The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. VOLUME X. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. Dr. B. F. Allen addressed the County Teachers' Association assembled at Webster Grove, St. Louis county, October 26-28, on "The Spirit of the Teacher." The address was received with hearty applause. The presentation and discussion on various educational questions during the sessions demonstrated the fact that the teachers of this county are alive and up to date. Not less than seven of the recent graduates of Lincoln Institute or attendants of the summer school, are employed in this county, and are doing well. The patrons of Mr. W. H. Thomas' class of 1905, principal of the school in Carbondale, Ill., are so well pleased with the character of his work, that, notwithstanding the presence of a State Normal School in Illinois to which their children are eligible, they have decided to send them to Lincoln Institute. "The American Boy," the subject of a well-known and widely advertised lecture, presented by Mr. T. A. Gamel to large audiences in leading churches of the country, was given with stereoptican views in the Institute Auditorium, Tuesday evening, October 24. Full of timely suggestions, warnings and advice for the young of both sexes, it furnished an impressive lesson to parents, teachers and students. This was the initial lecture of the season and President Allen promises several more treats of high order from both the literary and the musical field. A park for the pursuit of manly sport is being fitted up in the southwest sections of the campus under the supervision of the Athletic Association. Professor West, business manager. Several games on the gridiron are soon to be played here. The Institute choir, of which there are two, and the orchestra, are all in excellent shape, and in a spirit of friendly and helpful rivalry, are furnishing music for devotionals, Sunday services, etc. Among those who execute well on the violin are John Allen of the College Department, recently from Clark University; Misses Pansy Phelps and Grozia Corneal of the Freshman Normal. Among the leading sopranos we note Miss Portla Tillmann, daughter of Lieutenant L. A. Tillman of Kansas City, and Miss Margaret Willis of Denver, Colorado. The latter was awarded a gold medal by the church choir in Denver of which she was a mehner. Professor John J. Wheeler, the new superintendant of the Industrial Department, comes to Lincoln Institute from Tuskegee, where, for the last eight years, he has been engaged in industrial and academic work. Professor Wheeler comes from a race of educators, as will be seen from the following facts: His father, Lloyd G. W. Wheeler, sr., is business agent for Tuskegee; Lloyd G. W. Wheeler, jr., is assistant director of the Academic Department in the same institutions; Miss Mabel Wheeler, a sister, is instructor in biology and literature in Summer High School, St. Louis; Hiram Wheeler, a brother, passed through Jefferson City, a few days since, en route to St. Joseph, where he has been elected to teach agriculture in Bartlett High School of that city; Robert F. Wheeler, another brother, is freight agent for a railroad in the Hawaiian Islands. And yet there are those who say that education does not elevate the Negro! Come one! come all! to the Farmers' Convention, Friday, November 3. The Right Idea. Miss Alice Roosevelt, who will send a sewing machine to the empress of Japan, has the right idea of spreading civilization in the Orient. She evidently believes there is more to be gained in sewing machines than sowing missionaries. Edible Seaweed. It is not a little astonishing to find what a number of seaweeds are really edible and nourishing, says The Lancet. Perhaps the best-known example in this country is laver, which is a kind of stew made from a weed, an alga. The laver made on the Devonshire coast and to be found in some London shops is excellent. Hold Farm Since 1300. Recently the stock was sold on a farm in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, which had been held by a family named Moffat since the year 131), when King Robert Bruce made a grant of the land to the Moffats. They held it for 300 years as owners, and the rest of the time as tenants of the Dukes of Buccleuch. Commit Sport by Proxy: "Vandal," a well known writer on sports, said in a recent issue of the London Express: "The sports of this country are absolutely rotten—unsound to the core. This nation is no longer a nation of sportsmen. It is a nation of odds-taking people who commit sport by proxy." Self-Winding Alarm Clock. Joseph Blythe, a resident of Chester, Pa., has recently obtained a patient on a self-winding alarm clock, which is said to have several very novel features. The winding is done by electricity and when once set will ring every day at the same hour if desired. Kinling as Critic. Here is Rudyard Kipling's advice to an author who submitted a story for his criticism: "Tear out second chapter and scatter broadcast. Change name of hero and name of story; then get down to business and rewrite the whole thing."—Atlanta Constitution. Black Rot in Cabbage. Soaking the seed for fifteen minutes in a 1:1000 corrosive sublimate solution or in a 0.4 per cent formalin solution just before planting is suggested as a cheap and effective means of destroying the germs upon the seed. Firemen Start a Blaze When the volunteer fire department of Tunbridge Wells, England, was on parade a spark from one of the engines set fire to a haystack, and the fire burned itself out, for the volunteers proved unable to extinguish it. Many Schools in Hong Kong. For its size Hong Kong has an enormous number of schools. The population of the island is about 330,000 and there are over 100 schools, the great majority of which are under government supervision. Church in Farmyard. Few more curious places for a church could be found than one at Sotuham Delabere, Eng., which stands in the middle of a farmyard. The only means of entrance is by passing through the yard. III-Timed Wit. "Did he leave you anything when he died?" I asked of the fatherless girl, who cried. "Oh, yes, he did!" And I questioned her. "What was it?" "He left me an orphan, skit?" —Cleveland Leader. Girls' Best Safeguard Let us teach our daughters that life is not only tennis and parties. Let us endow them with the best of insurances—a profession at their fingers' ends.—Woman. Pille Cause Peritonitis Death from peritonitis, due to excessive taking of pills, was stated to be the cause of a woman's death at a Bristol (England) inquest. British Railroads Well Manned. American railroads have six employes for every mile of track and the British roads have twenty-eight. Income of Oxford College. The income of Oxford University is slightly under $350,000 a year. INDEPENDENCE. Mr. Daniel Jones, one of our oldest citizens, died October 29th near 80 years of age. Miss Lillie Chrisman and Hattie Hughes have gone to Jefferson City to attend the Lincoln Institute. Mr. W. G. Tucker spent the day in Pleasant Hill visiting his daughter, Mrs. Minnie Bryant, Sunday, Oct. 22. Mrs. Martha Ross has gone to Topeka, Kan., where she will spend the winter with her daughters. Mrs. Lucy Price and Miss Henrietta Hayden left for the annual conference in Higginsville, Saturday morning, October 21. Misses Naomi Williams, Flossie Yarnell and Minnie Dehoney, who have been sick, are now able to be out again. Rev. J. B. Winrow and Mrs. Mollie Rhodes are attending the Baptist National convention in Chicago. Ill. Mrs. Millie Roselle is now visiting friends in this city. Rev. J. C. Caldwell and wife of St. Joseph were the guest of Mrs. M. I. and Agnes Jenkins last week. Rev. J. H. Allen and family are visiting friends in Higginsville, Mo. LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. Norris and wife left here on the 26th for Kansas City, Kansas, where they will make their future home in their new residence they have just bought. Mr. William Booker who has been quite ill is now better. Mr. Ad Coley is quite ill; also Mr. A. W. Walker is on the sick list. Rev. John Caves was in the city Saturday. Mr. Reuben Hill one of our oldest citizens and best colored farmer is very ill. We hope he will recover soon. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES The Clerk Whistled. A Scotch minister instructed his clerk, who sat among the congregation during service, to give a low whistle if anything in her sermon appeared to be exaggerated. On hearing the minister say: "In those days there were snakes fifty feet long," the clerk gave a subdued whistle. "I should have said thirty feet," added the minister. Another whistle from the clerk. On consulting Thompson's Concordance," said the minister. "I see the length is twenty feet." Still another whistle; whereupon the preached leaned over and said in a stage whisper: "Ye can whistle as much as ye like MasPherson, but I will no take an another foot off for anybody!" In Crimean Times. In Crimean times (says the "Tattler") the Highland regiments were so full of Hiberians that many stories were current exploiting the fact. One gallant Scottish colonel, it was said, resolved to take the sense of the regiment on the vital question of adopting the plaid as an essential part of the uniform. When the orderly came to report the result, the colonel was scandalized to find that only two of his men favored the suggestion, "And who are there two gallant Highlanders?" he asked. "Ooch!" replied the orderly, "sure it's Corporal O'Brien an' Private O'Callaway, sorr!" The Color Line If, as is now claimed by an eastern individual, St. Peter is or was a colored man, the "white trash" will have a hard time getting past him, while the mere fact that "cullled pusson" purloined a nice juicy hen while living in Denver will not be considered so serious as to bar him from the New Jerusalem—Denver News. Arranging His Toilet. With a mirror in his hand; One of his, Fridays, came along "That I might see," the king replied, "If my lid is still on straight."—A. U. Mayfield, Denver News. NOTICE! The Inter-State Literary Association of Kansas and the West will convene in annual session at Kansas City, Mo., December 26, 27, 28. Each Literary Society is entitled to representation by three delegates, (one of whom may have a place on the program), and three alternates. New Societies, and those not having been enrolled at the last session of the Association, will be required to pay a membership fee of $1.50. Societies enrolled at the last session will pay $1.00 membership fee. The Executive Committee will convene in November for the purpose of making up the program. Any Society may become a member of the Association by application to the President or Corresponding Secretary on or before the first day of December, sending therewith the required fee. JAS. H. GUY, President, 429 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kan. I. M. HORTON, Chairman Ex. Com. 1608 E. 13th St., Kansas City, Mo. MISS A. F. MOORE, Cor. Sec. 1214 Vine St., Kansas City, Mo. Skeltona in Trenches. A curious discovery has been made in the course of some excavations that have been in progress in St. Martin de Re, in France. The excavators unearthed trenches in which lay skeletons which were presumably those of the citizens who fell fighting there in defending the town against the English in 1627. Among the skeletons was found a spherical iron bomb containing a most black powder, which was found to consist of about a third of nitre, a third of carbon, and a fifth of sulphur, the remainder being iron oxide derived from the rusting of the iron shell. The Bear Dance. Little Bobbie—Pa, I want to see another bejar dance, like the one that come along the street last week. Papa—I don't know where to find it, son, but you run in and tell mamma that we will go down to the comic opera tonight and see the big ballet. —Kansas City Drovers Telegram. Detroit Free Press: "Is it true that you have senatorial aspirations?" asked the reporter over the 'phone, "Yes," remarked the girl whose number had been called by mistake, "but I'm not sure that I can land him." Puck: Mr. Gotrox—When I was your age, sir, I didn't have a dollar. Cholly Gotrox—Well, dad, when I am your age I probably won't have a dollar! The man in the brown stone palace may enjoy life after a fashion, but he misses the satisfaction of the humble cottager who can sit in the front yard in his shirt sleeves and talk over the fence with his neighbor. Not a Doubter "I have you know, sir," said the pompous individual, "that I'm a self-made man." "Ah, indeed," rejoined the meek and lowly person, "I thought there was a home-made air about you."—Chicago News. The Ead for Restitution. Another embuzzler who escaped to Mexico years ago is sending back the money to cover his defalcations and pay all his creditors. Is it possible this thing is to become a fad?—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It's impossible for a man to see the point of a joke and feel it simultaneously. A man is as old as he looks, but a woman is seldom as young as she thinks she looks. Bessle, dor.t you want to stay in the parlor where your papa and Mr. Kawler are?" When All Others Fail. Dispatches tell us that but for a heavy rain which set in just as the fire department had exhausted all its energy, Butte, Mont, would have been completely wiped from the map. Another evidence of the necessity of being in touch with providence. HEN WILSON IN TROUBLE. Iscandal Disturbs Serenity of Inhabitants of Binyon It is rumored on reliable authority that Hen Wilson has left his wife again to some marital trouble between them. This is not the first time Hen and Sary Ann have had marital trouble. The last time before this Sary Ann struck it with a rolling pin above the left eye and he went out of the house and did not return for several weeks. Some says he went so the Co. seat and spent most of his time in a hospital. Finally he returned some a sadder and wiser man and him and Sary Ann made up again and started out together to try to live a different life with the love of peace perched above their heartstone, as you might say. But now ruction swift and terrible has broken out in their midst again. We got this straight or we wouldn't say anything about it in print. Mrs. Wilson herself told Mrs. Caroline Looper that Hen had left home fol- owed by all the cooking utensils in the kitchen. Mrs. Hooper told it to ben Wade's wife and Ben Wade's wife old it to Mrs. Widow Henderson who old us. Sary Ann has a quick temper and when she gets mad there seems to be nothing else to do but for Hen to dig out for a while and wait until the clouds roll by. What the trouble was this time was that Hen went right into the house like a durn fool and set his self down on a new sofa pillow which Mrs. Wilson had just finished. Mrs Wilson stated that Hen might think that sofa pillows were made to sit on but he was mistaken. Hen's where abouts is at present unknown—"Bing ville Bille Items" in the Boston Post ARTIST ME? HER IDOL. John Ruskin's Self Introduction to His Admirer The London Outlook tells a pretty story of the late John Ruskin, artist author, reformer, which snows that courtyard and chivalric gentleman and great writer in a playful mood: Mr. Ruskin was taking a morning walk down the road just in front of Brantwood, when he saw a lady seated on a campstool making a sketch of the house, and, with a courteous grace which was intensely his own, he addressed her, inquiring her reason for choosing the house in question for her subject. "It is the house of the famous John Ruskin," she frankly asked. "Have you met Ruskin?" she was asked. "No, indeed," she replied. "If I bad I would have deemed it one of the greatest privileges of my life." "Then, madam, if you care to follow me, I will show him to you." In a twinkling the stool and easel were packed up and the artist eagerly followed the guide. To her surprise and gratification, he led her up to the house, and entering, hade his guest follow, which she readily did. On marched the stronger into the drawing room; then, placing his back to the fireplace, a familiar attitude, he explained, to the amazement of his companion: "Now, what do you think of Ruskin?" From "The Giaour" FROM THE GLOBE He who hates the death the dead Ere the first day of Death is red. The first dark day of Nothingness, The last Danger and Distress. Before Decay's effacing fingers Have crossed the lines where Beauty ling is. And marked the Road anguish ache, There, The fixed yet tender treats that streak the language of the placid cheek, And—but for that sad shrouded eye, And but for that churned churness brow Where cold Obstruction's anpathy Appeals the gazing mourner's heart, And the doom he dreads, yet dwells upon Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ave, one treacherous he still might doubt the Tyrant's power, so far, so calm, so softly soiled. The first, last look by death revealed! Such is the aspect of this shoe. The shoe is more than more! The coldly sweet, so deedily sweet. 'No start for Soul seems wanting there. He's the loveliness in death. That parts not quite with parting breath. But beauty with that fearful bloom. That Greece, but Greece, to the tomb. Expression's last receding ray. A gilded Hula bowering round decay. The farewell beam of Feeling past way! Spark of that dame, perchance of heavenless. Which glides, but warms no more its cherished earth. —Lord Byron. NUMBER 27 WESTERN UNIVERSITY The Faculty has adopted the rule that the places on the football and baseball teams are honor places, and any student, regardless of fitness otherwise, in order to make the team or stay upon same must have made creditable records in all other branches of school work. "Allow me to compliment the institution for great success of "The Prodigal Son."—Principal G. N. Grisham, Lincoln High School, Kansas City, Mo. "The entertainment was a grand success, I am elated."—Rev. F. Jesse Peck, of Allen Chapel. "It was grand, such excellent talent and so grandly rendered."—Rev. J. W. Hurse, pastor St. Stephen's Baptist church. "The record-breaker for Kansas City."