The Rising Son

Rising Son It Pays to Advertise in the Rising Son for it Reaches More Homes of Colored People than any other Paper in the State. HENRY M BEARDSLEY Nominated for Mayor by the Nominated for Mayor by the Republicans of Kansas City RISING SON COMMENDS REPUBLI CAN CITY TICKET TO THE SUPPORT OF THE NEGRO VOTERS OF KANSAS CITY. him by virtue of his flopping over to the Democratic party. Now let us go back and ask the question, why should we not urge the colored voters to support the Republican ticket. Is it not The Ticket a Credit To The Community. Let Us Help Elect It. The Republican city ticket which is now before the people in quest of their suffrage on April 3, is an ideal one in every way. It is made up of men of character, integrity and ability and they are worthy of the support of the colored voters of this community. That which is good for the white citizens is likewise good for the negro citizen. The election of this ticket, headed by an honest, honorable and able man, means a good, clean and competent administration of the affairs of Kansas City. Every candidate from H. H. M. Beardsley down, merits our united support. It has been the policy of the Son at all times to advise our people to support whatever measure, political or otherwise, that is and has been advantageous to the entire community. In this policy we have tried to be honest, and unselfish, conservative and fair. In urging the support of the voters of our race for this ticket of able and worthy men our minds revert back to our present Republican administration, under whose good offices, many of our negro citizens are enjoying honorable and lucrative position. Four negro citizens are enjoying clerical positions. Several negro street foremen have been employed during the past two years. Several negro guards have been steadily employed at the work house and many other minor places are in possession of negroes. Compare this with the patronage given negroes under the ast Democratic city administration and you will find a proposition of ten to one in favor of the argument we are making for a Republican supremacy in so far as it benefits the negroes. Under the Democratic administration even the janitors at the City Hall were white. Out of the several hundred places, only one negro foreman was employed, a reward that went to —Photo by Thomson. Republicans of Kansas City him by virtue of his flopping over to the Democratic party. Now let us go back and ask the question, why should we not urge the colored voters to support the Republican ticket. Is it not a question of evil or good, with common sense, fairness, and gratitude on one side and absurdity, injustice and base ingratitude on the other. It is our duty to ponder wisely and come to the conclusion to vote the straight Republican ticket on the 3 of April and thus contribute our mite to the cause of good government. The officers of the Tuskogee Normal and Industrial Institute are making extensive preparations for the celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the school on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 4, 5 and 6. Assurances have been received from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, President Charles W. Elliot, of Harvard University, Secretary William H. Taft, Mr. Robert C. Ogden, President of Southern Educational Board, and Hon. Seth Low, former mayor of New York, and many others, saying that they intend being present on that occasion. Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York, President of the Board of Trustees, plans to bring from New York a special train with 112 persons as his guests. The speakers on this occasion are the following: Bishop William Crosswell Doane, of Albany, N. Y., who will preach the anniversary sermon on Sunday, April 1; Dr. M. C. B. Mason, Cor. Secretary, Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society of the M. E. Church, Cincinnati, Ohio; Principal Booker T. Washington, of Tuskogee Institute; Mr. Robert C. Ogden, of New York; Judge W. H. Hurt, of Tuskogee; Prof. S. G. Atkins, Sec'y Board of Education, A. M. E. Zion Church Winston-Salem, N. C.; Rev. A. Grant, Bishop A. M. E. Church, Kansas City, Kansas; Hon. Seth Low, former Mayor of New York; Mr. J. C. Napier, Prest. One Cent Savings Bank, Nashville, Tenn; President John H. Abercrombie, University of Alabama; Dr. E. C. Harris, President National Baptist Convention, Helena, Ark.; Dr. Lyman Abbott, Editor of the Outlook, New York; President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University; Dr. H. B. Frissell, Principal of Hampton Institute; Dr. W. Bruce Evans, Principal Armstrong Manual Training School, Washington, D. C.; Hon. William H. Tatt, Secretary of War; Bishop G. B. Galloway, of the M. E. Church, South Jackson, Miss.; Mr. Oswald Carrison Villard, Editor New York Evening Post, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, of New York; besides five graduates of the school representing various Academic and Industrial departments. The railroads have granted a one fare rate plus 25 cents, round trip, for the celebration. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES Teachers and pupils alike have been intensely interested in the week's work ending, 23d inst., for examination week marks the crowning glory of the term, and indicates with some degree of accuracy what has really been accomplished. The third and last term of the year begins March 26, and as already stated in previous issues, in substance, this is an excellent time in which to enter. Lincoln Institute is more and more nearly, approximating the continuous session plan; and since prison, not classes, form the basis of graduation, it becomes possible for one to be graduated at any time when the requisite number of points has been made. This ought to be an incentive to those who are unable to remain in school so long, consecutively, as a scholastic year is three terms, but who, by attending when it is possible, eventually will find themselves with the required twenty points, necessary for securing a life certificate from the normal department, or, with a certificate of graduation from any course desired by the individual. Mothers Don't Forget That— Children who are brought up to sleep with the bedroom window open a wee bit never catch cold with the ease that cooped-up chicks acquire. There is an old proverb which says that where the sun does not enter the doctor must, and, like many other sayings of the axiom kind, it has a grain of truth at the bottom. Bravery in Truth Telling. To tell the truth at all times requires as much bravery as was ever experienced upon the field of battle, amid the glitter of cold steel and the rattle of muskety. Of all the valiant men and women in the world, let him or her be chief who dares to tell the truth!'-Dr. Madison C. Peters. Telegraphy Drums. Travelers in Africa have told how natives communicate intelligently over vast distances by means of drums, some of the messages in transmission being almost telegraphic in their accuracy. The drum also furnishes the principal instrument of "music" in certain tribes. Queen's Ample Wardrobe. In 1600 Queen Elizabeth's wardrobe, according to the official list contained 99 robes, 102 French gowns, 67 round gowns, 100 loose gowns, 126 kirtles, 136 foreparts, 125 petticoats, 96 cloaks, 31 safeguards, 43 jupes, 85 doublets, 18 lap mantles, 9 pantoffles and 27 fans. Belics of Ancient Surgery When the floor of the operating theater of the old hospital at Canterbury, England, was torn up the other day the rings were discovered through which were passed the cords for tying patients down on the operating table prior to the discovery of anaesthetics. No Fool! "Failing in love" in its larger implications is the one thing in life worth doing, for it is the source, not only of the human race, but of all its ideals. The man in love is no fool.—Cosmopolitan Magazine. New York's "Richest" Rich. 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 hear 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 Excelsior 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 blinded discoveries—London Academy. Postage Stamp Lore. More than 17,000,000 postage stamps are used in this country every day in the year, according to a post office official. This is about one stamp a day for every five persons, and means $18,000 a year in the cost of gum alone. The daily consumption of stamps has increased by 2,000,000 curing the last five years, or in other words, 730,000,000 more stamps are used each year than five years ago. Short. But to the Point. Elizabeth R--, when a small girl, was a child of many and lengthy prayers. Each night she prayed and prayed for everything under the sun. One evening as she and her small brother, Tom, were getting ready for bed, Elizabeth said out loud her usual long petition. The little boy listened much impressed, until she had finished, when he knelt down and prayed: "Oh, God, give me things, too!" Bonanza Kings. The bonanza kings were: James C. Flood, A. S. O'Brien, John W. Mackay, and James G. Fair, four men of Irish parentage, who acquired vast fortunes from the gold and silver mines on the Pacific coast. They had various imitators and successors, who shared the name, but these four men were the "only original" bonanza kings. To Mend an Umbrella The neatest way to mend a slit in an umbrella is to procure some court plaster, cut into strips and lay on the cut or rent parts, the edges first being carefully pressed together. Hope for Them—and Him: A man has made great progress when he has learned that some of the people who don't agree with all his opinions may, after all, be partly right.—Somerville Journal. The Better Part of Valor The courage of one's convictions is an excellent thing, but it should never be allowed to become unyoked from the discretion of one's reason.—Puck. Born an American Citizen. A son born to American parents while traveling in a foreign country is an American citizen, and as such is eligible to the presidency. Isn't He a Nice Man. Ladies? After all, a pretty baby doesn't need a prize. A pretty baby is a prize. And all babies are pretty.—North Adams Transcript. Penalty for Adulterating Food. The penalty in Germany for adulterating food is six months in prison and a fine of 1,500 marks. 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. Psychic Phenomena Carrying out experiments in psychic phenomena, some scientists at Ruvo produced some stirling results. A fourteen-year-old boy was put in a trance and in this condition answered questions put to him in Greek, Latin, Arabic, French, English, German, and conversed in those languages, his voice being that of a man. An Ominous Fact "Tell me what playthings you give your children and I will tell you what you are bringing them up to be." Every year toys get more elaborate, more costly. The doors of the temple of Janus will be open wide in the next generation, for half the toys one sees are models of implements of destruction—London Daily News. Unrewarded. At one Sunday school the children drop their pennies into a bank instead of the customary basket. It was small Marjorie's first Sunday and after dropping in her penny she stood expectantly until urged on by the patient teacher, when she protested "Stop, stop, my gum hasn't come out yet."—Lippincott's. Praises American Stamps Commenting on the "washy" colors of British postage stamps, the Fall Mall Gazette expresses a wish that the British government would use "such excellent dyes as are in use in America and other countries, whose stamps are a pleasure to look at, instead of an eyesore, like our own." Toil. If you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it, and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life becomes a happy one. Transforms Vegetables Not satisfied with the usual grafting adopted by florentineurists, a Frenchman, M. Mollard of Paris, has started in to transform vegetables. Already he has succeeded in turning a radish into a potato according to a recent consular report. Give Money to Domestics Among the celebrations connected with the "name day" of Francis Joseph, of Austria is the giving of money to servants long in the service of one family. Eleven women receive $62.50 each, and others $41.50. Uncle Allen. "If you think talk is cheap said Uncle Allen Sparks, "do a little of it rocklessly, let somebody sue you for slander, and then hire a lawyer to defend you, and you'll change your mind." Spain's Quicksilver Mine. The Almaden mine in Spain produces about 50 per cent of all the quicksilver used in the world. The mine has been worked for more than eight hundred years. Chocolate Good "Emergency Ration." It has been found that the best "emergency ration" for lifeboatmen who have been out for many hours in the cold without food is chocolate. The Universal Lot. Sorrow can never be forgotten. It is only stored away in the mind under countless variegated impressions. There is no escaping it. Memory Verse "They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto a god that can not save." Ignored Customers' Interests A Cologne dairymaid was arrested for bathbug herself daily in the milk she later sold. Persistence. Persist vey is a jewel, on the in stallment plan. NUMBER 41 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. 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 it, 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 overbook 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 MyrRNA 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 had 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 over that the Dundee harpooners have names for each of them. ry BIsSl\ AEE e.g FE ae | eee en oe a We cee Lie commen peagle, the Lowers of wood and stone, the dweltere in comme places, mixtit Searing the common eden that erly the ‘hitkers shin, Arad doing the common duty that tiers Have lett unten Dubbed: hy the few, pletan, rabble, ey a peovetatts Ste Le the hai that fete therm, ours the prize they share, Ard Gate le tne Vommon blessing, free to the uations ‘ait Yo wih fram. the tuwiy valley unito the Summits til Tommon, and only commons Phi bythe Visht of birth» Ser the work! Wie its ned leane on as Weare the kinks of the earth, We ore the common yeuple, and ours t the common clas That CGM cme it for using, when iy “tnt aden, ny He teak the diet ot the Garden, the dist That The wit oleved Fashicied aut formed: and: shaped it, ans rman dtc image made Ard, Morin Mat ted atlectead euch clay for the Numiah test And deemnne Tis wisdom suttices ty hier bat the Ruths Dest Woe, wha ure cammon people and meaty MoE thes comment claw feave ta the. proud tncammen to dm provelon He Makers way wnmon. and onty eammon Fatteted. sometimes. vt fatved = Welt Sta eante nt with the juettorn Phat God in Mis widen mate We are the commen people, yet out ol Tne mbeht ie wLoENE eer "Gane own Hat, miner 6 mighty tought Rare The Little Sins. Krow ve that vont «in shall overtake Reputation is the key to mantiood. Ir leads us to a reeard for the finer life In this beautifnl, elusive and half Veiled World, “A good name is better than precious ointment.” and so much of the unetion and Kindness of soci sweetness Is bull upon the inate de sire to adjust self to a harmonized realization of the rlahts of or fellow teen No solitary aet ein purchase a good name, ‘The desire to be esteemed should be built upon staintessness of thoneht, word and aetion. The sum toral ds character, whieh again ts but a coutirmation of righteousness It ts diffentt to compreliend the phitoso phy of the moral order unless i: be founded pon a righteous being, and y othe fundamental coneeption of character lifts us above anarehy and hove the breaking of the Divine tm age in on souls, We are not wttomatons. but sons endowed with THberty of choice be: tween good and evil. On this depends all moral growth and soul develop ment, Good, therefore, In any form is the goal of humanity, Bat even if the Spirit of Goodness dwells in us, yet may we lessen His huflienee and unconsciously degrade our eluaracters As “ying flies spoil the sweerness of the ointment” without rendering it to tally unfit, so Hide failings may weak en the delicacy of our better selves Without destroying our permanent vir thes. Sueh heinous offences as pre fanity, drunkenness, theft or lewdness aye so powerful as to overwhelm us With a terrifying sense of guilt, When these sins are committed there ean he no misunderstanding of the conse quences; the character Is entirely be smirched, But when it is a question of slight blemishes or petty defects. of Christian manhood the sensibility of the conseience does not always recog nize the wound Like the termite that leaves the Dark uninjured while it eats the heart fof the tree, so the guilt of little sins hecomes a moral disintegration, If moral anarchy reted in our sonls we should “put on the armor of light” instantly and fight, but because it is only moral confusion that relgns we have no {nelination to set ourselves aright. And all this time our frail tes are working ont their own pan ishment, for the moral system isin exorable, Soul life is no more sta tionary than physiea! life, Evers thoneht, word or action makes. fo our uplifting or degrading: the proc esses goon and no neutrality is pos sible. The saddest of all deaths is the death of a soul ina body still stron; and vigorous The mistake made ts in thinkin that this life is one of fulfilment, tha all process depends on our sagacty that ultimate achievement depends or ont own exertions, that the competi tion of energies compensates for th easy deseent from loft standards. Bu this life is not complete: we are sim ply in a siate of preparation, Lif is a series of purifying processes. 