Cloth Is the Thing. Panama cloth, first launched as a plain material, now shows small self-tone figures in some cases, though the plain Panama so far has the preference. The Panama cloth is midway 'twixt cloth and canvas—winter and harsher than the former, closer and firmer than the latter, and in all colors it is greatly in demand. For white tailored coat and skirt costumes it leads the woolens, and indications are that it is to be the street suit material of the season, although that does not mean that other materials will not have their innings. WON'T PULL TOGETHER. DEMOCRACY GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP FODDER FREE TRADE THISTLES The Democratic donkey yeards for the Free Trade thistle patch; while the Socialistic steer pulls toward the fat pasture of Government ownership of all public utilities. TARIFF AND REVENUE REDUCING THE ONE TO INCREASE THE OTHER. To Lower Duties So as to Produce an Additional Twenty Per Cent of Customs Receipts Would More Than Double Our Volume of Competitive Imports. Among the various reasons put forward by free traders and tariff revisionists in support of the contention that the Dingley schedules should be forthright overhaulned downward, the plea for lower tariff duties in order to increase the revenue and overcome the treasury deficit is just now being made to work overtime. It is latterly doing service in place of arguments for tariff reduction as a remedy for trust extortion and for the occasional sale abroad of American goods cheaper than at home. It is even supplanting to some extent the reciprocity scheme of cutting down tariff rates. The argument is plausible on its face and seems simple enough. The government needs more revenue, it is urged. Therefore, let the government encourage importations of competitive commodities from abroad by such a reduction of the tariff as will greatly increase our imports of such commodities and at the same time greatly increase the receipts from tariff duties on such imports. A fair example of this line of argument in favor of the tariff revision is given in an editorial in the New York Commercial of recent date: "There are unquestionably some instances—not many, however—where the Dingley schedules have outgrown their usefulness. Our protected industries have progressed wonderfully in the past eight years; methods of production and manufacture have very generally been cheapened; industrial development in both old and new lines has obviously placed some manufactures beyond the need of the protection that was given them in 1897; and, WON'T PULL GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP FOODER SOCIALISTIC STEER The Democratic donkey yearns for the Socialistic steer pulls toward the of all public utilities. in consequence, the present tariff rates in these instances operate to check importations and thus to deprive the government of needed and expected revenues. Proper readjustments in these spots ought speedily to turn the present deficit into a surplus without any disturbance of the country's business." It is undeniably true that a protective tariff in many instances operates to check importations. That is one of the purposes of a protective tariff. Checking importations by means of tariff duties imposed with that result specifically in view is a practice and policy of long standing in the United States. It began in 1789, when the first law passed by the Congress of the United States was a tariff law expressly designed to check importations. It has been going on ever since, with occasional brief intervals of free trade tariffs expressly designed to promote importations. It has prevailed in forty-one out of the past forty-five years, the only break being from 1893 to 1897, when a concatenation of Democracy, free trade, Cleveland, Wilson and Gorman put a crimp in our national prosperity. That, however, would hardly class as a revenue producing period. On the contrary, it was a deficit producing period. In the four fiscal years, 94.97, of a tariff expressly designed to increase imports and revenues, there was a gross excess of expenditures over receipts amounting to $155,864,164. Then, after two years of extraordinary expenditure on account of the Spanish war, came a period of surplus making under a tariff law expressly designed to check importations and at the same time increase revenues. How well that tariff did its work is seen: EXCESS OF REVENUE OVER EXPENDITURES 1900 $79,527,060 1901 75,718,362 1902 91,872,356 1903 54,220,067 Here we have in four years of a tariff expressly designed to check importations and at the same time provide revenue a gross surplus of $300,825,165, representing the excess of receipts over expenditures, against a gross deficit of $155,864,164, representing excess of expenditures over receipts in four years of a tariff expressly designed to increase both importations and revenues. The difference in favor of the plan of checking importations amounts to $456,689,629. It would seem reasonably clear that tariff reduction with a view to increasing imports and revenues cannot be positively relied upon to produce that result; while, on the other hand, a higher tariff, a protective tar- --- iff. a tariff designed to check importations may also work well as a revenue producing tariff. The Commercial ought to lose no time in taking out a patent on its extraordinary discovery that by lowering the present tariff duties that operate to check importations the government would be enabled "speedily to turn the present deficit into a surplus without any disturbance of the country's business." Compared with such a discovery as this, the flying machine and perpetual motion are as nothing. The man who has found out how to increase revenues from durable importations without increasing that class of importations, or who can show the way to increase so enormously as to turn the deficit into a surplus the inflow of competitive imports durable at a reduced rate without displacing an equivalent quantity of domestic production, employment, wage paying and the consumption of raw materials—"without any disturbance of the country's business"—that man is a genius whose awe inspiring capabilities ought not to be wasted in writing editorials for "every business morning." Let us illustrate the difficulties of such an achievement. We are importing from Germany cotton in various manufactured forms of the value of about $15,000,000 for the calendar year 1905. These cotton goods bear an average duty of, say, 40 per cent, so that the revenue therefrom is $6,000,000. It is proposed to increase that revenue, for example, to $8,000,000. To do that at the present rate of duty would require an increase to a total of $20,000,000 in the importations of cotton goods, an increase of $5,000,000, with $5,000,000 more taken away from domestic production and labor. But if we are to lower the tariff in order to increase importations and revenues the case for domestic production and labor becomes very much worse. In order to provide a revenue of $8,000,000 at 25 per cent duty we should have to increase our purchases of cotton goods from Germany to $32,000,000, or $17,000,000 more than we are now buying from L TOGETHER. LIMOCRACY FREE TRADE THISTLES or the Free Trade thistle patch, while e fat pasture of Government ownership that country. The same ratio of increase applied to our total bulk of cotton imports, amounting to about $49,000,000 a year, would bring that total up to more than $100,000,000 a year, or an increase of $51,000,000. Could that amount of displacement of domestic production and labor occur "without any disturbance of the country's business?" In the first eight months of the current fiscal year ending with February our dutiful imports amounted to $382,912,888, or at the rate of $580,000,000 for the full year. In the event of putting in force the plan of so reducing the tariff as to increase importations and revenues and turn the present deficit into a surplus, it would be necessary to practically double the present volume of dutiful imports in order to obtain a 15 per cent increase in revenue. Does the genius of the Commercial believe that $500,000,000 more a year of competitive imports could be brought into the American market "without any disturbance of the country's business?" He ought to know that there is no road to increased revenue through tariff reduction that does not lead straight to the wrecking of all domestic industry and business. Stand-Patting and Wages. Throughout the now happily ended controversy over proposed tariff changes the American Economist has been a persistent stand-patter. On the other hand the New York Times has been an equally persistent revisionist. Last Sunday the Times, under the headlines, "8,000 Men Got More Pay. Pittsburg Manufacturers Announce 10 Per Cent Increase," tells its readers that a general and voluntary advance of 10 per cent in wages has been announced by the Manufacturers' Association of Pittsburg. On the 24th of April the Times told more good news; that 5,000 men working for the National Tube company at McKeesport had received in their pay envelopes 5 to 10 per cent increase in wages, and that on and after May 1 the 5,000 employees of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company will receive an advance in wages ranging from 7 to 20 per cent. If the Times had been successful in its efforts, which success would have given additional work to foreign workmen and lowered wages to American wage earners, could it have been as happy over its work as we are?—American Economist. A man cannot add a cubit to his stature by standing on his dignity. I Do You Feel Chilly, Then Feverish and Ache all Over? Feel Worn-out, Blue and Tired? Have You a Fresh Cold, With Frequent Hacking Cough? Sensation of Sorbenza in the Chest or Back? Don't let your cold run into chronic bronchitis or pneumonia. The very best tonic alternative and body-builder at this time is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Disaster drugs, and it contains that rare combination of roots and herbs that will allay a cough (drops it out, as it were), restores the circulation, assists the appetite and digestion, and consequently restores tone to the entire system. That is the reason people look happy once more taken to taking their medicine because the liver is active, the blood in their arteries is full of that life-giving quality—rich, red blood. The blood in turn feeds the nerves. Nervousness and neuralgia are only the indication that the nerves are not fed on invigorating blood. This "Medical Discovery" of Dr. Pierce is nature's own medicine. It takes the organism and stimulates its functions, furnishing to the body one of its necessary constituent principles of which it is in need. This preparation is is of pleasant taste, agrees perfectly with rebellious and sensitive stomachs, and is extremely effective in restoring to stomach the juices gastric troubles of the stomach and at the same time the blood-vessels are given a stimulation Stupid Man. Mr Newliwed—Goodness! this little shriveled loaf of bread is as heavy as lead. I'll bet you forgot to put yeast in it to make it rise. 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Once, when I was in the cellar, I started to pick up two scuttles of coal, and my legs gave way suddenly, and I tumbled all in a heap in a basket. I couldn't close my eyes and keep my balance to save my life. Then I had fearful pains over my whole body and I lost control over my kidneys and my bowels." "How about your general health?" "Sometimes I was so weak that I had to keep my bed and my weight fell off twenty pounds. Things looked pretty bad for me until I ran across a young man who had been cured by Dr. Williams' Punk Pills and who advised me to try them." "Did these pills help you right away?" "I didn't see much improvement until I had used six boxes. The first benefit I noticed was a better circulation and a picking up in strength and weight. I gradually got confidence in my ability to direct the movements of my legs, and in the course of seven or eight months all the troubles had disappeared." "Do you regard yourself as entirely well now?" "I do the work of a well man at any rate. I can close my eyes and stand up all right and move about the same as other men. The pains are all gone except an occasional twitch in the calves of my legs." Mr. James H. Watkins resides at No. 72 Westerloe street, Albany, N.Y. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be obtained at any drug store. They should be used as soon as the first signs of locomotor ataxia appear in a peculiar numbness of the feet. A fairy story: Once upon a time there was a female cloctationist who refused to speak a piece even after she had been invited to do so. Mother's Devotion To her children is one of the most beautiful things in life. When they are sick, the wise mother, who has taken the pains to study their best interests, promptly gives them Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin. It quickly relieves pain and fever, and can never do anything but good. Try it. In thy name, O Liberty, what a lot of divorces are sought. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the amount suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 160 package contains 16 oz., while all the other kinds contain but 12 oz. It is safe to say that the lady once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must which throws off a cold. One very good reason why it restores the health of run-down, pale and emaciated people is because it first throws out the poisons from the liver and kidneys. It then begins its reconstructive work in building up flesh and making good, rich, red blood. "I have been a sufferer from indigestion for some thirty years, at times, writes Mr. W. W. Smith. We have used medicine from several of our best physicians, which gave me only a little temporary relief. They said I could never be worse spell that I ever had. I suffered with such severe pains in the pit of my stomach that I could neither work nor sleep, and my weight was from one hundred and ninety-five pounds in about two months' time. I then concluded that I would try Doctor Pierce's first bottle of pain reliever. By the time the first bottle was gone my severe suffering so continued until I had used four bottles of 'Golden Medical Discovery. I am truly thankful for the great help I have received from your medicine, and can cordially recommend it to others." gredients, but also as the only medicine for stomach, liver and blood disorders, which absolutely CONTAIN NO ALCOHOL. one, the makers of when take their patients fully into their confidence and tell them exactly what they are taking. 