The Rising Son

June Missing - Feb. 8 1905 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. THE DOMESTIC SCIENCE OF GARRISON SCHOOL. Principal R. T. Coles, of the Garrison School, was asked by our reporter the other day as to the benefit the girls are receiving from the Domestic Science Department of the school. He said, "I am well satisfied with results thus far. That is one of my favorite departments of the school and I pay a great deal of attention to it. At present we have about eighty-five girls taking a course in cooking and practical house-keeping. Miss Robinson, the efficient teacher of that department, is thoroughly competent and much interested in the work. It will pay any one to visit her classes and notice the interest the girls take in the training. For example the following is a part of the first year's course: two lectures a week on care of kitchen and kitchen utensils, sweeping, dusting, care of brooms, brushes and dusters; scrubbing floors, window cleaning, silver polishing, care of dining room, bed room ventilation, and care of kerosene lamps. The first year's course in cooking, consists of the following, cooking of simple breakfast dishes, bread making, table laying and waiting breakfasts. This training has already begun to make itself felt in the home. For in conversation with many mothers, of these girls, who by force of circumstances are compelled to spend a great deal of time away from home, have turned the house over entirely to the girl and have noticed the difference in interest the girl manifests now to what she did before having had the training. A few weeks ago one of the Fifth Grade girls, without a mother, was ill and the teacher, with a few of the girl's clasmates visited her home, took charge of the room, put to use their knowledge of housekeeping and ventilation and prepared dainty foods such as cream of tomato soup and dropped eggs on toast. This practical training is the kind all our girls need and will do much to revolutionize our homes. The only regret I have is that the work in my school cannot be more extended." LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. The enrollment of students in Lincoln Institute has increased steadily will each year of President Allen's administration. To date is is three hundred and ninety-eight and both faculty and students are eagerly watching the arrival of the four hundredth student. The summer school is yet to be heard from and undoubtedly the enrollment for the year will not be far short of five hundred. Arrangements have been made for midwinter classes, as is now the custom in leading schools and colleges, and those who find it impossible to enter until this season of the year need not in any sense feel that it is tipe lost. To many teachers with short school terms, such an arrangement of classes will prove a great blessing; and several who find the summer term too short a time in which to bring themselves up in all of the studies they desire to take are availing themselves of the excellent opportunities here afforded them for more extensive work during the midwinter and spring terms. FIFTH ANNUAL BANQUET KANS SAS LINGOLN DAY CLUB. The fifth annual banquet of the Kansas Lincoln Day Club was celebrated on the 12th of February at Topeka, Kansas. The banquet was opened by Rev. W. T. Vernon, president of the club. The program was thoroughly interesting, oratory and music being the principal features. Following the invocation by Rev. J. R. Ransom, the president's annual address was delivered upon which occasion Rev. Vernon was at his best. Rev. J. C. Caldwell of St. Joseph delivered an address on Abraham Lincoln. W. I. Jamison of Topeka on "The Negro Lawyer," Nelson Crews of Kansas City on "The Negro in Politics," Dr. G. G. Brown of Atchison on "The Negro in the Medical Profession," C. F. Clinkscale, "The Negro Youth," I. M. Horton, "Lessons of the Hour," Rev. J. S. Edwards, "The Minister in Public Life," D. Hickman, "The Kansas Pioneer." The well prepared menu consisted of the following: Oyster cocktail, water, crackers, meats, cold tongue, fried chicken, gold band ham on table. Rellshs, pickles, celery and radishes. Vegetables, green peas, cream potatoes, sweet potato spuds, mayonnaise dressing and fruit salad in lettuce leaves. Hot rolls—brown bread, oranges, bananas, apples, ice cream and assorted cakes, wine and cigars. The attendance was especially good, one hundred and fifty members and visitors enjoyed the occasion. Those who were present from Kansas City were: Hon. Nelson C. Crews, J. M. Horton, Attorney Houston, Geo. K. Love, F. Payne, and Lewis Woods and Rev. C. Caldwell of St. Joseph, Mo. A GAY LOTHAIRE. The much touted "Christian Gentleman," B. Allen Morris, has rather peculiar records in love affairs. Although a twice married man, he ardently woes two of Detroit's blushing maidens at one and the same time. About a year ago a correspondent in the Informer told in glowing terms about the splendid Christian work a stranger, by the name of B. Allen Morris, was doing among the children of his neighborhood and about organizing them into a club and training them in the noble work of the Master. Mr. Morris was to all outward appearances, a gentleman of great piety and high Christian character. No one could blame the pretty maidens of Bethel church for saying that Brother Morris looked good to them, and when two of Bethel's female members seemed to be the elect of the polished gentman, they were looked upon with envy. It was said that Brother Morris had become engaged to both of the fair young ladies, and indeed, was about to be married to one of them when a letter was received in this city from Kansas City, Mo., that reads in part as follows: Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 24, 1905. Dear Sir:—I am inquiring for my husband. He is quite a church worker among the young people. His name is Burt Allen Morris. We were married here in Kansas City the 29th day of June, 1903. We moved to Chicago. After a month he deserted me; then after a time he came back to Kansas City; then he deserted me here and went back to Detroit. Now I hear he is married to some woman in Detroit. He hasn't got any divorce from me. I am still his wife. He was a Mason and belonged to the Westport Lodge here, but he is suspended now. Will you kindly inform me as to this woman, her name and address. I cannot understand my husband's treatment of me. The startling nature of the contents of this letter started an investigation that has resulted in uncovering a rather checkered career on the part of Morris, who only last fall matriculated in Wilberforce University, intending to enter the ministry. Mr. Morris is alleged to have been married in Chicago November 1, 1899, by Rev. J. F. Thomas, and again June 29th, 1904, in Kansas City, Mo., by Rev. F. J. Peck. Deserted wife No. 2 in Chicago and came to Detroit. Wife No. 1 applied for divorce in Chicago, but dropped it upon learning of his engagements in this city, and certain Detroit maiden considers now themselves exceeding fortune that they were not duped into marrying the oftime groom. The authorities of Wilberforce were communicated with and when they asked an explanation from the gay young man, he declared that he would straighten the matter up to their satisfaction, and left the University for that purpose, saying he was, coming to Detroit. He has not been seen in this city, and his present wifeabouts are unknown. He is a tall, brown-skinned man of about thirty years, with pleasing manners and gentlemanly bearing. LEXINGTON NEWS. Quarterly meeting was held at the A. M. E. Church, February 11. The Presiding Elder, Rev. Barksdale was not able to be here on account of being sick. Rev. Macomie of Kansas City, Kansas officiated in his stead. Everything passed off very nicely. Miss Katie Wilson and several other young friends were in Independence last week-attending an entertainment. The Grand Chancelor, A. W. Lloyd of the K. of P. was in the city February 1, for the purpose of settling the claim of the Sir Booker. He paid to the legal heirs $66.66. He had only been a member about four months at the time of his death. Professor Huston of Sedalia was in company with him. Rev. Hays preached at the Baptist church Sunday, morning and evening. Mr. Joseph Myers went to Moberly on the 31 of January, 1906 to attend the wedding of Mr. Walter Woddel. On his return home he lost a very fine hat. We are very sorry of his misfortune in losing his hat. Mr. Jake Fagett is a candidate for elected, for he is all right. Treasurer. We hope he will be re-Doctor Ball is expecting to build early in the spring. Miss Mary Hoard spent several days with her mother in Independence last week. Mrs. Frazier the mother of Mr. Barnet is quite ill. Mr. Ugene Conway went to Kansas City on business on the 6th of February and also Mrs. Morris. Mr. William Ford just got back from Indianapolis, attending a convention of the coal miners. He said the miners and operators agreed to disagree but will have another meeting in March. Mr. Nelson Waters of Kansas City was in the city visiting his sister. Mrs. Hawkins and friends. He returned to his home Monday evening. Mr. Madie and Miss Mattie Shaffer was united in matrimony February 11, 1906. Rev. Wm. Thirkle officiated. We wish them a long and prosperous life. The M. E. Conference will set here on the 14th of March, 1906. The members and friends are making great preparation to entertain them all. Mr. Hedge is a candidate for Police Judge and we think if he is elected he will make a good one. All candidates that wish their names announced in our paper or want our support must pay just what they pay any other paper in the city, for our paper has as many readers as any other paper, more especially among our people. Mr. Walter W. Russel is a candidate for City Assessor and I think he will make a good one. If you try enough you will seldom have to cry "enough." He can easily be fearless, who dare not make foes. WHEN IS A MAN WISE? At forty man is wise, 'tis said, or never; At forty he must know the ways of men, And speak in sounding praise or toil with pen In some broad sphere of humanly endeavor, To prove himself efficient, bright or clever, Or own himself a failure. If by then Success is far, 'tis vain to try again: Halt, cease to hope, and toil no more forever. What sophistry! What bogus sage propounded Only by the eternal verities. At sixty only is true wisdom sounded. And then by few. Old saws are mostly lies. Three-score is the age of wisdom and discretion: If then a man display a judgment keen. Nor fall in line with Folly's sad procession. He may be called discreet—"of age," I mean— But not till then. Truth forces this confession: Four-score is nearer to it than fourteen.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. His Fair Companion—flippantly— Force of Ccience. Acetylthyl is calcium carbine surrounded with an envelope of sugar. It is claimed to be of advantage in acetylene lighting on a small scale, as, unlike the pure carbide, it stops generating gas when the water is turned off, and begins again when more water is supplied. This avoids the generation of an excess of gas, which is wasted if no gasometer is at hand for storage. A novel means of propelling boats has been devised in Europe by A. Farcot of the Buchet factory. It consists of a framework of steel tubing, supporting a Buchet vertical motor of $ \frac{3}{2} $ horse-power, with electric ignition, the motor driving two paddle wheels with vertical blades. The paddle wheels and motor are fixed at the stern of the boat. They are mounted on a pivot, making it practicable to steer the boat in any direction, and giving facilities for getting at the machinery for oiling and repairs. She Had a "Cinch on Him. A prominent railroad man repeats with great enjoyment a story that he heard from a conductor on one of the limited expresses between New York and the West. It appears that a dapper chap in the first chair car had managed to become unusually friendly with an attractive young man in an adjoining seat. When the train pulled into Buffalo, the masher, in taking leave of the fair one, remarked: "Do you know, I must thank you for an awfully, awfully pleasant time, but I'm afraid you wouldn't have been so nice to me had you known that I am a married man." "Oh, as to that," quickly and pleasantly responded the charming young woman, "you haven't the least advantage of me. I am an escaped lunatic." —New York Tribune. Advanced. A naval officer, according to the Buffalo Commercial, told of the trials of a colleague in marrying off his many daughters. In the same family was a son, an observant lad of ten years. Toward the close of the winter the officer informed his son that he was going to lose his sister Ethel, who was engaged to wed a young lieutenant. "I'm sorry to hear that dad," said the youngster, "because I'm awfully fond of Ethel. Still, we'll have Alice and Eva and Maud and Susle, won't we?" Then, after a moment's reflection, he added: "By the way, dad, this arrangement will advance Alice a number, won't it?" "Why, I thought W.A.leigh was a man of large means." "He used to be, but he owns six automobiles now." Documentary Proof of Idiocy "Look here, old chap. I'll give you a valuable tip." said the experienced married man to the prospective bride-groom. "Don't let your wife keep a diary on the honeymon. My wife did that, and now whenever we quarrel she brings it out and reads some of the idiotic things I said to her then." —London Tit-Bits. All Around Athlete Ald. W. Anker Simmons of Hepley-on-Thames town council, has just accomplished a remarkable feat near the famous reach of the Thames at Henley. He walked, ran, cycled, rowed and then swam 200 yards all under eight minutes. As Mr. Simmons is 48 years of age, the feat is all the more noteworthy. Find Wealth in Bag Discovering a bag in the streets of Sydney. Australia, a man took it to the police station, where it was found to contain gold and banknotes to the value of £850, and subsequently a hatless old man, a lunatic, who was wandering aimlessly through the streets, was found to be the owner. Eighteenth Century Earrings The eighteenth century saw the glorification of the carring, fashionable beauties outyving each other with the rarest and most beautiful jewels. There is no doubt that the carring is one of the prettiest feminine adornment and as such well deserves its present popularity. Worth More Than a Smile A generous stork visited a certain home uptown and left a pair of babies. A few days afterward the father and a friend who congratulated him and said: "I hear the Lord has smiled upon you." "Smiled!" exclaimed the proud parent: "He laughed about srl!" A Lost Opportunity. "Woman just dropped dead in the bargain crush at the ribbon counter," cried the floorwalked excitedly. "How inopportune!" exclaimed the head of the firm. "Our undertaking department won't be open until next Monday!" - Catholic Standard. A Language Lesson. Hans Hansen called to see how his friend Ole Olsen was making out with his fine new job - street sweeping. Says Olsen: "Vall, I tank I like the shob all right." At which angrily restorted Hansen: "Shob? Doan say 'shob;' say 'yob.' Easy to Identify Sisters It is an easy matter to pick out sisters in a group of children on the continent, for girls of the same family are dressed just alike. In the Breton provinces, where the gala dress is quaint, the effect is fantastic on fete days. Benefit of Iron in Water Bits of iron will prevent water from becoming putrid. Sheet iron or iron trimmings are the best. The offensive smell of water in vases of flowers would be avoided by putting a few small nails in the bottom of the vases. No Use for Beef. In Uruguay, until within a few years, the sales of hides was the only part of the cattle industry that yielded any cash, the meat being mostly discarded as of no value. Must Keep Shoe Shined. In Paris even the poor man stops on his way to work to have his shoes shined. It costs him only 2 cents, and he might lose his job if he did not. Noserings as Aid to Beauty. In New Guinea the ladies wear nose rings, piercing the nose in the same way that civilized women pierce the ears. And Still Most People Do Boys wound get very little satisfaction out of being bad if people expected them to be—New York Press. Pears and Apples. The pear and apple are from Europe. NUMBER 36 "I'LL PAY YOU FOR THAT." This title parable by an unknown author teaches its own lesson: A hen trod on a duck's foot. She did not mean to do it, and it did not hurt the duck much; but the duck said, "I'll pay you for that!" So the duck flew at the old hen, but as she did so her wings struck an old goose, who stood close by. "I'll pay you for that!" cried the goose, and she flew at the duck; but as she did so her foot tore the fur of a cat who was just then in the yard. "I'll pay you for that!" cried the cat, and she started for the goose; but as she did so her claw caught in the wool of a sheep. "I'll pay you for that!" cried the sheep, and she rah at the cat, but as she did so her foot hit the foot of a dog who lay in the sun. "I'll pay you for that!" cried he and jumped at the sheep; but as he did so his leg struck an old cow who stood by the gate. "I'll pay you for that!" cried she, and she ran at the dog; but as she did so her horn grazed the skin of a horse who stood by a tree. "I'll pay you for that!" cried he, and he rushed at the cow. What a noise there was! The horse flew at the cow, and the cow at the dog, and the dog at the sheep, and the sheep at the cat, and the cat at the goose, and the goose at the duck, and the duck at the hen. What a fuss there was! And all because the hen accidentally stepped on the ducks' toes. "Hi! Hi! What's all this?" cried the man who had the care of them. "You may stay here," he said to the hen; but he drove the duck to the pond, the goose to the field, the cat to the barn, the sheep to her fold, the dog to the house, the cow to her yard, and the horse to his stall. And so all their good times were over because the duck would not overlook a little hurt which was not intended. Famous Russian Poetess. The poets corner" in the cemetery of the Alexander Newski cloister in St. Petersburg has been augmented by the grave of Myrrha Lochwizkaya (Ybert), one of the few Russian women who have attained eminence for their poetry. She was the daughter of a prominent lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she was born in 1869. In 1896 her first volume of poems was issued, three other volumes followed. Her verse is characterized by Oriental touches, and her favorite theme is love. Don't try to be anybody but yourself. Few British Whaters Dundee is the only port in the British isles that owns whaleships. Toward the end of the century before last nearly all the east coast ports had whalers of their own. London bad thirty-four ships. The falling off of the industry, is due chiefly to the scarcity of "right" whales; but the turning point of the decay was taken when coal gas was discovered, and there was a fall in the importance of oils as illuminants. But each season Dundee sends her whaling fleet to the Arctic. So few are "right" whales within the circle now that the Dundee experts know them all, it is said. Wags aver that the Dundee harpooners have names for each of them. Poor Little Babylonians. Eminet Babylonian explorers say that the multiplication table which the Babylonian child had to commit to memory extended to 30 times 30, and that he was easily conversant with two languages besides his own. The school rooms have been discovered and today it is possible to examine the school boks, the tables with the arithmetic lessons still legible upon them.