1 is the expansion of soul culture base on Divine ideals. Hence, in the pres ent process of development our but len of righteousness should be borne the sorrows of abnegation endured, | we would come into final possessio of eternal bliss. God never intende that our journey toward immortalit should be a negative quantity w should not cumber the ground if w are not fruit bearers. Let us the robe ourselves in the exalted al trimtes of Divine character; let cor science, untroubled by little sins, b aroused through abounding grace stand confessed blameless harmles and without rebuke. Love is stronger safer and sane than Jaw because in it there isn compromise. Let love overshado' our every thought word and action et our sin be excess of Divine lov and we shall then have no fear if overtakes us.—Rev, John J, Donlan, We are apt to listen to the voice which has the loudest sound in any soom or company where ye ara, The prophet in his experience on the mountain was taught how God peaks, and also how to listen, so as to hear God's message to him, which was not in the wind, of earthquake, or fire; but first obeying God, then tte “still small voice” came, that Fwas the voice of his God, and thus he talked with Him, telling Him where to £0, the plain duty of His of ‘tice, and gave to him the needed [comfort and courage, So now the | Holy Spirit comes and speaks to us, ‘too, in this “still small voice"; but [we are in the hurry and turmoil of (life; we may be doing our duty, we ‘may be pursuing some worthy end or Lobject. Yet filled with our own plans and having onr whole soul concentrat- |ed In the success of some one partic: | ular enterprise, we may be so intense: ly absorbed that we do not heed the volee of the Holy Spirit, As the only way He can get our attention and guide ts back He may come through other sources; He may use other forces: the pressure of our enemies, or of ottr friends; by some power oF another He will arrest us, and hin- der us in our chosen pling which would lead us from God: and we are lod in direct ways that we might come before the Holy Spirit, and there so closely listening as not to fel to hear every whisper of His voles, We rest in peace, or go boldly forward, glad in the work he_ has Ve vs to accomplish for him, Here Swhere we all make the mistakes It Is very ditfleult sometimes to get our ouls quieted so as plainly to heat the voice of the Holy Spirit, and thus we fail to got the teaching, the com: fort, the belp that we onght to have: The stil small voice” can never peree an ear that is wilfully closed, Ur: fence Poster et Your Modaration Gs Kiowa. Moderation is “sweet reasonable: ness” and something more, even “eon: Sideraioness.” ‘This most excellent citt shold be earnestly coveted by all who desire to da the work of Christ in the spirit of Christ, So far Js “forbearance” expresses its mean- Ing, Lis a virine whieh needs to be developed to intensity in those whose Temperament impels them to assert thelr principals co the extremest lim: it, to contend to the uttermost for everything that is “in the bond.” and to speak slightingly of those who are said to be content with half meas ures heeanse they prefer to work for a good which is nigh rather than te train after a good which is higher, dut more remote—not beyond — the sas of their desire, though to thelr thinking beyond their reach, “The forjearing man.” says Aristotle, “is he who docs not insist on his rights fo the damage of others.” Modera, tion prompts to the tempering. of siriet justice by considerations which may lead to what we siggestively eal equitable concessions. From — Chris tian serview the spirit. of vainglory and of partisanship will be exorelsed When “intense moderation” is our an inating motive. The principle under lying “moderation” is the represstor of selfassertion; and this is no mere passive virtue, “Even Christ pleaser not Himself.” and Christlike deeds are the outward and visible sign tha the inward life is dominated by thal intense moderation” which puts ef |fectual restraint on the clamorons de | mands of xelf—J. G. Tasker. The Path to Life. Death is the path to life; and we must not forget this in our modern and proper zeal for positive, rather than negative, teaching. “Not repres- sion, but elevation, Wonld that this could be repeated a thousand times over,” rightly exclaims a teacher, But it Is a poor philosophy that does not realize that there can be no perfect elevation withont repression, ‘The Fevuctfision of our Lord is as vital a part of His lifestory and life-work as ‘is His resurrection. And in this His Ife Is the perfect type of all true life, The saint comes to know the fellow ship of Christ's sufferings, as well as the power of Christ's resurrection, He is erueified with Christ to the very end that he may live In Christ and Christ in him, “Set your mind on the things that are above, Put to death your members whieh are upon. the earth.” The capacities which are in. “nocent in themselves, but which we apply to Wrong uses, need elevation, not repression, The evil is within us, und that no philosophy can long ig: “nore or deny without breaking down, needs not elevation, but extirpation | There is a dying unto sin in each tn dividual life that Is necessary to Its living unto God. | a | ‘Whe: Sank Sescketann: The highest achievement of charity is to love our enemies; but to bear cheerfully with our neighbors’ failings is seareely an inferlor grace, Tt ts easy enough to love those who are agreeable and obliging—what fly Is not attracted by sugar and honey?— but to love one who is cross, perverse, tiresome, Is. as unpleasant a process as chewing pills, Nevertheless, this Is the real touchstone of brotherly love. ‘The best way of practicing it Is to put ourselves In the place of him wha tries us, and to see how we would wish him to treat us if we had his defects, We must put ourselves in the place of buyer when we sell, and sell er when we buy, if we want to deal fairly —Francls de Sales, In Franz Josef’s Troubled Land 9 MU ANS | NS) RAS LW VY is a >) a oe = iq AMIE aaa oN ANAS oor | NR A Witohan SON | AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN DISPUT SW Semething About the Cause of MAP OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ree cee mere tne une ce ial ear eae Ntene ota Susan B. Anthony and Her Work for Equal Suffrage Susan B. Anthony was one of America’s famous women. She was known in every stave In the Union, and her fame reached to all the great capitals of Europe as the most able leader in the woman suffrage move- ment in the world, She was known for her earnestness, her singleness of purpose, her courage, and her eheer: fulness under defeat, She gave wom- an a place in the United States that woman did not oceupy in 1853, when she seandalized a whole community by daring to speak in public of the Wrongs of her sex, Today American women are envied by those of all. other nations, and stand comparatively free individuals, with the exception of political disa- bilities. During the fifty years which have wrought this revolution, just one woman in all the world (Susan B. Anthony) gave every day of her time. every dollar of her money, every pow- er of her being to secure this result. She was impelled to this work by no personal grievance, but solely throngh a deep sense of the Injustice which, on every side, she saw perpetuated against her sex, and which she de- termined to combat, Never for one short hour was the cause of woman forgotten or put aside for any other object. Never a single tie was form- ed, either of affection or business, | whieh would interfere with this su: _preme purpose. Never a speech was given, a trip taken, a visit made, a letter written in all this half cen- tury but that was done directly in the interest of this one object. There | was no thought of personal comfort advancement, or glory; the self | abnegation, the self-sacrifice, was ab | Solute and unparalleled. Many Chances to Wed. Next to woman's suffrage, if there was one live question in the world upon which Miss Anthony had decid: ed opinions it was upon matrimony. She had so many chances to wed that she didn't remember all who asked her, Miss Anthony had one bean who wore a green waistcoat, but that Is | about all she does remember of him. Once, in telling of other chances to marry, she said: “Oh, they'd come shining around. It was the thing to go to meeting with | them, and to all the socials and spell: ing bees, and sleigh riding and bugey | Tiding, and the girls counted how many horses and buggies were hitched in front of another girl's house at one | time. What do you call them now? | Oh, yes—scalps, In those days men in general were afraid of a woman |} who wrote a book, and one who taught school was only a litle better off, Ifa woman got the reputation of | having brains it was bad for her mat: lnimpnin chances The: ee esr | afraid of petticoat government, and '| it took a good many smiles and bright | colors and curls to overcome this, | “Still, Thad my share. I'l tell you | I've always been busy, and men wer ‘| always secondary, | "They are all dead now, s0 none o ‘| them can feel hurt. I would have ‘| been a widow, no matter which I hac }} married.” Her First Convention, Miss Anthony attended her firs woman's rights convention in Syra ;| cuse, N. Y., In 1852. At that meetin: | she displayed the tendency to speal spout her exact thoughts, which have POON OE ROCCO COCO OO TOOT ' Kaiser's Daughter a Favorite. ;| The only daughter of the Germai .| emperor is the youngest of seven chil dren, She is 13 years of age and i ,| “tall, angular and yale." This youn, ,| lady is called affectionately Princess | sehen by the people, and fs said t ,|be the only one of the kals s{er'a children who ever dares j|{take any libertias with the augus ,| head of the family, It Is said that o » | one oceasion the emperor said: “M | danghter often forgets that Tam Get }/man emperor, but she never forget Sak chk te mildnaen ante Ry UPR EE cas caste CBMs TCTs ieee | Pa etree RE Ord A ty years. Nirs. Oakes Smith, a fashionable Roston woman of the day, was named for president. Mrs, Smith appeared at the convention in a lownecked, short-sleeved white dress with a fancy saeque of pink delaine. Quaker James Mott nominated her for the office, and this was more than Quaker Susan B. Anthony could stand. She rose in her place and said bold- ‘ly that no woman dressed in the friv- olous fashion of Mrs. Smith could represent the earnest, hard-working women of the country, who, Miss An- thony believed, were asking the bal- ‘ot. She carried the day, and Mrs. Lucretia Mott was elected president of the association, Not long after that Miss Anthony attended a second woman’s meeting, at which the speakers had such weak, piping voices that they did not reach beyond a few front seats. Miss An- thony got up and said: "Mrs, Presi- mtent, I move that hereafter the pa- _pers shall be given to someone to read who can be heard.” Squeiches Horace Greeley. From the beginning of her work Miss Anthony had the friendship and support of Horace Greeley. He en- |Joyed, however, an occasional contro- versial tilt with her, and in one nota- ble instance she had much the best of it, “Miss Anthony,” sald Greeley, in his drawling monotone, “you know the ballot and the bullet go together. If you vote, are you ready to fight?” “Yes, Mr. Greeley,” Miss Anthony retorted instantly, “Just as you fought in the late war at the point of | a goose quill.” | At the Empress’ Reception. | When Miss Anthony was in Berlin several years ago she attended a re- ception given by the empress of Ger- jmany. Miss Anthony Insisted on | standing. ‘The empress was stand: ing. Why shouldn't she stand? Every- | body else sat down, but she stood up | under her §4 years and said she in- | tended standing until the empress | took her seat, A moment later a court functionary, splashed from head to foot with brass and gold braid, came up to the suffragist and said: | “Her majesty requests that you wil be seated.” Miss Anthony sat down, but pres ently bobbed up again, and explained to the others present that maybe i wasn't respectful to sit in the pres ence of royalty. But no sooner had the kind old “Aunt Susan” arisen than the “majo domo,” as she called him, came bow ing back, and in the choicest German said: | “Her majesty says she will be much | distressed if you do not sit.” Miss Anthony sat down and re mained sitting until the empress came up to her, and bidding her good by, wished her a pleasant stay In Ber lin, After Miss Anthony hac “escaped” from the place and had re ‘turned to her friends at the hotel they, having never seen an empres: outside a picture nook, began askin what she looked like, One sald, “Dic you kiss her hand?” “Kiss her hand?” asked Miss An thony. “No. Should T have done it I just bowed my head and told her was a Quaker, and didn't know mucl about court etiquette, and she gent ‘fold me to follow my own enstoms.” Archbishop Temple had a ready wit A fussy enrate once asked him if an accident whieh prevented the curate’s aunt from taking a ship, which after: ward sank, was an instance of provi: dential Interference. Here's the re- tort “Can't tell; didn’t know your aunt." More unkind is the reply which Tatleyrand is reported to have made to a friend who was lying on a sick bed. “Lam suffering the tortures of the damned,” sald the afteted man. “What, already?” said Talleyrand, with polite incredulity. Two Clever Retorts. The cause of dispute between Aus- tria and Hungary ‘s of long standing and must be settled by complete sur- render on one side or the other, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat. It was brought about by opportunists, who, after the manner of that school of politicians, in reaching the compact in 1868, left disputes which they had ‘not the courage to settle to the set- tlement of posterity. When the com- pact was formed in 1868 there were ‘several points of disagreement, the “chief of which referred to the military prerogatives of the crown, In_ the ‘drawing up of that compact, from “which was born the dual monarchy, Koloman Tisza, father of the present Count Tisza, one of the Hungarian leaders, insisted on the introduction of the Hungarian language of com- mand in the army and the develop: “ment of a separate Hungarian army. "But the king was unalterably opposed to this and Deak and Andrassy the elder, great men of Hungary at that time, saw that the compact was about to be wrecked, and they made a “bridge of the word “constitutional,” which was meant to be ambiguous. | Ambiguity has always been the | mother of strife and it has proved to “be so in this case, Hungarians were to understand that the royal preroga- tives in respect of the army were to be exercised under “constitutional” | that is to say, parliamentary’ control, | while the king was éxpected to be | lieve that these military prerogatives |in respect of the Hungarian part of | the army were constitutional in the | sense of being recognized by Hungar- | fan constitutional law, but not essen: | tiaily different from the military pre | rogatives of the emperor of Austria. | This is a statement of the case re | cently made by M. Kossuth, according to the London Times. The Hungar. fan leader admits that the phrase was intentionally made ambiguous, and jhe added that Hungary had since | been living in ® constitutional fool's | paradise and now