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. C. S. H. VOLUME X. SENATOR The People are Proud of LECTURE OF BOOKER T. WASH INGTON. Advice of the Great Leader of Much Value to His Race. If the Negroes, as a whole, would accept the doctrine and advice of Booker T. Washington, great good would necessarily result. An audience of fully 5,000 Negroes greeted Dr. Booker T. Washington in the Convention hall on Friday night of last week. The meeting was called to order by Bishop Grant. Prof. T. W. Vernon of the Quindaro University in introducing the speaker to the audience paid him a high tribute for the great work which he has accomplished in Tuskegee, the influence of which has indirectly benefitted the entire Negro race of the United States. Among other things the great educator advises his people to become producers—court responsibility, learn trades, save your money, start a bank account, buy land and become producers. "We are the only people in America today who were invited to come," he said. "The invitation was urgent, imperative. Why, we were even given transportation here, while the whites that landed in 1492 came against the wishes of the then sovereign people of American. Would it be right for us to pack up and leave now? Would it be grateful or polite to do so? Never! Here we are and here we stay. "Race problem? Yes. One white man and the black one who squats down by him make a race problem. But, my friends, the problem is not a serious one. Fair play will solve it. Stop the $150 Funeral. He Says. Mr. Washington emphasized the importance of courage, faith in the ultimate rise of his race. "Pay less attention to your $150 funerals and your burying associations, and more to the building of homes here on earth," he exhorted. "You can't live in an alley hovel here and expect to be transplanted to a white mansion above. The change would be too sudden for you to enjoy it." Commenting upon the hopefulness of ever setting the Negroes apart from the whites, Mr. Washington said: "It would take an insurmountable wall to keep the Negroes on ground set apart for them; and it would take five walls mountain high to prevent the whites from breaking in upon the blacks. Absorption is equally impossible, for this reason. It takes 100 per cent of pure Anglo Saxon blood to make a white man. One per cent of African mixture will make a Negro." On the tendency to industrial blackslide on the part of the Negro, Mr. Washington said: "Our race used to control the barber industry until along came a white who used his brains, invented a new barber chair, made his shop artistic, furnished his patrons with papers and magazines and drove Rastus out of business." Booker Washington has often been asked why he did not select some large city in which to establish his great school. His reply to the question has always been that he did not care to select a spot where a white man had preceded him. The actual results accomplished by Mr. Washington in Tuskegee are wonderful when all facts are con considered. Everything that exists today in Tuskegee is the result of a determined effort on the part of the Negro students. The streets of the town were laid out by Negro surveyors. The electric light plant was established by Negroes. Architectural designs of all the buildings were planned by Negroes. When you call up "central" you are answered by a Negro girl and the whole telephone system is the product of Negro skill and knowledge. There is also a bank in Tuskegee owned and conducted by Negroes. In the course of his remarks Mr. Washington told of a dispute which arose in a little Negro church over the salary of the preacher. In the midst of the contention an old brother merged from the amen corned and declared that the preacher should not receive any more pay this year—and upon being asked why, the old brother declared that the preacher had been paid for that sermon. The inference was that same sermon had been preached during the entire year. Mr. Washington advised his audience that he had investigated all the prisons in the United States and failed to find a single case where an inmate was ever a student of his school and only in a few instances did he find criminals who had been students of other large institutions of learning. Such a report is very gratifying for it shows conclusively that education is conducive to good citizenship in all races. But with all the disadvantages under which the Negro has labored, Dr. Washington declares that the future of the race is in the South. BOOKER T. AT QUINDARO Dr. Booker T. Washington delivered a lecture at the Quindaro University last Friday afternoon which for its great worth was admired and esteemed by the students of the school. After the lecture President Vernon and wife, at their beautiful residence which commands an excellent view and overlooks the Missouri River and the shores of both Kansas and Missouri, entertained Dr. Washington at a special dinner given in his honor, at which were present, besides the distinguished world-educator: Bishop Abram Grant; Hon. J. G. Groves of Edwardsville, Trustees Judge L. W. Keplinger, Hons. Corvine Patterson and J. R. Ramson; Hon. George W. Jones of Hill City, Dr. J. E. Edwards of Topeka and Prof. L. N. Spurlock, director of industries, a graduate of Tuskegee. As the party left the grounds they were escorted back as far as the postoffice by the University Band and a number of visitors and admirers. We feel encouraged along the line of efforts made here exemplifying the aims and objects of the Tuskegee idea, as promulgated by the original author, Dr. Washington, who is changing the sentiment of the world, and bringing it to his own way of thinking as regards the education of the races of mankind. Thus honored in the highest degree, this occasion is significant and marks an epoch in the life and future of this growing institution. Pigeons Mate for Life. When a pair of pigeons become mated they are practically "married." In a loft of fifty husbands and fifty wives each couple attends to its own household affairs, does not worry about its neighbors, but goes on building nests, laying eggs and raising young. They are very devoted to each other and divide all labor excepting laying eggs. The Great Evil Done. In a book of reminiscences of an Irish land agent a Tipperary priest is quoted as having addressed his flock in the following manner: "It's whisky makes you hate your wives; it's whisky makes your homes desolate; it's whisky makes you shoot your landlords, and"—with emphasis, as he thumped the pulpit—"it's whisky makes you miss them." Control of Africa All parts of Africa, except Abyssinia, Morocco and Liberia, are controlled directly or indirectly by some European power. French Africa is about equal in area to half the United States. Well, That's Only His Fair Share. When mother puts up preserves, father puts up the sugar—Boston Home and Abroad. Scarlet Is Mourning Garb Scarlet Is Mourning Garb. Unmarried women in Brazil wear scarlet for mourning. PASSING OF NEGRO SERVANTS. It is indeed sad to see so many of our colored girls out of employment and wandering around from place to place. Many of them are too proud to work for their own people and many of them are too lazy to work for the white people. Of course there are some honorable exceptions. The colored servants should remember that they can be ladies and gentlemen in the kitchen and dining room as well as they can in the parlor. There are lots of young men and women working out as servants and can command respect if they respect themselves. But the condition of many of the colored servants today is heart-rendering. Many of them are not wanted because they are not reliable and unclean in appearance. The large hotels are dispensing with the colored waiters, bell boys and colored cooks. Barber shops that have heretofore been conducted by colored men are fast being displaced by white barbers. The Italians have pushed the colored bootblack aside and established modern and up-to-date parlors. The Chinaman and up-to-date laundries have taken the place of the colored washerwoman, and the colored nurses no longer are seen upon the public streets. What will be the future of the colored servant is the question? The colored pulpit has thrown aside religion and joined the army of money grafters. Instead of religion in the colored church being preached, begging for money to carry into effect speculation schemes from which many of them receive a percentage. What will be the future of the colored servant is the question that ought to be considered by the pulpit. The time is ripe for the colored people in this city to be looking about them. The colored servant is passing out of existence fast.—The Bee. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. The Board of Regents, represented by its president, Hon. D. C. McClung of Jefferson City, Hon. E. C. Wilson of Mexico and Secretary N. C. Burch made an official inspection of the institution, April 26. These gentlemen were accompanied by ex-Secretary of State Sam B. Cook, Attorney Charles A. Winston and Col. Sam Kellar, Globe-Democrat correspondent. The entire party partook or a seven course dinner prepared by the young ladies of the cooking class in the model kitchen of the Domestic Science Department and served in the model dining room. The following editorial from the Jefferson City Republican Review speaks for itself: Lincoln Institute. A party of Jefferson City men went over to Lincoln Institute yesterday to inspect the work of that school and came away with a high opinion of its management and teachers. They were deeply impressed with the standards of work in all the departments, but they were particularly impressed with the work which is being done in the industrial department. In that department they found young men gleaning practical information in blacksmithing, carpentry in all its branches, including wood moulding and other useful trades, and the girls acquiring the rudiments, aye more, a practical and working knowledge of domestic science in all its departments. They were shown exhibits of the sewing, laundering, fancy needle work, etc., done by the girls, and they were not only shown, but ate a wholesome dinner prepared by the students and served in the spacious dining-room of the new girls' dor- military. All the men have been seen today, and while there is not a single one of them but that ate twice as much as he should, none of them are sick, which serves to show that the girls of Lincoln Institute will never shorten the lives of the good men they will marry some day by bad cooking. President Allen and the teachers in the various departments are a good lot and visitors are always shown every courtesy due them. For information relative to Lincoln Institute's famous summer school address, Dr. B. F. Allen, president. Thank God for Gifts. The Mohammedans have the custom, when they receive a present, of thankking God first, then the giver. If you do them a favor, they will say: "I thank God for your kindness to me." Some may comply rather thoughtlessly with this custom, which they have inherited from their fathers. But many certainly say it with their whole heart. Chinese Amazons. Women in China have the privilege of fighting in the wars. In the rebellion of 1850 women did as much fighting as the men. At Nankin, in 1853, 500,000 women, from various parts of the country were formed into brigades of 13,000 each, under female officers. Of these soldiers, 10,000 were picked women, drilled and garrisoned in the city. Astonishing! It is astonishing, though, how far a good complexion will carry a girl. I verily believe that nine out of every ten men are more attracted by a really good complexion and a healthy color than by fine eyes or pretty hair, or even a good figure—which is another valuable asset for a girl to possess." "Ambrosia," in The World. Woman's Right to Be Attractive. Woman's Right to Be Attractive. To be as attractive and as pleasing as possible is a quite laudable ambition: and every woman, he she naturally plain or pretty, should make the most of such points of attractiveness as she possesses, cultivate each charm assiduously and by every legitimate means seek to enhance it. Exchange. Uncalled-For Night of Agony A story is told of a man who, crossing a disused coal field late at night, fell into an apparently bottomless pit and saved himself only by grasping a projecting beam. There he clung with great difficulty all night, only to find when day dawned that his feet were only four inches from the bottom. A Man in the Moon. Although the moon is not a riotously luxuriant abode, it is anything but the lifeless orb commonly supposed. It may be desolate and cold; but it is not altogether dead.—Scientific American. Where to Have a Boil Thomas Bailey Aldrich, commenting once upon the trials of Job, remarked that the only proper place to have a boil was between "John" and "O'Reilly." Still Poisonous Snakes in Europe. The Tyrolese government still pays for the extermination of poisonous snakes. It is the one European government which now does so. Sudan Ostrich Feather Trade. The ostrich feather trade in the Sulan seems doomed, owing to the success of the South African ostrich arms. Ice on Telegraph Wires Ice forming on telegraph wires sometimes increases their weight no less than 90 per cent. American Oysters for Shanghai. American oysters are sent as far as Shanghai. NUMBER 47 Henry Bergh's Name Honored. In 1866 the late Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and on its incorporation he became its first president. He made himself the butts of much ridicule by his persistence in discovering and bringing to punishment those who offended against its humane purpose, more especially as concerned horrors; but when he died, in 1888, a chain of similar societies had been established throughout the Union and in foreign countries, and he was held in honor throughout the world.—New York Sun. Says She Saw Ghost of Sergius. Says She Saw Ghost of Sergius. At the exact hour of the assassination of the Russian Grand Duke Sergius his goddaughter, in the Alexis palace, declares he opened the door of her room, covered with bleeding wounds, and exclaimed: "Look, young princess!" French Soldiers Cannot Write French Soldiers cannot Write. In order to test the quality of mind of French soldiers, a set of questions — a kind of "general paper" — was sent to sixty-two soldiers at random. Of the sixty-two, seventeen could not write, and so did not answer at all. Water for Cows Experiments show that a cow, when in full flow of milk, drinks from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of water a month, the average quantity, determined by testing a herd, being 1,660 pounds for each cow. Man at Thirty Love's young dream being once over, man is apt to drift past one's comfortable matrimonial stage. At thirty he needs to be very skilfully netted. "Ambrosia," in The World. To Color Hyacinth By putting the stem of the flower into a bottle of red ink, leaving it there for an hour, the hyacinth will assume a delicate pink color. "Real Comfort" Is Normal All we ought to expect is comfort, artistic if you choose, but complete at all events. That is quite enough for anybody. When surplus wealth comes, let the comfort grow into luxury. But to wear one's self out freeting for unattainable things, to barbier honor for them, is sheer toly. If the world could be brought to the point of seeing this there would be greater joy in living. Oldest University The oldest university in the world is at Pekin. It is called the "School for the Sons of the Empire." Its antiquity is very great, and a grand register, consisting of stone columns, 320 in number, contains the names of 60,000 graduates. Peculiarity of Buddhism: The religion of the Buddha is cited as an example of recognition given by a great religious teacher to the lower animals. Alone does the doctrine of Buddha embrace a recognition of the dignity of the lower order of animals. Transforms Vegetables M. Mollard of Paris, not satisfied with the usual grafting adopted by floriculartists, has started to transform vegetables. It is said he has succeeded in turning a radish into a potato. Polar Region is Healthful. The air is so pure in the Polar regions, so free from harmful microbes, that throat and lung diseases are unknown there. That section is also entirely free from contagious maladies. Speed of Electric Current The speed of the electric current in copper wire is 463,500,000 meters a second. The fastest ocean steamer makes only 9.8 meters a second. True Friends. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.—Theophrastus. TO THE SCHOOLGIRLS GIVE THE UNPOPULAR TEACHER A CHANCE. Schoolgirls Often Prejudice Themselves Unreasonably Against a Teacher — The Native Diffidence and Shyness of Some Teachers Make Them Appear Stiff and Stern — Unprepossessing Teachers Often Heroines—Girls Have a Way of Worshiping the Teacher with the Lovely Eyes—Charm Is Capital —Give a New Teacher Your Confidence. UY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. Two bright heads were bent together over the same book. As they reached the last page Susan looked at Penelope and stitched. "There," she said, "that is ended. We shall recite to-morrow to dear Miss M., and then next week will see us in Miss B.'s classroom, and goodly to good times for six months. Every girl who has ever been with Miss B. barely hates her, unless she happens to be one of her pets. She has pets, and they may do anything, but the rest of the class are always getting deprives and being soiled and made to do extra work. I wish I could be Rip Van Winkle and sleep straight through the next grade. Miss W., who has the class higher than Miss B., is a darling. But one can't reach her without having to undergo the misery of the class below." "Aren't you exaggerating?" asked Penelope. "I have seen Miss B. a number of times, and she looks harmless. I cannot understand why she is so unpopular. The teachers appear to End her pleasant." "Oh, she is pleasant enough with them and with visiting parents," exclaimed She. "It is only her own girls to whom she is a tyrant. You have not lived here very long, but I have gone through this school, from the kindergarten up, and so have my sisters. Lucy and Mildred and their friends have the same opinion that I have. Everybody dreads Miss B." Penelope's dark eyes grew thoughtful. "Well, She," she said, "my father has always taught me to value fair play, and it does not look to me like fair play to begin in a new class with one's mind made up that she is going to distil the teacher. That creates a false situation at the outset. Why should we blindly accept what other people say without waiting to see for ourselves where the truth of the matter lies? Poor Miss B. has a hard road to travel, if the girls do not trust her before they have given her the slightest trial, I, for one, shall do my work in the best way I can, and I shall try to love Miss B. and to make he love me." Susan gave her head a toss. "I predict, Penelope, that you will be a favorite," she said, scornfully. "Not at all, but I have a conscience, and I am going to give my teacher the benefit of a chance. I wish you would join me. Perhaps if you and I take the lead, some of the others will follow, and Miss B. for once may have the pleasure of teaching a class woe are not determined to misunderstand her intentions and who are not doing what they can to make her work hard! I believe in making my teacher's end easy, if I can. Mother was a teacher before her marriage, and she has told me a good deal about the seamy side of a teacher's life." . . . . Penelope had in her girlish wisdom caught the thread of a clew that had tangled itself and led far back into the years during which the unpopular teacher had occupied her chair. Miss B. was exceptionally well equipped, a student painstaking and profound, the graduate of one college and the successful prize-winner in post-graduate work in another, she lacked the magnetism which in itself makes some women adorable and adored. In truth, she was more and more afraid of the girls she taught; her native diffidence and shyness made her seem stiff and stern; she encurred herself as diffident people often do in a chain-arm, of reserve. She recooled from the unspoken criticism of the girls