—Baltimore American. A low corsage never seems so modest to a stout *c* to a thin womaw READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR Then blossom bright with autumn dew And colored with the heaven's own blue That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night; Then connect not when violet teen Oer wandering brooks and springs unseen Or columbines, in purple dressed Not over the ground-bird's hidden nest. Then waitest late and comest alone. When weess are bare and birds are down. And frosts and shortening days portend The aged Year is near his end. Then doth thy sweet and quiet eye Look through its frigges to the sky. Blue-blue as if that sky let fall A flower from its cedarland wall. I would that thine, when I shall see The death of death drew near to me. Home blooming within my heart, any joy to be found. I am William Cullen Bryant. Central Figure in Human Destiny. Jesus withdrew into him. I am the way the truth and the life—John 14, 6. No character in history is so many-sided as the Man of Nazareth. From whatever point of view we regard him, he presents a new and instructive aspect. His life and teachings furnish guidance and inspiration for every department of human action. By the broad principles which he inculcated he touches the family, social life, civic responsibility and business conduct. We cannot challenge, but must accept, his comprehensive claim for himself that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He is the Way by his example. In the family He was obedient, diligent, affectionate, considerate. He contributed his share toward the maintenance of the household and in his last hour provided for the future of his mother. He did not shun society, but was a blessing under every roof which sheltered Him. There is no record in the Gospels that our Savior ever encountered human suffering without alleviating it. He consorted with the poor and needy and ate with publicans and sinners, so that thereby he might load them in the way of life. He did his duty as a citizen and refused to abet movements for political disturbances for his own advancement. He was constant in his devotion to his Father's business tireless in his activity, conspicuously open and sincere in all his conduct. Christ himself was righteousness teaching by example. Christ is the Truth. As a teacher, his precepts apply in every walk of life. He laid down broad principles of action. He did not concern himself with minute injunctions as to conduct and behavior. He expected his followers to apply in each particular case the rule of his teaching: Who is my neighbor? The parable of the Good Samaritan is more conclusive than any definition. Shall I forgive my brother seven times? Unlimited forgiveness is the rule. To the young ruler, faultless to the law, "Sell all thou hast," enforces the obligation of positive performance. Surely "no man ever spake as this man." Above all, he is the evidence and message of the Father's love. We are prone to regard God as remote, inaccessible; as Creator, Ruler, Sovereign, but not as a friend and benefactor. Christ reveals himself to us as Father, full of compassion for his children, loving, abounding in tender mercies, a very present help in time of trouble. If we know Christ, we know the Father. Let us not lose the full significance of the declaration, "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoover believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Well is Christ called Immanuel, "God with us," for He is the revelation of the truth that God is not at any time far from us. If we will we may walk with the Father and hear his voice and commune with him constantly. Christ is the Life. His example and his teachings point that way. Obedience to them constitutes true religion. "To live in Christ." He was absolutely and perfectly what he taught. Hence to live his life, to follow in his footsteps, to strive to grow into his likeness, is our full privilege and duty. Religion is Christianity, and Christianity is the life of Christ lived over agan on earth as nearly as fallible mortals may do it. "All other considerations sink into insignificance before the man Christ Jesus, who was also the Son of God and is the central figure in human destiny." John H. Converse. Heart Utterances. Words which come straight from the heart of the writer must touch the heart of the reader, provided there is sympathy between them, and if the heart touches heart the truth goes straight home. There must always be the giver and the receiver and the giver of mind food ought to be strong and pure, something for the weaker to look up to, and to lean against, never giving stones for bread, or tainted water for pure, and also the giver must live very near to the Perfect One if the influence is to be uplifting, stimulating and lasting. Some cannot, or will not, draw supplies from the fountain head for themselves, but must needs get their refreshment brought to them, as if were, through a channel of the minds of those who live in closer communion with the Fountain. Only by these means can they be brought in touch with the great source of all beautiful thoughts and ideas. Therefore, the channel must be kept very pure and unpolluted, that nothing injurious be given to the thirsty soul. How the Kingdom Advances. How the Kingdom Advances. In these two striking parables of Jesus—the mustard seed and the leaven—we have something more than a hint of how the kingdom of heaven grows in the individual and in society. The growth of the seed seems to refer to the individual's growth, that of the leaven to the growth of society. How is the individual transformed into the image and character of Christ? Just as the seed takes of the earth and the air and the sun and the rain, and makes them a part of itself. How does the gospel transform society? Just as the leaven transforms the meal—one atom after another, not all at once, not in bulk, but one at a time. It is one man at a time, one woman at a time, one boy and girl at a time. And the individual himself can be transformed only as he submits himself to the transforming Spirit, who, as the divine seed, uses all the powers of the man, working them over into a character that is like Christ's. How to Live Through Things How to Live Through Things. Let us fix our eyes on the end of the journey. Travelers to Rome will go through a great many places that are not Rome. Even so travelers going to heaven will go through many places that are not heaven. Foolish as it would be for a man to express himself as disappointed in Rome because he did not find a Forum in Florence, even so foolish it is for Christians to express doubt or dismay about God's dealings because they do not find it all heaven in their earthly estate. So Joseph Mazzini wrote in one of his essays: "Pain and joy, deception and fulfilled hopes, are just the rain and the sunshine that must meet the traveler on his way. Button up your coat around you from the first but do not think for a single moment that one or the other has anything to do with the end of the journey." It is God's wise dealing which gives us the experience of many things before it brings us to the crown of all things. The Crust of Your Life. When ground is trodden hard it in the very substance of the ground that lies impenetrable and catches the seed, and will not let it in and claim the soil and do its fruitful work. * * * This is the notion of the Crust. It is not it a foreign material; but the thing itself grown hard and rigid, shuts the soft and tender and receptive portions of the thing away. * * * Thus out of the very substance of a man's life, out of the very stuff of what he is and does, comes the hindrance which blinds itself about his being, and will not let the better influences out. * * * That self-gate barrier must be broken up, must be restored to its first condition and become again a part of the substance out of which it was evolved, before the life can be fed with the dew of first principles and the rain of the immediate descent of God. What is the crust upon your life that keeps out, holy influences.—Phillips Brooks Human Love. When human love becomes idolatry every blessing attached to it is noisened, and embitters the heart, which, when loving subserviently to God, might enjoy the heavenly boon through time as through eternity. Hence it is that strong attachments are great snares, although in this false world they are considered so essential to human happiness; and altruing us from God, they become rods to chastise our infidelity toward Him who gave His precious life to purchase our affections. O! while we glory in the warmth and tenderness with which we can love a fellow creature, why are we so cold to the best and truest of friends? But so it is, we have celestial flowers to pluck, but pluck the thorns of earthly pleasures, and then wonder why we are wounded! God must be first in our souls, or all that stands between Him and the creature is in mercy blasted. Work. "A wholesome human employment is the first and best method of education, mental as well as bodily," says Ruskin. It was the first blessing given to man when he was put upon the earth, and it will be necessary to his welfare and happiness to the last day that he remains. Some useful work to occupy brain, heart and hand, some one to be blessed and helped by our labor, this it is that keeps us sane and safe, strong and cheerful, our lives through. Something that waits for our doing helps us to fight our battles against illness, forces us from our lethargy in sorrow, will not give us time to sink down in despair; it is God's angel for ever saying, "Go forward." Get Near the Fire. Nearness of life to the Savior will necessarily involve greatness of love to Him. As nearness to the sun increases the temperature of the various planets, so near and intimate communion with Jesus raises the heat of the soul's affections to Him.—Spurgeon. Every person has two educations; one which he receives from others and one, more important, which he gives himself.—Gibbon. Mount Vernon a Shrine Toward Which Turns Every Loyal American Heart --- A THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES A hundred years have passed since Death, entering the upper chamber at Mount Vernon, laid his hand upon the heart of Washington, and stillized its throbbings; but that the love and veneration with which he inspired his countrymen has known no diminution is proven every recurring anniversary of his birth. Perhaps even more conclusive evidence is to be found in the hundreds who daily visit the historic spot, and in the absence of merry-making which marks these throngs. They come as pilgrims to a shrine, speaking in subdued voices as they pass from room to room, or standing in awed silence before the tomb which holds all that 1 is mortal of him who in so distinctive a sense is immortal. There is an air of such deep repose about the place, despite the ebb and flow of the tide of humanity, that squirrels, with feathery tails erect, frolic on the lawn in delightful abandon, while birds chatter in the branches of trees, or perch in rows on stable caves, and along the upper edges of the low half doors. Glancing over one of these one seems to see in his accustomed stall Washington's war horse. Nelson, who, after the battle of Yorktown, was never allowed to feel the weight of a saddle, and to bear his whinnying response to his master's call. Across from this is the garden, redolent with the odor of box bushes transformed from the green, outline of Mrs. Washington's day into aromatic walls of vendure. Gay with sweet williams and pinks and all the rest of the fragrant, oldfashioned flowers, it was an alluring spot to little Nellie Custis, who was sometimes discovered there during the hours sacred to harpsichord and spindet, when only the interposition of her adopted father shielded her from her grandmother's displeasure. Mount Vernon, as is generally known, was purchased in 1858 by an association of ladies, which now has representatives from thirty-seven states. Through these representa- THE CONFERENCE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES tives each state assumes the care of a room, and the responsibility of fitting it up with furniture, of which it was despoiled at the sale of the late owner; or, falling this, of substituting articles possessing historic interest and belonging to the period. One of the most successful of these attempts is to be found in the Minnesota, or spinning-room, vocal in the days of yore with the music of wheel and loom and the measured stroke of the flax brake, while above the rythmical whirr might have been heard the mistress' voice, giving direction to the swarthy artisans who spun and wove most of the clothing worn by the 300 slaves belonging to the estate. The articles in this room, which were collected by Perley Poore and treasured by him at his home, were purchased by the association from his widow --- with money earned by the pupils of the St. Paul schools. They have since been put in working order and continue to turn out beautiful fabrics. In the dwelling-house the apartment coming first in order is the banquet hall, in charge of the vice-regent from New York. The elaborately carved marble mantel in this room exhibits interesting proof of the power of an awakened conscience. A dog's head, broken off by some ruthless relic hunter, was afterward anonymously returned, and has since—with the aid of cement—been restored to its original position. Over this mantel a French clock, which regulated the life at Mount Vernon, still ticks, telling the 1870 Washington on the Porch at Mount Vernon. hour as veraciously now as then; while on the wall to the right of it hangs the portrait of Washington which Rembrandt Peale painted with such feverish energy, and which was donated to the association by his heirs. A chair brought over in the Mayflower stands beneath the picture, and near it is the stool on which Washington knelt at Christ Church, Alexandria, and another used by Nellie Custis. Other objects to which the attention is directed are a model of the Bastile made of the stone of which the prison was composed, and presented by Lafayette; a British flag captured by Washington and donated by General Grant, with many relies of equal interest. The end of the building opposite the banquet hall is occupied by the Library, with its valuable collection of books and souvenirs. It is in the rooms which these apartments flank, however, ranged on either side of a broad hall, that one is brought most closely in touch with the family life at Mount Vernon. Neille Custis' music room, in which the general's flute lies upon the harpsichord which he presented her on the occasion of her marriage, recalls one of the most delightful relations of his life—his connection with his beautiful adopted daughter. Here she beguiled him with the songs which he loved or played the accompaniments to his mu- 1789 Washington and His Generals. sic on the flute. In the dining-room, where the family party was so often reinforced by guests, is an original piece—an old Chippendale sideboard—which descended to Mrs. Robert E. Lee and was afterward restored to its accustomed position by her, white in Mrs. Washington's sitting-room may be seen the same card table around which the household gathered for the evening rubber. The most noteworthy object in the west parlor is the carpet, made for Washington by order of Louis XVI, and still in a perfect state of preservation, although more than one hundred years old. It is of velvet, the circular center of pale ecru, upon which is stamped an American eagle, with the motto, "E Pluribus Unum," beneath, being surrounded by a rich green background, plentifully spring --- kled with yellow stars. While the carpet was on its way to this country Washington was made President; and, being unable in that capacity to accept the gift, it became the property of the United States government. It was afterward purchased by Judge Yates, of Lancaster, Pa., and within the last two years has been presented to the association by his granddaughter, Mrs. Townsend Wheelan, of Philadelphia. In the hall the visitor is shown the key of the Bastile, and, ascending the stairway at the foot of which it hangs, is confronted by a cabinet filled with the most interesting curios. Imprisoned behind glass doors is the com- rnon. pass used by Washington in surveying Lord Fairfax's land, with many other objects closely associated with him: a memento of Mrs. Washington existing in a quilt made by herself of bits of her gowns and donated by Mrs. Jefferson Davis. On this floor, in the chamber occupied by Nellie Custis, is the mirror which so often reflected her beauty, and the steps by which she climbed to her high-testered bed. Here, too, in the Lafayette room, is the fourposter, in which the Marquis slept on the occasion of his visits to Mount Vernon and the dressing table before which he adjusted the unbecoming red wig. Other apartments, called by the names of the states which care for them, are grouped about these. Each has an interest peculiar to itself; but above and beyond them all in sacred associations and hallowed memories is the room in which Washington breathed his last. The bed upon which more than one hundred years ago he lay dying stands in the same spot to-day. Near it is a light table stained with the marks of medicine glasses, and at its foot the chair in which the faithful wife sat watching through all the weary hours, and upon which, when all was over, lay her open Bible. One must climb another flight of stairs to reach the room occupied by 1837 Mrs. Washington after this—a low, narrow roof room, very cold in winter, for there was no way of heating it, and hot when the summer sun beat upon it. Through its single dormer window, however, she could look out upon her husband's tomb, and there she remained until the silver cord which bound her to life was loosed and she went to join him in his long sleep by the river. A negro sentinel guards the graves, who tells you, in the vernacular of the race, how the key which locks the vault behind them, and in which forty of their kindred are buried, has been sunk in the Potomac. "Not," he adds, "where it can be dragged for, but deep, where it will never more be found."