The Rising Son

H. S. Mussy - March 1-1905 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. One day in the autumn, at recess, when the lines were forming in the yard, Miss Walton stepped up to me, and asked me if I had heard of Miss Maud Olden and the janitor at the Central High school in regard to her passing the examination. Not caring to enter into gossip I never said a word. She went on to relate the incident and to show my disapproval of her conversation I dropped my head, and refused to even turn around and look at her, but continued to watch my pupils form in line. Mr. Bowser and Miss Olden were standing in Miss Olden's doorway and noticed the one-sided conversation. Still I said nothing. Because I refused to encourage her in her talk, I have been accused of being impure. It isn't that I approve the wrong-doing upon the part of anyone, but I never do wrong myself, and I never like to talk, hear, or think evil of anyone else because I think it pulls the whole Negro race down. When a person tries to attend to their own affairs and keeps out of fusses and won't encourage mean gossip are you impure? I would like to have the question answered. I have always tried to keep my mind clear of unclean things. For I don't believe we can live above out thoughts. Our thoughts form our actions, from actions, our habits, from our habits our character and from our character, our destiny is formed. "Not failure, but low aim is crime." This is the first time in my life that I have been severely criticised upon any point. I haven't SAID OR DONE anything NOW to be so severely dealt with. I ask the good thinking people to suspend judgment and bring any charge you may have against me to my face and I can vindicate myself of all impure ideas that have arisen against me through, malice, feebulous and prejudice. I am the same, pure, conscientious Christian girl that I have always been. I passed the examination by diligent study and trust in God. Thanking you for past favors, I remain as ever, an obedient girl, ADA B. JORDAN. 1705 East Elventh Street. LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. Barterson left for his home, St. Louis, on the 22d, after spending several weeks here assisting Elder Gilbert in his meeting. Rev. Hays has been here preaching at the Second Baptist church for the last three or four weeks. The M. E. Conference sets here on the 14th of March and we hope every body will assist them in taking care of it. Miss Scrugs died on the 23d of February at her sisters, Mrs. Lawson's and was taken to Higginsville for interment. She died in the full triumph of faith. Mrs. Harlett Green died on the 26th of February. She was one of our oldest citizens. She was eighty-nine years old. She was a member of the A. M. E. church here and has been ever since it was organized. She has been sick for the last ten years. She was a good woman and was loved by all who knew her, but our loss is her gain. She leaves two sons to mourn her loss. Mr. James Therman and Miss Walker were united in matrimony on the 24th of February, 1906. Rev. Wm. Thirkle officiated. We hope them a long and prosperous life. Mr. Hedge is a candidate for police judge and I think we ought to vote for him for I think he is competent for the place. We want a fass meeting on Tuesday night of all the voters to select such men as will be officers for all the people and not some of the people. We understand that some have said that they did not want any Negro votes, if that is so we hope that no Negro will vote for such a person. Mr. Walter W. Russell is a candidate for city assessor. He is a young man that was reared here and is fully competent to fill the office with credit to the citizens if elected. Mr. Jake Fagett is a candidate for treasurer and we know everybody will vote for him because we know his worth in office and he treats everybody right. Congressman Wilborn was in the city Monday and Tuesday on business. Mrs. Nancy Booker has returned home after spending several days in Kansas City with her daughter. Mr. Ad Ray, the restaurant man, paid up his subscription for the Rising Son. Call and see him. Mr. John Marshall is on the sick list. We hope our old subscribers will pay up. Our paper will come regular now. It is the only paper that has been coming regular to this town for nearly nine years, handled and controlled by colored men. Mrs. Woodson Colley who has been visiting her son in Lincoln, Neb., has returned hom. She reports having had a very nice time after spending three or four months away. Mr. Wm A. Gaffin is a candidate for marshal and solicits your support. Mr. Oscar Winkley is candidate for mayor and will have no opponents, for he is erecting a city hall which is an honor to any city and the people will not try to make any change this year. Mr. Ash Craff, one of the readers of the Rising Son, spent last week in Richmond, Mo. LINGOLN INSTITUTE NOTES The third and last term of the regular scholastic year is rapidly approaching and we wish to emphasize and reiterate the fact that the present month is an excellent time for teachers and students to enter Lincoln Institute who may desire to attend the summer school, or otherwise; but who find the seven weeks' course of the summer entirely too short a term in which to do the amount of work they have in mind and desire to accomplish. Several teachers with short terms have already availed themselves of this opportunity and are working away on the required number of points for graduation. The new system of grading by points rather than by classes, here introduced by President Allen, and already adopted by leading schools and colleges throughout the country is proving entirely satisfactory in Lincoln Institute; and is especially valuable, perhaps to the student who, for whatever cause, finds it impossible to remain in school for the year. For information relative to summer school, address President B. F. Allen, Lincoln Institute. THE CLANSMAN EXCITES RACE HATRED. The play known as "The Clansman" written by Thomas Dixon, filled an engagement at the Willis Wood theatre last week. There has been a great deal of criticism on the play by virtue of the fact that its leading feature is productive of rank race prejudice. Says Rev. W. A. Brown of Kansas City, Kan.: "The effect of such plays has been seen in Springfield, O., where, because two men had committed a crime, a mob went burning and shooting into the houses of colored people. In one of these houses, which was set on fire and riddled with bullets, three children were sleeping. Think of it. Talk about the outrages in China. Talk about atrocities in Africa. Talk about the bushmen. Talk about the crimes of other races when our own is just as bad. Our people are becoming racially blind." Among other critics is a white lady who lived in the South for thirty years. She is familiar with the characteristics of the Negro race and declares that the play does an injustice to the race. She cited the manly qualities of the Negro during the Civil War who proved himself a protection to the southern families. This lady says that Dixon should be run out of the country for writing a play which is calculated to stir up strife between the two races. The Son holds that Mr. Dixon has received the wrong teachings in the ministry. From the character of his play he does not place confidence in his own people. His portrayal of the Negro supremacy is of course foolish and absurd After one witnesses the play his thoughts are conveyed back to the period of reconstruction. When the bullet was placed in the hands of the Negro. The North was perhaps hasty in giving the Negro this privilege but should twenty years have elapsed and then this important privilege granted the Negro there probably would have been another war judging from the growth of prejudice since the freedom of the Negro. If the people would quit fretting about the Southern Negros and whites. Secure to themselves greater confidence and let the Negro work out his own salvation it would be better for all concerned. The Kansas City Star's version of the "White Man's Burden" is the best thing we have seen lately. It reads: "While the Indian question is by no means so acute as the Negro question, it is, nevertheless, attended by more or less perplexity. On both hands the serenity of the nation is marred by the irrepressible race problem. But it would really not be quite fair to either the Indians or the Negroes to wholly forget the origin of the trouble. "In the case of the Indians, the Caucasians dispossessed the red men of their country; if you please, you may say that they stole the 'land of the free and the home of the brave' from its primal owners. As to the Negroes, they certainly cannot be charged with organizing an invasion in Africa to come over to America and possess the land. They were really brought here by compulsion and detained against their will. "Thus, in bearing his burden, the white man in America ought to try very hard to exercise as much for bearance in dealing with the race problem as befits his responsibility in acquiring that burden." New York's "Richest" Rich. 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. S. W. King of Excellior Springs is building a hotel. Really of More Practical Value We find intellect working not so much in literature as in the domain of science, which has brought forth during the last few years many strange and wonderful discoveries. If we have not had the poems of a Keats or a Shelley, we have had wireless telegraphy, radium, X-rays and a number of kindred discoveries.—London Academy. Be Ready for Opportunity. "The secret of success in life," said Disraeli, "is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." Close study of many successful men and projects reveals the fact that most successes are built upon timely recognition of an opportunity, frequently of an opportunity long existent but never before recognized. Satisfied with Seeing Smoke A smoker can do without dining and wining, they say, but he cannot do without smoking. A Swedish captain during the seven years' war, deprived of his beloved tobacco, filled his pipe with straw, avowing that provided only he could see the smoke rising from his pipe beneath his nose he was satisfied. Nature's Indifference: Our human concept is such that we really fancy that we are of paramount importance in the universe. People have got to get the idea into their heads that Nature cares as much for a tuberculosis or an anthrax bacillus as she does for a cash grocer or a popular novelist.—London Magazine. Author's Invaluable Notebook. The wellnigh photographic delineations of natural scenery and surroundings in the works of William Black are undoubtedly attributable to the fact that they are painstaking and actual transcriptions penned in his notebook at the moment under all sorts of circumstances. In the Wrong Place "Many a man," says Henry Clews, "has his nose to the grindstone throughout life simply because he has chosen, or his friends have chosen for him, some business or profession to which he is not adapted, and which he finds is not congenial to him." The Mother's Fears. The young mother gazed upon her firstborn and went convulsively. They appealed to know why her great grief. "Alas!" she wailed, as with interest agony. "I'm afraid he will wear side whiskers when he grows up!"—Browning's Magazine. *Recognizing Opportunity. "Opportunity," says the old proverb, "knocks once at every man's door." The wit who added that when Opportunity called most men were away from home simply meant that few men recognize a success opportunity when it appears. At a Wedding. An account in the "Gentlewoman" of a lieutenant's wedding at Didsbury contains the passage: "Two submarines brought up the rear of the bridal procession." This must be the most thorough naval wedding on record. Cranberries—Their Name. Cranberries used to be called craneberries, because it was thought that the blossoms before they opened fully resembled the neck, head and bill of a crane. By dropping the "e" we get the berries as we know them. East Butter Machine One of the machines exhibited at the dairy show recently held in London was a neat contrivance by which butter could be made out of fresh milk in sixty seconds at the tea table. Gas Stoves in English Town In Norwich, England, 16,000 out of the 22,000 houses are fitted with gas stoves and the number is growing at the rate of eighty or ninety a week. First "Bike Sulky." The first reinsman to use the "bike sulky" on the grand circuit was Ed Geers during the Detroit meeting of 1892. Ancient Lord Mayor's Coach. The coach in which the lord mayor of London rides on state occasions has been in use since the year 1757. Only English Pope. The only Englishman who ever became Pope was Adrian IV. Color of the Deep-Sea Fishes Color of the Deep-sea Fishes. The color of deep-sea fishes is commonly black or dark brown. But although it is claimed that light is essential to the formation of colors some deep-sea fishes are scarlet in parts or uniform red or rosy. Others are silvery white, while, according to Alcock, the neocopelus is "one dazzling sheen of purple and silver and burnished gold, amid which is a sparkling constellation of luminous organs." Price Reduction in Order. An undertaker was requested to embalm the body of a colored man. The wife of the deceased asked what the cost would be. He named his usual charge, to which she quickly replied: "I think that's too nuch." "But it is the regular fee," protested the undertaker. "That may be." assented the widow, "but this ain't a regular corpse. My husband had a wooden leg." Documentary Proof of Idiocy "Look here, old chap. I'll give you a valuable tip," said the experienced married man to the prospective bridegroom. "Don't let your wife keep a diary on the honeycom. 