she saw the consti tution tumbling about her ears. It seems a small thing to demanc that the words of command in ar army shall be in one’s own language but it is to be remembered that the | Magyar language is not the language | of Hungary, though it is the dominant lone, as the Magyar is the dominant |race, There are Czech, Polak and other races who constitute about one half of the population to whom the Magyar language is anathema, and who would much prefer that the Ger man words of command should be used in the army, The Magyars an the Jews of Hungary are in close com bination and stand firmly together or all political questions, Together thes Jelect a majority of the members o | the diet, because they possess mor generally the privilege of the fran |chise. When the parliament meet: [its temper will be such that ic wil | probably be dissolved by roya! com mand, or at least by order of Premte Fejervary, who has already receiver authority from the emperor-king t that end. Then is expected to com a revolution, | This Is one of the sticks of dyna mite which have been lying aroun loose in Europe for a long time, await ing the spark which fs to set it off The aged emperor, while natural} conciliatory, has fully made up ht mind on this subject, and it appear | that the Magyars have as fully madi ‘up theirs, Should revolution resutt | the trouble would not be confined ‘oth limits of the dyal kingdom in al | probability, for the neighboring na tions have long since had an eye o | the prospective carcass of the enpire /upon the death of aged Franz Jose! //and Russia, Germany, Italy and pe -|haps other states would demand hand in whatever settlement is to b reached. Sir Harry Johnston, the famous ex- plorer, once escaped from a very tight corner In Africa by a queer stratacem A score or (wo of murderous natives had surrounded bis tent, Into which before rushing it, they sent an envoy ‘The envoy was told the smallpox was in the camp and a wretched Atsna was sent ont as the awful exa nple. In five minutes the seared tribesmen had vantshea. As Sir Harry wel knew, they feared the “white disease” more than all the inventions of slax hoe MAJORITY OF PATIENTS WOMEN Urs, Pinkham’s Advice Saves Many ‘From this Sad and Costly Experience. y It is a sad but a Wa certain fact that ! BER every yeur > eee brings an in- ee 7 crease in the be RW numberof opera~ pee (#gga tions encere ee /, Mf upon women in Sia Our hospitals, an J] Morethan three- Sc so fourths of the PMaiLeella Adams m patients Lying lion thosa anowe- eee if ot ry Se Bl | m ries re Jl Mai Laelia Adams § white beds are women and girls who are awaiting or recovering from opera tions made necessary by neglect, Every one of these oes had pest Mee that ingdown jecling, pain at the left or right of the abdomen, nervous exhaustion, pain in the small of the back, pelvio catarrh, dizziness, flatulency, displacements or Irregularities, “ALO these aymptoms are indications of an unhealthy con- dition of the female organs, and it not heeded the trouble may make headway until the penalty, has to be pald by & dangerous operation, and a lifetime of impaired usefulness at best, while in many cases the results are fatal. ‘Miss Luella Adams, of Seattle, Wash., writes: Dear Mrs, Pinkham t= “About two years ago Twas a grent suf foror from a severe female trouble, pains and. headaches, ‘The doctor prescribed foe ine atv finally told mo that I had @ tumor and must yivlergo an operation if T wanted to get wel Tol that this wag my death warrant, but E spent hundreds of dollars for medical help, Dut the tumor kept growing. Fortunately f ggrreponslod it an auntintheNow England Btates, and the advised moto take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, aa it was said to curetumors, Tdid soand immediately: Beganto improve in health and I wasentirely- cured, the tumor disappearing entirely, with out an operation, “wish every miffering ‘Woman would try this great preparation.” Just as surely as Miss Adams was cured of the troubles enumerated in her letter, just so surely will Lidia B, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cure other women who suffer from fe- male troubles, inflammation, kidney troubles, nervous excitability or ner ‘yous prostration, Mrs. Pinkham invites all young women who are ill to write her for free advice, She is daughter-in-law of Lydia B. Pinkham and for twenty-five years has been advising sick women Secs of charge. Address, Loan, Maxs, ¥ THE REAL FACTS. Now, little George of brains had some, In fact, a level head, And learned a lot of lessons from ‘The daily news he read. ‘The news most carefully he'd trace, Not merely o'er it skim, And thus the naughty packers’ case Gave ideas to him, And so when father grabbed a club On that momentous day, Why, little George was not a dub, But knew just what to say. He murmured, “Pa, confess I can't About your cherry tree Unless you give your word to grant Immunity to me!” A man could make a lot of money by never having any bills to pay, but ft would be of no use to his family, Smokers appreciate the quality value of Lewis’ Single Binder cigar, Your dealer ‘oF Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, Til An Orchid Romance. Orehid lovers have for many years been watching for the rediscovery of Fairie’s lady slipper orchid. They wanted it, not merely because it had been utterly lost to cultivation, but because it was the parent of many of the most beautiful hybrids we have, says The Garden Magazine for March. ‘That Fairle’s orchid has eventually been rediscovered and reintroduced is the direct result of the British govern- ment's mission to Tibet. They were rushed to the auction rooms, and so keen was the excite- ‘ment in the orchid world that plants of two or hree growths sold at prices ranging from $300 to $500. The se- cret of another shipment being on the seas had been well kept, but it ars rived in due time and foday the lady's slipper, lost for half a century, ean be purchased in good specimens for $25. Already American collectors are in possession of the rarity, and it has even flowered in the collection of Mr. a at St. Louis. Bhrewe. Duke DeBlewblud—"Str, I would confer my titles upon your lovely daughter.” Old Shrewdun—"T guess not. I ain't doin’ business Ike that no more since I bought that acre tract on the bottom o' Lake Michigan twenty years ago.” Different. “What did your wife do when you falled to keep your engagement to take her to the theater?” “She was speechless with anger.” “Lucky man! My wife wasn’t that angry.” eee, SSSI a, wee Aes i= is : Z 2 KIDNEY 2 0 a na, PILLS =s MN I e Sh CAIUS Wats adiel as ae ng Ri Pe Te PULL Pe ee Ose ett a ee hatter pee Oe Se eee eo CONCERNING FASHIONS Evening Wraps a La Kimono. Kimono styles have invaded the realm of evening wraps in the shape of an interesting coat made of satin, the fronts rolling back and the cuffs turned back in typical kimono fashion. Both fronts and cuffs are trimmed with embroidery of the Japanese type, done in the color of the wrap. Another wrap, cut in some way which makes it drape from the shoulders, has a pointed fold falling from the middle of the back down almost to the waist, like a mock hood. If a bordered material is used, the point is edged both sides with the border, which runs down both fronts as well. Or, sometimes, bands of Oriental embroidery make the trimming, the point further emphasized by a tassel of silk, which dangles from the very tip. A Smart Cloth Gown. The old-fashioned idea that the best gown was the silk gown has long since been forgotten, and now we see gowns of much more style and costliness developed in cloth. The shops are full of exquisite textures and the woman of fashion will select monotones of becoming shades for her new frocks. The gown shown is one of rare good style and suitable to devel- 1 opment in French cashmere, drap d'ete, Henrietta or lady's cloth. The model might serve as a reception gown in one of the light pastel shades of cloth or silk. The skirt is the new thirteen-gored one, with plats stitched in tuck effects. It fits smoothly over the hips and flares with infinite grace at the bottom. The deep collar, continued by trimming straps to the waist-line, is very stunning. The yoke may be made of Italian lace, and the cuffs of a deeper tone of velvet to match the girdle. A frill of lace may finish the sleeves or a deep tight cuff of the yoke material. Large cut steel or silver filigree buttons or medallions of lace may adorn the trimming straps. Needlework on Summer Gowns. Needlework on Summer Gowns. Summer gowns show some needlework effects, especially the shirt waists, which are trimmed with embroidered bands. Linen huck is being utilized for bands, lending itself readily to flat darning in a variety of patterns. On plain materials a new idea in darning, which does not require a pattern, is being shown, and this promises to be popular, not only on wash goods, but on heavier materials, and even on silks and satins. New designs are being shown in the canvas and etamine darning, and some handsome summer shirt waists will have insertions and edgings of a new variety of crochet, the foundation of which is done on a wide wooden needle like a hairpin, and is really no more than our old hairpin work, and the finish a fine crochet done on very thin thread in a simple, but most becoming design. These trimmings are not difficult to make and launder beautifully. Tatting in wheels and edges will be used more or less, and all of this work is of the kind that can be picked up and worked on in odd moments, so that it is not difficult of accomplish. Pretty Dinner Gown. The princess gown has found especial favor with the fair debutante this season and some exquisite frocks built on these lines have been seen on youthful and attractive wearers. Our sketch suggests this type of gown in white crepe radium, the skirt finished at foot with the exquisite frocks built on these lines have been seen on youthful and attractive wearers. Our sketch suggests this type of gown in white crepe radium, the skirt finished at foot with three deep tucks. The decollete neck is filled in at bust with white lace medallions laid over gold, and narrow lace similarly treated outlines the neck all around, as well as the lower part of bodice and short sleeves, the latter filled in with a double frill of white lace run with gold threads. Leather Ruffles a Novelty. A nouveauate from Paris are ruffles made of leather, which are sewed around the bottom of the skirt to protect them from the dust and dirt of the streets. The ruffles are made of S leather of moderate weight, dyed to match the color of the gown. They are fulled on to a leather band which is attached by means of buttons and buttonholes to the bottom of the gown. In this way these ruffles need only to be worn in the street and can be taken off and brushed and cleaned. They protect the gown better than one can imagine as well as giving the required stiffness to hold out a skirt well around the bottom. WHILE THE TBA DREWS It is said that white will prevail in millinery this spring. Both big and little hats are seen, but none of medium size. A turban of crimson chilion has a wreath of poppies around it. Tiny gold roses are seen on some of the smartest of the dark, rich hats. of the smartest of the dark, rich hats. Empire models in tea gowns are first favorites among the graceful garments. Black velvet trimming is to play quite an important part on spring dresses. An exaggerated long waist and blouse front is no longer considered good style. Graduated bands of velvet on silk gowns is an old-time feature of present modes. Tips are absent from most of the new shoes. There's a very pretty bit of style in the long, unbroken vamp. Tailored Shirt Waists Tallored shirt waists are never entirely abandoned by the fashionable women and hold their place in sporting attire. The new models are much like those with which we are familiar, plaited at the shoulders and with a shirt cuff rather than a long fitted cuff, the most authoritative makers having apparently decided that since the more elaborate blouse has set aside the shirt waist, save for very tailorlike costume, the waist may well be as mannish and severe as possible. There are, however, some heavy waists of tailor style not so conventional. One has the familiar plaited body, but a rolling low collar and elbow sleeves with turnback cuffs. This is shown in linen, and a number of severe linen models have the short sleeves with plain turnback cuff. New Bipple from Paris. Dalnty evening wrist bags, which cry "Paris" from every fold of the silk of which they are composed, are among the new novelties. They are quaint little brocaded affairs, with jeweled clasps. Each contains a little mirror, a powder puff, and a touch of the bloom of youth. Ribbon Embroideries. Ribbon embroideries for dress garniture are an example of old things masquerading in new uses. We have long been familiar with this pretty style of work on all sorts of fahcy articles for milady's use, but in the new ornamentation of dress accessories these appear altogether different. Many an otherwise quite ordinary gown owes its air of distinction STREET COSTUM The costume at the left is of violet cloth. The bell skirt is finished with a deep flounce headed and trimmed with braid. The short bolero is trimmed with braid and buttons. The waistcoat and collar are of velvet embroidered with gold. The girdle is composed of bands of braid finished in front with knots and buckles. The sleeves are plaited into the armhole, then finished just below the elbow with cuffs of the braid and also cuffs of the embroidered velvet. The other to a little of this decoration on vest and cuff, bodice or belt. Given the materials—and the right sort of ribbon can now be had at almost any embroidery or department store—the work goes easily and quickly, and almost any woman who can use a needle at all can get satisfactory decorative effects with these French embroidery ribbons. Small floral patterns are the prettiest, and one stitch makes a petal, while touches of gold thread and spangles or beads can be introduced with the happiest results. Done on lace in scattered sprays or little wreaths the ribbon work is particularly effective and, entre nous, is a great stunt for refurbishing and freshening a gown that needs the touch. Empire Gowns Gain Favor. Empire gowns are slowly but surely gaining in favor among the smartest dressed women. When properly made they are truly graceful and picturesque. The soft diaphanous materials are preferred and the majority employ short little boleros of lace or embroidery. An effective suggestion is pale green mousseline de sole over self tone taffeta, with bolero of green silk eyellet embroidery. A fichu arrangement of the mousseline finishes the decollete waist and two black velvet bows in front give a pretty finishing touch. Velvet Waist Blouse of violet velvet slightly draped at the bottom and ornamented with buttons. A shaped band of the velvet bordered with a plaiting of taffeta to match. forms the collar, over which is a turn-over of embroidery in delicate colors. The waistcoat is composed of overlapping pieces of with buttons. A shaped band of the velvet bordered with a plaiting of taffeta to match. forms the collar, over which is a turn-over of embroidery in delicate colors. The waistcoat is composed of overlapping pieces of the velvet, ornamented with little buttons. It is finished with little lace ruffles. The chemisette is also of lace, and the girdle is of the velvet. The full sleeves are finished with cuffs made like the waistcoat, and also with prettily draped lace ruffles. Bancroft Pudding. Cream 4 tablespoons of butter and 1 cup of sugar, add 1 well-beaten egg. Sift 1½ cups flour, with ½ teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Add ½ cup of flour to the first mixture and beat thoroughly, then add the rest of the flour and ½ cup of milk, alternately. Finally beat ¼ of a square of chocolate, which has been melted, with the batter, and bake 30 minutes. Sauce—Beat two eggs until very light, then add 1 cup of confectioners' sugar and one cup of thick cream. Beat all together until the consistency of whipped cream. Suede Wrist Gloves. Black suede wrist gloves are worn a good deal. They make the hand look extremely petite. Moreover, they look very well with many theater waists, and, not soiling readily, a pair or two may be made to last the economical girl throughout a season. MES FROM PARIS. costume is of checked wool. The bell skirt is made with a plaited front, which