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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. FARMERS' CONVENTION AT LINCOLN INSTITUTE. Objects and Alma. PRESIDENT ALLEN'S ADDRESS. The Fourth Annual Farmers' Convention of Lincoln Institute was called to order at 9 a. m., November 10, by Dr. B. F. Allen, president. "America" with piano and orchestral accompaniment was sung with enthusiasm by the large audience of students and visiting friends from the city. The newly organized but already famous Lincoln Institute band played several stirring and patriotic airs, as "Stars and Stripes," "Uncle Sam." etc. The annual address was then given by Dr. Allen. As a preliminary remark he stated that one of the main objects of the Convention was to show the students assembled the value of farm life! the dignity of labor; and to correct prevalent erroneous impression relative to working in the soil. During the address the president referred to the wonderful resources of Missouri; the value of its land per acre; and urged the students to look forward to the purchase of some of that land or, to take up government land and work upon it. He urged the study of Political Economy that they might learn the laws of wealth; the laws of profit; of production and consumption, and entreated them to become producers as well as consumers. He spoke of the necessity of building up excellent communities in various parts of the state; of putting brain into one's work; and emphasizing the fact that the Negro must learn to have something that other people need if he hopes to demand proper respect from the world at large. He deplored the mortgage system which so many seem to invite, and urged the improvement of home life in every way. With literature at reduced rates, rural delivery, telephone connections, etc, there is today no excuse for ignorance on the part of the farmer. The speaker did not wish to be understood as telling every boy to go to the farm, but the race must have its quota of intelligent farmers, working with up-to-date implements and labor saving devices, if it is to be able to stand the competition of American life. He thought the Negro should acquire stability and the desire to accumulate; that he should not change his position too frequently without knowing a good reason for making the change, and that in everything we undertake, we should strive to measure up with the best; in other words he should give intelligent service and the best that is within us in every line of work. He feared that the Negro boy is not keeping up with the Negro girl in any line of work and urged the boys to put forth greater efforts. After the song, "Columbia," had been sung with characteristic energy President Allen called for speakers from the student body representing various counties of the state, and states of the Union. Among the responses were the following: Callaway and Boone — Benjamin Winn. Buchanan—Percy Robinson. Cole—Janette Howell. Howard—Richard Jackson. Jackson—Howard Hickerson. Johnson—Grant Tayse. Marion—Alice Shropshire. Randolph—Walter Viley. Ray—Lawrence Kimbrough. St. Francois—Kitsy Townsend. St. Louis—Ledlie Ford. Salline—Morton Henderson. Southwest Missouri—Merrs. Rucker and Shackelford. Texas had an interesting and hu- morous speaker in William Scott and Kansas in James Saunders of the college department. College yells enlivened the various speeches and the intervals. "The Star Spangled Banner" was rendered by the school in an artistic manner, and after closing remarks, in which President Allen cordially thanked all who had helped to make the session a success, the convention adjourned to meet at an early date (hereafter to be specified) in November, 1906. DR. B. F. ALLEN, President. JOSEPHINE S. YATES, Sec'y. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. The Clark 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'll no take an another foot off for anybody!" In Crimean Times In Crimean times (says the "Tattler") the Highland regiments were so full of Hiberlans 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'Callaghan, sorr!" Miss Lovey—I'm quite positive that he loves me deeply. Miss Wise—How do you know? Miss Lovey—Oh, I can tell by the sighs when he—Miss Wise—My dear girl, you can't gauge the depth of a man's love by its sighs.—Philadelphia Press. A LITTLE CHILD He that is to life be lifeguilt By the clinging of a child Hath, I know, great store of grace, And with Love a dwelling place; For all heaven hath dreamed and smiled In the sweet face of a child. —Frank L. Stanton. FALL TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS. It is fall time in the mountains, And the winds are singing low. While the verdure, green in summer, Turns to red and yellow glow. Leaves are falling from the aspen, And the pinecones tumble down; Creeping ivy, once so lusty, Now is seared and tinted brown. Faded flowers droop and wither In the shadow of fthe pine. And the columbine lies dying At the hoar frost's greedy shrine. Needle-pointed verdue flutters From the pinion to the earth There to lie until it mingles With the dust that gave it birth. Music-throated birds have vanished From the canons and the crest Where they sang through all the summer— Where they built their brooding nest. Merry laughing streams that gambol Over rocky pebbled bed Seem to join the winds in singing Farewell requiems for the dead. It is fall-time in the mountains, When the red and yellow hue Harmonize in perfect colors With the skies of azure blue. No human hand eer painted— No picture has been found— That can touch the grand old mountains When the leaves are on the ground. —A. U. Mayfield, Denver News. KANSAS CITY MO., FRIDAY, NOV.17, 1905. 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 Dumfriesshire, Scotland, which had been held by a family named Moffat since the year 1803, 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 Buccelech. 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. Kipling 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. 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 "What was it?" "He left me an orphan, sit!" 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. Pills 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. British Railroads Well Manned. American railroads have six employees for every mile of track and the British roads have twenty-eight. Income of Oxford College Income of Oxford College. The Income of Oxford University is slightly under $350,000 a year. 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., TopCka, 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. Skeltons 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 embezzler 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 Binnoville. It is rumored on reliable authority that Hen Wilson has left his wife again owing 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 Hain 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 to 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死 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 av anything about it in print. Mrs. Wilson herself told Mrs. Caroline Hooper 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 whereabouts is at present unknown—"Bling ville Bugle Items" in the Boston Post. ARTIST MET 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 courtly 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 had 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, bade his guest follow, which she readily did. On marched the stranger into the drawing room; then, placing his back to the fireplace, a familiar attitude, he claimed, to the amazement of his companion: "Now, what do you think of Ruskin?" From "The Glaur" From "The Glacier" Who bob hath bent him over the dead, Who bob hath bent him over the dead, The first day dark of Nothingness, The last Danger and Distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers, Have swept the lines where Beauty ling And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of Repose that's there, The fixed yet tender traits that streak Fresh, and yet tender traits that streak And—but for that sad surrendered eye, That fires not wins not, weeps not now And but for that chill, changeless brow Applies cold instruction's apathy Applies cold instruction's apathy As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon, Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, aye, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the Tyrant's power So far, so calm, so softly sealed, First last look by death reaped! Such the Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair He start, for Soul seems wanting there He starts, for Soul seems wanting there Parts not quite with sarting breath, But beauty with that fearful bloom. He hue which haunts it to the tomb, A glided Halo hovering round decay. The farewell beam of Feeling past away! Spark of that flame, perchance of heaven- ly birth, But warms no more to whiten. —Lord Byron. NUMBER 29 Quarterly meeting at the Zion A. M. E. church Sunday. Rev. George Sanders preached the funeral Sunday at the Second Baptist church. Rev. Stewart was in the city Monday. Rev. Clark of the M. E. church is preparing for his annual conference which will convene here in March. We hope every one will assist him in taking care of it. A reception was given in honor of Rev. A. Gilbert and wife on his return as pastor by Mrs. Ella Carter, Mrs. Mary Webb, Mrs. Mary Call, Mrs. Luela Davis, Mrs. Nany Hicks and the members of the church. It was a grand affair. The Execsor band furnished music for the occasion. A sad accident happened here in our city on the 9th. Miss Florence Hall caught on fire and was burned so it caused her death. She was a Christian young lady and was loved by all who knew her and we extend our heart-felt sympathy to the family. Rev. A. Gilbert is suffering from his eye and is hardly able to be out. He will have to be very particular with it or he will lose it. FINE FLOUR The Rising Son takes pleasure in commending to the highest the Kelly flour which has been used extensively by one of its managers who has established a restaurant in this city. This recommendation is made from experience. All grocers would do well to keep the flour produced by the Kelly Milling Company. THE JONES DRY GOODS COMPANY TO OCCUPY THE ENTIRE BLOCK By the signing of a 99-year lease, the Jones Dry Goods company and L. M. Jones and J. L. Jones together, came into control of all of the block between Walnut and Main streets and Twelfth and Thirteen streets, except only the Chapman building at the southwest corner of Twelfth and Walnut. The Jones brothers through a realty corporation control all that is not now occupied by the Jones Dry Goods company. This is the largest area under a single control in the retail business district in Kansas City. Manufacturing concerns, packing houses, stock yards and the like have large holdings, but no merchandising concern comes near controlling as many feet of valuable property. The frontage on Main street is 450 feet and the frontage on Walnut street 400 feet. While the Jones brothers hope that that some day the big white store may need all of the ground, they are not going to attempt to cover it immediately. 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 "cruel punson" 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 Arranging His Toilet. The king of gamblers sat alone With a mirror in his hand; One of his Fridays came along And took his watchful stand. "Why this mirror, O my king?" Thus did the Friday prate. "That I might see," the king replied, "If my lid is still on straight."—A. U. Mayfield, Denver News. The man who stubs his toe twice blames the nail. BEAR WRECKED AUTO GOT GLORIOUSLY EVEN FOR DEATH OF HER CUB. Peletiah Jones, Boss Hunter, Witnessed Occurrence Which Seems to Prove the Tribe of Bruin Possesses at Least Rudiments of Good Sense. Up in Passadumkeag, Me., where tears once owned the land and all upon it, and where to this day their tenderness for mutton and honey is sadly realized, there sat upon the bench in front of the postoffice a bunch of villagers. They were just from the grocery—the wise man, the historian and the boss hunter of the village. They had settled some points regarding the management of the West Branch drive when the talk drifted to the question of courage in man and beast and they had to sit down on the postoffice bench to have it out. Uncle Penny, the wise man, said that beasts of the forest had no real courage—that they fought against desperate odds merely through ignorance. Pelletiah Jones, the boss hunter, declared that while no bigger fool than the bull moose ever stalked the earth, bears had, on the average, more brains than men. And he proceeded to prove it. "Spoise all you fellers recollect that mess of old junk that I helped haul up to the station here last summer? Well, that was what was left of one of them autymobiles after a good, bright b'ar had a wachk at it. Happened down here a couple of miles below Passadunky. 'T was an' old she b'ar that had two cubs, an' when the family of them was crossin' the road one day to get into a better berry patch what should come whizzin' along but these sports in a big steam waggin an' run over one of the cubs an' laid it out cold. The old b'ar an' tother cub got across all right an' stood at the edge of the road a-lookin' kinder dazed. I was clost enuff to drop the two of them, but I'd no gun with me, so I just sot there an' watched. "Pretty soon the old b'ar come out an' sniffed at the carcass of the dead WOLF That nasheen jest riz up like a Batteau on a rock. cub, rolled it over with her paw and gruntin' around as though she expected it to wake up. Seeing that the cub laid there stiff an' still, the old one busted off into the bushes with 'tother cub taggin' on behind. I 'sposed that was the last of it, but that's where I had something new to larn 'bout bars. "Jest a few rods up from where the old b'ar went into the bushes, an' standin' clost to the road, was a big spruce, with an old stub (dead trunk) lodged ag'in it. That stub was two feet through if it was an inch, an' it was jest barely caught on the spruce, so's the beast jolt would send it down. Well, sir, you can believe me or not, but it's gospel truth, that old b'ar she floundered up to that that thar stub, an', puttin' her shoulder ag'in it, brought it down, slam-bang, right across the road, and sendin' up a cloud of dust high'r 'n the autymobile stirred up. "Well, sir, I never see the like, an' for some time I sot there, wonderin' what the old b'ar was up to. Then it began to leak through me that she was after revenge on the sports that killed her cub. She was a-blockin' of the road ag'in the time they'd come back. "Well, I says to myself, says I, 'there's no tellin' when them fellers 'il come back. It may be a week.' An' so, havin' other fish to fry, and I so' bain' none of my mess anyway, I kept en. I was gone a couple of hours, an' when I come back along, cuss me if that old b'ar wasn't settin' there in the edge of the bushes with her one cub as though they expected comp'ny. "I hadn't got more'n ten rods further 'long towards the village when I her'd great tootin', an' lookin' ahead I see the steam waggin a streakin' it down the read. "Here,' says I. 'is where the old bar gets square,' an' I hustled back after them down the road. It's a thick growth along there, an' hard to see anything except in broad daylight, so 'fore the sports know it they were right onto that big stub. I was jest near enuff to see what happened without gettin' hit with any of the wreck. Fust I heard a yell, an' a bump, an' then a smashin' an' crashin' like breakin' a jam on the West Branch. That maaken jest riz up like a batteau on a rock, an' in a minute the air was full of it. The two sports, they ehot out ahead an' landed face down in the road. One wheel sailed off into the brush an' one of them rubbered boops they have on the rim hopped up an' hung on a branch. It was the completeest wreck I ever see of anything, an' you could smell benzine a mile away. "Just as I come up I could hear a crashin' away off in the berry patch. It was the old b'ar an' her cub, goin' off satisfied, I s'pose, havin' done a good job an' get square. "This fall," concluded the boss hunter, "I'm a-goin after that b'ar. If I get her I'll know her, for she'll smell of benzine." MEMORIAL TO LOVED MOTHER Curious Monument in Chamber of Engl ish Cottage. In a quaint cottage in a picturesque Surrey (Eng.) village, a room has been set apart as a memorial chamber for upwards of sixty years. One end of the small apartment is entirely filled by a curious monument, the center tablet of which bears the inscription, "In memory of a revered parent." On each side are rudely carved kneeling female figures. Above it are the figures of a woman in eighteenth century country dress, holding a baby, and two boys in smock frocks. On the stone steps are these words, "The sweet remembrance of the just will flourish though they sleep in dust." On arm shaped tablets on either side is inscribed, "In memory of Mary Taylor, one of the best of wives and mothers, who, by her labor, principally in the THE TOMB OF THE MAYOR AND THE MAYOR'S SON AND THE MAYOR'S DAUGHTER fields, supported herself and family. She had been employed in reaping in the adjoining field from 5 o'clock in the morning of the 3d of September, 1792, until 12 o'clock, when she returned for the purpose of eating her homely meal, and while in the act of crossing this very floor she suddenly fell down and expired, a fearful instance of the uncertainty of life and the truth of those words, 'In the midst of it we are in death.'" HAS NEW PAINT FOR VESSELS. German Professor Claims to Have Discovered a Preservative. A German inventor has been experimenting for years with various preservative palts for the bottom of ships. Among those used at the present time even the best permit the growth of barnacles and marine vegetation upon the wood or metal sheathing, and the ship has to go into dry dock to have her bottom cleaned of the growths which so materially retard her progress. The inventor in question has devoted his time of late to the determination of the chemical construction of the coating found upon the scales of fishes. He declares that the agility of the fish is due to this coating, which enables it to overcome the resistance of the water, while at the same time it prevents the growth of foreign matter. He asserts that he is now able to produce this coating in a form permitting it to be used for vessels and that ships thus treated will not only be able to keep clean bottoms but that the paint will materially reduce the resistance of the waves and permit taster time to be made with the same expenditure of power. Killed by an Ear of Barley M. Guillon, a farmer, and the mayor of Plessis-Gatebled, in the department of the Aube, France, was coming home from the harvest field leading a wagon and holding an ear of barley between his teeth. One of the horses shied suddenly and struck M. Guillon in the face, causing him to swallow the ear of barley, the spikes of which caused his death.