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Many Children Are Sickly. used Grav's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Cure Feverishness, Head Acute, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis orders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms, At Drugstiffs, 25c, Sample mailed FREE, Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The chief virtue of some people is that they are not bad. FIXING RAILROAD RATES. Making railroad rates is like playing a game of checkers or chess. Communities to be benefitted, producers, manufacturers or shippers to be aided represent the pieces used. Every possible move is studied for its effect on the general result by skilled traffic managers. A false move in the making of freight rates may mean the ruin of a city, of a great manufacturing interest, of an agricultural community. Railroads strive to build up all these so that each may have an equal chance in the sharp competition of business. So sensitive to this rivalry are the railroads that in order to build up business along their lines they frequently allow the shipper practically dictate rates. Rate making has been a matter of development; of mutual concessions for mutual benefit. That is why the railroads of the United States have voluntarily made freight rates so much lower in this country than they are on the government-owned and operated railways of Europe and Australia that they are now the lowest transportation rates in the world. A hustler makes things hum and an idler makes them humdrum. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in ¾ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer 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. A man can't be in two places at once unless he is an officeholder. 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." Many a lost umbrella is hardly worth recovering when it is found. When Your Grocer Save he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed you in temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.—Charles Kingsley. On the hundredth anniversary of Schiller's death 115,000 copies of the special edition of his poems will be given to the school children of Berlin. Had Birth in 1760 (Special Correspondence.) Boscawen is a quiet little New England town, lying on the west bank of the Merrimac river, and about seven miles north of Concord. It enjoys the distinction of being the only place of the name in the country. It certainly is a word of pliable orthography, for a curious postmaster copied thirty-three different methods of spelling the name in two years. Who first suggested the name is not clear, but it appears first in a call for the first town meeting over the signature of Joseph Coffin, and dated April 30, 1760. The name was given in honor of Admiral Edward de Boscawen of the English navy, whose fame was bright at this time, for he had just fought a great battle with the French navy off Cape Vincent and had nearly annihilated it. One other spot in the world bears his name, and that is an island in the Pacific. The scenery of the town is charming, especially in the summer time. The meadow views on the Merrimac, with "Muchedo" bank for a background, surely rival the scene at Conway. From Knowton's hill, which might well be called a mountain, is obtained a fine landscape view, and the rim of the horizon will take in Kearsarge, Monadnock, Wachusett, the Uncononuicks, Sunapee, Ascutney, Cardigan, Mooslauke, Chocorua, the Franconia range, and, on a clear day, the far away peak of Mt. Washington The beauty spot of Boscawen is its village street, wonderfully broad and a mile or more in length. It is shaded by great, picturesque elms, some of which spread so that they meet overhead on the wide thoroughfare, and furnish a grateful shade as well as a charming street scene. Large and well-kept houses and lawns line the street. There are two stores, but neither a doctor nor a lawyer in the village. There is one church, nominally Congregational, but made the spiritual home of all Christians. The history of the church is interesting. Its first pastor was the noted Dr. Wood, who fitted Daniel Webster and many other boys for Dartmouth college. He took great interest in all town affairs, especially in educational matters, and, though he received a salary of not more than $300 per year, he helped a number of young men through college, and when he died left property which has been invested in interval lands which yield quite a little income to support the present church. The town is now quite strong in temperance sentiment, always voting down any proposition to legalize the sale of liquor, but when the meeting house was raised in the western part of the town, now the new town of Webster, the men stopped to drink as each broadside went up. The selectmen's books of that time show this entry: "Paid for rum to raise the new meeting house, £2 17s 2d." The "Valley of Industry:" In a ravine near the meeting house there is a little hamlet and an old mill. This spot used to be known as the "Valley of Industry," an appropriate name. The people of the village, or "Plains," as it is called, are mostly engaged in agriculture, and the manufacturing interests, which are now considerable, have developed at the southern part of the town, which forms quite a part of the village of Penacook. Here they have the power of the Contooocook just as it joins the Merrimac. These consist largely of extensive flour mills, the old Fisherville saw works, the noted Concord axle works, the products of which find sale in all parts of the country, and the well known Harris woolen mills. The school building and grounds at this part of the town make a beautiful picture. They are a fitting monument to the Gates, Brown and Rolfe BIRTHPLACE OF families, whose liberality and enterprise planned and completed the Penacook academy. The old academy building at the "Plains" is now used also for the public school. The bell on this building was the gift of Daniel Webster. But the pride of Boscawen seems to be in the talented sons it has sent out into the world. This pride is shown in the memorial stones that the town has put up in various places of interest. Here Webster studied and had his law office, and up and down the broad street he marched the young men in the evening with hoop-poles serving as arms. The stately mansion known as the Webster place, which he owned for a while and sold to his brother Ezekiel, stands on a main corner of the town. The grounds are adorned with several marble statues. Not far to the toes stands the Dix house, now owned by the Rev. Dr. A. Old New England Town Only Place of Its Name in the United States—Home of Famous Men. A. Berle whose family spend the summers here. It was near the house that Webster had his law office. Here was born on the 24th of July, 1798, Gen. John A. Dix, whose memorable words in the early days of the civil war, "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot," made him as famous as his literary efforts or his statesmanship. His great-grandfather, Jonathan Dix, died here at the age of 94. His grandfather, Timothy Dix, was a leading citizen of the town and was postmaster for years, and his father, Col. Timothy Dix, lived here as a respected citizen, but died from exposure while his regiment acted as rear guard of the American army during the war of 1812, and while on the banks of the St. Lawrence. He had a great pride in the school of his district, and selected its teachers with great care. He brought Gen. Fessenden of Port HISTORIC CHURCH. land here to teach, and the cultured Grace Fletcher, whom Webster met here and married. On the other side of the street, and not far away, stands the house where, Oct. 16, 1896, William Pitt Fessenden, son of Gen. Samuel Fessenden and Ruth Green, was born. His brilliant talents may be judged from the fact that he was graduated from Bowdoin college in his 17th year. Another son of Boscawen whose name will be remembered by many a reader is Charles Carleton Coffin, the famous war correspondent of the civil war and later the author of many volumes. He was quite an electrical engineer, constructing the telegraph line that put the astronomical observatory of Harvard in connection with other observatories. He also had charge of the installation of the first fire alarm system of Boston, under the care of Prof. Farmer, the celebrated electrical inventor, also a son of Boscawen, and rung in the first alarm ever given by telegraph, April 29, 1852. A score of noted names might be added to these already given. The leading men of the town are patriotic, but quiet. Quite a number of the people who in their youth went out to fields more attractive, in a financial sense, come back to the old home in the summer, when the social life is more interesting. There is one historic spot tourists are sure to visit. It is Dustin island, at the juncture of the Merrimac and Contoocook rivers. A granite monument with a unique inscription marks the spot where Hannah Dustin and her two companions killed and scalped their captors and escaped down the river in the canoes of the Indians Singing Girls of Korea. One of the attractive personalities encountered in Korea is the singing girl. At the social gatherings and festivals of the wealthy she serves the guests and then sings, plays the guitar and recites. These girls, although from the humblest order, are well educated from a Korean point of view and their services are in great demand. They can be hired singly or in numbers, according to the needs of the host, and they enliven many a feast which, except for their presence, would be simply en excuse for gormandizing, most Koreans being gross feeders. As religious and social festivals are occurring constantly in Korea, the pretty singing girls are kept busy, no entertainment being thought worth while without their presence. Mixed English Language. Why is one who bets a "better," while a man who estimates is an "estimator," and what is it that causes so many words like these to differ in the spelling of the *the* last syllables. A grammarian explains that the difference is due to the fact that the English language comes from two great sources, some words being Germanic and others Latin. For the Germanic roots add "er" in worker," while the Latin roots add "or" in factor." There is the Germanic "speaker" and the Latin "orator." And no one would dream of writing either of a maker or of a creater. Fewer Women Are Cremated Feminine conservatism seems to show itself even in the matter of cremation. In Germany, during the first three months of this year, the bodies of 139 women were cremated, as against 307 bodies of men. There was an increase of 38 per cent in the total number of cases over the same period last year. The bad man's death is horror; but the just does but ascend to glory from the dust.—Habbington. GOVERNMENT LIGHT. HISTORIC CHICKAMAUGA PARK ABLAZE WITH ILLUMINATION. United States System of Lighting Military Post Pronounced Gratifyingly Successful—Six and One-Half Miles of Mainz—Sixty-Five Street Lights. Chickamauga Park Ga., May 31. The United States government has here in operation one of the largest acetylene gas plants in the world. The military post at the entrance of the historical Chickamauga battlefield where thirty thousand Union and Confederate soldiers were lost in the memorable battle of Sept. 19 and 20, 1863, contains about one hundred buildings, the seventy-five principal ones of which are lighted with acetylene. To accomplish this six and one-half miles of mains and two miles of service pipes are in use, while sixty-five street lamps brilliantly illuminate the avenues of the post. In 1903 the War Department installed a test acetylene plant at Fort Meyer, Virginia. The results were so gratifying and the superiority of the illuminant so evident that the government, March 20, 1904, placed the contract for the Chickamauga plant, in which every citizen of the United States should have his pro rata of pride. But the government has not confined its acceptance of acetylene to this military post. Since becoming satisfied of the efficiency, superiority and economical advantages of this particular illuminant, the United States has installed a number of plants in Indian schools and other government institutions. Acetylene gas is one of the simplest as well as the most perfect of artificial lights. It is made by the contact of water and carbide, (a manufactured product for sale at a nominal price), is absolutely safe and gives a beautiful white light soothing to the eyes and nerves. It can be produced anywhere—in the farm home, the village store, the town hall, the church—and is so easily maintained as to be practical for all classes. It is a matter for national congratulation that in beautifying so historic a spot as Chickamauga, nothing but the best, including the lighting system, has been deemed good enough for the American people. A woman ha sto be mighty pretty to make you feel it would be a shame to expect her to know how to have good things to eat. Try me just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch The unfortunate man's friends al ways live a long way off. ULCERS FOR 30 YEARS. Painful Eruptions From Knees to Fee Seemed Incurable—Cuticura Ends Misery. Another of those remarkable cured by Cuticura, after doctors and all else had failed, is testified to by Mr. M. C. Moss of Gainesville, Texas, in the following letter: "For over thirty years I suffered from painful ulcers and an eruption from my knees to feet, and could find neither doctors nor medicine to help me, until I used Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, which cured me in six months. They helped me the very first time I used them, and I am glad to write this so that others suffering as I did may be saved from misery." The name of the empress of Japan is O Haru"spring." The name of the crown prince is Yoshi Hito. Are the Packers