—Hon. Nelson Crews. Never before in the history of two Kansas City's have the colored people witnessed such a splendid inspiring entertainment as was seen in "The Prodigal Son" given by the Choral Club of Western University, last Friday evening, October 27th, under the direction of Prof. R. G. Jackson, director of Musical Department. For over two hours a high-class intelligent audience of more than three hundred persons were charmed into amazement by the rich melody and beautiful harmony produced by these young students. The quartette work of Misses Katie Guy and Olva Ellison, and Messrs. Clyde Andrews and Chas. Thurman, also the duet of Misses Guy and Jessie Jennings was of professional ability, and was rendered with a soft low effect that was captivating in the extreme. They called forth merited encounters. The high degree to which these young voices have been trained by Prof. Jackson in executing the different classics is itself a source of wonder and pride. The perfect staccats and vivacious modulates of Miss Guy, the high soprano, who is from Sedalia, Mo., was surprisingly good and brought her much applause. This Choral Club easily holds the record of being the best Negro musical organization west of the Mississippi River. In the absence of Bishop Grant, who was suddenly called East to the bedside of Bishop Arnett, Hon. Nelson Crews delivered appropriate remarks. President Wm. T. Vernon following, gave a few facts concerning the three magnificent modern buildings of Western University, the fourteen specialized teachers and the 165 students with more coming in daily. Miss Nettie Penix at the piano, and Mr. A. J. Phillips at the Pipe-Organ were the accompanists for the chorus. They rendered valuable service in making it a success. The users were from the young Men Usher Union of Kansas City, Kan., Refreshments were served in the basement by the Donor Club of Allen Chapel. Prof. Albert Ross, manager of the entertainment, reports a neat little sum as realized from the proceeds of the door receipts. The program ended with the Choral Club and the audience standing and singing with much enthusiasm, softly and sweetly, the University Glee Song, "O, Western U!" (Recently composed by Prof. Albert Ross and set to music by Prof. R. G. Jackson) This inspiring song scored the "hit" of the evening. It has been dedicated to Educational ay and will be later published in sheet music form for Band, and Piano and Chorus and sent broadcast over the Fifth Episcopal District. The chorus follows thus: O Western U, Old Gold and Blue. We love you true, indeed we do; Our hearts to thee we pledge anew. We honor thee, our Alma Mater, West- Taking No Risks. "I need more money," said the flying-machine inventor. "But I thought the machine was finished," replied the capitalist. "It is, but I've got to hire a man to fly it. Do you think I want to get killed?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Long Coat the Newest: The long coat which is to be such a feature of the winter fashion is worn over the entire nown, made of the one material, and this makes possible the velvet waist with the skirt. Of course the great difficulty and the great objection to a velvet waist to match a skirt is that the material is heavy, but the newest weaves of velvet are wonderfully tight in comparison with those of a few years ago, and when a transparent coat—even a small one—and collar are added, instead of the high lined stock collar of a few seasons past, there is a great difference in the comfort of the waist. These gowns will be worn in the street without a wrap in the early days of the winter, and the coat worn over them will be loose enough to be thrown off when entering a house. In other words, the gown is distinctive and finished without any outer garment. Cafe Frappe. Make a pint and a half of strong drip coffee of double the usual strength. Scald one pint of thin cream, dissolve in it one cupful and a third of granulated sugar, then set asleep until cool. Mix with the coffee, add one teaspoonful of vanilla, and pour into the freezer. Freeze slowly until of a mushy consistency. Serve in sh. ses with a spoonful of whipped cream o. each. Fancywork Apron One or two daimy approns to don of an afternoon when needlework is the order are a cherished requisite of every feminine wardrobe. Nainsko. ```markdown ``` lawn and batist are the favored materials, though a wash taffeta or India silk is sometimes used. The apron shown is of newest design and develops charmingly. The center is lengthened by a straight gathered flounce, above which are two shaped pockets for holding the articles of needlework. Two straight panels appear at the sides. Feather-stitching provides an attractive finish for the edges and pockets, while a bit of embroidery renders the latter ornamental as well as useful. Broad ties in a big bow give a coquettish air which is vastly becoming. Straw Hate Still Worn. Despite the fascination of the charming new models in felt, straw hats will be quite as much in evidence during fall days. Not a few women are bringing out their spring polo turbans. Extremes in this style, however, are quite out of date. New models are built on wire frames and extend out at the sides and a little over the face. One simple, practical hat of black and white straw is surrounded by a band of velvet with short, outstanding loops two inches apart. Two graceful white wings on either side of the front cling to the brim and raise high as they get toward the back. Variety in Hat Trimmings Ostrich feathers, heretofore used principally on large hats, appear on the smallest of chapeaux, and for those who require something more serviceable than the ostrich there are the quills and wings in many shapes and sizes. Flowers, too, in dull tones are much used as bandeau trimmings, and quite often a wreath of delicately tinted roses is laid around the crown of a broad brimmed nat and the bandeau finished with ostrich feathers. Colored Fancy Velvets In colored fancy velvets, whose name is legion, embroidery of the same color as the gown is used, with a touch of contrast in the waistcoat of brocade or embroidered satin; and it must be confessed that, for instance, with a gray gown a touch of yellow in the waist and a fall of old lace seem to soften the lines of the velvet and to make it far more becoming. Blue and gray, pink and gray and yellow and gray—the latter always the smartest—are seen, while green, red and yellow are all used with black. To Be Worn This Winter In textures moire corduroy is a novel material, which presents a pleasing silkiness to the eye, and in soft shades of brown it is beautifully effective with sable and mink furs. These skins, by the way, with a revival of chinchilla, in combination with splendid laces for evening use, are again to be the winter favorites, and since muffs are enormously big, and a number of the beas prodigiously AUTUMN GOWNS. long, it naturally follows that furs will be dear. Chinchilla skins are especially scarce, and only those which show the velvety markings are approved. With some of the smaller made-up sets there is again a tendency to employ milliner trimmings—lace falls, ribbon ruches, rosettes, etc—with the ends of the neckpiece treated with a fussy grace of ribbon. Boudoir Confidences Among the favorite fall trimmings there can be noted the following: Knots of colored ribbon for trimming sleeves and yoke. Chemisettes and yokes of lace trimmed with narrow pipings of colored velvet. In the follies of fashion there are shoulderettes of white lace run with colored ribbons. A handsome little gayly colored cloth vest which is set in the front of Eton coats, blazer jackets and bodices of all kinds. Handsome pipings of stik so planned that they border the regular trimming and are used for edgings to cuffs, revers, ruffles and appliques. No gown but hirs a deal of this piping and no gown but looks the better for it. Ribbons of All Descriptions The Persian ribbons, both wide and narrow, are particularly beautiful, a novelty being sash ribbons that in coloring and pattern are strikingly like the old fashioned Paisley shawls. For belting there is a ribbon in widths from one to three or four inches, the background of which is of gold thread with a handsome Persian design done in rich colors, and for trimming there are the daintest narrow Persian ribbons in all varieties of color. Taffetas and liberty satin ribbons which are always in demand are to be had in all of the standard widths and shades beside meeting the demand for novelty in the way of the latest fashions in color. New Short Coats. The new short coats have arrived, They are queer and will not be becoming to the majority. Truly, they look like impertinent street sparrows. They do not attempt to fit the figure under the arms, and the waistline is about four inches above the waist. From this point they curve out at the back, and the slash up the center makes the two sides stand out and almost cross at the hem exactly like a sparrow's tail. Whether or not this original shape will be worn is in the hands of the women. One thing is true—the short coat is the thing of the moment for afternoon frocks. Reign of Ribbon Bows. Gay fancy paints the wearers a host of butterflies, and the most surprising is the vogue for be- s, mostly of Watteau origin, which have lighted like myriads of butterflies on this season's toilets. They deck the slippers or ties, the gown, the coat, the hat and even the hair. They are perky or square. AUTUMN Both of these gowns are of lightweight cloth. The first one is of beige cloth. The corsage is draped crosswise, the fronts forming a bolero bordered with embroidery and little ruffles of the material. The yoke, or plastron, is of lace or embroidery ornamented with bands and ruffles of the material, the former embroidered with dots. The wide corset is of golden-brown silk or satin. The full sleeves are finished at the elbows with lace ruffles headed by bands and knots of the golden brown. The skirt is plaited all round except just in front. The second gown is of gray collarne. The blouse has a shoulder collar composed of bands of embroid as preferred, and are made of the most old-time ribbons with picot, frayed or pinked edges and with surfaces glace, changeable, flowered, figured and striped or plain. A spool of the tiniest wire is unusually found in milady's work basket for the delicate substitution of the edges of bows, ruches and other furnishings. Tip-Tilted Hats The side-titting of hats, as well as the tobeoggan slide directions, are no longer the same marvelous sights, for the eye is getting quite used to them. Twice as many hatpins are needed, and such superb jeweled ones as are used make lesser ones look extremely out of date. The tendency of plumes is to end upon the hair in the back, and is quite definitely accepted. They should not be worn, however, by what are now termed short women, those who fall below five feet nine or ten, but naturally there will not be any such discrimination. All the feminine world is after fashion regardless of all else. Cloth Waist for Fall. Blouse of cloth made with groups of tucks and trimmed with a wide silk braid of the same color, forming straps on each side of the front. The narrow vest is of guipure, form- S ing two little revers at the top. It is ornamented with buttons and bordered with a narrow braid. The sleeves, shirred along the inside seams, are full and draped at the top, fitted below, where they are trimmed with the braid and finished with cuffs of guipure, bordered with the narrower braid. New Runabout Is Smart. One of the most attractive and practical ideas in the new fall fashions is the runabout suit, which will lose none of its prestige because of the importance of the more elaborate costumes. Women simply can not and will not get along without a comfortable run about. It is ready for every ordinary occasion, and is so smart that it may serve for all but the most elaborately dressy social functions. Suits of this character are among the first needs of the autumn. Phantom cheeks and plaids are among the new ideas here and will be a change from the solid colors in cloth and herretta. GOWNS. ery or lace, and little ruffles of the material. Over this extending around the neck and down the front is a band of the material forming a sort of stole ornamented with embroidered buttons and false buttonholes. Similar bands with little ruffles of the material finish the sleeves at the elbows. The chemisette is of lace, or embroidery ornamented with little knots of silk matching the gown. The girdle is of soft leather, also matching the gown. The skirt is gathered at the top and finished at the bottom with a gathered flounce, which extends around the back and sides, leaving the front plain. This flounce is headed by a band and ful of the material. IN HIS NAME RELIGIOUS NEWS AND THOUGHTS DESIGNED FOR USE IN EVERY WELL-REGULATED HOME Praver. Lord, speak to me that I may speak, In living echoes of Thy tone; As thou has sought, so let me seek Thy erring children, lost and lone. O, lead me, Lord, that I may lead The wandering and the wavering feet; O, feed me, Lord, that I may feed Thy hungering ones with manna sweet. O, fill me with Thy fullness, Lord, O, fill me with heart o'carb In kindling over words, writing word Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show. —Frances R. Havergal. The Worth While Way. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. —H. Tim. iv., 7. It is a splendid thing, at the end of life, to be as certain of having done the right thing all along as you were confident of intention to do it at the beginning. Seldom is life's review as satisfactory as its prospect was inspiring. Long before its end we begin to see ways in which we might have done better, and to us all there must often come the grave question: What are the things most worth striving for in life? It is a heedless life that never asks: Am I seeking the prizes really worth the gaining? Every purposeful life gains some prize; the puzzling question is as to which are the most desirable—the permanently valuable. Popular opinion points to riches and honors; but experience warns of the price to be paid for them. It would be folly to pretend that they go always to the most worthy. You do not have to look far at any time to find the microscopic man with the magnificent fortune. Often the richest man is the poorest kind of a man. At any rate it is certain that you cannot pursue that prize with sinlessness of purpose without the sacrifice of almost every other desirable thing. Then, cries conscience, choose character; make that your end. But a man stops to count the cost. While it is not true that one cannot be rich both in character and in cash, the instances are sufficiently few to make them look more like exceptions than rules. Piety is not established by poverty, neither does it insure against it. They who seek character regard adversity and prosperity, ignominy and honors but as incidents on the way, the goal alone is to them essential. One world of thought brands as a failure the life that leaves no legacy of things, while yet another is equally sure that success is to be measured by treasures of the soul alone. Who will show us the right way? A concrete answer comes from one of the world's wisest and best. Paul, mighty in manhood, died poor and in prison; but he died endorsing the course that had such an end. In review he saw that the way had been right. He might have taken many other ways. So potent a personality would have found prosperity in any of them. But he deliberately chose the way of service for spiritual things; he accepted the hardships, loss, privations, prisons and death and rejected the possibilities of easy wealth and fame. At the end, having tasted all the bitterness of the way, he commends it to his young friend Timothy. The path of service for humanity, the fight against sin and wrong, the stewardship of faith and truth and right, these, says he, are the worth while things in life. But was Paul right? Is any life patterned after his Master's, any life that counts the inner joys, the glories of service, the rewards of character as supreme, and so misses the treasures for which the many strive, a success? Let history answer. Is it fame we seek; there were a thousand famous, mighty, successful men in imperial Rome when Paul, from his prison, wrote these words. Well might they have desplied the poor prisoner had they even heard of him. Yet who today remembers the name of one of these great ones? And who is there has not heard of and honored that poor, condemned prisoner? Even much more is all this true concerning the lowly man of Nazareth. Let our own hearts answer. Is it riches we seek; what is all prosperity without peace of heart? Can money ever buy comfort, content or sympathy? Money is to be measured by its earning power, the interest accruing in happiness and usefulness. The worth of the things you hold in your hand depends on the riches of your heart. Think you not this world would be the better place and life the wealthier for us all if all were seeking the things unseen, truth and right and holliness, love and service, seeking to see their God and to serve their fellows? That would not mean a race of mysties; it would mean more manhood, less mammon; more wealth and fewer fortunes. Deep in all our hearts we know this is the best way; its toilsome path alone gives peace; its intangible prizes alone are permanent; its supreme reward is character, the soul. the one asset we can carry from this world and the one legacy which it is safe to leave to others.