—Sketch. Panama's Navy. The navy of the little republic of Panama consists of one small steam yacht. There is no army. Hard Battle With Monster Fish. After a battle that lasted an hour and a half, and during which he was towed more than a mile down the Ohio river in his boat, D. E. Shearer of Huntington, W. Va., captured a catfish that tipped the beam at 139½ pounds. Boiling Spring Disappears A boiling spring on the farm of V. P. Landvall at New Sweden, Me., that has not been dry since the town was first settled, disappeared entirely the other day. The bottom was scooped out and water found at a depth of two teet. DISABLED BY BLOW FROM DEER. Boy's Disastrous Attempts to Capture Usually Timid Animal. Frank Miner, a young man living on the River road, had an exciting experience with a deer on a recent Sunday afternoon and is convinced that they are not the timid animals he has always thought they were. Miner was rowing in a skiff when he saw a deer start to swim the river, heading toward the North Lyme shore. Miner bent to his oars, overtook the animal and running his boat up alongside reached over and seized the deer by the head. He lifted the head of the creature upon the gunwale of the boat and was trying to decide what to do with his prize when the deer settled the question for him. Suddenly it shot one of its forefeet up out of the water and the hoof struck him a blow on the forehead, knocking the boy backward into the boat and compelling him to release his hold of the deer's head. When young Miner recovered himself the animal was several rods away and he hadn't any further desire to capture it.—Deep River correspondence Hartford Courant. HISTORIC RELIC OF INTEREST. Chair Said to Have Been Used by Fugitive Regicide Judges. In the possession of the Rev. A. N. Somers of Sharon, Mass., is an old chair, said to have been used by the regicide judges, Goffe and Whaley, after their escape to America and while they were in hiding here from the king's troops. Whaley was a brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell, and William Goffe was the former's son-in-law and one of the strongest men in Cromwell's government. The chair was used by them while they were in hiding in the house of the Rev. John Russell in Hadley, after leaving the hiding place in the cave in Connecticut. It formerly had rockers on it, which it is said were worn off during the fourteen years of constant use by one or the other of the two exiles as they sat in the attic room of Mr. Russell's house. Tradition says that Judge Goffe was sitting in this chair when the Indians attacked the village, and that he rose from it to take command of the city. C. C. C. zen forces that drove the savages off after a stubborn fight. After the death of Mr. Russell this chair, by purchase, came into the possession of a Mrs. Hadley, who removed from Massachusetts to Burn Hills, N. Y. At her death it passed to her daughter, Mrs. Hinkson, whose son Ezra, some 70 years of age, in 1880 gave the chair to Mr. Somers, pastor of the church of which he was a member in Holland, N. Y. It has been in Mr. Somers' possession since. "The story of the chair being connected with Goffe and Whaley," said Mr. Somers recently, "came with so much directness and simplicity from such artless and illiterate people that I have always accepted it as undoubtedly true, and of importance as connecting the relic with important historic personages. The chair is said to have been made in Newburyport. "I should like to see it safely in possession of some institution where it would be preserved for the future, or held by some private collector of historical relics." Dog Saved Little Runaway. Four-year-old Johnnie Rogers of Tolland, Conn., wandered six miles from home, and spent Sunday night in the woods. He was accompanied by his dog, Carlo, and didn't seem to be greatly worried when found by searching parties. "I slept warm beside Carlo" was the little fellow's answer to 'inquiries as to how he passed the night. Partridge Shattered Window Pane. A partridge flying against a plate glass window in the home of C. E. Whitney at North Adams shattered the glass in such a manner that Mrs. Whitney and her two children were badly cut. Mrs. Whitney was so badly alarmed that she telephoned her husband that all three had been shot. The police found the bird dead upon the floor. Not Enough Scholars for School. The principal of the high school at Hinsdale, Mass., has resigned and the school has been closed because of the lack of pupils. The total enrollment on the opening day was but eight, and it was decided, to be cheaper to pay the tuition of these in some nearby town than to try to run the school. IN HIS NAME RELIGIOUS NEWS AND THOUGHTS DESIGNED FOR USE IN EVERY WELL-REGULATED HOME The Song of the Blind Angus. I am kin with the great things that are With sightless Time, and Change, and Fate; I have no friend but the hurrying wind; I know no love, nor any hate. No voice has softened when I drew near; Love gives me feet and soot; But they give to me of fear; I am under the seal of God. But an empty word is sight to me, To me who must walk in the night, But I wait the day that shall set me To win to the great white light. Neill Gallagher in London Daily News. The Responsibility Ours. "Be filled with the Spirit." The word is imperative. It is something we are ourselves commanded to do. If we are not filled with the Spirit, the fault is our own. We cannot say that God has not favored us as he has favored certain other people. The responsibility for being filled with the Spirit is put upon us. The exhortation, "Be filled with the Spirit," also places upon us another obligation which we cannot evade. The measure of our receiving of the Spirit is not something arbitrary, depending upon God's sovereign will. God wills to fill us with the Spirit and the limiting of the gift is with us. Whether we shall have a little feebly-bubbling spring in our heart, with its tiny rills flowing out or a great gushing fountain, sending out rivers of joy, blessing and good, we must settle for ourselves. How then, may we be filled with the Spirit? There are other spirits besides the Holy Spirit, and some of them prevent the heart being filled with God. It is said that the swallow will stay only where the air is pure and sweet, where "heaven's breath smells woolly." If a common bird will "haunt only a sweet and delicate air," how pure must the air be in which the White Dove, the Holy Spirit, will make nest and home. We cannot be filled with the Spirit if we let sensual thoughts and desires haunt our hearts. The heart must be pure in which he will dwell. There is a worldly spirit also which is antagonistic to the Holy Spirit. Jesus earnestly impressed the lesson that his disciples, though in this world, are not of this world, and his prayer was that they should be kept from the evil of the world. Men may do a right business so as to be hurt by it, and those who are in business need to guard their hearts most carefully and with constant prayer, lest by covetousness, or by dishonest or unjust dealings they limit the measure of the Spirit's dealing in them. It is very easy while living in the world to let the love of secular things get such a place in our hearts that no room is left for the Spirit. Society has its perils for the Christian. Amusement is not displeasing to the Master, who wants us to be happy, but to many people amusement is a spiritual peril, since oftimes it so absorbs the thought and strength and all the life's interest that no place is left for the Holy Spirit. Human love is holy. Home affections are to be cherished. The whole teaching of Christ is toward the cultivation of love, all the phases and qualities of love. Yet human love may become so absorbent as to drive out the Holy Spirit. A home may grow so happy, its affections so satisfying and so heart-filling, that the Spirit can find no welcome, no hospitality, within the doors, and can only stand outside and knock. Whatever else we admit into our life, whatever affairs, whatever honors, whatever joys and pleasures, we will do ourselves most grievous wrong if we do not give the Holy Spirit the highest place of all. We hold other things, all other things, not as God would have us hold them, if any of them hinder us from being filled with the Holy Spirit. Again, to be filled with the Spirit, we must be ready always to obey the Spirit. God will never give us grace to be stored up, to be wrapped in a napkin and laid away. He will give it only to be used in obedience and service. We must learn that we are saved to serve, that we find Christ in order to bring others to him. So the Holy Spirit is given to us to make us winners of men, and we will receive only so much of the Spirit as we allow to become active in the service of love.—J. R. Miller, D. D. Gentleness and Strength. Gentleness is almost another name for strength. The bravest are always the gentle ones; the strong man is the most tender. He is tender because he is strong. I do not mean the physically strong, but strong in spirit. You know that it is a weak person who gives way to temptation to be violent, and the strong in spirit can hold himself, or, better, let Christ hold him, and change the rough and unkind word to a gentle one. Our Master, who was of all men the gentleness. "He will not strive nor cry, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets; a brushed reed he will not break, and the smoking flax he will not quench." "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter." Oh, the same those words bring to us who profess to be his followers! Rarely are we led "like a lamb," and almost never as sheep "before the shearers" are we dumb, under false accusation. Our meekness and gentleness is more likely to flee to the winds when we are accused even rightfully. The apostle uses his strongest plea when he entreats "by the meekness and gentleness of Christ." That meekness and gentleness can be ours. We are not able to imitate them, but he will give us his own spirit of gentleness. Optimism the Attitude of Faith The Sermon on the Mount is the measure of Jesus' optimism, and his gradual fulfilment His justification. His ideas have matured in the human consciousness and are now bursting into flower before your eyes. Thoughtful men of many schools are giving their mind to the programme of Jesus, and asking whether it ought not to be attempted. The ideal of life, one dares to hope, is to be realized within measureable distance, and the dreams of the Galilean Prophet become history. When the kingdom comes in its greatness, it will fulfill every religion and destroy none, clearing away the imperfect and opening the reaches of goodness not yet imagined, till it has gathered into its bosom whatsoever things are true and honest and just and pure and lovely. It standeth on the earth as the city of God with its gates open by night and by day, into which entereth nothing that defileth, but into which is brought glory and the power of the nations. It is the natural home of the good; Zwingll, the Swiss reformer, said in his dying confession, "Not one good man, one holy spirit, one faithful soul, whom you will not then behold with God."—John Watson, D. D. Live Thus. Begin each day with the prayer, "Thy will be done," resolving that you will stand to it, and that nothing that happens in the course of the day shall displease you. Then set to any work you have in hand with the sifted and purified resolution that ambition shall not mixed with it, nor love of gain, nor desire of pleasure more than is appointed for you; and that no anxiety shall touch you as to its issue, nor any impatience nor regret if it fail. Imagine that the thing is being done through you, not by you; that the good of it may never be known, but that at least, unless by your rebellion or foolishness, there can come no evil into it, nor wrong chance to it. Resolve also with steady industry to do what you can for the help of your country and its honor, and the honor of its God; and that, in all you do and feel, you will look frankly for the immediate help and direction, and, to your own conscience's expressed approval of God. Live thus, and believe, and with swiftness of answer proportioned to the frankness of the trust, most surely the God of hope will fill you with all joy and peace in believing.—John Ruskin. New Blessings. To-day is meant to be rich in new blessings for us, if we will not block the way. It is hard to believe this when we get to looking upon life cynically, as the world does. "There is nothing new under the sun," we say with Solomon—"but he didn't say 'over the sun,'" points out Campbell Morgan. One who is over the sun, who is the Light of the world, of the world, of whose love and riches we know so little because of our unwillingness to let them into our life, has planned unknown blessings for us to-day. "The world has yet to know the power of a completely consecrated man," said Moody. And man has yet to know the unsearchable riches of God's love, because man yet lacks complete consecration. In such measure as we will let Him, the Father will reveal to us His ever-new blessings. Coming Into the Darkness When we come suddenly out of the daylight into a room even moderately darkened we can discern nothing; but the pupil of our eye gradually enlarges until unseen objects become visible. Even so the pupil of the eye of faith has the blessed faculty of enlarging in dark hours of bereavement, so that we discover that our loving Father's hand is holding the cup of trial, and by and by the gloom becomes luminous with glory. The fourteenth chapter of John never falls with such music upon our ears as when we catch its sweet strains amid the pauses of some terrific storm. "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me." I will not leave you comfortless."—Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. The Upward Look. Constantly look up. Be on the watch for chances to rise, like a bird let loose, though but for a moment, into the upper air. Such is the nature of holliness. Being from God, it is ever seeking to revert to its source. The heavier the pressure of a mundane life upon it, the stronger is the force of its compressed aspirations. Such pressure is like that of the atmosphere on water, which seeks, the level of its fountain. A spirit like this will demand the habit of fragmentary prayer for its own holy indulgence; and will demand it with an importunity proportioned to the superincumbent weight of earthly cares.—Austin Phelps, D. D. Let us leave in His hand Little things. What we cannot understand And that stings. Just to take the loss or gain As He sends it. And the joy or pain As He lends it. A Great Monarch. Wealthier than any brother sovereign; master of legions, which number over a million; lord of more than one-sixth of the surface of the globe with subjects of many colors and races, amounting to over one-hundred and twenty million souls, the Czar of all the Russias will not be invincible until he adopts Pillsbury's Vitos as his regular breakfast diet. Not Ready for Visitors. Saina will be glad to welcome Prince Louis of Battenberg, who has arrived to visit America. But the prince should delay his trip until the roads dry up. The reception committee could hardly reach the depot now. —Salina (Kan.) Journal. K C BAKING POWDER. The Best Example of What a Pure Baking Powder Should Be in Quality and Price. A popular and efficient baking powder requires two things: first, that the food made with it shall be absolutely wholesome; second, that it shall be sold at a reasonable price. In talking about the healthfulness of baking powder, it must be remembered that baking powder is not an article of yeast that is compressed yeast. One would be quite as useful for food as the other, except that of the two, the baking powder might be preferable. We do not eat either baking powder or yeast. What we do eat is the biscuit and bread raised with them. When placed upon the table no yeast remains in the bread and so baking powder in the biscuit. Both the agents have been destroyed in the aeration and in the baking; otherwise, instead of light bread and biscuits we should have a mass of heavy, hard-baked dough. One well-known brand, K C Baking Powder, is sold under a 800,000 guarantee of its healthfulness and purity. There can be no doubt that a baking powder so guaranteed is absolutely wholesome and perfect. Even if it did remain in the food it could nothing be better. With regard to price, the baking powder as efficient and wholesome as is possible to make can be sold, at a fair profit, for one cent an ounce. If it costs more the price is exhibitant. Millions of pounds of K C Baking Powder, made by the Jaques Manufacturing Company, Chicago, have been sold at the above figure; the country; and K C offers the best examination and on the market of what a good baking powder should be, both in respect of quality and reasonable price. Pen Mightier Than Shovel Now that a press agent has appointed for the Panama Canal the work of digging the waterway will progress move satisfactory—in the press cispatches—Baltimore Herald. To the housewife who has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the things and who is reasonably satisfied with old, we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but it is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. A woman thinks she is slender when she can get in her waist without a buttonhook. We want an influential woman in every locality to represent the Viivi System of Home treatment. Position permeant to the system requires required. Cured patients preferred. The Vlaiv Home Treatment for the diseases of women renders examinations, surgical operations and Hospitals unnecessary. 