—Grace Devinne Bostwick, in Los Angeles Times. --- AN/AEMIA CAN BE CURED Dr. Williamse' Pink Pills Make New Blood and Strike Straight at the Root of Disease. Anemia is just the doctor's name for bloodlessness. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills actually make new blood. They cure anemia just as food cures hunger. They cure Mrs. Thos. J. McGann, of 17 Lincoln Place, Plainfield, N.J., and they can do as much for any other pale, weak, ailing, bloodless person. "In the spring of 1903 I did my usual house cleaning," says Mrs. McGann, "and soon afterward I began to have the most terrible headaches. My heart would beat so irregularly that it was painful and there came a morning when I could not get up. My doctor said I had anemia and he was surprised that I had continued to live in the condition I was in. I was confined to my bed for nearly two months, the doctor coming every day for the first few weeks, but I did not improve to amount to anything. "Altogether I was sick for nearly two years. I was as weak as a rag, had headaches, irregular heart beats, loss of appetite, cramps in the limbs and was unable to get a good night's sleep. My legs and feet were so swollen that I feared they would burst. "One day, while I was wondering how long I could live, feeling as I did, I received a booklet telling about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I read it and told my husband to get me some of the pills. Before the first box was gone I felt a change for the better. I have taken about twelve boxes and although I was as near the grave as I could be, I now feel as if I had a new lease of life. I have no more headache, the heart beats regularly, my cheeks are pink and I feel ten years younger. I feel that I have been cured very cheaply and I have recommended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to lots of my friends." For further information address the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schneecadt, N. Y. He was describing the game. "I thought I had a clear field," he said, "when suddenly he tackled me." "What do you mean by that?" she asked. "Why, in this case he caught me around the waist with both arms and I couldn't make him let go." "But why?" she inquired, with a sigh, "why under those circumstances did you want to make his let go?" Then she added, after a pause: "You men are queer creatures."—Cleveland leader. It is a mighty ungrateful man who can not feel thankful that it was no worse. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is cataracts. Cataracts are now known to the medical fraternity. Catarach being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarach Cure is taken in the form of a cream that covers the surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting the healing process. There is so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. G, Sold by all Drugstores, 756, CO, Tulsa, O Tase Hall* Family Pills for constipation Why He Waa Cheerful. "No man," said Jerome K. Jerome, 'should marry unless he is by nature a "good marryer"—unless without a winge he can hand forth money right and left. "Some men can in a sunny, cheerful way, spend $10 or $15 on a dinner in a fashionable restaurant, while they become morose, sour and fearful for the future when they are obliged to give their wives a dollar or two for the days meat. "These men should remain single. Otherwise they will make such husbands and fathers as my old friend, Crust. "Crust's daughter said one afternoon, in a tone of unutterable surprise: "Papa went away quiet gay and cheerful this morning." "Mrs Crust made an exclamation of annoyance. "'That reminds me,' she said. 'I forgot to ask him for any money.'"-- Exchange For Charity's Sake. "Will it be proper, mamma, to permit Mr. De Riche to kiss me twice in the play we are rehearsing for Mr. Walpole's charity?" "Why, of course not, dear." "But they say he is enormously wealthy and—" "Why didn't you tell me that at first, my love. As it is for sweet charity's sake, perhaps you may, after all."—Exchange. A BOY'S BREAKFAST There's a Natural Food That Makes Its Own Way. There's a boy up in Hoosick Falls, N. Y., who is growing into sturdy manhood on Grape-Nuts breakfasts. It might have been different with him, as his mother explains: "My 11-year-old boy is large, well developed and active, and has been made so by his fondness for Grape-Nuts food. At five years he was a very nervous child and was subject to frequent attacks of indigestion which used to rob him of his strength and were very troublesome to deal with. He never seemed to care for anything for his breakfast until I tried Grape-Nuts, and I have never had to change from that. He makes his entire breakfast of Grape-Nuts food. It is always relished by him and he says that it satisfies him better than the ordinary kind of a meal." "Better than all he is no longer troubled with indigestion or nervousness, and has got to be a splendidly developed fellow since he began to use Grape-Nuts food." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. When the wicked get possession Of our funds and spend them free, Aware of the possession, We are angry as can be. We condemn each clapped action, At the start of the transaction At the start of the transaction That the money's gone for good. THE COURTSHIP OF KODASURA KINNOSUKE BY ROBERT WILKES Kodasura Klinnosuke, like all students from the Flowery Kingdom, was a most industrious and intelligent scholar and was pointed to with pride by the faculty of the university who held him up as an example for the less conscientious occidental youths. While perfectly polite to his fellow students, Kodasura never forgot that he was a Prince in his own country and that behind him was a noble pedigree running back for thousands of years and he maintained a reserve towards the young western barbarians which was wholly in keeping with his race and its traditions. The American girl appealed to Kodasura as a strange and wonderful being. As to the men he could understand in a faint sort of way their heathen attributes but the women were utterly beyond and apart from his traditions and his understanding. Therefore it clearly became his duty to study this strange phenomena. He went about this duty in the same grave, intent manner with which he devoted himself to other studies. He sought as wide acquaintance as possible with the young women of the college town and indulged, so far as he was able, in the social pleasures of the students. Making little progress in this general campaign he decided to select an individual specimen for investigation and analysis. Whereupon, after due consideration, he decided upon Miss Florence Maynard, familiarly known to her intimates as Flossie, a most pert and vivacious little Miss whose blue eyes and red lips had been the cause of a long string of broken hearts. Kodasura figured it thusly: Miss Maynard was exceedingly popular, therefore she must be a good specimen of the most attractive of her species. She was bright, intelligent and well-informed, hence the time spent in her company would not be wholly lost as regards his other investigations. Besides which she was very pretty and the young Japanese felt it would be a pleasure as well as a duty to make the investigation in her companionship. So the quest was begun and it occasioned great comment and much joking. Miss Florence demurely accepted the friendly advances of the young foreigner and thought it a great lark. He was well informed, a model of courtesy and comely to look upon. Besides he was different. He was n fact a distinct novelty. So they were much together and talked of. many things serious and trifling as they walked or rode or sat in the Maynard drawing room. From the first Miss Florence fathomed the purpose of the Japanese and she accepted the conditions with a mischievous twinkle in her blue eyes. And she led him a merry chase in his investigations. In fact no sooner had he reached a conclusion along a given line than she smashed it all to smithereens. So the end of the term arrived with the investigator more bewildered regard- Miguel Appealed to Kodasura as a strange and wonderful being. Appealed to Kodasura as a strange and wonderful being. ing the American girl than when he began. One thing, however, he had learned, and that was that the eternal feminine abode in the American girl even as in her Japanese sister. He found that she was an object of affection and desire. The realization of this came to him when he was about to leave college and return to his island home. "I have highly passed," he silhouquized "in all the information which I arrived to seek—with the excep- tion that of the American girl I do not know peas." Then as he rolled his cigaret he thought of his home-going within the week and of the termination of his investigations of Miss Maynard. And curiously enough what disturbed him most was not that he had failed in his quest of knowledge but the thought that he was to see her no more. "What is this?" he asked himself in stern self analysis. "This emotion of unrest which my bosom is within? Why do I of joyfulness partake when I consider that I am with Miss L. W. "I have determined to marry you." Maynard in this evening to foregather? Also of what reason does my heart beat more forcefully when I reflect upon the consideration that I will see her not any presently and what is the foundation of the emptiness that inflicts my chest? Long and closely did he ponder upon these questions until finally it came to him that he was in love with the fair barbarian. "Of much astoundment is it," he cried "that I—I a Prince of the house of Kodasura, of four thousand years in its pedigree, should with favor inspect this woman whose family was born yesterday. But of truthfulness it is. Even as I felt toward O Gin San and the other maledicts of my own race I now feel in the direction of Miss Maynard. It is of strangeness incomprehensive." He pondered long over the situation but every period brought him back to the dancing blue eyes and the red cupid lips and the roguish dimples of Florence. "Why is it not?" he finally said determinedly addressing a bust of his great-grandfather on the mantel, "I am a Prince and it is that I should my desire have gratification of. It is not her fault that she is old only a few hundred years. And of certainment her feet are those of the Japanese and her eyes. It must be that the spirit of a Japanese has lodgment found in her divine form. I will forget my ancestry. I will marry her." With a sigh of virtuous self-sacrifice he denounced his hat and went to inform his lady love of his decision. Of her attitude he never thought at all. In his country the decision of the male of proper degree was sufficient providing the father could be assured of the financial expediency of the match. When she came into the drawing room he stood grave and heroic in the center of the floor. Before she could speak he said: "It is of the grave mission I have arrived to see you to-day. I have determined to marry you. The girl caught her breath in amazement. "Yes," Kodasura went on, "I have great ponderment given it and it is my judgment that I shall my rank and station waive and will make my wife you." The flush of indignation in the girl's face faded into a smile, then into downright laughter. "When was this important decision arrived at," she asked dropping a courtesy. "This afternoon," he replied with dignity. "Why do you laugh?" "Oh it's so funny," replied Miss Florence. "Pray have you determined upon the details of the wedding." "It is not of humorousness that I speak," replied the Prince. "It is of love that I talk. I, Kodasura Kinnosuke, love you and will make you my wife. Of the arrangements of the marriage I have no thought. Your customs I do not have knowledge of. Only that I must sail within the month." This brought forth a fresh peal of laughter from the girl. Kodasura gazed at her intently. Then his expression of grave exaltation faded and, his lips curled a trifle while his eyes blazed with a fire no American ever had seen in them. "I see," he said. "The understandment you not. I am sorry. It is a mistake of the judgment which I have encountered. It is not the reincarnation as I had thought. It is a joke. I now observe the humorousness." He gazed steadily into the fire place for a moment and the feeling vanished from his face. "I make the apology," he said. "I did not at first see the humor. We are not a humorous people. I came to present my adieux and to make my thanks for the courtesy you have shown me." Bowing low he withdrew, leaving the girl standing in a trance. Kodasura Kinnosuke returned to Japan with the mystery of the American girl unsolved. ADVANTAGE IN HER LEANNESS. Thin Woman Generally Enabled to Travel in Comfort. "There is just one time when I thank heaven and the boarding-house cook for my exceedingly spare frame," said the thin woman. "That is when I ride in a crowded car. Unless there is a tremendous jam I am sure to get a seat. There may be a dozen women standing in my neighborhood, but just so sure as the heart of man is thrilled with a chivalric desire I am the one who benefits by the generous impulse. "There was a time when I felt flattered by this very marked attention. I thought it the practical reflection of some unusual attraction in myself. One day I boasted to a man I know of my good luck. I did not say right out that I thought I possessed extraordinary qualities which people were anxious to recognize, but I intimated as much. The wretched man laughed. "That is quite natural," he said. 'When a man points out a seat to a woman he always chooses the thinnest one. I do it myself. She doesn't crowd so tightly and allows a fellow to sit in much more comfort than a stout woman.' "That reply robbed me of all my vanity, but it did not uproot my gratitude for being thin."—New York Press. Clever Buse of Pickpocket Mr. W. S. Gilbert was once in the paddock at Sandown with a friend, watching the horses as they were led round. Near them stood a well-dressed stranger. One of the horses lashed out suddenly, causing the stranger to start so violently that he bumped against Mr. Gilbert. Apologies, says M. A. P., were given and accepted, but when, a minute or two later, the same thing happened again, Mr. Gilbert began to feel and to look very angry, and the stranger, apparently much ashamed of his lack of self-control, hurried out of the paddock. "That's a pretty specimen of British manhood," said Gilbert contemptuously, looking after the retreating figure. Ten minutes later he discovered that his watch and chain, scarfpin and pocketbook had vanished—of course, with the nervous stranger. Old-Fashioned Roses. They ain't no style about 'em. And they're sort o' pale and faded; Yit the doorway here, without 'em. Would be lonesome and shaded With a grey blind shoulder Than the mornin'-glories makes. And the sunshine would look sadder For the good old-fashion' sakes. I like 'em 'cause they kind o' Sort o' make a feller like 'em; And I tell you, when I find a Bunch out whur the sun kin strike 'em, It allus sets me thinkin' O' and peek in thro' the chinkin O' the cabin, don't you know. And then I think 'e mother, And now she used to leam 'em, When they wun't any other, 'Less she found 'em up above 'em! And her eyes, afore she shut 'em, Whispered with a smile, aided said Wet she put a smile and but 'em In her sand when she wuz dead, But, as I wuz a sayin', The old lady about 'em Very gaudy as display, But I wouldn't be without 'em Cause I'm happier in these posies, And the hollyhawks and sigh, Than the hummingbird at noses In the roses the riche, James Whitcomb Riley. Cure for Cancer. Gather wood sorrel when in blossom—that bearing a blue flower is best—pound, and press out the juice, put it on a plate, and cover the whole plate with a glass. Set it in the sun until a paste is formed, then cork it tightly in a phial. When applied, it should be spread on cloth or wash leather, and placed over the cancer only in the day time, so the patient may sleep in the night. If properly gathered, prepared and applied, it will draw out the cancer in about four days. Meanwhile the patient should drink much yellow dock tea. This recipe is claimed to be given by an Indian doctor. Emphatic, but Innocent Mrs. Richardson, author of "In Japanese Hospitals in Wartime," writes of her Japanese attendant: "When she was not waiting upon me she spent most of her time sitting on her heels warming her little fingers over the 'bibachi' and smoking the most minute pipe I had ever seen, which she promptly hid under her feet whenever I appeared. She had learned her broken English from foreigners, and one day when I told her she had forgotten something she replied, 'I am a --- fool,' not being the least aware that she had said anything unusual." Japanese Imperial Library The Japanese Imperial Library at Tokio has on its shelves something like 2,000 written and printed mathematical works, extending as far back as 1695. HE HAD HIS CHANCE "Yes, sir," said the druggist, as he placed the box of panetelas on the counter, "four years ago I could have bought this corner lot for $4,000. Yes, I could have then, but I didn't. I had the money, too, at that time. Last spring this same corner was assessed for twenty thosand. Funny how we overlook opportunities, isn't it?" "Well, it's peculiar, I'l admit," said the patent lawyer when he had selected one of the long, dark weeds and bit off the end, "but I wouldn't be so rash as to say it is funny. "Now, as a boy," he continued, scratching one of the druggist's safety matches on the box, "I used to blame my paternal grandfather for his absurd lack of foresight. He didn't know that Chicago was going to grow. He came through in the '30s with a span of likely oxen and a wagon. A WILLIAM MAYER "I pulled off his poots." Somebody wanted his outfit and offered him what is now the 1st ward for it. But the old gentleman could not see any bargain in that. The mud was about seven feet deep and grandpa hadn't a prophetic eye. So he kept on and anchored for life at Arlington Heights." "That's why you are in the patent business now?" asked the druggist. "Probably. But I don't blame grandsire so much as I used to. I've overlooked one or two good things myself. I might have been a Pittsburgh billionaire. Ever hear of the Mesaga iron range?" "I might have owned half of that. "It was in the winter of the 'big snow' you've heard about—In the early '80s," continued the patent attorney. "Snow was six feet deep all over these parts, and I was in Ashland, Wis., up on Lake Superior. Might as well have been at the north pole. It was a case of snow bound all right, but not in a poetical sense. There was only one railroad into that town then, and it went out of commission early in the season. No steamer, either. Ice, snow, wind, blizzards and lots of them. "But plenty to eat, you know. All kinds of venison and fresh whitefish and an abundance of fuel. There was nothing but woods in that region then. MacGurrin and I split up our own pine slabs for the little stove in our room in the boarding house. "MacGurrin was a bully follow. He was a civil engineer, an expert on mines and a prospector to boot. He was Scotch and a reformer in his own way. He had an eccentric idea that there was too much liquor in Ashland and so he started in to keep others out of temptation. He was a booze punisher and no mistake. "One evening Mac came up to the --- ```markdown ``` "There were millions in it." room, all tanked up. I pulled off his boots for him and got him into bed, as I had done numerous times before. "Jarvers,' he said, 'you're all right. I like you, Jarvers. I'll make you a rich man next' spring. You know the Mesaga—' And he went to sleep. see, Mac—well, he lasted about eight months after that. He couldn't stand prosperity." "Could you?" "Sudden and great wealth," said the patent attorney, "with its stidious trials and temptations, is or "I worked late that night, figuring on certain 'jans I had. Along about midnight I heard MacGurrin again. Don't know whether he was talking in Women's Work in War Time. Women took a prominent part in the disturbances in Russia, but history has many other instances of the same kind, notably in the French revolution and the Paris commune. A less known parallel is to be found in the pages of English history. When it was feared that Charles I was going to march upon London in 1640 ramparts was hastily thrown up all round the metropolis. A notable feature of the operations was the share taken in the work by women—women of all classes, who came and worked night and day to keep out the invaders, who never came. "Well, brother," said the deacon, "that was a fine prayer you made last night." "Thank you, deacon; I am very glad to hear you say so." "Yes, it was a splendid prayer—long and fervent and—say, what have you been doing any way? You can confide in me with the utmost confidence. I wouldn't betray you for anything in the world."