who sat before her, and though she honestly tried she was seldom able to make them feel that she cared for them personally. They supposed that in her view they were so many pegs in a row or pawns on a chessboard, and they resented the impersonality of her near-sighted gaze. Girls are sometimes very heartless, and instead of feeling pitiful when occasionally they saw a quiver of pain Cross Miss B.'s countenance, such a token of sensitiveness on her part only made them dislike her the more. In her endeavor to be just and to exact the best work of which the class was capable, she often went too far and marked too severely any failure. If right relations are not existent between teacher and scholars it is very difficult for either to accomplish much. Often it would be for the benefit of all concerned were the teacher to be transplanted to a new environment where she could be gin unhampered by unfriendly traditions. If a teacher in the depths of her own soul is aware that she is no disciplinarian, she probably makes efforts in the direction where she is weak, and the result is a continual conflict between her class and herself. The resistance may not be open, but it is always ready to break out like a smouldering fire. Nothing on earth is harder to vanquish than a prejudice, and the less reasonable it be the more stubbots it probably is in maintaining its ground. I wish I could persuade girls to imitate Penelope and be fair to the unpopular teacher in whose interest I am holding a brief. She may not be happy and at ease in her home life. In the background there may be an ailing father or mother whose welfare is a matter of deep anxiety to her, and whose care robs her of sleep. For instance, I know a teacher rather unpopular in the classroom, who for several years lost half of her night's rest in sitting half with and ministering to an invalid sister. There was no one else to take her place, and in consequence she brought with her to school an atmosphere of fatigue which made itself felt without her knowledge. Irritability is often born of weariness. ```markdown ``` Girls are by the way of worshiping teachers because of little externals that have not very much to do with the teacher's efficiency. A teacher who has lovely eyes and beautiful hair, and the suspicion of a dimple when she smiles, or who wears pretty things and is very attractive as to waists and stocks, has a great advantage over her plainer associate, who is indifferent to dress. On the whole, I sympathize with girls in admiring the teacher who is invariably immaculate and tidy, and who has about her the bright attractiveness of perfect health and the beauty that is typical of womanly goodness. It is our duty whether we are girls in our teens or women beyond them always to look as charming and to behave as amiable as we can. When the unpopular teacher forgets this fact or ignores it, when she is wilfully eccentric or lapses into mannerisms that are awkward and ungainly, she sacrifices part of her capital and makes it a foregone conclusion that she will not succeed as she ought. But I put it to every one of you. Is it fair to start new work with a new teacher without being at least willing to give her your confidence? Or if you are already in a class and do not like your teacher, is it never worth to be honest and candid and inquire if you are not just a little bit to blame for the state of things yourselves? In this world a lot of trouble springs from misunderstandings that might as well never come to the front, and people who should be good friends stand aloof and never get acquainted because they let a trifling and non-essential thing keep them apart. A very thoughtful writer has said that in every human soul there is an innermost room, and that if we could discover it we should learn secrets that we never find out when we are only in the outer courts. This may be too philosophical for you, dear girls, but I want you to believe that there is something very sweet about the most unpopular teacher you have ever had, if you will take palms to search for it. "There's so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us." (Copyright, 1996, by Joseph B. Bowles.) A SIMPLE PRETTY BODICE Full Directions for Making and About the Kinds and Quantity of Materials Required. Here is a simple and pretty bodice for making to a dress of woolen material. It has a tight-fitting lining, fastening down the center front; to this the lace vest is attached. It is sewn to the right front and made to hook over to the left. The material back is tucked three times down the 1900 BODICE FOR AFTERNOON DRESS. center before being set to the lining; the fronts are also tucked from the shoulders to the bust. The left front wraps the right, and is ornamented with tiny velvet buttons. The collar is faced with velvet, and fans of cream soft lace fall from under the ends in front. Leg-of-mutton sleeves with velvet cuffs, above which are sewn tiny buttons on the outside of arm. The shaped waistband is of material. Materials required: Two yards 46 inches wide, two yards lin- ing one-quarter yard lace, and one half yard velvet. When Introduced Just say: "I am pleased to meet you." It is considered correct and certainly cordial to shake hands with friends on meeting or taking leave, but it is not necessary when meeting and taking leave of mere acquaintances. In the World of Fashion . SOME SMART STYLES. If you, or any member of your family, can do fine handwork, you are most fortunate this year, for this is the day when the pushing, boastful sewing-machine must take a back seat. Hand-sewing has "come in" with a vengeance, retiring machine-made work into the background with the folk that set the pace in ores. And so the modest little woman with skill in her fingers may make for her own women folk the fashionable frocks and biosses of the day that will compare with the $30 and $20 lingerie waist purchased at the shops. A good pattern secures the right cut, the hand-work is then the whole thing. Even the seams nowadays are made by hand, and the sewing of yards of frilling and insertion and lace. Yesterday we saw a lovely white mull trimmed with cream-colored lace and insertion, very simply trimmed, but the work so exquisite, the design so becoming, we voted it the prettiest blouse noticed thus far. The wearer's whole costume was worth mentioning; a white mohair skirt, a long black silk cloak, a beautiful white ostrich feather boa, a black chip hat with one white plume, shiny black shoes and gloves. Black and white looks chic again, is particularly effective for a woman with black eyes, seems to intensify their darkness. A neat little black and white costume, easily reproduced, consisted of a plaited cloth skirt, white mull blouse, and a most attractive girdle wrap. The deep girdle was almost a coat in itself, and really became one by the addition of an upper-shoulder part which was more unan shoulder straps and yet not a boozo. The dainty wrap was adorned with rows of trunks of narrow black ribbon, and looked quite dressy. For the ordinary summer day such a dress would be just right for comfort, the upper part being adjustable, easily slipped on or off. Black silk gloves, of course, have gone up in price now that the heavy kid ones are getting a bit warm. Time was when one could get a nice pair Fashions for the Little Ones Spring days and consideration of folk at the springtime of life. how the mother loves to plan the clothes for the wee lads and lassies—at least it should be a pleasure rather than a burden, even if the pocketbook is an over slim one. Such dear little things can be made for a song, remnants be picked here and there and turned into guimpe and blouse and even whole frocks. Children's millinery this year is very picturesque, the granny bonnets as quaint and becoming as can be. For girls entering their teens there are half-bonnet affairs like the one shown in the accompanying illustration. The whole costume is designed for a girl of 12, the dress a dark blue seige. Style is given by the smart collar and tie, and daintiness in the lawn frills or of ecrum lawn. The hat is trimmed only with ribbon, which is drawn through a cut in the rim in front and fashioned into a large rosette, ribbon falls over the hair at the back. Elbow sleeves are used for little girls' frocks even more than for the mamas—if possible everybody now appearing in cut-off sleeves. Mammals affect short coats, also do small girls affect the jaunty jacket. The reefers, so popular for some time back, hold their own still. A reefer is easy to get into, has warmth where needed, is not burdensome. Those made of cloth and trimmed with white collars and cuffs are in excellent style. Everything should be tubular until the child is old enough to keep clean without constant reminding. There are heaps of ready-made collars at all prices, offered at the stores, and they help out a home-made garment wonderfully. Women fond of needlework will make lingerie bats for their little girls, and embroidered lawn caps for the baby. Designs for these are easily procured, and though they take considerable time to complete, they are the prettiest thing shown in children's millinery. Long-waisted linen dresses look so cool and comfortable, and many of them will be seen this summer. They may be bought ready-made, or easily fashioned at home. The loose coat in elbow length for one dollar, but few days ago we found the price had been trebled. Let us hope the mk will not follow suit; we want to keep the elbow sleeves, but do not care to spend all our substance on "hand-shuhe." With the tallored street dress there is nothing in better style than simple sailor hat trimmed with pompadour ribbon. The high crowned sailors are preferred, although many smart low-crowned ones are seen. The peacock feather craze has been carried pretty far, but of late better taste has had its way, and in place of the yard-long, assertive tail, we see shorter feathers used. On a gray sailor three green pencock eyes that stood out just a little from the bow at the side, really made a decorative effect that was very pleasing. Each spring we wonder if materials ever were so soft and light and pretty, but surely the spring parade this year is unusually elegant. The dark costume is the exception, old and young go in for light colors, as well as light materials. Not only in auto and carriage are they seen, but they fill the streets. And we must chronicle the liking for red—a color usually considered too warm looking for warm days. All-red hats are affected—but if truth be told as a rule they are most unbecoming. Recently we observed a blonde-haired woman of our acquaintance sporting one of these hats of unreliable gaudiness, and remarked what a mistake she had made. She looked sallow, faded, and usually she appears as fresh as a peach. Not a little gold and silver are seen, used for trimmings in both dress and millinery. A little gleam here and there often adds to the costume, but too much is tawdry. Many checked materials are employed with good results. The new suspender frocks are very pretty in these check suitings, the blouse always on the lingerie order. Later we shall have something to say about a checked silk frock and mull guimie. A of fancy mixture is a satisfactory garment for slipping on over a wash-dress of an evening, and the modish ones have a certain smart mannishness that miss no doubt approves highly. Lingerie hats match the frock in color with a pink chambray, a pink embroidered hat, etc. Of course the white wash-hat will look pretty with any summer costume, colored hats are merely a bit newer. Even quite-tall girls will wear one-piece frocks, and a pretty model has a box plait immediately down the front, extending from a short yoke of embroidery almost a square. Bands of embroidery are attached either side the insertion, forming shoulder pieces, loose on the outer edge. The sleeves are elbow length. A NEAT OUTFIT. ELLEN OSMONDE AT AN AFTERNOON TEA. For One Uncertain About the Etiquette of Such an Occasion—Few Pointers Given. There are many who do not quite understand the etiquette necessary in attending either a reception or an afternoon tea and wish some sort of definite instruction in the matter. In the first place, as far as the costume is concerned, any handsome street dress is right; a velvet or something equally dressy. If this be in the form of skirt and jacket with furs in winter, neither coat nor furs need be removed, although the coat may be thrown open to show a pretty waist. Where it is a gown with an extra wrap, remove this, especially if the occasion is formal. Gloves and veil are never removed, and a small fur neckpiece or a handsome feather boa need not be left off. Upon entering it is the proper thing to place cards in the receptacle provided; a married lady leaves one of her own and one of her husband's for each receiving lady, and one of her husband's for the husband of the hostess. Then it is proper to seek the hostess and those who may be receiving, greeting them all before moving on to the room where refreshments are served. No stated time is set for remaining; if friends and acquaintances are found to chat with, an hour may be spent; or, if preferred, only a greeting may be exchanged with the receiving party and one may leave at once. It is not obligatory to take any refreshments, although considered better form to make a pretense, if nothing is cared for. When leaving, unless there is a great crush of people entering, it is the more correct to bid the hostess good-by; but if the crowd is very great this may be omitted; not otherwise, and every effort should be made to make a farewell to the receiving party. An afternoon tea and a reception are very similar; the latter rather more formal; but the same rules hold for both. It has been considered obligatory that a call be made within a fortnight after a reception, but at the present none is demanded. If a card is left on the day. When unable to attend regrets should be mailed in time to reach the hostess at the time of the affair. EMBROIDERY DESIGN. The One Illustrated Is Suitable for Doilies and Table Covers and Other Linen Articles. This is a pretty design to be worked on fine linen for dollies, table covers, etc. A border of drawn threads is made about two and one-half inches from the edge, then beyond this the design of open holes and cording- FOR BORDER AND CORNER stitch is worked. The scalloped border is worked over in buttonhole-stitch, which should be padded to make it stand up well. The superfluous edges of material must be cut away with a pair of sharp scissors. The design may be worked on the material by means of blue tracing cloth. THE HOME DOCTOR. To soothe the pain of a brushed finger hold the damaged finger in hot water. It will relieve the pain more quickly than any other remedy. Cure for Warts.—To cure warts on the hands, rub a little castor oil on them after washing the hands. A little should also be put on at night. After a few applications, the warts will begin to dry up. Food for Nervous People.—As a rule, salt meat is not adapted to the requirements of nervous people, as nutritious juices go into the brine to a great extent. Fish of all kinds is good for them. Raw eggs, contrary to the common opinion, are not as digestible as those that have been well cooked. Good bread, sweet butter and lean meat are the best food for the nerves. People troubled with insomnia and nervous starting from sleep and sensations of falling can often be cured by, limiting themselves to a diet of milk alone for a time. An adult should take a pint at a meal, and take four meals a day. People with weakened nerves require frequently a larger quantity of water than those whose nerves and brains are strong. It aids the digestion of these by making it soluble, and seems to have a direct tonic effect.—Good Literature. Corset Covers. The latest thing in corset covers are those made of dainty blue or pink glimty. They are trimmed with Valenciennes lace and insertion and are very pretty when worn under a sheer blouse embroidered in the eyelid work. This allows the color to show through with charming effect. It is well to wash a sample of the blue or pink material before making your corset covers, for sometimes these delicate shades are not fast colors, also when laundered do not have them dried in the sun. TELEPHONE TIDINGS. Liverpool has tried and abandoned a penny-in-the-slot telephone service. London, with three times as big a population as New York, has only two-thirds the number of telephones—namely, 80,000. The first long-distance telephone cable in this country was that between Liverpool and Manchester. It was opened in 1880. Wireless telephony has been invented by Mr. Thomas Gladwell, of Newport (Mont.), who claims to have had successful results up to a distance of ten miles. The longest telephone circuit in the world is that between New York and Chicago. It is 950 miles long. The longest in Europe connects London with Marscilies, these places being 650 miles apart. It is now possible to "ring up" the nearest railway station from a moving train, and to telephone, via the station, to any subscriber. An experiment was conducted successfully on the Highland railway. WORDS WRONGLY USED. Never used the word "lable" when you mean "likely." Do not say, for instance, that "he is liable to come in at any moment." "L liable" implies misfortune, and means "exposed to," "subject to," "in danger of." Why do most of us speak of "unraveling a mystery?" Any good dictionary shows that "ravel" means to "unweave." You "ravel" a mystery, therefore, when you solve it. In "Hamlet," Shakespeare says: "Make you toravel all this matter out." If you and your friend Smith know a man called Jones, do not speak to Smith of "our mutual friend"—meaning Jones. Jones is your common friend. If you are friendly to Smith, and Smith is friendly to you, you and Smith are "mutual friends;" but that is the only sense in which the term may rightly be used. The Favorite Route East Passengers from Chicago to Ft. Wayne, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, New York City, Boston and all points east, will find it to their interest by selecting for their journey the NICKEL PLATE ROAD from Chicago. Three through trains are run daily with Modern Day Coaches and Luxurious trains. The NICKEL PLATE ROAD also through Sleeping Car Service to Boston and intermediate points. Rates always the lowest and no excess fares are charged on any train for any part of the trip. The NICKEL PLATE ROAD Dining Service is right up-to-date. Individual Club Meals are served at prices ranging from 35 cents to $1.00; also meals a la carte. All trains depart from Chicago at noon. For full information address J. Y. Calahan, General Agent, 113 Adams St., Chicago, Ill. FREAKS OF FORTUNE Ulysses Grant would not have been a military man had it not been that his rival for a West Point cadetship had been found to have six toes on each foot instead of five. Oliver Cromwell was once on board a ship bound for America, but he was taken back by a constable, and the result was that he became one of the greatest men England ever knew. Abraham Lincoln, after being a member of congress, desired to secure a clerkship in Washington, but he was defeated by Justin Butterfield. He was disappointed, but had he not been defeated he would have spent his life in obscurity instead of becoming president of the United States. Torture of Women. It was a terrible torture that Mrs. Gertie McFarland, of King's Mountain, N. C., describes, as follows: "I suffered dreadful periodical pain, and became so weak I was given up to die, when my husband got me Wine of Cardul. The first dose gave relief, and with 3 bottles I am up doing my work. I cannot say enough in praise of Cardul." A wonderful remedy for women's ills. At druggists: $1.00. ORACULAR OBSERVATIONS Some potters live by means of their urnings. The small boy with his first watch is having the time of his life. Every dog has his day, but the fleas are on him both day and night. It is a persevering undertaker who accomplishes all he undertakes. Love seems to resemble a bottomless pit when some people fall in. The Effect. "I think that my speech on this question will have some effect." "It has already had an effect," answered Senator Sorghum. "You have caused two or more questions to grow where there was but one before."