—Chicago Tribune. Chambers of Vision. What we observe in the swarm and medley of things around us depends on the set of our minds, the frame and habit of our thoughts, and the sphere of our interests. In a journey through the same landscape, without intention and almost without consciousness, a botanist notes the flora, a geologist the strata, a general the strategic features, and a farmer the qualities and products of the soil. So a man whose heart is earnestly set on God is instinctively on the lookout for His tokens and sees them everywhere. Perhaps an illustra- tion taken from one of those devices in which science and art conspire to discover the secrets of the sky may illuminate and vivify our meaning. The multitude and glory of the stars are not to be seen by the natural eye, even when it is equipped by the most powerful instruments of vision. But upon a carefully prepared photographic plate, long exposed to the heavens and during its exposure carefully shielded from every earthly light—the recesses of space, with their wealth of worlds, vividly imprint themselves. In like manner to the pure and prepared heart as the result of prolonged fellowship in retired places, blind to the world's glare, deaf to the world's babble, God manifests Himself with overwhelming evidence. From these chambers of vision God is seen everywhere—the Source of all power, the Giver of all law, the Guide of all progress. In the fact of Jesus Christ His glory is patiently visible; in the Holy Scripture His inspiration is sensibly felt, and prayer becomes a manifest transaction with Him of unspeakable fruitfulness. And when the servants of God live in such Divine intimacies, all the wires of our organization will thrill with a current that emits light in every dark place, and all its machinery will throbb with power that accomplishes every good work, and the trembling dawn which is gladdening our eyes will broaden and brighten into the steadfast glory of a spacious summer day. The Incomplete Life Where is the man who is satisfied with himself? Possibly those overweighted with self-conceit, who "spin themselves into their own views like a cocoon," may imagine they have reached perfection; but persons who do any thinking on life as it really is, and the right relation of things, are by no means satisfied with themselves. In fact, discontent with what we are and an eager aspiration toward a better and fuller life is the only rational mode of living. Phillips Brooks puts the thought in concise and glowing phrase, "The ideal life is in our blood, and never will be still. We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the things we are." This is, doubtless, the interior motive that inspires the growing Christian; the higher his attainments, the more intensely conscious he becomes of the incompleteness of his spiritual life. At the same time, he holds his gaze steady and persistent upon the perfect man, Christ Jesus, in whom are unfolded and interpreted to his mind the possibilities that lie in human nature of arriving ultimately at the fulness of complete manhood. And to spur us on to higher endeavor, and to make us know that the way to be what God wants us to be is through trial and struggle, may explain somewhat the reason why a loving Providence withholds the complements of life in our passage through time. Whatever the reason, it is the truth, and there is nothing before us but endurance and working and fighting; "an earnest use of what we have now, and, all the time, an earnest discontent until we come to what we ought to be." Sic Brings Its Own Judgment. Sin Brings Its Own Judgment. The judgment on sin is, that it is permitted to have its way. There could be nothing more appalling. This is that eternal law which, in its long slow working, grinds to powder. A nation pushing aside its best instincts, lusting after wealth, aggression and dominion, is permitted to have its way, and it ends—like Nineveh and Tyre. A man, putting away the principles of truth and honor and the love of simplicity, yielding himself to false practices and self-indulgence, is permitted to have his way, and he ends—like Dives. There is a word near the end of the Book, calmly stated, seldom quoted, which crashes like a tempest. "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that is flithy, let him be flithy still." "Let him." It is the awful permission of that deliberate choice of evil the end of which are the ways of death. Not Satisfied. Go to yonder man of the world, and ask if the world has satisfied him, and he will tell you "No." Ask the lover of pleasure if the streams of carnal delight have quenched his thirst, and he will answer "No." Go to that young man who wanted to enjoy the world, and ask him if the enjoyment has been solid and satisfactory, and he will tell you "No." In forbidden pleasures he has failed to find a lasting joy. The worldlending spends his all in the pursuit of carnal delight, and can show you nothing in return. It is not so with the child of God. He finds heavenly joys and is abundantly satisfied. Recognizing God's Law. The true God is the source not only of Life, but of Love. And Love begets love. The introduction of this Divine principle into man's fallen nature restores him to communion with God. On our acceptance of this fact, a new energy to will and to do what God purposes concerning us is infused into our being. The Holy Ghost insists on our recognizing His Presence and His Power, as God has shown Him to us. Let Your Light So Shine. Christianity wants nothing so much in the world as sunny people; and the old are hungier for love than for bread; and the oil of joy is very cheap; and if you can help the poor in with a garment of praise, it will be better for them than blankets. HEALTHY CHILDREN. Without good health life is not worth living. Slickly, peevish children are a source of endless trouble and anxiety to their parents, yet the children's condition is frequently due to their parents' ignorance or thoughtlessness, or both. To make children healthy and to keep them in that condition it is necessary to feed them proper food and to see that they get plenty of exercise and fresh air. Meat is very bad for children. It should be avoided and food rich in phosphates, such as Fallsbury's Vitos, should be given in its place. This food is truly the "meat of the wheat." It is made by the world's greatest millers and it is free from artificial coloring or adulteration. It is not especially a child's food. Your whole family will enjoy this common sense cereal. It makes a wholesome, substantial breakfast or an appetizing dessert and can be prepared in one hundred different ways. Every good grocer will supply you with Pillsbury's Vitos. Large package—enough to make twelve pounds of strength-building food 15c. Ask your grocer about it to-day. A man will make a perfect idiot of himself over a pretty woman—as long as she doesn't ask him for money. Omaha, Nebr., Oct. 26—It is reported from Casper, Wyo., that sales of town lots for the new town of Sho shone, located at the edge of the Wind River Reservation on the new line of The Chicago & North-Western Railway across the state from Casper, have been unprecedented. Bidding for town lots runs high and a large number have been disposed of within a short time. Buyers evidently figure on the growth of the city here when the Indian Reservation is thrown open to settlement next June. What has become of the good woman who always took prizes for making salt risin' bread? Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease "O. K." Comes From Choctaw. There has been much discussion as to the origin of the term "O. K." It seems that in the Choctaw language there is a word, "okeh," which means "It is correct," or "I agree to approve." It is often used alone to give assent or approval to a suggestion or proposal. "Okeh" was in common use among whites who had dealings with the Choctaws more than thirty years before the Van Buren campaign. It was a convenient expression where parties understood each other's language imperfectly and was used to mean "understand you and and approve what you say," or "I understand your statement and vouch for its correctness." BEARS ARE COMMON. "Bears are so common out in our country,' said Maj. Frank Foote, of Evanston, Wyo., at the Riggs House, "that even the hunters pay but little attention to them, and they roam the mountain sides unmolested. One reason of their immunity is that the State pays no bounty on their skins, and there is no inducement to kill them. In the past year I suppose I've countered fifty big silver tips in unfrequent localities, not one of which seemed at all embarrassed by the meeting, but trotted off with dignified deliberation."—Washington Post. Queer Ceremony. Residents of Valle Maggio, Lombardy, go through an odd ceremony in September every year. The region is infested with vipers. The celebrants form a procession, every man, woman and child carrying a huge figure of a snake stuffed with cotton. As they pass along they weep and lament, believing that by this explanation they make themselves proof against snake bite during the grape harvest. THE WORD HAD BREATH. And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought. —Tennyson. FUNNY People Will Drink Coffee When It "Does Such Things." "I began to use Postum because the old kind of coffee had so poisoned my whole system that I was on the point of breaking down, and the doctor warned me that I must quit it. My chief aliment was nervousness and heart trouble. Any unexpected noise would cause me the most painful palpitation, make me faint and weak. "I had heard of Postum and began to drink it when I left off the old coffee. It began to help me just as soon as the old effects of the other kind of coffee passed away. It did not stimulate me for a while, and then leave me weak and nervous as coffee used to do. Instead of that it built up my strength and supplied a constant vigor to my system which I can always rely on. It enables me to do the biggest kind of a day's work without getting tired. All the heart trouble, etc., has passed away. "I give it freely to all my children, from the youngest to the oldest, and it keeps them all healthy and hearty." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Get Out of "Work Cages" to Cure Consumption. "No animal ever dies of consumption unless it has suffered imprisonment in a cage," says Dr. W. A. Evans in the Chicago Tribune. From this fact he draws the conclusion that it is the caged life of animal man, in many cases an inevitable accompaniment of his work, that is responsible for the large proportion of deaths from this dread disease. How quickly a cure may be wrought if only those afflicted will abandon their "work cages" and get into the fresh air, he tells in the following paragraphs: "Every year in Chicago there are 6,000 cases of tuberculosis among men, and 2,300 individuals die from the disease. Two years and three months of more or less inability to work precede the end in these 2,300 cases, to say nothing of the time lost to those who are cured. To the economic Chicago, the aggregate cost of one year's death roll is the work of one man for 5,365 years! "From the point of view of the humblest worker, however, the mere fact that he has contracted tuberculosis is nothing if only the discovery is made early enough and a little time and a little money be available for his treatment. How short a time and how little the money necessary may surprise the layman who has recognized consumption as one of the stubborn, costly diseases which, in the end, promised only death. "Only a little while ago a case passed under my observation as typical of what may be done in the earliest stages of the disease. He was about 23 years old, and a manufacturing employee working at his bench. A slight hemorrhage was the first indication of the disease. He consulted a physician at once. He lived at home with his parents, and was a partial support for them. The father was called in and asked if he could spare the earnings of the young man for one month. He thought he could, and was more than willing to try. "So, late in July, the boy left his bench and prepared to lay around in the parks as much as possible. His home was a top flat, and he fixed up a shack on the back porch, in which his bed was placed, and where he slept. He was given a substantial diet, and a large quantity of milk and cream and eggs were taken daily. "He was better in an incredibly short time. At the end of the four weeks' period he had gained fifteen pounds and, to outward appearances, was a well man. He secured a position at outside work in the country, and is an example of a young man saved to the world's work at a cost not exceeding $25 over his lost time. "A salesman at 33 years old, pretty far advanced in the early stage of the disease, has been another individual instance of an early cure. He took three months away from his work, slept in a shack out of doors, provided a proper diet, and is now completing his cure by outdoor work in Iowa. "A Chicago throat specialist discovered his infection early, and having a knowledge of the stock business, and an acquaintanceship in Indiana, went down there last summer as a buyer of cattle for a packing house. He had only to get out of his cage, and the work, the dieting, and the fresh air have done the rest. "The whole subject, as it appeals to the worker, may be summed up in the advice to discover his infection as early as possible; to drop his aggravating employment; to provide a proper diet, and then to get out of his cage into the open air. Cure for Obesity. A certain fat man in New York who wished to reduce his weight, says the Youth's Companion, began by collecting pamphlets offered by firms that advertise cures for obesity. He was much struck by the fact that all agreed in one particular. While each firm advised the regular taking of its particular cure, and several said "others are useless, and worse," all insisted that a great deal of exercise and a peculiar diet must be taken with the medicine. About six months afterward, the pamphlet collector, now no longer a fat man, entered a New York drug store. "I'm eternally obliged to you," he said to the proprietor. "How's that, sir?" "Six months ago I weighed two hundred and twenty-seven pounds. Now I weigh only one hundred and eighty." "Would you kindly give me your name and address, sir?" said the fatcure vender in great delight. "Certainly;" and he gave it. "If you'd allow us to refer to your case, we should be greatly obliged." "Certainly. That's what I came in for. I've written out a testimonial." for. I've written out a testimonial. He handed it to the deliganted proprietor, repeated "I'm eternally obliged to you," and departed. The druggist read the following: "I have much pleasure in recommending Mr. _____'s pamphlet on the cure of obesity. In consequence of reading it, I have reduced my weight in six months from two hundred and twenty-seven pounds to one hundred and eighty pounds, with great benefit to my general health. I rigidly followed the pamphlet's advice to take regular exercise and eschew fatty, starchy and sweet foods. This saved me a good deal of money, for I never took one particle of Mr. _____'s medicine." Seaside Home for Tuberculous Chil dren. A unique experiment is being conducted by one of New York's leading philanthropic organizations down on the shore of West Coney Island. Here the ocean waves, the salt sea air, the clean, white sand, the life-giving sunshine and fresh air, aided by skillful physicians' and tender nurses' care and nourishing food, are doing all they can to restore to health and normal vitality forty-three child sufferers from that dread disease—tuberculosis. Not the pulmonary form, for such cases are not benefited by sea air; but tuberculosis of the bones, joints, muscles and glands. There are over 4,000 such children in New York city alone. A conservative estimate places the number of such sufferers in this country at 50,000 to 75,000. The purpose of this seaside home, as described in the American Queen, is (1) To prove that it is possible by salt sea air treatment and proper food to cure even desperate cases of surgical tuberculosis. (2) To convince consumptive adults that their neglect of simple precautions inflicts upon their helpless children another dreadful form of their own malady, which, unchecked, will cripple and maim their offspring for life. (3) To attract the attention of philanthropists, city officials and private hospitals to the importance of providing inexpensive outdoor sea-air treatment for children suffering from non-pulmonary forms of tuberculosis. As early as 1861, French physicians conceived the idea of sea-air treatment for tuberculosis, and established a hospital at Broek, near Calais. Since then many others have been constructed, so that at the present time there are many of them along the French coast. That for the city of Paris alone accommodates 750 patients. This first experiment in America was started in June, 1904, as a seaside tent hospital. In the fall, when the weather became too cold for the children to sleep in tents, they were transferred to one of the buildings of the Sea Breeze Home. The treatment is very simple: Plenty of nourishing food, life out of doors, summer and winter, during play-time and study, sleeping and waking, with careful doctors' and nurses' care. Night and day these children breathe only out-of-door salt air. President Roosevelt's visit to the hospital brought it to the notice of thousands who are interested in the saving of child lives throughout the country. Mrs. Roosevelt went with him, and they both took great interest in the children, talking what them personally, and giving them words of cheer and encouragement. "I wouldn't have missed it for all the world," he said afterward. "Anybody could get well out there." Trades That Are Perilous Some recent tabulations by the Chicago committee for the prevention of consumption have shown in approximate averages the annual number of deaths from consumption in each 100,000 of the population, as they are applicable to some of the trades and professions. Six stone-cutters to every 100,000 population in the United States will die of the disease every year, while less than one banker is a victim. The list runs approximately: Deaths in each 100,000 of population: Stonecutters ..... $6.00 Cligarmakers ..... 4.75 Compositors ..... 4.50 Servants ..... 4.25 Bookkeepers and clerks ..... 3.50 Musicians ..... 3.50 Barbers ..... 3.50 Painters ..... 3.50 Plumbers ..... 3.00 Masons ..... 3.00 Butchers ..... 2.75 Salonkeepers ..... 2.66 Drymen and hackmen ..... 2.50 Janitors ..... 2.50 Iron and steel workers ..... 