is cut in one piece with the flounce. The latter is headed by a shaped band of the material finished at the ends with crossed straps and buttons. The blouse is plaited to a round yoke, from which escape two straps crossed in front. The collar, buttons and girdle are of velvet, the first ornamented with embroidery. The sleeves are trimmed to correspond. CHOATE IN CHILDHOOD DAYS DACHSHVND A GOOD FIGHTER SVNLIGHT AND THE HOUSE BOOKS HAD DOVBLE VSE There was a church trial in this burg not many days ago, a case where the scandal and its history were kept beautifully smothered, and where the "vultures of the press," as one aged minister called them, were baffled from Alpha to Omega, and from A to Izzard. The trial came off, and the verdict was deferred for a month or two. So much for the trial. What happened during the first session thereof is what concerns this story. Numerous reporters came to the trial—and got nothing, which is the reason no newspaper printed more than a casual mention of the case. When the eager scribes gathered at the church they were received with great courtesy, and also with the information that the proceedings were stricly secret. They were then herded into an anteroom and told that they would be given a little information later. Gathered in this anteroom, the boys chatted, laughed and formulated imaginary narratives. This soon palled upon them, and they began to figure out some method of getting at least an inkling of the doings. Their anteroom was behind another anteroom, and this room, in turn, was separated from the auditorium of the church by a big double door, the kind of door where you push both halves and emerge in the middle. The boys It is stated of our late coruscating ambassador at the court of St. James, the Hon. Joseph H. Choate, that when he was a little chap he and his sister had been forbidden by parental authority to go in swimming, or even to wade on the shore. Nevertheless, the pair soon made their way to the beach, and naturally were exposed to the devices of Saxon. "You might at least take off your shoes and stockings," suggested the tempter, well aware to what this would lead. "Nobody will see us," said the acquiescent "Joe" to his sister. "God will see us," was the reply. "But he won't tell," returned the sharp and precocious infant, who was already tasting the sweets of forensic victory. As no effective response served to suggest itself, transgression soon followed, and its results were finally emphasized by the plastic hand of their mother. In one of his rambles the impending ambassador fell in with a little girl who was weeping bitterly. "What The good natured, philosophic German dachshund has always been regarded as more or less of a joke in this country. Even in the Fatherland he is a staple for jesting. His elongated body, his crooked legs, his animated tail, his resemblance to a sausage—who could fail to make some sort of joke about a dachshund? But the dachshund has a very serious side, and a work in life. "Dachshund" means "badger dog." Now, the badger is an animal that, generally speaking, needs neither game laws nor sympathy, because he is able to take care of himself and fight his own battles. Naturalists place him as a link between the bear family and the weasels. He has about all the sirenous characteristics of both, with some of his own in addition. Badger baling was formerly a barbarous rustic sport that drew trade to country bins and taverns. A badger was placed in a barrel and the man whose dog could bring him out got a prize. A single dog seldom did it. A full pack might—sometimes. The Sunlight is nature's most health-giving scavenger. A house without sunlight is unhealthy and unsafe for human occupancy and it is necessary not only to have some sunlight, but to have as much of it as possible. It is, of course, not feasible to admit the direct rays of the sun to every room of a house; the typical plan of all houses is square or rectangular, and at least one side of the house is entirely beyond the reach of the sun. The other three sides, however, can receive more or less direct sunlight and the problem of the plan is thus reduced to arranging the various rooms so that the amount of sunlight is adjusted to their uses, and it must be sunlight, for mere light itself is not sufficient; the rays of the sun have curative and cleansing properties that nothing else has. The following incident, illustrating the rough humor of the late "Luke" Poland, then a congressman from Vermont, was related to me a number of years ago by our family physician, says a writer in an eastern publication. I had been ill a number of days with torsitis, and had reached the restless stage of convalescence, when the doctor called one morning and found me propped against the pillows and deeply interested in a paper-covered volume of the yellow variety. My mother attempted to anologize for the cheap character of my literature, but was interrupted by the doctor, who laughingly exclaimed: "Oh, let him cadd anything he wants to, if it will only keep him quiet." "And, do you know," he continued. "I read some pretty cheap looking silently sneaked forward into this room, and one of the most daring knelt by the door, his eyes glued to the crack, his ears extended to their greatest length. The others grouped beside and behind him, and waited for him to give out such information as his coign of vantage might secure. Among the crowd was one young man who didn't particularly care whether any paper got anything or not. In fact, he would far rather have scored a blank for this particular case, and thus have gained some other and more pleasing assignment from his city editor. This young man cogitated for one moment, and then, quick as some huge cat, gave the kneeling spy at the door a tremendous shove. The kneeling victim shot straight through the suddenly opening doors, landing on hands and knees far out in the auditorium. Another reporter, who had been leaning against the doors, fell headlong against him, bringing up squarely upon his stomach. Two others, unable to regain their balance, sat down heavily in the doorway. The remainder of the tribe, scrambling madly, fled out into the street, leaving the fallen ones to receive the wrath of the assembled ministers. It might be just as well to draw the veil of silence and of charity over the subsequent proceedings. — Chicago Journal. is the matter, Molly? Can I do anything for you?" was the sympathetic query. With many sobs came the reply: "My mamma has gone to heaven." "Perhaps she hasn't!" was the comforting comment, which abruptly stopped the sobs and left the victim in a maze of thought. Another experience revealed to our hero a cottage with a sunny garden all abloom and a plaza dominated by an elderly maiden of forbidding aspect. "May I have a few of those lovely flowers?" "No, no, little boy." came the churlish reply. "They are put there to look at, not to touch." "That's why you are put there, I suppose," said the quick and impudent youth, as he scampered down the street. "My child, my child, what dirty hands!" said the mother one day as he came in with hands that suggested a four paws' menagerie. "Go and wash them at once." "Why, ma!" was the aggrieved response, "I have washed them already. You must be getting color blind." badger is a tremendous burrower, and the jolly dachshund of the jokes has been trained for centuries in Germany to go into his burrows like a ferret after rats and drive the badger out or fight him. In some German and Austrian cities there were formerly badger-baiting tourneys in which crack dachshunds entered a pit with an able-bodied badger and fought for points. It is said that such contests are still held in Vienna. For spirit, endurance and agility the dachshund has no peer in this work, and a bulldog pitted against a badger would probably find himself cutting a poor figure. So, to make the jokes about the dachshund if you will, but give him credit for his prowess, and for that gentleness, characteristic also of the best bulldogs, that makes either an affectionate companion to man and a loyal playmate to children. Give the dachshund credit, too, for intelligence. He has it in large degree. Few dogs are keener, and probably his acumen is such that he even sees a good many of the dachshund jokes. It is generally admitted that a southern exposure is the best for all houses and should be obtained whenever possible. It is immaterial whether the entrance is placed on this side or not, so long as the rooms most in use open onto the house. In dwellings of average size the entrance front will also be the front on which any important room opens, but in large country houses, the old distinction of a front and back to a house has disappeared and instead we have the entrance front and the garden front; the service and servants' quarters, so long regarded as characteristic of the "back" of a house, may be relegated to a side end or placed in a wing that abuts directly on the entrance front. In such cases it must be well screened, and its purpose thoroughly subordinated—American Homes and Gardens. stuff myself, especially on a train. I hardly ever come home from a trip that I don't bring a cheap novel with me, and sometimes I am so ashamed of the blood and thunder stories that I tear off the covers before taking the books into the house. "I remember once when going from Rutland to Hurlington, VT, I noticed Congressman Luke Poland sitting a few seats in front of me with a novel he had purchased of the train boy. At the next stop I left my seat, and, stopping beside him, said: "Good morning Mr. Poland. I see you have my bad habit of reading cheap literature on the train." "Yes," he replied, "I confess I dg read some worthless trash on the train, but it passes the time, you know, and, besides, some d—— fool doesn't come and talk to you." There is no Rochelle Salts, Alum, Lime or Ammonia in food made with Calumet Baking Powder Compiles with the Pure Food Laws of all States. A Modern Romeo. Amelia—"Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon." Augustus—"Then what shall I swear by?" "Swear by that which you hold in- valuable; something which is dearer to you than all things else; something that you cannot live without." "Then, Amelia, I love you! I swear it by my salary." Important to Mothers Important to mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it A. Tender Heart. Hotel Guest—in the West. "So you recently came from farther West?" Walter—"Yes, sah; from far West, Got disgusted wif de morals ob dat section, sah. De Wailah's Danite Union used to lunch guests wat gwat less nor one dollah, sah, an' I couldn't stand that. No, sah! I don't considah a man ought to be hurt unless he gives less nor fifty cents, sah." How's This? We offer one hundred Tollers Reserved for any business that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarril Cure. F. J. CHENNEY & CO., Tolteo, Oklahoma. We, the undersiders, and for the last 15 years, believe that perfectly honorable to all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by the firm. Wholesale Drugs, Tolteo, Oklahoma. Hall's Catarril Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood system. Testimentals sent free. Price 25 cents per bottle. Sold by mail or by post for continuation. A Rich Man's Sport. Mr. C, K. G. Billings, the owner of the fast horses Lou Dillon and Major Delmar, is as much interested in automobiles as he is in horses, and has the largest private garage in America, says the March World's Work. He has 13 different cars and uses two stables for their storage, paying $200 a month rent. He has a complete workshop with lathes and other equipment for making repairs, and also an electric charging plant which costs about $1,000 a month to operate. Every month he spends another $50 for lighting, and $225 for wages to his head chauffeur. There are also three other chauffeurs who get $150 each, and two washers to keep the cars clean, who get $50 a month apiece. He spends also every month about $400 for tires, $100 for new parts, $200 for his chauffeur's clothes and food, and large sums for gasoline and oil. It is estimated that his 13 automobiles are worth $100,000 and cost from $25,000 to $30,000 a year to keep in commission. Automobiling of course is made exclusively a rich man's sport when carried on so lavishly. Our Leisure Classes "Have you any leisure class in your country?" asked the English tourist. "Well, that's according to what you call leisure," replied the citizen. "We've got a lot of people who sit still and do nothing but complain while the corporations they create are robbing them blind. If that's what you mean, then we've got 'em." GRAND TO LIVE. And the Last Laugh Is Always the Best. "Six months ago I would have laughed at the idea that there could be anything better for a table beverage than coffee," writes an Ohio woman—"now I laugh to know there is." "Since childhood I drank coffee as freely as any other member of the family. The result was a puny, sickly girl, and as I grew into womanhood I did not gain in health, but was afflicted with heart trouble, a weak and disordered stomach, wrecked nerves and a general breaking down, till last winter, at the age of 38 I seemed to be on the verge of consumption. My friends greeted me with 'How bad you look! What a terrible color!' and this was not very comforting. "The doctors and patent medicines did me absolutely no good. I was thoroughly discouraged. "Then I gave up coffee and commenced Postum Food Coffee. At first I didn't like it, but after a few trials and following the directions exactly it was grand. It was refreshing and satisfying. In a couple of weeks I noticed a great change. I became stronger, my brain grew clearer, I was not troubled with forgetfulness in coffee times, my power of endurance was more than doubled. The heart trouble and indigestion disappeared and my nerves became steady and strong. "I began to take an interest in things about me. Housework and home-making became a pleasure. My friends have marveled at the change and when they inquire what brought it about, I answer 'Postum Food Coffee, and nothing else in the world.'" Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year. 12 Three months. 15 Three months. 15 One month. 15 Suspectly paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write us. All news matter intended for pub- lication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of auth- enticity. OFFICE-No. 117 West Sixth. St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates. CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL . . . IN KANSAS CITY. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. Boys you have no time to stand around and fuss with one another. The enemy is on us and time is short. Conquor the enemy, then we shall have peace. To our brothers in black we would remind you that the Republican party is the only party to tie to. The time is not ripe to change your political views. Allow no false Gods to persuade you from the path of righteousness. 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. 