—Washington Star. Don't Get Footsore! Get Foot-Ease. A wonderful powder that cures tired, hot, aching feet and makes new or tight shoes feel better. Accept no substitute. Trial package FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Well Able to Stand It. "But, doctor, I don't believe he can stand another operation!" stand ambitions. "Oh, yes he can. I looked him up in Bradstreet s." - Houston Post. FITS, St. Vittus Dance and all Nervous Diseases permanently cured by Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorow. Send for Free $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ld., 331 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. The More the Merrier. "I want to introduce you to a young lady—a very nice girl—and she's worth her weight in gold." "Stout girl, I hope."—The Tattler. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, soreness the gums, reduces inflammation, allay pain, cure wind colic. 25c a bottle. When you have honey from the rock you will not want glucose from flatterers. Send to Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., for free package of Garfield Tea, the herb cure for constipation and liver trouble. April showers also bring forth borrowed umbrellas.-Indianapolis News. STORIES OF CAMP AND WAR JACKSON'S BIG CAPTURE. How Stonewall's Cavalry Took Manassas and the Soldiers Divided the Rich Plunder. Allen C. Redwood, the artist, was "With Jackson's Foot Cavalry at the Second Manassas," and from his account in the Century we quote as follows: "All this time we had the vaguest notions as to our objective; at first we had expected to strike the enemy's right flank, but as the march prolonged itself a theory obtained itself that we were going to the valley. But we threaded Thoroughfare Gap heading eastward, and in the morning of the third day (August 27) struck a railroad running north and south—Pope's line of communication and supply. Manassas was ours! "What a prize it was! Here were long warehouses full of stores; cars loaded with boxes of new clothing en route to Gen. Pope, but destined to adorn the 'backs of his enemies'; camps, sutlers' shops—no eating up' of good things. In view of the abundance it was no easy matter to determine what we should eat and drink and wherewithal we should be clothed! one was limited in his choice to only so much as he could transport, and the one thing needful in each individual case was not always readily found. However, as the day wore on, an equitable distribution of our wealth was effected by barter, upon a crude and irregular tariff in which the rule of supply and demand was somewhat complicated by fluctuating estimates A AN EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF OUR WEALTH WAS EFFECTED BY BARTER. of the imminence of marching orders. A mounted man would offer large odds in shirts or blankets for a pair of spurs or a bridle; and while in anxious quest of a pair of shoes I felt heir to a case of cavalry half-boots, which I would gladly have exchanged for the object of my search. For a change of underclothing and a pot of French mustard I owe grateful thanks to the major of the Twelfth Pennsylvania cavalry, with regrets that I could not use his library. Whiskey was, of course, at a high premium, but a keg of 'lager'—a drink less popular then than now—went begging in our company. "But our brief holiday was drawing to a close, for by this time Gen. Pope had some inkling of the disaster which lurked in his rear. When, some time after dark, having set fire to the remnant of the stores, we took the road to Centerville, our mystification as to Jackson's plans was complete. Could he actually be moving on Washington with his small force, or was he only seeking to escape to the mountains? The glare of our big bonfire lighted up the country for miles, and was just dying out when we reached Centerville." ACCOMMODATING SENTINEL One of the Amusing Incidents of the War Which Brightens Up More Somber Phases. The colonel of an Alabama regiment which served through the rebellion, says some one in the Grand Army Sentinel, was famous for having everything done in military style. Once, while field officer of the day, going on his tour of inspection he came upon a sentinel sitting on the ground with his gun entirely taken to pieces. The following dialogue then took place: Colonel—Don't you know that a sentinel while on duty should always keep on his feet? Sentinel (without looking up)—That's the way we used to do when the war began, but that's outlawed long ago. Colonel (beginning to doubt if the man was really on duty)—Are you the sentinel here? Sentinel—Well, I'm a sort of sentinel. Colonel—Well, I'm a sort of officer of the day. Sentnnel—Well, if you'll hold on till I sort of git my gum together I'll give you a sort of salute. FLAG WHICH HAS A HISTORY Story of the Banner Which Was Used to Drape President Lincoln's Box at Ford's Theater. As the stream of visitors pours every day into the treasury, writes a correspondent to the Atlanta Constitution, not one in a hundred stops at the narrow room which is the headquarters of the captain of the watch. I had been through the building 50 times before I saw the interior of that room. One day its keeper said to me: "Did you ever see my flag?" On being told that I had not he took me into a plainly furnished room, whose only ornament is a silk United States flag, protected in a glass frame. That was the flag with which the president's box was hung on the night of his murder by the mad assassin. Booth shot Lincoln from the rear and then leaped on the stage to make his sickening proclamation of "Sic Semper Tyrannis." As he jumped from the box his spur caught in this flag and made a rent of several inches. During the war, Gen. Phil Cook, of Georgia, pushed a brigade almost to the gates of Washington, and had the honor of leading the only confederate force that ever fought in the District of Columbia. It was out at Frazier's farm, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and Gen. Cook says that the dome of the capitol was clearly visible to his men as they fought. It was to meet this raid that a regiment was formed out of the employees of the various departments in Washington. The city was full of southern sympathizers, but a large number of ladies contributed to the purchase of a beautiful flag for the "Home Guard." They bore it into one or two battles, but it seems that it was never in any lively quarters, as it was perfect when Manager Ford borrowed it to drape the president's box on the night of his assassination. It is now growing yellow with age, but it is preserved as one of the relies of our civil revolution, as a thrilling testimonial o one of the maddest acts ever perpetrated by a frenzied mortal. QUICK JOB OF SLAUGHTERINC How an Ohio Battery Captured Sufficient Supplies for Its Evening Meal. We knew it would be night before the slow-paced baggage wagons reached Bowling Green, and perhaps morning before we could find them. The thought made the soldiers ravenous. Clearly something must be done to procure rations for supper. Far off down the road in front we could see a negro driving an ox team, making his way home, probably scared into an ague fit by the sudden appearance of the Yankees. It was the first time, the reader must remember, that the federal troops had penetrated the south, and the ignorant people regarded them with comical terror. The negro was making what haste he could to avoid being overtaken. At this moment a wheel ran off the leading guncarriage and the first detachment hauled, drawing to one side to enable the battery to pass. In a minute or two it was replaced, by this time the battery had thundered by the ox team, leaving the negro, half paralyzed with fear, sitting in his wagon by the roadside. A hurried consultation in the detachment resulted in the sergeant giving it one minute to convert the oxen into beef says the correspondent of the Cleveland Leader, who tells the story. We approached the team on a run, halted, and, while the negro still sat on the wagon with staring eyes, shivering with fright, 20 men fell to the work of slaughter. They worked like wild men for fear of losing their rations. In a minute or two it was all over, eight quarters of beef adorned the caisson chests, the detachment clattered on the run to overtake the battery, and the negro still sat on his wagon, gazing alternately at the hides heads and debris incumbering the yoke and wagon tongue, and the flying artillery disappearing down the road. JUST LIKE JIM. How Simple Hearted Mother Thought She Sent Pair of Socks to Her Boy by Telegraph. During the war, says the Hartwell (Ga.) Sun, when the militia were about Savannah, an old lady who had a 16-year-old son down there, went to the depot at Greensboro with a pair of wool socks which she wanted sent to her "bold soldier boy" by telegraph. Some men were walking about the depot. One of them told her to walk into the office and he would hang the socks on the wire and in a few minutes she would hear from Jim. The man pulled off his dirty, well-worn socks, and putting on the new ones, hung the old ones on the wire, and went in and told the old lady Jim had received the socks and sent back the old ones, which were hanging on the wire. The delighted old lady raised her spectacles, saw the old socks, and requested the man to take them down, remarking in a voice full of pride and tenderness: "Jus" like Jim—he always wuz a keerful, savin' boy; and he has sent his old socks back for his mammy to darn 'em—God bless him!" And in turn, we say God bless all such innocent, tender-hearted mothers as Jim's. More Big Warships. The German reichstag have approved the construction of two battleships of 15,000 tons displacement and six armored cruisers. This change in the displacement of the two battleships already in the process of building is a direct result: of the building of the Dreadnaught, and indicates the great change in the construction of warships. ABOUT THE NEW DRESSES. The Empire Styles Load, with Them Are Worn Pretty Little Coats and Broad Sashes. Much speculation has been rife in Paris as to the lines to be adopted in the coming season for the new dresses. Rumor said a return to the frills of 1870 was imminent, but no one could speak with certainty, since the leading dressmakers declined to give the slightest hint as to the styles in preparation. Now, at last, your correspondent has been by special favor allowed a glance at the models which are to be displayed to customers from all parts of the world. And let it be said at once that the majority of gowns will be constructed on Empire lines. Small boleros, clasping the bust closely, and bound to the figure by folded satin sashes, or pieces of wondrous embroidery, will play a leading role on both day and evening dresses. From under this folded sash, which runs up high at the back, the skirt will fall in graceful lines. Across the front of the bodice a good deal of padding is used to give the straight, square look to the bust which is essential for success. In cloth gowns, or coat and skirt type, there is a quaint adaptation of this Empire idea. The very short boiler of last autumn has a loose basque added to it, which falls away from the figure beneath the arms and descends to the waist-line. Beneath this coat the skirt rises high over the bust, ending sometimes with straps over the shoulder. Of blouses there are none. Their place is taken by the elegant lace guipimps which finish the Empire gowns. Fine and beautiful laces are used for these, and any bits of good lace can be brought into use. With a little bib-shaped piece of Irish lace forming the middle of the front of the bodice, straight lapels of the same lace can be placed on the sleeve, running down the middle, the material used for the gown forming lightly draped puffs on either side.—N. Y. Tribune. WHEN THERE IS NO MAID. How to Have a Successful Dinner Party When Hostess Must Prepare and Serve. Plan the meal beforehand with direct reference to making a minimum of cooking and serving at the last moment. First select such dishes as can be prepared wholly or in part some time before the meal. Set the table ready for the first course and, if it is warm weather, the windows open and a strong breeze with much dust, throw over all a cover made of several breadths of cheese cloth. Select the china, glass and silver for the various courses and arrange on the sideboard or an extra side table, putting the set for each course by itself. In the kitchen put a table as near to the communicating door as possible; keep half of it clear to receive the soiled dishes. On the other end place the platters, etc., on which to dish up the hot food. When the meal time arrives pat the first course on the table before asking your guests into the dining room. When it is finished they will, presumably, be deep in conversation while you are employed in changing the dishes. Having everything in readiness this will take but a few moments and you can resume your seat. When there is no host to do the honors it will relieve you if you are at liberty to ask one or more of the guests to serve certain dishes.—Chicago Chronicle. Cleaning Carpets. Carpets should be taken up, and if not cleansed professionally should be beaten, well brushed and hung out of doors to freshen the colors. When relaying carpets a layer of felt should be placed below them. This serves the double purpose of wear and tear and makes the rooms warmer. For the sake of economy sheets of brown paper may be used instead of felt, and make an admirable substitute. If the colors of the carpet are dull they may be brightened by rubbing it over with a flannel cloth wrung from water mixed with a little ammonia. Nut Filling for Cakes Make the nuts fine through any process, by a meat chopped or pound in a tray with your roiling pin. Use French walnuts, pecans, hickory nuts, almonds or coconut. Beat the yolk of an egg, add two-thirds of a cup of thick, sour cream, stir in the nuts and beat until stiff. Sweeten with a liberal cup of sugar, powdered is best. Flavor with vanilla and the mixture is ready to spread on layers of cake already prepared, or to cold in a flexible sponge cake if desired. Matting. Matting should not be washed with soapy water. A strong solution of salt water cleans matting, and makes it look quite new. In laying matting place one or two thicknesses of old newspapers underneath it, for it always lets dust and dirt through like a sleeve, and when it has to be taken up the pieces of dust covered paper can be carefully lifted and burned. A Simple Remedy Many cases of indigestion, headache, neuralgia, cold hands and feet can be quickly cured by drinking slowly one or two pints of water so hot that it almost burns the throat. Good Poulice. Tea leaves make an excellent poulftice for burns. For Burns Apply white of egg at once. It will give relief. THE WHITE PAINT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. The White House at Washington, which has been the "Kings Palace" of the American People since it was first occupied by President Madison in 1809, has recently undergone a thorough course of remodelling, renovation and repair. Every American citizen is owner of an undivided eighty or eighty-five millionth part of the White House, as well as of the other Public Buildings and Monuments in the Capitol City. An item in the renovation of the remodelled White House was repainting. Every visitor to Washington knows why the White House is so called—because it is literally a "white house". The exterior paint must therefore be white. Now while the pure white surfaces and simple lines of the White House, set in the midst of green lawns and beautiful trees, produce a very satisfying effect of dignified simplicity, white paint from a practical point of view is about the most unsatisfactory kind of paint that could have been selected by the original designers. First, be cause any white paint is easily discolored by smoke and dust, and see ond. because ordinary white paint itself gradually turns gray or brown ish yellow from exposure. But white the White House is and white it must remain or it would no longer be the "White House". So the renovators, making the best of a discouraging situation, sought for the best kind of white paint procurable. The average citizen if asked to guess what kind of paint they finally decided on would probably answer—"white lead and oil," but he would guess wrongly. The paint selected as the best obtainable was a ready mixed paint, such as can be bought in any well furnished village store, such as is used by more than half of the eighty or eighty-five million owners of the White House on their own homes. That one brand of mixed paint was used instead of another is a mere accidental detail—there are fifty or a hundred brands on the market that might have been selected in other circumstances, and in fact a different brand was used in painting the Capitol. Every property owner, therefore who paints his house with a high grade ready-mixed paint is following the example set by the Government Authorities at Washington, who used ready-mixed paint, because they could find nothing else as good. PERSONAL PARTICULARS. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, attributes his excellent health at the age of 84 to the serenity with which he takes life. He sleeps nine hours every night. John D. Rockefeller is to live for two months of the year at Pasadena, Cat. He purchased Carmelita, the magnificent home where Helen Hunt Jackson wrote "Ramona." Mrs. Virginia E. Bland, widow of "Silver Dick" Bland, has become one of the most successful agriculturists and horticulturists in the country at her place in Lebanon, Mo. Theodore A. Cook, brother of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, is building three motor cars at his home in Callecoon, N. Y., for the use of the south pole expedition, which is to start in 1904. Miss Esther Whitman, the strongest woman in New York, has married Herman Hyams, a Harlem real estate man, whom she rescued from drowning three years ago. She is an expert swimmer, and can lift a dead weight of 600 pounds. Dr. Fridjol Nansen, the arctic explorer who has been appointed Norwegian ambassador to Great Britain, is a firm believer in woman's rights. He and his wife are almost equally proficient in all that relates to athletics and the strenuous life. Apart from his fame as an explorer, Dr. Nansen is well known as a writer on scientific topics. Cashier W. T. Bell, of Mount Union, Pa., has the distinction of having two sons cashiers or banks who are among the youngest not on g in Pennsylvania, but in the United States. Harry A. Bell was elected cashier of a Middletown bank last May when 22 years and four months old, and Jesse G. Bell was elected cashier of a Saxton bank when 21 years and six months old last December. REPAIRING BRAIN A Certain Way by Food. Every minister, lawyer, journalist, physician, author or business man is forced under pressure of modern conditions to the active and sometimes overactive use of the brain. Analysis of the excreta thrown out by the pores shows that brain work breaks down the phosphate of potash, separating it from its heavier companion, albumen, and plain common sense teaches that this elemental principle must be introduced into the body anew each day, if we would replace the loss and rebuild the brain tissue. We know that the phosphate of potash, as presented in certain field grains, has an affinity for albumen and that is the only way gray matter in the brain can be built. It will not answer to take the crude phosphate of potash of the drug shop, for nature rejects it. The elemental mineral must be presented through food directly from nature's laboratory. These facts have been made use of in the manufacture of Grape-Nuts, and any brain worker can prove the value of the proper selection of food by making free use of Grape-Nuts for ten days or two weeks. Sold by grocers everywhere (and in immense quantities). Manufactured by the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. ECHOUS FROM RELIGIOUS FIELDS What Education and the Press Is Doing to Awaken People of Sultan's Land. When American missionaries first entered Turkey, the great mass of the people knew neither how to read nor to write. The missionaries