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 Henley-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 jinnatic, who was wandering aimlessly through the streets, was found to be the owner. Eighteenth Century Earrings The eighteenth century saw the glorification of the earring, fashionable beauties outvying each other with the rarest and most beautiful jewels. There is no doubt that the earring 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 aloud sirt." A Lost Opportunity. "Woman just dropped dead In the bargain crush at the ribbon counter" cried the floorwalked excitedly. "How nooportune!" 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 retorted 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 all 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. A low corsage never seems so in modest to a stout rater to a thin womans NUMBER 39 ANNOUNCEMENTS ELECTION, APRIL 3 JNO. F. WIEDENMANN REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR MEMBER OF UPPER HOUSE. Bell Telephone 2048 Main. B. F. Cary Feed & Fuel Co. COAL, HAY AND GRAIN. S. E. Cor. Third and Grand Ave. KANSAS CITY, MO. "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 no. 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. 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. ```markdown ``` . HEARTH&BOUDOIR Spring Styles One notices that the spring styles are coming bravely to the front, that short, jaunty little coats are taking the place of the long loose or tight-fitting outer garment and that hats in straw mallines, chenille or lace brads are beginning to replace the satin and beaver shapes which have been decking the windows and the women. One pretty and springlike looking hat was in a modified edition of one of the turned-up hats of the winter modes. The side brim rolled rather sharply, the crown was rather round and high, but the lines were all softened by the little quillings of black malline net which completely covered the entire hat. The trimming consisted of a wreath of small pink roses set close together and without foliage. The under part of the brim had a bandeau of pale blue tulle with rosettes of ribbon to match. Tailored Walking Suit. A ladies' tailored walking suit of dark blue cheviot is finished in strictly tajar fashion, with machine stitching and silk crochet buttons. The jacket is tight fitting, closes at center-front and has a mannish collar and turned back revers. The skirt is a nine-gore model with extension plaits at each seam and an under-folded plait at back. Machine stitching and buttons are used to carry out the coat design. For this entire costume in medium size eight and a half yards of forty-six-inch material will be required. Serge, panne or broadcloth are desirable materials to be used in the development of this suit. New Empire Gown. Empire gown of mousseline de sole with lace. The bodice is drawn in to the figure by braids of black velvet ribbon. Curried Rice. A cheap and appetizing dish for luncheon is curried rice—an excellent substitute for a meat curry. To make it, wash, thoroughly well, about 1 pound Carolina rice and parboil it; mix a dessert-spoonful of curry paste with three-quarters of a pint of good, brown gravy (using only a little of the gravy at first, and gradually adding more), and boil them together, then add the rice and let the curry simmer at the side of the fire until the rice is quite cooked. Pile it in a dish when ready, and serve it very hot, the gravy of the curry smothering the rice. The juice of half a lemon squeezed into the gravy is considered by some an improvement, while others prefer the addition of a sprinkling of celery salt. Blouses for Children. Small girls wear the guipme frock with gathers at the top, a band of insertion or rows of smocking being added if a less simple style is desired. For materials the chambrays, dimities, ginghams, and in truth all such wash fabrics as have been used from time immemorial. The blouse suit is also worn by little girls, although the short pleated skirt and blouse waist are also fashionable, with the narrow leather belt in light colors, white or black patent leather.—Harper's Bazar. Plaid Dimities Much Used Plaid dimities are to the fore for shirt waists and dresses and every sort of thing. There is a remarkable variety in them, when you realize that the largest plaid is something less than two inches square. Between that size and the tiniest of all (which is made of cords as closely as possible) are plaids of every width, some made by single cords crossing others of a dozen cords that form a band. And the plain spaces seem sheerer than ever by contrast. Wings and Aigrettes Used. Regardless of the Audubon society there are more wings and aigrettes employed this season than in many previous seasons put together. At one time a very small aigrette of a few inches was considered large enough. Now some of them are from twelve to fifteen inches long. The main trime WALKING COSTUMES FROM PARIS. ming on some of the most stylish hats is one huge white algrette. Aigrettes are always white in their natural state, but this season they are dyed in all colors; any are dyed in the shaded effects. And it is needless to say that wings are the favored trimming. In every fashionable shop you will see that two-thirds of the hats are trimmed with bird wings. Bird wings, in combination with flowers and with velvet ribbons, are used, and sometimes wings are the only trimming employed. A woman can afford wings when she cannot afford ostrich feathers, and a wing does duty where an ostrich tip will not—on a traveling hat or a rainy day toque, for instance—Brooklyn Eagle. WHILE THE TEA DREWS Nearly all walking suits have the skirts plaited in one way or another. Very high, straight turnover collars of linen are worn with the tailor-made dress. Some of the new bodices have long tails reaching nearly to the bottom of the skirt. One of those Japanese tan-and-blue purses is very "fit" to carry with a blue suit. The brilliantly colored little hats of the winter are like jewels set atop of the head. For a short dancing frock there is no model so pretty as an accordion-plaited skirt. Gauze with a wide satin stripe, in white or colors, is a new nicety for evening frocks. Princess Style Improved. In the lighter, more dressy linen gowns, Princess styles are exquisite, those lovely little lingerie gowns making the plainest woman look her best. For, unlike the severe Princess gown—the type that came out first—unlike any of the others of heavier materials—those of mull or of handkerchief linen and such soft delicate stuffs are so full and betrimmed and befruited and generally fascinating that every hint of severity of line is lost. For that matter, there has been almost a revolution in the way of making Princess gowns. Instead of only two or three types of figure looking well in them, dressmakers and dress artists have jugged with the style—giving in an inch here, to take an ell there—until almost any woman can be made to look well in at least one style. Blouses of Linen. All sorts and classes of shirt waists and blouses are made of handkerchief linen, even those very plain ones, made high on the left side, and prim yokes. Yet, while handkerchief linen makes nine out of ten shirt waists, that tenth one is given an odd little style by the very weight of its weave. And handkerchief linen does crush terribly under a coat, so that, for every day, those of heavier linen are better. In Light Broadcloth. Procks and wraps of white or pale lined broadcloth which are so much in demand this season and so numerous among the "ready to wear" models, are excellent investments if offered at prices really low, for unless they have some perishable trimming they will stand innumerable cleanings and keep their shape and modishness. WALKING COSTUM The skirt of the first costume is of green velvet with breadths cut under at the bottom and ornamented with buttons. The new short jacket is of green cloth to match, trimmed with silk braid of the same shade. The collar is of shrimp pink velvet bordered with a plaiting of the braid, loops of which fastened with buttons ornament the front of the jacket. The blouse is of the striped velvet like the skirt, cut in scallops in front and fastened with buttons. The girdle is of taffeta and the chemisette is of linen. One dress is pale-blue broadcloth, with trimming on skirt and bodice of light blue and silver braid, put on in design. The little vest in front of bodice is white kid and the plaited girdle chiffon taffeta, exactly matching the cloth. There is a pretty buckle of rhinestones where the revers meet at waist line and a frill of fine white lace finishes the elbow sleeves. Blue gloves and a cloth-of-silver hat with blue plumes and algrettes accompany the costume. Checks for Spring Wear. Dainty little checked suits are coming to the fore for spring and very neat they look after the plain colors of winter. The checks are for the most part in blue and white and in black and white and the trimming for them is braid, though one sees many of these suits trimmed with taffeta bands. Judging by a glance ahead at the importations there will be many checked suits trimmed with very narrow red satin bands and with pipkins and with tiny little quillings and edgings to form a contrast to the checked goods. Gray Broadcloth Suit. Street suit of gray satin-faced broadcloth, trimmed in tailor fashion, with machine stitching and small silk buttons. The jacket is close-fitting, has a 1 novel shaped rolling collar and a closing at the center front. The skirt is a fifteen-gored model of the umbrella design in the regulation round length. For this entire costume in the medium size, twelve yards of forty-two-inch or ten yards of fifty-inch material will be required. Cheviot, serge, novelty suiting or any of the winter materials are very desirable in the development of this suit. Popular Skirt Models. Circular, gored and plaited skirls—it seems almost absurd to again enumerate these three models that for so long a time have been so popular. There are changes in width of plaites, in the number of gores, in the shape of the circular skirt and in the style of trimming, but the so to speak integral parts are just the same season after season. MES FROM PARIS. The other costume is of plaid wool. The short skirt is finished with a box-plaited flounce headed by fancy stitched bands of the material. The corsage is trimmed with bretelles of black silk braid attached by gold buckles. A band of green taffeta trimmed with soutache borders the fronts, which cross slightly at the bottom. The waistcoat is of champagne colored cloth; the chemisette is of linen with stock of black silk. The girdle is of green taffeta headed by black velvet, which is fastened in front with a buckle IN HIS NAME RELIGIOUS NEWS USE IN EVERY WELL-REGULATED DESIGNED FOR HOME The Lord shall be thine everlasting light. - Isa. 60:20. Our life is but a fading dawn, I its glorious noon how quickly past; Lead us, O Christ, when all is gone. Safe home at last. O by thy soul-inspiring grace, Uplift our hearts on high; Help us to look to that bright place Beyond the sky. Where light, and life, and joy, and peace In undivided empire reign, And thronging angels never cease Their deathless strain. Where saints are clothed in spotless white, And evening shadows never fall, Where Thou Eternal Light of Light. Divine Encouragement And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth Master, thou hast well said. And when Jesus saw that he was answered discreetly he said unto him, Thou usurped from the kingdom of God.