600 page Family Medical book free on receipt of 30 cents in stamps for mailing. Los Angeles City, Century Ridges. The Professor. The professor, who has a large lawn was making his regular daily attempt to keep it clear of the autumn leaves contributed by his neighbors trees. "Tuerre's a good deal of rakeoff in this business," he said, stopping a moment to rest, "but not a cent of graft." In Search of Knowledge. First Director—I wish they'd investigate this company. Second Director—Why? First Director—I'd like to find out something about it—Puck. NOT A TRACE LEFT Rheumatism Thoroughly Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. There is one remedy that will cure rheumatism in any of its forms and so thoroughly eradicate the disease from the system that the cure is permanent. This remedy is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and the proof of the statement is found in the experience of Mr. T. S. Wagar, of No. 72 Academy street, Watertown, N.Y. He says: "The pain was in my joints and my sufferings for over two years was beyond description. There was an intense pain in my shoulders that prevented me from sleeping and I would get up and walk the floor at night. When I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills the improvement was gradual, but by the time I had taken four boxes I was entirely cured and I have not had the slightest touch of rheumatism since that time." Mr.Wagar's wife is also enthusiastic in her endorsement of Dr.Williams' Pink Pills. She says: "I have tried the pills myself for stomach trouble and have experienced great relief from their use. My daughter, Mrs. Atwood, of Gill street, Watertown, has used them for female weakness and was much benefited by them. I regard Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People as an extremely valuable family medicine." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured the worst cases of bloodlessness, indigestion, influenza, headaches, backaches, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, nervousness, spinal weakness, and the special ailments of girls and women whose blood supply becomes weak, scanty or irregular. The genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are guaranteed to be free from opiates or any harmful drugs and cannot injure the most delicate system. At all drugists or from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y., postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50. Most people manufacture, their own luck—it be good or bad. CONCERNING FASHIONS Winter Windows Ablogm. Among the most easily grown and satisfactory house plants for winter are winter-blooming bulbs. They are especially suitable for city flats, where a window garden thrives with most difficulty. Hyacinths are the best, because they demand only a very simple culture. A four-inch pot serves for one large bulb, a five-inch pot for two and a six-inch pot for three. Roman hyacinths are extremely popular, low in price and easily brought to flower on Christmas, if potted in October. A succession, planted from that time on, produces a succession of flowers throughout the winter. Three or four bulbs may be planted in a six-inch pot, or a dozen or more in a bulb pan or basket. Any good garden soil, mixed with one-fourth of coarse sand, will grow any sort of hyacinths. Use no manure, as it rots the bulb. Put an inch of broken charcoal, pottery or pebbles in the bottom of the pot for drainage. Fashionable Pillow. The fashionable pillow this year is half a yard square. This, when it receives its border, is quite a fair size, or it can be made a little smaller, for the highly decorative cushion is used for the easy chair and for the small sofa. For the couch there is the flat, square pillow which is very large and exceedingly decorative. This offers a fine field for handsome embroidery, and you see these pillows appliqued with lace birds and trimmed with jeweled trimmings. The middle is left plain out of regard for the sleeper's head. 5 Coat costume of white cloth. The coat shows much openwork embroidery through which the green silk lining shows. The Long, Fitted Coats While long, fitted coats suit fine figures better, their skirt portions make them cumbersome to wear, especially when walking, and the additional weight and warmth are by no means always desirable. The warmth of the long coat in cold weather may be offset when the Eton model is selected by wearing an extra or heavier peticoat. Many of the new Etons for even cold weather have sleeves of little more than elbow length, but these will not be worn for walking when the snow flies, unless heavy furs, including a large muff, are worn and carried to protect the lower arms. The tailored half-length, three-quarter-fitting coats, with skirts to match, made in the severest possible fashion with plain coat sleeves, are in evidence on fashionable women for traveling and shopping, and numbers of them are still seen in the smart restaurants at the luncheon hour. Use of Embroideries. The frailest chiffons and gauzes are selected for some of the most elaborate bullion embroideries. One gown in mauve chiffon is intricately worked in silver. The combination is lovely, but the gown is so noticeable that it could only be worn a few times. The majority of women do not as a rule care to be distinguished as the woman with "one gown," even if that gown be a beautiful and becoming one. They prefer to exhibit some variety in their costuming and convince the world and their neighbors that their outfit is sufficiently well supplied to permit of frequent changes. A touch of bullion embroidery here and there on a gown, a delicate outlining of silver or gold gleaning from the filmy chiffons, is attractive and artistic, and this anyone may compass without much particular effort. "Gold and silver have I none" may be modified a bit and a little of the precious metals displayed to advantage. In Blue Broadcloth. Richness and gorgeousness to a degree that would be barbaric were the results not so harmonious in color and so beautiful in line are characteristic of a great number of the new trimmings and gold, silver and other metallic effects enter into many, but embroidery is the feature that runs riot everywhere. But no matter what other trimmings are used they are fairly sure to be re-enforced by touches of velvet. A stunning suit of blue broad-crochet has a wide circular skirt with tiny tucks over the hips and two deep THE NEW EMPIRE COAT. tucks around the bottom. The bodice closes under the arm and has a bib front of gold-embroidered white silk, outlined by a narrow band of blue velvet. The elbow sleeves are one large puff with three tucks over top and finished with a turned cuff of velvet and a frill of cream lace. The buttons on designed piece in front are cut steel. Jallied Baked Apples. Core tart apples, fill the cavities with chopped dates and grated maple-sugar, and bake, basting with water in which scraped maple-sugar has been dissolved, or thinned maple syrup will do. Cool; then scrape all the jellied juice and pack into the core centers. Place an apple in a cup and fill up with this jelly. Heat one pine of sweet cider and add to it half a box of gelatin soaked in one-half cup of cold water for half an hour; stir until the gelatin is dissolved in the hot liquid; set in a pan of ice water and stir slowly until it begins to congeal, then fill the cups, and set on ice until firm; dip into hot water a second, slip out on to a chilled dish, surround the top with marshmallow cream made by melting marshmallows with a little water.—The Pilgrim. The most elaborate tailored gowns are difficult to describe. The cloth is manipulated in a surprising fashion with every kind of variation to the empire long coat, fancy Eton, redingote and short jacket. Gray is the predominating color, but claret, purple, green, blue and off shades of plum and other unusual colors are seen. Very many of these gowns are made with sweeping skirts. Not trains, of course, but decidedly long skirts. In fact, all gowns not strictly for walking purposes, are made with skirts that touch the ground. The bell-shaped skirt is the most fashionable, although plaits have by no means gone out. Broadcloth and the soft, pliable materials, such as cashmere, velvets, volle, etc., are mostly used. Feathers and Fur. Burnt orange silk beaver hats trimmed in dark brown velvet and dark brown plumes have been sent by a famous French milliner and are exceedingly chic. The dark brown must be of the rich, deep, yet colorful tone that harmonizes so well with the orange shades and only little of the bright color is left in view after the brim is bound in brown velvet; brown velvet is folded high around the crown and a brown plume is on the side, falling both over and under the upturned brim. Steel:Blue Sicilienne. One of the new steel-blue stelliennes with a tracery pattern all over it in silver makes a modish and at the same time strictly practical style of tailor-made. The little coat is deeply plaited at the shoulder seams and the fullness tucked into a deep and closely fitted girdle of black satin. The fronts are open to display the blouse beneath, two tab-shaped revers and the little cavat being in white. The sleeve is full of leg-of-muton design, full at the shoulder and close below the elbow. The skirt is close at the top and groups of plats are inserted into slashings at intervals below the curve of the hip. The plats are not stitched down but pressed flat to the hem. English Crumpets. One quart of warm milk, 1 yeast cake, 1 teaspoon salt, flour enough to make a stiff batter. When light, add ½ cup of melted butter, 1 teaspoon soda mixed in a very little more flour. Let it stand 20 minutes until light. Grease some muffin rings, place them on a hot griddle and fill them half full of the batter. When done on one side turn and bake the other side. Butter them while hot, pile on one another and serve immediately. 1 Princess robe of Alice blue chiffon broadcloth with cape top of panne velvet. Folds of velvet piped at the top with darker blue soutache braid trim the tunics. Old silver cabbons appear on the top. Blue beaver hat, lighter blue bird of paradise plume. Extravagance Everywhere. This is to be a season of extravagance, not only in materials—yards upon yards are needed to develop the new styles—but in trimmings likewise. All of the sheer and shimmery materials—and weaves hitherto heavy have taken to themselves the most delightful of chiffon qualities—are used by the clever dresser in abundance, and so soft and fine are these that the trimmings must, perforce, partake of the same character if the gown is to be anything at all of a success. Unique Little Caps. Unique little capes for wear on semi-warm evenings, are quite the vogue. Either cloth or silk is used in their making, and usually in some light shade. One is made of satin cloth with collar of velvet in same shade, trimmed with two gold buttons. An invisible closing is made with hooks and eyes. THE LILY OF BRANAGHAN'S PATCH Portrait of a Lady-A Memory of Boyhood --- Here's no maid of song or story. Here's no girl of high degree; Garlanded with laureled glory, Toast of knightly chivalry; Crowned with crowned glory. Here's no maid of old romances, Darling of dim vanished years, Havoc wrought, whose glances Havoc wrought, whose glances Candid as grey, dewy dawn is, Artless as rich rippling rain; Shapely as silly supple sawn is, Havoc wrought, whose glances The shy soft brow as sweet as slumber, The ivory breast as pure as snow, The milk white teeth in pearly number, The bright yellow cheeks in big Big April eyes whose roguish glances, Witch like sweet starshine o'er the sea, And flushed with quint and old romances And sparkling bilthe with girlish glee. Shy and timorous as some creature Rambling through green, leafy glade, Fresh as foam each perfect feature, And her lustrous eyes are gleaming Grieving o'er some wounded bird. HAD THE WRONG GEN. PORTER | RECORDS OF HOMING PIGEONS Telephone Girl Thought of Occupa- tion. Not Name. "I would like to speak to Gen. Porter," was the telephone message received at the Planters' hotel, St. Louis, last week from a woman. But it was not the message that the telephone girl thought. Instead of summoning Gen. Pleasant Porter, who was stopping at the hotel, a message was sent for Henry Peters, the head porter of the hostelry. He came. "All right!" shouted Peters into the transmitter. "What is it?" "Well, I don't know anything about statehood," was the reply the hotel clerks heard from Peters after a short wait in the telephone booth. "No. I just handle trunks and do general work. I am not expected to know anything about that." "You are Gen. Porter, are you not?" he was asked. "Yes, I guess I am—that is, the head porter, or the general porter, if you want to call it that." "What!" exclaimed the person at the other end of the line. "I want to speak to Gen. Pleasant Porter, who is a guest at the Planters'." Peters faded away. A page was sent for Gen. Porter. After a lengthy conversation Gen. Porter came out laughing, as though he had just enjoyed the best joke of his life. "That's one on me," he said, as he invited the clerks to go with him to that part of the hotel which is closed on Sunday. "Don't you ever tell the story boys, for I want to tell it on myself." Bobb's Client in a Cow Case. Assistant Attorney-General Charles H. Robb, who became famous for his work in running down the postal grafters a couple of years ago, began the practice of law in a small village in Vermont. He knew all the people of the town, as well as many of the farmers in the sourrounding country. "One day," said Mr. Robb, "a tall, iank Yankee came into my office. It seems that he had got into trouble as a result of trading a cow. He had succeeded in palming off on an unsuspecting neighbor an uncertain looking animal which proved to be stone blind. In addition, it was lean and run down generally. On finding that the cow couldn't see, the farmer who had been imposed upon brought suit against my client. I questioned the man. "Did you tell this farmer that the cow was blind?" I asked. "Indeed I did," protested my client, with a sheepish look. "I told him that she didn't look well."—Boston Herald. All But the 98 Accounted For. A scion (scamp, more properly speaking) of a wealthy Brookline (Mass.) family married against his family's wishes, and was obliged, on a meagre income, to support his wife apart from his family home. As his salary only netted him $15.98 a week, it was his habit to pass over $15 to his frugal wife, withholding 98 cents for his personal expenses. One time, however, on returning home very late at night, he failed to give her the usual allowance. She therefore demanded an accounting. "Well," said the husband, "I spent $10 playing poker with the boys. Then I spent $5 more at the club, paying for the drinks." "But," said the wife, "where is the 98 cents." "Oh," he responded, "I must have spent that foolishly." Was Looking for the Button Was Locking for the Buttons. The late Rev. Lucus R. Page, historian, formerly city clerk of Cambridge, Mass., and pastor of the First Universalist Society, used to relate this story of Samuel Saunders, a well known contractor and builder of Cambridge, and one of Dr. Page's parishioners: Mr. Saunders was shingling the house of the Rev. Thomas Whittimore, a neighbor of Mr. Page, and fell from the roof. Both Mr. Page and Mr. Whittimore ran to his assistance, and found him groping about on the ground. When asked if he was hurt, he replied: "No, I was looking for the buttons that were ripped off my test when I came down." Like some chaste Madonna dreaming When her tender pity's stirred. The roseleaf face where beauty's dwell Tender as tender as the dream of dawn; The piquant mouth with laughter swell ing. The step as supple as the fawn. Sweet as shiny, slipping shoulder, With its ivory rise and fall. Charms the gaze of each beholder, Like pure, snowy, marble wall. Her face is fairer than the flowers. That gem the green cool dewy field. As heartened by sweet, savory shower, Rare homage to the breeze they yield. Her checks have caught the tins of rose flowers in the breeze they blow; As drooping in the dell it dozes. To shyly dream of long ago! And her voice sounds low and tender. Soft as Steinbock so impious strain. And her eyes show queenly splendor. Pure as stars drenched with the rain. Brave Viking flag those tawny tresses, Rebellious as the whimpering breeze. That shrinks as from the sun's curaces, Rebellious as the sun's curaces. Rose, your beauty is a treasure, Richer than Golconda's gold, Venus gave you goodliness, measure, Freshly baked you soft, Juno lent you queenly splendor, Psyche sent you angel face, St. Cecilia's hand so tender Touched you eternal grace! JAMES E. KINSELLA Registry Division, Chicago Postoffice One Old Bird Accompanies a Certain Train Every Day. Homing pigeons are the craze in England just now, and on one recent Saturday between 200,000 and 300,000 birds were released in various competitions. A number of these were raced to London from Retford and Branston. The distances are 127 and 113 miles, respectively, but no birds of the several thousand released made the trip in the traditional mile a minute, although every circumstance of wind and weather was favorable to record breaking. Much better time was made in a contest from Templecombe to London, in which one bird made the 108 miles in ninety-four minutes, an average of sixty-nine miles an hour, and more than 140 exceeded a speed of sixty miles an hour. One of the oldest homers is a bird which makes its home around the railway station at Liege, in Belgium. There is a train from Liege to Waremme which starts every morning at 10 o'clock. As soon as the train pulls into the station the bird commences to circle in the air, and as soon as headway is gained follows the train to its destination, returning immediately home, where it flies about the station for the rest of the day. It pays no attention to any other of the trains, and no one is able to offer an explanation as to why this particular train should be favored.