saw that no permanent reform could be introduced without inaugurating some system of education, and as a result Christian schools and colleges were founded. This work has progressed, reports the Record of Christian Work, until to-day there are scattered throughout the Turkish empire from Salonica to eastern Turkey and from the black sea to Arabia, well-organized modern educational institutions, including kindergarten schools, intermediate boarding schools for both men and young women, colleges for both sexes, and theological seminaries. The American board alone has been instrumental in starting nine collegiate institutions, two of which are exclusively for women. Two institutions, Robert college, in Constantinople, and the Syrian Protestant college, in Beirut, Syria, are independent. In them are trained men and women who are rapidly coming to the front in the empire as leaders in educational, religious and industrial reform. The medical school in connection with the Syrian Protestant college in Beirut trains physicians for all parts of the empire. Including the preparatory departments, there are not less than 6,000 pupils studying in connection with these collegiate institutions, and all under Christian training. Beside these American institutions, there are varny schools of lower grade which have been brought into existence through the efforts in the cause of education by the American schools. The Mohammedans themselves have been compelled to greatly improve their entire educational system. Dr. James L. Barton says that a large part of the intellectual awakening of Turkey is due to the work of the press. When mission work began in Turkey there was not a paper or periodical in the entire empire. At present, in the chief languages spoken in the country there are annually issued from the mission presses at Beirut and at Constantinople some 60,000,000 pages of Christian literature, the Bible, in whole and in part, and periodicals. As a Christianizing and civilizing force in the empire, nothing ranks above the power of the Christian press. The three branches of missionary work, education, and medical work have all wrought a revolution in the Turkish empire which is operating to-day with mighty force. World's Student Christian Federation This organization, which had its beginning in 1805 at Wadstena Castle, Lake Wettern, Sweden, is a worldwide federation of students who desire to help each other in the Christian life and are willing to do what is in their power to induce their fellow students to become Christians. Any group of students or any single student may join it. In speaking of the reason for its organization, the Baptist Science says, that its founders were impressed with the dangers peculiar to student life, and in this way set about the task of bringing influences for good to hear upon those who were surely tempted in any direction. It seeks to encourage local student organization to maintain and extend student work for students in every land. It aims to cultivate a spirit of brotherhood and to approach men on the basis of friendship, offering to give the younger fellows the value of the experience of those who are older. Groups of the federation are to be found in almost every country in the world. It now numbers 103,000 members. Dr. Carl Fryls, of Sweden, is president, and Mr. John R. Mott, of America, is general secretary. Religious Liberty Coming in Bolivia. Both houses of parliament of Bolivia have passed a second time a bill granting religious liberty throughout the country. As it means a change in the constitution, it must be passed again next year before it becomes a law. Should this be done the state religion will still be the "Roman Catholic Apostolic," but instead of prohibiting, the law will permit the public exercise of all other religions. Coast Rising Parts of the coast of Alaska have shown marked signs, within the last six or seven years, of a rise in the land, amounting, in exceptional instances, to no less than 30 or 40 feet. The fact that glaciers and Rocky mountain spurs were chiefly affected and few, if any, human habitations were seriously disturbed, prevented the change from attracting much notice Consolation for the Attracted There never was a night which was not followed by a morning; nor a winter which was not succeeded by a summer. A most consoling reflection this, to those distressed in the night and winter of spiritual trial and trouble. God help the man who loses faith in motherhood, in goodness, in humanity, in womanhood, for it is not simply fettered intellect; there is a moral bruise beneath. KIDNEY TROUBLES Increasing Among Women, But Sufferers Need Not Despair THE BEST ADVICE IS FREE Of all the diseases known, with which the female organism is afflicted, kidney disease is the most fatal, and statistics show that this disease is on the increase among women. Mrs. Emma Sawyer Unless early and correct treatment is applied the patient seldom survives when once the disease is fastened upon her. We believe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the most efficient treatment for chronic kidney troubles of women, and is the only medicine especially prepared for this purpose. When a woman is troubled with pain or weight in loins, backache, frequent, painful or scalding urination, swelling of limbs or feet, swelling under the eyes, an uneasy, tired feeling in the region of the kidneys or notices a sediment in the urine, she should lose no time in commencing treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as it may be the means of saving her life. For proof, read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for Mrs. Sawyer. "I cannot express the terrible suffering I had to endure. A derangement of the female organs developed nervous prostration and a serious kidney trouble. The doctor attended me for a year, but I kept getting worse, until I was unable to do anything, and I made up my mind I would not try to try Lyda E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound as a last resort, and I am to lay a well woman. I cannot praise it too highly, and I tell every suffering woman about my case" — Mrs. Emma Sawyer, Conyers, Ga. Mrs. Pinkham gives free advice to women; address in confidence, Lynn, Mass. Many Smokers Prefer Them to 100 Cigars. Annual Sales Light Million (8,000,000.) The popularity of Lewis' Single Binder straight be cigar is largely due to the fact that this factory always uses thoroughly tipped and perfectly cured tobacco, thus giving the smoker a rich, mellow tasting cigar. The tobacco is from crops showing the best quality and is graded fancy selected. Smokers have found that they can always depend on the same high standard of quality in the Lewis' Single Binder. The Lewis' Single Binder Factory is one of the largest holders of fancy graded tobacco in the United States, Lewis' Single Binder cigar gives the smoker what he wants and at the right price. FROM OVER TILE OCEAN Milan has decided that at every street crossing eight signs made of brass letters shall be inserted in the pavement. The British foreign office is considering a plan for the appointment of consuls in Siberia, as well as a commercial agent at Vladivostok. King Siswath of Cambodia is soon to visit Paris, and will bring with him a numerous retinue, including a special retinue of 100 dancers. The United Kingdom still easily leads all her colonies in the matter of the raising of cattle. She has 47,000,000 sheep, cattle, horses and pigs, as against New Zealand's 21,000,000. Sir Patrick Keith Murray has presented to the British nation an old cushion on which the crown of Scotland rested, and it has been placed in the jewel room in the Edinburgh castle. Lord Rosebery hopes the new liberal ministry in England will take Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, into its counsels in dealing with the awful problem of London's unemployed. A candidate for parliament at the recent election in Great Britain has filed a petition in bankruptcy, owing $106,140 and having assets estimated of the value of $8,405. He was an enthusiastic "fiscal reformer." A new party has been formed in the house of commons, but its object is not political. What it hopes to effect is a reduction in the parliamentary barber shop of the price of shaving from 24 cents to 12 cents DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASES DIABETES BACKACHE This tape discontinued the use of our product in package. The public may not enjoy imitations. Sold only in boxed PATENTS WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS mention in this paper the Advertiser THE RISING SON. LEWIS WOODS,..... Business Manager. Published Every Week RISING SON PUBLISHING CO SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year. 12 18 Six months. 12 18 Three months. 12 18 One month. 12 18 Suspect paid in advance Entered at the Post Office at Kansas City, as Second Class Matter. Correspondents wanted in every city and town in this state. Write up. All news matter intended for publication should reach our office not later than Tuesday, of each week and must be signed by the writer not for publication, but as guarantee of authenticity. OFFICE—No. 117 West Sixth. St. Kansas City, Mo. Advertising Rates, For one inch, one insertion . . . 8.00 For one inch, with subsequent insertion . . . 8.00 For two inches, three month . . . 8.00 For two inches, six month . . . 8.00 For two inches, nine months . . . 10.00 For two inches, twelve months . . . 15.00 CLDEST NEGRO JOURNAL ... IN KANSAS CITY, TWICE ALL THE REST. The paid circulation of THE RISING SON is more than double the combined circulation of all the other Kansas City Golored weekly newspapers. The Son is gratified to learn that Attorney-General Hadley is on the road to recovery after a serious illness. The proceeds of the Booker T. Washington lecture is estimated at between $3,000 and $4,000, which will go to the Douglass Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas. The good people of this country regardless of color or race commend Gov. Folk in his fearless attitude on lynching. The Governor is determined to uphold the majesty of the law at all risk. The Negroes need not try to get rid of Supt. Cash Anderson of the Work House because we believe that Mr. Anderson is fair, not only with the employees of the institution but the inmates as well. The Republicans of the several wards are busy this week selecting delegates for the state and judicial conventions, the dates of which have not been decided upon. It is hoped that the Republicans will decide that the best way to win out is to quit fighting and get together and stay together. There is a certain Negro doctor who complains of the Negroes not patronizing the profession but we find that when this doctor has a little money to spend in the way of advertising he overlooks his struggling brother journalist and planks his cash in the coffers of the white papers. He should practice what he preaches. Supt. G. V. Buchanan of the schools of Sedalia will be a candidate on the Republican ticket for superintendent of public institution. We do not know of a candidate backed by stronger influence and commendation than Prof. Buchanan and we believe he is the proper man for the place. The manager of the Son has asked the powers that be for a small bit of pie at the City Hall After fighting in the party battles for the past ten years we would like to inquire if the party leaders and those in power do not think he deserves something. We are in a position to know whether we are deserving of consideration. The headquarters of the No. 11 Fire Co. on Independence avenue is in a deplorable condition. The roof leaks, the place is damp and dilapidated and is unfit for the boys to live in and keep healthy. If there is any place in the city government that needs looking after it is No. 11 Fire Co. We hope the proper officials will do what is right in connection with the matter. Japanese Engagement Token: Japanese Engagement Token. The Japanese lover, instead of an engagement ring, may give his future bride a piece of beautiful silk to be worn as a sash. Book Worth $1,500,000 The most valuable book in the British Museum is "The Codex Alexandrinus," said to be worth $1,500,000. Chinese Leather Poorly Tanned. Chinese Leather Poorly Tanned. Shoes manufactured by the Chinese are all made of imported leather, for the reason that the few tanneries in the empire are unable to turn out a satisfactory product. The leather is soft and spongy and practically useless for the manufacture of footwear. Hides in abundance can be obtained in China, but, as the natives are ignorant of the proper method of tanning, comparatively few are retained in the country for that purpose. Soldiers Cleared Line of Snow. In February of 1903 a terrible blizzard swept over southern Russia. Hundreds of peasants' huts were buried beneath the snowdrifts, while outside Odessa three trains were completely blocked. Word was at once sent to the neighboring barracks and over 4,000 soldiers, armed with shovels, promptly appeared upon the scene. In a very short while the lines were cleared. Not in His Line. A woman was detailing some social news to a newspaper reporter the other day and in describing her gown at a function spoke of her new diamond necklace. "It's a present from my husband, and cost $40,000. But"—fearfully—"don't put that in the paper." "Madam," returned the reporter, "you need have no fear. I'm not the financial editor." Artificial Vocal Chords. A Viennese, whose larynx was cut out for cancer, has invented a speaking apparatus made of a rubber pipe fitted with artificial vocal chords, which he inserts in his throat when he wishes to speak. He spoke before the Viennese Medical Society at its last meeting. The voice is a high falsetto, but what he said was easily understood. Feather Headdresses Coming. We are wondering (says a fashion expert) whether we are slowly veering round to the elaborate headaddresses of the end of the eighteenth century. Plumes and other feather erections of size have been seen both in London and Paris (these more or less headaddresses) adorning the coiffure of fashion. The Coming Woman On the whole the modern woman (says a correspondent) is slowly assuming large proportions, and the delicate, slender, finely made figure of the past will soon become extinct as the dodo. There is already talk among ladies of repudiating the term "weaker sex" in favor of men. Unique Distinction of Texas A Baltimore school teacher says that she once put a question to a boy pupil as to what was the distinguishing feature of the state of Texas. "Texas," replied the lad, "is celebrated for being the only one of the United States that is the largest."—Harper's Weekly. Most Curious Vegetable The most curious vegetable in the world is the truffle, since it has neither roots, stem, flowers, leaves nor seeds. In some parts dogs and pigs are trained to dig for it, the animals being guided by their sense of smell. Woman's Work is Never Done. When a woman says she has been working hard it is a sign that she has been out calling al day; and when she says she has had a quiet restful day at home, she has been making clothes for the children—New York Press. The Proper Aim: We should make a rich personality our great aim, instead of a fat pocket-book. If the aim is directed towards the picketbook the head will suffer, the heart will starve, and the life will ceterialize.—Success Magazine. Elephants for South America It has been suggested that African and Asiatic elephants be imported into South and Central America, in the vast forests of which they would multiply and provide a future source of ivory. Teach Children to Save Teeth School children in Strasburg, Darmstadt and other cities of Germany not only have their teeth treated free of charge, but are taught how to masticate food with the least injury to the teeth. Curl Chrysanthemums Before chrysanthemums are exhibited at the various shows they are curled and, frilled by specialists to make them appear to the best advantage. "What is the use?" Nothing—nothing in the world, if you are determined to insist upon the question.—John A. Howland. Insult and Repartee. The difference between repartere and insult depends on whether you or the other man makes the remark.— Life. When He Is Unfortunate. When He is Unfortunate: There is a tide in the affairs of man when everybody seems to try to soak him. - Exchange. Smallest Dogs. The Mexican lap dog is the smallest member of the dog family. Origin of Russians. Rurik the Rodsen, or Oarsman, a daring sea rover, landed in 862 on the Russian shore of the Baltic with his brothers, Sineus and Truwer. He subjugated the country from Novgorod to the Volga, and his followers were called Rodsen or Russians, Rodsen, in the Scandinavian tongue of the period, meaning oarsmen. Rurik died in 879. The Russian warship Rurik, it will be remembered, went down off Sakhalin last summer. Steals 2.600 Pipes. One of the strangest cases of kleptomania ever brought to light was heard of in Paris. A certain woman had such a passion for smoking and for coloring meerschaum pipes that she had been for a long time stealing pipes of this description from shops. In the flat which she occupied there was found no fewer than 2,600 pipes, not one of which, it is believed, she had paid for. New Secret Order One of the prosperous farmers of Etna, N. H., was informed by his hired man that in the town of Canaan there was a secret order which had a large membership and was very prosperous, and hearing such a glowing account he inquired the name of the order. The young man replied that he was not quite certain, but believed that it was "Knights of Paralysis." Irishman or Indian. Having been described in the Washington Post as a noble red man, lawyer Robert L. Owen has written a letter to the editor. "I hold as a self-evident truth," he says, "that a man who is ninety-nine parts Irish and one part Cherokee is to all intents and purposes an Irishman, even if he is by the statutes of the United States a Cherokee Indian." Theory of Heat and Motion. The modern theory of heat and motion seems to have been quite clear to the mind of a Dutch professor named Van der Linden as early as 1642. In a medical treatise, written in Latin, the professor asserts his belief that the heat of the human body consists in the vibration of the most minute particles in its makeup. The Lady in the Moon A German astronomer has discovered that the man in the moon is a woman. "Hair, eyes, mouth, nose, chin, and bust," says he, may all be distinctly observed. In fact, the only thing that makes one doubt the accuracy of his observation is that he saw not one woman but two—London Telegraph. Oldest Architectural Ruins. The oldest architectural ruins in the world are believed to be the rockcut temples at Ipsambool, on the left bank of the Nile, in Nubia. The largest of these ancient temples contains fourteen apartments hewn out of solid stone. The ruins are supposed to be 4,000 years old. Rare Substance. Palladium, a rare substance little used, is the active agent in automatic gas lighting devices. Flame is produced as soon as the illuminating gas strikes a pellet of asbestos covered with a mixture of palladium and finely divided platinum, known as platinum black. Railway Mileage. Europe, in comparison with America, has not one-fifth the railway mileage per capita, the figures being 4.5 miles per 10,000 of population, as against 25.9 miles in the United States. The mileage in Prussia per 10,000 of the population is about 18. Imitate Jamaica Rum. The government of Jamaica has begun, in England, a series of prosecutions of sellers of counterfeit Jamaica rum. The result of this illicit trade has been a reduction of distilleries in Jamaica from 150 to 108 in five years. Immense Southern Swamps The two largest swamps in the south, the Everglades and the Okefinoke, cover an area of 500,000 square miles. The trees are very large and vegetation low. Both swamps teem with alligators and deadly moccasins. Among the natives of Italy and Sicily there are about 100,000 who speak French; German is spoken by 12,000; Slavic by 30,000; Albanese by 110,000; Greek by 38,000; Catalanian by 10,000. Horse Resents a Snub Mr. Boston Hitt Saturday morning went in the stable to curry his driving horse and failed to speak to it, so the horse began to kick, kicking him right badly. - Cu'rrept (Va.) Exponent. Straw Blocks for Paving: Some of the streets of Warsaw, Poland, are paved with straw pressed into blocks and made hard enough to be used for this purpose. Dar never wuz no lowgrounds er sorrow but a sunbeam found its way ter'um en set some bird a-singin'.'