Receiving Fair Play1 When the Garfield report on the business methods of the packers appeared, after eight months' investigation, it was severely criticised and roundly denounced. After three months of publicity it is significant that those who attempted to discredit it have failed to controvert the figures contained in that exhaustive document. The public is beginning to notice this omission, and the feeling is rapidly growing that the sensational charges out of which the "Beef Investigation" arose were without foundation. If the official statements of the report are susceptible of contradiction, a good many people are now asking why the facts and figures are not furnished to contradict them. The truth seems to be that most of the charges contain unfounded sensational assertions. A flagrant example of this appeared in a recent article in an Eastern magazine, to the effect that "forty Iowa banks were forced to close their doors in 19034 by the Beef Trust's manipulation of cattle prices." Chief Clerk Cox, of the banking department of the Iowa State Auditor's office, has tabulated the list of banks given in the magazine article and has publicly denounced the statement as utterly untrue. He gives separately the reasons for each failure mentioned and officially states that they have been caused by unwise speculations and by reckless banking methods. It may be well to suspend judgment upon the packers until the charges against them are proved. Lacking in Experience "Somebody who calls himself Prof. Trent, claims that Daniel Defoe, who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe,' was the greatest liar that ever lived." "I guess the professor never met one of our expert campaign liars." General Nogi, who is giving the Russians so astonishing an exhibition of his knowledge of the art of modern war, commenced his military education fighting in medieval armor with the bow and arrow and the sword of the Samurai. THE YELLOW VIOLET By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT HEN beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the bluebird the warble know, The yellow violet the modest bell Peeps form the last year's leaves below Ere russet fields their green resume, Sweet flower, I love, in forest bare, To meet thee, when thy faint perfume Alone is in the virgin air. Of all her train, the hands of Spring First plant thee in the watery mould, And I have seen thee blossoming Besides the snow-bank's edges cold. Thy parent sun, who bade thee view Pale skies, and chilling moisture sip, Has bathed thee in his own bright hue, And streaked with jet thy glowing lip. Yet slight thy form, and low thy seat, And earthward bent thy gentle eye, Unapt the passing view to meet When bottier flowers are flaunting nigh. Oft, in the sunless April day, Thy early smile has stayed my walk; But 'midst the gorgeous blooms of May, I passed thee on thy humble stalk. So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them—but I regret That I should ape the ways of pride. And when again the genial hour Awakes the painted tribes of light, I'll not o'erlock the modest flower That made the woods of April bright. JEWELS 7.000 YEARS OLD. Marvels of the Goldsmith's Art Discovered in Ruins. Remarkable discoveries have been made in the ruins of the temples of Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, where marvels of jewelry have been brought to light, the earliest examples ever known of that country, says Harper's Bazaar. The jewels of gold and silver which we now possess are the first of those countries and those ages which have come down to our day. In this they present a great interest. Unfortunately, it is not possible to assign a precise date to each of them. As the cylinders and the seals which form a part of the finds belong to all periods from the fortieth or fifthth century, B. C., down to the date of the foundation, so it is with the jewels. There are some of every age. The rings of filigree work and the scepter with the lion's head seem to be more recent than the statuettes of gold and silver, which have a frankly archaic appearance, but cae cannot be sure of this appreciation. Have we not been surprised at finding rings which, if their origin had not been certain, would be attributed by the most acute connoisseurs to the Greek or Etruscan epochs? Before the discoveries at Dashur we knew nothing of Egyptian jewelry. The opening of the tombs of the princes of the twelfth dynasty was a revelation. It is the same now as regards Elam; but while in the case of Dashur we were dealing with objects of ascertained age, here we can only fix a minimum limit to the antiquity and this limit is the twelfth century, B. C. Shutting Off Argument. "George," said Mrs. McQuillop to her liege lord, who was toasting his shins before the fire, "I suppose you get the credit for sweeping the snow off our front walk." "I reckon I do, Cynthy," responded George. "And you know you don't do a lick of it. You know I do it myself." "You do. Cynthy. There can't be any doubt about that." "Well, what sort of a man do you think you are?" "I'm a blamed small specimen of a man. Cynthy," said George, still serenely toasting his shins. "I have no doubt I am meaner and more contemptible than you think, Lord love you! Cynthy, you can't get into any argument with me on that proposition. I'm the laziest, good for nothing, most ornament dog-goned man in the neighborhood. If it wasn't that I've got such a good wife I'd go and blow my worthless brains out. Supper ready yet, dear?"—Chicago Tribune. Possibilities of a Hot Egg. A sign, "Hot Egg Sandwich," appealed to the pompous young lawyer and briskly he entered the restaurant, "An egg sandwich," addressing the courteous waiter and looking about the crowded dining room imperiously. No sooner had the sandwich received a cursory examination from the particular lawyer than he shouted indignantly: "Here, wait, this is not what I ordered!" "You ordered an egg sandwich, sir," humbly rejoined the waiter. "And this egg, you driving dune," sputtered the patron as he disclosed a portion of a chicken lodged between the slices of bread. "My dear sir," expostulated the waiter most generously, "you evidently are not able to appreciate the possibilities of a hot egg."—New York Times. W TWO CLASSES OF OAKS. One Notable for its Wood, the Other for its Brilliance of Coloring. The great oak family might be divided into two classes; those that ripen their acorns in one season, such as the white, post and mossy cup oak, and those which require two full years, such as the red, scarlet and black oaks, says Edwin W. Foster in May St. Nicholas. To the first class belong the chestnut oak and the live oak of the South. This latter tree for generations played an important part in shipbuilding, but has now been superseded by iron and steel. The leaf, which is an evergreen, is entirely without indentations, and is thick and leathery. The wood is very heavy and strong, has a beautiful grain, and is susceptible of taking a high polish. At one time this wood was so valuable that our government paid $200,000 for large tracts of land in the South, that our navy might be sure of a supply of live oak timber. To the second class of oaks we are largely indebted for the gorgeous colors of our autumn leaves. The red, scarlet and pin oaks, with their brilliant reds, scarlets and browns, are close competitors with the maple in giving our American landscape the most wonderful autumn colorings to be found anywhere in the world. These three trees have leaves which at first glance are quite similar, but by careful examination may always be distinguished. Gave Sun Permission to Set "One of the odd things that I saw in the trip up the east coast of Africa was the permission given each day by one of the kings for the sun to set," said T. A. Rose, who recently made a trip to South Africa says the Milwaukee sentinel. "At one of the ports where we stopped the soldiers were drawn up on the parade ground before the royal palace as the sun was setting. With pomp and ceremony the ruler advanced to the front of the balcony on the second floor and majestically waved his hand toward the sun. "One of his subjects explained to me that it was the royal sanction for the sun to set. When asked as to whether the ruler gave his permission for the sun to rise in the morning the man replied that the sun must always rise before the ruler, but that it never could go down unless the royal hand waved approval. The king who did this was the sultan of Zanzibar. "I hardly believe that he himself was sincere in thinking his permission necessary, for he was educated (for four years at Harrow College in England, but the performance was to increase the belief among the subjects in his divine origin." The mother of the small boy had been trying to instil within him an idea of conscience. She described it as a little voice which whispered inside one when he was doing wrong. "I never heard it," said the small boy, cynically, and in the tone of one who shrugs his shoulders. A little later the small boy did something he had been told not to do, and was sent to sit on a chair, and ordered not to get off until the powers that be gave him leave. Ten minutes later he came into the room where his mother was sitting, jubilant. "I've heard it, mother," he explained. "Heard what?" asked his perplexed parent. "Heard the little voice. It said, 'Sam Smith, you get off that chair.' Don't you care what your mother says!'" At Last. EVERY WALK IN LIFE. A. A. Boyce, a farmer, living three A. A. Boye and a half miles from Trenton, Mo., says: "A severe cold settled in my kin- neys and de- veloped so quickly that I was obliged to lay off work on ac- count of the aching in my miles from Trenton, Mo., says: "A severe cold settled in my knees and developed so quickly that I was obliged to lay on work on account of the aching in my back and sides. For a time I was unable to walk at all, and every make-shift I tried and all the medicine I took had not the slightest effect. My back continued to grow weaker until I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills, and I must say I was more than surprised and gratified to notice the back ache disappearing gradually until it finally stopped." Donn's Kidney Pills sold by all dealers or by mail on receipt of price. 50 cents per box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. The Main Chance "Let's go over and call on the Greens tonight," remarked Mrs. Fox, as the evening threatened to drag. "I don't care to go there unless we have an invitation," replied her husseh. "But why not?" "Because they wouldn't have a lunch ready if they didn't know we were coming." Catarrh Cannot Be Cured WITH LOCAL APPLICATIONS - as they cannot reach the seat of the disease, Catarrh is a blood or cortisone internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Care takes an internally, and acts directly on the blood and immune system. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in latex for years and is a regular prescription with the best blood purifiers acting directly on the blood surface to make what produces such wonders in caring catarrh. Send for testimonials free of charge. Sold by Dr. Douglas, price $20. Sold by Drugstores, price $25. Take Hairy Family Fills for constipation. Might Work Up to It Westerner—Do you people here seriously think of offering the mayoralty of your city to President Roosevelt after his term is over. New Yorker—Certainly. Why not? If he makes a success as President we ought to show him some substantial recognition of it, oughtn't we? In 1955. Nordy-Well, that was a great victory the people won yesterday in Chicago. Butts I'm a little rusty on the news. What was the issue? Nordy-Municipal ownership of air and sunshine. Not Envious. Miss Amendt, who is said to receive $12,000 from the Equitable insurance company as an assistant to a vice president, is between thirty and forty years old. Lacking in Experience "Somebody who calls himself Prof. Trent, claims that Daniel Defoe, who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe' was the greatest bar that ever lived." "I guess the professor never met one of our expert campaign bars." Where the Money Goes. "Why do Rounderty's children look so shabby and hungry?" "I can't account for it. He's a darned good fellow." "Ah, that accounts for it." BOOK OF BOOKS Over 30.000.000 Published. An Oakland lady who has a taste for good literature, tells what a happy time she had on "The Road to Wellville." She says: "I drank coffee freely for eight years before I began to perceive any evil effects from it. Then I noticed that I was becoming very nervous, and that my stomach was gradually losing the power to properly assimilate my food. In time I got so weak that I dreaded to leave the house—for no reason whatever but because of the miserable condition of my nerves and stomach. I attributed the trouble to anything in the world but coffee, of course. I dosed myself with medicines, which in the end would leave me in a worse condition than at first. I was most wretched and discouraged—not 20 years old and feeling that life was a failure! "I had given up all hope of ever enjoying myself like other people, till one day I read the little book "The Road to Wellville." It opened my eyes, and taught me a lesson I shall never forget, and cannot value too highly. I immediately quit the use of the old kind of coffee and began to drink Postum Food Coffee. I noticed the beginning of an improvement in the whole tone of my system, after only two days' use of the new drinks, and in a very short time realized that I could go about like other people without the least return of the nervous dread that formerly gave me so much trouble. In tact my nervousness disappeared entirely and has never returned, although it is now a year that I have been drinking Postum Food Coffee. And my stomach is now like iron—nothing can upset it! "Last week, during the big Conclave in San Francisco, I was on the go day and night without the slightest fatigue; and as I stood in the immense crowd watching the great parade that lasted for hours, I thought to myself, 'This strength is what Postum Food Coffee has given me!'" Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. The little book "The Road to Well- ville" may be found in every pkg Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: specially paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for pub- lication should reach our office not la- ter than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of auth- enticity. IFFIOEI-No. 117 West Sixth St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. For one inch, one insertion. 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion. 20. 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 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. SCHOOL PATRONS SHOULD AS SERT THEIR RIGHTS. The article which appeared in the Son two weeks ago touching upon the character of some of our colored teachers has created concern both on the part of the public and among those more or less affected and a question of authority has been raised by those who would prefer that publication on such topics be withheld. The Son assumed its authority from district rumors which have gone from house to house and caused anxiety and indignation on the part of the school patrons and the tax payers—by the uncoath of those who seem to want to wear the shoe. The Son did not mention names nor was its criticism directed to the entire school faculty. I believe there are women employed in the colored schools of this city who are not what they ought to be and there are some whom we have a right to believe are perfect ladies, for instance: Miss Anna Jones, Miss Cross, Miss V. Overall, Miss Belle Scott, Miss Day, Mrs Luella Williams, Miss Coles, Miss Banko, Miss Watts, Miss D. Yancy, Miss Riley, Miss DeLoach, Miss Hunt, Miss Myers and others whom we do not call to mind. The conduct of these teachers has never been called into question by the public by reason of carless and unbecoming conduct. Their manner of living has been such as to defy public gossip. Whether the circulation of rumors caused by indiscreet teachers are true or not, the parties who made possible the charge have made no effort to clear their skirts. They should understand that they are servants of the people and are paid by the people and so long as they place themselves in a position to be criticised they cannot escape it. And when the matter is called to an issue do not be so quick to say, "I will have him arrested and make him prove it." There cannot be so much smoke without some fire—and the guilty party is bound to wear the shoe. Two parties came to our office after the article was published, one of whom was Miss Reeves. She asked if the article referred to her. I answered, "If the shoe does not fit you why do you wear it?" Her friend asked her why did she come? Then Miss Reeves presumed that we meant the article for her. We called no names. The guilty ones need no accusing. So now the article may be taken for what it is worth. The Son has watched these ugly rumors for the past fifteen years in Kansas City, but not until now have we decided to take a stand which we believe is right, even thought two of our big Negro principals told the assistant superintendent in the public library that Woods wanted a little money from the school force and in conclusion said it did not amount to anything. We want to say that we have never made a demand on the Negro teachers and we defy anyone to say otherwise and when you make such talks, you are not men enough to meet me face to face if you were you would soon come to the conclusion that it is not a matter of dollars and cents with us, but the principle of right. Now to the school board. You con- tend for us to bring you facts in order that you may act. How many times have facts presented themselves and you dropped these parties from the school and turned right around and placed them back and made the col- ored people and tax payers swallow the pill. You replaced these parties against the protests of the people who supply the school room with their children though your reason for so doing may have been by petition of those leading citizens who have no children in school but the stain is still there. Corruption has crept in little by little until a most damnable condition exists. We will cite an example. Not so long past a young teacher in Lincoln school was carried down to the police station. We respectfully asked the board if it knew anything about this matter. We were told that you sent your principal, Mr. Bailey, out to investigate. He came to our office and said he had investigated and thought the people were trying to blackmail. My reply was in this language: "Professor, how could the people blackmail an individual who blackmailed herself?" He turned and walked out. Now when a principal stops to recommend a woman of this type the people ought to rush up and demand an explanation, why a man should throw a stone in the way of young men and women whom such characters are teaching. We will ask the tax payers, mothers and fathers, out of 75,000 little Negro children who have passed through school in the past twenty-five years what kind of material has there been produced in Kansas City. Many thousands of dollars have been spent to carry on these Negro institutions and we have only developed one or two little second class teachers. More Negroes have been sent to the jails and penitentiary within the past few years than ever in the history of Jackson county. Now let us see whether your work shines. You are getting the public's money and ought to give something in return. You are not turning out students you can boast of and never will so long as bad examples are set and followed by the student. We would urge a life of common decency. This should not only appeal to the teachers, but to the ministers of the gospel as well. It is now time we should see the producing power of the school and pulpit which for forty years have been the two main channels through which we have centered hope. As to the writer of this article it matters not what his past has been he is looking at the future and intends to do as near right as possible. Generally speaking we believe the salvation of the Negro lies in forcing him to do what is right. Now to the good citizens of Kansas City, the Son feels that it has done its duty and the question involved herein will rest with you all and if you are not men and women enough to come forward and vindicate yourselves and show to the people of this community that you are being unjustly dealt with, your children will not advance very materially. If you have no defence to set up it is about time for me to say that "from nothing we came and to naught we go." Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. RETIRING FROM THE RANKS. We regret, very much, that Prof. W. H. Lynch has decided to quit teaching at the close of the present school year. For the past 42 years Prof. Lynch has fought the battles in the interest of education, with a loss of only nine days from the school room. Is there a person in the state who can display a record which shows more zeal or a closer application to the work of training boys and girls so that they may become useful men and women? After the last roll call of the present year he will retire from the active work of teaching and enjoy the rest to which he is so much entitled. While he will be missed by his brothers and sisters in the profession, yet he feels that in the forty two years he has trained up many worthy to take his place. The newspaper men of the country, as much as any other class of people, will regret Prof. Lynch's retirement, for he has been, and is their friend. He believes, with the editor, that the newspaper is one of the greatest and best ways of disseminating knowledge. — Republi can-Headlight, March 10, 1905. The Son is glad to hear that the Langston University of which Prof. Inman E. Page is president is progressing so nicely. We have been advised that the school facilities would be greatly increased during the summer. The boys' dormitory will be enlarged to provide for fifty more boys. For black smithing and foundry purposes, a $3,000 addition will be made to the Merchants' building and a dormitory, with accommodations for 200 girls, will be built at a cost of $10,000. Most of the work in these improvements will be done by the students of the university, under the direction of the superintendent of the mechanica department. Caesar would not have crossed the Rubicon or Washington the Delaware, had they not had their minds on objects far above the perils at their feet. Mrs. Blox—"Miss Blank says she always uses lemon juice on her face; it's good for the complexion." Miss Knox—"I wonder what gave her that sour look." THE SON HAS NO AXES TO GRIND. In treating upon the question of securing and maintaining teachers of the correct standard of the colored schools of Kansas City the Son had no personal interests in the fight which it assumed. It had no axes to grind. It has absolutely nothing of a personal nature against any of the present corps of principals and teachers. It simply championed a cause for the right and a paper which has not got the backbone to stand up for what we deem the most important feature in our school system, namely, integrity and fitness on the part of its teachers, is not worthy of its title. No teacher of the right stripe will place herself in a position from which she knows a rumor will emanate. If she does she must stand the consequences. The news that we are to have a new Lincoln High School for Negroes at last, is indeed refreshing. Nineteenth and Tracy is the site. We are advised that a manual training department will go with the school and also domestic science work. The structure will have a seating capacity for 700 persons. We have stood in need of a new high school for a long, long time. For rent about May 10, a nine room house in fine condition, near Spring Valley Park, porcelain bath; five bed rooms upstairs, one bed room down stairs, parlor, dining room and large kitchen, latticed back porch, city and cistern water; cemented cellar, laundry room, large yard; $30. Also barn for four horses and two buggies. See Mrs. Bowser, 2323 Lydia. In Australia there are 210 churches to every hundred thousand people, a larger number per capita than any other country. England has 141 and Russia but fifty-five. When a girl must admit that another girl is pretty, she says that she is like a "doll." In the United States wages on an average are more than twice those in Germany, Spain and Italy and one and Belgium three times those of Denmark, one half those of England and Scotland. "FOLLOW THE FLAG" Summer TO Excelsior "The Beautiful Beginning Sunday, May its follows: Leave Union Depot 8:30 and 7:00 P. M. $1.00 Rour $1.00. Tickets Wabash Office Union Depot. THEODOR DRUG Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STRE PHONES {Home 4211 Mala Bell 1211 Grand Summer Schedule "The Beautiful Health Resort" Beginning Sunday, May 7th and daily thereafter as follows: Leave Union Depot 8:30 and 10:20 A. M.; 5:10 and 7:00 P. M. $1.00 Round Trip, 30 days limit, $1.00. Tickets Wabash Office, 903 Main Street and Union Depot. THEODORE SMITH. DRUGGIST. Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES {Home 4211 Main Bell 1211 Grand PHONES {Home 5446 Main Bell 2170 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. Dealer in Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. Give us an Order by Phone and See if We are not there with the Goods. 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. NOVEL OF THE FUTURE. Hall Caine Says Its Purpose Will Be to Inculcate Religion. Went Too Far. Isaacstein, the ruralist, was search of a horse. "I've got the very thing you war Hall Caine thinks that the novel of the future will become more and more the religious novel, and that it will only be accepted, whether by the plowman or the philosopher, in the degree in which it unites with the simplest pictures of human life the deepest problems of humanity. "I think it will be realized," he says, "that the capacity of the novel for any work whatsoever, whether a simple entertainment or of deep teaching, is entirely without limit; that there is no vehicle so capable of reaching a wide area, no medium so adaptable to the needs of man in all his stages of intellectual development; in a word, that there is no pulpit with a sounding board that will send the human voice so far." 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. 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. A. O. RHODES, PRESIDENT J. J. MAYERTY, VICE PRESIDENT J. A. HUPPE, SECRETARY Rhodes, Plaverty & Huppe FURNITURE CO. J. A. HUPPE MGR. 611 MAIN STREET Kansas City, Mo. 190 Furniture Bargains Our entire building has been leased and everything will be sold regardless of cost. If you want to save money on furniture here is your opportunity. A dollar saved is a dollar earned We guarantee all we sell. If you are in need of anything in our line, call in and see us. Get our prices and inspect our goods. Full Size Cotton Top Mattresses, This week $1.43 and up. $10,00 Oak and Maple Beds, while they last $1.50 Each High back dining chairs at 49c each. Two-burner Gasoline stoves, regular $4.50 variety, $1.58 Schedule for Springs Health Resort" 7th and daily thereafter and 10:20 A. M.; 5:10 round Trip, 30 days limit, 903 Main Street and E SMITH, GIST. STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES Home 5846 Main Bell 2170 Main School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. If We are not there with the Goods. Went Too Far. Isaacstein, the ruralist, was in search of a horse. "I've got the very thing you want," said Bill Lennox, the stable man, "a thorough-going road horse. Five years old, sound as a quail. $175 cash down and he goes ten miles without stopping." Isaacstein threw his hands skywards. "Not for me," he said, "not for me. I wouldn't gif you five cends for him. I live eight miles out in de country, unt'd haf to valk back two miles." 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'?" 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. 