—New York Herald. Calendars Brought Good Prices Some years ago one of our leading life insurance companies received an application from a man in a small town in Vermont to become a local agent. The request was granted, and the usual blanks, forms, etc., were sent him, together with a liberal supply of elaborate advertising calendars of the company. Not hearing from the agent for several months, a letter was sent to him, inquiring what prospects he had for sending in some business, to which he replied that, while he had talked to most every man in town about insurance, he had not been able to get any real applications yet, but that he was working hard to sell the calendars, and had sold some as high as 25 cents, but sold one for 10 cents to a man who had promised to take out a policy pretty soon. In a postscript he said: "Shall I send you the money I have on hand now, or shall I wait until I have sold all the calendars?" Moody's Wit in the Pulpit. Dwight L. Moody once called on a ministerial brother in Massachusetts, desiring to spend next day, Sunday, with him. The minister was agreeable, but said that he was ashamed to ask Moody to preach. "Why?" asked Mr. Moody. "Well," was the reply, "our people have got into such a habit of going out before the close of the meeting that it would be an imposition on a stranger. "I will stop and preach," said Moody. When Sunday arrived Mr. Moody opened the meeting, gave out his text, and then encouragingly said: "My hearers, I am going to speak to two sorts to-day, the sinners first, then the saints." After earnestly addressing the supposed sinners, he said that they could now take their nats and go. But the whole congregation waited and heard him to the end. "Tin-Top" Wood, as Ordered The following story is told of Albert French of Dexter, Me., who was a popular citizen of that town: Being out of fuel, he asked one of his neighbors to bring him a load of "tip-top" wood. The neighbor, according to agreement, drove his big ox team up to French's door with a load of wood. French surveyed the load, and then said; "I thought I told you to bring me a load of tip-top wood. Now I call this small and inferior wood." "Well," replied the neighbor, "I cut it from the very top of the trees and supposed that was the kind you wanted—tip-top' wood." French had nothing more to say. ITCHING SCALP HUMOR. Lady Suffered Tortures Until Cured by Cuticura—Scratched Day and Night. "My scalp was covered with little pimples and I suffered tortures from the itching. I was scratching all day and night, and I could get no rest. I washed my head with hot water and Cuticura Soap and then applied the Cuticura Ointment as a dressing. One box of the Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap cured me. Now my head is entirely clear and my hair is growing splendidly. I have used Cuticura Soap ever since, and shall never be without it. (Signed) Ada C. Smith, 309 Grand St., Jersey City, N. J." The Pearl Gray Hat Take off that Pearlgray Derby as you will. It is on to stay. Frenzied financiers have already adopted it. Long enough the inconspicuous black pot has held way and needed only an occasional brushing to look respectable. Henceforth the more expensive article, requiring profssional cleaning, is on top. Universal Hope It is to be hope that next winter, when he is wrestling with grave domestic questions, President Roosevelt will have as much influence with the United States Senate as he had with the Emperors of Japan and Russia—Portland Oregonian. Barnyard Chatter Mr. Duck—That measly old Mrs. Hen insulted me this morning. Mrs. Duck—Indeed? What did she say? Mr. Duck—She called me a way down quack—Columbus Dispatch. High Salaries and High Finance The big salary does not insure equivalent figures of service rendered. Observe what a mess has been made of the me insurance business by high-salaried officials.—Philadelphia Record. Get at the Cause. Sacramento, Ky., Nov. 13th (Special)—A typical illustration of the way Dodd's Kidney Pills Cure Rheumatism is well told by Catherine Devine, who is very well known here. She says: "For over four years I was greatly troubled with Rheumatism. It used to take me worst in my legs and feet. At times I would be so bad I could not put my feet to the ground. As I am over seventy-three years of age I began to think I was too old to get cured and should have to bear my Rheumatism the best way I could. But I heard about Dodd's Kidney Pills and thought I would give them a trial. So I got a box and began taking them. Well, I must say Dodd's Kidney Pills did me a wonderful lot of good. They eased the pain from the first, and to day I am in better health than I have been for many years." A SPANISH BALLAD. genteman in fair Mariel He loved a lovely maid, he did: Of all the maids the pearl and pin- Oh, tinka-tinka-tinka-tink! He followed her both near and far, Performing on his light guitar: And often at her fet he sank— Oh, tanka-tanka-tanka-tank! But she, remolded, both grim and But she remained both grim and grave: "I wish," she said, "you would behave And she hewent and was a monk→ Oh, tunka-tunka-tunka-tunk! Cheaper There. "All of my clothes are imported from Paris," said Mrs. Snobbson-Newrich haughtily. "Really?" observed her rival, arching her eyebrows. "I didn't know that you felt it necessary to economize." Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh—Medicine Bent 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 palms, crippled hands, legs or feet, swollen knees and that tired, discouraged feeling of rheumatism, or the hawking, spitting, blurred eyesight, deafness, sick stomach, headache, noses in the head, mucous throat, discharges, decaying teeth, bad breath, belching gas of catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (I) or Botanic Blood Balm (II), 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 (I) or B. 10) is composed of pure Botanic ingredients, which causes the digestion, cures dyspepsia. A perfect tonic for old folks by giving them new, rich, pure blood. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Drugs, $1 per large bottle, with complete directions for home cure. Sampler from Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describes trouble and special free medical advice sent in sealed letter. A Human Target. "I notice here that a preacher in Worcester spends most of his spare time at revolver practice." "Well, say, I guess I'd hate to get up and leave that man's church before the sermon was ended." The Isthmian Canal. Now that the Canal Treaty has been ratified, we may expect to see work resumed in a short time, and the great canalships, carrying huge loads of Pillsbury's Vitos to all parts of the world. By the way, have you ever eaten Vitos? You'll like it better than any other cereal food. He Had One. Professor—We know that heat ex pands, and we also know, Mr. Smart that cold contracts, do we not? Mr. Smart (hoursely)—I guess so, but I'll bet it doesn't contract itself as much as we contract it.—Phiadek phla Public Leger. THE RISING SON. RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $1.50 Six months ..... $9 Three months ..... $6 One month ..... $15 Strictly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. down in this state. We write. All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. IFIOICE—No. 117 West Sixth. St., Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . . . 8.50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . . . 9.00 For two inches, the month . . . 8.00 For two inches, at month . . . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . . . 10.00 For two inches, twelve months . . . 15.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL . . IN KANSAS CITY. TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circula- tion of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. TO THE READERS OF THE SON. J. B. Johnson, who the Son accepted a short while ago as an assistant on this paper, is in nowise connected with us now. He is not the man that we took him to be, and any soliciting or attempting to collect money for the Son by him should be treated with contempt. BISHOP A. GRANT. Bishop A. Grant of this Episcopal District preached an able sermon to a crowded house at Allen chapel last Sunday morning. He took his text from the fourth chapter, 31st psalm, "When the Day of Pentecost Had Come." The theme of his sermon was "Unity." The sense of his advice directed us to a closer union among ourselves that our strength might be realized and appreciated. The Bishop pointed out with disguest the continual discord and wrangle which exist among the would-be preachers and urged a reform. He dwelt upon the duties of the mothers and fathers toward their children urging that father take up the reins and the wife join in, set good and pure example before their children that they may adopt the wholesome influence naturally consequent. The Son agrees with the able Bishop on his topics of timely advice to the Negro ministers and it has watched the disquieting style of the Negro preachers in this community which is, in effect, to destory good influence rather than to upbuild those who come under their charge. May God give us men who will lead and teach LECTURE BY DR. H. C. JOHNSON AT ALLEN CHAPEL. Dr. H. C. Johnson of Philadelphia, editor of the Christian Recorder, lectured before a representative audience at Allen chapel last Tuesday night. Dr. Johnson ranks among the most brilliant and best informed men of this country. Recently he made a tour of several foreign countries and his lecture touched considerably upon his experience in travel and his observations of the Race conditions as they exist in Europe and the United State. The program was opened by a selection from the choir followed by prayer by Rev. F. J. Peck. The speaker was introduced to the audience by a few well chosen remarks by Prof. F. W. Vernon. After exchanging courtesies Dr. Johnson said that in the European countries the Negroes are in evidence. They are of the representative type and are engaged in every enterprise and profession and arts and science as well. In the course of his remarks. Dr. Johnson had an occasion to rectify the impression which is prevalent among the Negroes of foreign countries to the effect the Negroes of the United States are very poor specimen of the race. In so doing he pointed out among others the Registrar of the United States Treasury Judson Lyons, a Negro, whose signature is required on every issue of paper money before it goes in circulation. After explaining the situation the Doctor left an entirely different impression upon the minds of the European Negroes. At the conclusion of his able discourse Dr. Johnson ventured the assertion that the United States was the best place for the Negro in spite of the many disadvantages under which he labors. Four Negroes are in the service of the imperial family in Russia, being almost inseparable from the Czar and his children, to whom they are deeply attached. They are attired in the costliest garments, with gold ornaments. President Booker T. Washington has just received the information that the Russian and Danish translations of his autobiography, "Up From Slavery," have been published. The book is still a popular volume in all parts of the world. Old Hats made to look like new at low prices at Cantrell Dry Goods and Hardware Co., 27th and Cleveland avenue. CLIPPINGS OF RACE NOTES. The Negro bank at Muscogee, I. T., has a capital of $20,000. It takes us about four years to learn to speak, and the other three score and six to learn not to. But women do not think so. There are five incorporated Negro business corporations at New York City with a capital of $1,500,000. Hen. Harry Smith, Colored, of Cleveland, editor of the Gazette, has been nominated by the Republican of Cuyahoga county for the Ohio legislature. When are the Republicans going to begin hunting mayoralty timber? The interest of the common people here in Kansas City is not as closely guarded as it should by our chosen city executives. Give us cheaper gas. President Roosevelt stands today as one of the greatest men of the age. He is a champion of integrity, honesty and fair play. If all the American people were as broad, fearless and upright as our great president, what a grand and good country this would be. The people of Kansas City are patiently awiting the enjoyment of cheaper gas and cheaper water too. Kansas City, Kansas, and Independence are already enjoying the blessing of much reduced gas bills while the people of this city must rest contented until the politicians see fit to give them what they are entitled to. There must be a graft somewhere—and the people of this city are going to demand an explanation. Reflections of a Bachelor A girl never underestimates the importance to the world of titles, matinees, and bonbons. When a man retires from business to take life easy, he has to get up all the earlier to pull his son out of bed. There is something about a woman's hat that makes a man feel sympathy for the inventor of flying machines. You can always convince a woman that it is more becoming for her to wear her hair the way she does than it would be for anybody else. New York Press. Honor Not Universal "Chinamen are, as a rule, very honorable in business matters, but it must not be taken for granted that integrity is universal with them," said Mr. H. M. Lakin, of Shanghai, at the Shoreham. "I have lived in the Orient for many years, and have had extensive dealings with all sorts of Eastern people. There is a saying that a Chinaman's word is his bond, and this is very true from the fact that it is a rare thing for them to make any other than a verbal contract. So it happens that what a Celestial tells you he will do will be performed in a great majority of cases. The fact remains, however, that you've got to pick your man in China just the same as in any other country. Ah Sin has his counterparts in his native land, and every European over there can tell you of his experiences with tricky Chinamen. "I do not believe that a Chinaman is any more honest than his fellowman of other nationalities, as is shown by the vast amount of grafting which permeates the social and political life of the empire. The individual Chinese business man is straight in his dealings largely because it is a matter of necessity."—Washington Post. The Perfect Pun. A perfect pun makes good sense both ways; the edges meet with a click like the blades of a sharp pair of shears. Sometimes the very thoughts fit tight together in antagonistic identity, as when the man said of the temperance exhorder that he would be a good fellow if he would only let drink alone; or when Disraeli (if it was he, wrote to the youth who had sent him a first novel: "I thank you very much. I shall lose no time in reading it," or, as when a man seeing a poor piece of carpentry, said: "That chicken coop looks as if some man had made it himself." Exquisite perverse literalness of thought! And the same absolute punning, the very self destruction of a proposition, was the old death-thrust at a poor poet by the friend who said: "His poetry will be read when Shakespeare and Homer are forgotten." It was a fine double edged blade of speech until some crude fellow, Helne, I think, sharpened it to a wire edge by adding, "and not till then," a bansality that dulled its perfection forever—J. A. Macy, in the October Atlantic. Real Estate, Rentals and Insurance TELEPHONE 1469. 203-204 Hall, Bldg., Corner 9th and Walnut Sts., Kansas City, Mo. These garments must be seen to be appreciated Elegance and wearing qualities combined in these suits and Overcoats at the low price of ..... $15 Drop in and let us show you our line of Raincoats, suitable for wear in all kinds of weather. Richardson Clothing Co. 1009- 11 Main Street Cantrell Dry Goods and Hardware Co. 77TH and CLEVELAND AVE., KANSAS CITY, MO. Dry Goods, Millinery, Shoes, Notions, Etc., Household and Kitchen Utensils. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF BUILDERS' HARDWARE AND CARPENTERS' TOOLS. JOHN P. TILLHOFF Establisher TILLHOFF & Real Estate, Rent TELEPHON 203-204 Hall Bldg., Corner 9th an J. B. M. These garments must be seen to Elegance and wearing qualities combi- and Overcoats at the low price of ..... Drop in and let us show you our in all kinds of weather. Richardson 1009- 11 M Bell Phone 1445X East. Cantrell Dry Goods ?7TH and CLEVELAND AVE Dry Goods, Millinery, Household and K WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF CARPENTER Some Gag Rules. When you get so you can't hear your feet light on the sidewalk, don't try to take more one's another one. When you are walking along the street and every person you meet looks like someone you have met before it's a good time to look for the road home. When you go home at night an' go to bed if you reach down an' get hold of the bottom of your nightshirt, an' pull it aroun' your neck, an think it's the sheet, it's a sure sign you're good an' drunk. If you get in the mornin', an' put on one shoe an' them pick up the other one, an' look at the sole of it, to see which footo it goes on, you had better go up the river an' fish awhile before goin' to work. Quite a Wealthy Man. Quite a wealthy man. "De Gilt made his fortune very suddenly." "You don't say! Is he rich enough to go in the blue book?" "Blue Book! Why, he is rich enough to be investigated."—Detroit News. We regard a man as level headed whose ideas seem to be about at the same level as our own. Work. "Anyhow, you can't deny that Hew- ligus is a self-made man. He worked his way through college." "He certainly did. He worked nearly every student in the institution." Chicago Tribune. If ever we have to board again we are going to look for a place in a home where the housewife feels compli- mented if you eat until your collar hurts. Not On His Part. "To what do you attribute your success in life, senator?" asked the reporter. "To a fondness for luxuries," responded the prominent statesman, without a moment's hesitation. "A fondness for luxuries?" echoed the puzzled reporter. "Pardon me, senator, but I don't quite understand." "On the part of the people who patronized me when I was a struggling ice cream merchant," explained the prominent statesman—Chicago Tribune. "Now you object to my giving to the heathen! Did you ever do a deed of charity?" "I married you."