—Mark xlix 32-33. How quick is the Great Teacher to commend this lawyer who has shown such sound religious discretion And this action may be taken as a passing example of His distinctly benevolent attitude toward mankind, which causes Him to see the best and brightest in men and to apllaud it promptly. He ever speaks in the utmost praise and cheer that the truth permits. He says the kindest things that are true—the best and most that he can—and proclaims them on the spot. The insight of divine compassion discovers new values in us and rich possessions for us, and reveals the wealth and dignity of humanity in such brotherly sympathy as to lift up the Good Master to the position of the healer and helper of the world. What profound encouragement there is in the revelation of the Father's love, in the good conscience that is born of the pardon of sins and the lifting away of the load of guilt in the assurance "I am with you always." In the world's surging sea every dispirited toiler finds Him standing on the near shore at dawn, calling solicious inquiries and offering a helping hand. In beatitude, in parable of prodigal restored, and of a stray sheep rescued, in exceeding great and precious promises, in glad doctrine by the smile of His countenance and the glory of His presence, by every manner of incitement and comforting inducement and onleading, the Glorious Redeemer strives unceasingly to create a new heart and to renew a right spirit in every seeker after God and His Kingdom. On His lips are constantly such words as "Be of good cheer," "Thy sins are forgiven," "Come." Instantly he commends Mary and enobles her with universal and an everlasting memorial. To the dying believer beside Him on the cross He made the astonishing declaration, "This day shalt he be with me in Paradise." And when Peter confessed His divinity He promptly exclaimed, "Blessed art thou, Simon." I suppose that His plan is to make men desire the kingdom of heaven and willingly try to get it by revealing God in a new and attractive form—as Father of the people and soul Sovereign of every honest man; to move the noble to attempt the upward way by the beauty of His own character and to make the journey possible and inviting by the red tracks of is own feet. Hence he calls: "Follow me." "The Son of Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them," and He lays down the dual principle of divine and human love as the Magna Charta of His Kingdom and finds the text for His great teaching in the Hoslean scripture, "I will have mercy and not sacrifice." This tenderly affectionate Lord stands as a high challenge to all the brave and sincere, and His teaching makes it self-evident that we can know what we ought to know, we can do what we ought to do and we can be what we ought to be, and if we can we will—this is the heroic voice He has set Himself to arouse in us. His gracious plan involves the cooperation of His friends, and in nothing can His disciples be more useful or Christianlike than in cultivating this attitude of habitual approval and prompt commendation of the people we know—of sincere praise, of burden lifting and the giving of a ready "Well done" among the weary and heavy laden of this world. Yea higher still He challenges with the second of the greatest of the Commandments, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." In the garden of life He stands with hands outstretched toward the child figure of humanity tottering timidly to its feet or in its initial precarious steps, smiling approval and calling tenderly, "Come unto me."—C. Q. Wright. Irreverent Praying. My brother, take heed to that for which thou prayest! There lies the difference between the pious and the impious mind. It is not thy praying that makes thee good—not even thy sincerity in prayer. It is not thy sense of want that makes thee good—not even though expressed in abjectness. It is not thy feeling of dependence that makes thee good—not even thy feeling of dependence on Christ. It is the King for which thou prayest, the thing for which thou dependest. Every man praises for grapes of Eshel; the difference is not in the cry, but in the grapes. It is possible for thee to ask from thy God three manner of things: Thou mayest ask thy neighbor's vineward; that is bad. Thou mayest ask tine nigh riches: that is neither bad nor good; it is secular. Thou mayest ask to be made unselfish; that is holy. It is not thy prayer that thy Father prizes; it is the direction of thy prayer. Dost thou deem thy child a hero because he asks thee for a holiday? Nay, though he sought in sorrowing and with tears. But if he asks thee to let him share his joy with a brother or sister, then thou art exceedingly glad; then thou sayest, "Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee!" So with thy Father. He waits till thou cries for a crown—till thou prayest for His presence, longest for His light, sighest for His song, hungered for His home, faintest for His footfall, callest for His company, tarriest for His tread, seekest for the sign of His coming. That will be thy Father's highest joy.—Rev. George Matheson. Looking on the Dark Side Looking on the dark side of life is commonly thought to be the result of trouble; but people who have the "blues" as a class have no greater trouble, no more poverty, no more sickness, and are in no harder circumstances than the most cheerful persons. Indeed some of the sickliest, poorest and most afflicted people are the most cheerful and sunny in their lives. On the other hand, some persons who have an abundance of earthly blessings are as blue as old skimmed milk. Trouble, then, is not a sufficient excuse for the "blues." Others excuse themselves by saying that the "blues" result from their natural disposition. Very likely. Some persons are naturally cross, or lazy, but the facts do not justify their yielding to these tendencies. You may feel the "blues" coming upon you just as the intemperate man feels his thirst for drink. Both are to be repressed, kept back, and thus in time conquered. The "blues" are wicked because they injure the health. It is sometimes said they are caused by poor health, which may be true; but they as frequently occasion poor health. The "blues" break down hundreds and thousands of people whom cheerfulness would have preserved in strength. Again the "blues" are wicked because they injure others. The "blue" person makes everybody unhappy about him. The "blues" are contrary to the Bible. The Spirit never inspires them. They destroy one's power for good. They reveal a lack of faith in God. The Bible says, "Rejoice always"; that "All things work together for good to those who love the Lord"; that "These slight afflictions, which are for but a season, work out for us far more exceeding and eternal weight of joy." Do What You Can. "Do what you can." is all that is asked of any of us. God always holds us responsible for doing our duty; results we are to leave with him. Do your duty, and God will take care of results. If you have "done what you could," then the result will be acceptable to Him. Your ability is the measure of your responsibility. To "whom much is given much will be required." I passed a home where a gentleman was sprinkling the lawn. His little girl, a child of about six years, was helping papa as her childish fancy prompted. She would bring her toy watering pot to the father, and he, reducing the force of the stream, would fill it from the hose. It mattered little to the grass and flowers whether the water which they needed was given through a large sprinkler or the child's toy watering pot. So it matters little to the world whether you are a man of one, two, five or ten talents, so you give it the best you have. The one talent man giving his best is better than a ten talent man giving his worst. It is not how much you give to it. There are a great many more little things to be done than big ones. Do not forget that the things done for ourselves will soon be forgotten, but the things that are done for Christ are immortal. The Grace of Forbearance. Do not get into the habit of sneering. You may indulge this tendency until it utterly destroys the spirit of Christian gentleness and kindness in your heart. Your neighbors may be full of faults; your fellow-Christians fail to come up to the standard of their professions; but are these good reasons why you should become sour censorious and critical? How about yourself? Are you perfect? Suppose that God should judge you as rigorously as you judge other people? In that event where would you stand? Be forbearing; be magnanimous; be Christlike. Remember that it is not easy to reach the highest levels of conduct, and do not expect of others what you fail to do in your own life, Joy's Lasting Power. Sorrow is meant to be only a steping-stone to joy. Many a child of God has learned this, and is living a life that is richer and brighter and better on that account. "Your visit has brought me joy and sorrow," said a big-hearted Christian teacher to a pupil. "I hope the joy will last longer than the sorrow," said the pupil. "It always does," came the sunshiny answer; and the teacher had revealed one of his secrets of power. IMPORTANT TO MARRIED WOMEN Mrs. Mary Dimmick of Washington tells How Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Made Her Well. It is with great pleasure we publish the following letters, as they convincingly prove the claim we have so many times made in our columns that Mrs. Mrs. Mary Dimmick Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., is fully qualified to give helpful advice to sick women. Read Mrs. Dimmick's letters. Her first letter: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "I have been a sufferer for the past eight years with a trouble which first originated from painful periods—the pains were excruciating, with inflammation and ulceration of the female organs. The doctor says I must have been to submit to an operation if I can possibly avoid it. Please me me."—Mrs. Mary Dimmick, Washington, D. C. Dear Mrs. Pinkham: "You will remember my condition when I last wrote you, and that the doctor said I must have an operation or I could not live. I received your kind letter and followed your advice carefully and am now entirely sure that I will be able to miracule that I am curd. I know that I owe not only my health but my life to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to your advice. I can walk miles without an ache or a pain, and I wish every suffering woman can do for them."—Mary Mary Dimmick, 59th and East Capitol Street, Washington, D. C. How easy it was for Mrs. Dimmick to write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynda, Mass., and how little it cost her—a two-cent stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply As Mrs. Dimmick says—it saved her life. Mrs. Pinkham has on file thousands of just such letters as the above, and offers ailing women helpful advice. 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, 1006, inclusive. Good in Tourist sleeping cars; $7.75 additional for double berth. Liberal stopovers allowed in California and at certain points in Arizona. For Literature and Particulars Address G. W. HAGENBUCH, G. 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Wyatt, of No. 1189 Boveuth street, Dos Moines, Iowa, seetned hopeloss, Her physicians utterly fatled to reach the seat of the difficulty ‘aud death must have resulted if she had Bot pursued au independent course sug- Goated by her sister's experience, ‘Mra, Wyatt says: “Ihad pain in tho region of tho heart, palpitation aud shortuess of breath so that I conld not walk very fust. My head ached very Vadly aud I was seized with vomiting upells whenever I took any food. A doc- tor was called who pronounced the trouble gastritis, but he gave mo no re- Kef. Thon I tried a second doctor with- out benefit. By this time I hnd become ay weak. Icould not keep the most Aolicate broth on my stomach, aud at the end of a month I was scarcely more than skin aud boue aud was really starv- fg to death. “Then I recalled how much benefit m; sinter had got, from Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilla and decided to take them in place ‘of the doctor's medicine, It proved a wise decision for they helped me ax nothing else had done. Boon I could take weak ten and crackers and steadily more nourishment. Tn two weeks I was able to leave my bed. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills were the only thing that checked the vomiting and as soon as that sas stopped my other difficulties left me, T have a vigorous appetite now and am able to attend to all the duties of my home. I praiso Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People to ail my friends hecause Tam thoroughly convinced of their merit.”” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills aro sold by all Araggists and by the Dr, Williams Med. ieiue Co., Sohenectady, N.Y. A Friend of Her Youth, “For mercy sake, don't put me near old Billions!” said Mrs, Lookyoung to her friend. “Why not?” sald the other. “He's awfully interesting.” “I know it,” sald Mrs, Lookyoung, “but I never sit next to him at din- ner but that he blurts out something like, ‘You remember back in the old pioneer days!'”—Detrolt Free Press. Many Children are Sickiy. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders furChildren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Head- ache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis- ‘orders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms, Atal Druggists'.25e. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. ¥. A heavy fog, which lasted two days, proved extremely fatal to birds at Cape Grisnez, France, Over six thous- and of them were found dead under the lantern of the lighthouse at that healdand. They had been attracted by the light, and had been killed by flying against the lighthouse. To provide for Good Health throughout ‘he term of a long life, take Garfield Tea, Nature's medicine; it insures a natural ‘action of the liver, kidneys, stomach and towels and keeps the blood pure. Send for ‘ample. Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘Mentior this paper. Happy {s the man who has a friend who loves him enough to be willing to seem to be his enemy. Lewis’ Single Binder cigar—richest, most satisfying smoke on the market. ‘Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, Ill. All play and no work makes Jack ‘@ shiftless boy. Eoreolafee Testing eaten the ent ples tw eee ee toeli. cores wind cous, Seocteeee Tegally right. The Dog It Was That Died. A friend of mine was complaining the other evening of the viciousness of a bulldog owned by a neighbor. He sald: “That cursed dog bit me on the calf of the leg the other-evening, and I've hardly been able to walk since. T have spoken to Jim Blank, its own- er, but he only laughs, I am going to have the dog shot.” “Yes!” remarked one of the bystand- ers. “I heard Jim speaking of it, He ‘was awful mad at you.” “Mad at me! What for?” “Why, he sald that the dog has been acting querely ever since, and he does not know what is the matter with him, He called in a veterinary and the man of medicine sald the dog was suffer- ing from delerium tremens. Jim says he will forgive you if you will promise to quit drinking.” The lame man had business else- where right away.—Albany Journal. Lumber ts becoming so scarce and costly that matches are now being made of paper, rolled spirally, and dip: ped in wax or stearine, which pre- vents unrolling, anr gives rigidity. ‘The roll {s cut into lengths, which are then dipped in the phosphorus com. position. Paper matches are said to burn well. SS = | Ae U0 es 2 S AS ae C, = aT PILLS =p aL Ws sath Naa a are PORT ee ete SS = ee 6 nl id PISO S CURE FOR, ee IMPRESSED WITH | WESTERN CANADA, eee eee ee | a ee United States land man who made en extensive tour of inspection in the west, wrote the following article, un- der date of Jan. 8, for an Indiana pub- Ucation: “States.” In this letter I propose to show by extracts from my note book that thousands who have come up here from the “States” have suc- ceeded far beyond their most san- guine expectations. Mr. N. EB. Beaumunk of Brazil, In- diana, was earning $100.00 per month with @ coal company. At about the age of 40 he had saved about $3,000, Four years ago he landed near Han- ley, Sask, He now owns 480 acres of land. Last fall (1905) he threshed 4,700 bushels of wheat and 3,100 bush- ‘els of oats. His wheat alone brought him over $4,000, which would have paid for the acres that {t grew on. He fs to-day worth $15,000, This Is Making Money Fast. In Feb. 1902, J. G. Smith & Bro. were weavers in «a big cotton mill in Lancashire, England. Coming here they arrived in Wapella, Sask., with only $750.00 between them. They were so “green” and inexperienced that ail they could earn the first sum- mer was $6.00 per month, and the first winter they had to work for their board. The noxt year, 1903, they took homesteads, and by working for neigh- tors, they got a few acres broken out, upon which the next year they raised a few hundred bushels of wheat and oats. They also bought a team and broke out about sixty acres more. In 1905 they threshed 1700 bushels of wheat from it, and 1300 bushels of oats. Their success being then as- sured they borrowed some money, built a good house, barn and tmple- ment shed, and bought a cream sepa- rator, etc. They now have a dozen cows, some full-blooded pigs and chickens, good teams and Implements to match, and are on the high road to Prosperity. Here are three cases selected from my note book from among a score of others, One a mine boss, one a farmer, and one a factory operator. With each of them I took tea and listened to their story. ay hoped to better my condition.” said one. “I thought In time 1 might make a home,” said another. “I had high expectations,” said the other, and all said that “I never dreamed it possible to succeed as | bave.” Like Arabian Nights. Everywhere, on the trains, at the hotels and in the family « have been told successes that reminded me more of the stories In the Arabian Nights than of this matter-of-fact workaday world. Yields of wheat from 35 to 53 bushels per acre, and of oats of from 60 to 100 bushels, are numerous In every locality and well authentl- cated. At Moose Jaw, Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Brandon, Hanley and many intermediate places I saw cattle and young horses fat as our grain-fed animals of the “States” that had never tasted grain, and whose cost to their owners was almost nothing. At Moosomin I saw a train load of 1,400 steers en route to England, that were shaky fat, raised as above stated. If the older genera- tion of farmers in Indiana, who have spent their lives in a contest with logs and stumps as did their fathers before them, ‘could see these broad prairies dotted with comfortable homes, large red barns, and straw piles innumerable, and the thriving towns with their towering elevators jammed to the roof with “No. 1 hard,’ and then remember that four or five years ago these plains were tenantless but for the badger and coyote, they would marvel at the transformation Then if they followed the crowds as they emerged from the trains and hurried to the land offices, standing in ne until their respective turns te be waited on came, and saw wit! what rapidity these lands are being taken, they would certainly catch the “disease” and want some of it too If these lands are beautiful in mid winter, with their long stretches o! yellow stubble standing high above the snow, what must they be in sum mer time when covered with growing or ripening grains? Speaking of win ter reminds me that our Hoosie frionds shrug their shoulders wher they read in the Chicago and Minne apolis dailies of the temperature uj here. For that very reason I am her this winter. The Canadian literature with its pictures, half tones and sta tistics, gives a good idea of her re sources, but thirty or forty degree below zero sounds dangerous to § Hoozier, who nearly freezes In a tem perature of five above, especiall when accompanied by a wind, as 1 often ts, but the fact is, when it f very cold here it is still and the ai being dry the cold is not felt as it | in our lower latitudes, where there ee Stee Gf eke Satisfaction with self {s not always sanctification, PROSPERITY FOR ALL EXTRAORDINARY DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL RESOURCES. Market Because of Wise Legislation. It will be admitted that we are blessed with an abundance of diverst- fled resources such as no other coun- try enjoys. But natural resources are almost if not quite valuless unless de- veloped. Our ore and coal are useless lying in the ground. Untilled land is profitless, Even rich crops are of no advantage till garnered and sold at advantageous prices. First, produe: tion must be applied on the farm, in the mine and at the factory, But that in itself is not profitable. There must be a market. There must be a con- sumption equal to production, and good, profitable prices must be main- tained year after year, season after season. A million tons of pig iron for which there was no demand would have Iit- tle value. Bounteous crops unsold and left to decay would be a loss, not a gain, to the farmer. So with all our mines and our soil and our ability to produce—we should remain poor un- less there were consumers with suffi- cient purchasing power to make pro- duction profitable. Again, a large production and con- sumption of a single product would not long be profitable. We need dt- versity in our broad land. We need transportation and distribution in or- der that our people in all sections of the country and with different abilities may be constantly employed at what they can do best. The miner cannot build @ house, the farmer cannot work at the forge or the loom, the mechanic cannot sow and reap. We have during a century or more developed all our resources. We have for the most part been a nation doing its own work. We have by our tariff laws protected ev- ery industry, shutting out the compett- tion of people who are satisfied with a low standard of living and low wages. Little by litle, year by year, we have improved and developed our nat ural resources because of home con- sumption of home products. Let us take an example. We consume over $1,000,000,000 worth of fron and steel ‘products, practically all of which goes to labor. Suppose we import one-half ot this at one-half the present prices. ‘That would be $250,000,000 and we would lose $500,000,000 in wages, but we would have to adapt our wages for what we did produce to the foreign scale, and those wages would not be more than half what they are now, or $250,000,000. So that by purchasing abroad we reduce the purchasing pow: er of our fron and steel makers from $1,000,000,000 to $250,000,000. But we would have no fewer producers. Hall of them would be idle, the other half working for half what they got before. They have only 250,000,000 a year ta spend instead of $1,000,000,000, So the farmer must sell less or reduce his prices; the woolen and cotton and shoe factories must sell less or reduce their prices. Every industry in the land is affected. Let us take our manufactures as 4 whole. Without and duplications we are producing annually $10,000,000,00 worth of mantifactures, about all of which goes to labor, Suppose we were to import half of it. Our wages would then be only $2,500,000,000, for those engaged in the half we produced would have to work for foreign wages If we continued to compete at all with for elgn manufactures. And so would lose $7,500,000,000 of purchasing power The farmers would lose a home mar Ket for at least $3,000,000,000 of thel products and what they did sell would have to be at much lower prices thar now. Again, every industry would be affected, and in a very few years mills and factories would close and millions of men would become idle. It then be comes a struggle for mere existence The farmer, without a profitable mar ket for his surplus, simply lives and buys as little as possible, We would become an idle, impoverished people from ocean to ocean, The picture fs not overdrawn, We have had the ac tual experience, But how different when we protect our labor and industries and do prac 1893— 7-06 | cLevEL AS? ASINLEY | mM FREE TRADE PROTECT ON { INDUSTRIAL SANGRE? | o f PARALYSi¢ PROSPERITY \ | Uy POVERTY AIGA \ | [Hf NO WoRK (\ AWAGES ! i | TRAMPS Ann } WORK FOR | fj SOUP Houses | {A VERY BODN , <r bY — hit tically all our own work! We have welcomed nearly 25,000,000 foreigners, made producers and consumers of them, and with these added to our na- tive-born we have built up a home market of 80,000,000 consumers, the providers for whom are all busy at wages twice and three times those paid abroad, What we cannot pro- duce ourselves we buy freely from abroad and pay our bills with our sur: plus products. ‘This is why we: are Prosperous. ‘This is why we are fully employed and well paid, and this ts why we can afford to buy so much of ourselves at profitable prices. ‘This is why 1,000,000 people a year are eager to come to us and become free but protected Americans. It is not a mat- ter of resources or natural advantages or of chance; {t sa matter of practt cal, scientific tariff legislation and ap: plication. Bree Trade Bauearion, Contrasting the bitter poverty of the unemployed British workmen and their families with the unbounded prosperity in our own country where there is abundant food for the hungry and a good living for every one who ts willing to work, the Republican of Booneville, Mo., asks: “What makes the difference? There are three causes, The enormous amounts paid by the English govern: ment for the support of royalty; the sufeldal land policy, which has prac: tleally eliminated the small land hold: ers and destroyed the rural home, and the mistaken policy of free trade, And the last is the greatest. “Patriotic Americans should — shun that party or that man who would have them change the present policy of the United States for anything in {imitation of that policy which has made England the home of paupers and three-fifths of her laboring popu: lation inmates of a poorhouse at the age of sixty years."t Very much the greatest cause— greater than all other causes combin ed—is the policy which began by shifting the farm workers into the fac: torles and ends by shifting the factory workers into the poorhouses. — The Cobden idea was to cheapen food in order to cheapen wages. How well that plan sueceeded may be seen in the fact that today more than 25 per cent of the entire population has no wages at all and must depend on charity for food. Unconcerned. The Hartford Courant seems sur- prised that the farmers of the United States should manifest no concern over the German threat of excluding American foodstuffs. The farmer has little cause for worry on that account To begin with, he has no {dea that for any considerable length of time Germany is going to cut off her own nose to spite the Amertean face by shutting out a food supply which she needs and must have, German indus: trialists are up in arms against the threatened prohibition, ‘They see ax its result a permanent inerease in the subsistence cost of a vast army of wage earners who even now have meat on their tables not oftener than once a week and who searcely know the taste of white bread. Moreover, they see the prospect of being shut out of a market in which they dispose of manufactures amounting Yo about $120,000,000 a year, ‘The American farmer understands this situation per fectly. He also understands that tn the 86,000,000 of Americans, each con: suming $100 a year of his products he has a better and safer market than in a country which at