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. Appreciation The assembling of all attributes of style, fit and quality in one shoe has caused Dorothy Dodd's Shoes to be appreciated by a million of satisfied wearers. Oxfords $2.50 and $3.00 Shoes $3.00 and $3.50 Strong & Garfield Patent Tan Oxfords The swellest and handsomest shoe ever brought out. Price $5.05 CASH OR CREDIT Catalogue FREE. ONLY $10.00 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, Fhaetons, Spring and Farm Wagons. CENTURY MANUFACTURING CO. Dept. 4036 EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. NEW YORK DENTAL CO. This Coupon is good for $1.00 in trade at the New York Dental Co. 1029 Main St. If you have only a dollar's worth of work done, this coupon will pay for it. Clip this out and take advantage of it. ON CREDIT LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S CLOAKS AND SUITS-- Men's, Boys' and Children's Suits and Overcoats direct from our factory to the wearer at factory prices cash or easy monthly payments. We trust honest people located in all parts of the world. Write for free catalogue. GENTURY MFG. CO. Dept. 4036 East St. Louis, Ill. STRONG & GARFIELD CO. THE RISING SON. NSS ee V8 Cee 02-43 ee Pry A NE, AZ eA RS5u AY fy ea ie Ne q ero a | Kas, Ren Hea | Nil an Saat eal } i re AEP) | aN eeoeit) Whee 3 Eugene Vaugan, Agt. Kansas City, Kas. 988 Split Log. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo Remember please— It’s tne little bite we collect here and there That enables us to run from year tw year.” The Burns Literary meets every Tuesday at 8 p. m. Mrs Mary Henderson is recovering from a recent illness. Mrs. John Davis of 1609 Lydia is contemplating a trip to New York. Miss Jennie Guy was absent from school one day last week on account of illness, Mrs, Burton Hill of St. Louis is vis- iting her mother, Mrs Sonia at 1308 Highland avenue. Mrs. Knox has moved into her new home on Woodland avenue which her son, Raymond, has recently purchased. Mrs, Estella Saunders of Omaha, Neb., who has been here for the past few weeks returned home Wednesday morning. For rent—1712 Troost avenue, nice- ly furnished room; all modern; bath and heat. Call up Mrs, A. Harper, telephone 2963 Walnut. Mrs. J. N. Birch and children have gone to Wilmington, N. C., on an ex- tended trip. She will return by way of Washington, D. C. Miss Morten of Warrensburg is vis: iting Mrs, Herndon of Vine street Miss Morten taught school in Warrens. burg during the past year. Mrs. Hancock, Mrs, A. Lindsey, Mrs. A. A, Gilbret and several more left Tuesday to attend the Grand Court which is held in Kansas City. Invitations, are out announcing the graduation of Mr. Wm, Tompkins of this city from the Howard University of Washington, D.C, The Son wishes him success. Mrs, J. M. Harris, wife of Rev, Har- ris, has gone on an extended visit to Atlanta, Ga, During her stay she will visit Clark University, of which she is an alumnus. Nice furnished rooms to rent at 1736 Woodland avenue, Bell Phone East 538 “Y.” Will be glad to have you call—rent reasonable, M. HE. Adams. Have your children saye some of their change and teach them to start bank account at the Pioneer Trust Company. He or she can start with $1.00. The company is safe and sound. Announcements and local notices, such as renting rooms, buying or sell- ing houses, or any matter exacting charges are regarded as advertising matter and when sent in must be ac: companied by the cash. We now have the Hair Goods on hand again. Call at the Son office if you desire any of the following: The Ozone Hair Grower, scalp soap, Ozon face powder, electric skin food. A new sup- ply has just arrived. Come down, prices 25c, 50c and $1.00. ‘The Grand Court of the M. A. M. of Missouri and jurisdiction met in Kan- sas City last week in grand session at the Masonic Temple, 18th and Wood: land, ‘The attendance was very large and much business of importance was transacted. Among the leading repre: sentatives present were: 8. W. Vaug: han of Weston, Mo.; Mrs, H. Walker of St. Joseph; Mr. Geo, Anderson of Platt City, Mo., and Mrs. C. McDowell of Hannibal, Mo. The visitors were royally entertained by the K. C, mem bers and in addition to transacting much business a general good time was indulged in, At the entertainment given by the John Brown Relief Corps ,No. 14 December 21, 1904, the principle. fea, ture on the program was the work of Miss Lillian Tooley, special reader of monologues, Her character sketches showed rare ability and delighted her auditors, Whether portraying the character of a man, woman or child she shows her. self mistress of her art. Miss Tooley ranks high in her chosen profession, ’s Sh Men’s Shoes MEN'S SATIN CALF SHOES Bal Style—Cap or French toe, lace or congress, a comfortable and good wearing shoe regular $2.00 MEN'S VICI, BOX OR KANGAROO CALF SHOES Bal or Blucher style—Cap or French toe, every pair guaranteed to give per- fect satisfaction, regular $2.50 MEN'S VICI, BOX CALF OR VELOUR CALF SHOES Blucher or Bal style, genuine Goodyear welt, cap or French toe. A shoe that you'll buy again. Regular $3.00 MENS’ VICI, BOX, VELOUR OR PAT- ENT CALF SHOES Genuine Goodyear welt, Bal or Blucher style, French or cap toe. Just as good ‘a shoe as any house in Renee 00 City will offer you for $3.50... 'e MEN’S VICI, VELOUR OR PATENT LEATHER SHOES Goodyear welt, Bal or Blucher style. Stylish, dressy, comfortable dress shoe and will give you as good service as any $5.00 shoe sold else- Furnished Rooms To Rent. BY DAY OR WEEK Meals at All, Hours. At 1001 E. 18th St G. SMITH, Propr. and is capable of entertaining any audience. Besides her character sketches Miss Tooley is endowed with the rare gift of singing in the mezzo soprano and deep, rich contralto. “The Republican Campaign” and “Asleep in the Deep" rendered on this occasion evidenced her ability along this line. The sweet. ness of her voice has been so pleasing to her audiences that it has meant to her many return engagements, | MAMIE E. BRITTON, Past President of John Brown Relief Corps, No 14, Dept. of Ill, Chicago, If you need glasses and your's is not true, H. D, Simmons can make them for you. If your watch is out of fix Vand your time is not true -H. D, Simmons can fix it for you. If your ring needs a set or in the mid. dle is broken in two, HD. Simmons can fix it for you. If you want your picture taken or of your home made a view H. D, Simmons can make them for you. H, D. SIMMONS, 1919 Grand Ave., Optician, Jeweler, _ Photographer LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. A. 8. Norse preached the bac- calaureate sermon to the graduates at the Secand Baptist church Sunday. He gave them good advice. In the after- noon he preached the annual sermon of the K. of P.’s. Mr. 8. T. Pettigrew the Grand Mas- ter of the U. B. F.’s and S. M, T.’s visited the lodge and temple Monday. ‘The members were much pleased with his visit. Rey. Norse and his family have now moved to our city and he is taking charge of his church. We welcome him among us his members are well pleased with him and the people gen- erally. We hope that he will prove a blessing to the community and a great benefit to himself. Miss Katie Wilson went to Kansas City Sunday to spend a few days. Mr. A. W. Walker spent several days in Kansas City last week and met many of old friends and acquaint- ances. He reports of having a de- lightful time with them while there. C. H. Willlams lodge No. 105 of the U. B. F.’s turnout on the 30th and decorated the deceased brothers’ and sisters’ graves. The ceremony was conducted by the master of said lodge, A. W. Walker. The union band fur- ‘nished music for the occasion, they will give an entertainment in the near future and the U. B. F.’s and S. M. ‘T.’s will assist them for kindness on ‘Decoration day. Mr. Chas. Graham returned home from Longston, Okla. where he has been attending school. Miss Lutie Jackson of Independence is the guest of Miss Glover Hawkins. Mrs. Dr. Ball is now able to be out with the Doctor. We are very glad to see her out again. We hope she will continue to improve, @ s 4 ur Spring Suits 7 a & 3 He = We Believe that you know what kind of { Ai Ca a suit you want for Spring. We Believe we hy ih . have the kind of suit you wantt for Spring; wi N in fact we have the kind of suits the ma- ad Jority of men in this town will want. We fie Selected from the best makers of the coun- Gj try; taking the best from each—that is why 4 oOS you can get here the best the country af- | ry fords. thd one Furnishins GoodsSpecials Broken line of Underwear in blue, pink, and 1.0, 1.50, and 200 abirte at...99C/tiesh color, s0e Kidd. sesere OOD Biastic net end suspenders |e and 35¢ Fancy Hose allthis regular price, 25¢........066 176 season's latest creations at.... dle RICHARDSON CLOTHING CO. 1009-1011 Main Street. Dwight Building 10th and Baltimore Avenue, KANSAS CITY, MO. GCUPIEAL 66 oe vs 6e oe be ca es eter on ne te eecee oeree 06 4500 BROT COU) COU UR Ve a6 8 ah ou Gs EH aRO fee Tait iy rahe 4 CRUROT OOD ‘Transacts a General Trust and Banking Business. Pays 2 per cent on Checking Accounts, Allows 3 per cent on Saving ,Deposits. Time Certificates Issued, Cares for Real Estate and Mortgage Investments. Now is the time to beging Saving.— Dont delay, $1.00 will start an account. OFFICERS: WALTON H. HOLMES, 2... 0. 6. 66 ce ce ee oe ee oe ve President, FCoMILLER, 0 6. 6. os so oso. oe cs ve ot oe. «. Vide) President, GSE HOUMES ris 65 case vee cede aa ae aa a ase, Vingsenesldent: GCHAB, 8,GLEED, co 56 66 os ou oo 64 be seas os ete oe Vice President, H, C, SCHWITZGEBEL, .. .. .. .. .. 0. 0. os ws. Seely and Treas. BIRD H. McGARVEY, .. 6. 66 56 ee cc ce oe ce ee ee oe oe Atte Treas, | E. L. SCARRITT, Counselor. B. P. FINLEY, Attorney, American Plan} All Modern Improvements HOTEL McRAY 721-723 Charlotte St., K. C., Mo. Plupie Meats Oh conte THGUAHACON URN Inet ne U BEN McRAY, Prop. and Mgr. 4 THE AUTO AND THE SAVAGE. Prof, Frederick Starr, of the Univer- sity of Chicago, in his study of the dif- ferent races of the world, has had many amusing experiences among primitive tribesmen. To an Indian, ene day, he attempted to explain the principle of the automo- bile, ‘The Indian was intelligent, and Professor Starr's explanation was a model of directness and lucidity. “Well,” he said at the end, “do you think you understand all about the automobile now?” The Indian, who had listened intentiy, replied: “Yes, I understand all but one thing.” “And what 1s that?” said Professor Starr, thinking to clear up in a word some trifling point that he had over looked. “I do not understand,” sala the In dian, “what makes the automobile go without horses.” Milwaukee, Wis., June 23, 1893. Gentlemen: Please send me two bot: tles of the Ozonized Ox Marrow for the hair, Think it is one of the best hair pomades made, MRS. JOHN GRAF. The Rev. G. W. Jennings, who has travelled through all the oriental coun- tries, will soon come to Kansas City and conduct a series of lectures, He will speak of the oriental custom and habits. Watch the Son for date of his arrival. 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We Never Sleep HOTEL NEW PORT is ror i ae | f} NEATLY FURNISHED ROOMS AND CAFE i Mis | Near Corner Eighteenth and Tracy ==) 1807 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Mo MRS. V. L. NORTH, Prop. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT The Son would advise that those in Kansas City, Mo, who are carrying ads with the Son must be prepared to pay thelr bills promptly on the Ist of the month, He ready when the col- lector calls, We cannot run after these items, If you cannot be prompt, let us have the space, as it is valu: able, In France: “What's the French for mashed potatoes?” “Why, eh—pommes de-terred’amour, of course.”—Life. At the Well Touch love lightly at the drink. Where the smolt pool is clearer; Seek no further, draw no neater; Touch love lightly at the drink; Lost tis deeper than we think. Take the sparkle, do not drink. Lost much drift to sweeter dearer; Pest much drift to sweeter dearer; Dim love's vision at the drink. Lost tis deeper than we think. Still love's word for poblabs sink; Butter deposits may be still doer; Lean and do not shrink. Ah, it looks like a sink. -V. W. Cloud in Smart Set. THE DRESSMAKER'S STORY BY NELLIE GRAVEY GILMORE (Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) Marjory in her pink Chambray dress, a long white box tucked under one arm, tripped joyously up the little flight of steps that led to her dressmaker's apartments. Her delicate blonde face looked very fair and lovely under the quaint Poke bonnet with its bunch of blush roses on top and the soft liberty ribbons that tied under her chin. A rich, vivid color had risen to her checks—a perfect match to the flowers in her hat—and enhancing, if possible, the clear sparkle in her blue-gray eyes. Her lips were parted slightly, revealing just the edges of her milk-colored teeth. She paused at the landing a moment for breath, and then tapped gently on the oak-panelled door. Marjory was a regular visitor at the fashionable establishment and the sweet-faced little woman who was the prophetor always welcomed her with a pleased smile; not so much on account of the big bill which was sure to follow, but because she enjoyed listening to the girl's merry chatter, and loved to look at her pure, pliant face, full of refreshing animation. In response to her light tap, the door was opened from within, and the young girl, like a sudden sunbeam, glided into the close little room with its inevitable litter of unfinished garments and bulky packages. She sank down in one of the straight hair covered chairs, and began to untie the big twine cord that bound her box, rattling on gaily to the quiet little woman who was busily occupied over her basting table. "Look!" she cried tremulously, "Isn't it beautiful?" She had drawn out a rich, shimmering mass of creamy satin from her package and was stroking it with tender, loving fingers. "My wedding dress," she exclaimed softly, almost reverently, "and I have brought it my very own self for you to make. I couldn't trust it to a servant." Sudden tears filled the eyes of the older woman and she was silent. But Marjory was too deeply engrossed in contemplation of the gleaming fabric spread across her knees—the sacred link that was to join to a glad, tranquil girlhood to a life of fuller happiness—to notice the other's emotion. She went on, a warm light in her eyes: "Now I want you to do your very best on this. Your very best, remember, just as though it were—your very own." Her voice was as soft as an angel's whisper as she added, smiling. "He is just the bravest, truest man that ever lived and I—love—him—so." The