—Houston Post. Some men never think of praying "deliver us not into temptation," until they have unwillingly rushed into nuances. "The word graft has been incorporated into the language," says a lexicographer. And it has also been incorporated elsewhere. "A mon niver quite knows whither uts conscience, common since, or caution that kapes 'm from yieldin' t timptation. Maybe, uts all av thim."—Baltimore American. Altnough the judge frequently chares the jury, it's the litigants who pay the freight. PUBLISHED 1889. WM. J. CAMPBELL & CAMPBELL, entals and Insurance PHONE 1469. th and Walnut Sts., Kansas City, Mo. A Suit or Overcoat Not the kind sold everywhere but one that will cost you more money in other stores. $15 Single or double breasted. seen to be appreciated combined in these suits $15 u our line of Raincoats, suitable for wear A Clothing Co. 11 Main Street A. P. CANTRELL, Mgr. ds and Hardware Co. D AVE., KANSAS CITY, MO. ry, Shoes, Notions, Etc., d Kitchen Utensils. OF BUILDERS' HARDWARE AND TERS' TOOLS. THE E. Z. SHAVE. C. A. EVANS, BARBER SHOP For First Class Work. 07 East 14th St. Kansas City, Mo. SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED $1 East Side Suit Club and Ladies' Wardrobe Ladies' Garments Carefully Cleaned, Pressed, Repaired or Remodeled, Telephone Main 847. J.T. PARKIN. S. E. Cor. Sth and Holmes, Kansas City, Mo It is usually the painstaking man who succeeds in avoiding pain. Te who doesn't think he could improve on the most of nature's handwork will never set the world on fire. If you find it hard to trust your feelings make them pay for what they want. WHEN TO CRITICISE. WHEN TO CRITICISE. When your heart is warm with love, Even for your enemies; When your words come from above, Not from where the venom is; When you see the man entire, Not alone the faults he has; Find a somewhat to admire Underneath the paltry mass— Not tilt then, if you are wise, Will you dare to criticise. —Amos R. Wells. "Honestly, honestly—on your word of honor—did you like it, Fred?" she asked, finally. "Never enjoyed anything so much in my life," he said, and swallowed a lump. "Everything—everything—from soup to pudding?" "Every mouthful, from soup to pudding," he said bravely. "Oh, I'm so relieved, then," she said, as a huge sigh escaped her. "You see, I forgot to order the syrup for the sauce for the pudding, and I had to have something, so I took the cough syrup, and I was so afraid you'd taste it."—Exchange. It is wrong to be envious, but just the same we never see a barefoot boy with his toe tied up in a rag that we do not envy him, sore toe, rag and all. A man must be awfully mean when he can find pleasure in depriving other people of it. Many men who would scorn to do a dishonest act in their business think it is allright to do dishonest tricks in politics. All the worry you have in the world is what you carry about under your hat. ently who Every boy is a puzzle, and it is a wise father who can guess the answer. WESTERN UNIVERSITY. THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. . . . . . . MENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-N- state Industrial. S: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-N- state (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, orga- nizational, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Coo- ling, Farming and Gardening. AGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Jobs and Thorough Teachers. ATION: For terms, prices and all inducements of WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. PRESIDENT, INDARO, KANE Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell— Deals, President. Logger, Second Vice President. Fernado P. Neal, Vice Edwin W. Zea, Cash DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. 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OZONE IS THE BEST FOR THE HAIR. 1906 VINE STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. Bell Phone Main 1196 X PIANO FURNISHED. The MINOR HALL to Rent For Dances, Socials, Entertainments, Etc. To Respectable Colored People only. MRS. A. V. MINOR, Mgr., 404 W. 6th St., Kansas City, Mo. Both Phones. S. A. METZNER 304 West Sixth Street 1214 Main. Kansas City, Mo. THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP Eugene Vaugan, Agt. Kansas City, Kas. It's the little bits we collect here and there that enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS. Miss Lillian Tooley of Chicago is in the city visiting her brother. Miss Tooley will probably fill one or two engagements before she returns home. Wm. H. Moore who met with an accident some time ago is able to be out. Mrs. W. H. Hubbell has opened a millinery and notion store near the corner of 19th and Vine streets. Good meals and good service, and old-fashion cooking may be found at the "Little Baltimore, 125 West 7th street. FOR COLORED PEOPLE 1409 Highland avenue, four room flat; $10 per month; city water. Apply Corbettis, 1025 Main St. 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. Persons desiring to secure suggestive program for William Lloyd Garrison Contennial Exercises, December 10th, 1905, can secure same without charge, except for postage, by addressing Mr. Hugh M. Browne, Cheney, Pa. This program has been prepared by Hon. Archibald H. Grimke, of Boston, with the help and co-operation of Mr. Garrison's sons, Messrs. William Lloyd, jr., and Francis J. Garrison. Mrs. Lillian Tooley of Chicago, Ill., gave a monologue recital, the best she has ever given since she has been on the stage, at Quindaro College last Tuesday evening. A large audience attended the recital. The audience was very attentive and was well pleased with the recital. Many complimentary assertions were made concerning the recital given by Mrs. Tooley. Prof. Vernon said that she was the finest he had ever heard. Mrs. Tooley is a talented elocutionist and has travelled extensively. She received her training at the Dramatic School of Expression in Chicago, Ill. Her last recital will be given at the Baptist church, corner 10th and Charlotte Monday night, Nov. 20. Those who have not had the opportunity of hearing Mrs. Tooley should go and hear her Monday evening, as you will be more than repaid by doing so. GIVE US 25-CENT GAS Not one bid to furnish cheap gas has been offered under the "model" franchise plan at the expiration of the time limit yesterday. The Kansas City, Missouri Gas company stands ready now to furnish twenty-five cent gas to Kansas City consumers. It is the only corporation or person that does, after every inducement to others has failed. That same company is now getting $4,000 a day from the people of Kansas City. At a twenty-five cent rate it would receive $1,000 for the same service. Now, by all that is righteous and square, let the people save that waste of $3,000 a day. The people now on earth are entitled to twenty-five cent gas. They must get it from the one source that has proved itself able and willing to deliver the goods. It is time to quit experimenting with the theories. A hypocrite in the church is always prominent because of the contrast. The contrast being very much less outside, the hypocrite is not so noticeable. Yes, Alonzo, it is possible for a man to be right and be president, but— George—For a society woman, she is very high-minded. She is steadfastly opposed to everything low. Gerald—Except gowns.—The Sun. Being good is very monotonus if it shuts off innocent amusements. I knocked at the gate of my lord, Success; I stormed his threshold with eager din. I love him, the prize of my soul, no less, But he barred the gate lest I step within. And after Love took my heart to mate, And we built us a home in the wilderness, A stranger is beating against our gate, Crying: "Let me in! It is I, Success!" —Author Unknown Author Unknown. No, Cordellia, it isn't necessary to act foolish in order to live the simple life. Newspaper Enterprise People do not appreciate the earnest endeavor of the press to furnish news quickly. Some wonderful examples have been furnished in recent years of quick publication of current events, but none can excel a recent "scoop" landed by the Freeborn (la.) Courier. It is self-explanatory: "We came pretty near getting scooped on an item this week, but if it were not for the fact that we always have our weather eye open, we would have been left in the cold. Just as we go to press Oscar Sanborn is having three fingers cut off by a threshing machine. A doctor has been sent for. Details in next issue."—Ex. A fuzzy taste the next morning makes a fellow feel down in the mouth. Ahe fact that age commands veneration possibly explains why there are so many old probates. There is a skeleton in every closet, but tails is no excuse for a continual rattling of the bones. RINGING OUT THE CHIMES. Each hour has its appointed sound, All life is set in rhythmic times; The notes escape earth's narrow bound, But God is ringing out the chimes. — Helen Hunt. A Triumph Over Obstacles A Triumph Over Obstacles. Her first venture at cooking dinner in her own home had passed successfully, and they sat in silence at the opposite ends of the table, wondering at the novelty of it all, and gazing at each other. A Perfect Substitute. A young married woman, who was passing the summer alone on account of her husband having been summoned to Europe on a business matter, had a caller one morning, who asked if she were not lonely without her husband. "A little lonely," was the qualified answer. "But surely," said the visitor, "you miss your husband very much, now he is away?" "Oh, no," she said. "At breakfast and' at dinner I just stand his newspaper up in front of his place, and half the time I forget he isn't there."—Cincinnati Enquirer. CAN NOT ESCAPE There's nothing in the world, I know, That can escape from love; For every depth it goes below, And every height above. It waits, as waits the sky —Henry David Thoreau. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. "No, I don't mama; I got tired of hearing them talk about mounficent ownership." Even the fellow who boards 'round may occasionally get a square meal. Tommy—"Pop, what is a phantom?" Tommy's Pop—"A phantom, my son, is a good bit like a drunken man's promise." When David killed Goliath he demonstrated that it is better to carry a sling in your hand than your hand in a sling. Wigg—"D'Auber's work is full of striking effects." Wagg—"Yes; he used to be a walking delegate before he took up art." Work is a joy when the loved ones share the fruits. When it comes to triples it keeps a man busy trying to hold his own. A lot of people never think of their religion until they hear the church bells ringing. Less a woman has to complain about the more she complains. It isn't what your grandfather was but what you are, that really counts. No Call For Sympathy. "I asked Jones why he didn't pay me that twenty he has owe me so long." "What did he say?" "He seemed to have some sort of impediment in his speech." "Well, I wouldn't worry about that. The impediment in his pocketbook is a good deal more serious."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. No Stoic. The waiter laid a bill of fare before him. "No," said Ardup, ignoring it, "I haven't fortitude enough to look through it. Bring me coffee and doughnuts."—Chicago Tribune. Can Such Things Be? Giffle—Bliggins is about the most remarkable public speaker I ever knew. Spinks—As to how? town as our fair city.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The wife of lazy man thinks other people misunderstand him. 100 What Says Fashion? Wear the Dorothy Dodd shoe for all occasions. It is only a matter of selecting YOUR style. The styles are not extreme or even extravagant, but they are such as correctly dressed women of taste will wish to wear on the various occasions this winter. Price $3.00 and $3.50 Strong & Garfield's Dress Shoes G. 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Though flowers bloom along the way Their grace he never heeds, He does not with read eyes The rank, forbidding weeds; The dainty rose he spurs and scorns And only finds the bitter thorns, He never hears the ringing laugh, But hears for the sighs; He always wears a veil of mist Before his gloomy eyes; The way he goes is full of gloom, He's always looking to the tomb. Bobold the gloomy pessimist, He's gladdest when he's sad. And if you give these words a twist He's sadest when he's glad. ROUGH DIAMONDS BY F.R. MILS (Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) The only animate object in sight on the vast wilderness of flatness to the east was a prairie schooner drawn by a pair of lean, straggling horses which was making its way towards the haven ahead. "My God, men," cried the desperate man, "what's become of Nell and the kid if you string me up? I'm a they've got. Let me go and see the first. Give me five minutes, will you boys?" he pleaded. "You can hide The weary horses, under the double inspiration of the whip in the hands of the unkempt man on the seat and the suggestion that the trees ahead offered, increased their tired walk to a poor imitation of a trot, which was finally effectual in landing them at the foot of the slope while old Sol was yet quite a distance from the western horizon. As the outfit came to a standstill the other occupants of the schooner made themselves manifest. A young woman with an infant in her arms descended the rear steps, and while her husband unhitched and unharnessed the horses, improvised a bed from a miscellaneous collection of clothes, deposited the baby thereon and proceeded to bring from the interior of the wagon the things necessary for the preparation of the evening meal. "Noll," exclaimed the man suddenly, "we're goin' to win out one of these days, see if we don't." The wife laughed happily. "I think we've won out now, Jim. Who in all the world has a boy like this?" "Oh, the kid's all there, you bet, but you know, Nell, you ain't used to this sort of life and it's goin' to stop soon now, I can tell you." "There, there, Jim, don't talk like that. Everything's all right as long as I have you and baby. Now, sir, as a punishment for being so gloomy, you can take that pail and go and look for some fresh water." He obediently took the pail and started off in the direction of the woods, whistling a merry tune. He had not penetrated into them very far before unmistakable signs of water began to show themselves. As he proceeded the underbrush and trees began to assume a healthier look and here and there small patches of moss made their appearance, and finally there was borne to his ears that low sweet sound so dear to every plainsman's heart—the trickle of a running stream. He dropped on his hands and knees by the side of the brook and sampled the water. The quality suggested springs, so he decided to walk up stream in the hope of finding one of these treasures of the plains. With this end in view he arose from his knees and had stooped over to pick up the pail when the sharp command-- "Throw up your hands, Jim Williams!" drove the blood back to his heart with a rush. However, he had been brought up in the west and knew what would immediately follow if the command was not promptly obeyed, so the same moment that brought him to his feet brought his hands above his head in which position he waited statically for further developments. He had not long to wad. "I see you've had the right kind of trainin', pal," said the same voice. "Come on, boys," it continued. "We'll git through with this job quick." In obedience to his orders a half dozen men, mostly cowboys, appeared M. "Throw up your hands, Jim Williams!" from behind various hiding places and surrounded Williams. The leader, handing his rifle to one of the others, produced a lariat and approaching the man in the center of the ring "Do you see this rope?" he asked. Williams nodded. "Well, this end of it is goin' to be tie to that there limb over there, while this here end of it is goin' to be tied around your reck. You follier me?" "My God, men," cried the desperate man, "what's become of Nell and the kid if you string me up? I'm all they've got. Let me go and see them first. Give me five minutes, will you, boys?" he pleaded. "You can hide at the edge of the woods and plug me if I make a break." A silence followed this request which was finally broken by Hank. "Wal," said he slowly, "I reckon our time ain't so terrible precious but Pierre-Auguste Renoir With bursting heart he held them close a moment With bursting heart he held them close a moment. what we can give you five minutes of it. What do you say, boys?" Hank had a wife and children at home. The "boys" were evidently not in favor of extending this clementry to Williams, but the silence with which they received the question was due partly to the fact that, in that section of the country, it was considered unlucky to oppose the questioner's wishes. Hank, acting on the principle that silence means acquiescence, grudely ordered Williams to lead the way to the camp. Arriving at the edge of the prairie, the crowd halted and, after being eloquently advised as to what would happen if he should be so foolish as to attempt any tricks, the condemned man was allowed to proceed alone towards the wagon. Nell was sitting on the ground before the fire with baby in her arms, rocking back and forth and singing a soft lullaby. She looked up as Williams approached and putting her fingers to her lips, enjoined silence. Williams bent over her and held out his arms for the baby, and for the first time Nell noticed the absence of the pail. The discovery surprised her into speech. "Why, Jim, where is the water?" "Why I—I dropped the pail in the crick and come back to git something to fish it out with," he stammered, "an' I'd jest like to hold the kid a minit before I go back." The "kid" had opened his eyes during this dialogue and as there was no more need for quiet, Nell arose with a merry laugh and gave the baby to its father. Williams held the infant with one arm against his breast and extended the other to Nell. She obediently sided up to him and with bursting heart he held them close a moment. The hoot of an owl warned him that his time was up, so pushing Nell away almost roughly, he placed the baby in her arms and started off in the direction from which the sound had come. Arrived at the edge of the woods, he turned for a last look at the ones who held everything dear to him in life. Nell was