the best has never taken more than $2.50 per eapt ta of American food products. ‘The American farmer can afford to be un nennerned. A Huge Undertaking. Congress was three months In pass: Ing the Dingley law, when the legisla tive wheels were greased for specd and Tom Reed, the expert parliamen tarfan, applied whip and spur to the House. With the present divided state of Republican opinion it would take six months to frame a law, to. say nothing of the impossibility of pass ing it with Cannon in the chair or of reporting it from the Ways and Means committee as now constituted. ‘The preparation of a new tariff act Isa hoge undertaking, requiring hearings of numberless interests, even when the administration ts fayorable to. the proposal. —Saginaw News, AVEO? «8 A* OUR OF .FHE~ DDI it can cacao yen Stoue min "Fatoma Ere pirl om greeny a eee aaah et Tataaaieat aa ie, wigan ay he er ai ic are tr th et Hac a ma alin mnt exe Arran he had dy inn chine "ON Hm tre tm av ie tie more Sa naa ap maces tren ant mitimcom ts ea ate a tay i, ary he fl te mi ot err de Auth ea sven eel ea Tt eae Utilizing Sharks’ Teeth. The natives on some of the Pacifie fslands, being provided with neither metals nor any stone harder than the coral rocks of which the atolls they {inhabit are composed, would seem badly off, indeed, for material of which to make tools or weapons, were it not that their very necessity has bred an Invention no less ingenious than eurk: ons and effective. This is the use of sharks’ teeth to give a cutting edge to their wooden knives and swords ‘The mouth of the shark contains three hundred teeth, arranged in five rows, all closely lying upon each other, ex: cept the outer row, and so constructed that as the tooth is broken or lost another takes its place, The teeth are not only pointed and keen-edged, but are finely and regularly serrated. so that the cutting power ts greatly increased. Indecd, so great a faculty have these teeth for wounding that the Implements and weapons upon which they are used have to be han Med with great care, The Kingmill islanders make many strange, articles of sharks’ teeth, Darina Railway Buildina. The work of constructing a railroad to the summit of Mount Blanc has been begun with enthusiasm and the engineers in charge of the undertak Ing will push the construction with all possible speed. The line will be built like the Jungfrau line in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, It will have a total length of nineteen kilometers (eleven and four-fifths miles) and will, it Is hoped, be completed within five or six years. The carrlages will be heated and Hehted by electricity, and the train will be composed of an elec trical engine and two saloon cars made to accommodate about eighty people. A special arrangement of the windows will permit all travelers in diserimitately to enjoy the scenery, Three Kinds of powerful brakes, inde pendent of each other, will be attach ed to the cars, thus rendering all ac eldents Impossible. ‘The telephone will be established along the line and will connect any point thereof with the head stations. Killed by Cane Thrust. A Bombay (indian) planter has just been arrested for involuntary homt cide. Some time ago, when returning from a party with his flanee, he was attacked In the dark by a stranger. Ir selfdefonse he made a linge with bis walking stick, and his assailant drop ped on the ground, He struggled te his fect again and the planter and ble flanee hnrrted away, Next day a mar was found dead on the road and the Inquest showed that some Instrument had plerced his eye and entered deop ly into the skull, Several of the vie tim’'s friends and acquaintances were arrested and released before the plant er heard of the affair, when he made a full confession, Dog Came for His License, Deskman Quackenbush, at police headquarters, Paterson, N. J, was filling out blank forms for dog leenses recently, when a coach dog walked up to him, wagging his tail and holding in his mouth a $2 bill, the license foe The policeman took the money and spoke to the dog, which wagsed his tail more than ever. Soon after thal a Young man appeared, and explained that the dog was the property of J A. Van Winkle, a feed merchant. ‘The license was inelosed In an envelope and placed in the dog's mouth, ‘The animal then left for his home Gant Quattes: Throush all, ‘The most peculiar piece of mall that has ever come to an Alalama postoffice, so far as known, reached the New Decatur postoffice today, It was a silver quarter of a dollar with a-small plece of paper pasted on each side, On one side was written the address and on the other a few words. The quarter was tied in the center of a bundle of letters when it arrived. It had traveled many miles and was delivered safely to the one for whom it was Intended —Decatur correspondence Nashville American. Popularity of the Camera. Thirty years ago a camera was a rarity, The enthusiast who possessed one carried a mountain of traps afield and smothered in a tent. during his tedious manipulation of the wet plates: fast year the United States alone made 200,000 cameras, working with the mere pressure of « bulb or button, and the photographie business reached the respectable commercial total of $30,000,000, i Do not pay 45 or 50 cents for ‘Trust baking powders, which are so compounded as to leave large quantities of Rochelle Salts in the food, Constant dosing of Rochelle Salts is injurious to health, Manhattan's First Paper. Manhattan, Nevada's new and booming mining camp, saw {ts first newspaper January 10, when the Mane dattan Mail, a weekly, began publica don with a fine display of advertise: ments, lots of mining news, a series of boyant editorials and biographical sketches of the “ploneers of Man aattan.” The first discovery of gold was made accidentally April 4 of last year, though the boom did not begin ull several months later. Russell Sage's Philosophy. Some sayings of Russell Sage: ‘Friendship remembers; society for- gets.” “In the home only is there true happiness. It ts there a man’s best Ideas get their birth and grow.” ‘When you have made your fortune ft f# time enough to think of spend ng tt." “The tender care of a good wife is the finest thing In the world" “Silk underwear Is not for hired men.” “Clubs are for idle old men and waste tul young men.” It fs not generally known that salt etermined, to @ considerable extent, the distribution of man, He"was foro 44 to settle where he could obtain tt. This brought him to the seashore, and Mtarted maritime commerce, Lastly, preservation of food by salt made lang voyages possible, and opened up the world to elvilization, Not long ago the performance tn the auditortum of a Seville theater wan far more exelting than that on the Hage. ‘Two persona continued ap. dlauding a player while most of the tndience were hissing, Some of the alter attacked the (wo applanders, tausing fractured skulls and death, A PERFECT HAND. eae awe ENGR RETIRE Seen T a | Me maeaten eee to the Public. ‘The story of how probably the most perfect feminine hand in Amert- ca became known to the people ts rather Interesting AS the story goew the possessor of ‘the hand was with some friends In a photographer's one day and while talking, held up a piece of candy. The pose of tho hand with tte per fect contour and faultless shape at: tracted the attention of the artist who, proposed to photograph it. The re sult was a beautiful picture kept in the family until one day, after read: Ing @ letter from someone Inquiring as to who wrote the Postuin and Grape Nuts advertixements, Mr. Post sald to his wife, “We recelve 80 many tnquiries of this kind, that {t ts evident some people are curious ‘to know, suppose we let the advertis- ising department have that pleture ‘of your hand to print and name tt "A Helping Hand." (Mrs. Post has as: ‘sisted him in preparation of some of the most famous advertisements). There was a natural shrinking from the publicity, but with an agree ment that no name would accompany the pleture its use was granted ‘The caso was presented in the lght of extending a welcoming band to the friends of Postum and) Grape Nuts, fo the picture appeared on the back covers of many of the January and February magazines and became known to millions of people Many artists have commented upon It as probably the most perfect hand in the world The advertising dept. of the Post. um Co, did not seem able to resist the temptation to enlist the curiosity of the public, by refraining from giving ‘the name of the owner when the ple- ‘tire appeared but stated that the name would be given later tn one of the newspaper announcements, thus ‘reeking to Induce the readers to look for and read the forthcoming adver. tsements to learn the name of the ‘owner. ~'This combination of art and com- merce and the multitude of Inquiries furnishes an excellent {llustration of the faterest the public takes in the personal and family life of large manufacturers whose names become household words through extensive and continuous announcements im wewspapers and periodicala, LWIB WOODS..... Business Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO 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. OFFICE—No. 117 West Sixth. St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . $ . 50 For one inch, each subsequent insertion . 30 For two inches, three month . 8.00 For two inches, six month . 10.00 For two inches, nine months . 10.00 For two inches, twelve months . 15.00 OLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL . . IN KANSAS CITY. TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. 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. The Son wishes to again announce the fact that at every election several campaign sheets bob up, not for legitimate business but to hold up the central committee and the candidates, squeeze the business men out of all they possibly can, then slip out of sight. The Son proposes to show must be watched. Representative Kitchen, in an address before the North Carolina Society of New York recently said: "Let us not forget that the Negro is our neighbor and that we must look after his rights, his liberty and his prosperity." Tifis sounds good coming from a North Carolinian. We commend his gracious sentiments to the citizens of Springfield, Ohio. The proposition to extend the Metropolitan franchise ten years in return for which the company is to provide a public driveway through the proposed tunnel is arresting attention of the aldermen. The people of Kansas City do not look upon the proposition with favor. They do not desire that the common council of Kansas City shall turn over to the Metropolitan millions of dollars, so to speak for nothing. It is hoped that the administration will consider the matter carefully before any action is taken. The infamous lynch law found its origin in the South among the lawless element of white Negro haters. The perpetrators of this fancy of justice in most cases were upheld by the courts. The result is we find that lynching of Negroes is carried on in all sections of the United States. Only recently Springfield, Ohio, added a new chapter to the revolting history of which America has become famous. The cause of the outbreak in Springfield was the murder of a white man by two Negroes. When the members of the mob found that the Negro murderers had been safely jailed, their base appetite for vengeance found relief in setting fire to the homes of innocent and peaceable Negroes of Springfield. Thus it is plainly shown in such cases that a law-abiding Negro as well as the criminal Negro is at the mercy of a mob whose members are also criminals. Key West Fla., Aug. 28th, 1904. I used only one bottle of Ford's Pomade and my hair has stopped breaking off and has greatly improved. When I started using this wonderful preparation my hair was seven inches long and now it is ten or more. I beg to remain, yours truly, MINNIE FOSTER. 314 Southard St. Booker T. Washington's timely advice to Nick Childs of the Topeka Plain Dealer along the line of cautious treatment of questions and matters effecting the two races, especially those problems which appear more vexatious to the white and colored alike, is admired by the Son as it has always been her policy to be conservative in matters of a similar nature. / 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." Model Dairy Farm 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 oig farm, and the keynote of the management is organization and system. The result is success. REPUBLICAN CITY CONVENTION. The Winning Ticket Named—Harmony and Dignity Features of the Convention. The Republicans assembled in Convention Hall last Tuesday and nominated a ticket of clean and able men who will seek to serve the people in city government for the next two years. A better selection of men for the several stations could not have been made. The head of the ticket Mr. H. M. Beardsley is regarded as a tower of strength and the opposition will find a hard road to travel. City Treasurer A. E. Holmes and Auditor Koehler were renominated by virtue of having conducted their offices in a businesslike and efficient manner. The upper and lower house nominees are men of integrity and business worth. The ticket as a whole is worthy of the support of the people of Kansas City. FORTY YEARS OF FREEDOM 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. Gates a Good pupder. 