blood mounted still more vivid- C. W. H. 17 to her checks as she spoke thus, creeping ever so slightly beyond the borders of her usually fine reserve. There was an imperceptible pause. Marjory had raised her starry eyes to her companion's face, and now for the first time she noticed the look of sadness in her dressmaker's soft, brown eyes and about her sweet, gentle mouth. Something vague and indefinable seemed to stir in the girl's heart like the first faint breath of a storm. Her brow clouded suddenly, but as suddenly cleared and a tender smile passed over her face. L Marjory. "Forlare me," she said in the sympathetic little way characteristic of her. "I did not mean to wound you—i—if I had known—" "Never mind, dear. It's—it's nothing I'm just a foolish old woman, that's all." Her voice was low and sweet and musical like the voice of a girl, but there was a wistful note in it that did not escape the younger woman's notice. "Why do you say 'old'?" she queried, searching her companion's face with eyes that smiled softly. "True, your hair is white and you—perhaps J. M. "Neit!" she whispered, hoarsely, you do not laugh as often as a young person would, but—" The dressmaker turned her head a little uneasily and her eyelids drooped and quivered until they swept her worn cheek. "It is not the years that age," she replied falteringly, "but—life's road." her voice trailed off into a sob and a big, hot tear plashed on the piece of work in her lap. Marjorie leaned over to where she sat and laid one of her soft white hands over the woman's little brown one, that was hard and roughened by toil. "Tell me," she coaxed softly in the tone that one would use to a hurt child longing to pour out it's feelings into some sympathetic ear. The little woman smiled gratefully through a mist of tears. A sudden sense of rest stole over her. It was so rarely that anybody gave her more than a mere passing thought. She did not speak at once; she was too full for that, and a sort of dreaminess came into her eyes as they rested upon her companion. She seemed to be looking at her through a sort of reminiscent haze, and living over her own youth. After a while she spoke: "I, too, was once young and joyous," she said slowly and a little unsteadily. "Young and joyous like you, with life's vista of happiness stretching out before me. The world was a veritable palace and a man—my idol." She paused and covered her face with both hands. Low sobs shook her frame, but she quickly crushed them down and went on in a sort of monotone: "It was not until the day before out wedding was to take place that I discovered, instead of the pure gold I had worshiped, my idol was of—clay." There was another pause, this time longer than the last. Twilight had fallen gradually, and long gray shadows owlse into the room and sought out the woman's bowed head. When she looked up her face bore the stamp of infinite sadness, but the old settled look of calmness and sweetness had returned to it; the look of resignation. Marjorie's eyes were swimming in tears as she listened to the woman's story, but she pressed her hand reassuringly as she said, her voice trembling a little: "You did not tell me what happened—on that—day." The answer came clear and firm, not the slightest intonation betraying the scar of bitterness that had seamed her life. "He was a married man—that's all. My family was poor," she went on musingly, "and I made my own clothes—my wedding dress, too. I have never made another since, and I—" ```markdown ``` I always said I never would. But, of course, I will take yours. Mine was not so fine or so rich as yours will be, but it was my wedding dress and I loved it just the same. We were to be so happy, Neil and I—" She broke off suddenly and passed her hand through the waves of shining hair that framed her face, and trying to choke down the gulp that kept rising to her throat. Marjory was staring at her with wide, dry eyes. "Neil?" she whispered hoarsely. "Neil—who?" The woman glanced at her in quiet surprise, wondering that another's sorrow should distress the girl so keenly. But she only answered with studied indifference, in which there was a vague uneasiness: "Neil— Godfrey. That was his name. I shouldn't have worried you, dear, with this trouble of mine, at a time when only the bright and beautiful ought to touch your life. You must try to forget all about it." As she spoke her eyes lingered affectionately on the girl's pure face, from which the red flush of joy had faded leaving it quite drawn and colorless. She reached over and touched the glistening folds of satin that had half fallen from her lap and were trailing on the floor. "Now let us to discussing this dream of a gown that I am going to create for a certain little lady I kn—" A smothered cry broke from the girl's white lips, but she quickly covered it with a forced smile, at the same time gathering up the rich, loose fabric with cold, trembling hands. With a mighty effort at self-control, the young girl silenced the quivering pang at her breast, and turned toward the dressmaker calmly. "After all," she said, in a tired little way, her voice low and dispassionate "I think I shall not ask you to make it. I can understand—how painful—it would be—for you." HORSE KNEW HIS DUTY. Usual Summons to Divine Service Found Him Ready. My grandfather by marriage, Daniel Lane, was a very devout churchgoer, and for thirty-eight years of his life, was a member of the First Unitarian Congregational church of Norton, Mass, and for twelve years one of its honored deacons. He was a devout worshiper, and I can well remember that he and one other, Judge Leonard, used to stand up in their pews with bowed heads during the prayer service while all the other members of the congregation remained seated. In those days there was a row of sheds back of the church, built by people who wished to protect their horses and carriages from the driving storms of winter, and the scorching suns of summer. One of these sheds belonged to my grandfather. One Sunday morning the old gentleman was sick, and, instead of going to church, the family horse was turned into the yard to graze awhile. The animal no sooner heard the ringing of the church bell than off he started at his usual Sabbath day trot, took his place in the familiar shed, where he stood still until the service was over, when he joined in the procession of the other homeward-bound teams.—Boston Hrald. How Eve Got Even When Eve appeared to Adam's ken, He were timelessly sage: "Why why why why when The woods are full of foliage? Go to the fig, my dearest wife, He the goods and pick your dress; As Eve left, This is the Eve of Biflustress!" The years rolled by. A snake one day Hissed: "China silk—real Irish lace!" He straightway In patterns bide her, laying Then Adam's heart grew adam-ant. As Eve's new passion he could see. "Buy clothes for her?" I wont—I can't— This is the Eve of Bankruptcy! So soon to-day with girded loin Poor Adam treats the busy mills; He the coin While Eve, at home, takes the bills. Yet 'tis not a cheerless plight, This job of keeping women fair— And Adam finds a huge delight In this. —Walace Irwin in Munsey's Antiquity of the Cow Pony. Antiquity of the Cow Pony. The cow pony is of distinguished lineage, says a writer in Country Life in America. His ancestral home was among the Moors of Barbary, and his pedigree leads back to the "Godolphin Arabian." Innocently associated with the Spanish invasion of Mexico, his race was already established on the plains of the southwest when the Mayflower landed. In the centuries that followed he conformed his nature to the requirements of the plains until he fitted them as the camel fits the desert, and became so perfectly adapted to the work of the cattle range as to make it doubtful whether the needs of the cowboy evolved the cow pony, or the capacities of the pony produced the cowboy. Success in the Law. Sir John Bigham "has been giving advice to young lawyers. "Work hard," he said, "have noble ambitions; be bold, have confidence in yourselves, get married." Sir Edward Clarke has said much the same thing; but Mr. Justice Maule when giving advice on the same point declared that there were only three things essential. "The first is high animal spirits, the second is high animal spirits, and the third is high animal spirits." But he added, "If in addition, the young man will take the trouble to learn a little law, I do not think it will impede his progress in the profession."—London World. The Child Again. A young school teacher was endeavoring to teach one of his pupils what the word "mamma" meant, and to aid her in that task, asked "What does your papa sometimes call your mother?" "Old seventy-six," was the some what unexpected reply. But now I pray for Love; And give love and man; A living love the willful fah. However dark his plan,— And Light and Strength and Faith Are opening everywhere; Give love and man; I prayed the larger, prayer. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abound- ing. Religion is more than restriction, more than a weary round of negations, a heavy load of commandments concerning things to be avoided. No wonder the youth turns with dread from the church which prescribes his doings by a chalk line drawn by those in whom the fires have all died or who may never have known the glow of youth. Such a church says to men, Come thou with us and we will show you how to empty your life of all the things you would like to have in it. Such a church is praying, "Oh, to be nothing, nothing," and is getting its prayers pretty thoroughly answered. The religion that has for its precepts only so many Must nots, for privileges only so much giving up and going without, can end only in death. A living religion cries out for more life, not less; less life leads at last to the grave. It is no use fighting for a faith outworn; it is no use fighting for any kind of a faith that can be worn at all. For faith is not a garment. So long as we think of it as such it will be but a strait jacket, a something to crush the life. Such a religion makes the Sunday a prison, the church a charnel. The worth while, the heaven born religion we may know not by the multitude of its restrictions, not by the burdens it lays on life, not by its prohibitions or even its definitions; but by its invitations, the blessings it confers, the multitude of its means of enlarging life. In itself it is ever a life; it leads to larger life. Religion means not to live less; it is not a cramping of the life within certain rules, but a crowding out of the life; it is like the growing tree that pushes up the earth and breaks up the wall into which it grows. There will always be up-heavals, revolutions in religion, because it is always growing. Religion calls for room, more room, room to realize the best and holiest possibilities of life, room to climb up and look out on life, room to serve our fellows and lift them to larger living, room to be made by the sweeping away of old limitations, ancient prejudices, hoary wrongs. And because it is vital, not formal, it demands an ever larger place in our lives. The Pharisee's plan was to save the world by showing it the unending list of the things it must not do; Jesus' plan is to show it all the things it may be. Their way was by a law, his by a life. It is a good deal easier to be a Pharisee than to be a Christ, especially when the Pharisee makes it his business to regulate others and not himself. But it is a good deal happier, healthier, holier, if you will let the little petrified souls go on wagging their heads over the catalogue of dont's and denials while you enter into larger soul and larger service by letting the best things within lead out your life to yet better things, and the noblest aspirations lead you out to nobler service. The mechanical virtues cannot see the kingdom of heaven; the vital religion has it already.—Chicago Tribune. A Triumph of Christian Faith This was among the last clear, thoughtful, rational sentences spoken by one of God's children before she went home to be forever with the Lord. For more than half a century she had trodden the earthly pathway. Long years ago the heart had been opened to receive the faith and love of God in Christ. The life had been placed in his keeping. As the journey continued, the earthly darkness gathered. Affliction in a most distressing form fell upon one of her children. The years—about twenty of them—came and passed, but no relief came. None could quite fill the mother's place. During all this long time there was scarcely a night of unbroken rest. Then God called the child home. But the mother's health was already broken. Notwithstanding her strong desire to live for her family, and despite the faithful and skillful care of physicians and loved ones, the earthly taper burned more and more dimly, and at last went out. Her pastor read to her a few days before a comforting portion of God's Word, and asked the gracious Lord to sanctify his dealings unto his faithful child. When the prayer was over the pastor was greeted with an angelic countenance and the words already quoted: "It's all clear to me!" "All!" There lay within the compass on that word more than the present moment. Did it not embrace the whole of those twenty dark, mysterious years? Did it not gather up the burdens, the disappointments, the incessant ministrations, the inroads of disease, etc? "All clear!" The sky had been clouded, but clouds were now swept away. The sun had been obscured, but now nothing intervened. The day had been long and the way at times very dark, but now it was evening time, and it was light. "It's all clear to me!"