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. Among the several important issue of the day is the gas question. The people of Kansas City want cheap gas, not twenty years hence but now. The present generation would like to enjoy the comforts of natural gas because it is in our reach. But it is claimed that the city council has the power to fix a 75 cent rate for artificial gas. If this is a fact, why have the people been compelled for years to pay $1.00. Here is where the people get food for thought. JOHN F. WEIDERMAN Republican Nominee Upper House. Mr. John F. Weiderman is a Missourian by birth, was born in Westport and years ago served in the Westport council with much distinction. Mr. Weiderman is a foremost business man and conducts one of the largest grocery establishments in the fashionable Westport district. Among his numerous employees are several colored men. His splendid public record of the past entitles him to the favorable consideration of every voter. Men of clean records make ideal councilmen and it is to the interest of Kansas City that such men receive the support of her citizens. W. C. BROOKS. Republican Nominee for Upper House. Mr. W. C. Brooks whom the Republican nominated for member of the Upper House is a native of Galesburg, Ill. When the Republicans came in power two years ago Mr. Brooks secured the office of superintendent of streets. His administration has been an efficient one in every particular. In the appointment of men on the street force, Mr. Brooks was careful to give the colored boys their share of the patronage. Mr. Brooks is a pro progressive business man and is interested with his sons in the coal and feed business. His general integrity is such that if elected to the Upper House, his constituents may depend that the interests of the city will be duly guarded. --- John N. Swenson, born May 31, 1879, graduated at Bethany College, Linds- burg, Kansas 1899, receiving degree of B.A. Graduated from the law de- M. B. partment of Yale University 1902, receiving degree of L. L. B. Admitted to the bar of Missouri, 1902. Married Miss Adele Himburg of Kansas City. July 25, 1904. WM. P. WOOLF. REPUB. NOMINEE ALDERMAN 3RD WARD. WM. P. WOOLF. REPUB. NOMINEE ALDERMAN 3RD WARD. DR. J. G. LAPP. REPUB. NOMINEE ALDERMAN 7TH WARD. DR. J. G. LAPP. REPUB. NOMINEE ALDERMAN 7TH WARD. E. E. MORRIS. REPUB. NOMINEE ALDERMAN 10TH WARD. GEO. E. EDWARDS. GEO. E. EDWARDS. Republican Nominee Member Upper House Mr. Edwards was born in the city of St. Louis May 25, 1867. He was reared and educated in the leading college of Illinois. He was traveling salesman for different jewelry firms for a period of ten years. For the past 17 years he has conducted a jewelry business in this city and today stands among the foremost merchants in that line of business. His nomination for the office of the Upper House was fortunate in that having been successful in his own business affairs, he will prove a valuable acquisition to that body of men to whom the interest of Kansas City are entrusted. He is a man of integrity, character and ability and deserves the support of all good citizens. REPUBLICAN TICKET WORTHY OF OUR SUPPORT. There remains about three weeks of active campaigning by the Republicans before election. The party platform is before the public. Its views and pledges are known to the people. The thing that remains now is an uniting of forces for the final battle. The negro citizens of Kansas City are at this time well represented at the City Hall. The retiring mayor did not overlook the colored voters. All representation the negroes have received locally has been given by the Republican party. This at least is an argument in favor of the negroes. We must show appreciation for what we receive. We cannot afford to be ungrateful. Let the negro voters of Kansas City present a solid front, go down the line and elect the Republican ticket from the top to bottom. Every tax payer and citizen is glad that Mr. A. E. Holmes, our present city treasurer has been renominated. He has made a grand success. Of course this was expected, for Mr. Holmes has been very successful in his own business. His methods are such that anything like failure is out of the question. See that you support him. Hair Dressing NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING THIS TIN FOR FOR MAKING HARSH, STUBBORN HAIR SOFT GLOSSY-LUXURIOUS PRICE 25 CTS Not New or Experimental, but an Old, Reliable Preparation of Proven Merit. Nelson's Hair Dressing is an ideal Hair Pomade. It contains no strong, dangerous chemicals that can in any way injure the hair. You can use it just as long as you wish, or stop it any time without any bad effects. It does not affect the color of the hair, but it does reflect the hair's presence it from becoming dry and brittle, and enables you to do it up in any style consistent with its length, at the same time giving it that glossy look so much desired. As a Hair Grower we consider Nelson's Hair Dressing the equal of anything made. It supplies the needed oil directly to the roots of the hair, softens and invigorates the scalp, there by removing dandruff and promoting the growth of the hair, Stops it from becoming dry and brittle, and splitting at the ends, which is nearly due to lack of natural oil in the hair. Nelson's Hair Dressing is an excellent remedy for all kinds of Scalp Diseases such as Tetter, Itching and Sealing of the Scalp, Dandruff, &c. Nelson's Hair Dressing is delightfully perfumed; put up in handsome 4-ounce square tin boxes (like one shown in cut), and sold everywhere by druggists and agents at 25 cents a box. If you cannot find it in town, seach us 30 cents in stamps and we will mail you a full size box, postage paid. Address. Nelson Manufacturing Co., Richmond, Va. WE WANT GOOD AGENTS. WRITE FOR PRICES, TERMS, ETC. 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 conceit 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 young mother gazed upon her firstborn and wept convulsively. They appealed to know why her great grief. "Alas!" she wailed, as with interest agony. "I am afraid he will wear side whiskers when he grows up!"—Brownning'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. 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 crane-berries, 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. Fast 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 Bulky." The first reinsman to use the "bike sulky" on the grand circuit was Ed Geers during the Detroit meeting of 1892. MAKES HARSH STUBBORN HAIR SOFT AND PLIANT REMOVES DANDRUFF The Mother's Fears At a Wedding. al, but an Old, Reliable Proven Merit. It ideal Hair Pomade. It contains no strong, air or heat. You can use it but as long as and effects. It does not affect the color of the softens harsh, stubborn, refractory hair, pre- nables you to do it up in any style consistent at rich, glossy look so much desired. Colson's Hair Dressing the equal structural softness and truff and promoting the growth of the hair, and splitting at the ends, which is nearly an excellent remedy for all kinds of Scalp of the Scalp, Dandruff, &c. It affords you comfort up in handsome cut, and sold everywhere by druggists and it in your town, send us 30 cents in stamps paid. Address, Co., Richmond, Va. ITE FOR PRICES, TERMS, ETC. THE E. Z. SHAVE. 07 East St. Kansas City, Mo. VOTE SELLING IGNOBLE AND DAN GEROUS. The negro who sells his vote on election day, not only commits an outrage against common decency but he devoids himself of every scintilla of manhood. He tramples under his feet the most sacred of all the privileges granted him by the government of the United States. He who sets his right and manhood enslaves himself and is totally unfit for citizenship and the association of men. There are no rights in the community to which he should aspire, for indeed he has sold them. No brotherly love awaits him for he has proven himself corrupt, degraded and unworthy. An Irishman was sitting in an inn in County Mayo one day, while it was raining furiously without. A nobleman's brougham drew up at the door of the hostelry. Blazoned on the panels of its doors were the arms of its owner, inscribed with the motto, "Fides regnat ubique." "Pat," asked some one of Irishman, "how do you translate that?" "Easy enough." Pat replied, "Fides regnat ubique"—Falth! it rains everywhere." Brother's Danger Unheeded. An Australian clergyman, driving past a deep water hole in Victoria the other day, saw a youngster playing on the bank, and pulled up to warn him of the danger of falling in. "My brother's in already," the little fellow replied brightly, and went on playing in the mud. The startled clergyman was just in time to fish out the other youngster before he drowned. There is another new explosive for the destruction of navies and armies. It is named "gigorit." Fire does not explode it, but burns it up. It is safe against both friction and concussion. It can be fired only by an electric current, is not affected by water or air, and therefore is safe for transportation. It is a German invention. --New York Press. 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. Adarnsville, Ala., Sept. 30, 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 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. PROMOTES THE GROWTH OF THE HAIR PREVENTS IT FROM SPLITTING AND BREAKING OFF C. A. EVANS, BARBER SHOP For First Class Work. Irish Translation. Safe Explosives. His Customary Luck. WESTERN UNIVERSITY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. DEPARTMENTS: Theological, State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Presidential (Instrumental and Voluntey, Drawing (Fine Arts and Book Binding, Business Dering, Tailoring, Dressmaking, Dering, Farming and Garden) ADVANTAGES: Slipendid Locations and Thorough Teaches INFORMATION: For terms, prices to WILLIAM T. VERNE PRESIDENT QUINDARO, Phones: Office—Bell—"White" MENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-National Industrial. USES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-National (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ, ballet, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Book Binding, Business Course, Stemography and Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. AGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Nurses and Thorough Teachers. ATTENTION: For terms, prices and all inducements of the William T. Vernon, A. M., D. PRESIDENT, INDARO, KANADA. 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, Stemography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered write to WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D. D. PRESIDENT, QUINDARO, KANSAS. Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West 15. David T. Beals, President. Edwin W. Zea, Cashier. Statement of the Condition of the Union National Ba KANSAS CITY, MO. As made to the Comptroller of the Currency at business January 29, 1906. Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. to the Comptroller of the Currency at business January 29, 1906. Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. As made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business January 29, 1906. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ... $ 6,909,895.44 United states bonds at par ... $600,000.00 Municipal bonds and other high class bonds at par ... 482,257.20 Cash and sight exchange ... 4,195,388.02 LIABILITIES. Capital stock ... $ 600,000.00 Surplus fund ... 400,000.00 Individual deposits ... 100,000.00 Unearned interest ... 84,022.00 National bank notes outstanding ... 500,000.00 Deposits ... 10,494,378.15 Total ... $12,187,490.66 DESIGNATED UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY. Directors—C. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. Merrell, O. H. Dean, Geo. W. Jones, Lee Clark, Geo. D. Ford, G. W. Lovejoy, Felix L. LaForce, David T. Beals, Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. Seeger, Edwin W. Zea. DESIGNATED UNITED STATES DEPOSITOR W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Sch Geo. W. Jones, Lee Clark, Geo. D. Ford, G. W. Lovejoy, Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. SEEGER, Edwin W. Zen. Directors—C. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. Mer- David T. Beaul, Fernando P. Neale, Wm. H. Scerger, Felix L. LaForce David T. Beaul, Fernando P. Neale, Wm. H. Scerger, Felix L. LaForce Mrs. W. H. Hubbell's Millinery and Notion Store 1906 Vine Street, Kansas City, Mo. 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 Matthaei's Bakery and you will always ask for Matthaei's bread. All Grocers. 903-5 W. 17th, Kansas City, Mo. age, Normal, Sub-Normal and tory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Mu- ncluding piano, organ and har- mechanical), Carpentry, Printing use, Stemography and Typewrit- Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laun- Healthful Climate, Good Influ- and all inducements offered write N, A. M., D. D. T, KANSAS. Residence—Bell—"West 15. F. P. Neal, Vice President. W. H. Seeger, Second Vice President on 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. There is a remedy for ignorance, but none for knowing too much. 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. There are two classes of women— those who like nice clothes and those who are dead. J Silas Harris has been selected chairman of the Advisory Board. No better man could have been chosen than J. Silas Harris. The Son received a letter of advice last week which it readily accepted. But please be brave enough to sign your name to any thing you send in. 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 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. The Attucks School is almost completed. The school board promised this school for some time. The supt. Mr. Greendow would like to see some demonstration of appreciation on part of the colored people. The Son will be glad to publish anything looking to that end. The Son desires to know what has become of the committee on the Convention hall entertainment of the Old Folks' Home. The public is anxious to hear what has been done—and it is right that such should be put before the people, that they may know what has been accomplished. DEATH OF GEORGE KING. The death of George King was a sad blow to his many friends. Following a brief illness he passed away last Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. A wife, mother, father, four sisters and five brothers survive him. The funeral was held from the Vine Street Baptist church last Tuesday evening. Rev. Morris officiated. The remains were sent to Weston, Mo., his old home. Lena Busch, Mrs. Willie Thomas, Minnie Moss, Marie Arlington, Mr. and Mrs. Cotton, Wesley Weathers and Lewis Woods accompanied the remains. The pallbearers were James Hollins, Jas. Henry, Wm. Maupin, Tom Mathews, Henry Birch and Melvin Clay. DOWN THE PIKE The Grand will have a return of Johnny and Emma Ray in their musical satire, "Down the Pike." Johnny as the despotic janitor of a New York apartment house, has a role particularly well suited to his style of comedy. The merriment runs through two acts, the first of which is placed in New York and the second along the famous pike of the World's fair in St. Louis. The Rays now are busy dodging memories of "A Hot Old Time," yet the Rays should not turn their backs toward the absurd farce which did them years of good service. A new musical comedy the best that ever came "Down the Pike." Grand Opera House week starting, Sunday matinee March 25. Matteines Sunday Thursday and Saturday. Eighty Per Cent. By a single stroke all marriage ties now in existence were struck off or declared illegal, eight-tenths of all couples would be remarried within forty-eight hours, and seven-tenths could not be kept assunder with bayonets. Eighty per cent of all marriages are a success from a biologic point of view.—Dr. Woods Hutchinson in Contemporary Review. Pull for Peace. Wasted energy is an enemy of wealth. Poor tools and abused earnestness make trouble, and trouble is also made by dishonesty before good tools and unrespected kindness. Every thinker should also be a worker in the interest of real wisdom between man and man. Conditions might be better for everybody on earth.-Earl M. Pratt. Doctors in a Race. An attraction of the last North Georgia fair was a "doctors' race." The physicians who took part in the contest had their horses stabled and were themselves undressed and in bed when the call for them was made. When the bell rang the, had to dress and hitch their horses and drive one mile to a certain place. Mosquitoes and Flies One of the facts established within a few years is that mosquitoes are the deadliest of all creatures. A writer in the Lancet adduces evidence which indicates that flies, too, cause thousands of deaths, especially of infants, every summer, by contaminating food with diarrheal germs. Do Amusements Amuse? Happiness is always unconscious (watch children and puppies at play and you will be convinced of the fact), but amusements, as a rule, render their participants even more irritable and self-conscious.-Lady Violet Greville in the Graphic. Eggs Fried on Pavement In July, says a writer in the Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, the Washington shopkeepers, so attract trade, fry eggs by breaking the shell and allowing the contents to fall upon the heated pavement of Pennsylvania avenue. Antiquity of Ropemaking. Although the name of the first ropemaker and that of the land in which he practiced his art have both been lost to history, Egyptian sculptures prove that the are was practiced at least 2,000 years before the time of Christ. Message to a Chelsea Man. A prominent Hebrew citizen of Chessen, Mass., received the following message from a brother who was to sail for the United States from Russia: "Will sail for America next week. Meet me at the edge." Last Public Gibbet. The last public gibbet used in England is stored in Leicester jail. The British Museum has tried in vain to get possession of the relic, and the authorities even refuse to let it be photographed. There is scarcely any limit to the causes of giddiness. Coffee, and even heavy meals, will sometimes bring this on. Fast a short time, and let the diet be light and plain, to effect a cure. An Editorial Announcement. We never did like turnip greens, anyway, but we can get on the outside of as much strawberry shortcake as any man of our caliber—except Sam Cole.