-Atlanta Constitution. Huts of Russian Peasants Huts of Russian Peasants. Nine-tenths of the peasants in Russia live in huts without floors and too low for a tall man to stand in. Griggs—Borely has got a job at last; he's working now in Hicks' livery stable. Briggs—What doing? Briggs—What doing? Griggs—Hicks has some horses that won't take the bit, so Borely has to talk to them till they yawn—Boston Transcript. Among the clerks in the land office in Washington is Mrs. Anna Gridley, 80 years old, mother of the captain to whom Dewey said at Manila: "You may fire when ready." She is also the widow of a gallant naval officer who was killed in the fight between the Monitor and Merrimac. Business Man—What do you want? Applicant—I came to inquire if you were in want of an assistant. Business Man—Very sorry, I do all the work myself. Applicant—Ah! that would just suit me.—Tid Bits. One half the world is down on automobiles, and the other half is down under them. There are no return tickets issued from the frying pan into the fire. THE NEW CONGRESSMAN. Have sheltered famous men; And thinks how he'll the nation teach, And soon with some magnetic speech Awake those walls again. He knows the folks at home await His views upon concerns of state With 98 connected restraint: With in-concealed restraint; But he'll not keep them waiting long, And when he does burst forth in song, What pictures he will paint! He sees himself another Clay! To seek the thickest of the tray He earnestly doth yearn: He earnestly doth yearn; And if he's good, the leading chaps Will let him make, some day, perhaps, A motion to adjourn. —Louisville Courier-Journal. It is believed that a piece of wood unearthed in excavating for the foundation of a big office building near the lower end of Manhattan island must have come from a tree which stood where New York is now, before the glacial period in North America. A. Strangler's Mistake. Distinguished Stranger (in the West)—"That is a well-drilled squad of soldiers." American General—"Squad? Great Scott, man! That's an army!" There are indications that an important oil field may be developed by the application of modern methods of petroleum production in the regions in Persia and Turkey lying north and northwest of the Persian gulf. Derivation of Fork. The fork takes its name from the Latin furca, a yoke looking like an inverted V. From this comes the Italian forca and forchetta (little fork). The latter word gives the French their fourchettle, while the English go back to the former and retain the harder sounding "fork."—From D. M. Morrell's "Forks" in St. Nicholas. Much Depends on Worker. The man who mixes the mortar, the man who lays the granite, the man who saws, digs, digs or harles—upon each of these the honesty of the world depends. * * * You may lie in your throat, and no one to be the worse of it; to lie with the hands is to add a stone to the fabric of the world's disgrace—New York Times. Honeymoons Cut Short Brevity and economy in honeymoons, the London Express says, are becoming the fashion. Even wealthy people, it says, are "showing a tendency to limit the wedding tours to three or four days in Paris." Many go straight to their new home from the church and stay there. Chinese Stamps. Nearly all Chinese stamps bear dragons, hideous beyond description, as their central figures. Other stamps depict great pagodas and sacred towers, being supposed to guard the "luck" of a place and propitiate the spirits and frighten away the evil ones. Brutal Suggestion To obviate the unseemingly sight of women interrupters at election meetings being forcibly ejected, the proposal has been made that at every hall a mouse should be kept, which could be let loose if necessary.—London Telegraph. Professional Tooth-Stainers The trade of tooth-stainer is peculiar to Eastern Asia. The Latives prefer black teeth to the whiter kind, and the tooth-stainer, with a little box of brushes and coloring matter, calls on his customers and stains their teeth. To Restore Calf Bindings. Wash lightly with a soft sponge dipped in a preparation of best glue, dissolved in a plint of hot water, to which add a teaspoonful of glycerin and a little flour paste. Rub well with chamois leather when dry. Relief from Hiccoughs. Hiccough may be relieved by slipping cold water, or holding the breath may also effectually check it. If these methods fall, a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in a half tumbler of water should be taken. WESTERN UNIVERSITY THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR KANSAS AND THE WEST. . . . . . . DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory (Instrumental and Volcanology, Drawing (Fine Arts and Book Binding, Business Coining, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Dering, Farming and Gardening) ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Locations ences and Thorough Teachers INFORMATION: For terms, prices to WILLIAM T. VERN PRESIDENT QUINDARO, Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 43 MENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Northeast Industrial. S: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Northeast (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ, keyboard, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Art, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Farming and Gardening. AGES: Slipendid Location, Healthful Climate, Goodness and Thorough Teachers. ATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered. WILLIAM T. VERNON, A. M., D.S. PRESIDENT, INDARO, KANSAS Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"T" DEPARTMENTS: Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Industrial. COURSES: Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Volcal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. ADVANTAGES: Slpendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. INFORMATION: For terms, prices and all inducements offered write to Phones: Office—Bell—"White" 4302. Residence—Bell—"West 15. David T. Beals, President. Edwin W. Zea, Cashier. Statement of the Uni National KANSAS C As made to the Comptroller of business, Ap Statement of the Condition of the Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. to the Comptroller of the Currency at business, April 6, 1906. Union National Bank KANSAS CITY, MO. As made to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of RESOURCES. Loans and di counts. $ 7 428 872 07 U.S. Bonds at par. $600 000 00 Municipal bonds and other high class bonds at par. 528 061 80 - 1 128 061 80 Cash and sight exchange. 4 194 789 93 Total. $12 751 633 80 DESIGNATED UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Directors—E. W. Whitehead, Edward Geor rill, O. H. Dean, Geo. W. Jones, Lee Clark, Geo David T. Beals, Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. Ses A. Webb The well know MERC after an extended trip thru west, is with us again. Ew Weber by the many stylish has put up. He is now at 1206 1/2 East E. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schr, G. Geo. W. Jones, Lee Clark, Geo. D. Ford, G. W. Lovejoy, H. Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. Seeger, Edwin W. Zea. A. Weber The well know MERCHANT TAILOR after an extended trip through California and the west, is with us again. Everybody remembers M. Weber by the many stylish and well-made suits he has put up. He is now at 206 1/2 East 18th Street Directors—C. W. Whitehead, Edward George, L. T. James, C. J. Schmelzer, J. P. Merlerville, C. W. Whitehead, Edward George, F. Felix L. LaForce, David T. Beals, Fernando P. Neal, Wm. H. Seeger, Wm. W. Zea. 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. --- THE RIVER OF YOUTH. From all the golden hills of Dream, Dew-cool and rainbow kissed. Down past enchanted woods to where Romance walks ever young, Where kings ride forth to take the air On steeds with velvet hung— Where secret stairways tempt the bold, Where pirate caves abound, And many a chest of Spanish gold May solemnly be found! Through magic years it twines and creeps Past towers of peacock blue, Where still some captured princess sleeps And dreams come always true. Then gleam by gleam the light goes out, Then darkened, grief by grief, It sighs into our Sea of Doubt And manhood's unbelief! Why He Was Cheerful. "No man," said Jerome K. Jerome, "should marry unless he is by nature a 'good provider'—unless without a twinge he can hand forth money right and left. "Some men can in a sunny, cheerful way, spend $10 or $15 on a dinner in a fashionable restaurant, while they become morose, sour and fearful for the future when they are obliged to give their wives a dollar or two for the days meat. --- College, Normal, Sub-Normal and Laboratory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Mu- bility, including piano, organ and har- mechanical), Carpentry, Printing course, Stenography and Typewrit- and Plain Sewing, Cooking, Laun- g. Healthful Climate, Good Influ- and all inducements offered write TON, A. M., D. D. ENT, KANSAS. 02. Residence—Bell—"West 15. F. P. Neal, Vice President. W. H. Seeger, Second Vice President Condition of the Nation Bank CITY, MO. the Currency at the close of April 6, 1906. LIABILITIES. Capital Stock ..... $ 600 000 00 Surplus ..... 400 000 00 Individued profits ..... 32 944 68 Unearned interest ..... 98 574 00 National bank notes outstanding Ine ..... 500 0 0 00 Deposits ..... 11 070 156 12 Total ..... $12 751 673 80 ber CHANT TAILOR, through California and the everybody remembers Mr. and well-made suits he 18th Street "These men should remain single. Otherwise they will make such husbands and fathers as my old friend, Crust. "Crust's daughter said one afternoon, in a tone of unutterable surprise: "'Papa went away quiet gay and cheerful this morning.' "Mrs Crust made an exclamation of annoyance. "'That reminds me,' she said. 'I forgot to ask him for any money.'"—Exchange Invented Electri Motor. Although unknown as an inventor and almost blind and heavily weighted with his 86 years, Wareham F. Chase invented fifty years ago the first electric motor, the model of which is now in the Vermont State house. The model will run today when an electric current is applied, as it did half a century ago, in his shop in Montpelier, Vt. Young Japanese Professor. Yosaburo F. Sugita, of Tokio, has been given the chair of language and literature of Japan at the University of Notre Dame. He is the son of a wealthy Japanese coal merchant. He is 20 years old, speaks and writes English fluently, is a brilliant French conversationalist and in bearing is studious and thoughtful. Switzerland's exports of machinery and implements in 1904 are valued at about $9,500,000. Electrical machinery and machines used for weaving, knitting and embroidery were the principal items. As this little country has no iron or coal, but must import these heavy materials by railroads, the exportation of machinery speaks well for its industrial skill. --- 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. Nice large unfurnished rooms for rent at 117 West 6th street. You can secure a supply of Ozona by calling on The Rising Son. A reputation smirched is the hardest thing to clean in this world. Earnest Hogan with his big show at the Grand is making a big hit. Miss Ruth Knox is at home after closing a most successful school years. The mission tea of St. Augustine church was at Mrs. Hattie Adams last Tuesday evening. Earnest Hogan filled a very clever engagement at the Grand this week. Hogan is all right. McCampbell & Houston, the enterprising druggists, are doing a nice business. Be what you wish others to become; let yourself and not your words preach for you. If you have any news the Son will appreciate it if you will send it in here Tuesday of each week. Mynor H. Bass who is in the Douglass Hospital is rapidly recovering and is expected to be out soon. Mr. John Emerson of 1102 Charlotte street is recovering from a recent illness. Meet your friends at McCampbell & Houston's Easter Sunday evening, and have a delicious cold drink with them. 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. Get the latest in cold drinks at McCampbell & Houston's. Sherry and Apricot flipps, cherry glace, flowing stream, Queen's favorite. Rose and Violet are some of our winners. The Son is still keeping an eye on the situation relative to the appointment of Prof. Vernon. It is expected that the appointment will materialize at almost any time. Above all every Negro should know that the elevation of the race can come only and will come surely through the elevation of our women.—The People's Recorder, Orangeburg, S. C. 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. You and your friends are cordially invited to attend McCampbell and Houston's Soda Fountain Opening Easter Sunday evening, April 15th, from 6 to 12 o'clock. Music souvenirs for the ladies, 2,300 Vine St. The Parkville public schools closed last Friday with very appropriate exercises under the management of Mrs. John Herndon principal and Miss Bessie Washington assistant. We have repeatedly requested our readers and friends to send in their news items to the Son Tuesday of each week. The Son is not in a position to send out a reporter for this class of matter as the expense of such is too great for the support we get. Send in your items. Subscribe and pay for the Son and it will do its part. We desire to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Nelson Manufacturing Co., which will be found in another column. This is one of our old friends. You will notice they have changed the name of their preparation to Nelson's Hair Dressing. We have always found this firm thoroughly reliable, and would suggest that if you are interested in the improvement of your hair that you write to them. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Edwards have moved out on their farm. Ed Henderson of Kansas City, Kas., is very sick. W. B. Sherall of 925 McGee St. is very sick from a shot he received a week ago in Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Carter of Leavenworth, Kan., visited Mrs. Tolbert at 1125 Cherry street last Sunday. Rafert Motts of Chicago was in the city Thursday on business. He has one of the finest play houses in the county for negroes and is a high class man of his kind. James Reynolds of this city, at one time connected with the Son, is at the Baltimore, doing well and looking fine. We hope to see some of the other boys follow in James' footsteps. Excelsior Springs was well represented at the Booker T. Washington lecture. Among those present were Dr. Ellett, Stanford King, Henry Harris, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Doxey and his force of employees. Wallace A. Love has been mentioned in connection with the state chairmanship of the Republican party. The record of Mr. Love as party manager locally has been very successful. It is likely, however, that there will be a lively contest for the honor which te friends of Mr. Love desire that he shall secure. A woman should remember, above all else, that her greatest asset is character. No matter what her personal attractiveness, her ability or her equipment may be, the capital which is above all is character. The roots of character remain the same in all ages. The most pitiable object in all the world is a characterless woman.—Exchange. Referring to the above clipping The Son would advise that a nobler thought could not be produced nor a better utterance made. Character indeed is a priceless jewel. It is admired in men but in women the admiration is two fold. RESOLUTIONS. Whereas, In view of the loss we have sustained by the decease of our friend and associate, Joseph A. Ball, and of the still heavier loss sustained by those who were nearest and dearest to him; be it Resolved, That it is but a just tribute to the memory of the departed to say, that in regretting his removal from our midst, we mourn for one who was in every way, worthy of our respect and regard. An honest and upright young man, whose virtues endeared him not only to the members of this choir, but to all his fellow citizens. Resolved, That we sincerely condole with the family of the deceased on the dispensation with which it has pleased Divine Providence to afflict them, and commend them for consolation to Him who orders all things for the best, and whose chastisements are meant in mercy. Resolved, That in the death of Joseph A. Ball, Allen Chapel choir, loses a member who was always active and zealous in his work. Resolved, That this heartfelt testimonial of our sympathy and sorrow be forwarded to the family of our departed friend. A copy sent to the Western Christian Recorder, The Rising Son aftd the National Mirror. Members of Allen Chapel Choir, Henpecked Men In India. Henpecked husbands are found even in India. A writer says: "To live as I have done in a Hindoo house, especially when the real house mistress is a masterful and deeply religious widow, who is grandmother to the babies and mother to their parents, is no longer to wonder at the absolute terror with which men speak of the 'strt achchar.' For the men of India are—poor souls!—the most henpecked in the world." "Manufactured Wool." Manufacturers pleasantly name shoddy "manufactured wool." The term is speckedly descriptive, for the material is made from the wools which have passed through the process of manufacture. Soft worsted rags of any kind—old stockings, or soft cloth made from long-stapled wools—are cleaned and torn into soft fluff in a machine resembling somewhat the ordinary willow machine. Hair and Disease. A Japanese scientist named Matsum has been studying the effects of diseases and the varying physical state of the body upon the growth and thickness of the hair. He finds that hair, especially in the case of persons whose hair is of coarse structure, is so sensitive to bodily condition that it contains a veritable history of the state of the individual to whom it belongs, for the period covered by its growth. O Messrs. Moore and Harris., the enterprising firm of Undertakers and Embalmers, contemplate some improvements on their establishment at 18th and Michigan. These men have proven themselves the acme of enterprise and thrift during their business career in this city. The committee on arrangements for entertaining the K. P. Grand Lodge to be held here July 24, 25, 26 and 27 of which Dr. J. E. Perry is chairman met at their hall, 1734 Grand Ave., last week for the purpose arranging matters of business importance. The committee issued orders to secure Convention Hall on the night of July 25th. Watch the Son for information concerning the affair from now on. The Son requests as much as do the patrons, that it has been compelled to turn over to the collector a long list of delinquents. We have tried in every way to avoid taking this action by calling or sending our local collector time and time again. These efforts have been met with promises. But this won't go all the time. A pay-day must finally come. Every time that life seems wintry take it as evidence that the gardner meant for more than a summer squash. "when suddenly he tackled me." "What do you mean by that?" she asked. "Why, in this case he caught me around the waist with both arms and I couldn't make him let go." "But why?" she inquired, with a sigh, "why under those circumstances did you want to make him let go?" Then she added, after a pause: "You men are queer creatures."—Cleveland Leader. The average number of residents to the acre in Paris is no less than 128. There are nearly 700,000 apartments or lodgings in the French metropolis which rent for less than $100 a year, about 17,000 bring $800 or more. LEXINGTON NEWS. Rev. Woulridge preached the Knight Templars annual sermon on Easter Sunday at the M. E. church. Easter program rendered at the A. M. E. church Sunday night was quite interesting. Mr. Harvey Parker left Sunday or Monday for California. Mrs. Naney Hicks spent Sunday and Monday in Kansas City. Mrs. James Lawson spent several days in Jefferson City last week. CLEEBRATION OF THE 22ND AN 3 Rooms Complete $8.00 Cash, MAY STE $8.00 Cash, $1.25 a Week 11th and Main Streets. Mrs. W. H. Hubbell's 1906 Vine Street Hats made to order. You you can purchase an line you Hats made to order. 