standing on the same spot where he had left her and as he turned she raised the baby on high in her strong young arms. Williams waved his hand in reply, then turned his back to the pair and plunged doggedly into the woods, where the men were waiting for him. "Now," he growled, "go ahead with your hangin'" Hank led the way and the rest followed silently. Arriving at the place where Williams had been surprised they halted. There was an awkward silence for a moment which was broken by Williams. "You'll see that Nell gits to civilization, won't you, Hank?" he asked wearily. "Nell didn't know I stole the hoss. I intended to pay you for it sometime," he added. Still the awkward silence continued. The rest of the men were all looking at Hank and shifting uneasily from one foot to the other. That gentleman, very red in the face, after noisily clearing his throat, finally spoke: "By all the rules of justice, Mr. Williams," he began, impressively, "your body had orter be danglin' from that there limb over there, but after due and keerful deliberation on the part of these gentlemen here," indicating the others with a wave of his hand, "and myself, we have come to the conclusion that justice must take a back seat in this particular case, so, accordingly there aren't goin' to be no hangin' party here this afternoon. You kin pay me ter that durned hoss when you git good and ready." Williams stood like a man in a dream for a moment after Hank had finished speaking and then the full realization of all that his words implied came to him in overwhelming force, and despite als will power his emotions mastered kim and great sobs shook his frame. The unusual sight of a man in this condition acted like a spur on the others, and they turned hastily and started towards the spot where they had tied their horses. Hank swearing savagely for no apparent reason. Williams stood where they had left him until the last man had disappeared from view over the top of the ledge. Then slowly stooping he picked up the pall, filled it from the brook and went back to Nell and the "kid." Method in His Madness He had called at a house in the suburbs on business, and as he rose to go he said: "I believe you were in the Lake district last summer?" "Yes." "Go fishing?" "Yes." "Catch anything?" "One little perch." "Ha, ha, ha! That's what I expected. Well, good-night." When the caller had gone the wife said, indignantly: "Richard, how can you sit there and tell stories in that bold way? You know we caught over twenty fish weighing five pounds apiece; and that big jack weighed eleven pounds." "My dear wife," returned the husband, soothingly, "you don't know human nature. That man is now willing to take my word for $1,000. If I had told him of those fish he would have gone away believing me to be the biggest fibber in the country."—Exchange. Bound to Be in the Procession About fifty years ago there lived in Barkersville, one of the suburbs of Bangor, Maine, a man by the name of Seth Rogers, a well-to-do farmer, who owned several fine horses. He had one spare horse that he used to let out to his neighbors to help them with their plowing, harvesting, etc. He would always admonish them to be careful of the horse and not work him too hard. One morning Joe Clark applied to Rogers for the use of his horse for a part of the day. "Yes, you can have him," said Rogers, "but it is going to be a pretty warm day, so be sure and not drive him too fast." "I am going over to Veazle to attend a funeral," replied Joe, "and I'm bound to keep up with the procession if it kills the horse." Dreaming and Doing. "Those who dream do not do. Those who do have no time to dream." These epigrams from a recent article by Sarah Bernhardt apply not only to the art students, for whom she wrote it, but with equal aptness to the woman ordering a home or the business girl earning her livelihood out of the home. "It seems to me," she continues, "that the successful ones are those who never think at all about success, but simply work. They love art, and they toll. They make no speeches, never seek to impress others with the certainty of their own success; never, in fact, bother their heads about others or the opinion of others at any time. They work patiently, they work year after year; their work improves little by little, and they wake some day surprised to find themselves successful." Labor's Dawn. The toller's dawn begins to dawn, Its golden morn comes gently on; Yon mountain rises from the night With helmet glided with its light. There high appears the morning's glow, While black extends the night below, Where prowl the creatures of the dark, Where still is heard the watchdog's bark. The light that tips yon mountain's crest Portends the age of darkness past; That gloomy night shall lose its sway; The world of toll shall have its day. The clouds that clothe the mountain's side Begin to fall apart, divide; The day shall follow break of dawn And labor come unto its own. Shall peace not usher in the day; On cloud and crag shall lightning play; Shall thunder's voice the vale awake And wild the storm in fury break. Shall rather reason's ray serene. With soft infiliture light the scene. A world she love and behold them. With peace on earth, good will to man. —Charles E. Milroy. Her Sugar Weighed By His Soap. In the little town of Peru, ten miles from Pittsfield, Mass., the farmers in the winter bring their butter and eggs to Frank Creamer's and exchange them for tea, sugar or anything else they need. One day Mrs. Ackert brought some butter in pound lumps to exchange, and after weighing them, he said, "Mrs. Ackert, this butter does not weigh a round." "I can't help that," she said, "I weighed it by a pound of soap I got here a few days ago." Millions of Cigars. Key West sent to the North the first six months of this year about 15,000,000 cigars; Porto Rico threw into the United States during the same period about 40,000,000 cigars, while there came from Cuba during that time 25,000,000 cigars. GREED AND DISCONTENT. HARIFF REFORMER HOME MARKET THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS U.S.A. FOREIGN MARKET $1,600,000,000 EUROPE ATLANTIC OCEAN UNITED STATES MUST AFFECT WAGES MUST AFFECT WAGES RELATION OF TARIFFS TO THE PRICE OF LABOR. Tariff Reduction Being Designed to Bring About a General Cheapening of Values. It Follows That Labor Must Be Cheapened in Proportion. It is becoming more and more apparent that a contest is at hand whose issue is to determine the question of retaining the high level of American wages and the high standard of American living. This is the real question involved in the downward revision of the tariff. The wages paid to American workers are the supreme factor in this problem of tariff reduction. Theorists and guessers may figure to their own satisfaction that it is possible to bring about a downward revision of tariff rates without at the same time bringing about a downward revision of wage rates; but the immutable fact is that wages must follow the tariff downward. A single statement will suffice to make clear the certainty that with lower tariff schedule must come lower wages: By so much as we reduce the tariff on competitive products we invite a larger importation of such products. One of two things must necessarily follow. Either we shall displace and diminish the present huge volume of domestic production and with it reduce the volume of employment and of wages paid to domestic labor, or else the domestic production cost, the labor cost, must be reduced in order to hold the market against the competition of cheaper products of foreign labor. If the tariff of to-day is 50 per cent ad valorem upon any given article, and the tariff of to-morrow upon that article be reduced 20 per cent, being now 40 per cent ad valorem, the selling price must suffer a net reduction of 10 per cent in order to keep the foreign article out. Practically the whole of that 10 per cent reduction must come out of the wages of labor. If the present tariff is higher than 50 per cent, as it is on many articles, then the net reduction in selling price and the reduction in labor cost is increased in proportion. For example, upon an article bearing 100 per cent duty a reduction of 20 per cent in the tariff rate would involve a reduction of 20 per cent in the selling price and in the labor cost. Production cost and labor cost are nearly equivalent terms. So the question of tariff revision downward, coupled with the proposition to facilitate foreign competition by special tariff reductions, carries with it the question of wage reduction. In the exact proportion that the tariff shall be reduced wages must be reduced. In the exact proportion that wages are reduced, prosperity must be diminished. More than all other units combined the American wage rate is the basis and foundation of American prosperity. It is the high wage rate, the immense aggregate of wages paid and spent, the enormous purchasing power of the wage earners, the vast sum of money distributed through all the channels of trade and activity—this is what makes our country the richest and best country on earth for everybody to live in. The tariff revisers and the tariff swappers who propose a general scaling down of duty rates—and if the scaling down is once begun it must become general—imagine a vain thing when they indulge in the belief that this can be done without disturbing market values and wage rates. Some of them know better. Some, we have reason to conclude, are working for tariff reductions as a direct means of compelling a general reduction in wage rates. But for the most part, as we believe—certainly the most of those who vote the Republican ticket and consider themselves protectionists—they are sincere in the conviction that in some way it is going to be possible to materially lower the present protective rates of duty and leave the present standard of wage rates intact. They are mistaken. It cannot be done. Protection and high wages go together. Protection and permanent employment are a never falling guard against permanent pauperism. Protection and high prices, with the guaranteed ability to pay those prices, constitute the ideal economic condition. It is because we do not live in an era of cheapness, cheap commodities, cheap labor, cheap men, cheap women, that ours is the greatest, richest and happiest of all the countries of the earth. That condi- tion may some time change from other than tariff causes, but it is absolutely certain to change if tariff reduction shall compel wage reduction. Want to Cheapen Labor The futility of aspiring to a conquest of the world's markets while maintaining the highest labor cost and the highest standard of living was well suggested in a recent speech at Seattle by James J. Hill. Said he: "The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries, until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor. We have outgrown the present tariff laws. They stand in the way of commercial progress and must be changed." If everybody was as blunt and candid as Mr. Hill is it would help greatly to clear up the situation. Frankly he says American labor is too dear, it must be cheapened if we are to compete on any great scale in neutral markets. The present tariff laws hold up the price of labor. Therefore, they stand in the way of commercial progress; therefore, they must be changed so as to cheapen labor and make world competition possible. If the truth were known, this is the view and intent of many tariff reformers and revisionists. They want to break down the American wage rate, but, unlike Mr. Hill, they are not honest enough to acknowledge their real purpose. What They Desire: "The truth, of course, is that every advocate of reciprocity really desires a downward revision of the tariff. The reciprocity theory is a euphemism designed to quiet the party conscience." —Chicago Chronicle. That is the exact state of the case. There can be no reciprocity in competitive products, no dual tariff scheme that starts with a maximum to be used for purposes of trade dickers, that does not necessitate an all-round reduction of the tariff. The leaders in the reciprocity movement understand this perfectly well. Cummins and Foss, pseudo Republicans, and Harris and Farquhar, avowed free-traders, understand it. They are working along the same lines toward the same end: Tariff revision downward. They know that protection and reciprocity in competitive products cannot exist side by side. But there is a following of reciprocity and dual tariff Republicans who do not know it. They foolishly imagine that it is possible to arrange for a larger inflow of competitive imports without an equivalent decrease of domestic production. They seem unable to grasp this fact. They imagine themselves to be firm and consistent protectionists. when, as a matter of fact, they are assistant free-traders. Canadian Farmers Want Protection. While would-be tariff tinkers are urging a wider latitude in tariff regulations between the United States and Canada, Canadian manufacturers are all in favor of putting on the screws and forcing the American manufacturers out of the Canadian market. Just now Canada's woolen tariff is under consideration, a big agitation having been aroused all over Canada in favor of higher duties. The Canadian tariff commission is even now coming eastward from Vancouver to the shores of the Atlantic on a mission of inquiry, and the wool growers of the Northwest are preparing a monster demonstration in favor of additional protection. They say that the present tariff does absolutely nothing for Canadian farmers. It is conceded that the results of the commission will be more protection all around. And it is difficult to see how the government can ignore the wool growers when, as one of them says, "It is setting up a Dingley tariff for Canadian manufacturers."—Burlington (Mo.) Enterprise. They Want to Smash It. What tariff revisionists want to do is to get their entering wedge into the Dingle tariff and, with that beginning, proceed to smash it, along with what it represents. All the enemies of protection are in the revisionist ranks. Republicans training in that company will be held under observation. The Dingle tariff, when the time comes, will be changed, as far as it needs modification, by its friends and by the steadfast supporters of the protection of American wages and American industries.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A GIANT LAID LOW. Crippled and Made III by Awful Kid- ney Disorders. John Fernaays, fruit raiser, Webster, N. Y., says: "I used to lift railroad ties easily but wrenched my back and began to suffer with backache and kidney trouble. I neglected it until one day a twinge felled road ties easily but wrenched my back and began to suffer with backache and kidney trouble. I neglected it until one day a twinge felled me like a log and made me crawl on hands and knees. I was so crippled for a time that I couldn't walk without sticks, had headaches and dizzy spells and the kidney secretions were muddy and full of brick-dust sediment. Doan's Kidney Pills made the pain disappear and corrected the urinary trouble. I have felt better ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The trouble with making anybody in the family an allowance is it is twice as much as you can afford and half as much as will satisfy the one who gets it. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bear the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. A girl with a lot money generally needs it to make up for marrying her. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last many years d-caters pronounced a local disease and many rare d-caters pronounced a constantly failing to cure with local treatment, prophylaxis, or science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease. Halsey's Halsey Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheesey & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only Constitutional care on the market. Halsey Cure is to a teapotful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one or two treatments that it fails to cure, so for circulates and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENKEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio Fund by The Pioneer Family Pills for constipation. A woman who whistles is preferable to one who whines. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease A powder. It rests the feet. Cures Swollen, Sore, Hot, Calrous, Aching, Sweating Feet and Ingrowning Nails. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents. Accept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE. Address. Allen S. Olmsted, Leitoy, N. Y. She—Is the telephone girl's occupation a profession or a business? He—Neither; it's a calling.—Chicago Daily News. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Miss. THOS. ROBINS. Maple Street, Norw. N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. A Guide Book to Books. As soon as you think you are old enough, get for yourself some good handbook, manual or primer of English literature, and make use of it to inform yourself about the books you read. This will help to place them in their true relations to one another. A good encyclopedia rightly used will serve nearly as well. Just as a guide book service both to tell about places you see and also suggest new trips, so in the manual of literature you will have glimpses of new fields of reading, possibly of such a nature as will please you better rthan those more familiar.—From Books and Reading in November St. Nicholas. Outlook Not Promising Very likely, as Representative Landis says, the government could save $1,000,000 a year on its printing bill, not only without material injury to any public interest, but to the great relief of members of Congress, public officials, and the public generally—but under present conditions it isn't very likely that it will."-Boston Globe. Modern Miracle Worker. We often hear that the age of miracles is past, but is it? It is statistically shown that the grocers of this country, within the last six years, have sold 3,500,000 pounds of pure Mocha and Java coffee from the 137,000 pounds imported into the United States.