—Newbern (Tenn.) Chronicle. 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." 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's Water Consumption. London uses 211,323,602 gallons of water a day. Mrs. McSosh—Do you mean to tell me, sir, that you were sober when you came home last night? Mr. McSosh—Absolutely, my dear. Mrs. McSosh—Then will you explain why you filled the refrigerator with coal and put six shovelfuls of ice in the furnace?—Cleveland Leader. What Pulque Brandy Will Do. What Pulque Brandy Will Do. Pulque brandy is described as a diabolical decoction from a species of cactus that if left on a desert island by itself would raise a riot. Fortunately for civilization, this fiery portion has not become an article of commerce, but is distilled and drunk by low-grade Mexicans, half-breeds and renegade whites of old Mexico, who can lay claim to a useful place in nature only by exterminating each other—Portland Oregonian. Arrogance and Impudence A well-known dowager was pushing her way out of the opera in London with the total disregard of other people's feelings (and toes) that marks the British aristocracy, when a denizen of the suburbs, annoyed at the onslaught, observed out loud: "The last bus hasn't gone yet, ma'am. No need to hurry!" If looks could kill a coroner's inquest would have followed. In Agua Appendicitis Appendicitis is, by statistics, shown to be far more prevalent among teen-totalers than among moderate users of alcohol, probably on account of the weakening of the appendix by excessive mineralization. We of the old school drink our bottle of Medoc when dining, with the result that we are gay and well, free from appendicitis.—Chicago American. Musician's Unkind Comment Edgar Stillman Kelly, the American composer, now living in Berlin, was asked by a friend who had not seen him for some time. "What are you doing now?" "I'm trying a rather interesting experiment," replied the composer. "What's that?" inquired his friend, with interest. "I'm setting some of Sousa's marches to music," was Kelly's reply. "The Man in the Street." "The Man in the Street is my most intimate aversion. He is the man who knows nothing but the state of the odds and of the market and gossip about politics and society at fifth hand and bridge and golf and motors and the younger female members of the theatrical profession." Andrew Lang in Illustrated London News. Catch Frogs for Market. Several young men of Clyde, Pa near Philadelphia, have been engaged in catching and shipping frogs to the city market. The business pays those engaged in it from $5 to $9 a day. From sixty to 180 pounds of frogs' legs can be secured daily, which can be readily sold for fifteen cents a pound. Schoolboy Definitions: "Noah's wife," said a boy in on examination, "was called Joan of Arc" "Water," wrote another, "is composed of two gases, oxygen and cambrigen." "Lava," replied a third youth, "is what the barber puts on your face." "A blizzard," insisted another child, "is the inside of a fowl." Cosmonolitan Household. A typical South African household described by Olive Schreiner had an English father, a half-Dutch mother with a French name, a Scotch governess, a Zulu cook, a Hortentot housemaid and a Kaffir stable boy, while the little girl who waited on table was a Basuto. Strange Request for Church A quaint bequest was made by a man in Staffordshire, England, who asked that the sum of twenty shillings be paid yearly to some poor man "to go through the church during the sermon to keep the people awake and the dogs out of the church." Bad Omen for Wedded Pair According to a popular item of folklore if a horse stood and looked through the gateway or along a road where a bride or bridegroom dwelt, it was considered to be a bad omen for that future couple. Mexican Coin for China. The Pacific Mail Steamship company's China took $2,000,000 in Mexican dollars when she sailed from San Francisco for China, recently. It is cheaper to send the coin than pay exchange. Six Crack at the Librettists When a man gets off as his own a joke he read in a paper, without being caught, he thinks he ought to write a comic opera.—New York Press. For the chasuble and stole of Thomas à Becket, preserved at Paris, the father of the present Duke of Norfolk is said to have offered $800,000. New Kind of Cotton "The other day," remarked the druggist, "a little boy came into my store and asked for a pound package of educated cotton. Rare Birds are Shot. Rarely seen so far north, a rose flamingo and an Egyptian flamingo were recently shot on the sands near Calats. Glasgow's Drink Bill. Glasgow, Scotland, spends on drink $16,000,000 a year, an average of $21.25 a head. French Eat More Bread. The Frenchmen eats nearly twice as much bread as the Britsher. EDITOR SATISFIED WITH HAND. Why He Proposes to Stand Pat on a Protection Ace Full. A bright and brachy Missouri editor who shapes the policy of the Central Missouri Republican of Poennesville, 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 envoy at the Metropolitan club in New York on the evening of Sept. 7, President Hadley 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 bobtail." 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 *m* and used them advisedly. We infer similarly as to "the Missouri man's unfinishing 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 anally 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. Being 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.) Courier. 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. 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Lewis A RoGU BY POP MCCHEYNE A ROGUE'S KISS BY POB MACHEYNE (Copyright, 1906, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) The sloping vineyards along Ontario were lightly veiled in the mists of Indian summer. In the air was that languorous warmth that steals into the veins and lulls the brain to dreams and reminiscence. The giant cataract could be heard faintly, a drowsy, distant hum of monotony—a sound that seemed to pervade everything and reach the bewildered brain, strangely associated with the heavy odor of grapes, full ripe; the rich clusters hanging everywhere, so harmonized with the amethystine haze in which the whole scene was bathed, that the mind was some way dulled to externals, like a muffled drum, and, yielding to the soothing enchantment of all about it, yet failed to distinguish clearly between sound and smell and sight. It is only by some such psychological analysis, whether scientific or not, that an explanation can be found for the startling fact that Fanette, going home from the day's picking, allowed Ponpon the jester, the clown, the great laughing roystering Ponpon to imprint upon her pretty, upturned, scarlet lips, a kiss, thinking all the while it was Antoine. And such a kiss! A group of gay young girls turned at the sound, only to see the demure Fanchette, blushing to be sure, but smiling in serene unconsciousness of the fact that it was Ponpon who had slipped up behind her and tipped her chin back, as Antoine sometimes did, when he was not too serious. An old man gathering sticks raised himself at the sound, only to see Ponpon's laughing face disappear among the bushes at the side of the road. A little bird heard the sound and burst into a joyous song. A tall girl, with eyes like blackberries, coming around a turn in the path behind them, heard it and saw, too, the whole performance, and her heart leaped exultantly. "So, that it the way when Antoine is not here! Oh, these demure little turtle doves!" and she turned back to wait for Antoine. When he came up Ponpon was hanging over him, casting all manner of fibes at him. "You have excellent taste, Antoine. I swear her little chin is as soft as ze breast of le perdrix." He burst into a loud guffaw. "Here is La Grignon"—he had given the dark eyed girl this nickname because she was tall as a maypole, and it had stuck because she was pretty as one—"she will tell you; she saw Fanchette kiss me" "Yes, and I think it is outrageous of her." Ponpon was not prepared for this, as he had no idea anyone had seen him, and had called La Grignon into it only to tease Antoine. So he quickly ran off to join another group. But Antoine was silent and his companion had no chance to poison his mind against her rival. Fanchette entered the vine covered J. W. S. cottage and kissed her mother with the happiest of faces. "Ah, my little Mignon, I see you have made up your quarrel of last night with Antoine." "Yes, mamma, he slipped up behind me as I was walking home—O, mamma, it was so good of him. I know I was in the wrong last night and I shall tell him so when he comes tonight." But Antoine did not come. The next day Fanchette noticed a difference in the way the girls treated her. * Such a kiss! together maid; s all unfrraid; by wood and glade stances wixt us two; e room of and blue, e gemmed with dew romancies! ifts high you wis; north wind bliss; our lips to kiss! the weather oes that gust along on wings of song; glide along love together. s in Houston Post. UE'S KISS She was continually finding herself left out of the little groups that worked and chatted merrily among the fragrant vines. Antoine did not come near her all the morning, and, when he passed her later in the day, looked away. Day after day of the balmy Indian summer passed away and Fanchette, no longer in doubt of the world's injustice went about her work with a sad little heart. What had she done? One of the younger girls had just made an unkind remark about her little blue bodice with the red eyelets and THE WEDDING The silence was intolerable. laces. Of course it was different from the dresses of the Canadian girls for she had brought it with her from France, but they had all admired it at first. Poor Fanchette! She knew nothing of the world as yet. She could not understand. One day, late in October, she was sitting on the stone wall, her eyes off across the valley and her thoughts in far off Gascony, when Ponpon came upon her. "Poor Fanchette!" he said banteringly, "she is ze last of her illustrious race and it makes her to mourn. Come, let me kiss away that sad look." "I hate you! I hate you! I hate everybody!" she burst forth. "Fanchette! Dear little Fanchette. This is serious. Tell Ponpon." He was not testing now. Fanchette only shook her head and winked the tears back. For a long time the good hearted fellow who had worked all the mischief regarded her in silence, then, unwilling to leave without a word said: "You will save Ponpon a dance tonight?" The girl shook her head. "Fanchette! Do not be so ill-tempered." "I'm—I'm not going," sobbed poor Fanchette. "Not going? Not going to the beeg party that the boss gives us. Why, there will be dances, and games, and jack-o-lanterns. Not going to the hallowe'en party? Fanchette! Fanchette! If you do not hold the water in your mouth you can never get married." But the girl wouldn't smile and poor Ponon went away sad of heart. "But she shall go," he said, and with the aid of Fanchette's mother he finally persuaded her to go at the last minute because she saw she would have to give an excuse and she had none; only that everybody hated her, which seem. Of course her appearance, and with Ponon, set the busy tongues wagging; and her tall rival hit upon a merry plan that all the girls applauded. They would send poor timid Fanchette into the great empty barn where they had fixed up the big swing like a ghost swaying back and forth in the darkness, and when she screamed they would all have a good laugh. But Ponon got wind of it, and, as he was tying the blindfold over her eyes, whispered, "Courage, Fanchette, I have fixed a surprise for you." The crowd gathered about the lower door, as the girl slowly mounted the ladder. As she removed the bandage and saw the grinning pumpkins and the great ghost she could not suppress a little gasp in spite of Ponpon's "courage." The silence was intolerable and she thought she must scream. "Fanchette," exclaimed a voice. "Antoine!" She ran toward the ghost and threw herself into Antoine's arms. After they had sat swinging blissfully together for some minutes, Fanchette said, "Antoine, I was in the * wrong when we quarreled; I forgive you for saying so." It was easier to forgive than to ask forgiveness and much more satisfactory. "But, Fanchette," said Antoine in his most serious tone, "it was very wrong of you to kiss Ponpon." "I? I never thought of such a thing. Who said I kissed Ponpon?" "Fanchette!" "Now Antoine, I have just forgiven you. Don't make me angry again. I tell you I never, never, never kissed Ponpon, and nothing will make me say I did, so there. Come on, I'm hungry. Take me out of this dark place." AS HETTY GREEN TOLD STORY. She Had Not a High Opinion of Hon Joseph Choate. When the Hoyt will case was on trial in New York the Hon. Joseph H. Choate, as everybody knows, was one of the great lawyers engaged in it. Among the witnesses on the side Mr. Choate was opposing was Mrs. Hetty Green. It was a field day when she took the witness stand. The object was to find out from her what had passed between her and Irene Hoyt at a certain conversation respecting the bringing of the suit. Mr. Choate vehemently objected to this conversation being given by Mrs. Green and fought viciously to keep her from telling what had passed. During the whole wrangle she sat grimly in the witness box, her shabby old bonnet askew, while she clutched her rusty hand-bag. At last after a tough fight, the Court stated that the question might be asked of Mrs. Green in this form: "What passed between you and Miss Hoyt relative to the bringing of this suit?" "I object," shouted Mr. Choate, noting an exception. And then it was that Mrs. Green snapped out: "Irene Hoyt told me she meant to bring suit and I said to her, 'Irene, if ever you let that old buzzard, Joe Choate, get his hand in your pocket you won't have a dollar left.'" All the lawyers engaged in the case had champagne for luncheon that day and Mr. Choate paid for it.—New York Journal. Barbarity of Russian Surgeons This incident of the late war in the east is told by a Russian soldier: "After each battle the sanitaries would mark with red paint those wounded who were to be taken away for treatment and with black paint those apparently hopelessly wounded, who were to be left on the field and buried with the dead. I myself was lying on the ground when a hand touched me and then proceeded to fetch the black paint. I fully realized my fate and said to the officer: 'But I am alive and may recover. How can you act like this?' 'Have you money?' he then asked. 'Yes,' I replied. 'How much?' 'Ten rubles' ($5.15). 'Give them to me.' He just managed to put the money in his pocket and was stretching out his hand for the red paint, when tra-a-kah tra-a-akh—the enemy's shrapnel struck him dead on the spot, only a couple of steps from myself. I lay and listened, but not a sound came from him. Then I thought, why should I lose my money? and, gathering strength, I crept up to him and began to search his pockets, when, to my astonishment, I found not only my 10 rubles but more than 300" ($154.50). The Man and the Job Of graft I do not care to read. Its ways and what he needs to thrill. To help I may need to. They're even more familiar still; But yet my curious instincts throb A items small I daily find. Like a cat I can job. Instead of Thomas Jones, resigned. They fail would know who hungering wait The chance that may a berth afford In county service or with state business What aided poor Jones the luckless man? Did he heigl his daily grind? What "pull" applied to him a can? Oh, why, oh, why, has he resigned? But vain through wide surmise to range One cause shines out most clear and The law of jobs is law of change— the new. The loser up again may bob. Young Brother's Time Will Come. She had been for a drive with a young man friend, and when she returned she was glowing with excitement. "Oh, dear, mother," she cried, "Tom and I had the very narrowest escape from an awful accident! The horse very nearly bolted. We were going through Swan Lane, when all of a sudden a pheasant got up from the hedge and frightened the horse, and if Tom hadn't made a dash for the reins—" "Eh?" said her youngest brother, suddenly, "How's that? Why wasn't he holding them?" And it took at least five minutes to explain—London Tit-Bits. Baden-Powell Decries Cigarettes. Gen. Baden-Powell, writing to a Bolton (Eng.) schoolboy, says he believes that "smoking by fellows who are still growing does them an infinite amount of harm, and those who are sensible don't take up smoking until after they are 20 years of age or so. Fellows who smoke before that age generally turn out rotters afterward. They only do it because they think it looks swagger and manly to smoke, but any man who has done any scouting or big-game hunting knows that they are foolish." --- UP AGAINST IT. PROTECTION FREE HIRES! TARIFF REFORM The breaking waves dashed high on a stern and rock-bound coast, and up against a stormy sky the "Free Hide" shriekers tossed. TARIFF SCARE ENDED TARIFF SCARE ENDED THERE IS TO BE NO RUMPUS WITH GERMANY. By Firmly Maintaining Its -Position the United States Has Induced Germany to Recede from Her Threat of Hostile Tariff Discrimination. The end of the German tariff scare is definitely and officially announced as follows: "Berlin, Feb. 18.