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Lady Nairne has been credited with the authorship of the song, "The Land o' th Leal." for over a hundred years. It is now settled that Robert Burns wrote the song on his deathbed. Lady Nairne changed it, making it ridiculous. Especially on Rent Day. To dig is better than to talk.-- Springfield Union. FORDS HAIR POADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" 80 STRAIGHTENS KINKY or CURLY HAIR that it can be put up in any style desired consistent with its length. Ford's hair: Fomode was formerly known as "OZONIZED" MARROW, and is the only safe preparation known to us that makes kinky or minor hair straight, as shown above. Its use makes the most stuff, but the autopsy is very big, and it is quite may be obtained from one treatment: 2 to 4 bottles are usually sufficient for a year. The OX MARROW has removed the United drug, reeling, invigorates the scalp, and the hair from filling up the glazed, makes it grow and, by nourishing the roots, is a good and νικονεο. 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Furnished e, $89.00 $1.25 a Week RN & CO., Millinery and Notion Store , Kansas City, Mo. our old ones made new or anything in the millinery may desire The Question Before the House It is a question of where you buy as to what you get in Planos of lower price. The record of our past is your best protection. For more than a quarter of a century we have been selling in Kansas City the best Planos in the world in each class. We have built up here the greatest Piano business in the West and have done it by fair, square dealing. We shall continue to travel that road. We shall stick to one price to all alike. We do not pay commissions to anyone for bringing or sending piano customers to us. Our price is so low we cannot do it. We sell $175 Planos for $125. We sell $250 Planos for $190. We sell $300 Planos for $210 Any of our Planos may be paid for in cash, or part cash, $10 or more down, and $6 or more a month. The price is the same whether you pay cash or buy on time. 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OLLINS n and Flora Ave. OLLINS n and Flora Ave. John Kelly's Spring Shoes The new styles of these famous shoes are now on display in our window. Dressy comfortable styles that lead them all. Price $2.50 to $4.00 ```markdown ``` STRONG & GARFIELD CO. WHAT HAPPENED AT STARKENFELS By RAFAEL SABATINI (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Who is there that has not heard of the beauty of the Princess Yola? And who that has heard will have difficulty in believing that it was to my heart, and not to my ambitions, that I fell a victim? For months I worshipped her from afar, as pious ones worship a saint—reverently, ecstatically. Despairing, too, was my love for her, realizing that while she was heiress to the throne of Lichtenstein, I was but one of the minor satellites of the court. My princess was chosen by the states of Sachsenberg and Lichtenstein to become the wife of King Heinrich of Sachsenberg. Few were there at the Court of Valzur that were not privy to this, and few whom the princess' flat refusal to enter into the alliance did not fill with consternation. She had never seen the king of Sachsenberg, and she openly vowed that she never wished to see him; that she would not be bestowed like unto a chattel for purposes of state. Then did it occur to me that happily the princess had already given her heart to another. Could it be, I asked myself, that my ardent glances had not been in vain? I will not dwell here upon details of our flight; they source concern my story. But so well did I convict that in three days my mistress sat safe within the walls of her castle of Starkentels. We were prepared for a stage, and I had visualised the place so that a score of people might hold out for a year, if neea be. On the eighth day of our coming to Starkentels I held parley with one who rode up in hot haste to the very edge of the moat. From the battlements I inquired on what errand he was come, and in answer he pompously announced that his business was with the Princess Yola of Lichtenstein. Then there came the rustle of a gown beside me, and the princess was at my elbow, gazing down upon that leather-clad clown. "Who is this, Gerstein?" "I know not, madame. It pleases him to be mysterious." "But he is wounded!" she cried, a look of pity glorifying her matchless eyes. "And you leave him at the gate?" The gracceless dog, perceiving her, doffed his grey beaver, decked by a broken goose quill, disclosing a face that was very pale. "Lady," he began, then stopped abruptly. "The hat fluttered from his grasp; he sank forward upon the withers of his horse, then rolling from the saddle, lay inert upon the turf. "See to him, my lord," the princess cried. "He has fainted. Have him brought into the castle." The wound was a mere scratch, though much blood had flowed, as his sodden sleeve bore witness. With her own kerchief she bound it up. "Poor had," she murmured, "he hath lost much blood." As she spoke he stirred; a sigh escaped him, and he opened his eyes, to find the princess mirrored in them. Then from those eyes of his there flashed with returning consciousness a book of such wonder and bold attimation that my lady's dignity was aroused by it. My lady's brow grew dark, and stern her eye. "Come you on behalf of King Heinrich?" "Nay, your highness, on my own, and a sorry traitor do I hold myself. Yet, madame, that which is a foot soemeth to me so foul a thing that I had no longer esteemed myself a gentleman had I, Anthony Von Turgen, not ridden to warn you." "What is this warning that keeps you a gentleman yet makes you a traitor?" "Lady, the prince, your father, accompanied by the king of Sachsenberg, is on his way hither with a thousand men." There was a moment's pause, and white grew the Princess Yola's cheeks. "But despair not, lady. You may yet escape, leaving your castle garrisoned. Bid your men hold out for a month, and then surrender the empty nest to the prince. But, lady, you must hasten, for he draws near!" Yola put her hand to her heart, and looked about her with eyes that for a moment told of fear. Then— "Here will I remain," she said, "until these tyrants shall have starved me. Do you save yourself, sir, and take with you my thanks for your noble effort." At the princess' command a fresh horse was brought him. In this there was some delay, and when at last he was mounted it was too late. The prince's force was within a couple of hundred yards, and I could not sanction the lowering of the bridge. With a careless laugh Von Turgen dismounted and flung the reins to a servant. For a month sat the Prince of Lichtenstein and the King of Sachsenberg besieging us, and in my whole life I can recall no other month in which I suffered half so much. Gradually, almost imperceptibly, that vail ruffler out of Sachsenberg—for such I ever have, and ever shall hold him to be—worned himself by a score of wiles into the good graces of my princess. Gradually, by virtue of the she favor she showed him—weak, shallow woman that she was—and his knowledge of the coarse trade of war, us and rendered himself the command- her of our garrison. He reorganized our defenses and the husbanding of our resources, until the soldiers came to look to him for orders, and less and less to me. All this I might have endured had it not been for the daily increasing favor shown this leather-clad soldier of fortune by the princess! I witnessed this, the growing coldness wherewith she treated me, and the indulgence she betrayed for those verses of mine to which a little while ago she had lent so ready an ear, and I cursed the day I had suggested Starkenfels to her! But I was little prepared for that which I chanced to overhear between them one evening when the siege was a month old. Chancing to hear their voices, heralding their approach, I slipped behind the dais that stood at the further end of the hall. Perchance you who read those lines will despise me for an eavesdropper; betink you, though, how much I had at stake. "Heilgh-ho!" she sighed, "we shall all die here together." "To live and die, princess, beside you," he answered, passionately, "is the greatest good heaven may send me." "How so?" she asked, faintly. "Because," he began; then paused as one in fear. "Because," she murmured. "Lady, because I love you," he whispered, and tafntly I caught her answering whisper: "As I love you." Amazement and disgust ineffable sank into my soul together with those words. "You love me!" he cried, a great A "BECAUSE" wonder in his voice—as well there be—"me, a simple soldier." "I care not who or what you are. I know you to be brave and honorable and true. Because of this, and because—because forsooth you are such as you are—I love you." "Yola!" So great a joy was in his voice that it had almost the ring of pain. He urged her with an offertory that turned me sick with rage to wed him in that very castle. There was Anselm, the priest—he would perform the ceremony as soon as might be. But as I stepped from behind the dais when they departed I registered a vow to scorch forever if I thwarted not these nuptials. In the evening the wedding took place in the great Rittersaal. The inmates of the castle were all there assembled, with the exception of one sentry and myself. That sentry—with my dagger at his throat—I caused to throw down his partisan. Then by dint of threats and promises I played upon his feelings, his hopes and his fears until he consented to help me lower the bridge. Across it marched as softly as the might some twoscore troopers of the prince's army, headed by a young officer. I placed myself beside him and led the way to the Rittersaal, without waiting for speech with his highness, since time pressed. Very pale, yet calm, the princess stood beneath the dais, and beside her swashbuckling bridegroom. "Lay down your arms, my friends," she commanded, quietly. "So, pretty lady," quoth I from the doorway, "meseems I have discharged my debt. You were bold enough but yesterday; we shall see if that boldness shall avail you when presently your swashbuckler is strung up without." "Fear not, sweet mistress," cried von Turgen, supporting her with his arm. "The treacherous dog lies." "Say you so?" I mocked him. "Here comes one who will prove it otherwise—the king!" I stood aside, and across the threshold there stepped a very courtly figure, followed by two attendants. To my horror and the amazement of all present, he fell upon one knee before the staiwart soldier of fortune, and: "God save your majesty!" he cried. "Why have you tricked me thus? Why this deceit?" cried the Princess Yola. "You would not listen to my suit, although you knew me not," he answered, "and because of it I came hither to woo you as a simple soldier of fortune, and had I failed, Yola, I swear that I should have departed as I came, and the siege had been ended!" She smiled upon him, tears in her eyes, and as I looked I grit my teeth and called myself a fool a dozen times. Then, holding out her hand to him: "Heilrich!" she murmured, and he understood. "Let the ceremony proceed, father," he laughed, turning to the monk. This is the true relation of what happened at Starkenfeis, and this is the true motive of my retirement from the Court of Vaduz. BOY BUILDS AN AUTO. ingenious Fifteen-Year-Old Mechanic of Seattle, Wash., Succeeds in Unusual Task. A diminutive automobile driven by a one and a half horse power engine, which climbs Pike street from Second to Broadway on its high gear and which gets over the level Broadway, bound for its garage, at a rate of ten miles an hour, possesses more than ordinary interest in that its owner and driver is also its maker, Warren Dalton, 15 years of age. During leisure moments Master Dalton built his machine in the workshop of his father's Pacific Coast Laundry Supply company's plant, says the Seattle Times. The Detroit automarine, water cooled engine, the wheels and the springs, are the only parts not designed or made in the Walton workshop. The young builder designed his machine, made the YOUNG DALTON IN HIS AUTO. patterns for the parts and after their casting dressed and assembled them into the machine. Then he tore it down and took the parts home on street cars. At home the machine was again set up and the first run was made Saturday afternoon, the machine acting perfectly in all its parts and exciting as much admiration and attention as the proud heart of the juvenile inventor could have wished for. Maker Dalton has named his automobile "Mobel B." it being the second venture he has made in this field of mechanics, the original attempt having been in the making over of a motorcycle into a semblance of a motor car. The machine, which is driven by gasoline power, has a one and one-half horsepower engine. The wheels are 20 inches in diameter and the pattern of the machine is "runabout," with a seating capacity for the driver only. It is finely upholstered and the box is finished in the popular red. MOTHER GOOSE. he Was a Real Character and Lived in Boston Over Two Hundred Years Ago. "Mother Goose" was a real character of olden days and not a mere fancy name, says the Detroit Free Press. As Elizabeth Foster she was born in 1665, and in 1693 she married Isaac Goose, became a member of the Old South church, Boston, and died at the ripe age of 92 in 1757. The earliest edition of her nursery rhymes, which she used to sing to her grandchildren, was published in Boston in 1716 by her son-in-law, Thomas Fleet, under the title "Mother Goose's Melodies." The greater part of her life was spent in a low, one-storied house with dormer windows and a red tiled roof, built much after the fashion of an old English country cottage. Dibden first used "Mother Goose" as the title for a pantomime. TRY IT AND SEE. Which way are these palm trees leaning? Hold the edge of the paper close to your eye, and you will see they are all exactly parallel.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Alleviating Circumstances It distressed Miss Willing to find how much the little girls in her Sunday school class thought about dress and outward adorning. She never lost an opportunity to tell them how slight was the importance of such things. "The reason I didn't come last Sunday was because my coat wasn't finished," said small Mary Potter on day, when questioned as to her non-appearance the week before. "My old one had spots on it that wouldn't come off and a place where the buttons had torn through." "But, Mary dear," said the teacher, gently, "you know it's not the outside that really matters." "Yes'm, I know," said little Mary; "but, Miss Willing, mother had ripped the lining out, so there wasn't any inside to look at!"—Youth's Companion. Got Them Back Friend—Do thoughts that came to you long ago ever return? Scribbler—Oh, yes—If I enclose a stamped envelope—Tit-Bits SLEIGHT-OF-HAND TRICKS. The First Simple Tricks Which Must Be Mastered to Become a Conjurer. The young magician who would entertain others with success must start with or early acquire a cool head, a capacity for untiring practice and the ability to keep up a continuous fire of explanation which does not explain. The cool head comes in time, of course, with practice, and it is not difficult to memorize and adapt to the progress of your work a good line of "patter," so that the best of all requisites is—practice. Palming is the foundation of all good sleight of hand and is the first thing to learn and the last thing to neglect to practice, says the New York World. You will find in the market many more or less expensive machine illusions, but these are seldom as effective as tricks performed with little or no apparatus and with such "properties" as you can borrow from your audience. The Straight Palm.—For the straight palm take a half dollar or an aluminum pocket piece of about Fig 2 Fig 3 Fig 4 Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 Fig 4 Fig 5 HOW THE VARIOUS TRICKS ARE DONE the same size. Hold it between the thumb and the middle and third fingers, as shown in Fig. 1. The little finger and the first finger are to take a graceful and natural position. Now make motion as if you intended to throw the coin, and as your hand swings remove your thumb to its natural position, and at the same time let the second and third fingers press the coin half way down the palm against the large muscles at the base of the thumb. You must be careful to let your fingers straighten out before your hand ends its swing The Thumb Palm.—This method of palming is a very safe one, and easy of accomplishment, the only objection to it being that it holds the thumb a prisoner. The coin is held between the thumb and forefinger. Then, when the motion of throwing is made, the coin is slid down between the fleshy part of the thumb and palm. Fig. 2. The Reverse Palm.—Stand with your palm toward the audience. Hold the coin (a small one) between the tips of the forefinger and thumb, with the edge lying against the side of the middle finger. Now pretend to throw the coin in the air and as the action of throwing is imitated the forefinger is slid over the coin, the thumb removed and the coin is thus made to protrude at the back, between the first and second fingers, where it is invisible to the audience. Fig. 3. The French Drop.—This is one of the most useful passes in sleight of hand. Hold a coin or any article between the forefinger and the thumb of the left hand. Then apparently take this coin with your right hand, but instead of so doing let the coin drop into your left palm. Fig. 4. To do this so it will not be noticed encircle the coin (held between your left forefinger and thumb) with your right forefinger and thumb. As you do this drop the coin into your left palm. The back of your hand conceals the coin in the act of dropping. Immediately close your right hand as if the coin was actually there. Never look at the left hand. The Wonderful Dollar.—With any one or a combination of these sleights a number of tricks can be performed. For instance, you may say: "Ladies and gentlemen, this dollar that I hold in my hand looks like an ordinary coin, but it has some properties that no ordinary dollar has. Would you like to examine it?" You may pass the dollar around for examination, but the audience will discover nothing mysterious in its appearance, for it is a plain everyday dollar. After you again receive the coin you continue: "It looks like an ordinary coin, doesn't it? It will show you, however, that it is not. Behold. I take the coin in my hand thus (apparently take the coin in your right hand, CONVENIENT CONVENIENT ILLNESS. Little Katie—Well, I guess I'm well enough to get up, then.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. but really drop it in your left)—French drop method. Now watch closely and you will see that this coin will go through solid bodies as well as through thin air. See, I throw it through my body and catch it back of me, thus." Make a motion of throwing through your body, put your left hand behind your lack, then bring it forth with the coin. This, of course, will be easy, as the coin has been snugly lying in your left hand all the time. You may vary this by saying that "It goes in one ear and comes out the other" (apparently placing the coin in one ear and taking it out of the other). Or you may rub it through a solid table, etc. If you wish you may tell your audience to mark the coin. The Magic Hat.