—Chicago record-Herald. --- Suspicious Fervor. his sleep or trying to converse with me. Anyway, he was saying that there were millions in the Mesaga—whatever that was, I didn't know then—and that he'd give me half. "I thought he would forget all about it by morning, but I was wrong there. When he woke up at noon his head was clear and he remembered every word of his promise. He told me all about the Mesaga range. He was dead sure there were unlimited fortunes in it. He was perfectly right, too. There were millions in it then and there are yet. He'd been out prospecting the fall before and had found it himself. He was absolutely the first man who ever knew about it. He had gone over the territory in a rough way, through the wilderness, all alone. Then the early fall had driven him back to Ashland. The next summer he had made up his mind he was going to make a thor- ough job of it, and to make his fortune at the same time. There was too much for one man and he offered me half the work and half the reward." "Say," said the druggist, "why don't I hear about your giving away public libraries and universities and buying up legislatures and a seat in the senate and titled sons-in-law? I know about that Mesaga range. You ought to be doing stunts like Rocke- feller and Carnegie and the rest of our national heroes, you ought." "Yes," said the patent attorney, "I ought, but you can see that I am not. Well, what MacGurrin told me made my eyes stick out some. I was game. For many a week there while Ashland was snowed in we talked over our plans. "You see, Mac was a bachelor and rather a wild chap, with no friends anywhere. But long before the snow had begun to melt in the big woods the way was opened up to the south and I made a bee line for a little town in southern Wisconsin. Yes, there was a woman in the case—my wife, and a couple of kids besides. Of course, I expected and promised to return right away. One thing and another, however, delayed me and before I could get back—oh, pshaw! What's the use? But poor old Mac!" "I would infer from your tone of voice," said the drummist, "that your friend Mr. MacGurrin was eaten up by wolves or that he froze to death. Am I correct?" "Wrong. He went out and got what he was after. He was a rich man by summer and a millionaire by fall." "Huh!" said the druggist. "I can't see why he was 'poor old Mac.' He wasn't poor. And I guess you're sorry now—" "Well, I can't say that I am. You see, Mac—well, he lasted about eight een months after that. He couldn't stand prosperity." "Could you?" "Sudden and great wealth," said the patent attorney, "with its insidious trials and temptations, is one of the dangers to which I have never been subjected. But I'm still ready to take some awful chances, provided I don't overlook 'em." - Chicago News. McCielan's Appointees "Make Good." Tammany Hall politicians who predicted that the new police commissioner, Gen. Bingham, would make a botch of the job within a week have so far been disappointed in their expectations. The appointment of Bingham, a rank outsider who did not even know the location of police headquarters and for whom the names of the district leaders had no terrors, was a sad blow to the wigwam. The general has been in office now nearly a month and he is steadily gaining the confidence of the public. All the important bureau chiefs appointed by McCielan to supplant the district leaders have "made good." Artificial Honeycomb. Among the attractions offered at the meeting of the Worcester (Mass.) county beekeepers' association will be an artificial honeycomb, which was made in 1874. The comb was exhibited at the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. While the comp never came into general use, it was employed by the bees for both breeding and storage purposes with success. INDUCEMENTS TO LAUGH AND GROW FAT. Mr. Monk's Idea of the Descent of Man—Papa Had Bright Idea of Spring Fever—Colonel a Disturbing Element on Water Wagon. An Affront. One individual stopped another in the street. "I want to ask you a simple question," he said. "Go ahead," replied the other. "It is this, 'When is that bill of Ketchem & Holdem to be paid?'" "Say," was the reply, "I may do a little newspaper work occasionally, but I don't run the puzzle department." Thus ended the confab. The Death of Time. The comedian was rehearsing his great song, when the leader of the orchestra pulled him up. "My dear sir," said the latter in aggrieved tones, "don't you know that you are murdering the time?" "Well," was the quiet retort, "it's better to murder the time once and for all than to beat it night after night, as you do!—Exchange. Descent of Man. "Oh, pop, I just saw a man-eating tiger." "A man will eat anything nowadays. He has degenerated since he was a monkey." "Didn't the colonel get on the water wagon?" "Yes, he did, but he didn't stay long. Maybe he might o' stayed longer if he hadn't given his pocket flask to the driver, who let the horses run away and spill the entire outfit into the millpond. It was too bad, but the colonel always was a disturbing element."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Not Continuous Mrs. Cleveland—Oh, I'm so glad to see you again. It's been five years since we met, hasn't it. And I hear you've been getting married since I saw you last. Mrs. Chicago—Well, not right along. Only three times. A. Port of Invitation "My!" exclaimed the sik tie in the hatter's window, "just listen to the wind howling out there." "Yes," remarked the brown derby, "but it's rather a sociable sound. It seems to say 'Come out, and I'll blow you off.'" What He Threw. Ma Twaddles—Tommy, what do you mean by coaxing this horrid dog home with you? Tommy Twaddles—I didn't coax him, ma—honest, I didn't. I throwed things at him to make him quit follerin' me, but it didn't do no good. Ma—What did you throw at him? Tommy—Oh, bones an' things. Chance to Get Even. The Friend—I can't understand your method of dealing out justice. The Judge—You can't, eh? The Friend—No. For instance, why did you give that woman ten years at hard labor yesterday for assaulting a neighbor? The Judge—Because she once gave my wife cooking lessons. That's the answer. Logically Demonstrated. She—I can prove logically and mathematically that women are worth more than men. He—I'd like to see you do it, my dear. She—Isn't a miss as good as a mile? He—So they say. She—And doesn't it take a whole lot of men to make a league? Willie—Say, pop, what's spring fever? Papa—Spring fever is an overwhelming desire to sit down and watch other people work. The Difference. "She's really not cultured fit all. She says she can't understand Browning at all." "But one may be cultured and yet not understand Browning." "Of course, one may not understand it but one should never admit it." PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ..... 15 One month ..... 18 Three months ..... 18 One month ..... 18 Suspect paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us All news matter intended for 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. FFIOEI-No. 117 West Sixth. St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion 8.00 For one inch, each subsequent insertion 30.00 For two inches, three months 8.00 For two inches, nine months 10.00 For two inches, twelve months 10.00 OLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. The attitude of the Son on the mayoralty question will not be announced until after the nominations shall have been made. The last legislature passed a law making chicken stealing a fellony. The first person convicted for such an offence was a white man. Mr. Gregory, the Democratic candidate for mayor, is a nice gentleman and is eligible for a write-up in the Son if he wants to pay for it. The following gentlemen are candidates for police judge: J. A. McLane, H. G. Kyle. Both are good men and would fill the office with credit. The representative of the Son visited the capital while in Topeka and was given a very hearty welcome by Governor Hoch and the Secretary of State. All Republican candidates for mayoralty and other nominations may secure an announcement or write-up in the Son, providing they pay for the same. Mr. Kemper, according to a recent statement or inference, does not want any black votes. Not so with Mr. Gregory; he wants the votes of all good citizens. The interests of the tax payers of Kansas City have been duly protected by the city treasurer, Mr. Holmes, during his incumbency. This pleasant feature of his administration entitles him to renomination and election. To the city attorney, Mr. John M Swanson, our position has always been against criminals of all classes and the first class Negroes of Kansas City do not consider that you have done them any favor when you turn loose criminals of color. The good class of Negroes of this city stand for law and order and not for favor or protection to criminals. As the time ripens for activity in the spring campaign, grafters, fake schemes and would be newspaper men are setting stakes. Of course they expect to reap a harvest. Even one of the Negroes employed at the city hall, so we are told, is running around trying to get up a company to run a campaign sheet during the political season. The project may materialize but the Son will be there right on the firing line. The Son desires to serve a note of warning on one of our good Negro ministers whose conduct of late is very unbecoming. A certain Negro minister had to leave this city because he went home with the fives of others and broke up their homes. And you to whom these lines are directed will have to do the same unless an immediate stop is forthcoming. The manager of the Son heartily agrees with the Rev. J. L. Edwards of Topeka when he said, in his address before the Kansas Day Club banquet, that while the ministers had a reign of forty years over the people of the Negro race, the reason of his retarded progress along the moral lines must be attributed to the lax, uncorcern and irregular methods used by so many ministers of the Both Phones, 1214 Main. Value of Freedom and Education. A free population, ambitions to get the benefit of its own labor and enterprise, is the makion of any country. With freedom will come more general education and a great uprise in Mexican life will result. By way of contrast Mexico and Sweden and Norway offer an interesting study. Mexico, with peonage and restricted education, has a wonderful and rich variety of natural resources. Sweden and Norway, with a cold and rather sterile country, have individual freedom, and are the only countries in the world in which every grown man can read and write. Therefore the Scandinavians have prosperity, good homes and a general and splendid civilization, while Mexico, with friendly climate and great natural resources, lags behind. But the signs of advancement are many and encouraging, and there is every reason for taking a cheerful view of the future of our sister republic.-San Francisco Call. Every symptom points to a tendency to spread on style in Tombstone. Among other instances in this direction the boys bought a pair of beautiful barber pole suspenders and presented them to the amiable dispenser who shoves the amber extract of cheerfulness over the mahogany of the Parlor saloon. He promptly donned the innovation, but claimed that he felt like he had a fence rail on each shoulder. Then when they became overburdened he would unbutton them and permit them to dangle in front, but he usually got them down line enough to go to church in. Several old-timers, conspicuously court attendants from the other end of the county, have fallen into the habit of wearing boiled shirts, and it looks as if sky-blue overalls might be discarded as a full dress costume. Getting "powerful tony" in town nowadays.—Tombstone Inspector. Report has it that John W. Gates is making all the other plungers at Saratoga look small. Gates thinks and acts in thousands where the average man does the same things in dollar bills. He hardly recognizes small change when he sees it. His bets at the races are all up in three figures, he pays a dollar for a shave and tosses another dollar to the boy who shines his shoes. He buys a good dinner for a large party at a time and gives the biggest tips ever heard of. The chances are that even with his bix expenses he will break even or better on the present meet. At present h is away ahead of the game. New York has the richest baby, the richest boy, the richest bachelor, the richest spinster, the richest married man and the richest widow in the whole wide world. Parts of this big claim might be overthrown on close scrutiny but we continually bear of little John Nicholas Brown, the richest baby in the world; James Henry Smith, the richest bachelor; William Ziegler, jr., the richest boy; Miss Stickney, the richest spinster; Rockefeller, the richest of all, etc. Two brothers, Albert and Harry Fahrenstock, have a model dairy farm at Quaker Bottom valley, in Baltimore county, and the other day they had the members of the Baltimore stock exchange out to look at it. The visitors were driven over the 650 acres in wagons drawn by teams of eight nicely matched gray Percheron horses, and they found the dairymen and the stablemen all neatly uniformed. It is also reported that they found a scene of "unusual pastoral beauty." There are hills, valleys and tumbling splashing waters on the big farm, and the keynote of the management is organization and system. The result is success. Recently at a private musicale, Robert Cuscaden played a Bethoven selection which called forth this comment from one of his gushing feminine admirers: "Perfectly heavenly!" I haven't heard that for a long time. The last time was when it was rendered for me by a phonograph. Did you ever hear it on a phonograph, Mr. Cuscaden?" "No," said the violinist. "I don't care care for music fried in lard." His Customary Luck. Mr. Markinbrakes (determined not to make a blunder this time)—I was delighted with the way in which the little girl recited that selection. Elderly Matron (one of the guests—You evidently are under the impression that she is one of my children. She isn't, and I thought her performance was extremely tiresome.—Chicago Tribune. He—But I thought you'd forgiven me for that and promised to forget it? She—Yes—but I didn't promise to let you forget I'd forgiven it! Politics: Outsider—If your party should lose its power, and you should be thrown out of office, would you be discouraged and take a drink? Politician—No, sir, I change my politics. -Cleveland Leader. gospel, whereby they corrupt the people rather than bring salvation to their souls. For this condition the people are to at fault. They allow Negro preachers to come in their midst, who do as they please, live as they like, and do things that are very bad. Occasionally they are jerked up for their behavior when two or three of the church deacons and stewards get around and have the matter hushed up. This condition is one of the curses today upon the Negro race. The Son contends: Why allow a man to preach unless he is right, lives upright and is morally sound. The same may apply to our teachers, why employ a teacher behind whom a big question mark hangs. The Negro themselves can adjust this condition and make it right if they will. A NEW BEN TILLMAN. The Rev. Thos. Dixon, author of "The Clausman," has taken Ben Tillman's place on the Negro race question. The following telegraphic clipping shows the Rev. Mr. Dixon to be Mr. Tillman's superior when it comes to heaping abuse on the Negro race. New York, Jan. 29.