—Prince von Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor, to-day sent to the Reichstag a bill for the extension to the United States of the tariffs given by Germany under reciprocal treaties to certain European States. The measure provides specifically that it is the opinion of the Government that the Bundesrath shall grant to the United States the rates stipulated in the conventions signed by Germany with Russia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Roumania, Bulgaria, with which country a treaty has been arranged but not yet ratified, is not mentioned in the bill. "The Chancellor has selected Count Posadowsky-Wehner, Vice-Imperial Chancellor and Secretary of State for the Interior, to set forth the Government's position on the bill, and in the meantime the measure will be printed for circulation among the members of the Reichstag. This change of policy by Germany is the result of negotiations in Washington." The American Economist has from the very first contended that the German threat of declaring a tariff war against the United States would never be carried into effect. This contention was based upon the single fact, perfectly obvious to those who took the pains to grasp the situation in all its aspects, that Germany, certain to be the chief sufferer in such a conflict, could not afford it. Her exports to this country consist almost exclusively of manufactured articles which we could as well buy of some other country, and the biggest part of which we could produce in our own mills and factories. On the contrary, our sales to Germany are for the most part of materials which cannot be obtained at all from any other country, and which Germany must have. Consequently the position of the United States has at all times been of impregnable advantage. All we had to do was to "stand pat" and let Germany do the worrying. This policy was certain to win and it has won. Germany has elected not to discriminate against the exports of the United States. She has "run her bluff" to no purpose, and now lays down her hand. As to Germany's intention to force a wider opening for the entrance of her competitive products into the United States there is no doubt. This big market of 85,000,000 of the most liberal purchasers on earth was the main objective. All the trade treaties negotiated with Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Roumania, etc., were minor affairs on the side. These countries couldn't buy much more than they had been buying, while, if the American tariff could only be broken down, German sales to this country might be doubled, trebled or quadrupled. It was a prize worth striving for. Germany has had the support of active allies in her brief campaign against the tariff. The entire body of American free traders flocked to her aid as a matter of course. They were able to place in the field a considerable body of auxiliary troops made up of tariff revisionists and reciprocity shriekers. They worked the German scare for all it was worth, and, as the event proves, for very much more than it was worth. They called together a reciprocity conference in Chicago, and as the result of that movement, organized the American Reciprocal Tariff league, whose main object in life has been to frighten the western farmers into fits at the prospect of losing the market in Germany for their food products. They were able to secure some co-operation from the National Association of Manufacturers, a body which ought to know better, and also the 'strenuous co-operation of the Merchants' Association of New York, a body which never does know better. The entire Democratic press of the United States joined the coalition of German manufacturers and American free traders, and a large number of Republican newspapers were somehow deceived into helping along the movement to break down the American tariff system. Even some of the high officials in the Republican administration at Washington so far fell victims to the German scare and to the panic set up by its American free trade coadjustors as to counsel certain concessions in the valuation and reappraisement of imports that would, as Von Buelow remarked only a few days ago, have been far more useful to German exporters than any reductions in the Dingley schedules could possibly be. But against all these crafts and assaults the solid sense of the country, the unshaken protectionist determination, as expressed in the McCleary bill, to hold the American market for the benefit of American labor and industry, have prevailed. The American tariff is not to be broken down to please Germany and her American reserves of free traders, tariff revisers and reciprotarians. Americans will continue to write American tariffs to suit Americans.-American Economist. Ought Not to Be Supported. Ought Not to Be Supported. The sugar industry in these Western States is one of the most important that has been established here. While it is now a paying institution, it has struggled up through many difficulties and has overcome comparatively insurmountable obstacles. While for years it brought no profits to investors, it was always of great benefit to the farmers and laborers engaged in it, and it is still in inestimable value to them. At the present time it returns fair dividends to the owners of shares in the companies that have been organized, and it is a wonderful distributor of wealth in business and all other circles. Anything that would retard the progress of this industry ought to be opposed by the Senators and representatives from the Western states. This injury which threatens to come from the abolition or reduction of the duty on sugar produced outside of the United States may not prove as great as that which is anticipated, but it is believed by those who have investigated the subject that it would prove a detriment of a serious character, and therefore ought not to be supported by those Senators who speak for the people of this region.—Salt Lake City News. The Tariff Revision Song. The tariff revisionists have not gained much ground at Washington since Congress met, but they are making considerable noise and can be trusted to make much more before the session is ended. The trouble with them, however, is that purely selfish interests keep them from any combined plan of action. Their position is rather neatly summed up by the New Orleans Times-Democrat in this fashion: "Greek chorus of tariff revisionists. Dramatis personae, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Maine, Oregon, Louisiana, Michigan, Iowa, Song, 'We All Want Revision!' Reservations in stage whispers by several singers: Mississippi and Malne, 'Except on lumber!' Louisiana, 'Except on rice and sugar!' Oregon and Michigan, 'Except on fish and pine trees!' Iowa trailing in with faint echo, 'Except on eggs and poultry!'"—San Diego Union. Make a Square Fight. Evidently the tariff is to be the issue in the Congressional elections next fall. There will be no fear for a protection majority in the next Congress if the fight is squarely one between free trade and protection, and such a fight should be made. HAD HEART PAINS A Critical Case of Rheumatism Cured By Dr.William's Pink Pills. While Mr. W. S. Gisel, of No. 125 East Coates street, Moberly, Mo., was steadily working at his trade in a foundry at that place, he became the victim of an attack of rheumatism, and his experience is that of thousands who are compelled to work in similar surroundings. He describes his situation as follows: "I had been at work for a long time in a foundry where I was exposed to dampness. First my feet began to hurt and to swell, then my knees and my shoulder joints began to be affected in the same way. Finally I could not walk without great difficulty and suffering and had to stop work altogether. My appetite was feeble and I grew very pale and weak. I began to have pains about my heart and it fluttered a great deal. I became greatly alarmed about my condition. My mother knew about the virtues of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, as they had given her back her health when she was nearly wasting to death, and when she found that they were good for rheumatism too, she began to give them to me about a month after I was attacked. That was in the early part of March, 1903, and by June they had driven away the pains and swelling and had restored my appetite and color. Then I felt strong enough to take up a line of outdoor work and now, in October, I regard myself as entirely well and I am about to go into a foundry again at St. Louis." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills also cure other diseases springing from impure blood or disordered nerves, such as sciatica, locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis and all forms of weakness in male or female. They may be had at all druggists or directly from the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.Y. Hardly. "If Washington were alive today do you think he would be the popular idol he was in his own times?" "I don't know," answered the pessimistic citizen. "He might be a popular idol, but I hardly think he would be much in demand as a New York insurance director." Many Children are Sickly Many Children are sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders to Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms. Attail Drugstiffs. 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Lo Roy, N. Y. Low Rates Bring Custom. Good Dame—"I was so glad to learn that you had at last joined the ant-swearing society. But why didn't you join before?" Young Man—"Too expensive. The fines used to be a dime for everything; but lately the rates have been reduced to six cusses for a quarer." Fast. "Is this a fast color?" asked the man who wanted three pairs of socks for a quarter. "Sir," replied the saleperson blandly, "that color is so fast that, if it should start to run it would inevitably be arrested for exceeding the speed limit."—Puck. Lewis' Single Binder — the famous straight 5c cigar, always best quality. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, Ill. Why He Failed. "I had a scheme that promised to make me a fortune, but I had a streak of bad luck." "Tell me about it." "I invented a substitute for food and was just getting i well started when another fellow came along and brought out an imitation of my substitute and undersold me." A Weary Evening. Jinks—to old friend in theater lobby—"I notice you come out after every act. You are not drinking, I hope?" Blinks—"Oh, no; but it is rather tiresome inside. I came with my own tire this time." Do You Want to Know There is a growing sentiment in this country in favor of MEDICINES OF KNOWN COMPOSITION. It is but natural that one should have some interest in the composition of that which he or she is expected to know, whether it be food, drink or medicine. Recognizing this growing disposition on the part of the public, and satisfied that the fullest publicity can only add to the well-earned reputation of his medicine, the Vatican has "taken time by the forelock" as it were, and is publishing broadcast a list of all the ingredients entering into his leading medicines, the "Golden Medical discovery" the popular liver invigorator, stomach tonic, blood purifier and heart prescription" for weak, over-worked, broken-nervous, nervous and invalid women. This bold and out-spoken movement on the part of Dr. Pierce, has, by showing exactly what his well-known medicines are composed of, completely disarm all barring critics who have heretofore unfamiliar names and pumped them up, has been compiled, from the standard medical authorities of all the several schools of practice, showing the strongest endorsements by leading medical writers of the several ingredients which enter into Dr. Pierce's medicines. A copy of this little book is mailed *free* to any one desiring to learn more concerning the valuable, native, medicinal plants which enter the body. Dr. Pierce's medicines. Address Dr. Pierce as a doctor. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Plants are tiger-sugar-coated anti-bilious granules. They regulate and invigorate Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Do not beget the "pill habit," but care for the digestive system each day for a laxative and regulator, three times a day for active cathartic. Once tried always in favor. $50,000 GIVEN AWAY, in copies of Medical Adviser, a book that sold to the ex- tent of $00,000 copies a few copies per copy. Last year we gave $30,000 worth of these invaluable books. This year we shall give away $30,000 worth of them all. benefit? If so, send only one one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only for book in stiff paper covers, or 3rd cover. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Bounty N. Y. MILK WIND AND SEA WIND AND SEA By BAYARD TAYLOR The Sea is a jovial comrade, He laughs wherever he goes; His merriment shines in the dimpling lines That wrinkle his hale repose; He lays himself down at the feet of the Sun, And shakes all over with glee, And the broad-backed billows fall faint on the shore, In the mirth of the mighty Sea! But the Wind is sad and restless, And cursed with an inward pain; You may hark as you will, by valley or hill, But you hear him still complain. He walls.on the barren mountains, And shrleks on the wintry sea; He sobs in the cedar, and moans in the pine, And shudders all over the aspen tree. Welcome are both their And I know not whi The laughter that slips s Or the comfortless V There's a pang in all rej A joy in the heart o And the Wind that sadd Are singing the self HAS BECOME TIRED OF GHOSTS. Welcome are both their voices, And I know not which is best.— The laughter that slips from the Ocean's lips, Or the comfortless Wind's unrest. There's a pang in all rejoicing, A joy in the heart of pain. And the Wind that saddens, the Sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain! ```markdown ``` Dweller in Malay Peninsula Arises with Protest. Writes a resident of Penang, in the Malay peninsula: "I dare contend that I know a certain tree in Penang which has more devils in it for its size than any other tree you can find either in or out of Malaya. This tree was in my compound and the native servants were so frightened of it that they wouldn't sleep in the house. My boy Pakiri one night pointed out twenty-six distinct devils to me and said that they were bad devils, for they had given Pakiri the stomach ache and made his legs wabby and it was 'better master give whisky.' I quite believed that spirits, and very evil ones, too, had got into Pakiri's head, but I fancy they were made in Germany and only cost a couple of dollars a dozen quarts. "Still that tree was a fruitful source of annoyance, for it used to drown folk on the beach and the servants wouldn't pass under it at night. Anything dead that happened to be floating by appeared to want to come ashore just there and roost in that particular tree and the result was that I was not particularly sorry to move. Neither was Pakirl, but he is still affected by spirits at times. I'm a bit sick of ghosts myself. "I once wrote an account of some nice, respectable Malayan ghosts and showed it to a friend. He sent it to the Aslatic society; they published it; Andrew Lang read it; Andrew Lang wrote a book on it and referred to me in a footnote; people read the book and now I am deluged with letters asking if those ghosts are real ghosts. Moral: Beware of ghosts—they are not healthy." Even Liberty Had Moved. On the top of a large building at Broadway and Sixty-sixth street is an immense plaster duplicate of the Statue of Liberty. Near by Dr. Bissell Palmer, a dentist, has his office. One of Dr. Palmer's patients is a son of the "could sod" who, three years ago, returned to the land of his birth for a prolonged sojourn. The other day he came back to Manhattan. It was a dark and foggy morning when the ship came up the bay and, though the Irishman peered intently through the mist, he could not get a glimpse of the shores and islands and the cities which surrounded him. His first visit after getting past the customs officers and choosing a hotel was to the office of Dr. Palmer. As he came up out of the Subway, there, looming large before him, was the plaster counterfeit of the Bedloe Island Liberty. "Doctor," he said as he entered the dentist's office; "Doctor, I have been reading a good deal in the past three years about how everything in New York was moving up town, but I never expected they would shift the Statue of Liberty up to Sixty-sixth street. It is wonderful! wonderful!"