2.33 Carpenters ..... 2.33 Engineers ..... 2.33 Fallers ..... 2.33 Mill and factory workers ..... 1.85 Machinists ..... 1.85 Physicians ..... 1.80 Physicians ..... 1.75 Merchants ..... 1.50 Teachers ..... 1.33 Lawyers ..... 1.33 Clergyman ..... 1.33 Farmers ..... 1.12 Bankers ..... 85 Treatment for the Complexion. Why are ladies so especially interested in the complexion of their faces? They ought to be interested in the complexion of their whole bodies. It is not of much consequence what the complexion of the face is. If the color of the body in general is right. A clear complexion all over the body is an indication of a sound body. In England, when a pugilist is in training for an encounter in the ring, his trainer knows by his complexion when he is ready for the fight. He says, "This man is in the pink of condition, because his skin is as clear as a woman's." The skin is a signboard for the whole body. An unhealthy looking complexion, a dry, inactive skin, is an indication of the unhealthy condition of the body all through. Bathing is a good thing for the complexion; a cool morning bath will tone up the skin, invigorate the appetite, and stimulate the vital processes. But the best cosmetic of all is a pure diet. Those who have been brought up on a vegetarian diet usually have pure skins. Healthy little children always have clear skins, but as they get older their skins often become dingy and sallow, simply because they have learned to abuse the laws of life and health, and have indulged their appetites with unwholesome things. THE PARACHUTE THAT FAILED. THE PARACHUTE THAT FAILED. FREE TRADE BALLOON RECIPROCITY TARUFF ERROMER FREE RAW MATERIAL THAT USED IN EXPORTS AL- READY FREE OF DUTY. Fallacy of Contention that the Tariff on Hides and Wool Has Operated to Diminish Exports of Leather Manufactures and Woolen Textiles. Of leather and things made of leather the United States exported in 1905 $37,936,745, this being $4,000,000 more than was exported in 1904. The New York Journal of Commerce is not pleased with this showing, thinks it ought to be much larger; feels sure it would be "but for the absurd duty upon the material from which leather is made." Does the Journal of Commerce speak in ignorance or in prevarication? Does it not know that practically there is no tariff on the hides from which exported leather and leather things are made; that 100 percent of the duty on such hides is rebuted? Again, either from lack of information or with intent to mislead, the same paper says that: "For a similar reason we export no manufactures of wool, while we import nearly $18,000,000 a year, in spite of high duties. Our woolen industry is struggling under a protection that strangles it. Our exports of manufactures are really growing, and there is some comfort in that, but their dimensions are nothing to be proud of yet. Give them free raw materials, the stimulus of foreign competition and the advantage of lowered prices that would come with it—and come without the least lowering of the standard of living or of wages measured by what they will buy—and their growth would make present figures look small. It will come in time." Here, again, theory and fact are so wide apart as to suggest either a lack of knowledge or the absence of good faith. The Journal of Commerce surely is not ignorant of the record which clearly shows that exports of woolens are not restricted by either the tariff or the price of wool. Here is the record as to exports and imports of woolen goods: Exports. Imports. $13,609 $33,494,400 917,409 917,409 2,035,054 17,894,663 In 1896 and 1897 there was no tariff on wool and the price of wool and sheep in the United States was at low water mark. How did our wool manufactures fare then as to exports? With free trade in wool, did they succeed in capturing the world's markets for woolens? Not to any noticeable extent. In 1897, the heaviest export year of the free wool period, American woolens were sold abroad to the amount of $947,808. In 1896, also a free wool year, our woolen exports totaled $913,609. In 1895, with Dingley tariff "restrictions" as to the inflow of foreign wools, our exports of woolens had increased to $2,055,654. This was $1,087,246 more than we sold abroad in 1897 with free wool, and $173,637 more than our exports for 1896 and 1897 combined. With Dingley tariff protection for domestic wool, we more than doubled the volume of woolen exports compared with the volume of 1897, the banner export year, when our manufacturers enjoyed all the blessings and advantages of free raw materials. THE PARACHUTE RECIPROCITY TANUPF REFORMER For God's Eternal Glory The sphere of miracle is but an extension and transfiguration of natural force. The title of Dr. Drummond's suggestive work, "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," expresses a truth which carries us even further than his remarkable exposition of it. God did not make a mistake in the sublime constitution and appointment of universal law. It was intended to be, and shall for ever be, made the vehicle for the manifestation of His eternal glory With restored protection for both wool and woolens in the Dingley law of 1897, the manufacturer of wool received a mighty impetus and has held it ever since. Free raw material did not help it to hold the home market; on the contrary, foreign woolens were dumped upon us in 1896 to the amount of $73,484,400, and domestic production suffered accordingly. in 1895 two ports of woolens had shrunk to $17,833,603, and domestic production gained accordingly. As a consequence American woolen fabrics of all sorts have improved immensely in quality, style and popularity. But the gain in exports, albeit more than 100 per cent with protected wool and woolens, has been small in proportion to the gain in production and consumption. The United States is and must remain the great, almost the only, consuming market for American woolens. Free wool never did and never could enable American looms to compete with foreign looms in the world's markets. The difference in wages - 60 per cent greater than in Great Britain and 150 per cent greater than in Germany, France and Belgium - makes it useless for American weavers to dream of sales in foreign markets. They dream no such dreams. They know better. It is left to the theorists and visiortaries of the Journal of Commerce type to rhapsodize over foreign market possibilities. To be permitted to make American woolens for highly paid Americans to wear is all that American weavers expect to do. It is enough. A. Tariff Distinction The friends of protection ought to be careful to distinguish between a maximum and a minimum tariff and a minimum and maximum tariff. It makes a great deal of difference which word comes first. If it is a minimum and maximum tariff we must have if we would remain a protectionist country. A minimum tariff would apply equally to all nations. It would be the declared tariff policy of the country, and in accordance with it manufacturers would govern their purchases and sales. The maximum duties would be applied only against those countries that discriminate against us. A maximum tariff, made to such nations as showed us the great commercial favors, would result in tariff instability. The manufacturer would never know what the tariff would be six months hence. On the other hand the mistake should not be made of declaring the present Dingley law to be the minimum tariff, simply providing for maximum duties to be added to it. - Springfield (Mass.) Union. Rudely Jarred. The New Zealanders, who have always been ardent free traders, are being rudely jarred by the American Harvester trust, which ships agricultural implements to the island and sells them so cheaply that it is impossible for the domestic manufacturer to compete with them. There is a good deal of talk over the subject and some of it very foolish. The Premier, for instance, intimates that we shall make war on the colony if it attempts to defend itself with a tariff. There is no disposition to do anything of the kind. We should like to sell our agricultural implements, but we are not going to deliver them at the cannon's mouth.—San Francisco Chronicle. E THAT FAILED. FREE TRADE BALLOON God's Face Hidden. It is a dictum of science that, if light were capable of being seen, we should be blind to aught else, and life would be impossible in its present form. How wonderfully this modern idea chimes in with the old words of the Almighty to Moses: "In the day that thou seest My face thou shalt surely die." If we could see but a small portion of the all-pervading greatness, power and glory of the Creator, would interest be any longer possible in human concerns? Money has always been a visible product of methods. In the first century A. D., under the emperors Augustus Caesar and Tiberius in Rome, the property of criminals was confiscated and converted into money, which was lent free of interest to those poor who could offer security for twice the amount they wanted to borrow. money cannot be traced back farther than the time of the Emperor Julius Caesar in Rome in the first century B. C. For the next thirteen hundred years, i. e., until the Roman empire ended with the fall of Constantinopolis in 1204 A. D., no prince or Pope, other potentate within the Roman empire (which meant pretty much all It was in the second century after Christ that the humane custom obtained in Rome of permitting slaves to deposit extra earnings to create a fund for the final purchase of their freedom. Legion (Regimental) savings banks were also provided under the Roman emperors for the accommodation of the soldiers. Copper was the first metal used in important money transactions, the Roman "as" being originally a pound of copper. just as the modern English pound sterling was originally a pound of silver in the time of William the Conqueror (in the 11th century), although to-day the silver pound sterling is only about five-eights of a pound in weight. The word "coinage" comes from the Latin cuneus, a wedge or die with which to stamp the metal. The oldest coins have a stamp on but one side. Gold arrow heads, gold knives and swords, gold rings and bracelets and golden chains were made long before gold was used as money. However, gold was used as money in China as early as 2257 B. C., but was not in common use, that is to say, the debtor could not be compelled to pay it. The permanent use of gold as legal Whole Counties Without a Resident of Foreign Birth. "There are counties in Kentucky where there is not a single resident of foreign birth," declared R. B. Baker of Louisville, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel. "The residents are the descendants of the old families who came to Kentucky when that state was known as the "dark and bloody ground" and who fought to make the state what it is today. They have no land to sell to foreigners, they have no business to do with them, therefore the foreign population settles elsewhere. I presume the same condition of affairs will be found in these same counties fifty years from now. "Not anywhere else in this country can there be found a settlement which is more truly American. When you stop to consider the number of nationalities one meets gathered together in almost every part of the country, the way these Kentuckians have managed to keep to themselves is little less than marvelous. Kentucky is unlike any other state in the union, anyway. In two counties there they have never held a coroner's inquest. They have a coroner in each county, but they contend that it is not necessary to hold an inquest over the remains of a man who is killed if you know how he was killed. They always know how the dead ones are killed. In these same counties I do not believe they have ever held court without a company or two of militia. The people are not assassins, but they have so long been accustomed to settling their own troubles with the rifle and the shotgun that they cannot accustom themselves to the vengeance of the law in place of that of the individual." A. Responsive Audience. A well-known player, whose forte is romantic comedy, tells an amusing story in connection with the production, some years ago, of an unsuccessful comedy. This comedy was a dire failure, drawing but meager audiences. The record in this respect was reached when the curtain rose on a Wednesday matinee in Brooklyn, with fifteen persons in the house. In the front of the house there was but one occupant—a young girl in the second row. In the first row of the balcony sat one young man. The play opened with a scene on the deck of a yacht, and as the leading man emerged from the cabin and gazed into the empty golf before him, he smoke his first line: "The sea is purple; have you, too, noticed it?" Whereupon the voice of the young man in the balcony responded: "I don't know about the young lady down stairs, but I can see it very plainly"—"Harper's Weekly. Man With a Pull. Reliance on pull not infrequently develops into a dangerous passion. Such was the case with a prominent citizen of Westfield, Mass. This prominent citizen, with three others, had been to a resort on the Connecticut river near Hollyoke where a clambake was held. Beer and strong drink had flowed freely, until on the ride home late at night the hired driver was the only man in the party who was wholly awake to his surroundings. As he came near a grade crossing he heard the whistle of an approaching locomotive and reined in his horses. "Wazer messer?" inquired the prominent citizen, who had been aroused by the stop. "Springfield express coming. Got to set it go by," said the driver. "Drive on, drive on," ordered the man in the carriage, reassuringly: "s'all right, I know the engineer." money cannot be traced back farther than the time of the Emperor Julius Caesar in Rome in the first century B. C. For the next thirteen hundred years, I. e., until the Roman empire ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1204 A. D., no prince or Pope, or other potentate within the Roman empire (which meant pretty much all of the civilized world), was allowed to coin any gold, except the Roman emperors. The coinage of gold was reserved as a sacred prerogative by the emperor of Rome as chiefs of the Roman state and high priests of the Roman religion. Money was sometimes legally debased. The Roman denarius, for instance, was first coined in Rome at the rate of six coins out of an ounce of silver; in B. C. 216 seven were coined out of an ounce of silver; in 45 A. D. under Augustus Caesar, there were eight to the ounce; under Nero, eight and one-half to the ounce; under Hadrian, nine to the ounce; under Gallus, fourteen to the ounce, and by the year 475 A. D. every bit of silver was gole and the denarius was made entirely of copper. The Latin name for money, pecunia, is derived from pecus, a flock, and it is probable that the English word "fee" is connected etymologically with the German word Vich, meaning cattle. Cattle were also used as money in early colonial days in our own country. We find a law passed by the Colony of Massachusetts in 1658 ordering that no man should pay taxes in lank cattle. At this time tobacco was used as money in Virginia. The Money Value of Noise and Silence in Parliament. A Belgian statistician has amused himself by calculating the cost to the country of parliamentary oratory, and that of noise, and even of silence in parliament, for, according to him, each second of a sitting costs the same amount, and silence is paid for, during the sittings, as dearly as speech, says the Philadelphia Ledger. He calculates that each hour of the sittings of the Belgian chamber costs 7.286 franes, each minute 121.43 franes and each second something more than 2 franes. Starting from this basis he calculates that the words of the president at the opening of each sitting, "Gentlemen, the sitting has commenced," costs about 5 france. A laugh, for which, when uttered in his presence, he could find nd reason, was timed by him to cost 6 franes 10 centimes, "Marks of approval on many benches" cost as much as £2 or £3; a suitably "prolonged movement" cannot be produced at less than 18 or 25 franes. "Ironical cheers at the left" are exceedingly costly, while "loud approval at the right" runs to a price beyond all reason. He notes that a few days ago the applause from the government benches at the end of a speech of the railway minister cost exactly 65 franes 45 centimes, and that a sitting of three hours, which was occupied by three indifferent speakers, cost £28.679.50 franes, or close on to £1,000. Pattl could be heard in Brussels for such a sum, he declares; or grand opera, claque and all, be had for less! Strange Quest at State House When Dr. Frank A. Hill was secretary of the state board of education a dark skinned son of Italy one day entered the office at the State House and said to one of the women clerks: "You ze preteneress of ciz boarding 'ouse?' The clerk was not sure that she understood him, and asked him to repeat his question. He repeated it, and it seemed such a funny question to ask in such an office that she laughingly asked him if he would be so kind as to again repeat his inquiry. With a very impressive shrug of his shoulders and an impatient flash of his eyes he said, in as good English as he could command: "You ze pret-er-ess ov ciz boardin' 'ouse? I see 'board' on de door"—the word "board" being the only one intelligible to him in the lettering on the office door. The man was looking for some one by the name of Hill who kept a boarding house and who owed him some money; but he discovered that he bad come to the wrong place... Boston Herald. She Had Not Played A Westport fond father made his daughter mad and, incidentally, held up to view his lack of knowledge of violin music. His daughter is a violinist. A visitor was in the library, and the father suggested that his daughter play. She was willing. "Mary's been studying in the East," said her father, and has just got home. I haven't heard her play much myself yet." The girl's mother went to the piano in the next room, and the girl got her violin. For three or four minutes twanging from the two instruments was heard. Then there was a halt. It was there that the fond father made his mistake. "Now play something simple, Mary," he said. "That was nice, but it's too classical for me." The girl glanced through the door. Her face wore a look of disgust. "I've been tuning, father," she said. —Kansas City Times. THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP A. B. Johnson, Assistant Manager. Eugene, Vaugan, Agt. Kansas City, Kas. 938 Split Log. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there but enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS Girl wanted to do collecting on this paper. Call at office mornings. You get your money's worth when you trade at Rau's, corner 19th and Flora. He is O. K. Go to Cantrell Dry Goods and Hardware Co for up to date Millinery, 27th and Cleveland avenue. Best Millinery at lowest pices at Cantrell Dry Goods and Hardware Co., 27th and Cleveland. Mrs. W. H. Hubbell has opened a millinery and notion store near the corner of 19th and Vine streets. Mr. E. Coneway is in the barber business on 10th street. Call and see him. He will treat you right. Good meals and good service, and old-fashion cooking may be found at the "Little Baltimore, 125 West 7th street. Colored people, get your groceries at Arthur Rau's, Northwest corner of 19th and Flora. Everything guaranteed. A nice line of Baby Caps at lowest prices at Cantrell Dry Goods and Hardware Co., 27th and Cleveland avenue. Call up National Printing Company for anything you want in the printing line. They will call and see you. Bell 'phone, Main 2719 X. FOR COLORED PEOPLE 1409 Highland avenue, four room flat; $10 per month; city water. Apply Corbetts, 1025 Main St. Call and examine our line of children's School and Dress Hats, Cantrell Dry Goods and Hardware Co., 27th and Cleveland avenue. When you want the best news concerning the Negro, place your name on the subscription list of the "Son" and thus have it delivered to your door. All subscribers of the Son will please be ready to meet the demands of our collector next week as we need the money now due in order to continue business. A little now and then will aid us considerably. Mrs. Lena Mason, the evangelist, has returned to the city after a stay of a few weeks out east. She will conduct services in the city again. Subscribers to the Son will kindly remit the amount of their indebtedness to this office at once, as we need the money. Our office is open from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. every day except Sunday. 117 W. 6th street. Lewis Woodson spent a pleasant trip this week visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Carter at Jefferson City, formerly of this city. He made a very favorable comment on the nice dinner served him. The only objection found was in connection with the church work which he reports is very unsatisfactory. Let Not Your Angry Temper Rise. "Look her, waiter, I've been sitting here forty minutes waiting for my dinner. You told me everything was ready to serve." "It was, sir." "Then why didn't you bring it? You keep a fellow waiting so long that he eats a lot more. Seems to me it would be cheaper to serve quickly." "No, sir boss; you see, when he gets so hungry he could eat everything, we keep him waiting till he gits so durn mad he can't eat nothing." Them's our orders, sir. What's left clear gain." Nothing Doing. A German who invented a telamobilioskop To detect when a vessel is approaching Another vessel on the ocean, Chose a mighty bad name For a fellow to make a limerick out of. —Kansas City Drovers Telegram. Professional jolliers have many female friends. Great Silay Family. The great family of Silay, a city of 14,500 inhabitants in the Philippine island of Negros, is that of Ming Lee. They are Chinese mestizos, partiarchal and vastly rich, the great house sheltering the sons and their families, more than forty adults, with droves of children. The eldest son has just completed his second term as governor of the island. The head of the family is the mother of his excellency. Senora Ming Lee, who is 80 years old, 6 feet tall and probably weighs 250 pounds. She is an inveterate gambler and will remain for two days at the round game of Pangingl, her meals being served in a chair at her side. About the only respite she takes from her favorite game is on Sunday morning, when she drives to church in her Manila built victoria. He May Repent. Mr. Bryan assumes a tremendous responsibility by leaving the country for a year to its fate, and he may be compelled to repent in sackcloth and ashes that he permitted his curiosity to behold strange lands and people to lure him from his place on the watchtower. It is noe recorded that either of the Graccchi left Rome while the crisis was still on.—New York Globe. Negro Medical Student Makes 100 Per Cent. In Examination. Dr. Paey made 100 per cent, at the Kansas State Board of Medical Examination in Bacteriology. Thirty-one sat in the examination with him. Dr. Paey is a Negro and the first to obtain a round hundred in a test. Foolish Men. "Isn't it strange," said the reflective citizen, "that burglarls and highwaymen will take the awful chances they do, just for a few dollars?" "It does seem odd," responded Senator Sniffkins, "when there are safe, easy, remunerative propositions like politics and life insurances to go into." Astors Back to the Farm. Miss Margaret Astor Chandler, a great-great-granddaughter of the first John Jacob Astor, has started a dairy near Tarrytown, the home of Miss Helen Gould, and will conduct it in accord with the latest ideas of the board of health. As her income is already $30,000 a year. It is evident that it is occupation and not money that she seeks. Possibly the Case. "They say that Snooks has been earning $100,000 a year, and yet he accepts a government job at $8,000." "Well?" "How do you account for it?" "I don't know. Perhaps the hundred thousand was mostly in stage money." In the Beginning. Adam hung his hat on the nail. "Oh, Adam," cried his frightened spouse, "there was such a queer looking man came and insisted on kissing little Cain." With bitter tears they realized the office-seeker was abroad in the land. On to Him. "Yes," said the red-eyed clerk. I'm a little late this morning. The midnight oil, you know—" "H'm!" interrupted his employer, "oil, ch? Well, the next time you paint the town I'd advise you to use water colors exclusively." The manager of the Rising Son feels very grateful for the many kind favors the white people have shown in the past and we will try to merit your confidence in the future as in the past. Rev. Lena Mason preached her farewell sermon at Allen Chapel Sunday night. She has been very successful throughout her stay in the city. The members of Allen wished her a happy return home. This would be a better world if the men who have lived in ti had lived up to their obituaries. Many a person prepares for a rainy day by appropriating his neighbor's umbrella. Vacation. We save our coin for many a day, Collect a good-sized hoard, Then go and spend it in a way We know we can't afford. What Rojestvensky Escaped. Pittsburg has sent Admiral Togo a box of stogies. After all, Rojestvensky may have known what he was about when he consented to get licked. One Doubt Remains. The only doubt that occurs to us in regard to the new role of the President as peacemaker, is how he is going to keep from showing his teeth. NATIONAL PRINTING COMPANY. Only Negro Printing Office in City, 205 Wales Bldg. Cor. 6th & Delaware. Many of us, if we get coffee like mother used to make, would raise a rough house like father used to make. There is no hope for a man who wastes his time arguing with women and babies. Is your life unhappy? Think of the man whose wife makes vinegar pie for desert. A man doesn't amount to much unless he is able to prove it. No broken faith in Dorothy Dodd Shoes, no unkept promises — only the delightful fulfillment of your happy anticipations. It would be impossible to better satisfy your exactions of a "faithful" shoe at even double the price. MAIL ORDERS FILLED. HELLO PIONEER TRUST COM T COMPANY PIONEER TRUST COMPANY PIONEER TRUST COMPANY Dwight Building 10th and Baltimore Avenue. KANSAS CITY, MO. $267,5 $267,5 Transacts a General Trust and Banking Business. Issued. Mortgage Investments. delay, $1.00 will start an account : President Vice President Vice President Vice President Sec'y and Treat Asst. Treat B. P. FINLEY, Attorney. Cares for Real Estate and Mortgage Investments. Now is the time to beging Saving—Dont delay, $1.00 will start an account. WALTON H. HOLMES, ..... President. F. C. MILLER, ..... Vice President. C. F. HOLMES, ..... Vice President. CHAS. S. GLEED, ..... Vice President. H. C. SCHWITZGEBEL, ..... Sec'y and Treas. BIRD H. McGARVEY, ..... Asst. Treas. E. L. SCARRITT, Counselor. B. P. FINLEY, Attorney. C. A. BIGKELL Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES FRESH AND SALT MEATS, VEGETABLES AND N 581 TROOST AVE. Especially Caters to the Colored People. Small expenses. Will meet any prices in my line BICY GROCERIES, AND VEGETABLES AND NOTIONS. AT AVE. Colored People. any prices in my line. ER ANT TAILOR. High California and the body remembers Mr. and well-made suits he 8th Street Dealer in STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. FRESH AND SALT MEATS, VEGETABLES AND NOTIONS. 581 TROOST AVE. Especially Caters to the Colored People. Small expenses. Will meet any prices in my line. The well know MERCHANT TAILOR after an extended trip through California and the west, is with us again. Everybody remembers Mr. Weber by the many stylish and well-made suits he has put up. He is now at 1206 $ _{2}^{1} $ East 18th Street The well know MERCHANT TAILOR. after an extended trip through California and the west, is with us again. Everybody remembers Mr. Weber by the many stylish and well-made suits he has put up. He is now at Where he will be glad to see his old friends and customers. C. COLLIN COR. 18th AND FLORA We Are Now in Shape to H Fall Trade in our several departments we have STYL NERY, WOMEN'S SUITS and WRAPS, GEN BOYS' FURNISHINGS, BOOTS and SHOES, and DRY GOODS of every description. We can at prices that are right. Call and see us. LLINS AND FLORA shape to Handle made We have STYLISH MILLS IN WRAPS, GENTS' AN S and SHOES, NOTION caption. We can fit you o see us. C. COLLINS n our several departments we have STYLISH MILLINERY, WOMEN'S SUITS and WRAPS, GENTS' AND BOYS' FURNISHINGS,BOOTS and SHOES, NOTIONS and DRY GOODS of every description. We can fit you out at prices that are right. Call and see us. Why Not Save Car Fare C. COLLIN COR. 18th AND FLORA LLINS AND FLORA C. COLLINS COR.18th AND FLORA I Strong&Garfield's New Fall Styles Our windows will give you a good idea of the swell swagger styles to be worn this season for dress wear. $5.00 and $6.00 Values OVIATT SHOE CO. 1105 Main Street. 520 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kas. KANSAS CITY, MO. OFFICERS: A. 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Home Phone 2615 Main. 1002 East 19th Street. Especially Caters to the Colored People. J. L. BAGLEY STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRESH AND SALT MEATS, VEGETABLES AND NOTIONS Cigars and Tobacco. 926 EAST NINETEENTH STREET Especially Caters to the Colored People. Everything New and Fresh. Goods Delivered. Dealer In Staple and Fancy Groceries and Produce Fresh Milk and Cream at All Times. The Only Place to Buy the Best Provisions at Lowest Prices. Especially Caters to the Colored People. Notions and Candies. Try Our Milk and Cream. Beyond Every day that dies, With flush and fragrance born of June, I know shall more resilient rise, Where surrender words not sun not moon, And every and on leaves, new free, Whose glowing crimson thines and falls, In fullest flower I yet shall see, Hail blooming to the moon wells, Nay every still that dims my eyes, And wild regrets that wilt the sun, Shall fade before those unending tails, And my long glory be begun, Let yours come to these, now promise, Thy Heaven, O Lord, I shall not lose! —Edna Dean Proctor. THE WRONG BEARINGS BY J.C. PLUMMER --- (Copyright 1905 by Dally Story Pub. Co.) Seven days in an open boat on that tropical sea. Seven days of pitiless sun, burning and charring our throats until the miserable pittance of water we had allowed ourselves had irritated rather than satisfied and now that was gone. Seven days of biscuit soaked with sea water, which made our terrible thirst more unbearable, and all around us that peaceful sea. When I thought of the awful storm in which the Iris had foundered and looked at the calm ocean I thought of my sister years ago. She like the sea would have her storms of anger and cry and break her toys and then go to sleep with just such a smile on her face as the sea wore then. It was an old thought for an old sea dog face to face with death, but then I expect my mind was wandering on account of the thirst and heat. Four of us had leaped in the boat the night the bark went down and there were only two now. One had jumped overboard in delirium and the other was curled up dead in the thwarts one morning. Mr. Pablo, the mate, and I were left to die by thirst if no other way. "It looks cool down there," croaked the mate, staring into the sea. "No wonder Hans jumped into it." "For God's sake, Mr. Pablo, don't get to thinking of that." I cried, for I had a horror of dying alone in that boat. Queen, isn't it, that a man always wants somebody around when he is dying. "I've thought of it many a time, Bob," said he, "and when I wasn't in a fix like this. I've been tired of living these fifteen years." He spoke in a calm way, but I thought he was losing his mind and shuddered again at the idea of being alone in the boat. "I've never spoken of it to a mortal before," he continued, looking down into the water, "and I don't know why I'm going to do it now unless a man don't want too much ballast when he's going to die. I'm a Tyne man and sailed in the North Sea trade. That was fifteen years ago, and I used to look at a small cottage near Newcastle and dream about living there some day with a certain girl. You see you wave where it curls, what a deep blue it is? Well, her eyes were just like that, and blame me if anyone could look into them and lie to her. We were not engaged, but when one night I told her how I loved her and she slipped her hand into mine and I looked into her eyes and didn't want any other answer. God, what a happy night that was! "I stood well with the company and had my mate's certificate, so it was only wait for a vacancy and then I'd be first officer and we could marry. "Just then a fellow named Jack Bates, a distant relative of the family, came to live with them, and he and Bess became as thick as bees. They seemed to have some secret together, and would whisper and talk in a way which made me grit my teeth. Of course I got huffy and stayed away for awhile, but I couldn't stand it and came slinking back like a whipped dog to its owner, only to have another dose of misery. Bess was pleasant to me and civil, but when I began to talk about Bates she'd laugh and be as close as an oyster. She was very dear THE LIFE OF JOHN BURTON "It looks cool down there," croaked the mate. to me, but many a night when I paced the bridge with a German ocean gale battering my face I cursed her and Bates in my bitterness. "Things were in this bad shape when just as I came back from a voyage they sent for me from the company's office and in a half hour I was mate of one of the tidiest steamboats that floated on the Tyne. Two months ago I'd made a course for the open country and shouted # the top of my voice to heave over the joy that was in me and now I was as gloomy as a fog bank. What was the good of living. I asked myself: "After I'd thought awhile I made up my mind to go to Bess and tell her of my promotion and ask her flat to marry me. It was no good hanging in the rigging as I was doing, so I started for her house. I had turned a corner when I saw Bess and Bates coming towards me and I stepped back into a doorway so they'd pass me, for it wasn't safe for me to have met Bates the way I was feeling. They were talking and laughing together and went into a jeweler's store near where I was standing. By and by they came out, Bess looking as happy A man in a suit and hat stands in the foreground, facing three men in striped pants and shirts. The man in the suit has a broad smile. The two men in striped pants are standing slightly behind him, facing the man in the suit. The man in the suit is holding the man in the striped pants. The background is a cloudy sky. I gripped him by the shirt and held him back. I gripped him by the shirt and held him back. as a lark and then a thought came over me that turned my blood to ice. I went into the shop and made out I wanted to buy some jewelry. "What did that fellow buy? I asked, trying to seem careless; 'the young man and the girl who just went out?" "The shopman smirked. "The old story, he said; 'a wedding ring, and she had a time finding one to fit her finger. Pretty gal, wasn't she?" "I went out in a hurry, leaving the man staring after me. My last sail was blown off the yards and I was shipwrecked. It was drag out a life with no good in it or kill myself, and, as I said, Bob, I've often thought of it." "Well," I said, "did he marry her?" not that I cared a bloomin' bit for a man starving for a drink of water isn't interested in love stories, but I thought as long as he was talking he wouldn't jump overboard. "I don't know," he answered; "that night I left Newcastle, and as I have no relatives and have never seen a Newcastle paper I've never heard, but of course he did. What did he want a wedding ring for, else?" "The woman isn't launched that I kill myself for or even lose a meal on account of," I said, crossly. "I've been knocking about the world quite a bit and have seen all sorts," said Mr. Pablo, "but I've never seen eyes like she had and never spoke to a woman since unless I was obliged to. I hated to come to Europe on the Iris, only I had promised the skipper. He was looking over the port quarter