—Racial hate was manifested in most virulent form in the Baptist church of the Epiphany, at Madison avenue and Sixty-fourth street, yesterday afternoon, when the pastor, the Rev. Madison C. Peters, the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., the author of "The Clansman," and several negro clergymen, supported by several negro laymen, engaged in a spirited discussion of the negro problem. The severest comment of the clergy-man-lecturer-novelist-playwright was that virtue in negro women was so rare that any consideration of it was futile. His audience seemed to be evenly divided, one-half supporting him with an energy and fervor equal to that shown by the opposition. The The Rev. Mr. Dixon was the chief speaker, and it was understood that it was out of the vexed questions produced by "The Clansman," that the plan came to have him on the same platform with leading negro preachers and laymen. He wasted no time in getting into his subject, but without even a preliminary word, struck out as follows: "The only solution of the negro problem by which a race war within this century can be avoided is by a peaceful and friendly colonization of the African. This has never been tried seriously. President Lincoln would have accomplished this great task had he lived out his years. The man who freed the negro was, at the time of his death, preparing a scheme for removing him from this country. Is 4,000 Years Behind. "The Negro is 4,000 years behind the white race and he always will be so. For that space of time he has occupied one of the richest and most fertile countries in the world and he never improved it in any way, never dug up any of the minerals, never built a ship or a house, or even constructed a cart until the white man came and showed him how. FORTY YEARS OF FREEDOM The Negro Race Problem. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than these people are to be free, nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. This was the prophecy of Thomas Jefferson, writing in 1821, in the evening of his long life, and only five years before his death. Long since has the first part of the prediction been filled; it came forty years after he wrote amid the thunders and lightnings of the civil war. Since then another forty years have nearly passed away and the nation is face to face with the question—"Can two races equally free, live in the same government?" It is the very greatest problem that confronts the Republic in these opening years of the new century, and it will require the united efforts of all the people to find the right solution to it. The day is gone, and, in interest of both races, it is well that is should be so. Democrats and Republicans have now an equal interest in formulating the conditions which shall retrieve whatever errors may have been committed and produce policies under the operations of which social order shall be concerned and our common civilization maintained. The burdens of responsibility is largely upon the South, but the South should not be left to struggle under it unaided by the other sections of the Union, in which the end is less and consequently more easily dealt with. We reproduce the opening idea of Thos. White, in the Freeman, on the above subject. Men will shake your hand if you have money; if you haven't they will shake you. The Doctor—Isn't it painful to think of the— The Professor—I presume it is. Let us not think of it—Chicago Tribune. God reaches down only as far as a man can reach up. STOVE REPAIRS FOR ALL STOVES AND RANGES. Spread of Style in Arizona. Gates a Good Spender. New York's "Richest" Rich Model Dairy Farm. His Customary Luck. Keeping Him in Mind of It. THE E. Z. SHAVE. C. A. EVANS, BARBER SHOP For First Class Work. 07 East 14th St. Kansas City, Mo. 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 till then, if you are wise, Will you dare to criticise. Nice Old-Fashioned Folk. Senator Pettus of Alabama, wears shirts made by his wife and socks which she has knitted. The old couple live in Selma when not in Washington, and new manners and customs have changed them little. Since their marriage, sixty-two years ago, she has made all his linen garments. Until about twenty years ago she adhered to the flax of her foremothers and spum the flax herself. Now she finds her eyes are falling and she buys the linen from a merchant in Mobile, but the remainder of the work is her labor of love. As she talks to her guests, whether at home or in Washington, her fingers are busy with knitting. Mrs. Pettus has a remarkable memory and tells entertaining anecdotes in a quaint, old fashioned ww. On every anniversary of their marriage the couple give a reception for the senate, and great is the shower of gifts. The above is a casual thought given expression by one of our esteemed contemporaries. It shows the trend which is fast developing among the Negro of the serveral sections. Howell—Here's just what you want in the way of a vacation place; the advertisement says: "All the comforts of home." Powell—Those are just what I'm trying to get away from.—New York Sun. Blow Too Much For Pat. While Pat Kern, a sturdy young Irishman of Philadelphia, was standing on a ladder cleaning windows a lawyer approached and called out to him that an uncle living in Ireland had died, leaving him $100,000. Pat promptly fell from the ladder at the shock. He was not hurt, however, and soon went back to his task. "When are you going to quit work?" was asked. "When I get the money," came the retort. "Tell me what it is about me That for you has such a charm." I was sure she couldn't doubt me When I answered her—"My arm." Then she looked up with a wink that I interpreted meant Haste, Saying: "If that's true, I think that We have little time to waist." "Clever girl," I murmured, "this is Happiness! Do you agree?" "Yes, she answered, "and a kiss is Cupid's proper repartee." That's the way of love's beginning—Smooth and simple as a song; When a girl is worth the winning, She will help a chap along! —Felix Carmen, in N. Y. Sun. The man who laughs his way through the world leaves it with just as much in his possession as the man who fights his way through. A Brute of a Husband. "No, mamma," said the fair, but irate young matron, "I really fell that I cannot live with Augustus any longer." "What makes you say such a shocking thing?" "He is just shamefully suspicious." "Accused me of flirting with that young Lobson." "Why don't you tell him to prove it?" "I—I—well, I'm afraid that he would."—San Francisco Call. Proof of one's temper is the loss thereof. When the sun sets, trouble is hatched. Music may be the food of love, but marriage requires something more substantial. No man can be a hero to himself when he is up against the toothache. 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. Ignorance is sopposed to be bliss, but it isn't even a good counterfeit. WESTERN UNIVERSITY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. . . . . . DEPARTMENTS: State Industrials COURSES: Classical (Instruments, Drawing and Book Binding, Tailoring, Dering, Farming) ADVANTAGES: Skills and Thinking INFORMATION: Fully to WILLIAM QUINDARO, Phones: Office—1 MENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-National Industrial. SERIES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-National (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ, drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. IMAGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Nurses and Thorough Teachers. ATTENTION: For terms, prices and all inducements of WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D. PRESIDENT, INDARO, KANU Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell— DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered write to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D. PRESIDENT, David T. Beals, President. Edwin W. Zea, Cashier. Statement of the Condition of the Norti Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. As made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of Directors—T. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. Merlester, D. W. Hunt, Edward George, F. Felix L. LaForce, David T. Beaul, Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. Seeger, Wm. W. Zea. Mrs. W. H. Hubbell's Millinery and Notion Store made to order. Your old ones made you can purchase anything in the millin line you may desire have a nice line of Ladies Hose, Neckwear, Ribs waists, Men and Women's underwear. All Hats made to order. Your old ones made new or you can purchase anything in the millinery line you may desire We also have a nice line of Ladies Hose, Neckwear, Ribbons, etc. Also Boys waists, Men and Women's underwear. All kinds of motions. We buy our goods at wholesale and can sell to our patrons as cheap as the downtown stores can. Save car fare and give us a trial. We keep Ozone Face Powder, Electrical Skin Food, Scalp Soap, OZONE IS THE BEST FOR THE HAIR. 1906 VINE STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. J. M. TIDROW Wife, Sister or Friend No matter—she and the whole family will "Just Love It," if it's JERSEY CREAM. The substitution so often attempted may be avoided by insisting on the Bread with the Silver Tag Made by Matthaei's Bakery Ask them; ask anybody in good health they all say the same—"I am for something good to eat." QUAKER BREAD—the bread with the blue Quaker tag. Observe the rigid rules of cleanliness enforced at Matthaei's Bakery and you will always ask for Matthaei's bread. All Grocers. Matthaei's Bakery 903-5 W. 17th, Kansas City, Mo. age, Normal, Sub-Normal and tory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Mu- ncluding piano, organ and har- mechanical), Carpentry, Printing use, Stenography and Typewrit- Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laun- Healthful Climate, Good Influ- and all inducements offered write N, A. M., D. D. T, KANSAS. Residence—Bell—"West 15. F. P. Neal, Vice President. W. H. Seeger, Second Vice President ON Bank CITY, MO. The Currency at the close of 29, 1906. LIABILITIES. Total stock..... $ 600,000.00 plus fund..... 400,000.01 divided profits..... 100,020.51 armed interest..... 64,020.00 national bank notes outstanding obits..... 600,000.00 obits..... 10,494,378.15 Total..... $12,187,490.86 TES DEPOSITORY. L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. Mer- ford, G. W. Lovejoy, Felix L. LaForce, Edwin W. Zea. 1906 Vine Street, Kansas City, Mo. old ones made new or ing in the millinery desire Rose, Neckwear, Ribbons, etc. underwear. All kinds ot THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP Eugene Vaugan, Agt. Kansas City, Kas. 938 Split Log. A. W. Walker, Agent, Lexington, Mo. Remember please— It's the little bits we collect here and there that enables us to run from year to year." LOCALS Get the habit of going to McCampbell & Houston's Drug Store, 2300 Vine St. Prof. R. T. Caleo will contribute an article to The Son next week on Dometic Science. All kinds of hot and cold drinks are still being served at McCampbell & Houston's. Bishop Grand made a flying trip to Chicago to attend the Lincoln Anniversary. Maggie Roland died last Sunday after several months illness and was buried from the home of her father, 312 W. 7th St. She was a member of several societies and her funeral was placed in charge of the Tabernacle. T. J. Knox of Emporia, Kas., attended the Lincoln Day celebration at Topeka. He is the kind of man the Son likes to meet. Mr. Knox is a stock raiser of note and a man of business. He subscribed for the Son at once. The Knights of Pythias (colored) have changed their hall to 1734 Grand Ave. FOR RENT:—Hall in good shape with gas and water, at 529 Missouri Ave. Anyone in need of such will please inquire in the saloon under the hall. To the readers of the Son in Kansas City, Kas: Our collector will soon be around to see you. We hope you will be in a position to respond. 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. Several days ago we had a casual talk with a factory representative of the Chicago typewriter and much to our surprise we learned that one of the big typewriter companies in the East declared a dividend of 65 per cent in one year. We had supposed that typewriters, like many other things, were domineered by trusts, but such an enormous dividend in a single year banished all possible doubt. We had contemplated buying a machine and after finding that the Chicago typewriter possessed so many improvements over other machines we concluded to equip our office with one. A good article complete for $35.00 gives us assurance the Chicago typewriter is not under the domineering influence of a trust. Mr. W. N. Miller, Editor, Dear Sir: If you will allow me space in your valuable paper; as through it I wish to thank the members of the Knights of Tabor for the kindness they have manifested to me and family, and the duties they fulfilled to my deceased mother, who was a member of Lodge 333, Butte, Montana. I brought her here from Fresno, Cal., and I was relieved from all care when I arrived in Kansas City, Mo. The Lodge, with the assistance of the Rev. Frank Wilson, Chief Grand Menter of Lodge 333 had furnished a number of carriages and the funeral arranged by the Lodge as I dictated, and the funeral preached by the Rev. And, so long as I live, I shall most assuredly say something in favor of the Knights of Tabor. The endowment, I received as soon as I had signed the paper, I did not have to wait 60 or 90 days as is often the case. My mother, Mrs. Carries Booker, was 42 years old, and died January 19. 1906. MRS. NELLIE JOHNSON, 938 O. Street, Fresno, Cal. KANSAS CITY KANSAS. Chas. A. Hang, candidate for councilman from the Third ward, subject to the action of the Republican primary. A vote for Mr. Hang is a vote for good government. To our colored patrons: You will make no mistake in supporting this candidate for councilman from the Third ward. Individuals of princely rank once expected the kiss of respect from their inferiors, but this custom is almost obsolete. A kiss was conferred as a formal mark of favor by crowned heads at jousts and tournaments. Princess Margaret, daughter of James I. of Scotland, kissed the poet Alain Charter for saying so many nice things about her, though he was one of the ugliest men in the kingdom. Nation's Timekeeper Americans get their correct time from a little room in the naval observatory on Georgetown heights, in the suburbs of Washington. The observatory was originally intended to detect errors in ship chronometers and to regulate them properly. This work constitutes one department at the institution, but perhaps its most important function is that of being the nation's timekeeper. Fishing Nets Are Sacred. To appreciate the dignity of the net-maker's profession one needs to know the sacredness of the fishing net, and the protection which the law affords. At Gloucester they used to quararify a town stricken with smallpox by placing fishing nets about it, for the legal penalty for disturbing the nets was so great that no one dared to break through. No Place for Her Mrs. Grundy is out of place anywhere east of Suez. The extravagance and eccentricities of social life would outrage her fabled dignity. No one asks questions if you use a latch-key or play billiards on Sundays or countenance the Macao lottery by taking a $10 chance. They are not scandalized if you attend a wedding in a Panama hat or a funeral in a white suit.-South China Post, Hongkong. European Newspapers. Germany leads European countries in the number of publications with 5,500 newspapers, of which 800 are dailies. England is second with 3,000, of which 809 are dailies. France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Russia Greece and Switzerland follow in order. Asia has not less than 3,000 periodical papers, and Africa 200 dailies. America has 17,223 publications, of which 2,215 are dailies. Needs of California Juries The jury that recently tried State Senator Emmons for bribery, at Sacramento, Cal., sat twenty-six days. During that time it consumed thirty-six $1 meals a day, 150 quarts of claret, 200 bottles of beer, sixteen quarts of white wine and thirty-six quart bottles of whisky. All this at the restaurant, besides over two dozen bottles of whisky sent to the jury room. One of the most interesting sights in connection with the rush of Christmas shopers is the big Dry Goods store of Emery, Bird, Thayer Co. The store is being furnished with an annex or addition on the north, which is nearly completed. A more attractive or complete store cannot be found west of the Mississippi. Every convenience to make shopping easy and practical has been considered and put in use by the owners of the store until now there is no comfort for the great army of buyers but what has been supplied. It is a great Santa Claus hose for the little folks. AT LAST SUCCESS CAME. 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 wild- erness, A stranger is beating against our gate, Crying: "Let me in! It is I, Success!" —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 (Ia.) 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 this is no excuse for a continual rattling of the bones. VIRTUE'S PRIZE. What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. —Pope's "Essay on Man." . Mrs. Booker T. Washington and son were in our city last week enroute to Los Angeles Cal., where she has gone to improve the health of her son. While here she was the guest of Mrs. D. N. Crowsthwaite of 1020 Virginia. She was given a drive through the city by Mrs. Jno. Lange, and was highly pleased with the visits to the public schools. MILLIONS GO UP IN SMOKE. The Money We Burn at the Shrine of Lady Nicotine. Tobacco Leaf reports the manufacture in this country during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, of 7,689,337,007 cigars, an increase of 185,020,437 over the output of the preceding year. Our export trade in these goods is quite insignificant, and import trade in foreign made cigars is little more than an inconsiderable incident. Our population of males who may be regarded as of "cigar age" is probably a little less than 24,000,000. Our domestic output was sufficient to supply eac- one of these with about 320 smokes during the year. As the census returns do not include statistics of smokers and nonsmokers, it is impossible to carry the calculation beyond that point. The cigarette crop for the year was 3,368,212,740, an increase of 141,530,-479 over 1904. We produced 21,131,861 pounds of snuff, an increase of 947,281 pounds. The output of smoking and chewing tobacco increased only about 2 per cent., from 328,650,-710 pounds to 334,489,110 pounds. The total value of all this is not given, but the figures of the smaller output of that year are given by the census of 1900 as follows: Tobacco, chewing, smoking and snuff. $103,754,362 Tobacco, cigars and cigar- ettes ..... 160,223,152 Total ..... $263,977,514 The development of this industry is indicated by the census figures, which show the value of the product for 1880 as $116,772,631; for 1890 as $195,536,862, and for 1900 as $263,977,514. The increase for last year will certainly bring the figures to more than $300,000,000, which is a very pretty sum to spend for this form of combustibles. Compared with our domestic trade, our foreign commerce in the weed amounts to little. Our total importation last year of tobacco in all its forms amounted to $22,145,846 and our exportation to $37,123,514. Estimating our consumption by weight, it appears that we burned at the shrine of our Lady Nicotine something like 300,000 tofs of tobacco last year.