—Fig. 5. This is a favorite with stage performers, as it always takes well with an audience. For this trick you should have a magic wand. A black piece of wood about a foot and a half long and a half inch in diameter will serve as a wand. Have concealed in your left hand about eight half dollars. You can do this easily and naturally by holding the wand in the same hand. Borrow a hat, taking it with the right hand, in which one half-dollar is palmed. Transfer the hat from the right hand to the left, so the crown is Fig. 2 Fig. 6 towards the audience and the fingers containing the money are inside the hat. (You will, of course, tuck the wand under your arm, as it is not needed for the time being.) Then suddenly run up to one of your audience in a surprised manner and say: "What a queer place to keep money! I thought that the Chinese were the only people who kept their money there." As you say this, apparently take the coin (that you have in your right hand) from his ear. Flip the coin in the air to show that it is a real one, catch it, and then retire to the end of the room in which you are giving the performance and make a pass, as though throwing the coin through the crown of the hat, but in reality palming the coin and letting one from your left hand fall into the hat. Shake the hat to show that there is really a coin in the hat. Then, after looking about the room for a minute, say in tones of astonishment: "My, but we should get rich quickly here; the air is full of money." As you say this, make a quick step forward and apparently pluck the coin you have palmed out of the air. Pretend to throw this into the hat as you did the other, letting another coin drop from your left hand. In a similar manner snatch coins from a candle flame, out of people's clothes, etc., until you have dropped all the coins from your left hand' into the hat. Then hand the hat around the audience to show that it is an ordinary hat, and to let your audience count the money in it. Again I repeat that you must practice before a mirror until you can palm and pass perfectly. When you make a pass towards the hat look at it as you would If you actually threw the coin. Never look at the hand in which you are palming a coin. A Modest Ambition. Hon. Mr. Sweet was making friends with Johnny, his host's son. "And how old are you?" he asked. "I'm five," said Johnny. "Ah, quite a little man! And what are you going to be?" queried Mr. Sweet, who has been a senator so many years that he has now believes that he selected his own career in the cradle, and that all infants do likewise. "I'm going to be six," Johnny returned with conviction.—Youth's Companion. "Nope; I've never been sued for breach of promise yet."—Houston Post. For Good Luck. A triumphal arch of horseshoes was included among the decorations at a wedding at Flimwell, Sussex. T ILLNESS. Fortunate. # Few women in this age believe that the broom is better than the Bissell sweeper, but there are many who think it is more economical. Just figure it out for yourself. A Bissell will last longer than fifty corn brooms that cost not less than $15.00 to $20.00, whereas the best Bissell can be bought at from $2.50 to $5.00. Beyond the great economy in direct cost of the Bissell, just consider how it saves time, labor and health, does the work in one-quarter of the time, with 95% less effort than the corn broom requires, makes no noise, raises no dust, and an invalid can use it. Buy a "Coco" Bissell Bissell now, send us the sale slip, and we will send you free of charge a beautiful genuine leather card case with no printing on it whatever. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Dept. 17 Grand Rapids, Mich. (Largest Sweeper Makers in the World.) ( largest sweeper makers in the world) Ask your physician what he thinks of the sweeper from a sanitary point of view. Prices $2.50 to $5.00 CONCERNING CITIES In five years Krapp's town of Essen has in reared 93 per cent. Cologne, with its 426,000 people, has had an astonishing growth. Any city of more than 100,000 inhabitants is considered a great city. Of these Germany has more than any other country, namely, 41. Great Britain and the United States have 39 each. Then there is a break till we reach Russia with 16. France with 15, Italy with 12, Japan and Austria-Hungary with eight each. Struck by Lightning. Mrs. Nancy Cleary, of Brewers, N.C., suffered as if struck by lightning. She says: "I was almost paralyzed from my waist down, and my back hurt me constantly, from female troubles. I had headache, seemed always tired, and felt as if I was dying. I took Wine of Cardul, which cured me, and now I feel like a new person." Cardul relieves periodical pain, and makes sick women well. $1.10 at drug stores. Miss Nora Stanton Blatch has been elected to membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the first woman so distinguished. She is a granddaughter of the famous Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the first woman to win the degree of civil engineer in Cornell university. Miss Blatch has under consideration an offer from the Chinese government to undertake some important work in the interior of the eastern empire. Are You Tired, Nervous and Sleepless? Are You Tired, Nervous and Sleepless? Nervousness and sleeplessness are usually due to the fact that the nerves are not fed on properly nourishing blood; they are starved nerves. Dr. Pierce's discovery makes pure, rich blood, and thereby properly nourished and all the organs of the body are run as smoothly as machinery which runs in oil. In this way you feel clean, strong and strenuous—you are toned up and invigorated, and you are good for whole lot of physical or mental health. But whole lot of increase in vitality and health are laziness. The trouble with most tonics and medicines which have a large, booming sale for a short time, is that they are largely composed of alcohol holding the drugs in solution. This alcohol shrinks up the red blood, and the long run greatly injures the system. One exhilarated and better for the time being, yet in the end weakened and with vitality decreased. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery contains no alcohol. Every bottle or it bears upon its wrapper The *Book of Healing* of Hammond's several ingredients. For theologist to offer you something he claims is "just as good" is to insult your intelligence. Every ingredient entering into the world-famed "Golden Medical Discovery" has the unanimous approval and endorsement of the several medical authorities of all the several medical institutions of other medicine sold through druggists for like purposes has any such endorsement. The "Golden Medical Discovery" not only produces all the good effects to be obtained from the use of Golden Seal troubles, all stomach, liver and bowel troubles, as stomachiness, constipation, ulceration of stomach, bowels and kindred ailments, but the Golden Seal root used in its compounding is greatly enhanced in its curative action by other ingredients such as Stone root Black Cherrybark, Bloodroot, Manuka root chemically pure triple-refined glycerine. "The Common Sense Medical Adviser," is sent free in paper covers on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay the cost of mailing only. For 31 stamps the cloth-bound container, Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. Dr. Pierce, Pleasant Pellets cure constipation, biliousness and headache. CATARRH ELY'S CREAM BALM CREAM BALM CREAM BALM COLD READ HAY FEVER BUTCHER ELY BROSE HAY FEVER It cleanses, soothes heals and protects the diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full size 50 cta, at Drugs Ely Brothers, 50 Warren Street, New York. Ex-Senator M C. Butler. Ex-Senator M C. Butler. Dyspepsia Is Often Caused By Catarrh of the Stomach—Peruna Relieves Catarrh of the Stomach and Is Therefore a Remedy For Dyspepsia. Hon. M. C. Butler, Ex-U. S. Senator from South Carolina for two terms, in a letter from Washington. D. C., writes to the Peruna Medicine Co., as follows: "I can recommend Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I have been using your medicine for a short period and I feel very much relieved. It is indeed a wonderful medicine, besides a good tonic." CATARRH of the stomach is the correct name for most cases of dyspep- sia. In order to cure catarrh of the stomach the catarrh must be eradicated. Only an internal catarrh remedy, such as Peruna, is available. Peruna exactly meets the indications. Revised Formula. "For a number of years requests have come to me from a multitude of grateful friends, urging that Peruna be given a slight laxative quality. I have been experimenting with a laxative addition for quite a length of time, and now feel gratified to announce to the friends of Peruna that I have incorporated such a quality in the medicine which, in my opinion, can only enhance its well-known beneficial character. "S. B. HARTMAN, M. D." CAME WELL RECOMMENDED He Was Not Like Some New and Untried "Feller" Among the Girls. The buxom maid had been hinting that she did not think much of working out, and this in conjunction with the nightly appearance of a rather sheepish young man caused her mistress much apprehension, relates Everybody's Magazine. "Martha, is it possible that you are thinking of getting married?" "Yes m, admitted Martha, blushing. "What that compel below who has been calling on you lately?" "Yes m, he's the one." "But you have known him only a few days." "Three weeks come Thursday," corrected Martha. "Do you think that is long enough to know a man before taking such an important step?" "Well" answered Martha with spirit. "'taint' if he was some new feller. He's well recommended; a perfectly lovely girl I know was engaged to him for a long while." WORST CASE OF ECZEMA Spread Rapidly Over Body—Limbs and Arms Had to Be Bandaged— Marvelous Cure by Cuticura. "My son, who is now twenty-two years of age, when he was four months old began to have eczema on his face, spreading quite rapidly until he was nearly covered. We had all the doctors around us, and some from larger places, but no one helped him a particle. The eczema was something terrible, and the doctors said it was the worst case they ever saw. At times his whole body and face were covered, all but his feet. I had to bandage his limbs and arms; his scalp was just daubful. A wound teased me to try (cutiura, and I began to use all three of the Cutiura Remedies. He was better in two months; and in six months he was well, Mrs. R. L. Risley, Piermont, N. H., Oct. 24, 1905." Hardly Consolation Pessimist—it seems in these fashion, the music must have a reserved seat to be wafted. Optimist—Yes; but remember the pit is free to all—Baltimore American. A Strange Story. Mrs. Isaac W. Austill, of Chestnut Ridge, N. C., tells a strange story of great suffering. "I was in bad condition for months, but got no relief. My periods had stopped, all but the pain. After taking part of a bottle of Wine of Cardui, nature worked properly and without pain. I advise all suffering women to use Cardui." A pure specific remedy for women's ill. $1.00, at druggists. A horse laugh may be the kind let out by the equine who is drawing a disabled automobile back to town. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. packages, 5 cents. The future has little in store for those who neglect the present. Try Garfield Tea! It purifies the blood, cleanses the system, brings good health. The trouble with the dead beast is that he is so very much alive. A FEW SUGGESTIONS TO THE TROUBLED HOSTESS. A Guessing contest Wherein Many Islands Play a Part—A Unique and Amusing "Stork Party." A Guessing Contest Here is a contest which ought to please the young readers of the department and cause the grown-ups to put on their thinking caps. At the top of slips of paper write "The Islands We Visit," and give the following list of questions, withholding the answers until after the time allotted for the contest. What islands are always to be had at piles and lunch counters? Sand-wich islands. What island is always verdant? Greenland. What island is a bright English coin? New Guinea. What island is recently discovered? Newfoundland. What island offers plenty of frozen refreshments? Iceland. What island is always wrathful? Ireland. What island offers a very poor beverage in place of the cup that cheers, but does not inebriate? Hayti. What island has in its name a very inhospitable greeting for ships that come into its ports? Ceylon (Sailion). What island is tough and unrefined? Corsica. What island should contain plenty of small canned fish? Sardinia. What island is a pine tree? Cypress. What island should malden ladies visit? Isle of Man. What island is named as a forfeit or present? Philippines. What island has many driveways? Isle of Rhodes. What islands take the form of small birds? Canary islands. What island is six sided? Cuba. What island is of great length? Long island. What island in former times received many famous heads? Block island. What island is a prey to hunters? Fox island. What group of islands have a pleas ant breeze? Windward islands. What island is justly feared for its jumping and kicking? Kangaroo island. What island makes good things to eat? Cook island. What islands should we look to for wisdom? Solomon islands. What islands are not intended for week-day use? Sunday islands. A miniature globe or a toy ship will make suitable prizes. A Stork Party. Coming events cast their shadows before, and the rustling of a stork's wings gives the up-to-date hostess an opportunity of giving a very novel and altogether the most attractive affair imaginable. All the world loves a baby, and I am sure when the little strangers arrive, they will be all the happier on account of the good time their mothers had at this "stork" luncheon. There were four honored guests and six intimate friends, and they had conspired with the hostess to make the party a success. On "the" four chairs at the table bibs were tied; the favors were dainty celluloid rattles and white storks bore the place cards in their tills; but "the" four plates each bird had a baby done up in a small square of linen. The table centerpiece was u gift cardie, with a canopy of dotted swiss tied with pink ribbons. Tiny pink rosebuds were scattered over the table with maiden hair ferns. The napkins were folded like doll babies and were plined with safety pins. Candles, fairy lamps and a number of little night lamps gave the illumination, while advertisements of all the baby foods adorned the walls; these had been cut from magazines and mounted on cardboard. There were also numerous "ads." of go-carts, high chairs and cribs. The menu consisted of celery soup, bread sticks, chicken cutlets, mashed potatoes, spaghetti and tomatoes; a fruit salad, ice cream served in round rings, with tiny bottles labeled "paregoric," angel food and chocolate, with the usual accessories of nuts, bonbons and olives. In the living room after the repast the guests found a large stork, some five feet high, which disgorged various-sized packages when its wings were pressed. As the parcels were marked it did not take long for each one of "the" four to discern "whose was whose." There were dainty bootees, caps, bibs, and all sorts of things for the diminutive wardrobe, and a merry time ensued. At five the hostess served what she said was camomile tea, also a concoction made from anise seed, and "educator" crackers. On departing the guests received small boxes, which, on opening, revealed a soap baby and a doll's nursing bottle. The hostess made the large stork from cardboard, cotton wadding, some feathers which a kindly butcher saved, a bottle of mucilage, and black paint, with a good stork model to work from. The bird was held steady on the floor by white ribbons fastened to a book in the ceiling. MADAME MERRI To Reduce the Abcomen. To reduce the abdomen stand erect and draw a long breath, at the same time drawing in the abdominal muscles; do this morning and evening, increasing the time as the muscles grow more able to stand the movements, which will at first soon tire. CONCERNING COIFFURE. n the Vital Importance of Becoming Hair Dressing and of Keeping Tresses in Condition. Do you know how to frame your face? asks Mme. Julie D'Arcy, in the Chicago Chronicle. Giving lessons in coiffure building is the occupation of a girl who makes a good living in New York during the season. Springtimes she packs her trunk and goes to London and during August she is back again and at Newport. She follows the seasons and her patrons follow her. "Your beauty all depends upon your coiffure," she says. "You may be the most beautiful thing that ever stepped into a French-heeled slipper, yet you are spotted if your hair isn't dressed right. People are just beginning to think about hair dressing and even yet they don't pay as much attention to it as they ought to. It is a thing that can be studied and studied again. "The beauty of the coiffure depends LOW FRENCH COIFFURE. is variety. You must not always look the same. The woman who dresses her hair always the same way makes a great mistake. She looks tame and the same to you and you begin to think she cannot look any other way. "Secondly, the beauty of the colfure depends upon the condition of the hair. Unless you know how to keep your hair in shape, thick, glossy and shining, you cannot hope to have a satisfactory colfure. Your hair must be well groomed and brushed until it gleams. Without these characteristically the best hair dresser can do nothing at all. Her hands are tied from beauty's standpoint. "I am a coiffure builder, nothing else. I don't shampoo the hair and I don't treat it. I merely dress it. When it is ready to be put up I am called in and here my real work begins. I am required to build a coiffure which will be becoming, only this and nothing more. But I must make no mistakes. My reputation would go down hill like a rolling stone if I were to build an unbecoming head. "I never put a square woman into a parted coiffure. It would be fatal to her appearance. The woman who can wear her hair parted is the thin-faced woman of the sweet type. She can part her hair and look attractive. But not the square-faced woman. She, poor thing, must always wear her hair rolled high in a pompour. Styles may come and styles may go, but the pompour is always the thing for the square-faced woman of the plain type. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS Good macaroni is of a yellowish tint and does not break readily in cooking. Newspapers placed under carpets and rugs are most satisfactory, and by using a long stitch they may be sewn together on the machine, making squares as large as may be required. Turpentine is the best preventive for moths. Saturate pieces of brown paper with same, and place in boxes. Tea is one of the foods which it will not do to keep in a glass fruit jar. Tea loses its strength in strong light, and probably deteriorates in a weak light. A handkerchief wet with eau de cologne and held under the eyes will help to remove the dark lines that are caused by fatigue. A strengthening drink for the aged is made by boiling a tablespoonful of pure honey in half a pint of water. If you have a pan or bottle of sourced milk, let it stand until it is thick. Put tarnished silver forks, spoons and small pieces into a shallow pan and pour the milk over them. Let them remain in the milk half an hour or longer, then wash them and rejoice in their brightness. Ink spots may be taken out of delicate white goods with chlorinated soda. A few drcps poured on will make the ink disappear at once. It should not be used on silk, however. Delicious mustard is made by first slicing an onion in a bowl and covering it with vinegar. Let this stand 48 hours, then pour off the vinegar into another bowl, add a little red pepper, salt, sugar and enough dry mustard to thicken to a cream. The proportions should be a teaspoonful of the pepper and salt and twice that of sugar, but tastes differ somewhat as to the quantity of sweet used. The easiest way to sprinkle clothes is to use a clean whisk broom that should be kept for the purpose.