—not to members of the family, not to the one who had read the Word and offered the prayer, not to friends and neighbors, but to this child of sorrow as she came to the end of the earthly way along which her loving Father had led her. The past was clear, the present was clear, and the future was clear. Christian faith has many triumphs. This is one The Springtime of Life. "Nothing," says Dr. Pusey, "is too little to be ordered by our Father; nothing too little in which to see his hand; nothing which touches our souls too little to accept from him; nothing too little to be done for him." Let us "Tell him about the heartache, and tell him the longings, too. Tell him baffled purpose. When we scared him to do. Then, leaving all our weakness With the One, divinely strong. Forget that we bore the burden Your purity was the scent." Time will not be misspent in which we shall consider gratefully the goodness of our Father in heaven. Suppose we make a practice of looking up in God's Word the promises he gives us of his presence in every hour of need. They gleam like stars in the sky when the firmament is swept clear from clouds. The Father is ever waiting to hear our prayer, ready at every moment when we knock to admit us, and his compassions fail not. Blessed are the hours in which we leave the world behind and approach "the mercy seat, where Jesus answers prayer," and the Spirit gives us utterance! When any one has been cold and lifeless in prayer, formal and uninterested in service, apathetic in attention, and careless of love to the brethren, he needs a revival. A new breath of the Divine Spirit quickens and vitalizes him. The spring has found him, he has been renovated, "Awake, O. north wind, and come thou south, blow upon my garden!" says the Lord of the garden, and then, "the spices flow forth," and there is perfume and gladness.—Margaret E Sangster. The patient heart is a willow, the impatient heart is a dry reed. When the storm of sorrow comes the reed breaks, but the willow yields and recovers. --- The Hopeful Attitude Much is gained by cherishing hopeful outlook upon the world. We cannot do much for humanity unless we have faith in it, unless we hold firmly to the conviction that it is worth redeeming. It is hard, in the face of ingratitude and coldness and the falling away of those whom we try to help, to maintain this optimistic attitude, but Jesus did it, and it was one great secret of his success. Those are sad lines in which a man confesses how the estimate of others dragged him down: "They thought me what I said I was; I became what they thought I was." To better the world begin right where you are. Most of us must serve our God in that "station of life whereunto we are called." Take hold of the handles and levers and sources of influence and uplift that are just within your reach. They seem so small as hardly to be visible, but look at them with the eyes of Christ and they will greater before you, and the little ways of serving him will become large and radiant.—Howard Allen Bridgman. God Hears. Prayer must be addressed to the Father. As soon as we utter that sacred name the divine nature responds and, to put it vividly, is on the alert to hear what we desire. A little child cannot utter a sigh, however slight, a sob however smothered, without awakening the quick attention of its mother, and at the first whisper of our Father's name He is at hand to hear and bless. Alas, we have too often grieved His Holy Spirit by a string of selfish petitions or a number of formal platitudes! To the wonderment of angels we thus fritter away the most precious and sacred opportunities. Be still, then, before you pray to consider what we ask. Order your prayers for presentation and be sure to begin the blessed interview with words of sincere and loving appreciation and devotion—Rev. F. B. Meyer. Rooted in Christ. All things that are planted, and are to be preserved, must have roots; and into those roots the life retreats in safety for the winter. But if the seedtime, and summer, and harvest, are neglected, and the roots not formed, then nothing can live through the season of death that is approaching. So the soul must have its roots in Christ; for the winter is coming, when all that the soul can do will be just to retreat to Christ; just to take refuge in him, just, as it were, to lie buried with him for the resurrection.—Rev. H. T. Cheever. Philosopher.—Young man, in order to succeed in life you must begin at the bottom and work up. Young Man.—That wasn't my father's motto. He began at the top and worked down. "And made a failure, I suppose?" "Not at all; he made a fortune coal mining." Stupid Man. Mr Newliwed—Goodness! this little shriveled loaf of bread is as heavy as lead. I'll bet you forgot to put yeast in it to make it rise. Mrs. Newliwed—Well, stupid, if it had risen it would still be bigger. Mr. Newliwed—Well? Mrs. Newliwed—Well, if it was bigger it would be heavier still, wouldn't it? THINK OF IT! This Pretty Matron Had Headache and Backache and Her Condition Was Serious. MRS. M. BRICKNER. "A short time ago I found my condition very serious. 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My backaches and headaches are all gone and I suffer no pain at my menstrual periods, whereas before I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I suffered intense pain." Mrs. Emma Cotrelly, 109 East 12th Street, New York City, writes: Say Plainly to That you want LION being a square man, will thing else. You may not What About the United of housekeepers who ha for over a quarter Is there any stronger p Lion-head on Save these Lion-heads SOLD BY GROCER CLOTHES WH and as beautiful as when new will RED CROSS on washday. No other blueing is grow of the purest ingredients and will not i grocers sell it. Large package 5c. genuine Red Cross Ball Blue. THE MAN BEI Is our name for the patent Separating Grate and Check Plate in the famous RED RIVER SPECIAL THRESHER. It has the Big Cylinder, with lots of concave and open grate surface. It has the Man Behind the Gun, that does most of the separating right at the cylinder. Besides these, it has all the separating capacity of other machines. The average old-style small cylinder thresher wastes enough grain and time to pay your thresh bill. Why not save the grain ordinarily put into the straw stack? Why not save the time which the ordinary threshing outit wastes for you? This can be done by employing the RED RIVER SPECIAL. It runs right along, saving your grain and saving time, regardless of conditions. NICHOLS & S Builders of Threshers and Engines. 50 YEARS IN BUSINESS. Dear Mrs. Pinkham: "I feel it my duty to tell all suffering women of the relief I have found in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." When I commenced taking the Compound I suffered everything with backaches, headaches, menstruation, weakness, leucorrhea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone" and "want to be-leaf-alone" feelings, blues and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. No other medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. No other medicine has such a record of cures of female troubles. Refuse to buy any substitute. FREE ADVICE TO WOMEN. Remember, every woman is cordially invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there is anything about her symptoms she does not understand. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass., her advice is free and cheerfully given to every ailing woman who asks for it. Her advice and medicine have restored to health more than one hundred thousand women. To Your Grocer COFFEE always, and he, I not try to sell you any- not care for our opinion, but Judgment of Millions have used LION COFFEE of a century? proof of merit, than the Confidence of the People and ever increasing popularity? LION COFFEE is carefully se- ected at the plantation, shipped direct to our various factories, where it is skillfully roasted and carefully packed in sealed pack- ages—unlike loose coffee, which is exposed to germs, dust, in- cts, etc. LION COFFEE reaches you as pure and clean as when left the factory. Sold only in b. packages. every package. is for valuable premiums. ERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. WHITE AS SNOW always result if you use the genuine BALL BLUE wing so fast in popular favor. It is made injure the most delicate fabrics. All good Don't be misled. Insist on getting the HIND THE GUN As the modern self-binder is ahead of the old reaper of forty years ago, so is the Big Cylinder and Man Behind the Gun ahead of the small cylinder old-style thresher. The old-style thresher with its small cylinder and limited separating capacity, has stood for years without much improvement. The RED RIVER SPECIAL is the crowning improvement in threshing machinery. It is built for modern, up-to-date work; to thresh well; to thresh fast; to save time and grain and money for the thresherman and farmer. It does it. There are reasons why. Send for our new book on threshing, it gives them and it is free. The RED RIVER SPECIAL is the only machine that has the Man Behind the Gun, and it will save enough extra grain and time to pay your thresh bill. SHEPARD CO., Battle Creek, Micn. NCH HOUSES AND AGENTS EVERYWHERE HUMOUR of the DAY Beware the Conceited Man. "I don't care for him," said the young woman, snapping her teeth together decidedly. "He's one of those men that match." "Match? murmured her friend who had just confessed to a certain interest in an acquaintance. "Yes; all the same color," was the answer, "shirt, handkerchief, socks—all the same shade. None of that kind for mine, thanks. Just think how much time they would take in primping every morning to get all those things the same."—New York Sun. ```markdown ``` Lady—"Why are you a tramp?" Frowzy Frogmore—"Because I hain't got but 30 cents saved yit fiter me new automobile." This Prophetic Soul Kindly Stranger—"Say, bub, you have been crying here for an hour. What's up?" Small Boy—"I'm appalled by an impending catastrophy, slr, boo-o-o." Kindly Stranger—"Bless my soul, what a child. And what is the catastrophy to be?" Small Boy—"Fishin' will be good about Saturday, and I'm afraid the weeds 'll have to be hoed out of the garden." Regular Jonah. "Do ele mule thouw Brer Thomas as head over heels inter de mill pond en a 'gator riz up en swallered him!" "Too bad!" "Yes, but I reckon we'll see him ag'ln kaze de gator's done crawled up on de bank en he lookin' mighty sick."-Atlanta Constitution. Reflected Greatness "What makes Biones so proud these days?" asked the seeker after truth. "He has just discovered that he wears the same size collar that Roosevelt does," replied Mr. Conn—Port land Telegram. Mrs. Newlywed—I don't know whether to bake a pie or a cake for dinner. Chum—Which will last longer? Mrs. Newlywed—Oh, it doesn't make much difference. One is as bad as the other!—Detroit Free Press. No Good for a Touch. "There goes my friend, Jones, the human razor." "Is he so sharp?" "No—but he's continually strap ped." A Cheese With Life in It. Yeast—I see an English coroner remarked recently at an inquest that it was strange what a large number of people died suddenly after eating cheese. Crimsonbeak—Why don't they eat the kind of cheese which has life in it? It can be found, you know. Papa Worm—Heavens! That little boy is using my son to fish with! Ham. "My dear," said the facetious cannibal. "I've brought home a ham for dinner." "That's what I call adding insult to injury," murmured the shipwrecked actor, sotto voce. He was, however, in no position to protest—Louisville Courter Journal. Save the Babies. INFANT MORTALITY is something frightful. We can hardly realize that of all the children born in civilized countries, twentytwo per cent., or nearly one-quarter, die before they reach one year; thirtyseven per cent., or more than one-third, before they are five, and one-half before they are fifteen! We do not hesitate to say that a timely use of Castoria would save a majority of these precious lives. Neither do we hesitate to say that many of these infantile deaths are occasioned by the use of narcotic preparations. Drops, tinctures and soothing syrups sold for children's complaints contain more or less opium, or morphine. They are, in considerable quantities, deadly poisons. In any quantity they stupefy, retard circulation and lead to congestions, sickness, death. Castoria operates exactly the reverse, but you must see that it bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. Castoria causes the blood to circulate properly, opens the pores of the skin and allays fever. The Lesser Evil. First Millionarie—I'm in trouble. My daughter wants to marry our coachman. Second Millionaire—Going to give your consent? First Millionaire—Guess I'll have to First Millionarie—Guess I'll have to If I don't she swears she'll marry a British duke. Bristles "Say!" sneered the bulldog, "you don't know much about scientific fighting, do you?" "Perhaps not," replied the porcupine; "if you want to try a little bout with me, however, I think I can give you a few points." On the Speedway. Flora—I see that Miss Trotterby has a new trap. Dora—Yes. Do you suppose she will catch a man with it? One of the blessed, unending needs of heaven must surely be the need of giving forth into other lives the blessedness which God has poured into ours.—Lucy Lareom. In Record Time. Pinney Flats, Teen., May 29th.—(Special)—Cured in two days of Rheumatism that had made his life a torture for two years. D. S. Hilton of this place naturally wants every other sufferer from rheumatism to know what cured him. It was Dodd's Kidney Pills. "Dodd's Kidney Pills are the greatest pill on earth" says Mr. Hilton. "I would not take any sum of money for what they did for me. For two years I had what the doctors called rheumatism. I could hardly walk around the house. It seemed to be in my back and hip and legs. I tried everything but nothing helped me till I got Dodd's Kidney Pills." "Two days after I took the first dose all pain left me and it has never come back since. I can't praise Dodd's Kidney Pills too much." Rheumatism is caused by uric acid in the blood. Healthy kidneys take all the Uric Acid out of the blood. Dodds' Kidney Pills make healthy kidneys. Most women would rather be inconsistent than otherwise. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 50 cigar. Made by hand of ripe, thoroughly curled tobacco, which insures a rich, satisfying smoke. You pay 10 for cigars not so good. Lewis' Factory, Pooria, Ill. London's new county hall, on the banks of the Thames, will cover 5.6 acres. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue, Large 4oz, package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. Quit comparing yourself with others to your own disadvantage. INFANT MORTALITY in all the children born in one-quarter, die before than one-third, before they We do not hesitate the jority of these precious lives infantile deaths are occasion and soothing syrups sold for morphine. They are, in con they stupefy, retard circulates exactly the revers Chas. H. Fletcher. Castori pores of the skin and allay 900 DROPS CASTORIA AVegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN. Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Image of Old Dr. SANTUZ PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Almond Sauce Rhubarb Salad Adam Seed Peppermint All Cinnamon India Horn Seed Cherished Sugar Wintergreen Pleasure Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Pac Simile Signature of C. H. C. C. C. NEW YORK. A16 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPJEB. --- MEN'S PATRIOT $3.29 SHOE $2.29 SHOE These Shoes were Awarded Grand Prize at St. Louis World's Fair The PATRIOT SHOE for Men is made from all leathers, over a leather jacket, and is designed to be worn over goodear wrist, which keeps flexible shoes with no wax or tacks to irritate the foot. The MAYFLOWER SHOE for Women is made in wets and hand turtles. Is stylish, durable and comfortable. Ask your dealer for them. If he does not handle them, write and direct. Unused please you and you save from 50 cents to $1.80 per pair in prices usually charged for shoes of this character. STAR BRAND SHOES ARE BETTER ROBERTS JOHNSON & RAND SHOE CO. ST. LOUIS U.S.A. A CHILD Can Use the QUICK MEAL with perfed salts—it's proof against forgetfulness, ignorance, hired girls—the Insurance Companies have tested it to their full satisfaction every way they could think of. The Quick Meal is simplicity itself—no wearing parts—nothing to dog or get out of order—nothing to burnout. It is made from heavy shell steel and brass, and will last almost a century. Used will please you and you save from 50 cents as it did the first kitchen work is a delight when you have a QUICK MEAL (Evapator) GASOLINE RANGE for you never have to wait, even a minute, for your fire—it's always piping hot, but your kitchen is cool, for the heat is under the kettle, where it ought to be. And there are no kindlings—no ashes on dirt, will believe a comet, cannot destroy your dishes done and the kitchen cleaned up before you know it. The Quick Meal is a city convenience you can have and ought to have. If your dealer doesn't carry it—ask us—we'll sell you. WORLD MONEY PRESENTS We will apply to purchase a quick meal for your mild method, none paid a ceil t cured we furnish their names on application Drs. Thornton & Minor, 3869 Olive Street, ST. LOUIS, MO, and 1030 Oak Bl, KANSAS CITY, MO PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. 28 YEARS ESTABLISHED We need PILES and postpals a 32-page刊物 on Wiley Fitzwilliam and Dicease of the Recium; also 122-page titles, treatment on Diseases of Women. Of the thousands cured by our mild method, none paid a ceil t cured we furnish their names on application Drs. Thornton & Minor, 3869 Olive Street, ST. LOUIS, MO, and 1030 Oak Bl, KANSAS CITY, MO Letters from Prominent Physicians addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher. Dr. A. F. Peeler, of St. Louis, Mo., says: "I have prescribed your Castoria in many cases and have always found it an efficient and speedy remedy." Dr. E. Down, of Philadelphia, Pa., says: "I have prescribed your Castoria in my practice for many years with great satisfaction to myself and benefit to my patients." Dr. J. E. Waggoner, of Chicago, Ill., says: "I can most heartily recommend your Castoria to the public as a remedy for children's complaints." I have tried it and found it of great value." Dr. Edward Parrish, of Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "I have used your Castoria in my own household with good results, and have advised several patients to use it for children." Dr. J. B. Eilhoff, of New York City, says: "Having during the past six years prescribed your Castoria for infantile stomach disorders, I most heartily commuted its use. The formula contains nothing deleterious to the most delicate of children." Dr. C. G. Sprague, of Omaha, Neb., says: "Your Castoria is an ideal medicine for children, and I frequently prescribe it. While I do not advocate the indiscriminate use of proprietary medicines, yet Castoria is an exception for conditions which require it." Dr. J. A. Parker, of Kansas City, Mo., says: "Your Castoria holds the esteem of the medical profession in a manner held by no other proprietary preparation. It is a sure and reliable medicine for infants and children. In fact, it is the universal household remedy for infantile ailments." Dr. H. F. Merrill, of Augusta, Me., says: "Castoria is one of the very finest and most remarkable remedies for infants and children. In my opinion your Castoria is a furnish hundreds of testimonials from this locality as to its efficiency and merits." Dr. Norman M. Geer, of Cleveland, Ohio, says: "During the last twelve years I have frequently recommended your Castoria as one of the best preparations of the kind, being safe in the hands of parents and very effective in relieving children's disorders, and ease with which such a pleasant preparation can be administered advantageously." Dr. F. H. Kyle, of St. Paul, Minn., says: "It affords me pleasure to add my name to the long list of those who have used and now endorse your Castoria. The fact of the ingredients being known through the printing of the formula on the wrapper is one good and sufficient reason for the recommendation of any physician. I know of its good qualities and recommend it cheerfully." GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of Cha. H. Hitchter. The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY ST, NEW YORK CITY. WORTH KNOWING. The average consumer of baking powder does not know that a reaction occurs in the process of baking. Food prepared with a cream of tartar baking powder does not contain any cream of tartar. A loaf of bread made from a quart of flour leavened with cream of tartar baking powder contains forty-five grains more of Rochelle Salts that is contained in one Soliditz powder. Some eminent Boston physicians testified against the healthfulness of Rochelle Salts. Therefore, why should the consumer pay forty-five or fifty cents per pound for the cream of tartar or Trust' baking powders when the best baking powder in the world can be made to retail at twenty-five cents per pound (the price asked for Calumet Baking Powder) and leave a fair manufacturer's profit? The manufacturers of Calumet Baking Powder have for years made a standing offer of One Thousand Dollars for any substance injurious to health found in food prepared from it. Bread made from Calumet Baking Powder is entirely free from Rochelle Salts, alum, lime or ammonia. When a girl tells a young man that she doesn't eat any more than a bird he should remember before inviting her to lunch that an ostrich is a bird—Chicago News. "Why do Rounderty's children look so shabby and hungry?" "I can't account for it. He's a darned good follow." "Ab, that account; for it." 1.1.1 Pinch Use ALLEN'S FOOT:EASE In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-LEASE. A powder. It cures painful smarting nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It is the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet. Sold by all druggists. 25c. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Rov, N. Y. The plainer the woman the longer It takes her to select a becoming bonnet. DON'T FORGET A large 20c. package Red Cross Rail Blue, only becomes. The Ross Company, South Bend, Ind. Statistics can be made to show any old thing that the man behind the tig- ures wants them to. Piso's Care for Consumption is an inflatable medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1800. Quickest to question the morality of others are those most lacking in morality. Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup, For children teething, softens the gums, reduces flammation, a lay pain, curbs wheezes. Fox—I suppose her father was furt- ous when his private secretary cloped WOMEN'S MAYFLOWER $2955ROE AGENTS WANTED To sell Kinkine, Read aaoA pra ment elsewhere in this paper, also what our customers say of it, Mand Wilson, Marion, Ind. writes: To sell Kinkine, the great hair pleasure in recommending it.” Mary G, Sommer, Alton, IIL, writes: struishtener and grower, Read thelr derfal results.” Fanny Meyers, Danville, Va., writes: “Lam glad to say that it has done my head more good than anything I ever tured , Rose Holt, Atlanta, Ga, writes: “Send me three dozen more bottles o aivertisoment elsewhere in this paper and works wonders on the hair.” Lance hottle sent prepaid for 5e: six tor $1.05, and one dozen for $2.10 FREE! to show whac KINKINE wil do send 1e,, and we will mail a sam ple postpaid Agents wanted everywhere to. sel KINK INE. Write today for terms, THE KINK-INE COMPANY. 343 West 14th St., NEW YORK. Lincoln lnmituta Geta 877,400, Lincoln Institute, the state normal) schol for the colored people, located | at Jefferson City, Mo. gets by ap-| propriatton from the Fortythird gen: cral assembly of Missourl this year the tandsome sum of $77,100, It is the highest sum ever appropriated to this school, and greater than any ever granted a Negro school by a legtsla- ture in the United Stats, Of this sum, $23,000 Is to be used to bulld a pils; $1,000 for additional books for | the lisrary; $1000 for the summer scoot IT'S A GOOD THING. The Knights of Pythias of Missourt have made a remarkable record during the last three months, ‘The collections rechived by the benefielary board from ordinate lodges was $2,608.69. Twath claims paid to heirs last quar- lor was $2,305.00, We also notice a (oo) balance in the bank to the amount of $10,032.78, ‘The Knights of Pythias hiust be & good thing for all the people, Shiiy their growth-sedalia Conser- vattor, Courtship is the Hight of youth, and imntriage is Wie gas bill, Care for Berlin Paupers. As many as 1,300 persons seck ref: Ue on some days In the “warm rooms” maintained in Perlin for pau. pers. Four cobblers and a tailor are paid by the city for mending the gar- ments of the paupers while in these rooms. “Sitting” Joke. Standing Jokes are common enough, Dnt 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 atyle, Mary?”"—London Tid-Bits, 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 ell your might. Give up life itself first. Success, Acoommodatina, They were traveling peacefully home in the lumbering market wagon, when from the shadow on the side of the road there sprang two unkempt forms. Not much time was wasted In useless talking. ‘The tramps in an earnest and businesslike manner went through the pockets of the farmer and his daughter, turned them ont of the market wagon, and drove off In It themselves, “Dear, oh, dear,” wailed the old man; “his is a nice fix. Horse and wagon and money, too—all gone.” But the faithful daughter was there to comfort him, “Not the money, father,” she sald. “1 Nid the purse in my mouth." “In your mouth,” exclaimed the old farmer, regretfully. "Good for you: But what a pity your mother wasn't here, We might have saved the horse and wagon.” Manav Wan ada Gaal, Senator Cullom groped his way into the sudbasement of the treasury de- partment a few days ago, and, placing &@ package on the chief clerk's desk, rald it contained money which had been found In the rafters of a building in Dixon, Ml. He said the owner thought it was worth about $1,000, Miss Hrown, chief expert of the re- dempticn division, looked at the mass of crumbling gray paper and at once sald she would give that amount for ft. Some of the notes were dated as fat back as 1862, the whole amounting to several thousand dollars. The Student's Explanation, A notably amusing answer was gly. en by a student in the natural philo- sophy class at Edinburgh university, Prof. Tait had given as one of the questions in an exam{nation paper “Define transparent, translucent and opaque,” which was dealt with by the student thus: “I cannot precisely de- fine these terms, but L can indicate their mearing in this way—the win dows In this classroom were once transparent, they are now translucent and if not cleaned very soon will be opaque.” ‘The answer gained full marks from the amused professor, See Our Window Display for Elegant Easter Suitings Order Early to Avold Rush Work C Of Tailoring S Finest on Earth “Clothes That Gentlemen Wear” 1025 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. ao WE CARRY THE LARGEST od line of London Woolens of ws any Tailoring establishment in the | world and cater especially for the colored trade. GIVE OS A CALL an mS t KINK-INE| =a MAKES THE HAIR GROW LONG, | STRAIGHT, SOFT AND SILKY. | CURES DANORUFF AND STOPS | FALLING HAIR. | KINK-INE is no Experiment | Te was discovered ty, Dr, Roberts, a famous | AUT chemist, who bie made a study ofthe Feuiiar gnarl perie for the past thiets sears, | Shi feito after mic titar and expertene, has Tivired tig ufeat Fonie espeetaily for the | Crh Doctor says that his experience and at diy thee taeht hint that the seat of the cols Grea oie retutwaveedat treatment wn | HACE I Meered the weeatest., REMEDY the | WORLD hisever hiown for the HAIR of col | SKINKANE will make the hair GROW from one trim inches per month He the directions Gui instructiony ate carefully. followed out. | He rae erreuors on record where The nbore | Rees hate teem antatned aa we do BOL HST RINK CINE IS the only sate preparation in the WORLD (at #9 miaranteed to nake the HAIR STRAIGHT and take dey hair smooth and stop trom bevaking om and failing out: takes out A fthtiniceund knees cures Dandeudl makes thelhaiesuftand siiksy and. by nourishing the Hote ivestt ae Lite and ¥igoR. 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Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provided for by the @ y= o7 &°8 heer gs ge aArlFIL 3° * 3 if dime se ww 3 = 3 3 A S5 = e ta eB = Leaving Kansas City at 12:01 noon daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Indepen- dence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. | Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this “Hot Springs Special” is the Elegant Dining Cars. This train connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Trains for all Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, call or address E. S. JEWETT, Gen’! Agt.Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY MO. . ‘Telephone 740 Hickory,