—New York Sun. The Sons of Allen, were entertained by brother C. D. Frazier Thursday eve, January 4, at the residence of Mr. Montgomery, 919 Central St. with about thirty-five members and friends present. Brither Frazier spared no pains to entertain the club royally. There were two additions to the club. Remarks by Prof. Dolley and others. The affair was a grand one. Next business meeting will be held at the residence of Prof. Dolley, 2411 Forest Ave., Wednesday eve, January 17. The club will next be entertained by brothers L. D. Hines and W. M. Rice, Thursday eve, February 1, at the residence of Mrs Burnetts, 811h Charlotte St. All members are requested to be present. B. F. CARGYLE, Pres. WM. RICE, Sec. Debts of Russia and Japan. Since the beginning of the war Japan has increased her debt from about $290,000,000 to $981,000,000, but of this amount she has on hand perhaps as much as $175,000,000 unexpended. In the same time Russia's debt has increased from $3,282,000,000 to about $3,700,000,000. Japan will probably receive about $100,000,000 from Russia in payment for the maintenance of prisoners of war, and Russia must also borrow money for her immediate needs at home. Japan, therefore, seems to come out of the war in better financial conditions than Russia, in spite of the latter country's vastly greater resources. 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. Addition Is Easy Miss Gaussip—Of course, that's only a rumor, but you can put one and one together and make two. Miss Sharpe (cautiously)—Yes, in dealing with rumors some people can put almost anything together and make anything they please. 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. Dr. T. C. Chapman, Dentist, has moved to 9 West Ninth street. This is strictly in the shopping district and only four doors from the Junction. Locating the Trouble: "The Russians had a great time at their house yesterday. They all expected to come right down with typhoid fever. The old man sent a hurry-up call to the health office that brought out the district physician and three sanitary policemen." "Did they discover the cause of the trouble?" "Yes. It was a dead fish in the pocket of their youngest boy." A Hard Schooling "Popley is quite an entertainer. I heard him last night at an evening party." "Yes, he developed his talent in the nursery." "Gracious! that young!" Oracles: tell young. "Oh! you misunderstood me; I mean his children's nursery. He's had so many to entertain there." A. Fine Position "I got a fine job in de business college." "Gee—wot d'yer do?" "De writin' teacher hired me to shake de table when de new pupils write "This is a sample of my hand-writing before I began taking lessons." An insinuation. Algernon—Congwatulate me, deah boy. I'm engaged to Miss Peachley. Jack—Indeed! I had no idea she was in a position to support a husband.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Good Record. Mr. Goode—In all your useless life is there anything to which you can point with pride? Homeless Homer—Yessir. I ain't never beat no poor Chinaman out of his laundry bill. How Si Popped the Question. Sillas—Mandy. Mandy—What is it, Si? Sillas—I'd like tew see your picture in our family album. After 30. After 30. While she is under thirty a woman may get comfort out of the thought that she is younger than she looks. After that her only hope is to look younger than she is. This Language of Ours "Yes," said the slang specialist, with great earnestness, "that bum baseball team, by crooked playing, has won six straight games." -Baltimore Amerl can. Real Contentment Money doesn't bring happiness, but it makes a fellow feel mighty contented when he is ordering a first-class dinner.—Atlanta Constitution. Russia Has 23,000,000 Horses There are nearly 23,000,000 horses in European Russia. No other country in the world has so many horses as Russia. Jan:English Dictionary Jap-English Dictionary. Dr. James S. Hepburn, of East Orange, N. J., compiled the first Japanese-English dictionary. Penny Changes Owners Often. A penny is estimated to change hands about 125,000 times in the course of its life. Has Lots of Leisure New Has Lots of Leisure Now. Cupid used to be overworked until he invented the marriage ceremony.— Life. Smoking Reform. Smoking is to be reformed by its friends. A convention of pipe smokers was held in Belgium to combat the abuse of tobacco. The best way to prevent the abuse of tobacco is to smoke slowly. M. Kos, the president of the convention, informed his hearers that it took him three hours and seven minutes to get through one pipe. It is obvious that at this rate of going one could hardly smoke more than four pipes a day. A pipe, according to M. Kos, will out last three hours if filled in a particular way—loosely, that is, at the bottom, firmly in the middle, and again loosely at the top. "Further," said he, "you must give up your whole mind to the process. Patience and determination make the true smoker." M. Kos went on to affirm that the object of the convention strange as it might appear, was to combat the abuse of tobacco. Those who smoke slowly get the greatest amount of pleasure out of their tobacco, while the nicotine is absorbed in the wood and does not reach the tips. No "Sandwich" Religion. "I do not believe in sandwiching courtship with religion," said the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in New York recently. "No man can hold a hymn book with a charming young woman and pay attention to what the ministers is saying." He advocates separate churches for the two sexes. AVISIT To our magnificent new store at Is sure to be of great interest to both the casual visitor and to the prospective buyer. Under no one roof has a more magnificent exposition of PIANOS Ever been exhibit; our store is a beauty. No mistake about it. We want you to see it. 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You can Supply DENEBEIM'S DEP 521 and 523 MAIN STREET Wholesale and Dry Goods, Clothing, G Boots and Shoes, Hat Queensware, all Kim STAPLE and FA N. B.—We are making a S Meats, Flour, Coffee a You can Supply all your wants at DENEBEIM'S DEPARTMENT STORE 521 and 523 MAIN STREET, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Notions, Queensware, all Kinds Household Goods. STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES. N. B.—We are making a Specialty of Smoked and Salt Meats, Flour, Coffee and Teas, Tobacco, Etc. Uncle John—"My goodness, Tommy you eat an awful lot for such a little fellow." Tommy—"I 'spect I aren't so little as I looks from the outside."—Woman's Home Companion. A Rare Combination. Science hopes to succeed in substituting the vital organs of animals for similar organs in the human body, and it is therefore not impossible that we may yet behold some startling surprises as a result. Imagine a man with a lion heart and a chicken liver. — Los Angeles Times. Always Danger in Soldier's Life. "But, sleeping on your arms night after night, is not a great hardship?" The conscript saluted respectfully. "Oh, no, sirl!" said he. "Our new musket, you see, is a combined musket and folding bed. Of course, there is always the danger of the thing shutting up and smothering one, but the life of a soldier is never free from danger. 'Tis sweet to die for one's country.' Hope in the Future "How's your book going?" asked the friend. "Not very well," replied the optimistic young author; "they took it off press when only 100 copies had been printed." "My! that's too bad." "Yes; but then think what a chance it will have of becoming a 'rare first edition' some day."—Philadelphia Press. The reason some are not wedded to one bad habit is because they are courting so many. --- Chickering, Sterling, Rock Island System A Little Pig. "You are a brave fellow!" "Thank you sir!"—Puck. "My! that's too bad." J. A. STEWART General Agent KANSAS CITY, MO. Not a Promising Prospect. A young author called at the great publishing house of Ticknor & Fields in Boston one day and asked to see Mr. Fields. On being shown into that gentleman's room he did not fancy the austere publisher's looks, for this was the conversations that took place: "Is this or. Fields?" "It is, sir." "Mr. James T. Fields?" "I am he." "Well, then, I'd like to see Mr. Ticknor." Wouldn't Stand Eof It. The local physician had been called in to see the village editor "You're away off there, doc," rejoined the scissors wielder. "We secured five new subscriptions this week and only lost two old ones."—Chicago News. Original W. D. "Jove," remarked the cheerful idiot, "was the original walking delegate." "How do you figure that out?" asked the union boarder. "It figures itself out," replied the c. i. "He was the individual who ordered the lighting to strike"—Chicago News. Man is Unfitted. Man has proven to be curiously unfitted for living in a circular room. At the Minot Ledge lighthouse, beds, tables, benches, etc. are fitted to the circular shape of the tower in order to economize space, and it is reported that five cases of well-developed in A woman may get up at a mother's convention and declare she has the best husband on earth, but she never goes so far as to say she expects to meet him in heaven. Obstacle is often only another way of spelling opportunity. START OF FLORIDA FEVD START OF FLORIDA FEVD WELDED THE BROKEN RAIL JVST THOUGHT OF CLIENT WEIRD TALE FROM JAPAN DIVINE MISSION OF SORROW "Speaking about feuds," said John L. Humphries of Tampa, Fla. "I think that the strangest, to its inception, is one between two families in Marion county, in our state. It came about this way. You know in our state sometimes land disappears during the night and a man wakes up to find his garden a great sinkhole. This is, of course, due to the fact that Florida is built on coral and not very substantially built at that, especially in some of the interior counties. Harry Redding had a nice patch of Irish potatoes, and Oliver Vance, his neighbor, had what he called a farm and near the house was a sinkhole. "One night Reading's potato patch disappeared and the next morning he had a nice large sinkhole filled with water where his garden patch was. The same night Vance who had a sinkhole when he went to bed, woke up to find the hole was filled with dirt in which there seemed to be a lot of pebbles about the size of a man's fist. Naturally he was surprised. He examined the pebbles to find them potatoes; and after calling the family up they got to work and gathered in six bushels of potatoes ready for market. When the 8.23 limited pulled into Wheaton in this county, one evening, it was discovered, says the Ie Seur correspondent of the St Paul Pioneer Press, that one of the rear wheels on the last coach was broken, a piece having been split off from one side so that there was a slightly flat place on the wheel, and, as it was feared, the broken wheel in pounding over the track had broken a rail. Only by a miracle was the 8.56 local saved from being wrecked. Three miles south of Bentley the flattened wheel had broken out a section of rail about seven feet long—broken it out so badly that it was torn from the spikes and lay across the rails, where it was found five minutes before the local was due by Willy Schultz, a boy of 14 years, who lives on a farm near by. The lad knew that the local soon would be along and he was frightened. He put the piece of rail in place and then started down the track, toward the approaching train, running as fast as he could. He had not gone twenty feet, however, when there came a blinding flash of lightning from a dark cloud that covered the sky, and he was struck down Dr. McBryer, who was very fond of speedy horses, had purchased a new one that had a mark of 2:10, and also possessed some very headstrong ways. Nevertheless, the doctor was proud of his new trotter, and was anxious that his friends should enjoy with him its bursts of speed. So about a week after the thoroughbred had been added to his stable he invited Judge Rodgers to take a drive with him. The judge said he felt the need of some fresh air and would go gladly. They started out of town at a lively clip. In the country the doctor gave the horse his head, and the buggy rat over the road at a hair-raising rate of speed. The judge clinched his jaws and manfully determined not to ask the doctor to slow down, knowing that if he did so he would be accused of lacking nerve. At last, about five miles out, the doctor pulled up and turned around preparatory to starting home. "How do you like him, judge?" asked the doctor. 'Fine! Best goer I ever saw. Great In a recent trial in Tokyo it was discovered that a certain Osaburo Ntaguchi had killed three persons under remarkable circumstances. He was in love with Soye, the sister of a well known Japanese poet, Ichitaro Noguchi. The latter, who was afflicted with leptosis, disliked the man. To win the regard of the poet, and at the same time to protect his lady love from the disease Osaburo attempted to cure the leper. He had heard it said that human flesh would cure leprosy. Early in March, 1902, he also read in a book a statement of the same old superstition. Then he formed a determination to kill a boy in the neighborhood. On the night of March 27 he caught an 11-year-old boy, named Kawai, as the boy was going home from an errand. Clasping closely to his breast the face of the young boy he smothered and killed him. He brought the corpse info a byway and toore off a lump of flesh from the hip of the boy. He then poured out the eveballs; it is sup "That's where the trouble began. Redding claimed that under the law where a man's stock wanders on to the premises of another, without his fault, he can go after it. He argued that the same doctrine applied to potatoes which had wandering habits. For he was very sure that the potatoes on the Vance farm belonged to him. Vance and his friends invoked another principle of law that a man owns his land from haven to hade and he refused to dig up the potatoes for the benefit of his neighbor. "All that happened ten years ago," continued Mr. Humphries, "and the Reddings and the Vances are still armed against each other. Two or three skirmishes have taken place between the parties and one of the Vance boys, 18 years old, was wounded by fire from the enemy. "They have never spoken to each other since that eventful night ten years ago. Lawyers and politicians have gone out to help them settle their difficulties, but they were obdurate, and if the feud grows for twenty years as it has already Florida and Marion county will have a feud equal to the best that Kentucky has ever produced."—Denver Republican. unconscious and nearly bereft of life. It must have been ten minutes before he regained consciousness, for when he did so he saw the train coming toward him at great speed. He staggered to his feet, the remembrance of the broken rail still in his mind, and waved his hands, but the engine did not stop, and just as it was about to crush him, he stepped from the rails and the train sped on. But the engineer at the last moment had seen the boy stop out of the engine's way, and, throwing on the lever, stopped the train after it had run several hundred feet beyond the break in the rail. When the engineer jumped down and came running back to see what the trouble was, young Schultz told him and showed him the place where the rail had been broken; but now it was perfectly sound. The flash of lightning that struck Schultz down spent the main portion of its force on the track in the immediate locality where the fracture was, and had evenly and perfectly welded the broken rail in place at both ends. The track was as safe and solid as it was the day it was laid. pleasure to ride behind him," declared the judge. "Well, on the way back, I'll just show you what real trotting is." The horse covered the first mile as if it were spitting down a home-stretch to wln a $10,000 purse. The judge's hat was jarred off and his hair blew straight back from his head. Still he would not cry quits. Then an automobile whizzed by and the horse was frightened. With the bit in its teeth, it took immediate charge of the driving party, and neither doctor nor judge ever traveled so fast as they did behind that horse. Still, the judge, noting that the doctor merely pulled taut on the reins and occasionally chirped soothingly to the horse, would not show any signs of alarm. They reached the edge of town, and the horse seemed to put on more speed. From side to side of the street they bounced, and then the judge leaned over to the doctor and gasped: "Doc, if you'd just as soon, I'll get out at my office. I've just thought of a client whom I promised to see at this hour!" Chicago Tribune. posed that this was with some idea of concealing the motives of the murder. On the following morning he bought a small cooking pot and konro (portable earthenware furnace), hired a boat and rowed out to sea. There he made soup with the flesh, and, putting it into a bottle, threw overboard all other objects. On his way home he bought a bottle of ordinary soup and served the mixture of these two soups to the poet and Soye. The mess had no effect upon the poet's leprosy. At a little later time Osaburo married Soye. Soon, however, the brothers-in-law quarreled. After vainly seeking a reconciliation Osaburo stole into the house one day and strangled the sick man. Some time afterward Osaburo enticed a druggist into the woods, strangled him and took $175 which the man had. This crime was traced to the murderer and the investigation which followed laid bare his other crimes. I heard, and shrank away from her afraid. But still she held me and would still abide. Youthly bounding pulses slackened and obeyed. With slowly ebbing tide. "Look than beyond the evening star," she said. "Beyond the changing splendors of the day." Accept the pain, the weariness, the dread. Accept and bid me stay!" I turned and clasped her close with sudden strength. And suddenly sweetly, I became aware Within my arms God's angel stood at height. White-robed and calm and fair. And now I look beyond the evening star, Beyond the changing splendors of the day. Knowing the pain He sends more precious fur. More beautiful than they. —Cella Thaxter. FREE TRADE AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN DUAL TRADE PHILIPPINES FREE TRADE RECIPROLIFT AMERICANISM QUICK SMITH WHATAMERICANSEAT THEY CONSUME $100 PER CAPITA OF OUR FARM PRODUCTS. This Is Because Times Are Flourishing and the Wage Earners of the Mills and Factories Are Able to Eat the Best and Pay for it. The editor of Milling and Grain News of Omaha writes as follows: "Claim is made that the Chamberlain policy of preferential duties for the United Kingdom and the colonies is caused by the trade barriers placed against British manufacturers. The same reason is given for the policy of excluding American food products by Germany and other European countries. If this is true every miller, by reason of his particular business, should be a free trader, or at least an ardent advocate of such reciprocal treaties as will allow our food products, of which we have a surplus, to be marketed under favorable conditions in those countries which must import the larger part of their foodstuffs. "The writer is a protectionist on general principles, but would like a little light on the conditions above stated if there is a sound argument which can be used against the proposition that a protective tariff is detrimental to the interest of American millers." The chamberlain policy of preferential duties is based not so much upon the trade barriers erected by other countries against British manufactures as upon the absence of any trade barriers protecting British manufacturers from the competition of other countries in the British home market. The preferential duty plan is in the nature of a half-way measure and is designed as a plausible reason for inaugurating a modified system of protection in Great Britain. The plan is far from adoption. Present indications are that it will not be adopted for several years to come. American food products are not now excluded by Germany or any other European country, and are not likely to be excluded. The German threat of imposing a heavily increased tariff against certain classes of American exports is not certain of being carried into execution. But even if such a policy should be enforced, pending the adoption of measures of retaliation by the United States that would be quite certain to make foreign countries extremely tired of unfairly discriminating against American products, that would not be a good and sufficient reason for such general tariff concessions on our part as would insure to foreign manufacturers a largely increased entrance for their products into the American market and the equivalent displacement of American labor, wages and production. The American miller would be among the first to discover the results of this decrease in home production and home wage paying. Under present conditions of the full employment of labor at the highest wage scale ever known the average consumption of American farm products is estimated at $100 each for every man, woman and child in the United States. In countries where the wage scale is one-half or less than that of the American wage the per capita consumption of agricultural products amounts to $45 or less. If the American miller will consult his books he will doubtless discover that the interests of the $100 consumers at his very door are far more worthy of his solicitude than the small share he would have in the $45 per capita consumer of foreign countries. His best market is and always must be among the best paid and the largest consuming people on the face of the earth; namely, his own highly paid and prosperous countrymen. According to the latest sta tistics available, the average yearly German consumption of food products imported from the United States amounts to something less than $3.50 per capita. This is worth considering, to be sure, but it should not be allowed too much consideration. As to whether the protective tariff is or is not detrimental to the interests of American millers, it might be well to consider certain possibilities in the event of the removal of our protective tariff. The time is near at hand when the cheap lands of the Canadian Northwest, now being penetrated by new lines of railway, will be the theater of the largest wheat production in the known world. When that time shall have arrived it is not at all improbable that a vast industry in the milling of wheat will be built up in the Canadian provinces. In that event the American miller would be quite likely to regret the absence of a protective tariff and the consequent privilege of importing Canadian flour into the markets of the United States free of duty. The adoption by the United States of a general policy of reciprocity in competitive products would, as a matter of course, destroy our system of protection to the extent of which such competition would be invited and promoted. If the competition were made general, as it of necessity would be, for we cannot deny to any one nation the privileges that we have granted to another nation, there would be practically an end of adequate protection to American labor and industry. That condition obviously must affect the American miller disadvantageously. To feed $5,000,000 of the most liberal buyers of the highest grade of food products known among the nations of the world is an outlook for the American miller which reciprocity in competitive products, or free trade, would not be likely to improve. The American miller will do well to stick to protection. Let Her Flop. "Revise the tariff or lose the Bay State, is the Massachusetts ultimatum to the Republican stand-patters in Congress, as stated by Republican Congressman Lawrence,"—Portland Argus. If that be indeed the alternative—which we take the liberty of doubting—then let Massachusetts "go Democratic" if she will. One experience of that kind would be likely to prove enough. A full crop of Democratic Congressmen would do more than could possibly be done by fair argument and intelligent reasoning to convince Massachusetts that her interests had best not be intrusted to the party of free trade. One thing is certain: The tariff legislation of the Republican party cannot be dictated by Massachusetts. If on that account she wants to leave the Republican lawn for the Democratic barnyard, why, let her flop. Selfish Revisionists The sheemakers of Massachusetts are tariff revisionists. They want all the tariff taken off of sole leather because it costs them, they say, 5 to 7 cents per pair of shoes. When asked if they will reciprocate by yielding to a removal of the tariff on shoes they hasten to say No! No! That's the trouble with too many of the revisionists. Sole leather is the finished product of the tanner and cattle grower, and these parties are entitled to this protection just as much as the sheemaker. The selfishness the latter people show makes it altogether unlikely that there will be any effort to reconstruct the tariff law.—Decorah (Ia.) Republic can. Palatable One Preferred "Good avenin,' sor," said Cassidy; "the doctor towld me fur to git a porish plaster fur me stummick." "Yes," replied the druggist. "What sort do you wish?" "Sorra the hair Oi care, so long as 'ts als digested." 900 DROPS Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regularizing the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS - CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Ripe of Old Dr. SANUEL PATTERY Pumpkin Seed Alc. 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There are indications that an important oil field may be developed by the application of modern methods of petroleum production in the regions in Persia and Turkey lying north and northwest of the Persian gulf. The taxpayers of Lincoln county, Nebraska, are suing the county commissioners to compel them to increase the tax levy. The citizens wish to pay off the county indebtedness, which amounts to $650,000. Castonite, a double carbide of calcium and barium, is a new product of the electric furnace that, like calcium carbide is decomposed by water. It was first made by J. Cartier, a French metallurgist. Actors are never stranded in Russia, because when a manager takes a company touring he must deposit with the government enough money to bring all safely home. R. J. Collier of New York, who recently purchased the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, will present the property to the national government as a national park. Idaho is larger than New York and Malne combined and has inland lakes which cover an area of 510 square miles. Its smallest county is about the size of Rhode Island. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE continues no tax by delivery of imbibent, sold only by licensed pharmacist. The public may buy detoxifi- cating products. Switzerland's exports of machinery and implements in 1904 are valued at about $9,500,000. Electrical machinery and machines used for weaving, knitting and embroidery were the principal items. As this little country has no iron or coal, but must import these heavy materials by railroads, the exportation of machinery speaks well for its industrial skill. 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. There is a great forest of wealth in the Sultanate of Morocco, but it has never been toucher. The country also abounds in orange, lemon, fig, date, arole, almond, nut and other fruit trees. The export of dates especially are very large and steadily increasing. Inaist on Gettin' It. Some grocers say they don't keep Defiance Starch because they have a stock on hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money. Every time that life seems wintry take it as evidence that the gardner meant for more than a submer squash. Cheap Rates to California and Mexico From February 15th to April 7th, inclusive, Colonists' tickets will be on sale to California and Mexico points at exceptionally low rates: | To From | San Francisco Los Angeles | Mexico City Guadalajara | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Chicago | $33 | $32 | | St. Louis | $30 | $27 | | Kansas City | $25 | $24 | Through tourist sleepers from St. Louis on Tuesday of each week. You step into the car at St. Louis and do not leave it until you reach San Francisco. Ask your nearest railroad agent for rates or address G. A. McNUTT Blossom House, KANSAS CITY, MO. Tickets on sale everywhere, via Missouri, Kansas & Texas R'y. W. N. U., KANSAS CITY, NO. 7, 1906. PISO'S CURE FOR GENERAL WHEEL ALL LACE FAIRS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION THE ONLY ONE There is only One Genuine-Syrup of Figs, Always buy the Genuine- Syrup of Figs MANUFACTURED BY THE Everybody loves juicy, tender radishes. Salzer knows this, hence he offers to send you absolutely free sufficient radish seed to keep you in tender radishes all summer long and his great SALZER'S BARGAIN SEED BOOK. with its wonderful surprises and great bargains in seeds at bargain prices. The enormous crops on our seed farms the past season compel us to issue this special catalogue. SEND THIS NOTICE TO-DAY. and receive the radishes and the wonderful Bargain Book free Remit 46 and we add a package of Cosmos the most fashionable, serviceable, beautiful annual flower. John Salzer Seed Co., Lock Drawer Worth Garden Marvels of English. "Ah, your language! Eet ees so difficult." "What's the matter, count?" "First, zis novel eet say ye man was unhorsed." "Yes?" "Zen it say he was cowed."—Tld-Bits. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quatine Tablets. Drugs give refund money. If it falls to cure. E. W. GROVE's signature is on each look. Exc. It is a difficult matter to treat a man for drunkenness. As a rule, the more you treat him, the drunken he gets.—Philadelphia Record. Woman's Trials. The bitter trail in a woman's life is to be childless. Who can tell how hard the struggle may have been ere she learnt to resign herself to her lonely lot? The absence of this link to bind martial life is a problem. The lack of mutual affection is a common disappointment. Many unfortunate couples become estranged thereby. Even if they do not drift apart, one may read the whole extent of their disappointment in the eyes of their children. They are on the children of others. To them the largest family does not seem too numerous. In many cases of barrenness or childlessness the obstacle to child-bearing is easily removed by the cure of weakness on the part of the woman. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription restoring health and fruitfulness to many a barren woman, to the great joy of the household. In other, but rare cases, the obstruction to the bearing of children has been found to be of a surgical character, and the treatment at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., over which Dr. Pierce of the "Favorite Prescription" fame presides. In all cases where children are desired and are absent, an effort it is made to find out the real cause, since it is made so easily removed by proper treatment. In all the various weaknesses, displacements, prolapsus, inflammation and debilitating, catarral drains and in all cases of nervousness and debility, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the most useful of the medicines to be used. It has to its credit hundreds of the cures—more in fact than any other remedy put up for sale through druggists, especially for woman's use. The ingredients of which the "Favorite Prescription" is composed have received the most positive endorsement from the leading writers on Materia Medica of the seventeenth century. The ingredients are printed in plain English on the wrapper enclosing the bottle, so that any woman making use of this famous medicine may know exactly what she is taking. Dr. Pierce takes his patients into his full confidence, which he can afford to do as the formula after which the "Favorite Prescription" is made will bear the most careful examination. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the best and safest laxative for women. Reporter—Uncle, to what do you attribute your long hair? Old Inhabitant—I don't know yit, young feller. They's several of these patent medicine companies that's dickerin' with me.—Chicago Tribune. Cures Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Blood Poison Greatest Blood Burial Fear If your blood is impure, thin, diseased, hot or full of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and lumps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, eating sores, skin damage, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. L.) to directions. All soils allures heal, aches and pains stop, the blood is made pure and rich, leaving the skin free from every eruption, and giving the rich glow of perfect health to the skin. At the same time B. B. B. imports digestion, cures dyspepsia, strengthens the immune medicine for old people, as it gives them new, vigorous blood. Druggists $1 per large bottle, with directions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta. Describe trouble and special free medical device also sent in sealed letter to B. B. L. chronic, deep-seated cases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures after all else fails. William Easton, a hospital steward at the Mare Island navy yard, fell into San Pablo bay from a boat, and would have drowned but for his hunting dog, which seized a drifting car at his master's command, and brought it to him. Garfield Tea, Mild Laxative. Regulates the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels, cures Constipation and Sick Headache. Send this notice with your name and address to the Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for free sample package. Sold at all drug stores. Send us the name of your druggist. The Japanese cigarette has made its appearance in London. It consists of half an inch of broad strips of chocolate-colored tobacco, to which is attached a cardboard tube an inch long. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curbs wind colds. In accordance with a custom followed for centuries, when the newly elected mayor of the borough of Islington, London, first took his seat on the bench as a magistrate, he was fined $1.25. FITS permanently cured. No fitts or nerveness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's nerve Restorative Dr. R. H. Kline. Id. 517 Ares Street, Philadelphia, Pa. A. N. Johnson, highway engineer of the department of agriculture, will resign to accept a position in the road department of the University of Illinois. Lewis' Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. John Hawkes, a Cincinnati lumberman, has crossed and recrossed the Atlantic 228 times and is known as "the old man of the sea." Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave. N. Minn.apolis, Minn. Jan. 6. 1900. Prince Louis of Battenberg is a printer, and the only one known to have paid a dentist $1,000 for filling four teeth. DEATH SEEMED NEAR. How a Chicago Woman Found Help When Hope Was Fast Fading Away. Mrs. E. T. Gould, 914 W. Lake Street, Chicago, Ill., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills are all that saved me from death of Bright's Disease, that I know. I had eye trouble, backache, catches when lying abed or when bending over, was languid and often dizzy and had sick headaches and bearing down pains. The kidney secretions were to contour I know. I had eye trouble, backache, catches when lying abed or when bending over, was languid and often dizzy and had sick headaches and bearing down pains. The kidney secretions were to copious and frequent, and very bad in appearance. It was in 1903 that Doan's Kidney Pills helped me so quickly and cured me of those troubles and I've been well ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn B., Buffalo, N. Y. The official report of the French minister of commerce sets forth that the excess of births over deaths reported in France for the year 1904 is 57,026, as against the excess in 1903 of 73,106. The area devoted to cern in Kansas in 1905 was 6,799,755 acres, an increase over that of 1904 of 305,597 acres, or 4.7 per cent. The average yield to the acre for the entire state was 28 bushels. WILD WITH ITCHING HUMOR. Eruption Broke Out in Spots All Over Body—Cured at Expense of Only $1.25—Thanks Cuticura. The Cuticura Remedies cured me of my skin disease, and I am very thankful to you. My trouble was eruption of the skin, which broke out in spots all over my body, and caused a continual itching which nearly drove me wild at times. I got medicine of a doctor, but it did not cure me, and when I saw in a paper your ad, I sent to you for the Cuticura book and I studied my case in it. I then went to the drug store and bought one cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Cuticura Ointment and one vial of Cuticura Pills. From the first application I received relief. I used the first set and two extra cakes of Cuticura Soap, and was completely cured. I had suffered for two years, and I again thank Cuticura for my cure. Claude N. Johnson, Maple Grove Farm, R. F. D. 2, Walnut, Kan., June 15, 1905." Fifty thousand acres of alfalfa were raised in the Greeley district of Colorado this year, three crops being cut during the season. The average yield to the acre for the three cuttings is five tons. Those Who Have Tried It. will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal in Quantity or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 oz. "How are you doing on this year's farewell tour?" "Not so nicely," replied the prominent actress," "Well, I hope you'll do better on next year's farewell tour."