-Atlanta Constitution. FROM TEXAS Scme Coffee Facts From the Lone Star State. From a beautiful farm down in Texas, where gushing springs unite to form babbling brooks that wind their sparkling way through flowery meads, comes a note of gratitude for delivery from the coffee habit. "When my baby boy came to me five years ago, I began to drink Postum Food Coffee, having a feeling that it would be better for him and me than the old kind of drug-laden coffee. I was not disappointed in it, for it enabled me, a small delicate woman, to nurse a bouncing healthy baby 14 months. "I have since continued the use of Postum for I have grown fond of it, and have discovered to my joy that it has entirely relieved me of a bilious habit which used to prostrate me two or three times a year, causing much discomfort to my family and suffering to myself. "My brother-in-law was cured of chronic constipation by leaving off the old kind of coffee and using Postum. He has become even more fond of it than he was of the old coffee. "In fact the entire family, from the latest arrival, (a 2-year old who always calls for his 'pote' first thing in the morning) up to the head of the house, think there is no drink so good or so wholesome as Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkga. KG 25 OUNCES FOR BAKING POWDER MANUFACTURED BY JAQUES MFG. CO. CHICAGO NEW YORK, NEW YORK CITY WITH CALL NUMBER is the wonderful raising powder of the Wave Circle. 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DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. $16 AN ACRE In Western Canada is the amount many farmers will realize from their wheat crop this year. 150 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE In Western Canada is the amount many farmers will realize from their wheat crop this year. 25 Bushels to the Acre Will be the Average Yield of Wheat. The land that this was grown on cost many of the farmers absolutely nothing, while those who wished to add to the 160 acres the Government grants, can buy land adjoining at from $ to $10 an acre. Climate splendid, school convenient, railways close at hand, taxes low. Send for pamphlet "20th Century Canada" and full particulars regarding rate, etc., to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to the following authorized Canadian Government Agent—J. S. Crawford No. 125 W. Ninth Street Kansas City Missouri. (Mention this paper.) 1,000 Newspapers... Are now using our International Type-High Plates Sawed to LABOR-SAVING LENGHTS. Western Newspaper Union, Kansas City, Mo. 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MADE IN BLACK AND YELLOW AND GOLD BY REPRESENTATIVE TRADE THE WORLD OVER A. J. FOWER CO. BOSTON, MASS. U.S.A. TOWER CANADIAN CO. LIMITED, TORONTO, CAN. PAXTINE TOILET ANTISEPTIC FOR WOMEN troubled with lilies peculiar to their sex, and as a douche is marvelously suc- cessful. Throughly cleanses, kills disease germs, thoroughly charges, heals inflammation and local soreness. Paxine is in powder form to be dissolved in pure water, and is far more cleanling, healing, germicidal and beneficial for all skin types. TOLET AND WOMEN'S SPECIAL USES For sale at druggists, 50 cents a box. Trial Box and Book of Instructions Free. THE R. PASTON COMPANY BOSTON, MADE. Paradoxical. Lightleigh—I hear you have gone in fir physical exercise. Heavymun—Yes, I've been promis- en a feat job as soom as I get thinner. The Richest Man. Croesus was king of Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, in the seventh century before Christ, and was renowned for his prodigious wealth. His country was conquered by Cyrus and annexed to Persia, 544 B. C. His wealth gave rise to the expression, "As rich as Croesus." But with all his money he could not buy food so w.lolesome, nourishing and palatable as Pilsbury's Vitos, the leading cereal food of the day. A woman never forgets her first love—nor forgives herself if she marries him. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in %-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocery tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Few men can refrain from boasting of the good acts they do by mistake. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. Do a bottle. A woman has brains to be able, without any, to do so much more than men. A FEW MERRY JESTS SOMETHING TO REMEMBER AND SMILE OVER. Jury's Disagreement That Affected Defendant and His Lawyer—Speculation as to Efforts of the Parrot—Mrs. De Fashion's Troubles. Told by the Explorer. The explorer was entertaining his friends with yarns of the Arctic regions. "And once," he related, "I was cornered by a polar bear, and didn't have a bullet to protect myself. Tears came into my eyes as I thought of home." "What then?" asked his breathless friends. "Why, the tears froze as hard as a rock, and, ramming them in my gun I fired and killed the bear."—Stray Stories. A Proposal. Miss Pechis—"Mr. Dumley took me for a Vassar graduate the first time he mct me." Mr. Yerner—"That's strange. That isn't at all what I was inclined to take you for." Miss Pechis—"No? What then?" Mr. Yerner—"For better, for worse." Maybe. "Every time my parrot looks at me he tries to say something that sounds like 'Dear.' Isn't that cute of it? "I dunno. Maybe it's trying to swear."—Chicago Tribune. An Expert "Where is the nearest barber shop?" asked the hardware drummer. "Ain't no barber in this town," replied the landlord of the village inn, "but if you want a hair cut I reckon the editor of the Weekly Clipper can accommodate you." "Get out!" exclaimed the h. d. "What does an editor know about hair cutting?" "That's all right," rejoined the landlord. "That fellow the bestiest chap for miles around with the shears." His Complaint "I s'pose," growled the old farmer, "them air autymobelez iz entitled t half th' road, ain't they?" "Of course they are, Uncle Hiram, replied the village squire. "Yaas, I s'pose so," continued the old man, "but I don't 'low ez theyve got enny right t' take their half out uv th' middle, by grass!" No Wonder. "Wasn't trying to commit suicide? Why, she jumped off the pier into thirty feet of water and sank like a stone!" "I know, but she just explained to the man who rescued her that she had learned to swim at a correspondence school." A. Mistake Corrected. "There is a heap of moonshine in politics," said the man who speaks figuratively. "Mister," answered the man from the mountains, "you're wrong. There may be some dispensary in it, but we're doing all we can to keep moonshine out of public life." His Modest Fear. "Do you believe in reincarnation?" asked the woman who is interested in the occult. "Yes," answered the young man who never contradicts. "Then you understand theosophy?" "No. If I understood it I am afraid I might not believe in it." Mrs. De Fashion (at a children's party)—Marie! Nurse girl—Yes, ma'am. Mrs. De Fashion—It's time for us to go home. Which of these children is mine?—New York Weekly. Disagreement. Si--Yes, th' jury that tried Bill disagreed. Hl—I thought they convicted him. Si—Yes, but they disagreed awfully with Bill and his lawyer. Worse and More of It. Jenks—"Huh! My wife has about a ozen ideas all on that subject." 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. UNCLE SAM'S SOLIQUY. I'm a foxy old bird, you plainly can see, With plumage just gaudy enough To tickle the eyes of all of the girls Who vow that I am the stuff. I'm not so young as I used to be, And puppy love long has fled— I'm a proud old daddy of all the girls I love 'em from toe to head. In Winter I flirt and skate with the mald Who's wrapped in boas and furs. She chuckles me under the chin and laughs Just like a tame pussy cat purrs. And brings her garments of green; She trips as alry as fairies at play, And oft with this dalisy I'm seen. The mellow Miss Summer comes tripping in view. With flowers and birds and song. And soon we are strolling in old Lover's Lane— I'm sure you don't think it is wrong But much as I love Miss Winter and Spring, And revel in Miss Summers smile. There's just one girl I know you'll admit Who has then all beaten a mile. Her name is Miss Fall, the reaper of rruit. She garners of ripe golden grain— In fact she does more than any one girl, And often she comes out in vain. Now don't call me flickle, nor foxy nor flip. Because I love every maid, You'd do it yourself, now wouldn't you sir, If it wasn't because you're afraid? A. U. Mayfield in Denver News. A BIT OF WHITMAN. His Debt to Scott and an Estimate of Cooper. How much I am indebted to Scott no one can tell—I couldn't tell it myself—but it has permeated me through and through. If you could reduce the "Leaves" to their elements you would see Scott unmistakably active at the root. I remember the "Tales of My Landlord," "Ivanhoe," "The Fortunes of Nigel"—yes, and "Kenilworth"—its greatest geantry; there there's "The Heart of Midothian," which I have read a dozen times and more. I might say just about the same thing about Cooper, too. He has written books which will survive into the farthest future. Try to think of liter ture of the world, of boys, to-day without 'Natty Bumpo," "The Spy," "The Read Rover"—O "The Red Rover, it used to stir me up clarionlike. I read is many times. Is all this old-fashioned? I am not sworn is, not to old things at the expense of new; but some of the oldest things are the newest. I should not refuse to see and welcome any one who came to the old things—nout at all—that to violate the precedents—on the contrary, I am looking about for just such men; but a lot of the fresh things are not new—they are only repetitions, after all: they do not seem to take life forward, but to take it back. I look for the things that take life forward—theney things, the old things, that tae life forward. Scott Cooper, such men, always, perpetually as a matter of course, always take life forward—take each new generation forward. —From Horace Traubels "With Walt Whitman in Camden" in the November Century. Hla Inning. The burglar, having filled a sack with valuables from the pantry and china closet, leisurely made his way to the bedrooms on the second floor. "Dese summer outin's," he said, stowing himself away comfortably in the most luxurious bed in the deserted mansion, "is great tings fur hardworkin men like me."—Chlsago Tribune. Intellectual poverty is usually the cause of the material kind. Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 56 cigar. The highest price 56 cigar to the dealer and the highest quality for the smoker. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. If He Did He Would Win It. Having been so successful in bring ing warring nations together, President might try his hand at capturing the prize offered for the best design for a peace palace at The Hague. When Your Grocer Saves he does not have Defiance Starch, you may be sure he is afraid to keep it until his stock of 12 oz. packages are sold. Defiance Starch is not only better than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains 16 oz. to the package and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. Any man will accept free advice, and a good many will let it pass without use as freely as it is offered. A doctor is making money when he begins to call his patients his clientele. DON'T FORGET a large 2 oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue, only 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. It is hard to make a woman admit a fact unless it is that she is pretty. 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 problems, or by mail Moits. Sample mailed FREE. Address. The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y. A fool throws kisses, but the wise man delivers them in person. FROM GIRLHOOD TO WOMANHOOD Mothers Should Watch the Development of Their Daughters Interesting Experiences of Misses Borman and Mills. MATILDA BORMAN MYRTLE MILLS Every mother possesses information which is of vital interest to her young daughter. Too often this is never imparted or is withheld until serious harm has resulted to the growing girl through her ignorance of nature's mysterious and wonderful laws and penalties. Girls' over-sensitiveness and modesty often puzzle their mothers and baffle physicians, as they so often withhold their confidence from their mothers and conceal the symptoms which ought to be told to their physician at this critical period. When a girl's thoughts become sluggish, with headache, dizziness or a disposition to sleep, in back or lower limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude; when she is a mystery to herself and friends, her mother should come to her aid, and remember that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will at this time prepare the system for the coming change, and start the menstrual period in a young girl's life without pain or irregularities. Hundreds of letters from young girls and from mothers, expressing their gratitude for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has accomplished for them, have been received by the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., at Lynn, Mass. Miss Mills has written the two following letters to Mrs. Pinkham, which will be read with interest: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— (First Letter.) "I am but fifteen years of age, am depressed, have dizzy spells, chills, headache and back Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Co. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Makes Sick Women Well. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Makes Sick Women Well. "They Say It Cures Where All Others Fail" - JUDGE & DOLPH DRUG CO. "From present in long before Mull's remedy sold for constipation the only one now in our anything. Our customers "They say that it trouble where all others fashens the digestive organs In fact, we hear more got remedy than anything the "Those who have only tell us that it is a and constipation, but the customers calling for it to the store by those who "From present indications, it won't be very long before Mull's Grape Tonic is the only remedy sold for constipation and stomach trouble. It is the only one now in our store that is selling to amount to anything. Our customers are actually enthusiastic about it. "They say that it cures constipation and stomach trouble where all others fail. That it builds up and strengthens the digestive organs and the whole general system. In fact, we hear more good words about this remarkable remedy anything that we carry in stock. "Those who have used Mull's Grape Tonic not only tell us that it is a certain cure for stomach trouble and constipation, but they tell others. We have new customers calling for it constantly who have been sent to the store by those who have been cured." "From present indications, it won't be very long before Mull's Grape Tonic is the only remedy sold for constipation and stomach trouble. It is the only one now in our store that is selling to amount to anything. Our customers are actually enthusiastic about it. "They say that it cures constipation and stomach trouble where all others fail. That it builds up and strengthens the digestive organs and the whole general system. In fact, we hear more good words about this remarkable remedy than anything that we carry in stock. "Those who have used Mull's Grape Tonic not only tell us that it is a certain cure for stomach trouble and constipation, but they tell others. We have new customers calling for it constantly who have been sent to the store by those who have been cured." JUDGE & DOLPH DRUG CO., 515 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. This sellable drug No customers and sufficient to warrant it There is nothing so good TOUCH that a digestive system in perfect condition nature's own true touch own storehouse. It does not sit thus make a bad matter worse, and pleasant to take. MULL'S GRAPE This reliable drug firm is in close touch with No customers and the above words should be sufficient to warrant a trial of this great remedy. There is nothing so good for young and old as MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CURES. It affords the solution to the so-called digestive system in perfect condition to do the natural work. It is indeed nature's own true tonic made from the products of nature's own storehouse. It does not shock or weaken the delicate organs and thus make a bad matter worse. It is healing, soothing, strengthening and pleasant to take. MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CURES This sellable drug firm is in close touch with its customers and the above words should be sufficient to warrant a trial of this great remedy. There is nothing so good for young and old as MULLER GRAPH TOMORROW. It stands strong and digressive system in perfect condition so do its natural work. It is indeed nature's own true tonic made from the products of nature's own storehouses. It does not shock or weaken the delicate organs and not worse. It is healing, strengthening and pleasant to take. Constipation and Stomach Trouble and all the diseases which they cause. Your own physician will tell you that near every case of piles, biliomas, lymphed fever, atch headache, blood and skin diseases, appendicitis, cervical affections and a kind of fever that causes inflammation and infection by supplying the causes during the piles case—MULL'S GRAPE TONIC cures these dangerous complications. 36, cents, 60 cents and 11 $ size bottles, at all dandruffs. The $ 10 cents case is the most expensive, and it takes times as much as the 60 cent size. It takes to buy the largest size. FREE Upon receipt of your address, your drugstore name and the pay to package we will mail you a sample file. If you have never used Mulls Grapé tonic and will pass you a certificate good for $10 oward and all the diseases which the you that nearly every case of kidney disease will suffer and every kind of female trouser and constipation. By removing these 36 cents, 60 cents and 110 cents contains about 6 times as much as the 60 cents w FREE Upon receipt of your ad Mull's Grape Tonic and will also the purchase of more Tonic from MULL'S GRAPE TONIC C and all the diseases which they cause. Your own physician will tell you that nearly every case of piles, billions of dollars, typhoid fever, sickness and every kind of female trouble are directly caused by indigestion and constipation. By removing the cause and caring for the parent disease—MULL'S GRAPE TONIC cures these dangerous complications. The constant and 80 feet wide pill box size contains about 6 times as much as the 35 cent size and about 3 times as much as the 60 cent size. It pays to buy the largest size. FREE Upon receipt of your address, your drugstist will pay for postage we will mail you a sample free. If you have a Mini-Grape Tonic you will send your off-delivery费 for 1,000 toward the purchase of more Tonic from your drugstist. MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. MULL'S GRAPE TONIC CO., 148 Third Ave., Rock Island, Ill. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE TAS NO EQUAL FOR HEARING IS GUARANTEED TO CURE GRIP, BAD COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA. I won't sell Anti-Gripte to a dealer who won't Guarantee It. Call for your MONEY BACK IF IT DON'T CURE. F. W. Diemer, M. D., Manufacturer, Springfield, Mo. PILES: NO MONEY TILL DRS THORNSTON & MINOR MADE FROM YOUR Rugs Old Carpets Guaranteed to wear 10 years. Kansas City Rug Co., Kansas City, Mo. DEFIANCE STARCH 16 ounces to the package—other starches only 12 ounces—same price and "DEFANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 46, 1905 If afflicted with / sure eyes, use Thompson's Eye Water LES NO MONEY TILL CURED SEED FOR FREE ILLUSTRATION TREATMENT OF BRAND NEW DISCASIS WITH NAME OF PROMPTION MER CURED DRS THORNTON & MINOR 1031 OAK ST. KANSAS CITY, MO. (BRAND OF OFFICE AT 57 LOUIS) MADE FROM YOUR Old Carpets SPRAYING Pays Big to wear 10 years. Price last free. PILES: NO MONEY TILL CURED: SEDOR FOR FREE TLIE: TREATMENT ON BETWEEN THORNSTON & MINOR 10:00 A.M. ST. KAISER CITY, MO. (MASS. AT 31 ST. LAUIS) ADELESS DYES The IOc package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri. ache, and as I have heard that you can give helpful advice to girls in my condition, I am writing you: "Myrtle Mills, Oquawka, III. Dear Mrs. Pinkham: (Second Letter.) "It is with the feeling of utmost gratitude that I write to you to tell you what your valuable medicine has done for me. When I wrote you in regard to my condition I had failed to understand my case and I did not receive any benefit from their treatment. I followed your advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Compound am I am more healthy than I was when I was symptom which I had at that time have disappeared."—Myrtle Mills, Quawka, Ill. Miss Matilda Borman writes Mrs. Pinkham as follows; Dear Mrs. Pinkham— "Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound my months were irregular and painful, and I always had such dreadful headaches. "But since taking the Compound my headaches have entirely left me, my months are regular, and I am getting strong and well." Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me."-Matilda Borman, Farmington, Iowa. If you know of any young girl who is sick and needs motherly advice, ask her to address Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass, and tell her every detail of her symptoms, and to keep nothing back. She will receive advice absolutely free, from a source that has no rival in the experience of woman's ill, and it will, if followed, puther on the right road to a strong, healthy and happy womanhood. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound holds the record for the greatest number of cures of female ills of any medicine that the world has ever known. Why don't you try it? very the only Write us to-day and find out how you can make big money by representing us in your own neighborhood. HOOK-HARDIE CO. Box 19 Mudson, Mich. Coney Island Souvenir Post Cards. Six beautiful colored scenes for $2. Coney Island Post Card Co., Coney Island, N. Y. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. Foxes and Their Burrows. For the statement that foxes have holes there is not only the authority of natural history but of Gospel. The typical habitation of the fox is a hole in the ground. "Running to earth" and "digging out" are well known incidents of the English sport. The fox is a wise boast in all things, wise enough to rent the burrow of any animal; but in default of such abodes he is quite capable of digging for himself, and that with remarkable speed. Good Proof of Guilt When William M. Evarts was a young man he defended in court a man named Edwards, who was charged with forgery. The trial was an interesting one, and Mr. Evarts by brilliant work secured his client's acquittal. He had a strong belief that the man was innocent until the trial was all over. Then he changed his opinion. Edwards paid Mr. Evarts his fee with a forged check. English Tavern Signs. A tavern sign seen in various parts of England is "The Dog's Head in a Pot." accompanying the painting of a dog eating out of a three-legged pot, which may seem to mean that the host is kind and his viands good. Another significant sign is "Five Miles from Anywhere, No Hurry," seen in Hampshire, a pleasant reminder that it is an agreeable place to linger. Nourishment in Skim Milk. In skimming milk the cream removed 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 skin, too, should be eaten. Pared apples are not so nutritious, as the ash contents of the apple skin are valuable to the human system. Reculiar Order to Trainmen The following notice was observed posted in the engine dispatcher's office at the roundhouse in a neighboring town on one of the railroad lines running out of Albany: "Trainmen on passenger trains must not go through the coaches with overalls on, without first taking them off."—Albany Journal. Victims of Official Pleasure. The viceroy of the Two Kuang provinces, China, recently put out a proclamation that no pawnshop was to take arms in pawn. Being later himself in need of funds, he sent his own agents with arms to pledge. Five shops accepted them; and these afterward paid fines in the amount of $7,250 each. Needless Pother It is a reflection on our intelligence that we spend so much time on our food, and so much more time in talking about it. We must eat, of course, but what a needless pother there is about the dishes, and the cookery, and the garnish! — Illustrated London News. Poets and Irresponsibility Poets are wayward creatures, largely irresponsible for their actions, or, at all events, provided with such curiously sensitive and inflammable organization that we feel it would be unjust to judge them by ordinary standards—London Telegraph. Frailty Common to Mankind All men have their frailties, and whoever looks for a friend without superfection will never find what he seeks. We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults and we ought to love our friends in like manner.—Cyrus. Norway Loans to Farmers Farmers can borrow money from the government in Norway at 3 per cent interest, and still the Norse rush to other lands. The reason is that the collateral on which to borrow is rather difficult to get in Norway. Cigarette Case Saves Life. Returning to his house at Argenteuil, in France, Mr. Hugh Gooding was shot at by a discharged employee, the bullet flattening itself against 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. Asmuith. Don't Forget That— Self pity is one of the states that interferes most effectually with making the right use of circumstances. To pity one's self is destruction to all possible freedom.—Exchange. You can always see good bargains when you are broke. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe curly hair straight as shown above. It mourns the scalp prevents the hair from falling over the hair grow long and silky. Sold over 45 years and used by thousands. Warranted harm but is the new daily to keep for straightening kinky hair. Desire of imitations. Remember that Ford's Original only in fifty cent size, made only in Chicago and by us. The genuine has in the signature on the back. Do not be misled by substitutes that claim to be just as good—but always insist upon permanent hair. Give it that healthy, life-like appearance, gentlemen, children. Elegantly perfumed. Owing to its superior and lasting quality, it is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with experience in its use and dealers or send as 50 cents for one bottle, postage. We pay all postage and express charges. Send postal or express money order. Please mention in your letter this paper when ordering. Write your name and address everywhere. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Press 76 Wabash Ave, Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ...IS THE.... ST. LOUIS, MO. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Dyers in any Style. Services strictly first-class. Ladies and Gents dine up straits. Z. T. JOBDAN, Manager I Can Sell Your Real Estate or Business ```markdown ``` Properties and busi- ness of all kinds sold quickly for cash in a parts of the United States, but write Write to-day describ- ing what you have to sell and give cash price on same. A. P. TONE WILSON, Jr. Real Estate Specialist TOPEKA, KANS. Unawarded for a long time, and therefore still on the list of the Lombardy institute, is the special prize by Commeno for the discovery of hydrophobia poison. 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." The Modern Way. The ladder of fame he scorned to climb, He knew of something greater. For he was a youth of the modern time And took the elevator. —Philadelphia Ledger. Lightning Rod Revival. There is a revival of interest in Lightning rods in France. Wanted His Money's Worth. A southern congressman tells a story of an old negro in Alabama who, in his bargaining, is always afraid that he may get "the worst of it." On one occasion, it appears, this aged darky went after a calf that he had pastured all summer, and asked what he owned for the pasturing: "I 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. "I'll tell you what I will do—you keep the calf two weeks longer and you can have it."—Harper's Weekly. 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 husband so much that she will even permit him to read his newspaper without interrupting him. FLOUR Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. "Clothes That Gentlemen Wear" 1025 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. WE CARRY THE LARGEST line of London Woolens of any Tailoring establishment in the world and cater especially for the colored trade. coln Institute RI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH JAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. President. Lincoln MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AVE. DEPARTMENT COLLEGE, NORMAL, NORTH DUSTRIAL ANGLE COURSES: Classical, College Pr Model Training School, M Drawing, (Fine Arts and Me ing, Blacksmithing, Machine Gardening, Printing, Type Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location with Modern Improvement Diplomas are licenses to teach state. A few deserving stud to earn their way. All appl of good moral character. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AVE. 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Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. URL-I-CURE A CURE FOR CURLS CURL A CURE CURL-I-CURE You owe it to yourself, as well as to others who are interested in you, to make yourself as attractive as possible. Attractiveness will contribute much to your TAKEN FROM LIFE AFTER TWO WEEKS' USE OF CURLI-CURE. When you meet a person your first impression is governed largely by his or her appearance. Nothing adds to or directs from a lady's or gentleman's appearance so much as the hair. Nothing indicates their character, their gentility, good breeding, so much as the hair. We all know how much care is taken of the hair by all the leading society ladies in all the large cities. We all know how much pride a successful man takes in his personal appearance. Curli-Cure is an ideal, safe pre-tinky, curly hair straight. We tinky. It is a scalp tonic, cleanses and flushes of the hair, making them and sexually managed. We from becoming dry, harsh, brittle breaking off. We matter what you have tried you want, you are doing yourself do not try Curli-Cure. If you have no individuality you enjoy no advantage. There is one way and only one way in which you can overcome the great handicap and make your hair as beautiful, rich and attractive as the finest head of hair you have ever waited for. Curl Care, a core for curls, will do it. It is different from anything you have ever heard of or seen. It is new to you but old in itself. Curl Care is another of our choice for the greatest and most wonderful preparation which has ever been discovered. It has been used by the leading doctors all over the world, every nation for many years. Curl Care helps with scalp and scalp defects and always brings perfect results. Remember, the move you breath the hair with a stiff. This is the only precondition that will make CURL DIRECTIONS FOR USING. Wash the hair with warm and moist apple Curl Care twice a day for a week or two days, rubbing it in. Curl Care works in perfles, conditions. Coolly follow directions and straight hair is absolutely LINCOLN CHEMICAL more you brush the hair with a stiff hair brush, the sooner you will obtain the desired results. preparation that will STRAIGHTEN hair CURL-I-CURE It harms and will make the hair grow, giving it a soft and silky appearance. OR USING. Wash the hair with some water and let it last thoroughly dry. Do this only before the first application. Then apply it for a week or two, washing it in the hair and drying. Then brush the hair for five or six minutes with the more you brush the hair the sooner she desired result. After the hair is straightened apply twice a week in have directions and straight hair is absolutely assured. NCOLN CHEMICAL WORKS, Aurora, Illinois ```markdown ``` to yourself, as well as to others who are interested in you, to make yourself as attractive as possible. Attractiveness will contribute much to your GIVE US A CALL German Heater, Soft Coal Basecenter, Cole's Ho Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Farnaces success—both socially and commercially. Positively nothing detracts so much from your appearance as short, matted unattractive curly hair. WEEKS' USE OF CURL-I-CURE Curl-I-Cure is an ideal, safe preparation and makes bikies, curly hair straight. We guarantee it abo- liously. It is a scalp tonic, cleans and softens the many fibers of the hair, making them soft, silky, pliable and easily managed. Positively prevents the hair from drying, hard, brittle and keeps it from breaking off. No matter what you have tried, no matter what you do not try Curi-HCorses, you yourself an imprisonment if you do not try Curi-HCorses. You must guard yourself with less than two dozens, absolutely nothing else) than anything of the kind in the world, because you cannot imprison yourself. Curt-Ice is manufactured only by the Lincoln Company. It is a high-quality, a warranty that our preparation is absolutely pure and hardness and will straighten the hair without causing it to break off. We can cause it to break off and become dry and brittle. Price 50 cents. We pay all expenses charges. Send the order to Lincoln Company, 1000 W. 12th St., Chicago, IL 60610. Mail ship goods C. O. W. D. letter and address plate. Summer Schedule TO Excelsior Springs "The Beach" Beginning as follows: Leave Uni and 7:00 P. $1.00. Tickets W Union Depot. THEO Two Stores: 908 E. TW PHONES {Home 492 Bell 1211 KA Dealer in Drugs, Toil Give us an Order by Ph American Plan HOT 721-723 Room and Board $5.00 per Single Meals 25 cents. D. D. Staple and Farm Meats, SOUTHWEST CO Especial TELEPHONES: Home 4365 Main "Maine S. H "The Beautiful Health Resort" Beginning Sunday, May 7th and daily thereafter as follows: Leave Union Depot 8:30 and 10:20 A. M.; 5:10 and 7:00 P. M. $1.00 Round Trip, 30 days limit, $1.00. Tickets Wabash Office, 903 Main Street and Union Depot. THEODORE SMITH., DRUGGIST. Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES {Home 4211 Main Bell 1211 Grand PHONES {Home 5646 Main Bell 2170 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. Order in Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. We us an Order by Phone and See if We are not there with the Goods. 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. Single Meals 25 cents. Hot and Cold Baths Included. "The Beautiful Health Resort" Beginning Sunday, May 7th and daily thereafter as follows: THEODORE SMITH. Two Stores: 908 E. TWELFTH STREET, 805 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE. PHONES Home 4211 Main Bell 1211 Grand PHONES Home 5646 Main Bell 2170 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. Dealer in Drugs, Toilet articles, School Supplies, Stationery, Etc. Give us an Order by Phone and See if We are not there with the Goods. Room and Board $5.00 per week. Rooms without Board $2. Sliugle Meals 25 cents. Hot and Cold Baths Included. D. D. DUDLEY DEALER IN Table and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meats, Vegetables and Notions. NTHWEST CORNER 6TH AND CHARLOTTE. Especially caters to the colored people. ONES: Home 4365 Main. Bell 2819 Main. Maine" Anchor D. D. DUDLEY DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meats, Vegetables and Notions. SOUTHWEST CORNER 6TH AND CHARLOTTE. Especially caters to the colored people. TELEPHONES: Home 4365 Main. Bell 2819 Main. "Maine" Anchor S. H. Finkelstein, Prop. Carries a complete line of Furnishing goods, Hats, Shoes and Umbrellas We Also Make Sur to Y OUR MOT YOUR MONEY Also Make Suits to Your Measure OUR MOTTO: YOUR MONEY'S WORTH We Also Make Suits to Your Measure OUR MOTTO: YOUR MONEY'S WORTH 805 MAIN ST. Hot Springs Special." Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provided for by MISSOURI "Hot Sp Long looked for I and Hot Springs, Ark the "Hot Springs Special." Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provided for by the Hot Springs Little Rock MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Fort Smith Coffeyville Leaving Kansas City at 12:01 noon daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Independence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this "Hot Springs Special" is the Elegant Dining Cars. This train connects at Little Roe ck with the Iron Mountain Trains for all Southeastern Points in Ark ansas, Louisiana and Texas. For Excursion Tickets, Slee ping Car Berths and all information, call or address E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY MO. WABASH BEN McRAY, Prop. and my.. KANSAS CITY, MO.