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. 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. Adarnville, Ala., Sept., 20, 1896. Dear Friends: I only used Ford's Ozonized Ox Marrow once and it made a great improvement on my hair. JULIA ANN EDWARDS. Elegant flats for colored people, Northwest corner Sixteen and Lydia, modern, gas, bath—four and five rooms. Ready April 1. Apply Farmer Foddershucks—Yes, M'rfa, then Washin'ton politicians tried ter bunker me, but I was too smart fer 'em. Let Us Do Our Duty. Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.—Theodore Parker. The Diner's Pet Joke. "I never do things by halves," remarked Biffkins, and the waiter at his elbow put on an expectant grin. He had only expected a 50-cent tip—maybe the gentler-an would give him more. "As I was saying," said Biffkins, pushing back his chair and accepting his hat, "I never do things by Halves. Especially in tipping. I always use quarters. Here you are."—Cleveland Leader. Small Village; Small Pledge. Here is an English story: A factory foreman used to drink inordinately: afterward he reformed, and then there was a conspicuous relapse. His employer rebuked him for not sticking to his solemn agreement. But the man, in good faith and with perfect gravity, explained, "I only took the pledge in a small village—quite a small village, in Yorkshire." Judge's Kind Admonition. On one occasion Judge Dewey of Boston had before him a couple of girls charged with stealing ribbons from wreaths on graves. As the evidence of their guilt was not satisfactory, he ordered their discharge, accompanying it with this admonition: "Girls, keep out of the cemeteries as long as you can."—Law Notes. Free Manners. Manners appear to get freer with every generation. Modesty, which is the crown of maidenhood, never appears to characterize sweet seventeen. What one generation thinks dreadfully fast, if not shattering to the reputation, is the common practice of the next—Lady Helen Forbes, in Black and White. Drink Beer From Mugs. Bavarians have long insisted that beer is better and more wholesome if drunk out of stone mugs than out of glass. Dr. W. Schultze has now examined the matter scientifically, and has found that beer is made injurious by a chemical process which dissolves the oxide of lead in the glass. Danger in Overwork. Whatever tends to diminish disease is conducive to longevity but in our endeavor to promote it we must have regard to mental as well as to bodily hygiene. A great deal of premature decline in force and energy is due to overuse of the brain and nervous system. In Days of Old. "I guess I'm an old sorehead," remarked the 12 anavynk philosopher, "but I can't for the life of me imagine Abraham Lincoln at the age of 16 gain" round with football hair, an' his britches turned up over a pair of low quarter shoes an' openwork socks." Honor the Laying Hen. The Swiss village of Zodfingen, in the Canton of Aargau, was decorated with flags recently in honor of a hen which had laid her thousandth egg. Five adjacent villages sent deputations, accompanied by bands, which serenaded the industrious hen. Would Reform Japanese Writing Japan has a new periodical, Tegamai Zasshi, the aim of which is to teach the writing of sensible letters. The editor warns his readers, among other things, against the habit of introducing sentimental phrases into business letters. Buys Old Teeth. An advertiser in a British magazine says: "Old artificial teeth bought, Call, or if forwarded by post, utmost value per return. Messrs. Smith manufacturing dentists, Oxford street, London. Established one hundred years." Protects Cats From Dogs. A French farmer, who kept a number of dogs and cats, constructed ingeniously, in order to protect the latter from the former, a veritable cat's nest, which he placed among the branches of a stunted oak tree. Character the One Enduring Things. Horace Greeley said: "Fame is a vapor. Popularity is an accident. Riches take wings. Those who cheer to-day will curse to-morrow. Only one thing endures—character." Woman Throws Straight It is said that a woman never hits anything when she throws a rock, but she smashes the target when she throws a hint.-Dallas News. The Professor "In the midst of life," said the professor, reflecting on the general uncertainty of things, "there is always an if." Sure Thing. Safe to bet on as sure to throw all comers at the first encounter—the banana peel.—Baltimore American. London's Water Consumption. London uses 211,323,602 gallons of water a day. C. A. EVANS, BARBER SHOP For First Class Work. 07 East 14th St. Kansas City, Mo. WHEN TO CRITICISE. WHEN TO CRITICISE. When your heart is warm with love, Even for your enemies; When your words come from above, Not from where the venom is; When you see the man entire, Not alone the faults he has; Find a somewhat to admire Underneath the paltry mass— Not till then, if you are wise, Will you dare to criticise. —Amos R. Wella. Nice Old-Fashioned Folk. Nice Old-Fashioned Folk. Senator Pettus of Albama, 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 ways 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 shwer 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. REPARTEE AND ROMANCE. "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. Keeping Him in Mind of It. 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'd change my politics. —Cleveland Leader. 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. Value of Freedom and Education. Value of Freedom and Education. A free population, ambitious 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. There are two classes of women those who like nice clothes and those who are dead. WESTERN UNIVERSITY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. . . . . . . DEPARTMENTS: State Industrial COURSES: Classical (Instrumental, Drawing and Book Binding, Tailoring, Dering, Farming) ADVANTAGES: Skills and Thinking INFORMATION: FOLLOWING WILLIAM QUINDARO, Phones: Office—I MENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-National Industrial. OBJECT: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-National (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ, drawing, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Book Binding, Business Course, Stemography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. IMAGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Lands and Thorough Teachers. ATTENTION: For terms, prices and all inducements of WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. PRESIDENT, INDARO, KANE 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, Talloring, 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 QUINDARO, KANSAS. Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West 15. David T. Beals, President. Edwin W. Zea, Cashier. States Statement of the Condition of the Union Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. As made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business January 29, 1906. Directors—U. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. Merlester, David T. Beals, Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. Seeger, Ww. Wen Zea. Mrs. W. H. Hubbell's Millinery and Notion Store 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 ot notions. 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 Up-to-Date Grocery and Meat Market Home Phone 4097 Main. 509 MAY STREET. 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 Matthael's Bakery and you will always ask for Matthael's bread. All Grocers. age, Normal, Sub-Normal and tory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Mu- ncluding piano, organ and har- echanical), Carpentry, Printing use, Stemography and Typewrit- Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laun- Healthful Climate, Good Influ- all inducements offered write N, A. M., D. D. KANSAS. Residence—Bell—"West 15. F. P. Neal, Vice President. W. H. Seeger, Second Vice President condition of the THE RISING SON. NEWS & GOSSIP 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. Mr. John Day is reported to be quite ill. The Knights of Pythias (colored) have changed their hall to 1734 Grand Ave. Get the habit of going to McCampbell & Houston's Drug Store, 2300 Vine St. Mr. Phillip Wheeler died March 6 of pneumonia at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Scott, 5th and Troost avenue. The Convention hall entertainment given for the benefit of the Old Folks Home was a big success. More than $700 was cleared. 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. Milwaukee, Wis., June 23rd, 1893. Gentlemen: Please send me two bottles of Ford's Ozonized Ox Marrow for the hair. I think it is one of the best hair pomades made. MRS. JOHN GAF. The Rev. Dr. Bacote touched upon the "Clansman" last Sunday. His address was very pleasing and instructive to the large audience. Next Sunday he will touch upon the "Goers and Comers." The Knights of Pythias Lodge will hold its grand session in Kansas City in July and will go in encampment for a week. There will be a big time among the members of the fraternity and arrangements are now under way. Another Negro school scandal is brewing. The Son is not in a position to say when all facts are to materialize but the clouds are ugly and the storm will be intense. The people of this community may feel a reluctance in asserting their rights in connection with this school question but it is up to them and they must act. Otherwise the Negro youth of Kansas City would be a thousand times better off with the school doors tightly closed unless a more wholesome influence is brought to bear. The young people of the Fifth Episcopal District, comprising the states of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico Territory, Washington and California, are called to meet in a young people's convention in accordance with the actions of the Missouri, North Missouri, Kansas and Colorado conferences at their last session, deciding that a young people's convention should be held in this district. Said convention to be held at Allen chapel, Kansas City, Mo., July 5, 6, 7 and 8, for the purpose of creating a deeper interest and a greater enthusiasm in the work of the church and race. 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. The Kiss in Ancient Times. 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 quarentine 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 latchkey 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 hohse 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 wilderness, 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 "sooop" landed by the Freeborn (la.) Courier. It is self-explanatory: "We came pretty near getting scooped on an item this week, but if it were not for the fact that we always have our weather eye open, we would have been left in the cold. Just as we go to press Oscar Sanborn is having three fingers cut off by a threshing machine. A doctor has been sent for. Details in next issue."—Ex. A fuzzy taste the next morning makes a fellow feel down in the mouth. Ahe fact that age commands veneration possibly explains why there are so many old probates. There is a skeleton in every closet but tails is no excuse for a continual rattling of the bones. VIRTUE'S PRIZE What nothing earthly gives or can destroy. The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy. Is virtue's prize. —Pone'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 t at 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- ettles ..... 