—Boston Budget and Beacon. Cards of invitation should be sent to acquaintances and friends that are in mourning, giving them the privilege of declining. PILES NO MONEY TILL CURED. SEND FOR TREE LIST. TRAINING OR BESTSELLING DRS THORNSTON & MINOR 10:30 AM ST. KARLSON CITY, MO. (BASIN OF LAKES, MO.) WHAT GIRLS SHOULDN'T DO. Place reliance in the drawing quality of a graceful pose. Talk about the extent of their wardrobe in public places. Regard it pretty to pout when a man falls to notice compliments. Carry their jealousy so conspicuously as to be generally noticed. Use the forcible expressions which to easily can be misconstrued. Show a desire for an extravagant display at a social assemblage. Attempt to force a man into heavy expenditure every time they are taken out. Give away the pretty little trinkets presented to them as evidence of good feeling. An Interesting Letter. Mary Bagguileg, of 117 Peach St., Syracuse, N. Y., writes to tell of the terrible suffering of her sister, who, for the past 24 years, had been tormented with side ache from female trouble, keeping her weak and ailing. "She took Wine of Cardui and is now well. Cardui has been a Godsend to us both," she writes. For all women's troubles, Cardui is a safe, efficient, reliable remedy. At druggists; $1,000. Shocking. The young men returning to college after the Easter holidays, made a good deal of noise at the junction. "What do you call them?" a traveler asked, wearily. "Well, sir," said the station agent. "We don't know their real name here; we always call them returned empties." $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is least one dreaded disease that science can cure. Catarrh. Hail's Catarrh Cure is the only positive treatment for this disease, being a constituent disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hail's Catarrh Cure is taken in the form of a spray on the surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength to build up the condition and sustain it for a long time. The problem so much faith in its curative powers that they offer to cure, and the fact that it fails to cure, Send for list of testimonials. "Love," says Dr. Emil Reich, of London, "is the spring of godlike abundance." Which may have a tendency to make a young man feel, when he is settling up for flowers and bonsons, etc., that perhaps he was mistaken, after all. *Indianapolis News.* Do your clothes look yellow? If so, use Red Cross Ball blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package, 5 cents. Do man dat never thinks about money?" said Udele Flen, "an 'dat man dat don't think about nathin' else is two persons dats' gwinter hab' a big share o' trouble in dis world." *Washington Star.* Garfield Tea cures sick headache, billions attacks, liver trouble and constipation. Some people seem to take dismal delight in always being on the wrong side. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS/CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Aix Ternes Litchi Apple Avocado Seed Pumpkin Seed Dr. Carrion's Salad Worm Seed Clarified Sugar Whiskey Powder Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile, Signature of Charles Pitcher. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. A PILES NO MONEY TILL DRS. THORNTON & MINOR AN EVERY-DAY STRUGGLE. Men and Women of Every Occupation Suffer Miseries from Kidney Complaint. J. C. Lighter, 703 South Cedar St. Abilene, Kansas, is one of the thousands is one of the thousands who suffer from kidney troubles brought on by daily work. "I first noticed it eight or ten years ago," said Mr. Lightner." the dull pain in the back fairly made me sick. It was hard to get up or down, hard to straighten, hard to do any work that brought who suffer from kidney troubles brought on by daily work. "I first noticed it eight or ten years ago," said Mr. Lightmer," the dull pain in the back fairly made me sick. It was hard to get up or down, hard to straighten, hard to do any work that brought a strain on the back. I had frequent attacks of gravel and the urine was passed too often and with pain. When I used Doan's Kidney Pills, however, all traces of the trouble disappeared and have not returned. I am certainly grateful." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Millburn Co., Buffalo N. Y. CURES CONSTIPATION It is just about impossible to be sick when the bowels are right and not possible to be well when they are wrong. Through its action on the bowels. Lane's Family Medicine cleans the body inside and leaves no lodging place for disease. If for once you wish to know how it feels to be thoroughly well, give this famous laxative tea a trial. Sold by all dealers at 25c, and 50c. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspnea, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIP THEY POSITively carded by these Little Pills. They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. W. N. U. Kansas City, No. 19, 1906. OLDSMOBILE It took 20 years to be able to build automobiles that are recognized as standard in quality, reliability and workmanship. Oldsmobiles are known all over the world as the standard not excelled in the qualities that make an automobile durable, satisfactory and economical to own. A purchaser of an Oldsmobile knows he is getting a big dollar's worth for every dollar he invests. Write us for our agency proposition in towns not now under contract. OLDS MOTOR WORKS LANSING, MICHIGAN. W. L. DOUCLAS $3.50 & $3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. Douglas $4.00 Clit Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES ALL PRICES BEST IN THE WORLD THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOE MAKER SOLE AGENTS FOR W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 6 1876 CAPITAL $ 250,000 W. L. DOUGLAS MAKES & SELLS MORE W. L. DOUGLAS MAKES & SELLS MORE MEN'S $3.50 SHOES THAT ANY OTHER MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD. $10,000 REMARK to anyone who can disprove this statement. It could take a lot of factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you the infinite care with which every pair of shoes is made, you would realize why W. L. Douglas $3.50 shoes fit better, wear longer, and are of greater intrinsic value than any other $3.50 shoe. W. L. Douglas Strong Made Shoes for Dress Shoes, $2.50, $2.60, $2.75, $1.60 CAUTION... Once upon having W. L. Douglas with it, the shoes will not wear brass. With it his name and price stamped on bottom, Fast Color Eyelashes used, they will not wear brass. Write It On! W. L. DOGLAS, Strookton, Mass. THE GOVERNMENT THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA gives absolutely FREE to every settler one tax and land in West Canada land in West Canada FARMS WESTERN CANADA Land adjoining this can be purchased from railway and land companies at from $6 to $10 per acre. On this land this year has been produced upwards of twenty five bushels of wheat to the acre. It is also the best of grazing land and for mixed farming it has no superior on the continent. Splendid climate, low taxes, railways convenient schools and churches close at land. Write for 'Tweeted Century Canada' and low railway rates to SUPERIOR immigration or IMAGINATION of authorized Canadian Agents. J. S. CRAWFORD 125 West 9th St. Kansas City, Mo. Mention this paper. Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic Whitens the teeth — purifies mouth and breath — cures nasal catarth, sore throat, sore eyes, and by direct application cures all inflamed, ulcerated and catarral conditions caused by feminine lills. Paxtine possesses extraordinary cleansing, healing and germicidal qualities unlike anything else. At all druggists' sovents When you buy WET WEATHER CLOTHING you want complete protection and long service. These and many other good points are combined in TOWER'S FISH BRAND OILED CLOTHING You can't afford to buy any other AU TOWER CO. BOSTON USA TOLEDO, CALIFORNIA USA MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN. P Queen Victoria's Cats. Queen Victoria was a great lover of cats, and when the court moved it was accompanied by a regular caravan of cats. Persian Manx, Angora, Malese and tabby cats, all traveled in state to Barmoral, Osborne, Windsor or Buckingham palace, as the case might be. One Persian cat, of which the queen was particularly fond, wore around her neck a collar, on which appeared in silver letters the inscription, "I belong to the queen." Black Snake a Fighter A writer has described the common black snake as the most pugnacious of all the reptile family. "He is always ready for a fight," he said, "and the man who doesn't understand his style of fighting will do well to apologize before the first blow is struck." A large number of the snakes in the Worcester farm are Florida rattlers caught by Mr. Brownnell within the last three years. Table Manners Many things are not taught at school at the present day because they are declared to be obsolete, and some of us suspect that table manners are among them. If not, how are we to account for the ungraceful manipulation of knife and fork that we witness so frequently, and the misuse of table ware generally, which is at times almost barbaric?—Lady's Pictor Free Scores of Operas. A German inventor has perfected an apparatus which, by easy manipulation, throws the words of an opera being -sung on to the proscenium above the stage. The words appear line by line as they are sung, and there is nothing about it to disturb the spectators. The apparatus is controlled by the prompter, and is stated to be quite cheap. Influence of Music. It was Roger Bacon who wrote: "Instrumental music and song brings power and vigor, stirs up nature and helps her in all her motions," and the man who takes a daily dose of music will not only live longer, but better, more satisfactorily to himself and those about him than one who does not—Exchange. Expert Evidence. "When he goes to a Liberal meeting he is a Liberal and when he goes to a Tory meeting he is a Tory," said a voter's wife to a canvasser. "But," queried the canvasser, "what is he when he is at home?" and the lady gave the unexpected reply: "When he is at home he is a nuisance"—London Mail. A Careful Merrimac Man A prominent business man of Merrimac, Mass, while attending a horse trot, was accosted by a fakir, who said: "Take a hand." To this the Merrimac man replied "No, sir; I have only two hands, and I have to keep one on my pocketbook and the other on my watch." Judicial Reserve It may be doubted whether the English bench is able to maintain the same reserve which was one of its characteristics little more than a century ago. We have even heard of learned judges being seen jumping into omnibuses in Oxford street—Solicitors' Journal. A woman who appeared in a London police court the other day was described as a "pawning agent." She makes her living by paying things for her neighbors, who pay her a commission because they believe she can secure larger loans than they could. Nothing More Amusing. There is hardly anything more amusing than to watch a millionaire bargaining over a penny. But the chances are that if he had not bargained he would never have become a millionaire—Neue Freie Presse, Vienna. Ancient Military Leaders. Plutarch relates that when Hannibal was asked who were the greatest military leaders in the world's history, he gave the first place to Pyrrhus, the second to Scipio, his own conqueror, himself taking third place. *Family Umbrella* There has been discovered at Greenock, England, an old fashioned umbrella with whalebone ribs, which must be quite 120 years old. When opened it affords shelter for a whole family. His Apology. "I'd like to take you home to dinner, old chap," said Mr. Younghusband, "but this is one of the days my wife and the hired girl go to cooking school." —Woman's Home Companion Uncovers Famous Picture. Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in the Paris Louvre has a new frame which reveals an edge of the famous picture heretofore covered. When Male Vanity Shows Itself After a man has been told that his hair is getting thin on top for the first time in his life he finds out how to handle a hand glass. Oysters in Ye Olden Daves In Dresden, 300 years ago, "eplures" used to eat Venetian oysters that had been on the way three weeks. Better Education for Girls. The greatest problem of education unsolved to-day relates to girls. Here-tofore their education has been a mere copy of that long ago established for boys. Some day a genius will come along and conceive thoughts which shall form the basis of an education which shall help girls to all their best possibilities without dissipating their strength on lines of effort established for natures in some respects entirely different—Collier's Weekly. Remedy for Influenza Onion porridge is a good old-fashioned country cure for an influenza attack. Peel a large Spanish onion, divide it into fourths and put it into a saucepan with half a saltspoonful of salt, two ounces of butter and a pint of cold water. Let it simmer gently until it is quite tender, then pour into a heated bowl, dredge a little pepper over it and cat it as hot as possible before going to bed. Followed Husband in Death A case of a widow burning is reported from Margpur village in the Hurnal district, India. A woman who lost her husband two or three years ago recently made a funeral pyre, set fire to it and perished in the flames in the presence of a large number of persons. All efforts to dissuade her proved unavailing. The police did not arrive in time to save her life. Tricks That Do Not Pay The only things that do not pay are nefarious lies, mean deceptions, low trickery, and cheap cunning, or superficial smartness, all of which, while undermining systems, soon wear themselves out and by exposing their weakness in ultimate failure, accentuate the abiding strength and sterling worth of sincerity.—Los Angeles Times. "Wolf Children." Most of the known instances of wolf children have occurred in northern India. In the Cawnpore and Lucknow districts wolves have frequently carried off infants, always males; and while many of them must have been eaten, others have been brought up and educated after the wolf fashion. Gallantry. The average female brain, we learn from a lecture by Dr. Hollander, is about five ounces lighter than the male brain. It is astonishing what a number of men one meets who, no doubt from motives of gallantry, lead one to believe that the matter is the other way about—London Punch. Examples Influence Boys. Emerson was right when he said, "We send our boys to school that the teachers may educate them, but instead the boys whom they meet there educate them." The greatest influences over boys are the examples and sentiments of their associates.—Exchange. Why on Earth? The majority of marriages present for the consideration of the curious one or two problems. The first is, "Why on earth that woman married that man?" The second is, "Why on earth that man married that woman?" — Barry Pain in The Tattler. Improving on Tennyson "Bills to the right of us, bills to the left of us, bills that are ruinous!" papa dear thundered. "Frightful the charge was made! Senseless the price you paid!" Then on the table laid check for six hundred.—Lowell (Mass.) Citizen. Cross Breeding of Plants It is only within a century that hybridization or the cross breeding of plants has been practiced. Yet it seems to have been in Lord Bacon's mind, as a thing to be achieved, more than 30 years before. Love's Labor Lost A canvasser who was genially entertained at a house, finally asked the man who had talked with him for his vote. "I'm not on the register," was the response. "I'm only a balliff."—London Answers. Reversing Things "A man's hunt for health," said the philosopher, "is not conducted on the usual rules of races, for he never starts in pursuit of it until he finds it is already run down."—Baltimore American. Don't Worry Learn to take things as they are marked on the calendar of life. Remember that it is not to morrow that you will live, but it is to-day that you are living. Immense Sums for Charity. London's Lord Mayors have, during the past decade collected more than $100,000,000 for charitable and benevolent purposes. Deer shed their antlers once a year, about midwinter. Ascertaining the age or a deer by their antlers is rather uncertain. The Bank of England contains silver ingots which have lain in the vaults since 1696. Spanish Nobles Every fifteenth man in Spain is a noble. MISSOURI STATE SCHOOL FOR COLORED YOUTH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A. M. President. DEPARTMENTS: COLLEGE, NORMAL, PREPARED DUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC COURSES: Classical, College Preparatory, M Model Training School, Music (Instru Drawing. (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Cai ing, Blacksmithing, Machinery, Shoe-m Gardening, Printing, Typewriting, Se Laundering. ADVANTAGES: Good Location, Free Tuition with Modern Improvements. Buildings Diplomas are licenses to teach in any p state. A few deserving students are assis to earn their way. All applicants must of good moral character. For further in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A.M. JEFFERSON CITY, MISSO The Stoeltzing Stove and AL, PREPARATORY, IN- AND DOMESTIC. 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A few deserving students are assisted in their efforts to earn their way. All applicants must present testimonials of good moral character. For further information write to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ALLEN, A.M., L.L.D., Pres. JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI. Wholesale and Retail Peninsular Agents For... Steel Ranges, Steel Oven Cook Stoves, Base Burners, Furnaces, and all goods made by the.. Peninsular Stove Co German Heater, Soft Coal Baseheater, Cole's Hot Blast, Air Tight for Coal and Wood, Clermont Oak Stoves, Schill Steel Ranges and Furnaces TIN WORK a Specialty ...A new line of..... Window and Door Screens and Refrigerators 'Phone 1451. 1329 Grand Ave. Y convenient location of LA SALLE STREET city, however, it is of great importance that and comparatively new terminal, used jointly R. I. & P. Ry. and C. & E. I. R. R. city—closely adjoining the business section—State Street shopping center and all the prin- ting the city through La Salle Station is the connecting the main waiting-room with the Elec- ch the North, Northwest, West or South sides for a 5-cent fare WITHOUT DESCENDING TO the dangers and delays of the great, crowded into Chicago is elevated for more than eight prompt arrival at Chicago terminal is thus as- n, seven miles out, affords ready access to main stop here. Chicago on sale at all points in Kansas, Ne- 1 to September 30. or the round trip, with minimum of $20. Full Have YOU ever in Chicago If so, you know the extremely convenient location STATION. If you are a stranger in the city, however, it is you learn about this magnificent and comparatively by Rock Island-Frisco Lines—C. R. I. & P. Ry, and it is nearest the heart of the city—closely adjoin within easy walking distance of State Street shopping cipal hotels. Another advantage of entering the city through second-story viaduct directly connecting the main vated Railroad loop—you can reach the North, North of the city by elevated trains for a 5-cent fare WHILE THE STREET. You thus avoid the dangers and danger city. The Rock Island right-of-way into Chicago is eight miles out through the suburbs. Prompt arrival at G. Sured . Englewood Union Station, seven miles out southern suburbs—all through trains stop here. Summer excursion tickets to Chicago on sale at braska and Colorado daily, June 1 to September 30. Rate: Fare and one-third for the round trip, details from Have YOU ever been in Chicago? If so, you know the extremely convenient location of LA SALLE STREET STATION. If you are a stranger in the city, however, it is of great importance that you learn about this magnificent and comparatively new terminal, used jointly by Rock Island-Frisco Lines—C. R. I. & P. Ry, and C. & E. I. R. R. It is nearest the heart of the city—closely adjoining the business section—within easy walking distance of State Street shopping center and all the principal hotels. Another advantage of entering the city through La Salle Station is the second-story viaduct directly connecting the main waiting-room with the Elevated Railroad loop—you can reach the North, Northwest, West or South sides of the city by elevated trains for a 5-cent fare WITHOUT DESCENDING TO THE STREET. You thus avoid the dangers and delays of the great, crowded city. The Rock Island right-of-way into Chicago is elevated for more than eight miles out through the suburbs. Prompt arrival at Chicago terminal is thus assured. Englewood Union Station, seven miles out, affords ready access to southern suburbs—all through trains stop here. Summer excursion tickets to Chicago on sale at all points in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado daily, June 1 to September 30. Rate: Fare and one-third for the round trip, with minimum of $20. 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