—New York Press. Preserving Tobacco Plants Visitors to the tobacco country were often surprised to note in the fields that the long stems of the seed plants—those whose heads had not been lopped off earlier in the season to allow the full strength of the plant to go into the leaves—were covered with caps which on examination proved to be ordinary manila paper bags tied tightly around the scarlet and white flowers of the plant. Inquiry disclosed that the practice has grown out of experiments lately conducted in the region by Prof. A. D. Shamel of the bureau of plant industry of the U. S. department of agriculture. The farmer has determined what type of tobacco plant is fittest to survive, and he is helping along the survival. Inclosed in a paper sack each flower is obliged to reproduce itself without interference from outside. The paper bags are used, of course, to secure self-fertilization instead of cross-fertilization.—World Today. T STOOD WILLING TO PAY DEBT. Tramps Finally Concluded They Owed Auto Nothing. "Me and me pard was walking along a Long Island highway," said the tramp, "when we comes to a place where a small bridge over a ravine had been smashed down. We looks at the place for awhile, and then I say to Jim: "Jimmie, old boy, do we owe the auto anything?" "It's always throwing us over the fence and saving our climbing,' says he. "Then we ought to stand here and give the first one warning, for that's a bad hole for one of them to fall into. There comes one now at the rate of forty miles an hour." "I ran down the road a bit and stood there and waved my old bandana as a warning, but the driver held straight for me and yelled that he'd run me down if I didn't take a skate. I took one, and the next minute I heard a smash. "Jimmie, old boy,' I says as I walks back to the broken bridge, 'is the auto down there?' "She is, Tom.' "Any damage?' "Busted all to pieces and three people killed.' "Then we'll wander along with clean consciences. We thought that perhaps we owed the auto one for being so kind and condescending to us, but it seems that we was mistook and ought to have been a mile further down the road and asking some farmer's wife for cold vitties." Crooked Course of Love. What may be viewed as a modern feminine equivalent for the beau's strategem is reported from the Italian quarter of Tunis, where a young man named Milingi and a young woman named Caputo had recently arrived from Italy. They were lovers, but the young woman began to perceive that Milingi's attachment cooled, and be thought of her what seemed an ingenious device for securing him in spite of himself. Obtaining possession of all his family papers, she found a male compatriot, named Catania, willing to personate him at a civil marriage before the Italian consul, and subsequently at the church. Poor Mdlle, Caputo seems to have thought that she was now Mme. Milingi, whether her lover liked it or not, but he took a different view, and Catania, her friend, is now in jail for forgery. Neckties as Railway Signals. "Red neckties are always worn by foreign brakemen and conductors. Ever notice it?" said a railroader. "No. Why is it?" "As a safety device," was the reply. "These red neckties that flash upon your gaze on the railroads of Italy, France, Germany and England are not a sign that the people have a gay taste, but that they are cautious and prudent. "The neckties are supplied free by the railroad companies for use as danger signals in emergency. Thus, no matter when or where an accident may happen, there is no need to search or scramble for a red flag, but the brakeman whips off his red necktie and waves it frantically aloft." Russia Still Aggressive. Russia is stealthy and tireless. Even while its armies were being defeated in Manchuria and its throne was shaken by revolt it was secretly fastening a firmer grip on ports of the Chinese empire. The fact that Russia has a line of military posts across the northern part of the Chinese empire has been kept secret from the world. It was revealed by an indiscreet publication in a Russian provincial newspaper. Russia's purpose, beyond the satisfying of its old lust for dominion, can not be determined. Whatever it is the powers interested in maintaining China's territorial integrity are directly affected —Cleveland Leader. Blue Monday. Deacon Goodsoul—"Blue Monday again! I feel as if I could hardly drag myself around to work." Deacon Highmind—"Same way with me. Every Monday I'm all used up, and I don't know why. How were the congregations yesterday?" "Large in the morning, fair in the afternoon, and quite good in the evening. The Sunday school was well attended, too, and the Bible-class was full, while the young men's circle gained several members. I did not see you yesterday." "No; I spent the blessed day of rest addressing our six mission-schools, raising a church mortgage, and starting three new revivals." Turkey-Stuffing. City Boy—"Do you like turkey-stuffing?" Country Boy—"Naw! Nobody eats turkey-stuffing." "Guess you don't know what it is?" "Yes, I do. It's the half-a-pound o' corn that you stuff into its crop, after it's dead, to make it weigh heavier." NO REST NIGHT OR DAY. With Irritating Skin Humor—Hair Began to Fall Out—Wonderful Result from Cuticura Remedies. "About the latter part of July my whole body began to itch. I did not take much notice of it at first, but it began to get worse all the time, and then I began to get uneasy and tried all kinds of baths and other remedies that were recommended for skin humors; but I became worse all the time. My hair began to fall out and my scalp itched all the time. Especially at night, just as soon as I would get in bed and get warm, my whole body would begin to itch and my finger nails would keep it irritated, and it was not long before I could not rest night or day. A friend asked me to try the Cuticura Remedies, and I did, and the first application helped me wonderfully. For about four weeks I would take a hot bath every night and then apply the Cuticura Ointment to my whole body; and I kept getting better, and by the time I used four boxes of Cuticura I was entirely cured, and my hair stopped falling out. D. E. Blankenship, 319 N. Del. St., Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 27 1905." Twelve Families Should be Safe. At and rate, if there is a spark of gratitude in Pat Crow's composition the families of those twelve Omaha jurymen will be safe from kidnapping. —Chicago Tribune. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. 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The day appointed for the removal was a beautiful, sunny one, and Mr. Ellis was personally supervising the transfer of his household possessions. Before his house stood three big moving-vans, and the lawn was almost covered with furniture of various sorts, pictures, chinaware in crates, and other things. As Mr. Ellis stood directing the movers, a lady with whom he was acquainted passed, and smiling asked: "Oh, Mr. Ellis, are you moving?" "Not at all, madam," he answered "I am taking my furniture out for a ride." — Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Mrs. De Sweet—"I cannot understand why so many cultured men are willing to leave all the happiness of home, all the blessings of civilization, and spend a lifetime in exploration in such countries as Africa." Colonel Warmheart—gallantly—"All men, madam, are not blessed with such wives as Mr. De Sweet." When you buy WET WEATHER CLOTHING you want complete protection and long service. 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None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. Write for Illustrated Catalog. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. MIXED FARMING WHEAT RAISING RANCHING three great parishes have again, shown wonderful results on the FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE FREE HOMESTEAD LANDS OF WESTERN CANADA. Magnificent climate - farmers plowing in their shirt sleeves in the middle of November. shirt sleeves in the middle of November. "All are bound to be more than pleased with the final results of the past season's harvest" -> Extract. Coal, wood, water hay in abundance - schools, churches, markets convenient. This is the era of $1.00 wheat. Apply for information to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to our hired Canadian Government Agent - J. S. Crawford, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. (Mention this paper.) He Promised to "Obey." A prospective Boston bridegroom, who meant to be master in his own house, called on the well-known clergyman, Rev C. W. Wendte, who was to tie the knot the following day, "I have heard," he said, "that you omit the word 'obey' from the marriage service. Will you kindly insert it to morrow?" Mr. Wendte obligingly promised to do so. "Wilt thou Lucy, promise to love, honor, and obey?" was promptly answered by the bride without demur. The same question was put to the groom, who hostified, stammered, and gulped, but answered, as had his bride, "will," probably not wishing to create a scene. Later he reproached the minister, "But you asked me to use the word 'obey.'" said Mr. Wendte with a twinkle in his eyes: "how was I to know that you wanted it for the lady only? You should have been more explicit."—Argonaut. Cause and Effect. "I suppose he clasped you in his arms when the canoe upset?" "No; quite the opposite." "Quite the opposite?" "Yes; the canoe upset when he clasped me in his arms." AN URGENT APPEAL. President Paul Morton was entertaining at Manhattan beach 750 agents of the Equitable Life. An agent fro the west asked Mr. Morton if he believed that advertising benefited life insurance. "Good advertising," the other answered, "benefits every form of business." "But what is good advertising?" said the agent. "Good advertising," returned Mr. Morton, "is the kind that strikes home, the kind that gives you a friendly feeling toward a concern. It makes you believe that it will be pleasant and profitable to deal with the a'vertiser. "A Detroit grocer, in my boyhood, inserted in the papers an advertisement that I think was a good one. I still remember it. It ran: "Twins are come to me for the third time. This time a boy and a girl. I beseech my friends and patrons to support me stoutly." Oldest National Speaker. Joseph G. Canton is the oldest man ever elected speaker of the national house of representatives. He was also longtime member of that body before becoming speaker than any other presiding officer. The youngest speaker the house ever had was R. M. T. Hunter of Virginia, who was only 30 years old and in his second term when coagm to preside. Electricity From Coal. In the opinion of Thomas A. Edison, wonders are yet to be unfolded in the world of electricity. "We are groping on the verge of another great epoch in the world's history," he said in an interview at his laboratory in West Orange. "It would not surprise me any morning to wake up and learn that some one, some group of the 300,000 scientific men who are investigating all over the earth, has seized upon the secret of electricity by direct process, and begun another practical evolution in human affairs. "It can be done. It will be done I expect to see it before I die. "The first great change in the production of electricity will abolish carrying coal for that purpose," he said. "Instead of digging gross material out of the earth, loading it on cars, and carrying it, say, 500 miles, there to put it under a boiler and burn, and so get power, we shall set up plants at the mouth of mines, generate power there, and transmit it wherever it is needed by copper wire." "How many times has your husband been under the knife?" "Dear me, I don't know; but he's become so accustomed to it that he lies down to be operated on every time he sees a doctor." - Chicago Record-Herald. Jumping at Conclusions. "I'm entertaining Miss Sniggs, the most popular girl in our class," said the Bryn Mawr girl: "I'd like you to meet her." "No, thank you," replied Dick; I'm not interested in homely girls." "Why, how did you know she was homely?" "She must be, or she wouldn't be so popular with you other girls; also, you wouldn't want me to meet her." - Philadelphia Press. Didn't Get a Key. Mr. Slimpurse—I see the kitchen clock is not going. Didn't you get a key to day?" Mrs. 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 kiteaen-clock key under those circumstances, do you?" "What did you do?" "I asked how long it would take them to clean a diamond neclace, 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' this mornin'?" "Oh, that was Jed Busby's new automobile." "Thunder! Gol darn it all. That jest shows what the kentry's comin' to." THE SPOTTED FAWN. (The following is by an unknown author and has not been in print for many decades.) By Macaturah's flowery marge An Indian wigwam stood. Long ere the white man's rifle rang Loud throughout the coohing 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 oat scapegrace to reform him. As I can drive you, I'll bribe you. Is there anything that would tempt you to give him up?" Daughter—"N-o, notning 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. NEEDED THEM IN HIS BUSINESS. 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 pur toilet goods. Write at once. C. 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He is now at 1206 $ \frac{1}{2} $ East 18th S MERCHANT TAILOR.rip through California and the man. Everybody remembers Mr. stylish and well-made suits he know at 1st 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. --- DR HALL to Rent Dances, Socials, Mainments, Etc. able Colored People only. , 404 W. 8th St., Kansas City, Mo. FLOUR The MINOR HALL For Dances, Socials Entertainments, Etc To Respectable Colored People MRB. A. V. MINOR, Mgr., 404 W. 6th St., KELLEY'S BEST HIGH PATENT --- --- ```markdown ``` Bell Phone Main 1196 X PIANO FURNISHED. Kelley's Best Beats all the Rest. Kelley Milling Co. K. C., U. S. A. Summer Schedule TO Excelsior Springs Beautiful Health Resort beginning Sunday, May 7th and daily thereafter follows: Leave Union Depot 8:30 and 10:20 A. 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Education Tickets, Sleeping Car Berths and all in NEWETT, Gen'l Agt. Passenger L Street. KANSAS C Telephone 6327 Main. Bell Telephone 7 ER TRUST COM N, Prop. Id and Blocked. KEY'S WORTH" Kansas City MO "Special" price between Kansas City daily, is now provided for by Fort Smith Coffeyville Arrive in Hot Springs to Barnett, Neodesha, Independence Little Rock. Through to Hot Springs. A special the Elegant Dining Cars. the Iron Mountain Trains for Illinois and Texas. daily. Berths and all information, Passenger Dept. KANSAS CITY MO. Bell Telephone 740 Hickory COMPANY ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS GENTS FURNISHERS SHOES Stetson Hats $1.50 Cleaned and Blocked. Our Motto: "YOUR MONEY'S WORTH" 805 Main Street, Kansas City MO "Hot Springs Special" Long looked for improved Train Service between Kansas City and Hot Springs, Arkansas, and return daily, is now provided for by the Hot Springs Little Rock MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Fort Smith Coffeyville Leaving Kansas City at 11:00 a. m. daily. 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