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 yea 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 tons 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. Doilley and others. The affair was a grand one. Next business meeting will be held at the residence of Prof. Doilley, 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, 8114 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 Eaay. Miss Gausslp—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. EDITOR SATISFIED WITH HAND. Why He Proposes to Stand Pat on a Protection Ace Full. A bright and brainy Missouri editor who shapes the policy of the Central Missouri Republican of Boonesville, and shapes it well indeed, displays a clear comprehension of the doctrine and workings of protection, along with an expert familiarity with the elementary principles of the game of poker, in a recent article headed, "We Stand Pat." This entertaining writer is not without high authority and eminent sanction in his use of the euphemistic technology of the great American game. For example we find that in his speech at the dinner given to the Russian peace envoys at the Metropolitan club in New York on the evening of Sept. 7, President Haddley of Yale college, tapped the same fountain when he said: "The great deeds of history in the past in which Russia and America have been associated have been expressed much better than I could put them. I wish to express my personal appreciation of Mr. Witte and Mr. Rosen, who have brought things to a definite conclusion. "Their task was difficult, their success surprising. "It was perhaps best summed up in the words of a man on the street who remarked: "I admire above everything else a man who dares call on a pair of two spots." The remark was not quite true, for Russia had at Portsmouth at least a pair of kings, but it takes nerve to call when one's adversary has all the evidence of holding a straight flush. "We admire the man who can see that straight flush is tinged with the suspicion of a boobtail." While somewhat bewildered with the sequence of scholastic similes embraced in the allusions to the "call on a pair of two spots," "a pair of kings," "holding a straight flush," and "the suspicion of a bobtail," we feel bound to conclude that the *distinguished educator* knew all about *t*-m and used them advisedly. We infer similarly as to the Missouri man's unfinching determination to "stand pat" on "an ace full." According to information from reliable sources we are convinced that an ace full is a good hand to stand pat on, and that none but a very foolish man would think of asking for more cards when in possession of such a collection dealt to him the first time around. To the fortunate holder of three aces and a pair of tens right off the reel there could be, as we are advised, no temptation to discard and dally with the draw. Serene complacency and entire content would be his, what time the other gentlemen were indicating to the dealer their requirements. Under such circumstances none but a raw amateur, or chump, so to speak, would do otherwise than stand pat. So it is with the editor of the Central Missouri Republican. Be neither an amateur nor a chump he positively and peremptorily stands pat on the protection ace full. This is how he rates his hand: Ace of clubs: High wages in all industries. Ace of diamonds: The great home market. Ace of spades: Increasing domestic and export trade. Ten of diamonds: Savings bank deposits of over $3,000,000,000. Ten of hearts: Sound money and plenty of it; unlimited credit; business stability. Holding such cards as these the Booneville editor may well exclaim: "We stand pat on the Republican protective tariff. It's a full hand, dealt us by old Nelson Dingley, God bless him! And it's good horse sense in politics, as it is in poker, to stand pat on a full hand. "We are standing pat and playing these cards for a country unsurpassed for prosperity, intelligence and wealth by any country in the world; for a people free, happy, progressive and independent, enjoying a civilization ahead of any ever known before; for a future brighter and better than man ever dreamed of. "‘Standing pat?' You bet we are." Reciprocity and Trusts. "Reciprocity means you patronize me and I will patronize you. How much better than the selfish principle of a high protective tariff fostering trusts"—Lincoln (ILL) Courter. But suppose the other fellow has nothing to sell except things which you are making for yourself in abundant quantities. Would you buy things you did not want just for the sake of patronizing the other fellow? Of course you wouldn't. You'd be a fool if you did. As to trusts they flourish as well without as with a protective tariff. Free trade Great Britain has a large number of trusts. The biggest trust in the world, Standard Oil, has no tariff protection. Reciprocity would help the trusts, not hurt them. Our only existing reciprocity dicker, that with Cuba, is adding many millions of dollars to the already swollen profits of the sugar trust and the tobacco and cigar trust. No Fossilization. The New York Sun wastes words in using a column and a quarter to argue for "tariff stability, but no fossilization." Nobody is asking for tariff fossilization. What the producing interests—including American labor—ask is that cranks, reformers and scheming politicians shall not be permitted to play monkey tricks with a tariff that is doing for the country far more good than a "reformed" tariff would be likely to do. Better stand pat for what we know is good than take chances on the sort of patchwork tariff that the "reformers" have always cursed the country with. 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He charged up as loss a few items, Result of a syndicate squeeze. Subtracted some big restitutions And loss of directorship fees. Then gently he broke to his family The awful and terrible news— They had to stop smashing their auto, No longer a yacht could they use. They sobbed as they realized ruin, The days of their riches were gone; He only had left of his fortune The sum he had paid taxes upon. ```markdown ``` AFTER THE SOUL WENT OUT (Copyright, 1906, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) A ghastly whiteness settled over the thin, yearning face on the pillow, and peace took the place of pain. The end of a life of conjugal mismating had come at last. "Can you not forgive me all the wrong you have suffered at my hands before you go?" he had asked. She had remained silent, with averted eyes and a faint flush overspreading the wan features. The minister had joined the father and son at the bedside a short time before, and was watching the passage of his parishioner to the world beyond. "It is your duty, Mrs. Marshall," he had said. "It is a dreadful thing to go into the other world with unforgiveness in your heart. It is so easy to speak that now, and afterward so impossible. The consequences to both of you are terrible." "If you have ever wronged me, Henry," she said, "I forgive you, as I hope to be forgiven." "If I have ever wronged you," he echoed. "I certainly have, and it is so noble of you to say those words." "But I have need to be forgiven also," she hailed said. "You will not refuse?" "There is nothing to forgive, Mary," he had said. "But if there were anything for me to forgive in you, it is given freely. I am only sorry it is said now, at the close of our lives together, instead of at the beginning." The woman had caught her breath feebly, and all was over. The physician had entered from the adjoining room at that instant, and he gazed at her a moment. "It is all over," he said. "The soul has left the body." "Her soul left her body many years ago," said the husband, bending over her and placing his face in his hands, between the fingers of which the tears slowly trickled. When the undertaker arrived he was led away gently, and the sad arrangements were persecued with. "What did they have to forgive each other for?" was the current form of gossip through the neighborhood. No one knew. Neither had ever mentioned it to any one in the circle in which they moved. In the funeral discourse the minister talked very profoundly and feelingly on the subject of forgiveness, but he floundered in his remarks because he did not know. "Father," said the young man, the evening of the day after they had returned from the cemetery, "why did you and mother always treat each other so coldly?" "Because there was no love beet tween us." "But why. Was it always so?" "Always." "Won't you tell me why?" "Let's take a walk down the road and I will see if I can." A man is sitting in a chair, looking down at a woman lying on a bed. Two men stand behind him, one holding a cane and the other observing. "Certainly father, do not speak if it is anything against her." "It is nothing against her." "I am so glad, because you know how dearly I loved her, and how I revere her memory." "The trouble began from the very beginning of our married life—in fact, before our marriage." They had walked till they reached the edge of a little wood by this time, the cool breeze from which came out with insistent refreshment to their heated brows and faces flushed from the tears which had coursed over them from their streaming eyes "I had presumed to think that Suddenly all was still. At last she spoke "Won't you tell me why?" They all waited. "It is nothing against her." might make your mother my wife, but had little prospect of success. Several other sought her hand. The only difference was, maybe, that I was the most persistent of the lot. A young man came into the neighborhood from Chicago. He was a summer boarder at a neighboring farm house. His name was Hubbard—Sidney Hubbard. He met your mother, and she fell in love with him at once. None of us had any chance then. Practically, we all gave it up. But one evening, toward the close of the season, I was passing the house where he boarded Jonsson "I had killed him." and was astonished to see him in earnest talk with a girl whom I had never seen before. They were standing at the open window, and he had an arm around her. I watched them a moment, and then turned to go away. I had cone toward the house of your mother's family, with the intention of telling my story, when I met your mother and brought her at once to the place where I had stood. We heard him use enearing terms to her, saw him kiss her, and then heard him promise to go with her at once. I took your mother home and left her almost completely prostrated. She did not say a word of what she had seen to any one. She was very proud and high spirited. The young man and young woman disappeared that night; and, as soon as your mother had recovered sufficiently, I renewed my suit, and she accepted me, on condition that I should take her away from the neighborhood. We did not wait to get married, but left at once, and were married at the first place where we stopped. "Your mother never returned to the old place, her family having removed also a short time afterward. They had lived there but a short time and had no intimates, so none of them ever heard from the neighborhood again. I went out there to settle up some of my affairs, and heard that Hubbard had been there, learned the story, and inquired my address. A few weeks afterward, I went out during the late afternoon, for a walk, as we are doing now, and met him right here. He accused me of treachery to him, and said that the lady whom we had seen him in company with was his sister, who had come after him to aid her in untangling some property matter, which required their immediate attention. He made some slighting remark to me, saying he was going to the house to see your mother, with whom he would have an explanation, winding up with the remark that I had defrauded him of her, and he would have her yet. One word led to another and finally he struck me. I returned the blow with interest, and he fell, striking that rock there," pointing to a large rock by the roadside, "after which he never stirred. I had killed him, but had not intended to do so I dug a grave over there," pointing to a mound so slight as not to be noticeable, "and buried him." "Did mother ever know?" "No, my boy." "Did any one else?" "No." "But that is why you and mother were always estranged from each other?" "Yes." "Oh, well, cheer up, father. It was not so bad—the killing, I mean. You did the only thing you could do. The estrangement was terrible. It might have been better if you had told mother." "It would not—under the circumstances." "Well, don't dwell on it now. We will go home now, and make the best of it, dear old father." "But I am not your father." "Yon—are—not—my—father? Then who is?" "The man sleeping under that mound there." And the elderly man walked deliberately into the dark wood, leaving the younger one sitting on the rock where his father and breathed his last. GAVE SAILOR COIN; GETS $8,000. Girl Will Cash Bond on Bank of Portugal for That Amount. Eight thousand dollars' reward for an off-hand kindness conferred four years ago on a destitute and partially slick sailor in Uncle Sam's navy is the Christmas present that pretty Annie Josephine Saucier, a shop girl and former mill hand of the city of Lewiston, Mass., is to receive soon, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. The day of fairyland wonders is not past, so the Lewiston girl thinks, for to-day she is the practical possessor of nearly $8,000 that is to come to her on account of the simple giving of a 20-cent piece at Newport, R. L., to a strange man wearing the uniform of the United States navy. At the moment that she granted the strange request of the sailor he passed to her a small scriptlike piece of paper, saying: "Keep this for your kindness. Some day you will find that you have lost nothing by the favor you have done me." Carried in her pocketbook and laid about her home among many of the most worthless trifles that might easily have been thrown away, this scriptlike keepsake has now brought a fortune to this poor shop girl of Lewiston. The piece of script that the young girl carried with dress samples, cards and small odds and ends that fill the pocketbooks or reticules of young ladies has proved to be a bond of the Bank of Portugal, calling for payment to the holder of $5,000 in the year 1906 with interest at 5 per cent., compounded annually, and as the note matures this month the sum total she will receive from the bank shortly will be very nearly $8,000. For Editor's Benefit: "Mark Twain," at the dinner in honor of his seventieth birthday, advised a young novelist not to shun judicious self-advertisement. "On one of my first visits to New York," he said, "I was taken on a sight-seeing tour by a successful joke-writer. I learned during this tour something about the way to succeed. "As we rode down Broadway on a car my friend suddenly looked up from the comic paper he was reading, gave a hearty laugh and then read aloud to me a joke. "Isn't that great?' he cried. "Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha! Isn't that the funniest joke—ho, ho, ho!