where the blue sky came down into the blue sea. "Bates is a sailor-man," continued Pablo, "and I've hoped I'd meet him some day. The Lord be good to him if I do. What's that just above the horizon?" "Why," I screeched, "it's a sail and bearing our way; man, we're saved," and I began to sing, or I expect croak, for my throat was dry as powder. Pablo said nothing, but kept looking over the sea as if he didn't care a bit of spun yarn if the sail saw us or no, but I yelped, though the vessel was miles away and jerked my arms in the air frantically. The bark bore steadily down on us and presently hailed. Then she lowered a boat and took us aboard, for we were too weak to row. A big broad-shouldered man stood at the gangway and as Pablo set his eyes on him he uttered an awful curse, whipped out his knife and made a lunge at him. I gripped him by the shirt and held him back. "My God!" exclaimed the man, "if it isn't Tom Holmes or his ghost. Why, where've you been this fifteen years?" "It's damned small matter to you where I've been," growled Pablo, with me hanging on to his shirt tail. "Maybe not," replied the man, coolly; "but there's a woman in Newcastle who's been waiting fifteen years for a man named Tom Holmes, and I think it's a bloody big matter to her." "Who's waiting for me?" croaked Pablo. "Why, Bess Devon is." "What are you talking about?" asked Pablo; "didn't I see you buy the wedding ring for her." "If you had had a little patience and not flown off the handle so quick," reported Bates. "you'd have found out that Bess was helping me to run off with a girl I loved. It was a dead secret and she dared not even tell it to you. I saw you glaring at us when we passed you in Newcastle that evening and when you were missing I messed at the whole business. Well, Bess is waiting for you, and I don't know how you feel about it." Mr. Holmes, as I ought to call him, ran to Bates and flung his arms around him and I believed he cried, but I was taking down a lot of grog then and night have been mistaken. At any rate the bark was bound for Liverpool and I never saw a man so anxious to get to port as Mr. Holmes, late Mr. Pablo. FOUND IT HARD TO GET REST. Woman Had Multiplicity of Reasons for Insomnia The woman who boasts that she never sleeps well has many reasons at her tongue's end, and nobody dares dispute them. There is one woman in particular who has no family, and spends her life in traveling and visiting. She therefore has an opportunity to test all sorts of places. "I can't sleep in New York on account of the elevated trains that run within a block of Cousin James' house," she explained to a friend one day, "and in Philadelphia there is an electric light that shines from the corner right on my bedroom wall, and I never wish to have blinds closed. "In Boston my friends live on a street through which the milk carts come very early. "In Washington, at the Duncans', there's a dog, and he's liable to bark at any time, so I keep expecting to hear him, even when he doesn't." In Buffalo, at Henry's, there's a cuckoo clock that keeps waking me up. When I'm with the Salisburys I just lie and listen to the sea booming and splashing all night long. And at dear Anna's, of course, there are babies." "I should think you'd love to go to the Henderson's," said the sympathetic friend. "Right in the woods, and no farm animals, like hens, or anything to disturb you." "The Henderson's!" and the sufferer from insomnia raised her eyes to heaven. "My dear, I tried it once, and the quiet was so fearful! I never closed my eyes till daylight!"—Youth's Companion. Causes for Stupidity in Children. The teacher should be a close observer of his pupils, and should know when they are failing in bodily stamina as well as when they are not keeping up their scholarship record. Many children have defective eyesight, and suffer for want of properly adjusted glasses. Their astigmatism, myopia, or some other error refraction, does not cause serious discomfort until the eye strain required to accommodate the vision for close work brings on headache, irritability of temper and digestive disorders, which so often perplex even the physician, who fails to look in the right direction for the causes of these disorders. Often little consideration is shown the stupid members of a class. The dull boy or girl is always expected to be at the foot, yet the cause of the dullness may be only natural timidity due to imperfect hearing, mouthbreathing, the result of enlarged tonsils, nasal catarrth, or growths in the nose, all of which conditions can easily be relieved. The health would be more vigorous, and the normal activity of the brain would be manifested in increased ability to acquire knowledge. How Monkeys Sleep. "Look at them," said the keeper softly. "A pretty sight, isn't it?" The rays of the lantern did not awaken the multitude of monkeys asleep in the great cage. They lay in a hundred attitudes. Here a slumbering mother held her slumbering baby in her arms; there a formidable male lay by himself in a cleared space; a fat monkey in a corner snored. Not one of these monkeys slept on his back. "Do you see?" said the keeper. "They lie on their sides, on their stomachs, every which way, but there isn't one allying on his back. There never is. No monkey ever was found sleeping on his back. Sometimes as I consider their intelligence and their manifold virtues it seems to me that the fact that monkeys never sleep on their backs is the chief difference between them and human beings." A Dream of Opulence. Were I a multimillionaire I'd have a lot of things; My ooop and splendor should compare With earth's most potent kings. I'd build a secrete incarnates great In which I seldom knelt; I'd own a forested estate Where shade I never felt. I'd have a pay roll full of names Of folks I never knew. And pictures set in massive frames Which would come from view. I'd build a palace with rooms Where I might walk alone. And splendid gardens rich with blooms Which died to me unknown. A lot of colleges I'd rear Whose precepts I'd not heed; And libraries both far and near, With books I'd never read. Awake with me both day and day, I'd nurse my golden store. Where others worked eight hours a day I'd toll the twenty-four. —Washington Star. Lese Majesty a Heinous Crime Lese Majesty a Heinous Crime. One hundred and twenty-five paragraphs of the German statute book are devoted to detailing how fine or imprisonment may be earned by that most heinous of crimes, leze majesty. Words or action, private or public, are liable to be challenged, and there is nothing—in law—to prevent one or two people talking together denouncing the other for speaking disrespectfully of the wielder of the malled fist Clock Made of Slate. Perhaps the most unique timepiece in existence is owned by Humphrey O. Pritchard, a slate quarryman of Delta, Pa. The varieties he used include the Peach Bottom blue slate anl the red, green and purple slate of Vermont. One hundred and sixty-four separate pieces of this material were used in the construction and are held together by twenty-three dozen small metal screws. Many of the slate sheets are as thin as paper, and scores were broken before the timepiece was finished. The clock is four feet high, two feet wide and one foot deep. It has a cathedral gong and is lighted by nine incandescent bulbs. The work, which is really artistic, was done by Pritchard during idle moments at the quarry, and eight months' time was required in its completion. LOW AIM IS CRIME. Greatly begin! Though thou have time Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime;— Not failure, but low alm is crime. A Teacher'a Testimony. Hinton, Ky., Oct. 30th.—(Special.)—It has long been claimed that Diabetes is incurable, but Mr. E. J. Thompson, teacher in the Hinton school, has pleasing evidence to the contrary. Mr. Thompson had Diabetes. He took Dodd's Kidney Pills and is cured. In a statement he makes regarding the cure Mr. Thompson says: "I was troubled with my kidneys for more than two years and was treated by two of the best doctors in this part of the state. They claimed I had Diabetes and there was little to be done for me. Then I started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and what they did for me was wonderful. It is entirely owing to Dodd's Kidney Pills that I am now enjoying good health." Many doctors still maintain that Diabetes is incurable. But Diabetes is a kidney disease and the kidney disease that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure has yet to be discovered. Blow Too Much For Pat. While Pat Kern, a sturdy young Irishman of Philadelphia, was standing on a ladder cleaning windows a lawyer approached and called out to him that an uncle living in Ireland had died, leaving him $100,000. Pat promptly fell from the ladder at the shock. He was not hurt, however, and soon went back to his task. "When are you going to quit work?" was asked. "When I get the money," came the retort. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colds. 20ca bottle. Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee thee glad; A poor man, served by thee, shall make thee rich; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use, they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in $ \frac{1}{4} $ pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12 oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. The man who laughs his way through the world leaves it with just as much in his possession as the man who fights his way through. DON'T FORGET A large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The swing in the next yard is always a favorite. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We the understudies, have known F. J. Cheney who have carefully made an effort to obtain a cure for all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALKING WITH A MARY Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the patient and appears free. Price 25 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. When a girl has curly hair it is a sign she does not think much of the beauty of girls who haven't. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N. Minnesapolis, Minn. Jan. 6. 1900. Being a sinner wouldn't be such a bad job if people would let you alone at it. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 60 cigar made of extra quality tobacco. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, ill. Wealth may be a great care, but a girl naturally expects great care when she marries. MISS WAITE'S WISH GRATIFIED Ceremony of Recognition That Was Almost Overdone. Miss Mary Walte, the only daughter of the late chief justice of the United States, lives quietly in an apartment in Washington since the death of her mother. Although her son is turning gray, she has youthful eyes and sprightly ways. She is fond of relating a story which now for the first time finds its way into print. "One day," says Miss Walte, "I said to Justice Harlan, "How is it that none of you ever bow to me when I come to the supreme court room. Several ladies who have gone there have said to me, 'Justice So-and-So bowed to me.' I feel quite neglected." "Some weeks after this conversation I went to the court room near the close of the session, that my father and I might go home together. I slipped into a seat and was quietly enjoying myself, when a man leaned forward, laying a finger on my shoulder. 'Excuse me, miss,' he said, 'but perhaps you'd like me to tell you who they all are. That's Justice Brewer over there, and Justice Field next him, and there's Chief Justice Walter in the middle.' "'Excuse me,' I interrupted, 'but perhaps I know them quite as well as you.' "At this moment I raised my eyes to the judges' bench and realized with a gasp that every gray head of them was making inclination to me. The notoriety hunter back of me gulped out, 'Who are you, miss?' Gathering my skirts about me, I hurried from the court room, the man at my heels. But he never caught me, for I knew those halls, as I did the justices, better than he did."—New York Herald. A Georgian's Will. A correspondent sends us a copy of an old will on record in the office of the ordinary of Lumpkin county, Georgia. After appointing three executives, he "solemly" requests them "to law N. Nicholson to the full extent of the law. I impute my cramp colic to his injustice to me." He further requests that "they pay themselves and our attorneys and spend as much as is necessary in buying a slab and place on it: 'Here lies the remains of S. Douglas Crane. Born the 8th of November, 1800, who served five years in the Georgia legislature and never lost a day; and dies in the full faith of the Methodist doctrine and in full hope, to which church he wills $50." In conclusion, the testator requests "to be buried on the highest hill in the graveyard with the honors of war, a colonel's salute—Law Notes. The Dark Hour. When the blight of the night presses down on my head and the slow Coming on of the dawn in the town finds the heart of me low; When the grays of the dawn is the shade of the shroud of shroud— One that drapes phantom shapes as if made of the mist of a cloud— Then thought goes for naught and the For a balm that will calm it or blind it with dreams that are sweet; Then the soul in its doe stands all with the unprotected and bare, And the hues of the darkness descends on it there! Then the weight of a fate that is stronger than life, or than death. Seen it the weight of the no longer holds pulses or break. But, lo! As the woe of the spirit is deepest, a word Of release and of peace—can you hear The dawning of morning is here—the reprieve of the day— And the sunshine has won over fear and has driven him away! But, oh! it is slow—and I wonder some- Why Norah Was Worried. My maid Norah went to consult a fortune teller and returned wailing dismally. "Did she predict some great trouble?" I asked sympathetically. "Och, mem, sich therrible news!" moaned Norah, rocking back and forth wringing her hands. "Tell me," I said, wishing to comfort the girl. "She tould me that me father wurks hard shovelin' coal an' 'tindin' fores fer a livin'." "But that's no disgrace nor sorrow," I said, a trifle vexed at such affectation. "Och, mem, me poor father!" sobbed Norah. "He's bin dead these noine years!"—Judge. Insinuating. The following story is told of one of the former governors of Georgia: It seems that he was out walking one morning, a few days prior to his election, when he met an old negro. The following conversation took place: "Morning, Marse John." "Good morning, uncle." "You all is looking mighty fine." "Yes, I feel pretty good." "Do you know what you looks like, Marse John?" "No. What do I look like?" "You looks as if you had a dollah in youh pocket and was runnin' foah Governor." Feminine Logic. After the tea things had been cleared away the young wife came over and sat on hubby's knee, put her plump arms about his neck and kissed him half a dozen times. "Well, what is it now?" she queried. "A new dress, dear," she answered. "But don't you know that times are awfully hard just at present?" he queried. "Of course I do," she replied. "That's why I want to give the poor dressmaker something to do."—Chicago News. Pensions to Confederates. Texas, in the fiscal years 1906 and 1907, will pay $900,000 to Confederate veterans for pensions, besides expending $154,538 for the support of the Confederate home. SUFFERINGS UNTOLD. Kansas City Woman's Terrible Experience with Kidney Sickness. Mrs. Mary Cogin, 20th st. and Cleveland ave., Kansas City, Mo., says: "For years I was run down, weak, lame and sore. The kidney secretions were too frequent. Then dropy puffed up my ankles until they were a sight to behold. Doctors gave me up, but I be gan using For years I was run down, weak, I am me and sore. The kidney secretions were too frequent. Then dropsy puffed up my ankles until they were a sight to behold. Doctors gave me up, but I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and the remedy cured me so that I have been well ever since, and have had a fine baby, the first in five that was not prematurely born." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. How Balfour Gets News Although Mr. Balfour is one of the foremost men of the day, he asserts that he never reads the newspapers. Many persons have wondered not how he keeps abreast of the times, but how he seems conversant with so many little incidents apparently culled from daily columns. It appears that though Mr. Balfour doesn't read the newspapers, Miss Alice Balfour does, and some of her friends say that she is a sort of clipping bureau for her distinguished brother. Miss Balfour, who keeps house for the bachelor prime minister, is a diligent reader of news and cuts out whatever she thinks he ought to see and tells him all about it. PARALYSIS CURED Case Seemed Hopeless but Yielded to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Kenney has actually escaped from the paralytic fate to which he seemed a short time ago hopelessly doomed. The surprising report has been fully verified and some important details secured in a personal interview with the recent sufferer. "The doctor," said Mr. Kenney, "told me that if I wanted to live any length of time I would have to give up work altogether, and he told my friends that the paralysis which had begun would in time involve my whole body." "Just how were you afflicted at this time?" Mr. Kenney was asked. "Well, I had first hot, and then cold and clammy feelings, and at times my body felt as if needles were being stuck into it. These sensations were followed by terrible pains, and again I would have no feeling at all, but a numbness would come over me, and I would not be able to move. The most agonizing tortures came from headaches and a pain in the spine. "Night after night I could not get my natural sleep and my system was wrecked by the strain of torturing pains and the effect of the opiates I was forced to take to induce sleep. As I look back on the terrible suffering I endured during this period I often wonder how I retained my reason through it all. "But relief came quickly when I was induced to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. The very first box seemed to help me, and seven boxes made me entirely well. There can be no doubt about the thoroughness of my cure, for I have worked steadily ever since and that is nearly four years." Mr. Kenney is at present employed by the Merrimac Hat Company and resides at 101 Aubin street, Amesbury, Mass. The remedy which he used with such satisfactory results, is sold by all drugists, or direct by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenected, N.Y. Uncanny Package. When M. Levich, a pawnbroker of Des Moines, Ia., opened a package which was left with him last Tuesday; evening he found the head of a woman. A bullet had penetrated the skull. The police began work at once to trace the man who pawned the package. They believed they had a murder mystery on their hands, but late at night a medical student claimed the skull as his property, thus solving the mystery. It is believed the skull was palmed off on the pawnbroker as a joke. Hurry & Worry attract lots of attention, but Slow & Sure do the bulk of the business. Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh—Medicine Sent Free. These two diseases are the result of an awful poisoned condition of the blood. If you have aching joints and back, shoulder blades, bone pains, crippled hands, legs or feet, swollen joints and that tired, discouraged feeling of rheumatism, or the hawking, spitting, blurred eyesight, deafness, sick stomach, headache, noles in the head, mucous throat, discharges, decaying teeth, bad breath, belching gas of catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B, B), kills the bacteria which causes these awful symptoms, giving a pure, healthy blood supply to the joints and mucous membranes, and makes a perfect cure of the worst rheumatism or foulest catarrh. Cures where all else fails. Blood Balm (B), kills the bacteria which causes these awful symptoms, good for wenk kidneys. Improves the digestion, cures dyspepsia. A perfect tonic for old folks by giving them new, rich. pure blood. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Druggies $1 per large bottle, with complete directions for home cure. Suitable for children by Balm Co. Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice sent in sealed letter. Some people put so much trust in God that they get too lazy to help themselves. Don't you know that Defiance Starch besides being absolutely superior to any other, is put up 16 ounces in package and sells at same price as 12-ounce packages of other kinds? Cheerupathy is a school of medicine that requires no entrance fee or examinations. ANTI-GRIPINE WAS NO EQUAL REACH IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't call Anti-Gripine to a dealer who won't Guarantee It. Call for my MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Diemer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED. SEND FOR FREE LINKS. TREATISK OR OPERAL D. THORNTON & MINOR NOI 31 ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRANCH WITH OFFICE AT 31 ST. LOUIS) W.L. DOUGLAS MAKES AND SELLS MORE MEN'S $3.50 SHOES THAN ANY OTHER MANUFACTURER. $10,000 REWARD to anyone who can disprove this statement. W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes have by excellent style, easy tipping and wearing qualities, achieved the largest rate of any $3.50 shoe in the world. They are just as good as those that cost you $5.00 to $7.00—the only difference in the price could take you into my shoes. Brockton, Mr. Douglas is the world under one roof making men's fire shoes, and show you the care with which every pair of Douglas shoes is made, you would realize that your shoes are the best shoes produces in the world. If I could show you the difference between the shoes made in my factory and those of other makes, you would understand why Douglas shoes are the best shoes in their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe on the market to-day. CAUTION—Insist upon having W.L. Douglas shoes. Take no substitute. None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. WANTED. A shoe dealer in every town where W.L. Douglas Shoes are not sold. Full line of samples sent free for inspection upon request. Fast Color Eyelids used; they will not wear brass. Write for Illustrated Catalog of Fall Styles. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. The Government of Canada 100 ACRE IN FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Gives absolutely FREE to every settler one hundred and sixty acres of land in Western Canada. Land adjoining this can be purchased from railway and land companies at from $5 to $10 per acre. On this land this year has been produced upwards of twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre. It is also the best of grazing land and for mixed farming it has no superior on the continent. Splendid climate, low taxes, railways convenient, schools and churches close at hand. Write for "Twentieth Century Canada" and low railway rates to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada; or to authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) MEN WHO MAKE MONEY on fruit spray with "THE HARDIE SPRAY PUMP" Agents wanted everywhere. A postal will bring our proposition. THE HOOK-HARDIE CO.. Box 19 :: Hudson, Mich. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHAT ALL CAN USE Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO. 148 Third Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois Give Full Address and Write Plainly. The $1.00 bottle contains nearly three times the 50c size At drug stores. The genuine has a date and number stamped on the label—take no other from your druggist. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion. Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Finger of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Almond Seed - Ribbonella Salts - Amine Seed + Hypericine - Bilberry Seeds Salts + Herry Seed - Cinnamon Sugar Whittygreen Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Pitcher. NEW YORK. At 16 months old 35 Doses - 35 CINES EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. PRICE, 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE MAS NO EQUAL FOR WEADABLE W.L. DOUBLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOEMAKER SOLE AGENTS FOR W.L. DOUBLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6, 1878. (Mention this paper.) The Genuine TOWER'S POMMEL SLICKER HAS BEEN ADVERTISED AND SOLD FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY. LIKE ALL TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF CLOTHING. It is made of the best materials, in black or yellow. every guaranteed. reliable dealers everywhere. STICK TO THE SIGN OF THE FISH. TOWER CANADIAN CO. Limited. TORONTO, CAN. BOSTON, PAS. 1A4. We refuse to be alarmed at this talk about the danger of a return of the erinoline. Bad as it was, there was something good in it. You Have No Right to Suffer From Constipation, Bowel and Stomach Trouble. Q. What is the beginning of sickness? A. Constipation. Q. What is Constipation? A. Failure of the bowels to carry off the waste matter which lies in the alimentary canal where it decays and poisons the entire system. Eventually the waste material enters with the name of some other disease. Note the deaths from kyphoid fever and appendicitis, stomach and bowel trouble at the present time. Q. What causes Constipation? A. Neglect to respond to the call of nature promptly. Lack of exercise. Excessive brain work. Mental emotion and improper diet. Q. What are the results of neglected Constipation? A. Constipation causes more suffering than any other disease. It causes thethematic colds, fevers, stomach, bowel, kidney, lung and heart troubles, etc. It is the one disease that starts with constipation. It causes of sleep and strength are its symptoms—piles, appendicitis and fistula, are caused by Constipation. Its consequences are known to all physical and few sufferers realize their condition until it is too severe. The condition confirmed as a result of Constipation. Q. Do physicians recognize this? A. Yes. The first question your doctor asks you is "are you constipated?" That is the secret. Q. Can it be cured? A. Yes, with proper treatment. The common error is to resort to physics, such as pills, salts, mineral water, castor oil injections, etc. Every time you resort to these remedies, you will increase the malady. You know this by your own experience. Q. What then should be done to cure it? A. Get a bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic at once. Mull's Grape Tonic is a constipation and Stomach Trouble in the stomach space of time. No other remedy has before been known to cure Constipation positively and permanently. Q. What is Mull's Grape Tonic? A. It is a Compound with 40 per cent of the juice of a pear. It strengthens, heals influence upon the intestines, so that they can do their work unadvised. The process is gradual but sure. It is not a miracle. It is an effective constipation. Stomach and Bowel Trouble. Having a rich, fruity grape flavor, it is pleasant to take. As a tonic it is unequalled, insuring the system is healthy. It strengthens and builds up waste tissue. Q. Where can Mull's Grape Tonic be had? A. Your drugist sells it. The dollar bottle contains nearly three times the 50-cent size. A free bottle to all who have never used $ because we know it will cure you. Send this coupon with your name and address and your drugstress name, for a free bottle of Mull's Grape Tonic for Stomach and Bowels, to The genuine has a date and number stamped on the label—take no other from your drugstist. OUT OF THE ORDINARY Cide to a Comrade True. I would sing you the lay of a faithful friend. A friend that is stanch and true In his company all of my troubles end. A friend that thought that's fine Can enter our comradeship, bibte and gay. Is rocate sky to dim. For all life's worries I cast away When spending an hour with him. We journey after, into fancy land, Adrift on the tide of dreams, And, swiftly our bargains, at the thought's command. commun. Sallis and mind wondrous streams. Where no one may follow and none can guess. The marvelous sights we see; Where the heavens are blue and the winds are white. The soul into harmony. Shall I tell you the name of my comrade true? Yes, yes—for the time is ripe. I will make his identity clear to you— His name is A Meerschaum Blue —Lisle's Weekly. Wird Funeral of a Maori Chief. Major Te Keepa Rangipuawhe, the last of the great chiefs of the Arawa tribes of New Zealand, who died at the age of 80, has been accorded a remarkably weird funeral at Rotorua, New Zealand. After his death the Arawa tribes assembled for the obsequies and held a "tangl" for three weeks—weeping and feasting. A military funeral was accorded by the government and the procession, which was strangely diverse in character, comprised many hundreds of natives and Europeans. The body, covered with the Union Jack, was carried by native chiefs to a grave on the summit of a conical hill, while Maori children chanted hymns, and part of the funeral ceremony consisted of throwing hundreds of loaves of bread into the air for the sustenance of the departed chief. Will Raise Snakes for Revenue: Probably more snakes, imaginative or real, are seen in Foxboro, Mass, than in any other town in the United States, yet Cyrus J. Brownell of Worcester proposes to add to the number by establishing there a snake farm which will be the only one of its kind in New England. The purpose of the novel business is to raise the reptiles to get snake oil, which is not only considered very effective in curing muscular troubles, but commands a high price in the market. Brownell appreciated this, and so went down South, caught some snakes himself, and made arrangements to have others sent him from time to time. Buried in Coffin of Glass. That glass coffin in which Tomagno, the great singer, was buried the other day, was not the first which has inclosed a curious character. There was a miserly Sir Thomas Bancroft, who in old London days heaped up great riches. Even when his time came to die he could not bring himself to give his property away and so he left his estate to be improved until he should rise again, which he expected shortly to do. He had a window built in his coffin, movable from the inferior and windows and a glazed door to his tomb, and ordered that at frequent intervals these should be opened and himself inspected by the trust. s. But the later had had enough of the gentleman. They built almshouses with his estate. Fishing for Sheep In Bay When sheep were first introduced into Cornwall a flock which had strayed from the uplands on to Gwithian Sands were caught there by the tide and ultimately carried into St. Ives bay during the night. There the floating flock was observed from the St. Ives fishing boats, whose crews, never having seen sheep, took them for some new kind of fish and did their best to secure them by books and lines and by netting. Those they secured they brought home triumphantly next morning as a catch to which even pilchards were as nothing. Nose Cause of Deafness Dr. Wallace Mackenzie of Wellington, New Zealand reports the case of a healthy man who came to him because of deafness following an operation on his nose. Examination revealed the fact that both nostrils had grown together. The man was chloroformed, the nostrils reopened with the knife and prevented from growing together again by placing in each a little clyinder of celluloid prepared from photographic film. Two weeks after the operation hearing was greatly improved and eventually almost completely restored. Man's Handy Coat. A tailor of Cape Town, South Africa, is said to have invented a coat which may be turned at will into a frock, morning or evening dress coat. The transformation is effected by the use of detachable skirts, which are tasted to the coat by an ingenious system of lacing. It is said that a man can thus change his morning coat into a frock coat, or evening coat, in a couple of minutes by whipping off one pair of skirts and lacing on another, and that the join is not to be distinguished from an ordinary seam. Church Bell-Ringing Record. The Rev. F. E. Robinson, vicar of Drayton, England, and master of the Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers, has made a notable record, having rung his 1,000th peal, this being the first 1,000th peal of 5,000 changes and upward ever rung by one person. To celebrate the occasion he was presented with an address on behalf of the Oxford Society of Change Ringers. THE COMFORTER A congested vein pressing on a nerve accounts for the swelling, throbbing ache of Neuralgia St. Jacobs Oil frees the circulation, allays the pressure and soothes away the pain. Price, 25c. and 50c. Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripping apart. Write for free booklet - How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri. LAW URGED BY SELF-SEEKERS. An adroit but plausible scheme by which it is hoped to prejudice the sale of proprietary medicines is the proposition to prohibit the sale of any remedy which "contains poison" unless each package or bottle is expressly labeled "Poison." Such bills are also well designed to impose upon men who have no familiarity with the subject matter. The pretense of protecting the public health put forth in support of such bills is generally the merest subterfuge; and whenever you hear a demand for a law of this kind it originates with those who have a direct pecuniary interest to serve by destroying the sale of proprietary remedies. Some of the best and most widely used remedies in the world contain some one ingredient which, if taken in sufficient quantities, might be poisonous, and yet the preparation as a whole is not poisonous at all. Opium, for instance, is used in small quantities in many of the best cures for coughs, colic, diarrhea, etc., in toothache drops and in almost all limbments. To require such medicines to be falsely labeled "poison" would be merely a cunning device to alarm the public and thus bring about the destruction of the sale of those remedies, and indirectly to compel people to procure the medicine they want by the more expensive method of consulting a physician and getting his prescription. In other words, it is an effort to prevent them from getting cheaply the remedies which they and their fathers be fore them have used for many years.—Medical exchange. VIRTUE'S PRIZE What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. —Pope's "Essay on Man." Hundreds of dealers say the extra quantity and superior quality of Deiance Starch is fast taking place of all other brands. Others say they cannot sell any other starch. Faith is what you think you believe because you want to believe it. If you don't get the biggest and best it's your own fault. Deiance Starch is for sale everywhere and there is positively nothing to equal it in quality or quantity. To the sea-shell's spiral round Tis your heart that brings the sound The soft sea-murmurs that you hear Within, are captured from your ear. You do poets and their song A grievous wrong. If your own soul does not bring To their high imagining As much beauty as they sing. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich. ECZEMA FOR TWO YEARS. Little Girl's Awful Suffering With Terrible Skin Humor—Sleepless Nights for Mother—Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "My little girl had been suffering for two years from eczema, and during that time I could not get a night's sleep, as her ailment was very severe. I had tried so many remedies, deriving no benefit, I had given up all hope. But as a last resort I was persuaded to try Cuticura, and one box of the Ointment and two bottles of the Resolvent, together with the Soap, effected a permanent cure—Mrs. L. B. Jones, Addington, Ind. T." Here is Relief for Women. Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, discovered a pleasant herb remedy for women'sills, called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF. It is the only certain monthly regulator. Cures female weaknesses, Backache, Kidney and Urinary troubles. At all Drugsists or by Mail Notes, Sample FREE. Address. The Mother Gray Co., Lefoy, N. Y. People who live in Whineyville sell dom see the sun. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. It's a safe bet that those who practice best are not a howling success when it comes to preaching. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 24" package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. This is the season when the rocking chair on the veranda resigns in favor of the parlor sofa. Dealers say that as soon as a customer tries Defiance Starch it is impossible to sell them any other cold water starch. It can be used cold or boiled. Knowledge was never intended to be the servant of vanity—and it isn't. THE CO A congested vein pressing on a nerve a Neur St. Jac frees the circulation, allays the p Price. 25c PUTNAM OPERATIONS AVOIDED Two Grateful Letters from Women Who Avoided Serious Operations. Many Women Suffering from Like Conditions Will Be Interested. Margrite Ryan Margret Merkley Send postal for "Book of Presents" KG 5 OUNCES FOR 25¢ MAKING POWDER MANUFACTURED ONLY JAques Mfg. CHICAGO, NEW YORK, KANSAS MAKING MARK DEPARTMENT MAY CAN GUARANTEE Do you know the secret of the Wave Circle? Wonderful! Don't delay another day! Send for KC right a- way. It's purer and more efficient than any Bak- ing Powder that costs three times as much. 25 oz. for 25c. All grocers Jaques Mfg. Co. Chicago When a physician tells a woman, suffering from ovarian or womb trouble, that an operation is necessary it, of course, frightens her. The very thought of the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. As one woman expressed it, when told by her physician that she must undergo an operation, she felt that her death knell had sounded. Our hospitals are full of women who are there for ovarian or womb operations! It is quite true that these troubles may reach a stage where an operation is the only resource, but such cases are much rarer than is generally supposed, because a great many women have been cured by Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after the doctors had said an operation must be performed. In fact, up to the point where the knife must be used to secure instant relief, this medicine is certain to help. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who, by taking Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, have escaped serious operations. Margrite Ryan, Treasurer of St. Andrew's Society, Hotel English, Indianapolis, Ind., writes of her curse as follows: Dear Mrs. Pinkham: "I cannot find words to express my thanks for the good Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did me. The doctor said I could not get well unless I had an operation for ovarian and female troubles. I knew I could not stand the strain of an operation and made it worse. Ask Mr. Ryan for a life." Send postal for "Book of Presents" Send for KC right a- way. It's purer and more efficient than any Bak- ing Powder that costs three times as much. 25 oz. for 25c. All grocers IMPORTANT FACTS FOR COW OWNERS The mechanical Cream Separator has become a vital feature of every home dairy just as of every butter factory. Its use means much more and much better cream and butter, as well as saving of water, ice, time and room. The difference in results is not small but big. Few cows now pay without a separator. Dairying is the most profitable kind of farming with one. 98% of the creamery butter of the world is now made with De Laval machines, and there are over 500,000 farm users besides. Send for catalogue and name of nearest local agent. THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. Randolph & Canal Sts. CHICAGO 74 Cortlandt Street NEW YORK SCALES FOR FARMERS. Buy the cheapest and best. Send for prices. Chicago Scale Co., Chicago, Ill. DEFIANCE STARCH. Caestet to work with and starches clothes most. MFORTER accounts for the swelling, throbbing ache of ralgia obs Oil pressure and soothes away the pain. Hearing how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had saved other women from serious operations I decided to try it, and it, less than four months I was entirely cared for, and words failed to express my thankfulness." Miss Margret Merkelley of 275 3d Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham— "Loss of strength, extreme nervousness, severe shooting pains through the poiley organs, cramps, bearing down pains and extreme irritation, compelled me to seek an examination, said that I had ovarian trouble and infection, and advised an operation as my only hope. To this I strongly objected and I decided as a last resort to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. To my surprise the observation healed all the bad symptoms disappeared. I am now not expressing, visibly and well, and I can express my thanks for what it has done for me. Ovarian and womb troubles are steadily on the increase among women—and before submitting to an operation every woman should try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and write Mrs. P. Akham at Lynn, Mass., for advice. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been curing the worst forms of female complaints, all ovarian troubles, inflammation ulceration, falling and displacement of the womb, lencorrhea, irregularities, indigestion and nervous prostration. Any woman who could read the many grate'ul letters on file in Mrs. Pinkham's office would be convinced of the efficiency of her advice and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Do you know the secret of the Wave Circle? Wonderful! Don't delay another day! Jaques Mfg. Co. Chicago PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC FOR WOMEN troubled with lilts peculiar to their sex, used as a douche is marvelously successful. Thoroughly cleanses, kills disease gorms, stops discharges, heals inflammation and local sewing. Fasting is in powder form to be dissolved in pure water, and is far more cleansing, healing, germicidal and economical than liquid antiseptics for all. TOILET AND WOMEN'S SPECIAL USES For sale at struggling garments Trial Sale and Book of Instructions Free. THE R. PATTON COMPANY BOSTON, MA. Make your Buggy a Sleigh for $8.00 Freight Frepaid Quick Shipments As we ship it Write it (CIRL Lack description, but reliable, inexpensive invention, also our Sleigh Catalog, 30 styles) The Tony Pony Line Catalog of Ponies and Pony Rigs for boys and girls (We buy, sell and raise Sheetland Ponies) Our new, large, illustrated, 1966 vehicle catalog, showing 15 Modern styles, High Grade Vehicles, now ready. All Free. MICHIGAN BUGGY CO., Manufacturers No. 100 Office Bldg. KAILAMAZOO, MICHIGAN Coney Island Souvenir Post Cards. 816 beautiful colored scenes for $25. Coney Island Postal Card Co., Coney Island, N. V. Rugs FROM YOUR Old Carpets Guaranteed to wear 10 years. Price list free. Kansas City Hug Co., Kansas City, Mo. W. N. U. KANSAS CITY, NO. 44, 1905. Unafflicted with sore eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water KELLEY'S } FLOUR _ sige | B E Ss » ' Kelley’s Best i | Beats all the Rest. IGH PATE Kelley Miling Co, Foxes and Their Burrows. For the statement that foxes have Roles there is not only the authority ‘of natural history but of Gospel. The typical habitation of the fox is @ hole fo the ground. Running to earth” and “digging out are well known ine eidents of the Enatich sport. The fox fea wise toast in all things, wise enough to rent the burrow of any ant mai, but in defauit of seh abodes he ts quite capable of digging for him- self, and that woh remarkable speed, Good Proof of Guilt. When Witham Mo Kvarts was. a young man he defended in court a man tamed Fedwards, who was charged with forgery, The trial was an interesting vn Mr. Evarts by brilliant work ed hts nt acquittal, He had a strong betlet that the man was funecent until the trial was all over, Then he changed his opinion. Fdwards paid Mr. Evarts his few with a fo heeh Caan Tavern Slane. A tavern sign seen in vations parts of England is “The Dos's Head in a Pot,” accompanyine the paluting of a dog cating out of a threelegged pot, which may serm fo mean that the host fs kind and his viands good. Another eignificant sign is “Five Miles from Anywhere, No Hurry,” seen in Hamp shire, a pleasant reminder that it 18 an agreable place to linger Nourishment in Skim Milk. In kkimming milk the cream re moved lessens the fat percentage, and for older people or fat children the skim milk is equally desirable, in some cases better, In eating apples the ekin, too, should be eaten, Pared apples are not so nutritions, as the ash contents of the apple skin are valuable to the human system, Peculiar Order to Trainmen. Tho following notice was observed posted in the engine dispatcher's office at the roundhouse in a neighboring town on one of the railroad lines run: ning out of Albany: °‘Trainmen on passenger trains must not go through the coaches with overails on, without first taking them off.”—Atbany Jour nal. Vietima of Official Pleacure. The viceroy of the Two Kuang prov- {nees, China, recently put out a procla: mation that no pawnshop was to take arms in pawn, Tel tater himself tn noed of finds, he sent his own agente with arms to pledge, Five shops ae cepted them; and these afterward pald fines in the amount of $7,250 each, Needless Pother. It fs a reflection on our intelligence that we spend so much time on our food, and so much more time in talke ing about it, We must eat, of course, Yt what a needless pother there 18 avout the dishes, and the cookery, and the garnish! — Mlustrated London News. Poets and Irresponsibility. Ports are wayward creatures, large ly Irresponsible for thelr actions, oF, fat all events, provided with such @ curiously sensitive and inflammable organization that we feel it wonld be unjust to judge them by ordinary standards.—London Telegraph, Reail is emman 46: Manbind: All men have thetr frailties, and whoever looks for a friend without Amperfection will never find what he seeks. We love ourselves notwithe standing our faults and we ought to Jove our friends in like manner.— Cyrus, Norway Loans to Farmers. Farmers can borrow money from the government in Norway at 3 per cont Interest, and still the Norse mish to other lands, The reason is that the collateral on which to borrow is Father difficult to get in Norway, Cigarette Case Saves Life. Returning to his house at Argen- teuil, in France, Mr. Hugh Gooding was shot at by a discharged employe, the bullet flattening itsel€ axainst. a silver cigarette case, which he carried just over his heart, The Only Religious Test. No religious test has been devised, short of burning a man at the stake— the ultimate and only satisfactory test—which will operate as a trust: worthy criterion of sincere belief,— Mr, Asquith, Don't Foraet That-— Self pity is one of the states that in- terferes most effectually with making the right use of circumstances, ‘To pity one’s self is destruction wall possible frecdom.— Exchange, You can always see good bargains when you are broke. “FOLLOW THE FLAG” 1 \ vp \ Na Wh Summer Schedule f TS Excelsior Springs “Ghe Beautiful Health Resort” Beginning Sunday, May 7th and daily thereafter 8 follows: * Leave Union Depot 8:30 and 10:20 A. M.; 6:10 and 7:00 P. M. $1.00 Round Trip, 30 days limit, re Wabash Office, 903 Main Street and Union Depot. OOO WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By Aine vas Live FORD'S “ORIGINAL. OZONIZED OX MARROW fsa ag tyke eaten a ore aa ee ge Nag betty Se ae Mestehcanett Ana emai ieee eh elma ie Batty eee ME GEEy oe a nea OAL: Charlis Ford Best 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Minois, C Of Tailoring * S Finest on Earth “Clothes That Gentlemen Wear” 1025 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. y WE CARRY THE LARGEST ‘| 3 line of London Woolens of ML Io any Tailoring establishment in the Q world and cater especially for the colored trade. GIVE OS A CALL @ THEODORE SMITH, DRUGGIST. Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, raowes {Banta owes] Hepa tens KANSAS CITY, MO. Dealer in Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, Stationery, Ete. Give us an Order by Phone and See it We are not there with the Goods. oe > 3 009% ° e oo ° oe @ In yyy yy C2 ? n Ooo e URI ST st oe ° BEN ATE l S $ JAMIN: FR SCHOOL e $ 3 COLL ANKLIN FOR C 3 3 nae aie A he 3 US ih TT! \. ae eae LoD OUT $ 3 Se ea CuCEEE: 2 5 a Neill 3 . VANTA\ ring. St ce . ‘N- : o Bie GES: ype a rien eaten $ z sh Mover Useless shoe makig, Sab-Normat states oo rs makings F Yoel, $ $ ae sce a $ PENSAR Moe toa wa ay 3 IN FR gre aa : oe J ANKL For Ae ante yea itertes : Perret INA an pan or Pep eas Bee oo IN Cr N, A eat tention ° bssk » ALM stints ar si ay 2 Oo ‘ips res @ oo 'e ® 0000 3 oo sTRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ; eeeeIB THR. eee JENTURY Dining Room $923 Market Strret, ST. LOUIS, MO, MEALS AT ALL HOURS, ryeters in any Style. Services atetuay \ret-olass, Ladies and Gents dine ap vaire. ZT. JOBOAN, Manager American Plan All Modern Improvements HOTEL McRAY 721-723 Charlotte St., K. C., Mo Room and Board $5.00 per week. Rooms without Board $2. Siugle Meals 25 cents, Hot and Cold Baths Included. BEN McRAY, Prop. and my... y | Can Sell Your Real Estate or Business No Matter Where Located ye A | ncn toreratinelt Se PO i ng'tiesu have t eee [ie A. P. TONE WILSON, Jr. TOPEKA, KANS. DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meats, Vegetables and Notions. SOUTHWEST CORNER 6TH AND CHARLOTTE. Especially caters to the colored people, Ieee Saou’ hoes Gus Wain ese WEIS: Still Chance for Scientists, Unawarded for a long time, and therefore still on the list of the Lom- bardy institute, is the special prize by Commeno for the discovery of hydro: phobia poison. 46 e ” Maine “Ag Anchor S. H. Finkelstein, Prop. Carries a complete line of Furnishing goods, Hats, Shoes and Umbrellas wt We Also Make Suits to Your Measure OUR MOTTO: YOUR MONEY’S WORTH e805 MAIN ST. KANSAS CiITy, mo. Uncle Allen. “They say worth makes the man,” philosophized Uncle Allen Sparks, “but nowadays he has to be worth a million to be much of a man.” Ghe Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. ———@ @e@8 00008088 —— 7m Hest Stoves Made. ee | Largest Stock in City. oe Prioce the Lowest. mre 5 Clee ttea? Wholesale and Retall Peninsular Eka sayh al (Coa Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Bur Reaksieet cot ners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the.. Hae. ae | 1 Peninsular Stove Ge RSS OES Tinh for cot ant Wood, Cermen ee Oak Stoves, Schill Bee! Ranges and Farnnece ia Beene | TIN WORK @ Speolaity SRE oe “ Window and Door Soreens and Refrigerators eat ahd "Phone 145#. aes RN oe Pesce is 1329 Grand Ave. Feitaare nana nay. ie une. ‘of someth Ine ‘renter, ume ‘Kad? took tne elevator, Ton time “Phllndelphia Ledger, Lightning Rod Revival. There is a revival of interest in Mghtning rods in France. Wanted His Money’s Worth. A. southern congressman tells a tory of an old negro in Alabama who, in his bargaining, 1s always afraid that he may get “the worst of it.” On one oceasion, it appears, this aged larkey went after a calf that he had pastured all summer, and asked what he owned for the pasturing: “L have a bill of $10 against you,” said the farmer who had undertaken the care of the animal, “but, if you are willing, I'll take the calf and call it settled “No sah!” promptly exclaimed the negro, “I'll do nothing like dat. But,” he adder, after a pause, “Ill tell you what I will do—you keep the calf two weeks longer and you can have it.’— Harper's: Weekly, GURLI CURE, A CURE FOR CURLS ) Youowe it Gam A GBS success—both If to yourself, as qT) & Yi TY] socially and wellastoothers WAM) 2 AA) commercially. who are inter- UP Positively noth- ested in you, to a ing detracts so, make yourself as 4 much from your attractive as pos- appearance as sible. 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TAKEN FROM LIFE AYTER TWO WEEKS’ VsE OF CURL.LCURE wen yu mact a prion your frat impreaan fe uittCure nan deat tafe preparation and maxes hy sons ser ie nak nai tt ric tom tr gems m,n an ats he ane Faeries Keats Contactcr Mele Remunty, good Dewees fr, Wen amaer sha ck Ltailp st wee Ie reat ofthe ohne ke Ace” ear wba oy ane edn mer, at Niipeu'hare ne neiusalty vou enjoy no advaw «We gearanen I postlvely to do the work beter. taeed rere Wonetony and bay ont eaye witch ler and th fae oor eo tree heal Beat iyo anv ever sie int MMM Cafe malate olgby th, Lnaln eff tcnn i tet io ou Vo ack here Se Aaron al alm Me lr oat GortsGutt Ttcaneate nants for ows the SMa h Se re eh Sad Sect onan Efor been dlaroverd "nat been'ted (ye etdng fence at atte ay art ‘ae ke ged Girona vet ibe ord etery satan trroaas SU G&GS BT S"SU*Witethaeesta mri Seae'ta'a pelt trmuie or Sat cad as atone Kae ng (or ae LINCOLN CHEMICAL WORK, Aurora, ‘Remember the mer yo brash he hale tho sH// hal rash the sooner You ll bata te deserve Buukavemeinain® = CURL-I-CURE seatrexchmncusuee aren YOR UsMy Wea tea ooh meet ret play teryac teeta, fen 2) LINCOLN CHEMICAL WORKS, Aurora, Ilinois fry] “Hot Springs Special.” gs op . Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provided for by the @ ss aN 93 Re Ie 3° | 4 = es eo & Ciel Ler 39 #3 elas] &3 CRS oa ee Wi as ta Yi 5 Leaving Kansas City at 12:01 noon daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Indepen- dence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. ‘Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this “Hot Springs Special” is the Elegant Dining Cars, This train connects at Little Rock with the-Iron Mountain Trains for all Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, call or address , E. S. JEWETT, Gen’! Agt.Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY MO, ‘Telephone 740 Hickory. Theatrical News. ‘The new Hamlet looked toward the gallery as a half dozen eggs struck the stage and exploded. “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” So saying, he went out and told the grave diggers, who suspected Poor Yorrick. One Omaha woman loves her hus- band so much that she will even per- mit him to read his newspaper with- out interrupting him,