—Chicago Sun. EASY TO SAVE GIRDLED TREES. Simple Contrivance Will Renew Growth of Bark. As the snow melts some of your readers will probably find that the deep snow has given protection to field mice from their natural enemies—hawks and owls—and that they have girdled some of the trees in the orchard. If only partly girdled nature will help herself and heal the wound, but if the bark is removed entirely round, the tree will have to have help at once or it will die. Small limbs the size of a lead pencil should be cut and both ends sharpened and in- A Girdled Section Bridged With Sciens. sorted under the bark, so as to connect the bark at the roots and that above the girdled part (as per cut.) A tree six inches in diameter should have at least six grafts inserted, and if all "take" in five years the wounds should be entirely grown over. The clions can be fastened at both ends with thin wire nails. Bark to bark as in grafting and the use of good grafting wax made of beeswax, tallow and rosin are required. Where the bark has been removed by the mice the trunk should be protected from the sun and dying winds by moss kept moist, cow manure mixed with clay, or the tree banked up with earth. By this method the writer has saved many a tree.—Exchange. Concrete Silo. I wish to build a foundation for a silo (square), 15 feet by 16 feet and 15 feet high. How much cement and gravel would be required? Give general instructions as to the work. Would one foot be sufficient thickness for wall to resist the settling of silage. I wish to raise a barn 100 feet by 45 feet. How much stone and lime would it take for 9 foot wall under it? For a square silo 15 feet by 16 feet high and one foot thick, it would take: Portland cement 23 barrels, gravel 27 yards, stone fillers 7 yards and the labor of 4 men 6 days. A good way in building a silo wall is to have the walls 15 inches thick at bottom and nine inches thick at top, having inside perfectly plumb. The proportions of material for mixing the concrete are eight parts of gravel to one part Portland cement. For a barn wall built of stone, 45 feet by 100 feet and 9 feet high and $1 \frac{1}{2} $ feet thick, it would take: Stone 39 cords, sand 40 yards, lime 200 bushels. For cost of building see a builder in your own locality. Will you publish sketch of harrow with wooden frame in two or three sections, suitable for a light team. The two sections of the harrow shown in illustration, have four beams each, and the teeth are twelve inches from center to center each way. The beams are four feet eight inches long, and are mortised into the front piece, which is three feet seven inches in length. The rear ends of the beam are secured by a piece of timber, two by one and a half inches, halved on to the beams, and then bolted. The entire cost of the harrow should not exceed twelve dollars. Tile or Iron Pipe for Water? I have on my property a spring that is somewhat higher than my house and wish to lay a pipe for carrying water in small quantity for household use. The distance is about 1,000 feet. What is the cheapest kind of pipe? To convey the water from a strong spring, a distance of 1,000 feet, earthen tile might serve the purpose if laid on a well-graded bed. The bed should be so uniform in grade that there are no gaps in the joints. Then the tile should be jointed carefully, turning each tile around until it makes as complete a joint as possible. In addition, in order to prevent loss of water, the tile should be sealed at the joints either with puddled clay, or, better, with cement. If there is plenty of water in the spring such a line of pipe would convey sufficient for household purposes, although it would be impossible to make such pipe entirely water tight. To make sure that all the water is conveyed it would be necessary to lay iron pipe. Ordinary black iron pipe, given a coat of tar before being covered, will last many years in the ground. Galvanized iron pipe, however, will last longer. Two and a half inch tile, that is ordinary drain tile, not sewer tile, can be procured at tile yards at eight dollars per thousand. Quotations on galvanized iron and black iron can be secured from local dealers. The galvanized iron is, of course, more expensive than the black iron. A TRAINED NURSE Mrs Martha Pohlman Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Succeeds Where Others Fall. CALIFORNIA $25.00 VIA SANTA FE From Kansas City, with proportionate rates from other places east of Missouri River, to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and many other points in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Tickets on sale daily. Feb. 15th to April 7th, 1906. Inclusive. Good in Tourist sleeping cars; $5.75 additional for double berth. Liberal stopovers allowed in California and at certain points in Arizona. 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When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful periods, weakness, displacement or ulceration of the female organs, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation, backache, bloating (or fatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, latitude, exeita- CALIFORNIA $25 VIA SALE From Kansas City, with pr places east of Missouri River San Francisco, and many ot Mexico, and Arizona. Tickets on sale daily, Feb. 15th in Tourist sleeping cars; $5.75 a al stopovers allowed in Californi zona. For Literature and G. W. HAGENBUCH, C 905 Main St., A Post of Honor for income if you are Particulars will be H. S. H 1 Madison Avenue PRICE, 25 Cts. TO CURE THE GRIP IN ONE DAY ANTI-GRIPINE HAS NO EQUAL FOR HEADACHE AM IS GRIP, BA I won't sell H. Californi E. W. Die The Government of Canada 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Gives absolutely FREE to every settler one hun- dred and sixty acres of land in Western Canada. 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No other female medicine in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. The needless suffering of women from diseases peculiar to their sex is terrible to see. The money which they pay to doctors who do not help them is an enormous waste. The pain is cured and the money is saved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It is well for women who are ill to write Mrs. Finkham, at Lynn, Mass. The present Mrs. Finkham is the daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Finkham, her assistant for many years before her decease, and for twenty-five years since her advice has been freely given to sick women. In her great experience, which covers many years, she has probably had to deal with dozens of cases just like yours. Her advice is strictly confidential. He Promised to "Obey." A prospective Boston bridegroom, who meant to be master in his own house, called on the well-known clergyman, Rev C. W. Wendt, who was to tie the knot the following day, "I have heard," he said, "that you omit the word 'obey' from the marriage service. Will you kindly insert it to morrow?" Mr. Wendt obligingly promised to do so. "Wilt thou Luce, promise to love, honor, and obey?" was promptly answered by the bride without demur. The same question was put to the groom, who hesitated, stammered, and gulped, but answered, as had his bride, "I will," probably not wishing to create a scene. Later he reproached the minister, "But you asked me to use the word 'obey,'" said Mr. Wendt, with a twinkle in his eyes; "how was I to know that you wanted it for the lady only? You should have been more explicit."—Argonaut. Cause and Effect. "I suppose he clasped you in his arms when the canoe upset?" "No; quite the opposite." "Quite the opposite?" "Yes; the canoe upset when he clasped me in his arms." AN URGENT APPEAL. President Paul Morton was entertaining at Manhattan beach 750 agents of the Equitable Life. An agent fro the west asked Mr. M Morton if he believed that advertising benefitted life insurance. "Good advertising," the other answered, "benefits every form of business." "But what is good advertising?" said the agent. "Good advertising," returned Mr. Morton, "is the kind that strikes home, the kind that gives you a friendly feeling toward a concern. It makes you believe that it will be pleasant and profitable to deal with the advertiser. "A Deroit grocer, in my boyhood, inserted in the papers an advertisement that I think was a good one. I still remember it." It ran: "Twins are come to me for the third time. This time a boy and a girl. I beseech my friends and patrons to support me stoutly." Oldest National Speaker. Joseph G. Cannon is the oldest man ever elected speaker of the national house of representatives. He was also longe member of that body before becoming speaker than any other presiding officer. The youngest speaker the house ever had was R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia, who was only 30 years old and in his second term when caosen to preside. Electricity From Coal In the opinion of Thomas A. Edison, wonders are yet to be unfolded in the world of electricity. "We are groping on the verge of another great epoch in the world's history," he said in an interview at his laboratory in West Orange. "It would not surprise me any morning to wake up and learn that some one, some group of the 300,000 scientific men who are investigating all over the earth, has seized upon the secret of electricity by direct process, and begun another practical evolution in human affairs. "It can be done. It will be done I expect to see it before I die." "The first great change in the production of electricity will abolish carrying coal for that purpose," he said. "Instead of digging gross material out of the earth, loading it on cars, and carrying it, say, 500 miles, there to put it under a boiler and burn, and so get power, we shall set up plants at the mouth of mines, generate power there, and transmit it wherever it is needed by copper wire." "How many times has your husband been under the knife?" "Dear me, I don't know; but he's become so accustomed to it that he lies down to be operated on every time he sees a doctor."—Chicago Record-Herald Jumping at Conclusions. "I'm entertaining Miss Sniggs, the most popular girl in our class," said the Bryn Mawr girl: "I'd like you to meet her." "No, thank you," replied Dick; I'm not interested in homely girls." "Why, how did you know she was homely?" "She must be, or she wouldn't be so popular with you other girls; also you wouldn't want me to meet her." — Philadelphia Press. Didn't Get a Key Mr. Slimpurse—I see the kitchen clock is not going. Didn't you get a key to-day?" Mrs. Limpurse—"No." "I left you as you were going into a jeweler's." "Yes, but Mrs. Stuckup happened to be there looking at some pearls. You don't suppose I'd ask for a five-cent kitcaen-clock key under those circumstances, do you?" "What did you do?" "I asked how long it would take them to clean a diamond necklace, and came out." "Cold winter ahead," declared Uncle Goshall Hemlock "How can you tell?" he was asked. "Didn't ye hear the wild geese honkin' this mornin'?" "Oh, that was Jed Busby's new automobile." "Thunder! Gol darn it all. That jest shows what the kentry's comin' to." THE SPOTTED FAWN (The following is by an unknown author and has not been in print for many decades.) By Macaturah's flowery marge An Indian wigwam stood. Long ere the white man's rifle rang Loud throughout the echoing wood. The tomahawk and scalping knife Together lay at rest; For peace was in the forest shade, And in the redman's breast. Chorus Oh! the Spotted Fawn, The life and light of the forest shade, With the red chief's child is gone. By Macaturah's flowery marge The Spotted Fawn had birth, And grew as fair an Indian girl As ever graced the earth. She was the red chief's only child, And wooped by many a brave, But to the gallant young White Cloud Her plighted troth she gave. Chorus— By Macaturah's flowery marge A bridal song arose, Nor dreamed they on that festal night Of close encircling foes. But through the stealthy forest The white man came in wrath, Firey darts before them hurled, And blood was in their path. Hard to Bribe. Father—"I am determined to do something to prevent you from marrying aat scapegrace to reform him. As I can, arrive you, I'll bribe you. Is there anything that would tempt you to give him up?" Daughter—"N-o, notting that I can think of unless it's another scapegrace." THE EMPRESS OF JAPAN. The empress of Japan is a noble and inspiring character, says the Chicago News. Her name is Haruko, and she is the daughter of a noble of the highest rank. She is two years older than the mikado. Her marriage took place in 1868. A further indication of the sacredness in which the imperial personages are held is shown by the incident which occurred when it was determined that the court ladies should adopt European dress. At this time great difficulty was experienced in getting clothes to fit her royal highness. The profane hands of a dressmaker could not be allowed to touch the personage of the empress, so a court lady had to pose as a model until the garments were gradually made to fit. Miss Gotrox—Nearly all my admirers think I should be able to get tips from you on the market. Gotrox—Encourage them in that belief, my dear. It won't be long before I'll be ready to unload the stock I'm carrying.—Puck. Ladies or Gentlemen Wanted Everywhere; $3.00 a day selling our toilet goods. Write at once. C. BROWN TOILET COMPANY, 5711 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. ```markdown ``` Properties and busi- ness. All kinds sold quickly for cash in a parts of the United States. Don't wait. 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. Lincoln Institute MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN. A. M. President. DEPARTMENTS: COLLEGE, NORMAL, PREPARED DUSTRIAL AND DO COURSES: Classical, College Preparatory Model Training School, Music (In Drawing, (Fine Arts and Mechanical ing, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Sho Gardening, Printing, Typewriting Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Free T with Modern Improvements. Build Diplomas are licenses to teach in a state. A few deserving students are to earn their way. All applicants n of good moral character. For furth BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, JEFFERSON CITY, MI The Stoeltzing Stove and INFORMAL, PREPARATORY, IN- IRIAL AND DOMESTIC. 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C., Mo 00 per week. Rooms without Board $2. s. Hot and Cold Baths Included. Room and Board $5.00 per week. Rooms without Board $2. Single Meals 25 cents. Hot and Cold Baths Included. BEN McRAY, Prop. and Mgr. A. Webe The well know MERCHA after an extended trip through west, is with us again. Everybo Weber by the many stylish and has put up. He is now at 1206½ East 18 Weber know MERCHANT TAILOR, extended trip through California and the th us again. Everybody remembers Mr. the many stylish and well-made suits he . He is now at East 18th Street The well know MERCHANT TAILOR. after an extended trip through California and the west, is with us again. Everybody remembers Mr. Weber by the many stylish and well-made suits he has put up. He is now at Where he will be glad to see his old friends and customers. Bell Phone Main 1196 X The MINOR HALIFAX For Dances, Socials Entertainments, Etc To Respectable Colored People MRB. A. V. MINOR, Mgr., 404 W. 6th St., MINOR HALL to Rent For Dances, Socials, Entertainments, Etc. Respectable Colored People only. R. Mgr., 404 W. 8th St., Kansas City, Mo. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT --- --- 100 All Modern Improvements Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. "FOLLOW THE FLAG" WABASH Summer Schedule TO Excelsior Springs Beautiful Health Resort Beginning Sunday, May 7th and daily thereafter follows: Save Union Depot 8:30 and 10:20 A. M.; 5:10 7:00 P. M. $1.00 Round Trip, 30 days limit, 0. Tickets Wabash Office, 903 Main Street and Union Depot. One Price Clothiers - Gents Furnishers Shoes SAM. H. FINKELSTEIN, Prop. Betson Hats $1.50 Cleaned and Blocked Motto: "YOUR MONEY'S WORT Street, Kansas C Hot Springs Special Kicked for Improved Train Service between K ings, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provi MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Kansas City at 11:00 a. m. daily. Arrive in Hot This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha , Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. This "Hot Springs Special" is the Elegant Di connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Eastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas Night Express 9:35 p. m. daily. Carion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all in NEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Passenger Seet. KANSAS C Phone 6327 Main. Bell Telephone 7 "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. ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS GENTS FURNISHERS SHOES Stetson Hats $1.50 Cleaned and Blocked. Our Motto: "YOUR MONEY'S WORTH." 805 Main Street, Kansas City MO "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 11:00 a. m. daily. Arrive in Hot Springs to Breakfast. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodesha, Independence (Kan.), Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. Through Sleepers and Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. A special feature on this "Hot Springs Special" is the Elegant Dining Cars. This train connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Trains for all Southeastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Hot Springs Night Express 9:35 p. m. daily. For Excursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all information, call or address E. S. JEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Passenger Dept. 901 Main Street. KANSAS CITY MO. Home Telephone 6327 Main. Bell Telephone 740 Hickory PIONEER TRUST COMPANY Dwight Building 10th and Baltimore Avenue. KANSAS CITY, MO. ansacts a General Trust and Banking Business Cares for Real Estate and Mortgage Investments. Now is the time to begging Saving.- Dont delay, $1.00 will start an account. OFFICERS: WALTON H. HOLMES, ..... President. F. C. MILLER, ..... Vice President. C. F. HOLMES, ..... Vice President. CHAS. S. GLEED, ..... Vice President. H. C. SCHWITZGEBEL, ..... Sec'y and Treas. BIRD H. McGARVEY, ..... Asst. Treas. E. L. SCARRITT, Counselor. B. P. FINLEY, Attorney.