—you ever heard? "Just then we rose to get off. When we reached the sidewalk I said to my friend: "You showed me that joke before, you know. It is one of your own, isn't it?" "He smiled at my puzzled face and answered: "Yes. But you didn't notice the man who sat opposite us, did you? He is the editor who buys most of my stuff and he doesn't know me personally. See?" Maimed Birds Did Well. "Maimed birds show remarkable intelligence in getting food for themselves," said a naturalist. "I once found in my garden a bluebird that a stone had wounded badly. The poor little creature could neither walk nor fly. I put it in a cucumber frame and fed it regularly, but I suppose I didn't give it enough, for it foraged industriously all the time. Lying on the earth, it would cover itself with leaves—only its small eyes would be visible. Then, when a fly alighted somewhere near—sweoop, the bluebird's head and neck would dart from the covering of leaves and the fly would be devoured. "A finch with a broken wing lived high all one summer in my garden at the expense of the spiders. It pillaged their webs. It made a round of some twenty webs a day and fattened on the contents of those filmy larders." Not Darkest Before Dawn. The idea that the darkest hour is just before dawn is poetical but incorrect. The darkest hour is midway between sunset and dawn, and the legend is of a piece with the statement often made that the hour preceding dawn is the coldest. In many countries there is a fixed belief that just before the break of day there comes an ebb when nature grows cold and pulseless and life fluttering in the breast of the dying man finally expires. According to science such dissolution should occur between three and four o'clock, investigation extending over a period of several years having proved that the temperature is lowest then.—Montreal Herald. The Next Ice Age. Sir Robert Ball, professor of astronomy at Cambridge, England, says that 80,000 years ago the track of the earth was oval. In the terrible journey away from the sun to the far end of the ellipse the hemisphere turned away from the source of light, and kept accumulating more ice and snow. The brief summers failed to melt it, and so the great ice cap was formed and its duration we now call the Ice Age. "We are a long way from the last Ice Age," Sir Robert added, "and it is equally certain that another Ice Age will come on the earth, but it may be some satisfaction to us to know that we need not expect it for more than 200,000 years." MERRY LITTLE QUIPS MERRY LITTLE QUIPS HUMOROUS HAPPENINGS CON- DENSED INTO BREVITIES. Where the Neck Joke Originated— Boy Wanted Compensation After All His Trouble—Timid Suitor In Very Hot Water. In Chicago. They were near a dark alley, both with revolvers drawn. Just ready to give the warning "money or your life!" they recognized each other. "Hello, is that you?" asked one. "I Jidn't recognize you." "Beg pardon," said the other, "I was just about to hold you up, too. No offense." "Met any live ones?" "A cop, and I worked the pocket-book game on one guy."—Indianapolis Star. Neck Joke Origin. Gentleman Monk—They say woman wants to be loved. Lady Giraffe—Yes, but I always get it in the neck. Lazy Philosophy. Mrs. Ascum—Doesn't that lazy husband of yours work for you at all? Mrs. Jackson—'Deed, ma'am, he say he ain't gwine ter, kase he's a-tryin' to lib up to the bible teachin'. Mrs. Ascum—What bible teaching? Mrs. Jackson—He say de bible done tell us dat "Contentment am bettah Jan great riches," so he des nacher' bound ter be contented.—Philadelphia Press. Not the Millennium "Here!" shouted the depot official, "what do you mean by throwing those trunks around like that?" The baggagememan gasped in astonishment and several travelers pinched themselves to make sure that it was real. Then the official spoke again to the baggagememan. "Don't you see that you're making big dents in this concrete platform!" - Smart Set. Making It Worse Sutor (timidly)—I—I wish to—to marry your daughter, sir. Pater (angrily)—What's that, sir. Where's my cane? Sutor (hastily)—Oh, sir—I didn't mean that—I don't want to marry her —I— Pater (furiously) — Don't, eh? Where's my gun?—Cleveland Leader. Full Strength of Ice. "That ice cream freezer you sold me," complained the irate customer, "is a fraud. It doesn't do the work you claim for it at all." "No?" replied the new salesman. "Perhaps you—er—didn't use the best quality of ice. It’s very important to have the ice very cold, you know." Doubled Up. 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His last feat was to stop at a farmhouse near Seville, pretending to be an officer in quest of Vivillo. He was well entertained, and then he compelled the farmer to give up about fifteen thousand dollars, which the latter had drawn from the bank on the previous day. Money has a mighty persuasive tongue, but a sadly deficient hand, when it comes to delivering the goods. DIED SUDDENLY OF HEART DISEASE. How frequently does a head line similar to the above greet us in the newspapers. The rush, push and strenuance of the American people has a strong tendency to lead up to valvular and other affections of the heart, attended by the pain of the illness, smothered sensations and other distressing symptoms. 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The telephone jangled all day with the inquiries of friends, servants with solemn faces moved about, noiseless trained nurses came and went, doctors arrived in swift motors and little "Chapple" was much impressed with his first knowledge of dangerous sickness. In a fortnight he was summoned to the sickroom to see his mamma, who was beginning to feel the real glow of convalescence. There was his mother sure enough lying palely beaming under a canopy of snowy laces against the embroidered pillows around which swept the very silken coverlid. "Good morning, my baby boy," with a hug. "What has my blessed been doing while his mother was sick? What has he done with all the beautiful flowers that came?" Lifting his head proudly and dimpl- ling with pleasure, said he: "I've been keeping the flowers fresh to put on your grave, dear mother."— Chicago Chronicle. 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"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 Snings, 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. Slimpurse—"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 kitchen-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." What We're Coming To. "Cold winter ahead," declared Uncle Goshall Hemlock "How can you tell?" he was asked. "Didn't ye hear the wild geese honkin' in 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. blowing is by an window 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: 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 wooed 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 out 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—"No, noting 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. I Can Sell Your Real Estate or Business PETER H. BURKE Properties and busi- sness of all kinds sold quickly for cash in a l parts of the United States, with most 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, PREP. DUSTRIAL AND DOM. COURSES: Classical, College Preparatory, Model Training School, Music (Instr. Drawing. (Fine Arts and Mechanical)), ing, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Free Tu- with Modern Improvements. Building Diplomas are licenses to teach in any state. A few deserving students are a- to earn their way. All applicants mu- of good moral character. For further BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A JEFFERSON CITY, MIS The Stoeltzing Stove and NORMAL, PREPARATION, INSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC CLASSICAL, College Preparatory, Norrning School, Music (Instrumental Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Machinery, Shoe-making, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing. Good Location, Free Tuition. New Improvements, Buildings. If the licenses to teach in any public deserving students are assisted in way. All applicants must pre-qualify character. For further info. FRANKLIN ALLEN, A.M., OFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI Sitting Stove and H LOCAL, PREPARATORY, IN- DUCATION AND DOMESTIC. College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Pool, Music (Instrumental and Vocal), and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodwork- machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories Elements, Buildings Heated by Steam, to teach in any public school in the students are assisted in their efforts applicants must present testimonials er. For further information write to N ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. N CITY, MISSOURI. COLLEGE, NORMAL, PREPARATORY, INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC. COURSES: Classical, College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Model Training School, Music (Instrumental and Vocal), Drawing. (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Woodworking, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe-making, Farming and Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Sewing, Cooking and Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Free Tuition, New Dormitories with Modern Improvements, Buildings Heated by Steam, Diplomas are licenses to teach in any public school in the state. A few deserving students are assisted in their efforts to earn their way. All applicants must present testimonials of good moral character. For further information write to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI. The Stoeltzing Stove and Hardware Co. A Best Stoves Made. Largest Stock in City. Prices the Lowest. Wholesale and Retail Agents for... 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Weber The well know MERCHANT after an extended trip through Cali west, is with us again. Everybody Weber by the many stylish and well has put up. He is now at 1206 $ \frac{1}{2} $ East 18th I know MERCHANT TA extended trip through California with us again. Everybody remem the many stylish and well-made b. He is now at East 18th St ERCHANT TAILOR, hip through California and the h. Everybody remembers Mr. stylish and well-made suits he ow at st 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 o MRS. A. V. MINOR, Mgr., 404 W. 6th St., INOR HALF For Dances, Socials, Entertainments, Etc. respectable Colored People o R. Mgr., 404 W. 6th St., PIANO FURNISHED. R HALL to Rent Finances, Socials, Admits, Etc. The Colored People only. 404 W. 6th St., Kansas City, Mo. FLOUR Bell Phone Main 1196 X PIANO FURNISHED. The MINOR HALL to Rent For Dances, Socials, Entertainments, Etc. To Respectable Colored People only. MRB. A. V. MINOR, Mgr., 404 W. 6th St., Kansas City, Mo. KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT --- ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. Summer Schedule TO Excelsior Springs the Beautiful Health Resor Beginning Sunday, May 7th and daily thereafter follows: Leave Union Depot 8:30 and 10:20 A. M.; 5: and 7:00 P. M. $1.00 Round Trip, 30 days limi 1.00. Tickets Wabash Office, 903 Main Street and Union Depot. "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. Anchor ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS...GENTS FURNISHERS SHOES SAM. H. FINKELSTEIN, Prop. Metson Hats $1.50 Cleaned and Blocked. Motto: "YOUR MONEY'S WORLD" Street, Kansas Hot Springs Special looked for Improved Train Service between Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now prov MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Kansas City at 11:00 a.m. daily. Arrive in Hot Springs. This train runs via Paola, Garnett, Neodeshaw, Coffeyville, Ft. Smith and Little Rock. And Chair Cars (all seats free) to Hot Springs. This "Hot Springs Special" is the Elegant Distance Connects at Little Rock with the Iron Mountain Eastern Points in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Night Express 9:35 p. m. daily. Cursion Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all in JEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Passenger Street. KANSAS Phone 6327 Main. Bell Telephone 7 ER TRUST COM N, Prop. and Blocked. Y'S WORTH" Kansas City MO "Special" Since between Kansas City ly, is now provided for by Fort Smith Coffeyville Arrive in Hot Springs to nett, Neodesha, Independ- Little Rock. Through Hot Springs. A special Elegant Dining Cars. Iron Mountain Trains for Tana and Texas. Daily. Earths and all information, Passenger Dept. KANSAS CITY MO. Call Telephone 740 Hickory COMPANY ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS GENTS FURNISHERS SHOES SAM. H. FINKELSTEIN, Prop. 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. Home Telephone 6327 Main. KANSAS CITY MO. Bell Telephone 740 Hickory PIONEER TRUST COMPANY Dwight Building 10th and Baltimore Avenue. $267,500 $267,500 Banking Business. Accounts. Deposits. Ed. Mage Investments. $1.00 will start an account. transacts 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. 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. FOLLOW THE FLAG WABASH KANSAS CITY, MO. OFFICERS: